In this short audio clip, A.D.’s Dr. Brobson Lutz talks about his first trip to New Orleans. It was August, 1965, he was 18, and he arrived just in time for storm that shook the Big Easy before Katrina: Hurricane Betsy.

After medical school, the doctor moved to the city and never left, becoming something of a local medical legend. “There’s something about New Orleans that gets on your skin, in your skin, permeates every artery and vein in your body after a while; you just have to stay, you just can’t leave,” he says. “Locals know about this; people from out of town hear about it. How to describe what it is is really different.”

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Here’s a riff from Dr. Brobson Lutz, one of our main characters in A.D., and a man of and about the French Quarter, on the importance of bars in New Orleans after Katrina—the only businesses that continued to operate immediately after the storm. “Bars are more common than grocery stores and churches,” he says. “But after the hurricane they became even more important.” This four-minute podcast from the doctor is illuminating and delightful—and a small way to feel the Mardis Gras mambo even if you can’t be there.