Are You Garbage? Comedy Podcast · Kevin Ryan & H. Foley

Gift Card Ballers! w/ Kevin Ryan & H. Foley

·1 hr 2 min·4 clips

Calling everyone “sir” and “ma’am” turns into a long argument about respect, age, and manners.

1. Are You Garbage? Comedy Podcast opens with a January 9th Toronto date at the Queen Elizabeth Theater and a road list that includes Austin, Tampa, Chicago, Indiana, Nashville, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland. 2. H. Foley and Kevin Ryan host the episode, and their job is to judge whether comedians and listeners are classy or trashy. 3. The episode is built around a garbage-question format, with Patreon submissions driving the conversation and giving the hosts a reason to riff. 4. Foley says he has been calling people “sir” more often, including a trash worker and a store employee, as a way to show respect. 5. Kevin pushes back that “sir” and “ma’am” carry an age signal, while Foley argues the words are about acknowledging people doing their jobs. 6. The hosts turn that argument into a longer improvised restaurant scene, with a maitre d’, a reservation, and a gift card. 7. Kevin keeps challenging Foley’s scene direction, while Foley insists on line delivery, setup, and being the spike man. 8. A listener named Cody asks whether a 15-year car lineage of a Mitsubishi Gallant, Dodge Caliber, Chrysler 300, and Nissan Altima is garbage. 9. The car question becomes a status read on budget choices, and the hosts react to the exact models as a visible pattern rather than a one-off purchase. 10. Another listener question asks whether voting for reality-TV contests like Dancing with the Stars is garbage. 11. The hosts compare that voting behavior to American Idol-era phone calls, toll-free numbers, and parents not trusting television-linked voting. 12. Ruben Stuttered, Chris Daughtry, and Jordan Sparks come up as the singers attached to those voting memories. 13. Foley jokes that he was calling Philadelphia as a kid and getting in trouble, which turns the voting discussion into a family-tech memory. 14. The episode also revisits old media habits, including encyclopedias, Britannica.com, National Geographic, and library books about sharks and skateboards. 15. Kevin and Foley remember CCS skate catalogs, Thrasher, and the gap between being interested in skating and actually being able to skate. 16. The hosts keep layering in improvised bits about gift cards, maitre d’ work, and whether a greeting should start with “sir.” 17. The tone stays loose, argumentative, and heavily improvised, with both hosts interrupting, correcting, and pushing each other into new riffs. 18. The format mixes ad reads, tour promotion, listener questions, and long back-and-forth banter without a single formal interview structure. 19. Listeners who like fast comedy arguments about manners, status, and childhood TV voting. 20. People looking for a tightly structured interview or serious topic discussion.

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