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Introduction to the Cleanup Project

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Mardi Gras cleanup- Incredibly tough Dirty Job

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The narrator, a man wearing a hoodie, introduces himself and his wife. He explains that they are in New Orleans, not just for Mardi Gras festivities, but to document the extensive cleanup efforts. He highlights the dedication of the cleaning crews, mentioning that they work 365 days a year, sometimes up to 20-21 hours a day during peak times. The couple shares a humorous anecdote about inadvertently booking their anniversary trip during Mardi Gras, leading to a surprisingly expensive hotel stay. The narrator emphasizes the dramatic transformation of the streets from heavily littered at night to 'spotlessly clean' by early morning.

Goal: Provide context and motivation for documenting the Mardi Gras cleanup.

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compared to my plan gee there's garbage everywhere in this city I mean you can't go you can't move without stepping on garbage and dragging it through and kicking it around these guys got tough work holy Wow all right you guys we're in New Orleans but today we're not gonna be just checking out Mardi Gras and Bourbon Street and the parties but we're gonna be checking out what it takes to get it ready for the next day these guys work 365 days a week and I just found out that sometimes they put 20 21 hours a day in we're gonna be showing you exactly what it takes to get the job done so what are we waiting for let's do this thing some onion chicken looks good cheese stuff she's off to work at the hospital but in 20 minutes yeah did she make supper for us before she goes sometimes which is really awesome because the kids don't like frozen Jack's pizza over and over again every night for some reason yeah I don't know why gross it's good stuff so we went to New Orleans and we accidentally went to Mardi Gras I know that sounds kind of weird right accidentally going to Mardi Gras but you planned it out because we missed our anniversary long story short when I say we it was supposed to snow and so yeah like a dusting it was pathetic I still had to go mmm and you said you booked a trip for us to New Orleans mm-hmm which happened to be you didn't know about it when you did it yeah she's like why is it so expensive to go to New Orleans I'm like I don't know it shouldn't really be that exists I did I like New Orleans I really like New Orleans I think it's awesome it's a fun place but it was Mardi Gras yeah it was Mardi Gras oh it was crazy and I was like it pumps for the parties and everything else but what I didn't expect was the garbage I mean I didn't expect her but she seemed to think it was normal but if you ask I mean do you think the day not at the very end that's successive but parade after parade and throwing stuff at people and so alright so in their defense so you guys are gonna see tons of garbage and some of you guys are gonna get pissed and I get it it's it's yeah but it's how many parades do they have there during Mardi Gras it's not one parade one day it's like multiple parades every day it starts in the morning it's like 10 o'clock you get up there's a parade I think there was a parade going at 8 one morning and it's just constant parades and so there is a crew and when you get up really early in the morning the streets are spotlessly clean good of a…

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