It’s New Orleans: Happy Hour

Ecstasy Saved My Life – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

Lori Tipton is the most popular guest in Happy Hour history.   Last time Lori was here she talked about her shallow vagina and how she had to become intimately familiar with its intricacies in pursuit of self-administered insemination (aka turkey baster). As impossible as it sounds, today Lori has an even more amazing story…

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Accidental Ecstatic Hypoventilation – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

This is probably not quite how Kate Becker intended her serious practice of healing and self-development through breath-work to be interpreted, but did you know you can get high AF from breathing? Breath-work is cheaper than drugs and the effects of happiness linger on and reverberate through your life long after the high is gone….

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I Was Dennis Rodman’s Roommate – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

Brentt Arcement grew up as a drummer in New Orleans and took his musical skills to Los Angeles where he carved out a career as an A-list drummer, playing with Fiona Apple, Live, and many other big-name artists. But the show-stopping sentence in this conversation is when Brentt gets onto the subject of how he…

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Good News: It’s HIV – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

Among a wide variety of other pursuits, Dr. MarkAlain Dery is an HIV doctor. Amid the staggeringly bad news about the rate of HIV infection in New Orleans (second in the nation behind Miami) is the good news that if you have to contract a serious illness – say, diabetes, cancer, or HIV – HIV…

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You Can Be Right Or You Can Be Christmas – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

If you’re even the tiniest bit cynical about Christmas, you have got to hear Debbie Davis’s impassioned explanation of why Christmas matters. We’re so used to thinking we have to be be smart, ironic and funny in conversation that it’s shocking to hear a completely unvarnished, sincere, heartfelt defense of simple niceness. And then the…

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