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“mark, Mark, MARK! I LOVE YOUR PODCAST!!!
I stumbled across Beyond Bourbon Street after getting sucked down into the abyss that is Five Days at Memorial (the gut-wrenching Netflix series that recounts a perspective of the aftermath of Katrina and her pervading flood waters from the viewpoint of the souls that were trapped inside Old Charity Hospital until rescue 5 days later).
As is my practice, I immediately began researching everything I could about Memorial and what happened there. These late night research sessions tend to spiral wide for me, and I encountered the HBO series Treme. It was the perfect segue out of darkness and into the light of rebirth and rebuilding. I binged the first session and set off on another research mission. This, finally, led me to an episode of Beyond Bourbon Street dealing specifically with the series. Once I heard Mark’s take on Treme, I knew I had to hear more from him about New Orleans itself and all the things that make it what it is.
BBS has become somewhat of an online class for me. After hearing the Treme episode, I went straight back to the beginning - episode 1 - and pulled out my laptop to follow along in Google Maps Street View and see some of the places and spaces Mark covers AS he’s covering them.
F A S C I N A T I N G ! ! !
As a flight attendant in my twenties and now a Shreveport resident in my late 40s, I have been through NOLA many times, but I cannot say that I’ve ever actually been TO New Orleans, not the New Orleans that Mark invites us to discover. With helpful travel and itinerary tips and insightful third-party interviews, Mark shares a New Orleans so inviting, so intriguing, so COMPELLING, that it’s tough not to grab the car keys and hit the road for down south. I don’t think I have ever encountered a city in my travels so bent on turning its tourists into citizens. New Orleans, clearly, loves us and has a fabulous plan for our lives, if Mark has anything to say about it! LOL
One thing (among dozens) I really love about Mark’s perspective is the total lack of shade and shame for the spots we outsiders all do tend to hit when we descend upon the Crescent City. And he replace those with a gentle nudge deeper into the NOLA experience, into the neighborhoods, cafes, bookstores, live music clubs, parks, festivals, and quirky museums that create a collective cultural identity for visitors and locals alike to embrace, enjoy, and even become. All are welcome, and it shows.
I’ve ordered Mark’s book and bookmarked those of many of his podcast guests. I’ve watched a cemetery tomb repair on YouTube. I’ve created and populated a google maps list for each distinctive neighborhood of New Orleans for future travel plans, based entirely on the recommendations of Mark and his guests.
I’ve learned so much about New Orleans in just 25 episodes (so far), and I get an itch buy mid-day if I haven’t already tuned into a new one by then. In a word, I’m obsessed with Beyond Bourbon Street and the city to which it serves as a beautiful love letter. Thanks, Mark, for your dedication, commitment, and persistence with respect to your work on Beyond Bourbon Street. Thanks to the expertise of you and your friends, I’m already there.
Where y’at, Dawlin’?!”
MCPBadass via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/10/22
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