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

Matt McCusker Returns!

·1 hr 12 min·1 clip

I stole from my first job and never even filled out a W-9.

Matt McCusker returns after one of the show’s earliest Zoom appearances. That alone gives the table plenty to work with. They start on family origin stories and ancestry tests, because apparently nothing says peace like making relatives stare at results they do not like. One branch of the family treats the test like a joke. The old guard does not. Someone finds out there is French-Canadian in the mix and reacts like Thanksgiving got cancelled. Someone else gets told they might be Jewish and rejects the paperwork on sight. The whole thing turns into a referendum on who can handle being corrected. McCusker keeps dragging the thread back toward his own people. His dad enters the story as the guy who made a local article after tearing down a building near Mantua in West Philly. His family also shows up the way families do on television, accidentally and loudly. A little cousin once told a news crew that his dad gets him toys out of the trash. That sends the room right back into store dumpsters, salvage, and the strange honor code of keeping useful things alive. Best Buy and Radio Shack end up folded into the family mythology. The jokes work because everyone in the room knows how low the bar can get. Nobody treats this like a neat memoir. It is a pile-up of corrections, accusations, and gross little victories. The conversation keeps snapping back to class markers and the way small details give people away fast. By the end, the guest gets the full old-friend sendoff, along with a plug for his Phoenix date at the Celebrity Theater and his work on Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast. The whole thing feels like another chapter in a family file that should have stayed closed but never will.

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An ancestry-test fight turns into a trash-report family roast with bite.

McCusker's return pushes the conversation into a family-pride test dressed up as a comedy interview. The best stretch comes when ancestry-test results and the refusal to accept them turn into a long-running bit about denial, status, and keeping the family story intact.

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