[Leon Harris, Cnn Anchor:] It's Mardi Gras, one big one final day before the beginning of Lent down there.
[Kyra Phillips, Cnn Anchor:] More than a million people have poured into the streets of New Orleans to celebrate this Fat Tuesday. And among the big parades rolling through the streets today: Zulu and Rex. And joining us now on the phone is the governor of the Zulu, Curtis Woolridge. Hello, Governor.
[Curtis Woolridge, Governor Of Zulu:] Hello! How you doing there?
[Phillips:] Obviously not as good as you, my friend.
[Woolridge:] Oh, we having a great time over here. I can't hardly hear you, but we're having a great, great time over here.
[Harris:] Your Zuluness, can you describe the scene you're seeing right now?
[Woolridge:] Come back with it?
[Harris:] How about describing for us what you are seeing, because we can't see it.
[Woolridge:] Well, the best thing I can tell you right now: We having a good time. I'm the governor Zulu 2001. And we just having a great, great time.
[Phillips:] Hey, Governor, in addition to having a great time, why don't you tell us about those coconuts? A lot of people don't know why you hand those out.
[Woolridge:] We hand the coconuts out here as a condition of New Orleans-Louisiana, the Mardi Gras. So we having a good time handing out coconuts over here. So that's about the best I can tell you right now because there is so much noise there is so much noise, we can hardly hear what you are saying. But come on back. I'm going to try to stay with you as long as I can.
[Harris:] All right, we will let the governor get on with his bad Zulu self. Let's take a look take a shot here. Look at this crowd here. It is amazing. And it's early.
[Phillips:] Hey, I you see all the horses there? That is the New Orleans Police Department, their mounted patrol. Now, these guys and women are very well known. They have oh, it is the Zulu parade.
[Harris:] We're being told this is the Zulu parade.
[Phillips:] OK. Oh, that's my bad because the mounted patrol comes out there, they're like incredible crowd control. And they keep everybody from, you know, going nuts. So I guess it's kind of hard to decipher between the two. I apologize about that.
[Harris:] Yes. Well, it's moving kind of slow. Is that the way it goes down there?
[Phillips:] Things move very slow. It gives people more of a chance to party and get a taste and see the parades and the people. And, now, you know, in addition to coconuts, they toss out all kinds of sweets and candy and necklaces and...
[Harris:] Which would explain the children we see there in the crowd.
[Phillips:] Exactly. They sometimes even toss out lingerie.
[Harris:] Oh, you see, that's why I am asking that because, see, some of the time, some of the stories I have heard about these parades, Zulu or otherwise, I don't think you want to have kids around there.
[Phillips:] Yes, it get gets pretty crazy.
[Harris:] Beautiful picture there, all right.