Just 4 Kicks: Wiglets & Piglets

In today's episode of Just 4 Kicks, DCC Miranda, Mickey Spagnola and Taylor Stern join the crew to talk about weddings, swamp tours, World War II and more.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is is Just
for Kicks, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at
the Star in Frisco. Now your hosts Judy Trammell, Hailey Anderson,

(00:28):
and Kelly Fenblast. Well, good afternoon, everybody. We are joined today.
Our sidekick is Taylor's stern. Judy Hayley and Taylor and I.
We promised last week and this week we're going to
keep that promise and talk about our recent adventure to
Louisiana where we took a swamp tour. Now, this is

(00:49):
just for kicks. It's kind of girl talk, but you
guys might want to listen. So we all donated p
not prizes. We all collected our pictures from the trip
to New Orleans. But it was absolutely a ball. It
was my favorite time in twenty twenty so far. It
was fun. It was it was out of our element,
so that made it even more fun to do something different.

(01:10):
We were the swamp Squad. That's right. You came up
with that swamp squad, which was a hoot. We need
to make shirts now, we need to do it. Yeah,
So we were going on. Part of our group was
going to go to a museum, and we opted for
the swamp tour. And when we first got there, the
brochure started boasting about this intimate twenty four passenger boat

(01:33):
that we were going to kind of sail away on
the It was the Pearl River, but it was also
the Honey Honey Island. Honey Honey Island Swamp Tour. Honey
and swamp don't mix. To me, it didn't mix, no,
And I'm so glad our. What was our driver's name,
Bam Bam, Bam bam was the best driver that he
was trying to drop you up in the ninth ward,

(01:54):
that's right, And you told him no? Think you know
because I was just fresh off my binge watching of
the Pharmacist on Netflix, and I was very familiar with
Saint Bernard's Parish and the going on goings on. But anyway,
so we get on a bus and we're going down.
We're gonna take our swamp tour. You guys dressed in costume,
y'all look like swamp friends. So what, Hayley, I thought

(02:18):
you looked a little bit more like Axel Rose. Honestly,
do we have some boat. Oh, there's us. That's us.
There's our swamp it's that's not a yacht, but the stories.
There's Hayley's Axel Rose. And by the way, note to self,
y'all were wearing extra large sunglasses to mask the amount

(02:39):
of fun you had had the evening before before the
swamp tour. But kudos do us for getting up and
going on the swamp tour. So first off, we loaded
onto this The boat was at a boat, I guess,
and we were low, like load of the water, like
just inches away from the water. I got a little
bit nervous when we first got on because swayed over

(02:59):
to the other boat and I'm like, you're going to
go down. I can believe is right out of the
gate with Captain Luca of Cajun Encounters. That's what this
thing's called. And I highly highly recommend it. And this
is not a paid advertisement. But the first thing we saw,
and you had to have good eyes. I wish i'd

(03:20):
had my binoculars, was how big would y'all say? That
alligator was? Within foot? Alligator nine foot? Yeah, I think
we have a picture of it. And it was on
the banks and it was a cloudy day. So for
the we learned a lot about the science of the
wildlife there. But since alligators are cold blooded and they
come out to warm to get their body's energy, YadA YadA,

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we there were only few alligator sidings, but we saw
one right out of the boat, literally, and it was amazing.
And even the homes weren't those homes that were built
above ground, Like just don't you feel like you were
in a movie or definitely it felt like a movie set.
And I don't think I would live. I'm one of
those homes. You don't think, so, I don't think I

(04:02):
would out. You're done there, painful fish off that house?
Holiday long, that would be fun. That's where you're going
to retire. Now we know your retirement home. It's on
Honey Island. Swaps Kelly live in the best life. Well,
I don't know about I loved the wildlife, I loved

(04:25):
the terrain, the flora, and I just though it's beautiful.
And we saw it and it was kind of cold
and a dirty day, but in this summer, I bet
it is amazingly beautiful. Cheety night. Now, we always laugh
about some of the old lady things we talk about,
but when we first got to New Orleans. We were
like so excited, not about Bourbon Street, not about beads,
not about parades, but the magnolia trees were they not beautiful?
The magnolia trees were beautiful. And we call that our

(04:49):
red tomato talk, green tomato talk. We were going to
write a book once. But that's what I want you
to write a book when when your grandma's you still go, oh,
aren't those pretty tomatoes. That's what we were doing with
the magnolia trees. Yeah. But Judy was so smart because
when I would look at her and we were all
lined up, all of us on that one side of
the boat, because it was you had to feel on

(05:10):
one side, yes, And when I look at Judy, she
was wrapped in her little shirtpa jacket, and she'd be like, look,
she looks so cold. She didn't look well, and of
course she looked picture perfects. But now we're gonna we
saw the alligator, and then we're gonna bust out and
pick up some speed and go on out into the

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Pearl River to find all the other things on the
brochures that they boasted. And that's when you start laughing
at me, because I had a moment where I kind
of had to hold hold onto my old hair and
you then I'll let you finish the rest of it.
What is what is that piece of hair? She's caught

(05:52):
her squirrel. I turned to Kelly and she's you know,
Judy's wrapped in her shirt. Their drop hearings on. Kelly's
just you know, hang. They're like, because I know it's
going to blow off in the swamp and then I'm
gonna just be left with a just a spray. When
y'all put ponytail little knots, they're cute. Mine looks like

(06:15):
a little little broccoli broccoli brustalfa broccoli. I stop a brocco?
What the flower the flower floor? It yea broccoli broccoli.
I was hanging out of my wiglet because now we're
picking up speed and you were laughing. I think we
have She was like, Yo, my wigglet might pahone the swamp.

(06:36):
It hang onto my wiglet, I mean, and it was almost,
it was almost there was a chance for it forget. Yeah,
So anyway, there is at least at least at least
own your truth. You know, I lost a wiglet in Mexico,
didn't I remember the story for a massage on the beach,

(07:00):
and have y'all ever had you know the massage? Who
started her feet and then they do your hands and
tout legs and I have this, and then the very
last part of the massage, they're gonna pull your rubber
band out of your hair and give you like a temple.
And I when she was going for that, I was like, no,
don't do it, don't do it, don't do it. And
I could feel or she was pulling that rubber band out,
and then there went my wiglet, and all of my

(07:21):
pride just got cooled right out, and it was it
was almost kind of one of those massages on display
because people could see anyway. When it was all said done,
and I knew my identity had been laws I started
asking for and she then all of a sudden, my
English and her Spanish weren't mixing. And there is an iguana,

(07:43):
one of those other ants they're in. There's something somebody
that has my wiglet. Here's even worse now the story
that I used to who's who's Who's not me? I
don't know about me? Who speaks amazed buzzing um. My
wiglets are no longer available at Alta. They have beautiful
blonde pieces. Of course, they even have great pieces Judy. Thanks, No,

(08:09):
we saw Judy in the swamp as well. I had to.
I had to go shopping on Instagram, which I don't do,
but I'm trying to learn. And anyway, I found some
on Instagram. And then you have to pick out your
color off of a picture, which that's never gonna work.
Guess what the name of my color is? Oh, I fire?
I thought auburn of all the right idea? Something a

(08:34):
glamorous red tongue. Was it like beef jerky or donkey brown?
I kid you not. On my children's life, my wig
color cuts donkey brown. So there you go. So we
haven't want to buy a gift now, but we saw it.
We saw the raccoon brown that your hair could be. Well,

(08:55):
speaking of raccoons, were any of y'all expecting to see
a raccoon swimming around in a swamp and that there
was like friendly? They came out of nowhere. I was
really genuinely now all kidding aside, I was very excited
about the wildlife we saw. Yeah, I was until the
hogs were swimming up close to you, and then you
were like, okay, okay, a little too close. The raccoons

(09:17):
entertained me and we have a picture because they were
just typical what you'd see the mask. There's the three
of us. There were three of us. We started laughing.
We were like, there's Haley and Taylor and Kellen. They
were like, where's Judy and there's Blondet. Look at our drops.
We're gonna see it racing there some day with raccoon

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like a pirate. Anyway, So we saw the raccoons and
then I think the highlight we saw that we heard
these amazing stories from Captain Luca did y'all. I really
really touched by the full adventure. Great, but when he
started telling us he stopped the boat, our swamp yacht.
When he stopped our swamp yacht, and when he talked

(10:03):
about Hurricane Katrina and his family and the paths and
the cuts and the river and all the staffage, and
we were in the eye of the storm. Yeah, we
were right there. He took us to the exact spot
where the eye of the storm, where it was completely untouched.
Isn't that crazy to see those cuts through the river.
And I think he said that they had eleven boats.
That was their families, their families, lively livelihood, which when

(10:27):
they did oyster, they did oysters and stuff. And anyway,
his stories were amazing, And besides seeing raccoons and alligators
and hanging onto wiodlets and our highlights coming up when
we talk about these wild boars, but wow, I was
so inspired by his story of survival and and the
folks of New Orleans, and I left with a much

(10:48):
greater sense of appreciation, respect and suffering that they are
still going there trying to rebuild close to twenty years
in twenty twenty four, it will be two years. Yeah,
is that right? That's crazy. So then Captain Lucas started
telling us something about don't stick your hands out of
the out of the swamp yacht because he'd had a

(11:11):
little insta with a younger child and a hog. And
I turned to one of our co workers and we
both were like, because we I'm very curious, Kelly on trips,
very curious. But it was like a hog, what are
do hogs swim? I mean, I know you and I
thought they were only eating nothing round but they were

(11:31):
in the y MCA class and yeah, it did not
and then it's not not only is it not the
big black hogs, the mythical black hogs that I've heard
about in Texas. But there's this blonde Judy. You've got
blonde friends in the swaps of well of Louisiana. But
you wanted to say, she was singing, that's your singing, Phoni.

(11:52):
That was that was my favorite. And yeah, that's off
my iPhone. I'm really I gotta give it to the
iPhones on this photography. I don't know how I did it,
but so excited, Hailey, you're with me. We started giggled
taking selfies. I mean, I'm a razor back, so it
was fun seeing on the hogs in the water. But
you've always just seen tusk the razor back in a cage. Well,

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you've seen hogs on in Arkansas, so it was interesting
to see it in the water. Have you seen them swim?
I have not seen in swim. That was that was
my first time. But it also noticed that she was
in a sense of motherly um responsibility. She definitely had
maternal instincts. She had some piglets running around that some nursing. Yes,

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and they and Captain Luka told us that these wild
boars have three litters a year, they have up to nine.
Did they call them pups or piglets? Pups, pickle, I
don't think they're biglets. Piglets are the piglets. Tweeters and tweeters.
Somebody tell us if if what's a baby wild? Yeah?
But nine times three, that's two twenty seven. Maybe he's

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in a year, Judy, that's a lot. That's a lot.
That's a lot. And so you can see where they
get they're infested. But and because she was swimming with us,
and I felt like she looked sweeter than the ones
that I've been told about, right, I wentn't getting close
to it. I was scared to take the selfie because
I did feel like they are pigglets. So what else

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did we see? There were? Now on a warm day
they said, off these Spanish moss trees that snakes are
just dripping from the trail, weren't. Well, that's one photo
that they showed earlier where I'm like this. That was
because do you remember, Judy, and we're all tinged well
on the yacht that we're on and we're just enjoying

(13:42):
the cruise. As we get this, you got real comfortable,
real comfortable, and then he's like, you know, and yeah,
yeah it was a cruise. We're cruison and he's like,
on warm days, you know, these snakes will actually pursue humans,
and I and I cient are they're gonna pursue humans?
And really they do. I put my hand up and

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I felt something that was like, no, I was scared.
We were all jumpy at that point. The trees, I mean,
they just they just encompassed the whole. The space was small,
very narrow pathways. The way they drove. Did you drive
a boat, yeah, sail at whatever you sailing and salling.

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But he still knew how to maneuver that boat unless
there was something we didn't see that was guiding us along.
Female captain out there, Captain Judy. Yes, now he knew
and I even looked it up just because I'm doing
my research. But the flora and the fauna didn't you
do you all know what fauna is? No, well, flora

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was the landscape, but um fauna is the wildlife, the living,
the animals, the living creatures. And we did see a
lot of living with teachers, including who did see the snake?
I couldn see it because I see it. I saw it,
just it was coiled up one on the green and
White plant. And most people that go on this, I

(15:07):
think probably think they're going to see a lot of alligators.
Who could get disappointed. But the captain Luca, he made
it so interesting. I was Yeah, his conversation was great.
It was so interesting, it was awesome. It was never
a dull mom shout out Luca. Yeah. Encounters and this
is not a commercial, but for just girl, what do

(15:30):
we get free tours for life? Yeah? I would like
to have seen the tree full of snakes, just to
see things a picture on Google Image. Anyway, we saw
great things. It was a great time. I would have
highly recommend. I'd take my kids back in a Heartbeatum,
but didn't he say, Leonardo, that's right, I've done the

(15:50):
swamp tour. Now we were on our our swamp yacht.
Was the twenty four passenger intimate group tour. You could
he just said a couple of weeks ago he had done,
Leonardo DiCaprio. I think that's it. And you guys, we're
all humble enough that we can just be out there
in our real wiglets and all and just lets to

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twenty nineteen back back to Just for Kicks. So now
we are joined by the one and only Mickey Spagnola
of Talking Cowboys, Cowboys and Sports Broadcast or Extraordinaire Dallas

(18:43):
Cowboys Cheerleaders judge and New Orleans Expert for those of
us that didn't know a darn thing about New Orleans.
Was my debut on this show. Well become Mickey. What
is yes, Welcome, Welcome to Just for Kicks. Right, it's
girl talk, but men should listen. They should and you
know sometimes our shows Just for Kicks too. We've spent

(19:08):
some great conversations with Mickey through the years, and yeah,
you have been on cheerlead calendar shoes in parts of
the part of our judging, so you've been exposed to
a lot of girl conversations. But something happened this past
weekend in New Orleans that really, when I had time
to absorb what really happened in the World War Two Museum,
I wanted to hear more about your experiences. So part

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of our group went to the World War Two Museum
and I'm gonna have Mickey talk about it. But what
was what was discovered or not discovered because you put
it there was is it a stone or it's a brick?
A brick. They made a sidewalk out of bricks next
a cross from where the D Day Museum is. So
there's two of them there now. The first one was

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the D Day Museum, which just involved with the invasion
on Normandy, and then a few years later they built
the World War Two Museum. They expanded it across the street,
so now you get a two for one if you
go to the museum. So I'm not sure if Hailey
saw it. Judy, I'm not sure you did either. But

(20:10):
tell us about this the brick that has your father's
name on it. When I saw that picture, just like yeah.
So what they did was when they to raise money
for the museum when they initially opened, they sold the
ability to buy a brick with whoever's name you wanted
on there to honor them from the D Day invasion.

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So we chose to put my dad's name on there.
The division he was in the ninetieth division, and then
D Day was June sixth of forty four, and he
landed on June eighth of forty four on Omaha Beach,
which was one of the beaches the guys landed on,

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so you know, the I guess fortunate unfortunate when they landed.
You know, there was a lot of Gis that were
killed on D Day, and you know, those bodies weren't
removed yet. So here's your introduction to World War Two
when you get off the boat and wade through the

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water and all these guys are I've already perished. Some
of them didn't even get to shoot their gun. Uh.
And and that was the interesting part of the D
Day Museum. And I don't think everybody knew that the
amount of casuals that it took place on D Day
until Saving Private Ryan the movie came out with Tom Hanks,

(21:38):
and then you understood the enormity and devastation that took
place on that beach. And the only reason they the
US was able to uh, you know, move into the
territory is they had more people, more soldiers than the
Germans could shoot. And that's not like a great uh

(22:03):
theory of war, right, Okay, let's just throw more people
at him and they can't kill us all. And so
when you saw that movie, you understood, uh, you know,
just the the death toll that took place when they
landed at Omaha Beach. There was four beaches they landed,
Omaha and Normandy and um it was another city, Utah

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Beach state name. Yeah, and your father two days after
D Day. Yeah, and that was so twenty five years old. Uh.
He basically enlisted at what that's what everybody was doing.
And he was first stationed after he went through UM.
The boot camp was uh in Galveston, and they were

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patrolling the Gulf the beach head there because they were
worried at that time that there were reports that the
Germans were sending submarines into the Gulf of Mexico. So
they were basically patrolling the sea wall there in Galveston.
And he did that for a while before they shipped
him over and then he was a survival survivor of

(23:12):
a prisoner of war. Yes. Uh, he fought at the
Battle of the Bulge. There was a movie and what
I didn't understand, so part of the World War Two Museum,
they have different sections for different parts of the war,
and they had one section on the Battle of the
Bulge and I didn't realize that it was fought in
the winter, like they had shots of it and snow

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all over the place and he ended up getting captured there.
The US troops ended up taking over that part and
helped them get on the road to Berlin to get
into Germany. But in the in that exercise he was
captured and ended up a prisoner of war for about

(23:56):
four months. Wow. Yeah, and survived. And it was funny.
So when we went into the museum, you guys in
the lobby where we bought our tickets on Thursdays, they
bring in World War Two veterans and you can talk
to him answered questions. Obviously, those guys survived. They had

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pictures and everything, and we were talking to a man
he was ninety eight years old and he flew a
plane and he showed a picture of one of the
anti aircraft missiles hit his his wing of his plane,
but it didn't explode. Wow. So when they landed, they

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took a picture of this big gash in the wing
and he's like, if it had gone off, I'm not here,
you know, talking to you today. So yeah, there was
several miracles. And I always refer to myself as the
miracle baby, right that he survived that to come back.
He didn't have kids because there wasn't a lot of

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guys they didn't survive that whole thing. I'm so glad
you got to see your father's. Yeah, I've seen the
bricks before, and it was very emotional because he passed
away before we were all supposed to meet in New
Orleans to see the see the brick and kind of
commemorate his memory. So for us, it was always emotional.

(25:25):
So anytime I got to New Orleans, I try to
go and step on it and uh say a little prayer.
So yeah, it's it's it's a neat thing. And they're
also and the other thing is the sidewalk survived Hurricane Katrina.
Oh wow, with all the devastation that took place in
New Orleans, the sidewalk, the bricks were all there. And

(25:45):
now they're they're making another sidewalk or and they're selling
more bricks that people can donate money for it to
get the person's name on there. And it's kind of
neat to look at all the different names on there.
And you usually when I go, I have to walk
around forever looking for the section where the brick is. Well,
last time, I said, you know what, I'm going to

(26:07):
take a picture of where it's at off the cycle,
of course, and so now I could just walk up
and I know where the segment is now it's just
trying to find the brick in there. So yeah, it's
a it's a really neat thing. And this is not
an advertisement for the sound infomercial today, but it it
is awesome. Yeah, and both museums. You probably can't do

(26:29):
them both in one day. You'll get worn out of
reading and listening because they have all these audio histories
that guys have come and recorded of their experiences. And
the lady that started us on our tour explained that
now they bring in guys that are still living World

(26:51):
War two, vets from D Day or World War two,
and they put them in the lobby and just let
them every Thursday just converse with the people coming in.
And they were really interesting. And I remember telling the
guy that, you know, my dad ended up being a
prisoner of war, and I never heard it this way,
I never thought of it this way. But he said, boy,

(27:12):
he got lucky, And I go, what do you mean
he got lucky? He goes, because if you survived the
prison camp, you didn't have to fight anymore, and so
your chances of getting killed were lessoned as long as
they didn't get you in the prison camp, because it
was no day at the beach and the prison camps.
I've got a it's like a sack, a gunny sack.

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And one of the guys that was in prison with
him made a log of all the different prison camps
and they got transferred to because they didn't want to
keep them in the same place. And then when the
Germans were retreating, they'd move them back and move them back,
and they would do it in these box cars at
night so they couldn't see where they were going. But yeah,

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he had like four or five different spots he was
in in those four or five months he was a prisoner.
So now was he married at that point? So no
letter writing back to He had met what was going
to be my mother before he went over when he
visited an uncle in Chicago and came back. And you know,
we've got letters that they that's to each other a blessing,

(28:18):
and I started reading one and I'm going, now, this
is too private. I can't read this. I think my
sister still has. But they collect things, so if anybody
has anything from a World War two veteran uh and
and it's of some significance. They'll take donations and they
put them in different displays and put the person's name

(28:40):
on there that who basically donated that. That's good. Yeah,
it's I mean, it's a fascinating museum. Mickey. You should
join us when we visit the veterans hospitals because we
have met people like you're describing. Remember this summer we
met um uh, the gentleman who was the seventy fifth
anniversary of the norm the invasion, and just I mean,

(29:02):
it's just yeah, such conversations. But you they would love
to talk to you about the Dallas Cowboys as much
you would want to hear about Well, just let me know,
I'd love to do that. And those guys, you know,
during that period of time, they didn't really talk about
it a lot. You know, it's like, you know, it
wasn't something you bragged about or whatever. And then when

(29:24):
my dad got older and he found this pow group,
it was like a deal and he joined it and
they would meet once a month and then they started
opening up to each other and telling their various stories
and they felt they at least these people understood what
I'm talking about and dumb us. We didn't ask enough questions.

(29:48):
You know. It was almost like it was a different
era where war was war and it was that's what
you did, right, and so we just kind of accepted, okay,
they went to war. Because if you think about it,
back in the day, all those World War two movies,
D Day movies, they they they kind of made it
look like we were the smartest people in the world,

(30:08):
Like we had this great sneak attack on the Germans
in France, and it wasn't really a sneak attack. They
were kind of ready. One of the things that I
do remember my dad telling me is that they on
before D Day, the night before, they sent paratroopers in
and they were going to get behind the enemy lines

(30:30):
and so have them surrounded. Well, they they misdropped guys.
Guys got caught in trees. The Germans saw him coming
and kind of like shot him out of the sky.
And then when we saw this stuff, that's kind of
what happened. The parattroopers. The guys that survived, boy, they

(30:51):
were really good because they were on their own once
they landed, and that's when the French people helped them
out and hit them out. So yeah, it was it's it's,
it's it's it's just a fascinating two museums that I
just recommended. We need to go back some Yeah, I
really want to go back. We couldn't fit it all
in and the week, I know, we couldn't enough time.
And you know, and like when we were in school,

(31:14):
and I don't know, Haley, how far you guys got
into us history, but it seemed like, you know, you
started with the colonies and the Revolutionary War, and then
right when you got to the World War Two, it's like, oh,
years over with. You know. Now we're going on to
fifth grade and they start over again, and we never

(31:35):
really got to One War two. That's why I do
appreciate I said this a couple of weeks ago, but
I do appreciate that about Hollywood. Whether they get the
facts correct every time, not always sure about that, but
to tell those stories and to let us see things
that we had not ever seen, or the stories told
in writings or letters or the collection of documents, that

(31:58):
that's what keeps these these historical moments alive. So I
appreciate fun for that. Speaking of sneak tacks, yes, and
New Orleans, we have one little golden nugget that we
that we've kept that we may use, but you took us.
So we'd been on we'd been on our swamp tour

(32:18):
and we were exhausted, and you had been on your tour,
and so we were all going back. Hayley was going
to go to the Pelicans basketball game, right. Jennie and
I were shutting down. I was going to go up
to the room and or a room service and watch
a movie. And then we ran into you and Douglas
and the lobby and y'all were just going to go
have one drink on a little um dive bar around
the corner. So we said, okay, twist our arm. We

(32:41):
did a turn and we followed you into what was
that charming room, the chart Room, dark, dark, seedy little
bar was charming. I actually loved it. It was dark.
It was so dark that I my eyes had to
just I couldn't see when we first got in there,
and Jennie kept snicking about something, Wait, do you see him?

(33:01):
What do you see? So then I couldn't see something,
but I heard that all of a sudden, this guy
sticks the stick in my face and I couldn't tell
what he was saying he had on a king's red velvet,
like a grand Grand Marshall Marshall crown, or I call
him a Freddie Mercury crown. Yeah, he's sitting there and

(33:22):
he's saying something to every female that comes by, and
he stuck this puppet in my face and he goes
dragon lady, and there would have said dragonfly on the
INDI you can't see because it was black, and so
I was a little offended. But then I realized every
person that's come in since then he's yelled at. So
we we took the liberty of recording him saying dragon ladies,

(33:42):
so we can have it forever more, just in case
the content of this show require if we're talking about
the Bachelor or something and somebody just wasn't all sugarplums
and fairies, bring out the dragon, bring out dragon lady,
but you or if Kelly gets mean or no, no, no,

(34:04):
I'm not going to own that. But remember Mickey, when
we look when you could see and she had these
pieces of paper all across the bar, and I was like,
what are those? I can't always him it's so dark,
and it was different pieces of different currencies from around
the world. The world that people have been there and
spent money, and they sailor's money up on the wall. Yeah,

(34:25):
because it was this large port in the forties and
when sailors came through, they'd bring them currency, just kind
of as a as a memento. And you walk in
there and you realize, wow, this is really history. You
just kind of get chills realizing what what did that
person go through to get that that piece of paper
up in this in this place. But it's a neat place,

(34:47):
it is, really And yes, I did think it was
charming because when we walked in, there was this super
cool jukebox and it was playing Sunny and Share and
remember the music choices. We heard Sunny and Share, Spinners,
the Spinners, Rubber band Man. Yeah, it was a good collection, Haley.
It probably would have been your choice, all types of music.
I think it was fun. It was is real throwback.

(35:08):
But anyway, the only other entertainment in their Haley, was
a TV upon the wall, and not a fancy one either,
an old one and they played black and white movies.
And when I went in there the day before, it
was a Ronald Reagan was in one of the movies.
Young Ronald Reagan. By the way, Mickey, thank you for

(35:30):
joining us today sharing that story. Yeah, awesome, is amazing,
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you see you down. Miranda dccat bill Arkansas Raised University,

(38:00):
Arkansas Graduate. Welcome, woo big thanks for having me. Hayley
is going to do the honors of visiting with you.
Razorback to razorback about your recent change in life, big celebration. Yes,
so kind of just tell me about the wedding and
about how you met your now husband and kind of
how he asked. Okay, So my husband's name is Christian,

(38:22):
and we met back in college when we were only
twenty years old, and we had all of our classes
together because we were both the same double major in
the Business College, both honors program, so we had every
class all day long, all week with one another, and
we had been a couple of semesters in a row
on projects with one another. But I was still kind
of getting over you know, high school boyfriends, things like

(38:43):
Chad and so I wasn't quite ready. But then the
summer between sophomore and junior year, he was a student
mentor for the People Orientation mentor for the New freshman
coming in. So he was still in Fayetteville, and that's
where I'm from. So we both spent the summer there
and he took me on a hike and made me
a Vegim love the veggie sandwich? Did it right? The

(39:03):
veggie sandwich? Oh yeah, that's what he may always veggie sandwich.
And that was that was the deal on the hike,
and then I was a vegetarian, you know. I mean
we had just been in a couple of projects. So
I was like, Okay, this boy's been listening to me.
And so that was really sweet. And then so we
dated all the way for their six and a half
years later. Actually I guess we were only dating five

(39:25):
and a half years when he proposed we had bought
a house. He said, house or ring. So I said,
let's buy a house. We've already been together five and
a half years. We can get married later. And then
when we were fixing up the house, he was painting
it and he was he took me to dinner and
he said, let me show you the house. I was like, Christian,
I was just there this morning. How much could have
been done since this morning? And he was like, Marina,

(39:45):
I finished painting the house. You have to come seats.
And so eventually we went over there, and I guess
I wasn't going the direction he wanted me to, So
you weren't expecting this. This wasn't one of those Oh no,
I grandmable, let me documents, get me today, it's going
to be today. Well good, no, I do okay, that's
always fine, not knowing. Yes. I remember Amy asking me,
Amy on the team asking me. I was like, oh, no,

(40:06):
it'll be a couple of years. You know, he'll probably
wait till after I'm done with DCC. And then he
popped the question like the next week. I remember her
asking me that like the week before. But we got
to the house, and so the way he got me
to go in the direction he wanted me to go
was he said, let me show you the yard. I
just mow it. Yeah, And obviously John was pushing me

(40:28):
the right way because he was like yeah, and so
I was so excited. I was like, yeah, let me
go see the yard. I was so excited, and I
went out there. I immediately saw a sign that said Miranda,
will you marry me? And there were roses and his
uncle was Hidi in the corner. Who's a photographer to
take our pictures. And you had Papa Rozzi family Papa
and awesome. And then we went back to his family's
house and my family was there and his family was

(40:49):
there and we all celebrated, had veggie sandwiches. Oh, I'm sure,
I'm sure. Where is Christian originally from. He's from Dallas,
so he's Dallas. You're Arkansas. But y'all were freshmen together
at markets. Yeah, there's a lot of dollars people that
go to Arkansas. Well, y'all razor, my whole family went,
and I when I was going through it was in

(41:09):
state tuition, so I was like, okay, I'm in right.
What is the thing y'all do? Pig suey whatever it is,
y'all do it. I guess all call you call the hogs?
What can y'all call the hogs here? Or is that
something that's sacrilegious unless you're on will sound a little bit. Hey,
we just swam with hogs. You don't have to if

(41:31):
you don't watch you I've just never seen it live.
We did just the last one, the third one. There's
there's more than one. Yeah, so it's is it choreographed
you'll keep your arms are from the bottom and you
swoo and then pigs sue and you get three times
and then after the last one you go raise or bats. Oh,

(41:53):
pigs sue, raisor backs you're eggy small, Yeah, I mean
some of us. And so that happens at every touchdown
or just every moment or when does when done? When
does a Arkansas razorback person do the hog call? I

(42:13):
think sport events. Yeah, it's like you'll do it. It's
to raise the spirits at a sporting event. So if
you know for a time that it's a rally, and
it's really amazing when you're in the basketball arena at least,
I feel like that's the most special because it's three
six c all the way around, and so when you're
just in the atmosphere and the whole place is doing it,
it's just something that it still gives me chills just

(42:34):
even thinking about it, just having the whole arena do
it all together. So is this done at your wedding?
That's exactly and it was. So that's how we tapped
off the end of the night. So for our send off,
after Christian and I had our final dance, um, we
almost everybody that was there except for the turrent DCC.
I feel like almost everybody went to Arkansas, and so
we did the hog call to send us off, and

(42:55):
I saw a lot of those DCC jumping in, so
I think they were a little jealous of missing Ja
jump in. I don't think so. I think Taylor J
being our resident Aggie. Yeah, so you said your last song,
what were what was your what were your song? Your
first dance, your last dance? You're well, we were talking
about sorry what did that means? We talked trying did

(43:18):
you know? But we did talk about one subject. Well.
Christian surprised me with the first song and the last song.
And I had heard the first one before and they
were ADM songs and they were really special. But I
just I don't know the name of them, because I
you know, he picked them out and they were beautiful songs,
but I don't know the names of them, and I
feel terrible that I don't. I think I would have

(43:39):
to be involved to choosing my first song. I don't
know if i'd been like here you going, well, I
approved it. He played it for me, but it's just
not something that you know, It just went it's not
your big I must control this list, huh. I left
all the music up to Christian because that's the big thing.
I actually sit in silence all the time. People make
fun of me for it. I don't listen to music,
like when I'm in the car, when I'm working out.
I just like to listen in my brain, I guess.

(44:02):
And so music is just not because she talked so much,
She's got a lot of song in her own head,
and so I know, I just don't listen to music
a lot. So that was a big thing. I left
that up to Christian. He d got to pick the
DJ and the song list for the whole night. That's
awesome and he loved doing this. Son. Who picked the
wrong song for your daddy daughter dance? Well, I think
it was partly my fault. My dad told me about

(44:24):
six months ago that he wanted to do my Girl,
and then but he did, I know, And then I
think throughout the process, you know, things are not confused.
And the day of the song that was played was
Brown Eyed Girl, which I still love. It was still
a great song. But I was out there dancing with
my dad and he was like, this isn't the song
I was like, oh, I'm sure there's a lot of

(44:45):
in the moment wedding surprises that so many this isn't
what I've planned, but there are I was telling Judy
earlier there was a couple of wrong items on our menu.
But you know, in the grand scheme of things, it's
like the whole day was so magical. At the end
of the night, me and Christian couldn't stopped talking about
how much fun we had, how everything was perfect. And
then you know, the next week you start thinking about

(45:05):
all the little things and you can get caught up
in it. But I think at this point, now that
we're a couple of weeks out of the wedding, we've
just decided. You know, the wedding was perfect. We came
away from it feeling like we couldn't have done anything better.
It was magical and everybody that we wanted to be
there was there supporting us. So it was a great day.
That's good. Yeah, let's talk about your dresses. I saw dresses.

(45:27):
I saw three different dresses. There were three different dresses.
I like, I'm actually a bargain shopper, and so I'm
really proud of myself because all three of these dresses
we brought out of bargain. So you know, if you
want more information on how to buy a wedding dress
and a bargain, hey, I hasn't enough feels dressed for
me one please. So so I had one dress that
was the traditional dress for a Catholic church wedding to

(45:48):
walk down the aisle, but you know, strapless, it was fitted.
I was like, I can't dance the way I want
to dance in this at the reception. And so actually
my mom convinced me of getting multiple dress. So you
had your walk down the aisle princess dress, princess dress.
Everything I wanted was it mermaid tight or mermaid tight
tool and princess mermaid tight. And I had a little

(46:08):
tiara that I loved At first when I saw I
was like, oh, Mom, I don't need a tiara. And
then I was like, no, I'm a princess. I need
a tiara. And so the whole princess traditional Catholic church
dress on the screen and then oh yeah, and that's
me with Gina, And then it did you have the
short Catholic ceremony or the extended Catholic ceremony? The extended
is about an hour and fifteen minutes, so everybody was

(46:31):
to through it well. And what really took made a
tape launder was because we when we did address to
the wardrop changes Well, that didn't happen un till afterwards.
But during communion I noticed that we just had a
lot of people who were there that were also Catholic.
Union depended up taking about twenty minutes on its own.
And then for the reception, I changed into more of
a tool flowy I call it my like fairy butterfly dress,

(46:52):
and that was good for dancing in and then dancing
at the very end of the night to draw out
because our reception ended at ten o'clock, I got just
a short dressed to be comfortable in for when we
went out, and that was your walk away through rice
or flowers or sparklers or whatever they called the hogs.
Then you called the hogs and then you went away
and people tossed rice, flowers, sparklers, nothing deal when we

(47:14):
were leaving. That's so we did the hog call. They
don't do rice anymore weddings. I haven't seen it in
a while. Well, and since we got married at a
place that was like a botanisal gardens. You can't really
throw anything because you can't ruin the environment, the atmosphere
that's there, can't have balloons, can't have no balloons. Really sparklers.
I just attended a wedding in Mexico and they had

(47:34):
sparklers on the beach and it was so pretty. Speaking
of environment, I know this is something near and dear
and close to you, and I'm so impressed because you've
made your passion now your career path in protecting the environment. Right, yes,
And so I just started and well since I've been
back from the Honeyman, so everything's still new and I'm
still training and learning. And it's actually a volunteer thing

(47:55):
that Christian has been involved in for the last six
months and I'm joining now as well. And it's just
to work on a climate change build to get it
passed through to legislation HR seven sixty three if you
would like to look it up. But it's a build
to you know, move forward with our environment. It's something
that me and my husband are very passionate about that.
You know, you might not think what you're doing today
as a big deal for what we're doing today, but

(48:17):
you think about your kids, and your grandkids and your
great grandkids, and we need to leave a good world
for them. And so something I'm very passionate about, do
you see yourself as a lobbyist well volunteer thing is
it's lobbying to get this bill passed. And I never
thought I would go into anything political, but it's more
just my moral standpoints on things have led me into
this direction that a big thing needs to change, and

(48:40):
we're the United States of America, and we can set
the right pathway for the whole world. And this is
a small step that I can take to help. Speaking
of small steps and Miranda's and I mean this isn't
just lip service, this is truly her passion. We've seen
it play out. You asked me several months ago on
the football field, could we change our trash or add
to our trash our waste manager recycle bins because the

(49:02):
chailers drink a lot of water they're in plastic bottles,
and also with our health club, and so we are changing.
I don't know if you've seen it yet up in
the studio. I haven't seen it yet. So we have
a little bitty recycle ben and it's in your name.
I'm going to call them the Moran cans. Yeah, you know, yes,

(49:23):
our building where we have them. I want to make
them esthetically maybe work with our locker room a little
bit better, but we have them for recycle in the studio.
Maybe since you've been gone on your honeymoon, this happened,
I know, oh yeah, I've been gone. We'll do the
same in our locker room. So you you definitely raise
awareness and you put your money where your mouth is.

(49:43):
And good for you for pursuing your passions, especially those
that matter to our planet. You've made your first change.
Thank you. I'm very excited. You have to put that
on my resume. You should, Yes, you should. Where did
y'all go for your honeymoon? We went to Puerto Rico.
It was amazing and it actually we went to a

(50:04):
little island called Vaka's right off the east coast, and
it reminded me just a Bimini. I thought it was
right back there. It's like four miles by six miles.
We rode golf carts everywhere and it was just gorgeous.
It felt like we had the whole island ourselves, and
so but we chose Puerto Rico. We chose there. We
stayed in the city of San Juan, but we were
very close to Old sand Juan, so we have things
to do in a city. We went to a rainforest

(50:26):
for a day in height we just knew that. We
tried to adjust it on a beach for a whole week.
We're not those type of people. So we went and
walked through the rainforest on Valentine's Day and got poured
down rain on but it was beautiful and lovely and
we made it all the way to the peat and
then we were able to Old sand Juan and their
food there. It's just the best. If you like mashed potatoes.
There national dish is called my Phone Grow and it's

(50:50):
mash plantains and then they met it with either seafood
or other types of meat. So if you ever go
to Puerto Rico, make sure you get my Phone Grow.
It's delicious. What go mafhone grow. So it's my phone
as in a telephone, my phone go kind of m
f o n And it's enough food for two people
to share. Don't order two meals for two people. That's awesome.

(51:15):
Did we have any other honeymoon questions or I think
that was all we got for how many cheerleaders were
in your wedding? At your wedding, make me honest for
my audition's speech. Yes, so we had. I actually had
two of my DCC that were my bride's name, so
Gina and Caroline. Gina me and her the same year,
and we just hit it off right from the start
our first year in training camp, and we really became

(51:37):
best friends. Last year when we were both in Lacey's
group and we stood by each other, and she's the
best person to stand by and learn to dance with.
We had just such good vibes with one another, and
we've just learned to love and care for one another
for so much more than just DCC. Outside of DCC,
we talk every day. And then Caroline is a year
younger on the team. There's there. They are. Caroline's my

(51:57):
boot buddy along with Taylor and and Me and Haroline
obviously have just gotten so close through the boot buddy situation.
So that just shows how wonderful that installation has been
with DCC. Having the boot buddies, you get so close
to one another. And then I had Molly and Lexie,
who since I chose my bridal party, which was almost
a year ago because I was engaged for a year
and a half. Leze and Molly and I have all

(52:19):
become so close to one another. So they were in
the bridal party as well. That's awesome. And then twenty
eight DCC were there at the at the wedding. That
was great, and y'all did thunderous and we did so
and the point and so actually I was a little
nervous there was a break between them the ceremony and

(52:39):
the reception, and me and Christian we whipped out a
little sauce of routine at the beginning, and so we
danced to that, and while we were practicing for that,
I was like, Okay, hold on, will you play thunder
I need to practice one because I might have anybody
to look at. But I didn't mess up. It was wonderful.
And all those are videos I'm gonna dare mess up.
You could say everyone else was messing up. Everybody else
messed up behind me. And one of my favorite moments

(52:59):
that whenever we were doing at the kid line, me
and Gina were facing one another and I just had
tears start welling up because she's just one of those
people who I was gonna be in my life forever
and she's one of my best friends. And we hud
right before we started the kid line and it drought
on video and this was Gina. You and Gina were
tearing up, oh and so, and then we hud right
before We're like, oh no, we don't drop our poms
and start. But it was really special. That's awesome. Palms

(53:23):
and kick lines and palms and kick lines, wedding dresses
and I know, yeah, it was, you know, And I
just remember I was talking to my whole family before this,
and I remember my first day sitting at tryouts four
years ago and you were like, look, and Kelly was said,
look around. Some of these girls are going to be
your best friends, your sisters, your bridesmaids. And then to
have four of them up there with me, but then

(53:45):
twenty eight even just there at my wedding and the
rest were there with me in spirit. I got so
many techs that day from my DCC family, And you
just don't realize when you first start this team how
much of a life changer it's going to be. I've
got to start a collection of the Broadle pictures because
every year I've said I'm not going to say that
this year at auditions it's just sounding cheeky. People aren't
going to really believe me. And then last year Lexie

(54:06):
did a video from her wedding and it's it's true.
Y'all are all to have a collection of the Yeah,
it's awesome. I think Lacy's the next one, and I
know she has one or two in there as well.
So I feel like everybody it's shown tried and true
that it does end up becoming a reality. Well, thank
you for joining us, and congratulations on the wedding and

(54:28):
the honeymoon. Thank you, and we'll see rehearsal shortly. Yes,
just then for other people that want to have Miranda's
dream come true. We are still having our prep classes
on Friday nights, getting ready for auditions on May second,
and all that's on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. We've got
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a little bit of time for some questions. Yes, we

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have a few minutes left, so I'm gonna go for
two today and then the rest we can start back
up for next week. So for Judy, we have someone
from J. C. Himes. What is your most memorable moment
with our military veterans and us SO tours. That's that's
a good one. And an easy one for me because
my second year as a cheerleader, we landed on an

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aircraft carrier, the USS Constellation, which is an experience in
its own to land on an aircraft carrier with three
to five thousand troops on it and perform for them.
But it was also in the middle of the Indian Ocean,
and they had to keep the battleship group moving. They
couldn't stop for us to do our shows. So they
somehow three ships together and they all kept at the

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same speed, but we never stopped. It all kept going
and we performed our US show on the middle ship
and you could see the sailors hanging off about the
There are two ships. The ship that we were on,
they put cardboard down for us perform on and it
was just a really great experience. That's awesome. Okay, one
more question, Kelly. This is for you from Eric Randall. Oh, yes, hey, Kelly,

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if you were living in a TV sitcom right now,
what show would you be on? Oh this isn't right now,
but it's a flashback. I'd be on. I love Lucy
Lucy Ball. I have a lot of Lucy Ball moments
in my life that people don't might not normally associate
me with, but definitely I love Lucy perfect. Well, let's
wraps up today for our Twitter and then we'll get

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back to those questions that we're doing to get too
next week. Yay. Well, this was fun, fun, lots we
talked about. Okay, then we'll see everybody next week on
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