WEBVTT - Mardi Gras! One month late 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:04.360 Hello, people in Vancouver and Portland. We're coming to see you, 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:08.640 uh in March. Okay, did I step on you? No? No, 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:11.040 I stepped on you, I think. Man. All right, well 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:13.760 this is as clunky as we usually are. Uh, we 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:16.160 are going to be coming to those two fair cities 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:20.360 that I learned don't have direct flights yesterday and I 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:24.440 can't wait regardless. So we're gonna be in Vancouver on Sunday, 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:26.920 March twenty nine at the Chance Center. That's right. We're 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:29.000 kicking it up a notch there, so we need your support, yeah, 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:31.440 for real. And then the next day we're really kicking 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.080 it up a notch maybe two. In Portland. We're gonna 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:38.040 be at the Schnitzer Concert Hall on Monday March that's right, 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:42.320 and we need your support there to Portland because uh again, 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:45.120 these are bigger venues. We're giving it a whorld. Don't 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:49.400 don't put egg on our faces for God's sake. Yeah. Yeah, 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:51.680 So you can get all sorts of information, you can 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:54.040 buy tickets, everything you need to go to s Y 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.560 s K live dot com and we'll see you in March. 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.360 Welcome to stuff. You should know a product enough. I 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:09.520 heart radios. How stuff works, Hey, and welcome to the podcast. 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.400 I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles w Chuck Bryan over there, 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:15.560 there's Jerry over there. And this is Stuff you Should Know, 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:22.040 the super Topical Timely Edition because Chuck, this episode is 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.800 about Marty Graw and we're recording it on Marty Graw, right, 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.240 which in true stuff you should know fashion it will 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.880 come out a month after. So what we need to 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.080 do is do this a month before so it comes 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.360 out on that Tuesday. Well that would that be like 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.720 the Daily or something, not stuff you should know, you 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:41.000 know what I mean? Yeah, And I've been going around 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.920 the office showing everyone in my boobs all day. I 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:47.840 was wondering you had all those beads. No, I understand. Yeah. 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.400 I think we should apologize in advance to to the 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.480 people of New Orleans, because when it comes to something 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:58.040 this specific, we always just get killed. Right, it's so 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.000 personal to so many people. We're gonna mess up so much. 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:05.480 They're gonna be like, you didn't mention my crew, right, Um? Yeah, 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:07.920 I mean I've been to New Orleans twice for the 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.560 shows that we've done there. It was not around Marty 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.400 Graw read a bunch about it. So now I understand 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.280 New Orleans Marty Graw better than ever. But I also 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:17.920 learned that it's one of those things where it's kind 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.400 of like like researching humor, where you can understand the 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:24.280 mechanism behind humor and you can explain humor, but it 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:28.119 doesn't quite capture it fully. That's what we're gonna do here. 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.639 This one will stink right now, it won't. It'll be fine. 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.200 I've never been to Marty grow either, and I mean 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:36.880 I just have no interest at all, mainly because of 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.360 seeing a lot of cops Marty Gral New Orleans episodes. 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.440 Oh yeah, yeah, it's just it's a young It's not 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.960 for me, you know. But I love New Orleans. And 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:52.680 you can find your the most hospitable people on the 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:56.560 planet there at any time of year, and they won't 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:58.120 get mad at us. That's what's so great about them. 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.639 We're gonna mess up a lot and they'll be like, yeah, 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.359 it's all right, Yeah, don't worry about a guy. They'll 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.040 kill us, but they won't get mad at us, you 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:08.200 know what I mean. Maybe also I want to shout 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:13.720 out our friend Doug Shashary sassy. I even I practiced it, 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.160 Chuck it's a tough name. Who is at our New 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.600 Orleans show and brought us up what were they called 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:23.160 Budden Balls. Yeah, it was so good. But Doug's a 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.400 great guy with them without the gift of bud. Yeah, boy, 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.080 that guy is like a friend to the world. He 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:33.560 invited us again. So Shash Sassary if that name sounds familiar, 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.440 the Tony Sassary seasoning. He is the is an heir 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.840 to the throat. He's one of the Sasshary kids. Uh 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.720 grandkids maybe, and um. He has invited us to their 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.480 company Boil again this April. He has for like the 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.200 last few years. We're going to get to that one 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.320 of these these days we will. Uh. Just a great, 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.760 larger than life guy, like doesn't know a stranger, right. 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:57.520 We met him once and I felt like he was 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:59.960 the best friend. Yeah, he was hanging out with his backstage. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:01.760 He's like great. Hey, this kind of reminds me of 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.440 the time I was hanging out backstage with Metallica every 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.560 time at the time I met the Three Stages. Yeah, 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.400 they were great. Yeah, it's just like that's awesome man. Yeah, 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.400 what a good dude. Anyway, Hey, Doug, Uh, Well, so 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:17.320 let's get it started, Charles, Yes, Uh, Marty Gras a 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.520 k A. And is it pronounced carnival or does that 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.599 have to have an e on the end? I think 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:26.200 it's Carnival. And I think it's Carnival because it actually 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:30.160 comes from the Latin words carna or carn a vale, 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:35.560 which means farewell to the flesh, meat, volleyball. That's that's 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.280 a better interpretation. It's wrong, but I like that farewell 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:39.760 to the flesh. Is that what it means. Yes, not 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.000 to be confused with candy man to farewell to the flesh. 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:47.360 It just means farewell to the flesh. Uh. Carny Ball 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:51.440 and Marty Gras begin in January, and like we said, 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.840 today's Fat Tuesday. So everything has been going on in 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.560 New Orleans and other places. But we're talking about the 0:04:56.560 --> 0:05:00.480 New Orleans Mardy Gras, not Mobile Alabama. I'm sorry. I 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.520 know that you were the o g s but apparently right. Yeah, 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.280 they I was gonna say that they had the first 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.159 one by a mile from from this, like I think, 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.080 fifteen years before New Orleans was even founded. This, yeah, 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.680 and our very own. I mean, there are various neighborhoods 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:18.120 around the world that do stuff like this. Kirkwood in Atlanta, 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.200 for some reason has a little New Orleans thing and 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.560 every year they do a little Marty Gras parade and 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.800 paint the signs purple and gold and green. And I 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:30.360 don't know why. Maybe there's just some people from New 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.200 Orleans who showed up. Guess yeah, that that happened to 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.120 post Katrina. We got a lot of people that moved here. 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:36.840 But yeah, there was a lot. Yeah, that's right. I 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:38.719 wonder if that does have to do with that, and maybe, 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.320 but there it does. It does seem like the history 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:45.200 of Marty Gras and the different influences from Marty Graw 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:49.200 kind of have converged in New Orleans. It's like, yes, 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.320 give us this, We'll take this tradition. Yes, give us that. 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:54.599 And now everybody thinks when you think Marty Gras, you 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.720 think New Orleans. But one thing that I don't think 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:01.479 this article um really pointed out very well is Marty 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:06.839 Grass is a day that's one part of carnival. Yeah, 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:11.720 it's the culmination of a couple of weeks of partying 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:17.000 and parading and masquerade bawling. Yes, uh, and well we'll 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.440 just see a lot of fun stuff, right, But It's 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.480 so like if you go down to Rio for Carnival, 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:26.080 it's the exact same festival, celebrated differently in Brazil, but 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.560 the same thing they're celebrating the same thing as they're 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:33.279 celebrating throughout the Marty Gross season in New Orleans or 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.160 in kirk Way. I bet Brazil would be pretty fun. 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.400 I can't imagine with all the all those ugly men 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.880 and women that live there right just in drab like 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.080 baggy clothing. Man, that's my favorite part of the World 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.880 Cup is just seeing people in the crowd from Brazil, 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:55.400 all the models. The average person is a supermodel, so 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.600 that's what it says on the tourist webs that's right. Uh. 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.640 And Fat Tuesday, of course, is the day before ash Wednesday, 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:06.000 which is tomorrow and the beginning of Lent. I grew 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.760 up Baptist, as everyone knows, and so I'd never had 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.120 to You never got the charcoal on your forehead. No, 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.280 And in fact, in the in the South in the 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:16.640 seventies and eighties, there were so few Catholics that they 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.120 throw stones at you if you had the charcol Well, 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.120 I didn't even know what it was, really, I mean, 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.280 I was I think I remember being in college and 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.200 being like, you've got something on your head. I don't 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:28.680 remember what the ashes for. I'm sure one point three 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.840 billion Catholics will write in to tell us, but it's 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.000 it's the start of Land, like you said, which is 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:38.480 a period of fasting before Easter. Right, it's a very 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:42.880 it's a very holy period for the Roman Catholic Church. Yeah, 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:47.240 And I think the original idea was for the partying 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.880 is hey, let's let's indulge before we have to not 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.320 indulge right on, like foods and stuff. I don't think 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.600 it was like let's all get super hammered. Well, I 0:07:56.640 --> 0:08:00.520 don't know, I don't know. Maybe so um fire to that. 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:04.400 Even it has roots and paganism even before the Roman 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:09.160 Catholic like every holiday we celebrate is based on paganism 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.800 and then syncretized by the Roman Catholic Church. But um, 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:18.000 the pagan roots of it were more um pragmatic or practical, 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.040 where you had stuff that was like the last of 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:25.520 the harvest um from the summer before the fall before 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.400 and it was starting to get kind of starting to 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.160 turn and spoil, and you needed to eat it before 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.760 that time. So it was this this period of like 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.120 using up everything in the house that was about to 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.559 turn bad eggs, and like you would do that. It 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:44.840 was called um uh graw boof I believe, or boof 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:48.440 graw no grab boof, which means fat fat cow or 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:52.160 fat fat beef. And it was it was this idea 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.559 that that, like the right, that the beef had been 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.520 fattened just to perfection and they weren't gonna get any fatter, 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:02.120 and maybe they wouldn't even make it any any further, 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.400 and you just slaughter them and eat them, or you 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:06.120 just eat all this stuff in your house. Maybe it 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.480 wouldn't make any further. Like that call is about to die. 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:13.880 It's like it's so fat, let's eat it. Uh. So 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.600 they think are that there's evidence at least that there 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:20.520 was Marty Grass celebrating going on, maybe as early as 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.400 the eighteenth century, definitely from what I saw. There was 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:29.440 a French explorer named Pierre Lemoie Sieur de Belleville. I 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.120 think you you really got it, Yeah, especially if you 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.800 crunch it together and speed it up. I can't. I 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.200 think he really nailed it. And he was exploring around 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.079 and camping out about fifty miles south of what is 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.440 now New Orleans and he's like, Hey, I know that 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.880 they're celebrating in France right now, so I am going 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:52.360 to christen the site. Point do Marty Gras? Uh? And 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.559 like we said, though, the real Marty Grass celebration kind 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.920 of started in Earnest and Mobile, Alabama though. Right, Yeah, 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.280 so he named the I don't know if he actually 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.199 celebrated Marty Gras, but he named that little area, right, 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.880 he named that area Ponto Marty Gras. But the so 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:13.000 that was six apparently four years later. Um in Mobile, 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.760 before it was even a town, they celebrated. They had 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.480 their first like Mardi Gras party or whatever, a ball 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:20.600 or something like that at the Fort. And then New 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.640 Orleans was it was UM Incorporator founded in seventeen eighteen, 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:29.319 and they started having UM Mardi Gras parties like shortly 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.200 after that. So he's all very close to the beginning 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:35.040 of the eighteenth century, everybody started having Marty Grass and 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.560 it was like directly from the French influence in the area. 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.520 And if you look into the early eight hundreds, like 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.480 the eighteen twenties and into the eighteen thirties, this is 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.400 when you start seeing a lit little bit more of 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.680 what we're talking about as far as uh, carriages that 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:54.920 are decorated, people parading in masks, walking on foot probably 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.320 at this point or in carriages. It was largely spontaneous though. 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.200 There'll just be people partying on the street wearing masks, 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:05.840 um that way. Yeah, and they did, and then other 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:07.679 people will walked that way too, and all of a 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.400 sudden you had a parade. But the thing is is 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:14.599 these this revelry on the streets because everybody was indulging. 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.880 And the point was like that just indulge, but we're like, 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:20.400 really over indulge. Like this wasn't just your average like 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:24.200 village party. This is everybody was getting trashed even back then, 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:28.920 and so people were getting in fights, and people were 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.440 beating up each other, and horses were kicking people right 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.560 off their feet. All sorts of crazy stuff was happening. 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:37.560 It was yeah, cops, New Orleans, um. And so the city, 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.120 the city leaders were like, we're not going to do 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:43.720 this anymore. This is out of hand. And an eighteen 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:48.360 fifties seven, I believe a group of actually from what 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.800 I saw, transplants from Mobile who were members of a 0:11:51.880 --> 0:12:00.640 group called the Cowbellian de Rakian Society Okay, they um, 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.199 they said, hey, how about this, We'll actually organize a 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.320 legit parade and it will be much more orderly, there 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:10.040 won't be this chaos. And they formed the Mystic Crew 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:14.080 of Commas. Yeah, so there's a lot of k's in 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.800 place of c's mystic as a K. But it doesn't 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:22.040 look scary like we talked about, right and and oh 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.200 does it to you? Well, not mystic crew, but it 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:28.120 depends on what follows mystic because it could look creepy 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:31.679 to me. But crew was spelled with a K R 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.960 E W E. And we should go ahead and talk 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.840 a little bit about what a crew is. It's uh, 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:43.240 it's a group of people who get together and um, 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:47.360 technically they are like legit nonprofits and they get larger 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:51.280 at least charity organizations that they're supposed to be. Yeah, 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.160 and they are sort of the group of people who 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.319 would get together and say, all right, this is our gang, 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.480 and we're gonna gang in a good way, and we're 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:03.000 gonna make a float and do this theme this year 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.880 and all get together and get super drunk. Probably not 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.000 all of them, I bet you. There's a a non 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.480 drinking crew like one gotta be there. Has to be 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:18.040 at right, But they they they they were anonymous originally, 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:22.760 like they were secret groups that were like out and 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.640 proud in public, but like they wore masks and like 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:29.199 their identity really was anonymous, Like you were an anonymous 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:33.960 member of this group. That's right, and um. Over time 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.960 now people like the anonymity is not quite as important, 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.360 and it's to some though. I think I think sometimes 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.760 they take it seriously. Yeah, I mean not in that like, 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.600 I don't know, maybe you can't get kicked out. It might, 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:48.520 it might be more of a lighthearted thing, but I 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:52.280 think generally they try and still respect the the masks 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:54.760 on approach. Sure, okay, all right, but I mean, like 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:58.120 if you told somebody like I'm a member of the 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.360 Crew of Rex or something like that, not going to 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.600 kick you out, it's taking your mask off during the 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.600 parade specifically, I think. So, yeah, so they here about it. 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:08.920 We got that right, we definitely want But they grew 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:14.520 from these little tiny societies into very large groups, well 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:18.160 funded almost across the board because they're supported by dues, 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.240 and they put on parades and balls, masquerade balls on 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.760 the night of Mardy craw and um. Some of them 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:28.200 are just really enormous, have like big name celebrities and 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.480 like huge bands that play, and they'll still nominate a 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.680 person to be like the leader or the king or 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:39.640 queen each year. Like you could they could say, Josh Clark, 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.040 we want you to come down. They could and be 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.200 the King of our crew this year. And that's how 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.600 it started back in not eighteen fifty seven. I think 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.480 it's eighteen seventy two that the first king of a 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.600 crew was nominated, right, But eighteen fifty seven was when 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:58.520 the Mystic Crew of Comus had what's now looked at 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:02.440 the first as the first kind of modern Marty Gras parade, 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:09.360 and uh aside from a few years where like World 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.880 Wars interrupted things, they've kind of been doing this every 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.360 year since then. Yeah, there's another. So eighteen fifty seven 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.400 was a big year. Eighteen seventy two that I mentioned 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.760 was another big year because that year the the traditional 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:26.480 Marty Gras colors were added, I believe by the Crew 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.880 of Rex. And there's a lot of um, a lot 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:33.280 of misunderstanding supposedly, so that year the Crew of Rex 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.520 named as their king or the leader, I can't remember 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:40.640 which one he was. The Russian Grand Duke Alexei, who 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.760 was from the House of Romanoff, And they said, well, 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:47.560 these colors came from the House of Romanoff, the gold, 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.760 the green, and the purple that we all associate with 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.480 with Marty Gras. That's just absolutely not true. The House 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.360 of Romanoff has like red, yellow, and blue, I believe 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:59.640 are their colors. But that's just the legend that came about. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.720 But some other stuff happened that year, like the idea 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:06.520 of electing a king to your Mardi Gras parade, um, 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:10.320 throwing beads for the first time happened that year. The song, Yeah, 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.080 the song what what is it? If I ever ceased 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:16.840 to love? That's not how I was gonna say. I've 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.080 never heard it actually, so you I bet you if 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.080 we played it, you might recognize it. So the colors, 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.840 though purple stands for justice, screen for faith, and gold 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:29.120 for power, supposedly all just made up out a whole cloth. Yeah, 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:31.560 And the idea with the beads was supposedly originally that 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:34.040 you would toss these two people who you thought exemplified 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:38.480 these traits. I'm not sure how accurate that is either. Um. 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:42.840 Now it is, of course morphed into another tradition, which 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:46.680 I don't even know if that's still going on. What hey, Mr, 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:50.240 throw me something? Yeah, throw me something, Mr, Mr throwing 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.800 some some combination of those words. Well, I'll show you 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.240 something and you throw me something. Oh, that's different. So 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.760 I think it went from you look like you're involved 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:02.720 in justice. Here's some b to there's this traditional call. 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.400 I think, um, Mr, throw me something, okay, and then 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.439 I think it morphed into the boops thing that you 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:15.480 just said. That literally quieter. But I don't even know. 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:17.520 You know, with all the advancements we've made in the 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.679 past few years, if people are doing that anymore, I 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:22.600 would like to know about that, because I'm not gonna 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:24.520 go down to Marty Grawl. I'll come to New Orleans, 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.879 not jazz Fest and not Marty Graw, and I'll have 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:29.920 a blast, but I'm not going to go to those 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:34.640 things there. We were there last October, I think, so yeah, 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.160 and there's candy in the streets, and I'm like, there's 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.400 no way this is left over from Marty Graw. Dude, 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:42.560 there's parades all the time. That's what I was wondering. Yes, 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:44.840 did they just do it all the time? I mean 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:48.320 every time I've been, there have been parties and parades. 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.320 It just it just seems like one of those towns 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:55.880 where they're always getting down throwing candy. Uh should we well, 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:57.760 I guess we should just say quickly if you're before 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.760 we break, if you're gonna go, we're not discouraging you go, 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:03.879 but plan in advance, because it's not the kind of 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:07.399 thing where on a the week before you can be like, hey, dude, 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:09.880 let's go. Man, I think you can go under those 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:14.360 for sure you'll be sleeping in the van kind of experience. 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:16.920 Then if you like book a hotel, you're in advance. Yeah, 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:18.520 you won't get a hotel, you won't be able to 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:20.480 eat an Emeralds or anything like that unless you plan 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:24.639 like far far in advance. You could storm Emeralds, which 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.880 people who sleeping vans and talk like you just did 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.320 mind to you? All right, So let's take a break 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:54.720 and we'll talk more about Marty Gras. All right. So 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:57.200 if you are the city of New Orleans, you love 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:01.120 Marty Gras because it brings in a ton of money 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:04.159 every year. Yeah, I think I'm like a half a 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:07.280 billion dollars. I couldn't believe that, man, half a billion 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.800 dollars so much a year, not since it started a 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:14.919 couple hundred years ago, but every year about half a 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.240 billion dollars in revenue. Yeah, and this is something I 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:22.760 thought was super cool. They're not. There's no corporate sponsorship there. 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.359 There can be. Oh really, but it's not like I 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:27.440 don't want to interrupt you go ahead. Well it's it's 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:31.480 not like there's one Mardi Gras committee and that is 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:36.000 sponsored by X car brand and there's a president of 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:40.240 Mardy Graw. Like it's all patchworks of cruise and neighborhoods 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:45.200 and people. Yeah, and all of them operate autonomously. Yes. Basically, 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.520 what the city does is say, we can have X 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:50.840 number of parades this year. These are the routes. Get 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:53.200 a permit if you want to do it. Everything else 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:55.120 is up to you. But like a local crew could 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:58.680 be sponsored by Chico's bail bondsman. Basically, yeah, okay man, 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:02.919 that was a great deep cause right there. But um, 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:07.960 it's customary not to. If you do that, you're you know, again, 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:11.359 you're operating autonomously, so nobody can tell you not to. 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:14.199 But it's just kind of looked down upon. But some do. 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:16.600 I saw somebody sponsored by bud Lte and I could 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:20.879 not find it. Um, so it gets that big. Yeah, dude, 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:25.040 the I mean just the the crew of Endemon e 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:27.879 N d y m O N. Who knows how to 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:31.040 pronounce half of these? I'm sorry, I'm sure we're butchering it. 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.040 I need to have my word butcher april on but 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:37.399 um the crew of Endemon, I'm pretty sure I got it. 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:42.080 There's usually ends their parade usually ends in the Superdome 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:47.320 with bud Man basically duf man Um in the Superdome 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:49.760 and they'll have like a huge concert like this year. 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:53.320 I think the Superdome is under construction, so they're ending 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:57.479 it somewhere else. But like Sticks is playing, Train is playing. 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:02.080 There's like five bands Sticks. Dude. Sure I would walk 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:05.800 however long to go see Sticks Sticks without Dennis too young, 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:08.840 But that's really as he did. No, he just doesn't. 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:11.800 They broke up and Sticks went on without their lead singer. 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:13.960 I don't know, man, I think the crew of Endemont's 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:16.600 got enough like cash to bring him back. You to 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:20.760 be cool as if Endemon had Sticks and like, uh 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:23.400 the Mystic crew had Dennis de Young on the other 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:27.200 side of town. You got to choose, you know, your allegiance. Yeah, 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:30.600 I don't want to hear Mr Roboto or too much 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:34.359 time on my hands. I think Tommy Shall sing that. Okay, 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:38.160 so when did that start? Tommy? Well, now he's always 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:40.240 been around, but he was there was the lead singer. 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:42.080 Then Tommy Shall played guitar and sang a few of 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:44.480 their songs, okay, and then he took over when Dennis 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:47.720 the Young left. Sure, okay, what do you do when 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:50.119 the Dennis to Young vacuum opens up? I don't know, 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:52.000 I mean step in there could also fill it with 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:55.399 Sammy Hagar. Oh man, I was listening to some Van 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:58.480 Hagar this weekend because that's what Emily loves. It was great, 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:01.159 big shout up to Aaron Hagar. Yeah, this is a 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:05.520 shout out at huh. I guess so um. I don't 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:07.600 remember how we got on that, but oh yeah, so 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:09.720 so yes, some of these should be so big. The 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:12.360 super Cruise specifically, we'll talk a little more about that, 0:22:12.800 --> 0:22:15.400 but the super Cruise are like these big giant ones 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:19.199 that are just tradition that have hundreds of members on, 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:22.000 you know, in their parade. One of them, I think 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:26.159 end DeMont Um has one float that's like three sixty 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:30.480