It's New Orleans: Happy Hour

On this weeks Happy Hour, we have someone old, someone new, and someone borrowed sorry no one s blue . We have Paul Sanchez of Cowboy Mouth, filling in for host this week to explain why New Orleans is always evolving but manages to stay the same. Paul is joined by Sarah Waggener, who moved to New Orleans last year. By day, Sarah teaches Ashtanga Yoga, but by night she flies high above an audience as a professional aerialist, performing with Vaude D Gras as well as Cirque Copine, New Orleans first, all lady circus. Paul is also joined by chef Robert Bruce. Robert is a native New Orleanian, and has been working in restaurants since he was a teenager. But, all that work in the service industry paid off, because Robert is now the chef at Mr. John s Steakhouse. There s no music guest this week but luckily, Paul favors us with an original, acapella song.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 pre

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

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 can commit 60 minutes to listen to this Happy Hour all the way through, your life will be forever changed. This is not some sort of idle claim, or a pitch for money, or a time share condo. It s spiritual enlightenment. The real deal. Just like you could spend your entire life searching for, devoting every waking prayer and meditation. Forget all that. This is science, bro Or not.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 j

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 guita

At the beginning of this conversation artist Myesha Francis tells the table that everything she wished for by writing it on her "vision board" at the beginning of 2015 came to be by the end of the year, except one thing. In the next 60 minutes, by sheer chance, Myesha s last remaining goal is going to be accomplished. Well, pretty damn close anyway.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

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 bl

Do you know that all chefs hats aka "toques" are not created equal Look closely next time you see one and you ll see they are made up of different numbers of pleats. Each one of those pleats represents a way you are competent at making eggs. The maximum number of pleats in a toque is 30.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ann Glaviano s novella is about be published. It s called Dickbeer. It s about a guy. Called Dickbeer. If we told you how he got the name it would ruin the surprise. Chances are a you won t guess it, b it s even weirder than you think, and c see if you can design the movie poster. In her non Dickbeer hours Ann is the grant writer for the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, which is an orchestra and philharmonic whatever that actually means but its only relation to Louisiana is that it plays in New Orleans. Somehow, despite the lack of truth in advertising in the title, Ann manages to convince grant givers and evaluators that the orchestra is worth supporting for reasons that will possibly come clear to you in the course of this conversation. P H Fred survived his brush with a tumor in his head the size of a baseball card and is healthy enough to be putting out a new Best Of record called You Are Unique In All The World and a new book of illustrated lyrics called I am My Own Mixtape. As the inventor of the ACT t

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

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 on

Back in the 1970 s when the porno biz was just getting cranked up and you had to actually go to a movie theater to see pornography, Gene Fredericks had a live late night TV show in New Orleans.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kenna Moore conducted a survey in the French Quarter, asking people she maintains were not drunk tourists, "What do you think of when you you think of the Black Church "See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Melinda Palacio was 2 when she realized she wasn t a suitcase. She was to spend the next 15 or so years in South Central Los Angeles growing up witnessing kids getting shot on her front porch in a drive by, her father in jail for attempted murder, and her mother dying at the hands of incompetent doctors at Kaiser who were treating her for allergies when she had a terminal kidney disease. Melinda used first reading then writing as a coping mechanism. Coping has turned into a career. Melinda has a successful career as a writer with books of poetry and a novel, Ocotillo Dreams. Oh, and if you ever wondered if you twist your foot all the way around like a cartoon character, the answer is yes. "OMG" was created for this story. Jeremy "Mojo" Phipps grew up with his own family tales of murder and jail. Jeremy s brother, a successful NOLA rapper back in the heyday of Master P s No Limit Records, is doing time for a crime everybody knows he didn t commit. Jeremy came back from working in Los Angeles to be with his fam

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 Buck

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

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 ex