New Orleans Road Trip | 300 Years of History, Jazz & Hidden Secrets

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<p>Napoleon needs money.</p>
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<p>And so he sells the Louisiana territory to our third president, Thomas Jefferson,</p>
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<p>one of the best deals ever made.</p>
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<p>So think of Storyville, a very historic place of New Orleans where</p>
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<p>prostitution was legal and people would come to New Orleans for a good time.</p>
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<p>You have these cats, I call them cats, Louis Armstrong.</p>
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<p>It's born in this.</p>
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<p>Area this, this sound is born in this area.</p>
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<p>So anytime they tried to bury people in the ground, as soon as the river</p>
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<p>would rise, people would float up and they would be like seeing like</p>
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<p>grandma float down the streets.</p>
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<p>Welcome to Talk With History.</p>
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<p>I'm your host, Scott Griff, my wife and historian Jen.</p>
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<p>Hello.</p>
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<p>On this podcast we give you insights to our history inspired</p>
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<p>while travel's YouTube channel journey, and examine history.</p>
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<p>Now, before we get into our main topic, I do want to ask for some</p>
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<p>reviews on Apple podcasts and Spotify.</p>
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<p>We've been getting some more five star reviews on Spotify, which is always nice.</p>
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<p>Our Apple podcast listeners, you guys gotta, you guys gotta keep it up.</p>
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<p>You guys got to keep it up.</p>
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<p>So you got to stay in the lead to our Apple podcast listeners.</p>
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<p>Uh, those reviews really do help kind of give us some street cred and, uh,</p>
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<p>we really do appreciate the feedback.</p>
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<p>Imagine 1699 Pierre Lemon navigated the murky water.</p>
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<p>waters of the Mississippi Delta in his wooden vessels cutting</p>
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<p>through cypress draped bayous.</p>
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<p>The humid air clung to his skin as a native guide pointed out</p>
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<p>passages through the swampland.</p>
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<p>This place breathes both life and danger, he wrote in his journal, where water and</p>
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<p>land Seemed locked in eternal negotiation.</p>
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<p>By 1718, his younger brother, Jean Baptist Limon, established the</p>
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<p>settlement that would become New Orleans.</p>
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<p>The early colonists faced a landscape both bountiful and brutal rich soil,</p>
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<p>deposited by the mighty Mississippi, but threatened by its floods.</p>
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<p>They learned to build on slightly elevated ground, creating a crescent</p>
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<p>shaped settlement that worked the river's natural patterns.</p>
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<p>They learn from the indigenous peoples about local plants and wildlife,</p>
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<p>essential knowledge for survival, the deadly summer, fever seasons,</p>
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<p>now known to be yellow fever.</p>
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<p>Decimated the population, with newcomers particularly vulnerable.</p>
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<p>Despite these hardships, a unique culture blossomed.</p>
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<p>Enslaved Africans brought agriculture, expertise in cultivating rice and indigo.</p>
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<p>The port's strategic position made it a crossroads of trade and culture where</p>
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<p>French Spanish, African, and indigenous influences merged into something entirely</p>
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<p>new, creating the foundations for the vibrant, resilient city that would emerge</p>
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<p>from those humble, struggling beginnings.</p>
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<p>All right, gents, so we got to go down to New Orleans because we have</p>
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<p>some friends that are Kind of from the area and are deeply involved in</p>
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<p>things like Mardi Gras, but we made a video kind of about the history of new</p>
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<p>Orleans, and this is a classic talk with history topic, the history of a place.</p>
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<p>So let's, let's talk a little bit about new Orleans, its origins and, and where.</p>
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<p>It's evolved from the 1600s really to today.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>So it's, it's a very basic history video of New Orleans.</p>
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<p>We don't go real deep because we're just giving you like a little taste</p>
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<p>of it because there's a lot there.</p>
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<p>And like, Yeah.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>The opening tells you this is one of the places that is so influenced by</p>
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<p>so many different cultures and They all come together in this mixing pot</p>
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<p>to create like the Creole Culture and it is very interesting to see</p>
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<p>how unique that is to the area.</p>
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<p>There's no place else like New Orleans in America.</p>
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<p>So like you said, it's founded by the French, John Baptiste.</p>
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<p>And that name, you'll remember Sacagawea is going to name her son that like,</p>
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<p>it's just so influential in those French trappers at the time, these people who</p>
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<p>came over first and Explored the area, but it's founded in 1718, and it's named</p>
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<p>for Philip II, the Duke of Orleans.</p>
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<p>So it's named for him.</p>
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<p>And you hear people say it so many different ways.</p>
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<p>No, I've heard Nolans.</p>
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<p>I've heard New Orleans.</p>
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<p>I've heard New Orleans.</p>
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<p>So.</p>
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<p>I'm sure locals will have a certain way it's supposed to be said, uh, and I'm</p>
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<p>sure there's a French way it's supposed to be said, but that'll show you how</p>
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<p>much all these different cultures are mixing here in one location.</p>
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<p>Uh, it's under French rule until 1763, whereas Spain will take over</p>
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<p>the governing of the territory.</p>
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<p>And from 1763 to 1802, it's very much Spanish influenced.</p>
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<p>And both of these cultures really have a lot of Catholic influence.</p>
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<p>So you're going to see that in New Orleans as well.</p>
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<p>Mardi Gras, we'll talk more about that.</p>
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<p>goes back to the French, back to Napoleon, the French first</p>
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<p>republic from 1802 to 1803.</p>
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<p>But if you, if you're a historian, you know, the Haitian revolution</p>
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<p>is going on at that time.</p>
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<p>And the French, uh, are the governing body of Haiti.</p>
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<p>And with the Haitian revolution, they need money to fight that.</p>
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<p>And so.</p>
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<p>Napoleon needs money.</p>
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<p>And so he sells the Louisiana territory to our third president, Thomas Jefferson, and</p>
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<p>probably one of the best deals ever made.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And</p>
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<p>it really was, we kind of did a little segment on how you can see</p>
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<p>the influences still today of both the French and the Spanish, you know,</p>
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<p>it's, it really, I mean, you want to talk about a melting pot of culture.</p>
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<p>This is a melting pot of generational cultures that are still overseas, right?</p>
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<p>French and Spanish and you know, kind of the native, it</p>
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<p>turned into this Cajun thing.</p>
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<p>And it's super interesting.</p>
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<p>We talk about, um, we kind of show you the street signs that</p>
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<p>are on the building walls.</p>
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<p>They have these tiles, right?</p>
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<p>And obviously those are a bit more modern, but there.</p>
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<p>They're done in that style.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>Like if you go to Paris and you walk around, the street signs are put on the</p>
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<p>side of the building so you can walk.</p>
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<p>They're not like on poles, on signs.</p>
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<p>They're on the side of the building and they also put them on tiles in</p>
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<p>the sidewalk and it's just something that's unique to this, that Spanish</p>
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<p>French culture that's different and.</p>
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<p>Influence still today, the architecture is going to have that same kind of influence,</p>
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<p>the food, the music and the religion.</p>
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<p>So it's just so much culture there.</p>
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<p>That's so different.</p>
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<p>We'll touch on all of those.</p>
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<p>And that's why this video is just like a touch on those things.</p>
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<p>But, uh, I've been to New Orleans before you've been to New Orleans before.</p>
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<p>This was the first time we did it together.</p>
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<p>And we brought the kids with us.</p>
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<p>So it really was a great experience.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>We got to stay relatively close down to kind of like the touristy area.</p>
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<p>So, I mean, we were less than a mile, maybe half a mile</p>
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<p>from kind of the whole, um,</p>
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<p>French quarter,</p>
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<p>French quarter and Jackson square and cafe DuMont.</p>
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<p>And it was, it was just super fun to be able to take the kids there because we did</p>
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<p>dinner one night and that it was a very.</p>
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<p>culturally inspired menu, which was difficult with kids sometimes, but</p>
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<p>it was, it was good to try it, try something a little bit different.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And I recommend if you're going to stay in New Orleans for your first time and</p>
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<p>really get a taste of it, stay close to the French Quarter cause you want to walk.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>It is a walking town.</p>
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<p>It is not a driving town.</p>
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<p>I don't even know where you would park close to the French Quarter.</p>
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<p>It's better to have a hotel that has parking and then you</p>
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<p>just leave your car and walk.</p>
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<p>It's.</p>
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<p>Very easily walkable.</p>
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<p>I know sometimes you look at the map and go, Oh, that's a couple</p>
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<p>blocks, but those blocks go by so fast and everybody's walking.</p>
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<p>There's so much to see.</p>
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<p>It really is.</p>
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<p>The culture is set up for a walking town, a walking city.</p>
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<p>So don't be intimidated by that.</p>
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<p>That's what it's meant to do.</p>
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<p>And my friends who are more locals to the area, Because the food is so rich</p>
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<p>and because there's so much of it, the walking culture helps negate that.</p>
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<p>It totally does.</p>
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<p>It totally does.</p>
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<p>I mean, we had dinner downtown, down in the French Quarter a couple times.</p>
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<p>And, uh, in walking back to the hotel, again, maybe about a</p>
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<p>mile, a little less than that.</p>
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<p>Um, really did kind of help just your stomach process all of that, like</p>
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<p>rich food that you're eating with this rich sauce or whatever it was, right?</p>
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<p>You know, some things are a little bit sweeter than, than</p>
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<p>you're typically used to.</p>
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<p>And where we were staying, um, I don't remember what the hotel was, but there</p>
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<p>was a public parking garage that wasn't too bad, you know, that you could stay.</p>
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<p>And what's that main drag that we were on just outside the French Quarter?</p>
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<p>Um, Canal Street.</p>
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<p>Canal Street.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:18</time>
<p>So, and know that the names change once you cross Canal.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:23</time>
<p>We were essentially on Bourbon, but that's not the name of the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:28</time>
<p>street after you cross Canal.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:30</time>
<p>It's a different name.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:31</time>
<p>So make sure you're looking at a map while you're there because the names change.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:34</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:35</time>
<p>So, so you can stay kind of outside the French Quarter.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:38</time>
<p>Like I'd say we were like two or three blocks from Canal Street and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:41</time>
<p>that's totally reasonable to do.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:44</time>
<p>I mean, our youngest is nine.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:45</time>
<p>She's going to turn 10 soon.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:47</time>
<p>And, and walking, you know, over to the French Quarter with the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:49</time>
<p>kids was very, very reasonable.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:51</time>
<p>So highly recommend doing something like that with, if you're trying to do it</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:55</time>
<p>with a family, even if you're just doing it by yourself, parking's not too bad.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:59</time>
<p>I mean, we're, you can get all day parking, overnight parking</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:02</time>
<p>in a local public parking garage.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:03</time>
<p>And it was safe for the kids to walk.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:05</time>
<p>And I will say if you pass Canal Street a little way from the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:08</time>
<p>French Quarter, it's quieter.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:10</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:10</time>
<p>Because New Orleans is a city that really doesn't sleep.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:13</time>
<p>either.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:13</time>
<p>And so if you're going to be down on Bourbon, I mean, Cafe</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:17</time>
<p>Du Monde is open 24 hours.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:19</time>
<p>So there are a lot of places down there open 24 hours.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:22</time>
<p>So they just expect that lifestyle.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:24</time>
<p>People have come there to have a good time.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:27</time>
<p>And so if you're looking for quiet and family, I would</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:30</time>
<p>recommend staying off the quarter.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:32</time>
<p>Yeah, so those are the places to stay.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:33</time>
<p>Those are the places that we recommend to park.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:35</time>
<p>So let's talk a little bit more about some of like the more popular history spots.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:45</time>
<p>So we started at the Jackson Square.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:48</time>
<p>So Jackson Square is that big open area, like a park area, right in</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:53</time>
<p>the center of the French Quarter.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:54</time>
<p>And it's named for Andrew Jackson, our seventh president, because he was the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:01</time>
<p>leader of the Battle of New Orleans.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:04</time>
<p>And it's this historic landmark.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:06</time>
<p>It's been a historic landmark since 1960.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:09</time>
<p>So you have that equestrian statue of Jackson in the middle, and it's about the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:15</time>
<p>size of one city block and it has iron.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:18</time>
<p>uh, fencing all around it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:19</time>
<p>That statue dates back from 1856.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:22</time>
<p>So this has been here for a long time and you get all these</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:26</time>
<p>artists and street performers of New Orleans and it's really fun.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:30</time>
<p>They stay outside of that gate.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:32</time>
<p>But they're all registered there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:34</time>
<p>So when you walk by, you can see their art, you can buy their art</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:37</time>
<p>and you can get caricatures drawn.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:39</time>
<p>You can have your, your palm read.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:41</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:42</time>
<p>They've got street performers, jugglers, you know, all the, all the kind of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:45</time>
<p>classic fun stuff, but the squares is kind of bookended on each side by the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:50</time>
<p>cathedral, which we'll talk a little bit more about and then the river.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:53</time>
<p>So you can actually do a little bit of like the river walk there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:56</time>
<p>Um, and then Café du Monde is, is kind of catty corner to it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:00</time>
<p>And we'll, we'll talk a little bit more about that as well.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:02</time>
<p>Sure.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:02</time>
<p>So just know that the Battle of New Orleans is, that's where</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:07</time>
<p>Andrew Jackson makes his name.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:08</time>
<p>That's why he's there in the middle of the square.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:11</time>
<p>And that was a battle from the War of 1812 that essentially happens</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:15</time>
<p>after the war is over, but the news hasn't gotten to America yet.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:20</time>
<p>And It's a tremendous success for America.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:24</time>
<p>I mean, the Americans are outnumbered, but in the end they, the Jackson</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:31</time>
<p>is overwhelmingly successful.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:32</time>
<p>Only 70 Americans die as opposed to 2000 British.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:37</time>
<p>And he really makes his name for himself.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:39</time>
<p>I would say he becomes president because of this battle.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:42</time>
<p>So that's why it's named for him.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:43</time>
<p>That's why his statue's in the middle.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:45</time>
<p>But yes, we walked over to Cafe Du Monde.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:47</time>
<p>I built it up for the kids.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:49</time>
<p>It's very.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:50</time>
<p>Fun place to go.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:51</time>
<p>It's a landmark of New Orleans.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:53</time>
<p>It is the oldest coffee shop in New Orleans and they sell, um, beignets,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:00</time>
<p>which beignets are French donuts.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:03</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:03</time>
<p>Essentially like it's like a donut square, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:06</time>
<p>So it doesn't actually, it's not a circle, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:08</time>
<p>It's just a square of the same kind of stuff with powdered sugar.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:11</time>
<p>Tons of powdered sugar.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:12</time>
<p>It's really good.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:13</time>
<p>and coffee.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:14</time>
<p>And so if they take cash, so make sure you have cash,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:16</time>
<p>cash only,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:17</time>
<p>cash only, but it's open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:20</time>
<p>And I know there will usually be a line, but it moves quickly.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:24</time>
<p>And if you go into the back area where there's like a little alleyway, you</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:28</time>
<p>can look through the window where they actually make the beignets and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:32</time>
<p>it's neat to watch them do that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:33</time>
<p>And we have a video of our daughter doing that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:35</time>
<p>So we.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:36</time>
<p>ate there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:37</time>
<p>It's just a staple of New Orleans.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:39</time>
<p>It's a great place to go.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:40</time>
<p>And from there, we walked around and looked at like the architecture and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:45</time>
<p>some of the influence of New Orleans.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:46</time>
<p>So no, you know, New Orleans claims to be the birthplace of jazz.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:51</time>
<p>And because I had talked about all this different culture</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:54</time>
<p>coming together in New Orleans.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:56</time>
<p>it makes sense for why it's the birthplace of jazz.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:59</time>
<p>They say in 1835, the enslaved would congregate around Jackson</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:03</time>
<p>square and play music on Sundays.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:06</time>
<p>And then in the mid 1910s, um, this ragtime brass instruments start to kind of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:14</time>
<p>take shape and it's influenced by, again, the enslaved songs, the Spanish culture,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:22</time>
<p>the French culture, and this musical.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:25</time>
<p>influence that comes from the area was kind of like a good time area.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:31</time>
<p>So think of Storyville is a very historic place of New Orleans where</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:36</time>
<p>prostitution was legal and people would come to New Orleans for a good time.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:40</time>
<p>And so this is the type of music they would play.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:44</time>
<p>with that good time kind of idea.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:46</time>
<p>And so jazz, you have these cats, I call them cats, Louis Armstrong.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:51</time>
<p>It's born in this area.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:53</time>
<p>This this sound is born in this area.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:56</time>
<p>And so they claim to be the birthplace of jazz.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:58</time>
<p>So you can hear jazz coming out of different places that you walk by.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:02</time>
<p>It's very cool.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:03</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:04</time>
<p>And there's always like kind of street bands and stuff like that performing</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:07</time>
<p>all throughout that whole area.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:10</time>
<p>So.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:10</time>
<p>You, there's no, no escaping, you know, the, the, the jazz in that area.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:14</time>
<p>Cause you're always going to have somebody performing, you know,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:17</time>
<p>something or, I think the very first time that I ever visited was I was</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:20</time>
<p>doing a Navy school, not too far away, visited city for the weekend.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:24</time>
<p>And I ended up like in jazz festival, I think it was April ish and, um,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:29</time>
<p>and jazz festival was even more so.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:30</time>
<p>There was.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:31</time>
<p>Uh, literally a jazz band on every other street corner.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:35</time>
<p>And so you're just walking around eating crawfish, getting sunburned,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:38</time>
<p>all that, all the fun stuff.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:39</time>
<p>That's super cool.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:40</time>
<p>So as we walked around that area, the first, one of the first things you're</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:44</time>
<p>going to see is, um, a statue of Joan of Arc and she's a big golden statue.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:49</time>
<p>She, that statue was put up in 1999, but she is the maid of Orleans.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:54</time>
<p>And that's why it's on there because in 1425, you know, she's 13 years old.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:59</time>
<p>She hears those voices.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:00</time>
<p>That are telling her to, uh, provide aid to Charles II in the hundred</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:04</time>
<p>Years War, and she's a successful leader of that battle, uh, and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:10</time>
<p>drove the English out of Orleans.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:12</time>
<p>So that's why she is the maid of Orleans now.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:15</time>
<p>She's captured in 1430.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:18</time>
<p>She's killed in 1431, uh, and for, for heresy, and she's burned at the stake.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:23</time>
<p>So a lot of that again.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:25</time>
<p>religion, witchcraft kind of thing that's kind of around New Orleans.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:30</time>
<p>Uh, but she's becomes a patron saint and New Orleans really embraces</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:35</time>
<p>her as the maid of New Orleans.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:37</time>
<p>So there's a really cool statue to her right there off of Jackson Square.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:41</time>
<p>And as we walked down one of the streets, so much of the architecture is just so</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:47</time>
<p>different and unique that I wanted to talk about it because a lot of it has to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:51</time>
<p>do with Mardi Gras and people standing on the second stories of these buildings.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:56</time>
<p>And what are they standing on?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:57</time>
<p>There's different names for if it's at a balcony or if it's a gallery, a balcony</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:02</time>
<p>will not have any kind of braces that come down to the second, to the first floor.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:09</time>
<p>Gallery has those long stanchions or braces that come all the way down to the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:14</time>
<p>first floor and provide more structure.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:17</time>
<p>Sometimes they're a little longer, they can stick out a little longer</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:20</time>
<p>because they're more sturdy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:22</time>
<p>And you'll see people throwing beads from there, especially</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:25</time>
<p>during Mardi Gras, or you'll see people up there having a good time.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:28</time>
<p>And so that's just a lot of that architecture of New Orleans, a</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:32</time>
<p>balcony or gallery depends on if it's coming, if the structure comes</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:36</time>
<p>all the way down to the first floor.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:38</time>
<p>But we also talk about shotgun houses,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:39</time>
<p>which</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:41</time>
<p>is also very unique to New Orleans.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:43</time>
<p>Now you'll see them in other areas of the South.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:46</time>
<p>They really are unique to a lot of the houses in New Orleans, which basically</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:52</time>
<p>is rooms just flooding into other rooms.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:57</time>
<p>All the way to the back door.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:59</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:59</time>
<p>So, so for our listeners, if you picture it in your mind, if you walked in the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:03</time>
<p>front door, let's say you'd walk into the living room and there's no rooms</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:07</time>
<p>veering off to the right or the left.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:09</time>
<p>If you walk straight ahead, you do not turn at all.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:13</time>
<p>You're going to walk through, say the living room, then the kitchen,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:17</time>
<p>then a bedroom, then another bedroom or something like that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:21</time>
<p>So you're just walking in a straight line.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:23</time>
<p>Through the house and you're passing through each room along the way.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:29</time>
<p>So that's what they mean when they say shotgun house.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:32</time>
<p>And I had actually heard this term before, but until I made the video</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:35</time>
<p>and kind of found a good picture example online for those watching, um,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:39</time>
<p>I'll kind of put that up, but, uh, I hadn't really realized what it was.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:43</time>
<p>It was really interesting because that's just not in America.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:47</time>
<p>Like that's not the typical home style.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:49</time>
<p>Well, it's interesting because there's no privacy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:51</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:51</time>
<p>You have to walk through a bedroom to go to another bedroom.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:53</time>
<p>Usually you have to walk through all of the bedrooms to go to the bathroom.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:57</time>
<p>And there's one bathroom.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:58</time>
<p>So it's just one of those homes that's built for necessity and easy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:04</time>
<p>I say the ease, the easiness of the construction.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:07</time>
<p>but it's not a, there's no privacy there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:10</time>
<p>So, you know, you're, this family is close and, uh, but now they've just so</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:14</time>
<p>become such a cultural icon that people have really built them up and they, they,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:19</time>
<p>they just, they uphold that authentic.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:24</time>
<p>So you can still see how neat it is to kind of go from room to room</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:26</time>
<p>to room, but just make sure you're really close with the people.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:29</time>
<p>If you're going to Airbnb or Shotgun, because you're going to be</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:34</time>
<p>walking through everyone's bedroom.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:35</time>
<p>It's definitely something you're going to do with the family.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:37</time>
<p>Maybe the parents are staying in the back room.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:38</time>
<p>The kids are staying in the, in the, in the front room,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:42</time>
<p>but we went, I really thought it was important.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:44</time>
<p>This, this two other, this, this.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:46</time>
<p>more other structures on Jackson Square.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:49</time>
<p>One of them is St. Louis Cathedral.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:51</time>
<p>And this cathedral has been around since, since 1718.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:55</time>
<p>It was when it was first built, but there was a big fire in New Orleans in 1788.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:00</time>
<p>And so it was rebuilt in the 1850s.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:01</time>
<p>So what you see today is the rebuilt 1850 cathedral, but it's named</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:06</time>
<p>for, of course, the King of France.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:08</time>
<p>And it's just another one of those landmarks of Jackson Square.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:12</time>
<p>So when you see the equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson, usually it's a It's</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:16</time>
<p>silhouetted behind by St. Louis Cathedral.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:20</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:20</time>
<p>And it</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:20</time>
<p>looks like something straight out of a Disney movie, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:23</time>
<p>If you're looking at the front of it, it is a classic cathedral look to it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:29</time>
<p>Very kind of Catholic style and we got to go in, they have like a whole museum</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:33</time>
<p>in there and everything like that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:34</time>
<p>It was pretty neat.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:35</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:35</time>
<p>So.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:36</time>
<p>Bear in mind how much the Catholic influences are in</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:40</time>
<p>Louisiana in general, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:41</time>
<p>Louisiana is named for the King of France and their counties are called parishes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:48</time>
<p>So when you hear different parishes, you're like, what is that?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:50</time>
<p>It's not churches.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:52</time>
<p>They're talking about the counties of Louisiana.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:55</time>
<p>I think it's the only state that names its counties parishes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:00</time>
<p>So just.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:00</time>
<p>Bear that in mind, right beside the St. Louis Cathedral is the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:06</time>
<p>Cabildo and the Cabildo was the original city hall of Louisiana.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:12</time>
<p>I recommend going in there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:14</time>
<p>It is a cost, but it's, it's.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:18</time>
<p>It's not that much.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:19</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:19</time>
<p>It was</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:19</time>
<p>like 10 bucks a person, maybe a little less.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:21</time>
<p>But there's the things to, you want to be, if you want to walk in</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:24</time>
<p>history, that's the building you want to go into because that's where the papers</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:29</time>
<p>for the Louisiana purchase came to.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:32</time>
<p>That's where they were ratified.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:33</time>
<p>That's where they actually like stamped them and like.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:36</time>
<p>This, this is the validation that we own this territory.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:39</time>
<p>Now, uh, they have Napoleon's death mask in there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:42</time>
<p>They have a huge painting of Napoleon in there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:46</time>
<p>What I thought was really neat is they have, uh, the original tombstone</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:49</time>
<p>for Homer Plessy and Plessy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:52</time>
<p>is going to bring that landmark Supreme Court case against, um, Ferguson</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:58</time>
<p>and it goes to the Supreme Court.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:01</time>
<p>And this is where that separate but equal decision is made by the Supreme Court.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:06</time>
<p>This is an 18 96.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:09</time>
<p>And Plessy is a free man of color who buys a ticket for a white only railroad car in</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:15</time>
<p>Louisiana, and he's not allowed to ride.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:17</time>
<p>And so he takes the state to court.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:20</time>
<p>It goes all the way to the Supreme Court and Supreme Court upholds it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:24</time>
<p>And that's where that separate but equal comes from.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:27</time>
<p>And that's the law until it's overturned by Brown versus the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:32</time>
<p>Board of Education in 1954.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:34</time>
<p>But this man and his influence in New Orleans and Louisiana is felt in American</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:40</time>
<p>history and his tombstone is in there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:43</time>
<p>So it says it right on there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:44</time>
<p>Plessy versus Ferguson.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:45</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:46</time>
<p>And, and again, here in the United States, that's, that's a case</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:49</time>
<p>that we all classically learn in our U. S. history classes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:52</time>
<p>And I recommend if you've never been to New Orleans before, do a cemetery tour.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:58</time>
<p>They are so neat.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:00</time>
<p>And the culture is so unique to Louisiana.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:05</time>
<p>So in Louisiana, you can't, and in New Orleans and specifically,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:08</time>
<p>you can't be buried in the ground.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:11</time>
<p>They're too close to sea level.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:12</time>
<p>I'd say within 10, within like 10 feet.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:17</time>
<p>So anytime they tried to bury people in the ground, as soon as the river</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:20</time>
<p>would rise, people would float up and they would be like seeing their</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:24</time>
<p>grandma float down the street.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:26</time>
<p>So people got, Oh my gosh, what can we do?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:28</time>
<p>And so they started to bury people above ground in these tombs.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:33</time>
<p>And What happens in New Orleans, because it's so hot, if you've ever been to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:37</time>
<p>the South, is they bury people in these tombs, or I would say bury, they entomb</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:42</time>
<p>them in these tombs for a year and a day in just plain clothes, wrapped in</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:47</time>
<p>like a burlap sack, and in a year and a day, they open the tomb and you're</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:51</time>
<p>like, Oh my gosh, what will they find?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:53</time>
<p>I'll tell you.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:54</time>
<p>They just find bones.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:56</time>
<p>After a year and a day, no matter when you are entombed, after that</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:00</time>
<p>full year cycle and the heat of New Orleans, it's basically like an oven.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:05</time>
<p>And after a year and a day, when they open it up and that's part of their funeral</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:08</time>
<p>culture is Nothing is left but your bones.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:12</time>
<p>So they celebrate that and you'll see those kind of funeral lines where</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:15</time>
<p>they have the umbrella and they're dancing, they're celebrating their dead.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:20</time>
<p>And so they open it up, they bring the bones out, they celebrate that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:23</time>
<p>And then they put the bones back in the tomb and they go back into a</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:27</time>
<p>shoot in the very back of the tomb.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:29</time>
<p>And that tomb is, Reused by family.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:34</time>
<p>And so if you look on a tomb and it has like 15, 16 names and you're like,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:37</time>
<p>how can they all be in that one box?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:40</time>
<p>All their bones are in that box.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:43</time>
<p>And so the question is what happens if two people from the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:45</time>
<p>same family die in the same year?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:48</time>
<p>A lot of people rent out the tombs right next to them or below them</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:51</time>
<p>because their family member hasn't died.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:53</time>
<p>And so you can rent out those.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:55</time>
<p>And after a year and a day when your bones are pulled out,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:57</time>
<p>you're just put in your families.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:59</time>
<p>Oh, I didn't know that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:00</time>
<p>Tomb.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:00</time>
<p>So there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:02</time>
<p>Their funeral culture is so unique and different and it</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:05</time>
<p>has so much history around it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:08</time>
<p>I definitely recommend doing that tour and that's what they have in the Cabildo.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:11</time>
<p>They have Homer Plessy's face plate of his tomb, his first one,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:16</time>
<p>because they've had to replace it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:17</time>
<p>And so that first one is in the Cabildo.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:20</time>
<p>And William McKinley, the very first sitting president to visit</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:26</time>
<p>New Orleans in 1901, will speak from that second floor of the Cabildo.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:30</time>
<p>So it's kind of neat to to be there and stand there and know</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:34</time>
<p>that he made that speech there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:36</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:36</time>
<p>So he's kind of speaking out towards Jackson square from the, from the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:40</time>
<p>Cabildo, which is really neat.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:41</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:41</time>
<p>It's, it's the old city hall from 1795 to 1799.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:45</time>
<p>So there's just a lot of history about prisoners in there and, and different</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:50</time>
<p>court cases that were in there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:52</time>
<p>So it's just a neat place.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:53</time>
<p>Again, if you're with your family, if you want to see something</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:55</time>
<p>historic like that, do that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:57</time>
<p>But if.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:58</time>
<p>This is your first visit to New Orleans.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:59</time>
<p>I definitely recommend doing a cemetery tour.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:02</time>
<p>They're right there off of the French Quarter.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:04</time>
<p>You'll hear the St. Louis number one, St. Louis number two.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:07</time>
<p>That's kind of what they're named.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:09</time>
<p>And, uh, and it's really neat to go and do those.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:12</time>
<p>And there's lots of little things that you can do just walking</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:14</time>
<p>around the French Quarter, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:16</time>
<p>We went into an old bookshop.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:17</time>
<p>They've got tons of art galleries, tons of art galleries, and, and.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:22</time>
<p>These are like the artists, we, we talked to the artist in this one art gallery and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:25</time>
<p>he's, he's like, Hey, do you like my art?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:27</time>
<p>We're like, Oh my gosh, I didn't, we didn't realize it was his.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:30</time>
<p>And I was talking to Jen and said, Hey, I didn't realize like his</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:34</time>
<p>art, just such a thing down here.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:36</time>
<p>And part of it's the culture.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:38</time>
<p>And part of it is this is just a, this is actually a worldwide destination, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:42</time>
<p>There's people from all over the world that are visiting</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:44</time>
<p>this part of the United States.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:46</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:47</time>
<p>And like you said, there's so much.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:49</time>
<p>Like you had opened with the initial, the person who first visited</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:52</time>
<p>there and how it was such a unique combination of water and land and how</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:57</time>
<p>they're kind of fighting for that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:59</time>
<p>That's what's always happened in Louisiana, in that area.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:02</time>
<p>So, so much of that vegetation and that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:06</time>
<p>Life is captured on canvas.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:09</time>
<p>And so it is really beautiful to see that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:11</time>
<p>And so, yeah, you can purchase the art right there and buy it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:13</time>
<p>And some of those artists have gone on to become very famous.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:16</time>
<p>So you could be on the ground floor getting some of that influential art.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:21</time>
<p>Yeah, it was.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:22</time>
<p>It was really, really neat and like there's even fun things that you can</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:26</time>
<p>kind of talk to talk to the kids about because I think one of the alleys</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:29</time>
<p>next to the cathedral they call it Pirate's Alley because, you know,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:32</time>
<p>kind of legend goes that back in the day that's where pirates would be or</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:37</time>
<p>they would, you know, somebody stayed there and there's specific names to it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:40</time>
<p>I didn't look too deeply into it for the video because this again, this</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:43</time>
<p>was kind of just a taste of kind of classic historic New Orleans went for</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:47</time>
<p>a run down there and it was awesome because you could run along the river.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:50</time>
<p>They have like a steamboat type thing.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:52</time>
<p>Um, that you can jump on if you want to.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:54</time>
<p>So just lots of really fun, classic tourist, uh, kind of cultural experiences</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:01</time>
<p>that you can go out and find there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:03</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:03</time>
<p>And we were there for Mardi Gras.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:05</time>
<p>So Mardi Gras is New Orleans.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:09</time>
<p>People always know it for Mardi Gras, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:12</time>
<p>And it, it means fat Tuesday.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:14</time>
<p>Like that's what Mardi Gras means.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:16</time>
<p>And so this is the lead up to Lent again, all this.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:20</time>
<p>Catholic influence there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:23</time>
<p>And it began, it usually, it coincides with carnival and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:28</time>
<p>it usually begins in January.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:30</time>
<p>It was brought to America in 1699 and the first parade takes</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:35</time>
<p>place in New Orleans in 1837.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:39</time>
<p>But We have friends who are big into this culture.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:43</time>
<p>It's just really big into tradition.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:45</time>
<p>And there's certain families that have upheld this tradition</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:48</time>
<p>for years and generations, and they do these elaborate floats.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:54</time>
<p>They have themes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:55</time>
<p>Sometimes they're gender specific, only men and only women.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:00</time>
<p>They have to stay masked the entire time, but know that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:03</time>
<p>The whole attitude is abundance.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:07</time>
<p>So when you go to these parades, you're getting the best beads, the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:12</time>
<p>best light up things, the little, like they're not throwing out chintzy stuff.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:16</time>
<p>They're throwing out the best things.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:18</time>
<p>And so when you, it's, it's abundance and these.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:22</time>
<p>parade people who do this for, you know, a part of their culture</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:26</time>
<p>and lifestyle, they make sure that you get the abundance of it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:29</time>
<p>So it was so neat to see these floats before they went out and we</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:34</time>
<p>sat in the throne for who is going to be like their grand Marshall.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:38</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:38</time>
<p>So essentially we have some friends that kind of help.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:41</time>
<p>Help run one of the main parades that go through.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:45</time>
<p>Um, and so they invited us out to kind of like a locals only</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:49</time>
<p>and they call them a crew.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:50</time>
<p>K R E W E. So we got invited to kind of like the, the crew.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:55</time>
<p>I said this is like basically a week or two before the main Mardi Gras events.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:00</time>
<p>And so we got to go to this warehouse and see all the floats before</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:04</time>
<p>they were getting ready to be.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:05</time>
<p>You know, toad through New Orleans and all this stuff.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:07</time>
<p>And I guess Shaq was supposed to be this year's, um, a kind of,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:12</time>
<p>I don't know what they call him.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:13</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:14</time>
<p>It's not, I forget the name, but it's like a grand marshal.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:16</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:16</time>
<p>He's kind of like grand marshal for this, for this was the Bacchus crew, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:19</time>
<p>That's what our friends do.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:20</time>
<p>And um, it was really, really neat.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:23</time>
<p>And talking to people about the different floats and, and.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:28</time>
<p>learning how they have kind of the different stages of how much</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:32</time>
<p>they help out and all this stuff.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:33</time>
<p>It was really, really cool.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:35</time>
<p>And it's not just.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:38</time>
<p>What you've kind of heard, you know, it's not just drinking and all that stuff.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:43</time>
<p>There's, you know, formal balls and there's all this stuff that they're</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:47</time>
<p>doing and they've been doing this for generations which was really neat</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:51</time>
<p>and then each crew kind of ends with a certain thing and they all kind</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:54</time>
<p>of have their own way of Doing this that and the other because really</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:58</time>
<p>need to be able to learn about that that piece of New Orleans history I</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:01</time>
<p>mean, they're very dedicated and it's It's wrought in</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:05</time>
<p>tradition, and they make sure it's carried out to a tee every year.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:09</time>
<p>They want people to experience this, and it's part of their</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:13</time>
<p>celebration of their culture.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:16</time>
<p>Um, the colors, you know, I think people know the colors of New</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:20</time>
<p>Orleans are kind of like This yellow, green, and purple, that's kind of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:24</time>
<p>like the Mardi Gras colors as well.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:26</time>
<p>And they have like the king cake and there's certain kind</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:29</time>
<p>of pastries and things that are associated with Mardi Gras.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:33</time>
<p>So it was really neat to go there and to see it firsthand.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:37</time>
<p>We ended up eating with the kids at this place called the court.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:40</time>
<p>two sisters and it's been around.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:43</time>
<p>It's also very traditional place 1726 there in New Orleans and they have a</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:50</time>
<p>gate there blessed by Queen Isabella who was the Queen of Spain and that</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:56</time>
<p>you'll get charm if you touch the gate you'll be charming and That</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:01</time>
<p>courtyard is famous for Marie Laveau.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:05</time>
<p>She's the voodoo princess of New Orleans.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:09</time>
<p>And they say she did some of her rituals at night by the wishing well there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:13</time>
<p>It's also known for pirates.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:15</time>
<p>I think it's pirate Lafitte was out there doing duels</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:20</time>
<p>underneath the willow tree there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:22</time>
<p>So if you want to go to a place and eat and sit in the courtyard like we</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:25</time>
<p>did and eat some French cuisine and be surrounded by some French history.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:31</time>
<p>It was right there on Royale Street.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:32</time>
<p>It was a really great place to sit and eat.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:35</time>
<p>It was recommended by our Mardi Gras friends.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:37</time>
<p>And, uh, I definitely recommend if you're going to go there and you want</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:39</time>
<p>to be in a historic place to partake of that French, you know, French cuisine.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:46</time>
<p>It's definitely the place to be</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:53</time>
<p>as we wrap up our journey through the rich history of New Orleans.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:56</time>
<p>I hope you're inspired to experience this unique city for yourself.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:01</time>
<p>The spirit of those early settlers lives on in the vibrant music</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:04</time>
<p>echoing through the French Quarter.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:07</time>
<p>The distinctive Creole and Cajun flavors that tantalize your taste buds, and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:11</time>
<p>the resilient community that has faced countless challenges, yet continues to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:15</time>
<p>celebrate life with unmatched exuberance.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:20</time>
<p>When you visit New Orleans, take time to wander beneath the Spanish moss</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:23</time>
<p>draped oaks in City Park, explore the historic above ground cemeteries that</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:27</time>
<p>tell stories of generations past, and lose yourself in the rhythm of a city.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:32</time>
<p>second line parade.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:35</time>
<p>Sample a steaming bowl of gumbo or indulge in powdery beignets at Café du Monde.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:40</time>
<p>Each experience connects you directly with the diverse cultural threads that have</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:44</time>
<p>been woven together over three centuries.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:48</time>
<p>The city that began as a struggling outpost in a swamp has transformed</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:52</time>
<p>into a cultural treasure unlike any other in America.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:55</time>
<p>Yet despite all its changes, New Orleans maintains that same cultural</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:59</time>
<p>fusion that defined its earliest days.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:02</time>
<p>It remains a place where history isn't just preserved in museums,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:05</time>
<p>it's lived daily through traditions passed down through generations.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:10</time>
<p>So until next time, laissez bon temps rouler.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:14</time>
<p>Let the good times roll.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:17</time>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:29</time>
<p>It's like, uh, Talladega Nights, where he's like, first</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:32</time>
<p>time he gets interviewed.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:40</time>
<p>This has been a Walk With History production.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:42</time>
<p>Talk With History is created and hosted by me, Scott Benny.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:45</time>
<p>Episode researched by Jennifer Benny.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:47</time>
<p>Check out the show notes for links and references.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:49</time>
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<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:52</time>
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<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:56</time>
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<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:57</time>
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<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:00</time>
<p>Thank you to Doug Liberty.</p>
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<time>00:35:02</time>
<p>Larry Myers.</p>
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<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:03</time>
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