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Growth & Grit with Terin · Tigs Bits Podcast

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  What would you say to somebody who is scared to start?
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  You just got to do it. I mean, you can't worry about
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  what anybody thinks about you and you just have to do it.
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  You know, you can't say, oh, I'm a bit cringy if people are going
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  to call me stupid because the people that that do that are
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  jealous because they wish they were doing what you're doing,
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  what you're brave enough to do. I've got somebody joining me
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  who's been everywhere lately. I first met Taryn Gary back in
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  January at Gabby's Shop Local event, and since then she has
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  been on a tear. Food spots, festivals, shark
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  tooth hunts in a video that went so viral, even Randy Travis has
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  dropped a comment on it. She's built her brand from the
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  ground up, just picked up a little new job title and she's
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  out here showing love to all of the local businesses, the
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  Louisiana culture and everything in between.
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  We're talking travel, content, food and that mindset.
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  Mindset that just keeps things building.
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  Let's bring Miss Taryn Gary to the stage.
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  What's up, Taryn? What's going on, girl?
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  Not much, I'm just drinking from my little new Tig big mug.
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  Look at that. I love it.
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  I love it. I love it.
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  That's awesome. That is awesome.
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  Yes. I'm so so honored that you would
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  have such a good coffee mug. And it's it's it's not coffee in
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  there, I'll tell you that. Oh, OK, good.
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  This ain't a coffee show, Taryn. This ain't a coffee show.
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  I love it. I love it.
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  OK, Yeah. I see the folks in the chat.
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  What's up? Let's give them a little shit.
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  That was it ain't coffee. It shouldn't be.
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  We're going to get into some stuff tonight.
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  It's going to be fun. We're just this is laid back as
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  it gets ask a bunch of questions, hear from you and if
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  anybody that if you don't know her yet, you're going to by the
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  end of this and she's. Maybe a little too well.
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  Yeah, baby, maybe more than you want.
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  We'll see what happens. We'll see how much you've had of
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  that cup. That's what matters.
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  But look, I just kind of want to.
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  I want to start with what is happening in recent before we
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  rewind and dive into everything 'cause I mean, why not?
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  You got you got a video going viral right now with some major,
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  major stuff with Mike Broussard and Randy Travis jumping in and
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  all that. How'd that all happen?
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  Let's just start there. It was crazy.
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  So I'm at Buck and Johnny's from my friend Crystal's Bachelorette
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  party. Crystal, hi.
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  She's getting married a lot. First, she's she.
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  Is she Crystal GAIL? OK, OK, that crystal.
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  Gotcha. OK, what's up Crystal?
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  I saw someone comment and her name was Crystal Gayle on one on
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  on that video. I don't remember where it was at
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  and I was like, wait, is that the crystal that killed?
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  No way, but I don't think it was.
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  So anyhow, sorry ADHD I. Have it too.
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  So we're going to be in trouble. It will be fine.
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  So we're at the Buck and Johnny's for her Bachelorette
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  party, and you know, they have singers on Fridays.
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  So Mike gets up there and I mean, he has his little hat on
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  and I don't know, it just, I wasn't expecting that to come
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  out of his mouth. No, not, nor was I when that was
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  the perfect hook to for a video of the way that you said that
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  that made me click on it. I was going to anyhow, but it
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  made me like, yeah, like what is she talking about?
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  And then I, I was not expecting that.
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  Either no, I got up out my seat, moved all the way to the front
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  of the table and was just like entranced.
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  I could not believe I thought somebody had turned the radio on
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  or radio. Travis walked into the room.
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  Right. It's unbelievable.
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  Yes, it was so good. So, so just randomly just one of
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  those things you just right place at the right time.
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  Yes. And I told him, I called him
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  over and I said, dude, like, you have the best voice that I've
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  heard in a long time. Like this is amazing.
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  And he was like, oh, no, no. And I'm no, I am telling you
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  like people need to hear this because they will lose their
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  minds. He didn't believe me.
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  I was like, I'm going to, I'm going to interview you.
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  And he said, oh, you're going to be my first interview.
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  And I said, I'm telling you, I'm going to see you on the red
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  carpet one day. And he's like, well, you're
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  going to be there with me and you're going to be interviewing
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  me on the red carpet. I was like, I'm holding you to
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  that. Hell yeah, you are.
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  And like and look, it's it's when things happen like that, I
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  don't think people forget that. I mean, look at Zach Top and
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  that's kind of what this reminds me of.
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  It's it's like a Zach Top kind of moment because he has that
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  throwback 90s voice. He's got that Randy Travis voice
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  that's hot right now. That's going to work.
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  There is no doubt whatsoever that is going to resonate with
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  people. It's going to he's he's going to
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  he's going to blow up. There's just zero doubt in my.
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  Mind Country is coming. I'm so happy you know Chris
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  Staple. Exactly.
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  Why all of this is coming back? So I mean, right now is the
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  perfect time for him to be out there.
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  And I woke up. I don't know about you, but a
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  lot of content creators are like, like, you wake up in the
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  middle of the night. Sometimes you have dreams
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  because your mind never turns off.
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  And I woke up and I just had dreamed about like TikTok.
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  And I open it and there's Randy Travis's comment.
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  That's. Crazy.
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  Yes, I messaged Mike at 4:00 AM in the morning.
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  I'm like, Oh my God, he's seen. This had he?
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  Had he seen it yet? No.
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  And he messaged me the next morning.
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  He's like, my heart literally stopped, he said.
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  I could not believe. This.
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  Oh, I wouldn't be able to either.
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  I mean, it's like getting praise from the the man himself and and
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  there's no telling where this goes or what.
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  No. And if you read the comment, he
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  says I look forward to meeting you.
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  That's. Exactly what he says.
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  And I, I think he seems to be the kind of dude who he doesn't
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  just throw that out there like he's expected that's going to
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  happen one way or the other. That's that's going to it needs
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  to happen. Well, tell us a little bit more
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  about Mike as I, I don't obviously don't know a whole ton
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  about him, but where can folks maybe see him?
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  Well, around here locally before he blows up because he's gonna
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  blow. Up a lot of local places.
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  He'll sing it. Buck and Johnny's I think he's
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  doing. He put a little video on a a
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  boat that he's performing. I think it's like July 3rd
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  maybe. But he's supposed to come in
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  soon and he would because he said he was free tonight and he
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  wanted to kind of talk about some of this stuff too, because
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  he's he's in shock. I mean, I know he played at
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  Crawfish Town, maybe Kathy, Sidney May a few times, you
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  know, a few places around town. But I mean you, you will stop
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  whatever you're doing. You will he.
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  It's one of those voices that as soon as he plays y'all go check
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  her page out right now. We need to to plug it right off
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  the bat traveling with Taryn. Look it up on Facebook on
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  Instagram on TikTok and you're going to see this video that
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  we're talking about. We don't even mind if you leave
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  there. We go look at here he is here he
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  is he's been here the whole time.
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  Sorry that we're talking about you so good.
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  I know you're probably blushing, but dude you got it going on
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  brother. I can't I've got to hear more
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  than what I've just heard on TikTok.
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  I got to hear live. I've got to see this guy.
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  It's unbelievable. He's he's it's crazy.
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  And I'm interviewing him July 1st.
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  OK, good. I'm still your first interview
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  no matter what. Brandy Travis comes call and I'm
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  still the first one. Exactly.
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  That's exactly. We all talk about that and just
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  where what he wants to do, you know, where he's going from
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  here. It's amazing.
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  He is very amazing, very amazing.
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  Welcome Mike. Very honored that you would be a
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  part of the show tonight with Tigs Bits.
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  Can't wait to meet you because I plan on meeting you too at some
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  point. I'm coming to see you play
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  brother. That is a fact.
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  That is a fact. Terry says that.
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  Do you live in Breaux Bridge, Terry?
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  Yes okay, I don't I couldn't remember where I couldn't
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  remember where you lived if it was in in New Iberia, I I just
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  couldn't you've told me this, but.
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  I forget the office capital of the world.
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  That's exactly right. And you're not too far from me.
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  So we need to collab on something soon.
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  We just haven't, I haven't had time to get out beyond what I've
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  been doing. But maybe that's changing a
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  little bit this summer. I love it.
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  I love it. Awesome.
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  Jeffrey Jones gets to catch a show.
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  Good to see you, brother. Good to see you, cuz.
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  I love it. I love it.
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  Yes, Sir. I'm going to be there.
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  I will be there. Oh, we even got Rachel in here
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  tonight. Yeah.
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  Everybody. Taryn brings the noise.
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  I love. It she brings where's where's
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  Amanda? I don't hear her making noise in
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  my comment section. She'll be here, there's no
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  doubt. She will show up, she will show
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  up and she will show out as she always does.
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  And that's something else too. Me, her, Rachel, and Casey from
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  Stirring the Pot have something that works right now.
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  Yes. Oh, and I see Casey is in the
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  house with us too. Everybody loves us some Taran.
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  How can you not? How can you not love Taran?
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  Well, that's a good segue, though, Taryn.
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  Let's kind of let's go. Let's rewind it back to how did
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  this all started? I know that I've read and you've
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  said, and you've I've heard you also say that you, you say if
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  you wait for perfect timing, you're never going to start.
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  No. Where'd that mindset come from?
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  Just because I've done it, I, I realized with entrepreneurs, a
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  lot of people that we hang around with, it's people that
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  just kind of jump at things. They don't really sit there and
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  plan things out and think too much about stuff.
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  Because if you do, then you think of everything that can go
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  wrong, you know, and then you think about people judging you
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  or, you know, just watching you and you just got to get away
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  from that and you just got to do what you want to do, start doing
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  you and things start happening. You know, you still put yourself
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  out there. I mean, I never thought I would
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  be doing this. You'd asked me like a year ago
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  if I'd been this. No way, not A laughed at you.
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  What made you hit the hit the go button?
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  What made you say I? What pushed you over the edge
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  and say I'm doing this? I guess I was just tired of
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  working like a regular job. I just working for somebody
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  else. I wanted to work for myself and
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  I knew I was good at what I could do.
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  I had made my daughter. My daughter went viral and she
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  was just, she was just too nervous to kind of jump on that
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  train. She didn't want people to talk
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  about her. And I just don't care anymore.
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  So I was like, you know what? I'm just going to do it.
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  It kind of comes that that kind of comes with age a little bit.
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  I think I'm I'm the same way where I don't think that I would
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  have done this 10 years ago, even though I did radio and
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  stuff like that, but not video. To put myself out there with
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  video and, and take the criticism and the criticism is
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  minuscule and just people being petty really more of a
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  reflection of themselves or projection of themselves.
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  That's kind of what I've I've noticed.
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  But yeah, it's it takes a damn leap of faith to jump in and to,
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  to quote, UN quote, have the balls to put yourself out there,
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  You know what I mean? I mean, and when I started
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  getting noticed and started getting deals, you know,
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  restaurants would reach out to me.
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  I mean, at first it was shocking.
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  Like, I didn't think, you know, I didn't think that it would go
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  that far. And then, yeah, now I get
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  different restaurants asking me to go.
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  I've gotten some in Dallas, TX asking me to go and visit their
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  restaurant. Yeah, see, that's awesome.
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  That's that's awesome. I've got so many Dang
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  mosquitoes. Louisiana, I've got this under
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  control thanks to Tick Tock and some little the thing that's
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  coming in is going to save this studio from the gnat infestation
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  that is going on. That's irrelevant to this show.
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  But anyhow, they keep getting in my line of sight.
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  It's driving me crazy. It's happened.
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  This happens every year in June too, by the way, and then in a
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  month it'll go away. So it's whatever.
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  All right, ADHD, how do you push?
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  How do you push past that fear though, of initially doing it?
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  Like what was that first video or that first blog or vlog or
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  whatever that you posted that just said I'm going to put this
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  out there. I'm going to put this out there.
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  It was, I mean, so I have been traveling and I do like little
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  blog posts, just pictures and stuff.
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  But the video, I think my first one was at Park de Oaks.
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  It's Nina, Nina Creole, Nina Charles, her Bayou Bao.
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  There was a few of them there and I just, I told my husband I
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  was just like, video it and we'll see how it goes, you know?
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  And yeah, it did good. There you go.
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  It seems to be folks just like authenticity and we're going to
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  dive into more of this later, but they like that you
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  definitely bring that to the to the table zeroed out.
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  There's Amanda we got. Sarah is there.
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  Hey, Sarah. I love it.
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  What's up, Sarah? What's up?
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  I love it. Here we go.
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  I mean, I I don't. Andre has has a good question.
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  What? Are some of the new?
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  Yeah. What are some of the new things
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  you have coming that you're excited about?
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  Keep that in mind. We'll, we'll, we'll come back to
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  that later on, 'cause that is, I had that same question.
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  That's a good question, Andre. Good.
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  My mom's watching too, so. Oh boy, we'll behave.
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  We're we better behave. Hey, hey, mom, we're going to be
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  good tonight. I promise, I promise.
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  Well, it's kind of let's kind of move forward a little bit.
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  That that really that answers that.
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  I mean, beyond what? What's something that you
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  learned from those risks, like initially, what's just something
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  that you could take away from taking that chance right off the
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  bat? You obviously you knew that you
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  could continue to do this. What?
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  What did you learn that said just said, keep going.
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  It was really like confidence. It's just being yourself and
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  the, you know, just having confidence in what you're doing
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  and being OK with putting yourself out there and you're,
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  you have to be OK with having some criticism.
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  I've realized that when you get to like about 20,000 views on
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  stuff that people start to, you get the person that's going to
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  say, oh, her shirt doesn't match or oh, look, her hair, look her
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  roots. You know, they're going to have,
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  they're just going to find something and you just have to
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  be OK with that and just realize that person's jealous, you know,
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  there's not any reflection on you.
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  And just with that one negative comment, there's 1000 good ones,
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  you know. That's exactly right.
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  Is what it is. That is exactly right, and I
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  think you're right on that number too.
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  It seems to be once the algorithm gets you to 20,000
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  people and then it starts to move forward, you just get some
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  insane comments in there. People like it's like, OK, the
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  algos found the weirdos now here they come.
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  But it's still mainly always positive.
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  It's just you get those. I I find it hilarious.
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  I love it. I mean I really and truly do if
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  something starts popping and I start getting these comments, it
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  didn't bother me a lick. I'm just happy for the
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  attention. Let's be honest I like it.
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  That's why I'm posting the shit I'm an attention whore there.
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  I said it. I said it out loud, everybody on
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  a live, I'll edit that one out, but there it's just the facts
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  it's. Just, well, I mean, anybody in
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  our field has to like attention or you wouldn't really be, you
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  know? We wouldn't be doing this.
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  Doing it, yeah, you have to be OK with that.
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  That's right. That's right.
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  Let's talk about this content, though, that that we make that
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  connects the stuff that actually lands because as we know, a lot
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  of it does not most, I'd say most of it doesn't it really.
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  But, but, but you start to figure out what does what's been
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  the most surprising or meaningful feedback that you've
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  gotten from your followers? I mean, one of the most
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  surprising things was when I went to Alon Moje in Crowley and
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  I did a video there and that one.
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  So I needed like a little clip to share before the actual
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  video. Just kind of, you know, like a
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  teaser. I was trying because you have to
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  be consistent with your posting and I was, that was a long
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  video. So I put like a little clip out
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  and it was of the alligator sink that they have there.
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  Oh yeah, I remember seeing that. Yeah, yeah, that.
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  Went viral and that was so surprising to me because I
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  didn't that was just something I just kind of put, you know, last
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  minute kind of here you go and I didn't expect that, you know,
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  that's probably the most surprising.
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  Did you like meaningful with like meaningful comment or?
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  Yeah, I mean, if anything that pops out that you can recall,
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  that's just like you're like, damn, I can't believe they said
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  that's so nice or, you know, that that was inspiring or
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  something. You know, like if anything, that
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  just takes you to 1. Like This is why I'm doing this.
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  Oh yeah, I've gotten plenty of that.
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  Like from restaurants especially.
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  I got a e-mail from a restaurant, and they were
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  shocked that I even was answering their e-mail back.
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  They said that I do such a good job.
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  Yes, That they said I do such a good job, that their
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  restaurant's in trouble and that they really need help.
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  And they thought they felt like this was a shot in the dark,
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  that they didn't think that I would even reply to them.
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  And I was like, yeah, definitely.
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  I'll be there, you know, and help you.
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  And they said they haven't recovered since COVID, and it's
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  been a hard time for them. And like, that's when I realized
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  what what I'm doing is makes that much of an impact.
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  You know, somebody would actually like turn to me in time
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  when they they're scared. So that one was like, that
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  really hit me. Yeah, that would hit.
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  I mean, I think that would hit anybody.
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  It just shows that you're not just turning on a camera and
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  you're having good food and loving this or talking about it
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  like you're actually it act. It actually impacts people and
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  it's kind of hard to believe, isn't it like.
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  It's weird a little bit. It's nice, but it's kind of like
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  I'm just making videos. I'm hoping to get some followers
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  and I'm putting out stuff I like and I think that's good, you
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  know, and then people start actually telling you it is it's
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  a little bit weird. It's flattering and it.
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  Yeah, and when you, when you start getting, you know, people
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  will see you play when they see you places and they're like, oh,
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  that's travelling with Terran or they want you to come to their
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  food truck and help. You know, it that that's been
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  weird and I'm so happy that that's happening.
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  I love to help everybody. Yeah, for sure, for sure.
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  Rachel says she hopes I ask some of the same questions if I'm
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  ever on her on the podcast. You're more than welcome to come
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  on anytime, darling. I'm already intrigued.
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  Yes, don't. Worry Rachel.
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  I've got some stories when we get to the stories.
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  Oh, we're going to get there. We're going to get there.
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  We got to lay the story out first before we dive.
• 20:15
  Totally dive in. But that's great though, I mean,
• 20:20
  I know just from watching online and from seeing all of the, all
• 20:25
  the things that I see that you post everyday and all of that.
• 20:29
  Number one, I'll let you answer this before I ask the follow up,
• 20:33
  but how do you stay consistent even when the whole algorithm
• 20:38
  isn't promoting you or pushing it or you're not getting a lot
• 20:42
  of views on something? What?
• 20:44
  What's your drive to keep staying consistent?
• 20:47
  Well, it's, it's crazy because when I start feeling that way
• 20:50
  and I feel like, you know, like maybe I made their own decision.
• 20:53
  Things have been going that great.
• 20:55
  Something happens every single time to make me change my mind.
• 20:59
  Somebody like a restaurant will contact me or a brand will
• 21:02
  contact me. Something happens and I tell my
• 21:05
  husband that all the time I'm like, OK, because I'm
• 21:07
  questioning it. And then two or three people
• 21:08
  will contact me or I get a nice comment, something that says
• 21:12
  that I'm going about this the right way.
• 21:14
  Me, Amanda talk about this constantly.
• 21:17
  Yeah, as she says, support system.
• 21:20
  Yeah. And there's a lot of people in
• 21:22
  this room that are all of our support systems.
• 21:25
  We all support each other. It's I love it, man.
• 21:28
  It's just amazing that that all of this happens.
• 21:32
  And I mean, I met you in January.
• 21:34
  I feel like I'm a part of this little clique or network or
• 21:37
  whatever the heck you want to call it, Group of amazing,
• 21:41
  amazing people. It's an honor to be a part of
• 21:44
  it. And it's just, yeah, that's.
• 21:46
  What I say every day, it's like the community, a family, you
• 21:49
  know, and we're all there for each other.
• 21:51
  And if I do have a post that doesn't do that, well, there's
• 21:53
  travel the boot right on it and posting on it, or there's Rachel
• 21:57
  or, you know, Casey, somebody Rusty, I mean, all of so many
• 22:02
  supporters. If I've never thanked any of
• 22:05
  y'all, I try. Thank you all so, so, so much
• 22:09
  for for promoting my stuff, for promoting her stuff.
• 22:14
  We try, I try to do it back. I miss times and all that, but
• 22:19
  I'll get better and better at this too.
• 22:21
  I'm learning. I'm still learning too.
• 22:22
  It's just wild to start to get that kind of interaction on
• 22:27
  things and then if you have a video blow up as you know you
• 22:32
  don't need the notifications are nuts.
• 22:34
  But I can't. Keep up.
• 22:36
  It's probably going to be a week because I've had so many over
• 22:40
  this last few days from a video that I had to blow up, that it's
• 22:43
  going to have to calm back down and then I'll be able to go back
• 22:47
  through and see all the stuff that I've missed.
• 22:50
  But that's a good problem to have.
• 22:52
  I'm not not upset about it. It's fun.
• 22:55
  I can't even read everything on my TikTok right now because it's
• 22:58
  it's crazy. Isn't it?
• 23:01
  It's nuts. I love it.
• 23:03
  The average dad cooking channel I love watching.
• 23:06
  This stuff. Too yes, I do too.
• 23:08
  I do too Love it, dude, I love it.
• 23:10
  All right, So what that kind of led me into it was that was
• 23:14
  phase one of the question. Phase 2 is you've become you've
• 23:20
  become the daily pep talk for a lot of folks, right.
• 23:25
  I mean, you have. Yeah, I guess.
• 23:28
  Who's your pep talk? Who gives you that pep talk?
• 23:33
  Amanda. That's what I've.
• 23:35
  Found Amanda's my person for a childhood debut.
• 23:38
  I have my, I have my group of, I call them Golden Girls.
• 23:41
  They're my people from high school and a lot of them are on
• 23:43
  this thing right now. And they, we've been together,
• 23:47
  we've been friends since we were like 8 years old and we're still
• 23:51
  all friends. And we call ourselves The Golden
• 23:52
  Girls because we're going to grow old together.
• 23:55
  And every day they get me through everything.
• 23:57
  And then I've met new people that I have too.
• 24:00
  And that's going to be Amanda. And Nathan's my little brother,
• 24:04
  of course of. Course.
• 24:06
  You know them and Rachel and Casey.
• 24:08
  We have a group and then of course my family, so I have a
• 24:12
  lot of people just in my corner, you know, every day we have
• 24:15
  group chats every single day. I love groups.
• 24:19
  I love a good old group chat. Yes, they all go off at the same
• 24:23
  time too. Yes.
• 24:24
  Perfect. Does everybody have an iPhone or
• 24:26
  does? Or is it a green text with wait,
• 24:29
  you're the no I? Text.
• 24:31
  You. You're the one.
• 24:32
  You're the problem. I am the problem and the problem
• 24:36
  it's me. It's OK.
• 24:38
  It's OK. I'm sorry, I could never do the
• 24:40
  iPhone. I can't.
• 24:43
  It's all right. Look, I get it I get it.
• 24:45
  I'm gonna I can do I can do either one.
• 24:47
  I'm just locked into the iPhone. I'm in locked into the cloud at
• 24:51
  this point. So I'm kind of stuck with it.
• 24:53
  But the same reason that you would never move to an Apple,
• 24:56
  most likely that would be the biggest one is whole new.
• 24:59
  I got to move all of my stuff. They don't talk to each other.
• 25:02
  I don't care what they say. They don't talk to each other
• 25:05
  that well, they don't. I work on APCI, work on an
• 25:09
  iPhone and PC and Androids. Great.
• 25:12
  It would probably make a lot more sense for me to have the
• 25:14
  Android than to deal with the iPhone, but.
• 25:17
  I just I prefer it and on this never be iPhone person.
• 25:19
  I'm sorry, I'm the green I'm I'm this me.
• 25:21
  I am. You're just the green bubble.
• 25:24
  We'll get over it. Everybody all y'all get over it.
• 25:27
  Sounds like they have anyhow so. I love looking at the comment
• 25:31
  section because my brother's in there too.
• 25:33
  Hi, Shane. What's up Shane?
• 25:36
  I love it. I love it.
• 25:38
  Well, let's before we really start to dive into all of the
• 25:42
  fun, let's talk a little bit about your, about the culture
• 25:45
  and community and your pride and all that stuff that you have.
• 25:50
  I know that you've said that the more that you travel, the more
• 25:53
  that you love home. So.
• 25:56
  So how has travelling made you appreciate Louisiana even more?
• 26:03
  I can answer this easily. So I, I love mountains, the
• 26:08
  beaches. I mean, sometimes, you know,
• 26:09
  because we'll go on vacation and it's like, man, why am I not
• 26:13
  here with the mountains? I love hiking.
• 26:15
  I love, you know, the, the beautiful beaches and all these
• 26:18
  things. But I'll give you an example.
• 26:20
  I was in Wyoming and we were having a great time.
• 26:23
  There was the summer, beautiful weather.
• 26:26
  I'm in line at Walmart. And if you know me, you know, I
• 26:29
  talk to everybody. It's just who I am.
• 26:32
  And the main, I mean, the man behind me was just standing
• 26:37
  there. And I turn around, of course I'm
• 26:38
  going to talk to you. And I'm like, hey, you know, and
• 26:41
  man, we've been, we're on vacation and I'm just kind of
• 26:43
  talking. He looks at me like, how dare
• 26:46
  you talk to me like I'm crazy. And he, I'm just, I'm like,
• 26:52
  would you like to cut in front of me?
• 26:53
  I only have two things and you can go, you know.
• 26:55
  Yeah. And he's just, I mean, looked at
• 26:58
  me like I was insane. There's that.
• 27:01
  And then I was in Houston one time and I was at the park.
• 27:04
  I talked to a lady and she looked at me like I was crazy
• 27:06
  too. Like, why are you even talking
• 27:08
  to me? And it's just over here.
• 27:11
  That's what you do. You talk to everybody.
• 27:13
  Everybody's like friends and family, you know?
• 27:15
  I mean, you just can't get this anywheres else.
• 27:18
  You'll never get this, you know. I mean, we said, we say it a
• 27:22
  lot. I say it a lot on here.
• 27:24
  I know the the the that our fan, the fans of the show probably
• 27:28
  are like, hey, he's just so Louisiana and I am I mean I am
• 27:33
  it is the coolest state of all 50.
• 27:35
  It's not even close. I mean it's not even close, but
• 27:39
  it's not just that it's the people, it's the community.
• 27:42
  Y'all see what's happening in the chat as you that are
• 27:44
  watching this live that are going on.
• 27:47
  I mean it is that's this state. It's just everybody supports
• 27:51
  everybody. It kind of goes, it goes back to
• 27:54
  that. Turns into your family.
• 27:55
  Yeah. And everybody's kind of
• 27:57
  basically nice. I mean, I think that represents
• 27:59
  the whole S pretty. Much.
• 28:02
  I thought that would be like Texas and stuff, and yeah, they
• 28:05
  weren't that friendly to me. Hot take.
• 28:08
  Texas ain't in the South. Hot take.
• 28:10
  I'm going to say something that might be controversial, but
• 28:14
  like, I mean, our food. Our food is just better.
• 28:17
  I'm sorry I said it. There it is.
• 28:20
  No doubt it's just look, most of the country already agrees with
• 28:25
  this and we're just affirming it.
• 28:27
  But it there's nowhere else on earth that I would rather eat
• 28:31
  food than from South Louisiana. I'm going to be specific and I'm
• 28:35
  a 318 guy. I'm a I'm a N Louisiana guy.
• 28:39
  Well, the accent gives that away, Taryn, But I mean, I'm not
• 28:43
  a three. I have a 318 guy.
• 28:44
  I'm from there. I love this whole state.
• 28:47
  But no, there's no doubt that South Louisiana just is on a
• 28:53
  whole other level of food. Now.
• 28:56
  There's some good stuff, though, in North Louisiana, more
• 28:59
  traditional stuff like I put on with the, the creamed potatoes
• 29:03
  and the and buttermilk cornbread and field peas that aren't
• 29:07
  spiced up like we do it down here.
• 29:10
  But they and they, it has its place.
• 29:12
  But that's pretty much it's like N Louisiana is like the rest of
• 29:16
  the South. It goes on into Mississippi and
• 29:19
  Georgia and Alabama and it's kind of that kind of food.
• 29:23
  Once you get South of, I would say Bunky, maybe some would say
• 29:28
  Alexandria, then things start to change.
• 29:31
  You get to Ville Platte and then you keep on going South and it
• 29:34
  just keeps on getting better, you know?
• 29:37
  Oh, yeah. And I've, I've been, I'm going
• 29:39
  to tell you, I've been in Alexandria, I've eaten at
• 29:42
  restaurants and they're, it's just a difference.
• 29:44
  It really is. I mean, yeah.
• 29:45
  It's kind of that's where where it's the border, it's where it
• 29:48
  goes from country to to Cajun, I guess you could say.
• 29:52
  Like Andre just said in the comments, he said talk about the
• 29:55
  Brits and that was, I mean, you saw their experiences,
• 29:59
  Shreveport and stuff. It's, you know, it's just
• 30:01
  different here. Yeah, they did not have a good
• 30:04
  experience in Shreveport whatsoever.
• 30:06
  They went to the worst place they could go to.
• 30:09
  But you know, so you did, You got to meet those guys.
• 30:13
  You brought them up. What was that like talking about
• 30:17
  culture? I mean, nothing's more cultural
• 30:20
  than some Brits at the freaking Frog Festival.
• 30:24
  I mean, that's his. I had, so I had been chasing,
• 30:28
  trying to chase them down the whole week.
• 30:30
  You know, people had been tagging me in all the posts and
• 30:32
  I kept commenting and something I had said.
• 30:35
  I got like 600 likes and I was like, oh, you're probably going
• 30:38
  to see this. And they went to some of the
• 30:40
  places I had said, but they would always post after they
• 30:43
  left. And I was already going to the
• 30:45
  frog festival. So my daughter had her stomach
• 30:49
  had started hurting and she's like I want to go, I want to
• 30:51
  leave the festival. And I said, well, I'm going to
• 30:53
  bring you home and I'm coming back was when I left somebody my
• 30:57
  phone started going off and I'm like, what is going on?
• 31:00
  And she looks and people are tagging me.
• 31:02
  They had just taken a picture of the rain sign that I had just
• 31:05
  taken a picture at and I was like, OK, I have to go back.
• 31:10
  Yes. So I turned around and went back
• 31:12
  and I don't know if you've know, with cooking Uncle with Uncle
• 31:15
  Jay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 31:17
  yeah. I follow him on TikTok.
• 31:19
  Yeah. So me and him were there
• 31:21
  together. We had him and his wife were
• 31:23
  helping out his mom in a booth. So we had when I got there I
• 31:27
  told him I was like they're here, Jason, Josh are here and
• 31:30
  he's like no they're not. I have not seen them.
• 31:31
  I would have seen them. I'm like, Oh no, I know they're
• 31:34
  there. So we walked around.
• 31:37
  I was like, I'm going to, this is my mission.
• 31:38
  I'm going to find them. So we walked around and I saw
• 31:42
  one of the little Queens that was in a picture with them.
• 31:45
  And I went and asked her. And she was like, it's a secret,
• 31:49
  don't tell anybody. And I'm like, I won't tell a
• 31:51
  soul. And she said, they're hiding
• 31:55
  right now. They're going to come back out
• 31:56
  because they got kind of mobbed when they first got there.
• 32:01
  So they, they, you know, it was just like, I think it was Josh
• 32:03
  that said he had an anxiety attack because it was so much,
• 32:06
  you know, just too much all at once.
• 32:08
  It's a lot of people and everybody, look, they're very
• 32:11
  well loved. But talk about a good problem.
• 32:14
  Just imagine being embraced in a whole, not just in a state, a
• 32:19
  whole other country. Like these people love us.
• 32:22
  This is crazy. You ain't getting that in
• 32:24
  Georgia, no offense. Anybody watching in Georgia,
• 32:27
  you're not getting that in Tennessee.
• 32:28
  You're not getting that in Pennsylvania.
• 32:31
  You ain't getting it in Nevada. You're not.
• 32:33
  That isn't happening. You know, you come here, you're
• 32:36
  going to get just rampaged at a frog festival.
• 32:40
  I mean, I love this state just for that alone.
• 32:46
  You've got to, I mean, wow, what they, they seem like really cool
• 32:52
  dudes. I want to get them.
• 32:54
  They were, they, I was kind of like fangirling, I guess you
• 32:59
  could say I've got a starstruck. So I didn't get to talk to them
• 33:03
  about like what I wanted to because I was just kind of yeah.
• 33:08
  But the the frog frog like eating contest was so funny,
• 33:12
  Josh. I mean, he just couldn't.
• 33:16
  And I had tried frog legs for the first time, so I couldn't
• 33:18
  laugh at him because I had, I mean, I'm the same way.
• 33:21
  And I held a frog for the first time.
• 33:23
  What'd you think? Did you like it?
• 33:26
  It was light chicken, but not really that.
• 33:28
  It is just kind of kind of swampy, like swampy.
• 33:31
  Maybe. Maybe it's just in my mind, I
• 33:34
  don't know. Yeah, I mean, I've had, I
• 33:37
  haven't had frog legs a ton, but I've had them enough.
• 33:39
  The times I've had them, though, they were, they were money.
• 33:42
  I enjoyed it. It's kind of like squirrel, you
• 33:45
  know? Like, I probably wouldn't eat
• 33:47
  squirrel every single day, but some squirrel with some gravy
• 33:52
  and some biscuits, OK, I'm in on that, you know?
• 33:56
  Yeah, I have to be like kind of tricked into, oh, and now that
• 33:58
  I'm going doing restaurant reviews, I'll eat whatever they
• 34:01
  kind of want me to feature, you know?
• 34:03
  So I've tried a lot of new foods that way.
• 34:06
  I had AI made a little video today.
• 34:09
  I went to a place, spoiler alert, went to Hannah Hannah Q
• 34:13
  BBQ today. I haven't been there.
• 34:16
  They're here in Baton Rouge and I've heard that they're they're
• 34:19
  pretty good. I'm very, I'm very heavy.
• 34:22
  Even though I don't consider Texas in the South, I do
• 34:25
  consider Texas to have the best barbecue in the world, even more
• 34:29
  so than Louisiana. For sure like.
• 34:31
  I like, yeah, I I'll give that to them all day.
• 34:35
  And I love their style of brisket, BBQ, all that stuff.
• 34:39
  Very impressed. I'll just say that.
• 34:41
  Very impressed with with Hannah Q BBQ had a great, great meal
• 34:46
  there today. I don't know, it's just like
• 34:49
  you, you mentioned going to restaurants and stuff and just
• 34:51
  doing that. I had no agenda.
• 34:53
  I did, I just went there to eat but then.
• 34:55
  Yeah, sometimes that happens for me too.
• 34:57
  You're just there and. Yeah, Why wouldn't I?
• 34:59
  Why wouldn't I just make a little video of this?
• 35:02
  This is free, easy content. I'm already paying for it.
• 35:05
  Exactly. Well, it's hard to turn that
• 35:08
  part of your brain off because I try to, I try to just go like
• 35:11
  even on vacation. But then I'm like, this place
• 35:14
  deserves like recognition, you know, and I end up doing
• 35:17
  something. Exactly, Exactly.
• 35:20
  Well, Speaking of some of these places that you've gone, I know
• 35:23
  recently I've seen you go to a place, I think it was called
• 35:27
  Noodles and Dumplings. Oh.
• 35:29
  Gosh, yes. And they they had a feast for
• 35:32
  you. Let's.
• 35:33
  Talk. Oh my God that's a They had to
• 35:34
  pull 2 tables together to put all the food.
• 35:38
  We had 7 to go boxes when we left that place.
• 35:42
  Holy cow, well you got you had dinner for like dinner, lunch,
• 35:45
  breakfast for like 3 days. They say it was a feast.
• 35:48
  Y'all go check that out on our. Page Amazing.
• 35:51
  Oh my gosh. So cool, I watched those videos,
• 35:55
  of course, and so cool that how hard they work to make that
• 36:00
  stuff. And I mean, that's a labor of
• 36:01
  love that they put in and, and it's like when the when they
• 36:06
  when they're done for the day, guess what resets.
• 36:09
  It's like, it's like, you know, the whole thing starts over
• 36:13
  again the next day and they start all over again, but.
• 36:17
  I just saw Mike Miller in the comments, and I don't know if
• 36:21
  you've been seeing some of those videos that I do with him.
• 36:25
  Oh yes, yeah, he's teaching me Connor how to.
• 36:28
  Make sausage. Yeah.
• 36:30
  He's a sausage guy, right? Yeah.
• 36:32
  Some stuff that I've never done, like he's going to take me
• 36:35
  frogging, he's going to take me, he's not.
• 36:37
  We're going to go live on that. Like we're going to stay on a
• 36:39
  houseboat for a few days and I can only eat what we catch and
• 36:42
  cook ourselves. Nice.
• 36:44
  So that's going to be a fun, that's going to be a fun little
• 36:46
  video. Yeah, yeah, I love that.
• 36:49
  He's going to teach me how to hunt and like live off the land
• 36:53
  and just stuff I've never done. I'm going to be honest, Mike, if
• 36:56
  you're still in here, I totally want to try some of your sausage
• 36:59
  because I watch those videos. I like to make sausage too, but
• 37:01
  he's got all the right equipment to make it the right way in the
• 37:06
  smokehouse. All that stuff like I want, I
• 37:09
  want some. How do you make just make a
• 37:11
  smokehouse in your backyard like that?
• 37:13
  You know you. Just do you just yes, I want 1
• 37:18
  so bad because I love to smoke sausage and I don't have, I just
• 37:22
  don't have the little smokehouse thing.
• 37:24
  No, like spending time with him, I realized, like, if there's
• 37:28
  like some kind of big disaster, I'm going to die because I don't
• 37:32
  know how to do all these things. Like, I need to learn how to
• 37:36
  like, hunt and cook these things and, you know, or yeah, all
• 37:40
  those people that can't do nothing.
• 37:43
  Exactly. No doubt.
• 37:44
  No doubt you've been traveling a whole lot, of course, too, not
• 37:50
  just in our great state of Louisiana.
• 37:52
  But I know that recently you went to Savannah and Hilton
• 37:55
  Head. What's your pick?
• 37:57
  Which one? Which city?
• 37:58
  Which one you going with? Hilton Head, I love I've.
• 38:02
  Never been. I've never been.
• 38:04
  I've never been. But I've heard nothing but good
• 38:06
  things. Really nice.
• 38:07
  It's it's like it's just clean, if that makes sense.
• 38:10
  And it's like family oriented, you know, you're not going to
• 38:14
  have drunk people. It's not like Bourbon or Bourbon
• 38:17
  Street is not, it's not party central.
• 38:19
  It's not spring break, but it's like family oriented and it's
• 38:22
  just really clean. And we got to go shark tooth
• 38:25
  hunting. I mean, that's I had never done
• 38:27
  that before. Yeah.
• 38:29
  So how does that how do how does how does shark tooth hunting
• 38:33
  work? I know I've seen the pictures.
• 38:35
  How's that work? So we got a, a guide, his name
• 38:39
  is Corey, and he just took us out to some of the beaches and
• 38:45
  he just, he he explained what to look for.
• 38:47
  You have to look for like a it kind of shines differently, the
• 38:49
  shark tooth itself to shine differently than a plane like
• 38:52
  rock or seashell. And once he shows you, then when
• 38:56
  you look around, you can see him so much easier.
• 38:59
  Yeah. And I know my daughter found a
• 39:01
  huge tiger shark tooth, and that was cool too, because you got to
• 39:05
  go home and kind of look up each shark tooth and where it came
• 39:08
  from. Yeah, that's really interesting.
• 39:11
  Yeah, I love doing stuff like that, just going down rabbit
• 39:15
  holes of information. Well, look, the things that are
• 39:18
  different, I don't want to do what everybody else does.
• 39:21
  When I go somewhere, you know, I had before I go somewhere, as I
• 39:26
  look in there, the group, they have the group pages for every
• 39:29
  place Now, you know, and I'll kind of ask what should, where
• 39:32
  do locals eat? What do you know, what should I
• 39:34
  do there? And I don't want your fancy
• 39:36
  restaurants that everybody goes to all the tourist traps or
• 39:39
  anything like I want the good mom and pop places.
• 39:41
  You know, that's what I do before I go.
• 39:43
  I kind of research places. Totally makes sense.
• 39:48
  I remember the first time that I met you, we were talking the day
• 39:52
  that I met you. You told me about because I was
• 39:54
  going to Tampa, going to shout out Bubba Army.
• 39:58
  I was going to the Bart party in Tampa and Lord, that's a whole
• 40:01
  story in and of itself. But this was beforehand.
• 40:05
  You told me about a place in Florida where I should go.
• 40:08
  There were some Hot Springs, I think, and that's it.
• 40:12
  Wakulla, I didn't get to go because if we got delayed.
• 40:17
  But it was going to happen. It was going to happen.
• 40:20
  Tell a little bit about that. It's awesome because everybody,
• 40:23
  when you think of Florida, you just think of the beaches, you
• 40:25
  know, everybody goes to Destin, everybody goes to, you know, but
• 40:29
  we want to do something different.
• 40:30
  So we looked up different things to do in Wakulla Springs, came
• 40:34
  up and they're actually their big hotel.
• 40:37
  The bed and breakfast is like part of the state.
• 40:38
  It's like right off the State Park area and everything there
• 40:43
  is like legit from what? What year was it when the Kobe's
• 40:48
  right here? When like Sweat the Creature,
• 40:51
  The Black Lagoon. Yeah.
• 40:53
  Tarzan and Tarzan, those 1930s like that was.
• 40:57
  Filmed, yeah. And they have like, black and
• 41:00
  white pictures on the wall, like a legit elevator from back in
• 41:03
  the day where you have to like, pull this big thing open and.
• 41:07
  Oh yeah. Keys.
• 41:09
  Like actual keys to the doors and in the lobbies?
• 41:13
  Yes, and in the lobby only black and white movies play.
• 41:18
  Nice. It it was so cool.
• 41:21
  It's a cool hotel. Is it?
• 41:22
  How is it? Is it?
• 41:23
  Is it haunted? It might be, who knows, I mean.
• 41:26
  Did you get any? Where you did you feel like it
• 41:29
  was haunted? Did you sleep well?
• 41:31
  I slept well. But you know, I just, I don't
• 41:33
  know, it could, it could be haunted, I mean.
• 41:36
  It has to be. It has to be.
• 41:39
  It reminds me because I remember looking it up and looking at all
• 41:42
  the stuff about it now that you're saying that.
• 41:45
  And it reminds me of the Stanley Hotel in map Estes, whatever it
• 41:52
  is in Colorado, up at the top of the Rocky Mountains outside of
• 41:57
  Denver, whatever it's called. Estes Park, I think is the name
• 42:00
  of that town. It's up in the mountains, but
• 42:04
  that that's where they filmed The Shining.
• 42:06
  Was it the Stanley Hotel? Same old school?
• 42:09
  Like was it like a sanitarium turned into a hotel or whatever?
• 42:13
  I don't know if that's the case. Probably dead wrong on that, but
• 42:17
  they have those big keys. It looked exactly like it looked
• 42:21
  in The Shining. And of course, Dumb and Dumber
• 42:24
  was also filmed there. That's where they had the hotel
• 42:27
  scene. That's why I was there.
• 42:29
  I didn't realize that The Shining was there.
• 42:31
  I realized that I knew that Dumb and Dumber was, so that's why I
• 42:34
  wanted to go. I wanted to sit at the same bar
• 42:37
  where the guy goes. We landed on the moon.
• 42:42
  And. It's and it's in there.
• 42:44
  It is. You could do it.
• 42:46
  Have you ever ever went to the Myrtles Plantation?
• 42:49
  I've been there, but I'm not going on like a tour and and all
• 42:53
  of that stuff. But I'm I'm down.
• 42:55
  I know that y'all are you and Amanda.
• 42:57
  Are. Y'all are down with the ghosts.
• 43:00
  I've slept there twice and and so the the first time we didn't
• 43:07
  know I was going to be pregnant because you have to make
• 43:08
  reservations so far in advance. So we went with a group of
• 43:12
  friends and I was three months pregnant but we didn't want to
• 43:15
  cancel so we just went anyway. And when they when they turned
• 43:20
  off the lights, I needed to go to the bathroom and I didn't
• 43:23
  realize they had like 3 steps to go to the bathroom.
• 43:27
  Yeah, I woke up in the other night to go to the bathroom and
• 43:30
  totally missed that hell. What?
• 43:33
  You could hear my foot crack and so I'm screaming, but so loud
• 43:39
  that everybody in Merle's plantation thinks that a ghost
• 43:42
  got me. So Hairpot is freaking out
• 43:45
  because they thinking there's a ghost attack in in our room.
• 43:50
  I guess. It was, yeah, it was, it was
• 43:52
  crazy. So they had to get me up and I
• 43:55
  didn't want to leave because we had, we had paid for this and I
• 43:58
  wanted to experience it. So I had a broken foot and they
• 44:02
  just, my foot was swelling right away, bruising.
• 44:04
  I was three months pregnant, but I stayed there.
• 44:07
  So I wanted to stream the night. It's so crazy.
• 44:10
  It was just like a crazy adventure.
• 44:12
  And the next day, people had to like, get me and put like, bring
• 44:16
  me down and bring me to that hospital and end up having,
• 44:20
  yeah, I had fractured my foot like in three places.
• 44:22
  Good Lord, that's terrible. And then I had my daughter on
• 44:27
  Halloween. What?
• 44:30
  You need to go back with your daughter and see what happens.
• 44:34
  And she was like, wrong. I was born on the Devil's Day
• 44:37
  and you went to a haunted place with me when you're pregnant.
• 44:41
  Well, what does that say about you?
• 44:46
  I didn't make it happen. What's wrong with you?
• 44:48
  Possessed child? Now I'm playing.
• 44:51
  But yeah, you need to take her to the myrtles and just see what
• 44:53
  happens. Stuff like that happens every
• 44:56
  time we're on vacation. Like I can't even.
• 45:01
  I love that. That's fun though.
• 45:03
  That's fun. It's the memories.
• 45:05
  It's the memories of the trip because that's what it's all
• 45:08
  about. I think more than anything it
• 45:10
  you can plan it like you want, you can do all that stuff.
• 45:14
  I think that I can. I see that you're kind of like
• 45:17
  me and you're just going to go for it and then whatever the
• 45:20
  hell happens with it, you're going to have a story from it,
• 45:24
  good or bad. You're going to laugh about it
• 45:26
  at the end and roll on, you know?
• 45:30
  I don't know. Everything we've done is like,
• 45:31
  we're like the Griswolds on vacation is what we're like.
• 45:34
  I mean, I've just gotten used to it.
• 45:35
  That's just we have a story from like every vacation that
• 45:38
  something has happened. The time is not funny, but after
• 45:41
  it is. Yes, in the moment it sucks,
• 45:45
  it's terrible, but it makes good stories.
• 45:49
  It it brings a story out on a podcast.
• 45:53
  It's now out. It's now out there.
• 45:55
  And that's what's fun about it. I love that.
• 45:58
  I love that You also told me about a place, and I probably
• 46:02
  don't. I probably don't need to shout
• 46:03
  this out. I'm only asking because I want
• 46:05
  to go there that same day you told me about a place.
• 46:09
  It was somewhere in Louisiana. Maybe it was in Kasachi Forest.
• 46:12
  That, that. Yeah, it was in Kasachi.
• 46:15
  That was like a a cabin or something off by itself.
• 46:18
  You could roast marshmallows and all that, blow up a big screen,
• 46:22
  watch a movie outside and just kind of disconnect from the
• 46:26
  world. Where was that?
• 46:27
  Yes, that's in Glamora. Glamora OK, Yeah, yeah.
• 46:31
  The Cajun Butcher stores there too, which is really good, but
• 46:36
  it's Kasachi glamping. They they actually have a small
• 46:40
  play. They had a small place to start
• 46:42
  out with and then they are growing.
• 46:44
  She's going to have all kinds of different stuff, like the
• 46:47
  teepee, the wagon wheel of caboose, like all kinds of
• 46:51
  different experiences that you can do.
• 46:54
  And it's so nice. It's great for like a weekend
• 46:55
  getaway. We had a good time, people
• 46:57
  hiking and everything. And people don't know this, but
• 47:00
  they actually have Clearwater there.
• 47:02
  Yeah, which is crazy for Louisiana.
• 47:05
  Very crazy. Yeah, for sure.
• 47:07
  That's awesome. Is it on the is it on the
• 47:10
  whiskey cheddar or however you say it or you don't know?
• 47:14
  Or is it on Kasachi Creek? Because Kazatchie Creek has
• 47:17
  white sands and all. OK.
• 47:19
  It is on Kazatchie Creek. Yeah.
• 47:21
  Kazatchie Creek. There used to be a swimming hole
• 47:24
  that we would go to when we were kids because I grew up up there.
• 47:27
  That's some. It's not far from and it's not
• 47:30
  near Glenmora. It's on Kazatchie Forest is
• 47:33
  huge. It's 40 miles north of there.
• 47:36
  Jason Hilton in the chat would would remember this place, but
• 47:39
  it's where. Dang, they had that movie.
• 47:44
  I can't remember the name of it right now.
• 47:46
  It was about a boy got ran over by a tractor and.
• 47:51
  Oh, with Reese Withers, with Reese Witherspoon.
• 47:54
  Yeah, man, and the moon. That was one of my favorite.
• 47:56
  That's. It.
• 47:57
  That's it. Yeah.
• 47:57
  We used to go to the swimming hole where they would go off.
• 48:01
  It was not that big as it looked on the movies at all.
• 48:04
  I mean this it was. Like almost.
• 48:06
  It was almost like a puddle and the rope for a long time, the
• 48:10
  rope that they would swing on was still was still there.
• 48:13
  I wouldn't swing on that and dive in.
• 48:15
  No, but it it actually kind of it was like a hot tub in a way.
• 48:20
  The rocks that were there were perfectly formed.
• 48:23
  You could sit there and just hang out.
• 48:26
  It was awesome. Cool, cool place.
• 48:29
  The last time I went, we could go out there and you could ride
• 48:33
  4 Wheelers. This was 30 years ago.
• 48:36
  You could take a four Wheeler out there and we would go.
• 48:38
  But the last time that I went, my buddy and I went and and we
• 48:42
  just got attacked by horse flies.
• 48:45
  I mean, they were so big that there was the only way you could
• 48:49
  get get away from them would to be to get like under the water.
• 48:52
  We had to leave. It ran us off.
• 48:54
  Terrible. But yeah, that's the name of
• 48:56
  that movie. I've been trying to think of it.
• 48:58
  It's one of my favorites, I've watched it a million times.
• 49:01
  It's a great movie. It's so sad.
• 49:03
  I mean, I've, it's just so sad. All of that was filmed around
• 49:08
  where I'm from, like in Robolene and Nakatish, a lot of it in
• 49:13
  Nakatish and Kasachi. I don't think any of it made it
• 49:16
  to Manny or fluorine where I'm actually from, but it, you know,
• 49:20
  within 2030 miles of us. So that was always cool.
• 49:23
  Of course, Steel Magnolias, the same thing filmed in in Akitish.
• 49:28
  Jason says they did filming Manny.
• 49:30
  They did filming Manny as well. Or as some people think it's
• 49:33
  Minnie, which is what a weird name for a town.
• 49:37
  I'm sorry Manny people, but it is fluorine is too.
• 49:41
  OK, it's a chemical, but it's not Anyhow.
• 49:48
  Well look, we've been talking about everywhere that you've
• 49:51
  been and you've been eating and all of that good stuff, but
• 49:56
  y'all are going to have to oblige me for just a few
• 49:59
  minutes. I got to know, I've got to know
• 50:02
  a little bit more about how you how you handle social media and
• 50:07
  all that stuff. We talked about a little bit of
• 50:09
  it, but I kind of want to ask a few more things.
• 50:12
  Like do you ever feel like you're just posting into the
• 50:17
  void and everybody, this is for Tiggy.
• 50:19
  This is questions that I have for Taryn.
• 50:22
  Sorry. Do you ever just feel like
• 50:25
  you're posting into the void? And then what do you do when a
• 50:29
  post just flops? It doesn't get any views or no
• 50:32
  traction? Do you just move on and on?
• 50:35
  To the next one, I've kind of learned just to move on from it
• 50:38
  on TikTok. I'll usually just, I'll just
• 50:41
  delete it, you know, And really it's so much about timing
• 50:46
  because you can have a great post, but if you posted the
• 50:49
  right at the at the wrong time, people won't see it.
• 50:52
  Right. You know, doing social media
• 50:54
  management for other businesses and stuff, I've learned that you
• 50:57
  can have a, a video that could go viral on TikTok, but if you
• 51:00
  post it at a time that nobody's on, nobody will see it.
• 51:04
  That makes sense when? You could, you could be your you
• 51:07
  know, you have the best content, but it nobody's seeing it.
• 51:09
  We got a lot of people in here that are all of us.
• 51:12
  We're all content creators. When are the best times to post?
• 51:17
  I'd say before people go to work, you know, when they wake
• 51:20
  up, these what's the first thing you do?
• 51:22
  You fix a cup of coffee, scroll through social media.
• 51:25
  Yep, you know, that's a major time on people's lunch break.
• 51:30
  They're scrolling through social media before they go to bed.
• 51:34
  There's a big thing between like 7:00 to 9:00.
• 51:39
  They've already cooked supper or whatever and they're going to
• 51:42
  bed, so they're scrolling before they go to bed.
• 51:44
  That's some of the big traffic times.
• 51:47
  That's what I've noticed too. Like when would you say, and you
• 51:51
  and I have talked about this so I'm cheating but I know your
• 51:54
  answer but what's the worst time to post something on social
• 51:58
  media? I feel like if you post probably
• 52:04
  around like 910 o'clock, it kind of goes into a void.
• 52:11
  And then if you post like maybe around 4:00, it kind of goes
• 52:16
  into the void too. Yeah.
• 52:18
  You know, you have some people that do what we do, so they're
• 52:20
  on all the time. But mainly your normal working
• 52:24
  people are not going to be able to see at that point.
• 52:27
  Right and make. A session on TikTok.
• 52:30
  I've noticed that in videos that I've had that have kind of blown
• 52:33
  up that when they get their views and that's what I, I keep
• 52:37
  checking. I'm not checking for myself
• 52:39
  personally to see how many views it gets.
• 52:41
  I'm checking to see like when are the wave of people watching
• 52:44
  this? When are they jumping in?
• 52:46
  And that's been, I would say confirmed.
• 52:50
  I would confirm what you have said that and it makes sense.
• 52:54
  I think you're kind of wasting your time if you post at those
• 52:57
  at those other times. That makes sense.
• 53:00
  And I feel like Monday is probably your best day to post.
• 53:03
  Everybody wants to see what you've done during the weekend.
• 53:06
  I'd seen that. Casey had asked.
• 53:07
  What about weekends or weekdays? I think a lot of posts go into
• 53:12
  the void on the weekends because people are busy.
• 53:14
  They're out and about. So you can't post those high
• 53:17
  traffic, you know, like, when they're doing things right.
• 53:21
  Yeah. Post when they get back.
• 53:22
  And then Monday's like one of the best days.
• 53:25
  Totally makes sense. I've noticed that Fridays are
• 53:28
  tough for me. I think it's probably that way
• 53:32
  for everybody, unless it's in the morning.
• 53:34
  Friday morning you're good. Friday at lunch you're good.
• 53:37
  After that, probably not so good.
• 53:40
  No Friday evenings because. People are checking.
• 53:42
  Oh yeah, there's no point in even posting on a Friday night,
• 53:45
  I've discovered. Like save save that content for
• 53:48
  tomorrow. It'll.
• 53:50
  It'll be better. That makes sense.
• 53:53
  And sometimes it's hard to do that because you want to post so
• 53:55
  bad. Something is going on, something
• 53:56
  happens. I want to get it out of my hands
• 53:59
  as soon as I make it. I think everybody must be that
• 54:02
  way a little bit. It's like, oh, this is good.
• 54:06
  Let me go ahead and send it. And I want to sometimes like I
• 54:09
  did today. I don't think it's a great video
• 54:11
  or anything, but it's like I've already kind of posted stuff.
• 54:14
  You could hold on to this. You could post this maybe Friday
• 54:18
  morning, maybe Saturday. It'll be OK.
• 54:21
  It'll be fine. Yeah, I get it.
• 54:24
  Where do you decide where you post?
• 54:26
  What goes on TikTok versus Facebook versus whatever?
• 54:31
  Or do you just put it out on all of them?
• 54:34
  It kind of depends the type of content.
• 54:37
  You know, I never post really pictures on TikTok.
• 54:41
  You know, I'm going to post videos and Tik Tok's going to be
• 54:44
  your sometimes like your fun or you know, your more fun stuff
• 54:47
  like with your it's not your professional every time, you
• 54:51
  know, Yeah. And then I'm not going to post
• 54:53
  the same thing on Facebook compared to Instagram.
• 54:56
  Instagram is going to be different.
• 54:58
  I'm not going to post the same videos.
• 55:00
  I'll post pictures if I do, mostly on Instagram.
• 55:03
  I haven't figured Instagram out whatsoever.
• 55:07
  That one has always been. I don't know.
• 55:08
  That one has been better for me than I think.
• 55:10
  That's what other that's what some folks say, I think, I think
• 55:14
  Rachel has said, you know, Facebook crushes for her,
• 55:17
  YouTube is crushing for her. Instagram is not.
• 55:20
  Instagram's my slowest grower too.
• 55:23
  But I think I'm figuring something out.
• 55:24
  We'll see. We'll see if time over time
• 55:27
  we're going to figure it out. But yeah, that was something I
• 55:31
  just wondered because a lot of times, me personally, I will
• 55:37
  post in it. I think this is a mistake and I
• 55:39
  think you can attest to this. I'll get it.
• 55:43
  Make a video. I want to post it so bad.
• 55:46
  I just go to all 5 platforms and post it all at the same time.
• 55:49
  And all of them. I've quit doing that because I
• 55:53
  think that it's like, well, you're just, you're limiting
• 55:56
  yourself. I know that we have a lot of
• 55:57
  crossover with on all these platforms, but we all have these
• 56:01
  platforms and we all follow each other.
• 56:03
  We're all going to like this stuff, but it's more got to
• 56:06
  think beyond that of what the audience, the people who don't
• 56:10
  follow us want to see the times to see it.
• 56:14
  And like YouTube, for me, it doesn't work well until at night
• 56:19
  and I drop posts, you know? So there's no point in dropping
• 56:22
  for me to drop one until after 7:00 PM.
• 56:24
  That's just what I've noticed. And I'll be honest, TikTok, I
• 56:28
  know, you know, a lot of people don't even mess with TikTok, but
• 56:32
  you and like I tell my, you know, people that my clients,
• 56:35
  you on TikTok, you have the same audience that say Nike has
• 56:41
  because on Facebook, it's only your followers.
• 56:44
  Instagram's the same thing. It's very hard to get new people
• 56:47
  to see your stuff. But on TikTok, you can reach
• 56:50
  more people on a post than Nike can.
• 56:53
  It just depends the time that you're posting your hook that
• 56:56
  you're using And when I mean, that's just, you know, because I
• 57:01
  can get more views, like I said, than Nike or a celebrity, just
• 57:04
  depending on those things. You know it it really you have
• 57:08
  the whole for you page. Hook is the biggest thing.
• 57:12
  I mean Austin Dennis has been over here.
• 57:14
  He he preaches it Gabby, she knows too.
• 57:17
  The three of us have collab collabed on things and kind of
• 57:21
  just listened to Austin of like how to how did he get get to
• 57:25
  here and get to this? And it's it's all about the hook
• 57:30
  and I've been trying to get better with it.
• 57:32
  Some work, some Dutton, but it's just it's hard to hook people,
• 57:36
  But that's what it everything, every video you make.
• 57:39
  I'm I'm a fisherman. I've fished a lot.
• 57:41
  I don't fish anywhere like I used to, but every video that I
• 57:44
  make now I almost feel like it's a cast.
• 57:48
  It's what I it's a cast and we're going to see.
• 57:51
  And sometimes that thing, you work it just right.
• 57:53
  Bam, you catch them a lot of times, just like fishing, you
• 57:57
  make a lot of casts. Like what you said about the
• 58:00
  Mike Broussard video, you saw the hook.
• 58:03
  You know, I couldn't believe this came out of his.
• 58:07
  Yes, that's what made you watch it 'cause I mean, he's been
• 58:10
  posting himself for a while and nothing, you know, nobody saw
• 58:14
  those videos. But it, it's the hook and the
• 58:16
  time of day that I posted it and it just works out sometimes, You
• 58:20
  know, it really is. You can get the right hook,
• 58:22
  which is hard. I don't always get it worse, but
• 58:25
  I mean, that's a big thing. Totally it is.
• 58:28
  Gabby, Gabby said don't use Velveeta.
• 58:31
  I think that's wrong. I think, Gabby, I think you need
• 58:35
  to double down on Velveeta recipes and just see what the
• 58:39
  hell happens. I've been saying I'm going to do
• 58:41
  it with Smash. Burgers.
• 58:42
  Oh shit. I am, yeah.
• 58:43
  I think that we've just learned. We've learned something from her
• 58:46
  video. People going to get upset about
• 58:48
  smash burgers. They're going to get upset about
• 58:52
  Velveeta. I think you should all make some
• 58:55
  Velveeta shirts and just all wear them in all our videos.
• 59:00
  It'd be awesome. We should.
• 59:02
  We should totally do that in solidation with you, our friend
• 59:06
  Gabby. The hell with all these Velveeta
• 59:09
  haters especially. Mexican Velveeta.
• 59:11
  Yeah, it has its place. And God, that dish that she made
• 59:15
  look good, I saved it and favored it because I plan on
• 59:19
  making it. I'm gonna make it just like she
• 59:22
  did too, because I've had her stuff and I know what it tastes
• 59:24
  like. Yeah, exactly.
• 59:26
  We made that and wear the Velveeta shirts and then we all
• 59:28
  post at the same time. Kobe has a great point.
• 59:31
  Make a video on making Velveeta, which is my girl Velveeta.
• 59:35
  I love it. I love it.
• 59:39
  Well, let's move. Let's move forward a little bit.
• 59:42
  Thank y'all for in letting me indulge myself.
• 59:45
  I had these questions because I have her on here.
• 59:47
  Why am I not going to ask these? I'd be foolish not to.
• 59:50
  I had to, but as of today, this is fresh.
• 59:55
  There is a new role that you're going to be playing in a new
• 59:59
  chapter, so you just picked up a new job title.
• 1:00:03
  What's the story behind that? So some some friends of mine
• 1:00:07
  have been wanting to work with me on different.
• 1:00:09
  They they just didn't know what we should do together.
• 1:00:11
  They were doing a market. They have a marketing company.
• 1:00:14
  OK. And that just I love social
• 1:00:16
  media, but I don't like the whole digital marketing thing.
• 1:00:19
  It's not for me. And I didn't want to do the
• 1:00:22
  billboards and all that stuff. And they could tell when they
• 1:00:24
  were talking to me that I wasn't like too interested in that.
• 1:00:27
  I'm worth what social media and content creation.
• 1:00:30
  So they're like, well, we have this project that we've been
• 1:00:32
  working on. We think you're going to be
• 1:00:33
  perfect for that. And that have been a few months.
• 1:00:36
  And then finally they're like, OK, we got it.
• 1:00:39
  It's going to be local and we think that that's right up your
• 1:00:43
  alley. And I was so excited.
• 1:00:45
  We had a meeting for like 4 hours just talking about all my
• 1:00:48
  ideas and what I want to do. I mean, these festivals and
• 1:00:51
  music and food, all that can be on there.
• 1:00:54
  And then I get to bring in other content creators to it.
• 1:00:58
  And we're going to have the website, we're going to have
• 1:01:00
  social media and we're going to have an app.
• 1:01:02
  A streaming platform too. Cool.
• 1:01:05
  So just be a hub for all that in one, you know, 1 area so you
• 1:01:08
  don't have to go to and all these people can keep their
• 1:01:11
  individual pages, but then they'll have like a hub that we
• 1:01:14
  can all put our, our content on for everybody just to go to that
• 1:01:18
  one place. I love that.
• 1:01:20
  I love that. And I love the spelling of the
• 1:01:22
  name. It feeds into Louisiana.
• 1:01:26
  It just, yeah, it's going to be great.
• 1:01:28
  I love. It.
• 1:01:29
  Congratulations. We're bringing travel.
• 1:01:31
  The boots going to be I. Would hope so.
• 1:01:36
  Yeah, they're going to be one of the content creators working
• 1:01:40
  with us. Excellent.
• 1:01:41
  Congratulations to congratulations to both of
• 1:01:44
  y'all. That's great and y'all deserve
• 1:01:46
  it and you should. I mean, that's what y'all do.
• 1:01:49
  This is right in your wheelhouse.
• 1:01:51
  It's going to be. Oh, yeah, It's going to be.
• 1:01:53
  I'm so excited about it. And, you know, just to get to
• 1:01:56
  show everybody Louisiana that's, you know, just on a bigger
• 1:01:59
  platform and where we can all be on one section, I think it's
• 1:02:03
  going to be great. And local artists.
• 1:02:07
  It's going to be great from not only someone, a lot of folks in
• 1:02:11
  here that are from outside outside of Louisiana and
• 1:02:13
  outsiders point of view to you can go see all this good content
• 1:02:18
  all in one place, but it's also going to be a great network
• 1:02:22
  networking hub for all of us to get to to know each other even
• 1:02:26
  even more, you know. Yeah.
• 1:02:28
  It's great. I love it.
• 1:02:29
  I love. It yeah, we might do cooking
• 1:02:31
  videos on there, you know, it might have a spotlight local
• 1:02:34
  artists. It's so it it's going to be
• 1:02:36
  launching in August, so we're kind of in the process right now
• 1:02:40
  putting everything together and figuring it all out.
• 1:02:43
  But I think it's going to be a great thing and you know, talk
• 1:02:46
  about the cook offs and everything that's going on.
• 1:02:49
  We're going to have to have Taryn back on later this year to
• 1:02:51
  tell us what's going on, and I don't think anybody's going to
• 1:02:54
  be upset with that at all if we do that, Especially not this guy
• 1:02:58
  Jason Hilton, who's been in the chat.
• 1:03:01
  I. Told you.
• 1:03:02
  I told you it was coming and it was going to be later in the
• 1:03:05
  show. Well, here it is.
• 1:03:06
  He told me a little birdie. A little birdie is coming to
• 1:03:10
  Tiggy's ear and has told him that you were thinking about
• 1:03:13
  running a marathon. Is that true?
• 1:03:17
  Yes, I I've run one before. It's been a while, but yes, I I
• 1:03:23
  want to do the one in San Antonio.
• 1:03:25
  I think that's the one he's doing too.
• 1:03:26
  Yeah, Yeah, it is. Jason and I went to high school
• 1:03:29
  together. Yeah.
• 1:03:30
  I've known him pretty much my whole life.
• 1:03:33
  So that's that's awesome. He's in good shape.
• 1:03:37
  He runs these marathons. I talk to him often.
• 1:03:40
  Just a great dude. You need to go do it.
• 1:03:43
  I want to, like I said, I was doing it for a while.
• 1:03:45
  Like you know how I am. I just do things and I, I did
• 1:03:50
  that a few years ago. I met some random people and
• 1:03:53
  started running and I flew to California with people I didn't
• 1:03:56
  even know and I ran a The Rock'n'roll Marathon in San
• 1:04:01
  Diego. And like, I didn't have these
• 1:04:03
  people's phone numbers or anything.
• 1:04:04
  Like really, I didn't even. Didn't really know.
• 1:04:07
  Yeah. And I just kind of, we just all
• 1:04:09
  went and I started thinking when I was at the San Diego Zoo, the
• 1:04:13
  one girl that I just kind of me and her, I talked the most
• 1:04:16
  during the time period she didn't come with us.
• 1:04:17
  And I looked around and I'm like, Oh my God, I know none of
• 1:04:19
  these people. And I'll have their numbers.
• 1:04:21
  Like if I get lost to the zoo, I don't know how to get back to
• 1:04:25
  work. Yeah.
• 1:04:27
  I get that. I did.
• 1:04:29
  AI did a Tough Mudder. I think it was 15 year.
• 1:04:32
  I know it was 15 years ago. So earlier this week I saw a
• 1:04:35
  good friend of mine, Richard Hynes.
• 1:04:37
  Shout out to Doctor Hynes. I saw him at the LSU baseball
• 1:04:41
  game and we were talking, he said it's been 15 years since we
• 1:04:45
  did that Tough Mudder. And I was like, I think I'm in
• 1:04:48
  better shape actually now than I was then.
• 1:04:51
  Like I've my knee, I've got a compression sleeve on my knee.
• 1:04:55
  Like I'm not really cardio wise, I'm in better shape, but that
• 1:04:58
  did you have you ever done a Tough Mudder?
• 1:05:01
  No, that was well, we did. Well, we, yeah, I lie, we did.
• 1:05:06
  But it was called. Was it the jailbreak?
• 1:05:10
  We did the jailbreak race. I have to have pictures from
• 1:05:13
  that and that was a rough one. Those are rough, man.
• 1:05:15
  They have a barbed wire and I said, yeah, crawl under in the
• 1:05:19
  mud and. Crawl under electric.
• 1:05:22
  You're getting shocked. Yes.
• 1:05:24
  That was my favorite part of the whole thing though.
• 1:05:26
  Of kind of like because you got to lay down for a second and
• 1:05:32
  slide. Head over that like a just like
• 1:05:34
  a big Swale out of mud. Exactly, Exactly.
• 1:05:39
  Yeah, that was, Oh my God, that was when we went to Austin to go
• 1:05:43
  do that. It was somewhere outside of
• 1:05:45
  Austin. But yeah, 15 years ago.
• 1:05:47
  I told him the other night, I said that was the one and done.
• 1:05:50
  Brother, I ain't never doing that again.
• 1:05:52
  There's no way. I'm too old now.
• 1:05:53
  I think my body, I just, I'm just, I'd breakdown.
• 1:05:57
  I can't run 13 miles or whatever the hell it was and then do all
• 1:06:02
  of those obstacles as well. Now, granted, I skipped, I
• 1:06:07
  didn't skip them. I started and I just immediately
• 1:06:10
  fell off and I didn't keep trying.
• 1:06:11
  I just swam on to the next one or whatever.
• 1:06:14
  Yeah, I was like, no. Well.
• 1:06:16
  I gave it a shot. Help people.
• 1:06:17
  We had to help like some of the women to get over things because
• 1:06:20
  they don't have the upper body strength.
• 1:06:22
  So we had to like help pull them over some of the.
• 1:06:25
  Things. Look, I had some help too.
• 1:06:26
  We all did. It was a team effort.
• 1:06:28
  That's kind of where I was going with this.
• 1:06:30
  I only knew Richard. I knew maybe another guy who was
• 1:06:33
  going with us. The rest, they were all from
• 1:06:35
  Mandeville and they were all in like this CrossFit group or
• 1:06:38
  whatever, and they all trained and worked out together.
• 1:06:42
  So I ran with them. Thank God for those people
• 1:06:45
  because they saved my ass. I can tell you that more than
• 1:06:48
  once. It was so tough.
• 1:06:52
  A Tough Mudder. That's why it's called that.
• 1:06:54
  That's why it's called that one all right, well enough with that
• 1:06:59
  enough with that. This is the very first y'all.
• 1:07:03
  Let me know what you think this is going to be.
• 1:07:04
  This is something that I do on every show to kind of close it
• 1:07:07
  out. I've got several questions here,
• 1:07:09
  but I'm calling this the Tigs Blitz.
• 1:07:13
  It's quick questions, fast answers, no overthinking.
• 1:07:18
  But don't you think that I forgot?
• 1:07:19
  And I'm going to start with this one harder challenge, Editing a
• 1:07:23
  30 minute video with bad audio or taking that damn ice bucket
• 1:07:28
  challenge to the Dome like you made me do.
• 1:07:32
  The ice bucket challenge it. Is, isn't it?
• 1:07:36
  You took it to a whole other level though, to be fair.
• 1:07:40
  That's the first time I've ever been in that pond like.
• 1:07:43
  What? So was that alligators in there?
• 1:07:46
  I took my life in my own hands. You really did.
• 1:07:49
  Did you know before all of that that you were actually going to
• 1:07:52
  end up in the pond, or was that impromptu there at the end of
• 1:07:56
  that? I didn't think that they would
• 1:07:57
  push me like that far and do it like they.
• 1:07:59
  Are that hard? Yeah, they didn't like, actually
• 1:08:02
  enjoyed. It of course they enjoyed it, of
• 1:08:04
  course they enjoyed it. I love that.
• 1:08:07
  All right, that answers that, and I'm the same, but I do hate
• 1:08:11
  bad audio. I'm not going to lie that it's
• 1:08:14
  so tough. But anyhow.
• 1:08:15
  It is. All right, these are all these
• 1:08:20
  are all going to be rapid fire. So, and I'm not answering, these
• 1:08:25
  are all you biggest travel pet peeve.
• 1:08:30
  Oh gosh, when somebody won't let me listen to the radio in the
• 1:08:34
  car, I have to have my own little concert in the car.
• 1:08:39
  Preferably with what kind of music.
• 1:08:42
  You know what kind of music you like.
• 1:08:45
  The kind I started the show with.
• 1:08:46
  I don't know if you can hear it though.
• 1:08:48
  No, but I could. See it?
• 1:08:49
  You saw what it was on and I was jamming some divorced dads.
• 1:08:53
  Rock. We like to rock.
• 1:08:56
  I've got to go see a concert with you, Terry, and I think we
• 1:08:58
  would have a lot of fun. We're one in the same.
• 1:09:00
  It's no my first concert was right.
• 1:09:03
  No, Bush. Really.
• 1:09:05
  Nice. I love Bush.
• 1:09:08
  Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
• 1:09:09
  When was that and where was it? That was in junior high.
• 1:09:13
  I was in 8th grade and it was at the Cajun Dome.
• 1:09:16
  Perfect. And I remember I was hoping it
• 1:09:18
  was in here, if Jed's still in here.
• 1:09:20
  I don't know if he is, but he was who I went with him and
• 1:09:23
  another friend and he got mad at me because I went to crowd surf.
• 1:09:29
  He told me I was going to break my collarbone or whatever, but I
• 1:09:32
  didn't listen. I still crowd surfed.
• 1:09:36
  Rachel says that that ice bucket sucked.
• 1:09:39
  It did. It did and and shout out to the.
• 1:09:43
  Concert. Oh wow, what wow she was.
• 1:09:47
  I love that. I knew I loved all of y'all for
• 1:09:50
  a reason. We do have beyond the love of
• 1:09:53
  food, Louisiana, and just all of that.
• 1:09:56
  We also seem to love a lot of the same music, which is
• 1:09:59
  awesome. Which is awesome.
• 1:10:01
  The Terry Taylor. Thanks for being in here, man.
• 1:10:04
  I I'm loving that dude's content for sure.
• 1:10:06
  He's blowing up out there. Oh he is.
• 1:10:08
  Me and him want to collab soon. We've been talk.
• 1:10:10
  We had talked about it one of the cook offs and I got his
• 1:10:13
  number for us to do a collab somewhere.
• 1:10:14
  So what that's going to be coming up?
• 1:10:17
  I love it. Well, that brings right into my
• 1:10:19
  next question on my little list. What is your dream travel
• 1:10:25
  collab? If you had to travel somewhere
• 1:10:28
  and collaborate with somebody, it can be anybody you could tie
• 1:10:31
  that in to. Even one of the questions I'm
• 1:10:33
  going to have is who would be a content creator that you would
• 1:10:37
  love to collaborate? You can tie that all into that
• 1:10:40
  same. Question.
• 1:10:40
  I'd go to the UK and go meet Jason Josh.
• 1:10:45
  That would be what I'd want to do.
• 1:10:47
  I entered the little contest. They have a contest to do this.
• 1:10:51
  I didn't win. Yeah.
• 1:10:54
  Dang, I didn't even know they had a contest.
• 1:10:56
  What were the criteria? Yeah, you just had to buy like
• 1:10:59
  some little raffles and you got so many or whatever and yeah, I
• 1:11:03
  would just, I would go in a second in a heartbeat.
• 1:11:06
  So you hear that Jason, Josh, if y'all are watching.
• 1:11:08
  Yes, yes. And I'll, I'll, I'll travel with
• 1:11:12
  her too. Just want to throw myself out
• 1:11:14
  there. I'll make sure she gets to the
• 1:11:15
  airport, if nothing else. What is What is the most
• 1:11:22
  overrated food trend right now? I don't know.
• 1:11:29
  Oh, probably that. Well, I don't want to start
• 1:11:32
  trouble. Start trouble.
• 1:11:35
  That's what the Tigs Blitz is all about.
• 1:11:38
  I don't know about that whole boba tea stuff.
• 1:11:41
  Like I don't know what is that. I don't even know what you're
• 1:11:44
  talking about. What do you mean?
• 1:11:46
  Yeah, that's all over the place. That that tea with the little
• 1:11:48
  boba stuff in it or whatever. I mean, yeah, I see it all over
• 1:11:54
  the place. Yeah, well, there it is.
• 1:11:56
  Let's say I don't know what you're even talking about, but
• 1:11:58
  now I will because it's going to be in my algorithm.
• 1:12:00
  Just because it was voice. My phone heard it, my iPhone
• 1:12:04
  heard it. So it.
• 1:12:05
  I'll be seeing it. Don't you worry.
• 1:12:07
  Don't you worry. Beach or festival?
• 1:12:12
  And I think I know the answer. I think.
• 1:12:14
  Let's see if I'm right. I'm at the what?
• 1:12:18
  What beach are we talking about? I mean your.
• 1:12:21
  Favorite beach I guess. I don't know.
• 1:12:25
  Your favorite beach versus your favorite festival.
• 1:12:28
  That's what are. You going to?
• 1:12:29
  There it is. There it is.
• 1:12:32
  That's what I if I can be in front row and like on my
• 1:12:35
  favorite music festivals, eating good food, drinking and just be
• 1:12:38
  there my favorite artist. Oh yeah, there.
• 1:12:40
  Yeah. Well, that leads me to this.
• 1:12:42
  What's your favorite Louisiana festival?
• 1:12:45
  And that may be too hard to answer, so you can just give me
• 1:12:47
  your top three and they may not be in order.
• 1:12:52
  I'm going to give you a little out.
• 1:12:55
  The Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival, I've never been out.
• 1:12:58
  I mean, I had they have so many good artists.
• 1:13:01
  It's a big festival compared to a lot of the rest of them.
• 1:13:05
  I do want to go to Strawberry Festival.
• 1:13:07
  I haven't been. I do want to do that.
• 1:13:09
  The rain Festival, the Frog Festival will always be there
• 1:13:12
  because of the I met the Brits there.
• 1:13:14
  That was pretty fun. It has.
• 1:13:15
  To be, it has to. Be, I don't know.
• 1:13:19
  I mean, the music festivals are amazing, so is that included?
• 1:13:26
  Yeah, that's that's included a music festival.
• 1:13:29
  Wouldn't you consider Jazz Fest a music festival?
• 1:13:31
  Yeah, God, there's just so many. I don't know.
• 1:13:35
  Music festivals have had so many good experiences.
• 1:13:39
  I just can't even hang out. Hang out Music festival.
• 1:13:43
  Hang out. Yeah, or now I guess it's the
• 1:13:46
  Morgan Wallen whatever it is thing.
• 1:13:48
  Yeah, same. But it's still it's still a
• 1:13:50
  hangout fest. I get it.
• 1:13:53
  Anything. With music.
• 1:13:55
  Anything with music, that's what I like about you.
• 1:13:57
  It's kind of what I I kind of figured you were going to go
• 1:14:00
  that way. What's one thing that you always
• 1:14:04
  pack for a trip? My whole wardrobe, every pretty
• 1:14:12
  much every shoe I own. And Boudreaux's butt paste.
• 1:14:18
  Got to have the Boudreaux shout out to Boudreaux's Butt Paste.
• 1:14:21
  God, they're lifesavers. You needed it this weekend.
• 1:14:25
  You never know what I gave. That is a fact.
• 1:14:29
  That is a fact. There it is.
• 1:14:34
  I love that that. You didn't expect that, did you?
• 1:14:37
  I didn't, I didn't, but it's so Louisiana.
• 1:14:40
  It's true. I knew you'd give me an answer.
• 1:14:42
  I did know that TikTok are reals.
• 1:14:49
  TikTok. Just because of the growth
• 1:14:53
  potential, yeah. Yeah, I like that.
• 1:14:56
  I really do love that platform. I do too.
• 1:14:59
  I really do too. What do you, what would you do
• 1:15:01
  if it went away? I asked this say, hey, let me
• 1:15:05
  just go ahead and tease a little something, everybody that I
• 1:15:08
  haven't said. I had Mr. Weatherall on the show
• 1:15:12
  here in the past few days and I asked him that exact same
• 1:15:17
  question. So.
• 1:15:19
  I love Mr. Weatherall. So nice.
• 1:15:21
  It was so nice. Great show.
• 1:15:23
  Y'all be looking for that? It'll be out in the next two or
• 1:15:26
  three weeks, but great visit. Same question.
• 1:15:30
  What would what did I ask? They were my ADHD minds already
• 1:15:35
  gone? I don't.
• 1:15:36
  Even remember now I'm just thinking about Mr. Weatherhall.
• 1:15:39
  I know, I know. I got.
• 1:15:40
  I got excited about Mr. Weatherall and what I asked him.
• 1:15:44
  I don't even remember what the question was.
• 1:15:45
  Chat, you could probably tell us.
• 1:15:47
  We'll come back to it. We'll end.
• 1:15:48
  We'll end with it. We're terrible.
• 1:15:51
  I love it. What's your go to editing snack?
• 1:15:55
  Oh, Starburst Jelly beans. You're a Jelly beans girl.
• 1:15:59
  Yes, I have the whole bag next to the computer every time I'm
• 1:16:02
  editing and I I'll finish, but I'll leave the the yellow ones
• 1:16:05
  for Kobe and you don't. Like OK, do you like licorice?
• 1:16:10
  No, not at all. But they don't, they don't have
• 1:16:13
  the licorice in it. What do you do with them?
• 1:16:16
  Oh, I just, I leave them for Kobe.
• 1:16:17
  He can have them. He's like my dumpster or
• 1:16:21
  whatever I told you, you can ask.
• 1:16:23
  They remembered. Thank you Chad.
• 1:16:25
  What? What would you do if if TikTok
• 1:16:27
  left? That's exactly what I asked, and
• 1:16:29
  that's what I asked him. That happened.
• 1:16:32
  I was in the middle. I had just finished editing a
• 1:16:34
  video when TikTok had got banned and before I could hit the
• 1:16:39
  publish button, like I wanted to save the video to put them on
• 1:16:42
  other platforms. But before I could do that it
• 1:16:45
  was banned and I got that message and I was screaming in
• 1:16:48
  the living room because I spent 3 hours editing this video and
• 1:16:52
  it was gone. Kobe was sleeping and heard me
• 1:16:55
  screaming. He thought something was I was
• 1:16:57
  being attacked or something, but it was horrible.
• 1:17:01
  Do you edit primarily on your phone using cap cut?
• 1:17:05
  Do you use Premiere Pro or Resolve or any of those?
• 1:17:07
  What do you use? All of the above?
• 1:17:10
  Yeah, Cap Cut and TikTok and Cap cut had went away too.
• 1:17:13
  That's why all my videos were gone.
• 1:17:15
  I didn't know Cap Cut was leaving so it all just went
• 1:17:17
  away. I'm trying to start a new
• 1:17:20
  editing tool, but it's a it's a big learning process so.
• 1:17:23
  That's a fact. That's a fact.
• 1:17:25
  I use Premiere Pro a lot. I've started leaning a lot more
• 1:17:29
  in the last six or eight months on cap cut, just for quick, you
• 1:17:34
  know, stuff that's on your phone.
• 1:17:36
  It's so yeah, that's what I use today to make a video.
• 1:17:38
  And I just see right then it's. Easier because it's right there
• 1:17:41
  on your phone and it's all yeah, totally makes sense.
• 1:17:43
  But at least I've learned a little bit about Premiere Pro,
• 1:17:48
  but the transitions, all that stuff, not nearly as easy to do
• 1:17:52
  on there unless you you start to learn how to get plugins and
• 1:17:57
  stuff like that'll work. But it's still it's a hell of a
• 1:18:00
  lot easier. Trust me, people, hell of a lot
• 1:18:02
  easier to just do it on cap cut. No doubt.
• 1:18:07
  Handful of more questions. I've had a lot of good questions
• 1:18:10
  for you tonight, Taryn. I'm sorry.
• 1:18:11
  I'm surprised you didn't of like our the stories of things that
• 1:18:16
  have happened and stuff at different events or whatever.
• 1:18:20
  Well, that's where we're going to end with.
• 1:18:24
  I'd like for you to go ahead. Well, not really.
• 1:18:26
  I want to let those come out naturally.
• 1:18:28
  You're going to be coming back. We're going to hit on, we'll hit
• 1:18:32
  on some of that stuff. I want to hear everybody's
• 1:18:35
  perspective on all of these things.
• 1:18:40
  You get a day off with no camera, what are you going to
• 1:18:42
  do? No camera, no editing.
• 1:18:44
  You can't do anything on social media.
• 1:18:46
  You've been put in jail. What are you going to do?
• 1:18:51
  I'll probably, I like to go hiking, probably go hiking or
• 1:18:56
  like kayaking or something like that.
• 1:18:57
  We do like to do that kind of stuff, you know, real outdoorsy.
• 1:19:00
  Just that's when I like it just brings me peace again when it's
• 1:19:04
  too much from all the editing and all the social media and
• 1:19:07
  everything, just we go hike, get away from it.
• 1:19:12
  Nice that's always I, I love to go on a walk.
• 1:19:15
  It clears the mind. A hike do the same, especially
• 1:19:18
  in your nature and you don't have all the distractions.
• 1:19:21
  Good answer. That's a good answer.
• 1:19:24
  We're going to have to dig into this though, since you since you
• 1:19:27
  have brought it up. I I didn't really have it on the
• 1:19:30
  agenda, but since stirring the pot, Brandon Casey, all those
• 1:19:35
  folks are in here. Rachel, everybody, I have a
• 1:19:38
  feeling that you did about judges judging.
• 1:19:41
  Yeah. Give me your thoughts.
• 1:19:43
  On what? They did and the way that and
• 1:19:48
  this is not to put anybody or make anybody uncomfortable or
• 1:19:52
  anything like that, but I've only been, this is my first year
• 1:19:55
  really of going to these kind of events, going to this type of
• 1:19:58
  stuff. So everything just wows me.
• 1:20:00
  I'm it and hard to make me happy.
• 1:20:03
  It's really, really not. I'm just like, it's the best
• 1:20:06
  thing I've ever had, you know, and all that.
• 1:20:07
  Exactly. It's, I mean, he's very easy
• 1:20:09
  going to say the least. But there apparently is some
• 1:20:15
  friction out there with different events that go on and
• 1:20:19
  people get butt hurt about this and that.
• 1:20:23
  So what is your just a little quick with since we got to cast
• 1:20:27
  it out there? Yes.
• 1:20:29
  What's your take? What's your take on that?
• 1:20:34
  No, I agree with a lot of what they had said.
• 1:20:36
  I mean. I've never been a cook there,
• 1:20:39
  but I know how much work and money it takes to do it.
• 1:20:42
  You know, I've seen, you know, 'cause we have friends doing
• 1:20:45
  that, so I can understand their point of view.
• 1:20:48
  I really can, you know, 'cause me and you, we go in there and
• 1:20:50
  we're like, oh, wait, this is good and it's also good.
• 1:20:53
  So I understand what they're saying.
• 1:20:55
  You know, I agree with a lot of it.
• 1:20:57
  And I think it, well, I don't want to bring up certain events,
• 1:21:00
  so let's just, we won't name drop events.
• 1:21:04
  Just yeah. Yeah, no, I agree with a lot of
• 1:21:07
  what they said. It made sense.
• 1:21:08
  You know, and it really made me think about like, if I'm going
• 1:21:11
  to eventually judge an event, things that I need to keep in my
• 1:21:14
  mind, you know, like what they cooked.
• 1:21:16
  And because everything's so different, I understand, you
• 1:21:18
  know, the different burgers. And it made sense, everything
• 1:21:21
  that they were saying. Totally.
• 1:21:24
  Yeah, I totally agree. Yeah, it.
• 1:21:26
  Really. I think.
• 1:21:26
  I said this last week with. With Caleb was on, but it really
• 1:21:30
  made me realize this is how you need to do this if you're asked
• 1:21:35
  to judge this is the approach that you need to make.
• 1:21:39
  I think I said because I'm you and I think you're the same way
• 1:21:42
  we're going to sit in there. We've never done this is the way
• 1:21:44
  I would have been I'm sitting in the room with everybody and I'm
• 1:21:47
  going to have about Oh my God that's good.
• 1:21:50
  You know like I you don't do that.
• 1:21:52
  You just got to play poker face. It would be it would be hard to
• 1:21:55
  to be quiet, but I, I know, I. Could do it.
• 1:21:56
  I could. I can do it.
• 1:21:58
  I think we can do it. We if we're in the.
• 1:22:00
  Same room or I'm in the room with you, Gabby or Brittany.
• 1:22:03
  Then we're going to probably all have to be separated.
• 1:22:06
  Yeah, No, we'll be fine. I can totally be a.
• 1:22:09
  Professional. Everybody, anybody watching, I
• 1:22:12
  can totally do it. I want to do it.
• 1:22:13
  I'd be, I'd be happy to do. It's fun and I finally
• 1:22:16
  understand why they separate the judges and everything.
• 1:22:19
  Like Rachel, I'd say like, you don't want to if you know, you
• 1:22:22
  don't want to be biased, you know, you don't want to see what
• 1:22:25
  who cooked, What is the best way to separate?
• 1:22:28
  I didn't understand that at first, you know, but not really
• 1:22:31
  me either. And I know that that.
• 1:22:33
  That I, I know some of the drama that has gone on a little bit
• 1:22:37
  behind the scenes. I'm not going to bring that up,
• 1:22:39
  but just, you know, with scoring and stuff like that, then they
• 1:22:44
  address that in that and and you know, if it's in those kind of
• 1:22:49
  contests, if it's a 7 or a less than there's something God awful
• 1:22:53
  wrong with that dish. You know where where I know for
• 1:22:58
  a fact some of the dishes that I've had that were some of the
• 1:23:01
  best that I've ever put in my mouth and some of the best
• 1:23:04
  things I've ever ever had got like threes and twos.
• 1:23:08
  And yeah, that that's jealousy and it's somebody knew who would
• 1:23:13
  cook that. And I, I totally see how that I
• 1:23:16
  totally see it's competition. And whenever you start to
• 1:23:20
  compete, you want to win. That's anything that that people
• 1:23:23
  do and they'll do anything to do it, including, you know,
• 1:23:28
  whatever it, whatever it takes. I think the best way that you
• 1:23:31
  can do it is to have judges, quote UN quote, sequestered that
• 1:23:36
  they cannot see who cooks it. They know nothing.
• 1:23:38
  They're completely blind. You do it early, you let them
• 1:23:43
  make their decisions. You can announce the shit at
• 1:23:45
  4:00 in the afternoon, who cares?
• 1:23:47
  But those people want to go out and get content too.
• 1:23:50
  I'm talking from our perspective.
• 1:23:52
  Now, if we're going to be a judge, I'm also there to.
• 1:23:55
  Get some content. To do the do the whole deal, we
• 1:23:59
  judge early, then you can go out and get your content and it
• 1:24:02
  doesn't really matter at that point because the decisions have
• 1:24:04
  been made, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:24:06
  So I think that is the way to do it 100.
• 1:24:09
  Percent. Yeah, I love it.
• 1:24:14
  Couple more questions. Go back to the Tigs Blitz.
• 1:24:18
  I had to throw that one in there since you set me up for it.
• 1:24:21
  So good. We had to stir the pot a little
• 1:24:24
  bit, no? Pun.
• 1:24:25
  Intended. Yeah, we're going to start a pot
• 1:24:27
  a lot. Next week if Casey and them or.
• 1:24:29
  Or whenever y'all are able to. Come on.
• 1:24:30
  We can't stir the hell out of that pot.
• 1:24:33
  I can't wait to see that. I can't either.
• 1:24:36
  I. Don't know what I know.
• 1:24:37
  I know what I'm going to ask pretty much, but I can't wait to
• 1:24:40
  see what their answers. In case, you know, she's the one
• 1:24:46
  who's always. Getting us in trouble.
• 1:24:48
  So I know she's she can't bring fireball across the.
• 1:24:53
  Screen to me, but I will still probably I still have the two
• 1:24:56
  fireballs that she gave me from the Gabby event.
• 1:24:59
  I'm going to bring them whenever I do the shot.
• 1:25:01
  There it is OK there I just put myself on.
• 1:25:05
  I will do one shot of Fireball. One shot?
• 1:25:07
  Casey, what is the first thing that you notice about a
• 1:25:13
  restaurant when you walk in? How I'm greeted.
• 1:25:19
  I don't like it. Something that's.
• 1:25:20
  Complicated like if I have to. Stand there and I don't know
• 1:25:23
  what to do, you know, do I seat myself and my weight?
• 1:25:27
  I don't like any of that. You know, I need, I need to know
• 1:25:29
  what do I need to do next kind of thing that kind of turns me
• 1:25:33
  off. Unless it's like a really good
• 1:25:35
  place, like when you go to old time grocery, you don't know
• 1:25:38
  what to do. It's it's chaos.
• 1:25:40
  But their food's so good. You just deal with it.
• 1:25:42
  Just deal with it. Right.
• 1:25:43
  Exactly. Exactly.
• 1:25:45
  That kind of leads me to the last question of the Tig's
• 1:25:48
  blitz. If you could only eat 1
• 1:25:52
  Louisiana dish for the rest of your life, what would it be?
• 1:25:57
  Oh gosh, that's a hard one. I mean boiled crawfish.
• 1:26:03
  I mean, that's that's I. Was I would look, I was thinking
• 1:26:07
  too. Like, I don't know, as long as I
• 1:26:09
  had to have my sauce with it, you know, is that.
• 1:26:11
  Allowed. Or is it just the crawfish?
• 1:26:13
  The sauce would be allowed. I would allow the sauce my
• 1:26:16
  friend. Tommy would not.
• 1:26:17
  He is against sauce. Hate sauce.
• 1:26:20
  Like, I don't I, I get that there's some people out in this
• 1:26:24
  world that maybe don't like sauce, but he is completely
• 1:26:26
  against it. He thinks it's running society.
• 1:26:30
  That's his exact words. Has he haven't tried the sauce
• 1:26:34
  from church? Point the crawfish point he
• 1:26:38
  would just would not deal. He it's not crawfish sauce.
• 1:26:40
  It's. Any kind of sauce, BBQ sauce,
• 1:26:44
  any. He's so wrong.
• 1:26:46
  Yeah, This is why Adam's BBQ sauce.
• 1:26:48
  The party brothers. Away.
• 1:26:50
  I'm like, dude, all I do is hang around.
• 1:26:52
  People who make sauce and stuff like what's up?
• 1:26:55
  He's like, he's just loathes it. He's like the Grinch.
• 1:26:59
  He loathes it. That adds to everything.
• 1:27:03
  Exactly. Well, he's going to be on the
• 1:27:04
  show at some point. He.
• 1:27:06
  Can't be trusted. That's that's a one of those
• 1:27:08
  things. He can't be trusted.
• 1:27:10
  That's a That's a giant red flag and it's a red.
• 1:27:14
  He's I'm going. To send him this.
• 1:27:16
  Clip, Don't you worry. That's part of talking about
• 1:27:18
  group text. This is going.
• 1:27:21
  That's exactly why I asked it and had to point that out.
• 1:27:24
  You're a red flag, Tommy. Everybody sees and.
• 1:27:27
  Says it. There it is.
• 1:27:29
  I love it. Well, that's going to end.
• 1:27:34
  The Tigs blitz that's. Becoming part of my that's like
• 1:27:36
  one of my favorite things that we're doing with the show.
• 1:27:38
  Sorry, that went a little long, but I had a lot of questions for
• 1:27:42
  Taryn and I knew she would give us some good answers.
• 1:27:45
  So we're going to start to wrap this up a little bit.
• 1:27:48
  I still have a couple more questions for you, though.
• 1:27:51
  And, and as we ease on into this and, and slip on out of here,
• 1:27:57
  what is something that you're proud of right now that people
• 1:28:02
  don't always see? I mean just just how hard I
• 1:28:09
  work. Like people think that, you
• 1:28:11
  know, content creation is just fun.
• 1:28:13
  You know, you get to try all these new places and but I edit
• 1:28:17
  video all the time and as like Amanda, Rachel, all them will
• 1:28:22
  tell you, even Casey. Like sometimes I wake up in the
• 1:28:24
  middle of the night with like nightmares about content.
• 1:28:27
  Like I think that I posted something that I didn't post,
• 1:28:29
  you know, and I'm like, Oh my God.
• 1:28:31
  And I wake up and after I literally check my phone to see
• 1:28:34
  if I posted that and then you're out and then you don't go back
• 1:28:38
  to. Sleep and then exactly my
• 1:28:40
  adrenaline's pumping. Like did I post that?
• 1:28:42
  It's it's crazy. I get it, I get it.
• 1:28:46
  What would you say to? Somebody who is scared to start,
• 1:28:51
  you just got to do it. I mean, you can't.
• 1:28:54
  Worry about what anybody thinks about you and you just have to
• 1:28:57
  do it. You know, you can't say oh, I'm
• 1:29:00
  a bit cringy if people are going to call me stupid because the
• 1:29:02
  people that that do that are jealous because they wish they
• 1:29:06
  were doing what you're doing, what you're brave enough to do.
• 1:29:09
  Bingo. You know, and just, and then a
• 1:29:11
  lot of those people, when you do make it, then they're your best
• 1:29:14
  friends. You know, I watched a video
• 1:29:17
  about that the other day, and it's so true.
• 1:29:19
  You know, they might talk about you behind your back on the
• 1:29:22
  process, but then want to be there the the final, you know
• 1:29:25
  what, when you make it. Yeah.
• 1:29:27
  But it's just, it's a lot of jealousy along the way and just,
• 1:29:29
  you just got to do you and be true to yourself.
• 1:29:33
  I think that's great advice. Yeah, they're not.
• 1:29:36
  They may start off with you on the climb, and then as you're
• 1:29:39
  climbing, they're like, yeah, let's, yeah.
• 1:29:41
  And then all of a sudden you make it and they're like, Oh
• 1:29:43
  yeah, we know. That's one of my best friends.
• 1:29:46
  Like, yeah, that's what I want to do to these people.
• 1:29:51
  Let's be. Honest.
• 1:29:52
  Let's be honest, all right, Last thing and we'll wrap this up.
• 1:29:56
  What is next, Aaron? How can people follow along all
• 1:30:00
  of that good stuff? Well, actually at 6:00 AM
• 1:30:04
  tomorrow. Morning, I'm heading out to
• 1:30:07
  California. Wow, nice.
• 1:30:11
  Yes, we're. Hitting the road, we're all
• 1:30:13
  y'all. Going, we're gonna I wanna stop
• 1:30:15
  at the sequoias. On the way and then.
• 1:30:17
  We're heading to San Francisco. My brother is working there so
• 1:30:21
  my sister-in-law didn't wanna make the drive by herself with
• 1:30:25
  three kids and a dog. So who do you think following
• 1:30:29
  Y'all driving? Y'all driving like?
• 1:30:32
  I've done it, done it. She's going to stay.
• 1:30:34
  There the rest of the. Summer and I'm going to fly.
• 1:30:36
  Back by myself. Nice, nice.
• 1:30:39
  Well, I'm expecting. A sourdough review if nothing
• 1:30:43
  else. From the Wharf you got to go
• 1:30:46
  down to the Wharf. Definite.
• 1:30:48
  This is going to be like a another Griswold.
• 1:30:50
  Trip, I'm sure like what we had, it's going to be just like it,
• 1:30:53
  literally it's going to be just. Like it?
• 1:30:55
  Just avoid Saint Louis in this trip, which you're going to if
• 1:30:59
  you go to Saint Louis, you've done going way out of your way.
• 1:31:04
  I'm just, I'm excited to be, like I said, the.
• 1:31:06
  Sequoias and then if anybody knows anything I should do in
• 1:31:08
  San Francisco, just message me. There you go about to try new
• 1:31:12
  things so. Where?
• 1:31:14
  Can everybody find you? I think we put that out.
• 1:31:17
  There, but if anybody's listening and still hasn't gone
• 1:31:19
  to go find her page and follow her.
• 1:31:22
  Where can everybody follow you at Traveling with Taran on
• 1:31:25
  Facebook, Instagram. TikTok and I just kind of
• 1:31:28
  started my YouTube. I'm working on it, but this trip
• 1:31:31
  will probably be some clips on there, definitely on YouTube
• 1:31:35
  yeah. And then on local is what that
• 1:31:38
  new little venture I'm going to be on.
• 1:31:40
  So I'll definitely be sharing more about that in the coming
• 1:31:43
  weeks. Hell yes, I love it a lot more
• 1:31:46
  coming from. Taryn, y'all go check her out.
• 1:31:49
  She'll be around. We're going to be seeing and
• 1:31:51
  following more. We'll follow up with her later
• 1:31:54
  on down the road, but this has been a lot of fun.
• 1:31:57
  Taryn, I appreciate you taking the time.
• 1:31:59
  We went longer than usual, but whatever, who cares?
• 1:32:02
  I knew we would. I knew that we would have no
• 1:32:04
  problems talking. No, we'll probably go for like
• 1:32:08
  another hour. For sure, no doubt.
• 1:32:11
  We'll save that for the next. Time.