A family episode, just Kevin Ryan and H. Foley. They settle the Gatorade board (red is for lunch, dark blue is for hangovers), then run Patreon class-or-trash questions: a candy tube off a second-floor deck, a no-soliciting sign, and a head stuck between two railings.
Chapters
- 0:00 Cold open: the Army of Garbage Tour comes home to Gotham Comedy Club in NYC on Nov 13, two shows.
- 0:17 A family episode: rate and subscribe, the Patreon backlog, American Garbage, the satin jackets, and the Tacoma date.
- 2:36 The Gatorade board: yellow for thirst, orange for hangovers, dark blue for hydration, light blue for a cold drink, and red for lunch.
- 7:04 Appleton, Wisconsin: a hotel with no Gatorade, a red Powerade, the All Sport lookup, and a wish for glass bottles.
- 9:20 The South Philly scrap job: three hot dogs and a red Gatorade, an Advil hangover, and the Wawa coffee run.
- 11:26 The Patreon mailbag opens with shake and bake, bone-in chicken, and a picky eater’s lunch in Fort Lee.
- 17:17 First sushi in New York with Reggie Conquest, Palace of Asia in Ambler, and a too-hot order in Fort Lee.
- 24:34 Chris’s question: Halloween candy down a PVC tube, cold Wild Cherry Pepsi at the door, and dads with a cooler.
- 28:43 Village Shires rats, the BMW a stranger handed to 13-year-olds, and getting kicked out of an Arby’s bathroom.
- 31:59 Saloon doors on a bar urinal, the Sloan Regal valve, a tape measure at the home inspection, and the Skyline drink fridge.
- 36:26 Riding a bike at night, the Wawa rain rescue, why they do not stop for strangers, and an elevator plum.
- 51:16 A head stuck in a railing, bad steaks and a North Wildwood fire alarm, a stolen car, no-soliciting signs, and shows filming in Pennsylvania.
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People
On this episode
Kevin Ryan
The Comedian List · Official site
Co-host. Brought to the table as Kevin James Ryan, plugs the Patreon, the satin jackets and the Tacoma date, and gets the DraftKings and Rocket Money reads handed to him. 1:14
H. Foley
The Comedian List · Official site
Co-host. Opens the show, calls it a family episode, and introduces Kevin. 0:40
People mentioned
Reggie Conquest
A comedian friend from the first-sushi-in-New-York story. Both of them got sick the same night, and he called the rolls Japanese nuggets. 17:17
Vince Papale
Discussed for: Invincible (2006) — Amazon
Friends were extras in Invincible, and one host went out for a cheerleader part and got turned down. Papale’s own open tryout with the Eagles is the punchline. 1:02:45
Chesley Sullenberger
The downed-power-line story turns into a bit about the Hudson landing and a connection at LaGuardia. 44:12
Mat Hoffman
The one adult on a BMX bike who gets a pass in the night-riding question. 37:08
Milton S. Hershey
The movie about him is said to be filming in Pittsburgh instead of Hershey, Pennsylvania. 1:03:24
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Products
AYG live shows — Official site · AYG merch — the satin track jackets, while they last. Official site
American Garbage (AYG special) — Their special, said to be closing in on its 700th hour on YouTube. YouTube 1:40
Gatorade Thirst Quencher, Lemon-Lime, 12 fl oz, 12-pack — Yellow, the original, and the board’s pick for when you are thirsty. Amazon 3:03
Gatorade Thirst Quencher, Orange, 12 fl oz, 12-pack — The board says orange is best for hangovers. One host gives that job to dark blue instead and calls orange the worst flavor warm. Amazon 3:20
Gatorade Thirst Quencher, Fruit Punch, 12 fl oz, 12-pack — Red, and red is for lunch. It comes back with the hot dogs at the South Philly bodega. Amazon 3:22
Gatorade Thirst Quencher, Cool Blue, 12 fl oz, 12-pack — The dark blue: the board says actual hydration, and it gets moved to hangovers. Amazon 4:10
Gatorade Thirst Quencher, Glacier Freeze, 12 fl oz, 12-pack — The light blue, for when you want a cold drink. Amazon 4:22
Gatorade Thirst Quencher powder, Purple Frost Riptide Rush, 50.9 oz — The purple Riptide Rush, named as an old favorite. This is the powder version. Amazon 4:37
Gatorade Fierce variety pack, 20 oz, 12-pack — The juiced-up line, named as the cotton-mouth fix. Amazon 5:39
Arizona Green Tea with Ginseng and Honey, 16 fl oz, 12-pack — The green Arizona, the old cotton-mouth fix before Fierce. Amazon 5:53
Coca-Cola, 12 fl oz cans, 12-pack — Coke and cookies, the lunch combo one host takes over fruit punch and cookies. Amazon 6:40
Monster Energy, Original, 16 oz, 12-pack — The energy-drink line stocked at the Appleton hotel that had no Gatorade. Amazon 7:04
POWERADE Fruit Punch, 12 oz, 8-pack — The red Powerade from that hotel, said to pack more punch than the yellow, orange and light blue Gatorades. Amazon 7:11
All Sport Electrolyte Hydration Drink Mix, Fruit Punch, 80 packets — The old sports drink they look up on the spot. PepsiCo launched it, and The Jel Sert Company now sells it as powder sticks, drink mixes and freezer pops. Amazon · Official site 7:41
Advil tablets, ibuprofen 200 mg, 200-count — The hangover plan at 20: one Advil and keep moving. Amazon 10:12
Shake ’N Bake Original Chicken seasoned coating mix, 4.5 oz, 8-pack — One of the early garbage questions they used to ask every guest, and the cheap way to skip breading chicken. Amazon 12:31
Donnie Brasco (Special Edition, DVD) — The coq au vin line gets pinned to this movie. Amazon · Wikipedia 13:43
PlayStation 5 Disc Edition console (slim) — Named as the thing to hand a kid instead of another errand. Amazon 18:24
Wild Cherry Pepsi, 12 fl oz cans, 12-pack — The cold name-brand sodas one host’s mom handed out one Halloween. Amazon 25:31
Sloan Regal 186 urinal flushometer, 0.5 gpf, polished chrome — The flush valve behind the bar-bathroom talk. Sloan makes the valve, and Regal is the line. Amazon 33:20
Friends: The Complete Series (25th Anniversary, DVD) — A vintage fridge with the curved top gets compared to one from the set. Amazon · Wikipedia 35:36
Yellowstone: The Complete Series (DVD) — Named as the show people watch in pieces on YouTube. Amazon · Wikipedia 1:01:00
The Sopranos: The Complete Series (DVD) — The show one host was locked into when it started in 1999. Amazon · Wikipedia 1:01:27
The Boys: Season 1 (Blu-ray) — The show that got dropped when the seasons got split up and spread out. Amazon · Wikipedia 1:02:29
Invincible (2006, DVD) — The Vince Papale movie, seen in theaters, and the tryout story that follows. Amazon · Wikipedia 1:02:45
Tires (Netflix) — Season three comes up in the round about what is filming where. Netflix · Wikipedia 1:03:51
Mayor of Kingstown: Season One (DVD) — Named in the same filming round. Amazon · Wikipedia 1:03:54
Task (HBO) — Season two comes up in the same round, with a Philadelphia shoot. Wikipedia 1:04:05
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Discussed on the show
Exceed — The high-school sports drink, served warm at about 75 degrees with no ice. 5:00
10K — A fizzy sports drink from the Powerade era that did not last. 7:28
Gatorade in glass bottles — A wish for a limited-edition comeback, with a guess that people would pay $9 a bottle. 8:52
Coq au vin — The all-day chicken stew one host’s mom made. 13:30
Butter chicken, naan and samosas — What the kid orders at the Indian restaurant. 16:13
Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods and Michaels — The Fort Lee errand run around that lunch. 18:02
General Tso’s chicken — A pepper hiding in an order nearly ends the meal. 20:06
Halloween candy down a PVC tube — Class or trash: a neighbor on a second-floor deck slides candy down a tube while smoking. Ruled classy, since the smoke stays upstairs. 24:34
Saloon doors on a bar urinal — Class or trash, plus the case for and against the trough urinal. 31:59
A tape measure at the home inspection — Checking that the fridge fits pizza boxes. Ruled trashy, then defended as something you have to know. 34:04
Adults riding bikes at night — The street matters: a residential street is cruising, a main avenue is up to no good. 36:26
Offering a stranger a ride in the rain — At Wawa, a man offers a soaked older cyclist a ride, and even offers to go get his SUV. 40:53
Stopping to help strangers — Why they do not: too many ways to help yourself now, and too many Dateline episodes. 43:40
Small talk in the elevator — How a “how’s that plum?” goes wrong when there is no follow-up. 48:17
A head stuck between two railings — Butter, oil, a tourniquet, or a saw, and why it reads as trashy. 51:16
Studio 54 — The guess for where the name disco biscuits comes from. 55:58
A stolen car that comes back with more gas — Whether a car thief filling the tank makes sense. 56:20
No-soliciting and beware-of-dog signs — A no-soliciting sign, a homemade one, and why some say a sign should read dog on property instead. 57:30
Watching it in 12 parts on YouTube — Is it garbage to watch a whole movie that way? Shorts culture versus waiting a week for the next Sopranos episode. 1:00:58
Hershey — The Milton Hershey biopic, said to be shooting in Pittsburgh instead of Hershey. It opens in theaters November 25, 2026. Wikipedia 1:03:24
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Places
Gotham Comedy Club, New York City (Official site) — Army of Garbage Tour, Nov 13, two shows. 0:00
Tacoma, Washington — the next live date after this episode, right next to Seattle. 1:56
Skyline Comedy Club, Appleton, Wisconsin (Official site) — the Appleton stop: a hotel with no Gatorade, and a club drink fridge holding root beer at 34 degrees. 7:04
South Philadelphia — the scrap-metal job across the street from the Chinese bodega, hot dogs and a red Gatorade for lunch. 9:20
Wawa — the coffee run, and the store where a stranger offered a cyclist a ride home in the rain. 10:40
Fort Lee, New Jersey — the Southeast Asian restaurant on the water, just across the George Washington Bridge. 15:52
Ambler, Pennsylvania — Palace of Asia, the 11th-grade Indian dinner where almost nobody ate. 17:28
Holland, Pennsylvania — Village Shires, the shopping center where they hung out as kids, and the neighbor who gave them a car. 28:43
North Wildwood, New Jersey — the shore condo where the bad steaks set off the building alarm. 55:08
Pittsburgh — where the Hershey movie is said to be filming. 1:03:34
Hershey, Pennsylvania — where one host thinks that movie should have been shot. 1:03:44
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