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Speaker 1: heart radios. How stuff works, Hey, and welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles w Chuck Bryan over there,
Speaker 1: there's Jerry over there. And this is Stuff you Should Know,
Speaker 1: the super Topical Timely Edition because Chuck, this episode is
Speaker 1: about Marty Graw and we're recording it on Marty Graw, right,
Speaker 1: which in true stuff you should know fashion it will
Speaker 1: come out a month after. So what we need to
Speaker 1: do is do this a month before so it comes
Speaker 1: out on that Tuesday. Well that would that be like
Speaker 1: the Daily or something, not stuff you should know, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Yeah, And I've been going around
Speaker 1: the office showing everyone in my boobs all day. I
Speaker 1: was wondering you had all those beads. No, I understand. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think we should apologize in advance to to the
Speaker 1: people of New Orleans, because when it comes to something
Speaker 1: this specific, we always just get killed. Right, it's so
Speaker 1: personal to so many people. We're gonna mess up so much.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be like, you didn't mention my crew, right, Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I've been to New Orleans twice for the
Speaker 1: shows that we've done there. It was not around Marty
Speaker 1: Graw read a bunch about it. So now I understand
Speaker 1: New Orleans Marty Graw better than ever. But I also
Speaker 1: learned that it's one of those things where it's kind
Speaker 1: of like like researching humor, where you can understand the
Speaker 1: mechanism behind humor and you can explain humor, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't quite capture it fully. That's what we're gonna do here.
Speaker 1: This one will stink right now, it won't. It'll be fine.
Speaker 1: I've never been to Marty grow either, and I mean
Speaker 1: I just have no interest at all, mainly because of
Speaker 1: seeing a lot of cops Marty Gral New Orleans episodes.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, it's just it's a young It's not
Speaker 1: for me, you know. But I love New Orleans. And
Speaker 1: you can find your the most hospitable people on the
Speaker 1: planet there at any time of year, and they won't
Speaker 1: get mad at us. That's what's so great about them.
Speaker 1: We're gonna mess up a lot and they'll be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all right, Yeah, don't worry about a guy. They'll
Speaker 1: kill us, but they won't get mad at us, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Maybe also I want to shout
Speaker 1: out our friend Doug Shashary sassy. I even I practiced it,
Speaker 1: Chuck it's a tough name. Who is at our New
Speaker 1: Orleans show and brought us up what were they called
Speaker 1: Budden Balls. Yeah, it was so good. But Doug's a
Speaker 1: great guy with them without the gift of bud. Yeah, boy,
Speaker 1: that guy is like a friend to the world. He
Speaker 1: invited us again. So Shash Sassary if that name sounds familiar,
Speaker 1: the Tony Sassary seasoning. He is the is an heir
Speaker 1: to the throat. He's one of the Sasshary kids. Uh
Speaker 1: grandkids maybe, and um. He has invited us to their
Speaker 1: company Boil again this April. He has for like the
Speaker 1: last few years. We're going to get to that one
Speaker 1: of these these days we will. Uh. Just a great,
Speaker 1: larger than life guy, like doesn't know a stranger, right.
Speaker 1: We met him once and I felt like he was
Speaker 1: the best friend. Yeah, he was hanging out with his backstage.
Speaker 1: He's like great. Hey, this kind of reminds me of
Speaker 1: the time I was hanging out backstage with Metallica every
Speaker 1: time at the time I met the Three Stages. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were great. Yeah, it's just like that's awesome man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what a good dude. Anyway, Hey, Doug, Uh, Well, so
Speaker 1: let's get it started, Charles, Yes, Uh, Marty Gras a
Speaker 1: k A. And is it pronounced carnival or does that
Speaker 1: have to have an e on the end? I think
Speaker 1: it's Carnival. And I think it's Carnival because it actually
Speaker 1: comes from the Latin words carna or carn a vale,
Speaker 1: which means farewell to the flesh, meat, volleyball. That's that's
Speaker 1: a better interpretation. It's wrong, but I like that farewell
Speaker 1: to the flesh. Is that what it means. Yes, not
Speaker 1: to be confused with candy man to farewell to the flesh.
Speaker 1: It just means farewell to the flesh. Uh. Carny Ball
Speaker 1: and Marty Gras begin in January, and like we said,
Speaker 1: today's Fat Tuesday. So everything has been going on in
Speaker 1: New Orleans and other places. But we're talking about the
Speaker 1: New Orleans Mardy Gras, not Mobile Alabama. I'm sorry. I
Speaker 1: know that you were the o g s but apparently right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they I was gonna say that they had the first
Speaker 1: one by a mile from from this, like I think,
Speaker 1: fifteen years before New Orleans was even founded. This, yeah,
Speaker 1: and our very own. I mean, there are various neighborhoods
Speaker 1: around the world that do stuff like this. Kirkwood in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: for some reason has a little New Orleans thing and
Speaker 1: every year they do a little Marty Gras parade and
Speaker 1: paint the signs purple and gold and green. And I
Speaker 1: don't know why. Maybe there's just some people from New
Speaker 1: Orleans who showed up. Guess yeah, that that happened to
Speaker 1: post Katrina. We got a lot of people that moved here.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there was a lot. Yeah, that's right. I
Speaker 1: wonder if that does have to do with that, and maybe,
Speaker 1: but there it does. It does seem like the history
Speaker 1: of Marty Gras and the different influences from Marty Graw
Speaker 1: kind of have converged in New Orleans. It's like, yes,
Speaker 1: give us this, We'll take this tradition. Yes, give us that.
Speaker 1: And now everybody thinks when you think Marty Gras, you
Speaker 1: think New Orleans. But one thing that I don't think
Speaker 1: this article um really pointed out very well is Marty
Speaker 1: Grass is a day that's one part of carnival. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the culmination of a couple of weeks of partying
Speaker 1: and parading and masquerade bawling. Yes, uh, and well we'll
Speaker 1: just see a lot of fun stuff, right, But It's
Speaker 1: so like if you go down to Rio for Carnival,
Speaker 1: it's the exact same festival, celebrated differently in Brazil, but
Speaker 1: the same thing they're celebrating the same thing as they're
Speaker 1: celebrating throughout the Marty Gross season in New Orleans or
Speaker 1: in kirk Way. I bet Brazil would be pretty fun.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine with all the all those ugly men
Speaker 1: and women that live there right just in drab like
Speaker 1: baggy clothing. Man, that's my favorite part of the World
Speaker 1: Cup is just seeing people in the crowd from Brazil,
Speaker 1: all the models. The average person is a supermodel, so
Speaker 1: that's what it says on the tourist webs that's right. Uh.
Speaker 1: And Fat Tuesday, of course, is the day before ash Wednesday,
Speaker 1: which is tomorrow and the beginning of Lent. I grew
Speaker 1: up Baptist, as everyone knows, and so I'd never had
Speaker 1: to You never got the charcoal on your forehead. No,
Speaker 1: And in fact, in the in the South in the
Speaker 1: seventies and eighties, there were so few Catholics that they
Speaker 1: throw stones at you if you had the charcol Well,
Speaker 1: I didn't even know what it was, really, I mean,
Speaker 1: I was I think I remember being in college and
Speaker 1: being like, you've got something on your head. I don't
Speaker 1: remember what the ashes for. I'm sure one point three
Speaker 1: billion Catholics will write in to tell us, but it's
Speaker 1: it's the start of Land, like you said, which is
Speaker 1: a period of fasting before Easter. Right, it's a very
Speaker 1: it's a very holy period for the Roman Catholic Church. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think the original idea was for the partying
Speaker 1: is hey, let's let's indulge before we have to not
Speaker 1: indulge right on, like foods and stuff. I don't think
Speaker 1: it was like let's all get super hammered. Well, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know. Maybe so um fire to that.
Speaker 1: Even it has roots and paganism even before the Roman
Speaker 1: Catholic like every holiday we celebrate is based on paganism
Speaker 1: and then syncretized by the Roman Catholic Church. But um,
Speaker 1: the pagan roots of it were more um pragmatic or practical,
Speaker 1: where you had stuff that was like the last of
Speaker 1: the harvest um from the summer before the fall before
Speaker 1: and it was starting to get kind of starting to
Speaker 1: turn and spoil, and you needed to eat it before
Speaker 1: that time. So it was this this period of like
Speaker 1: using up everything in the house that was about to
Speaker 1: turn bad eggs, and like you would do that. It
Speaker 1: was called um uh graw boof I believe, or boof
Speaker 1: graw no grab boof, which means fat fat cow or
Speaker 1: fat fat beef. And it was it was this idea
Speaker 1: that that, like the right, that the beef had been
Speaker 1: fattened just to perfection and they weren't gonna get any fatter,
Speaker 1: and maybe they wouldn't even make it any any further,
Speaker 1: and you just slaughter them and eat them, or you
Speaker 1: just eat all this stuff in your house. Maybe it
Speaker 1: wouldn't make any further. Like that call is about to die.
Speaker 1: It's like it's so fat, let's eat it. Uh. So
Speaker 1: they think are that there's evidence at least that there
Speaker 1: was Marty Grass celebrating going on, maybe as early as
Speaker 1: the eighteenth century, definitely from what I saw. There was
Speaker 1: a French explorer named Pierre Lemoie Sieur de Belleville. I
Speaker 1: think you you really got it, Yeah, especially if you
Speaker 1: crunch it together and speed it up. I can't. I
Speaker 1: think he really nailed it. And he was exploring around
Speaker 1: and camping out about fifty miles south of what is
Speaker 1: now New Orleans and he's like, Hey, I know that
Speaker 1: they're celebrating in France right now, so I am going
Speaker 1: to christen the site. Point do Marty Gras? Uh? And
Speaker 1: like we said, though, the real Marty Grass celebration kind
Speaker 1: of started in Earnest and Mobile, Alabama though. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he named the I don't know if he actually
Speaker 1: celebrated Marty Gras, but he named that little area, right,
Speaker 1: he named that area Ponto Marty Gras. But the so
Speaker 1: that was six apparently four years later. Um in Mobile,
Speaker 1: before it was even a town, they celebrated. They had
Speaker 1: their first like Mardi Gras party or whatever, a ball
Speaker 1: or something like that at the Fort. And then New
Speaker 1: Orleans was it was UM Incorporator founded in seventeen eighteen,
Speaker 1: and they started having UM Mardi Gras parties like shortly
Speaker 1: after that. So he's all very close to the beginning
Speaker 1: of the eighteenth century, everybody started having Marty Grass and
Speaker 1: it was like directly from the French influence in the area.
Speaker 1: And if you look into the early eight hundreds, like
Speaker 1: the eighteen twenties and into the eighteen thirties, this is
Speaker 1: when you start seeing a lit little bit more of
Speaker 1: what we're talking about as far as uh, carriages that
Speaker 1: are decorated, people parading in masks, walking on foot probably
Speaker 1: at this point or in carriages. It was largely spontaneous though.
Speaker 1: There'll just be people partying on the street wearing masks,
Speaker 1: um that way. Yeah, and they did, and then other
Speaker 1: people will walked that way too, and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you had a parade. But the thing is is
Speaker 1: these this revelry on the streets because everybody was indulging.
Speaker 1: And the point was like that just indulge, but we're like,
Speaker 1: really over indulge. Like this wasn't just your average like
Speaker 1: village party. This is everybody was getting trashed even back then,
Speaker 1: and so people were getting in fights, and people were
Speaker 1: beating up each other, and horses were kicking people right
Speaker 1: off their feet. All sorts of crazy stuff was happening.
Speaker 1: It was yeah, cops, New Orleans, um. And so the city,
Speaker 1: the city leaders were like, we're not going to do
Speaker 1: this anymore. This is out of hand. And an eighteen
Speaker 1: fifties seven, I believe a group of actually from what
Speaker 1: I saw, transplants from Mobile who were members of a
Speaker 1: group called the Cowbellian de Rakian Society Okay, they um,
Speaker 1: they said, hey, how about this, We'll actually organize a
Speaker 1: legit parade and it will be much more orderly, there
Speaker 1: won't be this chaos. And they formed the Mystic Crew
Speaker 1: of Commas. Yeah, so there's a lot of k's in
Speaker 1: place of c's mystic as a K. But it doesn't
Speaker 1: look scary like we talked about, right and and oh
Speaker 1: does it to you? Well, not mystic crew, but it
Speaker 1: depends on what follows mystic because it could look creepy
Speaker 1: to me. But crew was spelled with a K R
Speaker 1: E W E. And we should go ahead and talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about what a crew is. It's uh,
Speaker 1: it's a group of people who get together and um,
Speaker 1: technically they are like legit nonprofits and they get larger
Speaker 1: at least charity organizations that they're supposed to be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they are sort of the group of people who
Speaker 1: would get together and say, all right, this is our gang,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna gang in a good way, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna make a float and do this theme this year
Speaker 1: and all get together and get super drunk. Probably not
Speaker 1: all of them, I bet you. There's a a non
Speaker 1: drinking crew like one gotta be there. Has to be
Speaker 1: at right, But they they they they were anonymous originally,
Speaker 1: like they were secret groups that were like out and
Speaker 1: proud in public, but like they wore masks and like
Speaker 1: their identity really was anonymous, Like you were an anonymous
Speaker 1: member of this group. That's right, and um. Over time
Speaker 1: now people like the anonymity is not quite as important,
Speaker 1: and it's to some though. I think I think sometimes
Speaker 1: they take it seriously. Yeah, I mean not in that like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe you can't get kicked out. It might,
Speaker 1: it might be more of a lighthearted thing, but I
Speaker 1: think generally they try and still respect the the masks
Speaker 1: on approach. Sure, okay, all right, but I mean, like
Speaker 1: if you told somebody like I'm a member of the
Speaker 1: Crew of Rex or something like that, not going to
Speaker 1: kick you out, it's taking your mask off during the
Speaker 1: parade specifically, I think. So, yeah, so they here about it.
Speaker 1: We got that right, we definitely want But they grew
Speaker 1: from these little tiny societies into very large groups, well
Speaker 1: funded almost across the board because they're supported by dues,
Speaker 1: and they put on parades and balls, masquerade balls on
Speaker 1: the night of Mardy craw and um. Some of them
Speaker 1: are just really enormous, have like big name celebrities and
Speaker 1: like huge bands that play, and they'll still nominate a
Speaker 1: person to be like the leader or the king or
Speaker 1: queen each year. Like you could they could say, Josh Clark,
Speaker 1: we want you to come down. They could and be
Speaker 1: the King of our crew this year. And that's how
Speaker 1: it started back in not eighteen fifty seven. I think
Speaker 1: it's eighteen seventy two that the first king of a
Speaker 1: crew was nominated, right, But eighteen fifty seven was when
Speaker 1: the Mystic Crew of Comus had what's now looked at
Speaker 1: the first as the first kind of modern Marty Gras parade,
Speaker 1: and uh aside from a few years where like World
Speaker 1: Wars interrupted things, they've kind of been doing this every
Speaker 1: year since then. Yeah, there's another. So eighteen fifty seven
Speaker 1: was a big year. Eighteen seventy two that I mentioned
Speaker 1: was another big year because that year the the traditional
Speaker 1: Marty Gras colors were added, I believe by the Crew
Speaker 1: of Rex. And there's a lot of um, a lot
Speaker 1: of misunderstanding supposedly, so that year the Crew of Rex
Speaker 1: named as their king or the leader, I can't remember
Speaker 1: which one he was. The Russian Grand Duke Alexei, who
Speaker 1: was from the House of Romanoff, And they said, well,
Speaker 1: these colors came from the House of Romanoff, the gold,
Speaker 1: the green, and the purple that we all associate with
Speaker 1: with Marty Gras. That's just absolutely not true. The House
Speaker 1: of Romanoff has like red, yellow, and blue, I believe
Speaker 1: are their colors. But that's just the legend that came about.
Speaker 1: But some other stuff happened that year, like the idea
Speaker 1: of electing a king to your Mardi Gras parade, um,
Speaker 1: throwing beads for the first time happened that year. The song, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the song what what is it? If I ever ceased
Speaker 1: to love? That's not how I was gonna say. I've
Speaker 1: never heard it actually, so you I bet you if
Speaker 1: we played it, you might recognize it. So the colors,
Speaker 1: though purple stands for justice, screen for faith, and gold
Speaker 1: for power, supposedly all just made up out a whole cloth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And the idea with the beads was supposedly originally that
Speaker 1: you would toss these two people who you thought exemplified
Speaker 1: these traits. I'm not sure how accurate that is either. Um.
Speaker 1: Now it is, of course morphed into another tradition, which
Speaker 1: I don't even know if that's still going on. What hey, Mr,
Speaker 1: throw me something? Yeah, throw me something, Mr, Mr throwing
Speaker 1: some some combination of those words. Well, I'll show you
Speaker 1: something and you throw me something. Oh, that's different. So
Speaker 1: I think it went from you look like you're involved
Speaker 1: in justice. Here's some b to there's this traditional call.
Speaker 1: I think, um, Mr, throw me something, okay, and then
Speaker 1: I think it morphed into the boops thing that you
Speaker 1: just said. That literally quieter. But I don't even know.
Speaker 1: You know, with all the advancements we've made in the
Speaker 1: past few years, if people are doing that anymore, I
Speaker 1: would like to know about that, because I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: go down to Marty Grawl. I'll come to New Orleans,
Speaker 1: not jazz Fest and not Marty Graw, and I'll have
Speaker 1: a blast, but I'm not going to go to those
Speaker 1: things there. We were there last October, I think, so yeah,
Speaker 1: and there's candy in the streets, and I'm like, there's
Speaker 1: no way this is left over from Marty Graw. Dude,
Speaker 1: there's parades all the time. That's what I was wondering. Yes,
Speaker 1: did they just do it all the time? I mean
Speaker 1: every time I've been, there have been parties and parades.
Speaker 1: It just it just seems like one of those towns
Speaker 1: where they're always getting down throwing candy. Uh should we well,
Speaker 1: I guess we should just say quickly if you're before
Speaker 1: we break, if you're gonna go, we're not discouraging you go,
Speaker 1: but plan in advance, because it's not the kind of
Speaker 1: thing where on a the week before you can be like, hey, dude,
Speaker 1: let's go. Man, I think you can go under those
Speaker 1: for sure you'll be sleeping in the van kind of experience.
Speaker 1: Then if you like book a hotel, you're in advance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you won't get a hotel, you won't be able to
Speaker 1: eat an Emeralds or anything like that unless you plan
Speaker 1: like far far in advance. You could storm Emeralds, which
Speaker 1: people who sleeping vans and talk like you just did
Speaker 1: mind to you? All right, So let's take a break
Speaker 1: and we'll talk more about Marty Gras. All right. So
Speaker 1: if you are the city of New Orleans, you love
Speaker 1: Marty Gras because it brings in a ton of money
Speaker 1: every year. Yeah, I think I'm like a half a
Speaker 1: billion dollars. I couldn't believe that, man, half a billion
Speaker 1: dollars so much a year, not since it started a
Speaker 1: couple hundred years ago, but every year about half a
Speaker 1: billion dollars in revenue. Yeah, and this is something I
Speaker 1: thought was super cool. They're not. There's no corporate sponsorship there.
Speaker 1: There can be. Oh really, but it's not like I
Speaker 1: don't want to interrupt you go ahead. Well it's it's
Speaker 1: not like there's one Mardi Gras committee and that is
Speaker 1: sponsored by X car brand and there's a president of
Speaker 1: Mardy Graw. Like it's all patchworks of cruise and neighborhoods
Speaker 1: and people. Yeah, and all of them operate autonomously. Yes. Basically,
Speaker 1: what the city does is say, we can have X
Speaker 1: number of parades this year. These are the routes. Get
Speaker 1: a permit if you want to do it. Everything else
Speaker 1: is up to you. But like a local crew could
Speaker 1: be sponsored by Chico's bail bondsman. Basically, yeah, okay man,
Speaker 1: that was a great deep cause right there. But um,
Speaker 1: it's customary not to. If you do that, you're you know, again,
Speaker 1: you're operating autonomously, so nobody can tell you not to.
Speaker 1: But it's just kind of looked down upon. But some do.
Speaker 1: I saw somebody sponsored by bud Lte and I could
Speaker 1: not find it. Um, so it gets that big. Yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: the I mean just the the crew of Endemon e
Speaker 1: N d y m O N. Who knows how to
Speaker 1: pronounce half of these? I'm sorry, I'm sure we're butchering it.
Speaker 1: I need to have my word butcher april on but
Speaker 1: um the crew of Endemon, I'm pretty sure I got it.
Speaker 1: There's usually ends their parade usually ends in the Superdome
Speaker 1: with bud Man basically duf man Um in the Superdome
Speaker 1: and they'll have like a huge concert like this year.
Speaker 1: I think the Superdome is under construction, so they're ending
Speaker 1: it somewhere else. But like Sticks is playing, Train is playing.
Speaker 1: There's like five bands Sticks. Dude. Sure I would walk
Speaker 1: however long to go see Sticks Sticks without Dennis too young,
Speaker 1: But that's really as he did. No, he just doesn't.
Speaker 1: They broke up and Sticks went on without their lead singer.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I think the crew of Endemont's
Speaker 1: got enough like cash to bring him back. You to
Speaker 1: be cool as if Endemon had Sticks and like, uh
Speaker 1: the Mystic crew had Dennis de Young on the other
Speaker 1: side of town. You got to choose, you know, your allegiance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear Mr Roboto or too much
Speaker 1: time on my hands. I think Tommy Shall sing that. Okay,
Speaker 1: so when did that start? Tommy? Well, now he's always
Speaker 1: been around, but he was there was the lead singer.
Speaker 1: Then Tommy Shall played guitar and sang a few of
Speaker 1: their songs, okay, and then he took over when Dennis
Speaker 1: the Young left. Sure, okay, what do you do when
Speaker 1: the Dennis to Young vacuum opens up? I don't know,
Speaker 1: I mean step in there could also fill it with
Speaker 1: Sammy Hagar. Oh man, I was listening to some Van
Speaker 1: Hagar this weekend because that's what Emily loves. It was great,
Speaker 1: big shout up to Aaron Hagar. Yeah, this is a
Speaker 1: shout out at huh. I guess so um. I don't
Speaker 1: remember how we got on that, but oh yeah, so
Speaker 1: so yes, some of these should be so big. The
Speaker 1: super Cruise specifically, we'll talk a little more about that,
Speaker 1: but the super Cruise are like these big giant ones
Speaker 1: that are just tradition that have hundreds of members on,
Speaker 1: you know, in their parade. One of them, I think
Speaker 1: end DeMont Um has one float that's like three sixty
Speaker 1: ft long. There's like thirty two hundred floaters in their parade,
Speaker 1: just a ton of people they throw out, like I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: fifteen million throws things that they throw out, everything from
Speaker 1: beasas to balloons and all that. Fifteen million in a parade.
Speaker 1: So yeah, these things can get like bud Light corporate
Speaker 1: sponsorship level amazing. So uh, it is an integrated parade
Speaker 1: now in series of parades now obviously pre integration, Uh,
Speaker 1: there were communities, African American communities in New Orleans that
Speaker 1: got together their own jam, which I bet was quite
Speaker 1: a party. Um. The crew, the Zulu Social Aid and
Speaker 1: Pleasure Club Incorporated is one said cruise. Although I did
Speaker 1: see that there are some white people in that crew. Now,
Speaker 1: oh didn't integrate. That's cool, I think so because there
Speaker 1: was some controversy. They dress up in I think traditional
Speaker 1: African garb and they well they were grass skirts. Well
Speaker 1: they were black face, to which I saw a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago there was a call to stop the
Speaker 1: black face even though the African American and they said,
Speaker 1: but there were some white members doing it too, And
Speaker 1: they said, you know, because of the minstrel roots and
Speaker 1: which I totally want to do one on minstrel shows.
Speaker 1: Uh to not do it anymore? Other people say no,
Speaker 1: it's it's more rooted in like the mask tradition for us.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure if they're still doing that or not.
Speaker 1: As of I was reading on their website about their
Speaker 1: history that this is not the first time they were
Speaker 1: kind of protested by UM African Americ Ricans. In the sixties,
Speaker 1: there was a big like push against him in their
Speaker 1: membership dwindled down to I think sixteen people because it
Speaker 1: was just so unpopular what they were doing. I think
Speaker 1: Louis Armstrong were black face one year as they're really king,
Speaker 1: but they so the Social Aid and Pleasure Club. The
Speaker 1: Social Aid part is that that group started out back
Speaker 1: in the day where UM, and it wasn't just African Americans,
Speaker 1: but I could definitely see during the Jim Crow era
Speaker 1: where African Americans needed to do this. They would all
Speaker 1: chip in like membership dues, and then when they fell
Speaker 1: ill that you know, that larger pot of money would
Speaker 1: take care of them, basically like insurance is supposed to work, right.
Speaker 1: But that's where the Social AIG came from. But they
Speaker 1: still are a charity organization. Interesting, and Dougie Fresh is
Speaker 1: playing at their ball today. Oh really, if you had
Speaker 1: a chance to see sticks or Dougie Fresh, which would
Speaker 1: or too young doug you Fresh? It would be pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I know of Dougie Fresh, but I'm not. I'm not
Speaker 1: hip to those j ms. You don't have to be
Speaker 1: hip to to know Dougie Fresh. Well, I mean it's
Speaker 1: been around. I mean I don't know them. I guess
Speaker 1: what I mean. I know I'm not hip already. A
Speaker 1: second ago, I think you said balloons instead of doubloons. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't, I think. So let's read why balloons? Uh,
Speaker 1: we need to pass forward. So doubloons are we've reached
Speaker 1: a new low here and here twelve Uh. They are aluminum.
Speaker 1: They are a little coin like objects and they have
Speaker 1: um the Cruise in Sydney on one side and then
Speaker 1: whatever their theme is on the other. They toss these
Speaker 1: out of people. There's a lot of tossing. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: actually those things to balloons, um fall under the larger
Speaker 1: umbrella of throws of balloons. Did I said to balloons this? Okay? Man,
Speaker 1: you got my head chuck. Yeah, those are throws throws
Speaker 1: or anything that is thrown from afloat and usually it's
Speaker 1: a very inexpensive souvenir deeds, very very customary. Those DA
Speaker 1: balloons are a little more UM saw it after a challenge,
Speaker 1: like I think, if it's like um, if it has
Speaker 1: like the groups insignia and then on the other side
Speaker 1: of the theme that year, it's definitely considered a collectible
Speaker 1: and not just generic ones. I guess I think so.
Speaker 1: And then um, like others, other people's throws are like
Speaker 1: other cruise throws are like really sought after, Like the
Speaker 1: zulus throws are coconuts um and like real coconuts. I
Speaker 1: think they were at one point. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: they had everybody, but I read this Chowhound article about
Speaker 1: throws and they were saying, like, the Zulus don't throw
Speaker 1: coconuts anymore because of legal reasons. Well, it's funny. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff in here. Um, you might as
Speaker 1: well talk about the kincakes and the chokable that they
Speaker 1: would put inside of the kincake. Uh. If you've never
Speaker 1: had a kincake, it is a big uh sugared cake.
Speaker 1: It's oval with a hole in the middle. It's like
Speaker 1: a Danish yeah, but it's a Danish just like slathered
Speaker 1: in sugar of of purple green and gold and very
Speaker 1: rich and sugary. And the tradition, of course to put
Speaker 1: the little plastic baby Jesus or represented baby Jesus. Initially,
Speaker 1: I guess it's a naked baby, sure, swaddling clothes. Uh.
Speaker 1: That started what was the guy's name, It's a Donald
Speaker 1: Intrager who started that in the forties. Yeah, the nineteen forties.
Speaker 1: So it's not like a hundreds year old tradition. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it actually didn't survive terribly long because at some
Speaker 1: point in time in the not too distant past, Baker's
Speaker 1: started to say, we don't want to get sued either.
Speaker 1: Those zulus are onto something. We're We're going to stop
Speaker 1: baking the little plastic baby dolls into this cake. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that just seems insane because people could choke on them.
Speaker 1: So now it comes in like a little pack, like
Speaker 1: a little cellophane package that says stick in at your
Speaker 1: own risks, and then you just I guess you stick
Speaker 1: it in and then lick your hand and smooth icing
Speaker 1: back over to to cover up that part. So I'm
Speaker 1: trying to figure out the first time we went to
Speaker 1: New Orleans. I think it was around Marty Gras, unless
Speaker 1: they have another big kincake celebration, which they might. They
Speaker 1: don't is that they do. Not. Kingcake season actually runs
Speaker 1: from um King's Day, which is January six, which is
Speaker 1: the day that officially kicks off Marty Grass season in
Speaker 1: New Orleans, until ash Wednesday. You're not supposed to be
Speaker 1: able to get a kincake outside of that. So you know,
Speaker 1: it may not have been for a tour, because I
Speaker 1: did take another trip down there with our friends Gus
Speaker 1: and Matt and their son. I can't remember if that
Speaker 1: was the same trip or not, so I'm getting a
Speaker 1: mom mixed up. But whenever we were down there, our
Speaker 1: friends Makes and Jackie who lived there, uh took us
Speaker 1: on like a neighborhood kincake. That traveling party. I think
Speaker 1: that was for our show, because those people I think
Speaker 1: you're talking about came backstage that first show, Maxing Jackie
Speaker 1: definitely did okay. And then I specifically remember walking under
Speaker 1: a scaffolding bleacher painted green, maybe even purple, and it
Speaker 1: was along a street around It must have been either
Speaker 1: before or after something, but it was during the season,
Speaker 1: so I guess Ultimately, what I'm saying is the first
Speaker 1: time must have been around then. Yeah, And it's also
Speaker 1: both of our recollections together it forms a cohesive. And
Speaker 1: I'm not the first person to uh have various New
Speaker 1: Orleans trips kind of blurred together, blur together in my head.
Speaker 1: But all I know is that kincake thing was I
Speaker 1: felt like strangers, literal strangers were just like, come on
Speaker 1: in and giving you kincake, yes, and every other kind
Speaker 1: of great food and sweet. Yeah, they do have a
Speaker 1: pretty good food down there. Man. So um man, we're
Speaker 1: just knocking the traditions out, aren't we. Else? What else
Speaker 1: should we talk about? The parades? Yeah, I mean there's
Speaker 1: a lot of parades. Uh, you know, fifty sixty, seventy
Speaker 1: eighty parades. I think this year accounted seventy nine nine.
Speaker 1: Like that's the level of commitment you're getting out of
Speaker 1: Josh Clark is hand counting the number of parades from
Speaker 1: the parade schedule. Uh, the twelve days leading up to
Speaker 1: Marty Grass, those final twelve days are when now that's Carnival.
Speaker 1: I don't know why this article was so averse to
Speaker 1: saying it. Yeah, that is weird because they kept saying
Speaker 1: anything but just calling it carnival. Well, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: but it leads up to the day of Marty Gras, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: Marty Graz one day of Carnival, Yeah, which is what
Speaker 1: carnival is, the twelve days leading up to Marty CROs,
Speaker 1: including Marty CROs. That's right. But those are concentrated in
Speaker 1: the parishes of Orleans, Jefferson, um St. Bernard and Sant Tammany.
Speaker 1: M Is that how it's pronounced. Probably, But there are
Speaker 1: pre season parades like it has eked out longer and
Speaker 1: longer over the years, is the impression I get. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and just the same that King Cakes become available January six,
Speaker 1: that same day King's Day, there's a couple of parades
Speaker 1: that typically um, a couple of parades or at least
Speaker 1: events that typically um kick off this whole season, even
Speaker 1: though Carnival doesn't start until the second Friday before Fat Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Just chew on it. It's all there. Um. The actual
Speaker 1: Mardy Grass season kicks off on January six, that's right.
Speaker 1: Chew on that naked baby made of plastic. Right, And
Speaker 1: because we should also, we haven't said this one more
Speaker 1: thing about dates and calendars. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Um because the the Lenten season can change because Easter
Speaker 1: is not on one fixed day. Has to do with
Speaker 1: the moon or like rabbit reproduction or something like that.
Speaker 1: That Um, Marty Gras can actually fall anywhere between February
Speaker 1: three and March nine. That's a big long stretch that
Speaker 1: it could fall on, right, But it has to do
Speaker 1: with when Easter comes, because Marty Grass forty days plus
Speaker 1: six before Easter, that's right, those six Sundays. Right, we
Speaker 1: should have a sideshow called Calendar Talking. We should. It
Speaker 1: would be great. We just launched a spinoff just like
Speaker 1: too Close for Comfort. That's right, Too close for comfort? Right.
Speaker 1: We heard back from a few people on that. So
Speaker 1: it's not a spinoff of anything, right, No, I don't
Speaker 1: think so. Uh So, these crews have themes every year,
Speaker 1: and they they can range. Sometimes it's about a legend
Speaker 1: or a famous story. Sometimes it's a kid's story, sometimes
Speaker 1: something from literature, mythology. I think about half of these
Speaker 1: crews have names that are Greek or Roman in origin. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's well. I think it's kind of a nod to
Speaker 1: the pagan roots. Um, and it also includes Egyptian stuff too,
Speaker 1: and I saw that the whole idea of wearing masks
Speaker 1: and like masquerade balls and all that actually traces its
Speaker 1: roots back to ancient Egypt. So it's really interesting like
Speaker 1: this this stuff kind of traveled from ancient Egypt to
Speaker 1: ancient I guess Greece and then Rome and the medieval
Speaker 1: Europe and then over to the New World and then
Speaker 1: interesting that it's not like it's just been one unbroken chain,
Speaker 1: but it's it's connected enough that the current cruise name
Speaker 1: themselves after like Osiris or Isis or you know who
Speaker 1: isis the deity? Um, they're not down with the terrorists organization,
Speaker 1: right right? Um, that that that there's at least that
Speaker 1: awareness that this is rude to This whole tradition is
Speaker 1: rooted in in in in history that far back. I
Speaker 1: think it's really cool and all brought to you by
Speaker 1: bud Light and show me your boobs. Uh should we
Speaker 1: take a break? Uh sure, all right, let's take a
Speaker 1: break and we'll talk a little bit more about super
Speaker 1: cruise right after this. What's a super crew, Josh, Well,
Speaker 1: a super crew the best crew there there. Well, so
Speaker 1: typically there's a couple of qualifiers. One, they're usually um,
Speaker 1: very well funded, large membership. Um, and they'll have their
Speaker 1: parades will occur within the last few days before and
Speaker 1: including Marty Grawl. Yeah. And these are the ones, like
Speaker 1: you were saying, that have some of them three hundred
Speaker 1: foot long floats or you know, like a hundred floats
Speaker 1: in their crew. These are the ones that get the
Speaker 1: celebrities in that convertible at the front. Yeah. And just
Speaker 1: like having corporate sponsorship, it was customer. You did not
Speaker 1: have outsiders as like the king of your parade. I
Speaker 1: would think so. Um. And then it was the crew
Speaker 1: of Bacchus that was the first to kind of break
Speaker 1: from that tradition. Back in nine nine Danny Kay, the
Speaker 1: famous whig designer. What does that mean? I don't even know. Okay,
Speaker 1: I thought there was some like serious in joke that
Speaker 1: I was no, no, no, okay, just random Yeah, I gotcha,
Speaker 1: but no. He was a famous musical actor, right yeah,
Speaker 1: and wig design Uh. And the the parade format is
Speaker 1: basically where the captain I think we were calling them leaders. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they can't be called leaders to a crew leader. Uh.
Speaker 1: They are at the head of procession. They're usually on
Speaker 1: a float that is, or they could be on horseback
Speaker 1: or in that convertible like we're talking about, and then
Speaker 1: it is followed in succession by officers, kings, queens. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you got maids and dukes and everyone's just having a
Speaker 1: good old time, right, And so you said something to
Speaker 1: about the themes, right, So each parade and press processions theme.
Speaker 1: There's like you said, there's no overall theme to Mardi Gras,
Speaker 1: but there's a theme for each and every parade, and
Speaker 1: the crew selects it every year, and like their floats
Speaker 1: are going to reflect that. But what's funny is they're
Speaker 1: very frequently like children's literature, mythology, um like like historical
Speaker 1: stuff for stuff that everybody knows, like almost bland. And
Speaker 1: the reason that I kind of drew from the subtext
Speaker 1: of this article is there's a finite number of floats
Speaker 1: that you can rent in New Orleans for your parade,
Speaker 1: and a lot of them have things like little bo
Speaker 1: Peep on them, because some of these are rented and
Speaker 1: a lot of them are typically it's just the super
Speaker 1: crew that has the money and the man power um
Speaker 1: to to build a float from scratch every year, and
Speaker 1: so the super Creuse will have like way varying themes
Speaker 1: but like a smaller crew will have a theme where
Speaker 1: you know, they can cobble together some floats, some rented
Speaker 1: floats to make a cohesive um um theme. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: what do you got left too close for comfort? Right,
Speaker 1: the Jim J. Bullock float. But for that year the
Speaker 1: Zulus did the Seinfeld theme. That was right, But the
Speaker 1: but I think that the floats available have to do
Speaker 1: with the theme because um interesting, you know, there are
Speaker 1: just a there's a finite pool and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of them though, so much so that I think St.
Speaker 1: Charles Parish, believe or St. Orleans Parish, one of the two,
Speaker 1: has an ordinance that the same float can't go through
Speaker 1: the business district in more than two parades during one
Speaker 1: Mardi Grass season. Right, so let's say you have a
Speaker 1: pre parade with Little bo Peep. Uh, you can't go
Speaker 1: back out as Little bo Peep. You can you can
Speaker 1: one more time? Oh you can only do it? Can't
Speaker 1: two more? So they give you two? Yeah, the same
Speaker 1: float can't be used more than twice in more than
Speaker 1: season through the central business district. But there's four different
Speaker 1: parishes putting on Marty Gras Parade, So technically that same
Speaker 1: float could see a pretty decent amount. So that's just
Speaker 1: in each parish, just in either or Leans or St.
Speaker 1: Charles Paris, I can't remember, so a little bo peep
Speaker 1: could be seeing lots of action potentially conceivably sure, Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: but I think that's pretty interesting. It really kind of
Speaker 1: reveals like how seriously they take their Marty Gras parades
Speaker 1: in New Orleans, their local laws saying how many times
Speaker 1: a float can be used because they want to keep
Speaker 1: it fresh and interesting. That's right. Yeah. So the other
Speaker 1: thing too, when they're selecting these leaders or the royalty,
Speaker 1: it says sometimes it's just random draws for the king
Speaker 1: and queen. I would think it would a lot of
Speaker 1: more thought would go into it than that, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe some of them do pick randomly, not
Speaker 1: if it's coming from your membership, and you know, I think, I, oh, well,
Speaker 1: that makes it fair, I guess, right, because and you
Speaker 1: can't jockey for position, But um, you can also invite
Speaker 1: celebrities other times. Um, you actually will pay for the
Speaker 1: privilege to to be the king or the queen or
Speaker 1: duke or a maid in the court. Um. I didn't
Speaker 1: see how much you would pay, but yeah, it was
Speaker 1: very curious about that. That's pretty rich. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: like like we pick you, congratulations, give us some where's
Speaker 1: my where's my two dollars? So the costumes and the
Speaker 1: masks are obviously a big, big part of this um
Speaker 1: that's where a lot of money is generated custom rental
Speaker 1: and making original costumes. Um. It is tradition, like we
Speaker 1: said to to leave on your mask, but they're way
Speaker 1: more flexible about it now than they used to be,
Speaker 1: I think. But yes, but Bacchus and Rex I believe,
Speaker 1: are like you can lose your membership if you take
Speaker 1: your mask off during their Marty Gras parade. I'll have
Speaker 1: you killed you well right there in the street, which
Speaker 1: is ruined more than one Marty Gras. Yeah, but apparently
Speaker 1: it's so um like the mask part of it is
Speaker 1: so um ingreened. It's such an ancient part of this
Speaker 1: that goes way back in time that it's still just
Speaker 1: totally widespread today, not just among people in the prey,
Speaker 1: but among people watching the parade too. And this article says,
Speaker 1: you might feel weird actually not having a mask on,
Speaker 1: but street vendors have you covered. You can just buy
Speaker 1: one from one of them. Of course you can. There's
Speaker 1: plastic garbage everywhere to buy and throw. Right. You used
Speaker 1: to sell it, didn't you. Oh? I sold the glow noodles.
Speaker 1: I love those, man. Uh can we talk about moon pies? Sure? Sure,
Speaker 1: So this makes a lot of sense as a throw
Speaker 1: to take the place of something that could really hurt somebody,
Speaker 1: because a traditional throw in New Orleans a sweet treet
Speaker 1: used to be cracker Jack's boxes, which are very you know,
Speaker 1: it's like any tiny box. If you throw that from
Speaker 1: ten or twelve feet away down onto someone, one of
Speaker 1: those corners can hit you in the face and that's
Speaker 1: no fun. So the tradition of throwing the moon pie,
Speaker 1: which if you don't know what a moonpie is, you're
Speaker 1: missing out. It is a Southern It's gonna call it delicacy,
Speaker 1: but that might get him at gas station, so it
Speaker 1: really isn't. But they are two Graham cracker cookies, soft
Speaker 1: ones between with marshmallow filling in between, dipped in chocolate.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a portable s'more that's room temperature
Speaker 1: cold and soft. Yeah. Like it's not a hard gram
Speaker 1: right right, it's like soft and crumbly. Yeah, And they're
Speaker 1: you know, I haven't had one in years and years,
Speaker 1: but I'm from the South, so I've had a moonpie
Speaker 1: or two in my day. Yeah. You. We went on
Speaker 1: this little kick a few back, yeah, where she was
Speaker 1: like what is this and tribe when she's like, let's
Speaker 1: there's a gas station, let's stop and get a moonpie.
Speaker 1: And it lasted for about a week and a half
Speaker 1: and she's like, so you got gas twice shade to
Speaker 1: basically I think. I mean, they have other flavors now too,
Speaker 1: but the chocolate is the the original. Uh. And they
Speaker 1: started in nineteen seventeen when a salesman traveling salesman from Chattanooga, uh,
Speaker 1: the Chattanooga Bakery ran into as the story goes, a
Speaker 1: coal miner from Kentucky who said, you know what we
Speaker 1: could use down there in the coal mines is a
Speaker 1: a portable snack right afordable? And they came up with
Speaker 1: the moonpie, I guess. And that coal miner was Lauretta
Speaker 1: Loon's father, wouldn't that who That movie was about coal
Speaker 1: miner's daughter. Yea great movie. Uh. And this became a
Speaker 1: big Southern thing, but it didn't become a Marty Graw
Speaker 1: thing until Mobile, Alabama and they're cracker Jack's cracker Jack
Speaker 1: Ordinance two, I said, I think so where they said
Speaker 1: the city actually outlawed cracker Jack's being thrown from Marty
Speaker 1: Graw floats because people were getting injured by him or hurt.
Speaker 1: So people said, well, moonpies totally makes sense. You get
Speaker 1: hit in the eye with the moonpie, not a big deal.
Speaker 1: And now if you go to Marty grow in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: apparently you can get moonpies thrown at you all over
Speaker 1: the place. Great, and you don't even have to don't
Speaker 1: even have to duck, nope, or take your shirt off.
Speaker 1: You got anything else? No? I don't either. Happy Marty
Speaker 1: Grob everybody, Happy ash Wednesday? I guess depending on when
Speaker 1: you hear this, Happy Easter? Sure? Okay? Uh And since
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Speaker 1: I'm a research engineer that studies fired dynamics and material flammability.
Speaker 1: My group has developed campaign to educate the public about
Speaker 1: general fire dynamics, fire safety, and what to do in
Speaker 1: case of a dwelling fire. The cornerstone of this is
Speaker 1: this as good as he thought it was hoped it
Speaker 1: would be. The cornerstone of this campaign is called close
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Speaker 1: it's focused on residents closing their bedroom doors were going
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