How to pronounce “uppers” in English

They're tidier uppers.

there's Seattle and there's the uppers and the downers and the fact that the sun doesn't shine much there in the winter and somebody actually said to me

I think there are people who are natural born tidy uppers, if that's even a real word.

By the way, the upper uppers, the highest echelon, actually drive very non-fancy cars.

Is that a real word, tidy uppers?

So a plea to the artists and the creators, the scientists, nonprofit runners, librarians, strange thinkers, start-uppers,