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Ever feel like surviving a day with teenagers deserves its own award? We’ve got stories for you—from picture-perfect senior photos to a Halloween party that went sideways fast (thankfully, our niece had superhero reflexes).

On the adulting side, we escape to a fancy rooftop bar with skyline views and lobster ravioli, channeling all the boujee vibes. And because life’s never dull, we dig into the bizarre world of black-market turtles, ghost impersonators in cemeteries, and why we seriously need better mental health facilities.

Plus, we’re previewing Sunday brunch at Miller’s Tavern, where $5 Bloody Mary's might just save the day. Tune in for laughs, life hacks, and plenty of chaos!

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the no Wine Left Behind podcast, where
we truly leave no wine behind.
I'm Alex.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
And I'm Celia.
We are here in the studiotogether, sharing ups and downs,
frustrations and funny momentsof our daily adventures.
So grab your favorite glass.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Join us as we raise our voices Together.
We'll dive into the drama oflife as we see it, and we're
back, hidey-ho, hello, again.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Lila took her senior photos and they're so cute.
Oh, I thought they werebeautiful.
Remind me to like, send you orlike after this I can show you
the like some of the picturesthat we got, and like the behind
the scenes videos too.
Oh nice, yeah, so it was reallycute.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
So the guy that we got and like the behind the
scenes videos too, yeah, so itwas really cute.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
So the guy that we went to, he has an assistant now
, so while he's taking thepicture, she's doing like videos
and like quick snippets to likepost on his social media and
those are honestly likeobviously her pictures are good
but like the behind the scenesstuff is even more cute than oh
my god, I like I can't.
And then we also did a combinedum.

(01:05):
She took her senior picturesand we did a couple of pictures
for her birthday um, so I gother a cake and like candles and
oh my god, they are so stinkycute, cute.
I can't wait to see it it's justone of those things like
they're getting so old.
Like they're getting so old, Iknow, like they're getting so
old.
Yeah, and they had their firstever no adult really Halloween

(01:29):
party.
Oh my God, that was stressful,so I haven't heard a lot about
it.
So what have you heard about it?

Speaker 2 (01:37):
So I heard that.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
What can you share without getting anybody in
trouble?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, I know that's what I'm thinking.
I know there were kids fromcollege from UMass, lowell,
there.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
No way.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yes, no way.
Adriana said she came out ofthe house and saw like these I
don't know.
She said four or five olderkids and she was looking at them
like who are these kids?
And someone was like, oh,they're from UMass Lowell.
And she was like what are theydoing here?

(02:11):
They're like they're partying,Like they're at the party with
us.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Oh my gosh yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
There was.
There was a lot of activity.
I'm just going to leave it at.
They had a really good time.
Everyone was safe.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
And the party ended early.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, the party ended and when we went there to kind
of scope out the place, it wasin perfect condition.
Yeah, furniture was intact.
Yeah, floor was a little bitdirty, but to be expected
because it was an indoor outdoor.
But the house was fine.
Yeah, it was so fine.
I was not expecting that.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, and it seems like everyone had a good time
and the kids got that out oftheir system and hopefully I
never have to worry about doinganything like that, because it
was stressful.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, especially nowadays, about doing anything
like that because it wasstressful.
Yeah, especially nowadays, likeit's so different.
I remember when I was their ageI was having house parties all
the fucking time.
I would have a whole dj in myhouse, yeah, and that's my point
so different.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, you could do stuff like that before and like
you have to wear it like, like,like the police and all stuff,
like.
Yeah, like it was supposed tobe here at my house.
But a few weeks ago when Iasked her how many people are
coming, I was under theassumption it was just her
friend group, which is about 20kids that she's super tight with

(03:38):
right.
She giggled like that nervouslaugh and couldn't tell me how
many people and I was like, okay, all right, we got to have a
serious conversation here andwhat I got from her was well, I
told this one at Drake it andthey told their friends.
I told this one in Nashua andthey told their friend.

(03:59):
I told this one at Lowell Highand they told their friends.
I told these people at the Volkand they told their friends
this one at Lowell High and theytold their friends.
I told these people at the Volkand they told their friends.
There were people there fromall over Tingsborough, drake at
Lowell, nashua, that's fine.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
We got some popular kids.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Well, when I heard that I'm thinking it's like 100
kids, I'm like you're not havingit here, I'm not having 100
kids at my house, no, that's nothappening, no.
And I was like no.
And every day I was likeAdriana, you got to figure this
out, we're going to change party.
That was stress.
And then she was stressed, soat one point she's like mom, I'm

(04:35):
just going to cancel it.
I'm like okay, like whatever, Idon't care, that's up to you.
And then my niece was so kindenough to offer and have it at
her place and I was like thankyou, jesus, like she saved me.
So I owe her big time.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Oh my gosh, yeah, it all worked out.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yes, and it all worked out.
It was great.
Everyone had a great time.
There were no issues, thank God.
But yeah, we're done, we'reover that hump.
And now this weekend coming up,we're having our party.
Yes, a controlled Halloweenadult yeah, controlled chaos
Okay, it's going to be fun, ohmy gosh.

(05:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so that'll bea good time.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Kids.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Teenagers.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
So crazy.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Like you know, it doesn't matter how old they are
no they're just, they just driveyou crazy yeah, they stress you
out they're, they're dumb asshit.
Um yeah doesn't matter.
Yeah, I have.
I honestly, god, like I lovewhen they were kids and they
were little, but I I love evennow when they're older and

(05:43):
they're teenagers.
Like, like, we have the besttimes.
And people who say like, oh,like, I had the best times when
they were like newborn tofucking 10 or 12, it's like wait
what?

Speaker 1 (05:55):
yeah, no, that sounds awful every day of their life.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
That they hear is the best time, because I have
teenagers and I have the besttime.
I have, yeah, a daughter in her30s and I have a great time
with her, like it doesn't matter.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, I do.
Yeah, it's just like I don'tknow.
When people say shit like that,I'm just like baffled, I'm just
like wait what?

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Hey, to each his own, I mean whatever.
Yeah, it makes no sense to us.
They shouldn't try tounderstand crazy Every day of
their life.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
That they're here is the best time as far as I'm
concerned, so whatever, but wehave fun together all the time.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Do you have any funny stories of parties that you
went to when you were younger?

Speaker 2 (06:34):
No, not really the parties I went to.
They were in the woods and thecops would come and everybody
would have to run, come andeverybody would have to like,
run and like.
Of course I probably trippedover rocks and stumps and
fucking face planted into theground a million times.
Um, I know a girl in highschool who used to throw bangers

(06:55):
like every weekend.
I don't know where her parentswere, I don't know how she got
away with, I don't know like Iasked, but when I tell you that
she was throwing bangers, therewere people pouring out the
windows.
So funny.
There was so busy, crazy partyall the time, constantly.
That was the place to be on theweekends her house.

(07:15):
It was nuts.
Me.
I never threw parties, Icouldn't.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
I mean, which is also fine.
Who wants to have the cleanupand the stress and the headache?
Nobody wants that.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Because I think kids throw parties just for the
status.
It's like being cool type thing, Like oh, and then everybody's
talking about your party after.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
And like you're, like you know what I mean, Like you
just leveled up a little bit,you know.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
So I think that's why most kids do it.
But yeah, I didn't.
I wasn't really cool because,like I wasn't allowed to throw
parties.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Well, look at you now .
You're the hostess with themost.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
now I became cool after high school because then I
was on my own and I was able todo what I wanted and I loved
entertaining, I loved throwingparties.
I loved doing all that stuff.
So now I'm cooler now than Iwas in high school, because in
high school I was like invisible.
I couldn't do anything.
I couldn't go anywhere, Icouldn't.

(08:07):
I had to sneak out.
Every time I wanted to goplaces I had to lie and say I'm
sleeping over Chrissy's house orfucking Pam's house or whoever,
I don't even.
I didn't even have the friendswith those, but I'm just making
shit up, I know anyways.
Yeah, so in order to do things,I had to like sneak and it was
like cool and everything, butthen at the same time I gotta
yeah, you know what I mean likehope that they don't find out,

(08:27):
because then I'm gonna be introuble yeah, so but, and I want
that for my kids, so that's whyI try to like let them have
that time and those moments.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
So so you also have like a lot of siblings.
So was there ever a time where,like they had to cover for you?
Or is there ever a time thatlike they had to cover for you?
Or was there ever a time thatthey caught you out, like you
guys bumped into each other?
No, that's so crazy.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Oh, actually, actually my sister gave me her
ID.
So I was 17 years old, going tobars.
She was 10 years older than me.
Oh my, that's crazy.
I was 17, going out party anddrinking with my friends with
her ID, and she said to me ifyou get caught, I'm not helping

(09:12):
you, like it's on you.
And I'm like, oh shit, becauseshe would be like, oh, you're
going to get arrested and allthe shit.
And I was like, oh fuck.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
But I still tried.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
So I'll never forget.
I went to Brian's Ivy Hall.
I'd gone in there like fucking17 times, right, 18th time or
whatever, just throwing numbersout.
There it was a new guy at thedoor.
Oh no, I'm like, oh fuck.
So I already knew.
Like in the back of my mind I'mlike this might not go well.
Sure enough, he looked at meLook he goes, you're not 27.

(09:42):
He goes at me look he goes,you're not 27 he goes.
Get the fuck out of here, hegoes why don't you have your
sister come get her ID tomorrow?
So that ended that.
So then I didn't.
I just would like house partiesin the woods and all that shit
yeah, yeah but yeah, it was uh.
Yeah, I had a good time for awhile.
I had a good, I had a goodfucking streak for a while.
Yeah and then yeah then you gotbusted then I got busted.

(10:06):
So but I'm trying to thinknothing really like, nothing
really wild and crazy which Imean makes sense, because I
wasn't I wasn't a wild and crazy.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yes took the words right out of my mouth.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah, I was very like calm and quiet and shy and like
like I was afraid of everything, like I was nervous about
getting in trouble.
I was, I just I don't know.
It was just a lot going on backthen.
So I'm just like, let me justkeep to myself and whatever.
But it was all right, it wasgood, but I have better time now

(10:41):
as an adult.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Oh, 100%, you do, yeah, 100%, way better Always
doing something yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, for sure I didn't do a lot when I was a kid
.
That's okay, though I make upfor it now in my old age Like
the view that you went to inBoston.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Tell us everything about that experience.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
So definitely way more than I expected.
Um, definitely way more than Iexpected.
Um, so the view in Boston wasthe old top of the hub at the
Prudential Center.
Um, you go in there's like abig area, um, where there's like
a ticketing booth or whateverticketing lines and there's a
big sign that says the viewbooth or whatever ticketing

(11:21):
lines and there's a big signthat says the View.
So you get your ticket.
I did a pre-thing, so also youcan do like a sip and view,
where you get like a free drinkand you get to go see the View.
There's something called BeaconBites, which is $99 a person
plus tax and gratuity ends upbeing like $124.

(11:44):
You get two cocktails, anappetizer and an entree.
Oh, wow, yeah, so that's whatwe ended up doing and you get to
go up to the, to the viewingarea so if you just want to do
the viewing area, it's tendollars.
Ten dollars, twenty fifteendollars.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
I'm not really sure but that was included.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
So we did that.
We went in.
You go down this hallway, downa set of escalators, down
another hallway to an elevatorthat takes you up to the 52nd
floor.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
It's like the Empire State Building.
I feel like going to see likethe top of the Empire State
Building is like verycomplicated.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yes, it wasn't like just get on the elevator and go.
You're walking down here aroundthere around the corner, like
it was really cool.
But there's like on the way,there's like stuff you can see
little exhibits and stuff.
Then we go up the elevator.
It was doing this, the wholetime.
I'm like oh my God, we get there.
We're like.
So where the top of the hub wasis just like a 360 viewing area

(12:43):
.
Now you walk all the way around.
It's beautiful.
It's all enclosed.
You either take the elevator orthis is down to the 51st floor
where there's a bar calledStratus which is super nice and
there's an outdoor viewing areawith outdoor seating, it's all
glass but open air.
It's just amazing.
I have like amazing pictures,like it's just incredible.

(13:07):
Then you go down to the 50thfloor where there's the Beacon
restaurant where we ate there'sthis beautiful exhibits.
And then there's the beaconrestaurant where we ate, there's
this beautiful exhibits.
And then there's shops, okay,and there's a sitting area.
There's beautiful couches andchairs and it's just amazing.
Like we were there for likefive hours like it was great.
That's how much like you, likewe just like watching the view

(13:29):
and like talking and eating.
We sat at the bar, we haddrinks, like it was.
It was great.
It's the money.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
It was an awesome time.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah yeah, we parked right underneath the Prudential
Perfect and just took theelevator.
Actually, we walked outside andaround and went in.
I don't know why we didn't takethe elevator.
That was weird.
Anyways, yeah, we took theelevator to the street level and
I'm like why are we outside?

Speaker 1 (13:50):
We're just inside the building, but it's fine.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
I think we weren't sure like how to get up there or
something I don't remember.
And it was so funny because wewere trying to surprise
Christina.
And so this guy like gets onthe elevator with us and he's
like we're like, oh, what floor.
He's like I don't know, I'mtrying to go to the view.
And we all looked at each otherlike we didn't want to say yeah
, that's where we're going to.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
And I said to the guy , I think one of us said yeah,
just follow us, we'll figure itout.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
Oh, my goodness, and so we all got off in the
elevator and like he ended up,like I looked behind him and he
was behind me and I was like, sothen he followed us in and he
went his way, we went our way.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
It was so funny, oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
But it was awesome.
I recommend.
I know they have the drink andview, the sip and view.
They have the beacon bites andthen they have another one I
don't know if it's a brunch one,I'm not really sure what it is
and it's like three or fourdifferent special things you can
buy.
Only thing is those, if youdecide to do those, they're

(14:55):
prepay.
So you have to, like, book thereservation and pay for it in
advance and then when you gothere, they scan your thing and
they give you a menu and there'slike 10 different drinks you
can choose from.
And then they give you aregular food menu, cocktail menu
, food menu, and he's like.
He's like you can have anythingfrom this side or this side,

(15:15):
and it says appetizers, salads,sandwiches, entrees, okay, so
we're looking at the menu andthere's five of us.
So I'm like, hmm, we're notgonna get five appetizers like
how are we gonna do this?
so we got two and I said how bigare the salads?
He's like they're shareable, soit's not like they were giving
you like tapas, like theselittle, tiny, fucking little

(15:35):
dinky plates.
It was like normal size fuckingentrees and shit Appetizers.
So we ended up getting a Caesarsalad and a Capri salad that we
shared.
We ended up getting a flatbreadthat we shared.
It was like huge, oh my gosh.
We got.
What else did we share?
Um, oh, a charcuterie board.

(15:57):
We literally got a charcuterieboard and so it was two salads,
flatbread, charcuterie board,and I forget what the other um
appetizer was.
Then, from the other side,nobody wanted sandwiches, so we
all just got an entree, but itwas short rib.

(16:20):
Like three of us got the shortrib and fingerling potatoes, and
then Christina got the salmonand Donna got the.
No, I got the lobster raviolioh fancy.
And the other three got theshort rib.
Yeah, it was so good.
That's awesome.
Like I took food home becausewe had all the food before the
appetizer salad and then theentrees.
I ended up taking some of myfood home, and Donna did too.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, that's such a great deal.
Oh my God, it's such a greatdeal.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
We still can't get over.
We paid like that much moneyand we literally ate and drank.
Right, we were having martinis,like it's not like.
Oh, the cocktail is like, youknow, it was like good,
something watered down.
Yeah, like, yeah, they werehaving lychee martinis and I was
having this fancy like spritzerdrink, like good, I don't know

(17:10):
what it was.
It was freaking delicious, itwas nice, that's awesome.
It was really nice and I highlyhighly recommend it.
Everyone needs to go and atleast go up and check out the
view.
Yeah, because it's amazing.
Yeah, ted and Sabrina went onSunday, see.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
No.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Saturday.
I went Friday and they wentSaturday because they would
celebrate their anniversary,that's so cool.
Sorry, I'm having a moment.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
If you listen to the last episode, you understand
what's happening here.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Okay, I can't, I can't.
I mean, I don't even understandthis, and I hope to God it
never happens to me again, andif other people suffer from this
, I'm so sorry because that'sawful.
Yeah, it's bad.
Yeah, so it's bad.
Yeah, uh-huh, so, anywho.
So yeah, that was absolutelyincredible.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Good.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Like it was so fun.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yay, so you get to go .
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, it's worth every freakingpenny.
Definitely putting it on mylist.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, nice.
So what else?
So what else.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
What else you got.
I'm really happy because Iheard that Philadelphia has
opened up its first urgent care,that is, for mental health
issues only.
Oh, isn't that awesome.
That is really really cool,like why aren't more places?

Speaker 2 (18:30):
and maybe they are out there.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
They just don't have like the promotion and I don't
even remember how I came acrossthis article.
But yeah, it's a mental healthurgent care.
That's amazing.
That's going to save so manylives.
Yeah, I think that's so cool.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
I like it.
I like it a lot yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
I'm hoping that it becomes like a movement.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Because I think we need that A lot of people need
it badly, badly.
Yeah, mental health in thiscountry is like crazy, which
probably isn't the right word.
Fuck, I did it again.
I shouldn't say that it is.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
It is literally oh gosh I didn't mean it like call
it crazy train.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
I love that song yeah .

Speaker 2 (19:18):
No I I've dealt with a lot of people with severe
mental health issues in my timeand let me tell you it is not
fucking easy.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
No, because you know what?

Speaker 2 (19:29):
the hardest part about it is A sane person.
I consider myself a sane person.
I consider myself a pretty saneperson.
Trying to understand a personthat has mental health issues,
I'm driving myself literallycrazy, trying to wrap my brain
around why that person's crazy,why they're acting crazy, why

(19:50):
they're talking crazy like whyare you doing that?
Someone said to me you willnever, ever understand it, so
don't try, right, and that's I.
I agree 1000, but it's hard notto, yeah, it's hard not to
wonder like why are you doingthis?
Why are you doing this?
Why are you acting like this?
Why are you saying this?
Why are you behaving this way?
Yeah, it's, it's difficult notto want to try to like um, you

(20:16):
know what?

Speaker 1 (20:16):
I mean figure it out absolutely.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
But then you, end up kind of driving yourself a
little cuckoo doing it?

Speaker 1 (20:21):
yeah, for sure, yeah, but then you get tired of the
bullshit and you're back tobeing normal again.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Oh, it doesn't take me long.
I I get tired of the bullshit.
Quick.
I'm like okay, I spent two moreminutes longer than I wanted to
.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
I only wanted to spend a minute on it.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
I spent three minutes on it.
I'm done like no, yeah, I don'tspend a lot of time on crazy.
No, I really don't.
Yeah, I, I literally don'tspend any time on it typically
yeah but there are certain timesin my life that I have to deal
with some crazy shit, sure, solike I try to like get in and
out Right, yeah, cause you'renot going to twist my fucking

(20:58):
brain you know, fuck you.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
Well, here's hoping they open an urgent care for
mental health around here, thatfucking urgent care will be
banging Like that.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
shit will be slammed.
There would never beappointments there.
I'll direct people left andright There'd be a waiting, a
line down the road wrappedaround the fucking corner 20
fucking miles long Deep.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah, no, I think it's a good idea.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
We need way more than one mental health urgent care
here.
We need like fucking 100 ofthem.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Oh, for sure.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
We need one to match every urgent care there is here.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
I think that's an excellent idea.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Sure.
So for every urgent care wehave in this country, put a
mental health one right nextdoor.
So if someone walks through thedoor and they're like I got,
I'm crazy.
Okay, go next door.
That's for the mental health.
This is for the regular health.
Bye, yeah, for real, boom yeah.
And I think that would solve alot of the medical health crisis

(21:55):
in this country.
Oh, 100% Because there's such ashortage of doctors and nurses
and like they're closinghospitals and like it's fucking
insanity, like how can you closea hospital, like what the hell
that is the craziest thing I'veheard like in a long time.
Like, what are you doing withall these sick people?
Like there are sick peoplethere, people dying, People with
diseases and whatever.
Yeah, we're just closing thehospital, Like what?

(22:18):
So I think if they did that,that would solve a lot of these
issues.
I agree, yeah, it would likerelieve some of the stress on
the hospitals Because I feellike the urgent cares there's so
many of them, there's so manyand I feel like maybe it's
helped relieve some of thestress on hospitals Because you

(22:39):
know you can make an appointmentnow to go to an urgent care.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
It wasn't like that before.
No, nope, you just sat and youwaited, yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
Now I make my appointment and when you make an
appointment you're in and out.
Yeah, but I have the bestdoctor's office and I can go
right online and make anappointment and they always have
appointments.
I love it there.
Therefore, I don't really haveto go to urgent care, but if
it's a weekend thing.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah, like after hours, it comes in handy yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
But the thing is like if you need urgent care, you
need to get up like fuckingcrack ass dawn and make an
appointment, because if you tryto wait till nine, ten o'clock
to make an appointment, they'rebooked.
Yeah, they're booked, so youknow what I do.
Oh boy, I'll wake up.
If I wake up on a Saturday orSunday and I really feel like I
need to go to the doctor and mydoctor is not open, I will make
that appointment and then I'llsee how like I'll make it later.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
See how it goes.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
And then I just cancel it.
Because, Then it's like 12o'clock comes on.
I'm still sick as shit.
Now I can't get a fuckingappointment.
I got to go sit in the fuckingemergency room, which.
I'd rather freaking cut my armoff and do that.
So we'll not cut my arm off.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
But the emergency room is a scary place, man.
Oh wow, it's awful, it's like.
It's like the RMV for sickpeople.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
It's weird, awful.
No, it's fucking weird.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, those two places are the like hell on
earth, yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah, the people that you see in emergency room now.
No, where the fuck are thesepeople coming?

Speaker 1 (24:03):
from.
I'm unwell.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
I don't want to be around other people who are
unwell In their coffin andthrowing up and everything all
over the place, like, put afucking mask on.
Do you have a fucking roomwhere they can like?
You know what are those roomscalled where they can, they can
like the triage.
No, the room that's all likeplastic and they can go in there
and like quarantine, Like yeah,yeah, yes yes, put them in

(24:25):
there.
Like, have a fucking quarantineroom, people throwing up all
over the floor and shit likewhat the fuck?
No bleeding, oh, we had a bigblood fucking dripping down the
side of his face and he'ssitting there for 17 hours, I'm
like.
But they take you to triage.
Oh, as long as you can breatheand as long as they're fucking,
you know your brain's not comingout of your fucking head.

(24:46):
You sit there and wait fuckingeight hours.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
What it's awful, it's awful, it's awful.
And it's so loud too, Like whenyou're sick and whatever
everyone's different.
When I'm sick, like I can'thave like sensory overload and
you have people that are liketalking so loudly Like the TV.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
There's a bunch of TVs on and they're all different
channels, so you got all thesedifferent things going on at
once.
You got little kids runningaround crying no, fuck it.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
No, it's so fucking bad, it's awful.
Then the other thing thatreally freaks me out, but is
unavoidable, is when youmistakenly make eye contact with
another person, that whenyou're just like innocently,
like just looking around theroom, like whatever, but then,
like you and someone else, catcheach other's gaze.
Fuck my life, fuck my sick lifeat that point I hate it.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
I hate it no, no no, I get urgent care all day yeah,
totally like a hundred hundredthousand, freaking percent.
Yeah, um, like sick vip, I havea cute.
I have a cute story.
I want to.
I want to try to like flip therole here because I it has
nothing to do with um, do Istill have the story?

(26:00):
Oh, I hope I didn't.
Oh, here it is.
It's.
It's a story that you'll likebecause you like turtles, okay,
and it has nothing to do withbeing healthy or sick.
It's got to do with, probably,mental health, though, okay, a
woman was caught trying tosmuggle 29 turtles from the us

(26:21):
into canada by a kayak.
Why, what?

Speaker 1 (26:26):
I don't know.
Wait also, where was she?
Is there like fucking lakepolice, like what huh?
So?

Speaker 2 (26:34):
um when ye ning okay 41 was caught smuggling 29
protected eastern box turtlesacross a Vermont lake into
Canada by kayak.
The turtles were wrapped insocks in her duffel bag.
Oh my God.

(26:59):
Police were alerted by the RoyalCanadian Mounted Police that
Neg's husband and another personpaddled from Canada towards US
and she intended to sell theturtles on the Chinese black
market.
I have so many questions.
Yep, she pleaded guilty tosmuggling and US District Court
faces up to 10 years in prisonand a fine of 250 000 dollars

(27:22):
was it really worth it?

Speaker 1 (27:24):
was it worth it?

Speaker 2 (27:26):
again like why these fucking turtles must be worth a
lot of money.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
That's what I mean.
Like what are they going to usethe turtles for?
Is it like medicine?
Is it cosmetic?

Speaker 2 (27:42):
they're smuggling them on the black, trying to
sell them in the black market.
If they're not for somethinggood, there's no way they're for
fucking medicine, or no, it'snot for a good thing I mean, you
can get like a liver and a lungon the black market.
That's what I'm saying it's notgood thing Because they stole
that shit from somebody, likesomebody dead, because they took
their organs and sold them onthe black market, oh well.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
No, you can live without a lung, and I mean I
don't really want someone elseto live without a lung, but when
someone's lung is taken fromthem without their consent.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Well, how do you know ?
Maybe?

Speaker 1 (28:23):
they no, if it's being sold on the black market.
Nobody's going to sell theirorgans to put them on the black
market under any circumstances,unless they're fucking got a gun
to their head.
Do you remember that time inVegas where, like it was
happening quite a bit, wherethey were finding people like
cut open and like in in theirbathtubs, like hotel bathrooms,
bathrooms, bathtubs?
That was a CSI show.
No, that was like really, wheredo you think csi got it from?

Speaker 2 (28:39):
it was really happening it was ripped from the
head.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
I do rip their shows from the headlines, yeah, yeah
that's rough, that's imagine nogoing and like raging in vegas
and then waking up fucking onelast organ.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
That's what I'm saying that's crazy, that's bad,
I mean if it helped.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Little timmy, I mean, what's the big deal?
Fucking suck it up, joe.
You shouldn't have been a whore.
Oh, you deserve to lose your,whatever you, oh dang got okay a
little timmy's okay.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Yeah, a little timmy's okay, he's gonna live
and that's okay and hopefully hedoesn't off the black market.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Hopefully he doesn't grow up and go to vegas.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
So what do you think they were doing with these
turtles on the black market?
I don't't know.
And there's only so little ofthem too.
Let me research it.
What can you do with turtles onthe black market?

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Oh, I'm so scared.
And also, we just need to beclear that this is for podcast
purposes.
Yeah, no, no If your phone getsconfiscated police.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
It's for podcast purposes only no, I don't want a
turtle.
Trust me, I'm fucking good.
They smell.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
They're disgusting.
Yeah, okay, relax, they're notdisgusting.
They are disgusting.
No, if they're in their ownnatural habitat they're fine.
But, like, if you have them ina tank, it's not the best pet to
have.
Okay, so turtles are often, I'mso scared Turtles stink to holy
freaking hell.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
I know, I know, and you can clean it today and
tomorrow it's going to stinkagain, I know.
So there's no point in having aturtle.
Turtles are often sold on theblack market for a variety of
purposes, including food.
They're a delicacy in somecultures.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Oh wait, Didn't we talk about a story about someone
at like an African retreat whogave guests turtles and they all
got sick?

Speaker 2 (30:22):
Yes, we did talk about that.
That wasn't an episode.
Yes, yes, they were all likedeathly ill.
Yep, that turtles weren'tcooked well, that's the problem.
Turtles might have been still alittle raw.
Eating turtles, oh, medicine,turtle oil, once used in creams
and lotions, told you um also,and was also said to prevent

(30:46):
aging.
Oh, wait, a minute, justkidding, I'm not buying a turtle
in the black market.
Status symbol in china, spottedturtles and box turtles are
high in demand because their redand gold marking symbolize good
fortune and status.
Oh, okay, yeah.
And then pets Turtles arebecoming more popular in the pet

(31:09):
trade.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
But they don't have turtles there.
Like I don't understand, listento this.
I don't understand, listen tothis.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
The black market wildlife trade is a
multi-billion dollar industry.
So weird.
That involves the purchase andsale of wildlife and wildlife
parts.
Gross Turtles are oftenpackaged in boxes and disguised
as other goods and shippedoverseas without food and water.
So you buy a turtle in theblack market.

(31:34):
There's a chance you're goingto get it and it's going to be
dead.
Yeah, that's sad.
So then it's going to be dead.
Yeah, that's sad.
So then it's useless Because,like a lobster, you can't cook
and eat a dead lobster or youwill die.
That sounds disgusting.
So probably the same thing goesfor a turtle.
So I wouldn't be able to get myaging cream if I got my turtle
and it was dead.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Wait, so she was coming from where to Canada.
Wait, so she was coming fromwhere to Canada?
From here, from the US.
So then you're fine, just go towhere she was at and go get
yourself a fucking turtle.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
I'm good, gary will do it for you.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
Put it on your Christmas list.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
No, but then how do I have to extract that turtle?
What?

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Fucking.
Reach out to her.
She'll tell you she's in jail.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
She's gone to jail for 10 years.
Be her pen pal.
No, oh god.
No, I'm trying to help you outhere no, you are blocking your
own blessings I will not pen palwith jail people ever.
I have no interest in penpalling with jail people.
I'm sorry that's not my jamjail people.
I wouldn't if I pen pal and penpal with someone I'm gonna

(32:34):
eventually like see and meet,like you could see and meet them
.
No, like, come to my house, Igo to your house.
We have friends, we talk, wehave dinner, we hang out.
I'm not oh, I got to write aletter.
I can hold your hand for fiveseconds and have a Twinkie as
our fucking wedding cake.
No, they'll do that when theyget released.
No, but what if they're?

(32:54):
Now?
You spend the rest of your lifebeing a pen pal with someone
you can never like talk to.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Well, then, just be more selective with your pen
pals.
No, don't be a pen pal with alifer.
No, no, no, no, no Okay.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
Whatever Nope, fine Nope.
So Halloween is coming, it is,and some stupid guy, oh gosh.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
And.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
I'm glad he's going to go to jail.
Hopefully Probably not, but hedeserves to.
Some stupid guy, oh, he wasfined.
Never mind, he's not going tojail, but he should.
He was in a cemetery, oh God,wooing people and trying to
scare them.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Wait.
Why do you think he'd go tojail for that?

Speaker 2 (33:34):
You're just scaring people who cares Because he's
disturbing the peace and he'smaking people scared.
What if someone's scared andhad a heart attack and died
Because he was walking aroundfucking scaring them?

Speaker 1 (33:46):
That is such a dick thing to do, right.
Exactly Like bro, you couldhave killed someone Like you're
not funny, I'm sure I'm hopingthey weren't there doing like
weird Halloween stuff Like whatif they're there visiting
whomever passed away?
That's fucked up.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yeah, and he's running around with a costume on
Woo, pretending to be afreaking ghost Fucking stupid In
Portsmouth you are.
So In Portsmouth?
Oh gosh, oh he was.
He was drinking with friendsand then he decided that he was
going to make ghostly noises,prompting complaints and
witnesses.
He pleaded guilty to usingthreatening and abusive behavior

(34:28):
to cause distress.
See, he's lucky he didn't killsomeone with his dumb ass.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
That's so embarrassing.
Imagine this being on yourrecord.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
You must look like the dumbest person to everybody
right now.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Imagine someone doing a background check and that
coming up and you have toexplain yeah, why were you
arrested?

Speaker 2 (34:44):
because I was in the cemetery pretending to be a
ghost, like a fucking idiot.
You know what I'd say get thefuck out of here.
I'm not hiring you becauseyou're an idiot.
Goodbye.
Like you fucking lose.
Like you're fired before youeven got hired, motherfucker,
get out of here.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Imagine being like his co-worker or something and
be like hey, jimmy, how was yourweekend?

Speaker 2 (35:13):
So what'd you do this weekend?
Oh well, I spent the night inthe clink.
Why's that?
I thought it would be funny topretend I was a ghost and scare
people in a fucking cemetery.
Woo, what is wrong?
Fucking stupid.
It just annoys me at how dumbpeople are.

(35:34):
Oh my God, what.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
I can't breathe.
Why are people like this?

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Oh my God, I have't breathe.
Why?
Why are people like this?
Oh my God, I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
It's so freaking funny, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Oh my God.
So, yeah, that happened.
Freaking, I'm telling you wegood to go.
Yeah, now you are Okay.
I feel like like every year onHalloween there there's some
like stupid story about likesomeone that does something
really dumb and they thought itwas probably funny and cool at
the time and then it turns intothis idiotic thing.

(36:10):
So but yeah, that was funny,that was funny, that was it was.
It was just kind of dumb.
That's why it was so funny, Ithink.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
People are dumb.
Yeah yeah, never ceases toamaze me, nope.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Nope, nope, nope.
So there's a place in Methuenwe have to go visit.
It's called Miller's Tavern.
They have looks like by theirInstagram they have brunch Okay,
and it looks awesome, lovebrunch, so and then they have
like Bloody Marys.
Oh, fuck yeah, they have likefive bucks.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
Cool, so it sounds like we'll be there on Sunday.
Five dollar Bloody Marys Fivebucks.
Let's go Sign me up.
Yeah, for five bucks, I'll tryone.
Yeah, thank you for joining uson this Wine Build Adventure.
We would greatly appreciateyour support.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
Please follow and rate our podcast on Apple
Podcasts, spotify or whereveryou're tuning in right now.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
So raise a glass, leave no wine behind and let's
continue this journey together.
Cheers.
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