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Hey, whole gang, the Army of Garbage story is about to kick off this weekend. We're going to be in Appleton, Wisconsin at Skyline comedy club, stand-up comedy. Plus, you're playing with all your garbage at the crowd. You've seen the special American garbage. You know you're getting into it. It's a good time. Grab your squad. Come out and see the boy. Yeah, then we're going to be at San Jose, October 16th. Limited tickets left, October 17th in San Diego. Then we're in Tacoma, Atlanta, Philadelphia, just announced Boston. Get your tickets. We'll be at the Wilbur RU Garbage.com. We love you. Welcome to another exciting edition of "Are You Garbage?" The show where you find out if your favorite comedians are classy individuals or absolute trash. Now, here are your hosts, Kevin Ryan and H. Foley. Hey, everybody out there and welcome back to everybody's favorite podcast. This is "Are You Garbage?" It's a little show we sit down with your favorite comedians and we find out if they're going to be classy. Yeah. It's just a big old piece of trash. Trash, trash, trash. I'm your host, H. Foley, coming at you on a beautiful day. We're out back here at Toadies and Into Edition. She's upstairs in her bedroom watching gladiator. Okay. For the 15th time. All right, fair enough. All right. My co-host is coming out from right next to me. He is the CEO of "Are You Garbage?" International businessman and my best pal in the whole wide world. And he loves me. Give it up for KJ. Kevin James Ryan, everybody. What up, gang? Shout out to you as always. Thanks for tuning in. Please make sure you're right. If you subscribe and I tune in. It's full video available on YouTube. Full video available over there on Spotify. And the boys are climbing the freaking charts over there. Yes, sir. Hot 20, so I don't even know. But we're up there. And then obviously the greatest website of all time. www.patrion.com. Mm-hmm. Slash, "Are You Garbage?" You go over there and get all that bonus content. Love that money. And gang, we couldn't be more excited to have our incredibly. And I mean incredibly special guests here with this today for the first time. He is a very talented. Very successful. John Rebending Singer Songwriter. He is on tour right now. He has a brand new album, Ugly Coming Out January 22nd. And the lead single on that album is out right now called A Perfect Man. Give it up for truly. The one. The only. Teddy Swift. Hey, how about that? Look at that. Let's go. Some people are just born for this. Yeah, yeah. But when we first started the show, he was like big intro, I'm like, this seems like a lot, but it's, it's a. That's about all I could do. Everything else in my life is a shattered mess. Hey, well, you got to get one thing right. Let's go. He's got the intro now. Buddy, thank you so much for coming in. Oh, thank you for having me. First off, I'm thrilled. Congratulations on everything. You're killing it. You have the Barclays Center tomorrow. You're moving and shaking. We love to see it. You had honored. So honored. The voice is out of control. Crazy. Thank you, man. You know, powerful. I've been doing it for about 20 years. So we finally got good. You know, finally got good. I understand that myself, yeah. Give us the origin story. Now, we're here to determine whether you're trash or not. Yes. I'll probably 100%. Yeah. I mean, there's. Yeah. I mean, dude, you would have to figure nails tattoo is gold. Yeah, you got to be like, hair cut, man. I'm on, I'm on. It's just white trash, baby. That's me, baby. You're a Georgia boy, right? Yeah, I'm sad. Give us the backstory. How'd you grow up? I, man, I grew up in a little town, about 30 minutes east of Atlanta, called Conjures. OK. You know, I was playing football my whole life. Let's go. We got a younger kid through high school. And, you know, my dear friends who were in my band, we've been playing together since we were a little kids. Yeah. Yeah, man. And my dog, Jesse, he's my guitarist. Man, I've known him since I was in the sixth grade. So we've been, we go way back. My base is since I was in fifth grade. And the rest of the boys, I mean, at least 15 years. But he, you know, his dad was always playing. Jesse's dad was always playing. And I remember the first time I went over to his house in like the eighth grade, his dad played, won a dead or alive by Bon Jovi and his garage, you know. That's a common life moment. Yeah, dude. And I was like, dude, your dad is the coolest fucking dude I've ever seen in my life. We got to be this guy. Let's go. And for years, you know, his dad was always like, there's my favorite singer, my favorite guitarist in the world, man. And he just, you know, inspired us. And he had to have to do this, man. It choked up, right? It was so cool, man, because we promised him years ago that when we got to Red Rocks that we had to have him come up and do that song with us. And last year, yeah, last year we got to bring him up and-- How well it up. Hot Rod, man. He just got up there. Hot Rod? Hot Rod Hampton, man. Let's get out of this. We catch his name. Hot Rod Hampton. His name is Rodney. So yeah, he goes by-- Well, he's a Rodney. Well, we're a big Rodney. And my dad's also Rodney, man. No shit. Your dad's name is Rodney. Yeah, me and my best pal's dad's both named Rodney, so it's-- You're dad's name Rodney, my dad's name Rodney, my best pal. Yeah, it's exactly kind of how it went on. Starts, man. Yeah, exactly. Let's get to Red Rocks. What does your dad do growing up? What's your mom and dad do? My mom does hair. My dad, he works at this place called P-P-G, like in a lab painting, like making paints and stuff like that and tells him paints. But he actually retires today's his last day, man. And so, yeah, we're retiring early, man. He's actually going to be out here at the show tomorrow. Do you have a little something to do with that? Yeah, yeah, man. Yeah, man. I get to retire him. And he's going to spend what he says the next couple weeks on the road chasing girls, man. I'm sorry, I'm fucking-- I hear it's your pressure separating me. No, they're not. They're not. They're not. You're hurting yourself. Yeah. Also, the-- Hair stylist, whatever, is not a trashy occupation, but to say she does hair is the trashy-- That's why I'm saying she does hair. My mom does hair. You know, I went to hair school for about six months. I didn't finish, but I did. Well, I thought she'd come in and tell you we pressure it. I did. We got a grand slam on our head. Yeah, bro. Well, I sure did. I dropped out, but I did. Beauty school dropout, you know what I'm saying? Let's go. Don't get trapped here than that. Frank, you have it. Frank, you have it on. Damn, okay. What was growing up? What was the house like? Was it a single-family house apartment condo townhouse? A little both. You know, my mom was married to a man for a long time. And, you know, he was a half Mexican man. So, you know, really, like, I was really around a lot of that growing up. And then-- but my dad, also, he had a different wife. And their mother, my two little brothers, we have different moms. But their mother was really kind of, you know, in and out of jail and schizophrenic and bipolar. So, my dad really kind of raised them and by himself. And I lived with them a lot growing up. And so-- So, you were back and forth? Yeah, but I had kind of both sides of the coin there. My dad really struggled through. And we were living in the hood and conures. And, you know, I mean, struggling for lights, water, for a lot of time, you know. But, and my mom was always doing all right. But, you know, she's, you know, she's just a sweet lady. I guess, you know. So, you were back and forth, all right. Good stuff. Well, how far away was each other? Maybe 15 minutes? 15 minutes? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know, I got, I think I got a little bit of both sides of the coin there, you know. And I mean, I'm grateful of me. Am I? It's a good balance. That's good, yeah. What's the grocery store growing up? You know, Kroger. Kroger? Kroger, we had a good Kroger. Respectable? Yeah, you know, we're not, we weren't afforded public. That's a good one. The Audi's, man, we riff off an Audi's, you know what I'm saying? Of course. Back in the day, too. Yeah. How were you in school? How were the grades? Oh, terrible. Like, D-F or like, take it by? I wouldn't, dude, I, I, you know, they had passed this law when I was in middle school. I've never heard this. It was at no child left behind. Obviously, you know, which is why I made it through seventh grade, you know? But they basically was like-- We're slowing somebody to get teddy. Yeah, yeah. But, you know, it's so funny because I had, I had, like, was so behind going into, like, my senior year of high school that they used to do this thing called, like, Alpha Omega Academy, you know, it was something you could go pick up your work and do, like, eight weeks of, like, you know, pick up work. Basically, you read a chapter and do the quiz in the back and you do that for, like, eight weeks and then they give you the credit. OK. So, like, I called up a bunch of classes that I was behind going into senior year because I was technically still in, like, 10th grade, I guess. And then I got an idea, like, a wild hair. I was like, I'm going to just go ahead and, like, get all my core classes for my senior year out of the way and get a head. Yeah, you know, and so I did it. And then I rolled up on my senior year and was, like, you know, I already did all my core classes. So, I'm, like, I'm good to go on that. And my principal at the time was, like, you're not coming to school on your senior year just to do theater. And I was like, well, I've already got the credit. So, it's kind of what I'm doing. I'm just here to do theater and get out of here. And then she was like, no, I'm not letting that happen. So, she, like, kept me in my core classes, which I just didn't show up to because I had the credit. So, I, like, got zeroes and a lot of my-- So, I actually graduated at the lowest of my-- Yeah, class because of that. Because it was just a bunch of zeroes. But you were actually last last? Yeah, I was, like, I had a bunch of zeroes, you know? I was, I was third from the, from the last one. I went every day. I tried. Who, who won that fight, you know what I was saying? That's right. Who, how many kids were in the graduating class? I want to say, yeah, like, three, four hundred or something. It was a lot of class, yeah, okay. How was the football, how was the football program? Dude, we were, we were all right. You know, I think-- What did you play? I was a defensive tackle and offensive guard. And then, but I, I stopped playing when I was about a-- when I was going into my junior year. Okay. I just, you know, I have five, seven, and all the other dudes were growing. Yeah. I just kind of like, it's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. Yeah. So, I just, I got, once I got into the theater, it just changed my life. That was that fell in love with singing. - That's all right, I respect it. Junkie or creamy peanut butter? - Creamy. - Creamy. Respectable. - Yeah. - What was the family vacation like growing up? - Not many. I mean, you know, when I was going with my mom, my stepdad worked a lot out of town. You know, he, like don't fields in landscaping company, so we went to places like that, you know, but everywhere he was, but nothing. - Yeah, places like what? Like you would just go where he was working. - Yeah, but basically, I mean, he was such a, he was such a like, you know, you got to get it thing. So most of the time I be on those vacations, he was like, you know, well, you're going to have to get up and go to work with me. And then, you know, at the end of the day, you can make the $100 and you can spend it. So even though me and my older brother were probably like 11 or 12, you know, just absolutely pulling sod. You know what I'm saying? Which is like, I mean, dude, that's, that's right. There, dude. It's like, and I'm so grateful for that work. But, man, that is a, that is a Mexican man, right there, man. He's like, you're going to, you're going to get out here and do this damn work, boy. So carry inside at 12 years old. - Yeah, and he was like, I know what. And it was like warm, man, we, yeah, we worked for it for sure. - I love it. - Damn. All right, Christmas, what would you guys do? You guys Christmas family? - Yeah, yeah, absolutely. - Colored lights on the tree, white lights on the tree. - I don't think there was a, you know, like, I couldn't recall if, I don't think there was like a, it's got to be this way. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, just kind of whatever, I'm leaning colored, yeah, from that answer. How about the house, would you guys decorate the house? - Yeah, well, you know, my mom's would, my dad, I mean, he was kind of like-- - Stuff going on. - Yeah, he didn't really have that, you know, the, the mean so it was, I can say that. I got kind of both sides of the coin there. - For sure. - What was your first car growing up? - Oh, man, I had, I had this, I want to say, the first one I got to drive was this Honda Civic. - Okay. - It was, my older brother had gotten an eye on Saturn. - Saturn eye on, yeah. - And this was, I was in the 10th grade, I just turned 16, so, but funny enough, we were both leaving the house, headed to school and I straight up, not even a mile from the house, we're ended here. (laughing) And so, just totally, like, I've totaled his, and then, you know, ended up having to give him that one, so I kind of like, was, should I call it a whole school tree. - Until my dad got me, you know, it's old beat up. Like, it didn't have AC or heat in it, but I had this, I want to say, it was like a 98 firebird that I had for a minute. - Really? - It was a piece of shit. - Sure, yeah, it was. - But it was for bad, yeah. - Yeah, I had the teetops on it. - Yeah! - You're just talking about that. - I used to go pick up my little girlfriend and we'd be fucking cold. You had to dump the water on the windshield to get the ice off, and it's like, here's a blanket. We just had their cold, cloth seats in that, I would assume. - Absolutely. - Yeah, sir. - There was a fan submitted a question of, when was the last time you were in a convertible or teetops that had cloth seats? And I'm like, it was my buddy's firebird. - Oh, yeah. - And I'm like, I can smell that car. They all felt the same, yeah. - Did you go to the prom? - I know, I did not, man. - Did you go never went to the prom? - Well, production, did you do in high school? - My last production I got to do was rent with my best-powered Jets. - Let's go! - Of course, man, so I played Roger in that. He played Mark, and I mean, I did a bunch of stuff, I did children of Eden, Damien Keeze, crazy for you. I did much to do about nothing. - Let's go! - I did a bunch of bunch of-- - A Shakespeare look. - Yeah. - Not too bad. - Play Dogsbury in that bit, which is really cool. - That's awesome. What, like, let's say, you're out of theater, what's a date? What's a weekend day look like for you and your boys? You know, eighth, ninth grade, you're waking up? Are you, do you have a job yet? - No, we're getting hammered all the time. - Yeah, I was waiting till we were breaking the ice. - Yeah, we're absolutely getting hammered all the time, man. I was selling a bunch of dope at the time. - No, let's go. - No, I didn't know it was like that, okay. - Yeah, bro, I was-- - Just enough to, like, for us to, like, smoke for free and get a little cash in our pocket, you know? - Nice. - What do you say, that's start? - 7th, 7th grade. - And that's, like, I'll be getting a little-- - Yeah. - 7th, 6th grade. - Yeah, I was kind of selling a little bit then. We'd go to the ice skating rink and the skating rink around and, you know, kind of flip a little bag during go skate, you know, just a little wee, nothing. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know? - I mean, at the time-- - Just like, I don't remember a grand. - Growing up in tall oaks, man, this guy, my buddy, JJ, at the time, his uncle used to, like, front us, like, we didn't say, you know, go, go. Go get me-- - Always an uncle. - Yeah, he's always the guy's uncle. - Have you basically give me, like, 80 bucks back for the OZ, you know, then you guys keep the rest, right? And then, I mean, dude, yeah. But dude, it was like, dude, it was such a mess, though, because, like, it was straight, like, stems and seeds. - Oh, it was $1.00, yeah. - Yeah, like, but, but, I mean, we're selling the 7th graders, you know what I'm saying? As a 7th grader, obviously, not like, not as a grown man, but he was the one giving weird 7th graders, yeah, dude. And so, I remember we had this, we had this incredible idea where I told my buddy, it's like, oh, bro, what if we just, like, kind of dripped a little bit of, like, a little vanilla extract in the weed, you know what I'm saying? And we just let it sit there for a couple of days, and then we just tell him, it's like, it's like, this vanilla dro, man, you know what I'm saying? Then we can sell this for, like, $10 a gram. - Probably won't be as bad as that, yeah, yeah, if you were like, this is dope, man, you know, but it was nothing but a drop of vanilla extract in the bag, you know, but it won't-- - It's coming in with a splitting head, ain't it? - Yeah. - Well, we got one over. - Let's go. - That's awesome. - What'd you sell a quarter for? - 25, but, you know, I mean, it was, I like I said, it was absolute. - I got you. - Sure, you did. - Yeah, that's what I'm saying. - That's what I'm saying. - What was that story, Reggie? But later on in my career, you know, my short live career, when I was getting, you know, in 10th, 11th grade and stuff, I was able to sell, you know, like, nicer, nice or proud. - As soon as it was invented, you know. - Yeah, I feel like, I feel like the loud kind of came around the way. - It took some time, yeah. - It makes me think, now, if kids probably are starting to smoke just really good wheat. - Yeah, absolutely. - I think probably don't start with the five, you know, let the 10 dollar. - You can't even find that. I'm like, I don't know who you get it. - I don't know who, I don't know who has a bag of men anymore. - I talked to you, I don't know. Give me a couple minutes. - Yeah. - It's funny, you can see how you are, you know. You're all over every genre and all that kind of stuff. - You see it, you see it, innit? - Yeah. - You're the football theater, moving a little way. - Yeah. - You can help any crying tears in the hands. - Yeah, I like to see it, any pets growing up. - I had a little puppy, my dog Lexi, I had from my time, I was like three to 18 and she was a little, she was a little docks and my mom still has like, you know, a little statue and her ashes and stuff. I never quite ever gets over that, you know. - You scared me when you said puppy up. So the dog lived for 18 years? - Yeah, well, I guess 15 years? - Yeah, beautiful. - You said puppy, I was like, oh man, I was gonna go bird. - No, no, no snakes, no frogs, no turtles, anything weird. - No, man, I furrow, hamsters. - I furrow weak once, I had, I had a duck, which was cool, man. - That's fun. - You know me and my homies, me and my homies were leaving the pool and they're like between my house and this company, this neighborhood called Cedar Brook, there was like a little, we had three woods made a pathway to get to my buddy's house and there was a duck there and it just kind of followed us home, you know. - Well growner, duckling. - Yeah, a whole duck. And so dude, we kind of picked it up with my towel and then like I brought it to the house, we went and picked up like got a kitty pool and filled it up and it was like awesome. - I'm gonna leave it here, you know, but then it, I mean of course like I went to my dad's for the weekend and I got home and it was gone and my mom's like, it ran away and I was like, no, it did not run away. She was like, finally I got the truth out of her. She was like, it was shitting everywhere. So I thought like, you can't have a duck. - You can't have a duck, you know. That's what I get, my name is that duck? - Sid. - Let's go. - Sid the duck. - Sid the duck, that's not bad. - You explained something that's very near and dear to my childhood, is a patch of woods or forest that connects to neighborhood and that trail that you blaze as like a couple of friends. That's where you first start drinking some beer. - Absolutely. - You smoke a cigarette, that's that section that thicket of woods is. - Well, you know my stepdad at the time, he worked out a town all the time but he had downstairs and our basement was like, you know, this whole kind of bar set up. So we would, you know, just take a water bottle and fill it up with all sort of shit out. Yeah, and then just fill the bottle back up with water. I didn't get busted until way later when he got home and he's like, all this is water. - Yeah. I got caught for a change in the vodka. They ended up putting it in the freezer at some point and it all turned, it all froze and it's not supposed to freeze them. - They give away. - Damn, he got me. - Tito's ripped you off. - I heard you say you're coming back from the pool. Did I hear you say that? - Yeah. - The community pool? - Yeah, there was one in a, in a neighborhood called Meadowbrook, we used to frequent a bit. - Very nice snack bar. - I'm not that I remember. - No snack bar. - I don't care. - Maybe like a, not a high dive. - Diving board? - Not diving board yet. They used to do like, you know, there was like kids swimming, you know, like teams or whatever. - Gotcha. I was, I was never much of a swimmer. - What was your back flip for, flip situation? - I could, I can nail a flip. - Really? - I can do, I mean, on my younger days, I could, you know, I went through a face which you could still find on YouTube. It's so funny. When I was in the eighth grade, if you look up the greatest trampoline match of all time. (laughing) - Dude, it's got like 500,000 views on it, bro. - That's you. Dude, yeah, me and my buddy, Caleb, we went to this, we went all the way to making with these like, grown ass men, you know? And I was only 13 at the time and they were like, they were doing this like backyard wrestling, you know what I mean? And I mean, we were serious about it. I thought like, I thought I was really gonna, and so it's just all the highlights of this like, this wrestling match we did with these grown ass men. But they had it like, they were at their mom's house, but they had it where they set out. They had like little brain sheets, you know, so they could put their stuff on it and like editing and we're coming out like, you're doing the whole thing. Yeah, dude, it was, it was so cool, man. - That's dude, there's so many times where our parents were like, yeah, it's just hanging out with a grown ass man, you know what I mean? - Dude, wrestling with these guys, yeah, it was kind of them though. - We did the same shit. - Just to trampoline at that age, you're like, in the back of your head, like, this is dangerous. - Yeah, fuck it. - Yeah, I like it. - Caleb, let's talk about rocket money. - Rocket money! - Let's talk about all the great things you get when you subscribe to rocket money, you know what I'm saying? You get, you get, you get knowing what's going on. - Uh-huh. - I'm a guy, you know, I don't know what's going on. - Sure. - I get rocket money, I find that I have subscriptions that I don't have that I, you struggle to pay. You get that canceled. Rocket money keeps your money in line, but you know what's going on? Subscriptions can help you with a budget, can help you organize your finances. 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You would like a natural body of water that you would jump off or jump into or anything like that? - I'm not one for the heights of it, but. - Gotcha. - I mean, I had spent some time at, we had Jackson Lake and I spent some time there, but we didn't have like near us, nowhere near. - Rope swing or anything like that. We're going up. - How do you feel about a natural body of water now? Are you still, are you, do you get in? - I don't mind a boat, but I don't think that the, like, you know, that's for us, you know what I mean? - You're not a swimmer. - No, I'm not, I'm not going to drown in there. Like, I can paddle about, but I'm definitely not like, I don't think the ocean is for us. - What are you scared of? - Sharks? - Are you a shark? - Just, I don't know, it's just not my, it's not where my feet are. - It's just not, it's not for us. There's things that, that's not, yeah, it's just like, we're here, this is our face and then the, the, the, the air is for the birds and then, and then, and then, and then, and the water's very, the fish, you know, I just, I think this is, we have our domain. Why don't we keep trying to fuck with that? Why don't we try to fuck with that? - I'll try to walk them both forward. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - I'm scared of the water. - Yeah, fuck with. - I got a bad shark thing, man. - A bad shark. - Yeah, I could have imagined. - I'm worried about them on the street, like, the band. - No, the street sharks, I don't think it's, yeah, yeah, yeah. - You break any bones growing up, any injuries as a kid? - I'm not, not really, I kind of messed up my, my fingers a little cooked. - Okay. - And my nose is a little broken, but I don't, I just weren't like, you know, diagnosed, I just, you know, just football, so. - Sure, I just. - You just tape it back up and get back out there, you know what I mean, but nothing, like, nothing, nothing serious. - And he fights as a kid. - Yeah, loads. - I was, I was in some fights, I loved it. - You know, but my thing is, I don't like bullies, man, you know, it was always, it was always a bully messing with a friend or something, you know, and I just don't, I don't, messing with a kid smaller than him, I just don't fuck with that, I always have the fight for a bully, like, I'm, fuck a bully, man, that's not okay. - That's awesome, I like it. - Any time, was there any parking lot at any age that you spent a lot of time in? Could have been a gas station, a seven, a eleven. - Yeah, absolutely, man. We had this spot right down the road from my house. It was called Randy's, it was a chevron, man, and, and, you know, back then, like, they were, we were, we were able to, and this is no shade on them, and so I hope that they're, you know, doing okay, I don't wanna get them in trouble, 'cause they didn't know at the time, but, you know, he used to go in there all the time, and, you know, like, my older brother was a couple years older than me, so by the time he turned 18, Charles just go in there and get stuff with him, so they would just end up selling it to me, and by the time I was 18, they just stopped, they had an idea in me, so they'd let me buy beers and stuff like that, but, I don't think they know you, you, you know, but, so I was able to go in there and get stuff, and we'd sit there, and, before that, we were, hey, Mr. and people, you know what I'm saying? - Ah, that was the war, hey, Mr. here. - You're going to get me some cigarettes? Hey, Mr. and you get us 12 packers. - Worked nine times up to 10? - MD-20-20s, man, you know what I'm saying, right? - How you were doing? - Well, you're getting it, however we could. - You know what I'm saying? - Don't need to play, right, the game, right? - That's right, 2020 is a generation. - We would ask the guy, and at the time, I think SIGs for us, in Pennsylvania, outside of Philly, were 275. - That's crazy. - So you would give the guy a $5 bill and go, you can, you would see him, if they pull up and they were smoking, there's like a 90% chance they were doing it, and you go, hey, we'll give you five bucks, that way you can like almost get yourself a pack as well. And they, you know, for sure. - Do I remember, when I first was able to get cigarettes, it was a pack of new ports at the time, it was like $5 and one cents after a 506 or something like that, given the-- - Is that what you started on new ports? - Yeah. - Yeah. - That's what a lot of people's introduction is. - Well, you know, the first cigarettes I would have smoked would have been like, my mom always smoked at the time. It was misty, menthol, ultra-lites. - Misty? - Misty, menthol, ultra-lites. - I don't know, yeah, you know what I'm saying? - They ended up changing them, I think, to misty silvers, but the misty, misty, menthol, ultra-lites. - Oh, yeah. - Oh, yeah. You know, and she had the urge. - The woman who does hair, smoked at the time. - Yeah, yeah, she had a little leather pouch. - Yeah. - With that too, man. - And the little bedazzled pocket for the bedazzled pleider. - Man, that's old, man. - Yeah, well, let's go. - All right, now we know she's got, she's got a little pear, like, little lepper skin, print pants on herself. You know, you could put my mom in your head already, man. - Oh, man. - She's, she's, she's-- - Who did the cookin' at your mom's house? - Mama did. - She could give me one of her standard dishes. - Man, you know, I, the, the, the, mom made some fried chicken, man. She, she would cook up some grits. Some breakfast was great, man, pancakes. Obviously, you can't, you can't beat some spaghetti, man. You know, just, just, I'm, and she's, she's me, makes a mean casserole. I mean, whatever you got in the kitchen, we got casseroles, man. You know, a green bean casserole, broccoli casserole, and don't get me started on chowdas. - She's doing chowdas. - No, I'm just saying. - That's not what I think. - When you were cookin', man, growing up? - The, the restaurant, the fast food place. Did you guys have cookin' at that area? - No, we didn't, we didn't get it a cookout in Atlanta until it wasn't until, I don't know, I want to say, like, 2015 or something. - No, it was in his later, yeah. - He said the Carolina. - Yeah, that's where they started at, yeah. But it, it wasn't until recently, like they got one in Atlanta, and that thing, I mean, that thing's jumpin' all the time. - You enjoy a hush poppy? Like a hush poppy? - Yeah, like a hush poppy. (laughing) - Yeah, like a hush poppy. - Everyone's a big mouth billy bass in any of those houses. - Oh, absolutely, my grandma's, man. My grandma had one of those, didn't it? - That damn fish was hilarious. - Dude, you ever have your picture taken with an exotic animal? Koala reptile? - Yeah, I mean, when, recently, we, every time we're in, you know, Australia, I got to meet, like, some, what do you call, like, wongers, kangaroos, and, well, what's it? - Cockabarros or something? - Cockabarros. - Is that what they call, cockabarros? Cockabarros? - Cockabarros? - Cockabarros? - Cockabarros? - Cockabarros? - I know that, capabarros? Capabarros? Capabarros, yeah. - I've met one of those, you know. - I don't know what it is. - But that's famous guy pictures with it. - Yeah, that's right. - That's true, that you're an Australian. - That's celebrity stuff. - The minister of tourism is there, showing you. - Yeah, but not, nothing when I was a kid. - I think I got a state bear with an alien con, I don't know. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. not cool. I like it. This is why I mean, you know, famous there we ask growing up and even that I guess I'm now be crazy. Did you have a go to karaoke song? You know, I think I think my thing with with karaoke is is especially today. I love I'll do karaoke, but nobody wants a good singer who wants you to sing in karaoke. Yeah. You like you like you like people you people go and ruin my night if I was doing karaoke. Yeah. That's what you don't want a good singer. You want somebody. You want somebody up there that they worked all week. They want to be fucking terrible. And they want to just lean in their performance and have a blast with a friend. So my rule of it is if you catch me somewhere and there is karaoke. If somebody's like, Hey, were you seeing this with me? I'll be like, absolutely. I'll do karaoke with somebody. Okay. You know, because I that, you know, like man, I love when you sing this song. Can we do like lose control together? Absolutely. Fuck yeah, man. Can we sing just on, you know, can we do, you know, journey don't stop believing together. Fuck yeah. We can. That's that's that's that's rule. I don't want go there by myself on the list of it. And everybody's shut up. I got this. You know, I think the same rule with like singing happy birthday. I feel like people always ask like, Hey, were you calling sing like my mom happy birthday? And it's like, you know, I think in theory that sounds cute, but like, nobody wants somebody like, I get it, but like having birthday's a group song. The great way to put it, man, it's a great way to put it. You ever steal a steak night from a steakhouse? No, but I mean, I've definitely gotten some butter knives, some chopsticks, some forks, some, you know, some ramacans. I really, I got into a fit of ramacans for a while, especially when you go to like the, the Habachi places, you know what I'm saying? I'm definitely taking some ramacans from ramacan at a house is a game changer. My mind was blown when I realized you could buy them. You can, like, yeah, William Sonoma sells ramacans. Yeah. I'm like, what? I can be fancy. You know what I mean? Yeah. I like it. You have any superstition about a white lighter? No, I, I mean, I definitely grew up with that like don't use a white lighter, but would you flip a sig and have the luck you want upside down? Yeah, absolutely. Yes, yes. Did you track your six? Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. You got a pack of man. Yeah. Sometimes I get two or three luckies. You know, you'll flip a couple luckies. Yeah. Really? Yeah. I like how he answers like, yeah, of course. And you're off the heaters now. You're off the sig. Yeah. I have a man I'm supposed cigarettes and I think last time I was, I used to do one after every show and finally my, my pianist was just like, give it out. He's like, bro, we're not doing that no more. I'm like, cool. What was what was the body never said that to me? You know, I needed with somebody back. And I'm like, okay, great, great. I'll just, and I think the, the little nicotine pouches really changed everything from me because there was a while where I was different and smoke and cigarettes too. You know, not simultaneously at the same time, but you know, I was, I was pretty nicotine had me. Yeah. Hey. It still has got me. I would never give up nicotine. I think I just, well, I don't know. It's got me. It's my, it's, it's, it's, it's just great. Well, I don't disagree. Yeah. What was, what was the last brand of cigarette you were smoking? Marboro lights probably or American spirits. You know, I'm, I'll hit some of those like the light blue ones or the yellow ones. American spirit, very celebrity famous person heavy. I respect that. Also, the dirt bags, you think they're better for you than they're not. Yeah, they're, yeah, it's not any special pill or blanket growing up. Yeah, dude, I had this one pillow. I even brought it to my first, like, tour we went on. And I'm, it was like one of these down pillows. I haven't seen it in probably five or six years, but you know, it was all brown and nasty, but it's my favorite pillow. And my, my, my, my dad's, I think originally in that, I had it, I had it for years, man. I remember you said gross people out for a bit, but, you know, it's, it's my pillow. It just has that smell. It's my pillow. It's, what was the toys growing? I put, what, what were you into? Dude, I mean, everything I had, you know, I'll drag and ball Z toys, a definitely big WWE toy. Who was your, who was your WF at the time? Oh, man. Big error. The rock, man. Stone Cold. You know, dude, I mean, Goldberg, Diamond Dallas Page, WCW, guys, you know, book team. Yeah, I had everything. I had everything. I could, I like it. You ever take an old time photo against the gangsters in the, no, you know, I've never gotten to do one of that. Yeah, we should go do one. We should, we should go, we should go, we should go, we should go, we should go to do one. Man, it's their way that we can go do one of those. I'm sure there's one in, in New York. Yeah, I've never gotten to do one of those things. So you go and put the little shit on and do the whole thing. Yeah. That's even trashier than you never got to do. And you're like, no, man, I think, yeah, I fucking love it. That's great. Anyone in your family or even yourself ever appear on the local news, but before you got famous, like you were like a witness or you got interviewed for something or anybody. Not that I can think of off top of my head. I mean, I'm sure, I'm sure my stepmother had made it a couple times. She was a, she's got some stories. I'm sure, sure she's been, I made it to the newspaper like my, because that's how my, my grandma found out that that I got arrested for selling weed. And, and when I was, you know, I missed a whole first week of my senior year in jail because I got busted and it was almost an intent to distribute because it was a couple bags. But it was me and my friends just smoking in the road, you know? And so I, I was in there for like six days in Rockdale County, jail. And, and I mean, it was, it was a blast though. I have. Not saying, not trying to say that you should do it, but a good buddy of mine, Ryan, was like, happened to be in there for like eight months. So as soon as I got in there, he was like, Hey, man, just bring your little boat over to my bunk and we'll like, you know, and we're in the gen population. It was kind of overcrowded. Yeah. And then so he just introduced me to everybody. It was a bunch of old heads in there. It was just like, you know, like, get out of here. Yeah. Don't do that again. You know, they're all nice guys. I'm with the church in there and saying in there with them and like, this was senior years. Yeah. So I, it was cool. I haven't, I haven't played spades. But the cops want to press with your with your core classes that you have to take care of that. They don't do. I guess, too. That's a pretty good tool to have in jail. Good voice. Yeah. Probably, that's better than being the funny guy. That's better than being in anything. You're just going like, hit this and like, yeah, just wait, wait, we'll just do the little church moment with them. You know, what I mean? And get up and like, let's go. It was, you know, they taught me how to make the, you know, like the real ramen soup and like, you know, like you crunch up like the cheesets and hot cheetos and stuff and like, you know, kind of put it all in this big brick. It would do that. I still make them that way. And it's crazy. I love it. Uh, I mean, uh, just obviously, uh, being that it was the career. When did the garage band start? Like, what was that? What did, what did the early days of that look like? Well, we, you know, whatever, whatever. We were trying to be in bands for forever. You know, we're, which always kind of finding our thing and writing. It wasn't as easy as it is now, you know, us being able to find access to recording equipment now. It was so easy for these kids, you know, so it was so difficult for us for a long time. We were trying, I think I finally nailed it. Um, right around my senior year, um, I was, I was in a band called Her Oak Bear. And I mean, you could still find the, the EP on YouTube. And it's, it's got awful. But I was in, like, you know, in 2011, um, like the Atlanta hardcore scene was like really something, you know, it was really popping. So I, I for years was like just in kind of the local hardcore scene, screaming and singing and, and, and bands and, and we're just doing that really up until Teddy Swim started. I was still in a metal band. So I, I was still screaming and rapping and I'm doing the whole thing in it. So I just, whatever I could do to get heard, but I, I love, I love punk music. I love our core music. You know, that's, that's really the roots of like my, like, kind of performing anyway, other than, you know, other than like theater, but damn. How have you been as far as managing your money as a, as a, as a kid before, before you had money? And then now are you, are you a good not-spender? Yeah. I know the value of a dollar, you know, in a way that that I, I think I've not had it for a long, long time. And, and, and I mean, I even to this day, I, the first thing I did when I did sign my deal was like, by my dad a truck, you know, because it was like, we had been, I spent more time on the side of the road, you know, not, and, and, and broken down. And I mean, still to this day, I can, if, if it's an old enough truck, you could just drive it. And I can tell you, oh man, this is about to go out. I get off the exit's left. Yeah, this is about to go out. I know what that sounds like. I can, you know, so I've, I've spent a lot of time under a hood and I've spent a lot of time on the side of the road. And so I, I, I don't know, I just, I know what it's like not having money. So I don't, I don't, I don't get too frivolous with, you know, that's a question. What'd you do with your first big check? So you bought a truck? Yeah, man. Good guy. Good man. That's, uh, F-150 Lariat, he still drives. He, dude, he's, he's, he's, he's like, he's so pumped about it. He still keeps that thing spotless. He's like, got that, like, uh, that, you know, membership to the car wash. He can just keep that thing. It's the proudest thing. It smells like dip, you know, always. So, so does this life, you know, but, but, uh, it tastes to smells like Copenhagen in there. You know, there's always a spit cup, but other than that, it's, it's spotless. What are you whipping around town and can you say? Yeah, I got I got one of those Broncos the like it's 2023 Bronco What I bought it a couple years ago and and I mean I that was always like I'm gonna get a bronco You got an apartment you got a house or your room. I got a house in Tennessee I bought it right before my son was born. He's 15 months old Dude what what day was it born? June 6th, we're almost June 23rd It's real close we got to get them together. Yeah, let's put it on a podcast Couple years of a yaffirmed up man. Is he already walking in stuff? Yeah, it's crazy. I did I'm right there with you Yeah, he's in everything all about ball right now It's my wife's sick today. So I've been up at six with the as I've been when then he can hear and I got to go back and get him from daycare It's it's that's wonderful. That's awesome. That's rock solid. New dad too. Kippy. Let's go. Look at this man Okay, so the house, but you're on you're you're currently on tour. Yeah, right? So you're and we talked before you started tour is on a bus. Yes, sir What we've done the bus love the bus big fans the bus the bus What are some of the staples you want to have on your bus snack wise drink wise food wise on these days You know, I'm kind of keep it to where I'm like meet my macros and keep it healthy So like I've like, you know, I used to be a lot of tequila and beer and and and all right I've slowed down a lot on that a lot of just bullshit, but yeah these days It's like I've got some boiled eggs in there, you know got some got to do I just bought this my buddy turned me on this and it's like It's called safe catch and it's like this tuna It's it's it's it's it's like 20 it's like 40 grams or 24 grams of protein in like 100 calories and it's 25 times under the FDA approved limit of Of mercury, so it's like okay So I can put like a couple those in get almost 50 grams of protein for a couple hundred and then I got this like high protein like a low fat Greek yogurt and then some like sugar-free relish and I'm talking about dude Just a couple hundred calories and I'm eating fucking tuna salad like a fat boy. He's getting like 60 grams of protein Like a fat boy, but do it and the right stuff it just costs a little more when it's when it's healthy for you Whatever you're being bad. You're a pork rinds guy. You're candy guy What do you got? What's the cheat? You know they even also have protein Doritos Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's like I think there's like 13 grams of like protein for these little bags of them Yeah, and they're delicious man artificial free and all sorts of stuff But I think for me the cheat would be Dude, I just there's nothing better than like chocolate and peanut butter together You know if a Reese's cup or like a peanut butter chocolate cake or fucking Damn, I love anybody built for the show. Let's go. I love it That's alright now when you let's say, you know tomorrow's a show night or let's say, you know whatever you pull in You got to show it's show night are you eating before are you eating after is there what it? What's the what is the day of the show looking and what's the writer like in there in the greener the writers? You know similar. Yeah, man protein steaks. I it's really nice like I've been in those chops like little fucking Sugar-free jerkeys and you know like this just kind of it's been tight these days. Yeah, it's been super When we've really when we've learned as you're working. It's like fun. You're like oh, I can drink and smoke and eat pizza But then I just start stacking the tour dates and you're like I got all the respect like I can't live Until last you until this year really man I had been like a bottle of tequila a day and I'm just out there fucking giving it hell and It's starting it's starting to it really started aging me Have really started catching up with me so I've learned it like you know And I think my son had a lot to do with that too, man. I just want to I want to be here You know, I like he's just really settled me down, but I mean, it's you know We I try to get up and I'll hit the gym before after sound check and then you know what I try to like I said Just meet my protein goals if I can get like 250 grams of protein a day I try to get that and keep it you know just stay in a deficit But and then some of these arenas are kind enough that they like open up the gyms for us like yeah Which we can use there. So that's been great and I mean, I got a box and coach on the road with us a good I'm in there I'm down like 50 pounds Fantastic dude. Well to see it. Yeah, well to see it. Uh, how long does a sound check take for you? I'm always curious about musicians. It depends on the day You know the some of the boys will take a while the band will play but I'll go up there and do a couple so long And you know if they're good, I'm good, you know, just like yeah, but I'm just there to Make sure the sound man. I do Drew is like happy with what he's hearing out there. Then I'm like all right Yeah, does the guy in the booth go with you or is he? Venue specific. Yeah, he goes with us. Okay, so you're not dealing with the new sound You know, it's it's so nuts because this is like you know in our first time in like these big arenas and and and I met you What's crazy about it is it's completely a shell, you know, so it's everything comes Yeah, so I mean we're bringing all the stage to production to the lights the PA the everything so it's it's so nuts. We we were just you know, I feel like it like six trucks of a year ago Now we're like 25 Looking crazy crazy how many folks there's like there's like a hard 50 of us or something And it's trying trying so hard is still kind of maintained to be a tight-knit family is this like I'm still meeting somebody every day Like I'm like, oh man. I'm so sorry. I haven't met you yet. Man. I thank you so much. What you doing? What is it you do? You know, I love you man. Thank you. If you need anything my door is always open You know, love you so much. Just just holler at me. I'm here. That happened. We did the we opened up For Bert and some arenas and we got there they were already running and gunning and we just met them and then like We did the show and then got off and we were like walking back to the bus I'm like that was sick. We're just gonna hop on the bus and go and we walked out and there was like, you know 50 crew members waiting to take everything down. I'm like, oh Yeah, I didn't I just felt like it all just appeared and disappeared. You know, I mean that's and even it's such a high level like that You know, it's that's still just like just bird up there with a mic. Yeah When you get like You know, I can't imagine the difference of that, you know lighting cues and stuff like that we would have and so it's Which I always I always wonder about like stand up. It's such a scary thing to be like at that level too and when you're like Because there's such a thing about You guys can't ever like rely on like your hits, you know what I'm saying. It's not like it's not like Bert Like five years ago and be like, yeah, don't you guys want to hear this joke? That was super awesome for me Really, I know that And so when it's like when I'm up there if I say a joke that absolutely falls on his face I can always like just go in the next song. Yeah, I'm playing loose control or something This show is saved you know, I like it you said you like to sleep on the bus when you sleep Hey, you on your side you on your back. Are you a pillow guy? Yeah, I'm I'm kind of I've been lately more of a belly guy But I think that's also belly. I think that's now because I like You trim down you can do it by the first time comfortably. Yeah, it feels pretty good Also speaking of belly. I don't know if I you can cut this if you need to but this is the first time in a long time That I've been able to like not have to fold a pillow behind my head to watch my dick and suck, which is really awesome You know, I mean, that's fantastic, and I'm in the same You don't have to like do this number and feel like you know, so I that's been just an awesome awesome thing Not that it's not that is happening often on tour I'm just saying this yeah, just in general that's it's been something that's been happening of course fitness Unlock IP in the shower. Absolutely. We brush your teeth in there. I'm I would but I I don't I haven't I don't know if it's okay I've thought about it. I guess when you brush your teeth. Are you right at the sink or will you walk around a little bit? Can you walk around and do this and you're holding a little court? I don't think I would usually move around I do I just got one of those I'm still trying to work it out But you know those whole thing the whole thing yeah, that goes here to you like this number or two or something I've had it for like a week. I still don't know if it's like If I mean it feels like it's brushing them, but I also it's just this different thing I still got to use my thing to brush my tongue But I guess we'll we'll see in a couple weeks if it's like do it. It's job or not You are famous. That's crazy. I found I found like a knockoff on it. It was like Runin' for me. It was made in a golden. It was 10 grand That's good. That's how ever you when you got your passport um, I wrote it was the first tour we did So in 2020 so I just Very recently and we only we only used it to go to Toronto Yeah, that was the first time I've been out of the out of the country at all Was the first time you had Nutella Nutella oh god, I don't know man Maybe same about around same time From around saying that dude. Yeah, I really I had never even played out of the state before At 2020 you know what I mean? So that's like it's like my only shit. We're on tour and this is crazy man Let's go Well have you ever had that one was last have you ever checked into a hotel and brought your own cooler? - No, I can't say anything. - Wow, that's very good. I will solve the other one. - Yeah, for beer, you're bringing your beers there. - Anything you're specific about, would you ever bring your own toilet paper to a hotel or anything like that? - No, but I mean, it's a smart idea 'cause you never know if you get that single-ply bullshit or not, you know, but that is a good idea. I mean, I try to, I do bring some, I do bring some, you know, boy legs in there from time to time. - Okay, it's all right. - I don't, you know, maybe some protein shake. - When you fly, you fly in commercial still? - Yeah, a lot, man, I'm actually a Delta 360 member. - Oh, 360, it's tough to get. - Holy shit. - It's invite only. - Bro, I got, I've really got like, fucking 12 million Delta Sky Miles right now. It's saying we're gonna go on an absolute, absolute. - Crazy, yeah, it's gonna be a sick one for sure. - Man, I'm almost Delta Diamond. - That's sick, man. Dude, it gets so much better once you get there. You can just like, especially when you're LA, you got like, Delta one lounging. - That's what we just did every time there. - Yeah, shit. - So you don't have to go through the, you know, regular stuff, you could just kind of check it that way. And they're like. - We did it every time we fly out. We go in with, 'cause we try with it, like our team will go in, you know, regular with them. And then he was like, it's crazy. You guys go through the regular entrance with us. And I'm like, yeah, that might have to stop. - Dude, Mr. Dim's like, can we get you a hell of shot? And you know why you walk in? - You walk in the hands of the check set. Yeah, I'll take that. - Yeah, I can. - You never need to tell a police. - Yeah, that's fantastic, let's go. - Will you bring food on a plane like snacks are okay, but I'm not really. No, I, you know, I, I feel like, I feel like you're, I don't know, I feel like a weird guy bringing like food. Like maybe is it like, back food or just like something you bought at the airport? - Depends. - I bought, what, there's a lot like a subway sandwich that I brought onto the plane, but you know, I always feel kind of weird. 'Cause you know what I mean? - You did bring a subway sandwich? - I have, yeah. - Yeah, that would be the garbage side of things. - Yeah, okay. But it was, it was right outside the gate. There was a subway, I gotta got me a rap real quick and fucking needed it. - A rap, I might push, but rap's okay, man. - But is it too much? - It has that certain smell. - Is it too much? - Yeah, it was too much. - It was too much. - What are you doing? - Get out of here. - That fish in the fuel line is crazy. - You don't remember what airport that was, do you? - I couldn't tell you, man. - 'Cause there's a Cleveland, there's one, literally right outside of the gate. - Could be, could be Cleveland, could be. Throw it up for a rap or now would you sneak snacks into the movie theater? - Hell yeah. - Yeah. - Absolutely. - What do we have to do? - I don't know, I told you. I told you. - No, we do. - Obviously it's probably tough. You had to decay the tour, the album, everything. Where was the last vacation? Were you able to sneak one in between things? - You know, I don't know. I think last time we went to Hawaii. - We were getting ready to play there, but we just spent a couple days there, you know. And so it wasn't, I wouldn't say like a vacation, but we had a good three or four days to-- - Did you go on the water? - No, I went on a boat in the water, but I'm not going in the ocean, right? I'm not doing it, I'm not doing that. - What would be your dream vacation? - You got two weeks off. - I would, you know, every time I think about wanting to go somewhere though, I spend so much time traveling and I'm like, "Why'd we be in the fucking house?" But I think, I really wanna, I think Greece would be beautiful, you know? My producer, buddy, Julian, he tells me about this big boat they went and like, we didn't travel like a week on this boat in Greece and he's like, he was like, "Dude, it's incredible. You gotta go do this once in your life." So I'm like, "Okay, we'll hook me up with the boat folks." And maybe, but I don't know how much. He's far richer than you know. - I think he could swing it. Playing the Barclays. - But I mean, as long as I can use these 12 million Delta Skama, I don't fucking do it. - I'm Delta 360. - Yeah, yeah, so. - Oh, there you go. - Got six guy miles. - Yeah. - Man, oh man. - Is there anything you're cooking? Are you doing breakfast at the house? - I'm not much of, I think, you know, I think it's a beautiful art form, you know? Not gonna get me wrong, but it's just such a mundane task for me, I just, I don't, I don't have the, - It's not for you. - Yeah, I don't have the patience for it. I'd rather just order the shit, maybe chill up in here. - Any celebrity cookware at the house? Any Paris Hilton stuff, anything like that? - No, not that, I don't have any Paris Hilton cookware, but I do have a, I do have a, I do have a chef knife from Moe's, you know, Moe's Southwest Grill? They got Moe's out here, don't they? - Not, I do, I know them just more. - It started, I mean, it's my favorite place in the world when I was, it's kind of like a, they're like the walk through Burrito joint, like Chipotle, - Gotcha. - Just more delicious. - But when I was-- - Casual dining and stuff. - Yeah, when I first started like, when I was living on my own my first time, I was just, it was just kind of like me and my piano in this kind of empty house, and so I was like really broke at the time, I had just kind of dropped out of hair school, and I used to could walk like a mile to this Moe's every day, and they were just like, you know, this lady Bonnie who I went to hair school with, she was like the manager there, so she's like, "Come on, let me feed you, baby." And they used to have this thing too at the end of the line where you could put in your phone number, and then after 10 visits, you get a free entry, so I was just fucking clocking 100 numbers, I could think of, you know what I mean? So like, it'd be like, for y'all to hit someone's free on. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - So I would have like all my friends memorized, so I could just like, you know, put all these in, and then eventually Bonnie was like, "Look, we know what you're doing, just come get a meal, baby." It's the only time I'd eat, so. I say like Moe's like really changed my life, and then saved my life at the time. Yeah, and then so I went to their headquarters at Atlanta one time, and they like-- - That's awesome. - Yeah, really awesome. They maybe like, they gave me this like chef knife with the Moe's, but I wouldn't say it's a celebrity, but it's, that's awesome. - Fancy to me, that's awesome, yeah. - Pretty cool knife. - I love it. Can you open up a bottle with a lighter? - No, but I can do it with my teeth. - Oh, nice good. - You're gonna say that. That's worse than the lighter. (laughing) - Yeah, I don't click with that. - Why would you say your favorite movie is, or one of your favorites? - Man, I got loads. - Give us your top three. - Oh, that's tough. I would say, I got tattoos, a lot of 'em. - Okay. - I got chose Peterson from Happy Gilmore here. And I got the Blue Duck from Billy Madison. - Okay. - I've gotta speak in my language. - Yeah, dude, I got Joe Dirt tattooed on me. Awesome. - Okay. - Power's tattooed on me, man. - It's got such a good tattoo. - Yeah, dude. Like, Lloyd Christmas, Dumber Dumber's on me too, man. - Not War Drama. - Dude, my ass cheeks right now are too. I'm still working on them, but they're the Boutabi brothers from Night of the Rocks. - Oh, yeah. - I'm covered, man. - Dude, I just watched that. - Farley's on me, man. - Yeah, I've got Dave Chappelle, man, you know, let's go. - What, that's hilarious. - That's just kind of my, my, he's fine. - Yeah, we got it. - Dude, I would have never remembered their brother's names from the one of the Dammutabi brothers. - Yeah, Dabutabi, Dabutabi, Steve Boutabi. Yeah. - Dabutabi brothers, yeah. - That's one of my favorites. - I would have never fooled that. - Richard Greco. - Oh, he was great in it. I just saw it like, he was-- - Yeah, but I watched it all the time. - Yeah. - Turned around, tipped his head like this. - That dad's my favorite, I've loved him as an actor. He was on cheers. He was Nick Tortelli on cheers. - Yeah. - He was the dad and, uh, Carlos. - Yeah, too. - What, what is the Austin Powers tattoo? - It's just a picture of Austin. - Oh, it's an actual picture. - Yeah, I thought it was like a, - No, it's a real portrait of Austin Powers. - It's awesome. - It's just, it's a really great portrait. - What's a credit score like? Solid? - Yeah, it's doing really good now. - Oh, yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's doing great these days. - But it has been, yeah, and in my life, it has not been the best. - Can you tell me what the lowest it might have been? - I couldn't tell you that. - Five, six. - 'Cause I don't, I didn't have much of credit for it to, you know, other than like my student loans, I think kind of hit me for a bit there. But we wouldn't, we, you know, when I first got a, like, finance manager, you know, what it, it's not just like, hey, man, let's, let's go ahead and pay this off, don't you think? You know, and I'm like, okay, so we've been, we've been doing good. - I'm said it's 602 right now. - A bit of a rebuilding year. - You're a hard dad, you know, it takes a second. It takes a second. What do you think it is now? Do you know Kylie? Okay. - It's up, it's up, it's up to you. - It's up to you. - It's to what it doesn't matter. It's in like sections. It's like you're in the excellent or whatever. - But I'm, yeah, I'm doing, yeah, they'll give, you know what the most frustrating thing is though? It's like, once you get money, you're like wanting to spend your money like, no, no, no, you gotta borrow it. You know what it's like? - Right, right, right. - And I just like pay things in cash, you know? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's rich guy. - Yeah. - That's sick. - Yeah. - You borrow money off the money. It's like, it's like, it's like, it's like one of your games is pretty hard, Monty. You're like, I don't know what's going on here. - I tried to do that, it crumbled around me. (laughing) - Yeah, speaking of money, you go to a wedding. Close friend. What are you sticking in the envelope? - What do you mean by that? Like GIF, what do you mean GIFton? - Oh, oh, okay, I don't know, I just, I don't know, I don't know if I'm the best at it. I don't even know, you're supposed to bring it. - What? - To be honest with you, I don't know. I just, I'll just show up. - Somebody probably on the team would sit, would take care of it. - I have officiated a few though. - Right, yeah. - Right, yeah. - And I got my officiance license and then-- - Do you remember, would you do it online? - Yeah, I did. - And then, so I've done a few. I've done my aunts, then, and a couple of friends along the way, so I, you know, that's a pretty good GIF. - But you did, that's 30%. - Drop a song. - I'm pretty sick, I'm pretty, I'm a pretty good reverend. - Yeah, I did once, I was nervous and I was gonna mess it up and I kinda did. What, I mean, you're a very stylish guy. - Where? - What is the, what is the clothing procurement process these days? Are people-- - Yeah, this guy-- - Especially for the tour, whatever, there's a wardrobe. - Yeah, this guy Christian Strobel helps me with a lot of stuff, and he's just a fucking visionary. It totally just gets it, you know, and we have a bunch of cool people that, you know, work on cool things, make a lot of custom things, and our whole tour is kind of Atlanta themed, and it's like kind of based on home, so I got a bunch of Atlanta gear and George's gear. - It's a cat, and that was the hat. - Yeah, that's cool. - Who with this shirt, specifically, Green Day Duky shirt, classic. - And it's also a dark side too, so it's-- - Is someone make that for you and go, "Hey, I made this," or like, "What's this?" - You know, my buddy, Christian Brodell, I don't know who makes these, and I feel bad 'cause I was gonna, I meant to say, but he made like a bunch of these, and then they gave me like three albums. - That's the sec, yeah, that's pretty cool. It's got Duky and Dark Side of the Moon on it, so that's both awesome, awesome, awesome albums. - Have you been in a Walmart, a Walmart, Target, Ross, Marshall's, TJ Maxx in the last 365 days? - Yeah, hell yeah. - Just got mad at you, Duky. - Yeah, hell yeah, you think I am, dude. - Yeah, of course, man, always. - Yeah, I mean, listen, the guys-- - I get down to Ross, man, my mom's as a frequent flyer. - That's a Ross. - That's a JC Penny at the Ross, at the Marshalls, my man, she's, there's always, she's like moved into my guest house the last few months. - Your mom has. - Yes, and she's kind of commandeered it, but I'll tell you what, man, the amount of decoration she buys from a Ross. - Like live life life, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, and it's just like, she's got, and that place was already like, you know, decorated by somebody that you're like, my, I grew, it wasn't chopping it. - Yeah, and so then, so I go in there not too long ago, and I see this, it looks like, it looks like a crackhead lives in there, and because there's like, and I love her to death, that's my beautiful mama, but she's got this, she's always got these kind of things on the wall, like one thing on the wall, it goes like, they told her, you'll never withstand the storm. She whispered, I am the storm. - You know, stuff like that, I remember one time when I was a little bit younger, I had like moved back in with her, and she had like set my piano up, you know, in this room and was like, you know, of course, there was like, guitars and music notes all over the wall, and she's like, I built you a place for you to jam. I said, this looks fucking terrible. I thought, just music notes, and it says, believe, follow your dreams everywhere, you know what I mean? I was like, God, it's live laugh, love that shit everywhere. - I love it. - Oh, that's great. I mean, listen, yeah. 100% garbage. - 100% trash, we love it, but. - I'm honored, honestly. - Rock solid guy, good dude. - Thank you. - So many successful, your motives, your reasons, your drive, the things you went through, you just love to see it. - Yeah, one of the things I wanted to mention, the videos of you singing with people on the street, is like one of the coolest. - Yeah. - Who think you? - Yeah. - That's like, it's a thing you don't have to do, but you wanna do it. It's just, now after meeting you, it comes off as very, it's so genuine. - You know, it keeps music. I think when we do these shows, it's big and wonderful as they are. There's so much planning, and there's no room for spontaneity. - Sure. - So it's so good to just be able to do those kind of things, and keep it spontaneous, and be like, oh, we know how to fucking, we'll just make this up as we go. And that's what live music's meant to be, you know. So always gotta keep live music, live music, style, you know. - You're real on brother. - Yeah, that's awesome, bro. - We're very happy for you. Couldn't be more grateful that you came in. - Yeah. - You're on tour right now, at the Barclay Center tomorrow night, that's crazy, unbelievable. - Yeah, and you guys are all welcome as you wanna. - Oh, thank you, man. - Come on, please, man, yeah. - For sure, man. Thank you very much. - You, your mom, your dog, your neighbor, or whatever you want. - Yeah, y'all, come on. - Single Perfect, man, is out right now. The album drops January 22nd, new album Ugly. Get it, love 'em, go see your shows. Teddy swims, everybody. - Yeah. - 100% track it up. Let's go. - Yeah, I love you, buddy, thanks for coming by. - Love you, man. - Appreciate you. - Can't be what he got for 'em. - We're on tour now, I'll take its on sale at rhegarbers.com. Get 'em, we'll see you's out there. - Teddy, we love you brother, I love you, man. Gang, we love you, we'll see you next week. - Bye.