Are You Garbage? Comedy Podcast - Greg Fitzsimmons: Irish Trash
Episode Date: July 23, 2020Greg Fitzsimmons: Irish Trash Comedian and podcaster Greg Fitzsimmons joins Kippy and Foley for a hot ep of Are You Garbage?! Greg talks growing up Irish in New York, fighting people, and country ...clubs. You know Greg from Crashing Fitzdog Radio. Follow Kevin: https://www.instagram.com/kevinryancomedy/ Follow Foley: https://www.instagram.com/foleygrams/ Comedians H. Foley and Kevin Ryan are self proclaimed GARBAGE. Each week a new stand up comedian gets put to the test. Steal shampoo from hotels? Own a George Forman Grill? Ever worn JNCO Jeans?
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We get this thing off the fucking ground. I love you, baby. Absolutely. I love you too kippy
I don't know if that was directed at me, but I'm gonna take it and I love our extremely
Extremely special guest about it on the podcast today
Let's go over this fucking rap sheet that I got in front of me right here
We're gonna start off with the acting as an actor some of his credits has appeared on the Andy Dick show the man
Show Louie aqua teen hunger for his comedy bang bang Santa Clarita diet, of course crashing
Okay, as a writer
He's wrote on politically incorrect the El DeGeneres show the man show lucky Louie crashing again as a fucking producer
Got 22 episodes of the man show eight episodes of crashing
He's also appeared on the Howard Stern show late night with Conan O'Brien
He has not one but two comedy central presents
You've seen him on your mom's house the late show with David Letterman Jimmy Kimmel lives Chelsea lately the Joe Rogan experience
He has a stand-up special life on stage. You know him from Fitz dog radio and the
2006 host at the AVN awards. I don't know if he's garbage or not, but I know he's got a little bit of fucking cash on them
I'll tell you that right now
Ladies and gentlemen, give us a nice big round of applause for mr. Greg Fitzsimmons everybody
Let me tell you something
Let me ask you something. I need $40
When you're when you're Irish it doesn't matter how much cash you
For sure that's why I was so excited to have you I'm like he's you know
He's got a successful career
But he is Irish trash from the East Coast, which you can know no amount of money can shake that still saving the the grocery bags
I'm putting them in the in the cabinet
Reusing tea bags
Picking up the dog's shit with fucking sandwich bags
Now squeezing everything out of it. I know man. It's in our blood
Did you ever get sent to school with you when you're where your lunch bag is the fucking old bread bag that was finished
When that kid sat next to you were like, yo, this guy's definitely got lice
Yeah, that was a tough look in the lunch room with that thing. Oh my god, I used to go to school in the morning
My mom never bought us proper boots
So she used to take those those bread bags, yeah, I just put them over your feet and then you'd stick them into your sneakers, dude
What is this Angela's ashes Jesus Christ, right?
I did that shit in the 90s
My mom was like get the plastic bags and we'd go out and play in the snow and like I was wearing like air walks or what?
That's fucking trash
My mom one time wouldn't buy us sleds for the for the for the winner. So of course it snowed one day
We had a snow day. She was off work had nothing to do with us
This broad send us out to the hill in front of the whole neighborhood with two fucking cardboard boxes
We didn't go anywhere and she was bitching like we didn't know how to use it
Like what is this the fucking North Shore figure on how to serve this is bullshit?
Greg, thank you so much for doing the show man. We appreciate you being here and coming on with this
Tell you the monitor over your shoulder. You guys can't yeah
We're in the small studio Greg. We're just starting out. What do you want? You look like midgets
We can't afford that nice green paint you got behind you that's home depot paint right there
That's two coats. That's two coats and a primer. This guy's got primer money. Here's here's trash
I didn't I didn't have somebody paint it. I did it myself with my daughter
Yeah, and my daughter thought it would be funny to write 6 6 6
And I'm not gonna say what else you wrote on it and then so we had to put two more coats over that one
Jesus keep an eye on that kid for God's sake. I'll give you bonus points if you still have the blue painters tape up at the top and down by the trim
No, but you can see the roof has some green
Jesus nice drop ceiling to real classy. Yeah, it's real classy. Wait, is that your are you in the house right now?
Are you at your office? No, I have an office
Oh
Mr. Fitzsimmons, that's not tell us tell us a little bit, you know, we want to talk about you know
You mentioned you mentioned your daughter
We want to talk about your family kind of how you're on the house today
But tell us a little bit, you know where you grew up how you grew up the family situation
well, I
Lived in the Bronx until I was about eight and my my parents are both from the Bronx. Okay, grandparents and
Well, my grandparents are all from Ireland, but then they immigrated to the Bronx, damn and and then my dad was
You know made some money. He was in radio in New York
So he became a really big radio personality in New York for my whole life
And so we made some money and we moved up to Terry town
Very nice a couple really good restaurants in Terry town right there are yeah, it's gotten very trendy when I grew up there
It wasn't it wasn't that nice
It was it's a real right and wrong side of the tracks kind of a town. It's like
Downtown there's a there's a General Motors plant. So there was a lot of
Tenement apartments and housing projects downtown and by the train station and it was actually pretty dangerous
And there was like there was race riots and there was there was a lot of drugs and then I grew up
I grew up on the good part of town, but
My parents couldn't shake that
Growing up broke mentality or so even though we had money my mother never spent it and we lived like fucking
Same exact story we grew up in the suburbs of Philly
There was money came and went there was times where there was and times where there wasn't cuz you know
They're you know idiots that don't know how to manage money
So it came and went but at the same time like when it was there was and we still lived like we were you know dirt poor
Yeah
Yeah
You know we we belong to a country club and then we would go there and my mother would give us two dollars a day
To buy lunch and whatever sodas and snacks that we wanted
That's not gonna get you a crab cake what the fuck
I won't pay for the lemon on the ice team all the other kids are putting it on the account like put it to the
Charleston's please and you're like yeah, right the Fitzsimmons are there the pinch and pennies
One salami sandwich, please the order from was
Kevin Meany no way
He was a waiter
I was a kid and he used to come down to the pool with a red blazer and a black bow tie
What and it's like you wanted I go give me a coke Kevin
He was walking like goddamn Fitzsimmons boy, that's not right ordering food from the pool
You're like a crazy person
How many brothers and sisters did you have growing up large Irish family or small well Irish twins me and my brother are
apart nice
They talk about flying too close to the Sun 12 months is
Things getting loose and Terry town. I like it. Yeah, and then my sister's three and a half years younger
And she still she lives in Westchester and then my brother's in Brooklyn
Okay, okay small for an Irish Catholic family small for an Irish Catholic family
You're you're one of what 45 or what is it my mom's one of nine? We're like fucking ticks in Philadelphia
Yeah, my mom was one of seven and then my my grandparents one was one of 13 and one was one of 11
What the fuck and how was it growing up up in Terry town?
So you moved up there you guys kind of settled in and how what was the what was the lifestyle like growing up there?
It was good. You know it was like
We kind of like we had a we had a lake so in the winters
We did a lot of played a lot of hockey night and go there at night and we'd skate
We'd sweet, you know throw a case of beers on the bank of the of the lake and then we skate around and
And then in the summers we'd swim in the lake and we'd go to the Hudson River
We're right on Hudson River
So we did a lot of we did a lot a lot of drinking and drugs growing up starting at a very young age
That kind of guy really I mean we were like 12 13 years old and we were we were getting fucked up like
four or five nights a week
insane and all my friends parents were alcoholics of course nobody noticed it was just booze everywhere my friends all had oh
You always got to hang out with the kid who's got the oldest sibling
Yeah, and they'll get stuff for you. Yeah, come on Donnie. Get us a six pack. Yeah, right
You know you buy he gets six back. He keeps one. That's all
For sure he's got a wet his beak that's trash though if that's all you're asking for give me one
Give me one if you're not good if you're ripping off 12 year olds for one fucking Mike's hard lemonade. That's a trash
Well, we do remember what you were drinking back then it wasn't Mike's hard lemonade it was something probably really shitty
now it was
well boons farm strawberry wine and then
For we Budweiser drinkers, you know, nothing wrong with the bud heavy. Oh get an ice cold at the bar. Come on
Yeah, I fucking love it
Now was that if was that a similar story with with you and your your friends growing up like did most of their parents?
Kind of start out in the city or start out somewhere else and then kind of got a little money and then moved out there
Yeah, it was a lot of that tarry town is definitely a place where well, you know Westchester in general
It's where if you're from the Bronx and you make some money you move to Westchester
If you're from Queens
Make money you go to Long Island if you're from Staten Island and you make some money you go to Jersey
So it was a lot of that but there was a lot of multi generation there one of my friends Tommy Bucci was
Carpenters Union and his grandfather was in the Carpenters. Yeah, they ran the Carpenters Union
They were like the family in town that had cousins and everybody had some kind of a union job
Union town because the General Motors sure because they did a lot of construction
And there was a lot of a lot of stuff on the Hudson River a lot of jobs down there
So it was very blue collar working class and then there was the people at the top of the hill like me. What's up?
Ah
Looking down at the paupers. That's right, but still trash still trash dude. You can't shake it
That's what we've been finding out as we do the show more and more. It's like regardless
It's it's generational it takes a couple generations to real like your kids will be in a better position
You know
They'll be a little less trashy than you are and it's gonna keep going down the line
Yeah, do you feel like you know you said that your that your parents kind of had that mentality because they started out
Poor and then they got some money, but they still kept that do you feel like that wore off on you a little bit with your family now?
No, I'm cheapest fuck. Yeah, that's what I'm always worried. I drive a Prius and
You know, I buy everything and Ross dressed for less
But my wife
My wife grew up in Manhattan and she she grew up in a family that they didn't have a ton of money
But they bought quality things. Okay, she's yeah, so she she's half Irish half Jewish
And what a mix there you go, but they would buy like, you know, like a like a you'd buy your suit from
Brooks Brothers and you keep it for the rest of your life
Sweater that was made in England and you know, so
She's kind of instilled that in the kids a little bit. They've got a little bit more class. Okay. All right
Same thing I had a buddy who I remember here
I was like tan I heard his mom say you spend the money on stuff that matters like my bed
She's like bedding. We spend a lot of money on bedding. I was like
Imagine how my bed was it was like Mickey Mouse sheets from like, you know, we're passed down from my oldest cousin
I'm like I had a bed bed. I had a bed. It was so old
It was a twin bed and it had fucking metal springs in the box brain
And so I used to jerk off, but you could hear it. It was so squeaky
I would like put my foot on the bed board to try to hold it still
Oh, yeah, I would almost arch my back and all rest all rest and I thought I was
Spider-man yeah
One hand on one hand on the wall the other on the on the on the footer
Did you ever get caught jerking off when you were a kid? Well, I came I came home from from school one day and
I sat on my bed and it didn't creak and I was like what the fuck happened
I look up. It was a can of three and one oil on my dresser
Oh, my mother had come up and oiled my bed
Jerking off from down
Yeah, oh, I'm trying to hit you pulling your little root up there
But what a what an Irish repressed emotion thing to not say I had not a word was said and passive aggressively leave the can of fucking oil
They're like, I know what you're doing your dirtballs. Stop it. She's serving you meatloaf that night. She gives you a little wink
Yeah, great. You want to wash your hands again before?
And your wrist and your forearm
Did you share a room with your with it with your brother for a while or was it separate rooms?
It was the only time we lived together. We we moved actually from the Bronx
We were in Philly for a year. My dad got a radio job there and we lived in Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Cherry Hills clean money right there. Yeah, and so we shared a room there, but we got in fistfights every day
And so I had to sleep in the living room. That's fucking Irish twins Irish twins are a little physical
Irish people are a little physical. Yeah, me and my brother are 18 months apart
We fought every single every single fucking day from like 12 years old to like 17 every summer
We would get no fight. Yeah, right. Right. Good times. Good time
But you're also super close because like super close a sports together. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we played Nerf bed
We played contact Nerf basketball his body slams
Yeah, contact Nerf basketball when you got to a certain age on your knees was like the funnest fucking time
Ever that and some floor hockey
Come on. We played floor hockey in the basement, but we had these roller skates with metal wheels
And so one guy would one guy would belt up a couple pillows to his legs and play goalie. Yeah
Yeah, dude, of course
Like an Ivan Reitman movie. I fucking love that. That's awesome. All right, so let's get into some we're gonna play a little game here
Greg called are you garbage? Oh?
Oh boy Kevin and I are gonna ask you a series of questions
We would like you to answer the question as honest as possible and if it sparks any memories or any stories, please
elaborate
Sound good
I'm I'm ready
I
Want to start out and just know so now you guys live out in that Los Angeles, correct? Yeah, Venice Beach
Oh, very nice. What's the name of the grocery store that you go to?
Well, you know
There's we try to go to Trader Joe's a lot because
It's cheaper and better
Then we end up going to Whole Foods, which is super expensive. Wow, and then there's a place around the corner called air wand
Yay, there's one. It's like spelled like e-r-e h-w-o-n
And it's the biggest douchebag festival. Oh, that's fucking cash though
We've never heard those three answers and we asked that it's always like two shitty ones
And maybe a Trader Joe's if they had a good week if they hit the weekly number or something, you're right
It's like, you know, $15 loaves of olive bread and you know, $12 cans of peanut butter
And it's filled with guys that are dressed like it's the 1800s. Yeah, yeah, yeah
Cut and swish cheese with a fucking
Razor blade to get it really really thin
Are you an almond butter family?
Yeah, holy shit
That's like fucking 14 bucks a jar. My wife tries to get she tries to make her own it fucking Whole Foods
I'm like yo tuts. We don't have make your own almond butter money. I got a question
I'm in the studio against digital
You call your wife tuts?
She's European English English isn't her first language. She doesn't know it yet. Hey dumb broad. Where's the almond butter? Let's go
Yeah, you want to get a knuckle sandwich?
Why I want it?
Holy shit
No, we get the almond butter at Costco. It's gigantic and it's cheaper than peanut butter
You gotta get a Costco. I just took it down a peg buddy. I hate to tell you that
Shit Trader Joe's Whole Foods in some fancy place. I bet you they make sushi at that other at the other store, don't they?
Yeah, they make sushi and they make what do you call focaccia bread with different toppings on it?
Man, you know they have a salad bar and uh, yeah, it's pretty it's pretty special a valet parking
What wallets LA that's that's a very LA thing. All right, that's clean living
Yeah, damn this guy's got a car and he goes to Erwan's yikes. How much cash do you have in your wallet right now? Tell me that
He looks I love him. I love him. He's definitely got a hundred in there
He's got a honey with the blue face and it's fucking fresh
No fits dogs doing a couple of ones to grease some kids. I like it
I play golf and I do a lot of gambling out there. So I got to be ready. I love it
Do you currently belong to a country club? I do not. Oh, all right. You put you but you play on private courses
Sometimes yeah, you're playing on public courses mostly public get this guy off my screen right now
Let me ask you this you take a cart or do you get a catty? I
Carry my bag. Oh that is old school. I was a catty ever
I was a cat. I was a catty for about five years. There you go. That's why that is old school right there
And you can't I weighed like 115 pounds and I go out there
I mean, oh, this is this is back in the 80s when sure fucking range balls in there
Oh, yeah, the big heavy leather bags, too, right the fucking Rodney danger fields. Yeah, exactly. It's got a beer tap in it
Don't tell me a Jewish. I would go out there with two fucking bags and it was at no wood country club
It was hilly as shit. We belong to it, but then I started catting when I was sure
Wow stuck with it. That's good money, man. Yeah. Yeah, I guess so it was I would get $12 a bag. Oh
For 18 so $24. Did you go out twice a day or once? Yeah, I got twice a day. Yeah. Yeah
They say it's about seven miles
Walking a golf course. Yeah, that's not good money
It honestly took me a really long time to get back into just watching golf and liking golf like I love tiger
But when I was a kid like my second or third job was was a catty at this like really really rich country club outside of Philly and
The guy the first day like the golfers were just such fucking dicks to me
And they were just such assholes all the time that I was like, I hate golf. They knew you were white trash
He didn't belong there saw me coming. Yeah, you were made for catting it to with those chubby shoulders
He's not chubby. He's big bone Greg put four bags on there
He's got the whole four some
I'll tell you this speaking as
Get that foley boy. He's built like an ox
Speaking of Irish trash and fighting with your brother me and my brother
Both got an opportunity to catty at the Philmont Country Club for this celebrity tournament in the late 80s
Maybe early 90s and it was like Charles Barkley Chris Carter
All these fucking big people were there and a me and my brother were in a foursome with with Chris Carter the wide receiver
And we were carrying the other three people's bag Chris Carter was carrying his own and me and my brother started getting fights over
Who would carry the second bag at what hole and we end up getting into a fist fight right in front of the four of them
Fighting on Chris Carter like had to break it up. He's a come on now fellas act professional really get sorry about that Chris Carter
To fucking dirt bag Irish kids fight fight
19 that is garbage, dude
And then you had to keep catting together
We're fighting over the back like okay, fuck you. I'll carry okay shut up. No, no, no, no, we start like pushing each other like whoa
Dude, I can't I once catty for rusty stop and Keith Hernandez
Damn Keith Hernandez. Yep. Holy shit. How cool was he?
Man he's something else, huh man. He's a real man. Yeah
He is a ray there was something about those those mustaches back then we're fucking yeah, man
They just really worked
I even saw saw a video of
Piazza and like from that era how much the player has changed as far as like what they look like
Yeah
And this is without the juice. Are they still juicing in baseball?
I would assume so probably not to the level but that like, you know, it's not like bonds and fucking
Maybe a little CBD every once in a while
Mixed in with the chia seeds. Hmm. Yeah, right
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All right, let's stay focused here. We're not letting you off the hook here
You're trying to you're trying to pander to us with sports conversation. You're in the hot seat, buddy
All right with your fucking Costco peanut butter. It's almond butter though. That's that's I
Get shirts at Costco. That's like getting caviar at the gas station Kirkland all the way
Second meanest guys out of Philly
Brennan's got you by
People keep saying we have to have them on I'm like, it'll just end in a fist fight between the three of us in studio
We have them in studio
Man, um, all right. Have you ever skied in your jeans?
Yes
Oh, yes, when we recently rag now growing up. Okay, we would go up to Bear Mountain
Yeah, I was just up there last weekend
Really? I got a bear mountain and you know that the the the bread bags on the feet
Jeans
Sharon's cheese. I had a jean jacket with a thermal hoodie. What?
Yeah, and a giant hat we got for free for filling up 10 times
That's like misunderstood teen starship the jean jacket with the fucking up your skin
I
Know
The duality of that. Yeah, it's crazy. Did you ever put any patches on your jean jacket? Oh, yeah
Can you not only patches but I but I got the I had the doors
What do they call it when they when they spray it on?
airbrushed airbrush
airbrushed on the back of my
Levi jacket there were Levi jacket guys and there were Lee jacket guys. Oh, right Jack it Levi jacket
Yeah, Lee jackets were fucking trash. Don't come around with that shit Levi or nothing
You know, if you got a wrangler then that that you're sleeping on the streets. Yeah, if you got a wrangler
It's got no sleeves on it. That's for a fucking damn sure
Smoke non-filters for sure. Yeah
All right, what do you got big guy, what do I got do you cut your own grass right now currently? No, yeah
Okay, now we're fucking talking to a gentleman here
Let me ask you this more specific question about your lawn care if I might mr. Fit Simmons
You have a landscaper
Yeah, I guess you could call them a landscape we we have mo it's California, so
we have mostly
kind of rubbery plants succulents, okay, and
I don't know what that is
Succulents are like cactus type. Yeah
They don't need a lot of water right and and then we have decomposed granite, which is like a it's like a sandy rocky hard pat
Surface so that we only have a very small amount of grass
Gotcha, it doesn't take a lot of work to do our lawn the guys in and out because they call it
Blow and go out here because they just come in with the big fucking v8 engine on their back
Yeah, with a hose and they just blow everything off your lawn
This guy's done it got no grass
Out here on the west side of LA you're not allowed to 70% of your lawn has to be non grass
We got you out all the time sounds like hell that's your parents generation. They'll call that commie bullshits
Tommy bullshit
Tell me I can't have grass. This is fucking America. Where's the dog gonna take a shit? What the fuck?
That's bullshit use the bread bags for
All right, so you don't cut your own grass. That's pretty classy. I like it. There is something
classy about cutting your own grass, but if you deal with an electric lawn mower, that's fucking that's bad news
I should say in my last house. I did mow the lawn and then I got my son to mow the lawn
That was his first we were there for about five or six years and we we did mower on grass
That's the Irish mentality. I like very nice. That's that holds up. That's good
Well, I was gonna ask you about the about the lawn care is if you had a landscaper
I think a real classy move is when when you got a rich guy and they don't let you put the big mower on the front lawn
They make you cut the front lawn with a small mower. I don't know if you guys are aware of that
If you've ever worked landscaping, but I always thought that was a classy move
They make you use like it like a like a regular so the lines aren't as big yeah push mower. Yeah, push
Yeah, that's real uppity shit. I feel we'll get there. We'll get there one day. We got to get to the bigger studio
Okay, does anybody
I got this because I know a little bit about you. What was the last time you were in a fight?
Um
Cuz you got you're a bit of a hot man. I know it's been a it's been a while. It was probably about
Seven or eight years ago. That's not that long. You're in your 50s. What are you talking about? Yeah, you're still fighting
Was that like a supermarket or something?
Road rage. It was a guy. I was driving and this guy was coming down the street
And he was purposely swerving at cars trying to like push. It was like a madman
He was like trying to push people off the road
so I pulled my car right in front of him and I got out and I went up to him and his window was open and he
Sunglasses and I punched him across the side of his head and his sunglasses went flying out the other window and then and then
He turned out to be a pussy didn't get out of the car
Didn't say shit and then he just backed up and he went around my car
You would funny thing is I was on my way to the hardware store with my friend Will Hayes
I had a coffee cup. I'm drinking coffee and driving and then I pulled in front of the guy
I go hold my coffee. I got out hit him got back in I go give me my coffee. Just kept driving
I bet he didn't say a fucking word after that the whole way to the hardware store. Yeah. Yeah, he paid you went
You went first strike in a car. Yeah through the window
Through the wind. Well, the window was down. Yeah, but through the window. Damn. Was he running his mouth when you walked up?
No, he didn't say shit. He was just a guy
You know so in LA people get this sense of aggression when they're inside their bubble of their car. Yeah, sure
No, no real friend. Yeah, yeah
They forget that there's real people on the other side and that you and that if they they wouldn't do that in
Person they would only do it in their car. So course he shrunk and became a pussy as soon as I hit him
Dude, that is the Fitz dog. Look the fuck out
Around holy shit, I love it. That is such a to group go back to a trashy Irish
Genetics, it's you just it's it's every one of my uncles everyone. It just clicks
Oh, well, I gotta hit this that's what it is the switch goes and it's night no longer in control
And I have no idea how I've never hit my kids
Never hit my wife
Yet though. I obviously do have some control of it. Yeah with strangers
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure this guy's beaten up guys on the 101. What's the fuck?
Fucking bitch
I love it. He's like, yeah, we do almond butter. I also punch strangers in the head
I smacked the shit out of my
Smack the shit out of my pediatrician
Telling me the kid needs braces fucking talk to me. Oh
Oh
Holy shit. All right, you're not big guy. Let me ask you this some hygiene questions
Do you clip or bite your nails?
I only bite bite, okay?
I take the nail clip route every once in a while to treat myself. Hi, dude. I love biting a good nail
I think I don't know what it is. They just grow magically all of a sudden you got like a nice little fucking a little fatty right there
Pick that off. But some question would be have you ever picked your teeth with the finger now you bit off? Oh, absolutely
And the thing is is I don't bite them you can see them. I don't over bite them
They're actually pretty pretty well groomed for a guy. I got a little shine on them, too
Yeah, yeah, I get it. I get it. I get the corner and then I get a nice peel
I only do it when I'm driving I throw them out the window and then and then I eat whatever fucking
Dirt is always a little slice of dirt in there. Yeah, a little cuticle in your mouth. Yeah, I like a little cuticle
Did you remember when you're a kid and they tell you get worm eggs?
You raised by gypsies
I've never heard those two words together in my life. I've heard the apple tree if you eat an apple seed but not worm eggs
Yeah, we were gypsies
Sharpening knives at people's houses for them. We would cut our nails there if you bite your nails the devil will take you away
All right, I got one the nails put that in the fucking thought that's something
We're gonna earmark that that's tough to come back. You got that you got the Costco
You got beating the guy up on the fucking turnpike. This is gonna be hard
You got a fucking ace this thing from here on out unless you play piano or something like that
We got a baby grand now. How are you with a violin? Let's start there
Does anyone in your family pronounce the days of the week as Monday Tuesday or Wednesday?
I think my mom must you should we call her now and say fucking hell. Yeah, we should Greg
Just ask her what the day of the week is and see what she said, okay
My parent my parents and all my aunts and uncles pronounce Hamburg or Hamburg. Oh
That's trash. I'll hear it. I used to call the fairy the fairy fairy
She's quarantining she went hey, ma
Hey, how do you pronounce the days of the week say the days of the week?
Thursday Friday
Saturday
Okay, good. All right. Thanks
Hi, I
Think it was a little bit of a Monday wasn't it? I think she straightened up around Tuesday. Yeah
She knew she knew I was judging her and she drops her Bronx accent. She was trying so hard to announce you
I know it did get clear like she hit Saturday. I thought she was a fucking, you know, she was
Poppins
Well, that's a very good question Gregory
Oh, man, let's take a look. She did say Sunday twice. So I don't know if she's dipping in the Tully Mordue on a fucking
There's your mom still drink Catholic. She wants to make sure she's emphasizing Sunday. Yeah Sunday gets double
double headliner
Does your mom still hit the sauce? Oh, yeah. Yeah, real do you hit the sauce now?
He's clean. I've been sober for 31 years. Wow
Almost 31 we said this I think last week or two weeks ago Irish Irish family's half of them
Really still hit the sauce and the other half can't because they they flew too close to the Sun. You know what?
I mean, yeah, it's like it's it's down the middle half can half can't right
What was the the name of your first email address?
EF dog at earthlink.com and the reason why he was EF dog was
I shared it with my wife. Oh, it was Aaron
Aaron
and fit Simmons, I
Was fit see so as Aaron and fit see dog at earthlink.com and we had the same email address
For a long fucking time. Wow. Wow keeps you honest. I guess, huh? Yeah, it was cheaper
Yes, back when you had a fucking pay for it. I don't even let my girlfriend walk by my laptop
Get into my fucking email
Like a dog in the trash, you know, I think yeah, yeah, why do you got two other phones in your sock?
Hit her with the shock collar keep it moving not in the sea here
All right, this is this one what you know, what kind of candy do you give out on Halloween now?
What a fucking question Kevin Ryan this this separates the trash from the class
LA bullshit either
Well, we go to Erwan and we
We valley park at Erwan and they they get some soy and they spray it with
You're giving up a rod of cheese the kids in their hands bring your own crackers kids bring your own crackers
No, we go to Costco whatever whatever fucking giant bag you could fund the fun pack cool
The fun size. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Are you a strict take one or do you let the kids?
You know just kind of get a get a hand in there and keep it moving
we do a thing we go to my neighbor's house and
He he has a microphone and a very short mic stand and when the kids show up
We tell them you get one piece of candy just for showing up if you want a second one
You have to sing a song or tell a joke and then the kids tell the funny fucking jokes
That's fucking awesome like four-year-olds telling Joe one kid goes. Uh, he says
What do you call a fish with no eyes?
That's pretty good
There's no fat on that thing, baby. I don't know you're not getting two Snickers out of me with that shit
I'll tell you that I want to hear a fucking song. Give me a knock on something. I'll give you a baby Ruth
Now you get it the black girls show up and they they will start killing it and be on say
Oh, yeah, they'll do the entire fucking song. Oh, I love that
Greg if you ever named a star after anyone
Somebody gave me that as a gift once I remember that being the shittiest
Name names do we know it's air out you still talk to that guy
Now it was my ex my ex-girlfriend. Maybe you know her Sue Custello. Oh, yeah, okay. She's a comedian. Yeah, I did something with her
Yeah, yeah, maybe we should name names there fair enough. No, no, no, I did some show or something with her
He wasn't looking at my laptop. I'll tell you that much Greg still gets hot
Where are you pussies at right now? I'm getting on a flight
Have you ever done that?
Your car put on some sunglasses. Have you ever
Have you ever done that as a dad?
Have you ever like had to like really like threaten somebody that was messing with the kids or anything like that or somebody call in the house?
There was a guy we went on a camping trip one time here we go first first fully
What did you think the ants he's punching people out on the fucking 401 you think he's he hasn't threatened anybody
I want to hear about it losing it on some some like second-grade art teacher something like that now
we were it was a bunch of parents and we had we rented a campsite at Yosemite and
One and then my son and another kid Gus
They had a stick and I guess it was another girl who had a stick and you know, they were like fucking nine
Mm-hmm, and I guess they stole the other girl's stick and the father who was a big guy
He got my son and Gus's face and he fucking screamed at them and he threatened them
My son was just he was hysterically crying
He might even been younger than nine and he came back
And I just said where is he?
And I went up to his tent and I walked up to him and I did the classic remember the chest bump
Yeah, and the only reason I was able to hit his chest is he was he was down a hill and I was above him
So I walked into him and I said I said you got one hour to pack your shit and get the fuck out of the campsite
What and he just started packing me packed up all his shit and then
What the fuck is this and then my wife my wife was screaming at me and so I went back and I told him he could stay oh
Dude talk about a mega flex on something. I thought you were going to pack your shit
I'll let yeah, this is me allowing you and your family to enjoy yourselves remember that the Fitzdahl calls his shots around here
I mean this guy only thing about being Irish
We went out to ice cream that night when you're Irish you heat up, but then you cool down
Cold as I got in fist fights with some of my best friends on that later that night, of course wait you went out ice cream with the guy
Yeah, a bunch of us went out. Holy shit, huh? Yeah little rocky road to smooth things over
With a side of bipolar, please dude. I had no I was expecting
So I walked up to him my chest bumped him. I said you better apologize right now telling a guy
To pack up his fucking shit. He probably gets one two weeks vacation a year
This guy's on vacation and you're go tell your kids are going fucking home
And cut my lawn on the fucking way and blow and go my lawn. Let's do it
God damn that is fucking crazy is something else right now hurt his fucking nuts
Pack your shit pack your shit. You're going home. You and your daughter who's crying now
Pack her up. Yeah, you just ruined her vacation
And for quite some time. I'm sure now. I said you're gonna apologize to my son and Gus
And then you're gonna pack your shit that girl definitely has some father issues
Wherever you lose dude if somebody you just made a stripper. That's basically what you did
You made a stripper and she's gonna have a stick on stage. Nobody's gonna know why
She'll be breaking in the money with the stick
Um, dude if someone came up to my dad while we were on vacation
And told him to pack his shit and go and he started if he even put a sock in a bag
I would have been like dude. I'm driving to fuck home. Give me these you stink. I'm out of here
But that's the difference. It's the guys that don't like your dad would never do that to a kid
Of course, right and like that's the thing the tough guys
They don't fucking act like that. Yeah, they don't say that kind of shit
Right, but they will fucking avenge it. That's
I remember my dad told the neighbor one time the kid was like 15
He my me and my brother were like, I don't know like six and eight or something
And he like punched my brother or pushed me or something and my dad walked
He was like kid was like a young teenager. My dad hit him with the line. I'm gonna clean your clock
And I was like that is some fucking old school filly shit right there. You just told a 15 year old
Do you got any of those that you break out? Do you have any do you have any sayings like that that you hit the kids with?
Um, what do I say to my well my son is 19 now and that's okay
He's a varsity athlete. He's fucking ripped and he's three inches taller than me
That's bad. He's still scared. We did a lot of slap fighting a lot of wrestling. Yeah, of course
The other night I choked him out. He finally tapped but I choked him out. We still wrestle
We still go at it and I had him. He was red. He had tears rolling down his face throughout the dinner table
And he finally I had him fully around back of the head. He had no he had no way out
Jesus what the fuck don't you write for a disney show right now?
So I put ellen in the fucking sleep road
That's a big irish catholic trashy thing too is like when you the teenage when the boy
Gets into his teenage years. Oh man. You toe off. You peacock around the house. Yeah, and my dad would always hit me with
I got one more good one left. Didn't you want it?
He goes it can be you if you want it at the end of the day. He knows I will fight to my death
Because you can't lose that fight. I can't lose the alpha status. He can lose that fight. You can't I would move
I'd have to fucking move
Be become a caddy again. I'm like son. Son be home at 11. I bet you go fuck yourself dad
Okay, cool. Anytime's fine. It'd be flexing on you doing like the flinch move on your fucking
Yeah, right you turned in the biff at the end of back to the future. Okay, no problem. I'll put the second coat on the car right now
Man, dude, that is fucking wild. How do you feel about the comedy of mr. Bean?
When I was when I my kids were kids
They enjoyed it and I liked it. I like you like anything your kids like yeah, you got the kids card
I think he does what he does extremely well. Yeah, it's not my it's not my type of comedy, but he's very talented
Okay, all right
I love fully at some point took a legal pad and wrote down the words mr. Bean on it
And he's carrying it around all day. Where's that come from? He's going to a deposition
I thought it was good. Is that like your dame cook mr. Bean?
I don't I thought it was gonna get a laugh. I don't know mr. Bean was the shit growing up. I took a shot
What do you want from me?
These are we're just riffing here. Greg. Let's pull up. Let's pull. It's all smoking mirrors over here
I don't know. I thought it was gonna work. I thought you're gonna get mad at me for a second
He was on the camping trip with me
It was Gus's dad. It was named was Gus Bean. Um
He's british. They fucking subjugated our island for 700 years starved us to death in the 19th century
Fuck that guy. There we go. Let's yeah
Now we're now we're cooking. Um, have you ever been to a b y o b strip club?
No
Very nice class class. What was the last time you were at a strip club?
Been a long time. Don't incriminate yourself by the way. I know you're a married man. I don't know if you're still sharing the emails
There's a there's a place in LA that's kind of fun. It's called jumbo's clown room. I've heard about that. Yeah
And it's like uh, it's just like a down and dirty dive bar that has strippers and they're not necessarily
Uh, good-looking or young but they all have like a hook
You know like
You know like some of them have like bare feet and they'll stick their feet on your face
Some of them dress up as a cowgirl
Um, they're like prop strippers. Yeah prop strippers and one girl used to light her vagina on fire
And so she was kind of famous
She was kind of famous for it. And so I came in one week and I go. Hey, where's the girl that uh
Used to light her vagina on fire and and they go
Oh
We had to let her go. She had some she had some mental stuff
Yes, she's lighting her pussy on fire. Did she really?
She wasn't playing with the full deck really
Jesus christ
This broad's fucking torturing her clam every night for a couple of bucks. She told me she was pre-med. What's going on here?
You go in to get your tonsils out. Hey, aren't you the fucking the clam burner?
Oh
As a catholic gentleman, I would like to discuss uh christmas. Yes with you if I could um
You decorate the house for christmas. Yeah
You do colored lights. You do white lights on the outside color
Why you got the cash, what are you doing?
Can't have fun. Let's go crazy. Did you do colored colored lights when you were a kid?
Yeah, I grew up with it with the the fucking the big ones. Yeah, yeah
And uh, you know like 60 watts and one of those crack that would kill you the voltage
No, the new ones one goes out and the whole fucking strip goes out with the old ones
You just get another bulb. You know, you keep keep the dream alive
They were regular fucking bulbs, but you've got to put those in like in your chandelier in the foyer. Yeah, right
Right, and then uh, but the real the real trash was
A lot of tinsel on top of the tree
Do you still do that greg? That that's the mayonnaise of christmas
That's the miracle whip of christmas
I assume you're a helman's man. I would like to think
Uh, no, I'm a uh
Costco Costco guy whatever that's all right. So yeah, that's all right. That's not bad. Okay. All right
Um, do you do tinsel now still? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah
Love the tinsel. He is some new money trash right here
We don't do what you're not doing popcorn on the tree. Are you with no popcorn? Okay. Do you have one or two trees?
One tree. All right. I don't know you're out in LA. I know you could have one for the butler. I don't know
No, it tallyans a lot of it tallyans do two trees
Once typically real some real gaudy guinea shit too. It's like red or fucking blue
Sometime we were talking to versey puts it on the ceiling. They do an upside down tree
It's real fucking real greaseball shit
It's got salami on it. He puts it on the ceiling. They do an upside down tree. No, it's just inverted. It just goes the other way
I don't know. Yeah, you ever go out to Bensonhurst at christmas. Oh, I
Oh, it's the best dude. That's the greatest plus they shake you down for a little bit of cash out there
If you're gonna go down, yeah, because their their electric bill is about
You guys go you guys go real tree to go artificial tree now real tree. All right. Okay. Um, yeah
I feel like greg's mad at me
He's just afraid of older irish men. It's just as upbringing
Now we used to uh, we get the tree every year. There's a lot
And uh, you know the mob owns all the lots because it's just a cash business. Sure. Sure. They can bury that money
Yeah, so there's a lot that the mob owns of the street
And this one guy every year gets us our tree and he's he's this uh old black guy and he's always drunk
But he's they all the leaves are drunk. Yeah
Yeah, and he sings the whole time. He sings christmas carols. Oh, that's awesome. And then you give him a big fucking tip
Love it. And then uh
And I always thought wow this guy, uh, this guy makes a really good living
And then my family we uh, we serve food at a homeless shelter
And then he he shows up one week and I was like
Where do you let I go? I thought you're pretty well off
He's like no, I've been homeless for like 12 years. I'm like, oh
Greg's like, I thought you're well off. I gave you 40 bucks once a year for the past five years
And I thought you'd be rolling in it. Oh, yeah, I guess this job only lasts about three weeks. Yeah at best. Yeah
Oh, that's fucking great
Uh, all right, let's do uh, we're we're coming up on uh on an hour here. Let's get some of the
Are you garbage basics? These are ones that we go over with everybody. All the listeners have a very, um
Are very opinionated about these answers
Yes, so the house you live in now, uh, I'm assuming is it a single family home
Greg, uh, no, we have a rental unit in the back that we rent out
This guy's got fucking passive income streams on the property. Oh, that's right. All right
Is there currently a tenant in there right now?
That's right. Oh my god. This pilot season's coming up
Uncle Hank might be staying for a little while kids. You know, he's got room on my couch
Yo, Greg, you don't want that. Hey, this is Fitz. Where's the almond butter? That's gotta be a big couch
Um, do you have a garage currently?
No, we converted it into uh, we had a two car garage and we converted it into a giant bonus room
Put down some hardwood floors
Put in the hardwood floor is nice. That's very nice a couple doors a little bathroom
Okay, I got two questions. First question. Do you have to step down into that new room?
No
Oh
Very nice. I'm gonna talk to the architect on that job. Very nice
Also, do you have a refrigerator in that room?
Do you have a second fridge in the house or are you just a one fridge family?
Uh, it's a mini fridge. Oh
Fair enough. There you go. There you go. Not to what's in that mini fridge, Greg
Final final question with the fridge
Uh, it's just beer
Nice for uh, yeah for guests and my son
Nice that would qualify as what we like to refer to it. Are you garbage the garage fridge?
If you don't have a nice garage fridge with fucking ice pops for the kids and fucking beers for dad and drinks for uncle hank
Right your trash, right a second fridge is the american dream, baby
It is
Do you currently with dinner?
To the children or to you and your wife serve milk while you're eating?
Will you have milk with dinner?
Um, I like that you say milk. Yeah, that's how I say it and everybody gives me shit about it
That's where that's a real garbage. I must have picked it up in that one year. I lived in sherry. Holy jersey
milk
It's like herpes you never get rid of it. Do you get shit about how you say milk?
Oh, the the listeners fucking they spell it m e l k now. That's how they spell it
right
um
My daughter. Yeah, my daughter drinks milk with dinner. Did you drink milk with dinner growing up? Oh, fuck. Yeah
We used to drink it out. There we go. Do you remember those shrimp cocktail glasses that you used to get?
It was a little glass with a top on it filled with shrimp cocktail. Yeah, and and and my parents
Kept those held about fucking six ounces and I took we drank milk out of it dinner every night. That's pretty fucking fancy
That's like gatsby shit. I like that
holy shit
No, not if you're saving the glass from the shrimp cocktail to drink. Yeah, no heat tea here
That's maybe the trashiest thing I've said in this whole podcast. That's how trashy he is
You're drinking milk out of what what I would refer to as a champagne glass
That's pretty fucking good to me
I was drinking it out of a coffee mug at dinner at nine years old that said number one dad on it
That he bought for himself
That he bought for himself. I think I just got one last one. How do you feel about imitation crab meat? Yes
No problem with that. Yeah, I'm actually shocked by how good it is
I mean, it's like
You know, if you if you had to give me one and the other and I had to guess
I don't know the difference all about fake crab meat. Yeah, I go to I go to Ralph's which is the shitty grocery store
And they have pre-made
Whatever the rolls are that have is it is it the california california roll. Yeah, yeah with the fake crab in it all all over that
That's trash. All right. I would have to say
Where where are we at? Are we right there? What do you think you think he's garbage? I think he's not garbage
There is not a doubt in my mind. He is garbage through and fucking through. Yeah
I mean, he was less garbage. It sounds when he was, you know, a six-year-old ordered a coke off kevin
Meanie at the country club done. He starts working at the country club. That's a hard left right there
You can't go from fucking member to caddy
I just want to ask when you only get two dollars a day to eat
You need some passive income. No shrimp cocktail there. I can tell you that
One final question
At your house now
Where do you keep the ketchup after you've opened? Did you keep it in the refrigerator or do you leave it in the cabinet?
People leave it in the cabinet
A lot of people. Yes. Great answer, Greg. Great answer after opening right at the bottom
And how about your maple syrup? Do you leave that in the in the in the fridge? Yes smart man
One one more while we're on it. This is in the lock on this guy. I know he's like rolling
He's like wallpaper. Can't get a read on him. Do you butter?
Do you keep butter on the counter or do you keep it in the refrigerator on the counter?
This guy's fucking garbage. Yes
Holy shit. That is old school irish shit
That's garbage. That's it. That's a wrap. That's a wrap on Fitzsimmons. Greg Fitzsimmons is garbage
I'll tell you that right now, but the best kind of garbage
Greg, is there anything you want the folks out there to know anything you got coming up that you want to do?
Want to let us sit on no dates obviously, but I got three podcasts
I got Fitzdogg radio, which is me interviewing
other comedians and writers directors
And then I have a new one that I'm really excited about called sunday papers
That I do with my buddy Mike Gibbons. He's a big showrunner. He created a bunch of tv shows like
David Spade's first show on comic central and
Tosh.0
So we read the paper
Every sunday we read each section of the paper and we do jokes about it
And uh, it's it's very funny. And then I have a nice another one called childish
I do with allison rosen where we talk about raising kids. She's got babies
I got teenagers and we talk about raising kids
Awesome awesome. Well, buddy. Thank you so much for coming on the show. We really really appreciate it. Thank you
That was absolutely fucking fantastic. Thank you. You guys are great. It was real. I wish we could do it in person next time
I'm in new york. We'll do it. Yeah, hit us up for sure, man. Kippy. Anything you want the folks out there to know?
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