And from there I just kept going . I started posting a lot more and my little stuff , my little number stepped on up , Look , look .
Speaker 2That's so relatable to this area you know that was a whole video he did about that stuff .
Speaker 3It is too . I remember the little boys doing that at school .
Speaker 4Welcome to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas . Grab a cup of coffee , settle in and let's dive into real conversations about life , motherhood and a little inspiration to brighten your day .
Speaker 2Welcome y'all to a very special episode . We always say that , but I feel like this one's extra special .
Speaker 3I'm really excited .
Speaker 2I'm really excited . We have in studio Corey Ledoux and his lovely wife Amanda . I wanted to say Amanda , but I'm like maybe I said that wrong . Okay , amanda and Corey Ledoux , and we're going to tell you all about them . They're going to talk about themselves too . Y'all are going to just love this episode .
Speaker 2I can't wait to hear this story , I know , but before we get started we want to thank our official sponsor for the podcast . This month is Acadia Cajun Harvest Country . Go , take yourself to AcadiaTourismcom , because at that website you're going to find all kind of events and things going on in Acadia Parish . Y'all want to come experience real Cajun culture . It's over here .
Speaker 3It's over here .
Speaker 2And in October is a great time to visit . It's cooler . I'm not gonna say it's cool , you know . You never know , it might still be swampy . But , usually it's cooler . There's some festivals happening , like October 4th and 5th weekend the whole little town of Roberts Cove , louisiana , gets turned into a German heritage festival called German Fest . I feel like we need to go clink some mugs over there . Clink . Some mugs have a pint . They have the best little cookies . I don't know what they're called .
Speaker 3Oh , you talked about that last year and you still never got me none .
Speaker 2Well , it's not time yet . We'll go to the German Fest and get some of those little cookies and , of course , like beers and bratwursts . And you never , if you never . I never really thought , but like you could have German heritage in Cajun country . This is it , they're German , Like you could have German heritage in Cajun country .
Speaker 4This is it . Yeah , you can , there are German immigrants .
Speaker 2So anyway , october 4th and 5th make your plans to come to Roberts Cove for the annual German Fest and go to AcadiaTourismcom for more information .
Speaker 3Good , job All right . Thank you , acadia . Acadia , cajun Harvest Country . That's right . You did it All right . Okay , did it all right , okay . So this is kind of a whirlwind for y'all oh yeah , okay tell me how it started . I need it , okay . First of all , if you have not seen this man on uh any , social media platform . You sleeping ?
Speaker 2under a rock . I don't know which algorithm looks
like , but ours is full of these videos every time .
Speaker 3I'm on tiktok and I'm trying to upload a video . Let's do it , let's do it . Yeah , all right . So tell us about how . How did this get started for ?
Speaker 1you . Yeah , I say y'all get tired of me . I like man , one of the two , but uh , for me , I just always , always scrolled . I had tiktok for years , you know , just played around on it . Uh , didn't know much about it . Uh , she would always show me things on well , not really TikTok , but like on other platforms and stuff like that . But honestly , I'd say about three months ago we had a lot of people kept talking about the Creator Awards program and they made it sound like it was so easy .
Speaker 1All you got to do is all you got to do , all you got to do is get 1,000 followers right right and um , then you could be eligible for the creator awards program it was a pilot program , actually all right okay so with that pilot program you get 1,000 followers and you can start potentially making money .
Speaker 1so I just , I don't know . I just I started posting a little bit and we had one little video that went viral . It was basically a little cat , the little neighbor that lived next to us . The mom got ran over so she brought the little kitty home next door to us and it kept popping up on our windowsill and I just filmed it . I was like , hey , should I keep the cat , yes or no ? And then it blew up and then after that .
Speaker 1I was like , man , what can I do ? And I just wanted to be more active in it , because I always just scrolled all the time . I wanted to contribute a little bit . Okay , I wasn't even thinking about like Cajun culture and blah , blah , blah and all that stuff , but I just started talking about one day . I was talking about Lost Bread , and Lost Bread is something we grew up with , with memories . I had kind of like what everybody does , you know , and it resonated , I think , with so many people for me . I think I was just talking about just my experiences , just just how I grew up , you know , and from there I just kept going .
Speaker 2I started posting a lot more than my little stuff , my little number , step going up Look , look , yeah , yeah , yeah , that was a whole that's so relatable to this area , you know , like that was a whole video he did about that .
Speaker 1That was oh yeah .
Speaker 3It is too . I remember the little boys doing that at school .
Speaker 1Oh bro .
Speaker 3So I mean , it's just been
it evolution .
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean what you had right now on tiktok . 177 was the last I saw something like that 170 about to be 178 , maybe 177.9 or something like that .
Speaker 3I was looking at a lot of that , I was just curious . Awesome and Facebook , that was quick that was fast like what it is , that's fast for sure that was uh 74 75 now like you know , like that was maybe a month that's wild that's not usual , my little . Instagram is chugging a list maybe 25 , 100 it's always slower my Instagram is really slow , but it's so good to see that it's possible , but with Cajun and regional content . And now you ?
Speaker 2honed in on your niche and you honed in on what people are wanting to see . And what I think was unique for me to see about you is most everything you've been doing is real short . It's quick , it's short , it's catchy and it holds people's attention just for a little while . You know I think that's why your numbers have gone so quick .
Speaker 3I mean .
Speaker 2I don't know if you did that strategically or not , but it was a good move , I know because we had messages back and forth .
Speaker 3We were like , listen , I like that short stuff , but if you want to make , a little money .
Speaker 4It has to be a little longer .
Speaker 5A little longer , a little longer the attention span of the average American is not worldwide actually .
Speaker 3But , it's been fun to watch the evolution of what you got going on , because it's always something different .
Speaker 2I never know what I'm about to see and a lot of things that you think of I relate to , but I'm like man , I haven't thought about that in so long , you know . So I mean , if you're out there not knowing what the hell we're talking about , first of , all go follow him on social media . It's Ladoo L-E-D-O-U-X-I-T .
Speaker 1I-T-T , i-t-t , i-t was taken , so Gotcha .
Speaker 2On TikTok . It's just Corey Ladooux on Facebook and Insta .
Speaker 1And I think it's actually the same . It's the same name at Ledoux , at Ledoux .
Speaker 2Okay , and we'll put that in the comments or something somewhere for people to see . But it's just . If you like our content , especially like when we try to educate on little Cajun French sayings or little things like Coffee , milk and like our percolators and things that our mamons did . And you will love Corey's type of content .
Speaker 3Oh yeah , oh yeah , he's good . So what I need to talk to you ? Ma'am , because I'm like , because he was like I'd like to go stand outside with my little wife . Yeah , I'm like . So what you thinking about all this ? How's this going for ?
Speaker 5you . I mean , I think it's great . So I'd like to know , to figure out , like the day he literally was like , okay , I'm going to post this first video because I don't even think it's been three months , so I know within two months . You know , it's just wild . So with work and then life , and then we just moved , we're closing on our house , moving and all the things , and I'm like , okay , lord , just bring it on like what you got you know like and so it was hard to keep up .
Speaker 5And then you know , because you you're trying to keep up every day , and then it just kind of oh yeah , we know and then it's like , okay , wait , we were just so excited .
Speaker 5Like you know , he was like 200 followers , and then we're like , oh , we'll never get to a thousand . Like you know , he was like 200 followers , and then we're like , oh , we'll never get to a thousand . Like you , look at these people in like 10,000 . And so it was just a few , a few weeks . It was like the twilight zone . Yeah , yeah , like what's happening ? What is even happening ?
Speaker 5and then you start getting the messages like we want to meet you um , we want to see your wife , we want to know , we want to meet you , we want to see your wife , we want to see your birth certificate . You know , all the things we're like okay and I'm like
it's just a different world but it's fun , it's great , like I love everybody . So we went live a couple times . Of course they want to see me .
Speaker 2Oh , really yeah . We went live like three times Okay On TikTok , okay on tiktok , yeah . And then people are like how is ?
Speaker 5how are you gonna ? You know we need to see the wife , that's all . But I'm like I don't really know how I'm gonna be in a video . I'm just not that . He's like . They're like . Did he just someone's like ? Did he just roll out from the bushes ? I said yes he did I literally did
Speaker 2someone's like he jumps over the bushes .
Speaker 5Yeah , I know , on top the house I'm on a tree , I don't know , someone said one time they were like is your wife , she must be sick of you . And he's like she's tired of me breaking stuff .
Speaker 1I'm running over the table or something .
Speaker 2Just don't break yourself , ok . Oh girl , oh girl , I'm like oh .
Speaker 5So yeah , the skateboard down the front of the concrete steps , All good .
Speaker 3We don't have any responsibilities . No mortgage .
Speaker 5Yeah , you already have one right here . I do no , that's fun .
Speaker 1It is fun .
Speaker 5Yeah , he's fun . You know a lot of people that just started seeing him , like our chiropractor , or just a lot of people they're like that's Corey and Amanda .
Speaker 2Or not , amanda , but she's like when I went in .
Speaker 5She's like I thought y'all were quiet .
Speaker 3I'm like we are , we are , but yeah , you know , they just didn't see that coming .
Speaker 5But that's how he is . But he's not going to be like that , you know . Yeah , it just so . It's just , it's like In time and place and my whole family in Alabama like they got TikTok and all these people that never . I never had TikTok , so I just got to follow him . I don't know it's , it's just , it's wild , you know .
Speaker 3No , oh , like probably some of your family or whatever , it's probably like I know we do this .
Speaker 2sometimes they're like one of my friends from wherever just sent me this video and it was like a bus , yeah , and they're like I know , you know , or like that's , oh , that's , that's koa , I know her , and they can't believe it . Oh yeah , y'all get that . Like did your family say ? One of my co-workers sent me y'all's video and they didn't even know , yeah , my sister's from alabama are like that's your brother-in-law but I want to meet him and everybody wants to meet him everywhere we go .
Speaker 5Um went to dis eat crabs as soon as we paid our check . Three people wanted to take a picture . It's everywhere we go he went to Walmart to get like one thing and I'm like you good . He's like yeah , I'm sorry , I've been stopped like five times . I'm like okay , you good yeah well , also stop .
Speaker 3my next question is that what y'all get too when you go somewhere ? It's all the time , and how's that ? You know like I was going to ask y'all that that's brand new .
Speaker 1So I'm thinking within the and we don't go out a whole lot because during the week , the work week or whatever , I'm barely in public and stuff like that . So on the weekend lately , because things have been picking up , so I'm starting to get a little bit more recognition , like even at the gym I work . I'm a manager at the gym over there at the Planet Fitness and I had these two girls waiting until I was .
Speaker 3it was waiting for that moment and the whole time I seen him like trying to take a picture of her friend in the background , to get me in it , and when I left , it like is that you ?
Speaker 1I'm like , yeah , and they was all excited and they took a picture with me and then they was all hollering when they left .
Speaker 3But uh it's funny I'll get you . That's so funny , huh , I I'll get on it . That's probably like we love it you know , but our kids , we don't like no , but you know , when they ask us to take a picture , we're like you know , of course we want to take pictures . But like our kids are like .
Speaker 2Our older ones .
Speaker 3It is not a flex to them .
Speaker 2No it's not , they just like mom , they just waiting in line .
Speaker 4We just waiting in line and like yeah .
Speaker 2I'm trying to visit and whatever , and like I'm sorry but it's all . What a good problem to have right .
Speaker 1I think so . Some little maybe potential opportunity down the road and stuff you never know , oh yeah .
Speaker 2Yeah , and when you pray like Lord , just open the right doors for me . Whatever you want for me , set right opportunities . The right doors the right people , and sometimes we'll get invited to go somewhere and we both like hmm , is this for us ?
Speaker 3Is this for us I ?
Speaker 2don't know . Okay , let's do this because we felt sometimes we just feel like you never know where this could lead Another opportunity or a person , you might meet or whatever . So we go places . You know people probably think we get paid to go everywhere . We don't .
Speaker 3A lot of times we go just because we , you know we enjoy the people or whatever it's for or whatever , or we um or like we just authentically like you know like it would be natural for us to promote this or even just talk about it , give a little showcase , because that's part of our life you know yeah so um , but it's just , you never know you never know um , but we always pray . You know god , if it's for us , let it happen you know , open that door , you know . And and so far , the doors that you know that we've had open for us are are good ones , yeah .
Speaker 2But I just you know if we both get that , that little itch you gotta know .
Speaker 1Yeah , if you get an itch . Yeah , don't go that way .
Speaker 2It's not for us it it's hard , though , like it's hard juggling all that and when your inbox starts being flooded with all these things .
Speaker 3Yeah , it's hard to choose what's the right way and what's not , but I feel like doors are gonna be opening and swinging wide . Okay , because when , like when we first saw you , we were just like , oh man , this is a good one right here so , but thank you for keeping our regional culture . And you know it's just so obvious in all of your content . Yeah .
Speaker 1And you see other people doing it and you see some things that don't stick and you see everybody kind of has their own little thing , like y'all got your little thing , and then you'll see people over here down they call it down the bayou or whatever down over there you got some little people doing some little things .
But I feel like yeah , I feel like the whole . I even did a little podcast with Develop and Lafayette and we talked yeah , ben , yeah we love Ben .
Speaker 1Oh , yeah , I like Ben , he's cool and we got to talking about the whole North of I-10 and , like you know , because I feel like them Cajuns don't get a lot of they get some hate from the other people , I'm like you know , the Cajuns are here for the interstate . We're like you know it's like God . And you put everybody on the map . That's North I-10 . You got Tony Sasson , you got Louisiana . Oh , you got Slappy Mountain , like all these people , paul Prudhomme and all that . That's all North I-10 .
Speaker 2People don't realize that , but you know we , we on the map for that . So because you gotta let them know , oh yeah , oh man , I heard that before , but that's alright , we've been here for ITN , that's right . Yeah , oh yeah . Or when I say like I did do a video and I say I'm from South Louisiana and they like no , you not like you north of ITN , and I'm like boo , yeah , I know , come on now you can't argue with me . At least I'm not from Shreveport . We love you , shreveport we love you , shreveport just joking .
Speaker 3I just want to eat y'all food but if I get invited to a barbecue here , I'm going to bring my seasoning .
Speaker 2I'm not the guy stationed for boudin but that's me , oh no alright .
Speaker 3Well , anything else y'all want to like , y'all got anything coming up or anything y'all want to divulge or maybe not .
Speaker 1Yeah what you working on , or anything .
Speaker 3Don't do it if you don't feel it , but like what's going on .
Speaker 1No , just day to day , that's all we're doing right now , just day to day , just doing my little thing , just you know .
Speaker 2Yeah us , we just bring in it yeah , that's all you could do .
Speaker 1You know I ain't got nothing lined up man got that .
Speaker 5Well , you know somebody wants me to , invited me to do a . Uh , what is it a ? Um food , a judge food ?
Speaker 1competition or a few . Judge at the academy in the academy , academy in a village to be a judge .
Speaker 5To be a judge , I'm like man , I'm gonna do that .
Speaker 3I don't care , that sounds fun . Yeah , that'll be fun .
Speaker 1So I'm always getting little things and people reach out to me like little regional things . They're like oh , you know , do you want to do this ? Or like okay , yesterday , real quick . Yeah , there's girls that have been following me . Obviously , there's a lot of women that follow me , but there's a lot of men .
Speaker 2I get a lot of inbox from the men too now .
Speaker 1Amanda's face men too . He said , oh yeah , but they uh . So these people love me on tiktok or whatever , and so it was her friend's birthday and so she wanted me to at least make a little video and tell her happy birthday . And she was , and so they filmed , they filmed the girl filming you filming . They filmed the girl watching the video oh man , it was weird to hear myself like that and uh , so that was so funny , she was all excited .
Speaker 1And then , um , so I get , I'm getting some myself like that , so that was so funny , she was all excited .
Speaker 3So I'm getting some things like that . We're going to talk to you about that , yeah yeah , yeah , oh yeah .
Speaker 5You don't want to tell them about the big thing you're doing next year that you got asked to do .
Speaker 1Oh , okay , so I think this is pretty cool . All right , so this girl is actually I want to say she's from Church Point . I want to say she's from Church Point . There's a venue over here in Church Point right Shea Lily . Is that the name of the ?
Speaker 2venue . That's the name of the venue Hannah Seymour no .
Speaker 1I'm not sure I need to look , but I know it's pretty and I know it's in Church Point .
Speaker 3It's got to be Shea Lily , from what I understand .
Speaker 1Or Cajun's Cajun's . She inboxed me and asked me if I was ordained or would I want to get ordained .
Speaker 3Stop it right now . It's Cajun , it's Cajun , okay , all right .
Speaker 1So I'm going to get ordained online , me and I'm going to marry her , so I'm going to marry her and him .
Speaker 4He's going to do a wedding oh my god , that was like , just so you can , I'm
gonna do .
Speaker 1I'm gonna renew your vows , I'm gonna choose you again you
Speaker 2don't have to get divorced just renew the vow .
Speaker 3We'll renew our vows . That's so funny . Yeah , that's like that was like .
Speaker 2Now you better watch this can of worms you about to open up . They're gonna be . They're going to be . They're going to be asking you to officiate everybody in San Luis .
Speaker 3I'm going to be the official officiator .
Speaker 1I'm like it was crazy .
Speaker 5I'm like oh my god , but that's such a cool opportunity , yeah to do that , to be a part of that . So the husband and wife . I think we're going to like meet them at some point and they out .
Speaker 1they like in right California or Austin or Las Vegas somewhere , but they're going to get married over here . They will have an authentic wedding . So they want to have , like you know , some po' boys and some gumbo .
Speaker 3And they want me to do that I'm trying to know everybody .
Speaker 2I'm a finder . I have it . I'm a finder .
Speaker 3You know we're trying to know Got to be . Shaylee I'm going to let y'all . So this is Corey Ledoux , amanda Ledoux . They are doing an amazing job , and I say they because you know it takes a lot on the spouse's part to deal with my husband her husband .
Speaker 3they already know Our families have to be a part of it , you know , and they have to be on board for it to work , because it could get aggravating with the phone in the face all the time . But we do it . Uh , you know , we do it and and our , our family is , they're okay with it . Yeah , we bring in smiles most days uh we bring in smiles and opportunities to our family .
Speaker 2That's what I say . Look this , I know it , look mama's working . That's right . It's working right now .
Speaker 3Maybe you know yeah it looks , somehow it looks like it , but you know it is what it is .
Speaker 2Thank y'all so much for putting yourselves out there and uh supporting our , our region and our culture so well , remind everybody one , one more time where they can find you . Uh , and , like you know , handles and stuff all right .
Speaker 1So I got the tiktok that's at leduit with two t . So l-e-d-o-u-x-i-t-t ? Uh , corey ledoux , and on facebook , instagram , and I started posting on youtube shorts so I got almost 400 subscribers on that go boy .
Speaker 2Oh yeah , youtube's a whole nother we trying to learn that animal ? Oh yeah , yes , ma'am , I appreciate y'all first , appreciate y'all obviously inviting us so thank y'all so much , thank y'all so much for coming .
Speaker 1Get the drink out of this stuff . I love this .
Speaker 3And even the best . I'm a fan honey .
Speaker 1Anybody . Y'all got some laying around out there . I love it .
Speaker 3You gotta have more corral than you can deal with Because they got it . They got some . Yeah , he'll take it . Oh my gosh , all right , we're going to end out this episode with thanking our sponsor , acadia Cajun Harvest Country . Why can't I do ?
Speaker 4this today . It was tongue twisting you today .
Speaker 3It's because we did this .
Speaker 2It's because we swapped this side . Yeah , we're gonna throw .
Speaker 3We're gonna throw our little views for a loop today , yeah all right , uh , and we are gonna talk about okay , I know we told you about the german fest , but also the k-bomb on the same weekend , same weekend as the german fest . So , listen , block out your weekend . One day , german fest , one day k-bomb music festival in rain . Yeah , okay , um , the festival features a variety of musical performances .
Speaker 2I mean it's always a grand lineup for the Cable .
Speaker 3Festival man , what a weekend that will be .
Speaker 2Yeah , If you want to hear some real authentic Cajun music , you go to Reign the Cable Music Festival October 4th and 5th weekend . And if you want a full lineup and more details , info , times , locations
, locations you're gonna go to Acadia tourismcom , because it's all there it's all there for the whole entire month and beyond .
Speaker 3You're gonna find something to do for your visit to Acadia parish yeah , come see what we got .
Speaker 2We got all kind of good stuff over here , we here . So of course I mean mean , yeah , obviously , obviously , y'all thanks for watching , we'll see y'all next time . Bye , y'all , bye .
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