No Whine Left Behind
"No Whine Left Behind" is the podcast that serves up a blend of real talk while sipping cocktails. Join your hosts Celia and Alex as we dive into life’s ups and downs, share wild stories we’ve read, and chat about the everyday family drama we all know too well.
No Whine Left Behind
S3 E11 Skyline Sips
Ever feel like surviving a day with teenagers deserves its own award? We’ve got stories for you—from picture-perfect senior photos to a Halloween party that went sideways fast (thankfully, our niece had superhero reflexes).
On the adulting side, we escape to a fancy rooftop bar with skyline views and lobster ravioli, channeling all the boujee vibes. And because life’s never dull, we dig into the bizarre world of black-market turtles, ghost impersonators in cemeteries, and why we seriously need better mental health facilities.
Plus, we’re previewing Sunday brunch at Miller’s Tavern, where $5 Bloody Mary's might just save the day. Tune in for laughs, life hacks, and plenty of chaos!
Follow us on Instagram NoWhineLeftBehind
Welcome to the no Wine Left Behind podcast, where we truly leave no wine behind. I'm Alex.
Speaker 2:And I'm Celia. We are here in the studio together, sharing ups and downs, frustrations and funny moments of our daily adventures. So grab your favorite glass.
Speaker 1:Join us as we raise our voices Together. We'll dive into the drama of life as we see it, and we're back, hidey-ho, hello, again.
Speaker 2:What's going on?
Speaker 1:Lila took her senior photos and they're so cute. Oh, I thought they were beautiful. Remind me to like, send you or like after this I can show you the like some of the pictures that we got, and like the behind the scenes videos too. Oh nice, yeah, so it was really cute.
Speaker 2:So the guy that we got and like the behind the scenes videos too, yeah, so it was really cute.
Speaker 1:So the guy that we went to, he has an assistant now, so while he's taking the picture, she's doing like videos and like quick snippets to like post on his social media and those are honestly like obviously her pictures are good but like the behind the scenes stuff is even more cute than oh my god, I like I can't. And then we also did a combined um. She took her senior pictures and we did a couple of pictures for her birthday um, so I got her a cake and like candles and oh my god, they are so stinky cute, cute.
Speaker 1:I can't wait to see it it's just one of those things like they're getting so old. Like they're getting so old, I know, like they're getting so old. Yeah, and they had their first ever no adult really Halloween party. Oh my God, that was stressful, so I haven't heard a lot about it. So what have you heard about it?
Speaker 2:So I heard that.
Speaker 1:What can you share without getting anybody in trouble?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know that's what I'm thinking. I know there were kids from college from UMass, lowell, there.
Speaker 1:No way.
Speaker 2:Yes, no way. Adriana said she came out of the house and saw like these I don't know. She said four or five older kids and she was looking at them like who are these kids? And someone was like, oh, they're from UMass Lowell. And she was like what are they doing here? They're like they're partying, Like they're at the party with us.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh yeah.
Speaker 2:There was. There was a lot of activity. I'm just going to leave it at. They had a really good time. Everyone was safe.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And the party ended early.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the party ended and when we went there to kind of scope out the place, it was in perfect condition. Yeah, furniture was intact. Yeah, floor was a little bit dirty, but to be expected because it was an indoor outdoor. But the house was fine. Yeah, it was so fine. I was not expecting that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it seems like everyone had a good time and the kids got that out of their system and hopefully I never have to worry about doing anything like that, because it was stressful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, especially nowadays, about doing anything like that because it was stressful. Yeah, especially nowadays, like it's so different. I remember when I was their age I was having house parties all the fucking time. I would have a whole dj in my house, yeah, and that's my point so different.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you could do stuff like that before and like you have to wear it like, like, like the police and all stuff, like. Yeah, like it was supposed to be here at my house. But a few weeks ago when I asked her how many people are coming, I was under the assumption it was just her friend group, which is about 20 kids that she's super tight with right. She giggled like that nervous laugh and couldn't tell me how many people and I was like, okay, all right, we got to have a serious conversation here and what I got from her was well, I told this one at Drake it and they told their friends. I told this one in Nashua and they told their friend. I told this one at Lowell High and they told their friends. I told these people at the Volk and they told their friends this one at Lowell High and they told their friends. I told these people at the Volk and they told their friends. There were people there from all over Tingsborough, drake at Lowell, nashua, that's fine.
Speaker 1:We got some popular kids.
Speaker 2:Well, when I heard that I'm thinking it's like 100 kids, I'm like you're not having it here, I'm not having 100 kids at my house, no, that's not happening, no. And I was like no. And every day I was like Adriana, you got to figure this out, we're going to change party. That was stress. And then she was stressed, so at one point she's like mom, I'm just going to cancel it. I'm like okay, like whatever, I don't care, that's up to you. And then my niece was so kind enough to offer and have it at her place and I was like thank you, jesus, like she saved me. So I owe her big time.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, yeah, it all worked out.
Speaker 2:Yes, and it all worked out. It was great. Everyone had a great time. There were no issues, thank God. But yeah, we're done, we're over that hump. And now this weekend coming up, we're having our party. Yes, a controlled Halloween adult yeah, controlled chaos Okay, it's going to be fun, oh my gosh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so that'll be a good time.
Speaker 1:Kids.
Speaker 2:Teenagers.
Speaker 1:So crazy.
Speaker 2:Like you know, it doesn't matter how old they are no they're just, they just drive you crazy yeah, they stress you out they're, they're dumb as shit. Um yeah doesn't matter. Yeah, I have. I honestly, god, like I love when they were kids and they were little, but I I love even now when they're older and they're teenagers. Like, like, we have the best times. And people who say like, oh, like, I had the best times when they were like newborn to fucking 10 or 12, it's like wait what?
Speaker 1:yeah, no, that sounds awful every day of their life.
Speaker 2:That they hear is the best time, because I have teenagers and I have the best time. I have, yeah, a daughter in her 30s and I have a great time with her, like it doesn't matter. You know what I mean? Yeah, I do. Yeah, it's just like I don't know. When people say shit like that, I'm just like baffled, I'm just like wait what?
Speaker 1:Hey, to each his own, I mean whatever. Yeah, it makes no sense to us. They shouldn't try to understand crazy Every day of their life.
Speaker 2:That they're here is the best time as far as I'm concerned, so whatever, but we have fun together all the time.
Speaker 1:Do you have any funny stories of parties that you went to when you were younger?
Speaker 2:No, not really the parties I went to. They were in the woods and the cops would come and everybody would have to run, come and everybody would have to like, run and like. Of course I probably tripped over rocks and stumps and fucking face planted into the ground a million times. Um, I know a girl in high school who used to throw bangers like every weekend. I don't know where her parents were, I don't know how she got away with, I don't know like I asked, but when I tell you that she was throwing bangers, there were people pouring out the windows. So funny. There was so busy, crazy party all the time, constantly. That was the place to be on the weekends her house. It was nuts. Me. I never threw parties, I couldn't.
Speaker 1:I mean, which is also fine. Who wants to have the cleanup and the stress and the headache? Nobody wants that.
Speaker 2:Because I think kids throw parties just for the status. It's like being cool type thing, Like oh, and then everybody's talking about your party after.
Speaker 1:And like you're, like you know what I mean, Like you just leveled up a little bit, you know.
Speaker 2:So I think that's why most kids do it. But yeah, I didn't. I wasn't really cool because, like I wasn't allowed to throw parties.
Speaker 1:Well, look at you now. You're the hostess with the most.
Speaker 2:now I became cool after high school because then I was on my own and I was able to do what I wanted and I loved entertaining, I loved throwing parties. I loved doing all that stuff. So now I'm cooler now than I was in high school, because in high school I was like invisible. I couldn't do anything. I couldn't go anywhere, I couldn't. I had to sneak out. Every time I wanted to go places I had to lie and say I'm sleeping over Chrissy's house or fucking Pam's house or whoever, I don't even.
Speaker 2:I didn't even have the friends with those, but I'm just making shit up, I know anyways. Yeah, so in order to do things, I had to like sneak and it was like cool and everything, but then at the same time I gotta yeah, you know what I mean like hope that they don't find out, because then I'm gonna be in trouble yeah, so but, and I want that for my kids, so that's why I try to like let them have that time and those moments.
Speaker 1:So so you also have like a lot of siblings. So was there ever a time where, like they had to cover for you? Or is there ever a time that like they had to cover for you? Or was there ever a time that they caught you out, like you guys bumped into each other? No, that's so crazy.
Speaker 2:Oh, actually, actually my sister gave me her ID. So I was 17 years old, going to bars. She was 10 years older than me. Oh my, that's crazy. I was 17, going out party and drinking with my friends with her ID, and she said to me if you get caught, I'm not helping you, like it's on you. And I'm like, oh shit, because she would be like, oh, you're going to get arrested and all the shit. And I was like, oh fuck.
Speaker 1:But I still tried.
Speaker 2:So I'll never forget. I went to Brian's Ivy Hall. I'd gone in there like fucking 17 times, right, 18th time or whatever, just throwing numbers out. There it was a new guy at the door. Oh no, I'm like, oh fuck. So I already knew. Like in the back of my mind I'm like this might not go well. Sure enough, he looked at me Look he goes, you're not 27. He goes at me look he goes, you're not 27 he goes.
Speaker 2:Get the fuck out of here, he goes why don't you have your sister come get her ID tomorrow? So that ended that. So then I didn't. I just would like house parties in the woods and all that shit yeah, yeah but yeah, it was uh. Yeah, I had a good time for a while. I had a good, I had a good fucking streak for a while. Yeah and then yeah then you got busted then I got busted.
Speaker 2:So but I'm trying to think nothing really like, nothing really wild and crazy which I mean makes sense, because I wasn't I wasn't a wild and crazy.
Speaker 1:Yes took the words right out of my mouth.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was very like calm and quiet and shy and like like I was afraid of everything, like I was nervous about getting in trouble. I was, I just I don't know. It was just a lot going on back then. So I'm just like, let me just keep to myself and whatever. But it was all right, it was good, but I have better time now as an adult.
Speaker 1:Oh, 100%, you do, yeah, 100%, way better Always doing something yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure I didn't do a lot when I was a kid. That's okay, though I make up for it now in my old age Like the view that you went to in Boston.
Speaker 1:Tell us everything about that experience.
Speaker 2:So definitely way more than I expected. Um, definitely way more than I expected. Um, so the view in Boston was the old top of the hub at the Prudential Center. Um, you go in there's like a big area, um, where there's like a ticketing booth or whatever ticketing lines and there's a big sign that says the view booth or whatever ticketing lines and there's a big sign that says the View. So you get your ticket. I did a pre-thing, so also you can do like a sip and view, where you get like a free drink and you get to go see the View. There's something called Beacon Bites, which is $99 a person plus tax and gratuity ends up being like $124. You get two cocktails, an appetizer and an entree. Oh, wow, yeah, so that's what we ended up doing and you get to go up to the, to the viewing area so if you just want to do the viewing area, it's ten dollars.
Speaker 2:Ten dollars, twenty fifteen dollars.
Speaker 1:I'm not really sure but that was included.
Speaker 2:So we did that. We went in. You go down this hallway, down a set of escalators, down another hallway to an elevator that takes you up to the 52nd floor.
Speaker 1:It's like the Empire State Building. I feel like going to see like the top of the Empire State Building is like very complicated.
Speaker 2:Yes, it wasn't like just get on the elevator and go. You're walking down here around there around the corner, like it was really cool. But there's like on the way, there's like stuff you can see little exhibits and stuff. Then we go up the elevator. It was doing this, the whole time.
Speaker 2:I'm like oh my God, we get there. We're like. So where the top of the hub was is just like a 360 viewing area. Now you walk all the way around. It's beautiful. It's all enclosed. You either take the elevator or this is down to the 51st floor where there's a bar called Stratus which is super nice and there's an outdoor viewing area with outdoor seating, it's all glass but open air.
Speaker 2:It's just amazing. I have like amazing pictures, like it's just incredible. Then you go down to the 50th floor where there's the Beacon restaurant where we ate there's this beautiful exhibits. And then there's the beacon restaurant where we ate, there's this beautiful exhibits. And then there's shops, okay, and there's a sitting area. There's beautiful couches and chairs and it's just amazing. Like we were there for like five hours like it was great. That's how much like you, like we just like watching the view and like talking and eating. We sat at the bar, we had drinks, like it was. It was great. It's the money.
Speaker 1:It was an awesome time.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, we parked right underneath the Prudential Perfect and just took the elevator. Actually, we walked outside and around and went in. I don't know why we didn't take the elevator. That was weird. Anyways, yeah, we took the elevator to the street level and I'm like why are we outside?
Speaker 1:We're just inside the building, but it's fine.
Speaker 2:I think we weren't sure like how to get up there or something I don't remember. And it was so funny because we were trying to surprise Christina. And so this guy like gets on the elevator with us and he's like we're like, oh, what floor. He's like I don't know, I'm trying to go to the view. And we all looked at each other like we didn't want to say yeah, that's where we're going to.
Speaker 1:And I said to the guy, I think one of us said yeah, just follow us, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness, and so we all got off in the elevator and like he ended up, like I looked behind him and he was behind me and I was like, so then he followed us in and he went his way, we went our way.
Speaker 1:It was so funny, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:But it was awesome. I recommend. I know they have the drink and view, the sip and view. They have the beacon bites and then they have another one I don't know if it's a brunch one, I'm not really sure what it is and it's like three or four different special things you can buy. Only thing is those, if you decide to do those, they're prepay. So you have to, like, book the reservation and pay for it in advance and then when you go there, they scan your thing and they give you a menu and there's like 10 different drinks you can choose from. And then they give you a regular food menu, cocktail menu, food menu, and he's like. He's like you can have anything from this side or this side, and it says appetizers, salads, sandwiches, entrees, okay, so we're looking at the menu and there's five of us. So I'm like, hmm, we're not gonna get five appetizers like how are we gonna do this?
Speaker 2:so we got two and I said how big are the salads? He's like they're shareable, so it's not like they were giving you like tapas, like these little, tiny, fucking little dinky plates.
Speaker 2:It was like normal size fucking entrees and shit Appetizers. So we ended up getting a Caesar salad and a Capri salad that we shared. We ended up getting a flatbread that we shared. It was like huge, oh my gosh. We got. What else did we share? Um, oh, a charcuterie board. We literally got a charcuterie board and so it was two salads, flatbread, charcuterie board, and I forget what the other um appetizer was. Then, from the other side, nobody wanted sandwiches, so we all just got an entree, but it was short rib. Like three of us got the short rib and fingerling potatoes, and then Christina got the salmon and Donna got the. No, I got the lobster ravioli oh fancy. And the other three got the short rib. Yeah, it was so good. That's awesome. Like I took food home because we had all the food before the appetizer salad and then the entrees. I ended up taking some of my food home, and Donna did too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's such a great deal. Oh my God, it's such a great deal.
Speaker 2:We still can't get over. We paid like that much money and we literally ate and drank. Right, we were having martinis, like it's not like. Oh, the cocktail is like, you know, it was like good, something watered down. Yeah, like, yeah, they were having lychee martinis and I was having this fancy like spritzer drink, like good, I don't know what it was. It was freaking delicious, it was nice, that's awesome. It was really nice and I highly highly recommend it. Everyone needs to go and at least go up and check out the view. Yeah, because it's amazing. Yeah, ted and Sabrina went on Sunday, see.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Saturday. I went Friday and they went Saturday because they would celebrate their anniversary, that's so cool. Sorry, I'm having a moment.
Speaker 1:If you listen to the last episode, you understand what's happening here.
Speaker 2:Okay, I can't, I can't. I mean, I don't even understand this, and I hope to God it never happens to me again, and if other people suffer from this, I'm so sorry because that's awful. Yeah, it's bad. Yeah, so it's bad. Yeah, uh-huh, so, anywho. So yeah, that was absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1:Good.
Speaker 2:Like it was so fun.
Speaker 1:Yay, so you get to go. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, it's worth every freaking penny. Definitely putting it on my list.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nice. So what else? So what else.
Speaker 1:What else you got. I'm really happy because I heard that Philadelphia has opened up its first urgent care, that is, for mental health issues only. Oh, isn't that awesome. That is really really cool, like why aren't more places?
Speaker 2:and maybe they are out there.
Speaker 1:They just don't have like the promotion and I don't even remember how I came across this article. But yeah, it's a mental health urgent care. That's amazing. That's going to save so many lives. Yeah, I think that's so cool.
Speaker 2:I like it. I like it a lot yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm hoping that it becomes like a movement.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because I think we need that A lot of people need it badly, badly. Yeah, mental health in this country is like crazy, which probably isn't the right word. Fuck, I did it again. I shouldn't say that it is.
Speaker 2:It is literally oh gosh I didn't mean it like call it crazy train.
Speaker 1:I love that song yeah.
Speaker 2:No I I've dealt with a lot of people with severe mental health issues in my time and let me tell you it is not fucking easy.
Speaker 1:No, because you know what?
Speaker 2:the hardest part about it is A sane person. I consider myself a sane person. I consider myself a pretty sane person. Trying to understand a person that has mental health issues, I'm driving myself literally crazy, trying to wrap my brain around why that person's crazy, why they're acting crazy, why they're talking crazy like why are you doing that? Someone said to me you will never, ever understand it, so don't try, right, and that's I. I agree 1000, but it's hard not to, yeah, it's hard not to wonder like why are you doing this? Why are you doing this? Why are you acting like this? Why are you saying this? Why are you behaving this way? Yeah, it's, it's difficult not to want to try to like um, you know what?
Speaker 1:I mean figure it out absolutely.
Speaker 2:But then you, end up kind of driving yourself a little cuckoo doing it?
Speaker 1:yeah, for sure, yeah, but then you get tired of the bullshit and you're back to being normal again.
Speaker 2:Oh, it doesn't take me long. I I get tired of the bullshit. Quick. I'm like okay, I spent two more minutes longer than I wanted to.
Speaker 1:I only wanted to spend a minute on it.
Speaker 2:I spent three minutes on it. I'm done like no, yeah, I don't spend a lot of time on crazy. No, I really don't. Yeah, I, I literally don't spend any time on it typically yeah but there are certain times in my life that I have to deal with some crazy shit, sure, so like I try to like get in and out Right, yeah, cause you're not going to twist my fucking brain you know, fuck you.
Speaker 1:Well, here's hoping they open an urgent care for mental health around here, that fucking urgent care will be banging Like that.
Speaker 2:shit will be slammed. There would never be appointments there. I'll direct people left and right There'd be a waiting, a line down the road wrapped around the fucking corner 20 fucking miles long Deep.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I think it's a good idea.
Speaker 2:We need way more than one mental health urgent care here. We need like fucking 100 of them.
Speaker 1:Oh, for sure.
Speaker 2:We need one to match every urgent care there is here.
Speaker 1:I think that's an excellent idea.
Speaker 2:Sure. So for every urgent care we have in this country, put a mental health one right next door. So if someone walks through the door and they're like I got, I'm crazy. Okay, go next door. That's for the mental health. This is for the regular health. Bye, yeah, for real, boom yeah. And I think that would solve a lot of the medical health crisis in this country.
Speaker 2:Oh, 100% Because there's such a shortage of doctors and nurses and like they're closing hospitals and like it's fucking insanity, like how can you close a hospital, like what the hell that is the craziest thing I've heard like in a long time.
Speaker 2:Like, what are you doing with all these sick people? Like there are sick people there, people dying, People with diseases and whatever. Yeah, we're just closing the hospital, Like what? So I think if they did that, that would solve a lot of these issues. I agree, yeah, it would like relieve some of the stress on the hospitals Because I feel like the urgent cares there's so many of them, there's so many and I feel like maybe it's helped relieve some of the stress on hospitals Because you know you can make an appointment now to go to an urgent care.
Speaker 1:It wasn't like that before. No, nope, you just sat and you waited, yeah.
Speaker 2:Now I make my appointment and when you make an appointment you're in and out. Yeah, but I have the best doctor's office and I can go right online and make an appointment and they always have appointments. I love it there. Therefore, I don't really have to go to urgent care, but if it's a weekend thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like after hours, it comes in handy yeah.
Speaker 2:But the thing is like if you need urgent care, you need to get up like fucking crack ass dawn and make an appointment, because if you try to wait till nine, ten o'clock to make an appointment, they're booked. Yeah, they're booked, so you know what I do. Oh boy, I'll wake up. If I wake up on a Saturday or Sunday and I really feel like I need to go to the doctor and my doctor is not open, I will make that appointment and then I'll see how like I'll make it later.
Speaker 1:See how it goes.
Speaker 2:And then I just cancel it. Because, Then it's like 12 o'clock comes on. I'm still sick as shit. Now I can't get a fucking appointment. I got to go sit in the fucking emergency room, which. I'd rather freaking cut my arm off and do that. So we'll not cut my arm off.
Speaker 1:But the emergency room is a scary place, man. Oh wow, it's awful, it's like. It's like the RMV for sick people.
Speaker 2:It's weird, awful. No, it's fucking weird.
Speaker 1:Yeah, those two places are the like hell on earth, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the people that you see in emergency room now. No, where the fuck are these people coming?
Speaker 1:from. I'm unwell.
Speaker 2:I don't want to be around other people who are unwell In their coffin and throwing up and everything all over the place, like, put a fucking mask on. Do you have a fucking room where they can like? You know what are those rooms called where they can, they can like the triage. No, the room that's all like plastic and they can go in there and like quarantine, Like yeah, yeah, yes yes, put them in there.
Speaker 2:Like, have a fucking quarantine room, people throwing up all over the floor and shit like what the fuck? No bleeding, oh, we had a big blood fucking dripping down the side of his face and he's sitting there for 17 hours, I'm like. But they take you to triage. Oh, as long as you can breathe and as long as they're fucking, you know your brain's not coming out of your fucking head. You sit there and wait fucking eight hours.
Speaker 1:What it's awful, it's awful, it's awful. And it's so loud too, Like when you're sick and whatever everyone's different. When I'm sick, like I can't have like sensory overload and you have people that are like talking so loudly Like the TV.
Speaker 2:There's a bunch of TVs on and they're all different channels, so you got all these different things going on at once. You got little kids running around crying no, fuck it.
Speaker 1:No, it's so fucking bad, it's awful. Then the other thing that really freaks me out, but is unavoidable, is when you mistakenly make eye contact with another person, that when you're just like innocently, like just looking around the room, like whatever, but then, like you and someone else, catch each other's gaze. Fuck my life, fuck my sick life at that point I hate it.
Speaker 2:I hate it no, no no, I get urgent care all day yeah, totally like a hundred hundred thousand, freaking percent. Yeah, um, like sick vip, I have a cute. I have a cute story. I want to. I want to try to like flip the role here because I it has nothing to do with um, do I still have the story? Oh, I hope I didn't. Oh, here it is. It's. It's a story that you'll like because you like turtles, okay, and it has nothing to do with being healthy or sick. It's got to do with, probably, mental health, though, okay, a woman was caught trying to smuggle 29 turtles from the us into canada by a kayak. Why, what?
Speaker 1:I don't know. Wait also, where was she? Is there like fucking lake police, like what huh? So?
Speaker 2:um when ye ning okay 41 was caught smuggling 29 protected eastern box turtles across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak. The turtles were wrapped in socks in her duffel bag. Oh my God.
Speaker 2:Police were alerted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that Neg's husband and another person paddled from Canada towards US and she intended to sell the turtles on the Chinese black market. I have so many questions. Yep, she pleaded guilty to smuggling and US District Court faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of 250 000 dollars was it really worth it?
Speaker 1:was it worth it?
Speaker 2:again like why these fucking turtles must be worth a lot of money.
Speaker 1:That's what I mean. Like what are they going to use the turtles for? Is it like medicine? Is it cosmetic?
Speaker 2:they're smuggling them on the black, trying to sell them in the black market. If they're not for something good, there's no way they're for fucking medicine, or no, it's not for a good thing I mean, you can get like a liver and a lung on the black market. That's what I'm saying it's not good thing Because they stole that shit from somebody, like somebody dead, because they took their organs and sold them on the black market, oh well.
Speaker 1:No, you can live without a lung, and I mean I don't really want someone else to live without a lung, but when someone's lung is taken from them without their consent.
Speaker 2:Well, how do you know? Maybe?
Speaker 1:they no, if it's being sold on the black market. Nobody's going to sell their organs to put them on the black market under any circumstances, unless they're fucking got a gun to their head. Do you remember that time in Vegas where, like it was happening quite a bit, where they were finding people like cut open and like in in their bathtubs, like hotel bathrooms, bathrooms, bathtubs? That was a CSI show. No, that was like really, where do you think csi got it from?
Speaker 2:it was really happening it was ripped from the head.
Speaker 1:I do rip their shows from the headlines, yeah, yeah that's rough, that's imagine no going and like raging in vegas and then waking up fucking one last organ.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm saying that's crazy, that's bad, I mean if it helped.
Speaker 1:Little timmy, I mean, what's the big deal? Fucking suck it up, joe. You shouldn't have been a whore. Oh, you deserve to lose your, whatever you, oh dang got okay a little timmy's okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a little timmy's okay, he's gonna live and that's okay and hopefully he doesn't off the black market.
Speaker 1:Hopefully he doesn't grow up and go to vegas.
Speaker 2:So what do you think they were doing with these turtles on the black market? I don't't know. And there's only so little of them too. Let me research it. What can you do with turtles on the black market?
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm so scared. And also, we just need to be clear that this is for podcast purposes. Yeah, no, no If your phone gets confiscated police.
Speaker 2:It's for podcast purposes only no, I don't want a turtle. Trust me, I'm fucking good. They smell.
Speaker 1:They're disgusting. Yeah, okay, relax, they're not disgusting. They are disgusting. No, if they're in their own natural habitat they're fine. But, like, if you have them in a tank, it's not the best pet to have. Okay, so turtles are often, I'm so scared Turtles stink to holy freaking hell.
Speaker 2:I know, I know, and you can clean it today and tomorrow it's going to stink again, I know. So there's no point in having a turtle. Turtles are often sold on the black market for a variety of purposes, including food. They're a delicacy in some cultures.
Speaker 1:Oh wait, Didn't we talk about a story about someone at like an African retreat who gave guests turtles and they all got sick?
Speaker 2:Yes, we did talk about that. That wasn't an episode. Yes, yes, they were all like deathly ill. Yep, that turtles weren't cooked well, that's the problem. Turtles might have been still a little raw. Eating turtles, oh, medicine, turtle oil, once used in creams and lotions, told you um also, and was also said to prevent aging. Oh, wait, a minute, just kidding, I'm not buying a turtle in the black market. Status symbol in china, spotted turtles and box turtles are high in demand because their red and gold marking symbolize good fortune and status. Oh, okay, yeah. And then pets Turtles are becoming more popular in the pet trade.
Speaker 1:But they don't have turtles there. Like I don't understand, listen to this. I don't understand, listen to this.
Speaker 2:The black market wildlife trade is a multi-billion dollar industry. So weird. That involves the purchase and sale of wildlife and wildlife parts. Gross Turtles are often packaged in boxes and disguised as other goods and shipped overseas without food and water. So you buy a turtle in the black market. There's a chance you're going to get it and it's going to be dead. Yeah, that's sad. So then it's going to be dead. Yeah, that's sad. So then it's useless Because, like a lobster, you can't cook and eat a dead lobster or you will die. That sounds disgusting. So probably the same thing goes for a turtle. So I wouldn't be able to get my aging cream if I got my turtle and it was dead.
Speaker 1:Wait, so she was coming from where to Canada. Wait, so she was coming from where to Canada? From here, from the US. So then you're fine, just go to where she was at and go get yourself a fucking turtle.
Speaker 2:I'm good, gary will do it for you.
Speaker 1:Put it on your Christmas list.
Speaker 2:No, but then how do I have to extract that turtle? What?
Speaker 1:Fucking. Reach out to her. She'll tell you she's in jail.
Speaker 2:She's gone to jail for 10 years. Be her pen pal. No, oh god. No, I'm trying to help you out here no, you are blocking your own blessings I will not pen pal with jail people ever. I have no interest in pen palling with jail people. I'm sorry that's not my jam jail people.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't if I pen pal and pen pal with someone I'm gonna eventually like see and meet, like you could see and meet them. No, like, come to my house, I go to your house. We have friends, we talk, we have dinner, we hang out. I'm not oh, I got to write a letter. I can hold your hand for five seconds and have a Twinkie as our fucking wedding cake. No, they'll do that when they get released.
Speaker 2:No, but what if they're? Now? You spend the rest of your life being a pen pal with someone you can never like talk to.
Speaker 1:Well, then, just be more selective with your pen pals. No, don't be a pen pal with a lifer. No, no, no, no, no Okay.
Speaker 2:Whatever Nope, fine Nope. So Halloween is coming, it is, and some stupid guy, oh gosh.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I'm glad he's going to go to jail. Hopefully Probably not, but he deserves to. Some stupid guy, oh, he was fined. Never mind, he's not going to jail, but he should. He was in a cemetery, oh God, wooing people and trying to scare them.
Speaker 1:Wait. Why do you think he'd go to jail for that?
Speaker 2:You're just scaring people who cares Because he's disturbing the peace and he's making people scared. What if someone's scared and had a heart attack and died Because he was walking around fucking scaring them?
Speaker 1:That is such a dick thing to do, right. Exactly Like bro, you could have killed someone Like you're not funny, I'm sure I'm hoping they weren't there doing like weird Halloween stuff Like what if they're there visiting whomever passed away? That's fucked up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and he's running around with a costume on Woo, pretending to be a freaking ghost Fucking stupid In Portsmouth you are. So In Portsmouth? Oh gosh, oh he was. He was drinking with friends and then he decided that he was going to make ghostly noises, prompting complaints and witnesses. He pleaded guilty to using threatening and abusive behavior to cause distress. See, he's lucky he didn't kill someone with his dumb ass.
Speaker 1:That's so embarrassing. Imagine this being on your record.
Speaker 2:You must look like the dumbest person to everybody right now.
Speaker 1:Imagine someone doing a background check and that coming up and you have to explain yeah, why were you arrested?
Speaker 2:because I was in the cemetery pretending to be a ghost, like a fucking idiot. You know what I'd say get the fuck out of here. I'm not hiring you because you're an idiot. Goodbye. Like you fucking lose. Like you're fired before you even got hired, motherfucker, get out of here.
Speaker 1:Imagine being like his co-worker or something and be like hey, jimmy, how was your weekend?
Speaker 2:So what'd you do this weekend? Oh well, I spent the night in the clink. Why's that? I thought it would be funny to pretend I was a ghost and scare people in a fucking cemetery. Woo, what is wrong? Fucking stupid. It just annoys me at how dumb people are. Oh my God, what.
Speaker 1:I can't breathe. Why are people like this?
Speaker 2:Oh my God, I have't breathe. Why? Why are people like this? Oh my God, I have no idea.
Speaker 1:It's so freaking funny, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh my God. So, yeah, that happened. Freaking, I'm telling you we good to go. Yeah, now you are Okay. I feel like like every year on Halloween there there's some like stupid story about like someone that does something really dumb and they thought it was probably funny and cool at the time and then it turns into this idiotic thing. So but yeah, that was funny, that was funny, that was it was. It was just kind of dumb. That's why it was so funny, I think.
Speaker 1:People are dumb. Yeah yeah, never ceases to amaze me, nope.
Speaker 2:Nope, nope, nope. So there's a place in Methuen we have to go visit. It's called Miller's Tavern. They have looks like by their Instagram they have brunch Okay, and it looks awesome, love brunch, so and then they have like Bloody Marys. Oh, fuck yeah, they have like five bucks.
Speaker 1:Cool, so it sounds like we'll be there on Sunday. Five dollar Bloody Marys Five bucks. Let's go Sign me up. Yeah, for five bucks, I'll try one. Yeah, thank you for joining us on this Wine Build Adventure. We would greatly appreciate your support.
Speaker 2:Please follow and rate our podcast on Apple Podcasts, spotify or wherever you're tuning in right now.
Speaker 1:So raise a glass, leave no wine behind and let's continue this journey together. Cheers.
