The Hunker Downcast

Hunkerdowncast Season 2, we guess.  Or maybe it’s just Episode 46. Whatever, nobody cares. We’re back.  Thanks to everyone who joined our Patreon. We spent it all on Alli’s haircut, though, so we’re gonna need more if we want to get back on track with this.  That is provided we survive premature hurricane season, we intend to do that beginning with this double-album sized episode to make up for lost time.

Segment One (roughly 40 minutes)

Should all mayors be bald? There is a storm coming but LaToya’s tactical fleece isn’t even ready yet. Neither is much of her staff, for that matter.  We touch on the Warren Riley Uptick, The Curse Of The Bayou Boogaloo, and water management issues here in the #CityThatFloods

Segment Two (maybe an hour)

Check out our friend Ira’s podcast on Jeremy Alford’s network.  THis segment is about various conflicts that have arisen over the past month such as, Keith Olbermann vs Doug MacCash,

MacCash vs fried baloney,  Norby Chabert vs Stuart Bishop,  The #Lalege Infinity War, and the New Orleans City Council vs Airbnb.

Also, Copeland’s Cheesecake Bistro is closing. Varg shares with us the actual introductory text from the Al Copeland’s Sweet Fire And Ice menu penned by Al Himself.

SOSO

Varg buys a house during Jazzfest and has a panic attack.

Alli is getting hard core into birding.

Jeff makes a pot of Ya-Ka-Mein but can’t sell any of it.

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Beautiful, beloved super genius Blarm Tenson is dead. God bless him.  How much public money did Tom steal over the years? Somebody calculate this for us. Varg reviews the Benson second line funeral parade. Also Mitch Landrieu is going to be President or sell a lot of books whichever comes first.

SOSO: Varg is house hunting. His efforts are somewhat frustrated by straight-to-Airbnb construction. (BTW, Happy anniversary to the city’s STR ordinance)

Alli goes camping at Grand Isle, watches Dune, has dinner at Brigsten’s, plays Zelda.

Jeff does.. something, probably.

We’re trying a new thing with Patreon. We really don’t even know how it works yet. Of all the ideas we had for making the show better, we thought maybe recouping a small fraction of our expenses might help the most.

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Here it is! The nearly three hour chronological Carnival recap everybody is always asking about. We're giving it to you in one big chunk this year because our market research tells us people really like extra long podcasts.   Maybe it will help if we give you rough time estimates that track the topics. So here that is in the order of the parade schedule. Times are approximate.

Little intro plus Krewe du Vieux goes to about the 18 minute mark.

The Ladder Controversy: 20 minute mark to about 26:00

Oshun/Cleopatra: Begins around 29 minutes.

Femme Fatale/Carrollton/KingArthur/Alla Sunday: At around32 min.

Chewbacchus 38:00 or so.

Nyx 49:00 or so.

Muses/Chaos 55:00

D’Etat 1:12

Tucks/Iris 1:26

Endymion 1:34

Thoth 1:44

Bacchus 1:54

Proteus/Orpheus 1:57

Fat Tuessdy 2:08 to end

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So this is different. It’s the night before Krewe Du Vieux and everybody is in kind of a mood.  We were sitting in the Deurty Boys gallery drinking and watching old wrestling matches and for some reason decided to get the mics out.  It went sort of ok.  

Here is kind of a list of the topics give or take a few wildly divergent tangents and wrestling match distractions that kept happening for.. some reason.

-Papal turntness

-wrestling

- Latoya Cantrell’s taco pie recipe.

- wrestling

- Latoya’s credit card thing

- wrestling

- The Saints’ ignominious end

- Should the Saints draft Baker Mayfield?

- wrestling

- Krewe Du Vieux preview and more Mardi Gras talk

- still more wrestling

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Hey we’re back! Yay! But we’re talking about muppets or something. Boo!  Also Donald Trump is still the President. Boooooo!  But that means Tim owed us a case of beer. Yay! But we drank it all during this show so even that is bad now.   

Rather than try to explain all the things that happened while we were away, we played another round of Beat the Clock like we did in Episode 35 which was called “Beet The Clock” for some esoteric reason. Also we’d like to come up with a name for these. So let us know, Tim en ‘em.  “The Alli Gambit” ain’t working for some of us.

Topics

1. The milking scene in The Last Jedi
2. The dang Rose Bowl (and subsequent national championship game also bonus LSU commentary)
3. The new Mardi Gras rules and route. General Mardi Gras anxiety
4. Favorite off-the-field moments from the 2017 Saints season
5. Winter weather. Is it bad?
6. A coffee shop stor
7. What life was like back in “The 1900s”
8. The flu outbreak of 2018. Is it bad? (It is bad)
9. The City Council is considering an ordinance reforming ABO license procedures  that would greatly expand surveillance powers.

Trying to get back on a regular schedule here in 2018. Thanks for sticking with us.

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What if you could go back in time. One week. What would you do differently?  What would you say differently on your podcast, for example? Some of us are about to find that out as this episode goes up one week after it was recorded. (Sorry, Tim en em. Things happen.  When we set up a Patreon or something, we’ll crank these out faster.)

Segment 1 (approximately 1 hour)

ANYWAY, how was your Thanksgiving? Ours was great/shitty/phony.  And then we watched the Republican tax bill destroy the world as we know it.   Now that the GOP has everything they want, do they even need Trump anymore?  Tim seems to think he’ll be forced out sooner than we do.

What do we do next?  Do we take to the streets? Do we take a nap on the job? Do we figure out ways to take down the political establishment? How do we cook the waffle before it cooks us?

In local politics, the election is over but Seth Bloom is still a douchebag and LaToya wants to Airbnb the hell out of everybody. Which bridge will Jeff have to live under?

SOSO (approximately 1 hour)

Lance listens to a bunch of podcasts and sees Primus at the Civic.

Alli visits the High Museum in Atlanta, goes to the Cook-Off For The Coast in Violet, and see the Discovery Of Voyager show at the Music Box

Jeff decides to talk about the upcoming stretch drive for the Saints season. This was recorded the night before the home game against Carolina but the commentary is still pretty ok.  

Recipe Minute

From the book, Kachka: A Return to Russian Cooking, Alli makes something called “Herring Under A Fur Coat”

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Incidental music by Tommy Keene, Blato Zlato, um… the Rolling Stones too, we guess. The Hunkderdowncast intro/outro theme, as always is Campers by Testaverde.

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Today the role of Rev. Lance “Varg” Vargas will be played by Kaitlin Marone.  See if you can spot the continuity gaps. Also please drive carefully.

Segment 1

Kaitlin dreamed up and organized the DSA “Gimme a Brake Light” clinics sprouting up all across America so we make her talk about that a little bit.  The next clinic will… have already happened by the time this is uploaded.

Let’s talk Election 2017!

Is Seth Bloom going to win the key Midwestern Grandma demographic? Can we believe anything LaToya or Desi say? Why are the New Orleans elections not like the national progressive wave in local elections elsewhere? How can that change in the next round?

Segment 2

Kaitlin tells us about fighting Nazis at the Model U.N. Attorney General Jeff Landry tells us about fighting drug addiction with.. um.. drop off boxes or something. Alli tells us about some weird kids’ videos on YouTube that are probably definitely evil. Or possibly good.

SOSO

Kaitlin talks about a recent performance of her comedy troop’s “Fake News” show at the New Movement Theater. We discuss sewerage.

Alli decides to make this a sports segment and talk specifically about “how good Notre Dame is this year,” which, in retrospect was probably a bad idea. She also has some things to say about “Number one ranked Georgia” which, in retrospect, was also probably a bad idea.  It did yield Jeff making a wrong prediction, though. Also we learn that people who play football probably hate football.  Also, too, Alli got a tour of the Lake Borgne surge barrier.

Jeff has all kinds of personal problems.

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It's October 27. Happy Varg Gras (Literally "fat Varg")

In this special report Varg speaks with Jackson Square artist Katie Leese who has launched a personal investigation into the facts behind a recent LaToya Cantrell for Mayor campaign ad.  This sounds like the first of a two part series. We look forward to Katie's follow up report/brunch review.

Check out @iSnapThereforeIam on Instagram.  That’s about it. Goodnight everybody!  Oh wait also Varg wants your money.  Oh and also here is a show. It’s HUGE.  Look, we’re sorry it’s two hours. But our friend, patron and show dad Ira Wray (@wemetintheair) drove all the way down from Baton Rouge just to sit in with us and there was a lot to talk about.  Here’s some notes to help you find your way through all this great #Content

Hour One

We’re all fresh off from actual compulsory hunkering during Hurricane Nate. We recap the that experience from Tactical Mitch to canned bread. Jeff hunkers down at Tujague’s. Our newest correspondent Jim Catchastory covers the hurricane.  Everybody has hurricane fatigue or fatigue fatigue or something like that.

There is a late breaking scandal in the mayor’s race. Varg has the scoop on that. Also the mayoral race is bad. We talk with Ira about the election and media strategy and do a little handicapping.

Musical performance by Engineer Pat and the Engineer Pat-ettes in a grudging tribute to Tom Petty

Hour Two

In sports, the Saints traded Adrian Peterson, Jacksonville is kind of a shithole, Ira and Varg talk fantasy football. Also Bo Knows Falconry.

Ira updates us on the Baton Rouge political scene and Mayor Sharon Weston-Broome’s troubles with the B.R.A.V.E. anti-crime initiative

Obligatory Tom Petty talk. Here are two articles of note this week about Tom Petty.

SOSO

Jeff appeared on the Dean's List Fake News show.

Alli went to Comedy Fuck Yeah and had dinner at Bao and Noodle.

Ira has a newborn child named after a famous murder ballad.

Lance laid around watching movies.

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It’s election time in New Orleans. Do you know what district are you in?  One parish over, Mike Yenni is extremely weird but Lance thinks that’s ok.  The US and N. Korea went to DEFCON something or other over a tree one time.

We look at the latest mayoral poll numbers and talk about  what they might mean. Also here is   The ballad of Frank Scurlock.  Also, too, Sidney Torres’s farcical debate and its possible ramifications.   

Finally, in sports, LSU college football misery. #LesWouldaWon  NFL anthem antics, and, yeah, the back half of this episode has audio problems. Maybe ditch the headphones once the weird buzz kicks in.  We’ll get it right one of these days.

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