Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas
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Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas
From Seasonings To Side Hustles With A Cajun Creator, Hal The Cajun Lady Accent
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People don’t just recognize Hal online, they recognize her in the grocery store and they all ask the same thing: “What you cooking?” We sit down with our friend Hal (the Cajun Lady Accent) and talk about what it’s really like to build a Cajun cooking brand that follows you everywhere, from filming recipes to running a seasoning line to showing up for the community that made it possible.
We get honest about the grind behind food content creation: the mountain of unedited clips, the time-suck of video editing, and why “perfect” can kill momentum. Hal shares why she’s ready to hire an editor who truly understands her voice and Cajun phrasing, plus how staying authentic on camera often lands better than overproduced posts. If you care about creator life, small business growth, Louisiana food culture, or building a sustainable content system, this part hits home.
Then we zoom out to what’s next: travel, pop-ups, and the early vision of a Cajun ladies tour that could take our merch and meet-and-greets on the road. Hal also walks us through a big rebrand moment, including a refreshed logo, a revamped website, and new products on the way, with one big promise: the recipes and flavors stay the same. We also dig into a real trust issue for modern brands: AI-generated images. Hal is clear about what she’s fine with and what crosses the line when it comes to identity and authenticity.
To top it off, we dive into Cajun superstitions and childhood “rules” that still shape our habits, from purse-on-the-floor bad luck to scary register totals and the famous “wait 30 minutes before swimming” debate. Listen, laugh with us, and then tell us your favorite Cajun superstition. Subscribe, share, and leave a review so more folks can find Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas.
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What You Cooking Cold Open
SPEAKER_03The expressions that I get from people when they come into the store or see me and like, hey, what you cooking? Like leaving Sam's yesterday. What you cooking, my girl? What you cooking?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's always what you cooking. The other one says that, like you know, y'all out here shopping, y'all not, y'all should be home cooking. Exactly. You must think we how, because I don't I don't cook that much.
Welcome Back Hal And Sponsor Shoutouts
SPEAKER_00Welcome 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_01Welcome to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas, y'all. Um, it's July, and we got a special guest in the studio. Our friend Hal is back with us for more fun.
SPEAKER_02I'm excited. We love to have Hal in.
SPEAKER_01We do love having you in here.
SPEAKER_02And I love when y'all have me. And she's also the sponsor for July too. She is. So thank you for being our sponsor for the podcast.
SPEAKER_03You're welcome.
SPEAKER_02Hal the Cajun Lady Accent. She's got a line of seasonings. Y'all already know. Creole Zotico, Cajun Walls, Black and Night, Cajun Spicy Toothstep, and Mexican Fiesta. If y'all haven't gotten some, you gotta go get some. We talk about this way too much for you not to have tried this yet. And surely you know who she is.
SPEAKER_01Surely. If not, I mean, I don't know where you've been. You gotta look her up on all the socials Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, whatever else. YouTube. YouTube. Yeah, I know there's something I was forgetting. Um, or go to how the CajunLadyAccent.com to see her whole line of uh Cajunins, butters, crawfish balls, dips.
SPEAKER_03Y'all say they they gotta know me, but you know, it's funny that they know me with with y'all. A lot of people ask for y'all when they see me. And I I love that.
SPEAKER_01Oh my gosh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Well, we spent a lot of time together, and I like that. You know, like I like I like that camaraderie about the Cajun. Sometimes they confuse.
SPEAKER_01Tell them about that time recently that this lady was.
SPEAKER_03She was asking she thought I was you at one time, and most people think I'm Sarah, and then they want to know where's where's the other how? And I'm like, and where's and where's the other? I'm I am how the third person that you're thinking with those two girls. Yeah, yes, yes, that's what I meant. So where's those other two girls?
SPEAKER_02Well, we went to the Cajun French table, and a girl looked at me and said, Are you how? Yeah, no.
SPEAKER_03On hair, black hair, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's it we are one and the same in this in the in the culture.
SPEAKER_01So I see the water from the town of Church Point.
SPEAKER_03I don't look and I like we don't drink the water, but we do. We cook with it. We cook with it. Well, I actually cook with the country water.
SPEAKER_01So on your on a water whale?
SPEAKER_03I don't I don't have the town of church point water. I'm in I'm in the country me.
SPEAKER_01Well, that's that's got more minerals in it. Yeah, yeah, even more minerals for it. We still don't drink that water extra mineral. Bowl it out, bowl it. So what's been up, how?
SPEAKER_03Just a lot of work. Oh yeah, thankful and blessed for for the work. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I know. We try to get together outside of of business stuff, and it's hard, y'all. Like between our schedule and your schedule, we always trying to pencil it in. So anytime we get an excuse to do a video together or work together, it's also an excuse to visit, which is fun.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, we got to visit a while back, not that long, but yeah, yeah, not that long.
SPEAKER_02Not that long. But I really enjoyed it. It was like we still were making a video, but we spent more time just visiting.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that which I enjoyed that. I'm talking about like for the Woodstock when we went and visited. Everybody, we was together, then everybody separated. Uh-huh. Yeah. But everybody looked forward to that to see us not like that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I think everybody enjoyed that we were all there together.
SPEAKER_03But that video, everybody still talks about uh they stole you fan. I was like, yeah, they stole my fan. Are you serious? I said, yeah, they did. Well, what you did about it, I said, they didn't really steal my fan. Come on now.
unknownCome on.
SPEAKER_01People it's funny. It's crazy.
SPEAKER_03Y'all had people believing y'all stole it.
SPEAKER_02Oh, well, I should have. Y'all, some good. I hope I had people believing I had a nice vehicle like that, too.
SPEAKER_01Because I thought you had bought a Jeep that day we went to Sterling to do a video.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, they think we drive a Jeep. Now I'm like, well, I'm glad you think I drive a Jeep.
SPEAKER_03You gotta be careful what we do.
SPEAKER_01Everything was true. My husband ain't stopped talking about them cooling fans since I did that.
SPEAKER_02Well, I could use one in my shop when I'm working out. I was thinking about that yesterday. I'm like, damn it anyway, if I don't feel like I need to get one.
SPEAKER_03Mine's on right now, and I got some peppermint oil in there because I was outside and I needed something refreshing. You could put the mosquito oil at night. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And so it'll spread it. Essential oil.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Oh, wait. So I was burning some trees and it smelled the smoke smell. So I gotta say I got an air freshener.
SPEAKER_01They gotta buy two. They have like a buy one, get one for one. They got a bundle. Buy one, get one half off. Maybe they can make a like a Cajun Mama bundle. Uh huh. Yeah, buy one, get one half off.
SPEAKER_02Swing 30% off. Even, you know, that's a little bit more. We're gonna have to talk to them.
Lawn Mower Therapy And Summer Life
SPEAKER_02Do a soft to them. Anyway.
SPEAKER_01You was outside cutting grass.
SPEAKER_03Oh, sorry. You know it. Yesterday, today I'm gonna cut a little bit, and I'm gonna save me a little bit to cut the next day. But y'all don't tell nobody that. So you have to leave the dry the wet spots with the long grass. I'm purposely leaving a a few strips everywhere just so I can go back.
SPEAKER_01So she can have an excuse to go wrong.
SPEAKER_03Yo, it's therapy and it's free therapy. So why what better way to have therapy than cutting grass and getting sun? It's her free tan. Uh-huh. You always got such a nice task. That's because I cut grass four days a week. That's hey, ain't nothing wrong with that.
SPEAKER_02You bring you a little drink on there too? Sometimes.
SPEAKER_03I would. Sometimes.
SPEAKER_02But everybody says I drive it too fast, so I can't be drinking and driving. Maybe you need to slow it down a little bit so you can give yourself more to cut everything.
SPEAKER_03That's the problem with me. I don't have that slow speed on one speed and it's all the way.
SPEAKER_01It's full energy. I thought about you recently with all the rain we've been having. Everybody's yard looks horrible. Um, and we was on the way back from church and it was actually raining. They had a man in his yard cutting his grass in the rain, the tar spinning, the uh the mud flying, and all I thought of you right away. I was like, I bet you have I've tried to put grass in our crowd.
SPEAKER_03I'm gonna send you a picture of my mower from yesterday because I was spinning the tars.
SPEAKER_02The mud was flying everywhere on top. I'm like, oh well. Oh, yeah. Okay, but listen, the amount of people I see on the side of the road with their um with their lawnmower in the ditch, like Indian brain, like what you thinking? I I know you've done this before.
SPEAKER_03No, I'm I'm scared of my ditches. Does it just slide? I just started cutting the top layer of my ditch, and I'm extremely scared because my ditches is like mountains.
SPEAKER_02And we don't have mountains around here. Like, obviously, you're gonna fall in there, you know? I don't and they are just that I'm so sure that like I'm like a little piece. Let me get this little weather.
SPEAKER_03I'm like, I want to stop and help them, but then you know what it is?
SPEAKER_01They don't want to weed eat. They don't want to take out their weed eater to get the ditch. You're still gonna have to take out your weed eater.
SPEAKER_02Like the ditch is too low for you to get it the whole thing. Maybe so. These were obviously two low ditches, Cola.
SPEAKER_01Like So you saying if you cut the grass, you would never slide into the ditch.
SPEAKER_03No, y'all have me go and try to do my ditch again this afternoon. And when I slide a ditch, y'all come and help me. And we're gonna make a video of her. I know you're gonna have to.
SPEAKER_01We're gonna pull her out with the Jeep you don't have.
SPEAKER_03We'll pull her out with the Bronco. That don't start.
SPEAKER_02That don't start. The one that you don't use. We out of look. Oh. Between all of us, I bet you that we got a brown truck that'll help us out. That maybe. Or the Tacoma.
SPEAKER_03The old, the old, the old truck out there. I don't know if I can say it, but you know, the the one that the old shitty that you that you posed in front of that people still talk about too. I love that. I love that though.
SPEAKER_02Good old shitty. I wanted to have a surprise for her. Oh, that was a good surprise. I loved it. Well, what's new?
SPEAKER_03A lot of work.
SPEAKER_02What's your favorite thing about work? If you could pick one thing that you just love doing about what you do, what's your favorite thing to do? Getting accomp something accomplished.
SPEAKER_03Like um all the work that I do. Like you're trying to say, like what makes me feel good about it? Like, I mean, what's your favorite thing?
SPEAKER_01You know what I say, like if you enjoy what you do, you don't work a day in your life. Well, part of that's true, but part of it is still gonna have to have some work and discipline to get it done. But like, yeah, what do you think?
SPEAKER_03Like I enjoy cooks and I enjoy your work, so it's really not work, but it is work, but it's not like the work that I don't feel like doing this today kind of work.
SPEAKER_01That you dread, you know, dread.
SPEAKER_03It's it's just good work. So um I love I love doing my cooking videos and being able to spread them across the world and everybody. Um the expressions that I get from people when they come into the store or see me and like, hey, what you cooking? Like leaving Sam's yesterday. What you cooking, my girl? What you cooking?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's always what you cooking. Y'all out here shopping, y'all not, y'all should be home cooking.
SPEAKER_03Exactly.
SPEAKER_01You must think we how, because I don't cook that much.
SPEAKER_03Everywhere I'm going. What you cooking? You're not cooking today? I'm at work today. I can go cook right now.
SPEAKER_01They must think from the time you wake up to the time they're gonna sleep you in front of the store.
SPEAKER_03But um, I don't do videos every time I cook, neither.
SPEAKER_02It's just sometimes just sometimes you just gotta enjoy it, you know, without having to worry about stopping and starting and stopping and starting until I get this part, you know.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I that I definitely I think that's another thing that I've been dealing with lately, too. Like doing a video, I'm not even persistent with it. I just video and I'm like, I don't even care no more. Because this is what I'm doing. If you don't like it, I don't even care.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and I'm just gonna go do well anyway because it's more real, you know, it is true life.
Real Content Versus Perfect Edits
SPEAKER_02It's it's exactly how it happens.
SPEAKER_03And I'm gonna ask again why everybody's watching this. I am looking to hire someone to edit my videos. Oh someone come through with me, send me your resume, send me because I have probably 50 videos on my phone that are unedited right now that I can't release because I just don't have time. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01I know it takes a long time. I'm looking to hire. Yeah, it takes a while. All right, y'all heard it here first. You heard it here first. Send me your resume. A good editor. Okay.
SPEAKER_03And somebody that understands me. The problem is I try people, but if I have to go back and explain to you what that word is, I need somebody in my language.
SPEAKER_01You need somebody that knows your style too. Like somebody that's been watching a while and knows like how wouldn't do how wouldn't that in there?
SPEAKER_03I'm not gonna put no fake stuff too much. Sometimes, but yeah, you know, you know, you understand.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Well, okay. Yeah, like you like she said, you heard it here first. Well, you not, y'all not, y'all don't do, y'all do your own editing. It's fascinating. It's gotten to where wait. I got too many though.
SPEAKER_01I can't, I got enough too. It's gotten to where I have to, when I record a video, I have a notebook at home. I write it down so that I don't forget to go back and edit it later because sometimes I'll get five or six ahead of myself and like, God, I still need to do that. I still need to do it.
SPEAKER_03Oh, you don't want to see my phone. So my cameroon. Y'all would be y'all would be freaking out right now.
SPEAKER_02But then, well, that's why I have a terabyte on my phone. I I can't run out of space. Me too. I can't run out of space. Business.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And then when you get when you move on to something else, you some it's hard to go back and find where where's that video of a roast I cooked?
SPEAKER_0325 of those videos I want to just delete and start all over. No, don't delete it. You're gonna need it for a rainy day.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna need it for one day when you go on vacation.
SPEAKER_03Ha ha did she just say vacation?
Touring Out Of State With Products
SPEAKER_03No, uh, do y'all have anything planned to summon them? I went on vacation jeep in the coast in my Bronco, Brave Girl, and made sure that I worked when I was there. I brought my trailer.
SPEAKER_01I was gonna say that was not a vacation. Yeah, I did.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, they wanted me to go on vacation, and I said, okay, well, we gotta make something out of it. I gotta go to work. No, I can't take that many days off. I can't take that many days off. So Yeah, you can. No, I do. She wouldn't be able to relax. No, because everywhere I go, people are always asking for my stuff, and I feel bad. If you're not sure. That's the thing. I feel bad. I want to I want to be able to they like you came all the way over here. You came all the way to Florida and you didn't bring me stuff. Sorry, I was. Is it working?
SPEAKER_02Do they like do they come through and like purchase?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, like I'm I I was scared, I was in shock, thinking, man, this is gonna be a taking two vehicles out there and a lot of work. Well, when is fruitful though? It was very fruitful, and I should have set up two more days because people were so upset that I didn't go the next two days and Florida. It never even Florida, that was Mississippi. That was Mississippi. But I have people all over asking me to do this. Like I'm talking about like up north states, even. Oh, nice. Like Minnesota.
SPEAKER_01Well, what you yeah, uh tell tell us.
SPEAKER_03Y'all want to come with me on these trips?
SPEAKER_01Listen, yeah. We like to travel.
SPEAKER_03I think I think we should start doing a few here and there, meet and drink. Let's do it! Let's do it. I'm ready.
SPEAKER_02I'm starting, I'm planning reading my present ladies tour. Listen, I'm ready. We're going on tour with our merchandise. I will travel. I love a room.
SPEAKER_03Listen, will y'all come out and support us? Is what we really want to know. Yeah, well. Tell us in the comment section right now.
SPEAKER_01But we will plan this tour. Because y'all, we get asked a lot to go here and there. I I don't think we've you and I have ever been asked to go out of state. Y'all gonna be aware of it.
SPEAKER_02Well, you don't need seasonings to do cook-offs.
SPEAKER_01No, but like, you know, to make it worth us traveling and the cost of like a hotel and stuff.
SPEAKER_03So that's why y'all needed to start coming with me and we make this tour. Bruh. My brain. Like, I would need it to address it. Like, I needed to add something else to my to-do list. Exactly. Oh, me too. But now I need videos, but I will travel with it. But I will be texting y'all from the next three weeks straight with new ideas on this. Well, that's it.
SPEAKER_02It's true. It's gonna happen. Here we go.
SPEAKER_01Sterling is gonna be a little bit more. Let's do it.
SPEAKER_03Let's do it.
SPEAKER_01Well, what what so are you going like your brand is national
Rebrand Updates And No AI Faces
SPEAKER_01now? Like what's happening?
SPEAKER_03It's headed in that direction, and um so while we're gonna talk about it, I I do want to mention to you know a few things about that. I have never really I have never told this on a video, so this is my new updated at the moment logo. I had to change my logo. Uh everybody knows I lost weight, and yeah, that looks more like you now. I was not gonna change my logo to what that fried battery is, but or this one for that matter. But um yeah, lots of people just hammered me. You even tan or in my comment section. I was like, Well, she's always tan, yeah.
SPEAKER_01You know, that really does to me look more like you look more like you, yes.
SPEAKER_03I know, I know, but I mean I wasn't gonna change it, but I did I did. And that was hard to get that same exact picture. I'm sure, yeah. Because I had to have the hands and everything in the case. In every everything, yeah.
SPEAKER_01So that way so people wouldn't think anything of it. It's a very easy thing.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so the products, the recipes are not changing, the products are not changing, but there is a great possibility that I will be removing the word accent. I will possibly be removing the word cooking. I don't know yet on that, but I just want everybody to know that my products will not change. I will be adding new products to the lineup because I still have some more that's fixing to come. Like I'll tell you. Yeah, y'all will be getting my taco mix soon. I can't wait. And um and these new dips that y'all already tried and approved on. Oh, and they were so they're gonna be great because they approved on them. Yeah, yeah. Cajun mama approved. Um anyways, I just wanted to mention that that um revamped. Probably how the Cajun Lady. Probably is gonna it's gonna stay more with how the Cajun Lady and Season and Line and Um the whole website's gonna be revamped. So y'all are gonna start noticing a lot of stuff. Actually, y'all won't notice the website revamped because we're building a whole new new site and another on another uh platform. And then once that's done, we're just gonna switch it from where I'm at now to the new one. So y'all won't actually won't notice that until it's done.
SPEAKER_01Gotcha. It'll all be done now.
SPEAKER_03But y'all in the in the next six months to a year, you will be noticing them most of everything changing like that, and new stuff plus more products coming out, more products coming out and upgrades on the logo. That's great.
SPEAKER_02Well, I'm glad you're saying that now since you're the sponsor this month, too, because then we can know when it does come out, it's you. You know, like it's gonna be legit me. You know, we're gonna be like, oh, is that really her stuff though? Yeah, that's what I am worried about.
SPEAKER_03Like, yeah, and and I can't handle when they ow generate my pictures. Uh I have like all that in the making of paperwork filled out. Like, y'all, fit out. Ow. I don't know how y'all feel about that. That owl is that. That owl generating. I I I don't I can't handle it. You can make whatever you want in the background with it, but don't make me own it. I can give you all of the pictures I need. No owl with owl. No owl with how. I got it.
SPEAKER_01Al is anti-ow.
SPEAKER_03I'm not, I'm not anti. I'm not anti. You can make, I don't care what you make with it, but I I truly firmly believe that that people should not put a picture of you, you, and me, or my products, or your products in a hour.
SPEAKER_01You've seen that?
SPEAKER_03That's what distorts. I don't care if you make this beautiful background with owl. I'm not against it. It's AI. You know what? Whatever. AI, AI, whatever it is. Whatever it is. AI generated. AI, the key the same crap. Right. No, I mean it's out for me.
SPEAKER_02No, but we do it from time to time, but we like to use our actual pictures. Now for the case.
SPEAKER_01Whatnot will do AI generated because there's just but then it looks cartoonish, and that then people know I'm not trying to fake it. I'm making a caricature.
SPEAKER_03I'm gonna still call it out. I think you should. Because owl reminds it how I I will use the AI ow background. Okay, literally.
SPEAKER_02But it's what I don't like is the front. I think you should probably try to make your own AI service called How with How.
SPEAKER_01Another thing to add to you too. Ow with how. Oh man, that's good stuff.
SPEAKER_02That's so good. That's so good.
SPEAKER_01Okay, okay. Anything else you want to talk about before we segue to a very ridiculous segment that I'm gonna call.
SPEAKER_02But also I want to talk about the cage and superstitions we say at two. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Well, this episode, buckle up, is gonna be a long one.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, it's okay. We need it. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, anything else you want to say about that before we move on?
SPEAKER_03About the revamping? Yeah, no, just be prepared that the revamping is happening. It's happening and everything. My recipes are staying the same. The product's gonna taste the same, but it's gonna it's gonna happen soon. Okay, all right.
SPEAKER_02So be on the lookout for the be on the lookout at the bolo. Okay, so listen, Cajun Superstitions, real quick, before we started this, okay, before we said this episode today, yeah.
Cajun Superstitions Purse Rules And Luck
SPEAKER_02How purse was back there and we went to put it on the floor, and she was like, Oh no, no, no, no, I don't put my purse on the floor.
SPEAKER_03Why? Because um I'm in my 40s, and since I've been in my my teens, my stepmom said, Don't put a purse on the floor. That's bad luck. Don't put it on the floor of the vehicle. Not even the vehicle's got a floor too, the floorboard.
SPEAKER_01And don't put it on.
SPEAKER_03Not mine. It probably is.
SPEAKER_01Mine? Oh, how you would be so you so flat. No, I'm just saying you would die riding in my car. No, we good. I would clean it, I would clean it while we're riding. I'm gonna clean it while we're riding.
SPEAKER_03It's just bad luck, is what I was told. It's bad luck to that purse on that. That's what my stepmom said. Yeah. It's even Walmart. I mean, I didn't put I don't even want to put my purse in the basket in Walmart. No. Well, you can't do that these days anyhow. You get robbed. You get robbed.
SPEAKER_01Now, uh I've seen like some, like at the nail salon we go to, they have the little hangers that you put your purse on. I just thought that was for ladies with fancy purses. Like, I'm not putting my Louis Vuitton on the floor.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But I'm like, here's my little purse. Yeah, my little bag.
SPEAKER_03I don't care if my my little purse comes from the Dollar General. I'm not putting it on the floor. It's not true.
SPEAKER_01She said it's not about it.
SPEAKER_03I don't care. I don't care. And and if I find me a cute one at the Dollar General, I'm gonna buy it. Uh-huh. It's not about anything with you. Okay. No, it's about the look. I don't need no bad luck. I gotta know.
SPEAKER_02Everybody else knows this, but us, do you know about this? Do you I don't even know if it's true. Put your purse on the floor for if mama or you can't. Well, my stepmom said it's true. I mean justice reasons.
SPEAKER_03I don't but recalling, I don't ever remember seeing my mama's purse on the floor. And and my granny's never was on the floor neither. So my this could be from my granny too. It could be from the old people too.
SPEAKER_01Or is this everybody? Does everybody know this, but yeah.
SPEAKER_03What else? You are y'all gonna put your purse on the floor? Oh, it's on the floor.
SPEAKER_02Uh oh.
SPEAKER_03Take it off. No.
SPEAKER_02I ain't had no bad luck yet, besides everything I bring on myself. We are right.
SPEAKER_03Maybe.
SPEAKER_01If it's making you nervous, I'll go make it.
SPEAKER_03It's not making me nervous, but I I know that now every time y'all put your purse on the floor in a vehicle, everywhere y'all thinking about me, and that makes me feel good. Oh, yeah, we will be thinking about it.
SPEAKER_02There's no room on my seats to put a purse. How? There's always a purse in there. You got a lot of children in there. No.
SPEAKER_01There's some kids on them seats.
SPEAKER_02So another thing, um, we were talking about our friend Amy and superstitions, and she said, like, when you have a baby in the umbilical cord, you're supposed to put that under a rosebush.
SPEAKER_03You're supposed to bury that, I thought. Yeah. I didn't know about a rose bush, but I knew buried or maybe put a tree there. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Well, I just probably decided. I heard trees, yeah. Some of them I threw away in. Some of them I put in. Did you bury that? Well, one of them I threw in the figs. I don't even have kids. You threw in through the figure. Well, wait, you must be having a lot of figs. My figs are coming out. They are this year.
SPEAKER_01And that tree did not die from the snow we had two years ago.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I threw some old rosaries in there too, because I didn't know what to do with them. So there's some.
SPEAKER_01My mother-in-law does that with scapulars. Yeah, because you're not supposed to throw them. She likes she'll tie it up to a tree or something.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Yeah. And holy water, blessed salt.
SPEAKER_03Um I throw holy water all over. Yeah. Every time the weather gets bad.
SPEAKER_02The blessed salt, y'all. I don't remember what it was. I felt like I wanted to death behind my house. I would I went all the way around the house with the blessed salt.
SPEAKER_03I have a prayer for that, and I need to go through that again because it's hurricane season. You need to send that to me. Yeah. I'm gonna go finally.
SPEAKER_02I'm gonna send me that prayer because I like to, I like that. Um, what was another one?
SPEAKER_03You had thought of one numbers at the register. So the numbers at the register. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh no. So you want me to say it? Yeah. So I was ringing up a lady and her total was 66.10. And I was like, ma'am, you want to spend like 50 cents more, or are we just gonna, I'm gonna try to figure out to set this off. She bought a five dollar product because she was not any one of mine, and she was 666. 6661. So that's six one.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. No, we ain't we ain't playing with that. If I see that, it freaked me out.
SPEAKER_03I didn't I didn't even want to say the number. I'm like, I was like, I know I was like, I told her a number, she's like, oh, I'm good, I'm good. She grabbed me, she grabbed her a bag of spaghetti, and it was a win-win for me, but I was like, ma'am, you don't even gotta buy that. Um we could find you 50 cents in here. She's like, I'm gonna stick with that. That's a win-win for her too.
SPEAKER_02Cause the spaghetti makes its own.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, yeah. So you can't go wrong. I just, I just, I don't like that neither.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I don't like that the number.
SPEAKER_03And when I ever check out somewhere and they give me a total like that, I'm like grabbing the first thing whether I needed that umbrella or not. I didn't even need those baby wipes, but here, yeah. I don't have no baby out, but I'll take that pack of diapers. We ain't checking out today. No, that ain't happening.
SPEAKER_02No, so um, Chase used to tell me when we would eat seafood, you know, that the kids would have a little bit of seafood, or they would eat some crawfish to fate or something, and I would give them some milk lady. It was like, no, you're not supposed to give milk. Yeah, I heard that.
SPEAKER_03With seafood? Yeah. We never drink milk with any like seafood gumbo. Most times you kind of want milk with a seafood gumbo because it's so refreshing. You can't drink milk with seafood gumbo, crawfish to feel ball cra after ball crawfish, why? It's it's an old saying I heard too. Like it'll spoil the milk in your belly. I don't guess. I don't know. Never heard, but Mama or Mama always told, No, can't have no milk right now. You ate seafood.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Oh confused. I've never heard of that.
SPEAKER_02No seafood and milk.
SPEAKER_03So so that means y'all probably did it, huh? And never got sick.
SPEAKER_02No, you don't get sick. Because I did I I said, Chase, that's that's a myth.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I said, I'm giving them kids milk. Nothing happened.
SPEAKER_01Now my mama would not let me have I don't know why I wanted to do that.
SPEAKER_03What did they get me from milk my whole inside childhood? Maybe they thought it was gonna spoil up enough.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, yeah, exactly. Because my mama was like, one one morning I had uh some orange juice, and then we was they were out, or she was just didn't want me to have no more. And so I wanted milk, and she was like, No, you can't have milk with orange juice, it's gonna spoil in your stomach. The citrus. Maybe that's just maybe she just was like, You had enough, you know? Yeah, and she didn't want me to have that. But I was like, I I so I'm like, any time a breakfast buffet somewhere, no milk and orange juice for me, I don't make coffee.
SPEAKER_02Oh, she was lying, yeah.
SPEAKER_03She wasn't telling the truth.
SPEAKER_02So you're gonna sit there and tell me, yeah, that you're not gonna have a coffee milk and a little thing of orange juice if you go to the fancy place where they got all the time.
SPEAKER_01That's diluted with coffee. I'm not gonna drink straight milk.
unknownIt's different.
SPEAKER_03I know something else. When I was a kid, I couldn't eat my bologna sandwich and chips and Kool-Aid and then go swim in the pool right away. I had to wait 30 minutes. Yeah. You tell me why. That was gonna give me a stomachache.
SPEAKER_02I tell my kids that you was gonna get a cramp. You could drown.
SPEAKER_03I caught leg cramps anyhow and couldn't get out of the door in deep water. It was you're just gonna throw up. Food.
SPEAKER_01So on it was you're gonna get a leg cramp and you won't, you're gonna drown. They didn't want to get a leg cramp.
SPEAKER_03They didn't want to clean us, then the throw up, or I don't know what. Yeah. But you know what else? When we got back in the pool, I was hungry 30 minutes later. Swimming made me hungry. She's hungry.
SPEAKER_01She's so hungry. Can't step a foot in my pool without wanting a snack. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I'll bring the snacks in to hell with that. Yeah. That way I don't have to step a foot out to get it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, or have you a little something on the side. I feel like do you have a deck though. You can open up that ice.
SPEAKER_01I need a deck around my pool.
SPEAKER_03That deck I made last summer I made a gumbo and it was 100 degrees. I made a gumbo outside, did the video in my bathing suit and everything with a cover up. Ate the gumbo in the pool, and the people was freaking out. Like, how could you do this? Why would you even do this? It's hot. How can you eat gumbo in a pool? Sample exactly like a pool. Yeah, like this, just like you see. And it was so good. Just watch. It was so refreshing.
SPEAKER_02A new superstition. You're not supposed to eat gumbo in a pool. Oh, what the hell is that?
SPEAKER_03I ain't swam but twice this year.
SPEAKER_02I told my kids that this weekend. 30 minutes. Don't ask me. I don't know. Maybe I don't want to have to worry about them for 30 minutes. I don't know.
SPEAKER_03So you told them they couldn't eat 30 minutes out there. I still did. So why? Why? Where? Because our because your mama said that. Because I don't want them to. Yeah. So exactly. So wait, that is superstition too. That is a myth. I promise you nothing's gonna happen. I'm gonna try it. Yeah, but you gotta kid jump.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you gotta jump. And you throw it up. I don't want to be cleaning up no throw-up kid, just in case it's true.
SPEAKER_01You know, I I think it, yeah. I that was just them saying maybe they'll go sit down and fall asleep in 30 minutes. Wait. They knew well. They knew damn well that wasn't gonna happen. Especially when they waiting to get in the pool. You know, if it's gonna be, is it time yet? Is it time yet? That's punishment for for the parent.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it is. It is so let them in.
SPEAKER_01Let them in.
SPEAKER_03We need to do a video and test the water. We need to test the water. Yes, literally.
SPEAKER_01If you if you are if you're listening right now, let us know in the comments. Do you make your kids wait? Did your mama make you have to wait? And why? And why?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, because we need to know if our moms was just being too hard on us or too rough, like because they didn't want to deal with us. They didn't want to deal with us.
SPEAKER_01All
Finish The Sentence Cajun Childhood Truths
SPEAKER_01right. There's probably a lot. This is this is a little segment we're gonna call finish the sentence.
SPEAKER_03Go for it.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_03She knows the answers we don't.
SPEAKER_01It's not there's no right or wrong answer. I don't have an answer. You gotta just fill it in.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, you can answer with me. We can all weigh in, okay?
SPEAKER_01We can all weigh in. All right. If mama shows up with a casserole dish, dot dot dot.
SPEAKER_03I'm gonna tear that shit.
SPEAKER_02If Mama shows up with a casserole dish. Oh. If she shows up with a casserole dish, that's it. That's it. Like, what is it?
SPEAKER_03We're uncovering it. I'm gonna say, as I'm eating five bites at the fifth bite, Mama, what is this?
SPEAKER_01You don't even need to ask what it is. You just you're gonna tear it up.
SPEAKER_03I'm tearing it up, but I want to know what it is after I'm halfway through. Just in case I didn't like something that was in there, I could tell you. Well, I don't like that.
SPEAKER_02I would be happy because I haven't seen my mama in 15 years.
SPEAKER_03I would be happy too, yeah.
SPEAKER_01You know, you know. Uh, okay.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I'm gonna make a casserole. And I don't even like that. I think some bread pudding. I want that. And a good homemade sauce that I've been wanting to make.
SPEAKER_01You don't do you don't do too many sweets cooking videos, huh? Do you?
SPEAKER_03I make them, but I don't video them.
SPEAKER_01Okay. I love baking more than I love cooking.
SPEAKER_03And because I like this is why. And this is why public, I'm sorry. Because a lot of the stuff that I bake is homemade stuff from scratch, the old school way, and I'm working on a cookbook.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_03And I don't want to give all my recipes out to shit. Keep some of some secrets. That's why I never did a lot of cooked bacon. I do like to bake though. But um I like I like I like to make those old fig cakes and the fig cook. Syrup cakes and all that. I like to make all the old stuff.
SPEAKER_02I use your fig preserve recipe.
SPEAKER_03Yes, I need to make some more. I'm waiting on my trees to preserve me some figs. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I've been picking for the last for the last four days.
SPEAKER_02I have some.
SPEAKER_03I have a few. I could probably, I'm gonna give y'all each of one.
SPEAKER_01What?
SPEAKER_03Each of can a jar. Each of a jaw.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I can.
SPEAKER_03So I can clear, clean out some of the old. Oh, you have so okay.
SPEAKER_01I have some. Oh, I like them though.
SPEAKER_03They better the old. I don't like them right away.
SPEAKER_01You tried to tell Miss Connie that my mother-in-law, and she's like, take a fresh drawer. No, no, I want the oldest drawer you have.
SPEAKER_03These are three years old, and I guarantee you they'll be better than the batch I'm gonna make soon. I'll take it. I guarantee you.
SPEAKER_01It gets better with age. Okay. Every Cajun freezer has sausage. Yes. That's exactly what came to my mind too. Smoked sausage. Smoked sausage for sure.
SPEAKER_03And I was I was gonna say leftovers. You do have a bunch of leftovers. Oh, I got me a whole shelf designated for little leftovers. Yeah. I wish. You don't have everything. I never showed y'all when y'all came home. No, because y'all have took half of that with y'all. Yeah. I'd have gave it to y'all. It's probably all labeled and everything. It is with some freezer tape and a little black marker and not everything spelled right. But that's okay because my mother didn't know how to spell neither.
SPEAKER_01And you never have leftovers, do you?
SPEAKER_02No, not too much.
SPEAKER_03Like on purpose, or you just don't want to eat it at all. You need it all. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Okay, let's see. Every Cajun kid has been threatened with the palette.
SPEAKER_03The belt. The belt. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Ma mama would use a little stick. Not like a branch from a tree, although my daddy tells stories of literally go grab, and they would make the kids go get their own switch. Like go grab that switch, the branch off the tree, and go pick. But my mama would use a shade stick. Like, y'all know them old shades that roll up and you pull it down and it's got that long wooden stick in there. She just took that out. That was our that was our whipper.
SPEAKER_02Definitely threatened by a shit.
SPEAKER_03Or a paint stirrer. And threaten or threaten with which the the thing about it is these days is so different in back then. We grew up. We didn't have I'm gonna take your iPhone away from me. No. It's uh your bike is you're not riding your bike. You're not playing with your Nintendo or going outside, you're not watching your room, you know why you're in your room and don't know.
SPEAKER_02And there's nothing to do in there. Now we lockin' them up to do that, you know.
SPEAKER_01Or we probably uh child abuse by using a little switch, you know.
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_01Lord a fly sword, or you know, a wooden spoon.
SPEAKER_02We didn't think of that, you know, pop pop, just hit the table. How about a shoe? A shoe.
SPEAKER_01It was whatever you whatever they grab first. Sometimes it was a a fly swater too. I've got pop with a flice water too.
SPEAKER_02I had a little friend, he was like, It's the flice water's all fine and good until the little flat part flies off the end because they was beating you with the other part, you know.
SPEAKER_03The wire part? The metal. Ooh. You ever got on your knees on rice? Yes, in a trailer. My daddy's trailer house on a on an air conditioner vent.
SPEAKER_02Oh my god, that's worse than the rice. Yes, I have definitely low key. Definitely.
SPEAKER_03You were bad. I couldn't have been that damn bad. I must have been bad because I that's why I have bad knees today in my cartilage. That's why she has bad knees. My cortulage, my cortulage, my knees is gone. It's to the trailer house floor in the vents. The vents took the cartilage right out of the knees. If I vent down right now, you're gonna hear Oh yeah, me too. Maybe that's what happened to me. It's cause we trailer, it's cause we some trailer trash. I guess so. It's a trailer park is, you know. Oh my god. My granny owned the trailer park, and I guarantee you I kneel down in everybody's trailer. On the vent. On the vents. That's so kind. I love it. I fell through on the little vents. Crashed right through now. All right. We could have a whole talking about some good old times that people would be like interesting.
SPEAKER_01I wait, I had a good one. Where is it?
SPEAKER_03How you know how what you do if you if you if you went if you need to heat your lunch up and you outside and you ain't got nothing to heat up, open the hood of your vehicle, open your can of Vienna sausage. That's how my daddy would heat his lunch up. And I would go on jobs with him, and he would put our food on the hood of the truck inside the mold and heat it up. Oh wow. God ate plenty of cans of Vienna sausage tasting like the diesel. And the fumes, and the fumes. Yeah. And look and I was fucking.
SPEAKER_02I mean you could, girl. Look at me now. Look at me now.
SPEAKER_01Okay. If your mama starts a sentence with, now look.
SPEAKER_03Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_01What she says after that, now look. You come here right now.
SPEAKER_03You're not going to your friend's house.
SPEAKER_02If you don't get this house clean before I get home from work, you're not going to your friend's house. Now look here.
SPEAKER_03Now look here, you're gonna be punished.
SPEAKER_02Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_01Now look here.
SPEAKER_02You better act right now.
SPEAKER_03Now look here.
SPEAKER_02You better come fold that clothes. Now look here. Don't ask me for nothing inside that store. There you go. There you go. Nothing in the store.
SPEAKER_01Every Cajun wedding needs.
SPEAKER_02Oh, um, a money dance.
SPEAKER_01A money dance. Yeah. Is that a Cajun thing?
SPEAKER_03I don't know. Probably. Probably. Cajun like money.
SPEAKER_01Do y'all do money dances if you're not from around here? Like the bride and the groom, they play a song or two or three. And the bride and groom, you have to pay money to go dance with them. And you know, that's just like a spending the money on them.
SPEAKER_03How about every Cajun wedding needs some boudin cracklings to it?
SPEAKER_01Oh, I mean, I didn't have that, but a P-rogue full of beer.
SPEAKER_02Oh better.
SPEAKER_01Better have some beer. I think we have a whole grocery boat full of beer. We had a P-Rogue, yeah. Everybody in a big book. Everybody had, yeah.
SPEAKER_02That was probably the time you were DJing they was doing beer P-roll. They did have someone I DJed. Plenty of them too. Better have some good music too. Gotta have good music.
SPEAKER_01That's right. It's more of a party for everybody else than. Alright, let's see.
Catholic Habits Black Cats And Sleepovers
SPEAKER_02You know, you know you're Catholic when you pass the church and you say the sign of the cross. When you say it, when you say it, or when you have some black on your forehead and lint. Or you know you're Catholic when you stop at a stop sign and you start doing the sign of the cross. I don't know why I do that. Okay, stop by this.
SPEAKER_03I don't do that, but you know you're Catholic whenever you see an ambulance passing, crossing you with lights on, and I pull over and I do this. It's just, I don't even know if we're supposed to do that. I have no idea.
SPEAKER_02Well, yeah, you're praying for who's ever in the room.
SPEAKER_03Or or whenever a black cat crosses the road, you do three sides of the cross from the roof of your car. No, that's superstitious. Okay, that's superstitious, but what the hell? I just found out that a black cat, when it shows up at your house, that it's good look. It's good look. That's what I look. I just found out that it was good look. That means you're gonna prosper and all that, but I don't know what it means when it's gonna cross your friend your vehicle while you're driving, but it freaks me out. That's not true.
SPEAKER_02You walk on that ladder or you break that Yeah, don't do that.
SPEAKER_03Don't walk into the ladder. Oh Lord, don't walk under that ladder.
SPEAKER_02Oh, that freaks me out. Look, I'm telling y'all. Oh man. I bet you didn't close that door and say bloody Mary three times. I did, I did indeed. Yes, I did.
SPEAKER_03Oh Lord, I grew up in that day in those days, you know? Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_01I like I don't know if I ever told this name light on air. That one is a feather. That one stiff as a board. Yep. I was probably seven years old out of sleepover, and they was all doing the light as a feather, stiff as a board, and somebody they're me, little church precious. I was like, Jesus, please, Jesus, please protect us. Lord, please forgive me for this. Somebody my friend at the time, she was like, makes me laugh so much. Somebody's not somebody.
SPEAKER_04Somebody's not don't believe. Somebody don't believe. Because they didn't go up. It's coma. Yeah. It's coma over there praying.
SPEAKER_01Well, thankfully, somebody was. Somebody's not, it's not working. Somebody's not believing. And I'm like, it ain't me.
SPEAKER_03And you watch you because you was praying, you was praying out loud? No, you're praying to yourself. Yeah, but no, there wasn't anything. So somebody in the circle knew somebody didn't believe it. Oh my. I had to believe that.
SPEAKER_01But I was gonna put it. As if the devil would pick us up. So I didn't want to uh I didn't want to be left out, you know.
SPEAKER_03We got her crying. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01This is how I get everything.
SPEAKER_02Ridiculous. Dude, she always be crying. Let me see if I got something in my purse. Here, you you want to use my purse liner?
SPEAKER_01It was on the floor. Oh no, it's bad luck. I can't put that on my face. Oh my gosh. Oh, y'all. That was a good laugh.
SPEAKER_03Oh, well.
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SPEAKER_02We will have to eat as we talk with. Yeah, that might be. Then I'll be spitting food everywhere. Oh Lord. Just invite us to go swimming and we eat gumbo and two weeks. I'm ready for it.
SPEAKER_03I'm done for it.
SPEAKER_02Pool gumbo. We ready?
SPEAKER_03I need to get back in the pool. I need to swim. But yes, we need to do that.
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