We are here at Jocamo's in New Orleans. I feel like this is the most Bourdain episode we've ever done. We're here with a couple guys that tell the story of New Orleans. The Honda is coming in April, and so what we're doing is as a group. We're here checking out the Superdome, and we wanted to introduce you guys to a couple of guys that we feel like tell the story in a way that's more authentic than maybe what you'd see even on like a travel map. So we got John, we got Hank, and then Blake, Cody, is going to jump in. He's going to help us a little bit with this. Thank you guys for jumping on. Hello. Great to be here. Yeah. It's great for you'd be here. I'm loving it. That's right. Thank you for having us. So real quick, Blake was telling me,

Blake was telling me

Blake was telling me a little bit about some of the people that have been in this room this is like

the back room at the very back we got the whole hondo team here I've heard flea i got uh

uh Paul Allen I got a few names who are some names that stand out to you of people that have been through in this room right here where we're at?

Everybody, everybody from Robert Plant to basically Tedisciate trucks.

Yeah, some great bands.

John Grissom from Blue you know, Bluegrass Days.

Yeah, so.

And then, Hank, you on the Maple Leaf next door.

That's right.

And that's just, that's kind of renowned as like the music hub.

Do you feel like this is a place that musicians want to come because of the other musicians they're going to run into it?

It's not, it's not like selling out 100,000 going to run into it it's not it's not

like selling out a hundred thousand person stadiums but it's where you can come see some of the most

well-renowned artists am i saying that right uh yeah that's right um the thing we're known or

best known for is um giving young acts uh uh like their first gigs.

You know, we have...

Who are some examples?

Well, Tramond Short, he played there when he was three years old.

What?

Yeah.

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