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AYG Comedy Podcast: Ryan Sickler - Baltimore Class

Hey, gang, it's your old pals, Uncle Hank and Kippy.
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Hey, everybody out there,
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I can taste the fucking turkey on Thanksgiving,
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a little too close.
If he was any closer, I'd be fucking pregnant.
This guy.
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Yes, sir.
Thank you, Kippy and gang.
We could not be more excited
to have our incredibly special guest
here with us today
via satellite technology.
He's a huge get.
We got him on the big screen, gang.
This gentleman is a comedian,
a podcaster, an actor, and producer.
You have seen him on This Is Not Happening,
the Late Late Show,
the Joe Rogan Experience Bachelor,
and of course, he is the host of Honeydew Podcast,
but the big question in everybody's mind today,
is he garbage?
And I don't know.
He looks like a detective
that got caught up with the bad people.
Ladies and gentlemen,
give it up for the one, the only,
Mr. Ryan Sickler.
Oh, all right.
Yeah.
Thank you, guys.
Buddy, thank you so much for doing the show, man.
We're happy to have you here.
Thank you for having me.
It's a pleasure to be here,
and I can tell by,
I can tell you right now,
I know the answer
because the shit you got on the shelf behind you,
that's 10 times more
than we had in our fridge and cabinets.
We just bought this at the bodega
about an hour ago, by the way.
And it better be here next week,
I'll tell you that.
You do look like a detective
that would be on the take right now.
I can say that.
If I was a detective,
you could definitely put me on the take.
Oh, I would turn the blind eye
to a lot of shit.
Keep the neighborhood safe.
That's about as far as I would go.
But yeah, thank you so much for doing the show.
So like I said,
what we're going to do
is we're going to ask you a series of questions
to determine whether you're garbage or not.
But before we get into that,
I'm just curious,
where'd you grow up?
How'd you grow up?
Give us the whole origin story,
the backstory.
My origin story,
I'm originally from Baltimore.
That's a tough one.
He looks like he's on the shitter right now.
I love it.
I'm here in the studio
in this damn sideways cam.
Here we go.
Grew up from Baltimore originally.
Parents divorced,
bounced around,
grew up out in the county,
Carroll County, Maryland.
Split homes,
mostly raised by a single dad
who worked.
We were latchkey kids.
I say we,
I have a twin brother,
fraternal twin brother
and a younger brother.
So, you know,
three boys
basically being raised by a single dad.
Mom's not really around,
in and out,
running around a little bit.
They divorced
like summer of fifth,
between fifth and sixth grade.
We lived with my mom for a year.
They decided to get back together.
You know that for the kids bullshit.
Yeah, that always works.
It always works.
Yeah.
We're not going to need any questions,
I'll tell you that.
I like how,
I like how he referred to it
as the county too.
Like we knew,
like I knew what fucking county
he was talking to.
Yeah, down there in the county,
you guys know fucking the county.
There's one county.
I love it.
Yep.
When you're,
when you're,
God damn it,
when you're,
look,
see,
I'm sorry.
When you're from Baltimore,
you're either from the city
or they all tell me,
you're from the county,
you're from the county.
So single dad
and then when I'm 16,
my father dies of a heart attack.
Jesus.
We find him dead in the morning.
Jesus.
We,
our mom still is like,
nah,
his mom,
our grandmother
comes to take care of us
for a little bit.
And then at that point,
the state,
we're minors.
So we had to go somewhere
and we ended up moving in
with our mother
who left us alone.
Just,
we raised ourselves
from 16
all the way through school.
My,
my twin brother,
myself.
And yeah,
once we turned 18,
my mom kicked us out.
She was never home
or around.
Jesus.
Yeah.
So we moved in
with my grandma,
the same grandma
who was just awesome.
I mean,
just a fucking awesome woman.
She dropped out
of a heart attack
right in front of me
at night.
I gave her mouth to mouth
and CPR
and I did a good job.
She was alive
when she left the house
but did not make it.
Wow.
Holy shit.
That's why
on my Instagram bio,
I'm three for four
saving lives.
Holy shit.
He's got his record
on the gram.
Hey,
those are all star numbers.
Don't feel bad.
Hall of fame numbers.
That's good.
Holy shit.
You're like fucking Superman
in my book.
I was going to lead off
to see if you ever
had Lunchables
growing up.
You hit us with fucking
the shameless rewrites.
Holy shit.
That's a fucking tale.
First of all,
I'm sorry that happened
to you.
Thanks, man.
Oh, wow.
After she died,
we had an uncle
who came in
and basically was like,
man,
fuck everybody.
We were thrown out.
I lived with my
grandmom's sister,
my Aunt Marguerite,
for a little bit
until we found
our own place.
I say we,
my twin brother
and I got a place
for a year
and then
after that,
I moved out here
and I've been here
ever since.
So that's my nutshell
story right there
for you.
What happened
to the twin brother?
He currently
lives in Delaware
with his wife
and my niece
and nephew.
He manages
an auto salvage company.
So he's in charge
of all the aluminum
recycling,
all that shit.
He can get you a headlight
if you need one,
for sure.
Buddy,
get this down
into a treatment.
I like it.
They do crazy shit.
You know those,
you see those
tractor trailers
go down the road
with the cars
all squished down
on them and shit.
He does that.
Then they'll take
those cars,
they'll bring it
to his place,
they melt them down
into these aluminum
pallets and then
they sell the aluminum
for profit.
And then it basically
goes overseas
and they make
Bic Razors out of it
and it comes right back
with $40.
That fucking Razor.
That used to be
a Buick Skylar.
The classiest
of the Buick,
by the way.
Something in a four-door,
please.
Not garbage.
He is a scientist
for the government.
He works,
he's not in the army,
but he works
for the army
in Maryland.
He's married
with three kids
actually now.
Let me ask you this
because first of all,
I would never have had,
I was raised,
you know,
I was babied
my entire life.
I would never have had
the wherewithal
to overcome shit like that,
which is fucking amazing
and commendable
to all three of you,
especially with all three
as you're successful
and doing good.
But there's something
like that experience,
like would you say
that you guys
are super close now
and try to create
a really strong
family environment
for like your nieces
and your nephews
or are you guys
kind of scattered?
Well,
a little bit of both,
honestly.
My brothers and I
are very close.
We talk all the time
and, you know,
any of the kids' moms
will probably tell you
we're a little harder
on the kids,
but it's also
because we know
that at any fucking second
that shit could be
ripped away from you
and you better
fucking step up
and be somebody
and not just a stick,
not just a fucking,
you know,
loser,
not just a glom on.
So my twin brothers
started before all of us did.
So my niece and nephew
are now,
God, I think,
13 and 11.
My younger brother,
my daughter will turn
six in October.
My younger brother's
kids are seven,
five,
and he's got
a one and a half year old.
So those kids
are much closer in age.
But yeah,
we, you know,
I'm still friends
with my cousins
who were 10,
15 years older than me.
So it's harder
to do that
when I'm out here
because I'm in California.
They're still in,
and my one brother's
in Delaware
and the other's in Maryland.
So it's close,
but they need to be closer.
That's a really good question.
They should be closer.
Okay,
because I figured
something like that,
either you're going
to go two different ways
from it.
You're going to recognize
the importance of family
and having like
a support system
and go that route
or you just don't
really talk to each other
at all.
That's good that you guys
still held on
through all that.
I mean,
we were literally
laying there on the bed
together with our dad's
dead body
and my brother and I
are,
I'm breathing life
into my fucking grave.
I mean,
I never,
and I had just,
just gotten to be
a lifeguard.
I just took all these
fucking CPR classes
and shit
and here I am
having to fucking use it
on my grandmother.
I never used that shit
on any motherfucker
that got the bull.
Yeah,
you slip in the shallow end.
You're on your own.
Diving for rings.
I ain't coming in to get you.
You shouldn't have been diving.
I'm not messing up my hair
to dive in for you.
I'll tell you that.
So when,
when was it completely,
and what kind of shock
is that like
when you're a kid
when like your mom
splits like that?
Like when was it normal
up until you said
fifth,
sixth grade?
No,
it was a little before that.
I'd say normal
what you would say
if it's never been normal.
Like my mom's mom,
she lived with us
early on too
and now you look back
and it's like,
oh,
we had a really nice house
and she lived there
to help pay
for that fucking house.
You know what I mean?
So we always had
something different going on
but normal,
I'd say right around
third grade
is when,
when they started having,
for me,
you know,
that age,
they started having trouble.
When you started noticing.
And I remember
in students in third grade
in my class,
hey,
are your parents divorced?
Because I,
we felt like these outcasts
but then,
then you realize,
shit,
the people whose parents
were together
were the ones
that were
in the smaller
statistical group.
Yeah,
sometimes when they stay together
and fucks up even more.
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
That stay together
for the kids shit
don't always work.
Yeah.
Uncle Hank's a product of that.
I'll tell you,
I would have been gone.
That's fucking crazy.
I'll say this though,
it is garbage
to have like a grandmom
or an aunt
or something like that
live with you
but when you're
a little kid,
that's so cozy
because they fucking,
you know,
they dote on you,
they spoil you.
It's like a clubhouse,
you know what I mean?
There's just a bunch
of people hanging around,
you know?
It's like more people
to do shit with,
more people to take care
of you or make dinner
and shit.
I love that shit.
My whole family's Italian
so my grandmother
spoke Italian fluently
in the home
to her sisters
and to this day
I'm bummed
I didn't sit
and learn
that fucking language
because I know
she was talking shit
about everybody.
None of them was talking.
Oh yeah,
dude,
she was probably
holding court.
openly talk shit
about what was going on
and not have to hide
or leave
or go anywhere.
Yeah,
I wish I spoke
a second language
just to trash people.
Something odd too
like Korean
or something like that.
Just being a green room
fucking shit
on the guy next to you,
nothin