Episode 38: "Landon Talks" Southern Culture

Liss’N Kristi

Landon Bryant was amazed when his daily TikTok and Instagram musings on southern culture started accumulating millions of internet hits. Landon - an art teacher from the down-home town of Laurel, Mississippi, is now about to launch a book tour and a stand-up comedy show based on his funny and historic observations on southern life.

In this episode, he tells Liss'NKristi about his childhood, his family, and how he is reviving southern culture with a new generation via their mobile phones, and reinforcing southern heritage and identity.

His nostalgia for kinder and more authentic times, he says, is more than welcome in today's confusing world.

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STORIES

00:00 - Start

00:11 - The importance of Duke's Mayonnaise

01:30 - Introduction to Landon

02:10 - Upbringing: "Go outside and don 't come back until dark"

03:00 - How "Landon Talks" for started - the story of "Walmart" High School

04:42 - "8th Grade was in the baby section"

07:12 - Landon's life as an art teacher

07:47 - The cookie container and the dishes

09:22 - Cleaning the cast-iron skillet

10:20 - Topic ideas from Landon's followers

11:58 - The best southern grandma nicknames

13:54 - Landon's family, the "city" v "country" folk

16:00 - HGTV's Erin and Ben Napier renovating the town

17:37 - TV and Book Deals: "All Things Southern"

18:20 - Kristi's arrest in Best Buy - cops came from every direction

22:20 - Mishaps in Oxford, Mississippi

25:29 - How the book happened - publishers just showed up

28:25 - Footnotes in the book for Southern references

29:13 - Kristi's daughter Kimball SInclair and her favorite uncle's name

30:25 - Doing stand-up, the book tour and the handler

32:13 - "It's literally me and my iphone"

34:10 - "People like the authenticity"

35:10 - The importance of kindness in culture

38:35 - Where to find Landon