Thanks for posting this.
"Laughy-ette" ...pretty much.
Man I miss good boudin.
So, he said, "This is most closely associated with the Atchafalaya basin..."
Said in that way, you don't notice the "uh" sound preceding it. I'm guessing that's what I'm remembering.
He covered Herbert as a last name, but not Richard.
Here's a guy going through some Louisiana names and their pronunciations. Skip ahead to hear him pronounce Atchafalaya the way I grew up hearing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wFX0BNbVf0