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October 1, 2024 12 mins

Due to a hoarding neighbor, intern Ava now has to evacuate her cockroach infested NYC apartment!

 

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast?
Fine Elvis fifteen minute morning show? Here it is the
fifteen minute morning show podcast. Never is fifteen minutes. But
what a great title. Huh. We're going a full house.
There's Danielle, there's Scottie B. There's Straight and eight, and

(00:26):
there's Gandhi and they're scary and our guest intern Ava,
Hi Eva, welcome Blue, Hello Lo show. So Ava. You
know we love our interns. Ava. Are you having a
fun internship here for the show so far?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I'm having the best internship I've ever had.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Look, I'm kind of stuck in here. They don't let
me leave. What is it you do do? I mean,
in the course of a day as an intern? Ava,
what do you do for the show?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
So?

Speaker 2 (00:50):
I work for the social media department, So I post
the horoscopes on the threads and on the Instagram stories,
and I re post funny videos of you guys from
what you say on the radio, and I put it
on TikTok and Instagram and Twitter.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
X okay, all right, oh you put us on x
Yes questions for Interneva.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
Followup question in turn, Ava, what other internships have you had?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
None got you, I like it goes it goes downhill
from here.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, I'm hoping you're enjoying your experience here. It seems
like a nice place to work. That's why I've been
here for almost thirty years. So there's and they still
pay me in turn wages. So hey, so I overheard
you and Andrew talking about your living situation or what
was Is it okay if we talk about this everyone

(01:53):
on the sixth floor of an apartment building here in
New York City? Is that correct?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yep?

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Okay, tell everyone the story. Let's see if this is
worthy of conversation here.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
So I've lived in this apartment building for three years
and six ' four walk up. It's not great, but
I'm young.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Whatever, live your truth. And I was.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Living in Berlin for a semester abroad for six eight months.
Last semester, come home, had some girls subletting, realized, oh wow,
there are there are a few roaches in the apartment.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
It's New York City. It's fine, I'll bomb it all exterminated.
I'll get the traps and stuff. I look at the traps.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
There was like hundreds, hundreds like it, and I was like, oh,
oh no, this is this is bad.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
This is really bad.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
My roommate is a six' ford man and he's running
around screaming.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
I'm like crying. It was horrific.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
And so I go to my mom's house, obviously, because
mommy fixes everything.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
And I was like, save me, help me, love me,
take care of me.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
And she told me to go back and get an exterminator.
Go back and another exterminator. It's all sort of okay,
it's getting better. The traps are getting less full, going, okay,
this is better. My my roommate opens up the window
to like get some fresh air, as one does.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
It's nighttime. We look at the side of the building.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Keep in mind six to four the entire wall is
covered in roaches.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
The outside, the outside of the wall.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
And it was that moment I know, well, so where
are they going? They're all coming to your apartment or elsewhere.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
They're coming into my apartment because.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
My next door neighbor, Brian. Brian, if you're listening, fix yourself,
please what happened? He is a hoarder. Not only is
he a hoarder, he's a squatter. So the building can't
even kick him out because he's not even on the lig.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Legally so obviously he moved in.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Legally, he took over the lead for his dead aunt,
and so now.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
She's still in the building.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Like, yeah, when you say dead an, is it like aunts.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Sister and on?

Speaker 2 (04:14):
On? Okay, okay, gotcha, but yes, so they can't kick
him out.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
I'm I'm I'm.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Watching roaches crawl from his bedroom window or his bathroom window,
onto the side of the building and into my kitchen.
And it was in that real life I realized I
can never fix this. It doesn't matter how, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
I can't. I can't. And what is the building?

Speaker 5 (04:37):
I mean the building should have to fix that for you?
I mean you shouldn't have to little like that.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Well, so I called the owner of the building and
I said, sir, and then I heard his voice and
he was from Long Island.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
So I was like, let's talk about it.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
I put on the I'm not kidding the thickest New
York accent I could to see if he would like
trust me better. I don't know, I'm from New York.
It's it's fine. So I call him and we you
have a chat, and I'm like, I'm not paying Ren
for September. This is psychotic I've already spent four hundred
dollars on extermination fees that I shouldn't be paying for.

(05:09):
Then I'm like, and I needed to find me a
new house.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
So he did.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
He found me a new apartment in the same building,
which is great. So we just have to move all
our stuff down six flights of stairs.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
But wait, but wait, we still have Brian. Now is
Brian a hoarding squatter or a squatting hoarder?

Speaker 3 (05:24):
So this is the eternal question. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
I'd assume a squatting hoarder, right, because so he lives
there a squatting hoarder either way. He's actually not a
bad guy, Like he's a nice man when you talk
to but he's just has problems.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
I mean it's it's a he's sick. He just needs help.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
And like this situation, you can't you can't. I can't
get him out. I've written him so many letters. I've
talked to him, said, he's just a fifty year old man.
I've been like, dude, come on, I'm just a little girl.
Can you please, can you please not make me do it?
I'm really scary, Like it's scary, like you feel like
and then the psychological stuff of living with roaches, like, oh,

(06:06):
you feel like they're crawling all the time. We are.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
You can't do it right now? All right, Well, let's
get some questions for Interneva. Yes, Gandhi you start.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
Well, mine's more of a statement. So we had a
producer in Miami at our station y one hundred who
actually had to have a roach extracted from her ear.
So all the things you think could be happening with
a roach are probably happening. Get out, get out of there. Yeah,
damn you, Brian.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Oh my god, yes, go ahead.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
D wait when you move your stuff like, you better
make sure there's no like roaches attached to that. Just remember,
those hitchhikers will attract other hitchhikers and then you'll be
back at square one, and you do not want that.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
I've already bombed my apartment with everything in it, and
I've thrown away I'm like burning things.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Sometimes sometimes it's good for a life where youset and
this forced you to do that. Yeah, I know, But
even though you're in this same building, is it that
large of a building that you're far enough away from
this problem? And what's this guy gonna do? Not that
you should care about what's his owner going to do
with this unit? That's these two units. They're all messed up.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
So me and the owner are best sees now.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
And I told him, if I see that he rents
that apartment, I'm going in there and I'm telling them
because it's not cool, like that's you can't do that
ethically number one. And he's aware that I'm ready to
raise arms, so he's not gonna rent the unit, which
is good until Brian is out. They've already started some
kind of lawsuit against him.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
And I don't want him out on the street. I
just don't. I just want him to let.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
People into his apartment so that they can exterminate it.
He won't let anybody in because he thinks they're going
to kick him out, which fair enough they probably would.
So I'm like, work out some kind of deal with
Brian where you're not you say, I won't kick you out,
but just let me clean up your home.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
What's it like for him in there?

Speaker 5 (07:52):
If that's leaking, Oh my gosh, he's probably he's probably
not even doesn't even phase him, probably, I know.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
And the building is really big too, because we have
it's like the whole streets. So it's like Thompson and
Sullivan and it's like the whole block. So like there's
this there's a back half of the building and a
front half of the building.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
I'm in the back half. I'm moving to the front half.
Get out of there.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, yeah, I'm getting on the other side.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
I love I love New York City apartment stories because
I mean, you know, I used to live on Thompson
Street as well, and God that that place. Luckily it
didn't cave in. But you know, but it's not just
the village. I mean, it's all over the city, over
the it's just rats and it's people that you have
to deal with, and you know, and we're all stacked
up on top of each other. There's no root and

(08:36):
spread out. You have to go up right, Well, what's
up there, Nate?

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Question entomology? Question Okay, Now that's that's the study of bugs. Yes,
I know, how big are these?

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Are?

Speaker 1 (08:47):
These? The regular cockroaches? Are these?

Speaker 2 (08:51):
So we have American cockroaches, I'm very which are the
palmetto bugs? The ones that are the big ones that
live outside. They don't want to be inside. Those roaches.
You see one of those in your house, you're golden.
They don't want to be there. They're a straggler. I
have the German cockroaches. The little cockroaches infest and they're disgusting, Like,

(09:13):
you know, Sorry.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
How do I get that checked? Okay?

Speaker 4 (09:22):
She said she heard like a rattling, Like I've been
living at my mom's anyways, I.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Can't do that.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
You want to your mom's living room and you hear
something rattling or what was that? And your mom says,
I didn't say anything in my head? What's up? Scary?

Speaker 6 (09:36):
So I just want to know, have you done some
research about this man, Brian who's living in your house? Like,
and if if so, can you go around and maybe
talk to the people around him and his family, because
somebody's got to.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Get to this guy.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
So I have I've spoken to this. I com buddies
with all my neighbors. Right.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
We have we have Natasha who lives next door, who's
like a corporate lawyer and she's like such a battie.
And then we have Santiago who lives a floor under me,
who's eighty years old and has even save as apartment
and every like every time he goes grocery shopping brings
me in my roommate, little chocolates and stuff from.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Like they're so sweet. Like it's a good building.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Right, it's a good community. Brian and I have talked
several times. I've talked more to private investigators who are
knocking on his door trying to get a hold of him,
and then they're telling me that he's being like sued
for something or like this man has a lot of
trouble following him.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Sounds like his life is caving in on him.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, and he again, he's really not like he's a
nice man. Like you talk to him, you never feel
like you don't get out, you know.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
But it seems like you're like the Selena Gomez of
your building.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
You're like.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Only cockroaches in the building. Whole new show. Well, so
you're living in the comfort of in of course, security
of your mom place. But I mean, don't you miss
living in the city, in your own place.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Oh, don't worry, I'm in Tribeca.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
I'm not that far.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Away the country.

Speaker 5 (11:11):
If Hoarding Buried Alive called him, called Brian, would he
do the show? Because it sounds like he would be
a good candidate for that show.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Then they would clean up life.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
They would help him and they get him into a
program and everything.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Well, my mom's boyfriend sent me the the uh the
worst roommate ever thing about the squatter guy who would
like take over women's apartments, and then.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Just it was terrific.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
I mean I and he oddly, I mean he's not
he's no longer alive, so it can't be Brian.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
But he looks just like Brian. It's so weird.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
They kind of real like profile charming, like silver fox,
not like unattractive, like he never looks like dirty or
anything like.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
He looks very like Yeah, you're describing straight Nate. I'll
tell you what he's looking for, a good deal in
an apartment. You can move this we have with these
movement with these women and just squawk.

Speaker 6 (12:07):
It sounds like you're actually slightly attracted to Brian doesn't.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Actually I'm sending his right to like have a life,
but I just joined his life.

Speaker 5 (12:20):
To be next to my scary Scary thinks he's a
silver Fox and watch people attracted to him, Like she
breathes around me, she thinks I'm hard favorably.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
I would be crushing this guy right now.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
You scared.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
That's scared for she knows he's got something going on.
It's not he's doing it on purpose. I'm scary.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
It's called being concerned for another human being. You should
think about that sometimes. Anyway, We love you, Eva. It's
interna here and I can't wait to hear what stories
are going to come out.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Thanks guys.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
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