September 1, 2024 • 23 mins
Join us in this episode as we dive deep into New Orleans' ambitious plans for a facelift ahead of Super Bowl LIX! While the spotlight shines on transforming landmarks like the Crescent City Connection with thousands of programmable bulbs, we’ll explore an important question: What about the rest of the city?
In this discussion, we’ll examine the ongoing challenges faced by various neighborhoods that have been in need of attention and repair for years. We'll hear from local residents, community leaders, and urban planners about the balance between beautifying the city for major events and addressing the pressing needs of its communities.
Tune in to discover how the soul of New Orleans can shine just as brightly as its marquee attractions and what must be done to ensure that all areas receive the care they deserve. Don’t miss this essential conversation on the future of our beloved Crescent City!
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In this discussion, we’ll examine the ongoing challenges faced by various neighborhoods that have been in need of attention and repair for years. We'll hear from local residents, community leaders, and urban planners about the balance between beautifying the city for major events and addressing the pressing needs of its communities.
Tune in to discover how the soul of New Orleans can shine just as brightly as its marquee attractions and what must be done to ensure that all areas receive the care they deserve. Don’t miss this essential conversation on the future of our beloved Crescent City!
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/new-orleans-spill--6279946/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Welcome back, welcome back, Welcome back to the Nola Connection,
Nola Connection. We definitely have a good win today, man,
cause this is personal personal. It took me two hours,
two hours to get to my house. Why why on
(00:31):
a Sunday because of construction they are doing to doll
up New Orleans for two thy twenty five Super Bowl.
Yes in New Orleans, Louisiana. Let me cut this off.
For those who are listening, you could listen to Nola
(00:52):
Connection on all major streaming platforms. That's like Spotify, Apple podcasts,
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this is free. It's free, so don't matter. All. You
(01:13):
can go to Thenola connection dot com. That's my website.
You can find it on there, Facebook, the Nola Connection,
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(01:37):
you can always email me if you have anything you
want to talk about you want to bring up, because sooner,
lay I'm going to be doing interviews. You can email
me at jet set Nope, you know what. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. You can email me at contact
(01:57):
act Thenola connection dot com, contact the axign Theanola connection
dot com. I'm sorry, I was getting it mixed up. Man,
I have a good one. The city of New Orleans.
I'm gonna say this, man, Usually when tourists come down here,
(02:22):
they love it, they love it. But then you have
a handful that don't because they come from these rural
areas or wherever they come from, and they hit They
used to hit the French Quarters, and man, I tell you,
it smelled like p smelled like pete. And what it
is is the liquor, the sewer and at one time
the infrastructure, the ground they busted up and fixed the pipes.
(02:47):
The pipes was hasn't been fixed since the eighteen hundreds.
So that's where the peace Smeal used to come from.
So you ever visited New Orleans anytime in the past,
like we're gonna say, five sixty seven years ago, ten
years ago, you're like, man, it's thinking the French Quarters. Yeah,
it used to, but they fixed it. They fixed it.
Matter of fact, since Katrina it's been a lot of
(03:09):
you know, stuff going on in the French quarters. The
money Maker. They made sure they got that straight. It
don't smell like Pa anymore. It looked more beautiful down there,
So I give them that. But the rest of New Orleans,
like New Orleans East, we have abandoned bridges that they
closed down because they've been there for a while. They
(03:31):
falling apart. You know, you can't trust crossing it. You
have New Orleans East, I put. I said it in
my last episode. It's just tore up to the floor up. Man,
it's bad. It's bad. I'm talking abandoned buildings, blotted houses,
(03:53):
Chef Highway looked like Las Vegas whole stroke, y'all. Sorry
about that. That's my that's the master Gunnery Soldiers of
Vessel Smith retired. I'll call him later. It's crazy. But
super Bowl coming, Yeah, that's right, super Bowl coming. So
(04:19):
now all of a sudden, it's this major construction the
gn O Bridge. Yes, they has been fixing on the
bridge off and on, but this time they put a
lot of money in the gn O Bridge. They even
have the lights on it. Oh, this is for twenty
twenty five. Then I finished, So if you're crossing that
bridge at night, let's just see nighttime, seven pm. Trying
to go across, you're gonna be in bumper to bumper
(04:41):
traffic on the ground Poorsier Street. Poorer Street is where
the super Dome at. One thing about New Orleans. I
travel a lot Las Vegas, whatever. New Orleans is unique
because let's just say you go to Vegas, then you
want to visit their convention center, you have to drive fall.
(05:04):
It's separate from the downtown area where everyone at in
New Orleans. And it's like this everywhere from Las Vegas
to California to it's New Orleans. Everything is in one spot.
And that's another thing tourists like because if you come
down here, just the tour New Orleans, the tourist spose,
it's all in one area. The hotels, the French Quarters,
(05:28):
the CBD, which the super Dome located. Porterie Street, that's
one of the major street streets in the CBD, and
on that it's a super dome. So and you have
the Convention Center on the other side of Portress, on
the other side of Poetry you have Convention Center Boulevard.
So you're going I can say a mile or two two,
(05:49):
three miles apart. So you have the super Dome on
one side of Portress, then on the other side partably
three miles down. We're gonna say three miles you have
Convintion Center Boulevard with an upgraded convention center. Because if
you didn't know, we have a total All people know
about is Marti Grass and Jazz fest That's what most
(06:10):
people know about. But we have a total of three
hundred and fifty something or more, three hundred and sixty
something festivals a year, most of them local festivals. You know,
you could come if you know about it, but most
of the time it's just local stuff. And we have
a total of over three hundred conventions of year, so
this is a big tourist spot. Well, lately the super
(06:32):
Dome coming and they spending so much money the dogt
to beautify it up for the super Dome and have
people upset because what about the rest of nuors Now, Okay,
The cost to renovate the season super Dome in New Orleans, Louisian,
Ana for Super Bowl twenty twenty five estimated to be
(06:54):
around five hundred million. The renovations includes the final phase
of a five hundred and thirty five million dollar project.
The Saints itself, the New Orlean Saints, our football team,
have committed to spending two hundred million on the renovations,
which include new escalators, replacements of old ramps with staircases
(07:18):
and elevators, overhauls of kitchens and stadium interests. Wow. The
city capital budget will cover most of the work, along
with seven point five million from the state. M HM.
And earlier on the news, you know, the news have
(07:44):
to you know, they love controversy. They're showing you how
some of these bridges that we could use to cross
it can help with traffic, but they never been fixed.
Were talking about bricks, chickens off. It could actually fall
although you're not crossing the bridge. What if you're walking
(08:05):
under a people walking, children playing. It's that bad. It's
that bad. And New Orleans is planning on spending forty
million facelift for the city of hit the super Bowl.
Now that's what's the construction going on now. But they
say forty million, I doubt I think it's more than
forty million because you have the La Ox which includes lights,
(08:30):
the Creston City connection. That's the bridge I was telling
you about with thousands of programmable bubbs. They didn't put
that on the Creston City Bridge. You have the super
Dome Commission. It's also renovating the Caesar super Dome, which
we spoke about now. They say estimated fifty eight million
worth of work remaining remaining. The new on the Saints
(08:52):
all responsible for forty one million of the renovations remaining.
So we spending a lot of money for super Dome. Now,
I will say this, it's going to bring a lot
of money to the city. It's going to be a
lot of money to the city, a lot of money.
(09:13):
But what about areas that need to be fixed? Now?
Before a tragic happened. I just did a video on
Hurricane Katrina. Why because for some reason they I found
out the reason why I'm gonna speak about that. For
some reason, they din a nineteen year anniversary. I said,
(09:37):
nineteen whoa wait a minute, Usually it's a twenty year anniversary,
ten year anniversary, but nineteen and I did a podcast
on you go back and check it out, and I
mentioned something on there. I mentioned about the levies breached.
Because for those who don't know, if you didn't know,
(10:03):
water came after let me say this again. Water came
after Katrina passed. That's when New Orleans flooded. Listen, I
don't know if you get what I'm saying. The hurricane passed, it,
(10:25):
Katrina was gone. People stepped outside to assessed clean up.
It was long enough to whether they was in the
middle of getting their stuff together. This is why a
lot of people died. This is one reason why a
(10:45):
lot of people died. Next thing, you know, here come
a big twenty foot twenty foot of water started flooding
the city, mostly in poor areas. Now I said this
on Instagram, the same thing I said last time. I said,
(11:11):
it's not even rumors. Actually you could say allegedly of
rumors because no one saw it. But we heard it.
We heard booms, booms, not boom like a car hit
something or board chair of levee. We heard blast, blast,
(11:31):
soon after the blast, like what is that? What was that?
We're gonna say, and depend on what where you were
at at the time. Here come the water. Now, people
that were closer say they blew the levees. Why so
they could balance out water going to the Golden District,
(11:52):
Garding district where rich people at and balance it. Also,
it could come to the poor area. That's what people say.
That's what a lot of I can I say people
that this studies say that's what happened. Well, I put
it on Instagram. It was this I g I can't
think of the name. They put up a mini documentary
(12:16):
about how and I'm gonna get to that. That's why
I made to get on the subject how the infrastructure
was not was bad? And it was it was bad,
And I said, no one mentioned the blast. Oh man,
all of a sudden, I'm getting attacked, attacked and attacked.
What's the proof. It's no proof of that. It's no proof,
(12:38):
of course, it's no proof of that. If it was
proof of that, we all will be rich. If it
was proof of that, we would bankrupt the city with lawsuits.
Of course, it's no proof of it. Where's the proof?
Where's the proof? Of course, it's no proof. You don't
have proof of anything. You don't have proof. They say
a barge hit one of the levees and put a
(13:01):
hole in it was the proof of that. But because
officials said, is true, where's the proof of that? Come on, man,
how you go? It was a person from New Orleans.
I'm not gonna mention the name because they to me
they was dumb. But they don't live in New Orleans.
They live probably in the area. They know the area
that was being protected off magazine. I think I seen
(13:23):
this man face before. Okay, let's get off that now.
What brings it up is the infrastructure. One of the
main reasons, besides other reasons people a lot of people
died that day, it's because they didn't fix the levees.
The levees were bad. They were bad, they were not fixed,
(13:45):
they was barely standing. And New Orleans politicians politics been
getting away with it forever. Not only that the water
pumps most of them were broke, most of them weren't working.
So it's and were talking about something that's been neglected
for decades. So and that was one of the main
(14:09):
reasons caused a lot of people to die. Because you
didn't You wasn't proactive, you was reactive. You know what
I'm saying. It's why not fix those things before anything happens.
Why because at the time people was pocketing, you know, allegedly,
(14:32):
well we can't say allegedly because a lot of politicians
went to went to went to prison after that. But
I'm gonna lie to at least about three or four
from the top of my door went the prison behind
a lot of They found a lot of corruption, corruption
in the water that's been going on now. Uh I
was about to say one part of the corruption used
to benefit me. I speak on that, hope I remember.
(14:54):
And so we have these bad bridges, we have things
need to be fixed before someone get hurt. And they
dolling up the city for Super Bowl. Don't get me wrong,
I love New Orleans Saints. My Saints been diehard since
a baby. But I think fixing the city is more important.
(15:19):
And New Orleans gonna be New Orleans. I understand you
want to doll it up, but New Orleans gonna be
New Orleans. People are gonna love New Orleans. They're gonna
love our food. And that's another podcast I definitely want
to get in. Our food is still the same. Even
though we been culture vulture with this new style of cooking,
we still have authentic New Orleans cooking here and when
(15:43):
you get here, you need to look for the authentic
New Orleans cooking. Oh so I feel that's more important.
But when I say, you know, I just want to
throw this in there when I was young, nineteen twenty driving.
I love fast casts fast cause I mean driving set
(16:04):
seventy five, eighty and thirty. That type of stuff. I
used to do, reckless, reckless. Yeah I know I was reckless.
Just stop, get a big ticket. I'm talking about Jesus Christ.
He used to be able to go well, like to say,
what you do is you go in the line and
(16:24):
you say not guilty. I want I won't. I won't
see the judge. They would give you a paperwork and
you go see the judge standing outside waiting to get in.
To see the judge, A man used to come out
every time, and I guess he'll pick and choose who
is who you know who to get come in, sir,
(16:44):
Let me see that. Let me see this. I'll show
him the paper. It's about eight hundred dollars. I tell
you what, you give me four hundred and I walk
up in there and all charges drop, everything drop, Okay,
no problem, dodn't take it. Get him the four hundred.
He would walk in there, come back with a paper
(17:06):
showing everything is deleted. Now I don't know who he
talked to in there, but I later on in life,
I became an eighteen wheeler on our operator driving eighteen wheelers,
and I would have never survived with the tickets I
used to get. But because of that that one corruption,
(17:28):
my record was clean and still clean, you know. And
I didn't realize it was corruption until later as I
grew up. It's like I said, that was illegal as hell. Yeah, man,
come outside and hey, let me see your paper. H
it's five hundred, give me two hundred games, all clear?
(17:50):
And he would give you the paper, letting you see
it's all clear. Yeah. That was That was That was
the glory years. Baby. I missed those years. But back
to this. We have to do better people. We have
to do better in many ways. In New Orleans and
(18:10):
wherever you at, Louisiana and other places. We have to
do better. That's why it's important to elect You know,
everyone talk about the presidential race. I'm gonna be honest
with you, in my opinion, they know who they're gonna
put in there, you know, because it's that Electoria vote
Dan any thing. It never made sense to me. I
(18:33):
know what it's about, but still it never made sense
to me. This is why I believe, no matter what,
you have to dog and ponies show that's to make
money because each side get millions, millions and millions donated.
Each side get millions. But I think they know who's
going to be president. I really, I truly believe that.
(18:54):
I'm not saying don't vote. I guess votes matter, but
the does it really? When you have Electoria votes, does
it matter or do the votes influence the Electoria voters?
You know, that type of stuff is interesting. Forget what
they say, what's reality. But locally, locally it's always important.
(19:22):
Need you to understand this. When it comes to local politics,
you definitely should get out there and vote. I don't
care where you live in America, your local politics, it's
important to vote because that affects you immediately right away.
(19:46):
And I don't think that's fixed. I don't believe. I'm
pretty sure that's not fixed. But you have to vote. Now.
Some people might fix the polls. You know, you have
to watch that. But locally, you must get out and vote.
Take New Orleans for instance. Take Louisiana. Most of the
(20:08):
time Democrats win governor, but this time of Republican one.
And I'm not blaming this on a Republican party before
it's this guy. Oh he's something he came in blazing,
meaning if you, if you, if you had a loved
one in prison and you thought he can get a parole. Nah,
(20:30):
he nipped that in a bug. It's gonna be hard
to get parole now. All kinds of rules he put
in place. Soon he stepped in that that that kind
of hurt a certain people. Yeah, this is why you
must vote locally and get the right people in there.
(20:54):
That's going to do the bidding of the people. Now,
I will given the city a facelift for the super Bowl. Ah,
it's fifty fifty. I'm fifty to fifty on that because
I know, just like Marti Gros, the super Bowl might
(21:15):
bring more money. Then again, I don't know. I mean
I might be stretching it because the super Bowl, Yeah,
it brings a lot of people. But man, for those
who've never been to Marti Gros, besides the people that
live here, we probably have an extra million people. So yeah,
I know, I can't the super Bowl probably can't compare
(21:35):
to that. I mean, this city be shut down for
the parades all over the city, metro area, pretty much
the entire state almost well in this area, I'm gonna
say the southern part of the state. I don't know
what Shreveport do in Monroe, I don't know. But the
southern part of the state, bat Rouge, Homer, places like that, Yeah,
(22:00):
even those places. But New Orlean is the main part.
Can't beat it, can't beat it. Let me set my water.
We have to vote, people. And this might not seem
it's serious to you, but it's serious because this is
what happened with Katrina, you know, neglecting business, neglecting to
(22:26):
fix what needed to be fixed. And you can't say
they didn't know about it. They knew about it, they
just didn't fix it. Not to mention it. Let's throw
the blast in there too. I hope this don't come
to bite us, because I'm telling you, all attention is
on Super Bowl right now. I try riding up Portis
(22:50):
after midnight, after midnight, and didn't know how to get
by because of the construction. It's crazy. It's crazy. If
we have if we so, if we if we would
be so vigilant with fixing New Orleans without that, oh
we'll be all right. We'll be all right, man. Thank
y'all for listening. Once again, subscribe to the NOLA Connection
(23:13):
and one Love
Welcome back, welcome back, Welcome back to the Nola Connection,
Nola Connection. We definitely have a good win today, man,
cause this is personal personal. It took me two hours,
two hours to get to my house. Why why on
(00:31):
a Sunday because of construction they are doing to doll
up New Orleans for two thy twenty five Super Bowl.
Yes in New Orleans, Louisiana. Let me cut this off.
For those who are listening, you could listen to Nola
(00:52):
Connection on all major streaming platforms. That's like Spotify, Apple podcasts,
Google Play, iHeart Video wherever you listen to. If you
have an iPhone, the Apple podcast is free. It's free
to downald, it's free to subscribe to the podcast. All
this is free. It's free, so don't matter. All. You
(01:13):
can go to Thenola connection dot com. That's my website.
You can find it on there, Facebook, the Nola Connection,
at Twitter well x formerly known as Twitter, the Nola Connection,
even YouTube, the Nola Connection. Wherever you want to listen
to it, you can always check it out. Not only that,
(01:37):
you can always email me if you have anything you
want to talk about you want to bring up, because sooner,
lay I'm going to be doing interviews. You can email
me at jet set Nope, you know what. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. You can email me at contact
(01:57):
act Thenola connection dot com, contact the axign Theanola connection
dot com. I'm sorry, I was getting it mixed up. Man,
I have a good one. The city of New Orleans.
I'm gonna say this, man, Usually when tourists come down here,
(02:22):
they love it, they love it. But then you have
a handful that don't because they come from these rural
areas or wherever they come from, and they hit They
used to hit the French Quarters, and man, I tell you,
it smelled like p smelled like pete. And what it
is is the liquor, the sewer and at one time
the infrastructure, the ground they busted up and fixed the pipes.
(02:47):
The pipes was hasn't been fixed since the eighteen hundreds.
So that's where the peace Smeal used to come from.
So you ever visited New Orleans anytime in the past,
like we're gonna say, five sixty seven years ago, ten
years ago, you're like, man, it's thinking the French Quarters. Yeah,
it used to, but they fixed it. They fixed it.
Matter of fact, since Katrina it's been a lot of
(03:09):
you know, stuff going on in the French quarters. The
money Maker. They made sure they got that straight. It
don't smell like Pa anymore. It looked more beautiful down there,
So I give them that. But the rest of New Orleans,
like New Orleans East, we have abandoned bridges that they
closed down because they've been there for a while. They
(03:31):
falling apart. You know, you can't trust crossing it. You
have New Orleans East, I put. I said it in
my last episode. It's just tore up to the floor up. Man,
it's bad. It's bad. I'm talking abandoned buildings, blotted houses,
(03:53):
Chef Highway looked like Las Vegas whole stroke, y'all. Sorry
about that. That's my that's the master Gunnery Soldiers of
Vessel Smith retired. I'll call him later. It's crazy. But
super Bowl coming, Yeah, that's right, super Bowl coming. So
(04:19):
now all of a sudden, it's this major construction the
gn O Bridge. Yes, they has been fixing on the
bridge off and on, but this time they put a
lot of money in the gn O Bridge. They even
have the lights on it. Oh, this is for twenty
twenty five. Then I finished, So if you're crossing that
bridge at night, let's just see nighttime, seven pm. Trying
to go across, you're gonna be in bumper to bumper
(04:41):
traffic on the ground Poorsier Street. Poorer Street is where
the super Dome at. One thing about New Orleans. I
travel a lot Las Vegas, whatever. New Orleans is unique
because let's just say you go to Vegas, then you
want to visit their convention center, you have to drive fall.
(05:04):
It's separate from the downtown area where everyone at in
New Orleans. And it's like this everywhere from Las Vegas
to California to it's New Orleans. Everything is in one spot.
And that's another thing tourists like because if you come
down here, just the tour New Orleans, the tourist spose,
it's all in one area. The hotels, the French Quarters,
(05:28):
the CBD, which the super Dome located. Porterie Street, that's
one of the major street streets in the CBD, and
on that it's a super dome. So and you have
the Convention Center on the other side of Portress, on
the other side of Poetry you have Convention Center Boulevard.
So you're going I can say a mile or two two,
(05:49):
three miles apart. So you have the super Dome on
one side of Portress, then on the other side partably
three miles down. We're gonna say three miles you have
Convintion Center Boulevard with an upgraded convention center. Because if
you didn't know, we have a total All people know
about is Marti Grass and Jazz fest That's what most
(06:10):
people know about. But we have a total of three
hundred and fifty something or more, three hundred and sixty
something festivals a year, most of them local festivals. You know,
you could come if you know about it, but most
of the time it's just local stuff. And we have
a total of over three hundred conventions of year, so
this is a big tourist spot. Well, lately the super
(06:32):
Dome coming and they spending so much money the dogt
to beautify it up for the super Dome and have
people upset because what about the rest of nuors Now, Okay,
The cost to renovate the season super Dome in New Orleans, Louisian,
Ana for Super Bowl twenty twenty five estimated to be
(06:54):
around five hundred million. The renovations includes the final phase
of a five hundred and thirty five million dollar project.
The Saints itself, the New Orlean Saints, our football team,
have committed to spending two hundred million on the renovations,
which include new escalators, replacements of old ramps with staircases
(07:18):
and elevators, overhauls of kitchens and stadium interests. Wow. The
city capital budget will cover most of the work, along
with seven point five million from the state. M HM.
And earlier on the news, you know, the news have
(07:44):
to you know, they love controversy. They're showing you how
some of these bridges that we could use to cross
it can help with traffic, but they never been fixed.
Were talking about bricks, chickens off. It could actually fall
although you're not crossing the bridge. What if you're walking
(08:05):
under a people walking, children playing. It's that bad. It's
that bad. And New Orleans is planning on spending forty
million facelift for the city of hit the super Bowl.
Now that's what's the construction going on now. But they
say forty million, I doubt I think it's more than
forty million because you have the La Ox which includes lights,
(08:30):
the Creston City connection. That's the bridge I was telling
you about with thousands of programmable bubbs. They didn't put
that on the Creston City Bridge. You have the super
Dome Commission. It's also renovating the Caesar super Dome, which
we spoke about now. They say estimated fifty eight million
worth of work remaining remaining. The new on the Saints
(08:52):
all responsible for forty one million of the renovations remaining.
So we spending a lot of money for super Dome. Now,
I will say this, it's going to bring a lot
of money to the city. It's going to be a
lot of money to the city, a lot of money.
(09:13):
But what about areas that need to be fixed? Now?
Before a tragic happened. I just did a video on
Hurricane Katrina. Why because for some reason they I found
out the reason why I'm gonna speak about that. For
some reason, they din a nineteen year anniversary. I said,
(09:37):
nineteen whoa wait a minute, Usually it's a twenty year anniversary,
ten year anniversary, but nineteen and I did a podcast
on you go back and check it out, and I
mentioned something on there. I mentioned about the levies breached.
Because for those who don't know, if you didn't know,
(10:03):
water came after let me say this again. Water came
after Katrina passed. That's when New Orleans flooded. Listen, I
don't know if you get what I'm saying. The hurricane passed, it,
(10:25):
Katrina was gone. People stepped outside to assessed clean up.
It was long enough to whether they was in the
middle of getting their stuff together. This is why a
lot of people died. This is one reason why a
(10:45):
lot of people died. Next thing, you know, here come
a big twenty foot twenty foot of water started flooding
the city, mostly in poor areas. Now I said this
on Instagram, the same thing I said last time. I said,
(11:11):
it's not even rumors. Actually you could say allegedly of
rumors because no one saw it. But we heard it.
We heard booms, booms, not boom like a car hit
something or board chair of levee. We heard blast, blast,
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soon after the blast, like what is that? What was that?
We're gonna say, and depend on what where you were
at at the time. Here come the water. Now, people
that were closer say they blew the levees. Why so
they could balance out water going to the Golden District,
(11:52):
Garding district where rich people at and balance it. Also,
it could come to the poor area. That's what people say.
That's what a lot of I can I say people
that this studies say that's what happened. Well, I put
it on Instagram. It was this I g I can't
think of the name. They put up a mini documentary
(12:16):
about how and I'm gonna get to that. That's why
I made to get on the subject how the infrastructure
was not was bad? And it was it was bad,
And I said, no one mentioned the blast. Oh man,
all of a sudden, I'm getting attacked, attacked and attacked.
What's the proof. It's no proof of that. It's no proof,
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of course, it's no proof of that. If it was
proof of that, we all will be rich. If it
was proof of that, we would bankrupt the city with lawsuits.
Of course, it's no proof of it. Where's the proof?
Where's the proof? Of course, it's no proof. You don't
have proof of anything. You don't have proof. They say
a barge hit one of the levees and put a
(13:01):
hole in it was the proof of that. But because
officials said, is true, where's the proof of that? Come on, man,
how you go? It was a person from New Orleans.
I'm not gonna mention the name because they to me
they was dumb. But they don't live in New Orleans.
They live probably in the area. They know the area
that was being protected off magazine. I think I seen
(13:23):
this man face before. Okay, let's get off that now.
What brings it up is the infrastructure. One of the
main reasons, besides other reasons people a lot of people
died that day, it's because they didn't fix the levees.
The levees were bad. They were bad, they were not fixed,
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they was barely standing. And New Orleans politicians politics been
getting away with it forever. Not only that the water
pumps most of them were broke, most of them weren't working.
So it's and were talking about something that's been neglected
for decades. So and that was one of the main
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reasons caused a lot of people to die. Because you
didn't You wasn't proactive, you was reactive. You know what
I'm saying. It's why not fix those things before anything happens.
Why because at the time people was pocketing, you know, allegedly,
(14:32):
well we can't say allegedly because a lot of politicians
went to went to went to prison after that. But
I'm gonna lie to at least about three or four
from the top of my door went the prison behind
a lot of They found a lot of corruption, corruption
in the water that's been going on now. Uh I
was about to say one part of the corruption used
to benefit me. I speak on that, hope I remember.
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And so we have these bad bridges, we have things
need to be fixed before someone get hurt. And they
dolling up the city for Super Bowl. Don't get me wrong,
I love New Orleans Saints. My Saints been diehard since
a baby. But I think fixing the city is more important.
(15:19):
And New Orleans gonna be New Orleans. I understand you
want to doll it up, but New Orleans gonna be
New Orleans. People are gonna love New Orleans. They're gonna
love our food. And that's another podcast I definitely want
to get in. Our food is still the same. Even
though we been culture vulture with this new style of cooking,
we still have authentic New Orleans cooking here and when
(15:43):
you get here, you need to look for the authentic
New Orleans cooking. Oh so I feel that's more important.
But when I say, you know, I just want to
throw this in there when I was young, nineteen twenty driving.
I love fast casts fast cause I mean driving set
(16:04):
seventy five, eighty and thirty. That type of stuff. I
used to do, reckless, reckless. Yeah I know I was reckless.
Just stop, get a big ticket. I'm talking about Jesus Christ.
He used to be able to go well, like to say,
what you do is you go in the line and
(16:24):
you say not guilty. I want I won't. I won't
see the judge. They would give you a paperwork and
you go see the judge standing outside waiting to get in.
To see the judge, A man used to come out
every time, and I guess he'll pick and choose who
is who you know who to get come in, sir,
(16:44):
Let me see that. Let me see this. I'll show
him the paper. It's about eight hundred dollars. I tell
you what, you give me four hundred and I walk
up in there and all charges drop, everything drop, Okay,
no problem, dodn't take it. Get him the four hundred.
He would walk in there, come back with a paper
(17:06):
showing everything is deleted. Now I don't know who he
talked to in there, but I later on in life,
I became an eighteen wheeler on our operator driving eighteen wheelers,
and I would have never survived with the tickets I
used to get. But because of that that one corruption,
(17:28):
my record was clean and still clean, you know. And
I didn't realize it was corruption until later as I
grew up. It's like I said, that was illegal as hell. Yeah, man,
come outside and hey, let me see your paper. H
it's five hundred, give me two hundred games, all clear?
(17:50):
And he would give you the paper, letting you see
it's all clear. Yeah. That was That was That was
the glory years. Baby. I missed those years. But back
to this. We have to do better people. We have
to do better in many ways. In New Orleans and
(18:10):
wherever you at, Louisiana and other places. We have to
do better. That's why it's important to elect You know,
everyone talk about the presidential race. I'm gonna be honest
with you, in my opinion, they know who they're gonna
put in there, you know, because it's that Electoria vote
Dan any thing. It never made sense to me. I
(18:33):
know what it's about, but still it never made sense
to me. This is why I believe, no matter what,
you have to dog and ponies show that's to make
money because each side get millions, millions and millions donated.
Each side get millions. But I think they know who's
going to be president. I really, I truly believe that.
(18:54):
I'm not saying don't vote. I guess votes matter, but
the does it really? When you have Electoria votes, does
it matter or do the votes influence the Electoria voters?
You know, that type of stuff is interesting. Forget what
they say, what's reality. But locally, locally it's always important.
(19:22):
Need you to understand this. When it comes to local politics,
you definitely should get out there and vote. I don't
care where you live in America, your local politics, it's
important to vote because that affects you immediately right away.
(19:46):
And I don't think that's fixed. I don't believe. I'm
pretty sure that's not fixed. But you have to vote. Now.
Some people might fix the polls. You know, you have
to watch that. But locally, you must get out and vote.
Take New Orleans for instance. Take Louisiana. Most of the
(20:08):
time Democrats win governor, but this time of Republican one.
And I'm not blaming this on a Republican party before
it's this guy. Oh he's something he came in blazing,
meaning if you, if you, if you had a loved
one in prison and you thought he can get a parole. Nah,
(20:30):
he nipped that in a bug. It's gonna be hard
to get parole now. All kinds of rules he put
in place. Soon he stepped in that that that kind
of hurt a certain people. Yeah, this is why you
must vote locally and get the right people in there.
(20:54):
That's going to do the bidding of the people. Now,
I will given the city a facelift for the super Bowl. Ah,
it's fifty fifty. I'm fifty to fifty on that because
I know, just like Marti Gros, the super Bowl might
(21:15):
bring more money. Then again, I don't know. I mean
I might be stretching it because the super Bowl, Yeah,
it brings a lot of people. But man, for those
who've never been to Marti Gros, besides the people that
live here, we probably have an extra million people. So yeah,
I know, I can't the super Bowl probably can't compare
(21:35):
to that. I mean, this city be shut down for
the parades all over the city, metro area, pretty much
the entire state almost well in this area, I'm gonna
say the southern part of the state. I don't know
what Shreveport do in Monroe, I don't know. But the
southern part of the state, bat Rouge, Homer, places like that, Yeah,
(22:00):
even those places. But New Orlean is the main part.
Can't beat it, can't beat it. Let me set my water.
We have to vote, people. And this might not seem
it's serious to you, but it's serious because this is
what happened with Katrina, you know, neglecting business, neglecting to
(22:26):
fix what needed to be fixed. And you can't say
they didn't know about it. They knew about it, they
just didn't fix it. Not to mention it. Let's throw
the blast in there too. I hope this don't come
to bite us, because I'm telling you, all attention is
on Super Bowl right now. I try riding up Portis
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after midnight, after midnight, and didn't know how to get
by because of the construction. It's crazy. It's crazy. If
we have if we so, if we if we would
be so vigilant with fixing New Orleans without that, oh
we'll be all right. We'll be all right, man. Thank
y'all for listening. Once again, subscribe to the NOLA Connection
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