One of Happy Hour’s happiest features is that it brings together random strangers with nothing in common … who often end up having some pretty crazy things in common. Today’s Venn diagram overlaps at enchanted forests, trains, and…sperm donation. Andrew Duhon is back on the pod and the amazing Andrew Ward guest-hosts for Grant.  …

Morgan Molthrop is writing a book called 300 Reasons to Love New Orleans. He has to hand the manuscript in tomorrow. As Happy Hour kicks off he’s gotten the list up to 290. He needs another 10 reasons to love New Orleans in the next 60 minutes. It would be good if we could avoid associating…

If you’re a white person in the U.S. you might tend to think of other races as being, of themselves, monolithic. However, if you’re a member of a race with non-white skin hues you are more attuned to the finer shades of skin color that make you lighter or darker than other people of your…

On this Happy Hour, Julia Elizabeth Evans learns that you can be an artist, a philosopher, a daughter, a sister, a business person with your own production company, and a film maker on the way to world renown, and yet all a bunch of guys around a table want to know is what it’s like…

A “residual limb” is the bit of your own leg or arm that’s still attached to your body after the rest of it’s been amputated. Kevin Gardere lost most of his left leg as the (eventual) result of a drunken car wreck that propelled his car into somebody else’s house at 1am and propelled him…