It’s New Orleans: Happy Hour

Not Guilty in NOLA and The Early Days of Porn – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

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.   Gene didn’t come on Happy Hour to dredge all this up but he graciously tells the…

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Tyler Perry’s Firearm Fondue – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

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?”   The overwhelming response was, “Tyler Perry.” To many people that would have been simple proof that the majority of people in the French Quarter…

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They Still Call me Suitcase – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

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…

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I’m Crazy, You’re Queer, Good Pie To All That – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

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…

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The Ambien Made Me Do It – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

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…

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