It's New Orleans: Happy Hour

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HAPPY HOUR is a cocktail-fueled 60 minutes of random conversation with folks who have nothing in common, other than being New Orleanians in a bar. Featuring extraordinary New Orleans musicians playing live, host Grant Morris and sidekick deluxe Andrew Du

Episodes

  • New Orleans Bad Ass Bitch Experience - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans

    06/06/2018 Duration: 01h07min

    New Orleans Bad Ass Bitch Experience is actually a band. Of 16 women. The band is the brainchild of Positive Vibration s Monique Pyle who was putting the NOBABEs on stage at Bayou Boogaloo on the opening Friday. But that idea got rained out by a vicious storm, so NOBABE is back in action for a make up gig at Preservation Hall. The Music Director of NOBABE is Hannah Kreiger Benson. Among her many personas Hannah is one of the permanent staff of piano players at world famous Pat O Brien s, playing copper covered dueling pianos 3 nights a week. She s also the Program Coordinator of MACCNO, the music and culture coalition of New Orleans, and was 2015 s City Business Woman of the Year. And if you re looking, you never know which dating app you might find her on. Sophie Lafayette first heard Happy Hour when she was living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Since then she has had a love affair with New Orleans which she has recently re consummated, moving back here from a year in Scotland. if all that sounds pretty exotic,

  • Even The Dead Are Vain - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans

    30/05/2018 Duration: 01h03min

    Paige is close to curing cancer, Nicole is a psychic who communicates with the dead, and Adrian is one of New Orleans most successful street performers who has been told by the police if he shows up again on Frenchmen Street he ll get arrested. Just another random collection of New Orleanians hanging out at Wayfare for Happy Hour. Paige Miller and her company Oleander Medical Technologies are on the brink of a breakthrough cure for late stage cancer. 50 of cancers in America are diagnosed too late to be helped by traditional chemo or radiation. Paige is not legally allowed to say the words "cancer" and "cure" in the same sentence, but make no mistake, that s what we re talking about here. And, by the way, "I m curing cancer" is not even the most interesting sentence Paige could use to describe herself. Wait till you hear how she met and married her current husband and what she can tell you about Bill Gates. For starters, he s known as "Trey" by his friends. If Paige isn t the most interesting person we ve eve

  • Whippin' It Like Meringue - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans

    23/05/2018 Duration: 01h02min

    Darcy Malone had the good fortune to get a text from her dad, Dave, from The Radiators, at the same time as she was in the middle of a heated email exchange with a friend. The text from her dad was a guitar riff and Darcy wrote lyrics over the riff, describing her email friend messing with the truth, like she was "Whippin it like meringue." Today, Rory Callais from Darcy s band, Darcy Malone and The Tangle, plays the part of Darcy s dad and the song is the kick off to the band s latest EP, Pure as Gold. Btw, if you re looking for a role model for yourself or your daughter, Darcy is the nicest person in the world to have gotten expelled from Sacred Heart. Mavis Early also went to Sacred Heart, but not the same one. Apparently, defying even divine anatomy, there used to be two sacred hearts. The one Mavis went to was on Canal Street and boy were things different back then. Mavis describes a sort of self selected caste system where you chose, at age 13, whether you were going to be rich or poor, white collar or

  • Shrimp As Big As Dogs - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans

    16/05/2018 Duration: 01h05min

    Yegor Romantsov doesn t know anything about collusion with the Russians he s from Ukraine. Where they have shrimp as big as dogs. Little dogs but they re still dogs. Er, shrimp. Yegor is the front man for The Russian Mafia Band Debauche. He s also the most energetic musician ever to play on Happy Hour. Along with Debauche bass player and semi professional Bloody Mary consumer, Scott Potts. And the newest member of the band, Monique Pyle on spoons. When she s not playing spoons in a Russian Mafia band, Monique books bands for Bayou Boogaloo. If you re wondering how bands get a gig at the festival, or even if if the question has never crossed your mind, you re going to be fascinated to hear how it all works. As if playing the spoons and booking bands isn t enough for a day s activities, Monique is also the Managing Director of what is probably the coolest non profit in New Orleans, The Positive Vibrations Foundation. They re a little bit like the Jazz and Heritage Foundation without Shell Oil. They ve just laun

  • Vagina Shoshoe - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans

    09/05/2018 Duration: 01h03min

    Sara Reardon grew up like any other half Chinese half Native American in New Orleans East. Somewhere along the line Sara branched out on her own and became The Vagina Whisperer. Although the title might sound like something you get bestowed on you in the Native American tradition, it was actually created by the mom of a friend, one night in the hot tub when the girls were discussing their various vaginal issues. It s amazing how many women have problems, from prolapses to painful sex and many more, that just don t get talked about. Happy Hour is an unusual format to discuss women s problems but Sara is fearless she even describes how to take a selfie of yourself peeing if you d like to. Edward Wycliff might be the hippest guy in New Orleans and he s not even a hipster. He s a graduate from the Peace Corps where he spent time in Lesotho did you know it s pronounced "Lesutu" . Today Edward has a business where he teaches people in Lesotho to sew bowties made of their native textile called shoesoe pronounced "sh

  • Spark About You - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans

    02/05/2018 Duration: 01h11min

    Nobody could accuse Andrew Duhon of being over sentimental. Andrew frequently unveils new songs he s writing on Happy Hour and they more often than not fall into categories of various shades of "dark." So when Andrew announces he s working on a love song, "and it goes likes this..."

  • Too Old to Die Young - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans

    25/04/2018 Duration: 01h01min

    The nucleus of Bon Bon Vivant so good they named it twice is the extended Cosio family, Glori and sister Abigail and Abigail s husband Jeremy Kelley. On paper it sounds like some kind of mafia setup, but in real life the band with addition of Ry D Antonio on drums sounds like a swirling melange of rockin Gypsy jazz, shaken not stirred into a sophisto lounge New Orleans danceable feel good fest. And if you can believe it, they started out in Simi Valley, home of the Ronald Reagan Library. Seth Smiley started out in Baton Rouge, but soon found his way to New Orleans where he married into one of the city s royal families the Wolfes. If you ve been in New Orleans for some time you ll know the Wolfes as the folks behind the landmark Wagner s Meat stores. If you arrived later, you ll be more familiar with the current Wolfe family HQ, Melba s po boy shop. Seth is an oxymoron a nice lawyer. Maybe there is something in a name. Seth s take on how he eschews trials for negotiation is refreshing and educational. New Orle

  • Cohort Retort - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans

    18/04/2018 Duration: 01h06min

    After last week s Happy Hour set off a great deal of discussion in the comedy community, improv comedian Casey Haeg drops by to set the record straight. It s not an easy task speaking out against people who are well known, clever, funny, and charismatic but Casey displays plenty of the same qualities along with the poise and equanimity required to get her point across. It would be nice to walk away from Happy Hour with the problems of the world solved like we normally do but it seems like this NOLA comedy world issue has a ways to go before its resolved. Bart Everson also tried to change the world. Bart believed that his naked body, if viewed by the right cohort of people at the right time, could cause a political revolution. As you are probably aware, the revolution never happened, but Bart s life doesn t seem to have gotten much quieter, and the makeup of his cohort doesn t seem to have changed all that much either. Lisa LaFleur Shillace has cohorts of her own, down at Cafe Reconcile where Lisa is the Devel

  • Doncho Builds His Bulgarian Wall - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans

    11/04/2018 Duration: 01h03min

    Some criticisms of President Donald J Trump just sound better in Bulgarian. New Orleans Bulgarian band Blato Zlato have a blistering folk tale about little Doncho who gets to build his big dream wall, only to find he s destroyed his own view, and much more. Band members Boyanna Trayanova and Lou Carrig are as Bulgarian as they are New Orleanian. It s a heady combo and makes for great musicians, with very pointed views about the way they and their fellow musicians are treated better in Bulgaria than at home on Frenchmen Street. Katy Tinsley works the good side of Frenchmen Street. Katy is the Director of The Palace Market, the artists night market that s open 7 nights a week just off of Frenchmen Street. Katy came to New Orleans after a whirlwind romance and just celebrated her first wedding anniversary. By the next one her husband, Alex, is going to have taught her sharp from flat. Comedian Chris Trew s life is anything but funny. Running The New Movement Theater has turned out to be more complicated than it

  • Mr & Mrs Sazerac - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans

    04/04/2018 Duration: 01h05min

    Linda Seabright and James Arey have a lot in common. Linda is a radio personality on KRCB, one of the NPR stations in San Francisco. James is a radio personality on Classical 104.9 in New Orleans, and you might have heard him in his previous incarnation as an announcer on New Orleans NPR station, WWNO. How James jumped ship and ended up back on the same ship is a pretty interesting tale. How Linda ended up teaching mindfulness while still contemplating her previous 6 boyfriends going all the way back to the guy she toured Europe with for a year on 800 is an even more interesting tale. While all that s going on, Kelcy Mae has a new band, called Ever More Nest, a new spirit guide, and a new record coming out, called The Place That You Call Home. And perhaps what might be the biggest revelation to come out of today s show you can get Quaaludes legally in South Africa. If you don t know what a Quaalude is, we ll be selling them at Happy Hour as soon as C Rock hooks us up. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon.

  • I Hate Everyone Who Isn't You - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans

    28/03/2018 Duration: 01h04min

    Facebook isn t the only giant company in trouble. Apparently while FB is losing its grip on social media, Hallmark is losing its grip on the greeting card business. Small indie card manufacturers with non cheesy ideas and cool cards are moving in, like our own NOLA based Lionheart Prints. Liz Maute Cooke is the artist and entrepreneur behind Lionheart, and also host of the podcast Lionheart Living not the one that s making America fat again . Liz comes up with sayings on cards like "Thanks Dad for not screwing me up entirely" and "You put the hot in hot mess." And she does it all without drugs. Mostly. The conception of Sarah Isabelle Prevot was preceded some years earlier by her French father seeing a person on the street in New Orleans with a monkey. That gave rise somehow to a premonition about marrying a local woman which ended up after a number of twists and turns with Sarah being at school in Folsom when a kid pulled out a gun and ultimately to her becoming a special ed PE teacher and writing about wate

  • Turkey Legs To Turkey Basters - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans

    21/03/2018 Duration: 01h01min

    One of Happy Hour s happiest features is that it brings together random strangers with nothing in common ... who often end up having some pretty crazy things in common. Today s Venn diagram overlaps at enchanted forests, trains, and...sperm donation. Andrew Duhon is back on the pod and the amazing Andrew Ward guest hosts for Grant. Andrew Larimer has a lot going on he is the original artistic director of The NOLA Project theatre company, he owns the local web content production company FatHappy Media, and his historical play about the City Park train opens next month ... as an outdoor musical IN City Park But as became evident from about a nanosecond into the podcast the most exciting thing in Andrew s life right now is his enchanted forest engagement at last weekend s Renaissance Fair outside Austin to one time Happy Hour guest Taylor Richardson. Andrew s delightful story of the event recounts what must be one of the loveliest, nerdiest proposals ever, complete with a jousting injury fortunately not his and

  • 300 Reasons to Love an Alcoholic - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans

    14/03/2018 Duration: 01h01min

    Morgan Molthrop is writing a book called 300 Reasons to Love New Orleans. He has to hand the manuscript in tomorrow. As Happy Hour kicks off he s gotten the list up to 290. He needs another 10 reasons to love New Orleans in the next 60 minutes. It would be good if we could avoid associating all the reasons to love New Orleans with alcohol, especially given Morgan s other venture, Soberleans a guide to the city for recovering alcoholics and addicts. The non imbibing New Orleanian might be a rare beast but Morgan s cornered the market on the concept in the rest of the country as well. It s a wonder Erin Casey Hangartner s career hasn t driven her to drink. Or worse. Erin is an attorney whose early career had her working in the DA s office where she prosecuted children. Yes, children These days she has her own law firm , and her parallel career as a die hard rabid Saints fan. Today marks the day she s changing her whole life and career. Look out for her at the Grammy s. Carrying on the tradition of giving a foru

  • Blend In and Stay Out The Sun - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans

    07/03/2018 Duration: 01h01min

    If you re a white person in the U.S. you might tend to think of other races as being, of themselves, monolithic. However, if you re a member of a race with non white skin hues you are more attuned to the finer shades of skin color that make you lighter or darker than other people of your same race. Your perception of yourself and where you fit on that spectrum can determine how you feel about yourself, and how "threatening" you may appear to white Americans. This, believe it or not, is the subject of a beautiful song by Mykia Jovan, called 16 Shots, off of Mykia s album, Elliyahu. If you ve never heard Mykia s music you re in for a treat. You can hear a song on this show, but if you want you can bug out of here now and go find Mykia on Spotify. We guarantee you ll fall in love with her and want to come back to know more about her. And you sure are going to learn some interesting stuff about Mykia on this Happy Hour Dr. Charles Corprew has made a name for himself by being a social justice revolutionary. Dr Cor

  • Sucka's Ready to Blow - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans

    28/02/2018 Duration: 01h03min

    On this Happy Hour, Julia Elizabeth Evans learns that you can be an artist, a philosopher, a daughter, a sister, a business person with your own production company, and a film maker on the way to world renown, and yet all a bunch of guys around a table want to know is what it s like being in an open relationship. Turns out it s pretty interesting. For everyone. Chris Succi is looking for a whole other life. And, as a result of his conversation here on Happy Hour with Julia, it looks like he s found it. Chris wants to leave his ultra successful life in IT behind and throw himself on the mercy of the arts. So, as of now, he s apparently making a documentary with Julia about Tipitina s. You never know, it might just happen actually. Legendary New Orleans blues and roots rock musician Marc Stone has spent many nights playing at Tipitina s. Today he describes what it s like sitting around a table playing to three people daunting while he eloquently describes the way many people feel about living in the US right no

  • Residual Limb Wannabe - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans

    21/02/2018 Duration: 01h04min

    A "residual limb" is the bit of your own leg or arm that s still attached to your body after the rest of it s been amputated. Kevin Gardere lost most of his left leg as the eventual result of a drunken car wreck that propelled his car into somebody else s house at 1am and propelled him into a life of saving other people from the results of chronic addiction. Kevin is the Executive Director of Development at Bridge House Grace House and, besides having a fascinating 40,000 leg, knows a thing or two about the opioid addiction that is sweeping the city, state, and nation. Andrew Principe knows a bit about medically driven disasters as well. Andrew spends his days making sure that people who can t afford medical attention get it anyway. Andrew s company, Starling Advisors, are kind of like good guy medical lobbyists. Oh, and by the way, this is the year he s getting over his divorce and getting serious about a relationship again, so if you re in the market... Jason Bishop, on paper, is the guy at this table who s

  • Dear Luke - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans

    07/02/2018 Duration: 01h32s

    Not far into this conversation Sophie Lucido Johnson fears she may already have said too much about her polyamorous relationship with Ned, Luke, and Brian. Trying to head off a possible disaster Sophie texts Luke. That doesn t go well. Then Ned calls in. Among other revelations in this show are Sophie s unique take on breast size, the difference between kissing a man s lips and a woman s lips, what it s like for women to feel a woman s breasts pressing into them when they kiss each other, "waggling penises," missing teeth, and the correct interpretation of Emoji symbols, specifically the rabbit with blood pouring out of its nose. You know that one, right Like Sophie, Kate Mason is a comedian. Kate and Sophie are both part of this year s comedy festival, The Hell Yes Fest, that takes place up and down St Claude Avenue and in various other locations scattered around the city. Lynn Drury takes 60 minutes off of her hectic live schedule to stop by Happy Hour and play live. We catch up with Lynn s last boyfriend t

  • Glory-Holing The Galaxy, And Back - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans

    31/01/2018 Duration: 01h04min

    For under 400 Samantha Bearden can show you how to be the person you ve always dreamed of being. A Mississippi born Star Shaman, Samantha will, somehow, restructure your DNA, both in your body and in the ether, and you ll end up being the best version of yourself possible. The total all in cost is 367. Who wouldn t try that, right P H Fred has a number of lives to try out being the best version of his multilple selves. One of the reasons for his multiple parallel existences is that Mr Fred doesn t sleep. Because of the 8 hours a day that frees up, plus being a genius and having the brain of three people at least Fred can manage to write 1,000 songs this year, antagonize every club owner and festival organizer in New Orleans, have a simultaneous roaring international music career while at the same time being an educator extraordinaire. Vince Ebeier was the front man for one of New Orleans most impressive early 21st century rock bands, The Scorceses, before their own success tore the band apart. Now Vince is ba

  • A Briefcase With a Stack of Cash and a .45 - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans

    24/01/2018 Duration: 01h04min

    Back in the day when legendary Bob Walker was a star DJ on AM radio in New Orleans on WTIX he was one of the guys who d get a bunch of cocaine and cash to play records by goody two shoes like The Osmonds. Then there was the day when the Motown guy came to town and opened his briefcase to reveal the records he wanted played, a stack of cash and a .45. Bob had to defer that particular decision up the chain to the radio station program director, but he s got a string of other stories from the golden days of radio corruption. No record company guy would need to bribe their way to getting local band Burris on the air. If you don t know who they are, indulge us by letting us fall back on this old radio cliche, "Remember, you heard them here first." Chris Hochkeppel, Bob Kling and the rest of the 7 piece band relocated to New Orleans from exotic Baton Rouge 12 months ago and if you haven t caught them yet, make a point of listening to them play live here or go steal some of their music off Spotify. You will assuredl

  • Cocaine and Heartbreak, Dapper Men, and Pomeranian Hats - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans

    17/01/2018 Duration: 57min

    On a literally freezing New Orleans afternoon, looking fabulous despite braving icy steets and sidewalks, two dapper dudes and a fashion forward yogi warm up Happy Hour with talk of hot Buti yoga, hot jazz and soul, and hot off the presses. Four years ago Joseph Makkos responded to a Craig s List ad ... and ended up with 30,000 transparent plastic tubes, each containing a single edition of a New Orleans newspaper printed between 1888 and 1929. Joseph now manages that archive and hopes to partner with the first virtual carnival krewe to turn old newspapers into new media. He and C Rock team up to tell the story of the infamous "crazed New Orleans axe man" not the two year terrorization of New Orleans by a serial axe murderer, but the more interesting story of perhaps an early instance of fake news tune in He also reads a timely and absolutely poetic newspaper account of an 1885 New Orleans snow. Baye Tilson is a yoga instructor who likes "all the yogas" especially Buti and practices club level yoga at some of

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