Episode 21: Clara Baudoin - Lache Pas la Patate

00:48 - Zach explains the Cajun culture is one thought to be of ignorance and poverty, people like Clara Baudoin are battling that image in the political arena
02:19 - Zachary discusses Baton Rouge, LA. Talks about Louisiana politics
03:21 - Clara talks about her beginnings in politics - She felt that the government wasn't doing enough to solve environmental issues;
04:48 - Clara speaks with group of men about environmental issues in the area, she talks about having to rent a helicopter and video wrongdoings by oil companies in order to get them to stop;
07:15 - Shutting down worksites that had been causing issue;
08:50 - Clara speaks with Mavis Frugé and her grandson, Sam, about learning French and growing up not being able to speak it at school;
09:58 - Mavis gives examples of words that are different in Louisiana French to Standard French;
10:31 - Clara explains that not one language is better than another, she talks about campaigning and meeting more French speakers than she thought she would;
11:34 - Crawfish boil footage - for Chris John, Congressman in Southwest Louisiana
12:04 - Lynn Breaux and John Broussard talk about Chris John helping out farmers who only speak French. Being bilingual helps conduct business in the area;
13:14 - Clara and her husband, Joe, discuss and harvest from their fruit trees;
14:02 - Clara doesn't think that she could be in politics without her husband helping out at home;
15:13 - She talks about what her parents would think about her being in politics;
15:37 - Joe talks about helping Clara in her campaign and being happy that she had won;
16:54 - Zach asks if Clara thinks that the Cajun culture will be lost if the French language is lost;
18:10 - Cajun "Joie de vivre;"
19:18 - Dinner group talks about the success of the French immersion students;
21:04 - Clara speaks in French in front of the state House of Representatives, thanking them for making the third week of September "Acadian Heritage Week;"
22:15 - Zach and Clara discuss how good the week is for the culture but that they cannot stop there;