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Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas: Best Moments Of 2025

• Chris Logan Media • Season 3 • Episode 32

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A recycled Christmas joke reel hit 1.9 million views, a tiny gravy ladle became a microphone, and a small-town restaurant watched guests drive in from three states after a single video. That’s the kind of year we just had—unexpected, joy-filled, and fueled by a community that shows up for laughter and for lunch.

We rewind our biggest moments with fresh eyes: the Cajun 911 operator skits that turned everyday mishaps into holiday “emergencies,” the gumbo reels that sparked spicy debates and taught us a thing or two about cleaning cast iron, and the boudin king cake that made us abandon calorie counting for pure happiness. We also share how our feature of Alain Manger in Crowley, Louisiana, translated into real foot traffic and why shining a light on local spots matters. Food, humor, and heart are our north stars, and this year proved that authentic Cajun stories travel far.

Beyond the camera roll, we talk about a women’s coffee in St. Amant that reminded us stories are enough. Moms asked how to juggle work, family, and creative life, and we answered honestly: it’s messy, it’s minute by minute, and that’s okay. We also revisit travel highlights from New York—sun bonnets, comfy shoes, and zero side-eyes—and our stubborn love for a holiday parody called “Home By Yourself” that still deserves its viral moment. Through it all, the podcast remains our porch swing, a place where long-form conversation builds deeper ties than any quick clip can.

Pour a cup and spend time with us as we celebrate the wins, laugh at the flops, and map out what to revive next. If our stories made you smile, share this episode with a friend, subscribe wherever you listen, and leave a review—then tell us your favorite Cajun Mamas moment of the year. Your picks might shape what we bring back next.

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SPEAKER_01:

Now I feel like I have to keep doing them and coming up with like You can't let the people down. I can't.

SPEAKER_04:

You can't let the people down.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I'll have to have uh have to come up with some new emergencies pretty soon.

SPEAKER_04:

Well I'm I'm pretty sure there's gonna be some Christmas related emergencies.

SPEAKER_00:

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.

SPEAKER_01:

Welcome back to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. We are moving right along in December. I just can't believe I say this every month. Every month, you can't believe it's that month. I can't believe it's December, though. For real, y'all.

SPEAKER_04:

I feel like we were just doing last December's. And then I kind of even can't remember what what that podcast looked like. So I'm like, I wonder if we're doing some of the same stuff, but knowing us. If if we can't remember similar style, but you probably can't remember either. So just correct. Stick around.

SPEAKER_01:

So if it's something you've heard already, just pretend, act like you never heard it.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah. We're getting to that point of our lives where we're probably starting to repeat ourselves anyway all the time. All right.

SPEAKER_01:

Thanks to Hal Cajun Lady Accent um for being our grand sponsor for the month, our official coffee talk with the Cajun Lady.

SPEAKER_04:

The Grand Consent.

SPEAKER_01:

The Grand Consent. Um, we thank you so much, Hal. She's not only a great cook and very funny, and she's our friend too. Um, we love her. And so if you never heard of her line of seasonings, you're missing out. You need to go check them out at how the CajunLadyaccent.com. Or if you're blessed enough to live in South Louisiana where we at, you've probably seen her stuff in the grocery stores around here.

SPEAKER_04:

But she's not just seasoning, you know. Like if you don't know how to cook and you want to learn how to cook some home cooked meals, y'all need to follow her on all the platforms. She's even on Snapchat. Like, I can't imagine the the like special kind of content you get on Snapchat of how the K General.

SPEAKER_01:

Exclusive because it goes away, right?

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah. So four hours is gone. What kind of shenanigans that girl puts up on Snapchat? But I got enough dealing with all the others. I hear you. So y'all go follow her. She's funny and she knows how to cook.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, she does she ever. Yeah. And make sure you uh subscribe for emails too on her website. You can sign up for emails because anytime she has a new drop or something going on, she's gonna send you out an email to keep you up to date. So that's how H A L, the CajunladyAccent.com. Thank you, Hal.

SPEAKER_04:

Thank you, Hal.

SPEAKER_01:

So today we're gonna do uh we're gonna reminisce about the year. We're gonna do a 2025 recap Top Cajun Mama Moments podcast episode. Yes. So we have to dig dig in your brain. We have to dig deep. Yes. Um, I had to go back on my social media and look at the content over the past year and like see, because we do so much. I've like forgot some of the stuff we've done.

SPEAKER_04:

Uh-huh. Um, I think like stuff we did two years ago was like last year. That too. And it's like, wow, that was two years ago already. I see Ben and he's like a tiny baby, or I was still pregnant in some my some of our reels, and I'm like, dang, that was a long time ago. We don't care.

SPEAKER_01:

The hair was a lot was shorter. Yeah. Like some of my. In fact, my top performing reel this whole year was one that I re-share. I didn't reshare it. Like I posted it as a new post, but it was from last year of our Christmas jokes. Like the corny Christmas jokes, and it went viral again. Like almost two million. Like, y'all really, yes, 1.9 million views on that. And it was a recycled video. I'm like, they just love these corny jokes again.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, well, stay tuned then, because we'll bring you another dose of that.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, yes. But yeah, um, that was one of, and in fact, that was my first ever viral reel was that one of us doing Christmas jokes back and forth. And um never expected that to take off ever.

SPEAKER_04:

Dad jokes too. Like that, not even that funny, but you just can't help but laugh because you're like, or snort at least, you know.

SPEAKER_01:

It's in the delivery too.

SPEAKER_04:

It is in the delivery.

SPEAKER_01:

I feel like we can deliver it.

SPEAKER_04:

I hope I can deliver very well later on this month. All right, so give it to me. Are we gonna go backwards from like 25 to 1? Are you just gonna mix it up?

SPEAKER_01:

I don't have 20, I don't have 25 items. I'm just saying these are the top things, top performing things that we've done in 2025.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, in 2025. I thought you had like 25 listed. That's very in-depth.

SPEAKER_01:

No, yeah. Chad G Pik T can only do so much, you know. I'm sure if I said give me a top 25, it would have. But I was just like, I just want some top moments. Uh, what do the fans like? So what performed well for us? And then I know it's gonna trigger some other memories for us to talk about along the way. Oh, yeah, for sure. Okay, um, so coffee, the coffee takeover, that reel, the the Christmas coffee jokes, and I shared it on National Coffee Day. That's what it was.

SPEAKER_04:

Yes, oh that was, yes, okay.

SPEAKER_01:

I remember that, and I was just like, man, that one did well. I know. Um, so that was number one, okay. Uh 911 operator videos. If you've seen that, that's something that I started not even that long ago, like just a few months ago, maybe maybe two months, huh? I feel like October or maybe September. Anyway, nothing.

SPEAKER_04:

Those just blew up. You follow her account, like really went through the roof on those. Yeah. And they're just so funny and relatable, and so something you would hear.

SPEAKER_01:

I I just I don't even know. I I think I I saw another creator doing it in a southern way, but not a cage, not like a Louisiana way, but she's a um, I think she's in Georgia, maybe the one I'm thinking of in my head. And she was doing some 911 things, and I was like, oh, I can do that. Cajun 911. Oh, for sure. And so I was looking all over my house for something funny to put on as a uh headgear, you know. And I knew in my mind I wanted to use uh Rhea has some purple fuzzy earmuffs, like for cold weather earmuffs, and I was like, oh yes, I'm gonna do that. But I could not find them. I looked all over the house.

SPEAKER_04:

You gotta find them when you're not like.

SPEAKER_01:

I've already found them. I've already found them since then, but I can't switch now.

SPEAKER_04:

No, no, no, no, now you have a uniform.

SPEAKER_01:

That's it. The teal, uh, headphones, and my my my tiny little ladle is my microphone. Tiny little ladle.

SPEAKER_04:

It gets me because it's just like a ladle. How much more Cajun can you get than a tiny ladle, like a little gravy ladle? It's perfect.

SPEAKER_01:

I can't think I can thank my mama for that because I didn't have nothing that fit in my house. I looked all over my kitchen. I'm like, I need it, I wanted a wooden spoon as the microphone, but it sh it was too long, like it came out too far.

SPEAKER_04:

No, it sounds just absolutely absurd to me right now. Yeah. The ladle sponsor.

SPEAKER_01:

The ladle was it. So I called my mama. I was like, What do you have? And she said, Well, I have this little spo this little gravy thing. I'm like, that's it. So yeah, that it's turned out really well. Um, and uh now I feel like I have to keep doing them and coming up with like you can't let the people down. I can't.

SPEAKER_04:

You can't let the people down.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I have to have uh have to come up with some new emergencies pretty soon.

SPEAKER_04:

Well, I'm I'm pretty sure there's gonna be some Christmas related emergencies.

SPEAKER_01:

The last one I uh I did a Halloween one. Um yeah, and so now I think every holiday is gonna have to have its own thing. Thanksgiving, you know, fi turkey fire emergencies. That's got to be. But anyway, that's really fun. And as long as y'all keep liking it, I'm gonna keep doing it.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, yeah. I like it. That you just do it for me. Oh, don't you? Don't worry about them. No, okay.

SPEAKER_01:

As long as you like it, as just as long as I like it.

SPEAKER_04:

I'll keep doing it.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, we ate a lot of places this year.

SPEAKER_04:

God, did we eat a lot of places?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

Um, our biggest one, do you remember where would you where would you think? I think it's Alain Manger. Absolutely. Alain Manger in Crowley, Louisiana. Um, definitely. I think that was a blessing. Yeah. A blessing for all of us. Um, it was just that was a fun place to go. Uh the owners and and the people there were just so nice, and it was just, I don't know. Yeah, it was it just really touched our hearts when we went there and just saw the setup and how much work and everything went into everything. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And I mean, when we do a promotional video for somebody, we always want it, of course, we want it to do really well for them. Um, and but sometimes they do and sometimes they don't, you know, it just depends. But this one like unexpectedly did incredibly well. And they told us they had people driving in from Texas, from Florida, from Mississippi, all over to go eat over there. That just blessed our hearts so much to just to know, like, dang, they they really trust us, huh?

SPEAKER_04:

Yes, and it made us, yeah, they do. I mean, from all over, too. Yeah, and it's just like, you know, what that a lot of people ask us where to go eat, where to go eat, where to go eat, and they want something authentic. Um, that that was definitely a great place to uh try. And and and that was a good performing reel. I'm so glad it did well for them.

SPEAKER_01:

Me too. Um, we had a few, I feel like we did more than one on this, but for sure uh you have done like making gumbo a couple times this year.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, I've made a yeah, I've made gumbo a couple of times.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh gumbo is a serious business.

SPEAKER_04:

It's serious business. I just made a gumbo reel last night for Blue Runner. Okay. And um it uh gumbo's a serious business because I don't know, like you learn trust in people depending on what they put in their gumbo.

SPEAKER_01:

You learn just how opinionated people are over there. And snobby when you talk about gumbo around here.

SPEAKER_04:

Mm-hmm. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01:

It's just something. And you take in a risk. I feel like you could take a risk not knowing how people are gonna react. If you do it a little different or if you don't, you know, you just never know.

SPEAKER_04:

I don't I don't know. It's yeah, you could you could get a lot of opinions with gumbo. I my first gumbo reel I ever made was two years ago, and um it was it was viral. It was it was definitely a viral video. Um, but I learned that I wasn't cleaning my pot right. Um and I wasn't your little cast iron one? No, my lodge pot.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, the cast iron, the coated cast iron. Oh yeah, that's what I meant.

SPEAKER_04:

I wasn't cleaning my pot right, and like the like I was using like that little scrub mommy and washing my dishes, but like I needed to really get in with a um uh what you call it? A Brillo pad? I didn't know, man. I didn't clean mine like that. You just assume that your pot's getting clean when you put a scrub on it. No, ma'am. So you got the brown part off? I got the brown part off. Yeah, and I didn't know. I thought that was like it's so sometimes you learn from mean people too, though. You know, but that was something that was on there. Not very not the whole video, but like I got a lot of that. Like, you need to clean that pot. And I was like, that pot's clean.

SPEAKER_01:

I just thought it was seasoned when it's brown like that.

SPEAKER_04:

No, well, mine's dirty too then, because I now I am a frequent, a frequent buyer of Brillo pad.

SPEAKER_01:

Like the little square ones with the soap pad.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, and you know what? Probably gonna get cancer from it.

SPEAKER_01:

Do you want cancer? Do you want to? I don't know. I never died.

SPEAKER_04:

I never died with my dirty pot. I'm still alive. No, so ha. I don't know. But my gumbo video did very well, and I've made gumbos since then, and I don't know. I wish you could come try them. Yeah. What else?

SPEAKER_01:

Um let's see what else. Uh potato salad that goes along with it, okay. Oh, potato salad. We won't get into that.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Um, pimento cheese. That one did well too.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, pimento cheese for blue plate. Blue plate.

SPEAKER_01:

We did a spicy pimento cheese recipe, and we had several people comment that they tried it, and they were like, This is the best I've ever had.

SPEAKER_04:

And put it on like a grilled cheese sandwich. I kind of wish we would go home and make some right now.

SPEAKER_01:

I could eat that.

SPEAKER_04:

Uh yeah. Might.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay. Um, let's see. Oh. You know what else we did this past year? And it feels like forever ago. The boot and king cake. That was earlier this year. Yeah. I know. That one did well too, and now that I could eat right now.

SPEAKER_04:

Now I just remember the when we tasted it.

SPEAKER_01:

It was on another level. It was so good.

SPEAKER_04:

And I want to say, you had been like dieting big time. And when I say dieting, you always tracking my food then though. She was tracking her food hard. And when she took that first bite, it was like you could just tell in her eyes that it was pure happiness. Pure happiness. The little Cajun girl just was so happy. Uh-huh. Oh my gosh. That was a good night. It was. We made boudin king cake. We had some adult beverages. We don't get to do that often and visit like that.

SPEAKER_01:

Now look, we visit with our coffee. Yeah. But all the people watching right now that don't know and haven't seen, they're gonna be like, drop that video. Where is that video? You're gonna have to go search on our profiles because that's probably way down there.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, maybe I'll redo it again because you know share it again. You know what I'm gonna share again this year? Um, I know this has the potential to go viral, but hasn't in three years. What am I talking about?

SPEAKER_01:

Home Alone. The video we did. Why did it that go viral?

SPEAKER_04:

Why? Home by yourself.

SPEAKER_03:

Home by yourself.

SPEAKER_04:

If you haven't seen Home by Yourself, this was a well, this was produced by Koa and I. Produced, written, directed, and it is the Cajun version of Home Alone, and we did the entire movie in what four minutes?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, but it took us four hours to make it. And my face was hurting from laughing after. Like I cried, all my makeup off, my face hurt. It was a whole day. I was exhausted, but it was the most fun, and it didn't do well.

SPEAKER_04:

Let's get home by yourself viral this year.

SPEAKER_03:

Come on, it's Christmas time we've done a Christmas miracle for for the third year. Third time's a charm.

SPEAKER_01:

I even put stuff on my face to make it look like I had a beard. I was marv.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

You know, that was great.

SPEAKER_04:

Great time. So good. And you even did the arm print. I did. And it was good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

You know? And I if nothing else, we laughed.

SPEAKER_04:

That's what I said. If this doesn't go viral, I don't know what's wrong with people, but I'm gonna tell you right now, we laughed our butts off. Yes. Probably peed.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, a little bit, probably. You know, that's a given. If nothing else, I cried a lot.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, you definitely cried.

SPEAKER_01:

Let's see what else. Uh our all of our fashion shows we do with our merch. Oh, with our merch and with London E.

SPEAKER_04:

Yes. We do a lot of fashion shows.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes. Fashion reels.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, we find ourselves in fashion show shows often.

SPEAKER_01:

We self-proclaimed models. Yeah. You know. Let's see. Um, why can't why Louisiana can't have nice seasons, like because the weather's so bipolar. I know I did one about that. Like you go outside, oh, it feels so good, and then like two hours later it's hot. Um, we traveled a lot this past year.

SPEAKER_04:

You know, that's something people tell us a lot. Every time we get together, we do a meet meet and greet. People say they love to see us, especially our New York trips.

SPEAKER_01:

That surprised me too. Me too. Because I'm like, this is the opposite of Cajun living, I feel like. Oh, yeah. And so people are not gonna be interested in that, but they there for it.

SPEAKER_04:

Maybe they just like seeing couillons in the wild. You know?

SPEAKER_01:

And when we we walk down the streets in of New York with our Gorday Soleil bonnets on, and everybody's like, oh, I know they was looking at y'all funny, and we like, nobody gave us a second glance over there.

SPEAKER_04:

There was a lady with I could just can't forget this. Like, she didn't have no brasier on. No. And she had some little tied up piggy tails on her titons right here. It was like little bows tied up.

SPEAKER_03:

Like, you know, like you tie up a piggy tail right here on the side of you. She had them right here. And she was like, not wearing a bra. I'm gonna emphasize these nipples.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, why do you have to emphasize though? We already could tell you wasn't wearing one. Everybody's walking real fast over there.

SPEAKER_04:

If you know what's the only thing I was looking at in New York.

SPEAKER_01:

T-Tone girl.

SPEAKER_03:

We can count. She don't have bra. She don't have they don't like Brazil's over there. We don't have to wear a bra. We don't care about what we're doing. No shoes.

SPEAKER_04:

The shoes, you better wear tennis shoes. Just tennis shoes.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, don't even bother wearing nothing cute because it just needs to be comfortable. Oh, Lord.

SPEAKER_04:

I went out on a tangent on that one.

SPEAKER_01:

That was good times. All right, let's see. Uh, New York trip. Yeah. Um studio picks. I don't know what they're talking about here. We never did any formal studio picks. We were just saying how we have no pictures of ourselves like maybe the ghost in our podcast studio. Oh, you think the ghost really? Yeah, the ghost merch one.

SPEAKER_04:

That's about as studio as we've ever gotten. Throwing some tablecloths over us.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, well, Chat GPT, that's all they got for me. Okay, well, I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

That's a good that's a good the gang's all here.

SPEAKER_01:

Let's see. What surprised you most about wait, what surprised you most about this year together? Any like moments? Well, okay, well, just tell me like some a memory that stands out for you this year. There's so many. I don't know what's going on.

SPEAKER_04:

Gotta be as many times as we've gone to New York. I mean Those trips are always epic. Three times we've gotten to travel together. We've gone to Houston. Where else did we go? And we went to Mexico. We went to Mexico, all for Lyme life. Yeah. Um, but I mean, those are just I don't know. I feel like there's just a freedom in those trips where we uh we can actually kind of just be ourselves with no nobody around, you know, and just really act a fool. Yeah. You know.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. And be f be f free. What's your favorite?

SPEAKER_04:

What's your thing that when you look back at your Cajun mama? I mean, let's think outside of Lime Life though.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, that's hard because yeah, I was thinking our our New York trips. Um, oh, you know what? Probably the the one event we did that really stands out to me is uh that ladies' coffee in St. Amont. That was so special. That was the smoke special to me. It was special. Not that the other ones weren't, but it was our first time doing anything like that, and we didn't know what the response was gonna be. We didn't know really what was gonna be expected of us. Um, but like I just felt like what we like our story, uh-huh it was enough. You know, like I was thinking, Lord, I don't have nothing to offer these ladies. They come in here, they they want some inspiration, they want some, you know, it was at a church, but even though it was a more informal setting, we weren't like on stage speaking or anything like that. I still felt like okay, I want to leave them with something, you know, to fill their cup. I don't know what to say other than just tell our story and how we s have seen you in our story along the way. Was like that's enough. That's what I want you to talk about. And the response was just so good. It was so good.

SPEAKER_04:

And it was just a great day. And they had questions and come to us with questions that were easy for us to answer, mostly. Mostly, yeah. Um, and it was just, I don't know. I think they really enjoyed um just the reality of what this is. Yeah, whatever this is.

SPEAKER_01:

And that like whatever we going through, they going through it too, you know. Ours is just on a more visible platform, but like, yeah, the little the little moms there that were asking us like how we juggle everything, and we like we don't do it very well, just like you. We struggle every day just like you, and we take it moment by moment, just like you.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, for sure. It's a it's a minute by minute struggle. Um, and some some days are better than others. I'm gonna just say, oh yes, uh, but yeah, that it that was a great, that was a great one. It was like confirmation that we in the right place, you know.

SPEAKER_01:

I agree, yeah. And you know what else I'm proud of us? I'm proud of us for sticking with this podcast too. Yeah, you know, this is one of the things we really enjoy doing. It doesn't necessarily get as much reach as our other content out there, but we have such faithful listeners, and and I pray that that continues to grow. So if you have been listening to us, especially like from the beginning or even along the way, and you enjoy the podcast, share it with your friends if you don't mind. Like, share that you listen to it. You can share the link to our YouTube or whatever. We want to get more listeners of like our long form content, but I feel like that when someone says, I love your podcast, I'm like, we just know like they in it, they in it for the long haul. They really love us, it's not just a quick little part of their day. They dedicate like 20 or 30 minutes out of their their time.

SPEAKER_04:

We are an important part of their commute sometimes, you know, going back and forth to work. So, yes, if you have been um, thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It's been an incredible year. Yeah, um, and don't forget that if you haven't uh liked and subscribed on fake on uh in YouTube, all the other on everything. But if you like the podcast, don't forget to like and subscribe. Um, thank y'all so much for listening to us. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Share us, uh, share with us in the comments what was one of your favorite moments of our of this year, you know, with us. If something stands out to you, we'd love to hear it.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, or what your favorite podcast episode was too, because I'd like to know that too.

SPEAKER_01:

I would like to know that too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

All right. Well, let's thank Hal the Cajun Lady Accent for being a sponsor this month. Uh, y'all know our friend Hal. She's been on um the the podcast twice for sure, and she is always being so generous as to sponsor the podcast. But she has a whole line of seasonings, dips, dry dips, um, anything you can think of, Cajun related, yeah, uh, spoons, merch, everything. Y'all go to how the Cajun Ladyaccent.com and go and follow her on all the all the platforms too.

SPEAKER_01:

See what she has to offer. Yeah. And if you're around where we live in South Louisiana, you can go, you can find her stuff at a lot of grocery stores. We were just saying earlier how it would make perfectly all stocking stuff as like gifts for Christmas time. Um, and also show up to the family function with one of her dip mixes already made. They're gonna be like, What you put in that? And you're gonna say, That was Hal's dip mix. That's right.

SPEAKER_04:

They're not even gonna mind you didn't make something homemade.

SPEAKER_01:

No, no, put it in a nice little dish. They'll never know. All right, thanks, Hal. Uh, go to how the Cajunladyaccent.com to check out everything she has to offer. And we'll see y'all next week.

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.