The Best Dive Bars! w/ Kevin Ryan & H. Foley

Summary

Are You Garbage? – “The Best Dive Bars!” w/ Kevin Ryan & H. Foley

Release Date: May 4, 2026
Hosts: H. Foley, Kevin Ryan

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Episode Overview

This “family episode” of Are You Garbage? is devoted to honoring America’s most charmingly grimy institutions: the great dive bars. Hosts Kevin Ryan and H. Foley, without a guest, trade personal dive bar stories, read listener submissions, and break down classic dive bar etiquette and lore. They dissect what makes a perfect dive, relive memorable nights (and mishaps), and debate the gentrification of classic dives, all with their signature blend of affection, self-deprecation, and Philly/New York trash-talk.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Anatomy of the Perfect Dive Bar

• Atmosphere is Everything: Dives must be dark, cold (A/C blasting), a little intimidating, and look unwelcoming from the outside.
  • “I like a dive that’s kind of not dangerous, but you go like…I’m walking in, there’s regulars, they’re eyeing me. They’re doing the inventory on me.” – Kevin (10:54)
• Regulars Rule the Roost: The best dives have old-timers with assigned seats and a “you don’t belong” vibe toward newcomers.
• Noisy, Overcrowded Dives: Overcrowding and popularity kill the vibe.
  • “A dive should be…somewhat empty. There should be…it shouldn’t be wall to wall.” – Kevin (08:46)
• Amenities (or Lack Thereof): Expect bad bathrooms, cash-only policies, and little to no signage. Bars should occasionally offer oddball “specials” and signature (often mysterious) drinks.

2. Dive Bar Faux Pas

• Dress Codes: Don’t show up overdressed; looking like an FBI agent blows cover with the locals (12:00).
• Bar Etiquette: Be prepared to order quickly, don’t ask for fancy cocktails, and keep requests simple.
  • “At a lot of dive bars, it’s what you’re getting, not what you want. They’re not mixologists.” – Kevin (52:13)
• Bartenders: Beware the “damaged hot dive bar bartender” – tough, tattooed, and controlling.
  • “That stern kind of buxom broad…she’s spinning the bottle opener on her hand — every dude sitting there going, it’s me, I could get her. You can’t. You can’t and you won’t.” – Kevin (13:01)

3. Listener Submissions & Legendary Dive Stories

• Black Horse London Pub (San Francisco):
  • Owner Ubers to Costco daily for beer, stores it in a bathtub of ice, and plays guitar for guests. Cash or Zelle only. Legendary for its “framed one-star Yelp review.” (14:40)
• Unique Traditions:
  • Dive bar wakes with the deceased’s face on tip jars (17:00).
  • Memorial plaques on bar stools for regulars who’ve passed (24:03).
  • Bar “50-50” raffles and guessing games to win beers (28:37).
  • Thanksgiving shots made of Wild Turkey, cranberry juice, and gravy (37:33).
• Community Spirit:
  • Community coming together to load “a large girl” into a cab, compensated in Crown Apple shots. (60:02)
  • Celebratory car destruction by train behind a dive bar, entire place cheers as a regular’s car is obliterated (63:38).

4. Dive Bars and Changing Times

• Gentrification and Cool-Kid Takeover:
  • Several classic NYC dives have become overrun with “young rich kids” (39:32).
  • The original ethos of the dive is threatened as trendy crowds arrive for the experience.
• Loss of the True Dive:
  • Many real dives are disappearing from cities like New York.
  • “Unfortunately, New York — they’re getting harder and harder to maintain because of the real estate... That Niagara bar... that’s gonna be the new, like, a restaurant group owns that now.” – Kevin (68:53)
• Dive Bars as Social Anchors: Memorials, regulars, clandestine after-hours, and the lingering community glue that sets true dives apart.

5. Dive Bar Mechanics

• How to Survive and Thrive:
  • If you get on the bartender’s or regular's bad side, “You might as well move.” (52:10)
  • Orders must be brisk, simple, and clear (“What do you have in a can?”) (51:14).
  • Read the room — sometimes, the right move is finishing your drink and getting out if the vibe turns.
• Temporary Bans:
  • “You can still get banned from a dive bar because it’s such a tight-knit community. ‘Take your time, two months.’" – Kevin (56:40)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

“A dive should be…somewhat empty. There should be…it shouldn’t be wall to wall.” — Kevin, explaining ideal occupancy (08:46)

“That stern kind of buxom broad…spinning the bottle opener on her hand — every dude sitting there going, it’s me, I could get her. You can’t. You can’t and you won’t.” — Kevin (13:01)

“I like a dive that’s kind of not dangerous, but you go like…I’m walking in, there’s regulars, they’re eyeing me. They’re doing the inventory on me.” — Kevin (10:54)

“You can really blow it in a dive bar. And the dive bar is extremely unforgiving at bar faux pas.” — H. Foley (12:30)

“I want a proper Irish. I want to be on the pool table at the bar.” — Kevin, on his ideal wake (17:12)

“That’s a dive bar…There’s not some meth-head driving around with bare feet in. People are going, what’s he up to?” — H. Foley on dangerous elements as a sign of authenticity (10:46)

“The great thing about a New York City dive — half the people are posted the fuck up, the other half are cycling in and out...” — Kevin (08:46)

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Highlighted Dive Bars (with Timestamps)

• Black Horse London Pub (San Francisco) — 14:40
• Snapper McGee’s (Kingston, NY) — 36:06, known for Thanksgiving shots (37:33)
• Sly Fox (NYC) — 27:51
• Shade Bar (NYC, not a true dive) — 39:32
• International Sports Bar (San Francisco) — 54:06

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Dive Bar Characteristics Checklist (From Listeners and Hosts) [45:49+, 46:06]

• Cold A/C
• Ice-cold beer (cans and bottles, not taps)
• Dark as hell
• Unwelcoming facade
• Great jukebox
• Simple or no food
• Off-the-beaten path
• Eccentric/odd regulars
• Occasionally some tension, not outright dangerous
• Pool table or darts
• Cash only
• Memorials/plaques for regulars
• Ridiculous “house rules” or traditions
• Sticky floors, smoke-stained walls, furniture that looks like it’s from someone’s basement

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Other Memorable Bits

• Memorialization: Wakes on pool tables, tip jars for the deceased, benches and bar stools dedicated to regulars.
• House Specials: Thanksgiving shots with gravy, secret house drinks, “pictogram” beer caps for freebies.
• Hygiene Hazards: Smelly sewer dives, rusted caps, sketchy restrooms, hairdryers shooting sparks (67:46).
• Getting Banned: Temporary bans are routine, with bartenders functioning as judge and warden (56:33).
• Bar Rescues at Closing Time: Carrying passed-out patrons to cabs, with shots for payment (60:02).

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 03:36 – Why overcrowding ruins the dive vibe
• 10:54 – The intimidating regulars archetype
• 12:30 – How to get yourself thrown out of a dive
• 14:40 – Black Horse London Pub’s legendary setup
• 17:12 – Listener’s funeral inside a dive bar
• 24:03 – Bar stool memorials
• 28:37 – Guess-the-playing-card gimmick for a free beer
• 39:32 – The “coolification” of NYC dives, loss of authenticity
• 51:14 – How to order and not get thrown out
• 52:10 – The fatal mistake of annoying the bartender
• 56:40 – How bans work in dive bars
• 60:02 – Community rescue missions for over-indulged patrons
• 63:38 – Watching a drunk regular’s car get smashed by a train as a bar-wide event
• 67:46 – The slow-building charm of true, long-standing dives

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Tone, Banter & Takeaways

Throughout, Kevin and Foley mix authentic nostalgia, relentless ribbing, and a kind of wistful resignation about growing older (“I’m getting old…not the young gunslinger you used to be…” – 09:39). There’s a respect for the unwritten rules of dives, a recognition of their endangered status, and a celebration of the regulars, weirdos, and unforgettable moments that only take place beneath neon beer signs and sticky floors.

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Essential Lesson:
Dives are less about what’s in your glass and more about what’s in the air — the history, the relationships, the little rituals, and the very specific kind of lawlessness that makes you feel both welcome and on edge. If you have to ask if you belong, you probably don’t — and that’s exactly as it should be.

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“The only problem with that, I would feel, is like, I don’t think you’d like the guitar player if he was decent. I would love Black Horse London Deli.” — Kevin (15:48)

End:
A raucous, affectionate tribute to dive bars and the “garbage” within us all.

Transcript

[H. Foley]

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[Kevin James Ryan]

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[H. Foley]

Hey, everybody out there and welcome back to everybody's favorite podcast. This is Ru Garbage.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[H. Foley]

It's that little show. We sit down with your favorite comedians and we find out they get to be classy. They're just a big old piece of trash.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Trash, trash, trash.

[H. Foley]

I'm your host, H. Foley. Coming at you on a beautiful day. We're out back here with Tooties in the new edition. She says she's done with Chinese food.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Ok. That's it.

[H. Foley]

That's what she hit me with.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It's a political stance.

[H. Foley]

I said, yeah. I said you do you. I was like, has this got to do with anything? She's like, no, just not eating it.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Okay.

[H. Foley]

My coast is coming at you from across the table. So we call it a family episode. Just the boys, the bozos and the homies just to wherever you like it. Give it up for my best pal in the world, Kevin James Ryan.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Hey, what up, gang?

[H. Foley]

Shout out that.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, that's pretty good.

[H. Foley]

How about that?

[Kevin James Ryan]

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[H. Foley]

I'm excited about that. Whole stretch right there. Lot of my favorite places. Yeah. Except for one.

[Kevin James Ryan]

La La Land.

[H. Foley]

Listen, if you're out there in la, I'm going to say we really need you out there. And I'll tell you why. Because the bug man needs backup out in la. I need you out there. I need you out there.

[Kevin James Ryan]

He don't want you out there. He need you out there. Gang bugman back in la.

[H. Foley]

God damn it. I always wanted to love la. And I love la.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It don't love you, though.

[H. Foley]

It doesn't.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It's a dirty bitch.

[H. Foley]

Tries to hurt me.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Not tries.

[H. Foley]

Oh, yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Get you good.

[H. Foley]

Get me good.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Hit you right in the chops.

[H. Foley]

Beautiful place, nice restaurants, beautiful talented people. I love the scenery. I love the weather. I. I'm an LA guy.

[Kevin James Ryan]

No, you ain't. No, you ain't as. That place chewed you up, spit you out, turned twice, turned you out. I saw you hooking down there on Sunset.

[H. Foley]

Fuck, it really did turn me out there.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It turns you out. You went out the alley.

[H. Foley]

It kind of turns me on a little.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, go back. Yeah. Dirty little bitch, aren't I? He landed la.

[H. Foley]

Ramone picks me up at the airport.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yippee. I'll see you later. What the fuck? I'm carrying all the bags like a

[H. Foley]

pimp gets thrown in the back.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Louisiana's gonna be fun, man.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It'll be good.

[H. Foley]

About to be back out there, la LA land, no one leaves. Damn it.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Hotel California. And yeah, that is really you.

[H. Foley]

Dude, we've been out there like five.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Are you Don Henley?

[H. Foley]

No. No. Yeah, it's far from more of a Glenn Frey man. You're Don Henley playing the drums and singing.

[Kevin James Ryan]

He's got a voice of a generation.

[H. Foley]

Playing the drums and singing. Get out of here.

[Kevin James Ryan]

You got to be ultra talented to pull that out.

[H. Foley]

Get somebody else to play the goddamn drums and get up there and sing. I used to hate when Phil Collins did that shit. He pulled it off.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Hey, tell me Don Henley didn't pull. I mean, your head is so far up your ass, imagine that statement.

[H. Foley]

Yeah, Don Henley just never pulled it off.

[Kevin James Ryan]

He didn't really do it for him. Oh, he didn't do it for you? 7 million records today, we're talking about dive bar. Something near and dear to our hearts.

[H. Foley]

I've never been to one.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Oh, tell that to the Frolic Room out there in la. La. Which was, I think, the last time we were. Me and you were posting up proper in a night as a dive. Dives. But I was searching for a dive bar. A few nights ago, me and. Me and our good pal Dr. Rubinoff had some bopping around the city, doing

[H. Foley]

some spots in New York City.

[Kevin James Ryan]

New York City? New York.

[H. Foley]

Really?

[Kevin James Ryan]

And I meet up with him. It's probably Finish up around 11:15. 11:15 Saturday night. Got some spots on your belt Couple of bucks burning a hole in my pocket Looking to take the edge Looking

[H. Foley]

at least some money on a Bar

[Kevin James Ryan]

I'm in East Village.

[H. Foley]

Huh.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Prime dive locale.

[H. Foley]

That's where you want to go. Tell you that right now.

[Kevin James Ryan]

And I, I. Yes and no though it's changed a lot. Right. Because one of those bars over there on second Ave. Got cool.

[H. Foley]

I guess the library, whatever it is.

[Kevin James Ryan]

No, libraries are as a decent dive. A little, little trendy, a little cool guy dive, but a solid dive.

[H. Foley]

What do you, what do you mean exactly?

[Kevin James Ryan]

Place called Cooper's.

[H. Foley]

Cooper's?

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. Second. It's like a second and fifth. Yeah. That place got cool.

[H. Foley]

Yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Right. And now there's a line. I mean you probably know with your young cool kids.

[Luke]

I've been fucked up in there.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, it's whatever. I'm not nothing here nor there. It just recently got pretty hot because I've been walking between New York comedy clubs on 24th and 4th right down 2nd Avenue for years and I've never seen a line. There was a line of about 100 people to get line for Cooper to get in that joint.

[H. Foley]

Wait, this must have just happened.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I feel like, I mean it's always

[Luke]

popular like kind of Saturday brunch kind of hanging out all day drinking.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It must have recently got cool. Like cool to the point where I've never seen a line. He's nuked these, these fucking. These kids. You know what I mean? What do you want? They go in. It's, it's. It's. You know, whatever that all aside. All the dives around there now. Yeah. Have gotten infiltrated and are packed with these people that can't get in or they. We're gonna go to wherever and then you know. You know how like the cellar has all like those. The common stuff that pops up around it.

[H. Foley]

Yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It's all filled with the run over from the cellar. Similar to this. We. So we went to like four different of our dives and they were all just piled in with fucking new guy Luke's in their. Their Sperries.

[H. Foley]

And you were at the 206 version of.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, we were trying. I mean we were. Obviously we don't want to go to Cooper's but all of our normal. The fish bar, which is like. I think it's called. That's the good thing about a dive, especially in New York. You're just like, oh, I know it's midway up the bl. I've walked by at a bun. You can just. Yeah. There's no signage. There's no.

[H. Foley]

That the shade pop in. You pop out that shade bar sometimes tough to get into too very Much so.

[Kevin James Ryan]

But that's not a dive. That's a. No, that's a class. For a guy like me, it's a classy.

[H. Foley]

When I think dive, I think places that you like to go to get all fucked up to a degree. Gallagher's.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Sure. Which I bumped in. I was in Central Park.

[H. Foley]

Bumped into me.

[Kevin James Ryan]

No. What? What, Jerry? I was walking.

[H. Foley]

Have you ever done that, by the way?

[Kevin James Ryan]

What?

[H. Foley]

You ever walked by, see me anywhere, and didn't say anything? I bet you have. I respect it.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Oh, that's crazy.

[H. Foley]

I'm wearing a cape.

[Kevin James Ryan]

No, but I was in Central park this weekend and I was. I was pushing the baby, trying to get him to sleep. Likes to be moving his nap time. And this. I'm walking by and this young couple kid, and he's like, holy shit, Kippy. I'm like, what's up, man? Like, I'm trying to be like, fuck. The baby's eyes are like clothing. Nodding. Huge fan. Can I get a picture? I'm like, yeah, what's up, dude? I don't. Thanks for the support. You know, like trying to. I don't want to tell him to.

[H. Foley]

Young kid.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Younger.

[H. Foley]

Look at you.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Not. I mean, look at me.

[H. Foley]

Here we go to Cooper's.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Can you get me a table of Coopers? A new guy, Luke. He. And then as he's taking. He's all jazz. He's taking his pictures. The girl goes, who is this? And I was like, all right. Right back to reality. And she's like. He's like, this is Kippy Kevin, James Ryan. And she's like, I don't know.

[H. Foley]

She's like, what the.

[Kevin James Ryan]

He's like, from all your garbage. She's like, oh, we're getting to Gallagher's tonight. I was like, oh.

[H. Foley]

She said, oh, she got it. Okay.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I guess they were in town.

[H. Foley]

Nice.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Visiting herself.

[H. Foley]

Nice. But thank God. Yeah, that would have ruined everything.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Needed a win. Fucking embarrassing me in front of my son. Ew. Who are you?

[H. Foley]

You look down, the baby's awake and he's just shaking his head.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It's like, this guy stinks.

[H. Foley]

That's good.

[Kevin James Ryan]

But it got me thinking as we were. We were going to dive. To dive and you know, some were too crowded, too loud. Just whatever it was this Saturday. Saturday night.

[H. Foley]

Saturday night. Uh huh. Now, are you doing one at least?

[Kevin James Ryan]

No, we're not even. Some of them are just like. You're like, I'm not fighting that. It's. Imagine if you. The normal spots that we would go. You open the door or see through it's just packed and you're like, that's not what a dive. A dive should be. Everybody's at that gets a seat or half the group you're with gets a seat, and it's a very.

[H. Foley]

Should be somewhat empty.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It should. That was. Of course, that's what I'm saying. There should be, like. It shouldn't be wall to wall. And the great thing about a New York City dive that, like, the transient, you get people that are coming. One for before dinner, one for after dinner. You got the guy who's posted up in the corner, you got a group of friends. It's like very. Half the people are posted the fuck up, the other half are cycling in and out type thing. You know what I mean?

[H. Foley]

So you.

[Kevin James Ryan]

You.

[H. Foley]

You balked at a couple of places.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Oh, most of them.

[H. Foley]

It's funny.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Socks.

[H. Foley]

And you did that to me. That was. That was a realization moment for me. We did that, like, what, two Thursdays ago when we did. When we did the seller show and you went out for drinks afterwards. We went to like, four places and didn't.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Oh, it was me, you and Ari. Yeah, yeah, they were. I mean, that wasn't me. That was like. We were all looking to sit down and get a table and talk.

[H. Foley]

I know. I personified it with you, though. Getting old.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I'm getting old.

[H. Foley]

Yeah, a little bit, sure.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I'm an old man.

[H. Foley]

You're not the young gunslinger used to be Kevin I know would have walked in there.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Ew. He's got 20. I can borrow.

[H. Foley]

What stinks in here?

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, but. Yeah, I mean, we were looking for a table or whatever, but that. That's. That was a bit of the impetus of, you know, the. The idea of what makes a good bar. We wanted to hear from the Patreon homies stories of dive bars, what they like in a dive bar. The specials. And I got to be honest with you, the homies. The homies get.

[H. Foley]

You thirsty a little bit.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Oh, buddy, it ain't. It ain't. You ain't lying, dog. All right, let's see. Let's get into it. This one's from Patty's equ. Patty's equal dealer. That's pretty good.

[H. Foley]

It's not. Oh, Patty's equal dealer.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[H. Foley]

Straight to the plug with her.

[Kevin James Ryan]

This is the Black Horse London pub in San Francisco. Like the name. Which we were. We were in a great dive in San Francisco.

[H. Foley]

Wait, we watched the.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Where that. There was that guy that was driving around, said he was going to come back and shoot the place or whatever. That's a dive bar.

[H. Foley]

That's a dive bar. There's not some methad driving around with bare feet in.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. People are going, what's he up to? What's he up to?

[H. Foley]

That was a nice dive.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That was a. You walk in. I like a dive. Well, that's kind of not dangerous. But you go like, I'm walking in, there's regulars, they're eyeing me. They're. They're doing the inventory on me.

[H. Foley]

Sure.

[Kevin James Ryan]

And you kind of. They're a little miffed that you're there. You know, if you're going to a new dive and like, who the fuck is this guy? Sure.

[H. Foley]

You know, they don't want you there.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That's what I. That's what I'm saying. They're looking at you.

[H. Foley]

They're you looking at you.

[Kevin James Ryan]

This is Back to the Future, though. I'm trying to have sex with my mom.

[H. Foley]

They want to drink in an empty bar, too.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Of course.

[H. Foley]

They don't want some hot shot coming in.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Sure. Is that. Is that what.

[H. Foley]

Is that how you pay New York City attitude now?

[Kevin James Ryan]

You were there. Oh, yeah. Out there with the guy with no shoes on.

[H. Foley]

I would tell you that one time, one of the biggest faux pas me and my brother ever made. We went to like an after hours, late night bar in somewhere in the city. And we had just come from dinner, and this was like a friend of a friend that told us about this place. And me and him walked in there, both wearing suits. We looked like FBI agents. Like proper FBI agents.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Speak easy. You got here.

[H. Foley]

It was after hours.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Sure. Was it illegal after hours or no?

[H. Foley]

Yeah, 100% illegal after hours.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Gotcha a lot.

[H. Foley]

Irish. Gotcha a lot of other things. You know what I'm saying? Sure.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Why are you acting like you're in the FBI right now? Dude, what the fuck? Look over. You got a suit on.

[H. Foley]

I'm trying to get you to say something on tape.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, yeah. What else? Kippy?

[H. Foley]

We're not recording this.

[Kevin James Ryan]

What else do you like, Kippy? Remember I told you about the thing you said the guy.

[H. Foley]

Yeah. You can really blow it in a dive bar. And the dive bar is extremely unforgiving at bar faux pas.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Well, that's. That's also. We have a lot of. A lot of people submission of like,

[H. Foley]

you know, and I've done every lot of them. A mean, hot dive bar bartender will. Will ruin you.

[Kevin James Ryan]

But they do. They're so. There's something so damaged out of people that drink at dive bars that. That stern Kind of buxom broad wearing,

[H. Foley]

like a tank top, tattoos.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Put you in her place. She's spinning the bottle opener on her hand. Oh, yeah, hon. Enough hairspray to fucking put a hole in the oozing. Yeah. There's something that every dude sitting there going, it's me. I could get her. I could get her. You can't. You can't and you won't. But. All right, so the Black Horse London Pub, San Francisco. It's about 10ft by 20ft, seven stools. That's.

[H. Foley]

It's like Rao's.

[Kevin James Ryan]

You gotta know it's one of the five families.

[H. Foley]

Real who's who.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Which can we get into Rails? Anybody out there get us into Rao's?

[H. Foley]

I get us into Rails, you could

[Kevin James Ryan]

get us into Ray. Yes. Who you calling?

[H. Foley]

I can't get us. Put me in the spot like that.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Hey, call me Lion.

[H. Foley]

I know Luke can't.

[Kevin James Ryan]

No, sir.

[H. Foley]

That's right.

[Kevin James Ryan]

No one can get us anywhere. I mean, we're like.

[H. Foley]

That's crazy.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. No, we're not. We're not. We're well connected. If you need like, auto, glass guy, a roofer, like, we're well connected. We. As you. I think it was you. It's like we're flat. We're fight club. Like, we wash your dishes. We do that. That's what the homies of bozos are doing.

[H. Foley]

I actually. I bet you we. This is out there now. I bet you somebody hits us up with a rails.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I think we tried this before.

[H. Foley]

I think maybe who hears and, you know, things are going. I think we will be.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I think there's a lot of who's who listening to the dive bar episode.

[H. Foley]

I had that guy to DMV hit me up. Pretty powerful.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I'm not saying he's not powerful. That guy can't get into radio.

[H. Foley]

He's up in Albany doing the Lord's work. You get us in a joint up

[Kevin James Ryan]

there, get us in a Cheesecake factory, get a nice table by the window.

[H. Foley]

They get crowded on Thursdays.

[Kevin James Ryan]

This all right? Black Horse, London pub owner. The owner Ubers because he has no car to Costco. Every day loads up with beer.

[H. Foley]

Holy shit.

[Kevin James Ryan]

There's a bathtub behind the bar. Fills it with ice, throws the beers in there. It's cash or Zelle only. He plays guitar behind the bar. If he likes you, you'll get a shot of Jameson. There's a framed one star Yelp review on the wall. Best dive around. Look at that.

[H. Foley]

Wow, dude.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That's pretty sick. That's all Right. That's what it. That was a lot like Old Man Hustle down the Lower east side. That was a good dive, too. The same size. We used to do comedy shows there. I bond there.

[H. Foley]

Strippers, too, right? Didn't they shift strippers there? No, I don't remember that.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Mean, maybe. I don't know.

[H. Foley]

I'm thinking of that place in South Philly.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That Republican.

[H. Foley]

Yes.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Oh, man.

[H. Foley]

Rough.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I remember following a burlesque dancer there. God damn if you don't think I was funny before. A set of cans wiggling around in front of you.

[H. Foley]

You can never follow a burlesque dancer for two reasons. One, if she's super hot. One if she's super. Yeah, yeah, you're done.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Let's see. Dead in the Water. Yeah, that's my kind of joint, man. That's a good time. The only problem with that, I would feel, is like, I don't think you'd like the guitar player if he was decent. I would love Black Horse London Deli. It says, too.

[H. Foley]

You don't throw out a.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Throw out a fucking Italiano at you.

[H. Foley]

I like a Black Forest ham.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I like. I do. My favorite thing about a dive is that it's unwelcoming from the outside.

[H. Foley]

Sure.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It's going. We're in here, we're drowned in some salt. Like, this isn't.

[H. Foley]

You know, that's the only thing I say with the guitar player. Not anything against the guitar player. When you're in that kind of vibe when you're in there, you want the jukebox. You want to hit your tunes.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. You know. Yeah. Especially that small. You can't really check out of that either. You got to be like, oh, I'm in there.

[H. Foley]

Get up and go down some sad memory lane. You know what I mean?

[Kevin James Ryan]

I know, exactly.

[H. Foley]

And you know what I need for that? Some 70s hits.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Cranking the legals.

[H. Foley]

Little Don Henley, Boston, Little Chicago. Need them.

[Kevin James Ryan]

All right, let's see here. This one's from Blaine. Is it garbage? Have a friend whose wake and memorial service was held at a dive bar. There was a bunch of tip jars with my dead friend's face taped to them scattered throughout the bar. That's how I want to go, dude. Yeah, that in the. I've always said, I want a proper Irish. I want to be at the. I want to be on the pool table at the bar.

[H. Foley]

I can't. I wouldn't be able to go to that. I couldn't see you like, holy, buddy.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I don't want to break pressure bubble. I Don't think you're gonna see me like that.

[H. Foley]

I'm not gonna get invited.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, that's what I mean. I'll meet you.

[H. Foley]

You might be busy that day for eternity.

[Kevin James Ryan]

You might be busy that eternity. Yeah, that's. That would be a nice. And then. Well, I guess. Who's the cash code to the. To the family grease? The family.

[H. Foley]

Yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I mean, I think if you're having it there. I don't think there was, like, a. You know.

[H. Foley]

Oh, I mean, I think.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I don't think there's a proper, like, estate plan.

[H. Foley]

I thought you meant if you did it.

[Kevin James Ryan]

No, I was gonna kind of. No, I don't expect you to tip my family.

[H. Foley]

What the. Do you think? Yeah, it's going to pay for the goddamn funeral.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, I like that.

[H. Foley]

Of course.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That's all right.

[H. Foley]

That cash is getting turned over real quick. See what's left over.

[Luke]

Got it. You got to make it a 50.

[Kevin James Ryan]

50. Listen, I love. I mean, why I. We check the legality of that, of running a 50, 50 at the live shows, which I would love to do.

[H. Foley]

I thought. We tried to. And they said no.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, I think there's, like. It's like lottery s. Did we try

[H. Foley]

to do that at a casino or something like that?

[Kevin James Ryan]

No. At a casino.

[H. Foley]

Got our own operation.

[Kevin James Ryan]

What are we. Working opinions? What are you talking about?

[H. Foley]

We got our own operation back there.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That's really good. I really like a nice, shitty. And that's also just how my family mourns. It is very. Like, we're gonna sit around and have drinks. Even like the. You came to my stepdad's, did you?

[H. Foley]

No, I wasn't able to go to church.

[Kevin James Ryan]

You're at the church. You didn't come to the thing. It's like, even when you're there doing, like, the meal or, like, the luncheon, everybody's just going to the closed circles. Like, let's clean this out. Saddle up at a bar and shoot them back. Shoot them back.

[H. Foley]

No conversation. Really.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Unless, you know. No having the conversation. You know what I mean?

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Giving the. Yeah, well, you know, this and that. Like, we're done with. Let's get to the nitty gritty.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's get. Yeah. All the glad hand and get out of here.

[H. Foley]

But, yeah, I would have to assume that that money's going straight to the

[Kevin James Ryan]

family, which I would like.

[H. Foley]

Paying that tab. Yeah, baby, the tabs probably give me a couple days later. I know you're good for it.

[Kevin James Ryan]

You would. You would hope. You would hope if it's part of the community. You would hope.

[H. Foley]

Sure.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Hey, get it to me when you got it.

[H. Foley]

Richie was in here every night.

[Kevin James Ryan]

If you got. Ha. Whatever, we'll call you. Something like that. Take care of the guys.

[H. Foley]

I can see the owner bartending. You know, he came in to do it. Yeah, I like that.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Good shit.

[H. Foley]

That's how you want to go, huh?

[Kevin James Ryan]

What do you mean? Surrounded by my loved ones and community. Gotcha doing, you know, watching everybody do what. What I. What I loved most.

[H. Foley]

We got cheesesteak egg rolls all over your body like a sushi.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Bunch of ketchup in my.

[H. Foley]

Kids. Grab a bite off Kippy.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Don't be scared.

[H. Foley]

Oh my God.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I'm off. Dude, I'm even. I look you. I'm all pale and. Give me a Sprite, Dan. If you fucking. If you put me.

[H. Foley]

Okay, I got you.

[Kevin James Ryan]

If I can at least. You know what I mean? Do the hair. Do something.

[H. Foley]

Yeah, you got to get a spray tan. Yeah, they don't do that enough.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Why don't they do that?

[H. Foley]

I don't know.

[Kevin James Ryan]

They put the. May they cake the makeup on it. Hit them with a spray.

[H. Foley]

If you. If you die without a tan. And then you. And then you're in there chilling with shades on, all tanned up.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Maybe a little fucking zinc on the nose.

[H. Foley]

He's getting back from Miami, getting ready for help. That's pretty good. Yeah, that's pretty good.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That's not bad.

[H. Foley]

That's really good, kid. We gotta tell them about aura frames.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Sing it from the rooftop. Aura frames or a frames. Aura frames or frames.

[H. Foley]

You know what you gotta do with aura frames? You gotta thank her for everything. Of course. I'm talking about dear old mom.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Uh huh.

[H. Foley]

Talking about your wife, mother, your child. Talking about baby mama, your mother in law. I'm talking about every woman in your life that has bared a child. It's Mother's Day and the ultimate gift of aura frames.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yes.

[H. Foley]

Throw it up on the counter. Shuts them up all year long.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Zip it.

[H. Foley]

Get to see what the kids are doing, what you're doing. It's the best gift ever.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yes. I've said it once, I said it a thousand times. Every mother in my life has one. I've gotten from my mom, my. My mother in law, my sister. My wife's getting one this year. All good. Douche.

[H. Foley]

How you doing?

[Kevin James Ryan]

All pictures of me. Hey, how you doing? Forget about the baby. El Kiparinos in town. All jokes aside, they have free unlimited storage. You can preload photos before it ships. Personalize your gif with a message. You can add a message before it arrives. A gift box is included. Shares all your photos and videos effortlessly through the top rated app is named number one by wirecutter. And you can save on the gifts mom loves by visiting auraframes.com for a limited time. Listeners can get $25 off their best selling carver mat frame with code garbage. That's Aura auraframes.com promo code garbage. Support the channel by mentioning us at checkout. Terms and conditions applied that that cab.

[H. Foley]

We got time about Warby Parker.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Shout out to Warby Parker.

[H. Foley]

I used to see Warby Parker and think like I'm not cool enough to wear Warby Parker.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I also would see Warby park and go foley's not cool enough to wear Warby Parker.

[H. Foley]

Here's the thing. You are.

[Kevin James Ryan]

You're wrong, baby.

[H. Foley]

Fashionable, they're durable and the price is unbelievable. You know what else Warby Parker has? I'm a big glasses guy. I've been wearing glasses all my life. Problem with me is I go to the, you know, I go to the place, the place and they just have the cheapest frames that are out of style that I look like a bozo. I look like I'm working in Area 51 walking around Warby Parker. You got the virtual. Try it on.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

See what it looks like on you. Absolutely fantastic. If you're in the market for some glasses, some sunglasses, whatever you need, go over to Warby Parker. Get yourself straightened out. Do you felt some favorite look cool this spring?

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yes. Warby Parker doesn't just offer incredible prescription glasses. They have everything you need for happier eyes. That includes contacts online, online eye exams and sunglasses. And you're outside way more this time of year. So having both glasses and sunglasses actually just matters more, baby. Warby Parker has distributed over get this 20 million pairs of glasses to people in need through its buy a pair give a pair program. That's giving back dog.

[H. Foley]

Give them back.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That's because they care. They're good care. It's not all about profits they're giving Paul.

[H. Foley]

It's all about profits.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It's the perfect time to upgrade your glasses for spring. Buy one prescription pair and get 20% off an additional prescription pair at warbyparker.com garbage a 20% off additional prescription pairs when you go to Warby W A r b y parker.com garbage debt. All right, let's see here. In the same. In the same reign. And this is. This would be an honor. This is from John. My local bar has a Memorial plaque on one of the stools. It was the regulars. Everyday seat. He died after he got drunk and fell off his roof.

[H. Foley]

Jesus.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Tough way to go out, but great way to remember a guy.

[H. Foley]

Sure. Yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

They don't do. I feel like. I would love to see that more. We even for a more concert, more common. Maybe not like a. The everyday guy, but.

[H. Foley]

Yeah, we had those at Martell's. When you could buy it, you could get like a plaque in front of the ball. You like sponsor a seat. Does that make sense?

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Then did you have kind of regulars up there? No, but like if you sponsor the seat that you come in, that's your seat, kind of.

[H. Foley]

Yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

You can't bounce a guy if a guy's sitting there, though.

[H. Foley]

No, you didn't bounce anybody. No, it was more like. Yeah, it was more like just having your name on the bar. Does that make sense?

[Kevin James Ryan]

Gotcha.

[H. Foley]

A little. Little gold lettering.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kind of like I always. You do the bench?

[H. Foley]

Yeah, Bench at the boardwalk.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It's like in. In honor of Joe and Pop Pop or whatever.

[H. Foley]

My family has one of those, my cousins for their mom and dad on Seattle's boardwalk.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Very nice.

[H. Foley]

Yes.

[Kevin James Ryan]

There. That's prime real estate.

[H. Foley]

The house is right there too.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Are they horse thieves or something? Did.

[H. Foley]

Well, we're the other side. My mom goes down there all the time. Shacks up. Yeah, they let her down there for a week. Ever down there for a week.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Keep on a short lease, I'm sure.

[H. Foley]

Yeah, they take care of her. You know, Patty goes down, I'm just gonna stay. It was that one year. I got the short house for a week. Yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Kind of. Remember that. Yeah. You going down at all this summer?

[H. Foley]

I don't think so.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Okay.

[H. Foley]

You know where to find me this summer.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Just checking, dog. All right, let's see. This one's from Delaware. Cousin. $10, homie. In the Denver area, there was a bar we called the Sewer because it always smells like shit.

[H. Foley]

I hate that.

[Kevin James Ryan]

But the PBRs are cheap. That's a true mark of a dirt bag.

[H. Foley]

No, couldn't do it.

[Kevin James Ryan]

You get used to it. You do get used to it.

[H. Foley]

We've drank in plenty of bars that you smelled the plumbing.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Smelling the plumbing and tasting the taps are bad for me. I can't. I've. I've done it too, too, too much for too long that I. The taps. If I'm a bottle and can. I take anything out of a bottle and can at this point over a draft.

[H. Foley]

However, there is the thing sometimes where you get a bottle and you taste

[Kevin James Ryan]

the lid, that's when we. That's where we were.

[H. Foley]

Was that in the gypsy Poughkeepsie?

[Kevin James Ryan]

No, the Frolic Room.

[H. Foley]

Oh, yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

They were giving me. I was drinking Bud Heavies, and I guess they weren't. They were, like, rusted. Sometimes those capsule, like, if they're underwater or.

[H. Foley]

I didn't notice that. Those were screamers.

[Kevin James Ryan]

The cap was rust, and you're just, like. You tasting. It was somewhere. I was like, I can't.

[H. Foley]

I don't know. We were pretty happy with those beers.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Drinking nickels. Yeah. I think at one point I did switch over, though. But, yeah, that happens. Sometimes you get that. You get an old bottle. It's been sitting there since, like, the fucking Clinton administration.

[H. Foley]

Yeah. So it happens when the. When the ice turns to water, start floating.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Oh, just think about how many times that happens at a fucking bad bar. Especially if you go, like, a little

[H. Foley]

obscure the shit from last night. In the morning, you get the shit from last night. Bad news, tough.

[Kevin James Ryan]

They have PBR bottles with playing card icons like the ace of spade and the jack of clubs under the cap.

[H. Foley]

Whoa.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Do PBR bottles suck? They taste like the fucking. They taste more like the bottle, really, and lid than anything I've ever seen that. Yeah, they're not great. I want to say they have them at a great dive bar, the Sly Fox. I want to say they have them, which is that Ukrainian. It's right next to. You know where that little Ukraine is on Second Avenue?

[H. Foley]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, man.

[Kevin James Ryan]

You go in there.

[H. Foley]

I've eaten at a little Ukraine pretty good.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But this is like their. It's like $2 nickel P. It's something crazy. You go in late night, they give you. They give you clear, solo. Plastic. Plastic solo cups. That's how you know a beer is not going to stay cold. We. When it's handed to you in a clear plastic cup, you want that in

[H. Foley]

a coffee cup or a thermos.

[Kevin James Ryan]

And the bathroom isn't in the bar.

[H. Foley]

I hate that you have to go

[Kevin James Ryan]

into, like, this back annex that connects to the whole building. Then go down. You go down a hall. It's like an office building.

[H. Foley]

I hate an annex.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It's not good.

[H. Foley]

Never an annex. Never.

[Kevin James Ryan]

But PBR bottles with playing card icons like the ace of spades and jack of clubs under the cap.

[H. Foley]

Mm.

[Kevin James Ryan]

If you guess the right card, you get the beer for free.

[H. Foley]

Whoa.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That's what we're talking about. That keeps you there. What the Thing is, if you stick around and drink enough of them, it'll give you a few clues so you eventually get the freebie. That's pretty good.

[H. Foley]

That's all right.

[Kevin James Ryan]

They'll be like, they know what they're giving you. I guess. Also, one time we saw a couple of their mid-50s, 50s, 60s making out the bar, drunk at 4:30 on a Thursday night. There you go.

[H. Foley]

That's love right there, buddy. That's love.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Like two cockroaches going at it. Sure, that's all right.

[H. Foley]

Yeah. God love him.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I. The. I want to say the. The Copa Banana out there on like 40th and walnut or something like that. I don't know if it's still around. There was a couple of Copas in Philly. Remember that? Yeah, there was the Copacabana.

[H. Foley]

I thought you were talking about the Copa Gibana, the song you were singing.

[Kevin James Ryan]

No, no, this is. This was called the Copa Banana.

[H. Foley]

Okay, the Copa.

[Kevin James Ryan]

But what do you got?

[Luke]

Four thousand spruce tree.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That's. Yeah, before.

[H. Foley]

Thousand.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, it'd be 40th and spruce.

[H. Foley]

All right.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Four thousand, I think, right? Yeah, before youth and spruce. Because 400 would be 4th and spruce.

[Luke]

Yeah. This one's Copa banana. University City.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yes. Right. And they would do $, Lion's Head. And the lion's heads had the mammograms. No, pictogram. Pictograms. They had the puzzles. It'd be like a picture of a pyramid and an eyeball and a cap on the cap.

[H. Foley]

I don't remember that.

[Kevin James Ryan]

And you would open it. I think there was a thing. If you guessed it, you got something. Nice shot. You got something. I remember that.

[H. Foley]

You know where lion's heads brood? Wilkes Pray, Pennsylvania Wilkes Bear.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, right. Well, they still banging. Lion's head.

[H. Foley]

Thought they were owned by Stegmeyer Yingling or something like that.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Stegmeyer.

[H. Foley]

Stegmeyer.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Oh.

[H. Foley]

Ever heard of Stegmeier Beer? It's old beer and Wilkes Barre.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I'll bear with Wilbur Stigmar.

[Luke]

Still banging.

[H. Foley]

Still banging. Lion's Head.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah.

[Luke]

Wilkes.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Bart Wilkes.

[H. Foley]

Bart. Well, there you go. Take that, Luke.

[Luke]

A college favorite beer.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It is. Yeah. Yeah.

[Luke]

Very budget friendly.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It was nine bucks for a 24 pack.

[H. Foley]

Cans.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Bottles.

[H. Foley]

What?

[Kevin James Ryan]

They were only doing bottles. They weren't doing cans.

[H. Foley]

Oh, that's right. It's a bottling facility now.

[Luke]

It's $15.79.

[H. Foley]

There you go.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That's not that bad because that was fucking 20. Almost 20 years ago. 18 years ago.

[H. Foley]

Brewed and bottled in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. Gotta be.

[Kevin James Ryan]

They outsources To India or something.

[Luke]

Yeah. What I mean, the breweries at. In Wilkes Barre. So I assume they're doing it all in house sickness.

[Kevin James Ryan]

They don't have money to be shipping that around. That's a. That's a fucking good operation.

[H. Foley]

All right.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It's no garage beers, but it'll do.

[H. Foley]

Shout out to garage beers.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Shout out to them, which I got. I want to get my hands on some of them. They sent a. I just saw. They released some of the bottles, but like a big, like.

[H. Foley]

Oh, really?

[Kevin James Ryan]

Like a quart bottle. Imagine, like a big red striped bottle.

[H. Foley]

Yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

You know what I mean?

[H. Foley]

My dad was big on the quartz.

[Kevin James Ryan]

The court.

[H. Foley]

He would bring. Yeah. Every once in a while. He wouldn't drink that much of the house, but he would bring home like two random quartz, like a quart of Coors Light and like a course quart of. I don't know.

[Kevin James Ryan]

They stopped doing it when I was like. I. We didn't see them. Really?

[H. Foley]

Really?

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. No, I mean, I'm not saying they stopped completely. They just. It became the smaller bottle. Because I remember my dad would always be like, yeah, you.

[Luke]

You.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I'd be like 10 or 12 or whatever. My. Somebody be like, yeah, will you and your friend go get a couple quarts of beer? Like, the fuck quart of beer? The fuck you talking about, old man? I'm tired. We. We do canes, we do pounders, and we do a double deuce.

[H. Foley]

I think they started. They became too menacing. They're just you looking at you like, yeah, that's gonna be bad news at

[Kevin James Ryan]

some point, but we still did 40s. Sure. Hey, man.

[H. Foley]

Is what it is.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I haven't done a 40 in a minute. Maybe I'll start doing 40s again.

[H. Foley]

I do.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Imagine me walking out on stage with a 40. I put it on this stool, chugging that thing. That's all right.

[H. Foley]

Yeah. 40 of Saint Ives will do the trick, I can tell you that.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Put you to sleep.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. We used to do Hurricanes at the corner store in North Philly. At temple were 250. So we. 5 bucks 250. And we'd each do one, maybe two if you were like Oreo. And then that was the pre game. Damn.

[H. Foley]

You go out, you're already out with two hurricanes. I mean, that's a Category 5 right there.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Look out, they call Luke Combs.

[Luke]

Did you ever do the sidewalk slammer?

[H. Foley]

About to do one to you.

[Kevin James Ryan]

There's new age, stupid questions. You know me a long time. You ever think I walk around going, ldt sidewalk slammers?

[Luke]

It's a custom thing.

[H. Foley]

And a kamikaze. No.

[Kevin James Ryan]

What is it?

[Luke]

OG for loco. Half. Half. You drink half the 40 and then you pour half the four low.

[Kevin James Ryan]

We were too old for that. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

God, I want to beat you up so bad right now.

[Luke]

You don't like cool stuff, man.

[H. Foley]

That's a two 40s taped to your hands. That's Edward, 40, walking around Penn State like a goddamn asshole.

[Luke]

That's a goddamn state.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That's. You got to try it. At least one. Every alcoholic in his. Early in his career needs to try it. Specifically college. Me and my boy got locked in his dorm room. It was the. I told you. It was the doorknob. Not like a. And we couldn't. We were. But we both taped ourselves up.

[H. Foley]

How did you both.

[Kevin James Ryan]

He did it. I don't remember. Maybe someone else did it and then

[H. Foley]

he taped you first and then did himself, I guess.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Or maybe his. His roommate did it, but then his roommate bounced. I think that his.

[H. Foley]

His roommate just sitting there and get up.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, his roommate. Noof. He's dead. No. Noofs. I think. No. My boy. He died.

[H. Foley]

The guy.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Whoa. Of. I mean, category five.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

I'm with you.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I mean, you know, protect the innocent guys.

[H. Foley]

They only. Look. They only go a couple of ways around us. Huh?

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. It's usually south. I was. Dude, I bumped into a friend of, you know, who I. Who has known in a while. I haven't talked to in a while. And she was like, oh, how's. Like, you know, all your friends. I know we're in college. She's like, oh, how. All your friends? How so? And so? And so, so. And I'm like a couple of fucking swings and misses. I mean, everybody's doing all right.

[H. Foley]

Mm.

[Kevin James Ryan]

But there's also, like. There's. Everybody's doing okay. And then there's also, like, below the curve.

[H. Foley]

Wait, really? With your squad now? Is it the squad I know.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. But still not. I mean.

[H. Foley]

Huh. I wouldn't know. The guys that aren't doing great.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. You didn't meet. The guys that are no longer with us are not doing great. Or maybe you have and I'm. I don't know. Maybe I'm out with them. Maybe you've been banging running with the wrong crowd. I don't know.

[H. Foley]

I'm out with them.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Money. Yeah. Yeah. There's. Yeah, it's. But it made me realize it.

[H. Foley]

I'm just glad there wasn't a house fully doing.

[Kevin James Ryan]

There was.

[H. Foley]

There was.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Let's lay off of those For a little while. Okay.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I mean, I'm not telling. You know, whatever.

[H. Foley]

Say you haven't seen me.

[Kevin James Ryan]

He shows up and leaves.

[H. Foley]

That's the one. Everybody starts saying,

[Kevin James Ryan]

all right, this while. This is a great name. This is from deep fried Foley. What a name.

[H. Foley]

Love that.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Dude.

[H. Foley]

This fried Foley, that's a deep fried hot dog with onions, mustard, and chili sauce. Yeah, right there. That's a deep fried Foley. There's a place out in Jersey it does deep fried dogs.

[Kevin James Ryan]

You know what? We kind of had this idea we. To do hot dogs. A pop up. We'll do to these dogs one weekend. And we can rent a space, put a hot dog carton there, whatever.

[H. Foley]

Talk about doing that.

[Kevin James Ryan]

And we should just do it.

[H. Foley]

We have to get a food handler's license. We'll use gloves. I want people to be comfortable eating the food.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

So I'm gonna make the chili sauce.

[Kevin James Ryan]

All right, we're out.

[H. Foley]

What? I told you I was doing that from Jump Street.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Chili sauce now with more fingernails.

[H. Foley]

No. And a bad start saying I use bad press. You just close down.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Any press is good press. Are you talking about.

[H. Foley]

I'll make it my dad's recipe.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Mm.

[H. Foley]

And I'll do. I'll do a deep fried Foley.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Okay.

[H. Foley]

You have a deep fryer?

[Kevin James Ryan]

I don't think so. I'll have to check in the back, but I'm not sure now.

[H. Foley]

Where's the storeroom at?

[Kevin James Ryan]

All right. Deep fried Foley. What a name. This. This name run no. For a Snapper McGee's. Whoa. See if you can pull up Snapper McGee's in Kingston. I would assume that would be Kingston, New York. I don't know.

[H. Foley]

Kingston, pa.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I think there's probably a lot of Kingston came up quick. Snapper McGee's New York or PA New York. Yeah. Kingston, New York. Do live music. Snapper McGee's, Kingston, New York. Good booze is their men is there.

[H. Foley]

Damn.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That's all right.

[H. Foley]

Yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

You want low outside light, decent neon signs, stickiness of the floor. You want. You know, you want some of that

[H. Foley]

stuff, but you want bad outside lighting. But when you walk in, you want to see. You want it to pop. Yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

You also want. If you're going during the day, my favorite. My favorite about 8 seconds is adjusting from the really bright outside to the really dark inside. And yeah, you might get hit with a two by film or you find out who's eyeballing you.

[H. Foley]

The experience I think about that is when we got fucked up at the Pirates Bar in la. Yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I mean, there was no Natural light in that place.

[H. Foley]

And that was so. It was so hot outside. We were so, like, looking forward to doing that. It was the first time we did it. Walked into that freezing cold, dark space

[Kevin James Ryan]

and the guy was a fan. Guy's like, holy shit. What the heck? We were the only two people in the bar. It was a pirate themed bar. The only two people in there. We got fucking shellacked.

[H. Foley]

Fucked up.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. What are you guys doing? You just getting drunk early? Yeah. I mean, more pirate.

[H. Foley]

You guys got big meetings out here, huh? Huh?

[Kevin James Ryan]

More pirate fries, please.

[H. Foley]

Yeah, just proper fucked up. Mm. Damn, that was fun.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Snapper McGee's in Kingston does a Thanksgiving shot on Thanksgiving shot a Wild Turkey mixed with cranberry juice. Juice and gravy from a jar. It's actually pretty good. I think I might be with that.

[H. Foley]

You had me for a second.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I don't know. You don't. I mean, you don't think gravy's a good. I mean, essentially it's a. It's a chaser.

[H. Foley]

I guess it probably does.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It's a gravy back. Look at it that way. So it takes. It's gotta take the edge off.

[H. Foley]

You know Why I think it would work or why I'm sure it works is as odd as it is. The cranberry and gravy is. Will be familiar to you as it goes down the course. Wow. That's pretty good.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That's not bad.

[H. Foley]

Yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Huh.

[H. Foley]

Huh.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I would. I wouldn't mind trying one of those.

[H. Foley]

I need.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I. I need a. I need a good dive to make my own. I got Shade, which is not a dive, but it's. Right. It's a quiet enough.

[H. Foley]

I think in New York. You're in trouble.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. New York. New York has great dives, but it's. They're tough. There's none by me. They're cool now. Yeah, they're just. It's cool. It's cool for that sort of. That's what happened. It's cool for young kids to like. Young rich kids to like slum it. Remember we used Niagara. They used to.

[H. Foley]

I love you, buddy.

[Kevin James Ryan]

They used to consider Niagara a dive. Like the rich kids would be like. Yeah, it was. Niagara wasn't a dive bar. What? Niagara was a bar.

[H. Foley]

You think so?

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. Niagara was in a dive. Huh? The walls of Niagara are worth like $400,000.

[H. Foley]

That's by accident. Some guy came in and got fucked up and drew on him.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Doesn't matter.

[H. Foley]

He's a famous artist.

[Kevin James Ryan]

No, Saturday night, there would be Saturday night. There was a bouncer, a line and fucking, like, dudes in, like, pea coats and button ups there. Like, that's what it mainly turned into.

[H. Foley]

I guess you're right.

[Kevin James Ryan]

You know what I mean? It got. They just got. It became cool for guys like Luke. I. Luke's getting trash in this one.

[H. Foley]

Sorry.

[Kevin James Ryan]

But it became. It became cool for them.

[H. Foley]

They get a lot of heat for no reason.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I wouldn't. That was exactly the vibe. Yeah. And that's him going like, oh, we're going to Niagara. It's real. It's not pretention. We're gonna pop in at beers. Meanwhile, me and you were like, this is the nicest place I ever been.

[H. Foley]

Trying to steal the wall.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Cover me. Yeah, that was okay.

[Luke]

They had a DJ when we went there.

[Kevin James Ryan]

There's no DJ at the ice bars.

[H. Foley]

Better not be.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I'm bad.

[H. Foley]

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[Kevin James Ryan]

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[H. Foley]

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[Kevin James Ryan]

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[H. Foley]

Yes, we do, Cat. We got time about quints.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Shout out to quint now.

[H. Foley]

Do you know about quint?

[Kevin James Ryan]

Oh, I know about quints.

[H. Foley]

Because let me tell you folks something. As I'm in this stage of my weight loss journey, you know, I'm down about £80 right now. I want something to feel a little bit better. I want to feel a little bit more, you know, comfortable. I want to feel a bit better and I want a little bit of high quality. That's where Quince comes in.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Boost that confidence.

[H. Foley]

Boost your confidence. Get over there and get on Quint. See what's going on.

[Kevin James Ryan]

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[H. Foley]

Let me see. This is the number one tavern.

[Kevin James Ryan]

A diet bar in Wildwood.

[H. Foley]

No, in.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, Cambridge.

[H. Foley]

Yeah. In Wild.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Shout to the number one. Yes. I would say for. If that was anywhere else. Yeah, but it's like. It's also a little kitschy because it's down the shore. If that was anywhere else, I mean. Yeah, but there's not that many. There is a good amount of bars in Wildwood, obviously, but it's like it is limited.

[H. Foley]

I got.

[Kevin James Ryan]

So you're like. They can kind of just stay. It's kitschy at this point.

[H. Foley]

If it was anywhere else. I mean, anywhere else would be closed.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Good point.

[H. Foley]

Kidding me.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Shout out to the number one.

[H. Foley]

Shout out to.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I mean they got all the marks. They have their own special drink. No, with. With Dirt bag Lore. No one knows the ingredients. The. The owner who I think recently passed would show up every day and make it in vats by himself. Mark Tully. Shout out Mark Dolly. And then there's a golden tea.

[H. Foley]

Sure.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Screaming Cold air conditioning.

[H. Foley]

Screaming Screaming Cold back is crazy.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Bad bathroom, bad bathrooms, bad.

[H. Foley]

Bad bar stool. Bad cushioned bar stools around the tables in the back.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yes. Brutal. Brutal. The staff's got a bit of a tude to them in a good way. In a lovely endearing.

[H. Foley]

Tables get covered in the. In the Tully nut sauce.

[Kevin James Ryan]

In the Tully nut sauce. Cash only.

[H. Foley]

Cash on the table.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Cash on the.

[H. Foley]

Cash on the table.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Wet cash on the table. Kind of. That's a dive. I love it. But it is. I don't want to paint that a dive because it is kitschy and fun. It's still. It's got a lot of heart to it. It's not a dark dive. It's a fun. No one's really in there running from there, you know, there's not just like some old timer like it's groups of people having fun.

[H. Foley]

It's not you though. You like a dark dive, don't you?

[Kevin James Ryan]

I like a dark.

[H. Foley]

Like a dark dive in the middle of the day.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I like it.

[H. Foley]

Yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

The Frolic Room put on a little. The International Bar put on a little

[H. Foley]

Seeger and think about where it all went wrong.

[Kevin James Ryan]

This is for this. So this is from Stephen. I actually made a list of one night while attending our local dive bar of what makes a good dive. Cold, cold areas of cold. Cold air conditioning, ice cold beer. Huh. Dark atmosphere.

[H. Foley]

You.

[Kevin James Ryan]

This is. You want to see the glow from outside when the doors open.

[H. Foley]

Oh shit. Fuck, it's only two o' clock out there.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Winking.

[H. Foley]

Oh man, that sun comes in.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Good characters at the bar. You know, crowd. Crowd don't only want to be the ones that. I don't know what the fuck that means. I think this guy's at the corner of the bar right now smoking good jukebox bar food. Sure I would. A lot of good dives don't offer food though. A lot of my favorite dives are kitchenless. There's usually one, maybe two people working there total. It's some. Some, you know, some broad that'll throat chop you if she needs to. She's behind the bar by herself. You know, New York sometimes will be a bouncer out front just because it's fucking sure to keep some vagrants out or whatever, you know, boiled hot dogs.

[H. Foley]

Like.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, I'm proud the burps from the hot I mean, I crush hot dogs. I crushed these bad, bad pool table or darts.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Off the beaten path, so it can't be easily found.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Safe, I. E. Not known for gangs or murders.

[H. Foley]

What the fuck?

[Kevin James Ryan]

Unless you know the gang. That's really funny.

[H. Foley]

What the fuck?

[Kevin James Ryan]

But that's true. You want it like we said. Like I said, you want it a little edgy, scary. That's scared. But like, you don't want gangs or like, you know, but you want, like. Ah, man, they're. You know, there's a. Tension in here a little bit.

[H. Foley]

Yeah. Couple of off characters.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. They're not stoked I'm here. That's Jimmy. Don't sit in Jimmy's seat. Don't fight. You know, that kind of thing.

[H. Foley]

I like that. I had that at that. There's an Irish bar on the corner of Crescent and something else in Queens. And I had that one night where, like, I could tell they didn't want us in there. And they were cool. Bartender was cool. But, like, a couple guys went out to have a cigarette and, like, they stopped and talked to us for a second.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Just. Yes.

[H. Foley]

I didn't like it. Yeah, I didn't like it at all.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Hey, man, big fan. Love the show.

[H. Foley]

No, of course. And then they muttered something under their breath as they stepped outside. And I was with my wife at the time, and she's like, fucking, like, thought it was great. And I was like, finish that.

[Kevin James Ryan]

We're getting the fuck out.

[H. Foley]

Didn't get it at all.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Well, that you don't. I also don't think.

[H. Foley]

Finish the drink. You dumb, bro.

[Kevin James Ryan]

They're gonna kill us quick. Grab the money on the table and run. I don't think, you know, most women in my life also aren't hanging out or spending a lot. As much time as I have at a dive to know. To read the signs on the wall, read the room. This is not going. Yeah, this is not. You know, the tides have turned a

[H. Foley]

little lot of that. You could tell in the ordering.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I'll do the fuck up, stick and move, which I do have to give to our crew when. Yeah, when we all walk in somewhere and we all know, you know, take that place in San Francisco, real dive that we went to. I would love to see if you can find the name of that. It was across from Cobbs down, probably two blocks across the street.

[H. Foley]

It's a place I was all dusted up in.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Towards. Yeah, towards the water. I mean, you're dusted up in a couple of places.

[H. Foley]

No place I was really High stoned.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah, that was. Yeah, there was a couple of places that that was the case. There was an Italian joint. It's like an Italian cafe.

[H. Foley]

All right.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It's not real. I mean, I'm saying we were at a. Multiple places that night is what I'm saying. So it's tough to pinpoint. When you got really stoned, you got so serious.

[H. Foley]

That was like off the air voice.

[Kevin James Ryan]

What? Yeah, it's pretty fucked up.

[H. Foley]

I like that.

[Kevin James Ryan]

But we walked in and every. Everybody read the room. Yeah, I think it was me, you, Colin, Luke. Sure, that's probably it.

[H. Foley]

Maybe.

[Luke]

And Tommy instead of me. I didn't roll with you guys.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Oh. But you go. I'll turn around. Because I'll. I tend to lead the charge on that one. I'm first man named Skull Bends. You know what I mean? I gotta protect my guys. You're outside. You're as high as Mars right now.

[H. Foley]

I was trying to figure out the situation. I was trying to solve the situation between the guy and the guy in the car.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That's the problem.

[H. Foley]

Work that out.

[Kevin James Ryan]

So is she. I'm inside.

[H. Foley]

Yelling at me to come inside.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. Goes down. I got me.

[H. Foley]

I'm solving cases out in San Fran. I'm bringing people together.

[Kevin James Ryan]

You're like Ruffalo and. What was his name? What I was in. Ruffalo.

[H. Foley]

What's the Zodiac? Yeah, yeah, he was all right in that. That's about it.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Okay.

[H. Foley]

Like the old Ruffalo.

[Kevin James Ryan]

But you go, what do. I'll go. I'll turn around and go, what are you guys getting? And the crew usually goes, whatever. Like we can tell this isn't. What do you have on tap? Do you have any Prosecco? It's a fucking. I'm getting three, four cans or whatever. Three.

[H. Foley]

I'm usually pretty good about asking for the. For not asking about something they don't have. I make eye contact with something that they do have, and I say that. I never just order something, especially places like that. We don't have Coors Light. We don't have this.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I'll literally, if I don't. A lot of most shitty bars will have the run of dusty cans and bottles up on the shelf somewhere. So you can go like, you know, whatever. And if they don't have that, I'll go, what do you have in a can? And they'll go, ba, ba. And I, whatever. This, whatever. The first one I'll like is I stop them there.

[H. Foley]

I'll give you that. You are very good in those situations. I never really Seen anything. You're flawless. I would say in dive bar situations, I was bored of the doctors, but you know.

[Kevin James Ryan]

But I'm gonna trash it.

[H. Foley]

No, we're, you know, we're, we're talking about this, what we like, all that kind of stuff. How to operate in them. I want truth to be known for the bozos and the homies out there. I have had my fair share of fuck ups in dive bars. Oh, pause that. Unfortunately last the evening and tend to get worse. Once a bartender in those places doesn't like, you're dead.

[Kevin James Ryan]

You. You might as well move.

[H. Foley]

You will continue. You will continue to make a fool of yourself throughout the evening. I remember the dive bar we were in, in like Nashville or something like that, where the kid when I was ordering the doubles and he's like, that

[Kevin James Ryan]

was a real honky tonk bar we were at. Yes.

[H. Foley]

But I kept saying, rick's are raised. Yeah, I wanted a margarit. I didn't want a lot of margarita mix.

[Kevin James Ryan]

You get to. You. You get too specific in those places.

[H. Foley]

He's like, do you want to double? I'm like, no, you don't have to double the alcohol. Just less than the thing. But he didn't get that. He's like, you want to pay for a double? Pay for a double. Which you say that to me. I freak out.

[Kevin James Ryan]

This, and this is, I think everybody in the team, the whole beef with you and ordering. It's a lot of words. It's too many words, too much to say. It's too much having a little bit of this extra that. You can't just go, I'll do a double margarita. Because at a lot of dive bars, it's what you're getting, it's not what you want. It's. Yeah, they're not mixologists. No, the guy's.

[H. Foley]

You know, I got some orange juice

[Kevin James Ryan]

back here, but that, that's the, that's the issue. You throw in some music today and there's a. Yeah, you know what? Your city slicking vibes too.

[H. Foley]

I know you're in there.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Your hair slick. I walk in there taking business calls.

[H. Foley]

I sometimes walk in with a bad vibe and I don't even realize it. Usually I'm pretty good.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

What do you got? You find them?

[Luke]

I think I got like three options.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Oh, my God.

[Luke]

Sweeties. International Sports Bar.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It might have been International Sports Bar. Let me see. Let me see if I can.

[Luke]

Dollar bills hanging from the ceiling.

[H. Foley]

No.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Oh, you weren't there, so you don't know. I apologize. I apologize. I sent a boy to do a man's job. Hey you Dan. Hey you friggin.

[H. Foley]

Then tell you the hot vegan place out there.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I'll tell you a place to get a cuppaccino or whatever the it is.

[H. Foley]

What's a coopachino?

[Luke]

Papaccino.

[H. Foley]

Papaccino were for the dogs.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Oh, I'd to like that.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Well, no. What's cupertino? What do you like? Or no Cupertino's where espresso martinis. What's the seafood soup you get?

[Luke]

Oh, chipino.

[Kevin James Ryan]

All right. I'm not that far off. Hey, way off.

[H. Foley]

I was thinking Italian coffee drinks, not Italian mixed seafood dishes with a red sauce. Very good. Me and Diesel had one out there at San Fran.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, Internet. The international sports bar, which I don't think there was a TV on in the joint. If I'm being a hunter, if that's for tax purpose, if I'm being 100p. Great dive bar though. Yeah. Two pool tables, tight little corner spot on the angle on one of those angle streets you enter from like the snub nose, like the flatiron side of it.

[H. Foley]

Great, great, great bar. To walk outside and have a heater.

[Kevin James Ryan]

All glass windows the whole way around.

[H. Foley]

Seem coming. Got to in there, see him coming at you.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I mean it was dollar bills hang from the ceiling. This no frills game day spot with full bar and pool tables. No delivery, no takeout. That's all right.

[H. Foley]

We were looking over our shoulder in there a little bit.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Oh yeah. I mean that was the last place I really walked in where I felt.

[H. Foley]

Oof.

[Kevin James Ryan]

There was a lot of eyes when I. We did walk in in a kerfuffle of a time too.

[H. Foley]

Is that one of the last bars we walked into together? In that. In that zone and getting fucked up.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. Because that was the last LA trip that ended in the LA trip. La, we need you.

[H. Foley]

Wait, was that.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yes, that was the beginning of the LA trip.

[H. Foley]

Whoa, man, talk about foreshadowing.

[Luke]

Beginning of the end

[H. Foley]

or the beginning.

[Kevin James Ryan]

This review is toilets available for customers only. Okay. Yikes.

[H. Foley]

That's them.

[Kevin James Ryan]

No, that was. That's from the review.

[H. Foley]

That's awesome. Don't go in there and try to take a dump. They'll yell at you. That's my kind of place.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Speaking of, I would also argue dive bars. Like you said, it's like you get on the. You get on the bad track. It's tough to get out with the bartenders or staff or what. You're fucked. Which as I was Reading these submissions, it made me think it's got to be really the only kind of establishment this day and age that still has, like a band. You still. It's easy to get banned from a dive bar because it's such a tight knit community. Well, we'll put in the penalty box for a couple of months.

[H. Foley]

You can't do that at the, like, you know, like the Smith or like some place that has, you know, a management structure.

[Kevin James Ryan]

What?

[H. Foley]

You can't get banned from a place.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That's what I'm saying. Like, you go to the Smith and they're like, yeah. No, the customer's always right.

[H. Foley]

That's how you get sued. Yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Bartender loses job. He goes, this guy's giving me. You know what I mean?

[H. Foley]

He serves some guy. The guy gets fucked up. Guy does something. Yeah. They fire the bartender at the fucking dive bar. Don't ever let me see in here again.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Two months. Take your time. Two months. Fuck.

[H. Foley]

I've seen that before. Have you ever seen anybody get banned from a place for like a limited time?

[Kevin James Ryan]

I don't think so.

[H. Foley]

Martels would happen all the time.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That makes. That was. That's an old school joint.

[H. Foley]

Yeah. Take three months off. Take two months off.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Clear your head a little bit.

[H. Foley]

Yeah. They come back.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Go get some help.

[H. Foley]

They come back fresh.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. Good shave on them. Good shave, nice tan.

[H. Foley]

This guy Don did that to do that for a while. Came back fresh. Chris came back in the summer. He's like, you know what I do? I take hot showers in the summer. Then you get out.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It's cool.

[H. Foley]

Two months later, he was fucking. Fucking in the rafters. Sent him back. Had to send him back down to spring training. Tommy John surgery.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Put him back into minors for a minute.

[H. Foley]

His wife would always call the bar. Is Don there now? I haven't seen him. I know he's there. And we would lie and then she would. He lived like around the corner. So she would show up every once in a while screaming at him.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Crazy.

[H. Foley]

And he was. He was like an older, good looking dude, sharp, always had a tan, did well. And he'd be like the man. And then man. When he. She walked in and would just shrivel.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Well, that was for a very long time. My stepdad's drinking spot was like. Right. It was on like a main road. Mm. So his car. You could always, you know, this is like pre calling and not. But if he also. Well, he wasn't a huge, you know, responder. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Oh, really? I respect that.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I mean, like, you couldn't text Him, I mean, you could. Especially later on. You could. But like growing up, he wasn't like an early adopter of.

[H. Foley]

Okay.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Being on the text message like, I'm here, just checking in.

[H. Foley]

Like, he goes radio silent.

[Kevin James Ryan]

No, not, no.

[H. Foley]

You know, loves radio silent.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Bug man. Yeah, I'm well aware. Off the air

[H. Foley]

you just get that static, flatlining.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I got nothing. I'm waiting for a beep, a meep, a sweep, something.

[H. Foley]

See the bug sign in the sky.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Well, we would drive. We will. A lot of times it would be reported based on seeing his car at the local watering hole, you know what I mean? And be like, oh, where's Joe? Well, I saw it. I saw. I was coming home from work and I saw his car.

[H. Foley]

So could have been at the dry clean.

[Kevin James Ryan]

He's dusting off a little bit. Yeah, I was. That was. I'm gonna go down the road and dust off a bit. Go down the road a piece and dust off a bit. Which I respect.

[H. Foley]

Yeah, I respect it too.

[Kevin James Ryan]

This one's just funny. This is from Wolf Tail. McGee had to help carry a large girl from the bathroom floor to the back of a cab. Buddy had to pull her in from the other side. It was like we were loading furniture. Bartender, bartender paid us in crown apple shots. Respect that, man.

[H. Foley]

That poor girl.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Sure. But you're also. You're doing that small community a service, right? Like the bartender, probably one person. Like again, there's not like a management chain. There's not a front of house, back of house. It's one or two people working a dive bar and they're going, I can't. It could be a woman going, I can't load this larger girl in here. And the dive bar unites and goes, we'll help this. She's. We'll help this citizen of the bar out and get her into a cab. They probably paid for the cab or you know, something took care of it. They were reimbursed for their community service. I think it's a great.

[H. Foley]

Sure.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Right?

[H. Foley]

That's like on a plane. Who's able to do the. Yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Are you able. Are you able to sit in the exit row like we were loading furniture? That's such a real thought to get her.

[H. Foley]

Get her ankles.

[Kevin James Ryan]

You gotta hook it.

[H. Foley]

Poor lady, man.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Uh huh.

[H. Foley]

Getting pulled through the other side.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Who.

[H. Foley]

That's tough.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That's. That ain't great. This one. This one's from Dr. John Becker. Shout out to you, Doc. Whatever local dive bar has an active train about 30ft behind the exit where everyone smokes slash additional parking. Solid drunk ride. Tried to leave and get stuck on the tracks. You don't even have to cross the tracks to leave, but this guy gets caught up on the tracks. Train was coming.

[H. Foley]

How do you get caught up on the tracks? I thought that was something that happened in silent movies.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. I don't know.

[H. Foley]

How do you. Where do you get your foot caught?

[Kevin James Ryan]

I know the car. He couldn't get his car.

[H. Foley]

Why does that always happen? That's crazy.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I think it's. Yeah, I don't know.

[H. Foley]

That's something in the universe. There's no way at that specific time your car stalls or you can't get over. That happens way too much.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I think it's prob. Listen, these aren't fucking, you know, Land Rovers and stuff getting stuck. These are shitty small cars where like I think the rear front wheel drive, it's. It doesn't fuck, you know, it's like a neon trying to end. It's like the chassis gets called on a Ross something. I don't think he's actually. He's probably not crossing at a proper fucking.

[H. Foley]

Do you think the train operator in the back of their head kind of likes that when one gets caught on there? When it's a car, not like a tractor trail that's gonna like get derailed.

[Kevin James Ryan]

You gotta think, dude, this is nighttime. The driver don't know. The fucking train conductor don't know that. Don't think that. There's no one in the car.

[H. Foley]

Oh, that's right. So they're not enjoying it.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. He's not going sick. Gary, get up here. He's gone. I'm about to ruin a lot of people's lives. This is about. This is about to be the worst day of my life. Fuck.

[H. Foley]

Yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I guess if you didn't know. Fun. Yeah. And you're just like fucking gravedigger in it. Yeah, that would probably be a good time.

[H. Foley]

That'd be fun.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I thought I would have to worry about the derailing though.

[H. Foley]

I don't know. We don't do enough fun stuff with trains like that. Why don't they have like train like smash up derbies or something?

[Kevin James Ryan]

It's very dangerous.

[H. Foley]

Think.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. I would assume someone would have monetized it if it was.

[H. Foley]

I'm saying just the engine. You don't got the, the, you know, cars behind it. But like, why don't we do more fun stuff with train engines?

[Kevin James Ryan]

I think I found a new hobby for you.

[H. Foley]

I'm slamming to each other or something like that in a controlled environment. Like monster truck shows. Aren't they have like, you know.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, but they're kind of static.

[H. Foley]

You put track in. Idiot.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. Do you have anything for this? No.

[Luke]

I mean, I can't imagine you could pick up steam that quick in like a monster truck arena.

[H. Foley]

Yeah. Open up the doors of the arena and you start out like that. How sick would that be?

[Luke]

I'm with it.

[H. Foley]

Right?

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. I'm out for that reason. I'm out. All right. But hold on.

[H. Foley]

Yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Local dive bar has an active train about 30ft behind the exit where people. Everyone smokes. Slash there's additional parking. Solid drunk guy tried to leave and get stuck on the tracks. You don't have to cross the tracks to leave. Train was coming, so he ripped off his license plate and ran. Everyone ran outside of the bar to watch the train obliterate this car. The whole place erupted in cheers. It was awesome.

[H. Foley]

That's what I'm talking now.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, listen, I.

[H. Foley]

That's what I'm talking.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Listen. Yeah, that's a good point.

[H. Foley]

Now you see it.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Sure, sure.

[H. Foley]

But that is a once in a lifetime moment.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. That's like. Connor, you can't be selling tickets to that. Hey, Sunday. Sunday. Sunday.

[H. Foley]

Wow.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Dude. To be at that bar. The calls. The next morning, Gary got his car stuck. The vibe the fuck up.

[H. Foley]

Yeah, the vibe in there. When they walked back inside, I was right there.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I seen. Everybody's telling their version. It's like the Kennedy assassination. That's awesome.

[H. Foley]

That's.

[Kevin James Ryan]

There was some. There was a long. Earl. A long time in our early 20s where we really like getting up and you know, seeing stuff. Getting up for that kind of was a good time. Like a big event that not everybody. You know. I don't know. Just like. Remember one time we were looking for. We were looking at implosions of buildings. I think they were blowing up something in Jersey. And me and Pat were like, we gotta get to that. But it was too early. You'd have to. You know what I mean?

[H. Foley]

I know. They do that. Business hours.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

I think they.

[Kevin James Ryan]

And I didn't hold normal office hours at the time.

[H. Foley]

I think they tend to do that because they don't want people to do exactly what you're talking about.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Sure.

[H. Foley]

They don't blow up buildings at 4:30. So you can be out there. Pregaming. Which they should.

[Kevin James Ryan]

They should. I mean in Vegas. They do Vegas. That's. Those are.

[H. Foley]

That's a thing.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That's a thing in Vegas.

[H. Foley]

Yeah. Which is so fucked up.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Why?

[H. Foley]

It's just so cutthroat and vicious, but also at the same time. Like when you. When you're the owner of that casino and they blow it up on you,

[Kevin James Ryan]

I don't think you're the owner anymore.

[H. Foley]

Obviously.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That's always too, like. I just. That ambition. I come from such a small, like, blue collar type world where like, to have the ambition of like, I'm gonna buy that casino then blow it the fuck up and rebuild it. Then rebuild it. I guess I look at it from like, everybody in my family's in the trades.

[H. Foley]

Would you do. Revamp it or just. I can't do that.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I would just go, yeah, I'm not in the market for a casino. But I think you would keep that.

[H. Foley]

You would just change the name and keep it this.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I think so.

[H. Foley]

Because different, special, Everybody. Everybody change the menu.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Everybody I know complains about this size of a job. And I just go, that's it. One, you gotta blow it up. Two, you gotta fucking. You gotta have to grade out that land. That's like, how many guys, how many bids? That's just like such a big undertaking where I go, I don't have the time. I got nothing. Throw a coat of paint.

[H. Foley]

Yeah. Could throw a coat of paint, get to, you know, change the waiter's uniforms.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yes. Something, something. I don't have the. We're gonna burn it down. And re.

[H. Foley]

Nobody would go to that casino.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Well, that's why. That's why I'm not in the casino biz. Guy.

[H. Foley]

That's awesome. Takes it step by step out there. All in.

[Kevin James Ryan]

All right. This one's from the. What a name. Northeast Ohio. It's in Northeast Ohio. Called why Drive By. The owner's name was Dale. Rest in peace. He lived upstairs. He lived off Arizona. Green tea mixed with black velvet whiskey. God damn. That's an old timer. If you ask nicely, he turn on the Christmas lights and run the electric choo choo train around the ceiling.

[H. Foley]

Oh, I love that.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Had a wooden bowling machine and a seasonal bowling league. My brother set the place on fire and got free drinks for the night when he scored a perfect 300. Game went down in the history of the place how you done had a dusty jukebox decked out with all of our favorite Motown hits. A hand dryer in the woman's bathroom shot out blue sparks when you push the button. It had a functioning telephone booth in the wall. In the wall space between the men's and women's bathroom. Got bought out and modernized a few years ago. What a time capsule.

[H. Foley]

Whoa.

[Kevin James Ryan]

That's the problem.

[H. Foley]

Well said. Yeah, that was well said.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Very well said. That some what I was thinking about

[H. Foley]

the whole time you were reading that is none of that stuff happened immediately. That kind of stuff. That bar at its pinnacle of dive Barness that took time. Yeah, it takes time.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Takes decades.

[H. Foley]

I doubt the hairdryer was shooting out sparks the second that they opened.

[Kevin James Ryan]

No. And then it wasn't every time. It was like every 10th time. And then like we got bigger probably get there and then it was every time then it was just like hey, where's the bathroom to the left. Don't use the dryer. You know what I mean? That kind of thing.

[H. Foley]

Yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

It takes time or something about. And that smell of like those all like not even bad or good. It's just like this was. This was when you could still smoke in here to not smoking in here. Like you know it's like stained.

[H. Foley]

Oh yeah.

[Kevin James Ryan]

The stickiness of the floor. It's like. Yeah.

[H. Foley]

The smoke smell that wasn't smoking to non smoking is something unique on its own.

[Kevin James Ryan]

I love a fucking dive bar. Which unfortunately New York they're getting harder and harder to maintain because the rain real estate. So that's why like that Niagara bar is like dirt. That's gonna be the new like a restaurant group owns that. I know that's gonna be the new.

[H. Foley]

They own the place next door.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. Dive.

[H. Foley]

I don't know now it's like market. But it was like a. I don't like butcher or something.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, something cool. I'm sure they're doing great. It's probably a great establishment. And I do like that. That's a good just knock around bar. But that's you know that's not a. That ain't no dive bar. Which are the fewer. Fewer and far between. There's a great one. This is another place. Luke, see if you can find this. It's called the Liffey 2 all the way up in old. It's a holdover in the. In Inwood. Real Irish joint. You go in and it's got like furniture you would have in your basement. You know what I mean? Like it was just someone's couch like that. And that was the time me and my boy went in the Liffey to. On Broadway. Right? Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Nice.

[Kevin James Ryan]

See if you can find some of the images they have like the inside. It's just like that's kind of. That looks like even a little more redone. It was like it had like a couch that like somebody was getting rid of and they were like drop it in there. And it was just, like, still smoke stained in a good way. And that was the last place we walked in. And it's. It's a Irish pub in a predominantly Dominican neighborhood at this point, still. With some holdover Irish people and stuff like that.

[H. Foley]

They work together.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. And you walk in and you're like, I don't. They. They all look at you and they're like, we don't fight. We went in on, like, a Wednesday night.

[H. Foley]

We don't trust each other. We ain't trusting you.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. Oh, fuck these guys. And I. It was me and my friend who's Dominican, walked in, said, we do. We look like undercover cops? They're gonna send one of each of us into infantry.

[H. Foley]

Pack of cigarettes, please.

[Kevin James Ryan]

And they. They walked in and just sniffed it. We had, like, two beers. Wasn't super well. It just, you know, we weren't there for all night anyway. We were just like. You got that vibe in a good way of like, who better? We're gonna smoke this. We're gonna finish this beer, smoke a shake, and get the fuck on out of here.

[H. Foley]

That night with me and my brother, I was, you know, a little yacked up.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Sure.

[H. Foley]

Very talkative. And I was going around, like, the worst. Yeah, I was. I was like, chatting up people.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Hey, come here often?

[H. Foley]

What do you do? This and that. Where you from? Like, man, looking back, lucky I made. We made it out of there.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah.

[H. Foley]

Throat slit in the bathroom.

[Kevin James Ryan]

There's a. There's a place. I don't know if it's still open. I mean, it still looks. It's on Broadway as well, all the way up there called the 21 Bar. And there's like. It's like a go go bar. Like, girls dance on the bar, but, like in bikinis or something. Like, considered bartender. It's not a strip club. It's real small, dude.

[H. Foley]

It's like, not a go go bar, guy.

[Kevin James Ryan]

There's probably like 10 seats, maybe seven. 10 seats in there. Is it still open

[Luke]

on Broadway?

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, It's. It's a 100% pure Dominican hangout. And I rolled in there with my boy, and I was just one of those things, like, even, like the bouncers, like, guy, this is. You sure? It was just like. He didn't say anything, but it was like, really? I'm going into. And not enemy terror, but I'm, you know, I'm on the other side.

[H. Foley]

Just to you specifically.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, to me specifically. This was years ago too. This was.

[H. Foley]

He was my man. What are you doing?

[Kevin James Ryan]

No, but it was like he said something in Spanish to my boy where I don't know if he thought I was a cop or what it was, you know? And I sat in someone's seat.

[H. Foley]

Oh, yeah, I remember this.

[Kevin James Ryan]

And it was like there was a conversation. I'm sorry, sir, good day. Or is it conversation in Spanish between my boy and this guy? And my boy's not the kind of guy to relinquish the seat. He was. It was very much. You're fucking sitting there, and now I don't know what's happening. They're going back and forth, and I'm like. I'm trying to get fucking buzzwords or something. He's like, you're sitting in that fucking seat. Because it's like a pride thing for him.

[H. Foley]

Like, wait until you hear pistola.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Underlay. Underlay. But, yeah, and then that was another thing where me and him were. Me and him in a lot of iffy situations.

[H. Foley]

Sure.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Where we've been like. I was like. He's like, we're finishing these. We're doing two beers. Well, I'm not letting you. Them feel like they're running us out of here.

[H. Foley]

I like that.

[Kevin James Ryan]

And I'm. Yeah, I like it in principle. I don't like it when I don't know what the Going on, and I'm the cause of the issue. I said, I'm always the guy in

[H. Foley]

the wrong seat you got walking in front of the frame.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah. I'm always the just. They're like, I don't. I get a little too comfy, a little too quick. Crack a joke a little too. You know what I mean? I got a bad face sometimes.

[H. Foley]

This guy knows what I'm talking about, right?

[Kevin James Ryan]

Slap on the headline. Ain't that right, baca? All right, we got to wrap it up.

[H. Foley]

What a fun one.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Yeah, baby.

[H. Foley]

Thanks for all the submissions. They were fantastic. Yes, gang, we love you, and we'll see you next week.

[Kevin James Ryan]

Peace.