Don't Mess With Texas

KELLY (00:00) Hey y'all, we are back. It's Sugar Spice and Spirits. I'm Kelly Williams, one of your hosts, along with my two radicals, not radical, kind of crazy girls. One is Mindy and one is Natalie. And today we are going to do part two of our Texas episode. So if you tuned in the first time, we talked a little bit about different foods and weather and everything, and so we're gonna kind of switch it up a little bit. And talk about some Texas slang, some of the other famous things in Texas about strange things that we may say that people don't understand. And of course, if you tuned in last time, you got to hear Natalie's wonderful rendition of a true Texas slang. So and if you get the chance to tune in live and watch it on YouTube, it's incredible. Just you have to tune in. It's amazing. So, but before we get started, we are as usual going to start off with our sip of the day. as you can tell, we're all three at our prospective locations, our homes. So we're not necessarily mixing the same drink, but I think we're all kind of on the same page of what we're looking for today. I'm going with something that actually Natalie gave me. it's not supposed to be straight, but it's in my glass, straight. And it is Elijah Craig bourbon. Can you see that? I don't know if there's a glare somewhere. So very smooth. I did a little lip dip earlier and got in trouble because Mindy said I was premature drinking, but I wasn't. Premature drinking. but anyway, so like I said, it's supposed to be probably with something mixed in it, but no, I got it straight. So we're gonna see how it goes. Mindy, what have you got going today? Mindy (01:25) Premature drinking. Natalie (01:26) premature, always stop it. Mindy (01:38) Because we are doing another Texas episode, I clearly had to pull out what's left of when I introduced this the last time, the Giant Texas. It is a cask strength straight rye whiskey. And again, thanks to Holloway for that. KELLY (01:51) Yam. Yum. And how about you, Miss Natalie? Natalie (01:56) I am drinking the same as Mindy, so I'm I'm good to go. And you know what? That that Elijah Craig is gonna be so smooth, you're just gonna be like, mmm, that's Mindy (02:05) Well let's test that theory, even though I don't have Elijah Craig. Cheers. KELLY (02:05) Yeah. So that's the theory, cheers. Natalie (02:09) Chairs, ladies. KELLY (02:16) Whew. Yep. Natalie (02:17) Yeah. KELLY (02:20) I think my eyelashes just curled up. Wow, but it's good. Natalie (02:25) Did you get hair on your chest? She's checking. KELLY (02:28) my god, I think I do. so I yeah, wow, that's really good. I mean, it actually has a really good smooth flow afterwards too. So I could probably put some ice in it and then just let it kind of dilute a little bit. I'm glad I didn't take a real big sip, but that's good. Good stuff. If I start to slur in a little bit, you'll know why. so let's get started. Texas. We are Huge fans of Texas, everything Texas, all about Texas. some people think we can sometimes be little bit obnoxious, but we're very proud. As a matter of fact, at one point, Texas wanted to secede from the United States and be our own little thing, and it hasn't happened. But we have so many things that we are proud of. And one of the things that we talk about is our accent. Of course, we don't think we have an accent, but we do. And I will never forget a trip to New York. many years ago and of course I walked up to the counter to order something and I and I said, Hi. And he just looked at me. And I look and I kinda looked around like okay. I said, I would like to order blah blah blah. And he just looked at me, I said, and I thought, okay, we're not in Texas, so I it's not does he speak Spanish? I I'm like I'm like, excuse me? He goes, my God, just keep talking. I love to hear you talk. And I was like Okay, well, but can I still order? So he loved to hear us talk. And so I guess the the the y'all, the the different words that we say just are very unique to Texas. So do you guys have any specific sayings or anything or words that kind of verberate with you guys that that we get called out for? Mindy (04:21) So Kelly, you saying that and the accent, you know, years ago, whenever I started speaking, I worked really, really hard on getting rid of the Texas accent. Very hard, thinking about how I enunciate and what I say. And I was told Mindy, don't say y'all. Y'all was part of my vocabulary before it was even in the dictionary, which by the way it is. I I don't really know when it was added to the dictionary, but I was saying that. And I was like, and I was told, don't say y'all. It makes you sound like you're not intelligent. And because you're not just speaking in Texas. And even in Texas, don't say y'all. Like it was frowned upon. So I thought of, well, then what do I say? What is all inclusive? So I came up with you guys. So here I am on stage. You guys understand. You guys get what I'm saying. And I still hear people say you guys all the time. However, several years ago, There was a big movement in inclusivity. And I was told, and we were taught that you don't say you guys because it's not all inclusive. So I asked my team, I was like, hey, what do y'all think? Notice I said y'all now. what do y'all think about me saying you guys? Do you feel like you're included? And I had a a mixture of individuals that were on the call and one particular female said, you know what, I don't really like it. And that's all I needed to hear. I was like, okay. I can't please everyone, but this is something that I'm being told. So I need to come up with a different word, which PS, by the way, for the next three months, I read you guys, and she said it a hundred times in our meetings. And so I thought that was kind of funny, but you don't realize you're saying it. So anyway, I went back to y'all. I couldn't think of anything else. And now I just if the act if I get excited about something, the accent really comes out. If I'm having a cocktail or few. The accent starts to come out. But I have started saying again on stage, y'all, when I was in New Jersey. So you talk about people who are proud and where they're from, but so welcoming. The people of New Jersey were just incredible. And they loved y'all. And they were like, hi five in me, High Whying me. That's one of my things. And they were saying y'all. And they're like, we're just gonna say y'all because we feel like it is all inclusive. But y'all was one of those words. You just knew. pretty much that you were from the South if you were using that word. And I'm s I love it. Even in my emails, I will write y'all. And I don't think twice about it anymore. Lots of different sayings. I've got lots of things to say. I'll turn it over to Natalie, but I had to tell that story really quickly. KELLY (06:52) That's great. That's a great story. That's a great story. How about you, Nette? Natalie (06:54) So y'all y'all became in the dictionary in twenty twenty one. It was officially added. So very, very recently, I say re five years. World economies change in five years, but here we are. so is New Jersey like Houston to Dallas, New Jersey to New York, like Mindy (07:04) Okay. Yes. my gosh, you said that. So we had a party at the hotel where we were staying and it was so great that they did such an amazing job, the New Jersey Apartment Association. So it was the state association and inside from the Atlantic City Boardwalk, they had a themed party that was there. And I got to visit with so many of the incredible people. I don't often get to stay for the party and everything else because I'm flying off somewhere else. And they were like, Mindy, we just, you know. Texas, we're embracing it, we love it. I was like, I was nervous because I thought for sure y'all were gonna be like, Texas. They were like, No, maybe if you were in New York. Now, no offense to New York. Haven't spoken there to it well, it's actually been a while to you know get that feeling. They're like, No, you're over here. Everybody's so nice here and very accepting. And I so they them saying that, Natalie, it I feel like based on two or three conversations that I had. So I don't have a huge test group. yeah, I think Jersey and New York and and parts of Jersey too. You know, I think there's there's different parts of Jersey that are that way, but for sure. But anyway, I just I just want to say New Jersey, I love you. Love my Texas, but I I love New Jersey. Natalie (08:27) You you did come back super excited about New Jersey. So and my sayings, you guys. So I lived in California when I was in fifth grade. You know, I went to a lot of different schools. So I did live in California, lived in West Cavina for a little, and the little elementary school that I went to was one of those that there were lots of mean girls there. And there was this one particular chick, her name was Brandy. And Brandy was hard on me. She was is your dad drive the big truck with the long horns on it? And I'm like, yeah, yeah, he does. I don't even know my dad. But yeah, yeah, he does. And then did you ride a horse to school? Yeah, all the time. And I had to tie it up, you know, like just pulling stuff out of the out of thin air out of my ass because I she's asking stupid questions and being a mean girl. And I I didn't have the We ended up becoming friends. Isn't that the way it goes? Like the ones that are mean to you and that you stand your ground on, they're like, okay, I like you. So KELLY (09:13) And you can say I could outride your ass any day, girl. Sorry. Natalie (09:24) Anyway, she would make fun of me saying yaw all the time. So I had to stop saying y'all, became very cognizant of my dialect and my speaking and tried to dial it back. But I grew up in West Texas, so it's a little, you know, different when you're in West Texas, then you move to Houston and then to Dallas and then to California. Like when you move, you you can you learn to adapt and chameleon yourself in a lot of different ways to the situation and the people you meet, which is fantastic for sales And, you know, your people skills really get honed in or you really turn off. Like you either dial in and you make it happen or you're like, hell no, and you withdraw. So I I really dialed in on it. But I I certainly love the Southern charms and the southern sayings. But y'all, y'all is a staple and you guys just doesn't seem genuine to me, like when I say it. And 'cause I'm talking to ladies and like that lady said, you guys, you guys, it it's one of those things that It's you know, that Valley Girl kinda talked to me. It's what I I retro back to like like like like like you know, and just the that whole what'd you say? Mindy (10:29) Gag me with a spoon. KELLY (10:31) Yeah, yeah. Mindy (10:32) said gag me with a spoon Natalie (10:34) yeah. my gosh. Yeah, but you know, just those those that's Valley Girl. my gosh. Mindy (10:37) Valley Girl. KELLY (10:39) Yes, for sure. So when I I I I did I did I did live in Cali not California, Colorado, for a short period of time. And when when I came back, the people that knew me asked me, You're you're speaking differently. And it's not that I I tried to not speak my Texas when I was up there. You you do you just kind of blend in. It's like my when my you know, my daughter was born in Louisiana. I lived over there for a short time for about well, not short time for about six years. And you can definitely tell people from North Louisiana and South, when they're from the South, they've got that Cajun French, that very that Cajun draw. Sometimes you can't even understand what they're saying. But when my daughter would go to Louisiana and stay for the summer when she was younger and come home, told I was like, girl, you don't even sound like yourself anymore. So it it is everything is native to your own, to your own area. And Natalie (11:14) That real, yeah. KELLY (11:34) And I think you should be proud of it. You know, when like Mindy, if you get on stage and or or if I'm up there talking to people about whatever and and I say, So first of all, let me tell you, I'm from Texas and I'm proud of it. So if you don't understand something I'm saying, but if I say something like I'm fixin' to, just ask me because sometimes my vocabulary is very different than yours. And I think if you own it, it's okay. Because you're right. Something that you that you hit on, Mindy, is that people that come in And use slang or short words like y'all and fixin' to, it it does make us sometimes sound uneducated. And and we are not. We have some of the most educated, famous people around come from Texas and they're proud of it. But you're right. Sometimes just the way you speak has to be taken into consideration with your audience because sometimes you may you may lose some credibility. So even though we're proud of it. Yes, we do sometimes have to take into consideration and kinda like Natalie said, scale it back a little bit. And and the thing about the mean girls, I think one of the reasons why is it sounds you're the new girl. And so mean girl's gonna come and think, you know, the new girls always get all the attention. So the only way the mean girls can take that away is to sit there and make fun and usually make themselves look tacky. So but it sounds it sounds like you kinda won that battle because you pulled her in as a friend. So kudos to you. So 'cause you know, instead of like punching her out, but Anyway, we won't we won't go there. Mindy (13:00) And you know, Kelly, I don't know if it's coming with age and just getting a lot more confident in some of those things that we say, like fixin' to or gonna. That's another I can't help it. I do, I say it, I laugh, I don't realize it. And instead of worrying about it and what other people are thinking, I just own it these days. I think the more comfortable that you can get in your skin, the better off you are. And I have been that person that has. KELLY (13:11) Gonna Yeah. Mindy (13:27) worried about what other people think and trying to fit a mold, the more comfortable that I've gotten in my own skin, the happier I've become. And I've also noticed more and more people accepting me for who I am and just knowing, well, that's that's how it is. Natalie, I will say you are one of the best at doing that. Now faking it or faith in it till you make it, I don't know. But you just own who you are and you go forward and you just sometimes it seems like you're like, I don't care. I am who I am, accept that. And maybe you're rubbing off on me some over these last few years, but it is such a great place to be in. And I know this is Texas, but I've just finished literally, I just finished writing a new session that I'm doing and and going through this and and it's on leaders and new leaders that are emerging. And they have they can't try to emulate and act like they're everyone else. They have to find themselves and they have to get comfortable in who they are. So then that's genuine and they're going to be more trusted. And literally, I was working on that piece last night. So when you were saying that, the fixin', and I'm like, I say gonna all the time, even on stage, you know, those things that, yeah, you could lose credibility, but are you really worried about it if you you have all of these other things behind you and and you believe in yourself? So I I wanted to throw that out there. And then I wanted to throw another saying, you're probably gonna say it. But Natalie, you said something that that made me think about it. You moving to California. And I and during that time, we had a very popular saying that was taken wrong. Everybody thought, you know, you think about Texas, you think about our our cowboy hats and you think we're we're gunslinging and we're riding our horses and we all have cows and yada yada yada and all these things. KELLY (15:14) Yeah. Mindy (15:15) And are saying don't mess with Texas, the number one best marketing advertising campaign ever, where when you would say, Don't mess with Texas, I'm sure your friend that you made eventually thought it was like you're coming in there, don't mess with Texas. And it was an anti-littering campaign. You know, like that is one of those mistaken things. And and don't mess with Texas. It's taken on a lot of different meetings, but the original meaning of it was don't litter. KELLY (15:33) Mm-hmm. Right. And and you know, years ago they they were trying to come up with the the state slogan or or what it what we're known for, and they they put it to vote and and I think I mentioned this in in a previous podcast. one of them said one of them was Texas the friendly state. And everybody was like, hell no, no. I mean, yes, we're nice, we're very nice, but we're also prideful and you know, and and I'm sorry, being nice sometimes make it s sound like you're kind of a push over maybe, I don't know. So yeah, so that that didn't go very well. So I think now it's just the Lone Star State. So but but yeah that's that's that's kinda funny that that don't mess with Texas kind of took on its own its own little persona where it like you said started out as littering and now it's just kinda one of those like yeah don't mess with Texas. Don't mess with the Texans either. Well not the football team but us as people. So anyway. okay so another thing that that Texas is known for and I think we hit on it maybe a little bit during the during the round one is our food and some of the places that we're very proud of. And and I will tell you one thing, whether you disagree or agree with it, there's a big controversy in Texas about chili. There's always chili cook-offs and the big question is beans or no beans? And I I put beans in mine. So but the other day a a very good friend of mine every year Mindy (17:05) No beans. Natalie (17:07) Beans. KELLY (17:15) Tim Holt, gotta love this guy. He's got the best setup at his house. It looks like a little Lukenbach. He has live bands and Natalie (17:20) to see I have to see it to to experience to believe it. So whoever whoever Tim is, I'm just saying. Mindy (17:23) Name. KELLY (17:24) I'll let you know I'll let you know. Yep, I'll let I'll let you know the next time 'cause he has not only a chili cook off but he has an oyster thon where you come out and it's an all day affair. Anyway, yes, I will I will Natalie (17:35) For DGX all over the place. Let's go. KELLY (17:38) Yes, I'll ex I'll extend the invitation to you. But anyway, so I do a I do a little bit of a different chili. I do a white chili. And it it and it's well but but and it's made with chicken, so it it's different. But I wanna just to be different, I wanted to enter it. I wanted to enter it into his chili. Mindy (17:46) Not Texas. Natalie (17:53) Then we might have. Is that some Louisiana stuff that you're bringing in here? Like with that that white stuff? KELLY (17:59) no, I honestly I a actually yes, yes, actually I got it out of a Louisiana cookbook. So anyway, but I I put my own little twit put my own little twist on it, but so I wanted to enter it in there. I wanted to enter it just for just to kind of throw a little twist in things. But it has great northern beans, which are the white beans, and and it he was following the the Texas chili cook-off rules and he said Natalie (18:06) Real. Mindy (18:12) That's what I think about beans. KELLY (18:28) He said, you can make it and bring it, but you can't enter it in the, you know, in the contest. So the contest there, he he followed the Texas, the Texas rules, and it says that Texas chili has no beans. So, you know. I I just I to me I've had chili that's meat and just chili seasonings. I'm like, the so the to me the beans just kind of add a little extra s texture. So I don't know. Anyway, so I I either I'm good either way. Natalie (18:52) Texture. KELLY (18:57) I do I do cook mine with beans though, so Mindy (18:59) Whenever it is cooler, we should do like a little chili cook-off and do a live podcast. That would be super fun. And I'll have Travis make his chili. Kelly, you can make yours. Natalie, you make yours. So Travis worked for Schlumberger years ago, and they always had a chili contest and he would go different places with them and his chili always won. And his is no beans. And but he has a special secret ingredient that makes it a little more meaty. It is a meat, but it's a different one. So, you know. What is the show me state? Missouri, I think the show me state. So we'll Missouri it and we'll, you know, I'll have them cook it for y'all so y'all can try it. But how fun would that be when it cools off to do something like that and then have a live podcast? Natalie (19:28) Yes, yes. KELLY (19:33) That'll be good. That would be fine. Natalie (19:38) So we did a charity golf tournament and brought in chili cook-off people because they're always looking for cook-off places like to go to and to have host. And so we did Courtney's Crusade is a charity that I did a lot of work with, and we would raise thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of dollars. not as much as the rodeo but we would have them come out and cook, and it was a lot of fun to have them. And especially with me growing up in Terlingua West Texas. You know, that's where I met Willie Nelson and I got to dance was the Terlingua Chili Cookoff, which you can't get any more Texas and Chili than the Terlingua Chili Cook-Off. Too bad I was like four and five and didn't really learn too much, except that Willie Nelson was my favorite artist because a brown eye he would always sing on the road again. And he did dedicate the brown eye girl to me as we as he sang that to me, but we also danced. So not that I have special memories of Terlingua that they've now ch changed into a charming little golf town in the desert. Like, but we did have when the girl asked if I rode my horse to school, I'm literally thinking back to Terlingua, and this is a part of my business speech for the rodeo. We had to tie our horses up to the hitch and post at the saloon where my mom was a saloon girl. And she had the big red and black saloon outfit on and all that. I should I should send it to you to upload or put it in one of these. KELLY (20:38) Wow. Natalie (20:59) But she was a saloon girl and her girlfriend Millie was a saloon girl and they're sitting next to Gary Busey. They were all down there filming Barbarossa. And but just that whole like fairy tale lifestyle. Like my babysitter rowed across from Mexico on the boat, you know, and they would watch me at the at the apartment and then they'd row back. And sometimes I'd go to Mexico and get the sugar cokes and go to their little village and stuff. But I have these like fond memories of Terlingua catching horny toads and tarantulas. Just a whole Different lifestyle that they've now turned into a resort town and taken that they've kept the saloon and all of that though. KELLY (21:38) say that Mindy (21:38) Okay. KELLY (21:38) when Chili's got when Chili's the the franchise got started that if you look at their history it's it's it they mentioned their I can't say Teringua chili. So I think that was the origin of Chili's the franchise. I might be wrong but but I want to say 'cause it always you talk about Chili's Terlingua Chili or but I I wanna say that that might be that has a big part of Chili's the franchise. So I'm sorry I interrupted you, Minnie go ahead. Sorry. Mindy (22:04) No, I think that's great. I don't know the answer to that either. But Natalie, you're talking about doing the hunting and the different stuff. So did either of you have one of your grandparents teach you how to snipe hunt? Natalie (22:16) Snipe hunting is is definitely a very very real I mean did you ever go snipe hunting, Kelly? Mindy (22:17) Is that a Texas thing? I don't know. KELLY (22:23) No. My my grand all my Natalie (22:25) we gotta take her snipe hunting. We gotta go snipe hunting. Mindy (22:27) We're gonna take our snipe hunting. So we're not gonna tell you about snipe hunting on the podcast. You're going to have to stay tuned. And it may be her gr her her granddaughter that we may have to you know, have do this. So or your soon to be granddaughter. But we're definitely gonna have to do the snipe hunting. KELLY (22:45) Yeah. Natalie (22:45) So Chili's got was the founder Larry Levine opened the first location in Greenview Avenue, Dallas, inspired by the laid-back community vibe of the annual Terlingua Chili Cook Off. So inspirational. KELLY (22:58) Okay. I knew Terlingua was in there somewhere. So yes, yes. So okay, so we talked about the chili. a couple one thing that we are known for is of course our Bluebell ice cream. right right there in Brenham, Texas. It's just a couple couple hours up the road here. the creamery is there and you can go in and take tours and and they give you this little spoons where you can try all the different types of ice cream. So that's definitely gosh, you know, one of the one of the Texas staples down here. but another one, of course, chicken fried steak, kalachis, pecan pie, but water burger. We used to be known for the water burgers, opened 24 hours a day. What a wada W-H-A-T-A, What A T A, A T A, Wada, Whataburger. You can't miss it. It's the big orange and orange and white A-frame. But recently. Mindy (23:37) Water or water? Natalie (23:39) What a KELLY (23:52) They sold out to some people up in Chicago. So I think it's a little bit outside of Texas. But that's the one thing that we used to be so excited about when we finally come from out of state back into Texas. We'd try to find the first Whataburger I don't really under it's great food. I love it. I don't really understand what the big hype about the burgers is. They're great, but yeah, it was just kind of one of those things I guess because it was just so just local to Texas, you couldn't wait to get back in and have it. So yeah, that's Natalie (24:18) Whataburger versus In N Out. Like have y'all heard of In N Out? Yes. So In N Out does the Bible verse and their cups, like in the bottom part of their cups, which I like. I I just like Whataburger still. I think they have a good product at In N Out, but I still like Whataburgers. I love their spicy ketchup and their onion rings and things like that a lot better. So Mindy (24:20) Was just thinking in and out. Weren't they California and then they okay. KELLY (24:23) Well that Yeah. Mindy (24:40) yeah. They're taquitos. they're breakfast tacos. Hmm. KELLY (24:47) Yeah, yeah, so good. So good. But so a lot of things Texas Texas is known for. one one last one last thing, because I know we gotta wrap up here shortly. One last thing that that we're very, very proud of, of course, like I think Natalie kind of kinda tipped on a little bit, is our our music. we have a lot of great artists that got their start here. Willie Nelson, like like Natalie said, she got to meet him. I grew up with with Waylon Jennings, he was from Littlefield. and I've got a lot of his memorabilia. If if you're watching the podcast, you might can look over my right shoulder and yes, I do have Rip stand behind me. He's our guest, he's our very silent guest today. But over Rip's shoulder is some of the platinum records that from Waylon that that my aunt so graciously let me have. but the most notorious and famous, George Strait. You know, the king of country music got his cheer chores, cheer apparently, apparently my my Mindy (25:41) Years to George. Natalie (25:44) Cheers, George. KELLY (25:46) So yeah, George Strait got actually one of his first concerts was in San Marcos or New Bromfels, I'm sorry, Green Hall, and it's G-R-U-E-N-E, a great place, oldest dance hall in Texas. And that's where he got started, and it just kind of snowballed. And then was it Eddie Rabbit was supposed to play at the Houston Rodeo. And something happened and he got sick and he couldn't. So George Strait happened to be in the right place at the right time and they had George come in and cover for Eddie Rabbit and the rest is history. And he is just continuing to be fabulous music and damn good looking cowboy in them Wranglers Natalie (26:31) You know, if George needs us or wants us to come do a podcast with a little local Texas podcast, I'm just throwing it out there. Cause if you don't throw it out in the universe and you don't ask and put it out there, you won't ever get. So George, George's people, if y'all'd like to do a little southern thing with us ladies, we absolutely love it. So we even come to you. KELLY (26:35) Yes, yes. We're not particularly George, Robert O'Keen, Kat Mindy (26:49) You know. KELLY (26:51) Green, you know, you know, any any of those guys. And a lot of the new what is the new yes. Mindy (26:54) Well Cody Johnson. Think Cody Johnson. Now I don't know this Natalie (26:57) Joe. Mindy (26:58) for sure. Natalie, you might be able to help me Kelly, you too. Cody Johnson got to do the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. And I don't know if they were taking a chance ish on him as a new artist or if he actually subbed in, but there was some way that he got in and a lot of people didn't know who he was. And of course now he's absolutely huge. So KELLY (27:23) So this past year, he was the final act at the rodeo. And he had the biggest sale of tickets. He had the biggest audience. I think they said he even, I think they put a challenge up because I think he even outsold George Strait the last time George was here. And so I think they put the challenge out. Hey, George, you know, can't can you beat that? And I literally, I went to George. I didn't I didn't go to CoJo unfortunately, but you couldn't have fit another person in. in that area. So I don't know where they have to suspend them from the ceiling or something, I'm guessing, to put another person in there. But yeah, the Houston Rodeo and and that may have to be a totally different podcast, all the great that they do, but they have really opened up some doors for for some artists and you know, not only country artists, but they have Tejano Night, they have Christian Knight, they've got Pop, they've had Beyonce and Lauren Daigle and Kid Rock. Mindy (28:21) Bruno Mars. I'm so upset that I literally, when they had Bruno at the rodeo, I worked a shift that that evening. And our shift always ends right before the rodeo starts, and then you have the concert. And I went ahead and went home. It was super crowded. And I was listening to one of the radio stations that always plays the music of the artist. And I'm listening, and I'm like, wait, that's Bruno Mars? I love all of that. KELLY (28:22) Burning more. Mindy (28:49) I love that music. I wanted to turn around. I was like, I'm not gonna do it. But you say, like, what is one of the concerts you regret regret missing at the rodeo? And being a volunteer, I could have gone in for free. I'm still so upset. I miss seeing Bruno Mars at the rodeo and he did different outfit changes. His band was amazing. And I know that's not really Texas, but KELLY (29:01) Yeah. Natalie (29:10) So Texas artists. CoJo got a start from Sebastopol. Sebastopol, I'm sure I'm saying that wrong, Texas. So that's where he's from. Another one I was thinking of is Clay Walker, Beaumont, Texas. co huh. KELLY (29:25) Yeah. Mark Chestnut. Mark Chestnut. I think I I think I I don't know. I think he's from Texas. I don't know where, but I think I think Natalie (29:30) Where's he from? Cowetzel is from Pittsburgh, Texas. These are some these are some small like towns that these gentlemen grew up in. Mindy (29:44) Speaking of small towns while you're looking, Natalie, I'll never forget I was driving through and somehow, I don't know how I got here, I ended up first. I don't know if I ended up in Cut and Shoot and I called my husband. I was like, my gosh, there's a Cut and Shoot The next thing I know, I'm in Paris. Not that Paris. I'm in Paris, Texas. I'm like, how do you go from cut and shoot to Paris? But I did. Little towns in Texas. Natalie (29:58) Ha ha. KELLY (30:05) Yep. Natalie (30:05) So Beaumont. KELLY (30:06) Yep. One of my one of my one of my girlfriends in physical therapy school was from Cut and Shoot So but we have like we said we have George Strait we have Willie Nelson, Janice Joplin, phenomenal singer. Selena. And Selena, God rest her soul, actually started growing up here in Lake Jackson. So she's from Lake Jackson. So if you watch if you watch the show Selena that starred Jennifer Jennifer Lopez, fabulous. I never watched it until Mindy (30:11) Over. KELLY (30:34) Our friend L'Donna said, put it on the plane one time we were flying. I loved it. It was great. She Jennifer Lopez did a phenomenal job. But I was surprised in the very beginning. It said something something Lake Jackson, Texas. And I thought, my gosh, I forgot about that. So right here in our backyard, again, like we said, Beyonce, but another true icon is Stevie Ray Vaughn. So, you know, we We produce a lot of good things here in Texas. And as as you guys know, like I said, if you're watching, you can see Rip Wheeler over my over my shoulder. I did that because now his new show with Beth is now called Dutton Ranch and they're now in Texas. So I decided to ask Rip to join us and Natalie (31:14) So Usher and Travis Scott are from Texas. Travis Scott's from Houston. KELLY (31:20) Houston, yep. Mindy (31:20) I didn't know I I always have to say it when I hear Usher. Ursher. I didn't know Ursher was from Texas. Natalie (31:23) What's your? KELLY (31:24) sure. I now didn't I didn't know that either. I didn't know so it's it's all so for those of you who think that we're we produce all Texas and no, it's rap, it's classical, it's everything. It's so you know we are your we are your one stop shopping. So Natalie (31:42) Jean Autry? Wow. Sorry. KELLY (31:46) He did Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, right? Didn't he didn't he didn't read Yep. Natalie (31:49) Yeah. I think so. He did it I know there's I I don't know. I but yeah, Jean Autry a famous actor and singer, like so lots of lots of KELLY (31:59) Yeah. I didn't I didn't even think about looking at I didn't even think about looking act that act actors that were from here. Kelly Clark. Natalie (32:05) Yeah he did Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, here comes Santa Claus, Frosty the Snowman. KELLY (32:09) Yep. Yep. Kelly Clarkson is from here. yeah, there's there's several there's several very famous actors from here. So one of my favorites, Matthew McConaughey. He's a longhorn. He's a long get my finger down. He's Longhorn and he is in he's l actually right outside of Austin. You you can see you can see him on the sidelines at every you can see Matthew on the sidelines at every Texas game, so he still supports the Longhorns. But Natalie (32:12) Pantera. Mindy (32:22) Alright, alright. Natalie (32:28) What is that? A You know, I'm red, they're orange, maroon, whatever. Mindy (32:39) Let's talk about him for just a minute. How cool is that that he literally can do whatever he wants and he chooses to be a professor at UT? He's on the sidelines. It's just it he's just so such a cool guy. What's his book? Red light, green light, it's something. Natalie (32:39) His book Greenlight Greenlight said. KELLY (32:39) But yeah. Natalie (32:53) Green light, green green light, green light, green light or something. It's green light. All green lights. Mindy (32:56) Yeah. It it that's if if you're looking for a a good book, it's it's motivational, but it's very interesting also to hear his story and the triumphs and challenges and just so pretty cool. KELLY (33:07) And then one one of my one I don't know if she's from Texas, but she lives in all outside of Austin is Sandra Bullock. Love her. she lives outside of Austin. So but yeah, so lot lots lots of things to do and see here in Texas. 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