Monday Nite N.O.E.

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Steffi calls out Tyra Banks for fat-shaming contestants on America's Next Top Model, despite Tyra's own 'kiss my fat ass' moment.

Steffie's World opens at 9:18 p.m. on a Monday night. It is 58 clear degrees in the panhandle. A traffic cam on Bourbon Street stays on mute while Fat Monday crowds drift through New Orleans in little pockets, the floats looking good and the whole scene sounding like a headache for law enforcement. Fat Tuesday is tomorrow, and there is no king cake or poonskies in the house. The host keeps the night moving anyway, with a sideways mention of Wednesday and a quick turn to birthdays. It stays loose. LeVar Burton comes up first, named as the original Reading Rainbow guy and said to have turned 69. Richard Williams comes next, with the host saying he turned 80. Pastor Jamal Bryant is also on the list, because the NAACP Image Awards are set to give him a social justice award next month. Then the energy drops into a New Orleans parole case tied to Hurricane Katrina and a woman who gave her child cow's milk after evacuating and moving through shelters. The host walks through the death of the baby, the charge that followed, the sentence later knocked down to 36 years, and the denied parole that now leaves another five years before she can apply again. A court voice in the story says people are sick of hearing about Hurricane Katrina, and the host pushes back on that flattening of what happened. The missing pieces matter here. So does the memory of evacuating, of coupons, of bouncing from place to place, and of what the host says documentaries should have included. From there the show slides into a personal note about considering a move to Canada, even from Detroit, with Windsor just across the border. A brief relationship question gets a blunt answer. Then Florida news lands hard with Randy Fine and his line about dogs and Muslims. Anderson Cooper leaving 60 Minutes after 20 years follows right behind it. The closing turns back to the basics: connect on Blue Sky or IG, keep a camera on you during a police stop, and try to get home safely alive.

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A late-night Bourbon Street check-in that moves from parade cams to Katrina memory.

Steffie's World settles into a Monday night on Bourbon Street, with a muted traffic cam, a Fat Monday crowd that breaks into pockets, and Steffi casting the scene as a nightmare for law enforcement.

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When Fat Monday has you peeping Bourbon Street cams, watching parade floats, and wishing there were king cake in the house.

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