The Cajun Navy: Heroes or Liability?

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Cajun Navy was formed after Hurricane Katrina and really got its legs after the Louisiana flood of 2016. They save a lot of lives, but some fear the pitfalls of "vigilante heroism." Learn all about this group of do-gooders today.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.6	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:15.2	Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too,
0:19.4	and we are saving the day here on Stuff You Should Know.
0:23.2	That's right.
0:24.2	Chuck, I guess I just said that we're here to save the day.
0:27.3	And we are.
0:28.1	We're going to talk about the Cajun Navy in a second.
0:30.6	But before we do, we just got back from tour,
0:33.3	and you did something that I didn't do, and I want to hear about it.
0:37.5	Oh, yeah.
0:38.2	We, uh, I got tabbed to perform in the, um, Hang In With Dr. Z show, which if you don't know, it is comedian Dana Gould, has a professional Dr. Zias, a planet of the apes costume.
0:51.1	Nice.
0:51.7	And he just does a straight up late night talknight talk show as Dr. Zeyas.
0:55.8	That's the only sort of wrinkle to it.
0:59.6	And it's a lot of fun.
1:01.0	And I was on, it's kind of a straight guy, you know,
1:04.1	clearly it wasn't the improvising comedian, but I did an okay job.
1:07.9	But Dave Foley of the Kids in the Hall was there.
1:10.3	Yeah.
1:10.9	And Janet Barney, the great Andy Daly.
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