Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas

Treasures on the Table: Nostalgia, Thrifting, and the Joy of “Made-Right” Things

• Chris Logan Media • Season 3 • Episode 26

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The kettle hums, the drip pot breathes, and a kitchen full of thrifted treasures starts to feel like a time capsule you can live in. We’re pouring a fresh cup and talking about the “granny era”—that irresistible pull toward tools that last, patterns that comfort, and rituals that turn a house into a home. From enamel coffee pots that need no plug to cast iron that gets better with use, we unpack why old-school design still wins on taste, touch, and soul.

We trade notes on 70s appliances, Corelle and Pyrex patterns, and the quiet joy of a rolling pin that’s seen a hundred pies. There’s practical wisdom here—vintage tools are often stronger, simpler, and easier to repair—but the deeper current is emotional. Nostalgia isn’t just a trend; it’s a steadying force in a fast, disposable culture. We share where we hunt (hello, Becky’s Barn), how we fold vintage into bright, modern homes, and why certain sounds—a rice cooker’s ding, a washer’s blunt buzzer—can pull you straight back to family tables and warm kitchens.

Along the way, we daydream about reviving classic Corelle designs with safer materials, swap stories about thrift wins, and invite you to add your own heirlooms to the conversation. If you crave calm in your feed, if Granny-Tok soothes your pulse, or if a scuffed blue pot makes you smile every time you walk by, you’re in good company. Pull up a chair, and let’s talk about choosing fewer, better things that carry memory, function, and heart.

Enjoyed the conversation? Subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who loves a good thrift find. Tell us your favorite vintage piece and the story it carries—we’ll feature our favorites on the show.

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That blender is just. Have you used it yet? Haven't used it yet. I feel like margs are something more. Margaritas could be made in that blender.

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I need to get us some old margarita glasses and have us a Seventhist party.

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Seventh party!

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Welcome to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. Grab a cup of coffee, settle in, and let's dive into real conversations about life, motherhood, and a little inspiration to brighten your day.

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Welcome, welcome, y'all, to another episode of Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. Um, y'all, we are like toward the end of October already. But October is my favorite month. I'm not sad about it.

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October.

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We're fixing to get into holidays, and it's gonna be a blink of an eye. This is the most magical time of year, in my opinion. I love this time of year.

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Um's your birthday month, too.

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It is, yes. I had a uh a birthday recently. One year older and wiser.

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Absolutely.

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Aging like a fine wine.

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Like a fine wine in reverse.

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Or an expensive bourbon, like my husband.

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Yes. Oh, that's how he likes it, huh?

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That's how he likes it. Okay, we have a great, uh, I think a great and fun episode. My heart of Fletta. You understand? We giddy about it because this is like just our jam. If you're watching us on YouTube right now, um you are seeing all kinds of lovely things on the table. We have props. This is all our stuff, though. This is things that we have collected over the years, thrifting and just treasures that old treasures that we love. So that's what this episode is about. Like uh the gr we're calling it the uh the granny era. What do we call them?

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The granny culture.

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The granny culture, yes. And our obsession with old things and and just but in our case, I guess it would be Momo culture. Mamal culture, yes. Uh before we get started, we're gonna um shamelessly plug our website for y'all to go check out.

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Yes, CajunMamas.com. Yes. We got something for everybody. If you get it's your girl's birthday, sometimes I wonder if people like go on little trips. I always wonder if people go on trips and they order for like the whole trip, you know, like a girl's trip. Look at that some Cajun Mama stuff. Oh, you know? What fun. Yeah. So we've got mugs, tea towels, t-shirts with all kinds of say-ins on them. Yeah. Um, we got our men's hats um with Cajun sayings on them. And you know what? Even if you an honorary Cajun, yeah, we'd love for you to share the Cajun love and Cajun Mama love with all of your friends and um wherever you live.

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And with yourself, yes. And we offer shout-out videos too, and you can get you can order them through our website. And if you have uh somebody that you love, their birthday's coming up, you have an anniversary happening or something, and you want us to make a personalized video for your loved one, you can order it there and give us all the details of you know what you what kind of little say things you want us to work into the video. Those are we really enjoy doing those.

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And the more details, the better. The more we did ones for Cynthia or something, Jennifer. And Jennifer, you know, this is what they dress like. Since high school, and so we were really able to personalize her shout-out, her shout-out, and that just makes our day.

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Yeah.

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Um, so and we love to see if it makes your day too.

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If you know somebody, or you know, maybe yourself, I don't know. But if you know somebody that loves our our Cajun Mamas videos and content, um, that would be, I feel like a special gift, a unique special gift you could give for them. So check out everything we got on CajunMamas.com. All right. So granny things. The granny culture. What is it? Why are we leaning toward this? What do you how do you feel about this?

SPEAKER_02:

Well, I I've always liked old things. Okay. I've always dreamed that whenever I was going to have a house, I would have an old house that I fixed up that I wanted it to be mine, you know? Um, so that's what I have. And then I started seeing on TikTok, especially that's what I would watch. Um, all these like people who were like de-influencing, okay?

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Demodernizing.

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And yeah, and and like now I'm influenced to buy older things because they work better.

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They made better. And I just like the nostalgia. Nostalgia. I it's a feeling. It is, it is a feeling of like taking a step back in time. What we grew up seeing in our grandma's kitchens, our mama's kitchens. Um, you know, I think everybody goes through a point in their life, maybe early adulthood, where you want everything new. You want all the nice things, you know, maybe you in your first little apartment or your first house or something, you want everything nice, new, modern. Then you circle back to like wanting these old things that bring you that comfort feeling. And like it's just it's nostalgia. Like you said, it's a feeling. And like you look at this old rugged uh rolling pin, and you just know that how many biscuits was made with how many pieces, how many pie crusts, how many things were made with this love or or this pot. Like, I love this pot that you found at the Washington School Mall.

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Oh, listen, I I I I only use this for like ball potatoes and like a rice dressing, but I just love the way it looks on my stove. You keep it on your stove like a decoration, yeah. And it makes me happy. Yeah, sometimes I just have to wipe it off because it's got some other little cross on it from things I cooked or whatever. But it makes me happy, just like if you'd get a little knickknack to the home goods.

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Yeah.

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So, I mean, we have a few items, yeah, but that's what it's about. And then, like, I love to watch Hannah Dasha get her kitchen, it is all 70s.

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Everything pistachio green.

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Oh my god, I love it. She just got an old stove. Oh, I could just I watch her get all her little things and she gets all excited.

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Yeah, she even dresses the pork. She does dress the pork.

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If you don't know Hannah Dasha, I'm gonna need y'all to go look her up.

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Yeah, on TikTok. She's probably everywhere, but yeah, she's big on TikTok. Um, yeah, and like, you know, I coming in with like the sourdough culture. Uh I don't know, that seems to go hand in hand with old things. Like now people are like raising chickens so they can get their own eggs. We making sourdough, we having old appliances, and and just we sent we trying to like go back to the simple times in our crazy. I feel like that's what it is. We're trying to connect with a simpler time in the crazy culture.

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In the crazy culture that we live in. It's so modernized, and my mom says this all the time it's disposable. So, like you could get um a a can opener, for instance, uh from wherever that's gonna break on you within the first two, three years. Yep. But that can opener from the 1970s still works. Behind me on the shelf, yeah. I got that to buy you some stuff in Sunset for nine dollars, and it has a knife sharpener on the back of it. So you know, like it was just made better, and still going strong. It's still going strong, and it's not disposable, you know. Like maybe one day it might break, but you know, we just live in a really disposed close, you know.

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You know, and I can um thinking about this coffee pot, like this I love this little coffee pot. This was my husband's great-grandmothers, and it's like you know, it's a drip pot, so like there's no mechanics in it.

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It's one of those enamel, white enamel drip pots for those of you who are not watching.

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Yes. Um, and I'm thinking about like all my automatic drip pots. How many have I gone through so many? So many because they break. And this don't require a plug, nothing. You just have to have boiling water. You can make your coffee and it tastes so good.

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The taste of it is just next level. Next level, you're gonna get all the all the roast, all the flavor, the roast the roast. Yes. So yeah, I don't know what it is. I think I don't know, it lasts longer and it's just something I like to look at it, you know, like this.

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It just makes you happy to look at it. Yeah, it brings you back, it just connects you with a feeling. It really I think that's what it is. Um okay, so I would love to know in the comments if y'all could let us know. Do you have some things in your house that you treasure like this? Like, is there anything that you keep around specifically because you might not even use it? Maybe it doesn't even work no more, but you keep it around because it just makes you happy. Um, maybe it was your mama's, maybe it was your mama's or your aunts or something, or maybe you found it thrifting. So you know, like our uh we don't have it here, but like our percolators, that wasn't family, but we found it thrifting. And now, now like we when we pass it down to our girls, it'll be that was my mama's pot. Like it's gonna become a family thing.

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Or they'll give it away and you can find Madeleine and Louise at a thrift store.

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I'll be dead when they do that.

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Yeah, I don't want to know about it. But I I I have been collecting everything um 70s uh in my kitchen. So the appliances, you get the nice collection. So the Hitachi back there I purchased on uh the rice cooker, I purchased on um eBay. So like if it's something that I'm not sure I'm gonna find in good condition, I'll go on eBay. Like, so I have that and I have a toaster that was in pristine condition, and I have done nothing but wear that thing out because we y'all toast every day toast all the time. But my friend Michelle Potts, we opened up that that blender. Oh, and when you uh you were with pristine condition. That blender is just have you used it yet?

SPEAKER_01:

Haven't used it yet. Oh man, I feel like morgues or something margaritas could be made in that blender.

SPEAKER_02:

We need to get us some old margarita glasses and have us a 70s party.

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70s party! Uh don't give me an excuse to have a 70s party because when I went in through my closet, I saved some outfits for a 70s party. And you remember when we went to uh buy you some stuff in in sunset, and we had there was these green glasses, and I'm like, oh, that was for the fruit, the spiked punch at the party. And you're like, no, that was for custard, or like some pudding. Pudding. But I would drink a little more green than that little cup.

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So we're gonna do that maybe one day. But that, I mean, you know, a little 70s party.

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Yes, I love it.

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And and the Tupperware, you know, I don't know. I found some of it I found at uh places that double-sided um measuring cup. My uh my sister asked me where I got that, and I stole that straight from my mama's house. She wasn't cooking anything. No, or bacon. So I I just snatched it.

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Mm-hmm.

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Oh well. So, you know, we have lots of little things.

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Yeah, you know, blue pot. I use that to boil my water when I do my.

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Where you got that from?

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Uh let me think. Was it that little um lanyop place and it was yeah, it was lanyard and a big uh tea square bowl with that? Yep.

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Which you cook.

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Well, I used it to prep. So, like if I'm uh chopping a bunch of potatoes to make potato salad or roast uh roast them in the oven or something, or my Brussels sprouts, when I chop them up, I put them in that big bowl and then I can drizzle the olive oil on it and just toss it, and they don't go all over the counter because it's that bowl size.

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The big bowl is as huge as the counter.

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I love my bowl.

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Nice, yeah. I'm gonna need you to take a picture of our or do us a video of you using your bigger.

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Okay, I can use it.

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The big bowl, not the bowl. The bowl. The bowl. Okay, the bowl. I said bowl. I don't know what that is. I don't know what's going on with me. Um, but I just there's just something about I and it brings me such joy to use, you know, all the older things.

SPEAKER_01:

I wasn't always like that though.

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Like I said, I no, me neither.

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I have recently in the probably the last five, seven years, maybe since I had kids, I don't know, gone to that place in my mind where uh these things, I want to be surrounded by these things. And my like it's funny, like our houses are opposite. Like I have a newer style built, newer built house, and everything is like bright and white or off-white and gray and stuff. And then I'll have my old coffee pot just sitting on my windowsill, and like all I look, I'm like I don't like that at all.

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I don't care that it doesn't go, I really don't. It's homey, you know, it's homey. I like that your house is not all pristine and you know, and that there's people that's like that, and that's good for them. Um, but I like that when I can go to your house, you know, you have some old things. You know, you treasure that kind of stuff, you know. I don't know. Well, that's probably why we get along so well.

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Oh, one of the many reasons why. And a favorite pastime of ours is going find these things. Oh, you know, we are overdue.

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We are so overdue. We need to go to Becky's Bourne.

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Okay.

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That's where I want to go next. I was thinking about that yesterday.

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Okay, it's been a while.

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It's been a while. If you don't know, if you're around this area, um, if it and people message us all the time. They're coming around. Okay, where can we go? And I always forget this place. Becky's born. Becky's Bourne in Louisburg, Louisiana. Treasure trove.

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Yep, treasure trove. I found uh my Tupperware pitcher over there. Yeah, you never know what you're gonna find. They have a lot of cast iron pots, magna light pots, over there, sure do. Um, even like an indoor uh air conditioned section that has clothes and stuff. One time I found some nice jeans over there.

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Yeah, they have or like little smock dresses, the little kids, but like the delicately, you know, embroidered handmade. Handmade. Oh man, you can find some things over there. And we could go there fast.

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Yeah, it's close. It's close for us. Hmm. What are we doing when we finish this? I don't know, man.

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I'm thinking a gumbo and Becky's born. What a day for us. Oh man. But do you like I don't know what side if you are watching on TikTok or Instagram or Facebook, if you watch reels, are these things coming up for you?

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Yeah, are you on that side? Like we always say the granny side of TikTok or the uh the clean, you can go to clean talk, you can go to Cajun Talk, you can go to all these sides of TikTok, and then more things come up in your feed like that. And once you start watching those granny TikToks, and I don't mean people know I mean like they're just style.

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Using their little sometimes they're just making coffee with it or we do. Yeah, we do that, but like I just like to see what they got. Number one, and sometimes they'll have those little lace curtains blowing in the wind, sometimes a little nice table covering a breath of fresh air. And that's what I do. I literally take a breath and it and it just it calms me down. It's calming, it's so calming. Yeah, I don't know what it is, but you know what? I feel like if you if you're not on there, maybe your algorithm's gonna be that now after you listen to this. Because I don't know, that's what I enjoy.

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Yeah, it it makes me happy to for you know and let's not forget about our beloved Corel cups. Yeah, because that I feel like is one thing that started it all for us, and now but I feel like we could go and find different pieces here and there or like sets and stuff. It's getting so hard to find sets of things, yes. Um and that makes me sad because I'm not done building my collections.

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No, we have four patterns though, don't we? We have the hor uh the gold one, butterfly gold, butterfly gold, crazy daisy, harvest. That's the one your mama had. Is it harvest or woodland? Woodland. Okay, and then we have uh the blue one, old tone.

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The blue is not corral, though, that's a pyrex. Pyrex. So I don't know how that so we just don't discriminate. We don't discriminate. I mean, they look in the time period that we like and we use them. But the corral, I feel like, oh, I just hope one day we're gonna we're gonna find a new pattern to collect or something.

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We ought to contact Corell.

SPEAKER_01:

Hey, does anybody know Mr. Carell? I feel like we could do we could bring back we could bring it back, yeah.

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Or we can do our own new pattern. Oh, please. Wouldn't that be a dream?

SPEAKER_01:

Hey, so far some of the dreams we've shot out there have come to fruition. Well, we're just throwing this out there. If anybody has a connection at Corell, we can bring back or Pyrexy because we like Pyrex. The hook grip coffee cups, and we we will make some designs. Oh, or if they just start manufacturing them again, but they probably wouldn't be the same.

SPEAKER_02:

I think they could come up with you know a newer way to make them.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, make sure. But that design, that hook little whatever you call it, hook handle and the patterns with no layer. The patterns with no layer would be no lead paint, would be nice. Uh okay, I'm gonna text them. Okay. Mr. Corell. Do you hear us? Or Miss Corell?

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I don't know me.

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Ms. Then Mrs. Carell.

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Uh-huh. The powers that be to whom it may concern. Yeah. Anyway. Yes, anyway. Um, y'all let us know. Do you how you feel? Do you feel some type of way about old things? Did you collect all of your mama's things or your mama's things? And are you happy you have them? Um we just like we want to hear about all your old things. So pop them in the comments. Uh tell us what you got. Um, and and we're gonna just kind of stroll down memory lane with you.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah. Thank y'all for listening because we uh yeah, we always enjoy talking about these nostalgic things. And we were thinking the other day, like uh about a what podcast episodes we were gonna do, and I'm like, man, I really loved the episode we did in the very beginning, almost over a year ago, about Mama's house and all the nostalgic memories. Like, what do you think of when you think of your mama's or your grandmother's house? And that was one of our most popular episodes. So I hope that this ties in with that kind of nostalgic feeling that that episode brought to y'all.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, because that that's just that's it's a passion of ours.

SPEAKER_01:

You know, it's like whenever that rice cooker that you bought, the Hitachi, when it dings, like when it makes that ding, like instantly you're in your mama's house and it's time to eat. When you hear that sound, and that's just priceless.

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You know what something else I wish I wish I could get my hands on this. Um, a washer or a dryer that goes when it's done. Yes, scare the crap out of you.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, that very sound that will shake you from a dead sleep.

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Now that's not such a happy sound because that means it's just time to fold them. Right. But I just wish I could find that. You know?

SPEAKER_01:

Now they sing a little tune.

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Oh no.

SPEAKER_01:

It's like I heard that and I'm like, I I saw something.

SPEAKER_02:

I'm like, what the heck is that?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. It'll play a little tune when it's done. I'm all right. That's not gonna wake me up.

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That's just gonna make me mad. I'm not gonna. Although I'm sure the eh wouldn't too. But I just I this is just something about the nostalgia. It is brings me back to my mom time, you know. Oh well. Thank y'all for listening. Uh y'all chime in on anything you like. Um, and um, and and and thank you. We love we love all the granny things, all the mama things, and we are here with the granny era. We are we are totally here for it. Now, my kids, they over it because they're like, I mean, Mama, can't we just use something new? And I'm like, mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01:

When you get older and you have your own money, you can buy new.

SPEAKER_02:

Yep.

SPEAKER_01:

And then they'll turn into us, probably, and want old things. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02:

That's what I'm thinking is gonna happen. Yeah.

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Do we have Leon here? Oh, no, I say that I'm sorry. Okay. You want to grab it? I'll grab Leon. Okay, yeah. So let's end by um saying, please go to our website, cajinmamas.com, and see what we have uh cooking over there. We have all kinds of cute little merch items happening for y'all. Um, and specifically we want to tell you about about Leonce.

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Okay, Leon, lots of people have questions about Leonce or love Leonce. Okay, and Leonce is a is is a friend of ours, actually my cousin, who um we like to make stories about. Yeah. And he is our favorite couillon who rides a bike. So my daughter came up with this design. Um, Pav Bet Leonce is what we say. Pav Bet Leon.

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Poor baby, poor thing.

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Poor thing. Leonce, poor fool. So um we you can get Leonce. He's got a t-shirt, he's got a children's t-shirt, you can get him in a big mug, a small mug, and you can get him in a plastic mug. Plastic. Okay, for your little couillons. All right. So I just wanted to bring up Leon since I know some of y'all are such big fans of.

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Oh, big fans. They're always asking, what's give us another Leon story? What's Leon's up to? And don't don't worry, we're not making fun of him, okay? No. He he's he's not actually He's a character. Yeah, he's a character.

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Let's see. That we have built for you. Based upon things.

SPEAKER_01:

Based upon things we have actually seen. All Leon stories come from a real thing that we have seen.

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They are actually inspired, but we are not picking on Leon, okay? No, he's just a character. Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

All right. Thank y'all. We'll see y'all next time.

SPEAKER_00:

Thanks for joining us on Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. We hope you enjoyed your cup of coffee and our chat. Don't forget to subscribe and share with your friends. Until next time, keep the coffee brewing and the conversation flowing.