The HoneyDew with Ryan Sickler - Sam Tripoli - HoneyTripoli

Episode Date: October 14, 2024

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Please welcome Sam Trippley. Welcome back to the honeydew, Sam Trippley. Let's go, bro. Let's go. Back in the saddle with my boy, the hardest working man in comedy. I love your energy. The hustler. You work smart, not hard. That's what I'm trying to do. That was my shift.

Smarter, not harder is my shift. You're giving me college education and how to podcast. This is some DeVry shit right here. Speaking of DeVry shit real quick, before you promote, I just want to say, if you haven't ever listened to Sam Tripley's old craft feast episodes, you gotta go listen to him because he talks about how he would defend himself on traffic tickets.

And I just want a quick update, cause I still get people to be like, yo, tell Tripoli I went in and I defended myself and I got off my ticket. There we go, dude. What is your traffic ticket record? It's not good, I lost two. I've had a couple. What are you at now?

Would you say roughly wins, loss? I would say I'm about 18 and five now. That's incredible. That's incredible. That I get pulled over that much. 23 times is a lot to be pulled over. But to win 18 of them is nuts. I got two in the queue right now. They're nailing me for these traffic lights. Where the traffic cams were like if you get too far up it, it flashes on you. Yeah, I watch them flash on everybody. But I always stop. I always stop. So I'm going to beat the robots, dog. I'm one and one against the robots.

And the only one I lost is because I forgot to show up. Unless your dead to rights clear as day at you, you can say, that's a valet driver. That's not me. No, but they get you, dude. That's why you should always drive with your visor. Yeah That's how it goes. Yeah Please promote everything you'd like. Ah You got a brand new special got brand new special just dropped. It's called quiet

The whole title is why is everybody getting quiet? I was filmed in Hollywood. It's about an hour I was gonna break it up into but I'm like, I just let it roll. So I, that's out and my podcasts are fire. I got a podcast called broken simulation where I just tell stories of my week. It started during the pandemic and I just kind of go off on that. Tim full hat is well known for conspiracies. And then, uh, I have, um, a great debate show with my friend, Dylan ren. It's, uh, it's called the Deep Waters, AKA Deep Waters, and we debate politics.

So go check all those. Everything's on samtriplee.com. Everything, all my podcasts, all my dates, all my premium content. Like I'm putting my premium content right on samtriplee.com. So you can get it all there. I'm doing about three episodes a week on there where I just like doom scroll the internet and then we do it's a fun thing. So just go samtriplee.com

it's fire. Um you mentioned Quiet. That's the name of the special. Yeah. All right. Now the funny thing is to me what I want to talk to you about is the opposite of Quiet. You're the dad of twins. Yes. Two twin girls. Four years old, bro. Four already. I went to their, one of their, they were pandemic babies. I went to one of their friend's birthday party. She's five now, dude. I went to a five year old's birthday party with my,

I can't believe it, dude. I would love to have, be at the party where my daughter's at and you showed up. Oh, I show up. Oh, God, dude, yeah. Wearing sweat suits. All the women are dressed. Like they're going to the VMA. Yeah. Yeah. Like women always dress up. Always nice for the kids. I show up in pajamas. Have you had, I'd say I get a lot of grief for this one because, um,

now this is people misunderstood this. It was Gaffigan and I talking about where I'd be at, at like a two year old birthday party and parents will drop their kid off and bounce. And I was like, hold up, man, that's a two year old. You know what I mean? I don't know if your kid knows how to swim. I don't know this, that, you don't just get to drop your two year old off and bounce. This isn't an eight year old or a nine year old. You know what I mean? And people were getting on me like, Oh, you're soft. I'm like,

I would never drop my two year old. Like what Like, what time I need to pick her up? Six? All right, I'll be back. Yeah, dude, no way. But you realize certain parents that do that. I was at a party. I was like, they just dropped their two-year-old off? Like, yup.

And I was like, bam. Damn, you just used me for a birth, as a babysitter. That's all it is, dude. And I have an autistic daughter. She's on the spectrum. She's the best. But dude, autistic kids are super interesting because they're like X-Men. You're like, you're just like, what is your superpower? They all have superpowers. Mine is, can I find the most dangerous

shit to do instantly? All right, wait, let's go back to the beginning, literally. So are they fraternal or identical twins? They're fraternal. All right. And thank God. What's the age difference? How many minutes apart? I think they're about, I want to say 20, 25. Oh, wow.

Okay. Well, actually, so the most interesting thing is like these two came out of the womb with their personalities. Like it's so great. The first one bang hits the whole pile, dude. High stepping Roger Craig bang right through the hole dude. She just like she just comes out. She's spying.ying reminds me of that old school you're old enough to remember Marshall Falk when he played for the Colts had a fucking badass Nike

I think it was commercial where he was running and everything was coming at him and one of the last things was like a jet behind him and he took the ball And he went right 100% Earl Campbelling that He took the ball and he went right in. 100% Earl Campbelling. Yeah. Right? Earl Campbell blown out his knees for two yards. He's ripping off.

So she comes out, like, he's for two yards. So then the other one just jackknifed in the back and that's just kind of how their personalities have been. Can I ask you personal questions and we can cut anything out if you don't want to. But are they natural twins or was this because I'm not I was there's no twins in our family. My mom so we're born in March 73. So she was pregnant in 72. So she's taken.

I don't know what prenatal pregnancy. Yes, because she was having trouble having twins and I guess we're a side effect of that. taken, I don't know what prenatal or pregnancy. Oh really? Yes. Cause she was having trouble having twins and I guess we're a side effect of that. This is natural, but we don't have twins in your family or hers. That as far as I know, maybe I just hit it so hard that I just split it and two they go off and now there's two of them. So when you first hear two, when she says there's two heartbeats, what do you do?

Well, man, I mean, I'm super excited, dude. I love my kids. I'm very blessed. I love them both. They're so interesting right now. And they're at that age where they're very, um, honest, like one's nonverbal, but the other one is just like got soup. Like my, my one daughter has been running stuff. Like she was three running five year olds.

Like she's like went out to the yard, right? Just found the tough kid. She's running everything, dude. So she's always been like that. So now they're at the age, man, where like they're super honest. What was your relationship like with your dad? My dad is great. I love my dad. I'm the only one in my family still talks to my dad. Yeah. My dad's Kaiser Sose dog. He'll shoot the family, burn the village down. That's how he goes, bro. And I go, like, it's a big reason why I got sober. Was it always a good relationship with your dad when you were a kid? Did you have a good relationship? We always got along because I always knew my dad was shady.

What do you mean? My dad just, my dad never worked well with others ever. I remember like we have these next door neighbors that are such a big part of our family, like out of my neighborhood, and their mom was a real estate agent, or wanted to do a real estate deal with my dad, and my dad wouldn't do it.

And I remember like, I was like 10 years old, I go, dad, you gotta work with people. You gotta work, you can't go alone. At 10 years old, I'm giving advice to my old man. Yeah, yeah. He just, he's from a different... And then you talk to your dads, you talk to your dad later on, you start realizing that the trauma they went through. I would talk to my dad, I go, Dad, why'd you do this? And he goes, that's how I was taught. He told me his story a long time ago

when he was with his dad and his grandmas and he asked his dad, can they go home? And his grandma just smacked the shit out of him. Right. And I go that, that would be traumatizing to somebody right now. If they saw someone's grandma smacking a kid, right. So you start to understand that they don't have like this thing where like we can go to therapy and we can cry. We can do all these things that guys back then could do. My dad had to get married at 22. Right. Like it's super young. My dad, my dad could do. My dad had to get married at 22, right? Like it's super young My dad my dad's me doesn't want to get married never wanted to get married Just wants to live his life and but he was okay having kids

Yeah, my dad is always a good dad because there is something there's a difference between being a dad and a husband Yeah, you know you say you don't want to get married. That's fine, but you still have kids you like being a dad I love being a dad. And your dad was married though, right? He did get married to your mom. He was married to my mom for a very long time. She waited till the day my brother graduated high school next day. Divorced.

Is that right? Yeah. She had that vanilla foam right in her mouth. Yeah. My brother's getting a diploma, he's getting divorced. I'll take this and you can have it. Yeah, 100% dude. That's exactly what happened. That is wild. My mom was like, diploma. He's getting a board. Yeah. 100% dude. That's exactly what happened.

My mom was just waiting. That's a lot of prep work. That's a lot of prep dog. So she kept the house and you stay with her or are you older? Well, I graduated, I was at UNLV. I was in Vegas at the time. My brother, my brother, yeah, my brother stayed, you know, cause he hadn't graduated high school yet. And then he went to Arizona and it just got all crazy between those two and it sucks. But you know, so yeah, my dad was a good dude.

I always say this in recovery meetings is that I really do believe my father was put there to show me what would happen to me if I continued down this path I was going. Because I was raised by very paranoid people and my dad's super paranoid and I saw myself starting to do that. And I realized that's not how it goes in life. So it's like through recovery, you kind of learn like the play the game of life. I'm trying, that's my biggest thing I want to teach my daughters. I'm like, I'm going to teach you how to play the game of life. My daughter's like, teach me the game. That was the cutest thing ever. So that's it. Like, can you take these wild animals

that you're raising and teach them how to play the game of life and function in society. That's kind of it. And you have two very different daughters. Two very different daughters. So how are you handling that? They love each other, which is crazy because me and my brother growing up, we're very close now, but we definitely had a kind of, we bumped heads a lot. What's your age difference?

Two and a half years. Okay. And my brother is genetically superior to me, which really sucks when you're the older brother. He's better-looking He's younger. He's in better shape. He's smarter. He's got bigger dick, right? I love your honesty. Me and my little buddy over when we were really young we all measured dicks and I came in third dude. There was only two people in the concert. Oh, it was Jason, two Jason's and me.

And all the Jason's were more hungry than me. All the Jason's. That's the good thing about being like a dad is like whatever your deficiencies are. Nobody cares. What do you mean by that? Explain. Right. Like, like if you have a problem physically Like you're not the most hung guy in the world And by the way, I've been measuring this thing since I learned about measuring okay six inches. Shut the fuck up

Okay, has it gotten any bigger over the years? Well, dude as I lose weight it gets a little it gets a little better And then and then dude, I started getting my I started getting everything trimmed down Because I heard this comic got trimmed off Try to trim down. They trim my junk down. So did I ever tell you that story? the Chinese Translator The team of people down there the parlors respecting pronouns, bro. I didn't pick it up.

I really thought there was at least three people handling your shit. Working me? Like waxing legs. Just buffing. Get your butt. I really did. Then she shaves me down, dude. I got like pristine land that I never even saw.

So added an inch on that right there, which is nice. So do you guys remember Eric Meyers? Yeah, I remember Eric. Rest his soul. He passed away, yeah. God bless. It should have been a theater comic. Couldn't get off his own way.

God bless him. But man, people would show me pictures he would send when he was drunk. He would send chicks pictures, but he reversed Hitler did where he just did the patch above it, right? So it looked like it gave him three more inches. It was like an optical illusion.

So it looks like a strip going down longer, like a buildup ramp. Like a running star, dude. Dude, I was like, wow, man, that's really smart. You gotta think about that. That's ridiculous. So, you know, that's kind of like I've learned a lot from my dad, you know, and that's the blessings, you know, the old guard, you know, you got to remember, you know, they weren't perfect.

They didn't have all the... Well, you're the same age as me and my dad's gone now But I talk about this all the time like my dad was vietnam era his father world war two We're over here being like I want to dance Right, they don't even understand jokes. What are you? No, but see here's the crazy shit about me I flunked first grade Right. You've said this before so like my So like my parents, they didn't care. Yeah. They're like, oh, you're going to do stand up?

I thought you were going to pump gas. That's literally what I thought. They thought I was going to pump gas. So they always support me, which was very weird. Because most people you talk to, their parents aren't really supportive of them filing a career in dance. Have your mom and dad come to see you do stand up? Separately? Yes. Yeah. Have they ever come dad come to see you do stand up? Separately?

Yes. Yeah. Have they ever come together? Like not together, but at the same show. They won't. My mom won't be able to stand up. You gotta give that heads up. Yeah, she won't do it.

Got it. But yes, and it's so funny. But he would? Yeah, my dad was... So funny, I remember I took my dad to Beecher's Madhouse. Do you remember Beecher's Madhouse? I sure do remember Beecher's Madhouse. Oh dude, in Vegas was insanity, dude.

And I remember, I'm like, because, you know, my dad's great. Again, he probably didn't want to get married, but society, if you weren't married by 23, you were gay, right? That was the only- You're probably right. If you weren't married by 23, you were. Oh my God. Yeah. He got a little sugar in the tank. That's what they would think, right? Right? So he got to get married, had kids, loved his kids, but my dad's a Rolling Stone.

So we're doing this show and if you never know what Beacher's Madhouse is, Beacher's Madhouse is like the greatest live variety show you'll ever see in your life. Jeff Beacher is like the best ringmaster you'll ever see in your life. Jeff Beecher is like the best like ringmaster you'll ever meet. And there was everything there was like African tribe dancers and then there were like midgets with fire and there was like go go dancers everywhere. But it is loud. And I remember bringing my dad there and you know, and I'm like, oh, it's probably too loud. So I like he girls are dancing everywhere. And I'm like, oh, it's probably too loud. So I, and like, he, girls are dancing everywhere.

And I'm like, dad, are you okay? He's like, oh, I'm fine. He's just like, just like, yeah, mind blowing, right? Had to go become a teacher. And now he's in the middle of Vegas. And so he's always been a good, I always loved him. He loved my standup. He always hits me up.

He like, he loves Russell Peters, which is kind of cool when you find out your contemporaries that your parents like. That's how you know you're big when my dad finds out about you. Yeah. When he starts talking about you. Yeah. So yeah, he's always been super supportive.

One of the first jokes I wrote was about my parents. I remember that. Do you remember your first joke? I don't remember my very first joke, but I remember some of my first jokes. I can't remember the very first one. First joke I ever wrote was about how women give hand jobs like lawnmowers, like starting lawnmowers. That was the very first joke I ever wrote. Like the pole start.

Yeah, that was the first joke I ever did and then about my mother power walking. Those were my first jokes ever. But yeah, I mean, I have jokes about my dad. My dad used to give us, I talked about this before, but he had this wink and a nod thing that he used to do anytime he wanted me to beat up my brother. So he's very- Oh yeah, that's the best. He's very festive.

I love my father. And he's super proud of me and I love him, but- Is he a good grandfather? He loves his kids. He's come and seen them a couple of times. We're trying to get him out here with him and his girlfriend to the house. Oh, he's not in California?

No, he's in Prescott, Arizona. Oh, okay, okay. Living with his black girlfriend. So he's not local. Oh, yeah? My dad, dude, everybody else was listening to Led Zeppelin growing up. Dad loved Motown. Oh yeah, my dad loves black ass for sure. All right. So what are some of your biggest fears as a dad with two different kids at the same age? These are things I could never ask my father. You know, I would love to ask cause I'm a twin. So yeah, as a father of twins, like we were fraternal, also very different personalities. Like my mom would put us in the same clothes, but...

That must have been so weird. It was. Two completely different looking children. Dressing the exact same. She really wanted you guys to be identical, huh? Yeah. You know, my biggest fear is just like, for me, is like breaking the generational trauma that our parents passed down to us because their parents passed down to them. And like, you know, for me, paranoia, I really want my kids... I'm really trying to teach

her. She says, I can't a lot and it drives me nuts. Yeah, me too. Because I'm like, I can't a lot and it drives me nuts. Yeah, me too. Because I'm like, we can't say this and you know, I can't, I can't, I can't. And she's, you know, we can't hit them anymore. I mean, back in the day, back in the day we'd get lit up. I get one coming out and I didn't even know it was coming. And they know that used to it. Like what the fuck was that one for? You know what I mean? Not even crying anymore.

Yeah. And they know it. So they, what is our, usually we're negotiating with terrorists. That's what we're doing with these kids. I walk around all the time saying, be a problem solver, be a problem solver. This story makes me laugh. I tell this, but this shit made me laugh. My daughter was probably like four, I'm not kidding you, four years old. And she's, we're on the way to school and she's hungry and I got a banana. I give her the banana in the back seat. I'm like, just eat the banana. And she's doing the, dad, I open it. I'm like, I'm not opening a banana for you. Open a banana,

turn it around and do it the way the monkeys do it. If this way is too hard for you. No dad open. I'm like, I'm not open. I can't. I go, I don't want to hear that shit. Like there is no, I can't be a problem solver. We pull, I swear to God, triple. We pull up to a red light. We're next to a car. There's a tiny solver. We pull, I swear to God, Triple, we pull up to a red light. We're next to a car. There's a tiny ass baby. Must probably be six months, eight months. This motherfucker had a banana

and peeled it right in front of it. And I go, look at that baby. My daughter started laughing so hard. I go, that baby's peeling a banana. We still talking about that. You must be a great dad. I was laughing so hard. I was like, that baby's, and she's dying laugh and I was like no more excuses

That is one of the hardest things about being a parent is knowing that Every kid is on their own timeline. Yep I'll never forget my friend who had his four kids and he said the same thing They all learn to read at a different age walk at a different age Cognitive, you read at a different age, walk at a different age, cognitive, you know, thinking at different, things, different age for every single one. And just cause you have one daughter doesn't mean that next one wants to be swaddled or you know what I mean? They're all different.

They're all completely different. They're on their own timeline. How are you dealing with that at the same time? Well, it's very interesting to me because like swimming, right? It's taking three summers to get this girl to sweat. Well, it's very interesting to me because like swimming, right? It's taking three summers to get this girl to swim. Just one of your daughters or both? Yeah. I mean, the ones... Listen, she's autistic. She's super high functioning. And she's very interesting because sometimes she's so smart, she knows she's autistic and she kind of uses it as a way to ignore me, right? Where she'll be like, I'll be like, hey, come on, let's go. And she'll just be

like, I'm autistic. I'm just doing all, but the minute you say something she wants, bang, she's right on you. Right? So we're, we're taking our time with teaching her. She's in floaties now and she just likes to chill in the pool. But the other one is mad. You like, when you have kids, you're like, oh, they're going to be a jujitsu champion. They're going to be this, they're going to be that. And she just walks around like a gay Velopter after that's what she does. They call her Velopter after at school, like, cause she just walks around like this. And it's like, Oh, and it was so funny because I got back my, um, she did this thing for Father's Day where she filled out all this stuff. And they asked, you know, what does your dad do for work?

And my daughter put down work. That's what I go, you know, because I always go, I have to go to work. So I go, you know what daddy does? And she goes, well, I go, I make people laugh. She goes, that's what I do. I make funny faces and make people laugh. I'm like, okay, now we got connection. You're gonna be a stand-up comic so she's on her own thing, but she finally learned to swim

It's like so crazy because like she's like four in floaties And it's like her and babies and then these like two-year-olds are just lapping her and you're like, oh my kids are slow But nope that they just do it when they're ready to do it. That's it. And so let me ask you this then. I don't mean to sound ignorant when I say this, but I don't know. How did you know your daughter was autistic? If you didn't have two at the same time, would you have been quicker to recognize it? You know what I'm saying? My mother was a teacher her whole life. So they have this thing called stemming, and this is where they get so excited. They do this.

And we didn't know. The mother knew, the mother of our- Your daughter's mom. Yeah. She knew way earlier. She did. Yeah. She had a feeling. And we were FaceTime with our mom because we were She knew way earlier. She did. Yeah. She had a feeling and you know, we were FaceTime

with our mom because we were like their pandemic babies. And like, as much as that whole time period sucked, it was also a blessing because you got to kind of hang out with your kids more because nobody was leaving the house. Well, not to rub it in, but when our apartment building didn't close the pool and during the pandemic, I told my daughter, you're swimming every day. Yeah. And this is where she was already good. But I was like, this is where you're going deep diving down the deep end. All of it. And we did. We were swimming. Because if you remember, for whatever reason, and thank God, at least here,

we had great weather during the pandemic. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Great weather during the pandemic. It was quiet. We'd just be out there with no responsibilities. We were swimming every day. And I was like, swim, swim, swim, learn a life skill. That's what you're going to do during this pandemic is learn a life skill. Yeah, dude, it was great, man. But my daughter didn't ride a bike.

She was even getting on herself because it was that peer pressure, nothing like peer pressure, nothing like it. It's great, especially for kids. I use it as a motivational. I'm like, look at that. My daughter's a picky eater and the therapist would say, there's nothing wrong with your daughter, but once they get to high school and her brother was the same way, peer pressure, the kids are going to shit on them. Like, you just eat ham and cheese and a little bit of mayonnaise. You don't put lettuce and tomato and they start going to other people's houses, seeing different foods. So that's why I wish my daughters have a crack head diet.

What do you mean? What are the only chicken nuggets? That's my daughter. Right. That's it. My daughter's dinner mostly consists of dinosaur nuggets. It's gotta be done. It's not a chick filet. She'll do chick filet, um, strawberries. And I do banana slices with peanut butter on the top. That's a dinner for her. She is super picky. But I force fruit in and stuff. How did they get us to eat back in the day? But they forced us.

They forced us. You can't do that shit. You have to negotiate with domestic terrorists. That's the whole thing, dude. You gotta do it nonstop. That's it. So when we, you know, I work with you, you work with me. I'm doing that all day long. And then, then dude, 40 year olds have no problems with renigging on agreements by the way.

They have no problem. You give them theirs. They're like, dude, sucker. I ain't doing any of that. I don't get it, dude. So, you know gives me a whatever a lot. I don't get it, dude. So during the pandemic, we would be with the kids all day and we were FaceTime with my mom and my daughter started doing this. And I just thought that meant she was super excited, but my mother said that's stemming. So they went and got tested and it turns out she's autistic and I have a lot of guilt. I had a lot of guilt about that. It felt really bad. And then you just kind of realize there's a whole community and there's a lot more people. Just in

my family, there's three autistic kids. Is that right? Yeah. And you didn't know that before? I knew that we had one and then I just found out yesterday that on my dad's side, one of them is super high functioning autistic. They're just little truth machines, these autistic people. Like my daughter, it's so funny, dude. Big reason why I'm getting in shape is because I have my shirt off. My daughters hate me when I take off my shirt and have my Chi-Chi's out, right, dude?

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and never come back again, right? I mean, they just very honest at this point. I'm trying to rethink. I'm trying to get my daughter to rethink what fat is. Yeah. 100%. Yeah. I'm like, listen, I'm chubby or plump, but I was like, my point out of fat person.

You see that person in that cart over there? I'm thick, dude. I am dude. Yeah. So also 51 year old comedians. I'm not a personal trainer. You know what I mean? Dude, you're looking good. No, I got to drop some weight after the hospital and all that. And I couldn't move. I get, you know, you get heavy, but I'm working out now and everything and feeling so much better. I did one TV show on TV. It was called Wild World of Spike. I did with Jason Ellis. And I learned what a hematoma was that day, which is like this giant

blood bruise. So I was doing this stunt because I just was desperate to be on television at that time. So they're like, you're doing stunts. I'm like, what, whatever. Okay, let's do it. And I get a hematoma and I gained this layer of perma fat that literally took me 15 years to get rid of. And it wasn't until I started doing fasting that I lost this 15 pounds. So I was at 225 at one point. Now I'm down to 200. My goal is 175. Yeah.

So I'm doing through fasting and counting calories. Oh, the worst dude, putting it in this app and it tells me whether I'm a fat ass or not. Yeah, you look that, you gotta look at it and tell you. My girl won't give me pot-seeds. I'm like that's 600 calories. Yeah you trying to kill me bitch. You trying to give me kill? You want to give me beat up? Getting red thumbs down over here on this thing. I got this app judging me and shit. Um all right so how do you how do you balance time so again like you're not going to take both your daughters out to play catch necessarily so how do you balance time? So again, like you're not gonna take both your daughters

out to play catch necessarily. So how do you balance your time with two kids who are the same age, who are very different? And they're very indie dude. And you also only get half your time with them. Yes. So how do you do that? When we go out, her name is Ghost.

There's Ghost and Ninja. Ninja is the autistic one. You know, Ghost is easy. You know, she can take care of herself. You know, you're not like letting her wander off, but you know, you know she's gonna be good. Dude, Ninja, I just have to chase her everywhere she goes. You set her down, bang, she runs.

Oh, so she's not right by your side. She wants to go. Yeah, she by your side. She wants to go. Yeah. She wants to go. She wants to explore. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. She throws out smoke bombs. Go on. I'm like, we did that the other day. I'm like, where is she? Where is she? She's hiding in the bushes looking at us. Yeah. So with ghosts, she's pretty easy. And it's weird because everyone's like, you gotta keep your kids off the iPads. I go, but they work all day.

They go to school all day, then they play. When they get home, they just wanna sit on the iPad. Because my dad told me, stop playing video games. You'll never make money off it. Stop watching TV. And now everybody's- Our iPad was the TV. We all had the TV on nonstop.

Yeah, it's so crazy. And if you didn't, your brother had it on. You know what I mean? It was background, my whole childhood. And my daughter says stuff, I go, where'd you find that? And I know it's off of YouTube. Now, one day I was like, when we put that in the bed and they were like, we give them a couple of minutes with their pad, right? And I heard like, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, like, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. And I realized somebody in there is listening to Superman That Ho by Soulja Boy. I'm like, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.

No, we're not listening to this. We're not Superman-ing any hoes. You're 40 years old. Give me that time. Pad's done, dude. Pad's done. Because they can work that pad better than I can. It's made for them, dude. Because they can work that pad better than I can. It's made for them, dude.

I think they have kids test them before they send them out to the market. Yeah. My daughter shows me how to do stuff on them. I'm like, how the fuck did you do that? She's like, oh, you just take three fingers, you tap it twice. I'm like, what? Yeah, dude. Because that's the future.

It's going to get more and more computers. It's not going to get less and less computers. That's the other thing. The argument is for, okay, we don't want our kids to have all this tablet time or screen time, but that's where the world is. Yeah. So if we don't, then are we, you know, hurting them by not letting them be part of that world that they're in?

We're not like Indian kids, dog. They're coming for our jobs. We got to get these kids.. We gotta get these kids, we gotta get these kids on the pad hustling. But it's so funny, dude. So, you know, during COVID, it was kind of crazy. I got to hang out with my kids. And, you know, COVID, COVID was really nuts

because like, I didn't care. Like that's my brand. Like my fans didn't care. Like that's my brand, like my fans didn't care. I was like flying around like America doing like what they called like suicide runs. Literally my agent was called like, these are suicide runs. Cause I would go to comedy clubs. I didn't care, you know?

And it was so funny cause I go to like St. Louis. They had me out to St. Louis Helium. And I show up and I'm like, what's going on? They're like, yeah, we don't serve alcohol, booze or food. I go, then why am I here? Like I'm just hawking liquor at this point. That's what comedians are there for. They can't have all that.

I just show for four people. No. Four people. I'm like, why are you guys here? I get it, I appreciate it. But what are we doing right now? You can't drink, they couldn't even have water on their table. Why are you here? So I do this show. This is a hilarious kind of, well it's, I don't know if it's hilarious, but it's crazy.

But so I do a show in Missouri. No, where was it? I do the, Wisconsin, what's that comedy club in Wisconsin? No, it's not the other one. Man, what is it? It's a great club. So I do the show in Wisconsin. I get home. My brother's like, hey, I want to come see my nieces. I'm going to drive in.

So my brother drives in from Phoenix, Arizona. Well, as he's driving, he's almost, he's like, I'm almost there. I get a call from my manager. She's like, someone tested positive for COVID at your show. I'm like, how do you know? Cause they emailed us. I go, oh, now there's a paper trail, right? So now I'm like, okay.

I never wanted to go get tested. I'm like, I have to at this point because they could say, I wasn't taking care of people if I didn't know. So I go get tested. They take this long thing, they jam it down your nose. I'm like, that can't be healthy, right? Pull that thing out. That first one they gave me was wildly aggressive, wildly aggressive, that very first one. You just punctured something. They went hard on that first one. When I,

when I ended up getting the second time, like that's it. Like it was so different. I was like, wait, that's all we, we made advances. We made advances. That's all we ever needed. So, so I do it and my brother's like 10 minutes away. Now my brother, like I said, my brother, him and I love each other, but we're very different. We're very different. Like he's a, he, he, he, at that time was a lot more liberal.

Like I'm old school liberal, you know, but now it's like, I'd say I'm like a, a line with like libertarianism and stuff like that. Uh, but my, my brother's like liberal and he was very like weirded. My brother was so weirded out by COVID that he decided to be like a Guinea pig for the vaccine. What do you mean? And he took like the experimental thing to see how it would work. That's how nuts he was. He did.

He was like a Guinea pig for like, Took one before like, Everyone else did. To see if like some would grow off his head. Did he have any weird side effects? I can't believe it, dude. He thinks he got placebo. So far, I mean, that shit could be a 10 year thing. You don't know. Not good, right? So anyways, bro, he, he walks in and as he's about to come in and my phone rings and it's the, it's the, the, the test.

And this guy's like so dramatic on the phone. He's like, I have such bad news for you. He's like almost going to cry. You're positive. I'm like, what is going on here? First of all, I just left you. How do you already know all this? Why are you making

so dramatic? I'm the one who's sick. You act like you're on a deathbed. I'm so sorry, call us at a, call us at a place. Hangs up on me. So now I have to tell my brother. Yeah. Yeah. Who's freaking out about it. My brother comes in, he's hugging everybody. I'm like, ah, I got something to tell you. He goes, well, I go, I'm positive for COVID and do this white face on him. He gets white and hand to God, he just walks right out, jumps in his car and drives to New York. Nah. Yeah. He just drove to New York, dude.

He didn't say goodbye, right? He just left. He goes, he's gone. Drove to New York, tested there, negative, dude. He didn't say goodbye right. He just left. He's gone. Joe New York tested there negative, dude. How crazy is that? Just sent him out, man. It was crazy, dude. Those were crazy ass times, dude. I loved the pandemic. Pandemic traffic, that was awesome. It was awesome. Pandemic traffic was all was the best. We need a black plague in LA just like once a year. Just, just, just have everybody moved to Austin. Go move to Austin. Get about 50 of us by 2030.

You. Yeah. What worries you the most about being a dad? Oh, I don't know that my daughter's already walking around the living room naked. I'm like, Hey, cause we had family over and she wanted to go in the pool. So she took off all of her stuff. I'm like, Hey, get off the main stage and get, get in the bedroom and have Dana put your bathing suit on. What do you think? That's amazing.

Let's go. No. Because, dude, you're ridiculous. In the bathroom. We don't get naked from strangers. Let's go. Oh, shit. Yeah, that's my biggest...

You know, I just want to give them the best advice when they go into the world and it just gets scary. I mean, I think our job as parents is to like, it's obviously to do the best we can, given what we have, but also to outdo what our parents did. Not, you know what I mean? Just to go look, here's what, what I improved on this. Yes. Your turn to take the ball, hit the hole,

keep continuing forward improving, you know, ultimately. Your job is to go, what are my defects and how can I not pass that on to them? Yeah, I want you to be aware of them. I want you not to be like this. I wanna be, yes. One of the best thing I ever learned in recovery is that nobody's thinking about me. I think that's really important to tell people like this notion that like,

people are conspiring against you. It's just like, everybody is white knuckling their lives. Right? It's all the goddamn rocket out of space. They're just trying to survive, dude. It really is nothing personal. It's so hard not to get that. The most black belt thing you could ever think, dude, the most black belt thing is like, the best black belt level mental state is to go, people's opinions of me is none of my business. Agree.

If you can get to that, that's the most freeing shit in the world. And sometimes the people you love aren't necessarily gonna love you back. And that's okay too. Your job is just spread love and help others. That's my whole thing. It's like, how can I surrender and acceptance and surrender?

That's what I think you should do. And how can I be of service to others? That's great. So give me an offstage weekend with Sam Tripley and his daughters. Give me a day. Give me a Saturday for you. Well, you know. A home. You're in town. You're home. Yeah. We got to do, your whole thing is like, Masjib Rani would talk all the time about just get them busy. Just get, well, you know, it's like most of the weeks, what would happen is like I would get, you know, I get up early, like eight in the morning for a comic. That's pretty early. Like I used to, cocaine, Sam, three in the morning, go to bed. Yeah.

Right. So when I had kids, we'd have to, we changed the time. So my body clock just flipped and now I'm getting now I'm going to bed early and I'm getting up at like Six in the morning with the kids seven in the morning, but now it's like eight o'clock But on the weekends, I'll sleep in a little bit and then Dana will will take care of kids Cuz they'll just get up and just start wreck. I mean dude These the greatest feeling in the world is when you get four-year-olds to go to bed. I've done everything a thousand times

twice. Had the most amazing life, rock star, hooked up with women way out of my league, all that amazing stuff. Nothing compares to putting four-year-olds to bed. When they go to sleep- And you got two of them. Oh yeah. Are they sharing a room? Right now they are. Yeah. So that means like my brother and I, we used to keep each other up. Yeah. 100%. Well, the, luckily ghost falls asleep very easy. Ninja, because autistic kids have no, what's it called that helps you go to sleep? Serotonin?

Melatonin. Melatonin. There we go. Yeah, melatonin. They don't have that. So they're up forever. And like sometimes you think they're asleep and then you go lay down and you're like, okay, they're bed. And then you just hear somebody Keith mooning it. Keith mooning it. Driving a car to the pool with shit. I wonder if that isn't a genetic thing you pass on. Cause my daughter fights sleep like a fucking superhero. Yeah, for sure. Does not want to go down.

Yeah. What time she usually get to bed? I mean, man, when it's school, I'm trying to get her to bed. I'd love to be in bed by 8 30. Yeah. That shit ain't ever happening. I do that night. People are like, well, we train them like this. We train them like that. Did you? Dude. Yeah. What are you talking? I mean- Well, I'm going like this. We train them like that. I go, dude, yeah. What are you talking?

I mean, Well, go cattle prodder to get in bed. No, it's honest to God. She's in bed, usually nine ish. I make her read even if it is late. And then I would say she's asleep 9 30 9 45 ish. Oh, you're blessed, dude. For real. We tried to, I tried when they're at my house, I try to get them the bed at nine and then good luck

from there. Is it midnight? Is it 11? Sometimes, man. Summer, it's like that. It's been like that with her in summer. I hear her in there just doing whatever. I'm like, hey. And then I go, you'll see in the morning. And she's just like me, five more minutes. I mean. Because I remember when my mom would do that to me, like, I forget what eight, I'm probably like eight or something. She's like, go to bed. I'm like, the lights are on. The sun's still out. It's sun's still out. Why am I in my bed? And I would just sit there like, what am I doing? Yep.

Right? So I like, I kind of keep that in mind. And then dude, you put them to sleep, you walk out and then you just hear them wrecking shop. And it's like kind of this weird thing where it's like, because you know, we have, Dana has relatives and their kids are trained like assassins. They're like, it's almost like in the sound of music where they all just, goodbye, so long. And they just go up and go to sleep. I go, how do you do that? My kids, wild ones. But again, here's my theory on parenting. Like everyone's like, my opinion is you know what you need to do. You know what you need to do. It's inside you. And it's like they're on their journey. Like the thing that will mess them up is trauma. Okay? If you surround them with love and you let them do their

thing, they're going to find their way. They're on their path. As long as you shield them from trauma, that doesn't knock them off the rails and then who knows where they end up. It's like just let them be and they'll be fine. I also try not to get too mad about shit because I'm not going to lie. I'm not good. Like I'll lay in bed with my daughter when she reads and then we'll start laughing at something and I can't stop. I can't stop. You know what I mean? I'm in there laughing my ass. We were laughing so hard the other night at some shit. I was dying. Oh, you're a great dad.

And then I'm like, all right, quiet, go to bed. And then I start laughing. You know what I mean? And I'm like, stop. And then she's laughing and she's doing that. You know, there's nothing that makes me laugh harder when someone's not supposed to laugh and you catch that out of the corner of your eye, them holding it in, you know, trying to fight, trying to give it to you where I'm not.

Is she funny? Oh yeah, she's so fucking funny, dude. She called me the other night laughing because she's at her mom's and she was telling her mom she wanted French tip nails and her mom's like, I don't like French tip. And she looks at her mom's nails she was telling her mom she wanted French tip nails. And her mom's like, I don't like French tip. And she looks at her mom's nails and they're erect. She goes, yeah, you like French chipped. She told her and she called me.

She's like, hey, dad, she showed me her mom's nails. Because I said this to her. I said, that's good. She's already roasting. She's already roasting. She's smart as shit. She gets it. My daughter gets it, which is cool. But also, I've never treated her like a little kid.

You know, I've always had to leverage with her like, look, man, you got two parents who love you in two different homes that that that welcome you and support you in all things you do. This is just the way it is. There was a time where she said to me once, I wish we were a real family, like the family next door that lived together. And I said, hold on a second. I said, hold on, I don't ever want to hear it again.

We are a real family. And I said, just because these people live under the same roof, I said, I'm going to be straight up with you. Sometimes people under that roof are punching each other. They're yelling at each other. They're burning each other. They're tearing the place down.

It doesn't mean anything to be under a roof. It's not about what family or love is. It's hard. My daughter says that too all the time. And I love it. Does she? Yeah. I mean, my daughter's over it now. She's nine now. She gets it. She used to be like, you should hug mom.

Like when she's like two or three, you know. I'm like, okay. Yeah. Here you go. Yeah. But the other night, a friend of mine was over and she watches my dog for me. My daughter's got her roller skates on. That's why I'm saying I love being a parent. My daughter's just roller skating around the apartment just

up and down all over the place. And my fucking friend finally goes that doesn't drive you fucking nuts. I go what she goes to skating.'t drive you fucking nuts. I go, what? And she goes, the skating. It would drive me nuts. Inside? Yeah, inside.

Oh yeah, dude. And I was like, no, I tune it out. I go, let me tell you something. Here's the thing as a parent that'll drive you nuts when you don't hear anything. Yeah. That's when you're like, what the fuck's going on? Where are they?

What are you getting into? I was like, you can skate around here all by, I see you, I hear you, you're not getting in any trouble. Skate. I don't, I don't own this place. Yeah. That's my daughter, dude. Like whenever she hides, we know she's trying to shit her pants.

That's what she's trying to do. I'm like, go in the bathroom and do it. You don't have to do it in the closet. Go drop it. Dude, dad loves dropping deuces. It's fun. It's free. It's a fun game you play.

Yeah. I like to shit in the closet too. You know what I mean? I would love to shit in the closet. I just don't have anyone coming to clean it. I love being a dad. It's my favorite thing. She said me, she drew a face of me and I'm gonna get tatted.

Are you? It's the cutest, funniest, weirdest thing you've ever seen in your life. I'm gonna get tatted. Are you? It's the cutest, funniest, weirdest thing you've ever seen in your life. I'm gonna get tatted. I just gotta figure out where I'll, cause I got two tats I wanna get. I wanna get Godzilla and then I wanna get my daughter's picture of me.

It's like so funny. I wanna, I'll show it to you. I love it. Send it to us. Yeah, I love it. What are your favorite parts of being a dad? What's the hardest parts? Give me the hardest parts first. The hardest part is trying to get them to understand what I'm telling them

is good for them. I have to go, you got to trust your dad. You got to trust me. I'm never going to lead you wrong. Trust me on this. Trust me on that. Because they're very strong willed. They're very strong willed. Now with my daughter who's autistic, nonverbal, you have to learn to pick up cues for her. And it's hard because, you know, it's like- When you say nonverbal, does she not speak at all? She says- Or limited vocabulary. Words, like very limited. Like she'll say, da, da, and stuff like that. And the mom, she says a lot of stuff around her mom, but she's,

it's gonna come. I know it's coming. So that, for me, it's just like the ability to communicate with them, to get them to do things they don't necessarily want to do. You're communicating with two different human beings. Two different ways. Yeah. Instead of telling two kids at the same time, both do this, that's two different computers you're working with. You're working with an iPhone and a fucking Sandbox. They love each other, but they do their own thing.

They're very indie for two twins. Do they ever play together? Yeah, once in a while, and it's such a joy, but usually they're just off exploring their own thing. But you know, Ghost knows that Ninja is special and she's very protective of her. Okay, good. And they don't like to be separated, they just want to do their own thing. Like they want to be in the same place together. Independently codependent.

Yeah, they're codependent, independent. That's how it is. And it's just fun to watch somebody grow up into a person and have their personalities. Oh, that's the best. somebody grow up into a person and have their personalities and then just negotiate again, negotiating with them. And you know, they, you know, they, they're very emotional. The worst is like, you know, so it's like, I'm learning how to deal with that too. Cause brothers, brothers, emotional is different. They're going to punch you, wrestle you. Like my daughter cries and I have to understand that that's a different

way to express these same emotions that my brothers used to give me a wedgie for, you know what I mean? You know, 100%. Yeah. Yeah. And they just know, because I remember we were at Dana's family and they have this really nice place down like towards San Diego. And my daughter was in the pool and she didn't want to do something and we're like

telling her to do it and she doesn't want to do it. And then she starts crying and then I give in and then Dana's sister is like, oh, she's got Sam wrapped around her finger, huh? And it's just like this weird kind of place between like, how long can I let you cry before I feel like an awful human being, right? That like, that's that fine thing. And then sometimes in public, when you're trying to teach them something, people judging you around, they're like, oh dude, well, you're crying. I'm like, hey man, you know what I'm doing here. Like I was at Chuck E. Cheese one day and everyone stared. So we get this. So we go to, I have my kids go to a private school, right? Because I just don't want them

to be trans. Your kids can be trans. I don't need my kids to be trans. But we go to a private school, right? Cause I just don't want them to be trans. Your kids can be trans. I don't need my kids to be trans, but we go to, we got enough shit going on right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Live your best life. Okay. But we're going to a private school. We're not going to the public school.

Okay. So, so they're at the fundraiser, Chuck E. Cheese. Okay. And we show up and Chuck E. Cheese. It's like do you see the show? I get amusement park in the pandemic. I thought they all closed I saw under pizza in the freezer section at Ralph Do you know the conspiracy about Chuck E cheese, what is it that they reuse their pizza? What do you mean? Conspiracy about Chuck E Cheese. What is it that they reuse their pizza? What do you mean? No, like if there's three pieces left. Yes. No now dude I tell I can show you a picture of my pizza the crust don't even know each other

Do this one up here there's one way down here a hand to God and the God What if we should get a frozen Chuck E Cheese and open it? And the God. What if we should get a frozen Chuck E cheese and open it and see if it's all over the place? They're meeting for the first time. It's like a little mix of different cheese colors. Dude, it's crazy. I've never heard that rumor.

Yes. Chuck E cheese. And I took a picture of it and showed it on my podcast. And like, dude, like one slanted down one's way up. Did other people write in and be like like hey, we think we have one too I nobody said to me, but I've heard that I've seen on reddit to Chuck E cheese might reuse their pizza We got right here you're legend, right? So so if there's two pieces left on this table and two over there You're telling me they're going in the back and they're whipping up

Oh no dude. Oh that's the... Oh shit I never heard that one. So there's this whole thing in conspiracies about how everything's going digital, like your money, so they can control you. Like if you act up, they'll just shut your digital off like that's what it is. Well Chuck E. Cheese has gone fully digital. You don't get any of the coins anymore. There's no hard coins. It's just a card. Yeah. They've gone totally WEF, World Economic Fund. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a fundraiser. I pay $30 for this pizza that's just meeting itself. Yeah. Yeah. Some old ass. Use pizzas crazy. It looks like Frankenstein's dirt knot, you know, to use a Jimmy Schumer frame.

Like a dirt knot, right? Oh, man. So I paid $30 for that. American dollars for this pizza that looks like it's 7-Eleven pizza, right? So I get that and then I buy a card for games. Games. So then, you know, so I, of course my daughter's just like

tell me to buy everybody's games and I'm like, oh, you're just running through this card, dude. You don't even understand value, this money, dude. I'm raising like a gold digger or something like that. She's just gonna spend money and not even care, right? So, so one day she, so one time she's like, can I have the card? I go, no, you can't have the card.

This is Chuck E. Cheese coin. She can't take that, that paid for. Please can I have the card? And she's so cute, I love her. She's like, can I please have the card? I wanna play this game. I'm like, okay, I'll give you the card. So I give her the card.

I'm just sitting around five minutes later. She goes, hey, can I have the card? I wanna go play this game. I go, I gave you the card. She goes, I'll have the card. want to go play this guy I go I gave you the card she goes I have the card go where's the fucking card that's 30 dollars of chuck e cheese coins do you know I make conspiracy theories your dad has the interview you know how many times I have to hear about flat earth and deep states to get 30 dollars in chuck e cheese coins I'm like god my knees I'm in her face where's the card I'm not shitting my knees, I'm in her face. Where's the card? I'm not shitting Chuck E. Cheese coins.

I look up, all the moms are judging me. They drinking out of Chuck E. Cheese. They drinking, no doubt. Yeah, dude, I don't know what rock bomb looks like, but it's a Bud Light and a Chuck E. Cheese head new. Yeah. Right? Yeah.

They just judge you, they always judge you. Yeah. It's like, hey dude, you want to, you want to yell your kid. It's the way I feel as a dad too. Like it can't happen on my watch. You know what I mean? Like the ships just got to run fucking smooth over here. I taught my daughter that all the time. Like just, we gotta just run. Shit's got to run smooth over here. We gotta look good. 100% and we're dads. We're a team. We're not their friends. We gotta look good. We gotta come out of this. We're a team.

We're not their friends. We gotta look good. That's the other thing I tell. She said something to me the other night and I said, I cursed too. I was like, no, knock that shit off now. I'm not one of your punk friends at school doing some TikTok trend or whatever. I'm your dad and you're not bringing that bullshit my way. Enough's enough. And she'll be like, all right, she gets it. I was so sad when I brought her to school for the first time, we put them in school and they were about three and it was just like, we're already losing them. Right. You just got them and now you're just sending them out to the world. But it's great because it socializes them.

And that's what needs to happen. That's the bittersweet part. You know, like my daughter already didn't want to hold my hand as, as we get closer to the front of the school. So, you know, I'm a dad dad i'm like, you don't want to home, you know, can I hold my hand? Dad, dad, I do this shit all the time. Yell at people and travel like we get in over there My daughter my daughter thinks i'll say that to my daughter like that. That guy has a nice shirt I'm like my daughter likes your shirt like that I'm like what people like compliments 100% that guy's gonna say thank you so much. That means a lot to people We were at the I try to check little challenges whether that's what I say. Okay, I try little challenges with her

so yesterday were at the The coolant was low on this on the car I just was like I'll just pull in Jiffy Lube real quick and I'm tell they're like we do I'm like look, I just need to call refill They're like, all right, you can sit in the car while we do it So you have the hood popped and through the crack of the hood, I can see that they're eating pizza. And I said, Stella, when they come up to the window, I'll give you twenty dollars.

If you go, hey, can I get a bite of that piece? And she's like, no way. And I was like, what are they going to do? I said, they're going to be like this little girl to say, so she could have a bite of this pizza. They're going to love it. Or they're just going to look at you like you're a weirdo, but you're rolling them with $20 and she wouldn't do it.

She wouldn't do it. She's like, you do it. I go, if I do it, I'm going to say my daughter wants to know dad. No, I'm like, all right, dude, that's the best press. Get comfortable with the uncomfortable. That's it. Dude. Thank you.

Thank you for doing this. Best of luck to you. Continued in comedy, but as a dad out there. I love you buddy. I love you. I love you, dude. I love your rise. I love your pace. I love everything about you. I still, nothing tickles me more than crushing and you coming out. And as I pass you go ahead, you'll get them next time, bro. Dude, you crush at the comedy chaos all the time, dude. I love it. It's one of the best shows. It really is.

Congrats on that. How many, how many sold out? 84 now we got 16 more to a hundred. Then we'll decide if we're still going to go. That's insane. Dude, that's a hard thing to do. It's insane. It's insane. Um, please promote everything one more time. Your special Tripoli.com my new special quiet available like rumble. Uh, then it will be. Samtripley.com, my new special, quiet, available like Rumble. Then it will be on samtripley.com. I would love to put it on YouTube, but it's a giant waste of time. Um,

they did right out the gate. I'm in trouble. Um, and then listen to my podcast Broken Sim. It's just, I, me and my buddy, we just talk about a week and it's so super interesting. It's a great conversation. Then Tim Fall Hat, which is I'm known for, and then Deep Waters with Sam Tripoli and Dylan Ren. It's a really great debate show, so check it out. All right, brother. As always, Ryan Sickler on all your social media, ryan sickler.com.

Come see me on tour. If I am in your city when you're around, tickets are on my website now, RyanCicler.com. We'll talk to y'all next week. you