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00:02:25.280 support today's guest is a garbage man um out of staten island uh recently voted one of america's top

00:02:34.720 70 islands um he is a man who spent 20 years in the gar business and he knows it he knows it baby

00:02:45.920 he knows pails and bins baby pails and bins he's done it all he collected garbage in new york city and

00:02:52.160 outside of the city we're going to learn everything you want to know about it today's guest is garbage

00:02:58.960 man mr wayne owen

00:03:02.640 wayne owen what's up the old

00:03:32.560 thanks for having me yeah thanks for coming in dude so um you are a you are a you're a garbage

00:03:38.560 man correct do you guys have a term that you guys use within the industry well we used to you know we

00:03:44.960 used to go with sanitation engineer okay that was our thing it made you sound a little more like needed

00:03:51.840 and wanted yeah compared to a garbage man yeah and i guess we'll find out i guess even through the course

00:03:57.040 of this chat if it's does you know where does it kind of land i think you know and that's one of

00:04:02.000 the reasons yeah i want i just want to learn all about the industry so you um you in what area were

00:04:07.920 you in i started in manhattan grew up in staten island okay um started in manhattan i did almost

00:04:14.320 two years and then switched over to staten island and finished my career there i did 18 18 years in

00:04:20.000 standout damn you did 18 years bro thank you for your service yeah first of all so how do you get

00:04:26.240 into it how does it even start like is it a family thing like your father picks you you know just like

00:04:31.520 picks you up when you're young and put you in a recycling bin or something like you know how does

00:04:36.080 it is no it's it's rule with them in new york like uh you know you take the city test okay college

00:04:42.720 don't work out you fall back on a city job you know sanitation police you know firemen so those are

00:04:47.840 different city tests so those are different options yep and you different tests okay so a lot

00:04:52.480 of people that don't go to college in new york they'll fall back into that and those are one of

00:04:56.160 the options correct so you take a different test so you took a sanitation test yes wow and that was

00:05:02.960 it was sad but it was it was a joke really like one of the questions i'll never forget never forget

00:05:10.240 how would you pick up this pile of dirt and there was like a garbage truck like you can't use that

00:05:15.840 and then there was like a shovel with a broom which of course that's what you would use

00:05:19.520 and then just like a rake like just craziness oh it's like but people get these things wrong man

00:05:24.880 you never oh yeah you see somebody raking dirt all the time you know and you usually yell a slur

00:05:31.040 at them out the window if you're me but um so you take the test is it how many people go take the test

00:05:37.280 do you take it at like a center do you is it like it's not like where do they do it it's not like

00:05:42.480 a mad msg or something like that no no no no they use like public schools okay like anything

00:05:47.680 that they have available okay high schools grammar school whatever they have okay so you roll up like

00:05:51.920 the night before do you get a lot of sleep do you like show up with like you know are you kind of

00:05:56.720 preparing for do you think it's going to be so easy no yeah they get you the book like they have a

00:06:01.360 book to take the test okay and like after the second page you're like all right this is this i can't

00:06:06.960 read this book oh damn it's worse than when you went into reading the book you're like wait what

00:06:12.320 what's going on you know so yeah they you know my test a hundred thousand over a hundred thousand

00:06:19.360 people signed up but they did a lottery so and everybody has to pay the 30 35 whatever it is when

00:06:25.520 you sign up you have to pay yeah you send your you know your form in with the money but my test

00:06:30.960 they only and they only did it this one time they only let 30 000 people take the test so those other

00:06:36.880 70 000 didn't even get to take it damn but they still paid their money oh damn bro it's it's yeah

00:06:42.960 it's just like anything else oh yeah get their money in they'll get their money wow bro that's crazy

00:06:49.760 yeah so now you got 70 000 people who are pissed at the city you know wow okay so you take the test

00:06:56.320 you're in there you you now how long does it take to get your score it takes a you know they give you

00:07:02.640 a few months i'd say yeah a few months until you get your score i mean they'll come on if i i wish i

00:07:08.880 was trying to get a the test to bring it here yeah really it was a joke and i was actually in there

00:07:13.760 with high school friends and they were all running out i was the last dude in the test like i'm like

00:07:17.760 what's going on here and i'm not the smartest you know guy in the world but me neither i'm like what is

00:07:22.400 going on so i rushed through the last two questions yeah guess which ones i got wrong that those two

00:07:28.000 that's it wow so i got a 103 out of 105 almost a perfect score oh dang okay so now you are you

00:07:34.560 looked at like uh you come in as a pretty high rank then like are you like yeah so they give like uh

00:07:41.040 veterans and stuff extra like credit you know well deserved and like i think my list of them uh i want

00:07:48.400 to say it was like 348 okay out of you know the 30 000 or 15 i forget what the number was you were in

00:07:54.560 the top 400 yeah wow okay i was hired within a year okay and so you so you still are waiting a year to

00:08:00.560 get hired yeah and what is why is this is there no job positions what is it is it a busy industry

00:08:06.240 yeah well they just you got to wait till people retire oh okay you know they have a set number

00:08:11.280 and that's what they go by okay all right so you're ready so somebody finally retires or something

00:08:16.400 happens to them and then uh now you get called in right yeah where were you when you got the call

00:08:23.360 i was probably just home doing something stupid yeah yeah you know i've done that i was still

00:08:28.800 working in manhattan doing like i was a court runner for my cousin okay so i you know i was working yeah

00:08:34.720 but you know my mother said listen you could be retired in 20 years you got to take it i was 21.

00:08:40.640 wow i wanted to you know you know what 21 year olds do yeah nothing yeah dude it's great no but you

00:08:48.640 want to go out and party and like that's where your life starts right you know like oh parties and but

00:08:53.760 i grew up in staten island where we were going to bars of 16 17 years old right so you already did all

00:08:58.560 that yeah and so who yeah did your mother say look i think this is something you should do

00:09:03.200 oh no she was like no you're doing this oh wow but thankfully enough because she saw the end of it

00:09:07.600 right she said do you want to be working to you know 60 70 80 years old you know is that really

00:09:13.120 what you want yeah so there's a there is the light at the end but you got an andy dufresne yeah listen

00:09:22.000 it's better than any other job i'll put it that way wow okay well i gotta know more then man so all

00:09:27.520 right so you get in you're hired you're you're excited you get your first day like how does that

00:09:32.720 really go and do you go to like a training camp or whatever do you guys yeah they send you for the

00:09:37.360 driving uh training okay and they teach you on dumb trucks okay so that's like two three weeks that you

00:09:43.920 do your road test you get your cdl you know your license to drive the trucks okay now then like two

00:09:50.400 days they'll bring out and this was in randall's island okay and they want i think they did two days

00:09:56.960 they bring a garbage truck out there okay there's two steering wheels there's two steering wheels in the

00:10:01.200 truck there's two steering wheels and you gotta like pick which one you would use now huh well

00:10:05.200 no it all depended on what street you were on like if you were picking the right right side of the

00:10:09.360 street up you could drive from the right so you're close wow you know so you can know because that's

00:10:13.520 the biggest thing on the job you gotta put that thing where your partner wants it to make the day go

00:10:17.680 easier okay if i gotta start dragging garbage around cars and everything else now we're not having a

00:10:22.320 good day and then when you get back in the truck there's beef when you're in the cabin yeah oh yeah

00:10:26.320 wow yeah i i there were a few guys that and they're good friends of mine yeah i would let them know

00:10:32.400 yeah beautiful oh yeah we need that that's what we need to see is like instead of cash cab we need to

00:10:38.240 see uh you know that would be oh yeah the sanitation cab violence bro yeah there was some bad ones yeah

00:10:46.480 that's beautiful bro no well years ago when i first got on they used to have like a one bench like

00:10:52.480 across the the truck okay they got rid of those so it was just a left side and the right side okay

00:10:57.280 you mostly drive from the left in manhattan okay you know driving from the right that was frowned upon

00:11:02.000 it just because everything is different from driving to on the right side you gotta it's a whole different

00:11:07.120 driving situation oh yeah every now and then you meet some fella trying to drive from the right

00:11:15.600 but in staten island it was like a law like you had to drive from the right okay so there's

00:11:20.720 certain places where you got to skid over to the so in that instance you would just get over to the

00:11:24.640 other side of the car and for that length of the the truck yeah there's like a little button you hit

00:11:29.120 okay it just switches the now you drive from that side wow dude today's truck still have that yes okay

00:11:34.720 okay great okay cool i didn't know that man it's real interesting because yeah dude one time i had to

00:11:40.560 take a driver's head or whatever and they had the dude over there you know and this i think the car

00:11:45.760 i was in was like uh um it was a toyota tercel bro and the trunk was missing i remember in the dude's

00:11:52.800 car so there was this total wind current like constantly like it like just happening in the

00:11:59.200 vehicle you know and uh and yeah and i remember driving that just out of sheer fear like this guy's

00:12:06.400 out of his mind you know and he'd pop the brake and kind of smile at me and i'm like this

00:12:11.280 dude's fucking flirting with me bro i'm trying to learn you know this dude's trying to you know

00:12:16.720 touch a child or whatever all right so you get the first day man how does your first day on the job

00:12:22.560 they literally so are my garage they tell you hey show up on this time 6 a.m uh west side 30th avenue

00:12:29.680 you know manhattan 6 was my first garage so i'm like all right over near uh javits center okay all

00:12:36.000 right so it's right right a block from down from there okay so you get down there do you go down

00:12:39.760 there a lot or no no okay i i when you work in manhattan you want to stay out of manhattan okay

00:12:44.960 you deal with it all week you deal with nonsense yeah anytime i worked in manhattan i just never

00:12:48.800 wanted a party in manhattan yeah i couldn't stand it all right so you get down there yeah so i get

00:12:55.040 there and you know you're meeting all these guys yeah i met a few when i signed up the new guys we

00:12:59.280 came in with i think like 11 new guys wow so i knew them by face i didn't really get to know

00:13:04.000 anybody oh yeah i just watched band of brothers have you seen that no oh it's so good no and you and

00:13:08.960 you're you're meeting like you know there's some old timers on there that don't like the

00:13:13.120 new kids coming in really huh yeah they got like you know grumbling uh yeah you know junior scum

00:13:18.800 guys yeah this and that yeah scabs or whatever so they're like all right here they hand me a piece of

00:13:24.880 paper and they said go pick this guy up on second and 20th so we had these sections all around manhattan

00:13:32.880 where guys would go because the garage wasn't big where i was at okay so you would have section guys

00:13:37.120 show up there garage guys show up at the garage i was at okay and i'm like wait i had to like

00:13:43.360 think to myself like i'm gonna drive this garbage truck never drove in a city street where we were

00:13:49.200 driving up randall's island we were going in a circle okay so now you're putting cars people so

00:13:54.000 you're in the truck downtown yeah and now they're like oh go pick up this partner dang bro i never

00:14:00.880 drove a truck in manhattan let alone you you've probably driven a car or been in a car in manhattan

00:14:07.120 it's not fun oh it's alarming it's crazy and so now you're driving the truck and is it

00:14:13.040 jesus christ that's scary your your first day you know your whole thing is the mirrors yeah you know

00:14:20.240 worrying about you it's a truck you know it's not a car yeah i got there okay and let's put it that way

00:14:27.840 all right i was all right i didn't hit nobody no hurt nobody um and i picked this dude up okay

00:14:35.040 you know probably 35 years on the job oh he's been in there huh scraggly looking guy big beard

00:14:41.600 yeah come on kid you're with me i'm like ah here we go oh come on kid yeah so you know what you're

00:14:49.840 falling into that right he's suddenly setting the stone you know yeah he might have been one of the

00:14:54.960 drivers oh guys where you were at he might have been one of them lurkers the way he said it kind

00:15:01.040 of scared me you know oh i bet if you pluck a hair out of his beard and test it for nine-year-olds

00:15:06.880 who knows what will come back you know but yeah bing um but yeah dude and everybody's like looking at

00:15:13.920 you wow because it's like you got stuck with this guy oh really huh so that's right away i'm like oh man

00:15:19.920 all right and like rule of thumb first thing they teach you is do not stand behind the truck

00:15:25.360 while the back of the truck is cycling okay it this dude was looking for everything in the truck

00:15:32.320 he had all kinds of shit in his beard oh it was nasty and he didn't even care like it was just

00:15:38.640 like it was awful back there just freaking catching that hot time flying out he's hey

00:15:45.840 you looking for like and looking at me like i'm not in there with him like i'm just throwing it in

00:15:51.360 to get rid of it dude i'm not here to dig through it pulling out like spider-man figures like you know

00:15:55.840 yeah like crazy oh yeah and that would go right in line with one of those kids exactly exactly driver's

00:16:01.840 that teacher he definitely that was his first job so he's just back there just collecting samples from

00:16:08.320 the area huh oh and now when he gets back in the truck like does it what's the inside of the cab

00:16:14.400 does it smell pretty bad in there it's a mess yeah you know until you get your own truck like i had

00:16:19.760 you know once i got a truck where you get time on the job you get a route like dude there's cleaning

00:16:26.000 supplies like we wiped our truck down every day it was spotless in it right but when you had guys

00:16:30.480 that just didn't give a crap yeah you know they were just it was filth man oh you know and what kind

00:16:36.400 of gear are you wearing what kind of gear is a new york city garbage man uh sanitation engineer what

00:16:44.880 type of gear y'all locked in just regular you know dicky pants with a t-shirt jesus winter sweatshirts

00:16:52.880 you know not a wetsuit or nothing like that no you know what days you needed it oh i bet yeah it was

00:16:59.360 when it rained it sucked oh yeah i would think you would go full plastic you know like well

00:17:07.280 gloves and boots were like number one yeah that was always like that's where you spent your money

00:17:11.440 okay your pants it's it is what it is yeah you go wash those oh okay so now you got so you got this

00:17:18.000 kind of guy rolling with you and how long does that shift go i was out there for a while that first day

00:17:23.360 really because he's digging he's looking for you know treasures oh this dude really so he's a real

00:17:28.320 honey there's a five six seven hour you know route where normally routes take about two hours

00:17:33.760 okay wow really yeah so this guy's just out there and he just likes to collect now some of these men

00:17:39.040 just really collectors and they kind of hide masquerading as uh sanitation workers they do that

00:17:43.760 or that some of these guys get this stuff and sell it we have businesses man really yeah they go to

00:17:48.720 like you know flea markets and shit yeah dude you have no idea man one dude in staten island i'd

00:17:55.760 hate to even give him the shout out because he's a douchebag but anyway yeah fuck him but yeah tell

00:18:00.320 me dude he you it was like sanford and son on his roof leaving the garage some days like he'd take

00:18:07.280 you know furniture this that everything yeah and you would catch him at the flea market ah and but

00:18:14.640 dude listen from what was told he had over a million dollars from what he collected and sold in a bank

00:18:19.440 account no uh yep wow so you worked in manhattan and you worked in staten island yeah you can sit

00:18:28.080 this out here too if it's totally different totally different setup so manhattan um like the buildings

00:18:35.600 it's all buildings right you know house to house we used to call it so you would go like pale to pale

00:18:40.400 pale that's maybe on like 10 blocks like where i was at but you get like one building on the corner of

00:18:47.040 just say second and 42nd i mean there's 2 000 bags out there wow and they we used to call them sausage

00:18:52.960 bags okay so they have compactors in the buildings that literally compact these things and then the

00:19:00.080 guys knot the ends and they're you know anywhere from three feet to you know four or five feet long

00:19:06.240 oh yeah it's like somebody making um sausage rings yeah and they were not like and they were not like

00:19:13.040 really so you got that long dog huh and could somebody have put a body in one you think oh

00:19:18.000 yeah you could have put a body in any one of them i ain't looking yeah that other dude is i'm not

00:19:23.360 i could give a damn yeah that dude i would tell people all the time the minute you want to do that

00:19:29.280 just put it in a bag yeah i ain't looking oh that dude's selling femurs on it exactly you know yep

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00:22:43.120 if you decided to deceive somebody or kill somebody i don't like to use that term but make somebody be

00:22:49.200 dead immediately in front of you let's say that uh in new york city you could put them into

00:22:57.120 the shoot in your building the trash well i wouldn't do that like that's a little much but if you had

00:23:03.840 you know access to the compactor okay then i think it's different but if you're going to shoot a dude

00:23:08.800 13 flights down i mean somebody's about to hear you know there's got to be some blood yeah you know yeah

00:23:14.160 ding ding ding ding yeah somebody's gonna hear a wristwatch yeah exactly yeah yeah somebody's watch

00:23:19.360 is going to connect and something's going to ping in and you know how that goes right so if you could

00:23:24.240 get the body down to the compactor there's a chance it could just be thrown out in one of those sausage

00:23:28.640 bags gone wow yeah and we used to do you know you would have cars parked so tight and there's 30

00:23:35.280 just saying a smaller stop there's 15 20 30 bags wow dude i'd be like oh sad day for this jaguar owner

00:23:42.640 i would literally because i would tell you you know i was 21 i was stupid oh yeah i would grab

00:23:47.520 them both sides slide them right across the hood the jaguar oh whatever people do yeah whatever

00:23:54.080 call was that bro i fucking there was nothing better than doing something to the fucking rich

00:23:58.960 boy you know well they just didn't care oh yeah they had no respect for me so now it's like all

00:24:05.200 right oh because they parked illegally they well no they're parked legally but they give you no space

00:24:11.280 so now those bags you know they're heavy and i get it everybody would say well we don't know we're

00:24:15.520 not garbage man right well now you're gonna know yeah now you gotta go to the body shop

00:24:20.560 fix your shit on your dime yeah dude i remember when i used to go over to rich people's houses my

00:24:26.720 buddy jeff would steal so he had a whole collection of silverware and we were poor poor so it was like

00:24:32.800 everybody was rich you know i'm saying we knew people if you had a front door bro you had a little

00:24:38.000 bit of money you know so like jeff has silverware from everybody dude and then if i went over to rich

00:24:44.880 people's houses a lot of times i would pick my nose when they weren't looking and feed a

00:24:48.320 fucking booger to their dog oh man what'd you get out of that a little what was what was the

00:24:54.720 thought process of getting out of that i think for me it was something like uh

00:25:00.320 start from the bottom like you convince these animals to fucking work for you low-key you know

00:25:04.240 i'm saying it was like i'm gonna uh they may think they're doing all this and all of that but who's

00:25:10.400 fucking feeding these animals hey just they just ate your booger yeah so yeah no i get it i mean it

00:25:16.320 was like i'm taking things to the lowest it's like i'm just like i don't know it was probably

00:25:19.840 like some lord of the flies yeah so you got the big sausage bags in the city right yeah and the

00:25:29.360 the city is just oh it's hell it's multiplied crazy like there were times where you knew that

00:25:35.760 like if their compactors were broke like it was awful man really because now they put out

00:25:41.680 so they could probably fit i'd say a normal four or five bags of garbage in one of these

00:25:45.920 sausage bags but now the compactor broke so now they got to put regular just bags out

00:25:50.000 so it just went from 10 to 15 sausage bags to 150 regular garbage bags and it's one at a time you

00:25:56.160 know just chucking them over the cars and like and now do you throw them to a buddy and he puts

00:26:02.720 them in or do you that's the goal in the city you're pretty much just working together the whole

00:26:06.160 time okay when you go to satin island it's like half hour on half hour off okay so i'll drive for

00:26:11.440 a half hour you load for a half hour vice versa back and forth until the route's done okay but in

00:26:16.880 manhattan it's like you know all hands on deck because those bags are kind of heavy sometimes it

00:26:22.160 reminds me a little like watching that show um

00:26:24.560 um it's like a ocean show you know i'm talking about it's like a ocean show and they're angry and

00:26:33.200 every year one of them dies and they put it on like tmz but they are looking for carpers they're

00:26:38.880 looking for uh fish or something maybe i don't know yeah here's a video right here of some sanitation

00:26:46.240 guys ready to throw in garbage bags into yep oh wow that dude huh i was awesome at that were you really

00:26:51.920 bro that dude wow uh-huh that's a private guy that's buddy healed right there yep that's a

00:27:00.880 private guy oh that's a private guy that's not one of your boys yeah so how can you tell me that

00:27:04.560 for a year the truck all trucks were white okay the white elephant that's what they called it and

00:27:10.160 the white elephant always got in people's way really pissed them off oh yeah you guys are the

00:27:13.920 worst dude i used to do the hulk hogan real quick yeah i used to do that i just take my gloves off and

00:27:18.000 they bang you know in manhattan and i'd be like you're an asshole i'm like you should have woke up

00:27:25.040 10 minutes early because now you're stuck behind me and i ain't moving yeah well the craziest thing

00:27:30.800 about it about a sanitation truck is that not only you stuck but it smells bad like hey and they used

00:27:37.920 to get real close and and like i was saying when the shit used to spray out especially rainy days after

00:27:42.640 a rainy day or if it was raining wet days do that thing and the cars would get covered and i'd be

00:27:49.120 like oh well that's on you dude so so that must have been kind of fun just throwing those bags that

00:27:56.560 seemed like something a kid would love to do i just throw them behind my back just running down the

00:28:00.480 street you know in staten island because it's a lot lighter instead of right right so that was in

00:28:05.200 staten island but in the city it's a little bit more you got to have your dude there you guys are

00:28:09.120 loading this thing up you're just keeping it moving yeah um and in the city how many bags can

00:28:13.840 go or those big sausage bags can go into uh the cycle and what's the cycle like of the truck well

00:28:21.280 we i mean you probably fit like five six of those bags in at a time but okay your your average in

00:28:26.560 manhattan was 10 to 13 14 tons of garbage in per truck per truck so you start out with nothing in

00:28:33.840 there empty okay and uh there's a compactor in the middle like in the in the truck and then it

00:28:39.680 just cycles and compacts it the whole time okay and the rule of thumb you got to get the route so

00:28:45.760 you have to get the whole route on the truck so you would have to maneuver sometimes squeeze a little

00:28:49.280 more squeeze a little more really can you hear it getting tight back in there oh yeah yeah oh hey

00:28:54.960 you could feel it it changes the whole drive of the truck really from being empty to heavy yeah

00:28:59.120 yeah yeah you know we spoke one time with a um female truck driver and she had worked with um

00:29:06.880 and her son i think had breast reduction surgery but she had worked with a cement truck right yeah

00:29:14.080 and she said sometimes when the mixer was full she would drive and when she stopped someone the

00:29:19.440 brakes you'd feel the cement come up the like the just the back of it was just really interesting so

00:29:24.960 that kind of made me think of that oh it changes everything just you know you think about it you

00:29:30.560 know you double everything because tons of 2 000 pounds so 36 000 and then the truck is probably

00:29:36.240 another 14 you know you're looking at you know 35 40 000 pounds it ain't easy to stop wow yeah so you'd

00:29:45.680 have to set the you know yeah you can feel that weight huh that's pretty crazy yeah it's harder to stop

00:29:51.120 you know and the trucks were junk to begin with i think they new york got like all the secondhand

00:29:56.080 trucks what they're like oh try this like mac truck like oh yeah try this i'm psych dude it was crazy

00:30:05.440 like for me it was terrible i'm tall i'm six five so it's like just getting in the truck yeah i had to

00:30:10.800 get so used to not hitting my knees on the dashboard it was just not comfortable to sit in so

00:30:16.000 damn but they didn't care whatever they got a discount on they took it wow yeah oh that's

00:30:22.400 everybody nowadays they'll put you in a damn dude they'll put you in a fucking baby stroller

00:30:26.960 and make you put six bags on the baby you know whatever you could fit they're cutting corners

00:30:33.200 three wheels not four like crazy so how tight does that trash get in there can you see it building up

00:30:39.760 like it does it build up some heat is it that yeah no it gets you know when you dump it you'll see

00:30:44.240 it's all it's like a brick comes out it'll start falling out here and there but there's steam coming

00:30:48.160 off of it methane gas man yeah yeah yeah and even if you go out staten island has the biggest landfill

00:30:57.600 in the in the world you could see it from space oh wow that's that landfill and they have constant

00:31:03.920 pipes that are burning because all the methane gas coming out of the ground that's beautiful man god

00:31:10.160 it's almost like um yeah like greece or something they do the olympics or whatever they light the

00:31:15.680 torches yeah um oh wow that is amazing huh yep they stopped dumping it now but that's

00:31:24.080 they should have kept dumping yeah they gave up but it sucks you know because i do know a lot of

00:31:29.760 people that passed away in staten island from cancer but like that the cancer rate on staten island is

00:31:33.920 awful is it really that's why i had to get the hell out of that wow yeah i want to get into some of that so

00:31:38.800 yeah my friend um my friend aaron actually he he's part of a new company called vespine and what they

00:31:44.080 do this is pretty interesting they take the methane gas at landfills and they burn it and it but they

00:31:52.960 convert it immediately into electricity so usable you know yeah that works that so now you have

00:32:00.000 electricity that's right there available so say if they had like trash trucks or something and that they

00:32:04.480 were uh electric electric then they could charge them up immediately or they could use the energy

00:32:09.920 like for a little bit they were using it to mine bitcoin when bitcoin was popular but now they're

00:32:15.200 finding other places to use the energy but it's just kind of fascinating something that's going on

00:32:19.200 but i can't believe that that log is hot huh now what do they call them bricks logs because that's

00:32:24.320 almost like a damn diamond of trash you know yeah it's you know listen when you dump you just dump you're not

00:32:30.000 staring at it you just go out and get out of there you know yeah because we used to dump now in

00:32:34.640 manhattan we started dumping on the side of the turnpike in jersey and that guy burns it but he's

00:32:40.000 got million dollar like filter so he's able to you know there's the smoke coming out to clean really

00:32:45.680 ah come on dude's crazy money dude you have no idea he was getting they were charging 50 something

00:32:53.520 dollars per ton to this city plus he signed like an 80 million dollar contract with the city to take

00:33:00.160 all the garbage because you know who got to get paid off to have the trucks now on the turnpike you

00:33:04.960 know because they don't want that and then he's selling the ash just yeah dude just money over money

00:33:12.160 there's so much money in garbage dude you have no idea really it's a billion dollar business damn yeah

00:33:17.840 and the mafia used to be involved in it right that's why they were in it when you brought up bodies

00:33:22.320 like that's the one thing on stan island those are the myths the tales they were my stepfather

00:33:27.040 god rest his soul used to work out there he was a tractor operator and he said that cars used to come

00:33:31.920 in pimped out lincoln's and they would just all turn around and the car used to go up to the top of the

00:33:37.920 hill never see it again wow car just disappear person disappear they'd pull out see you later fellas

00:33:45.520 that was it it's the devil's ocean baby the landfill yeah there's a lot of stories out there

00:33:52.080 with that landfill i wonder i wish god would just tell us how many bodies are in that landfill

00:33:58.240 sometimes i pray sometimes that i wake up with the number in my head

00:34:02.480 because you uh you know there are definitely did you ever feel like did you ever get a weird feeling

00:34:09.120 or premonition like you're driving the truck home like could there have been a body in there and you

00:34:13.360 have no idea at some point whenever that you're dumping it you would have seen something listen

00:34:18.320 you you definitely think you could get a feeling you know if somebody comes out and says something

00:34:22.800 you're like oh maybe this dude just whacked somebody right you know his wife ain't healthy

00:34:27.600 right now right probably in this bag right like i'll throw it in oh yeah but no i never i had one

00:34:37.040 these two guys came out of the house with a hysterical crime oh yeah i'm like what the

00:34:42.000 fuck happened you know what now and we were in that kind of neighborhood in stan island and i'm

00:34:46.400 like all right what's up our dog died i'm like oh oh my gosh yeah bring it to get cremated with the

00:34:54.000 why are you telling me i try to cut corners a couple of gay dudes trying to cut corners could we throw it

00:34:58.960 in the truck i'm like oh and i'm a i'm a dog owner at the time i'm a dog lover next thing you know

00:35:05.360 we're on the bed dude a yellow lab this thing had to be 100 pounds oh and they both grabbed

00:35:10.880 out they were crying no they were it was on the bed they got rid of the bed the toys the

00:35:16.080 shit was still lined up like he was just playing and then just dead like and they're like okay and

00:35:23.360 just launch them into the back of the truck i'm like i told my my partner i'm like dude you got it i

00:35:28.800 can't cycle that up man yeah like oh it's like oh fuck so it's like you would get the feeling if

00:35:35.360 somebody was like oh yeah can i throw this bag in like where's your wife yeah i don't hear you know

00:35:42.000 i heard y'all fighting last week about garbage and you know and so what then you tell a guy hey you

00:35:47.360 press the button i'm pressing it yeah i just you know in that case i was like dude you i told my partner

00:35:52.160 and he was just he didn't give a he's like yeah all right yeah i was like i'll sell its collar in an

00:35:56.960 hour exactly that bed usable yeah put that on etsy you know on uh on facebook marketplace make 13

00:36:06.480 they'll sell anything on that oh yeah dude you could fucking sell your cousin on that

00:36:10.320 bitch boy you know what i'm saying yeah if he can't read if he's still teachable you know

00:36:15.200 you'll fucking somebody buy that bitch in an hour

00:36:20.080 you go on there and find your ex-wife on that

00:36:22.320 bitch exactly you could buy used barrettes on there if you want to bro yeah wow that bro that

00:36:28.320 brought my my olden age back you say man and barrettes boy back in the day you see a girl with

00:36:33.680 a couple barrettes in or i think what oh you know what girls used to wear when i was like um

00:36:39.440 in school they would wear headbands remember that no my sisters were big in the scrunchies oh yeah

00:36:45.360 they were all over the goddamn place tangled up with hair all kinds of nasty i grew up with three

00:36:50.320 sisters so oh really yeah man i was i was the only boy damn three three sisters uh you know

00:36:58.640 it was i've been through it wow yeah damn and did you um did any of them were they okay when you got

00:37:05.520 into the sanitation game what'd they say they didn't when you you know oh my sister april was pissed

00:37:10.240 really because she filled out the the shit and sent it in and she didn't get picked to take the test

00:37:15.200 god she was pissed oh still to this day she reminds me i got you that job wow i said well

00:37:21.120 i took that test actually it was hard as hell you didn't take it for me she went and took it and

00:37:26.320 didn't pass no no no she didn't get called remember i said oh she didn't get the lottery 15 20 000

00:37:30.960 people took it she didn't get picked to take it it's crazy that even at the like that there's a lottery

00:37:36.800 to like there's like lotteries at every end of the spectrum everywhere of life man yep so what time

00:37:42.480 what what season of the year is the worst time of the year for trash man but definitely the winters

00:37:47.440 the winters were awful

00:37:51.280 like the summers were hot but like once you got used to that smell like even nowadays like it will

00:37:57.440 never i'll never be able to smell how awful it is because you're just used to it yeah like it's

00:38:02.880 like second nature yeah you know the maggot smell and just all that nastiness it's just part of it

00:38:09.360 the winters were grueling man really and that's because of the cold huh just the cold the ice the

00:38:14.080 you know if it snowed you're stepping over all that still got to pick the garbage up now you're

00:38:18.160 working 12 hour days with you know if it snows you're constantly driving around the truck all

00:38:22.960 down you know it's it's grueling and were you a lot of cleats and stuff what would you wear for

00:38:27.520 shoe wear and just boots wow yeah so you had you know you had rain boots you had you know junk boots

00:38:34.160 just for because i always wore like uh like a hiking boot because i can move faster yeah you

00:38:39.920 know when you're wearing like heavy boots like they always said don't wear steel toes

00:38:44.080 because you know god forbid something hits you on the foot it'll snap your toes off

00:38:49.360 so i don't oh the steel would actually snap your toes off yeah so that's the downside of wearing

00:38:54.240 steel toe boots if you're in an industry like that yeah because there are some cans i mean i don't

00:38:59.360 think back in the day they used to be metal cans they used to pick up ash in new york city so

00:39:04.560 everybody would burn that garbage in the buildings and they would have these like 150 pounds steel

00:39:10.400 garbage cans and i had lifted a few of them in my time they're no joke man wow loaded with ash so they

00:39:16.240 that's what they used to just dump so the buildings would just burn their garbage all the housing

00:39:21.920 buildings they used to just get rid of the garbage that way there was no bags on the street so they'd

00:39:26.080 an incinerator in there they would burn it up every building in new york had a incinerator wow

00:39:31.440 yep and when did that change code do you know i don't know one of these people came up with

00:39:37.200 something that it was killing everybody so you know oh probably some monopoly some

00:39:41.120 bullshit one of trump or chris christie's fat buddies i'm sure yeah they were probably

00:39:45.840 take can you look that up when that changed yeah they were probably you know killing the

00:39:50.000 polar bears or something oh yeah igloos were melting somewhere and yeah they got a

00:39:54.800 fucking some grainy video of a fucking rare fox doing two lines of fucking yeah city

00:40:01.360 ash you know and they're like we can't fucking do this no more with a sign stop burning burning your

00:40:08.640 garbage yeah yeah save me yeah how did that fox even learn to write bro nobody asked any questions

00:40:14.320 on this no shit anymore here it is in 1989 mayor ed cock or coach coach

00:40:20.560 wait you know who else talked about it coach i think was uh bobby kennedy jr when he was on talked

00:40:27.760 about ed coach mayor ed coach signed a bill that required incinerators in new york city to shut down

00:40:32.720 within four years and lo and behold all incinerators had stopped operations by the end of 1993 and that

00:40:39.200 was the end of that no more trash burning yeah huh does it say why why any any anything else

00:40:46.000 pollution oh the pollution yeah oh the air pollution yeah they were just burning right like that was if

00:40:50.800 you were burning it in your fireplace yeah they didn't have like i was telling you in jersey this

00:40:55.280 guy has a multi-million dollar you know filter and no more emissions blah blah blah they didn't have

00:41:01.120 that back then oh i see you said every building was burning but weren't the trash men just picking

00:41:05.360 it up and taking it somewhere to burn it no then it was just ash so they would just get rid of it i

00:41:10.000 don't know what they did with it back then but i mean after the trash men after they shut down the

00:41:14.480 incinerators the trash men just took it oh they just put it in a landfill yeah so they weren't

00:41:19.360 burning it no so then that's when there's a few landfills they started there was one in brooklyn

00:41:24.400 there's i think they were like all over new york but staten island oh yeah we're just going to do

00:41:29.200 this for a few years and then it turned into the biggest landfill like known to man wow and yeah what

00:41:34.720 do you say to people who like because a lot of landfills have been filled over with dirt and

00:41:39.280 people buy houses on them right what do you say to the people who you know you buy a house and then

00:41:43.840 four years later you fuck you know everything you know everything you eat tastes like fucking fig

00:41:49.760 newtons and fucking uh baby gravy or something and your son's got fucking facial hair at four you know

00:41:56.400 yeah that's probably what's going on they're actually staten island they're making into a park

00:42:00.800 uh-uh yeah and i mean dude yeah i've seen animals out there some wicked shit i mean dude there's

00:42:10.000 this this gopher or whatever the fuck it was dude it looked like a full-blown people that's how big

00:42:15.440 this fucking thing was i swear i saw a bear out there everybody told me i was crazy but because

00:42:21.200 there was a ton of deer like the deer swim from jersey they were coming in why they hid it over there

00:42:25.680 no it's just like anywhere else they're building and they're pushing them out of their home so now

00:42:29.520 they see this big forest across the and the rivers you know the whatever the hell it is it's not a

00:42:34.560 river but there's a short little spurt from jersey to staten island and one location and they just swim

00:42:40.880 over and they got a whole shit and nobody could shoot them yeah you can't you can't uh shoot that

00:42:45.440 close to the city huh you just can't hunt on staten island what is is there like a habitat on the

00:42:50.560 landfills is there like animalia that's out there living is there what is that like is it almost seems

00:42:57.120 because it's almost its whole own like like narnia like a fucking dirt like a fucking oh definitely

00:43:05.360 trash narnia you see mutant stuff out there really yeah you know rats look like cats yeah um like i

00:43:14.000 said there was like a gopher that looked like a pit bull um you know you got deer running through that

00:43:19.360 place nuts like oh really boys and nobody can hunt them oh you can't hunt them no hmm dude deer

00:43:27.600 people are crazy uh deer people they'll i'm surprised nobody jumps the fence and gets out there you know

00:43:33.920 they try really yeah they've tried but you know they and they have little security here and there

00:43:40.000 guy killed a big buck once and he got he lost they actually got fired oh and it was a mechanic yeah he

00:43:45.040 was a mechanic for the city and got fired he was out there hunting on the landfill yeah he killed it

00:43:49.360 and then everybody saw it because you can't hunt it so you're seeing this this buck walked around like

00:43:53.600 it was his area oh he would be out in the middle of the day just walking the streets you know he

00:43:58.560 didn't give a shit he was a gangster but but now they also put a guy you know on the hill to like keep

00:44:07.200 the population down oh wait so there's a um there's a person that works on the landfill yeah that well

00:44:13.040 they pay a guy who sleeps in a tent on the landfill that you know takes care of the deer population

00:44:21.120 damn are you serious yep you know snips tucks cuts you know all kinds of things he uh they dart

00:44:28.160 the does you read um or neutral uh what's it called neutralizes him no well it's vasectomy

00:44:34.640 vasectomy and you know all kinds of so they're doing animal vasectomy out there on the landfill

00:44:38.560 anything to keep the population down that's beautiful man and he sits out there in the cold

00:44:42.800 and what does he do he darts them and they fall asleep yep then he slips over snips tucks damn

00:44:49.360 it's a wrap gosh yep but some get through sometimes that fucking nut grinch he just rolls up on them

00:44:55.920 huh that's fucking unreal bro yeah man dude's sniper and deer out in the middle of the landfill and

00:45:03.120 shit but that's what they do god because like you said they know they would just run wild that

00:45:09.040 fucking sperm dexter that dude's out there fucking clipping bucks probably selling it too oh yeah

00:45:16.480 oh deer semen dude i'll fuck i'll fucking get rid of a quarter 40 feet of my home here

00:45:22.800 in tennessee anybody will buy that shit oh damn wow bro that's incredible i didn't know that that

00:45:27.680 was a job somebody lives in a tent on a landfill yep and euthanize or sedates and then

00:45:34.160 vasectomies yeah deer they have to keep the population down that's what they do bears are

00:45:40.720 moving across new york it says right here the new york uh state department of environmental

00:45:48.640 conservation is urging residents to secure food sources that might attract bears as bear sightings

00:45:54.320 increase due to the animal search for high calorie meals after winter hibernation wow yeah people i just

00:46:00.000 went to dinner with a couple friends of ours me and my wife and the and no and she's gonna kill

00:46:06.000 me that i'm saying this but and the wife's like wait they like they don't wait for off-peak hours

00:46:11.120 and come over the bridge i'm like you you can't be serious to think deer are running over a bridge

00:46:17.440 to get there like no you know they see the forest they they're getting kicked out of their land

00:46:24.480 they see it so they swim over there yeah well we had a guy this guy was a uh medium-sized animal

00:46:31.440 detective he was on and he had um he said that yeah a lot of times like animals would just get into your

00:46:39.600 house because they don't know it's your house they just their nature is getting destroyed and so then

00:46:44.240 they just go to like whatever seems like a place that's safe you know yeah so sometimes it's people's

00:46:50.560 attic you know because a lot of people was finding raccoons and they add it yep um in a lot of urban

00:46:55.760 areas but uh what else dude okay so that there's methane coming off of that trash block already when

00:47:03.120 the compressors compress it that much yeah there's definitely a light smoke coming off of it if you

00:47:07.680 threw a match in there would it be flammable maybe i listen i wasn't trying that you know to me like i

00:47:12.800 said we get done two hours i could get done be done back at the garage hanging out you know shower

00:47:17.840 done if i get covered with any junk and be done i'm not paying attention to what comes out of the

00:47:22.880 truck at that point is there um how big is that block that comes out of the truck like show me

00:47:28.800 with your hand like how big is that block do you know what out of the garbage truck yeah the one that

00:47:33.680 gets compressed after it's full and it compresses it a full garbage truck a full garbage truck oh it's

00:47:38.960 you know like i said you're at 10 tons i want to say the truck was 14 feet by maybe eight nine feet tall by

00:47:47.840 the width of a garbage truck 12 the things the size of this room to block that's how big the

00:47:54.960 garbage is you know there when i went to stand out and i was doing six tons and that's like

00:48:00.560 totally different situation that's like more just fluffs out but when you're in manhattan you're

00:48:04.320 packing and packing and packing to get that route yeah that just like bro you know does it just come

00:48:09.680 out as like a big do you get to see the brick at the end yeah no it's not like a brick where

00:48:14.960 like it's going to come out as an actual brick and they pick it up and just like build a house with

00:48:19.120 it okay you know what i'm saying it's like it's just falling apart like as it's coming out okay um

00:48:26.880 yeah and then now they ship they ship out the garbage from new york they ship it to like pennsylvania

00:48:32.880 they use it for landfill okay like you had said like they fill those swamps and stuff and then they

00:48:37.920 build on it 10 years later wow and then the son has a beard at three oh yeah dude yeah yeah oh and

00:48:44.240 your son's a fucking mall santa at five years old exactly you gotta but they don't care

00:48:49.840 you know they're making money yeah well i mean that's one of the issues they say that uh

00:48:54.480 a lot of people that's having uh autism um retardation right retardation people i try to say it

00:49:01.440 differently because some people get offended but retardation um all kind of stuff like that like

00:49:07.360 brain problems for children is because our our uh water and food supply is so contaminated you know

00:49:12.880 yeah i wouldn't doubt it it makes sense but they they're not gonna you know how they are they're

00:49:17.440 not gonna test it if somebody's making money off no you know they're making money off of all those

00:49:23.520 unfortunate cases yeah you know so chuck schumer right there why throw that off yeah you know uh

00:49:31.120 is there joy happening around the holidays though is that an exciting time to be out and about like

00:49:35.920 because you get to at least be in this like there's a romanticization of people being in new york city

00:49:42.400 around the holidays right and i know you guys your route runs ran early there what time did your route

00:49:47.200 run yeah we started at 6 a.m okay so you start at 6 a.m so but was it still fun to be in the holidays

00:49:52.640 around that time even though it was so colder it's just the worst time because it's winter yeah no it

00:49:57.280 was still good times you know just a lot more people on the street even in those early days you

00:50:02.960 know everybody's now coming in that oh you know people want to see new york city yeah i don't know

00:50:07.920 why but to me it's just a shithole but yeah you know that's new york for you oh yeah people will come

00:50:15.440 to stare at a shithole you know i mean shit they got porn sites it's based on it um how long would it take

00:50:21.840 you those routes in the city how long does that take how long does a trash route in the city take

00:50:25.360 a garbage man it all depended on the day the route you know your average was two and a half three hours

00:50:31.360 oh wow yeah but by the time you got out there you you know you start at six by the time you get to

00:50:37.600 the route because now we were on the west side we picked up on the east side so you get out there

00:50:42.960 like 6 30 quarter to seven start the route right now you got to drive to jersey to dump it oh so by

00:50:48.880 the time you get back to the garage you're running hustling for to be able to sit down you know eat

00:50:53.760 lunch for you know hour and a half and then you go home okay it's it's not worth it now that i look

00:50:59.760 at it i killed my body for no reason so you get you get there at six you probably leave for work around

00:51:05.920 five or something yeah i was getting up five o'clock okay getting up at five out the door about 5 20

00:51:10.400 yeah you're at a rush because staten island was a nightmare trying to get off it you know there's only

00:51:15.280 the one bridge to get you know the varazano through brooklyn to get into uh manhattan okay

00:51:19.920 the traffic was awful so if you weren't at like i used to meet a few guys at five o'clock at the

00:51:24.720 bridge okay if you weren't there five you weren't getting there by six maybe i'll take a ferry or drive

00:51:29.360 drive okay bet okay so you get that done so you can get it done in a couple of hours right you still

00:51:34.560 get paid you get paid for an eight hour day yeah you get paid the eight hours so there was some like

00:51:38.080 cool value in getting it done quick yeah were you guys racing ever was it fun exactly we you know it was

00:51:43.680 always a competition oh who could get done faster but like i said i look back now you know after

00:51:49.120 having back surgery two shoulder surgeries a knee surgery you know really yeah it you look at you

00:51:55.440 just beat yourself up and for what and does the city pay for those surgeries yeah i was on you know on

00:52:01.600 their time so i did both shoulders and my knee on the job and then a year after i retired i just had

00:52:08.160 back surgery two years in june it was two years wow would you have disc replacement no i actually they went

00:52:13.280 in i had uh discectomy discectomy l5s1 i don't even know wow elemental p that i call it because it's

00:52:19.840 just okay you're pulling out of your back i have five of them and they they they cut out three so

00:52:25.440 but my disc was still okay so they kept them dude you'll be a midget wrestler by next year soon enough

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00:55:25.360 of injuries on the job yeah like i said we ran around like idiots like i say to guys now all of them i

00:55:30.720 still talk to guys on the job i'm like don't stop running around don't do this stuff like what do you

00:55:35.200 mean running around when you say that what like so at one point i want to say five six years on they

00:55:41.680 they cut the steps off the trucks so it was it was all right you used to jump on the back of the truck

00:55:46.160 hang on you know i'm sure you see pictures of guys you know whipping i mean i had guys that do 50 miles

00:55:51.280 an hour and i'm on the back of the truck hanging off with your life oh that's awesome hit bumps and

00:55:54.960 you know yeah yeah but then y'all were doing drugs back there oh i wasn't doing drugs i never did that

00:56:01.200 stuff but there were oh yeah okay you mean hitting bumps in the head bumps oh not yeah my bad man i

00:56:06.720 and i'm not trying to accuse you of doing anything no but listen i'll tell i'll i'll get to that but

00:56:12.800 yeah so you were you know then they cut the steps off the truck why to make it harder for you well

00:56:18.480 pretty much but the union was saying like you know we all thought it was because we were getting

00:56:23.600 done too fast okay you know and listen it's reality like if we're getting done in two three hours

00:56:29.520 they're saying what are you doing the rest of the day which is totally understood being in the

00:56:33.120 union exactly you know and and we would just get be fine we're just going back and hanging out eating

00:56:40.800 lunch you know some guys would you know hang around play cards some others were you know doing

00:56:44.960 what they were doing yeah enjoying their lives but uh but yeah it just wasn't you know to rush and

00:56:51.200 run around but that's what i did when i went stand out i was working with a guy who ran mile

00:56:55.840 like marathons on weekends wow dude my buddy eric he's like dude we were running like i did probably

00:57:01.840 three four miles easy every day running so you're cruising then pull this mic down just a little

00:57:06.640 lower it yeah i'm like running like just running on the side of a truck like just running house to

00:57:12.640 house so it was pretty athletic at that time yeah when you had the when the trucks had the three steps

00:57:18.240 on it was pretty athletic no when they had when they took the steps off you know oh then you got

00:57:24.320 to run alongside of it yeah then we were running along you know more guys were getting a little

00:57:28.240 healthier yeah it's not the most healthy job really yeah lunch always that lunch always came with like

00:57:34.960 dessert oh yeah like you know for what you know a hoagie and then add on some donuts oh yeah coffee

00:57:43.520 get you a little cut of cheesecake on tiramisu around the holidays on yeah in memory of

00:57:49.200 fucking big carlos or whatever yeah i feel that man damn well that's like new orleans i think

00:57:55.680 new jersey and new orleans have always been very similar uh i think some of like i bet probably stat

00:58:02.720 on some of that accent you also hear in new orleans that people like to fucking have a meal it's important

00:58:08.400 you know people have a beer at lunch a lot of times if they only have two or children or less

00:58:13.680 you know you get like a lot of you know it's part of it's a little bit more cultural to be eaten you

00:58:19.280 know so you guys would get done you guys would go eat so you guys are getting paid for the full day

00:58:23.920 you got a couple of hours you get done so you must have been enjoying that yeah it was good it was

00:58:27.920 sit-down time like you said you're getting paid for the eight hours but there were guys that stayed

00:58:32.400 out there all day they didn't mind it they you know on those hot days or the cold days they didn't

00:58:36.800 mind that they stayed out there and do you have to wear a shirt the whole time or what is the uh

00:58:40.720 yeah people do it shirtless or not there were some guys that wore some you know questionable

00:58:45.440 stuff oh yeah but like before i got on like in 96 like all the rules changed they went to the

00:58:52.000 federal license like before that prior you didn't need a cdl to drive the trucks wait you didn't need

00:58:58.080 a you didn't need a commercial driver's license to drive a sanitation until yep up until 96 so those

00:59:03.680 guys were partying those guys were partying i heard some stories so you could you could drive a

00:59:09.920 ford escort and then drive a garbage truck exactly that guy's like a mini cooper like

00:59:14.960 they'll come in in a mini cooper and then jump in the garbage truck i could do this a maximum cooper

00:59:20.400 yeah that's fucking insane so yeah then they went to the federal license so now it means everybody's

00:59:26.240 gotta get drug tested you know random drug tests everything 96 that started yeah and the partying

00:59:33.040 here and there some guys just didn't care so they still went for it would some guys just drink

00:59:37.760 on the job was there any partying on the job i had guys you know one of my best guys you know

00:59:44.400 god rest his soul like literally out the gate 6 a.m hey kids stop over here run into the store come

00:59:52.480 out two tall boys oh yeah you know then and they did the routes where every half hour there was a

00:59:59.440 deli him and his partner so if i filled in with him for his partner like literally every time it was

01:00:05.680 a half hour up there was a different deli oh so they got a cheek full of mortadella and two beers

01:00:10.400 run in praise god brother praise god yeah no guys enjoyed themselves yeah that sounds nice that sounds

01:00:16.320 like it should be you know before they started fucking paint everything in america is a penny

01:00:20.880 pinching fucking fiasco now nobody can have a fucking cheek full of strong cheese and two fucking

01:00:27.120 uh bush lights you know just to get through the work day oh you know there was one dude that

01:00:32.800 dude he was purple at one point why what happened to him he was just drinking oh drinking that much

01:00:38.160 dude his skin was it was awful some people i don't even know if he's alive anymore he's not

01:00:44.400 it's like i ain't alive dude look after purple it just yeah he turned into a blm activist yeah it's

01:00:50.480 a fucking rap after that right right in the ground oh man that's and what about was a lot of uppers

01:00:57.600 because it seems like people would be on adderall people would be on uh cocaine you know people be

01:01:02.720 part you know like was there anybody that could do that kind of lifestyle oh there were guys that

01:01:07.360 party like that yeah you know there was one guy like right out of the 70s my first day in stat now

01:01:13.440 so let's talk about this day like the other one not as bad this guy said like bandana on 70s glasses

01:01:20.960 right out of hippie central yeah oh you're with me i'm like all right cool now i'm in staten island

01:01:27.040 the first day i'm like what the hell's going on here once again they don't know who i am so they

01:01:30.560 shove you with this guy he's like all right kid you go up and drive first i'll stay in the back

01:01:36.480 so i'm like all right so i'm driving around i don't know i live in staten island still didn't

01:01:40.800 know streets wow you know so i'm just driving around yeah and i'm like what's that smell dude's

01:01:46.480 hanging on the back living his dream just toking away getting high huh and then like half hour

01:01:52.400 goodbye all right kid now you go out i'll let you know when i'm ready wow i'm still smiling i'm like

01:01:57.360 but some guys did it and it was a daily thing pull up a picture of stevie starlight if you can

01:02:03.120 see if this this guy looks anything like this gentleman or not but some guys just couldn't

01:02:09.360 couldn't stop man look like this guy a little bit yeah no not that crazy i have yes like like

01:02:20.000 bandana across his head oh yeah yeah yeah you know i know what you're talking about like circle

01:02:25.600 glasses yeah yeah some guy who's uh he listens to springsteen but he don't admit it huh yeah

01:02:32.960 probably in the closet yeah yeah definitely not telling people about it yeah you know um

01:02:39.600 yeah once you get into staten island what things changing because it's more like family housing and

01:02:43.600 stuff exactly and what is that like does it almost feel like a lot easier does it not feel like the

01:02:47.920 front lines of trash because i feel like in the city you're on the fucking front lines you're right

01:02:52.640 there it's coming out of the chute you're fucking you know you got guys catching shit in their beard

01:02:57.680 and shit but out in this out in the in the suburbs it feels like it would be a little bit easier is it

01:03:03.120 or not and listen when you get to the suburbs now it turns into now you're dealing with homeowners

01:03:10.000 like when you were in the buildings you were in the buildings you had you didn't they didn't care

01:03:15.440 yeah you never saw them you know never saw people it's not like hey i'm i'm from 4f yeah you know you're

01:03:22.560 an idiot like they you know they don't care oh in a city you could just drive and just yell out

01:03:27.600 anyway yeah there's cabs beeping like so you never you know you're not waking anybody up everybody's

01:03:32.720 used to it right and you come to satin island and you know even queens areas like brooklyn areas

01:03:37.840 now you're waking everybody up it's 6 a.m so who's bitching about that um like i said getting in the way

01:03:44.320 yeah like there's certain areas that we couldn't go in like they make them pick up

01:03:49.840 midnight to like five so that you're not in their way really so like what do you mean richer areas

01:03:55.280 no just owned areas by certain types of people in okay so we're in new york so maybe upper echelon

01:04:03.760 types or whatever you think certain religion people okay they have their so like the orthodox jews

01:04:09.600 don't want you in their neighborhood between 12 to five bingo wow and those are some nasty

01:04:15.200 is it pretty nasty over there in their neighborhood well they just listen it's nothing against them

01:04:19.120 because i have actually been in some of those houses yeah because they are there are people

01:04:23.040 in those areas that are very nice but then you know passover comes and they throw everything out

01:04:30.000 they're like five six-year-olds throwing matches like lighting on fire it was crazy i was like i can't

01:04:36.000 do this no more because they would bring everybody pretty much who was available from other garages

01:04:40.480 to come and do this and you get one truck on a block and you just go up and down all day and they

01:04:45.600 throw everything out like i didn't know if you knew that about the orthodox jews oh they just

01:04:49.520 get rid of everything they throw everything out couches beds clothes everything goes in the garbage

01:04:55.760 why it's just part of the tradition a part of their religion wow start fresh it's it's dude it's crazy

01:05:03.280 so you got tons of trash yeah and it's just more of it's just chaos so like it would be a garbage truck

01:05:10.080 every block and a fire truck fireman would have like three blocks because the kids are running

01:05:15.200 around like and i had guys do it plenty of times they light something on fire and then throw it in

01:05:20.160 the back of the truck now if i don't see it now everything in the truck's on fire why do they do

01:05:25.360 that is that like a kind of like a just a are they training for like battle or something no it's just

01:05:31.200 the kids oh kids screw it around animals oh yeah oh i blocked a bus one day and then that's what i'm

01:05:38.960 saying like then that's when they get into we don't want them on the truck uh the streets early this

01:05:43.760 time blah blah blah and these little kids get off the buses because now i held them up on the block

01:05:48.560 and they're blowing the horn you know they have their own police their own people and they tell you

01:05:51.840 you got to move the truck i'm like dude i'm almost done with the block i'm not moving the truck yeah

01:05:55.200 yeah the little kid gets off and he's flicking me the finger wow he's like five i'm like what are

01:06:01.120 they there's no respect huh what goes on here i don't know i got a bunch of jewish friends i don't

01:06:05.920 have any orthodox jewish friends though them ojs i think or whatever you know i don't know yeah

01:06:12.320 i don't know i shared a room at a i should i didn't i i was in a halfway house with an orthodox

01:06:18.000 dude one time and he brought his own fucking grill he was dressed like biggie smalls

01:06:22.160 at a masonic temple and he was sweating and if you said around him he couldn't eat his eyes

01:06:29.440 with the shakes oh he'd open his mouth and put his tongue out this guy was a purr

01:06:34.240 and uh he was grilling his own meats in his room or whatever with the sunlight or whatever i don't

01:06:40.560 know what to do the guy would have bait you know he's in there making burnt ends or whatever

01:06:45.440 at 4 a.m you know when when i lost as he can it was just a magnifying glass yeah the ship was

01:06:53.120 fucking unreal a cloud comes he's like damn it they ruined again and it was arizona dude this day he

01:06:58.880 showed up on the porch literally i'm not joking it was 104 degrees outside and this guy is dressed bro

01:07:04.240 like cruella de vil bro this motherfucker they wear some gear oh this guy had been raising some

01:07:10.560 fucking mixed dogs in his coat bro this guy he smelled horrible um what yeah what ethnicity

01:07:16.640 probably has the worst smelling garbage would it be orthodox you think no it was all the same it's

01:07:22.480 garbage right once you throw it in there it's all blended in and like you said during the summers it

01:07:27.200 was it was grueling like people would walk by like covering their faces like that's how bad the truck

01:07:32.640 smells sometimes i once you're in it you don't know anymore well you you don't smell nothing anymore you

01:07:38.080 get used to it huh so used to it cat cat urine was the worst for me oh oh it was awful because it

01:07:44.560 would you would rub up on a bag that a cat just pissed on and like yeah like you were saying with

01:07:48.960 the truck now we we get in me and my partner and i i know like bags stay far away from me yeah you

01:07:54.960 know i'm big enough guy long enough arms i kept that shit away i never let the bags touch my legs and i

01:08:00.000 would look at my partner i'm like you got hit well and he's like what do you mean i said you don't

01:08:03.760 smell that because now you get in it's even cold out you close the doors you put the

01:08:08.000 heat on and you smell that turn cat piss up you know oh yeah oh yeah yeah disgusting it's the

01:08:15.440 worst smell out there yeah i remember we used to get a bowl of cat piss and uh we would do a

01:08:21.280 hair dryer over it bro just to piss my sister off do it under the door by her room

01:08:26.400 fuck her dude awful fuck her um wow so there's no time a year really when the trash smells worse huh

01:08:36.400 oh the summer's a bit just the summer's general overall but yeah it's you know there was some

01:08:41.760 point you know you would open up a lid and if it was sitting there with maggots and stuff you you get

01:08:46.880 a kick and that's another smell that was pretty brutal but other than that it's you got used to it

01:08:54.000 was there a borough of new york where the trash smelled the worst you think no okay all the same

01:09:00.080 in staten island there was a movie theater not far from the dump before they closed it it was awful

01:09:06.400 the smell and they were building houses like crazy right there i'm like how could people buy

01:09:11.680 and then i became a garbage man and like and then i don't smell it no more okay stand out don't smell

01:09:16.960 no more because we would get you know shit on all the time by the boroughs yeah uh you know trash

01:09:22.320 island you know all that but you just didn't smell it dude there's a lot of pride for people that live

01:09:28.480 on trash i think you know there's something almost fucking something pretty amazing about it in a weird

01:09:33.120 way like i when i was growing up we would burn the trash in the ditch that was the big thing in our

01:09:37.440 area you know you bring everything out you burn it in a ditch the kids we would like get wet like get

01:09:43.760 hose each other down and then run through the smoke till you look all black you know you'd be out there

01:09:49.120 like a you know that's different it would be like yeah you know you would just it wasn't like doing

01:09:54.800 blackface and it was just like burning trash and but you definitely looked a little smoky by the end

01:10:00.400 you know it was it was just something to do you know yeah um what were we talking about oh

01:10:07.840 oh when i went out to stand out oh yeah and what the difference is yeah it's just like i said you you

01:10:14.160 deal with a different person now now because you're picking yeah you well you're dealing with

01:10:18.720 people who own the garbage right like it's their house house to house to house i tell people all

01:10:24.320 the time i knew things about you from your garbage that you do not think i know really and then i

01:10:29.360 wasn't picking through it right you know when you put that stuff in it breaks up the bags i knew when

01:10:33.920 people it was you know it was your wife's time of the month oh yeah my wife will be disgusted by that but

01:10:39.680 you knew it you know it when the bags ripped your life is in front of me and i ain't picking through

01:10:45.760 it right but i was yeah but what you and it's crazy how quick you see things so fast dude i did this

01:10:50.480 game one day and i went in new york city right down to i went in the city like i think i was on the lower

01:10:55.680 east side and i did this game with people i said i'm gonna open a bag of trash you smell it you take a

01:11:03.920 whiff out of it right just a random bag okay and if you can guess three items that are in it i give

01:11:09.680 you a hundred bucks right so dude so these people they all thought i was like that the bags i had

01:11:16.400 like brought them from home or something put them together whatever it was yours i was picking these

01:11:20.400 bitches up from the fucking corner so you didn't even know if they would be right bro i had no idea

01:11:25.120 what was him dude so we had people we crack them back people are taking hits off of it dude over

01:11:32.080 there off of uh an alphabet city bro oh that was nasty stuff down there yeah there's a we made a video

01:11:38.640 of it online but um anyway that was something we did with trash in the city um what about that was

01:11:45.440 there any ladies that tried to flirt with you that ever happened on the route once you got into the

01:11:49.600 houses like any fucking bin babies or any they didn't notice you trying to run that can clam out

01:11:55.040 on your bro well that's why i wore the shirt my butt now this shirt's 25 years old really it's been

01:12:01.760 i was gonna give it to you but it says put out your can here comes the garbage i used to sport this

01:12:08.000 shirt all the time and it's a sexy lady huh yeah you know with her ass hanging in the wind i like that

01:12:13.440 but no listen you didn't you didn't see people yeah unless you were you know waking people up and

01:12:19.440 you know in their way other than that they you were not like it was crazy because nobody even knew

01:12:25.600 they never acknowledged you wow new york hated you because you were allowed until i don't remember

01:12:32.320 the year but like the new york post or daily news one of those shit papers in new york they posted how

01:12:37.840 much money we made per year that was it now everybody wanted the job yeah when you when they see you're

01:12:44.480 making six figures picking garbage up oh well i my guy this and now all of a sudden they know you're

01:12:51.280 you're around wow once the money comes on huh but prior to that they could care less that's that same

01:12:57.520 thing happened with joe rogan in a way i think once he got a spotify deal and people saw like oh he's

01:13:02.000 making money now they will jump on his tracks now they all fucking want to write articles about him

01:13:06.880 and say he's racist that is using his name you know yeah exactly so you guys pull in six figures a

01:13:12.000 year with the job yeah right starting first year it gains traction no yeah my first year i think

01:13:17.760 if i had to guess 27 grand but but just with the overtime with the winter with the snow and all that

01:13:23.680 stuff with you know i think my first year i made like almost 60 wow okay so it almost doubled right

01:13:29.440 because you have to be there you know new york doesn't stop so it's you're on call all day you

01:13:35.120 know 12 hour shifts i've worked up to 31 days straight 12 hour shifts oh you know 31 you know

01:13:41.280 inches of snow here two feet of snow here it happens so but you can make that money i just

01:13:47.600 had a guy just retired he was making almost 200 grand wow picking garbage up but he would do 12

01:13:54.240 hour days every day over time he would eat up you know kind of hated his family so you know and you

01:14:00.960 get it when you meet these families you're like yeah this is why this guy works all the time yeah wow

01:14:06.080 um yeah this says bottom 20 36.3 this must be old though no it's i think starting right now is like

01:14:16.880 70. okay the average salary for a garbage collector in new york is around 76 000 per year and that's not

01:14:22.640 overtime right so that's not having your overtime so that's where you can get up to 100 you can get

01:14:26.160 six figures wow you can almost double that easy wow guys are doubling it easy remember when they had

01:14:32.880 the fad of like the kids meet the garbage man oh i love yeah that was like when we were growing up

01:14:38.160 yeah i used to you know love throwing beers to the guys yeah and it turned out like then i come to

01:14:42.880 satin island those guys were still on on the job now i was like dude i remember you don't he's like

01:14:47.760 yeah you were that fat little kid throwing shit off the top of the because i still lived on the same

01:14:51.760 block uh-huh so they kind of were like yeah you had we had like a porch out front uh-huh and you

01:14:56.560 know we dropped the beers down to the guys yeah but like i was saying with wearing like they didn't

01:15:01.840 wear uniforms back then dude had like a wife beater on and like a pair of shorts oh yeah just gaggling

01:15:07.280 through the streets yeah dude's wearing a fucking snorkel and a fucking exactly yeah yeah dude some

01:15:15.520 questionable stuff back then dude wearing a snorkel and a bathrobe over there but like you said they

01:15:20.480 like i was saying they didn't acknowledge you yeah you were there you picked the garbage up you

01:15:24.720 left you're kind of the invisible man exactly you really are because yeah nobody wants to get that

01:15:31.520 close people kind of want to pretend you don't exist unless you're making noise people don't engage yet

01:15:38.000 you yeah you're kind of the invisible man until they realize you were making money and then suddenly

01:15:45.120 like oh look at this rich asshole through this guy i got to put more garbage out yeah yeah

01:15:50.160 you know and then they would turn into well it's your job you know pick this up here take this

01:15:54.640 you have to take this yeah what's the worst parts of the job that you get that kind of stuff is people

01:15:59.840 telling you like yeah just being they always tell you oh yeah you know i pay your salary so i we always

01:16:05.360 used to keep like nickels and dimes in the truck and i'd be like hold on i'll give you your money back

01:16:09.680 because they would always say like all right each person gives you a nickel a year or and i would throw

01:16:13.920 the nickel at them here here's your money the fuck out of my face you got to take this the guy's

01:16:18.480 whole apartments out there yeah it's like dude go no and i would always respect the person to come

01:16:23.440 out if you just said thank you or even gave us water because you know you weren't supposed to take

01:16:27.840 money and all that stuff if you just said thank you and acknowledge me like i said that we were

01:16:33.280 you know everybody nobody knew us thank you went a long way with me i'd take everything i don't care

01:16:40.080 you know but when you look at me like oh i pay your salary and look down to me yeah yeah go

01:16:45.120 fuck yourself yeah agreed your stuff would stay there for months oh yeah i'll fucking put it back

01:16:49.600 in your house yeah i'll throw right back on your curb dude i'll take it this is how spiteful i would

01:16:55.920 have been bro i would have picked it up and the next day fucking brought it back if i could put it

01:17:01.520 back on the guy's doorstep i got rid of this yesterday where'd this come back make him think

01:17:05.440 he's crazy bro um now what about what's that you had that yeah a lot you know people were very you

01:17:12.880 know people thought they owned you yep yeah i pay your salary and all that junk so fuck you

01:17:18.720 that's what i say to that bro fucked him yeah i think we always have respect for people that did

01:17:24.240 something you know well we lived also we got a little rural by us so sometimes you'd have the the

01:17:29.280 bootleg garbage man you know who started their own service a guy who put like a took a truck and just put

01:17:34.880 three wooden uh plywood walls on you know what i'm talking about the back of the truck a little

01:17:38.640 taller fit more bags just load it up that dude would fucking uh our neighbor was one of those guys for

01:17:45.280 a while so his truck would always be out there but uh he'd go to the rural routes you know and get him

01:17:51.040 a little bit of garbage man well because we used to take everything you know you're talking you know

01:17:55.600 couches beds you know everything even with recycling you're taking refrigerators and all that stuff

01:18:00.560 really everything we took everything until what year no still to this day we had you had to take

01:18:06.560 everything so you'll throw a refrigerator in the back of a garbage truck yeah well our recycling trucks

01:18:10.720 they went to two sides oh for recycling it's so annoying yeah but there was some that didn't fit

01:18:15.840 in the small side you know with the recycling trucks now that the city gets so now yeah they'll

01:18:20.800 call you up be like oh you got to go and throw it in the in the regular garbage truck

01:18:25.040 so a recycling truck is a different truck different truck it's split down the middle there's like a

01:18:32.240 say 28 inch side on this side and a three foot side on the other side okay so the truck is split

01:18:37.840 into two so you could pick up paper and you could pick up metal glass you know any stove stuff like

01:18:43.360 that you put on the other side on the metal on the yeah on the metal side okay wow and how do you

01:18:48.240 decipher that because a lot of times people just put a recycling bin a big recycling garbage can out

01:18:52.560 there right got to be separated in new york but i didn't give a right we used to drive early days

01:18:58.800 we used to open the sides of the truck there's a door so you could get mechanics and stuff can get

01:19:02.800 in there and work on the compactor and stuff so we used to bring the blades all the way home open a

01:19:07.360 side hatch and drive the streets and while i was driving you were in the back loading but i was throwing

01:19:13.040 stuff in the side of the truck while you were in the back so we were just loading the whole truck

01:19:17.920 the whole fucking the whole block with whatever just i didn't care i just threw it all in yeah it

01:19:22.400 all winds up in the same place does it a good amount of it the paper is recycled 100 everybody

01:19:28.560 gets crazy with the black you know the bottles and the glass and all that unfortunately i tell people

01:19:33.840 the truth and they never wanted to hear it cans and stuff yes metal they recycle the bottles they

01:19:39.920 just break up and winds up in a landfill wow colored glass was like gold to them really and they stopped

01:19:46.800 using it for everything glass is cheaper to make than it is to recycle recycle and all that it's

01:19:53.360 too expensive so colored glass what do you mean why was colored glass available just because now you

01:19:58.080 you had to pigment it and put color into it the regular glass so it costs more to make oh so like

01:20:02.880 if you got you know like a green glass it already has the color in it yeah so they melt it down and

01:20:07.200 they use it again oh but they stopped using all that like all the beer bottles and stuff they yeah

01:20:12.640 yeah they really don't use that i remember sprite used to come in like a green bottle yep no more

01:20:17.040 that was crazy bro you got you a fucking sprite bro now they're jamming you all up you think it's

01:20:21.520 sprite zero now oh yeah yeah sprite zero dude come out the closet bro i'm a full sprite give me full

01:20:28.320 no caffeine yeah i want yeah i want pure sugar bro um what did were there some accidents with the

01:20:35.520 trucks how dangerous did it get for people because if people didn't have commercial driver's license

01:20:39.840 and they're driving those trucks in the beginning was there a lot of like uh was there casualties was

01:20:44.720 there yeah guys would do there were a few guys that passed away um you know and it was more just

01:20:50.240 people's stupidity you know i had one guy i don't know why he was holding something going in

01:20:55.440 the truck wound up ripping his arm off the truck it pulled him in dude literally next time i saw him

01:21:00.160 he had like this mechanical like three finger metal thing oh like a skill crane yeah he was like what

01:21:05.600 he was like picking up like teddy bears and shit get you a fucking cab i'm like dude what are you doing

01:21:10.880 well my hand got stuck he said his hand got stuck and sucked him in and it literally just

01:21:16.480 his arm off yeah is that is that a blade right there wow yeah dude i had another guy who was holding

01:21:24.080 paper in new york that would wrap the bundles of paper before all this technology came out now he

01:21:29.440 used to pick massive bundles up and he had the paper in the back of the truck and literally almost

01:21:34.240 slid off all his fingers because his fingers were caught in the string and when the truck closed it

01:21:39.520 tightened the string up so much dude like it looked like a ring got caught on all four of his

01:21:45.120 oh it was nasty that surgically fixed his fingers like it was a nightmare wow so there's some

01:21:50.400 dangerous ends to it trash collector dies after inhaling discarded acid yeah no that's the guy

01:21:57.520 uh i think that's the staten island guy let's see what happened a new york city sanitation worker

01:22:03.920 died yesterday after he inhaled the fumes of a corrosive acid from a discarded container that

01:22:08.080 burst under the compacting blades of garbage truck making routine collections in brooklyn it might

01:22:13.840 have been hemi i think might be the last name let's see the source of the acid was not known

01:22:19.920 as of last night when this article was written this is in uh uh i think 2006 touched off a second

01:22:26.960 sanitation worker was injured in the incident which brought the mayor and sanitation commissioner

01:22:30.800 rushing to the burn unit of new york hospital touched off uh the brooklyn district attorney

01:22:37.360 office said the investigation is continuing depending on what evidence is obtained anything else wow yeah

01:22:42.640 because somebody threw a battery a car battery like in a bag like i said you don't know what's in

01:22:47.520 there and when it cycled it exploded all over the dude and actually kill you instantly like yeah it

01:22:53.520 was it was shitty i think i want to say his last name was heaney but i could be wrong i wasn't on the

01:22:58.560 job yet so i didn't know yeah but hanley hanley that's it wow yeah what is there other some other

01:23:06.160 injuries like what about people ever hit pedestrians with trucks and stuff yeah that you know listen i stayed

01:23:13.040 away from all that but there were definitely guys that did not were not good drivers they clipped

01:23:18.240 people's they clipped people's toes and shit manhattan i used to yell watch your toes because

01:23:23.360 people watch your toes that's what you're yelling yeah because you know on the corners of manhattan

01:23:28.560 you know everybody's standing in the sidewalk like standing in the crosswalk it's like dude watch your

01:23:33.920 toes damn yeah there was a guy there was a guy in new york i want to say it was manhattan a dude just

01:23:39.920 rolled and it was his partner just rolled right over his feet blue they blow it blows out your

01:23:44.960 ankle uh-uh yeah when they rolled right over his foot his ankle blew out because of the pressure

01:23:51.440 yeah the weight of the truck

01:23:55.040 oh my gosh that's like a cartoon yeah it's nasty nasty shit wow i had a buddy fall out of the truck

01:24:03.520 he was part he was having fun in the truck let's put it this way older guy and just dude made a left and

01:24:09.120 he rolled out his leg went under i mean they graphed his foot they graphed everything they saved it

01:24:15.840 but it looked like he was wearing a moon boot oh yeah you know it got off the job but anytime i saw him

01:24:20.800 after that it was like four times the size some neil armstrong fan dragging a marshmallow around it's

01:24:29.360 crazy yeah my dad had this buddy and uh one of his feet you know you used to see this commonly

01:24:34.800 back in the day somebody would have that big uh uh uh sole on their shoe you know somebody be uneven

01:24:41.680 you know yep and my buddy had his friend and he would his friend would always stand on this little

01:24:46.080 piece of cement because it made him even bro he'd be fucking he like wouldn't leave it in the

01:24:50.560 neighborhood bro my dad's neighborhood yeah he'd like kind of walk around it like pivot around it

01:24:55.520 but he would he fucking never leave that second he left off that bitch bro so yeah the world got

01:25:01.280 kind of uh like everything turned into a teeter-totter for him oh wow so that's it's really really

01:25:09.600 fascinating i'm trying to think of some other yeah i think you had mike rowe on and he you know he was

01:25:14.080 one of the guys that years ago listed the sanitation as like one of the 10 deadliest jobs and you know

01:25:19.360 wow and it's just more dude you'd be shocked at how many people don't see the truck that literally

01:25:25.760 just drive into the back of the truck and if you're back there you know it's a wrap you know

01:25:30.320 there was a lot of so there's a lot of danger that happens like that people just hitting the

01:25:33.440 back of the truck the guy's standing back there driving not paying attention to you oh it's craziness

01:25:38.640 you know everybody's in a rush yeah especially in new york they just and you are no pain no mindless so

01:25:44.560 they're just driving around i mean the truck can't get any bigger for you not to see and they

01:25:49.440 people are driving to the back of the truck all the time damn i had a dude hit me once literally i

01:25:55.680 see him and i'm at break and i see him bouncing off cars coming down the road and i'm like what's this

01:26:01.120 dude doing like ping ping ping i jumped over like in the truck there's like this cab like this little

01:26:08.560 thing where the engine is i literally was jumping onto my partner and he was like what what's going on

01:26:14.080 here like he thought we were getting frisky at eight in the morning next thing you know boom the

01:26:19.280 dude draw drills the truck literally drives right into the driver's side like gas tank right near my

01:26:25.840 like i'm like what the hell turned out the dude old dude was on all kinds of medication oh yeah

01:26:33.040 so yeah dude my dad sometimes would let he would go he'd like get into the po he'd go to the post

01:26:39.600 office right my dad was real old when i was born he was 70 and so uh at 80 years old he's taking me

01:26:46.080 on rides like i'm gonna go to the post office and i think he didn't know kind of like how age or worked

01:26:50.560 or whatever because i hit like a growth spurt and he's like will you just drive around i can't legally

01:26:54.640 park you will you drive around the block for me and i was fucking 10 years old dude you know i was

01:27:00.080 about five i think i was five three or something i'd hit a little growth spurt and his vision was bad and

01:27:06.080 so i'm fucking next you know i'm driving this delta 88 bro right this big boat no power steering

01:27:12.160 bro i can't go around the block dude and i don't know how big the block is you know yeah i go around

01:27:17.840 i fucking hit seven cars bro and this thing was a piece of shit like a battleship oh my dad he

01:27:23.760 bought it off a couple brothers and it had some uh 22s in the back right around the corner so he was

01:27:28.240 always listening to like npr like with bass and shit like it none of the the whole life didn't make

01:27:33.280 any sense dude i fucking hit six cars i could finally get back around to pick up my dad

01:27:39.920 he had no idea where you've been the whole car is no no idea bro god um what about the rat problem is

01:27:49.920 that a look what kind of animalia do y'all run into on a garbage route bro and be honest with me yeah no

01:27:55.840 uh it's just different areas had different you know staten island was like mice you know you'd see

01:28:01.600 some you know decent size you know like seven inch eight inch rats with like you know a nice

01:28:07.120 size tail but that's what i'm talking about dude fuck a mice is just a gay rat i think yeah they're

01:28:12.800 just babies yeah just just running around like idiots i used to squish them with my feet really

01:28:17.840 you could step right on them yeah they're in the bags and then when they come out you just

01:28:21.760 and they assholes and the eyes popping out oh yeah it's nasty but yeah i stopped doing that

01:28:27.680 when i got a little older yeah yeah i think you grow out of that and the government will put lipstick

01:28:31.680 on them and then fucking kill them exactly uh ozempic or whatever so who the fuck know you're saying

01:28:37.440 like you're the bad guy exactly yeah i stepped on a few mice oh well kill me now now what about the

01:28:44.080 rat problem in the city you hear about it you know they allegedly signed a czar to guys some uh this

01:28:49.680 lesbian cheese hunter up there now fucking trying to kill him right which is fine more power to her if

01:28:54.640 she wants to fucking show up and go to war i'm game right uh but how bad was the rat problem in

01:29:00.800 the city well even with that like let's be honest you ain't getting rid of them there's no way yeah

01:29:05.200 and there there was some big boys up there fuck yeah the un oof because you're right near the water

01:29:10.880 there oh i saw one wearing a charles barkley jersey dude i wouldn't doubt it up there bro i was so there's

01:29:16.880 one night we're working picking baskets up you know how there's corner baskets in uh manhattan so there's

01:29:22.240 just a basket on every corner where people throw litter and stuff you know oh yeah so there's all

01:29:26.480 lined up in in front of the un so we're doing the baskets it was early in my career and it's each

01:29:31.520 basket a different country or something no no it's just a basket like all along the un there's just

01:29:38.000 more there because they don't want litter okay so there's just more baskets i'm thinking it's like

01:29:41.840 the epcot center of trash or something no no so but it's the epcot center of rats i mean dude i'm

01:29:48.000 talking boys yeah and dude one i dumped the basket so it was quick like once you started doing the

01:29:54.880 baskets you spin off the truck quick bang bam you're right back like literally takes me 30

01:29:59.680 three seconds to dump a pail oh so you throw it dump it and you're back it's back and boom and then you

01:30:04.160 jump on the truck okay we started the steps at the time so i see fluttering going on and dude i mean

01:30:09.680 with the tail this thing had to be 18 inches oh yeah but he probably went to rutgers yeah yeah he was

01:30:15.120 that fullback so big boy so dude i'm working with this dude i'm jump off the truck and he dude i'm

01:30:24.800 running along the truck away from it dude i'm just running he's like what are you doing he looks next

01:30:29.920 to me i'm running i said there's something in there man he's like what do you mean so we went back there

01:30:34.800 with like the broom and the shovel to like kill it and just cycled it up i was like i ain't fucking

01:30:38.880 around with it because you would have like possums and stuff like as you cycle it like a little

01:30:43.600 garbage will fall down and it gives them a little escape so they pop out the little mice used to do

01:30:48.640 that all the time you know what now explain it to me i'm not understanding it so when you

01:30:52.000 when the cycle goes up in a truck like sometimes there's like bags and stuff right at the edge that

01:30:57.040 you just pushed up right so when you open it again to now like bring the next set of garbage up like

01:31:04.000 you would literally get like a bag or two will flip down and it'll push garbage up towards the

01:31:08.000 like the ledge of the truck and an animal that's like their escape route now oh i see so i'm like

01:31:14.080 that i ain't doing that so i told him you go back there and he had time on the job so he was used to

01:31:18.960 it he was used to it so sometimes the truck the the it'll be cycling you'll see an animal just pop out

01:31:23.120 of there yeah you know you get possums raccoons uh the mice the rats they literally just jump right

01:31:30.160 out yeah now what's the most gap here here's that one right here garbage man saves kittens from trash

01:31:36.160 jesus yeah i mean shauna tavade probably doing this you'd be shocked man yeah anybody ever try to put a

01:31:43.520 baby in the garbage bro so i won't tell anybody if you know no no and i'll know if you're lying too

01:31:49.520 all right so i had like a year on a job got hurt sure i had this uh shoulder done surgery so they do

01:31:57.600 like this mail carrying thing where you bring you know the mail to like like lower east garages so

01:32:04.320 you go to like the main area pick up all the mail you give it to the each garage so i pull into one

01:32:10.400 of the garages i forget somewhere in manhattan too i think oh so it's a job you can still work even

01:32:14.720 though you're injured exactly so you're i'm like in rehab you know coming back you know trying to get

01:32:19.360 my arm back together and next thing you know i walk in the garage everybody's in tyvek suits white

01:32:24.880 tyvek you know covered head to toe i'm i got a t-shirt and pants on i'm like what the

01:32:29.120 fuck's going on here there's a shriner's meeting right so there's a garbage truck emptied out on

01:32:34.080 the floor because they got a phone call that a girl put a baby in a corner basket oh

01:32:41.360 i i just i don't even know if they found it i just you know nobody puts baby in a corner basket no

01:32:47.360 nobody but they did it listen that they were nervous you know and that's what they do these kids

01:32:52.960 yeah man it's heartbreaking man what about this video right here garbage man saves kittens from

01:32:59.440 trash let's get a little volume on it this dude cutting into a little uh

01:33:09.200 i look like he cutting open a bag of coke huh this guy

01:33:11.760 oh he heard something

01:33:24.640 oh it's a eight ball of cats bro damn baby kittens they heard the

01:33:31.600 meowing oh gosh

01:33:35.200 that's people for you man

01:33:43.200 that's man that's unreal that's people yeah yeah what do you learn about society what are some of

01:33:48.880 your thoughts on society you think that like does it give you a negative look at society does you just

01:33:54.560 think this or does it does that kind of thing even happen like as you work in that industry yeah listen

01:34:00.800 it'll change your mind real quick to just this strange people out there man it's some crazy

01:34:07.040 that you see in the garbage like that reminds me of the time i smell a skunk i'm like what the

01:34:13.840 is that smell in the back of the truck like that's something odd so now i could smell it

01:34:18.640 and there was like a skunk in like a little path mark bag like that we used to call them like the

01:34:23.520 little plastic bags tied up and everything and i'm thinking to myself like who the took the time

01:34:30.000 to grab this skunk kill it and then put it in a bag yeah it's like people ain't right to even

01:34:37.600 think of doing that like who's playing with skunks like perverts bro perverts i think

01:34:45.120 i wouldn't do it bro yeah people get rid of any lot yeah like uh i'm trying to think of the biggest

01:34:52.400 animal somebody could get rid of without you guys noticing probably black lab huh that was the yellow

01:35:00.160 lab dude i still to this day i could see those guys crying huh crying and were they gay guys you think

01:35:05.360 yeah some would say yeah and no judgment anyway bro everybody no i yeah everybody's got a gay cousin

01:35:14.080 or son or father you know these days you can't even everywhere in three generations everybody's going

01:35:21.760 to be just gay doing uber reeds dipping their toes into it oh yeah who knows bro um what about on the

01:35:31.920 home front what is the home front life like for a sanitation worker is it tough on like your home

01:35:38.320 life is it easy on it what kind of life is it the winters were tough like i said the you know if it

01:35:44.240 snowed uh you were stuck there 12 hour shifts 10 hour shifts like when you say stuck there what do you

01:35:50.000 mean oh because it takes so long to get through the route no it's just like if it snows like we so

01:35:56.240 new york like and i've been to here i've been here when they had that ice storm i think it was a few

01:36:01.280 years back the whole sound like everybody shuts down new york don't stop like we're we're out there

01:36:06.880 all night through the night 12 hour shifts spreading salt plowing snow i mean oh so you guys do other

01:36:13.440 jobs instead of just the garbage yeah okay i didn't know we clean all the streets the snow we do the

01:36:18.160 salt spread and the um the front and loader work we do all that stuff really yeah god damn you

01:36:24.240 shit i guess if the rangers needed a zamboni driving they could put one of you guys i'd probably pull it

01:36:28.320 off wow yeah but i didn't know that you guys do all those other jobs yeah oh there's probably if i

01:36:34.480 had to guess over a hundred different job titles on that job it's just not garbage man right there's so

01:36:40.080 many ranking like you you could have a desk job you could have the guy who hooked me up with this you

01:36:45.280 you know johnny lex that was my boy he had the desk job you know and that's what that's a job now

01:36:52.560 what's the desk job like what's that guy doing nothing he literally is just setting up the days you

01:36:59.040 know what's what's tomorrow all right let me get all the cards and the routes ready for tomorrow

01:37:04.880 pretty much nothing yeah it's a you know we call them tit jobs yeah it's a tit job yeah so they're in

01:37:11.920 there and they're just doing fantasy football really yeah and he's terrible at it is he yeah

01:37:16.000 he's own six i was talking to him last night i was talking to him last night the team's sad

01:37:23.120 he probably had aaron rogers that's why he probably had an injury yeah no i don't think he did but

01:37:27.520 just sad but there's there was a lot of and that winter aspect is a totally different animal because

01:37:34.400 you're doing just say you know three four days you could get six inches of snow take you two three

01:37:41.120 days to like settle in now you got to go pick all the garbage up that was left out for the last

01:37:45.760 three four days so now every house that you'd normally do two days a week now it's all double

01:37:50.800 garbage for one pickup because they because you missed one well yeah and because of the snow exactly

01:37:58.400 like manhattan after a snowstorm ooh bad news man really piles and piles of it of garbage garbage

01:38:04.400 just unlimited garbage it's um it's unbelievable you ever find somebody hiding in the garbage

01:38:09.120 like you know you have to you have to hit a bit like hit a uh dumpster with a fucking

01:38:14.640 you know wrench or something to get a homeless guy out of there ever no i never had to do that it's

01:38:20.240 pretty you know nobody wants to be in the garbage in new york wow it's just it's funny because in

01:38:25.600 movies and stuff you always see this romanticized look of a homeless guy popping out of a dumpster

01:38:30.400 you know i'm saying like that old kind of they're around you know but we don't do container work

01:38:34.960 oh you don't that's privates the private guys those containers on the street where those guys

01:38:40.000 are sleeping behind yeah no that's all privates what about like a dumpster at a school or something

01:38:44.560 like that's private yeah i didn't do that but that's a whole different truck those are easy

01:38:48.800 packs so they have forks on the front that lift it over the truck and then compacted them behind

01:38:54.240 so you never worked with that i never picked that up i drove them i used to have to dump them but i never

01:38:59.440 actually picked them so that's called an easy pack truck the ones that have the forks on the back

01:39:03.360 that like yeah yeah on the front oh yeah that go right into those two slots on the side of the

01:39:08.240 dumpster and they throw it back over the top yep and whenever you throw that back over so sometimes

01:39:13.200 there's a party of trash come right down the front filthy trucks oh disgusting oh disgusting

01:39:21.280 sometimes the container come off would be hanging out the side of it now you got to get somebody out

01:39:25.520 drag it off it's a fucking nightmare wow yeah um and then the other truck the truck you drove more

01:39:33.200 had a cycler in the back that was just you throw them in yep wow bag fed or something what do they

01:39:38.720 call exactly yeah it's like a hand fed you just bagging and then when it gets full you can't fit

01:39:43.200 no more you bring it down it swoops it into the truck compacts it and then you fill it again and rinse

01:39:48.560 and repeat how is the how has the industry changed over the time well now they actually just put out

01:39:54.960 uh the city i think this week that they're trying to bring out where homeowners i guess if you

01:40:00.720 associations like if you have a bunch of people because there are certain areas that were loaded

01:40:04.720 with mice and rats because they were just you know near swamps and stuff like that yeah and house to

01:40:10.720 house you you go grab a pail and they're scattering yeah so now they're trying to put these little

01:40:15.760 dumpsters but plastic not the metal ones you see at like you know the restaurants and stuff around town

01:40:21.840 and now they have things on the back to lift it you know and my buddy just said new york just came out

01:40:26.800 with them you know and it's just it's never gonna work right you know bloomberg tried to go to um

01:40:33.040 the arm the arm that lifts it on its own and one guy's in the truck and never gets out and never

01:40:38.000 touches anything i have that in new jersey now at my house there's just not enough space there's too

01:40:42.240 many people in new york right so like there's cars on top of cars right so there's no room for the

01:40:47.600 garbage truck to get to the garbage right there's no room for the arm to get to the trash exactly

01:40:52.160 right homeowners across the five boroughs will soon have to shell out at least 50 for new trash

01:40:57.520 bins as the big apple tries to crack down on rodents by standardizing garbage collections

01:41:02.320 under new rules announced by mayor mayor eric adams wednesday single family homes and small apartment

01:41:07.680 buildings up to 10 units will have to purchase the new cans from an as yet under undetermined vendor

01:41:14.720 in an effort to modernize the way the big apple collects its trash wow somebody's bidding on that

01:41:20.560 contract i bet huh money money money fuck it's crazy how much money there is in garbage oh nobody

01:41:28.320 thinks of it nope because you're forgotten nobody realizes it but like that like somebody's gonna

01:41:35.280 make those pails now yeah 90 of the time it's guys that were retired big chiefs that are on from the job

01:41:42.720 they go out and start these businesses because they had the bright idea when they were on the job

01:41:46.880 but they said let me bring it out when i retire right and then oh i know let's bring it in

01:41:53.200 i mean they d-o-t well um not d-o-t the uh they pick up derelict vehicles sanitation does that too

01:42:00.880 oh they do yeah any vehicles that are you know the foreman have to go out tag them you know write

01:42:06.400 whatever date if the car's not gone off the street with like no plates and stuff oh yeah definitely they

01:42:10.560 send tow trucks out they take them too have you ever had to be involved in that no i didn't deal with

01:42:15.600 that but you've had to be involved with salting the roads or ever salt in the roads uh front and

01:42:20.160 load is uh big like rubber tire machines you used to have to fill the spreaders and then i would

01:42:26.960 have to drive down certain blocks where you couldn't get like like bigger spreaders i would

01:42:31.520 have to do dead ends with that so you like take a bucket back up with street take a bucket back up

01:42:37.600 pile it up back there like in the bad storms you would get like a dump truck with you and you would

01:42:42.400 load the dump truck and then they would like dump it all somewhere in town like near the water and

01:42:48.240 whatever all the salt no all the snow oh the snow on the bad storms when the snow was so bad when they

01:42:54.640 would clean schools and dead ends and stuff like that you would have to go around with the front

01:42:58.480 end loader i would have two dump trucks with me and i would load the dump trucks filled with snow

01:43:02.960 okay so we're talking about snow i thought you're talking about spreading salt well it's the same kind

01:43:06.000 of thing but the spreaders couldn't fit down some of these blocks okay so instead of getting the

01:43:10.640 spreader they go and actually try and pick the snow up with a front end loader wow we call them big

01:43:15.040 rubber tire machines you know damn so i did that for pretty much the whole career 18 years i was

01:43:21.120 doing that in the uh winters oh so you do that in the winter and then trash in the spring no it's just

01:43:26.960 when it when it comes up you go you know you do it but that was a fun part driving the front end

01:43:31.920 loaders yeah that was good times oh that's cool because you didn't have to get out that much huh no

01:43:36.560 and you were like you were like saving people that's when people loved you ah dude there were

01:43:41.360 areas where you couldn't get down like spreaders would slide off the road yeah we would have to

01:43:46.320 record drag them off off of cliffs like it was crazy and the winters were nuts oh and then they were

01:43:51.280 like all right get a machine up there and it was like the hills are like this bro wow and you know i

01:43:56.960 had this boss who always where's where's owen they're like what do you mean they were all last

01:44:03.280 names on the job they're like where's owen get him on the horn let's go get him in here because he

01:44:07.360 knew i would just tell everybody stay away because everybody's out there shoveling throwing the

01:44:12.880 more salt i mean uh snow into the street making it more of a mess yeah and then he knew like yeah

01:44:18.960 i'm gonna buckle up and here we go let's send the hitman in uh let's see what happens oh hell yeah

01:44:23.600 yeah hell yeah what's the what type of attitude does someone have to have or what skill set does

01:44:29.200 someone have to have or who would best be a be able to be a garbage man a sanitation worker

01:44:35.520 oh it all it's listen it's about the community you know when it all comes down to it you know i

01:44:41.040 still took pride in like especially those days with you know knowing that my mother had to drive

01:44:45.680 my family people friends have to drive on those roads during the winter yeah so yeah there were guys

01:44:51.520 that would hide you know and not spread salt but like me i was out there 12 hours sprint so

01:44:56.480 i had no problem with it so it's a it is a sense of pride that you know you work for the city

01:45:02.800 but in the same sense it's there's not a you know i had a girl tell me once on the job she's like you

01:45:08.080 like you like born for this job and i didn't know how to take it like i was a little taken back like

01:45:14.320 like is it a good thing that she's saying that or like am i a piece of shit like i was just like

01:45:18.880 i was throwing away i like i'm really throwing off like i'm just like hey thanks yeah i got

01:45:24.800 i had nothing to say and she was cool as shit she was awesome but because we had girls that did the

01:45:29.600 job too really yeah man wow some of them i'd rather work with some of them than some of the other guys

01:45:35.120 really yeah there were there were you know women out there that were you know hustlers oh yeah you

01:45:40.720 know and then there were guys that you always thought you would go to it oh yeah you come work with me

01:45:45.760 you know jacked up yeah no he's just doing that for the girls really help me i can't lift this

01:45:53.200 trying to meet the women on on the yeah they're going to the gym all day pumping iron but they

01:45:57.120 can't lift you know a hundred pound couch they used to swing couches and like in one shot oh yeah you

01:46:03.200 know that's beautiful yeah i think it's like uh in some cultures that yeah that's like a wedding

01:46:07.760 ritual or something a man and a woman throwing like i don't know what it is was there a lot of

01:46:12.880 intermingling on the job or something you think there was some yeah there was some out there i

01:46:17.280 never partake in that a lot of ladies trying to put that dumpster on yeah well you got two pensions

01:46:22.320 you know yeah there were a few i know body dumpster boy yeah there were definitely a few and listen you

01:46:29.920 look at it like i just said you know you get two pensions both these retire oh it's a it's a good life

01:46:34.960 you know let's go to florida and stay huh what um yeah did people did yeah was there ever a couple

01:46:41.360 that met on the job and ended up yeah getting married yeah wow retired one one wound up being

01:46:48.240 a boss i know oh his wife might have became a boss but yeah you know listen it happened love happens

01:46:54.160 everywhere yeah you're together a long time yeah on the streets all day and and some guys and girls

01:47:00.560 hit it off what are some other things people would collect out there in the trash anybody find

01:47:04.480 anything really unique over the years any bone structure or anything like that listen you'd find

01:47:10.240 all kinds of stuff if you were looking like i said like you didn't look though i i didn't have time

01:47:16.320 for it like i said i was running i want to get done i want to be out of the street right i don't want

01:47:19.680 to deal with people like i said the people that don't pay attention to you they drive into you right

01:47:23.120 it's just risky hot you know crabby days but this one time i'm with my buddy you know louie and we're

01:47:30.160 picking up this apartment building yeah and we opened the gates and there's i think it was six

01:47:35.040 or seven joker poker machines and i'm like what the fuck is oh yeah video poker yeah like in the

01:47:40.080 bars you know they have those you know yeah mom used to use our allowance in them yeah and so i i

01:47:45.920 worked at bars when i was younger and i knew i'm like oh yeah the money's stashed underneath so we

01:47:51.040 opened them up there was nothing there but i'm like you know what i remember one of the bar owners

01:47:55.440 having like a trap door because sometimes the dollars you know the ten dollar bills would just

01:47:59.680 float in and there was this little tupperware in it and it would float float and it fall perfect

01:48:03.840 right down the slit so when i saw that was still blocked off we dragged them back to the garage we

01:48:09.440 beat the living piss out of these things with with sledge hammers my boss walks in he's like i'm

01:48:14.880 not even gonna ask what's up right dude we got 360 apiece 720 dollars and they were the finest 10 and

01:48:23.520 uh 20 1980 bills oh yeah they were like right out the machine oh that's beautiful so yeah that was

01:48:30.080 one of my better ones but listen you find things here and there yeah i always found something that

01:48:34.000 you know somebody was throwing out and i didn't have to dig like it was next to the curb um i found

01:48:38.880 a moped once in manhattan oh yeah on the side of the you know right on the side of a basket um um

01:48:44.640 the corner basket there and it was probably from like a chinese restaurant yeah like that it was

01:48:50.320 like locked in to turn left so who's gonna just keep driving in a circle kids must have stole it

01:48:55.520 and they realized that we can't use this so they left it at the corner basket right

01:48:59.520 so i told my partner i'm gonna take this and as we're putting it like i said there's a little trap

01:49:03.920 door as i'm putting it in there the uh the cops pull up so we're like oh and this guy i'm working

01:49:10.480 with is like damn owen you know fuck me all up now i'm gonna get locked up for this shit right

01:49:14.800 we're stealing on the fuck yeah stealing a moped from somebody you know from some chinese kid yeah

01:49:19.680 like the guy's laying there holding bags and nah so he's like they just pulled up they were like

01:49:24.960 yo is it run i'm like i don't know i'm gonna see brought that shit home broke the uh steering collar

01:49:30.800 and wound up getting it started and i used to use it to go down to the bodega down the block and grab

01:49:35.440 beers and shit yeah that was a good find yeah that's a good find yeah that's interesting man

01:49:42.080 you know i'm trying to think i think i would like i think i probably would like it when i was young

01:49:49.600 i had to do the trash at the house you know i didn't mind it you know just home sanitation or

01:49:55.760 whatever get it out to the curb you know but i was a kid you know we'd never see we never got to see

01:50:02.080 the real artist pull up in the early morning you know we was still asleep or something or probably

01:50:06.640 just getting up for school well kids love it too like they come out they want to work the handles

01:50:11.120 yeah now what happened like that was a fad for a while where like a lot of moms would do the uh

01:50:16.800 tick tock videos that a kid meets the garbage man were you around for that yeah i had a few like i

01:50:22.640 and i would get the kids stuff like shirts and stuff i would always give them back i would have kids that

01:50:26.560 like stand um like at the glass door the mother would hear us in the neighborhood open the main door

01:50:31.760 and then there's like a sliding like a like a screen door yeah with glass and the kids just used to sit

01:50:36.720 there and i loved it you know you get parents all the time like oh of all people my daughter loves

01:50:41.680 you guys like little kids you know i don't know kids are fascinated with it and it's awesome but at

01:50:48.880 the same time it's like the parents they'll probably like ah it don't do that you know don't grow up to

01:50:54.560 be a garbage man yeah because they don't realize the money in right you know but now more people are

01:51:01.040 gonna know it's a good business it sounds like you have to have a you got to keep a positive attitude

01:51:06.000 though huh that's it listen it the day goes by so much easier if you just get through the work

01:51:11.600 you have a good partner a good relationship with your partner it's awesome listen there's so many

01:51:16.560 other shitty jobs like i would take that over any city job in new york really yeah like you got the

01:51:21.760 firemen you know they're just wearing t-shirts trying to get free stuff oh yeah and they're

01:51:25.680 they're fucking let's be honest they're making shit they're just eating franks back in there

01:51:28.960 exactly you know no judgment i love these guys yeah no 100 my brother-in-law's one's retired one's

01:51:34.480 still on yeah i got a lot of friends that do it i just bust their chops all the time because they're

01:51:38.160 always wearing a fire department t-shirt i'm like dude you got no other clothes in your office yeah oh

01:51:42.720 they definitely they're fucking yeah and then you light a fucking match and they're over there

01:51:47.040 beating up a birthday cake just to fucking flex put it out yeah firemen's here yeah yeah somebody's

01:51:53.600 but meanwhile i laugh i'll talk about my brother-in-law's quick my wife's brothers

01:51:57.120 they'll come to my house and i got a fire pit in the yard dude it's like they're trying to light my

01:52:01.600 house on fire it's like bro what don't you put these out why are you starting this shit this big

01:52:05.600 like my and i got like a tin roof over his metals melting i'm like dude what's the point of this

01:52:11.040 yeah yeah your bird feeder bro you look in your bird feeder you got a fucking grilled sparrow

01:52:16.080 yeah it's like dude what are you trying to prove are you trying to put another fire out here do

01:52:20.240 that on their time not mine a lot of firemen are closeted uh pyromaniacs pyromaniacs arsonists

01:52:28.000 yeah barn burners whatever they're called bro flame babies whatever they call them bro crazy oh yeah

01:52:34.480 a bunch of fucking kerosene mammals bro they don't give a fuck dude they'll fucking drink kerosene and

01:52:39.920 then blow a fucking flamethrower they don't give a fuck dude them guys and the cops it's tough man i

01:52:45.200 feel bad for new york cops do you i got a lot of friends you know listen there there's bad apples

01:52:49.760 all over there i don't care what industry you're in people are idiots the way they act the way they

01:52:54.960 you know treat people yeah but just i i was it's just crazy how they treat new york cops like when i

01:53:02.240 was growing up you respected the cops yeah that was it you shit on the garbage man you respect the

01:53:07.600 cops yeah but now it's like i just don't get it so those are two jobs i don't even want yeah i think

01:53:14.480 the media has let a lot of that happen you know i think a lot of like the same types of uh folks

01:53:19.920 doing a lot of crime that don't have any respect for police officers i think uh you have a lot of

01:53:25.120 kids raised with no families yeah no parents that don't have any respect for anybody so and the people

01:53:31.440 that were supposed to be in their you know authorities they in fact hate authority because they never had

01:53:37.120 any so it's like the second they see a cop you know yeah it's heartbreaking dude yeah what a lot of

01:53:42.560 those guys go through do you have a relationship with police fire the others the other like

01:53:47.040 municipalities that would of course no yeah yeah uh civil service yeah the civil service yeah of

01:53:52.240 course you know they always you know they always call up they gotta throw stuff out you know during

01:53:57.600 the winters you know the police department was always like you had to go do the police department

01:54:02.320 and that was like even the ferry in staten island you had to go hit that with the plows and everything

01:54:07.040 get all that spread you know salt spread it down you know i would always go to the fire departments

01:54:11.760 you know so you take it do you take a spreader onto a ferry no it's like the ramps to get on the

01:54:17.440 ferry so like where all the buses come in yeah you know that that you have to hit all those ramps

01:54:21.920 and i mean it's non-stop it's like one truck does that all day goes up and down the main road and

01:54:26.400 then comes back and hits all those bays to make sure that all the buses you know i had this bus

01:54:31.600 you know back into me once i'm like dude you didn't see this big truck like i got blinking

01:54:36.240 lights everywhere yeah oh it's my fifth day on the job i felt bad for the kid probably got fired

01:54:41.680 i did feel bad for him but they drove right into the plow i'm like oh man but yeah you respected

01:54:47.920 each other you know and you know i got pulled over a few times here and there you know for stupid

01:54:53.520 shit like tint in my windows and stuff like that all right don't worry about it yeah basic asian

01:54:59.360 crimes really i call those yeah every time i get stopped for that um what type of ethnicity

01:55:05.840 is a garbage man a lot of times we had black and white men mostly is it every ethnicity every it is

01:55:12.080 every so it's a real universal job yeah we had the most diverse in the city that's the most diverse

01:55:17.360 city job and it was dude it was fun man i had a lot of fun yeah you had a lot of cool people a

01:55:23.760 lot of cool people a lot of fun people a lot of guys i still talk to oh yeah you know that's so cool

01:55:28.960 man yeah i think there is something about the camaraderie what was it like when you got back

01:55:32.640 to like the the the house or whatever you you know was there a uh what was that like was there

01:55:38.720 a shop or something where would you guys all get back to and hang out was there like a bunk house

01:55:42.960 yeah you always had like a an area where you know you would have couches you know which there was like

01:55:49.280 rules like oh don't sit on it in your city uniform like nasty but you know people always did did

01:55:54.240 day gross nah people would go do the trash route and then come and yeah and then come and lay down

01:55:58.320 on the couch oh it's like dude what what are you doing oh my god bro yeah that makes me people and

01:56:05.040 then you listen you know even the bathrooms in some of these places like i always wanted i wanted

01:56:10.880 to do like a study and go to guys houses and see how they react like how they are around their families

01:56:17.120 because i'm like if you do this here and you don't clean up after yourself like you know what

01:56:22.640 do you do home yeah like does your wife wipe your ass like what i don't get it oh you know the wife

01:56:30.640 probably glad they're not at home oh anybody ever have a wife that killed them while they were on the

01:56:36.240 job that you knew anybody no nothing like that yeah a lot of divorces they used to say it's cheaper to

01:56:42.000 keep them that was the going saying like about oh you get married it's cheaper to keep them yeah

01:56:47.920 guys coming in with like paychecks for a dollar 99 like because that's how many you know kids

01:56:56.960 do you guys compete against other uh civil service groups like is there like a volleyball squad or

01:57:02.560 anything no we used to do like a softball thing within like on staten island there's uh three garages

01:57:08.320 we used to do that for a few years but nothing like you know other than that yeah what uh does

01:57:13.840 your son want to be a garbage man when he grows up no believe it or not my oldest doesn't even

01:57:19.120 remember me being a garbage man i used to bring the truck i used to bring that but he was young

01:57:23.840 you know and now we're in i think i want i want to say i left staten island six years ago so he was

01:57:29.760 four so he's still young you know so you had 20 years of service man you got it done you look so young

01:57:34.720 i mean you had 20 years of service you got in and got out retired at 41 uh started my own you know

01:57:40.480 construction i do bathrooms kitchens all that stuff yeah and then my back went out oh so i've been on

01:57:46.880 the shelf for right now getting back in the game are you on pain pills or not no good i don't mess

01:57:51.280 with that shit amen brother no i went on the medical marijuana for a while just to take gummies oh yeah

01:57:59.040 okay you got a piss too yeah i'm almost all right let's go all piss then we'll come back up and finish

01:58:03.280 up is that cool yeah okay great whatever you want to do yeah what does the uh retirement look like

01:58:08.720 what does a retirement look like so you get yeah did it give you like a uh watch or a jacket is it

01:58:16.880 like a big thing you get a pension you don't get nothing from them you get the pension you get a

01:58:20.800 pension pension uh health benefits okay all paid for life for your family until you yeah until you

01:58:27.760 until you're gone wow dude that's incredible so there's a lot of value there yeah everybody

01:58:33.440 like passes that over you know when guys are like oh i gotta stay on the job i gotta do 25 because it's

01:58:38.560 my pensions only this now but they don't realize how expensive insurance is yeah you know at least

01:58:44.000 two grand for four people yeah me my wife my kids yeah so you know like you said it's money yeah oh yeah

01:58:50.960 that's about shoot that's more and people people pay as much to insure themselves you know it's some

01:58:56.080 people's more than a mortgage than their rent yeah um so you get that you're done what do you do you're

01:59:03.280 41 years old you just retired from a job pretty incredible how what makes you decide to go into uh

01:59:10.400 like home construction and stuff like that i grew up around it my father owned the hardware store growing

01:59:14.960 up really yeah oh it's so cool so i had every tool in the shed i had everything you know and

01:59:21.840 five six years old i was using saws oh yeah because they didn't have no safety shit on it back then oh

01:59:27.440 yeah somebody breaks in your home you fucking skill saw them my mother would scream get away from that

01:59:34.640 because my father was at work so i would just i made my i think i was eight years old i was building a

01:59:39.440 tree house yeah of course my wife's like me and my my mother like what are you doing i'm like i'm

01:59:45.520 just building a tree house you're like this tree house ain't gonna build itself exactly kick the step

01:59:52.080 slit my head open that was the end of the tree house wow yeah but yeah i i just love working like

01:59:57.680 with woodwork and you know all that stuff um is your father still alive he is oh wow still doing it

02:00:04.720 great dude i'll never you know but you know then he went into different things you know he became a

02:00:10.480 court runner as well he used to run around for a law firm you know he did that and then you know and

02:00:16.000 he started working with me that was about three weeks couldn't take that shit no more so he's still

02:00:21.760 doing home improvements he's he's actually doing a bathroom right now oh amen i'm like dude you're

02:00:26.240 crazy yeah but he likes to work though yeah he's always is oh you get enjoyment out of it you know

02:00:32.880 when i do kitchens and bathrooms for people you feel you feel more you know just the the wow and

02:00:39.840 oh my god you could do this like i yeah yeah yeah i think it's something that that that's missing from

02:00:46.240 my job too a lot of times is the fee is that physical feeling of completing something you know

02:00:52.880 that construction the building yeah you know there's definitely something inside of us that wants to uh

02:00:59.040 to build or complete something um i think for a lot of us anyway um yeah my mother loves to work she

02:01:06.240 just i'm always like mom can i help you out can i do this she's like you know i need to get a new van

02:01:11.280 so i can keep doing my deliveries you know it's like hey what look you want somebody to be happy you

02:01:17.600 know you want them to do what they want um yeah people always there's always that thing you don't

02:01:23.280 want to end up being a garbage man you know was that did that always did that ever make you feel

02:01:27.680 bad you didn't think anything about it did he was there any oh listen everybody you know would say oh

02:01:33.840 air garbage man this and that and like i said always look down but listen i i didn't give a

02:01:39.840 shit yeah i was making good money yeah you can do whatever you want i don't give a shit and your job

02:01:46.960 sounds honestly as crazy it sounds fun dude it was awesome dude i got i didn't even get into

02:01:53.200 craziness but it really was it's like you're on your own it's you or your partner the garbage truck

02:01:59.040 you just pick up garbage they give you a route here's the blocks it's a blast yeah and it's all

02:02:04.560 dude i used to clip on a uh like a speaker six in the morning you hear me coming down the block that

02:02:10.080 should blast and dance music rap music yeah like bumping picking garbage up having fun i never it

02:02:17.760 i never like bothered me once there are people on the job that hate it really yeah like that you

02:02:23.040 know oh i don't tell people about this it's like you know i i didn't care it's not hpv dude yeah i'm

02:02:29.840 like exactly somebody's got to do it but yeah i loved it we got into a real quick story i but my

02:02:38.800 buddies come flying up a one way and now me and my buddy louie we're down like it's we're pointing

02:02:44.960 down to one way they come flying up the wrong way i'm like what the fuck is going on here i said oh

02:02:48.960 maybe they're coming to help us because you used to do that all the time on the job you call out

02:02:52.160 the friends hey listen my route's heavy today right like can you come and grab this block yeah no

02:02:56.880 problem you always help each other out dude all of a sudden these two they jump out the truck they

02:03:02.400 start whipping us with eggs uh-uh it was like around halloween it might have been halloween right

02:03:07.280 so they're chucking eggs all over the truck oh the other truck yeah like they're throwing eggs at

02:03:12.320 us yeah and me and my buddy louie actually i'm throwing garbage and louie goes running by me i'm

02:03:16.640 like where'd you go and then eggs start flying over my head so now we fly up the block they back

02:03:23.040 out they they drive away right so now you always have blocks that intertwine yeah so they go the

02:03:28.320 main street we go to the store get two dozen eggs we go all these shortcuts cutting every light

02:03:34.000 off we block you know we just ran we waited for them where we knew they were going to go and now

02:03:39.680 regular earth is happening like people are out at the there's a food store right there yeah there's

02:03:44.880 people walking the streets everything dude we're hiding behind cars and they pull up and get stuck

02:03:50.160 at the light dude we whipping yeah they were covered head to toe they couldn't get out they were blocked

02:03:57.040 in by cars where we had the chance to run we had to go back to my mother's house and wash the

02:04:02.240 inside of the cabs out oh that's how bad it was like haganow that's crazy man but no oh that's

02:04:08.080 fun yeah nobody's even paying attention to you that's fucking fun dude oh that's cool and could

02:04:13.200 you listen to music in the in the uh vehicle there's no music in there yeah no you would bring radios in

02:04:18.080 on your own you would get like a radio or boombox or something like that but you listen to what you

02:04:26.640 want it to yeah country music was my thing you know later in my role yeah and when i first started

02:04:32.640 you know i was i used to get yelled at in one area because the music was too loud oh yeah yeah

02:04:38.080 because we would pump it listen you got to make the best of your day oh i think so too music helps

02:04:42.480 everything for sure yep um what's good and bad about the unions like about unions what is that whole

02:04:49.360 setup like can you talk about it if you don't feel comfortable that's okay yeah i mean it's because

02:04:54.240 you're in the union right well no because now the city pays me i'm not really in the union anymore

02:04:59.040 okay i'm done it's not like i don't understand unions fully so maybe do you even have any

02:05:03.200 explanation to me about what union because you were part of a union right yes i was okay so how

02:05:08.800 does that even for some jobs you have to be in a union to have the job yeah certain businesses run

02:05:14.960 under union standards okay which means you have to have paid dues um and you know whatever it is

02:05:20.800 monthly you pay dues and and you stay in good standard within the union now you know and then

02:05:26.400 you get into like iron workers and all that those unions are totally different okay because those

02:05:30.720 unions are paying those guys pensions okay to me when i worked for new york yes we ran for a union

02:05:38.080 like there's a different union for us the fire department the police department everybody has their

02:05:42.000 own union but once i'm done i'm out of that union and now the city just sends my checks okay like they

02:05:48.560 i have nothing to do with the union anymore i don't go to meetings i don't you know picket line

02:05:52.240 or i don't do all that nonsense no more did you guys ever have to strike we couldn't we were signed

02:05:57.440 under the tailor law okay so the tailor law you can't strike if you know you you could lose that's

02:06:02.160 the one way you could lose your job you couldn't it was crazy dude the job you could never lose the job

02:06:09.600 i'm dead honest literally i knew guys that killed people that worked on the job yeah they went to prison

02:06:15.760 their pensions are still waiting for them amen when they come out but the thing is if you were

02:06:22.080 dirty if you came up on drugs and stuff on an accident and somebody got hurt that's probably the

02:06:27.600 only way you can lose your job i see so but the unions it's tough it's listen they're great it's just

02:06:37.360 it's a it's expensive yeah what type of injuries happen on the job to guys a lot like i said i had

02:06:43.840 uh my my left knee meniscus surgery my right rotator my left uh clavicle like i busted up and

02:06:55.200 it's just from swinging bags really yeah and then my back of course was just a matter of time oh yeah

02:07:00.400 you know once i stopped running around the streets picking garbage up and now i'm doing my side well

02:07:04.960 not my side but i was doing oh yeah kitchens and bathrooms at my speed not running four miles every

02:07:09.520 day my back just locked up on me so i had to go into the knife was it um was it hard to adjust

02:07:15.760 whenever you retired yeah retirement everybody oh i'm gonna retire it's not worth it that's why i'm

02:07:21.520 gonna start working again back in the back of the trash no no no no sanitation no i'm actually looking

02:07:27.680 now just to get into something simple nothing crazy uh you know i'm not one of those oh i need a big

02:07:32.480 high paying just something basic yeah i just want to stay busy yeah because it's honestly dude it's not

02:07:37.600 healthy when you're sitting around yeah you're just sitting around it's good for two or three

02:07:43.120 days and then you're like oh yeah i'll give it like two weeks yeah but then you're like now what

02:07:49.360 and yeah yeah i i do my lawn neighbors you're taking a cat for a walk or something like what

02:07:54.080 the am i doing exactly you know yeah you're selling lemonade in your driveway it's getting sad

02:08:00.720 nickel a piece yeah you're out there selling lemonade from one to two p.m no my wife thinks

02:08:07.600 i'm crazy because i take my lawn very seriously oh yeah what am i gonna do guy who's retired does

02:08:14.800 my lawn's fucking this i need more water i need more this i need this oh you're crazy but what else

02:08:20.560 am i gonna do where'd you meet your wife did you have her before you had the job no oh no i was on the

02:08:28.400 job i think five years wow when i met my wife just the bar scene i was i would bring something up if

02:08:34.560 she would kill me if i told you well i'll tell you but you can't play it on the sign you can't play

02:08:40.240 okay i promise met her there you know hello this that's about it then i started seeing around the

02:08:45.600 bars my buddy and were you partying back then or no i was partying oh yeah that's me it was ugly

02:08:52.080 oh bro i fucking you find me in a fucking just a neighborhood fucking house party do snorting

02:08:59.120 stacker twos and fucking holding up a wall but see that's that's the old like stat now like i said

02:09:06.320 we were in bars 15 16 years old bro oh yeah so like it started getting boring at 21 22 yeah but

02:09:12.480 she was in college on staten island she went to wagner college and she was always in the bars

02:09:16.800 my buddy god rest his soul you know didn't do so well with that partying end and uh he was dating

02:09:23.760 her friend so she was like oh you gotta date wayne you gotta date wayne whatever you know we finally

02:09:30.080 i'm wayne yeah i'm wayne i'm here i'm the guy but and then we just hit it off you know we started

02:09:36.640 you know bullshitting she would tell people she'd probably still tell you today like oh he was following

02:09:40.880 me around i'm like you probably were you know but you you're i'm five years older than you right i've been in

02:09:46.400 these bars for 10 years longer than you yeah don't tell me that uh these are my bars right

02:09:51.760 this is my stomping grounds i think when you're tall people can always see you wherever you are

02:09:56.160 i'm always above right so people are always like oh that guy's following me like i'm not following

02:09:59.600 i'm just fucking over here yeah it's like it that's the shitty part about being tall right that's a good

02:10:04.720 point but now when did you break when did you tell your wife that you were working as a garbage

02:10:09.680 or sanitation worker did you have to sit her down and tell her oh no she knew okay yeah she pretty much knew

02:10:14.720 but she must have it sounds such like a for somebody to be able to get up that much go do that

02:10:20.880 job i think there's a ton of admiration in it probably you probably have to start to admire like

02:10:25.360 this fucking guy gets his job his work done well it's not easy in the sense that like you say

02:10:31.280 it's you have to it's a commitment for 20 years or more i know guys 25 30 years um but it's more of

02:10:38.400 like you wake up and all you hear is downpouring you still gotta go so it is and like i never

02:10:46.320 wanted a pat on the back like screw that you know it was just more of knowing like how your day's

02:10:52.080 gonna go from the minute you wake up hearing pouring rain or you know it's gonna snow today

02:10:56.640 all right well i'll see you tonight at eight o'clock at night and you're leaving at six in the morning

02:11:00.800 i want to get home eight nine o'clock at night wow so there wasn't listen it was good money i think

02:11:06.160 her family knew like oh yeah i'm dating this guy who works for sanitation oh that's a great job

02:11:12.880 it's a city job like it's known right but yeah yeah you don't know that i mean that's one of the

02:11:19.600 things that i'm so happy to learn is like you don't know that there's uh you can make good money

02:11:23.520 you don't know that there's a pension in it you don't know that you can fucking have a good time

02:11:27.360 you don't know that you get over the smell so you don't even notice it anymore huh no wow

02:11:32.080 don't even notice it and i could pick it out anyway like could you smell different types of

02:11:36.480 trash from certain amounts of feet away you know what it is the maggots smell like i was saying is

02:11:41.520 the killer you know and there are some times i have a backyard you know that we eat outside we

02:11:46.160 throw the garbage and i don't throw it out right away it's like in a bag in a pail

02:11:50.480 dude maggots will start crawling out of the pail maggots are gross huh oh i hate them

02:11:54.400 awful dude i hate maggots i used to be walking around they're all in my arms

02:11:59.280 they would they would come out of the truck splat on your arm like nasty like blowing them off your

02:12:04.640 arm while you're on the back of the truck it's part of the job was there like a wave of trash

02:12:09.680 water that would come out on the cycle

02:12:13.520 like i'm see i'm talking something kelly kelly slater would flirt with you know

02:12:18.640 so this so this woman and i knew her from the neighborhood i went to school well i didn't go to

02:12:22.720 school with her daughter but i knew her daughter from high school i used to hang out with her and

02:12:26.720 her friends and she comes out she's like oh wayne i got can i can't lift this sofa and it was in the

02:12:32.240 driveway i'm like yeah i'll get it go back inside downpouring so we throw the sofa in and we throw

02:12:37.760 bags in now she's right next to me and i'm like don't stand there go somewhere else no no no no i want

02:12:43.680 to get she's trying to help give us something you know for taking this let me give you a couple muffins

02:12:47.680 or something it's cycles dude from head to toe it was brown water she literally had maggots like on

02:12:53.440 her face i was like get in the house and go take a shower she's like what is all this i was with her

02:13:01.440 eyes closed oh i might just get in the fucking house i told you don't stand here you know that's

02:13:07.360 the devil's back wash i mean you don't want that it just happened because we were uphill and and the

02:13:12.480 rainy days now you're lifting every pail that doesn't have a lid water's going in and it's just

02:13:17.120 squashing around it's it's like sewage oh it's disgusting and all that water just is there a

02:13:24.080 catch from the truck or it all goes around the street usually no well we used to have drain pipes

02:13:28.800 but then they soldered like they uh welded them all shut because like they didn't people would

02:13:33.760 complain that trash was like coming out on the street so you had to deal with it our thing was

02:13:38.720 you wanted to find a mattress at that point so you would throw the mattress in squeeze it and

02:13:43.760 would sop up all the water on the bad days so there's some there's some strategies to the game

02:13:48.960 listen just because we're garbage man we ain't stupid yeah right of course not yeah i never think

02:13:54.480 that those guys are dumb i don't know what i think i think it's just also the the tough part about that

02:13:59.280 job is if you're just like someone who lives somewhere you don't get to go so quick you know it's

02:14:05.520 tough to get time with them you know like you don't you know like cops stay around and

02:14:10.160 fucking you know or whatever bullshit with you or like in the neighborhood yeah when i was growing

02:14:14.640 up like some girl would all you know a cop would always be flirting with somebody's some lady or

02:14:19.040 something her husband's missing or whatever and they probably did it but they ain't telling nobody

02:14:23.200 and now they're over here flirting and fucking splitting you know cutting up donuts with a plastic

02:14:27.840 knife on the hood of the fucking cruiser you know flirting with miss cheryl over here who's always all

02:14:33.440 dude this lady by us we get all liquored up she'd be drinking daiquiris and she'd uh

02:14:39.680 lay she'd start her car she had this like car that was like a hot rod or something she'd start that

02:14:44.800 bitch and then with these short shorts and then lay on the hood up and if i could say like pervy

02:14:50.320 out loud like don't you miss me she'd say don't you miss me and we didn't even know

02:14:55.520 her like who the fuck is this lady bitch i'm eight but uh we sit out there and watch her

02:15:01.680 you know yeah listen everybody has their thing but yeah cops you get to you end up talking with

02:15:06.320 them you know you know there's some there's some communication but y'all's job it's kind of just

02:15:10.400 hit and run it's hit and run and even the guys i have now you know like i give them a hundred

02:15:16.160 dollar tip during christmas listen i did the job like i you know i know it sucks the rainy days yeah

02:15:21.600 there's good days there's a lot more good days than you know the rainy days and once you get wet

02:15:26.160 you get wet you're done um but like i have people now tell me what do you mean you tipped them i'm

02:15:31.520 like dude it's they're you these guys who pick my stuff up that's private they're not making what i

02:15:36.320 was making in the city you know and it's it's a lot man they're still they're doing you with service

02:15:41.920 and they always say everybody's always you know lying was oh well i'm you know that's their job they

02:15:47.520 have to pick it up they got to take it and i would tell people this ain't my job you know i'm

02:15:52.160 here to pick up your household garbage i'm not here to take all your demo right from your

02:15:56.800 construction job on your house and that was always where the fine line of like arguing fighting

02:16:01.440 with people like i ain't gonna fight with you it's garbage like why are we fighting over garbage

02:16:06.320 right just get a dumpster and i'm not picking this up yeah case settled done yeah if somebody

02:16:11.840 tried to go to blows with you or something yeah a few times women or men well the woman the it was

02:16:18.400 a husband and wife and they had bags of tile out and the bags and get the out of here with that she

02:16:24.800 was just an asshole this woman and literally the tile is sticking out the bag oh so that's like

02:16:29.520 razor blades porcelain tile i don't know if you've ever been cut by porcelain it sucks and she's like oh

02:16:36.480 you're not going to take this yeah it's your job i said listen this i'm not taking this

02:16:41.200 shit you can throw it in oh fine i'll throw it in yeah look big strong guy you know because uh

02:16:47.760 sanitation worker can't throw it in but i could and she's rubbing it all up on her belly and

02:16:52.640 shit i'm like good look at you you animal you know it turns out she's a nurse oh yeah

02:17:03.280 sorry that's kind of mean i'm getting mean no and she says you know and it was

02:17:06.400 up what she said she was like you know you know what if you ever come into my hospital and you need

02:17:10.640 help you know you know i said you know and now like i said i'm not a blow my top it's garbage well

02:17:17.680 i'm not gonna fight with you you want to throw it in throw it in i don't give a fuck i said you know

02:17:21.600 what bitch fuck you yeah right to her face and i close the hopper and she still had 10 15 bags left

02:17:27.840 and i drove away i told my partner to drive

02:17:29.920 my boss calls he's like what are you doing i said let me guess the nurse called he's like i don't

02:17:37.120 know who the nurse is but this woman called and you know she's calling she got 311 on the line

02:17:42.960 this and that and i'm like dude this is what she said to me so i blew my lid and told her to go

02:17:48.160 fuck herself yeah he's like listen my boss calls he's like just let her throw the rest of the bags in

02:17:53.600 i'm like i don't want to go back there so we went back anyway wow because i just don't want to deal

02:17:58.640 with i don't want to fight on my other end so i go back there now her burly 6 8 husband's there

02:18:04.880 and he gets in my face right and i'm like dude you do not want to do this i said listen i'm a garbage

02:18:10.800 man that's all fine and dandy but you don't want to see what other part there is yeah my old 67 year

02:18:17.120 old partner jumps out the truck gets right in his face starts pushing him no he's like dude you get

02:18:22.080 the fuck back in the house we'll throw the shit in get the fuck out of my partner's face yeah i was

02:18:26.560 like good for you yeah good for you but you had that here and there yeah people want to fight it's

02:18:31.520 garbage what are we fighting over garbage for yeah so wild man it's interesting i'm trying to think

02:18:38.720 if there's anything else out that i i don't know or want to understand about the job oh if you had

02:18:44.480 boots on how do you keep the water from getting into trash water like i said you had rain boots but

02:18:49.920 those were regular boots but just been soaked since and you just put them like on top of your locker hope

02:18:55.040 they dry by the next rainstorm because they're if not wet boots suck but what are you gonna do

02:19:01.040 there's one time this guy goes why you running through the street it was raining i said because

02:19:04.880 i hate wet boots i turn around i'm like i said i think i said something like i hate wet boots you

02:19:09.920 know what you know that feeling i turn around i didn't realize he was in a wheelchair i'm like

02:19:13.840 this motherfucker probably can't even feel his legs i'm like damn it buddy ain't got to worry about

02:19:18.240 wet boots exactly but that's the thing it's like dodging you you tell people i'm dodging raindrops

02:19:25.120 yeah oh yeah but everything got wet dodging raindrops that's a good term um so your wife

02:19:33.120 was good with it what kind of line of work did she get into she was in medical sales um

02:19:38.880 medical device sales so like when you have surgeries and stuff she sold all like the nuts and bolts and

02:19:43.840 stuff for a company but now she's doing it back again she had went to just into sales for uh

02:19:51.280 like smaller companies but now she's back doing medical device you know she's she's always been

02:19:56.800 a hard worker yeah my wife i'll give her a shout out wendy she's always been a hard worker

02:20:01.680 you know our kids are awesome parker and jackson with an x jackson with an x yeah like uh jackson

02:20:08.240 who's the starting quarterback for old miss

02:20:15.680 jackson dart is that with an x is that j-x-o-n

02:20:18.720 j-x-s-o-n yeah no we left the s off oh wow yeah

02:20:22.800 fuck yeah jack's on you're like elon boss yeah yeah

02:20:26.800 wild and shit okay so you got you a family did parker and jackson yeah have you enjoyed being a

02:20:32.400 dad is it exciting love it yeah that's the only that's like the shitty part about now going back to

02:20:36.720 work you know i love having my boys in the morning my jackson my six-year-old's hysterical dude oh

02:20:41.760 really oh from 5 30 on bro he does not stop as we joke with the 10 year old he joke all the time

02:20:48.160 we're like dude we there's got to be an off button yeah and it's kind of dad dad dad like do you see

02:20:52.880 this dad asking me questions like while i'm getting lunch ready for them and breakfast and it's just

02:20:57.520 non-stop yeah but i love it yeah i don't mind any part of it like i do anything for them of course

02:21:04.560 because they're my kids but like that's going to be the hardest part of me like missing now the

02:21:09.040 mornings and then missing when they get home from school yeah that's going to be you know if i start

02:21:13.520 getting home later that's going to be the shitty part yeah yeah it's a bummer a lot of people have

02:21:19.040 to deal with that you know i think it's just it's it's unfortunate that that's kind of how society

02:21:23.840 our society is you know i wonder if we're supposed to be like that or what you know like human beings

02:21:30.240 are supposed to be like um you know like you know you think about the old days of like when

02:21:36.320 people probably lived around a campfire and everybody was fucking home but you were living

02:21:40.480 around a campfire too you know so i think it was probably probably interesting um yeah what would

02:21:47.200 you say to somebody who's thinking like could i be a sanitation worker uh more power to you yeah

02:21:53.680 listen like i said it's a new york thing if you live in the tri-state you know in new york

02:21:58.960 not tri-state if you live in new york it's like a known thing take all the tests it's the best thing

02:22:04.720 i know a buddy of mine his daughter came on he waited long enough because his daughter did so

02:22:11.120 good on the test that his daughter got on the job oh they got to work together they got to work

02:22:14.880 together it was a big thing by the the city you know they went out and then he retired like a week

02:22:18.960 later uh you know so like it listen you know when you know what's coming of the job you know how

02:22:24.080 good it is but you don't want to tell people yeah we always said don't tell nobody how good this job

02:22:28.000 is and here you are and it and yeah there are grueling shitty parts about it but the job was

02:22:32.800 great man yeah like i would never curse the job in that aspect of it well the fact that you had to

02:22:37.040 win a lottery to even get a chance to take the job is freaking pretty well now they don't do that no

02:22:41.040 long now they allow all them to take the test and take the you know and see how the lists are

02:22:46.720 um but there's 120 000 people taking the test now that shows you how much people want this

02:22:52.480 and like somebody called me they're like oh yo my nephew took the test i'm like all right how do you do

02:22:58.000 oh he's got a 93 i'm like oh what's his list number 40 000 like he's done mike dude the job has

02:23:06.000 to die six times over yeah there's 6 000 guys on the job so everyone has to go to work that day die

02:23:12.400 the next day of 6 000 die like so does he really think i said if you got a 40 if you got that kind of

02:23:21.200 number on that test you should look for a different profession yeah gosh yeah that's that's you're not

02:23:27.280 it what was it like during covet doing trash do you remember i just retired oh you did so you got to

02:23:32.320 miss that the guys loved it they did they loved it the money was crazy these guys i'm telling you i

02:23:37.520 know a guy moved to florida 90 000 a year 95 000 a years retirement pensionist he's almost bringing six

02:23:44.320 figures and retired how do you get your pension to be higher you they take your out of five years they

02:23:50.320 take your best three years and average it so if this dude was doing you know two two two you know

02:23:56.160 now they add that in and and the average is 100 grand wow you know so that's what you get half of it

02:24:02.000 so you get half of your base you know for three years so this guy's got another buddy you know 80

02:24:07.680 000 for the year that's what he's going to get every year plus the benefits and all that he'll get

02:24:13.600 80 000 a year how long does a pension last until you die but you could we got to get it but yeah

02:24:22.800 take the test you got to get a new york address though yeah and i wouldn't do that but uh yeah

02:24:30.160 they crush you that's crazy bro but uh but yeah it's that's part of it though you you build up your

02:24:37.040 pension to you know get to a point where you'll leave a lot of guys don't leave like i said earlier

02:24:43.440 like they don't make it to you know so but you could also sign off like i could have given my wife

02:24:48.880 like a percentage of my pension for the rest of her life but it just didn't see how she does yeah

02:24:53.840 well it was you know a little early for that yeah i'm not gonna count her yeah exactly yeah

02:24:59.440 wendy's good yeah wendy would be fine now what if you die like doing like in the line of service

02:25:04.960 or whatever does your wife like get a flag or anything do they like do they is there like a um

02:25:11.600 yeah what's that like they really don't i mean granted it's a sad thing they do a whole memorial

02:25:17.440 thing like they well like line the streets with sanitation workers when they're bringing

02:25:21.760 your casket like any fire you know yeah um but it's nothing like i told you they get i think two years

02:25:30.480 of service so two years of pay so if they get 120 000 that's it you don't get their retirement no

02:25:38.240 because you're gone yeah so if that's not in line and then you die like if you're working

02:25:45.360 it's not the way it rolls wow yeah i know a guy you know unbelievable he they forced him to the

02:25:51.360 clinic we had this clinic at work where you would go and these quack doctors would tell you you feel

02:25:56.000 better then they're like you know it's like they got the the jedi shit oh yeah oh you feel good go

02:26:01.760 back to work if you were hurt and they forced this guy to work and he fucking dropped dead on the stand

02:26:06.480 down ferry going to the going to the clinic i felt awful for his wife and he was such a good dude why

02:26:13.280 and who has those quack doctors the city oh because they want you back on the city they want you back

02:26:16.640 on the job so the i think the city what they do is they they look for guys that lost their

02:26:22.560 private practices like as doctors and they they hire them for pennies on the dollar so they hire

02:26:28.240 those people then yeah and they're quack doctors wow they suck yeah dude i had my finger um i was

02:26:34.880 picking up one night and now you know you're running through the streets because it snowed so now you're

02:26:40.240 finally picking garbage up and not a lot of people put garbage out after the snow it's like they become

02:26:45.360 like hermits and just stay in their house so they don't have garbage right i grab a sewing machine

02:26:51.120 i throw it in the truck and it still had a needle so it fish hooked my thumb so my whole thumb like

02:26:56.800 flapped over this way blood pouring down my arm so i go have stitches i literally still had the

02:27:02.800 stitches in my finger and they're like oh you could go back to work wow so you have to kind of threaten

02:27:07.440 them like all right cool put your name here because when i get gangrene yeah from work oh you could do

02:27:11.520 desk work in the garage i'm like dude it's the dirtiest place on earth a garage and a sanitation

02:27:17.760 you know garage it's gross you know so the desk and it's just filthy nobody cleans them

02:27:24.560 so until you threaten them with like oh i'll get a lawyer you know i'll sue your ass or i take another

02:27:29.440 few days off yeah like it's just that's crazy you know you have to fucking threaten to sue doctors who

02:27:36.240 are just trying to get you back out there you can't even take care of yourself but then you have the

02:27:40.000 other side of the coin where guys will sit out from fucking try to sit out for seven years

02:27:43.440 exactly because they got a bet you know they got a hip flex or whatever i had a guy he had like

02:27:48.240 his cut that he would go outside the building and scrape it against the building outside and just go

02:27:53.920 back in and get another three days still bleeding doc okay take another three days damn it's like dude

02:27:59.600 but then it sucks because there's guys that are fucked up yeah you know like they threatened my job

02:28:04.080 once when i really hurt my back i had my shoulder done and they were like oh you we're gonna force you

02:28:08.320 off the job because i was on light duty and shit for like 18 months wow and it's like you're gonna

02:28:13.600 force me off the job like i'm in the year 16 like what they didn't give a you're a number that's it

02:28:19.600 could people any handicapped people do your job is it could people in a wheelchair be a garbage

02:28:23.840 man or no not a wheelchair per se but i think there was some handicapped motherfuckers on the job

02:28:27.920 yeah yeah the way they well a lot of autism people do the job too i wouldn't doubt it

02:28:32.320 you know listen autism it's nothing uh you know laugh about joke about my both my kids are on the

02:28:39.200 spectrum oh yeah we're on it but they're awesome you know we i was probably on it yeah like you said

02:28:44.560 they didn't test for that shit back in the day fuck no we were just on it well that's what they were

02:28:49.280 like when we grew up they were like oh he's either shy oh he's shy or oh he's fucking crazy like you

02:28:56.080 were either one or the other it was they never said like oh yeah he's gonna be an astronaut like

02:29:01.040 yeah you know like he's real smart no he's shy he sits in the corner the other kids hopping off the

02:29:07.120 walls and that's what it was yeah yeah you yeah you just hope that you had something in the middle

02:29:14.880 probably exactly or at least that god gave you one of each all your adhds elemental peas all that

02:29:21.120 shit oh now you got a fucking kid yeah you don't even know dude you know it's fucking unreal these days

02:29:27.840 the letters they come up with it's just it's it's almost like the other group oh yeah they're just

02:29:31.920 like come on man how many more letters are you gonna you know it's just everybody it's everything

02:29:36.640 yeah yeah i agree like you got a guy who's not fucking dhd

02:29:42.240 re b you know r-e-s-p-e-c-t-b-q i'm like what you're a fucking just say you're a gay beyonce

02:29:50.400 fan you know what i'm saying like what it's just everything's fucking crazy now man dude one nuts

02:29:58.400 man yeah look at this is this is this is the term now l-g-b-t-q-q-i-p-2-s-a-a up down up down

02:30:07.840 select start select start so you're a contra fan yeah yeah

02:30:10.960 no it's crazy you got a bat flying around in here oh yeah bro that's free bats dude from the

02:30:18.960 city that's our pension bro also it's getting close to halloween yeah so they're flying around so we

02:30:23.840 let them in so they got it what was it like what were some of the holidays like though what was the

02:30:27.760 holiday was there a holiday or was there a day of the year when you got the most trash

02:30:33.440 after any holidays so like because you would skip the pickups i so like christmas if we were off

02:30:38.800 they would pick up the next night okay and we used to have to go in 12 to 8 to go pick it up

02:30:43.120 and honestly they would steal garbage like i my first year on the job i never realized that guys

02:30:47.840 stole garbage wow so because on those days you just had to load the truck as fast as you wanted to

02:30:53.600 as you can and then you were done for the night okay so dudes would literally it was like smoke

02:30:57.600 coming out of the tires take off out of the garage go throw hustle get as much garbage as you can

02:31:03.360 and then just to be done you load all you know top off your truck you're done for the day

02:31:09.440 you're stealing garbage then you pull up like now i don't know anything i pull up to the and it's all

02:31:13.680 gone i'm like oh some nice person took all my garbage yeah but then they're like oh yeah now you

02:31:17.760 have to go do more house to house stuff because they took all your big heavy sausage bags so now

02:31:23.040 you got to literally look for garbage it's like hide and seek for garbage and shit wow but it was just

02:31:28.480 get as much as you could fill your truck up you're done yeah and that was during the holidays

02:31:31.680 right i did y2k that was a disaster yeah what was y2k like for a garbage that i had three months on

02:31:38.320 the job they loaded us they were like oh everybody go to this um this garage manhattan seven on the

02:31:43.760 west side so i'm like all right cool near times square oh we'll be out there for times square it's

02:31:48.400 gonna be awesome i was so happy i signed up and i'm looking at my watch i'm like yep i'm just get

02:31:53.440 hanging out here with you guys happy new year because they didn't send us out there till like almost 1 30

02:31:57.760 because they didn't know if the world was gonna end well not even that they just let the you know

02:32:01.360 everybody like leave now time square then we come in and clean up oh yeah and by the time we got out

02:32:06.960 there dude that was the first time i thought like wow people really do like us like chicks wanted

02:32:12.880 pictures with us like with brooms like people taking pictures with chicks drunk and shit yeah

02:32:18.480 they're banging on the windows of the big bus that we come in like oh yeah sanitation's here

02:32:23.440 meanwhile i'm like what the fuck man i thought i was gonna be in time square bowl drop sick

02:32:28.560 nah now i'm coming in cleaning up piss bottles and shit on the floor oh yeah but that was a fun

02:32:33.440 day yeah you know uh sandy when that storm hit hurricane sandy oh that was a nasty one that was

02:32:41.520 another you know that we were going down there and helping people now their whole lawns their whole

02:32:46.320 front their houses were covered the lawns they were bringing everything out right couches you know

02:32:51.760 clothes i felt bad for the living room the whole living room everything everything so we would do our

02:32:57.040 regular routes and then run over there and help the people and like hand pick the garbage up so

02:33:03.120 one day i told my boss i'm like dude this is you're not down there i'm down there this is useless like

02:33:08.000 there's piles of garbage we need the big machines yeah like so he's like all right listen they agreed to

02:33:13.040 it so i convoyed seven uh front of loaders down there through the first block i turn on i i almost cried

02:33:20.720 like that's how you feel for people like piles of shit man their stuff their whole house is on the

02:33:26.560 fucking lawn yeah and we're just coming in to fucking throw it away oh so you're a service but

02:33:32.640 even the service you feel bad kind of painful yeah it was shitty and uh but you get knuckleheads in new

02:33:38.480 york like oh yeah the storm surge was coming and they're like oh let's go see the waves yeah cool

02:33:44.480 dude there were a hundred thousand dollar cars littered all over the street

02:33:47.680 big with the windows down that's how you knew they got caught because there's a this thing in

02:33:52.160 cars now when it gets water damaged the windows go down automatically so somebody can't get caught

02:33:57.200 in like a like water or something oh yeah make everything easy on people keys were in them

02:34:02.160 everything like the key fobs so this guy i knew he said do you have a chain on the front and loader

02:34:08.640 i'm like yeah so i had to hook trains up to like brand new fucking audis mercedes and drag them

02:34:13.600 to clear the streets boats in the middle of the road i was it was like playing with tonka bro it

02:34:19.600 was awesome but i did feel bad in the sense of right you still got to do all that but still it was like

02:34:24.080 it almost yeah it must have felt like another universe yeah i'm like wow i'm dragging a hundred

02:34:28.080 thousand dollar cars around by a chain hook them up to the tires the wheels are screeching what about

02:34:33.840 during 9 11 what was that like that sucked that was shitty um

02:34:38.080 i didn't lose anybody but it was crazy because my sisters sorry my sisters all worked in the city

02:34:48.640 and we couldn't get in touch with them oh so i had just gotten home from work

02:34:53.040 and i just worked 12 to 8 and my buddy calls me and he's like

02:34:56.960 dude this fucking idiot just you know flew into the trade center i'm like what are you talking about

02:35:02.240 like i just got out of the shower like i'm just going i want to go to bed i'm working 12 to 8 it's

02:35:05.920 it's crazy you know so next thing you know another one comes my father calls me never heard the guy

02:35:12.720 cry in his life he and my buddy at the time had a boat he's like get that motherfucking boat and put

02:35:17.520 it in the water he wanted to go get his daughters and it was fucked up the towns were crazy they were

02:35:24.720 fucking going after like all these indian guys and all it was crazy it was nuts wow and i was supposed

02:35:30.560 to go down there with a front and toe with a big machine and somebody you could say stole it one of

02:35:36.080 my buddies jumped in the truck and took the truck and uh he actually when he got back he goes dude i

02:35:42.320 helped you out he goes that was the most awful thing i've ever seen in my life because we went

02:35:47.040 right away and it was still bodies laying around like parts and and you know a lot of those guys wound

02:35:53.280 up with issues man you know with all kinds of breathing issues and all kinds of so it was shitty

02:36:00.000 in new york at that point yeah because you guys have to did you guys have to do some of the cleanup

02:36:05.440 or no we did some of it we did hands-on stuff like they didn't bring any machines into a long time

02:36:11.040 because they were still looking for people yeah but and we ran out of the landfill they put these big

02:36:15.920 tents up domes and they were bringing material from there and dude they were finding like a tooth

02:36:22.240 yeah and like claiming people because there was so many people missing and i knew a few people like

02:36:26.640 from the bar scene and family friends that you know passed away and it sucks it's just shitty

02:36:34.080 yeah and there was never really any retribution i felt like in a weird way also by america you know

02:36:40.000 not that there needs to be i'm not saying that yeah but it was always like they never exactly pinpoint

02:36:46.400 you know it's almost like they never even gave a solace in that sense no yeah it's you know it was

02:36:53.280 like a lot of people thought like that saudi arabia was response but there was you know they kind of

02:36:57.360 loosely blamed it on kind of been uh no no who's saying you get them all mixed up now it's like who's

02:37:04.720 next i know it's so shitty you know but they loosely kind of blamed it on him and went and maybe he did do

02:37:09.520 it they just didn't tell it you know it's like man that was so fucking weird to leave america

02:37:14.800 kind of hanging out to dry like that too in a weird way like yeah well who the fuck did this you

02:37:19.760 you're not telling you're telling me you don't know yeah you know somebody's got to know something

02:37:23.120 you know that night 22 people that were involved in it who the fuck did it and there's so many crazy

02:37:27.920 things like new shit coming out like all this uh with all these documents with it you know and and

02:37:33.520 and i really even when it comes on i can't even watch the shit anymore because i was there like saw

02:37:37.600 the dust like from staten island you know sore you know sore all the dust and the uh smoke and stuff

02:37:45.520 but it's crazy now they just come they just keep digging up stuff now they have new views of where

02:37:49.840 the the planes went in like people coming up with these new camera angles um these trade center

02:37:56.480 buildings like nothing hit them seven like the smaller ones how did it collapse and now you're

02:38:02.080 hearing this old conspiracy theory that uh it did like the it was worth it oh i forgot who was the

02:38:08.080 guy who owned it like owed so much money or something and it was all being put through at that

02:38:13.440 location also in washington dc where they hit the plane there too there's so many theories out there

02:38:18.960 man and it's just shitty because you did that you could have dropped the planes at night right told

02:38:23.760 everybody yo fire alarm let everybody run if that was the deal why why'd you kill people and but that's

02:38:29.440 people because now that's everybody everybody's focus is on that yeah it's not so much that why

02:38:36.080 did these buildings just collapse out of nowhere oh did so and so own like oh money on it and this

02:38:42.400 was his way out yeah you don't know i mean there's some people that's so dirty you know and you some

02:38:48.800 guy yeah who you could give a guy a couple hundred dollars he'll fly a plane into something some dude you

02:38:54.160 know i know a crop duster that'll fucking you know that'll fire zero in on your ex-wife's apartment

02:38:59.840 dude yeah for probably six days for sure um wayne i think we probably learned everything that we can

02:39:08.400 man it's really interesting um i wonder if it would be really different in different parts of america you

02:39:15.840 think the job or do you think it would probably be the same across the board no i think it's definitely

02:39:19.600 different because it's on a private you know end where those guys are making i work for a private

02:39:25.120 i think i was making a hundred dollars a day like just but i was i got it down to two three hours so

02:39:30.960 whatever i was making thirty seven dollars an hour yeah i didn't care but those guys don't make the

02:39:35.600 money like new york there's certain i think uh like just around me like newark or elizabeth like

02:39:41.600 where they're heavy unions they'll be unionized but once you bring the privates in if they're

02:39:46.240 picking up your glass uh your garbage probably here and like in near my house they don't make

02:39:51.440 that kind of money yeah so it is it's a different animal and they don't even use guys like i said

02:39:57.920 they use the arm that lifts the whole thing up dumps it in the truck near my house yeah so it's

02:40:04.080 definitely different all over the country it's changing man so even automation is killing that

02:40:08.720 industry huh yeah well you have places like new york like i said you can't right you can't

02:40:14.800 just not enough space right you're always gonna need somebody yeah there's just not enough space

02:40:19.840 to get you know to the garbage do you guys have beef with any of the other like civil groups like

02:40:25.280 is any like dot cops firemen is there any real fucking beef on the streets or it's kind of like

02:40:30.720 i personally never had an issue yeah like i said i said my piece about the firemen i'll probably get

02:40:36.560 shit from my friends for that one it's funny dude but hey look bro it's all love they know it's true

02:40:42.800 yeah they know it's true bro same look it's a lot of fucking calendar models out there bro it's a lot

02:40:48.720 of dudes fucking eating hot dogs all day and then shooting up a zimp at my you know so i wanted to do

02:40:54.800 it i wanted to do it once that uh i wanted to do a calendar of like the big guys on my job yeah

02:41:01.440 there's some big yeah are they really don't but why could wouldn't it be hard to meet a

02:41:07.280 fucking garbage oh man dude well i just told you you're sitting around eating all day there's

02:41:12.640 always cake there's office guys big dudes man yeah i mean four five six hundred pounds

02:41:19.600 and some of them still wiggle down the block oh there's not so much yeah other you know they

02:41:24.960 will find that spot like oh i'm gonna go work with this guy well i'm gonna go work with that guy

02:41:29.120 like in an office or something yeah and that's why it's like yeah you could say that's what gave

02:41:33.600 us like gives us bad name of like oh yeah they're all just fat ugly guys yeah and it's like no you

02:41:39.760 know there's a lot of guys on my job that don't really take care of themselves they're lunatics

02:41:44.400 with like health and stuff oh yeah it's popular these days well look man i'm grateful for your time

02:41:52.160 man i feel like i learned a lot about the job before i forget what about uh drugs did people find

02:41:58.000 any drugs you think no we always used to look in the couches and stuff yeah because you never know

02:42:04.160 you hear stories of like bundles or coke kilos and shit laying around i yeah i've hidden drugs and

02:42:08.960 couches and never gotten it back yeah no i wouldn't doubt it if they're out there yeah but no we never

02:42:15.680 that we used to say like oh yeah thanks for the tip because change would always come out oh yeah

02:42:20.080 nickels and dimes and quarters and yeah but people have lost like they drop like oh so and so and that's

02:42:27.360 another part of like i said with the tyvek suits so if you drop something real quick if you drop

02:42:31.840 something in the garbage wedding rings uh money anything expensive you drop in the garbage you

02:42:37.520 call the garage hey i dropped on so and so block i dropped something in the garbage they'll call the

02:42:42.240 truck out hey stop work stop picking garbage up but you have to dig through it no uh-huh you do or i

02:42:49.440 do the owner the caller you want you want your ring back no problem at at 10 uh five o'clock tonight

02:42:56.800 they're going to bring that truck to a location on the landfill in an open area they're going to dump

02:43:01.600 it all on the floor and have fun looking have you gotten to watch somebody look for something before

02:43:07.200 i've seen like down below because when we drop we drop into a pit when we dump in sat down and like

02:43:12.480 there was one family doing it you know they were i don't know if they ever found it but yeah bring

02:43:16.880 your family with a bunch of well like husband and wife yeah but not kids i said family

02:43:21.520 if you drop some bullshit and you're fucking checking your kid out of school to help you

02:43:26.400 find a need all the hands and eyes i could get yeah dude that's unreal but no i i knew a woman she

02:43:32.000 dropped 700 bucks she was going to the bank and she put the garbage out the hand the thing was in

02:43:36.000 her hand and it fell in the pail and they and she got it back wow she found it they should play music

02:43:41.520 and do a live feed on that i would bet people would pay to watch that bro and speed it up to the

02:43:45.920 yeah listen they do it they let people do it um wayne i really appreciate it dude thank you so much

02:43:55.440 for your time brother oh thanks for having me yeah it's awesome yeah it's been really really cool and

02:44:00.480 um yeah i i think that it's a it's an admirable feat and that some people can do it and you can get in

02:44:09.040 there and get out with a pension and and then go on the rest of your life yeah you know definitely well

02:44:15.360 worth it yeah you heard it here first guys thank you so much wayne have a good one brother you

02:44:20.880 too thank you theo yeah man now i'm just floating on the breeze and i feel i'm falling like these

02:44:28.080 leaves i must be cornerstone oh but when i reach that ground i'll share this peace of mind i found i can

02:44:39.840 feel it in my bones but it's gonna tell you

This Past Weekend with Theo Von - October 24, 2023

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