Casey Rocket!

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Are You Garbage? Comedy Podcast" – Episode: Casey Rocket!

Introduction

In this engaging episode of Are You Garbage?, hosts Kevin Ryan and H. Foley welcome their guest, the rising star comedian and podcaster Casey Rocket. The show delves into Casey's tumultuous past, his journey through addiction and rehabilitation, his academic endeavors, and his burgeoning career in comedy. Throughout the episode, listeners gain an intimate look into Casey's life, marked by both struggles and triumphs.

Casey Rocket's Early Life

Casey Rocket opens up about his childhood, providing listeners with a glimpse into his formative years. Born in Normal, Illinois, [02:00] Casey shares, “I was born in Normal, Illinois... but I was raised in Georgia. I spent my whole life in Georgia.” His upbringing in a rural part of North Georgia, where his mother worked as a horse trainer, set the stage for his early experiences.

Struggles and Rehabilitation

The conversation takes a dark turn as Casey recounts his battles with substance abuse and his tumultuous relationship with his parents. At the age of fourteen, Casey faced significant challenges:

• Rehab Runaway: “I started sober for the first time when I was 21,” Casey admits [08:45]. He details his brief stint in a teenage rehab center, describing it as “a spiritual revelation through labor” [14:12]. However, after ten days, he ran away, leading to his placement in a mental hospital for two weeks [17:40].
• Substance Abuse: Casey discusses his use of Robitussin and other substances, highlighting the pervasive opioid epidemic of his region [14:16]. His addiction issues led to multiple arrests for drunk in public and shoplifting [32:44].

School and Alcoholism

Casey's academic journey was fraught with difficulties:

• Public School Challenges: After being kicked out of public school twice in one year due to his substance abuse and behavioral issues, Casey was sent to military school [24:39]. He describes his time at Riverside Military Academy as “atrocious” [25:09], plagued by lack of sleep and strict discipline.
• Turning Point in College: At eighteen, facing academic failure, Casey decided to turn his life around. He graduated from Georgia Southern University with a degree in journalism, where he was the head of the school magazine, Reflector Magazine [27:56].

Turning Around: College and Comedy

Casey’s transition from a troubled youth to a successful comedian is inspiring:

• Starting in Comedy: “I started at Georgia Southern doing the school talent shows,” Casey explains [29:45]. His passion for comedy led him to Atlanta and eventually Boise, Idaho, where he honed his craft over three years [30:15].
• Breakthrough: Meeting Red Band and William Montgomery in Austin was pivotal. Despite living in his car for six months and juggling gigs with DoorDash deliveries, Casey eventually gained traction in the comedy scene [30:54].

Life as a Comedian

Now a recognized name in comedy, Casey shares insights into his career:

• Touring: He is actively touring, performing in over thirty cities this year, including international stops like Australia and the UK [61:56]. “Caseyrocketcomedy.com,” he promotes, highlighting his growing fanbase.
• Personal Growth: Despite his chaotic past, Casey has managed to establish a stable life. He recently moved into his first apartment, purchased a 2018 Toyota 4Runner, and maintains a clean, organized living space [36:48].

Personal Life and Relationships

Casey provides a candid look into his personal relationships and lifestyle:

• Family Dynamics: His parents remain distant, with his father supporting his comedy career by attending shows in multiple cities [34:55]. His mother has returned to the family farm in southern Illinois, continuing her work as a horse trainer [51:22].
• Current Relationship: Casey is currently dating a bisexual artist from Atlanta, whom he met during his travels. This new relationship signifies a sense of stability and connection back to his roots [53:48].

Fun Facts and Additional Stories

Throughout the episode, Casey shares amusing and unique anecdotes:

• Unique Habits: “I piss in the shower,” Casey humorously admits [59:57]. He also boasts about his extensive movie-watching habits, claiming to have seen “probably, like, 10,000 movies” [27:00].
• Health Struggles: Casey discusses a recurring condition called iritis, an inflammation of the iris, which he correlates with a night out at a strip club in Atlanta [48:33]. The inflammation causes intense pain, likened to having one’s eyeballs being “torn out of your head” [48:18].

Conclusion

As the episode wraps up, Kevin and H. Foley express their admiration for Casey's resilience and growth. While initially questioning whether Casey qualifies as “Garbage,” they acknowledge his significant personal progress and successes. Casey’s story is a testament to overcoming adversity, and his charismatic presence leaves listeners rooting for his continued success.

Notable Quotes

• Casey Rocket [02:02]: “Is he Garbage?”
• Kevin Ryan [01:29]: “What up gang? Shout out to you.”
• Casey Rocket [06:03]: “I was lighting little fires in the sink... I burn down our little home.”
• Casey Rocket [14:14]: “I have a serious substance abuse problem, but I don't have any mental health problems.”
• Casey Rocket [27:56]: “I graduated from Georgia Southern... head of the school magazine.”
• Casey Rocket [48:33]: “I pray you'll believe me on a night just like tonight... it’s extraordinarily painful.”

Final Thoughts

Are You Garbage? successfully combines humor with heartfelt storytelling, allowing Casey Rocket to share his journey in an authentic and relatable manner. This episode not only entertains but also inspires, showcasing the power of perseverance and the quest for self-improvement.

Transcript

[H. Foley]

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[Kevin Ryan]

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[H. Foley]

Let's go. Welcome to another exciting edition of Are youe Garbage? The show where you find out if your favorite comedians are classy individuals or absolute trash. Now here are your hosts, Kevin Ryan and H. Foley. Hey everybody out there and welcome back to everybody's favorite podcast. This is Are you Garbage? Oh yeah. It's our little show. We sit down with your favorite comedians and we find that at the group to be classy. But they're just a big old piece of trash. I'm your host, Stage Foley coming at you on another beautiful day down here in Tejas. Austin Tea Cody is having the time of her life down here tonight. She's sitting in on the keyboard for that Gary Clark Jr. Show. Tickling the ivories, baby. She's not gonna want to go back. Mike Hoes is coming at you from right next to me. Slightly amused this week it was all right. He is the CEO of RU 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.

[Kevin Ryan]

What up gang? Shout out to you. Thanks for tuning in as always. Please make sure you rate view subscribe on itunes. Full video available on YouTube and now Spotify. And then check out the greatest website of all time, www.patreon.com.

[H. Foley]

Are you Garbage 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 stand up comedian and podcaster. Rising star on the comedy scene. Yes, one of the stars of that Kill Tony universe over there that just keeps getting bigger and bigger. You can hear him every week on the William Monk Show. But the big question weighs mind today. Is he Garbage?

[Kevin Ryan]

I don't know if it's a big question.

[H. Foley]

Sometimes you gotta go away for a home game. Give it up for Casey Rocket, everybody.

[Casey Rocket]

Happy to be here.

[H. Foley]

12:30, just rolled out of bed in.

[Kevin Ryan]

His finest DX shirt.

[Casey Rocket]

Business as usual. I was happy to hear that you are A CEO. You're a businessman. That gives me comfort, sure.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yes.

[Casey Rocket]

I'm also a businessman of sorts.

[Kevin Ryan]

Very. And in what sense type of work do you do? Ventures here and there.

[H. Foley]

Not capitals, just ventures.

[Casey Rocket]

Ventures. I'm working up to capitals. And it's been the best summer ever, and I'm happy to be here.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's great.

[Casey Rocket]

And it's only winter, the middle of winter.

[H. Foley]

I don't know much. I'll be honest with you. Bit of a mystery. Give us the backstory. Give me the whole thing.

[Kevin Ryan]

Southern boy. No.

[H. Foley]

Is that true?

[Casey Rocket]

I was born in Normal, Illinois. Bloomington. Normal, Illinois.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Casey Rocket]

On a day just like today day. Scared yet? Scared yet. And I. But I was raised in Georgia. I spent my whole life in Georgia.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Casey Rocket]

So, yeah, North Georgia, kind of rural area.

[H. Foley]

When did you guys pull out of Illinois as a baby?

[Casey Rocket]

When I was about four years old.

[H. Foley]

About four years old?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Brothers, sisters.

[Casey Rocket]

I had at the time when I was born, I had an older sister.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Casey Rocket]

She's alive. I don't know why I said it.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah.

[Casey Rocket]

But at the time, and two minutes in here at that time, and at this time, I had an older sister and she's four years older than me. And then now I have two half brothers.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Casey Rocket]

So they are 18 and 16.

[H. Foley]

When you guys moved to Georgia, did your parents split up? Is that why you moved?

[Casey Rocket]

Yes. Well, they split up when I was like, seven. So they were together for a couple years after we moved down there.

[H. Foley]

Okay. And who'd you live with? Back and forth, back and forth.

[Kevin Ryan]

Was it close? The houses?

[Casey Rocket]

Relatively.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay.

[Casey Rocket]

Relatively. 20 minutes civil.

[H. Foley]

The parents get along? They okay?

[Casey Rocket]

No.

[Kevin Ryan]

Next question?

[Casey Rocket]

Not in the slightest.

[H. Foley]

That's what we were looking for, baby.

[Casey Rocket]

It was messy. It was a bloodbath. That's where I got my keen business sense.

[Kevin Ryan]

I learned my ventures against the middle.

[Casey Rocket]

They don't negotiate with each other and. But yeah, so I was a child and that was great.

[H. Foley]

Raised in rural Georgia.

[Casey Rocket]

Rural Georgia.

[H. Foley]

How rural are we talking about? How many people were in the town?

[Casey Rocket]

It's a pretty good sized town, but it was pretty rural. It was. My mom is a horse trainer, so I grew up.

[H. Foley]

No shit.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Like.

[Casey Rocket]

Like racetrack, Western pleasure. So, like shows?

[Kevin Ryan]

Like a pornography?

[Casey Rocket]

Well, there's two styles of show horses. There's English, which is like the little black hat and the chaps proper and the crop, and they do jumping and it's called dressage.

[H. Foley]

And that's expensive stuff. That's rich people shit.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah. But then Western pleasure is like cowboy horses. So everyone, they're show horses. So you dress like a cowboy. It's basically like make believe. And then you show these real nice horses with real nice lineages. And she would help to train the horses.

[H. Foley]

Gotcha. And do that at like shows. It would be like, yeah, we're always.

[Casey Rocket]

At the horse shows. When I was a kid.

[Kevin Ryan]

Strike number.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah. I didn't enjoy it at the time, but I've grown to come.

[H. Foley]

Does she still do it? That's pretty good.

[Kevin Ryan]

What was the house like, girl? Was it a house, a condo, a townhouse?

[Casey Rocket]

My dad. When I was. When I would be at my dad's, it was like a house. Like a two story house. Like a regular house. But then my mom.

[Kevin Ryan]

How many times you said house makes me think it was not a house. It was totally normal house. Two story house, house, tons of doors.

[Casey Rocket]

You guys would have loved it.

[Kevin Ryan]

Driveway, everything.

[Casey Rocket]

You know, you guys would have loved it. It was perfect. But my mom's. We would move around all the time. So sometimes we would be like in a camper. Sometimes we would be like, fuck out of here. Yeah. Like a real small camper. And I. I burned it down on accident.

[Kevin Ryan]

I was lighting it on purpose.

[Casey Rocket]

Absolutely true. I was lighting little fires in the sink. And why? I guess I was just bored or I was angry. I don't know. I was really young.

[Kevin Ryan]

Sure.

[Casey Rocket]

And then the. I couldn't. It got bigger than I anticipated. Some things were burning. Some things got out of hand and I grabbed the nearest thing and I poured it on it when it was nail polish fluid. And it fucking. And I burn down our little home.

[H. Foley]

Who lived there? Was it just you and her?

[Casey Rocket]

Just me and her. I don't know where my sister was at that time, but it was super small. But that was like a pretty small portion. That was like six months maybe. And then was the camper on like.

[Kevin Ryan]

A site or camp?

[Casey Rocket]

It was behind the barn. So it was just out and behind.

[H. Foley]

The barn that she worked at?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah. That she would rent, I guess.

[H. Foley]

Gotcha.

[Casey Rocket]

Doesn't even own the barn. She's renting the barn. Sure.

[H. Foley]

That makes sense though. It's like some rich guy that owns the barn. She's a horse trainer.

[Casey Rocket]

Sure. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

All right.

[Casey Rocket]

And then we would move all. We would move around. We lived in a barn for a while. Like a little apartment. Sure. We all. We all slept in the same bed.

[Kevin Ryan]

So what age we talking there?

[Casey Rocket]

Maybe eight or nine. Maybe. Probably too old for that.

[H. Foley]

And just when your parents were still together?

[Casey Rocket]

No, no, no, no, no.

[H. Foley]

Okay, so it was you, your mom and your sister?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah. Whoa.

[H. Foley]

What'd your dad do?

[Casey Rocket]

What does he do?

[H. Foley]

Yeah.

[Casey Rocket]

Business just like me.

[Kevin Ryan]

Just, like, runs in a family. Took over the family business.

[Casey Rocket]

I'm a chip off the old block.

[H. Foley]

Suit and tie man. Cup of coffee.

[Casey Rocket]

You look just like your old man. Yeah, yeah. He. He, like, pitches products to Home Depot. So people come to him with a product and he's like, the middleman. Yeah, Gotcha.

[H. Foley]

Does he go and, like, do the show? Like, do the. Like. He's a. Is he a pitch man?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Really?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah. So he, like, sets up at. What do you call them, like, conferences, and he'll have his booth with the products of the people and really try.

[Kevin Ryan]

To push, like, the buyers or whatever.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, Like Lowe's, Home Depot.

[H. Foley]

So he's like a big breakaway from being like a Billy Mays. He could pop like that.

[Casey Rocket]

Maybe. I don't know the extent of. I don't know. He's really described it to me. Yeah. Because he doesn't. He does give, like, little presentations. I've never been there, but.

[Kevin Ryan]

Do you still talk to both of your parents?

[Casey Rocket]

Yes.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

It seemed a little hesitant, but I.

[H. Foley]

I can't get a read on this.

[Casey Rocket]

I do.

[Kevin Ryan]

I feel like I'm talking to Kaiser Soze over here.

[H. Foley]

Start talking in a British accent.

[Casey Rocket]

My mother's name was Couch Desk.

[Kevin Ryan]

Great Woman at a house.

[Casey Rocket]

Couch desk to Shoe Knob. So it's pretty cool.

[H. Foley]

How was school growing up?

[Casey Rocket]

It was fine. I went to public school.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Kevin Ryan]

Did you do well? Were you a good student at all, or. No, I can not with the fires in the camper. I don't think you were good.

[H. Foley]

See, him being a smart guy, though, relatively.

[Casey Rocket]

I mean, it came relatively easy to me, but I never, like, tried at it. Like, B's and C's.

[H. Foley]

Yeah, that's pretty good.

[Kevin Ryan]

Fair enough.

[Casey Rocket]

Not bad.

[H. Foley]

Sports?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah. Baseball. My dad was my baseball coach. Really?

[H. Foley]

All right. High school baseball coach.

[Casey Rocket]

He was. He pitched at Illinois State. So he was a baseball player. And he was my rec. Baseball coach from when I was 4 to when I was 18. So.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Casey Rocket]

My whole life, he was my baseball coach.

[H. Foley]

Did he throw heat?

[Casey Rocket]

He was a curveball guy. 85. Topped out at 85. Had had some movement on it, though.

[Kevin Ryan]

A little bit of Western pleasure.

[H. Foley]

And what did you play? What position?

[Casey Rocket]

Shortstop, primarily. And. But I would move around. I was a utility man.

[H. Foley]

Gotcha.

[Casey Rocket]

Chase Utley. Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Shout out to Utley.

[H. Foley]

Played for the Blue Jays for a couple of seasons.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah. Tapered off towards the end there.

[H. Foley]

Did you do that? In high school too. Did you play for your high school team?

[Casey Rocket]

I didn't. I only played rec. Yeah, okay. Just wreck. I was decent. I never really tried at it though. I love. I love, love baseball. I'm a huge Cubs fan, but I never applied myself.

[H. Foley]

All right.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

What did family vacations look like growing up?

[Casey Rocket]

Disney World.

[Kevin Ryan]

Pretty good.

[H. Foley]

Is that mom or dad taking you there?

[Casey Rocket]

That was just when they were together, so. I have a memory of going there a couple times and then never been on one with my mom. She. We didn't have.

[Kevin Ryan]

Sure.

[H. Foley]

Yeah, of course, sure.

[Kevin Ryan]

But working single mom.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah. My dad, he took me a couple times to a beach. Yeah. Like South Carolina.

[Kevin Ryan]

A beach, a house, business.

[H. Foley]

Tried to. Tried to pull away. You're chasing the car.

[Casey Rocket]

I never think about this stuff. Yeah, it took me to a beach.

[Kevin Ryan]

Sounds like you're making up an alibi on the spot. Yes, there was a beach and my father.

[Casey Rocket]

You guys would have loved it.

[H. Foley]

Did he get. Did he get remarried?

[Casey Rocket]

Huh? Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's where the brother, the sibling, the half siblings come.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, they remarried when he remarried when I was 10. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

And did you get along with your stepmom and the family and all that kind of stuff?

[Casey Rocket]

I did not. When I was a kid, it was very contemptuous houses. Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

What age did that happen, you say. You said I was 10. Gotcha.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah. And then my mom remarried when I was 15 maybe.

[H. Foley]

All right.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Were you in that wedding? Were you in either of those weddings?

[Casey Rocket]

I was in my crap walking down the aisle. But by the time my mom remarried, I was completely. I was gone on the tus. I was completely. I was high all the day, all day. All the live long days on TUs and weed and.

[H. Foley]

Wait, really? You were doing robot?

[Kevin Ryan]

He was robo tripping. That's what I've heard about.

[Casey Rocket]

For a short period of months at. From 14 to 15. So for two years I was doing that.

[Kevin Ryan]

But really that's pretty long period of.

[Casey Rocket]

Your Life to be Robo 700 Day. 700 Day test challenge.

[Kevin Ryan]

See if you can beat it out there.

[H. Foley]

Did they know?

[Casey Rocket]

Oh, yeah, for sure.

[Kevin Ryan]

I don't think that's something you can hide, dude.

[Casey Rocket]

So. I know. Yeah, I talk about that. It's got a bad call, my hour all the time. You can't hide it. They would come in my room and I just.

[Kevin Ryan]

He's crawling on the ceiling.

[Casey Rocket]

You're trying to have a normal conversation, but you talk really slowly too.

[Kevin Ryan]

Hey.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah. Hey. You're like, can't. You're so raspy.

[H. Foley]

Hey.

[Casey Rocket]

Like Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born.

[Kevin Ryan]

Hey, look at you again.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Get another look at you.

[Casey Rocket]

One more last look at Mom's like.

[H. Foley]

Casey, what the hell are you talking about?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, I know. I just came here to tell you good night.

[H. Foley]

Yeah. So your mom gets remarried. The financial situation improves a little bit. The. Her husband.

[Casey Rocket]

Yes.

[H. Foley]

You got. She gets a house. Your dad has a house. Did your mom have more kids or.

[Casey Rocket]

No, no, she did not. But they. He had two daughters, so then I had two. Two stepsisters over there. And then my dad's wife that he married had a stepdaughter, so then that house had a stepdaughter and then two.

[H. Foley]

Little kids that they had.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

So you're proper. You're the only one going back and forth.

[Casey Rocket]

Yes.

[H. Foley]

Two. Two proper rooms in each house.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

All right.

[Casey Rocket]

But they. My sister, so she is four years older than me, so when I got to high school, she was gone. So then at that time, yeah, it was a lot of going back and forth all the time, and I would get kicked out of their houses, like, every.

[H. Foley]

Sure.

[Casey Rocket]

That so, yeah. Oh, just being horrible robot. Being incorrigible. Yeah. Lighting liars. Just being a monster. It was just not listening to rules and whatever.

[H. Foley]

So you were a handful as a kid.

[Casey Rocket]

Oh, I was. Absolutely.

[Kevin Ryan]

Seems like a bit of a handful now.

[H. Foley]

What kind of stuff would you do to get in trouble? Give me an example. Other than the crash my car.

[Casey Rocket]

Not let, like, turn my phone off. And, like, stay places for, like, days at a time. And then they'd be like, hey, man, like, you, like, what? Like, party at a friend's house, turn my phone off? And then eventually he'd be like, all right, you have to leave. And I just have to turn the phone back on him. Hey, sorry. And, yeah, just was getting drunk and high all the time. Just had a substance abuse problem.

[H. Foley]

And they would just pop you back and forth. Hey, go with your mom for a little bit, get straightened out. You come back, bang, bang, bang.

[Kevin Ryan]

Was there ever a time you weren't allowed at either one of their houses?

[Casey Rocket]

Yes. Yeah, I could.

[Kevin Ryan]

I figured that.

[Casey Rocket]

Yes.

[H. Foley]

Where did you stay then?

[Casey Rocket]

Like, at a friend's house.

[Kevin Ryan]

Got my own condo in Boca.

[H. Foley]

Quite a business friend's house with, like, a nice family and all that stuff. And they were cool to you?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, sure. Yeah, they were nice. It'd just be random people for a day or two. Yeah, okay.

[H. Foley]

All right.

[Casey Rocket]

But, yeah, when I was 14, they sent me to a rehab for nine months, but I ran away. I ran away after 10 days, nine months.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's fucking the whole year. And this is for Tussin?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, Tus and pills. Because opioids are really big where I was from.

[H. Foley]

How old are you?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, I was 14.

[H. Foley]

How old are you now?

[Casey Rocket]

30.

[H. Foley]

So you're. Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

That means that's the tail end of the opioid epidemic.

[Casey Rocket]

I caught the. The, 2011, 2012. The tail end of the Purdue Pharma almost got me.

[Kevin Ryan]

I live to fight another day. Talk about big business.

[H. Foley]

And what happened when you. When you ran out of rehab after 10 days? What'd they say about that? Are they springing the bill for this too? Or is it like the state?

[Casey Rocket]

They. It wasn't court mandated. They. My dad was paying for it.

[H. Foley]

Was it a nice one?

[Casey Rocket]

I guess it was like a T. It was teenage rehab, so it was just teenagers and we would just dig stumps all day. It was like. It was like spiritual revelation through labor. So it was like digging stump sucks. Oh, it was awful. And it made. No, it was fruitless. It was like, you will have. It was like martyrs. That French movie logic where it's like, we will break you down to where you are. Like, God, take me away from this suffering. So it was like sleep deprivation. We would only sleep like four or five hours a night.

[H. Foley]

The fuck. Are we going to Passages or something?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, I would have.

[Kevin Ryan]

Like, that's crazy.

[Casey Rocket]

Maybe I would have stayed, but. Yeah. How'd you get out?

[Kevin Ryan]

Did you, like, escape? Or do you just.

[Casey Rocket]

I ran. I ran away. So I. At night, there was a one hour break after like a prayer time. There was a prayer time and then there was like. I knew it was like a Shawshank thing. I was like. I was like, okay, if I, you know, if I sneak out of this time storm. Yeah, I was like, if. If I leave it at 9:10, they won't know I'm gone until 9:45. And that'll give me time to fucking get some serious mileage.

[H. Foley]

It's only a half an hour.

[Casey Rocket]

So you're still at the job.

[Kevin Ryan]

Opens up his room. Well, Casey's gone and he's got 35 minutes on us. That boy could be anywhere.

[H. Foley]

Did you have a car there?

[Casey Rocket]

No. I was 14, so I was a little kid. Is this. Is this funny?

[H. Foley]

Is this far away from everything?

[Casey Rocket]

Yes.

[H. Foley]

Where did you physically go?

[Casey Rocket]

It's really, really. That was super rural. That was like up in the mountains. And I remember somebody telling me that there was a gas station, like a cut. They said there's a, you know, There's a gas station like two miles from here. And I would, I was like, yeah, where is it though? Like, I was like dropping hints like, sure. Trying to figure out the location.

[Kevin Ryan]

If I left next Tuesday at 9, 10, where, how would I get there?

[Casey Rocket]

To get there, exactly. They just said, take a left. And I was like, all right, I'm taking a left. That's quite literally what happened. And I was like, all right, I'll take a left.

[H. Foley]

Bang a left at the stump and keep going. That's nuts.

[Casey Rocket]

So I, I, I snuck out. I took someone's jacket, I put on shoes. It was winter. And I just ran into the woods. And I just ran. And it was like my arms all up because it was bramble bushes. And I ran for like several miles. And then there was a gas station and I had stolen some change. So I called some of my friends and I was like, it was like, I was trying to like, brag because they were 14 too, so there's nothing they could do. And I was like, mom, can we.

[Kevin Ryan]

Go pick up Casey at rehab?

[H. Foley]

Hey, I'm in the middle of dinner right now. Let me call you back.

[Casey Rocket]

I was like, yo, I broke out. I broke out of rehab. And they were like, what? That's all right. Like, cool, I guess. And then I called my dad and I was like, yeah, I ran away. Then he came and got me.

[H. Foley]

All right, there you go.

[Casey Rocket]

And actually the police came and they had called the police, like, teenage runaway. The police took me back there. Then my dad came to there.

[H. Foley]

You said, hey, I don't want to do this.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, that sucks.

[H. Foley]

I feel bad for you. Fucking 14 year old kid run through the goddamn woods.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

What the fuck?

[Casey Rocket]

Was like one of those teen challenge things, you know, there's like Netflix documentaries, like, yeah, that troubled teen industry sure is one of those things, Kevin.

[H. Foley]

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[Kevin Ryan]

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[H. Foley]

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[Kevin Ryan]

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[Kevin Ryan]

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[Casey Rocket]

Whoo.

[Kevin Ryan]

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[H. Foley]

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[H. Foley]

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[H. Foley]

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[H. Foley]

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[Casey Rocket]

Do it.

[H. Foley]

Did things smooth over after that?

[Casey Rocket]

So they said they were just getting.

[Kevin Ryan]

Started, kind of in.

[H. Foley]

Sit down, fat boy.

[Casey Rocket]

They said, I can't come back. Which I was like, perfect. Ideal situation.

[H. Foley]

Thanks, dickhead. We're.

[Kevin Ryan]

What?

[H. Foley]

No, I ran away.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, I know. Oh, what? So they said I couldn't come back because I was like a trouble to the other kids or something because I ran away. I was like, I would have ran away the first day if I knew that.

[H. Foley]

But dude, he's a nightmare.

[Casey Rocket]

So they. From there they put me in a mental hospital for like two weeks because they were like, we don't know what to do with you. The rehab was saying, put him in jail as like a ward of the state.

[Kevin Ryan]

Crazy.

[Casey Rocket]

And is this just drugs?

[H. Foley]

You were just. Or were you having mental issues as well?

[Casey Rocket]

No, just drugs. Just ties. Yeah, I only have. I have a serious substance abuse problem, but I don't have any mental health problems. Gotcha. And so I both.

[Kevin Ryan]

Baby, don't worry.

[Casey Rocket]

Just that night.

[Kevin Ryan]

You're in good company.

[Casey Rocket]

Take him to the hospital. So they. They put me in the hospital for a little bit. I got out and then got it there too. Yeah, well, no, no, they let me out eventually. So it, like, ran its course. I just never think about this stuff. So then I went back to public school.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Casey Rocket]

And then one week later, I got kicked out of public school for being high on Robitussin at the football game with my friend Brett. And we. Our backpacks were like, full of stolen bottles of wine from cvs and they, like, went through my pockets and it was like. To us, like, it was like a clown never ending.

[Kevin Ryan]

Like, just a very long bottle.

[Casey Rocket]

It was like three packs of Marlboro Reds, two bottles of ropincess, and one bottle of wine in my pants.

[H. Foley]

Crazy thing is, he was the quarterback.

[Kevin Ryan]

I have a question on the execution of tus.

[Casey Rocket]

Sure.

[Kevin Ryan]

How much do you have to drink? You got a bottle does that. You and your. Your boy Tussin?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, well, Robotussen dm. You can't drink CF it gets you really sick. Like violently sick. And sometimes we made that mistake. Like, how sick could it get you and it's like shitting and puking. Family guy style. Out of both. Out of both ends. You like. Oh, it's true. The rumors are true.

[Kevin Ryan]

But like a bottle would have like 4 ounces. 4 ounces will get you going.

[Casey Rocket]

And then you get a test tolerance. So then it's 8 ounces, 12 ounces.

[Kevin Ryan]

Sure.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Was it. What did you prefer about the tus and high that. Why didn't you just drink?

[Casey Rocket]

I did. I drank all the time. But as far as like a day to day thing that I could have access to because I didn't have a car.

[H. Foley]

Right.

[Casey Rocket]

My mom, you know, would go get groceries. So I. I want it to be high all the time. I just have that gene.

[H. Foley]

Sure.

[Casey Rocket]

I'm just a drug addict. And so I would. I got a steel test. Yeah, gotcha.

[Kevin Ryan]

Do you go with your mom and you'd steal it?

[Casey Rocket]

When I was younger, you know, until I had a car. Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah. So I got a car. What was that first car?

[Casey Rocket]

Red Pontiac Grand Dam.

[H. Foley]

No shit. Where'd you get that?

[Casey Rocket]

Would have been a 2008.

[H. Foley]

All right.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, it was. Nice set of wheels. Yeah, I think it was 3,500. It was a nice car. $3,500.

[H. Foley]

Where'd you get the cash for that?

[Casey Rocket]

My dad bought it and I worked it off.

[H. Foley]

Gotcha. That's all right.

[Casey Rocket]

Slowly paid him back. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

All right.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's not bad, man.

[H. Foley]

Crash that car?

[Casey Rocket]

Yes. Several times. Several times.

[Kevin Ryan]

I saw it out front several times.

[Casey Rocket]

So I got kicked out of the ninth grade and then not even in ninth grade.

[H. Foley]

Where do you go from there when you get kicked out of a public school in a rural town?

[Casey Rocket]

So I was kicked out of the eighth grade. And then they were. That was for fighting. And then I had a bamboo weed pipe in my book bag. Like a piece of bamboo that we had made into like cheese pipe. And then so then I go to rehab. So it goes. Kicked out of the eighth grade. Rehab. I go to public school for one week. I get kicked out of public school. Then I go to the mental hospital for two weeks. Then I couldn't go to any more public schools because I've been kicked out twice in one year.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay.

[Casey Rocket]

So then they sent me to military school.

[H. Foley]

Really?

[Casey Rocket]

So then I spent six months in military school. Yeah. When I was from 14 to 15.

[Kevin Ryan]

How was that?

[Casey Rocket]

Awful.

[H. Foley]

What was the name of it?

[Casey Rocket]

It's called Riverside Military Academy.

[H. Foley]

Riverside Military Academy.

[Casey Rocket]

It was atrocious.

[H. Foley]

Was it just like a high school with like maybe like prep years? Like you could go a year after high school, or was it all the way through?

[Casey Rocket]

It was middle school through high school. Yeah. So there was like seventh, eighth, and then all of high school.

[H. Foley]

Nice facility with, like, history and all that kind of stuff. Okay.

[Casey Rocket]

Really, really formal. Everyone's a military guard. Reveley at five or six in the morning. Then you march. Everyone marches as a school. And then you break off into your platoons or your companies.

[H. Foley]

The kids sleep in. You got him doing stumps? Yeah, he wants to get up. Don't want to get up in the morning.

[Casey Rocket]

That's part of the problem is I wasn't ever getting to get any sleep. Yeah. So I was always acting out.

[H. Foley]

How were the kids at the military school? Were they cool to you, or was there bullies and like that?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, some people. I mean, there was definitely a lot of violence, for sure, but I had a lot of friends, too. Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

How did you end up getting out of that?

[Casey Rocket]

Well, I did it my semester, so I did second half of my freshman year at military school. And then enough time had elapsed where I could go back to public school.

[Kevin Ryan]

You're back in the same public school system?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Going back to public school after that must have been.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, I was like, legendary. Yeah. I was like Persona non grata. It was. Oh, that's that guy. That's that Young Tusk kid.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's a good rap name. Young Tus.

[H. Foley]

Young Tus with sick grand dam. How you doing?

[Kevin Ryan]

What? Okay. Did you graduate?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Was it then pretty smooth sailing after that, or.

[Casey Rocket]

No. Yeah, relatively. Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

So once.

[Casey Rocket]

I mean, right on a curve, but sure, from 15. Then I graduated public school, and then I. I graduated from Georgia Southern. Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah. So I went to college. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

No kidding. What'd you get in the SATs?

[Casey Rocket]

Is that the one with the longer number?

[H. Foley]

Never mind.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah.

[Casey Rocket]

Sorry. I don't know, but I got a 20. A 22 on the. I got a 24 on the ACT.

[Kevin Ryan]

I think that's pretty good because it's out of like, 32 or something, isn't it?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

You can tell. You're a smart guy.

[Casey Rocket]

Sure. I'm well read.

[H. Foley]

Okay. Okay. Were you always reading when you were growing up? Yeah, like Holden Caulfield. That's crazy.

[Casey Rocket]

I. I like. Yeah, I read a lot of books and I watch a ton of movies. I've seen probably, like, 10, 000 movies.

[H. Foley]

So you were reading on your own as a kid while you were going through all this?

[Kevin Ryan]

I've never heard anybody brag about that. I probably seen 4 million movies.

[Casey Rocket]

I know that. I guess that is pretty stupid.

[Kevin Ryan]

No, I like it. Great.

[H. Foley]

Hold on.

[Kevin Ryan]

Were you reading also? I'm pretty smart. I've seen a lot of movies. All the Pirates of the Caribbean, big history buff.

[H. Foley]

Were you reading for pleasure on your own while you were going through all this with the Tussin and all these. The Rehabs and all that stuff? You were a reader?

[Casey Rocket]

Sure, a reader. But mostly movies. Yeah, which isn't really. That's. That takes no effort to do. I've actually never read a book because I was high all the time. And even though I went back to public school, I was. I still. I got sober for the first time when I was 21.

[Kevin Ryan]

So from.

[Casey Rocket]

From 15 to 21, it was just mayhem. Mayhem, yeah. Complete chaos. How'd you go everything? It was. It was fine. I did good. I graduated with a degree in journalism. No, it's great technical writing.

[H. Foley]

So you were writing papers and all that kind of stuff?

[Casey Rocket]

I was the head of the school magazine.

[Kevin Ryan]

Turning it the around.

[H. Foley]

Look at this. What was the name of the magazine?

[Casey Rocket]

Reflected.

[H. Foley]

What was it?

[Casey Rocket]

It was called Reflector Magazine.

[H. Foley]

No kidding.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, that's.

[H. Foley]

Are we the editor?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

It's mainly just a list of movies he watched that month.

[H. Foley]

That's pretty good. What about the social scene in college?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, I had a lot of my friends from high school, so this was about five hours from where I grew up. So I kind of got out of that town.

[H. Foley]

You say you're staying in the dorm, you're at your proper campus life. All right.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, I got a couple strike. I almost did not make it my freshman year. I got a couple strikes with the university for. I got. I got arrested for drunk in public twice. And then I got. I. My ra. You know, I'm talking about the door people. He came.

[Kevin Ryan]

Narcs, I call him.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, he came into my room and I was blackout drunk. And I was like, who is this guy? I was like, trying to find. I. I had never met him. So I was like, what are you.

[Kevin Ryan]

Doing in my house?

[Casey Rocket]

I was like, trying to fight him. This guy broke into my house.

[H. Foley]

Holy.

[Casey Rocket]

But after that, I made pretty. I mean, for a couple years, I was still drinking, but I. I really turned my life around. When I was 18, I was like, you know, this has to change. I have to try. Because I was failing out my freshman year. I had failed like four out of my five classes. And my dad was like, you know, you're gonna have to move home, like, if you don't turn it around. So I was like, okay, I'm gonna make some. Make some changes.

[Kevin Ryan]

Where. So that was. That was just drinking then? Not no drugs?

[Casey Rocket]

No.

[Kevin Ryan]

Or, like, recreational?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, pretty much just drinking. Oh, yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

All right.

[H. Foley]

But you made it through journalism degree?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

That's hard, man. Yeah, that's awesome.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, I enjoyed writing, and it gave me a sense of purpose being the editor of the magazine. I enjoyed that.

[H. Foley]

So, yeah.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

That's all right. And then when did you start comedy?

[Casey Rocket]

I started when I was 20.

[H. Foley]

You started when you were 20?

[Casey Rocket]

So I started at Georgia Southern doing the school talent shows.

[H. Foley]

No kidding. All right. And then did you move to Atlanta?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Okay. And then how long you were down that. Were you down there?

[Casey Rocket]

I. So I did two years at Georgia Southern, and I would go to Savannah, do open mics down there, and then I was in Atlanta proper for, like, nine months.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Casey Rocket]

And then I was in Boise, Idaho, the hotbed.

[H. Foley]

All right. What were you doing there?

[Casey Rocket]

I was there for three years, and then I've been here for four years.

[H. Foley]

How are you in Boise?

[Casey Rocket]

I had a buddy, the people I was living with, when I graduated college, wanted to move out there and do, like, mountain bike stuff, so I. I just went with them. But I never did any of that stuff. I was like, oh, just go hang out.

[Kevin Ryan]

It's crazy.

[H. Foley]

Were you doing comedy out there?

[Casey Rocket]

Huh? Okay. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

How long were you in Austin before you popped on Tony?

[Casey Rocket]

Well, I met Red Band after maybe a month of being here.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Casey Rocket]

And at that time, I was. I was living in my car, so I met Red Band and William just randomly.

[H. Foley]

All right.

[Casey Rocket]

And then I did kill Tony maybe eight months later or something.

[H. Foley]

You were in the car for eight months?

[Casey Rocket]

I was in the car for six months.

[H. Foley]

Whoa.

[Casey Rocket]

Where would you park it, at Walmart?

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah. I mean, that is a place where a lot of people that. It's like a safe haven. You can sleep in, showering at Friends.

[H. Foley]

All that kind of stuff. Making it work.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah. Showered at Friends and Planet Fitness.

[H. Foley]

Working a day job at all?

[Casey Rocket]

No, just trying to make it work with comedy.

[H. Foley]

Where'd you get money? How did you. Did you.

[Casey Rocket]

I would. I would do doordash. Okay. I would doordash, and then I would try to make the money from the gigs I was getting, which is like 10 or 20. But when you're living in your car, there's no overhead.

[Kevin Ryan]

What? Sure. What is that car at that time?

[Casey Rocket]

A Ford Escape. So it's not. It has a little bit of space.

[H. Foley]

Where'd you get that car?

[Casey Rocket]

I bought it in Idaho.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Casey Rocket]

From working, so you're making it work.

[H. Foley]

All right.

[Kevin Ryan]

Jesus Christ. What was your first proper job as a kid? Like, did you.

[Casey Rocket]

I worked at it. I worked at, like, seven different pizza places. I was just a delivery driver.

[Kevin Ryan]

Delivery guy. You demand you. If I open the door and you had my pizza, I go, everything's right in the world right now. This guy's high as fuck. Car still banged up. Grand Dam's running out front.

[H. Foley]

There's three slices missing. Deal with it.

[Casey Rocket]

I. When I was in college, I get. When I drink, I get delirium trimming so I get the shakes. And I would have to drink before I sweet. I would slip. I would have to drink before I drove, so I would have to drink to safely drive, so. Because I would have alcoholic seizures, so I would be delivering pizzas, and I'd be, like, crushing these little four loco things called bootleggers. And my backseat was just full of bootleggers. I would just be driving. But I wasn't any drunkard than the next guy. It was just kind of, I guess we drive it. Sound logic. But it was a college town, like, I don't know. Yeah, but. Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Have you ever been arrested, like, proper?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

For what?

[Casey Rocket]

I've been to.

[H. Foley]

Are you listening to the show?

[Kevin Ryan]

Tax fraud.

[Casey Rocket]

I've been in jail several times. I've been to jail four times. Three times for drunk in public and one time for shoplifting.

[Kevin Ryan]

What were you saying?

[H. Foley]

You got to be really drunk in public to get drunk in public.

[Casey Rocket]

Sure.

[Kevin Ryan]

It's usually like the, hey, just go home, get out of my house, or whatever. Like.

[Casey Rocket]

Well, that's the thing is they would be like, keep it moving. And I'd be like, what you say to me?

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah, it's always the offback.

[Casey Rocket]

Oh, my God. Yeah. I was incorrigible. Yeah. I was very. Police always made me super angry. So I'd be drunk. They'd be like, keep it moving. Don't you tell me what to do.

[Kevin Ryan]

You pay your. I pay your salary or something.

[Casey Rocket]

You go bust a meth lab, you pig.

[Kevin Ryan]

Jesus.

[H. Foley]

Just a traffic cop. Hey, take it easy, kid. What were you stealing at Walmart?

[Casey Rocket]

I was stealing from a publix.

[H. Foley]

A Publix.

[Casey Rocket]

And I had Walmart back then. They didn't have those little gates, so it was a free for all. The rule of thumb was to steal from Walmart because they had a no chase policy. So when I was, you know, like.

[Kevin Ryan]

The corporate bylaws of each. Of each big box store, he's going.

[H. Foley]

To the stores that Have a chase policy. Just for the thrill of it, come get me. Bastards.

[Kevin Ryan]

I heard Publix just hired a fucking outside linebacker.

[Casey Rocket]

All I ever wanted was for someone to tell me to stop.

[H. Foley]

Sure.

[Casey Rocket]

I just wanted somebody to bring my reign to an end.

[H. Foley]

Is that true?

[Casey Rocket]

No. I don't know. Maybe.

[Kevin Ryan]

Hard to say.

[H. Foley]

I thought he got real deep for a second. I was like, this kid's all right.

[Kevin Ryan]

Also. I said I thought the same thing. And I'm like, I'm for sure someone told him to stop stealing?

[Casey Rocket]

Absolutely.

[Kevin Ryan]

The police, the judge, his parents.

[Casey Rocket]

There was dozens of people who tell me to stop. I had a support system, but I did not. That I did not care.

[H. Foley]

Yeah, man. I love you. This is great.

[Kevin Ryan]

You are screwball all over the road, dude.

[H. Foley]

What did that. What's your pop say now? He went, what, through all that with you?

[Kevin Ryan]

You gotta. You got a solid, good career. You're killing it.

[Casey Rocket]

It's going really good. Yeah. He comes. He came to watch me in like four or five cities last year, so that's very nice.

[H. Foley]

This has to blow his mind.

[Casey Rocket]

I think it does.

[H. Foley]

He probably says, like, look at him.

[Casey Rocket]

I know. Yeah. I think it. Truly and for good reason. I think they both 100% thought I would be dead by now, so.

[Kevin Ryan]

Buddy.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're very. I'm. I'm in Chicago this week and he's coming to see me in Chicago. And then my mom's going to my other shows in Chicago, so that's continuing. I'm doing Old Town, Zany's and Rosemont.

[H. Foley]

Have they come together at all that over the years?

[Casey Rocket]

No, no, they don't see eye to eye. They don't talk.

[H. Foley]

Gotcha. All right.

[Casey Rocket]

But I will tell you, I was when I was arrested for shoplifting, not to harp on this. I just. Cuz it's a funny story. I. I went in there to steal beer and it was like 4 or 5 in the morning and I was on a bunch of Ritalin and I. And I was blackout drunk, obviously, and I tried to fill the shopping cart. I was so drunk, I didn't make it to the beer aisle. I just started poor, like, clearing shelves into the end of the cart.

[H. Foley]

Bunch of fabuloso.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, it was random stuff like lunch meat. It was mostly lunch meat. And I got in the car, the manager followed me out and he was like, hey, come on, I know you didn't pay for that. And I was like, for sure. And I was just throwing myself in my car. Yeah, definitely 100. We'll take care of it.

[Kevin Ryan]

I'll be right back.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, it's one of those things where you're saying something and you're doing the opposite. So I was going, oh, yeah, for sure. I'm going to come in there and pay for it. And then I just got my car and drove away. And they showed up at my house because they got my license plate, so.

[H. Foley]

But it was just your parents house?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, my mom's house.

[H. Foley]

Okay, so this is. You're still in high school.

[Kevin Ryan]

What took you so long?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Covered in lunch meat.

[H. Foley]

Well, I got the biggest sandwich in the world.

[Casey Rocket]

All I ever wanted was for someone to tell me to stop having a cold cut.

[H. Foley]

Okay. All right.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Who are you living with now?

[Casey Rocket]

I have my own apartment. I live by myself.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's amazing spot. What kind of car you got now?

[Casey Rocket]

I. I just bought a new car. It is a 2018 Toyota 4Runner.

[H. Foley]

Kids got a new Forerunner out there.

[Kevin Ryan]

Pretty good.

[H. Foley]

I seen it pull up. I was like, that can't be him. Yeah, it's got the.

[Kevin Ryan]

We were. We were taking bets on how you arrived. Yeah, he's like, do you think he takes an Uber? Is he driving? I was like, rickshaw. I don't know. Who knows what this.

[Casey Rocket]

Well, I have some dollars now. I. I did like 50 cities last year, so. Yeah, man, I bought a car.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's great. Love to.

[H. Foley]

How fucking awesome is that?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, it's exciting. It's super new to me. Even last December, so. Not this one, the one before that. I could only sell maybe 20 tickets, so it's pretty exciting.

[Kevin Ryan]

It's amazing.

[H. Foley]

Is this apartment you have your first, like your own nice apartment?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, my first one is this, this might be.

[Kevin Ryan]

Is this the first lease you've been on? Yes, yes, I know.

[H. Foley]

What was that? Credit check.

[Casey Rocket]

That's so funny. It's absolutely true. It's my first lease.

[H. Foley]

Yeah, you probably had to put down $17 million. We're gonna need a hundred months in advance.

[Casey Rocket]

My credit is not great, understandably. But I also. I'd always live with girls. So when I moved out of. When I was living in Boise, I was living with a girl. My girlfriend. And then off the lease. Off the lease. Off the.

[H. Foley]

Off the radar, off the grid, baby.

[Kevin Ryan]

Gotta be able to stick and move, dude.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, well, I never want to get involved in something that I can't pack up my bags and be gone in 30 seconds.

[Kevin Ryan]

Heat logic, all this, it could be gone.

[H. Foley]

Sounds well adjusted.

[Casey Rocket]

Sounds healthy. So, yeah, man, I'd never been on a lease, so it's Pretty exciting. That's awesome. All my stuff. It's wonderful.

[H. Foley]

New furniture and all that stuff.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, I just got a couch last week.

[Kevin Ryan]

Where'd you buy it? What. What kind of store?

[Casey Rocket]

Discount furniture store.

[Kevin Ryan]

Like.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, yeah.

[H. Foley]

You have to put it together.

[Casey Rocket]

No, they delivered it. Thankfully. It fit through the door. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Kind of bed you got over there.

[Casey Rocket]

Now, I got a board mattress company free mattress from the William Montgomery Show. And a bed frame that I have a button and it comes. I can make the bed stand up.

[H. Foley]

Look at this guy.

[Casey Rocket]

Come on.

[Kevin Ryan]

Come on.

[H. Foley]

Look at this kid. Got a smart bed. What size is it? King. Queen.

[Casey Rocket]

Oh, queen. Come on.

[H. Foley]

All right.

[Casey Rocket]

You know better.

[H. Foley]

Look at you. Okay. Let's talk about Lucy, baby.

[Kevin Ryan]

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[H. Foley]

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[H. Foley]

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[H. Foley]

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[Kevin Ryan]

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[H. Foley]

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[Kevin Ryan]

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[H. Foley]

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[Kevin Ryan]

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[H. Foley]

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[Kevin Ryan]

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[H. Foley]

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[Kevin Ryan]

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[H. Foley]

Back to the show.

[Kevin Ryan]

Where are you shopping for clothes? That's a very nice D. I was a big DX guy myself. Where you. Where are you purchasing your.

[H. Foley]

Let's not go down this rabbit hole. What do you think?

[Kevin Ryan]

I'm just curious. Brooks Brothers thrift stores.

[Casey Rocket]

This is from a company called Suplex Vintage in Philly.

[Kevin Ryan]

I know Mike very well.

[H. Foley]

No way. Shout out to him.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah, I got all my shoes from Mike.

[Casey Rocket]

Bunch of their stuff. Yeah, they're cool guys.

[Kevin Ryan]

Great.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah. I got a bunch of other shirts. This. I don't know what these pants are. I have like three pairs of pants. I just rotate.

[H. Foley]

So just styling.

[Kevin Ryan]

Of course. I'm just asking. Just curious.

[Casey Rocket]

Old Navy.

[H. Foley]

I think I'm defending him now.

[Kevin Ryan]

What the. You just turn against me. He's a good kid.

[H. Foley]

I'm crying.

[Kevin Ryan]

Do you know how to tie a tie by any chance?

[H. Foley]

No, no.

[Kevin Ryan]

I've just been to court before.

[H. Foley]

I love.

[Casey Rocket]

I'm working up to a suit. Well, I had my. Okay, so I have. So I have a little money, but I've had my apartment for, like, nine months since last May, and I just got a couch. Before that, I had two director's chairs that I bought at a thrift store. So I had two director's chairs in the middle of the living room, and I would just sit there in my director's chairs and watch my movies.

[H. Foley]

That's the funniest thing I've ever heard.

[Casey Rocket]

I had girls over and stuff, and they're like, oh, that's kind of.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's kind of weird. Hey, you want to come over and be uncomfortable?

[Casey Rocket]

Well, we can't take five, everybody.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's a wrap on Casey, because we.

[Casey Rocket]

Can'T sit next to each other either.

[Kevin Ryan]

So that's a tough move, dude. Yeah, try to make a move.

[Casey Rocket]

Try to get your reactor's chairs over the.

[H. Foley]

You're a young guy. You doing it step by step. You got the couch, you got the better. You cooking over there now?

[Casey Rocket]

Sure. Cooking a little bit. Yeah. Spaghetti, that.

[Kevin Ryan]

Is that your dish?

[Casey Rocket]

I don't know. I don't cook very often. I mostly eat out.

[H. Foley]

Yeah, where do you eat out? Do you order in or do you go out at a restaurant?

[Casey Rocket]

You know, I. I haven't been. I haven't been home very much. I.

[H. Foley]

Kids working.

[Casey Rocket]

I'm working down there on the road. 50 cities under. Under rift challenge.

[H. Foley]

Let me ask you this. How much flying did you do before this took off?

[Casey Rocket]

Not very much.

[H. Foley]

Not very much.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

How old were you when you got your passport? Do you have your passport?

[Casey Rocket]

I have a passport, Yeah. I did Canada. I did Canada three times last year. Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay, so is that when you got.

[Casey Rocket]

Got it.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah, a couple years ago.

[Casey Rocket]

Well, I. When I was 20, I did a month studying abroad in Paris.

[Kevin Ryan]

Cultured, man.

[H. Foley]

How the did that happen? How did that happen?

[Casey Rocket]

They let the cat out of the bag. They let the big dog eat. They let me over there, the Tus Tyrant. They called me La Infants Terrible.

[H. Foley]

I don't know what it meant, but I took it as disrespectful. Holy. How did you like that?

[Casey Rocket]

It was great. It was the same cost of doing a semester at Georgia Southern, but it was just in France, so. Oh, I loved it. It was wonderful.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah.

[Casey Rocket]

I fell in love with a girl from Ghana, and then I never saw her again, man. Her name is Judith.

[Kevin Ryan]

Probably not there. Just call me.

[H. Foley]

But you go over there, you have a twist. Love affair.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Under the Parisian Lights.

[Kevin Ryan]

Also, man, girl from Ghana meeting you, you're. That's like. That's like exotic to her. You're like. You're as Southern American wacko as you can get. You know what I mean?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, it was a cultural shift. Yeah, it's funny, it was great.

[H. Foley]

Where did you stay when you were over there?

[Casey Rocket]

At the university. Todd de Paris. The Paris university? Yeah.

[H. Foley]

I don't know why I asked. So a dorm room?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, just a dorm room.

[H. Foley]

Soak up the culture. You go to the Louvre?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Have a little foie gras? Go out to the palace of Versailles.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, I did. I went out to Versailles one night because the train line runs to Versailles and they have a great train system there.

[H. Foley]

Yeah.

[Casey Rocket]

And then I. I don't remember if I fell asleep or what, but I was out there, Versailles, which is relatively far from Paris, and the train stopped running. So then I was just like in Versailles, in this like golden city that kind of like. It looks like an emperor city. And it was just like me on the streets and. Yeah, it was. Was pretty tough. I don't remember how I got home. I was thinking about that.

[H. Foley]

You guys got any lunch meat out here?

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Did you like the food over there?

[Casey Rocket]

I'm going to have to shoplift my way back.

[H. Foley]

Interpol's looking for you.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, man, the food was good. The chicken was real good.

[H. Foley]

The chicken what?

[Casey Rocket]

Well, that's what comes to mind. They have like hormone free chicken and. Sure, yeah, it was delicious.

[H. Foley]

Has the palate. Do you like a nice dinner?

[Casey Rocket]

I have a really, really simple palate. Like me and cheese.

[H. Foley]

Tell us.

[Casey Rocket]

Me and cheese.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's it. Meat and cheese.

[Casey Rocket]

Cheeseburger Pizza. Meat and cheese taco enchilada. I almost bit through my tongue eating a cheese enchilada like two days ago in Cincinnati. I bit my tongue so hard and I turned to my friend and I said, is it there? And I was like, my mouth is full of blood, dude.

[H. Foley]

That shit's the horse. Talk about rooting a sandwich. I know, I hate that.

[Casey Rocket]

It's the last bite of the meal too.

[Kevin Ryan]

Are you a food guy?

[Casey Rocket]

Huh?

[H. Foley]

It's gotta be.

[Kevin Ryan]

What's your fit? What's your like? Best of the best. What's the best one you got?

[Casey Rocket]

Depends, Pete. Terry's is really good out here. The burger.

[Kevin Ryan]

Terry's mixing a fine burger.

[H. Foley]

It's kind of a specialty spot.

[Casey Rocket]

Sure. You talking about the ba. The basics. I like Taco Bell. Taco Bell, good.

[Kevin Ryan]

He's a TB man.

[H. Foley]

TB man. He is through and through you like a Baja Blast, don't you?

[Casey Rocket]

I love a frozen Baja Blast.

[H. Foley]

Sure.

[Kevin Ryan]

Slushies, Gentlemen.

[Casey Rocket]

So.

[H. Foley]

Thank you, palace of Versailles. What are we doing here?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, I love. I just have a really simple. No onions or anything. Just meat and cheese. Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

What?

[H. Foley]

Don't. But what do you hate? Like. Like something like onions or tomatoes. Broccoli.

[Casey Rocket]

Hate mustard and pickles. Hate pit. I don't want to talk about that.

[Kevin Ryan]

Guys, let's move on from here. You're getting me all worked up.

[H. Foley]

They hate mustard like that. What do you put on a burger? A little ketchup, a little mayo.

[Casey Rocket]

I. I just started putting ketchup on it about a year ago, so I've worked up to that.

[Kevin Ryan]

Man. Success has gone to your head, man. Hollywood really changes.

[H. Foley]

Real bougie, Casey.

[Casey Rocket]

You know what? I can afford it now. I'm gonna treat myself.

[H. Foley]

Holy.

[Kevin Ryan]

Have you ever had, like, I feel like any weird disease or medical stuff like salmonella or Lyme's disease or anything.

[Casey Rocket]

I have this reoccurring thing called iritis, which is an inflammation of the iris, which is. You can get it from it. Yeah. Whoa. I started getting it. I went to a strip club in Atlanta. This is true. I hope you believe me.

[Kevin Ryan]

Sure.

[Casey Rocket]

I pray you'll believe me on a night just like tonight. And this is maybe 10 years ago, and we went to a strip club, and the next day I woke up and I opened my eye and I just started screaming because it is. You know how your eye dilates when it's exposed to sunlight? Iritis is where when the dilation takes place, it causes a muscle spasm. Like, as if you're having, like, a back spasm or like a spasm in your thigh, but it's your eyeball, so it feels like your eyeballs being, like, torn out of your head. It's extraordinarily painful, and I get it once a year.

[H. Foley]

Freaking me out. What does the strip club have to do with this?

[Casey Rocket]

I don't know. I don't know. But it has to be a correlation, right? It has to be a correlation. It can't be. I get this weird because it's a super rare disease. Only like, maybe 50, 000 people get it in America every year.

[H. Foley]

Did you get a lap dance or anything like that?

[Casey Rocket]

Sure, I got a dance. I won't lie.

[Kevin Ryan]

I'm not gonna sit here and lie.

[Casey Rocket]

I got to dance.

[H. Foley]

And you just wonder. Touched your eye or something.

[Casey Rocket]

Put my contacts in. Oh, I dropped my contact. Put it back in.

[Kevin Ryan]

This won't be a Bad idea.

[H. Foley]

Do you wear contacts?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, I don't have them in right now, but, yeah, I do.

[H. Foley]

Yeah, you near said it. Or farsighted.

[Casey Rocket]

I always forget what that means, but I can't see far.

[H. Foley]

Drove here?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

The windshield of the Tacoma is just one big contact lens.

[H. Foley]

Why wouldn't you have them on? Just out of curiosity.

[Casey Rocket]

I have glasses in my car, so it's all good. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

All right.

[Kevin Ryan]

Have you ever been to a monster truck rally?

[Casey Rocket]

I wish I had. Gravedigger reach out.

[Kevin Ryan]

What?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, yeah, Gravedigger. It's a girl who drives it.

[H. Foley]

You're officially the most famous person I've ever met.

[Casey Rocket]

And she messaged me a couple weeks ago, and she said that I could come to a rally or something, but I'm never around. Go. I would love that. Yeah, I would love that. That's.

[Kevin Ryan]

I've went to one. It was. Was wild. It's a great. They really put on a show.

[Casey Rocket]

I think I went. I probably went when I was a kid. We were always going to, like, rodeos. And my mom always had, like, really, really, like, redneck boyfriends, like Bobby Ray, Billy Ray.

[H. Foley]

Those are actual names.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Bobby Ray.

[Casey Rocket]

Bobby.

[Kevin Ryan]

Is she still with your stepdad?

[Casey Rocket]

They divorced a couple years ago.

[Kevin Ryan]

Gotcha.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, he wasn't the best guy. Yeah, sure.

[H. Foley]

Otherwise, for the most part, the families are doing okay.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, they're doing good. My mom lives in southern Illinois again. She moved back to our old family farm. So she out there. No, no neighbors in the middle of cornfields out there.

[H. Foley]

Wait a minute. You had a family farm? At a certain point, your mother had a family?

[Kevin Ryan]

Your mom's.

[Casey Rocket]

Well, it's from, like, her childhood. Yeah, it's like her great grandfather. It's like two acres and then a little. Little farmhouse out there. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

And you got. She kept it all the way through.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah. To change hands. Different people in the family. And then now she has it. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

That's pretty sweet.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, it's really nice out there. So she's got her horses, and she's got, like, seven or eight horses she's.

[H. Foley]

Gathered through the years that she owns.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, well, there's some in the barn that are least there. Like, try to make the case people pay her.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, of course.

[H. Foley]

And does she train the horses that she owns to perform?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, she. Yeah, she still shows them sometimes. Yeah, she won something at the Congress. The World Court. The World Horse Congress, which is like the super bowl of horse riding a couple years ago. No, she won a show or something. Yeah. All right. So she's A good trainer. Not fair. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

What about medical wise? You getting sure. You got insurance? You got health insurance?

[Casey Rocket]

I just got it last month.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

This kid's on the up and off. Dude.

[H. Foley]

Dude, you are.

[Casey Rocket]

Thank you. But then they move. I just got home, the bed goes.

[H. Foley]

Up and down and I'm doing so cool. Just does that ten times a day. Go and get a physical? No, just want to flash the card for the chicks.

[Casey Rocket]

Well, they sent me a letter in the mail because I. I was just. I was gone for three weeks. I just got back yesterday and they said, hey, we're gonna cancel your insurance. They might have canceled it because I didn't pay it, so.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Casey Rocket]

But I had medical insurance, if only for a moment.

[H. Foley]

That's all right.

[Kevin Ryan]

Can re. Enroll at any time.

[H. Foley]

Flying without a net, I'm with it. How do you like to travel since that's new to you? You like a nice hotel? You like a hotel? Anything particular?

[Casey Rocket]

I like it, I like it. I. I feel generally more like my life is more together when I'm on the road than when I'm home. Sure.

[H. Foley]

All right.

[Casey Rocket]

Because I don't have. I have a girlfriend. I have a bisexual girlfriend in Atlanta and.

[Kevin Ryan]

A lot of details that were included in that.

[Casey Rocket]

I have a bisexual artist girlfriend and she lives in Atlanta. So I don't remember where I was even going with that. I guess I just wanted you guys.

[H. Foley]

To know that you were just bragging to the boys. That's what you're doing.

[Kevin Ryan]

Shoehorn that in. I respect it.

[H. Foley]

You two nerds ever kiss a girl? Huh?

[Kevin Ryan]

I know.

[Casey Rocket]

I truly don't know where I was going with that.

[Kevin Ryan]

Travel, I think.

[Casey Rocket]

Sure. Travel. When I asked you about hotels, when I come back to. Oh, hotels, yeah, for sure. My girlfriend's by. When I'm home, I feel lost. Like I'll be gone. I've just been. Last year I was gone way too much. Then I would come home and I feel like I wouldn't know my friends anymore and I would just feel really lost here.

[H. Foley]

You mean?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Gotcha.

[Casey Rocket]

But so I'm trying to find a better after the next couple of weeks. It's. I'm doing weekends now, which is a blessing. So I will be home more than I was.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Casey Rocket]

When you're doing one nighters, you can line up. I mean, you could be gone for a month. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes it'd be gone for like one or two months. Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Do you have an airline you like to flood your loyal to? One airline.

[Casey Rocket]

United.

[H. Foley]

Oh, United.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Casey Rocket]

But I'm thinking about switching to Delta because they lost my bag.

[H. Foley]

Bastards.

[Kevin Ryan]

Take that. United. Yeah. We're Delta men. Delta is a fine, fine company.

[Casey Rocket]

I would say it's nice.

[H. Foley]

How often do you fly out to Atlanta or bring her here? How's that working?

[Casey Rocket]

It's new. She is one of my really good friends from high school who I. Who know. I'm sorry.

[Kevin Ryan]

She never.

[Casey Rocket]

I didn't finish my sentence. See, one of my really good friends from high school who I moved to Idaho with, that is her brother. So she is my. One of my best friends. Sisters.

[H. Foley]

So she grew up with you, basically.

[Casey Rocket]

I knew her from when I was like, maybe 18.

[H. Foley]

So she saw the whole thing?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Now you.

[Casey Rocket]

Now we're dating? Yeah, we're in love. We just started dating, like, a month ago. So it's super new. But it's interesting because I was gone, you know, I've seen the world. I've been out there. I've. I've done different things. And then I came back to finally be with someone who is from where I'm from. You know, at the end of the day, you. I came home and I said, you know what? This person, I really looked at her and I was like, you know what I really like? You know, I was searching for something and it was right there the whole time. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Is this kid all right?

[Kevin Ryan]

Oh, gee, he's a writer guy.

[H. Foley]

God damn it. Look at you.

[Casey Rocket]

It's true.

[H. Foley]

I love this.

[Casey Rocket]

I went around the world, but she was right there the whole time. Sorry, I gotta go.

[Kevin Ryan]

I love her.

[Casey Rocket]

Sorry, I gotta go.

[Kevin Ryan]

My bisexual girlfriend, she swings both ways.

[H. Foley]

About the bisexual part.

[Kevin Ryan]

Right? It's real. It's real hot. Turns me on.

[H. Foley]

Gives you a titty twister and walks out. God damn it.

[Kevin Ryan]

Very, very. Yeah, A few more AYG questions. Do you have any aunts or uncles that you don't refer to by their first name? Like an aunt or, like, you know, an uncle Knuckles or a. And Soupy or something.

[Casey Rocket]

And Soupy.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's a real one.

[Casey Rocket]

Soupy. That's a real one.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's my aunt's name. Aunt Soupy.

[Casey Rocket]

Soupy. Well, I have an Aunt Cindy, so that's. That's. It's very close. Not as weird, but. No. Okay. Yeah. Joey, Jeff.

[Kevin Ryan]

Kind of right up the middle.

[Casey Rocket]

Brad.

[Kevin Ryan]

You got an Uncle Brad.

[Casey Rocket]

I got an Uncle Brad.

[H. Foley]

Brad's all right.

[Casey Rocket]

He's the main uncle. He's got a bunch of kids. A bunch of my cousins are via Brad.

[Kevin Ryan]

They come to kin of Brad by way Of Brad.

[Casey Rocket]

You're close with the family relatively just around the holidays.

[H. Foley]

Is that what you. I was going to ask you, where do you spend your Christmas?

[Casey Rocket]

My dad's house.

[H. Foley]

Dad's house. Through the tree, all that kind of stuff.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah. Yeah. My little brothers are younger now. They're older. 16 and 18. But yeah. So I. Yeah, whatever. Every Christmas I'll fly home, go do it down there. Because they're little kids, so.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah, it's mostly for them.

[Casey Rocket]

Thanksgivings, I stay here.

[H. Foley]

Stay here.

[Casey Rocket]

But if. If I did do it in the past, it's always been at my dad's. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Now, like this year, will you decorate your apartment with maybe put a little tree, do a little something or.

[Casey Rocket]

No, I had a little Santa by the door.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Casey Rocket]

But I don't. You know, I didn't have a girlfriend or anything, like, living with me, so it's all just me. So my apartment is covered, like, head to toe in like Donnie Darko, Paul Thomas Anderson, like, guy stuff, Rust Cole, True Detective, Charlie Kaufman. It's just all like different directors and then pictures of me dressed as grandmas. So.

[H. Foley]

Do you have that little tiny mirror that he used to look through?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, it's a meditation. It's a form of meditation.

[Kevin Ryan]

I mean, I. You know, Pretty open and closed case I think we have here.

[H. Foley]

You're flossing every day.

[Casey Rocket]

I have. I just recently started.

[H. Foley]

Good. Man.

[Kevin Ryan]

That sounds like the most political response I've ever heard in my life. I've heard very good things about this flossing I'm thinking about starting.

[Casey Rocket]

It wouldn't happen any other way.

[H. Foley]

You keep the apartment clean? You got a vacuum and all that stuff?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, I keep it pretty clean. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Guy wash the dishes, all that.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah. Keep pretty. Tip top. Cleanliness is next. Godliness. They taught us that at military.

[Kevin Ryan]

She told me that when I was digging stumps.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

It's gonna sound crazy. You're gonna think I'm nuts. I genuinely don't know if the kid's garbage. I really don't know.

[Casey Rocket]

Well, is it.

[Kevin Ryan]

I mean, you're. Dude, he's got you in some wonderlust.

[H. Foley]

I love him.

[Kevin Ryan]

This is.

[H. Foley]

Talk about rooting for somebody.

[Kevin Ryan]

He escaped rehab, ended up in a mentee's. Been. He referred to it as.

[H. Foley]

He went through a lot. He's got the apartments clean.

[Kevin Ryan]

He lives in a vampire bed. It sounds.

[Casey Rocket]

But it's an artist's life. It's an artist. It's. It's bohemian.

[H. Foley]

I wouldn't say how he operates now. When I. When I deem that garbage. He got his together.

[Kevin Ryan]

I gotta push back on this. This is fucking. He's. He likes frozen Baja Blasts.

[Casey Rocket]

It's nature. Nurture.

[H. Foley]

What spaghetti do you make regular spaghetti?

[Casey Rocket]

Can I be both? Duality of man.

[Kevin Ryan]

Sure. You can walk in both worlds.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, I dip my toes in both. Spaghett. I don't really make sweet. I was just trying to impress y'all. I don't make.

[Kevin Ryan]

Come on. What are we doing here? He's got you.

[Casey Rocket]

I just wanted you all to think that I cook.

[H. Foley]

Do you drink milk? Do you like milk?

[Casey Rocket]

If y'all do. I don't drink it like that. I don't drink it like that.

[Kevin Ryan]

I think there's no bisexual girlfriend.

[Casey Rocket]

I don't drink it like that.

[H. Foley]

Okay. What about mayonnaise? You like mayonnaise?

[Casey Rocket]

No mayonnaise.

[Kevin Ryan]

It's a plain Jane. Meat and cheese.

[Casey Rocket]

I just started using ketchup. Ketchup is new for me.

[Kevin Ryan]

You're trying and it ain't there.

[H. Foley]

What are you reading right now?

[Casey Rocket]

I'm reading a book about a doomed Arctic and expedition. Expedition called the Worst Journey in the World.

[H. Foley]

That's pretty good.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah, he can read. I'll give you that. The kid's Georgia trash.

[H. Foley]

You peeing in the shower?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah, I piss in the shower.

[H. Foley]

Brush your teeth in there?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

It leaves a toothbrush in there.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

All right.

[Kevin Ryan]

It's. What do you want from me?

[H. Foley]

Come on, man. He's a good kid.

[Kevin Ryan]

Good kid.

[H. Foley]

I don't know.

[Kevin Ryan]

I mean. Why are you making it sound like I'm tragic? The gotta call balls and strikes if we run an honest ship on his show here. He set a camper on fire and then put. Try to put it out with nail polish remover.

[H. Foley]

That could have easily been a bottle of Gatorade and this whole thing would be talking about it, Right?

[Casey Rocket]

It was perfect purple. Yeah. I would have been a hero. They would have threw me a. They would have threw me a parade, man.

[H. Foley]

What if? That's the moment where it would all turn? Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

You know, he becomes the quarterback, stars, shortstop, local hero.

[H. Foley]

Are you writing anything currently? Do you write anything? Are you writing anything? Long form, right?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Got a laptop?

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah. Writing scripts.

[H. Foley]

Writing a script. Kid's got a laptop. What do you got, a Mac?

[Casey Rocket]

No. Damn hp.

[H. Foley]

Damn.

[Casey Rocket]

I was rooting for you.

[Kevin Ryan]

A Kindle.

[Casey Rocket]

I got. I got an hp.

[H. Foley]

But type on a typewriter.

[Casey Rocket]

No Hunter S. Thompson style? No, not Thompson style. I. I saw an interview once with Paul Thomas Anderson and he said that he learned how to direct movies from watching A bunch of movies. So. And I was like, you know, I'm basically him. I basically made Boogie Nights when I was 26. I am law enfant terrible. I am a wunderkind. It's so funny.

[H. Foley]

26.

[Casey Rocket]

When he did that, he was really young. He was 26. Dude. He made magnolia when he was 30. Which is like this beautiful three hour opus. It's unbelievable.

[H. Foley]

Frank TJ Mackie.

[Casey Rocket]

Yeah. Yes. So I figure that's probably where I'm at in my life. I'm just Paul Thomas Anderson. So that's how I view myself. And then I go on stage. Talk about worms for an hour. Come on.

[Kevin Ryan]

What are we doing? I love him.

[H. Foley]

Buddy. We love you. 100 garbage.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

But man, honestly, bro, what a tale. And congratulations.

[Casey Rocket]

Thank you.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah. Very cool to see, man.

[H. Foley]

Casey Rocket, everybody.

[Casey Rocket]

Thank you guys.

[H. Foley]

What do you got coming up? You're on tour.

[Casey Rocket]

I'm on tour. Caseyrocketcomedy.com I'm doing 30 cities this year. Going to Australia, going to the UK.

[H. Foley]

Going to Australia.

[Casey Rocket]

Going to Australia.

[Kevin Ryan]

Well, let's shoplift.

[H. Foley]

Nothing over there. Not coming to get you. Take it easy on a lunch meat.

[Casey Rocket]

UK, Ireland. Going all over the place. But yeah. Casey. Rocketcomedy.com yeah. Thank you also, buddy.

[Kevin Ryan]

Thank you.

[H. Foley]

Love you, Kippy. What do you got for him? Guys?

[Kevin Ryan]

We're all over the road as well. Tour starts very soon. Tickets are going fast. Second shows are being added. Get those tickets while they're still available. And the Route 66 special is out now. Go watch that on our YouTube page. We love you.

[H. Foley]

We love you, gang. Casey, we love you, buddy.

[Casey Rocket]

I love you. Appreciate you.

[H. Foley]

Thank you, gang. We love you. We'll see you next week.

[Kevin Ryan]

Peace.