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0:00 H. Foley? Good Lord, ladies and gentlemen, I do declare there's some new Are You Garbage dates over there at AreYouGarbage.com.
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0:18 H. Foley? We'll see ya there.
0:19 Speaker 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.
0:38 H. Foley? Hey, everybody out there, and welcome back to everybody's favorite podcast, this is Are You Garbage?
0:44 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah.
0:45 H. Foley? It's that little show, we sit there with your favorite comedians, and we find that they're gonna be classy.
0:49 Speaker 01 Yeah.
0:50 H. Foley? Or they're just a big ol' piece of trash.
0:51 Speaker 01 Trash, trash, trash.
0:52 H. Foley? I'm your host, H. Foley, coming at you on a beautiful day, we're out back here at Toody's in the new addition, she's down at the DMV.
0:57 Speaker 01 Okay.
0:58 H. Foley? Trying to beat a case.
0:59 Speaker 01 Okay.
1:00 H. Foley? I got jammed up.
1:01 Speaker 01 Okay.
1:02 H. Foley? Fair enough. My co-host is coming at you from right next to me, unamused this week, little bit of a swing and a miss, as they say. He is the CEO of Are You Garbage, he is an international businessman and my best pal in the whole wide world, and I love him. Give it up for KJ, Kevin James Ryan, everybody.
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1:24 H. Foley? Woo, yes, sir.
1:25 Speaker 01 To the middle of the charts, not the top, who wants to be the top of the charts?
1:28 H. Foley? Ain't nobody looking for us.
1:29 Speaker 01 Yeah, in the media, not showing off, you know what I mean? Uh, then obviously the greatest website of all time, www.patreon.com/areyougarbage, you go over there, you get all that bonus content, gang.
1:38 H. Foley? Yes, sir, 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's a very funny, very successful stand-up comedian, seen him on Comedy Central, you've seen him on Tonight Show, he's one of the stars over there on Nate Land, he's got a special out, Yelling My Feelings, and he's got a brand new special coming out on Netflix in March, just did nine sold-out shows up there, wise guys, in Utah. Give it up for Derek Stroop, everybody.
2:01 Speaker 03 Hey, hey, hey.
2:02 H. Foley? Kid's got the hot hand.
2:03 Speaker 03 Thanks for having me, thanks for having me.
2:05 Speaker 01 Thanks for coming, buddy, I appreciate ya.
2:07 Speaker 03 Yeah, man, I'm pumped.
2:08 H. Foley? You're like a southern closer, you got the hat pulled down, coming out of the bullpen.
2:11 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
2:12 H. Foley? I love it.
2:13 Speaker 03 Some people that don't know me are gonna be like, looks like Blake Shelton got stung by bees.
2:17 H. Foley? Yeah.
2:18 Speaker 01 Yeah.
2:19 H. Foley? Man, all those country guys, there was a wave of them. They were all good looking as shit.
2:24 Speaker 03 Oh, yeah.
2:24 Speaker 01 The rugged masculinity.
2:26 H. Foley? The mid 2000s, they were all just gorgeous.
2:29 Speaker 03 It does. A cowboy hat does a lot for you, though.
2:32 Speaker 01 Does a lot for you, not for me.
2:33 Speaker 03 Yeah.
2:34 Speaker 01 I look, uh, not so great in them. I've tried. If I could pull it off, I would.
2:37 H. Foley? A cowboy hat?
2:38 Speaker 01 Yeah. There's also something like, I can't be walking around the streets of New York in a fucking cowboy hat.
2:44 Speaker 03 No, none of us can.
2:45 Speaker 01 And Jordans, you know what I mean? It's a tough look.
2:47 H. Foley? Howdy, sir. Let me get chicken over rice, please. Try your ethnic delicacies. Derek, give us the backstory. Where are you from?
2:55 Speaker 01 Alabama boy.
2:56 H. Foley? Alabama?
2:57 Speaker 03 That's right. Born, born in Charleston, West Virginia, raised in Alabama. I'm a very unique breed.
3:03 Speaker 01 Jesus Christ. Listen, I thought it could've get worse.
3:06 Speaker 03 You don't, you don't see that mix very often.
3:09 H. Foley? Six ways of southern.
3:10 Speaker 03 Yeah, man.
3:11 H. Foley? How many Charleston's are there, by the way? Jesus Christ.
3:14 Speaker 03 I know. There's, I mean, there's two that we mainly talk about, and it's never the one that I was born.
3:18 Speaker 01 Yeah, I was gonna say, I've never heard of Charleston, uh, West Virginia.
3:20 Speaker 03 Nobody ever assumes that, but yeah.
3:22 Speaker 01 What was the ju- why jump for, and what age was West Virginia to Alabama?
3:26 Speaker 03 I moved to Alabama when I was nine years old, and my dad got a job, uh, right outside of Huntsville, Alabama. And, uh, at the time, you know, felt like a real lateral move.
3:38 Speaker 03 As I got older, I have to say, I think I made, it was a pretty good decision. Huntsville has turned out to be a, it was a, I'm from Harvest, right outside of Huntsville. I mean, Harvest sounds like a made up place. I get that. It's a little too on the nose. It's like being from white people, Utah.
3:53 H. Foley? Apple cider, Alabama.
3:54 Speaker 03 Yeah, I'm from Tornado, Oklahoma. Um, but yeah, so a little town right outside of Huntsville. It was a great area to grow up in. It was, uh, it was great.
4:03 Speaker 01 And what did your dad do?
4:04 Speaker 03 Um, he worked for my grandfather. They had a family owned business.
4:07 Speaker 01 Okay.
4:08 Speaker 03 For probably the first 10 years that, uh, uh, lived there and then, and then that went under and then he had to start a landscaping business. And so, yeah.
4:16 Speaker 01 They always go under.
4:17 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, it always, the dream always sinks.
4:20 Speaker 01 They can't, they can get there, they can't maintain it.
4:21 Speaker 03 No, no, I had about, I had about 10 years where, I mean, we were riding the heater.
4:26 Speaker 01 Yeah, us too. Yeah, same, same.
4:28 Speaker 03 That's the only reason I know anything about hibachi is that 10 years.
4:32 H. Foley? Have you been to his Benny Hana?
4:33 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
4:34 H. Foley? Wait, okay, so your grandfather, was your grandfather from in West Virginia and they moved out and did the business?
4:41 Speaker 03 Yep, they moved down to Huntsville and he was running it himself and so he called my dad, who my dad was running a bar in Charleston at the time.
4:47 H. Foley? He was running a bar?
4:48 Speaker 03 Yeah, it was called Number Eight down on Capitol Street.
4:51 Speaker 01 It's a great bar name, did the number eight?
4:53 Speaker 03 Underground, just a couple pinball machines and some stools, but yeah, he ran that forever and then he went into the family business.
5:01 H. Foley? Which was?
5:02 Speaker 03 With my grandfather. It was electrical contacts. It was very unique. They would take silver and put it on the copper and they would sell it to like companies for transformers and different things. A lot of just standing up and welding and talk radio. He made great money doing it. But yeah, and then once that went under, we had to pivot to the landscaping company, which was a nightmare.
5:23 Speaker 01 Does not seem like a lateral move.
5:24 Speaker 03 You do not want to be the son of a landscaping company.
5:26 H. Foley? Had they ever done that, your dad ever done that before?
5:29 Speaker 03 No, no.
5:29 H. Foley? What year is this? Is this when landscaping got hot?
5:32 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, no, this is like, this is when landscaping really took off. I would say probably 20 years ago.
5:37 H. Foley? Alright, yeah.
5:37 Speaker 03 I mean, everybody, once, you know, I mean, everybody had something in the back of their lawnmower, they were pulling weed eaters.
5:43 Speaker 01 A Toro?
5:44 Speaker 03 Yeah, I mean, he made killer money doing it and I was of no help.
5:48 Speaker 01 Lot of cash too.
5:49 Speaker 03 My other brother, Will, he helps out with it.
5:51 Speaker 01 Still?
5:51 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, still, still. Will still helps with it, coaches baseball, helps my dad out with the company, but there's no way. I mean, I did it on and off for several years, but I'm not laying any sod.
6:03 H. Foley? So what you, once you moved out there and became 16, 17, you were automatically on the crew, I would have said.
6:09 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah, you start, I mean, well, actually, let's get the timeline right. This probably started happening when I was about 18, the landscaping stuff. So I was able to get out. I went to Jacksonville State University, which is a tiny little school in Alabama. It's about two hours south of Huntsville where I grew up. I went there for seven years.
6:28 Speaker 01 Dude, southern guys go to schools you've never heard of. Every single one of them.
6:32 H. Foley? Did you stay at home and go to school or did you live there?
6:34 Speaker 03 Oh, no, no, no. I lived in Jacksonville. I had the absolute time of my life. I mean, there was only like two bars there, seven restaurants, a school. At the time, probably 7,000 people and I truly had the time and there was all kinds of, I mean, uh, country singer Riley Green, me, Sam Hunt, Drake White, we were all, those are all country singers you probably don't know, but we were all there at the same time.
6:56 H. Foley? Like a super group.
6:57 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah. Sam was playing at the local bar. Riley went to school there and was playing. And, uh, yeah, it was a wild, it was, it was a great time, man.
7:04 Speaker 01 That's not bad. What'd you go to school for?
7:06 Speaker 03 Uh, well, several things. Uh, we, we landed on recreation because I'd touched everyone.
7:12 H. Foley? What the fuck is that?
7:13 Speaker 03 Well, my, my final was canoeing and dodgeball and that's not a joke. Like, we would learn, we, we like, we, we would get freeze tagged for the class and you would learn the ethics of freeze tag of like how to treat people and keep, keep people's boundaries safe.
7:27 H. Foley? But this is in college?
7:28 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah. But you know, looking back, I've told my friends this, looking back, I've always wondered if I was in regular classes.
7:34 Speaker 01 No, I don't think you were, dude. No way. I don't want to say anything.
7:37 Speaker 03 They just duped me. They go, no, no, this is a regular degree and you're just like everybody else.
7:42 H. Foley? Freeze tag, dude?
7:43 Speaker 03 Roll the ball. Roll the ball. Yeah.
7:45 Speaker 01 That's wild.
7:46 Speaker 03 Yeah. Community rec is, uh, is what it was.
7:48 H. Foley? Couldn't get into the horseshoe class.
7:50 Speaker 01 What, what would you do with that? Like go work at a community center or like?
7:53 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah. You would. You know, when you walk into a community center and you see the guy that's like yelling at everybody in the middle of the gym?
7:59 Speaker 01 That would be you.
8:00 Speaker 03 You're not gonna believe this, but he went to school for that. Um.
8:02 H. Foley? You know what? When you put it like that, it's a pretty sweet gig.
8:06 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's a pretty sweet gig. I mean, you got kids making more money than you, I believe. Uh, but yeah, I mean, there's no way that you're just balling out as a, you know.
8:15 Speaker 01 Tough living.
8:16 Speaker 03 No, no, I'm not trying to, uh, you, community directors, you are the heartbeat. I love y'all, but you're catching a stray here.
8:21 H. Foley? You know what's crazy though? They are becoming bigger and bigger. In the area where we grew up outside of Philly, there's, there's a bunch of huge community centers that are like YMCA's, but they're done by the, by the township.
8:33 Speaker 03 Yeah.
8:34 H. Foley? They're pretty sharp.
8:35 Speaker 03 Yeah, it's nice.
8:36 Speaker 01 I smell a second gig for you.
8:37 Speaker 03 I smell a second gig for you.
8:39 Speaker 01 I smell a retirement plan.
8:40 H. Foley? Somebody get me an application to, uh, Jacksonville Christian University College.
8:47 H. Foley? What was the college mascot?
8:48 Speaker 03 Uh, Gamecocks.
8:50 H. Foley? Gamecocks.
8:50 Speaker 01 Not bad. What was the high school mascot?
8:52 Speaker 03 Uh, unbelievable. It was the Senators.
8:54 Speaker 01 The Senators?
8:56 H. Foley? Pretty classy.
8:57 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, what's your mascot? We had a guy in a suit running around. The other team's like, "What are you gonna do, pass a pill?" Yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean, classy until you have a pep rally.
9:07 Speaker 01 He's filibustering and shit.
9:09 Speaker 03 And a guy in a suit comes out, you're supposed to get fired up.
9:11 H. Foley? I never thought about it like that. I thought it was supposed to be like a, like a Roman senator.
9:14 Speaker 01 Like the old, like, the, yeah.
9:15 Speaker 03 No, no, ours is, John Sparkman is who the school's named after, and he was a state senator.
9:20 Speaker 01 A state senator at that? Not even a, not even, not even a US?
9:24 H. Foley? Give it up for the Comptrollers, everybody.
9:26 Speaker 01 That's wild.
9:27 H. Foley? Coming out with a hell of a squad.
9:28 Speaker 03 We gotta say, he's had to be a US senator. He had to be. Just for the sake of my school. There's no way.
9:35 Speaker 01 That's brutal, dude.
9:36 Speaker 03 My school's named after a county commissioner.
9:42 Speaker 03 It's gotta be a US senator.
9:45 Speaker 01 He was kicked out of office after six months.
9:47 H. Foley? Oh, for sure. He got caught up.
9:50 Speaker 01 Damn. Okay, all right. I mean, we're off to the races already. Um, you know, what?
9:56 H. Foley? Was it, was it just you and your brother?
9:58 Speaker 03 Uh, no, I have a sister as well.
9:59 H. Foley? You have a sister?
10:00 Speaker 03 I'm the oldest by a long shot.
10:02 H. Foley? And what'd your mom do?
10:03 Speaker 01 Hold on. What's, how long of a shot?
10:04 Speaker 03 Uh, 12 and 16 years.
10:06 Speaker 01 Yeah, that's a long shot. Okay, all right.
10:08 Speaker 03 I, I'm, I was an only-
10:10 Speaker 01 Same, all the same parents?
10:11 Speaker 03 Uh, no, different parents.
10:12 Speaker 01 Picked up on that.
10:12 Speaker 03 No, yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't know my, don't know my dad.
10:15 Speaker 01 You don't know your dad.
10:16 H. Foley? What do you mean? You just said you were working with him.
10:18 Speaker 03 Yeah, that's my stepdad. Yeah, you'd know if we, if you, he's 5'6" with black hair. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You'd go, "Hey, man."
10:25 H. Foley? Little Asian guy.
10:25 Speaker 03 This guy's sleeping with your mother.
10:29 H. Foley? I like how you didn't open with that. All right, hold on a second here. So... Okay. All right, so your mom has you.
10:38 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, 18 years old.
10:40 H. Foley? Your mom has you at 18?
10:41 Speaker 01 West Virginia.
10:41 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:42 H. Foley? Charleston, West Virginia.
10:43 Speaker 01 I like how you jumped to college real fucking quick.
10:46 Speaker 03 Well, I was trying to get the hell out of there. I was trying to get out of there. I go, I gotta get to school. I gotta get to school.
10:52 Speaker 01 I gotta tell him I graduated.
10:53 Speaker 03 They can't realize how this started.
10:55 H. Foley? Yeah, but then you say you went to school for darts. It's like, where'd you think you were getting to, man? Just be honest with us.
11:02 Speaker 01 That's the best thing he's got going. The seven-year degree.
11:05 Speaker 03 That's it. Well, the degree part would have been great.
11:07 Speaker 01 You don't have the degree?
11:08 Speaker 03 No, no, no. I just went forever and got it. Well, I started running a bar, and then once I started running a bar, I go, why do you need a degree if you're the coolest guy that's ever lived?
11:18 H. Foley? I don't want you fellas to think less of me. I apologize.
11:21 Speaker 01 All right.
11:21 H. Foley? All right, so your mom has you at 18. You don't know your dad.
11:25 Speaker 03 Yeah.
11:27 Speaker 01 He summed that up pretty harshly.
11:28 Speaker 03 People are gonna chime in. That sounds like the end of the episode. They go, boy.
11:34 Speaker 01 Okay.
11:35 H. Foley? All right, man. All right, and when did she meet your stepdad?
11:38 Speaker 03 Um, when I was probably six.
11:40 H. Foley? Okay, so at six. All right, so then they start a family.
11:43 Speaker 03 Yep, yep.
11:44 H. Foley? Right? Well, no, they hadn't, because you said 12 years.
11:46 Speaker 03 And then we moved to Alabama. Still no, still just us three.
11:50 H. Foley? Gotcha.
11:50 Speaker 01 Where they get married? They got married in Alabama?
11:52 Speaker 03 They got married in Alabama, then they started the family. Uh, yeah, I was 12 when Will was born, 16 when Sarah was born. So me and Sarah didn't even really share a house.
12:02 Speaker 01 I got a similar vibe, too, yeah.
12:04 H. Foley? Will and Sarah, they're two good names. I like that.
12:05 Speaker 03 Yeah.
12:06 H. Foley? Were you at that wedding? Your mother, your stepdad?
12:09 Speaker 03 No, they didn't tell me that they were getting married. They said they were going to the Smoky Mountains to hang out for the weekend, and then when they came back, my dad was allowed to spank me. You know, it happened fast.
12:18 Speaker 01 Wow.
12:19 Speaker 03 You know? Yeah.
12:22 Speaker 01 Well, I got good news and bad news, Derek.
12:23 Speaker 03 Yeah.
12:24 Speaker 01 Good news is I'm your dad. Bad news is get on my leg.
12:27 H. Foley? Probably came back all fired up.
12:30 Speaker 01 Wow.
12:30 H. Foley? Holy shit, they didn't tell ya.
12:32 Speaker 01 How was the relationship with the stepdad? Were you ingratiated? Do you call him dad?
12:36 Speaker 03 Yeah, uh, no, call him Bill. But I talk about him on stage a lot. It, it, he was great, man. He was a great provider, had a great relationship with my mother. Me and him, it was kinda touch and go because we're so different.
12:46 Speaker 01 Sure.
12:47 Speaker 03 I mean, I'm a real wild-
12:47 Speaker 01 That's always what it is.
12:48 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, I'm a real wild card. He's a very reserved, conservative guy, and I've always been a lot for him, but like, comes to like, just like man to man and a good dude, he's, he's top notch.
12:58 H. Foley? He's rock solid.
12:59 Speaker 03 Yeah, I mean, his sense of humor isn't like a shining part of his-
13:02 Speaker 01 I, I had the same, I had the same sitch going on for a long time.
13:05 H. Foley? Guy can't take a joke, I don't know what to tell ya.
13:08 Speaker 03 I mean, that's, yeah, that's, that's it. That, that's it. He's, he sighs a lot.
13:13 Speaker 01 Yeah, okay.
13:14 H. Foley? Let me ask you this. Were you upset? So you were, so you were, how old when they got married?
13:19 Speaker 03 Um, I was probably, I was probably ten.
13:22 H. Foley? Okay. When they got back and they were like, we got married, were you like, what the hell? You didn't invite me to the wedding?
13:28 Speaker 03 No, no, never felt any type of way. I was glad, I liked the-
13:31 H. Foley? Did you get them gifts?
13:32 Speaker 03 No, no. I, I, I think I appreciated the stability and just having somebody we could count on, and my mom, it all felt like it was coming together because I can remember-
13:42 H. Foley? Okay.
13:42 Speaker 03 Growing up with just me and my mom, like, we lived in a very, you know, rundown place, and like, we were eating Taco Bell every night, so-
13:50 H. Foley? I like that.
13:50 Speaker 03 I could see the tides-
13:51 Speaker 01 Always doing that now.
13:52 Speaker 03 I could see the tides turning.
13:53 H. Foley? I gotcha.
13:54 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
13:55 H. Foley? Okay, I respect that.
13:56 Speaker 01 And what's, what's the, what's the home situ- what kinda house she in? Is it a townhouse, a condo, trailer?
14:01 Speaker 03 When we were first in, when we were first in Alabama, it was a townhouse. When they got married, we moved in to a home that's like on fifteen acres.
14:08 Speaker 01 Oh, nice.
14:09 Speaker 03 Yeah, we did that thing where you buy everything, like, the people that lived there before retired and moved to Florida, they were in their seventies. They left us, like, when we moved-
14:17 Speaker 01 You got the couch.
14:17 Speaker 03 We got, we got the dog, we got the, the lawnmower, every tool that he had, everything in the kitchen, they just left the home and all their belongings.
14:27 H. Foley? This is the fifteen acres.
14:28 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a name for it. They left it-
14:30 Speaker 01 Garbage, is what it's called. Yeah, I think, I think we got to the bottom of it.
14:33 Speaker 03 We were gonna have a yard sale, but she offered us a good number.
14:36 Speaker 01 He gave us twelve hundred. We can have the dog.
14:39 H. Foley? What kinda dog was it?
14:40 Speaker 03 It was a Weimaraner.
14:41 H. Foley? What the hell is that?
14:42 Speaker 01 I thought you were joking.
14:42 Speaker 03 No, no, I'm being dead serious.
14:44 H. Foley? What's a Weimaraner?
14:45 Speaker 03 It's a, uh-
14:46 H. Foley? Sounds like a car.
14:47 Speaker 03 No, it's like a greyhound without the athletic ability.
14:53 H. Foley? Became a college roommate.
14:54 Speaker 03 Let me tell y'all, y'all don't know this, but that description is just...
14:57 Speaker 01 That's probably that. How do you spell it? Weimer?
14:59 H. Foley? The athletic ability.
15:01 Speaker 01 Ah, there you go. Weimer, aimer dog.
15:02 Speaker 03 Yeah.
15:03 Speaker 01 Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
15:04 H. Foley? Who were the people that left you the house?
15:06 Speaker 03 Uh, I think they were the Bederos.
15:08 H. Foley? So just a family friend?
15:10 Speaker 03 Yeah, just, no, we didn't know them. That's how they were selling the home. We're retiring.
15:13 Speaker 01 As is.
15:14 Speaker 03 We're as is.
15:15 Speaker 01 Going to a condo or whatever.
15:16 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
15:16 Speaker 01 We don't have room for the dog. We don't have room for the mower.
15:19 Speaker 03 It's not, it's not totally uncommon. This is a thing, I don't know how much it happens anymore, but you just kinda get to move in. And you can sell what, what you don't want of theirs and you keep what, but a lot of the tools, I mean, this man had a giant garden that we, that we went on and ran and such. So we kept all of his tools and all of his lawn mowers. It was a big help.
15:35 Speaker 01 Not a bad gig.
15:36 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, it wasn't, wasn't bad at all. Cause I grew up with like eight peach trees, seven apple trees, plum trees, pear trees.
15:43 Speaker 01 Wow.
15:43 Speaker 03 An acre garden. It was like a gentleman's farm. Like we, we canned a bunch of stuff. Yeah.
15:48 Speaker 01 No shit.
15:49 H. Foley? A gentleman's farm.
15:49 Speaker 01 I don't know, first time I heard that.
15:51 H. Foley? How were the peaches? Pretty good, I imagine.
15:52 Speaker 03 Oh man, it was unreal. I mean, walking home from school growing up, the trees would get so heavy from the peaches, they'd be almost laying on the ground. And I would just eat peaches all the way down the driveway and then, you know, hey, every, every few peaches, you had to turn around and try to hit a car.
16:05 H. Foley? Yeah.
16:05 Speaker 03 But then, yeah, yeah, I'd knock down a few more peaches. It was the best.
16:08 H. Foley? Mom throw a cobble together with that, with those peaches?
16:10 Speaker 03 Oh my goodness. My, put her whole foot in it. Yeah. Are you kidding me? Golly.
16:17 Speaker 01 I love a southern saying.
16:18 H. Foley? Yeah, that's alright. Okay, uh, can I ask you this?
16:22 Speaker 03 Yeah.
16:23 H. Foley? When you were in the townhouse?
16:24 Speaker 03 Yeah.
16:24 H. Foley? How did you feel about townhouse community living?
16:27 Speaker 03 Um...
16:28 H. Foley? Was there a pool, community pool?
16:29 Speaker 03 No, there wasn't a pool. It wasn't, yeah, yeah. You know, I mean, I was just by my, you know, I was an only child till I was 12. So I used to grab the football. We, we had, uh, we had another dog that we already had, uh, a golden retriever.
16:41 H. Foley? Nice.
16:41 Speaker 03 And I would just try to run and he would tackle me and, I mean, that's all I played. I mean, I didn't really have anybody around me that I was, I, I mean, you know, if I would've known that I was a comedian growing up, it'd have made me and my mom's life a lot easier.
16:54 Speaker 01 Of course, right?
16:54 Speaker 03 Because she said she'd leave me in her room and she'd walk by and it'd sound like there was five people in there. But she couldn't figure out what was wrong with it. With me, so I, you know, I was, I was a self entertaining person. Then when we moved to the house, I got, you know, that changed everything.
17:07 H. Foley? That's a good quote, man. If I knew I was a comedian, it would have made my life a lot easier.
17:10 Speaker 03 Yeah. Well, cause you're constantly in the principal's office and they go, we, we can't tell if you're dumb or if you just don't care, son.
17:17 Speaker 01 Yeah.
17:18 Speaker 03 And you go, well, it's, it's neither. I'm just gonna always send it if I can.
17:22 Speaker 01 I'm riffing here, dude.
17:23 Speaker 03 Yeah.
17:23 Speaker 01 I'm killing.
17:24 Speaker 03 I mean, I crushed English for an hour until you got in there. Yeah.
17:29 Speaker 01 Yeah. I, I, I once had a teacher said, help me, ask my mom, help me help your son. And I was like, my mom's like, if a teacher ever says it to me again, I'll fucking kill you.
17:39 Speaker 03 I love it. I had a teacher tell my mom that your son's either gonna end up in prison or Saturday Night Live.
17:44 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
17:44 Speaker 03 Yeah.
17:45 Speaker 01 Well, fingers crossed.
17:46 Speaker 03 Yeah, no kidding.
17:47 H. Foley? I can't get over the fact that you were doing Oklahoma drills with the golden retriever.
17:51 Speaker 03 I really was. I really was. And I, I mean, he won some, I won some.
17:56 H. Foley? Hey, man.
17:56 Speaker 03 Game of inches.
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20:00 H. Foley? Yikes.
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20:42 H. Foley? Do it.
20:42 Speaker 01 Yeah.
20:43 H. Foley? Okay.
20:44 Speaker 01 At any point, you know, before 18, whatever, who was the most famous person you met as a kid? Didn't have to be a big celebrity, could have been a local.
20:50 H. Foley? News guy or something down there.
20:52 Speaker 01 Somebody.
20:52 Speaker 03 I met Pete Rose in Boca Raton.
20:55 H. Foley? What?
20:55 Speaker 03 Yeah, as a kid. Yeah.
20:57 H. Foley? Get the fuck out of here.
20:59 Speaker 03 Pete Rose, yeah. Shook his hand. He was, he was at a restaurant. I don't know if it was his restaurant or at a restaurant, but he was signing stuff and shaking hands and I was with my grandparents.
21:08 H. Foley? What were you doing in Boca Raton, Florida?
21:09 Speaker 03 That man, it just keeps going. My, I don't know my father, but my grandpa, my grandma and grandpa Stroup lived in Boca and I went and visited him one summer and didn't see my dad or anything, but they wanted to spend time with me. So I spent, I spent a summer in Boca Raton where they lived.
21:26 H. Foley? A summer?
21:27 Speaker 03 Yeah, because the backstory, here's, here's, my grand, the Stroup's made good money for themselves and my mother. Came from a family that was like very blue collar, salt of the earth people.
21:37 H. Foley? Gotcha.
21:38 Speaker 03 And so when my, when Darren got my mother pregnant, it was the, the rich family getting the poor cheerleader pregnant.
21:44 Speaker 01 From the wrong side of the track.
21:45 Speaker 03 So he tried, the Stroup tried to act like it never happened.
21:47 H. Foley? Wow.
21:48 Speaker 03 So, so they just, you know, particularly my dad, but my, my grandparents, I've always been told, wanted to see me and, you know, they were normal people and wanted to, so I spent a summer with them down in Boca and, but that was the last time that I'd ever hung out with them and they, they, they were like way more rich than the rest of my family. It was a really interesting experience.
22:08 H. Foley? Did they know, so you hadn't met them or anything and this was trial by fire that you were going to stay with them for the summer?
22:14 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah. You know, I probably was around them as a baby and such because, you know, my mom knows them through my dad, but I didn't like know them.
22:22 H. Foley? What age is this you did this?
22:23 Speaker 03 Um, I was probably, uh, seven, seven or eight.
22:28 H. Foley? Seven?
22:28 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
22:29 H. Foley? What'd you think of Boca retirement, coming from?
22:31 Speaker 03 Oh, it was just crazy. I could not believe that we went out to eat every night. I could not believe it. I'll never forget it. I just could.
22:39 Speaker 01 Nice restaurants?
22:40 Speaker 03 But yeah, nice restaurants. My grandfather, I mean, this, the apple doesn't fall far from the, he was a huge man that loved to eat. And I mean, I, that's like my memories of like him talking to me about food, enjoying food. And he was just a big old dude with suspenders on, a nerdy guy that made his money through IBM before the computers really took off.
22:57 H. Foley? That's fucking nice. So they were kind of retired down there?
23:00 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They were pretty young.
23:03 H. Foley? And where did your dad live?
23:04 Speaker 03 Um, he's still, I mean, Darren lives in, in West Virginia.
23:08 Speaker 01 I love the fact that you call him Darren.
23:09 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
23:10 Speaker 01 It's cutting. I love it.
23:12 Speaker 03 Yeah. And it's also, I mean, I kept my last name, you know, my, my, uh, stepdad wanted me to take his last name when I was 16 and I didn't. And it became a kind of a personal thing, but I always felt like my biggest revenge would be not to disappear. So kind of the chip on my shoulder was like, I'm going to keep the last name.
23:29 Speaker 01 I just got chill.
23:30 Speaker 03 And then I, and then I'm, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm going to come back for you.
23:34 Speaker 01 You can't ignore me, yeah.
23:34 Speaker 03 You cannot, because then they win. And even at that age, it's crazy. I already understood that. I go, if I get rid of Stroup, then, then they've erased me. But if I keep Stroup. Then I, then they can't, you know, because that's kind of like my, you know, a little bit of my drive is like, uh, shoving it up his ass.
23:52 H. Foley? Yeah.
23:52 Speaker 03 You know, with, excuse my language.
23:54 H. Foley? No, what do you mean?
23:55 Speaker 01 What?
23:56 Speaker 03 And I don't even know.
23:57 H. Foley? Talking about vengeance here.
23:58 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, and I don't even.
23:59 H. Foley? Curse away.
24:00 Speaker 03 I, I don't even, you know, know him or have any reason to meet him, but it's just like, I, I still have.
24:07 Speaker 01 Something you carry.
24:07 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, the same chip, because the older you get and the better you, like, you, you know, you see how great your mother is and your grandmother, yeah. That's what builds.
24:15 Speaker 01 I just had, I, my parents got divorced, dad, I don't talk to my dad anymore. I, I had a kid seven months ago and it's like,
24:22 Speaker 03 Oh, yeah.
24:22 Speaker 01 Completely changed my perspective of.
24:24 Speaker 03 Absolutely.
24:25 Speaker 01 Of any, of what she has done, what everybody had did and how I was a fuck up.
24:30 Speaker 03 No, no, I totally, I had a, a baby boy four months ago.
24:33 Speaker 01 Oh, congratulations.
24:33 H. Foley? Congratulations, my man.
24:34 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah. So, no, I get it. I feel like Denzel Washington on Man on Fire, you know? Like, I'm just walking down the street and I'm like, whoever wants it can get it.
24:42 H. Foley? Man, you are fucking speaking our language.
24:45 Speaker 03 Yeah.
24:45 Speaker 01 Woo wee. Yeah, it's, um, yeah, that's a, that's a, that's a, yeah, that's a lot. Lot to unpack. That's for a different podcast.
24:51 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
24:52 Speaker 01 That's for a different.
24:53 H. Foley? But your dad wasn't down there in Boca the summer you were there.
24:56 Speaker 03 No, no, he was, he was not there. I spent that just with, uh, my, uh, my grandparents and hung out with them.
25:01 H. Foley? That's pretty, I mean, that's ni- was nice of them to.
25:05 Speaker 03 Yeah, absolutely. It was more, even, what's even crazier, it was more my grandfather than even my grandmother. My grandpa, Stroup, was a, a great man. He was just very quiet and they kind of ran over him, you know, and he kind of took it, you know?
25:17 Speaker 01 Hey.
25:18 Speaker 03 But, yeah, he was the reason. He was the one that was like, I want to hang out, you know, with my grandson.
25:22 H. Foley? Man, I love that.
25:23 Speaker 03 Yeah.
25:24 Speaker 01 Well, I mean, what a, Jesus Christ.
25:26 Speaker 03 Yeah, well, I was trying to see, I go, I, I, I'm ju- I'm just feeding a little bit of line at a time here.
25:31 Speaker 01 It's like you're crabbing.
25:32 Speaker 03 I go, how, how much do they, I go, I got a little more line than you think I've got.
25:37 H. Foley? You got me eating raw bacon over here.
25:40 H. Foley? I know how to get the crabs.
25:42 Speaker 01 I was a bunker boy. Uh, alright, huh?
25:44 H. Foley? Well, um, what was the grocery store that you went to growing up? Well, when we said growing up, we'll do, we'll consider Alabama.
25:50 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Alabama's where I have all my main, my memories.
25:54 H. Foley? Gotcha.
25:54 Speaker 03 Okay, so Bruno's Winn-Dixie.
25:56 H. Foley? Winn-Dixie?
25:57 Speaker 01 Well, was Bruno's nicer, probably?
25:58 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah. Bruno's was probably nicer, but Winn-Dixie was like, it's just a southern.
26:03 Speaker 01 The go-to.
26:04 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, and, and southern grocery stores are unbelievable. Now Publix has taken that place.
26:08 Speaker 01 Yeah.
26:09 Speaker 03 You go into Publix and you're like, "Oh, you people have healthcare, clearly."
26:12 Speaker 01 Yeah.
26:12 Speaker 03 Like, I mean, nobody cares about lemons being this much taken care of, you know? Yeah.
26:18 H. Foley? This is when we had a little bit of cash, right? When your stepdad was working for your, when, working for his father.
26:24 Speaker 03 Yep, that's right.
26:24 H. Foley? That business was good.
26:25 Speaker 03 Yeah, man, booming.
26:26 H. Foley? Alright.
26:27 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had a four-wheeler growing up.
26:29 Speaker 01 Nice, what kind?
26:29 H. Foley? Okay.
26:30 Speaker 03 Three Honda, three hundred Honda four-tracks.
26:33 Speaker 01 Woo!
26:33 Speaker 03 Oh, man, I had to make As and Bs to get it. And it was so, I made As and Bs just that semester.
26:39 H. Foley? Okay.
26:39 Speaker 01 Just to get it?
26:40 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, and then it was just leverage for the rest of my life.
26:42 Speaker 01 Nice.
26:43 Speaker 03 Just held over my head.
26:44 Speaker 01 That dude, a fucking, a, a, you got a quad and you got fifteen acres?
26:49 Speaker 03 Oh, yeah.
26:49 H. Foley? Zipping around?
26:50 Speaker 03 If you can't close that deal, you, you're garbage.
26:53 Speaker 01 Yeah.
26:53 Speaker 03 Yeah.
26:54 H. Foley? Did you guys make any money off of the, off of the farm, uh, portion of the property?
26:58 Speaker 03 No, no, that's what a gentleman's farm is, is where you, you, you have a lot of produce and you, you don't sell it. You kind of keep it for yourself, can it, you might give it to your friends.
27:08 H. Foley? That might be, when you said "heat check" out there, I was like, "That's a sweet saying." You said "gentleman's farm."
27:13 Speaker 03 Yeah.
27:14 H. Foley? That's... It's a gentleman's farm.
27:16 Speaker 01 This guy's chock full of good lines.
27:18 H. Foley? Yeah, I like that.
27:18 Speaker 03 This guy's got a little word play. A little word play.
27:21 Speaker 01 You should be an entertainer, kid. Uh, okay, is it ground beef or hamburger meat?
27:26 Speaker 03 Gosh, it's ground beef.
27:27 Speaker 01 Okay, I did not expect that. Respect it.
27:30 H. Foley? Ever have a rat tail?
27:32 Speaker 03 No, have I ever had a rat tail? No.
27:34 Speaker 01 Uh, ever attend a wedding in someone's backyard?
27:37 Speaker 03 Yeah, for sure.
27:37 Speaker 01 Okay. Whose was it? Do you remember?
27:39 Speaker 03 Uh, no, because it was in their backyard. I don't drink anymore, but you blackout at backyard weddings. That's for sure.
27:46 Speaker 01 Well put.
27:47 Speaker 03 It's a keg out there.
27:48 H. Foley? You ever have a radio in the shower?
27:50 Speaker 03 Um.
27:51 H. Foley? Like one that sticks on the wall?
27:52 Speaker 03 No, no.
27:53 H. Foley? Okay. Was the house, were you guys feeling yourselves on the, on the classiness when you had the cash going at the?
27:59 Speaker 01 Did everybody have their own bedrooms?
28:01 Speaker 03 No, no, we all had our own bedrooms. It was still a tiny, it still was not a very big house. It was, I mean, like, I remember trying to talk to girls in high school and I would like lay under my clothes with a blanket on top. So nobody could, could hear me. Like, I mean, there was no privacy.
28:15 H. Foley? Okay.
28:15 Speaker 03 Pretty small house.
28:16 H. Foley? I gotcha. All right. What were the, what were the family cars around that time? What was the old man driving?
28:21 Speaker 03 The old man, uh, like a true southerner, uh, had an old beat up truck, um, that he would drive around, uh, especially to take me to school to embarrass me sometimes. And then he had a Nissan truck. Uh, I mean, both of them were pretty beat up. My mom had a nicer Ford Explorer.
28:38 H. Foley? That Nissan truck, do you remember what it was called? Was it an SE, SE something, was it?
28:42 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah. Those small Nissan trucks that like-
28:45 H. Foley? Not super small, but like-
28:46 Speaker 03 No, no. Yeah, but they lasted forever.
28:48 H. Foley? Yeah, we had the same one.
28:49 Speaker 03 I, I mean, it lasted forever. I mean, it was a stick shift. I mean, I would get in there. Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah.
28:54 H. Foley? You could drive stick?
28:55 Speaker 03 Uh, not anymore. I have in my life, but I, there's no way. I would never want to anymore.
29:00 Speaker 01 Yeah.
29:00 Speaker 03 I, I, I think learning, like-
29:03 Speaker 01 Seems so archaic now.
29:04 H. Foley? I think you'd be able to do it. It's like-
29:06 Speaker 03 Yeah, maybe. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I really-
29:08 Speaker 01 He doesn't sound too confident.
29:09 Speaker 03 No, no, no. I mean, I haven't, listen, it just keeps unraveling. I haven't drove in 15 years.
29:13 Speaker 01 And we're back.
29:15 Speaker 03 I mean, it's just-
29:16 Speaker 01 Why?
29:17 Speaker 03 I got two DUIs, uh, and, and-
29:20 Speaker 01 And you're sober now?
29:21 Speaker 03 Yes. Uh, 15 years ago, I got two DUIs. 16 years ago. And I haven't drank in five years, but yeah, I haven't drove since I, I haven't had my license since I got my DUIs.
29:30 Speaker 01 Are you able to get it and just haven't gotten it?
29:32 Speaker 03 Yeah.
29:33 Speaker 01 No one suspends it for 15 years.
29:34 Speaker 03 Yeah, I got my-
29:35 Speaker 01 As, as, as, as someone with a lot of friends and family who've had a couple of DUIs, nobody gets 15 years.
29:41 Speaker 03 No.
29:41 H. Foley? That should have been only six months and expunged.
29:43 Speaker 03 You're right. And people think that all the time. I think they don't believe me too. And I'll tell them, they'll go, I don't think I can get as long. I can. Now, I, when we moved from Denver to here, we had to get a U-Haul. So I got my learner's permit, so my wife didn't have to drive.
29:55 H. Foley? Hey, look at you.
29:56 Speaker 03 Yeah. I knocked it down on the first try. I was, I didn't even study.
29:59 Speaker 01 You should. You're fucking 40 years old. What do you mean? You're bragging about hitting your learner's permit?
30:04 Speaker 03 I know a stop sign when I see one.
30:07 H. Foley? Can we go to Olive Garden now? You got your permit.
30:10 Speaker 01 Yeah.
30:10 H. Foley? Buddy, look at you.
30:12 Speaker 01 That's crazy, dude.
30:13 Speaker 03 Haven't drove in 15 years. I'll drive in this city though.
30:16 Speaker 01 I'll get a U-Haul too.
30:17 Speaker 03 Yeah, I'll drive in this city by myself though sometimes.
30:19 H. Foley? Hold on, take me through that timeline. Alright, so it's 15 years ago that you haven't driven. Where are you at?
30:24 Speaker 01 You're in Denver?
30:25 Speaker 03 No, I'm in Jacksonville.
30:26 Speaker 01 Florida?
30:27 Speaker 03 Alabama.
30:28 Speaker 01 Okay, so.
30:29 Speaker 03 You're not gonna believe how long I was in that college town.
30:31 H. Foley? Wait, okay, so you don't really need a car there?
30:34 Speaker 03 Uh, in Jacksonville, Alabama, you need a car.
30:36 H. Foley? So what the hell were you doing?
30:38 Speaker 03 Uh, relying on friends that eventually gave up on you.
30:41 H. Foley? Holy shit.
30:42 Speaker 03 I was riding around, I lost everything. I lost all my money, I got evicted, I was riding around on a bicycle, smoking cigarettes off the ground outside of McDonald's.
30:49 H. Foley? It's like Ricky Bobby.
30:50 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah. No, moved back in with my parents, I'm 30 years old, tried to work with my dad, I worked with him for like three days, he's like doing these... Yeah, he's breaking his back, I'm trying to tell him, if you learn how to make a French drain and do some irrigation, you can make a bunch more money, we don't have to hedge these bushes and get bullied out here and we blew up and got in a fight and there was a girl that I was talking to at the time that lived in Denver, was going to massage therapy school. I come home, I go, I got no money, I just got kicked out of my dad's family business, I go, I'm gonna move to Denver and I'm gonna kind of chase this dream and that is where it kind of really started.
31:26 Speaker 01 The dream of dating a massage therapist, my guy.
31:29 Speaker 03 If that ain't the dream, I don't know what is.
31:31 H. Foley? He already hit the jackpot, what are you chasing?
31:33 Speaker 03 No, it was not.
31:35 Speaker 01 Buddy, you can reta- now, yeah, okay.
31:37 Speaker 03 Yeah, so there you go, there's, yeah.
31:40 H. Foley? I know what you mean about the irrigation thing, you were kind of like, hey, let's get a little more landscape design, little bit, put the beds in a little bit.
31:46 Speaker 03 Yeah, let's make more money.
31:48 Speaker 01 When French drains hit, that was, dude, I did, me and my dad put French drains into this house.
31:52 Speaker 03 Guess what he does now?
31:54 Speaker 01 French drains?
31:54 Speaker 03 French drains, all the time.
31:57 Speaker 01 Of course, a big ticket item.
31:59 Speaker 03 And he never, he's never like, Derek, I know that time, I told you you were an idiot and made you get out of the suburban, no, no, no, no, he'll die, I mean, he'll be sitting there having a heart attack.
32:09 H. Foley? Oh, man.
32:10 Speaker 01 Holy shit.
32:11 H. Foley? So you moved to Denver, that's where you started comedy?
32:14 Speaker 03 That's where I really started.
32:15 Speaker 01 Well, one start, sorry. The move back in at 30 is a big topic.
32:19 Speaker 03 Nightmare.
32:20 Speaker 01 Yeah, I had to do it. He's, we've, everybody, you know, listen, every dirtbag worth their weight in salt has fucking died.
32:26 H. Foley? 30, I think I was there when I was 40.
32:28 Speaker 01 He might be back pretty soon, if we're being honest.
32:30 Speaker 03 What?
32:31 Speaker 01 Things ain't going great for the big dog.
32:33 Speaker 03 Things ain't going great.
32:34 H. Foley? She don't make no cobbler, I'll tell you that.
32:36 Speaker 03 Oh, geez.
32:37 Speaker 01 Ain't no gentleman's farm down there either.
32:39 H. Foley? You're a great cook, Patty, I love you.
32:40 Speaker 01 Um, did you, that the move back in at 30?
32:44 Speaker 03 Yeah.
32:44 Speaker 01 Right? DUI's already happened?
32:47 Speaker 03 Yeah.
32:47 Speaker 01 Yeah, so you're like, this is, this is crashing out.
32:50 Speaker 03 Oh, I've got nothing.
32:51 Speaker 01 Did you go back into the same room?
32:53 Speaker 03 No, no, no.
32:54 Speaker 01 Basement?
32:55 Speaker 03 Sunroom.
32:55 Speaker 01 Sunroom?
32:56 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, 5:00 AM, just every, every, I mean, every light in the world. Yeah, 90 degrees outside, 3:40 in the sunroom.
33:08 Speaker 01 He's living in a greenhouse.
33:09 Speaker 03 I, well, I just held bagel bites in my hand and watched them sizzle.
33:12 Speaker 01 Wait, why they, why not, did they not, was that like?
33:15 Speaker 03 They'd already moved on with their life. I mean, they.
33:18 Speaker 01 You got the two younger, the two younger siblings.
33:20 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
33:21 H. Foley? Can't move the computer room?
33:22 Speaker 03 Yeah, my sister, she's still at home when I come back for all this, and she's just in shock, I mean, you know, it was, it was wild. It was, that was for sure the lowest point, but that was the turning point. That's kind of like when I was like, no.
33:35 Speaker 01 I gotta get it together.
33:36 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, because I would not be, you know, long, very, very long story short, I would not be a comedian or chasing this dream or have any of the, the edge that I've got if I did not just have my face buried in the dirt.
33:47 Speaker 01 Sure, understandable.
33:48 Speaker 03 It changed how I look at everything, yeah.
33:52 H. Foley? We know, right, what you're talking about, brother? That's fantastic. Um, were you in a bed in the sunroom or were you on a couch?
33:58 Speaker 03 Yeah, I had a bed in there.
33:59 H. Foley? So it wasn't really a functioning sunroom once you got in there, that was kind of like, alright?
34:03 Speaker 03 It was like the guest room already, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
34:06 Speaker 01 So it was quasi a bedroom?
34:08 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
34:09 H. Foley? Well, let's talk about that for a second.
34:10 Speaker 03 Yeah.
34:11 H. Foley? Your parents had a guest room in the sunroom?
34:14 Speaker 03 Yeah.
34:14 H. Foley? So like if an aunt or an uncle or a family friend came to stay?
34:17 Speaker 01 Got to get in a microwave. What the fuck is that?
34:20 Speaker 03 I mean, I told you, we lived in a small house. The sunroom was an addition we added on. Very nice. Yeah, yeah, I mean, before that, it was like a birdhouse with a bath. I mean, it was tiny.
34:30 Speaker 01 Damn.
34:31 H. Foley? Wow.
34:31 Speaker 01 Okay.
34:32 H. Foley? And no car?
34:34 Speaker 03 No car.
34:34 H. Foley? So what did you?
34:35 Speaker 03 And they wouldn't let me go, and like, nobody was, my parents were completely done with me at this point.
34:39 H. Foley? Uh huh.
34:40 Speaker 03 They were done. They were done, like, not like being like, you know, nasty to my face, it's just no more favors.
34:46 H. Foley? Right.
34:47 Speaker 03 No more money.
34:47 Speaker 01 Yeah, you wore out your waffle a little bit.
34:48 Speaker 03 No more, uh, you know, no more giving you rides to places.
34:52 H. Foley? So what were you doing?
34:54 Speaker 03 I was just in there plotting my revenge. And you know what's so crazy?
34:59 Speaker 01 Frank's fucking drained.
35:00 Speaker 03 And I feel this connection with you. It's so crazy to be plotting your revenge in a situation you created, but it still works.
35:05 Speaker 01 And you got no resources at the time.
35:07 Speaker 03 It still works.
35:08 H. Foley? That's my whole life.
35:09 Speaker 03 I am mad at the world. I have created all these problems, but you will pay for it. And I don't know who, who you is, but when I find you.
35:17 H. Foley? I will have my vengeance on Derek Stroup at some point. Mom, bagel bites!
35:23 Speaker 01 What?
35:23 H. Foley? Wow. This really could have took a hard left turn. I'm glad, I'm glad he became a comedian.
35:28 Speaker 01 Uh, yeah.
35:28 H. Foley? Sunroom.
35:29 Speaker 01 Either that or manifesto.
35:32 Speaker 01 What, uh, when you're asking them for, when, when you're asking them for money?
35:37 Speaker 03 Yeah.
35:37 Speaker 01 What, what is, uh, someone I asked, I had to ask my mother for money well into, probably about four years ago, until this popped off.
35:45 H. Foley? I just sold my mom four hundred. I swear to God, I just gave it back to her.
35:50 Speaker 01 Um, what? That's crazy.
35:52 Speaker 03 That is crazy.
35:53 Speaker 01 That's crazy. We're nationally touring famous comedians. That's crazy.
35:57 Speaker 03 I agree. I agree.
35:58 H. Foley? I don't have access to some account.
36:01 Speaker 01 He keeps saying that, and I don't know what it means. Our business manager doesn't know what it means.
36:05 H. Foley? Venmo's playing hardball with me. Hey, I'm not a trial here, goddammit.
36:09 Speaker 01 A little bit. What are the denominations you're asking? Like, are you going, let me get forty, twenty, like, let me get twenty bucks, just to, just to make it through the day? You're like, let me get a pack of cigarettes?
36:19 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
36:19 H. Foley? What's the twenty for? What do we think?
36:21 Speaker 03 Um, just, uh, I mean, at the time, I think I was smoking cigarettes at the time because...
36:25 Speaker 01 What brand, if you don't mind me asking?
36:26 Speaker 03 What are you gonna do? Parliament's.
36:28 Speaker 01 The, the blue ones?
36:29 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
36:29 Speaker 01 Gentleman.
36:30 H. Foley? This kid is, why, you out of your mind?
36:32 Speaker 01 Nah, P. Funks were all right back in the day.
36:34 Speaker 03 Come on, man!
36:34 Speaker 01 We're talking what? How old are you?
36:35 Speaker 03 There's layers to me. Forty-one.
36:37 Speaker 01 Yeah, so we're talking early two thousands?
36:39 H. Foley? Parliament, sunroom, no license, massage therapist.
36:43 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
36:44 Speaker 01 Two thousand and ten.
36:45 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Two thousand and twelve, something like that.
36:48 Speaker 01 Still, P-Funk, Parliament Light is a very enjoyable cigarette.
36:53 Speaker 03 Thank you.
36:53 H. Foley? I bottomed out.
36:54 Speaker 03 I just did it for a couple of years.
36:56 H. Foley? I bottomed out at 32, that's when I moved to Philly to start comedy, so.
36:59 Speaker 03 Yeah.
37:00 H. Foley? That's when I was back on my mom's for a minute and then on my friend's couch for...
37:05 Speaker 01 Back on your mom's.
37:06 Speaker 03 Let me tell you though, and you know this, because I mean, that's a shared experience. Let me tell you, a comedian that's lost everything, or somebody that's starting comedy that's lost everything, is a dangerous person. Because you're not gonna scare me. There's not a set that I get that's gonna shake me up. I've lost everything. I'm doing this just so I can convince myself that this is all worth still doing out here, living. Like, I can just remember getting to Denver and thinking, if all these other people got two DUIs, lost all their money and their cars and their parents' trust, they'd be riding a little sharper too.
37:42 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah, yeah. They'd be hitting that late open mic.
37:45 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Because I wasn't doing it because I was trying to scratch a creative itch and I just wanna be heard.
37:51 Speaker 01 I just wanna try it.
37:52 Speaker 03 No, man, I burned it all down. I'm gonna have to build this back one brick at a time. And it's starting here at the Lions Lair at midnight.
37:59 H. Foley? This is Plan B.
38:00 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're live.
38:02 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah. That's like when we moved up here, I mean, we were...
38:05 H. Foley? Gun to the back of the head.
38:07 Speaker 01 I was on a... Not a futon, it was a couch that folded right onto the floor. Like, just like the... It was like an Ikea love seat.
38:16 Speaker 03 Yeah.
38:16 Speaker 01 That all went on, the pad was like this, and I mean, I slept on the floor of my buddy's apartment for 10 mon... I don't even know how long, and then I got a room and then his sister moved in and I was like back on the floor. So it was like, it was all that. He was sleeping under a kitchen table at our buddy's house for a handful of months.
38:34 H. Foley? It was an Ikea table, it was nice.
38:36 Speaker 01 So it's just like, when you're like, I'm not, very well, I'm not here to express myself. I am here, I got shit I gotta get done.
38:45 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, I got nothing left.
38:46 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is it.
38:48 H. Foley? Kim, I wanna talk to you about Ridge Wallet.
38:49 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah, what do you wanna tell me about Ridge Wallet there, buddy?
38:52 H. Foley? What I wanna tell you about that is they got that air tag on there, that Ridge air tag that lets you know that you have your wallet. Wallet because I'm always lose my wallet is my wallet here to have my wallet now I don't got to worry about it because I got my Ridge Wallet air tag baby. You know what I'm saying? Ridge isn't just about wallets. They create premium everyday carry essentials like key cases, suitcases, rings, all built same sleek durable design.
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39:25 H. Foley? Not no more.
39:26 Speaker 01 You gotta pull out, not no more.
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40:10 H. Foley? Kim, let's talk about Chime. As you know, baby, life comes at you pretty quick.
40:15 Speaker 01 You ain't lying, big man.
40:16 H. Foley? Things start adding up. You know what I'm saying? I wish I could go back and tell my younger self, if you're going to do a little banking, make sure you save your money. Make sure you do it right. Watch out for bank fees, all that kind of stuff. I'll tell you what I really wish, I could go back and say, hey, I wish I had Chime.
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40:45 H. Foley? Overdraft fees.
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41:39 Speaker 03 And also, when you've hit rock bottom like that, I was just making me think about you being there 10 months. I also, people should have these experiences because I know who my boys are. Dude, I was just thinking that.
41:51 Speaker 01 I was just thinking.
41:52 Speaker 03 I got no doubt in these three or four men that are in my life. They are my boys because when I was down, down, down, had nothing to offer them but my friendship, it was plenty to them. Everybody else, if you've never seen the darkness, you've got this golfing putty you've had for 20 years. If you've never had any tension or had this guy need you to give you a ride somewhere or him be like, hey, I got, man, I know my boys.
42:16 Speaker 01 Yeah, I got five or six boys that it's like, they have car block, they could call me and be like, you gotta drive to California right now?
42:21 Speaker 03 Absolutely.
42:22 Speaker 01 And I'd go, I am so indebted to you with an amount of money I cannot pay back.
42:26 Speaker 03 Absolutely.
42:27 Speaker 01 Yeah.
42:27 H. Foley? Am I one of those guys?
42:28 Speaker 01 What? Uh, we'll be right back.
42:31 H. Foley? I'm like, come get.
42:32 Speaker 01 We were in it together, what are you talking about? I mean, but at the same time, there was times where like my cellphone would get shut off.
42:37 Speaker 03 Yeah.
42:38 Speaker 01 And I'd have no money and like I'd call him, he'd have 40 bucks.
42:41 Speaker 03 Yeah.
42:41 Speaker 01 Because he was, he was waiting tables, so he had access to cash.
42:44 Speaker 03 That was the best.
42:45 Speaker 01 I had, I had like a corporate, not a corporate, I had like an office job, so mine was every two weeks. So he would get cash and I'd be like, if he had 40 bucks, he gave me 20 bucks.
42:53 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
42:54 H. Foley? I'd juice the shit out of him, no?
42:55 Speaker 01 Yeah, I know. Never let me live in town either.
42:58 H. Foley? But still owes me 15. I'll say nothing.
43:02 Speaker 01 You need those guys in your, in your corner.
43:04 Speaker 03 Wow, absolutely.
43:04 H. Foley? All right. Holy shit, Stroup. He's a very dangerous man.
43:09 Speaker 01 Very deep and profound as well. All right, so you get to, you get to Denver.
43:13 Speaker 03 Yeah.
43:14 Speaker 01 Jesus fucking Christ, you're 30, 132, whatever.
43:17 Speaker 03 I'm 30, yeah.
43:17 H. Foley? You get to the high ground.
43:19 Speaker 03 Literally.
43:20 Speaker 01 You retreat to high ground.
43:21 Speaker 03 Literally.
43:22 Speaker 01 Let the heat wear off.
43:24 Speaker 03 That's the realest thing, that is true.
43:26 Speaker 01 That's great.
43:27 Speaker 03 Maybe I can see them coming from here.
43:30 Speaker 01 Listen, if they want to get me, they're gonna have to try. You know what I mean? They gotta come up.
43:33 H. Foley? I can see this Derek Stroup coming from here, trying to destroy me.
43:36 Speaker 03 Hey, Colorado's a great escape state. I wasn't the only one. There's tons of people.
43:41 Speaker 01 It is cowboy, very cowboy.
43:42 Speaker 03 Well, that and just people can go there. Nobody really cares, like, where you came from, what you're doing there. It's, it's, it's a very, uh, people start over there a lot.
43:52 H. Foley? And they say, if the shit ever really hit the fan, that's, that's, I mean, that's one of the holdups.
43:56 Speaker 03 That's right, that's right.
43:57 H. Foley? If there's a flood, that's, you know, it's the high ground.
43:59 Speaker 03 That is, that is.
44:00 H. Foley? Okay.
44:01 Speaker 01 Alright, so you get there, what's that?
44:03 H. Foley? We're getting real dark.
44:04 Speaker 01 Yeah, what the fuck?
44:04 H. Foley? Yeah, it is, it is. There's tunnels under the airport. We're all losing it.
44:14 Speaker 01 Get a slice of pizza, relax, will ya? Um, what's that look like? What's that, you know, just living situation, early on?
44:22 H. Foley? Any friends? Did you know anybody?
44:24 Speaker 01 And why, oh, Denver was the, was the massage therapist.
44:26 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
44:27 H. Foley? Oh, she was up there.
44:28 Speaker 01 Have you started comedy at this point? A little bit? Yeah, you're in it.
44:31 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, I've done it. I'd never, like, uh, like, been in a scene or anything. I was doing some shows in Alabama.
44:38 Speaker 01 Bars, whatever.
44:39 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah, just like, but never been to a, a open mic, had never been in a scene. I was just really shooting from the hip. Alabama, there's, there was no real thing going on at the time. And then, uh, so I joined the comedy scene in Denver and I mean,
44:51 Speaker 01 Great scene.
44:52 Speaker 03 Yeah, it was great. I did two open mics and then I quit for eight months because I just couldn't wrap my head around having to tell a joke in three to four minutes. Because when I was in Alabama, I would just get up and I could talk for as long as I wanted to, you know, uh, cause I was doing it at the bar that I ran. Excuse me, in Alabama, I was the general manager of a bar. I'd put myself up, I'd take a bunch of Jager bombs, shoot some Evan Williams, do 45 minutes of just ranting. Never been to a mic or met a comedian. I was just trying to, you know, I was like, if I hear wagon wheel one more time, I'm gonna kill myself.
45:22 H. Foley? It's a great song.
45:23 Speaker 03 So I just made up my own entertainment. So, when I came to Denver, I had, I, I, I learned some lessons really quick. Kind of got my feelings hurt. Had to go back and regroup.
45:31 Speaker 01 Did the same thing.
45:32 Speaker 03 And then I came, when I came back, I was like, alright, you know what to expect. You're gonna get hit in the mouth here, but you know what to expect and then, you know, the rest is history.
45:39 Speaker 01 Wow.
45:40 H. Foley? How'd you meet the massage therapist again?
45:42 Speaker 03 Uh, in college, like-
45:44 H. Foley? Oh, you knew her from college?
45:45 Speaker 03 In Jacksonville, yeah, yeah.
45:46 H. Foley? Alright, so you knew her from college?
45:48 Speaker 03 Yeah.
45:48 H. Foley? Then, what, you just reconnected a little bit?
45:50 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah, we were like off and on for a long time.
45:53 H. Foley? And she's like, "I'm in Denver now."
45:54 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
45:55 H. Foley? Becoming a massage therapist.
45:56 Speaker 03 That's right, that's right.
45:57 H. Foley? "Why don't you come up here?"
45:58 Speaker 03 Yeah, she was like, "I think you'll like it," you know, and so-
46:00 H. Foley? And you moved in with her?
46:01 Speaker 03 Yeah, uh, her and like, I mean, you know, like, three other roommates that you meet off Craigslist. It was a-
46:07 H. Foley? Was she already up there?
46:08 Speaker 03 A real handbag of people, yeah, yeah, yeah.
46:10 H. Foley? And she was with the roommates?
46:11 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they were all, I mean, yeah.
46:13 H. Foley? You got, you moved into her room?
46:14 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
46:15 H. Foley? So you were a guy staying in one of the roommate's rooms?
46:18 Speaker 03 Yes, yeah, yeah. I mean, it was a house that, where they were like renting out rooms, essentially.
46:22 H. Foley? Uh-huh.
46:23 Speaker 03 And this was like the first six months that I lived there, and then, uh, got a place downtown, uh, after that, and I lived there for the-
46:29 H. Foley? With you and her?
46:30 Speaker 03 Yeah, uh, for just a little bit, and then we separated.
46:32 H. Foley? Gotcha.
46:33 Speaker 03 I'm, I'm married to a totally different woman now.
46:36 Speaker 01 Totally, I've never heard anybody say "totally different."
46:38 Speaker 03 Yeah.
46:38 Speaker 01 Like, you know, just to, just to, just to create that distance? Nothing like the massage therapist.
46:45 Speaker 03 Nothing, yeah, I'm, to a totally different woman.
46:48 Speaker 01 She doesn't have roommates or anything?
46:49 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
46:49 Speaker 01 Um-
46:50 H. Foley? Aw, man, that's alright.
46:51 Speaker 01 What are you doing for money at this time?
46:53 Speaker 03 Uh, I got a job at Sports Authority when I first moved there. And I didn't, I didn't even have, uh, I had, my license wasn't valid at this time, because it was still-
47:01 Speaker 01 Are you driving?
47:02 Speaker 03 Uh, no, not driving, so I go to Sports Authority.
47:04 Speaker 01 How you get there?
47:05 Speaker 03 I Ubered there, and, uh, I mean, the lady, I don't have a, I don't have an ID, you know, that's valid, a valid driver's license. She has to really like work with the company to get me the job, but I interviewed so well.
47:17 Speaker 01 I got a loud guy down here?
47:18 Speaker 03 Yeah. I got this guy from Alabama.
47:21 Speaker 01 He's got no ID?
47:22 H. Foley? I don't know what it is, but we need him on the team.
47:23 Speaker 01 He can move hockey sticks.
47:25 Speaker 03 That's what happened, they were like, "We gotta have him," and so that's, and then after that, I worked at Big Lots. Yeah.
47:31 Speaker 01 You did, you worked at a Big Lots?
47:32 Speaker 03 Yeah.
47:33 Speaker 01 Cashier, what'd you do?
47:33 Speaker 03 Uh, I was, uh, furniture manager and one of the best in the state, my man. Yeah.
47:38 Speaker 01 Respect.
47:39 Speaker 03 Yeah.
47:39 Speaker 01 I was in there-
47:40 H. Foley? He didn't smack you when he said that?
47:41 Speaker 01 Slanging, slangin' Ashley Furniture.
47:44 H. Foley? I don't, uh-
47:44 Speaker 01 Shout out to Ashley Furniture.
47:46 H. Foley? I don't have a lot of experience at a Big Lots, but I like it.
47:48 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, it's not, it's not around anymore, but.
47:51 H. Foley? There's none?
47:52 Speaker 03 Yeah.
47:52 Speaker 01 I think there's some outside Philadelphia.
47:54 Speaker 03 They might be hanging on, but they're bankrupt. They're going out of business for sure.
47:56 H. Foley? My kinda place.
47:57 Speaker 03 Yeah.
47:58 Speaker 01 Now's where we pounce.
48:00 H. Foley? Okay.
48:01 Speaker 01 Um, you know, Jesus Christ, I mean, where do you, I don't even know, how do you pivot from that?
48:06 H. Foley? Let's talk, let's talk about now. Let's talk about now.
48:08 Speaker 03 Okay.
48:09 H. Foley? A little bit.
48:11 H. Foley? Um.
48:13 Speaker 01 I got before, I got, I got some, just some, just some.
48:16 Speaker 03 I didn't know where to go.
48:17 Speaker 01 What the fuck? I got some overarching, you know, just, you know, some, some touch points that we do with every guest. How old were you when you got your passport?
48:23 H. Foley? Okay.
48:24 Speaker 03 Um, I got my passport when I was.
48:27 H. Foley? What do you think this is gonna be?
48:29 Speaker 01 Thirty-eight, yeah. Where were you going? To Monterey Hall?
48:32 Speaker 03 Yeah.
48:32 Speaker 01 Yeah.
48:32 Speaker 03 Yeah, you already know.
48:34 Speaker 01 That's not a dirtbag comic. I don't know what.
48:36 H. Foley? Yeah, I love it.
48:37 Speaker 01 Respect.
48:38 H. Foley? Thirty-eight.
48:39 Speaker 03 Uh.
48:40 H. Foley? What was the first time you had Nutella?
48:42 Speaker 03 Um, probably like five years ago. Yeah.
48:47 Speaker 01 I wanna get a span for it.
48:48 Speaker 03 It's not for me.
48:50 H. Foley? Why isn't it for you?
48:51 Speaker 03 Yeah, I don't love it.
48:51 Speaker 01 Yeah. Too European for you.
48:54 H. Foley? Are you a peanut butter man?
48:55 Speaker 03 Oh my God. I've got some on me right now.
48:58 Speaker 01 What brand you banging with?
48:59 Speaker 03 I mean Jif, and I like, and I want crunchy.
49:02 H. Foley? You're crunchy guy.
49:02 Speaker 03 Yeah, extra crunchy.
49:04 H. Foley? What?
49:04 Speaker 03 I, I wish I could put my, oh, I had some extra. I love peanuts. I eat them all the ti- I like peanuts in a shell. I'll just stand on my patio and just, just knock them down like I'm at a ballgame.
49:14 H. Foley? Wait, with the, not?
49:15 Speaker 03 Not, I take them out of the shell.
49:17 H. Foley? Do you like boiled peanuts, Iason?
49:18 Speaker 03 Oh my God.
49:19 H. Foley? Southern man?
49:19 Speaker 03 I love them.
49:20 H. Foley? Very nice. Um, chunky peanut butter, what's the jelly? Strawberry? Are you a grape man?
49:26 Speaker 03 Uh, we can mix it up. Um, I'll try a few different. I like orange, I like grape, I like strawberry, I like blackberry, uh, we can, you know, let me tell you, apple butter. Apple butter. Y'all had apple butter?
49:37 Speaker 01 I had, and I'm not, I'm not well versed.
49:39 Speaker 03 Oh man, my grandmother makes it homemade. That stuff, I mean, it'd turn you upside down.
49:43 H. Foley? Whoosh.
49:46 H. Foley? Were you knocking out some jams and jellies back on the, back on the gentleman's farm? I assume, not you, but.
49:51 Speaker 03 Yeah, well, no, they were, we didn't really, we mainly just like froze or canned the, the fruits or vegetables and my parents, I mean, they would really make cobblers and different, but a, a apple butter is something that my family's always made, yeah.
50:04 H. Foley? God damn it, that's good.
50:05 Speaker 01 Um, have you ever ordered a soda with no ice?
50:09 Speaker 03 Um, no, no, I've poured it that way at my house before, but I would not order it that way.
50:15 Speaker 01 Okay, what is the go-to soda?
50:17 Speaker 03 Uh, I'm gonna have Diet Coke, I mean, in a perfect world, you know, when you, I, I, there's a lot of things I would do if I didn't care about living longer.
50:25 H. Foley? As a younger man?
50:26 Speaker 03 Uh, yeah, I mean, I'll smoke a Mountain Dew. Yeah, I mean, I'll smoke one.
50:31 H. Foley? Are you a Dr. Pepper guy?
50:32 Speaker 03 No.
50:32 Speaker 01 What?
50:33 Speaker 03 No, I'm not a Dr. Pepper guy at all.
50:35 Speaker 01 Really?
50:36 Speaker 03 Yeah, I mean, I'll have it sometimes, but.
50:37 Speaker 01 Fascinating.
50:38 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, I know, I mean, it's always, are you a Dr. Pepper guy?
50:41 Speaker 01 Of course.
50:41 Speaker 03 Yeah, I can tell by your reaction. I can just see the stockpile in your, I mean, Dr. Pepper people buy it like the government's gonna take it from them.
50:50 H. Foley? So, Mr. Pibbs?
50:51 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, I like Mr. Pibb, better than Dr. Pepper.
50:53 H. Foley? Okay.
50:54 Speaker 03 Preferably.
50:54 H. Foley? All right.
50:55 Speaker 03 You know, in a fountain, water, you know, like.
50:57 H. Foley? Yeah, Chipotle did a Mr. Pibbs extra?
50:59 Speaker 03 Oh, man.
51:00 H. Foley? Woo! Yeah, are you a big ice guy, would you say? Do you like?
51:04 Speaker 03 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
51:04 H. Foley? You fill the cup up?
51:05 Speaker 03 I love some ice.
51:07 H. Foley? All right, good.
51:07 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, love, love some ice.
51:09 Speaker 01 Welcome to the show.
51:10 H. Foley? Crushed, crushed, you a crushed ice guy?
51:11 Speaker 03 Yeah, I prefer, but I would like the like Sonic Ice.
51:14 Speaker 01 Yeah, the pellets.
51:15 Speaker 03 Yeah, the pellets.
51:16 H. Foley? With you?
51:16 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
51:18 Speaker 01 That's good ice. They sell the, who was it? Heather McMahon has the thing, it's like a, like a hundred bucks or something, you can get on Amazon and it makes that ice on the countertop.
51:26 Speaker 03 That is, that is incredible.
51:27 H. Foley? Are you biting your nails or do you clip them?
51:29 Speaker 03 Gosh, both, it just depends on how the ballgame's going.
51:32 H. Foley? Where do you put, who's your team?
51:34 Speaker 03 Uh, I got a few of them, I'm a big Nuggets fan, first of all.
51:37 H. Foley? Okay.
51:37 Speaker 03 And then, I'm a lifelong Commanders fan as well, so.
51:40 H. Foley? Okay.
51:41 Speaker 03 Those would be the two that would stress me out the most, and I'm a West Virginia Mountaineers fan.
51:45 Speaker 01 Gentlemen.
51:45 H. Foley? I respect that. Are you a baseball guy at all?
51:48 Speaker 03 Uh, yeah, but I like it live, and I like ballparks almost more than I like the game.
51:52 H. Foley? Hmm.
51:53 Speaker 03 Yeah.
51:53 H. Foley? Very interesting, I respect that.
51:55 Speaker 01 Who's your baseball team?
51:56 Speaker 03 Um, I'm, I grew up a Braves fan, I also got a lot of love for the Rockies, cause I, I lived like six blocks from the field, and I mean, no humidity, it's a great ballpark.
52:05 H. Foley? I'll give it to you.
52:05 Speaker 03 Of course, field's great, yeah.
52:06 H. Foley? Yeah, I'm with you, all right.
52:07 Speaker 01 Have you ever checked into a hotel with your own cooler?
52:10 Speaker 03 Uh, no. Mm-mm. No.
52:13 H. Foley? When you're at a hotel, will you swim in the pool?
52:15 Speaker 03 Absolutely.
52:16 H. Foley? Will you worry if you have a suit on you or not?
52:19 Speaker 03 Uh...
52:19 H. Foley? A pair of shorts work?
52:20 Speaker 03 Yeah, a pair of shorts works.
52:22 H. Foley? Cool. When you walk back to the room, you putting your flip flops on, or you walk through the hotel barefoot?
52:26 Speaker 03 I'm putting my flip flops back on.
52:28 H. Foley? Okay.
52:28 Speaker 03 You're just gonna have to deal with the...
52:31 Speaker 01 They raw dogs it through the lobby. It's crazy. I've never seen any... They'll do shirtless, shirtless, a pair of trunks, no shoes, and just... He'll talk to you. If you're in the lobby, he'll go, "Hey, you wanna... What room are you in? You guys wanna pop down for breakfast?"
52:45 Speaker 03 I can smell the days in he's walking through.
52:47 Speaker 01 Yeah, it was.
52:48 H. Foley? Do you like a hotel breakfast at a, at a two, three-star hotel?
52:52 Speaker 03 Uh, not really. I mean, I'll try to fight through it, you know? I, I tried to yesterday, and it's just, it's just not worth... I would rather, much rather, go to the airport and eat a McDonald's breakfast. Much rather.
53:03 Speaker 01 Respect that. We're big air... We're big breakfast, uh, at the airport.
53:07 Speaker 03 Oh, I'm big fast food at the airport. I think it's a better pro... Like Burger King, great product, bad company. But if you can get them in an airport, they're...
53:15 Speaker 01 Trap them.
53:16 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, now, you got them where you want them. Now the food's coming through pretty quick. You're gonna get a Whopper, like you had back in the 90s, the ones that we really fell in love with. But anyway, I'm with y'all on that.
53:26 H. Foley? All right, I respect that. What would be your normal go-to fast food outside of the airport?
53:32 Speaker 03 Um, outside of the airport, if I had to go fast food, uh...
53:37 H. Foley? And do we?
53:38 Speaker 03 Um, yeah.
53:40 H. Foley? Are you trying to stay away from that?
53:41 Speaker 03 What is it?
53:42 H. Foley? You're trying to stay away from that these days?
53:43 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah. I, I try to, but I'm much more of a diner guy.
53:46 Speaker 01 Ah.
53:47 Speaker 03 I, I would much, much rather...
53:49 Speaker 01 You like a Waffle House?
53:50 H. Foley? New Yorker.
53:50 Speaker 03 Do I like a Waffle House?
53:52 Speaker 01 Okay, I'm sorry.
53:52 Speaker 03 No, no, no. I love... I think Waffle House, the Anthony Bourdain episode where he goes to a Waffle House, I wanna play it at my funeral.
53:59 Speaker 01 Wow.
54:00 Speaker 03 Yeah.
54:00 Speaker 01 I don't think I've ever seen it.
54:01 Speaker 03 Oh, you gotta see it because he tells every... It's, it's the best. I'm a huge Waffle House fan. I wish there was some... I mean, in New York City, they'd burn to the ground.
54:08 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
54:10 Speaker 03 But I do love them.
54:11 Speaker 01 Um, what, what's your go-to at a, at a Waffle House?
54:14 Speaker 03 Uh, I'm gonna get, uh, probably the All-Star, um, and I'm gonna get a pecan... Uh, waffle, I'm gonna do my eggs over easy. Uh, I'll probably choose sausage and bacon. Yeah. Um, yeah, eggs, did I say scrambled with cheese?
54:31 H. Foley? You said over easy.
54:32 Speaker 03 Uh, okay, two different types.
54:35 Speaker 01 Doubling up on the eggies.
54:37 Speaker 03 No, I was thinking, I, I do go both ways, but like when I have a waffle, I like my eggs to be runny. Because I run a combo with the runny eggs and the waffle. Um, but yeah. Yeah, I mean, that, that's probably what I'll go with. The pecan waffle at Waffle House, you gotta try it if you've never. I've never had it. I find out a lot of northeastern guys have never had a pecan waffle and it can really.
54:54 Speaker 01 We didn't, I didn't hit a Waffle House, so we were, I mean, we were on tour probably three years ago. And now it's like we stopped.
54:59 Speaker 03 Yeah, it's a very consistent meal, too.
55:01 Speaker 01 Yeah, oh yeah, a hundred percent.
55:02 Speaker 03 I mean, it's fast, yeah.
55:03 Speaker 01 And they're right there, you walk in, you smell it, the guy's cooking it.
55:06 H. Foley? He's cooking it right there.
55:07 Speaker 01 And it's one guy and he's, he's handling like seventy-five orders and you, he looks like he's gonna fuck it up and he don't. It's out to, it's crazy.
55:14 Speaker 03 It's cra- it is so.
55:15 Speaker 01 You hear them yelling out the orders and I'm like, this guy's, there's no chance this fucking guy's got this.
55:19 Speaker 03 No, no, face cut too with an ankle bracelet on, making eggs fluffier than Gordon Ramsay.
55:24 H. Foley? Yeah.
55:24 Speaker 01 It's crazy. It's crazy.
55:25 H. Foley? I don't know what it is, ex addicts, ex-cons, man, they know how to work a fucking griddle, don't they? Shout out to them. That's who you want doing the eggs.
55:33 Speaker 03 You, you really do.
55:35 Speaker 01 Uh, huh. Anyone in your family smoke a pipe?
55:38 Speaker 03 Smoke a pipe? No, nobody smokes a pipe.
55:40 H. Foley? Did you do prom?
55:42 Speaker 03 Uh, I did, just my senior year.
55:44 H. Foley? Okay, did you go with friends or did you go with a lady?
55:46 Speaker 03 Uh, I went with a lady.
55:47 H. Foley? How'd you get there?
55:48 Speaker 03 Uh, we took a limo.
55:50 Speaker 01 Very nice.
55:51 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
55:52 H. Foley? A group is?
55:52 Speaker 03 A group of us, yeah, but we did go to a separate restaurant, me and my date, this is very on brand for me because the restaurant everybody chose was not where I wanted to go.
56:00 H. Foley? Wait, you went out to eat before the prom?
56:02 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, we did.
56:03 H. Foley? Huh.
56:03 Speaker 03 Yeah, or, or, yeah, before, yeah, we did, for sure. Maybe it is, but yeah, we all went out to eat before, you have, go out to eat for prom dinner and they went to, I can't remember where they went to, but I went to a place called Landry Seafood because I wanted to use my parents' money to get crab legs.
56:18 Speaker 01 Landry Seafood.
56:19 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
56:20 H. Foley? In Huntsville, Alabama.
56:22 Speaker 03 That's right.
56:22 Speaker 01 That's pretty good.
56:23 Speaker 03 Yeah.
56:25 H. Foley? I assume they were frozen.
56:26 Speaker 01 You a seafood guy?
56:26 Speaker 03 Oh, yeah. Not, not fish. I love all shellfish, like crabs, oysters, lobster, clams, mussels, anything that's in a shell. I don't like real fishy stuff. I'll eat a grouper sandwich, but uh,
56:39 Speaker 01 if you twist my arm.
56:40 Speaker 03 Yeah. Have y'all had a grouper sandwich? It's a little fluffier, mild fish, but on the Gulf Coast, go down to Pensacola, get you a grouper sandwich, you know? Start up a conversation with a guy with no sleeves on.
56:52 H. Foley? Oyster man.
56:53 Speaker 03 Yeah, oh yeah.
56:54 H. Foley? Raw in the half shell.
56:55 Speaker 03 Uh, yeah.
56:55 H. Foley? Raw in the half shell.
56:56 Speaker 03 Oh, and I'll do them baked too, you know?
56:58 H. Foley? A Rockefeller?
56:59 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I can go both ways. Back when I was drinking, come on, man, raw oysters with an ice cold beer, just let me sit here forever. My god, if I just didn't get up and drive every time.
57:15 H. Foley? Any pets now?
57:16 Speaker 03 No, man, but I had a cat for a long time that I talk about on stage that I loved dearly.
57:21 H. Foley? Passed away?
57:22 Speaker 03 Yeah.
57:22 H. Foley? I'm sorry, bud.
57:23 Speaker 03 Yeah.
57:23 Speaker 01 Uh, what was the first car for you? We don't think we touched on it.
57:26 Speaker 03 I had a Toyota Camry, a 98 Toyota Camry.
57:31 H. Foley? Wow, that's a nice whip right there.
57:32 Speaker 01 Yeah, it's pretty good.
57:33 Speaker 03 To you guys, I dreamed of a truck my whole life, and then I got this.
57:39 Speaker 01 What was the first concert you attended?
57:42 Speaker 03 Uh, the first concert I ever went to, I don't know, was with my mom, just me and her, and it was Billy Ray Cyrus.
57:49 Speaker 01 Wow.
57:50 Speaker 03 In Charleston, West Virginia at the regatta that they have down by the river.
57:54 Speaker 01 No shit.
57:54 Speaker 03 Yeah, man, and she was so pumped. I can remember, I was probably like six, seven years old, and uh, I mean, we sang Achy Breaky Heart at the top of our lungs.
58:02 Speaker 01 That's a good one.
58:03 Speaker 03 Billy Ray was on fire. This was like 1990.
58:06 Speaker 01 The height of it.
58:07 Speaker 03 The, I mean, the absolute, he came out and shook his hair, and I mean, yeah, my mom had, was having another kid. It's crazy.
58:14 H. Foley? That guy had a fucking ass on him.
58:15 Speaker 03 Oh, man.
58:16 Speaker 01 He had those tight jeans back in the day, too.
58:18 H. Foley? That's fantastic.
58:19 Speaker 01 So I've heard.
58:20 Speaker 03 Yeah.
58:22 H. Foley? You're married now?
58:23 Speaker 03 Yeah, I am.
58:23 H. Foley? Right? Where did you guys get married?
58:25 Speaker 03 Uh, Pensacola, Florida.
58:26 H. Foley? You got married in Pensacola?
58:27 Speaker 01 Had the grouper.
58:31 Speaker 01 I had no sleeves on.
58:32 H. Foley? I was wondering what the hell you were doing down there.
58:35 Speaker 01 Okay.
58:36 H. Foley? Or how you got down there.
58:37 Speaker 01 Where, what was the, what was the venue?
58:39 Speaker 03 Uh, we were on the beach. There's like 20 of us, 25 of us.
58:43 Speaker 01 Nice.
58:43 Speaker 03 Small, like, yeah, it was very pretty, lots of flowers, intimate thing. My family, her family, we stayed there for the week and then got married at the end of the week. It was great.
58:52 Speaker 01 Very nice.
58:52 H. Foley? And how long ago was this?
58:53 Speaker 03 Uh, we got married, uh, May 11th of this year, uh, 2025, excuse me.
58:59 Speaker 01 Oh, wow.
58:59 H. Foley? Very nice, alright, so newlyweds.
59:01 Speaker 01 Was there any, uh, congratulations?
59:03 H. Foley? Congratulations.
59:03 Speaker 01 Uh, was there any honeymoon?
59:05 Speaker 03 Um, no, no honeymoon yet.
59:07 H. Foley? They were in Pensacola.
59:09 Speaker 01 I haven't mentioned the group.
59:10 Speaker 03 What else are you gonna ask for? We went to Dave and Buster's twice.
59:13 Speaker 01 Uh huh, okay. Is there anything in the books of like, hey, in two years we'll go?
59:16 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, we, we talk about it. I mean,
59:18 Speaker 01 Where's the wish list?
59:20 Speaker 03 Uh, Greece is where we would like to.
59:22 Speaker 01 Very nice.
59:22 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah. That's where she really, really wants to go. Um, so, yeah, we've talked about it.
59:27 Speaker 01 It doesn't sound like you really, really want to go there.
59:29 Speaker 03 Yeah, it's alright. I'm just a little nervous about, you know, I guess that long a travel. I, I don't know, even though I fly more than pilots do. I mean, you know.
59:38 Speaker 01 Okay. Uh, speaking of flying, uh, you do name brand luggage? Or what, what are you banging with?
59:43 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah. I got a Swami Swammy, uh, Samsonite.
59:48 H. Foley? Samsonite.
59:48 Speaker 03 Come on.
59:49 Speaker 01 Good. It's good.
59:51 H. Foley? Um, at, do you eat cereal still or no?
59:53 Speaker 03 Are you kidding me?
59:54 H. Foley? Do you have it on top of the refrigerator at the house?
59:56 Speaker 03 No, if there was space, I would. Yeah, yeah. There's a cabinet above it that doesn't, the way it's layered, it's where I put my medicine.
1:00:05 H. Foley? You mean like your pills and stuff?
1:00:06 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:00:07 H. Foley? That's trashy too, I like that. That's trashy too. I never thought about that.
1:00:11 Speaker 03 Well, I go, before I grab this bacon, I better do the blood pressure.
1:00:14 H. Foley? Yeah, the pills in the kitchen. Ah, same way, I love it. Um, what are the, what boxes of cereal in the house right now?
1:00:21 Speaker 03 Um, I've got, uh, Frosted Mini Wheat and, uh, Honey Nut Cheerios.
1:00:25 Speaker 01 Whoa.
1:00:26 H. Foley? I gotta give you classy on that one, like a gentleman.
1:00:29 Speaker 01 Yeah, that's two solid adult, those are adult cereals.
1:00:33 H. Foley? What milk are you banging, please?
1:00:34 Speaker 03 Uh, I do whole milk.
1:00:36 H. Foley? Good man.
1:00:36 Speaker 03 I know.
1:00:37 H. Foley? Good man.
1:00:37 Speaker 01 You doing a gallon or half a gallon?
1:00:39 Speaker 03 I don't know why, but a half a gallon every time.
1:00:41 Speaker 01 There's some reason, yeah.
1:00:42 Speaker 03 I don't know what it is.
1:00:43 Speaker 01 It's a little less indulgent or something, you feel?
1:00:44 Speaker 03 One of the things, I hate carrying things more than anything in the world. I hate carrying anything. So anyways, yeah.
1:00:51 H. Foley? Ever own a keyboard? You know, Casio?
1:00:54 Speaker 03 Ever, have I ever what, a keyboard?
1:00:56 H. Foley? Owned one.
1:00:56 Speaker 03 Um, no, no.
1:00:59 Speaker 01 Have you ever, okay.
1:01:01 H. Foley? No, go ahead.
1:01:01 Speaker 01 Sorry, when you were, back when you were smoking, would you ever get into the car with a lit cigarette?
1:01:06 Speaker 03 Hmm, yeah.
1:01:08 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:01:08 H. Foley? I assume you would eat in the car as well?
1:01:10 Speaker 03 Uh, yeah, yeah, I'll eat in the car. I mean, I can house, I mean, it's like a magic trick. I can truly just house things. Like, sometimes I don't even know if it really happened.
1:01:21 H. Foley? What's the vacuum?
1:01:22 Speaker 01 Just got the trash? Would they even give me a sandwich?
1:01:26 Speaker 01 Was this empty? Did they just hand me trash?
1:01:27 Speaker 03 I come home with an empty bag. I look at my wife, I go, "Again!"
1:01:30 H. Foley? Who's to say? What's the vacuum cleaner at the house right now? You got a Dyson? What do you got? You got a Shark?
1:01:36 Speaker 03 Uh, I got a Shark. Yeah, yeah, still in the box.
1:01:39 H. Foley? What do you mean?
1:01:40 Speaker 03 I bet it's great.
1:01:42 H. Foley? Did you just move in?
1:01:43 Speaker 03 No, no, moved in a year ago. It's just hasn't, we haven't taken it out. My wife's just been sweeping and then I'll sweep sometimes, but yeah, we haven't, we haven't really dug in. I think we got it for Christmas, maybe.
1:01:53 H. Foley? Still in the box?
1:01:54 Speaker 01 Ah, that makes sense.
1:01:55 Speaker 03 It's all wood in there.
1:01:56 H. Foley? Sure.
1:01:58 Speaker 01 It's all wood in there.
1:01:59 Speaker 03 Sure.
1:02:00 Speaker 01 Talking about it like it's a ship.
1:02:01 Speaker 03 When I walk barefoot, I get most of it.
1:02:05 Speaker 01 If I squeeze my toes together, I get most of the crumbs.
1:02:08 H. Foley? Let's go a couple old school cues. You pee in the shower?
1:02:11 Speaker 03 Uh, yeah, for sure.
1:02:12 H. Foley? You brush your teeth in there?
1:02:14 Speaker 03 Oh, yeah, for sure.
1:02:14 H. Foley? Is your toothbrush in the shower?
1:02:16 Speaker 03 Absolutely not.
1:02:17 H. Foley? Okay.
1:02:17 Speaker 03 I reach out onto the sink.
1:02:18 Speaker 01 Good gentleman.
1:02:19 H. Foley? Like a gentleman, okay.
1:02:20 Speaker 01 Well, you pee in a pool?
1:02:22 Speaker 03 Um, depends.
1:02:24 H. Foley? On?
1:02:25 Speaker 03 Uh, the amount of people that are around me. Like, if it's like just packed with people, I'd, I'll have a little bit of a conscience.
1:02:32 Speaker 01 Sure.
1:02:32 Speaker 03 But I, yeah, I'll pee in a pool.
1:02:34 Speaker 01 If you're by yourself at a Ramada Inn.
1:02:35 Speaker 03 Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I don't even, I don't even get in to pee in it.
1:02:40 Speaker 01 I'd do it from the chair.
1:02:41 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:02:43 H. Foley? Um, if you dribble a little bit on the toilet seat as you're, as you're, as you're peeing?
1:02:47 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:02:48 H. Foley? Do you, you got your socks on? Will you give it a little, little wiper now?
1:02:52 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
1:02:54 H. Foley? Do a little?
1:02:54 Speaker 03 I will always wipe, yeah.
1:02:55 H. Foley? Okay.
1:02:56 Speaker 01 How, if now, let's say you, you know, you gotta do number two, it's an away game, you're out, you're on the road, whatever. Are you doing anything to the public toilet seat to clean it? Are you, are you laying it down? You wiping, you eyeballing it?
1:03:09 Speaker 03 I carry the United hand wipes on me. The little like blue square packet United hand wipes they give you. They're like these little sanitizers.
1:03:17 H. Foley? You mean from the airline company?
1:03:19 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because they pass them out and I fly United all the time.
1:03:21 Speaker 01 You're a United man.
1:03:22 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:03:23 H. Foley? Interesting.
1:03:24 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:03:24 H. Foley? And you save them?
1:03:25 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, and I'll save them and I use them for public toilets if I like, I travel with them.
1:03:29 Speaker 01 You got them in your bag, yeah.
1:03:30 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so I will wipe down the toilet.
1:03:33 Speaker 01 That's pretty good.
1:03:33 Speaker 03 And then I'll sit down with just all the confidence.
1:03:36 Speaker 01 Barebacking.
1:03:36 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:03:37 H. Foley? Long way from that sunroom, huh?
1:03:39 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:03:41 H. Foley? United wipes.
1:03:42 Speaker 01 Uh, have you ever owned a butterfly knife or a switchblade?
1:03:45 Speaker 03 No, no.
1:03:46 H. Foley? Chinese star?
1:03:47 Speaker 03 Uh, love the restaurant.
1:03:54 H. Foley? Give me one poster that was on your wall as a kid.
1:03:56 Speaker 03 Uh, one poster that was on the wall as a kid, um, let me think. Probably be, I wasn't a poster guy, man, so this is a struggle for me. Brett Favre?
1:04:08 Speaker 01 I'll give you that.
1:04:08 H. Foley? Good one, Favre. Very nice.
1:04:10 Speaker 01 Uh, you know how to use chopsticks?
1:04:12 Speaker 03 I do. My wife had to do, had to fix that.
1:04:15 Speaker 01 Okay. Are you confident with it or are you still?
1:04:17 Speaker 03 No, I'm, I'm confident with it now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:04:20 H. Foley? How do you get the steak cooked?
1:04:21 Speaker 03 Uh, medium rare.
1:04:22 H. Foley? Gentleman.
1:04:23 Speaker 03 Yeah, you can't make it, I mean, I'd be more mad if you went more the, the medium direction than the rare, rare direction.
1:04:28 H. Foley? Okay, what about the burger?
1:04:30 Speaker 03 Uh, medium's fine.
1:04:31 H. Foley? Medium's fine?
1:04:32 Speaker 01 We were talking before we started, we were talking about steak houses a little bit. So you go, you'll go to Del Frisco's for like a celebration or a, a nice steak. What's that, what's that whole order looking like? What's the appetizer? What's the drink? What's the, you know, what's the steak?
1:04:45 Speaker 03 Um, usually for the appetizer, uh, I'll, I'll go like scallops or shrimp. I like to do like a seafood appetizer.
1:04:52 Speaker 01 Very nice.
1:04:53 Speaker 03 Maybe both. And then I'm gonna do a ribeye. Um, bone in is what I'd prefer, but I don't want the biggest one. Sometimes I'll see a 20 ounce steak or something. I'm like, who's this for, man?
1:05:02 Speaker 01 It's wild.
1:05:02 Speaker 03 I'm a sides guy, you know what I mean? I'm a sides guy.
1:05:06 Speaker 01 Listen, this is our theory. Most New York steak houses all can throw out a solids. The steak's not gonna be that big of a variable.
1:05:11 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:05:12 Speaker 01 It's the sides and the vibes of the place.
1:05:14 Speaker 03 That's exactly right. So, so, you know, a 12 ounce bone in or something, maybe a 14. Rib eye and then my sides, I mean, I'll go over the top with it. I'll do some cream spinach. We can do some mashed potatoes.
1:05:27 Speaker 01 Yeah, we can.
1:05:28 Speaker 03 And, you know, I don't know what the third one might be. Oh, Caesar salad, always, always. Always a Caesar salad. Love them. Love them. So, yeah.
1:05:38 Speaker 01 Okay.
1:05:39 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:05:40 Speaker 01 Very well put.
1:05:42 H. Foley? I mean, it's like he's one of us.
1:05:43 Speaker 01 I know. It's crazy. He's a southern combination of me and you. It's wild. He's in between us size wise. It's very, it's very crazy. And we ever started an are you garbage southern faction, he would, he would be the guy.
1:05:58 H. Foley? He's talking about the seas.
1:06:00 Speaker 01 I know. Big sides guy. We've said for a long time, we're big sides guy.
1:06:04 Speaker 03 I love that.
1:06:05 H. Foley? Those, those apps that you get, you're out with the boys or maybe you're out with the misses. You're sharing the apps, right?
1:06:10 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:06:10 H. Foley? You're, you're, you're a solo apps guy?
1:06:13 Speaker 03 No, no, no. I'm sharing the apps. I love to share, like, I'm gonna taste this. You're not gonna believe it. I'm gonna, you gotta have a bite of that.
1:06:19 Speaker 01 Spread the wealth.
1:06:20 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
1:06:21 Speaker 01 Now, if you go to a restaurant, will you ask, if you get side of the table you don't like, will you ask for a different table?
1:06:27 Speaker 03 Um, no, no, but they're always trying to put me at the bar and I like to sit at tables. I do have that preference. And I'm not, and I'm not a booth guy either because I don't need to know how big I am. I know.
1:06:38 Speaker 01 The booths are tough.
1:06:39 Speaker 03 So I don't need the table trying to cut me in half.
1:06:41 Speaker 01 Which is my one critique of the Waffle House, small booths at Waffle House.
1:06:45 Speaker 03 Small booths.
1:06:45 Speaker 01 It's wild.
1:06:46 Speaker 03 For sure.
1:06:47 H. Foley? For such a larger gentleman's culture.
1:06:49 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, for the clientele.
1:06:50 H. Foley? Yes.
1:06:51 Speaker 03 Yeah, I get that.
1:06:52 H. Foley? Yeah. Um, are you a cologne guy?
1:06:55 Speaker 03 Big time.
1:06:56 H. Foley? What do you like?
1:06:56 Speaker 03 Big time. Been a cologne guy my entire life. Um, I mean, my favorite cologne ever was discontinued and it was like losing an old friend. It was called Intuition by Estee Lauder. And I still have a little bit.
1:07:07 Speaker 01 That's crazy.
1:07:08 Speaker 03 I still have a little bit laying around that I'll sprinkle every once in a while on myself. I'm really trying to get an elevator going.
1:07:14 Speaker 01 I don't think I've ever seen that.
1:07:16 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:07:17 H. Foley? I love that that's your intuition is your favorite color.
1:07:19 Speaker 03 Yeah, and then, uh, yeah, there it is. And then Dolce Gabbana, the one is what I wear most of the time, but I wear cologne to take out the trash. I'm a big time cologne guy.
1:07:29 H. Foley? I like it. Where do you go with that? You go wrist, wrist?
1:07:31 Speaker 03 Um, no, I don't do any wrist. I go, I go, uh, two, two on each side.
1:07:38 H. Foley? Is this after the shirt's on or before the shirt's on?
1:07:40 Speaker 03 Uh, after the shirt's on.
1:07:41 H. Foley? After the shirt's on?
1:07:42 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
1:07:43 H. Foley? Okay.
1:07:43 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:07:44 H. Foley? I respect it.
1:07:44 Speaker 03 And I go a little heavy on the cologne at first because not unless it's a $600 cologne, you're gonna lose a little bit of that on the subway.
1:07:51 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:07:51 Speaker 03 You know?
1:07:52 H. Foley? I like it too. I'm a big cologne guy.
1:07:53 Speaker 01 Uh, what kind of deodorant you banging with?
1:07:56 Speaker 03 Um, I do the Fiji scented, uh, Old Spice, the, the white.
1:08:03 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:08:03 Speaker 03 Uh, like, uh, yeah, yeah.
1:08:04 Speaker 01 Now, when you're putting it on, you're, you know, not, not casting, you're, you're a larger gentleman as well.
1:08:09 Speaker 03 Yeah, of course.
1:08:10 Speaker 01 Do you put the shirt on first, then the, then the deodorant, or the deodorant, then the shirt?
1:08:14 Speaker 03 Deodorant, then the shirt.
1:08:16 Speaker 01 Really?
1:08:16 Speaker 03 But that can be tough sometimes.
1:08:17 Speaker 01 Very tough.
1:08:18 Speaker 03 Because then, then somebody's like, hey, you got, you got white stuff going down the side of your shirt.
1:08:22 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:08:22 Speaker 03 And then I play back to when I was wrestling with my t-shirt. Yeah, but yeah, that's, I do deodorant first.
1:08:28 Speaker 01 Okay.
1:08:28 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:08:28 H. Foley? As a bigger guy, bigger guy, you've done the, the pop out on the shirt as you're putting it on? You do the stretch out?
1:08:35 Speaker 03 Oh, oh, yeah. Well, dog, I'll put it over my knees and squat down. I mean, I, I, I stand up, it looks like a blouse.
1:08:42 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:08:43 Speaker 03 That's what I'm trying to do. Yeah.
1:08:46 H. Foley? I don't know why I'm still keeping score.
1:08:47 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, we were three minutes in. What, uh, at the West Virginia to Alabama is when I had him pegged. Um, what, do you own any suits? How many suits do you own?
1:08:58 Speaker 03 I own one suit. I've only bought one suit in my life. That was for, uh, I did a CBS spot for Nate Bargatze on his Christmas special.
1:09:04 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:09:05 Speaker 03 Last year.
1:09:05 Speaker 01 Okay, does it still fit?
1:09:06 Speaker 03 Uh, no.
1:09:07 Speaker 01 No.
1:09:07 Speaker 03 No, no, no. It fit that day. I was like a UFC wrestler. I was in there biting ice through a towel, trying to make weight for this thing.
1:09:17 Speaker 01 Can you tie a tie?
1:09:18 Speaker 03 Uh, no, no.
1:09:19 Speaker 01 No, okay.
1:09:20 Speaker 03 No, I can't tie a tie.
1:09:21 H. Foley? Where'd you get the suit?
1:09:22 Speaker 03 Um.
1:09:23 H. Foley? Is it like an expensive brand? Like a designer?
1:09:26 Speaker 03 No, uh, it's even worse. Uh, wardrobe, let me just take it home.
1:09:31 H. Foley? Oh, get the fuck out of here.
1:09:32 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
1:09:33 H. Foley? Man, shout out to Bargetzi, that's alright.
1:09:35 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
1:09:36 Speaker 01 Uh, have you ever worn a tuxedo?
1:09:37 Speaker 03 Um, yeah, I have, yeah.
1:09:40 H. Foley? You went to the prom?
1:09:41 Speaker 03 I was in, yeah, my.
1:09:42 Speaker 01 Court?
1:09:42 Speaker 03 Uh, no, no, no, I've been there, but a couple weddings I wore a tuxedo.
1:09:46 Speaker 01 Okay.
1:09:47 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:09:48 Speaker 01 I got one more and then I'm dying, then, you know, I mean, uh, do you have a go-to karaoke song?
1:09:52 Speaker 03 Uh, yeah, Devil Went Down to Georgia.
1:09:54 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah, you did.
1:09:56 Speaker 03 It gets the place going. But if you see me singing karaoke, you need to get me home.
1:10:00 Speaker 01 Thank God.
1:10:01 Speaker 03 Okay?
1:10:02 Speaker 01 We got bigger problems.
1:10:03 Speaker 03 Yeah, I'm not, I haven't paid my tab and I'm in trouble. Yeah.
1:10:07 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
1:10:08 H. Foley? I mean, well.
1:10:09 Speaker 01 You know.
1:10:10 H. Foley? Derek Stroup, 100%.
1:10:14 H. Foley? Pecan waffle-covered garbage.
1:10:17 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:10:17 H. Foley? Home run, buddy.
1:10:18 Speaker 01 My kinda trash, baby, I fucking love you, bud.
1:10:20 Speaker 03 Jesus, yeah. That was so fun.
1:10:22 H. Foley? I assume, Luke, you concur on this?
1:10:24 Speaker 01 100%.
1:10:25 H. Foley? Yeah, man, what a home run of a story, buddy.
1:10:27 Speaker 01 Yeah, appreciate you coming in, big dog.
1:10:29 H. Foley? Congratulations on everything.
1:10:30 Speaker 03 Thank you so much.
1:10:31 H. Foley? You're killing it, we're so happy for you. One of the funniest out there. Uh, special on Netflix coming in March.
1:10:37 Speaker 03 Yeah, man.
1:10:37 Speaker 01 Yeah, plug any dates, this is coming out in a couple of days.
1:10:40 Speaker 03 Okay, cool, I'll be in Kansas City, uh, February 20th and 21st, so that'll be, I'll be out on the road again. Thanks for having me, man, this was so much fun.
1:10:48 Speaker 01 Yes, it was.
1:10:49 Speaker 03 It really was.
1:10:49 H. Foley? And we know you're local, you'll be coming back.
1:10:51 Speaker 01 Yeah, we'll have you back for sure.
1:10:52 H. Foley? Gang, if you don't know, check out Derek Stroup, one of the funniest, killing it.
1:10:56 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
1:10:56 H. Foley? Um, buddy, we love you, thank you so much.
1:10:58 Speaker 01 Love y'all, thank you, man.
1:10:59 H. Foley? Kippy, what do you got for them?
1:10:59 Speaker 01 Uh, guys, we're gearing up to go back on the road, uh, get your tickets to Tampa, Austin, Denver, Cleveland, a whole bunch, everything's available online, these shows will sell out, uh, we love yous.
1:11:10 H. Foley? We'll see you next week. Peace.
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