Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas
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Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas
Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas: Sibling Stories
Step into the warm, nostalgic world of Cajun childhood as sisters Koa and Lainey share their journey from squabbling roommates to inseparable best friends. Despite being five years apart, these Church Point, Louisiana natives have cultivated a relationship that's evolved from obligatory family ties to a deep, chosen friendship that keeps them connected through daily texts and FaceTime calls where they "aren't even watching each other."
The sisters take us behind the wicker partition that once divided their shared bedroom—a makeshift solution to their different organizational styles that became symbolic of childhood territory disputes. They laugh about questionable parenting decisions like three-year-old perms and mushroom haircuts that had strangers mistaking Lainey for a boy, complete with their grandmother's emergency clip-on earring solution.
Family traditions form the heart of their shared memories—from "bum nights" watching TGIF programming with pizza and pull-out sofas to their father insisting dinner time was sacred enough to ignore phone calls. They reminisce about creative play (puppet shows and news anchor impersonations), camping trips to Bayou Wilderness, disappointing video store visits when your movie was already checked out, and singing country music together in the family band they called the "Gidry Connection."
This episode beautifully captures how regional culture shapes childhood experiences and how sibling relationships transform over time. You'll find yourself reflecting on your own family dynamics and perhaps feeling inspired to reconnect with siblings who shared your earliest memories. Whether you grew up in Cajun country or simply appreciate authentic family stories, this heartwarming conversation reminds us that siblings may start as our first friends or enemies, but often become our most treasured lifelong companions.
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Welcome to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas podcast for July Y'all. The summertime is flying by.
Speaker 2:It's flying by. We're so busy. But first let's introduce who we are.
Speaker 1:Okay, who go first?
Speaker 2:Okay, my name is Koa Malanson. I'm married to Nathan Malanson. No, my name is Sarah O'Pry. I'm from Church, point. This is my best friend.
Speaker 1:And partner in crime and all the things. Yes, I'm koa malon song and I'm also living in church, point louisiana, and this is my sister, in case you didn't know, please do not ask in the comments if she is my daughter.
Speaker 2:please do not say your mini me looks just like you. Her she is five years younger than me, okay, yes, yes, I know she looks beautiful. I'm a little salty that some people say she's my daughter, but no, she's my sister and we have her here for a very special episode about our sibling. Sibling stories, sibling stories. So let's get started and talk about our grand.
Speaker 1:Our grand cousin sponsored for July is our, our cajun family traditions out of church point louisiana. You might have seen us do a reel recently with them where we was playing lucy and ethel on the assembly line and we was packing sausage that was the best that was so much fun. They took us for a whole tour in their their sausage and boudin making plant we wore a hairnet we wore hairnets and lab coats and everything yeah it was wonderful, but anyway, uh y'all, they just the best sausage period period period.
Speaker 2:You know we get lots of people trying to get us to try things, but cajun family traditions is what I actually use in my kitchen and buy off the store shelf. And buy off the store shelf like. They're not just they do give us some prizes, but it's like whenever I run out of those prizes, then I go buy them. You know we love us.
Speaker 1:Before they were a sponsor, but we do appreciate that they love us so much and decided to sponsor the podcast. Now I'm gonna tell y'all this they don't ship out. So if you're not from around here, dang, I'm so sorry, but if you are from around here, you go to cajun traditionscom and you're gonna see all the store locations where you can buy their sausage and their buda and their taso and you won't be sorry, okay? And if you're not from around here, maybe you have somebody that lives here and they love you enough to ship you some, that's okay oh ask them to ship you some.
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Speaker 2:So thank you all very much for being our grand sponsor. Cajun Family Traditions Okay, for being our grand sponsor. Cajun Family Traditions Okay. So if you haven't listened to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas before maybe this is your first episode Can you imagine you embarking on?
Speaker 1:one First episode and you know we've been doing this almost a year. In September it'll be a year. The podcast yeah.
Speaker 2:Wow, one year old.
Speaker 1:I didn't realize that we have a birthday party for it in September. We should have a birthday party. We should have cake.
Speaker 2:For sure, surely, surely, we'll have cake. So if you are a cake or bakery and you would like to sponsor y'all, give it.
Speaker 1:I mean, you know, leave it in the comments. Why not Leave it in the comments?
Speaker 2:We'll have a nice cake, we'll have your nice cake, and we'll eat your cake If you leave a comment, we'll have a nice cake. We'll have your nice cake. Sure and we'll eat your cake On Coffee Talk with the KCW, all right. So this is my sister, lainey. Did I even say her name earlier? I think she said her name. I said my name. Okay, lainey Tejeda. And tell us a little bit about yourself, lainey. Well, I am five years younger than sister Important to know.
Speaker 2:It's just us two. We come from Church Point. What do you do? What's your job? I'm a high school teacher at Church Point High School, teach ninth and tenth grade English and Spanish, actually, and she likes to tell me things in Spanish and I can understand them for the most part, but I can't speak it back to her, so I'm always lost.
Speaker 1:I'm always lost on that, but I wish I could speak it. I wish I could speak French and Spanish just fluently, but we had like a great Spanish teacher when we was in high school Janine Colligan and she just did such a good job, like I can definitely pick out.
Speaker 2:I still remember things and I think that's that says a lot about a person you know, um, and I think she was probably a big reason of why you wanted to be a Spanish teacher. Oh, absolutely, absolutely. Cause when I was in high school, um, she kind of brought it up and she's like you know, you really catch on that, your accent is beautiful, you don't think you want to do something with this, and I was like maybe so, and so that was kind of in my head for a while. And then, whenever I started college, I went for broadcasting and dual majored in Spanish. Well, quickly found out that the broadcasting was not my thing, just because I didn't want to do the reporter thing before anchoring. But and things have changed so much drastically since 2010 in media but eventually I figured out hey, I think I want to go back to do high school, because that was a period in my life that was extremely significant for so many reasons. I just found that so interesting.
Speaker 1:High school would not be my first choice but I find it interesting that y'all, both are teachers, uh-huh, you know like, did y'all plan that, or like y'all? No, no and you were doing. You've all. What's the highest grade you taught? Fourth, fourth yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I don't think anybody chooses to have the lowest paying profession with the most amount of work underappreciated they choose it because they love the children and they want their summers off. But that was, I mean, that was a part of my life. I really I really did love it and she's still in it and uh, and she just loves the kids, you know, and my little children. She does the uh theater stuff now at school and my little children was able to go in.
Speaker 1:They still talking about that they loved it so much well, I'm, I'm not very dramatic so. Oh, I don't, yeah, no, not at all, I don't know how you got into that at all.
Speaker 2:All right, before we get started with sibling stories, let's talk about Moyen Dwayne Chasson. He's a fleet and sales associate with Barker Buick GMC in Houma, louisiana. They celebrate their 25th anniversary and Dwayne has been with the Barker family for 18 years selling fleet and new and used vehicles 18 of the 25,.
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Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, absolutely All right sibling stories, y'all are five years apart, so I would imagine. So my brother and I are almost eight years apart and so I feel like by the time I was of age to really like have a meaningful sort of relationship with him, he was out, you know, and we have more of a relationship in our adult life. But growing up five years apart, I mean, did you find it was hard to connect until y'all got to a certain age or like what you think Y'all were always?
Speaker 2:close, yeah, no, uh-uh.
Speaker 1:It's hard with the gap, yeah.
Speaker 2:I always wanted to be with the cool kids. Yeah, uh-uh, it's hard with a gap. Yeah, I always wanted to be with the cool kids. Yeah, like she always wanted to be a part of like come and visit with my friends and stuff, and I was just like get out get out, you know uh, but I don't find we really became friends until we got out of the house you know, yeah, like adult life maybe until you got out of the house.
Speaker 2:When I got out of the house, yeah, because I ended up living with you yeah, for a short time she lived with us and it when chase and I first moved into the house, and that was what 15 years ago. So, like now we're best of friends, not that we weren't before, like we always played and we did stuff together and you know. But, um, like, I just find like our relationship is is much more now meaningful too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you choose like it's not just because you sisters and you have to be friends. You choose to be.
Speaker 2:We choose to talk to each other on the phone and facetime each other when we get dressed and you know wherever we are. We on the phone, yeah or maybe we're not even we facetime it and you she's just looking at my fan the whole time.
Speaker 1:Y'all, just like these kids and I'm just looking at her qualifies the whole time and we running around Y'all just like Brynn and JoJo, that they stay on the FaceTime and they not even watching each other.
Speaker 2:No, no, but it's just like I can see.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, if I I don't, but I don't know I found we had a good childhood for the most part, so we spent a lot of time together. What's your thing that we did the most when we were kids that you loved? Well, I remember when we was living in the house on Grand Marais I guess this is not the thing that we did the most, but it's just it comes to mind. I can't believe you remember anything on Grand Marais We'd sit at the table in the mornings whenever we was eating our breakfast usually cereal I don't know what you're going to say and we'd have competitions who could finish their cereal bowl first. I'll get so mad because I couldn't finish. Big good mom. You know, like I'm five years over.
Speaker 1:Of course, I'm going to finish my cereal first.
Speaker 2:I mean, how mean you got to be? But I see it with my kids too. I'm like why are you like this?
Speaker 1:Until, competition.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that was fun, okay, but let's talk about this. I don't know and I was born in 1987, but this just is something that's so puzzling to me. Okay, when I turned three years old is when and laney wasn't even born yet I got my first perm. What?
Speaker 1:no, but I've seen a video.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I haven't met myself on video as a three-year-old getting a perm. My aunt bridget all of my aunts were beauticians okay, so my, my aunt bridget, then my perm interesting nothing like a head full of chemicals when you three years old. Burning your hair, clean off and, as you can see, koa still gets perms to this day you lie.
Speaker 2:That is lies, all of it no, but she has pretty natural curls and mine were like kinky perm hair. You know, and I don't know why our parents did that to us. But, laney welley, well, our daddy had a perm. Our daddy had a perm.
Speaker 1:That was the style I guess. I mean, that was just the time. I remember, yeah, going with my daddy to the salon. It was a mullet perm, it was a frolet, a frolet, a fro and a mullet A fro mullet Sure did. Dang am good looking.
Speaker 2:He was good looking like toby keith dang. Yeah, but just my daddy virgin version. Okay, laney, though tell us about your haircut when you was little. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:Thank you, mama, thank you uh-huh, you see why they did that I had a mushroom cut like Like a bowl.
Speaker 2:Yes, and everybody thought I was a little boy. What a cute little boy you have. So come on, mama, my grandma hooked me up with some clip-on earrings, some big ones, oh thanks Mama. Yeah, we still have some pictures of me on the merry-go-round at some campground Toledo band yeah. I'll never forget that. And you had some big green clip-on earrings.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm With your little short hair, so everyone would know she was a girl.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, yes, and she would have some lipstick on. Oh, you know, oh, my word. And she was sitting on merry-go-round. That's how people would say, you know. I wonder, yeah, I don't know. That must be why I'm so hesitant to cut my little girl's hair, like I would just trim it once a year. Just trim because I'll. I never want my kid, you know, I never want my. I had that haircut too in many of my olin meals, you know life touch pictures and I'm just my mom.
Speaker 1:I never cut my hair short. I always had long hair like how long. Well, in the first grade I had it was almost down to my butt long. And then I'll never forget my first haircut cut to my shoulders and I cried, I cried and cried. But now that I'm a mama I'm like my mama was tired of brushing that hair and I would whine and I can still remember she'd pop me with the hairbrush because I was whining, and so I don't blame her for cutting my hair, because that's too much.
Speaker 2:I see it right now, and it's time for us to go get a haircut. Anyway, All right. Well, while you drum up some more memories, are we going to talk about our petite?
Speaker 1:sponsor our friend Hal. Oh, and we love her. Yes, y'all. If you haven't heard of Hal, the Cajun lady accent, I don't know. You must have been living under a rock.
Speaker 2:Under a rock.
Speaker 1:You need to go follow her on all social media platforms. It's Hal H-A-L the Cajun lady accent and you can go to Hal the Cajun lady accentcom to look at all her line of seasonings. She's got a full line, y'all her creole, zydeco, cajun waltz black and that's cajun spicy two-step and mexican fiesta. That's just to name a few. But like the mexican fiesta I'm just gonna say it's one of my favorite ones that she has I always have to have that in my house.
Speaker 2:Mexican fiesta I stopped using like the mccormick taco packets.
Speaker 1:And now it's just how fiesta um, and then she's got like spaghetti mixes and her chili mix is good and you just add that to your ground meat and your chili stuff fixings and it's good to go.
Speaker 2:I used a spaghetti mix in a lasagna the other day and it was divine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I saw your videos on that. It looked really good. Does she sell it in store? It's all over the stores?
Speaker 2:I don't even know.
Speaker 1:Okay, all her places, places. She's got a lot of locations, even out of state. I wonder if she has that on her website. We need to go look and see. Maybe she has all the places, yeah, her locations everywhere, all over but if you're not, if you don't have it in your store, though, you can order it online. Go to how the cajun lady accentcom for more info, and you can know and rest assured that her all her seasonings are low in sodium and MSG free. Thank you, hal, for being our petite sponsor of July.
Speaker 2:Thank you, hal. All right, Lainey, what else you got for me? You know where we went past yesterday. By chance, because I don't like to put on my ways we came and happened upon Bayou Wilderness, the campground, and it looks exactly the same before she even saw the sign for it, she looked.
Speaker 1:She's like. This is like she knew it's familiar. This is Bayou Wilderness.
Speaker 2:I just when I think of our and we've talked about going camping with our families and what kind of vacations we'd go on, but we never went on a lot of vacations no, we always camped um the. The main one was. The main one was um the koa and scott, which also still looks the exact same um, but we would go there pretty much every weekend yeah and we'd go to bayou wildernesserness.
Speaker 2:I definitely remember that one, because there was that big crawfish painted on the bottom of the pool and my sister and my cousin Hannah would tell me that it was going to get me. Oh, so Well, it's too bad you believe that, as sisters, will do.
Speaker 2:It's too bad, you would believe that. Well, I trusted you. You well, you see, I trusted you, looked up to you, you know. But I mean, we, we had a lot of fun when we were kids, I don't know. We went to our mom's a lot, um, and we, we visited and did we all?
Speaker 1:played outside probably yeah, do y'all.
Speaker 2:Did y'all play with y'all? Did you have cousins? Because we played with our? I am the youngest of all my cousins.
Speaker 1:So no, I really didn't have cousinsall play with y'all kids. Did you have cousins? Because we played with our cousins. I am the youngest of all my cousins, so no, I really didn't have cousins to play with, if you can imagine that you missed out.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, and our kids have so many cousins. You know, like on the Tejeda side there's lots of cousins. We all got a ton of kids, so I don't know cousins. We, we play with our cousins a lot. We went camping, we sang together. We like to sing, yes, and not just as children like, um, what were some, what were some of our favorite country music artists?
Speaker 2:we would sing to like, oh, reba, for sure you know, what song I heard the other day and it was like it's it's flipped a switch in my head. Hey, baby, let's go to vegas. You know, you know oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:So you liked faith hill, but not martina.
Speaker 2:Oh, I loved martina, I cannot stand.
Speaker 1:Martina mcbride, oh I just don't understand how you don't like her but you like faith hill. They sound the same, or what about the?
Speaker 2:one. Uh, who's saying I am rosemary's granddaughter? Her name was lila mccann dang, no that was not a lila mccann song. Okay, look it up. Go ahead for realsies.
Speaker 1:Yes look at, I'm doing it, all right.
Speaker 2:The spinning image of my father, and she only had that one album that sounded like Faith Hill to me. They all sound the same. What's the name of?
Speaker 1:it though. That's who I Am. No, I don't know, just sing to it hey Siri. I am Rosemary's granddaughter. Let's see.
Speaker 2:Oh man, I'm telling you, that's who it is. It is not who you said it is. Stop it. Who is it?
Speaker 1:Jessica Andrews. Who even knows? Who even knew that Maybe she was a one-hit wonder and it is called who I Am, by the way, so I was right on that front. Yo, how could I ever be so wrong? It's a one-hit wonder.
Speaker 2:So could I ever be so wrong? It's a one-hit wonder. So you you know, nobody can really blame you. Oh, I could cry right now. I thought I was. I was so sure about it no, but I was actually thinking about lila mccann on my way over here really yeah, well, what the hell does she sing then?
Speaker 1:hey siri, what do lilaila McCann sing?
Speaker 2:If you're not talking to Siri like he's your friend.
Speaker 1:She sings Down Came a Black Bird and I Want to Fall in Love. Okay, what about? Okay, well, anyway, let's discuss Mindy McCready.
Speaker 2:Though Mindy McCready, she sang when the shoes on the other foot. Notice when it hits the fan. Get over it, honey. Life's a two-way street or you won't be a man of mine. So I had some beers with the girls last night. Guys do it all the time.
Speaker 1:I did not know the song until you just got to that part. Yeah, me too. I had no clue what that was. I know I was like you just got to that part. Yeah, me too, I had no clue what that was.
Speaker 2:I know I was like, really we had that tape.
Speaker 1:Did y'all put on shows together, like at home, all the time?
Speaker 2:Yes, we put the tickle head up in the hallway and we'd make puppet shows.
Speaker 1:Oh, and we'd do dances, y'all would perform.
Speaker 2:Okay, also, you remember whenever we did the newscast we had like this easel and we would pretend like the bottom of it was a TV. Oh, that was a great easel. I was Blue Rolfes.
Speaker 1:Oh, why wouldn't you be?
Speaker 2:And you were, do you remember? No, I remember she had brown hair. I mean, oh, marie Plosser she, I remember she had brown hair. I mean, oh, no, it wasn't marie placer, she was blonde.
Speaker 1:Oh, come on koa I forgot, and we would watch frostian robert from the weather, frostian robert, which is actually rob perillo yes don't know why I would call him frostian robert, but I would watch him every morning. You know what he was saying. To be in broadcasting yes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes. So then, okay, there was this one girl with blonde hair, but I don't know what the brown-headed lady name would have been besides Darla Montgomery. She must have been fleeting, maybe a short time, I don't know, but we was always fighting over Blue Rolfes who was going to play Blue Mm-hmm Love it and I had the haircut for it at the time. Yes For it. Yes, Sure enough.
Speaker 1:All right, I got one but we're going to talk about Dwayne again. Mr Dwayne Chasson, y'all at Barker Buick GMC in Houma, Louisiana. He specializes in fleet new and used vehicles and you know, if you think about this sometimes, it's going to come time soon, too soon, for us to be looking for vehicles for our kids, our oldest girls. No, it is. I'm telling you, you're going to blink and it's going to happen. So if you're in that position and it's time to get your oldest or youngest or whoever, a vehicle.
Speaker 1:you need to contact Mr Dwayne Chasson at 985-855-9234. He is going to help make the process as easy as possible and find you the best deal for your precious child, who is now going to be driving on the road, and you know what, though?
Speaker 2:Also, it's time for those kids to go to college, and you want something reliable for them to come back, so you can cook them a nice meal every once in a while.
Speaker 1:Yes, to come back home on the weekends they better not go to school too far away. Mm-mm, they need to be home, okay, but anyway, y'all call Mr Duane. He has 18 years of experience, so he's going to hook you up All right. Thank you, mr Duane, for being our sponsor for July.
Speaker 2:Now what you had in your brain. I don't remember anymore.
Speaker 1:Oh I knew it was going to happen.
Speaker 2:But what we was talking about before that Blue Rolfus, blue Rolfus and, yeah, what else we used to play, though? We used to play um spice girls and then, uh, like we would fold clothes and watch fuse okay, and fuse is like the the rock channel. I rock mtv and um, so like we was all into the emo music we loved that okay, but later on. Yeah, that was later on, and uh, I don't know. Laney just always ride with me everywhere.
Speaker 2:She was always your shadow that's how siblings are yeah, and we had a good time though, uh, but where what I was thinking it was like something about dancing and singing we did when we were older. We were in a band with my cousin and we sang, uh, in the bores what the name of it was the gidry family band okay, or the gidry connection, yeah, the gidry connection because it was all gidry's connection.
Speaker 2:But he's a font. No, but you know, like his mama was a giditter but we sang in my band for a bit. We did a lot of uh singing in the choir. Were you in any of uncle glenn's productions? Yes, okay yeah, I couldn't tell you the names of them me neither but we were. We did a lot of plays with my uncle I can tell you how to correctly hold a folder so that you were singing.
Speaker 1:It makes me stand up and looking very nice, makes you stand up tall, just you Look at how y'all just corrected your posture.
Speaker 2:We just corrected our posture thinking about Uncle Glenn, but he was a big part of our childhood, like we'd always do stuff with him. We'd camp Halloween, we'd go over there and he'd cook a big gumbo. We'd I don't know like we sang in the choir with him.
Speaker 1:He always had us in the choir on.
Speaker 2:Sundays or whatever day, the children's choir.
Speaker 1:He had a camper on the lake like permanently for a while on the lake at KOA.
Speaker 2:And it was nice and like he always did fancy things you know, like I don't know, Uncle Glenn was the fancy cool fun.
Speaker 1:Uncle, yes, fancy things that you know, like I don't know, glenn was the fancy cool fun uncle, yes, and for my birthday he would always make me a heart-shaped cake with chocolate icing heart-shaped. I like that rotten rotten rotten, I'm going to look at our uh, the post you made this morning to see I don't think it was about siblings.
Speaker 2:Yes, it was. No, it was about summer oh my bad.
Speaker 1:you're right, that's for another episode, yeah.
Speaker 2:But you know, we just I don't know we had a good childhood. We had gigapets, we gigapet a lot. We watched a lot of PBS because we didn't have cable until later on. Oh, same at our house. I got to think about what house we lived in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then, and that tells me like the era that we're talking about. So let's talk about whenever we lived in the White House on Plaquemine and we had a pink Pepto-Bismol room. Oh, that's what I wanted to talk about. That's exactly what I wanted to talk about. Okay, that's whenever we got to watch Nickelodeon because we finally had cable.
Speaker 1:Oh, big stuff.
Speaker 2:Okay, but we didn't love each other, so much because she was junky and I was clean that my mama had to put like we, only it was only a two-bedroom house, so my mom and daddy had a room and we had a room, and which was really stupid, because we had a study, oh yeah but, you had to walk through the study to get to the room. So I I mean ain't nobody wanted to walk through all my junk to get to know.
Speaker 2:Her room was too junky for that, so she had like junky and then I had like pretty clean and my mama had to put a wicker partition in between us because at first I think she tried to put like a duct tape line. That didn't work.
Speaker 2:That wasn't enough. The wicker partition, all right, and we had one. I think this might have been the same one that we used in the camp. Remember, they had a couple of them, maybe in the camp. And we're like, when you go to the bathroom at the camp, they only just had a little porta potty inside and there was just like a little that wicker partition in the camp. I wonder if they took that one and put it in our room.
Speaker 1:If they took that one and put it in our room Might have been, you know, did it help? Did y'all have like, did y'all still fight, or what? I think we still fought, yeah.
Speaker 2:Because that partition somehow kept inching its way over.
Speaker 1:To my side, to your side.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm sure.
Speaker 1:Because, she's junk Junkie we had the TV on their side. We who had the, TV on their side.
Speaker 2:We didn't have a TV in our room. You said you had Nickelodeon. We'd have to go in the living room or in our mom and dad's room. I did not have a TV in my room until I was in college, like that was not.
Speaker 1:I didn't need that growing up, not until I was older, and that was something intentional by our parents.
Speaker 2:Like no, we have family time. That, I think, is one of the biggest memories for me is watching the same our parents like no, we have, we have family time. And that, I think, is one of the biggest memories for me is watching the same programs, are looking forward to certain things that only happen once a week. You know, I know Thursdays was Survivor, mondays we had, like the sitcom lineup home improvement.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, tgif now like it was slow to start on this family memory thing, but watching TGIF now. Like it was slow to start on this family memory thing, but watching TGIF, that was something and my mama would call it bum night and my daddy always worked away. Or we'd go to the Church Point High School football games and we'd bum night. Roll out the couch, the sofa bed.
Speaker 2:The sofa bed and my mama would get a box pizza and we'd watch TGIF all night. Love it. So yeah, bum nights, that was fun. That was a fun time.
Speaker 1:I like that.
Speaker 2:I need to do that with my kids, mm-hmm, sometimes I just go get a bunch of candy and just pick a movie to watch, and that's our night.
Speaker 1:The video store, oh the video store video store, oh, the video store, and I'd always pick the same movies over and over, the ones you can watch over and over again. Or man, when you go and and lift the the thing and there was no tape behind it. Somebody had it. Oh, he's so mad.
Speaker 2:Friday night ruined, ruined or, like you know, um, when, like our daddy, sat at the table with us you, you know, and we ate supper together, and that was that's so impactful for me, because I'm still trying to do that at least twice to three times a week with my family. And even if the phone would ring and it was somebody, he was like tell them I'm eating. Can you imagine that?
Speaker 1:Tell them.
Speaker 2:I'm eating, uh-huh, tell them I'm eating and I'm going to call them back After I finish eating. Now, the TV might have been on. Y'all we were watching, you know. Can you imagine? You know how often we're like hey, uh-huh, and we just don't like, we completely ignore. I'm kids. She was mad because she had to sit at the table and I'm like, listen, we're doing this because one day you're going to look back on this and you're going to say my daddy sat at the table and my mama sat at the table with us and you're going to want to do that with your family. And I can't do that, no more with my daddy. I always look back on those times with him, right, you know? Finally, you know. So we had a great childhood. I'm glad you, my sister, yeah, I'm glad you, my sister lies sometimes. I wish I had a little nerf gun, like daddy, I could just pop. Sorry, blaster, is that what we're calling it these days?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah oh, walker texas rangers. Oh, walker texas ranger, did you watch?
Speaker 1:that my parents did. I hated it growing up, but my daddy loved it. She wanted to be him.
Speaker 2:I did, come on. I had a holster. A cowboy hat Even short hair like him, come on.
Speaker 1:I'm going to be.
Speaker 2:Walker and you're going to be Trevette when the eyes of the ranger are upon you. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:And my daddy just ate that up because he loved Chuck Norris. I love it. Who doesn't? Who don't? Love Chuck?
Speaker 2:And look still handsome as ever. Okay, so this is my sibling, but we're going to have your sibling on too.
Speaker 1:Yes, we're trying to get my brother to come, uh, but he works offshore so his schedule is crazy. But, um, yeah, stay tuned for that we'll have. I can't wait for y'all to hear from him, because his version is probably going to be different than mine of growing up.
Speaker 2:I can't wait for this, because I've never met him, so like I always tell her like he's not a real person.
Speaker 1:She don't think he's really have a brother.
Speaker 2:So like I am interested to see if this is really going to happen Now.
Speaker 1:This never happens, and you know we're throwing it out there, so he's. He was about it. He tried to come today, but he's coming home today. He won't be home till later, so yeah.
Speaker 1:Anyway, we'll try again. Though, yes, y'all go ahead. And, uh, if y'all have any interesting sibling stories and we would love to hear them so please put them in the comments on our youtube channel if you're watching there. And, um, don't forget to like and subscribe and all those things. We never say that I never, because like and subscribe, yeah smash, that smash that button turn on notifications hit the bell whatever it is.
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Speaker 1:This is so true. And we know this from personal taste and experience and put that in the freezer and you have it for whatever you need it.
Speaker 2:Red beans and rice night.
Speaker 1:I just love that boudin on the grill too. You know, when my husband's grilling meat or something, take a pack out of the freezer and throw the boudin on the grill. And now they got that new boudin, that's jalapeno and pepper jack boudin.
Speaker 2:That just just came out. I cannot wait to try that Me too.
Speaker 1:All right.
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Speaker 2:I just love y'all both so much oh well, I want you to know that we like you a little bit, but thank you for coming. I really appreciate it of course, all right.
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