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AYG Comedy Podcast: Jim Florentine - American Dad

Hey, what's up, everybody? Welcome to the R.U. Garbage Comedy Podcast.
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Welcome to another exciting edition of R.U. 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 new podcast.
This is R.U. Garbage, the show where you sit down with your favorite comedians
and find out if they grew up classy or if they're complete trash.
I'm your host, H. Foley, coming at you on a beautiful day here at Mommy's house
in Bluebell, Pennsylvania,
where the beers are cold and the pool's empty.
My co-host, back in New York City, probably making a grab at some empanadas to
load up on before he heads back down to the Jersey Shore.
He's the brains behind the operation.
He's my best friend.
Let me tell you something, folks.
Next time you're reaching for a best pal, make it a kippy, because this kid's
all right.
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Hey, gang.
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And for everybody waiting for me in North Wildwood, I'll be back later today.
Get the Sam's pizza ready.
Daddy's coming home.
Keep the fucking funnel cake hot.
The kid's coming back, and I like it.
Gang, we are ecstatic to have our very, very special guest here on the podcast
today.
We're going to go over this rap sheet this man has got on him.
As an actor, he has appeared in Beer League, Grand Theft Auto, A Little Help,
Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Girls, Californication, Louie, Inside Amy Schumer,
Trainwreck, Red Oaks, and, of course, Crank Yankers.
He is the host of Everybody is Awful on Barstool Sports.
He has also appeared on Last Call with Carson Daly, Tough Crowd with Colin
Quinn, Chelsea Lately, The Howard Stern Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Gotham Comedy
Live, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Church of What's Happening Now, and, of
course, 128 episodes of that metal show.
So we know he's got a little bit of cash on him, but the big question in
everybody's mind today, is he garbage?
Ladies and gentlemen, give it the fuck up for one of the OGs, Mr. Jim Florentine,
ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you.
My biggest credit out of all of them, it wasn't listed on there.
I played the Bluebell Firehouse.
And when you mentioned Bluebell, I'm like, I remember being there.
It's outside of Pennsylvania, 45 minutes outside of Philly.
And I remember bringing a hot date there, too.
I go, look, I got this gig tonight.
She's like, I'll go with you.
And I didn't want to tell her I was playing in a firehouse.
I do.
That's always a tough break.
Told her it was the Bellagio.
I was like, look, it's this thing I'm doing for my friend, a favor.
No, I'll go with you.
I got nothing to do.
I'm like, all right, look, it's at this firehouse.
She's like, that's all right.
And she didn't fit in there.
I can imagine.
Yeah, holy shit.
That's funny, man.
Thanks for doing the show.
Yeah, no problem.
And I've spent a lot of time down a while at the Comedy Club down there.
So I spent a lot of summers down there.
Yeah, that closed down.
How was that?
I never even got in there.
That closed before I started.
But I remember looking around at it.
It was amazing.
They did two shows a night, seven nights a week.
So you got a lot of stage time.
You know, so it was great for me to just get up and do sets,
especially when I first started.
You know, and then the nightlife there used to be open at five in the morning,
the clubs in Wildwood.
They gave me a ticket.
Wildwood plays it fast and fucking loose.
Even nowadays, dude.
I know.
It was open at five in the morning.
Nowhere else was open at five in the morning except for Wildwood.
Dude, Wildwood plays by its own fucking rules.
I was, I've been down, I've quarantined.
So my parents have a house down there.
When shit hit the fan in New York and nobody knew what was going on,
I'm like, I'm getting the fuck out of here.
So me and my wife went down there and we were hanging out.
And I mean, like, just weekend after weekend,
there'd be more and more people.
Games on the boardwalk opening up.
Meanwhile, people are fucking collapsing all over the fucking world.
And Wildwood's doing the ring toss on Maury's Pier, dude.
It was crazy.
Yeah.
Good time.
Now, Jim, you were born in Brooklyn, but raised in Jersey.
Did you, did you guys look?
Like two years old, I moved from Brooklyn.
I don't remember being there.
I pretty much grew up in Jersey.
I lived down in Florida for a little while,
but pretty much Jersey, born and bred.
As a kid, you lived down in Florida?
When I was in high school, junior, senior year, I moved down.
My family moved down there.
And then a couple of years later, I went, moved back again.
So I spent about four years down in Florida.
Did you move back solo or did you move back with your family?
The day I graduated from high school,
I drove a shitty car back from Florida, New Jersey,
because I hated it so bad down there.
Yeah.
You know, and then I came back.
Yeah, my parents decided to move between sophomore and junior year,
which was horrible because, you know, you have no friends.
You have all your friends you grew up with,
and then all of a sudden you're down there.
And I got put in like this private Catholic school
where, you know, they were all like rich kids and stuff.
And I was like, you know, this heavy metal dude with, you know,
Ozzy written on my notebook.
I got that with long hair.
They were all driving daddy's Mercedes.
I had a beat up shitty Volkswagen.
Yeah.
Why did your parents decide to move you down there, though?
My dad wanted to open up like a catering business down there.
He always had a dream.
He had a good job in New York and in Philadelphia.
He worked for a while.
And he just decided he wanted to buy these like lunch trucks and go to
construction sites and, you know, and buy a whole round of them,
like six and a completely bomb.
That was my dad's dream, too.
He wanted, he wanted, he always wanted a hot dog stand and he wanted,
he wanted a lunch truck because he's been fascinated with them our entire
lives.
Yeah.
He bought a route of like six lunch trucks and just, you know,
bought a route off these people, but it just feel like completely tanked.
It just didn't work out.
The road coaches, baby.
Gotta love them.
Oh, and they were really old and shitty and they were always breaking down.
It was a mess.
Dude, a hot dog from one of them things was fucking A-OK, man.
They cooked them in something else on those carts, man.
Oh, yeah, I know.
I used to, you know, clean them and all this stuff.
Yeah, it was just a, but that was his dream.
He wanted to do that for some reason.
I don't know what it is with dads in the, from the Northeast.
For some reason, they think Florida is like fucking, you know,
like it's just the end all bit, go down to Florida.
That's all they all want to do is go to fucking Florida.
I don't get it.
Well, his mom and his brother lived down there.
We'd go down there like once or twice a year for vacation.
Okay.
Yeah, we had a lot of family down there, you know,
so he just decided to take a chance.
It didn't work out.
I love the balls.
I love the balls.
We had the credit for leaving a good job.
You know, we had seven kids, so, you know,
he had to feed a lot of mouths,
so leaving a good job in New York City to try that, you know,
try that out just didn't work out for him.
What did he do in the city?
He was an accountant for Dun & Bradstreet.
Okay.
He had a good job, you know, middle class.
Yeah.
Yeah, but we had seven of us, you know, so.
That's crazy.
Seven.
God damn.
The Irish Catholics, they don't pull out.
I know.
I'm the same.
My mom's one of nine, and it's like, we're like fucking tics, dude.
Everywhere we go, I meet cousins.
It's ridiculous.
Yeah, yeah.
I know.
I got 14 nieces and nephews.
All named Mary.
Yeah.
Keep track of them.
And I'm 33, and I just got mad, but it's like New York 33,
and we don't have kids, you know what I mean?
And they're like, I had five kids by the time I was your age.
I'm like, yeah, it's not happening over here.
Slow it down.
Yeah.
Yeah, they started in like 20, 21.
They married the first person, and that was it.
Yeah, it's fucking crazy.
Seven kids.
So, did you guys grow up in a single-family home?
Would you guys have your own place?
Or was it like an apartment or anything?
No, we had a house.
Nice.
Yeah.
So, classic.
Yeah, we played.
Yeah, classic, you know, white picket fence, basketball court in the back,
you know, playing baseball, sports.
My dad was, you know, the coach, manager, all that stuff.
You know, they always came to the game.
So, it was a nice, you know, close-knit community.
It was cool.
In the neighborhood, we all just get together and just, you know, wreck shit.
All the kids.
We were wild.
Yeah, nothing's better than wrecking shit, dude.
That's the, as a kid, finding something you can fucking break in the woods or
something
is fucking second to none, dude.
Yeah.
Just to kick things off since you brought it there, did you guys have a garage
growing up?
Yeah.
Inside that garage, did you have an extra refrigerator, like an old beat-up
refrigerator
with sodas and shit like that?
No, we never had that.
We never had a second refrigerator.
No garage fridge.
I don't know.
Yeah, I'm surprised.
You figured, we might have had one, like, in the laundry room,
where the laundry was, possibly a second one.
Okay.
I can't remember, though.
We always used that laundry room, the top of the washer and dryer.
We'd put a sheet over top of that for parties.
And that's where the bar.
It turns into a bar, yeah.
Yeah, that's where the bar would be.
Oh, that's a good idea.
Catch your aunt late night sitting on that thing later, huh?
Sweet vermouth and cherries all over.
But the garage fridge is, like, an indicator of, like, trashy, of, like, you
know, middle-class
family, because they can't come to terms with throwing out a refrigerator, so
they just
keep it somewhere else in their house.
You know what I mean?
To them, it's this huge purchase.
So they put it in the basement, the laundry room, the garage.
So it's, like, a signifier of a level of trashiness.
And I grew up with one in the garage from, like, 19, you know, it was from,
like, 1964.
So, yeah, I don't know.
I mean, if they did have a second one, it was because, you know, they, we
couldn't fit the
food in the one refrigerator for seven kids.
Yeah, that's true.
How stretched out are you and your brothers and sisters?
Pretty close in age.
There's a 12-year difference between seven of us.
Holy shit.
My mom, their mom was popping them out, like, every year, and then it was, like,
every other
year towards the end, and shook a couple years off at the last one.
We were pretty close.
How was that rotation, trying to use the fucking bathroom down there?
That must have been insane.
Yeah, you know, it's like, well, I always say, because I didn't masturbate
until I was
21, and I said, I shared a room with two of my other brothers, so there's no
time.
I could never, and the bathrooms, you had to get in and get out, so I just didn't
have
any personal place to do it.
Oh, my goodness.
Dude, you would have caught me in the woods or something.
There's no way I could have lasted until 21.
I mean, I was looking at dirty magazines in the woods, like, you know, we have
our little
fort, you know, we build them.
Yeah, a little fucking little stash.
Everybody had that.
It's fucking great.
Yeah, but we go to garage sales and get them for, like, a dime, old Playboys or
penthouses,
and we'd go in the woods and keep them in our fort, you know, and then we'd get
fireworks
and blow up, you know, blockbusters, M80s, and shit like that, so.
Yeah, see, that's the funny thing, is one of the reasons wh