July 16, 2025 • 9 mins
Thor let's it be known that he is standing strong with the brothers and sisters striking for higher pay and better benefits at Republic Services. His methods, however, are a little concerning... It's time for Thor's Midweek Meltdown
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now the show is happy to bring you. I'm pissed.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Have some respectors midweek milk down.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
This is hot off the presses you you were planning
on going in a certain direction this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
We'll do next week. Everybody colamorate. I mean, I don't
know that anybody. Nobody knows what you were going to
tell you. Something else comes up.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
That's how I roll, Baby, something comes up. I'm on
the tip, Okay, I will get the rent going and
support who I need to support because as you know,
my rants, as you know, my rants usually affect the community.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Well, let's not let's not go real quick before I
start by rant.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
If you're watching on the YouTube channel when we post
this later or my Instagram, the show throw our new
shirt today, Valley Forge Auto from the show tires. Incredible
shirt thanks to my wife, Hayley. It's a good shirt.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
We're gonna stop down in the middle of the radio.
I normally don't to point out T shirts.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
But you know, ever since we started filming this segment,
Thor picks out special T shirt.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Last week, waited for it.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
And and and then he like he like.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Got this last week, waited for it.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
The shirt if you watch tires, you would love it anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
So I listen, Wait your shirt, don't show your shirt.
Don't show your shirt.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Ye look at that. I'm gonna show my shirt.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Lean a little bit further.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
We already covered my way.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Awful, Okay, So anyway, I am for blue collar workers,
and let me get to what I want.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
You work on an automotive center. On your shirt, I.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Don't know even know what that means. You watched tires,
you bet, I don't uh tear, So if you were
dunder Mifflin shirt, I'd be in tears just because of
that at the time when it came out. Yes, I do.
I do think that I'm from a blue.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Collar town in Long Island, and really blue collar. Play
blue collar, Tom, you know what blue collar means? Yeah,
I do constructions like a white collar town. No, where
I'm from this very blue collar. It's not I'm not
from the Hampton's in Long Island.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I wouldn't be white collar either.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
I mean there's something in between.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
No, it's blue collar.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
A lot of like construction workers, plumbers, elect christians.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And I worked at the roller coaster for a long time,
so I consider myself a blue collar worker.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I was.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I was pressures, spray and ride janitor. It's blue collar, baby,
baby work with my hands.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
By the way, that was like fifteen years ago. Did
I work there?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, So then don't don't ever call me out from
when I say I worked at McDonald's or when I
also wasn't fifteen or I am my blue collar too
because I worked at McDonald's blue collar.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So I was picking a trash.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I was picking up trash, which is my next point.
We take blue collar workers for granted in this country,
we really do. I mean, they don't stop working. Once
they stop working is when we notice, Oh, yeah, electricians,
we don't have enough of them, Plumbers, we don't have
enough of them. Construction workers we don't have enough of them.
Mechanics we don't have enough of them. And sanitation workers,
(03:23):
oh we don't have enough. If you notice, we got
But right now in the in my town, Tula, Visita,
there's trash everywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
There is a strike going on, strike going.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
On everywhere you go. It's trash like a landfill out there.
And I can't take it. And I'm like, who do
I need to complain? So I started doing some research
whom I complain to about that, about this, and complaining
to the people in the East coast. Right, it all
goes back to Boston. And of course, of course Boston
is ruining a fairybody. I don't know that again, trash city,
(04:00):
I would say that, Okay, not surprising. And I started
looking at I'm like, how can I blame Boston for this?
Is it the workers?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Is it the people? Is it the company?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Is it the red size or trash? So I started
looking to do more research. Just this morning, I hate
when you do research, that said, I hate when you do.
This is all about republic Services. That's the name of
the company. That's the trash company that employs the sanitation.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You guys don't have ed coke, No, we have Republicans.
Remember because Red used to go and tour. Yeah he was.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
He was a republic fan as well.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
He liked both. But mainly.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
So these four hundred workers on July first from Boston
decided they were going to go on strike because they
walked off their job. They're part of the Teamsters Local
twenty five shout out, and they wanted better pay and
they wanted better health benefits, especially if you're living in Boston.
I guess their annual pay from what I found online,
was about fifty three thousand a year, which is not
(05:05):
that much for you, like Boston. Honestly, it's not that
much for anybody, which we should all be making more
money than that. So then I'm like, man, I wonder
how much the net profit is for republic services?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I'm like, are they struggling?
Speaker 6 (05:23):
So I look it up and I see that in
twenty twenty four, what's up, Emily's son's favorite place made
two point four billion with a B dollars in net profit? Okay,
two point four billion, so something in profit or just
didn't net profit net profit?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Baby baby again?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
So then I said, I wonder how much they're worth
their net worth? Buckle up? Seventy six billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Way, wait a way, buddy boy, way, buddy boy, are
you yelling at me?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So then I'm like how much the Wayne's World? So
that I'm like, how much are these construction workers asking for?
Only a fourteen percent race? Which seems like a lot,
but it's not a lot when you're only making an
annual average salary of fifty three thousand dollars. So you
know what I'm for these workers, These workers deserve to
(06:25):
get paid and screw you, Republic service boy for not
paying them. Sorry, I'm standing up for the blue collar
guy and the sanitation workers because we need our trashes
are trash taken out, we need a recycle done because
I don't want to do it. I know Sky's not
doing it. She hires people. I know Emily's not doing it.
Eddie's not doing it. Jamie's not doing it. Jamie people
(06:46):
need to do it. He takes these workers for granted,
and he deserve to get paid.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Here's the thing, though, would this even be on your
radar if it wasn't affecting you in your community?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
If this was Escondido?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Would you would you be standing up for the blue
collar I'm in solidarity.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
And sisters and Shola Vista and the teamsters now because
they're striking in solidarity with their brothers and boss Star
six days ago, Edward and it sucks for everyone. It
sucks my trash ain't getting picked up. But you know what,
what good for them standing up for the standing up
for themselves and saying if you to the big businesses
(07:27):
who aren't paying what they should and what are public
services doing? How are they going to combat this?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah? Well, they're saying, you know what, guys, we'll give
you a one time free disposal fee so you could
take your own trash to the dump.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And you know what, I'm saying, screw you because I'm
going on strike and I'm not throwing anything away.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I'm going on strike.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I'm You're not gonna have any carbons my trash anywhere everywhere.
And then they said, hey, we're gonna have We're gonna
hire outside people from like Arizona to come and pick
up the trash. But just mingle your trash and for
cycle and all that stuff. Don't be well put it
on separate, Yeah, don't separate, put it all. Oh, so
now you're not only crap it on your workers, you're
(08:14):
crapping on the environment, Way to Go, republic services, all
to line your pockets. These blue collar workers should make
more than what politicians make. If you ask me, wow,
because these politicians like line in their pockets left and right.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
What does the politicians have to do with the blue collar.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Workers should make more and deserve more.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I'm not throwing away trash, and no one should throw
away trash until these guys get what were.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Supposed to do. What I don't know, but it's not
what we we.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
We need to stand in solidarity with our union brothers, sisters, teams,
your local.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Twenty five strike being not paying your bill versus not
just I.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Don't want to get collection and get screwed that way.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Your house is going to be filled with trash. I mean,
I'm gonna people they don't care.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I'm gonna put it in the street.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
But they don't care. I mean it's not affecting them,
your strikeing republic service.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I mean it is affecting them because they're getting complaints, and.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
It's affecting because you're junking up the street.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You know what Sky, I say, we all take our
trash and throat at skuys. Everyone collect your trash and everyone.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I want to surprise the sky isn't owned, doesn't.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Own for public services. Hold as long as you can
get the money you deserve, you make our communities better.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Okay that that all that all came from this morning?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah this morning. Yeah, he's lost his Thank you, he's lost.
I'm with you, brothers and sisters.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
You're not blue collar. You sipping on a microphone and
talk to blue collar? Okay, what I mean
And now the show is happy to bring you. I'm pissed.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Have some respectors midweek milk down.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
This is hot off the presses you you were planning
on going in a certain direction this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
We'll do next week. Everybody colamorate. I mean, I don't
know that anybody. Nobody knows what you were going to
tell you. Something else comes up.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
That's how I roll, Baby, something comes up. I'm on
the tip, Okay, I will get the rent going and
support who I need to support because as you know,
my rants, as you know, my rants usually affect the community.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Well, let's not let's not go real quick before I
start by rant.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
If you're watching on the YouTube channel when we post
this later or my Instagram, the show throw our new
shirt today, Valley Forge Auto from the show tires. Incredible
shirt thanks to my wife, Hayley. It's a good shirt.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
We're gonna stop down in the middle of the radio.
I normally don't to point out T shirts.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
But you know, ever since we started filming this segment,
Thor picks out special T shirt.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Last week, waited for it.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
And and and then he like he like.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Got this last week, waited for it.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
The shirt if you watch tires, you would love it anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
So I listen, Wait your shirt, don't show your shirt.
Don't show your shirt.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Ye look at that. I'm gonna show my shirt.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Lean a little bit further.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
We already covered my way.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Awful, Okay, So anyway, I am for blue collar workers,
and let me get to what I want.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
You work on an automotive center. On your shirt, I.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Don't know even know what that means. You watched tires,
you bet, I don't uh tear, So if you were
dunder Mifflin shirt, I'd be in tears just because of
that at the time when it came out. Yes, I do.
I do think that I'm from a blue.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Collar town in Long Island, and really blue collar. Play
blue collar, Tom, you know what blue collar means? Yeah,
I do constructions like a white collar town. No, where
I'm from this very blue collar. It's not I'm not
from the Hampton's in Long Island.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I wouldn't be white collar either.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
I mean there's something in between.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
No, it's blue collar.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
A lot of like construction workers, plumbers, elect christians.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And I worked at the roller coaster for a long time,
so I consider myself a blue collar worker.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I was.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I was pressures, spray and ride janitor. It's blue collar, baby,
baby work with my hands.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
By the way, that was like fifteen years ago. Did
I work there?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, So then don't don't ever call me out from
when I say I worked at McDonald's or when I
also wasn't fifteen or I am my blue collar too
because I worked at McDonald's blue collar.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So I was picking a trash.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I was picking up trash, which is my next point.
We take blue collar workers for granted in this country,
we really do. I mean, they don't stop working. Once
they stop working is when we notice, Oh, yeah, electricians,
we don't have enough of them, Plumbers, we don't have
enough of them. Construction workers we don't have enough of them.
Mechanics we don't have enough of them. And sanitation workers,
(03:23):
oh we don't have enough. If you notice, we got
But right now in the in my town, Tula, Visita,
there's trash everywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
There is a strike going on, strike going.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
On everywhere you go. It's trash like a landfill out there.
And I can't take it. And I'm like, who do
I need to complain? So I started doing some research
whom I complain to about that, about this, and complaining
to the people in the East coast. Right, it all
goes back to Boston. And of course, of course Boston
is ruining a fairybody. I don't know that again, trash city,
(04:00):
I would say that, Okay, not surprising. And I started
looking at I'm like, how can I blame Boston for this?
Is it the workers?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Is it the people? Is it the company?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Is it the red size or trash? So I started
looking to do more research. Just this morning, I hate
when you do research, that said, I hate when you do.
This is all about republic Services. That's the name of
the company. That's the trash company that employs the sanitation.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You guys don't have ed coke, No, we have Republicans.
Remember because Red used to go and tour. Yeah he was.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
He was a republic fan as well.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
He liked both. But mainly.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
So these four hundred workers on July first from Boston
decided they were going to go on strike because they
walked off their job. They're part of the Teamsters Local
twenty five shout out, and they wanted better pay and
they wanted better health benefits, especially if you're living in Boston.
I guess their annual pay from what I found online,
was about fifty three thousand a year, which is not
(05:05):
that much for you, like Boston. Honestly, it's not that
much for anybody, which we should all be making more
money than that. So then I'm like, man, I wonder
how much the net profit is for republic services?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I'm like, are they struggling?
Speaker 6 (05:23):
So I look it up and I see that in
twenty twenty four, what's up, Emily's son's favorite place made
two point four billion with a B dollars in net profit? Okay,
two point four billion, so something in profit or just
didn't net profit net profit?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Baby baby again?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
So then I said, I wonder how much they're worth
their net worth? Buckle up? Seventy six billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Way, wait a way, buddy boy, way, buddy boy, are
you yelling at me?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So then I'm like how much the Wayne's World? So
that I'm like, how much are these construction workers asking for?
Only a fourteen percent race? Which seems like a lot,
but it's not a lot when you're only making an
annual average salary of fifty three thousand dollars. So you
know what I'm for these workers, These workers deserve to
(06:25):
get paid and screw you, Republic service boy for not
paying them. Sorry, I'm standing up for the blue collar
guy and the sanitation workers because we need our trashes
are trash taken out, we need a recycle done because
I don't want to do it. I know Sky's not
doing it. She hires people. I know Emily's not doing it.
Eddie's not doing it. Jamie's not doing it. Jamie people
(06:46):
need to do it. He takes these workers for granted,
and he deserve to get paid.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Here's the thing, though, would this even be on your
radar if it wasn't affecting you in your community?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
If this was Escondido?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Would you would you be standing up for the blue
collar I'm in solidarity.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
And sisters and Shola Vista and the teamsters now because
they're striking in solidarity with their brothers and boss Star
six days ago, Edward and it sucks for everyone. It
sucks my trash ain't getting picked up. But you know what,
what good for them standing up for the standing up
for themselves and saying if you to the big businesses
(07:27):
who aren't paying what they should and what are public
services doing? How are they going to combat this?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah? Well, they're saying, you know what, guys, we'll give
you a one time free disposal fee so you could
take your own trash to the dump.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And you know what, I'm saying, screw you because I'm
going on strike and I'm not throwing anything away.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I'm going on strike.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I'm You're not gonna have any carbons my trash anywhere everywhere.
And then they said, hey, we're gonna have We're gonna
hire outside people from like Arizona to come and pick
up the trash. But just mingle your trash and for
cycle and all that stuff. Don't be well put it
on separate, Yeah, don't separate, put it all. Oh, so
now you're not only crap it on your workers, you're
(08:14):
crapping on the environment, Way to Go, republic services, all
to line your pockets. These blue collar workers should make
more than what politicians make. If you ask me, wow,
because these politicians like line in their pockets left and right.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
What does the politicians have to do with the blue collar.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Workers should make more and deserve more.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I'm not throwing away trash, and no one should throw
away trash until these guys get what were.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Supposed to do. What I don't know, but it's not
what we we.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
We need to stand in solidarity with our union brothers, sisters, teams,
your local.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Twenty five strike being not paying your bill versus not
just I.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Don't want to get collection and get screwed that way.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Your house is going to be filled with trash. I mean,
I'm gonna people they don't care.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I'm gonna put it in the street.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
But they don't care. I mean it's not affecting them,
your strikeing republic service.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I mean it is affecting them because they're getting complaints, and.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
It's affecting because you're junking up the street.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You know what Sky, I say, we all take our
trash and throat at skuys. Everyone collect your trash and everyone.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I want to surprise the sky isn't owned, doesn't.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Own for public services. Hold as long as you can
get the money you deserve, you make our communities better.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Okay that that all that all came from this morning?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah this morning. Yeah, he's lost his Thank you, he's lost.
I'm with you, brothers and sisters.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
You're not blue collar. You sipping on a microphone and
talk to blue collar? Okay, what I mean
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