Teddy Swims!

H. Foley (0:00)

Hey ho, gang! The Army of Garbage Tour is about to kick off this weekend. We're going to be in Appleton, Wisconsin at Skyline Comedy Club. Stand-up comedy. Plus, we play a little Are You Garbage with the crowd. You've seen the special American Garbage. You know what you're getting into. It's a good time. Grab your squad. Come out and see the boys.

Kevin Ryan (0:16)

Yeah. Then we're going to be at San Jose on October 16th. Limited tickets left October 17th in San Diego. Then we're in Tacoma, Atlanta, Philadelphia. Just announced Boston. Get your tickets. We'll be at the Wilbur.

rugarbage.com. We love yous.

SPEAKER_4 (0:30)

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.

H. Foley (0:50)

Hey, everybody out there and welcome back to everybody's favorite podcast. This is Are You Garbage?

Teddy Swims (0:55)

Oh, yeah.

H. Foley (0:56)

That little show, we sit down with your favorite comedians and we find out if they're going to be classy. Yeah. Just a big old piece of trash.

Teddy Swims (1:02)

Trash, trash, trash.

H. Foley (1:03)

I'm your host H. Foley coming at you on a beautiful day. We're out back here at Tootie's in a new edition. She's upstairs in her bedroom watching Gladiator for the 15th time.

Kevin Ryan (1:11)

All right, fair enough.

H. Foley (1:12)

All right. My co-host is coming in from right next to me. He is the CEO of Are You Garbage? International businessman and my best pal in the whole wide world. And he loves me. Give it up for KJ, Kevin James Ryan, everybody.

Kevin Ryan (1:23)

What up, gang? Shout out to you as always. Thanks for tuning in. Make sure you rate, view, subscribe on iTunes. Full video available on YouTube. Full video available over there on Spotify. And the boys are climbing the fricking charts over there. Top 20? So I don't even know. But we're up there. And then obviously the greatest website of all time, www.patreon.com/are You Garbage? You go over there, get all that bonus content.

H. Foley (1:43)

Love that money. And gang, we couldn't be more excited to have our incredibly, and I mean incredibly special guest here with us today for the first time. He is a very talented, very successful genre bending singer songwriter. He is on tour right now. He has a brand new album, Ugly, coming out January 22nd. And the lead single on that album is out right now called A Perfect Man. Give it up for truly the one, the only Teddy Swims.

Teddy Swims (2:10)

How about that? Look at that. Let's go.

SPEAKER_7 (2:13)

Some people are just born for this.

Teddy Swims (2:14)

Yeah. Y'all are nailing this.

Kevin Ryan (2:17)

But when we first started the show, he was like big intro. I'm like, this seems like a lot, but it's it's a.

Teddy Swims (2:22)

That's about all I could do.

H. Foley (2:23)

Everything else in my life is a shattered mess.

SPEAKER_6 (2:26)

Hey, you got to get one thing right.

Teddy Swims (2:28)

Let's go.

Kevin Ryan (2:28)

He's got the intro now.

H. Foley (2:29)

Buddy, thank you so much for coming in.

Teddy Swims (2:31)

Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_7 (2:32)

I'm thrilled.

H. Foley (2:33)

Congratulations on everything. You're killing it. You have the Barclays Center tomorrow. You're moving and shaking. We love to see it.

Teddy Swims (2:40)

Dude, honored. So honored.

H. Foley (2:41)

The voice is out of control.

Teddy Swims (2:43)

Crazy.

H. Foley (2:44)

It's out of control, unique, powerful, unbelievable.

Teddy Swims (2:47)

I've been doing it for about 20 years, so we finally got good. D&S Club finally got good.

Kevin Ryan (2:52)

I understand that myself.

H. Foley (2:54)

Give us the origin story. Now, we're here to determine whether you're trash or not.

SPEAKER_2 (2:57)

Yes.

Teddy Swims (2:57)

I'm probably 100 percent.

SPEAKER_2 (3:02)

I mean, dude, you would have to fingernail tattoos, gold check.

SPEAKER_6 (3:05)

You got to look at my haircut, man.

Teddy Swims (3:06)

I'm my mom. It's just white trash, baby. That's me, baby.

H. Foley (3:10)

You're a Georgia boy, right? Give us the backstory. How did you grow up?

Teddy Swims (3:14)

Man, I grew up in a little town about 30 minutes east of Atlanta called Conyers. Okay. I was playing football my whole life. Let's go. I was a theater kid through high school, and my dear friends who are in my band, we've been playing together since we were little kids. Oh, shit. Yeah, man.