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00:00What's up, what's up, Zinus Nation? So we're about to go on a little field trip here.
00:04We're going to show some of New Orleans, and I had some people encourage me, Stosh and others, and Tim,
00:09and they all said, you know, you should get out in New Orleans while you're here.
00:13Otherwise, there's no point being here and show people New Orleans, right? Yeah, I know.
00:17They would never say that to me, but they would say you should use New Orleans to your advantage, right?
00:21So I've got my coffee here. All right, my coffee. All right, popcorn for Helena.
00:27Yeah, my popcorn. I've got my wallet with my ID in it and my nicotine lozenges.
00:33Got my sunglasses on. I'm already, I didn't bring a bottle of water right now.
00:36It's not, something annoying about like a teacher going on a field trip is she would always emphasize a bottle
00:40of fucking water.
00:41No, coffee. We want coffee, man, not bottles of water.
00:45Anyway, I'm going to upload these to YouTube. Yeah.
00:48So here we go. Where are we going to set? Where are we going to go first?
00:50We're going to go to, we're going to go to Audubon Park first.
00:53Yeah, we'll go to Audubon Park. Let's see what we got for gas.
00:55Yeah, we got enough gas. What's going on? What's going on? What's going on, Zionist Nation?
01:00So I'm here at Audubon Park in New Orleans and let's see, we have in honor of members of the
01:05Garden Study Club of New Orleans.
01:07Yeah, we've got the stone arch here, Exposure Boulevard.
01:11I'm going to go on a little walk here through the live oaks.
01:15I've never really done this before, just gone on a walk in Audubon Park.
01:18Now, I got married here in 2015 to my first wife, Tiffany.
01:23Yeah, that was before I was married to Helena.
01:25And it's a nice morning for a walk. It's a nice, cool November morning.
01:29Right, there's a guy over there with fishing poles.
01:32Yeah, I don't know if you can see him.
01:34He's got fishing poles.
01:36Let's see if we can find the Tree of Life.
01:39Let's see.
01:40Let's see.
01:40Let's see.
01:40Let's see.
01:40Let's see.
01:42Let's see.
01:43Let's see.
01:44Let's see.
01:46Let's see.
01:47Let's see.
01:47Let's see.
02:06Yeah, I know I talk about my dad a lot, but when I go walking in the trees, around the
02:10trees, I think about my dad.
02:11Yeah, one time when I was working in New Orleans, I did a couple estimates for my own jobs because
02:17I found a few guys that wanted to work.
02:19They said, if you ever find a job because they hired me, and they said, if you ever find a
02:22job for us, let us know.
02:24And so I took my dad to meet the customer that I had, and my dad talked with the customer,
02:30and I was kind of thinking about how it's kind of cool.
02:33You know, my dad's like an OG in Holland, Michigan, but it was kind of cool to see him talk
02:37to a customer in New Orleans.
02:38It's like, imagine him being like Tim Benton in New Orleans and having a tree service down here, and I
02:43thought it was really cool.
02:44I admired my dad for that, and, and yeah.
02:48So they, what was it?
02:54Being a tree, being an arborist, I always imagine climbing the trees everywhere I go, right?
02:58What would I do on these trees?
03:00It looks like they've been trimmed.
03:04I see one thing to cut right up there.
03:06You can see a dead branch right there, yeah.
03:10Would I cut it, though?
03:11Nah.
03:13Just let it be, and don't ask.
03:17I would cut it if I was up there.
03:20Sure.
03:26Should probably save my parking so I can find where I was.
03:35Yeah, all right, hold on.
03:37I'm going to save my parking.
03:38What's going on?
03:39What's going on, Zionist Nation?
03:40I was thinking about a story I wrote about Warsaw, about a guy named Mr. Grimm, and he would sit,
03:47he was sitting at the park bench.
03:49Yeah, he was sitting at the park bench, and he had his newspaper, and it was a place just like
03:58this.
03:58There was like a little walkway, and there was park benches, right?
04:04There was park benches, and there was trees, and he was reading about the dog show, right?
04:16It was the, what dog show was it?
04:18It was the, the Westminster dog show, yeah.
04:24And it must have been based on this park, because it was exactly like this, the setting.
04:28Yeah, there's a dog right there.
04:34Could be in the dog show, huh?
04:37People riding bikes.
04:39Kind of like, it's kind of like Rhapsody in Blue, isn't it?
04:41It's kind of like Rhapsody in Blue, yeah.
04:43Anyway.
04:48There was a riverbank, too, and he would, he smoked cigarettes on the riverbank.
04:52And he watched his dog swim.
04:54Look at all those birds, man.
04:55You hear the birds?
04:58I don't know what kind of birds those are.
05:00I think they're ducks.
05:10They're perched on the tree branches, and they're swimming.
05:37New Orleans is a magical place, isn't it?
05:39Yeah, anyone who's ever lived here knows it's magical.
05:44There's a little fountain over there.
05:57Yeah, the Lord was telling me,
06:14What was the Lord telling me?
06:17He was telling me something that he then said was not true,
06:20which is that I will never come here again, so I should appreciate this morning.
06:23And he said, I'll come here plenty of times.
06:30What's going on?
06:31What's going on?
06:32What's going on, Zionist Nation?
06:32So I'm up here.
06:33I'm up here by the Tree of Life, and you can see there's this knuckle on this tree right
06:37here.
06:39Brian, if you were to drive your car underneath it, you would bonk your head into it?
06:43Yeah.
06:44Sometimes these live oaks grow really low.
06:46Look how long that branch extends.
06:48Yeah, isn't that cool?
06:50How strong that wood is?
06:51Look at all the weight it's holding out here.
06:53Way out there.
06:55All the way at the base, that huge branch, that branch, that branch is supporting all this
07:01weight.
07:03Thousands and thousands of pounds, right?
07:05So strong.
07:06Live oak is the heaviest, is the heaviest wood.
07:08Yeah, it is.
07:10Live oaks are cool to work with.
07:12Don't ask.
07:14What's up, Alan?
07:15Yeah.
07:16You would love climbing a live oak, man.
07:18Maybe one day before it's too late.
07:21So we're going to walk over here to the Tree of Life.
07:27Hopefully, if they let me park there.
07:28Will they let me park there?
07:30I think they will.
07:34What's up?
07:35What's up, Zionist Nation?
07:35What's up, Zionist Nation?
07:36So I'm here looking at the Tree of Life.
07:38Yeah.
07:39Tree of Life.
07:40You can see the debore oak, planted circa 1740.
07:44Right.
07:45Right during the height of slavery.
07:46Don't ask.
07:48Was that the height of slavery?
07:49I'm not an expert.
07:50Don't ask.
07:52But 1740.
07:52Yeah.
07:56Just definitely during that time, though.
07:58Anyway, I know all the nooks and crannies of this tree.
08:00Yeah, I looked at it a lot when I was getting married.
08:03I love that its branches touch the ground and then grow back up.
08:07Right.
08:11Right.
08:20I love the flared roots at the bottom.
08:26You know, it's not as big as I remember.
08:29It's pretty big, though.
08:30Oh, don't ask.
08:34You would definitely need a, you would definitely need the 42-inch bar to cut it down with the 88.
08:40Don't ask.
08:45It's not very high, though, is it?
08:46No, it's not that high.
08:47It's just big at the base.
08:49Yeah.
08:49It's got some big main trunks.
08:54I can't believe we fit our whole wedding in here.
08:56Maybe our wedding party wasn't as big as I thought.
08:57It was so much bigger than I thought that I wouldn't believe it in my wildest dreams.
09:03It's got the Spanish moss.
09:05Spanish moss hanging from it.
09:14What else is there to say about it?
09:16Helena doesn't really want to think about it because she wasn't the one who married me here.
09:20Now, I'll marry you here, Helena.
09:21I do, Helena.
09:22Yeah, I do.
09:25Wait a second.
09:26Yeah, don't be too cheesy about it.
09:28Yeah, Kendrick wouldn't like that.
09:29Don't care, Josh.
09:30Who cares what Kendrick likes?
09:32Now, Helena is angry again.
09:33I don't care what Kendrick likes.
09:34Now, tell Helena, do you take...
09:35Now, she doesn't want to do it.
09:36Helena, do you take this man to be your wife?
09:37Yeah, she does.
09:38And don't ask.
09:40Wait a second.
09:43Wait a second.
09:48Trees, trees, trees, man.
10:02One thing an arborist thinks a lot about is how far I could walk out on a branch before it
10:06would break, right?
10:08So, you definitely walk up to here.
10:10You could walk here.
10:11You could walk here.
10:12You could walk here.
10:14You could walk up to here.
10:15Yeah, you could keep walking.
10:17The thing about a live oak, you could keep walking.
10:18You could walk...
10:19You could walk all the way down.
10:22You could walk all the way down to right here.
10:24Yeah, you could.
10:25You could walk all the way down to right here and it would still support you and don't ask.
10:29All the way down to the tip.
10:30All the way down to the tip of the oak.
10:32Don't ask.
10:32Yeah, the live oaks are really strong.
10:34On a maple tree, you wouldn't want to do that, no.
10:37Maple trees are known for...
10:40For more...
10:42More...
10:42More injuries in the tree.
10:44More...
10:44They break more often than all the other trees combined.
10:46Silver maples.
10:47Yeah, that's...
10:47I read that somewhere.
10:51If there's one thing a live oak isn't, it's a silver maple.
10:55I think that's it for Audubon Park.
10:56Where should we go next?
10:57Maybe we'll go to the Broad Theater.
10:59By then, maybe we'll get close to the opening time for the library.
11:04What's up?
11:04What's up, Zionist Nation?
11:05Yeah, I was looking at...
11:07I was driving to the Broad Theater and I noticed that on my way there, my old site where Tim
11:12used
11:12to work is on Laurel Street, right?
11:16Laurel Street.
11:16And they had this Laurel Street Bakery, right?
11:19And it was never open because we always started at 630, right?
11:22I'm eating some popcorn for Helena, yeah.
11:24Yeah, it was...
11:25Laurel Street Bakery was never open, don't ask.
11:27And I was thinking about...
11:28Take your next right onto South White Street.
11:31Turn right onto South White Street.
11:33Then at the next stop sign, you'll turn right.
11:36Right.
11:37Here's where the lot used to be.
11:38Is this where the lot used to be?
11:41Yeah, that's where the lot used to be, man.
11:43Again, I remember it being a lot bigger.
11:48Wasn't that big, was it?
11:49Not really, Josh.
12:01Yeah, that's where it was, though.
12:02It's definitely where it was.
12:05I can't believe...
12:06At the stop sign, turn right onto Washington Avenue.
12:09Then make a new turn at South Dupree Street.
12:11I was thinking about Elon Musk because the Lord was telling me that he was thinking about
12:15doing things that...
12:16What could you get someone to do for, like, $1 or less?
12:19Like, write Helena's name on a coffee cup that made people that happy because, you know,
12:23he has so much money, he could get someone to write Helena on a cup for 12 hours a day
12:27for the rest of their life if he wanted, don't ask.
12:29Yeah.
12:30Well, because you get someone to do for free that would mean even more, don't ask.
12:33That's something to think about for a rich guy like that.
12:36Yeah, this was my old site, man.
12:37I can't believe how small it looks to me now, don't ask.
12:40What happened?
12:41I used to kick around this fucking little area right here.
12:43Nice.
13:16They got a picnic table there now.
13:18Go past this light.
13:20Then, at the next one, turn left onto South Broad Street.
13:25We have these houses here.
13:26I always imagine living in one of these houses.
13:37It's amazing what you can do with a little spot like that, isn't it?
13:46Right over here is where the, there was a mead, there was a mead place, yeah, that sold mead.
13:56Anyway, that's all there is to say about this spot.
14:01I used to go to that, there's that Cajun seafood spot, and there's a gas station right there.
14:05Can't really see it.
14:09Let's see.
14:11Cajun seafood.
14:14Right, in the discount center.
14:17Right, I would go there.
14:19What was that?
14:21Head toward Washington Avenue, then make a U-turn at Cajun seafood.
14:25Go there, there's some pigeons, yeah.
14:28Go to that gas station and get...
14:30I was at the parking lot on South Broad Street.
14:35Yeah.
14:37Such precious fucking bullshit, not really.
14:40Anyway, anyway.
14:41Yeah, we're going to head over to the Broad Theater and take a look at that.
14:44What's up, Zionist Nation?
14:45What's up, Zionist Nation?
14:46I wanted to take a video of this place.
14:49This is the first place I came when I first came to visit Tiffany in New Orleans,
14:53and Tina brought me here, and...
14:58What was I going to say?
15:00I'm going to make two more videos before I go back to the house,
15:02before I come back to the side of the river for mass and go to the library later.
15:08Yeah, I'm a little bit too tired to go to the library right now.
15:11Well, we'll see what happens.
15:13Nah, I think I'm going to go back home after this and upload my videos and stuff.
15:17Well, they're already uploaded, but I'm going to post them on my website.
15:19But I was going to say, this is Banks Meat Market.
15:21This is the place to go if you're a New Orleans native.
15:23Don't ask.
15:24Banks Meat Market, it's the place to get a pobole.
15:28Banks Meat Market, yeah.
15:31There's Metro PCS.
15:32Yeah, that's the place to get your...
15:34That's the place to have a phone.
15:36Yeah, they use the T-Mobile network.
15:38It's the place to use it to get a...
15:39It's prepay.
15:40Right.
15:42It's prepay, so they don't give you any hassle.
15:44Yeah, this is Banks Meat Market.
15:48And they got the best poboys in the city.
15:50Yeah.
15:53I don't have anything.
15:54Sorry.
16:03You can see they got chicken.
16:05They got breakfast.
16:07In 150 feet, I'm left on the Green Valley.
16:14Hot sandwiches.
16:26They don't have pobole on the menu, so you just got to ask for that.
16:49Oh, yeah, they're right there.
16:51They have a whole fucking TV dedicated to the pobole right there, yeah.
16:56Morning.
16:57Morning.
16:58Morning.
16:59It's probably out get the 32-inch hot sausage fully dressed, yeah.
17:04Nice.
17:04All right, yeah.
17:05We'll get it done for you.
17:07Yeah, yeah.
17:10Turn left onto Jane Alley.
17:12Then you'll take your first left onto Bank Street.
17:15No, I don't.
17:16Sorry.
17:22That was enough about that.
17:23Yeah, 32-inch.
17:25For my whole family, get the 32-inch hot sausage pobole fully dressed or shrimp pobole.
17:31That's what they like.
17:31Hot sausage or shrimp.
17:36What's up?
17:36What's up, Zionist Station?
17:37What's up, Zionist Station?
17:38So, yeah, I wanted to show you the Broad Theater, right?
17:41It's closed right now, but here it is.
17:43This is my favorite theater.
17:45My favorite theater to watch is a Helena Bonham Carter movie or a Daphne Keene movie or a Joaquin Phoenix
17:52movie.
17:53Yeah, don't ask.
17:54Yeah, I watched The Joker here.
17:56I watched Nope, the Jordan Peele movie, Nope.
17:59I watched The Joker.
18:00What else have I seen here?
18:02I've seen a few movies.
18:03If there's like, oh, I watched, I took my sister Anna and Tiffany here to watch, to watch The Secrets
18:09of Dumbledore.
18:11Yeah, if there's like a really good, if there's like a really good or a classy movie like that I
18:16want to see, I'll go to the Broad Theater.
18:18Yeah, that's what I would always do.
18:19And I would always get the Pimm's Cup, which is their signature cocktail and a popcorn.
18:23And then I would go back for a beer.
18:24Yeah, I might leave halfway through.
18:26The fun part is getting the drinks and sitting in the theater.
18:28No, usually I'll stay for the whole thing.
18:30But, you know, there's been a few times where I just had my drinks and then I left.
18:32Yeah, don't ask.
18:34Anyway, the Broad Theater, that's where to go in the city.
18:35Yeah, it's underrated.
18:36Don't ask.
18:37Don't be lame and go to the AMC or something.
18:39Go to the Broad Theater, man.
18:41Go to the Broad Theater.
18:45What's going on?
18:46What's going on, Zionist Nation?
18:48I want to say one more thing about New Orleans is, look at these hot black girls.
18:53They just walk around.
18:54Yeah, they just walk around and show their ass off and don't ask.
18:58Yeah, that's one thing that's good about living in New Orleans.
18:59If you like black girls, you can't beat New Orleans and don't ask.
19:02Really?
19:03Really, really?
19:03They're just everywhere, man.
19:05They're just everywhere.
19:06They work at the Starbucks.
19:08They drive around in these fucking nice cars.
19:10You don't know where they get that money from.
19:11Probably Uber or something.
19:13Or maybe they sleep with people for money.
19:15Who knows?
19:15Yeah.
19:18Anyway, yeah.
19:19I just saw that girl hanging out at the playground right outside my apartment.
19:22And I felt happy about my life.
19:23I'm glad I live in a place where black girls dress like that.
19:29Where I can just fucking see their ass and titties and shit.
19:31And don't ask.
19:32No, for a second.