Introducing: Catch Basin Cinema
The Hunker Downcast
It's been a while since the last Hunkerdown episode. (Jeff never figured out how to do the remote recording during the pandemic.) We may yet get the band back together eventually. But for now, here is where you'll find us keeping the brand out there... to borrow a phrase from Ray Nagin. It's Catch Basin Cinema, our first spin-off series! Jeff and Varg are down in the culverts and gutters in search of the New Orleans shot or set film with the most #standing. Our first movie, 1993's Hard Target staring Jean Claude Van Damme, is definitely not it, though. Anyway, just getting started so...
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Episode 58: From the Terrace
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Happy New Year and welcome from distant future. Yes, the 2020s will, in fact, include podcasting. We're very sorry. There was nothing we could do. We spend a few minutes catching up with LaToya's New Orleans in the new decade before launching into an extended discussion of the latest Democratic Primary debate and the stakes of the 2020 election. It's probably the most Bernie Bro #content we've put into one episode so far. Later we sort out the Odell Beckham situation and celebrate the LSU national championship win before getting in a few parting shots about the way the Saints...
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Election Special 2019
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On Election Day Eve, Jeff and Lance take some time to familiarize themselves with the candidates, issues, and unusual names or nicknames so vital to the future of Louisiana. Make sure you get out and vote against as many of these candidates as possible. If, for some reason you enjoy our show, share, like, rate, tell your friends, or whatever. Thanks for listening.
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Saints 2019: How I learned to stop worrying and No Longer Exist
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Jeff and Varg sneak off to the Deurty Boys gallery to record this freebird episode sort of previewing the 2019 New Orleans Saints. Because of the events of this week, that means we have to start with thirty minutes of Drew Brees, Focus On The Family, and #CancelCulture. That's followed by the obligatory Dan Arnold Update and then a brief look at the roster before we try and puzzle out the schedule for a while. Finally, in order to evoke anxieties over the dubious future of football, by former almost Saints receiver Rishard Matthews. If for some reason you enjoy our show, share, like, rate,...
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Episode 57: Summer Of Sorrow
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Hey we're back! oh no... wait... turns out Jeff pulled a severe Dan Arnold on the audio despite what he thought was a very thorough sound check and the result is the garbled mess he's been trying to fix for two weeks now. We're afraid this is about as good as it's going to get. Which is to say not good at all. Sorry. But maybe there's something in here worth sticking it out for anyway. Some of the barely audible topics covered as we tried to catch up from summer hiatus were: - How do beveridges work? - Let's explain some GIFs - Summer of Sorrow - Barry and associated flooding -...
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Episode 56: Dog farts! Also Mardi Gras stuff feat. Doris
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Finally! It's our Mardi Gras re-cap episode. Only we're uploading it two weeks late because things happened. Also we don't get through all of Mardi Gras because it was late when we recorded this. Also please enjoy the guest appearance by Varg's 15 year old dog Doris. She has a lot to contribute. Anyway we're back.. basically. If you enjoy our show, share, like, rate, tell your friends, or whatever. Thanks for listening.
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Episode 55: Sitting vigil over the hot spots
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It is Mardi Gras time again and rather than wait for our traditional 10 hour recap episode to dump it all on you at once, we decided to try and get out in front of the chaos before it compounds. And so here is a quick hour and a half on the early season doings. Such doings are as follows. The Downman Mansion, , has burned to the ground. Some of us had a close-up view of the .. uh… calamity. Also it has something to do with Bernie Sanders, probably. Doug MacCash has some ideas about Does he actually believe his own bullshit? Or is he just trolling for clicks? Sound...
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Sports special! Stupor Bowl V Memories
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A special minisode featuring field reports from Stupor Bowl V which may or may not have been the final appearance of the legendary Vibrio Vulnificus Football Club. Also some brief commentary on New Orleans's Day Of Many Super Bowl Boycotts. If you enjoy our show, share, like, rate, tell your friends, or whatever. Thanks for listening.
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Episode 54: Refs are cops
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Folks! The Saints game. Have you seen this? Have you heard about this? Well it is bad. People are not happy. Nevertheless we are here to feel all the feelings with you so that… well… that is something anyway. And we are feeling ALL the feelings not only of this game but of the whole Sean Payton era as we go on a deep dive search for reasons. We really put ourselves out there this time. For you we did this. Varg, especially. Just listen and you’ll see what we mean by that. Anyway… we’re not gonna tell you wait til next year because who knows if there will even be one....
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Episode 53: Year Of The Jaguar
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Happy Holidays! Not only from us but also from everyone at Councilwoman Cyndi Nguyen’s office (“Where family comes first.”) Some of us are in kind of a humbug mood. Or maybe it’s just the lagunitas. But somehow between tangents about things like boil order protocol or who is and is not dead, we manage to run through a re-cap of (some of) 2018. Well, at least, we cover these issues. Kind of in this order. - Canadian Olympic Ice Dancers - Goofy LaToya - That Thai cave rescue - Bad LaToya - World Cup memories - Good LaToya - Eddie the dunking/masturbating otter - Valerio the hero we...
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Segment 1
This show is supposed to be all about Carnival but for whatever reason we start off talking about Star Wars and then go off on several other odd tangents. Learn how Japanese vending machines work. Learn how to read menus. Imagine how Sarah Palin might read your menu to you. That kind of thing. Also Jeff tried to book Donald Trump on the show to no avail.
Anyway let's do Carnival season. Heavy parading season hasn't even begun yet and Varg's metaphorical football team is already in cap hell. Alli marched in Krewe Du Vieux. We re-cap that as well as review KDV in general. Parade was good. Jeff took shitty pictures of it. Flickr is the Abe Vigoda of social media.
We talk for a while about which celebrities are dead and which are not dead. We also find a song about dead Abe Vigoda co-written by our dearly departed friend Greg Peters which you may enjoy.
Krewe of Spank's theme may of may not have killed Varg's FloraBama Chad character. We do know that they've proved beyond any doubt that #KreweOfChad has arrived and gone big time. Meanwhile, we suggest that there also exists a "Krewe of Courtney" and decide that the Hunkerdowncast audience will henceforth be known as Tim en 'em.
Varg and Alli talk about the David Bowie second line which they participated in.. insofar as they were out in the crowd while it was happening. Varg previews his Chewbacchus costume which is apparently, this. Chewbacchus is super huge now. Does this prove we can still have multiple parade routes?
Segment 2
There might be hidden tracks in your "Da Mayor/Big Freedia/Chewbacca In Your Pocket" thingy so try to find those. Try and pair different beers with cookies and see what you can find. AANYWAY more Mardi Gras.
Alli once yelled at this year's King of Bacchus at a Saints game for dissing Marques Colston. Varg tells us about previous Kings of Bacchus who were good. Which is nice because this year's cannot possibly be. This is going to be one of those years where Bacchus goes up against the SuperBowl. Is there a way to handle that? Yes there is.
How do you best capture the moment on Thoth/Bacchus Sunday?
How do you train your body in the weeks leading up to heavy parading season?
What are your favorite parade watching rituals?
Which parades do you hate?
Segment 3
Are You Not Entertained
Varg is entertained by some Chads at a Rebirth show. It's always a good idea to threaten to shoot first and ask questions later. Other things happen. Movies and whatnot.
Then there's the Jivewire.
And then there's a quick look ahead to the Iowa caucus. And then that's it for this week. Thanks for listening, Tim en 'em!