Blood and Oil

By Lauren Kenny & Travers of South by Northeast Prod

Blood and Oil is the New Orleans history podcast that starts after the tourist booklets end. Join hosts Lauren Whitley-Haney & Kenny Haney as they detail the story of industry & violence in 19... more

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The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.

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January 30, 2023 The Plantation Museums on River Road, Part II
In the finale of Blood & Oil, hosts Kenny & Lauren detail their experiences at some of the plantation museums in South Louisiana: Oak Alley Plantation, Laura Plantation & Creole Heritage Site, and the Whitney Plantation & Slavery Museum.

Thank you to all of our listeners for supporting our project of untold Southern history!

Come with us inside these museums and see for yourself what we discuss in the episode!

View our photos on the Episode 9 Show Notes page: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com/episode-9

Music: Blood & Oil Theme, Brotha Trav www.instagram.com/BrothaTrav

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The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions.
When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode.

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55min
January 23, 2023 The Plantation Museums on River Road, Part I
While progressive River Road residents organized for a better environment, their conservative neighbors organized to create Louisiana’s River Road plantation museums. New historical societies transformed their socioeconomic power into the institutional power to construct a lasting historical narrative. Plantation museums might not pollute the natural environment like refineries, but they have polluted Louisiana in a completely different way.

Episode 8 Notes Page: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com/episode-8

Music: Blood & Oil Theme, Travers LaVille. www.instagram.com/BrothaTrav

Fundraiser Acoustic Folk Guitar, Media Music Group

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The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions.
When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode.

Questions, comments and corrections: [email protected]
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49min
January 16, 2023 “Cancer Alley”
Many people have heard of “Cancer Alley,” a fatalistic name given to South Louisiana’s chemical corridor along the Mississippi River. But how did this region receive that name, who created it, and what is being done to challenge industrial domination? This episode looks at the swell of Louisiana’s grassroots environmental organizing during the 1980s and 1990s.

Episode 7 Notes Page: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com/episode-7
Find Steve Lerner’s book, Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262622042/diamond/

Music:
Blood & Oil Theme, Travers LaVille. www.instagram.com/BrothaTrav
America The Blue, Patrick Smith
Support Blood & Oil on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bloodandoilpodcast

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The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions.
When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode.

Questions, comments and corrections: [email protected]
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33min
December 19, 2022 Holiday Special! Tourism in NOLA: Then & Now
In this special episode of Blood & Oil, hosts Kenny & Lauren go on a festive tangent: the history of tourism in America’s Most Interesting City, New Orleans.
With the help of friends and family to describe what makes New Orleans special to them, Blood & Oil looks at New Orleans’ other big industry and asks the question: how can learning about the history of tourism deepen our love of NOLA and help us be better tourists?

Music: Time To Swing - Neil Cross

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Holiday Special Notes Page: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com/holiday-special

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The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions.
When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode.

Questions, comments and corrections: [email protected]
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52min
December 05, 2022 The Oil Boom in Plantation Country: Labor in Louisiana
In part 3 of our Oil Boom episode series, we dive into Louisiana’s labor history. We talk about why the Jim Crow South had so few labor unions before World War II and when labor finally arrived in Louisiana, how it changed the refinery forever and killed the company town.

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Episode 6 Show Notes Page: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com/episode-6
For more about the history of the Oil Workers International Union, see Ray Davidson’s book, Challenging the Giants.

Music:
Blood & Oil Theme, Travers LaVille: www.instagram.com/BrothaTrav

Support Blood & Oil on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bloodandoilpodcast

Visit our website for more information: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com

Follow us! Instagram: www.instagram.com/bloodoilpod Twitter: www.twitter.com/bloodoilpod

The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions.
When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode.

Questions, comments and corrections: [email protected]
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37min
November 28, 2022 The Oil Boom in Plantation Country: The Company Town
Part 2 of our Oil Boom episode series is all about the company town! Were refinery company towns really that different from the old sugar plantations they sprouted up around?
In this episode, Kenny & Lauren focus on St. Charles Parish - home to two refinery company towns, one of which is still around today. Contributor Travers LaVille joins to watch and comment on the corporate propaganda needed to sustain company towns and the refineries they served.

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Episode 5 Show Notes Page: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com/episode-5
Shell Norco 1997 video on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/328540723
1916-1917 Pan American Record at Google Books: https://books.google.com/books/about/Pan_American_Record.html?id=jYQwAQAAMAAJ

Music:
Blood & Oil Theme - Travers LaVille: www.instagram.com/BrothaTrav
Wilderness Mindset - Humans Win

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The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions.
When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode.

Questions, comments and corrections: [email protected]
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39min
November 21, 2022 The Oil Boom in Plantation Country: Why Louisiana?
Here it is, folks! The stage is set and the main act of “Blood and Oil” has arrived.
In this episode, hosts Kenny and Lauren talk about what led to the creation of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” as we know it today. Why did global oil companies choose Louisiana back in the 1910s, and what was it like for the generation who experienced Louisiana’s Petrochemical Revolution?
Contributor Travers LaVille joins to discuss the “Louisiana paradox” - high concentration of industry and high levels of poverty.
The story of Alex Royal is based upon census data and historical newspapers, and is inspired by Saidiya Hartman’s style of “critical fabulation,” filling in gaps of the cold historical record with warmth and life.
Part 1 of 3. Listen next week for Part 2: The Company Town.

Episode 4 Show Notes Page: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com/episode-4
Together Louisiana’s “Why Louisiana Stays Poor.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTic9btP38

Music:
Blood & Oil Theme, Travers LaVille: www.instagram.com/BrothaTrav

Support Blood & Oil on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bloodandoilpodcast

Visit our website for more information: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com

Follow us! Instagram: www.instagram.com/bloodoilpod Twitter: www.twitter.com/bloodoilpod

The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions.
When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode.

Questions, comments and corrections: [email protected]
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38min
November 14, 2022 What Plantation Museum Tours Don’t Tell You, Part II: Reconstruction
In this episode, we detail the other missing part of plantation museum tours: Reconstruction and the establishment of Jim Crow in the South. In the decades after the Civil War, the political pendulum swung far and wide with disastrous effects we trace to current day.
Hosts Kenny & Lauren detail the hyper-partisan Reconstruction Era in New Orleans and South Louisiana, the start of local tourism, working class interracial collaboration, and Solid South Democrats’ creation of Jim Crow.

Episode 3 Show Notes Page: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com/episode-3

Music:
Blood & Oil Theme, Travers LaVille: www.instagram.com/BrothaTrav
Lonely Dusty Trail, Jon Presstone

Support Blood & Oil on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bloodandoilpodcast

Visit our website for more information: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com

Follow us! Instagram: www.instagram.com/bloodoilpod Twitter: www.twitter.com/bloodoilpod

The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions.
When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode.

Questions, comments and corrections: [email protected]
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25min
November 07, 2022 What Plantation Museum Tours Don’t Tell You, Part I: Antebellum Period
In this episode of “Blood and Oil,” we detail what the traditional plantation museum tour doesn’t tell you. The Louisiana sugar plantation before the Civil War wasn’t an agrarian daydream. It was an industrial nightmare.
Hosts Kenny & Lauren provide background on colonial and antebellum life in Louisiana, from the late 1600s to the 1840s. They are joined by friend and contributor Travers LaVille to read Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave and discuss the 1811 German Coast Uprising.

Episode 2 Show Notes Page www.bloodandoilpodcast.com/episode-2

“America’s largest slave revolt brought back to life.” The Guardian. November 14, 2019. https://youtu.be/v2to3S0iabE
Music:
Blood & Oil Theme, Travers LaVille: www.instagram.com/BrothaTrav
Delta Moan, Humans Win

Support Blood & Oil on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bloodandoilpodcast

Visit our website for more information: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com

Follow us! Instagram: www.instagram.com/bloodoilpod Twitter: www.twitter.com/bloodoilpod

The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions.
When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode.

Questions, comments and corrections: [email protected]
...more
43min
October 31, 2022 Plantations and Petrochemicals on the Great River Road
In the series premiere of “Blood and Oil,” we examine New Orleans & South Louisiana’s little-known history. Not voodoo curses, ghosts, and the antebellum romance you’ve heard a hundred times, but what happened afterward… the rampant greed, corruption, and exploitation that defined 1900s Louisiana, when many discovered that their American Dream was actually a waking nightmare of blood and oil.

Sources:
DemocracyNow YouTube clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpuXDX0YuvM
Episode 1 Show Notes page www.bloodandoilpodcast.com/episode-1

Music credits:
Blood & Oil Theme by Travers LaVille: www.instagram.com/BrothaTrav
“Shake It and Break It,” by Humans Win.
Support Blood & Oil on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bloodandoilpodcast

Visit our website for more information: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com

Follow us! Instagram: www.instagram.com/bloodoilpod Twitter: www.twitter.com/bloodoilpod

The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions.
When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode.

Questions, comments and corrections: [email protected]
...more
43min

FAQs about Blood and Oil:

How many episodes does Blood and Oil have?

The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.