How to Be a Classy Comedian w/ Ryan Hamilton!

Are You Garbage podcast presents stand up comedian Ryan Hamilton! You know Ryan Hamilton from Stand Up Comedy, Conan, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Last Comic Standing, The Late Late Show, We Might Be Drunk, Jim Norton Can't Save You, The Nateland Podcast, Paul's Best Podcast, Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out, Inside Amy Schumer and so much more! Thanks for watching AYG Comedy Podcast. Love youse guys. Come to a live show! Tell Us About Your Small Business Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3YRknM7u4NOMJLQ0OjCfW7Tf53zuVaBvaPUxoY7EwNcAeGw/viewform?usp=send_form NEW AYG MERCH: https://areyougarbage.com/ AYG 2026 Live Shows: https://areyougarbage.com/pages/live-shows Watch Route 66: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSkJS1gCDR4 Live Shows: https://areyougarbage.com/pages/live-shows PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/AreYouGarbage MERCH: https://areyougarbage.com/ Sponsored By: Square: Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at https://square.com/go/garbage! Promo Code: GARBAGE Wayfair: Ready to upgrade your home for way less? Head to https://www.wayfair.com right now to shop all things home and get your space ready for less. Comedians H. Foley and Kevin Ryan are self proclaimed GARBAGE. Each week a new stand up comedian gets put to the test. Steal shampoo from hotels? Own a George Foreman Grill? Ever worn JNCO Jeans? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00H. Foley?

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

• 0:05Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 0:06H. Foley?

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

• 0:10Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 0:11H. Foley?

  Or just a big old piece of trash.

• 0:12Speaker 01

  Trash, trash, trash.

• 0:13H. Foley?

  I'm your host, Dave Foley, coming at you on a beautiful day. We're out back here at Tootie's in the new addition. She's upstairs having a little bowl of oatmeal.

• 0:20Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 0:20H. Foley?

  Heart healthy.

• 0:21Speaker 01

  There you go.

• 0:21H. Foley?

  Feeling good.

• 0:22Speaker 02

  Turning it around.

• 0:23H. Foley?

  Alright, fair enough. My co-host is coming at you from right next to me. 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.

• 0:33Speaker 01

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• 0:41H. Foley?

  Oh, yeah.

• 0:42Speaker 01

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• 0:49H. Foley?

  That's right. And gang, we couldn't be more excited to have our incredibly, and I mean incredibly special guest here with us today for the first time. He is a very funny, very successful, well-respected stand-up comedian among his peers. And you might have seen them in Not Limited 2. You got Conan, The Late Show, The Tonight Show, The Comedian, Life of Beth, Inside Amy Schumer. He's got a brand-new Netflix special out right now. This just hit me. Do me a favor, give it up for the very, what I predict, very classy, very funny, very awesome, Mr. Ryan Hamilton.

• 1:19Speaker 03

  Oh, that's very sweet. Thank you very much.

• 1:22H. Foley?

  Very happy to have you here.

• 1:23Speaker 03

  Oh, I'm very happy to be here. Thank you.

• 1:25H. Foley?

  We're big fans.

• 1:26Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:27Speaker 03

  That's so nice.

• 1:28H. Foley?

  Of your comedy and also the way you operate as a gentleman.

• 1:31Speaker 01

  Yes. You are a very buttoned-up gentleman.

• 1:35H. Foley?

  The kid can wear a suit.

• 1:36Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:39H. Foley?

  You got Seinfeld wearing suits. Is that true?

• 1:41Speaker 03

  I got him wearing suits? Yeah, yeah. He wasn't wearing suits before I was around.

• 1:45H. Foley?

  Walking around in them rags. Jerry!

• 1:49Speaker 01

  That was funny. I mean, we were, you, you, for the people that might not be familiar, you wear at least a jacket onstage.

• 1:56Speaker 03

  Most of the time. It depends on where I'm at, but if I'm doing a theater, a good look for me is kind of like jeans and a jacket. But if I'm on the road with Seinfeld, I wear a suit.

• 2:05Speaker 01

  Full suit.

• 2:06Speaker 03

  Sometimes I opt to wear a full suit, depending on where I'm at.

• 2:09Speaker 01

  What depends, what, we're big on what depends?

• 2:12Speaker 03

  I mean, well, if I'm doing The Tonight Show, something like that, I'll wear a full suit. A very special occasion, you know, if I'm in a big theater or something like that, I might wear a full suit. But if I'm in like an arena or something, I often feel like I gotta wear like a more casual situation.

• 2:29Speaker 01

  Oh, you play it down, more casual.

• 2:31Speaker 03

  Yeah, a little casual. A rake-and-leaves jacket, as Jerry calls it.

• 2:36H. Foley?

  What's a rake-and-leaf jacket?

• 2:37Speaker 03

  You know, like a jacket, like you, like a suede kind of jacket, maybe.

• 2:42Speaker 01

  These guys operate, they're operating in a different fashion set.

• 2:45Speaker 03

  I don't know. I'm always thinking about what's appropriate, but I do think you've changed the way you perform a little bit, based on how you dress. And I think it's important.

• 2:55Speaker 01

  100%.

• 2:56Speaker 03

  And I think it's very important that people look at you and go, "Oh, that guy looks sharp." But they're not distracted by it. Once you get distracted by it, I think that's a little, you know, a little bit to your detriment as a stand-up comedian.

• 3:08Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 3:08Speaker 03

  Unless, you know, everybody's different, but that's how I feel.

• 3:11H. Foley?

  Nobody's ever said that about us. Those guys look sharp.

• 3:16H. Foley?

  Can I ask you this? What are the suits? What's the brand of suits?

• 3:19Speaker 03

  Oh, lately I've been into Zennya. Zennya's a good fit for me.

• 3:25Speaker 01

  What's that? You know Zennya? This is our, this is our tapped-in cool rich brand.

• 3:29Speaker 02

  Zennya's very classy.

• 3:30Speaker 01

  Really?

• 3:31Speaker 02

  Yeah, I feel like it's an up-and-comer. It's been around for a minute, but I feel like it's been very hot recently.

• 3:35H. Foley?

  Oh, look at Joan Rivers over there.

• 3:37Speaker 03

  They're very good at like, I, nothing fits me off the rack, so.

• 3:42H. Foley?

  You said it, sister.

• 3:46Speaker 03

  This is gonna be fun.

• 3:47Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 3:48Speaker 03

  So.

• 3:48Speaker 01

  Well, this stuff ain't cheap.

• 3:50Speaker 03

  No.

• 3:51Speaker 01

  Whoa. But you can't afford it, I know that much.

• 3:55Speaker 03

  Here, listen, it's.

• 3:56H. Foley?

  Hamilton!

• 3:57Speaker 03

  It's, it's, it's.

• 3:59Speaker 01

  You're the richest guy I know.

• 4:00Speaker 03

  In your career.

• 4:02Speaker 01

  See? Gotta get you out of these rags.

• 4:04H. Foley?

  $900 for a t-shirt?

• 4:06Speaker 01

  Gotta get you in some Zengas.

• 4:07Speaker 03

  It's, it's a little, look, they're, they're pricey, but they fit me well.

• 4:13Speaker 01

  There you go, that's all that matters.

• 4:14Speaker 03

  If you watch my last special, I got a lot of compliments. People go, "That jacket looks nice." And it's because I spent the time to find the right drape and the right color and the right fabric.

• 4:28Speaker 01

  Calculated.

• 4:28Speaker 03

  And the right, you know.

• 4:30Speaker 01

  How it falls on you.

• 4:31Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 4:31H. Foley?

  I know it draped me.

• 4:32Speaker 03

  And so that's what I went for. And it pays off, I think. If that's, you know, and it makes you feel a certain way. I think one of the most stressful parts about doing television, anything, is figuring out how you look.

• 4:47Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 4:47Speaker 03

  It makes me, it's like, once I get that down, I'm relaxed, I'm calm. It's an investment in your performance, I feel like.

• 4:55H. Foley?

  You do the show, you keep, you do the show, you keep the suit on for the rest of the night? Or you change out of it?

• 5:02Speaker 03

  Uh, it depends, I guess. I like to get out of it as soon as I can, depending on the situation.

• 5:07H. Foley?

  You sit in the pants or do you, you fold the pants?

• 5:10Speaker 03

  I'll sit in the pants, you know, for a while. Yeah, I'll sit in the pants.

• 5:14Speaker 01

  Listen, we were talking to two guys who are bad with suits, right? We've always been bigger guys.

• 5:19H. Foley?

  Bad with most things.

• 5:20Speaker 01

  And we look, you put a suit on us, it lasts about.

• 5:23H. Foley?

  Like a fat kid at a wedding.

• 5:25Speaker 01

  We got, I got about 40 minutes in a suit before I looked like a melted candle.

• 5:28Speaker 03

  What do you mean, the suit?

• 5:30Speaker 01

  The shirt comes off, yeah, like I'm just not.

• 5:33H. Foley?

  He's gross.

• 5:34Speaker 03

  Maybe you need to.

• 5:36Speaker 03

  I think the problem with a lot of people with suits, and I have this problem too, it's very difficult to just go buy a suit. You gotta find the, you gotta get the right fit. And then a lot of those problems will go away.

• 5:45H. Foley?

  Now, who's, who's your tailor? You got a specific guy you go to? You don't have to say his name, it's gonna work.

• 5:50Speaker 03

  Well, no, I have tried different people over time. I found someone in Chicago I really like at the Zennya store. She's great and she helped me with the special and so I stay in touch with her.

• 6:01Speaker 01

  What? This guy's still in touch with a tailor? That's crazy.

• 6:04Speaker 02

  Holy shit.

• 6:05Speaker 01

  That's good stuff.

• 6:06Speaker 03

  When you find someone who really understands you and knows what you want, you know, and then they have all my measurements and everything. I mean, I've only ordered the one thing from her, but, you know, she was good.

• 6:18Speaker 01

  Classy, I gotta, he's got a tailor on retainer, this guy.

• 6:21Speaker 03

  I don't know.

• 6:22H. Foley?

  What was the suit? $10,000?

• 6:24Speaker 03

  Uh, that, which one? The special jacket?

• 6:27H. Foley?

  Yeah, special jacket.

• 6:28Speaker 03

  I don't think it was that much. I can't remember.

• 6:30H. Foley?

  Nine?

• 6:32Speaker 03

  No, I think it was, I don't remember now, but you know, it was a lot of money. But it wasn't that much.

• 6:39H. Foley?

  Five, six, geez, nice suit, don't it's Netflix special?

• 6:42Speaker 01

  Classy.

• 6:43Speaker 02

  Mr. Hamilton, can you tilt your mic up a little bit?

• 6:46Speaker 03

  Oh, sure.

• 6:47Speaker 01

  Mr. Hamilton, you've been calling him Mr. Hamilton, too.

• 6:49Speaker 02

  He commands it.

• 6:50H. Foley?

  He commands that respect!

• 6:51Speaker 01

  He does.

• 6:55Speaker 01

  Alright, let's, let's.

• 6:55H. Foley?

  Let's go back to the beginning.

• 6:56Speaker 01

  Let's take it back to the beginning.

• 6:57H. Foley?

  Give us the, give us the origin story of Ryan Hamilton here.

• 7:00Speaker 01

  You're an Idaho boy.

• 7:01Speaker 03

  I'm from a little town in Idaho, a little potato farming community, a thousand people in this town.

• 7:06Speaker 01

  Geez, still? Has it gotten any bigger or smaller?

• 7:09Speaker 03

  I just did an interview yesterday. Somebody on the radio did a bunch of research on my town and they, and they go, "Guess what the population is now?" And I guessed 1,200 and he said it's 950. So it's gone down.

• 7:22Speaker 03

  But I think it's, I don't know. That seems odd to me, because I think there are new people coming, but.

• 7:28H. Foley?

  What'd your mom and dad do?

• 7:30Speaker 03

  My dad, they both studied creative things. They studied, my dad studied art education. My mom studied like creative writing. But they ended up doing different things. My dad, eventually when he was young, was a, got a career as a lineman for a little power company.

• 7:48H. Foley?

  Right, lineman for the county?

• 7:49Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 7:50H. Foley?

  Let's go.

• 7:50Speaker 03

  Basically.

• 7:51H. Foley?

  Love it.

• 7:51Speaker 03

  And a little power co-op in Idaho. And my mom became a teacher.

• 7:56H. Foley?

  Okay.

• 7:57Speaker 03

  Yeah, and she taught all sorts of different, she taught sixth grade for a long time. She taught creative writing. She taught gifted and talented for the whole school district, from a very rural place, you know, little tiny town. And so.

• 8:10H. Foley?

  Brothers and sisters?

• 8:11Speaker 03

  Yeah, I have one brother, one sister. I'm the oldest.

• 8:14H. Foley?

  Very nice.

• 8:15Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 8:15H. Foley?

  That makes sense.

• 8:16Speaker 03

  Yeah?

• 8:17H. Foley?

  Yeah. You got a George Bailey vibe to you.

• 8:21Speaker 03

  What, what, what? What do you mean?

• 8:25Speaker 01

  Hey, he just pulled down his guy's jacket.

• 8:26H. Foley?

  I love it.

• 8:27Speaker 01

  That jacket.

• 8:30Speaker 01

  Okay, what, did you, was it, the house you grew up in, was it on a big plot? Like, how rural was the neighborhood? Or was the houses close together or were you like?

• 8:38Speaker 03

  When I was, up until I was about 13, I lived, we lived in a little house in town, but it was on the edge of town. And so, right on the edge of town, it felt like almost out of town, but there was a big pasture next to us with cattle and horses.

• 8:54Speaker 01

  Really?

• 8:54Speaker 03

  We didn't own it, but you know, that's where, it was at the, you know, end of the street. And we had neighbors and stuff. And then we moved out of town eventually, when I was about 14.

• 9:06Speaker 01

  So like rural, more rural?

• 9:07Speaker 03

  Uh, yeah, well, about three miles out of town, our nearest neighbor was maybe a mile away.

• 9:13Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 9:14Speaker 03

  You know, all surrounded by potato, it was a farmhouse that we moved into. It wasn't on a farm, but it was a farmhouse that we moved into, yeah.

• 9:21H. Foley?

  And wasn't your guy's farmhouse?

• 9:23Speaker 03

  No, no, we never owned a farm. My, my grand, my, my mother's from this town and her, her family owned like a little general store that my great-grandmother ran and my grandfather ran after that. It was called a variety store.

• 9:36H. Foley?

  Nice.

• 9:37Speaker 03

  And they sold everything, appliances, clothes.

• 9:40Speaker 01

  And it was open while you were a lot, when you were a kid?

• 9:42Speaker 03

  Up until I was about 12 or something, yeah.

• 9:45H. Foley?

  Did you get to run around the store and stuff like that?

• 9:46Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, yeah, I used to go, I used to work there. They'd put me to work. Every Christmas, they had Toyland downstairs and that was insane for us.

• 9:54Speaker 01

  They set it up just for Christmas?

• 9:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, they had Toyland down in the basement and, you know, we would always get the wholesale discount. So I would work all summer, because I could buy, you know, great stuff from my grandfather's store.

• 10:05Speaker 01

  Would you do, would you work at the store?

• 10:07Speaker 03

  I would work there sometimes, yeah, you know, just like taking stuff out, shelving stuff like that. I never like, was like customer service.

• 10:15Speaker 01

  What was the first proper job you had?

• 10:17Speaker 03

  I always had jobs. I got a job at a little pizza place, right across the street from my grandfather's store. When I was about, I guess, 13, something like that.

• 10:29H. Foley?

  How was that pizza?

• 10:30Speaker 03

  It was called Husky Pizza, which was the name of our high school mascot. I don't remember the pizza being great, but...

• 10:36Speaker 01

  I would have to assume it's all potatoes.

• 10:40Speaker 03

  But I didn't know great pizza then either, you know? And I also, every potato harvest had jobs, because we would get out of school for a couple of weeks to harvest...

• 10:50Speaker 01

  You'd get off school?

• 10:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, for, we would call it Spud Harvest, and every, in the first two weeks of October, we'd get out of school...

• 10:57Speaker 01

  No kidding?

• 10:57Speaker 03

  To go help harvest the potatoes. Yeah, because everybody's, you know, most of the kids were farm kids, so they needed to go work. And so, if you weren't a farm kid, you'd go get a job, because what else are you gonna do? So, you know, 13, 14, you start going to get jobs, and, yeah, we'd work for a couple of weeks. I would, you start on the sorting table, pulling potatoes and vines.

• 11:20Speaker 01

  That goes right back into it. No, dude, that was muscle memory. He was picking them, throwing them.

• 11:24H. Foley?

  You're not in the field, you're like, you're like by the...

• 11:27Speaker 03

  I wanted to get promoted to work in the field, but you really gotta be blood to drive the truck and stuff like that. You know, like, I'm not, I'm the, you know, friends of the farmer's kids. I'm not the, I'm not one of the actual farmers. But, so I would start, you start on the sorting table. Eventually, I got to where I ran the stinger, it's called, which was...

• 11:47Speaker 01

  Sick.

• 11:48Speaker 03

  Which, yeah, it was awesome. You regulate the flow of the potatoes off of the truck, up onto the sorting table, and then it goes into a piler. And you, I never got to run the piler, but that's what, that's what stacks the potatoes in the cellar. But what I really wanted to do was drive truck, you know, where the combine comes in and puts the potatoes in the truck. But I never got to do that, yeah.

• 12:12Speaker 01

  What did that pay? Like, by the hour, day?

• 12:15Speaker 03

  It was by the hour, I don't remem, I mean, this was a long time ago, but...

• 12:17H. Foley?

  Poor potatoes.

• 12:19Speaker 03

  We got paid by the potato. No, yeah, you would end up making, you know, six, 800 bucks for two weeks. At that time...

• 12:26H. Foley?

  That's not bad.

• 12:27Speaker 01

  That's good money.

• 12:28Speaker 03

  It was really good money for a kid. I actually bought my first car with my Spud money, is what we call it.

• 12:33Speaker 01

  Spud money.

• 12:33Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 12:34H. Foley?

  What year is this? What year were you in?

• 12:36Speaker 01

  It sounds like 1932.

• 12:37Speaker 03

  No, I know, it does. This was in the 90s, so, yeah, I mean, yeah, probably around early 90s, mid 90s, when I was doing that. Yeah, yeah.

• 12:46H. Foley?

  What were your toys as a kid? What'd you like as a kid?

• 12:49Speaker 03

  Oh, man, I was into this series of toys called Mask. Did you ever hear of them?

• 12:54Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 12:56Speaker 03

  Did you?

• 12:56H. Foley?

  Huge mascot.

• 12:57Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 12:58H. Foley?

  I'm 50.

• 12:58Speaker 03

  Oh, me too.

• 12:59H. Foley?

  Yeah.

• 13:00Speaker 03

  Yeah, Mobile Armored Strike Command, or something like that.

• 13:04Speaker 01

  Oh, it is, yeah, it's a, mobile, uh...

• 13:07H. Foley?

  They fought Venom.

• 13:08Speaker 03

  Yeah, exactly.

• 13:10H. Foley?

  They had the gas station and all that stuff.

• 13:11Speaker 03

  I still have them all. I still have all my masks.

• 13:13H. Foley?

  Are you serious?

• 13:14Speaker 03

  Yes, they're in a box at home, yeah. I have a lot of them.

• 13:18H. Foley?

  That's a Hamilton move right there.

• 13:18Speaker 03

  I got, my grandfather would order these into his store, because he knew I liked them, and I would mow lawns all summer, so I could buy these.

• 13:25H. Foley?

  Wait, are they, are they unopened?

• 13:27Speaker 03

  No, they're all opened, but, yeah, I got them out, my nephews were playing with them a while. It was pretty fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got all those, yeah.

• 13:35H. Foley?

  What were the toys when we were kids the best?

• 13:37Speaker 03

  Oh, those were awesome.

• 13:38H. Foley?

  G.I. Joe, Transformers, E-Man, Mask, Sky Commanders.

• 13:42Speaker 03

  Because they were like, cool cars, and then they would turn into like, a jet, or, you know, they would turn, they weren't Transformers. They were more like, practical than Transformers.

• 13:53Speaker 01

  And that's what we liked.

• 13:55H. Foley?

  You missed all this, kid.

• 13:56Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 13:57H. Foley?

  You were smoking cigarettes, eating dinner rolls.

• 13:59Speaker 03

  You're too young for this?

• 14:00Speaker 01

  I'm too young, yeah.

• 14:01H. Foley?

  You're too young for it.

• 14:02Speaker 01

  I'm 24.

• 14:02H. Foley?

  So you saved them. Do you collect anything else? Do you save anything else? Because you're very meticulous, as everybody knows.

• 14:08Speaker 01

  Put together.

• 14:09Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, I was into comic books for a while. I still have all of those, and I like to go back to, now, if I'll see a comic book shop, I'll just wander in. And actually, I just wandered into Midtown Comics the other day, and they have a, Mask is like, having this, like...

• 14:25Speaker 01

  Resurgence.

• 14:26Speaker 03

  Yes, and they have a comic book series. Yeah.

• 14:29Speaker 01

  What, uh, do you have anything, first of all, where is this stuff?

• 14:33Speaker 03

  It's in Idaho.

• 14:34Speaker 01

  It's in Idaho. Your parents still live there, or the, or...

• 14:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 14:37H. Foley?

  Wait, where's what stuff?

• 14:37Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 14:38H. Foley?

  The Mask stuff?

• 14:39Speaker 01

  And his comic books, yeah.

• 14:40H. Foley?

  Oh, okay.

• 14:44Speaker 01

  I didn't think he had it displayed in his apartment, and...

• 14:46H. Foley?

  That's what I did. I thought he had it in the house here.

• 14:51H. Foley?

  See, your toys close.

• 14:52Speaker 03

  It's a long ways away. It's hard to transfer all that stuff.

• 14:55Speaker 01

  Do you have anything that you know is expensive in the comic books? Or like, you know?

• 14:59Speaker 03

  I have the first appearance of Venom. I think that one's worth a few hundred bucks, or something like that.

• 15:07H. Foley?

  Pretty sick.

• 15:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. I don't have anything really crazy, though, but, you know.

• 15:13H. Foley?

  Who did the cooking growing up? Your mom?

• 15:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, mostly my mom, yeah.

• 15:17H. Foley?

  What are we talking about?

• 15:20Speaker 03

  We would have all sorts of things. We would, we were a family that liked to try stuff. It was like, I mean, not my dad, but my mom was very encouraging of like, we would, you know, if we were out on traveling somewhere, we were encouraged to try new things. But at home, you know, you know, I don't know, we had a lot of mac and cheese. Things were fast. Everybody was busy.

• 15:40H. Foley?

  Are there any Idaho dishes? Like, fricassee or something?

• 15:43Speaker 03

  I mean, it's like steak and potatoes. It's pretty standard, if you're just gonna have an Idaho dish.

• 15:48Speaker 01

  What, uh, what were the restaurants in town? It's gotta be a small town, so there's the pizza place?

• 15:53Speaker 03

  There was a pizza place that would open and close. There was this place called The Frost Top on the highway, which is on the way to Yellowstone Park, and it was only open seasonally a lot of times. But it was cool. It was like, an old drive-in, and my mom, when she was a teenager, worked there, and actually, worked there on roller skates. Like, she would serve people on roller skates, and it's still there. It has a big... If you look it up, that you can see. Isn't that cool? That place still exists.

• 16:20H. Foley?

  That's a good-looking soft serve.

• 16:21Speaker 01

  The big root beer outside.

• 16:23H. Foley?

  Twist count.

• 16:24Speaker 03

  It came right up. That's so funny. Yeah, it's a big, that root beer used to turn, when I was a kid. I think it stopped turning, but, um...

• 16:32Speaker 01

  They don't make stuff like they used to.

• 16:35Speaker 03

  But that place is like, an institution, and it's right across the highway from the high school, so we would sometimes walk over there, get greasy fries, or whatever.

• 16:43H. Foley?

  Not a lot of ethnic food in the town?

• 16:46Speaker 01

  Chinese?

• 16:47Speaker 03

  Not much. My aunt had a Mexican restaurant for a little bit, a few years. Yeah.

• 16:54H. Foley?

  She Mexican?

• 16:54Speaker 03

  She, she married a Mexican, and she learned to make fantastic Mexican food.

• 17:00H. Foley?

  No kidding?

• 17:00Speaker 03

  Yes, yeah. And we had a place called Big Judd's. It's kind of famous in our little neck of the woods. They have like, a huge one-pound burger, that's like, one-pound...

• 17:11Speaker 01

  That's how you, that's how you make some buzz.

• 17:13Speaker 03

  After it's cooked, not before. And if you eat the whole thing, you get your picture up, you know. I've never attempted it, but...

• 17:20Speaker 01

  Really?

• 17:20Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 17:22H. Foley?

  What were the vacations like growing up? Where would you go?

• 17:24Speaker 03

  We would always try to go somewhere. There were a lot of road trips. We went to, one year, we, my dad was from Southern California, so we went there a lot to visit his friends and family. One year, we went to, oh, this place in, I think it's in Colorado, what's it called? It's like, these ancient civilizations who had their homes built into the...

• 17:46H. Foley?

  Machu Picchu?

• 17:47Speaker 03

  No, it's in, it's in Colorado. It's like Mesa Verde.

• 17:52Speaker 01

  That's something, right?

• 17:53Speaker 03

  Yeah, uh, what is it?

• 17:55Speaker 01

  Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings, yeah, this, yeah.

• 17:57Speaker 03

  Mesa Verde National Park. Yeah, it's really cool, actually. There's a lot of...

• 18:02H. Foley?

  Who lived there?

• 18:04Speaker 01

  There was like, eight, like, you know, they lived in this, this would, yeah.

• 18:07H. Foley?

  I don't like that hole.

• 18:08Speaker 01

  That would be... That place is haunted, dude. No way.

• 18:13Speaker 03

  It's really interesting, and, um, very educational.

• 18:16Speaker 01

  Your parents were learned people?

• 18:18Speaker 03

  My, yeah, my, my, my grandfather took my mom and her siblings on vacations, and that was, so that was like, a tradition that stayed with us, even though we didn't have a lot. But we went to the Oregon coast sometimes, um, that was good. And, you know, we do stuff close. We went to Yellowstone Park, and like, Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Those places were very close, and so we would go explore those places a lot. We would go camping sometimes.

• 18:43Speaker 01

  Really?

• 18:44Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, go camping, just, you know, close. And those were great trips, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 18:50H. Foley?

  How were the grades growing up?

• 18:52Speaker 03

  I was, I was average. I would get Bs, Bs, and occasional A, and occasional C. Yeah, you know, yeah, right around there, nothing crazy.

• 19:01H. Foley?

  What'd you get in the SATs? You remember?

• 19:03Speaker 03

  We had the ACTs, and I think it was like, a 24 or something like that.

• 19:09H. Foley?

  Respectable, Ben?

• 19:10Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 19:11H. Foley?

  Did you go to college?

• 19:12Speaker 03

  I did. I went to Brigham Young University.

• 19:15H. Foley?

  Really?

• 19:16Speaker 03

  Yes, and I went there, there was a little, they have a, when I was, now it's a four-year university, but they had a school in Idaho, a branch, that was called Rick's College, when I went there.

• 19:28Speaker 01

  Come on down to Rick's?

• 19:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 19:30H. Foley?

  A branch of Brigham Young?

• 19:31Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 19:32H. Foley?

  Rick's?

• 19:32Speaker 03

  And now it's called Brigham Young University Idaho, and it's a four-year school. But it was two years when I went there, and then I transferred to...

• 19:38H. Foley?

  You went to Rick's?

• 19:39Speaker 03

  Yeah, I went to Rick's place.

• 19:42Speaker 01

  Sounds like a tire shop.

• 19:44Speaker 03

  Rick.

• 19:44Speaker 01

  Rick's University in oil chains.

• 19:46Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 19:47H. Foley?

  I got my bachelor's in science, and I got it at Rick's.

• 19:53H. Foley?

  Kim, let's talk about Square.

• 19:55Speaker 01

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• 19:56H. Foley?

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• 20:13Speaker 01

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• 20:56Speaker 01

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• 21:31H. Foley?

  Kim, let's talk about Wayfair.

• 21:33Speaker 01

  Wayfair.

• 21:34H. Foley?

  You believe that? We got Wayfair. Everybody loves Wayfair.

• 21:37Speaker 01

  Who don't love Wayfair?

• 21:37H. Foley?

  Quality, good prices, delivered, good stuff. I'm in the market for some stuff. Getting a new place coming up here. I'm gonna be going to Wayfair, get my couch, get my cabinets, get my whole place all situated and set, situated with Wayfair.

• 21:52Speaker 01

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• 22:17H. Foley?

  Sure.

• 22:17Speaker 01

  They got it all. With over 20 million 5-star reviews, you're not buying blind. You can see what real customers think in real homes with real feedback before anything hits your cart. Um, and if you're ready to upgrade your home or your space for way less, head to wayfair.com right now to shop all things home and get your space ready for less. That's Wayfair, W-A-Y-F-A-I-R.com. Do it.

• 22:44H. Foley?

  Are you kidding me?

• 22:45Speaker 01

  That's good.

• 22:45H. Foley?

  Did you go to football games and stuff like that? Were you, were you big into that?

• 22:48Speaker 03

  I wasn't huge into that. I would go, I would go.

• 22:51H. Foley?

  Who was the quarterback back then in the 90s?

• 22:53Speaker 03

  Oh, boy.

• 22:53H. Foley?

  Somebody huge.

• 22:54Speaker 01

  I have a feeling you're asking the wrong guy.

• 22:56Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean.

• 22:56H. Foley?

  But it was somebody big.

• 22:57Speaker 03

  Well, Steve Young came from there, but that wasn't my time.

• 23:00H. Foley?

  Now, he would have been.

• 23:01Speaker 03

  Uh, I don't remember. Yeah, yeah, I can't recall to be honest. Um, but it was fun though.

• 23:08Speaker 01

  Speaking of that, who is, it could have been a local celebrity, or who was as a kid, the, you know, the most famous person, or the first famous person you met? Was there anybody, it could have been like a radio DJ?

• 23:21Speaker 03

  When I was like 14, I, I did a lot of stuff when I was 14, it turns out, but, um,

• 23:27Speaker 01

  That's a big year for me.

• 23:28Speaker 03

  I wanted to be a humor columnist. That was like my aspiration in life.

• 23:33H. Foley?

  Yeah, I got it.

• 23:34Speaker 03

  There was a guy named Dave Barry. You know who Dave Barry is?

• 23:37Speaker 01

  No.

• 23:37Speaker 03

  Um, he's written a lot of movies and, uh.

• 23:41H. Foley?

  Give him a Google.

• 23:42Speaker 03

  Yeah, and he had a humor column that would syndicate it all over the country. He's from Miami. But, and, uh, he's a very funny guy and I would just read that. The whole column was just purposed to be funny and we didn't have a school newspaper. So I called the county newspaper when I was 14 and said, can I have a column? And they said, sure. So I really called. I'm getting to the celebrity. And then the, uh, NBC affiliate said, we hear you're interested in journalism. Do you want to like learn how to shoot sports? We need a guy to shoot sports. And you can drive when you're 14 in Idaho.

• 24:16Speaker 01

  Really?

• 24:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, because of, yeah, and now still because of all of these, um, farm kids. They have to be able to drive this farm equipment. So you get your driver's license when you're 14 where I grew up.

• 24:27H. Foley?

  That's crazy.

• 24:28Speaker 01

  That's gotta be the only state doing that.

• 24:30Speaker 03

  I don't know. I don't know, but, uh, I think now it's just daytime, like you can't drive at night or something like that. But, um, anyway, so I took this little gig and I learned how to shoot sports and I met all of the newscasters that I would grow up watching. And the sports guy was like a funny guy. And so I would sometimes write jokes. He taught me how to edit on old reel to reel and I would do that every Friday night. I would go shoot a game somewhere, drive to the station, and then we would edit. And I would, and these guys were celebrities to me.

• 25:05Speaker 01

  Yeah, of course.

• 25:06Speaker 03

  You know, so I was around them and it was like, this is cool. I love the vibe of the newsroom. And I just love, every once in a while, they would mention my name on air and I'd be like.

• 25:14H. Foley?

  That's awesome.

• 25:15Speaker 01

  That's amazing, dude.

• 25:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 25:16Speaker 01

  What were their names?

• 25:18Speaker 03

  There was, um, oh gosh, it's been such a long time. Um, what was, there was, uh, Carol Honus and, um, Jay Hildebrand were the two big anchors.

• 25:30Speaker 01

  That's for Jay Hildebrand.

• 25:31Speaker 03

  And.

• 25:31H. Foley?

  Carol Honus and Jay Hildebrand.

• 25:33Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 25:34Speaker 01

  Don't forget Ryan.

• 25:36Speaker 03

  This was Channel 8 at that time, which was the NBC and the, the sports guy was, uh, what was his name? These guys would come and go. Carol and Jay were the only ones who stayed there in these small markets. These guys just come and go, come and go, come and go.

• 25:48H. Foley?

  Those small market, uh, news anchors are huge celebrities in the town. They make a lot of cash too. They do all right, especially back in the 90s. Those guys are probably clearing a lot of money.

• 25:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 25:59H. Foley?

  A lot of cash.

• 26:00Speaker 03

  That's the first thing I said to them.

• 26:02Speaker 01

  You guys probably got a lot of cash on you. Got a bar on or buck?

• 26:08H. Foley?

  Thinking about going to Rick's.

• 26:12Speaker 01

  How old were you when you got your passport?

• 26:15Speaker 03

  Hmm, uh, I think I must have been like 18 or 19 because, uh, I was a missionary for two years.

• 26:24Speaker 01

  Really?

• 26:25Speaker 03

  For the Mormon church. And I think they must require, I didn't go to a foreign place, but I think they require you to get your passport maybe. I'm just trying to think of the first reason why. But that was probably it.

• 26:34Speaker 01

  Wow. Did you grow up in the Mormon church?

• 26:36Speaker 03

  I grew up, yeah, kind of going when I was young and, uh, and my mom's family goes way, way back in the, in the church. So I, I kind of, we went when I was really young and then I kind of go, went, started going in like high school and stuff like that. And then I went to Brigham Young University and then I thought, I'm gonna go be a missionary. So I did that. I went to college for one year and then I was missionary for a couple of years.

• 27:01H. Foley?

  But she didn't graduate college.

• 27:02Speaker 03

  I, and then I came back and graduated.

• 27:04H. Foley?

  Got you.

• 27:04Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. Which was kind of the standard thing. That was the standard.

• 27:07H. Foley?

  Got you.

• 27:08Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 27:09H. Foley?

  So where'd you go be a missionary?

• 27:10Speaker 03

  Uh, North Carolina.

• 27:12H. Foley?

  Okay.

• 27:12Speaker 03

  The, the western part. I was in Charlotte and up in the mountains and, uh, all over the place.

• 27:18H. Foley?

  Wow.

• 27:18Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 27:19H. Foley?

  That's crazy.

• 27:20Speaker 01

  Crazy.

• 27:21Speaker 03

  I did that for two years. I mean, sometimes I can't believe it, but yeah, yeah.

• 27:25H. Foley?

  So you go around trying to convert people?

• 27:27Speaker 03

  Yeah, we would go around and, you know, knock on doors and, uh, but that was like the last thing we did. People think that we did that all day long, but really we would try to get referrals. At that time, there was, you know, I don't.

• 27:39Speaker 01

  Get some leads.

• 27:39Speaker 03

  Yeah, there was a lot of commercials that they would run. I don't know if you remember that, but they would run. And people would call and go, we want, we want to talk to somebody. And so we would follow up on those. Yeah. And, and we would do a lot of like community service. It was really pretty, you know, it's, it's, it's an intense experience.

• 27:59H. Foley?

  Where would you live?

• 28:00Speaker 03

  They had housing that was set up in different places. So it was taken care of. I mean, we, we would pay like a monthly, I don't know, thing. And then everything was kind of taken care of. They had cars set up for us or, you know, we had our own bike often. But they would have, uh, apartments and we would move around to different apartments every few months. Um, it's very, very well organized to be honest. It's like kind of a program all over the world and, um, Yeah, it was one of the hard, like, it was pretty difficult. And I felt like I needed to do it, but I wasn't real. I don't know, it was hard, but I eventually, you know, you don't communicate with your family, you don't date, you don't watch television, you don't like, listen to popular music,

• 28:44Speaker 03

  you have a very regimented sleep and work schedule. You're up every day, you study for like two or three hours a day.

• 28:50Speaker 01

  We should get you on a mission, big dog.

• 28:51H. Foley?

  No chicks, no TV, what are you, crazy?

• 28:53Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, it was something else.

• 28:55H. Foley?

  You weren't allowed to talk to your parents?

• 28:57Speaker 03

  We would, now, I think they talk, like, you can talk once a week on phone or FaceTime, but when I did it, the rules were different. You would write letters is all you'd, and then you could call on Christmas and Mother's Day.

• 29:11H. Foley?

  Jesus.

• 29:12Speaker 03

  So, for two years, I basically just wrote letters to people.

• 29:16Speaker 01

  Was this mid 90s?

• 29:18Speaker 03

  This was, uh, yeah, I guess, late 90s.

• 29:22Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 29:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 29:24H. Foley?

  I was getting fucked up at Widener.

• 29:26Speaker 01

  Just dropping out of college, you were. Oh, wow.

• 29:30Speaker 03

  So, yeah, I mean, I don't, yeah, now my life's a little different, but that was what I was doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 29:36Speaker 01

  Now I call anybody whenever I want.

• 29:39H. Foley?

  Christmas and New Year, I call my mom.

• 29:41Speaker 01

  Okay, uh, so when'd you move to New, when'd you move to New York?

• 29:46Speaker 03

  I moved, let's see, like, 2008?

• 29:50Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 29:50Speaker 03

  It'll been a while, yeah.

• 29:51H. Foley?

  From?

• 29:52Speaker 03

  From Utah. I stuck around in Utah after college and...

• 29:58H. Foley?

  Did you stand up out there?

• 29:59Speaker 03

  I started out there, yeah.

• 30:00H. Foley?

  What year'd you start?

• 30:01Speaker 03

  I did it like, three times when I was 18 in Idaho, that I don't really count, at that, at Rick's College. I had a little radio show. I was studying broadcast journalism, and for the radio show, I produced some stand, we, a few of us produced some stand-up comedy shows. That was the first time I did it, but then I didn't touch it again for like, six years.

• 30:21Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 30:22Speaker 03

  Um, and then I started doing it, uh, right after college, a little bit, locally, and then, yeah, that's where I started. And then I eventually moved to New York. I mean, I was doing it full-time before I moved to New York.

• 30:33Speaker 01

  You were?

• 30:34Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 30:34Speaker 01

  What was the first, you know, uh, when, I mean, if you're doing it full-time, you're obviously earning a living, but what was the first, like, kind of big windfall? Like, big check?

• 30:43H. Foley?

  Big check.

• 30:43Speaker 01

  It was like, a few thousand dollars, like?

• 30:44Speaker 03

  Money?

• 30:45Speaker 01

  And what'd you do with it? You probably put it right away in fucking four.

• 30:48H. Foley?

  Money? Yeah, money. Talking cash.

• 30:51Speaker 03

  First time I made real money? I don't, I mean, I would get these corporate events every once in a while. It must have been one of those, that, where I went, wow. I don't really remember, I remember the first time is I got paid, but it wasn't real money. It was like, um...

• 31:07Speaker 01

  Those corporates pay alright.

• 31:08Speaker 03

  I mean, I did, uh, li, the first kind of big things that I really remember being big were like, um, I did Live at Gotham for Comedy Central before I lived in New York.

• 31:21H. Foley?

  That's where it was big.

• 31:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, and that was kind of the launching pad for me.

• 31:25H. Foley?

  We did it on Access TV.

• 31:26Speaker 01

  Yeah, we did it, it had already gotten to, channel 837, I'm, I'll have you.

• 31:31H. Foley?

  400 bucks and some penny and a vodka downstairs. Shout out to Mr. Mizili.

• 31:36Speaker 01

  Runs a tight operation over there. Hit me up.

• 31:39Speaker 03

  Yeah, I actually did it with, uh, it was also Amy Schumer's first.

• 31:43Speaker 01

  Really?

• 31:44Speaker 03

  Television spot.

• 31:45H. Foley?

  Hmm.

• 31:45Speaker 03

  And, um, I was first, I'd never even been to New York in my life, and, uh...

• 31:51Speaker 01

  Might as well be another planet to what you're used to.

• 31:53Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, it was crazy.

• 31:54Speaker 01

  That's crazy.

• 31:55H. Foley?

  He's got two potatoes in his hand.

• 31:56Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 31:58Speaker 01

  Where'd I put these?

• 32:02Speaker 03

  I've brought gifts.

• 32:04Speaker 01

  Can I talk to your elders?

• 32:09Speaker 03

  Um, but I got offstage and I happened to have a good set somehow, and I was first, and Amy came up to me and goes, "Hey, I, I'm Amy, and, uh, you're gonna move here and we're gonna get an apartment together."

• 32:21Speaker 01

  What?

• 32:21Speaker 03

  That was the first thing she said to me.

• 32:23Speaker 01

  Was this a movie?

• 32:23Speaker 03

  Yeah, she was like, "You're gonna move here, and we're gonna get a place." And I, and I remember going, like, "What neighborhood?" Cause I didn't understand how New York worked, and she's like...

• 32:33Speaker 01

  I'm not living below 14th Street.

• 32:35Speaker 03

  She's like, "It doesn't matter."

• 32:37H. Foley?

  Gets real bougie, real...

• 32:39Speaker 01

  It's gotta be the upper... It's gotta be close to the Zenka store.

• 32:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 32:43Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 32:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, anyway, that was the first kind of big thing that I remember, but cash-wise, I don't know, I was always scraping by, and those corporates would kind of save my, save me once in a while, yeah.

• 32:54Speaker 01

  Corporate money, nice.

• 32:56H. Foley?

  How was, how was Ryan Hamilton with money? I would have to assume pretty good. You're a saver?

• 33:00Speaker 03

  I try to be, I mean, I, I, I try to be smart, I make mistakes here and there, I like real estate, and I've made some...

• 33:08H. Foley?

  Wait, what?

• 33:09Speaker 01

  This guy's, this guy screwed in.

• 33:13H. Foley?

  What do you mean you like real estate?

• 33:15Speaker 03

  I'm just, I'm just interested in it. I, like, even from a young age, like, just where I grew up, we were always thinking about land and, and interested in land because of where we lived and just the way the culture was. You, it's all around agriculture, and it's beautiful, and we had some old, old family land and, you know, that had been in my mom's family for a long time, so it just stuck in my head, I was always interested in that. We were always kind of driving around going, "Who owns that? What is that? That's up for sale." And so, I'm always thinking about that. So, I've made some purchases, and sometimes I win, sometimes I don't.

• 33:46H. Foley?

  So, you own some real estate?

• 33:47Speaker 03

  I own a little bit, I mean, I own, uh, yeah.

• 33:49Speaker 01

  In New York or outside of New York?

• 33:51Speaker 03

  Both, a little bit.

• 33:52H. Foley?

  Now, when you say purchases, you mean like, buying land or buying home? Like, buying...

• 33:56Speaker 03

  I have some land in Idaho that I own jointly, uh, with some other families. And, and then, um, and then, you know, I own an apartment in New York.

• 34:06Speaker 01

  You own an apartment in New York.

• 34:07H. Foley?

  That you live in?

• 34:08Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, but, I'm always thinking about that, and, and, uh, I've always, you know, and I'm trying to move into a different apartment, it's a whole situation.

• 34:17H. Foley?

  What were some of the bad, bad moves that you made, as far as?

• 34:21Speaker 03

  Um, well, I don't know, I bought this apart, it's a long story, but I bought, I'm actually trying to get into another apartment, and I don't know if it was the right situation that I bought, so I'm kind of in the middle of it right now, I'm trying to, and I renovated this other apartment that I'm in.

• 34:36Speaker 01

  Did you? You're making moves, Hamilton.

• 34:38Speaker 03

  I'm trying to, I like, I like, I like that way, I like it, it's a good way to invest, I feel like, because I enjoy it.

• 34:45Speaker 01

  Uh-huh.

• 34:46Speaker 03

  And I also feel like, um, I put a lot into it, you know what I mean? So...

• 34:50Speaker 01

  You feel fulfilled, you're accomplishing stuff.

• 34:53Speaker 03

  Yes, yes, and I don't know if New York is a great investment in real estate anymore these days, but that's where some of my money is, and, and, um, I just wanted to have something in Idaho, it just made me feel...

• 35:03Speaker 01

  Connected.

• 35:04Speaker 03

  Connected, and like, uh, I can go back there at some point, you know?

• 35:07H. Foley?

  Did you go back there and build a house if you want?

• 35:10Speaker 03

  Uh, I could, actually, yeah, my, my mom and sister are now building a house, it's a long story, but I own some land with my mom, and I sold my half to my sister, and now they're building a house on it, and I own another piece of property jointly with my sister. Yeah, yeah.

• 35:25Speaker 01

  That's good stuff. They gotta get you hanging out with Hamilton, this guy's moving...

• 35:30Speaker 03

  None of these are, none of these are huge investments, you know what I mean?

• 35:32Speaker 01

  It's land in Idaho, I didn't, I didn't think it was the Taj Mahal, I got you, yeah, that's a, I understand.

• 35:38H. Foley?

  I slept at a hotel last night. I live in New York.

• 35:41Speaker 01

  In the city he lives in. Wow. That's a real estate.

• 35:45Speaker 03

  That's a one-night real estate purchase.

• 35:47Speaker 01

  That is.

• 35:48Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 35:48H. Foley?

  Oh, staycation.

• 35:52Speaker 01

  Oh, uh, okay, do you have a car at the moment?

• 35:54H. Foley?

  Yeah.

• 35:55Speaker 03

  No, I had a car, I sold it last summer.

• 35:57Speaker 01

  What'd you have?

• 35:58Speaker 03

  I had an old Subaru Outback that I bought during the pandemic.

• 36:02Speaker 01

  Reliable.

• 36:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, I love Subarus, I love Subarus, and, uh, I was back in Idaho, and I needed a car because I was back in Idaho for a lot of the pandemic, and so, when I came back to New York, I thought, "I'm just gonna keep it," cause I love going upstate once in a while to look at land and stuff.

• 36:18Speaker 01

  Go kick the tires off some land.

• 36:20Speaker 03

  And so, I thought, "I just, I'll just keep it," and then it became such a burden that I was like, "I gotta get rid of this," so, yeah, yeah.

• 36:25Speaker 01

  Very good.

• 36:26Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 36:26Speaker 01

  Huh.

• 36:27H. Foley?

  Kim, let's talk about Chime.

• 36:28Speaker 01

  Chime!

• 36:30H. Foley?

  As you know, baby, life comes at you pretty quick.

• 36:32Speaker 01

  You ain't lying, big man.

• 36:33H. Foley?

  Things start adding up.

• 36:34Speaker 01

  Uh-huh.

• 36:34H. Foley?

  You know what I'm saying? I wish I could go back and tell my younger self, "If you're gonna 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."

• 36:49Speaker 01

  I know. Listen, if, if you're out there, this is where Chime comes in, Chime is changing the way people bank. It's hard, and, listen, it's hard enough to keep a buck as it is, then you got these big corporate banks coming after you.

• 37:02H. Foley?

  Overdraft fees.

• 37:03Speaker 01

  Overdraft fee, uh, monthly statement, not it, oh, oh, five, five dollars for this, ten dollars for that, they got their hand in your pocket. Not with Chime. Chime offers the most rewarding fee-free banking, all with no overdraft fees, no monthly fees, no minimum balances. You get 5% cash back on the Chime card in a category of your choice, like gas or groceries, all while building credit through regular, everyday spending. And if you're ever in a pinch, SpotMe lets you overdraft up to $200 fee-free. Look at that, I know, I need that, dog. Uh, right now, you can join the millions that are already banking fee-free with America's number one choice for banking, head to chime.com/garbage, that's chime.com/garbage. Sign up now, it only takes a few minutes.

• 37:44H. Foley?

  Do it.

• 38:13Speaker 04

  Is this possible?

• 38:24Speaker 04

  Now streaming only on Disney Plus.

• 38:27Speaker 01

  What, uh, what kind of plastic you got? You got an Amex?

• 38:30H. Foley?

  What are you throwing her in?

• 38:31Speaker 03

  I have, yeah, I just have a standard, uh, I don't even know which one it is. I, I'm not good at the credit card game. Like, I have a card that I probably should upgrade and get more points for. I have so many Delta points.

• 38:42Speaker 01

  You're a Delta guy?

• 38:43Speaker 03

  I'm a Delta guy generally, but lately I've just, ever since the points, I used to be like all about it. But now, ever since it became about how much you spend rather than how much you travel, I just kind of like done with that. So.

• 38:57Speaker 01

  What are you, Diamond? What are you?

• 38:58Speaker 03

  Uh, I'm not Diamond currently. I was Diamond for years, but I am a million miler. Life, yeah. I'm creeping up on two, actually.

• 39:08H. Foley?

  Two million miles?

• 39:09Speaker 03

  I think I'm at 1.7.

• 39:13Speaker 01

  Are you the, what is it, what is it? You board first as a million, are you in that like invited program?

• 39:18Speaker 03

  No, not, no, I mean, it doesn't mean, I think I have lifetime. Silver or lifetime gold is what you get, but I, you know, I'm already plat, I'm usually platinum now. So I'm platinum and I'm board zone three or four.

• 39:32H. Foley?

  You bring food on the plane?

• 39:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, I'll bring something.

• 39:35H. Foley?

  Like what?

• 39:35Speaker 03

  Uh.

• 39:37Speaker 01

  This can go either way. You're not bringing like Shake Shack or anything.

• 39:41Speaker 03

  No, not like that. I'll get, uh, like a protein bar, like a kind bar, or like, um.

• 39:48Speaker 01

  You're not bringing hot food on the plane.

• 39:50Speaker 03

  Occasionally I'll bring something, like a, like a roll, you know what I mean? If I'm really scrambling.

• 39:56H. Foley?

  A roll?

• 39:57Speaker 03

  Like, well, like a wrap. Sorry, a wrap.

• 39:59Speaker 01

  Okay, that's okay.

• 40:01Speaker 03

  Uh.

• 40:02H. Foley?

  Yeah, you're right there.

• 40:03Speaker 01

  You're on the fence.

• 40:03H. Foley?

  What kind of wrap?

• 40:04Speaker 03

  I don't even know, I don't know what we're judging here. Like, is that, is that trash to bring food on the plane?

• 40:11H. Foley?

  You're creeping.

• 40:12Speaker 03

  Is it? Really?

• 40:13Speaker 01

  Depends what it is.

• 40:13H. Foley?

  Like a tuna hoagie would be, you know.

• 40:15Speaker 03

  Interesting.

• 40:16H. Foley?

  Bad news.

• 40:17Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 40:17H. Foley?

  You take your shoes off on the plane?

• 40:19Speaker 03

  Hmm, only on really long flights.

• 40:22H. Foley?

  Okay.

• 40:23Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 40:23H. Foley?

  Put the seat back?

• 40:25Speaker 03

  Depends. Long flight, I might. If I'm sleeping, I might.

• 40:29H. Foley?

  You give him a little look back before you do?

• 40:32Speaker 03

  No.

• 40:32H. Foley?

  No?

• 40:33Speaker 03

  I'm kind of of the mind, like, if someone puts their seat back on me, I go, that's your right.

• 40:38Speaker 01

  I'm with you.

• 40:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 40:39Speaker 01

  Yeah, I go, I want to be the change I want to see in the world. I'm gonna eat this.

• 40:43Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 40:44Speaker 01

  If the person behind me's back, I'm going back too, but.

• 40:47Speaker 03

  It doesn't bother me too much either way. The, I mean, it's, it's two inches. It's like, you get, you get nothing and they're, and they're doing nothing to me. You know what I mean? It's nothing.

• 40:57Speaker 01

  It's a sharp guy.

• 40:58H. Foley?

  You cooking at the house? You cook at the apartment?

• 41:00Speaker 03

  I cook a little bit. I'm trying to cook more. I'll do like, um, what am I into lately? I don't know. I've been trying to cook. Every once in a while I'll get a recipe and I'll go, let me try to figure this out. Uh, I've got one of those, um.

• 41:15Speaker 01

  Air fryers.

• 41:15Speaker 03

  No, the, like a crock pot, but not a crock pot. What do you call it? The pot?

• 41:19H. Foley?

  Pressure cooker.

• 41:20Speaker 03

  Instapot. I got an Instapot and I'll do stews or things like that once in a while. Yeah.

• 41:25H. Foley?

  You'll have it for the week?

• 41:26Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 41:27H. Foley?

  You read?

• 41:28Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 41:28H. Foley?

  What are you reading now?

• 41:30Speaker 03

  Right now, I'm reading a book, a nonfiction book called Breathe. It's all about breathing.

• 41:37Speaker 01

  This guy's fucking locked in.

• 41:39H. Foley?

  And that's, hold on, and that's next to the bed? You read it as you go to sleep?

• 41:42Speaker 03

  Sometimes. I like to read fiction before I go to bed. Um, I just recently.

• 41:46H. Foley?

  I wish I had an opinion like that.

• 41:49H. Foley?

  I like to read fi, I'm gonna start saying that. Fuck it. I'm taking that. I like to read fiction before I go to bed.

• 41:54Speaker 01

  You know, me and my friend Ryan Hamilton, we're, we're joint, we own, we own some property jointly. We like to read fiction before we go to bed.

• 42:00H. Foley?

  You go to Southern Iowa?

• 42:02Speaker 03

  That's not my thing. If you read fiction before you go to bed, it helps you sleep because if you read nonfiction, you're computing things and it keeps you alert and you're like try. If you read fiction, your brain just kind of like, oh, this story I'm picking up and you fall asleep. I've been reading The Lord of the Rings kind of right now. I've got that sitting by my bed just to go to sleep too.

• 42:24H. Foley?

  You put a glass of water next to your bed before you go to bed? I picture you kind of guy that does that.

• 42:28Speaker 03

  Uh, sometimes. No, but not generally. I do this thing now where I.

• 42:35H. Foley?

  And you wear.

• 42:36Speaker 03

  I've been working on my sleep and I tape, I'll tape my mouth shut.

• 42:39H. Foley?

  I got you. It's cool?

• 42:40Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. Do you know that?

• 42:41Speaker 01

  I tried it. It freaks me out.

• 42:43Speaker 03

  Oh, it's a little scary, but I feel like it helps me.

• 42:46Speaker 01

  Is you, are you a mouth breather by nature?

• 42:49Speaker 03

  I've been trying to fix that. That's what this whole book is about, actually. I mean, I was working on it before this, but yeah.

• 42:54H. Foley?

  I got a CPAP.

• 42:55Speaker 03

  Do you?

• 42:55H. Foley?

  Mm-hmm.

• 42:56Speaker 03

  You find that helps?

• 42:56H. Foley?

  Oh, yeah.

• 42:57Speaker 03

  Okay, good.

• 42:58H. Foley?

  I was dying in the middle of the night.

• 42:59Speaker 03

  Yeah, that's what happens.

• 43:01Speaker 01

  That's chapter one of the book, Breathe.

• 43:04H. Foley?

  Do you go, do you wear pajamas to bed?

• 43:06Speaker 03

  No.

• 43:07H. Foley?

  I pictured you as a full pajama guy.

• 43:09Speaker 03

  I, I've never, I've thought about it. Sometimes I peruse online and go, I should buy some pajamas, but I never.

• 43:15H. Foley?

  You look sharp in a pajamas. With the slippers and the robe and all that stuff?

• 43:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, you're a sharp guy. Um, back to, back to travel real quick. I forgot. We had talked about it at the cellar one night. This, your, your bag that you have. I think it's a backpack. You got Jerry on.

• 43:28Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, yeah. It's, it's in the, yeah, I have it here.

• 43:30Speaker 01

  What is the brand?

• 43:31Speaker 03

  Pioneer Carry. It's awesome. It's really, it's a little brand, this guy. I actually kind of connected with the owner a little bit and we went back and forth. This guy is, he's like, uh, great. I just love good design. And this guy really is very thoughtful about bags. And I looked a long time and I had this bag and I was on the plane with Jerry. And he goes, and Jerry's, you know, he's, he notices everything.

• 43:58Speaker 01

  We love Jerry.

• 43:59Speaker 03

  And, um.

• 44:01Speaker 01

  Big Jerry guys.

• 44:02Speaker 03

  Nobody's ever noticed this bag. And I'm very, like, put a lot of thought into finding this bag. And it's just sitting there and Jerry goes, what's this, what's, tell me about this bag. And I go, yeah, he knows.

• 44:14Speaker 01

  Guy's got a good eye for design.

• 44:15Speaker 03

  And, and he starts kind of looking at it and he goes, he looks at me in the eye and he goes, now you got me excited.

• 44:23Speaker 01

  Imagine you get Jerry excited.

• 44:26Speaker 03

  So he kind of went down the rabbit hole of finding the right backpack and he'd had the same backpack for like 20 years. And, um.

• 44:34Speaker 01

  Cause I, I haven't.

• 44:35H. Foley?

  He bought one of these?

• 44:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, he bought one. He bought a different one, but he was, he was going back and forth. We were texting which model. That's the one I carry.

• 44:43Speaker 01

  That's a nice bag.

• 44:44Speaker 03

  He has the bigger one. And, uh.

• 44:48H. Foley?

  They're not that expensive.

• 44:49Speaker 01

  I know, they're not that expensive.

• 44:51Speaker 03

  They're not crazy, but sometimes it's not about, it's about the thoughtful design. But this, the fabric that this guy has designed is amazing. The, uh, uh, what do you call it? The, uh, ballistic nylon?

• 45:03H. Foley?

  Ballistic nylon?

• 45:04Speaker 01

  That's for a couple operators. We're out there on the road.

• 45:07H. Foley?

  Is it bulletproof?

• 45:09Speaker 03

  It feels bulletproof. This guy's designed, it's like, it's like very hardy, sturdy, but it looks slick and professional. You can take it to work, but you could also take it on a hike or what. I mean, it's like a really, the fat, the material he's.

• 45:22Speaker 01

  I might, I gotta get eyes on that.

• 45:24Speaker 03

  Yes, the Mantraan 840 ballistic nylon.

• 45:26Speaker 01

  Twist yarn ballistic nylon?

• 45:28H. Foley?

  Ballistic nylon.

• 45:29Speaker 01

  What the heck? That's good stuff.

• 45:32H. Foley?

  You look good on your way to happy hour or shooting bad guys.

• 45:37Speaker 01

  Or doing extraction point in a rush.

• 45:39Speaker 03

  Jerry actually posted this on Instagram after he found the one. And he was like, he's like, let's get breakfast. And he, he goes, this is the one. And he posted.

• 45:48H. Foley?

  No kidding?

• 45:48Speaker 03

  My new Pioneer Carry. He said something like.

• 45:51H. Foley?

  Guy must have been freaking out. The guy that owns the company.

• 45:53Speaker 03

  Yeah, they sold out. He put, thanks, thanks, uh, my new Pioneer Carry bag. Thanks for Ryan Hamilton for showing me the way. And they were sold out for like a month or something.

• 46:02H. Foley?

  Wow, that's awesome.

• 46:03Speaker 01

  That's the Jerry bump right there. Wow. Cause I, you know, you travel, we travel so much and the back, like, we were talking about it this weekend. It was like, you need something that is, you know, that you can operate in different, you know, it can't be too big. It can't be too small. It's gotta fit here. It's gotta fit there.

• 46:19Speaker 03

  One of the things that's amazing about these bags is it stands upright. It's designed so that it stands upright by itself, which is, you don't realize you want until you have it. And you just set your bag down there and it's just sitting there kind of looking at you. You're like, it's my companion now. You know, it's everywhere I go, I've got this thing.

• 46:38Speaker 01

  Very nice.

• 46:39H. Foley?

  Sharp guy. Meticulous, sharp. Uh, will you brush your teeth in the shower, Ryan?

• 46:44Speaker 03

  No, not in the shower.

• 46:46H. Foley?

  Will you pee in there? You pee in the shower?

• 46:48Speaker 03

  No, no.

• 46:48H. Foley?

  Really?

• 46:49Speaker 03

  No.

• 46:50H. Foley?

  Wow.

• 46:50Speaker 03

  Is that surprising?

• 46:51Speaker 01

  That's the mark of, yeah, no one's watching.

• 46:53H. Foley?

  You might be the first person ever, I think, in the history of the show.

• 46:56Speaker 03

  I mean, I think maybe I have a couple of times in my life.

• 47:00Speaker 01

  In your life, yeah.

• 47:01Speaker 03

  But it's not, you know, if I'm.

• 47:03Speaker 01

  Those were dark days.

• 47:04Speaker 03

  Yeah, dark days. Something bad's going on.

• 47:06H. Foley?

  You floss every day?

• 47:07Speaker 03

  Yes, floss every day. Yeah.

• 47:10Speaker 01

  What's the, what's the nighttime routine? You gotta have something.

• 47:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, flossing is huge. I floss twice a day. Uh.

• 47:17H. Foley?

  Me too, believe it or not.

• 47:18Speaker 03

  Yeah, but the whole, really? I mean, flossing is, you know, they say it's got all sorts of benefits. People who floss prevent Alzheimer's. It's stuff like that.

• 47:26H. Foley?

  No shit?

• 47:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 47:27H. Foley?

  All right, got that going for me.

• 47:29Speaker 01

  You should start flossing more. It's, it's knocking on the door.

• 47:31H. Foley?

  I floss every single day, twice a day. It's the only thing that I do religiously. I don't know why.

• 47:36Speaker 03

  It's a hard thing to do, but once you get in the habit, it's, you know, it's, it's, we should all be great.

• 47:41H. Foley?

  I have to do it.

• 47:42Speaker 03

  It should not be missed.

• 47:43H. Foley?

  I have to do it because of the feel. I have to, I have to, the way it makes, makes my teeth feel.

• 47:48Speaker 03

  Wow.

• 47:48H. Foley?

  Like cleaned out.

• 47:49Speaker 03

  Right, yeah, it feels great. Yeah.

• 47:51Speaker 01

  Do you do the sticks or the actual floss?

• 47:53Speaker 03

  I do the actual floss.

• 47:55H. Foley?

  Old school.

• 47:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, I like it. You just pull the string out.

• 47:58Speaker 01

  You got a brand, you got a brand that you like, obviously.

• 48:01Speaker 03

  Uh, I'm looking for a new brand, to be honest.

• 48:03H. Foley?

  Try Glide. Glide's good.

• 48:04Speaker 03

  Yeah, I am. I'm on Glide right now. Yeah, Glide's good.

• 48:07Speaker 01

  Can I recommend the ballistic nylon? It'll, it'll clean you right up.

• 48:13H. Foley?

  Just reuse it.

• 48:14Speaker 01

  His teeth are smoking.

• 48:18Speaker 03

  I forget the question I was answering. Oh, my nighttime routine.

• 48:23H. Foley?

  Yes.

• 48:24Speaker 03

  Yeah, so I floss, I have, you know, cleansing, very, pretty basic skin management thing. I do, I try to, that's about it, really.

• 48:38H. Foley?

  And, and- Under eye cream, anything?

• 48:40Speaker 03

  I used to do under eye cream. I've abandoned under eye cream.

• 48:43H. Foley?

  Okay.

• 48:44Speaker 03

  I don't know. I asked some people and they were like, "It's the same stuff." But sometimes I feel like it's good. What else do I do at night? I mean, I try to just cool down, get in bed and read.

• 48:58Speaker 01

  You do no phone in the bed, I presume?

• 49:00Speaker 03

  I wish that I did. I mean, I go back and forth. It's so hard. I break the habit on the road because it's just sitting right next to you. One thing I do at home is I have these red lights that I turn on at night.

• 49:11H. Foley?

  Nice.

• 49:12Speaker 01

  Very nice.

• 49:12Speaker 03

  And that really helps me. It puts me in a good state. Oh, and here's another thing that I like to do, and I'll do this on the road. I eat a kiwi or two before I go to sleep.

• 49:23Speaker 01

  What's that do?

• 49:24Speaker 03

  A kiwi fruit. I read somewhere that it has something that helps you go to sleep. And I feel like it does, and it also saves me because, you know, that right before bed you get, I get this real hunger thing where I'm like, "I just want to eat something terrible right before bed."

• 49:39Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 49:39Speaker 03

  And the kiwi thing isn't that bad, and it kind of satisfies my sweet tooth and it kind of knocks me out. And there's a lot of great stuff in kiwi. I just, I just wash it, chop it up, skin and all, on the road. I'll just buy-

• 49:53Speaker 01

  Where do you get them on the road? Do you bring them?

• 49:54Speaker 03

  I go right to the grocery store when I go on the road.

• 49:56Speaker 01

  You land, you go to the grocery store?

• 49:57Speaker 03

  Often. If I'm there a couple of days, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I'll pick up some kiwis, a few things. I just like having some stuff at the hotel. It makes me feel like I'm not desperate to eat garbage.

• 50:08Speaker 01

  I get that.

• 50:09Speaker 03

  And some water.

• 50:10Speaker 01

  Do you, uh, do you rent a car when you land in a city?

• 50:13Speaker 03

  Sometimes. It depends. I like having a car. Yeah, yeah.

• 50:20Speaker 03

  This is a really fun show. I don't know if I'm answering entertaining questions-

• 50:23Speaker 01

  No, no, of course.

• 50:24Speaker 03

  But I'm having a ball.

• 50:25Speaker 01

  Of course.

• 50:26Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 50:28H. Foley?

  How often do you wash your hair?

• 50:31Speaker 03

  Like every three or four days.

• 50:32H. Foley?

  Very nice.

• 50:33Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 50:33H. Foley?

  Who cuts the hair?

• 50:35Speaker 03

  I have a lady in midtown, um, yeah, Wolf and Blade. Katie, shout out to Katie at Wolf and Blade. She's kind of, I've been with her for a while and she kind of started her own little thing. And, um, yeah.

• 50:49H. Foley?

  You got a lot of people for stuff.

• 50:51Speaker 03

  You gotta find people, you know?

• 50:52H. Foley?

  You like to stick with them.

• 50:54Speaker 03

  Well, I find that if they know your history, they can help you better. I like it.

• 50:59Speaker 01

  That's some shit Luke would do.

• 51:01Speaker 03

  Yeah?

• 51:02H. Foley?

  Are you a coffee guy or no?

• 51:04Speaker 03

  No, I don't, I, I drank coffee for the first time in my life, like, on the road with Seinfeld, like, a year ago or something.

• 51:11Speaker 01

  I mean, statistically, I mean, it's Mormons aren't allowed.

• 51:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, I never grew up drinking coffee.

• 51:15H. Foley?

  No, no kidding.

• 51:16Speaker 03

  Um, yeah. I now will, uh, I'm into matcha now. I'll drink matcha. I like, uh, caffeine really makes me jittery, but matcha gives me a little energy and evens me out.

• 51:29H. Foley?

  Gotcha.

• 51:30Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 51:30H. Foley?

  A little smoother.

• 51:31Speaker 01

  What's, uh, what's the haircut cost you? I'll set you back.

• 51:34Speaker 03

  Okay, it's, it's also expensive. I mean-

• 51:37Speaker 01

  That's why I asked.

• 51:39H. Foley?

  Oh, no. Wolf and Blade.

• 51:41Speaker 01

  Wolf and Blade has got five stars. I've never seen a place with full five stars.

• 51:44Speaker 03

  I think it's, uh, I think she's got me on a rate that I, because I've been with her for a while, so I think it's more than this now. But I think it's like $125.

• 51:53H. Foley?

  Okay.

• 51:54Speaker 01

  What do you tip on it?

• 51:55H. Foley?

  You jump on it.

• 51:56Speaker 03

  Uh-

• 51:56H. Foley?

  A guy like you.

• 51:58Speaker 03

  I don't know. I usually do whatever the full, like, 25%.

• 52:01Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 52:02Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 52:02Speaker 01

  That's a good, that's a good, that's a good tip on a $125 bill.

• 52:06Speaker 03

  She's great. She fits me in when I need to. Like, she just did, uh, I just did The Tonight Show and she's right across the street from 30 Rock. She fixed me all up, no charge. You know, she's like, that's what happens when you have a person.

• 52:17Speaker 01

  You got guys and girls.

• 52:18H. Foley?

  So that's where you went to do your hair, like, hair and makeup? You went there?

• 52:22Speaker 03

  Well, it was right across the street. My hair always stresses me out for TV. And I just thought, "I'll just go," and she offered it. She says, "I'm right across the street. Sometimes I do this for people who've got stuff going on at 30 Rock. Just come by, I'll fit you in for 15 minutes, clean you up. Not a full cut, just a little cleanup."

• 52:39H. Foley?

  I gotta start hanging with Hamilton.

• 52:40Speaker 01

  That's what I'm saying, man. Dude, this guy's going, this guy's hitting, uh, getting a custom haircut before 30 Rock, right across the street. Walking in a $5,000, $600 suit or something like that. You got wrinkled green t-shirt. My, my team stinks. That's it. I'm hanging with Hamilton. You're out. It's me, new guy Luke and Hamilton.

• 53:01H. Foley?

  You bite your nails or you trim your nails?

• 53:03Speaker 03

  Uh, never bite them. I never, no, that's not a thing for me. I trim them.

• 53:07Speaker 01

  I just noticed a nice little Rolex on your hand right there.

• 53:10Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 53:11Speaker 01

  What's that? What's the story behind that?

• 53:12Speaker 03

  This is, uh, I just recently, you know, I looked at watches for a long time. I was interested in, it's a thing that I like-

• 53:19Speaker 01

  You do research.

• 53:19Speaker 03

  Think about. I like to find a thing, and if it's something I'm interested in, I will find the one. You know what I mean? I like that. I like buying things for life. If you can find the thing that you want.

• 53:31H. Foley?

  You're not an impulse guy.

• 53:32Speaker 03

  No, I like, if I think about something-

• 53:34H. Foley?

  You're not either, are you? I'm bad. I'm all impulse, baby.

• 53:37Speaker 01

  All impulse.

• 53:37H. Foley?

  Popping, all the time.

• 53:39Speaker 03

  Purchases? You just buy it?

• 53:40H. Foley?

  Everything.

• 53:41Speaker 03

  Everything. I, I get a little impulsive, but I have tried to implement this rule. If there's something I really want, I'll go, "I'm gonna wait 48 hours, 24 hours and see how I feel."

• 53:52H. Foley?

  Wow.

• 53:52Speaker 03

  And if you do that, it changes-

• 53:54Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 53:55Speaker 03

  How you feel about things. So, uh, I, I, you know, I have some buddies who are into watches and it's just a thing where I, I have a very small wrist, so I could never wear a great watch, so I was always on the hunt. Like, what's the watch for me? And this is like one of the cheaper, high-end watches that you could buy, really. And, but it's, it's so perfect and it's just praised as like, it's nothing but a watch and it does it perfectly well. This is the Explorer, this is the new model, and, um, it's a perfect size for me. It does nothing but tell time. And it's just, um, it's, it's not a watch that a watch guy's gonna go, it's not gonna blow anybody's mind. But for me-

• 54:40H. Foley?

  Blow my mind. But it's reliable?

• 54:41Speaker 03

  It, it's totally reliable. It, for me, it's just perfect.

• 54:46Speaker 01

  The right amount of flash?

• 54:47Speaker 03

  To everything. And it doesn't, it's not super, people aren't really noticing it. If they notice it, they-

• 54:54H. Foley?

  Separate dirtbags on a podcast.

• 54:55Speaker 03

  Well, you know-

• 54:55H. Foley?

  What, you got a Rolex over there?

• 54:57Speaker 03

  You might notice it, but if you do, you go, "It's a normal, it's not flashy."

• 55:01Speaker 01

  Middle of the road, good wa, not middle of the road, but you know.

• 55:03Speaker 03

  Wear this with a suit to dinner. You can wear this, uh, it's a sports watch. You can wear it anywhere.

• 55:08Speaker 01

  Back to the suits we talked about at the beginning. How many suits do you think you own?

• 55:12Speaker 03

  I own a lot of suits that I don't wear anymore because my body's changed or I grew out of it. But, you know, I have probably, I have a black suit that I, is in regular rotation. I have, uh, you know, the special jacket now. It's like, once you wear it on the special, it's hard to wear it again, performing, because people, I think in their head, they're like, "This is how I, like, wear something fresh." I have a, I have like a linen suit-

• 55:41H. Foley?

  Wore the same t-shirt this weekend, four shows.

• 55:45Speaker 03

  I have a linen suit that I just wore on The Tonight Show that I really like, that I've been, like, I, for summer, I think is great. And, um, then I have a couple, like, I've got like a navy suit. And I do have like a gray suit. Those are kind of, those are my four, like, suits that I just kind of keep around. But, uh, really, the black one gets a lot of wear. And then my jackets, I have a couple jackets that get a lot of wear.

• 56:10Speaker 01

  You, I mean, I don't know if I might have told you this, uh, he had, he has the story where him and Goldman took List out to buy a suit for whatever List was doing.

• 56:19Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah. Well, we bought shoes. He bought the-

• 56:21Speaker 01

  Oh, he bought this-

• 56:22Speaker 03

  Maybe Gary took him to the suit. I was only involved in shoes. I'm not sure.

• 56:26Speaker 01

  And he got whatever it was, I'm making this, it was like a $1,000 suit and List was gonna wear like $89, like, Payless shoes, and he stepped in and goes, "You can't wear them shoes. You gotta go, you gotta spend $250 on shoes." But then he bought him the shoes.

• 56:39Speaker 03

  Aww. Yeah, yeah. We went to Alan Edmonds, bought him some real nice-

• 56:44H. Foley?

  Alan Edmonds.

• 56:44Speaker 03

  Mid-tier.

• 56:45Speaker 01

  I don't even know what that is.

• 56:46H. Foley?

  He's got great names.

• 56:47Speaker 01

  Dude, that could be a financial advisor or a shoe place. Go down to Alan Edmonds, he'll take care of you.

• 56:52H. Foley?

  Or a local Idaho newscaster. This is Alan Edmonds.

• 56:57Speaker 03

  Uh, we found some shoes. I think shoes are important. I, I've, I made a mistake, I think, in my last special. I wore brand new sneakers that I'd never worn before and I walk weird. I didn't feel, they, they didn't have laces. I couldn't get them tight. They weren't, and I was kind of, my ankle was slipping out and it's, it's in my mind.

• 57:16Speaker 01

  You're thinking about it.

• 57:17Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. Shoes are important. And that leather sole on the stage, on a wooden stage, there's something about that feel. You know what I mean? You nail that leather sole to the stage and you are secure and I love the sound of it, you know? Yeah.

• 57:36H. Foley?

  Sharp.

• 57:36Speaker 01

  Sharp.

• 57:37H. Foley?

  Your place is spotless, I would assume, your apartment.

• 57:39Speaker 03

  Uh, it goes back and forth. My life's been chaos the last month. It's really kind of crazy right now. It's not great, but, uh, I'm also-

• 57:47H. Foley?

  What's chaos for Ryan Hamilton?

• 57:49Speaker 03

  I mean, there's-

• 57:50Speaker 01

  Buttoned up for you.

• 57:51Speaker 03

  There's dishes in the sink right now. There's books laying around. The bathroom needs cleaned. There's piles of laundry that need done. I mean, my life's been chaos for a couple of months. It's a real mess.

• 58:02H. Foley?

  I'll move in, I'll take care of that stuff.

• 58:05Speaker 01

  You got a in-unit washer dryer?

• 58:07Speaker 03

  Uh, in, no, I have a laundry room in the building.

• 58:12H. Foley?

  How do you feel about that? You okay with that?

• 58:14Speaker 03

  I like it. I like it. It's, it's honestly pretty good because, you don't have to service the things. They, they're really nice and I can do like four loads all at once.

• 58:22Speaker 01

  What neighbor, what area are you in?

• 58:24Speaker 03

  Upper West Side.

• 58:25Speaker 01

  I know.

• 58:26Speaker 03

  You did?

• 58:26Speaker 01

  I just, yeah, of course. Where, well, you're not, you're not living downtown. Yeah, you're a Seinfeld guy. You're up there with Jerry.

• 58:33Speaker 03

  I actually live across the street, coincidentally. Well, I never knew that, getting to know him, but I live across the street. Yeah.

• 58:39Speaker 01

  Very nice.

• 58:40Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 58:40Speaker 01

  Classy.

• 58:41H. Foley?

  We always say that, the Upper West Side, Seinfeld's turf.

• 58:44Speaker 03

  Oh, do you?

• 58:45Speaker 01

  Go into Seinfeld's territory. Start knocking on doors.

• 58:50Speaker 01

  I mean, this guy, it's not even up for debate. This guy's all class. You know what I mean?

• 58:54H. Foley?

  100%.

• 58:55Speaker 01

  Yeah, truly.

• 58:57Speaker 03

  But I don't know. I mean-

• 58:58H. Foley?

  What, what's something trashy you do?

• 59:00Speaker 01

  Compared to the animals that have been drug through here, you might as well run for president.

• 59:03H. Foley?

  You said your place is the best. You have dishes in the sink.

• 59:07H. Foley?

  There's a dead squirrel in Kevin's sink.

• 59:10Speaker 01

  What?

• 59:12Speaker 03

  Yeah, I don't know. I feel, yeah, I've always felt like I have my feet in two different worlds. You know what I mean? I come from a very rural, kind of, you know, not a lot of money, like, and I live in New York City and I, you know.

• 59:27H. Foley?

  We found the money doesn't really matter. It's like it's.

• 59:29Speaker 03

  No.

• 59:29Speaker 01

  It doesn't.

• 59:30Speaker 03

  The money doesn't matter.

• 59:31H. Foley?

  Whether you're trashy or not.

• 59:32Speaker 01

  Yeah, you could have, you could have a lot of money and still be trashy. You can, it's like, it takes, you know, it's, it's really where you come from and what's instilled in you and stuff like that.

• 59:41H. Foley?

  When's the last time you bought a lottery ticket, a scratch-off lottery ticket?

• 59:44Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 59:45Speaker 03

  I, when the, uh, I started buying lottery tickets of, like, I don't know, when it gets up to really crazy, just for fun, I'll go buy.

• 59:53Speaker 01

  Like the billion.

• 59:54Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, I probably bought fifteen lottery tickets my whole life.

• 59:59H. Foley?

  Do you gamble?

• 1:00:00Speaker 03

  No, it doesn't do much for me.

• 1:00:02H. Foley?

  You drink?

• 1:00:02Speaker 03

  Uh, no, no, I mean, I drank a few ti- I, I drank for the first time when I was forty-five years old.

• 1:00:10Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 1:00:11Speaker 03

  And, uh.

• 1:00:11Speaker 01

  Why, why at forty-five?

• 1:00:13Speaker 03

  I don't know. I was just on vacation with a friend in Hawaii and we were like, I don't know, we were just, uh, kind of bored and, um.

• 1:00:25Speaker 01

  I get it.

• 1:00:25Speaker 03

  It was like, let's try this. And I was at a point in my life where I thought, it was after my accident, which we haven't really even talked about, but I had an accident and it was kind of significant to me in my life and it shifted my mindset a lot of things where it's like, you only live one time, like, I'm just gonna try things now.

• 1:00:44H. Foley?

  Did you get banged up? Did you get drunk or just have like a couple drinks?

• 1:00:47Speaker 03

  I got really, the drunkest I've ever been.

• 1:00:49Speaker 01

  But you'd only been, that was the first time you've been drunk.

• 1:00:52Speaker 03

  I took a long time though, I think, because I.

• 1:00:54Speaker 01

  To get you there.

• 1:00:55Speaker 03

  Yeah. And then I was pretty drunk and then I, I would, did it kind of as an experiment. I'm like, I, I wanna see, because everybody goes, I wanna see you drunk. Like, you know, everybody who knows me well, like, they're just like, for whatever reason, if you never drank your whole life, people wanna know what you're like as, when you're drunk.

• 1:01:12Speaker 01

  That's gotta be fun at a party.

• 1:01:14Speaker 03

  And so, yeah, so I was trying to maintain in my head, like, what am I like? Because this is a question I always get. And I think that I just got overly helpful. Like, I was like, what are your problems? No, we can solve these right now. Like, we can figure out a solution to this stuff.

• 1:01:32Speaker 01

  That's good. Even, even drunk, even blackout drunk are classy.

• 1:01:37H. Foley?

  He's sitting at a resort in Hawaii doing people's taxes?

• 1:01:40Speaker 03

  Let me help you.

• 1:01:41Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's great.

• 1:01:43Speaker 03

  So, but I didn't, I, I just don't really enjoy it and, um, it's not, I just kind of stopped. It was interesting, but, um, I don't get much out of it.

• 1:01:53H. Foley?

  Where'd you stay in Hawaii? I'm sorry.

• 1:01:55Speaker 03

  I just stayed at, it was a Marriott, uh, beach resort. It was just like a la- um, I've been to Hawaii a bunch of times for work and, um, yeah, it was on, uh.

• 1:02:05H. Foley?

  Oahu?

• 1:02:06Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 1:02:06H. Foley?

  Were you at the, were you at Kaulina, the Marriott Kaulina?

• 1:02:09Speaker 03

  I've been there, but that was not, that was for work. Uh, this was just a place by the airport that was, um, yeah. Wait, what? I get confused on my Hawaii trips now. No, this was actually on, uh, this was on Kauai. I'm sorry. Yeah.

• 1:02:27Speaker 01

  What was the last vacation you took?

• 1:02:28Speaker 03

  I think it was Kauai. Uh, I hardly ever go on vacation. I go home to Idaho a lot. I went home for the Fourth of July, just, yeah, just to hang out with my family. Um, like, but to go on vacation, vacation, I rarely do that.

• 1:02:41H. Foley?

  When you go home, do you stay at the house with your family or do you get a hotel?

• 1:02:44Speaker 03

  I stay at the house. I mean, there's not much hotel happening and, uh, yeah, last time, it was pretty crammed. Right now, we're all kind of in a rental house that was never meant for us to live in as a family. So my mom's got a little apartment. My sister's family's in the rest of the house. I actually slept in my nephew's bunk bed.

• 1:03:02Speaker 01

  Nice. There you go. All right.

• 1:03:06Speaker 01

  Fifty-year-old in a bunk bed, baby.

• 1:03:07Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah. The mattress on the floor.

• 1:03:09Speaker 01

  Can't get that Idaho out of you, man. That's in there.

• 1:03:12H. Foley?

  Wearing a suit?

• 1:03:13Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:03:14Speaker 01

  I was on Netflix, you're yelling down at him.

• 1:03:16Speaker 03

  Sometimes I'll sleep in the camp trailer in the driveway.

• 1:03:19Speaker 01

  Nuh-uh.

• 1:03:20Speaker 03

  Yeah, in the summer. It's too cold in the winter, but I like it. Um.

• 1:03:25Speaker 01

  Trailer in the driveway.

• 1:03:26H. Foley?

  I can see that.

• 1:03:27Speaker 01

  Yeah, I mean.

• 1:03:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:03:28H. Foley?

  I wouldn't say that.

• 1:03:29Speaker 01

  He knows Jerry. I'll tell Jerry that. He'll, he'll, he'll sell your house out for Monday.

• 1:03:35H. Foley?

  Ladies and gentlemen, the special is this just hit me on Netflix. Ryan Hamilton, one of the absolute funniest guys working. Um, buddy, we can't thank you enough for coming in. Hundred percent all class.

• 1:03:45Speaker 03

  Uh, you guys are very.

• 1:03:46H. Foley?

  Like to the bone.

• 1:03:47Speaker 03

  Wow, that's very nice.

• 1:03:48H. Foley?

  Uh, anything yet coming up you want the folks to know?

• 1:03:50Speaker 01

  Plug away.

• 1:03:51Speaker 03

  Uh, just the special really is the main thing. This just hit me. It's out now. If you haven't seen anything from me, I have two specials on Netflix. Happy Face is the other one. Um, we got dates coming up. I'm, I'm announcing a theater, uh, tour.

• 1:04:04H. Foley?

  Let's go.

• 1:04:06Speaker 03

  Later this week, we'll have San Francisco. We got Denver, some of the big ones, you know, uh, lots of stuff. Irvine, California, Des Moines coming up, Omaha, yeah.

• 1:04:16H. Foley?

  This just hit me on Netflix.

• 1:04:18Speaker 01

  Stone cold killer.

• 1:04:19H. Foley?

  Stone cold killer. Do yourself a favor. Check it out. Kippy, what do you got for him?

• 1:04:23Speaker 01

  Uh, guys, we are off the road right now. We just finished in Denver. Uh, new tour coming soon. Uh, we love you. Thanks for, thanks for the support.

• 1:04:30H. Foley?

  Ryan, we love you, buddy. Thanks for sitting with us.

• 1:04:32Speaker 03

  Thanks for having me.

• 1:04:32Speaker 01

  Thanks.

• 1:04:32H. Foley?

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