Colum Tyrrell is back, newly married and a homeowner in the New Jersey suburbs. Kevin Ryan and H. Foley go room by room: the pavers, the push mower, pies for the neighbors, a garage with no door into the house, the trash cans, a free treadmill, a bidet for guests, and missing Halloween. Plus his new special, Bells and Whistles.
Chapters
- 0:00 Cold open: a just-added Saturday, November 14 show at Gotham Comedy Club in New York.
- 0:20 The intro: are your favorite comedians classy individuals or absolute trash?
- 0:40 Out back at Tootie’s, and introducing the CEO of Are You Garbage.
- 2:00 The guest is back: a lot of changes, and a cold sore coming in.
- 2:20 Colum Tyrrell, his podcast and his new special, Bells and Whistles.
- 4:30 Opening the Met show in Philly, and the brother who loves when people dunk on Colum.
- 6:00 Married now, and out of the city: Big J, and a house bought in April.
- 7:00 From Astoria to the suburbs, and what you buy at a bodega.
- 8:00 The store that wouldn’t sell him cigarettes because they thought he was a cop.
- 9:00 “Buying chores”: is he the first Tyrrell to own a home in America?
- 10:00 Bells and Whistles passes 200,000 views.
- 10:20 The to-do list: gaps in the pavers, and a bag of sand sitting in the garage.
- 11:40 Handy enough to do it all, not fast enough to do it well.
- 12:00 A late-’50s house, and particle board after the ’80s.
- 12:40 A tiny backyard, a massive corner front yard, and mowing it himself.
- 13:20 Pies for every neighbor from Delicious Orchards, and the one neighbor who wasn’t having it.
- 15:20 The mower: not a Ryobi, a battery EGO with Touch Drive.
- 17:00 Old man Steve, the neighbor who almost mowed it for him.
- 18:40 Paying a crew $40, and “where’s your manhood?”
- 19:40 Bærskin read.
- 21:25 BlueChew read.
- 23:00 The garage: every tool, IKEA tables, a broken chest of drawers and a folded-up shed.
- 24:10 Whose fence is it?
- 25:20 A garage with no door into the house.
- 26:20 The kitchen trash can, step-on, and trash service at $100 every three months.
- 29:00 A Weber grill from the in-laws, and patio furniture off Facebook Marketplace.
- 30:30 One car, the wife’s, and a ride to the train station.
- 31:30 Four bedrooms, one bathroom upstairs, and knocking down walls on Zillow.
- 33:10 If it were up to him, a huge house in Idaho.
- 33:40 The Irish family coming over for the summer.
- 34:20 Samsung appliances that ding, and a water heater on the edge.
- 35:10 A finished basement office and a treadmill that came with the house.
- 35:50 The closet office, or the “cloffice.”
- 36:20 Half his life in cities, half in the suburbs.
- 37:00 Six months sober, then a regular beer by mistake in Austin.
- 37:30 Missing Halloween, and nobody trick-or-treating anymore.
- 38:40 Trash-bag costumes in ’90s Ireland, and trunk-or-treat.
- 42:05 MOD read.
- 43:50 The bedroom: a queen, two nightstands, the TV on.
- 44:10 The car is a Subaru Forester, and it is her car.
- 45:00 One and a half baths, and which one a guest gets.
- 46:00 A housewarming party that got canceled, and a big Italian family.
- 46:50 The new cheap chain from Amazon.
- 47:40 A winter party: can a guest go upstairs and use the bidet?
- 50:10 Christmas lights: a guy who hangs them for $540.
- 52:00 What’s in your Venmo?
- 53:40 ShopRite or Key Food, and self-checkout.
- 55:40 Reusable bags in the Forester, and plastic bags that rip.
- 57:50 Garbage-bag drawstrings, and who takes the trash out.
- 58:40 Where the outside cans go, and trash night is Tuesday.
- 1:00:20 Skipping trash night, and fresh grass clippings in the summer.
- 1:01:00 Plugs: Bells and Whistles, Skankfest, Key West and an Ireland tour.
- 1:01:40 Gotham next weekend, Philly before the end of the year, and sign-off.
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Key topics
- 6:00 Married and moved out — Colum and his wife Jessica left Queens and bought a late-’50s house in the New Jersey suburbs in April.
- 13:20 Pies for the neighbors — He knocked on every door with pies from Delicious Orchards and his phone number. Most loved it. One didn’t.
- 15:20 The mower — A battery EGO after he sent a Ryobi back. He does it himself, about an hour 15 front and back.
- 25:20 No door from the garage — The garage has no door into the house, which the hosts can’t get past.
- 47:40 House rules for guests — Which bathroom a guest uses at a winter party, and whether they get the bidet.
- 53:40 Groceries and bags — ShopRite or Key Food, why self-checkout is the worst, and bringing your own bags like in Ireland.
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People
On this episode
Kevin Ryan
The Comedian List · Official site
Host. Co-hosts the house tour with H. Foley and plugs the Gotham shows. 1:20
H. Foley
The Comedian List · Official site
Host. Co-hosts the room-by-room tour of Colum’s new house. 0:40
Colum Tyrrell
The Comedian List · Official site
Guest. Irish stand-up and podcaster, newly married, a new homeowner, with the special Bells and Whistles on YouTube. 2:20
People mentioned
Cameron Diaz
Joked about as a past AYG guest, to contrast with “just a no-good stand-up comedian.” 6:00
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The Wizard of Oz (75th Anniversary Blu-ray) (mention) — The yellow brick road, to describe his pavers. Amazon · Wikipedia 11:05
The Wiz (mention) — “Not seen The Wiz.” Amazon · Wikipedia 11:10
Peaky Blinders: The Complete Collection (mention) — His “Peaky Blinders uncles.” Amazon · Wikipedia 29:25
Freakier Friday (Blu-ray) (mention) — The body-swap joke about Kevin being an old man inside. Amazon · Wikipedia 53:35
The Godfather (50th Anniversary Blu-ray) (mention) — Holding brown paper bags from the bottom, like in the Godfather. Amazon · Wikipedia 57:20
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Products
Ryobi mower — The one he bought and sent back because the battery wouldn’t last. Wikipedia 15:50
EGO Power+ battery self-propelled mower — Exact model not named; Colum said his cost about $1,200, similar to the 22-inch 56V 1100-series kit shown at 17:56. Amazon 16:00
Weber grill — A gift from the in-laws, for chicken in the summer. Wikipedia 29:05
Samsung appliances — Everything came with the house and dings. Wikipedia 34:40
Subaru Forester — The wife’s new car that they share. Wikipedia 44:30
A cheap chain from Amazon — Colum’s new chain on Amazon. 47:00
Plastic storage shed (brand not named) — mention: the old shed is folded up in the garage. 24:11
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Discussed on the show
Bodega — Loose cigarettes and the bodega cat. Wikipedia 7:20
Interlocking pavers — The brick walkway with weeds in the gaps. Wikipedia 10:30
Trunk-or-treat — Candy from car trunks in a field instead of door to door. Wikipedia 40:40
Tushy bidet (mention) — Offered to a guest at a winter party. Wikipedia 48:04
Venmo — Who keeps a balance in there. Wikipedia 52:00
Self-checkout — Place the item in the bag. Wikipedia 54:30
DINK — Dual income, no kids. Wikipedia 1:00:00
Peloton — A guess about the treadmill that came with the house; it isn’t one. Wikipedia 35:40
Santucci’s Pizza, Philly — mention (spelling unverified). 5:04
The Joe Rogan Experience — mention: the hosts note Colum just did Rogan. Wikipedia 6:14
Facebook Marketplace — mention: where the patio furniture came from. 29:46
Zillow — mention: looking at other people’s homes. 32:46
Spider-Man and Mary Jane costume bit — mention. 39:09
T-Pain — mention: “It’s what T-Pain said.” Wikipedia 47:23
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Places
Gotham Comedy Club, New York City — Just-added Saturday, November 14 show; Friday is sold out. (Official site) 0:00
The Met Philadelphia — Where Colum opened for the hosts. (Official site) 4:40
Astoria, Queens — Where Colum lived for a long time. Wikipedia 7:00
Delicious Orchards, Colts Neck, New Jersey — Where the neighbor pies came from. (Official site) 13:35
Idaho — Where he’d buy a huge house if it were up to him. Wikipedia 33:10
Austin, Texas — Where he drank a regular beer by mistake. Wikipedia 37:10
Funny Bone, Toledo — The joke about a party while he’s on the road. (Official site) 46:15
Costco — Right around the corner. Wikipedia 53:55
ShopRite and Key Food — The grocery stores he mixes up. Wikipedia · Wikipedia 54:00
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Go Deeper
- 0:00 Are You Garbage — Every episode on YouTube, the Patreon, and the live-show calendar. AYG on YouTube · Patreon · Live shows · All Are You Garbage notes
- 0:00 American Garbage — The AYG special, free on YouTube. Watch on YouTube
- 2:20 Colum Tyrrell — His special Bells and Whistles is on his YouTube page; tour dates are on his site. columtyrrell.com · The Comedian List: Colum Tyrrell
- 11:05 The Wizard of Oz (1939) — The yellow brick road that started the paver talk. Where to watch
- 40:40 Trunk-or-treat — How Halloween moved to parking lots. Trunk-or-treat on Wikipedia
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Show plugs (0:00) — A just-added Saturday, November 14 show at Gotham Comedy Club in New York (Friday is sold out) and Philly before the end of the year · tickets at areyougarbage.com · American Garbage on YouTube · Patreon · Colum Tyrrell: Bells and Whistles on YouTube, Skankfest, Key West, and Dublin, Cork, Limerick and London at columtyrrell.com
More from this show — All Are You Garbage notes · You Can’t See Anything! · Argh You Garbage? · The Costco King w/ Tom Thakkar · Best Gatorade Flavors · Tricked-Out Cars w/ Jeremiah Watkins · Taylor Tomlinson · Kevin and H. on Take Your Shoes Off #375
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