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

How to Get Scammed! w/ Joe List

·1 hr 7 min·5 clips

Joe List says he's missing a very large chunk of money after mailing a bank check to the wrong place.

1. Are You Garbage? Comedy Podcast uses Joe List's return to frame an episode about class, money, and how to look American in a $175 sweatshirt. 2. Hosts Dave Trolley and KJ introduce Joe List as an eighth-time guest, which matters because the room already has a long-running shorthand and inside jokes. 3. The episode asks whether Joe List is classy or trashy when he buys merch, wears a USA Olympic sweatshirt, and talks about his own spending habits. 4. Joe explains that he wore the sweatshirt on his own show at SESH and got comments because it does not literally say 'Are You Garbage?'. 5. The group compares the sweatshirt to hockey jerseys, mentioning Clark Griswold in Christmas Vacation and Dane Cook wearing a Bruins jersey. 6. Joe says he bought the sweatshirt at NHL.com, calls it an officially licensed team item, and jokes that he is 'taking the colors back for the good guys'. 7. He also says he wore the shirt while talking to a Russian-born Starbucks worker named Lera, which made him feel like he needed to prove he was one of the good guys. 8. The money section starts when Joe says an investor with a Long Island accent told him to move money out of savings and 'give me all your money'. 9. Joe says he mailed a bank check and then realized two weeks later that the check had not arrived, which turns the conversation into a worry about lost mail and bank procedures. 10. The hosts keep asking whether the check was written to Joe, whether the bank can trace it, and whether the U.S. mail in New York can be trusted at all. 11. Joe says the investor has handled his money for about 10 years, showed him his original amount and current amount, and claims the account is up about 80%. 12. The tension comes from Joe admitting that he does not really know where the money is now, even though the adviser sounds competent and keeps speaking in reassuring language. 13. Joe then says he orders about $50 of McDonald's delivery every day, including double quarter pounders, fries, and a Starbucks brownie after food. 14. He describes his wife cooking broccoli while he gets fast food for himself, which gives the episode a concrete picture of how he eats at home. 15. The hosts also bring up a piggy bank in Joe's apartment with about $38 in it, which becomes another small example of how the family handles cash. 16. Joe jokes about a federal kid account, the kind of thing he would want if he had the right eligibility, and the room treats it as another money bit. 17. Later, Joe describes doing Cobb's in San Francisco and paying for a comic's hotel room after a weekend of shows. 18. The tone stays loose and improvisational, with Dave Trolley, KJ, Joe List, and the people in the room interrupting each other, correcting details, and building jokes from whatever comes up. 19. People who like long, riff-heavy comedian conversations about money, merch, and bad spending habits will get the most out of it. 20. People who want a tightly structured interview or a clean topic arc will probably skip it.

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Joe List gets pushed through a brisk, class conscious pile on that touches merch, travel, food, and tennis.

Joe List drops into a fast, junk drawer conversation that keeps turning ordinary details into class evidence. Merch, half price candy, San Francisco, seafood, a hotel room, and tennis all end up in the same heap, and the conversation keeps circling them from different angles.

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