The Garbologists
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DANNY
is the white
male blue collar New York City sanitation worker
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MARLOWE
is the Black
female ivy-educated newbie who just joined his route
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Thrown together by the job, they spend their shifts bickering, one-upping each other, and practicing the secret art of mongo: hunting for treasure in the trash. But as their lives become increasingly entwined, they discover some things are easier to toss than others.
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Honoring our essential workers, The Garbologists is a hopeful story about finding common ground in uncommon times.
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HONORING ESSENTIAL WORKERS
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Chicago sanitation worker Sammy Dattulo:
"We can't stop doing what we're doing. We have to do our job. It's just like the first responders. We serve. And now we're protecting, because, if we don't get their garbage, they got all this bacteria. And people can get infected by that. I take pride in my job, I love my job. I can't wait to get up in the morning and go to work because I love my job." -- PBS NewsHour |
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IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Interviews with San Men
In the parking lot of Curious Theatre, Denver and a DSNY garage in Manhattan, sanitation workers teach playwright Lindsay Joelle how to operate the truck.
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DENVER
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NEW YORK
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SANITATION LINGO: "Mongo"
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MARLOWE
What's Mongo?
DANNY
Mongo: Verb. To scavenge.
Noun. Junk. Use it in a sentence: "Heck yeah, I'd mongo this mongo." MARLOWE
Stealing: Verb. Taking something that's not yours.
DANNY
Where do you think we get half the stuff in the garage? The TV. The microwave. The foosball table...
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Photos of DSNY's private museum of mongo and trash found on route
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