eat well this week? toby: yeah, lot of good food. lot of house parties. anthony: excited about mardi gras?xs my first, never been to one. toby: here it s a whole different thing. i mean, the major difference is that here, you are the event. anthony: mhmm. toby: like if you re attending mardi gras, if you re running mardi gras, then you are part of it. anthony: right. toby: like it s bigger than christmas. anthony: toby rodriguez is about as cajun as you get. i met him nearly a decade ago when i came here for a boucherie. back then, toby and everybody else said, you ve got to come back for our mardi gras. toby: wanna give me a hand? anthony: we do mardi gras right. and so, here i am. it s the week before and there is anticipation in the air. all over acadiana, scenes like this unfold. out in the yard with friends and family.
and today can save your life. [ thundering ] anthony: fais-do-do translated means go to sleep. something a mother would say to a crying baby. this soothing phrase became, over time, something else entirely. woman: what the hell? woman: finish that. woman: i got to drive. woman: it s mardi gras. anthony: apparently mom was just lulling junior to sleep so she could go party.
more than that. joel: i have that fiddle. that s your grandfather s fiddle and your uncle s fiddle. marc: which was your great uncle. joel: living in the same case here in the house. anthony: so what are you guys doing for mardi gras? joel: running. anthony: running. man: running. joel: you running? anthony: i believe i am. joel: what are you doing? toby: he s a capitan. [ laughter ] joel: what are you doing? toby: i m running mardi gras. joel: what are you doing? linzay young: running mardi gras. right here. ann: but you know in the old days, it was just people walking. it wasn t it s become insane, more and more insane. toby: but every year, somebody dies. every single year, there s one death at mardi gras. every year. ann: but you know you ve got to stay away from the horses feet. you know, like a lot of horse injuries, like their horses. so the horses will kick you in the head or something. anthony: oh, okay. man: i mean, a lot of really go
anthony: that s a shrimp stew down there? toby: that s 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 it s a guy thing. megan arceneaux: most runs women canwv 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 that s the exception, not the rule? jolie: it is the exception, huge. we had a female the other day going, i m going to run mamou. and i m like, no, you re not. don t do it. they don t accept it. anthony: so what would happen if you were to show up? lucious: you get chased off. anthony: chased off? jolie: yeah. toby: they re segregating it for the sexes, but there are two different runs. anthony: that s like saudi arabia, dude. toby: i know. jolie: it s backwards here.