It's New Orleans: Happy Hour

Happy Hour captures something that is difficult to bottle: the spontaneous, unpredictable energy of a New Orleans bar. Hosted by Grant Morris with Andrew Duhon as sidekick, the show ran for more than 400 episodes from 2011 to 2020, building up a massive archive of cocktail-fueled conversations with New Orleanians from every walk of life. The premise is straightforward. Morris gathers people who have nothing in common except that they happen to be in a bar in New Orleans, and the conversation goes wherever it wants to go. What made the show special was the live music. Extraordinary New Orleans musicians performed during each episode, giving listeners a front-row seat to the city's music scene in a setting that felt intimate and unrehearsed. The result was 60 minutes of genuine, unscripted interaction that captured the social texture of the city better than most scripted programs could. Part of the It's New Orleans podcast network, the show earned a 4.9-star rating from 35 reviewers who consistently praised it as smart, funny, and endlessly replayable. Though new episodes stopped in 2020, the archive remains a rich document of New Orleans culture during a vibrant decade. Musicians, chefs, artists, bartenders, and random locals all had their turn at the mic, creating a mosaic of voices that adds up to a vivid portrait of the city and its people.