Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas
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Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas
Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas: Skeat Thibodeaux Joins The Conversation
What does it mean to be a Cajun dad in today's world? Skeet Thibodeaux, owner of Thibodeaux's Paint and Finishing and our April sponsor, joins us for a profound conversation that peels back the layers of his multifaceted life.
The journey begins with Skeet's unexpected career path – from aspiring nurse to emergency medical technician to police officer. "When I got to policing, I felt like everything I had done in life had led me up to this point," he shares, offering rare glimpses into law enforcement realities. His candid reflections on seeing people at their worst moments and developing coping mechanisms to separate work from home life resonated deeply.
Our conversation takes a powerful turn when Skeet opens up about his Catholic faith journey. With remarkable vulnerability, he describes reconciling his parents' different religious approaches and his own path to understanding. "There can only be one truth," he reflects, explaining how Jeff Cavins' Bible Timeline helped him connect ancient sacrificial traditions to modern Catholic practices. His emotional explanation of how Christ fulfills both justice and mercy simultaneously became one of the episode's most touching moments.
Perhaps most moving is Skeet's story of returning to his family's painting business after initially declining to take it over. Now working alongside his father, he's racing to absorb decades of knowledge while creating a legacy of his own. His enthusiasm for transformative paint jobs – particularly the emerging trend of "color drenching" – reveals the passion behind his craft.
Ready to transform your space or curious about what sets Thibodeaux's Paint and Finishing apart? Contact Skeet at 337-308-2713 or find them on Facebook to bring some Cajun craftsmanship to your next painting project.
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Welcome y'all to the foolery, how y'all doing.
Speaker 1:We have a special guest with us today. This is our friend Skeet Thibodeau, and if you've already listened to the first podcast of April, you will know that Thibodeau's Paint and Finishing is our grand sponsor for the month. This is the man himself right here, skeet Thibodeau.
Speaker 2:I do the painting.
Speaker 3:And that is his real name, surely you heard the name. Skeet, and you were like surely that is not his real name it? Surely you heard the name skeet and you were like surely that is not his real name, surely it? Is his real name, and that's what makes him very unique, but that's not the only thing that makes him very things but um, anyway, I'm gonna talk about you.
Speaker 1:Like you're not here, so just hold on okay, uh, tibideau's paint and finishing offers interior and exterior painting and staining, sheetrock finishing in both smooth or textures. They do patching jobs for ceiling and walls and they can repair cracks, peeling and stains from your water damage and any small, small project sheetrock hanging that you have or minor carpentry work. Mr ski can get it done, so you can contact him at 337-308-2713. Or find them on Facebook at Thibodeaux's Paint and Finishing, and thank you for being a fan, thank you, and a friend.
Speaker 2:Thank you for being a fan. You got people that rolls with you. When you say rolls.
Speaker 3:Like they roll. You probably got people who work with you, or it's just you.
Speaker 2:So Kate is my newest whore.
Speaker 1:You done, hooked your wife into it.
Speaker 2:She's a little under minimum wage though, like I put her in the closet the other day the best closet I ever had painted, but it was the only closet. She painted that entire day. The whole day for one closet yeah man, she's a worker bro, she will work it. In fact, I left her painting the door this morning. She's probably still painting the door. I was like I'll come back and check on you. Yeah, yeah, we just got to work on her speed.
Speaker 3:Do you buy her lunch or do you like y'all eat lunch together?
Speaker 2:It depends. Sometimes we'll bring lunch to the job, like, say, we're visiting other places. She has select locations where we have to stop and get treats. She knows y'all are nearby Certain places and she'll definitely pull up my location on the map and see what's in the surrounding area.
Speaker 3:That is hilarious.
Speaker 1:Just in case.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's like hey, I need you to stop here.
Speaker 1:So let me make this connection for our viewers too. Kate Thibodeau was on our podcast several months back. They own Evolve Athletics, our gym where we go work out, and she was on talking about health and wellness. That is his wife, this is Skeet and kate tibido, so I'll make that connection for y'all, and they're dear friends of ours. They own the gym that we met at.
Speaker 3:Yes, that is when you, when you asked us that question. What did you ask us before this?
Speaker 2:what is the okay, so what would be your like, uh, the most from the cajunun Mamas? What has been your favorite part about like developing this and just getting to be?
Speaker 3:it's a new experience in life man like not everybody gets to go through something like this no, so I'm just I would like to take your point like oh, this is what I'm loving about it well, it's so funny that you said that, because immediately my mind went to we would never have become friends if it wouldn't have been for y'all. Like you know we met through y'all gym and this crazy rides to all started with bootcamp you know, and and.
Speaker 3:Every time we tell the story it always starts there, you know, it always starts at the gym and it's continuing with y'all you know, and and being at the gym. But the biggest thing we, we can both agree, is putting smiles on people's faces, making you giggle, making you laugh, kind of taking you away from like that's a gift.
Speaker 1:It's a very special gift it is given and the platform to do that on is, like I feel, super blessed, absolutely.
Speaker 2:I think I don't know like sitting back and watching this take off for you guys. I always felt like my life was just so magical the places that I got to go, the people that I got to meet, and like the right timing of everything, Just the events that I've got to experience and this almost like justifies for me. You know, like me, getting to meet you guys, you guys meeting together at a place that we started in our garage, and I knew how amazing you people were, and then, like you, kind of take your own thing and start to grow and develop. I'm like I knew. I just knew deep down in my heart, yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, thanks, Skeet.
Speaker 2:Thanks, you're welcome, thank you.
Speaker 3:Well, when we were talking about what we were going to talk about today with Skeet, we already know lots about Skeet. He's been watching us and we've been right alongside him. We are actually friends, we visit often, so we kind of already know these things. But we wanted a man's perspective okay, a dad's perspective, and we what a great time to have you, since you're a good old sponsor, yeah, yeah, so what? Um, I'm gonna ask you a question what is the best thing about being a cajun daddy?
Speaker 3:okay, okay um because you from here, you know, you grew up here you are steeped into Church Point.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what's the best part about being a Cajun daddy man? Let's see. Let's see. I guess it kind of goes to like your glass being half full or half empty, and to me, as long as you got a glass and there's something in it, like, just start drinking you know what I?
Speaker 2:mean Enjoy it, and I don't know. We visit other places and there's definitely not the same family feel to it. You know what I mean. Like there are some places we go and I can tell like, oh man, these people get down, like we get down at home.
Speaker 2:Like I'll meet anybody on the street and we'll start talking and hanging out and like become wonderful friends, people who don't even know. You will show up to your garage down the dead end road in the early morning hours and we don't have a street light yet, and just like start working out with you and realize oh man, this is kind of cool. We'll come back tomorrow and check it out.
Speaker 1:You know they'll take that leap, um, so it's gotta be the people the people, yeah, it's gotta be the feeling, the culture, the atmosphere, the the warmth around, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:And the hospitality too, yeah, you know the hospitality is so good around here for you to just open up your house. You know we ain't had a bathroom in that gym, but we you opened up your house.
Speaker 1:I said well, we got one toilet. It's in there. Just hide your eyes.
Speaker 3:How very real for all of us, because it's like, it is what it is. Come on in, this is what we're going to do, and we did it and we continue to do it together.
Speaker 2:Just kick my daughter's toys out the way as you walk through the bathroom.
Speaker 3:Yeah, what a special time. But people like they trust you.
Speaker 2:No it's that kind of connection around here, like you know, you don't really have to be, have a third person introduce you Like no, this is a good guy you know coming, which it helps and it's fun and that happens. But, man, we have such a great community that at any given corner, any given like street sign, any grocery store, that you can run into the best people at any time and they don't mind breaking bread with you. They don't mind getting to know who you are. I love that about Church.
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Speaker 3:What a great way. That was a great way too.
Speaker 2:Like an onion. Like an onion, you might cry. You definitely cry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Happy inside tears probably huh, we both. But okay, so I know you are a police officer still or were I still work reserve for the sheriff's department. What brought that about?
Speaker 2:Wow, okay.
Speaker 1:Was that where you started reserve for the sheriff's department? What brought that about? Wow, okay, um, your love of being a ninja, are you like?
Speaker 2:it's funny, when I got to policing, I felt like everything I had done in life had led me up to this point where I was like, okay, now I fit in. Um, yeah, because as a kid I was like I just want to drive a dirt bike when I grow up and race, and I got to do a little bit of very fast driving at some times in my career, but I really want to help people, so I started off going to school to be a nurse.
Speaker 3:I didn't know that. Yeah, this was many moons ago.
Speaker 2:I bet you went to AHEC. Huh, I didn't go.
Speaker 3:I was at UAL you know like in high school everybody go to AHEC in the summer. We had Derek Fall.
Speaker 2:Y'all probably know Derek Fall from town. He came to visit school one day. He was working for Acadian. They were doing some kind of like onboarding program and that's what we got into and, yeah, so through him, this kind of all branched out for me to get into public service, which I felt like I was like man, I don't know. I love people so much. I feel like I need to have interaction with people and it started off being a medic. I was a medic for man from 2012 to I was 15 or 16. So about four years Great time in my life. If you're young and you're trying to look for something to do. Great time in my life If you're. If you're young and you're trying to look for something to do, being medic is a great start. Um, you just learned so much about emergency health and like what's going to kill you was just concede till the Monday.
Speaker 3:you know like, yeah, what do I need to triage right now? That was not taking a pregnancy test, that could wait Bro.
Speaker 2:you know what really?
Speaker 3:happens, they will call an ambulance.
Speaker 1:No, yeah For a pregnancy test.
Speaker 2:I said what I said you said it.
Speaker 1:I said it. That must mean, you know somebody who did that.
Speaker 3:I don't know them personally, but I know people who know people who have did this. Oh God, Okay.
Speaker 2:That's a good time. Yeah, I would say that's one way to explain it In public service, like if you got a month worth of work, man, 27 of those days are really just going to be like people not very happy with you, people being like man you suck at this job oh.
Speaker 2:Lord, have mercy, and then for two or three days out of the month, you get to save something. You a hero, yeah. You show up where like somebody's in the house and it's on fire, or they wrecked in a ditch and they can't get out of this vehicle and you got to climb inside there, wow. So yeah, and that's kind of what I lived for, like I didn't mind putting up with the people's bad day yeah.
Speaker 2:You see, about their worst day, day on their worst days. Yeah, oh my goodness, like nobody calls the police when they're having a good time at the barbecue.
Speaker 1:No, they're not like hey, come over, eat with us. They're like man nanook stab, taunted, yeah, and my cousins are fist fighting and they just took out the knives.
Speaker 3:Oh, it's a lie it's so true, you know their worst.
Speaker 2:They yeah, you see people at their worst, on their worst and uh, so yeah, from from a medic, I got the chance to be more into the enforcement side of it. I did that and uh, so the gym actually spawned from both of those right, so I was a medic, it was it's emergency response. And, um, when I started doing this high-intensity training at the time we were trying to get into CrossFit. It's changed to Evolve Athletics now it was training for the unknown and the unknowable, and that's kind of what I faced on a bimonthly basis, like you just never know what you had to run into at the time.
Speaker 1:If you got to run real fast at a moment's notice, you need to be able to do that physically. So that's where the training came in Exactly you might have to run.
Speaker 2:You might have to carry someone, you might have to crawl in the houses, it just depends what was going on. So the gym actually was like a spawn off of that as well. Man, my life has just lined up with these things.
Speaker 3:It's like everything was prepared, god's hand, you're going to need a little bit of this.
Speaker 2:You're going to need a little bit of that and yeah, so policing and the community. Let's talk about that, because I have got called to people's house for some bad things that were going on and we got there and they have been so inviting. Like you want to come and have some coffee with?
Speaker 3:us.
Speaker 2:Yes, I do, thank you we got some swiss rolls, would you like? A swiss roll I actually really very parched and been a long shift. If you don't mind sitting down, we'll sit down and talk this out. Yeah, um, and so that was, yeah, just going back to our community. That was a wonderful part about it too. So it started being a medic, got a chance to be in the police officer and then I guess let's talk about like a day in the life of a police officer.
Speaker 3:I'd love to hear that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know if people get to. When you see the police, it's usually just not a good time for you. And it's I don't know. It's sad and it's like a. It's a hard truth. Everybody has these things about their job where they don't really like to do. Writing tickets is probably one of them. For me, man, if I could go without writing a ticket my entire career, it would be fantastic. Traffic mostly.
Speaker 1:Traffic violations yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a lot of them are kind of self-initiated. You see it, or somebody calls because this car is driving fast and you go and you stop them, and then you end up issuing them a citation for a law that they broke. And they always look at you like you ain't got something better to be doing.
Speaker 3:You don't want to chase down some criminals?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you ain't got no criminals to go catch and, unfortunately, if you break a traffic law law man, you are the criminal right now, at that moment, yeah and how are you?
Speaker 3:gonna call me out like that, so true though, yeah you, it was you, if it makes any bet.
Speaker 2:Cops hate getting pulled over just as much as regular people like we still get stopped if you do something, yeah for speeding for rolling stop signs, like we don't have this this mad when we're in our personal vehicles. We don't have this this mad when we're in our personal vehicles. We don't have this magic like light that goes off. So police know?
Speaker 2:hey, don't stop, yeah, no, we still get stopped and I still got a ticket before and it happens, it's, uh, it's just part of life like you become a criminal and you gotta pay for it sometimes oh man, where are we going, so many?
Speaker 1:day in the life, a day in the life of a police officer.
Speaker 2:Yes, Okay, so you normally wake up way early before anybody's lights come on and you drive around in this little office.
Speaker 3:With coffee and donuts.
Speaker 2:A square office, yeah.
Speaker 1:Stereotype of the police.
Speaker 2:Serious though. That's why I think most cops start to get out of shape is because they just live in this office. You eat out of it, you take small baths in it because you're running the dirt and blood and other people spit on you and stuff. So you're trying to clean yourself. All your food comes out your trunk or a fast food restaurant.
Speaker 2:Fast food yeah and then you're making your morning rounds checking on people's businesses and then the emails start coming out. So somebody in the high up brass is like, hey, why didn't you write tickets for so-and-so? Or hey, why did you write a ticket for so-and-so? And so you know, it's like you're getting it from both ends You're getting it from the brass and you're getting it from the community. There's never a point in a day where you get to be invited to the barbecue. Yeah, right, and you know what?
Speaker 3:There's no little thing at the end of the transaction that says do you want to tip me?
Speaker 2:You know You're not getting tips, ain't nobody tipping, nobody's tipping.
Speaker 3:law enforcement.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and Louisiana Code of Ethics don't even allow you to take it, even if they would want to tip you.
Speaker 1:But they don't even allow you to take it, even if they would want to tip you. But you can take that Swiss roll if you want, though.
Speaker 3:You can eat it as long as you eat it in their presence, it's fine.
Speaker 2:And if it's like over a $50 value. I think you can't take it with you. You got to eat it there.
Speaker 1:Dang, they got laws for everything, rules for everything. Oh man, those are fun.
Speaker 3:To be a police officer. But my question for you is and I like to ask this to my brother-in-law, or I think about my brother-in-law because he's a paramedic how do you separate yourself from what you see? Because it's not made for everybody to be a police officer or a paramedic. They see things that regular people just don't see. Yeah, how do you make that it's clear when you go home to your wife and your kids yeah. You don't bring that home.
Speaker 2:It's awkward Because you have to develop some coping mechanisms. Mine has become severely dark humor and to the point where before I left to come here, Kate's like, hey, keep it clean, and I'm like I will try my yeah my best okay we were supposed to tell you that too, and we forgot before.
Speaker 3:It's been going well. I mean you don't have to say anything, you know I'm trying not to, uh, yes.
Speaker 2:So, man there, I really feel like there needs to be a second when you, when you step out of the car and you like, take all this equipment off of you, you just got to breathe for 30 minimum 30 minutes before everybody just starts jumping on you. You never get that though. No, you don't, you get in the house and, like kids, are ready to see you. Mom's ready for you to start doing some stuff, yeah, yeah. And man, sometimes you carry that little edge.
Speaker 1:Maybe that's why you like axe throwing too. Yeah sure, yeah sure. Violent sports violent yeah, that's another layer of ski.
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Speaker 1:Maybe we got axe throwing. These are just the hobbies that I know of, okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:We got axe throwing, we got Jiu Jitsu. Yeah, we got. We got the CrossFit stuff, we got policing, we got they like renaissance fair stuff. They like being renaissancey Okay, we like bourbon, yeah, and cigars and cigars yes, we like being renaissance-y Okay, we like bourbon, yeah, and cigars and cigars yes. What else do we like? What am I missing? He loves Kate and his kids though.
Speaker 3:You love them fiercely. You can just tell that, thank you. That is such a shining quality in you, such a good dad oh yes. And Kate loves you, you know, and you love her. You can tell that.
Speaker 2:Absolutely A thousand percent. Yeah, Kate's a special woman man. Kate definitely is.
Speaker 3:She puts up with you. So yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:There's, like, certain things in life that happen and, like you, just know the answer for it. Like man, I think I broke my foot, I, my foot. I should probably go to the doctor and uh when?
Speaker 3:kate came into my life, I was like man. I should probably just marry her.
Speaker 2:You know, I don't know, I don't know if there was a different answer. Like that was the answer in front of me and, uh, it's been a great choice. Yeah, it's been wonderful oh yeah, great choice.
Speaker 3:I, I, I, I second that that motion.
Speaker 1:Yes, y'all.
Speaker 3:Y'all fit so so well together uh-huh, and your kids are cute too.
Speaker 1:Good job, good job let's talk about that for a second too. Okay, if we can, we're gonna turn it. Yeah, because we always talk about things from the Cajun Catholic mama's perspective. But like, what's it like being? I know we said what's it like being a Cajun daddy, but what? What about your, your Catholic religion side of Ski Tibido, and tell me about that journey that has been for you okay, this is.
Speaker 2:This is probably one of my favorite, I don't know. I feel like it's the pillar of my magical life since I, since day one. Um, my mom and dad came from two very different, uh, viewpoints of religion. Right, dad go to church every Sunday like that was his, his biggest thing. You just had to go to church. And then mom was like you better read your bible. And uh, there was a mix, like they kind of clash from time to time. I was like I don't know if we need to go to church. All the time. Dad was like I ain't reading this bible because I ain't wearing glasses. Yeah, I know, and uh, it was just so different.
Speaker 3:I've never seen him with glasses on either.
Speaker 1:He does he, he has this like very large magnifying glass stop it right, it has a lamp on top of it and it just kind of like sits in front of his face, so that way he don't have to wear the.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he don't have to wear it, but he only gets to do it when he's near a plug-in or something, so you can set it all up, he's got into coins recently, bro bro.
Speaker 3:Oh, he collects coins now. Oh, my goodness, if I needed another reason to love you, daddy. I'm going to need a picture of this happening.
Speaker 2:We even got him this app. So, like, whatever transpires on the magnification glass, it'll come to his computer so he can make notes on it and save it.
Speaker 1:That's wonderful. Look it up. Yeah, oh, he's been loving it. That is wonderful. Yeah, always been loving it. That is wonderful.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, okay, dad's like, hey, you need to go to church. Mom's like you need to read the Bible. And in the Catholic Church which, at being very young, right, I went through the catechism and some classes and stuff, but I don't know if I was just paying attention to so many other things than Christ at the time they probably all taught me all the things that took me 33 years to finally understand and learn.
Speaker 1:I just was like oh man, whatever, there's just some things that you don't come to appreciate or understand until you're an adult, until you're going through it and you go through it yeah, yeah. Agree.
Speaker 2:Man. So yeah, coming up, I knew I needed to go to church and I knew I needed to read the Bible. And when I would go to Catholic church I didn't feel like they were teaching me as much about the Bible. And then, when I read the Bible, I didn't really feel like I understood exactly what they were talking about.
Speaker 3:So there was such a disconnect.
Speaker 2:Disconnect yeah, until I found I think his name was Pastor Jeff in Crossroads Rain. And so once I got to high school, like I had been involved in the church, coming up in the Catholic church, and when I got to high school, friends of mine finally like okay, we're all driving and they were doing Christian things, like going to church on Wednesday nights, and I think his name was Pastor Jeff and he got there and it was a church service but he was taking quotes out the bible and kind of going and explaining them.
Speaker 2:I was like oh yeah been looking for this cool and so, uh, I stayed with that for a long time and, uh, I visited other churches. So, like as we moved to Lafayette for college or just moved around, I visited other churches. So as we moved to Lafayette for college or just moved around, I visited other churches. But I started noticing like there was this telltale where Pastor Jeff would be like okay, I believe this and this and this, and then Pastor Steve would be like I believe this and this and this, and they started kind of clashing in certain areas and so I didn't understand. There was no, uh, universal like book. It was just kind of open for interpretation, depending on who you were and what denomination it was. So I was kind of back to the start, like I know I need church, I know I need the bible, how do I get them to both line up to be the same thing?
Speaker 1:and uh, there can only be one truth, like what's the truth?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah and the truth can't just be like a personal truth for one right sect of people and the personal truth for another sect of people.
Speaker 2:So I started going back to the catholic church. Uh, me and Kate met. We got married. I just I knew that was a thing we needed to do. I was born Catholic, I was baptized and then finally, bryce Hickenbottom Bryce, for those of you who don't know graduated a year before us. I think we all know his family. He goes on to be a priest. He's in the Vatican right now studyingian and demonology and all kind of stuff he's amazing.
Speaker 3:Go look him up. Yeah, he's written some books.
Speaker 2:Uh, he's got a couple books on the miraculous miracles of the eucharist. Anyway, we get married. He drops me this thing called the bible timeline, uh, from jeff cavins, and it's like a 12 CD set. Yeah, what? I don't listen to it for probably another five years, right, it rides around in my trunk. Yeah, every time I pop the trunk open, I see it.
Speaker 1:I'm like man, because it seems intimidating 12 volumes of you know. Wow, I love Jeff Cavins too. Oh, he's amazing. He's kind of a hollow out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Okay, so Father Mike Schmitz his Bible in a.
Speaker 3:Year is based off of Jeff Kagan's timeline.
Speaker 2:This is like the original timeline of the Bible history of salvation.
Speaker 1:Wow, okay.
Speaker 2:So I finally do it, I crack it open and it lays out for me like the start of the in the beginning, right.
Speaker 2:So it goes through Leviticus and all of these weird things that I'm reading that they're doing like why are the priests wearing all these things? Why are they burning all these animals? You know why, all the sacrifices and everything. And so it breaks it down, like to this day, why the Lord demands sacrifice. I'm not sure, but that's the price you got to pay for sin. If there's some sin, ever since the beginning of time you sin, there had to be some form. Yes, something got to pay for it. There has to be a justice served and due. And then so throughout the years up until Jesus Christ, like they were just slaughtering all of these animals for all the people's sins and shedding the blood, taking it, sprinkling it on the altar.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's so foreign to us To even think about a time like that. Yeah, a time.
Speaker 2:My sister got into it. To me with it I say got into it, we were just kind of Y'all like to debate?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we like to debate hard sometimes.
Speaker 2:I've heard about these debates yeah, and so she, uh, she really likes, uh, what is it? Herbology, where you kind of like take different herbs and try to make medicines from it, and it's uh. She was kind of made a post on facebook about you know like all the silly things that we do as Catholics when it comes to you know like getting ashes or making like signs of the cross or like certain things being sacred relics, just all these things, and she's like, but you can't do them. If you're anybody like all the Catholics, look down on everybody else for doing it for other religions. Or you know like worshiping statues or nature or idol.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I was like, bro, when you create the world, like whenever all this stuff is yours, you can like whatever you want to build. You can decide how they need to act and do and serve. And so the Lord was like hey, you're going to have to sacrifice some stuff for messing up. Who am I to be like? No, I don't think we should do it like that, right.
Speaker 1:Take it at face value. That's pretty much just like don't question it. That is what it is, that's what he said yeah. And the ultimate sacrifice was his only son.
Speaker 2:The perfect sacrifice. So we spend all these thousands of years like killing animals and sacrificing and needing a price for sin. And then Jesus comes along because, like, no matter what, there was a debt that we couldn't afford, we couldn't even pay this debt, like we didn't have a clean enough sacrifice or a worthy enough sacrifice. So he gives us his only son. And what's crazy. So I think about this in policing too, because, like, what's the mixture of justice and mercy? Right, because if somebody runs a red light and I want to show them mercy, then I don't write them a ticket. Well, is justice served? I don't know. But if I write them a ticket and I feel like, okay, that was justice, you ran red light, you got a ticket.
Speaker 3:Did I show them mercy?
Speaker 2:That's such a weight that you have to carry, and so when Jesus comes along and he's worthy of the sacrifice, so now justice is served, right, we finally have something that is equal to the crime committed, but at the same time, he's offering it for us out of mercy, and, my bad, I'm getting a little emotional. This is so good. This is so good yeah.
Speaker 3:Because I was thinking like I've never even thought about that, like all this old school sacrificing, but they didn't have Jesus. Yeah, you know, they didn't have him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what were they to do? That's why they the spotless lamb, you know that was they would inspect, like, any imperfections on this lamb. No good, like, so that was the best version that they thought they had and this was all before Jesus. But, yeah, who all got the free?
Speaker 2:songs every year. Thank you for taking over.
Speaker 1:He's the spotless lamb that came for us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so he fulfills justice and mercy all in the same time. Yeah, and so Jeff Cavins not only like, goes through this step by step, like this is why they were doing this, this is why they were doing this, but then he comes to the Catholic Church and he goes over like all right. So back in Leviticus, these were the lampstands they were using. Here's the lampstands that we burn candles from now, like this was the priest garments that they were using then. This is the priest garments that we use now he makes the connections.
Speaker 2:And he's putting all these things together. And then? So not only did you sacrifice the lamb at the time, right, you had to cut it open, sprinkle the blood on the altar, but you burn some of it as a sweet, smelling oblation to the lord, and the priest would consume some of it for the sacrifice as well.
Speaker 2:Now we have jesus christ and we consume it every yeah if you're, uh, in good standings with your faith and your sin right, you can partake in the same sacrifice that he gave for us on Calvary. This is so good. Oh man, I love it.
Speaker 3:This is such a good. I'm very much enjoying this conversation. What a connection that we just made.
Speaker 1:I've always not really understood about all the. The old test. The old testament is wild it's deep okay yeah and it's not some place I stay too often, especially because of all that and like it just doesn't make sense in our minds now, but like that connection kind of helps make it all kind of make sense and so jeff Cavins made that.
Speaker 2:He bridged the gap for you he did a heck of a job with the bible.
Speaker 3:Oh my goodness and go to church, yeah, and don't get me wrong, man.
Speaker 2:There are still things about the catholic church that I'm like, come on now, dude, you serious. And there has been things and slowly but surely, I have like erasing these things off my list, because it's never been me that was right in my ways of thinking, you know what I mean. It's just always been. I either didn't understand it A misunderstanding, yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't have the foreknowledge, like why did our church father start it this way? And like why has it developed into what it is? But yeah, it's never been like, yes, you had it right, you were right all this time. No, it's never been that, it's always been.
Speaker 3:I just I didn't have the open, the softness in my heart to accept it and uh, yeah, man it's a journey still, every single day, you know, uh, a yes to to the lord. It's it always like oh, I'm Catholic and I do everything perfectly, and that's not what it is. You know, sometimes I like how you said that we got. I got a list of things. It's kind of like a wish list. This is what I wish I could be as a Catholic, that's what I wish I could be as a human being, but I'm a sinner and every day is a choice you know a sacrifice.
Speaker 3:So I like that. Yeah, man, it's just not always like that. No, it's not.
Speaker 2:I try my hardest sometimes it takes me a little while to come around to those things, though we do our best and we trust god to do the rest, and then we go to confession and then we go to confession um, that that's one thing, man, if we could touch on anything in this podcast, like if we could get a message across, confession being like the most important thing, like if there's one thing that's going to keep you out of heaven and I get it. So I see.
Speaker 3:Oh, I see. Well, I got to tell my sins to a priest. That's always going to be the frequently asked question.
Speaker 2:And so my Protestant brothers, which, dude, I take a lot of things from the Protestants. They do a lot of stuff better than we do, especially when I find it comes to praise and worship Absolutely and like just I'll call it catechism, because that's what we call it in the Catholic Church, but like when they like they sit down and break down Bible scripture and they want you to know why they believe what they believe.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And even though sometimes it's different than ours, they do a great job.
Speaker 3:But they're sitting there and doing it, absolutely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they do it better than us On.
Speaker 3:Wednesdays it's Bible's Day. It's Bible study day. Yes, yes.
Speaker 2:So, man, shout out to all my Protestant brothers because I have taken a big page, some pages, out of their books on many occasions, and so we could get into the verses of you know why it says that you have to confess your sins to your brothers and sisters. And like if I literally took it and went to my brothers and sisters.
Speaker 1:I mean what if?
Speaker 2:okay, what if I had a friend and it was his wife that I thought about lewdly? Right or irresponsibly, and so now I got to go to him or her and confess this. So that just kind of man that twists things up a little bit, like you know, where does it stop Talking like?
Speaker 3:broken relationships. Yeah, yeah, it's all that, but you definitely need to confess your sin. It says in the Bible yeah, there does need to be some confession.
Speaker 2:For sure and I don't know, it may be different for my Protestant brothers and sisters or those who believe that, like hey, once I say these are my sins and I've confessed it, now I'm good to go. I have confessed the same sins weeks back to back, months back to back years at a time. Man, this is not just a pull the splinter out of the skin. This thing is deeply rooted inside of me because I have been practicing being a sinner for a long time and I'm good at it.
Speaker 1:I'm really good at it and it's easy. Well, it feels easy.
Speaker 2:Jeff Cavins will tell you that part of the punishment for sin is that you start to enjoy the sin and right you get. You get like fulfillment out of that sin now, so getting it out of you is even harder than it was to just stop doing it in the first place so and okay.
Speaker 2:So I've seen the memes on the face with like yeah, the thief on the face were like, yeah, the thief on the cross. You know he didn't. He wasn't baptized, he didn't go to no confession, he didn't bow or say the Hail Marys or the rosary, and he still went to heaven. Yes, I'm not saying that Jesus can't take whoever he wants to heaven whenever he wants to heaven, but unless you plan on getting like that extra, that's an extravagant circumstance.
Speaker 1:He was next to Jesus and he claimed that at the last minute of his life.
Speaker 3:You know how many people that happens for. I don't know, but I would venture to say a lot of places you've been on the last moments of those people's lives. They call out to Jesus and you're not going to tell me they didn't make it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's true, but I'm going to try my best here on earth.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man don't put it on that, don't gamble with that thing. No, don't do like, maybe I'll meet Jesus Christ on the last day? You never know. Just start ahead of time.
Speaker 3:Go could get that wipe clean that way, just in case you don't. Maybe you don't make it to the cross, it's true, not? Only that, but it makes you holy to be able to receive communion too, you know. And so, um, don't, don't sleep on confession, because it can be quite liberating and, you know, might be one of those things you don't do as a catholic, but it might be something that's on your catholic wish list maybe we can get you there. I'm glad you brought that up. So good, so good.
Speaker 2:And don't slip on 10 am mass, because I'm going to be there early and it's hard to get in there on 10 am.
Speaker 3:Oh listen, you better come with it If you're thinking you're just going to get in at 10, 10.
Speaker 2:And slide out. Oh dude, you got to get there before the priest gets there, because they already got the line up Sometimes.
Speaker 3:I like to go before 4 o'clock mass, yeah, and even if I'm not going to 4 o'clock mass you get there at 3.30 and get in and then go about the rest of the Saturday afternoon, but at least you got in and you can always call your priest and have a private conversation confession with them. And Call your priest and have a private conversation confession with them and guess what? They're not looking at you any type of way and saying I know what they was doing, they hear what you did and worse. So just go. Just go, make it a point. Let's take a little. We're nearing the end of our episode so we definitely need to discuss how.
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Speaker 3:All right, well, thank you. Anything else you want to add to this beautiful day?
Speaker 1:That was only like three layers we talked about.
Speaker 3:I know there's so many.
Speaker 1:But the ones we got were I enjoyed that yes. Definitely.
Speaker 2:For sure Very good, but the ones we got, were.
Speaker 3:I enjoyed that.
Speaker 1:yes, definitely for sure, very good. Okay, wait, let's end it on the business on your current business yeah. Because you know you are our sponsor. We want to let people know what you do and how you. Okay, I know this story, but like tell us how you got involved with the painting.
Speaker 2:Okay. So at five years of age, my dad stopped working for an off-field company called gray wolf and unis, which is closed down.
Speaker 3:But some of you, you know I definitely know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, a lot of my relatives used to work there. Anyway, they closed down. He starts painting sheetrock, finishing, uh, with a guy named comanche, and he has probably done some work at your house too. Um, so he starts doing that and, like, he just takes off from there. So from about six years of age, man, I'm going to people's houses spilling paint, messing up their stuff, riding my bikes around the neighborhood, meeting friends.
Speaker 1:You know coming back in when Daddy had a job, you rode with him and hung out. Yeah, I'm just going with him. No-transcript.
Speaker 2:You know he's buying me lunch and snacks and stuff. It was a great time enjoying it. As the years go on, I stopped bringing the bike, the bicycle, for the neighborhood and I started like having a paintbrush and stuff and working with him and man, it was so hard, it was so hard.
Speaker 1:Let me just say G's daddy painted our house when we built it and really, let me just say he's daddy painted our house when we built it and really he did, yes, um, and in fact I think, uh, your brother was there with him whenever he was doing. I don't think, I think you were policing at the time or something um, yes, and we had.
Speaker 1:When we built. We were like we're gonna do as much as we can ourselves to save that money. Well, when the time came for the paint to come up, I was like, get a quote, just do it, just get a quote. I do not want to pick up a paintbrush and because you know, at the time I'm like they're gonna be doing this so much faster than us. Long story short, tim tibbitt painted our house and I don't regret at all that decision. So it's hard. He's really good at what he did, does he still kind of does it from time to?
Speaker 2:time. If you call him, he'll probably call me to At all. Yeah, that decision. It's hard. It's hard work. He's really good at what he did Does.
Speaker 3:He still kind of does it from time to time.
Speaker 2:If you call him, he'll probably call me to go look at your house, but you might see him there. He still makes a. He's like a unicorn man.
Speaker 1:He just comes up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, do a little paintbrush Make some little. Making sure you're. So. It was so hard because I was young, I was way out of shape and it was hot and all these new houses didn't have any AC. I was just sweating. You put people in closets. That's where Kate's still at right now in the closet.
Speaker 3:That's where the newbies go.
Speaker 2:You put people in closets when they first start out that way, like if they mess something up, you don't really get to see it.
Speaker 3:It's so small in there Now we know why she's in the closet. You put baby in the corner. Yeah, straight in the corner, literally.
Speaker 2:And, man, I grow up doing this and, like I'm going to school working weekends, summers I start going to college. I'm a medic at one time and we work a rotational schedule so, like you have two or three days off in a row, I still come back and help him. And finally we pull our little. He gave us a little spot of land. We pull our trailer next to him and I'm getting set up with my life. And he's like hey, I'm ready to shut it down. You want to take over this business? And I'm thinking to myself I'm like, man, I remember how hard it was. It's still hard. I got a little girl coming, ellie's on her way. We're starting the gym. I'm still policing at the times, like I just had so much going on in my plate. I was like I don't think I can do it, that I don't think I can pull it right now.
Speaker 1:And he was very he was sad about that yeah, I was gonna say, like that's so hard to say no to, because you don't want to let your dad down all this hat he's built, it's like he's handing it over to you, but you were like oh, I really don't want to do this, though I know, man, it's tough.
Speaker 2:I was just grinding, building my own, you know, empire of speed.
Speaker 1:Trying to build your own legacy.
Speaker 2:Make my way you know. So he ended up like letting it go, man, he sold the business to one of his workers and he did things here and there and after a couple years, like I stopped policing full time, got into the gym Gym was working hard, we're doing good things we moved on the main street and it just slowed down for a bit. Like COVID hit us and, um, I was like man, I I feel like I need something to do. We kind of got the gym under wraps like Kate had had a plan for everything. We had some coaches helping us out. I was like I feel like now's the time where I need to step out and and do something else. So I kind of I go back to him and he's like, yeah, I still got a bunch of tools, you know?
Speaker 3:he still have people calling him.
Speaker 2:So he goes with me, we set up some bids, we get some jobs. He's out there and like telling me, pointing, telling me what to do, showing you the ropes, and there's like a whole new relationship that transpired from being the worker's son to where everything I do is boy, you so stupid, why you doing it like this. Stop messing everything up To okay. Now you understand why you were so stupid. Stop doing it like this.
Speaker 1:You understand this right. Yeah, now you have to deal with it Like the kid holding the flashlight under the hood. Now it's your car and you're working on it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's my baby now I got to make sure everything, like all my T's are crossed and all my I's are dotted and I don't know. It's much more. I guess it's like having grandkids for him, like when I bring my kids over, he gets to enjoy them and then send them back. Well, now he gets to like point out all the things about the business that he's ran into, the things that makes us what paint works for certain situations, what's, what primer will cover stains, what glues the best for wallpaper or taking, what like everything that you, you run into projects and you wouldn't even think, because so many different carpenters or people came before you and use different styles of building, different materials for building, and so all of these things have different like, like pathways that line up for these specific things, yeah but he's got almost 40 years of seeing all these things and like now is how fast can I ask him questions before he passes away?
Speaker 3:oh, you want to learn everything. I need to know everything, writing it all down because you need to. Oh, I know, and it's like the story of tim.
Speaker 2:You know like I'm just trying to to dredge out of him the last 40 years of his life and he loved it, gave him a new will to to be alive a new something.
Speaker 1:I can just see him having so much joy seeing you step into it and be hungry and like appreciate his knowledge, like wouldn't, as a parent, like wouldn't you?
Speaker 3:just, oh yeah and just the time spent you know the time spent with him and you like asking him. I just, I just know I would enjoy that as a parent too, you know I always am telling my kids y'all not gonna leave me. Huh and chase is like you know. They're going to move out and I'm like, but that's not necessary, you know that oh look, I told my two we have lots of land around us.
Speaker 1:Who's building yet? You can build your house here, and you can build your house here, and you're going to build your house here. Yeah, yeah, I would be fine with that. And as of right now, they both said yes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, let's get that in contract, yeah yeah, sign right here. But I can see Yadadi taking a lot of pride in that because of what he built and then passing it on to you. That's awesome if y'all need any. Uh, work done. Y'all give skeet a call at tibidos. Paint and finishing interior, exterior painting, small jobs, big jobs, sheetrock what's your favorite thing to do, just real quick I can tell you my least favorite thing to do.
Speaker 3:We'll start with that okay it's sanding ceilings right so when you put the sheetrock mud on the ceiling.
Speaker 2:You gotta sand it.
Speaker 3:Smooth it just like rains there ain't no way around it, don't? You wish popcorn ceilings were still a thing, though, so you could you wouldn't have to have it smooth up there yeah, how much paint that takes so spray that up there
Speaker 2:now the problem is like people had the popcorn ceilings, like no, I need to get rid of that. Yeah, so I gotta scrape it all off, and that just rains down on my face too yeah okay, favorite thing, uh, I love doing like drastic color changes oh fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, oh, man, it's so. Paint makes so much difference it does, yeah, like yeah, I, I would love that and a whole transformation before and after.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, color drenching is a brand new thing that people are doing. So like one room, everything goes in that same color and it's been like. At first I was like man, like ceiling wall board.
Speaker 1:Ceiling trim wall All one color.
Speaker 2:They all get their respective paint grade. So like your trim paint, gets trim paint your wall paint gets wall paint.
Speaker 2:Oh okay, yeah, yeah all be the same color and they call it a color drench and it's to make like a mood in the room and at first I was like this may be kind of silly. I don't know if I love it too much, but it definitely sets a tone in something like, especially if you have some furniture pieces to kind of to be your accent yeah right, because you got like a room of one thing and then you have your furniture, your decorations as your accent yeah I've been enjoying that a lot
Speaker 2:and almost it's almost just like satisfying. I need a google.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's the same color yeah, you can't mess this up. Break it off. Yeah, no special lines. Oh wow, yeah, I'm gonna need you to come and color drench my whole house, but bring the kilts, because it's all that paint lord. All right, Y'all contact Skeet with any of your interior, exterior painting patching jobs for your ceiling.
Speaker 1:How far you go out. I know it's a Catiana area, Church Point area.
Speaker 2:I gave a friend a quote in Alexandria.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:I had another friend that was a little bit farther than Alexandria but it wasn't a whole lot. She just had a patch in her ceiling and so patches they take three to five days because you got to like, let things dry, come back, let them dry, sand them, come back, and it just. It wouldn't have been worth it for just her patch for me to like drive three hours for two hours of work and drive three hours back.
Speaker 2:But if you have like a house worthy of painting, to where maybe I'll just chill with you the whole time we can hang out and have some bourbon together, throw some axes on the weekend.
Speaker 3:Read the Bible. Yeah, read the Bible study.
Speaker 1:So yeah, if it's a big enough project, we'll travel for it, sure? Well, if you're not sure, you can always call right. Call and ask you and get a quote at call skeet at 337-308-2713. Make sure you write that down yeah, all right.
Speaker 3:Well, thank you so much for being our thank you all for having me.
Speaker 1:Man, thank you for coming yeah I loved it so good. We could totally do this again and and have the next, you know five or six layers peeled back uh, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3:We might have to have Kate to come too. A double doozy.
Speaker 1:Oh, perfect, that's by the way your favorite cookie.
Speaker 2:That's another whole layer. Oh, that is another layer.
Speaker 3:Oh man All right, well, thank you for coming, skeet. Thank you so much, and thank you for listening to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas.