NOLA Vampires
Beyond the Norm
Christi Lukasiak
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
"When I did Christi's Couch, the most popular stories were always when I covered dark stuff," says Christi Lukasiak, though as a listener of Christi's Couch that may not come as too much of a surprise. You may know Christi as a Dance Moms OG, but she's also VERY into the dark and creepy side of things. What better way to explore those topics than with a podcast dedicated to them! Welcome to Beyond the Norm, a podcast dedicated to all those urban legends and things that go bump in the night. Joining Christi is her gay soulmate, Stephen Maynard, who has had quite a dark past himself with gigs at haunted theme parks and running a haunted tour company! Together they'll brave the depths of every macabre story out there.
To kick things off we turn our attention to the place Christi and Stephen call home, New Orleans, to uncover it's vibrant and violent history with vampires. If you associate New Orleans with vampires, it's most likely because of Anne Rice and her 13 book opus "The Vampire Chronicles", which began with the New Orleans set "Interview with the Vampire". The book made the city synonymous with vampire culture and is host to many vampire themed events including The Endless Nights Vampire Ball, of which Christi and Stephen eagerly anticipate every year now.
But there is a plethora of real historical tales of vampires in the city itself. As a city largely founded by criminals, New Orleans was a lawless town that would make it quite easy for a vampire to prey upon those who wouldn't be missed. There are even signs visible to this day that indicate there may be some truth to these tales. Join Christi and Stephen as they cover three of the French Quarter's most infamous vamps including The Carter Brothers, The Casket Girls and The Count of Saint Germain.
Quotes
“Don't ever walk around Bourbon Street in sandals. EW! I see people all the time... just don't do it. Or heels! I love the girls who try and rock the heels. Girls. There is not one flat suface in New Orleans. You are undoubtedly going to fall into a hole at some point, stone cold sober or not.” (8:02-8:21 | Christi & Stephen)
“Well she was an energy vampire and it was funny because I was talking to her and then she goes, 'Hold on,' and then she goes [Make sucking noise] and I was like, 'What the fuck is happening,' and she says, 'I just fed on their energy!' Ok but here's the thing for being an energy vampire her energy was shit because she was an asshole.'" l(40:13-40:29 | Christi & Stephen)
“I was like, 'maybe I'm a vampire,' and he literally looked at me and was like, 'No, you are a Were-Kitten,' and I just ran with it. I will forever be a Were-Kitten. But then I got low-key pissed because I was like, 'Well I couldn't be a werewolf?'” (41:33-41:46 | Stephen)
“What doesn't track about that though is why would he bite her if he had bottles of blood already? Maybe he wanted warm fresh blood, Stephen. I'm just saying I don't trust that woman. She lied. Oh my god your victim blaming!” (49:21-49:34 | Christi & Stephen)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Why hello all it's been a minute. I feel forced to say welcome back to |
| 0:06.2 | Christie's couch even though I don't think this is Christie's couch anymore but |
| 0:11.2 | we're gonna take a minute and we're just gonna call it Christie's couch anymore but we're going to take a minute and we're just going to call it |
| 0:13.1 | Christie's couch for a second because that's where you guys know me from that's what |
| 0:17.9 | podcast you've come to love but I have to say I've struggled with Christie's |
| 0:21.8 | couch and it was totally in need of a rebrand and a co-host because I hate talking to myself. |
| 0:28.5 | So that leads me to introduce Stephen, I just have to say you waved it's a podcast dummy you have to speak I forgot I thought well because you said video Jesus |
| 0:38.5 | Christ well it's both it's both I mean it's a video YouTube, but the people listening need to hear your pretty voice. |
| 0:45.7 | I raise your monologue again. |
| 0:48.0 | I don't need to do my monologue again. This is how it works. |
| 0:50.8 | So I don't have a monologue. I was just speaking. Okay, so here's the deal. So my |
| 0:57.0 | name is Christy Lucciac. You guys probably remember me from this podcast because |
| 1:01.5 | you're obviously subscribed. If you're new around here. I'm |
| 1:03.8 | from Dance Moms probably best known as Chloe's mom or the woman who fought with everyone on TV. Yes, I had a |
| 1:10.6 | podcast for a long time called Christie's Couch, hence the little cute background here. |
| 1:15.4 | However, Christie's Couch was a source of constant stress and frustration for me because I always |
| 1:20.8 | have felt like I was better when I was speaking to a friend and it took me a really long time to find someone that I thought would be a fun podcast co-host that you guys would like because I think he might be my gay's |
| 1:33.9 | homemade. Hey everybody I'm Stephen I'm super excited to start this podcast with |
| 1:38.8 | Christie and we hope to bring you out some amazing topics. |
| 1:43.2 | Okay, so here's the dip, here's the sitch, the deal, |
| 1:45.6 | whatever you want to say. |
| 1:46.9 | The most popular stories or the most popular podcast |
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