April 22, 2025 • 28 mins
Erin talks with Joe about how he got started with Myers Container and how they serve the community.
Myers Container Service Corp. is the area's most reliable in garbage removal and recycling services. We are a locally owned company with 12 years of industry experience.
Every week here on the Trash Talking and Giving Back Podcast, hosts Erin Cofiell-Barker and Joe Sinagra highlight local heroes and organizations that are doing great work in our community.
Myers Container Service Corp. is the area's most reliable in garbage removal and recycling services. We are a locally owned company with 12 years of industry experience.
Every week here on the Trash Talking and Giving Back Podcast, hosts Erin Cofiell-Barker and Joe Sinagra highlight local heroes and organizations that are doing great work in our community.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hey, everyone, it's Aaron Kolefield. Welcome to the Trash Talking
and Giving Back Podcast. I'm excited to be here with
Joe Snagra of Myers Container, launching the first in a
series of podcasts to talk about the ways in which
this family owned and operated business lives and cares about
the community that they live in. Each week, we'll be
featuring people and organizations that give back to the community,
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and we'll talk about how all of us can make
an impact in making Vermont a state that we can
really just be proud of. Before we get any further, though,
I've got introduced you to my co host, Joe Snagra.
He's the operations manager at Myers Containers. He'll be joining
me each week while we talk about different ways that
Myers is giving back and engage with some of the
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community leaders about it as well. Joe, introduce yourself. Tell
me about you and how did you land at Myers.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
So?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
How many years has it been now?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah? Absolutely so going on year fifteen here with the company.
You know, Myers Container was started in nineteen ninety four.
Jeff Myers started as a construction company and got frustrated
by the lack of rolloff containers, so those great big
dumpsters to see on job sites that he couldn't find
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enough of them or get him when he needed, so
he purchased a few of them just for his own use,
and that grew into using them for other job sites
for friends and other businesses, and then the company grew
a little by little, and then you know, in twenty
twelve or twenty ten, Jeff called and asked me to
come on board to help with a little bit of
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everything from helping sort of shepherd the company into the
new world of sustainability and recycling of construction material and
outreach to the community. So that's how I came aboard
to the company. And you know, going on year fifteen,
now you know, we're one of the largest trash companies
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and recycling companies in the area, and we have always been.
Jeff has always made it a priority to get back
to the community. So a lot of what we want
to talk about here, as you mentioned, is the stuff
that we do as a company, and you know, it's
trash and it's trash talking, so we can't take ourself
too serious. So I'm sure we'll have a little fund
along the way as well.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Fair fair, well, so let's start off with something a
little silly. Then you mentioned you've been there for the
fifteen years and you've done a little bit of everything.
What's like the coolest thing you've done? And then what's
maybe the like, right, it's trash, so I'm sure some
of it's not been that great. What's like the one
where you like cringe when you went home and were like, man,
I did that for Jeff, but I don't want to
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have to do that one again.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, just about a year and a half ago, we
got a call from a woman in hysteric tears and
wanted to know where recycling goes after she after we
pick it up, and we talked about, uh, where it
went when we pick it up on your curb and
you know, goes into our truck and then it goes
to recycling center and ultimately you know it goes on. Well,
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after we had a chancefer to calm down, she threw
away a brand new engagement by acting, of course, and
she was terrified to tell her future husband and also
very discouraged about exactly how what she was going to do.
You know this thousands of dollars piece of jewelry. Well,
the we find out that the recycled material was still
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on the truck, so it made it a little bit easier.
So we brought the truck back to the shop here
in Colchester and literally dumped the material on the ground.
Now you're talking about three hundred households worth of recycling.
It was recycling, so it's not trash. But you know,
if you think about that, you know you're talking maybe
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eight seven to ten tons tons of material. Now the
drive our drivers are really good because you know, they
pick up the same houses every week. So he had
an idea of roughly where this individual's material was, so
he knew it was kind of in the middle, and
we sort of threw it and we we found the
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needle in the haystack or the diamond in the haystack.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Wow, wait, did you get invited to the wedding?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
No? I did not. I wanted to, you know, I'm
a justice of the piece, so I asked could I
perform the wedding? But she passed on that.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I mean, you know, do we know if the wedding
actually do we know if the wedding actually happened?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I haven't heard of it happened, but maybe she'll watch
and she'll she'll send us a message.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yes, let us know. We need to see we need
to see some photo exactly this podcast, right, this is
a new venture for you guys. Why do you guys
want to do something like this?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, So, you know, Jeff is your quintessential Vermona. You know,
he has always helped out his neighbors, be it you know,
helping the sweat firewood or shoving the neighbor's car out.
You know, we all have that, all of us Vermonors
by birth or Vermonors by choice. I know, Aaron, you
are like me, a vermon Or by choice. But we
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still have that, you know, deep down gratitude for where
we live. So Jeff has given back so much the
community and the company has that. You know, we wanted to,
you know, part of my job for the company is
to help people understand all the things Jeff has done
between Boys and Girls clubs and Cancer Society and Slim
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Diabetes Tournament, out little Fenway things like that. So Jeff
has always made it a priority to give back as
much as he can. So we want to kind of
showcase some of them.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, and this is, as we mentioned, the first in
a series of podcasts So our kind of goal here
as co hosts is every week to have a different
person from one of these charities or community events join
us so that we can really talk about what they do.
And then of course, you know, tie it into the
way that Jeff and Myers containers like to support it.
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But it's you know, it's I feel like, it's just
great to see community leaders that care. Right, It's not
he's a businessman like great, but he really just cares
about the community he grew up in and lives in
and that we now live in and raise our families in.
And I feel like that's really important these days.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, and we want to show also not just the
straight charitable things we do, but you know, we operate
Vermont's only seeing the recycling center in the state. And
one of the things we do at the recycling center
is we're turning we're all product into usable things. So
we're turning you know, shingles into road base into asphalt
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that's being used in Burlington on golf courses, and we're
turning sheet rock into quickie dry and fertilizers. So giving back.
That's another way, you know, the environmental impact that trash
has on the state, country, and the world. You know,
we wanted to see how can we help alleviate some
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of that. You know, so prior to this podcast will
be where we're going to show some of how that
is done and how the product is actually cycled, you
know from when you know an individual throws that shingle.
You know, a lot of us have our roofs done.
You know, I had my roof done recently. You know,
where does those shingles go? And a lot of times
it would just go to Coventry, you know, an hour
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and a half from Burlington. It's a long way. The
fossil fuels we're burning in our trucks, the manpower that
is take. Well, if we can keep those shingles out
of the landfill and then start instead using them for
road based or golf courses, everyone wins from the environment
to the individual. So you know, won't show some of
that stuff, and we can't it's trash. So we can't
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take th stuff too serious. So we'll have some fun too. Well.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I love it well and I think it's really interesting
because forever you're just told like you need a recycle,
it's good for the environment, Just do it, Just do
it and I think being able to show people like, no,
those shingles that were on the roof, you know that
got taken off. They now are I feel like you
told me. It's like they're like the cart path at
a local golf course. And so I think sometimes showing
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people like what actually happened is so helpful. Right. It
reminds me of like my son when you're just like,
instead of being like, don't ride your bike into the road,
it's like, because that car is going to hit you. Right,
It's like bringing it like full circle for people to
really help them understand and maybe take a little bit
more ownership in the importance of recycling.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Exactly exactly, and then all the stuff that goes into that.
You know, we're a family business. You know, Jeff is
here every day. His two sons are working in the
business every day. So a lot of the employees who've
been here, they've been here long. Some of them been
here longer than I had, you know, twenty years. So
you know, I want a chance for us to go
and talk to some of these workers. You know, it's
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easy for me to sit in here. You know today
it's warm, it's hot in my office here, so I'm
wearing short sleeves. You know, it's easy for me. You know,
our guys are out on the street where it's not
that warm today, picking up trash. You know, they're starting
their day. I'm still in bed. You're probably up because
you have a little ones, but they're starting there at
(09:32):
five am. You know, I'm I'm still, you know, warm
in my bed at five.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I wish I think last night I was warm in
my three year olds. I am. He's been into that habit.
I know your kids are, your kids are grown, so
you're you're past that part.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah. I mean, you know, fifteen years ago when my
kids were little, when I started here, I had black hair.
Now you know I don't, and you know now you know,
take this weekend for example, my my oldest son gave
me tickets to a baseball game as Christmas. So he
lives in Connecticut. So I go down and pick him
up and we go and we're going to spend a
night in New York City. And before the game, he said, oh,
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let's go have a beer. Now he's twenty two, so
he's legal, So you know, we go out to the
bar and you know, he's twenty two and he can
drink like a twenty two year old, and I'm forty
eight and I can't drink like a twenty two year old,
even though I think I can. So we made it
to the game. But you know, your challenge is of
how you felt this morning, Aaron, after a night with
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your three year old probably was similar how I felt
like a night after my twenty two year old, but
probably a little for a little different reasons.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
And then you had to sit in the car and
drive home.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, exactly exactly, so you know, and that's okay. And
I dropped him off on the way home, and you know,
as you probably remember when you're twenty two, you know,
he was no, you know, way to do.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
You know, your dry thing, and maybe you ought to
come and see your mom and Vermont and just drive
me the whole way because I can't hang with you, my.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Goodness, exactly exactly. You know. It's somebody once said, you know,
my my wife asked my father. You know, I'm one
of four and she asked my father, so, what was
the hardest time you raise four kids? What's the hardest age?
And he says, the hardest age is the age you're in.
That's true, true, Yeah, there's just different. There's times I
wanted to you know, I didn't want a three year old.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
There was time, So I feel you on that. But
more importantly, you failed to mention that I'm assuming this
was a Mets game.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
It was a Mets game.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Yeah, just so just so everyone knows other Joe is
a big Mets guy. Did they win this weekend?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
They did? Actually it was the Toronto Series. It was
Saturday night, was drizzly and forty four, so it was
it was a cool evening in Queens. But yes, I
know you're a big sports fan too, Aaron. You know
they were dragging a little bit, but they came back
and tied it in the ninth and had a walk off,
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So it was kind of a great night all the
way around. And yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So but next year, tell them to get you a
ticket for a game in like June or July instead
of early April. Absolutely, absolutely, Lat's we kind of skipped
through the basics, right, We kind of just assumed, Oh,
Myers containers, everyone's heard of them. I'm sure everyone has
seen the Red cans before. But for someone who's maybe
not really familiar with Myers containers and everything, you guys
(12:31):
do kind of what's that what's the elevator pitch? How
do you describe myers containers?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, so we're a full trash and recycling business. So
you know, forty of our business is residential trash pickup,
so the toates that you see on the side or
the parts that you see on the side of the road.
You know, we pick up trash and recycling at residents.
Basically Franklin Chitting and lam Oil and the Three Kingdom
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account these pick up weekly trash for you know, upwards
of ten thousand customers. You know, forty percent of our
business is construction so or commercial establishment, restaurant, dumpstairs, the
big roll offs, things of that sort. And then as
I mentioned, you know, we operate a cend center construction
debris here in Colchester by Costco and that's where anyone,
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not just contractors, they bring in their construction material, we
sort it and more importantly, we keep that product out
of the landfill. So you're talking, you know, thousands of
tons of waste that normally will go to the landfill.
We're repurposing. So the company has grown over the years,
but that's kind of the big part of our how
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the company is broken down for our different segments.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Okay, and remind me when how long has Meyer's been around?
When did it start?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah, so Jeff started in nineteen ninety four, really predominantly
in the Chicken Can Franklin County area. The business grown
over the years, and then in two thousand and fifteen
is when we opened the recycling center and that's when
the business kind of moved in that direction. But you know,
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we're picking up. You know, you see our red dumpsters
all over the area. You see our big trucks every place.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
So yeah, yeah, where where did the red come from?
Do you know why?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Why?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Red?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah? You know, Jeff was always a fan of red.
His father owned an oil company in Lenuski forty years ago,
and his father always had one color, and Jeff always
liked red. And you know, there's another trash company that
already had blue in Vermont, so we had to steer
away from that. But that's okay. So yeah, it was
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just red and it kind of kind of works out.
And you know, our email addresses are the Red Can family,
and family is a big part of what we do here.
You know, we I keep saying we don't take ourselves
curious we can't. It's trash. We have fun. We all
have a good time. So at the end of the day,
it's a lot like a family, and you know, they're
spighting nickering, which I'm sure we'll get into later, but
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that's what our family's all about.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I like it. I like it well in the family thing. Right,
let's go on out a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
The Redcan family and vermontors are very into like local
and people helping people and doing the right thing and
doing the good thing, and working at a place, you know,
where you're comfortable and everyone kind of gets along. Like
what is it like for employees at Myers?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, I think a lot of the testament is how
long the employees everyone has stayed here. You know, we
have a small administrative staff, so there's only six or
eight of us here that work on the administrative side,
and everyone here has been here a long time. And
as I mentioned before, you know, we have drivers who've
been here for twenty plus years. And it's a lot
like a family. Jeff treats it like that, and he
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acknowledges when it's a cold, long winter, you know, to
do little things to help our drivers make it easier
and really to incorporate our family, be it you know,
doing a family day at the Late Monsters where all
of our drivers can invite their families to nights where
you know, he will give a gift card to a
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driver to have a night out at a restaurant with
their their husband or their wife. So things like that,
typical family stuff and it's nice and because you know,
we all live in the community, we see each other
while we're out and about and and it just makes
it you know, it's a job, but it's a fun job.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
So yes, which is always a good thing. Out of
all of the different charities, community events, things that you
guys are involved in, what is your go to or
is there one that's just like, oh, that one's mine,
Like we're Jeff could maybe try to say it doesn't
do it one year, but I'm fighting for this one.
Or is there you know, any event or thing that
(16:55):
is you're just like that's your thing.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, you know, we've sponsored from from day one, the
Slim Diabetes with a ball tournament out of a little fenway,
you know, and we also do a lot of work
for the Cancer Society, you know, and I think today
age you know, we've all everyone has been touched in
one way or another by cancer. So you know, the cancer,
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uh side of things is important. It's one that I
always volunteer to help out at. But you know, Jeff
has brought me into things like the Ronald McDonald House.
Jeff has been a big donor and a big supporter
of Ronald McDonald for a long time. Uh So now
I've gotten more involved and it's a great charity. Jeff's
son Ken, who works here. Last year took some time
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off and it was he was cooking at Rond mcconald
house for a few weeks, which which was wonderful.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Do they still have the dog they do? Oh? They
do for I can't think of the name, but it's
a Portuguese water dog.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I want to say yes, yes, And you know, one
of these you know that we'll have Chris Bickford, who's
the executive director on one of these weeks and I'm
sure she'll do it from our office and and she'll uh,
I'm sure he has like that like Eddie or it's
like a it's like a human name.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Well it is like I know, I tell you I
have a friend, Yeah, I have a friend who has
a cat named Hannah.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yeah. Yeah, like I recently moved, so I'm meeting all
my neighbors and I can't remember anything, and the only
thing I can remember is their dog's name. So you know,
now I'm calling everybody, like my next door neighbor Rosie.
It's not his name, that's his dog's name, but it's Rosie,
which it's a human name. But also I can't remember
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his name.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
So do you have a pet or no?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I do? I do, so I inherited a cat named Daisy.
It's another human name. So we did. We did have
a dog, like like everyone you know, when you we
My wife and I swore off pets because you know, hey,
I'm enough, I'm dirty enough for my life and having
a patent kids, it's but anyway, you do it for
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your kids, like I'm sure the stuff you do for
your kids. So we got a dog, and like you
see you all online. You know, I was the one
who know against the dog, and I'm the one who
has a dog in bed with me and every.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Oh yeah, so you know you are the meme. You're
the dad meme of the animals.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I really am. So yeah, and now we just have Daisy.
Who's your typical cat. So uh, but yeah, like anyone
after twenty years with kids, you know, you you have
the cat and the dog and everything in between, and
you I.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, so we have a dog. We have a mini
Laboratdy doll named Bogie. But when I was like first
out of college, I had gotten a Yorki because I
was like, I could have a dog, and I worked
in TV and had a crazy schedule and I couldn't
do it, and my little sister had gone off to college.
My parents were empty nesting and so I lived in
Louisiana at the time. But I was like, hey, Mom
and Dad, I'm gonna send this dog home to you.
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And then they took her over and loved her so much.
But my dad did exactly what you just said. He
was like, no, we don't want your dog, blah blah blah.
And then he was like he would like put pepperoni
on her back where she like couldn't get to it,
and was just like obsessed with like baby talk to
her like who's Daddy's best friend, and I'm like, don't
tell me you don't want my dog exactly. He less
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to say, when we got Bogie, there was a lot
of that's your dog. You're not giving your dog to
us this time, and.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
We've is that how it's got its name?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yes, yep, yeah. My husband's a big golfer, so it
was gonna be if it was a girl, we were
gonna go with Putter, and then if it was a boy,
it was Bogie. So a lot of times some of
the older neighbors think it's maybe because of like Humphrey Bogart,
but most people realize it's like a bogey like in golf,
and then they make the joke of like, oh, so
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I was getting him a mistake because we got him
and then like a year later had a kid and
then another kid. But he's our oldest. Sometimes he's the
biggest pain out of the three of them, but he
comes and he snuggles and he's lovable. So he's thankfully
not here right now. My father in law is kind
of obsessed with him, so he came and took him
to go running errands with him for the day. But
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I'm sure he will make an appearance, probably like laying
on the couch one of these weeks.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
So I recently, So I recently moved and where I
used to live in Massachusetts, I lived on a golf
course and I wasn't much of a golfer, but I
decided I should learn. So I recently moved just the
last couple of months, and I had a young man,
a college student friend of my daughter's, helped me clean out,
and so he was helping me throw step away and
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we came across my golf clubs and he said, oh,
my God'si's are so old, which I pointed out they're
not that old, and he said where did he get them?
And I said, well, when Kmart was going out of business,
I bought him. And he looked at me and said,
what's Kmar? And then it really made me feel bad
that he called my golf clubs old. But he never
heard of Kmar.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
He never even heard of it him at Kmart though
they were really old.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, I told him it's a poor man's target. So
he's like, oh okay, And I'm like Walmart.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Before Walmart, I set myself up for the summer. My
husband hit forty, so he got a new set of irons.
I thought that was inappropriate, like you're in your forties gift.
But then ten days later my son turned three, so
we got him a nice little like big kids set
of golf clubs. So now this summer they can go bond. Well,
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mom and mom and Ellie the sixteen month old just
kind of chill and now they'll be out of the house,
so have fun. Sorry, hey, you don't get to golf
by yourself anymore. Take Jack.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
See this will be great because I got a boy
and a girl too, so you know, and we were
the prototypical, you know, a hockey player and a competitive dancer,
so you know, I'll you know, we'll fill you in
on all the competitive dancer for your for your sixteen
month old.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
That works. That works, Like at this point, I feel
like she's going to be a cheerleader because she does
a lot of yelling.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I had a good friend who was a freelance photographer,
a videographer, and he worked on Dance Moms the show
for years, so he would give me all the dirt
about everything that went in with that.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah, the dirt that didn't make the cut because I
feel like there was a lot of it on there. Yeah,
all right, bringing us back to Myers before we wrap
it up here, what is there? What's something about Myers
maybe that you think the general public doesn't really know,
but you wish that they did. I know I'm putting
you on the spot here. I didn't warn you of that.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Uh yeah, you know, it's a great question. I think
it's the things that I didn't understand before I came
to work here. You know I didn't. I can remember
before working for Myers that I got home and my
wife said, our trash wasn't picked up? Can you call
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them to see why the trash wasn't picked up? And
I didn't know who my trash haller was, so I
had to go out and look at they can. So
my point is you only think about trash when there's
a problem with trash, when it doesn't get picked up
or for whatever reason the can gets hit or whatever
it is. So how much really goes into picking up
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the trash and from when you take that frozen pizza
eye of the wrapper and you put it in your
recycled container and you forget about it, and you really
forget about who picks it up and where it goes.
So the process from all the different people who are
involved in recycling that cardboard box, from you know, the
guy on the truck who's literally picking up the container
(24:35):
to dumping into the truck and everything that goes into
the truck from the mechanics and they office people onto
when that truck is dumped on you know, we call
it dumping it on the floor, and it's sorted and
then it's packaged again and then it's recycled. You know,
there's so much that goes into it, and it's such
a I don't think I didn't understand it. It's such
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a dangerous job as well, you know, because a lot
of we're picking trash up often before a lot of
people are awake in the morning, and then we're picking
up trash when people are starting their days, so the
kids are going to schools. And these are not you know,
my little Ford Focus that I'm driving down Dorsty Street.
These are big trucks. And how on somebody has to
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be you know, you know talking about you know, your
little child because your three year old was in bed
with you. I'm a little hungover from going out with
my son. Well, it's fine for us screwing around on
a podcast, but what's not fun hard is when they're
on a truck at five am and they're tired and
stuff like, and how a work they have to be. So,
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you know, what want people to take away is how
hard it is to do what these guys do. I
certainly can't, you know. As you get into we'll talk
about some of the times where I had to go
on on a truck and some of the things why
they don't like me going on a truck.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I love it well, and I think it's a really
good reminder because a lot of time and stuff like
that is just kind of out of sight, out of
mind for people. They just expect their josh to get
picked up, and if it doesn't, they just want to
know why, and they're just mad about it and don't
realize there's likely a trickle down snowball effect. It's not
just them personally like, oh, we're mad at you so
we didn't come. And I often have the three year
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old staring out the window watching the garbage truck, and
it's I love it when the driver sees him and
like waves or something, because while I know it makes
Jack say, I like to think that I realized that
being a garbage truck driver is not the most glamorous
of jobs. But I like to think that it maybe
makes them feel a little good to see, you know,
little smiles and knowing that they're making little little kids happy.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
It is and that's why a lot of our drivers
volunteer to bring a truck to childcare centers and the
Boys and Girls Club does a fun afternoon event, so
they bring the trucks and where they donate their time
to do it because they do understand how exciting is
and how many birthday parties we participated in with trucks,
which you know we'll talk about.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, that would be amazing, especially now that trash Truck
is like a show on Netflix exactly and we're we
are the owners of one of those. I gotta think
about where it is. I think it's injection, but we've
gotten the little Meyers little mini red container before.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Well, I have a few thousand here if you need.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
If I need some more perfect I'm sure there's lots
of touch of trucks in the future. And so you
know that's kind of to to wrap this up. That's
kind of the point of this podcast, right. It's it's
great to have this forum in this area where we
can more candidly talk about what's going on, talk about
what goes into running a business like this, talk about
the people working there and talking about the things that
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you can do for the community and the ways that
you give back. But we'll also like find some ways
to talk a little trash, whether we're making fun of
people's animal names or you know, I'm gonna try to
I gotta figure out if this girl got married.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
I'll go. But don't worry. I you know, we'll have
a lot of fun and I have a lot of opinion.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
All right, Well, you have your opinions and then I'll
help you funnel them down if we need to keep
them in a certain lane one way. All right, Joe,
thank you so much for being my co host. I'm
looking forward to having a ton of fun with you
as we continue to trash talk and give back with
Meyers Containers
Hey, everyone, it's Aaron Kolefield. Welcome to the Trash Talking
and Giving Back Podcast. I'm excited to be here with
Joe Snagra of Myers Container, launching the first in a
series of podcasts to talk about the ways in which
this family owned and operated business lives and cares about
the community that they live in. Each week, we'll be
featuring people and organizations that give back to the community,
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and we'll talk about how all of us can make
an impact in making Vermont a state that we can
really just be proud of. Before we get any further, though,
I've got introduced you to my co host, Joe Snagra.
He's the operations manager at Myers Containers. He'll be joining
me each week while we talk about different ways that
Myers is giving back and engage with some of the
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community leaders about it as well. Joe, introduce yourself. Tell
me about you and how did you land at Myers.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
So?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
How many years has it been now?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah? Absolutely so going on year fifteen here with the company.
You know, Myers Container was started in nineteen ninety four.
Jeff Myers started as a construction company and got frustrated
by the lack of rolloff containers, so those great big
dumpsters to see on job sites that he couldn't find
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enough of them or get him when he needed, so
he purchased a few of them just for his own use,
and that grew into using them for other job sites
for friends and other businesses, and then the company grew
a little by little, and then you know, in twenty
twelve or twenty ten, Jeff called and asked me to
come on board to help with a little bit of
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everything from helping sort of shepherd the company into the
new world of sustainability and recycling of construction material and
outreach to the community. So that's how I came aboard
to the company. And you know, going on year fifteen,
now you know, we're one of the largest trash companies
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and recycling companies in the area, and we have always been.
Jeff has always made it a priority to get back
to the community. So a lot of what we want
to talk about here, as you mentioned, is the stuff
that we do as a company, and you know, it's
trash and it's trash talking, so we can't take ourself
too serious. So I'm sure we'll have a little fund
along the way as well.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Fair fair, well, so let's start off with something a
little silly. Then you mentioned you've been there for the
fifteen years and you've done a little bit of everything.
What's like the coolest thing you've done? And then what's
maybe the like, right, it's trash, so I'm sure some
of it's not been that great. What's like the one
where you like cringe when you went home and were like, man,
I did that for Jeff, but I don't want to
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have to do that one again.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, just about a year and a half ago, we
got a call from a woman in hysteric tears and
wanted to know where recycling goes after she after we
pick it up, and we talked about, uh, where it
went when we pick it up on your curb and
you know, goes into our truck and then it goes
to recycling center and ultimately you know it goes on. Well,
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after we had a chancefer to calm down, she threw
away a brand new engagement by acting, of course, and
she was terrified to tell her future husband and also
very discouraged about exactly how what she was going to do.
You know this thousands of dollars piece of jewelry. Well,
the we find out that the recycled material was still
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on the truck, so it made it a little bit easier.
So we brought the truck back to the shop here
in Colchester and literally dumped the material on the ground.
Now you're talking about three hundred households worth of recycling.
It was recycling, so it's not trash. But you know,
if you think about that, you know you're talking maybe
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eight seven to ten tons tons of material. Now the
drive our drivers are really good because you know, they
pick up the same houses every week. So he had
an idea of roughly where this individual's material was, so
he knew it was kind of in the middle, and
we sort of threw it and we we found the
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needle in the haystack or the diamond in the haystack.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Wow, wait, did you get invited to the wedding?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
No? I did not. I wanted to, you know, I'm
a justice of the piece, so I asked could I
perform the wedding? But she passed on that.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I mean, you know, do we know if the wedding
actually do we know if the wedding actually happened?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I haven't heard of it happened, but maybe she'll watch
and she'll she'll send us a message.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yes, let us know. We need to see we need
to see some photo exactly this podcast, right, this is
a new venture for you guys. Why do you guys
want to do something like this?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, So, you know, Jeff is your quintessential Vermona. You know,
he has always helped out his neighbors, be it you know,
helping the sweat firewood or shoving the neighbor's car out.
You know, we all have that, all of us Vermonors
by birth or Vermonors by choice. I know, Aaron, you
are like me, a vermon Or by choice. But we
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still have that, you know, deep down gratitude for where
we live. So Jeff has given back so much the
community and the company has that. You know, we wanted to,
you know, part of my job for the company is
to help people understand all the things Jeff has done
between Boys and Girls clubs and Cancer Society and Slim
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Diabetes Tournament, out little Fenway things like that. So Jeff
has always made it a priority to give back as
much as he can. So we want to kind of
showcase some of them.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, and this is, as we mentioned, the first in
a series of podcasts So our kind of goal here
as co hosts is every week to have a different
person from one of these charities or community events join
us so that we can really talk about what they do.
And then of course, you know, tie it into the
way that Jeff and Myers containers like to support it.
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But it's you know, it's I feel like, it's just
great to see community leaders that care. Right, It's not
he's a businessman like great, but he really just cares
about the community he grew up in and lives in
and that we now live in and raise our families in.
And I feel like that's really important these days.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, and we want to show also not just the
straight charitable things we do, but you know, we operate
Vermont's only seeing the recycling center in the state. And
one of the things we do at the recycling center
is we're turning we're all product into usable things. So
we're turning you know, shingles into road base into asphalt
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that's being used in Burlington on golf courses, and we're
turning sheet rock into quickie dry and fertilizers. So giving back.
That's another way, you know, the environmental impact that trash
has on the state, country, and the world. You know,
we wanted to see how can we help alleviate some
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of that. You know, so prior to this podcast will
be where we're going to show some of how that
is done and how the product is actually cycled, you
know from when you know an individual throws that shingle.
You know, a lot of us have our roofs done.
You know, I had my roof done recently. You know,
where does those shingles go? And a lot of times
it would just go to Coventry, you know, an hour
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and a half from Burlington. It's a long way. The
fossil fuels we're burning in our trucks, the manpower that
is take. Well, if we can keep those shingles out
of the landfill and then start instead using them for
road based or golf courses, everyone wins from the environment
to the individual. So you know, won't show some of
that stuff, and we can't it's trash. So we can't
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take th stuff too serious. So we'll have some fun too. Well.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I love it well and I think it's really interesting
because forever you're just told like you need a recycle,
it's good for the environment, Just do it, Just do
it and I think being able to show people like, no,
those shingles that were on the roof, you know that
got taken off. They now are I feel like you
told me. It's like they're like the cart path at
a local golf course. And so I think sometimes showing
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people like what actually happened is so helpful. Right. It
reminds me of like my son when you're just like,
instead of being like, don't ride your bike into the road,
it's like, because that car is going to hit you. Right,
It's like bringing it like full circle for people to
really help them understand and maybe take a little bit
more ownership in the importance of recycling.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Exactly exactly, and then all the stuff that goes into that.
You know, we're a family business. You know, Jeff is
here every day. His two sons are working in the
business every day. So a lot of the employees who've
been here, they've been here long. Some of them been
here longer than I had, you know, twenty years. So
you know, I want a chance for us to go
and talk to some of these workers. You know, it's
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easy for me to sit in here. You know today
it's warm, it's hot in my office here, so I'm
wearing short sleeves. You know, it's easy for me. You know,
our guys are out on the street where it's not
that warm today, picking up trash. You know, they're starting
their day. I'm still in bed. You're probably up because
you have a little ones, but they're starting there at
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five am. You know, I'm I'm still, you know, warm
in my bed at five.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I wish I think last night I was warm in
my three year olds. I am. He's been into that habit.
I know your kids are, your kids are grown, so
you're you're past that part.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah. I mean, you know, fifteen years ago when my
kids were little, when I started here, I had black hair.
Now you know I don't, and you know now you know,
take this weekend for example, my my oldest son gave
me tickets to a baseball game as Christmas. So he
lives in Connecticut. So I go down and pick him
up and we go and we're going to spend a
night in New York City. And before the game, he said, oh,
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let's go have a beer. Now he's twenty two, so
he's legal, So you know, we go out to the
bar and you know, he's twenty two and he can
drink like a twenty two year old, and I'm forty
eight and I can't drink like a twenty two year old,
even though I think I can. So we made it
to the game. But you know, your challenge is of
how you felt this morning, Aaron, after a night with
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your three year old probably was similar how I felt
like a night after my twenty two year old, but
probably a little for a little different reasons.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
And then you had to sit in the car and
drive home.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, exactly exactly, so you know, and that's okay. And
I dropped him off on the way home, and you know,
as you probably remember when you're twenty two, you know,
he was no, you know, way to do.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
You know, your dry thing, and maybe you ought to
come and see your mom and Vermont and just drive
me the whole way because I can't hang with you, my.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Goodness, exactly exactly. You know. It's somebody once said, you know,
my my wife asked my father. You know, I'm one
of four and she asked my father, so, what was
the hardest time you raise four kids? What's the hardest age?
And he says, the hardest age is the age you're in.
That's true, true, Yeah, there's just different. There's times I
wanted to you know, I didn't want a three year old.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
There was time, So I feel you on that. But
more importantly, you failed to mention that I'm assuming this
was a Mets game.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
It was a Mets game.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Yeah, just so just so everyone knows other Joe is
a big Mets guy. Did they win this weekend?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
They did? Actually it was the Toronto Series. It was
Saturday night, was drizzly and forty four, so it was
it was a cool evening in Queens. But yes, I
know you're a big sports fan too, Aaron. You know
they were dragging a little bit, but they came back
and tied it in the ninth and had a walk off,
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So it was kind of a great night all the
way around. And yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So but next year, tell them to get you a
ticket for a game in like June or July instead
of early April. Absolutely, absolutely, Lat's we kind of skipped
through the basics, right, We kind of just assumed, Oh,
Myers containers, everyone's heard of them. I'm sure everyone has
seen the Red cans before. But for someone who's maybe
not really familiar with Myers containers and everything, you guys
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do kind of what's that what's the elevator pitch? How
do you describe myers containers?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, so we're a full trash and recycling business. So
you know, forty of our business is residential trash pickup,
so the toates that you see on the side or
the parts that you see on the side of the road.
You know, we pick up trash and recycling at residents.
Basically Franklin Chitting and lam Oil and the Three Kingdom
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account these pick up weekly trash for you know, upwards
of ten thousand customers. You know, forty percent of our
business is construction so or commercial establishment, restaurant, dumpstairs, the
big roll offs, things of that sort. And then as
I mentioned, you know, we operate a cend center construction
debris here in Colchester by Costco and that's where anyone,
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not just contractors, they bring in their construction material, we
sort it and more importantly, we keep that product out
of the landfill. So you're talking, you know, thousands of
tons of waste that normally will go to the landfill.
We're repurposing. So the company has grown over the years,
but that's kind of the big part of our how
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the company is broken down for our different segments.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Okay, and remind me when how long has Meyer's been around?
When did it start?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah, so Jeff started in nineteen ninety four, really predominantly
in the Chicken Can Franklin County area. The business grown
over the years, and then in two thousand and fifteen
is when we opened the recycling center and that's when
the business kind of moved in that direction. But you know,
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we're picking up. You know, you see our red dumpsters
all over the area. You see our big trucks every place.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
So yeah, yeah, where where did the red come from?
Do you know why?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Why?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Red?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah? You know, Jeff was always a fan of red.
His father owned an oil company in Lenuski forty years ago,
and his father always had one color, and Jeff always
liked red. And you know, there's another trash company that
already had blue in Vermont, so we had to steer
away from that. But that's okay. So yeah, it was
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just red and it kind of kind of works out.
And you know, our email addresses are the Red Can family,
and family is a big part of what we do here.
You know, we I keep saying we don't take ourselves
curious we can't. It's trash. We have fun. We all
have a good time. So at the end of the day,
it's a lot like a family, and you know, they're
spighting nickering, which I'm sure we'll get into later, but
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that's what our family's all about.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I like it. I like it well in the family thing. Right,
let's go on out a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
The Redcan family and vermontors are very into like local
and people helping people and doing the right thing and
doing the good thing, and working at a place, you know,
where you're comfortable and everyone kind of gets along. Like
what is it like for employees at Myers?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, I think a lot of the testament is how
long the employees everyone has stayed here. You know, we
have a small administrative staff, so there's only six or
eight of us here that work on the administrative side,
and everyone here has been here a long time. And
as I mentioned before, you know, we have drivers who've
been here for twenty plus years. And it's a lot
like a family. Jeff treats it like that, and he
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acknowledges when it's a cold, long winter, you know, to
do little things to help our drivers make it easier
and really to incorporate our family, be it you know,
doing a family day at the Late Monsters where all
of our drivers can invite their families to nights where
you know, he will give a gift card to a
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driver to have a night out at a restaurant with
their their husband or their wife. So things like that,
typical family stuff and it's nice and because you know,
we all live in the community, we see each other
while we're out and about and and it just makes
it you know, it's a job, but it's a fun job.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
So yes, which is always a good thing. Out of
all of the different charities, community events, things that you
guys are involved in, what is your go to or
is there one that's just like, oh, that one's mine,
Like we're Jeff could maybe try to say it doesn't
do it one year, but I'm fighting for this one.
Or is there you know, any event or thing that
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is you're just like that's your thing.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, you know, we've sponsored from from day one, the
Slim Diabetes with a ball tournament out of a little fenway,
you know, and we also do a lot of work
for the Cancer Society, you know, and I think today
age you know, we've all everyone has been touched in
one way or another by cancer. So you know, the cancer,
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uh side of things is important. It's one that I
always volunteer to help out at. But you know, Jeff
has brought me into things like the Ronald McDonald House.
Jeff has been a big donor and a big supporter
of Ronald McDonald for a long time. Uh So now
I've gotten more involved and it's a great charity. Jeff's
son Ken, who works here. Last year took some time
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off and it was he was cooking at Rond mcconald
house for a few weeks, which which was wonderful.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Do they still have the dog they do? Oh? They
do for I can't think of the name, but it's
a Portuguese water dog.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I want to say yes, yes, And you know, one
of these you know that we'll have Chris Bickford, who's
the executive director on one of these weeks and I'm
sure she'll do it from our office and and she'll uh,
I'm sure he has like that like Eddie or it's
like a it's like a human name.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Well it is like I know, I tell you I
have a friend, Yeah, I have a friend who has
a cat named Hannah.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yeah. Yeah, like I recently moved, so I'm meeting all
my neighbors and I can't remember anything, and the only
thing I can remember is their dog's name. So you know,
now I'm calling everybody, like my next door neighbor Rosie.
It's not his name, that's his dog's name, but it's Rosie,
which it's a human name. But also I can't remember
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his name.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
So do you have a pet or no?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I do? I do, so I inherited a cat named Daisy.
It's another human name. So we did. We did have
a dog, like like everyone you know, when you we
My wife and I swore off pets because you know, hey,
I'm enough, I'm dirty enough for my life and having
a patent kids, it's but anyway, you do it for
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your kids, like I'm sure the stuff you do for
your kids. So we got a dog, and like you
see you all online. You know, I was the one
who know against the dog, and I'm the one who
has a dog in bed with me and every.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Oh yeah, so you know you are the meme. You're
the dad meme of the animals.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I really am. So yeah, and now we just have Daisy.
Who's your typical cat. So uh, but yeah, like anyone
after twenty years with kids, you know, you you have
the cat and the dog and everything in between, and
you I.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, so we have a dog. We have a mini
Laboratdy doll named Bogie. But when I was like first
out of college, I had gotten a Yorki because I
was like, I could have a dog, and I worked
in TV and had a crazy schedule and I couldn't
do it, and my little sister had gone off to college.
My parents were empty nesting and so I lived in
Louisiana at the time. But I was like, hey, Mom
and Dad, I'm gonna send this dog home to you.
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And then they took her over and loved her so much.
But my dad did exactly what you just said. He
was like, no, we don't want your dog, blah blah blah.
And then he was like he would like put pepperoni
on her back where she like couldn't get to it,
and was just like obsessed with like baby talk to
her like who's Daddy's best friend, and I'm like, don't
tell me you don't want my dog exactly. He less
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to say, when we got Bogie, there was a lot
of that's your dog. You're not giving your dog to
us this time, and.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
We've is that how it's got its name?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yes, yep, yeah. My husband's a big golfer, so it
was gonna be if it was a girl, we were
gonna go with Putter, and then if it was a boy,
it was Bogie. So a lot of times some of
the older neighbors think it's maybe because of like Humphrey Bogart,
but most people realize it's like a bogey like in golf,
and then they make the joke of like, oh, so
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I was getting him a mistake because we got him
and then like a year later had a kid and
then another kid. But he's our oldest. Sometimes he's the
biggest pain out of the three of them, but he
comes and he snuggles and he's lovable. So he's thankfully
not here right now. My father in law is kind
of obsessed with him, so he came and took him
to go running errands with him for the day. But
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I'm sure he will make an appearance, probably like laying
on the couch one of these weeks.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
So I recently, So I recently moved and where I
used to live in Massachusetts, I lived on a golf
course and I wasn't much of a golfer, but I
decided I should learn. So I recently moved just the
last couple of months, and I had a young man,
a college student friend of my daughter's, helped me clean out,
and so he was helping me throw step away and
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we came across my golf clubs and he said, oh,
my God'si's are so old, which I pointed out they're
not that old, and he said where did he get them?
And I said, well, when Kmart was going out of business,
I bought him. And he looked at me and said,
what's Kmar? And then it really made me feel bad
that he called my golf clubs old. But he never
heard of Kmar.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
He never even heard of it him at Kmart though
they were really old.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, I told him it's a poor man's target. So
he's like, oh okay, And I'm like Walmart.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Before Walmart, I set myself up for the summer. My
husband hit forty, so he got a new set of irons.
I thought that was inappropriate, like you're in your forties gift.
But then ten days later my son turned three, so
we got him a nice little like big kids set
of golf clubs. So now this summer they can go bond. Well,
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mom and mom and Ellie the sixteen month old just
kind of chill and now they'll be out of the house,
so have fun. Sorry, hey, you don't get to golf
by yourself anymore. Take Jack.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
See this will be great because I got a boy
and a girl too, so you know, and we were
the prototypical, you know, a hockey player and a competitive dancer,
so you know, I'll you know, we'll fill you in
on all the competitive dancer for your for your sixteen
month old.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
That works. That works, Like at this point, I feel
like she's going to be a cheerleader because she does
a lot of yelling.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I had a good friend who was a freelance photographer,
a videographer, and he worked on Dance Moms the show
for years, so he would give me all the dirt
about everything that went in with that.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah, the dirt that didn't make the cut because I
feel like there was a lot of it on there. Yeah,
all right, bringing us back to Myers before we wrap
it up here, what is there? What's something about Myers
maybe that you think the general public doesn't really know,
but you wish that they did. I know I'm putting
you on the spot here. I didn't warn you of that.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Uh yeah, you know, it's a great question. I think
it's the things that I didn't understand before I came
to work here. You know I didn't. I can remember
before working for Myers that I got home and my
wife said, our trash wasn't picked up? Can you call
(23:50):
them to see why the trash wasn't picked up? And
I didn't know who my trash haller was, so I
had to go out and look at they can. So
my point is you only think about trash when there's
a problem with trash, when it doesn't get picked up
or for whatever reason the can gets hit or whatever
it is. So how much really goes into picking up
(24:12):
the trash and from when you take that frozen pizza
eye of the wrapper and you put it in your
recycled container and you forget about it, and you really
forget about who picks it up and where it goes.
So the process from all the different people who are
involved in recycling that cardboard box, from you know, the
guy on the truck who's literally picking up the container
(24:35):
to dumping into the truck and everything that goes into
the truck from the mechanics and they office people onto
when that truck is dumped on you know, we call
it dumping it on the floor, and it's sorted and
then it's packaged again and then it's recycled. You know,
there's so much that goes into it, and it's such
a I don't think I didn't understand it. It's such
(24:57):
a dangerous job as well, you know, because a lot
of we're picking trash up often before a lot of
people are awake in the morning, and then we're picking
up trash when people are starting their days, so the
kids are going to schools. And these are not you know,
my little Ford Focus that I'm driving down Dorsty Street.
These are big trucks. And how on somebody has to
(25:20):
be you know, you know talking about you know, your
little child because your three year old was in bed
with you. I'm a little hungover from going out with
my son. Well, it's fine for us screwing around on
a podcast, but what's not fun hard is when they're
on a truck at five am and they're tired and
stuff like, and how a work they have to be. So,
(25:40):
you know, what want people to take away is how
hard it is to do what these guys do. I
certainly can't, you know. As you get into we'll talk
about some of the times where I had to go
on on a truck and some of the things why
they don't like me going on a truck.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I love it well, and I think it's a really
good reminder because a lot of time and stuff like
that is just kind of out of sight, out of
mind for people. They just expect their josh to get
picked up, and if it doesn't, they just want to
know why, and they're just mad about it and don't
realize there's likely a trickle down snowball effect. It's not
just them personally like, oh, we're mad at you so
we didn't come. And I often have the three year
(26:17):
old staring out the window watching the garbage truck, and
it's I love it when the driver sees him and
like waves or something, because while I know it makes
Jack say, I like to think that I realized that
being a garbage truck driver is not the most glamorous
of jobs. But I like to think that it maybe
makes them feel a little good to see, you know,
little smiles and knowing that they're making little little kids happy.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
It is and that's why a lot of our drivers
volunteer to bring a truck to childcare centers and the
Boys and Girls Club does a fun afternoon event, so
they bring the trucks and where they donate their time
to do it because they do understand how exciting is
and how many birthday parties we participated in with trucks,
which you know we'll talk about.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, that would be amazing, especially now that trash Truck
is like a show on Netflix exactly and we're we
are the owners of one of those. I gotta think
about where it is. I think it's injection, but we've
gotten the little Meyers little mini red container before.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Well, I have a few thousand here if you need.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
If I need some more perfect I'm sure there's lots
of touch of trucks in the future. And so you
know that's kind of to to wrap this up. That's
kind of the point of this podcast, right. It's it's
great to have this forum in this area where we
can more candidly talk about what's going on, talk about
what goes into running a business like this, talk about
the people working there and talking about the things that
(27:39):
you can do for the community and the ways that
you give back. But we'll also like find some ways
to talk a little trash, whether we're making fun of
people's animal names or you know, I'm gonna try to
I gotta figure out if this girl got married.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
I'll go. But don't worry. I you know, we'll have
a lot of fun and I have a lot of opinion.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
All right, Well, you have your opinions and then I'll
help you funnel them down if we need to keep
them in a certain lane one way. All right, Joe,
thank you so much for being my co host. I'm
looking forward to having a ton of fun with you
as we continue to trash talk and give back with
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