Willie Mae's Scotch House with Matt Selman

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4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Matt Selman (@mattselman, The Simpsons) joins the 'boys to talk Jay Leno, Goop Kitchen, and Universal's Simpsons Land before a review of Willie Mae's. Plus, another edition of Serving USA.

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https://www.hnoc.org/sites/default/files/file_uploads/PowerPoint%20Presentation.pdf

https://www.movieposterarchives.org/louisiana-movie-poster-museum/nggallery/image/swamp_fire_mpa/

https://losangelesrevisited.blogspot.com/2022/06/banty-rooster-and-managerie-in-lincoln.html

https://mailchi.mp/05a37d3f642e/your-mid-summer-newsletter-from-the-seaver-center-has-arrived?e=190a17987b

https://la.eater.com/2022/12/8/23500300/willie-maes-fried-chicken-new-orleans-los-angeles-opening-photos-news-venice

https://williemaesrestaurant.com/willie-mae-seaton/

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum Podcast.
0:06.0	Want to watch this episode?
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0:10.0	Com slash DoB's Media. With 487 feature film credits, Panchatrain Billy was among the most prolific of all screen
0:20.7	performers.
0:22.3	But Billy was not an actor or even a human being.
0:25.3	Ponschatrain Billy was a gator.
0:28.4	Captured in the swamps of New Orleans in 1906, Billy found a home in Hollywood where he lived well into his 80s.
0:36.2	Bayou Billy's relative Dusility combined with his reptilian instinct to open his jaw for dangling
0:41.4	food made him a natural on camera, as well as a photo attraction
0:44.9	were gocking visitors to the tourist trap alligator farm where he resided.
0:49.5	While few knew his name, he became one of New Orleans most widely seen stars of the silver screen, and one of its most
0:55.3	famous eaters in a city known for food.
0:58.7	And around the time Ponchartrain Billy was co-starring with Abbott and Costello and Tarzan, an enterprising New Orleans woman with a surname
1:06.2	Seton opened an eponymous beauty salon in the Big Easy's Tremay neighborhood.
1:11.2	While Seton's hairdos paid the bills, her true dream was to open a bar, and so the salon was
1:17.0	converted into a saloon that served hot food, including her signature recipe fried chicken.
1:24.8	The breaded bird became its breakout dish.
1:27.6	The salon side of the business closed up shop in the 1970s, and over the next half century,
1:32.4	Ms. Seton's diner became one of the city's most beloved
1:35.0	grub joints.
1:36.7	The eateries survived the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and its founder's death in 2015 and today this family-owned foul broker is operated by
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