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Are You Garbage Comedy Podcast: Jon DelCollo!

Hey there, gang.
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Shagin' air.
Welcome to another exciting edition of RU 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 RU Garbage.
Oh, yeah.
It's that little show we sit there with your favorite comedians, and we find
that that's
the group to be classy.
Yeah.
Or they're just a big old piece of trash.
Garbage.
I'm your host, H. Foley, coming at you on a beautiful day.
We're out back here with Tootie's in a new edition.
She's upstairs polishing her 9-11 memorabilia.
Okay.
Never forget.
Okay.
That's from CS on the Patreon.
My co-host is coming at you from right next to me, unamused this week.
Tough break, CS.
I don't know what to tell you.
He is the CEO of RU Garbage.
She is an international businessman and my best pal in the whole wide world.
Give it up for KJ, Kevin James Ryan, everybody.
What up, gang?
First of all, thanks for tuning in.
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And now, also, full video available on Spotify over there.
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You go over there, you get all that bonus content, gang.
Yes, sir.
And gang, we couldn't be more excited to have our incredibly, and I mean
incredibly, special guest
here with us today for the first time.
He is a very funny stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster, and OG of ours from
Philadelphia.
One of my first friends in stand-up comedy.
When Moses wore short pants, we were hanging out, running around the streets of
Philly
together.
It was fucking fantastic.
He's got a hot Bud Light commercial out right now you got to check out.
Surely, I forgot about that.
Kids all over the place.
He killed it.
Saturdays, Sundays, college, bros, he's all over the joint.
And you can hear him every week in his amazing podcast, Little Stinkers.
Give it up for John Del Calo, everybody.
Hey, thank you, boys.
Hey, buddy.
Good to see you.
How are you guys?
I thought you were doing your hair in the bathroom.
Yeah, I had to put a hat over it.
It didn't turn out great.
He's in there.
Oh, this has gone bad.
I got a hat.
What do you use?
What's the product in the hair?
I just put a little Moroccan oil in it when I get out of the shower.
You know?
Oil of argon.
What do you get whenever you get at Target?
Oil of argon.
Some shit like that.
Sounds like something from fucking Star Trek.
Whatever I'm using ain't working.
All right?
A little Klingon jizz get it going.
Moroccan oil.
I respect that.
I know that stuff.
Yeah.
That's fancy stuff.
Yeah.
I get about four good hair days a year.
Can I recommend something?
Yeah.
As a fellow follicle man.
Hoagies.
Mayonnaise.
Castor oil.
Have you heard about it?
No.
Isn't that for cars?
No.
It was, I think, to make you throw up when you were a kid.
A little castor oil in there.
It's nice.
It's better than any of those hair gels or the pomades or whatever.
A little bit of castor oil.
You're more follically gifted than me.
Dry hair.
Nuh-uh.
What do you mean?
You're killing it.
Nah, my shit curls up.
It's steaming up under here as we speak.
I'm going to have fucking dreadlocks again when I take my hat off.
Although he did have dreadlocks at one point, I do believe.
You did?
Also, put a...
You had dreads?
Not when I knew you.
No.
No, no, no.
I had dreads in an eyebrow ring my freshman year of college.
Whoa.
That's a guy.
Well, thanks for coming in.
That's crazy.
You're the first white dude with dreads we've ever had on the show.
All right, yeah.
There you go.
How does that happen?
Did you stop washing your hair?
Oh, no.
A lot of mid-grade weed, I believe.
That was a big part of it.
Can't be a Bob Marley's greatest hits got me.
I saw a Lil Wayne's Crib episode at the right time in my life.
I'm sure to hit you.
Also, I do want to say, you have...
The first podcast episode me and Foley have ever recorded was a podcast we used
to called
the Center City Comedy Podcast.
And John gave us our first positive piece of feedback we've ever received on
that show.
He texted me.
He goes, I love the show.
What submarine did you record in?
You guys have come a long way.
That was about 11 years ago.
Back to the dreads.
Hold on a second.
I can't let this slide.
No, of course.
How long did it take you to build them up?
Takes a while, right?
And when did you decide, I'm going to be a white dude wearing dreads?
And nobody said anything to you?
I'm sure a lot of people did.
Yeah, a lot of people did.
It was, I guess, senior year of high school.
I was like...
I'm not even fucking around.
I saw Lil Wayne with dreads for the first time.
Senior year of high school.
How about some cornrows or something?
Well, I couldn't do it in school, so I had to wait until the summer.
I had a Puerto Rican chick partition my hair off, and I ordered a kit on the
internet
that I put beeswax in, and then...
Dreads for white dudes?
Comes with free patchouli oil or whatever?
And they were not great.
And you just don't wash your hair?
There was a special shampoo in the little kit that I bought.
They stunk physically, metaphorically, every way you can think of them stinking.
And how long did you keep them?
I think three months.
And what did your parents say?
Get out.
Not much about it.
They were pretty happy to see me looking like a skinhead when they got back
from my little
sister's basketball game one day.
Jesus Christ.
Now, was this more like hippie dreads, or like you wanted to be Lil Wayne dread?
Or walked in both worlds a little bit?
I was still in my G-Unit era.
Shout out.
Hey, I still am.
When you were writing any rap lyrics at the time.
I was freestyling a little bit.
Don't know if I was writing anything down.
Had to come off the dome, you know?
I was all off the dome.
Off the top, as they say in the streets.
You get drunk, you freestyle with your friends.
Sure.
I've been to those parties.
Man, would you stick.
I'm not hiding it.
No, I respect it.
All right.
Let's...
All right.
How does it...
We got to get the backstory of how a guy decides to get dreads.
Are you from Delaware?
Yeah.
Wilmington, Delaware.
Wilmington, Delaware.
Okay.
Take us back to there.
Wilmington, Delaware.
Mom, dad.
Yeah.
Grew up.
Mom, dad.
Brother, sisters.
Older sister, younger sister.
How far apart are they?
Five years each.
Five years each?
Yeah, so they're 10 years apart, and they're like best friends.
Really?
Yeah.
I'm out of the mix.
And you guys grew up in a house?
Yeah, I guess you would call it a single family home on this program.
Sure, we would.
I will say it was a neighborhood of row homes.
Okay.
Our house was in the middle of the block.
Uh-huh.
Not only connected on one side, and in between our house and the next house was
a shared driveway.
Ooh.
Okay.
Wait.
One garage or no garage?
No garage.
It just led to the backyards.
So.
It was basically like an alleyway.
No one parked in there.
That's where people are running from the cops.
No garage.
You ran out of the alleyway.
You are.
That's a shared driveway, buddy.
Okay.
Get the hell out of my shared driveway.
Talking to the cops.
I don't know.
We have a shared driveway, not an alleyway.
So, I don't know if that would necessarily count as a single family home.
That's not.
So, you were connected on one side?
I don't understand what a single family home is.
A single family home is like.
A freestanding.
A freestanding.
We're a family who loves each other.
A townhouse doesn't qualify as a loving home.
No.
No.
You're not the ones I've stayed in.
Their sons don't have dreadlocks.
Wait.
Let's get the actual definition.
Single family.
See if you can get a single.
What the proper definition of a single family home.
Domicile.
I believe it's standalone.
What did your mom do?
What did your dad do?
My dad at one point he owned an accessibility company.
He sold wheelchair ramps.
That kind of stuff.
At one point.
Yeah, that wasn't a.
That was a good week.
That wasn't the whole time.
Okay.
And then he eventually sold life insurance after that.
What happened to the business?
I think he grew to hate handicapped people after some time of working with them
and then
didn't want to be in that business.
Sure.
Did you have like a bunch.
What did he do before that?
Do you know?
Before that, I think he worked at a hardware company.
Okay.
That I think was my grandfather's at some point.
A lot of it's murky.
A lot of blurry memories.
Talking about rising and falling in America.
In Wilmington.
What did your mom do?
My mom worked for a lawyer.
You know, a secretary.
Okay.
But more of a legal assistant kind of thing.
Paralegal type person.
Gotcha.
I think secretary is down.
Drafting documents and stuff like that probably.
She's, you know, transcribing whatever the guy says in the tape recorder, all
that stuff.
The whole time that you were growing up, that was her main thing.
Yeah, she was stay at home until maybe my sister was in kindergarten or
something.
Your younger sister.
Yeah, my little sister.
And then I guess she started back full time when I was like eight or ten or
something like that.
Okay.
Yeah.
Huh.
Would you say that the folks were doing well?
Did your dad do good in the insurance game?
He mentioned the shared driveway.
I mean, that's just a house, though.
Sure.
Of course.
What were the cars?
That's a big indicator.
And did you share those?
They had a car each.
Okay.
That's pretty good.
At some point.
Two cars.
At some point.
Mom was always rocking a Buick.
Okay.
Shout out to a nice Buick American car.
Pop-Up worked for GM, so they had the GM discount, so it was always Buick.
Pop-Up.
Okay.
And then my dad had a minivan at some point, a nice town and country once we
had three kids.
Dude, when the town and country's hit, that was a good vehicle.
Let me slap a big old Santa Cruz sticker on the back of it.
Really?
Yeah.
On the back of the van?
Uh-huh.
Ugh.
He was good to me when I was skateboarding.
You know, he was-
I respect that.
That's a good dad.
He was my cameraman.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
He did my sponsor me tape.
Your dad filmed your sponsor me tape.
Hold on.
The angles were shit, but yeah.
We're getting way ahead of ourselves here.
I mean, this is crazy.
Back this up.
Do they still live in that house?
Uh, no.
They moved.
What was the name of the street that that was on?
That street was Charles Place.
Charles Place.
That sounds pretty nice.
It sounds like a sitcom.
Something from England or something.
Sounds nice, but the neighborhood was Cleland Heights.
Cleland.
Cleland.
Cleland.
That ain't a great sound.
That ain't a right to Cleveland.
Do you have the definition?
Drop the V.
What, uh, do you have the definition of a single family home?
A single family home is a freestanding dwelling that is designed to be occupied
by one household.
Okay.
It has its own land.
Okay.
Like a kitchen in a driveway.
Gotcha.
What a hard way to find out that I did not grow up in a single family home.
My guy came in and he's like, single family home, connected on both sides.
And another family lived in there.
And a quiz nose on the roof.
Okay.
All right.
And how close proximity did you live to your grandparents?
Grandparents, uh, were a 