It's New Orleans: Happy Hour

You just know that the MeToo movement is going to be a feature at Mardi Gras this year. What you don t know, yet, is quite how sexual harassment is going translate into New Orleans style humor. So here s a bit of an early sneak peek at what you can expect. You d expect that the founder of the largest women s marching organization in the world who gave her club the name of "Bearded Oysters" would probably have a few unbridled and surprising points of view. Katrina Brees turns the tables on men and gets the upper hand by means of her own harassment, and the liberal advocacy for the recreational use of amyl nitrate, aka rush or in Katrina s shadow world online, VHS cleaner. Camp Morrison remembers using rush back in the day when he started his private detective agency the first time around. The second time was the charm and Camp has been in the private detective business in New Orleans since 1988. If you re looking to hire a private detective to snoop on people you ll have to use your own sleuthing skills to fin

In our 2nd annual Krishna Christmas the Das Brothers, Gadadhar Pandit and Srivash, from the local [Hare Krishna Temple][link1] play live, [James Moises][link2] brings his own wine, [Raine Bedsole][link3] gets yogic and Bill from [Slice][link4] explains how pizza saved his marriage. [link1]: http://www.iskcon-nola.org/ [link2]: http://www.moiseswines.com/ [link3]: http://www.rainebedsole.com/index2.php [link4]: http://slicepizzeria.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Molly Richard pronounced the Cajun way, Re shard first got the moniker Budget Bitch when she was working with homeless folks in Lafayette. Yes, even in a small town filled with decent people there are apparently homeless people, but if you re homeless and lucky enough to run into Budget Bitch she ll slap you into shape and into a home. Budgets and math might not be Helen Gillet s strong point 3x6 Guy Madden but she is able to explain the physics of Indian musical scales. Oh, and incidentally, play them. On a cello no less. There are no words in the English or Hindi languages than can describe exactly what Helen Gillet does with a cello. If you don t know Helen s music, listen to this podcast for the sole reason of hearing it. If you re already a fan you have to hear this Indian raga. Derwyn Bunton met his wife playing soccer on a co ed team. Today they re married and Derwyn doesn t head balls any more but he does head up the Orleans Public Defender s Office. There are 60 lawyers in this office, all defending

Remy Robert rhymes with Amy Snowbear is, among other things, a professional matchmaker at a new startup called Tawkify where you can get hooked up with another human by another human, not an app. There are a lot of layers and nuances to this as you will hear in this conversation but Remy distills the the sum of her knowledge of relationships into this simple admonition Don t be a dick. Apparently just being yourself is enough to win over the right person, if you can find him or her. When she s not hooking people up, Remy s life consists of hanging out with famous chefs like Alon Shaya, translating their prodigious skills into simple enough language to become recipes in a cookbook. Her next cookbook is a Mad Libs inspired culinary adventure. And after that she just might be concocting a book with Chef Kenneth Temple. Chef Kenneth Temple is the recent winner of the prestigious TV cooking show, Chopped. He s been a personal chef to Lil Wayne and other celebrities Lil Wayne likes chicken wings and he s just publi

Morgan Ford got married last week and postponed her honeymoon so she could go on Happy Hour. Okay, that might be a slight exaggeration. But Morgan did actually get married last week and she really is on this Happy Hour. Morgan probably knows more about what s going on in New Orleans than anyone in the city she s the community manager for Yelp Devin DeWulf arrived in New Orleans a decade ago and did what most people do when they get here painted his car and turned it into a work of rolling art, started a Mardi Gras krewe Red Beans, which has now spun into a sister krewe called Dead Beans met and married a Belgian woman, had two kids, wrote them both theme songs, and started teaching middle school history. In his spare time Devin also paints. He sells his artwork, often donating the proceeds to education causes. Dayna Kurtz is one of America s musical treasures, a song writer s song writer. Song writers like Nora Jones and Bonnie Raitt sing her praises. Dayna sings the praises of the city she calls home now, Ne

Justin McKee doesn t let his career as a Michael Kors model get in the way of his literary pursuits. Actually, Justin wasn t a Michael Kors model for as long as he was a music conservatory student specializing in jazz vocals. These days Justin is a literary editor and publisher of a magazine called The Raffish. If you re thinking it s a little unfair that one guy could have so many talents, wait till you see how good looking he is. Alicia Reynaud knows a thing or two about making guys look good. Including every single one of the guys on The Saints football team. Alicia organized for them all to get pedicures. The whole team. And get this the pedicures were a gift from Coach Sean Payton as thanks for the team winning four games in a row. The reason Alicia is the lucky provider of Saints footcare is she is the creator of a beauty care and spa services app called Spafoo. Andrew Duhon could have used Spafoo earlier today when he got his hair cut at Parker Barber. It s the same barber shop Andrew is launching Fr

It was a day just like any other. Rev Dr Ray Cannata was walking down Freret Street in Uptown New Orleans, on his way home from his favorite new lunch spot 4 hours later when he happened to glance into Wayfare at the very moment Happy Hour host Grant Morris was glancing out from behind his mic, about to begin the show. Next thing you know, Ray has a martini and he s explaining why we re all going to Heaven even if we don t do any good deeds. If you ve ever thought about converting to Christianity or reaffirming your faith, look no further, Ray is the guy to talk to. Kay Morrrison, perhaps better known to New Orleanians as The Occasional Wife, started out as a good little Southern Baptist girl in Algiers. Kay was a member of a gang of like minded Southern Baptists known as Girls In Action. Today Kay is avowedly one of the happiest people you ll ever meet. Her joie de vivre is contagious. Even Andrew Duhon feels upbeat and gung ho about life by the end of this conversation. Andrew has finished his new album, wh

Geretta Geretta spent years in Italy where she became the darling of Italian horror cinema. That was before she moved to Costa Rica and opened a chain of laundromats Wash a Go Go and way before she moved to New Orleans with nothing but a small dog and an expensive Louis Vuitton suitcase. She eventually had to sell the suitcase to make ends meet. Now a worlwide cult superstar of horror, Geretta has her own bobblehead doll, and a screenwriting scholarship called The Write Room. And as for her time in Italy, Happy Hour is reminiscent "It s like this but with pasta." Jason DeRouen is better known, literally to millions, as The Cajun Ninja. What started out as a goof making a pot of gumbo on Snapchat has turned Jason into a legit internet sensation. He s the Emeril of the internet generation. A genuine down home Cajun larger than life Louisiana boy who can cook. And make you laugh. After all, what else is there Geretta suggests his good looks don t hurt. Michael Pagones and Dylan James are a couple of Slidell boys

Musician and producer Nesby Phips may be best known worldwide for his work with Lil Wayne and other hip hop artists, but here in New Orleans his equally impressive claim to fame is that Mahlia Jackson was his great aunt. Nesby is one of the owners and gatekeepers of Ms Jackson s copyrighted material and is working on cementing her legacy in various ways. Nesby is also the force behind the musical project Black Man 4 Sale and the voice of the podcasts "Am I Tripping " and "Call Me Old Fashioned." If you live in New Orleans there s a good chance you ve spent time with Joe Bikulege even if you didn t know it. For the last 14 years Joe has been the owner of Le Bon Temps Roule on Magazine Street. Joe is also a big supporter of Cops 2, the citizens support group for the NOPD 2nd District. If you re checking this out before Saturday October 21st, go support Cops 2 at the first ever Cochon de Lait Festival at Palmer Park. Marci Schramm knows a thing or two about festivals. For ten years she was the Executive Director

Andrew Ward has more weird experiences than 20 Happy Hour guests combined. Without even mentioning the royal Indian heritage of his transgender chickens, how he gets to be involved in Louisiana s record setting race to be number one in the country for Gonorrhea, or the fact that Yulman Lapalanian is his step dad, Andrew s regular night in a bar on Frenchmen Street is not like yours. On Andrew s average night the bartender drops his pants to illustrate a point by displaying his genitals which turn out to have Batman tattooed on one testicle, Superman on the other, and what is going on in between you ll have to figure out for yourself. Christine Clouatre was a bartender on Al Copeland s yacht and is here to say Al never hit on her once. Maybe it was because she told him that she spent her off hours in the jerk off room at the adult sex store on Airline Highway. That was all a long time ago. Today she s an upright citizen who spends her off hours beading like a Mardi Gras Indian with her beading krewe, the Dames

Darling Darla James none of them are her real name occupies what she describes as the bottom rung of the sex industry, or the whorachy. The whorachy starts at burlesque, graduates to club stripping, then porn, then prostitution. Darling Darla is a burlesque dancer. She also calls herself a stripper light. Among the many things you ll learn from this conversation is how to make your breasts rotate in opposite directions. We ll bet dollars to donuts that if you re a women you ll put this on pause and try this technique in the mirror as soon as you hear it. Ross Karpelman is particularly interested in one of Darla s specialty acts the one where she sets her outfit on fire and we watch her reveal her naked body as her clothes burn off of her. Ross s interest in this pyro stripping is purely professional. Ross is one of the founders of, and the driving force behind, the Halloween spectacular haunted house, The House of Shock. A Halloween annual visitor to Happy Hour, Ross plays the part of Satan aka Belial, though

New Orleans band Ginger and The Bee is principally a duo of Sherri Montz aka "B" which stands for Beatrix Skiddo, her Big Easy Roller Derby name and Scott Frilo who has red hair, like Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, which back in the day by the way, before the Trump tax plan, was worth something. Sherwood Collins was brought up as a Christian Scientist and has turned the CS principle of spreading love into a full time calling with a New Orleans twist. With the help of his superstar wife, Amy, Sherwood raises money for autistic and developmentally challenged kids by throwing a giant annual party called Beignet Fest. If you happen to be checking this out before October 7th 2017 make sure you check it out it s free and there s every kind of beignet under the thankfully not so hot sun. If you re a regular listener to this podcast you ll know that our Happy Hour photographer is Alison Moon. Today Alison steps out from behind the camera and joins the conversation to try out marketing her

What do marketing managers, law professors, singer songwriters and podcast hosts have in common They could all use a good improv class. Dane Ciolino is a Tulane law professor and legal analyst who sends his trial advocacy classes to The Moth story telling event. Taylor Richardson is marketing manager and SEO guru at Turbo Squid. She also attends Renaissance Faires in 25 pounds of chain mail, and shoots a Mongolian horse bow Don t miss April s impressive research into all things archery . Taylor has participated in Hell Yes Fest, but don t call her a standup comic she will set you straight. Alex Mallet takes a break from his Frenchmen Street hustle to play a new original song, and promises a new album ... possibly named for his address. Andrew Duhon is back on the pod and borrows Alex s guitar to play one of his classics. It s a lingo filled Happy Hour you will never hear a more interesting convesation about archery and Ren Faires with guest host April Stolf See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information

Manny Chevrolet Bruno describes himself as "The next Mayor of New Orleans." A perennial mayoral candidate with the slogan "A troubled man for troubled times" Manny is stepping it up this election cycle with his new slogan "Trouble Never Ends." It s unlikely you ve ever heard a candidate for office espouse quite this strange of a collection of thoughts. Along with the usual promises to legalize marijuana and dismantle the Sewerage and Water Board, Manny is disturbed by the existence of domesticated pets and doesn t believe questionable drinking water is much of a problem. And that s just the tip of the iceberg. As a retired body builder, professional fitness trainer, and owner of two elite gyms in New Orleans, Sacha Owens could kick Manny s ass. It s a miracle she doesn t. People don t ever come to blows on Happy Hour but this might be as close as we ve gotten. for the past 3.5 years George Elizondo has resisted the temptation to install Tinder on his phone. He s working on his music. And the concentration is

If you re a guy you have to assume a woman wants to have sex with you for the same reason you want to have sex with her. Namely, that there s some kind of attraction. According to Chef Toya Boudy, that s not what women think at all. Not just some women but all women, according to Toya, are looking for something else beyond the satisfaction of sexual desire. Though it might not be a wholly original theory to believe women want more out of a sexual encounter than men, it s interesting to find out exactly what men might think that is. Ian Neville is the guitar player in New Orleans premiere funk band, Dumpstaphunk. Growing up as a member of the royal family of New Orleans music has come with its challenges, but Ian has been equal to them and manages to walk the line between being a regular New Orleanian and avoiding his nightmare scenario of extreme fame coupled with extreme poverty. Mark Bologna grew up as a die hard New Orleanian too. His parents, who were "Kids when they married and kids when they had me," ow

Imagine being trapped with one other person in a magic room where you can get anything you want, except freedom. The only way to get free is to fall in love with the other person. And have them fall in love with you. And then you have to leave alone. And imagine you re a woman trapped in the room with another woman. You begin to see the dilemma you might find yourself in, right That s the plot of Bird, the new movie by Renso Amariz. Renso has, as Grant says, "come a long way from a military photographer who shaved his legs and rode bikes." Renso is, by his own description, perpetually heartbroken. You d never guess it from this conversation. Barbara Blank is probably the only resident of the West Bank who is a retired professional bikini body builder. When she was on the professional body building circuit she competed in the Superbowl of bodybuilding, in the bikini section. Maybe you weren t aware that "bikini" is a division of bodybuilding. There may be other pertinent facts about bodybuilding you don t know

Anne Ohri s plan for the ultimate demise of her family is, as each member dies, for them individually to be wired into a chair at a dining table set up in a mausoleum on their family farm in Plaqueimine s Parish and be slowly reclaimed by the ocean as erosion destroys Louisiana. Strangely, that s kind of the plan for her 10m experimental school called New Harmony High. New Harmony is one of only ten projects in America that is re imagining high school education that will prepare kids for jobs that are yet to be invented. It s wildly futuristic and exciting. So is selling pot in Colorado, which is what her youngest of four kids does and which is, unknown to him, giving him lungs that will assure him of a choice seat at the table of the dead. By the way, Anne already has the table. Dr. Les White has a buddy who knows a lot about human lungs he s a cardio thoracic surgeon and he told Les that "The ugliest human lungs he sees are the ones belonging to people who smoke pot." That might not sound too poetic but the

You may have met a librocubicularist and not known it. You may stood next to one at Barnes and Noble. You might even be one. According to singer songwriter Alexandra Scott, a librocubicularist is a person who enjoys reading in bed. According to our crack Happy Hour research staff Grayson Jernigan the word is not in Websters dictionary, but then Webster can t be expected to know everything. Alexandra, on the other hand knows a lot of stuff, including inside tales of her hometown Charlottesville and the actions of the neo Nazis who, for all the wrong reasons, have put the place on the map. Godwin s Law of internet etiquette allegedly postulates that discussion of Nazis ends all discussion. But this crowd managed to push on through and cover a great deal of post Nazi ground from Fiji inspired skincare to Polaroid photography, and much more. Linsey Lamba created her Fijian inspired skincare line, Ariya Apothecary, when she was working for Microsoft in Seattle and living in New Orleans. A life of bouncing back and

The problem with being sober is waking up in the morning and knowing it s not going to get any better all day. When you drink, you might have plenty to regret but you can have a lot of fun getting there. That s the philosophy behind being what pirate, leather maker, and tour guide Jennifer Raven calls Soberphobic. If Jennifer is scared of what she ll find out about herself sober, that s about all she is scared of. She s stared down the barrel of a loaded gun aimed at her husband and the woman she caught him in bed with, asking herself, "Do I really want to go to prison for these two " She made the right decision and got the ultimate revenge she s watched her ex husband go bald and end up with a woman with a harelip who has been banned from every bar on the North Shore. You can t make this stuff up. Johnny Dilks went all the way and got himself sober. On the upside, he s no longer naked in bars fighting other drunk guys. On the downside he s gotten so happy he s been able to fall in love and get married and no

You can t judge a book by its cover. There s no way you could look at a bunch of random people sitting around a table at Wayfare in New Orleans and guess what you re about to find out about them. A lot of people know Constantine Georges in New Orleans. He was a U.S. Attorney, which in itself is a pretty big deal. When he quit that he made what you d have to describe as a sideways step into the hospitality industry, founding the gourmet hot dog empire, Dat Dog. What you may not know about Constantine is that he has an olive tree that is 500 years old among an olive grove in Kalamata Greece, from which he makes some of the most delicious olive oil you ve ever tasted. Oh, and another thing. You wouldn t know to look at Constantine that he has a phobia about being eaten by a shark. You probably wouldn t guess that New Orleans singer Leslie Blackshear Smith is the mother of one of America s greatest Jewish rugby players. Leslie s son plays on an all Jewish US representative rugby team that may or not be called the