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
S4 E4 The brain can do CRAZY things
From 100-degree days to midnight McNugget missions, this week’s episode of No Wine Left Behind has everything:
A 50-minute McDonald's drive-thru saga
Hot takes on The Golden Bachelor & Big Brother
Small-town chaos: juror leaks, officer suspensions & mental health mishandlings
Plus: why trash is piling up in parts of Massachusetts (literally)
Lexi & Celia get personal, get passionate, and as always get loud (with drinks in hand).
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Welcome to the no Wine Left Behind podcast, where we truly leave no wine behind.
Speaker 2:I'm Alice and I'm Celia. We are here in the studio together, sharing ups and downs, frustrations and funny moments of our daily adventures.
Speaker 1:So grab your favorite glass. Join us as we raise our voices Together. We'll dive into the drama of life as we see it, and we're back.
Speaker 2:Howdy, howdy, howdy.
Speaker 1:Already unprepared. Looking for my notes. Oh, here we go.
Speaker 2:So how was your weekend? Hot as hell.
Speaker 1:It has been so hot. I love it. It's summer, so you have to expect it, but I don't know. There's still something about it that's just kind of new Like fuck, it's really hot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I say. I love it, I love, love, love it. But every single day I'm like damn it's hot out here, damn it's hot out here.
Speaker 1:Damn, it's hot out here. Wow, it's so humid, but I'm enjoying it. You know like weird I'm weird, so I have a funny story for you about this. Yes, let's go.
Speaker 2:Oh no, saturday night we go out have drinks. Remember we were texting? Yep and we get back. So we're outside on the deck hanging out, whatever when we get after we got back and like at midnight, I'm like, oh, I'm fucking hungry, like I feel like I want to eat something and I go look in the refrigerator and there's really nothing like that jumps out at me.
Speaker 2:So I had my bathing suit on and my my slides and I had a towel wrapped around me. So I go, I'm going to go to McDonald's. Anybody want anything? And Gary was like, yeah, I'll have two cheeseburgers. And it was like, oh yeah, awesome prize. I'm like, OK, so I grab my card and my keys and my phone.
Speaker 2:I jump in my car, drive down to McDonald's Girl. I get there and there was a line of cars wrapped around the building. I was like I hesitated and I'm like, oh, maybe it's just like it'll go quick, whatever it usually goes pretty quick.
Speaker 2:I get into the line. I thought they were giving away something for free. That's how many cars were there. It was ridiculous. So I get in the line. I see probably six or seven cars that are like door dash people Cause like they're parking their car getting out. I look over at the pickup window and there's at least six people sitting standing at the pickup window waiting for food Wow Line wrapped around. So I'm there 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes I'm still not at the freaking order oh my God.
Speaker 2:Gary calls me. He goes are you okay? I go yeah, I'm at McDonald's, I'm trying to order some food. He was like you've been gone for like a half an hour.
Speaker 1:I'm like that's right 30 minutes. Believe me, I know.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, five more minutes go by. I get to the window, I order the food. Okay, neda calls me. You did you go to McDonald's Cause I went in my room and I didn't hear you come back. I'm like, yeah, I'm just ordered the food, I'll be back as soon as I get it Right. Girl, I was gone trying to order two fries and two cheeseburgers at McDonald's at midnight for 50 minutes. 50 minutes, 50 minutes Crazy.
Speaker 2:I was like and I finally get my food? I'm driving home eating my fries and then I'm thinking, if these motherfuckers went to bed and I just waited 50 minutes for food there, I'm going to literally beat them with this food Like they're dead. I come in Gary's in bed. He's like oh hey, where's my? I literally whipped the cheeseburgers.
Speaker 1:Oh my God.
Speaker 2:It was like, oh my God, yeah, here's your prize, prize, and you better eat every single one of them. Because I waited 50 minutes for these. That's crazy, I couldn't believe it. 50 minutes I was in that drive-thru waiting for food, I don't even know. Honestly, at one point, like I couldn't even get out of the line if I wanted to, because because there was a cause behind me, cause in front of me, cause a side of me parked trying to pick up people. I was literally trapped.
Speaker 2:So at that point it was already like 20 minutes. I'm like all right, I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna, I'm committed, like it is what it is yeah, so, yeah, yeah, so, yeah, so so, just like, don't go to mcdonald's at midnight on a saturday night, because it's a fucking shit show, can you imagine?
Speaker 1:and it's summertime, so, and it's so close to umass lowell, what is it like on a night when school's in session and all those kids are in the dorm room?
Speaker 2:oh man, probably fucking mayhem insane. Yeah, nope, nope, I'm all set, I am all set, nope, nope. Oh, that's so funny, crazy. So yeah, yep, anyways, anyways what else?
Speaker 1:um, so you know I have my obsession with the golden bachelor and the golden bachelorette, oh my god, why? Well, you know, I favor the bachelorette obviously because I'm a female and I just like to see who's like courting the women. I don't really care for the golden bachelor and all the women going like what's the word like buying for the regular bachelor and bachelorette.
Speaker 2:Or do you just watch?
Speaker 1:no, absolutely not yeah, I only watch the golden one, okay. Yeah, I don't really care for the regular one, because they just don't stay together like they're never together. I mean neither of the golden ones do either, and I'm pretty sure I got a glimpse of the women in the gold golden.
Speaker 2:Bachelor, yeah, bachelor, whatever they're not, they look pretty old, like they don't look like they're aging well and that's why I bring it up.
Speaker 1:So the new Golden Bachelor, Mel Owens, who is 66, he's going on this show called the Golden Bachelor. So of course it's for an older generation, it's for older people. He says that he will not date anyone over 60. Date anyone over?
Speaker 2:60. Wait what? But he's going on the show.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, they selected him. He's the golden bachelor. So he says that he wants to stay away from the artificial hips and wigs.
Speaker 2:Oh my God. So here's the thing All these women look like they're over 60, so none of them have a chance that's what's so confusing to me.
Speaker 1:It's like, sir, go to a high-end bar, go to a yacht club, go to a fancy golf course, like I don't know. Find someone in their 30s and 40s, if you don't want someone in their 60s with a fucking fake hip or with fake hair which, by the way, young people have fake hair too. They're called extensions, motherfucker like yeah, come on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, can you believe that shit? That doesn't even make sense, because even though these women are under 60 yeah, I don't believe they are.
Speaker 1:But I'll tell you right now they're gonna be 60 really fucking soon, and not for nothing, sir, you're 66 years old. Oh my god, yeah, so already, I think, a loss on whoever picked this person and thought it would be a good selection for bachelor, it's already a dub for me, like I'm over it yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2:I don't like reality shows like that, I don't like bachelor, I don't like love island, I don't like oh no, any of those shows.
Speaker 1:There is something that you do like. That has started big brother.
Speaker 2:Yeah, buddy, I love that show have you watched the first episode?
Speaker 1:I did and what are your thoughts?
Speaker 2:um, uh, I don't really like any of them. I think they're all kind of weird in their own way. Um, zay, I don't know, but like there's something about him that I like and now he's being like blasted on social media for saying some type of inappropriate slur.
Speaker 1:I don't, yeah, he said he said the r word, so I watch the uh live feeds. Okay, so I love knowing what's happening in between, what we see on TV three days a week, okay. So he was playing chess with Keanu and he felt like he made a bad chess move and he goes oh God, that was so our word, yes. And immediately he was like, oh, my God, I shouldn't have said that. And Keanu was like, yeah, guy, live feeds, blah, blah, blah. And this was probably I don't know maybe like between 2 and 4 am, like it was really late, like really live time?
Speaker 2:No, for sure.
Speaker 1:It was on the live feeds, like you just, you never know what's going to happen. They should be more aware. And Keanu was like yeah, dude, it's on the live feeds, like blah blah blah, I don't like him, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't like him. Yeah, I'm not. Yeah, I don't like him. I don't even know him, but like I don't know for sure. Contestant. I'm not a fan of his. I don't like the fact that Rachel's back. I think that's stupid, I think that's awful, I think that is so stupid, Like I'm, like she's totally agree, of all the contestants they could have brought back. They brought her back, like seriously, no, that was really just whatever. Who's the other one? I like Will. I like Will, will's, cool Will's a cool guy.
Speaker 1:He is so funny on the live feeds. On the live feeds. I like watching them so much because you see their authentic selves, you see what's not edited. When we see it three days a week, we see clips and shit put together, yeah, so we perceive them in a certain way. But on the live feeds. Cameras are just rolling and you're seeing them how they are. Will is a funny motherfucker. If Will was around here somewhere he would be invited to the barbecue, like he is so funny.
Speaker 2:I love that, I love that.
Speaker 1:He's so so funny, that's cool yeah.
Speaker 2:And then there's Ava, who is quirky and weird. Oh my God, I like her because she always looks like she's confused. She always looks panicked and she always looks like she's not quite sure what's going on and she just sits there like, uh, like it's so funny, like she cracks me up she's so cute those are the three that stand out to me. Everyone else I'm just like whatever. Like how about the girl? How about what's the girl's name that took the freaking shower the first night? Come on, ashley, yeah.
Speaker 2:Girl come on, she's like I'll set with her. But yeah, everyone else, I'm just like whatever about.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, I will say, only one episode has officially aired, but there has been so much drama.
Speaker 2:Tonight's episode is going to be good. No, there was an episode that last Thursday and Sunday night and then tonight, so tonight's going to be two episodes. Yes, yeah, okay, okay, but still so much drama Like it just started oh my God.
Speaker 1:So much drama. There's so many alliances Like, oh my God, I can't even keep up.
Speaker 2:They were making alliances on the first five minutes. They met Like out. They were making alliances on the first like five minutes. They met like. You know, what cracks me up is these people meet and like five minutes they're like oh, you're my best friend in the house, oh, I love you, you're my best friend. Like girl, you just met her five minutes ago. She's your best friend, like I love you you're my best friend. Like shut up weird like so stupid, yeah, so dumb, yeah. So I'm just like whatever I'm excited for the season.
Speaker 2:I think the season's gonna be good no, I'm excited because like tv right now is it's very dreary. Um, all my favorite shows on are over for the season and so big brother's like the highlight of the summer I know I was so sad to hear that 1000 pound sisters got canceled.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, that's wicked sad just kidding.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, like I didn't even know that was a show. That's a show. Wait, what are?
Speaker 1:you talking about? Yes, come on, oh my god. Yes, remember, there was like that one episode. The clip was going viral because the girl was like oh, like my stomach hurts and this and that, and she was at the doctor's office with someone else.
Speaker 2:Why Time out, time out? There are people out there that are siblings that are both 1,000 pounds, or they're 1,000 pounds together. Are you serious? I'm dead serious. No, so like there's people out there that both of them are a thousand pounds each based on like their siblings, and they're both about like a thousand pounds combined. Like how does this?
Speaker 1:work. Let me confirm because it's been a while since I can't wrap my multiple seasons and they're obviously have gone on to do like Ozumpic and all that stuff and like weight loss surgery and whatever. Yeah, okay, so it's the Salatin sisters. So, starting from season one, amy weighed approximately 406 pounds. Okay, tammy weighed 608 pounds.
Speaker 2:Okay. So they're a thousand pounds combined, combined, okay. Okay, I was going to say there's no way that there's siblings out there that they're both like a thousand pounds. You would be dead, you can't even survive that.
Speaker 1:So they've both had surgery. Yeah, confirmed, they both had surgery and now they weigh about 250 each.
Speaker 2:Wow must look so crazy. They must look like totally different people, like completely different people 100, they do.
Speaker 1:But yeah, the show got canceled because, I mean, if you only weigh 500 pounds, you can't be on a show called a thousand pound sister, because well, that's like um, remember the show mike and molly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, molly and mike, or whatever with mike and molly. Yes, mccarthy yeah, so, so that's from what I understand and from what I've read. That's why that show was canceled, because they both were like heavy, right, and she lost all this weight. So it's like, yeah, a lot of the if you really watch the show, a lot of it was based on their size and how they ate and exercise, whatever, whatever Right, and so then she lost all her weight and then, boom, show got canceled.
Speaker 2:But now he lost weight too, the guy that played, he went on to do his own show yes, which I did not like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like he loves abuchola like yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that I didn't like that one.
Speaker 2:I wasn't a fan, I was all set with that one anyways. Um so I'm not sad that the thousand pound sister sibling whatever that show was canceled. I mean I think it's lame. Probably a good thing. Um, you know that reminded. That reminds me of hoarders. Remember hoarders.
Speaker 1:Oh, love that fucking show.
Speaker 2:Oh, no, that show was horrible. No, that's real life shit. Dead person and in one of the episodes like a corpse, like someone died and the person didn't know that their family member died because there was so much shit in the house that they didn't know where they were. They just died. How do? You live in a house filled with so much shit and someone dies in the house and you don't know the person died in the house. What?
Speaker 1:No way. Mental health, mental health, mental health.
Speaker 2:The brain can do crazy things. Oh, believe me, I agree with that, but that's like I can't even wrap my head around that, can't? That's crazy. I'm sorry that show, I think, got canceled too, and it should have, because some of the stuff I saw on that show I was like holy god, holy god. But I also know that that's a disease, that's like a mental health disease that, yeah, people have so sad. Yeah, that is weird and crazy and gross and it's all of everything.
Speaker 1:It's all of that I'm the opposite of a hoarder um, I feel like I am too.
Speaker 2:I like to throw shit away. I throw shit away all the time. Gary's probably probably might be a little bit of a hoarder, just yeah, a smidge like. I'm sitting at his desk right now and I'm looking at all this shit, I'm trying to figure out what I could throw away, and he probably wouldn't even notice half the shit was gone that I threw away. Like how many sticky notepads does a person need? Like seriously?
Speaker 1:At least three in different colors. If they're the same colors, just one, three different colors.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's got way more than that and they ditched. Yeah, anyways, so we are heading to for our story that are coming up next. Yeah, straight from the law office of faux in order Period.
Speaker 1:Because in the legal system, nothing is real, especially us Dum-dum, dum-dum okay, so no updates today.
Speaker 2:You don't have any updates today, like we are now. Oh yeah, okay, and so from where do we start? Standpoint. All right, we gotta give our fake legal commentary. We have updates. We have legal updates.
Speaker 1:Yes. That, Simmons oh my God, so much is coming out about this Every day something is coming out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's crazy. So apparently, from what I'm gathering now, they were engaged to be married. They had a fall wedding planned. There's pictures now posted on social media of like their engagement photo and a photo of both of them with their uniforms, because he's a firefighter in North Andover. They have a baby, a little boy. They have a baby a little boy, and when she was served the warrant, I believe they were trying to take the child out of her care and whatever weapons that she may have had in the home, because when she was placed on suspension she automatically had to turn in her weapon.
Speaker 1:Her nervous weapon?
Speaker 2:Yes, had to turn in her um her weapon, nervous weapon, yes. So if she had anything else once the restraining order was served, she had to turn in all that as well. Right, she's being charged with like attempted murder or something like all these things. She's like three charges against her.
Speaker 1:She's in critical condition still yeah, hospital, she was shot in the chest by her supervisor yes, it was her supervisor that served her so things got a little bit out of control.
Speaker 2:I would imagine that. I'm just imagining that they tried to take that child. She probably went for her weapon to defend herself and her child and just shit went off. So she's been suspended from the department pending further investigation, whatever. And now she's facing some serious legal battles and she also is suffering from postpartum and she has some mental health issues that have been recorded in the past. Um, she was put on a leave recently due to personal matters, which, no, still is not been. I'm sure someone will find out how or what it was for and reveal it. But yeah, so seems like she has some mental health issues. Now she's got the postpartum. She's got some serious, serious problems coming her way for sure.
Speaker 2:I feel, like her career and her life could possibly be over at this point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, what else are you going to do at this?
Speaker 2:point. But like you lose your child, obviously your fiance leaves you. You lose your job, you get shot in the chest. Now you end up in prison. What the fuck?
Speaker 1:Yeah, prison or move out of state. You can't be here anymore.
Speaker 2:If they can prove that she has mental health issues and she was suffering from postpartum and she has a history, she'd probably end up in a mental facility or some getting some type of whatever. But if not, yeah, she's in a little bit of trouble so crazy, so sad.
Speaker 1:I feel like that situation is so like complicated where, like I don't feel like I'm angry or like weird towards her like a criminal, like if she was a criminal I would be. I just I don't know, I feel so sorry for her, yeah, like the whole. Like shooting her in the chest, like I get it If she pulled out a weapon and you need to protect yourselves, I get it. But like there's three of you, one of her I don't know, you can't subdue her. You can't shoot her in the throat Like I don't know.
Speaker 2:And that brings me to and, by the way, she hasn't even been arraigned yet. She's still in the hospital, I guess they're waiting for her condition probably to change in order to, you know, formally charge her. But that brings me to another case the man in Haverhill that was killed by police.
Speaker 1:So sad.
Speaker 2:Abuse of power. They literally killed him. They choked him out, just like they did with George Floyd. Yeah, pig pile on him, like really Seven cops had to jump on him For what he was. One man, okay, and I'm sorry. What about a taser? Do we not tase people Like cops? Don't tase people, because I'm pretty sure cops tase people, I'm pretty sure. How about those guns that carry those beanbag bullet things?
Speaker 2:where you can shoot someone and it hits them so hard the rubber bullets, whatever they are, you can shoot them and you can knock them down with that and subdue them there. How about that? Down with that and subdue them there. How about that? So many options, right. Or how about stop having police deal with mental health people? Like stop, because police are not trained to deal with people that have mental health issues. This guy was clearly having a mental breakdown. He's probably manic, who knows? You know, yeah, they accused him of doing things beforehand. Okay, he was a guy that was a street guy, whatever. He did his things, but he was clearly having a mental episode. Why are the police getting involved in that? Why they're not psychologists. They have no freaking training. Like I don't make that really like makes me angry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:His name was Francis.
Speaker 1:We went to high school together. He graduated a year or two before I did, and it's just so sad. There are there's video, of course, around Facebook of the incident happening and all the police being on top of him, but there is footage as well as him before, right. This happened right and he's just wandering the streets and he's like he's walking crisscrossy and he was walking so slowly and in the videos he didn't seem like a threat.
Speaker 1:I don't know what he was saying I don't know what he was doing but regardless of that fact, based on his mannerisms, they easily could have just put him in handcuffs. They easily could have just one or two people held him down, or four people's one arm, one arm, one leg, and then like what is with?
Speaker 2:them, holding them down, but in the neck and being them. What is that I mean? Why are they allowed to do that?
Speaker 1:I don't get you think. Even the person that was like the most on top of the pile. He was standing practically straight, a little hunched over, but he was putting all his weight on his arms, which is is just crazy to me. Like you're on top of all these people, yeah, why are you putting even more weight and more pressure? Right, he wasn't moving. His feet were like moving a little bit. He was yelling for help and then after a little while he stopped moving.
Speaker 2:Right Abuse of power and it's awful. It's awful. I'm glad they're all suspended all seven of them, and I hope they all lose their job because it's abuse of power and it's awful, it's awful. I'm glad they're all suspended all seven of them, and I hope they all lose their job, because it's abuse of power and I hope, and I hope, and I don't think it's going to happen Other police officers and other people that work for the criminal justice system take notice of this.
Speaker 2:Learn from this stop abusing your power, stop forcing people to the ground and like standing up, practically like standing on their neck, to prevent them from breathing like come on yeah, from his neck to his knees, someone else's body part in their full weight was on him. Yeah, that's like that's absolutely insane meaning.
Speaker 1:So he was like a roofer. He was like a well-built guy, yeah, but like me being me again, not his stature. If someone, if multiple people, have their full body weight yeah, from my neck or shoulders down to my knees, yeah, I'm going to feel claustrophobic, I'm gonna suffocate, yeah, I'm depending on how old I am, what my health is. I might fucking have a heart attack. I might stroke out. Yeah, it's 100 fucking million degrees outside there are so many factors insane.
Speaker 2:It's insane yeah it's yeah that that story like oh, it makes me sick, that gets sick, makes me sick, my stomach it's awful so sad.
Speaker 1:And then almost immediately all of these reports came out of like, oh, we've arrested someone that sold him drugs. And now they're trying to say that like someone sold him drugs and all of these things, but like no one. So the person that they arrested for selling him drugs was not even in the area. They literally just like picked a person and was like, hey, we're gonna charge you and we're gonna link you to this thing that happened, right, and it's a cover-up, it's a mess and it's fucking sad.
Speaker 2:He could have did. He could have bought drugs, he could have bought did. Whatever he did, there was still no reason for the police to do what they did to him.
Speaker 2:There wasn't it's awful there wasn't again rubber bullets, freaking stun gun, whatever, I don't know, but something like yeah, and you don't need I mean not for nothing If seven cops feel like they need to like apprehend one man, that's literally not didn't seem like a threat. I don't know, maybe change careers because you don't feel like you're. You're like strong enough to take down one person. If you feel like you need seven people to help you take down one person, you might want to go get a different job, like that might not be the job for you come on so overboard oh no, that's like okay, maybe two people need.
Speaker 2:you might need two people to take down, depending on if they're like really out of control, but not seven, no no no. So that to me is crazy and I hope they all get fired and, like that's it, make an example of them Seriously, so other people don't do this and other people don't have to go through this.
Speaker 2:Mental health is a real thing, man, and if people don't believe it, I don't think it is shame because it is a real, a real thing, man, and if people don't believe it, I don't think it is shame, because it is a real real thing and a lot of people suffer from it and even after covid, I think even it became a bigger issue. A bigger issue, so prevalent it's more highlighted now than it was before. Covid, I think. I don't know 100, so that's my two cents on that story yeah, super sad, super frustrating but we're hoping for a positive outcome yes, I, I so.
Speaker 2:I hope so too, for sure. Um, and then I have one more thing that I was reading um last night um this woman from the next town over from us.
Speaker 1:I know. I know what you're going to say.
Speaker 2:Girl, what is wrong with you, Like? How about this Forget? About the girl that leaked the information. The person she leaked it to, oh I missed it.
Speaker 1:Bitch like what the fuck. Oh so I thought she shared it on social media as like an anonymous person or like this weird name, but the FBI was able to figure out that girl.
Speaker 2:It was you, I read that she had talked to somebody about it.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you're going to post it online. You're going gonna tell someone okay.
Speaker 2:So if she posted it online, she's really a fucking idiot. Um, because, fbi, like you, you can't get past them. They're gonna figure out what you're doing, who you are, where you're coming from, where, like they, they find people in holes, for god's sakes, okay, um, seriously, like you could literally be living under a rock. They're gonna find you, trust me, they're gonna find you. Yeah, so she did that. That's stupid. But if she actually like, spoke about it and talked to other people about it, and then those people turn around tip line, how much do I?
Speaker 1:get if I tell you dom dom oh my god, here's the thing.
Speaker 2:Anybody like I don't know I would have like done anything to be on either one of those jurors on in the federal case, of the state case, and this dum-dum gets to be on one of, gets to be a juror, and like does that? And now she's in a headline like come on girl, like what the heck?
Speaker 1:right so she probably was like delulu off this fucking case and was like, oh, they got away with killing a guy, I'm totally gonna get away with like sharing information. No, stupid, they were all in cahoots and you're all alone and nobody has your back.
Speaker 2:Like you fucked up exactly yeah, dumb people are crazy, crazy, crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, so now we know how early information of the karen reed case got leaked because of this woman from Drake. It.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Way to go.
Speaker 2:Drake, I'm all points.
Speaker 1:So embarrassing.
Speaker 2:Fucking hell. Oh Lord, help us all Anyhow. That's all I got.
Speaker 1:Um, okay, one story before we go, because I'm hot, hot, I just had to buy a new ac. I have my fan on me. I'm really hoping it doesn't like mess with our audio this evening, but if it does, that's what it is no it's over now, but did you hear about the strikes of the philadelphia trash pickup people?
Speaker 2:so that's that's happening here too. That's happening here too so um republic, it's republic. Um, okay, yep, so it's. If you google it, it's like in like the boston, south boston, uh, like waymuth, stirbridge, I think, like all in that area, gloucester, I think like maybe even gloucester, I'm not sure. But yeah, there's a bunch of towns with the republic trash uh company. They're on strike here too. It's been like a couple of weeks. It's been like two weeks, I think, right they must have took note from philadelphia because the um.
Speaker 2:Just yesterday I was watching the news in south boston there's rats like, yes, this guy was on the news. He was this old man, like he's like retired, and he just he goes. All I want to do is sit in my backyard and enjoy my days. He goes and I can't he goes. I can't even have people over my house. I can't have nobody in the backyard. He had to cut all his shrubs out. He had to get dry ice.
Speaker 2:He had to get some other chemical and he had video of the big, huge rats running around his backyard. He, he goes. This is becoming a full-time job that trash company's fucking hiring yeah, it's bad.
Speaker 1:Like yeah, it's awful yeah, so the strikes in philadelphia they having the rat problem too because of the strike. Yes, the rat problem too, because of the strike, yes, the rat problem Plus the heat, Plus they were on strike for weeks. So if you could imagine I like literally don't want to say it out loud but if you could imagine what happens to trash, oh yeah, of being outside in the fucking heat.
Speaker 2:Do you have your Google? The one in Massachusetts? What towns? I think it's it's Republic, the Republic trash strike, Republic trash company, whatever, and it's it's a, it's a lot of towns that it's affecting. They better not be striking around here because I can't be having that trash left around. Oh my God, I will die.
Speaker 1:I will literally die.
Speaker 2:I don't even know what I would do if I had weeks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so the strike began on july 1st, so two weeks ago. Yeah, 14 massachusetts communities are impacted. Yeah, so watertown, malden, pb, beverly, canton are the ones listed on the search that I found. But yeah fucking nasty. Health and sanitation when?
Speaker 2:are you at? I'll tell you, right now they try to stop picking up my trash. I will put my trash in my trunk and drive it to the fucking trash company and drop it off right there. Boom, there you go. Anywhere. There's a landfill in town. I will drop that trash off right in front of the picketers, right in front of the strikers, right here. Go, do your fucking job, take my trash, fuck you Like no way I would die. I would literally die. That is like a nightmare Having weeks.
Speaker 1:That is like a nightmare, having weeks and weeks and weeks of trash in 100 degree weather. Just yes, they knew what they were doing, striking in the summer.
Speaker 2:They knew what they were doing but you know what they deserve, everything they're asking for, they want 100 more paid time off. They want sick time. They want paid holidays. You know what these guys work like the us postal service rain, yeah, no, fucking, it's all year round. They're, yeah, picking up other people's garbage, which is sometimes depending on whether what town or city they're picking up is like from restaurants, and, oh my, give them whatever they want.
Speaker 2:They want what job they're doing I know it's not like you have people lined up at the door wanting to be a fucking trash. No person, or whatever they're called. What is it called a waste management? Waste management?
Speaker 1:yes, management person like yeah you don't.
Speaker 2:You don't see a line out the door for that. So, like the 200 people you have working for you, give them fucking their vacation and their holidays and their sick fuck it like why not?
Speaker 1:who cares? Literally why not? What are we losing, right? I mean, like job security, they're going to give them what they want.
Speaker 2:These companies they like really tick me off because they make so much fucking money and then they have these people doing these. Some of these jobs that people do is just I could never do them. God bless, I could never be a waste management person and I think they deserve all the benefits they want because they're doing a job that, again, not a lot of people can't do.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And these guys work from like six in the morning till six at night. Sometimes you see the trash guy coming by. Some of them have the new automated truck. Woohoo, good for you, you don't have to get out of your truck. Some of these guys in some of these towns and cities they're still picking that trash bin up and dumping it. You know what I mean Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh no, that been up and dumping it. You know what I mean absolutely yeah, no, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:I can't imagine hard work and they deserve them benefits and somebody needs to stop being fucking stupid and give it to them period.
Speaker 2:Well, here's hoping we'll keep you posted, all right, sounds good till next time till next time.
Speaker 1:Uh, take out your trash, maybe double bag it if you're impacted by all of this stuff. Triple bag it, yeah. Or recycle how about that motherfuckers? Recycle, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yep, that helps 100%. I'm recycling Nazi over here.
Speaker 1:I'm going to go recycle this empty beer can and get a new one.
Speaker 2:Awesome, sounds good. Peace out Cheers.
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