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Alison, Moon, Olivia and Danielle arguing to school in the mental health field and are talking about how they wanna help!

In business, we go to great pains to treat men and women equally. But when it comes to pain itself, men and women are not always equal. That's why Sara Reardon opened NOLA Pelvic Health. When we talk about healthcare, we're usually thinking about one of two scenarios: getting treatment for everyday treatable ailments like Covid or flu. Or catastrophic illness, like cancer. For either of these eventualities we expect to be taken care of by health clinics, or hospitals, that are generally part of large health systems. But there are other types of healthcare that fall into specialty areas, that are cared for by small, private clinics. Peter's guests on this edition of Out to Lunch both have these kinds of stand-alone specialty healthcare practices. Sara Reardon's clinic is called NOLA Pelvic Health. Sara focuses on physical therapy for women, specializing in the treatment of pelvic floor muscle dysfunctions, including pelvic pain, bowel and bladder dysfunction, sexual dysfunction, and pregnancy and postpartum recovery.  NOLA Pelvic Health is the first and only clinic in New Orleans that specializes in the treatment of women's pelvic floor muscle dysfunctions.  Dr Lana Joseph is the founder of High Level Speech and Hearing. There are two High Level Speech and Hearing clinics in New Orleans – one Uptown and one in Elmwood – where you can get all kinds of audiology services, from getting your hearing tested, to getting your hearing aid repaired. You can find photos from this show at Commander's Palace by Alison Moon at our website. And here's more conversation about cutting edge healthcare. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As Out to Lunch prepares to go back to hosting live lunches, for inspiration we're taking a look at some of our pre-Covid shows. Here's an Out to Lunch Best of: New Orleans Fashion Models. When we talk about the creative community in New Orleans we're usually referring to musicians. But there are other creative communities in the Crescent City, including New Orleans fashion, models, actors, and a range of professions on the other side of the cameras. People in the local model and photography communities have typically had to find work for themselves. That is until Elizabeth Perrin started up a creative agency called FT45. Elizabeth's history includes growing up in New Orleans, and modeling in New York and Paris. Switching to the other side of the camera, Elizabeth became a fashion photographer, and spent 22 years working in the film business in Hollywood. All of these experiences combine to create FT45, a full service talent and creative media agency. From California Doctor to New Orleans Fashion Designer Dr Linda Shkreli turned her back on a coveted position as a teacher of performance studies at CSU Northridge in Los Angeles to move to Hawaii and work in a Honolulu fabric shop. Along the way, Linda also started up what we call in New Orleans a "side hustle." She founded her own creative business, which she called Breakthread Designs. With design as her primary focus, Linda decided to settle in New Orleans. Today, Linda's New Orleans design company Breakthread Designs makes a range of designer pieces that include Mardi Gras costumes, custom clothing, and interior goods. Starting a business and running a business are two very different skills. Starting and running a creative business where business success depends on your creative ability or the creative ability of others well, that's a whole other world. Find photos from Out to Lunch at Commander's Palace by Alison Moon, here. Meet photographer and cinematographer Bob Perrin, Elizabeth Perrin's dad, on Death: the podcast.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the Happy Hour annals of "random people who have nothing in common," the day artist Katrina Brees meets Tank and the Bangas stands out to Happy Hour Live Feed Video Director Asher Griffith as the Best Of Happy Hour.  Where's Karina? If you ever wondered what happened to Karina Nathan she’s now Kevin Simons. And Karen Regis. And Krystal Sedona. And Chi Chi the lead singer of the Girl Dawgs, who is actually a dog. Katrina Brees sheds some light on this fantastic array of personalities, and their wardrobes. Go Tank or Go Home Tank from Tank and the Bangas has her own specialty wardrobe and range of personas too. Her wardrobe doesn’t extend to panties (which she has given up wearing) but she does occasionally wear boy shorts to boost her booty. Her personas start out with Terianne Michelle Ball in New Orleans East and extend to the woman sorting through damaged goods on aisle 4 at Walmart. Norman Spence and Merell Burket from Tank’s band, Tank and the Bangas, join the party – but strictly under their own names. Hello, Ricky! Ricky Lemann’s alter ego is Frederick, his real name. Ricky could have gone with alter ego #2, Fred, but he’s keeping it real, pleading “the fifth” on a range of issues. Photos from this show by sunny Alison Moon at the now defunct Wayfare at our website.

Still barred from hanging out in bars in New Orleans, in the interests of public health, we continue to revisit standout shows from years gone by. This show, in which Humidor Saves The World Again, is the first Happy Hour after the election of Donald J Trump in 2016. Even then we knew things were going to go to Hell. If only podcasting was as popular in 2016 as it is today. Maybe somebody in DC would have heard this conversation and we could, indeed have saved the world. For now though all we can do is look back and laugh, and try not cry in our beer.  Austin Alward, aka Aus-T the Franco rap star, has a plan to save the country and the world from rampant Trumpism. It involves the internet, a Cuban cigar store owner, and a bunch of New Orleans actors and musicians. It might have been just crazy enough to work. Jazz great Mitchel Forman, and singer-songwriters Sam Doores from The Deslondes and Andrew Duhon have their own plan. It involves a searing rendition of I Shall Be Released, a tribute to both Leonard Cohen and the nation. Actress Teri Wyble made it out of dance school in Lafayette to become a critically acclaimed actress, a go-go dancer at Harrah’s Casino, and an international body painting sensation. This really is one of the greatest Happy Hours in the history of the show. When we first published this show we sent an admonition with it: "If you were thinking of leaving New Orleans this will make you stay. If you are thinking of moving here, call U-Haul, this will tip you over the edge." Photos from the now defunct Wayfare are by Alison Moon. For more Best of Happy Hour, try this.

The industrial corridor between New Orleans and Baton Rouge is sometimes referred to around here as "Cancer Alley." The name comes from the refineries and chemical plants that dump waste into the air, land and water. If Oleander Medical Technologies succeeds in its plan, “Cancer Alley” is going to have a whole new meaning. On this edition of Out to Lunch, Peter Ricchiuti is looking at the other side of Cancer Alley. Based between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the two ends of Cancer Alley, Oleander Medical Technologies are pioneering a revolutionary breakthrough in what may - very soon - turn out to be a real cure for many types of cancer. Paige Miller, President of Oleander Medical Technologies, explains what seems to be almost impossible to imagine: far from the months of tortuous chemo-therapy we're used to, this new treatment takes 15 minutes, in clinical trials it appears to be working, and its side effects are at worst "flu-like symptoms." In the best of all possible worlds, we will learn how to prevent contracting cancer in the first place through what's called "preventive medicine." We've begun walking down this path already in recent years as we've come to realize there's a link between our health and our diet. But, although we now take much more individual responsibility for eating healthy, the medical profession as a whole isn't keeping up with us. Think about this: When was the last time your doctor asked you what you eat? And wrote your answer into your medical records?  Now, thanks to a piece of technology called Junum, your doctor can do just that. Molly Hegarty combined her background in engineering and her career in nutrition to found Junum in 2017 and runs the growing healthcare company today as its CEO. Junum is a tech tool for doctors. It's a secure platform that helps clinicians easily record relevant nutrition information about a patient so that this info becomes part of electronic health records and helps doctors make nutrition-related medical diagnoses. You're going to walk away from this conversation inspired and amazed at what is happening on the other side of Cancer Alley. Out to Lunch is recorded over lunch at Commander's Palace restaurant in New Orleans. You can see photos from this show by Alison Moon at our website https://link.chtbl.com/LYuaasWe Check out more about local healthcare startups here.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You may have heard the expression, "The camera doesn't lie." Meaning, if you're looking at a photo of something, well, that's how it is. Maybe that's how it was back in the day. But these days, there's Photoshop. And every single person with a phone and a social media account has a range of filters and other on-board options that can augment reality to such an extent that your half-eaten hamburger looks mouth-watering, and your bleary-eyed, hungover appearance can be transformed into whimsical cuteness with a pair of cat ears and whiskers.  Photographs these days have a place in our lives they never had before. However, despite our wholesale pictorial assault on each other via Instagram and Facebook, among the millions of photos taken and posted every day for free, there are still photographers who make a living taking and selling photos. Darryl Glade's company, IMOTO Photo, takes photos specifically for real estate listings.  Maybe you're thinking, if there's one thing you could probably take a pretty good photo of yourself, with your iPhone, it would be a house. It's big. It doesn't move. There's plenty of light. And you can take a bunch of photos till you get a good one. But, apparently, real estate ads that use professional photos sell faster and significantly closer to the asking price than listings that have amateur photos. Doesn't that seem curious? It's not like people are buying houses online from photos. Almost everybody goes to see a house before they make the biggest purchase of their life. So, what exactly is the link between a professional photo and a house sale? Daryl explains all to Peter Ricchiuti.  And, whether you buy or rent a house, you can decorate it with photographs of iconic images of New Orleans and Louisiana by photographer Joshua Lee. You probably have a decent camera on your phone. And some free image editing software. So, you might reasonably ask yourself, why would you pay someone to take a photo of a water meter cover, fans at a Saints's game, or people at a second line? The reason you shouldn't attempt this at home is explained in Joshua Lee's inimitable colorful conversation. Photos in the courtyard at Commander s Palace by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When we talk about the creative community in New Orleans we're usually referring to musicians. But there are other creative communities in the Crescent City, including New Orleans fashion, models, actors, and a range of professions on the other side of the cameras. People in the local model and photography communities have typically had to find work for themselves. That is until Elizabeth Perrin started up a creative agency called FT45. Elizabeth's history includes growing up in New Orleans, and modeling in New York and Paris. Switching to the other side of the camera, Elizabeth became a fashion photographer, and spent 22 years working in the film business in Hollywood. All of these experiences combine to create FT45, a full service talent and creative media agency. From California Doctor to New Orleans Fashion Designer Dr Linda Shkreli turned her back on a coveted position as a teacher of performance studies at CSU Northridge in Los Angeles to move to Hawaii and work in a Honolulu fabric shop. Along the way, Linda also started up what we call in New Orleans a "side hustle." She founded her own creative business, which she called Breakthread Designs. With design as her primary focus, Linda decided to settle in New Orleans. Today, Linda's New Orleans design company Breakthread Designs makes a range of designer pieces that include Mardi Gras costumes, custom clothing, and interior goods. Starting a business and running a business are two very different skills. Starting and running a creative business where business success depends on your creative ability or the creative ability of others well, that's a whole other world. Find photos from Out to Lunch at Commander's Palace by Alison Moon, here. Meet photographer and cinematographer Bob Perrin, Elizabeth Perrin's dad, on Death: the podcast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you ve ever looked at something in a store and weren t sure whether to buy it or not, apparently the question you are subconsciously trying to answer is, "Is this me " According to artist Rebecca Rebouche, that s the central question in all of our lives in the way we relate to art. How that art gets created is a whole other question. In Rebecca s method, the path from the real world to an image living inside a frame can come from a sliver of nature or the crushing heartache caused by finding out that a total stranger guy you ve been looking at across the room in bar has a girlfriend. Jerry Resse II totally agrees with Rebecca. In Jerry s opinion the heartache of unrequited imaginary love is just as crushing as the real thing. Jerry has his sights set on sports broadcasting or politics but in the meantime he s more than happy to be setting up Dat Dog franchises around the country. If you re interested in making a boatload of money from selling Dat Dogs, look Jerry up. Tell em Happy Hour sent you. Jack Miele might be the most successful New Orleanian entertainer you don t know. What you may have thought was a fun gig playing the part of Randi Wilde, the Devo lookalike singer and guitar player in the band The Molly Ringwalds, is actually serious touring band big business complete with lawyers, managers and tour buses. Despite The Molly s being a full time gig, the kicker is that it s just the tip of the iceberg of Jack s professional career which includes writing and recording Grammy and Emmy winning music. This is one of those typically surprising New Orleans conversations where you discover that the 3 perfectly normal and unassuming people you happen to sitting at the bar with wrote the music on the TV show you love, designed the pattern that s on the sheets you re sleeping on that you bought at Anthropologie, and run the business at the place you ate at last night. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Cornell roboticist and biolocomotion expert Andy Ruina decided to come to New Orleans for a physics conference he didn t plan on walking into a bar to prepare for his lecture on the physics of the self propelled bicycle and end up being suckered into a podcast conversation with a bunch of yahoos. But thanks to the evil of cocktails we now all get to learn about the physical principles behind pushing a riderless bike across a parking lot. Johnette Downing also gives us an education. You too can learn to build a poboy the way the kids in Kuwait do it. Johnette is the internatonal musical children s ambassador, or children s international ambassador of music or something similar that s harder to remember after a few drinks but whatever her title, Johnette has a charismatic and captivating way of getting your attention, and songwriting skills that create simple melodies that are deceptively catchy. After you ve heard the poboy song try getting it out of your head. Chris Klein is trying to get his music out of his head. In his series of videos with his band Chris Klein and the Boulevards, he creates what are essentially movies that are smart and sizzling. You could be the 60th person in the world to see them if you act quickly. Chris also talks tattoos he s a professional tattoo artist and even though you probably think you can imagine the crazy stuff people let a tattoo artist put on their body, you still won t believe what Chris has got to say about that. Thomas Mattera is not only the tallest guy who has ever been on Happy Hour he s also the only guest who rode his bike across the USA, twice, and lived in Nepal. If you had to be trapped on a desert island with only one other person and you could choose anybody in the world, Thomas would be a wise choice. Especially if you need to rustle up Mexican food in the middle of nowhere or build a house. Andrew Duhon cements in place the first track off his new album, "It s Alright Johnette, Leave It There" maybe not the final title . Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The first thing you notice about A F The Naysayer is that he is totally mucus free. Okay, you might notice that he s tall and striking, with a head of dreadlocks but you ll find out in this conversation why he looks so healthy and how he lost somewhere between 8 and 80 pounds. Closer to 80. It all goes back to 1912 and a mucus free diet. Keith Spera is the music writer for The Advocate. As you might imagine, it s a gig that gives you a lot of nights out. Of all the memories Keith could have dredged up over cocktails, how about the night he spent with Master P in P s Beverly Hills hacienda And then there s the menories of Mo B. Dick. Though after P moved to Baton Rouge with his entire crew that may have become Meaux B Dick. The sure way to be the most popular person in just about any room is to give away free booze. Stacy Johnson is the tasting room manager at Celebration Distillation, where they make Old New Orleans Rum. Stacy spends all day giving away free drinks and concocting new cocktails, and on this show she plies everybody with extraordinary high octane and delicious rum as well as a bottle of jet fuel known as Gingeroo. This rum infused conversation darts around all over the map, from the perils of dating drummers to the lure of Missoula Montana, and a hundred stops in between. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you ever wondered what happened to Carina Nathan she s now Kevin Simons. And Karen Regis. And Crystal Sedona. And Chi Chi the lead singer of the Girl Dogs, who is actually a dog. Katrina Brees sheds some light on this fantastic array of personalities, and their wardrobes. Tank from Tank and the Bangas has her own specialty wardrobe and range of personas too. Her wardrobe doesn t extend to panties which she has given up wearing but she does occasionally wear boy shorts to boost her booty. Her personas start out with Terianne Michelle Ball in New Orleans East and extend to the woman sorting through damaged goods on aisle 4 at Walmart. Norman Spence and Merell Burket from Tank s band, Tank and the Bangas, join the party but strictly under their own names. Ricky Leman s alter ego is Frederick, his real name. Ricky could have gone with alter ego 2, Fred, but he s keeping it real, pleading "the fifth" on a range of issues. All photos on this page were taken by sunny Alison Moon at Wayfare. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kate Wright is a romance novelist. If you read romance novels you ve never heard of her. But there s a good chance you ve heard of Vivian Wood, Kate s pen name created by the way by a "mellow yat guy" . Vivian is the creator of a range of titles like "Noah s Revelation," "Gavin s Salvation," and "Taken By The Pack." These novels and novellas mostly feature covers of men who are "ripped" but not necessarily "driven" or "got their sh t together" which is the kind of guy Kate not Vivian is looking for. If you ve ever wondered it might be like spending all day every day in a sex fantasy, Kate like Noah has some revelations. And if you re wondering what men say to an erotic novelist and what kind of insight Kate has gotten about what men and women really want listen up. Alex McConduit is going straight home from this conversation to take a nap with Kate or alone at the time of writing was TBD then get up and launch his career as an erotic novelist under the name Chuck Wood. In his more sedate real life Alex is a children s novelist, author of the popular The Little Who Dat, Who Didn t. Alex s latest title, Snowballs For All is published by prestigious Pelican and is taking Alex around the world with his trumpet. Alex is planning on changing careers to become a jazz musician in about 22 years. In preparation he has quit listening to music with words and has for the first time heard of David Bowie. True story. Josh Ray from the band Hazy Ray shows up at Happy Hour with his guitar, his wife, and his 18 day old daughter, Evangelina Grace. Yes, 18 day old. As the new dad of a daughter Josh is suddenly looking at the implications of female fantasies from a whole new angle. To celebrate the occasion Josh sings a song he has been working on very intermittently for the better part of 16 years, called Just Good Sex. This is one of the most educational and informative conversations you will ever overhear in a bar anywhere, though your definitions of "educational" and "informative" have to run fairly wide of the traditional meanings of information and education. Perhaps "revealing" would be a better word choice, but we ll leave that up to the novelists. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hugo Montero is the impressario behind the art space, hip Mexican restaurant and sophisto tequila bar Casa Borrerga on OCH in Central City New Orleans. The reason the place is a joyful and riotous success on many levels is a direct reflection of Hugo s larger than life personality and intellect. Hugo started out as an intellectual and academic, spent time as a street artist, and has been a part of the New Orleans cultural scene since the early 90 s. Even pre dating the arrival of Titty Bingo, as he relates in this series of tales that include interesting observations of our steretypes about Mexicans and Mexican restaurants that you may not realize you harbor till you hear it laid out. Hugo s reference to the Titty Bingo days of yore spring from the experiences of Darcy Malone and The Tangle. No strangers to music individually Darcy has sung since childhood with her dad Dave Malone of Radiators fame this is the first go round for the band as a collective. With their new record, Still Life, out any minute the band has some decisions to make. Spotify Yes or no Their Solomonic answer might presage a new wave of music marketing. Andrew Duhon enlists Senor Montero to accompany him on a brand new song about a girl from Plaquemines Parish. From Plaquemines, takes a trip to Aziza Bayou. Don t look for that on a map, you won t find it. Aziza Bayou is not a place, it s a person. Aziza is an anthropologist who manages in a few well chosen sentences to explain the absolute insignificance of the cultural evolution of Facebook, Twitter, and the kids today. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Morgan Molthrop fell in love with Greek history at Newman high school and has parlayed that love into a model for his and your life. Morgan s hero, Alexander the Great who is actually a Greek superhero who died in 323 BC at the age of 33 not a Russian Tsar is the inspiration for just about everything in Morgan s current life. He s written a book about him, painted paintings, and has a 13 step plan for successful living for you to follow so you too can be Alex great. Boyanna Trayanova went to Ben Franklin. She didn t fall in love with any Greek gods but she did fall in love with the seminal New Orleans drummer Johnny Vidacovich. Boyanna is a fearsome drummer and leader of One Love Brass Band, a New Orleans brass band take on ska and reggae. Renee Blanchard started out after college working to bring democracy to Burma, and to get toxic chemicals out of cell phones. Having succeeded at both of those goals she came back to New Orleans. And opened Church Alley Coffee Bar on Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. Now she s moving to Mid City and might possibly get that magnolia tattoo on her shoulder finished. Renee is, by the way, bossy. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Singer songwriter Justin Edward had dated and lived with Jen for 6 years before the night he came home to find she d totally trashed his apartment. The upside to his new existence is he has a whole bunch of what Andrew Duhon calls "Sad bastard heartbreak songs," but the downside is getting back on the dating scene. Justin s been everywhere from home alone to the swingers scene. Katy Dupre has the good sense to date a chef from no less a restaurant than Cochon. Katy spends her days analyzing data about the city of New Orleans and is an expert on political research. She explains why Donald Trump ended up being our President and 6 months from now she s coming back on Happy Hour to explain how she s changing the city to get us out of this predicament. And she s not kidding. If you like to go out, you need to know Michael Underwood. And if you don t know him personally, download his app, Scenehound. It tells you where to go to find what you re looking for on any given evening from a quiet place to get a drink to a rowdy fun hang. Michael is on the verge of crossing over from being a big deal in the tech world to being a big deal in the real world. Andrew Duhon tries out the third draft of a new song and hits it out of the park. No Man s Land is a beautiful place. You re going to love it. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon aka Moon, apparently. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Austin Alward aka Aus T the Franco rap star, has a plan to save the country and the world from rampant Trumpism. It involves the inernet, a Cuban cigar store owner, and a bunch of New Orleans actors and musicians. It might be just crazy enough to work. Jazz great Mitchel Forman, and singer songwriters Sam Doores from The Deslondes and Andrew Duhon have their own plan. It involves a searing rendition of I Shall Be Released, a tribute to both Leonard Cohen and the nation. Actress Teri Wyble made it out of dance school in Lafayette to become a critically acclaimed actress, a go go dancer at Harrah s Casino, and an international body painting sensation. This is one of the greatest Happy Hours in the history of the show. If you were thinking of leaving New Orlenas this will make you stay. If you are thinking of moving here, call U Haul, this will tip you over the edge. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kim Carson, the Queen of New Orleans Honky Tonk, describes the difference between New Orleans Hony Tonk and the rest as, "New Orleans is Honky Tonkier." Kim ought to know. She plays her NOLA H Tonk all around the world. Spending more than half of the year out of the country takes its toll on other parts of Kim s life, as it does with other musicians, but apparently fewer of them are screwing groupies than you think. Dan Fox corroborates that. For some years he was the tour manager for Hooray For The Riff Raff and he s an on and off member of the Lovey Dovies. In his real life Dan is the publisher and editor of NOLA underground music and lit must read, Anti Gravity Magazine. Oh, and he s getting married in a couple of weeks. You want to know how that s going Does the sentence, "It can go die in a fire" give you a clue Joaquin Emiliano escaped a life in adult novelty retail with a wonderful education in lubricants. If you get through half of this show there s a good chance you ll come out knowing a lot more about sexual lubrication than you did coming in, for want of a better expression. In his real life Joaquin is a gifted author who specializes in downplaying his talents, in fact he has turned self deprecation into, literally, an art form. Take a look at his books, Suicide Notes From A Wedding and Stories From A Bar With No Doorknobs and see for yourself. If you buy one of Joaquin s books he reportedly makes 25c. Andrew Duhon, closing in on his new record, plays the second draft of a new song he tried out on us previously, called No Man s Land. Not suitable for weddings. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you see someone you think is attractive on social media and you d like to get to know them, the one sure fire way to get shut down is to say "Hi." The best way to meet someone is to say nothing about how attractive they are. This is dating advice by social media dating icon, Karen iKandy Tep, aka datingiKandy. "Dating Guru" barely scratches the surface of Karen s multi talents that stretch from sex s;ave warrior to author to nurse to bare handed fisher woman of the bayou. Cole Williams is loved and in love but by whom and with whom remains an open question. Jumping out of the gentrified frying pan of Brooklyn in the gentri fire of New Orleans, Cole has an interesting perspective on what s happening to the Crescent City. Oh, and she s also the Punk Empress of African Rock. Lowry Curley is the smartest guy ever to drive across Lake Pontchartrain. Raised on the North Shore, Lowry is creating human life in a lab Uptown, but not the old fashioned way that starts with an Instagram photo. Lowry is the founder of a company caled AxoSim that is literally creating human nerves on a chip to be used in drug testing inplace of animals and humans. Andrew Duhon tries out a new song off his forthcoming album, accompanied by Cole s Empress African Gumbo bongos. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is the story of how Happy Hour came to endorse Kaitlin Marone for Senate. Normally we describe this show as random conversation with people who have nothing in common. Today our guests do have something in common. They are running for the United States Senate. The election is November 8th, the same day as the presidential election. Although we can t promise you the same level of dramatic fireworks as a presidential debate, our plan was to offer the unique possibility of the participants in this forum getting drunk. That s because we re having a Senate candidates forum in a bar, namely Wayfare, on Freret Street in Uptown New Orleans. Our Producer Graham DaPonte invited 7 candidates for the Louisiana Senate race to join Grant and Andrew for a debate over cocktails. Graham chose those 7 candidates from a the larger field because all 7 live in the New Orleans area. Of the 7, four accepted our invitation. Charles Marsala, Kaitlin Marone, Vinny Mendoza, and Caroline Fayard. Caroline Fayard canceled a few days ago due to a scheduling conflict. And Vinny Mendoza canceled late yesterday because he didn t realize how long it takes to drive from Alexandria to New Orleans. And so that left us with two New Orleans area candidates for United States Senator. Charles Marsala, and Kaitlin Marone. Then, minutes before the show, Charles calls with the news that he s stuck in Baton Rouge fighting a court case to try and get all the candidates on a Louisiana Public Broadcasting debate, as opposed to the 5 of the 24 candidates that the LPB are intending to feature. So that leaves us with the sole participant in today s forum Kaitlin Marone. Kaitlin Marone is a feminist, comedian and politician whose senatorial platform includes "I don t want to take your guns away but you re making me," "Pay women more than men," and "Cops need therapy." If you re undecided, this will definitely help you make your mind up. If your mind s already made up, give this conversation 10 minutes and see if you change it. We re endorsing Kaitlin Marone for US Senate. Vote Marone Photos by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The day Megan Braden Perry woke up and decided her husband smelled too bad and liked loud noise too much to stay married to him, she started mentioning it on Twitter. Her husband, some days or maybe weeks later, decided to check Twitter out for himself after his mom told him she d been reading some pretty weird stuff about him. What transpired next led Megan to get a divorce and be happily dating a bunch of guys number unknown including "a little dude down the street" from Wayfare. Rachel Vette, the singer in the band The Vettes, reluctantly admits she s married though she lost the wedding ring she never really had. Yes, it s a weird story but Rachel doesn t like peer or societal pressure and most of her life is pretty non conforming including marrying a guy whose name is a secret and ditching her ring under bizarre and half remembered circumstances. Nick Napolitano is a comedian at The New Movement Theater and the producer of New Orleans ever growing comedy festival, Hell Yes Fest. Nick almost became a tax preparer and a history teacher but booze and comedy saved his life. Photos by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cheron Brylski has been a political consultant for years. She has gotten more women elected to what she calls "non traditional" political office than you can shake a stick at. So when she talks politics at Happy Hour, we listen. Cheron says without taking a breath to ponder the answer to the question, "Yes, President Trump." It could very well happen. Cheron has some professional advice for how Hillary could pull out a win. Take a listen and see if you think it s likely Hillary could pull it off. Bryan Batt is the biggest Broadway and TV star in town, and one of the most down to earth and nicest guys you could run into in a New Orleans bar. Bryan hasn t exactly traded in the glitz and glam of Hollywood and Broadway for NOLA but he s from here and folks who go to Hazelnut, his store on Magazine Street, expect to see him so that s where you ll often find him. In this conversation Bryan leaves the theatrical persona behind and the guy you get to talk with here on Happy Hour is the same guy you d find if you popped in to see him at home. Mikayla Braun is no stranger to Happy Hour but this time she returns to the show fronting a new band, The Crooked Vines. James Keene, the CV s trombone player, sometime booking agent, and definitely the fastest talker in New Orelans music, joins Mikayla for the first time they ve ever played acoustically, and it s a triumph. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tom Cianfichi is not just the best looking man in New Orleans married to the other best looking man in New Orleans, Bryan Batt. Tom is also an accomplished actor, Broadway casting director responsible for casting some of the biggest shows on Broadway, and an acclaimed director currently staging Pippin at Le Petit Theater marking the theater s 100th birthday. And if you need anyone to stop by and make you feel good by faking the sentence, "I m amazed and loving this" like he really means it, Tom s your man. Because this is New Orleans, comedian Addy Najera recognizes Tom, not because he s a famous actor or Bryan Batt s husband, but when she finally figures it out Addy knows Tom from his dogs. He brings them to the vet clinic where Addy is the vet tech. When she s not adjusting her bangs or pulling pet hair off of her clothes, Addy is one of New Orleans funniest comedians and to make that point she s immortalizing herself at the end of the month by making a live recording of her show, currently titled Unnamed For Now aka Isn t This Fun, with no question mark. John Lisi leads a band called Delta Funk that plays around the world and, when they re home, up and down Frenchmen Street at a different club every night. Playing guitar every night is one reason John is one of the greatest players in the city, which by the way is saying something in any city but especially here in New Orleans. John plays a couple of songs on this Happy Hour an original, "Got Cleaned Up," and a Big Bill Broonzy classic. If you want to see how John does it you can find a video version of this show of this show on our Facebook page. Andrew Duhon tries out a new song from his Unnamed For Now record and gets way more of an enthusiastic response than he was expecting. This is a breezy, casua, smart and frank conversation with a bunch of people whose talent would give any one of them the right to brag. But every single one of them has most definitely checked their ego at the door. You won t get more of a refreshingly fun and energetic New Orleans vibe anywhere than this Happy Hour. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

String is the theoretical fabric that holds the Universe together and you can t see it even with a giant particle collider. That s the kind of thing you find out when you meet someone in a bar, in this case a woman who calls herself Ari and who is a microbiology student and listener to another podcast about death Death the Podcast who happened to be reading Craig s List and finds herself somewhat mysteriously at this podcast. It s pretty confusing but then so is the correct definition of Pluto. Beyond the planets on this edition of Happy Hour are two legit stars. Big Sam, the leader of Big Sam s Funky Nation, one of the city s finest musicians, and all around good guy, tells stories about hanging out with James Brown, among others, and improvises a song about defecation at Christmas Day. Cecile Monteyne is one of New Orleans finest actors and comedians. Every bit of Cecile s talent is effortlessly on display in this 60 minute conversation that roams from her latest movie to her marriage and traverses characters who speak in perfect British and Russian accents. Cecile s new movie features a song by Andrew Duhon which Andrew performs live. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Let s get this straight Boyfriend takes her clothes off on stage but she s not a stripper. As a matter of fact she s not any kind of noun. She s a verb. Boyfriend is a person for whom stripping is an activity much like other activities that one performs but doesn t define you. Unless, perhaps, you re a teacher. Okay, yes, it s confusing but the simpler facts are we ve caught BF on the eve of her collaboration with Big Frieda and BF s that s Boyfriend not Big Frieda annual free birthday bash. There s a lot of good info about free shows on this Happy Hour, including how and where to catch the fabulous Bella Blue for free. Bella is the 8th most popular burlesque artist in the entire world and we re lucky enough in New Orleans to be able to study with her at her School of Burlesque. You, too, can join the sisterhood of love and glitter, but it s not all non breeding Unicorns and pasties. Unlike Bella, Matt Owens might not be ranked on the international scale of comedians, but he is officially the Second Funniest Person on the Gulf Coast. Having grown up on an island off of the coast of Georgia, selling fishing tackle, pretty much everything is funny. Matt travels more than he s home in New Orleans but he is putting on some impressive comedy shows here in New Orleans at the Joy Theater. If you are a regular listener to this show or if you ve only ever gotten all the way through to the end once you will have heard Grant say "Our Technical Director and Associate Producer is Chris Kehoe." Well, Chris is leaving the show to go become a screenwriter in Los Angeles. "Hollywood screenwriter" does sound a bit more glamorous than "New Orleans podcast technical director" so we can t hold it against him. This is Chris s first time on the other side of the microphone. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Beth Patterson is the only professional bouzouki player in New Orleans who finds meaning and fulfillment in the words and music of the Canadian ensemble Rush. Yes, Rush. There s just something about Rush that speaks to Beth and somehow makes her feel less of a freaky outsider. And she really doesn t have much to feel freaky or alienated from society about other than being the author of songs like "Matchstick," about the joys of arson, "Show Me On The Doll," and going from this podcast to a recording studio to record a classical Indian version of a Black Sabbath song. Other than that, and being used, discarded, and the victim of attempted murder, Beth is just your regular Lafayette Welsh girl who moved to New Orleans and hides out in Mississippi. Other than Beth, Becky Hardin has the darkest eyes of anyone who has ever been a guest on Happy Hour. What are the chances of having the two darkest eyed people in the history of Happy Hour on the same show Becky quit a career in music promotion with gigs like Voodoo and Wednesdays at the Square, to open City Surf, the workout gym Uptown on Magazine Street where you get to simulate surfing and end up with a body as awesome as Becky s without the expense or effort of moving to Florida or California. Andrew Duhon tries out a new song about the benefits of Going Alone. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chuck Magid grew up as he calls it, "Full blooded Carney." His father and grandfather both owned carnivals and Chuck aand his brother grew up travelling with the show, working games and rides. The first game he and his brother invented was when they were around 8. It was a duckpond where little toy ducks floated around and little kids who couldn t play any other game would come by, their parents would cough up 5 and for that the kid got to pickup a duck and get a 1 prize. Now Chuck is the guitar player and sings in The Orient Groove, an Orlando band currently on tour around the South. Chuck happenedtowander into Wayfare to see what the mxing board andmics were all about and joined in. While Chuck and his brother were working rides at the fair, Matt McCormick was also traveling the country,roping calves in the rodeo. Matt s sister is stillin the rodeo to this day but Matt went straight. Sort of. He went to law school via a stint writing about the movies for a College Station paper, then ditched a law career to tend bar at Salon in the French Quarter. His next move is to direct movies. To continue the sibling theme of this show, Jaclyn Smith no relation to but inspired by the Charlie s Angel and her "Identical Mirror Twin" sister Nicole both started careers with The Hard Rock Cafe in Mississippi. 9 yeras later, Jaclyn is Operations Manager at the Hard Rock on Bourbon Street while Nicole is zooming around the country in corporate. sure Nicole is further up the food chain but she s not married to a hot chef at Sylvain. Andrew Duhon has been thinking a lot this week about women. Well, one anyway. Namely the subject of his newest song who he s conflicted about. But the heartache and getting "tired of f ing around" has paid off with a new song that takes Andrwto a brave new level of musicality. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

New Orleans musician Jake Hammer McGregor fights a never ending battle with Irish cage fighter Connor McGregor. Not literally, but for recognition. Try Googling McGregor and you ll see what Jake s up against.Jake and his bass player in the eponymous band McGregor demonstrate why Connor ought to be scared, at least of pursuing a music career. If you ve never heard Jake s music you ve just made a discovery for which you ll be ever grateful. These guys Jake and bass player Sam Ferguson have got it. Sophie Lafayette materialized out of the internet in Dar es Salaam Tanzania where she has been a fan of New Orleans and a long time Happy Hour listener and materialized at our table at Wayfare. Finally realizing a lifelong dream, Sophie made it through living in New Zealand, the UK, Norway and Tanzania before making it to Freret Street in New Orleans. While she s here, Sophie s shaking things up though not in the way most new arrivals do. Sophie is an international political activist working on behalf of folks she calls "stakeholders." For many years Rien Fertel was literally a steak holder. He was a busboy at his grandmother Ruth s famous steakhouse, Ruth s Chris. Rien, or if you prefer, "Dr. Fertel," has graduated from steaks to barbecue, having just made himself heartily sick of hogs by spending years chronicling their incineration at the hands of a nationwide string of Carolina wanna bes bringing the ancient and venerated methods of Southern sweat barbecue to cooler climes of America. Andrew Duhon continues his streak of writing beautiful new songs and we continue being lucky enough to be his sounding board. See what you think of this one, "Gone So Long." If you happen to be looking for a classic barroom conversation that traverses everything from long distance love to the consideration of what makes us love certian music, to hog heaven, you found it. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you ve ever been on a date with someone you really find intriguing but half way through listening to them tell you the story of their life you wonder, "How am I going to respond with something intelligent " you ll know what it s like looking across the table at Kristin Lyman. Not only can Kristin dazzle and intimidate you with her day job, after hours you can she hip hop dance your ass off. For even more of an intellectual humbling, try having a conversation with super brainiac P H Fred. Not only does the guy speak Latin fer Chrissakes, he can also break down multiple languages into grammatical pieces like gerunds and dangling participles. There are certain circles where that sort of stuff can get you laid. So can working people out in a San Francisco gym. Ask Jon Roniger. Not only is Jon a New Orleans version of Dean Martin meets Django Reinhardt which Andrew Duhon suggests he needs to adapt to Dean Reinhardt and use as porn name but Jon is also a workout trainer in a past life as well as a serial partier. Checking his mojo at the door ended up getting him straight and married and entertaining the masses in New Orleans most nights a week with the most debonair je ne sais quoi in town. Monsieur Duhon is back in town apre Paris where he was low on his accordion count but high on smoking women. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you really want to stress yourself out you could do like Trey Fayard borrow 6m , start an airline, and fly out of New Orleans to Shreveport, Little Rock, and a few other hot spots. On the other hand, you could decompress for a mere 50 by getting on a plane and flying to Destin. Trey s airline is called GLO and the flight to Destin is only 45 minutes. You leave from the airport in Kenner around 1pm and by 2 30 you re on the beach with a cocktail. Sam McCabe is a super talented musician, member of New Orelans band The Bantam Foxes, and pretty soon you might see him as cabin attendant on Trey s planes. Trey s hiring and Sam wouldn t mind leaving his job at PJ s on Poydras behind. The Bantam Foxes have an impressive new album, Gold Record, and a wacky new video. Kimberly Rivers Roberts is the star of award winning Katrina documentary, Trouble the Water, and creator of the brand new follow up documentary, Fear No Gumbo. Kimberly is up to year 5 of her 10 year plan for taking over the world as herself and her alter ego, rapper Queen Black Kold Madina. If you want to meet a cross section of New Orleanians who have, as Grant says at the top of the show, nothing in common, but have no shortage of things to talk about, you ve come to the right place. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Typically actors and musicians looking for some income insurance will develop a couple of flexible skills like waiting tables or bar tending that will get them through the leaner times. Today s Happy Hour guests have a couple of diffrent takes on that concept. Olga is a blues musician, singer songwriter, stunt woman, actor, and violinist who pads her showbiz income by reading romance novels for audio book company Audible and conducting weddings for sky divers and people getting hitched at the wedding chapel in the French Quarter. Brett Roberts makes movies. In his down time has been a cop and currently makes training films for Louisiana lawyers who apparently need continuing education to remind them not to steal off of the clients. Yes, this is absolutely true. These days you can t apparently fall back on shooting or acting in porn. Kay Charbonnet doesn t have much down time. She spends most days hanging out on Magazine Street near the epicenter of destruction where she has a store, called appropriately Kay s, where she sells "dope sh t" and has little time to read which is why she listens to Audible books. Andrew Duhon, back from Alaska, tries out a brand new song and gets 8 thumbs up. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Try this tonight if we all set our AC s to 76, will we have the same dream How about if the whole country set their AC to 76 Could we move the collective unconscious up a chakra and spread love around the world Tomahawk Tassels is a burlesque dancer with some provocative thoughts, and a needle in her liver that was left there after a biopsy that concluded that she had terminal cancer, which she didn t. Wayne Xia had his own dreams of leaving Alaska and thus depleting the population of Chinese nationals by some 13 . Wayne s dreams came true right after high school and before driving across Mozambique in a Honda. Now he s in New Orleans playing violin with Pheasants. If you haven t heard of Pheasants, you will. Adrienne Edson plays a musical saw with no teeth, a flute, and banjo and that s just on today s show. Robert Allen writes the songs and sings them. And has dreams too disturbing to discuss. Dr. Christopher Garland dreamed of leaving his native New Zealand, visiting Haiti, moving to New Orleans and teaching writing at the University of Southern Mississippi. Then he never woke up, and realized it wasn t a dream this is actually happening. This Happy Hour is a classic New Orleans barroom conversation, with an added free gift Dr Garland describes how to emigrate to New Zealand if Trump wins. For that reason alone, a literal must listen. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"People are horrible" is not what you d expect a politician to believe, much less say. But Manny Chevrolet is no ordinary politician. A perennial candidate for Mayor of New Orleans with the slogan "A troubled man for troubled times," Manny is ready to come out swinging next time around, building on his previous trending statistics which have improved every election, all the way up to something like 120 votes last time around. Sindy Scalfi doesn t hate humans but she sure does love animals. She s communed with gorillas in Africa and even though she s put her decades long singing career on the back burner and left her country music boots and hat in Nashville, she sings a song about animals, called "Animals," on this show. Graham Robinson and Daria Dzurik have one of New Orleans most original sounding bands, Daria and the Hip Drops, combining a hip pop sensibility with steel pans, of all instruments. How Daria came to play the pans is even weirder, and you might be surprised how vast and even weirder still is the world of steel pan players, stretching as it does from Pensacola to Trinidad. Graham is a dark horse. When he s not playing with Daria and the band he s an A list bass player, playing with the likes of David Torkanowski and Zachary Richard. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Photographer Leon Morris has been coming to Jazz Fest from Australia for 22 years. In that time he s met a bunch of people and taken a bunch of photos. He s assembled a few hundred of his best shots into a coffee table book that s a homage to New Orleans and has come up with an imaginative title for it Homage New Orleans. Leon s book starts with words of encouragement from Dr. John that Leon lives by, and which we joyfully appropriated for this show "follow your heart or you re fu ked. As a testament to the power of the written word and the apparent inconsequential power of speech, we re allowed to say anything we liked on the podcast, but iTunes and Facebook after somebody complains which they inevitably do pull your stuff down if you use curse words in print. Chris Bradford looks like a million bucks but feels like a little less. She woke up one morning with a hemorrhaged vocal cord which not only sidelined her singing but required her to be absolutely silent for a month. The resident doctors on Happy Hour review Chris s strange case and link it to her 6 month stint in Beijing where she wore a mask constantly to allow her to simply breathe in the smog that is so visible it literally blocks out the sun. Chris is most definitely back in body, mind, spirit, and song. She gives up a first listen to a brand new song in it s very first rough demo. Andrew Duhon plays a new song off his forthcoming album, I Hemorrhaged a Vocal Cord. That s just a working title. See what you think of this song and whether it ought to included in the final lineup. Happy Hour Producer Graham daPonte makes a rare appearance on this Happy Hour with a sneak peek inside the life of a death row trial attorney and the strange management style of the guy who could simultaneously save you from lethal injection and kill you with his violent temper. This show also contains an update on the romantic adventures of our two guests on the previous week s show, Mr and Mrs Frank Scurlock. Little did we know that the title of the show would be a prophesy. This is one of the greatest New Orleans barroom Happy Hour stories of all time. Pictures at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cancel your subscription to Match.com, OK Cupid, Tinder, and anything else you re using to look for love. Instead just get yourself booked as a guest on Happy Hour. Show Producer Graham daPonte will hook you up with your perfect mate and Grant and Andrew will take care of all the arrangements. Just ask Mr and Mrs Frank Scurlock. 60 minutes before they decided to get married and sail around the world for 222 days on a cruise that departs from Denmark and concludes in New Orleans with Frank 120m richer, Katrina Brees and Frank Scurlock had never met. Maybe it s the talk about Katrina s vagina puppet, Vag, or Katrina s belief that "Every woman would like to take her vagina out and let it speak," that enchants Frank. Maybe it s Frank s Volvo, custom built to look like the space shuttle, or his idea to develop a New Orleans style Disney World in New Orleans East where festivals like Jazz Fest are up and running 365 days a year that romances Catrina. Maybe it s the giant 4 foot long joint Katrina made in celebration of 4 20 Day that actually smokes and gets everybody high that makes the magic for New Orleans newest power couple. Then again maybe it s Frank s Donald Trump good looks and his plan to join with Katrina to "Funetize America" that seals the romantic deal. Whatever it might be in this way off the rails Happy Hour, it s a must listen if you d like to meet two of New Orleans most unique, out of the box minds. Plus Andrew Duhon explains Break Fest and plays a beautiful rendition of his song "Stones." Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. Check out Facebook Live video by Carly Viator. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Boyfriend is the creator of a whole new entertainment genre she calls Rap Cabaret. If she d taken her stripper style show to Finland and not Austin and Bumf k Mississippi she might not have gotten banned from performing because of the lewd nature of her show, nor called the C word. On this podcast we get to hear the C word a lot. But because of strict rules about writing naughty words that show up on iTunes and get you kicked off it s already happened to us we can t go into that too much here on the page. However if you re interested in various uses of the word in a multi national comparison, check out this conversation which owes its genesis to Boyfriend s current antics and Faimon Roberts past. Faimon spent some time in Finland where their use of the C word is more common than ours. Faimon, who spent his Baton Rouge childhood being called "Flamin " also spent time in the UK where he quit prestigious Oxford University in a hot headed moment and ended up in the only profession disappearing faster than his Ph.D topic, the study of ancient Iraq journalism. Today Faimon is a reporter for The Advocate. Mandy Lloyd grew up playing the trumpet and today has graduated to working with the most famous trumpet of them all Louis Armstrong s. As a part of Mandy s gig in management at The Hard Rock Cafe on Bourbon Street, she gets to watch over Satchmo s horn and carry pepper spray at all times to threaten unruly customers. Andrew Duhon, inspired less by all the talk of various applications of the C word in the UK and more by the higher ideals of universal travel and the celebration of hair curlers, sings an unrecorded song about the small towns that surround London. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. Faceboook Live recording by Carly Viator. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Author, virtual analyst, and international snappy dresser Timothy Alan Weeks claims he had nothing to do writing the novel The Beauty Fools, a manuscript he claims is as brilliant and as New Orleans centric as Confederacy of Dunces. Senor Weeks claims he only edited the contents of a memory stick that was left on his doorstep by an anonymous resident of a non existent place in England called "All Souls." Whether or not T.A. Weeks is actually the author of the book, he is suggesting it is a British DJ who resided in New Orleans for a short time by the name of Pete Lazenby. If you know Mr Lazenby, you are Mr Lazenby, or you re a wannabe author, you d do well to claim that you wrote this book and sue Mr Weeks and his Croation publisher. Happy Hour will take a mere 10 for tipping you off. Ava Jeune may have a few copyright problems of her own. You can see her works of art sensual poetry set to images she s stolen and layered over music she s stolen on her Twitter feed here. Most of Ava s work is inspired by a guy in Slidell known only as Kevin whom Ava refers to as a muse who dates other people and treats her bad, but she s drawn to the tempestuousness. You don t typically get a lot of tempestuousness in Slidell. And then again there s The Painted Hands, one of New Orleans greatest young rock bands who started out together at Slidell High. If you ve never heard of them and there s a good chance you haven t yet you ll be surprised these Slidell guys are as awesome as they are. We re all going to be hearing a lot more about them in the probably not too distant future. If we re lucky we ll also get to hear the new Andrew Duhon album in the not too distant future. Andrew is in the process of writing songs for it and tries out another new one on this show, called Go It Alone. If you listen to Andrew putting these songs together each week you re starting to get a feel of what a songwriter goes through assembling material he s happy enough to record for posterity. It takes a certain amount of courage, confidence, and a certain quantity of pale ale. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the first moments of this Happy Hour Jim McCormick demonstrates the inner workings of the mind of a song writer. Happy Hour tech director Chris Kehoe went out to his car to get some equipment, Grant read the intro to the show about Wayfare putting "fine dining into a sandwich" and Jim immediately came up with a song title, "Fine dining In the Front Seat." That s how you write a hit country song. Jim ought to know, he s written plenty including the current single I Do Like We Do performed poorly according to Grant by Harry Connick Jr. Emily Reimsnyder, who by the way makes a career out of winning friends and influencing people, has no hesitation telling Jim she likes all kinds of music, but not country. Emily, a guitar player herself, demonstrates exactly what it is about country that drives her nuts and has had enough cucumber cocktails to be cajoled in playing some of her 10 chords that she learned from a book. Andrew Duhon as of this show is getting help from Jim McCormick to finish the remaining songs that need to be completed for his new ablum, and in return is giving Jim guitar lessons so Jim too can play in the style of Piedmont Pink Anderson, the inspiration for Pink Floyd and Barbara Streisand. Jim admits to a period in his life when he loved Barbara, including her blockbuster hit "People" which is totally coincidentally the name of the feature film by writer director Shane McGoey. People is about the festival circuit and has found its greatest advocate after Shane s mom in Emily Reimsnyder. This is perhaps the most off the rails Happy Hour barroom conversation ever. We can only imagine what happens when the cocktails wear off. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You probably already know that Alex McMurray is one of New Orleans finest songwriters. You may not know that he s slso a business magnate with a vast empire and team of employees engaged in global business including building a massive dam that it is almost complete and will be known as The Alex McMurray Dam, the main task of which will be to power The Dark Web. In his spare time Alex sits home and writes songs or comes down to Happy Hour and writes them live while other guests talk about frothy subjects like the destruction of your Constitutional 6th Amendment right to a speedy trial. Lindsey Hortenstine is married to Barksdale and changed her name from Riehle yes, really, it sounds like an Australian saying "really" which in a strange twist of fate is the voice on Lindsey s Siri which she uses to deliver the news about the Rolling Stones playing live in Havana. Anyway, back to the Public Defender s Office where Lindsey works as the Communications Director. Lindsey uses her communication skills to paint a pretty bleak picture of what s going to happen to the New Orleans justice system after the current round of budget cuts. And the answer to your question is, "Yes It COULD get worse " Apparently quite a lot. Luis Arocha left the corporate world of wealth management to work with at risk young men, which is a vast, untapped market. Apparently there are 25,000 kids around here aged 17 24 who don t have a job or are not in school, or both. Luis gives as many of them as he can handle a 6 week course in life skills and restaurant work at his Westbank project, Cafe Hope. You know you ve gone down dark road when it s Andrew Duhon s song that lightens the mood. But that s where we are on this Happy Hour, deep into the bleak reality of a blighted generation, till Andrew turns it around and Alex throws the last blast of dynamite down the hole with an improvised bluies about getting arrested in Palquemines Parish where they throw away the key and don t get you an attorney. Ever. This is a crazy conversation that veers all over the road but somehow miraculously avoids ending up in a ditch. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

President Trump If, like celebrated psychic Cari Roy, you could see the future exactly as it is going to turn out, would you feel an obligation to do something to change it Or do you believe it s going to turn out how it s going to turn out and there s nothing you can do to alter it Welcome to the life of a psychic. So, here s the question we all want to know is there going to be a President Trump Hear what Cari has to say on that subject, and others for example, where you re going after death. If you took all the vowels out of your name, what would you call yourself As long as it s not CRWNS, that s already taken. Max Chung or Mx Chng if you prefer is a philosophy student at Tulane who has very wisely got a backup career to philosophy Electronic Dance Music. Under the name CRWNS Max is a massively popular EDM exponent with huge audiences online and in the real world. Some of those audiences are courtesy of Addie Olsen, the youngest big shot in the music biz around here. Addie is the Festival Director at BUKU as well as the overall big deal on the Gulf Coast for live music giant AEG. Addie is responsible for 100 concerts a year, most of them household name artists. Andrew Duhon is back on the show after a 5 week tour that includes playing and cruising with the likes of Lucinda Williams, John Prine and Steve Earle. Combining the themes of cruising and life after death, Andrew s new song is a meditation on the river of life known as the Mississippi. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you went to De La Salle High School and you walk into Barcadia, you might not recognize the boss man, Miles Tully. That s because Miles had his top and bottom jaw broken, his face totally reconstructed and got a new nose. And health insurance paid for the whole thing. When he recovered he was fabulously handsome, thin, and, for the first time in his 21 year old life, able to eat pizza like a normal person. Katherine Allan knows a fair bit about mutilation too. She s the first person you see when you walk into the neck up only plastic surgeon s office to get work done. That s a lot of pressure to look somewhere between fabulous and perfect every day. Luckily, as you can see, it s not taking its toll too quickly, especially given Katherine is old enough to remember the birthday song at long defunct Bravo restaurant and stopped making bad and regrettable decisions some time ago for some pretty good reasons. The real metaphorical mutilation in this show comes from the mind of singer songwriter George Elizondo. If you have a million better things to do than listen to this podcast put this at the top of your list for no other reason than to hear George sing live. And hear the story of how he came to write a song with the sweetly sung chorus, "mutilate him." It s actually also worth learning why you may not have heard of George, yet. You ll be surprised. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Creedence Clearwater Revival and Tina Turner would be proud of Galen Huckins, skipper of The Channel Princess, a plucky little river boat that Galen dredged off the bottom of the Willamette River way up in Portland and piloted all the way down the Mississippi River to the Industrial Canal in New Orleans where it, and Galen, now reside. Galen discovered the easy way that the song is right, "People on the rive are happy to give." People gave Galen interviews and free concerts which he and his co pilots turned into a, nautical, fictionalized podcast. A kind of Huck Finn musical tribute to Studs Terkel with a dash of the podcast Serial thrown in. Leanna Firstarai has a vaguely nautical lineage her grandfather sailed here from Japan with the first ever shipment of silk to hit the US. If it ever existed, the vast fortune to be made in Japanese silk importing didn t trickle down to the current generation, to such a sad degree that Leanna has been forced to work as a producer and presenter in public radio. Which is just as well as Grant managed to lose his glasses before this show and Leanna takes over like a pro. Tarriona Ball aka Tank from Tank and the Bangas is one of New Orleans favorite live performers and one of Happy Hour s happiest return guests. Today Tank brings along her drummer, Joshua Johnson, to whom she is not married and reportedly not even dating, but after a couple of drinks it s uncertain which way is up. Joshua is far and away the most erudite drummer ever to appear on Happy Hour and perhaps to play drums. Listen for his description of playing animal skins and listen even more carefully to his reference to, "As is the local custom." Andrew Duhon is on the road so Galen Huckins entertains with a selection from the musical Oliver, while contemplating slipping into a slinky black dress. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the next 60 minutes you re going to hear how a relatively successful New York City accordion player broke down on stage, became a Buddhist cult leader, and inadvertently gave birth to the Gwendolyn Molson Quartet. Leslie Molson tells the story and many more besides, including how she cured having a fat face and tiny eyes with a tube of eye shadow and the difference between the microscopic mites on your face and hers. If that isn t a wild enough story for you, meet Charles Marsala. Charles has lived a number of lifetimes, apparently simultaneously. Charles grew up in New Orleans, became the mayor of Silicon Valley, transformed the US Air Force in Alaska, and is currently back in New Orleans saving the African Elephant from extinction. He has a TV show about saving wild animals and has written a book about finance. Is he New Orleans most interesting man Voting is open. Helen Gillet brings along her cello and her foot pedal rig that transforms her cello into an array of sounds from a drum and bass section to what sounds like an orchestra, guitars and an indescribable sonic wonderland that is not only rocking and rich, but you can barely believe it is all totally live. Andrew Duhon finished writing a song literally minutes before he plays it here. If you need any encouragement to check it out, it contains a line something like "My heart is like a rowboat I tow through land locked towns." Being a musician might be totally wrecking his love life but it s paying off in songs like this. Photos taken at Wayfare in Uptown New Orleans by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Happy Hour photographer Alison Moon went to Paris she was expecting something to go wrong because it always does on her trips. By the time she got to Paris on Friday night November 13th nothing momentous had gone wrong so she thought maybe this trip she d been spared a disaster. Then her plans fell through to go see the Eagles of Death Metal at the Bataclan and the Air Bn nB she d booked in Place de la Republique canceled on her the day before she arrived in Paris. What happened next is history, thankfully history that Alison was somehow miraculously spared from. Over 100 people were killed at the Eagles of Death Metal concert she didn t get to and the neighborhood she was supposed to be staying was the center of other attacks. New Orleans band The Fixers hail from a nearly invisible town at the edge of Louisiana just beyond Slidell and on the not quite married to your cousin edge of Mississippi. It s called Pearl River but don t let the vaguely Asian romantic name fool you. Dominick Blanda and Ryan Duke met as kids, have stayed friends and today form the nucleus of an impressive and unique hybrid of punk pop blues shaken, stirred, and poured over audiences from The House of Blues to Starbucks in Slidell the one next to the gentlemen s club Scuttlebutt. Randy Mack is a prototypical Hollywood success story, working his way up from the mailroom at a big agency to being a trusted script advisor to George Clooney among others. Randy busted out of Hollywood and into the indie film world where he s written and directed movies you ve actually heard of. And if you haven t heard of them, Woody Allen has. Randy s latest project is an all New Orleans movie about the real New Orleans called Laundry Day. It s inspired by a wild fight he witnessed at Checkpoint Charlies one random afternoon. Randy s insider tales about the Hollywood system are instructive and might lead him somewhere along the path to getting his movie out of New Orleans and into the world. See if you can come up with an idea for him to get people to see his movie he s open to anything. Andrew Duhon celebrates the French aspect of today s show with a new song about a belle from Lafayette s romantic misty past called Celia Champagne. Photos taken at Wayfare by current day belle from Lafayette et la Reine de la Bonne Chance, Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ross Karpelman is Satan s agent. At least for a few weeks a year. Ross is founder of the New Orleans Halloween institution House of Shock, where he plays the part of Belial. After last Halloween the house was dead and buried. But it s had a miraculous resurrection and is back and bigger than ever. Ross reports on the Bordello of Freaks where you can have your way with the bearded lady or have a two headed woman take care of business. When he s not playing Satan, Ross likes to relax at his own home not yours, so don t call and invite him over and on occasion takes Ambien and watches TV. Reportedly on Ambien, at least in Ross s experience, there s a twilight time between waking and sleeping during which you do things a waking person would do, though that person isn t recognisably you and isn t doing things that you would do. Unless you typically buy multiple knife sets on QVC and waffle makers in Walmart. Comedian Addy Najera hosts a comedy night of tastelessness called Liquid Ass, and is one of the organizer s of the 4th annual city wide comedy celebration, Hell Yes Fest. The brainchild of The New Movement Theater, Hell Yes has grown from a modest collection of improv and stand up shows to a two weekend festival with films, shows and out of town comedians competing for coveted slots. Addy is also 50 of the driving force behind the genuinely funny and weird web series House Calls in which comedians who have no low bar of humiliation do their stand up set in their own home. A Man For All Seasons the fabulous Jak Locke makes a triumphant return to Happy Hour with his new movie, Targeted. Made on a shoestring budget over the course of 3 years, Jack wrote the first draft of the western when he was 7 growing up on the Westbank. The second version of Targeted is based on the original and both movies are available together on DVD here. While you re about it, do yourself a favor and read the greatest unpublished novel of a generation, Frog Dell s Junkyard. Jak plays a new song for which he has no title. As with every appearance Jak makes on this show, and all others, he takes the place by storm and blows the roof of the joint. Andrew Duhon has written enough new songs to make a new album. Here he plays one of them, Time Will Tell. If you can figure out a way to steal this off of this show go ahead, it s a collector s item. The chance of Andrew suing you is slim. Photos on this page at Wayfare taken by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last time Julie Tizzard stopped by Happy Hour one of the guys from Flowtribe spilled a glass of red wine all over her. This trip Andrew Duhon re works her marketing plan. Julie is a criminal defense attorney whose phone number is 877 SHARK90. Admitting that it s not the greatest phone number and needs updating Andrew works on various combinations of the number assigning different letters to it and comes up with Julie s new same phone number 877 RIBS 790. Members of the band So Long Storyland are less likely than Flowtribe to spill booze all over Julie as 50 of them are 14 years old. Sophia Preston is still in school after an hour hanging out at Wayfare she has to go home and work on her Shakespeare and geometry homework. Before she does though she and her musical partner Andrew deBuys who a few months back was Sophia s middle school music teacher sing a couple of songs. One song is off their new album, the other is not. See if you can figure out the marketing sense behind that decision after hearing Andrew explain it. Joel Little knows a thing or two about teenage singers. He co wrote and produced the 2014 Grammy winning song of the year, Royals, with teenage artist Lorde. Joel happens to be passing through New Orleans on a music appreciaton tour with his father, acclaimed New Zealand author and publisher Paul Little. For a change, the happy hour conversation swings around to discussing pot, but this time from a different angle from the usual stoner talk. Julie RIBS 970 has an up close and personal association with criminals "not all of them have done something heinous" and has a theory about how legalizing pot could greatly reduce New Orleans crime, but it may also defund the federal government. This is the greatest number of guests to show up ever in the history of Happy Hour. There s a lot to digest. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you only had 10 questions to ask your favorite artist visual or musical what would your questions be That s the task photographer Zach Smith set himself when he embarked on a project to document the work of some seminal Louisiana artists. The result is My Louisiana Muse, an exhibition and online testament to both the artists and Zach s fascinating technique called bromoil which combines elements of photography and painting. Julia Sevin knows a thing or two about visual arts as well she s the local President of the 500,000 or 27,000 strong depending if you count everybody or just the folks who pay up members of the AIGA, the international design organization that is holding its annual get together in New Orleans. Check the website for a bunch of cool free parties and events. And check out Julia s story about Donna Reed s niece, Groucho Marx s daughter and Mia Farrow s nieces. Talking of the Marx family, things get off to a rocky start with Jeremy Marx, the singer and guitar player from the band Gandhi Castle, when he shows up 30 minutes late, it turns out through no fault of his own. Then Grant decides to hold Jeremy s feet to the fire about whether or not he wasted 120,000 going to school to learn to play jazz guitar. All s well that ends well though a song and a couple of drinks later we re all off to Zach s exhibition and Julia s party. Photos at Wayfare taken by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Walking into a bar in rural Mississippi can be an unnerving experience. But Jon Hatchett got a good song out of it. Andrew Duhon s inspiration for a new song written just minutes before he played it was inspired a bucket. It s about a man who thinks he has it all, described in the chorus as a "5 Gallon Captaincy." Jon Hatchett picks up the challenge and debuts a song he also wrote just today, about the upside of drinking heavily, which turns out to a potential country classic called You Can t Regret What You Can t Remember. Joe Toman is two thirds through a 52 week challenge of trying to remember what happened in bar last night. The results of his weekly bar room adventures with local drinkers is enshrined in a weekly column and soon to be collected as a book. Meghan Harwell met her husband in high school, not in rural Louisiana but in rural Louisiana. But they didn t start dating till they ran into each other on Canal Street in New Orleans 4 years ago. Back in high school he didn t but now he looks like Jeff Goldblum. And like Goldblum s characters in Jurassic Park and, apparently, Independence Day, Goldblum lookalike is saving the world from disease. Photos by the fabulous Alison Moon at Wayfare in Uptown New Orleans. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Arthur Meek is a New Zealander who sounds like stepped out of Flight of the Conchords but actually he stepped out of his car mere minutes after driving into New Orleans from visiting Graceland and blowing the head off of a guy at point blank range in Mississippi and joined us on Happy Hour. Arthur has been in the United States trying to drum up support for his campaign to have sex with Hillary Clinton. He makes a pretty convincing argument on this show. If Hillary is the Democratic candidate for President in 2016, screwing Arthur could conceivably make more sense than screwing over whomever else she s up against. Alex Beard has a whole other way of figuring out what the hell s going on in the universe. It s called the Divine Proportion. If you re thinking that s maybe the name of the pie at Camellia Grill,it s actually 1.618. Entirely without the aid of pot, Alex is able to explain the relationship between the world s only known unicellular organism and your eye looking at a Jackson Pollack painting. This whole consideration of the unifying elements of the universe starts when Lucy Cordts is badgered into admitting she could read music and play Bach by the age of 8 years old in Peoria, Illinois. Today Lucy plays banjo, mandolin, and sings in the Kelcy Mae band. If you re a fan of this show you may also remember Lucy as "Puddin ." In her waking hours when she s not playing music Lucy is the Social Services Supervisor at the NO AIDS Task Force. Lucy s take on what s going in the local health scene in general and the HIV world in particular might surprise you. Actually, that s a guarantee. Andrew Duhon tries out a new song, The Spirit Lives On. And, yes, it sure does. Photos on this page are taken at Wayfare by the pride of Lafayette, Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you can swallow a sword, breathe fire, or create some similar kind of special moment there s a special place for you in New Orleans. It s called the Buku Music Art Project. Addie Olsen is the Director of Buku. She s sold out the event for this year 14,000 tickets a day and figured out how to stop people across the river on the Westbank from hearing the 5 simultaneous stages of music, so she s feeling relaxed enough to have a couple of cocktails and talk about Max, graffiti, and India. When Addie was younger she had an unnerving experience in India within hours of landing at the airport. Last week, Andrew Duhon had a similar automotive altercation in Sri Lanka. Back in the Happy Hour saddle, Andrew has tales from his travels and a song about a special moment. Andre Waguespack loves cars, makes music and combines those inclinations in his professional name, Klutch. Klutch has a massive international following on Soundcloud where he reaches an audience who he has ample reason to believe are disaffected kids whose emotional touchstone is Pokemon. Klutch is creating special moments on stage at Buku and beyond. Chris Kehoe pulls it all together. The photos on this page were taken at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.