Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas
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Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas
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Today, the Cajun Mamas dive into their most-asked questions, revealing the story of their friendship that began at a bootcamp gym in 2018 and blossomed into an inseparable bond seven years later.
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Welcome to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas, our final episode of April. Yes, good lord, it's flying by, like it always does, but we're here to keep you.
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Speaker 1:Help us help you. Help us help you. Yes, all right. Today we are talking about frequently asked questions.
Speaker 2:A whole episode dedicated to things that we get asked often.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So let's address some of these things. And if you're watching on our YouTube channel, so let's address some of these things. And if you're watching on our YouTube channel, go ahead and leave in the comments Ask us. Ask us, we'll go back. Even though it's not live right now, we'll go back and answer these comments. You know, if you have a question for us that you've been dying to ask or curious about, go right ahead and ask. But if you ask the same question that.
Speaker 1:I'm already going to talk about in this episode. I'm just going to tell you Don't expect an answer, Listen, because these are some frequently asked questions. And the number one most asked question how did we meet? How long have we been?
Speaker 2:How long have y'all been friends? Yes, and how did y'all meet? Okay, so this story goes back to 2018. Okay, um, you were on what? Your second round of the bootcamp at our at our gym, but it was a little tiny bootcamp program. Back then, um and I came in after just having my second baby and, um, we met there. We met at the bootcamp and we didn't necessarily like hit it off right away. We were friendly but we weren't really like oh, that soul sisters, you know right away.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're my person.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no no, no, no. You can just tell them what you thought about me when you first saw me.
Speaker 1:Well, when I first saw her, I said well, why is that skinny girl coming to the gym? She doesn't need to be here, because I was a thick girl and, and turns out, skinny girls need to go too. And skinny girls get upset when you call them, turns out sometimes you know people have a complex about being too big.
Speaker 1:There's also a complex about I learned that it's true, I learned that and it's like, okay, you was being some type of way and you thought it was only big girls that get a can go work out or whatever, yeah um well, that get offended too oh, yeah, yeah if you call somebody skinny, that's not nice either.
Speaker 1:True, you know, because sometimes you know they're trying to gain weight and they're trying to get muscle and they're trying to do things, and you being ugly. So I learned that, yes, and if you didn't know, that, now you do too. Now you do don't worry about don't worry about those skinny minis. They have goals.
Speaker 2:They have their own goals exactly because, like like I, I told you later like, yeah, I might have not looked like I should have been worried about it, but like, underneath those clothes I was fluffy. You know, I just had a second baby. Nothing was tight. I wanted to just get some strength back and some tone up a little bit every. That's what we all want, right? We want to tone up, tone up. Yeah, so that's why I was there and come to find out. Another reason I was there was to meet you I'll tell you tell you what?
Speaker 1:and after that, little by little chipping away.
Speaker 2:Yeah and you know the connection was made and then the relationship started blossoming later.
Speaker 1:And here we are here we are seven years later. Um, and we are, are always together and we are soul sisters and and do and wouldn't change it, and and, and.
Speaker 2:If I don't hear, if I don't get a text from you in about a three hour period, I'm asking why are you not bothering me?
Speaker 1:right now. She definitely texted me that last night. Why are you not bothering me right now? And it was like well because you know I set it aside. But that doesn't happen often because we tell each other every little thing we're thinking of.
Speaker 2:What are you doing today? Like I just need to know, like what you're doing, or?
Speaker 1:sometimes I'm like it sounds like from the text that you're sending me that you probably want to come over a little while you know and I'll be like you could tell that I'm like yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sounds like I'm about to pass by after drop off right morning sounds like you want a little bit of coffee, you want? To do a little coffee talk, you know and so that's where that all.
Speaker 1:So another frequently asked question we get is oh gosh, hold on. I had one, were we friends in high school Did we know each other forever. No, we just kind of addressed that.
Speaker 2:We met as adults. Yeah, we met as adults.
Speaker 1:And so if you're younger and you think your best friend is always going to be the be-all, end-all, you're going to be with the same group of friends. That's not necessarily true Now. My friends whenever I was in high school. I could go back to those friends any day and we can pick up where we left off most of them. But I like seeing the evolution of my friendships as I get older. It's scary to think that we we might not always have this friendship, that my, my friendship would not include you.
Speaker 1:I don't know, about that because I don't know how. No, I don't think that would.
Speaker 2:I feel like the connections you make as an adult have a greater chance of of being lifelong friendships. Um, just because, man, in a certain phase of your life I will say, like teens, into the 20s, early 30s, like you getting married, you having kids, you having new jobs, that could take you all over the place. But then you get to a certain age where you're pretty settled, you know, like I'm not'm not going anywhere. Nah, I'm in Church Point. I'm in my forever home, you know. So the odds are in our favor, friend.
Speaker 1:Oh, I like what you're saying, the odds are in our favor. I like what you're saying right now. This is giving me a great comfort. All right. Another thing is okay. Chad Labay said homemade roux versus store-bought room. What do we do? We get that all the time and it is a debate.
Speaker 2:I don't understand why it's such a debate. Me neither. They both taste the same. They taste good. They both good. One of them stinks up my house stinks up my house, the other one don't. I'm gonna just open a jar and take it. It's there. Ms Savoie does the work for you. She already did it. Why I got to do it. I don't understand the big debate about it. I can't. Maybe the debate is like well, you can't make your own roux, like you're not real Cajun. Oh, I can. I don't want to. I have and I can, but I choose to take the easier, faster way.
Speaker 2:And my daddy used jar roux. That goes above a generation, above you, yeah he did Like.
Speaker 1:I don't remember my daddy making a roux from scratch, Not that he couldn't, it's just like when he got off of work for long enough to make a meal, yeah.
Speaker 2:Short cuts are okay. He for long enough to make a meal. He wasn't going to make the roux too. Some shortcuts are okay. Thank you, chad Labe, for opening up that can of worms. But that's okay. I think it's a simple answer both.
Speaker 1:Yeah, both, why not? But if I'm making it, it's coming from a jar. Okay, okay, I'm trying to see yeah, me too what were we like in high school?
Speaker 2:oh, that's a good one that is a good one okay, well, for me, I was homeschooled, so my high school socially consisted of, like my youth group, pretty much um, and I was pretty quiet, like I don't think I was. I was always the one that, like they would, people my friends, would tell me all their what's going on with their boyfriends and what's going on you know, like they would come vent to me and I was the listener and the comforter and stuff and and I don't know. I've always been like that, I guess, but I don't know I didn't have much going on in my life. I was. It was pretty boring. Be honest with you.
Speaker 1:I mean I don't even know if I want to say because I had such like I. I was a lot of different people in high school trying to figure out.
Speaker 2:Figure out what you like, who I was so I went through.
Speaker 1:You know, like regular preppy girl I had like a little rocker skater girl, vibe goth that's why I, that's why your oldest is like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's inner, because of you, I guess, but I just love the rock music.
Speaker 1:I love the heavy metal. Like I still like that, even though it's probably not what Jesus likes, I just like to listen to it.
Speaker 2:You know, like what they say I like to work out to stuff like that. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:But, I was so many different types of Sarah's in high school, that in my husband's like I'd love to go back to high school and I'm just like not me.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Because I don't really care to do all of that again Same. You know, I finally figured out who I was and I'm still working on that, but this is the way that I dress. Yeah, find some pictures.
Speaker 2:When you told me that story about how, like, you went through that emo god type of phase and there's nothing wrong with dressing Like I don't care, I did it, I just was like that seems so far away from who I am now you know, I just couldn't believe it when you told me that, Like it just didn't fit the Sarah that I know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I just for most of all of my life. I never dressed like that, but I did go through a phase of that. Let's see.
Speaker 2:They want to know how old we are. Okay. I'm 38, same, I'll be 39. Wait, am I 39? Am I 38? No, you just turned 38. Okay, then I'm 38, you're gonna be 39 in october.
Speaker 1:yeah, I'm not there yet. Stop, I'm like oh my, okay, this is another frequently asked question. Where do we, where did we get that set of Corral? Oh, good, good, good good, there's a story there. Where do we, where did we get that set of Corral? Well, I, um, I started collecting, piece by piece, and um, how did the first one start, though?
Speaker 2:It's not the one you found at Jockey Lot.
Speaker 1:Jockey Lot yes. Okay. So I went to Jockey Lot and basically that's just a big flea market around here. They had like a garage sale event going on. Me and my mama went and there was a set of these babies. Okay, I'll take this one, because it doesn't have coffee in it.
Speaker 1:There was a set of these babies Alright, four of them, I think and then they were like $4. It was just the cups and then I made it. I like to treasure hunt okay, We've talked about. We like to thrift, we like to antique. It's all about the hunt for me. Okay, I like to hunt for things. I don't like to order them online. I know I can get them on eBay, I know I can get them other places, but it's really about the hunt.
Speaker 2:It's the hunt, absolutely, and finding that treasure.
Speaker 1:And when I can go and find a treasure trove of corral, I, I, I sometimes invest and I did. We went to North Carolina and I bought the whole plate set, all of the, the little cup sets, lots of them with the little.
Speaker 1:That flew home with you. That flew home with me. I took an extra bag home and we flew it home so that I could have the whole set and that's where I got all my corral. Some people's like, oh, your grandmother's, it's not because they got rid of some of them got rid of all that they didn't want that the mamas in them, my mama in them had a set of Corel and none of it matched.
Speaker 1:It was all different, so we ended up getting rid of all of it because it didn't match. Because you know, people wanted the blue heart plates and they wanted the new Corel, but some people took care of their Corel and I got some. And then Miss Chicky Munez still is dropping stuff off at my house of. Corral, and now she's like well, you pass it on to people who would like it too.
Speaker 2:So that's what we do. Yeah, and I mean the first few videos we ever did, 90%, 9% of the comments were all about the cups, because everybody's mama, everybody's mama in the South, had cups like this and we were like this is it Like we bringing nostalgia and sweet memories to these people through these Corral cups? And that that was it.
Speaker 1:But you know what we don't use the crazy Daisy as much we need to we need to.
Speaker 2:I just need to bring them to your house. We need to get a new.
Speaker 1:We need to get a couple videos using the different kinds. You know I have two different sets, remember? Yeah, you do. Yeah, we need to mix them up In rotation.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, susan wants to know when did you start dancing? And I'm thinking to myself how does she know if we dance? And maybe she's thinking of that, mr Weatherall, dance we did, because we sure don't know. I don't know how to dance like good, like professional, like good like my. My kids are both in dancing and they're good they are good and my husband's like y'all get that from your mom, and I'm like they really don't.
Speaker 2:I mean I can keep a beat, but I've never done choreographed dance before you know I can just two-step a little bit, but that's about it, you know yeah, me too, I two-step, um, I can waltz.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my husband taught me how to waltz. Well, my husband and his mama. When we first started dating, I learned how to do some Cajun dancing with them and, um, but other than real dancing, I got, I got rhythm.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel like we have rhythm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you put on the Cupid shuffle, I'm going to get to it. Yeah, okay, I'm going to get to business because I've been to a wedding or two. Oh yeah, the wedding dance.
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Speaker 1:How? Now I'm hungry me too okay, one question I like not necessarily a frequently asked question, but it is a good one what's your favorite pot to cook in and where'd you get it?
Speaker 2:my coated lodge yeah cast iron lodge pot. Yeah, no doubt. Um, where did I get it? I believe it came from gary mott hardware and my mother-in-law got it for us as a wedding gift oh nice yes mine is definitely the cast iron lodge pot um it's enamel coated you know the enamel coating is wonderful.
Speaker 1:I got that. My nanny, my nanny taught, taught me a lot about cooking and she ended up she and my uncle ever got me those every Christmas day. I'd get a piece. So I got, you know, the big one that you cook your big rice and gravies in. And then I got a smaller one that you cook your sides in. And then recently they got all their cast iron cleaned, oh wow, and they like they've eaten between laney and I.
Speaker 1:So I'm sure they still have pieces, but I got. I even made a sourdough bread in one of those black cast iron.
Speaker 2:I love bacon, ma yes, yeah, and it worked out well. Yes, that makes the best bread.
Speaker 1:But I wasn't sure, because I use my large pots all the time. Now, listen, I will throw down in a magnolite pot. I love my magnolites.
Speaker 2:I have some, but I don't ever use them. I feel like it's because I have the glass top and I need to do that on a burner.
Speaker 1:A burner, I'm afraid to crack my glass top. We ought to get you a nice burner outside. You don't have one, we do, we do have one. I just don't think to use it. I need to do that one, I just don't think to yourself that I need to do that.
Speaker 2:It's nice, you're right, and then you have such a nice cooking space. It might give me a little break from the kids.
Speaker 1:They can stay inside or they can go jump or swim while they're swimming. Look at me, I'm trying to get away from the children or outside the kitchen, you know, like just, oh, you're right, I should have did that this weekend when the weather was so nice, a change of scenery.
Speaker 2:Okay, are we done on that one? Yeah, okay, how did you meet your husbands? Oh, I like it. Do you like watching Steel Magnolias or not so much? Well, earlier this month, when we were talking about the Easter Bunny, I immediately thought of Steel Magnolias.
Speaker 1:Oh, me too the.
Speaker 2:Easter Bunny, mm-hmm, thought of Steel Magnolias. Oh, me too. Yeah, the Easter Bunny. Okay, but how did you meet?
Speaker 1:your husband how I met my husband. Okay, I met my husband in the first grade. We went to Church One Elementary together. We was both in Ms Jacobs' class and that's where I met him and he was always nice every time I'd see him. Because I didn't stay going to Church Point Elementary. I changed schools later on, in the second grade, and that's where I met my husband. Now we were friends all through school. He was always so nice. He's one of these people that will always tell you hi in the grocery store, okay, and just a nice hi.
Speaker 2:Such a nice hi.
Speaker 1:He's not going to stand there and talk to you forever. Yeah, but just he's acknowledging you.
Speaker 1:You know he's not one of those people that's like act like you never seen him before. Um, so, anyway, over the years, just a very friendly person. And then, um, you know, he had. He asked me to go to lsu game with him when I was in college and I had a boyfriend at the time and I was like I cannot go with you to an LSU game, I have a boyfriend. Let me tell you what. When that boyfriend broke up with me, I was MySpace-ing him. Right, quick, hit up that MySpace profile, hey how you doing you know yes.
Speaker 1:The rest is history. That's how I hooked him, what. That's how I hooked him 2005,.
Speaker 2:that would have been no 2000.
Speaker 1:We started dating in 2008,. I think Because we got married in 2010.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, I thought y'all dated for longer than that?
Speaker 1:No, we dated for a year, Then we got engaged and then we got married a year later. So I think we dated for like two years really. But that's how we met and now we have four children. We've been married for almost 15 years.
Speaker 2:We got married the same year, y'all as y'all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, tell us about your love story.
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Speaker 2:Okay, so I met my husband through a friend of a friend, a group of friends, um, on a trip to destin. Okay, I was 19, um, I, I knew like two. No, I only knew one person that was going on this trip and it was a guy, but we were not. It wasn't like that there wasn't an item, we were not an item, we were just friends.
Speaker 2:And he was like hey, I'm going to Destin with my cousin, her friend. There was like let's see, two, four, six yes, it is him. Yeah, I think there was like six or eight altogether. Okay, and so my mama and daddy well, I don't know how my dad, I'm sure, I don't know how my daddy felt about it, but when my mama tells the story, she's like we did not want you to go at all, because she's like I knew, I knew y'all are going to be partying, drinking and all this stuff, and I'm only 19 years old, whatever and my cousin at the time well, she's my cousin At the time she lived in Fort Walton, near Destin. So she told my mama I'm, I'm right there. If they need something, if she needs me, I can go help. So that helped the cause. Oh, that helped ease her mind a little bit. And she's like I did not want to let you go, but I just knew that it was going to be okay and that you could go, but you had to take your car.
Speaker 2:So I drove my car, yeah she let you, they let me drive my car because she said I want you to be able to leave if you need to.
Speaker 1:What a Cajun mama. Huh, Some people are listening and thinking you 18, you can do whatever you want, but not in a Cajun mama household. You underneath my roof. You're going to abide by my rules, and my rules do not.
Speaker 2:Not most of the time, I mean, I was 19, still living at home. So yeah, it was their, her rules and their rules. And you know they helped me. I was in school so they helped me pay for gas and stuff in my car and my insurance and all that.
Speaker 1:So it was really, you know, up to them the first time we went away for the weekend, I went on a date with chase to his company Christmas party and we had to stay at the hotel. Oh and look, I was 21 years old and my mama I couldn't believe she let me go oh you know, yeah, I couldn't believe she let me go, because you don't do that absolutely not you know, but that's a Cajun mama, for you it is, and we're going to be the same way. Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 2:So I went, drove my car I had a couple of them riding with me. Well, nathan, my husband, we were carpooling. It was a truck and then my car and that truck, tyler David, was driving. They was driving 100 plus miles an hour on that interstate and I didn't know where I was going. I was following them. Sarah, I was so mad and he will tell you that to this day we got to some truck stop or something to get off, to get gas. And when I got out that car I shot them a pair of eyes that would have killed a man and he's like. At that point he was like I thought there ain't no way in hell I have a chance with this girl. Like she's mad, and I was. I was just like I can't believe y'all doing this, like I don't know where I'm going. This is my first time driving eight hours by myself. You know, not by myself, but anyway I'm getting all fired up.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, I would have cried and turned around I almost lost them at one point because they were going so fast and I'm like I am not driving 100 miles an hour and I mean we're talking about there is maybe if you were lucky, you had, how'd you get there?
Speaker 1:Because we didn't have a phone telling us where to go.
Speaker 2:MapQuest no, yeah, print out directions and look for the exit. I mean six, okay, technology's come a long way in 10.
Speaker 2:Yeah, lucky 15 years or whatever, however long that is. Do the math, I'm old anyway. Um, so we get. We get to this gas station. I'm like so mad, whatever. We get to the uh condo where we were staying at. Soon as we walked through the gate, them beers, cluck, cluck, and I was like what did I get myself into? Like I wasn't raised around a whole lot of drinking. I was like I did not come here to watch y'all get drunk. I did not come here to get drunk. I love the beach and I just I was happy to be at the beach. Yeah, it really wasn't that bad. Like it scared me at first, but like it really wasn't that bad me. I was one of them ones cracking it open. No, I just wasn't like that. I don't think I had my first taste of alcohol till I was 19.
Speaker 2:Not, I'm serious, that's a whole nother topic, but anyway, yeah, yeah. So everything worked out. It was fine. I'm like, oh, this boy's cute, you know. But like I don't know, you know, he was putting the moves on you, not till the end, so it was like a four-day trip or whatever, and like the last day you want to come, you want to go for a walk you want to go for a walk.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, you want to go for a walk, like on the beach or whatever I'm like. Well, of course, I want to go for a walk on the beach, like how much more romantic can you get? It was, it was evening too, you know first date first date oh yeah, walk on the beach about and a walk to remember oh, the walk of a lifetime.
Speaker 2:I tell you that, yeah, came back, uh, from that trip and miss connie will tell you nathan was smitten. She said, like my boy was in love and when she found out he was. So he's a little older than me, he's a five and a half years older than me, so he was 25 at the time and I was only I was 19 and she was like she wasn't too happy about that, like she's very young, this and that, but god had a plan god had a plan, it it all worked out and, like I, I look back and I'm like I'm glad that I, I wasn't single in my 20s, like it, just I feel like I didn't miss out on anything.
Speaker 2:I missed out on a lot of probably bad things. Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, so we've been together since I was 19 years old and here we are.
Speaker 1:I'm almost 40. You're blessed yeah, because absolutely blessed that life can be rough, can be rough and a lot of tragic tragedy, heartache and unnecessarily you know. So I'm thankful and situations. You know, situations that are hard to to get out of or, like I, don't know, I'm just glad. Yeah, we are blessed in in the husband department?
Speaker 2:for sure we are. I don't know, I'm just glad, yeah, we are blessed in the husband department For sure. We are.
Speaker 1:I don't know if they blessed, but we are.
Speaker 2:They are so blessed, don't you think, to have us.
Speaker 1:I think Somebody told him it must be fun living with her and it's like he didn't know what to say. All the shades of Sarah. He didn't know what to say. He was like he only knew all the shades of Sarah.
Speaker 2:He didn't know what to say he was like oh, it's something.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's something all right, she's something all right.
Speaker 2:All right, tell us about our friend Howe.
Speaker 1:Oh well, howe, the Cajun lady accent, is actually one of our wonderful friends. She has a line of seasonings that include Creole, zydeco, cajun Walls, black and Night, all the things. Her Mexican Fiesta we've already said is our absolute favorite, love it. The dry dips. My daughter and the whole family loves it. You get one of those dry dips. Mix that up real quick before you go somewhere. Bring that to the function. I promise you that is going to be something everybody's going to enjoy. Every time I make it, they're like what?
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Speaker 2:I do see one other interesting question that, uh, I think we can talk about before we close out this episode. Okay, what is your favorite thing to cook that you have learned from your grandma?
Speaker 1:From my grandma. That's what the question says. My favorite thing that I learned to cook from my grandma is pimpidou oh, she taught me that and an egg in a basket. Okay, okay, uh, every time I go, something so simple yeah, I mean, she did other things too, but that was something I could remember all the things and try it.
Speaker 2:I was expecting you to say like, like a rice and gravy or like a she taught me how to make a roast or whatever, but it don't have.
Speaker 1:this is like what was most special to you At the time my daddy taught me later on, when I was grown, how to make gravies and stuff, but my grandma taught me how to make pan-pandu and that was something that I could remember and make at home, you know whenever.
Speaker 2:Pan-pandu is French toast. It's French toast.
Speaker 1:Lost bread is the actual translation for that. But um and and we'd make it together. You know, I could help her make it when I'd go spend a night at her house and have coffee milking oh, the memories.
Speaker 2:I love that, my grandma. So on my mama's side we live next door to my mama's mom and daddy and my mama on that side was Italian. She didn't really cook much Cajun-like style food. Italian she would cook, yeah, sometimes, but I mean like a mixture of things. She wasn't like super like Italiano you know like that.
Speaker 1:I love to watch those old mamas make that on tiktok you ever watch that?
Speaker 2:oh that I could get lost in it. When they make their pastas and stuff. Whatever they call them nonnas or nonnas? I don't know yeah, one of them. No, she wasn't like an italian nona, but anyway she did make, uh, what I call sweet spaghetti, and taught me how to make that sauce.
Speaker 1:And I still.
Speaker 2:I haven't you know I really need to do that to see if they like it, because I know my husband is not a fan of it, my daddy's not a fan of it. They like. Spaghetti is not supposed to be sweet like the sauce, but like it's to the point where, like I add I mean not just a little sugar to cut the acid Like you put sugar to where the sauce is sweet and then you put, like the Parmesan Romano stinky cheese on top of it. So it's like a sharp, salty, cheesy contrast to the sweet sauce. We ought to make that. I'm down. We ought to make that one day. We'd like to see if you like it too.
Speaker 1:If you put that stinky cheese on top, I probably will, yeah, and then I'll make French toast for you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's do it. Okay, what I would usually do if I made it was I would do meatballs, but I would do meatballs and sweet spaghetti and I would take some of those meatballs and do a meatball stew, like some of those meatballs, and do a meatball stew like for my daddy, so I would do two separate things, you know, but that was always my meal for, like my birthdays and stuff, it was my mom's sweet spaghetti.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, yep, we, we really need to do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I agree, it's been a long time since I tried that. Yeah, that was fun. That was a fun episode.
Speaker 1:That was a fun episode. All of April's episodes were great I know it's just flown by too.
Speaker 2:If we missed a question that you had, let us know in the comments. You can leave it in the comments, and if it's like something that we get asked a lot, we can sure address that. Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah, we probably could even do another one of these episodes a few months from now, like with more frequently asked questions.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'd love that this one was fun. Yeah, thank y'all so much for listening, taking the time to listen yes, um we are going to close out our episode by mentioning our grand sponsor for the last time this month tibideaus paint and finishing. Thank you so much, keith, for being a grand sponsor for coffee talk with the cajun mamas. He's an interior and exterior painting and staining handyman.
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Speaker 1:Yes, thank you, skeet again, and thank you for listening to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. We'll see you next week.