NOLA Film Scene Snow Days

Have you ever seen New Orleans draped in a snowy blanket? We have, and it's nothing short of magical. Picture Canal Street turned into a makeshift hockey rink and Jackson Square erupting in a giant snowball fight. The city's transformation was like stepping into a holiday postcard, filled with laughter and joy. We reminisced about the silence that follows a snowstorm, with the world hushed as if the city itself was holding its breath. Our kids built the most adorable snowmen, and yes, Winter Breeze joined the party, complete with a cowboy hat and Saints gloves, a nod to the legendary Drew Brees.

Voiced by Brian Plaideau

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:11

hey, we're not frozen, we've thawed out since the snow. Hey folks, how you doing?

Speaker 2 0:16

welcome back we thought we'd come on and talk about some of our escapades in the snow and make sure this is going live on the facebook I don't know what you did in the snow.

Speaker 1 0:27

I don't know if I had escapades. That'd be too cold to do that, wouldn't it? I said ice capades, oh, that would fit, that would fit. That's like the people on Canal Street ice skating and playing hockey. Did you see that? I did not. They were doing that, not like a full game of hockey. One person was skating. I did see a few. Let me rephrase that one person was skating with a stick and pad a puck and then a couple people had ice skates. You'd see videos, yeah, and then in, I think, jackson square, they had a giant snowball fight. Maybe it was the french quarter.

Speaker 1 0:58

So, surprisingly, new orleans got out in the snow. Well, maybe, not surprisingly. I know I've been waiting all my life for this level of snow, yeah, so I'm out here near the airport and I had at least nine inches. Yeah, I didn't have one of those sticks, like the weatherman said, like the ruler and let it fall on it. I just kind of plunged the ruler into some drifts. So I had one that was 12 inches, I had one that was five, nine. So it fell about eight to 10 inches out here. What do you mean, let Let it fall on it. Well, it's Peyton Malone. He's on channel four news and he made a thing you put a base and then you nailed a ruler into it. You just leave it outside.

Speaker 2 1:37

So you know what fell that way, it's consistent yeah and not when building up in a yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 1 1:50

I guess you'd have to get out there quick before the wind, because it started about 6 am, between 6 and 8 am last Tuesday, so a week ago from this recording and then it finished right about five o'clock, six, seven, eight to one full day of snow. It was sideways, you know, and I did have drifts, but man, it was so beautiful because I documented, like every few hours I'd go out when it's over. We went out and and you, you couldn't hear anybody driving. My wife was like it's so quiet, it's so cool. Yeah, it's quiet, it was an amazing thing and just looking at everything looked like a Christmas card. Yeah, what did y'all do?

Speaker 2 2:28

with it. The kids played outside a lot. They would go out and play mic bump. They'd go out and play until it got too cold and they got wet. They'd come in, dry off Hot chocolate, hang around the fire a little bit and they'd go back out again. I went out a few times. It was a good time. I did not build a snowman this time, but I enjoyed it. Let them run around and play.

Speaker 1 2:56

Yeah, we built our first snowman together in 2004. I built a snow family of like. I guess they were about six inches tall, maybe a foot tall, and this time we built a. We call them winter breeze after drew breeze. Yeah, that, six inches tall, maybe a foot tall. And this time we built a. We call him Winter Breeze after Drew Breeze. Yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 1 3:10

My cowboy hat I had a scarf Saints gloves found some good branches. The minute I took the picture, I took the gear inside. You know what I mean. Actually, a couple of weeks ago I used that hat for an audition. So I'm like I'm not losing this. I don't think anybody would take it, but that means somebody would take it. You know what I mean. Nobody was going around our neighborhood kicking snowmen, but what if that kept him from coming to life? Well, he'll just have to come back. Bring the snow next year. Next year, we don't need any more. There was a Facebook rumor that we were going to get more in two weeks. We're not. We're getting a heat wave. We're going back up to 70 degrees.

Speaker 2 3:45

yeah, so it was I didn't even think about it. I have a car, I can't even talk. I have a corn cob pipe and it was after everything had melted. I'm like oh, I've got a, I've got an old pipe I could have used. I didn't even think about it well, we didn't know.

Speaker 1 4:03

Like at later I saw a snowman kit and every, like his eyes, his mouth, had the stick to go in the snow. I was like, oh wow. So we had old olives for the eyes, you know, and we had to like, dig in there the nose. We did have a carrot. I had a full length. It wouldn't go in, so I bit it in half and I just dug that sucker in there. And then we had it's like Twizzler chunks for the mouth to make it red and a smile. And when I put the hat on him my wife and I took a selfie. The hat was kind of angled, so it looks like he's winking Nice, or he came to life, and that's just a cover story I'm using.

Speaker 2 4:34

So my family had gone out of town for a swim meet and it was supposed to snow there up in North Alabama and they were supposed to stay till Monday, but things got over earlier than they expected on Sunday, so they went ahead and came home, and it was already starting a little bit before they came home, so they got to travel in the snow.

Speaker 1 4:58

I, new Orleanians, can't drive in the rain, in the dry. So snow and ice, I've seen it. You know, the little bit we had before. I never wanted to be out in it Friday, the little bit we had before. I never wanted to be out in it Friday. I had to go to work and I'm driving on this one street, orleans Avenue, and it's got a dip under the train tracks and so when it rains that gets flooded pretty quick. So I was worried it was still going to be icy, even though it was the next day.

Speaker 1 5:22

Until Friday afternoon we weren't out of the freeze A little bit on Thursday. So I'm looking ahead. Oh, look, it's clear. Oh, there's a patch of snow in the ground because, you know, shade, but I had seen where the tracks, people had gone through it. I'm like, I'm fine, I'm doing about 25. And for one second the car turned. I was like, oh, ok, I'm going to pay more attention, even though I was paying attention. No, so love the snow, love playing it, love the way it looked. I didn't have to go into work, so I didn't have that worry. Knock on wood. You know, thank God my heat stayed on. What I had, water too, yada, yada, yada, I can see I don't want a lot of that. Yeah, I'm not built for that.

Speaker 2 6:08

I was worried there was going to be burst pipes, you know. I mean it got down into the teens. One of my friends, you know, still lives in Mississippi and he said that the highway patrol there was shutting down the interstate because there had been an unprecedented number of wrecks. I'm like, yep, Southerners just ain't used to driving in the snow.

Speaker 1 6:28

The minute they opened the interstate here Saturday, pile up, shut it back down, so we had to go to New Orleans on Friday. Yeah.

Speaker 2 6:36

Friday Wow, and we had to drive. It routed us through. The causeway was still shut when we went. It routed us through Slidell a long way around, you know, across, I think, I guess the Wrigley, oh, yeah, you know, come out by Michoud. Yeah, it took us over two hours to get from here to where we were going and they had, it was actually Metairie.

Speaker 1 7:00

If you came through Slidell, that's either the causeway or the Twinspans Further further. Okay, you went through the, the old, the old bridge, kind of by Laplace.

Speaker 2 7:10

No, A third bridge. So from Slidell I'm drawing a blank on what it's called there's a small bridge that's got the. You know it looks like an old train bridge.

Speaker 1 7:20

Yeah, okay, I thought they had taken that one out.

Speaker 2 7:24

So you know that the roadway where Michoud and the Coast Guard base is. Yeah, it was down that way. I got you, I got you I thought what you were describing, I thought, is the one when you come through New Orleans East. So yeah, it's. I mean it's New Orleans East, but it's not the old old Highway 11 bridge. It was a smaller, it's a smaller bridge. I got you.

Speaker 1 7:47

Ok, this is like the Californian sketch on SNL People like we don't care.

Speaker 2 7:52

Talking about bridges. Yes, it took me two hours.

Speaker 1 7:56

Who cares? We had fun in the snow and we're letting you know.

Speaker 2 8:00

Yeah.

Speaker 1 8:00

Yeah, but it boogers everything up. It does, but it's an automatic vacation. So in that way it's kind of nice too, although somebody we know had booked a commercial commercial couldn't get out to it because of the snow. No, yeah, we also at least one of our other friends, his pipes broke too. Yeah, yeah, not naming any names. So, yeah, and I know somebody in the middle of the night on thursday night, their pipes broke, they couldn't get to the water shut off valve because it was covered with snow and didn't know where it was, the one by the street.

Speaker 1 8:31

So you to prep just like a hurricane get your water, get your buckets, buckets of water in case you have to flush, get your food, get heating sources, extra blankets, extra clothes, and you don't have to block your windows like you do for hurricanes. But you know, like I have one that's kind of drafty, so I put, I put one of my sound blankets on it my sound, you know and that kept a little bit warmer. You know, space heaters are your friend, but don't use extension cords, don't overuse them. Put them on a timer. Can't run them constantly and drink tea, water, and I mean hot soup, coffee, if you need to. There are ways now, if I had to do this for six months or whatever they have to, you know, november to march up there.

Speaker 2 9:08

No, no yeah, I mean, like anything else, you get used to it. They probably say the same thing about us with the hurricanes.

Speaker 1 9:16

Yeah, and they got snow chains and they have their big winter coats. Every year I had a bigger winter coat. I just thrifted, left it in the car and then the car got snowed over. I was like I don't need it, but it was like, don't, it did have an extra pair of gloves in there, so yeah, we so when it snowed in 2017, we lost power for 48 hours.

Speaker 2 9:41

A limb fell, uh, down the street and blew out everything, and it took them two days to get out to fix it. But this time we didn't have any issues. The schools up here were closed all week. I guess the pipes in one of the schools burst, so all of St Tammany at least the public schools were closed, so the kids were home all week. It was a nice little vacation.

Speaker 1 10:13

Yeah, I miss it already. My wife and I tease it Like we'll say something you having a rough day? Yeah, I miss the snow too. So, other than that, anything good going on with you. Really, yeah, it's been kind of slow. I do have a little bit of good news, I. Anything good going on with you. Really, yeah, it's been kind of slow. I do have a little bit of good news. I have a trailer coming out this weekend, february 1st the trailer for impunity, where I play a stepfather, and that's all I'll say about him. It's coming out this weekend. Can't wait. Can't wait to share with you. It is going on the festival circuit for the probably the rest of 2025, so people won't be able to see it for a long time, but we're getting closer. We're getting closer. So many projects are just almost there and ready to release.

Speaker 2 10:51

Mr Headcase made it into a film festival in Florida this past weekend. I was not able to go to that. Great Congratulations. That's pretty exciting.

Speaker 1 11:03

That's awesome. I have seen that that was you good bro. Thanks, man, you made a good crazy person. Homeless person, shall we say.

Speaker 2 11:12

He was emotionally challenged. Typecasting here we go. Yeah, here we go. That was a fun film and a lot of good learning experiences, and a lot of great people worked on that project. So, yeah, it was exciting, very cool.

Speaker 1 11:30

Well, folks, we just want to jump on say hi, we're working hard to get back to our regular show. We've got some recorded episodes. Things get delayed when you know. I didn't want to move in the inside. I was cold, I was huddled up under my blanket. But we'll get back to it. It will bring some great entertainment, all right folks, we'll see you.

Speaker 2 11:47

See you in the next one, see ya.