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H. Foley
Kevin, you see this? We got this Route 66 special dropping.
Kevin Ryan
You ain't lying, big man. We got the live shows from every city on the tour, plus the boys on the bus seeing this great country of ours. It's dropping February 25th on our YouTube page. Make sure you tune in to the live premieres.
H. Foley
Welcome to another exciting edition of are you garbage? The show where you find out if your favorite comedians are classy individuals or. 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 a little show. We sit down with your favorite comedians and we find that out they grow to be classy. Yeah, they're just a big old piece of trash.
Kevin Ryan
Trash, trash, trash.
H. Foley
I'm your host, H. Foley. Coming at you on a beautiful day. We're down here in Tejas, Texas, baby. Austin, Tulsa, hoodie South. She's out doing a little speculating.
Kevin Ryan
Okay.
H. Foley
Want to be a landman down here? All right, Billy Bob Thornton. We're down here in Austin, Texas. Mike coast is coming at you from right next to me. He is the CEO of are you garbage? He is an international businessman and my best pal in the whole wide world. Give it up for kj Kevin. James Ryan, everybody.
Kevin Ryan
What up, everybody? Thanks for tuning in as always. Please make sure you review subscribe on itunes. Full video available on YouTube. And now Spotify Shout out to it video on Spotify. The Specials drop in February 25th. Make sure you subscribe to the YouTube page. The whole nine yards. We love you.
H. Foley
Yeah, we love you. And we couldn't be more excited to have our incredibly, and I mean incredibly special guest here with us today for the first time. She is a very funny, very successful stand up comedian, podcaster, writer, producer, and small business owner. And you might have seen her, but not limited to you got last comic standing, you got Chelsea Layton.
Christina P
Oh, my God.
H. Foley
World's dumbest. The degenerates.
Christina P
Those are deep cuts.
H. Foley
Lights out with David Spade. Let's not forget 2019's Countdown. How you doing? Oscar Snub right there. All right. Is it cake? Wtf? The Comedy Store? She has not one, but two amazing specials streaming on Netflix, Mother Inferior and mom jeans. And of course, she is the co host of your mom's house and the co owner and operator of the industry titan YMH Studios. But the big question buddy's mind today, is she garbage? First guest to ever come in here straight from the er. I mean, that's a First with stitches, ladies and gentlemen. Give it up for Christina P, Everybody.
Kevin Ryan
Yes.
Christina P
Thank you.
H. Foley
Let's go.
Christina P
Thank you.
H. Foley
Talk about the duality of man. Look at that. The rock on the finger with the ACE bandage wrapped around it.
Christina P
I know.
H. Foley
And what happened?
Christina P
Well, first of all, I want to. I'm so excited to be here.
H. Foley
Thank you.
Kevin Ryan
Thank you.
Christina P
My husband has told me forever to come on this show and do it because he is sure that I will be the garbage kid.
Kevin Ryan
You're going to be up there. Most requested guests. And it's not even possible.
Christina P
The hand. Okay, so I. We live in Texas. There's snakes in the backyard. This morning I found a copperhead and.
H. Foley
I was like, poisonous snake?
Christina P
Yes.
H. Foley
We're not talking about a gardener snake or something like that.
Christina P
No.
H. Foley
And copperheads in the backyard.
Christina P
They're everywhere.
H. Foley
What are you doing back there?
Christina P
Well, you play with the kids in the morning before school.
Kevin Ryan
You got movies. This is nuts.
Christina P
Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
And so crazy.
Christina P
They don't leave. So what I do is I pick them up, I milk them, which I learned to do in Australia when I did Road rules in the 90s.
Kevin Ryan
Sure.
Christina P
And I go to.
Kevin Ryan
I mean, you casually say that. What does that look like? And what the. You're like. Nobody's like, oh, yeah, you're just milking copperheads that you find.
H. Foley
That's crazy.
Christina P
Yeah. So I pick it up and you get a. A glass and you just. You pop it onto the edge of the glass and the.
Kevin Ryan
Like Steve Irwin would do.
Christina P
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I go to do it. I go to grab its neck because I've secured it. Because you put like a. A rod and you secure the. The head. I pick it up and it got me. It got me right there.
H. Foley
You got bit.
Kevin Ryan
I was told you got cut.
Christina P
No, no, no.
H. Foley
You have an active snake bite right now.
Christina P
Yeah, of course.
H. Foley
Did you get anti venom or whatever?
Christina P
Yes. And it's going to make me a little sleepy, so if I drift off.
H. Foley
Wait, you're fucking with this, right? You sprained your hand at the gym?
Christina P
Of course I'm fucking okay.
H. Foley
You son of a. Jesus Christ, man. I believe that. You got to be kidding. I believe that 100%. There are snakes and spiders down here. That's why you'll never. My fat ass.
Christina P
No, I'll tell you what really happened. Okay. So my kids.
Kevin Ryan
Oh, is that yoga?
Christina P
Yeah. No, it's kind of a garbagey, garbagey thing. So.
Kevin Ryan
Okay.
Christina P
My two sons play with knives all the time.
Kevin Ryan
What are they in the circus? I mean, aren't they like 8 and 5. That's.
Christina P
I mean, they're 9 and 6. Love playing with knives. And last night my older boy was cutting some box open with a knife and I was like, give that to me, Ellis. And I go to grab the knife and he just jerks it back and then it just slices my hand open.
H. Foley
So instead of getting bit by a cottonmouth, you were stabbed by your son?
Kevin Ryan
I don't know what's worse.
H. Foley
He got into a night fight with a night.
Kevin Ryan
You were trying to disarm a nine year old.
H. Foley
Wait, hold on a second. Yeah, they like to play with knives, but you don't.
Christina P
Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
Like, do you buy them knives or are they like kitchen knives?
H. Foley
Buy them knives.
Kevin Ryan
I don't know what these people are doing.
H. Foley
Wait, you just walk in and catch them? Like, what are you doing?
Christina P
So we have knives in our kitchen, like cutting normal cut. Yeah, it's like. Actually the. They're like the Cutco ones, the ones that they sell door to door, which I love.
Kevin Ryan
The pyramid scheme ones.
Christina P
Those are the best.
Kevin Ryan
That was one of. That was one of the first AYG questions. Have you ever tried to sell Cutco knives, which a lot of people have done?
Christina P
No, but I was this close to selling Tupperware, cuz I went to a Tupperware party and I was like, this stuff's really good.
Kevin Ryan
Practically sells itself.
Christina P
Maybe like, oh, two. When.
H. Foley
I remember when Avon was banging.
Christina P
Of course.
H. Foley
Mom sold Avon. Skin so Soft. Remember Skin so Soft. That kept everything.
Christina P
Did your mom sell a.
H. Foley
She didn't, but she was a big purchaser of Skin so Soft. Used as an insect.
Kevin Ryan
Bug spray. We used to use it as bug spray in Philadelphia. For some reason, it had that funk to it.
H. Foley
I don't know what it was. Mosquitoes hated it.
Kevin Ryan
A lot of microplastics. It wasn't good.
Christina P
No, Nothing was good in the 80s.
Kevin Ryan
No.
Christina P
Or the 90s.
H. Foley
Okay, so go ahead.
Christina P
Okay. So anyway, just, you know, just knives and they. I.
H. Foley
This is last night.
Christina P
This is last night. Ellis, can you open up this Amazon box? Okay, Mom, I'll do it. And instead of grabbing scissors, whatever, he just grabs a kitchen knife. And I'm like, no, no, no, not that one, bro. And I go to grab it and he, you know, just wants the knife and it.
H. Foley
How bad of a slice? Because you just got out of the ER right now, so you wrote it out for the night. Oh, man, you are trash. You got cash. What are you doing?
Christina P
Because I'm. See, this is what I was. I want to talk to you guys about there's two types of trash.
Kevin Ryan
These problems are above our pay grade.
H. Foley
This isn't therapy.
Christina P
I think there's like, I got an.
H. Foley
Adderall upstairs if you want to. That's the best we could do for you.
Christina P
There's like, American trash.
Kevin Ryan
I feel. I feel like this is date. This is. Because this isn't our typical set. I feel like we're sitting down with a murderer. Like, we're over here, she's over there with an active wound. And we're like, so where was the knife when you entered the room?
H. Foley
Christina, what are you doing here?
Christina P
What's the thing? But I'm. I'm Euro trash.
Kevin Ryan
Yes. Which we want to get into.
H. Foley
Yeah, we want to get into this.
Christina P
But this is different because in my mind. In my mind, if I have cuts and just bleeding all night, which it was. Bleeding all night.
H. Foley
Bleeding all night.
Christina P
All night. It was. It was red and wet. And I was like, I can wait. I can. I got to go to this podcast tomorrow, you guys. I've been looking forward to it. I literally was like, I'll just wait until after the party.
H. Foley
What's he say? What does Tom say?
Christina P
He's not home. He's. He's working. He's in Boston.
H. Foley
Because he would have been go to the ER right now.
Christina P
I would assume that's what normal, normal people would have done who have self care or I.D. like, I don't have that. What's that kid say?
H. Foley
Sorry.
Christina P
He know. He's devastated.
Kevin Ryan
He was getting his alibi straight. I was at the bar all night. I don't know what.
H. Foley
She's talking mouth shut.
Kevin Ryan
Snitches get stitches.
H. Foley
Ma flips his blade. Well, for sure.
Christina P
Yeah. No, so. So, yeah. So I tough it out because in my mind, this is what you do. I numbed crybaby go to hospital. I can wait. And I'll wait and see.
H. Foley
Wrap it up.
Christina P
I wrapped it up.
H. Foley
What is your home method of wrapping something up? I'm assuming it's some type of paper towel, hand towel rag.
Kevin Ryan
There's some adhesive involved, of course.
H. Foley
Iodine.
Christina P
Yeah. I just squirted some Neosporin on it because it creates, like a gel.
Kevin Ryan
Sure.
Christina P
And then I just put like four band aids, like, regular size. And then they just bled through. Like, I woke up trying to get.
H. Foley
Creative with the band aids. Those never. When you're doing the four one way.
Kevin Ryan
Three the other, you're reinforcing them and stuff. You know, you need medical attention. That's what you need. Not more band.
Christina P
It's.
Kevin Ryan
It's never more band aids.
H. Foley
You got to the er who put these six Garfield band aids on you?
Christina P
But that's my stupid. My stupid Pollock brain is like, I'll just put on like six band aids. I'll be fine.
H. Foley
You know what you needed was a butterfly.
Kevin Ryan
Butterfly stick.
H. Foley
Remember that in the day, your mom would break out a butterfly on you? Yeah, she was like a cardiac surgeon doing that.
Christina P
No, we didn't have Band aid is weakness. That's what I'm telling you.
Kevin Ryan
Did you have health insurance growing up? I could.
Christina P
I'm such a good question.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah, I've never. In 400 episodes, I've never had to ask it, but I feel like it.
H. Foley
Do you have health insurance now? Let's start there.
Christina P
Now I have money, so. Yeah, but do.
H. Foley
You're at the ER in a fake name.
Christina P
But, like, do you even remember going to the dentist for, like, preventative?
H. Foley
Yes.
Kevin Ryan
No. Oh, no. We were. We were. It was like a collision. It was like. We got a car. You had to go.
H. Foley
You went and got your teeth cleaned every year with the bubble gum fluoride.
Christina P
You did.
Kevin Ryan
I was feeling cav. We were mainly a cavity. I remember having so many cavities. One time my mom yelled at me when I got in the car. She goes, they're gonna take you away. I like, I had, like, 13 cavities at 8 years old.
Christina P
They're gonna take you away.
H. Foley
Taking you away for bad teeth. That's a nice part of town.
Kevin Ryan
I don't know. The dentist house. I don't know, dude. My teeth were falling out of my head. It was bad.
Christina P
That's what I think, too. Like, I don't remember because I take my kids preventatively and now they put stuff in there so that they don't get molar cavity. Like, there's all these things. And I'm called fluoride, right?
H. Foley
Yeah.
Christina P
Like, we didn't do that until you knocked a tooth out.
Kevin Ryan
Really?
Christina P
Oh, my God.
H. Foley
That's crazy. We're about the same age. You weren't getting the bubble gum fluoride something out of the treasure chest.
Christina P
I'm telling you, Euro trash, we didn't even know about that. This, like, I. We didn't even know. My parents didn't know, like, what Star wars the movie was.
H. Foley
All right, let's. Let's take it back before we go, though. How many stitches do you have?
Christina P
Okay, so they actually didn't need to sew. They used sterry strip. So there's like four.
H. Foley
Okay.
Christina P
There's four thing. Gluing It's. They're. They glue them together. They're gluing my skin together. And then I just keep this on.
H. Foley
And they gave you a little novocaine when they did it.
Christina P
Yeah, lidocaine. They scrape.
H. Foley
Anything else for later to give you.
Christina P
Dude, I wish.
Kevin Ryan
A couple of Zanny bars or something. A couple of tombstones.
Christina P
Take the edge off this close to asking. And I was like, I look like a junkie wrote your script for a.
H. Foley
Percocet and a White Claw. Be all right. All right, let's go back. Give us the origin story up the middle. Mom's dads, brothers, sisters grew up, all that kind of.
Kevin Ryan
Because I saw a fact I wasn't aware of today, where you were born.
Christina P
Okay, so this is the cool part. So parents escaped from Communist Hungary in 1969. So they grow up just horrific deprivation. The communists took over the rest.
H. Foley
How'd they get out?
Christina P
Literally on foot through Yugoslav and Yugoslavian border. They get caught, they get thrown back to Hungary. They get on a train. They get through. They. They finally escape to Italy in Trieste, and they are in a. A camp for a year, like a refugee camp. I know. It's a horrible story.
H. Foley
What?
Christina P
It's bananas. And finally, the Catholic Church sponsors them.
Kevin Ryan
I wouldn't send you to the dentist either. What the. Your tooth hurts. Suck my dick.
Christina P
Exactly.
Kevin Ryan
Y.
Christina P
Exactly. So they're so tough. And then. So we got. We went to Canada, and then I was born in Windsor, Ontario.
Kevin Ryan
So they.
H. Foley
Hold on. They get to Canada, then they start a new life.
Christina P
They start a new life. It takes about 14 years before I come around.
H. Foley
Okay.
Christina P
So they're just trying to be. You know that. My father always tells me, like, I let. We landed in Canada, and I was blown away. I was so excited. I could buy a hot dog and a Coca Cola for $5. And he says, I saw a black guy with a hat with a feather and big cars, and I knew this is where I always belonged.
H. Foley
My man. Yeah, Give me high four. Okay. Good to see you. That's awesome. That's about appreciating the small things.
Christina P
Yes.
H. Foley
A fucking refugee camp in Italy.
Christina P
Getting out of.
H. Foley
Fucking communist. Fucking. The Soviet.
Christina P
The Russian. Yes, exactly.
H. Foley
That's old school.
Christina P
Very old school. Very tough.
H. Foley
Holy.
Christina P
Very tough people who raised me. And I. This is why I. You know, I am. I think I'm a little more obtuse to average human things. We just didn't. Who.
Kevin Ryan
It didn't register. None of that stuff.
Christina P
It doesn't register to me. Like, you should do this or that you should.
H. Foley
Sure.
Christina P
I just don't see it because I'm like, why? You see your crybaby pussy? Like, what? Just. So anyway, I'm born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, which is across from Detroit. It's probably the grossest part of Canada. It's, it is the garbage part of Canada. Just to put it in perspective, Canadians. So many Canadians die every year because they get hammered and try to swim across Lake Ontario.
H. Foley
Really? To Detroit? Yeah, like just for fun, for the good life, baby.
Christina P
Detroit.
H. Foley
See it right there.
Kevin Ryan
Let's talk about refugees.
H. Foley
What does your mom and dad do? What'd your dad do by trade? What'd he do for a living?
Christina P
So my God, he's so crafty. So when he was in Hungary, they forced him to go into the military, the Russians. And he learned how to fix cars and machinery. So when he came to Canada, he learned how to do forklifts.
H. Foley
Okay.
Christina P
And then when we came to the US in 1980, when I was four, he started a forklift business in the San Fernando Valley.
H. Foley
Started a business.
Christina P
A business.
Kevin Ryan
So he made enough money to start a small business.
Christina P
He did incredibly well and became like the biggest forklift business in the San Fernando Valley.
H. Foley
What? Wait, so Ontario, you're four, you moved to Cali?
Christina P
Correct.
H. Foley
Okay.
Christina P
And my parents divorced because he was like, I made it to California. Time to start banging.
Kevin Ryan
Really?
Christina P
After going through all that with my. Yeah, well, my mother, so my mother was schizophrenic and crazy. So he was like, I gotta go. And yeah, but he.
Kevin Ryan
California girls, huh?
H. Foley
I just picture riding away on his forklift.
Christina P
But he always lived nearby and they split custody.
Kevin Ryan
Okay, so then you stayed primarily with Mom?
Christina P
Primarily with mom, brothers and sisters? No, until child 12. My mother remarries to an Indian guy who's a criminal.
Kevin Ryan
What? What?
Christina P
It's so like I should write who.
Kevin Ryan
Remarries an Indian guy? I've never heard that. I've never heard that. My mom remarried an Indian guy. I mean that's, that's wild.
Christina P
But what's exciting is that that's a whole new layer of garbage.
Kevin Ryan
Sure.
Christina P
Cuz they like, he liked, for instance, he would make samosas for me.
H. Foley
That ain't bad.
Kevin Ryan
Don't get, Never mind. I, I, I wish my mom remarried.
H. Foley
I didn't have one of those till like two years ago.
Kevin Ryan
Man, they're great. Chutney or something.
Christina P
But instead of regular beef, he would use the Taco Bell seasoning.
H. Foley
That's probably not that bad.
Kevin Ryan
I mean, that's pretty good.
H. Foley
That's all right. It's so that's like a cheesesteak egg roll. Basically.
Christina P
Yeah.
H. Foley
We could be doing more with those samosa wraps. We really could.
Christina P
I know, I know.
H. Foley
Stuff were on the table.
Christina P
They really.
H. Foley
Chicken samosa.
Kevin Ryan
Marry an Indian guy, get this thing started. Small business.
H. Foley
Wait, hold on. So you move four years old, you guys moved to California. Your dad starts the business. How long till the business is, like when you say. He said he was the biggest in the area.
Christina P
So, like, we're. We're middle class, comfortable.
Kevin Ryan
Okay.
H. Foley
Mom's not working.
Christina P
No, mom is working. Mommy is working as a. As a account receptionist. So we're. I'm living in like a. Primarily, like a two bedroom apartment in Reseda. Like Tarzana. The same one Brody Stevens grew up in. As we always talked about, it was primarily single mothers and immigrants and like Israelis and Persians once they.
Kevin Ryan
Once they split. That's where your mom went.
Christina P
Correct.
Kevin Ryan
So what was your dad's house like?
Christina P
It was a lot. It was better. Yeah, it was like this, like. No, not like. This is nice. It was just a nice middle class Canoga Park.
H. Foley
Okay.
Christina P
Valley dwelling.
H. Foley
Okay, so he's doing well. He's still taking care of you guys. He's taking care of your mom. He just wants to do his own thing. Yeah, he's involved in your life.
Christina P
Exactly.
H. Foley
Gotcha. Okay.
Christina P
Yeah. But then I go to live with him because my mom's crazy. She's schizo, and she would kick me out and go live with him. And that's when the trashy. Really?
Kevin Ryan
When you're with your dad.
Christina P
Yo. Okay, He's a single Eastern European guy, so it's paper plates, plastic forks. I'm eating hot dogs for dinner at Cupid's in the Valley. What? Shout out 818 Van Nuys I should slap. And I still order it.
H. Foley
Shouting out area coats.
Kevin Ryan
Not even a good one. 818. I don't know enough. I know that's not the good one.
H. Foley
Wait, the Indian guys? The Indian guys in the picture now?
Kevin Ryan
No, he's out again.
Christina P
He comes in when I'm like 13.
H. Foley
Okay. How old are you right now? How old are you now?
Christina P
This is like 8. 8. Third grade, I go to live with my dad.
Kevin Ryan
Single dad. Single dad making some cash.
H. Foley
Same school. You got to change schools.
Christina P
Same school.
H. Foley
Okay, so no friction there.
Christina P
No, same school. But that's a level of like. Like I. I remember watching Pippi Longstocking and she cuts her spaghetti with scissors. Like, I was doing that and thinking it was fun and eating Chef Boyardee out of cans.
H. Foley
Dressing like Punky Brewster right now.
Christina P
Oh, for sure. Yeah.
H. Foley
Shout out to Punky.
Kevin Ryan
Were you left to make your own food? Most of it. Like, is he. Is he coming home from the forklift factory and cooking and what kind of.
H. Foley
So we're talking camp. Let's talk about Tushy, baby.
Kevin Ryan
Shout out to Tushy.
H. Foley
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Kevin Ryan
Big man ain't lying. They're easy to install. They were nice enough to send them to us. We got them installed out there at.
H. Foley
Hoodies can eat off this thing, man.
Kevin Ryan
You sit down and I tell you, it's. It's like a little slice of heaven, gang. Let me tell you something.
H. Foley
Foreplay.
Kevin Ryan
It's. You didn't. It's one of those things where you're like, I didn't know I was walking around like a proper. The homeless person.
H. Foley
Toilet paper. It sticks to your ass and all that stuff. That's how you get what we call in the business dingleberries.
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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H. Foley
And he's got a little bit of cash. He's single, went through a lot. This is 80s.
Christina P
Yes.
H. Foley
Got an accent.
Christina P
Yeah.
H. Foley
I would assume he's probably doing pretty well with the ladies.
Christina P
Slaying pussy.
Kevin Ryan
Are they coming in and out? Like. Are women entering your life and cycling through.
Christina P
That's her. Yes. To the point where I.
Kevin Ryan
It's traumatized. We're laughing.
Christina P
How traumatized?
Kevin Ryan
For sure. Traumatized you.
Christina P
It's the worst because I. I would mix up their names. So I'm getting in trouble for my dad.
H. Foley
No shit. He's juggling. He's got a couple of broad multiple.
Christina P
I'm calling Debbie, Susan and Susan Debbie. And then who the fuck is Nancy?
Kevin Ryan
And this is Christina. She likes hot dog. As he walks upstairs. It's.
Christina P
Yeah, it's just.
H. Foley
She like hot dog.
Christina P
I'm just left to raise myself. Really.
Kevin Ryan
Sure.
Christina P
But I. But again, single, that's.
Kevin Ryan
I mean, that's most divorced family. That's most divorced.
Christina P
It is.
H. Foley
But there's food in the house. All that kind of stuff. He's rolling it.
Kevin Ryan
It didn't sound great. She's talking hot dogs and cold Chef Boyardee.
Christina P
Like it's like Hungarian. Like there's. Yeah, there's hot dogs in the freezer. I can eat that. There's Chef Boyardee in the cans, which is great. Budget gourmet. I lived on the budget gourmet.
Kevin Ryan
What's that? A brand?
Christina P
Oh, yeah. They were frozen. Yeah.
H. Foley
Frozen dinners.
Christina P
And to this day, so good.
H. Foley
There was a wave. There was the Hungry man, the Swansons. And then around the mid-80s, they started leaning into the healthier options. Lean Cuisine.
Kevin Ryan
I know my way around pretty good.
H. Foley
You know your way around a Lean Cuisine Chicken Alfredo, I would assume, of course.
Kevin Ryan
Wow.
Christina P
That shit's delicious. And I would still eat it to this day. And the French bread pizza.
Kevin Ryan
Stouffer's Stouffer's.
Christina P
Of course.
Kevin Ryan
I heard that. About three years.
H. Foley
This podcast is built on Stouffer's French bread pizza.
Christina P
Can we talk about why it's so.
Kevin Ryan
I thought I was European the first time I had that. I was like, what in the world? I don't have a passport. How did I get there?
H. Foley
This followed up with an International Delights. Delicious.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah, that stuff. That's.
Christina P
Oh, you mean the coffee.
H. Foley
Remember the coffee was in that tin.
Christina P
I thought it was.
H. Foley
Yeah, I was fancy.
Christina P
I. You. Yeah, you. International Foods.
H. Foley
International Foods.
Christina P
Remember the name of the waiter? Jean Luc. Do you remember the commercial?
H. Foley
That's pretty good. Yeah, I know. Like, the way they lit those commercials back then was so. So, like, cinematic. It was the spotlight coming down. Oh, yeah, International Foods.
Christina P
But that's what. But I thought I was posh. I didn't know that we were garbage. I thought, like, we can afford Budget Gourmet. I can.
Kevin Ryan
I mean, budget's in the name.
H. Foley
Holy shit.
Christina P
But I love a French bread pizza.
Kevin Ryan
It's the best. It's the best.
Christina P
The sweetness of the sauce.
Kevin Ryan
Let's get some. What are we doing?
Christina P
I know.
H. Foley
We had it at the Super Bowl. We stayed in. Watch the Super Bowl. I threw a couple of those in the oven and then cut them up into fours.
Christina P
Oh, wow. Mama Celeste supreme pizza. I felt like I was a gazillionaire.
H. Foley
So you would tell him what you wanted?
Christina P
I would get it at the store.
H. Foley
You were shopping yourself?
Christina P
No, no, he. We go to the grocery store, and he would just let me buy whatever the heck I wanted.
Kevin Ryan
What grocery store was that?
Christina P
Albertsons.
Kevin Ryan
That's a. That's a fair. That's a good establishment.
Christina P
Yeah. Or Alpha Beta doesn't exist, but he dated one of the checkout girls, Nancy. And my man still alive.
Kevin Ryan
You can close ass. If you can do it in a. In a supermarket transaction, you can close. That's why. That's. There's a 1% of guys can. That's a 90 second transaction.
Christina P
Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
Plus, he's got you right there. Well, that's coming up.
H. Foley
12 boxes of sugary cereal to think of, like.
Christina P
But that's the thing. I was bait because people, I was cute.
Kevin Ryan
Cute girl. Oh, look at her.
Christina P
And what a good dad.
Kevin Ryan
Wow.
Christina P
This guy, like, takes care of his kid and, like, you know, I mean.
H. Foley
In the 80s, a single dad. That's pretty. He's goddamn devastating.
Kevin Ryan
Her mother died. It was tragic. He's lying.
Christina P
And milk. That milk in her.
H. Foley
Just got back from Vietnam. It's 1987. What are you talking about. Okay. All right. So he takes you to the store.
Christina P
Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
This is a. This is a. This is a story.
H. Foley
I would have to assume that there is an advantage being a kid of your dad not really being aware or not. Not. Not giving a. But, like, I assume you were able to get whatever cereal you wanted.
Christina P
Anything I wanted, really. And I could dress however I wanted, which nowadays they let children do. Like, you go, I pick up my kid from school, and, like, there's girls wearing ballerina skirts. Whereas I did that in the 80s. And I would get talking to. Yeah, I would dress like Madonna because we go, oh. I would get my clothes at the swap meet because he loved the Valley Indoor swap Meet. And I thought I was so cool because I could wear, like, my swap meet outfit and with those cool kung fu slippers. Do you remember those white shoes that. The Karate Kid when that movie came out? They're, like, white cloth shoes with, like, the hard plastic bottoms. They're ninja shoes.
H. Foley
You're wearing bowling shoes to school? Is that what you're telling us?
Christina P
I wish.
H. Foley
That's crazy. Did you go through a wrestling shoes phase?
Christina P
What's the.
H. Foley
What are, like, wrestling. Wrestling shoes?
Christina P
No.
Kevin Ryan
Girls go through those.
H. Foley
Yeah, a couple. A couple. A couple of. That was, like, a little bit of a thing.
Kevin Ryan
They're lesbians.
Christina P
Yeah. I was gonna say, not this kind.
H. Foley
Kung fu shoes.
Christina P
But I could buy whatever I want. Yeah. I could eat whatever I want. It was like Pippi Long. So I go to bed. Like, I don't even remember having a bedtime. I don't. Brushing my teeth. I don't remember.
Kevin Ryan
Like, kind of feral. You're just doing whatever you wanted 1,000%. Was you stealing? I feel like you were stealing.
Christina P
I did start.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah.
H. Foley
Things on fire a lot. Did you like to burn frogs, Christina?
Christina P
I loved fire. And my dad would go to sleep, and I would just play with the fire flames.
Kevin Ryan
Dan.
H. Foley
Where?
Christina P
In his house.
H. Foley
Like, fireplace.
Christina P
Yeah, we had a fireplace. And he'd go to sleep, and I would just stay up and, like, throw shit in the fire.
H. Foley
I know I would have sent you away if I came down in the middle of the night. You were sitting there worshiping fire. No, thank you. Any vacations? Would you guys go anywhere?
Christina P
Yes. So that's a cool part of my parents is, I would say, because they were Europeans, that we traveled very extensively. And I had a really nice education, like, now that I think about it. Okay. So my dad would take me to Club Med with him.
H. Foley
That's not education.
Kevin Ryan
It's not Educational and swinging. That's what that is. That's one step below hedonism. It's crazy, I know.
Christina P
And I didn't realize it until later.
H. Foley
Never do shots before dinner. Okay?
Christina P
That's what he would tell me.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah.
Christina P
He's like, always eat before you drink. This way you can drink without throwing up. And I was like, okay, dad, these.
H. Foley
Broads will never know what hit them. Wait, hold on. Would you?
Christina P
Yeah.
H. Foley
Did you ever go back to Europe as a vacation?
Kevin Ryan
You're like, yeah, as well. Travel? We did Key West, a couple Carnival cruises.
Christina P
Martinique. No. So. So we did go to Club Meds in, like, Mexico every. I go to Mexico a lot. Every summer with my dad.
H. Foley
He probably loved that for some reason. I love that he was living like that, going through all that. Think of how much he appreciated that. He had tight little bathing suit. Bunch of hot broads down at Club Med, man, Hairy ass chest. I assume.
Kevin Ryan
I mean, while she's, like, fending for her. So you're like, this dude's crushing A's. He's traveling. Meanwhile, she's like.
H. Foley
You're traveling to the ice machine at a hotel.
Kevin Ryan
She has a pyromania problem developing. She's stealing. She's clearly acting.
H. Foley
He's living his life.
Kevin Ryan
The Indian guy. Who knows where he is.
H. Foley
Your dad took you to club, which.
Christina P
So I did research. It. It did start off as a French sex resort, essentially. And I didn't realize that. I just thought it was, like, this fun.
H. Foley
It wasn't a Dave and Busters, I.
Christina P
Can tell you that. Like, French. It was all in French. And I got to hang out with other, like. Like European.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah.
H. Foley
Other up.
Christina P
Kids. And we'd run around the Village. So they call them the Village. And I. I don't know how, by the grace of God. Like, I did not get kidnapped or abducted, molested. So, like, I don't. I think I was, like. My mother was so vigilant about, like, you don't talk to anybody. Everybody's out to get you. So I was very, like. I don't know, sturdy, you know?
Kevin Ryan
Well, that's. I mean, when you have to learn to fend for yourself, it's like. Like, you grow up, you have your heads on a swivel of, like, hyper.
Christina P
Vigilance is what my therapist. Did you guys have that, too? Are you guys as traumatized as me?
H. Foley
Yeah, but for.
Kevin Ryan
I mean, I wasn't at Club Med with my dad, but more psychological.
Christina P
Oh, okay. Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah.
Christina P
Well, it gets worse. So then he would take me to bars and Nightclubs with him in the States when I'm in third grade. Like on third grade school nights? Yeah.
H. Foley
Holy.
Christina P
Here's school.
H. Foley
Wait, school nights?
Christina P
Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
This guy cares about American education system.
Christina P
Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
You nuts?
H. Foley
How were your grades? Were you a good student?
Christina P
No. How can you be when.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah, there's no home, there's no stat, you know, he's not like, did you do your homework, Christina? You know what I mean?
Christina P
I said, even know what that is? Are you crazy?
H. Foley
But I love build home in one night. That's crazy.
Christina P
So we would go.
H. Foley
I'm done with the accent.
Christina P
We would go to this bar in the Valley called the Beef and Barrel.
Kevin Ryan
That's a good name. I would like to spend some time at the Beef Bar. Were you like the bar kid where everybody's. Oh, Christina. And they go over, they go, here, put the. Give you like $2. I save this for you. Go buy yourself candy.
Christina P
Yes.
Kevin Ryan
Meanwhile, you're stealing their wallet.
H. Foley
What would a typical dinner be at a bar like that? Some mozzarella sticks, some chicken fingers.
Christina P
Oh, and. And gosh, yes. And I think that those years really set me up to be a great. Like to be a stand up comedian, like to enjoy that. That dinginess of that night.
Kevin Ryan
It's like I walk into a dive bar and it's like I can tell right away if. If the coke's good, not the drugs.
Christina P
Did you grow up in bars?
Kevin Ryan
Grew up and hanging out in bars, eating chicken fingers at the bar, playing the photo Hunt. My dad. I mean, my whole family's alcoholic. So am I. I'm not, I'm not. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. It's just who we are.
Christina P
Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
Just Irish construction drum. Construction workers.
Christina P
Yeah. I just. I stopped drinking alcohol after I had. I like 60 days ago. It's horrible. But anyway, the point is, okay, Beef and Barrel. I have the best memories of it, though, because it was the 80s and the music was amazing. So everybody's like, the 80s were the best. I'm like, yes, they were. It was Duran Duran. It was Lionel Richie. It was Frankie Goes to Hollywood. It was, you know, and I'm. And I have this great memory of dancing with sailors. There were sailors in their outfits in third grade. Third grade. They had just come off whatever break and they were on the dance floor with me and they were like, I'm this novelty. I'm this little girl.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah. Like, oh, it's fun. We're dancing, you know, we're having a good time.
Christina P
So fun. And at one point, it's like a wedding. It was so. Yeah, exactly. It was moany. Moni, you know that song by Billy Idols?
Kevin Ryan
Yeah.
Christina P
And Sailors. Yeah. There's a thing where they go, hey, motherfucker, get laid, get fucked. Like you sing it. In between. I remember being like, what's this new poem? And I remember chanting it with them, hey, motherfucker, get laid, get fucked. And I was like, my life couldn't get any better.
Kevin Ryan
Like, this is the height of cool.
Christina P
And then I go to school the next day. I went to a nice Lutheran school. And, like, how do you explain to other kids that you.
Kevin Ryan
What you're doing.
Christina P
Chanted with sailors?
H. Foley
Yeah. They were home watching the A team last night.
Christina P
Yeah. Dorks.
H. Foley
Wait, so. Yeah, so a Christian school.
Christina P
Private school.
H. Foley
Private school. Okay. Uniform, the whole nine yards.
Christina P
Not a uniform yet. That's in Catholic school. When I got kicked out of public school, I had to go to prison.
Kevin Ryan
What did you get kicked out for?
Christina P
I just didn't go. I stopped going.
H. Foley
Who gets kicked out of public school goes to Catholic school. That's the reverse. That's crazy.
Christina P
So I. Yeah. By ninth grade, I start to realize that, like, my home life is weird, that something's up. Like, my mom's crazy, my dad's crazy. I've got this Indian stepdad. I've got three new stepsisters that are Indian.
H. Foley
And like, oh, okay. So you got three new steps.
Kevin Ryan
Getting along with them at all?
Christina P
Loved them.
H. Foley
Nice.
Christina P
A relief.
H. Foley
How much older are they than you are? Younger than you.
Christina P
They're about. We're all. I've one that's like a year older, one that's five years older, and one that's. That's about four years younger.
H. Foley
Perfect. All right. In the mix.
Christina P
So fun. And I love them and I'm thrilled to have a family.
H. Foley
And your mom kind of levels off a little bit. She's doing okay.
Christina P
It's great because now she ignores me, so now I'm free.
H. Foley
Okay, so.
Christina P
Meaning she's her focus.
Kevin Ryan
Her. Yeah. Crazy focus is not on you.
Christina P
It's now. It's on the.
H. Foley
Are you back living there?
Christina P
Do you. Every year I go back and forth. I get kicked out of my mom, My mom can't take me. My dad. I get annoyed with my dad. I go back to live with my mother. It's like, what does the girls have.
H. Foley
Divorced do that Indian stepdad does well, he's the best.
Christina P
So my Indian stepdad is a criminal genius. He passed away. So I can tell these stories.
Kevin Ryan
What?
Christina P
Brilliant man. So he. He escaped. He Escaped. It's so.
Kevin Ryan
Also that's a book. My Indian Stepdad, the Mastermind Criminal. That's really good. That is the name of your next special something. No one's ever said that.
Christina P
Oh, why are you.
Kevin Ryan
Because Indian guys wouldn't say my Indian stepdad. They would just be their stepdad.
Christina P
But I bring him in. So. So, so he's. He's brought up in like Bombay and he's poor as. And he only wants to come to America. So he's somehow gets in our US military does, Goes to Stuttgart to station there. Finally comes to America, comes to Van Nuys, which at the time was good. It was the 70s, which is the San Fran Valley again. And basically what immigrants do. I don't know if you guys, you don't know they. Immigrants are geniuses. Especially if they're criminal.
Kevin Ryan
You figure out loopholes, you find the holes. Yeah.
Christina P
So he was a brilliant mind at loophole findings. And he had scammed a couple ladies before he met my mother. He would marry blonde ladies, take their credit and establish businesses, make millions and millions of dollars, not pay taxes, file bankruptcy and do it again. Millions.
H. Foley
Whoa.
Christina P
So I went from living in a two bedroom apartment in the valley with my mom, like an immigrant, whatever. And she meets this guy because she decides it's time to get married.
H. Foley
Where do they meet?
Christina P
This is the best part.
Kevin Ryan
Interpol.
Christina P
So she puts an ad. This is 1988.
H. Foley
The out of here.
Christina P
She puts an ad in the.
H. Foley
You should be a super villain by now.
Kevin Ryan
The fact you haven't turned this for evil and you live a life for comedy is crazy.
H. Foley
Are you gonna murder us when we're done?
Christina P
I should be a sociopath. Oh my God.
H. Foley
Puts an ad in the paper.
Christina P
So in the Indian newspaper because she is convinced, she says to me, I like Indian men. They are. They are tall, dark and handsome. And they are. Which I'm like, I'm pretty sure that's.
Kevin Ryan
Wait, there's an Indian newspaper. There's an Indian newspaper in California because.
Christina P
There'S a lot of Indian people.
Kevin Ryan
Okay.
Christina P
And Shivans Indian men. So she puts an ad and she says, Buxom European woman seeks educated Indian man for marriage. Sorry. Well off. Basically have to be rich.
Kevin Ryan
Okay, sure.
H. Foley
For marriage.
Christina P
For marriage.
H. Foley
They hear that shit, they're coming running.
Christina P
Yeah. So we received bags of letters.
Kevin Ryan
Is your mom very attractive?
Christina P
She was stunning.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah.
Christina P
And I mean huge tits, blonde hair, blue eyes, like an Aryan goddess.
H. Foley
I was wondering what buxom meant.
Christina P
She is. She was. Yeah, she was a model in Hungary before she escaped I mean, she was. She was just banging, right? So we get these bags of letters, and the one letter that catches her eye is of this guy. I won't say. Sure, Subash. This is Indian name. And he's in front of a Mercedes convertible. They send him pictures, photos, of course, man.
Kevin Ryan
Imagine going through those letters with your mom, hey, do you want to bang this Indian dude? That's crazy.
Christina P
And he's got the Mercedes and Armani suit, a Roli. And he's got those old school car phones.
Kevin Ryan
The Brick dude, the Zach Morris.
H. Foley
That's pretty good.
Kevin Ryan
What? Also dude, posing for that in the 80s is. That's money.
Christina P
He's wild, dude. So she sees that she's slipping out of her seat. Done, dude. A month later, they're married. One month.
H. Foley
One month.
Christina P
And I remember putting bets on it with my new stepsisters, my new step family. How long this marriage will last. And I was like, it's got to be a year tops, because my mom's like, super crazy. Like, there's. She's hot, but she's nuts. There's no way they lasted 17 years.
Kevin Ryan
Wow.
Christina P
They were a fantastic couple.
Kevin Ryan
Good for them.
Christina P
Because they were both bananas, bonkers, batshit crazy. And they would do business together. I don't know what he did.
Kevin Ryan
It's just like, perfectly intertwined. There was no, like, friction. Their craziness is married and did well.
Christina P
It. It was lovely. And he was, sadly enough, the most paternal and functional of my stepparents. My dad, he would. He loved comedy. He loved Jay Leno. He and I would watch comedy together and he would tell jokes and we would, you know, fart at the table. And he. He was fun. I have memories of going to Rite Aid for ice cream or Thrifty. It's called Thrifty in LA for pistachio ice cream. He loved that. And he'd go, he was fat. He was really fat.
Kevin Ryan
I did not picture him.
H. Foley
Really? I didn't picture him either.
Christina P
He's very fat. He was, right, because he was poor. He grew up poor. So when he came to America, he.
Kevin Ryan
Was eating pizza and pistachio ice cream.
Christina P
Hair, claws.
H. Foley
Yeah, you don't gotta tell me you're Indian.
Christina P
He was a fat guy. He lived. I. So he said, let's go. Let's go to Thrifty, get some ice cream. And he'd get in the car and he go, hold on a minute. And he would get out of the car and he would take a blade and he would slash some guy's tires in the parking lot. And then get back in the car. And then we would just go to Thrifty and get our ice cream.
H. Foley
Why?
Christina P
Some guy did him dirty. Some business.
Kevin Ryan
Oh, it was like payback.
Christina P
Some guy did him dirty.
H. Foley
So that. So going to get the ice cream was a partial cover?
Kevin Ryan
Well, it was.
Christina P
No, he wanted ice cream, but he just had to do this errand.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah, you're gonna. I mean, you're not gonna do that. Go home, then go get ice cream. You're gonna knock it all out while you're.
Christina P
Because it was on the way. The parking lot was at the. It was right. It was on the way. So he just pulls over. We go. I'm. What's. What's, you know, subash doing? Oh, he's just slashing guys higher in the car. And my mother was there too. And I remember she's like high fiving him and like, they love it. And that was their dynamic. Yeah. They would start. He would start fights in, like, grocery stores, like telling people to shut their. You know, shut your kid up. And then my mother would hype it. Like, my mom was her. My mom was a hype man. And I know. Look at your face also.
Kevin Ryan
This. This.
H. Foley
You open this up with. He was the most paternal person.
Christina P
He was. But here's the crazy part, is that to me, like, the coolest.
Kevin Ryan
Sure.
Christina P
Stepdad I got. I lucked out. And look, a lot of stepdads are like, super molesting and pervy. Like, he wasn't. Like, he encouraged me to be comedian.
Kevin Ryan
That's great.
Christina P
I know it's kind of sad that this is like the most supportive adult.
H. Foley
I had, but it's like the slash tires.
Christina P
Yeah. Our lawn got set on fire because some. Somebody was retaliating against whatever he did.
H. Foley
Hey, Kippy.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah.
H. Foley
Let's talk about pretty Litter. I'll take the lead on this because I got a nice kitty cat at home and she loves that pretty litter. Let me tell you the real story. Here's. I'll pull it back to fourth wall a little bit. All right. Before Pretty Litter became a sponsor, we were using something else.
Kevin Ryan
Bozo stuff.
H. Foley
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H. Foley
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H. Foley
Now back to the show, would you say? So what was the, the house you.
Kevin Ryan
Said you moved from a two bedroom to.
Christina P
Oh, sorry. So I go to two bedroom into this. Like, I finally. Now I'm living in like this really nice house.
H. Foley
You guys are rich all of a.
Christina P
Sudden, bang, you're rich overnight. It's like literally we get. My mom marries this guy, she gets the rock, she gets a Mercedes and she literally takes her Mercedes to her, her, her gym where she works out at the women's only, okay, in, in the Valley. And she's like, look at these. I'm rich now. Like, she's like, what's up? I've got money.
H. Foley
She slashed everybody's tires, went and got some rocky road and went home.
Christina P
Yeah.
H. Foley
Like a lady.
Kevin Ryan
What were some of the business, like, what was it like, real estate? Was it like importing X? Like, what was the.
Christina P
Right. So I found out later after he passed, basically he was a shylock. So he would loan money, all right, and he would take the deed to.
Kevin Ryan
Your house or car.
H. Foley
Okay.
Christina P
So at his time of his death, he had all these deeds to every motherfucker's house in la. And he was like, he was, he was stacked. He did. So that was one of them.
H. Foley
Where'd that cash go? I'm sorry, where'd that, where all those properties and stuff go?
Christina P
My stepsisters inherited, okay, that, yeah, all right. I mean, there were, there was a time he was about to go to prison and I don't know, somehow he got out of it something. But one thing I do love, and I will say is my Indian stepdad did believe that in America, if you were rich, it transcended your race, it transcended your background and kind of true. It's fucking true, bro. Because look at his ass. Like, he's like some fucking nobody from Bombay. He shows up, he marries this hot ass Hungarian lady with big tits and blonde hair and like is driving a Mercedes. Like only in America can that happen.
Kevin Ryan
Happen.
Christina P
Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
Also like, you can go to the nice restaurant. It's not like you're in the highest class. It's like you can go to the.
Christina P
Nice restaurant the Chills. Yeah. Like. And so both my.
Kevin Ryan
The American dream.
Christina P
Unfortunately, my dad and my stepdad are like these hardcore.
H. Foley
Killing it.
Christina P
Wow, dude. Like, you can do that? Like, yes, you can. I don't know about today, but back in the day.
Kevin Ryan
Okay, that's wild.
Christina P
I know.
H. Foley
Well, and then you got the Internet and facial ID and all that kind of stuff now. Fingerprints, DNA. Well, it'd be a little tricky.
Christina P
So. So I wanted to. To work when I was a teenager. And legally I had to be 15. He changed my birth certificate.
H. Foley
What?
Christina P
So I could work legally. Legally. So my birth certificate. He augment. He could do that. Like, he would fix papers back in the day, you could. In the 90s. Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
I was like white out in a typewriter. And you could do it.
Christina P
Yes, it was that easy. You could fix loan docs, you could fix payroll or pay stubs.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll do that for our employee if they're trying to get a lease or something. Somebody was trying to get a lease. Like, I don't make enough. I'm like, I write the checks.
H. Foley
Yeah, you do.
Kevin Ryan
You don't half New York if we. We. If you document the papers.
H. Foley
Right.
Kevin Ryan
Idiots. Yeah, I. We also. I have that thing of like in.
Christina P
Your family too, or you.
Kevin Ryan
Well, my. Yeah, a little bit. Well, yeah, there was some. Not. Not criminal, but just morally questionable.
H. Foley
They're not loan sharks, let's put it that way.
Kevin Ryan
A lot of family members don't talk to each other anymore. Let's just leave it at that.
Christina P
Yes, I have that too, you know, I have relatives. Friends. Relatives. Hungarian. Like, there's this one guy my. My dad was friends with. He's passed away now too. Like, his racket was like getting inkjet printers. So specific cartridges and then refilling them.
Kevin Ryan
And selling with bad ink or something.
Christina P
Yeah, that's your racket, bro.
H. Foley
That's a hustle.
Christina P
What's that, 50 bucks a pop? Like, come on.
H. Foley
Talk about plate the long.
Kevin Ryan
I like it though. Those things were hard to get and expensive at the time. That was that everybody would go. The inks, where they get you.
H. Foley
You gotta be real sorry when you're running a toner, I'll tell you that.
Christina P
That's 100%. That was it. The inks, where they get you.
Kevin Ryan
Well, yeah, the printer's 100 bucks, but you're spending 80 every month on inkjet.
Christina P
Jesus. That and like, I had a relative who during communism was like, got. Was in Some ring of sending jeans back to.
H. Foley
That was big.
Kevin Ryan
That was big.
H. Foley
Blue jeans and Beatles tape. That was it.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah. The European, they lost love that they still don't have Levi's really over there. They do a little bit now, but still, for the longest time, there's no Levi's.
H. Foley
Did other family come over or like once. Once the wall fell and all that stuff, you guys, I guess, reconnected with your family over there or some of them over here?
Christina P
Yeah, most of us. Most of them got out and then. Then they went back, which to me is like, whoa, bro. What? Like around the 90s, my dad remarries to a Hungarian woman.
H. Foley
Okay.
Christina P
And so now he's like, like, rekindling these roots of, like, Hungarianism.
H. Foley
I get that a little bit.
Christina P
I do, too.
H. Foley
Yeah.
Christina P
So they get a property in Hungary. So now we're going to Budapest Break. Like every year we go. Or not every year. Every few years in the summer or whatever, I go talk to some foreign cousins and get diarrhea.
H. Foley
This is.
Christina P
It's the worst. I know. It's the worst. Now the best part is when I turned 18, my dad.
Kevin Ryan
This is all before 18.
H. Foley
It's crazy. Then I got into fifth grade. Fifth grade.
Christina P
I know. The nicer 18.
H. Foley
What was the first job, by the way, that he forged the documentary.
Christina P
That's so awesome. Marylander. Marketing research.
Kevin Ryan
Working in marketing research at 15.
H. Foley
Wait, you're scamming 14?
Kevin Ryan
What are you doing though, there? Like, receptionist?
Christina P
Hi, this is Christina calling from Maryland. Drew, Marketing research. I was wondering if you had a few minutes today to take just a brief survey.
Kevin Ryan
You're born to be a dirt bag.
H. Foley
What?
Kevin Ryan
That's great. You. You flew truck.
H. Foley
You were doing Ponzi.
Kevin Ryan
That's crazy.
Christina P
But before that, I worked in.
Kevin Ryan
My dad's working in an Indian call center. This is Christine.
Christina P
Thank you. Thank you for calling. But before that, I worked in my dad's shop in the summers, and I would answer his phone.
H. Foley
Okay, that. That. That makes sense.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah. Shop girl. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fine.
Christina P
But then I'd like. They asked me questions about pallet jacks. And so I had to learn about.
Kevin Ryan
Like, I know my way around a pallet jack.
Christina P
I did, too, unfortunately. Or like, propane versus electric forklifts.
Kevin Ryan
And I sell electric forklift batteries at one point.
Christina P
Okay. Yeah. Those run out.
Kevin Ryan
Those.
H. Foley
They do.
Kevin Ryan
And the guy I was working for had a chemical refill.
H. Foley
Those.
Kevin Ryan
Well, that's what he was doing. He was. He was. There were. It's called New Life batteries. It would Make. He would take. We'd buy old batteries.
Christina P
Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
And then he had some sort of chemical process where he could reanimate to, like, 80 of their. Whatever or something like that.
Christina P
Shit's so shady, dude.
Kevin Ryan
I know. Lottery.
H. Foley
What was high school.
Kevin Ryan
You good?
H. Foley
Student in high school.
Christina P
Disastrous. Okay, so this is a nightmare. So by the time I'm in the middle of ninth grade, I told you, I. I lose my mind because I'm like, dude, my family is. Something's wrong here.
Kevin Ryan
Sure.
Christina P
But I blame myself. I think I'm the one that's crazy. You don't know when you're a kid that your parents are messed up. You think you're messed up. So I get really depressed, and I just, like, stop going to school. Like eighth grade, I was just like, you know what? I'm not into school. And I would get into fights with, like, cholas and black girls and stuff. Like, I just got into fights a lot.
Kevin Ryan
Did you fight?
Christina P
Yeah. I didn't. Like, when I say that.
Kevin Ryan
Eastern block.
Christina P
Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
You know, no surrender, no retreat in you.
Christina P
I don't say I won any fights.
Kevin Ryan
But you were.
Christina P
I fought back. I should say.
Kevin Ryan
Sure.
Christina P
I got my ass beat a lot. And I was like. I was goth and I was getting into, you know, just experimenting with drugs.
H. Foley
And this is. When you're in a nice house, though, you're out of the apartment.
Christina P
All the apartment. I'm in the nice house. It's nice. Ninth grade, my life has completely changed because I have this, like, new step family. And. Yeah. And I'm just getting depressed and weird, and I'm trying drugs, and I'm like, I'm not gonna go to school anymore. Don't like it there. And my grades just go straight. Fails. No, sorry. Straight Ds. Straight Ds. I failed gym, but I begged the teacher to give me a D so that I could transfer out and go to Catholic school because my mother saw that I was failing. And God bless her for going, like, yeah, you need help. And I was like, put me in a mental hospital. I think I need mental help. I'm crazy. She's like, no, no, no, you don't need. Just go to Catholic school.
H. Foley
I take you dentist.
Christina P
Yeah. So that was their solution, to send me to Catholic school. And I loved it because the structure. Okay, the nuns, I, you know, hey, I. I love Catholic school. And it's.
Kevin Ryan
It was a, you know, structure in a life of chaos. Essentially.
Christina P
Essentially. And I found great friends. And my best friend I met still is my best friend to this day. From that place. I wore a uniform there, and I thrived. And then my grades got better and better, and I eventually eked my way into college.
H. Foley
Nice.
Christina P
High school is a disaster because home life now, stepdad is doing his thing, and you know what's going on? Where. What. Why did his windshield get shot out?
H. Foley
Gotcha.
Christina P
You know, there's fights, there's plates of food getting messy. It's getting. It's getting hectic.
H. Foley
Gotcha.
Christina P
It's getting hectic. So I'm just out. Huh?
Kevin Ryan
Good. That just. That hit me. Not on a. On a human level. Not podcast.
H. Foley
I'm like, if I came out in the morning and my mom's windshield would shot out, I'd have some questions before I got on the bus.
Kevin Ryan
I know you're like, all right.
Christina P
But that's the thing is, like, when you grow up in that you don't ask questions. You're just like, oh, yeah, that happened. Like, you don't even. So basically, I start spending more time at my friend's house.
H. Foley
Gotcha.
Christina P
My boyfriend's house at the time. I have a great boyfriend who's 8, and I make a good group of goth friends, and I'm just not home very much until I get into college.
Kevin Ryan
And then I'm like, okay, what was college?
Christina P
University of San Francisco.
H. Foley
Nice.
Kevin Ryan
Good.
Christina P
I got in on academic probation. I barely eked. I didn't even break a thousand on my S.A.T.
Kevin Ryan
S. That was gonna be my next question.
H. Foley
I was so stupid.
Christina P
I couldn't do it.
Kevin Ryan
Not a thing.
Christina P
I couldn't do it. I was like. I didn't. I didn't.
Kevin Ryan
Nine something, eight something.
Christina P
Eight something. Eight. I was so stupid.
H. Foley
I made 70.
Christina P
You did?
H. Foley
Yeah. Studied my ass off.
Kevin Ryan
The thousand is the barometer.
Christina P
Yeah. Like, I'm sure. But I wasn't turned out. I had a tough. I couldn't study. How can you study when there's chaos?
Kevin Ryan
When there's a machine gun going off out front?
H. Foley
Getting death threats at the house every third call.
Christina P
Yeah. So once I get good grades, for the first time in my life, I'm getting straight A's, and I'm like, oh, okay. I'm not stupid. I'm just. My home life is.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah, right. What. What was the first concert? Your goth. What's the first concert?
H. Foley
Do we know the band. Were they. Were they like a big goth band?
Christina P
The best in. Best goth band in the world.
H. Foley
The Smiths.
Christina P
Oh, they were broken up by the time I. I'm 13 years old, so, like, 1988.
H. Foley
Okay.
Christina P
Louisiana. Dodger Stadium.
H. Foley
DEPECHE Mode.
Christina P
I wish. No.
H. Foley
Am I close?
Christina P
Yes.
H. Foley
Huh.
Kevin Ryan
Not more him.
Christina P
Love and Rockets is the opening band. The Pixies.
H. Foley
Pixies. I don't know. Hit us.
Christina P
The Cure.
H. Foley
Ah, it was right there.
Kevin Ryan
Great one.
H. Foley
And more Pop at that point, too. If we're splitting hairs, that's. I think pictures of you would already come out.
Christina P
And here's the cool part about that. So I make friends with. I'm sure I can talk about this because she's written books about it with Jennifer Pentland, who's Roseanne Barr's daughter. So she and I. Pantlin and Pajicki. She's got access to money.
Kevin Ryan
Sure.
Christina P
No one's watching that either. No one's home there.
H. Foley
Wait, this is when Roseanne's on the air. It's popping.
Christina P
This is like she's at the height.
Kevin Ryan
The height of Roseanne.
H. Foley
That was a height.
Christina P
It was so much fun.
Kevin Ryan
And so you've lived so many lives.
Christina P
That's what I say. That's so fun. Funny. I. I feel like it. Anyway, so I make friends with her. And for first time in my life, I also see comedy. God, I'm gonna cry. And I see, like, it's possible to have fun and their home is fun. And her father, Bill Pentland. Oh, they saved my life. Oh, sorry. I was supposed to cry on a comedy show. But their home is fun and they have stuff in their living room, like a fake spaghetti thing that's like plastic. And the forks in the air.
H. Foley
That was a good. That was a good bit in the 80s.
Christina P
So, so fun.
H. Foley
Right?
Christina P
Because he was a funny guy. They were funny people. And, like, I just love that family. And I credit them for saving my.
Kevin Ryan
That's amazing.
Christina P
The Penland, like, shout out to that whole family for saving me, basically. So what's the point? Oh, so we got lots of access to money and time, and we took.
H. Foley
A limousine being able to go to the.
Christina P
To the Cure concerts.
H. Foley
Yeah.
Christina P
We took a limo to Dodger stadium when I'm 13 to see the Cure. And I was like, what is this life? Like, this is so crazy.
H. Foley
Did you meet Robert Smith?
Christina P
I wish.
H. Foley
And I was in love with him when I was a kid.
Christina P
No, you weren't.
H. Foley
Ah, dude, he was shut.
Christina P
You're fucking with me.
H. Foley
I loved him.
Christina P
No, you.
H. Foley
This is before he got heavy. So when he was thin, he had the under eye makeup and the hair.
Christina P
Yeah.
H. Foley
What do you mean?
Christina P
Are you like, you're for him or you have gay.
H. Foley
I wanted to be him.
Christina P
Yeah, me too. Dude.
H. Foley
Boys don't cry. That killed me.
Christina P
I didn't know you were alt.
H. Foley
I love that shit. Really loved it.
Christina P
Oh, you're so gay.
H. Foley
I'm sorry.
Christina P
You know what?
H. Foley
Crying.
Christina P
I know. I'm such a guy. Yeah. So that was that.
H. Foley
And I wrote good songs. What do you want from me?
Christina P
He's amazing.
H. Foley
Yeah, they were great.
Kevin Ryan
But pictures of you.
H. Foley
I heard the first time my. The night of my prom. We were taking acid in like. Like a house after the prom. And that song came on and I was like, man, that's a hit.
Christina P
Do you want acid at the prom or after?
H. Foley
At prom and after prom. Yeah.
Christina P
How did you survive?
H. Foley
I don't know. It's kind of my thing back then, you know?
Christina P
Me too.
H. Foley
I used to wrestle in high school on it.
Christina P
Oh, my.
H. Foley
Yeah.
Christina P
How much acid have you done?
H. Foley
Good amount.
Christina P
Yeah.
H. Foley
Yeah. I'm a little screwballs, to be honest with you. Both of us are pretty up. I don't know if you pick that up.
Christina P
Have you done acid, too?
Kevin Ryan
No, I, I. No.
H. Foley
He's a drinker.
Kevin Ryan
I'm a drinker. I come in a long line of like, you don't do drugs, but we'll give you beers at 14 on a ride from the party. And you go, all right.
Christina P
I know, I know. Because all these kids are on Molly or fentanyl now or whatever. I'm like, dude, we fried our brains with LSD. Sure, that's real. And a formative year. It's like 14, 15, 16.
H. Foley
The first time I took it was when I was a senior in high school. And I loved it. And I was like, at certain times on it. I was like, at my. I was the best possible version of myself on it. I know that sounds crazy.
Kevin Ryan
No.
Christina P
No. Doc Ellis, this, You know, Doc Ellis.
H. Foley
Doc Ellis.
Christina P
No, he pitched.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah, the. No, no, he threw a no hitter on it. Yeah.
H. Foley
Oh, yes, of course. Okay. Yeah.
Christina P
Don't you poo poo psychedelics. Don't you poo poo your lsd?
H. Foley
I thought we were on to something.
Kevin Ryan
These cameras aren't even on right now.
H. Foley
Yeah, no, I honestly, I felt like I was. I was at my best self. I also feel like the acid at that time, from like, 93 to 97, they had the mix right or something, I don't know. But it was all right.
Christina P
And then it went downhill by 98 because there was too much, like, strychnine or weird shit in it.
H. Foley
Sure. The dead stopped touring. It was all over.
Christina P
Yeah. I think There's a correlation.
H. Foley
100%. Our college was right Outside of Philadelphia. I went to college right outside of Philadelphia. And our, the fraternity I was in, they were kind of like stoner, deadheady kind of guys. Whenever the Grateful Dead would come in the two weeks before it and the two weeks after it, the drugs were flowing like water. And it was all top shelf, good stuff.
Christina P
I agree. Because when I went to college in San Francisco, same thing. The drugs were amazing.
H. Foley
Yeah.
Christina P
Great time. Yeah.
H. Foley
Put that on the brochure. University of San Francisco. Drugs are good.
Kevin Ryan
They really were only between 93 and 98. So get your time machine, folks, if you really want to go far out.
H. Foley
So the Cure was your first concert. Dodger State.
Kevin Ryan
That's a great.
H. Foley
That's pretty close.
Kevin Ryan
That might be one of the best.
H. Foley
Took a limo.
Christina P
I took a limo.
H. Foley
Did you ever go to the set? You go to the center, Roseanne?
Christina P
I did. I did. And because that's when it was all happening. I mean, I'm doing the chest.
Kevin Ryan
Joe Hollywood.
H. Foley
I mean, it was such, it was such a big. She was so big.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah.
H. Foley
That was like the first time. Time, you know, in a while from like the late 70s where they showed a family that wasn't doing well.
Kevin Ryan
A middle class struggle. Yeah, like, struggling.
Christina P
Listen, she is, I think, just the greatest of. I just loved her so. I still love her so much. And yes, we visited the set and I remember, like, seeing a craft service table, which I don't know why, why do they call it a craft service? I thought that. I don't know why they call it. It's just like a table of snacks.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah, sure.
Christina P
And being like, like, oh, my God, they get all these.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah, it's the best nutrition bars. The hell?
Christina P
I gotta get into show business.
Kevin Ryan
Free granola for everybody.
H. Foley
Nice crafties.
Kevin Ryan
All right, sure.
Christina P
And I, I loved that family, too, because there's this. I remember. So I went to the. Her wedding to Tom Arnold.
H. Foley
And that's nuts that you were at that. That was a huge story.
Christina P
Look in Time.
Kevin Ryan
You're like Forrest Gump. You were at Tom Arnold and Roseanne Barr's wedding many times.
H. Foley
Have you met Richard Nixon?
Christina P
I totally am Forrest Gump. There's so many. I can tell you stories where I'm like, why am I in this room right now? I just.
H. Foley
You went to Tom Arnold and Roseanne's wedding.
Christina P
Look it up. It's a. There's an issue of Time magazine.
Kevin Ryan
I'm on the COVID I'm not on.
Christina P
The COVID but I, I, I was 13 or 14 and I think. And I was wearing a purple Velvet dress that I bought at a, you know, what is a vintage store. And Jenny's sitting next to me, and she's making a goofy face.
Kevin Ryan
And you're, like, in the fold because you're. You're sitting next to the daughter. So you're, like, in the fold right there, front row.
Christina P
And. And there's this great quote in that article I'll never forget. She goes, we're America's nightmare. We're white trash with money.
Kevin Ryan
Welcome to the show.
Christina P
Yeah, exactly.
Kevin Ryan
Welcome to the show.
Christina P
Exactly. And I. I so respected her for that, too. Of like, money ain't. Money doesn't change you, bro. It just makes you who you are. And, you know, that's why it can amplify real issues.
H. Foley
Those two wreaked havoc at ABC for a minute when that whole thing was going on and they were together.
Christina P
Listen, I won't talk about that, but sure, yeah, the.
Kevin Ryan
No, yeah, money will just amplify whatever issue you have going on. It's like, you know, you just buy, you know, stupid shit.
Christina P
But that's why people like. So it's a great quote, and I think about it all the time. When I. In my own life now, I'm like, look, I. I may be wearing nicer shoes, but on the inside, we're aware.
H. Foley
Thanks. Snake bite.
Christina P
You know, you are who you are. But.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah, well, yeah, we've always said, too, like, it's not money. Doesn't. It doesn't depend on money. And it's also, like, money can get. Like, maybe your kids will be 10% different, but, like, you're just less trashy because you're.
H. Foley
They didn't have to do what you did last night. What are you talking about?
Christina P
My kid brought a hammer to school last week.
Kevin Ryan
Gonna hit a jewelry store after this smash and grab job.
Christina P
Jesus Christ. Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
All right, let's. Let's run through a handful of the. The standards.
H. Foley
Sure. And just to stay on that note on the. On the Roseanne table, what was your use when you guys. When you started making money? Was there a crazy, irresponsible, first stupid, trashy purchase?
Kevin Ryan
We didn't need the hot tub or the wave runner. The.
Christina P
You know what's so funny is because I'm such, like, communist mentality, I still have guilt. I don't. I don't do that. So.
H. Foley
Really?
Christina P
No, I'm the opposite.
H. Foley
So the first big check you didn't go out and buy, like.
Christina P
No, I moved out of the ghetto. We moved out of. We were living in down. I'll tell you what. I just did. That counts.
H. Foley
That's pretty good.
Christina P
Yeah. This is what I do is I will buy the most nicest of the. It's not a shitty thing. I don't want to say that. Like, Tom will be like, don't. Do you want a nice car? And I'll be like, I just want a Volkswagen bus. I've wanted one for my home.
Kevin Ryan
Sure.
H. Foley
I just started putting them out again.
Christina P
I got one.
H. Foley
You did one of the new ones or you got an old one?
Christina P
New one.
H. Foley
You did.
Christina P
So that to me is like, what? Like, I waited years before.
Kevin Ryan
You could.
H. Foley
Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
You could have done it 30, 20 years ago.
H. Foley
Sure.
Christina P
Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
You could have done it way before right now.
Christina P
Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah.
H. Foley
They're only 30 grand.
Kevin Ryan
I know. It's also, like, the same. It's like a Camry. You can. You can lease it for 400 bucks a month.
H. Foley
Civic.
Christina P
Yeah. Yeah. But in my mind, I'm like, I'm really being reckless here with money.
Kevin Ryan
Sure. So I went back and bought my first car. I mean, it was only like, yeah. It's a 1995 Chevy Lumina, and it was like, seven grand more than when I bought it in 2000 or 90. Whatever. Whatever. It was sweet, right?
Christina P
Does it feel. What?
Kevin Ryan
Does it feel like a waste of money?
Christina P
Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
My wife's like, are you kidding me? I also find it funny because, like, Tom.
H. Foley
Cigarettes in there, though.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah.
Christina P
Yeah, of course you smoke cigarettes.
Kevin Ryan
I like those. Tom's into cars, and I'm like, I'll just. I want to go buy a bunch of, like. I want to buy, like, a Corolla from 93.
Christina P
Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
Just have, like, a warehouse of shitty cars.
Christina P
Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
Shitty 1990 cars. Yeah.
Christina P
Or even just the cars that I saw other kids having. Like, I would love. Love a Volkswagen Cabriolet.
Kevin Ryan
Whoa.
Christina P
A convertible.
Kevin Ryan
Cool kid car.
H. Foley
Volkswagen Rabbit.
Christina P
That's what I'm talking about. Stick shift.
H. Foley
Yeah.
Christina P
Like an Aqua.
Kevin Ryan
Can you drive stick?
Christina P
No. But I would learn for that one because my dad had one of those, and I thought, oh, that's so cool.
H. Foley
Surprised you can't drive stick.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah. Eastern European.
Christina P
I learned in Australia. Actually, I can do it on the left side because I was on road rolls, remember? I could do that on. I learned in Australia.
Kevin Ryan
Huh.
H. Foley
Left side. That's crazy. What was the first card?
Christina P
Suck it. Suck, dude. My boring ass. Stepmom. Dude. She's so boring. She had, like, a gray Chevy Nova 87 with a gray interior. I'm like, how uninspiring are you that, like. Yeah. You couldn't even pick A color Chevy?
H. Foley
No, but that's crazy. That's like a stuntman's car.
Christina P
I wish.
H. Foley
That's great.
Christina P
I trashed. I smoked so much in that the ashtray was overflowing.
Kevin Ryan
What was the go to Sig? What were you smoking?
Christina P
Camel Lights, bro.
Kevin Ryan
Camel Lights.
Christina P
What were you smoking?
Kevin Ryan
I was.
Christina P
No, no, this is before blues. This is brown. Whatever.
Kevin Ryan
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Christina P
What are you smoking? I want picture. Can I guess?
Kevin Ryan
I've been all over the. All over the road, but yeah, I'm.
Christina P
I'm going to go with you.
Kevin Ryan
Hit me.
H. Foley
Salem one hundreds.
Kevin Ryan
Benson Hedges look like a Capri man.
Christina P
Hey, Benson and Hedges menth. Don't. Don't tempt me with.
Kevin Ryan
I smoked the Benson ahead. We found a pack of Benson Heads in the Oxford Valley Mall parking lot, and we smoked them and we threw up. Like, I mean, it was bad.
Christina P
Okay. You at one point did smoke GPCs, the generics, to get by.
Kevin Ryan
No.
Christina P
Okay. Okay, hold on. I'm not done. Marlboro Lights.
Kevin Ryan
That was. That was the last 12 years. Last 15 years of probably more blights. Yeah. You're good. Yeah.
Christina P
You smoke?
H. Foley
I did. We just.
Kevin Ryan
We both just quit two months ago in December.
H. Foley
Yeah.
Christina P
Hold on. You. I think you really. You're gonna go for a stronger. You like a stronger pull. You like a. You want to feel that. I'm gonna go with, like. I don't know when I say this, like, filterless, maybe, like.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah, hillbilly.
H. Foley
How old do you think I am?
Christina P
You roll your own, like, drums.
H. Foley
It was all pipes. Marlboro Reds. My dad smoked Marlboro Reds. We smoked Marlboro Reds.
Christina P
Yeah, Reds. Reds are gnarly reds.
H. Foley
And then mediums, when they kind of became fashionable, but a little bit like maybe like college cowboy killers. Yeah.
Christina P
The Reds have. They used to say fiberglass in the filters. I don't know if that's true, but that's a gnarly.
H. Foley
He was a nom. So he was a Reds man. He'd land, lay on the floor watching TV like this, just ripping heaters. Yeah.
Christina P
You know, I still love cigarettes, and.
Kevin Ryan
I think I still love them. I'm only two months out. They're still the coolest thing that's ever happened to me.
H. Foley
Yeah.
Christina P
I love booze. I love cigarette. I don't do any of it. I don't do any of it anymore. I love alcohol and cigarettes. Is there anything better than getting drunk and ripping butts?
H. Foley
No.
Kevin Ryan
No.
Christina P
Getting jacked on coffee. That cigarette.
H. Foley
Coffee and cigarettes. Percocet. Cup of coffee and a cigarette in the morning.
Christina P
That's what's up.
H. Foley
Talk about Christmas.
Kevin Ryan
Percocets from 95. 5.
H. Foley
The best.
Christina P
Well, yes, I. I agree. I never got to do Quaalutes, which is my biggest.
Kevin Ryan
What's your biggest life regret?
H. Foley
Yeah. Never got my hands on any lemons. Yeah, I got you lemons were gone by then.
Christina P
Yeah.
H. Foley
Yeah.
Christina P
I did do Valium in eighth grade. I stole eighth grade.
H. Foley
Grade.
Christina P
I did pot. And when I was 13.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah, me too. I started. I smoked weed at like 12 or 13. Yeah.
Christina P
Oh, wait, no, I lied. I lied the first time I. I did pod. I was nine years old. I ate brownies.
Kevin Ryan
That's crazy.
Christina P
I know.
Kevin Ryan
You did weed brownies at nine, right?
Christina P
Accidentally. Three of them. Yeah. Passed out.
H. Foley
Valley. Bertinelli's house.
Kevin Ryan
That's nuts.
Christina P
So bad.
H. Foley
Nine years.
Christina P
I need to go to therapy after this. It's my life. My life can't be the worst. There's got to be way worse.
H. Foley
It's very interesting.
Kevin Ryan
It's very interesting.
H. Foley
Very exciting.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah. It's very unique.
H. Foley
Very awesome.
Christina P
Yeah, thanks. I'll write something.
Kevin Ryan
Let's say now. Obviously now. You're doing quite well, Right? Just say you're going. Let's say I invited you to my wedding. Right. What is that gift gonna. What's the check gonna be? What are you dropping as a gift?
Christina P
Okay. I tell you something, because I don't think you need dishes.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah.
Christina P
You don't know.
H. Foley
We're looking for cash.
Christina P
Unique case.
H. Foley
A monetary value.
Christina P
You need case. I'll give you a thousand bones.
H. Foley
Okay. There you go. Very nice.
Christina P
My husband's more generous. He'll probably give you more.
Kevin Ryan
I forget we could.
H. Foley
I believe it was some.
Kevin Ryan
Somewhere around there.
H. Foley
Thousand.
Christina P
You're good. Really?
Kevin Ryan
Yeah. Thousand. You're. You're doing great.
Christina P
That's. Yeah. You have a duty especially. I always tip well, too, because I've been a waitress.
H. Foley
Love that.
Christina P
I hate when. Yeah, because, you know, you always know the celebrity that doesn't tip well because they will tell that story forever.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah, I've heard. You know, I so and so came in. They. You know, I got a couple.
H. Foley
Tell me.
Christina P
I got two.
H. Foley
I don't want to trash anybody. We'll talk often.
Christina P
Allegedly.
H. Foley
Yeah. Simone and O'Brien. Not a. Not a great tip.
Christina P
Really.
H. Foley
Oh, man.
Christina P
I know. You know who. I heard. And he's got me, too, so I can say his name.
Kevin Ryan
Who?
Christina P
I heard Jeremy Piven's. Not a good.
H. Foley
Not a good tip.
Kevin Ryan
I was notoriously. He left like a DVD of Entourage sign. But then I heard that.
Christina P
Like, I heard that story, too.
Kevin Ryan
I heard that bounce back. They were like. They asked for. They're like, oh, we don't have it. So, like, he went. He had one and gave it. He could just be lying.
H. Foley
Sarah Jessica Parker.
Christina P
A bad one or a good. She should be sweetheart, too.
H. Foley
Lovely. She's great.
Christina P
How do you know her?
H. Foley
Because I waited tables.
Kevin Ryan
Doesn't know her.
H. Foley
I was at her wedding.
Christina P
Sjp.
Kevin Ryan
He was giving her mozzarella sticks. What are you talking.
H. Foley
Yeah, I waited table. When we first got to New York, I was waiting tables in this nice cafe in, like, a good part of the West Village. So there was a lot of. A lot of people ins and out.
Kevin Ryan
A lot of who's who.
H. Foley
Yeah, a lot of who's who.
Christina P
Carrie Fisher. I used to wait tables on her.
H. Foley
Okay.
Christina P
A lovely, lovely.
H. Foley
Yeah.
Christina P
Then. Then the guy that played Doc in Back to the Future.
Kevin Ryan
Really?
H. Foley
No kidding. Christopher Lloyd.
Christina P
Lovely.
H. Foley
Nice. I like to hear that.
Christina P
Yeah, that was at a French restaurant.
H. Foley
And Bradley Cooper, great tipper.
Christina P
Oh, very good.
H. Foley
Chaz Palmintary. Fantastic.
Kevin Ryan
See, he's a great guy. We had him on the show. I was like, our first like.
H. Foley
And the guy that does the celebrity. The Mayhem commercials on Allstate. Dino.
Christina P
Wow.
Kevin Ryan
He's got cash.
H. Foley
Cash, cash. Great Dipper. Cool dude, too.
Christina P
That's important. You should be so important.
H. Foley
Important.
Christina P
You should be generous.
H. Foley
100.
Christina P
Yeah.
H. Foley
Would you dance at the wedding?
Christina P
I don't drink anymore.
H. Foley
All right.
Kevin Ryan
That's a great answer.
H. Foley
That's when you know you got a problem. Oh, thank God I didn't say, would you run through a play class window?
Christina P
I think, like, fun is correlated to alcohol.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah.
Christina P
I stopped having fun.
H. Foley
Told you. I'm off the value.
Christina P
Yeah.
H. Foley
Holy. So, no, you don't dance at a wedding.
Christina P
Here's what I would do. Do it. Full disclosure, I probably wouldn't come to the wedding because I don't want to do anything anymore like that. But I send you a nice check and be like, I love you, bro. Like, that's mazel. This is. This is it. I love you.
Kevin Ryan
I respect.
H. Foley
Classiest answer right there. I'm not coming. Here's a check. Don't cash it till Thursday.
Kevin Ryan
Signed, Indian guy.
H. Foley
Who's Cynthia Flores?
Christina P
Cynthia Florets.
Kevin Ryan
Holy. Have you ever owned a lava lamp?
Christina P
I have one right now in my room.
H. Foley
No, in your room in the bedroom.
Christina P
I love it. I love it. Yeah, it's a red one. Yeah, it's in my.
H. Foley
You guys have a lava lamp in Your room? That's. Is there a beanbag chair in there too, Downstairs?
Christina P
Yeah.
H. Foley
Holy.
Christina P
But full disclosure, my older son wanted the lava lamp, and so I was like, keep it in here in case it gets set on fire.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah.
H. Foley
Those are dangerous.
Christina P
Oh, they are.
Kevin Ryan
I mean, they were back in the day. I don't know.
H. Foley
Now he's scaring the poor.
Christina P
I know those are dangerous.
Kevin Ryan
She's got bigger problems. Kids got a. Yeah.
Christina P
Worried about.
H. Foley
He's got an itchy trigger figure.
Christina P
Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
What's. What's what? What's the air freshener in the car now? Do you have an air freshener in there right now?
Christina P
It smells like french fries. McDonald's.
Kevin Ryan
You're eating in the car?
Christina P
Wait, why Kids do. Dude, they up my car. They're putting there their food and their milkshakes. Okay.
H. Foley
In that car. Is that your day to day, this one?
Christina P
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
H. Foley
Really? You got them in that and they're.
Christina P
Eating French fries back there because I'm garbage. I don't realize. Holy.
H. Foley
That's crazy.
Christina P
That's why I don't. I'm. I'm horrible. But no. Okay. You know what I discovered the smell of? You ever been inside of an anthropology store?
Kevin Ryan
Yeah.
Christina P
Yo, you know how that's. That smell?
H. Foley
White tea? Is that where you're going at nice hotel Smell like white tape, it's called.
Christina P
I figured out because I went up to them, I'm like, your store smells so good. What is it? Capri. Capri Blue. So I bought Capri Blue, and now I.
Kevin Ryan
That's what that's in your car?
Christina P
Smells like.
Kevin Ryan
That's a. That's a promo. That's a fancy move.
H. Foley
Do you guys have air fresheners in the house? Like those plug in things? Yeah, something nice.
Christina P
I. I don't have the energy. No, no. Right now it's those sticks from Italy.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah, those are good. But when those dropped, I thought you were like one of the Kennedys. You go over someone's house, they had one. And I go, whoa.
H. Foley
Anyone ever pooped in here?
Kevin Ryan
Things are going well.
Christina P
Do you want to know what the height of sophistication was in the 90s? Hit me in your drawers if you had like a potpourri.
Kevin Ryan
Oh, yeah, like the bag.
H. Foley
I mean, I almost ate one of those. A couple. Yeah. That are like the ones that are like soap. But they were in like, Though you would. Sometimes you would get them at weddings. Yeah, they would be in like, those almost like. Like, like shell shapes, like pantyhose things. They'd be wrapped in Something like that.
Christina P
Yeah. Very classy.
H. Foley
Yeah.
Christina P
Yeah. The bowls were good. They smell like strawberry and stuff. I know you're talking about.
H. Foley
Yeah, that's pretty good.
Christina P
I want to eat those, too. Yeah, but growing up. No, but I will tell you the trashiest inclinations. Like, I want to put car seats on my cars.
Kevin Ryan
Like the covers.
Christina P
Covers.
Kevin Ryan
Like a beaded one. Like a cab driver.
Christina P
Not the Indian stepdad, but like a. Like a soft one. And my husband was like, you don't do that, babe.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah, no kidding.
Christina P
You can just sit on the seat. And I'm like, but it's gonna get ruined, right?
Kevin Ryan
It's like the. Yeah.
H. Foley
You didn't have any plastic on the furniture.
Christina P
Of course I did. Of course we did. I think Eastern Europeans are a little bit like black culture. A little bit. Because we laminate our furniture.
Kevin Ryan
Laminate. There's a wild way to say that.
Christina P
We cover it plastic. We both eat, like, pig's feet and, like, the parts of the animals that are considered, like, not.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah, yeah.
Christina P
And then we're both, like, flash. Like, Eastern blockers will show you what's up. Like, this is my gold chain. I love it.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah.
Christina P
So, like, mad respect Mercedes 100. Like, yeah. Even now I wear, like, Burberry pants sometimes. The checks. And black people love it. I don't know what it is, but, like, black people respect.
H. Foley
I've seen that on the show a couple times. You in a Burberry blazer.
Christina P
Yeah.
H. Foley
All right.
Kevin Ryan
You do dress very nice. We were talking about it before you got here. Because she's gonna come correct. All right. We gotta. We gotta put her. I gotta put my best Dickies jacket.
H. Foley
So that would be the things that you splurge on. You like, you. You like looking nice, dressing nice.
Christina P
I do.
H. Foley
You got the walk in closet, all that kind of stuff.
Christina P
Nice closet.
H. Foley
Isn't her, I think. Can't remember asking Tom his and her sinks in the. In the bathroom.
Christina P
Yeah.
H. Foley
Are you peeing in the shower, though?
Christina P
Of course I'm pissing in the shower.
Kevin Ryan
Brush your teeth in the shower?
Christina P
Of course I brush my teeth in the shower.
Kevin Ryan
You leave the toothbrush in there?
Christina P
Of course I leave my toothbrush.
Kevin Ryan
You're a dirt bag lady.
H. Foley
You are a real.
Christina P
Doesn't everybody?
Kevin Ryan
No.
Christina P
Why?
Kevin Ryan
Because it's not fun. I brush my teeth in the shower.
Christina P
Every day I brush my teeth.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah, but I leave my. My toothbrush doesn't live in the shower.
Christina P
Oh, mine lives there.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah. No, we. I picked it up when you said that. Yeah. Mine doesn't.
H. Foley
No.
Christina P
Does Tom's no, he's not garbage like me? Like, no.
H. Foley
Are you.
Kevin Ryan
What kind of toothbrush you just like a regular CVS toothbrush or you got something Good, good.
Christina P
I got the. I got an electric toothbrush. Because I'm also very maniacal about my dental hygiene.
H. Foley
You floss it every day?
Christina P
Of course I floss and I use the sticks and then I throw them on the side of the bed, and my husband gets furious.
Kevin Ryan
On the side of the bed because.
Christina P
I. I keep the sticks in the drawer next to my bed.
Kevin Ryan
And you just drop it on the floor.
Christina P
And I taught my son to do it yesterday, too. And he goes, what do I do? That I go, you just put on the side in the back.
H. Foley
That's where I put my contacts. And it drives my wife crazy. I just take him out at night and put them right next to my bed.
Christina P
Oh, no, I just throw them on the floor.
H. Foley
Oh, you have contacts.
Christina P
No, flossers. Yeah, I'm. I'm a pig. I'm very gross. I'm. I'm disgusting. I think I'm as bad as Tom, if not worse. Man, I just shower.
Kevin Ryan
You're doing your hot. Your hot jumping shower.
Christina P
To shower. Like, if I'm in a hotel and doesn't have a bidet because we have the. The wash lit, I will take a. In the toilet, and then I'll go straight to the shower to clean out my ass.
H. Foley
No wiping.
Christina P
No wiping.
Kevin Ryan
You gotta give it a dab. A little dab will do you.
Christina P
I think that's. What's the point. I can just shower.
Kevin Ryan
Were you planning on showering like you were getting. You were running the shower or. This is like, hey, I got lunch in 20 minutes. I'm gonna. I gotta.
Christina P
It's.
H. Foley
That's a fat guy move. That's a dump and jump, which I believe you coined dump and jump.
Kevin Ryan
I was just trying to think I was calling it a hot jump.
H. Foley
I never met a woman.
Kevin Ryan
I think he said his mom did it.
H. Foley
That's crazy.
Christina P
I'm disgusting. Yeah, I'm. I'm. I'm gross like a dude in a lot of ways. Like that. Yeah, definitely. Dump and jump. I like that.
Kevin Ryan
If we went over your house right now and I asked for a water, what am I going to get? What can you offer me?
H. Foley
You get a switchblade in his stomach.
Kevin Ryan
What's up, fatty?
H. Foley
Who are you two losers? What?
Christina P
A water. Okay, I will say. Here's the deal, man.
Kevin Ryan
Okay? This is my deal, Jerry.
Christina P
Now, because I have breast cancer, I drink out of. Of glass Containers.
H. Foley
Okay.
Christina P
Because of cancer stuff. But Prior. Bro. I don't. A tap. I don't drink out of tap.
Kevin Ryan
Okay?
Christina P
Because I'm from la. That shit's contaminated. I don't care what you tell me. I'm never drinking tap water.
Kevin Ryan
Okay?
Christina P
Even New York. I know in New York they're like. You can drink it. It's so good.
H. Foley
Like gotcha.
Christina P
Bullshit. So I would give a. Like a water bottle. Plastic.
Kevin Ryan
Plastic. Yeah. Just whatever bottle.
Christina P
Like a polar spring.
Kevin Ryan
Do you have a sparkling water available? If I would. If I felt so inclined.
Christina P
Of course.
Kevin Ryan
A Perrier.
Christina P
A Perrier.
Kevin Ryan
A Garosteiner.
Christina P
Whoa. G. I am eastern black. I love a good soda water. But I do Topo Chico. Because we're in Texas.
Kevin Ryan
Okay.
Christina P
They may have a Topo Chico.
Kevin Ryan
Thank you.
Christina P
Perrier is not bubbly enough.
Kevin Ryan
You're saying it wrong. I think you know that. Right? Perrier. Okay. Sounds like a dog.
H. Foley
He's a quarterback for the back of barrier.
Christina P
What?
Kevin Ryan
Half lab.
H. Foley
When did you bit by a Perrier? Last night.
Christina P
When did you guys have sparkling water for the first time?
H. Foley
Sparkling water? Soda.
Kevin Ryan
My.
Christina P
Is it different?
H. Foley
There's. Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
I don't know.
H. Foley
Yeah. Like there's a difference between Pellegrino and a fucking swept seltzer. I didn't really swept seltzer back in the day. Pellegrino. About six weeks ago.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah. My wife put me onto it. European.
Christina P
This European stuff.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah. Because you just drink it and I didn't. I just started liking it.
Christina P
It's so good.
Kevin Ryan
It feels like it's biting you back. I don't like it.
H. Foley
You getting a bottle of sparkling? Bottle of still.
Christina P
Yeah.
H. Foley
You're not doing the tap at a restaurant.
Christina P
Get on the tap. I told you.
H. Foley
Take it easy. Hey.
Kevin Ryan
Chubb. Did you hear? The first time.
Christina P
Even. Even at my poorest. I was always like. I don't know. I'll take a sippy sip. But I don't.
Kevin Ryan
They don't wash.
H. Foley
Them glasses.
Christina P
They don't wash. And I know because I've worked in.
H. Foley
Sure.
Christina P
In. As a cocktail waitress. Don't ever eat a garnish at a bar. You know how disgusting.
Kevin Ryan
The only fruit I get.
Christina P
No. The nasty waitresses. They touch. Your hands are filthy from waiting.
H. Foley
I'm eating the maraschino. Cheers.
Christina P
Don't you? Dino?
H. Foley
I like how you're my favorite.
Kevin Ryan
I think that's our biggest problem. Like.
Christina P
Are you kidding?
H. Foley
Heart disease. What are you talking about?
Christina P
What's the dirtiest thing you eat? Like. What's the dirtiest.
H. Foley
I was waiting tables I would eat off people's plates all the time.
Kevin Ryan
I've done it too. I've done it last week.
Christina P
I am. If they looked clean always.
H. Foley
Yeah. If it was like a hot chick or a good looking dude, I'm in.
Christina P
I would eat their fries, but I wouldn't eat the primary thing.
H. Foley
I would eat everything.
Christina P
Really?
H. Foley
Yeah.
Christina P
Everything?
H. Foley
Yeah. Bad.
Christina P
So disgusting.
H. Foley
You're pooping on yourself. What are you talking about?
Christina P
Oh, I've got gross one cigarette butt. There's just like. There's like a little bit on there.
H. Foley
Like where's this guy?
Christina P
Half a millimeter. It's old. As though it's been sitting in the ashtray outside. It's crusty and old. Do you still smoke it and you're most desperate.
Kevin Ryan
No, no.
H. Foley
A rained on Sig. Oh, those things hit different.
Christina P
Yeah, you wouldn't do that. A butt that's got just a little bit left.
Kevin Ryan
I. I'd to go if I had no. I. Yeah, I would figured I'll. I'd go to a buddy's house and say blummy bumousig. I can't do that.
H. Foley
Kimmy, what are you thinking so far? What do you think she's sitting at? Just that.
Kevin Ryan
I think we all should go to therapy after this. Primarily her. But I think I had a little dab. Could do me not. Not too bad either. I mean she's a hundred percent fucking trash, man. Louisiana, Euro Canadian Indian trash.
H. Foley
Yeah, that trifecta going around the American applause from.
Christina P
Do I get a prize?
H. Foley
Like you two are both crying.
Kevin Ryan
They stand.
Christina P
This is so exciting. Can I be? I mean. Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
I mean you might be the. You're the queen. I think a new queen has been crowned.
H. Foley
We've had a run lately. Yeah, man.
Christina P
Thank you so much.
Kevin Ryan
I mean it's just such an eclectic ver. Like we had Eleanor tell me everything. I mean I love but South Philly trash. So it's like she's so specific. Yours is like. Like lawns on fire. Shootout, hedonism. It's like you're all over them. Kicked out of school. Yours is eclectic.
H. Foley
I can't believe you're still throwing the sticks next to the bed. Yeah. Nice house. You're doing well.
Christina P
Yeah, like you said, you know, like Roseanne said, you know, we're America's nightmare. We're white trash with money. You're just. You're just garbage.
Kevin Ryan
You can't hide it. You can never hide it. You are who you are. It only exists. It only amplifies it.
Christina P
Oh yeah. You know how many tracksuits I have now like Adidas.
Kevin Ryan
Nice ones too. You go out stunt and show up to the gym. Look at Mercedes tracksuit. Look.
Christina P
What's up? Yes. 100 garbage.
Kevin Ryan
I love it.
H. Foley
What are the name brands on the. On the tracksuits.
Christina P
What do you like Adidas, Strictly. No, I don't do. No, I'm telling you. I've tried the rest. Adidas is the best. It's true. There's something. It's just. You know why? Because in Eastern Europe, it's like the currency of. Like, this is.
Kevin Ryan
This is. Dude.
Christina P
So like, my dad wore them. Them. It's just. I don't know, dude. They look fly. They just like, tight. They fit right.
Kevin Ryan
Do you ever ski in jeans?
Christina P
I've never skied.
Kevin Ryan
You've never skipped?
H. Foley
Holy. Never. What? Oh, my God. You ever been sledding?
Christina P
Once. Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
Probably running from the cops.
Christina P
Wait, do you guys ski?
Kevin Ryan
No, but we've been skiing.
H. Foley
Yeah, at some point.
Christina P
What for? It's terrible. It looks terrible. Cold.
H. Foley
Holy shit. 100%.
Christina P
Thank you.
H. Foley
I gotta say. Which. There's been a dethroning of garbage queen over the last couple of months. Jordan Jensen. You had Adrian, but, man, you're coming in number one.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah.
H. Foley
The new garbage queen, Christina. He. Everybody. Look at you. Her Majesty, ladies and gentlemen.
Christina P
Thank you.
H. Foley
Jesus.
Christina P
Who's the male equivalent? Who's male garbage?
H. Foley
Your husband ain't great. I ain't gonna lie to you.
Christina P
He's bougier than me.
Kevin Ryan
He's Clay. He's a classy guy.
Christina P
He taught me how to be.
Kevin Ryan
He's. Yeah, he's a very classy guy. Guy.
Christina P
Why?
Kevin Ryan
It's like, Dusty Slay's really bad. Nate's really bad.
Christina P
Nate Bragazzi?
Kevin Ryan
Yeah.
Christina P
Really? He seems classy. No, he grew up garbage.
Kevin Ryan
Oh. I mean, yeah.
Christina P
Really?
Kevin Ryan
His dad's a clown. That was. That's one of the questions.
H. Foley
Still holds those tendencies. A lot of fast food getting delivered.
Kevin Ryan
To his house without, like, he won't run it by his wife. He'll just, like. Just not even ask her. Hey, I'm getting so they'll just.
H. Foley
Secret ops.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah. Get it delivered. Be like, leave it by the driveway. I'll eat it by the car.
Christina P
Can I tell you something in my mind, delivered fast food is such a crime.
Kevin Ryan
I agree with you. 100.
Christina P
It's an injustice.
Kevin Ryan
Unless I'm, like, drunk in a Hotel at 2am you get off your ass.
Christina P
You go fucking get that fast food because it's only good for five minutes. Top.
H. Foley
How do you eat in the car? I assume. Right?
Christina P
Of course.
Kevin Ryan
What's up? Or you're probably not growing up or at any point, what were. What did you lean? More like a TGI Fridays and Applebee's and Outback Steakhouse or Ruby Tuesdays. What are you.
Christina P
Let me tell you what's up. Every Friday, my dad would take me to the bar at TGI Fridays, the one in San Fernando Valley. Shout out Canoga Avenue. And he shouted out at TGI Friday. That's so good, dude. I've got the Oreo cookie milkshake. And he was hit on ch as an appetizer. Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
And he's just there, just spitting. Game playing.
Christina P
Now I will say my favorite is the Blooming Onion at Outback steakhouse. That's like 3,000 calories. That should be your home. But my absolute favorite.
Kevin Ryan
This is your third favorite.
H. Foley
That's how you know she's drink.
Christina P
I'm garbage. Yeah.
H. Foley
Nine favorites.
Christina P
Tony Romas.
Kevin Ryan
I don't know it.
H. Foley
Tony Romas.
Christina P
It's a chain of ribs and it's. It's garbage. Like frozen, and they thaw it out and they give you a. Oh, you're make.
Kevin Ryan
Where. It's a chain.
Christina P
It was a chain in California. I don't know if it. Yeah, Applebee's. I'm sorry. I know that's sacrilege.
Kevin Ryan
I'm never time we have for today, folks.
Christina P
I've never had a good entree there. I don't know.
Kevin Ryan
It's very middle of the road. There's no zest. There's no pop to it. I agree with you.
H. Foley
You're complaining about DeAndre.
Kevin Ryan
It's no way to get the potato.
H. Foley
Skins and keep it. Keep it moving.
Kevin Ryan
Now, Friday's pops.
Christina P
It's the top tier.
Kevin Ryan
You're it. I love it.
Christina P
Yeah, Chili's is great. You get that bourbon chicken. I like that one.
H. Foley
I feel like chili's popped after they pop, so they really had that advantage to take it up a notch.
Christina P
Yeah.
H. Foley
You know what I mean?
Kevin Ryan
Who Chili's after. Who pop after?
H. Foley
Like, Fridays.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah, Friday. Yeah.
Christina P
They kind of.
H. Foley
They were kind of like the second wave.
Christina P
I love TGA Fridays.
Kevin Ryan
Now, if you get take out, you get take out to the house occasionally. Yeah. Will you plate that or do you eat it out of the bag?
Christina P
What are you doing? Why would you take it out of the box?
H. Foley
Are you cooking it all at the house?
Christina P
Yeah, I do cook.
H. Foley
You're cooking?
Christina P
Yes.
H. Foley
What's here for breakfast this morning?
Christina P
I didn't eat breakfast, just at the er. I was at the hospital.
Kevin Ryan
Get a major surgery. You can't eat before.
H. Foley
What do you make for the kids? What are they eating?
Christina P
Trash? Because they're kids. Nuggies. Grilled cheeses. Mac and cheese out of the box. Old school,'80s.
Kevin Ryan
Craft or Velveeta?
Christina P
Craft. What are you talking about? Velveeta.
H. Foley
You're gonna get punched in the face.
Christina P
Velveeta. You like Velveeta?
Kevin Ryan
Oh, my stepmom and. I mean, we were a blue box America. Like, we were this.
H. Foley
She's gonna be.
Kevin Ryan
We were the. We were the generic craft family. My mom.
Christina P
Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
But then my. My stepmom threw Velveeta with that saucy cheese. Blew my dick in. It was crazy with the shells.
Christina P
You always made my stomach hurt. I don't.
Kevin Ryan
Oh, yeah, I had diarrhea. I mean, yeah, I was in the hot. I was in and out of the hospital for stomach cramps most of my. Most of my young life.
H. Foley
But really, were you a rice. A Roni fan?
Christina P
Too sophisticated. Believe it or not, too hard to make.
H. Foley
What about the nor noodles that were in, like, the packet, man?
Christina P
You mean top ramen?
H. Foley
Top ramen.
Christina P
Okay. I do that to my children ramen. And I could put an egg in it. I like to put shaky cheese on it, and that was one of my.
Kevin Ryan
Call it shaky cheese.
Christina P
Of course it's shaky. It's my favorite kind of cheese.
H. Foley
Let me ask you both this, because I thought about this here today, because when. When. When me and my wife were sick, we had top ramen.
Kevin Ryan
Do you have any shaky cheese on you?
H. Foley
We had top ramen. When did you realize that that wasn't actual ramen? When was the first time that you put it two and two together, like, oh, real ramen. This is a version of. This is a fast food version of real ramen.
Christina P
Right now.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah. Really? Two years ago, maybe.
Christina P
I literally just never thought about it until you just said that.
H. Foley
That's. That was like their. That's their Kraft macaroni and cheese of ramen ramen.
Christina P
Hold it. You just. Up my whole life.
Kevin Ryan
She's gotta go lay down.
Christina P
You just blew my mind.
H. Foley
Have you ever had ramen? Like, real ramen?
Christina P
Yeah, but I don't like it because it's not top ramen. I don't like it.
Kevin Ryan
You. It's in your DNA. You're a dirt bag.
H. Foley
Wait, do you guys have the green craft shake cheese in your house right now?
Christina P
Yes, two containers, because I have a backup one in case that one goes out fast.
Kevin Ryan
Okay, wait. I mean, we have to do nine more Installments.
Christina P
Okay. Okay. I'll let you go. I'll let you go. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I love all that stuff. I love all that.
H. Foley
That's crazy. You got good stuff in the house too, though, right?
Christina P
Yeah, but who cares, you know?
Kevin Ryan
Filet mignon. The hell's that now?
Christina P
Tell me. Please tell me. Remember this, and then I'll let you guys go.
Kevin Ryan
Sure.
Christina P
Frankenstuff hot dogs, please. Look this up. This is the epitome.
H. Foley
Frankenstuff.
Christina P
Come on.
H. Foley
I remember Oscar Meyer cheese dogs with.
Christina P
The cheese inside, of course.
Kevin Ryan
Oh, man. Two of those on potato roll buns. Good night.
Christina P
Potato roll Buns. Buns.
H. Foley
Like Myers potato rolls.
Christina P
I don't even know what that is.
Kevin Ryan
It's like a classier. It might be an east coast thing. I don't know. It's like a classier buns.
H. Foley
Yeah, no, they definitely have potato rolls out here.
Christina P
Frank and stuff. Hot dog. They had the chili injected in the middle.
Kevin Ryan
Oh, I remember that. Oh, we talked about packaging.
Christina P
I remember. Oh, yeah, dude.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah.
Christina P
I could eat that right now.
H. Foley
That's right.
Kevin Ryan
Hey, you know what? Let's go get some of those.
H. Foley
You'll microwave a hot dog, I assume?
Christina P
Of course you do.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah.
H. Foley
Yeah.
Christina P
Is there any other way to make a hot dog?
Kevin Ryan
Microwave cheese dog is my favorite. The cheese burst out a little bit.
Christina P
Do they still make those dogs?
Kevin Ryan
I had them not too long ago.
H. Foley
Yeah, we did. We did the best way to cook a hot dog video for Patreon. And we did that as just a little bonus. I just kind of want it one, to be honest with you.
Kevin Ryan
You know what feels like air fryer.
Christina P
The height of sophistication. The little hot. Little Hot dogs in the croissant roll.
Kevin Ryan
Oh, the pigs in a blanket. It's the only reason I go to weddings. Post up by the door.
H. Foley
Them and little Smokies. I don't know if you remember.
Christina P
Ah, Little Smokies.
H. Foley
Hillshire Farms.
Christina P
I still get those for my kids. I love Little Smokies.
H. Foley
That meant when Hickory Farms was banging.
Christina P
I still get it. No, I get the. The sausage rope, the smoked turkey. Yeah, it's really good.
Kevin Ryan
Really?
Christina P
Oh, yeah. They make them.
H. Foley
She's getting Hickory Farms, dude.
Christina P
Hickory Farm.
Kevin Ryan
Are you doing the food shopping now?
Christina P
Yeah, I do Instacart. I get. Over the weekend, I get.
Kevin Ryan
Well, you an heb gal. Whole Foods, they got the best stuff, man.
Christina P
Wait, hold on. Bagel Bites.
H. Foley
When you walk on heb, you're walking around in there on a Saturday.
Christina P
I don't walk around there.
H. Foley
I just Just get stalled straight into the cart.
Christina P
Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
Your Bagel Bites or Tostino's Pizza Old gal.
Christina P
Bagel Bites.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah. Respect.
H. Foley
Yeah.
Christina P
Those are so good.
H. Foley
Pop Tarts or Toaster Strudels?
Christina P
And you're gonna. This is very controversial. Both, obviously.
H. Foley
Okay.
Christina P
I like plain pop Tarts. I don't like the frosted kind.
Kevin Ryan
Huh. That's. Hey, man, you've proved. You've proven with your track record, you're. I'll let that slide.
H. Foley
That's the. That's the communism in you right there. That's crazy.
Kevin Ryan
No fun before noon.
Christina P
What? Toastal. Toaster strudels are outstanding.
Kevin Ryan
I never. I don't think I've ever had one. We would agree. Those never flew in the house.
H. Foley
That was just. That was. That was rich kid does. We weren't getting that. We got off brand pop Tarts called toast them.
Kevin Ryan
Oh, I got great value.
H. Foley
They suck.
Christina P
You know what I loved about to Toaster Strudel is that it came with its own package of frosting.
H. Foley
Sure.
Christina P
And you felt like a king or queen, Like I get to squeeze this.
H. Foley
They started doing that with oatmeal too. They gave icing for oatmeal like in the 90s. Remember that? The kids would do the swirl around the oatmeal.
Christina P
No.
H. Foley
You don't remember that?
Christina P
I wasn't eating.
Kevin Ryan
I was. No, I don't. With oatmeal.
H. Foley
Yeah.
Christina P
Yeah. Oatmeal's gross.
Kevin Ryan
I don't touch it. Don't touch the stuff.
Christina P
I don't touch that shit either.
H. Foley
All right. You are.
Christina P
Thanks, guys. I'm the trash.
H. Foley
100% garbage.
Kevin Ryan
Yeah, not even close. Nuke new queen. I mean. Well, I'm glad we did it now rather than two years ago.
Christina P
Yeah.
Kevin Ryan
We had to make sure our skills are sharpened and you could sniffed it out and it's been.
Christina P
Well, Eleanor's pretty garbagey too, so.
Kevin Ryan
I mean, not even. Yeah.
Christina P
In her company. Like, I take that as a great offer.
H. Foley
What an unbelievable life. What an unbelievable tale. Look where you are now. It's it, it. It. It's absolutely insane. You are the absolute best and we love you.
Christina P
I love you so much you guys.
H. Foley
Thanks for having anything you want. Anything. Anything you want to hit the folks out there with.
Christina P
I don't know. Buy my lipstick. Christinap.com I make some dope ass lipsticks. They're not garbage.
Kevin Ryan
They're super fancy. She's a classy girl.
H. Foley
There's a lot of class.
Christina P
That's it. I love you guys.
H. Foley
Thank you so much.
Kevin Ryan
Guys, check out the special February 25th on the YouTube page. Tour dates are going with shows are selling out everything available at are you garbage.com gang?
H. Foley
We love you, Christina. Again. We love you and we'll see you next week.
Kevin Ryan
Peace. Peace.
Christina P
Yes.
Podcast Episode Summary:
Title: Are You Garbage? Comedy Podcast
Host: Kevin Ryan & H. Foley
Guest: Christina P!
Release Date: February 17, 2025
In this episode of "Are You Garbage?," hosts Kevin Ryan and H. Foley welcome their special guest, Christina P!, a renowned stand-up comedian, podcaster, writer, producer, and small business owner. The show's unique premise tests whether guests and comedians alike embody "garbage" traits, blending humor with candid conversations about personal lives and challenges.
Christina P! opens up about her tumultuous upbringing, providing listeners with a deep dive into her family history and the events that shaped her comedic voice.
Christina's parents fled Communist Hungary in 1969, enduring harrowing escapes and years of hardship before resettling in Canada. Her mother, a former model from Hungary, and her father, a crafty individual with a background in the military and machinery, established a life in Windsor, Ontario.
"My parents escaped from Communist Hungary in 1969... They finally escaped to Italy in Trieste, and they are in a camp for a year, like a refugee camp." [11:10]
After 14 years, when Christina was four, the family moved to California, where her father started a successful forklift business in the San Fernando Valley.
Christina candidly discusses the instability at home, highlighting her parents' divorce and the introduction of her stepfather, an Indian man with a criminal background.
Her stepfather, Subash, is portrayed as a "criminal genius," adept at exploiting loopholes to amass wealth through dubious means. Christina recounts various anecdotes illustrating his ruthless nature and the chaos he brought into their lives.
"He would marry blonde ladies, take their credit and establish businesses, make millions and millions of dollars, not pay taxes, file bankruptcy and do it again." [34:03]
Despite his criminal endeavors, Christina acknowledges the positive influence he had on her comedic aspirations, sharing memories of watching comedy together and learning humor as a coping mechanism.
Growing up amidst such chaos, Christina struggled academically and emotionally. She describes her deteriorating performance in school due to her tumultuous home life, leading to her eventual transfer to Catholic school, which provided a structured environment that helped her regain her academic standing.
"By ninth grade, I start to realize that, like, my home life is weird, that something's up. Like, my mom's crazy, my dad's crazy... I get really depressed, and I just, like, stop going to school." [50:07]
Christina credits her challenging upbringing with fueling her passion for comedy, using humor as a tool to navigate and overcome her personal hardships.
A pivotal moment in Christina's life was her friendship with Jennifer Pentland and her father, Bill Pentland, during her time at Catholic school. Their support and shared love for comedy provided Christina with the encouragement needed to pursue a career in stand-up.
"I make friends with Jennifer Pentland and Pajicki. She's got access to money. No one's watching that either. They have stuff in their living room... and I credit them for saving my life." [53:28]
At the University of San Francisco, Christina faced academic probation and struggled to balance her studies with the ongoing chaos at home. Despite these challenges, she managed to improve her grades and eventually pursue higher education, reinforcing her resilience and determination.
"I couldn't do it. My home life is something's up here," [51:12]
In the latter part of the episode, Christina reflects on her journey, discussing her success in the comedy world, her business ventures, and how she continues to embrace her "garbage" persona with pride.
Christina shares insights into her small business endeavors, including her lipstick line, and discusses her unique sense of style, which she attributes to her Eastern European heritage and her family's influence.
"I just want a Volkswagen bus. I've wanted one for my home. I'm very maniacal about my dental hygiene." [62:43]
True to the show's theme, Christina embraces her self-proclaimed status as "garbage," humorously detailing her quirks and offbeat habits. She highlights how her unconventional background has contributed to her distinct comedic voice and success.
"We're America's nightmare. We're white trash with money... Money doesn't change you, bro. It just makes you who you are." [60:27]
Christina P!:
Kevin Ryan:
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The episode offers an unfiltered look into Christina P!'s life, blending humor with poignant reflections on her challenging upbringing and the resilience that propelled her into the comedic spotlight. Through candid storytelling and laughter, Christina demonstrates that embracing one's "garbage" can lead to profound personal growth and success.
Listeners are left with a deeper understanding of the complexities behind Christina P!'s humor and a recognition of the strength it takes to transform personal adversity into comedic gold.
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