NYC Garbage Man | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #467

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today's guest is a garbage man um out of. Staten Island uh recently voted one of. America's top 70 Islands um he is a man. who spent 20 years in the gar business. and he knows it he knows it baby he. knows pales and Bs baby pales and bins. he's done it all he collected garbage in. New York City and outside of the city. we're going to learn everything you want. to know.

about it today's guest is garbage man Mr. Wayne. Owen that Li on. [Music]. me I'll sit and tell you my. story. shine on. me and I will find a song I singing. [Applause].

Wayne Owen what's up Deo thanks for. having me yeah thanks for coming in dude. so um you are a you are a you're a. garbage man correct do you guys have a. term that you guys use within the. industry well we used to you know we. used to go with sanitation engineer okay. that was our thing it made just sound a. little more like needed and wanted yeah. compared to a garbage man yeah and I. guess we'll find out I guess even.

through the course of this chat if it's. does you know where does it kind of land. I think you know and that's one of the. reasons yeah I want I just want to learn. all about the industry so you um you in. what area were you in I started in. Manhattan grew up in Stan Island okay um. started in Manhattan I did almost two. years and then switched over to Staten. Island and finished my career there did. 18 18 years in Stand Out damn you did 18. Years bro thank you for your service bro. first of all so how do you get into it.

how does it even start like is it a. family thing like your father picks you. you know just like picks you up when. you're young and puts you in a. recycling bin or something like you know. how does it is no it's it's Ru with them. in New York like I you know you take the. city tests okay College don't work out. you fall back on a city job you know. sanitation police you know fireman so. those are different city tests so those. are different options yep and you. different tests okay so a lot of people. that don't go to college in New York. they'll fall back into that and those.

are one of the options correct so you. take a different test so you took a. sanitation test yes wow and that was it. was sad but it was it was a joke really. like one of the questions that I'll. never forget never forget how would you. pick up this pile of dirt and there was. like a garbage truck like you can't use. that and then there was like a shovel. with a broom which of course that's what. you would use and then just like a rake. like just craziness oh yeah it's like. but people get these things wrong man. you never oh yeah you see somebody.

raking dirt all the time you know and. you used to yell a slur at him out the. window if you're me but um so you take. the test is it how many people go take. the test 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 a m MSG or. something like that thing huh no they. use like public schools okay like. anything that they have available high. schools grammar school whatever they. have okay so you roll up like the night. before do you get a lot of sleep do you. like show up with like you know are you.

kind of preparing for it or you think. it's going to be so easy no yeah they. get you the book like they have a book. to take the test B Okay and like after. the second page you're like all right. this is this is I can't read this book. oh damn it's worse than when you went. into reading the book you're like wait. what what's going on you know so yeah. they you know my test a 100,000 over. 100,000 people signed up but they did a. lottery so and everybody has to pay the. $3 $35 whatever it is when you sign up.

you have to pay yeah you send your you. know your form in with the money but my. test they only and they only did it this. one time they only let 30,000 people. take the test so those other 70,000. didn't even get to take it damn but they. still money took their money oh damn bro. dude it's yeah it's just like anything. else oh yeah they get their money in. they'll get their money wow bro that's. crazy yeah so now you got 70,000 people. who are pissed at the city you know wow. okay you take the test you're in there.

you you now how long does it take to get. your. score takes a you know they give you a. few months I'd say what yeah a few. months until you get your score I meano. come on if I I wish I was trying to get. a the test to bring it here yeah really. it was a joke and I was actually in. there with high school friends and they. were all running out I was the last dude. in the T like I'm like 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 going on so I rushed through the. last two questions yeah guess which ones.

I got wrong that those two that's it wow. so I got a 103 out of 105 almost a. perfect score oh dang okay so now are. you looked at like uh you come in as a. pretty high rank then like are you like. yeah so they give like uh veterans and. stuff extra like credit you know well. deserved and like I think my list I want. to say was like 348 okay out of you know. the 30,000 or 15 I forget what the. number was you in the top 400 yeah wow.

okay I was hired within a year okay so. you so you still are waiting a year to. get hired yeah and what is why is there. is there no job positions what is it is. it a busy industry yeah well they just. you got to wait till people retire oh. okay you know they have a set number and. that's what they go by okay all right so. you're so somebody finally retires or. something happens to them and then uh. now you get called in right yeah where. were you when you got the call I was. probably just home doing something.

stupid yeah yeah I you know I've done. that I was still working in Manhattan. doing like I was a court runner for my. cousin okay so I you know I was I was. working yeah but you know my mother I. said listen you could be retired in 20. years you got to take it I was 21 wow I. wanted to you know you know what 21 year. olds do yeah. nothing yeah dude is great no but you. want to go out and party and like that's. where your life starts right you know. like all parties and but I grew up in. Stan Island where we were going to bars.

of 16 17 years old right so youve did. all that yeah and so who yeah did your. mother say look I think this is. something you should do oh no she was. like no you're doing this oh wow but. thankfully enough cuz she saw the end of. it right she said do you want to be. working till you know 60 70 80 years old. you know is that really what you want. yeah so there's a there is the light at. the. end but you got a Andy do frame yeah. listen it's better than any other job. I'll put it that way wow okay.

well I got to know more then man so all. right so you get in you're hired you're. you're excited you get your first day. like how does that really go and do you. go to like a training camp or whatever. do you guys yeah they send you for the. driving TR uh training okay and they. teach you on dumb trucks okay so that's. like two three weeks that you do your. road test you get your CDL you know your. license to drive the trucks okay now. then like two days they'll bring out and. this was in randle's Island okay and. they want I think they did two days they.

bring a garbage truck out there okay. there's two steering wheels there's two. steering wheels in the truck there's two. steering wheels you got pick which one. you would use no huh well no it all. depended on what street you were on like. if you were picking the right right side. of the street up you could drive from. the right so you're close wow you know. so you can know cuz that's the biggest. thing on the job you got to put that. thing where your partner wants it to. make the day go easier okay if I got to. start Dragon garbage around cars and. everything else now we're not having a. good day and then when you get back in. the truck there's beef when you're in. the cabin yeah oh yeah wow yeah I I.

there were a few guys that and they're. good friends of mine but I would let. them know yeah beautiful oh yeah we need. that that's what we need to see is like. instead of Cash Cab we need to see uh. you know yeah that would be oh yeah. sanitation cab violence bro yeah there. was some bad ones yeah that's beautiful. bro no well years ago when I first got. on they used to have like a one bench. like across the the truck okay they got. rid of those so is just a left side and.

a right side okay you mostly drive from. the left him in hand okay you know. driving from the right that was frowned. upon it just cuz everything is different. from driving to on the right side you. got it it's a whole different driving. situation oh yeah every now and then you. meet some fow trying to drive from the. right. you saying nothing but but in Sten. Island it was like a a law like you had. to drive from the right okay so there's. certain places where you got to get over. to the so in that instance you would. just get over to the other side the car. and for that length of the the truck.

yeah there's like a little button you. hit it just switches to now you drive. from that side wow do today's trucks. still have that yes okay okay great okay. cool I didn't know that man that's real. interesting because yeah dude one time I. had to take a driver's head or whatever. and they had the dude over there you. know and this I think the car I was in. was like a um it was a Toyota Tel bro. and a trunk was missing I remember in. the dude's car so there was this total. wind current like constantly like it.

like just happening in the vehicle you. know and uh and so yeah and I remember. driving that just out of sheer fear like. this guy's out of his mind you. know and he'd pop The Brak and kind of. smile at me and I'm like this. dude's flirting with me bro I'm. trying to learn you know this dude's. trying to you know touch a child or. whatever all right so you get the first. day man how dides your first day on the. job go they literally so all my garage. they tell you you hey show up on this.

time 6:00 a.m. uh Westside 30th Avenue. you know Manhattan 6 was my first garage. so I'm like all right over near uh Javit. Center okay all right so it's right. right a block down from there okay so. you get down there do you go down there. a lot or no no okay I I when you work in. Manhattan you want to stay out of. Manhattan okay you deal with it all week. you deal with nonsense anytime I worked. at Manhattan I just never wanted a party. in Manhattan yeah couldn't stand it all. right so you get down there yeah so I. get there and you know meeting all these.

guys yeah I met a few when I signed up. the new guys we came in with I think. like 11 new guys wow so I knew them by. face I didn't really get to know anybody. oh yeah I just watched Band of Brothers. have you seen that no oh it's so good no. and you and you're you're meeting like. you know there's some Old-Timers on. there that don't like the new kids. coming in really huh yeah they got like. you know they grumbling grumbling you. know Junior scum guy yeah yeah. scabs or whatever so they're like all. right here they hand me a piece of. and they said go pick this guy up on 2nd.

and 20th so we had these sections all. around Manhattan where guys would go cuz. the garage wasn't big where I was at. okay so you would have section guys show. up there garage guys show up at the. garage that I was at okay and I'm like. wait I had to like think to myself like. I'm going to drive this garbage truck. never drove in a city street where we. were driving up randle's Island we were. going in a circle okay so now you're. putting cars people so you in the TR. downtown yeah and now they're like oh go.

pick up this partner dang bro I never. drove a truck in Manhattan let on you. you've probably driven a car or been in. a car in Manhattan it's not fun oh it's. alarming it's crazy and so now you're. driving a truck and. is Jesus. Christ scary you're your first day you. know your whole thing is the mirrors you. know 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 all right. I was all right I didn't hit nobody no. hurt nobody um and I picked this dude up. okay you know probably 35 years on the. job oh he's been in there huh scraggly. looking guy big beard yeah come on kid. you're with me I'm like ah here we go oh. come on kid call you huh yeah so you. know what you're falling into there. right he's suddenly set in the stone you. know yeah he might have been one of the. drivers guys where you were at.

might the way he said it kind of scared. me you know he I bet if you pluck a hair. out of his beard and test it for nyear. olds who know who knows what'll come. back you know but yeah Bing um but yeah. dude and everybody's like looking at you. wow cuz it's like you got stuck with. this guy oh really huh so that's right. away I'm like oh man all right and like. rule of thumb first thing they teach you. is do not stand behind the truck while. the back of the truck is cycling okay it.

this dude was looking for everything in. the truck really dude we he had all. kinds of in his beard oh it was. nasty and he didn't even care like it. was just like it was. awful just back there just freaking. catching that high time all flying out. he hey you looking for like and looking. at me like I'm not in there with him. like I'm just throwing it in to get rid. of it dude I'm not here to dig through. it pulling out like Spider-Man figures. like you yeah like crazy oh yeah.

and that would go right in line with one. of those kids exactly exactly drive his. a teacher definitely that was his first. job so he's just back there just. collecting samples from the area huh oh. and now when he gets back in the truck. like does it what's the inside of the. cab does it smell pretty bad in there. it's a mess yeah you know until you get. your own truck like I had you know once. I got a truck where you get time on the. job you get a route like dude there. cleaning supplies like we wiped our.

truck down every day it was spotless in. it right but when you had guys that just. didn't give a crap yeah you know they. would just it was filth man oh you know. and what kind of gear are you wearing. what kind of gear is a New York city. garbage. man uh sanitation engineer what type of. gear are y'all locked in just regular. you know Dicky pants with a t-shirt. Jesus winter sweatshirts you know not a. wet suit or nothing like that no you. there were days you needed it oh I bet.

yeah it was when it rained it sucked. oh yeah I would think you would go full. plastic you know like well gloves and. boots were like number one yeah that was. always like that's where you spent your. money 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 kind of guy. rolling with you and how long does that. shift go I was out there for a while. that first day really because he's. digging he's looking for you know.

Treasures oh this dude really so he's a. real hone was a five six seven hour you. know route where normally your routes. take about two hours okay wow really. yeah so this guy's just out there and he. just likes to collect now some of these. men just really collectors and they kind. of hide masquerading as uh sanitation. workers they do that or that some of. these guys get the stuff and sell it wow. they have businesses man really yeah. they go to like you know flea markets. and yeah dude you have no idea man. oh dude in Staten Island I hate to even.

give him the shout out because he's a. douchebag but anyway yeah him but. yeah tell me dude he you it was like. sanidin son on his roof leaving the. garage some days like he' take you know. Furniture this that. everything and you would catch him at. the flea market ah and but dude listen. from what was told he had over a million. dollars from what he collected and sold. in a bank account nuh-uh yep wow so you. worked in Manhattan and you worked in. Staten Island Staten Island yeah you can.

sit this out here too if it's easy. totally different totally different. setup so Manhattan um like the buildings. it's all buildings right you know house. to house we used to call it so you would. go like pale to P to Pal that's maybe on. like 10 blocks like where I was at but. you get like one building on a corner of. just say second and 402 I mean there's. 2,000 bags out there wow and they we. used to call them sausage bags okay so. they have compactors in the buildings.

that literally compact these things and. then the guys not the ends and they you. know anywhere from 3 feet to you know. four or five feet long oh yeah it's like. somebody making um sausage Rings yeah. and they were not like and they would. not like really so you got that long dog. huh MH and could somebody have put a. body in one you think oh yeah you could. have put a body in any one of them I. ain't looking yeah that other dude is. I'm not I could give a damn yeah that. dude I would tell people all the.

time the minute you want to do that just. put it in a bag I ain't looking oh that. dude selling femur on Etsy exactly you. know yep price that dude out there yeah. y that dude's out there slanging. Shin Bones on. eBay but D so somebody could put a body. in one of those bags zip it out to the. garbage guy you never know you know. these days everybody's watching you you. Google something you get an ad for it it. you know you uh you whisper something to.

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trash Sho well I wouldn't do that like. that's a little much but if you had you. know access to the compactor okay then I. think it's different but if you're going. to shoot a dude 13 flights down I mean. somebody's about to hear you there's got. to be some blood you know dink dink dink. dink going down somebody can hear a. wrist watch the walls yeah yeah. somebody's watch is going to connect and. something's going to Ping in and you. know how that goes right so if you could. get the body down to the compactor.

there's a chance it could just be thrown. out in one of those sausage bags gone. wow yeah and we used to dude you know. you would have cars park so tight and. there's 30 just say in a smaller stop. there's 15 20 30 bags wow d i be like oh. sad day for this Jaguar owner I would. literally cuz I would tell you know I. was 21 I was stupid oh yeah I would grab. them both sides slide them right across. the hood with a Jaguar whatever people. dude yeah whatever oh bro I.

there was nothing better than doing. something to the rich boy you. know well they just didn't care oh yeah. they had no respect for me so now it's. like all right oh cuz they parked. illegally they well no they parked. legally but they give you no space so. now those bags you know they're heavy. and I get it everybody would say well we. don't know we're not garbage men right. well now you're going to know yeah now. you got now you got to go to the body. shop fix your on your. dime yeah dude I remember when I used to. go over to rich people's houses my buddy.

Jeff would steal s he had a whole. collection of silverware and we were. poor poor so it was like everybody was. rich you know what I'm saying we knew. people if you had a front door. bro you had a little bit of money you. know so like we Jeff has. silverware from everybody dude and then. if I went over to rich people's houses a. lot of times I would pick my nose when. they weren't looking and feed a. booger to that. dog just to in the building. little what was was the thought process. of getting out of that I think for me it.

was something like. uh start from the bottom like you. convince these animals to work. for you lowkey you know what I'm saying. it was like I'm going to uh they may. think they're doing all this and all of. that but who's feeding these. animals hey just they just ate your. booger yeah that's what I'm saying yeah. no I get it I mean it was like I'm. taking things to the lowest it's like. I'm just like I don't know it probably. like some Lord of The Fly or. whatever. yeah so you got the big sausage bags in.

the city right yeah and the the city is. just oh it's hell it's multiplied crazy. like there were times where you knew. that like if their compactors were broke. like it was awful man now they put out. so they could probably fit I'd say a. normal four or five bags of garbage in. one of these sausage bags but now the. compactor broke so now they got to put. regular just bags out so it just went. from 10 to 15 sausage bags to 150. regular garbage. and it's one at a time you know just.

chucking them over the cars and like and. now do you throw him to a buddy and he. puts him in you that's the goal in the. city you're pretty much just working. together the whole time okay when you go. to S Island it's like half hour on half. hour off okay so I'll drive for a half. hour you load for a half hour vice versa. back and forth till the route's done. okay but in Manhattan it's like you know. all hands on deck cuz those bags are. kind of heavy sometimes it reminds me a. little like watching that show.

um it's like a ocean show you know what. I'm talking about it's like a ocean show. and they're angry and every year one of. them dies and they put it on like TMZ. but they are looking for carpers they're. looking for uh fish or something. maybe I don't know yeah here's a video. right here of some sanitation guys right. here throwing garbage bags into yep oh. wow that dude huh oh I was awesome at. that were you really dude bro that dude. wow uh-huh that's a private guy that's.

buddy heeled right there yep that's a. private guy oh that's a private guy not. one of your boys yeah so how can you. tell yeah the truck all trucks were. white okay the white elephant that's. what they called it and the white elfant. always got in people's way really piss. them off oh yeah you guys are the worst. dude I used to do the whole Hogan real. quick yeah I used to do that I us take. my gloves off when they bang you know in. Manhattan and I'd be. like you're an I'm like you. should have woke up 10 minutes early.

because now you're stuck behind me and I. ain't. moving well the craziest thing about a. about a sanitation truck is that not. only you stuck but it smells bad. like hey and they used to get real close. and and like I was saying when the. used to spray out especially rainy days. after a rainy day or or if it was. raining wet days dude that thing and the. cars would get covered wow I'll be like. oh well that's on. you dude so so that must have been kind. of fun just throwing those bags that.

seem like something a kid would love to. do I just throwing behind my back just. running down the street you know in. Staten Island because it's a lot lighter. in stat Island right right so that was. in Staten Island but in the city it's a. little bit more you got to have your. dude there you guys are loading this. thing up you're just keeping it moving. yeah um and in the city how many bags. can go or those big sausage bags can go. into uh the cycle and what's the cycle. like of the truck well we I mean you. probably fit like five six of those eggs. in at a time but your your average in.

Manhattan was 10 to 13 14 tons of. garbage in per truck per truck so you. start out with nothing in there empty. okay and uh there's a compactor in the. middle like in the in the truck and then. it just cycles and compacts it the whole. time okay and the rule you got to get. the route so you have to get the whole. route on the truck so you would have to. maneuver sometimes squeeze a little more. squeeze a little more really can you. hear it getting tight back in there. sometimes yeah oh oh hey you could feel. it it changes the whole Drive of the.

truck really from being empty to heavy. yeah yeah you know we spoke one time. with a um female truck driver and she. had worked with um and her son I think. had breast reduction surgery but she had. worked with a cement truck right yeah. and she said sometimes when the mixer. was full she would drive and when she. stopped somewhere on the brakes you'd. feel the cement come up the like the. just the back of the it was just it's. really interesting so that kind of made. me think of that oh it changes.

everything just you know you think about. it you know you double everything cuz. tons of 2,000 lbs so 36,000 and then the. truck is probably 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 have to set the you yeah you can. feel that weight huh it's pretty crazy. yeah it's harder to stop you know and. the trucks were junk to begin with I. think they New York got like all the.

secondhand trucks what they're like oh. try this like Mac Truck like oh yeah try. this I like dude it was. crazy like for me it was terrible I'm. tall I'm 6'5 so it's like just getting. in the truck yeah I had to get so used. to not hitting my knees on the dashboard. it was just not comfortable to sit in so. damn but they didn't care it was. whatever they got a discount on they. took it wow yeah oh that's everybody. nowadays they'll put you in a damn dude. they'll put you in a baby.

stroller and make you put six bags on. the baby you know what you could fit. they're cutting Corners whatever they. could fit three wheels not four like. crazy so how tight does that trash get. in there can you see it building up like. it does it build up some heat is it that. yeah no it gets you know when you dump. it you'll see it's all it's like a brick. comes out it'll start falling out here. and there but there's steam coming off. of it methane gas man yeah yeah yeah and. even. if you go out Staten Island has the.

biggest landfill in the in the world you. could see it from space Oh wow St Island. Landfill and they have constant pipes. that are burning because all the methane. gas coming out of the ground that's. beautiful man God it's almost. like. um yeah like grease or something when. they do the Olympics or whatever and. they light the Torches yeah um oh wow. that is amazing huh yep they sto dumping. it now but that's back they should have. kept dumping yeah they gave up but it.

sucks you know because I do know a lot. of people that passed away in stand out. from cancer but like that the cancer. rate on stand is 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 yeah my friend um my friend. Aaron actually he he's part of a new. company called vespine and what they do. this is pretty interesting. they take the methane gas at landfills. and they burn it and it it but they. converted immediately into electricity.

so usable you know yeah that works that. that be so now you have electricity. that's right there available so say if. they had like trash trucks or something. and that they were uh electric electric. then they could charge them up. immediately or they could use the energy. like for a little bit they were using it. to mine Bitcoin when Bitcoin was popular. but now they're finding other places to. use the energy but it's just kind of. fascinating something that's going on. but I can't believe that that log is hot. huh now what do they call them bricks. logs cuz that's almost like a damn. Diamond of trash you know yeah it's you.

know listen when you dump you just dump. you're not staring at it you just go out. and get out of there you know yeah cuz. we used to dump now in Manhattan we. started dumping on the side of the. turnpike in Jersey and that guy Burns it. but he's got million dooll like filters. so he's able to you know the the smoke. coming out to clean really a come on. dude's crazy money dude you have no idea. he was getting they were charging 50. something. per ton to the city plus he signed like.

an $80 million contract with the city to. take all the garbage cuz you know who. got to get paid off to have the trucks. now on the turnpike you know cuz they. don't want that and then he's selling. the ash uhuh just yeah dude just money. over money there's so much money in. garbage dude you have no idea really. it's a billion dollar business damn yeah. and the mafia used to be involved in it. right that's why they were in it well. when you brought up bodies like that's. the one thing on stand those are the. myths the. tals my stepf father got rest of his.

soul used to work out there he was a. tractor operator and he said that cars. used to come in pimped out Lincoln and. they would just all turn around and the. car used to go up to the top of the hill. never see it again Wow Car just. disappear person disappear they pull out. see you later fellas that was. it it's the devil's ocean baby the. landfill yeah there's a lot of stories. out there with that landfill uhhuh I. wonder I wish God would just tell us how.

many bodies are in that landfill. sometimes I pray sometimes that I wake. up with a number in my. head because you uh you know there are. definitely did you ever feel like did. you ever get a weird feeling or. premonition like you're driving the. truck home like could there have been a. body in there and you have no idea at. some point whenever that's you're. dumping it you would have seen something. listen you you definitely think you. could get a feeling you know if somebody. comes out and says something you're like. oh. maybe this dude just whack somebody.

right you know his wife ain't healthy. right now she's probably in this bag. right like I'll throw it in oh yeah but. no I never I had. one these two guys came out of the house. one day sterical crying oh yeah I'm like. what the happened you know what now. and we were in that kind of neighborhood. in Stan Island and I'm like all right. what's up our dog died I'm like oh oh my. gosh bring it to get created what the. why you telling me and trying to cut.

Corners gay dudes trying to cut Corners. could we throw it in the truck I'm like. a and I'm a I'm a dog owner at the. time I'm a dog lover next thing you know. with on the bed dude a yellow lab this. thing had to be 100 lb oh and they both. grabbed they were crying no they it was. on the bed they got rid of the bed the. toys the was still lined up like he. was just playing and then just. dead like and they're like okay and. launched him into the back of the truck. I'm like I told my my partner I'm like.

dude you got to I can't cycle that up. man yeah like I was like oh so it's. like you would get the feeling if. somebody was like oh yeah can I throw. this bag in like where's your wife yeah. I don't hear you know I heard y'all. fighting last week about garbage and you. know and so what then you tell a guy hey. you press the button I ain't pressing it. this yeah I just you know in that case I. was like dude you I told my paa and he. was just he didn't give a he's like. yeah all right yeah I like I'll sell his.

collar in an hour yeah a that big. usable put that on Etsy on uh on. Facebook Marketplace make. $13 they'll sell anything on that. oh yeah dude you could sell your. cousin on that boy you know what. I'm saying if if he can't read if he's. still teachable you know you'll is. somebody buy that in an hour on. that dude you go on there find. your ex-wife on that exactly you. could buy used barettes on there if you. want them bro barettes wow that BR that.

brought my my Olden age back jesz same. man in barettes boy back in the day you. see a girl with a couple barettes in or. I think what it oh you know what girls. used to wear when I was like um in. school they would wear headbands. remember that no my sisters were big in. the scrunchies oh yeah they were all. over the goddamn Place tangled up with. hair all kinds of nasty I grew up with. three sisters so oh really yeah man I. was I was the only boy damn three Three.

Sisters you know it would I've been. through it wow yeah damn and did you um. did any of them were they okay when you. got into the sanitation game what they. say didn't when you know oh my sister. Abel was pissed really cuz she filled. out the the and sent it in uhuh and. she didn't get picked to take the test. God she was pissed oh still to this day. she reminds me I got you that job wow. that's well I took that test that sh was. hot as hell you didn't take it for me. she went and took it and didn't pass it.

no no no she didn't get cold remember I. said she only 15 20,000 people took it. wow she didn't get picked to take it. it's crazy that even at the like that. there's a lottery to like there's like. lotteries at every end of the spectrum. everywhere of Life man yep so what time. what what season of the year is the. worst time of the year for trash man. definitely the winters the winters were. awful okay like the Summers were hot but. like once you got used to that smell. like even nowadays like it will never.

I'll never be able to smell how awful it. is because you're just used to it yeah. like it's like second nature yeah you. know the maggot smell and just all that. nastiness it's just part of it the wind. is with grueling man really and that's. because of the cold huh just the cold. the ice the you know if it snowed you're. stepping over all that still got to. pick the garbage up now you're working. 12-hour days with you know if it snows. you're constantly driving around the. truck all day you know it's it's. grueling and would you a lot of cleats.

and stuff what would you wear for shoe. wear just boots wow yeah so you had you. know you had rain boots you had you know. junk boots just for cuz I always wore. like a like a hiking boot because I can. move faster yeah you know when you're. wearing like heavy boots like they. always said Don't wear steel toes. because you know God forbid something to. hit you on the foot it'll snap your toes. off so I don't want oh the steel would. actually snap your toes off yeah so. that's the downside of wearing steel toe. boots if you're in an industry like that.

yeah cuz they're awesome cans I mean I. don't think back in the day they used to. be metal cans they used to pick up Ash. in New York city so everybody would burn. that garbage in the buildings and they. would have these like 150 lb steel. garbage cans and I had lifted a few of. them in my time they're no joke man wow. loaded with Ash so they that's what they. used to just dump so the buildings would. just burn their. garbage all the housing buildings they. used to just get rid of the the garbage. that way there was no bags on the street.

so they had an incinerator in there they. would burn it up every building in New. York had a incinerator wow yep and when. did that change code do you know I one. of these people came up with something. that it was killing everybody so you. know oh probably some Monopoly some. one of trump or Chris. Christie's fat buddies I'm sure yeah. they probably to take can you look that. up when that changed yeah they were. probably you know killing the polar. bears or something you know iglo igloo. melting somewhere in yeah they got a. some grainy video of of a.

rare Fox doing two lines of. City ass you know they're like. we can't do this no more. with a. sign stop burning burning your garbage. yeah yeah how did that fox even learn to. write bro nobody asks any questions on. this anymore here it is in 1989. mayor Ed or Coach Co. cootch wait you know who else talked. about Ed Co cotch I think was uh Bobby.

Kennedy Jr when he was on talked about. edcot mayor edcot signed a bill that. required incinerators in New York City. to shut down within four years and lo. and behold all incinerators had stopped. operations by the end of 1993 and that. was the end of that no more trash. burning yeah huh does it say why why any. anything else pollution of the pollution. yeah oh the air pollution yeah they were. just burning right like that was if you. were burning it in your fireplace yeah. yeah they didn't have like I was telling. you in Jersey this guy has a.

multi-million dollar you know filter and. no more missions blah blah blah they. didn't have that back then oh I see you. said every building was burning but. weren't the trash men just picking it up. and taking it somewhere to burn it no. then it was just ash so they would just. get rid of it I don't know what they did. with it back then but I mean after the. trashman after they shut down the. incinerators the trashman just took it. oh they just put it in a landfill yeah. so they weren't burning it no so then. that's when there's a few landfills. started there was one in Brooklyn. there's I I think they were like all.

over New York but Staten Island oh yeah. we're just going to do this for a few. years and then it turned into the. biggest landfill like known to men wow. and yeah what do you say to people who. like cuz a lot of landfills have been. filled over with dirt and people buy. houses on them right what do you say to. the people who you know you buy a house. and then four years later you you. know everything you know everything you. eat tastes like Fig Newtons and. uh baby gravy or something and. your son's got facial hair at 4.

you know yeah that's probably what's. going on they're actually stat in Island. they're making into a park uhuh yeah and. I mean dude yeah I've seen animals out. there some Wicked yeah dude I mean. dude there's this this gopher or. whatever the it was dude it looked. like a full-blown piple that's how big. this thing was I swear I saw a. bear out there everybody told me I was. crazy but cuz there was a ton of deer. like the deer swim from Jersey they were. coming in why they hat it over there no.

it's just like anywhere else they're. building and they're pushing them out of. their home so now they see this big. Forest across the and the river qu you. know the whatever the hell it is it's. not a river but there's a short little. spurt from Jersey to Staten Island in. one the location and they just swim over. and they got a whole and nobody can. shoot them yeah you can't you can't uh. shoot that close to the city huh you. just can't hunt on Sile what is is there. like a habitat on the landfills is there. like Animalia that's out there living is. there what is that like is it almost.

seems because it's almost its whole own. like like Narnia like a dirt. like a oh definitely you trash. Narnia you see mutant stuff out there. really yeah you know rats look like cats. yeah um like I said there was like a. gopher that looked like a pull M um you. know you got deer running through that. place nuts like big boys and nobody can. hunt them oh you can't hunt them.

no dude deer people are crazy I deer. people they'll I'm surprised nobody. jumps the fence and gets out there you. know they try really yeah they've tried. but you know they and they have little. security here and there guy killed a big. buck once and he got he lost he actually. got fired was a mechanic yeah he was a. mechanic for the city and got fired he. was out there hunting on the landfill. yeah he killed it and then everybody saw. it cuz you can't hunt it so you're. seeing this this buck walked around like. it was his area oh yeah he would be out.

in the middle of the day just walking. the streets you know he didn't give a. he was a gangster but but now they. also put a guy you know on the hill to. like keep the population down oh wait so. there's a um there's a person that works. on the landfill yeah that well they pay. a guy who sleeps in a tent on the. landfill that you know takes care of the. deer population damn what are you. serious yep you know Snips tucks Cuts.

you know all kinds of things he he uh. they Dart the de does you read um uh nut. uh what's it called neutralizes them no. well it's vasectomies you know all kinds. of uh so they're doing animal vasectomy. out there on the landfill anything to. keep the population down wow that's. beautiful man yeah and he sits out there. in the cold and what does he do he he. darts them and they fall asleep yep then. he slips over Snips tucks damn huh and. it's a rrap gosh yep but get through. sometimes that nut Grinch he. just rolls up on him huh that's.

unreal bro yeah man dude's sniper deer. out in the middle of the landfill and. but that's what they do God cuz. like you said they know they would just. run wild that sperm Dexter that. dude's out there clipping Buck. probably selling it too oh oh dud yeah. oh deer seman dude I'll I'll. get rid of a quarin 40 feet of. my home here oh in Tennessee anybody. will buy that oh damn wow bro.

that's incred I didn't know that that. was a job somebody lives in a tent on a. landfill yep and euthanize or sedates. and then vasectomies yeah deer they have. to keep the population down that's what. they do bears are moving across New York. it says right here the New York uh State. Department of Environmental Conservation. is urging residents to secure food. sources that might attract B. as bear sightings increase due to the. animal search for high calorie meals.

after winter hibernation wow yeah people. I just went to dinner with a couple. friends of ours me and my wife and the. and the and she's going to kill me that. I'm saying this but and the wife's like. wait they like they don't wait for off. peak hours and come over the bridge I'm. like you you can't be serious to think. deer are running over a bridge like to. get there like no you know they see the. forest they're getting kicked out of. their land and they see it so they swim.

over there yeah well we had a guy a m. this guy was a uh mediumsized animal. detective he was on and he had um he. said that yeah a lot of times like. animals will just get into your house. because they don't know it's your house. they just their nature is getting. destroyed and so then they just go to. like whatever seems like a place that's. safe you know yeah so sometimes it's. people's attic you know cuz a lot of. people is finding raccoon in they add it. yep um in a lot of urban areas but uh.

what else dude okay so that there's. methane coming off of that trash block. already when the compressors compress it. that much yeah there's definitely a. light smoke coming off of it if you. threw a match in there would it be. flamable maybe I listen I wasn't trying. that you know to me like I said we get. done two hours I could get done be done. back at the garage hanging out you know. shower done if I get covered with any. junk and be done I'm not paying. attention to what comes out out of the. truck at that point is there um how big.

is that block that comes out of the. truck like show me with your hand like. how big is that block do you know what. out of the garbage truck yeah the one. that gets compressed after it's full and. it compresses It Up full garbage truck a. full garbage truck oh it's you know like. I said you look at 10 tons I want to say. the truck was 14 feet by maybe 8 n feet. tall by the width of a garbage truck. 12 the thing's the size of this room the. block of garage yeah that's how big the. garbage is you know there when I went to.

stand now I I was doing six tons and. that's like totally different situation. that's like more just fluffs out but. when you're in Manhattan you're packing. and packing and packing and get that. route yeah that just like you know does. it just come out as like a big do you. get to see the brick at the end yeah no. it's not like a brick where like it's. going to come out as an actual brick and. they pick it up and just like build a. house with it okay you know what I'm. saying it's like it's just falling apart. like as it's coming out okay. um huh yeah and then now they ship they.

ship out the garbage from New York they. ship it to like Pennsylvania they use it. for landfill okay like you had said like. they fill the swamps and stuff and then. they build on it 10 years later wow and. then the son has a be at three oh yeah. dude yeah yeah oh when your son's a. mall Santa at 5 years old. exactly you got a one but they don't. care nuh care anymore yeah well I mean. that's one of the issues they say that. uh a lot of people that's having uh.

autism um retardation right retardation. people I try to say it differently. because some people get offended but. radation um all kind of stuff like that. like brain problems for children is. because our our uh water and food supply. is so contaminated you know yeah I. wouldn't doubt it it makes sense but. they they're not going to you know how. they are they're not going to test it if. somebody's making money off of no. not these days they're making money off. of all those unfortunate cases yeah you. know so Chuck Schumer right there making.

throw that off yeah you know uh is there. Joy happening around the holidays though. is that an exciting time to be out and. about like CU you get to at least be in. this like there's a. romanticization of people being in New. York City around the holidays right and. I know you guys your route runs ran. early there what time did your route run. yeah we started at 6:00 a.m. okay so you. started at 6:00 a.m. so but was it still. fun to be in the holiday around that. time even though it was so cold or it's. just the worst time cuz it's winter yeah.

no it was still good times you know just. a lot more people on the street even in. those early days you know everybody's. now coming in that who you know people. want to see New York City yeah I don't. know why but to me it's just a hole. but yeah you know that's New York for. you oh yeah people will come to stare at. a hole you know I mean they. got porn sites that's based on it um how. long would it take you those routes in. the city how long does that take how. long does a trash route in the city take. a garbage man it all depended on the day.

the route you know your your average was. 2 and a half three hours oh wow yeah but. by the time you got out there you know. you start at 6 by the time you get to. the route because now I we were on the. west side we picked up on the east side. so you get out there like 6:30 quarter. to 7 start the route right now you got. to drive to Jersey to dump it oh yeah so. by the time you get back to the garage. you're running hustling for to be able. to sit down you know eat lunch for you. know hour and a half and then you go.

home okay like it's it's not worth it. now that I look at it I killed my body. for no reason so you get you get there. at 600 you probably leave for work. around 5 or something yeah I was getting. up 5:00 okay getting up at 5: out the. door by 520 yeah you had a rush because. Staten Island was a nightmare trying to. get off it you know there's only the one. bridge to get you know the arzano. through Brooklyn to get into uh. Manhattan okay the traffic was awful so. if you weren't at like I used to meet a. few guys at 5:00 at the bridge okay if.

you weren't there at 5 you weren't. getting there by 6 and we all take a. ferry or drive drive okay Bet okay so. you get that done so you can get it done. in a couple of hours right you still get. paid you get paid for an 8 hour day yeah. yeah you get paid the8 hours so there. was some like cool value in getting it. done quick yeah were you guys racing. ever was it fun exactly we you know it. was always a competition who could get. done faster but like I said I look back. now you know after having back surgery. two shoulder surgeries a knee surgery. you know really yeah it you look at you. just beat yourself up and for what and.

does the city pay for those surgeries. yeah I was on you know on their time so. I did both shoulders and my knee on the. job and then a year after I retired I. just had back surgery two years in June. it was two years wow would you have disc. replacement no I actually they went in I. had uh disectomy disectomy L5 S1 I don't. even know wow lement P that I call it. cuz it's just pulling out. of your back at them and they they they. cut out three so but my disc was still.

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job yeah and like I said we ran around. like idiots like I say to guys now all. them I still talk to guys on the job I'm. like don't stop running around don't do. this stuff no more like what do you mean. running around when you say that what. like so at at one point I want to say. five six years on they they cut the. steps off the trucks so it was it was. all right you used to jump on the back. of the truck hang on you know I'm sure. you see pictures of guys you know. whipping I mean I had guys that do 50. miles an hour and I'm on the back of of. the truck hanging off a de life oh. that's awesome boom hitting bumps and. you know yeah yeah oh y'all were doing.

drugs back there oh I wasn't doing drugs. I never did that stuff but there was oh. okay you mean hitting bumps in the truck. hit bumps oh not yeah my bad man I and. I'm not trying to accuse you of doing. anything no but listen I'll tell I I'll. get to that but yeah so you uh you know. then they cut the steps off the truck. why to make it harder for y'all well. pretty much but the union was saying. like you know we all thought it was. because we were getting to done too fast. okay you know and listen it's reality.

like if we're getting done in 2 three. hours they're saying what are you doing. the rest of the day which is totally. understood being in the union don't you. know what a Union is forly you. know and and we would just get be fine. we're just going back and hanging out. eating lunch you know some guys would. you know hang around play cards some. others were you know doing what they. were doing yeah enjoying their lives but. uh but yeah it just wasn't you know to. rush and run around but that's what I. did when I went to standown I was. working with a guy who ran M like.

marathons on weekends wow dude my buddy. Eric like dude we were running like I. did probably three four miles easy every. day running so you're cruising then pull. this mic down just a little lower it. yeah I'm like running like just running. on the side of a truck like just running. house to house Chuck so we was pretty. athletic at that time yeah when you had. the when the trucks had the three steps. on it was pretty athletic no when they. had when they took the steps off. you know oh then you got to run along. yeah then we were running along you know.

more guys were getting a little. healthier yeah it's not the most healthy. job really yeah lunch always lunch. always came with like dessert oh yeah. like you know for what you know a hogy. and then add on some donuts oh yeah. coffee get your a little cut of. Cheesecake huhu around the. holidays H in memory of big. Carlos or whatever. yeah I feel that man damn well that's. like New Orleans I think New Jersey and.

New Orleans have always been very. similar uh I think some of like I bet. probably stat some of that accent you. also hear in New Orleans people like to. have a meal it's important you. know people will have a beer at lunch a. lot of times if they only have two or. children or less 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. know so you guys would get done you. would go eat so you guys are getting. paid for the full day you got a couple. of hours you get done so you must have.

been enjoying that yeah it was good it. was sit down time like you said you're. getting paid for the 8 hours but there. were guys that stayed out there all day. they didn't mind it they you know on. those hot days or the cold days they. didn't mind it they stayed out there and. do you have to wear a shirt the whole. time or what is the uh you have people. doing shirtless or not yeah was some. guys that wore some you know. questionable stuff oh yeah but like. before I got on like in '96 like all the. rules changed they went to the federal. license like before that prior you. didn't need a CDL to drive the trucks.

wait you didn't need a you didn't need a. commercial driver's license to drive a. sanitation TR yep up until 96 so those. guys were partying damn bro what dude. those guys were partying I heard some. stories so you could you could drive a. Ford Escort and then drive a garbage. truck exactly there guys like a mini. coopa they'll come in in a Mini Cooper. and then jump in garbage truck I could. do this a maximum Cooper bro that's. insane hey so yeah then they. went to the federal license so now it.

means everybody's got to get drug tested. you know random drug test everything 96. that started yeah and the party in here. and there some guys just didn't care so. they still went for it would some guys. just drink on the job was there any. partying on the job I had guys you know. one of my best guys you know got rest of. the Soul like literally out the gate. 6:00 a.m. Hey kid stop over here running. to the store come out two tall boys oh. yeah you know then and they did the.

routes where every half hour there was a. deli him and his partner so if I filled. in with him for his partner like. literally every time it was a half hour. up there was a different Deli oh so they. got full of Morella and two beers huh. run in God brother praise God yeah no. guys enjoyed themselves yeah that sounds. nice that sounds like it should be you. know but they started P. everything in America is a penny. pinching f askco now nobody can. have a cheek full of strong. cheese and two.

uh Bush lights you know just to. get through the work day H you know. there was one dude that dude he was. purple at one point what what happened. to him he was just drinking oh drinking. that much dude his skin was it was awful. some people I don't even know if he's. alive anymore he's not I tell you it's. question that guy ain't alive dude look. after purple it just you turn. into a BLM activist and it's a. rap after that. right right in the ground oh man that's.

and what about was a lot of uppers cuz. it seems like people would be on Aderall. people would be on uh cocaine you know. people would be part you know like was. there anybody that could do that kind of. Lifestyle oh there were guys that party. like that yeah you know there was one. guy like right out of the 70s my first. day in stand out so let's talk about. this day like the other one not as bad. this guy said like bandana on 7s glasses. right out of hippie Central right yeah. yeah oh you're with me I'm like all. right cool now I'm in Staten Island.

first day I'm like what the hell's going. on here once again they don't know who I. am so they shove you with this guy he's. like all right kid you go up and drive. first I'll stay in the back so I'm like. all right so I'm driving a route I don't. I live in Stand now still didn't know. streets wow you know so I'm just driving. around yeah and I'm like what's that. smell dude's hanging on the back living. his dream just toking away getting high. huh and then like half hour go by all. right kid now you go out I'll let you. know when I'm ready wow I'm still smell.

I'm like but some guys did it and it was. a daily thing pull up a picture of. Stevie Starlight if you can see if this. this guy looks anything like this. gentleman or not but some guys just. couldn't couldn't stop man look like. this guy a little. BBE yeah no not that crazy of hair yeah. Steve is like like bandana across his. head yeah yeah yeah you know I know what. you're talking about like circle glasses.

yeah yeah huh some guy who's uh. he listens to Springsteen but he don't. admit it huh yeah probably in the closet. yeah yeah closet Springsteen definitely. not telling people about it you know um. yeah once you get into Staten Island. what things change then because it's. more like family housing and stuff right. exactly and what is that like does it. almost feel like a lot easier does it. not feel like the front lines of trash. cuz I feel like in the city you're on. the front lines you're right. there it's coming out of the shoot. you're you know you got guys.

catching in their beard and. but out in the out in the in the suburbs. it feels like it would be a little bit. easier is it or not in the listen when. you get to the suburbs now it turns into. now you're dealing with homeowners like. when you were in the buildings you were. in the buildings you had you didn't they. didn't care 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 an. idiot like they you know they don't care. Oh in a city you could just drive and.

just yell anyway yeah there's cabs. beeping like so you never you know. you're not waking anybody up everybody's. used to it right and you come to s. island and you know even Queens areas. like Brooklyn areas now you're waking. everybody up it's 6:00 a.m. so who's. bitching about that um like I said. getting in the way yeah like there's. certain areas that we couldn't go in. like they make them pick up midnight to. like 5 so that you're not in their way. really so like what do you mean richer. areas no just owned areas by certain.

types of people in okay so New York so. maybe upper echelon types or whatever. you think no certain religion people. okay they have their so like the. Orthodox Jews don't want you in their. neighborhood between 12 to five Bingo. wow and those is some nasty mother is it. pretty nasty over there in their. neighborhood well they just listen it's. nothing against them cuz I have actually. been in some of those houses yeah cuz. they are there are people in those areas. that are very nice but then the you know.

Passover comes and they throw everything. out like five six year olds throwing. matches like lighting on fire. it was crazy I was like I can't do this. no more cuz they would bring everybody. pretty much who was available from other. garages to come and do this and you get. one truck on a block and you just go up. and down all day and they throw. everything out like I didn't know if you. knew that about the Orthodox Jews uh. they just get rid of everything they. throw everything out wow couches beds. clothes everything goes into the garbage.

why it's just part of the tradition part. of their religion wow start. fresh it's it's dude it's crazy 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 every block and a and. a fire truck firemen would have like. three blocks because the kids running. around like and I had guys do it plenty. of times they light something on fire. and then throw it in the back of the. truck. now if I don't see it now everything in. the truck's on fire why do they do that. is that like a kind of like a just a are.

they training for like battle or. something no it's just the kids oh kids. screwing around animals oh yeah oh I. blocked a a bus one day and then that's. what I'm saying like then that's when. they get into we don't want them on the. truck uh the streets early this time. blah blah blah and these little kids get. off the buses cuz now I held them up on. the Block and they're blowing the horn. you know they have their own police. their own people they tell you you got. to move the truck I'm like dude I'm. almost done with the block I'm not. moving the truck yeah the little kid.

gets off and he's flicking me the finger. wow he's like five I'm like what are. they respect huh what goes on here I. don't know I got a bunch of Jewish. friends I don't have any Orthodox Jewish. friends though them OJs I think or. whatever you know I don't yeah I don't. know I shared a room at a I shared I. didn't I sh I was in a halfway house. with a Orthodox dude one time and he. brought his own Grill he was. dressed like biggy small. at a masonic temple and he was sweating.

and if you said around him he. he couldn't eat his eyes Shak oh. he'd open his mouth and put his. tongue out his guy was a perv and uh he. was grilling his own Meats in his. room or whatever with the. sunlight or whatever I don't know what. the dude the guy with have bait you know. he's in there making burn ends. or whatever at 4 a.m. you know. when when Allah says he can it was just. fing glass yeah the was. unreal a cloud comes he's like damn it.

they ruined again and it was Arizona. dude this day he showed up on the porch. literally I'm not joking it was 104. degrees outside and this guy is dressed. bro like Cruella Deville bro this. they wear some gear oh this. guy had been raising some mixed. dogs in his coat bro this guy he smelled. horrible um what yeah What ethnicity. probably has the worst smelling garbage. would it be Orthodox you think no it was. the same it was all the it's garbage man. once you throw it in there it's all. Blended in and like you said during the.

Summers it was it was grueling like. people walk by like covering their faces. like that's how bad the truck smelt. sometimes I once you're in it you don't. know anymore you you don't smell nothing. anymore you get used to it huh so used. to it cat cat YN was the worst for me oh. it was awful cuz it would you would rub. up on a bag that a cat just pissed on. and like yeah like you were saying with. the truck now we we get in me and my. partner and I I know like bags stayed. far away from me yeah you know I'm big. enough guy long enough arms I kept that.

away I never let the bags touch my. legs and I would look at my pond I'm. like you got hit and he's like what do. you mean I said you don't smell that cuz. now you get in it's even cold out you. close the doors put their heat on and. you smell that turn ciss up you know oh. yeah oh yeah yeah disgusting it's the. worst smell out there yeah I remember we. used to get a bowl of cat pass and uh we. would do a hair dryer over it bro just. to piss my sister off do it. under the door by her room her dude.

awful her um wow so there's no time. a year really when the trash smells. worse huh well the summer is a bit just. a summer's J overall but yeah it's you. know there was some point you know you. would open up a lid and if it was. sitting there with maggots and stuff you. you get a kick and that's another smell. that was pretty brutal but. other than that it's you got used to it. was there a burrow of New York where the.

trash smelled the worst you think no. okay all the same St Island there was a. movie theater not far from the dump. before they closed it it was awful the. smell and they were building houses like. crazy right there I'm like how could. people buy and then I became a garbage. man and like then I don't smell it no. more stand on don't smell no more. because we would get you know on. all the time by Le buros yeah uh you. know trash island you know all that but. you just didn't smell it dude there's a.

lot of Pride for people that live on. trash I think you know there's something. almost something pretty amazing. about it in a weird way like I when I. was growing up we would burn a trash in. a ditch that was the big thing in our. area you know you bring everything out. you burn it in a ditch the kids we would. like get wet like get hose each other. down and then run through the smoke till. you look all black you know you'd be out. there like a you know that's different. it would be like yeah you know you would. just it wasn't like doing blackfacing it. was just like burning trash and but you.

definitely looked a little Smokey by the. end you know it was it was just. something to do you know yeah um what. were we talking about. oh I don't know when I went out to. sto oh yeah and what difference yeah it. it's just like I said you you deal with. a different person now picking yeah. you're well you're dealing with people. who own the garbage right like it's. their house house to house to house to. house I tell people all the time I knew. things about you from your garbage that.

you do not think I know really and then. I wasn't picking through it right you. know when you put that stuff in it. breaks up the bags I knew when people it. you know it was your wife's time of the. month my wife will be disgusted by that. but you knew it you know it when the. bag's ripped your life is in front of me. and I ain't picking through it right but. I but yeah but what you and it's crazy. how quick you see things so fast dude I. did this game one day day and I went in. New York City right downt I went in the. city like I think I was on the Lower.

East. Side and I did this game with people I. said I'mma open a bag of trash you smell. it you take a whiff out of it right just. a random bag okay and if you can guess. three items that are in it I give you a. hundred bucks right so dude so these. people they all thought I was like that. the bags I had like brought them from. home or something and put them together. whatever I was picking these up. from the corner so you didn't. even know if they would be right bro I. had no idea what was in them dude so we.

had people we crack them back fck people. are taking hits off of it dude over. there off of an alphabet City bro that. was nasty stuff down there yeah there's. a we made a video of it online but um. anyway that was something we did with. trash in the city um what about the was. there any ladies that tried to flirt. with you that ever happened on the route. once you got into the houses like any. B b or any fck they didn't. notice you trying to run that can clam. out on you bro well that's why I wore.

the. shirt my but this shirt's 25 years old. really it's been I was going to give it. to you but it says put out your can here. comes the garbage one yeah I used to. sport this shirt all the time and it's a. sexy lady huh with a butt out you know. with her ass hanging in in the wind I. like that but no listen you didn't you. didn't see people yeah unless you were. you know waking people up and you know. in their way other than that they you. were not like it was crazy because. nobody even knew they never acknowledged.

you wow New York hated you because you. were alloud until I don't remember the. year but like the New York Post or Daily. News one of those papers in New. York they posted how much money we made. per year mhm that was it now everybody. wanted the job yeah when you when they. see you're making six figures picking. garbage up oh well I my guy this and. that now all of a sudden they know. you're you're around wow once the money. comes on huh but prior to that they. could care less that's that same thing.

happened with Joe Rogan in a way I think. once he got a Spotify deal and people. saw like oh he's making money they all. jump on his tracks now they all. want to write articles about him say. he's racist they're just using his name. you know yeah exactly so you guys pull. in six figures a year with the job yeah. right starting first year it gains. traction no yeah my first year I think. if I had to guess 27 Grand but but just. with the overtime with the winter with. the snow and all that stuff with you. know I think my first year made like.

almost 60 wow okay so it almost doubled. right because you have to be there you. know New York doesn't stop so it's. you're on call all day you know 12- hour. shifts I've worked up to 31 day straight. 12 hour shifts oh you know 31 you know. inches of snow here 2 feet of snow here. it happens so but you can make that. money I just had a guy just retired he. was making almost 200 Grand wow picking. garbage of but he would do 12h hour days. every day over time he would eat up you.

know kind of hated his family so yeah. you know and you get it when you meet. these families you're like yeah this is. why this guy works all the time yeah. wow um yeah this says go bottom 20% 36.3. this must be old though no it's it's I. think starting right now is like 70 okay. the average salary for a garbage. collector in New York is around 76 ,000. per year and that's not overtime right. so that's not having your overtime so. that's where you can get up to 100 you.

can get six figures wow you can almost. double that easy wow guys were double in. it easy remember when they had the fad. of like the kids meet the garbage man oh. I love yeah that was like when we were. growing up yeah I used to you know love. throwing beers to the guys yeah and it. turned out like then I come to stand out. and those guys were still on on the job. nuh I was like dude I remember you you. don't he was like yeah you were that fat. little kid throwing off the top of. the cuz still lived on the same block. uhhuh so they kind of were like yeah you. had a we had like a porch out front and.

you know we I dropped the beers down to. the guys yeah but like I was saying with. wearing like they didn't wear uniforms. back then dud had like a wife beater on. and like a pair of shorts oh yeah just. gaggling through the streets like give a. yeah dudes wearing a. snorkeling a exactly. yeah some questionable stuff back then. dude wearing a snorkeling a bath robe. over there but like you said they. like I was saying they didn't. acknowledge you yeah you were there you. pick the garbage up you left you're kind. of the Invisible Man exactly you really.

are because yeah nobody wants to get. that close people kind of want to. pretend you don't exist unless you're. making noise people don't engage yeah. you yeah you're kind of the Invisible. Man until they realize you were making. money and then sudden like oh look at. this Rich rolling through here I. got to put more garbage out yeah yeah. you know then they would turn into well. it's your job you know pick this up here. take this you have to take this yeah.

what's the worst parts of the job that. you get that kind of stuff is people. telling you like yeah just being they. always tell you oh yeah you know I pay. your salary so I we always used to keep. like nickels and dimes in the truck and. I'd be like hold on I'll give you your. money back because they would always say. like all right each person gives you a. nickel a year or and I would throw the. nickel at them here here's your money. the out of my face you got to take. this the guy's whole apartment's out. there yeah it's like dude go no and I. would always respect the person to come. out if you just said Thank you or even. gave us water cuz you know you weren't.

supposed to take money and all that. stuff if you just said Thank you and. acknowledge me like I said that we were. you know everybody nobody knew us thank. you went a long way with me I take. everything I don't care you know but. when you look at me like oh I pay your. salary and look down to me yeah yeah go. yourself yeah agreed your stuff. would stay there for months oh yeah I'll. put it back in your house yeah. I'll throw it right back on your. curve dude I'll take it this is how. spiteful I would have been bro I would.

have picked it up and the next day. brought it back put it. back on the guy's doorstep I got rid of. this yesterday where' this come back. make him think he's crazy bro um now. what about what's that you had that a. lot you know people were very you know. people thought they owned you yep yeah I. pay your salary and all that junk so. you that's what I say to that bro. him yeah I think we always have. respect for people that did something. you know well we lived also we got a.

little rural by us so sometimes you'd. have the the bootleg garbage man you. know who started their own service a guy. who put like a took a truck and just put. Three Wooden uh plywood walls on you. know what I'm talking about make the. back of the truck a little taller fit. more bags just load it up yeah BR that. dude with uh our neighbor was. one of those guys for a while so his. truck would always be out there but uh. he'd go to the rural routes you know get. him a little bit of garbage man well cuz. we used to take everything you know. you're talking you know couches beds you.

know everything even with recycling. you're taking refrigerators and all that. stuff really everything we took. everything until What year no still to. this day we had you had to take. everything so you'll throw a. refrigerator in the back of a garbage. truck yeah well our recycling trucks. they went to two sides oh for recycling. it's so annoying yeah but there was some. that didn't fit in the small side you. know with the recycling trucks now that. the city gets so now yeah it would call. you up be like oh you got to go and. throw it in the in the regular garbage. truck wow so a recycling truck is a.

different truck different truck it's. split down the middle there's like a say. 28 in side on this side and a 3ot side. on the other side okay so the truck is. split into two so you could pick up. paper and you could pick up metal glass. you know any stoves stuff like that you. put on the other side on the metal on. the yeah on the metal side okay wow and. how do you decipher that cuz a lot of. times people just put a recycling a a. big a recycling garbage can out there. right got to be separated in New York. but I didn't give a right we used.

to drive early days we used to open the. sides of the truck there's a door so you. could the mechanics and stuff can get in. there and work on the compactor and. stuff so we used to bring the blades all. the way home open a side hatch and drive. the streets and while I was driving you. were in the back loading but I was. throwing stuff in the side of the truck. while you were in the back so we were. just loading the whole truck the whole. the whole block with whatever. just I didn't care I just threw it all. in yeah it all winds up in the same. place does it a good amount of it the.

paper is recycled 100% everybody gets. crazy with the you know the bottles and. the glass and all that unfortunately I. tell people the truth and they never. wanted to hear it cans and stuff yes. metal they recycle the bottles they just. break up and winds up in a landfill wow. colored glass was like gold to them. really and they stopped using it for. everything glass is cheaper to make than. than it is to recycle and all that it's. too expensive so colored glass what do. you mean why was colored glass so.

valuable just cuz now you you had to. pigmented and and put color into it the. regular glass so it cost more to make so. like if you got you know like a green. glass it already has the color in it so. they melt it down and they use it again. oh but they stopped using all that like. all the beer bottles and stuff they they. really don't use that stuff Sprite used. to come in like a green bottle yep no. more that was crazy bro you got you a. Sprite bro now the you all up. you think it's Sprite Zero now oh yeah. yeah Sprite Zero dude come out the. closet bro I want full Sprite give me.

full no caffeine yeah I want yeah I. want pure sugar bro um what did were. there some accidents with the trucks how. dangerous did they get for people cuz if. people didn't have commercial driver's. license and they're driving those trucks. in the beginning was there a lot of like. uh was there casualties was there yeah. guys would do there were a few guys that. passed away um you know and it was more. just people stupidity you know I had one. guy I don't know why he was holding. something going in the truck while.

ripping his arm off the truck RI it. pulled him in dude literally next time I. saw him he had like this mechanical like. three-finger metal thing oh like a skill. crane yeah he was like what he was like. picking up like teddy bears and get. you a care bear I'm like dude. what are you doing well my hand got. stuck he said his hand got stuck and. sucked them in and it literally just his. on off yeah um is that a is that a blade. right right there MH wow yeah dude I had. another guy was holding paper in New.

York that would wrap the bundles of. paper before all this technology came. out now he us to pick massive bundles up. and he had the paper in the back of the. truck and literally almost slid off all. his fingers cuz his fingers were caught. in the string and when the the truck. closed it tighten the string up so much. dude like it looked like a ring got. caught on all four of us all was nasty. that surgically fix his fingers like it. was a nightmare wow so there's some. dangerous ends to it trash collector. dies after inhaling discarded. acid yeah no that's the guy uh I think.

that's the St Island. guy let's see what happened a New York. City Sanitation worker died yesterday. after he inhaled the fumes of a. corrosive acid from a discarded. container that burst under the. compacting blades of a garbage truck. making routine collections in Brooklyn. it might have been he I think might be. the last name let's see the source of. the acid was not known as of last night. when this article was written this is in. uh uh I think 2006 touch off a second.

sanitation worker was injured in the. incident which brought the mayor and. sanitation commissioner rushing to the. burn unit of New York Hospital touched. off uh the Brooklyn Attorney office said. the investigation is continuing. depending on what evidence is obtained. anything else wow yeah cuz somebody. threw a battery a car battery like in a. bag like I said you don't know what's in. there and when it cycled it exploded all. over the dude and that should have kill. you instantly like yeah it was it was. shitty I think I want to say his last.

name was Heeney but I could be wrong I. wasn't on the job yet so I didn't know. yeah but Hanley Hanley that's it. wow yeah what is there other some other. Andes like what about people ever hit. pedestrians with trucks and stuff yeah. that you know listen I stayed away from. all that but they were definitely guys. that did not were not good drivers they. clipped people's they clipp people's. toes and Manhattan I used to yell. watch your toes cuz people in watch your. toes that's what you're yelling yeah.

because you know on the corners in. Manhattan you know everybody standing in. the sidewalk like standing in. the crosswalk it's like dude watch your. toes damn yeah there a guy there was a. guy in New York I want to say it was. Manhattan that dude just rolled and it. was his partner just rolled right over. his feet blew they blow it blows out. your ankle uh-uh yeah when they rolled. right over his foot bof his ankle blew. out cuz of the pressure yeah the weight. of the. truck oh my gosh that's like a cartoon.

it's nasty nasty wow I had a buddy. fall out of the truck 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 he rolled out his leg went. under I mean they grafted his foot they. grafted everything they saved it but it. looked like he was wearing a moon boot. oh yeah you know got off the job but any. any time I swore him after. that like four times the size some Neil. Armstrong fan huh dragging a marshmallow.

around it's crazy yeah my dad had this. buddy and uh one of his feet you know. you used to see this commonly back in. the day somebody would have that big. uh uh soulle on their shoe you know. somebody be uneven you know yep and my. buddy had his friend and he would his. friend would always stand on this little. piece of cement because it made him even. bro he be he like wouldn't leave. it in the neighborhood bro my dad's. neighborhood he'd like kind of walk. around it like pivot around it but he.

would he that a second he left. off that bro s yeah the world got. kind of uh everything turned into a. teeter totter for. him oh wow so that's it's really really. fascinating I'm trying to think of some. other yeah think you had Mike Row on and. he you know he was one of the guys that. years ago listed the sanitation as like. one of the 10 deadliest jars you know. wow and it's just more dude you'd be. shocked at how many people don't see the. truck that literally just drive into the.

back of the truck and if you're back. there you know it's a wrap you know. there was a lot of close so there's a. lot of danger that happens like that. people just hit in the back of the truck. the guy standing back there driving not. paying attention to you oh it's. craziness you know everybody's in a rush. yeah especially New York they just and. you are no pay no Mindless so they just. driving around I mean the truck can't. get any bigger for you not to see and. they people driving into the back of the. truck all the time damn I had a dude hit. me once literally I see him in the I'm.

at break and I see him bouncing off cars. coming down the road and I'm like what. what's this dude doing like ping ping. ping I jumped over like in the truck. there's like this cab like this little. thing where the engine is I literally. was jumping onto my partner and he was. like what what's going on here like he. thought we were getting frisky at 8: in. the morning next thing you know Boom the. dude dro drills the truck literally. drives right into the driver's side like. gas tank right near my like I'm like.

what the hell turned out the dude old. dude was on all kinds of medication oh. yeah so yeah dude my dad sometimes would. let he would go he'd like get into the. PO he'd go to the post 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. on rides like I'm going to go to the. Post Office and I think he didn't know. kind of like how or worked or whatever. cuz I hit like a grow bird and he's like. will you just drive around I can't. legally park here will you drive around. the block for me and I was 10.

years old dude you know I was about five. I think I was 5'3 or something I'd hit a. little grow spurt and his vision was bad. and so I'm next thing you know. I'm driving this Delta 88 bro right this. big boat no power steering bro I. go around the block dude and I don't. know how big the block is you know I go. around I hit seven cars bro and. this thing was a piece of dude like. a battleship oh my dad he bought off a. couple brothers and it had some uh 22s.

in the back right around the corner so. he was always listening to like NPR like. with bass and like it none of the. the whole life didn't make any sense. dude I hit six cars I. finally get back around and pick up my. dad he had no idea the whole car. piece of no no idea bro god um what. about the rat problem is that what what. kind of Animalia do y'all run into on a. garbage route bro and be honest with me. yeah no uh it's just different areas had.

different you know stand Island was like. mice you know you'd see some you know. decent size you know like 7 in 8 in rats. with like you know a nice siiz tail but. that's what I'm talking about dude. a m mice is just a gay rat I think yeah. they're just babies yeah just I'm just. running around like idiots I used to. squish them with my feet really you. could step right on them yeah they're in. the B and when they come out you just. and they and eyes popping out. all oh yeah it's nasty but I stopped.

doing that when I got a little older. yeah yeah I think you grow out of that. and the government will put lipstick on. him and then kill him with. uh OIC or whatever so who the. you know I'm saying like you're the. bad guy exactly I stepped on a few M oh. well kill me now now what about the rat. problem in the city you hear about it. you know they allegedly signed a zar. that got some uh this Le lesbian cheese. Hunter up there now trying to. kill him right which is fine more power. to her if she wants to show up.

and go to war I'm game right uh but how. bad was the rat problem in the city well. even with that like let's be honest you. ain't getting rid of them there's no way. yeah and there there was some big boys. up there yeah the UN o cuz you're. right near the water there oh I saw one. wearing a Charles Barkley jersey dude I. wouldn't doubt it up there I was so. there's one night we're working picking. baskets up you know how there Corner. basket in uh Manhattan so it's just a. basket on every corner where people. throw litter and stuff you know oh yeah.

so they all lined up in in front of the. UN so we're doing the baskets it was. early in my career and is each basket a. different country or something no no. it's just a basket like all along the UN. there's just more there because they. don't want litter okay so there's just. more baskets in Fr think it's like the. Epcot Center of trash or something you. know so but it's the Epcot Center of. rats I mean dude I'm talking boys yeah. and dude one I dumped the basket so was. quick like once you started doing the. baskets you spin off the truck quick.

Bing bam you're right back like. literally Tak me 30 3 seconds to dump a. p oh so you throw it dump it and you're. back it's back and boom and then you. jump on the truck you still had the. steps at the time so I see fluttering. going on and dude I mean with the tail. this thing had to be 18 inches oh yeah. that probably went to ruers bro yeah. yeah he was that fullback so big boy so. dude I'm working with this dude I'm jump. off the truck and he dude I'm running. along the truck away from it dude I'm.

just running he's like what are you. doing he looks next 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 with like the broom in the shovel. to like kill it and just cycled it up I. was like I ain't around with it. wow cuz you would have like possums and. stuff like as you cycle it like a little. garbage will fall down and it gives them. a little Escape so they pop out the. little mice used to do that all the time. know what now explain it to me I'm not. understanding it so when you when the. cycle goes up in a truck like sometimes. there's like bags and stuff right at the.

edge that you just pushed up right so. when you open it again to now like bring. the next set of garbage up like you. would literally get like a bag or two of. flip down and it'll push garbage up. towards the like the ledge of the truck. and an animal that's like their Escape. Route now oh I see so I'm like 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 it he was used to it so. sometimes the the the it'll be cycling. you'll see an animal just pop out of. there yeah you know you get possums.

raccoons uh the mice the rats they. literally just jump right out yeah now. what's the most G here here's a one. right here garbage man saves kittens. from trash Jesus yeah I mean shaa toade. probably doing this you be shocked man. yeah anybody ever tried to put a baby in. the garbage. bro so I won't tell anybody if you tell. and I'll know if you're lying too so I. had like a year on a job got hurt I had. this s uh shoulder done surgery so they.

do like this mail carrying thing where. you bring go you know the mail to like. like Lower East garages so you go to. like the main area pick up all the mail. you give it to the each garage so I pull. into one of the garages I forget. somewhere in Manhattan 2 I think oh so. it's a job you can still work even. though you're injured exactly so you I'm. like in rehab you know coming back you. know trying to get my back together and. next thing you know I walk in the garage. everybody's in tyvec suits white tyac. you know covered head to toe I'm I got a.

T-shirt and pants on I'm like what the. going on here Fu this a Shriners. meeting right so there's a garbage truck. emptied out on the floor cuz they got a. phone call that a girl put a baby in a. corner basket. oh I I just I don't even know if they. found it I just you know nobody puts. baby in a corner basket no nobody but. they did it listen. they were nervous you know and that's. what they do these. kids yeah man that's heartbreaking man.

what about this video right here garbage. man saves kittens from trash let's get a. little volume on. it this dude cutting into a little. uh I look like he cutting open a bag of. coke huh this guy. oh he heard. something oh it's a eightball of cats.

bro damn baby kittens they heard. the meowing. oh. gosh that's people for you. man that's man that's unreal that's. people yeah yeah what do you learn about. Society what are some of your thoughts. on Society you think that like does it. give you a negative look at Society does. you just think this or does it does that.

kind of thing even happen like as you. work in that. industry yeah listen it'll change your. mind real quick too just there's strange. people out there man it's some crazy. that you see in the. garage like that reminds me of the time. I smell a skunk I'm like what the. is that smell in the back of the truck. like that's something odd so now I could. smell it and there was like a skunk in. like a little path mark bag like that we. used to call them like the little. plastic bags tied up and everything and.

I'm thinking to myself like who the. took the time to grab this skunk kill it. and then put it in a bag yeah it's like. people ain't right to even think of. doing that like who's playing with. skunks. like perverts bro perverts I think I. wouldn't do it bro yeah people get rid. of any liot yeah like. uh I'm trying to think of the biggest. animal somebody could get rid of without. you guys.

noticing probably black lab. huh that was the yellow lab that's dude. I still to this day I could see those. guys crying huh crying and were they gay. guys you. think yeah some would say yeah and no. judgment anyway bro. everybody yeah everybody's got a gay. cousin or son or father you know these. days you can't. even everywhere in three generations. everybody's going to be just gay doing. Uber reats dipping their toes into it oh.

yeah who knows. bro um what about on the home front what. is the home front life like for a. sanitation worker is it tough on like. your home life is it easy on it what. kind of life is it the winters were. tough like I said that you know if it. snowed uh you were stuck there 12 hour. shifts 10 hour shifts like when you say. stuck there what do you mean oh because. it takes so long to get through the. route no it's just like if it snows like. we so 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 years. back the whole s like everybody shuts. down New York don't stop like we're. we're out there all night through the. night 12 hour shifts spreading salt. plowing snow I mean oh so you guys do. other jobs instead of just the garbage. oh okay I didn't know we clean all the. streets the snow we do the salt spread. and the the. the front and loader work we do all that. stuff really yeah God damn you I. guess if the Rangers needed a Zamboni.

driver they could put one you guys I. probably pull it off wow yeah but I. didn't know that you guys do all those. other jobs yeah oh there's probably if I. had to guess over 100 different job. titles on that job it's just not garbage. man right there's so many ranking like. you you could have a desk job you could. have the guy who hooked me up with this. you know Johnny Lex that was my boy he. had the desk job you know and that's. what that's a job now what's the desk. job like what's that guy doing nothing.

he literally is just setting up the days. you know what's what's tomorrow all. right let me get all the cards and the. routes ready for tomorrow pretty much. nothing yeah it's a you know we call. them tid jobs yeah it's a tid job yeah. so they're in there just doing fantasy. football really yeah and he's terrible. at it is he yeah he's 0 and six this. terrible I it to him last night I was. talking to him last night I'm like dud. the team's sad bro he probably had Aaron. Rogers that's why he probably had an. injury yeah know I don't think he did.

but just sad but there's there was a lot. of and that winter aspect is a totally. different animal because you're doing. just say you know three four days you. could get six inches of snow take you. two three days to like settle in now you. got to go pick all the garbage up that. was left out for the last 3 4 days MH so. now every house that you normally do two. days days a week now it's all double. garbage for one pickup because they. because you missed one well yeah and.

there because of the snow exactly like. Manhattan after a snowstorm o bad news. man really piles and piles of it of. garbage garbage just unlimited garbage. it's um it's unbelievable you ever find. somebody hiding in the garbage like do. you have to like you have to you have to. hit a b like hit a a dumpster with a. you know wrench or something to. get a homeless guy out of there ever no. I never had to do that it it's pretty. you know nobody wants to be in the. garbage in New York wow it's just it's. funny cuz in movies and stuff you always.

see this romanticized look of a homeless. guy popping out of a dumpster you know. what I'm saying like that old kind of. well they're around you know but we. don't do container work oh you don't. that's privates the private guys those. containers on the street where those. guys are sleeping behind MH yeah no. that's all privates what about like a. dumpster at a school or something like. that's private yeah I didn't do that but. that's a whole different truck there was. a easy pack so they have Forks on the. front that lift it over the truck and. then compacted and behind them so you. never worked with that I never picked.

that up I drove them I used to have to. dump them but I never actually picked. them up so that's called an easy pack. truck the ones that have the forks on. the back that like on the front oh yeah. that go right into those two slots on. the side of the dumpster and then they. throw it back over the top yep and. whenever you throw that back over so. sometimes just a party of trash come. right down the front juice they're. filthy trucks Oh disgusting oh. disgusting sometimes the container come. off and be hanging out the side of it. now you got to get somebody out drag it.

off it's a nightmare wow yeah um. and then the other truck the truck you. drove more had a cycler in the back that. was just you throw them in yep wow bag. fed or something what do they call it. exactly yeah it's like hand fed you just. bag in and then when it gets full you. can't fit no more you bring it down it. swoops it into the truck compacts it and. then you fill it again and rinse and. repeat how has the how has the industry. changed over the time well now they. actually just put out uh the city I.

think this week that they're trying to. bring out where. homeowners I guess if you associations. like if you have a bunch of people. because there are certain areas that. were loaded with mice and rats because. they would just you know near swamps and. stuff like that yeah and house to house. you you go to grab a pale and they're. scattering yeah so now they're trying to. put these D little dumpsters but plastic. not the metal ones you see at like you. know the restaurants and stuff around. town and now they have things on the. back to lift it you know and my buddy. just said New York just came out with.

them you know and it's just it's never. going to work right you know Bloomberg. tried to go to um the arm the arm that. lifts it on its own and one guy's in the. truck and never gets out never touches. anything I have that in New Jersey now. at my house there's just not enough. space there's too many people in New. York right so like there's cars on top. of cars right so there's no room for the. garbage truck to get to the garbage. right there's no room of the arm to get. to the trash exactly right homeowners. across the five burs will soon have to. Shell out at least $50 for new trash.

bins as the Big Apple tries to crack. down on rodents by standardizing garbage. collections under new rules announced by. mayor mayor Eric Adams Wednesday single. family homes and small apartment. buildings up to 10 units will have to. purchase the new cans from an as yet. under undetermined vendor in an effort. to modernize the way the Big Apple. collects its trash wow. somebody's biding on that contract that. bet huh money money money it's. crazy how much money there is in garbage.

oh nobody thinks of it nope because. you're forgotten nobody realizes it but. to like that like somebody's going to. make those pales now yeah 90% of the. time it's guys that were retired big. Chiefs that are on from the job they go. out and start these businesses cuz they. had the bright idea when they were on. the job but they said let me bring it. out when I retire right and then oh I. know let's bring it in damn I mean they. do well um not do the uh they pick up.

deric Vehicles M sanitation does that. too oh they do yeah any vehicles that. are you know the foreman have to go out. tag them you know write whatever date if. the car's not gone off the street with. like no plates and stuff on the street. yeah definitely they send tow trucks out. they take them too have you ever had to. be involved in that no I didn't deal. with that but you've had to be involved. with salting the roads orever anything. salting the roads. uh front and load is uh big like rubber. tie machines used to have to fill the. spreaders and then I would have to drive.

down certain blocks where you couldn't. get like like bigger spreaders I would. have to do dead ends with that so you. like take a bucket back up a street take. a bucket back up pile it up back there. like in the bad storms you would get. like a dump truck with you and you would. load the dump truck and then they would. like dump it all somewhere in town like. near the water and whatever the salt no. all the snow oh the snow on the bad. storms when the snow was so bad when. they would clean schools and dead ends.

and stuff like that you would have to go. around with the frontend loader I would. have two dump trucks with me and I would. load the dump trucks filled with snow. okay so we were talking about snow I. thought you were talking about spreading. salt well it's the same kind of thing. but the spreaders couldn't fit down some. of these blocks okay so instead of. getting the spreader they go and. actually try and pick the snow up with. with a front and loader wow with we call. them big rubber tire machines you know. damn so I did that for pretty much the. whole career 18 years I was doing that. in the uh Winters oh so you do that in. the winter and then trash in the spring.

no it's just when it when it comes up. you go you know you do it but that was. the fun part driving the front end Lotus. yeah that was good times man oh that's. cool cuz you didn't have to get out that. much huh no and you were like you were. like saving people that's when people. loved you ah dud there were areas where. you couldn't get down like spreaders. would slide off the road yeah we would. have to go wrecker drag them off off of. cliffs like it was crazy Winters were. nuts and then they were like all right. get a machine up there and it was like. the hills are like this bro wow and you.

know I had this boss who always where's. where's. Owen they're like what do you mean that. they were all all last names on the job. they like where's Owen get him on the. horn let's go get him in here cuz he. knew I would just tell everybody stay. away CU everybody's out there shoveling. throwing the more Sal I mean uh snow. into the street making it more of a mess. yeah and they he knew like I'm going to. buckle up and here we go let's send the. Hitman in let's see what Happ done oh. hell yeah yeah hell yeah what's the what.

type of attitude does someone have to. have or what skill set does someone have. to have or who would best be a be able. to be a garbage man a sanitation worker. oh it all it's listen it's about the. community you know when it all comes. down to it you know I still took pride. in like especially those days with you. know knowing that my mother had to drive. my family people friends have to drive. on those roads during the winter yeah so. yeah there were guys that would hide you. know and not spread salt but like me I. was out there 12 hours spreading salt I.

had no problem with it so it's a it is a. sense of Pride that you know you work. for the city 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 like. you were like born for this job and I. didn't know how to take it like I was a. little taken back like like is it a good. thing that she's saying that or like am. I a piece of like I was just like. like I was thrown away like I'm really. thrown off like I'm just like hey thanks. yeah like I I had nothing to say and she.

was cool she was awesome but cuz we. had girls that did the job too really. yeah man wow and some of them I'd rather. work with some of them than some of the. other guys really yeah there were there. were you know women out there that were. you know Hustlers oh yeah you know and. then there were guys that you always. thought you would go to oh yeah you come. work with me you know go jacked up yeah. no he just doing that for the girls. really help me I can't lift this trying. to meet the women on on the on the yeah. they're going to the gym all day Pumping.

Iron but they can't lift you know a 100. PB couch they used to swing couches like. in one shot oh yeah dud you know that's. beautiful yeah I think it's like a In. some cultures a yeah that's like a. wedding ritual or something a man and a. woman throwing like I don't know what it. is was there a lot of intermingling on. the job or something you think there was. some yeah there was some out there I. never partake in that lot ladies trying. to put that dumpster on you huh well you. got two pensions you know there were a. few know body dumpster boy yeah they.

with on me there were definitely a few. and and listen you look at it like I. just said you know you get two pensions. both of these retire oh it's a it's a. good life you know let's go to Florida. and stay huh what um yeah did people did. yeah was there ever a couple that met on. the job and ended up yeah getting. married yeah wow retired one one wound. up being a boss I don't well his wife. might have became a boss but yeah you. know listen it happened love happens. everywhere yeah you're together a long.

time yeah out in the streets all day and. and some guys and girls hit it off what. are some other things people would. collect out there in the trash anybody. find anything really unique over the. years any bone structure or anything. like that listen you'd find all kinds of. stuff if you were looking like I said. like you didn't look though I didn't. have time for it like I said I was. running I want to get done I want to be. out of the Street I don't want to deal. with people like I said the people that. don't pay attention to you they drive. into you right it's just risky hot you. know crabby days but this's one time I'm.

with my buddy you know Louie and we're. picking up this apartment building and. we open the gates and there's I think. was six or seven Joker poker machines. and I'm like what the is this about. video poker yeah like in the bars you. know they have those you know used to. use our allowance in them yeah and so I. I worked at bars when I was younger and. I knew I'm like oh yeah the money. stashed underneath so we opened them up. there was nothing there but I'm like you. know what I remember one of the bar. owners having like a trap door because.

sometimes the dollars you know the $10. bills would just float in and there was. this little Tupperware in it and it. would float float and it fall Perfect. Right Down the slit so when I saw that. was still blocked off we dragged them. back to the garage we beat the living. piss out of these things with with. sledgehammers my boss walks in he's like. I'm not even gonna ask what's up right. dude got 360 a piece $720 uhuh they were. the finest 10 and uh $20 1980 bills oh.

yeah they would like right out the. machine oh that's beautiful so yeah that. was one of my better ones but listen you. find things here and there I always. found something that you know somebody. was throwing out and I didn't have to. dig like it was next to the curb um I. found a moped once in Manhattan oh yeah. on the side of the you know right on the. side of a basket um um the corner basket. there and it was probably from like a. Chinese restaurant like that it was like. locked in to turn left so who's going to. just keep driving in a circle kids must. have stole it and they realized ah we.

can't use this so they left it at the. corner basket right so I told my partner. I'm going to take this and as we're. putting it like I said there's a little. trap 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 with like damn Owen. you me all up now I'm going to get. locked off of this right we're. stealing a yeah stealing a moped. from somebody you know from some Chinese. kid over here yeah like we the guy. laying there holding bags and N so he's. like they they just pulled up they were. like yo is it run I'm like I don't know.

I'm going to see brought that home. broke the uh steering collar and wound. up getting it started and I used to use. it to go down to the bodega down the. block and grab beers and yeah so. that was a good find yeah that's a good. find yeah that's interesting man yeah. I'm trying to think I think I would. like I think I probably would like like. it when I was young I had to do the. trash at the house you know I didn't. mind. it you know just Home Sanitation or.

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 the real artist pull. up in the early morning you know we was. still asleep or something or probably. just getting up for school well kids. love it too like they come out they want. to work the handles which what Happ like. that was a fad for a while where like a. lot of moms would do the uh Tik Tok. videos that a kid meets the garbage man. were were you around for that yeah I had. a few like and I would get the kids. stuff like shirts and stuff I would. always give them back I would have kids.

that like stand um like at the glass. door the mother would hear us in the. neighborhood open the main door and then. there's like a sliding like a like a. screen doll with glass and the kids just. used to sit there and I loved it you. know you would get parents all the time. like oh of all people my daughter loves. you guys like little kids you know I. don't know kids are fascinated with it. and it's awesome but at the same time. it's like the parents they probably like. ah don't do that you know don't grow up. to be a garbage man yeah because they.

don't realize the money in it right you. know but now more people are going to. know it's a good business it sounds like. you have to have a you got to keep a. positive attitude though huh that's it. listen it the day goes by so much easier. if you just get through the work you. have a good partner good relationship. with your partner it's awesome listen. there's so many other shitti ofer jobs. like I would take that over any City job. in New York really yeah like you got the. fireman you know they're just wearing. t-shirts trying to get free stuff oh. yeah and they're let's be honest.

they're making chit they're just eating. Franks back in there exactly you know no. judgment I love these guys yeah no 100%. my brother-in-laws one's retired one's. still on I got a lot of friends that do. it I just bust their chops all the time. because they're always wearing a fire. department T-shirt I'm like dude you got. no other clothes in your oh they. definitely they yeah and then. you light a match and they're. over there beating up a birthday cake. just just a Flex yeah fireman's. here yeah yeah somebody's got but. meanwhile I laugh I'll talk about my. brother-in-laws quick my wife's Brothers.

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 house on fire. it's like bro what don't you put these. out why you starting this this big. like my and I got like a tin roof over. it Metals melting I'm like dude what's. the point of this yeah yeah your bird. feeder bro you looking your bird feeder. you got a grilled Sparrow in. there yeah it's like dude what are you. trying to prove are you trying to put. another fire out here do that on their. time not mine a lot of firemen are. closeted uh pyromaniacs pyromaniacs.

arsonists Barn burners whatever they're. called bro flame babies whatever they. call them bro crazy oh yeah a bunch of. kerosene mammals bro they don't. give a dude they'll drink. kerosene and then blow a. flamethrower they don't give a dude. them guys and the cops it's tough man I. feel bad for New York cops do you I got. a lot of friends you know listen there. there's bad apples all over this I don't. care what industry you're in people are. idiots the way they act the way they you. know treat people yeah but just I I it's.

just crazy how they treat New York cops. like when I was growing up you respected. the cops yeah that was it you on. the garbage man you respect the 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 the media's let a lot. of that happen you know I think you have. a lot of like the same types of uh folks. doing a lot of crime that don't have any. respect for police officers I think uh. you have a lot of kids raised with no.

families yeah no parents they don't have. any respect for anybody so and the. people that were supposed to be in their. you know Authority is they in fact hate. Authority because they never had any so. it's like the second they see a cop you. know yeah it's heartbreaking dude yeah. what a lot of those guys go through do. you have a relationship with police fire. the other the other like municipalities. is that what it's called course no. what's it yeah uh Civil Service the. Civil Service yeah of course you know. they always you know they always call up. they got to throw stuff out you know.

during the winters you know the police. department was always like you had to go. do the police department and that was. like even the ferry in stat Island you. had to go hit that with the plows and. everything get all that spread you know. salt spread it down you know I would. always go to the fire departments you. know so you take a you take a spreader. onto a ferry no it's like the ramps to. get on the ferry so like where all the. buses come in yeah you know that that. you have to hit all those ramps and I. mean it's non-stop it's like one truck. does that all day goes up and down the.

main road and then comes back and hits. all those Bays to make sure that all the. buses you know I had this bus you know. back into me once I'm like dude you. didn't see this big truck like I got. blinking lights everywhere yeah oh it's. my fifth day on the job I felt bad for. the kid probably got fired I did feel. bad for him but they drove right into. the plow I'm like oh man but yeah you. respected each other. you know and you know I got pulled over. a few times here and there you know for. stupid like tint in my windows and. stuff like that all right don't worry.

about it basic Asian crimes really I. call those yeah every time I get stopped. for that um what type of ethnicity is a. garbage man A lot of times we had black. and white men mostly is it every. ethnicity or is it is every so it's a. real Universal Job yeah we had the most. diverse in the city that's the most. diverse City Job. and it was dude it was fun man I had a. lot of fun yeah met a lot of cool people. huh a 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 man I think. there is something about the camaraderie. what was it like when you got back to. like the the the house or whatever you. you know was there a uh what was that. like was there a shop or something where. would you guys all get back to and hang. out was there like a bunk house yeah you. always had like a an area where you know. you would have couches you know which. there was like rules like oh don't sit. on it in your city uniform like nasty. but you know people always did did they. it's gross no people would go do the.

trash route and then come and yeah and. then come and lay down on the couch it's. like dude what what are you doing oh my. God bro that makes me sad and then you. listen you know even the bathrooms in. some of these places like I always. wanted I wanted to do like a study and. go to guys houses and see how they react. like how they are around their families. cuz I'm like if you do this here and you. don't clean up after yourself like you. know what do you do home yeah like does. your wife wipe your ass like what I.

don't get it oh you know the wife's. probably glad they're not at home oh. anybody ever have a wife that killed. them while they were on a job that you. knew anybody work nothing like that yeah. a lot of divorces they used to say it's. cheaper to keep them really that was the. going saying like but oh you get married. it's cheaper to keep them yeah guys. coming in with like paychecks for. $1.99 like cuz that's how many you.

know do you guys compete against other. uh Civil Service Groups like is there. like a volleyball squad or anything no. we used to do like a softball thing. within like on St Island there's uh. three garages we used to do that for a. few years but nothing like you know. other than that yeah what uh does your. son want to be at garbage man when he. grows up no believe it or not my my. oldest doesn't even remember me being a. garbage man I used to bring the truck I. used to bring that but he was young you. know and now in I think I want I want to.

say I left Staten Island six years ago. so he was four so he was still young you. know so you had 20 years of service man. you got it done you look so young I mean. you had 20 years of service you got in. and got out retired at 41 wow uh started. my own you know construction I do. bathrooms kitchens all that stuff oh. yeah and then my back went out oh so. I've been on the shelf for right now. getting back in the game are you on pain. pills or not no good I don't mess with. that Amen brother no I went on the. medical marijuana for a while just to. take gummies oh.

yeah okay you got a piss too yeah I'm. almost all right let's go we're all piss. then we'll come back up and finish up is. that cool yeah okay great whatever you. want to do yeah what does the uh. retirement look like what does a. retirement look like so you get yeah do. they give you like a. uh watch or a jacket is it like a big. thing you get a pench. you don't get nothing from them you get. the pension you get a pension pension uh. health benefits okay all all paid for. life for your family until you yeah.

until you until you're gone wow dude. that's incredible so there's a lot of. value there yeah everybody like passes. that over you know when guys are like oh. I got to stay on the job I got to do 25. because it's my pension is only this now. but they don't realize how expensive. insurances yeah you know at least two. grand for four people me my wife my kids. yeah so you know like you said it's it's. money yeah oh yeah that's a shoot that's. more people people pay as much to insure. themselves you know it's some people's.

more than their morgage than their rent. yeah um so you get that you're done what. do you do you're 41 years old you just. retired from a job pretty. incredible how what makes you decide to. go into uh like home construction and. stuff like that I grew up around it my. father owned the hardware store growing. up really yeah oh it's so cool so I had. every tool in the shed I had everything. you know and 5 six years old I was using. saws oh yeah cuz they didn't have no.

safety on it back then oh yeah. somebody breaks in your home you. skill song my mother would scream get. away from that cuz my father was at work. so I would just I made my I think I was. eight years old I was building a. treehouse yeah of course bro my wife's. like me and my my mother like what are. you doing I'm like I'm just building a. tree house yeah like this tree ain't. going to build itself. exactly kicked the step slit my head. open that was the end of The Treehouse. wow but yeah I I just love working like.

with Woodwork and you know all that. stuff um is your father still alive he. is oh wow still doing it great dude I. never you know but you know then he went. into different things you know he became. a court Runner as well he used to run. around for a law firm you know he did. that and then you know and he started. working with me that was about three. weeks couldn't take that no more so. he's still doing home improvements he's. he's actually doing a bathroom right now. oh amen I'm like dude you're crazy yeah.

but he likes to work though yeah he's. always is always you get enjoyment out. of it you know when I do kitchens and. bathrooms for people you feel it you. feel more you know just the the wow and. oh my God you could do this like I yeah. yeah yeah I think it's something that. that that that's missing from my job too. A lot of times is the Fe is that. physical feeling of completing something. you know that construction the building. yeah you know there's definitely.

something inside of us that wants to uh. to build or complete something um I. think for a lot of us anyway um yeah my. mother loves to work she just I'm always. like Mom can I help you out can I do. she's like you know I need to get a new. van so I can keep doing my deliveries. you know it's like hey what look you. want somebody to be happy you know you. want them to do what they want. um yeah people always there's always. that thing you don't want to end up. being a garbage man you know was that.

did that always did that ever make you. feel bad you didn't think anything about. it did did was there. any oh listen everybody you know would. say oh you're a garbage man this and. that and like I said always look down. but listen I I didn't give a yeah I. was making good money yeah you can do. whatever you want I don't give a. and your job sounds on honestly as CRA. it sounds fun dude dude it was awesome. dude I got I didn't even get into. craziness but it really was it's like.

you're on your own it's you or your. partner the garbage truck you just pick. up garbage they give you a route here's. the blocks it's a blast yeah and it's. all dude I used to clip on a a like a. speaker 600 in the morning you hear me. coming down the block that shit's. blasting dance music rap music yeah like. bumping picking garbage up having fun I. never I never like bothered me once. there are people on the job that hate it. really yeah like that you know oh I. don't tell people about this I like you.

know I I didn't it's not HPV dude yeah. I'm like J exactly somebody's got to do. it but yeah I I loved it we got into a. real quick story I but my buddies come. flying up a one way and now me and my. buddy Louie we're down like it's we're. pointing down the one way they come. flying up the wrong way I'm like what. the is going on here I said oh. maybe they're coming to help us cuz you. used to do that all the time on the job. you call out to friends Hey listen my. route's heavy today right like can you. come and grab this block yeah no problem.

you always help each other out D all a. sudden these two they jump out the truck. they start whipping us with eggs uh-uh. it was like around Halloween it might. have been Halloween right so they're. chucking eggs B B all over the truck I'm. running yeah like they're throwing eggs. at us and me and my buddy Lou actually. I'm throwing garbage and Louis goes. running by me I'm like where'd you go. and then egg stuff flying over my head. so now we fly up the block they back out. they they drive away right so now yeah. always have blocks that intertwine yeah.

so they go the main street we go to the. store get two dozen eggs we go all these. shortcuts cutting every light off we. block you know we just ran we waited for. them where we knew they were going to go. and now regular Earth is happening like. people out at the there's a food store. right there there's people walking the. streets everything dude we're hiding. cars and they pull up and get stuck at. the light dude we whipping oh yeah they. were covered head to toe they couldn't.

get out they were blocked in by cars. where we had the chance to run we had to. go back to my mother's house and wash. the inside of the cabs out oh that's how. bad it was like haggan now that's crazy. man but no oh that's fun yeah nobody's. even paying attention to you that's. fun dude oh that's cool and. could you listen to music in the fac in. the uh vehicle or there's no music in. there yeah no you would bring radio in. on your. own you would get like a radio or boom. box or something like. that but you listen to what you wanted.

to you know country music was my thing. you know later in my role yeah and when. I first started you know I was I used to. get yelled at in one area because the. music was too loud oh yeah yeah because. we would pump it listen you got to make. the best of your day oh I think so too. music helps everything for sure yep um. what's good and bad about the unions. like about unions what is that whole. setup like can you talk about it if you. don't feel comfortable that's okay yeah. I mean it's because you're in the Union. right well no because now the city pays.

me I'm not really in the union anymore. I'm done it's not like because I don't. understand unions fully so maybe do you. even have any explanation to me about. what union because you were part of a. union right yeah yes I was okay so how. does that even H for some jobs you have. to be in a union to have the job yeah. certain businesses run under Union. standards which means you have to pay. dues um and you know whatever it is. monthly you pay dues and and you stay in. good standard within the union now you.

know and then you get into like iron. workers and all that those unions are. totally different okay because those. unions are paying those guys pensions. okay to me when I worked for New York. yes we ran for a union like there's a. different Union for us the fire. department the police department. everybody has their own Union but once. I'm done I'm out of that Union and now. the city just sends my checks okay like. they I have nothing to do with the Union. anymore I don't go to meetings I don't. you know pick it line I don't do all. that nonsense no more did you guys ever. have to strike we couldn't we were.

signed under the tailor law okay so the. tailor law you can't strike if you know. you you could lose that's the one way. you could lose your job you couldn't it. it was crazy dude the job you could. never lose the. job I'm dead honest literally I knew. guys that killed people that worked on. the job they went to prison their. pensions is still waiting for them amen. when they come out but the thing is if. you were dirty if you came up on drugs. and Stu on an accident and somebody got.

hurt that's probably the 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 it's a it's expensive. yeah what type of injuries happen on a. job to guys a lot like I said I had uh. my my left knee miniscus surgery my. right Rotator my. left uh clavicle like I I busted up and. it's just from swinging bags yeah and.

then my back of course was just a matter. of time oh yeah you know once I stopped. running around the streets picking. garbage up and now I'm doing my side. well not my side but I was doing my. kitchens and bathrooms at my speed not. running four miles every day my back. just locked up on me so I had to go in. in the knife was it um was it hard to. adjust whenever you retired it yeah. retirement everybody oh I'm going to. retire it's not worth it that's why I'm. going to start working again back in the. back of the trash no no no no sanitation. no I'm I'm actually looking now just to.

get into something simple nothing crazy. you know I'm not one of those oh I need. a big high paying just something basic I. just want to stay busy yeah cuz it's. honestly dude it's not healthy when. you're sitting around yeah you're just. sitting around you know it's good for. two or three days and then you're like. oh yeah I'll give it like two weeks. yeah but then you're like now what and. yeah I your neighbors you're taking a. cat for a walk or something like what. the am I doing exactly you know.

yeah you're selling lemonade in. your driveway it's getting sad. nickel a piece yeah you're out there. selling. lemonade from 1 to 2 p.m. no my wife. thinks I'm crazy because I take my lawn. very seriously oh. yeah first thing guy who's retired does. my lawn's this I need more water. I need more this I need this oh you're. crazy but what else am I going to do. where did you meet your wife did you. have her before you had the job no oh no.

I was on the job I think five years wow. when I met my wife just a bar scene I I. would bring something up and 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 it okay I promise met her. there you know hello this that's about. it MH then I started seeing her around. the bars my buddy were you partying back. then or no I was partying oh yeah dud me. it was ugly oh bro I you find me. in a just a neighborhood.

house party do snorting stack or twos. and holding holding up a wall. but see that's that's the old like stat. n like I said we were in bosss 15 16. years old bro oh yeah so like it started. getting boring at 2122 yeah but she was. in college on Staten Island she went to. Wagner College and she was always in the. bars mhm. my buddy got rest his soul you know. didn't do so well with that partying end. and uh he was dating her friend so she.

was like oh you got to date Wayne you. got to date Wayne whatever you know we. finally 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 bu you know bullshitting. she would tell people she'd probably. still tell you today like oh he was. following me around I'm like you. probably were you're no but you you're. I'm 5 years older than you I've been in. these bars for 10 years longer than you. yeah don't tell me that these are my. boss right my ground I think when you're. tall people can always see you wherever.

you are I'm always above right so people. always like oh that guy's following me. like I'm not following you I'm just. over here yeah it's like that's. the shitty part about being tall right. that's a good point but now when did you. break when did you tell your wife that. you were working as a garbage sanitation. work did you have to sit her down and. tell her oh no she knew okay yeah she. pretty much. knew but she must have it sounds such. like a for somebody to be able to get up. that much go do that job I think there's. a ton of admiration in it probably you. probably have to start to admire like. this guy gets his job his work.

done well it's not easy in the sense. that like you say it's you have to it's. a commitment for 20 years or more I know. guys's 25 30 years um but it's more of. like you wake up and all you hear is. downpouring MH you still got to go so it. is and like I never wanted a pat on the. the back like screw that you know it was. just more of knowing like how your day. is going to go from the minute you wake. up hearing pouring rain or you know it's.

going to snow today all right well I'll. see you tonight at 8:00 at night and. you're leaving at 6:00 in the morning I. wouldn't get home 8 :00 at night wow so. there was and listen it was good money I. think her family knew like oh yeah I'm. dating this guy who works for sanitation. oh that's a great job it's a city job. like it's known right but. yeah you don't know that I mean that's. one of the things that I'm so happy to. learn is like you don't know that. there's uh you can make good money you. don't know that there's a pension in it. you don't know that you can have.

a good time you don't know that you get. over the smells you don't even notice it. anymore huh no wow don't even notice it. and I could pick it out anyway like. could you smell different types of trash. from certain amounts of feet away you. know what it is the maggots smell like I. was saying is the killer you know and. there are sometimes I I have a backyard. you know that we eat outside we throw. the garbage and I don't throw it out. right away it's like in a bag in a pale. dude maggots will start crawling out of. the pil maggots are gross huh hate a I. used to I used to be walking around.

there all my arms like they would they. would come out of the truck Splat on. your like nasty like blowing them off. your arm while you're on the back of the. truck it's part of the job was there. like a wave of trash water that would. come out on the. cycle like I'm see I'm talking something. Kelly Kelly Slater would flirt with you. know so this so this woman and I knew. her from the neighborhood I went to. school well I didn't go to school with. her daughter but I knew her daughter. from high school I used to hang out with.

her and her friends and she comes out. she's like oh Wayne I got can you I. can't lift the sofa and it was in the. driveway I'm like yeah I'll get it go. back inside. downpouring so we throw the sofa in and. we throw 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 to get. she's trying to help give us something. you know for taking this stuff couple. muffins or something it Cycles dude from. head to toe it was brown Water she. literally had maggots like on her face I. was like get in the house yeah and go.

take a shower she's like what is all. this I was with her eyes closed oh I'm. like just get in the house I. told you don't stand here you know. that's a devil's back wash I me you. don't want that it just happened because. we were uphill and and the rainy days. now you're lifting every pale that. doesn't have a lid water's going in and. just squashing around it's it's like. sewage oh it's. disgusting and all that water just is. there a catch from the truck or it all. goes goes on the street usually no well.

we used to have drain pipes but then. they slded like they uh welded them all. shut because like they didn't people. would complain that trash was like. coming out on the street so you had to. deal with it our thing was you wanted to. find a mattress at that point so you. would throw the mattress in squeeze it. and it would sop up all the water on the. bad days so there's some there's some. strategies to the game listen just. because we're golman we ain't stupid. yeah of course not yeah I never think. that those guys are dumb I don't know.

what I think I think it's just also the. the tough part about that job is if. you're just like someone who lives. somewhere you don't get to go so quick. you know it's tough to get time with. them you know like you don't you know. like cops stay around and you. know or whatever with you or. like in a neighborhood yeah when I was. growing up like some girl would you know. a cop would always be flirting with. somebody's some lady or something her. husband's missing or whatever and they. probably did it but they ain't telling. nobody and now they're over here. flirting and splitting you know.

cutting up donuts with a plastic knife. on the hood of the Cruiser you. know flirt with Miss Cheryl over here. who's always all dude this lady by us we. get all liquored up she'd be. drinking daquaries and she'd uh lay. she'd start her car she had this. like car that was like a hot rod or. something she'd start that in then. with these short shorts and and lay on. the hood of it dude say. like pervy out loud like don't you. miss me she'd say don't you miss me and. when I even know her like who.

the is this lady I'm eight. I'm eight but uh we sit out there and. watch her bro you know w l everybody has. their thing but yeah cops you get to you. end up talking with them you know you. know there's some there's some. communication but y'all's job it's kind. of just hit and run it's hit run and. even the guys I have now you know like I. give them a $100 tip during Christmas. mhm listen I did the job like I you know. I know it sucks the Rainy Days yeah. there's good days there's a lot more. good days than you know the rainy days. and and once you get wet you get wet.

you're done um but like I have people. now tell me what do you mean you tipped. them I'm like dude it it's they you. these guys who pick my stuff up that's. private they're not making what I was. making in the city you know and it's. it's a lot man there's still they're. doing you a service and they always say. everybody's always you know lying was oh. well I'm you know that's their job. they have to pick it up they got to take. it and I would tell people this ain't my. job you know I'm here to pick up your. household garbage I'm not here to take. all your demo from your construction job.

on your house and that was always where. the fine line of like arguing fighting. with people like I ain't going to fight. with you it's garbage like why are we. fighting over garbage right just get a. dumpster and I'm not picking this up. yeah case settled done you somebody. tried to go to blows with you or. something yeah a few times women or men. well the woman the it was a husband and. wife and they had bags of tile out and. the bags and get the out of here. with that she was just an this.

woman and literally the tile is sticking. out the bag oh so that's like razor. blades porcelain tile I don't know if. you ever been cut by porcelain it sucks. and she's like oh you're not going to. take this yeah it's your job I said. listen this I'm not taking the you. can throw it in oh fine I'll throw it in. yeah look big strong guy you know con uh. sanitation worker can't throw it in but. I could and she's rubbing it all up on. her belly and I'm like good look at. you you animal you know turns out she's.

a nurse oh yeah nursing a. biscuit all morning that bit out of. her mind bro sorry that's kind of mean. I'm getting mean no and she says you. know and it was up what she said. she was like you know you know what if. you ever come into my hospital and you. need help you know you uhuh I said. you know and now like I said I'm not a. blow my top it's garbage well I'm not. going to fight with you you want to. throw it in throw it in I don't give a. I said you know what you. yeah right to her face and I. closed the hopper and she still had 105.

bags left and I drove away I. told my partner to. drive my boss calls he's like what are. you doing I said let me guess the nurse. called he's like I don't know who the. nurse is but this woman called and you. know she's calling she got 311 on the. line this and that and I'm like dude. this is what she said to me so so I blew. my lid and told her to go herself. yeah he's like listen my boss calls he's. like just let her throw the rest of the. bags in 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 with I don't. want to fight on my other end so I go. back there now her Burly 6 eight. husband's there uhuh 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 man that's all fine and dandy. but you don't want to see what other. part there is yeah my old 60. seven-year-old partner jumps out the. truck gets right in his face starts. pushing him he's like dude you get the. back in the house we'll throw the. in get the out of my partner's.

face yeah I was like good for you yeah. good for you but you had that here and. there yeah people want to fight it's. garbage what are we fighting over. garbage for yeah so wild man it's. interesting I'm trying to think if. there's anything else I that I I don't. know or want to understand about the job. oh if you had boots on how do you keep. the water from getting in the bo trash. water like I said you had rain boots but. those were regular boots but just been. soaked since and you just put them like. on top of your locker hope they dve by. the next rainstorm cuz there if not wet.

boots suck but what are you going to do. this's one time this guy goes why you. running through the street it was. raining I said because I hate wet boots. I turn around I'm like I I think I said. something like I hate wet boots you know. what you know that feeling I turned. around I didn't realize he was in a. wheelchair uhuh I'm like this. probably can't even feel. his legs I'm like damn it butd he ain't. got to worry about wet boots either. exactly but that's the thing it's like. dodging you you tell people I'm dodging. raindrops yeah oh yeah but everything.

got. wet dodging raindrops that's a good term. um so your wife was good with it what. kind of line of work did she get into. she was in medical sales um medical. device sales so like when you have. surgeries and stuff she sold all like. the nuts and bolts and stuff for her. company but now she's doing it back back. again she had went to just into sales. for uh like smaller companies but now. she's back doing medical device nice you. know she's she's always been a hard.

worker yeah my wife I'll give her a. shout out Wendy she's always been a hard. worker you know our kids are awesome. Parker and Jackson with an ex Jackson. with an ex yeah like uh. Jackson who's the starting quarterback. for Old. Miss Jackson Dart is that one an X is. that JX o n JX o n yeah no we left the S. off oh wow yeah yeah dude Jack's on. you're like Elon Musk dude yeah wild and.

okay you got you a family D Parker. and Jackson yeah have you enjoyed being. a dad is it exciting love it yeah that's. the only that's like the shitty part. about now going back to work you know I. love having my boys in the morning my. Jackson my six-year-old's hysterical. dude oh really oh from 5:30 on bro he. does not stop we joke with the. 10-year-old he joke all the time with. like dude we there's got to be an off. button and it's d d da like do you see. this D asking me questions like while. I'm getting lunch ready for them and.

breakfast and it's just nonstop yeah but. I love it yeah I don't mind any part of. it. like I I do anything for them of course. because they're my kids but like that's. going to be the hardest part of me like. missing now the mornings and then. missing when they get home from school. yeah that's going to be you know if I. start getting home later that's going to. be the shitty part yeah. yeah it's a bummer a lot of people have. to deal with that you know I think it's. just it's it's unfortunate that that's. kind of how societ our society is you. know I wonder if we're supposed to be.

like that or what you know like human. beings are supposed to be like. um you know like you know you think. about the old days of like when people. probably lived around a campfire and. everybody was home but you were. living around a campfire too you know so. I think there was probably probably. interesting um. yeah what would you say to somebody. who's thinking like could I be a a. sanitation worker oh more power to you. yeah listen like I said it's a New York. thing if you live in the tri-state you.

know in New York not Tri-State if you. live in New York it's like a known thing. take all the tests it's the best thing I. know a buddy of mine his daughter came. on he waited long enough cuz his. daughter did so good on the test that. his daughter got on the job uhuh they. got to work together so they got to work. together it was a big thing by the the. city you know they went out and then he. retired like a week later ah you know so. like it listen you know when you know. what's coming of the job you know how. good it is but you don't want to tell. people yeah we always said don't tell.

nobody how good this job is and here you. are and and yeah there are all grueling. shitty Parts about it but the job was. great man yeah like I would never curse. the job in that aspect of it well the. fact that you had to win a lottery to. even get a chance to take the job is. freaking pretty unreal well now they. don't do that no more now they allow all. of them to take the test and take the. you know and see how the lists are mhm. um but there's 120,000 people taking the. test now that shows you how much people. want this and like somebody called me. they're like oh yo my nephew took the.

test I'm like all right how' he do oh. he's got a 93 I'm like oh what's his. list number 40,000 like he's done like. dude the job has to die six times over. yeah there's 6,000 guys on the job so. everyone has to go to work that day die. the next day 6,000 die like so he really. th I said if you got a 40 if you got. that kind of number on that test you. should look for a different. profession gosh yeah that's that's.

you're not it what was it like during Co. doing trash do you remember I just. retired oh you did so you got to miss. that the guys loved it they did they. loved it the money was crazy these guy. I'm telling you I know a guy moved to. Florida 90,000 a year 95,000 a year as R. pensioners uh-uh he's almost bringing. six figures and retired how do you get. your pension to be higher you they take. your out of five years they take your. best three years and average it so if. this dude was doing you know two two two.

you know now they add that in and and. the average is 100 Grand wow you know so. that's what you get half of it so you. get half of your base you know for three. years so this guy's got another buddy. you know 880,000 for the year that's. what he's going to get every year plus. the benefits and all that he'll get. 80,000 a year how long does a pension. last. until you die uhuh but you could we. gotta get it but take the test you got. to get a New York address though yeah.

and I wouldn't do that but uh I pay. those taxes too F they crush you that's. crazy bro but uh but yeah it's that's. part of it though you you build up your. pension to you know get to a point where. you'll leave a lot of guys don't leave. like I said earlier like they don't make. it to it you know so but you could also. sign off like I could have given my wife. like a percentage of my pension for the. rest of her life but it just see how she. does yeah well you know early for that.

Wy I'm not going to count her. exactly Wendy's good yeah Wendy would be. fun now what if you die like doing like. in the line of service or whatever does. your wife like get a flag or anything do. they like do they is there like a um. yeah what's that like they really don't. I mean granted it's a sad thing do a. whole memorial thing like they well like. line the streets with sanitation workers. when they're bringing a casket like any. F or yeah um but it it's nothing like I.

told you they get I think two years of. service so two years of pay so if they. get 120,000 that's it you don't get. their retirement no cuz you're gone. yeah so if that's not in line and then. you die like if you're working it's not. the way it R wow yeah I know a guy you. know unbelievable he they forced him to. the clinic we had this clinic at work. where you would go and these quack. doctors would tell you you feel better.

then they're like you know it's like. they got the the Jedi oh yeah oh. you feel good go back to work if you. were hurt M and they forced this guy to. work and he dropped dead on the. stand on ferry going to the going to the. clinic I felt awful for his wife and he. was such a good dude why and who has. those crack doctors the city because. they want you back onity want you back. on the job so the I think the city what. they do is they they look for guys that. lost their private practices like as. doctors and they they hire them for.

pennies on the dollar so they hire those. people then yeah and they're quack. doctors wow they suck yeah D I had my. finger um I was picking up one night and. now you you know you're running through. the streets because it snowed so now. you're finally picking garbage up and. not a lot of people put garbage out. after the snow it's like they become. like Hermits and just stay in their. house so they don't have garbage to. throw out I grab a sewing machine I. throw it in the truck and it still had a. needle so it fish hooked my thumb so my.

whole thumb like flapped over this way. blood pourn down my arm so I go have. stitches I literally still had the. stitches in my finger and they're like. oh you could go back to work wow so you. have to kind of threaten them like all. right cool put your name here cuz when I. get gang Green from work oh you could do. desk work in the garage I'm like dude. it's the dirtiest place on Earth a. garage and a sanitation you know garage. it's gross you know so the desk and just. filthy nobody cleans. them so until you threaten them with.

like oh I'll get a lawyer you know I'll. sue your ass all right take another few. days off yeah like it's just that's. crazy you have to threaten to. sue doctors who are just trying to get. you back out there you can't even take. care of yourself but then you have the. other side of the coin where guys will. sit out for try to sit out for. seven years because they got to bet you. know they got to H Flex or whatever I. had a guy he had like his cut that he. would go outside the building and scrape. it against the building outside and just. go back in again another three days. still bleeding doc okay take another.

three days damn it's like dude but then. it sucks because there's guys that are. up yeah you know like they. threatened my job once when I really. hurt my back I had my shoulder done and. they were like oh you we're going to. force you off the job cuz I was on light. duty and for like 18 months wow and. it's like you're going to force me off. the job like I'm in 16 like what they. didn't give a you're a number that's it. could people any handicap people do your. job is can people in a wheelchair be a. garbage man or no not a wheelchair per. se but I think there was some.

handicapped on the job. yeah yeah the way they well a lot of. autism people do the job too I wouldn't. doubt it you listen autism it's nothing. to you know laugh about joke about my. both my kids are on the Spectrum oh yeah. we're on it but they're awesome you know. I was probably on it yeah like you said. they didn't test for that back in. in the day no dude we were just on. it well that's what they were like when. we grew up they were like oh he's either. shy oh he's shy or oh he's crazy.

like you were either one or the other it. was they never said like oh yeah he's. going to be an astronaut like you know. like he's real smart no he's shy sits in. the corner the other kids hopping off. the. walls and that's what it. was yeah you yeah you you just hope that. you had something in the middle probably. said God gave you one of each balance. all your adhd's Elemental PS all that. oh now you got a kid yeah. you don't even know dude you know it's.

unreal these days the letters. they come up with it's just it's it's. almost like the other group oh yeah it. just like come on man how many more. letters are you going to you know it's. just everybody get everything dude I. agree like you got a guy who's. DHD re e b you know r s p e c t. I'm like what you're a just say. you're a gay Beyonce fan you know what. I'm saying. like what is just everything's.

crazy now man dude nuts man yeah look at. this this this is the term now. lgbtqq I p2s A A up down up down select. start select start so you're a contra. fan. yeah no it's crazy you got a bat flying. around around in here oh yeah bro that's. free bats dude from the city that's our. pension bro also it's getting close to. Halloween yeah so they're flying around. so we let them they got what was it like. what were some of the holidays like that.

what was the holid was there a holiday. or was there a day of the year when you. got the most. trash after any holidays so like because. you would skip the pickups I so like. Christmas if we were off they would pick. up the next night okay and we used to. have to go in 12 to 8 to go pick it up. and honestly they would steal garbage. like I my first year on the job I never. realized that guys stole garbage wow so. because on those days you just had to. load the truck as fast as you wanted to. as you can and then you were done for. the night okay so dudes would literally.

it was like smoke coming out of the. tires take off out of the garage go. throw hustle get as much garbage as you. can and then just to be done you load. all you know top off your truck you're. done for the day and you stealing. garbage then you pull up like now I. don't know anything I pull up to the and. it's all gone I'm like oh some nice. person took all my garbage yeah but then. they're like oh yeah now you have to go. do more house to- house stuff because. they took all your big heavy sausage. bags so now you got to literally look. for garbage oh it's like hide-and seek.

for garbage and wow but it was just. get as much as you could fill your truck. up you're done yeah and that was during. the holidays right I did Y2K that was a. disaster yeah what was Y2K like for a. garbage player I had three months on the. job they loaded us they were like oh. everybody go to this um this garage. Manhattan 7 on the west side so I'm like. all right cool near Time Square oh we'll. be out there for Time Square it's going. to be awesome I was so happy I signed up. and then I'm looking at my watch I'm. like yep I'm just get hanging out here. with you guys Happy New Year cuz they.

didn't send us out there till like. almost 1:30 cuz they didn't know if the. world was going to end well not even. that they just let the you know. everybody like leave now Time Square. then we come in and clean up oh yeah and. by the time we got out there dude that. was the first time I thought like wow. people really do like us like chicks. wanted pictures with us like with brooms. like people taking pictures with chicks. drunk and they're banging on the. Windows of the big bus that we come in. like oh yeah sanitation here me I'm like. what the man I thought I was going.

to be in Time Square Bull Drop sick n. now I'm coming in cleaning up piss. bottles and on the floor oh yeah. but that was a fun day yeah you. know uh Sandy when that storm hit. Hurricane Sandy oh that was a nasty one. that was another you know that we were. going down there and helping people now. their whole lawns their whole front. their houses were covered The Lawns they. were bringing everything out right. couches you know clothes I I felt bad. for these living room the whole living. room on the curve W everything so we.

would do our regular routes and then run. over there and help the people and like. handpick the garbage up so 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 there's piles of. garbage we need the big machines like so. he's like all right listen they agreed. to it so I convoyed seven uh front Lotus. down there dude the first block I turn. on I I I almost cried like that's how. you feel for people like piles of. man their stuff their whole house is on.

the lawn yeah and we're just. coming in to throw it away oh so. you're a service but even the service. you're providing is kind of painful bad. yeah it was shitty and uh but you get. Knuckleheads in New York like oh yeah. the St storm surge was coming and. they're like oh let's go see the waves. yeah cool dude they were 100,000 cars. littered all over the street with the. windows down that's how you knew they. got caught because there's a this thing. in cars now when it gets water damage. the windows go down automatically so.

somebody can't get caught in like a like. water or something like that oh yeah. make everything easy on people keys were. in them everything like the the key fobs. so this guy I knew he said they have a. chain on the front and loader I'm like. yeah so I had to hook trains up to like. brand new Audi's Mercedes and drag. them to clear the streets boats in the. middle of the road I it was like playing. with Tonka bro it was awesome but I did. feel bad in the sense of right you still. got to do all that but still it was like. it almost yeah it must have felt like. another Universe yeah I'm like w I'm.

dragging $100,000 cars around by a chain. hook them up to the tires the wheels are. screeching what about during 911 what. was that like that sucked that was. shitty. um I didn't lose anybody but it was. crazy because my sisters sorry. my sisters all worked in the city MH and. we couldn't get in touch with them oh so. I had just gotten home from work and I. just worked 12:00 to 8 and my buddy. calls me and he's like dude this.

idiot just you know flew into the Trade. Center I'm like what are you talking. about like I just got out of the shower. like I'm just going I want to go to bed. I'm working 12 to AIDS it's crazy you. know so next thing you know another one. comes my father calls me never heard the. guy cry in his life he and my buddy at. the time had a boat he's like get that. boat and put it in the. water he wanted to go get his daughters. and it was up the towns were. crazy they were going after like.

all these Indian guys and all it was. crazy it was nuts wow and I was supposed. to go down there with a front and to. with a big machine and somebody you. could say stole it one of my buddies. jumped in the truck and took the. truck and uh he actually when he got. back he goes dude I helped you out he. goes that was the most awful. thing I've ever seen in my life cuz we. went right away and there was still. bodies laying around like parts and and. you know a lot of those guys wound up. with issues man you know with all kinds.

of breathing issues and all kinds of. so was shitty in New York at that. point yeah cuz you guys have to did you. guys have to do some of the cleanup or. no we did some of it we did Hands-On. stuff like they didn't bring any. machines into a long time because they. were still looking for people yeah but. and we ran out of the landfill they put. these big tents up domes and they were. bringing material from there and dude. they were finding like a tooth yeah and. like claiming people cuz there was so. many people missing and I knew a few.

people like from the bar scene and. family friends that you know passed away. and it sucks it's just. shitty yeah and there was never really. any retribution I felt like in a weird. way also by America you know not that. there needs to be I'm not saying that. but it was always like they never EXA ly. pinpoint you know it's almost like they. never even gave a solace in that sense. no yeah it's you know it was like a lot. of people thought like that Saudi Arabia. was respon but there was you know they.

kind of loosely blamed it on kind of. Ben uh no. noin you get them all mixed up now it's. like who's next I know it's so shitty. you know but they Loosely kind of blamed. it on him and when and maybe he did do. it they just didn't tell it you know. it's like man that was so weird. to leave America kind of hanging out to. dry like that too in a weird way like. well who the did this you not tell. you telling me you don't know you know. somebody's got to know something you. know that night 22 people that were. involved in it who the did it and.

there's so many crazy things like new. coming out like all this uh with. all these documents with it you know and. and I really even when it comes on I. can't even watch the anymore cuz I. was there like saw the dust like from St. Island you know saw you know saw all the. dust and the uh smoke and stuff but it's. crazy now they're just come they just. keep digging up stuff now they have new. views of where the the planes went in. like people coming up with these new. camera angles um these Trade Center.

buildings like nothing hit them seven. like the smaller ones how did it. collapse and now you're hearing this old. conspiracy theory that uh the like it. was worth oh I forgot who was the guy. who owned it like owed so much money or. something and it was all being put. through at that location also in. Washington DC where they hit the plane. there too there's so many theories out. there man and it's just shitty because. you did that you could have dropped the. planes at night right told everybody yo. fire let everybody run if that was the.

deal why why'd you kill people and but. that's people because now that's. everybody's focus is on that yeah it's. not so much that why did these buildings. just collapse out of nowhere oh did so. and so own like owe money on it and this. was his way out yeah you don't have mean. some people that's so dirty you know and. you some guy yeah who you could give a. guy a couple hundred dollars he'll fly a. plane in a something some dudes you know. I know a crop duster that'll you.

know that'll zero in on your. ex-wife's apartment dude yeah for. probably. six for. sure um Wayne I think we probably. learned everything that we can man it's. really. interesting um I wonder if it would be. really different in different parts of. America you think the job or do you. think it would probably be the same. across the board no I think it's. definitely different because it's on a a. private you know end where those guys. are making I work for a private I think. I was making $100 a day like just but I.

was I got it down to two three hours so. whatever I was making $3 something. dollars an hour I didn't care but those. guys don't make the money like New York. there's certain I think uh like just. around me like Newark or Elizabeth like. where they're heavy unions they'll be. unionized but once bring the privates in. if they're picking up your GL uh your. garbage probably here and like in near. my house they don't make that kind of. money yeah so it is it's a different. animal and they don't even use guys like.

I said they use the arm that lifts the. whole thing up dumps it in the truck. near my house yeah so it's definitely. different all over the country it's. changing man so even automation is. killing that industry huh yeah wow but. you have places like New York like I. said you can't right you can't SP right. you're always going to need somebody. yeah there's just not enough space to. get you know to the garbage do you guys. have beef with any of the other like. civil groups like is any like do cops.

firemen is there any real beef. out in the streets or it's kind of like. I personally never had an issue yeah. like I said I said my piece about the. fireman I'll probably get from my. friends for that one it's funny dude but. hey look bro you got they know it's true. yeah they know it's true same bro same. look it's a lot of calendar. models out there bro it's a lot of dudes. eating hot dogs all day and then. shooting up o Zing you know so I. wanted to do it I wanted to do it once.

that uh I wanted to do a calendar of. like the big guys on my job yeah there. some big guys man are really. like eating D but why could wouldn't it. be hard to beat a garbage man. big oh man dude well I just told you. you're sitting around eating all day. there's always cake there's office guys. big dudes yeah I mean four 5 600. lb and some of them still wiggle down. the block oh there's not so much yeah. all you know they all find that spot.

like oh I'm going to go work with this. guy or I'm gonna go work with that guy. like in an office or something yeah and. that's why it's like yeah you could say. that's what gave us like gives us bad. name of like oh yeah they're all just. fat ugly guys yeah and it's like no you. know there's a lot of guys on my job. that you don't really take care of. themselves they're lunatics with like. health stuff oh yeah that's popular. these. days well look man I'm grateful for your. time man I feel like I learned a lot. about the job before I forget what about.

uh drugs did people ever find any drugs. you. think no we always used to look in the. couches and stuff yeah cuz you never. know you hear stories of like bundles of. Co kilos and laying around I yeah. I've hidden drugs in couches and never. gotten it back yeah no I wouldn't doubt. it if they're out there yeah but no we. never. that we used to say like oh yeah thanks. for the tip because change would always. come out oh yeah like nickels and dimes. and quarters and yeah but people. have lost like they Dro oh so and so and.

that's another part of like I said with. the tyvec suits so if you drop something. real quick if you drop something in the. garbage wedding rings uh money anything. expensive you drop in the garbage you. call the garage hey I dropped on so and. so block I drop something in the garbage. they'll call the truck out hey stop work. stop picking garbage up. but you have to dig through it nuh-uh. uhhuh you do or I do the owner the. caller you want you want your ring back. no problem at at 10 at 5:00 tonight.

they're going to bring that truck to a. location on the landfill in an open area. they're going to dump it all on the. floor and have fun looking have you. gotten to watch somebody look for. something before I've seen like down. below cuz when we drop we drop into a. pit when we dump in that island and like. there was one family doing it you know I. don't know if they ever found it family. with a bunch of husb. wife I said family mean like h both. and you checking your kid out of. school to help you find need all the.

hands and eyes I could get yeah dude. that's unreal but no I I knew a woman. she dropped 700 bucks she was going to. the bank and she put the garbage out the. the thing was in her hand and it fell in. the p and they and she got it back wow. she found it they should play music and. do a live feed on that I would bet. people would pay to watch that bro and. speed it up to. the yeah listen they do it they let. people do. it um Wayne I really appreciate it dude. thank you so much for your time brother.

oh thanks for having me yeah it's. awesome yeah it's been really really. cool and 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. there and get out with a pension and and. then go on the rest of your life yeah. you know definitely well worth it yeah. you heard it here first guys thank you. so much Wayne have a good one brother. you too thank you Theo yeah man now I'm. just floating on the breeze and I feel.

I'm falling like these leaves I must be. Corner. Stone oh but when I reach that ground. I'll share this piece of my life found I. can feel it in my. bones but it's going to hey.