Teddy Swims!

Are You Garbage presents singer and songwriter Teddy Swims! You know Teddy Swims from his music career, his chart-topping global smash hits "Lose Control" and "The Door," The Breakfast Club, Impractical Jokers, Take Your Shoes Off, Sundae Conversation, Dr. Phil LIVE, Mythical Kitchen, Bertcast, Late Night, The Late Show, The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Kelly Clarkson Show, and so much more! Thanks for watching AYG Comedy Podcast. Love youse guys. Come to a live show! Watch AMERICAN GARBAGE: https://youtu.be/77zGwlLffWk?si=6E9dBr63JY7HgP9t AYG 2026 Live Shows: https://areyougarbage.com/pages/live-shows NEW AYG MERCH: https://areyougarbage.com/ Live Shows: https://areyougarbage.com/pages/live-shows PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/AreYouGarbage MERCH: https://areyougarbage.com/ Sponsored By: Rocket Money: Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster. Join at https://www. RocketMoney.com/GARBAGE Promo Code: GARBAGE BetterHelp: If you've thought about trying therapy with our long-term partner, BetterHelp, insurance options may now be available nationwide, with an average copay for eligible members of just $23 per session. If you've been waiting to start therapy, BetterHelp works with more than 125 health plan networks, and eligible members have an average copay of just $23 per session with insurance. Don't have insurance or don't live in the United States? You can still get 10% off your first month. Visit https://betterhelp.com/garbage to explore your payment options. Promo Code: GARBAGE Comedians H. Foley and Kevin Ryan are self proclaimed GARBAGE. Each week a new stand up comedian gets put to the test. Steal shampoo from hotels? Own a George Foreman Grill? Ever worn JNCO Jeans? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00H. Foley?

  Hey ho gang, the army of garbage tour is about to kick off. This weekend, we're gonna be in Appleton, Wisconsin at Skyline Comedy Club. Stand up comedy, plus you play a little are you garbage with the crowd. You've seen the special American garbage. You know what you're getting into. It's a good time. Grab your squad, come out and see the boys.

• 0:16Speaker 01

  Yeah, then we're gonna be at San Jose, October 16th. Uh, limited tickets left October 17th in San Diego. Then we're in Tacoma, Atlanta, Philadelphia, just announced Boston. Get your tickets, we'll be at the Wilbur. Are you garbage.com, we love yous.

• 0:30Speaker 02

  Welcome to another exciting edition of Are You Garbage? The show where you find out if your favorite comedians are classy individuals or absolute trash. Now here are your hosts, Kevin Ryan and H Foley.

• 0:50H. Foley?

  Hey, everybody out there and welcome back to everybody's favorite podcast. This is Are You Garbage?

• 0:55Speaker 01

  Oh yeah.

• 0:56H. Foley?

  It's that little show, we sit down with your favorite comedians and we find out if they grew up to be classy.

• 1:00Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:00H. Foley?

  Or just a big old piece of trash.

• 1:02Speaker 01

  Trash, trash, trash.

• 1:03H. Foley?

  I'm your host, H Foley, coming at you on a beautiful day. We're out back here at Tooties in the new addition. She's upstairs in her bedroom watching Gladiator.

• 1:10Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 1:10H. Foley?

  For the 15th time.

• 1:11Speaker 01

  Alright, fair enough.

• 1:12H. Foley?

  Alright. Mike Coles is coming at you from right next to me. He is the CEO of Are You Garbage, international businessman and my best pal in the whole wide world and he loves me. Give it up for KJ, Kevin James Ryan, everybody.

• 1:23Speaker 01

  What up gang, shout out to you as always, thanks for tuning in. Please make sure you rate, view, subscribe on iTunes. Full video available on YouTube, full video available over there on Spotify and the boys are climbing the fricking charts over there.

• 1:33H. Foley?

  Yes, sir.

• 1:33Speaker 01

  Top 20, so I don't even know, but we're up there. And then obviously the greatest website of all time, www.patreon.com/areyougarbage. You go over there, you get all that bonus content.

• 1:43H. Foley?

  Love that money and gang, we couldn't be more excited to have our incredibly, and I mean incredibly special guest here with us today for the first time. He is a very talented, very successful, genre bending singer songwriter. He is on tour right now. He has a brand new album, Ugly, coming out January 22nd and the lead single on that album is out right now called A Perfect Man. Give it up for truly the one, the only Teddy Swims. How about that? Look at him.

• 2:12Speaker 03

  Some people, some people are just born for this.

• 2:14Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:15Speaker 03

  Y'all are nailing this, man.

• 2:17Speaker 01

  When we first started the show, he was like, big intro. I'm like, this seems like a lot, but it's, it's a.

• 2:22H. Foley?

  That's about all I could do. Everything else in my life is a shattered mess.

• 2:26Speaker 03

  Hey, well, you gotta get one thing right.

• 2:28H. Foley?

  Let's go.

• 2:28Speaker 01

  He's got the intro now.

• 2:29H. Foley?

  Buddy, thank you so much for coming in.

• 2:31Speaker 03

  Thank you for having me, man, I'm thrilled.

• 2:33H. Foley?

  First off, congratulations on everything, you're killing it. You got the Barclay Center tomorrow, you're moving and shaking. We love to see it.

• 2:40Speaker 03

  Dude, honored, so honored.

• 2:41H. Foley?

  The voice is, uh, out of control.

• 2:44Speaker 01

  Crazy.

• 2:44Speaker 03

  Thank you, man.

• 2:45H. Foley?

  Unique, powerful, unbelievable.

• 2:47Speaker 03

  Been doing it for about 20 years, so we, we finally got good, dude, that's how, finally got good.

• 2:52Speaker 01

  I understand that myself, yeah.

• 2:54H. Foley?

  Give us the origin story. Now, we're here to determine whether you're trash or not.

• 2:57Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 2:57Speaker 03

  I'll probably a hundred percent.

• 2:59Speaker 01

  I mean, there's.

• 3:01Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 3:01H. Foley?

  I mean, dude, you would have to fingernails, tattoos, gold check.

• 3:05Speaker 03

  Yeah, you gotta look like my haircut, man. I'm my mom, I'm, it's just, it's white trash, baby, that's me, baby.

• 3:10H. Foley?

  You're a Georgia boy, right?

• 3:11Speaker 01

  Yeah, down south.

• 3:12H. Foley?

  Give us the backstory, how'd you grow up?

• 3:13Speaker 03

  Uh, man, I grew up in a little town about 30 minutes east of Atlanta called Conyers.

• 3:17H. Foley?

  Okay.

• 3:18Speaker 03

  And, uh, you know, I was playing football my whole life, was a theater kid through high school and, um, you know, my, my dear friends who were in my band, we're, we've been playing together since we were little kids.

• 3:30Speaker 01

  No shit.

• 3:31Speaker 03

  Yeah, man, I, we, man, my, my dog Jesse, he's my guitarist, um, man, I've known him since I was in the sixth grade, so we've, we've been, we go.

• 3:38H. Foley?

  That's wild.

• 3:39Speaker 03

  We go way back, my basis since I was in fifth grade and the rest of the boys, I mean, at least 15 years, but we.

• 3:44H. Foley?

  Damn.

• 3:45Speaker 03

  You know, his dad was always playing, Jesse's dad was always playing and I remember the first time I went over to his house in like the eighth grade, um, his dad played Wanna Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi in his garage, you know?

• 3:56Speaker 01

  That's a coming of life moment.

• 3:57Speaker 03

  Yeah, dude, and I was like, dude, your dad is the coolest fucking dude I've ever seen in my life. We gotta be this guy.

• 4:03Speaker 01

  Let's go.

• 4:04Speaker 03

  And for years, you know, his dad was always like, there's my favorite singer, my favorite guitarist in the world, man, and, and he just, you know, inspired us and, and.

• 4:12Speaker 01

  That's amazing, dude.

• 4:13Speaker 03

  Get after this, man.

• 4:14Speaker 01

  Getting choked up right away.

• 4:15Speaker 03

  It was so cool, man, cause we, we promised him years ago that when we got to, uh, Red Rocks, that we'd have him come up and do that song with us. And last year, yeah, last year, we got to bring him up and.

• 4:24Speaker 01

  I'll wellen up.

• 4:25Speaker 03

  Hot Rod, bro, he just got up there.

• 4:27Speaker 01

  Hot Rod?

• 4:28Speaker 03

  Hot Rod Hampton, man.

• 4:29H. Foley?

  That's his name, Hot Rod Hampton?

• 4:31Speaker 03

  His name is Rodney, so yeah, he goes by.

• 4:33H. Foley?

  Lover Rodney.

• 4:34Speaker 01

  Lover, we're a big Rodney's, alright.

• 4:35Speaker 03

  Dude, my dad's also Rodney, man.

• 4:37H. Foley?

  Your dad's name is Rodney?

• 4:38Speaker 03

  Yeah, me and my best pal's dad's both name Rodney, so it's written in the star.

• 4:43H. Foley?

  Your dad's name Rodney, my dad's name Rodney, we're best pals.

• 4:45Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's exactly kinda how it went down.

• 4:47Speaker 01

  Start a family, boy.

• 4:48Speaker 03

  Yeah, exactly.

• 4:49Speaker 01

  Let's go to Red Rocks.

• 4:49H. Foley?

  Uh, what did your dad do growing up? What'd your mom and dad do?

• 4:52Speaker 03

  Um, my mom does hair, um, my dad, um, he works at this place called PPG, like in a lab painting, like making paints and stuff like that and testing paints, but he actually retires, today's his last day, man, so.

• 5:05Speaker 01

  Hey, let's go.

• 5:06Speaker 03

  Yeah, we're retiring early, man. He's actually gonna be out here at the show tomorrow and.

• 5:10H. Foley?

  Do you have a little something to do with that?

• 5:11Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, man, yeah, man, I, I get to retire him and.

• 5:14Speaker 01

  That's awesome.

• 5:15Speaker 03

  He's gonna spend, uh, what he says, the next couple of weeks on the road chasing girls, man, so we're fucking.

• 5:21H. Foley?

  Your parents are separated, are you serious?

• 5:23Speaker 03

  No, they're not, no.

• 5:24H. Foley?

  You're recording this, are you?

• 5:27Speaker 01

  Also, the, the, I, the hairstylist, whatever, is not a trashy occupation, but to say she does hair is the trashiest way to say she does hair.

• 5:37H. Foley?

  My mom does hair.

• 5:38Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 5:38Speaker 03

  You know, I, I, I went to hair school for, you know, about six months. I didn't finish, but I did, I did.

• 5:45H. Foley?

  Well, thanks for coming in Teddy, we appreciate it.

• 5:46Speaker 03

  Yeah, I did, I did.

• 5:47H. Foley?

  We got a grand slam on our hands here.

• 5:49Speaker 03

  Yeah, bro, well, I sure did, I, I, you know, I, I dropped out, but, um.

• 5:53H. Foley?

  I dropped out.

• 5:54Speaker 03

  I did, beauty school dropout, man, you know what I'm saying?

• 5:56H. Foley?

  There you go.

• 5:57Speaker 03

  Don't get trashier than that.

• 5:58H. Foley?

  Frankie, Frankie Avalon.

• 6:00Speaker 01

  Damn, okay, um, what was, uh, growing up, what was the house like? Was it, uh, single family house, apartment, condo, townhouse?

• 6:07Speaker 03

  Um, a little both, you know, my mom was married to a man for a long time, um, and, you know, he was, he was a half Mexican man, so, uh, you know, really like, I, I was really around a lot of that growing up. And then, uh, but my dad also, he had a different wife and their, their mother, my two little brothers, uh, we have different moms, but their mother was really kind of, you know, um, in and out of jail and schizophrenic and bipolar, so. My dad really kinda raised them and by, by himself and I lived with them a lot growing up and so.

• 6:40H. Foley?

  So you were back and forth?

• 6:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, but I had, I kinda both sides of the coin there. My dad really struggled through and we were living in the hood in Conyers and, and, you know, I mean, struggling for lights and water for a lot of time, you know, but, and my mom was always doing alright, but you know, she's, you know, she's, she's a, she's a sweet lady, I guess, you know?

• 6:59H. Foley?

  So you were back and forth, alright. Good stuff. Well, um, how far away was, was each other?

• 7:05Speaker 03

  Probably 15 minutes, 10 minutes.

• 7:07H. Foley?

  15 minutes, that's not bad.

• 7:08Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, so we, you know, I, I got, I think I got a little bit of both sides of the coin there, you know, and, and, uh, I mean, I'm grateful, man, I.

• 7:16H. Foley?

  It's a good balance.

• 7:17Speaker 01

  That's good, yeah.

• 7:18H. Foley?

  What was the grocery store growing up?

• 7:20Speaker 03

  Uh, you know, Kroger.

• 7:21H. Foley?

  Kroger?

• 7:22Speaker 01

  Kroger, solid establishment.

• 7:23Speaker 03

  We had a good Kroger's, man.

• 7:25H. Foley?

  Respectable?

• 7:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, you know, I mean, we're not, we weren't afforded publics, you know? The Aldi's, man, we rip off an Aldi's, you know what I'm saying, dude?

• 7:33Speaker 01

  Back in the day, too. Uh, how were you in school, how were the grades?

• 7:37Speaker 03

  Uh, terrible.

• 7:38Speaker 01

  Like DF or like could get by?

• 7:41Speaker 03

  I wouldn't, dude, I, I, you know, they had passed this law when I was in middle school.

• 7:46Speaker 01

  That's a bad way to start a story.

• 7:48Speaker 03

  It was that no child left behind policy, you know, which is why I made it through seventh grade, you know, but they basically was like.

• 7:54H. Foley?

  Slogan, somebody get Teddy?

• 7:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, but, you know, I, it's so funny because, um, I had, I had like, was so behind going into like my senior year of high school that they used to do this thing, um, called, called like, uh, Alpha Omega Academy, you know, where it was something you could go pick up your work and do like eight weeks of like, you know, pick up work, basically you read a chapter and do the quiz in the back and you do that for like eight weeks and then they give you the credit.

• 8:21H. Foley?

  Okay.

• 8:21Speaker 03

  So like I called up a bunch of classes that I was behind going into senior year cause I was technically still in like 10th grade, I guess, and, and, uh, and then I got an idea, like a wild hair, I was like, I'm gonna just go ahead and like get all my core classes for my senior year.

• 8:35H. Foley?

  Get ahead.

• 8:35Speaker 03

  Out of the way and get ahead. Yeah, you know, and so I did it and then I rolled up on my senior year and was like, you know, I already did all my core classes, so I'm like, I'm good to go on that and my principal at the time was like, you're not coming to school on your senior year just to do theater. And I was like, well, I've already got the credit, so that's kinda what I'm doing, I'm just here to do theater and get out of here. And then she was like, no, I'm not, I'm not letting that happen. So she like kept me in my core classes, which I just didn't show up to cause I had the credit, so I like got zeros in a lot of my, so I actually graduated. I graduated at the lowest of my, yeah, class because of that, cause it was just a bunch of zeros, but.

• 9:15H. Foley?

  You were actually last last?

• 9:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, I was, I had a bunch of zeros, you know?

• 9:19H. Foley?

  I was, I was third from the, from the last. And I went every day.

• 9:23Speaker 01

  I tried.

• 9:24Speaker 03

  But who, who won that fight, you know what I'm saying?

• 9:26Speaker 01

  That's right. Who, uh, how many kids were in the graduating class?

• 9:30Speaker 03

  I wanna say, yeah, like three, 400 or something.

• 9:32H. Foley?

  That's good, solid class, okay. How was the football, how was the football program?

• 9:36Speaker 03

  Dude, we were, we were alright, you know, uh, I think.

• 9:39H. Foley?

  Where'd you play?

• 9:40Speaker 03

  I, I was a defensive tackle and offensive guard and then, but I, I stopped playing when I was about a, when I was going into my junior year.

• 9:48H. Foley?

  Okay.

• 9:49Speaker 03

  I just, you know, I'm five, seven and all the other dudes were growing and I just kinda like, it's not gonna happen, you know? Yeah, so I, I just, I, I got, once I got into the theater, it just changed my life.

• 10:00H. Foley?

  That was it.

• 10:00Speaker 03

  I fell in love with singing.

• 10:01H. Foley?

  That's alright, I respect it. Chunky or creamy peanut butter?

• 10:05Speaker 03

  Creamy.

• 10:06H. Foley?

  Creamy.

• 10:07Speaker 01

  Respectable.

• 10:09Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 10:09Speaker 01

  Uh, what was the family vacation like growing up?

• 10:12Speaker 03

  I'm not, not many. I mean, you know, I, when I would go with my mom, my, my, my stepdad worked a lot out of town. You know, he would build, like built fields and landscaping company. So we went to places like that, you know, but everywhere he was, but not.

• 10:27Speaker 01

  Nothing.

• 10:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 10:28H. Foley?

  Places like what? Like you would just go?

• 10:30Speaker 01

  Where he was working.

• 10:30Speaker 03

  Yeah, but basically, I mean, he was, he was such a, he was such a like, you know, you gotta get it thing. So most of the time I'd be on those vacations. He was like, you know, oh, you're gonna have to get up and go to work with me. And then, you know, at the end of the day, you can make the hundred dollars and you can spend it. So even though me and my older brother were probably like 11 or 12, you know, just absolutely pulling sod, you know? But which is like, I mean, dude, that's, that's right there, dude. It's, it's like, and I'm, I'm so grateful for that work, but man, that is a, that is a Mexican man right there, man. He's like, you're gonna, you're gonna get out here and do this damn work, boy. So.

• 11:04H. Foley?

  Carrying sod at 12 years old. It was like kinda wet and it was like warm.

• 11:08Speaker 03

  But man, we, yeah, we worked for it for sure.

• 11:10H. Foley?

  I love it. Damn. All right. Uh, Christmas, what would you guys do? You guys Christmas family?

• 11:15Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 11:16H. Foley?

  Colored, colored lights on the tree, white lights on the tree?

• 11:18Speaker 03

  Um, I don't, I don't think there was a, you know, like, I, I couldn't recall if, I don't think there was like a, it's gotta be this.

• 11:25Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just kinda whatever.

• 11:26H. Foley?

  I'm leaning colored.

• 11:27Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 11:28H. Foley?

  From that answer. How about the house? Would you guys decorate the house?

• 11:30Speaker 03

  Yeah, well, you know, my mom's would, uh, my dad, I mean, he was kinda like.

• 11:35Speaker 01

  Stuff going on.

• 11:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, he did.

• 11:36Speaker 01

  Extracurricular activities.

• 11:37Speaker 03

  He didn't really have that, you know, the, the means. So it was, like I said, I got kinda both sides of the coin there.

• 11:43Speaker 01

  For sure. Um, what was your first car growing up?

• 11:47Speaker 03

  Oh, man, I had, uh, I had this, uh, I wanna say the first one I got to drive was this Honda Civic.

• 11:56Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 11:57Speaker 03

  It was, uh, my, my, my older brother had gotten an ION Saturn.

• 12:01Speaker 01

  Saturn ION, yeah.

• 12:02Speaker 03

  And, and this was, uh, I was in the 10th grade. I just turned 16. So, uh, but funny enough, we were both leaving the house, headed to school. And I straight up, not even a mile from the house, rear ended him.

• 12:16Speaker 03

  And, and so just totally like, I totaled his and then, you know, ended up having to give him that one. So I, I kinda like was.

• 12:24Speaker 01

  Yeah, right.

• 12:24Speaker 03

  That's an old school trade. Until my dad got me, you know, it's old, beat up, like it didn't have AC or heat in it, but I had this, uh, I wanna say it was like a 98 Firebird that I had for it.

• 12:38H. Foley?

  Really?

• 12:38Speaker 03

  It was a piece of shit.

• 12:39Speaker 01

  Sure, yeah, it tend to be at times, yeah.

• 12:41H. Foley?

  When those were bad, they were bad.

• 12:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, it had the T-tops on it.

• 12:44Speaker 01

  Yeah, sick though. We were just talking about that.

• 12:46Speaker 03

  I used to go pick up my little girlfriend and it would be fucking cold. You had to dump the, the water on the, on the windshield to get the ice off. And it's like, here's a blanket. We're just, they're cold.

• 12:56H. Foley?

  Claw seats in that, I would assume?

• 12:58Speaker 03

  Absolutely.

• 12:59Speaker 01

  Yeah, there was, there was, uh, fans submitted a question of when was the last time you were in a convertible or T-tops that had claw seats? And I'm like, it was my buddy's Firebird. I was 16 and I'm like, I can smell that car. They all felt this, they all felt the same, yeah.

• 13:12H. Foley?

  Did you go to the prom?

• 13:13Speaker 03

  I know I did not, man. I never went to the prom.

• 13:16H. Foley?

  What productions did you do in high school?

• 13:18Speaker 03

  Um, my last production I got to do was, uh, Rent with, with my best pal Jesse, who's in my guitarist, man. So I played Roger in that. He played Mark. And, um, I mean, I did a bunch of stuff. I did Children of Eden, Damn Yankees, uh, Crazy For You. I did, uh, Much Ado About Nothing.

• 13:35H. Foley?

  Let's go.

• 13:36Speaker 03

  I did, I did a bunch of.

• 13:37H. Foley?

  That's Shakespeare, little bit.

• 13:38Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 13:39Speaker 01

  Not too bad.

• 13:39Speaker 03

  Played Dog's Berry in that bit, which was really cool.

• 13:42Speaker 01

  That's awesome. What, like, let's say, you know, you're out of theater or whatever. What's a day, what's a weekend day look like for you and your boys? You know, eighth, ninth grade, you're waking up. Are you, do you have a job yet or are you?

• 13:53Speaker 03

  No, we're getting hammered all the time.

• 13:56H. Foley?

  Wait till we're breaking ice.

• 13:57Speaker 03

  We're absolutely getting hammered all the time, man. I was, I was, I was selling a bunch of dope at the time.

• 14:04Speaker 01

  No shit? Oh, I didn't know it was like that. Okay.

• 14:06Speaker 03

  Bro, I was, I was.

• 14:07Speaker 01

  What age did that?

• 14:08Speaker 03

  Just enough to like, for us to like, smoke for free and get a little cash in our pocket, you know?

• 14:13Speaker 01

  Nice.

• 14:13Speaker 03

  But yeah.

• 14:14Speaker 01

  What age did that start?

• 14:15Speaker 03

  Um, seventh, sixth, seventh grade.

• 14:18Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 14:19Speaker 03

  I started kinda pedaling a little.

• 14:20Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 14:21H. Foley?

  Seven, sixth grade?

• 14:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, I was, I was kinda selling a little bit then. We'd go to the ice skating rink and the skating rink around and, you know, kinda flip a little bag during Ghost Skate, you know, just a little wee, nothing crazy.

• 14:32Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 14:32Speaker 03

  You know, and I mean, at the time, I remember growing up in, growing up in, uh, in Tall Oaks, man, uh, dude, this guy, my buddy JJ at the time, uh, his uncle used to like front us like weed. It's like, you know, go, go, go get me.

• 14:46Speaker 01

  Always an uncle.

• 14:47Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 14:48Speaker 01

  It's always some guy's uncle.

• 14:49Speaker 03

  If you basically give me like 80 bucks back for the Oz, you know, then you guys keep the rest, right? And then, I mean, dude, yeah, but dude, it was, it was like, uh, dude, it was such a mess though, because like you, it was straight like stems and seeds.

• 15:03Speaker 01

  I was sure, $80 ounce, yeah.

• 15:05Speaker 03

  Yeah, like, but, but I mean, we were selling to the seventh graders, you know what I'm saying? As a seventh grader, obviously not like, not like, not as a grown man, but he was the one giving weed to seventh graders.

• 15:15H. Foley?

  His kids are wide open.

• 15:15Speaker 03

  Yeah, dude. And so I remember we had this, we had this incredible idea where, where I, I, I told my buddy, I was like, oh, bro, what if we just like kinda drip a little bit of like, a little vanilla extract in the weed, you know what I'm saying? And we just let it sit there for a couple of days and then we just tell them, it's like, it's like this vanilla dro, man, you know what I'm saying? And then we can sell this for like $10 a gram.

• 15:37H. Foley?

  Probably opens it up a little bit too.

• 15:39Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. People were like, this is dope, man, you know? But it was nothing but a drop of vanilla extract in the bag, you know, but it.

• 15:46H. Foley?

  Kids coming in with a splitting headache.

• 15:48Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. But we got one over.

• 15:50H. Foley?

  Let's go.

• 15:51Speaker 01

  That's awesome.

• 15:52H. Foley?

  What'd you sell a quarter for?

• 15:53Speaker 03

  Uh, 25.

• 15:55H. Foley?

  Gentlemen?

• 15:56Speaker 03

  I mean, it was, like I said, it was, it was absolute.

• 15:58H. Foley?

  I got you.

• 15:59Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was that boogie brown, my dog. It was that straight Reggie. But later on in my, uh, career, you know, my short-lived career, when I was, when I was getting, you know, in 10th, 11th grade and stuff, I, I was able to sell, you know, like nicer.

• 16:14Speaker 01

  Nicer, nicer product.

• 16:15Speaker 03

  As soon as it was invented, you know, I feel like, I feel like the loud kinda came around later.

• 16:19Speaker 01

  Time, yeah. It makes me think now, kids probably are starting to smoke just really good weed.

• 16:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 16:26Speaker 01

  Start with the five, like, you know, like the $10.

• 16:28Speaker 03

  Find that. I'm like, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know who has a bag of mid anymore.

• 16:32Speaker 01

  I told you.

• 16:34H. Foley?

  Gimme a couple minutes. It's funny, you can see how you are, you know, you're, you're, you're all over every genre and all that kinda stuff. You see, you see it in you.

• 16:43Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 16:43H. Foley?

  You know, football theater, moving a little weight.

• 16:47Speaker 01

  No petty crimes, hand in hand.

• 16:48Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 16:50H. Foley?

  I like to see it. Any pets growing up?

• 16:52Speaker 03

  Um, I had a, I had a little puppy, uh, my, my dog, uh, Lexi, I had from my time, I was like three to 18 and she was a little, she was a little dachshund. My, my mom still has like, you know, a little statue in her ashes and stuff, uh, like never quite ever gets over that, you know?

• 17:09H. Foley?

  You scared me when you said puppy. So, so the dog lived for 18 years?

• 17:12Speaker 03

  Yeah, well, I guess 15 years, yeah.

• 17:14H. Foley?

  Beautiful. You said puppy. I was like, oh man, this is gonna go bird.

• 17:17Speaker 01

  No, no, no.

• 17:17H. Foley?

  No, uh, no snakes, no frogs, no turtles, anything weird?

• 17:21Speaker 03

  No, man, I, I, for a.

• 17:22H. Foley?

  Hamsters?

• 17:23Speaker 03

  For a week once, I had, I had, I had a duck, which was cool, man. Yeah, dude, well, you know, me and my homies, me and my homies were leaving the pool and they're like, between my, my house and this company, uh, this, this, this neighborhood called Cedar Brook, it was like a little, we had through the woods, made a pathway to get to my buddy's house. And there was a duck there and it just kinda followed us home, you know?

• 17:44H. Foley?

  Full grown or duckling?

• 17:44Speaker 03

  Yeah, a whole duck. And so dude, wait, we kinda picked it up with my towel and then like I brought it to the house. We went and picked up, like got a kiddie pool and filled it up. And it was like, I just, I'm gonna leave it here, you know? But then, uh, it, I mean, of course, like I went to my dad's for the weekend and I got home and it was gone. And my mom's like, it ran away. And I was like, no, it did not run away. And she's like, but finally I got the truth out of her. And she was like, it was shitting everywhere. So I was like, you can't have a duck. You can't have a duck, you know? So that, which I get, man.

• 18:14H. Foley?

  Name of that duck?

• 18:15Speaker 03

  Sid.

• 18:16H. Foley?

  Let's go.

• 18:16Speaker 01

  Sid the duck.

• 18:17H. Foley?

  Sid the duck. That's not bad.

• 18:19Speaker 01

  You explained something that's very near and dear to my childhood. It's a, a patch of woods or forest that connects.

• 18:25H. Foley?

  Yes.

• 18:26Speaker 01

  Two neighborhoods and that trail that you blaze as like a couple of friends, that's where you first start drinking some beer, you smoke a cigarette. That's, that, that section, that thinking of woods is.

• 18:36Speaker 03

  Well, you know, my, my, my stepdad at the time, he used to, I mean, he worked out of town all the time, but he had downstairs in our basement was like, you know, this whole kinda bar set up. So we would, you know, just take a water bottle and fill it up with all sorts, you know? Yeah. And then just fill the bottle back up with water. And I didn't get busted until way later when it, when he got home and he's like, all this is water.

• 18:58Speaker 01

  Yeah. I got caught for, uh, changing the vodka. They ended up putting it in the freezer at some point and it all turned, it all froze and it's not supposed to freeze.

• 19:07H. Foley?

  Dead giveaway.

• 19:07Speaker 01

  Damn, I got me.

• 19:09H. Foley?

  Tito's ripped you off. Um, I heard you say you're coming back from the pool. Did I hear you say that?

• 19:16Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 19:17H. Foley?

  Community pool?

• 19:18Speaker 03

  Yeah, there was one in a, uh, in a neighborhood called Meadowbrook. We used to frequent a bit.

• 19:22H. Foley?

  Very nice snack bar?

• 19:23Speaker 03

  Um, not that I remember.

• 19:25H. Foley?

  No snack bar, okay. High dive?

• 19:27Speaker 03

  Maybe like a, uh, not a high dive.

• 19:29H. Foley?

  Diving board?

• 19:30Speaker 03

  A diving board, yeah. They used to do like, you know, there was like kids swimming, you know, like teams or whatever.

• 19:35H. Foley?

  Gotcha.

• 19:36Speaker 03

  I was, I was never much of a swimmer.

• 19:39H. Foley?

  What was your backflip forward flip situation?

• 19:41Speaker 03

  I could, I could nail a flip.

• 19:43H. Foley?

  Really?

• 19:43Speaker 03

  I can do, you know, in my younger days, I could, I could, you know, I, I, I went through a, a phase which you could still find on YouTube. It's so funny. When I was in the eighth grade, um, if you look up the greatest trampoline match of all time. Dude, it's got like 500,000 views on it, bro. Dude, yeah, me and my buddy Caleb, we went to this, uh, we went all the way to Macon with these like grown ass men, you know? And, and I was gonna be 13 at the time and they were like, they were doing this like backyard wrestling, you know what I mean? And I mean, we were serious about it. I thought like, I thought I was really good at it. And so it's just all the highlights of this like, this, this, this wrestling match we did with these grown ass men. They, well, they had it like, they were at their mom's house, but they had it where they set out, they had like little green sheets, you know?

• 20:26Speaker 03

  So they could put their stuff on it and like editing and we're coming out like, you're doing the whole bit. Yeah, yeah, dude, it was, it was so cool, man.

• 20:34Speaker 01

  That's, there's so many times where, where were our parents where you're like, yeah, it's just hanging out with a grown ass man. You know what I mean?

• 20:39Speaker 03

  Dude, wrestling with these guys, yeah. It was kind of them though.

• 20:44Speaker 01

  We did the same shit.

• 20:45H. Foley?

  Just a trampoline at that age, you're like in the back of your head like, this is dangerous.

• 20:50Speaker 03

  Yeah, but.

• 20:51Speaker 01

  Fuck it.

• 20:52H. Foley?

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• 20:55Speaker 01

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• 20:56H. Foley?

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• 21:00Speaker 01

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• 21:00H. Foley?

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• 21:03Speaker 01

  Uh huh.

• 21:04H. Foley?

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• 21:06Speaker 01

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• 21:06H. Foley?

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• 21:11Speaker 01

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• 21:11H. Foley?

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• 21:23Speaker 01

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• 21:29H. Foley?

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• 21:29Speaker 01

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• 22:07H. Foley?

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• 22:20Speaker 01

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• 22:21H. Foley?

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• 22:40Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:41H. Foley?

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• 23:30H. Foley?

  Did you guys have a quarry or anything like that? You would like, uh, like a natural body of water that you would jump off or jump into or anything like that?

• 23:36Speaker 03

  I'm, I'm not, I'm not one for the heights of it, but.

• 23:39H. Foley?

  Gotcha.

• 23:39Speaker 03

  You know, I mean, I, I, I had spent some time, we, we had Jackson Lake and I'd spent some time there, but we, we didn't have like near us, nowhere near.

• 23:47H. Foley?

  Rope swing or anything like that?

• 23:48Speaker 03

  Nothing like that. We're growing up, but.

• 23:51Speaker 01

  How do you, how do you feel about a natural body of water now? Are you still, are you, do you get in or are you still like?

• 23:55Speaker 03

  No, I don't mind a boat, but I'm, I don't think that the, the like, you know, that's for us, you know what I mean?

• 24:03H. Foley?

  You're not a swimmer.

• 24:04Speaker 03

  No, I'm not, not, I, I'm not gonna drown in there. Like I can paddle about, but I, I'm definitely not like, I don't, I don't think the ocean is for us.

• 24:12H. Foley?

  What are you scared of? Sharks? Are you a shark guy?

• 24:15Speaker 03

  Just, I don't know. It's, that, it's just not my, it's not where my feet are.

• 24:19Speaker 01

  It's constantly trying to push you back to the land, you know what I mean?

• 24:21Speaker 03

  It's not, it's not for us. There's things that, that. Yeah, it's just like, we're here, this is our space and then the, the, the, the air is for the birds and then, and then, and the, and the, and the water's for the fish. I think this is, we have our domain. Why do we keep trying to fuck with that? Why are we trying to fuck with that?

• 24:39Speaker 01

  I'll try to walk in both worlds.

• 24:41H. Foley?

  Teddy scared of the water. I like you. I got a bad shark thing, man. A bad shark.

• 24:46Speaker 03

  Yeah, I could have imagined.

• 24:47H. Foley?

  I'm worried about them on the street, like the bad.

• 24:49Speaker 03

  Oh, the street sharks.

• 24:53H. Foley?

  Uh, you break any bones growing up? Any injuries as a kid?

• 24:55Speaker 03

  Not, not really. I, I kinda messed up my, my fingers a little cooked.

• 24:58H. Foley?

  Okay.

• 24:59Speaker 03

  And my nose is a little broken, but I, those weren't like, you know, diagnosed. I just, you know, just football. So I just, you just tape it back up and get back out there, you know what I mean? But nothing like, nothing, nothing serious.

• 25:12H. Foley?

  And he fights as a kid?

• 25:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, loads. I was, I was in some fights. I love, you know, but my thing is I don't like bullies, man, you know?

• 25:19Speaker 01

  I agree with that.

• 25:20Speaker 03

  It was always, it was always a bully messing with a friend or something, you know, and I just don't, I don't. Messing with a kid smaller than him, I just don't fuck with that. I, I will, I will always have to fight for a bully. Like I will, I'm, fuck a bully, man. That's not okay.

• 25:35H. Foley?

  I like it.

• 25:35Speaker 01

  That's awesome.

• 25:36H. Foley?

  I like it.

• 25:36Speaker 01

  Um, any time, was there any parking lot at any age that you spent a lot of time in? Could have been a gas station, a 7-Eleven. If so, what was it? What was the go-to?

• 25:45Speaker 03

  Uh, we had this spot right down the road from my house. It was called Randy's. It was a, it was a Chevron, man. And, and you know, back then, um, like they were, we were, we were able to, and this is no shade on them. And so I hope that they're, you know, doing okay. I don't want to get them in trouble because they didn't know at the time. But, you know, I used to go in there all the time and, you know, like my, my older brother was a couple of years older than me. So by the time he turned 18, I would just go in there and get stuff with him. So they would just end up selling it to me. And by the time I was 18, they just stopped IDing me. So they let me buy beers and stuff like that. I, I don't think they know.

• 26:19Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, of course.

• 26:21Speaker 03

  So I was able to go in there and get the stuff and we'd sit there and before that we were hey mister and people, you know what I'm saying?

• 26:27Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 26:29Speaker 03

  If you're gonna give me some cigarettes, hey mister, can you get us a 12 pack or?

• 26:32H. Foley?

  Work nine times out of 10?

• 26:33Speaker 03

  MD 2020s, man, you know what I'm saying, bro?

• 26:36H. Foley?

  Is that what you were doing?

• 26:37Speaker 03

  Well, we were getting it however we could, man, you know what I'm saying?

• 26:40Speaker 01

  The only to play, right? The game.

• 26:41H. Foley?

  Mad Dog 2020 is generational.

• 26:44Speaker 01

  We always did, uh, we would ask a guy, ask the guy, and at the time I think cigs for us in Pennsylvania outside Philly were $2.75.

• 26:51Speaker 03

  That's crazy.

• 26:52Speaker 01

  So you would give the guy a $5 bill and go, you can, you, you would see them if they pull up and they were smoking, there's like a 90% chance they were doing it. And you go, hey, we'll give you five bucks. That way you can like almost get yourself a pack as well. And they, you know, for sure.

• 27:05Speaker 03

  Dude, I remember when I first was able to get cigarettes, it was a pack of Newport's at the time was like $5.01 after a 5.06 or something like that.

• 27:16Speaker 01

  Is that where you started on Newport's?

• 27:18Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 27:18Speaker 01

  Same, that's what, a lot of people's introduction is.

• 27:20Speaker 03

  Well, you know, the first cigarettes I would have smoked would have been like my mom always smoked at the time. It was Misty Menthol Ultra Lights.

• 27:29H. Foley?

  Misty?

• 27:30Speaker 03

  Misty Menthol Ultra Lights. Yeah, they ended up changing them, I think to Misty Silvers, but the Misty, Misty Menthol Ultra Lights.

• 27:37H. Foley?

  Oh, yeah.

• 27:39Speaker 03

  You know, and she had the little.

• 27:40Speaker 01

  A woman who does hair smokes those cigarettes.

• 27:42Speaker 03

  She had the little leather pouch with it too, man. And the, and the little bedazzled, uh, pocket for the bedazzled lighter. You know, she's a, yeah, bro, she's.

• 27:50H. Foley?

  Let's go. All right.

• 27:52Speaker 03

  She's got, she's got a little pair of like little leopard skin pants on herself. You know, you could put my mom in your head already, man. She's, she's, she's.

• 28:00H. Foley?

  Who did the cooking at your mom's house?

• 28:02Speaker 03

  Mama did.

• 28:03H. Foley?

  She would, give me, give me one of her standard dishes.

• 28:06Speaker 03

  Man, you know, I, I, I, to, to, to, mom made some fried chicken, man. She, she would cook up some grit, some breakfast was great, man. Pancakes, uh, obviously you can't, you can't beat some spaghetti, man. You know, just, just, um, and she's, she's mean, makes a mean casserole. I mean, whatever you got in the kitchen, we got casseroles, man. You know, green bean casserole, broccoli casserole, and don't get me started on chowders.

• 28:34Speaker 01

  She doing chowder?

• 28:38H. Foley?

  Were you a cookout man growing up? The, the, the restaurant, the fast food place? Did you guys have cookout there?

• 28:42Speaker 03

  No, we didn't, we didn't, we didn't get a, a cookout in Atlanta until, it wasn't until, I don't know, I want to say like 2015 or February or something.

• 28:53H. Foley?

  No kidding?

• 28:53Speaker 03

  It was later, yeah.

• 28:54Speaker 01

  I think they're the Carolinas, right?

• 28:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, that's where they started at, yeah. But it, it wasn't until recently, they got one in Atlanta and that thing, I mean, that thing's jumping all the time.

• 29:02H. Foley?

  You enjoy a hush puppy? You like a hush puppy?

• 29:04Speaker 03

  Yeah, like a hush puppy.

• 29:06Speaker 01

  Like a huggy puppy. Uh, ever owned a big mouth Billy Bass in any of those houses?

• 29:11Speaker 03

  Oh, absolutely. My grandma's, man. My grandma had one of those, dude.

• 29:15Speaker 01

  That damn fish was hilarious.

• 29:17H. Foley?

  You ever have your picture taken with an exotic animal? Koala, reptile?

• 29:21Speaker 03

  Um, yeah, I mean, when, when recently, we, when, every time we're, you know, Australia, I got to meet like some, what do you call them? Like, uh, wallabies and kangaroos and, and, uh, well, what's it? Cock, cocker barrels or something?

• 29:35Speaker 01

  Cocker barrels.

• 29:36Speaker 03

  Is that what they call it? Cocker barrels?

• 29:37H. Foley?

  Cracker barrels?

• 29:39Speaker 03

  Cracker barrels. No, the cap, cap, capa bearas? Capa bear? Capa bearas, yeah. I've met one of those, you know?

• 29:46Speaker 01

  But that's famous guy pictures with the, you're in Australia.

• 29:50H. Foley?

  That's celebrity stuff.

• 29:51Speaker 01

  The Minister of Tourism's there showing you.

• 29:54Speaker 03

  Yeah, but not, not, nothing when I was a kid.

• 29:56Speaker 01

  Nothing like at a state fair with an Amanaka on it, right?

• 29:58Speaker 03

  Yeah, no, not, not that cool. Nothing that cool.

• 30:00H. Foley?

  I like it.

• 30:01Speaker 01

  Um, this is why, I mean, you know, famous, there we ask, growing up and even now, I guess now it'd be crazy. Did, did you have a go-to karaoke song?

• 30:10Speaker 03

  Um, you know, I think, I think my thing with, with karaoke is, is especially today. I love, I'll do karaoke, but nobody wants a good singer at karaoke.

• 30:20Speaker 01

  Nobody wants you singing karaoke, yeah.

• 30:22Speaker 03

  You like, you like, people, people go all-

• 30:25Speaker 01

  You would ruin my night if I was doing karaoke and you walked in.

• 30:27Speaker 03

  That's what, you don't want a good singer. You want somebody, you want somebody up there that they've worked all week. They want to be fucking terrible and they want to just lean in their performance and have a blast with a friend. So my rule of it is if you catch me somewhere and there is karaoke, if somebody's like, hey, will you sing this with me? I'll be like, absolutely. I'll do karaoke with somebody and, you know, cause I, that, you know, like, man, I love when you sing this song. Can we do like Lose Control together? Absolutely. Fuck yeah, man.

• 30:53H. Foley?

  You're up there singing your own song, just killing it.

• 30:55Speaker 03

  You know, can we do, you know, Journey, Don't Stop Believing together? Fuck, yeah, we can, man. But, but other than that, that's, that's the rule. I don't, won't go up there by myself unsolicited and everybody shut up. I got this, you know? I think the same rule with like singing Happy Birthday. I feel like people always ask like, hey, will you call and sing like my mom, Happy Birthday? And it's like, you know, I think in theory that sounds cute, but like, nobody wants somebody like, Happy Birthday to you.

• 31:24Speaker 01

  A three-minute phone call?

• 31:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's just, it's like, I, I get it, but like Happy Birthday's a group song, man.

• 31:30Speaker 01

  It's a great way to put it, man. It's a great way to put it.

• 31:33H. Foley?

  You ever steal a steak knife from a steakhouse?

• 31:35Speaker 03

  Um, no, but I, I mean, I've definitely gotten some, some butter knives, some chopsticks, some forks, some, you know, some ramekins. I really, I got into a fit of ramekins for a while, especially, especially when you go to like the, the hibachi places, you know what I'm saying? I'm, I'm definitely taking some ramekins from.

• 31:52H. Foley?

  Ramakin at a house is a game changer.

• 31:54Speaker 01

  My mind was blown when I realized you could buy them. You can be like, yeah, William Sonoma sells ramekins or something. And I'm like, what? I can be fancy? You know what I mean? Yeah.

• 32:03H. Foley?

  Dipping. I like it.

• 32:04Speaker 01

  Um.

• 32:05H. Foley?

  Do you have any superstition about a white lighter?

• 32:08Speaker 03

  Um, no, I, I, I, I mean, I, I definitely grew up with that, like, don't use a white lighter, but.

• 32:14H. Foley?

  Would you flip a cig and have the lucky one upside down?

• 32:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.

• 32:18Speaker 01

  Did you pack your cigs?

• 32:19Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, absolutely. You gotta pack them, man. Yeah. Sometimes I get two or three luckies, you know what I'm saying?

• 32:25Speaker 01

  You'll flip a couple luckies? Really?

• 32:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 32:29H. Foley?

  I like how he answers like, yeah, of course.

• 32:34Speaker 01

  And you're off the heaters now? You're off the cigs?

• 32:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, I haven't, man, I haven't smoked cigarettes and I think last time I was, I used to do one after every show and, and finally my, my, uh, pianist was just like, took it out. He's like, bro, we're not doing that no more. I'm like, cool.

• 32:47Speaker 01

  What was, what was the brand?

• 32:49Speaker 03

  Nobody ever said that to me before. And I'm like, you know, all I needed was somebody back, uh-uh. And I'm like, okay, great, great. I'll just, I'll, and I think the, the, the little nicotine pouch has really changed everything for me. Cause there was a while where I was, I was dipping and smoking cigarettes too. You know, not simultaneously at the same time, but you know, I was, I was pretty, nicotine had me.

• 33:08Speaker 01

  Yeah, hey.

• 33:09Speaker 03

  It still has got me. I, I would never give up nicotine. I think I just, well, I don't know. It's, it's got me. It's my, it's my, it's, it's, it's just great.

• 33:18Speaker 01

  Well, I don't disagree. What was, uh, what was the last, uh, brand of cigarettes you were smoking?

• 33:24Speaker 03

  Um, Marlboro Lights probably, or, or American Spirits, you know? I'm, I'll hit some of those, like the light blue ones or the yellow ones.

• 33:32Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 33:32H. Foley?

  American Spirit, very celebrity, uh, famous person heavy. I respect that.

• 33:37Speaker 01

  Also, the dirtbags who think they're better for you than they're not.

• 33:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, they're, they're, yeah, it's no.

• 33:42H. Foley?

  Any special pillow or blanket growing up?

• 33:45Speaker 03

  Um, yeah, dude, I had this one pillow. I even brought it to my first like tour we went on and it was like one of these down pillows. I haven't seen it in probably five or six years, but you know, it was all brown and nasty, but it was my favorite pillow and like, my, I, you know, my, my dad's, I think originally and then I, I had it, I had it for years, man. But I remember he used to gross people out for a bit, but you know, it's, it's my pillow though.

• 34:12H. Foley?

  It just has that smell.

• 34:13Speaker 03

  That's my pillow. It's.

• 34:15H. Foley?

  What were the toys growing up? What, what were you into?

• 34:18Speaker 03

  Dude, I mean, everything. I had, you know, all Dragon Ball Z toys. I'm definitely a big WWE toy.

• 34:24Speaker 01

  Who was your, who was your big guy? What was your big era?

• 34:28Speaker 03

  The Rock, man. Stone Cold, you know, dude, uh, I mean Goldberg, Diamond Dallas Page, WCW guys, you know?

• 34:36H. Foley?

  You have the ring?

• 34:37Speaker 03

  Yeah, I had everything, bro. I had everything.

• 34:41H. Foley?

  I like it. I like it. You ever take an old time photo? Like is a gangster or is a, in the?

• 34:46Speaker 03

  No, you, I've, I've never gotten to do one of those.

• 34:48Speaker 01

  He wants to do one so bad.

• 34:50Speaker 03

  We should go do one.

• 34:51Speaker 01

  He's a dirtbag, through and through.

• 34:54Speaker 03

  We should go, we should go do one.

• 34:58Speaker 03

  Is there a way that we could go do one of those?

• 35:00Speaker 01

  I'm sure there's one, I'm sure there's one in, in, in New York.

• 35:03Speaker 03

  I've never gotten to do one of those things where you go and put the little shit on and do the whole thing. Yeah.

• 35:09H. Foley?

  That's even trashier that you never got to do and you're like, no, man, I did. I fucking love it. That's great.

• 35:15Speaker 01

  Anyone, uh, in your family or even yourself ever appear on the local news, but before you got famous? Like you were like a witness or you got interviewed for something or anybody?

• 35:25Speaker 03

  Not that I can think of off the top of my head. I mean, I'm sure, I'm sure my stepmother had made it a couple times. She was a, she's got some stories. I'm sure, sure she's been, I, I made it to the newspaper, like my, cause that's how my, my, my grandma found out that, that I got arrested for, for selling weed and, and when I was, you know, I missed the whole first week of my senior year in jail because I, I got busted and it was almost an intent to distribute because it was a couple of bags, but it was me and my friends just smoking in the road. You know, and so I, I was in there for like six days in Rockdale County Jail and, and, uh, and I mean, it was, it was a blast though. I had fun. Not saying, not like trying to say that you should do it.

• 36:07Speaker 03

  A good buddy of mine, Ryan, was like, happened to be in there for like eight months. So as soon as I got in there, he was like, hey, man, just bring your little boat over to my bunk and we'll like, you know, and we're in a gen population. It was kind of overcrowded.

• 36:18H. Foley?

  Kind of troughed off a little bit.

• 36:19Speaker 03

  So he just introduced me to everybody and it was, it was a bunch of old heads in there. We're just like, you know, like, get out of here. Don't do that again. You know, they're all nice guys. I went to church in there and sang in there with them and like,

• 36:30H. Foley?

  This was senior year?

• 36:31Speaker 03

  Yeah. So I, it was cool. I haven't, I haven't played spades in years, but I learned how.

• 36:35H. Foley?

  The cops weren't impressed with your, uh, with your core classes that you had taken care of?

• 36:39Speaker 03

  Nah, that, that, they're, they're, they're.

• 36:41Speaker 01

  I guess too, that's a pretty good tool to have in jail. Good voice.

• 36:44Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 36:45Speaker 01

  You're probably, that's better than being the funny guy. That's better than being anything. You're just going like, hit this and like, I'm sure.

• 36:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, just wait, wait, we'll just do the little church moment with them. You know what I mean? And get up and.

• 36:54Speaker 01

  Like, let's go.

• 36:56Speaker 03

  It was, dude, it was a lot. They taught me how to make the, you know, like the real ramen soup and like, you know, and you crunch up like the Cheez-Its and Hot Cheetos and stuff and like, you know, kind of put it all on this big brick. Dude, I, I still make them that way, you know?

• 37:11H. Foley?

  It's crazy. I love it.

• 37:13Speaker 01

  Uh, I mean, uh, I just obviously, uh, being that it was the career, when did the garage band start? Like what was that? What did, what did the early days of that look like?

• 37:23Speaker 03

  Well, we, you know, we were trying to be in, in bands for, forever, you know, we're, which always kind of finding our thing and writing. It wasn't as easy as it is now, you know, us being able to find access to recording equipment now was so easy for these kids, you know? So it was so difficult for us for a long time. We were trying, I think I finally nailed it. Um, right around my senior year, um, I was, I was in a band called Herok Bear and I mean, you could still find the, the EP on YouTube and it's, it's god awful, but I was in, like, you know, in 2011, um, like the Atlanta hardcore scene was like really something, you know, it was really popping. So I, I for years was like just in kind of the local hardcore scene, screaming and singing and, and, and bands and

• 38:08Speaker 03

  I was just doing that really up until Teddy Swim started. I was still in a metal band. So I, I was still screaming and rapping and I'm doing the whole thing in it. So I just, whatever I could do to get heard, but I, I love, I love punk music. I love hardcore music, you know? That's, that's really the roots of like my, like kind of performing anyway, other than, you know, other than like theater, but.

• 38:31H. Foley?

  How have you been as far as managing your money as a kid before you had money and then now? Are you a good not spender?

• 38:40Speaker 03

  Yeah, I know the value of a dollar, you know, in a way that I think I've not had it for a long, long time. And, and I mean, even to this day, the first thing I did when I did sign my deal was like, buy my dad a truck, you know, because it was like, we had been, I spent more time on the side of the road. Um, you know, and, and, and broken down and, I mean, still to this day, I can, if, if it's an old enough truck, you could just drive it and I can tell you, oh, man, this is about to go out.

• 39:11Speaker 03

  Yeah, this is about to go out. I know what that sounds like. I can, you know, so I've, I've spent a lot of time under a hood and I spent a lot of time on the side of the road. And so I, I, I don't know, I just, I know what it's like not having money. So I, I don't, I don't get too frivolous with.

• 39:25H. Foley?

  That's the question. What'd you do with your first big check? So you bought your dad a truck?

• 39:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, man.

• 39:31Speaker 03

  This F-150 Lariat, he still drives.

• 39:36Speaker 03

  He dude, he's, he's, he's, he's like, he's so pumped about it, dude. He still keeps that thing spotless. He's like, got that, like, uh, that, you know, membership to the car wash. He could just keep that thing. It smells like dip, you know, always. So does his life, you know, but, but, uh, tastes, it smells like Copenhagen in there. You know, there's always a spit cup, but other than that, it's, it's spotless.

• 39:58H. Foley?

  What are you whipping around town in? Can you say?

• 40:00Speaker 03

  Yeah, I got, I got a, um, one of those Broncos. They're like, it's 2023 Bronco. I bought it a couple of years ago and, and, I mean, I, that was always like, I'm gonna get a Bronco, you know.

• 40:09H. Foley?

  Living city, you got an apartment, you got a house, are you renting?

• 40:12Speaker 03

  I got a house in Tennessee. Um, I, I bought it, uh, right before my son was born. He's 15 months old.

• 40:18Speaker 01

  Congratulations. You got a 15 month old as well.

• 40:20Speaker 03

  Oh, really? What, dude, what, what day was he born?

• 40:22Speaker 01

  Uh, June 6th.

• 40:24Speaker 03

  When was June 23rd?

• 40:27H. Foley?

  Look at that.

• 40:29Speaker 03

  It's real close. Man, we had to get them together.

• 40:31Speaker 01

  Yeah, let's do it.

• 40:34Speaker 03

  Been a couple of years, I've been yapping it up, man. And so you're already walking and stuff?

• 40:38Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's crazy. He's running.

• 40:40Speaker 03

  I'm right there with you, man. He's in everything. All about ball right now.

• 40:44Speaker 01

  Yeah, ball's, ball's big.

• 40:46Speaker 03

  It's so awesome, dude.

• 40:48Speaker 01

  My wife's sick today, so I've been up at six with her. I've been with her here and I gotta go back and get her from daycare. So it's.

• 40:55Speaker 03

  That's wonderful, man.

• 40:56H. Foley?

  That's rock solid. New dad too, Kippy, look at that.

• 40:59Speaker 01

  Look at this.

• 40:59H. Foley?

  Man.

• 41:30Speaker 04

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• 41:58Speaker 01

  Um, hmm. Okay. So the house, but you're on, you're, are you're currently on tour, right? So you're, and we, we talked before you started, tour is on a bus.

• 42:07Speaker 03

  Yes, sir.

• 42:08Speaker 01

  What? We've done the bus, love the bus, big fans of the bus. Uh, what are some of the staples you want to have on your bus? Snack wise, drink wise, food wise?

• 42:19Speaker 03

  Um, these days, you know, I've, I've, I'm trying to keep it to where I'm like meeting my macros and keeping it healthy. So like, I have like, you know, I've, I, I used to be a lot of tequila and beer and, and, and, and I've slowed down a lot on that. A lot of just bullshit, but these days it's like, I've got some boiled eggs in there, you know, got some, got to, dude, I just bought this. Uh, my buddy turned me on to this and it's like, um, it's called Safe Catch and it's like this tuna. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's like, it's like 40 grams or 24 grams of protein in it, like a hundred calories. And it's 25 times under the FDA approved limit of, um, of, of mercury. So it's like the lowest on the marker.

• 43:01Speaker 03

  So I can put like a couple of those in, get almost 50 grams of protein for a couple of hundred. And then I got this like high protein, like, uh, low fat Greek yogurt and then some like sugar free relish. And I'm talking about, dude, just a couple of hundred calories and I'm eating fucking tuna salad like a fat boy.

• 43:15H. Foley?

  Teddy's getting like. Teddy's locked in.

• 43:18Speaker 03

  60 grams of protein.

• 43:21Speaker 01

  But also he's locked into a, being a fat kid again.

• 43:24Speaker 03

  It's great. There's, there's a ways to do this where you can still eat like a fat boy, but do it in the right stuff. It just costs a little more when it's, when it's healthy for you, for whatever.

• 43:33H. Foley?

  What do you like if you're being bad? Are you a pork rinds guy? You a candy guy?

• 43:37Speaker 01

  Pizza? What do you got? What's the cheat?

• 43:39Speaker 03

  You know, they even also have protein Doritos out there.

• 43:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, dude, there's like, I think there's like 13 grams of like protein for these little bags of them. And they're delicious, man. Artificial, free and all sorts of stuff. But I think for me, the cheat would be, um, dude, I just, there's nothing better than like chocolate and peanut butter together. You know, if a racist cup or like a peanut butter chocolatey cake or fucking, I just, god damn, I love.

• 44:05Speaker 01

  Is anybody built for the show?

• 44:06Speaker 03

  Let's go.

• 44:07Speaker 01

  Teddy swim, baby.

• 44:08Speaker 03

  Love it.

• 44:10Speaker 01

  Like that.

• 44:10H. Foley?

  Alright.

• 44:11Speaker 01

  Now, when you, let's say, you know, tomorrow's a show night or let's say, you know, whatever, you pull in, you gotta, it's show night. Are you eating before? Are you eating after? Is there, what, what's the, what, what is the day of the show looking?

• 44:22H. Foley?

  And what's the rider like in there in the green room?

• 44:24Speaker 03

  The rider's, you know, real similar. Yeah, man. Protein shakes. It's really nice. Like I've, I've been in those chumps, like little fucking, you sugar free jerkies and, you know, like this, this kinda.

• 44:35H. Foley?

  Keeping it tight these days.

• 44:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's been super.

• 44:37Speaker 01

  We've really, we've learned as you're working, it's like fun. You're like, oh, I can drink and smoke and eat pizza. But then I just start stacking the tour dates and you're like, I got it. You can't live like that.

• 44:48Speaker 03

  Until last year, until this year, really, man, I, I, I had been like a bottle of tequila a day and I'm just out there fucking giving it hell. And, and it's starting, it's starting to, it, it really started aging me.

• 45:02Speaker 03

  It really started catching up with me. So I've, I've, I've learned to like, you know, and I think my son had a lot to do with that too. Man, I just wanna, I wanna be here, you know? Like he's just really settled me down, but I mean, it's, it's, you know, we, we, I try to get up and I'll hit the gym before, after sound check. And then, you know, I, I try to, like I said, just meet my protein goals. If I can get like 250 grams of protein a day, I try to get that and keep it, you know, just stay in a deficit. But, and then some of these arenas are kind enough that they like, open up the gyms for us, like, which we can use there. So that's been great. And I, I mean, I got a boxing coach on the road with us a good bit too.

• 45:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, bro. I'm, I'm in there, dude. I'm, I'm down like 50 pounds right now. Yeah.

• 45:46H. Foley?

  It's fantastic, dude.

• 45:47Speaker 01

  Love to see it.

• 45:48H. Foley?

  Yeah, love to see it.

• 45:49Speaker 01

  Uh, how long does a sound check take for you? I'm always curious about musicians.

• 45:53Speaker 03

  It depends on the day, you know, the, some of the boys will take a while. The band will play, but I'll go up there and do a couple of songs. And, you know, if they're good, I'm good, you know, just. Yeah, but I'm, I'm, I'm just there to make sure the sound, man, my dude Drew is like happy with what he's hearing out there. Then I'm like, alright, cool. Yeah.

• 46:09H. Foley?

  Does the guy in the booth go with you or is he, uh, uh, venue specific?

• 46:14Speaker 03

  Yeah, he goes with us.

• 46:15H. Foley?

  Okay. So you're not dealing with the new sound guy?

• 46:17Speaker 03

  You know, it's, it's so nuts because this is like, you know, when our first time in like these big arenas and, and, and you, you, what's crazy about it is it's completely a shell, you know?

• 46:26Speaker 01

  Yeah, everything comes down.

• 46:28Speaker 03

  Yeah. So, I mean, we're bringing all the, the stage, the production, the, the lights, the, the BA, the everything. So it's, it's so nuts. We, we were just, you know, I feel like, like six trucks a year ago now, we're at like 25.

• 46:43Speaker 03

  It's crazy how many folks. It's like, there's like a hundred and 50 of us or something. And it's trying, trying so hard to still kind of maintain to be a tight knit family. It's just like, I'm, I'm still meeting somebody every day. Like, I'm like, oh, man, I'm so sorry. I haven't met you yet, man. I thank you so much for what you're doing. What is it you do? You know? Well, I love you, man. Thank you. If you need anything, my door is always open, you know, love you so much. Just, just holler at me. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm here.

• 47:07Speaker 01

  That happened. We, we did the, we opened up, uh, for Burt in some arenas and we got there, they were already running and gunning and we just met them. And then like, we did the show and then got off and we were like walking back to the bus. I'm like, that was sick. We're just gonna hop on the bus and go. And we walked out and there was like, you know, 50 crew members waiting to take everything down. I'm like, oh, yeah. I didn't, I just felt like it all just appeared and disappeared.

• 47:28Speaker 03

  You know, and I, I mean, that's, and even at such a high level like that, you know, it's, that's still just like, just bird up there with a mic. You know what I mean? So when you get like 10 musicians out there, you know, I can't imagine the difference of that, you know, lighting cues and stuff like that we would have and, yeah, so it's.

• 47:47Speaker 03

  Which I always, I always wonder about like stand up. It's such a scary thing to be like at that level too. And when you're like, because there's, there's such a thing about you guys can't ever like rely on like your hits. You know what I'm saying? It's not like, it's not like

• 48:01H. Foley?

  I do.

• 48:04Speaker 03

  You can't do something from like five years ago and be like, don't you guys want to hear this joke? That was super awesome for me. You know, it's like, really? I know that joke.

• 48:12Speaker 01

  Do the next one, man.

• 48:13Speaker 03

  And so when, when it's like, when I'm up there, if I say a joke that absolutely falls on his face, I can always like, just go on the next song. And play him loose control or something. And I'm like, the show is saved. You know what I mean?

• 48:24Speaker 01

  Hold up the closer. Hold up the closer.

• 48:26H. Foley?

  I like it. You said, you like to sleep on the bus. When you sleep, are you on your side? Are you on your back? Are you a pillow guy?

• 48:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, I'm, I'm a kind of, I've been lately more of a belly guy, but I think that's also belly. I think that's now because I like am.

• 48:41Speaker 01

  You trim down. You can do it for the first time comfortably.

• 48:44Speaker 03

  Yeah, it feels, it feels pretty good. And also speaking of belly, I don't know if I, you can cut this if you need to, but this is the first time in a long time that I've been able to like not have to fold a pillow behind my head to watch my dick getting sucked, which is really awesome, man. You know what I mean?

• 48:58H. Foley?

  We will not be cutting that. And that's fantastic. And I'm in the same boat as you. It's pretty goddamn awesome.

• 49:03Speaker 03

  You don't have to like do this number and feel all like, you know, so that's been just an awesome, awesome thing. Not that it's, not that it's happening often on tour. I'm just saying, yeah, just in general, that's, it's been something that's been happening.

• 49:15Speaker 01

  A new fitness unlocked.

• 49:18H. Foley?

  Will you pee in the shower?

• 49:20Speaker 03

  Absolutely.

• 49:20H. Foley?

  Will you brush your teeth in there?

• 49:22Speaker 03

  I'm, I, I would, but I, I don't, I haven't, I don't know if it's, I haven't thought about it, I guess.

• 49:27H. Foley?

  When you brush your teeth, are you right at the sink or will you walk around a little bit? Can you walk around and do this and you're holding a little court or no?

• 49:34Speaker 03

  I don't think I usually move around. Dude, I just got one of those. I'm still trying to work it out, but you know, those, the one, yeah, that goes in and you're like, do you like this number to it or something? I've, I've had it for like a week. I, I still don't know if it's like, if, I mean, it feels like it's brushing them, but I also, it's just this different thing. I still gotta use my thing to brush my tongue, but I, I guess we'll, we'll see in a couple of weeks if it's like doing its job or not.

• 49:57H. Foley?

  You got one of those. Damn, you are famous. That's crazy.

• 50:00Speaker 03

  I found, I found like a knockoff on Amazon. It's like 60 bucks or something.

• 50:04H. Foley?

  Why are you ruining it for me? You should've told me it was made out of gold and it was 10 grand. That's good.

• 50:09Speaker 01

  Uh, that's, how old were you when you got your passport?

• 50:11Speaker 03

  Um, I, I, it was the first tour we did. So in 2020, so I just, and we only, we only used it to go to Toronto. You know what I mean? So, but, but yeah, that was the first time I've been out of the, out of the country at all.

• 50:25H. Foley?

  When's the first time you had Nutella?

• 50:27Speaker 03

  Nutella? Oh God, I don't know, man. Maybe same, about around the same time.

• 50:35Speaker 03

  Probably around the same time. Dude, yeah, I, I literally, I, I, I had never even played out of the state before. I had like a 2020, you know what I mean? So that like, it was like, I'm like, holy shit, we're, we're touring. This is crazy, man.

• 50:48H. Foley?

  Let's go.

• 50:49Speaker 01

  Uh, hmm. Well, have you, well, not when was the last, have you ever checked into a hotel and brought your own cooler?

• 50:57Speaker 03

  No, I don't, I can't say.

• 50:58Speaker 01

  Wow, that's very good. I would've thought the other one.

• 51:01Speaker 03

  Yeah, really.

• 51:02Speaker 01

  For beer. Yeah, you're bringing your beers there.

• 51:03H. Foley?

  Anything you're specific about, like, would you ever, do you ever like bring your own toilet paper to a hotel or anything like that?

• 51:09Speaker 03

  No, but I mean, that was a smart idea because you never know if you're getting that single ply bullshit or not, right? You know what I mean? But that is a good idea. I mean, I, I, I try to, I, I do bring some, I do bring some, you know, boiled eggs in there from time to time.

• 51:23H. Foley?

  Okay, it's all right.

• 51:24Speaker 03

  You know, maybe some, some protein shakes.

• 51:26H. Foley?

  When you fly, you fly in commercial still or you?

• 51:28Speaker 03

  Yeah, a lot, man. I'm actually a, a, a Delta 360 member.

• 51:33Speaker 01

  Oh, 360 is tough to get. That's invite only. It's like the president.

• 51:38Speaker 03

  I really got like fucking 12 million Delta SkyMiles right now. I'm just saying, we're, we're gonna go on an absolute, absolute.

• 51:46Speaker 01

  Crazy holiday. Yeah.

• 51:47Speaker 03

  It's gonna be a sick one for sure. We're.

• 51:49H. Foley?

  Damn. I'm almost Delta Diamond.

• 51:50Speaker 03

  That's sick, man. Dude, it's gets so much better. Once you get there, they, you could just like, especially when you're LA, they got like Delta One Lounge, you know, and you could just kind of check in every time there. Yeah. So you don't have to go through the, you know, regular stuff. You could just kind of check in that way. And they're like.

• 52:05Speaker 01

  We did it every time we fly out. We, we go in with, because we try out with it, like our team will go in, you know, regular with them. And then he was like, it's crazy. You guys go through the regular entrance with us? And I'm like, yeah, that might have to stop.

• 52:17Speaker 03

  Yeah. Mr. Dims, can we get you a health shot? When you know why you walk in?

• 52:20Speaker 01

  You walk in, they hand you the chips.

• 52:21Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, I'll take that.

• 52:22Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 52:24H. Foley?

  Do you have any Nutella, please?

• 52:26Speaker 01

  That's fantastic. Yeah.

• 52:27H. Foley?

  Let's go. Will you bring food on a plane? Like snacks are okay, but?

• 52:32Speaker 03

  I'm not really, no. Um, I, I, you know, I, I, I feel like, I feel like you're, I don't know. I feel like a weird guy bringing like food, like maybe is it like packed food or just like something you bought at the airport?

• 52:43Speaker 01

  Depends.

• 52:45Speaker 03

  I brought like a Subway sandwich that I brought onto the plane, but you know, I always feel kind of weird because.

• 52:50H. Foley?

  Wait, you, hold on. You did bring a Subway sandwich?

• 52:52Speaker 03

  I have, yeah.

• 52:53H. Foley?

  Yeah, that would be the garbage side of things.

• 52:54Speaker 03

  Yeah. Okay. Well, but it was, it was right outside the gate. There was a Subway. I kind of got me a rap real quick and fucking.

• 53:00Speaker 01

  A rap? I might push, but rap's okay, man.

• 53:02Speaker 03

  Subway has that certain smell.

• 53:04H. Foley?

  Was it tuna?

• 53:04Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was tuna.

• 53:06H. Foley?

  What are you doing? Get out of here.

• 53:08Speaker 01

  Fish in the fuselage. Crazy.

• 53:10H. Foley?

  You don't remember what airport that was, do you?

• 53:12Speaker 03

  I couldn't tell you, man.

• 53:13H. Foley?

  Cause there's in Cleveland, there's one really literally right outside of, uh.

• 53:17Speaker 03

  Could be, could be Cleveland, could be.

• 53:20Speaker 01

  Um, growing up or, or now would you sneak snacks into the movie theater?

• 53:24Speaker 03

  Hell yeah. Always. Yeah, man. Absolutely. I know. I told you. I told you, man.

• 53:33Speaker 01

  Obviously it's probably tough. You had the kid, the tour, the album, everything. Where was the last vacation? Were you able to sneak one in between things?

• 53:40Speaker 03

  Uh, I, I, you know, I don't know. I, I think last time we went to Hawaii, but we were getting ready to play there, but we just spent a couple of days there, you know, enjoying. So it wasn't, I would, I wouldn't say like a vacation, but we had a good three or four days to.

• 53:55H. Foley?

  Did you go in the water?

• 53:56Speaker 03

  No, I went on a boat in the water, but I'm not, I'm not going in the ocean, bro. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing that.

• 54:03H. Foley?

  What would be your dream vacation? You got two weeks off.

• 54:07Speaker 03

  I would, you know, every time I think about wanting to go somewhere though, I spend so much time traveling and I'm like, I just want to be at the fucking house. But I think I really, I really want to, I, I think Greece would be beautiful. You know, I, I, my producer buddy Julie, and he tells me about this big boat they went in and like, went and traveled like a week on this boat in Greece. And it was like, he was like, dude, it's, it's incredible. You gotta go do this once in your life. So I'm like, okay, well, hook me up with a boat, folks. And maybe, but I don't know how much, dude. He's, he's, he's far richer than.

• 54:38H. Foley?

  I think he could swing it. Playing the Barclays under him.

• 54:41Speaker 03

  But I mean, as long, as long as I can use these 12 million Delta SkyMiles, that fucking do it.

• 54:46Speaker 01

  I'm Delta 360, assholes. Uh, very nice.

• 54:50Speaker 03

  SkyMiles?

• 54:52Speaker 01

  Man, oh man. Uh, what, is there anything you're cooking? Will you do a breakfast at the house or like?

• 54:57Speaker 03

  I'm not much of, I, I think, you know, and I think it's a beautiful art form, you know, don't get me wrong, but it's just such a mundane task for me. I just, I don't, I don't have the.

• 55:06Speaker 01

  It's not for you.

• 55:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, I don't have the patience for it. I'm, I'd rather just order the shit and they show up and.

• 55:12H. Foley?

  Any celebrity cookware at the house? Any Paris Hilton stuff? Anything like that?

• 55:15Speaker 03

  No, not that. No, I don't have any Paris Hilton, Hilton cookware, but I, I do have a, uh, I do have a, I do have a chef knife from Mo's. Uh, you know Mo's Southwest Grill? They got Mo's out here, don't they?

• 55:28Speaker 01

  Not, do they? I know, I know them just from.

• 55:30Speaker 03

  It started in Atlanta. I mean, it's my favorite place in the world. When I was, uh, it's kind of like a, they, they're like a walkthrough burrito joint, like Chipotle, but just more delicious. Uh, but.

• 55:40Speaker 01

  Casual dining establishment.

• 55:41Speaker 03

  When I first started, like when I was living on my own, my first time, I was just, it was just kind of like me and my piano in this kind of empty house. And so I was like really broke at the time. I had just kind of dropped out of hair school. And, um, I used to could walk like a mile to this Mo's every day. And they were just like, you know, this lady Bonnie, who I went to hair school with, she was like the manager there. So she's like, come let me feed you, baby. And they used to have this thing too, at the end of the line where you could put in your phone number, and then after 10 visits, you get a free entree. So I'll just fucking clock in a hundred numbers I could think of, you know what I mean? And it's so like, it'd be like free entree.

• 56:17Speaker 01

  Trying to hit someone's free entree. That's crazy.

• 56:19Speaker 03

  Well, I would have like all my friends memorized so I could just like, you know, put all these in. And then eventually Bonnie was like, look, we know what you're doing. Just come get a meal, baby. It's the only time I'd eat. So I feel like Mo's like really changed my life and then saved my life at the time. Yeah. And then so I went to their, uh, headquarters in Atlanta one time and they like.

• 56:37Speaker 01

  That's awesome.

• 56:38Speaker 03

  They made me like, they gave me this like chef knife with the Mo's, but I wouldn't say it's a celebrity, but it's.

• 56:44H. Foley?

  That's awesome.

• 56:45Speaker 01

  Fancy to me. That's awesome.

• 56:46Speaker 03

  Pretty cool knife.

• 56:47H. Foley?

  I love it. Can you open up a bottle with a lighter?

• 56:50Speaker 03

  Um, no, but I can do it with my teeth.

• 56:52Speaker 01

  Oh, I knew you were gonna say that. That's worse than the lighter.

• 56:56Speaker 03

  Yeah, I'm, I'm quick with that.

• 56:58Speaker 01

  Uh, what would you say your favorite movie is? Or one of your favorites?

• 57:01Speaker 03

  Man, I got, I got, I got loads. Um.

• 57:04H. Foley?

  Give us your top three.

• 57:05Speaker 03

  Ah, dude, that's tough. I would say I got tattoos of a lot of them. I, I, I got Chubbs Peterson from Happy Gilmore in here. And I got the Blue Duck from Billy Madison.

• 57:16H. Foley?

  Okay.

• 57:17Speaker 01

  He's speaking my language.

• 57:18Speaker 03

  Yeah, dude, I got, I got Joe Dirt tattooed on me. Austin Powers tattooed on me, man.

• 57:23Speaker 01

  Such a dirtbag.

• 57:24Speaker 03

  Dude, uh, Lloyd Christmas, Dumb and Dumber's on me too, man.

• 57:29H. Foley?

  Not one drama.

• 57:30Speaker 03

  Dude, my, my, my, my ass cheeks right now are too. I'm still working on them, but they're, uh, they're the Butabi brothers from Night of the Rocks, bro.

• 57:38Speaker 03

  Dude, I'm covered, man.

• 57:39H. Foley?

  Dude, I just.

• 57:40Speaker 03

  Chris Farley's on me, man. I've got Dave Chappelle, man, you know.

• 57:44H. Foley?

  Let's go.

• 57:45Speaker 01

  What a, that's hilarious. Uh.

• 57:48Speaker 03

  So that's just kind of my, my, you know, that's my vibe right there.

• 57:51Speaker 01

  Dude, I would've never remembered their brothers' names from, what are the, the Butabi?

• 57:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, Butabi, Doug Butabi, Steve Butabi. Yeah. That's one of my favorite.

• 58:00Speaker 01

  I would've never pulled that.

• 58:02H. Foley?

  Richard Grieco.

• 58:05H. Foley?

  He was great in it. I just saw it like maybe three weeks ago.

• 58:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, bro. I watched it all the time. He turned around, tipped his hat like this.

• 58:12H. Foley?

  The dad's my favorite. I've loved him as an actor. He was on Cheers. He was Nick Tortelli on Cheers. He was the dad in, uh, yeah, too.

• 58:21Speaker 01

  Um, what, uh, what is the Austin Powers tattoo?

• 58:24Speaker 03

  It's just a picture of Austin.

• 58:25Speaker 01

  Oh, it's an actual picture? I thought it was like a saying or some-

• 58:29Speaker 03

  No, it's a real portrait of Austin Powers. It's just, it's a really great portrait.

• 58:33H. Foley?

  What's the credit score like? Solid?

• 58:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's doing really good now, man.

• 58:38Speaker 01

  At the Barclay Center. He was wild. He was 550.

• 58:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's doing great these days.

• 58:42H. Foley?

  But it has been-

• 58:44Speaker 03

  Uh, yeah, and in my life, it has not been the best, but, you know.

• 58:47H. Foley?

  Can you tell me what the lowest it might have been?

• 58:48Speaker 03

  I couldn't tell you, man.

• 58:49H. Foley?

  Five, six?

• 58:50Speaker 03

  Cause I don't, you know, I didn't have much of credit prior to, you know, other than like my student loans, I think, kinda hit me for a bit there, but, but we, when we- You know, when I first got a, like, finance manager, you know, what it's like, it's just like, hey, man, let's, let's go ahead and pay this off, don't you think? You know, and I'm like, okay, so we've been, we've been doing good.

• 59:11H. Foley?

  I'm sitting at 602 right now. A little bit of rebuilding here.

• 59:14Speaker 03

  I heard that, man. It takes a second. It takes a second. What do, what do you think it is now? Do you know, Kylie? Okay.

• 59:22Speaker 01

  It's up, it's, it's, it's to what it doesn't matter. You're, it's in like sections. It's like you're in the excellent or whatever.

• 59:28Speaker 03

  But I'm, yeah, I'm doing, yeah, they'll, they'll give, you know what the most frustrating thing is though? It's like you, once you get money, you're like wanting to spend your money, like, no, no, no, you gotta borrow it. You know, and it's like, what the fuck, man? Why can't I just like pay things in cash, you know?

• 59:40Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's rich guy shit. That's sick.

• 59:43Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 59:44Speaker 01

  You borrow, borrow money off the money. It's like a, it's like, it's like one of those games, it's three card Monte. You're like, I don't know what's going on here.

• 59:50H. Foley?

  I tried to do that. It crumbled around me. Speaking of money, you go to a wedding, um, close friend, what are you sticking in the envelope?

• 1:00:00Speaker 03

  What do you mean by that?

• 1:00:01Speaker 01

  A gift. What are you gifting?

• 1:00:03Speaker 03

  Oh, oh, okay. Um, I, I'm, I don't know. I, I just, I, I don't know. I don't know if I'm the best at, at, I don't even know. You're supposed to bring a gift, to be honest with you. I don't know. I just, I'll just show up.

• 1:00:15Speaker 01

  Somebody probably on the team would set, would take care of it.

• 1:00:17Speaker 03

  I have, I have, I have officiated a few though, which is great. Yeah, man. I got, I got my, uh, officiant's license and then-

• 1:00:24Speaker 01

  Do you remember, would you do it online if?

• 1:00:26Speaker 03

  Yeah. And then, and then, uh, so I've done a few. I've done my aunt's, man, and, and, and a couple of friends along the way. So I, you know, I'm, that's a pretty good gift.

• 1:00:36H. Foley?

  But you did, I mean, 30%.

• 1:00:38Speaker 01

  Drop a song?

• 1:00:39Speaker 03

  I'm pretty, I'm pretty sick. I'm pretty, I'm a pretty good reverend.

• 1:00:42Speaker 01

  Yeah. I did once. I was there. I was pretty nervous that I was gonna mess it up and I kinda did. Um, what, I mean, you're a very stylish guy. What, what is the, what is the clothing procurement, uh, process these days? Are people-

• 1:00:56Speaker 03

  Yeah, this guy-

• 1:00:57Speaker 01

  Like, especially for the tour or whatever, there's like a wardrobe.

• 1:00:59Speaker 03

  Yeah, this guy, Christian Strobel, helps me with a lot of stuff and he's just a fucking visionary. It's, it totally just gets it, you know, and we have a bunch of cool people that, that, you know, work on cool things, make a lot of custom things and, and our whole, uh, our whole tour is kind of Atlanta themed and it's like kinda based on home. So I got a bunch of Atlanta gear and, and Georgia gear and stuff.

• 1:01:21H. Foley?

  Yeah, that's cool.

• 1:01:22Speaker 01

  What, uh, who, this shirt specifically, Green Day Dookie shirt, classic, mixed with-

• 1:01:27Speaker 03

  A dark side too, so it's-

• 1:01:28Speaker 01

  Did someone make that for you? You go, hey, I made this? Or like, what's-

• 1:01:31Speaker 03

  You know, my, my buddy Christian brought, I don't know who makes these and I feel bad cause I was gonna, I, I, I meant to say, but he made like a bunch of these and then they gave me like three of them.

• 1:01:41Speaker 01

  That's sick. Yeah, that's pretty cool.

• 1:01:42Speaker 03

  It's got Dookie and Dark Side of the Moon on it, so it's both awesome, awesome, awesome albums.

• 1:01:48H. Foley?

  Have you been in a Walmart, uh, a Walmart, Target, Ross, Marshall's, TJ Maxx in the last 365 days?

• 1:01:56Speaker 03

  Yeah, hell yeah.

• 1:01:57Speaker 01

  He just got mad at you, dude. The hell do you think I am?

• 1:02:01Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, of course, man, always.

• 1:02:04Speaker 01

  I mean, listen, the guy's-

• 1:02:05Speaker 03

  I get down at a Ross, man. My, my, my mom's is a, is a frequent flyer at Ross, at the JCPenney, at the Ross, at the Marshall's, my man. She's, there's always, she, she's like moved into my guest house the last few months.

• 1:02:17Speaker 01

  Your mom has?

• 1:02:18Speaker 03

  Yes, and she's kinda commandeered it, but I'll tell you what, man, the, the, the amount of decorations she buys from a Ross or-

• 1:02:25Speaker 01

  Live, laugh, love, something like that.

• 1:02:27Speaker 03

  Yeah, and it's just like, she's got, and, and that place was already like, you know, decorated by somebody that, like, my, my girl Brittany-

• 1:02:33Speaker 01

  It wasn't shopping at Ross.

• 1:02:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, and so then, so I, I go in there not too long ago and I see this, this, this, it looks like, it looks like a crackhead lives in there, man, because there's like, and I love her to death. That's my beautiful mama, but she's got this, she's always got these kinda things on the wall. Like, one thing on the wall, it goes like, um, they told her, you'll never withstand the storm. She whispered, I am the storm. You know, stuff like that. I remember, I remember one time when I was a little bit younger, I like moved back in with her and, and she had like set my piano up, you know, in, in this room and was like, you know, of course there's like guitars and music notes all over the wall. And she's like, I built you a place for you to jam. I said, this looks fucking terrible.

• 1:03:13Speaker 03

  Just music notes and it says, believe, follow your dreams everywhere. You know what I mean? And I was like, God, this live, laugh, love ass shit everywhere. I was just, I love it.

• 1:03:22Speaker 01

  Uh, that's great. I mean, listen, yeah.

• 1:03:25H. Foley?

  100% garbage.

• 1:03:26Speaker 01

  100% trash. We love it, buddy.

• 1:03:28Speaker 03

  I'm, I'm honored, honestly.

• 1:03:29H. Foley?

  Rock solid guy, though.

• 1:03:31Speaker 01

  Good dude.

• 1:03:32H. Foley?

  Yeah, somebody, somebody, successful, your motives, your reasons, your drive, the things you went through, you just love to see it.

• 1:03:40Speaker 01

  Yeah. One, one, it's, it's, uh, one of the things I wanted to mention, the videos of you singing with people on the street is like one of the coolest-

• 1:03:49H. Foley?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:49Speaker 03

  Dude, thank you.

• 1:03:50Speaker 01

  That's like, it's a thing you don't have to do, but you wanna do and it, it's just, it, it, and now after meeting you, it comes off as very, it's so genuine.

• 1:03:58Speaker 03

  You know, it keeps, it keeps music, I think when we do these shows, as big and wonderful as they are, there's so much planning and, and, and it's, there's no like room for spontaneity on it, you know? So it's, it's so good to just like be able to do those kinda things and keep it spontaneous and be like, oh, do we know how to fucking, we'll just make this up as we go. And that's, that's what live music's meant to be, you know? So always gotta keep live music, live music still, you know?

• 1:04:21H. Foley?

  You're a real one, brother. I'll tell you that right now. We're very happy for you. Couldn't, couldn't be more grateful that you came in.

• 1:04:27Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:04:28H. Foley?

  Uh, you're on tour right now. You're at the Barclay Center tomorrow night. That's crazy. Unbelievable. Um-

• 1:04:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, you guys are all welcome if you wanna, if you wanna come on, please, man.

• 1:04:37Speaker 01

  For sure, man. Thank you very much.

• 1:04:39Speaker 03

  You, your momma, your dog, your neighbor, whatever you want, man. Yo, come on.

• 1:04:42H. Foley?

  Single Perfect Man is out right now. The album drops January 22nd. New album, Ugly. Get it? Love him. Go see his shows. Teddy Swims, everybody. 100% trash. Let's go.

• 1:04:55Speaker 01

  Yeah, love you, buddy. Thanks for coming by, man. Appreciate you.

• 1:04:57H. Foley?

  Kaby, what do you got for him?

• 1:04:58Speaker 01

  Uh, we're on tour now. All tickets on sale at arugarbage.com. Get them. We'll see yous out there.

• 1:05:02H. Foley?

  Teddy, we love you, brother.

• 1:05:03Speaker 03

  I love you, man.

• 1:05:04H. Foley?

  Gang, we love you. We'll see you next week.