The HoneyDew with Ryan Sickler - 342: Ali Siddiq's 9-Pack of Parenthood

Episode Date: July 14, 2025

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Thank you for having was this What's this time number three? This is your third time. I thought it was more to be honest, but Kirsten said it's only been twice, but it is your third time. Three, man. That's amazing. Thank you for doing it. I don't think I've been on a couple of people things three times. You got an open door here. You don't plaque. You just

I'll give you like a little Billy Big Mouth bass or something. I'll give you next time you come back. Yeah, man. You know, it's great to be here, you know, getting, you know, especially taking... This is taking the time away from doing a show. This is a show, but it's not one of them things where I have to get ready. You know, I'm just really going to, you know, talk about what I got going on. Talk to a friend.

You know, that's that's the the the caveat in the caviar in the business. You know, you get a chance to let me let me tell you something. First of all, I want you to promote everything, but everything you're doing, the way you're doing it, I fucking love it. I love it. I do it myself and I watch you. I watch what you're doing. I'm like, that's what he's doing. We need to do this too. He's in the same world we're living in. We're not Netflix. We're not Hulu. We're not Amazon yet, whatever, but you're taking control

of all of it. You own all of it and you're crushing that fucking lane. So good for you. And that is the reason why today, this is the first Sunday I've ever recorded morning PS before 11 a.m. in my phone. I've been, I've been podcasting somewhere between 15, 16, 17. This is the first fucking Sunday I've ever got up and I had late spots last night and I'm here because I respect the shit out of you and what you're doing. So thank you and plug it all, brother. Man, so speaking of Sunday, you know, Father's Day is on the Sunday. I'm dropping a new special called Rugged on Father's Day.

We just dropped the second half of the tour, 34 new cities. You can go to ollysedec.com and, you some tickets and see what we're going to be at that's close to you. It's amazing that people are driving places or flying different places to see me. That's weird. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. I remember when I shot my special here in LA, people came up.

I just thought people from here would come. This guy's like, we flew in from Seattle. We flew in from Detroit for this. And I was like, we flew in from Seattle, we flew in from Detroit for this. And I was like, what? I was so grateful and humbled by that. I'm like, and then I also put myself in my shoes. I'm like, I wouldn't do that. I don't think I've traveled to see anybody.

I was talking about, I see the Jimi Hendrix bus. I'm like, I wouldn't go, I'm not going to see him. If Jimi Hendrix came back and he's only doing like four places, I'm like, I'm still not going. I'm going to that, I'm going to that. I'm going to that. I'm like, Jimmy gotta come to Texas. Right?

You step. Yep, the DFW, I'm coming. Yo man, it's one of those things. And as I tour, I constantly get humbled by people saying things that I've never heard. So I can imagine what Michael Jackson was going through and France and all these guys. This lady hit me, I was in New York

and at the Beacon, I walked out and she did me, she said, I don't even think I've ever felt like this before you walked out. I was so excited, I just start crying I said Wow, that's that's deep. Mm-hmm. That's a crazy Thing it's something that and and I know I would if I would have saw Michael Jackson I'd have bust out crying cuz I saw I saw Janet and it was in was teary-eyed. I was like Teary-eyed for I saw Tito and was alleyed. I was like. Teary-eyed for her. I saw Tito and was all emotional.

I was like, that's Tito's guy. I was fine when I saw Jermaine, but Tito got me. Tito, man. I don't know if I would have seen Jermaine if he had a right. I was like, man, this is one of the jacks. Getting elicited any emotion from him. I saw Tito and I was like, that's Michael Jackson brother. It's crazy.

So, you know. All these years I've been doing this too, and I still, it still blows me away when someone just says, thank you for coming to Columbus. Like, thank you for coming here. I'm like, what? Thank you for coming out to this. Savannah, thank you for coming to Savannah.

Yeah, like I'm always blown away when they say, thank you for coming here. I'm like they say, thank you for coming here. I'm like, what? Thank you for coming here. It's the weirdest thing. I'll talk about that a little later, but you know, my two sons is out right now, which I dropped on Mother's Day, which is,

people think, why didn't you drop my two sons on Father's Day? Cause it's two different things, you know. So real quick, before you explain, how many kids do you have? Total nine. because it's two different things, you know. Real quick before you explain, how many kids do you have? Total nine. Nine kids? Yeah.

You have nine fucking kids? Yeah. How old are you? Not fucking kids, just kids. That's not, that's a baseball team. They not be fucking, no one of them is. That's a baseball team. Yeah, my oldest boy.

Boy, how old are you? I'm 51. How old were you when you started? 26. Well, that's later than I thought you were gonna say. I thought you were gonna say maybe teenager, late teens, 26. I was gone, teenagers. 26, 46, so.

We've talked before, I was gone, teenagers. Yeah, you were, that's right. You ain't getting it done there yet. Well, let me say I did start. So my first son passed. That's when I was very young. How old was he? Nine months.

So he passed, I was what, 16, 17? Okay. When that happened. So at 19, I'm going with my, when I, I say in the special, my two sons, and I don't think a lot of people catch it, that one of my sons, I'm gonna be able to give a kidney to, and the other one I'm gonna have to buy one for.

He's not my biological, I don't have to purchase him one. He's not my biological, I don't have to purchase him one. Well either way, you only got two anyway, man. You know what I'm saying, if one's gone, there ain't nobody else getting them. Hey, well, what was first, bro? That's it, yeah. So, with my oldest daughter is a chef. A chef?

Yeah, she's 26. So she's been around, I started doing comedy 1997, so in December, so it turned 98 very fast. I had her in 99, so yeah. Oh, okay. I keep up by how long I've been doing it, by how old she is.

Got it. And then what was crazy. Um, she, I say I started on December the first she's born December the first. And that was, that was a Monday, but it was actually a Thursday. So it was like the fourth or something that I actually started when I first got on stage, December the fourth. And that was not a good experience. Well, wait, let's talk about this for a second. What's making you go from,

so you got your teenage years, then you get locked up, you come out. Yeah. At what age are you when you are out? 25. 25. So what you did six years, seven years? Six years. Okay. You're out at 25. I know we've talked before, you started joking around with the guys in there and stuff, that's

sort of where you started, but when you get out, are you comedy focused at that? Comedy focused. You get out of prison and you're like, this is what I'm doing. You didn't start, you went right into it. No, I got a job first, I needed clothes. Well, don't they make you went right into it. No, I got a job first, I needed clothes. Well don't they make you get a job too? Well you need one, if you're gonna not do something illegal,

you definitely need a job. What's the job you get first out of prison? First job I get, I'm working at a men's apparel store by design, because I need, cause I'm- Was it hard to get a job? Like are you sitting in the interview like, I just got, you know what I mean like what's that it was I? Was determined so it wasn't hard because I was determined, but they weren't just shutting doors in your face like no I wouldn't even

Realistically I was so determined. I didn't even See it like I gotta go back and look in my mind like yo see it. Like I gotta go back and look in my mind like, yo, did somebody give me a hard time? Like I was really so focused on, so if I didn't get this job, I'm on to the next thing. It's not, I'm not being deterred by any nose. Just like in comedy, you, you, if you deterred by nose, this is not the business. Like find you something else to do, become an accountant or something. So, I've had very tough skin. So if somebody was actually, I don't think I, I think I was so determined, right? So my first job was at Mosa, men's apparel store, this guy named Reggie Ballard, Reginald Ballard hired me. I went in the store like three times.

He told me they wasn't hiring and every day I would still come back and like so y'all y'all got opening? He's like because I needed clothes because my mindset about comics it's not the same as now. Comics get on stage with pretty much anything on. It's not a dress-up thing anymore. And it used to be dressed much anything on. It's not a dress up thing anymore. No. And it used to be dressed up. Everything did. Going to a ball game with suits and stuff back in the day. Flying with suits

and stuff back in the day. Everything was a professional look. And I think people really don't realize that you look in the stands of a ball game in the 40s, everybody's suited in... That was what was in. that was what you did. It was no down wear. What was it? Casual. Casual was rolling up your sleeves.

Like you're on casual now. So we have definitely scaled down a lot in demeanor of how we carry ourself. So even with me, I still wear slacks, but. I love that you just call them slacks too, man. That's dating yourself for sure, slacks. Man, I'm not, I don't even know what else.

Chino's and shit that, yeah. To call them. Like, is it? Like, now what they call them, pants? Like, you just have on pants. I don't even know what else took hold of. Like now what they call them, pants. Like you just have on pants. Like what kind of pants though? Jeans are pants. So I knew I needed clothes.

So my idea was I'm gonna get a job at a men's apparel store. I'm gonna get the clothes at discount. You know what I'm gonna get a job at a men's apparel store. I'm gonna get the clothes at discount. You know what I'm saying? Cause you get a store discount for working there. And then I'm gonna be dressed nice on stage. So I get the job and not only am I working there, I'm also working at the kiosk at Sunglass Hut. Same mall?

Same mall, like right across from- Right out there. 18 steps from the men's appearance. Like, Ali, I know you're working over there. Come in and bring one out real quick. Hey, man, like I'll sell you a suit and you walk back by, I'm like, hey, you know you need some shades in that suit. Like, I'm like-

It's too exasperating. Revo's and Maui's, and then you start learning stuff when you work somewhere. Like shades are not just shades. Like it's different brands of shades, shades for different reasons. Like I don't suggest anybody go fishing in Ray-Bans. Like you need like Maui gemsms, something with some polarization. That's right. You know, the sort of the glass over the water.

You can see. The difference in that is crazy. It really is. Oakleys were like the worst shades for some reason to me. You had to be like skin. You're my age too. So those were big back then. You know, what do they call them?

The razors? The razors. The razors, right? And they had frogs. What do they call them? The Razors? The Razors. The Razors, right? Baseball players were big. I think they were frogs or frog skin. They were the way fairer look. Yeah.

But Oakley's version of that. Cheap. Lot of baseball players were. Yeah, all big time. It was all baseball guys. And they looked crazy as hell. Yeah. But that, so I'm working them and I'm wearing suits every day because I'm

selling suits. And I remember they came in with the wide leg pants. I thought these are the worst pants. I saw a lot of them. But it was the worst look I think I ever seen me in it at the time because you know, a lot of people were going to the club, right? They would come in, they would buy stuff and I would see them in the club. And they were like, hey man, you sold me this. I was like, it did not look like that when I sold it to you.

Like, you got a red. You're seeing the people out in the wild that you're suiting up. That's crazy. Oh man, it was, I was going to this club called Phoenix and it was, I walk in and dudes be like, Here I am. This is all you, right?

I'm like, oh, this looks crazy. You have on some mint wide legs with a cream rayon shirt just with no sleeve. Like, man, did I see that? Oh, man. Like, so yeah, it was, so I'm at the store. I'm, you know, I'm always, that's how I'm selling my clothes. I'm being funny, selling my clothes.

And I went to Just Joking Comedy Cafe. I had on a suit and these, this was a polo night. I went to Just Joking Comedy Cafe, had on a suit and these, this was a Apollo night. It's the Apollo night. So they, it's people doing everything. They juggling, they singing, they doing poetry, they rapping and then doing comedy. They had a sand man that would shoot you off stage once you getting in the booth.

But this Sandman was encouraging people. He was the host. So it wasn't like he was just a Sandman. He was the host. Okay. So he's Steve Harvey and the Sandman. It's both. He's doing a double job.

Yeah. So he would encourage people to boo. But then I think the singers figured it out. Like nobody's gonna boo a gospel song. So they would get up and they would sing gospel songs. And it was like maybe four singers in a row. And then I'm coming up, he's like, man y'all ain't booing nobody.

This is crazy. I don't like it. Man, the next person, don't worry about it. Then he just called me up. Come and say, y'all give it up for some guy, Alice D. Say doing comedy. That was the introduction, right? I get up and I say, hey, how y'all doing?

And they immediately start booing. They just took his lead, huh? I don't even think they were booing me. They were booing the fact that I had on a suit because I was in, what's up, Ralph? And as they booed me, it was crazy. And I got a little phobia from that experience because when I got booed, when I was getting booed,

Earthquake walked into the club. So Earthquake, first time he was seeing me, I was getting booed. So then he saw me again, maybe a year later, I'm at this spot called Sempers, and I'm hosting a comedy night at Sempers. And it's two guys at the bar talking loud. And I was like, yo, man, we trying to do a show.

Y'all having a loud conversation. So we bantering back and forth. And these dudes like six, six, six, five, something like that. And I'm like, hey, failed basketball players. Like, what's the, we going back and forth. And now they want to fight. And I'm like, I, failed basketball players, like what's the, we going back and forth and now they want to fight. And I'm like, I'm game for a fight.

I'm just really not just getting out. So I'm like, a fight, man, okay, cool. Earthquake walks in as I'm going through this. And he just look at me. Last time I saw you was getting booed, now you're fighting with the audience. Then I see him again at another spot. And I'm like, why is earthquake in Houston so much, man?

Now you- That's the question. I'm going through it again with somebody. So the next time I see him is 1999. I'm on the, this show with Def Jam, all Def Jam comics. So it's J'Anthony Brown, DL Hughley, Ricky Smiley, Earthquake, and I'm opening up for the show at the Arena Theater.

Earthquake walks in and looks right at my face and say, hey, try not to get booed tonight. And I'm like, but it wasn't me, it was just the bones of the game. So I go out and do good and we friends now, we friends now and he's seen me do well a lot. But at first I was like, yo, I cannot do well in front of earthquake for some strange reason. It was weird.

So that's how I started. That's how you started. And at that time when you start, how many kids do you have then? Zero. None? Zero kids. So when's the- how long you in when kid number one? I'm dating a lady that has my oldest boy.

Now how, Trey is my oldest boy. He was five when I met his pops goes to on vacation, he's like eight maybe. And I tell his pops, hey yo, I got him until you come home. So 1999, I have my daughter by his mom. So I'm not going to treat them any different. I don't want no riff there. So I'm not going to treat them any different. I don't want no no riff there. So I'm not gonna treat them any different so tray is basically mine and

I'm putting them in everything. I put my daughter and I'm Going everything he got going on, you know, but his father's there until you leave his grandparents are there So me and his mom separate of there. So me and his mom separate at like, my daughter's 10 till he's 15. And I kept the relationship with him the whole time. He literally just called me yesterday. He's a truck driver. He called me yesterday saying he needed something for some showers or something. He didn't have some points. I'm like, okay, cool. But I made this pact not knowing that his father was gonna be gone for 20 years.

I was gonna ask how long that vacation was. That vacation was 20 years. 20 years, dude. And it was like, he comes home, Trey is like 27, 28. Yeah. And I'm like, goodness gracious. So he's basically mine, you know. So that's, he's basically the first, but my daughter is my first biological, you know.

And how old are you when you have her? I am 27. Okay. So there's seven more from there. Yeah. I'm 27. Okay. So there's seven more from there. So let me ask you this, because you've come on, we've talked about your story with your dad and everything. Why Mother's Day?

Why Father's Day? Why? Paying homage to my mom and my dad. Because my mom was pivotal. That's a huge part of my life. My dad was in and out. I stayed with him from, what, 10 to 14? I still think about all the time about you selling drugs

out the door late as shit at night and then going to school and falling asleep. He's yelling at you like, why? He's sleeping in class. Crazy, man. I think about that all the time. Just little kids hustling out the back door. Like, I got math in class. Crazy man. I think about that all the time. Like this little kid's hustling out the back door like I got math in the morning. Yeah, let me tell you what I really thought

about the other day. Like it really dawned on me. My father was so irresponsible. He stored his cocaine, because he only sold powdered cocaine, because this is the 80s. because he only sold powdered cocaine, because this is the 80s, he stored it in a Cool Whip bowl in the refrigerator.

You know how many times I almost dipped strawberries in that, I just thought the Cool Whip was bad. I'm like, it's grainy, it's not whipped. Why is he keeping it in the fridge and cool? I'm like, yo man, what is wrong with him? When I'm thinking about it back then, it was smart. You come in, you get buzzed, it's in the refrigerator, it's a cool whip, nobody gonna think about that.

100%, I get the raid, nobody's looking at the cool whip. But I'm thinking about me. Now, you know how many times I had struck, my dad loves strawberries, he always had them. So I was like, nah, the cool whip's bad. I could have been coked up. I had struck and my dad loves strawberries. He always had them. So I was like Not a cool is bad Could have been coked up. Oh man He's a crazy man, so you drop Father's Day's out now

Yeah, Mother's Day came out on Mother's Day this year as well. So just last year last month. Yeah What is it like for you being a dad? I asked because on the way in you said, hey, I might have to take a call in the middle that my daughter's at an ice skating competition. Yeah, I have. Please, do it. I have two daughters that's in ice skating, right?

And a son that plays hockey. So you- Why is everybody in your family like the ice? It started with Helena. Helena, she was the first one to go. She was the first one. She's six. Like just like literally just turned six.

She, we had bought Hanan some roller skates. Hanan never put them skates on. Her sister put them skates on. They too big for her. And she's rolling around the house. And I said, Hey, just use the side of the couch to get comfortable till you can get it down. Next thing I know, she is roller derbying through the house. And she asked, she's like, Daddy, you'll take me to go ice skate. I was like, yeah. So maybe about-

Had you ever been? No. And like maybe like four months went by before I even got a chance to go. So it's a, I knew it was a Wednesday because I remember it very, very detailed. It was a Wednesday. I said, yo, Helena, just come ride with me.

We went hanging out, went shopping, and we in the Galleria, and I see the ice skating ring. I said, you still wanna go? So we went down, she put the little blue skates on that everybody get that you buy, so she skating around. Are you? No, she's skating around. Are you? No, I'm just watching. And I'm like, I see some people with like real skates on.

And I asked this one lady, I said, do y'all have like classes or something? She happened to be one of the coaches there. Her name is Hope. and Hope is phenomenal. Hope skated for Disney for like 25 years. Very good skater. And she said, yeah, I'm one of the coaches here. Um, we have classes and I said, when is the next class?

I'm like, people can sign up. So that is a Friday. That's a Friday. So two days later, I go out of town, her mom takes her. And then I get a phone call and said, hey, they want her to come back tomorrow. So Saturday, she goes, she skates on Saturday and get a phone call on Saturday, because I'm still on the road. They want her to come back on Sunday.

She goes skate on Sunday, get a call on Sunday. The lady said she would take on as a student and would she like to be in the ice skating program in December, the Christmas ice skating program. I think she just, she just started. Like they asked. So she skates September, October, November. She that good at it right away, huh? It's crazy. It's September. So September, October, November, December, I'm on the side of the rink, the same rink I took on a Wednesday,

four months ago, and she's in a program. Then after that, she has a competition in February. I'm like, this is going very rapidly. So after the ice skating program, I had to buy some very expensive skates. She, first competition, I'm there and I'm telling her, I don't want her to win. I don't. In my mind, if she wins her first competition,

then there's only down to go. It's like, it's gonna be a hard way to talk. She gets second place. And I said, hey, you see, if you work hard on them, you'll get first place. And her mind, she was so laser focused. So next competition was in like maybe three months later, first place.

She's been, now she's seven, she's been in eight competitions. We have six first places, two second places. Damn. And she skates today in a bigger competition in Dallas. Was her traveling for this too. Yeah, so she got second, she been, this is her like her second time traveling to Dallas

and then Austin. So now she's traveling, she has like four coaches and not regular coaches. Coaches who, like her coach now, I think she got a bronze medal up against Kristen Yamaguchi. What? Yeah.

Damn, so these coaches are all renowned. Yeah, she has like the coaches. And she probably gonna go to Boston and Skate and A program. It's a thing. And I explained how much she has to be protected because I remember this. I literally remember this. I've been through this already. With what? With my daughter when she was, my oldest daughter, when she decided to be a chef.

Okay. It was laser focus. It came from, I just want to cook to, I need to go to this culinary high school. So we went to a culinary high school, came out of there. She's already a sophomore in culinary school. So she does two years of culinary school. She graduates. She goes back and gets her food and a master's in food and science. Then she rapidly start

working in the kitchen and laser focus. But I remember this this I got out in 1997 October 21st I'm on stage December 4th I do so that's I do the whole year of 98 September of 99, I'm recording Comic View. Comes out in 2000. I haven't done anything else. I quit all of my jobs in 99. It's been just comedy. Laser focus on just stand up. So I can see when I'm laser focused about it, I can see the same thing in my kids.

So I know how they have to be cultivated when they have a passion. You have a passion. You have to cultivate your children's passion, especially if you see something in yourself that you were laser focused about. This, this is what I admire about you. Cause I was saying before we recorded, there's a lot of dads with this macho bullshit about their sons wanting to play this or that. And my daughter was playing soccer.

Now I played soccer growing up and I was really good at soccer. I was all Juco in college, 16. I played for a U S team, a development team, went to Europe for a month. Like I was fucking good. So I love soccer. So my daughter's playing soccer. She's good at it. But one day we're driving and I picked her up from school.

We're going home and she just sitting there quiet. And she goes, did mom tell you we're not playing soccer this year? And so I just said, no, why aren't we playing soccer this year? She goes, well, I think I want to do gymnastics and mom wants me to do gymnastics. She thinks it might be really my thing. I was like, okay. She goes, what? I go, yeah, okay.

She's like, you're not mad? I go, why would I be mad? She goes, mom thought we were going to have to have a family meeting about this. I said, Stella, we've never had a family meeting. You think soccer is going to be this? I said, listen, here's all I care about. I want you to learn about being a good teammate. I want you to learn about being a good loser.

I want you to learn about being a humble winner and I want you to take it seriously. If you take it seriously and you focus on it, like you're talking about, I'm support whatever the fuck you want me to support, but if you're just going to half ass it and boo boo boo, then now we're going to find something that is for you. So I watched this kid who, you know, now she's flipping and shit. She's doing all this stuff and I like it. The gymnastics I've been exposed to in my life has been through Olympics and shit. So I'm watching these professionals who've been doing this since they were probably my daughter's age, all this shit. So I'm watching these professionals who've been doing this since they were probably my daughter's age, you know, all this shit. I've never seen the where they're failing, you know, and I'm watching the coaches go, well, you didn't arch your

back, like, do tuck your head a little bit and then boom, it's literally mechanical, you see it. And I'm like, there it is. I've enjoyed watching that. And I hear some of these dads like, at some of these things like, yeah, my I heard heard one guy talking about it was with my stepson. I heard him talking about his kid wasn't playing football or whatever. It was, I don't know what the hell they were doing, chess or some shit. And, and, you know, he's like, yeah, whatever. And, and then I go to these events because I think like, there's a lot of dads out

there that wouldn't support ice skating for their kids or gym. Now, ain't my shit, oh, whatever. And I'm seeing dudes with teardrop tattoos and cholas with fucking neck tattoos and I'm like, if they're here supporting their kids, like legit support and then what excuse does anybody else fucking have? I think we need- It's love. It's, look, you know it.

I think we need... It's love. It's... Look, you know it. A big part of parenting is showing up and being genuinely interested in what your kids are interested in and supporting it. You don't need much more than that. You don't need these trips to Europe and backpack and all this bullshit.

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I was nice. Where are you? I was pretty nice. I really started playing basketball because I never had nobody in the stands. It was never my family, you know, and I didn't understand at the time that my mom, she just had to work. She had to work to support us, you know, but it was, I was always with other people's moms. Always, you know, I'm with the teen mom or, you know,

Always, you know, I'm with the team mom, you know, I always feel like a step kid to everybody. So I said to myself, I'm always make an effort to be present in whatever my kids are doing. And I'm gonna support it. Whatever the, Hassam is a boxer, but he also ice skates. And everybody ice skates, because Helena, they go to practice with Helena. She started it all, huh? She started all of them. So all of them skate. Hanan has a competition, but Hanan is really not an ice skater.

Hanan is a gymnast, but she's really a swimmer. She's probably going to be a diver. Okay. You know, so that's what she wants to bake. So it's whatever Hanan wants to do, but Hanan is the manager of the family. Like this is who I talk finances with. She's nine. This is, this is, this is who knows about where all of my investments are.

And Hanan, me and Hanan would be at the table and I'm explaining silver and gold and purchasing lead and I said, look at all of my stocks and stuff, this is, you're going to have to manage this. She's probably going to be over my trust. And then other people would come in and we would just stop talking. Then they'll leave, we'll start laughing again. And this is, Hanan probably has, of all of my kids, Hanan probably has the most money besides Jayden.

Jayden is really good with money. The nine year old? Yeah, so Jayden and Hanan probably have the most money. Cause Hanan is, Hanan, she just, with money, my thing is I always gotta explain her, you can't keep all your money in the same place. Cause she has all her money in the same place. Hanan is the one that you can ask for money.

Like if you leave your wallet, you know, you say, Hanan, let me hold $40. And she be like, for how long? Like how long are you holding this money? I asked Hanan for $80 one time. And I told her, I say, I give it back to you when we get home. We're not home for four minutes.

Hanan looking at me, I'm like, what's up? She said, you said when we get home, you was gonna give me that $80 back. I just gave her $100 and she just walked upstairs and put it in her situation. And I was like, yo, man, Hanan's a long shot. Like she doesn't play about it. Like if you tell her you gonna give the money back,

she wants it back. I thought I did the same thing. I was going to the store one night and I go, hey, can I borrow 20 bucks? She said, what do you need $20 for? And I said, well, I just, I said, I'm gonna tip the valet 10 and I'm gonna tip the bartenders 10.

All right, but when am I getting that back? I was like, well, I get paid in cash. Maybe I'll give it to you tonight. But if not, And then we go to the mall and she goes and gets $20. And it's immediate. And they don't forget. And people think that's a lot of money. And I'm like, I don't care. I don't care. I don't care.

I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care.

I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. And then we go to the mall and she goes and gets her $20. And it's immediate. And they don't forget. And people think that you don't have, I have my favorites for certain things. My favorite person to go on a walk with,

my favorite person to go with. To eat with. You know, like it's easy. Hassan is my favorite person to go on a walk with, my favorite person to go with. You know, like it's easy. Hassan is my favorite person to eat with. Yeah. Easy. I'm talking about, if I had to pick somebody to eat with every day, Hassan, Hassan, I'm talking about since he was young, six, Hasan has a wonderful palate.

And Hasan was in Spain. How old is he? He 14 now. Hasan. But he's always been a good eater, like always. What? Like Hasan has an amazing palate. I got a peasant's palate for sure.

Yo, don't go eat with Hasan. If you want to feel like you're not an adult, you go and you go eat with this kid. What's he get that you're like, what the fuck? What? Okay, I'm gonna go back to when Hasan was 11. He just got back from Spain with my mom. And he was in Spain for like maybe three or four months. He speaks

Spanish. So he's over there being emerged in Spanish. And we go to Papa Dog's, spot calling, he used to call Papa Dog's. And he's looking at the menu and the waitress come by and he says, excuse me, how is this roasted octopus? I knew it was going to be octopus. And I was like, what? I don't like octopus. And he was like, no, I had it in Spain. It was outstanding. I knew it was going to be octopus.

They love octopus. Cause of Spain, I'm like, oh my goodness. It's like, you know, if you don't do it right, it's chewy dad. Man, he is literally, he gets the octopus and he's just over there like, and he playing with his sister cause he's got the tentacles. He's like, at the and he's over there like, and he playing with his sister because he's got the tentacles.

He's like, at the time he's 11. That is a very sophisticated pal, an octopus at 11. Raw oysters, grilled oysters, shark roe, like this is his, this is his thing. Multiple types of fish. It's this guy here has all the vegetables. I think the only thing he doesn't like is, I think specifically yellow lentil.

I think that's the only thing that he's specifically, that I know that he did. Oh, and avocado. He can't, for some reason he can't stand avocado. Like just won't, just don't mess with it. But everything else Her son is a very sophisticated either and that was the only time I didn't feel grown. I was dying I Would like to call him our fried hard

He asking for grilled octopus with extra lime. I'm like, okay. And I saw him a very good eater and I love going out to eat with him because when we order stuff, they come put his food in front of me. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was like, that's the soy fish.

That's not mine, that's his. I ordered the trout, a. Yeah. And I was like, that's the swordfish. That's not mine. It is. I ordered the trout, a normal fish. And he ordered swordfish. You know, he and if I wanted to go on a walk or go shopping, Helena all day long. Like, Helena is the most fashionable person in our house because of her mom. Her mom's very snazzy dresser.

But Helena would sit together, like, all the time. And she's only seven. She wears matching pajamas every night and she sleeps with the mask. With the mask. Does she? And like, always. Like, multiple masks. Like, I'm going, She sleeps with the with the mask with the man. I see it like Always like multiple man's like I'm going and you never have to tell her to go to sleep So she was a baby never had to look like I'm going to sleep. I don't know what y'all staying up

Like sleep is my best friend Yeah, so if I'm gonna walk or shopping, I would rather go with Helena. If I'm talking finances and doing money, Hanan. If I want to party somewhere, I would rather party with Jaden. Jaden is always a good time. My oldest daughter, she's always a good time. I want to be frustrated that I call Trey. And, you know, he's very frustrating. He's very frustrated. If I'm talking about animals, you know, Sahar, Shad, I'm going to talk to Shad.

If I just want to be quiet, Sanaa, she just quiet. She's like, I don't wanna talk. I can just be here. You got all your bases covered. I can just be here. They're not two of them that are like identical. Like these two over here are hellions or these two are quiet.

No, they're all individuals. They all are totally individuals. If I wanna have a debated conversation, I'm gonna talk to Gorgeous Girl, Sahir, she gonna go back and forth with you. But a good time, a good ritzy time, like you don't have to, she's about all of it. Hania, oh Hania is crazy town. It's crazy town.

She the youngest. She's crazy town USA. Dude, that's exactly what I used to call my daughter. I'm like, you're crazy town USA. That's what I used to say exactly that. She is crazy. Like, and she's the, she's the comic. The youngest one has great timing

and she says it right on, like right in the moment. And with, it's very fearless. She's like, I don't care. I bought a Bentley because of her. Why? What would we mean because of her? She was, I was getting my truck serviced and we walking around a dealership,

we went to the dealership next door and she sees this Bottega. She was like, that's nice. And I said, well, let me ask the dude, let me see the keys. She literally got in the back, you know, they have pillows and all this stuff.

She got in the back, you know, had pillows and all this stuff. She got in the back, clicked her seatbelt in, and crossed her feet and her hands like, I'll take it. Pfft! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha!

Ha ha ha! How old? She was four! Ha ha ha! Like, I'll take it! Ha ha ha! And that's how you ended up getting it. And I was like, man, just running numbers.

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daddy, I didn't peel myself at school today. Like, that's not a, it's not a, you not supposed to. I know, yeah. Like, sometimes accidents happen. Like. Let me ask you this, is your father, is he still alive? No. He's not.

Did he ever meet, my question was gonna be, did he ever meet any of the kids and was he a- Jaden. A better grandfather? No. No. That was a quick no. You don't even have to, no.

No and no again. That didn't make him say, you know what? No. No. No it didn't. He was a better father. I think he met Jade maybe once. And I don't even just blame on him living out of town because you know, grandparents travel.

So I don't think he, I think he was still dealing with some things, but he was a better, I remember I was going through a pretty tough time and I called him, I said, yo, I just need you to come. And he did. And he was kicking me for like a day

and then he was like, we done? We good? I was like, man, yeah. But I just needed to see him, just needed him to be present. He watched all of my stuff on YouTube. He did?

They're like, anything that came out on YouTube, he would go to the library and watch it. And then tell you he saw it? Tell me he saw it, have a conversation about it. He met Hasan once and then he called about him like every month after that. That was really our last conversation. February the 12th of 2018, I land in LA

because I just filmed the Comedy Central special. 2018 is getting ready to come out. So I'm doing press. I land in LA and normally I don't answer my phone until I get to my hotel. He called, I answered, I said, hey man, what's going on? He said, man, I just called him,

asked about Hassan's chess game, cause you said about chess, cause we all play chess. Okay. I've been playing since I was six, cause he played. And he asked about Hassan's chess game, I said, yo, I'm on it, you know, when I get back. And then I asked him about the songs, Chess Game, I said, yo, I'm on it, you know, when I get back. And then I asked him about the pre, the trailer for my special. I said, man, you seen the trailer for my special?

He said, yeah, I seen it. We talked about it. So then the 13th, I'm walking out of Viacom office. And I had this thing about me, I hope it's broken now, but when something's going really, really well, I wait on the other shoe to drop. Something terrible about to happen. And I remember walking out of Viacom and I said, man, everything's going great. And then I said, nah, don't say that.

I said this to myself, I said, don't say that. I remember I'm sitting on the side of the building. So then the 14th comes. I'm flying back to Houston to do a Valentine's Day show. And I hate Valentine's Day. Everybody coming here, how much I hate Valentine's Day show. And I hate Valentine's Day. Everybody coming here, how much I hate Valentine's Day. Two shows. And I know after that, I'm flying to DC at the DC and Prague shows there. And we sold out for the weekend. I'm very excited about this week. I had my alarm set

to catch my flight. My phone keeps going off. I'm like, it's three something. I don't think I set that alarm for three. Phone keeps going off. And I set the phone, when I got to get up, I set the phone across the room so I have to get up to cut it off. As I wake up, I get up to go turn my phone off.

I'm thinking, it's the alarm, it's pretty early. But when I get there, it's Joanne, his girlfriend, calling his fiance. I answer the phone and say, hey, what's up, Joanne? But I know we on a time difference. She's in Louisiana, I'm in LA, time difference. She said, Bear, I have something to tell you about your father. I said, what's up with him? I just talked to him.

She's like, your father had a heart attack and he passed. I said, what? I said, all? I said, I, um, let me how was he 70? No, 68. I said, I let me, um, let me get up and get myself together. Got off the phone with her and I said, I just looked up, I said, boy, you ain't shit. You're going to die on a day that you know I hate. Valentine's Day. I said, damn.

So now I'm at the always remember this day, not because of Valentine's Day, but because he passed on February the 14th. I called my sister. I said, hey, I'm on tour, so you're gonna have to go down to Louisiana and set up the arrangements and whatnot. My sister was getting ready to go to Africa. So I come home that day, I do the two shows. I fly DC. I'm doing the shows in

DC. And I remember it was the 17th. Special comes out on the 23rd. I buried my father on the 24th after the premiere of the special. And I come on the road and I got all this press. I just don't want to stop doing what I got going on. And then me stopping, what would that help do? He's gone at this point. He's not in the hospital, he's gone. So the 17th, I never forget it, because this is his lady, I'm doing the show,

and this lady, she's laughing. It's one of those laughs, you probably didn't have this for doing stand-up. One of these laughs that's disruptive to the next, like, you can't move on with it so dismal. You gotta let her stop, yes. Yeah. So I say, man, you gonna have to have to either cut your laugh short or laugh with everybody

else. With everybody? Oh yeah. You laughing past the time limit of life. Eight out of a son of a bitch, you worked all your life for that. Now you got to tell this lady, look. Yeah, you were all like, hey, man, you kinda... I can't move on until you done, man. You know what I mean?

So... She says, no, you don't understand. I'm having a good time. I said, I think pretty much everybody's having a good time, but we like in a control laugh space right now. Like laugh with everybody else and then stop, like keep going. She says, no, you don't understand.

My father died today and this is my relief. I said, your dad died today and you're here? She said, no, this is the date that he died. It was on a Sunday, this is the date that he died. That he died. He was on a Sunday. This is a Sunday. And I said, ma'am, I understand. She says, no, you don't.

I said, ma'am, I really do. I said, my father died February 14th, like just past 14th. And I've been doing all these shows and I haven't mentioned it yet. Cause I'm, like I got it in my head, but like right now I'm having a good time doing the show, but then I'm gonna be extremely sad

Yeah, I'm gonna be miserable. once I get off the stage. And so that's when I first told people that my father had passed and did some stories about him. And she was like, she just looked at me the rest of the show, like, I said, you kind of don't know what we go through as comics.

And we are real live, the show must go on. Like, I don't know about what actors go through. I don't know about what R&B singers or rappers go through. I know the show really must go on with us. And it has, like when people look at my two sons, they will never, and rugged as well, I'll tape them back to back, they will never realize that my toe was broke.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like my baby toe was actually broken. I broke my clavicle and broke four of my ribs and strained my sternum and cracked my teeth surfing in Cabo in a wave just crushed me up against the ground and I stayed in Cabo. No pain medication, just arm and a sling, just holding it together.

I came home, I got an MRI. They told me I was gonna have to have surgery. They scheduled my surgery. And I still had shows to do on the road. So I went to you. It's people in Utah, it's people in Omaha, it's all these people that saw me in a sling with my arm still broken and my ribs broke. The people in Utah, I know there's people in Utah that was in the airport

that thought somebody stabbed me because my ribs were broken, right? And they were telling me all this stuff about my clavicle, how crazy my clavicle was. It was broken in half, and then I blew my tendon. Damn. So- That's all from a wave pulverizing you into the ground? Yeah.

I had a friend of mine that was- Water is crazy. Broke his neck, and thank God a lifeguard was there, pulled him out. I thought my neck was broke. He was gonna be paralyzed, but they saved him. I thought my neck was broke. He was going to be paralyzed, but they saved him. I thought my neck was broke. All the cracking that I heard, I thought my neck was broke.

Right. So I am asking the lady, I said, so y'all keep talking about my clavicle. I said, what y'all, what y'all gonna do with my ribs? And she said, nothing. I said, that's not a medical term, man. I don't think he's supposed to say that. She's like, no, there's nothing we can do about your ribs. And she said, nothing. I said, that's not a medical term, ma'am. I don't think you're supposed to say that. She's like, no, there's nothing we can do about your ribs. Your ribs got healing on. So when you have broken ribs, I'm going to tell you what is wrong with you. Everything. Like it's breathing, laying, sitting, bumps in the car, like it's grueling. And the number one killer is a sneeze.

So I'm coming through the airport, I'm rolling my bag with my good arm, and I feel it. And I said, and I'm trying to, I need to, I need to let my bag go to kind of brace myself. And it doesn't happen fast enough. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. And I sneeze and I just lay on the ground in baggage claim. No, you didn't. You just went to the ground. I was just on the ground. Luggage in hand. Can't go down straight because my car goes broke.

I'm in a sling and I'm just on the ground. And I'm on the ground and this couple comes by and says, hey, ain't that who we going to see tonight? No. I'm like, who the hell? The guy on the ground who we bought tickets to see. I'm like, don't mention this, don't mention this. Come on.

And I went, hey, this. So I have the surgery. I have the surgery. And the next day, I fly out to go do this comedy club in Atlanta, Uptown Comedy Club, because I gave him my word that I was gonna do his... Day after surgery.

Yeah. Shows are sold out. I'm in there, and I'm just working it out, just doing my thing. And I'm telling the story about this because this is going to be one of the specials about how I broke this clap.

And as I, now I'm told this whole entire story. And I said, I just had surgery. I walk off the stage and this lady grabs me on the shoulder and there's other women in there about to beat the shit out of this lady. Like, did you not just fucking hear for an hour and 20 minutes about this, how damaged she is. And you grabbed me like, oh man, I was like,

and so when she grabbed me, I went down in the club. I just- No, you didn't. On the ground. And I was just looking up at her like, are you crazy right now? Like, are you, you're literally crazy. Oh, it was, it, just the mirror, because the way that they had to do it, I have a, I have a, what is this?

Dr. Woody. He's my doctor. He's extremely good. Dr. Woody, very hip white guy. I was skeptical because when I walked in, he was like, oh, love those Travis Scott's. I had on some sneakers. He was like, no, I'm a sneakerhead too. And I love watches.

And we talking. So after the surgery, he wanted to tell me what he did. So I have a cadaver's tendon. You do? Over my own, my own type of my clavicle. Is it better than your old one? No. No. I bust the tendon up so I had to get somebody else's tendon.

And he's telling me about it. And I said, what's a cadaver, white or black? And he was like, I'll leave, you don't get the fuck out of here. This is his look like what difference does it make? I say, you know, black people, we heal different. I need to know what you have in me.

I said, what if he's a pirate? And all of a sudden I'll be like, all right. And he's like, oh yeah, you definitely a fucking comedian. I just want to know. For the record, I can tell you. He's saying I'm partially white. What if he was a good pitcher or some shit? I want to know. All of a sudden I'm throwing 90 miles an hour, just left arm in my 50s.

What is this? I want to know how this go heal. Man. Did he tell you? No. They don't. He's like, no. It's interesting though.

You think you should have a right to know what type of person, whoever shit went in your body. That's another human being's part in you. You should know about it. What if you just stab people all the time? I need to know what's going on with me. But it's very good sometimes, then it's still, where you can feel it trying to connect with my body. It's numb a lot, but it's crazy how they did it.

And I was like, I was very interested in it because I wanted to know. Also it's in your body. It's in my body. I don't know where this meat came from. Yeah. Is it somebody else's tendon? Yeah, they took something out from somebody over there, put it in there. Yeah. And you don't know where this meat came from. Yeah. It's just somebody else's tendon. Yeah, they took something out from somebody over there,

put it in there. Yeah. And you don't get to know. It sounds so much worse now. Over there, that person over there, that random ass person over there. Now it's in you. There's a freezer over there with some shit.

Yeah, not yours. Not yours. We just sewed it up inside you, man. Listen. Crazy. Before we wrap this up, I wanna ask you this last question. What do you want people to take away from Father's Day? If you have a good one,

if you have a bad one, be appreciative of the lessons that you learn from both. The reason why I'm the type of father I am now is my mom would like to say that it was her. But no, it was really a lot of the feelings that I did want my children to have about me. And I don't have a lot of pictures with my dad, young. I have some memories,

but I would rather have my children have a lot of good memories, you know, a lot of life lessons, you know, and then pictures of when we were together and have memories. I have some memories of, you know, I was there with my father, you know, he taught me chess, he taught me this, but I have more memories of him not being there. And I would rather my children have more memories of me being there than not.

You know, and I tell my son, we go, every time we go to lunch, I make him hold my hand when we coming out the restaurant. And I say, man, you need to practice, man. Cause one day I'm gonna be some old dude, you'll be taking me to lunch and I be walking out and I'm like, hold my hand, guide me this way. And I'm gonna be stubborn. I don't wanna do that, but you're gonna

have to assist me. Just like I held your hand and snatched you out the street and did this. I say the same thing, you'll get a chance to do it. And he just laughs and thinks that I'm playing. One day I'm gonna be a slow walking person or you gonna have to push my wheelchair. Hopefully not, but you gonna have to come pick me up and I'm gonna be quiet and you gonna wanna talk. The road is gonna eventually reverse. With my daughters, I'm gonna want them to always

wanna see me and take care of me and kiss on me like I did them. It was a big thing because when you Muslim, you got to wash my dad's body and my little brother by another woman, he went with me and did it. And I remember he didn't really have a lot of memories of him being around either. So we do share that, that we washed his body, we hung out with him before he died.

who shared that, that we washed his body, we hung out with him before he died. But I would rather my kids have a lot of happy memories. Yeah. I mean, the older I get, I don't need gifts, nothing. Like memories is it, that's what it is. So traveling with my kids and going back, you remember when we was here? I remember we was in Costa Rica.

Remember when I broke my clavicle? Because you were there. You were in Cabo with me when I broke my clavicle. Just whether you have a good one or a bad one, sometimes our fathers are not ideal. And people are here about it because I didn't tell you, I wanted to drop the bombshell at the end. I recorded three more specials in Detroit. So I have three specials in the can.

What? How in the fuck do you do this, dude? That's amazing. And do you set them up? Like you let people know you're recording them or you just shoot? Yeah. Yeah. We, it's a, it's a whole production. So you did, so you got Mother's Day that dropped in May of this year. Yes. Father's Day that's out now and it dropped in June of this year.

Yes. And you already have three more specials already recorded. Already recorded. Dude, that's incredible. Good for you. Getting ready to go out. Already recorded. Already recorded. Dude, that's incredible.

Good for you. Getting ready to go out. One is called the dog, one is father, and then Monday. So those are the three that's getting, they'll be recorded again. When would they be released? This year as well, or are you gonna wait on it? No, we gonna wait.

We'll probably drop one at the end of the year. Like going right into the new year. You got three specials in one year. I don't know, has any comedian ever done that? No, nothing I know of. Right? Three successful specials, not just fucking 800 people watching one of them, is it?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so. Good for you, dude. Yeah, we trying to set the bar high. Oh, you have, you have definitely set it. Thank you, man. Thank you for coming on, as always. Pleasure, thank you. Thank you, man. Thank you for coming on as always.

Thank you. Right there, promote it all again one more time, everything. So ollysteep.com, we can grab you some tickets to the next 34 cities starting in August. I'm doing some clubs in August. I'm coming to Wise Guys, which I don't know why I love this club so much. Oh, yeah, Salt Lake City? Yeah. Yeah, it's a great club.

It's a great club. I'm also doing Atlantic City in August, but then I have multiple dates coming up. Where you from? Baltimore. Baltimore. Yo, the lyric is a great theater. Baltimore Comedy Factory is crazy.

Crazy. The lyric is, now I'm lucky enough, I got to perform there with Tom Segura when he was there. Tom Segura! Yeah. Let me tell you, before we get out of here, Tom Segura has the worst accident ever in all of anything. I don't care if it's comedy, it's baseball,

I don't give a damn what it is. And every time I've watched it, Just I watched it just to feel better about my, my was kinda sexy. I was surfing and Tom was like, he like fucking fell apart. Like it was crazy. Also I don't think you made the money they made off of your injury. I'll tell you that.

Oh my. Oh bro. Goodness man. Yeah. When I. Oh, bro. Goodness, man. Yeah. When I watched it, like I did his podcast and he was like, yo, he was like, he was pop locking. I was like, yo, you a break dancer? That shit was crazy. I was like, wow.

And then I was like, how you couldn't get your arm back? He said, well, my, I ripped everything in my knee. Yeah. So once my knee shot out, I couldn't get it back there in time and it just gently folded back there for me. Yeah! Ah!

It's just crazy! Like that should be a special alone. What not to do. Like it was insane, right? So I saw Tom, we was taping this show in New York. I saw Tom and I can't help but to to see it when I see him like, you know, you so much better now. You look so smooth right now.

He still has he still has problems. Yeah. And I and I got them up. I'm it's like I'm connected because I still have issues. It's like, oh, it was great time. I got to do the lyric with him and that's that's a bucket list theater. If you're in Baltimore, that is the premier spot to go. So yeah. I'm just, a bucket list is for me to do a show with Tom.

Oh man, his shows are great. So I'm doing, I don't know when this will come out, but I'm at the Horseshoe Casino there in Baltimore. That's a great venue too. Yeah, I've been to the Horseshoe. Have you? Yeah. To see somebody else.

You know what I mean? Wasn't me, I wasn't there. I was like, yo, Smokey Robinson live at the in a horseshoe. Have you? Yeah. To see somebody else. You know what I mean? Wasn't me, I wasn't there. I was like, yo, Smokey Robinson live at the horseshoe. Yeah, that's a great show. You know what I love about Baltimore, this is funny. So I go on, I look at the schedule and what's his name? CeeLo. You know, CeeLo.

Yeah, CeeLo Green. Not sold out. Michael Jackson impersonator, sold out. Okay. In Baltimore, then I was like, impersonator. Okay. Sold out, real person, not sold out. Okay, okay, here we go.

Before we get out of here, here we go. Here we go. I don't feel bad now. So I'm in Austin. I'm maybe like 500 people from a sellout, but the damn Elvis review. Review. Yeah.

It's not even Elvis. It's not even the guy. 50 years ago, by the way, this motherfucker's around. You know what I mean? The Elvis review. I was like, man, this is some bullshit, man. And they got two sold out shows. People-

Two, yeah, two, yep. What a green, what the artist's interest is, I'm having to say, excuse me, to get in, cause it's like, I'm like, and this is, I got out the SUV, I'm like, oh, is this for me? It was like, no, this was Elvis. He's on another side. I'm like, Elvis who?

Like he's a new artist? He's like, no, this is the Elvis review. What the fuck, man? And I'm trying, I'm not, listen, I'm doing my damnedest to sell that show out. I can't have some impersonator selling more tickets to me. I laughed so hard that I was like, Baltimore going hard for the Michael Jackson impersonator.

It's crazy. It's crazy, dude. Man, so make sure y'all go to ollysteek.com, go watch the specials on YouTube. You can start at Domino effect and go up if you want to, you know, get some backstory. Man, I sure appreciate you, man, for having me on the honeydew. Thank you for coming, brother.

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