Does the McCusker family have a monopoly over waste management in PA?

A quick caveat here is that I listen to way too much of this show. I was top 3% of listeners last year on Spotify. Ten thousand-plus minutes of MSSP. I'm not proud of that. I should be listening to audio books or otherwise trying to self-improve. It's just that we had a kid last year so I was kinda just stuck with a newborn for countless hours. Listened to the dawgs to stay sane. They absolutely helped me through a very difficult period of life.

Anyway a recurring theme I've noticed between Warmode and MSSP is that seemingly all McCusker stories about school, work, etc. inevitably end in the phrase "...then I (or he) just said screw that, I'll just go drive trash trucks." This isn't just as it relates to Billy and Matt. It's their extended family as well. Like they've got an endless treasure trove of trash truck-driving uncles.

That type of thing was never an option for me growing up. Like I didn't have a fall-back option of a trash truck with my name on it. Do they have a family business? Are they the Sopranos of PA?

This is a truly trivial question but I've long pondered it.

To clarify I don't "look down" on trash truck drivers or any sort of labor. It's just such a funny, specific, recurring, profession that they mention.

Oh shit!

Post show sit-down, audio only

Started listening to MSSP this year, but decided to start it from the beginning. I go for a ton of walks and bike rides so having the pod helps a lot. The old testament was actually fucking hilarious, and I completely understand when fans talk about them before they had eyes on them were more unhinged and spicy. That kind of bums me out a bit, cause it feels like in the episodes after you're not getting the God's honest truth from both the boys on anything as they begun pulling punches after the SNL thing.

Pod was absolutely fantastic until I got to like the 400th episode or something, I got up to 447 and I just don't know if I can go on anymore. The show at this time turns weirdly into "guy noises" where Matt and Shane have two or three random dudes on and they all yell and laugh loud as shit at dumb innocuous things and Matt barely gets a word in just sits back. Matt was always the best part of the cast, especially in quiet times with Shane, and then in these loud douchebags rooms he just chills while randoms yell and shit. It kind of sucks.

I used to look forward to my walks but the past couple weeks have really sucked because the cast's aren't just Matt and Shane anymore, there's always some jackass to introduce or talk with, and the Oasis of the show was always just Matt and Shane "checking in" with each other. I don't give a fuck about these random assholes, celebrity or not. I just want to hear whatever weird shit Matt was reading or researching, Shane's misadventures with his friends or complaining about his bbg, and Phil come in to call them assholes. What the show was.

Should I just pickup my ball and go home, or pay the paytch and see if there's any old episodes I can still salvage? Is the show in essence just this from here on out, should I stop?