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AYG Comedy Podcast: Sidney Gantt - Street Fighting Mom

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A little bit behind the curtain here, T-Bone just botched the recording.
We lost the first 20 minutes.
A little bit of a back story.
We were in the fucking middle of a heartfelt, intense tale from our very
special guest that we have here today.
And we're going to do it one more time for you because we're three, four
professionals.
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Gang, we couldn't be more excited to have our old pal, our very special guest
here with us today.
He is a very funny stand-up comedian and podcaster.
He is the host of Two Jacked Bros and a good pal of ours.
He's had a fucked up childhood.
Crazy as they come, baby.
And we're about to hear it for a second time.
Round two of fucking Psycho Tales.
Give it up for Sidney Gant, everybody.
Oh, thank you so much.
We're sorry to have to make you tell this all over again.
Not a problem.
I think the craziest part about it is I don't think it was fucked up.
You were a little vague with the details, a little bit with some of the things
I wanted
to know, but then we eventually we got to it.
So tell us the story again.
You grew up in a town called Pottstown.
Pottstown, Pennsylvania, which is a little bit of a rural town.
Right.
About an hour, 15 minutes outside of Philadelphia.
Mm-hmm.
And, you know, we were just, we were just, it was a scrappy little town.
Like, we have wrestling champions from there.
Yeah.
I'm aware.
And so one of the things that we would always do at the end of every, you know,
play session
with all the kids is we would all fight each other before we all went on.
Which is insane to me.
Like, it's just like this unspoken rule that everybody just starts punching
each other.
But we'll make sense in a couple of minutes.
Yes.
Not only was it an unspoken rule that everybody punched each other, if you
tried to leave,
then all the people would come after you.
Damn.
Like, nobody would leave.
You couldn't leave if you didn't throw a punch or take a punch.
I would have been like, my asthma is bothering me.
Yeah.
I would have fucking, you know what I mean?
I got flat feet.
I'll see you guys in math class.
Yeah, trying to duck it like the draft.
I got a doctor's note.
I can't do it.
I mean, I was, believe it or not, I was actually.
A hard, attempted ducker of that.
You tried to duck it?
Every single time.
Really?
Every single time.
But, like, the only, what I would do is, like, just, like, throw myself into it
really quickly.
Like, take a couple lumps and then just try to bounce.
Yeah, get it over, like a Band-Aid.
Like a mosh pit.
Yeah.
Yeah, I wasn't necessarily, I wouldn't say that I was tough.
Yeah.
And what age are we talking?
So, that stopped when I was about 15, 16.
But that was, again, because guns started to get introduced.
Like, the climate, the town changed very dramatically over that time.
Damn.
Did any of your friends have guns?
Later on, yeah.
But these are, like, you said, rural people.
So, they have, like, rifles and shit like that.
Well, see, here's the thing.
We're a rural town that should be a suburban town.
So, nobody thinks they're rural in that town.
Gotcha.
That's a dangerous comment.
Yeah.
It really is.
Hillbillies who don't know they're hillbillies.
Yeah, it's a double-edged sword.
Damn.
For sure.
Yikes.
Yeah.
All right.
And what's the back story with your family?
Hit us with that.
Because that will connect.
That'll bring us up to speed.
We're fighting each other in parking lots after fucking birthday parties.
That happened.
Yeah, of course it did.
Shout out to Chuck E. Cheese.
Guy can throw a mean left hook.
That rat had it coming, I tell you.
Yeah, so, you know, I was, like, you know, grew up with a single mom for the
most part,
although my dad lived in the town, and I would see my dad pretty often.
Okay.
Weekly?
Monthly?
What are we talking?
I mean, as often as I wanted to.
He didn't get that far.
Gotcha.
So, to some degree, it would be on me sometimes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If I was willing to take the bike trip over there, if I was, like, sometimes I
would
be, like, really sitting there making the decisions, like, am I going to go
play basketball?
I'll see my dad today.
Yeah, yeah.
So, I played a lot of basketball.
Hell of a jumper.
Kid's got a hell of a shot.
Yeah, so, you know, that was until sixth grade.
I lived with my mom, and then we moved, my brother and I moved with my grandma.
My sister ran away from home, and then my mom moved to Coatesville.
It was just, we just kind of got scattered into the wind.
Right.
And, you know, so that was basically my home life.
This was up until sixth grade.
Up until sixth grade.
Now, your mother was a big part of your life back then.
Yeah, man.
Influence.
My mom was a big part of the town back then.
And tell the folks out there what she did.
Her hobbies.
What did her, crossword puzzles?
Sudoku.
Yeah, no, so my mom, which is, again, it's a very hard thing to explain to
people.
My mom, she was a street fighter.
And so when I say that, like, everybody, oh, yeah, my mom would, like, get loud.
Like, yeah, my mom would get loud and fight people at grocery stores, too.
But that, like, she would fight in scheduled fights.
Yeah, dude, that's insane to me.
My mom worked at a dentist office.
Dude, the only fight I ever saw my mom almost get in is, I think we had to talk
about it on this, this family from Flower Town moved into, like, our
neighborhood.
They hit the lottery.
It was, like, there was, like, a fucking slip and fall accident or something.
They came across a couple million bucks.
Oh, yeah.
So they were real trashy and moved in.
I got beat.
I got hit in the face of the hockey stick.
We were playing hockey.
I got hit in the face of the hockey stick by the one that was my age.
My brother came out to be, like, yo, what the fuck?
And then his older brother beat up my older brother.
And then my mom comes out.
We're both, like, bloody on the front yard.
And she goes and starts screaming at the mom.
And I'm, like, yo, you're going to get fucking worked, lady.
Like, his family's going to fucking run through us.
It's like the guy that knocked out Debo for the bird.
The guy Debo knocked out for the bike.
Coming down here, messing with these people.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
So I come from a family of fighters.
Like, I'm probably the least fighty of my family.
Yeah.
And for the list, we've went over this in the part that we lost.
But Sidney is pure fucking bonkers.
Crazy person.
Not looking for confrontation, but definitely not running away from it.
No, I think I need it to some degree to feel stable.
Okay.
Psycho.
So this town had this almost circuit of underground fighting.
Yeah.
So, I mean, if you know anything about Pottstown, PA, it's a town that kind of
builds professional
athletes, too.
Mm-hmm.
And we had professional football players.
Sure.
Basketball players.
An Olympic bronze medalist in wrestling.
Like, we produced pretty good athletes.
And your mother was recognized in this circuit for being one of the toughest
people.
Oh, my mom's a legend in my town.
Damn.
Undefeated street fighter.
Do you have any idea what a ballpark purse would be for something like this?
Because I would imagine with gambling on the fights, there would have to be a
pretty decent
amount of money at stake.
Not, like, millions of dollars, but obviously.
Probably a couple of hundo fights.
A couple of hundo on a fucking Saturday.
This is the 80s, the 90s.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
So I'll say this.
I never knew exactly how much money she won.
But one year for school, she bought all of me and my brother's school clothes
with money
She was so proud that she was buying all of her school clothes with fight money
that she
didn't even, she wasn't even, like, trying to micromanage what I bought.
It was all windbreakers.
She let me get all windbreakers.
She also made me buy a couple of long giants to wear under them for the winter.
You got that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She turns into Oscar de la Hoya.
I love it.
Just get whatever you want.
At the end of the day, she's still a great mom.
Got to get long, Johns.
You got to stay warm.
It's great.
Was she strict with you about what you did?
She was only strict that we had to work hard and get good grades.
Because you are a very calculated, thorough, you know, critical thing.
You're not, like, wild.
You know, like, you're very intelligent, very smart, very calculated person.
And you see, that's, you know, you would say on the surface,
the underground fighting is garbage.
But then when you say that.
No, it's garbage.
I mean, you'll say that on the surface, at the bottom, on the top, underground.
I mean.
Yeah, it's pretty garbage.
It's trash.
Even with her being so disciplined with her kids.
I don't know.
I would give a little, give a little leeway on that.
Well, yeah, she did a great job with them, but she's still a fucking backyard
brawler.
Dude.
I mean, like, she's in a fight club.
Yeah.
Sydney.
Man.
Yeah, me, my brother and I.
I think I've met her, maybe.
I think I might have met her at one point.
I think I did, yeah.
My brother and I, we talk about this a lot.
It's like, because my brother's a good guy, too.
He's like, you know, a boss at his job.
Like, he's a hardworking dude.
Okay.
You know what I mean?
And it's like, she accidentally raised good kids.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was.
But not accidentally.
She put the screws to you.
Not really.
I mean, my mom was, she, I don't even think, I can't remember even getting,
like, yelled.
She wouldn't