So You Want to be a Tour Guide in New Orleans
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- I was a tour guide in New Orleans for four years. Here's what the job is really like.
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Regardless of how drunk I am, I’m always down to hear about the socio economic implications of the 1811 slave revolt🤘🏽🤘🏽
If anything getting drunk disinhibits my inner humanities nerd
True. I want to be a tour guide in Boston so I can educate drunk tourists about our greatest son Charles sumner 😂
@@oweneckert8474I want to be a tour guide in Virginia so I can talk about the great Virginians Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Robert E Lee Sam Houston and Stonewall Jackson
Young Atun as a Tour guide: Ah yes..this buildiung is rumored to be possesed by the ghost of a bitter confederate civil war soldier...legends say that sometimes at night when you walk the streets you can hear him say "Checkmate, Lincolnites!!!"
His internet Presence can still be felt"
As a native who was trapped downtown during Katrina, I don't recommend doing a video about it unless it's an oral history consisting of interviews. I don't speak for everyone who experienced it, but I don't think it's an easy historical event to accurately capture in a short youtube video. There's a lot of conspiracy woven in with truth. Certain details of the narrative are either obscurred or falsehoods repeated over and over until it's accepted as fact.
It's kind of incredible how entitled rich out-of-towners can be, anywhere in the world. In France, rich retirees like to move into small villages, and then write to the local government complaining about how they're disturbed by the sounds of church bells and farm animals. (What's the government going to do, ban Christianity and farming?)
Also, why do I feel such a strong urge to smoke?
J'ai jamais entendu personne se plaindre d'un âne qui crie de temps en temps ou de cloches. Par contre, si tu quittes une grande ville pour la campagne c'est pas pour y retrouver le vacarme d'un voisin qui tronçonne et passe la pelouse ou bétonne tous les jours, mais plutôt pour le calme qu'il est censé y avoir.
C'est pas que je te croies pas ou tes expérience hein mais les miennes font que ça fait pas sens que cette population se plaigne de ci plutôt que de ça.
@@nilspochat8665 www.thelocal.fr/20180810/tourist-asks-village-mayor-to-silence-church-bells-during-her-two-week-holiday
www.thelocal.fr/20170906/noisy-cows-spark-outcry-from-second-homeowners-in-french-alps
www.sbs.com.au/language/english/audio/france-may-legislate-to-protect-rural-noises-as-tourists-complain-about-noisy-cocks
The "Jolly" Frenchman
That sounds like the east end of Long Island. The rich move there for the summer and immediately start complaining.
L R The what? I don’t think that term has ever been coined before in the history of human thought.
I'd want to hear about the socioeconomic background of the 1811 slave revolts
Maybe we can convince him to do a tour with us nerds if we promise to pay more in tips than the AHS fan crowd would
No you don't... You're probably drunk if you come to someone like him (a tour guide) and you are probably in New Orleans for partying and stuff.
Don't get me wrong, people come for culture too but they obviously use another network than this typical tour guides.🤷🏻♂️
That doesn't mean he's a bad tour guide but he's obviously talking about this very popular guides for the party crowd...
I have to believe, maybe naively, that there could be a place for an entirely historically based tour experience
@@Spielername yeah me being a drunk tourist is totally why I am persuing a bachelor's in History
@@SubJStan I took a ghost tour in Charleston because it visited two museums and a cemetery that we couldn't get into during the day. Would have definitely taken a night-time tour that covered those places from a historical perspective instead.
lol the tobacco ad threw me off for a sec well played
Yeah me too hahaha
Honestly I respected the hustle
I thought I was in the twilight zone
“So you want to be a tour guide in New Orleans”
Nope. But tell me about it anyways!
"socially interact with folks for a living"...everyone should do that at least ounce during their life.
How has no one spotted you here Epi
The closest I got was working retail, and fuck no I'm never doing that again.
@@Jrez I worked retail before too. That sucked, but my colleagues were great. I'm a teacher now and I'm a lot happier. Watching someone improve from week to week is so much more satisfying than just telling someone what to buy.
I did so for a charity organization called clowns without borders.
They sent clowns to refugee camps to play with the kids and make them playful again.
So personally I hade to be happy and cheer full all the time. Since that was the purpose of our organization; to spread joy and laughter. I almost got burnt out from one summer doing that, but I bet it was an important experience.
There where also far to high expectations when it came to the result of our work. So we worked really hard to achieve what they wanted from us.
I spent 2 years selling meat off the back of a truck door to door in Charleston SC. Amazing unteachable life lessons of all manners.
"I feel like that's not the most effective way to relate stories in an entertaining and accessible way."
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"It can be a real jungle out there in the French quarter-"
*dog pisses in grass for effect*
I was a tour guide in Dublin for 4/5 years. This is almost exactly the same experience as mine!
Except with more alcohol?
You got me with that cigarette ad. I was about to move on when you said it was a joke. Watched to the end. Excellent video.
Almost did this during the recession, but managed to snag a library job instead. I still wonder if I missed out on a chance to collect some good stories.
Nay on the (slight, probably unintentional) insinuation that all the tourists on ghost tours believe in the paranormal. It's still fun to be led around and hear an entertaining guide do their bit on all the spots even if you're not a crazyperson. :) Also very interesting to know that the interest in that stuff wasn't really around before Interview with a Vampire.
Good point. Don't get me wrong, ghost tours ARE fun.
Thanks for the shout out! Loved the video & love the channel! Can't wait to see what you have coming up . AWESOME JOB 👏👏
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Remember the old saying- “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.”
Almost had me going with the cigarette ad.
"Ahhhh haha, this is going to be some kind of joke."
"Heh...heh... waiting for the joke..."
"Where... where is the joke?"
"WHERE'S THE JOKE!!??"
"Phew... there it is."
I wasn’t in New Orleans, but I was an EMT here in metro Atlanta during Katrina and worked as a part of a multiagency response to patients and evacuees being flown in to the local Air Force reserve base. I worked 72hr straight (mandatory overtime) and it was a situation of controlled chaos. We had no idea when planes full of people were showing up or what they were showing up with...there were fears of malaria and TB widespread in the patient population. We were cramming our ambulances as full as possible and driving them wherever we could to offload them to a facility. After 3 days I essentially hitch-hiked from the staging area so I could get to the rehearsal and prep for my cousin’s wedding the next day (in which I was the best man).
Thank you. My daughter was a first responder in Katrina as she could not reach me. My house on the North Shore was destroyed. We know of the 250,000 volunteers who came through charitable and church groups to serve and save us all. On Thanksgiving Day she was one of those serving the millionth meal.
Hey man, I was wondering why I hadn't seen you out in a while. Glad to hear you've moved on in a way that makes you feel good. Let me know if you ever want to collaborate!
My god. I'm a tour guide in Normandy, France, and while I can relate to some of your stories, many are just choking ! Sound like New Orleans is a very difficult place to be a tour guide ! Cheers, former colleague !
I did 2 tours with French Quarter Phantoms on my last visit in March 2019. Our guide Aaron A.K.A. "Duckie" was a great guide, and I hope when we go back, he is still doing it. We did the Treme Tour and the St. Louis cemetery #1 tour with him. You could tell he had a passion hard to match.
Alternate title:
Dungeon Masters guide - French Quarter (Difficulty: hard, Reward: great)
You're quickly becoming a favorite History Tuber. Look forward to more content
Dr John, New Orleans legend, RIP.
The best way to be a New Orleans tourguide is to be born and raised in New Awlins, brah.... Of course, no offense to you nor any other non-New Orleanian tourguides. Born and raised in the Magnolia Projects (ain't there no mo') and bring my out-of-town guests on tours to include the 'holes in the wall' spots. Those are the perks of being born and raised here. Oh, and I do it pro bono simply because I love my city. Good video, bro.
Put me on bruh. Been here for a year and one of the first things I said was take me where the locks eat. They took me to Triangle 😂 it was fire lol what's some good mom and Pop joints that ain't Daisy Mae's or some shit
@@keithwhitfield361 You are right. Triangle Deli has always been good. Willie Mae's Scotch House is alright... Acme Oyster House and Deanie's Seafood is good too..
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99% of tour guides in New Orleans are transplanted hipsters. They usually think they know EVERYTHING. Locals, for the most part, despise the culture and the tourists.
Aawww.....I work as a registered guide. But you are so right! I grew up at Broad and Washington and the stories from my family.....are what people love the most! New Orleans natives are fucking beautiful.
This is a very open and honest narrative about your former profession. You should write a book! I’m glad you were able to have such a unique experience but practice self preservation at the same time. You should definitely do a little more research and do a Katrina video. I can answer as many questions as I can if you have any.
Love the fact that was a pic of the band Days n Daze when you were talking about gutter punks lol
Ah yes I used to blast their music when I was a tweaker. Didn't even realize it was them. Very hype niche music.
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I can relate so much with joking with tobacco, acknowledging its harms, and smoking.
I took a few tours in New Orleans. There was one guide that still sticks out to me as an absolutely wonderful guide, enthusiastic and knowledgeable and great energy. The bad one was very blah. And she talked more about the movie mean girls with some girls in the tour than she did like history.
My Aunt and Uncle had a small tour business in Nola.My Aunt only did day tours! And plantations. They took foreign people French, spanich, speaking, ECT, my Uncle did the night tours. I took the tours they were fun! Loved the garden district! And the zoo! I didn't have any bad experiences while I was there.
I went on an NO ghost tour a couple months before you filmed this. My tour guide was great, she definitely had the theater background that you mention, but it would have been so cool if you were my tour guide, I'd love to hear extra history. My favorite stop was Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop because I had just gotten very drunk there the night before. Glad I randomly found your videos and got your version of the ghost stories.
Even when speaking about a topic I care next to nothing about, you still manage to capture my interest for the entire video. You're channel is going to be huge
I went on a ghost tour in Philly, and I'm pretty sure no one there believed in the stories, but it was good fun. We also learned a little history too!
I just found your channel 2 days ago. I'm already a big fan. #cheers.
I really enjoyed this video. I've never been to New Orleans, but I feel like hearing about the tour industry there helps me better understand experiences I've had on tours in other places. I've always really enjoyed in-person historical tours, and while I am ok with a lack of historical accuracy, it would be great if, perhaps by using the internet, there could be a sustainable market for tourists who would, in fact, be interested in a more historically accurate tour, focussing on social history. With COVID, that all seems very far off! For now, I'm very happy to be enjoying your videos!
Excellent presentation! Former "local" there. Followed all your geographical references. Have friends who were tour guides. Very sorry about current COVID-CRAP! Best wishes!
Back when I worked security, I used to work with a tour company that did nighttime tours of old Welsh castles, and I was surprised by how much worse people act on tours compared to when they're at a pub or bar. I was really surprised how rowdy they got, the company's policy was if you so much as interrupt the tour guide you have to leave the castle, drunk people usually lasted 10 minutes into a 2-hour tour, I eventually lost that particular job as they switched to remote tours which are just a set of wireless headphones that the tour guide can talk to people through while sitting in an office, so I was no longer needed to protect the tour guide I instead worked for the organisation that owned the castle rather than the tour guide to make sure tourists didn't vandalise or damage the castle while they were on remote tours.
The company eventually lost its licence to do tours of that castle due to the way tourists were acting, everything from damaging signs, starting fights going to the bathroom where ever they wanted, and even having sexual intercourse while on the tour... But I will say Americans were usually the nicest tourists, although to be fair most Americans were usually families, compared to say other tourists (I'm not going to single out any particular nation, other than they tended to be from countries neighbouring Wales..) who were usually 20 year old single males who had just joined the tour after leaving a sports game.
Move to Metairie Asshole. This cracked me up after i visited New Orleans last month to help a disabled friend renovate her house. Love your content.
This has made me curios about doing this in my hometown.
In college, my dorm building was on the National Historic Register, so there were always tours going through the public parts of the building. So many freaking tourists would take pictures of us eating in the dining hall (the old hotel parlor) or in the courtyard. Like, I get it, it's a historic place and it's gorgeous, but it made us feel like props on a set laid out for entertainment.
Also, tourists would block pathways and not move, making us squeeze past them to get to the elevators. They'd also stop us in the courtyard *IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCHOOL DAY* to ask us questions about where things are or ask us questions about the college or the building. I get that they're tourists and are bound to have questions, but it's not a secret that it's a functioning college campus with students who need to get to classes.
The ad about the cigarettes really concerned me lol, it just kept going and I was like “wait, he’s joking, obviously, right? … Right?
So as a history teacher, how much do I have to pay you to set up a tour where me and a group of other people with history degrees tour the French Quarter and we all drunkenly argue socio-economic history of Louisiana?
Read the history of the birth of New Orleans in "Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of the Baroness Pontalba" by Tulane professor Christina Vella.
@@annbush1826 Oh my god I have just learned about this woman and I already love her. Thanks for the recommendation :)
We shall drink together when my gofundme for the drunken history tour happens
the story about the homeless guy almost made me cry it hit hard I dont know why
Took a tour of New Orleans back in the 1990's and our tour guide was attacked. It seemed to be a personal vendetta was someone else. It turned into a fist fight and the mounted police were called to break it up.
Katrina survivor here... I am definitely interested in becoming a tour guide
I used to be a motion picture lighting technician, and one time I was working at Universal Studios. I saw a tour tram go by, and the guide was pointing to a building with the Alfred Hitchcock logo on it, saying that was where Hitch had his offices. And right then and there, I saw what bullshit the tour was. Because I had worked at Universal while Hitchcock was still alive, and I knew his offices were right next to the Universal Commissary, next to the food...
I've only been to New Orleans once, around 1995. I was flown there by my friend, Teddy Haggarty, who was Alec Baldwin's standin on a movie being shot there. And Teddy wanted to have an art exhibition at a locals bar on Conti off of Bourbon, the name escapes me now. So he brought me to hang his paintings there. Teddy also had some strippers as friends, who we made up like mermaids, and we carried them to the bar to sit on it. Teddy used the bar as a stage for a surrealist play. I loved the city and explored quite a bit. I have friends from Arts District of Downtown Los Angeles, who live in NOLA. Teddy also had a girlfriend, a blonde, who was a tour guide, I forget her name. But she had been the girlfriend of a New Orleans artist named, Noel Rockmore, who did the illustrations for a Bukowski book, I think called Death Hand and the Maiden, and also was responsible for the portraits of musicians in Preservation Hall. Teddy and his brother Leonard owned a business in New Orleans called Architectural Angel, which business was destroyed by Katrina. When I was in New Orleans, I tried to find a friend from his Another Planet days in Downtown Los Angeles, Clyde Casey; The Avant Guardian, who builds mobile drum machines in NOLA. Never found him while I was there...
I myself live in New Orleans' unofficial sister city, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico...
I was in New Orleans when they were filming that movie around St. Peter’s st
I took an acting class freshman year of college spring 2023 semester and I love US History which is cool because I loved the Broadway musical Hamilton
I did ghost tours in St. Augustine, FL for years. Same there!! But I also had some weird other worldly crap happen too!!
I was a tour guide for a time in a Colonial southern historical home and a homeless man wandered into the home with the tour upstairs. He then ordered the tour out of his house because he was the king of England and as the king, he held domain over the home since it was in the colonies. After ejecting the king he then stood in the church graveyard across the street yelling at the house and the squatters (us) in it. For three hours. In torrential downpour. Tour guiding in urban areas is interesting. (Also we weren't allowed to call slaves "slaves." They were the "servants." The home was (and is) owned by a 'descendant' group that wants nothing more than to push Lost Cause trash rather than face the fact that their ancestors were terrible, terrible, people.)
Great channel . love your vids
me watching being like "i would be the good kind of a drunk person"
No idea how I came across this. I subscribed but don’t know why ;) I live in Picayune, about 45 min away from the city, have been thinking of taking a ghost tour (still am) but appreciate the reality check. Just seems like a different way to spend an evening.
You had me in the first half of the ad, not gonna lie.
Tour guide here, and No. I do not tell stories that I know are false. Or if I do, it is to immediately debunk it. Yes, the truth is watered down, simplified and dumbed down, but I try my best to be accurate. I get REALLY Tired of people saying all the tour guides are lying. And yes, I get groped on tours. But NEVER by gutterpunks. It's always tourists. Hell, two nights ago I had a guy on another tour walk by me while I was telling a story and grab my ass.
I'm so sorry, that's always disgusting to hear about. Some people are sick. I hope there are at least some upsides in the job. I've had some tour guides that captivated attention with fascinating history of places. If nothing else, it's a job that can certainly leave a mark on visitors. Do stay safe out there, and all the best to you!
honestly the socioecenomic background of the 1811 slave revolts sounds really good rn
Ah Mavericks the only cigarette that got me suspended.
"Are you a spy?"
"Why yes I am, which is why I need the job for my cover."
Love the background pups
I have a love/hate relationship with NOLA. I like day trips to the museums, aquarium, and zoo, but hate dealing with the nightlife.
“So you wanna be a tour guide in New Orleans”
Me, a Czech, who has never been in America: Well yes, but actually no
Had a similar life experience about 6 years ago as door to door salesman for a company I will not mention because I do not want to be sued. I feel like these experiences of meeting the best and worst people back to back are part of any job where you regularly interact with the public. I didn’t make very much money cuz it was on commission only (I was desperate right after college and am financially secure now) and quit after 9 months of that. Yeah I will never work a job like that ever again. Little rant related to the story of the loud speaker man. People in upper class communities are the worst by far. Not all, but generally that’s where you see your Karens and Kens living and making life shit for the people around them. I would prefer selling at trailer parks any day of the week over selling even close to an upper middle class neighborhood. I will never live in a neighborhood with an HOA because of the experiences of dealing with those people. I did learn a lot about sales though and having thick skin which has been very helpful these days.
Savannah is known throughout here in the state of GA for its ghost tourism, not for anything specific like Salem, but because of it's long history as the oldest city in the state and its beautiful antebellum atmosphere in many parts.
Also you caught me with that joke. Started thinking about how we've had restrictions/prohibitions of tobacco ads on TV and radio since the 1970s and realizing that since UA-cam is naturally more deregulated than either platform, it is totally possible for someone to actually sponsor tobacco on here.
Unless there is some obscure part of the Community Guidelines or Terms of Service that prohibit it, which I give those videos a month or two, give or take some years, before the algorithm finds out.
You give off big Adam Scott from Party Down vibes
None of us is ever as bad as all of us. The General Public is the worst. Individually, you are witty, charming, funny and smart. As a mass, you are the WORST.
Lol ok now I recognize your hypnotic style. NOLA tour guide cadence
So basically being a New Orleans tour guide is at least as bad of not worse than working in fast food? I’ve been fascinated by the culture of New Orleans since seeing Interview with the Vampire when I was 12. I’ve never been but it’s definitely on my list of places to see before I die. I love your videos in fact I’m currently binge watching them all. I can’t get enough of “Checkmate Lincolnites”.
Aby time you ask why something is some specific way, in new Orleans.
The correct answer is always, because its new Orleans.
The constant micro-aggression sounds a lot like teaching adolescents, except the money isn’t good.
I love how he got sponsored by rj Reynolds and then by Philip Morris. That’s like getting sponsored by Apple and then by Microsoft
7:05 lmfao
Were you doing this back in 2015? Also at Gettysburg did you get a lot of Lost Cause apologists during the tours?
I was doing it in 2015! And oh yeah, big time.
Sounds like I was lucky to B on tours that were chill.
I wish you would still tour guide. Maybe a special paid tour for fans of the channel. I'd totally pay for a guided tour directly from you.
What's on your shirt? It's really cool
If I were a tour guide I’d be packin heat, just from what you’re telling me
OMFG The Mavericks commercial I'm dead
Great channel
lol the tobacco ad was hilarious
Sal is the star of the show. Dachshunds love the spotlight, 😂
This video is basically "Oh yeah, being a tour guide is great, except for the customers, locals, and tourists"
It was very interesting, though
Αll one need to be a tour guide is high charisma ;).
Very interesting. Are there many foreign tourists in New Orleans? Do tour operators offer tours in foreign languages?
There's many foreign tourists in New Orleans but I'm not sure if there's tours in other languages
I love Verti Marte
My family moved to new Orleans. In hope of treating their parkinson's. It's a weird place, I hope for the best. But living 10ft below sea level is no way to live
It’s like the people who bought the goonies house and were grumpy about tourists. New owners own it now and love tourists.
I want to hear about the socioeconomic implications of the 1811 slave revolt.
Me, too😊
“Move to Metairie... asshole
I died
Doing an interview with various Katrina survivors would be a great way to take yourself out of the seat of authority as a transplant I guess.
Been both a guide on Bulgaria blacksea coast and also have in some way shape or form involved with local archeology, I was discussed with the type of tourist that our industry and government target. We are Europe oldest country( no Italy is not Rome and I won't even start with the birth place of Civilization and our southern neighbors and they're BS.) The oldest Gold jewelry is at the museum in Varna, most towns on the coast are 3000 and more years old and I can go on like that for way to much, but we are know for having the cheapest boose in the EU and the shit house named Sunny beach which happens to be just next door to the oldest town in Europe but the people who go there don't even see the sea because they have a room that looks the other way a the pool bar is on that side of the hotel, true story 2 weeks next to the beach and learns that there is a sea on the way to his plane to the UK. And American history student gets told by his professor that there is nothing interesting in Bulgaria. Just ruins from 4 empire's just in walking distance from my home in the center of Sofia (the capitol) probably the last place I will tell someone to go to when in my country is, it's nice but for holidays If you have more than a month ok spend a day or two here there is lot of cool stuff just there's cooler stuff else were and ok we have
I am a tour guide. That guy on Dumaine with the speakers is the fucking worst. Luckily, I am a singer and I can project. I just scream over them to spite him bc I am petty.
This was interesting. Do carriage drivers fall under "tour guides" also? When I was in NOLA the carriage driver said some things that I Iearned later on from a tour guide were inaccurate. I trust what the tour guide said more because she grew up there, the carriage driver was a tranpslant.
You are the man to ask.
Where exactly is the 'House of the Rising Sun '?
Might be cool if you were to offer private tours for history minded people, if that were possible and you want to do that
"Move to Metairie asshole" killed me. Good vid
I think I would love being a tour guide especially because I am a history buff but not in New Orleans because I live in Illinois and I am not moving that far to become a tour guide.
"just ....just what a way to go....."
"...anyway yeah the turnover was really high"
yo i fuckin diedat this part(no pun intended)
Oh shit the speaker guy! Do you know the guys across from the LaLaurie on Gov. Nichols who literally tries to spray people with his hose from his balcony?
Does anyone know the name of the song during the cigarette part? 7:53
this dude and his Tobaco stuff