Jon DelCollo!

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Jon DelCollo!" Are You Garbage? Comedy Podcast
Hosts: Kevin Ryan & H. Foley
Guest: Jon DelCollo
Release Date: January 23, 2025

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Introduction

In the January 23, 2025 episode of "Are You Garbage?," hosts Kevin Ryan and H. Foley welcome guest Jon DelCollo, a seasoned stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster from Philadelphia. The episode delves into Jon's eclectic upbringing, his foray into comedy, and his personal anecdotes, all delivered with the show's signature trashy yet humorous flair.

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Early Life and Upbringing

Growing Up in Wilmington, Delaware
Jon DelCollo shares insights into his childhood in Wilmington, Delaware, highlighting a family dynamic with multiple siblings spanning a decade in age.

• Shared Driveway Experiences: Jon humorously describes the shared driveway of his townhouse, joking, "We could have probably moved on up if we cut Disney down to half" (02:32).

Family Background
Jon discusses his parents' professions:

• Father: Owned an accessibility company before moving into life insurance, leading to a strained relationship with handicapped individuals (08:07).
• Mother: Worked as a legal assistant and managed household affairs, including sending Jon to his grandparents' for after-school care (09:06).

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Teenage Years and High School

Skateboarding and Early Jobs
Jon reminisces about his skateboarding days, earning a "chain wallet," and his stint as a bike messenger:

• First Job: Delivered parcels on foot and occasionally on a bicycle in downtown Wilmington, navigating the "messenger wars" of the mid-2000s (32:14).

High School Life

• Athletics: Played football and wrestling, albeit humorously admitting to not throwing a single pass during his QB tenure (23:07).
• Fashion Phases: From dreads and overalls to a "Johnny Blaze" hoodie, Jon details his evolving style, often met with playful mockery from the hosts (36:04).

College Years
Jon attended the University of Delaware, balancing studies with part-time hustles:

• Substance Use: Engaged in selling and consuming weed, exemplifying the archetypal college dirt bag lifestyle (42:14).
• Turtle Terrarium: Maintained a turtle in his apartment, which eventually perished due to neglect while he was away in LA (43:03).

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Move to Los Angeles and Career Development

Winning the Open Mic Competition
Jon recounts winning a local open mic contest, which provided him with $250 and an opportunity to move to LA:

• Transition to LA: Leveraged his win to launch his comedy career in Hollywood, although he later returned after a year and a half (39:25).

Comedy Career Highlights

• Early Stand-Up: Jon's early days in comedy involved performing at various venues, building his reputation as an OG comedian from Philly.
• Podcasting Success: Regular listener and contributor to his own podcast, "Little Stinkers," where he continues to entertain fans.

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Personal Life and Current Endeavors

Relationship and Family Life
Jon discusses his relationship dynamics, cohabitating with his girlfriend, and the occasional challenges of blended schedules:

• Living Arrangements: Shares humorous insights about sharing meals and managing household duties (62:51).

Lifestyle Choices

• Dietary Habits: Admits to being a picky eater, never having eaten cereal or bananas as a child, and his evolution towards trying new foods in adulthood (46:10).
• Automotive Preferences: Currently relies on his girlfriend's Honda Santa Fe SUV, emphasizing practicality over ownership (50:31).

Hobbies and Interests

• Travel: Enjoys annual trips to the Sierra Nevada mountains with his girlfriend, transitioning from tent camping to more comfortable stays (60:46).
• Culinary Adventures: Explores various dining options, from Olive Garden to Trader Joe's, balancing homemade meals with takeout (61:38).

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Notable Quotes

• Jon DelCollo on Dreads: "I got about four good hair days a year," reflecting his playful self-deprecation (02:35).
• H. Foley on Shared Driveways: "One garage or no garage. That’s our alleyway," poking fun at Jon's townhouse setup (07:14).
• Kevin Ryan on Parenting and Move to LA: "Ran out of gas money by Texas. Made it to Pittsburgh," humorously summarizing Jon's brief stint in LA (69:03).
• Jon DelCollo on Food Preferences: "I never had a bowl of cereal," showcasing his quirky childhood habits (46:10).

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Conclusions and Takeaways

The episode provides a candid and humorous exploration of Jon DelCollo's life, from his formative years in Delaware to his adventures in the comedy scene of Los Angeles. Through a blend of light-hearted banter and personal anecdotes, listeners gain insight into what makes Jon a memorable and "garbage" comedian in the context of the show's playful theme. The camaraderie between the hosts and Jon adds an engaging layer, ensuring that even those unfamiliar with the podcast will find the conversation entertaining and relatable.

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Upcoming Events and Promotions

• Jon DelCollo's Upcoming Shows:

  • Cincinnati: April 4th & 5th at the Comet in Cincinnati.
  • Detroit: May 16th at the Independent Comedy Theater.

• RU Garbage Tour: Hosts announce new Midwest and Atlantic City tour dates, encouraging listeners to grab tickets via rugarbage.com (69:17).

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Stay tuned for more episodes of "Are You Garbage?" where Kevin Ryan and H. Foley continue to test comedians' trashiness with humor and heart.

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Timestamps Reference:

• <a name="time-00232">00:32</a> - Shared driveway experience
• <a name="time-0807">08:07</a> - Father's career change
• <a name="time-0906">09:06</a> - Mother's profession
• <a name="time-2307">23:07</a> - High school sports
• <a name="time-3604">36:04</a> - Fashion phases
• <a name="time-4214">42:14</a> - College lifestyle
• <a name="time-4303">43:03</a> - Turtle terrarium
• <a name="time-3925">39:25</a> - Move to LA
• <a name="time-6251">62:51</a> - Relationship dynamics
• <a name="time-4610">46:10</a> - Dietary habits
• <a name="time-5031">50:31</a> - Current vehicle
• <a name="time-6046">60:46</a> - Travel habits
• <a name="time-6138">61:38</a> - Dining preferences
• <a name="time-6903">69:03</a> - Move back from LA
• <a name="time-6917">69:17</a> - Upcoming tour

Transcript

[H. Foley]

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[Kevin Ryan]

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[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 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 RU Garbage Salute. So we sit down with your favorite comedians and we find that after Groot to be classy.

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

After just a big old piece of trash. Garbage, I'm your host, H. Foley. Coming at you on a beautiful day. We're out back here at Tooties in a new edition. She's upstairs polishing her 911 memorabilia. Okay, never forget, that's from CS on the Patreon. Mike Hoes is coming at you from right next to me, unamused this week. Tough break, cs I don't know what to tell you. He is the CEO of RU 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, gang? First of all, thanks for tuning in as always. Please make sure you rate view subscribe on itunes. Full video available on YouTube and now also full video available on Spotify. Over there we got in the creators program not available to not available to all podcasts. But they asked us to do it.

[H. Foley]

A little work release over here.

[Kevin Ryan]

Call that a mistake. And then obviously the greatest website of all time, www.patreon.com. you go over there, you get all that bonus content, gang.

[H. Foley]

Yes, sir. And gang, we couldn't be more excited to have our incredibly and I incredibly special guest here with us today for the first time. He is a very funny stand up comedian, actor and podcaster and OG of ours from Philadelphia.

[Kevin Ryan]

One of my first friends, stand up comedy.

[H. Foley]

When Moses wore short pants, we were hanging out running around the streets of Philly together. It was fucking fantastic. He's got a hot Bud Light commercial out right now. You got to check out.

[Kevin Ryan]

I forgot about that.

[H. Foley]

Kids all over the place. Saturday, Sundays, college pros. He's all over the joint. And you can hear him every week in his amazing podcast, Little Stinkers. Give it up for John Dello, everybody.

[Kevin Ryan]

Hey, thank you, boys.

[John Delcala]

Hey, buddy. Good to see you. How are you?

[H. Foley]

I thought you were doing your hair in the bathroom.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, I had to put a hat over. Didn't turn out great.

[Kevin Ryan]

He's in there. Oh, this is going bad. I got a hat.

[H. Foley]

What do you use? What's the product in the hair?

[John Delcala]

I just put a little Moroccan oil in it when I get out of the shower. You know, oil of argon. What do you get whenever you get a table?

[Kevin Ryan]

Oil of argon oil, Some like. That sounds like something from fucking Star Trek.

[John Delcala]

Whatever I'm using ain't working.

[Kevin Ryan]

All right.

[H. Foley]

Little Klingon jizz. Get it going. Moroccan oil.

[Kevin Ryan]

I know that stuff.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, that's.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's. That's fancy stuff.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, it's. I get about four good hair days a year, so.

[H. Foley]

Can I. Can I. Can I recommend something?

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

As a fellow follicle man. Ogis, mayonnaise, castor oil. Have you heard about it?

[John Delcala]

No.

[Kevin Ryan]

Isn't that for cars?

[H. Foley]

No, it was. It was, I think, to make you throw up when you were a kid. A little castor oil in there. It's nice. It's better than any of those. The hair gels or the pomades or whatever.

[John Delcala]

A little bit of castor oil, you're more follically gifted.

[H. Foley]

Dry. What do you mean you kill it?

[John Delcala]

My shit curls up. It's steaming up under here as we speak. I want to have fucking dreadlocks again when I take my hat off.

[H. Foley]

Give us.

[Kevin Ryan]

Although he did have dreadlocks at one point. I do believe you did also.

[H. Foley]

You had dreads. Not when I knew you.

[John Delcala]

No, no, no, no. I had dreads in an eyebrow ring my freshman year of college.

[H. Foley]

Whoa.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's a. That's a guy.

[H. Foley]

Well, thanks for coming in. That's great.

[Kevin Ryan]

You're the first white dude with dreads we've ever had on the show. All right, There you go.

[H. Foley]

How does that happen? You just stop washing your hair?

[John Delcala]

Oh, no.

[Kevin Ryan]

A lot of mid grade weed.

[John Delcala]

I believe that was a big part of it.

[H. Foley]

Bob Marley's Greatest Hits got me.

[John Delcala]

I saw Lil Wayne's Crib episode at the right time in my life.

[Kevin Ryan]

Sure to hit you. Also, I do want to record. I do want to say you have. The first podcast episode with me and Foley have ever recorded was a podcast VSU called the Center City comedy Podcast, and John gave us our first positive piece of feedback we've ever received on that show. He texted me because I love the show. What submarine did you record?

[John Delcala]

You guys have come a long way.

[Kevin Ryan]

That was about 11 years ago.

[H. Foley]

Back to the dreads. Hold on a second. I can't let this slide.

[Kevin Ryan]

Of course.

[H. Foley]

How long. How did it. How long did it take you to build them up? Takes a while. Right? And when did you decide I'm going to be a white dude wearing dreads? And nobody said anything to you?

[Kevin Ryan]

I'm sure a lot of people did.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, a lot of people did. It was, I guess, senior year, high school. I was like, I'm not even fucking around. I saw Lil Wayne with dreads for the first time.

[Kevin Ryan]

You're a high school.

[H. Foley]

I got some cornrows.

[John Delcala]

I couldn't do it in school, so I had to wait till the summer. Had a Puerto Rican chick dread. My legs partitioned my hair off, and I ordered a kit on the Internet. Whoa. That I put, like, beeswax in. And then Treads for White Dudes comes with free patchouli oil or whatever, and they were not great.

[H. Foley]

You just don't wash your hair.

[John Delcala]

There was a special shampoo in the little kit that I bought. They stunk. Physically, metaphorically, every way you can think of them. Stinking.

[H. Foley]

And how long did you keep them?

[John Delcala]

I think three months.

[H. Foley]

And what did your parents say?

[John Delcala]

Get out. Not much about it. They were pretty happy to see me looking like a skinhead when they got back from my little sister's basketball game one day.

[Kevin Ryan]

Jesus Christ. Now, was this more like, like, hippie dreads or like, you want it to be Lil Wayne dread? Like, what? Or is it walked in both worlds a little bit?

[John Delcala]

I was still in my G Unit era.

[Kevin Ryan]

Shout out. Hey, you know, I still am still.

[H. Foley]

You're writing any rap lyrics at the time?

[John Delcala]

I was freestyling a little bit. Don't know if I was writing anything down. Had to come off the dome.

[Kevin Ryan]

I was all off the dome, off the top as they. In the streets.

[John Delcala]

You get drunk, you freestyle with your friends.

[Kevin Ryan]

Sure. I've been to those parties, man. Would you stick?

[John Delcala]

I'm not hiding it.

[Kevin Ryan]

No, I respect. All right, let's. Let's.

[H. Foley]

All right, how does it.

[Kevin Ryan]

We got to get the backstory of how a guy decides to get dreads. Are you from Delaware?

[John Delcala]

Yeah, Wilmington, Delaware.

[Kevin Ryan]

Wilmington, Delaware.

[H. Foley]

Okay, take us back to there. Wilmington, Delaware. Mom, dad.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, Grew up. Mom, dad, brother, sisters, older sister, younger sister.

[H. Foley]

How far apart are they?

[John Delcala]

Five years each.

[H. Foley]

Five years each.

[John Delcala]

So they're 10 years apart and they're like best friends.

[Kevin Ryan]

Really?

[John Delcala]

Yeah. I'm out of the mix.

[H. Foley]

And you guys grew up in a house?

[John Delcala]

Yeah. I guess you would call it a single family home on this program, Sure. I will say it was a neighborhood of row homes.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

Our house was in the middle of the block. Not only connected on one side. And in between our house and the next house was a shared driveway.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay, wait.

[H. Foley]

One garage or no garage.

[John Delcala]

No garage just led to the backyards. So it was basically like an alleyway. No one parked in there.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's where people running from the cops. No garage. You ran down the alleyway. Yours.

[H. Foley]

That's a shared driveway, buddy.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay. Get the hell out of my share driveway.

[John Delcala]

Talking to the cops. I don't know. We have a shared driveway, not an alleyway.

[H. Foley]

So I don't know if that would necessarily count as a single family.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's not. So you were connected on one side.

[John Delcala]

So what? I don't understand what a single family.

[H. Foley]

Home is like the freestanding building, a family who loves each other.

[John Delcala]

A townhouse doesn't qualify as a loving home.

[Kevin Ryan]

No, no. You. Not the ones I've stayed in. They were not have dreadlocks. Wait, let's get the actual definition, single family. See if you can get a single what? The what? The proper definition of a single family. Home, domicile. I believe it's standalone.

[H. Foley]

What did your mom do? What did your dad do?

[John Delcala]

My dad, at one point, he owned an accessibility company.

[Kevin Ryan]

We sold, like, for, like, wheelchair ramps.

[John Delcala]

That kind of stuff.

[H. Foley]

You know, at one point.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. That wasn't as a good week. That wasn't the whole time.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

And then he eventually sold life insurance after that.

[H. Foley]

What happened to the business?

[John Delcala]

I think he grew to hate handicapped people after some time of working with them and then didn't want to be in that business.

[H. Foley]

Sure. Did you have like, a book?

[Kevin Ryan]

What did he do before that? Do you know?

[John Delcala]

Before that, I think he worked at a hardware company. Okay. That I think was my grandfather's. At some point.

[H. Foley]

At some point, Yeah.

[John Delcala]

A lot of it's murky love, blurry memories.

[H. Foley]

Talking about rising and falling in America.

[Kevin Ryan]

Wilmington.

[H. Foley]

What'd your mom do?

[John Delcala]

My mom worked for a lawyer. You know, secretary. But okay, more of a legal assistant kind of paralegal type person, I think. Secretary.

[Kevin Ryan]

Drafting documents and stuff like that.

[John Delcala]

She's, you know, transcribing whatever the guy says in the tape recorder.

[H. Foley]

All that stuff the whole time that you were growing up, that was her main Thing?

[John Delcala]

Yeah, she was stay at home until maybe my sister was in kindergarten or something.

[H. Foley]

Or your younger sister?

[John Delcala]

Yeah, my little sister. And then I guess she started back full time when I was like 8 or 10 or something like that.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Huh.

[H. Foley]

Would you say that the folks were doing well? Did your dad do good in the insurance game?

[Kevin Ryan]

He mentioned the shared driveway.

[H. Foley]

I mean, that's just a house, though.

[Kevin Ryan]

Sure, of course. What were the cars? That's a big indicator.

[H. Foley]

And did you share those?

[John Delcala]

They had a car each.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay. That's pretty good.

[John Delcala]

Two car point.

[Kevin Ryan]

Two car. At some point.

[John Delcala]

Mom was always rocking a Buick.

[Kevin Ryan]

Shout out to a nice Buick. American car pop up.

[John Delcala]

Worked for gm, so they had the GM discount. So it was always Buick.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

I think my dad had a minivan at some point. A nice Town and Country. Once.

[Kevin Ryan]

Once we had three kids when the Town and Country. All right, that was a good vehicle.

[John Delcala]

Let me slap a big old Santa Cruz sticker on the back of it.

[Kevin Ryan]

Really?

[H. Foley]

What? On the back of the van.

[John Delcala]

He was.

[H. Foley]

He was.

[John Delcala]

He was good to me when I was skateboarding, you know. He was. That's.

[Kevin Ryan]

I respect that.

[John Delcala]

He was my cameraman.

[Kevin Ryan]

Really?

[John Delcala]

Oh, yeah. He did my. My sponsor me tape.

[Kevin Ryan]

Your dad filmed your sponsor me tape?

[H. Foley]

Way ahead of ourselves here.

[Kevin Ryan]

It's crazy.

[H. Foley]

Back this up. Do they still live in that house? No, they moved. What was the name of the street that that was on?

[John Delcala]

That street was Charles Place.

[H. Foley]

Charles.

[Kevin Ryan]

That sounds pretty nice. That sounds like a sitcom. Something from England or something.

[John Delcala]

Sounds nice. But the neighborhood was Cleland Heights.

[H. Foley]

Cleland, Cleveland.

[John Delcala]

That ain't a great sound.

[H. Foley]

Cleveland.

[Kevin Ryan]

Do you have the definition. Drop the V. What? Do you have the definition of a single family home?

[John Delcala]

A single family home is a freestanding dwelling that is designed to be occupied by one household.

[Kevin Ryan]

It has its own land. Okay.

[John Delcala]

Like a kitchen and a driveway.

[Kevin Ryan]

Gotcha.

[John Delcala]

What a hard way to find out that I did not grow up.

[Kevin Ryan]

Single family home connected on both sides. And another family lived in there.

[H. Foley]

And a quiz nose on the roof. Okay. All right. And how close proximity did you live to your grandparents?

[John Delcala]

Grandparents were a two minute walk away.

[H. Foley]

Two minute walk away. So you're. So is that your mom's parents or your dad's parents?

[John Delcala]

Mom's parents lived right up the street.

[H. Foley]

Okay, so that's the neighborhood she grew up in.

[John Delcala]

Yes.

[H. Foley]

Okay. And where was your dad? Was your dad from Delaware as well?

[John Delcala]

He was. I believe all of my grandparents were born in Delaware, which is kind of remarkable.

[H. Foley]

And you're in Wilmington.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's great. I don't. That's insane. Everybody that I know that's ever lived in Delaware is like, move there to get away from something.

[John Delcala]

Tax break or something there. Really.

[H. Foley]

And you're in the city of Wilmington proper.

[John Delcala]

I'd say a thousand feet from the city line. I spent some time on Google Maps. I know exactly how far feet from this city lie. I walked home from school every day. Never walked to school.

[Kevin Ryan]

Why?

[John Delcala]

I was running late.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay, so they would drive late. Your parents would drive you or a bus. Parents would drive.

[John Delcala]

Parents would drop you on there to get a bus. Five minutes would be insane.

[Kevin Ryan]

Sure.

[John Delcala]

I don't think that was an option. So the school.

[Kevin Ryan]

Wait, you were. So you were a proper walker?

[John Delcala]

Yeah, school was in the city. House was just outside of the city limits.

[H. Foley]

Gotcha. Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Legal, is it? I think, like, that's the whole thing about the city.

[John Delcala]

Catholic school.

[Kevin Ryan]

Ah, okay. That makes sense.

[John Delcala]

People are coming from everywhere.

[H. Foley]

Who sprung for that? Your parents pay for Catholic school for all three years.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, they all. They both pretty good. Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

I gotta say, the public school. So I don't know. The public school system in Wilmington, Delaware, probably ain't great.

[H. Foley]

Sure.

[Kevin Ryan]

Right. I'm assuming. I don't know.

[John Delcala]

I think the district I was in specifically, probably not great, but it's got some good. I mean, public school still seems scary to me.

[Kevin Ryan]

Dude, you drop me in any public school right now, I'd fucking.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, I'm getting my ass beat as an adult.

[Kevin Ryan]

Sure. I'm gonna act like a cop.

[H. Foley]

He's over at Grover Cleveland High School.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's pretty good. What were the vacations like?

[John Delcala]

We did Disney a number of times.

[H. Foley]

Really?

[John Delcala]

Yeah. That's probably why we were stuck in that shared driveway. We could have probably moved on up if we cut Disney down to half.

[H. Foley]

Who was the Disney fam?

[Kevin Ryan]

I have a guess. Probably.

[John Delcala]

Okay.

[Kevin Ryan]

The fact that there's a 10 year gap in kids, it's like each like they at some point, like, well, we got to take John now and then. We have to take Bethany now that she's older and can enjoy it.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, but no, we were. We were going like high school. We definitely all remember going at least five times. Even my little dude. I probably have been to Disney World 10 or 12 times.

[H. Foley]

What?

[John Delcala]

Not creative. I guess we went to the beach too. Dewey Beach. Rehoboth Beach. Those were our.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's your low key, low key weekend getaways.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, whatever.

[H. Foley]

So every. Oh, so almost every summer you went to Disney?

[John Delcala]

No, no, it's maybe every other. Maybe every third Summer.

[H. Foley]

And how long are you going for?

[John Delcala]

A week, maybe. A week.

[H. Foley]

Is it just you, the immediate family? Would you take your grandparents or your cousins or anything like that?

[John Delcala]

At one point, my grandparents had a condo down there. A timeshare maybe.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

Oh, no, I haven't said that out loud yet.

[Kevin Ryan]

Garbage.

[John Delcala]

So at some point, the grandparents were there, My mom's parents. Mostly it would be us. We would stay. They would do it. Nice. We'd stay at the Polynesian.

[H. Foley]

So you'd stay on campus?

[John Delcala]

Yeah, as they call it, on the monorail.

[H. Foley]

Really? All right. That's an expensive trip.

[John Delcala]

It is cheap.

[H. Foley]

You throw in Catholic school in that, plus all the stuff for the dreads. You are that Santa Cruz stickers that Santa Cruz.

[Kevin Ryan]

You weren't driving down the Florida, right? You were flying?

[John Delcala]

No, we never did that. We always flew.

[H. Foley]

Okay, what was the first time you were on a plane, do you remember?

[John Delcala]

First time I was on a plane was probably to go to Florida.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah.

[John Delcala]

Maybe before kindergarten, but I remember doing it in kindergarten.

[H. Foley]

No kidding.

[John Delcala]

Wow. This is. I never said this a lot either. One time, my dad took me to Disney World, just me and him, so he could buy a lottery ticket in Florida because the jackpot was so high.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's a guy. That's a guy putting it. Talk about laying it all on the line.

[H. Foley]

I think plan B was selling you.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's nuts. To fly down for a lottery ticket.

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

I.

[H. Foley]

How come the other kids didn't go?

[John Delcala]

The. My mom was probably pregnant. I was in kindergarten, so you can miss color day or whatever, you know.

[H. Foley]

Sure.

[John Delcala]

But my older sister was probably in, like, fifth grade, so she's not gonna get taken out of school.

[H. Foley]

This was during school.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. Pretty cool little trip for little John.

[Kevin Ryan]

Was it a short one or did you do.

[John Delcala]

I think, like, two nights go down by the ticket. Could have just been one night. Hit that part, went to Magic Kingdom for one day. Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's nuts, dude. That's a level of.

[H. Foley]

Did he win?

[Kevin Ryan]

That's a level of he did not win. That's a level of trash. That's like, let's go.

[H. Foley]

We're leaving it kind of ripping up the ticket.

[Kevin Ryan]

I mean, we used to do it, obviously, like, for living in. Outside of Philadelphia, we would do it. You go to Jersey if there was a big jackpot or whatever.

[John Delcala]

Take your kid out of school to take him to Jersey for afternoon.

[Kevin Ryan]

Let's go. We're going to Trenton.

[H. Foley]

How does he even hear about that? Like, on the news. They're probably talking about it in the Jackpot in Florida.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah, of course.

[John Delcala]

Because, like, I guess, like, the Mega Millions in Powerball were specific states back then. You know what I mean?

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah, but I would have to argue you could have. So the Mega Millions and the Powerball.

[H. Foley]

Why don't you have his grandparents buy him a ticket down there?

[John Delcala]

That fucking condo folded years before that.

[Kevin Ryan]

Probably he's trying to get the condo back.

[John Delcala]

It wasn't the time of the timeshare, all right? Wrong time of year.

[Kevin Ryan]

But. But those Powerball and those Mega Millions, they were like 13 or 11 different states all combined. I'm sure he could have gotten a Mega Millions ticket closer or whatever it was.

[John Delcala]

I could have, like, driven to Virginia. But he was like, ah, it's in Florida. We can take two birds, one stone. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

How do you pitch that to your mom?

[John Delcala]

I don't know.

[Kevin Ryan]

I'm gonna come back with $400 million. That's how he pitched it.

[John Delcala]

And some Mickey ears. If you play your cards right, kid.

[H. Foley]

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[Kevin Ryan]

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[H. Foley]

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[Kevin Ryan]

Hey, puts a little stinky.

[H. Foley]

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[Kevin Ryan]

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[John Delcala]

Yo.

[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]

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[Kevin Ryan]

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[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

So multiple trips to Disney World. All right.

[Kevin Ryan]

Have you gone as an adult?

[John Delcala]

I did. I went with. With Mike Rainey and Jake Matera.

[Kevin Ryan]

Right, that makes sense. Rainey's a Disney adult.

[John Delcala]

He's a Disney adult. We were In Florida for. For a little Stinkers trip. And a fan of ours hooked it up with free tickets. So got to spend a free day in Epcot and the MGM studios or whatever it is.

[Kevin Ryan]

Sure.

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's pretty good.

[John Delcala]

I did not drink enough in Epcot. I really regret we got black not doing around the world.

[Kevin Ryan]

We blacked out two hours, dude.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, I mean, I should have.

[Kevin Ryan]

It was like 12 beers in 90 minutes.

[H. Foley]

They do it right down there. They really do it right. What was the grocery store that your mom went to growing up?

[John Delcala]

We had shoprite, Acme, and also Zingos. Zingoes? Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Was that a single, like. Well, there was one. Zingo's.

[John Delcala]

There was two. The one we went to was not in the nicer area.

[Kevin Ryan]

Zingo's supermarket and convenience store.

[John Delcala]

Is it still kicking on Maryland Avenue?

[Kevin Ryan]

No, this one's on. This is on Poly Drummond and Poly Drummond Shopping Center.

[John Delcala]

That's the nice one.

[Kevin Ryan]

Whoa. That's probably 4.3 stars.

[H. Foley]

Sounds like a killer clown's name.

[Kevin Ryan]

Don't close your eyes. Zingo's gonna get you. Wow. Huh? They got private brands.

[H. Foley]

What is that?

[Kevin Ryan]

I don't know. That you ain't never heard.

[John Delcala]

Is this their website?

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah. They still got a red box. What's a private brand?

[H. Foley]

Damn.

[John Delcala]

They sell a red box. Is it outside or Fruity Loops or.

[Kevin Ryan]

No, Fruity Hoops.

[H. Foley]

Fruity Hoops, dude.

[Kevin Ryan]

The Mac and cheese is called Shells and Cheese. Whoa.

[John Delcala]

Hey. That's essential brand. That's not just Zingos.

[Kevin Ryan]

They're all dead.

[John Delcala]

That's a Mingos Pingos.

[Kevin Ryan]

Essential every day. All right.

[H. Foley]

Who babysat you as a kid? Your older sister?

[John Delcala]

Grandparents.

[H. Foley]

Your grandparents would.

[John Delcala]

When my mom was working and I was still in grade school, we would go to my grandparents after school. I guess he was working Tuesdays. Tuesdays we would go to my mom and Pop ups.

[H. Foley]

That's probably not a bad gig. Go over there. Grandma put something out for you. A nice little snack.

[John Delcala]

Got Tostinos. They got Hot Pockets. They got Tombstones, Ice cream sandwiches. Caffeine free Pepsi. Get lost.

[Kevin Ryan]

Was that the. Was that the gold can?

[John Delcala]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Kevin Ryan]

And those hit different.

[H. Foley]

It was all right. You could tell there was no caffeine in there.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. Something was different, but guilt free.

[Kevin Ryan]

Grandparents in the 90s loved that shit.

[H. Foley]

Why?

[Kevin Ryan]

If my grandfather was coming over, you had to have a 12 pack of that for him.

[John Delcala]

They were still drinking coffee. Like, what's the point of having the.

[H. Foley]

Caffeine free Pepsi diet? Caffeine free Pepsi soda, whatever. Diet root beer was huge with them. And I remember diet chocolate soda being a big thing with never.

[Kevin Ryan]

I don't think I've ever seen chocolate. So.

[John Delcala]

No, that's not real strange.

[H. Foley]

Strange taste.

[Kevin Ryan]

Maybe you were dreaming, huh? What was the high school mascot?

[John Delcala]

Viking.

[Kevin Ryan]

Pretty good.

[H. Foley]

Any sports to speak of?

[John Delcala]

Yeah, played football and wrestling.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

And baseball. Baseball. My whole life. Football, fourth grade.

[H. Foley]

Pretty good.

[John Delcala]

Fourth grade. B team, QB right here.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

First day of practice. Didn't even know was the day that practice was starting. We were coming home from the beach and I saw everybody at the football field at the park by my house. And I was like, I think I'm supposed to be at football practice. Ran over there with my chain wallet and cargo shorts. Big skateboarder already at the time.

[Kevin Ryan]

Because back then, I don't know if it does now. Skateboarders in sports did not mix.

[John Delcala]

No.

[Kevin Ryan]

It was like one guy in each school who walked in both worlds.

[John Delcala]

All my friends skateboarded, but they also all played really all the sports. Yeah. And. And the first day of practice, the guy, one of the coaches was like, who's left handed? And I was like, me. And he was like, you're the quarterback. Still have no idea what logic that is. It's not baseball. It's not like I'm throwing a right handers, you know. I don't think I threw a single pass that season.

[H. Foley]

Who's southpaw?

[John Delcala]

A lot of QB sneaks.

[Kevin Ryan]

A lot of those.

[John Delcala]

I found my way into the zone.

[H. Foley]

Did you do this in high school? Were you playing sports in high school?

[Kevin Ryan]

School?

[John Delcala]

I think I quit a sport every year in high school.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

Football freshman year, quit after that.

[H. Foley]

Got you.

[John Delcala]

Played basketball, freshman, sophomore. Don't think I scored a single point. Quit after that. And then I played baseball till senior year. And then I quit mid season after the coach put in a five footer over me at first base. And I was like, he might be making contact with the ball, but DH for him. Come on, let me play the field.

[Kevin Ryan]

He might be making contact with the. Listen, you can't take that away from guys hitting 333.

[H. Foley]

We're skateboarding this whole time.

[John Delcala]

Skateboarding from third or fourth grade till seventh or eighth grade. Whenever weed started.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

And then you were done with the skateboarding?

[John Delcala]

I picked it back up in high school and college a little bit, but was not skateboarding.

[H. Foley]

When was your dad filming your promo tapes?

[John Delcala]

I was probably like 10.

[Kevin Ryan]

You were trying to get a spot. You were doing a sponsor me tape at 10 years old.

[John Delcala]

Some company Was doing, like an open call.

[Kevin Ryan]

Sure. Like a local skate shop.

[John Delcala]

No, I was. I think it was like somebody that you'd see in a CCS magazine.

[H. Foley]

And did you have some skills? Could you do tricks?

[John Delcala]

Yeah, I mean, I was like. I think my big thing was I dropped down a pretty big ledge, just ollied off of it, you know, I don't even think I ollied. Yeah, a little bit of a kick. Flip up a curb. He'll flip down a curb.

[H. Foley]

I like how serious.

[John Delcala]

Ollied a five set.

[Kevin Ryan]

I mean, for what, you're 10 years old. Yeah, that's. For a 10 year old.

[H. Foley]

That's good.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, not bad. Got some free stickers out of the.

[Kevin Ryan]

Out of the deal.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. So not a total L. Your dad.

[Kevin Ryan]

Probably bought them and sent them to you. Be honest.

[H. Foley]

How was mom in the kitchen?

[John Delcala]

Pretty good. Pretty good. She still makes some staples to this day. That goulash, which is not your typical Hungarian lava goulash, or this is just ground meat, some kind of red sauce, and mozzarella cheese on top.

[Kevin Ryan]

Whoa.

[John Delcala]

Put that in the oven, let the cheese get a little brown, melted and I can't.

[Kevin Ryan]

I don't know if that's a goulash.

[H. Foley]

Were you putting it over egg noodles?

[John Delcala]

No. Elbow macaroni.

[H. Foley]

Was that in the pan with it?

[John Delcala]

Elbow macaroni down first, then the ground beef, then the sauce, and then.

[H. Foley]

That's not the casserole. Yeah, yeah, that's.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's amber.

[H. Foley]

Yeah, but.

[Kevin Ryan]

But listen, if you're. If you're in Delaware and you ain't never seen nothing like that and someone says that's goulash, you run with it.

[H. Foley]

That might as well be fried rice down there. All right.

[John Delcala]

Then we had, you know, your classic hot dog casseroles that has not seen the light of day since we moved out of that house.

[H. Foley]

And would you eat together as a family every night?

[John Delcala]

Yeah, maybe not every night, but it was a big. Can't go out till after dinner or be home for dinner. Nobody answers the phone during dinner.

[H. Foley]

Would it be ringing?

[John Delcala]

I mean, if it was like a telemarketer, you just say boarding companies, you know, or if somebody's calling for me, we're eating, you know, he'll call you back later.

[H. Foley]

Oh, really?

[Kevin Ryan]

John Brandon called. Yeah.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, he can come out after dinner.

[Kevin Ryan]

Religious family at all?

[John Delcala]

Had to go to church every week, but I would not say Catholic. Religious.

[H. Foley]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[John Delcala]

Which is probably the reason I am not religious. Having to wake up every single Sunday, that was the bane of my existence.

[Kevin Ryan]

Trying to hit this rail down.

[H. Foley]

Would there be a. Would there be a system? Like when we would do that when I was a kid, it would be get up, go to church, come home, dad would make a nice breakfast. Breakfast.

[John Delcala]

At some point we were doing church, and then we were hitting either the Sheraton or the Marriott for brunch.

[Kevin Ryan]

A nice hotel for brunch.

[John Delcala]

We would do a nice brunch buffet at a What? Yeah, that was a maybe special occasion.

[H. Foley]

We're staying in room 902.

[Kevin Ryan]

I've never heard of that.

[H. Foley]

That's crazy.

[John Delcala]

We weren't stealing continental breakfast. We had to pay. It was 15 bucks ahead at least.

[H. Foley]

Going to the sheriff with your family.

[John Delcala]

I think it was a Sheraton. Whoa.

[H. Foley]

That is.

[John Delcala]

I mean, everybody was dressed up. It was like it was Easter Sunday.

[H. Foley]

They were.

[Kevin Ryan]

They all just had a wedding the night before. Dude.

[H. Foley]

Holy.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's a first. Hey, Kai, I gotta give it to you. It kind of makes sense a little bit. You're like, hey, they throw out a good breakfast. They're good at doing breakfast. I just never heard anybody just go into, like, a hotel. I mean, like a children. Like a fancy hotel that has a nice restaurant, fancy hotel saying, I get that, like, we're going to the. The Whatever to go, you know? Not that you're not hitting a Hilton for the. For the generic breakfast.

[John Delcala]

I feel they had a nice bread, man.

[Kevin Ryan]

You probably do. Like, I love a kind. How you like it. You like a nice continental breakfast?

[John Delcala]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, man.

[Kevin Ryan]

It's the best.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. Sometimes I'll even set my alarm for it.

[Kevin Ryan]

Oh, yeah. Like, if you're on the road.

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Oh, I don't miss it.

[John Delcala]

You'll. And then you'll go back to bed.

[Kevin Ryan]

We have. When we're on the road, we have a system. We have a group chat for everybody who's on the road together. It's about five of us. Then we meet that won't get text me and fully wake up at the same time every day, give or take an hour.

[H. Foley]

Nervous kids.

[Kevin Ryan]

We are in the same bed and we'll fire a private text to each other. I'm gonna hit brecky. See you down there in 10 or whatever.

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Me and him have breakfast, catch a heater, go down, shut it back down.

[H. Foley]

Slide back into the sheets for a little while.

[John Delcala]

I usually can't put my face on in time to make last call for continental breakfast.

[Kevin Ryan]

I don't miss it again if I'm in Columbus. Columbus. I ain't got nothing better else to do. Than eat that fucking breakfast.

[John Delcala]

I'm getting late. Checkout. I'm sure I can sleep till 11:30 and still make it out of there by noon.

[Kevin Ryan]

You have very still, like, teenager energy in the sense of. Like. You're like. I could. I could just rock till noon.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think that's because I went to church every Sunday. I still wake up at 1pm Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

I love it.

[John Delcala]

I'm catching up.

[Kevin Ryan]

Johnny D. Baby.

[H. Foley]

Could you eat in your room as a kid? Were you allowed to eat up there?

[John Delcala]

I don't know if I ever even tried. Like, it wasn't. I didn't have it. I didn't have a TV in there. So if I'm not just eating in your room. Yeah, what the fuck am I gonna do?

[H. Foley]

Crazy.

[John Delcala]

Look at my Incubus poster and eat a fucking Hot Pocket.

[H. Foley]

I didn't know you didn't have a tv. Where was the gaming system?

[John Delcala]

Living room was. Whatever was the newest thing. And then the basement had the. The Sega. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Would they keep up with the. With the times with that?

[John Delcala]

We had Nintendo and then Sega and then PlayStation. Original was the last one that the family bought.

[H. Foley]

Was that a big Christmas present?

[John Delcala]

Yeah. It was like.

[H. Foley]

Was that yours or the Everybody families?

[John Delcala]

It was separated from the rest of the piles. Like, oh, Santa brought something for everybody.

[Kevin Ryan]

Dad was a big Crash Bandicoot fan.

[John Delcala]

Spyro.

[H. Foley]

Okay. What was the first concert? I think it's gonna start getting sticky.

[John Delcala]

First concert might have been. I got brought to New Kids on the Block.

[Kevin Ryan]

All right.

[John Delcala]

Older sister.

[Kevin Ryan]

But your older sister was gone.

[H. Foley]

That's pretty.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's a great one.

[John Delcala]

First by myself with, like, my friends. Maybe Oasis or Bush.

[Kevin Ryan]

Really?

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Get the fuck out. Wrong. I apologize for everything I said up until now. You saw Oasis? What year would this have been?

[John Delcala]

I would say 96 or 97.

[H. Foley]

Get the fuck out of here.

[John Delcala]

We might have been 12 years old in their prime.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's amazing.

[H. Foley]

Were they playing in Delaware? Would you go up to Philly?

[John Delcala]

Up to Philly?

[Kevin Ryan]

I think it was Starbuck down there in Rehoboth.

[John Delcala]

I think it was the. The Tweeter Center. But it was closed. Like, the outside was closed.

[Kevin Ryan]

Right?

[John Delcala]

Just the inside. Which is probably only like 5 or 10,000. I don't think.

[Kevin Ryan]

It's probably not even that big. Yeah.

[John Delcala]

Seems small for Oasis back then.

[H. Foley]

That must have been ripping.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. It was sick.

[H. Foley]

Wow. That's pretty good.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's really good, actually.

[John Delcala]

Thank you.

[Kevin Ryan]

Everybody.

[H. Foley]

Turn it around like that Ice Cube.

[Kevin Ryan]

Chance in hell you got right here. What was the first job.

[John Delcala]

First job was. I think I was a parcel delivery guy. Like a. Like a runner? Like a courier.

[Kevin Ryan]

Who says that?

[John Delcala]

And Wilmington, you just said five different.

[Kevin Ryan]

Words that you could just said.

[John Delcala]

A bicycle messenger.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

What? I don't know if that was my first job, though.

[H. Foley]

Either that or prison for that first bike mess.

[John Delcala]

I think bike messenger in high school was my first.

[Kevin Ryan]

And then you hit a golf course and then.

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Where were you?

[Kevin Ryan]

What were you doing?

[H. Foley]

What were your bike mess? I don't know. What were your bike messaging like? Wilmington.

[John Delcala]

Downtown Wilmington. All the legal banks that go around, every corporation. File this in Chancellor Record. Go pick this up at 222 Delaware Ave. Bring it down to the courthouse.

[H. Foley]

10 speed.

[John Delcala]

I was mostly on foot due to the fact that they wouldn't let me ride with training wheels. I was seven, but I think they were ten speeds. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

They just had a bunch of bikes in the window of this place. So if you were going way uptown, 10 blocks, you go grab a bike on your way out the door.

[Kevin Ryan]

So you went back to home base.

[John Delcala]

And then between every delivery.

[H. Foley]

Yeah, that's a pretty good gig for something like that.

[John Delcala]

No, I think independent couriers will have their own thing and just be a.

[Kevin Ryan]

They worked for big. He was a big, big carrier industry man.

[John Delcala]

The messenger wars of downtown Wilmington. You wouldn't believe what was going on in the mid 2000s.

[H. Foley]

Are you being serious?

[John Delcala]

Oh, yeah. Like people getting fired from companies, starting their own companies at some point. There was like four different courier companies. You don't need that many in a town that small. Like.

[H. Foley]

And you were caught up in the.

[John Delcala]

Middle of it like Henry Hill, catching strays.

[H. Foley]

There I am, delivering packages on foot.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay, what was the first. Your first car?

[John Delcala]

My first car was a hand me down from my grandparents. It was a grand am.

[H. Foley]

Sweet.

[Kevin Ryan]

Nice. What color? Gold color. I know that gold color.

[John Delcala]

Roll windows.

[H. Foley]

Still good condition when you got it.

[John Delcala]

Oh, grand.

[Kevin Ryan]

What are we talking, like mid-90s?

[John Delcala]

Probably maybe like a 99, 2001 possibly.

[H. Foley]

Okay, that's not bad.

[John Delcala]

I didn't get my hands on it until. Until college.

[Kevin Ryan]

Sure. No, until college, Yeah.

[H. Foley]

I thought you got it then.

[John Delcala]

I didn't. I didn't have wheels.

[Kevin Ryan]

Body style or that body style. The old or the new or none of those.

[John Delcala]

That's true. I don't know if it's.

[H. Foley]

Was it in good shape when you got it?

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Oh, yeah.

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's all that matters.

[H. Foley]

They were getting a new product. Do you remember when you got it?

[John Delcala]

No. No. Probably less than 50,000.

[H. Foley]

Really? Is that. Now is that a hand me down straight or was there some money exchange?

[John Delcala]

I think as far as I know, my mom could have given my grandparents a couple bucks for it and then just given it to me. But I think she was just tired of picking me up in school for Sunday dinner, you know.

[H. Foley]

And now you said nobody parked in the shared driveway. So you're parking on the street.

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Was there tickets? Was there alternate side parking?

[John Delcala]

No, no, no. Just regular suburb. I mean that aspect of this neighborhood was suburban ask. You know what I mean?

[H. Foley]

All right.

[Kevin Ryan]

But I assume there had to be some sort of hacky sack phase.

[John Delcala]

What makes you say that?

[H. Foley]

Let's get into that. Let's get into the many personalities.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah. Yes, sure.

[John Delcala]

I mean we're on the boardwalk, we're getting our. Our devil sticks or hacky sack on devil stick.

[Kevin Ryan]

Come on. That's why that's always one of my best friends, this guy.

[H. Foley]

What age is that?

[John Delcala]

That's probably a skateboarding era, so fourth, fifth, whatever.

[H. Foley]

Great.

[John Delcala]

Nine, ten years old.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

I could do it all. Still skateboard and do devil sticks.

[H. Foley]

Still doing the chain wallet.

[John Delcala]

That was pretty short lived. I think that was probably only a kept tripping over himself two year phase. Maybe. But there's a good chance I was doing devil sticks on the Rehoboth boardwalk with a chain wallet.

[H. Foley]

Sure. Any overalls?

[John Delcala]

I don't think so.

[H. Foley]

Never overalls. What were the pants we're wearing like the big big puffy pants.

[John Delcala]

I didn't wear the Jenkos.

[Kevin Ryan]

No, not Jenkins. There was another UFOs or something. Was a big. Was a big. Like there were big. I remember those cargos. They were like real baggy cargo. They were like break dancer. There was. There was a store called Mr. Rags we used to go to. Man. It was like a break dancer clothing store. We were losers.

[H. Foley]

Mr. Rags, any sneakers with no laces in them?

[John Delcala]

Like you mean I took him out and. Yeah, I don't think so.

[Kevin Ryan]

Was there like a thug phase where you were like you were trying to be a gangster?

[John Delcala]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

What did that entail?

[John Delcala]

Oh dude, everything man. Johnny Blaze. Woo. Wear pelly pal. Pnb. Whoa, bro.

[Kevin Ryan]

Talk about a blast. Dude. There's a specific. You're a little older for this. There's a specific kind of dirt bag that will wear a Johnny Blaze hoodie that kids. I mean the fact that your parents were together is crazy.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, Yeah. I don't look back on it fondly, but that's probably what started.

[H. Foley]

Are you selling any bags?

[John Delcala]

Woo.

[Kevin Ryan]

Wear any Woo wear.

[John Delcala]

Woo wear. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Are you moving any weight?

[John Delcala]

Not till high school, okay? And by that point I was probably shopping at Abercrombie.

[H. Foley]

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[Kevin Ryan]

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[H. Foley]

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[Kevin Ryan]

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[H. Foley]

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[Kevin Ryan]

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[H. Foley]

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[Kevin Ryan]

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[H. Foley]

It's what animals do.

[Kevin Ryan]

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[H. Foley]

Primates, reptiles. Neanderthals.

[Kevin Ryan]

No, reptiles probably got clean bee holes because they're in and out of the water, sprucing you up a little bit.

[H. Foley]

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[Kevin Ryan]

Sure.

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[H. Foley]

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[Kevin Ryan]

Dude, I mean, listen.

[H. Foley]

Hey, you got the money?

[Kevin Ryan]

When I first met Delcalo, this is what? Probably 2010ish around then. What year did you move to Cal? California. You've had it. You are. You've had so many lives, dude.

[John Delcala]

2011.

[H. Foley]

All right.

[Kevin Ryan]

So I probably met you 2010ish. Around that 2011. 2010. Fucking was the cool. One of the coolest dudes in the room.

[H. Foley]

Wait, when did you move to California?

[Kevin Ryan]

He had won that, I think the competition you put on.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, after. After I won 250 bucks on that open. My competition. You guys shipped me out to LA for free.

[H. Foley]

I did.

[Kevin Ryan]

No, but he took that. He took that industry heat and parlayed it into. Into Hollywood.

[H. Foley]

I don't remember this at all.

[John Delcala]

Really?

[H. Foley]

Thank you. Because it was really a contest that we were running. Or is it. You won the helium contest?

[John Delcala]

No, it was like a March Madness open mic bringer competition.

[H. Foley]

Whoa.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. And I brought the most.

[H. Foley]

And we pretended like we were announcers on the side.

[John Delcala]

Right?

[Kevin Ryan]

Man, you used to stink. Not Del Carlo Foley for the audio listener.

[H. Foley]

Wait, so you won 250 bucks a night and you moved to LA? That was it.

[John Delcala]

I was going to LA either way, with or without the 250.

[Kevin Ryan]

That was the icing on the cake.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. Oh, I thought I could make it after that.

[Kevin Ryan]

Wait, but when I that that version of John Del Carlo with leather jacket.

[John Delcala]

Oh man.

[Kevin Ryan]

Harley David. You had a motorcycle.

[John Delcala]

That thing don't fit anymore. Neither does the motorcycle.

[Kevin Ryan]

You were super thin, good looking, good head of head. Like he was like. I was like, this guy is fucking. This guy's a movie star.

[John Delcala]

So funny you say that. This is the year I turn it all around. So be prepared for me to get back to that look.

[H. Foley]

And how long were you in LA for? Was that. Was that the last time we saw you or did you come back?

[John Delcala]

I came back and did. I'm not there anymore. So I was there for like a year and a half maybe and then came back 2013, 2012, something like that.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. And then you guys were probably.

[H. Foley]

Yeah, we started in New York.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah, I can't think I came up in 2014 but like that was 250.

[H. Foley]

See you around, losers.

[Kevin Ryan]

Suck my dick, nerds.

[John Delcala]

Ran out of gas money by Texas.

[Kevin Ryan]

Made it to Pittsburgh.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Kevin Ryan]

Oh man. All right, so what the. So that was high school was the Johnny Blaze phase.

[John Delcala]

7Th and 8th grade, big time.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

Thug phase.

[Kevin Ryan]

That Abercrombie. In high school you said when you started moving units.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, before the units. I. I started shopping at Abercrombie. Still buying things three times too big for me. You know, I was filter my way into it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. All those pants fit again.

[H. Foley]

You still have those clothes?

[Kevin Ryan]

No, everything's coming up Johnny.

[John Delcala]

I don't know, I don't throw much out. It's probably in my mama's basement. But. Yeah, thug phase was.

[H. Foley]

What kind of weight were we moving? 20 bags.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. Selling some 20s, smoking some grams in. In college, nobody was buying ace. Nobody had $60.

[Kevin Ryan]

Where'd you go to college?

[John Delcala]

University of Delaware, U of D. How you doing?

[Kevin Ryan]

Fighting Blue.

[John Delcala]

Brother, watch your mouth. Blue hands. There's a. It's a lady. All right.

[Kevin Ryan]

I'm sorry. I wasn't that far.

[H. Foley]

You and your buddies did in your.

[Kevin Ryan]

Dorm room fighting red stingers. That's what we did.

[John Delcala]

Blue hands and red.

[Kevin Ryan]

Did you live on campus? How far is that from your house?

[John Delcala]

20 minute drive.

[Kevin Ryan]

I did the same thing.

[John Delcala]

Yeah? Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Run home Sunday for dinner if you wanted to do a little laundry.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. Yeah. And I think that was a big part of my mom giving me the car at some point because they had to come pick me up.

[H. Foley]

I'll get back.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah. It's like, just fuck it.

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

I'm not doing this. I'm not doing this three days a week.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. And then 10:00pm on a Sunday, they have to fucking drive to Newark, Delaware. Not far.

[H. Foley]

But what was the pet situation growing up?

[John Delcala]

No. No pets outside of a. A fishbowl or a hermit crab cage, you know?

[Kevin Ryan]

Sure. Was there a lot of those or just like you will every couple of years.

[John Delcala]

You fish at the carnival. Got the hermit crab at the beach one year. And then that thing.

[H. Foley]

Fish tank with the. With the filter or just a bowl?

[John Delcala]

Just a bowl.

[H. Foley]

So a couple of days, maybe a month the most.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. Yeah. Fun to feed those little guys for that period, though. You know, you're on borrow time, but.

[H. Foley]

You ain't got a filter there, dog. You cloudy ass water sitting in a glass of water.

[John Delcala]

I did have turtles in college, so.

[H. Foley]

In the dorm or in an apartment?

[John Delcala]

Apartment.

[Kevin Ryan]

That apartment had this thing.

[H. Foley]

How many turtles?

[John Delcala]

No. It did. My sister found one in the park and I was like, whoa, a turtle. I'm 20 years old and I'm like, wow, a turtle. I didn't know these were real. And so I got a terrarium and put it in my apartment. And then, you know, got the filter going and all that. And then it's. God, those things stink. Let my friend watch it when I went to la and he let it die, so. Stole my shit list.

[Kevin Ryan]

What was that apartment like? How many. How many bedrooms? How many people?

[John Delcala]

That specific apartment was sick. It was on top of like an Asian grocery store.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

And it was four bedrooms and my room, it was like total bachelor Pad. My room went out to the deck.

[Kevin Ryan]

Not one lady went in there?

[John Delcala]

No. 2 or 3 Asian grocery store turtles.

[H. Foley]

Sounds like a real swinging spot.

[Kevin Ryan]

That place had to stink.

[John Delcala]

Oh, yeah. That turtle had plenty of mice for friends. But I had a deck outside of my bed.

[Kevin Ryan]

Pretty good. Dude. 20 year old with a deck and a turtle. You can't tell me nothing.

[H. Foley]

Got the great damn too.

[John Delcala]

Still was wearing a medium shirt. Jesus Christ.

[H. Foley]

Are you selling some 20 bags in college at the time?

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Making ends meet, People coming over, hanging out.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah.

[John Delcala]

I mean, or would you go to them? If you got the bros and you got five or three friends that are trying to smoke a blood blunt, bring over a gram. They both give me. They all give me five bucks. I throw the other five myself, get high for an hour and then do it all over again, baby. You guys know the drill.

[H. Foley]

That was a cover at your apartment. That's crazy. Wow, Johnny, you are a different level of trash.

[John Delcala]

I'm gonna turn it around. I know it.

[H. Foley]

Okay, unless you win a Nobel Peace Prize between LA and now.

[Kevin Ryan]

All right.

[H. Foley]

I mean, what kind of mayonnaise growing up? Was it Hellman's? Was it Miracle Whip?

[John Delcala]

I don't really fuck with white condiments.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay, But I think.

[John Delcala]

I think we had Hellman's.

[Kevin Ryan]

What else falls in besides mayo?

[John Delcala]

Ranch sour cream? Whoa.

[Kevin Ryan]

I stand corrected.

[John Delcala]

Cottage cheese? Any of that?

[Kevin Ryan]

Oh, you're the guy who's never had a bowl of cereal.

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yes.

[John Delcala]

Well, at this point, I have.

[Kevin Ryan]

At this point you had. I remember he had never had a bowl zero up until a couple years ago.

[John Delcala]

You're a picky guy too, right?

[Kevin Ryan]

Hey, don't drag me into this, weirdo.

[H. Foley]

Wait, what?

[Kevin Ryan]

I am a picky eater. Yes.

[John Delcala]

I used to. I ran a little show for a couple times called New Foods with jdc where I would have a guest bring me a food that I had never tried. One of them was cereal with milk. Also was first milking.

[H. Foley]

No, you didn't have as a kid. You didn't have cereal.

[John Delcala]

I didn't try milk till college. It wasn't for me.

[H. Foley]

What?

[John Delcala]

Yeah. I think my first memory is my mom trying to shove a Cheerio into my mouth and me just being like, no, no, no. So as soon as I could make conscious decisions about food, it was like they submitted pretty quickly. And we're just like, you're getting McDonald's.

[H. Foley]

What'd you eat for breakfast when you were a kid?

[John Delcala]

Pop Tarts, Toaster Strudels? Sometimes my mom would make some eggs or pancakes.

[Kevin Ryan]

Kids live in the. That's a continental breakfast where I go.

[H. Foley]

I know why you like the hotel.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay.

[H. Foley]

Really?

[Kevin Ryan]

So would you do dry cereal at any point or.

[John Delcala]

No, I think I tried Cookie Crisp dry. And I was like, this ain't a cookie, brother. What the. Is it.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah, you just go get a real cookie. The hell we doing here?

[H. Foley]

Wow. That's crazy.

[John Delcala]

Never had a bowl of cereal, A banana. Somebody brought to try the first time.

[H. Foley]

You've never had a banana?

[John Delcala]

Really?

[Kevin Ryan]

Respect.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, now we're talking. I'll never do it again. So you're not missing much.

[Kevin Ryan]

Thank you. I'm gonna. Next time they try to get me, I'll say Del Carlo did it for me. He didn't like it. No way.

[John Delcala]

Put it in a smoothie.

[Kevin Ryan]

Cut to me and you with Devil's Day. Yeah. Who needs potassium anyway?

[H. Foley]

Can't land a. Kevin, you are 10% weirder. Now. Now I know what the barometer of not eating a banana is. This guy's never had cereal. That's. Whoa.

[Kevin Ryan]

So then what did. What led to the. What led to the milk?

[John Delcala]

In college, I think we were. Some friends were over for dinner with my family, and they were like, you seriously have never tried milk as an adult that you can remember? Or like.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah, she's a child.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. And I think I had a sip of it in front of my friends.

[Kevin Ryan]

It's all over the table.

[John Delcala]

It's not bad. It's kind of just like a watery vanilla milkshake, you know what I mean? But I don't go back to the tap for it, you know?

[H. Foley]

So you're not a milk guy.

[John Delcala]

No. I know you guys are big on milk for dinner. That was my dad's move.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

At least there's one normal person. He took you to Disney World for 48 hours.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, the milk was flowing that weekend.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay. Wow. What other. Okay, That's a lot. I mean, I'm a picky eater, but.

[John Delcala]

What was the first bowl of cereal?

[Kevin Ryan]

Oh, good. Great question.

[John Delcala]

We did a little trio of three. One was Honey Nut Cheerios. I think. The other was regular Cheerios. Honey Nut blows regular out of the water. It's not even close. Honey Nut Cheers. Might as well be candy compared to the other it. And then welcome to Earth. And then something like one of the. Cinnamon. Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

[H. Foley]

Okay. She just took a couple of bites of each. So they stood around and watched you do this. Audience like a science experiment.

[John Delcala]

Who paid five bucks to see it?

[Kevin Ryan]

Man, what a country we live in. Step right up. Step right in.

[H. Foley]

Are you Flossing every day?

[John Delcala]

I do not floss.

[H. Foley]

No, never.

[John Delcala]

A couple times a decade, maybe.

[H. Foley]

Go to the dentist regularly?

[John Delcala]

No. Heavens no.

[H. Foley]

Did you have braces as a kid?

[John Delcala]

I did, yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Do you have dental insurance now?

[John Delcala]

I just re upped my Obamacare and I added dental.

[Kevin Ryan]

There you go.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. So I think this year's my year. I only go to the dentist in recent years when I can feel one of my wisdom teeth coming in. And then I go in and I'm like, what is it? And they're like, it's your wisdom teeth. Same thing as last time. And then they give me a slip for an oral surgeon. And then the pain stops. And now they've all grown in completely.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah, Mine are in pretty heavy.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. Never got them taken out.

[H. Foley]

No, man.

[John Delcala]

We got to use those pills, right?

[H. Foley]

Yeah. I used to always say that. Hey, man, when you get it done, don't take all the pills. Save a little something for uncle.

[John Delcala]

Could be the. It don't hurt that bad.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay, everyone. A lava lamp.

[John Delcala]

Had to, I think, during the turtle apartment. I had a lava lamp in there. Yeah. Turtles needed something to look at.

[Kevin Ryan]

I'm held on day. Anybody? Any black light posters or anything at any point?

[John Delcala]

I don't think so. My sister had them in her room.

[Kevin Ryan]

Sure.

[John Delcala]

Growing up. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Did you ever blow. Blow weed in the turtle's face?

[John Delcala]

I must have. Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

I'll try to teach him karate.

[John Delcala]

Come on. Come on, Leo, you got this? Yeah, sure. I do believe it was a girl, though.

[Kevin Ryan]

Don't want to assume. If you're driving. What kind of car do you have now?

[John Delcala]

No car.

[Kevin Ryan]

No car.

[John Delcala]

My girlfriend's car.

[H. Foley]

Your girlfriend's car Live in the city?

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Do. If you're driving that just you. Will you drive with headphones in?

[John Delcala]

No.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

No, I. I have, sure. With AirPods a couple times. But I don't make that a habit.

[H. Foley]

What's she whipping around in?

[John Delcala]

That is a Honda Santa Fe suv.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Kevin Ryan]

Respectable city car.

[H. Foley]

Do you like a rotisserie chicken?

[John Delcala]

Love it.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

Just had one at Costco last week.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Kevin Ryan]

At Costco?

[John Delcala]

In the parking lot, baby.

[H. Foley]

Why?

[John Delcala]

Ate the bones and all.

[H. Foley]

I didn't eat it there. I don't know what this guy.

[John Delcala]

You're not supposed to eat the bones ever.

[H. Foley]

You and three other pigeons popping his head.

[Kevin Ryan]

Any Axe Body spray at any point?

[H. Foley]

Had to be.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, dude. I did the thing that they do on the commercial. Around the body.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah.

[John Delcala]

I honestly don't know. Like, there's part of me that is like I wasn't getting laid because I was handsome. I was getting laid because they smelled the ax. That's how good that marketing was. Sure I was. I mean, I would.

[Kevin Ryan]

Dude, that would start. I'd start chubbing up in those videos, the broads ripping the guy's clothes off.

[H. Foley]

Yeah, it wasn't it crazy how that went from, like, such a pleasant smell of like, wow, this smells really good. Till just at a certain point in maturity, you're like, this stinks.

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah. It's like so fat. It's so fake.

[H. Foley]

So baby powder. It's like, ew.

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

I don't know how that happened. It's gotta be psychological because it was the same smell when it first came out. But then after like a couple of years, everybody using it and the weed and this, you're just like, God, this stinks. Are you a cologne guy now?

[John Delcala]

Two I am not. But, you know, if I pick up a GQ every once in a while, I'll rub my wrist on the inside, you know.

[Kevin Ryan]

Are there any milk crates in your apartment at the moment?

[John Delcala]

There certainly are.

[H. Foley]

Yeah.

[John Delcala]

And they're filled with GQs.

[Kevin Ryan]

Really?

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay.

[H. Foley]

Why is GQ your thing?

[John Delcala]

I had every. Every. Every episode, every issue for about 20 years.

[H. Foley]

Why?

[John Delcala]

You're 2020 to the year 2020 or year 2000 to the year 2020?

[H. Foley]

Why?

[John Delcala]

Subscription.

[H. Foley]

Just like GQ.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, I like reading the articles. I like getting style inspiration. How do you think I dress? Like a teenager from the future.

[Kevin Ryan]

Now, he is a stylist. You always. You were ahead of. He used to show up to an open mic and I'd be like, who the. I would take pictures and make fun of him. He. This guy showed up with a fanny pack 11, 12 years ago to an.

[John Delcala]

Open M. 13 years ago.

[H. Foley]

You might be the first guy I ever saw wear, like, a Marc Jacobs leather jacket. Remember that one leather jacket that you had?

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah.

[John Delcala]

Was it.

[H. Foley]

It didn't have the collar. I have a white.

[John Delcala]

It was like a motorcycle jacket. Yeah. Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

There's a. He was a cool guy.

[John Delcala]

You guys remember me wearing that? I don't even remember.

[Kevin Ryan]

I wanted to be you, John.

[H. Foley]

That was all gq.

[Kevin Ryan]

I gotta get myself a G. Luke, get a subscription here. So I need a couple of things.

[H. Foley]

So you have a collection of 20 year GQ magazines in your apartment.

[John Delcala]

It's the bane of my girlfriend's existence. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Why don't throw those out?

[John Delcala]

Those are good.

[H. Foley]

You don't want to throw them out.

[John Delcala]

I think it's a cool time capsule to hold on to you Know, I don't have any fucking records or anything. CDs are all in the fucking Goodwill.

[Kevin Ryan]

Do you have children?

[John Delcala]

She'll sleep on them. She'll use them for fire.

[H. Foley]

Oh, man. You're gonna be leafing through those with her one day. Like, pretty cool, huh?

[John Delcala]

Yeah. And that's what inspired me to wear a scarf that summer.

[Kevin Ryan]

This is an MP3 player.

[H. Foley]

If you and the lady go out to a nice dinner now.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay, talking Wawa.

[H. Foley]

Next question.

[John Delcala]

You talking every third birthday for her?

[H. Foley]

Sure. Do you have a spot that you like? Is there any casual dining spots that maybe you went as a kid, your parents take it, or that you have an affection for?

[John Delcala]

Now, I think you know well that I'm a chain restaurant guru.

[Kevin Ryan]

I would not push back on that.

[John Delcala]

Fact and, like, live in a city with plenty of nice restaurants, places. I will be like, hey, do you want to go to Chili's and Cherry Hill?

[Kevin Ryan]

And that's like, Cherry ot's a nice one.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. There's a parking lot.

[Kevin Ryan]

Parking lots.

[H. Foley]

Big.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. I. If I get the inkling, we usually end up going to a chain restaurant.

[H. Foley]

And Chili's would be the top.

[John Delcala]

Chili's. I mean, I'll go to these places by myself, too. I'll sit at the bar at Chili's and order nachos and have a beer. Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah.

[John Delcala]

I went to Olive Garden by myself a couple weeks ago. I'm not around. I walked in there, and when the server came to my table, I was like, I'm going. I'm going. I'm going to take the tour of Italy. But here's. Here's what I'm here for. I'm gonna eat 12 breadsticks and four bowls of soup before I even touch that entree. And she was bringing me soups two at a time.

[Kevin Ryan]

Did she do. Did you do it?

[John Delcala]

Played ball?

[Kevin Ryan]

Did you knock it out of the park?

[John Delcala]

Had some breadsticks to bring home? But I did polish off four bowls of soup, and I tipped the lady 45%.

[Kevin Ryan]

All right. That's pretty good. What kind of soup?

[John Delcala]

Soup of discana. There's kale in there.

[H. Foley]

It's 5% of $13. Wait a minute. Holy.

[John Delcala]

Four bowls. He likes soup floating out of that place. And guess what? I had a full meal when I got home the next day.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah. Huh. Okay.

[H. Foley]

Was this lunch?

[John Delcala]

Breakfast?

[Kevin Ryan]

This is the way home from church.

[John Delcala]

This was dinner. If I get in a little, you know, me and the lady aren't talking for a couple hours, and I'm gonna. I'm gonna Head out. I'm gonna get some food. I'm gonna go to Trader Joe's, but I'm really just going to Olive Garden by myself.

[Kevin Ryan]

You'll do that. Say, hey, I'm gonna. I gotta. I got something. You'll go blow up some steam at the Garden?

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay. What. What is the last place you order takeout from?

[John Delcala]

Just picking up Burger King last night account.

[Kevin Ryan]

If that's. What if that's your answer, then yes.

[John Delcala]

If I ordered on the app, it counts, right?

[Kevin Ryan]

Well, you got the Burger King app, brother.

[John Delcala]

I got 30 food apps in my.

[H. Foley]

And you roll.

[John Delcala]

So that's good. You want to roll through them.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yes.

[John Delcala]

Let's go to food. You know it's food because it's labeled food. Okay, front row, we got all your big dogs. You got your delivery. There's nine there.

[Kevin Ryan]

Domino, like, go back. Let's see. You got Domino's. Wawa. Honey Grow. I don't know what that is.

[John Delcala]

Honey Grow is great.

[Kevin Ryan]

DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub. You got everyone possible Go Puff. Then you got Slice, Little Caesars, Pizza Hut, Chipotle.

[John Delcala]

I saved three bucks on a pie with that app. All right.

[Kevin Ryan]

Shake Shack sheets. Dude, you don't live within 100 miles of his sheets.

[John Delcala]

But when I'm there, I'm ordering ahead of time.

[Kevin Ryan]

He's got the Chili's. You got the Annie Hands pretzels.

[H. Foley]

At me at the mall, they don't have computers.

[John Delcala]

There it for one purchase at an outlet.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

I got like a free smoothie or something.

[Kevin Ryan]

You got a Wing Stop.

[H. Foley]

You got.

[John Delcala]

Here's the.

[Kevin Ryan]

This is a Duncan, Taco Bell, McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Jack in the Box.

[John Delcala]

I don't live anywhere near Jack in the Box.

[H. Foley]

I love a Jack in the Box.

[Kevin Ryan]

Chick Fil, A Arby's, kfc.

[John Delcala]

What about. We got some more.

[Kevin Ryan]

What's that?

[John Delcala]

Some grocery store stuff.

[Kevin Ryan]

Wegmans, Lidl Acme, Mr. Sal. You got the Mr. Salty app, Papa John's and Applebee's.

[H. Foley]

That way you're gonna taste chase a truck down the street.

[John Delcala]

That's where the truck comes to me.

[H. Foley]

Wait, does it. Mr. Softy.

[Kevin Ryan]

I thought I dropped a bin.

[John Delcala]

I thought I could locate a truck with the app. I don't think it works like that. Ended up having to go to the brick and mortar location in Jersey.

[Kevin Ryan]

Oh, God.

[H. Foley]

Brick and mortar. Mr. Softy.

[John Delcala]

Year round, baby. It's in Pennsauken or something.

[Kevin Ryan]

Shout out to Pen.

[H. Foley]

Do you live in Jersey?

[Kevin Ryan]

No, I frequent.

[John Delcala]

I go there three times a Week, though, just to park in a parking lot.

[H. Foley]

Oh my God.

[John Delcala]

It's nice over there. You got the mall. You got Costco, Wegmans, Trader Joe's.

[Kevin Ryan]

Wow. Okay, Hollow.

[H. Foley]

I mean, what the fuck am I doing?

[John Delcala]

Good.

[H. Foley]

Hey, buddy, you're doing great.

[Kevin Ryan]

Don't let anybody tell you different. God, that's a lot of. I. Let's. Let's. I mean, you like. You are. You know, you're a connoisseur of these type things. We talk about them a lot on the show. So let's say you're at your local mall. Maybe not the Cherry Hill Mall. Whatever. You're at your local mall. You're in your local mall food court. It's about 5pm you're hungry. You're not. The wife's work. Whatever. You're just going like I'm. It's just you tonight.

[H. Foley]

You're at the mall by yourself for whatever reason.

[Kevin Ryan]

What are you. Where. What are you hitting? In the mall food court.

[John Delcala]

First thing I'm doing, bury me with an Annie Ann's original with salt and a Jamba Juice. Strawberries Wild in the other.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's just to get things going.

[John Delcala]

That's just to find the food court. That's just to get there.

[Kevin Ryan]

And I've located the store on my app. I've located the Antioch.

[John Delcala]

And then if it's Din. Din time, I'm going. If it's soupy time, I'm going. Probably like. Like a chicken teriyaki place.

[Kevin Ryan]

Really?

[John Delcala]

With the fried rice and the.

[H. Foley]

I respect.

[John Delcala]

They make it. It's the one that always has the longest line.

[H. Foley]

Sure.

[Kevin Ryan]

Straight up chicken. Just give me the chicken, Terry. To chicken rice.

[H. Foley]

Are you a free sample, man? Would you take a little toothpick?

[John Delcala]

I'll do a lap. Whoever's got the toothpicks out. I'm usually not buying there. If that's the case, you know, why buy the cow when you're getting the milk for free, buddy?

[H. Foley]

I'm not really in the market right now.

[John Delcala]

Free toothpick, though.

[H. Foley]

Got my tour of Italy out.

[Kevin Ryan]

You pull up. I haven't. I got something stuck in my teeth. Have a toothpick. Oh, there's chicken on there. All right. Okay. That's respectable.

[H. Foley]

The double stop is wild. The Jamba Juice and then the pretzel.

[John Delcala]

You need something to wash that salty pretzel down.

[H. Foley]

You won't have the lemonade at Annie.

[John Delcala]

Ann's or anything like that every once in a while.

[Kevin Ryan]

Have you ever had.

[John Delcala]

But I do like a smoothie.

[Kevin Ryan]

Annie Ann's breakfast At the airport. At the airport, Yeah.

[John Delcala]

I have had it at the airport.

[Kevin Ryan]

I've seen a sign.

[H. Foley]

And I went, I don't know about that.

[John Delcala]

Sausage, egg and cheese on a. On a pretzel roll.

[Kevin Ryan]

What?

[John Delcala]

Salty.

[Kevin Ryan]

It's pretty great.

[John Delcala]

Too much salt for a breakfast sandwich, but I get it down.

[H. Foley]

I like the cinnamon ones, the little Swiss, the cinnamon nuggets.

[John Delcala]

You're a dessert boy.

[Kevin Ryan]

I like the sweets. Okay.

[H. Foley]

Any vacations now to speak of. Have you and your girl ever gone away?

[John Delcala]

Yeah. Yeah. I drag her to the Sierra Nevada mountains every single year.

[Kevin Ryan]

Right. You're an outdoorsy guy.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, I like to go to Yosemite or Tahoe. Started with her in a tent for the first couple years.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

Now we have. She hasn't slept in a tent in a number of years. So we're on the hotel tip in the mountains now. But if she had it her way, we would go to.

[H. Foley]

What do you eat out.

[John Delcala]

Miami or something? You know, some beach.

[H. Foley]

She don't got it her way.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, no, she doesn't.

[H. Foley]

What do you eat out there?

[John Delcala]

Camping?

[H. Foley]

Yeah. You'll do the. Like, hot dogs or whatever?

[John Delcala]

Yeah, yeah. If I'm just doing two nights, I'll just grab a pack of hot dogs and some chips or something like that. That.

[Kevin Ryan]

You would do that if you were staying in your apartment?

[John Delcala]

Got some Manny Anns in here.

[Kevin Ryan]

Tracking down a Mr. Softy through the Sierra Nevada mountains. I think I hear him.

[John Delcala]

He's gonna get stuck going over Donner Pass.

[Kevin Ryan]

There's no way that truck can make that turn. That man's elbow or whatever, he's stuck in the mud.

[H. Foley]

Get him.

[John Delcala]

We're all eating waffle cones today. A baby.

[Kevin Ryan]

What are you. What are you cooking at the house, if any. Or what are you eating at the house? That's not takeout, per se.

[John Delcala]

Like, what's that looking like if I'm cooking? I made filet mignon the other night.

[Kevin Ryan]

Whoa. What?

[John Delcala]

Filet mignon with some out of patch.

[Kevin Ryan]

With the Burger King beef patties, some.

[John Delcala]

Heirloom carrots, some scalloped potatoes.

[Kevin Ryan]

Whoa.

[John Delcala]

Carrots were from Trader Joe's. Scalloped potatoes were just a microwavable. Okay.

[H. Foley]

Plastic dish from Trader Joe's. Yeah, they're pretty good.

[John Delcala]

Not bad.

[H. Foley]

All their stuff, like, that's top shelf.

[John Delcala]

Heat up some ciabatta rolls, some par. Baked ciabatta rolls, but that's about. I don't. I order food most of the time.

[Kevin Ryan]

Are you guys eating together a lot?

[John Delcala]

A couple days a week, yeah.

[H. Foley]

He answers all. You were a Jerk off. Why?

[Kevin Ryan]

Gonna make me say this?

[John Delcala]

I mean.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yeah. Okay.

[H. Foley]

Different schedules.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. Oh yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Different lifestyles. I believe.

[John Delcala]

Two ships passing in the night. We are two ships passing in the afternoon.

[H. Foley]

And you're eating on the couch in front of the tv, I would assume. Or you sit at the table if.

[John Delcala]

The baby's eating in the high chair. If Maggie cooked something for the baby to eat.

[H. Foley]

Huh?

[John Delcala]

We'll all eat around the kitchen counter now.

[H. Foley]

Who the fillets. They weren't just for you.

[Kevin Ryan]

Right?

[H. Foley]

They were for you and her.

[John Delcala]

Yeah. Yeah. Two pack. I wish. It's Olman ones.

[Kevin Ryan]

You gotta make her one then.

[John Delcala]

20 bucks for two little fucking nice medallions. Thick boys too. Ended up coming out rare.

[H. Foley]

He's such a strange combination.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's crazy.

[H. Foley]

I can't believe. You know what an heirloom carrot is. Which I think you're thinking heirloom tomato. Are they heirloom?

[John Delcala]

I don't know if they're called heirloom carrots. I don't think they are Carrots of many colors. You know the purple ones, the yellow ones.

[H. Foley]

That firmed.

[Kevin Ryan]

Heirloom.

[H. Foley]

Wow. That's a nice pull.

[John Delcala]

The purple one. Yeah. I like the purple ones.

[Kevin Ryan]

You're nuts. You won't drink milk but you. A purple carrot. That is upside down in my brain. That's nuts. Dude.

[John Delcala]

You won't eat a purple carrot.

[Kevin Ryan]

I will. But you don't. I think in my head I would draw the line.

[H. Foley]

It's got enough ketchup on it.

[John Delcala]

I'll. With carrots. I'll eat anything in a soup. If you put it in a soupy guy or if it's fried. I'll eat a boot. If you fry it.

[H. Foley]

Number one have to gun to your head. Fast food chain. Only one for the rest of your.

[John Delcala]

Life it's gonna be Taco Bell.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

Taco Bell has been treating me pretty nicely out of the Aramingo cluster of fast food places. They really take their time. And they put some care into the. Into the package you're getting.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay.

[H. Foley]

All right. I mean can you whistle?

[John Delcala]

Yes. But not. Well.

[H. Foley]

Can you whistle with your fingers?

[John Delcala]

No.

[H. Foley]

Are you double jointed?

[John Delcala]

What does this mean?

[Kevin Ryan]

Whoa. He's popping and locking.

[John Delcala]

That's all I got.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's now I feel. I can feel the click.

[John Delcala]

Is there an urgent care near here.

[Kevin Ryan]

And.

[H. Foley]

Or an Olive Garden?

[Kevin Ryan]

A bowl of soup. I'll get my head on straight.

[H. Foley]

Ever been bitten by a dog?

[John Delcala]

Not to break skin. No.

[H. Foley]

That's insane.

[John Delcala]

I mean we've all been nipped by a dog. That's too.

[Kevin Ryan]

Sure.

[H. Foley]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Have you.

[H. Foley]

That's such a.

[Kevin Ryan]

There.

[H. Foley]

He broke the skin.

[Kevin Ryan]

I wouldn't classify that as a bite.

[John Delcala]

Now I gotta get a tetanus shot.

[Kevin Ryan]

When was the last time you were at a Renaissance fair?

[John Delcala]

Never.

[Kevin Ryan]

Whoa. Wouldn't have guessed that.

[John Delcala]

Really?

[Kevin Ryan]

Have you had poison ivy in the last 365 days?

[John Delcala]

I don't believe so.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay. Have you ever cut the sleeves off a hoodie?

[John Delcala]

Not a hoodie, no.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay. When was the last time you ordered a shot of Fireball?

[John Delcala]

Oh, man. Over five years.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

Probably longer. That is not for me. I don't drink liquor at all, so.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay.

[H. Foley]

Do you keep beers in the house?

[John Delcala]

Rarely. If, like, I brought them home from, like, leftover party or something like that.

[H. Foley]

How's that happen?

[John Delcala]

If we're all drinking on my boy's porch and I'm like, I might want these six when I get home. I'll take them home. Only have one when I get home. And then I got five in the fridge that are.

[H. Foley]

Just take the beers back from a party.

[John Delcala]

We're living a dirt bag lifestyle over on my buddy's porch. All right.

[Kevin Ryan]

I don't think it's connected to a house.

[John Delcala]

You think he needs 40 miller lights? He drinks too much as it is.

[H. Foley]

Has there ever been a time where you went over and hung out at that porch and didn't go into the house?

[John Delcala]

No.

[H. Foley]

You run into pay or something like that?

[John Delcala]

Certain backyard porch? Yeah. I have gone over and not entered the house yet. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

That's trespassing.

[John Delcala]

I don't typically keep beer in the fridge. No.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Kevin Ryan]

You open your eyes underwater?

[John Delcala]

I think I do. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Any of the baby snacks that you particularly enjoy?

[John Delcala]

Not yet. No. She's.

[Kevin Ryan]

Have you given the baby soup yet?

[John Delcala]

I don't think so. No. Today's the day you have a passport expired.

[Kevin Ryan]

What?

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

You have an expired passport and two.

[John Delcala]

To over expired to redo. I have to go through the whole process again.

[Kevin Ryan]

Oh, my God. It's like losing your license.

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

Whoa. I don't think I've ever met anybody with an expired passport.

[John Delcala]

Seriously?

[H. Foley]

Spies.

[Kevin Ryan]

When. When did it expire?

[John Delcala]

I got it when I was probably 20, so it expired about 10 years ago.

[Kevin Ryan]

10 years ago.

[H. Foley]

Where'd you go?

[John Delcala]

I went to London.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Kevin Ryan]

Hello.

[John Delcala]

With the first trip. And then I have been to Costa Rica and Canada as well with it.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Costa Rica. What are you doing down there?

[John Delcala]

Studying abroad.

[H. Foley]

Really?

[John Delcala]

And doing some schoolwork.

[Kevin Ryan]

I mean, I don't know what it's.

[H. Foley]

What? Yeah.

[Kevin Ryan]

This guy's Delaware trash man.

[H. Foley]

Climbing the charts quickly.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's crazy. Dude.

[H. Foley]

Coming in out of nowhere with a heater.

[John Delcala]

It was the shared driveway. I knew it.

[Kevin Ryan]

That's the least of your worries.

[H. Foley]

When we got to the repetition of at one point. Oh, yeah, you were in a lot of trouble.

[Kevin Ryan]

My dad owned this at one point. His grandfather owned that at one point, gang.

[H. Foley]

And you can hear him every week on his amazing podcast, Little Stinkers. Mr. John Delcala.

[John Delcala]

Thank you.

[H. Foley]

100 grade A trash. Duty free Delaware garbage.

[Kevin Ryan]

Tax free trash, baby.

[John Delcala]

I had a feeling.

[H. Foley]

Bike messenger on foot.

[Kevin Ryan]

How you doing, man?

[H. Foley]

What do you got coming up? What do you want the folks out there to know? Hit them.

[John Delcala]

Oh, man. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram at Johnny Delco. J O N N Y D E L C O. I'll be in Cincinnati in April 4th and 5th at the Comet in Cincinnati.

[H. Foley]

There you go.

[John Delcala]

And me and the other little Stinkers, Mike Rainey and Jake Matera, will be at the Independent Comedy Theater in Detroit.

[Kevin Ryan]

Yes.

[John Delcala]

On May 19th, I believe. Could be the 16th.

[Kevin Ryan]

Okay.

[John Delcala]

It's Friday, I believe the 16th of May.

[Kevin Ryan]

Gotcha.

[John Delcala]

So come check us out.

[H. Foley]

Love it, buddy. We love you. That was a fucking home run, Kippy.

[Kevin Ryan]

What do you got for him, guys? We announced new tour dates gates all tickets [e-mail] where it's a run through the Midwest. Atlantic City. Get your tickets while supplies late.

[H. Foley]

Johnny, we love you, buddy.

[John Delcala]

Yeah, thanks so much. I love you guys.

[H. Foley]

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

[Kevin Ryan]

Peace.