Are You Garbage? — "Too Many Beers w/ Garbage Island!"
Hosts: Kevin Ryan & H. Foley
Guests: Chris O'Connor & Tommy Pope (Stuff Island, Look at This)
Date: October 2, 2025
Episode Overview
This wild, freewheeling edition of Are You Garbage brings together the original "Garbage Island" crew: hosts H. Foley and Kevin Ryan, plus frequent collaborators and fellow comedians Chris O’Connor and Tommy Pope. Fueled by garage beers and plenty of summer sun, the episode doubles as a hilarious therapy session, a friendship roast, and a reminder of how delightfully trashy life (and comedy) can be. Expect classic AYGs chaos—uninhibited belly laughs, tangents about feet and fast food, questionable pet care tips, and an epic deep dive into the intricacies of being absolute garbage.
Key Discussion Points & Insights
1. Setting the Scene: Garbage Vibes & Dirty Details
- [00:00–05:20]
- The guys are "out back at Tooties," already in full raucous, loose mode.
- Everyone’s been out in the sun "eating zeppelin" for three days, implying the usual AYGs mix of booze and nonsense.
- Tommy Pope is immediately roasted for supposedly being the most likely to start drinking at 8am.
- Foley teases: "If you did a visual scan of this table and said 'who was drinking at 8am' — look at this guy!" (H. Foley, 03:55)
2. Drunk Schedules & Drinking Rituals
- [05:20–11:00]
- Tommy defends himself: "I was asleep this morning, 8 o'clock, because I slept all day yesterday and just said, hey, let it ride."
- The crew tries to piece together why anyone would plan a shoot at 8am—and whether it’s just an excuse to day-drink.
- "Believe it or not, guess what? I get drunk at 10. I don’t need to… I could sleep in and get canned as soon as I wake up." (Tommy Pope, 10:32)
- They riff on how putting together a cooking segment just becomes a convoluted excuse to booze: "It was totally unnecessary, he just wanted to get drunk." (Chris O’Connor, 09:10)
3. Shoes Off, Feet Bits & Fashion Roasts
- [12:00–19:00]
- A debate on appropriate footwear spirals into a full-on foot reveal, with Tommy’s "nice feet" briefly on display.
- "My nails are real. It does feel like you’re in the basement of, like... a nice house down there." (Chris O’Connor, 14:45)
- H. Foley: "Paging Dr. Hammertoe! Jesus Christ, Tommy, nice feet. Why, you don’t have floor cams?"
- Numerous OnlyFans and foot cam jokes.
4. Hygiene, Grooming & Gross-Out Moments
- [19:00–37:00]
- Extended discussion on long toenails, nail-picking, and preferred methods of grooming.
- "If I took my socks off right now, I just wouldn’t put them back on forever." (H. Foley, 23:30)
- Tommy expresses horror at the toenail talk—"You talk about finger-blasting, I just think about their hoo-ha being all fucking blasted in." (Tommy Pope, 28:15)
- The group debates washing hands before sex, with Tommy insisting: "Gotta get the sauce off!"
5. Bizarre Pet Ownership & “Cat Fountain” Talk
- [24:00–28:00]
- Foley gets roasted for using a running water fountain for his cat. Tommy is weirdly fascinated/offended.
6. Drunken Memories & Friendship Roasts
- [37:00–50:00]
- The boys reminisce about “last time we were all together.”
- Wild stories about the Eagles NFC Championship Game and postgame debauchery.
- "Garage Beer tastes better on the way up. This is the drunkest podcast." (Kevin Ryan, 50:55)
7. Fast Food & The Daily Double Challenge
- [51:00–58:00]
- H. Foley admits his “addiction”: McDonald’s Daily Double burger.
- "Dude, I was saying this, I probably had about three a week. For a good part of the summer." (H. Foley, 54:18)
- They fantasize about a cooking show: walk into restaurants challenging chefs to "beat this" burger. Tommy says, "That's not a cooking show, that's you being a bit of a dick." (Tommy Pope, 56:40)
8. Peak Garbage: The Belly Button Smell Test
- [1:10:00–1:16:00]
- Foley, unfazed, offers his belly button for a gross-out “smell test.”
- Chris recoils, "He just smelled what’s equivalent to your asshole; I can only guess, probably better." (Chris O’Connor, 1:13:30)
- "I'm clean. Run the tape. Why?" (Foley, 1:14:10)
- All agree it's "the edge"—where even Kevin Ryan loses it: "I don't have many edges. It's belly button. You find that, you find repulsive. Gross."
9. Tech Meltdowns, Annoyances, and Podcast Mayhem
- [after 1:16:00]
- Frequent asides about spilled beer, dead laptops, and cryptic contract negotiations with their producer "Diesel."
- Tommy muses, "I'm under contract…" as Foley deadpans, "Why do you sound like you're talking to NBC?"
10. Cheesecake, Culinary Nitpicking & San Gennaro
- [1:29:00–1:36:00]
- Tommy explains the Basque cheesecake: "Yeah, it's overcooked. They burn the top," as Foley objects: "I want a deep cream cheese tang in it."
- Wrap up with food confessions—Foley doesn’t go for "bells and whistles" on cheesecake.
- They roast Tommy for bringing up family restaurant recipes as "never funny."
11. Extreme Oversharing: Not-Safe-For-Work Finale
- [1:40:00–1:50:00]
- Extended, uproarious discussion of masturbation privacy, "cumface," and whether the NSA cares about what they're watching.
- Tommy brags, "My orgasms have been extremely strong over the summer," unnerving his co-hosts.
Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments
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"If you did a visual scan of this table and said 'who was drinking at 8am' — look at this guy!"
—H. Foley, [03:55] -
"Believe it or not, guess what? I get drunk at 10. I don’t need to… I could sleep in and get canned as soon as I wake up."
—Tommy Pope, [10:32] -
"Paging Dr. Hammertoe! Jesus Christ, Tommy, nice feet. Why, you don’t have floor cams?"
—H. Foley, [14:56] -
"No one's ever survived Garbage [Island], we've known each other for 20 years. You think he's gonna stick his finger in his belly button? I'm not gonna smell it."
—Chris O'Connor, [1:12:00] -
"He just smelled what’s equivalent of your asshole. I can only guess, probably better."
—Chris O'Connor, [1:13:30] -
"I don't have many edges. It's belly button. You find that and you find repulsive."
—Kevin Ryan, [1:16:10] -
"Garage Beer tastes better on the way up. This is the drunkest podcast."
—Kevin Ryan, [50:55] -
"That's not a cooking show, that's you being a bit of a dick."
—Tommy Pope, [56:40] -
"My orgasms have been extremely strong over the summer. I don't know why."
—Tommy Pope, [1:44:15]
Important Segment Timestamps
| Time | Segment | |-----------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:00 | Introduction; chaotic opening and guest intros | | 05:20 | Early morning drinking, the 8am myth | | 12:00 | Feet and footwear bits; Tommy’s “nice feet” on display | | 24:00 | Cat fountain, pet nonsense, hygiene talk | | 28:15 | Hygiene and sexual rules, Italian vs. Irish, "get the sauce off" | | 37:00 | Eagles game story, drunken field shenanigans | | 51:00 | H. Foley’s “Daily Double” McDonald's burger addiction | | 54:18 | Cooking show idea: challenging chefs to beat McDonald's | | 1:10:00 | Belly button smell test—gross out peak | | 1:29:00 | Cheesecake debate, San Gennaro Festival eats | | 1:40:00 | Cyber-privacy, masturbation talk, “cumface” jokes, oversharing abound | | 1:50:00 | Final blowout: technical difficulties, more beer, closing roasts |
Episode Tone & Vibe
- Messy, boozy, no-filter, affectionate chaos.
- Lots of overlapping talking, drunken tangents, and relentless ball-busting.
- Frequent callbacks, inside jokes, and running gags (foot cams, Daily Double, Tommy’s grooming standards).
- Zero pretense—this is the ultimate hang-out podcast for fans of trashy, intimate, "guy talk," with zero attempt at decorum (and proud of it).
Final Thoughts
"Too Many Beers w/ Garbage Island" is a perfect Are You Garbage episode. It has drunken camaraderie, strange confessions, gross-out contests, and genuine affection beneath the insults and mayhem. What emerges is equal parts roast and therapy session: a celebration of garbage, friendship, and not taking life—or one's own dignity—too seriously.
If you missed the episode: You got the best of foot fetish jokes, late summer sadness, and the world’s only podcast smell test, plus a crash course in how to be (lovably) absolute trash.