The Brackish Podcast

Cliff and Naq welcome Lynn into the spin. Cliff's scaring and sharing so you know Lynn will be swearing. Big Easy folklore to the max. Buckle your seatbelts and sit on back.

New Orleans was their destination and starting a new free black state was their goal. It was the largest slave revolt in U.S. history that had the numbers to succeed, but its brutal end kept others from rising up. 

Cliff and Naq mix it up a little bit and tell you about current events happening in Louisiana and New Orleans. They also get a little nostalgic and talk about a time past. It's a bit crazy 😜 

THIS STORY IS BANANAS! Sam Zemurray and the Port of New Orleans turned bananas to big bucks in the Big Easy. Mix it up a little while celebrity guest host Lynn peels back this episode, while Cliff and Naq try to interupt her. 

"If you cut off a dogs tail, it will continue to bother you. If you cut of it's head, it will cease to cause you any problems." ~ Carlos Marcello. The head of the New Orleans mafia from 1947 to the 1980s pulled strings in all direction but his name stayed clear of any fault when it came to the assassination of JFK. Listen to hear why many people and politicians believe he is behind it all.

Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans, fought against discrimination from her own French king and many others in order to save France from English rule during the 100 Years War. She may have died at a young age, but her legend lives in on the Big Easy where a life sized statue of her on horseback sits in the French Quarter because without Joan there might possibly be no New Orleans. What a terrible world that would be!!

Louis Congo took the opportunity given to very few slaves and bargained for his freedom to become The Executioner of New Orleans, carrying out the will of the counsel against criminals and those who opposed order in the French colony from 1725-1737.

Cliff spills the guts of The Axeman and how the mysterious murderer terrorized New Orleans for more than a year.

Take that vampire Lestat. We've got a true New Orleans legend so mysterious people thought he was immortal. Jacques St. Germain's story will make you rethink immortality and if vampires exists.