Ryan Sickler Talks Comedy, Family & Real Life | Whiskey Ginger

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All new Wednesdays on ABC and stream next day on Hulu. Welcome to Whiskey Ginger, a wave series. And welcome to the new year. 2026 is here. Hope it's a good year. We'll find out. I'm on the road. I'm jumping around a little bit. You guys gotta come see me. Windsor, Ontario, Canada, January 16th and 17th. I'm in Bethlehem, PA. The 23rd, I'm in Hanover, Maryland. Come on out, Baltimore. Then I go down to the Borgata. Atlanta, Atlantic City, New Jersey. Dirty Jersey. Then Valley Center, which is basically San Diego, January 30th at the end of the month. Then on Lover's Day, Valentine's Day, I'm up in Canyonville, Oregon. Oregon. Bad friends. We're doing one show for fun to start the year in March. We're doing Lincoln, California, which is basically Sacramento. Then I'm in Las Vegas at The Win, March 21st. And then at Little Roadie Fest out there in Providence, Rhode Island in March, 27th, end of March. Bounce on some new dates in and out, and we'll see. I'm going to keep traveling around. I can't wait to come see you. I love you. Thank you for being around. Enough rambling from me. Let's go to the episode. In here, we pour whiskey. Whiskey. Whiskey. Whiskey. Whiskey. You are that creature in the ginger beard. Sturdy and ginger. Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse. Gingers are pugilist. You owe me $5 for the whiskey and $75 for the horse. Gingers are hell no. This whiskey is excellent. Ginger. I like gingers. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Ginger. My guest today is one of my favorite people on earth. I say that for all my guests, but I mean once again today. It is the return of my dog, Ryan the Sickler. Thank you for having me back. I've said this every time. You have such a, you have a Jersey name. Ryan Sickler, he feels Jersey? Sickler. Sickler's a phenomenal Jersey name. Well, are you joking about that or do you know about it? No, what do you mean? It's a great Jersey name. I've had this sent to me a ton of times. There's a Sicklerville, New Jersey. You don't, are you fucking with me? No, no. I'm saying for the back of a Jersey. I thought you said, talking about New Jersey. New Jersey. No, dude. But there just happens to be a Sicklerville, a Sickler Pond, a Sickler Bike Shop. People snapshot it to me all the time. No, dude. I mean. Now I get it. Sickler is a great Jersey name. Like some people have great Jersey names. And like, I remember in high school, you'd see guys had perfect, you were like, they should have gone pro. The name was better than the athlete. But Sickler is a good Jersey name. I appreciate it. Like Corkery, not as good. No, not as good. How do you spell that? C-O-R-K-E-R-Y. Corkery. It's too Irish. Yeah, it's tough. Santino, good Jersey name. That's a good Jersey name. It's a good Jersey name. We could go through some of our friends. Who has probably the best Jersey name of anyone that we know? That's a good question. Lee's not a good one. No, no, no, no. No, Bobby. Lee is not good. Yeah, Lee is. Not good. I mean, maybe on a pitching staff of the Dodgers now. It's all Asian dudes, dude. It's amazing. It's great. Coming out of the bullpen. Dude, I would love it that every bullpen is all Asian now. That's what I'm looking for, dude. I mean, we're working on it. That's not a good one. Well, Kreischer's a terrible, like, Kreischer's not a great Jersey. Segura's okay. It's a good one. It's all right. I'm just trying to figure out who's got that strong one, like. Yeah, who has the toughest one? Yeah, who's that one? Swartzen's a solid one. Swartzen's a good one. Yeah, Swartzen's really good. Swartzen's really good. Swartzen's good. No, Sickler's got a great Jersey name. I asked you before the show, who is this dog? How come I don't know? This is Hong Kong Fooey right here. You don't remember him? Who's Hong Kong Fooey? I'm 52. How old are you? 42. All right, so I got 10 on you. God damn, you look younger than me. I appreciate it. I don't. I'm so burnt out. I don't. Wait, but Hong Kong Fooey was- That's what happens making all that money, dude. Look at me. See the difference between making money and not making money? Look at it. You look younger than me, bro. Hong Kong Fooey was what? A cartoon from one. He was a cartoon. I would have to say probably the late 70s. I would see it as a kid. He drove a little Kung Fu Mobile, and I think it was, what's his name? Scatman or Catman Crothers. I don't know his name. Scatman Crothers? Scatman Crothers. Scatman Crothers would do the voice. And he had a little cat. Are you looking it up over there? Oh, yeah. It's 1974. It's a Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Hanna-Barbera, for sure. Well, it looks like it's got the Hanna-Barbera drawing. Yeah, it looks like it. And he was a crime-fighting hero. He turned into Hong Kong. Hong Kong Fooey. He had a little cat sidekick. What's the cat's name? A little purple and pink guy, I think it was. Like, almost looked a little like Alice in Wonderland-ish. Am I right? Was it Rosemary? Rosemary? No. Rosemary, Spot, Sergeant Flint. I don't know. He was just a roll-around little cat. Just say Hong Kong Fooey's sidekick. No, this is all the characters. But type in Hong Kong Fooey's sidekick, cat. But what? Did you love this as a kid? This was like your favorite shit? He was one of these characters. I'd be seeing the Smurfs all the time and the G.I. Toes and the Bugs Bunnies and shit. And then the Hanna-Barberas would come on. And I liked Underdog. And I liked all those that would be in there. And every now and then you'd see all these characters. And this dude would roll on. And he was just so different. And he just had such a vibe. And he's, you know, you got Crothers doing his voice. The guy from The Shining, you know. That rich, old-school black man voice. It was just different. He was perfect. I really feel like. It hit you in a way. I feel like I have the soul of a big, older black lady. And I was good at it. I think in another life I was a big black woman. Like you used to work at the post office? Or wherever. But I think I was good. I threw out a lot of, Hey, baby! A lot of those. Come here, baby. Come here, baby. How's your mama? A lot of those, you know. Get out the street! Y'all need to get up out the street! Yup. Just because I ain't your mama don't mean I won't beat your ass. We all look after one another. One of those in the neighborhood, you know. Yeah. I think I was one of those ladies back in the day. My little sister. Her babysitter. Christine. Nanny Christine was a big, older black woman. And man, was I such a fucking little brat when I was around her, too. She couldn't stand my little ass. Ever? Andrew, you better cut that shit out. Dude. I was always up to no good. Every child should be raised. Right there it is. That would straighten a lot of this world out. Especially white kids. Yeah. Every white kid needs a. Every privileged white kid should be raised by an older black lady that doesn't take shit. You better! From anybody. Get to a point where you just give them a look and they settle down. Like, all right, it's time for me to go now. I gotta move on to another band. Yeah, she was great, dude. She hated my shit. She hated your shit. Well, I was always up to no good. Because my sister and I are almost a decade apart. Oh, wow. You know what I mean? She's older or you are? I'm older. So when she was raising, she was helping babysit her, you know, I was just a little runaround punk. I was nine years old. I was causing chaos. Like, you know what I mean? I was getting into bullshit. That's when you really. I think seven is where you start to get a little mischievous. Eight and nine is where you become a little motherfucker. Yeah. That's you become a little asshole. Like, you are begging for trouble, trying to do something stupid, stealing stuff, causing havoc. Oh, I'm talking about the shit like, we'd be playing Nintendo, and it would be like me and my other brother or a friend from the neighborhood's over, and then out of nowhere, a flame just shoots across our face. We're like, what the fuck? And my brother's just hitting Lysol with a. Just while we're playing, though. And that's the kind of shit you gotta look out for. That's what I mean. Yeah, exactly that. And you're like, what the fuck, man? And he's just over there, right across both our faces. Shit like that. And you can't believe when something gets lit on fire. You're like, ooh, I didn't even know, Dad. I had no idea that the couch was that flammable. Yeah, nonstop, that kind of shit around our house. Yeah, you were begging for trouble. We're three boys, so two of us are twins, same age, so we're going at it. My younger brother's just about four years younger, so it's hell. Yeah, well, you're whooping his ass. You're whooping his ass, huh, the younger brother? We're both. No, we never. We weren't allowed to beat his ass, but what we did was scared the fuck out of him. We would go around, outside the house, and he'd come around the corner like, ha! And my dad used to make me laugh, because my dad would be like, stop doing that, you're gonna give him brain damage. That's what he would always say. That was what he would try to say. And then we were like, oh, we're definitely about to make this motherfucker. Yeah, as soon as you learn that that's how you get brain damage, you're like, brother. We could scare him retarded. Oh, we're about to do that. This kid is done. This kid is cooked, buddy. Get your helmet, pal. We're not gonna be like, oh, man, we shouldn't do that. Both of us are gonna be like, we're doubling down on that. We're doubling down as hard as we can. This motherfucker's gonna have a helmet by the end of the school year. year bro you didn't get well you got a daughter you got a daughter so that's got my daughter calming you down a little bit because you had a son listen i i son would have been a night raid for that yeah more testosterone and more of the same no my cousins were all boys like i had two girl cousins yeah and i really did want a daughter but she like you so she shares a mom yeah yeah with her brother so her brother's 11 years older yeah this is i have you guys same split yeah and he's a good older brother so she's 11 he's 22 now so uh i was i remember these years by the way gets a little bit of that over there yeah and she gets me too and i'm still you know i treat her like an older brother sometimes it's still running around on the shoulders and like she's in her room laying on her bed watching her tablet i don't say anything i sneak in i just pounce on top of her and i roll her up the crater i'm like this is a cradle i put my knee in her in her ribs and i put on her temple try to get out i have like you feel this pressure this is what they do and i go you can imagine how that would hurt if i drove she's like stop dad i'm like all right you gotta keep running you want anything you want some doritos or something she's 11 she's 11 big time is it scary a little bit because you see her kind of getting like the teen is coming and that's you know then she becomes her own little woman that's kind of the teens the pre-teen these days i feel like is the teen yeah well probably yeah i'm getting a lot of eye rolls and attitudes no no no talking back though um yeah really yeah not talking back like you know i hate you or any of that kind of nonsense yeah but it's like i did i said i would i'm getting some of that shit i'm like you gotta understand that i grew up with a brother who talked to me like that and a mom who talked to me like that we're not gonna do that we're not gonna do that here so i calmed down you know and i never put hands on i never no no no you can't you're not that guy well no and you also as a father to a daughter like i'm the first man to be a father to a daughter and i'm the first man to be a father to a i'm gonna set the example that it's okay for a man to put hands on you no no that's a pretty great so if anyone ever does you'd be like oh no i know that doesn't happen right so she knows the deal she knows what's up she's got an older brother like you who can teach her what high school boys are like and then the two of us can team up when they come over you know what i mean it is funny that that was like a when my sister started dating now she's engaged to a guy i really worked out i got lucky because when she started dating all about us well it is not the fact that your sister did and the child's gonna have a good dad like oh i lucked out i got lucky i did it's me well because as an older brother they she you know when she started dating your your your antennas are way up you're like who's this guy what's his thing and she had a couple that were you know she would agree not my favorite did not enjoy their presence but i was swallowing it like okay whatever that's okay if that's what you like but you know you you get guarded you get protected and it's hard to not be a little bit of a dick to your sister's boyfriend it's almost impossible i mean it really it's almost impossible because you just have you have so a bit of a right of pass you have to yeah you have to fuck with him a little bit if he can't get through that he's in deep shit that's the thing because it's me next right if your brother scares him off wait till i get him you know i mean what's he gonna do that yeah no shit but also i told my uh i called my stepson i told him uh when we were pregnant we didn't know what we were having i was like listen if it's a boy i'm telling you if he's driving me nuts and he's old enough i'm not gonna say a word i'm just gonna look at you and give you a nod and i said you can go fuck him and then at some point i'll step and i'll be like that's enough and i'll hit you with a wink and we do it y'all you know how disappointed he was when he found out we were having a girl he's like damn i said that's okay that was one you got the fuck with him and i'm like i'm gonna go fuck him and i'm like now you get the fuck with every boyfriend that comes over that's even easier yeah that's more fun it's better yeah more i was like we'll do it we'll do it but i have a relationship with my daughter i'm surprised she tells me about her crushes oh she does oh bro she oh my god i'll say i won't say who it is this is so funny so she tells me about her crushes the one she has crushes on and then there are boys that have crushes on her okay so she well she's got it all she has a cell phone she does have a cell phone cell phones at 11 is hold on so as a result my daughter's mother and i agreed that we would not do a cell phone until at least sixth grade because she's close enough to the middle school that she'll walk right it's a couple blocks but god forbid anything happens or whatever that's safety i want you to have a phone i can also track your location correct these days that helps she's in fifth grade now so i think it was fourth grade last year trying to remember when my daughter's mother's boyfriend gave her the gift he gave her the phone oh he did oh that's an interesting move now did we have a conversation about that first yeah sixth grade right is when that phone comes in hadn't considered someone else's right person going here so what he did i don't want to get too into the story was i guess they were splitting and he was trying to like try to throw a grenade back like i want to you know oh look at this let's make it work so he gave my daughter a used wasn't an iphone i think it was an ip it's an ipod it's an it's a the newer ones these days whenever they start their iphones now right they just don't make cell calls i can facetime her right that's what i mean right just can't make cellular phone calls there's no internet she has to get on the internet herself right yes there's no cellular but it's basically an iphone it's come on yeah come on it's the same shit because you can text and everything yeah let me take a sip of water if i had a girlfriend who did that to my daughter you think i'm gonna i'm gonna hear about it a little bit i think i am i think i am just a little bit so then that becomes a thing you're like okay this is what co-parenting is you know what i mean you gotta hadn't considered somebody else fucking up the plan with an iphone or whatever so now it's a whole thing like there is no tick tock there's no fucking none of the apps are on the thing none i mean there's no there is one and if there's parents out there we use this one it's called cover star cover star yeah have you ever heard of it no it's basically tick tock light um they monitor so you can't even put um hell yeah it's no language cover star and there's no dming that's the thing i had chris hansen on the honeydew and he talked to me about it and i he has a whole documentary coming out about roblox itself where you know when a new app comes out normal people like us positive social media positive social media that's what it says and you know we're trying to figure out how to use the app to our advantage but before we're there these sickos are already figuring out how to use it for the you know what i mean so anything with a dm he recommends you don't let your kids on if there's a way a stranger could direct message don't even let it this way but is there comments can they comment you can comment but nothing negative they filter oh that's great that's even better so i'm saying it's a and it's a you can't say hell yeah you know you can't even use that word right so that's great yeah i think fucking instagram should do the same thing it's like that yeah there should be yeah so carve out all that bullshit um but yes does she want the other stuff because her yeah because her friends have all that bullshit they're all gonna want it there will be a generation maybe it's her kids or her grandkids that push back and say fuck social media like there will come a time it's got to be right after her i think it's where it's i think we're not far away and and it may not be an end to social media but end the way we do it now with everything no i think an end to social media i really look running in politics anymore they're gonna go back to your fucking facebook when you're in 10th grade get all the dumb shit you did or said you know what i mean yeah that's all it is anymore nobody is about policy or anything anymore it's hey andrew santino is shit and here's the thing i'm not talking about you're right exactly yeah yeah the lineup every tweet you ever tweeted every dumb response you ever had yeah the social media is a fucking toxic these girls man uh the crush is so early it's like 11 well when did you have your first crush do you remember let me tell you this is funny yeah i will i do remember my so my buddy's daughter they're my daughter and his daughter are like best friends and we and we've known each other since ninth grade he happens to live out here in temecula works for g good life and we're buddies yeah so we'll go down there sometimes staycation they come up when the fires hit we went down there and got the fuck out because we were on the evacuation lines we stay down there while we're down there for the fires his daughter has these posters of boys on her wall like boy bands nope um they're guys from outer banks the show is called so right you shouldn't know if you were like yeah how do you know i'm like who bryce and danny it's a netflix show because i've never heard of outer banks until this either is it a reality show or a scripted show that's a great that's a great question i still don't know what is it it's kind of like a modern like dawson's creek oh it's a scripted job okay i got it yeah so and it's got by the way outer banks i could i almost saw already that it's like country boys lake living yeah i think it's like a mystery too it's a murder mystery i bet it's a murder mystery yeah these these things are by the way when you hear these things and you go should have wrote that should have fucking sold that said some dumb fart wiener in the mouth comedy that we're trying to do you sell that you become a billionaire you sit back and go oh yeah do teenage drama i sold a holiday movie they play it every year i know a guy that does exactly that mariah carey yeah i know a guy that does hallmark writes hallmark films phenomenal money about it it's like go do that she's got these posters of the otter banks boys heartthrobs and my daughter's tight with me my daughter comes up to me after and goes you know what donna does with those posters i go what she goes she kisses them good night every night so i i go she's kissing the boys good night and here's the other thing about these two they're not i would have been embarrassed as a kid remarkably i said hey little lady are you kissing these posters good night she goes like no shame doesn't care yeah she would she tell her own parents or just because it's you i think i told her dad i was like do you know your daughter's kissing these posters and he just laughs he doesn't say that he just laughs like i don't know what's going on so now my daughter has you know she knows who that guy is and now she's tuned into the show yeah well she doesn't watch it but she knows who they are you know right yeah do you let her watch anything on netflix do you let them do you let her watch anything streaming or no it's awesome yes my daughter has gone on to netflix and she's found old school shows like sister sister what yeah my daughter watches old school sitcoms and i'm like where are you what's this on she's like this one's on netflix i'm like how the fuck do you even know sister sister she knows that maybe it was the the um uh full house reboot maybe it was that that's sort of that you if you like that maybe you'll like these it could have been something like that but she likes all that stuff and she sits and watches it wow it's fucking wow tell me about your first crush if you remember it i want to skip back to it okay i will because i can tell you i remember vividly i remember the first time i felt the feeling i very very much so um first grade first grade yeah god damn um i won't say her last name but her first name was brandy and she was a dark-haired blue-eyed cute little girl in my first grade class and we were buds and somehow i convinced my mom and dad and she convinced her mom and dad to let her come over and play with me in the first grade oh wow and we got caught upstairs in my room under a blanket kissing and when i say kissing i'm just i don't even know about it well yeah you're probably hitting each other in the face you probably don't we were just straight up headbutting each other and my mom called us and i was just like fucking this girl's and i was sprung bro she's handwriting me letters back man in first grade nothing yeah wow and then i'd have a girl she was like first to second and then i got a new girl in third um named jen jennifer and then i think that was till about fourth and then fifth i think i i just flew solo into fifth grade you were a bachelor going into fifth sixth grade sixth grade i stepped my game up met a girl and um this girl was the one who just i mean blew my brains wide like i was like sixth grade what yes yeah yeah because i remember in sixth grade there was a couple of girls in the class that that finally had boobs and i was like what what happened last summer sixth grade was like the revolution yeah it was i remember being like have you seen natalie's boobs and i'm also worried about that for these younger girls too like those girls that have you know adult boobs in eighth grade well that's because the fucking everything they're eating but you know these scumbag dudes are just hawk oh yeah oh yeah hawk yeah so one thing my daughter's mom is good about is she is very good about the message we have been good about is dudes are scumbags you're not wearing crop tops you're not doing anything wrong you look super cute in that but the message you're putting out there to these scumbag men i'm like that's that's a message we're on i'm like text her that shit on her iphone so anyway sixth grade we're in police academy we're seeing that's that's what a girlfriend was drop you off at the movies you meet there it's a police academy good date great movie back then there were two movies at the theater yeah not 46 no there was two and they lasted for months you're like that thing's still up there god damn and then and then it would be at the it would be on the undercard when they put up a new movie and it'd be there for like one more one more week or so and then they'd get rid of it out of nowhere she leans over and she kisses me and she shoves her tongue in my mouth in the theater in the middle of the movie in the middle of the fucking movie theater and let me tell you something andrew santino it was as if that woman plugged me in okay i hear about muddy waters taking the blues from the delta to chicago and plugging them in this fucking girl plugged me in i woke up that fucking day night at night and i started going do it again do it again do it again what i didn't know because there were two girls from our class right behind us who heard me and then when we were outside the movie this is also part of the filter i started building early too they were like do it again do it again making fun of me and let me tell you something i didn't give a fuck i didn't give a fuck did not embarrass at all not one time good but make fun of me all do you know what just happened in there like it blew me away yeah that that was even a thing right that that you'd even do that it i couldn't get over it and then going back to like elementary school because again i'm older there was nothing like a girl passing you a note in class or or andrew passes the right yeah you know and then you're the guy in between andrew and then you and then you go what did she say what does it say it's telling me to check yes or no i remember loving getting a phone call from a girl about her girlfriend who's there who likes you you're she likes you do you want to talk to her they make someone else call for you man those days were fantastic the excitement the build-up the anxiety all of it i mean now here's the thing about my twin brother we look nothing alike we're fraternal twin twins he's tall and skinny i'm the rugged one with the good looks and the sense of humor but we sound really similar you got the same voice and it bought even to this i'm 52 as i've said here i will say something sometimes and i'll hear it him in my head i'll be like you can hear it exactly so when we were kids our aunt since they couldn't tell us apart when we answered the phone hey ryan it's derrick hey derrick it's ryan so there will be times that if a girl called and liked me and i didn't want to he'd fucking get the phone i'm out there like i said playing nintendo this motherfucker's in the back of the bedroom setting up a date with for me hey you're going out with so and so i'm like what he's like i just set up a date with you i'm like what are you talking about and it just sounds like me so they would fucking are you still in baltimore he's in delaware in delaware what do you and you are you and your brother tight yeah my brothers we're all tight other side of the world but still yeah one brother maryland one in delaware and i'm still tight with like the shit that went down for us with you know my mom splitting early then my dad dying we were the kids in your high school that had no parents so we had a ton of kids at our house monday to sunday and i'm still friends with at least 10 to 12 of those guys from really sixth grade on yeah did you have like an older guy a couple classes older that was kind of like your father figure no i didn't we had no george michael no no george michael well that's what happens a lot of times guys get latched on especially especially in sports there was a lot of guys that i knew that if they didn't have dads or brothers and they would latch on to like the older the senior guy you know as like his father figure that would have happened but the fact that there were two of us yeah i guess that's yeah you gotta support this and not to brag or anything like that we played every sport we were very popular in high school especially because guess where we're going tonight the sicklers house right the sickler brothers house just like every fucking day but we were so into sports that we if you missed if you missed class or anything you couldn't practice and if you couldn't practice you couldn't play and we loved sports so we were we were all football players spent the night soccer everybody we made sure everybody's got their ass up we most you made sure everybody was at school on time it's weird it was the late 80s we're talking 89 90 91 these three years i'm still friends with these people they come and see me on tour these people's parents i'm like what the fuck were you guys thinking ever letting your kids spend the night in high school you know but they knew what had happened people were they were friends with my dad you know and they're like go over and and the rule was this if your grades suffer if you start it's done and i'm telling you dude i graduated with a 3.0 we never fucked up yeah because you knew better we never fucked up you're 3.0 but look that's not i was i was in the shade but without i was below the b i was right without parents that's a 4.0 yeah that is for the curve i got eight but there's one night i'll tell this story this makes me laugh we all would be there together and you couldn't fuck up we got the baseball guys we're all wrestling all of them and my buddy Chris Sheeler, and he had a stutter when he got nervous and the way he would stutter wasn't like he wouldn't hit a letter like he would hold it he'd be like what are we gonna do man oh i gotta i got a mobile due tomorrow for science class we're like what are you talking about right now this motherfucker had a solar system mobile due for his science project it's it's thursday night it's due tomorrow friday he's got weeks to do it we got tiny little tv in this corner with the nintendo i mean the tiny little tv over here it's thursday night it's cheers night court it's that night yeah over here on the big tvs the nintendo we're all playing little league baseball or whatever need fast hydration for the summer heat hydrate your winds with the new liquid iv sugar-free ring pop cherry it's the classic cherry ring pop flavor you grew up loving reimagined as a zero sugar hydration mix that's clinically proven to hydrate faster than 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this school but you don't it's going great abbott elementary anything can happen in the jungle right guys all new wednesdays on abc and stream next day on hulu closest store is kmart up the street it's about to close and kmart back then had a little arts and crafts section so three of us me my younger brother and sheila we roll up to kmart and we get all the ingredients and shit we need to make this solar system mobile the jupiter you know what i mean the big styrofoam balls they're just white balls yeah and we go home and there's so many people there like you got jupiter you got saturn you got pluto and everybody's helping everybody do their project this motherfucker went to school the next day got an a on that mobile and we're all doing it at the house that night so there were never no drinking and driving uh arrests or crashes or problems no overdoses no nothing the cops came plenty of times but they never took anyone it was more the threat of your neighbors are calling you got a lot of underage drinking going on let's clear this shit up but underage drinking who they're just but they're just kids having fun what are we not hurting anybody and eventually they figure out who we are because we had a buddy whose uncle was a state trooper and he's like look those guys have no parents like go by and check on them right you know what i mean see if everything's good if something bad yes but they're all right and p.s my nephew's over there too yeah yeah i got a kid over there so me and i we had a couple of him was barry i loved him i go down to my buddy chris's house and it was his cousin barry and he had the state trooper car be parked on the yard i was like oh barry's here there's only one state trooper car parked on the yard barry's here we had these dump houses we had these places where we could we could go and like everyone could just crash out and it is it is kind of beautiful my buddy tommy who's no longer with us anymore all right he i know he was the best tom god that motherfucker was the most fun like he but he was mischievous he was always like he'd be like do you want to come to the house and do gravity bongs at lunch and i'd be like dude come on we wouldn't leave for lunch oh we did oh we we were we were troublemakers dude i used to go get ripped at lunch well here's why we would organize it so post lunch you'd have either like study hall uh gym or like you'd have a gap after lunch so you'd have some time to recover to like for the last two classes of the day or whatever it was but yeah we used to go to tom's house because we could get there quick enough from school and get we were right by school fucking ripped yeah he lived near school i lived nowhere near my high school to get to school oh i was probably i was probably eight to ten miles away from my school i was nowhere near my high school because i wasn't even supposed to go to i mean technically my neighborhood should go to the one that's way closer but this was a better school so my mom was like you're going there you've definitely been hanging there every oh i would have loved it you'd have been one of the dudes when we come home one time you'd have been one of the dudes when we come home one time everybody's in our house already oh yeah they're there without you who the fuck let you in oh derrick did i go did he hey derrick derrick comes up that's my brother yeah who let you in derrick's right here he's with me todd oh hold on todd i said we just got back from our grandma's who let you we climbed up on the roof and went through the window 12 people in there for hours you didn't leave the doors unlocked though no but they knew how to get in see i knew that was a lot of these kids always had to climb up to the roof pop the window and then you could go my buddy tyler they always had the garage door was always unlocked so if you could get to the side back door it was never locked i was there was no parents there that's the other thing you didn't risk anybody right you know what i mean hey what the fuck you kids do dude we would do shit this this one so if you were a dick we'd have the winter parties we'd make you we take your jacket you just put your jacket in that room over there and if you were a dick you didn't get your jacket and most likely if you if you've touched a girl or fuck with a girl you got your ass beat by so many dudes and then we take your shoes your shoes and your jacket you go home with that we're seeing you ps these ain't strangers we're seeing you at school on monday motherfucker and i might wear your shoes you got a size 10 the other thing people would do this one was a good one too they and they're doing it at our house we didn't even know about it there was a ski place in uh pennsylvania called ski liberty okay it was a shit it was sheets of ice okay just sheets of ice but we go for like 12 little mini bunny hill yeah we come back one night and there's fucking skis like look brand new popped up on the wall two of them i go would y'all bring your skis back like no john john stole them i'm like what he's like and we're gonna raffle them off tonight and i said oh it's a great idea so we would take 20 raffle tickets for some gently used brand new skis and we'd raffle off make a few hundred dollars off these stolen skis i was like that's a go guys that's a go did you do it again did they do it again we did it like three or four times they would just steal skis people go into the damn lodge they would they'd look for a good pair they're like these look pretty nice they take them go back and then we'd raffle them off by the end of the night be 30 or 40 you guys are why it's so hard to now rent skis when you go somewhere they make you sign fucking 50 things they take pictures of your license yeah it's because i don't know if we were renting them i mean no that's what i mean though that's why they were stealing them yeah they were stealing them that let that person was going to rent them later that day i just got asked that yesterday too we're going out to park city for christmas and someone was like are you gonna go skiing and i haven't been skiing since i got hurt and i've been skiing and it's been six years five years now this will be the sixth season and i miss it so much it is one of my favorite things but good christ man when you get older my body i don't even know if i can do it i know that sounds terrible but i don't even know if i want to because i'm afraid of getting hurt hurt that's the problem it's not that you can't do it it's if i fall yeah how old school fall was a bruise on my hip now it's a whole shattered hip and every ligament is torn and somehow much my my elbow went with it too i hear those stories from you know you hear the stories from the older generation and you're like what do you mean what do you mean he's got a fucking slip disc and he just fell on the hill you know how people want to ride motorcycles but they're scared to ride the two so they get that trike that's oh yeah yeah that's yeah there should be something like that for skiing i totally agree like not a snowmobile but give me something else that lets me get down that fuck well they have a they have one that you sit on that has three skis that it's just they have something like that they do yeah why am i not on that well i mean i don't know i don't know how bad you want to take that up the mountain i don't give a fuck here's my point all i want to do is have fun going down the mountain i don't want to do it necessarily the way you say i gotta do it right that's true i just want to get down that mountain i think it's harder to get that bike up there though you gotta hold that shit on the lift is that's gonna be fucking that's gonna be tough to have that bike out of the way yeah sir put your legs down i can't i can't i can't my god look up ski bikes one second folks one second i always had panic of that too i was such a pussy i was so scared about getting stuck let's show them the ski bike oh god damn show them what it looks like yeah that's it right there oh yeah i've seen that all right no we ain't taking that yeah we'll see what i'm saying no i mean you gotta come up with something else like some like i don't know what it is maybe it's a chair maybe it's like things in a chair and i can just sit well have you have you seen the um um i don't even know what they're called but they're like mini they're literally called mini they're like mini skis i've seen the smaller skis and they're just like the size of your shoes that's what i feel like because you can't you won't be able to go that fast that's what i look that that i could do i was never good on two sticks and two different legs i was better snowboarding yeah that's all i ever did but i yeah those are great snow blades so here's the thing you can't get that much because of this lack of i mean you can go fast but yeah certainly not as fast you can i don't need to go 80 miles that's the other thing i'm saying i don't either i don't want it i want those then i like that i feel like i'd be better on the shorter than the long rain with that clunky i fucking hate that but the the shorter ones yeah that i think i could do but i i snowboarded because i couldn't i learned skiing once when i was young and then in high school i learned how to snowboard because i had a couple friends that were very good and then i just stuck with it and i like that more rhythm wise it felt more normal than skis also coming from just skateboarding as a kid it was more natural to me to be on something like that yeah same yeah but but those those i could do because they you can't get that fast and the fall looks like it would hurt less because you don't have fucking poles and skis you're not you know what i mean you're not crisscrossing and jagging your fucking skis in the air and you're laying there that hurts so much when you crash on these motherfuckers and we're going back to my house before we forget before we keep going too far please everyone right now watch uh sickler special it's available on his youtube channel uh right now please go watch it we'll put the link in the description down below uh where'd you shoot this one comedy on state madison wisconsin the best clubs in the absolute country no doubt and i say one of the best but it's sneakily probably the best there they might be number one i don't know they keep they're a good contender they're absolutely in the running for it and that family is the best yeah they're great everyone there was great the crew the whole staff like the shows were sold out like it was it was awesome you know what makes that place so good they put the comics first they make the comedy a pro they make the comics and the comedy a priority and i'm not saying before people i'm saying they put them first in their mind as an entertainment value so they go this is what we do we have it's a com it's for comedians to do comedy right and then the other stuff fills in instead of we're running a business and then also we have comedy what's your name again brian cool we're gonna be selling chicken fingers tonight two for one so if you could run five ten minutes longer we get those checks out thank you yeah but isn't that the funny thing about it is that we're going to be selling chicken fingers tonight the funniest part to think about is like yes i get that it's a business we're not stupid but if you put the comics and the comedy first the business is going to be there it will support the thing that you wanted to make great in the first place it just it's so funny such a clear example of like when you do the other way and we've seen it a million times at some of these spots it's just a shitty experience for the audience everyone for the staff for the comedians it just sucks and but when you put the other way when you make it staff friendly and heavy you know and that are super supportive of the system that are kind of like drinking the kool-aid that are in on this as a team thing and it's in it's about a great comedy show and making a great night for the audience then the business obviously thrives i mean it's just it's easy math i don't know why more people didn't follow this they obviously did a system they should sell a fucking book on how to make a club that has all the right elements to it because a lot of times you go on the road you go to places you're like or everyone should go to comedy on state or comedy works and be trained on how to that's a good thing because you're not going to be able to do it all the time that's what i'm saying they should sell classes on how to fucking do it on how to organize if you've been in these businesses and establishments as we have and all of us it's all of us say the same thing these are the top clubs yeah and we say it for a reason yeah and then nobody follows nobody follows i know that it's it is what it is i just was up in san francisco and i love that too i had a fun time up there i did punch and i haven't i have never really uh i hadn't settled into a weekend at punch i don't think i think i'd only done cobs and whatever but it was lovely man i had a wonderful time up there too but but uh comedy i'd say great place to shoot this special man great it's phenomenal everyone there is great jesse the whole crew there was awesome how many is this for you how many specials have you put out only two really i may have done albums you know before i miss albums i miss how cool comedy albums were i agree i don't know if anybody gives a shit about them anymore it's you know what they do but it's like guys our age and i shouldn't say guys people are our age they're more audiophiles i see that in my audio downloads for the podcast i'm like oh so many of you still listen i think they prefer the younger generation likes to watch watch yeah youtube but there's so many people still audio i i still go back and listen to old richard prior do you i closed the i shut all the lights off in my place i light up joints and i listen to uh i mean my favorite is um richard prior live in concert like that's the well you can't say some of the other albums so that's probably a big part of it um but man to hear the coughs in the crowd and a fork hit a plate like i like that yeah i know we're into it you know but i really there's a part in the special where i had people laughing and as it calms down i start to hear all these coughs going around the room and i was like oh these people are coughing because they were laughing so hard now they're coughing and i was like leave it in you might not hear it but i'm like i'm gonna leave it in i'm gonna leave it in you might not hear it at all i heard it yeah keep that shit in that's cool keep this shit that is phenomenal yeah keep it in now did you change anything about the stage at all or you left it how it was you you know we only only thing we changed was they put a stage extender on it so we had a little more room to move down front and light it a little more sure instead of just staying back in that did you direct it or so who'd you bring you bring in sam violin directed this one i did my last one like you did yeah but this one i wanted to be a hundred percent present and not even in my head i wanted to be a hundred percent present and not even in my head i wanted to be a i had it all worried about are they getting this or they get you do think about it when you can't help it yeah it's your job yeah if you say i'm gonna direct something then it's your job to also be thinking about that i know that's your job it's a burden that i don't think you need and so i felt so much freer and i you know honestly doing this i didn't even during the whole time i didn't even think we're shooting a special i just was in the moment having fun with the fucking crowd and then after it's like did we get it yeah okay yeah you got it we're good what'd you do how many shows just saturday night this is why i love madison as well i had never been to comedy on state i was there in november what are we in now 25 i was there in november of 2024 for my first time wow and it was such a great experience i'd been looking for a place to do my special talking to some people and jesse's like well this is what we do and people been shooting here blah blah blah i was like you guys will let me do it here i didn't think it was an option they're like yeah i was like oh my god so i don't know how long i need to wait to come back but whatever so we we do it in may i think it was i did it in may and next door at the big theater that night it's a saturday night i've got two shows they both sell out and i find out tom papa's next door and that week monday through thursday is sam real stavros trevor wallace and i'm like man i can't believe i sold any fucking tickets that was what was up against me this whole time dude thank you thank you madison wisconsin showed up showed out yeah sold out shows to the gills and they were fucking the best crowd i had a similar fight by the way i went up against shane gillis in the fucking arena and kevin hart in the field house down the street all my fucking agents i was like good job boys you fucking idiots shane played where the fucking timberwolves play so tough tough tough i was like holy shit dude i even said to shane i go thank fucking god you're so famous i sold that thing out in probably 10 minutes so i was like great then the then the stragglers got to come to my show i was like the people that were slept on those and then shane shane reed lunch shane goes well no one from kevin hart's coming to yours i was like well that's yeah okay we're probably not sharing the same audience as kevin i go probably kevin hart i'm not stealing any of his crowd but i go shane thankfully selling out so hard let some people come to our show but i i was at first i did fuck my head up i'm not gonna lie when i found out about it i was like great there's kevin hart and fucking shane in town what what like this isn't i immediately got in my head i was like well the shows are gonna be light some people probably bought tickets early and then they're gonna switch and decide to go to something else but no no we got i got lucky it was it was fucking rad i did minnesota and it was great and i'll never do minnesota again because it gives him too much ego because he's from there oh yeah yeah he loves that shit he's sick it is a great comedy it's phenomenal it's fucking phenomenal and his mom and dad came which was great and they partied pretty hard with us and his dad don't really even usually go out and do shit when i'm on the road but i did go see work oh you did yeah yeah oh man wait what do you mean you don't you don't you don't do any you stay in the hotel and just write stay in this hotel sleep that's all you do that's not all i do but it's mostly what i do brother i go on the road to sleep i'm a busy body boy i sleep then i get up i'll go find a nice place to have a lunch or whatever like that but i don't give a fuck about your museums and shit i really don't give a shit oh see i like to go see something i want to go see something i want to go i did like philly we went to the liberty bell we went and did a bunch of stuff there it depends on the city but sometimes when i go and it's minnesota and it's negative 10 degrees i'm like well yeah the mall yeah no or nothing else yeah that i agree no i'm not but if it's nice like every time i go to a city i usually try to find out where's the where's the best restaurant what's the best food for sure what's the best bar what's the best spot to go see like what's the best sneaky thing to go get into that i'll try to do like every time in san francisco and i did not fucking go this time because i was laying it easy on on the sauce but i um i go up to buena vista uh to have an irish coffee i do that's tradition and i didn't do it this year i'm a little mad but there's that i mean i think it look up buena vista san francisco i think it's where they say uh the irish coffee started or so they you know americans say that yeah you know what i mean so they protest that it's like where this version of it happened you know yeah 1952 the first introduced the drink in the u.s yeah to the u.s right but buena vista one of the best views it's fucking stunning and it's overlooking the water and you go in the evening right before a show uh i would just go sit have an irish coffee get a little caffeine and a little how are you it's be one of my favorite things to do but i have those little things in every city where it's like oh i always do this when i go there so i like it because i don't know man the anxiety is sitting in the hotel if i'm sitting around i can't sit in a hotel that's i'll get there's nothing more spinning wheels oh yeah i don't care if you're in the best health state mental health state sitting in a hotel room all day will fuck you up i don't know what i get out i go work out i walk usually i try to walk and just clear my head i like taking long walks stuff like that that's why i think the pilots you hear about pilots that get really depressed i remember reading an article about pilots like high suicide rate and all this stuff and i thought well the pressure i know is high in their job but then i also thought oh we live a similar it's always hotel hotel hotel hotel also then you're going right from your hotel to a tube where you're locked in right responsible for all these so think about that yeah and that well that's it just made me think right of course they're a little stressed out beyond the stress of the job itself being difficult and challenging you're sitting in a fucking hotel every night and by the way i may be wrong but i almost remember you know if they do have a cocktail the night before their flight or whatever it has to be such enough time that they would have to blow a double zero by the time they got on that plane so a lot of these guys don't even get to have maybe a drink with dinner or whatever to just relax they got to eat food go to bed wake up for a fourth you know whatever 5 a.m go but i think how i think about that as a comics like we're privileged we sleep in these hotels we can wake up whenever the fuck we want and then you know meander through the town these guys got to have a stressful foreign environment then wake up then go to another stressful foreign environment that's that i do get the anxiety of the job like i finally get it what is it you said yes right yeah minimum uh eight hour bottle to throttle rule before flying bac limit of under 0.04 percent and bottle to throttle and many airlines have even stricter policies but that's just the regular faa under 0.04 percent before bottle to throttle yeah eight hours so even if they're gonna have a cocktail if they've got an early night to 8 a.m yeah no nothing well look and most of the time these guys yeah no nothing well look and most of the time these guys probably got to be up for you know 7 a.m flight or some bullshit like that think about that they're like all i want to do is have like a nice steak and a glass of wine no you got to eat food go to your room and sit there twiddle your fucking thumbs or your wife and kids are back in omaha and then you're you know i mean i do understand the plight of those guys that's why sometimes when you see them in the airport you're like this motherfucker looks sad you ain't flying mine are you you with american today all right all right feel better you're going to spokane all right all right my man you just look sad bro brother sometimes you'd see them and you're like god that's the old robin harris joke you remember robin harris baby's kids oh one of my babes oh you don't you don't remember robin harris comedian robin harris did he die yes he did unfortunately he's one he's a legend man sweet dick willie and do the right thing and pops from house party oh yeah yeah yeah original i remember this guy he had a joke i do remember him and he was great his his live album chicago boy yeah his live album he's in harlem nights he's in a bunch of stuff his live album is one of the ones i like to go back and listen to also because it's an album and he's drinking and he is loose as shit by the end of that fucking thing and he is talking shit about compton he's in la and they're yelling at him and he doesn't give a fuck but he's talking about how he's scared to death to fly and he said you know i went to the therapist or whatever and they're like hey listen man you're gonna die when it's your time and then he goes what if we up there and it's the pilot's time that's a great point that's a great fucking what do we do if it's the pilot's time he goes uh he goes they want me to fly on an all-black airline he said the pilot's walking around with a parachute on his back he's like jet magazine sliding around the front up there i was like he's like i don't want any black pilot died young too i just saw that 36 36 heart attack 36 yeah i think he also had like narcolepsy or something he had health issues narcolepsy 36 years old that's that's a baby that's a child too when you see the photos of him you thought he was in his 50s and if you see the body of work he put together too quickly uh it's pretty impressive and then the baby's kids too if you guys don't know robin harris i'm telling you right now baby's kid the album is phenomenal and then i think after he died they turned it into a cartoon and i think they might have had a sound-alike guy doing his voice and stuff but the whole thing about do you know baby's kids huh baby's kids is when you're dating a girl and she says i'm paraphrasing this of course he's dating a girl and he's taking her and her kids to disneyland and she shows up with like six other kids and he's like well whose kids are they and she's like well whose kids are they and she's like don't worry about it these are baby's kids and she gave him twenty dollars to get into disneyland he starts going off at how much it costs to get all these kids in disneyland and how these kids are horrible kids how they fucked up donald duck like they're just little terrors and it that bit in that stand-up special turned into this whole animated cartoon and everything called baby's called baby's kids yeah and they're just bad little fucking kids right that's genius he came out of 92 and he's voiced by phase on love oh phase on did it okay there you go debut performance acting that was his first gig in his acting debut holy wow i didn't know that okay what was it on what was it on it was released theatrically it was a film it was a movie oh it was a movie it's a film yeah there's not an animated cartoon series as well i could have swore i saw episodes of that thing or maybe i'm just seeing that i believe it's just yeah it appears to just be the or maybe there was a television series that came out after but the film appears to be released first i'll look wild baby's kids check out baby's kids more importantly watch ryan sickler special watch my special yeah watch that first don't don't go to baby's kids first baby's kids can wait god damn yeah that can wait uh watch ryan special um i love you i appreciate you coming on the show one of the greatest dudes alive uh we end the show the same way look at that camera say one word or one phrase uh to close out the episode whenever you're ready one word or one phrase well yeah hold on i got one last thing hong kong phoey's cat is named spot thank you there you go spot hong kong phoey took it only took us an hour to get to that fucking thing there you go that's my top top researcher right there uh slept in was late came in nailed the spot nailed it right on the nose i mean should that be my final word spot no no no do it yourself do it yourself do whatever makes you happy don't rely on anybody else do it yourself in here we pour whiskey you're that creature in the ginger beard sturdy and ginger like 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