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Are You Garbage Comedy Podcast: Meals By Cug!

Hachimachi, the 2024 Through the Roof Tour is about to launch, baby.
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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 RUGarbage.
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It's that little show we sit there with your favorite comedians, and we find it
at the group to be classy.
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Or just a big old piece of trash.
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man, makes us all look good.
Works the ones, the twos, the threes, and the fours.
He crosses the T's, and he dots the I's.
Give it up for T-Bone McScruffins.
It's Toby McMullen, everybody.
What up, boys?
What up, T-Bone?
Hey, pal.
I'm stoked.
We got a true inspiration in here, man.
Talk about the American dream.
Yeah, this guy.
Doing all right.
You start eating sandwiches in your car, and then you're one of the biggest
guys on social media.
I mean, come on!
Not a bad life.
Gang, the long hair ain't lying, because 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 an influencer, an internet sensation.
He has 1.4 million followers on Instagram, 2.6 million on TikTok.
The FBI has his name down as Danny Mandela, but you know him on the streets as
Cougine.
Give it up for the Couges, everybody.
Let him hear it.
How are we?
Thanks for having me.
Buddy, thank you so much for coming in.
Happy to have you here, buddy.
And sitting down with us.
Give us the back story.
Give us the origin story of the Couges.
Of the Couges?
I mean, I gave myself the name Meals by Couges.
I'm just short for Cougine with Pete's cousin.
Right.
For all you non-Italians out there.
For all you dirtbags.
Yeah, we're all Irish.
Watching you like a hawk.
Yeah.
I just started in college.
I had to move off campus junior year.
I was like, I just want to like-
Why did you have-
Where were you asked to move off campus?
It's like a thing in like, I went to Newport, so most people do like two years
on, and then
they move off for the last two years.
Okay.
So it wasn't like I got thrown off.
Okay.
Yet.
But, yeah, I don't know.
I just want to document my food journey.
Okay.
Because I like food, and I was just like fucking around, just taking pictures.
And then, you know, I did a little video here and there.
I did like four years without a view, right?
Sure.
It was just like my buddies, and it was just like, they thought it was funny.
I was like, all right, it gives me a little hobby to do.
Uh-huh.
So I wasn't working hard in college.
I was just-
What were you majoring in?
Accounting.
I have an accounting degree.
No shit.
No shit.
I'm smart.
I like how when I asked him what the origin story hit me with Cousine.
I meant your origin story.
Yeah.
Growing up and all that.
Growing up, Staten Italy, born and raised, 1997, rugged fans of Rossville.
It's not rugged.
It's the most white Italian-American part ever.
Brothers and sisters?
I got two older brothers.
How old are they?
How much older are they?
So like two and three years older.
Two and three years older than you?
Not bad.
What did your parents do for work growing up?
My mother stopped working when she had my oldest brother.
She was a nurse, and my father just retired as a nurse.
Okay.
Nice.
Both nurses.
Both nurses.
Nice.
Very nice.
100% Italian all the way through the board?
Through the board.
Yeah, probably.
Okay.
Even if he wasn't, he wouldn't fucking say it publicly.
You know what I mean?
There might be a little German in there or something.
What kind of fed questions?
You're attacking the brand.
The British accent comes out.
Keep it under the rug.
All right.
And growing up, single family home, apartment, what were you guys living in?
No, we had a two family, so it was like a regular house.
Staten Island's like suburbs.
Yeah.
Right.
It's not like Brooklyn, so.
So it's two together, like two?
No, it was like a house, and then we had an apartment, and my grandmother lives
in the
apartment.
Whoa.
That was very traditional in Staten Island school.
Holy shit.
And she had her own setup up there, right?
Yeah.
Kitchen, all that stuff.
Kitching, all that stuff.
And, you know, her own thing.
Okay.
And extended family around the area as well?
No.
I mean, both my parents were raised in Staten Island, but everyone moved to
Jersey.
That's what you're doing.
We're the only family left in Staten Island.
You're the only ones that stayed.
You get a couple of bucks, you go to Jersey.
Okay.
So your dad's retired.
Your mom's retired.
What do your two brothers do?
Well, my eldest works for Meta.
He's like intelligent or whatever.
Intelligent or whatever.
And my middle brother, he's a school teacher, special ed school teacher.
Okay.
Very nice.
Not bad.
Not bad.
And how were your grades growing up?
How were you in school?
Oh, good.
Yeah, yeah.
My parents, like, get home from school, do your homework, and then you can do
whatever
you want.
Public school?
Catholic school?
Where are you going to?
So we all did public till eighth grade, and then high school, we all did
Catholic schools.
They went to a small Catholic high school, where you had to, like, try and do
homework.
I went to, like, the all-boy Catholic school, where you didn't have to do
anything.
Okay.
Because I didn't want to do anything.
Sure.
And I'm a lazy piece of shit.
I respect it myself as well.
Huh.
Any sports?
Yeah, I played basketball.
I stopped, I guess, JV year.
We all stopped.
The entire team just quit.
They had two kids.
They had two kids.
The team from Brooklyn's killing us.
Yeah, so, I don't know.
Eventually, you just get burnt out, and you're like, eh, I'd rather just hang
out.
I like how you got burnt out on the JV team.
You're like, running suicides.
What are you, nuts?
I'm wearing my knees out, coach.
I'm 13.
I don't have this.
I got to think about life after sports.
You know what I'm saying?
I don't want to get CTE or no shin splints.
Come on.
Man, remember shin splints?
That was a teenager's worst nightmare.
I remember.
You got those.
First time, I didn't know what was.
I thought I was going paralyzed, dude.
I didn't know what was happening.
Yeah, dude.
There was no cure, either.
It was like you take Tylenol or something like that.
It's not a cure.
It's not a disease.
It's not running a 5K for shin splints.
Okay.
What was, growing up, what was the food like?
Were you guys eating at home every night?
Were you eating out a lot?
There was always, you know, family dinner after, you know, school with the
parents.
Mom and dad could cook?
Yeah, they could semi.
They cook okay.
They cook enough.
My mom was like, she doesn't like to cook that much.
I mean, she did growing up because she stayed on mom.
So, you know, she cooked every night.
My father could cook a little.
See, I can't tell if, I don't know how to grade this.
Like you saying they can't cook.
I don't know if that's, they can't cook as far as like.
Staten Island Italian?
Staten Island Italian or as regular, or as, you know, regular people across the
board?
I mean, they did their job.
They could cook.
They could make a red sauce and all that kind of stuff?
Oh, yeah, they could make a nice red sauce and some meatballs, cutlets, you
know.
So they could cook.
Yeah, they knew their way around the kitchen.
But then once I learned how to cook, I was like, ah, you guys are a little
slack.
That's too much garlic, ma.
These are real truffles.
Yeah.
You start losing it.
Always Italian food?
Like, would you do meatloaf?
Would you do?
Yeah, we did like American.
Like, we did meatloaf, pork chops, which I fucking hated.
But my mother just, I don't know.
I guess they were cheap and easy to make.
A pork chop to a little kid.
Might as well be from another planet.
Might as well feed it to the dog.
I know.
Did they do the applesauce with the pork chops?
No.
My mother used to, like, bread them and then just throw them in the yard.
It was nice.
It was not a good time.
Yeah, it's weird.
When we were little kids, we didn't realize that our parents were young, and so
they were
just kind of starting to cook.
Like, my mom's money now.
Like, her cutlets, everything is unbelievable.
Right.
But when I was a kid, I remember her throwing out hamburgers and meatloaf at us
and being
like, lady, this is.
You're going to get your fucking, I hear she's probably 27 at the time.
Yeah, no shit.
It's strange, man.
Takes them a minute to get going.
What were the family vacations like growing up?
Any big trips?
Or were you going to the shore?
No, we did, like, cruises here and there.
What?
Okay, where to?
We're in it now, folks.
I don't know, like, Bermuda.
We only did, like, two or three of those.
We did, like, Disney a couple of times.
But, like, once we all got into high school, it was like.
We didn't really do too many trips because we went to Catholic school, so it
was like.
Sure.
That trip went to the education.
Ah, right.
Ah, right.
The family vacation goes to pay.
I would imagine two nurses, they did well, right?
They did.
Yeah, they did all right.
Okay.
They provided.
There you go.
He always goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, and then undercuts it real quick.
Yeah, they can cook.
That was all right.
It's real old school.
Nothing crazy.
I can't wait for my mother to watch her.
She's going to whack me with a wooden spoon.
Yeah, they didn't like my pork chops, you bastard.
A couple of cruises.
All right.
Now we're starting to get into it a little bit.
A family cruise.
Because that ain't, I don't know if you're aware, that ain't the classiest
vacation.
Yeah.
Nah.
The cruises are spring break on a fucking boat.
Anything down the Jersey Shore or anything like that?
Would you get a house in the summer?
No, not really.
Can you swim?
I was a lifeguard for my first job, so.
Okay.
There you go.
The pool?
Yeah, the pool.
The ocean's like a whole different house.
You actually got to know how to save a life in the ocean.
Is it a coast guard?
I don't know.
I got a hassle off over here.
I don't know.
Okay.
All right.
So we're talking about a community pool in Staten Island.
Yeah, it was a bunch of Russians.
That place was probably jumping.
There were a bunch of Speedos.
It was weird.
Oh, yeah.
You got the fucking Eurocats.
Indoor or outdoor pool?
It was outdoor.
It was outdoor.
So this is your summer job?
Yeah, it was my summer job for when I was 15, 16, and 17.
That had to be pretty sweet.
It's a pretty good gig.
I imagine a lot of cute girls running around over there.
It was a bunch of old men in Sp