Are You Garbage? Comedy Podcast - Joe DeRosa: Suburban Life

Episode Date: June 11, 2020

Comedian/Writer/Actor Joe DeRosa joins us this week to talk growing up in the burbs, Italian Christmas, going to catholic school, and dressing up for halloween.  Bonus Episodes: https://www.patreon.com/AreYouGarbage Follow Kevin: https://www.instagram.com/kevinryancomedy/ Follow Foley: https://www.instagram.com/foleygrams/  

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 new podcast. This is Are You Garbage? It's the show where we sit down with your favorite comedians and find out if they grew up classy or if they're fucking trash and that's the bottom line. I'm your host H Foley coming at you on a beautiful day here in Astoria, Queens.

My co-host is coming at you from an undisclosed location somewhere on the southern tip of the great state of New Jersey. The Garden State Kid. Give it up for Kevin James Ryan everybody. Dang, happy to be here. Am I in Wildwood? Am I in New York? Who knows? I'm ping-ponging back and forth under the nightfall if you know what I mean. One toke over the line. Oh buddy, I'm wherever you don't need me. That's where I'm at, okay? One second you blink, I'm back in Washington Heights. Next time I'm on the Nor'easter down here on Maurice Beer.

If I could smokey in the bald man over here. Breaker, breaker, one-niners. Look out. The bandit on the loose. Skippy in the fatso. What's up guys, happy to be here. If you haven't already, please make sure you rate, review, subscribe on iTunes. Also, the full video is available on YouTube, so check that the fuck out. Very nice, guys. We're going to kick things off with some fan submissions here.

We have a vault locked to the teeth, stacked to the brim with our loyal fan submissions. We're going to kick things off right here right now with some of those kippy. What do you got? Well, as you know, may or may not know, Patreon is up and running and we get so many submission questions from you guys that there's no way we'd be able to get to all of them. So what we're doing is if you do join the Patreon right away, we'll answer, me and Foley will do one of your RU garbage questions. So that's where we are at right now.

First of all, shout out to everybody that's fucking signed up so far. It's, I mean, it's fucking awesome. Our first goal was a hundred patrons, you know, and we're almost, we're like 70% there at this point. And at a hundred, I'm going to go, me and Foley are going to go to his fucking parents house, the fucking dump he grew up in. And we're going to do an MTV crib style garbage edition on that fucking California split level he's got down there.

I didn't think we'd get 20 Patreons. I got to fucking talk to my mom about this now. I was thinking we got to get her out of the house. I got to get this brought a Walmart gift card or something. I'll tell her, I'll tell her coals open back up. Here were a couple of coals cash, you know what I mean? Send her on her way. Get this brought up some lunch reservation at CC's.

I'll throw some chicken nuggets in the backyard for your dad and lock the door. Yeah, it's going to be fun, man. Patreon, the whole Patreon thing is fun. So please come on, come on on board and join us. And if not, that's okay too. Got the, got the pod every week. We're having a good time. We appreciate everybody.

Exactly. Nothing changes, but we do have three different levels of Patreon. There's trash. There's a garbaggio, which is a little bit class or class here. And then the highest level is filthy animals. So check that out. All right. Let's get fucking into it enough of the Q and a here.

Yeah, enough of that. Let's go. Boo. Let's go. Baldy hit me. What do you got? All right. This is from Matt.

Have you ever showered outside? Yeah. Sure. All right. I don't know whatever vibe you got going on now, but I don't like it. This one's from Matt. Cutty. Have you ever drank served soda?

What the fuck is that? It's like the one of those like fucking extra caffeinated. We did. We did Jolt. We did. Well, listen, here's my thing. You're a young, you're a young whippersnapper. I remember when Jolt came out in the early eighties.

Yeah. You waited in line at the seven 11. It's right there on the second floor. Last time it was when I was older and I was too young to do anything. And then I was like, hey, uh, What? Come on. Hey, man.

Oh yeah. I got the pair of Jordans kind of for Christmas that year. No, we weren't allowed to. That might as well have been crack cocaine in my house. Sure. Of course, which very. Meaning we were fighting over it.

That means my mom stole my stash. No, we weren't allowed. I thought, I thought it would kill you. No. Jolt was the only one we knew about and shout out to Peron's deli. They were the only one that sold it. Like no, like name brand like Wawa didn't sell it. Fucking none of the gas stations sold it.

You couldn't get it at the supermarket. You had to, I guess this fucking Peron had a hookup. He also had the only boar's head, only boar's head lunch meeting town. So we used to go all the time, but we used to ride our bikes there and fucking we couldn't tell your parents you were getting fucking jolt soda. And at the same amount of dude a 20 ounce bottle had like,

it was a weapons like 17 cups and fucking coffee. That shit was fucking no joke. You would dude, you would take a sip and you would feel your teeth starting to ride out of your fucking head. Yeah. Yeah. No, we weren't.

I get him. I give him credit to a man. Talk about fucking genius marketing and Jesus. Genius graphic design. That lightning bolt through the O. Oh, put that on a t-shirt and sell it. Hello. All right.

All right. Next one comes from Christian a.k.a. Chrissy Habert Caliphate. That's, I believe that's from the history hyenas people. Shout out to you guys. Have you, all right, this is a fucking,

this is a blast. Have you ever taken tools from around your house to build a fort in the woods and like scavenging for pieces of wood with your friends? Oh my God. Dude. I, there was this girl that lived next door to me when I, when we lived in Wilkesbury.

Okay. We moved down from the mountains into the big city. Oh, down from the mountains. Yeah. Fucking bunch of clampets. And this chick, I guess she basically molested me. I don't know.

I didn't see it that way. I was 10. She was 13. I'm listening. Fucking. And. Playing doctor in the woods. Oh my God.

It was, it was insane. I look back on it now because I didn't know what to do. But if like, if you were to put my like, to take my weenie and put it in her, we would have had a pretty fun time. How did you get to this part from building a fort in the woods with

your friends? Hey, have you ever built a fort? And then he fucking opens up the fat shell. Just bragging about getting laid as a 10 year old. No. So what we did was, is that we purposely,

we're going to build a fort in the woods where we could go and do these things and hook up and all that kind of stuff. So we scoured for wood. Fucking took tools from my. I knew where there was some. And you're a little fucking. And your little underroos. Power Ranger, tidy whitey.

I don't know if I got a one by three stick. It's you. You know, you had a troubled childhood when you, when you, when you got a little stinger and shit stains in your underwear, that's a bad look. If you got a combo. If your moms do it washing your underwear and you,

and you're getting laid, there's something wrong with your childhood. You guys were fucking backwoods country folk. Man, it was weird. She was 13. I was 10. But yeah, we fucking took tools,

went and got wood and like looking back on it, the construction design was, it was, it was really. It wasn't up to code. I'll tell you that. We stuck the, we stuck the wood like halfway into the mud, like into the, into the ground and then,

and then built around there. Nothing on that way into the mud. Ain't nothing. Come on. Fucking too quick for you today. I'm throwing heat. Um, what about you?

That's all we did. That's all, I mean, dude, we grew up and like there was, there was the suburbs and there was just woods. So we, and everybody, they were building construction. There was new construction everywhere of like, those McMansion houses,

old brothers. So we would go just fucking steel from the job sites, woods, two by fours, plywood, whatever. And just, I mean, I must have built 50 fucking forts as a kid in different woods. I mean, and then as you got older, you know, you saw a little PVC,

maybe made like a three foot mong or whatever, you know, real classy. Start putting the wiring in the fort. I got a ceiling fan, a window unit. I tell you what, those woods, wherever they were, wherever you grew up, those woods,

there was a real love and hate and joy and fear relationship involved because you would just be in the woods. You'd be like, oh, this is awesome. Soon as it started getting dark at you're like, let's get the fuck out of here. Oh, bro. And there was also, you ever be in the woods,

you ever been in the woods and you just come across like an abandoned house just in the middle of the woods or like you come across like what used to be like a fireplace and you're like, what the fuck? There was always like some like weird graffiti. That's where the older kids went. You knew there was some kind of satanic ritual going on out there

in the middle of the night. Fucking frightening. But if you're looking to fucking make out with a 13 year old, that was this, that was the spot to take her spent all of my childhood in the woods. And at one time we found like a fucking, we found like a three foot grave, the size of a casket with a shuffle.

Like we like interrupted the digging of it. What? Yeah. Was the person still there? No, there was just like the, like the size of a casket or what it was at like six, you know, seven feet, whatever, by like three feet, yours would be, you know, five foot by six foot.

You're a little, a little more portly gentlemen. And then yeah, it was just dug like three feet deep and there was like the big mound of dirt and the fucking shovel was just in the sand. Left the shovel there? Yeah. It was the nineties. It didn't matter. This is from Steve Brady growing up that your family have assigned

seats in the kitchen table. Dude. Dude. Garbagio. Oh, yes, we did. As a kid, that was like, that was like your real estate. You didn't have, you didn't own anything as a kid, especially a little piece of garbage kid.

You know what I mean? That was like, that was the only thing you could, you could plant your flag on. Was that whatever seat you were at the table? Yeah. I know there's one place you couldn't sit at the Foley house. That's in the fucking big dogs chair. Oh yeah.

Unless you were paying the check. It was funny because every time we went out to dinner, it would always be like a replica of at home. You know what I mean? My dad was never your mom. My dad was never a booth guy. He always wanted a table. Never a booth.

Really? Yeah. That's trash. A table guy is trashy. You need a booth. Dude, you love a good booth at a diner. You like a booth. I know that.

I know about you. You like to have a booth. You like to have a booth in a fucking omelet. I know Kippy will get the burger when Kippy gets a burger. Uncle Hank knows he's getting the coleslaw and pickle. Kippy don't touch it. Yeah. All right.

This is from Steven Piccaro. Have you ever watched, have you ever watched the prices, the prices right in a bar? I can't say I have. If you, if you're at the bar for the 11am kickoff of the prices, right, that's fucking bad news, dude. You got bigger issues than what's on TV.

If you're doing, if you're fucking half three sheets to the wind when the fucking showcase showdown comes on. Only if I was working at a bar, that's the only time that that would be on. Yeah. All right. This was from Jason Donaldson.

This is a fucking home run. I'm sure someone in your family has, because you're fucking derelicts. This is from Jason. Has anyone in your family ever worn a suit jacket with sweatpants to a fancy family event? I don't know you. You wore sweat.

You wore fucking joggers to a funeral not too long ago. They were made in a khaki pants. No, no, but there's elastic in them at the end. It was. Yeah. That's not a good look. If you can see your socks at a funeral, you fuck off.

No socks at a funeral is just disrespectful. I'll tell you that. For a while, my dad had a pair of cargo sweatpants. Oh, that he would push the boundaries of fashion. Where he could and couldn't wear it. Where he couldn't.

Yeah. There was definitely a sweater tucked into those at one point with maybe a sport coat over it. It goes somewhere. Yeah. Did I remember one time I had a wedding to go to and like, I was like a little fat kid and I guess the sopranos was hot that like it was in the middle of the sopranos.

And my dad, we took me out to like a family. We had to go like a family wedding, a cousin's wedding or some, maybe even an uncle's wedding. Who knows? That's how trashy that side of the family was. Um, and I, uh, he got me a, like a half turtle neck.

You know what I mean? Like a sweater turtle neck type thing. And I just, and I just wore the suit over that. Like I didn't have a shirt and tie. I just had like the Tony soprano special. You know what I mean? Like a real fucking Guido shit.

Hey, what are you a fucking pit boss at fucking Caesar? That's what I look like. Changing 500. Hey, Merrill's going on her break. Um, yeah. Wow. That's funny as shit.

Um, all right. Uh, this is from dead. I, Davey. Anyone in your family ever have to wear an eye patch. Oh, I tell you that dead. I Dave, man, that kid hits a lot of fucking home runs. Damn, that's a fucking good piece of business.

I did. I had to wear it on multiple occasions. For what? Cause I wear contacts and I was shitty about them when I was younger. So I would always scratch my cornea. So you go in, they give you the drops. They put ointment in your eye. Then they'd put a fucking eye patch on you for,

for, for a week or two. It happened like three or four times. I remember I went over my buddy's house one time and he answers. I didn't know this one. You had to go like knock for people. You know what I mean? I went to knock for, I went to knock for my boy and he opened up in an eye patch on us.

Where were you? Fucking plane crash? What were you doing? Yeah. Yeah. I assume you'll be staying for dinner then. Okay. Um, okay.

This is from Zach Buckman. Buckman. That's good. That's dude. That's a good fucking baseball name. Up the bat. Zach Buckman goes deep. Buck Buckman.

Buck Buckman was something. I was like, Okay. Buck Buckman. Buck Buckman was something. I think that was Seinfeld. I don't think so. Um,

Okay. Have you, have you or a family member ever ended up with a bald head because someone forgot to put the attachment on the back when you were getting it, like an at home haircut? Like, did you ever fuck up your haircut so bad that you had to shave it? No, because we didn't, if my mom gave us a homemade haircut, we were kids.

She wasn't using fucking clippers. She was using scissors. Got the bowl out, the good pasta bowl and fucking did you up real nice. Yeah. That's how whack my shit was. Never had clippers. I mean,

my mom was doing me and my brother, like they could do in our hair on the back deck and like, say you're like sitting on like one of those ready glue coolers or whatever. And she's trying to get, she's trying to like fade up my brother and she fucked his shit up bad. And she had to fucking, she had to take it all off like to like a zero dude. But it was,

he looked like a fucking, he looked like he was a chemo patient. It was people are like looking like, what the fuck's wrong with that kid? Plus he had big ears. It was a bad look. I have to mention you tagging along behind them. Eating dirt.

That's the only feed. One of those kids, huh? Yeah. All right. Let's see. We got two more. I think. All right. This is from Kyle Noel. Noel.

I don't think this is, I don't think this is a, this is a no for me. Has your family ever gone to a food bank, but still had money for smokes and booze? I want to say yes. In a way. I remember my mom,

you, my mom used food stamps back in the early eighties. To mail letters. Huh? To mail letters down bro. And she was smoking. So she was up to something. I'll tell you. Yeah. I mean,

if she's catching burnies and yeah. All right. We never did. I mean, my money was never that tight, but I remember one, one time when I first started doing comedy, I was, you know,

I didn't have a job. I was fucking dead broke. And I was walking past like a, you know, the food bank, Phil abundance or whatever. And they were giving out some fucking fresh fucking bags of groceries. And I was thinking about hopping in line.

For sure. I was like, I can't do it. Let me get two. Let me get two. All right. And I think this is the last one for today. Hit us from Jeffrey. Jeffrey Manzi.

As a kid. Did your parents make you stop at the gas station to pick out candy at slightly cheaper prices before going to the movies? What? Fucking do that now. What do you have? Of course my whole life. You did that as a kid.

Yeah. That's trash, dude. That's trash. No matter how tight money was, my mom would be like, I'm not going to the fucking movies. If I'm not getting a bag of Peacorn, you know what I mean?

Classy old broad. Dude, that's something. I remember the first time I went to my buddy Liam's house. And they were like, oh, we're going to the movies. And we stopped at the fucking deli. And everybody started putting like twizzlers down their pants and shit. I'm like, yo, what the fuck are we doing?

I got a dub on me. Let's hit the candy bar, son. I got some nerds rope with my name on it. I'm not fucking buying these bootleg ass snacks. The candy at the movie theater is usually pretty whack most of the time. No. Yeah.

I'm not a big sweets guy, but I would do it. I would get the fucking pretzel nuggets with the super pretzel nuggets with the hot cheese. You can't put those down your pants and sneak those. No, we would bring soft pretzels. We would just bring a box. You guys got a George Floyd grill going. The dogs will be ready in a minute.

You're looking for an outlet. I'm going to put this toaster up real quick. You guys got a freezer back there. I got some steaks that are going. Jesus Christ. That's it guys. Thanks so much for writing him. Yes, thank you.

You guys are fucking consistently hitting home runs. We got the fucking funniest listeners. That's so great. But yeah, guys, shout out. If you have right when you join the patreon, we will read your questions on an episode. We appreciate all the support. Thanks so much.

Let's go, baby. Folks, we could not be more excited to have our incredibly special guest here with us today. His acting credits include HBO's board to death, FX's Louie inside Amy Schumer. And of course, better call Saul, his writing credits, the Pete home show in wet, hot American summer. And of course he has appeared on the Joe Rogan experience

on the bonfire last call with Carson Daly. Chelsea Lately. He has his own comedy central presents. He has his own half hour comedy central presents. And of course he has his own special. You let me down. Ladies and gentlemen, just a small town kid made good. But the big question on everybody's mind today,

is he garbage? Give it the fuck up from Mr. Joe DeRosa. Thank you. It's a nice to central. I've never received. That's what we go for every time, buddy. It's good.

Very good. Well deserved. Yeah, it was a lot. Good to see you. Thank you for doing the show. First question I want to ask you just real quick is, do you think you're garbage? Yeah.

Yeah. I could save us a lot of time. Now for the listener, Joe, Kevin and I all grew up very similar background. Joe actually grew up, I think like a couple of towns over from me. I went to Wissick in high school. You went to the Catholic school.

I went to Kenrick. Bishop Kenrick number one right there. Yeah. It became Kennedy Kenrick and then it closed. When your schools combined, man, that's not a good look. Yeah, it sucks. That's always the last act. Yeah.

We, we showed pictures of it on the bonfire recently. And it's just the saddest building. I mean, it's, there's nothing in it now, but just the site of it. And there was just, it was just this big brown square and it had no amenities and had nothing. And then I think three or four years after I graduated, they built like a state of the art, great, beautiful high school,

five minutes from where I grew up and I would, I would be on a 90 minute bus ride every morning to get to Kenrick. Holy shit. That is such a shitty move, man. When either your school is under construction while you're going there or when you graduate, they fucking hook it up. Like, yeah, we got a pool now.

Like what the fuck? Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's a, I really missed out on that one, but. Oh well. Did they send a bus? That was always a weird thing, especially like in the suburbs,

if you went to the private school instead of the public school, they would have to send their like own bus to go get you. And you would see a lot of, you'd always see the Catholic school kids waiting at like 530 in the morning to get picked up at the bus stop. And a grand pulls up. Was it a yellow bus? Yeah.

Yeah. Regular. Yeah. Yeah. Yellow bus. Yeah. It was weird. It was just my bus,

I think had a total of 10 kids. It's always so weird cause I went to public school. I went to, I'm not too far away. I went to council rock. So it was all just fucking anybody, anytime the kids would go to like wood or like Ryan or any of those schools, there would be like three kids on a bus that holds 55 people.

Just fucking strange. Bunch of my buddies went to council rock. Oh yeah. What town, what town did you grow up in? Cause I figured you go up right around where Kenrick was in the suburbs of Philly. What town did you actually grow up in? Sort of.

I mean, I grew up in, I was born in Philly, Northeast. And I grew up in Collegeville, which is more referred to as trap now. Yeah. But I grew up there. When the name of your town changes midway through. That's not a good sign though. Jesus Christ.

It was always, there was part of it known as trap. It wasn't that it changed to be fair. It was a, it's just, I don't know. Maybe it's not more known. I don't fucking know. It's a weird, it's a weird. It's a lot of, I'm sorry. A lot of places are big on that man. Philly's big on that too.

They'll change the name of a neighborhood to try to make it sound a lot better than it was. Yeah. Well, trap is not a great name. That's only referred to drug houses. I always thought college is nice. What's the, what it's like single family homes or yeah. Nice place.

I thought. Yeah. When I grew up there, it was a little more sort of stranger things vibe, 80 suburbia. It's a lot more farmland and, and woods and that sort of thing. But still something, you know, still some development and houses and stuff to ride your bike to as a kid.

Now it's very, very developed and. I get, I Ritzy is not the term, but you know, it's these big. The McMansion type things. Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's everywhere there now. It's a very different looking than when I grew up there, which is a shame because I feel like a lot of kids. You know, I think the best environment to live in,

if you're able to is to get that sort of city suburbs thing where you're in the suburbs at night. So it's quiet and then you can kind of take a short ride into some activity area and stuff like that. And I don't think a lot of kids get to experience that anymore. I feel like you're either out in the middle of nowhere, or you're just in, you know, overdeveloped land. You know, I feel like people don't get to experience.

What I experienced growing up, which was you, you could go this way a few minutes and be in farmland or go that way a few minutes and be in the center of town or, you know, go that way was a trailer park and that way was a little bit of a nicer suburb or, you know, you got to, you got a taste of it all. Yeah. There's a, sorry, there's a recurring theme that anytime there's just one trailer, if you grew, if there's a lot of trailer parks, it's fine. But anytime there's one trailer park in a neighborhood,

that's always a fucking bad news. If there's just one. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I know what you mean. The owner wouldn't sell to the developer. Fuck you. I'm selling. Yeah. Yeah. Would you guys, would you and your buddies hop on the train and go into the city by yourselves as, as kids? No, no, we, we would drive in once, once people, you know, once some of us got licenses and stuff, but no, we never trained in.

The train was, I mean, because the train was all the way over in Norristown, you know, or towns that were just as far. So it didn't make any sense. By the time you got over there, you might as well drive the extra 20 minutes and whatever. Would you guys drive down there and get weed in high school? We did that all the time. In college, we did. I didn't smoke weed till college. So I didn't drink till college either.

So we went in college, we were drive down to, to Philly to get weed. Did you have a place to go or you just like drive to a bad neighborhood and like ask for somebody? We eventually had connections, but I definitely did the thing where we drove and just started asking people and then, you know, you get robbed and. Wait here, we'll be right back. Give me the money now though. The guy needs the money. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I had a guy tell me wants to go wait in the bushes for him. Fucking brutal, man. Dude, we used to cross the Delaware River to go buy booze in Jersey because they were like, cause the PA is their state store, you know, to get booze, you have to go to a state store. So we'd go to Jersey to like, you know, some like fucking Rockies, liquor mark type thing. And like outside of Camden or whatever.

And we pulled up the one time and these, these like four thugs just came to the car and they were like, well, like, can you buy us beer? And they're like, yeah, sure. Let me just crack the window. And it was like a vending machine. It was like an ATM machine. They just kept taking out money and just, and just walked away.

They just took it through the crack in the window and left. Yeah. I think that was, that was like a common thing. Like if these suburban kids are, first of all, you know, you get older, you realize how insulting it is to like. Of course. Drive into a rough neighborhood and ask for a favor, you know, of any kind. Can you, can you make our lives even more easier, please?

Yeah. Yeah. So I got it. Years later, I understood why that man took my money from me. You know, so. And growing up, did you have any brothers or sisters? Or was it just you? Just me. I'm adopted.

I'm the only child. Did you know you were adopted when you were a kid? Or is that something they told you later on? Yeah. No, I knew my whole. I don't remember them telling me. I always knew. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I always knew. I am Egyptian.

My mom didn't tell me that until I was about 12. Okay. And their background is Italian. Yeah. Cause she, yes. And cause she didn't know how I would handle it. She didn't know, you know, As I say,

it's still pretty cool that they told you off the job or like that. You always knew. Cause I always think it's a, you know, you know, your sister's actually your mom or something like, you know, Irish Catholic bullshit like that. I don't understand that.

Yeah. I mean, I guess, I guess there's some interest in, you know, you don't want the kid to be hurt or feel different or something like that. But I mean, my God, like, it's so much harder to do it later. You might as well just,

you know, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, it's so much harder to do it later. You might as well just,

I know. Yeah. You think you have all these traits of your family and you're like, wait, I don't even fucking know you. Yeah. Make it normal. Don't make it the new normal.

Just make it normal from the beginning. So you thought you were Italian up until you were 12. Yeah. So that was a little bit strange, but I wasn't, when my mom told me, I wasn't upset. You know,

I was actually kind of excited cause it was sort of this exotic other. Yeah. Something different. Yeah. So you, what are your parents like hardcore Italian? What does that mean? Like do they have decals on their windows?

Do you guys get a white Christmas? Do you guys get a white plastic Christmas tree is what I'm asking Joe? We did when I was little. We did. Yeah. Every Italian in the Northeast as a white, white Christmas tree. Those things.

When, as soon as I have enough space to have a fucking Christmas tree, I'm going to get one of those guys. I think those are awesome. But yeah, that's pretty traditional. Uh, you know, East Coast Italian.

Yeah. What's your dad do growing up? He worked in computers. He actually worked at Sperry Univac, which later became unisys. But that's Sperry Univac. The company invented the first computer ever. Oh shit.

Literally ever. So my dad worked there. And my mom did a, she was a secretary and stuff like that. I like the Christmas stuff. Did you guys have colored lights on the house at Christmas? Did you go white? Color lights.

My mom eventually went white with it. Uh, they still decorate the house. They win sometimes in their, uh, their community. Like they win the award sometimes for like, really, they go all out like that. Yeah.

But it's very tastefully done. Okay. It's not like Griswold style, but like, you know, but they do. Yeah. They decorate. There's a fine line between gaudy and tasteful when it comes to, when it comes to Christmas,

especially Italians on Christmas, it's a, it can get dicey. And I got the classy vibe. I got the classy vibe from when you said your mom went from colored, and then she transitioned into, into white lights. I think that was like around the nineties. Everyone was like, Oh, this fucking color. Trashy shit.

We got to get away from this. Well, I made, it's funny. She really likes this, but I made her. Cause I go there every year for Christmas. Her Christmas tree two years ago, she was trying to make it like all pastel colors. And we started the day, I always helped them set up the tree. So the day we were setting up the tree,

she started pulling out the stuff she bought. And I was like, we're not using that. We're not using that. We're doing a Christmas tree. And I went with my dad to Walmart and bought like traditional, you know, like red, proper stuff. Yeah.

And came back and we did it that way, like classic. And she loves it. She was like, I love, she wants to do it that way all the time again. Now that's that old school shit is the best, man. If I had a house, I would do, I would do the color lights. I would do the plastic Santa Claus. I would do all that fun shit, man. That, that feels like it's, that's fun. It's a holiday.

This, this, this shit where it's all like white lights and like paper angels and shit like that. Did you guys do tinsel on the tree? Yeah, we still do garland. We don't do tinsel because of the dogs. Garland's nice though. Garland's a classy touch. Tinsel is fucking my step.

My dad, my parents got divorced. My dad started doing tinsel. I was like, what the fuck is this shit? Dude, I forgot about that. The dogs. Yeah. The dogs eat tinsel and then it's hanging out of their ass. Yeah.

Christmas evening. That's happening to me. Yeah. Yeah. It's bad. Yeah. The garbage stuff is the best. We used to put trains around our Christmas tree. We had two platforms and Lionel trains going around.

That's awesome. That's awesome. I love, I love shit like that, man. I mean, it's, you can't, you know, that's fun. It's like Halloween. I love like classic Halloween. You know, they go all out to Halloween.

You know, not really. My dad did with the costumes, but decorating the house, not, not, I don't think so. I don't remember it being all decked up, but my dad was really, we'd really get into my costume. So he would make, he would help me craft. My other parents always loved my costumes because my dad would really help me like craft like a costume, you know.

So before you, like, I was Freddie one year, Freddie Krueger and he made me the glove because it was before you could buy them for kids. So he actually made me a glove. That's great. That must have been a fucking hit the cafeteria that day. I'll tell you that. Yeah.

Dude, my dad would buy me one of those rubber masks that you had to like look through the nose hole and just shut up. Shut up and keep it moving. Shut up and keep it moving. Yeah. Since when does Captain America wear jeans? I thought it was awesome, but it's garbage. But I always thought it was awesome that one house where the,

where the parents would go so far out that they would like, they would like try to scare you. Like the dad would be dressed up as like a scarecrow sitting on a fucking lawn chair in the front lawn. When I was a kid, I was like, oh, that's awesome. I'm like, what the fuck was that guy doing? That's great. I mean, you, you know, those days are gone.

I mean, you could never. Yeah. You can't, you can't dress up and scare people off running your house anymore. No fucking way, dude. There's no fun anymore. I mean, it's like, it's crazy. But like, I, I'm just thinking of this now,

but I feel like that's why there are so many people in there. You know, I'm in my forties now. I still live like I'm in my twenties probably, but on paper, you know, like I still want to live in neighborhoods that have fun bars. Yeah. I don't want to hang out with 20 people. You know, I don't want to hang out with bars with a bunch of 20 year olds,

but like I go to, I still like bars where people my age or a little younger, a little whatever, like hang out and drink, drink cheap beer and do shots. And, and I like to stay out late and I like to play video games and I like to do all this shit that I think, you know, in a traditional sense is, is in quotes immature. But I think that you're seeing more and more people do that kind of stuff now.

You know, people that are marching towards 50 that aren't living traditional lives for that age bracket because of this, like because it's like, that's the only fun you can have now is with other people your age that also get it. It's like, it's like that fun dad shit is done. Like there's too much liability with it now. There's too much, you know, what do you want? Somebody else's kids in your house and then you try to play a prank on

the kids and then one of the kids gets upset or whatever. And then they tell their parents and then you're blackballed from the fucking school district or whatever the fuck. It's like who the fuck that I feel like the big kid thing is like for people that don't have kids anymore. It used to be I would have kids and he would keep being a kid with the kids. And it's like now it's like, it's just like now we'll just, we just

want to have kids and we'll just keep hanging out. Because like, I don't want to, that's the generational thing like our parents, our dads, our dads look at that and like, what the fuck, you're watching another guy play a video game. Like what the fuck is this? Right. And I think that's just, you know, from us being 80s and 90s kids. Even, even something like as simple as that, like video games, like

you're saying, it's like, it used to be my dad would buy me video games and I'd play with my friends and my dad would sit and watch us play and, you know, sometimes he would play and it was fun. When you're kid, I wouldn't play a video game with a kid now. If I didn't, you know what I mean? If I had a kid and his friend was like, we want to, because then I got to sit there and go, is the content okay? Sure.

It's so beyond, it used to just be that's too much blood and guts or that's too much nudity. Yeah. That was it. It was like, outside of that, it was like, nothing's going to scar your brain forever. Now it's like the language is, was the language okay? Was the content okay?

You know, were there political overtones? Were there, you know, were there gender overtones? It's like, oh, fuck all this, man. I know. I want no part of it, man. I've been down. I was down. I've been on the show the past few weeks with my family's been there,

my nieces and nephews. And the whole time, it's just my sister and brother just talking about talking to other parents about things. They were like, you know, well, I just got off the phone with Billy's dad and then, you know, we're next weekend. We got to, we got to see Jeannie and I'm like, my mom, the whole goal was a kid was to, your parents not talk. I would lot.

Like if my mom talked to one of my friends moms about something, you were in fucking trouble for something. You know what I mean? Yeah. I'm like, that was, that was, you try to avoid that at all fucking costs. You're looking to agree somebody at 20 to keep their mouth shut. Like, oh, yeah. If she has, I was over here for dinner last night.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it was, you know, it's like, I remember finding porn at my friend's house, like with me and my friend finding porn of his dad's at his house and my mom finding out about that. And it was just like, I don't want you to do that.

Don't do that. Yeah. It wasn't, I got to call them and tell them that they put my son in an unsafe environment. There's none of that. It was just like, don't do that. I don't want you to do that. That's wrong.

And it was like, all right. And you either did or either listened or you didn't listen. You know what I mean? Like, and that was it. But I can't even imagine now what with the. Having a kid. I see the shit that, oh my God, man. You would have a mark on you with the fucking softball games.

I can tell you. You want to be allowed to hang out with anybody in the fucking neighborhood. No, that would come off as so creepy. Did he show it to them? Is that what did he show it to them on purpose? Yeah. I mean, could you imagine his comics?

Like, yeah, it's no, you can only hang out with other comics kids. I think yeah, it's like, you know, somebody, somebody's kids sees your comedy and then it's like, and then people are comedians are getting canceled without the kid factor in there. I know. So then you got to deal with,

you got to go to the parent teacher thing or whatever the fuck it is at the school. And then they're going, did you say this on television? Did you say this on your podcast? Do you think that's okay? Does your son know you talk like that? Cause my son doesn't. I don't like that.

Why would you fuck? Fuck. I never even thought of that. Cause does that happen? It must. We're going strictly behind the paywall. Ladies and gentlemen. Got to pay to get the goods.

I don't know any comics that it has happened to at least that they've told me. I mean, I'm assuming. I also don't know many comics with kids, to be honest. But, but I don't know anything about it. I don't know anything about it. I don't know anything about it.

I don't know anything about it. I don't know anything about it. I don't know anything about it. I don't know any comics with kids, to be honest, but, but I mean it happens. If you watch those life after porn things, those documentaries on like Netflix or whatever. They,

that happens them all the time. They say they fucked up. Yeah. Asia Carrera is a big one. She like retired. She moved out to the. I think Arizona. She moved up to some like sort of deserty kind of place.

She has a daughter. She's like, I had a kid. I didn't want to do this anymore. I wanted to start a new life. I wanted to put this behind me and, you know, and with, and not with shame, not with like, I'm so mortified by what I did,

but just very much like that chapter is closed. I'm raising a kid now. And she, she's like, yeah, they find out and they treat you differently and they judge you. And it's like, what the fuck, man? Yeah. 2020, that's fucking crazy.

I just pictured Bobby Kelly getting yelled at at a parent teacher conference when he described. He said in a little desk getting yelled at. It was 20 years ago, dude. Yeah. That's funny, man. All right. Let's get into some questions here.

We're going to play a little game called are you garbage with the Joe? Just answer the questions to the best of your ability. And as honest as you possibly can. And we're going to find out how garbage you in fact are. If you aren't garbage, because maybe you think you're garbage and you're not really garbage. I got to tell you when you said the thing about your mom going from the colored lights to the white lights, that was a real cloud.

That was a real, that was a real point in my book point towards not garbage. Towards not garbage. Yeah. I think it's the opposite. I think it's garbage. So you might be so garbage. You're right.

Your rods and cones are all screwed up, Joe. I think it's trying to look classy. Like, which is always the sign of garbage. We did it. That's also true. If you're trying to do something that you think like what rich people do. Oh, yeah. That's always tough.

Yeah. You know what that was that in our family that was drinking crystal light. We thought that was like a rich person's drink. We started drinking crystal light in the summer. Felt like Kennedy's walking around fucking would paint township. Oh boy. All right. Here we go.

A couple of the basics start now. What was the name of your, your grocery store growing up? What'd you get a shop? Acme. Classy. Acme. Middle of the road. All right.

Did you have a garage growing up? No. No garage. Was it a single family home or a townhouse? Single family home. Single driveway. No garage. Driveway.

Yeah. No garage. Basketball net in the driveway. No. I didn't play sports. Okay. What bank did your mom go growing up? What was your bank?

It doesn't exist anymore. I think it was called sovereign bank. Ah, sovereign was big back then. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm amazed. I don't understand how when you drive through small towns in like our area,

the Philadelphia area has a bunch of them, but these like small banks that you never heard of, it's like, how are you like, you must be getting crushed with ATM fees that people don't have huge banks. It is weird. How do you pay for this? Yeah, it's that. It's also like, I don't,

how do you have like a mom and pop bank? It's weird. Yeah. Like Ambler savings or something like that. Ambler PA and Ambler PA, there's an Ambler savings bank. I swear to God, it's the size of a fucking city block. It's brand new and beautiful. I'm like, who could possibly have their money in there?

Ambler PA. Wow. I went to Temple Ambler for a year. Oh, I was. Yeah. I took classes there too. Yeah. That was one of my questions.

I'm a fellow Al myself. Yeah. Just for one year. Did you go to Temple for the rest of the time? Or was that it? I was transferred to Kutztown. Okay. That was my second.

That was my second school. I loved Kutztown was really fun when I was there. Sort of got a little plain Jane since then, but. That's always weird. Cause that's just like that. Those colleges always like the PA state colleges. Cause it's just like the college is the town for the most part. Like Kutztown isn't, you remove that. There's not much going on, right?

Yeah. No, that was a, Kutztown itself is a pretty cool artsy little town. It's actually a place that probably be pretty lovely to live in. Um, but yeah, the college certainly was, you know, a, a money maker for the town, but the town, a lot of the town, people didn't like the college kids because. Yeah.

They were loud and, you know, you guys animals back then. Yeah, it was fun, man. It was, it was very animal house. Like when I went there, it was really wild. Like wild. Yeah. A lot of acid, a lot of weed, a lot of fucking drinking.

Did you stay in a house with your buddies? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Not a house apartment. We had a whole apartment building where we, me and all my friends occupied every apartment. It was fucking. That's pretty.

I feel like that's more risky to do nowadays too. Like that, that college experience now, you know, if you are having it, you know, you got more of a chance of getting fucking in trouble or doing nothing with all the social media and shit like that. It's, what are you going to do? I mean, you know, there was a time where it was like, I mean, could you imagine streaking now?

I couldn't, you know? Yeah. I don't know. I really went in the 90 where people streaking in the 90s. There was a couple of guys. Yeah. I graduated in 2000. I definitely streaked a couple of times.

And there was not a fucking, there was not a worry in your head. There was a lot of indecent exposure. It was like indecent exposure. That's a fucking sex crime now. If you're on the wrong block. Yeah, I know. There wasn't, there was no, like,

because it was so not sexual. I was like, no, it's funny. Cause we ran naked through a thing. Like that was the joke. But you couldn't fucking do that now. Cause, cause everything sucks, man. Happy go lucky. Joe Dorosa, ladies and gentlemen.

I can see the tension in your neck. I don't know. I don't know if it's cause you hate us. Or if you just grind it out about something. Not you guys. I like you guys. I'm just thinking about everything. I like that stress of a man.

Dude, when you were telling that story about, about the kid, I just pictured you as the dad. That would be funny. The kid was like, you know, having like kids over and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. If I had kids, I wouldn't just have kids over. Yeah.

It's a little caveat to that. Yeah. What do you got? Kippy. All right. Did you ever dye your hair? Have you ever have frosted tips? Never had frosted tips.

I definitely dyed my hair. I bleached my hair. At the end of high school. Yeah. Like short bleach blonde, like back when like, you know, when I graduated high school, like the punk punk was coming back into the mainstream. It was like that very, you know, hot topic.

Sure. At the mall era. So I did that. You ever have a tail? I had a mullet when I was in eighth grade. Did your mom used to cut it? No, but she promote, she liked it. She was like, your hair looks good like that.

I like it, Joey. I like it. Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy. So you try to grow a mustache or have a mustache in high school. In high school. No. No, you aren't.

No, no. Have any male members of your family, uncles or cousins ever have a ponytail? It's not a quick no. When we were little, when. Yeah. When we were young, my cousin, it was different, but it's not like when we were kids,

there was a thing called a rat tail. Yeah. You would have your hair shaved, but then you would have like a tail coming out of the bag. Makes sense. Makes sense. It chilled down my spine. Yeah.

Those guys were tough. My cousin had one of those. But I mean, we were like. Kids. 11. Yeah. You know what I mean? It wasn't like.

You can't be a 17 year old with a rat. Yeah. No, nobody in the sense that you're talking. No, nobody had. Nobody had. Okay. Nobody was like full on like. You know what I mean?

Sure. Like, yeah, just rocking a pony tail. Yeah. Yeah. No. We'll have to get your ears pierced as a kid. When I was 16. No, 15.

I always thought those kids were from the wrong side of the tracks, man. Kids shows up to fucking science class with his ears pierced. Did your mom know about it though? Yeah. No, she approved. She let me at 15. She said when I turned 15,

I had to do it in the summer because we weren't allowed to have. I went to Catholic schools. We weren't allowed to have facial hair or earrings or anything like that in school. So I had to do it in the summer. So it healed in time that when I went back to school, I could take it out there in the day. So you could rock it on the weekends. And at night.

Yeah. Were you the kid doing like as he's walking out, like to get on the bus. You put it in like, yeah, fuck you, Father Steve. I don't remember. And what was it? Was it a hoop? Was it a stud?

What were you? What were you? When I first, I, when I first got it, my friend did my left ear. It was just a gold stutter, whatever the fuck it was awful thing. But then when I got like at late high school, I got the second one pierced. I just did the two hoops and kind of go along with the half,

half ass punk motif. Yeah. You know, it was a beastie boys. You know, that it was that whole check. Oh yeah, definitely influenced by that. Yeah. Did you smoke sakes in high school? Not really.

Yeah. Yeah. Have you ever been to an air show? Will it grow preferably? I like how he's answered the questions. Yeah. I think I went to one, but I didn't want to go. I never gave a shit about air shows.

I was always like, I don't care about this. Have you ever gone to the Pennsylvania State Fair? Probably. Yeah. I mean, I've been to plenty of fairs. The pop up ones in the parking lot were always bad. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Lots of those. I was always excited about those. Yeah. This is as an adult, not as a kid, but as an adult, have you ever gone to Pennsylvania, Dutch country or Amish country? On purpose?

Yeah. As an adult? No. Okay. Not like a Saturday. No. Fuck. Growing up.

Did your mom used to serve Crescent dinner rolls? Yes. Oh, they're trashy. But my fucking love the shit out of those things. Yeah. I mean, they're pretty good. How do you feel? How do you feel about the three following?

Philadelphia staples. Number one. Tomato pie. Excellent. Number two. The pork breakfast. Dish known as scrapple. Excellent.

Favorite. And finally, how do you feel about the pork roll? Pork roll. I could take it or leave it, but I like it. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.

Whoa. What pork roll take it or leave it? Oh my God. I don't dislike it. I don't dislike it, but I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not going out of my way for it. Yeah.

Pork roll runs a distant third the fucking scrapple. And a little fucking tomato pie. Yeah. Scrapple all day, man. Well, fully eats all three of them together. So it's, I've had like three tomato pies this summer already.

Yeah. I got to get to a, I haven't had tomato pie in a while. It's time to get back. Getting in touch with your college bill roots. Back to my roots. The introspection and that statement. I know.

One day. I don't know how I'll do it, but I got to get me a tomato pie. Do you sprinkle Parmesan on it? Cause that's my favorite. You got it. I think, right? You don't have to.

But yeah, it's pretty good. And then there was a place. I don't remember if it was Corpolis or not. They would put pepperoni on it. Ooh. I don't think it's corpolis, but that sounds awesome. I've never had that.

That's a game changer. It was, it was unreal. It's no fucking joke, man. No fucking joke. No fucking joke. No fucking joke. No fucking joke. No fucking joke, man.

No fucking joke. Yeah. I know what I'm doing this weekend. All right. Pick one of the following combos or cheez-its? I do combos over cheez-its. What? That's new money stuff right there.

That's fucking trash. Cheez-its never did it for me, man. Really? No. Next to Cheetos or Doritos. The fuck out of here. Cheetos and Doritos are like, you might as well be drinking Mountain Dew with those cheez-its.

It's a classy, classy snack. If your combos over Cheetos, then what do you Reese's pieces or M&Ms? Uh, peanut M&Ms. Wow. Peanut M&Ms. It's a real against the grain guy over here.

I like it. Up is down, down is up. What's going on? I won't cross the street for regular M&Ms. I won't cross the street for regular M&Ms. I won't cross the street for them. And I do like Reese's pieces, but they don't have enough chocolate flavor.

I like a peanut M&M. Do you like the snack known as Funyuns? Uh, take it or leave it. Yeah. Maybe with some French onion dip. Ooh. Bugles and French onion dip.

There's a fucking trash snack for you. Oh, dude. Yeah. Make the fingers with them. Yeah. Yeah. Do they still make bugles? I think so.

I had some last night. I swear to God. Bugles ranch. Fucking unbelievable. Shit. I haven't even seen them in forever. I just, I was talking about them recently with somebody.

That's the only way I knew that they still made them. I got a guy. I'll hook you up. Yeah. Fully, you're like the Smithsonian for snacks. Where did you get them from? I mean,

we're in this town in Long Island. It's safe deposit box. Who even, yeah, who are you with? I'm with my girlfriend. We came out to Greenport, Long Island.

For a couple of nights. Bugles out in the Hamptons? Yeah. That's fucking crazy. I swear to God. It's a little convenience store. Straight from that. Holy shit.

That's wild, man. I can't believe it. All right. Yeah. Bugles in the Hamptons. Yeah. Don't tell anybody you'll be flooding the joint. Yeah.

There's no bugles out here, folks. Yeah. There's no bugles out here, folks. Just so everybody knows. Just cocaine and rich people. Nothing you'd be interested in to see here. Did you, Joe DeRosa, go to any underage dance clubs as a kid?

100%. Shadows and king of brush. Yeah. They always had terrible names like beat street or kick. Yeah. Shampoo. Yeah. They were Rayon.

Rayon shirt and Zecavary cheese. Holy shit. You had to be young for Zecavary cheese. I got my Z's and. I got my Z's. Eighth grade, I guess. Holy shit. Damn.

They weren't cheap either, were they? Uh, you know, it's funny. I actually was thinking about that recently. Like I remember it was like a big deal to get a pair. And it was like they were expensive. Like in hindsight, they were like $60. Yeah. You know what I mean?

Like you're like, they're probably the same price as like Levi's are now. Like, like, you know, the equivalent of like buying an $85 pair of pants right now, you know, like. But asking your mom for that when you were a kid, you had, I know situations. If I want to like make a big purchase like that,

I would have to cover some part of it. It would have to be like around my communion or my birthday. I would have to like, oh, you put 40 down and we'll put the rest. And you know, all that life learning. Right. Yeah. That's so funny. There's a, there's a question you might,

you might be able to relate to. You had a communion. You're Catholic. Did you ever see any of your communion money? Did you actually get it? Yeah. I got confirmation money and communion money. I got some of it.

Yeah. I was allowed to take a little bit of it and do some fun shit with it. You're an Italian family too. You probably did pretty good. You remember what you got? What you pulled in? No, no, no idea.

No idea. But I remember getting like, I think like both times I bought a video game or something. Yeah. Yeah. The kids that got bar mitzvah. They'd fucking pool in like 10, 20 grand. Like, what are you fucking getting married?

Yeah. No, I got like, you know, I probably got a few hundred bucks or something total. And it went into an account. You know, Yeah. Same with mine. I never got the fucking account number to that thing.

Yeah, I never, I never saw a fucking dime of that money. No, no, no. It's coming and going. Okay. Were you guys growing up? Were you a cheese whiz household? Not, not like that.

There's a big argument about this with people and I, it pisses me off. People think cheese whiz is the shit in the can and it's not. Cheese whiz is the sauce and it was called cheese whiz. It was in a jar and it was called cheese whiz. It's what you get on a cheese steak sometime. So yeah, that, yes. Ooh, that jar.

The spray. The red, red top. My mom liked the spray stuff a little bit sometimes, but no, we didn't, we were, you know, we were, as an Italian household, we were big on like, actual like cheese. Cheese, proper cheese. Like cheese and pepperoni and, you know,

super sought, you know, you know, that kind of shit. Dude, cause I mean, we're Irish Catholic trash. So like cheese and pepperoni, that's, that was like a craft single and, you know, like a piece of gramelle or something. We didn't fuck with any of that. I'm just getting into that because now my, my wife is from Europe.

So I'm like, my mind's exploding every time I try something new. It's fucking awesome. Yeah, dude. If you go to, I was in Rome once in, in like the charcuterie trays before, it's like a standard there before every meal in the restaurant. It's just, you get a charcuterie and it's like, I'm fucking real.

Yeah. I'm fucking real. You see a little kid eating a charcuterie. That's pretty fucking classy. I'll tell you that. Yeah. Yeah. Italians do it different.

I go on the road with Verzi and after a few weeks, we go out to like wine bars and get like, you know, $150 charcuterie boards. I'm like, give me a PBR and a hooker. Let's go. What are we doing? Yeah. Yeah.

Verzi, I've had a meal or two with Verzi. It's, he's a good man to eat with. Yeah. He's a good man to eat with. All right. What do you got, Foley? I got a two part question. Have you ever worn a chain on the outside of your shirt?

When that shirt was a mock turtleneck. I think so. Yeah. Yes. Yes. That's going in the file. But I think it was an onk. Like it was almost like an African kind of vibe.

What's an onk? An onk is an Egyptian symbol. Okay. And I think it was one of those on like a leather. It was a little more like African medallion style. It wasn't like gaudy, cheap, trying to. I'm talking, I'm talking gold here. No, no, no, no.

Never a gold. Gold Joe. I never had a gold chain. I've had this silver chain since I was a kid, but I never wore it on the outside. What's on it? Mary. Okay.

Blessed mother. I didn't thank you for a religious guy, Joe. I'm not. My dad gave it to me when I was young. It's just about my dad giving it to me. Yeah. And those are more about superstition and anything. I got a few of those too that I would never let go over throw out.

Just cause you're like waiting for a fucking bolt to lightening. They hit you if you do. Yeah, exactly. I would have picked it for a gold chain guy. No. No, my cousin was, but not me. Most of your cousins. Yeah.

A couple of cousins are into the gold chain. Yeah, not me. No, no, no. Let's see. Anyone in your family ever own a snuggie? No. Okay. Anybody in your family ever own a flow bee?

No. Okay. Slip and slide. No, we never had one. We had a pool. Okay. Inground. Yeah.

This is one of the first in-ground pools we've had on this show. Welcome to our club. Look at you. Foley's above ground trash. Yeah, not too bad. Did you have a diving board in that pool, Joe? Yeah. Yeah.

And did you also, here's the piece of results. Did you have a slide? No. That's, yeah, only fucking like real, real rich kids whose dad owned like instruction companies had a slide. That was real new money. It was always right next to the diving board too, right? To the right.

Yeah. Now in-ground pool diving board. How deep was the in-ground? How far it could down? Eight feet. Not bad. Not bad. Do you have the light in the pool too for night swimming?

Yeah. Follow-up question. Could you change the color of the lights? Yeah, we had all the different colors. Holy shit. Joey's roses. How much money do you have on your right now? Holy cow.

This guy is fucking loaded. The light cover, it was just covers. It was just a plastic. I know. That would have blown my mind if I would have walked back there. What is that? Purple? Holy shit.

I just did not have a lot of money growing up, but my grandfather bought them that pool. He lived, my grandfather got sick before he died and he came and he lived with my parents. And his dying gift to them was putting that pool in with his, with the money he had. Holy shit. That's a fucking class act right there.

Yeah. Well, you don't pay taxes on it either. You know what I mean? Yeah. Uncle Sam doesn't get the wet his beak. Yeah, exactly. But they couldn't have ever done that without him. What's the 40 G's in cash that's buried under the pool?

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. I remember the first time I went to, I find, and you see the red pool dude, I thought I was at the fucking playboy mansion. I was like, what the fuck is this? Yeah. The colored lights, they were amazing.

That was something else as a kid. Yeah. It's like the Christmas thing. It's fun. It's fun. Oh my God. Have you ever followed a band around to multiple cities and or gone to the same concert back to back?

Like if a band comes into town, if you go on to the concert twice, that I've done a couple of times very selectively, but no, I wouldn't never followed a band. Never followed fish or anything like that. No, fuck. Dave Matthews band. Joe, tell us now.

Did you go on tour with Dave Matthews? No, no. So real Jesus to make money. Never even went to one show. No. Were you a fan of any local Philly bands down the shore back in the day? Like Mr. Green jeans or?

No, the cover bands. Yeah. I hated that shit. All those fucking dorks going to like, you know, Avalon or something to go and to see some fucking corn balls sing. And if you want to come in, baby, some other losers singing that.

Who was the big, who was the big one in Jersey and Philly? They were the most popular cover band. They were the biggest bar band. They had a CD. It was called Live from the Stone Pony. I thought it was Mr. Green. That's Mr. Green. There was one because I worked at Rainbow Records in

Narshtown when I was in high school. They actually had the cover bands CD at the store. Yeah. I can't think of who it is. Maybe it was. I played in bands. I hated that cover band shit. I fucking hated it.

Yeah. It really sucked. Yeah. Was it the man? Reband? No. It might have been Mr. Green jeans. I don't remember.

Are you an Eagles fan? Just by default. I'm not a sports guy. I never have been. But you know, if I'm going to root for a team, it would be the Eagles. Okay. Have you ever gone?

Interesting answer. I was excited when they won the Super Bowl. I knew what that meant. Yeah. And all that stuff. So to an extent. Have you ever been to a wedding at a VFW? Or a night of Columbus.

I know you're Italian. Yeah, probably. Yeah. Yeah. Something. Yeah. So it was it. Have you ever,

have you recently been to one that's been a cash bar? Not recently, but I've definitely been to them. You've been to a wedding that was in the cash bar. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. That was the same question. I'm sorry.

I didn't know if I missed something. He's still focused on the bugles. Definitely. I've also been to weddings where they only had beer and wine. They didn't have liquor. I've also been to weddings where they had to send the people out to get more liquor. Because we exhausted the bar. I've been there.

Yeah. Yeah. They always drove to Delaware. Run down to Delaware real quick. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Have you ever been at a wedding when a fight broke out? Yep. Have you ever worn a leather jacket to a funeral? No. No. No. No. No.

Not to a funeral. I don't know. There's not a lot of confidence in that leather jacket answer. Yeah. I don't know about that one. I just was thinking out of necessity if I had to once because I was like visiting and didn't have a suit with me and then somebody died all of a sudden. That's happened to me where you're scrambling to find, you know, but no.

Anyone in your family own a pinball machine? No, but I own an arcade machine. Ah, that's pretty good. Yeah. Okay. In your apartment in New York? Yeah. You can't see it.

It's back there. Actually, if I move, you can kind of see. Oh, yeah. Yeah. What is it? Star Wars 1983. That's a class class. Did you have that in Los Angeles?

Yeah. I got it in LA. I barely got it. We barely got it into this apartment. I don't know how the fuck I'm going to get it out of here. I actually have anxiety when I think about it. It was so hard to get into this because of the way the stairwells are. But you had a transporter from Los Angeles to an apartment in New York.

Yeah. I had it moved. Well, I had all my shit moved. But you know, so that was not too cheap right there. That cost you a pretty penny. Mr. Dosa is looking up. It's like something out of big. I like it.

Is your other room a trampoline? Yeah. Yeah. When was the last time you were at a water park? Yeah. Well, I can't. Childhood. Okay.

Childhood between maybe 21 maybe. If you're going in your 30s, that's a tough look. No, it's had. No, it's been. I can't even remember. Yeah. I just have two more questions for you, Mr. Drossa. Have you ever been camping?

Yeah. Garbage. Garbage. Kippy. Yeah. Different types of camping too. Camper and tents. Camper.

Who's who's camper? My uncles. Was it a pop up? No. No, but it had an extension. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Sweet. Yeah. And then I did 1010 camping too. Yeah. Okay. My last one is have you ever worn a no fear t-shirt? No, I was very against that hole. I hated no fear.

I hated geo trackers. I hated all that shit. That all went hand in hand. I really hated that whole thing. Are you guys remember the absolute t-shirts? It would be like absolute whatever. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Absolute lacrosse or something like that. Absolute garbage of the people that bought those things. Yeah. Yeah. I really hated that hole. That was when I was, I don't know if this is still a thing or not, but when I was in high school and, you know,

getting into like going on trips to the beach with your buddies and party culture and whatever that you get into in high, in high school, into college, that was all very much like frat boy, Amber Cromby and Fitch bullshit. Yeah. Like we really,

we weren't into that stuff. You know, it was a lot of the beaded necklace crap. You know, the shell necklaces. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

All that shit, you know, that was. All right. I just got one last question for you, Joe. Sure. Have you or any member of your family ever been on a duck boat or a double decker bus tour? Members of my family have been on bus tours, but no, not me.

Have they ever gone to one of the tours in Italy? Like the vacation package? Yeah. Oh, dude, my mom was supposed to go on one, but fucking COVID hit and she was furious. Yeah. Parillo. Was she taking a parillo?

He was taking a parillo tour. Oh my God. Kevin. I wouldn't tell any. I'd cut this out. That is fucking tragic. No lie. I want to send my parents on one of those though.

That's true. Yeah. So that might be. Well, like dude, if you're thinking about it, these, I mean, you know, my mom's in her fucking, you know, who knows, 60s to late 60s. What's she going to be fucking trekking around Rome with a fucking map and not, you know, she barely speaks English.

Yeah. She can't speak Italian. Yeah. You know what I mean? Just put them on a bus and let some fucking idiot show them the six things they need to see. Trying to buy smokes at a Wawa. Yeah, you just got a Wawa here.

Do you have a go to Wawa order, Joe? Yeah, I do. Actually, I get on it. I usually at Wawa, I get an Italian and a meatball. But if it's, if it's like the holidays, sometimes I'll get the turkey thing. The gobbler. Yeah. You're a fucking gentleman, Joe.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes I'll get that. But I usually get two at a Wawa. I'm big on that. And he sent like, I got shorties the other night in New York, which is a great spot for sandwiches.

I always get two. I always get one at a time and a cheese steak. I always. It's, it's way more enjoyable. Smart move match. The gentleman's move right there. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Joe DeRosa, Joe, thank you much so much for sitting in with this.

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Joe, thank you, buddy. Thanks, man. Yeah. Thanks, guys.