Latest / Tigs Bits Podcast / BRITTANY KHAMILLE | TIK TOK AND NEXT LEVEL CHEF
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- 0:00Welcome to Tigs Bits. Today we have a very special
- 0:03guest joining us. She is a social media sensation
- 0:07with over 2,000,000 followers. She's a talented a very talented
- 0:12Louisiana chef that has captured the hearts of food enthusiasts
- 0:17all across the world. She's competed on the next level
- 0:21chef. She tells you to do whatever
- 0:24makes your little heart happy. I am of course, talking about
- 0:28Miss Brittany. Camille, thank you so, so much
- 0:41for joining us. We are blown away to have you on
- 0:45here. Thank you.
- 0:47I'm. Really excited.
- 0:48I'm super excited to be here. Thank you all for having me.
- 0:50Let's just start right off the top, you know, I want to know
- 0:55where did this come from? Because I've followed, I've gone
- 0:59back to all of your Tik Toks. I've gone back.
- 1:01I scrolled all the way down to to the very first one.
- 1:07I didn't watch them all. Don't worry.
- 1:08I'm just like, where did this start?
- 1:10So I just looked at the date. No, don't worry, I didn't watch
- 1:12them all. So were you doing those?
- 1:14Were you doing, were you doing blog stuff and YouTube videos
- 1:17and all that stuff before the pandemic set in?
- 1:20So actually I've never, I don't really do YouTube, but before,
- 1:24before, no, you're fine. Before I actually like before I
- 1:28did like the viral food recipes, like before it got real big.
- 1:34I did post a couple of like random things like that.
- 1:38I think my first ever, ever viral video was one of where I
- 1:43cleaned all of my husband's ball caps in the bathtub.
- 1:46That was yeah. And then after that, I think I
- 1:49just did a few things here and there.
- 1:51And before that, I was like, AI did like pageants and stuff like
- 1:57that. So I held a national title and I
- 1:59would travel all around the state going to festivals and
- 2:01stuff. So I would post a couple of
- 2:03videos like talking about that and some of like the contests
- 2:06and events and all that. And then whenever COVID got to
- 2:09like its peak, y'all know, I work like a regular job and my
- 2:13boss was like, hey, y'all can't be here anymore.
- 2:16So I had to, we were off like one week at a time and I had a
- 2:21lot of time on my hands. I didn't have my kid yet.
- 2:24So I was just, I was like, you know what, I think I'll post
- 2:27some of my recipes and then, you know, here we.
- 2:30Are there you go, well, I would say it's right.
- 2:32Well, it's kind of like a lot of people, you know, we all started
- 2:34podcasting during the pandemic as well because like you said,
- 2:37everybody's used to have their routine and you make time for
- 2:40other things and it's fun and then you're like, well, what am
- 2:42I going to do now? It's like, well, lean into my
- 2:43hobbies. What do I like to do?
- 2:45We like to talk you like to cook.
- 2:47Might as well let. Everybody else.
- 2:48See it? You know what it means.
- 2:49That's pretty much what it was. And you have the people's
- 2:52attention because everybody else is at home too.
- 2:54And they're like, all right, I've eaten the same meatloaf
- 2:55I've made for 20 years. And let's say, oh, there's this
- 2:57Brittany, or what's she making? Oh, pasta LA sounds good, you
- 3:00know, so, so that totally makes sense.
- 3:03Well, that's awesome. And, and what?
- 3:05So what was the first viral video?
- 3:07Was it the Oh, it was the hat. I've got.
- 3:09A question about that, I haven't hadn't seen that because I have.
- 3:12Questions about the hat so I that's what that's.
- 3:14A big problem that's a big issue with guys it's.
- 3:18A. Huge issue.
- 3:19It's a huge issue. So walk us through that because
- 3:21my wife watched the video last night.
- 3:23I went, Oh my God. All of these are cleaning right
- 3:25now. Yes, all of them.
- 3:27OK so my husband is a cattle rancher and so he has, I don't
- 3:33know y'all I think all of the shelves in our closet which is
- 3:36like a giant two person walk in closet.
- 3:38I don't have room for anything on those shelves.
- 3:40They're all we have so many of them.
- 3:43Anyway, besides the point. So he's a cattle rancher and
- 3:46they get disgusting. So nasty, I understand.
- 3:51So sweaty, nasty, dirty, right? Mud.
- 3:53Dirt. Dust.
- 3:55Yeah, I saw. I think I saw it.
- 3:57Yeah. I think I saw it on Facebook.
- 3:59Maybe it was this post about cleaning ball caps.
- 4:02And it was essentially like you put you run some really, really
- 4:05hot water in your bathtub. And in that you put like, I
- 4:09think maybe like Borax, maybe some like laundry detergent and
- 4:13like arm and hammer, like clothes clean or something like
- 4:17that, I don't remember. And you put the huts in there
- 4:20and you cover them with hot water and you let them soak for
- 4:22a little while and then it like strips all of that dirt and
- 4:25stuff away. And then you take them out and
- 4:28let them dry. And I mean, they got pretty
- 4:31clean. I think the only issue we had.
- 4:33You put in the dishwasher too. So did you put no detergent?
- 4:37It's just like basically, that's just like another.
- 4:40I think I just ran the dry cycle.
- 4:42Rinse and dry. Yeah, in the dishwasher.
- 4:44Because yeah, the trick when we were growing up was to put them
- 4:47in the dishwasher on the top rack and this and the inside out
- 4:50or something, or fold them up and put one.
- 4:51Yeah, I had never really. Thing that it would go into a
- 4:53little white rack. Thing, right?
- 4:54Yeah, put it in. The dishwasher.
- 4:55It never worked that great, though it did OK depending on
- 4:59and like you're saying, your husband or a ball player or
- 5:01something that's in dirt and mud and sweat mixed together and
- 5:04engines running and. Everything else.
- 5:06And it works for his clothes too.
- 5:09Yeah, yeah. We put his clothes on the hot
- 5:11water and it strips all that that nasty out of that concern.
- 5:15Yeah. Pulls it out.
- 5:17How many views did that did that one get?
- 5:19It was like 3.4 million I think. And that got me my it just and
- 5:25and I, I mean I didn't expect yeah.
- 5:27And it just, and it, it got me my first like 15,000 followers
- 5:32and then I stayed at 15,000 for a very, very long. 1st 15,000
- 5:36was tough for me too. It was.
- 5:38I stayed there for a very long time.
- 5:40We'll get there. One day that's.
- 5:41Crazy though, that's awesome how how crazy did your phone go
- 5:46'cause we had one video on this show that went to like I don't
- 5:49know we had like 700,000 and that was nuts just a nutty a
- 5:54nutty run 3 million. You've done that multiple times,
- 5:57like. What's it?
- 5:58Like when you with your phone. I'm that person.
- 6:01Like my phone is on do not Disturb all the time.
- 6:05My son too. Yeah.
- 6:06And notifications on like TikTok and some of my other apps,
- 6:09they're just off, like they don't come up at all.
- 6:13So I'll go on every now. And like that's how I didn't
- 6:16realize that the first like a viral food recipe that I had was
- 6:20my mama's spaghetti. And I posted that and I think I
- 6:23went to bed or something like that.
- 6:24And then I woke up the next day and I was at work and I was
- 6:26sitting at my desk and I got bored.
- 6:28So I was like, oh, I'm going to get on TikTok right quick.
- 6:30And I got on it and I remember that app opened up and like at
- 6:33the bottom when all the notifications pop up, it was
- 6:36like 99 + 99 + 99 plus. And I was like, what did I do?
- 6:40What did? I do, yeah.
- 6:42I've. Been scammed.
- 6:45I didn't know what had happened and I was like, oh, this is
- 6:48terrifying. Yeah.
- 6:50It kind of is, isn't it? I mean, you've reached a whole
- 6:54nother, a whole nother level of of stardom, I guess, if you
- 6:58will. There's not a ton of creators
- 7:00that are over over a million. When did when did you make that
- 7:04next jump from like having 15,000 for a long time?
- 7:07What was the next like? I want to say after I did the
- 7:11spaghetti, I did a couple of like get to know me videos
- 7:14because I kind of grew after the spaghetti, but not a ton.
- 7:16I don't exactly remember that. I did a couple of like get to
- 7:20Know me and then I did fried Pickles and buttermilk ranch and
- 7:25spinach and artichoke dip and those three took it.
- 7:28I mean, we were straight through.
- 7:30The roof. And I mean, it just look good.
- 7:33Yeah, they did. It was insane.
- 7:35Those those three are those are those three like have been my
- 7:38most viral, I believe. Well, maybe not.
- 7:41I think the potatoes were anyway some of my most viral to date.
- 7:45And those took my biggest jump from whatever I don't remember
- 7:49what I was at to. I think those are what took me
- 7:50to a million. Wow.
- 7:53Wow. And of course, and it it makes
- 7:55sense too. I mean, are everyone's in
- 7:57America's favorite place to eat? The most of us, especially us
- 8:00Southerners, is New Orleans. We all love New Orleans food and
- 8:02every my wife from Louisiana, my wife from Houma, LA.
- 8:05So I'm used, I love the food and I grew up in Alabama and
- 8:09Mississippi eating great food, but Louisiana food is special.
- 8:12It's just, it's, it's a whole thing itself and someone from
- 8:15the culture explaining it with your accent and your personality
- 8:19on these new platforms, it makes so much sense.
- 8:22And I'm glad it happened to you because obviously it's, it's
- 8:25taken off the way it did because you're the right person to do
- 8:27it. And, and, and all of that makes
- 8:30sense because it's, it's like I said, it's the best culinary
- 8:33city. We got the best state we've got
- 8:34for that pound for pound. I just, I just came from out,
- 8:38well, I just came from out West. I just went to four states up in
- 8:41the Pacific Northwest. No offense to these people at
- 8:43all, but they just don't know about season.
- 8:44They don't everything's al dente, nothing's, nothing's
- 8:48cooked long enough, nothing has any flavor on it.
- 8:50And they but they think it's fine because they don't know any
- 8:52better. I'm like, come down South, come
- 8:54to my malls, we'll get you some chicken and dumplings.
- 8:57We'll get you some jambalaya, you know that.
- 9:00We'll get you down South and get and show you and then take that
- 9:02back home because you'll need some seasoning in your life.
- 9:05Look, I will say I was, I was just in New York City in January
- 9:10of this year, I think, and the food wasn't as bad as you would
- 9:15think it would be. I was, no, it wasn't as
- 9:18seasoned, you know, as I was, as I as I was used to, but like the
- 9:22flavors were really, really good.
- 9:24I was. I was fairly surprised.
- 9:26Yeah, New York, NY and LA historically have been in in
- 9:30Vegas now. Yeah.
- 9:33Oh, we lost it. Oh.
- 9:35JRJRJR won't mute on us. He'll be back.
- 9:40Yeah, this. Sorry guys, you're back, but
- 9:43you're on your, your mic clock came, went out.
- 9:46Again, I'll be back, guys. Hold on, continue on.
- 9:51I'll be back. Sorry guys.
- 9:52We'll keep rolling. It's off.
- 9:53No worries. No worries.
- 9:54Yes. So.
- 9:56So New York. Yeah, you know that That's
- 9:57what's cool about up there. They actually, you know, my
- 9:59favorite thing to do there. And people are like, what is
- 10:02I'll go from hot dog vendor to hot dog vendor now.
- 10:04Those are the things that I love.
- 10:06Don't get me wrong. You got all these other great,
- 10:08fabulous restaurants, I understand.
- 10:09But those hot dog vendors on the street?
- 10:12Good Lord, I'll eat. I mean, literally, I'll eat
- 10:14eight of those things. I had one my friend Alex from
- 10:18Alex from next level show from the season three.
- 10:21She I met her up there and she's actually, I believe from Jersey.
- 10:24And so she took me to my first like street hot dog vendor.
- 10:27I've never I've never even seen that before.
- 10:29And so I was like, I got my first hot dog off the street.
- 10:33Yeah, only thing I know about that is just lucky dogs in New
- 10:36Orleans, and I generally have avoided those.
- 10:38I'm not saying people love them. And I'm sure that like they have
- 10:41the, the restaurant one now I've eaten at the, I mean, the the
- 10:44airport one and stuff like that. I've eaten at that one.
- 10:48I mean, I'm pretty sure I've eaten at one too late at night
- 10:50if I was walking out of Bourbon Street, maybe I don't recall,
- 10:53but you know, Yeah, right. Setting they can, they can hit.
- 10:57But that would be an amazing little tour to go on, a little
- 11:00hot dog vendor tour. Pizza Tour is something I've got
- 11:04that big. Italian influence up there and
- 11:07pizzerias and all the other good actions so.
- 11:10Absolutely. Yeah, for sure.
- 11:13Brittany, what? How did this start?
- 11:15I mean, we've got how you started with social media, how
- 11:19that has boomed, we'll get to next level chef, but how did
- 11:24let's go back a little bit. Where did you get this love and
- 11:27passion for cooking? Because.
- 11:29My parents. You, I haven't ever tried
- 11:31anything that you've eaten, but my Lord, if it could speak
- 11:36through the screen, I know it's good.
- 11:38There's no doubt in my mind. And you make some of the just
- 11:41most amazing things. How did, how?
- 11:44Where'd you learn? Where'd you learn all?
- 11:45This my parents for the basics, pretty much whenever I was
- 11:51little, my daddy would put me on like a milk crate in the kitchen
- 11:53and I'd stand up next to him at the stove and help him cook.
- 11:56And then while I was growing up, you know, my Mama did most of
- 11:59the cooking and then fun fact, my parents took in foster kids
- 12:05whenever I was little. We were like a foster home and
- 12:08over the course of so many years, I think I had like 13
- 12:11brothers and sisters over, you know.
- 12:12So anyway, we, during the summers, we spent a lot of time
- 12:16at home and my Mama had to go back to work eventually, I think
- 12:19after she had my youngest brothers.
- 12:21And so I was like, well, I'm going to take it upon myself to
- 12:25kind of take care of everybody because for the most part,
- 12:27everybody was younger than me. And so I, I was like, well, I'm
- 12:32going to start trying to cook some of the stuff that Mama
- 12:34makes. And those would basically be
- 12:37like, you know, rice and gravies and easy peasy things.
- 12:39And as I grew up, I wanted to learn how to make more Cajun
- 12:44dishes. And that influence comes from my
- 12:45daddy. So if I needed help, I'd be
- 12:48like, hey, I'd call him. It was really whenever I was in
- 12:51college, I would be like, hey, daddy, I need to know how to
- 12:53make AI need how to make a chili for 16 people, or I need to know
- 12:56how to make an etouffe or a gumbo or so on and so forth.
- 13:00And so I would call him and he would walk me through it.
- 13:02And then as I did it more and more and more, I just kind of,
- 13:06you know, I got the hang of it and I learned how to really like
- 13:10take either the traditional way to do something or the way that
- 13:14he does it and kind of like play off of it and do it my way.
- 13:18Yeah, Yep, that's awesome. That is so awesome.
- 13:20That's one thing I love to ask everyone that we've had on that,
- 13:24that that's somehow associated with cooking.
- 13:27Like where did this love and this passion begin?
- 13:30Because. If you don't have that.
- 13:32Yeah. I mean, if you don't have that
- 13:34in you, then you it doesn't come across.
- 13:36It just right, yeah. It doesn't come across.
- 13:38Across you knew it was some deep roots there.
- 13:40Yeah, I love it. And it's it's like it's really,
- 13:46it just, it makes me really happy because like if I post
- 13:49something especially that's like of Cajun influence or something
- 13:52of the sort or something that I grew up on, like my mom will
- 13:55text me and she's like, Oh my God, that looks good.
- 13:57Like, you did a really good job. Or if I do something of Cajun
- 14:00influence, my dad, he'll text me or he'll call me or he'll
- 14:02comment on it. And he's always funny about it.
- 14:04He'll leave a comment like, that's not like mine's better
- 14:07dot dot dot dot dot, or, you know, something funny.
- 14:11But I did something. I did a red beans and rice for.
- 14:14I was teaching the class in Lafayette a few weeks ago and I
- 14:16did red beans and rice and I dropped it.
- 14:18I was going to Lafayette. So I stopped at his house so he
- 14:21could like, you know, check it for me.
- 14:23And he took a bite and he's like, girl said these might be
- 14:27better than mine. I was done.
- 14:28I was on cloud 9 on all day long.
- 14:30I was done. Yeah, I mean that's.
- 14:33The. Goal.
- 14:36That's how I love it, my daughter and it's just I guess
- 14:40you know, your dad's probably my age or age, maybe a little bit
- 14:45older, but it's it's fun because my daughter is on social media
- 14:50and she comments on stuff about our show and things like that.
- 14:53But those are always the highlights, like, oh, she, I
- 14:57forget. She watches too, you know?
- 14:59Right. Oh.
- 14:59Don't get me started on forgetting that like my real
- 15:03life friends watch these right right, right, right.
- 15:07Like always. So you'll know I put sometimes
- 15:09outside of like my food. I'll post videos about like my
- 15:12day at work or whatever. So the other day I was, I went
- 15:17to go do something. I think maybe I was like, I
- 15:19might have been in the judge's office doing bonds or something
- 15:21like that. And one of the bailiffs is a
- 15:23really, really good friend of mine.
- 15:24Actually they all are, but one of them is a really good friend
- 15:26of mine. And so he was picking on me and
- 15:28he was like, you need a, where's your phone now?
- 15:30You need a video of this, like come to do my life with me as a
- 15:33minute clerk at the courthouse. And I was like.
- 15:38Exactly, exactly. So what is your what?
- 15:41What is your day job? So my like I make everyone.
- 15:46Hungry with your videos? Yeah.
- 15:49I think my title is like deputy clerk, but like to get into
- 15:54detail. I'm a minute clerk which is
- 15:57essentially a records keeper. And the way that our district is
- 15:59divided up, we're divided into civil and criminal and I work in
- 16:04criminal and then criminal is further divided up into
- 16:06juvenile, misdemeanor and felony.
- 16:08And I strictly work in felony. So I handle a good amount of
- 16:13felony cases allotted to a specific judge of ours.
- 16:17And I keep the files, you know, in check.
- 16:19I'll put everything in there. I send notice to defendants and
- 16:22attorneys and like whenever I'm in court, like, like I'm the
- 16:25person that like, raise your right hand and like swear
- 16:27somebody in. And like, when evidence is filed
- 16:30in a trial like that comes to me and I log that and handle the
- 16:34appeals process with like the Circuit Court and the Supreme
- 16:37Court and all that mess. But to say you got organization
- 16:41skills would. Be kind of an understanding they
- 16:43they were a long time coming. It it took a long time to try to
- 16:46figure out how to like make everything run smooth.
- 16:48It it took a little while. Yeah, Yeah.
- 16:51Well, how do you that mean that the organizational skills that
- 16:54that leads right into a question that I've had.
- 16:57I mean, you, you put out content daily, it seems almost.
- 17:03Yeah. And like, how do you do that?
- 17:07How are you a Mama and do that make these videos, because some
- 17:12of them I know that you have some in the can and you're
- 17:15working on editing them and all that.
- 17:16Everybody's but some of these that I see you do.
- 17:19Those are like the morning of. Or maybe they at least appear
- 17:22that way, but they I don't. Know that's that's what they.
- 17:24Are Yeah, I could get up at 3:00 in the morning you.
- 17:27Couldn't that's a legitimate? You're like, I think I'll make
- 17:29some biscuits in this amazing meal.
- 17:30It's like. Using all those other crazies
- 17:32like that's, that's not pretend. I, I, so I, I, I like to get up
- 17:38early. I like to start my mornings
- 17:39really early. It helps me feel like I don't
- 17:42know, kind of more put together for my day.
- 17:44I don't always film in the mornings, but my general wake up
- 17:48time is between like 4:00 and 5:30.
- 17:51If I'm going to film something, it's about 3.
- 17:55That way I can set up and get ready and film and, you know,
- 17:58have time to put all my stuff up and clean my kitchen before I
- 18:01have to go to work. And then I go to work.
- 18:03I work like a normal, excuse me, like a normal 8 hours and then
- 18:07pick up my kid. And on occasion we'll like in
- 18:11the evenings, couple days a week, we'll go to the park one
- 18:14day we we have his gym class and then most of my filming is done
- 18:19on the weekends. Like I'll pick a Saturday or a
- 18:21Sunday and I will just, I will either start if I have all my
- 18:25groceries, I'll start that morning at like 3 or 4-5
- 18:29something like that. If I don't, I'll go to the
- 18:32grocery store when they open at 7:00, get everything and go home
- 18:35and I'll start and I'll film until, you know, five or six in
- 18:37the evening and knockout anywhere from like I've done 11
- 18:41videos in one day and just had like a backlog to post if I knew
- 18:45that I was going to be busy. Yeah, yeah, you have to do that.
- 18:48That's that's because I think you can say one thing.
- 18:52I've noticed we have a long ways to go.
- 18:54Follow us at Tigs Bits podcast on all your social media
- 18:57platforms. We have a long ways to go, but
- 18:59we'll get there. But you have to be consistent.
- 19:02You have to post Dang near daily and stay stay in front of
- 19:07people. Just something you know and.
- 19:09You get, what, close to 22 million followers?
- 19:11I think if you if you add everything up, yeah, if you add
- 19:14them up from all that's. Crazy, yeah, I don't think we
- 19:16ever got that final number, but it's nuts like 1.7 on TikTok and
- 19:19like that's yeah, that's. Tons.
- 19:21It's nuts. So how do you?
- 19:24That rub here. Do you edit?
- 19:26Do you do all of your editing? I do everything myself and it's
- 19:29all on my cell phone. What?
- 19:32I was going to geek out. I was like, I got a geek out for
- 19:34you. Do all of that on your phone.
- 19:37Everything's on my cell phone. Wow, how?
- 19:39Did you, how did you come about knowing all the how to do all
- 19:42that kind of stuff? Was that something you already
- 19:44had, A little bit of knowledge? Don't you watch?
- 19:45A YouTube video like the rest of us.
- 19:47No, that was, Oh my gosh, there was a, there was a learning
- 19:51curve for that. So whenever I first started, the
- 19:53first few videos that I ever did, I thought actually filmed
- 19:57in the TikTok app. And that was back when you
- 19:59couldn't film. More than a minute and you
- 20:02couldn't like combine your drafts or anything like that.
- 20:05So I was like starting saying something, stop and starting
- 20:08saying and I was having to like it was very difficult.
- 20:11And then eventually I started filming on my camera, like my
- 20:14camera on my phone. And I would go into my photos
- 20:18app and I would clip the videos like that and I would edit them.
- 20:23So I would film on my camera, but I'd like start it say
- 20:26something, stop it and you know, so on and so forth.
- 20:29And so I'd have 100 clips and then I would upload those to
- 20:35TikTok and I would edit them that way.
- 20:37And then eventually I still did the, the filming in my camera
- 20:42roll or in my regular camera, but I would leave it, it runs
- 20:47the entire time. So I mean, I, I turn it on and I
- 20:49don't stop until I'm done unless there's like a big break.
- 20:52And then I I found like a video editing app and I just upload
- 20:56them to that, edit it that way and then like download it from
- 20:59that and upload it to Tiktok. Wow.
- 21:02There's a very good what? The video editing app is because
- 21:04that's all it is. It's the issue here with.
- 21:06Us I use. I do everything on my phone.
- 21:10I use splice. Splice, splice.
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- 21:19Here, you're welcome. Slice.
- 21:20You got you a plug from a very good plug right there.
- 21:24Yeah, I mean that's. But I'm sure, and I'm sure
- 21:26there's a ton of people in your same spot that you just don't
- 21:28know, but you know, you can't, you want to try and you do what
- 21:31you can with what you have. And then as you as you grow and
- 21:35learn and you can do new tricks and new techniques and things.
- 21:37That's awesome. And now because people even, you
- 21:40know, the, I've been doing podcasting for four years now,
- 21:42people think, oh, podcast mastered.
- 21:44I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- 21:45I'm still figuring out every day if any little thing goes wrong,
- 21:48I don't know how to fix it. This is all just barely put
- 21:51together, but you learn stuff as you go and and that, that that's
- 21:55neat. I'm sure a lot of people would
- 21:56be interested in hearing that too, because I'm sure someone's
- 21:59doing it the way you did 4 four times still.
- 22:03Somebody is listening. Yeah, somebody's listening or
- 22:06watching to the watching this right now and they're they, they
- 22:10love doing it. They have some kind of a passion
- 22:12or drive. It may not be cooking
- 22:13necessarily, it may be something else.
- 22:15Just videos in general, Yeah, sometimes the just.
- 22:18Do it. Yeah, I I like isn't.
- 22:19That what you would say, just do it, don't be scared just do it
- 22:23and post. It like take the taking the the
- 22:26stress out of the editing process like or some of it
- 22:30because it still gets on my nerves, but the taking a lot of
- 22:33the stress out of the editing process made like wanting to
- 22:36film, maybe want to do more because now it's just it's just
- 22:41it's easier, you know, it's not as.
- 22:42And you have and it gives you more time.
- 22:44You're not spending five hours editing when you're spending
- 22:46half an hour you. Get.
- 22:47Well, yeah, like to. Make more videos.
- 22:49Take for instance, last night. I got off of work and I went
- 22:53home. I, you know, changed out of my
- 22:55uniform, got dressed, set everything up.
- 22:57I found a recipe and then I uploaded all my drafts and I was
- 23:01able to edit it and post it last night after work.
- 23:05And so I got home. I think I, I think I got home
- 23:07around 4:30-ish, 4/4/30. And so I was able to film, edit
- 23:13and upload all before like 8:30. Oh wow, you're a machine.
- 23:20And then in the middle of that, in the middle of that, I cleaned
- 23:24my house and cooked supper and bathed my kid and put him to
- 23:27bed. Boys, I have.
- 23:31Boys, I thought I was doing stuff, but I don't think I
- 23:33anything. That's what I was going to say.
- 23:34Everybody should be inspired. Now get up and do something.
- 23:37Tired. You tired How do you how do you
- 23:40keep coming up with ideas like how do you keep coming up with
- 23:43recipes that I. Have so I started.
- 23:48I call it my master list. I have a list in my notes app,
- 23:51but I have added to since I started in like 2020 and I will.
- 24:01Oh wow. I just add to.
- 24:04It just keeps going a. Continuous.
- 24:06List yeah. And every time somebody comments
- 24:08an idea, I'll put it in there or if I see somebody else post
- 24:12something and I'm like, oh, I could piggyback off of that and
- 24:15do like this. I'll like type, you know,
- 24:17details or something in there and I'll add it there.
- 24:19And, and I just, I keep that list going and I try to update
- 24:23it every time, like I do a new one or something like that.
- 24:26And a lot of times, like my suggestions will be from
- 24:28somebody like, oh, hey, I ate at this restaurant one time and I
- 24:32had this dish that had like crab and shrimp and pasta and it was
- 24:37like a sauce. Do you know what that is?
- 24:39If not, can you like remake it? I can figure it out.
- 24:43We can try. And so that's just, that's where
- 24:45a lot of them come from. So, yeah, I mean, I, I would say
- 24:48once you built a fan base, which it sounds like didn't didn't
- 24:51take long, then you start getting comments.
- 24:54You can read comments. It's content breeds content, you
- 24:58know, So then you start getting ideas.
- 25:01With that said, I know there has to be a negative side to all of
- 25:05that that we haven't talked about.
- 25:06I don't, we don't have to harp on this, Brittany, but just
- 25:09briefly, I know that anytime you get to there, maybe we do, maybe
- 25:13we, we need to know how to handle this when it starts
- 25:16coming because people are people and they, they become invincible
- 25:21behind a keyboard. And how, how, how has that
- 25:26worked for you? Have you had to deal with any of
- 25:28that kind of stuff? Yeah, I learned, I learned a
- 25:31very important lesson. So whenever I first started,
- 25:34obviously, you know, I felt like people like my content for me.
- 25:39But part of the reason that I like blew up, so to say, was the
- 25:45amount of hate that I got in my comment section.
- 25:49And it would just drive people. It would be like when you open
- 25:52my comment section, that's, that's like all of it.
- 25:54That was it. That's all you saw.
- 25:57And whenever I first started, I just, I left it there.
- 26:00Sometimes I would argue back, sometimes I would say stuff back
- 26:02and I would just leave it there. And then I would get in it to go
- 26:05like respond to something and it would just be negative.
- 26:08I mean, all the way down or for the most part.
- 26:11And then that, that that really took a toll on me.
- 26:14Like it things got really difficult and I took several
- 26:17breaks from being online and nothing really seemed to help.
- 26:22And then finally I decided to, I just block people now.
- 26:25I mean, I don't care if we're mutuals.
- 26:28I don't care if you follow me, if you say something hateful,
- 26:33negative, if you bully somebody else in my comment section.
- 26:37And it's, and it's real extreme block.
- 26:40I, I, I don't care. And you know, people say that
- 26:43like, Oh, you, you should leave all that there.
- 26:45They pay your bills. I don't get paid for this.
- 26:47So there's no reason they should be in my comment section.
- 26:50I, I don't monetize. I was.
- 26:53Going to say half of them are probably bots from Russia or
- 26:55something anyway. So it's not even real people,
- 26:57it's just, it's just driving hate.
- 27:00Yeah, there. You go so like with that whole
- 27:07like, oh, let them stay in there and argue.
- 27:09You're getting used, you're getting money and that are like,
- 27:11no, I'm not all are in there raising hell for no reason.
- 27:15I'm making me sad. And who are you to?
- 27:17Make that wasn't on. Health.
- 27:19Right, that was a question I had.
- 27:21Are you able to monetize anything on TikTok Summit at
- 27:26now? At least, hopefully I am.
- 27:28I just, I choose not to we're, we pay, you know, my husband and
- 27:32I managed to pay our bills with, we both work full time and he,
- 27:37we have a cattle ranch that he runs with his daddy.
- 27:40And so we're, we're taken care of and I just didn't feel the
- 27:44need to turn this into another job, you know, because I feel
- 27:49like if I'm getting paid for it, it's, it's work and I, I like
- 27:52doing it. So for me, it's just, it's just
- 27:54a hobby. It's just something to do.
- 27:56That makes sense. That's true passion.
- 27:58That really is true, true passion.
- 28:00And, and how, because that's how it is.
- 28:02I work in the music business. When I see a lot of people the
- 28:04same way, after a while, you know you got into it for the
- 28:07passion, but once it's a job, it's just a job and then.
- 28:09You look at. It a little different.
- 28:11Well it it on down the line. Would there be something like a
- 28:14cookbook though? Are we going to have the Britney
- 28:16Camille Cookbook? I have two, actually, yeah.
- 28:20You do. We actually have.
- 28:24Now we're talking. All.
- 28:26Right, I'm going online right now and ordering them right now
- 28:29so. You're about.
- 28:29To make you're about to monetize this, right?
- 28:31Now, Yep, you're about. Yeah, because I looked, I found
- 28:34them last night and I'm like, Oh my God, yeah, I got to have
- 28:36them. I didn't have it.
- 28:37I. Didn't even know.
- 28:39People love to correct me when I say I don't like, no, you're no,
- 28:41you're fine. You're fine.
- 28:42Whenever you're you're fine. It ain't a big deal.
- 28:45Whenever I say I don't monetize my socials, they're like, well,
- 28:48you, you have cookbooks that's making money.
- 28:51And I'm like, OK, but like, I don't, I don't get paid per
- 28:53view. That's what I mean when I say I
- 28:54don't monetize, but like I worked, I spend a lot of money
- 28:58and time on these. This is my first one.
- 29:01And it's pretty much just a collection of like, let's see if
- 29:04I can flip through that of like all of my most viral recipes.
- 29:08And it's basically it's mainly food on this one.
- 29:12This one is just like entrees, appetizers, like dips and
- 29:16sauces. And I think there's even like a
- 29:17soup chapter. And then this one, this one is,
- 29:24it's basically a holiday book. If I had to like categorize it,
- 29:27it's based off of the holidays. However it is.
- 29:31They're both 50 recipes. And I think this one actually
- 29:34might be 51, but it is broken up into, let's see, it's broken up
- 29:40into like chapters named after the holidays, but each chapter
- 29:44has an appetizer, an entree, two sides, a dessert, an alcoholic
- 29:49drink, and a non alcoholic drink.
- 29:51So it's more, I feel like more well-rounded.
- 29:53I love that. What's?
- 29:54The name of that book? This one, this one is just a
- 29:56little bitter, and this one's just a little bit more.
- 29:59Love it I. Love it.
- 30:02That should be that should be on everyone's countertop in
- 30:05America. That's that's perfect.
- 30:07For everyone you want to bring, I'm so proud of these food.
- 30:10Home. Oh, you should How?
- 30:11That's awesome. I can't wait to get them.
- 30:12How can how can everybody purchase one of these?
- 30:15How can they purchase? These Brittany so I made a very
- 30:20juvenile mistake and whenever I picked my publisher, I picked
- 30:25kind of the first one that reached out to me and I learned
- 30:30my lesson. They're they're sweet folks, but
- 30:32it is unfortunately only available in the link that is in
- 30:36my bio and it's from like www.found.usitsfound.us.
- 30:44They're only available there and they ship directly from the
- 30:48publishers, which I think is based in the UK.
- 30:52So my goal eventually is to get like AUS based publisher and
- 30:56create sort of one book that kind of encompasses the two plus
- 31:02some more. Like I want my third one to be
- 31:04upwards of like 172 to 200 recipes and encompass like
- 31:10stories and, and better photographs and details and, and
- 31:13things like that stuff that I couldn't put in these.
- 31:16So that's that's eventually my plan.
- 31:18Like a great, like a greatest hits book.
- 31:21Pretty, yeah, pretty much sort of yeah.
- 31:22Like I want to kind of take the two, kind of take the two and
- 31:25then, you know, I want to sit down and talk to like my daddy
- 31:28and get some of the stuff that like he had whenever he was
- 31:31growing up and same thing with my Mama and just kind of like
- 31:34talk to my family and kind of like play off of that because
- 31:36like I said before, they're, they're really important to me.
- 31:39And that was kind of like the basis for this one.
- 31:43This one is, is based off of like my family's favorites.
- 31:45And then and then some, some of like just brainstorm ideas that
- 31:50I had, but it's mainly focused around my family.
- 31:54And that's kind of how I want all of them to be.
- 31:56That's how I want a lot of my stuff to be.
- 31:57It's kind of like a tribute to them.
- 32:00That's Yeah, that's great. And you know, everyone would
- 32:02love that He'll let your mom and dad both have a have have one of
- 32:05their recipes in there and them explaining it.
- 32:07That would be. Cool.
- 32:08Yeah, Especially. Actually, especially your dad,
- 32:10it sounds. Like you know that you better so
- 32:14happy. That's my, that's my plan.
- 32:16He doesn't know it yet. So Daddy, if you see this, just
- 32:19go with it. My plan is to have them hand
- 32:22write them, Not all of them, a couple of them.
- 32:25And my daddy doesn't write anything down at all.
- 32:29Like I texted him months ago and I was like, Daddy, I need to, I
- 32:31need to know how to make a cuvion.
- 32:33And he called me. He said, you think I'm going to
- 32:35text all that, you stupid. So he told me I was like, well,
- 32:40it would be nice to have it in writing because I was like in
- 32:42the car. I was like, hold on, let me pull
- 32:44over so I can write it down. And I wrote it on the back of
- 32:47like I think like I think I wrote it on the back of a piece
- 32:49of mail. We say you should put that you
- 32:54should put Dad's redfish Cuvi on recipe all on the back of the
- 32:58thing that's it printed on. The page.
- 33:00That's it. That is it.
- 33:03Well, at least he can explain. It and yeah, and explain it puts
- 33:06that would be awesome. Well, my grandmother, who's from
- 33:08Mississippi and she's my favorite cook of all time,
- 33:10similar though, but my grandmother never wrote down
- 33:12like how much of things like she could explain it, but she's like
- 33:15this much or that much. And she because I I would call
- 33:18her when I was in college, like grandmother, what about making
- 33:20this or that? And she said, well, you put this
- 33:22like she couldn't tell me two cups, 1 cup.
- 33:24It's just a little this, little that.
- 33:27And and that's the hardest part for me when it comes to writing
- 33:31a recipe. And if you watch my videos,
- 33:32you'll see that like whenever I pour something, I'm literally
- 33:35I'm just pouring it in the bowl. I'm not actually measuring.
- 33:38And So what y'all don't see is the time that I cooked it before
- 33:44that two or three times. And I literally, or even
- 33:46sometimes if it's, if it's my first time making something, I
- 33:49have my scale. I have like a kitchen scale off
- 33:51to the side and I'll measure something out and then I'll like
- 33:54dump it in there. And so like in between my clips
- 33:57of me like, you know, cooking, I'd be like, OK, that was 3
- 34:00cups. And so I have like, like a verb
- 34:04to myself. And I'll, I'll be like, like.
- 34:06Show myself the scale. Because you don't.
- 34:09Because you. Got baseball for us right here.
- 34:11Everybody that's I was, I was going to ask because we've had
- 34:14how how the Cajun lady accent has been on and she doesn't
- 34:18measure anything. And then she's making a cookbook
- 34:21too, and I'm interested. To see how our cookbook's going.
- 34:24To be. I don't know how you can explain
- 34:26it without, but if anybody can do it, she's the one who can.
- 34:29Do it. Yeah.
- 34:30Oh yeah, Hal is fantastic. She is she is.
- 34:33I saw that y'all got to meet in some video at at some point
- 34:36while I was. Oh, no, I think I was supposed
- 34:39to be with her. I think I was supposed to see
- 34:41her sometime, I think in July, but I think maybe that.
- 34:44But oh, anyway, I don't know. I don't know if she's going to
- 34:46be at something that I'm going to be at this weekend or not.
- 34:48I can't remember. Yes, you're at you're at a lot
- 34:50of stuff. So we've also had a guy, the
- 34:53Cajun critic. I don't know how we I think
- 34:55because Hal came on it's just plugged us into this fun
- 34:58Louisiana network and I'm cool with that.
- 35:01But he he's awesome too. Y'all are all at a lot of the
- 35:04same events cooking with Cajun. We haven't.
- 35:07He follows us. We haven't talked to him yet.
- 35:09He seems like an amazing dude. Oh my God, they're so.
- 35:12Nice. We're coming for you, buddy.
- 35:14I'm going to. Be with all of them this weekend
- 35:16and I'm so excited. They're such fun people.
- 35:19So much coming around. Yeah.
- 35:21That's so awesome. That's so, so awesome.
- 35:23Yeah, I've, I enjoy following everybody and just seeing all
- 35:28the stuff and just, you know, everybody food.
- 35:31Louisiana is just a, it's almost like a religion in in a way, but
- 35:35absolutely, you know, I. Mean.
- 35:36It really is, I mean. Yeah, I grew up like my SO.
- 35:39My grandmother was really, you know, Southern cook, you know,
- 35:41unbelievable, you know, Alabama Southern cooking, delicious.
- 35:45My grandfather, now, he's Italian and so he all this great
- 35:49Italian dishes and he mixed it a lot with Kochel dishes.
- 35:52And then now I take what I've learned from both of them and
- 35:54then mix it with all that Louisiana influence and man.
- 35:57That sounds great. Oh, hey, God, you know Brittany.
- 35:59Blazy it's like cook perfect to cook.
- 36:01Yeah, I. Promise, that sounds fantastic.
- 36:05But I can't wait to try some of these recipe to do it.
- 36:07I've seen a few of them. That Dang garlic bread.
- 36:09So that's a late that that recipe you just posted that here
- 36:12recently. That was I'll look like a labor
- 36:16of love to make that look my Lord you.
- 36:18Know people that that's probably one of the, I don't want to say
- 36:24complaints, but one of the biggest like like issues people
- 36:26have is sometimes some of my recipes take take hours and
- 36:31they're like, oh, well, you could do it this way and it's a
- 36:33lot faster. And I'm like, I'm sure it's
- 36:34faster, but that doesn't mean it's better.
- 36:36And I'm not saying that my way is better, but there's nothing
- 36:38wrong with taking your time. There's nothing.
- 36:41There's nothing wrong with taking your time.
- 36:43I watched you making a batch, a large batch of Roux, which I
- 36:47occasionally will do that too, and you were you were standing
- 36:50over that thing for like four to six hours.
- 36:52It's like, woo, OK, I like my hour and a half one which I
- 36:56thought was insane, but you know, it's.
- 36:59Like I'll do, I like having it on hand.
- 37:01Roux altogether I shortcut. You know what?
- 37:04But you do. It well, look, I'm not I will
- 37:06admit it and I don't care if y'all revoke my I buy it in the
- 37:09store. Sometimes something I don't, OK,
- 37:11like to to me, there's this like there's this extreme hate for
- 37:18people in Louisiana who cook by other people in Louisiana who
- 37:22cook. That's true.
- 37:25Hey, that is true. It is that is true.
- 37:27We we, we hurt our own more than anybody.
- 37:30It's like the rest of America thinks any of this is
- 37:33unbelievable. Exactly.
- 37:35But then we're going to be like, you didn't make your own Roux.
- 37:39Yes, it isn't. It's incredible like I'm part of
- 37:43this Facebook group. I don't know if y'all are the
- 37:44the what you got in in that pot or whatever.
- 37:47That page is 1 entertaining because like sometimes I'll get
- 37:52ideas for things and two because like if somebody posts something
- 37:55and they don't agree with it, I could spend hours in the comment
- 37:57sections like they're just. Yeah, yeah, yeah, just.
- 38:01With yeah, and that's one thing that I, it took me a little
- 38:04while. I, I was that person at first I
- 38:07was like, oh, I can't believe like you're doing it that way or
- 38:10but I never, I never did it publicly.
- 38:11I never like went on and like hated somebody.
- 38:13But like in my own private little world, I was like, you
- 38:15know, and then I eventually I grew up, to put it like I grew
- 38:20up and I was like, if that's what works for them, then who am
- 38:24I to tell them that they're wrong?
- 38:26You know, And that's how I feel about when people judge me for
- 38:29the way that I do something. I'm like, look, it, it works for
- 38:32me. We like it this way.
- 38:35Like take for instance, whenever I like saute my veggies, if I'm
- 38:38going to go to make a rice and gravy or gumbo or Stew or
- 38:40something, my personal minimum is 25 minutes to saute.
- 38:45And most of the time I go upwards to an hour I prefer.
- 38:50That you more go a little lower and slower.
- 38:54And I do. Have you don't burn.
- 38:55You don't burn anything though, do you Brittany?
- 38:57Well, no, don't, don't say that. Well, I mean less you, you don't
- 39:02burn as much. Right.
- 39:04No, but that's just that's just my personal preference and I
- 39:07don't have, I don't have a real good reason for it other than,
- 39:09you know, that's just what we like.
- 39:12But that there's just this like thing where people don't like to
- 39:19like, take into consideration that that's just somebody else's
- 39:24preference, you know? Right.
- 39:25Different part of the state even.
- 39:27And exactly, Oh my God, the. Country everybody, the only one,
- 39:30the only one I think we all can agree on and I and you may not,
- 39:34is putting dusting the crawfish after they're already done.
- 39:38Don't put the seasoning on top of the crawfish after they're
- 39:41already done. That's the only one that that
- 39:43I've. I'm oh, here we go.
- 39:46Here we go. We may need to save.
- 39:48Let's save that Britney, save, save that.
- 39:51I have a feeling that that we may be coming back to that
- 39:54question here in just a few minutes.
- 39:55It just makes your head dirty. I get it.
- 40:02I get. It all right, Brittany, I've got
- 40:04to ask you our. That's a N I-10 thing versus
- 40:07South. Is your husband from north
- 40:10Louisiana or South Louisiana? We've been in college.
- 40:14No, look. That explains it.
- 40:16We did. That's OK, I.
- 40:17Met him and I did you like, yeah, that's just, that's not
- 40:21something, that's another thing. I don't have like a real good
- 40:24like explanation for it. That's just, that's just how we
- 40:27did it. And we season in the water.
- 40:30We season the crap out of it. Like they taste good from the
- 40:32inside out. I just, I don't know what it is
- 40:35about. It's got to be on the outside
- 40:36too. And like, we'll like, we'll
- 40:39drench, you know, we'll pour and we'll pour some on the outside
- 40:42and close the lid of the ice chest and shake them and let
- 40:45them steam them in there. Yeah.
- 40:48So it's not, you know, it's not like we're just like dumping
- 40:50some Tony's on top of them and like calling it a day or
- 40:52whatever. But I don't know, I think that's
- 40:55just one of those things that's a personal preference, you know,
- 40:57and I know not everybody does it.
- 40:59And like, take her. You know, I, I was very shy
- 41:02about my, my like Dustin and my crawfish until Bretts cooking
- 41:05posted a video and she was like, I just shut up.
- 41:08And I was like, yes. Exactly, exactly.
- 41:11Yeah, I hit her in the comments too.
- 41:13It's like controversial. I love it.
- 41:16Oh, and don't get. Me wrong.
- 41:17We had Hal on. Hal is a duster too, so it's.
- 41:21Yeah, I mean, of course she is. Hal's a duster.
- 41:23Yeah, I'm. Not, but I'm also.
- 41:25Not going to die on that hill. I'm not right.
- 41:27If you bring me some crawfish that I did not have to cook and
- 41:31they're dusty, then guess what I'm going to eat?
- 41:33The hell. Out of you, like I I judged a
- 41:36crawfish cook off a couple of weeks ago and I'm doing another
- 41:39one on Saturday. And you know, like I guarantee
- 41:42you they did. Not a single one of them dusted
- 41:44their crawfish and I was fine with it.
- 41:46Like they were perfectly fine. Like to me, it doesn't really
- 41:49make that much. It doesn't make a big enough of
- 41:51a difference to like to to be blunt, to put A to be an ass
- 41:56about it. You know, like to be either way.
- 41:58Exactly. I mean, it's telling getting.
- 42:00Salt on a Margarita? Or no salt, it's just got.
- 42:02Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
- 42:04Well, maybe that that's. The way I should phrase the
- 42:05question just do your do your. Not because I'm not hateful on
- 42:08it either. I don't get it, but I'm not
- 42:10hateful. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 42:12Yeah, yeah. No, I know.
- 42:14But it's but it is a thing that is a very controversial thing.
- 42:17I mean, that's more than. That's more than a blonde.
- 42:21Rue or a dark karma rue. I mean, yeah, that that's, I
- 42:23mean the Oh yeah, I've got a list of them.
- 42:25Like whether you use water or stock, whether whether you use a
- 42:30slap your Mama or Tony's, whether you use a homemade Roux
- 42:34or a Jarroux, whether you you keep going, whether you use
- 42:40there's a bunch of them right now.
- 42:41It'll. Just you just want to.
- 42:43Stir the pot in Louisiana, make you a quick video about that and
- 42:47watch it go because it's going to fly every time.
- 42:50It's what What truck stop has the best?
- 42:52Cracklins. I mean, that kind of stuff, yes.
- 42:54Oh. Oh my, I recently started doing,
- 42:57I did a couple of videos where so like every time I go down
- 43:00South for an event or to visit my family or what have you.
- 43:03So like I said, like my husband and my in laws are from up north
- 43:05and that's where we live at. And so whenever I go back home,
- 43:08I'll always, always make a pit stop somewhere in the Lafayette
- 43:11area, either it's outside Lafayette, in Lafayette, what
- 43:14have you. And sometimes in my hometown,
- 43:16I'll stop there too. And we'll, I'll pick up Buddha,
- 43:19cracklins, pepper Jelly, whoop. I mean, I spend upwards of two
- 43:22to $300.00 every time I stop. Oh yeah, Turkey head.
- 43:25Cheese. Oh yeah, I truck it back up here
- 43:28and. I'm like, oh, this is nice.
- 43:31Yeah, I know, I know. But now you're.
- 43:33Going to at least have a best. Stop about, I don't know, an
- 43:36hour or two from you at some point.
- 43:38It's on Toledo Bend, so if you're anywhere near Toledo Bend
- 43:42there'll be a best stop kind of a hike but that it's closer then
- 43:45going all the way to South Louisiana and I even I order.
- 43:49From bourgeois meat market. Still I'll.
- 43:51Yeah, really, I'll order. Oh yeah.
- 43:52Oh yeah, in the. Christmas time, I got to get
- 43:55some of that jerky. They there's just best on earth
- 43:57to me. Yeah, it is.
- 43:57It is. Good.
- 43:59It is good. Brittany.
- 44:01Work I. Don't want to keep you for?
- 44:02Too, too long. I did want to ask you about your
- 44:06experience on Next level Chef and then I, I know Blasey has a
- 44:10little thing that we'll close out with, but tell us a little
- 44:13bit about about that, about that whole experience.
- 44:16How did you first of all find out you were going to be on Next
- 44:19Level Chef? So they actually.
- 44:21Reached out to me initially for Season 2 and at the time I
- 44:26didn't feel that I was like up for it.
- 44:29Like I did the interview process.
- 44:31And during one of the interviews, I was talking to one
- 44:34of the producers and he asked me like, what my like, like what my
- 44:39star dish would be. And I was like, Oh, a dish, I
- 44:43was like, I can make a rice and gravy.
- 44:45And he was like, he was like, Oh, that's it.
- 44:47You can win with that. And that's when I knew they were
- 44:49like BS and me, I was like, you're, you're wrong.
- 44:52Like, I know that I can't win with that.
- 44:54So don't lie to me. So I kind of like, like, oh, you
- 44:56know, I don't, I don't feel like I'm ready for that at the time.
- 45:00And so I kind of took a deep dive and I realized that like
- 45:04there's so much more that I could learn.
- 45:06So outside of TikTok and the privacy of like my own home, I
- 45:09kind of expanded. I started teaching myself how to
- 45:12do things that obviously I don't post online.
- 45:14I do just to just to do it. And then they reached back out
- 45:18for season three. And again, I had some like,
- 45:22hesitation. I wasn't sure.
- 45:24But my best friend, my daddy, my mom and my husband, everybody
- 45:27was like, if you don't shut up and do it, we're going to put
- 45:32you on that plane yourself, ourselves.
- 45:33And so I feel like I'll. Yeah, time to go.
- 45:37The show was. Coming I did the.
- 45:39Interview the interview process was long Y'all, I think it went
- 45:42from was it mm hmm I think it went from I want to say from
- 45:46February and all the way through the summer.
- 45:49I mean it was AI mean interviews your own checks.
- 45:52I mean it was it was insane. Would you do like virtual calls
- 45:56and? Stuff like like hour long like
- 45:58what would they ask? What?
- 45:59Oh, I mean they went. It was.
- 46:02It was. Sort of something like.
- 46:03This, you know, I had several where we talked about like my
- 46:05history, my skills, you know, stuff like that.
- 46:08And then we had background checks and then I had like, you
- 46:11know, we had to do like a test with a psychologist and, you
- 46:14know, make sure our mental health was, you know, fine.
- 46:17And we had to, you know, submit photos of some of our best work
- 46:21and yada, yada, yada. And, and once that was all, once
- 46:25they were like, Hey, we've chosen you to go.
- 46:28We, I was like, oh, wait, like you're serious?
- 46:31And so I think it was probably about a month, month and a half.
- 46:33And then the show actually filmed in Dublin, Ireland.
- 46:36So I flew out and I went to Ireland.
- 46:40That was the first time I'd actually ever been out of the
- 46:42country. My passport to get the, the
- 46:45process to get my passport for that is one hell of a story.
- 46:51So we, you know, flew out to Ireland and obviously, you know,
- 46:54if we've seen the show, it did not go the way that I expected.
- 46:57It didn't go the way that I hoped I was.
- 46:59I was out of my element. I was uncomfortable.
- 47:02That was that was just like the whole experience.
- 47:06I mean, I had fun, but that that that level of intensity is
- 47:11something that I've never had before.
- 47:13I've never been put in a situation where I've had to cook
- 47:17competitively. I mean I've done cook offs but
- 47:19that like cook that competitively and with speed and
- 47:22speed. Element too.
- 47:23Oh, somebody. Asked me that the other day.
- 47:24They were like, look, is that is that like the magic of TV?
- 47:27Do they like take breaks? And I'm like, no, not like Chef
- 47:30Arrington. We were standing there in a
- 47:32group and she was like, we're going to do one of Tik Tok's
- 47:35most viral trends right now can meet here comes the platform and
- 47:40go. And that was it.
- 47:42And that really happened. And like, that was real time
- 47:44what we saw. Yeah, I mean.
- 47:46Yeah, you don't have. I mean, the, the, the time to
- 47:49conceptualize is just for me, it wasn't, wasn't what I needed,
- 47:54you know, and I mean, I didn't meet some really awesome people.
- 47:58I made some really awesome friends.
- 48:00And like I said, I had a great time.
- 48:02But it was, it was, it was a lesson learned.
- 48:04I don't think I was cut out to be in that kind of environment.
- 48:08But, and then, you know, I'm not going to lie, I was, I was fine
- 48:10with it. I really was.
- 48:12I was fine with it One, because initially I was going to be on
- 48:15episode 2 and so I wasn't going to be the first person
- 48:18eliminated of the show. And then they changed it and I
- 48:20was the first person of the entire show eliminated.
- 48:23And I was like, come on. And.
- 48:26Then. You know, I was like, I said, I
- 48:28wasn't mad about it. I was fine with it.
- 48:30I was like, you know, I asked up.
- 48:31That was my bad. I could have done better than
- 48:33that. And then episode 2 aired and
- 48:37they got real meat. And then I was mad.
- 48:40Come on. Yeah.
- 48:42Oh, then I was. Mad because I was like.
- 48:44Yeah, if y'all had like if I had gotten that alligator in that I
- 48:47would, I would still be there. Oh yeah, you it'd have been.
- 48:50Over cooking spam at the house. Yeah, Spam videos I had canned.
- 48:55I didn't even know Sham came. At a can I didn't.
- 48:58I didn't either. I did not either.
- 49:00I'm watching. I'm like I just now found out.
- 49:03Oh, it had to be. That's crazy, man.
- 49:05You didn't have. I mean, it was just yeah, I
- 49:07mean, it was just like you didn't really.
- 49:10I felt that like you didn't really get a shot.
- 49:12Like she didn't get a shot to shine at all.
- 49:16Whatever. That's fine.
- 49:18How long were you there? Like, was that filming?
- 49:20Was that just that one day or did that?
- 49:22It was only a week. I was there for a week and now
- 49:25people who were actually like still on the show currently.
- 49:29The whole thing was blocked out, I believe for a month.
- 49:32Like I said, I was only there for a week of it, but it was it
- 49:35was a great time and we had we had fun.
- 49:37Yeah. Yeah.
- 49:38So you made a bunch of new. Friends, I'm sure he's got the
- 49:40trip. How was how was, how was Gordon
- 49:43Ramsay? Was he nice or did you get to
- 49:45spend any time around him at all?
- 49:47No, we didn't get to spend time outside.
- 49:49Of like what you saw on the screen.
- 49:50However, they did a lot of editing on that show, he said.
- 49:53Some very, very, very hurtful things.
- 49:56Like they edited out. Oh, yeah, they edited out a lot.
- 49:59They and, and I, I think, I, I think I cried for three hours
- 50:04when I got back to my room that night.
- 50:05Holy cow. He said some really, really mean
- 50:07things. And like at the end, somebody
- 50:10else asked me, they're like, is that like the, the, the magic of
- 50:13TV where they like left you in the basement standing in the
- 50:15dark? I was like, no, that's not,
- 50:17that's not magic. They left me in the basement
- 50:18standing in the dark. Wow.
- 50:20So I was just like, holy cow. Yeah, I've.
- 50:23Always kind of wondered the same thing, if that's just the magic
- 50:27of the editing and, and all of that.
- 50:28That's not our well, that's not our kind of.
- 50:30People. So you didn't need to be over
- 50:31there with these kind of folks. That's right.
- 50:32Exactly. I mean, I did learn a lot you.
- 50:35Know it's. Just even.
- 50:36The short. Time that I was there, they
- 50:37pushed me to, you know, I did a lot of like a research and a lot
- 50:41of experimentation and I learned a lot.
- 50:44So I feel like I've gotten better even even just being
- 50:47there for that short amount of time because being around those
- 50:50kind of people, I, I learned like on the bus rides to like
- 50:55actually film. Like they were, we were sitting
- 50:57in the bus seats and they were like, OK, if you had a lamb chop
- 51:01and tomatoes and, and an onion and then what would you do?
- 51:04Go. And I was like, yeah, oh, that's
- 51:07a good way. To practice.
- 51:09Yeah, right. And I was just standing there
- 51:10listening. To him, like I've never even had
- 51:12a lamb chop on it. Yeah, yeah, I don't know what to
- 51:15do with. It Oh, I would have been so
- 51:17nervous, Brittany, I don't know. You're brave just to go and
- 51:21tackle it. I would have been scared.
- 51:23Put yourself in that. Position and you learned.
- 51:24And you learned, and so when? You get called again, you'll be
- 51:26a little more prepared. You'll have a better idea what
- 51:28to do and what you do it again. I have very mixed feelings about
- 51:35it. I feel like if I was called to
- 51:37do it again, I could be more prepared, but I, I'm terrified
- 51:42of failure at the same time. So I'd be afraid of going over
- 51:46there and having like a repeat. But like I said, I feel like if
- 51:49I was to get called to do something like that again, I
- 51:52would know what to expect. And like I've, I've learned a
- 51:55lot since that time 'cause that filmed last year.
- 51:59So I, I feel like, like if they called me next month and offered
- 52:03me to do something like that again, yeah, I might do it just
- 52:07because the, the learning opportunity was something that
- 52:10like, I, I can't take that back, you know, right, There you go.
- 52:14America call her. Well, I was going to say.
- 52:17Let's get her on there. Give her a.
- 52:19Damn shot. Give her some seafood, give her
- 52:22some beans, give her something. And they're and they're not.
- 52:25With and they're not all like Gordon, obviously I'm friends
- 52:29with chef Robert Irvine and his wife Gary Kim and he they are
- 52:32both sweethearts, good people. So if if Chef Irvine.
- 52:35Ever does a show? I'm if I ever get a shot, I will
- 52:37tell you got to get Brittany on there because the that she
- 52:40didn't get a shot. Give her some real meat.
- 52:41Watch her shine. I'm not going to lie, you know,
- 52:43like. I have I have a love hate
- 52:45relationship with Chef Ramsey and I said that, you know, they
- 52:48edit all edited a lot of it out and I'm thankful for that
- 52:52because when oh, it was bad, but two wow it you can tell that
- 52:59it's obviously done for the wow factor.
- 53:02It's done for the TV. OK.
- 53:04That was the question. Is is he really that?
- 53:07Is he that mean of a person or is he is that his TV character
- 53:11that I genuinely think? It's for TV and I genuinely
- 53:15think it's because he wants people to bring out the best in
- 53:19themselves. So it's sort of like a it's like
- 53:21a a scare learning tactic is kind of what I refer to it as.
- 53:25Like, yeah, that's not he looks. Like my view of it is that.
- 53:29He does it not just to be rude, but like, to make people want to
- 53:34do better. So 'cause like, before we
- 53:36actually started like, cooking and filming.
- 53:38He's funny. Yeah, that's what I.
- 53:41I've watched his tik toks and stuff and he's hilarious and
- 53:44he's cuts up with his daughter and all.
- 53:46It's like, I, I wasn't expecting you to say what you said at all.
- 53:50I was like, oh, well, that's kind of disappointing.
- 53:52I like and you like chef Ramsey. I'm not going to like him if he
- 53:55gets nice to Britney though. So he's kind of burned the.
- 53:59Bridge with me now. Yeah, usually it's just their
- 54:01own. Personalities dialed up, you
- 54:04know, so it's probably a little in there, but then, you know,
- 54:06it's tough to to make a. Point is all it is really, and
- 54:10it's hard to get to the. Spot where he's at, not being
- 54:12that way, you know, Yeah. Oh yeah, I agree.
- 54:15It's well earned. He he's he's earned the right to
- 54:17be that way. Yeah, he has.
- 54:19That's that's a fact. That's a fact.
- 54:21Well, look, let's get to this last little segment of our show.
- 54:24Brittany, I'm going to let Blasey take over here with our
- 54:27segment that we like to call Blasey little bits of.
- 54:33Controversy. All right, you ready for this?
- 54:35We're going to ask you a few questions now.
- 54:36One of these things a good thing you kind of got to practice
- 54:39already little practice around the end we talked about
- 54:41crawfish. That was only one of the
- 54:42questions I was going to ask you, you know, do you does
- 54:45crawfish or not? So we know that now you do.
- 54:47That's fine. Do your thing there.
- 54:49You did mention something a while ago though.
- 54:51Water or stock? I.
- 54:53Mean so growing up, we. Were water people stock to stock
- 54:57is a luxury. That was water spree stock was
- 55:00like a dollar and some change, but that's a luxury.
- 55:02I like it when when I was growing up and so now I'm a
- 55:05stock girlie. But I actually do make it myself
- 55:08most of the time. But yeah, I mean, it took me a
- 55:11little while to get to that point.
- 55:12I've always been just a water girlie.
- 55:14He's given it, right? You really almost can't tell the
- 55:16difference. But if I use Stockholm, it's
- 55:18because I I make it myself. Great, There you go.
- 55:22There we go. That's I hadn't even thought of
- 55:24that. One either, and you brought it
- 55:25up, so you you brought your own question to the game.
- 55:29I love it. Yes, you did.
- 55:30That's why I had to get the answer.
- 55:33So let me ask you this. There's a couple of more.
- 55:36I'm going to regroup on this a little bit.
- 55:38So the like, if you had to eat one type of food for the rest of
- 55:42your life, what would it be? I know that's tough because
- 55:45variety is awesome, but. Pasta I love pasta pasta I love
- 55:52pasta. I love it and like especially if
- 55:54it's handmade. Handmade.
- 55:55Do you make? I was going to say, do you make
- 55:56your? Make your.
- 55:57I would figure you made your own.
- 55:59That is. I mean, if you've.
- 56:01Never had handmade pasta. You are missing out.
- 56:04And it's not difficult. It's it's labor intensive, but
- 56:06it is so worth it. So worth it.
- 56:08All right, wow. Oh man.
- 56:11Yeah, I love some. Pasta myself.
- 56:15Back to the cooking thing. So okra.
- 56:17And the gumbo, yeah, you're, I know personally, I.
- 56:21Like it, my husband does not. So as it stands right now, I
- 56:25don't make it with that in there because he would need it and why
- 56:29am I going to make a pot of gumbo if that he's not going to
- 56:32get it? So.
- 56:33I do. I do like it.
- 56:34I don't mind it. I actually I really like okra.
- 56:36I think I've got like 3 jars of like pickled okra in my ice box.
- 56:40As you know, at the moment I love it, but I don't, I don't do
- 56:44it now just because it's not a family favorite and say I'm in
- 56:48the. I'm in the opposite.
- 56:50I like ochre in my gumbo. My wife does not.
- 56:52So when we first, you know, when she first started making gumbo
- 56:55and we were together, I would say I like ochre in my gumbo.
- 56:58She says, well, you ought to make it.
- 57:00You don't have to make your own gumbo so.
- 57:02Now I don't eat ochre in my. Gumbo.
- 57:03So yeah, see, my husband doesn't cook.
- 57:06So if I don't cook? Oh yeah.
- 57:09I feel so sorry for your husband.
- 57:12Yeah, I just feel so bad for him.
- 57:15He ain't missing many meals, I do not believe, and he's getting
- 57:20good ones, too. I'm jealous of him frankly.
- 57:23She's doing TikTok. Videos every day and he yes he
- 57:25does. Yes, he does.
- 57:27Yeah, he's got the best job on earth he gets.
- 57:30He's the sampler. He's my Guinea pig.
- 57:34That's right, that's what it. Jr. is the handler.
- 57:37You should bring your husband on, do a podcast and call him
- 57:40the sampler. The handler the same spit ball
- 57:42in. Here but.
- 57:45And he works hard, though, so he can eat all that food because
- 57:48he's going to work it off anyway.
- 57:49So burn it all off. That's right.
- 57:51Yeah. Good Lord.
- 57:52But. Oh man, I would be 500 lbs.
- 57:55That's what everybody. Says and he's not, I mean he's,
- 57:57he's about that big around he, I mean, he, he eats that he works
- 58:01it off. I mean, he, that's good.
- 58:02He burns. Yeah, he goes.
- 58:04Lucky sucker, yeah. That's.
- 58:07Awesome. All right, OK, Brittany, hey, I
- 58:12know you mentioned earlier that, you know that your parents were
- 58:15your biggest influence, you know, and your cooking kind of
- 58:17what helps you to develop what you like we see now on TikTok
- 58:20videos and on social media. But as far as like getting
- 58:23things out there and like in the digital world and actually
- 58:26putting stuff out there, what type of an influence was Bubba
- 58:30the Love Sponge for you? Bubba the Love Sponge I wanted,
- 58:35you know. The influence that you
- 58:36mentioned, I read your bio that he was a really big influence
- 58:39for you with your social media far as the digital world that
- 58:43you're trying to get everything out there.
- 58:44Just curious how that came about.
- 58:47As you should be. We're all who is Bubba.
- 58:53Like I'm thinking of my daddy's best.
- 58:54Friend, his name is Bubba. And I was like, how did you do
- 58:57that, Oh my Lord. That's a big.
- 58:59Powerful podcast We. Have we can get in touch with
- 59:02anybody we love we do our deep dives, we.
- 59:04Do the research here at Tigs Bits.
- 59:06We get what we want, the info. Feels like I never heard him
- 59:12call the love. Sponge.
- 59:13I'm gone, I'm gone. Bubba Who?
- 59:15Who he's talking about. Brittany is Chad's favorite
- 59:18radio personality in Florida, and every time we have a guest
- 59:21tone, he asked, do he ties it in somehow?
- 59:24Do they know Bubba, his guy? He likes to play Radio Bubba,
- 59:27yes, So. It.
- 59:28It always creates a fun little clip and.
- 59:34Yes, and. He's a.
- 59:35And he's A and his, his show's a fan of our show.
- 59:38We're actually on his podcast network with our regular podcast
- 59:41and stuff outside the TV show. So anyway, it's him Chad being
- 59:44silly because I looked and I was like, where's he going?
- 59:46And I'm thinking I was too. Does she know Bubba?
- 59:48I mean, Doug, didn't he? You sold it on all of us, Blasi.
- 59:52You did great. Job twisted that thing, quit
- 59:56something and. Then I was like, wait, are you
- 59:58talking about like Bubba? Bubba?
- 1:00:00How do you know that? Do you have do?
- 1:00:05You have a website for everybody to go to or does anybody just
- 1:00:07need to go to your bio and instant on it's so it's.
- 1:00:10In my bio and it's just, it's a it's essentially a link that
- 1:00:14opens a page that has links to everything.
- 1:00:16So if you click that link, it opens another little page that
- 1:00:19has like that has like my shipping address, my name, and
- 1:00:22it has like my Amazon, which I don't really ever update.
- 1:00:25And it has like my Amazon and it has links to my cookbooks and it
- 1:00:29has links, I believe, to all my other socials and links to like
- 1:00:32Pepper, the app and a couple other things I believe are in
- 1:00:35there. But every time, like, oh, I link
- 1:00:37to like all of my favorite like cookware, like my Mick wares, my
- 1:00:41Magna Light, my cast irons, there's links to all of those in
- 1:00:43there. Well, for the Magna Light, it's
- 1:00:46just the link to the history. But you know, it's just, yeah,
- 1:00:49it's just a bunch of links on there that I think are like
- 1:00:51useful and informative and stuff like that.
- 1:00:54Very, very nice. Very nice, Yeah.
- 1:00:56And y'all go. Check her out, check her out, go
- 1:00:58get her cookbook. Both of them.
- 1:01:01Can't wait for another one. And yeah, I mean, there's just,
- 1:01:04there's a, there's so much, so much of this onion to unpeel.
- 1:01:08Hopefully we can have you back on and and check up about some
- 1:01:14stuff. Yeah, we'll do.
- 1:01:15A. We'll do a.
- 1:01:16We'll do a travel episode and you can tell us about your
- 1:01:18passport. Yeah.
- 1:01:20So yeah, we do need. To we do we got let that little.
- 1:01:23Nugget out. Yeah, we can.
- 1:01:24Dive into that sound so like give you some insight.
- 1:01:26It it led me to running down the streets of New Orleans by
- 1:01:29myself, quite literally running. Wow.
- 1:01:34Oh yeah, yeah. There you go, folks.
- 1:01:37We've. Got a tease so she has to come
- 1:01:39back on. She has to or we may have one
- 1:01:42night when we go live if you were being willing to come on
- 1:01:45live and you can bring some of your.
- 1:01:47Audience. Over too.
- 1:01:48It could it could get wild or we may just shut it down.
- 1:01:51We'll see. Well, awesome.
- 1:01:54Well, thank you so much for coming on and visiting with us,
- 1:01:57Brittany. We can't wait to can't wait to
- 1:01:59talk to you again. Excited.
- 1:02:01Thank you for having. Me, this is fun.