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What Really Happens on Mardi Gras Floats! - Jasmine Sherni  #JasmineSherni

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00:00So let's talk about Mardi Gras.

00:01Oh my God, Mardi Gras.

00:02Because you're very involved in that.

00:04So I have to say, I have never been to New Orleans

00:07and it's like the top of my list.

00:11It's so down, it's so like up my alley.

00:14And even my husband's like, you have to go, you would love it.

00:16And I've never been.

00:18Please come to Mardi Gras.

00:19Please come with me to Mardi Gras.

00:20I don't, Mardi Gras, that's a lot.

00:23Well, I mean, everything's a lot.

00:26You also, you do ABN.

00:27That's a lot.

00:28Is it?

00:29Is it?

00:30The same as ABN?

00:31No.

00:31It's worse than ABN.

00:33Oh, come on, there's no way.

00:34But I think it's like, it's the similar things you're going,

00:37you're going, you're on, you're going, da, da, da, da, da.

00:39You know, I think of that.

00:41But also to be fair, maybe this next year isn't the year

00:44because I think you have ABN.

00:45Mardi Gras changes.

00:46I don't know if you know this, if you don't know Mardi Gras.

00:48So Mardi Gras starts, it always starts on the same date.

00:51It starts on January 6th, which is all King's Day.

00:54That is by, you know, the Julian calendar.

00:56Am I saying that right?

00:57The Julian calendar?

00:57Yes.

00:58Okay, and then...

01:00Named after Julius Caesar.

01:01Yes, thank you.

01:02But Mardi Gras Day is the day before Ash Wednesday,

01:06and Ash Wednesday moves around because it is based off the lunar calendar,

01:09because Easter is based off the lunar calendar.

01:11Right.

01:1240 days before Easter.

01:13Right.

01:13So then that changes every year.

01:15So it's somewhere between early Mardi Gras, early February, which will be in 2026.

01:21And then later Mardi Gras would be like March.

01:24I think like mid-March, early March would be like the latest.

01:26Okay.

01:27But so this next Mardi Gras season is going to be super packed.

01:30It's right after ABN.

01:31And it's going to really fucking suck for me.

01:33Yeah, I was going to say like that's...

01:36Okay.

01:36So tell me about...

01:37Because you like build floats and you do all kinds of stuff, right?

01:40You don't just go.

01:42No.

01:42I mean, you can.

01:44You definitely can.

01:45So I'm in two Mardi Gras crews and people don't exactly understand what crews are.

01:49Crews spelled with a K.

01:51With a K.

01:52K-R-E-W-E-S.

01:54This is true.

01:55That is how you do it.

01:56Crews.

01:57When you say like what is a crew, you think of like the big parades.

02:01Those are what are called mega crews, right?

02:03Like so you have a big crew that parades.

02:06And within that you have your crews that compose that other crew, right?

02:11And so I'm in like my own crew that goes to different parades.

02:15Okay.

02:16I started out first with a crew that does always has like a different dystopian paradise

02:21theme every year.

02:23That is a marching crew.

02:25That's the one I build the float with.

02:26If we paper mache, we like, we come up with our theme.

02:30Last year was, oh my God, I didn't, I didn't march with them last year.

02:33Oh, it was hell.

02:35It was hell.

02:36Hell's disco.

02:37So we made a train.

02:40The train had confetti and like smoke that came out of it.

02:44And we put dancers up top and then we pull it because we're not in any like big crews

02:49that you can have like a motorized thing in.

02:51So it has to be like pulled by hand, which also means we don't really have brakes.

02:55So we do have to let people know when we go through like a Mardi Gras day, we're rolling

03:00through tight spaces and there's a big crowd where like, it's your job if you're one of

03:03the people in the front to be like big float, no brakes.

03:07I need y'all to move because we got a big float with no brakes.

03:10Wow.

03:10How many people have to pull the float?

03:13Do they like trade off?

03:15We do.

03:15Because it sounds exhausting.

03:16We do.

03:16Yeah.

03:17So you have two people in the back pushing and then you have at least two people in the

03:22front who have ropes, if not like four people, depending.

03:26Yeah.

03:27And then you have your dancers and there are people who swap out who's dancing up top.

03:31You guys don't go down hills, I assume.

03:33Is it all flat?

03:34New Orleans is extremely fucking flat.

03:37Okay.

03:37I just suddenly was saying like...

03:39But we have horrible potholes.

03:40Now that we do have to look out for.

03:42Ooh.

03:42There are times where like, all right, everybody, we got a big pothole coming up.

03:46And so then we have to have more people go through and push and...

03:48Right.

03:48You know, but it's not a hill.

03:51Do you ever get like stuck and then like the float behind you like hits you and then you

03:54feel like a float pile up?

03:56No, I don't think we've had that.

03:58There was one time the float tipped over and fell.

04:02I wasn't there.

04:04I fell off of the float one year dancing.

04:07I put both of my feet on like the bar, which I had told someone like maybe a few weeks later.

04:13I was like, how do you do that?

04:14I could not.

04:14I was like, I don't think I'd always be scared.

04:16I always keep one leg on.

04:17She's like, no, just make sure you have good grippy shoes.

04:19Well, then like the float rocks and there are other dancers like started rocking it without

04:24telling me.

04:26And by the time you're rocking like this, I was like, I can't jump down.

04:29I'm going to hit my face.

04:30So I was like, okay, well, I'll counterbalance.

04:32And then they rocked real hard the other way and I just go right onto the ground.

04:36I mean, but it's also like, it's high up.

04:38It's like higher than like a U-Haul truck.

04:39Like there's in the video, there's actually a U-Haul truck that's next to the float.

04:43And like I'm up here and the U-Haul truck is down here.

04:46Oh my God.

04:47Were you like really seriously hurt?

04:49Thankfully, there were two people on the ground that kind of broke my fall.

04:54I literally, like I'm falling.

04:55You like landed on two people.

04:57I landed, I hit one guy and the other one like made eye contact with me and he was like.

05:02And I was like, thank God he was there.

05:05Wow.

05:06When I popped this knee, like I had a huge gash here.

05:10This fingernail was ripped off.

05:13And I had like, you can still kind of see it right here.

05:17I had this big, like, and you know what I also learned?

05:20And there aren't a lot of armpit wounds in the world.

05:23That's not a common thing.

05:24Not a common place where people have wounds.

05:27But let me tell you, it sucked because like you couldn't, like I just had to keep my arm like this all the time.

05:31And I couldn't make any content.

05:34Yeah.

05:34And I couldn't do anything.

05:35So I would sit on TikTok for like hours on live in like my little content room, just like drinking tea and talking to people on TikTok.

05:44Yeah.

05:44And they'd just be like, what happened to your knee?

05:47Like, what happened to you?

05:48And I'm like, guys, I fell off a float.

05:50Like every like 15 minutes, I'd have to be like, okay, I have to take everyone.

05:53I fell off a float.

05:54Okay, leave me alone.

05:55The video's on my page.

05:56Go look at it.

05:57Go look at it.

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