Big Time Garbage

Mike Recine (Conan, Comedy Central) joins us to talk about his uniquely Detroit experience of seeing a child get verbally abused by his father at a pizza restaurant. We also talk about comedy in the age of Trump, teachers hooking up with students, conspiracy shit, and we list all the disney villains who were gay. Mike came through to do Cellarmen's and Planet Ant. was excellent. check out his podcast   subscribe and review and share and all that stuff. thanks for listening. next episode will have fewer audio issues.  

Comedian, Friend, and (most importantly) fan of the show Mike Szar (Stand Up Comedian from Toledo) joins us to talk about how mania begets creativity, and how biorhythmic ups and downs affect stand up comedy as a creative output. This leads to a discussion about how pop psychology cures being sad as opposed to depression. How the emotional labor of stand up comedy breeds reactionaries like Owen Benjamin and Ricki Gervais. A brief discussion about the way current events are tackled in newer stand up specials.   Good chat. Be like Mike. Mike Ass Szar. He’ll be doing stand up near you real soon. go check him out.     also, check out our upcoming shows. Suck It Suicide Benefit at Smalls on April 6th. Our new show at Planet Ant every Friday. Mike Recine at Cellarmens on Thursday. Other shit. Go check it. Hell yeah. I really worked on the description this week. I hope it makes you want to listen to the podcast. Maybe even tell a friend? idk. Hell yeah. Thanks for listening.

Ray died, so we replaced him with Mike "Thunder" Bobbitt, and Ken Witzgall. We talk all kinds of shit about stuff. don't miss it, gang. there was some long riff about how kylie jenner tanked an entire tech company with an offhand comment. that was good.    check out Mike's podcast          

Zach Stein is our guest. We talk all kinds of wild shit. It was, for lack of a better term, a good episode.   go listen to Zach’s podcast friends forever.  

Fresh off his weekend at Riddles Comedy Club in Alsip, Illinois, Jeff Horste joins us to talk about his weekend shows, being a headlinder, and other comedy shit. Also some Kid Rock talk; A discussion of Ted Nugent's more problematic songs, flat earth rappers, and a ton of other shit.   Jeff is very funny, go see him.  go to   ok bye

The gang is back with our injured pal Sunil Sawani. We talk injuries, jobs, depression, and being sober. It was fun, despite the topics covered. We also talk about our bad review that was left after our Improv episode.   also we don’t talk about guns.   Good to be back, gang. Go to Ray and Laura’s Comedy showcase on March 8th Go to Comedy night at the light on the 6th Go see Dave Ross at trixies on April 10  

This episode is yet another crossover with Glory Friends. Alex, Laura, Ray and Blain are on this one.    topics of this ep: Stealing stuff from banks Run ins with the cops Bachelor Parties College Queer Eye for the Straight Guy The guy ray is training ray said being an audio engineer for a podcast is easy. go harass him on facebook and tell him he's wrong.   Tune in to glory friends this wednesday for the thrilling conclusion   It's been a rough couple of months, which is why most of the podcasts lately have been crossovers. Our schedules are clearing up so next week we'll be able to record a lot more. the Original Big Time Garbage team will be back with more consistent episodes, more quality,. i'm talkin bangers bro.   good shit on the horizon.   thank you for listening. sincerely. i love you. 

John and Alex from the "That's Bullshit, Right?" podcast, and the dudes from the newly formed "yeah" podcast join us to talk with Stewart Huff before his show at Cellarmen's.   Stewart has been doing comedy for over 20 years and has 4 albums available online. He's a tremendous comic with incredibly thoughtful and inspiring long form material touching on the hypocrisies of Government and Regligion, while highlighting the miracle of every day life. We talk about his new hour, traveling, and important career decisions.    Stewart Huff is a fantastic comic. go see him when he visits your town.    sorry for the fucked up audio.   anyway. go subscribe. we got a sick back catalog that includes conversations with people you want to listen to.   

I fucked up recording the first 20 minutes, so here's what was missed (it's important to like 2 callbacks)  The black version of Hooters called "Donks", a similar restaurant idea Brett had called "Spectrums" that show off the waitresses personalities, and a long riff on the word retarded.   The episode starts with us explaining to Gad what "The Room" is. then we talk about movies, Facebook groups, Atheism, XFL, Racist Comedy Contests, and Movies.    Go subscribe on iTunes or Sticher. Leave us a review and follow us on

We talk about Ray's gang he started in elementary school. and Blain's gang he started in middle school. and the Gang that was at Brett's High School. And the real gangs that were in Alex's neighborhood growing up. We also talk about Ray's incredible story of revenge.    Alex is our guest. it's a continuation of the last episode.   Thanks for listening. 

Our guest is Alex. We talk about how to market ourselves by asking the question "What type of white guy am I"   we also talk about Open Mic Fights and a bunch of other crap.   we went long, so this is a 2 parter. so you get two episodes this week. cool.    go follow us on facebook so we can prove to advertisers that we have lots of listeners so we can make money, quit our jobs and do podcasting for a living. or something.    

hello. we are back. new episode. we're talkin NFL, bad jobs, finding money, making money, jeff bezos, and robots. also, the aziz i'm sorry thing happened. we chat about it all. there was an audio issue in the beginning that was edited out. I edited it out for audio reasons. not cause ray and blain were talking about sports.  go get other people to listen. and leave us a review on itunes  

we're back, baby. new year, same ol us.    enjoy.    

Ray died, so we're talkin apps, flat earth, hollywood celebs, oh yeah we cover it all.    our guest is Brad Wenzel and Brad Wenzel's Driver (Mike Szar)        

Recorded at the very last show of Big Time Garbage Festival, this episode is a play by play of Brett losing cinema roast crunch to his non-comic friend Kyle. The movie "Over the Top" starring Sylvester Stallone is playing in the background.   We talk to Alex about being caught having sex, and the solution to Blain's patchy beard problem. Ray is finally relaxed after selflessly putting on a Comedy Festival... so relaxed he does an impression of Brett, who reveals that everything he knows about pop culture comes from Family Guy.  Reese Leonard stops by briefly to talk about the festival and stuff.   thanks for supporting the festival, everyone.         

Thanks for listening. This one's with our bud Alex. We talk about the news and shit. 

Bart Dangus of the extremely popular show "prankis" joins us for a long conversation about the craft of standing up comedy. We also talk about that NYT story about the Normal Nazi™   Ray died. if you wanna hear ray go listen to the Glory Friends podcast.   This is a swapcast with , Bart's podcast. hello SO'TH listeners.   Go to

Just the OG gang on this episode of The Only Good Podcast™ we discuss instagram models, our old haircuts, Lil Peep, Al Franken Roy Moore, and ya know, whats goin on in our comedy lives.    this episode includes a detailed run-down of what's happening at . Todd Barry, Leonard Outz, Kurt Metzger, Annie Lederman, Live BTG, and tons more.   go follow us    

Not much happened this week in the news so we just talk about like, new music and cool gifs we saw online. We're joined by Esther Nevarez to discuss the world.      oh yeah we talk about louis ck. and roy moore. and george takei. and jesse lacey. and all the other guys who are gettin' got.   go to big time garbage fest. 

Big Time Garbage/Glory Friends crossover episode. this is huge, folks. the BTG gang and the TGF crew join forces to make Ray choose between his two podcast. once that comes to a thrilling conclusion we go through a whole list of headlines from the past week. we’re talking Weinstein, Spacey, Paradise Papers, Texas Shooting. We solve the biggest issues facing America today and once that’s complete Ray hits us with a cliffhanger to end all cliffhangers.   go listen and subscribe to both Big Time Garbage () and The Glory Friends ()   Ray Hollifield () Blain Hill () Brett Mercer () Laura Witkowski (not on twitter) Alex () Mike DaRonco (not on twitter)