Are You Garbage? Comedy Podcast

Episode: "After Hours at the Bar! w/ Kevin Ryan & H. Foley"

Date: November 27, 2025
Hosts: Kevin Ryan & H. Foley
Special Guest/Producer: Luke Dempsey

Episode Overview

This "After Hours" episode features hosts Kevin Ryan and H. Foley—a.k.a. Kippy and Foley—riffing in their signature, unfiltered Philly style, with loose contributions from Luke Dempsey. The episode is a classic “no guest, just the homies” format, packed with hilarious stories, irreverent “garbage vs. classy” judgments, and digressions on everything from Philly family life to dirtbag lunch habits, local fashion faux pas, and the art of being a resourceful trash-ball. Fans of the show will recognize the blend of nostalgia, blue-collar sensibility, and proud self-deprecation that defines the Are You Garbage? universe.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Comedy Life, Touring, and Philly Roots

• Tickets and Merch Drops (00:00-02:05): The guys hype their biggest Philly show, new merch (“you got the garbage, you got the trash, the tuddy, the Bug man”), and a slew of tour dates in cities like Austin, Tampa, and more.
• Dented Can Vibes (02:39): Foley reveals a dented can story; Kevin quips, “You have such dented can vibes as a guy. If a guy was a dented can, it’d be you.” (02:49)
• Childhood & Family Updates (05:20):
  • Kevin reflects on now being a homebody and finding joy in family time:
    “I am finding a lot of solace and comfort...I'm more of a homebody now...just being with your family." (05:23-06:12)
  • Family’s attention to recent radio appearances triggers nostalgia for early influences and parental pride/anxiety.
• The Nature of Success (07:23): Humorous take on fame: “Of all the stuff we’ve accomplished, my friends and family came at Pat texted me, ‘what was it like being in the studio?’” (07:23)

2. Working-Class Anecdotes & Relatable Debris

• UPS Jobs and Seasonal Work (11:08): Foley and Kevin reminisce about friends who worked warehouse and seasonal jobs, with a mock-epic about “Flip” and his pride as a UPS runner, making double-digit hourly wages.
• Dirtbag Cars and Road Adventures (10:07):
  • Kevin: “I’ve had dirt bag car after dirt bag car… at one point we owned three 1995 Chevy Luminas.” (10:07)
  • Dreaming about elaborate pranks, car thefts: “We should steal your car… that wouldn’t be a good prank.” (10:34)
• Childhood Wrestling and Weights (12:23): Lukewarm boasting about high school wrestling weights; discussion of creatine and “bulking up the producer” (Luke).

3. Nostalgia for “Trash” Upbringing

• Dollar Stores Are No More (13:51):
  • Lamenting inflation: “Dollar slices ain’t a dollar no more. This country’s going to hell in a basket.” (13:51)
  • “99 cent stores, not a dollar anymore either—all these tariffs, all these sheriffs.” (14:03)
• Family Garage Chaos (22:18):
  • Foley complains about his family’s garage: “You have a garage. You don’t put it in a garage?” “My brother, my cousin Paul and my cousin Tracy, they all got shit in the garage… couches, paintings, all kinds of stuff.” (22:20)

4. Classic Garbage Moves & Listener Questions

• Heating a Brick for a Car Defroster (19:27):
  • “Is it garbage to heat up a brick and use it as your car’s defroster? ...My buddy microwaves a brick and puts a rag on it on the dashboard and drove to work.” (19:27)
  • H. Foley: “That’s like the pizza stone I know… stone fired.” (19:44)
  • PSA: Don’t microwave bricks—"it absorbs moisture and will crack or explode." (23:06)
• Venmoing Strangers for Merch (24:18):
  • “Is it garbage...to Venmo a stranger to buy concert merch so you don’t wait in line?”
  • Foley: “I would never trust that. Would you let somebody...Venmo you?” (24:51)
  • Ryan: “I kind of like the move… a victimless move.” (25:35)
  • “That shit ain’t flying at an Oasis concert, fuck outta here, mate.” (25:55)

5. Bar Culture & VIP After Hours

• The Holy Grail: Bar Owner Access (32:58):
  • “That was when being close to the owner of the bar was cool...He closed the door, bought a round of car bombs...Being selected for after hours was always good. You might as well be famous.” (32:58-33:33)

6. Fashion Disasters and Nostalgia

• The Israeli Paratrooper Messenger Bag Saga (43:03):
  • Kevin calls out Foley’s dubious claim about a messenger bag:
    "You claim you got it at an army navy surplus; I think you got it at Bradley’s or Old Navy. You used to claim it was an Israeli paratrooper bag.” (43:03-43:21)
• Bomber Jackets & Top Gun Fantasies (53:12):
  • Foley: “I wanted Tom Cruise’s jacket from Top Gun so fucking bad. I thought if I had that jacket and a motorcycle, I could fly an F-14.” (53:10)

7. Lunchbox Lore, Milk Stories & Diet Real Talk

• School Lunches & Cold Coke (41:11):
  • “I was never a milk-at-lunch guy… just doing can of coke wrapped in tinfoil. Sometimes warm. Dude, warm coke, you feel your teeth rotting.” (41:11)
• Milk Brand Allegiances & Egg Snobbery (37:00):
  • Foley questions generic milk and brown eggs:
    “Brown eggs, dude. What am I, fucking Amish?” (37:26)
  • Kevin describes his gradual upgrade from cheap milk and eggs to better products, begrudgingly.
• Philadelphia’s Rosenbergers Memories (38:00):
  • “We don’t talk enough about Rosenbergers… they did iced tea, chocolate milk. Their chocolate milk was banging.” (38:02)

8. Classic Trash Kid Behavior

• Flipping Eyelids and Fart Tricks (58:13):
  • “Is it garbage if you used to flip your eyelids as a kid?”
    “I saw a meme the other day… 9 out of 10 kids that flipped their eyelids are in prison.” (58:29-58:36)
  • Kevin recounts a school friend who could fart on demand, to his and his dad’s amazement.

9. Resourcefulness & Overdrafts: Listener Questions

• Buying Show Tickets With a Dollar Store Gift Card (66:42):
  • Listener says they bought tickets using a Visa gift card from Dollar General because their card was overdrafted.
  • Foley: “Tell you what, whoever you come with, you got two T-shirts waiting for you at the show.” (67:04)
  • Ryan: “That is part of being a true dirtbag—just not accepting where you currently are.” (67:26)

Notable Quotes and Moments

• “You have such dented can vibes as a guy. If a guy was a dented can, it’d be you.” — Kevin Ryan (02:49)
• "Of all the stuff we’ve accomplished, my friends and family came at Pat texted me, ‘what was it like being in the studio?’” — Kevin Ryan (07:23)
• “Dollar slices ain’t a dollar no more. This country’s going to hell in a basket.” — H. Foley (13:51)
• “We should steal your car… That wouldn’t be a good prank.” — H. Foley (10:34)
• “Is it garbage to heat up a brick and use it as your car’s defroster?” (19:27)
• “That’s like someone walking up to you at an ATM saying, hey, can you break this 20?” — H. Foley (25:55)
• “That was when being close to the owner of the bar was cool...Being selected for after hours was always good. You might as well be famous.” — H. Foley (32:58)
• “You claim you got it at an army navy surplus; I think you got it at Bradley’s… You used to claim it was an Israeli paratrooper bag.” — Kevin Ryan (43:03)
• “Brown eggs, dude. What am I, fucking Amish?” — H. Foley (37:26)
• “I wanted Tom Cruise’s jacket from Top Gun so fucking bad.” — H. Foley (53:10)
• “That is part of being a true dirtbag—not accepting where you currently are.” — Kevin Ryan (67:26)

Noteworthy Timestamps

• 00:00 – 02:05: Philly show hype, merch, and tour dates
• 02:39 – 03:30: Dented cans, weird can stories, protein shake jokes
• 05:20: Foley and Ryan riff on their evolving family priorities
• 11:08: Warehouse and seasonal job memories
• 13:51: Cost of living and dollar store eulogy
• 22:18: Garage chaos—extended family dumping storage
• 19:27 – 20:08: Microwaving bricks to de-ice the car, safety debate
• 24:18 – 26:43: Venmoing strangers for merch—scam or genius?
• 32:58 – 33:38: Bar owner/VIP after hours nostalgia
• 41:11: Debating cold Coke, lunch methods, school memories
• 43:03 – 43:41: Messenger bag origins debunked
• 53:10: Top Gun jacket obsession, fashion aspirations
• 58:13 – 59:04: Trashy kid tricks: eyelid flipping, farting on demand
• 66:42 – 67:53: Listener uses Dollar General gift card for tickets—a new dirtbag classic

Tone & Atmosphere

Irreverent, self-deprecating, and affectionate toward working-class/“trashy” roots. The hosts mix Philly and Northeast blue-collar wit with a genuine love for nostalgia, bar life, and low-rent resourcefulness. Nothing is too “garbage” for honest reflection—and everything is up for a comedic thrashing.

Remember:
“Flush a wipe. Who cares?” — H. Foley (66:12)

Summary

With no guest and few pretense, Kippy and Foley revel in the rituals and hacks of northeast dirtbag culture—dented cans, egg snobbery, crossing the boundary between thrifty and trash, and enduring family dysfunction with humor and heart. Listener submissions inspire debates on morality, resourcefulness, and pridefully unclassy behavior. Laughs abound over Philly nostalgia, crumbling dollar stores, and the universal struggle to appear cooler (and more solvent) than you actually are.

For New Listeners

If you’ve ever:

• Argued over hygiene at lunch,
• Flipped your eyelids as a child,
• Thought about microwaving a brick,
• Or used a Dollar General Visa card to overcome an overdraft,

...then, as the boys would say:
“You’re garbage. But you’re our kind of garbage.”