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Are You Garbage Comedy Podcast: Wicked Garbage w/ Joe List & Tom Dustin!

Hear ye, hear ye, the good people of Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
The boys are coming for that Back on the Block tour.
We added second shows, and they're selling fast.
Yeah, baby.
April 14th, we're going to be at the Pittsburgh Improv,
and then April 16th, we're going to be at Hilarities in Cleveland.
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The first show's sold out.
Second show's now high demand.
Get the tickets.
We'll see you there.
See you there.
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?
Oh, yeah.
It's that little show where we sit down with your favorite comedians,
and we find that it's a group to be classy or 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 Tootie's in a new edition.
She's out in the backyard burning some leaves.
Okay.
Getting a head start.
All right.
Wait, isn't it to spring?
Okay.
She's a kooky broad.
All right.
My co-host is coming at you from right next to me,
asking a lot of questions about Tootie.
He is the CEO of Are You Garbage?
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Give it up for KJ.
Kevin James Ryan, everybody.
What up, gang?
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Yes, sir.
And gang, we couldn't be more excited to have two incredibly special guests
here with us today.
One is here for the first time.
They are the star and director of the brand new documentary, Portrait of a Comedian,
Mr. Tom Dustin and Mr. Joe List.
The boys are here.
Beautiful film, by the way.
Thank you.
That's fantastic.
We got to go to the premiere.
It's going to be in select theaters.
And if you're in Philadelphia, it's going to be at the Ritz Five in Philly
starting May 9th.
And if you're in New York City, it's going to be at the Quad Cinema starting
April 25th.
Do yourself a favor.
Go.
Go and see it.
It's beautiful.
It's heartwarming.
It's funny.
It's fantastic.
And we have the star and the director here today, and we couldn't be more
excited.
Yeah.
I don't like star.
I'm the subject.
I was the subject.
Sounds like it's a science experiment.
MK Ultra Dustin.
Hey, we're doing tests on me at the lab.
No one ever becomes a star because of a documentary.
This is the argument I keep making.
Jared Fogel?
He became a big star?
No, that's what I mean.
The qualifiers are dead or in jail.
Sure.
You got a lot of stuff coming up.
It is fantastic.
It was one of those where I saw it, and it stuck with me for days.
Yes.
It was that well done.
And we had never met you.
That was the first time we got to meet you.
And you are a legendary figure in the comedy world.
Yeah.
I really, really managed to do 20 years of really staying under the radar.
Playing it cool.
All the comics are like, oh, you're really funny.
You should be something.
I'm like, nah.
Mysterious.
Not for me.
How did this come about, by the way?
How did you guys, you guys started together in Boston, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
A quarter of a century ago.
A quarter of a century ago.
I walked into an open mic night.
I saw Joe up on stage.
He was hilarious.
And he had a really, really hot girlfriend.
That's true.
And I was like, this guy, this guy must be doing something right.
Uh-huh.
Is that true, Joe List?
I had some really, don't judge based on my wife now.
What are you talking about?
I'll be silly.
I used to know.
Sarah's a hot ticket herself.
Smoke show.
We love her.
Smoking hot, broad, great body, nice tits, perfect butt.
One of the funniest.
She's got a great body, buddy.
She's got a great body.
I thought my favorite delivery lot slaps them on the back.
Also, a line I use the most, maybe, is Kramer going, all right, show's over.
But anyways, yeah, I had some hot numbers.
And I started in high school, fresh out of high school.
And how old were you when you started?
I was 25.
And what's the age difference?
Seven years.
Okay.
Seven years.
Tom, you're seven years older.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Are you a seasoned vet somewhat in Boston at this time?
No.
I mean, no, we were just starting out.
Okay.
I started when I was 25.
Okay, all right.
He had started just before me, I think.
I think I started just a little bit before you, a month, a month or two.
Okay.
And what grade are you in in high school when you start?
Do you start your senior year?
No, I graduate, which I still, this is what I tell every young comic, if they
want to do
comics, they start now, because no matter when you start, you wish you started
earlier.
Because I started after I graduated.
Looking back, I was like, I could have totally just done this in high school
also.
Right.
So I was a kid.
I was 18.
And then I met Tom.
And Tom was, you know, partied.
And I was like, I like this guy.
That's how you guys, that was the bonding.
Well, do you want to-
We drank a lot.
And I don't know.
We do crazy shit and steal shit and go to strip joints.
Well, Tom-
To call it a strip joint is old school.
Oh.
We loved it.
We went to T-bars all the time.
And we had fucking speed dial strippers that came to our house.
Yeah, yeah.
That was pretty awesome.
Like, we would do it so regularly that the-
It was like an in-call service.
They would come to your house.
And, like, we'd get the double, you know, you save if you get an extra stripper.
Yeah.
Extra stripper.
And so we would get two girls to come over.
And they would tell stories about our house instead of the other way around.
Like, we weren't, like, the next day, like, oh, wasn't that fucking crazy?
The strippers were like, that was fucking crazy.
It was wild.
But I remember one of our first times hanging, Tom worked at a car lot.
Had, like, a used car lot.
Oh, yeah.
From the age of three to 30.
What do you mean had a used car lot?
I grew up on a used car lot.
I think they talk about this in the-
That's right.
I forgot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're not going to have to ask any of those garbage questions.
I opened it.
I grew up on a used car lot.
Okay.
What was the building of the car lot?
Was it just, like, a trailer?
Like, one of those?
There was many iterations of it.
Originally, it was my father.
I grew up on my father's used car lot.
And then he sold that.
We got a different one.
And then when I was old enough, I kind of ran the car lot because he was crazy.
Which, if you watch the movie, I mention how crazy my father was.
How were you at selling cars?
Pretty good?
I was pretty good.
I actually-
Come on.
Really?
Dude, if you're in Boston and you're in the market for a used car, that's the
guy you want to buy off.
He could sell water to a dolphin, this guy.
What do you say we get a couple of bees?
Yeah.
You like strippers?
I sold a car to a stripper.
To the one that we used to visit up on-
Bethany, Body Glove Girl.
Body Glove Girl.
Yeah.
You two are a couple of creeps.
Also, to say visit, it seems like she kept her clothes on the whole time.
Well, we would walk in the strip club and it would be like midday.
There's no one in there.
And she's on stage and there's one dollar on the stage.
And we'd walk in and she would just fucking have a party and start celebrating
our arrival.
A couple of high rollers like you.
No, we weren't high rollers.
I'm aware of that.
Now, don't get me wrong.
I wasn't rolling in there with a lot of bees.
Yeah.
Well, the best one was we went to the Squire.
No, it wasn't the Squire.
It was the other one.
The Cab, the Cabaret.
There was the Squire, which we called the Squid, and the Cabaret, which we
called the Cab.
And then there was King Arthur's.
We can't talk about that on YouTube.
This is what the two of you were doing?
Yeah, a lot.
But we went there.
It was New Year's Eve Eve.
And they opened at noon.
And we got there at like 11.55.
And the guy was like, all right.
No one's here, but you can come in.
So we sat at the bar and put our dollars on the stage.
And literally, this sounds made up.
A stripper walked in in a fur coat with a scarf.
And I yelled, ready when you are.
We beat the strippers to the strip club.
I'm wicked hot over here.
There was no music playing.
We were just sitting around the stage.
Dating this hot chick when you were going to the strip club?
No, no.
That was my high school girlfriend.
Once she saw me with him, she was like, I'll see you later.
Also, Joe's 18, hanging out with a horny 25-year-old.
And you two live together.
Yes.
And that's where you have the strippers come over.
Yeah.
And you would just have them, without getting too graphic, you'd just have them
do a dance
for you, and that's it?
Are you hooking up with these bros?
Yeah.
No.
No.
No.
No.
We had a little.
We had a way they said that was for sure.
I was going to say, why don't I just get a hooker?
No, no, no.
It was funnier, because none of us had any money.
So if you get eight guys and everyone throws up 20 bucks, you can get these
broads to show
up at your house.
He's saying it like he's cracked in code.
And so we would do that.
And we even had it set up where we had a karaoke machine.
And my buddy Dave would, he'd call the dance like a play-by-play.
He'd be like, now she's putting the dildo on her head and blah, blah, blah.
I think I know her.
It was pretty awesome.
He would do strip club DJ in my house through a karaoke machine.
Every once in a while, a different girl would come, because we had regular
girls.
One would come and go, all right, we've got to get this thing started.
Where's the bachelor?
Where's the bachelor?
And we're like, oh, no.
No bachelor.
It's Tuesday to us.
We're not celebrating anything.
No bachelor.
A couple of horned dogs.
And didn't they leave one time with a CD tray?
No, that was something different.
Oh, yeah.
That was something different.
That was my, oh, yeah.
We ended up paying some strippers.
We'll call them strippers.
Sure.
We paid them in like old CDs and a couple of Madden games.
She must have been a good-looking girl.
And a giant change jar.
We had a bunch of change.
And some porties at the bottom of that.
And a mirror.
Yes.
I like that mirror.
And I was like, you can have it?
And they just, they were walking out of our house with bags of change and CDs.
Do you play Call of Duty at all?
Yeah.
But that's how we paid them.
We figured out once they got there, we didn't have enough money.
So they just took shit from around our apartment.
Holy shit.
Yeah.
There's a lot of stories.
And where did the birth of the film come in?
Where did you decide that you wanted to do this?
Well, I always want to make film and the birth of the film.
Yeah.
Man, this program has changed.
The birth of the film.
Shut up.
How'd you think of the movie?
He's a goddamn filmmaker.
The inception of the film.
And how much time do we have?
Just turn the lights down, but leave mine on if you could.
No, it was just, you know, I want to make.
So there I was.
I want to make films.
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I just always thought.
Nothing on that.
Just getting off the rails.
Yes.
I'm in it.
I'm trying to really sell the picture.
Just tell them about the picture.
Just shoot the movie so we can get out of the street.
Jerry, just tell them about the picture.
What's the matter with you?
Anyways, I just thought Tom would be a great subject.
And I nailed it.
I was right.
Which is all I really did was thought Tom will be great and hilarious.
And we have so many great stories.
And originally the idea was to just roll camera on Tom, hanging out, telling
stories.
And then we kind of decided to incorporate som