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Down there? >> toby: thats shrimp stew. >> anthony: hardboiled egg? i gotta ask though, but before i forget, now mardi gras is coming up tuesday? >> group: yes. >> anthony: now, i mean i sort of noticed its a guy thing. >> megan arceneaux: most runs women cannot run. >> jolie: it is very much a boys club. it always has been. they always say, you know -- >> anthony: you support this brutal fascist regime? >> toby: oh no, the run that i captain is co-ed. >> anthony: but thats the exception, not th...

What are these guys doing out there standing in the rain? and this sounds like a good idea when drinking -- a rousing game of stump, or stump and nails. throw a hammer in the air and drive it down hard. hopefully onto a nail rather than a hand or other extremity. preferably in the rain. how dumb do you feel if you end up in the hospital with that thing sunk into your cheek? >> man: only twice. >> anthony: has this happened? only twice? okay, good. so i like my odds. >> man: swing it down. { chee...

Forehead. >> anthony: so you go in, you got a black eye, your shoulder is out of its socket and you get the -- >> ann: you get the cross. >> man: everybody at church prays, getting the ashes, "sorry for everything i did." >> anthony: sorry for everything i did, yesterday. ♪ (burke) at farmers, weve seen almost everything so we know how to cover almost anything. even a "cactus calamity". (man 1) i read that the saguaro can live to be two hundred years old. (woman) how old do you think that one ...

Forget, now mardi gras is coming up tuesday? >> group: yes. >> anthony: now, i mean i sort of noticed its a guy thing. >> megan arceneaux: most runs women cannot run. >> jolie: it is very much a boys club. it always has been. they always say, you know -- >> anthony: you support this brutal fascist regime? >> toby: oh no, the run th i captain is co-ed. >> anthony: but thats the exception, not the rule? >> jolie: it is the exception, huge. we had a female the other day dont do it. they dont accept...

Yeah. >> anthony: oh yeah. woo, thats good. go for it man. kids dont need much convincing. >> megan arceneaux: oh, they love them. thats because -- first crawfish of the season for us. ♪ >> anthony: oh man, thats pretty. what -- super dark sauce, man. >> hat: yeah just parsnips and celery root. >> anthony: ah, okay. oh, thats delicious. [ cheering ] what are these guys doing out there standing in the rain? and this sounds like a good idea when drinking -- a rousing game of stump, or stump and ...

Louisiana if you can believe that. its kind of scary, right? >> anthony: eight feet elevation. >> megan arceneaux: you take a cajun to the mountains, they might get a little woozy. ♪ >> anthony: no party around here would be complete without a crawfish boil. all right, fire up the reactor. hell, yeah. >> megan arceneaux: i hope youre ready. >> anthony: im ready. i like this thing. >> megan arceneaux: oh man, this is my baby right here. >> anthony: now whats the appropriate term for a crawfish?...

Take for example, cajun mardi gras. ordinarily, i loathe the idea of mardi gras. any kind of group celebration. anything festive involving dancing fills me with self-conscious dread. thousands of happy drunks crowding into the french quarter for instance, not for me. but cajun mardi gras is another thing entirely. closer to the ancient french tradition. vaguely more dangerous, down right medieval. cajuns do things their way. always have, always will. whether its hanging onto the french language ...

Especially acadiana, this is the most european part of america, in my opinion. >> anthony: so were going to eat well this week? >> toby: yeah, lot of good food. lot of house parties. >> anthony: excited about mardi gras? my first, never been to one. >> toby: here its a whole different thing. i mean, the major difference is that here, you are the event. >> anthony: mhmm. >> toby: like if youre attending mardi gras, if youre running mardi gras, then you are part of it. >> anthony: right. >> toby: ...

♪ trail rides go back a long way. they happen all year, but are also the way creoles celebrate mardi gras around here. kind of a moving tailgate party and barbecue. interestingly, and i almost want to dig up john wayne just to tell him this, creoles are widely believed to be the first american cowboys. herding cattle in the plains and bayous of louisiana long before white dudes in ass-less chaps started showing up in the west. in fact, zydeco music was born out of cowboy culture. the rhythm of...

Oh, this place is awesome. this is a charming ethiopian institution called a tej bet. they serve one thing, and only one thing -- tej, an alcoholic beverage made from fermented barley and honey. its not highly alcoholic though, right? you gotta pretty much hammer back a lot of this stuff to get a buzz. >> marcus: yeah. >> antnyly tso basic people around here whove got a load on, theyve been working on this for a long time. >>arcus: all day. this is a working class. this is where the workers go. ...