Are You Garbage? Comedy Podcast

Episode: AYG Goes Hollywood! w/ Kevin Ryan & H. Foley
Date: October 6, 2025

Episode Overview

In this road episode, hosts H. Foley and Kevin Ryan head to Hollywood, California, joined by comedians Colin Chamberlin and Sam Rubinoff. The gang recounts their week in Los Angeles, from awkward showbiz meetings to classic “Are You Garbage?” antics in their Airbnb and out on the town. With their signature blend of East Coast trashiness and affectionate ribbing, the group tackles everything from Jewish holiday etiquette to the nuance of dive bar cultures and wedding gift economics—all while operating at the chaos level only a house full of comedians can bring.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Hollywood Hijinks: The Comic Road Crew in LA

• Setting the Scene: The guys discuss being on tour (San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Brea) and why they’re extending their stay in Tinseltown ([01:29]).
• Meetings the Garbage Way: Foley recounts his brash approach to Hollywood meetings.
  • Memorable reenactment: Foley interrupts a pitch—“I'll stop you right there. This is what we want.” ([12:32])
  • The team riffs on not being built for LA business, jokes about “seeing the strings at the puppet show” ([13:58]).
• Squad Dynamics: How the comics are faring living together in the Airbnb, noting Kippy’s (Kevin’s) upgraded accommodations versus past “trap house” nightmares ([08:00]-[08:20]).

2. Jewish Holidays & Family Etiquette

• Rubinoff’s Dilemma: Sam explains his Yom Kippur plans, including etiquette around bringing gifts to family when out of town ([04:40]-[05:17]).
  • “If you're coming from your own home, you offer to bring dessert.” – Sam ([04:49])
• Foley and Kevin’s Curiosity: They quiz Sam about not bringing anything, not knowing Yom Kippur dictates, and the meaning of “Kol Nidre” ([03:56]).

3. Bathroom, Bed-Making, and Garbage Habits

• Bathroom Etiquette: Classic AYG moment—debating defiling the more public bathroom in the Airbnb ([09:03]).
• Metamucil & Ozempic: Foley describes his efforts to stay “regular” amidst destabilizing travel diets ([09:54]).
  • “I'm on the zeppelin. I took my fourth shot... I got my probiotics, got my prebiotics…” – Foley ([09:54])
• Bed-Making Confessions: Sam’s revelation on starting to make his bed, sparked by domestic disputes, and diligence even on the road ([10:25]-[10:52]).

4. Garbage Tales from the Dive Bar

• The Frolic Room Saga:
  • The gang sets out for real LA dive bars, finding themselves at the Frolic Room, marveling at the “crunchy” West Coast dirtbag scene.
  • The ritual: getting a table by the wall, checking the perimeter, and assessing if the Frolic Room is a gay bar (“Not that there’s anything wrong with that!”) ([25:04]-[27:58]).
    • “We started looking around, mostly dudes. There was like a rainbow thing ... But I tell you, whether it was or wasn’t, I wasn’t going anywhere. Those beers were unbelievable.” – Kevin ([27:32])
  • Meeting LA characters: Observing barflies, “Terminator 2” jacket guy, and flirtations at the bar ([26:33]-[27:14]).
• Drinking Styles: Debate—should you eat at a bar or keep pounding beers uninterrupted? ([28:35]-[29:52])
  • “When you guys start drinking, you turn the hot water off. I always keep a little bit of hot water running.” – Foley ([28:35])
  • “We were crushing beers. And you're like, 'I'm hungry.'” – Kevin ([29:29])

5. Wedding Season: Cookie Tables & Groomsmen Gripes

• Colin’s Pittsburgh Wedding Duties: Discusses the Pittsburgh tradition of the cookie table at weddings, odd gift dilemmas for groomsmen, and the financial pressures tied to comedy budgets ([42:43]-[47:03]).
  • “Cookie table. Will there be pierogies?” – Foley ([44:14])
  • “I was thinking 300.” – Colin on cash gift ([46:52])
  • “I feel like if you’re in the wedding party, you shouldn’t have to give a gift.” – Sam ([49:52])
• Bachelor Party Logistics: Colin’s stress about tux fittings, hangovers, and coordinating amidst the stand-up schedule ([45:00]).

6. Airbnb Antics & Trash Talk

• Heater Wars: Foley and Kevin argue over cigarette ownership, accuse each other of theft, and track who’s scavenging butts from the fire pit ([50:49]-[51:12]).
  • “We’ve been smoking heaters. If I'm smoking heaters, you're smoking heaters.” – Foley ([51:12])
• Soup-Sharing & Hygiene: Anecdotes about sharing cream soup in Ireland, the limits of bodily generosity, and oral health confessions ([55:40]-[57:13]).
  • “All human beings are gross.” – Colin ([56:05])

7. Hollywood Houseguests

• Flip’s Extended Stay: Their old roommate Flip shows up unexpectedly, overstays his welcome, and seeks poolside summertime sips with possible plus-ones—demonstrating true Garbage hospitality ([60:05]-[63:34]).

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Foley on LA meetings:
  “I'll stop you right there. This is what we want.” ([12:32])
• On staying in the nice Airbnb:
  “It's a long way from the fucking trap house you had us in in Baltimore.” – Foley ([08:12])
• Bar bathroom disaster:
  “You step on that first step, you turn into a fucking ghost hunter. There was something impure in this house.” – Foley ([09:31])
• Dive bar authenticity:
  “We are posted up in a perfect corner of the perfect dive bar with literally the coldest beers.” – Kevin ([29:21])
• AYG definition of hospitality:
  “We’ve been to the puppet show. We've seen the strings.” – Foley ([13:58])
• On wedding cash gift amounts: “I feel like if you’re in the wedding party, you shouldn’t have to give a gift.” – Sam ([49:52])
• Dental honesty:
  “I gotta go to the dentist. I think my one tooth...has a little abscess above it or like some type of infection.” – Foley ([56:53])
• Trashy generosity:
  “We’ve each lent each other money, of course.” – Kevin ([50:34])
• On sharing food:
  “We shared a cream soup with me so bad, you got two pints of Foley in you, baby.” – Foley ([55:42])

Highlighted Segments with Timestamps

| Time | Topic/Quote | |:--------------:|:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 04:40–05:17 | Sam details Yom Kippur dinner etiquette, gift-giving, and familial expectations | | 08:00–08:20 | Kevin and Foley contrast previous “trap house” accommodations with Kippy’s upgraded Airbnb choices | | 09:54 | Foley on his supplement routine to survive LA’s food & booze | | 10:25–10:52 | Sam confesses to new bed-making habits and their girlfriend origins | | 12:32 | Foley’s brash Hollywood meeting entrance—“I'll stop you right there. This is what we want.” | | 25:04–27:58 | The Frolic Room’s unique LA vibe, barflies, and is-it-or-isn’t-it-a-gay-bar debate | | 29:21 | Kevin defends settling in at the perfect dive bar | | 42:43–47:03 | Pittsburgh wedding, the fabled cookie table, and the complex etiquette of groomsmen gifts | | 50:49–51:12 | Foley and Kevin bicker over cigarette ownership (heaters found in the firepit, etc.) | | 56:53 | Foley’s dental self-diagnosis and hygiene confessional | | 60:05–63:34 | Flip’s saga as the uninvited houseguest and the group’s “garbage” hospitality |

Tone & Style

The episode remains an unfiltered, warm, and relentlessly self-deprecating “trash comedy” roundtable. The group’s language is deeply conversational—filled with inside jokes, blunt confessions, and loving roasts. They oscillate between high-energy banter and moments of vulnerable honesty, all wrapped in their signature “Are You Garbage?” lens of examining etiquette, comfort, and class from a working-class, comic’s perspective.

For the Listener

Whether you’re familiar with Are You Garbage? or new to the crew, this episode offers a perfect slice of “comic family vacation”—an East Coast comic's culture shock in Hollywood, full of rowdy stories, relatable pettiness, and trash talk that’s ultimately affectionate. If you enjoy stories about the reality behind showbiz glitz, the science of bad habits, and comedians busting each other’s chops, don’t miss this one.