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Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneMusician, Andrew Duhon, bravely offers up the music video to his song, Waco Kool-Aid, to the Roast Twins who offer "constructive criticism." Plus, we review the free agency decisions of the Dallas Cowboys with The Athletic's, Jon Machota, and we listen in as Trump sits inside the latest Teslur models (00:00) - Open: With Musician, Andrew Duhon (16:10) - Roast Twins vs. Andrew Duhon (40:02) - Cowboys free agency with Jon Machota (01:05:30) - Thursday Viewer Mail bag (01:25:58) - Trump endorses Teslur (01:38:59) - News: The Rottweiler's decline (01:59:19) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Acadiana Center for the Arts' Sam Oliver, Executive director, and Taylor Davis, Board President, join Discover Lafayette to discuss the AcA's 50th anniversary approaching, the superb programming they offer our community, and discuss upcoming events. The Acadiana Arts Council, the organization that later evolved into the Acadiana Center for the Arts (AcA), was established in 1975. It began as a regional arts organization focused on promoting and supporting the arts throughout Acadiana. Over the years, the Council expanded its vision and programming, eventually leading to the creation of the AcA as its permanent home on November 1, 2010. The AcA, at its core, is the Arts Council for the region, that offers Lafayette and the Acadiana region something you would expect in a larger metropolitan area: incredible performances from all over the world, high production quality shows, and the promotion of local and regional artists. It is a space for visual arts, performing arts, music, dance, and theatre. It is also a gathering place for social events, debates and forums for political occasions, and civic presentations that benefit the entire community. Sam has served as Executive Director for six years. You can hear our original interview with Sam here where we discussed his educational background and what led him to serve the AcA. Taylor has served on the board the past ten years and was first exposed to the AcA at its first show ever which brought Lyle Lovett to Lafayette. Taylor says his service is "a labor of love," and he and his wife, Yvette regularly go out to see and enjoy live music. The James Devin Moncus Theater offers a superb sound system that was upgraded this year, with a seating capacity of 304 seats, "and there is really not a bad seat in the house!"  It's a great time to join or renew your AcA membership as you receive early bird access to tickets for 2025's in-demand performances before they open for sale to the general public. Yearly memberships begin at $35 a year with higher levels for those who want to support the organization at a higher level. The AcA's 2025's Louisiana Crossroads series will showcase performers such as Steve Khan, Louis Michot, and C.J. Chenier celebrating the 100th birthday of Clifton Chenier. Scott Mulvahill, a Nashville based singer, songwriter and bass player, will be leading a full album length playthrough of Paul Simon's Graceland album, which featured Acadiana artists with Zydeco and accordion music. George Porter Jr. will round out the year. January 2025 will be kicked off with a two-night concert “The Roots of Fire Live,” bringing local Cajun and Creole together live on stage to perform, Other big name acts will include Lucinda Williams, Andrew Duhon, Ruthie Foster, and Kat Higgins, Several perks are being offered to enhance your AcA experience. Parking is always a challenge downtown, so the AcA is introducing free parking with a ticket at the parking lot across from Chase Tower on Jefferson Street. If you're planning dinner and drinks after a show, the AcA has partnered with downtown restaurants such as Vestal and Pop's Poboys who are doing pre-show discounts on meals. The Aca has also partnered with restaurants such as Pamplona and Ton's Downtown who will stay open later on show nights to offer post-show cocktails, In order to ensure a lineup of performances which pleases its patrons, the AcA put out a survey asking for the types of acts desired by the community.  Putting together a 50th anniversary season “had to be not just good, but something that our audience and our supporters really resonate with. We actually put out a survey where we said to members of ACA, tell us what you want to see”, Sam Oliver said. In honor of the upcoming 50th anniversary of AcA, on December 7, 2024, the Pelican Ball will honor five people who have made an impact over the course of its existence. One of the founders of the Acadiana Center for the Arts,

New week, new episode! Nate kicks things off with an update on the release schedule before sitting down to talk to singer/songwriter, Andrew Duhon. The two talk about the word jawn, the Castle on Irish Bayou, growing up in New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina and the phenomena of bonded community, Wednesdays at the Square, his mother's sheet music for the music from Dances With Wolves, piano lessons, the first song he learned to play, finding something to say, his early days playing out, connecting with the audience, sad songs and the cost of a good song, finding his voice, the story behind recording Songs I Wrote Before I Knew You, his collaboration with Trina Shoemaker, working with Eric Massey, working in the studio vs. performing live, his latest release Emerald Blue, the Pandemic, the audience reaction to the new songs live, and the relationship between artist and audience. Then, Andrew braves The Jawntlet!Andrew Duhon websiteAndrew Duhon InstagramAndrew Duhon FacebookAndrew Duhon TwitterAndrew Duhon @ the Sellersville Theater (5/7) Subscribe to the Y!TMJ Newsletter! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ytmj/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ytmj/support

Originally aired February 14th, 2023.

FTB podcast #520 features 2 new albums, Emerald Blue by Andrew Duhon and Trains, Rivers & Trails by Monica Taylor.  Also new music from Lucy Kaplansly, The Brothers Comotose, John Moreland, The Broken Spokes and more.

For better or worse, New Orleans economy is dependent on tourism. As we've discussed previously on this show, critics say a tourist-dependent economy traps people in low-paid jobs. Tourism boosters say without the revenue generated by tourists we'd all be paying way more in taxes and our cost of living would be through the roof. Whichever of these positions you subscribe to, undeniably the heart of the New Orleans tourist industry - and therefore New Orleans' vital finance generator - is the French Quarter. The French Market Corporation is all too aware of this tourist-dependence. They'd like the French Quarter to be a place locals visit too. Not just because it is, after all, quintessentially New Orleans, but because for a large chunk of the year the heat keeps tourists away and locals are the Quarter's only source of revenue. As their name suggests, the French Market Corporation operates the French Market. But their jurisdiction also includes the Pontalba buildings, all of the riverside retail stores, and riverside restaurants, from Cafe duMonde to Gazebo Café. It's a big chunk of real estate and accounts for a significant percentage of French Quarter revenue. The Executive Director of the French Market Corporation is Leslie Alley. There aren't many places in the French Quarter that tourists and locals go. But there is one place most tourists go, and most locals have been. And that's Pat O'Brien's bar. Pat O'Brien's is the home of the Hurricane. They have fountains of fire in the courtyard. And in their piano lounge they have dueling pianos. Two piano players sit at matching copper-topped grand pianos, playing together or trading off, playing requests, and encouraging audience participation. It's a singular kind of skill that combines musicianship and live improv entertainment. For 25 years one of these entertaining piano players has been Henrietta Alves. There's no doubt, New Orleans wouldn't be the city it is without the French Quarter. And the French Quarter, as attractive as it is architecturally, wouldn't have the charm, character, and reputation it has without the people who live and work there. Henrietta Alves has contributed to decades of life in the Quarter, as both a resident and a musician. And Leslie Allie's contributions to the French Market, and the properties the French Market Corporation operates, will be felt for decades to come.  Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at NOLA Pizza in the NOLA Brewing Taproom. You can find photos from this show by Jill Lafleur at itsneworleans.com. And check out more lunchtime conversation with New Orleans entertainers Andrew Duhon and Henrietta's daughter, Musa.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Season 2, Episode 11: New Orleans musician Andrew Duhon joins the Talking Threadheads crew to discuss his origins as a musician; his career arc to date; his new album to be released in July; and where he's playing during the upcoming festival season. This podcast is produced by AJ Joseph.

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.

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.

An award winning Happy Hour ... Guy Tem is an award winning opera singer and vocal professor who came to New Orleans from Turkey in 2007 to sing in an opera and never left. Guy teaches the table how to tell a man s singing voice by looking at his neck...then "swings low" with a stirring a cappella rendition of the spiritual that nearly blows out the mics. David Lee Simmons is an award winning journalist and communications professional. As communications specialist for the Foundation for Louisiana, David Lee wants us to know about the Foundation s LEAD program, a seven week leadership workshop accepting registration for its next cycle through Friday, Feb. 10. David Lee also came to New Orleans as a visitor and never left...except for the Atlanta years, which he says gives him a unique empathy for the Falcons. Outlaw Nation is a soon to be award winning New Orleans band whose founder Christian Simeon claims most of the best music ever came out of New Orleans. Christian and co guitarist Sebastian Weston serve up three tunes so infectious you ll need a shot. Andrew Duhon says he s stuck for an album title and asks Christian to name Outlaw Nation s top 10 for inspiration. The winner "Greatest Misses." Stay tuned. Rich Collins of The Imagination Movers hosts for Grant ... and tells our favorite story about the home delivered underpants. Photos at Wayfare by Catherine King. Adam s Apple cover art Adam s Apple censored by Mark Satchwill See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What do you call a jam cruise that doesn t have a jam band, but does have a funny poignant singer songwriter, a 5 string bass player bandleader, a solo act, and an artist In other words, the three musicians and an artist who walked in to Wayfare for this week s Happy Hour. While the panel never quite comes to an answer, they do make the case that no matter what form their work takes, New Orleans artists have a lot in common. Anastasia Pelias is a visual artist whose most recent exhibition, Sisters, paid tribute to great female singers. Her favorite critique came from the cable guy, who talked for 20 minutes about her work. And don t mess with her daughters Anastasia is of Greek heritage and warns the New Orleans Greek community is "a powerful association." Musician Davis Rogan knows a fair bit about New Orleans Greeks he s married to one. Davis says he got his start in entertainment reading PSAs about VD on WTUL at the age of 10, and decided to become a musician when he "wrote some funny words and then picked up a little piano." These days he handles all talent booking for the newly renovated Carver Theater. One of the acts Davis is looking to book is Naughty Professor, one of Noah Young s many musical projects. Noah is a 5 string bass player who came to New Orleans by way of Vermont to study jazz at Loyola University, where Naughty Professor got its name from a hot teacher. Noah has just released a CD with his own group, the less imaginatively named Noah Young Band. Andrew Duhon who is performing under the name Andrew Duhon until he thinks of something more clever is back in the co pilot s chair. Andrew discusses jam cruises and suggests Naughty Professor should get a cruise gig, leading to speculation about what a cruise featuring this week s Happy Hour would be called. Pinch hitting for Grant is Peter Ricchiuti, the host of another It s New Orleans podcast, Out to Lunch. Peter also teaches at Tulane s business school, and after 30 years in academia says what he really wants to be is a naughty professor. He leads the group in an insightful conversation about what it s like to be an artist in New Orleans. Photos at Wayfare by Catherine King. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Colby Fox had the benefit of growing up in paradise Destin, Florida. But when he flunked out of community college and joined the Navy, his ex military Army dad wasn t terribly supportive. He told Colby, he d rather have a daughter in a cathouse than a son in the Navy. Colby nonetheless persevered and won the old man over with his skills as a helicopter mechanic in the Arabian Gulf. When the war was over Destin wasn t much fun. So Colby decided he had to move, to some place he could get on one tank of gas. Tallahassee or New Orleans. Colby " I didn t know much about day to day life in either of those places but I was learning lots of surprising things from all the podcasts I was finding on the Stitcher app on my phone. I couldn t find many local flavor podcasts about Tallahassee but the It s New Orleans series was available then and I immersed myself in all the episodes. Happy Hour became my favorite because I really liked the premise. On nights when I couldn t sleep which were many back then I would charge up my phone and walk down the beach, an episode in one direction then turn around and listen to another episode on my way home. I liked listening to Grant and Andrew talk to people who seemed as though they were ordinary New Orleanians but from what I was hearing, sounded like extraordinary people. I decided that I wanted to come live in a city that seemed to be so full of character. So I did. The next pay day I drove to my friend s house in Algiers Point and things got a lot better for me." Katie Brasted is doing what she can to save New Orleans. Katie is Executive Director of Woodlands Conservancy, the last remaining 25 of New Orleans wetlands that acts as a barrier between hurricanes and destruction. Before that Katie worked with schizophrenics in a mental institution in West Virginia. That s where she met her husband. Khris Royal drops by, taking a break from working with his band Dark Matter on new tunes for an album due out later this year. We take a sneak preview of a track called Step Children, partially inspired by jazz orphans and weed. Andrew Duhon plays a track from his forthcoming album by request from Colby. Photos at Wayfare by Catherine King. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apparently women find men who allegedly shoot people, up to three times more attractive than peace loving guys. As a defense attorney Nandi Campbell finds herself representing these guys. Sometimes they don t have the resources to pay a first class defense attorney like Nandi and so the wife, the girlfriend and the other girlfriend come into Nandi s office to sort it out. Nandi is no stranger to the multiple partner world, having grown up with two sisters mere months apart, thanks to her dad and his two girlfriends. All three women and three sisters grew up together and still get along just fine. Brian Levy, who by the way is a black belt professional Aikido practitioner and trainer, had a related but dissimilar experience. In the process of dating two very different women Brian got to learn two languages. That s because one of the girlfriends was Swedish and the other Romanian. If you can t even believe such a thing is possible, take a listen to Brian speaking fluent Romanian and Swedish and explaining the Swedish marital common law that can see a guy get just screwed as the the world of US monogamy. Jeff Schmidtke knows something about post nuptial agreements, which can apparently get you out of being destroyed in a divorce if you and your spouse have agreed ahead of time, but still after you got married, that it s totally cool to date other people. There are apparently a number of ways you can structure a relationship these days, and they re pretty much all represented around the table here at Happy Hour. Meanwhile, in the normally more "truculent" and "bellicose" 10 bonus points if you have a single clue what that means world of rock n roll, folk and psyche pop, Jeff premieres dazzling brand new music off the new album from his band, Shadow Brother, and Andrew Duhon premieres a song he wrote just hours earlier about nostalgia for the warmth of monogamy in jail. This is an absolute classic New Orleans conversation, a must listen Happy Hour. Photos at Wayfare by Catherine King. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Getting strep throat when someone you know gives a third person oral sex sounds like a magic trick. Unfortunately, for Eric Hollerbach, it wasn t. Part of Eric s stand up comedy livelihood is his popular and revealing podcast Highway Diary. You can check out episode 160 where he and his ex ex girlfriend reminisce over the many issues that drove them apart. Until you have a moment to do that, you can catch up on the decidedly non magic pathology of passing diseases around the world of New Orleans entertainment. Rev Goat Carson is a whole other kind of entertainer. Claiming to have Alzheimer s, he manages to pull off a dazzling rap that he performed with Dr. John when he was writing songs with him which earned him a Grammy. Goat also recounts his adventures with a panoply of luminaries from Bob Dylan to Kinky Friedman, and recounts his run for President with Joe Walsh from The Eagles as his running mate. In a range of amazing tales, nothing is quite as stupendous as the movie Goat wrote and directed in the 80 s starring the great grandfather of rap, Melle Mel, Step Off. The sci fi thriller foretells the destruction of the Twin Towers in Manhattan, and is only now seeing the light of day with performances in New Orleans. Sharks Teeth is a band that you might not immediately peg as New Orleanian. Their many recordings are electronic and synth laden but as their performance on Happy Hour proves they are equally at home with acoustic guitars and a snare drum with a rag over it. Tyler Scurlock, Zach Meredith and Spencer Darr turn in an impressive two song set before making a case for dropping out of school and bringing back the audio cassette. Andrew Duhon returns from Canada with a new song about The soul of the Mississippi. Photos at Wayfare by Dionne Grayson. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

According to acupuncturist and dispenser of love based medicine Noell Eanes, at one point we were all running around with three eyes. Evolution dealt us a sad blow, removing our third eye which allowed us to see emotions. Now Noell keeps her third eye open, her chakras tuned up and her Qi flowing with a number of techniques and the aid of a ring made of Shattucktite. Noell can even perform acupuncture without needles, known as Shakuju, and hangs out with witches. On paper this all might seem eccentric and weird, but the way Noell tells it, it all sounds perfectly, well, lovely. Blaze Edwards is a photographer, but that s the one thing nobody talks about in this conversation. Blaze has plenty else to talk about though, including the birth of Kemetic Yoga. Kemet is apparently the original name for Africa, and if you re wondering how Yoga, normally associated with India, came to be African, well Blaze can tell you. Since we last met her on Happy Hour, Kathryn Rose Wood has transformed from the front person in a band to a formidable singer songwriter and the city s go to person for other women singer songwriters as the host of an all woman singer songwriter night at the International House Hotel. Andrew Duhon was a woman in a past life some 500 years ago and today marks the beginning of his and Grant s journey into the world of warlocks. Photos at Wayfare by Sam Weil. 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.

When you had a vasectomy at age 30 via a doctor who apparently decided it wasn t a moment too soon to remove you from the gene pool , then fall in love with a woman who s determined to have a baby, the solution is obvious a sperm donation from your gay best friend and shared parenthood with donor dad and his partner. Andy Overslaugh tells Happy Hour about son WIlder s three dads, Wilder s mom Lori and her Leap Day proposal, and their surprisingly unsurprising, unconventional family. Although he says he s best known as Lori Tipton s fianc , Andy is what Happy Hour guest host Rich Collins calls a "five in one" threat. What else do you call a 20 year bartender whose incarnations include indie professional wrestler, Katrina race car driver, standup bass smashing leader of a 90s rockabilly band, and one of Wilder s dads Don t miss his tip for men who want to hang out at Victoria s Secret without creeping out the clientele. Andy s most vivid stories describe the wild world of professional wrestling, complete with hidden razors, gushing blood and a nemesis called Dick Nasty, so you might be surprised to know he s a big fan of Renaissance festival jousting. Speaking of which, Happy Hour favorite George Elizondo recounts the time he played at a Renaissance festival...with a Motown band...to an audience of no one. At least he got to eat a big turkey leg when it was over. George s copy music for the sponsorship announcements chills out the house. When she realizes a missing guest has resulted in a show reeking of testosterone, Happy Hour producer Graham da Ponte steps in to provide some estrogen...and is promptly reduced to tears by Rich s devastating song about New Orleans s mean streets. Finally, Andrew Duhon makes his last Happy Hour appearance of the month before heading for an east coast tour find his dates for a club near you at AndrewDuhon.com. Rich Collins of the Imagination Movers, guest hosting for Grant, keeps things moving with some stories of his own including the tender tale of a 10 year underpants ritual and some seriously grownup music. 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.

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.

Old folk wisdom says there are two things you don t want to see being made sausages and legislation. You might want to add kambucha to that list. According to one of the guys who makes it, Daniel Morris from Big Easy Bucha, it s made in what s called "open brewing" which is kind of like brewing beer except instead of being in a closed system it s an open vat with a SHEET over it. Yes, a sheet. A black sheet. In all fairness Big Easy Bucha, sheet or not sheet it tastes awesome. As we can attest after a rigorous taste test on this Happy Hour, sacrificing ourselves for science by adding whisky to Bucha, making what Andrew Duhon christens as Boozy Bucha. Harry Rosenberg no relation and Molly Portier make up 50 of Blonde Roses, one of the most exciting new bands in New Orleans. In fact they re so new that they ve only been around a few weeks having been reborn from an earlier outfit you ll know if you;re from Lafayette, called Wooden Wings. As you know if you listen to Happy Hour, we get to hear a lot of great music on this show these guys rate up there with the absolute best. Do you know anything about bras If you do you can decorate one and enter it into the Bodaceous Bra competition at Festi Gals, an annual festival celebrating women that Diane Lyons dreamed up to complement festivals about tomatoes and oysters. Diane s day job is an event planner with her own company Accent DMC which she describes as being like Run DMC but with less money. However, still plenty of champagne. Andrew Duhon just finished writing a song called Whatever Happened to Gray. Although by now it may be called something else, a rose and the color gray by any other name would be, well, a plant and a color with different names. If you want to know why the song induces trance like good feelings, Andrew has a musical, psychological and mathematical explanation. Phots at Wayfare by Nathaniel Trahan. 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.

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.

The real Debbie and Donna are New Orleans twins who won 200m in the lottery and blew it all. The fake Debbie and Donna are Jon and Chelsea from a band called Toonces which they formed in the aftermath of playing Debbie and Donna in a comedy music show where dressed as the opposite gender they fell passionately in love. So passionate was their love that they included Dana a man dressed as a woman along on their first night of sex together. Which didn t go according to what you might think would be the normal course of events. And that, believe it or not, is just the beginning of the story. The rest of it involves a hedgehog called Quilliam, yoga, tarot cards, and an imaginary religion. Grant mentions that when he walked into the bar he assumed Clyde Edward Casey aka Casey was going to be the most eccentric person at the table, an observation which, looking at Casey aka Clyde is wholly forgivable. Even though the threesome twins story is hard to top, Casey aka Clyde aka Casey does not disappoint. Casey aka Clyde has done practically everything required of the card carrying eccentric, from carving wooden figures on Bourbon Street to making harmonica bracelets but not wanting to tell you where he sells them here to getting married to the Cosmic Queen on a reality TV show in the French Quarter. In other company, owning Kitchen Witch, a bookstore in Mid City that sells "9 10,000 cookbooks," and refusing to drive a "stinkin Lincoln" literally stinkin from the animals carted around inside it and a plug to drain out water would make you the kook, but in this conversation Debbie Lindsey is almost a straight arrow. Almost. Andrew Duhon tries out a song about pickling that is unfinished and gets help putting the lid on it from Toonces. This is without doubt one of the most eccentric and unpredictable barroom conversations you have ever heard. Or your money back. Photos at Wayfare by Graham daPonte. 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.

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.

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.

Gwen Thompkins is host of the authoritative and quintessential New Orleans music show, Music Inside Out, on NPR station WWNO. Gwen s tenure in Sudan and East Africa as cash toting bureau chief in that neck of the woods has given her a wide worldview out of which has come her solution to the debate over guns in America pies. What if, instead of shooting each other, we each had an armory of pies which we unload on each other with an accompaniment of suitable epithets John Richie is taking the pie idea under advisement. His new documentary is called 91 for the 91 of the population who believe in background checks for all gun buyers and examines why 100 of Congress refuse to act on the will of the people. Rich Collins is side tepping the gun issue in favor of a more upbeat and sunny view of the world on his new record, Golden Pick. He also has a new oputlook on the music busines and a full schedule with the other side of his music life, the Imagination Movers. Chris Lee drops by with his beautiful baby blue guitar and an atrtitude that s anything but baby or blue. For his new year s resolution Chris who, remember is the front man for ass kicking, take no prisoners rockband Supagroup has decided for this year he s going to kick ass, take no prisoners, and not give a sh t what anybody thinks about anything he has to say. If you think Chris was smart, sharp, and outspoken laste year , wait till you hear this year s version. Check out he song he sings on this show about who owns his freedom. Andrew Duhon is just waiting for someone to break in his house so he can string up his curve bow and arrow and let em have it. Photos at Wayfare by Catherine King. 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.

If you have any kind of mental illness and are on medication, Valley Rich has a way to get you off of all of your pills. You need to be prepared to accept the magic of marijuana, the power of your real self, and turn your back on the conspiracy of big pharma. There is a chance that you ll see demons and turn into a mermaid but then on the other hand if you re like Valley you might also get to star in a movie like She Was Famous, learn to play guitar and turn yourself into a singer songwriter all in the space of 9 months. Luke Winslow King makes a return appearance to Happy Hour with a rare lesson on harmonica maintenance, a how to primer on Google Alerts, a literally show stopping revamped version of an awesome original, and a duet with Andrew Duhon on a Sister Rosetta Tharp classic. Rene Maggio takes us into the murky underworld of Anne Rice, Singapore, and the strange forces that lurk beneath Facebook, fiction, blindness, and reading impairment that conspire to bring to life audio books and radio for the blind. Photographer Alison Moon brings us Christmas brownies and sugar cookies that, as we wrap up this show and this year, seem to be weed free. Then again, let s give it another 10 minutes to be sure about that... If you ve just found us or you re a long time listener to the Happy Hour podcast, from Producer Graham Daponte, Associate Producer Chris Kehoe, hosts Grant Morris and Andrew Duhon and all of us at INO Broadcasting who make the show Thank you for being with us 2015 was a great year for us. We ve seen a giant growth in our audience, we ve hosted performances from some of New Orleans finest musicians, we ve met an incredibly diverse array of wonderful New Orleanians, we ve enjoyed the extraordinary generosity and awesome food and drinks at Wayfare, we ve learned a lot and we ve laughed even more. We look forward to spending many more happy hours with you on Happy Hour. Be Safe and we ll see you back here when the effects of Alison s brownies wear off. 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.

It s Veterans Day 2015. The random assortment of folks at Happy Hour at Wayfare runs the gamut from hardcore US Marine Tommy Waller to vegan singer songwriter and French chanteuse Sarah Quintana. Lafayette musician Phillipe Billeaudeaux, from Cajun band Feufollet, recently moved to town. Moon is an artist who tends toward the spiritual and loving end of the visual spectrum and has "Make Love Not War" tattooed on her. She s also married to a soldier who has just returned after a year on duty in the Middle East. And then there s Andrew Duhon questioning and open minded and host Grant Morris. It s Grant s glib and simple question about why do we bother sending our men off to war that brings the vegans and veterans together over a round of drinks in the most intense meeting of the minds you ll hear on the subject of war, Islam, oysters, the pain a blade of grass feels when a cow eats it and much more. Sometimes it s just impossible for the written word to capture the power and subtlety of conversation. This is one such occasion. You just have to hear this. Photos at Wayfare by Catherine King. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It totally depends on your defintion of "explicit". If you ve ever been in a New Orelans bar and discussed transgender issues, vaginas, insanity, the quality of pies in various institutions from NOPD lockup to remanded in custody mental institutions, you re not going to be too suprised or offended by the content of this podcast. However, apparently if you are an attorney or you own a major podcast distribution business with the symbol of a bitten piece of fruit, frank conversation is "explicit." Rachel Dangermond has got it covered. She s got everything going for her that a human could have sexually, racially, intellectually, even down to international jewelry wearing. P.H.Fred is a sweet, decent, nice guy who can pick up a guitar and pretty much offend everybody in every category of New Orleans life you coluld imagine. A keen observer of inhuman nature and funny as hell, P.H. has been a comedian in New Orleans when there wasn t a hell of a lot to laugh at so he had to pen lines like "I knew she was from Bucktown "cause I woke up with the crabs." These days he s moved on to more clever and funnier rhymes, as you ll hear here. He s also spent a decent amount of time under institutional supervision and can report on the state of pie offered in jail and mental wards. Hugo Montero, the suave, global intellectual Mexican New Orelanian who is Happy Hour s host at Casa Borrega, looks like he s going to lend some intellectual heft to the proceedings with a report from the New York Times about the differences between men and women, but it turns out to be even more "explicit" than anything that had previously come up. Andrew Duhon tries to raise the tone, with only marginal, and temporary, success. This is a classic edition of Happy Hour. As Grant says, "We don t call it Happy Hour because it s an hour." We sure don t. This is zany conversation that s real New Orleans true and unbelievable. 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.

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.

Andy King doesn t like to describe his job as "hacking up children." As an orthopedic surgeon and the pardon the pun head of the spine unit at Children s Hospital in New Orleans, Andy is good naturedly circumspect about how he describes using mechanical instruments on kids backs. As a New Zealander, he s a lot less sensitive to his description of Australians. Bridget Kelly is a 7th generation New Orleanian whose son, August, is an 8th generation New Orleanian, and whose husband Aaron not Erin was faking buying a baguette at the Cresecnt City Farmers Market when Bridget met him for the first time after seeing him across a restaurant the night before while discussing Mork n Mindy s offsrpring and declaring she was going to marry him. Even in a small town of bizarre goings on and on a cocktail drinking show that is, frankly, a gathering ground for crazy stories this romantic tale stands out. So much so that Andrew Duhon is contemplating a cross cultural yoga centric reconnaissance of the Uptown Farmers Market on Tuesdays. If you re there on a Tuesday Andrew is the guy with the sitar waiting for the yoga teacher with the New Zealand passport. If you re taking bets on which New Orleans band whose new record is produced by Bob Dylan s guitar player Charlie Sexton is most likely to bust out of the city and make a nationwide name for themselves, put your money on The Cardinal Sons. God fearing honest to god brothers from Jackson, Mississippi, John, Joe, and Dave Shirley s older brother, Daniel, who is not in the band, started out running around the house flapping his hands and singing before realizing he could corral his brothers into learning instruments to back him which could dispense with the incessant circumlocution of the dwelling and hand flapping. Daniel lives in New York and is is an opera singer but if you want to place another bet, put it on him showing up here some day to set the record straight. Although nobody at Happy Hour has done any research shocker to back this up, we re going to go out on a limb and claim this is almost certainly the only New Orleans podcast that contains cursing, a hymn, a serious and definitive explanation of why New Orleans has potholes, and a hypothesis of how Jesus was born in the year 1 A.D. The photos on this page were taken at Casa Borrega by Nadine Wu and Douglas Engel. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sheba Turk steps our from in front of the camera to sit behind a microphone and play guitar like Adele. Sheba has always wanted to play guitar and today s the day her dream comes true. With assistance from Stephen Turner and Jonathan Pretus from The Breton Sound, Sheba belts our her favorite Adele song. And talks about eating dinner for breakfast, being on air at WWLTV for 5 hours straight, and sockbuns. The boys from the Breton Sound take a break from giving live guitar lessons to play a song off their new EP Don t Be Afraid of Rock n Roll, and to swing from smoking to high voltage chemical plants. Roger Wilson was a star of the big screen in Porky s, a singing TV star in 7 Brides For 7 Brothers, the creator of Louisiana s Broadway South that reuvenated Canal Street, and can seemingly do anything he puts his mind to. Even explain tax credits to a bunch of folks with cocktails. Andrew Duhon dips into his country music bag for a celebration of certain failure and heartbreak. All photos on this page were taken by sockbun See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Frank Scurlock is a member of one of New Orleans' first families. Like the Marsallises the first family of music and the Brennans the first family of restaurants the Scurlocks are New Orleans first family of fun. Frank s father, John, invented the Space Walk, perhaps better known as the bouncy castle. Frank has a bounced a long way out of the family business. He leaves his kids to run the day to day infatable biz while he concentrates on far grander visions. Like Transformation Village a theme park the size and scope of Disney World he s developing in New Orleans East, a zipline running from the top of the World Trade Center to the West Bank, and there s more Wait till you hear how kids are going to spend time inside inflatable classrooms shaped like NASA s space shuttle to get their "Eduflation." Catrina Cerny loves beer so much she bought a backpack of it to Happy Hour, which by the way is in a bar. Catrina unpacks her backpack of Chicago beers on this show. She loves New Orleans so much she moved here twice both before and after the hurricane that was not named after her. The hurricane is spelled with a K this Catrina is spelled with a C. Anyway, that s s digression which, although important to Catrina s psyche, is not as important as her opinion of alcoholism. Catrina believes "All of us in New Orleans are dysfunctionally acoholic, and that s not bad." That might not be an exact quote we re a few beers in by now but around this table it leads to a vigorous quest to discover which of us are alcoholics and by whose definition. Andrew Duhon would like an alcoholic scale that allows for enough drinking to get into the mind frame to write a good song, but possibly not enough to end up in a bar on a Sunday afternoon with a dominatrix and a girlfriend you re in a fight with after starting drinking earlier in the week without letup and ending the bender by getting in a fight with a random guy big enough to settle the dispute in a manner that will have a very disadvantageous personal outcome. That s how it went down for Michael Cain, singer and songwriter for New Orleans band The Parishioners. Michael and Parishioners guitarist Damien Williams impress with two songs from their new album From Piety to Desire, and Damien impresses twice over with his encyclopedic general knowledge. There are about a hundred more funny and fascinating moments in this show. Suffice to say they include an impromptu singalong of "He s Got The Whole World In His Hands" and the revelation about a particular donut that will get you crazy. Photos on this page were taken at Wayfare by the fabulous and bearded Douglas Engel. See more of Douglas s Happy Hour pix here. 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.

Mac Alsfeld was Jesus personal assistant. Every day Jesus would scream at him, throw stuff, and get naked. Not the actual Jesus in the New Testament he s reportedly still dead this is the guy who played Jesus in the movies, Jim Caviezel. You think you d realize if you were a Hollywood star that if you treat people like crap they re eventually going to go on a podcast that involves drinking and tell the world all about you. Mac assists other actors working in movies in New Orleans, including Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill, and Kevin Costner. We get the lowdown on all of them on this Happy Hour. Even more exciting is a look at Mac s own film career as a screenwriter and director. His movie Father Like Son, about a guy who s mom re marries a guy only 4 months older than him, is headed for certain Hollywood success. Remember, you heard it here first. Rosemary Kimble doesn t have many secrets either. There s not much you can hide after you ve shaved your whole body and gotten painted. Rosemary is an extraordinary body painting artist and henna artist. Every year she produces a show at One Eyed Jacks where she invites body artists and circus performers from around the world. The circus performers get their bodies painted by the world s leading body painters then perform, painted. There s not a show quite like it anywhere. There s not a show quite like South x Southwest either. Andrew Duhon is back from Texas with tales of something less than stellar triumph but with an awesome song about Cecilia Champagne from Lafayette, Louisiana. Sam McCabe skipped out of work teaching kids at Lusher Elementary how to play guitar to play guitar on Happy Hour, though he forgot to teach himself the lyrics to his own song. Sam s band, The Bantam Foxes, are releasing new music all year this year and Sam gives us a preview of what we can expect, plus a look back at one of the band s staples. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.