Was it mean to me to be Southern?
We love to put
rhyme to the reason we're good storytellers,
and that's what a good storyteller does.
It puts rhyme to the reason I like the poetry
down here.
I like the
the sense of time. I like how 60 minutes feels
like an hour.
We're in a rush for the right reasons,
and we got a pretty good threshold for for not
being in a rush for the wrong reasons.
Hey, Matthew, I'm Camilla and welcome to our Southern living
Cover,
photo shoot, cover, shoot, cover,
shoot, cover, shoot. It's the same thing.
And it's the cover photos and a photo photos.
It's a photo. Shoot. Covers
all, Shoot. Welcome.
My mom raised us on,
you know, don't watch somebody do what you can go
out and do for yourself.
Get out there and go
go do it. Go go find out.
Go win, go lose, go find out.
And I don't think that's not only particular to how
I was raised.
I think there is something in the
it's in the Southern
ethos that that's synonymous with that.
Here I was saying of all the places I've traveled,
I've gotten more people come up to me about my
book,
Green Lights, even more so than my films.
That's very true. Across the South
from Texas all the way
Louisiana, a lot in Alabama,
a lot in Mississippi that are coming and going like
keep writing. The depreciation of the written
word. We're really good bullshitters too.
That's true.
We love a good story and we all believe that
hey,
if it ain't true at all to be or
make it better. Yeah, that's the difference is why I
love a bullshitter over a liar.
Liar doesn't let you know they're bullshitting.
Bullshitter has that little twinkle on the eye.
Like, go with me, man.
Come on, can you go with it?
The most requested recipe in the house
for me to make it will be by Mama and
Matthew.
It will be the no male coleslaw.
Yeah, but what's the one with by the kids is
the honey chicken.
Kids are running around like around the time like celebrating
and
Levi's, like I ate 21 pieces.
I was like, I ate 17.
I'm going to say when you're forgetting it's fun shrugging
off.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
That's Brazilian dish, the chicken.
The Korean chicken's drinking. And it's yeah,
it's it's simply good. But we can't eat that one
every night.
What are some things that mom Max is known for
as a grandmother?
Did you know what I found out
the other night? Three generation homes.
In three generation homes, the kids live longer,
parents live longer, and their grandparents lives longer.
I knew that. I did not know that.
I knew that She's 91 and obviously kicking ass.
And she's got many reasons.
One is because her optimism,
it's not delusional. It is survival.
It is. The answer is yes.
That's the word she lives off of.
Another one that she's told me before she goes,
I just can't imagine not being here.
It's a pretty good one.
Another one is she does not stress.
Oh my gosh, she doesn't.
He does not stress. I've never seen someone forgive themselves
quicker than MoMA.
It's very true. But you know,
big part of that is
this philosophy that she has of turn the page.
Yeah, I have learned big time with her of like,
just turn that page girl.
Just turn that page. And she taught that to our
kids as well.
Come on. Yes, turn it.
Yeah. You got in trouble.
You did something wrong. Go on her from my handle.
Turn the page. Turn the page.
No grudges. No grudges. You do not go to bed
with any kind of grudge on anyone else or yourself.
That's my mind,
what I appreciate about Marfa and this whole trans Pecos
desert area.
The desert is just something I I have a love
affair with.
The desert's like a cat.
It cleans itself. It's manicured,
even. The dirt's clean. Nothing.
It's humid, nothing rots, no bacteria.
It's night time. It comes alive,
the whole different sights and sounds and smells,
the micro climates that come through here.
It's 82 right now. In 30 minutes we could have
a little microclimate cloud come over,
rain on us, sleet on us and snow on us
in an hour from now.
You just don't know. It's got bite.
It's not flip flop country,
particularly around this area. Poor Davis.
I was conceived a couple miles over here and I
think it's a large reason why I love it out
in this area so much.
It's hard to describe with a short answer,
but I can tell you the Texas is home.
We can go all over the world and the moment
I land in Texas,
the gravity just comes down my shoulders.
Just relax. I go, I'm home.
The people of Texas, I think I've experienced people as
loyal and trustworthy
and people that give a lot of value to values
and structure and respect And you know,
way that's how I grew up in Brazil.
You know my dad is a renter into today.
We have a farm down in Brazil.
We grew up very much like that.
We grew up saying yes,
ma'am, no sirs. Right or yes,
ma'am, yes sirs. I should say
it's it really it's it's it takes me right back
into how I was raised.
It's it's home. Texas is part of the South.
Why is that even a question?
No, it is. It is.
It always has been. I think it's partially because of
of of
Texas's brand as independence. You know every couple years we'd
like to pipe up and remind everyone we can succeed
and we just might. Right
now we're here to leave.
Nice to see you. It is still a South and
if you look at longitude latitude it is definitely the
South.
It's just it's just its own independent part of the
South.
My idea of the perfect tequila drink plant the lonas
on the rocks.
Reposado. I I will not shy away from a from
a good Margarita.
I want it all, but because I like my tequila,
like to drink a little more of it.
I like to drink it on the rock straight so
I don't get all that shit content when it's a
really big day.
The anejo on the rocks
does the trick. I'm telling you,
I had a great night on Indiana.
You really did. I like to measure
what I drink based on.
One has a taste 2 the buzz,
right? Three hours of conversation that you had that night
4.
How'd you sleep? Five had to dream
6 How'd you feel when you woke up in the
morning?
It's a very good measurement.
Yeah,
we had about 47. We've been saving all the samples
that we had for every iteration of the tequila,
and we had 47 at one point.
We laid all them out.
We had 47 of them paint testers,
little ones. We would try it like separately from each
other than together and we wouldn't say anything.
Blind taste test, switching around as we got closer,
like 30 to 46. We had some,
we were like,
that's getting close, but did the 47th was we went
bam and went.
That's the one and that's what you got.