Name: The Best Dive Bars! | Are You Garbage Comedy Podcast w/ Kevin Ryan & H. Foley
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The Best Dive Bars! | Are You Garbage Comedy Podcast w/ Kevin Ryan & H. Foley

Holy moly, New York City and the surrounding areas, R U Garbage and Friends is
back.
We're going to be down there at the Comedy Cellar May 18th and June 15th.
You got two chances to see us, so come on out.
Yeah, tickets available at RUGarbage.com.
We got some of our favorite guests coming to play AYG with the crowd.
It's a small venue, so get your tickets before they sell out. We'll see you
there.
Hey, everybody out there, and welcome back to everybody's favorite podcast.
This is R U Garbage.
Oh, yeah.
It's that little show we sit down with your favorite comedians, and we find out
that they're good to be classy.
Yeah.
They're 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 with Tootie's in the new edition.
She says she's done with Chinese food.
Okay.
That's it.
That's what she hit me with.
That's a political stance.
I said, yeah.
I said, you do you.
I was like, is this got to do with anything?
She's like, no, I'm just not eating it.
Okay.
My co-host is coming at you from across the tables.
We call it a family episode.
Just the boys, the bozos, and the homies, just the way we like it.
Give it up for my best pal in the world, Kevin, James, Ryan.
Hey, what up, gang?
Shout out to you.
Yeah, that's pretty good.
How about that?
I like it.
As always, please make sure you rate, view, subscribe on iTunes.
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You go over there, you get all that bonus content.
And, not to mention, the boys are on the road, baby.
Get your tickets.
We got L.A. coming up this week.
We got L.A. tickets.
They may not be available.
I don't know.
You snooze, you lose, maybe.
We got Portland, Maine.
We got Atlantic City.
We got Cleveland.
We got Pittsburgh.
We got, I think that might be it.
Whatever.
All tickets available at regarbage.com.
I'm excited about that whole stretch right there.
A lot of my favorite places.
Yeah.
Except for one.
La La Land.
Listen, if you're out there in L.A., I'm going to say, we really need you out
there.
And, I'll tell you why.
Because the Bug Man needs backup out in L.A.
I need you out there.
I need you out there.
He don't want you out there.
He need you out there, gang.
The Bug Man back in L.A.
God damn it.
I always wanted to love L.A.
And, I love L.A.
It don't love you, though.
It doesn't.
It's a dirty bitch.
It tries to hurt me.
Not tries.
Oh, yeah.
Get you good.
Get me good.
Hey, you're right in the chops.
Beautiful place.
Nice restaurants.
Beautiful, talented people.
I love the scenery.
I love the weather.
I'm an L.A. guy.
No, you ain't.
No, you ain't.
That place chewed you up, spit you out.
Twice.
Turned you out.
I saw you hooking down there on Sunset.
Fuck, it really did turn me out there.
It turned you out.
You went to L.A.
Which kind of turns me on a little bit.
Oh, yeah.
Go back.
Yeah.
There you little bitch, aren't I?
He landed L.A.
Ramone picks me up at the airport.
I'll see you later.
What the fuck?
I'm carrying all the bags.
Like a pimp.
It gets thrown in the back.
Yeah.
Yeah.
L.A.'s going to be fun, man.
It'll be good.
We're about to be back out there.
La La Land.
No one leaves.
Damn it.
Out to California.
Yeah, that is really you, dude.
We've been out there like five.
Are you Don Henley?
No.
No.
Yeah, it's far from it.
I'm more of a Glenn Frey man.
You're Don Henley.
Playing the drums and singing.
He's got a voice of a generation.
Playing the drums and singing?
Get out of here.
You got to be ultra talented to pull that off.
Get somebody else to play the goddamn drums and get up there and sing.
I used to hate when Philip Collins did that shit.
He pulled it off.
Hey, tell me Don Henley didn't pull it off.
I mean, your head is so far up your ass.
Imagine that statement.
Yeah, Don Henley has never pulled it off.
He didn't really do it for me.
Oh, he didn't do it for you?
Seven million records.
Today, we're talking about Dive Bar, something near and dear to our hearts.
I've never been to one.
Oh.
Tell that to the frolic room out there in La La Land.
Which was, I think, the last time me and you were posted up proper as a dive of
dives.
But I was searching for a dive bar a few nights ago.
Me and our good pal Dr. Rubinoff had some bopping around the city doing some
spots.
In New York City.
In New York City, New York.
Really?
And I meet up with him.
It's probably finished up around 11.15.
Oh, it's a dive bar hour.
11.15 Saturday night.
Got some spots under your belt.
A couple of bucks burning a hole in my pocket looking to take the edge off.
Looking to lay some money on a bar.
I'm in the East Village.
Uh-huh.
Prime dive locale.
That's where you want to go.
Tell you that right now.
Yes and no, though.
It's changed a lot.
Right?
Because one of those bars over there on 2nd Ave got cool, I guess.
The library or whatever it is?
No, libraries are.
It has a decent dive.
A little trendy, a little cool guy dive.
But a solid dive.
What do you mean exactly?
Uh, place called Cooper's.
Cooper's?
Yeah, it's on 2nd.
It's like a bar.
On 2nd and 5th?
Yeah.
That place got cool.
Yeah.
Right?
And now there's a line.
I mean, you probably know with your young cool kids.
I've been fucked up in there.
Yeah.
It stinks, though.
Yeah, it's whatever.
I'm not, nothing here nor there.
It just recently got pretty hot.
Because I've been walking between New York Comedy Club on 24th and 4th right
down 2nd Avenue
for years, and I've never seen a line.
There was a line of about 100 people to get in.
A line for Cooper?
To get in that joint.
Wait, this must have just happened.
I feel like, I mean, it's always.
It's like a popular, like, kind of Saturday brunch, kind of hanging out all day
drinking.
It must have recently got cool, like, cool to the point where I've never seen a
line.
He's nuked these fucking, these kids.
You know what I mean?
I can't.
What do you want?
They go in, it's, you know, whatever.
That all aside, all the dives around there now have gotten infiltrated and are
packed
with these people that can't get in, or they're like, oh, we're going to go to
wherever, and
then, you know, you know how, like, the cellar has all, like, those, the comedy
stuff that
pops up around it gets all filled with the runover from the cellar.
Similar to this.
So we went to, like, four different of our dives, and they were all just piled
in with
fucking new guy Luke's and their Sperry's and their fucking.
You were at the 206 version of Cooper's?
Yeah, we were trying, I mean, we were, obviously, we don't want to go to Cooper's,
but all of
our normal haunts, the fish bar, which is like, I think it's called, I don't
even, that's
the good thing about a dive, especially in New York, you're just like, oh, I
know it's
midway up the, I've walked by it a bunch, you can just, you know, there's no
signage,
there's no, you pop in, you pop out.
That shade bar is sometimes tough to get into, too.
Very much so, but that's not a dive, that's a, that's a classy establish.
Of course.
For a guy like me, it's a classy job.
When I think dive, I think places that you like to go to get all fucked up, to
a degree.
Unless it's Gallagher's.
Sure.
Which I bumped in, I was in Central Park.
Bumped in to me?
No.
What?
You didn't say hi?
What?
Jerry.
I was walking.
Have you ever done that, by the way?
What?
You ever walked by, see me anywhere, and didn't say anything?
I bet you have.
No way.
I'd respect it.
No, that's crazy, dude.
I'm wearing a cape.
Um, no, but I was in Central Park this weekend, and I was, I was pushing the
baby, trying to
get him to sleep, he likes to be moving, it's nap time, and this, I'm walking
by, and this
is like a young couple kid, and he's like, holy shit, Kippy, I'm like, what's
up, man?
Like, I'm trying to be like, fuck, dude, the baby's eyes are like, nodding out,
he's
like, huge fan, can I get a picture?
I'm like, yeah, what's up, dude, I don't, thanks for the support, you know,
like, trying
to, I don't want to tell him to.
Young kid?
Younger.
Look at you.
Nah, I mean, look at me.
Can we go to Cooper's?
Can you get me a table of Cooper's with new guy, Luke?
Um, he, uh, and then as he's taking, he's all jazzy, he's taking his pictures,
and the
girl goes, who is this?
And I was like, ooh, all right, right back to reality.
And she's like, uh, he's like, this is Kippy, Kevin, James, Ryan, and she's
like, I don't
know, she's like, what the fuck?
He's like, from where are you going?
She's like, oh, we're going to Gallagher's tonight.
I was like, yeah.
Oh, she saw, she got it.
Okay, good.
I guess they were in town visiting or so.
Nice.
But.
Thank God.
Oh, yeah.
That would have ruined everything.
Needed a win.
He's fucking embarrassing me in front of my son.
Ew, who are you?
You look down, the baby's awake, and he's just shaking his head.
It's like, this guy stinks.
That's good.
But, it got me thinking, as we were, we were going to dive to dive, and, you
know, some
were too crowded, too loud, just whatever.
It was just.
This Saturday?
Saturday night.
Saturday night.
Uh-huh.
Now, are you doing one at least?
No, we're not even, some of them are just like, you're like, I'm not fighting
that.
Imagine if you, the normal spots that we would go, you open the door, or see
through, it's
just packed, and you're like, that's not what a dive, a dive should be
everybody's at that
gets a seat, or half the group you're with gets a seat, and it's a very.
Should be somewhat empty.
It should, that would, of course.
That's what I'm saying.
There should be like, it shouldn't be wall to wall.
And the great thing about a New York City dive is that, like, the transient,
you get
people that are coming, one for before dinner, one for after dinner, you got
the guy who's
posted up in the corner, you got a group of friends, it's like very, half the
people are
posted the fuck up, the other half are cycling in and out type thing, you know
what I mean?
So you, you, you balked at a couple of places.
Oh, most of them.
It's funny.
It sucks.
You did that to me, that was, that was a realization moment for me.
We did that like, what, two Thursdays ago?
When we did, when we did the cellar show and you went out for drinks afterwards,
we went
to like four places and didn't walk in.
That was me, you and Ari.
Yeah.
Yeah, they were, I mean, that wasn't me.
That was like, we were all looking to sit down and get a table and talk.
I know, I personified it with you, though.
Getting old.
I'm getting old?
Yeah, a little bit.
Sure, I'm an old man.
You're not the young gunslinger you used to be.
Kevin Ina would have walked in there.
Ew!
Who's got 20 I can borrow?
What stinks in here?
Yeah.
But yeah, I mean, we were looking for a table or whatever, but that, that's,
that was a bit
of the impetus of, you know, the, the idea of what makes a good bar.
We wanted to hear from the Patreon homies, stories of dive bars, what they like
in a dive
bar, the specials.
And I got to be honest with you, the homies, the homies get you thirsty a
little bit.
Oh, buddy.
It ain't, it ain't.
You ain't lying, dog.
All right.
Let's see.
Let's get into it.
This one's from Patty's Equal, Patty's Equal Dealer.
That's pretty good.
Oh, Patty's Equal Dealer.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Straight to the plug with her.
This is, uh, the Black Horse London Pub in San Francisco.
Like the name, which we were in it.
We were in a great dive in San Francisco.
We're, we're, we watched the, where there was that, there was that guy that was
driving
around, said he was going to come back and shoot the place or whatever.
That's a dive bar.
That's a dive bar.
There's not some method driving around with bare feet in a, uh, yeah.
People are going, what's he up to?
What's he up to?
That was a nice dive bar.
That was a dive.
You walk in.
I like a dive where that's kind of, not dangerous, but you go like, I'm walking
in, there's regulars,
they're eyeing me, they're, they're doing the inventory on me.
And you ki