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16:41We got top bartenders, we got top judges, promoters, and etc. They live the nightlife, and they travel and represent the booth the best.
16:49But I'm going to give y'all some introductions, first on our mixologist, So please give it up first for Miss Bobby Ray!
16:59Come on down, how you doing today, you good?
17:03She's back, she's trying to take the crown.
17:06Up next, please give it up for Miss Jessica Johnson.
17:12Let's go, Jess.
17:14And last but certainly not least,
17:17right here in the center,
17:19ladies, put your hands together for Kale Brown.
17:25He said he ready too.
17:26So we gonna get it in,
17:27he represented for the guys today.
17:29Our judges, and they are esteemed.
17:31Please first give it up for Miss Denicia Taylor.
17:36You seen on BET.
17:39She got a little speakeasy, ducked off in the line.
17:43She doing big things.
17:45Also, there's a long time friend of mine as well,
17:48one of the judges I've known for many different iterations.
17:52But now, he's known as Mr. Happy Hour.
17:54Please give it up for Mr. Campanella Kent.
17:57Big Camp.
17:58And last but not least, he's got Nightlife on lock in New Orleans.
18:04I remember when he just jumped off the porch, but now he the kingpin out there.
18:08You wanna find the hottest parties in the Crescent City?
18:11Look no further than my man, Greg G. Willie Johnson.
18:16You like that?
18:18All right, all right.
18:19Now look, when I get to the door tonight, I don't wanna hear no gain from you.
18:23All right?
18:24Last but certainly not least, we have a very special host to keep things flowing like the drinks.
18:31And let me tell you, with no further delay, one of our great representatives and ambassadors to the city,
18:37known globally as none other than Big Freedom!
18:43Katrina!
18:44Hi.
18:45You already know!
18:46You already know!
18:47How y'all doing?
18:48I can't hear myself.
18:49Give me that.
18:50Give me that.
18:51Give me that.
18:52All right.
18:53You need that lamp a little turned up.
18:55How y'all feeling out there?
18:56Wonderful.
18:57It's the one and only Queen Diva.
18:58You already know!
18:59Welcome to the food and wine stage.
19:00Y'all ready to get started?
19:01Y'all want to see them make some hurricanes?
19:02Yeah!
19:03Well, we gonna do this like it's Katrina, baby.
19:04Hi, Jessica.
19:05Hi, Kel.
19:06Hi, Bobby.
19:07Y'all ready to do it?
19:08Let's turn it up then.
19:09Let's do it.
19:10Let's start mixing some drinks out here.
19:11How many of y'all had a hurricane before?
19:13Oh, everybody had a hurricane.
19:15All right.
19:16All right.
19:17Let's turn it up then.
19:18Let's do it.
19:19Let's start mixing some drinks out here.
19:20How many of y'all had a hurricane before?
19:23Oh, everybody had a hurricane.
19:24I don't drink many hurricanes, baby.
19:26I'm not trying to fall down, but I'm gonna drink one this morning.
19:30Y'all ready to get it started?
19:31Yes.
19:32Let's get it popping.
19:33So we go right into it.
19:36All right.
19:37What you starting with over here, Jessica?
19:39This is Bobby.
19:40Hi.
19:41Bobby, I'm sorry.
19:42What you starting with over here?
19:43So I have some orgeat.
19:44I have a white and spiced rum.
19:47Not originally what I was gonna go with, but we, you know, we shift.
19:50We move.
19:51And as well as I have a guava syrup made out of a jam cooked down into a syrup.
19:57All right.
19:58All right, Carol.
19:59What you have over here?
20:00I got a hurricane featuring a local rum.
20:03I have a rum blend that is a curry butterwash.
20:07Okay.
20:08So Jamaican rum blend curry butterwash.
20:10I'm also featuring some sherry.
20:11Medium dry sherry.
20:12Lime, fresh strawberries.
20:13My homemade house made fascinola syrup, passion fruit, guava, and hibiscus.
20:17Okay.
20:18All right, Jessica.
20:19What you have over here?
20:21So I have a little cognac, a little orange liqueur, pineapple, passion fruit, and lime juice.
20:31I can't say that.
20:32All right.
20:33Well, we're gonna let our mixologist get ready to get it started.
20:34And we're gonna see what's happening.
20:35How y'all doing, judges?
20:36All right.
20:37Looking good.
20:38Looking good.
20:39Looking good.
20:40Let's get it going then, y'all.
20:41Go ahead and start.
20:42Okay.
20:43Good.
20:44How many of y'all first time here to Essence?
20:45All right.
20:46We got a lot of first timers here.
20:48It goes down here in New Orleans, baby.
20:49Make sure y'all come see me on the main stage at 2 o'clock.
20:53The Queen Diva will be there.
20:54Oh, yes.
20:55Baby, I'm ready to taste something.
20:56Get my breakfast.
20:57Get it going then, y'all.
20:58Get it going then, y'all.
20:59Go ahead and start.
21:00Okay.
21:01How many of y'all first time here to Essence?
21:02All right.
21:03We got a lot of first timers here.
21:04It goes down here in New Orleans, baby.
21:05Make sure y'all come see me on the main stage at 2 o'clock.
21:07The Queen Diva will be there.
21:08Oh, yes.
21:09Baby, I'm ready to taste something.
21:16Get my breakfast started.
21:21Anybody going to the concert tonight?
21:23Yes.
21:24All right.
21:25Bring y'all jackets.
21:26They say it's cold in that Superdome, baby.
21:28Bring your little jacket.
21:34You thirsty?
21:35Well, we're going to have something for you in just a minute.
21:37A little hurricane.
21:38You heard me.
21:39I like a hurricane.
21:44Love you too, baby.
21:45Where y'all from?
21:46Come on.
21:47Tell me something.
21:48Where y'all from?
21:49I see Georgia, Florida, D.C.
21:54What?
21:55Thibodeau.
21:56Thibodeau in the house.
21:57Thibodeau D.
21:58Texas.
21:59They say everything bigger in Texas, baby.
22:03Oh, yeah.
22:04I love Texas.
22:06I stayed there after Katrina, which was a hurricane.
22:13Philadelphia.
22:15All right, Philly.
22:16Detroit.
22:17I love Detroit, too.
22:19That's Aretha Franklin hometown.
22:21That's my girl.
22:22Oh, yeah.
22:23It's looking tasty up here.
22:27He got strawberries, oranges, and limes, and lemons, and all the things.
22:33What is that?
22:34Tomatoes?
22:35This is cherries.
22:36Cherries.
22:37All right.
22:38They say the judges are ready.
22:44Baby.
22:57You done, Jessica?
22:58All right.
22:59We got one done.
23:14I'm getting excited.
23:31All right.
23:32All right.
23:33You remember.
23:34Put there.
23:35Where you are.
23:37I'm getting excited.
23:39All right.
23:42Yeah, give us a little something to these today ready
24:08All right
24:11Jessica looking good over here Bobby is almost done. Okay. Let's get there
24:21Uh-huh. Oh wipe me down you gotta
24:40All right
24:57All right, we about to get ready to bring our judges our cocktails our hurricanes baby
25:02That look tasty
25:07All right judges are you ready? All right. All right. We're at the finish line baby
25:26All right, we got Jessica coming up first
25:33All right, we got kill coming up second
25:38We got Bobby coming up third. Let's go. All right
25:47And as y'all can see they three different colors
25:53All right, who y'all rooting for? Judge number one Bobby
26:04Judge number two kill judge number three Jessica. All right. All right
26:12It looks amazing
26:22I've been peeping what you're bringing to the table
26:25All right
26:26What are you want to look you want a little face?
26:48Why don't you want to look you want a little face. All right, y'all got to get Wayne a little face to now
27:06That's Jessica
27:08That's Jessica. Yeah
27:12That's Bobby in the middle and that's kale on the end
27:18All right, you need three more cups you need six total I need three to
27:40All right, all right, the judges are tasting they are splitting the drinks
27:48What do y'all say about judge contestant number one, which is Jessica?
28:09Oh, that was good
28:14Give me my second one
28:16Yeah, baby have me a nice little buzz
28:28That's good, too
28:34Where my third one
28:46All right
28:51All right, y'all this is good up here now. There's some good hurricanes, baby. Oh, yeah
28:56All right
29:07All right, Jessica
29:09Where you from and what's your Instagram and your social handles?
29:13I'm from New Orleans and my social handles are justine Nola and justini cocktail. All right. All right
29:21Y'all give it up for Jessica
29:23Yeah, where you from
29:26I'm from New Orleans, Jeremy from the east from the east and what's your Instagram and social handles?
29:31My Instagram is a jungleberry 504. That's my above page and then it's also
29:35KLB dot dot dot dot is my personal page. Okay
29:37Yeah, and Bobby
29:39I am from New Orleans
29:40Where you from?
29:41I'm from Slydale
29:42All right, you in a Dale, huh?
29:44I'm in a Dale
29:45I'll be that way soon
29:46I'll be that way soon
29:47And my Instagram is the real Bobby Ray
29:49All right, the real Bobby Ray
29:51Y'all give it up for our mixologists
29:55So who y'all rooting for? Contestant number one
29:58Contestant number two
30:01Contestant number three
30:02All right judges
30:05Do y'all have y'all
30:07Who y'all who y'all rooting for?
30:10Oh, you got to take another taste?
30:13He need another taste
30:16They say another round, Wayne want another round
30:19I'm gonna make another round
30:22It's a hard pick
30:25I know which one was my favorite
30:28Yeah, I have a favorite
30:29I got a favorite
30:35Which, which glass was your favorite?
30:43He said the one that was on the table
30:45They all on the table
30:46Boots on the ground
30:48Where the fans at?
30:51Whack
30:53Whack, whack
30:54Where mine's at, Murray?
30:55It's in my purse
31:00What it is?
31:04You got to stay prepared, baby
31:09I got my
31:13Huh?
31:15I got free the fans
31:20All right, the judges are finding
31:22getting their totals together
31:23So Jessica
31:28Kel and Bobby, baby
31:30Representing from New Orleans and from the Dell
31:35I got my boots on
31:40Let's go, let's go, let's go
31:41She won't uh, she about the
31:49I hear a few fans
31:51All right, they got another one Wayne
31:55Wayne
31:56Do we have the results?
32:08All right, we waiting on G Willie
32:15All right, here we go
32:16We coming down to the countdown
32:23All right, they telling up
32:24who's the winner of the competition
32:27for the hurricane drinks, y'all
32:29Y'all make some noise
32:30New Orleans
32:32Essence Fest 2025
32:34We appreciate y'all coming
32:36to the food and wine stage
32:37Thank y'all so much
32:39I'm your host, the Queen Diva
32:41you're better believer
32:43Anybody make hurricanes at home?
32:46Anybody make hurricanes?
32:48Make sure y'all get y'all
32:49Petal Brian hurricane mix
32:51while you're here
32:58All right, Bobby made another
33:06Uh-huh
33:11All right, we got doubles, baby
33:25Uh-huh
33:26Oh
33:28All right, y'all
33:31Huh?
33:32Can you taste it?
33:36I doubt it
33:39The judge is probably gonna swallow that
33:41The judge is probably gonna swallow that
33:48Oh, yeah
33:49Oh, yeah
34:11all right y'all bring me down just a little bit on the music i want to thank all three of our
34:25mixologists y'all make some noise for bobby kel and jessica all right i'm gonna ask y'all this
34:32here one last time who y'all rooting for y'all rooting for bobby y'all rooting for kel
34:40are y'all rooting for jessica all right y'all we have a winner and we want everybody to feel good
34:48all of us are always winners but we do have a winner and our favorite drink and the winner of
34:54the food and wine mixologist for hurricane is jessica y'all make some noise for jessica
35:02all right jessica what you got to say my girl you already know i love it thank y'all so much to
35:11kel and to bobby and to jessica for coming uh hang out with us at the food and wine stage
35:16making our hurricanes and hopefully we don't have one this year but we can keep on drinking them
35:21yes we love y'all thank y'all so much for coming out you heard me you already know girl down
35:30thank you judges we appreciate y'all
36:00thank you
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