Name: Prince of Trash w/ Matt McCusker - Are You Garbage Comedy Podcast Clip
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are you garbage what does your mom and dad do i kind of feel like you got you
came from a little
cash yeah my so my dad yeah his brother started a trash company oh yeah so they
had a trash company
and then they sold it and when i was like i guess like nine and then they
started doing demolition
so yeah because i knew you were in construction i remember you were doing
construction at some
point i remember that yeah i'm prince of trash prince yeah they had so they had
like a my
my grandfather had a small cardboard recycling business and then he also would
do he was like
a huckster he would like sell he would like go buy a bunch of groceries and
like sell them to people
so he did that and had a gouging people on eggs listen the two bucks at the
store the 202 here
the eggs are 850 and you only get 11. what the yeah so they did he did that and
then he was kind
of like a hustle man he did like a bunch of weird little things but he had a
cardboard recycling
company and then my dad and his brothers worked for him when they were younger
and they started into
like an actual full-scale transfer station you know where harris casinos in chester
yeah yeah that used
to be mccusker and sons the transfer station but they sold they sold the
company and then the company
they sold it to sold the land to harris ah you're one step away from cage that's
retirement that's
like generational wealth there you would have what was funny was they uh
because because my dad and his
brothers all grew up like you know like middle class you know we're like lower
middle class one of like
10 kids in havertown and uh born to a huckster and they so when they the guy
the guy who bought
the company off them was wayne hazanga who he was the guy who owned blockbuster
he owned the miami
dolphins oh yeah he went to my dad and all his brothers he's like how much you
guys want for this
and they wrote down what they thought was like you money because they didn't
want to sell the company
so they thought they were writing him like he was there he was going to see it
and be offended and
the guy was like not a problem yeah he's like i got that on me oh yes i forgot
a zero i forgot a zero
we need two grand more
just two grand so they thought they were hitting him with the number this guy
like
fuck you guys i'm out of here and he was like that's not a problem i can
arrange that today and
they're like so and this is when you were young yeah i was little i remember
one day
my dad came home in a in a navigator it was a red navigator and he was like
things are going to be
different and i was like really yeah he was he was kind of i was like really
little and i was riding
around and he was like i made a lot of money we sold the company and i was like
that's what's up and
he's like yeah man i was like cool got this sweet red navi now hop in let's
fucking go kid
let's go make with the power wheels old man huh i want a race car bed that does
show like
the blue collar trashiness in your dad that he made a bunch of money and went
and bought a red
navigator who does that dude that's like that's kind of a rap video yeah his
life has been like
keeping my mom in like ridiculous that was like he bought my mom in a diesel
excursion for a while
there oh it was ridiculous dude yeah it's pretty funny it's pretty bad wild
dude yeah i was like the
turning point before that we were bopping around the convert we had the
conversion van with like the
four inch tv screen so that was that was that was fucking that was clean living
back in the day
dude i thought we were already bald and then he hit me with the navi and i was
like okay
this guy's caked up it's like where do we watch godzilla he's like we can't
watch godzilla in this
car that sucks dude my buddy used to have the conversion man with the tv and we
would go sit
in the garage sit in the driveway and just watch tv and i thought i was fucking
i thought i was the
richest man in the world in second house dude that's amazing yeah dude turn
that back seat into
a bed and fucking chill out for a little bit sure wait did he have the kind of
cash though when he
sold the trash business that he could have just chilled why did he get into the
demolition business
just i don't that's this is the mystery because this is a go-getter i'm gonna
so i obviously come
from an enigma i have no idea how much money my parents they don't tell me my
mom's been my mom's
been trying to convince me we're poor ever since because my mom grew up pretty
you know relatively
poor and uh like her it was like a single parent her dad was a janitor and he
she would like come
in even after all this happened like the air conditioning would be on in june
and she'd be
like turn this off we can't afford this my dad would be like just made the
navigator what the
fuck he's talking about that she had that in her head she grew up like that so
she was like oh
shit we're gonna get a big bill and someone's gonna freak out so i was grown up
with my dad
ball and out of control my mom convincing me i'm poor so like i don't know what
the
fuck's going on well she didn't mind driving around that diesel excursion
though she didn't
complain about that you sound like my dad i'll tell you what you got to do is
you go over there
one night you say you're gonna i'm gonna stay over have dinner maybe get a
little wine in them
then once they go to sleep start rooting around through their uh their bills
desk yeah just start
looking for a checkbook real quick see anything any estate planning yeah a
couple of chase
statements yeah i think they're fine i think they're they're totally fine but
yeah i think
that's what i think it was because i worked for an electrician who told me like
your dad could have
chilled i don't know why the fuck he works and yeah i was like i don't know he
just likes to do stuff
but he also does like to just get out of the house yeah yeah that's uh i come
from same thing blue
collar my parents you know in the 90s made a little bit of cash we moved to the
suburbs
and uh then it was all squandered away eventually but that's i mean like
terribly squandered it was all
fucking my dad was running a you know an air conditioning ponzi scheme i think
at one point
and just it all came crumbling down but uh that's such a blue collar thing when
like other blue collar
workers know what other blue collar workers have like the electricians like
your dad could have retired
he squandered a small fortune they talk they gossip dude fucking the the trades
gossip like they all
know who's making what well yeah if you don't pay a bill it's like everybody in
a five mile radius
knows like you didn't fucking pay me for that thing i did yeah like yeah it's
it's pretty crazy man
but yeah that was kind of the uh that was the deal it was like my mom's like
poor and my dad was like
i think i'm gonna buy another motorcycle all right i guess i'll just go get a
job oh this is great
fucking ricky bobby it was you dear lord baby jesus thank you for the trash
business he also has like
i think my whole family from the mccusker side are all like slightly autistic
too so like he'll get
into shit so like he got into he got into like rollerblading what he's he's
also like at this time
he was probably like 250 or 60 pounds because he got he got rich he got fat
immediately oh he was
fat he got fatter that's great but he got rich and like immediately almost
touched 300 and he's
only he's like six feet so he immediately got fat as fuck then he's like i
gotta scale this down he
quit drinking because that was his triglycerides were like i think triple of
like a normal human
being so you gotta chill with that so he took up so he would just get into shit
like he got into muscle
cars did that and then like just ditched that and then he got into like rollerblading
he hit his elbow so he
quit muscle cars to rollerblading what the talk about a downward downward move
yeah yeah i think
i think his accountant was like all right dude let's go to the world blading
looking over the books here
and uh yeah then he got into bicycles and so his basement is just like there's
35
like 1970s so he'll find schwinn's in the trash because he still does trash and
then he'll fix them
up so we have like just literally 30 40 bicycles in our basement that's a cool
little hobby though
that's all right yeah that was his first job when he was little he used to fix
bicycles when he was
like oh that's pretty good then ask him he's like i was like six and i was
fixed i was like dude
fuck you you're probably 14. yeah now i don't want to sound naive here but you
i mean this sounds like
a like a pretty big you know trash company doesn't that those businesses tend
to fall to
a certain group of people so and this is this is what happened though so when
they had so they did
a customer and sons was operated in the middle of chester during the crack
epidemic so like they
were already like they had guns like my uncle would get like try to get like he
got jumped a couple
times and like so they had they had a uh so that people would break in
constantly and then like with
trash they're scrap metal so they're they'd have to they would like pat down
employees at the end of
the day it was insane but they had a guy so they let they let a homeless man
this guy called time bomb tom
would live in the trash tvt my man he was nuts so he would hang around so they
were like look man
we'll buy you a trailer he's homeless so they bought him a trailer and gave him
a security guard
outfit so he would walk around all day patrol thinking he's the shit too he was
nuts so he
would call my dad at three in the morning like kevin they broke in kevin they
broke in again i got
them i shot one oh my god he didn't do anything but he would like so my dad
would rush down there
and he would event these big break-ins so like tell my dad like he was earning
his keep it was so
fucking fun yeah but yeah man that was great it was it was a big trash company
and they had brushed
they brushed up with the mob a couple times people would steal dumpsters that
was a big thing
they'd steal your dumpsters yeah you'd find out you'd have to deal with it but
no he he said they
had a couple people i think the way he uh a couple i'm trying to phrase it in
his language a couple of
goombas try to shoulder up to him a couple elbow up to him a couple times he
told him to fuck off
you're gonna be rollerbladed away because that's the other thing too it's like
you know with a again
you have a family-owned trash business so you can get rid of any so if somebody
if you were to try
to kill somebody you easily can't if you want to you can make that body
disappear real quick yeah if
you want an excavator and a trash company and the only people that work with
you and your brothers
you can totally kill people and get away with it so you know and he he was kind
of uh he had one of his
friends was kind of tied in r.i.p the guy just died recently but he was tied
his dad had been kind of
tied into some organized crime stuff so like he they like knew you know it was
like the whole ridley
park mob families thing there's like a whole bunch of them yeah so yeah he didn't
like he's like i don't
do that shit i'm a hard worker but so he was like you know but that element was
definitely around man
yeah i can imagine he probably had to you know sidestep a couple of things and
deal deal with some
shit like that yeah he had to go to court one time when i was little i remember
him mentioning
something about rico charges and there was someone that he knew got brought in
on rico charges and
they had to ask him some questions or something yeah that's awesome dude the
trash business in
the 80s and 90s and delco what the he's leaving your mom's hanging out the
window you don't tell
him nothing yeah well it was crazy because it back then too it was like in
order to have a transfer
station they only let back then it was like the wild west was like you can
anyone could have a trash
company but then the transfer station you needed to come up with some sort of
money so that's why him and all
his brothers put all of their houses they took mortgages out in all their
houses and just rolled
the dice on the transfer station and i love that so it didn't work it was like
it would have been a
whole different story for the customer family dude you'd be doing security at
somebody else's
that was awesome man i remember being little like i would when i was like nine
years old i would go to
work for i would sit in a trash truck with him and i just i would just listen
to cb radio all day long
of different truckers talking yeah i would hear this is not it was just slurs
constantly something dad
what does that mean he would be like that's what that's what they call indian
guys don't tell your
mom that all right and then i'm like what's that one he's like don't tell
anybody that one you can't
say that and then i would get out of the truck from like learning slurs all day
and then he would
let me shoot rat we would turn they had a big warehouse where they would turn
the lights on and
then rats would scatter so you could sit there with a nine millimeter turn the
lights on as soon as the
rats started running it was just you're blasting rats what you were doing i
think i saw that game on
the boardwalk in wildwood actually rats and then you go in the trailer where
like they had the
computer when trucks came in you got to weigh them and see how much they came
in with and how
much they left with that's how you measure the load and my uncle would just
open a drawer it was all
beef jerky and i was like dude this fucking rules yeah i was like heaven i
would kill a rat
learn a slur and then get nothing's better than that you are the fucking prince
of trash
by the way that's the that's the title of the episode prince of trash it's so
funny because one
of the questions that i came up with was going to ask you has he ever been to a
scrap yard but i
didn't know you were scrap yard royalty so yeah yeah and it was just you and
your brother growing up
no i'm one of six so my dad's one of six my dad's one of ten i'm one of six and
then the funny part
is once so once the trash money started getting nice my dad and his brother
this is before they sold
the company they bought a bunch of uh land out in garna valley before anyone
lived out there
and there was these guys living out there who they think they were out there
making meth
but they were burying they're burying trash which is illegal you're not allowed
to do that you get a
lot of trouble um so my dad not you know not knowing my dad and his brother all
in the trash
company they went out there and they were like look man you know we went here
with a property inspector
you're burying trash out here i don't know what else you guys are up to out
here but like we'll
buy it off you but we're going to buy it off you for super cheap otherwise we're
going to tell
people that you've been burying trash out here because it's going to cost us a
lot of money to get rid of
it because what are we going to do with all this trash so they kind of like weaseled
these guys out
of being like look you bury trash out here it's going to cost us a lot and they
just removed it for
free and got all this all this land out there for you know your dad said they're
like what are we
going to do with all this buried trash and meanwhile there's like 15 trucks
just waiting at the end of
the driveway how was the mess how was the method anybody get a taste i never
tried it man there was
this weird little shack i was there was like this weird shack up there it was
it was weird man there was uh
so then so like my dad and his brother had this property and then they had this
guy i guess who'd
already been living there or i don't know what happened but this other guy who's
a trucker
so it was like my uncle was here with his family they had 10 kids i was next
door on this one piece
of land with six kids and we would all play but then there was this guy who
lived up the driveway from
us who was a trucker who like had raccoons as pets it was weird dude right we
were like go and we would
feed his raccoons urkel cereal i remember that and then like we would walk on
his fence he didn't like
us crossing his fence and we'd be like you bernie dude i would have never
guessed this background for
you in a million years that's wild crazy i grew up kind of on like a cousin
compound of like 20 people
and with like there was i remember finally seeing a cop like when i was like 14
and being like holy
shit there's a cop out here it was like completely you know the fuck you want
it yeah it was awesome
jesus christ that's some fucking hillbilly new money shit if i've ever heard of
it yeah it's
pretty cool man it's pretty well it's been cool though because i then i got to
like you know i got
to go to college and i've met people i've worked with people my whole life who
are like in construction
so if you work construction you're working mostly a lot of times with felons or
just like the you
know the sons of the boss who are like a different kind of class yeah i've been
to get to i've
got to meet a lot of people like people who you know work at a scrapyard versus
like people of
generational wealth at a college so it's definitely been weird mm-hmm so yeah
that's some trippy
shit one of the six to one of six doing a little fucking i like it my dad's one
of ten and everyone
one of his sisters yeah every one of his brothers or sisters have typically at
least five kids is it
are you guys all irish catholic yeah yeah there you go my mom's one of nine we're
like fucking tics yeah
dude that's insane yeah man that was that was the that was a genesis so that's
kind of that's how i
grew up that's that's the origin story right yeah and it was really kind of
like my mom would wake
me up you know she she'd wake us up at like 8 a.m but get out so then i would
go outside into like
a lord of the flies set up with all my older cousins and like dude that was
like it was insane
man we used to play a game where me and my cousin would just run through a
field and my older
cousins would just throw like various balls at us

Prince of Trash w/ Matt McCusker - Are You Garbage Comedy Podcast Clip

are you garbage what does your mom and dad do i kind of feel like you got you
came from a little
cash yeah my so my dad yeah his brother started a trash company oh yeah so they
had a trash company
and then they sold it and when i was like i guess like nine and then they
started doing demolition
so yeah because i knew you were in construction i remember you were doing
construction at some
point i remember that yeah i'm prince of trash prince yeah they had so they had
like a my
my grandfather had a small cardboard recycling business and then he also would
do he was like
a huckster he would like sell he would like go buy a bunch of groceries and
like sell them to people
so he did that and had a gouging people on eggs listen the two bucks at the
store the 202 here
the eggs are 850 and you only get 11. what the yeah so they did he did that and
then he was kind
of like a hustle man he did like a bunch of weird little things but he had a
cardboard recycling
company and then my dad and his brothers worked for him when they were younger
and they started into
like an actual full-scale transfer station you know where harris casinos in chester
yeah yeah that used
to be mccusker and sons the transfer station but they sold they sold the
company and then the company
they sold it to sold the land to harris ah you're one step away from cage that's
retirement that's
like generational wealth there you would have what was funny was they uh
because because my dad and his
brothers all grew up like you know like middle class you know we're like lower
middle class one of like
10 kids in havertown and uh born to a huckster and they so when they the guy
the guy who bought
the company off them was wayne hazanga who he was the guy who owned blockbuster
he owned the miami
dolphins oh yeah he went to my dad and all his brothers he's like how much you
guys want for this
and they wrote down what they thought was like you money because they didn't
want to sell the company
so they thought they were writing him like he was there he was going to see it
and be offended and
the guy was like not a problem yeah he's like i got that on me oh yes i forgot
a zero i forgot a zero
we need two grand more
just two grand so they thought they were hitting him with the number this guy
like
fuck you guys i'm out of here and he was like that's not a problem i can
arrange that today and
they're like so and this is when you were young yeah i was little i remember
one day
my dad came home in a in a navigator it was a red navigator and he was like
things are going to be
different and i was like really yeah he was he was kind of i was like really
little and i was riding
around and he was like i made a lot of money we sold the company and i was like
that's what's up and
he's like yeah man i was like cool got this sweet red navi now hop in let's
fucking go kid
let's go make with the power wheels old man huh i want a race car bed that does
show like
the blue collar trashiness in your dad that he made a bunch of money and went
and bought a red
navigator who does that dude that's like that's kind of a rap video yeah his
life has been like
keeping my mom in like ridiculous that was like he bought my mom in a diesel
excursion for a while
there oh it was ridiculous dude yeah it's pretty funny it's pretty bad wild
dude yeah i was like the
turning point before that we were bopping around the convert we had the
conversion van with like the
four inch tv screen so that was that was that was fucking that was clean living
back in the day
dude i thought we were already bald and then he hit me with the navi and i was
like okay
this guy's caked up it's like where do we watch godzilla he's like we can't
watch godzilla in this
car that sucks dude my buddy used to have the conversion man with the tv and we
would go sit
in the garage sit in the driveway and just watch tv and i thought i was fucking
i thought i was the
richest man in the world in second house dude that's amazing yeah dude turn
that back seat into
a bed and fucking chill out for a little bit sure wait did he have the kind of
cash though when he
sold the trash business that he could have just chilled why did he get into the
demolition business
just i don't that's this is the mystery because this is a go-getter i'm gonna
so i obviously come
from an enigma i have no idea how much money my parents they don't tell me my
mom's been my mom's
been trying to convince me we're poor ever since because my mom grew up pretty
you know relatively
poor and uh like her it was like a single parent her dad was a janitor and he
she would like come
in even after all this happened like the air conditioning would be on in june
and she'd be
like turn this off we can't afford this my dad would be like just made the
navigator what the
fuck he's talking about that she had that in her head she grew up like that so
she was like oh
shit we're gonna get a big bill and someone's gonna freak out so i was grown up
with my dad
ball and out of control my mom convincing me i'm poor so like i don't know what
the
fuck's going on well she didn't mind driving around that diesel excursion
though she didn't
complain about that you sound like my dad i'll tell you what you got to do is
you go over there
one night you say you're gonna i'm gonna stay over have dinner maybe get a
little wine in them
then once they go to sleep start rooting around through their uh their bills
desk yeah just start
looking for a checkbook real quick see anything any estate planning yeah a
couple of chase
statements yeah i think they're fine i think they're they're totally fine but
yeah i think
that's what i think it was because i worked for an electrician who told me like
your dad could have
chilled i don't know why the fuck he works and yeah i was like i don't know he
just likes to do stuff
but he also does like to just get out of the house yeah yeah that's uh i come
from same thing blue
collar my parents you know in the 90s made a little bit of cash we moved to the
suburbs
and uh then it was all squandered away eventually but that's i mean like
terribly squandered it was all
fucking my dad was running a you know an air conditioning ponzi scheme i think
at one point
and just it all came crumbling down but uh that's such a blue collar thing when
like other blue collar
workers know what other blue collar workers have like the electricians like
your dad could have retired
he squandered a small fortune they talk they gossip dude fucking the the trades
gossip like they all
know who's making what well yeah if you don't pay a bill it's like everybody in
a five mile radius
knows like you didn't fucking pay me for that thing i did yeah like yeah it's
it's pretty crazy man
but yeah that was kind of the uh that was the deal it was like my mom's like
poor and my dad was like
i think i'm gonna buy another motorcycle all right i guess i'll just go get a
job oh this is great
fucking ricky bobby it was you dear lord baby jesus thank you for the trash
business he also has like
i think my whole family from the mccusker side are all like slightly autistic
too so like he'll get
into shit so like he got into he got into like rollerblading what he's he's
also like at this time
he was probably like 250 or 60 pounds because he got he got rich he got fat
immediately oh he was
fat he got fatter that's great but he got rich and like immediately almost
touched 300 and he's
only he's like six feet so he immediately got fat as fuck then he's like i
gotta scale this down he
quit drinking because that was his triglycerides were like i think triple of
like a normal human
being so you gotta chill with that so he took up so he would just get into shit
like he got into muscle
cars did that and then like just ditched that and then he got into like rollerblading
he hit his elbow so he
quit muscle cars to rollerblading what the talk about a downward downward move
yeah yeah i think
i think his accountant was like all right dude let's go to the world blading
looking over the books here
and uh yeah then he got into bicycles and so his basement is just like there's
35
like 1970s so he'll find schwinn's in the trash because he still does trash and
then he'll fix them
up so we have like just literally 30 40 bicycles in our basement that's a cool
little hobby though
that's all right yeah that was his first job when he was little he used to fix
bicycles when he was
like oh that's pretty good then ask him he's like i was like six and i was
fixed i was like dude
fuck you you're probably 14. yeah now i don't want to sound naive here but you
i mean this sounds like
a like a pretty big you know trash company doesn't that those businesses tend
to fall to
a certain group of people so and this is this is what happened though so when
they had so they did
a customer and sons was operated in the middle of chester during the crack
epidemic so like they
were already like they had guns like my uncle would get like try to get like he
got jumped a couple
times and like so they had they had a uh so that people would break in
constantly and then like with
trash they're scrap metal so they're they'd have to they would like pat down
employees at the end of
the day it was insane but they had a guy so they let they let a homeless man
this guy called time bomb tom
would live in the trash tvt my man he was nuts so he would hang around so they
were like look man
we'll buy you a trailer he's homeless so they bought him a trailer and gave him
a security guard
outfit so he would walk around all day patrol thinking he's the shit too he was
nuts so he
would call my dad at three in the morning like kevin they broke in kevin they
broke in again i got
them i shot one oh my god he didn't do anything but he would like so my dad
would rush down there
and he would event these big break-ins so like tell my dad like he was earning
his keep it was so
fucking fun yeah but yeah man that was great it was it was a big trash company
and they had brushed
they brushed up with the mob a couple times people would steal dumpsters that
was a big thing
they'd steal your dumpsters yeah you'd find out you'd have to deal with it but
no he he said they
had a couple people i think the way he uh a couple i'm trying to phrase it in
his language a couple of
goombas try to shoulder up to him a couple elbow up to him a couple times he
told him to fuck off
you're gonna be rollerbladed away because that's the other thing too it's like
you know with a again
you have a family-owned trash business so you can get rid of any so if somebody
if you were to try
to kill somebody you easily can't if you want to you can make that body
disappear real quick yeah if
you want an excavator and a trash company and the only people that work with
you and your brothers
you can totally kill people and get away with it so you know and he he was kind
of uh he had one of his
friends was kind of tied in r.i.p the guy just died recently but he was tied
his dad had been kind of
tied into some organized crime stuff so like he they like knew you know it was
like the whole ridley
park mob families thing there's like a whole bunch of them yeah so yeah he didn't
like he's like i don't
do that shit i'm a hard worker but so he was like you know but that element was
definitely around man
yeah i can imagine he probably had to you know sidestep a couple of things and
deal deal with some
shit like that yeah he had to go to court one time when i was little i remember
him mentioning
something about rico charges and there was someone that he knew got brought in
on rico charges and
they had to ask him some questions or something yeah that's awesome dude the
trash business in
the 80s and 90s and delco what the he's leaving your mom's hanging out the
window you don't tell
him nothing yeah well it was crazy because it back then too it was like in
order to have a transfer
station they only let back then it was like the wild west was like you can
anyone could have a trash
company but then the transfer s