Audio in the episode from the memorial itself starts off rough for the first few minutes and then becomes more clear.

I traveled down to New Orleans to attend to the annual memorial gathering where people come together to mourn those they lost over the last year. By a stroke of luck I was able to get audio from the gathering from a device that I was carrying that happened to turn on a few minutes before the memorial started and then recorded for an hour after my main device didn’t work. The memorial took place on the banks of the Mississippi river where we took turns taking cardboard gravestones, we had written our friend’s names on and threw them in the fire, while talking about the people we lost. It was a bit chaotic, which is to be expected.

Here is a link to pictures of the permanent art memorial sculptures in the same area:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NVecc9oEr7m95yzfIPHsQv_MqWlRswOa?usp=sharing

Music by Robby Lascola (RIP)

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