Join me for this interview with Tore C. Olsson, the award-winning historian and University of Tennessee professor whose book “Red Dead’s History: A Video Game, An Obsession, and America’s Violent Past” – the audiobook for which is narrated by Roger Clark (aka ARTHUR MORGAN himself) – will be released on August 7th!!!
Geek Saga Podcast Episode 107: Red Dead’s History Interview with Tore C. Olsson
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After nearly a year of putting off doing, well, anything with the pictures from my RDR2 photoshoot in New Orleans, I finally sat down and made a few TikTok slideshows with them…and after THAT, I sucked it up and gathered all of those slideshows together for a YouTube video 🙂
I’m hoping to do some more with these – or at least with the information I gathered on my trip – but for now, I had a lot of fun throwing this together, at least!
New Orleans has always been one of my favorite places to visit, so I’m sure you can imagine how excited I was to see so many familiar places copied over into RDR2’s Saint Denis. From the moment I first rode through those streets as Arthur Morgan, I knew I had to go back to NOLA and place as many of them as I could in real life.
And hey, this is me, so ya know, why not do it in cosplay?
Also me being me – that is, super type A – I did a TON of research prior to going on this trip. Not just a lot of googling and searching through every Red Dead subreddit that I could find; I also talked to people I know who live in (or are frequent visitors to) New Orleans, poured through an old NOLA guidebook that I own, and even went back through photos from my past trips there.
I definitely didn’t get to map every single spot that exists both in game and in real life, but I added the following locations – plus a few other fun photo spots – to a Google Map for sharing purposes.
Starting from the ‘top’ of the French Quarter and working your way down through it, here’s what I found: – LaLaurie Mansion – Bastille Saloon – 1041 Royal Street – Doyle’s Tavern – Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop – Random building – Jackson Square – Tailor, statue, etc. – Napoleon House – La Riviere Cafe – Latrobe’s – Lemoyne National Bank – New Orleans Police Department – Lemoyne Supreme Court – Ochsner Urgent Care French Quarter – Barbour & Crosby Real Estate
Next, a few quick stops in the Garden District can be sandwiched between visits to Lee Circle and St Stephen Church.
– Confederate Memorial Hall in Lee Circle – Quincy Harris Memorial Hall – Seven Sisters – Random homes in game – Women’s Opera Guild Home – Random home in game – Morris Israel House – Random home in game – Commander’s Palace Restaurant – Random building in game (on edge of Saint Denis) – St. Stephen Church – Larger cathedral in St Denis
Despite spending the better part of a day wandering around New Orleans, we still didn’t even get to make stops at all of the places I marked on my map…but hey, that just means I have an excuse to go back to “Saint Denis” and finish my explorations, right?
I’m still in the process of gathering decent screenshots of the Saint Denis versions of these buildings, as well as marking them on a game map, so stay tuned for part 2 of my Saint Denis/New Orleans comparison!
Episode 26 of The Geek Saga Podcast includes live audio from the two Red Dead Redemption panels featuring voice actors Roger Clark (Arthur Morgan) and Benjamin Byron Davis (Dutch van der Linde) at MomoCon 2019.
As a huge fan of the Red Dead Redemption games, I was very excited when I heard that Roger Clark and Benjamin Byron Davis would be attending MomoCon in Atlanta. I spent the weekend cosplaying Red Dead (Sadie Adler, specifically, along with my buddy who does an amazing John Marston) and made sure to attend both the Saturday and Sunday panels featuring the actors. This podcast features audio from both panels, though I did remove some repetitive questions/stories to make it…well, more cohesive, sure, but also shorter (and it still clocks in at just over an hour and a half long). Whether you attended the con/these panels or are simply a Red Dead fan, I hope you enjoy – I know I did!
(Side note: I do apologize for the fact that there is some annoying ‘foreground noise’ at certain points. Unfortunately, being in the audience meant that I couldn’t control the noise the people around me made, and I didn’t want to lose too much volume on the moderators and actors when they were speaking.)
Geek Saga Podcast Episode 26 – Red Dead Redemption 2 at MomoCon 2019
