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Episode Date: January 1, 2024

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Go to Ryan Sickler dot com for that. Now you guys know we're doing over here. We're highlighting the lowlights. I always say these are the stories behind the storytellers i am very excited to kick off 2024 with this guest first time here on the honeydew ladies and gentlemen please welcome h foley welcome to the honeydew buddy i got this dude i love the mugs love the class class oh i'm trying to get us to do it for like a year just so you could do the sip. You know what I mean? Yeah, but you know what else makes me laugh? That that's what we think is classic.

Mugs. Mugs. He's drinking out of a cereal bowl. I'll be honest with you. Back in the feast days, we had mugs, but they would break a lot during shipping. We were like, what do people use that's lightweight and won't break? And we were like, koozies's lightweight and won't break and we were like koozies bro koozies do you have are you garbage we have about 12 cases of a thousand koozies all

right good that we that we bought and we're supposed to sell but you want the road but you want mugs love them the mug on the on the set that's old school johnny yeah that's class that's class put a little gin in it um so before we get started today please plug promote everything anything that you would like yeah are you garbage we do uh two public episodes a week on youtube anywhere you get your pods uh we also have a real fun patreon where we put a lot into a lot of behind the scenes stuff going through each other's houses stuff on the road yeah i like seeing you guys out there set those fucking bars like look man if we hit this level yeah this is what's gonna happen yeah and i like that you're putting i like that you're not just taking from the people that you're putting back into it and getting out there and engaging we're dumping

everything we have it's great it's great but yeah they took me to disney world because i've never been for the first time how's it that's a childhood trauma all my other cousins going to disney world and i'm sitting home like a dickhead like this fuck yeah i hated this for the longest time 47 so the first time you went was just like 40s 47 yeah man sometimes it takes a while to close a wound. You know what I'm saying? Let me tell you something. When I saw that Magic Kingdom, I was like, eee. Try to get goofy to give me a hug. Tell me everything was going to be okay. And we're on tour. We're on tour right now.

We're doing the Stay Trashy Tour stand-up comedy. Plus, we play a little Are You Garbage with the crowd at the end. Real fun time. Yeah. Here in L.A., we did the Regent Theater. Unbelievable. Yeah. Good for you guys. Thanks it's been we love seeing it it's been long overdue i know the god last time it was shit over a year or so ago we were out here yeah and i couldn't get you no it's all good man um it all happens for a reason it does right yeah like disney world

it comes around so i want to talk about that It was meant that I couldn't fit on Magic Kingdom or whatever it was. Space Mountain. Dude, I was hanging out. I think I was on a sidecar. Did you get on everything? We only did. We did the roller coaster at the Safari Kingdom. And then we did Space Mountain.

And then the other ones were the Star Wars ones where, you know, they're planning for larger client. Yeah, they are. You know what I mean? If you can't fit in the Millennium Falcon, you got bigger problems. Listen, man, if you're bigger than Chewbacca, get the fuck out of here. Space can't hold your ass. You wouldn't fit on the Death Star? What the fuck?

Yeah, but it started sinking. Man, that thing sucked into the gravitational space mountain i was hanging out of it hanging out of it dude were you really it's a wild whips and shit like that i thought for sure that i was gonna fucking get taken out by something some animatronic arm just fucking slings my throat but my knees were popped out like i was sitting like this like a cartoon brutal but it's funny shit my favorite ride there still one of them is peter pan did you get on any of the kid

ones no peter pan's the shit bro we got my it got ruined because it's so funny that of course it happens like this but my mother and i didn't speak for 25 almost like 30 years we reconnect after my daughter she comes out wants to take her to disneyland okay i'll go to disneyland and i asked my buddy who's from high school whose daughter he he happens to live out here in temeca i'm like will you just come and go with us and just offer a little bit be a buffer gotcha be nice to because he'll talk i don't have to you know carry the conversation and we get on the peter pan ride and it's just like a little cart track in the air. And you fly.

And you're seeing everything. Never land down here. Shit. We go take this fucking turn, dude. And all of a sudden, boom. And then we're just sitting there. And they're like, please stay in your seats. We have a technical difficulty.

And I'm like, oh, fuck, man. Were you sitting next to your mom? My daughter was in the middle always. And they turn the fucking lights on, and they ruin it. You see the guys are down there. Oh, shit. They're down there working. You can't help it.

The whole lights are on. Our buddy. Danny, what'd you get into last night? Ah, this fucking broad was. How you doing, kid? Good to see you. Sorry about that. Sorry about that, sir.

Just need some more pixie dust out here. My buddy and his daughter are just like it's a turnaround. They're just on the other side of this wall. And I'm like, Jimmy. He's like, we're right here. I'm like, I can't even see him. You know what I mean? So now I'm hanging.

We're in there for like 20 minutes. And I haven't talked to this lady. And we're just hanging uncomfortably in the Peter Pan ride with the lights on. Finally, they get us going. And then they let us all get right back on and then go back through again. I was like, you son of a bitch. Man, I would have never done that again. Yeah.

Fool me once. Get jammed up up there. So tell me, where are you from originally? I was born in upstate Pennsylvania in a city called Wilkes-Barre. Okay. Wilkes-Barre, Scrantonkes-Barre, Scranton. I mean, I have family in Scranton. Yeah, so the two cities next to each other.

I was born up there, and until I was in about second grade, we lived up in a place called Mountaintop. So this is – I was born in 76, so we're talking – this is right as the 80s are starting to turn. My dad was in the navy he was in vietnam and then got into the navy drove truck for a little bit and my mom just did like um you know she worked like the gap or something so he was able to you know support everybody and we're talking like something that steven spielberg would would lay out for a set. It was a new development. It was all new families. It was real quiet. It was real borderline country, and it was fucking awesome. Big wheels, driving big wheels in the

middle of the street. I remember sitting in the street, just smelling the asphalt in the middle of the summer, just picking at tar like a little fat kid the middle of the street never thought of a car driving by or running me over or anything so it was awesome babysitters cousins lived next door right next door okay so you got extended family all right great do you have brothers and sisters i do i have one older brother he's 18 months older than me oh wow so we're kind of irish twins yeah so you have pretty much somebody growing up that was your age right in the house oh yeah to fucking battle with every single day every day yeah 100 yeah it was wild but we did that then we moved into wilkes-barre for a little bit um what did your um parents do for a living my dad was in the navy my dad was a was a recruiter and a reserve recruiter for 26 years

and he did that all was a success rate what was his batting average oh he did what doing top gun came out he didn't even need to do anything fucking printing money you kidding me that's when you all moved to the new development yeah dude i didn't even realize it until the one came out last year when when the new one came out last year it like clicked in my head and i remember i was like dad was Dad, did that make it easy for you? He was like, ah, we were fucking printing money. Are you kidding me? All you had to do was walk in with those sunglasses on, and they'd be lining up.

Yeah, it was fucking. He would travel a lot, though. He would go from Wilkes-Barre to New York and Philly and blah, blah, blah. So he was away most of the week. So he wasn't just one of these guys you see at the shopping mall back in the day where it was that recruiter sits there and you got to walk in. No, no, no, no. He's actually out there recruiting.

They were hustling. Yeah. And then he got stationed in kind of a stationary spot in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, where he kind of finished up his uh his career there um so if he's doing traveling a little bit for work what's mom doing she just home taking care of everything with us yeah she's dealing with us and we were outwardly everybody thought we were the sweetest kids because they were you know my parents were fucking awesome and they were you know you'd be polite you'd be respectful you don't cause trouble you don't do this and a lot of that was anxiety driven on their part and like so if we went to

now if i go to a restaurant i have such social anxiety about not knocking anything over not being a problem not spilling anything is the card gonna go through you know what i mean do we have enough money this that don't get that one soda and internally though we were fucking maniacs i mean we we caught my inside that oh the three of us in that house on a wednesday night in the winter with fucking uh why does it got to be the winter specific i always just feel like it was the winter it was freezing outside she's ripping heaters in there, screaming at us. I wouldn't do my homework. My brother was like, your mom would smoke in the house.

Oh, everybody was. Your dad smoked. Oh, everybody crushing. I remember being in the back of a Jeep Wagoneer in like 1981 in a car seat that had like a bungee cord. I really just straight plastic. Like I knew then this thing's not going to. That was more than most parents care, though. Yeah, it was.

Dude, this is not going to save me. And driving through the snow and both my parents in the front with the windows up and the heat blasting, just crushing heaters. And even as a little kid, I was like, this can't be good for me. But, yeah, we were up there for a while. And then we moved. My mom's side of the family was from down outside of Philadelphia and like this really awesome suburban area that every time we'd go down to visit, I'd be like, fuck, like

I thought they were everybody was rich, you know. So then we moved down there and it was it was awesome. And it was it was always awesome. And I had a I had a good childhood, which is crazy why I'm so fucked up. You know what I mean? There was a lot of like the anxiety and the social anxiety and the, you know, the dysfunction inside the family. But I mean, my parents did everything for us. They fucking were so loving and so awesome, so supportive about sports or anything you want to do um they were just fucking they were cool they were crazy uh they were they affectionate were

they lovey-dovey were they or were they just like did they seem more professional i can tell you this i my parents split early but i can i only remember seeing my parents hug once. Okay. Never hold hands. Okay. Never kiss. They were hot and cold once. They were hot and cold. They were very, I don't want to say passionate, but they were, I mean, we were all fucking nuts.

So, you know, my mom would start in with something and, you know, he would be tired and they get into an argument or we would cause a fight. That's what a lot of it was. A lot of their fights a lot of it was a lot of their fights were because of us a lot of their fights were because of me let's be honest i would cause fucking trouble and then it would ripple through the household and then me and my brother are fighting and then they would get into a fight and then that would last um sundays were always like a big fight day. I don't know Sundays, but always, always. And I was just finally home from the road. Your mom's had enough of these motherfuckers for the week. It's your goddamn turn.

You do some shit about it. I mean, no, they were always like a good nucleus. But like we were for as like hardworking as we became. We were very lazy when it came to like you know make cleaning like me especially cleaning my room raking the leaves but i mean listen i i hear that about but what kid isn't no kid i know but what kid do you know is like i can't wait to get out there and rake the leaves you're like fuck these leaves yeah but what it teaches you in the end is hard work it's hustle it's do your chores it's you know just create a

structure all that shit is responsibility but i was evil about it ryan i was evil i'd fake heart attacks fucking walking i just got my period how old are you having a heart attack dude i would do anything so that would be that would be the start of it all. All right. And we'd always do great family stuff. Like Sunday when my dad would make a big breakfast, we'd go to church, come back, big breakfast. Yeah, you got to fight on a full stomach. You know what I mean? Sunday.

Watch the Stooges together, and then it would just slowly devolve to the rest of the day. All right, you guys got to go out and rake the leaves. We'd cause a fight about that. Then they would get in a fight about that. And then they'd be yelling back and forth then my dad starts cooking dinner he's back there burning himself is that the other thing he was a great cook they were just hot they're high we're high strung and then we would the fight would blow up it would get resolved and then the affection

and the snuggles and i love yous and all that kind of stuff would always it was always like that they're always they always got to that point always got to that not all right fuck you guys we're out of here no yeah i mean my dad pulled out a couple of times where i was like oh he ain't coming back really and i was there honestly standing there looking at the porch is like i don't blame the motherfucker i would have been fucking gone gone with what we you know what i mean and that's all in the house outwardly you know all the boys are so good yeah you know they're doing good in sports and you know your brother's such so smart and all that kind of stuff but it was fucking chaos and first time you remember like your dad leaving where you think like legit he might not come back christmas 1982

this is again this is me whatever year lionel richie's all night long came out i think that was the album the one that had hello on it yeah with a blind chick yes yes touching the so whatever year that came out because my dad had gotten my mom that album for christmas and christmas morning you know again a lot of a lot of stress you know you you got your pajamas the night before the new pajamas so when you come down the steps we'll take the pictures you unwrap everything are you still believing in san at this point? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

I'm locked in. I was petrified, too. Yeah. So that caused me a lot of anxiety. I didn't like I was always really scared at night as a scared kid. Used to sleep with my brother all the time. But Easter and Christmas, as much as I love Santa Claus, loved everything about Christmas, the thought of a fucking dude who may or may not have supernatural powers

coming into my house in the middle of the night. I would lay there and look at the crack in my door where the hall light was on in the dark. And I would just imagine seeing this fucking this old man fucking peek in with a fucking straggly beard. I fucking hated it. Hate. And the Easter Bunny, dude, with the fucking teeth that would rip you to shreds i don't care how much fucking you're bringing no no kid see this is the way i look at some of this shit like santa is real

that's what i tell my daughter but i'm like that easter bunny's bullshit some of you got a sacrifice you know i mean they can't all be real. That motherfucker's lying. Two-finger's real. Santa's real. That motherfucking Easter Bunny's bullshit. She said to me one time, she's like, you been to CVS before? You seen the candy?

You know where it's coming from? She goes, Dad, does the Easter Bunny drive a car? I go, no. She goes, man, that's a lot of hopping. Called a DUI a couple years ago. I was like, that's a motherfucker, right? Yep, he did. He got arrested on the side of the road

fuck the eastern body but no it was uh it was christmas it was the christmas that album came out and um and my they spoiled us they didn't have a lot of money a lot of things were you know my mother was a genius at juggling credit cards and credit card payments and fucking power bill payments and everything. It was a fucking house of cards that just never fell. And they would always do a really good job to try to give us great Christmases, whatever we wanted and shit like that. But I don't know. For some reason that year, my brother got this one fucking airplane that I just kept playing with,

and I wouldn't stop and wouldn't stop. And eventually we got into a fucking thing. The RC plane or was it? No, it was just like, do you remember the GI Joe F-14? Yeah. It was like that, but it wasn't. It was just like a knockoff, like a Fisher Price jet fighter. And I just fucking just wouldn't stop.

And then we got into a fight and my mom's yelling. And then my, you know, then I hear them yelling, well, why why didn't you get him this and then that started a huge fucking fight and then i don't know sometime in the afternoon my dad just fucking came down got in the car and dipped might have just went to the store or something like that but to me he was gone for fucking four hours and my mom just laid in the living room listening to Hello over and over again. And I remember fucking being like, man, I just broke up my fucking family. You know? And eventually he came rolling back in.

He always came back. He always came back. Does that song, you feel a certain way when you hear that song to any time today? I like it. It's all right. It's a catchy tune. Shout out to Lionel Richie. Little All Night Long never hurt anybody good stuff dude i fucking i've been working on this story on stage but i um this is kind of you mentioned lionel ritchie so years ago many many

many years ago um getting out of this relationship but it was one of those relationships that i've been in too many times where things just got bad and you're, you know, you need to go, but you haven't done it yet. You're staying and you're trying to, and like you're getting out of there.

And I had finally, that's my whole life. And the relationship, because now I have that thing from my parents. You don't leave. You don't leave. Yeah. Yeah.

If they have your back, you don't leave. So she didn't. So I'm getting out. But it was also, it wasn't ugly in the sense that, like, it was one of those, like, I'm free. I'm glad. I'm not devastated. This is long overdue.

Good for you. You're finally stepping up and doing this for yourself. That is the best feeling. You think it's going to be, I'm going to miss her. you're finally stepping up and that is the best feeling you think it's going to be i'm going to miss her and then all of a sudden there's that one saturday where there's a crisp in the air and you don't no one's breaking your balls you have everything in front of you you have to fall in love again to kiss again the whole nine yards and that saturday that you're talking about my friend hits me up and she's coming in from new york and she's like hey and she's been talking to me about this the whole thing and i'm like did it finally done she's like i happen to's coming in from New York and she's like, hey, and she's been talking to me about this the whole thing.

And I'm like, did it, finally done. She's like, I happen to be coming in. I'm going to bring the company card. We're getting sushi at Koi on La Cienega. Meet me there. And I'm like, you got it. And back at the time, I had my 1990 Honda Civic with original rims. And I lived in the valley in Sherman Oaks.

Original rims. Original rims. rims and i lived in that in there sherman original rims and i drive my civic up and over the canyon and down into hollywood and the whole time i'm listening to lionel richie and the commodores um sail on okay best breakup so it's not a sad song he's like look man shit's not working out i'm giving you back your name is you know good for you get the fuck out of here yeah nobody did breakup songs nobody like no especially like ronald rich oh forget it and i'm i'm singing this thing at the top of my lungs over and over all the way to the restaurant we get to the restaurant we have a great meal and at the end of dinner she's like i'm gonna pay the bill and i'll

meet you out at valet i said i'm gonna use the restroom i go in the restroom take a leak i'm washing my hands i go to grab a paper towel and as i turn around the fucking door opens up and h foley in walks lionel motherfucking richie i swear to god and i say on stage like i was as surprised as he was when i said ryan o'renchie like i shit myself okay because he and then right away i sort of like i was like i'm sorry i don't mean to cost you an amendment she ripped my heart out man i loved her but i told him i go look man i'm i know you're about to use the restroom but i just the reason i react that way is because i was singing sail on the whole way over.

I just got out of this relationship. I'm feeling good about myself. And he was so goddamn nice. That's awesome. I love hearing that, man. That's great. That's great. Chats me up for a minute about it.

Then I leave. He does whatever the fuck he does. I'm out front and I'm waiting with her valet. And then he walks out. I don't know why he said it like this, but when he walked, he saw me. Took her back, huh? He's like,

that quick? That didn't last long. He said, good to see you, Ryan. But he'd know me forever. Honest to God, I didn't know what to do and I just said, alright, Lionel. Game line one of those and he just sailed on into the night bro all right now your mom's crying the whole love oh dude it was brutal so good yeah i thought you were going to go another direction with that because i remember when i first moved i thought she was going to be

there or something like that you were gonna walk out and all the confidence and all the excitement was gonna lionel richie fucking walked in that bathroom i still i was like get the fuck out yeah because i had a breakup uh in new york deserved 100 um but it fucking devastated me and i stayed in for like you know like a couple months. I like wouldn't go out, wouldn't do anything. All that stuff, trying to get her back, calling her, all that kind of stuff. Fucking nothing.

Um, and it finally got to a point where like her mom talked to my mom, like, listen, it's over and blah, blah, blah, and all that stuff. So finally my buddy's like, dude, you got to get back out there. You got to not like get back out there, but you got to get the fuck out of your apartment yeah um and he's like come on we're gonna go to dinner i'm like dude i don't want to go i don't want this is in new york i'm like i don't want to go to dinner i don't want to see her they get what the fuck is wrong with you it's a fucking city nine million people you're not gonna fucking see her so we go out and it's like me him and a couple of his friends and we're like at like a long table. And like, I didn't really know anybody.

So I was just fucking sitting there like a dork. Fucking sure. Shit. I look up. No. And fucking looking in the like at like where the, you know, the menu is, is fucking her and some guy. Oh, and then I just fucking hear on my head. Hello.

Just fucking devastated. Devastated. And I'm like, fucking look. And he turns around and he's like oh fuck that sucks and I like walked out there to see her but she was gone ain't no Lionel Richie out there I'll tell you that Ryan I could have used him

where the fuck are the Commodores I would have took a pimp it could be somebody first fucking Barry White when you need him big man don't worry about her oh man that's brutal yeah i had a couple of those where i fucked up the relationship really bad couple of those same dude yeah i don't know anybody that hasn't though there's there's people out there that fucked up relationship yeah we all fuck them up some people

i i mean i don't mean it but because we were that for someone but some people are like practice people what do you mean like like you don't it's a practice you don't mean to you think it might be forever but it ends up just being practice for the next thing sure like we were practice i was i'm sure i know i was some sort of practice person for somebody else yes i always had that like fucking you know blue collar bruce springsteen like we're in it together i love you baby no matter what no matter what we're riding down thunder road together and that always led to fucking because it's the wrong devastation sure the wrong so yeah but that's i learned that you know what i mean yeah that back in the day. Not that I would, you know, I wouldn't take anything.

I wouldn't, I mean, you know, would you change anything? I don't know. I'd always want to be a Foley, though. I can tell you that because they're a fucking, they're a fun group of psychos. Same, dude. I say all the time, if I could come back as anybody else, I would genuinely come back as myself again. I've been as much.

Or the next generation, like come back as your grandkid yeah but back in this family yeah 100 for sure and i know that's just because that's how we were you know that's all we know but i swear to god i really believe that like i would always want to i'd always want to come back a foley yeah you know what i mean it's been fun it's been ugly but it's been fun yeah 100 um well speaking of ugly we were talking before the show and i and you mentioned that you lost a best friend yeah and it was your first best friend first best friend and i was like how old were you and what'd you say kindergarten we were at nom together ryan i was fucking think it steves of this kid yeah that's that kind of

fucking set the tone what do you remember about that like you he was your buddy in the neighborhood and he was at school that that mid mountaintop fucking red maple ave um you know just fucking like a late 70s early 80s fucking postcard all right and every day fucking see him and fucking you know pictures me and him and just we were just boys you know what i mean i was obviously tight with my brother and everybody but my brother had like you know since he was older he had his best friend and i had my best friend and my cousin had his best friend and all that stuff and we were just over each other's house all the time, over his grandmother's all the time. Just like those endless fucking days of summer. Even that young, they seemed like millennium.

You know what I mean? And then fucking one day, I go to his house and I knock on the door. And I think I remember these beats specifically. And I knock on his door and his mom just comes out. He's like, oh, no, Robbie, you can't come out and play today. I'm like, fuck, whatever. I don't know. And I remember walking down the front steps, like a little sidewalk,

hopping on my fucking big wheel and fucking just peddling home. And was that the first time that you got like a he can't come out? First time I got that he can't. So I'm in kinder. I couldn't comprehend in a billion years. Yeah yeah i figured he got pinched for something or something like that i got jammed up in there and i did that my mom told me this uh the extent of this uh a couple years later that i did that for i did that every day for like two months i just kept going to his house.

But the mom always just kept saying he can't come out. He can't come out today. He can't come out today. And after two months, she called my mom and said, hey, you can't have him. My mom knew, you know, once something like that happens in a small neighborhood, everybody knows, hey, Robbie, he had cancer. It's also every parent's worst nightmare. I couldn't even imagine. They're dying thinking about what everybody else is. Yeah, my fat ass is showing up fucking every day.

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And that was like a very, not tumultuous time, but like my cousins had moved a couple months earlier. So that whole existence left. And that was a very close relative of my mom. And they had three kids. And we were just like a little fucking squad. They moved. And then shortly after that, we moved into closer to Wilkes-Barre. after that, we moved into closer to Wilkes-Barre. And just being a little kid, I just kind of not forgot about them, but just, you know, things were just moving. And then I remember, I think like

that might've been in the fall or something like that. And this would have been in the summer, I think. We were just driving one day, just me and my mom. We were driving by this place where my dad plays softball. And, uh, they had just gone to a funeral like two weeks before. And when we moved closer to Wilkes-Barre, we had all my older cousins. I had four of the coolest guy, older cousins that we looked up to and fucking loved. And they would always babysit us. Whenever my mom did something or whatever they would just come in throw a huge raging party they were all in high school they'd roll in a keg of beer and

it would just be fucking chaos make me and my brother fight in a pit like it was the fucking dude it was the best so anytime that happened i didn't care what it was right i knew you know fucking cousin duck or cousin flo was gonna show up with a fucking squad and a couple of cheerleaders for a little eye candy for the big man so i was fucking cool with it and like i remember i was so excited that he got there and like we walked up to like turkey hill like this this uh like food market we got like candy and shit like that and it was like the best time ever and that's can i just for like walking to the store when you were a kid. Buddy.

Just that. Buddy. And getting baseball cards or candy or a soda. Two, three bucks on you. Ice cream. Let's go. Yeah. And then you're going back home like, fuck yeah, man.

Yeah. Let's go. That was such a good time as a kid. Just that dumb shit. Yeah. Walk to the store. Yeah. It was the best.

Fucking goofing around you got a stick in your hand nothing going on sun going down just fucking yeah like a like a valentine it was wild but then a week later i was driving with my mom and i was like uh just out of nowhere just popped in my house like mom when can we go up to mountaintop and see Robbie again and fucking heater gets fucking the heater gets smushed out in the ashtray in the car mid-sig

and when that happened you knew it was something serious and it was a hundred dude I got I got something to lay on you the radio gets turned down dude short of just pulling over to the side of the road and giving me one of these I got something to lay on you. The radio gets turned down. Fucking dude. Shorty just pulling over to the side of the road and give me one of these. So she's like, do you remember the funeral we went to a week ago?

And I'm like, yeah, of course. Fucking cousin Joe came. Best day of my life. What are you talking about, man? Fucking yeah. Fucking got gobstoppers and fucking Laffy Taff. I remember it. what are you talking about i think that was i think that was the first time i saw the the bubble gum in the in the milk

cartons remember the little like fruity bubble gum i just told my daughter about the milk cartons and uh do you remember the hamburger and the actual it was actual styrofoam dude and i was telling her my brother blew a bubble one time so big and it popped and it sucked back over his face and he had to get his head shaved to get all the fucking gum out. I gummed my hair a couple of times. A lot of peanut butter fucking getting clubbed in there. Listen, she just said that. She goes, you know, peanut butter gets gum out of your hair. I go, no.

We didn't know that. Where the fuck were you? We're buzzing it off like that. We were peanut butter heavy. Plus, we got lice. That worked? Yeah, it worked. Yeah.

No shit. I was just thinking, we got lice twice, which was weird for a kid. We got lice two times, me and my brother. You know, we got mites, which is kind of the same thing. We got it from playing indoor soccer, and they never changed the turf. So you're going down on this turf where- Mites. Yeah, mites.

It's like a body. Sickler boys got term termites god damn it so yeah you're ready we're the dermatologist and it's my turn to come in and see the dermatologist and my dad's already sitting there because it was my brother that got it and my dad goes bad news we got mites and i say what the house what are you talking about i could have sworn i heard scratching and in front of the dermatologist he goes why do you have to be an asshole i said what are you talking about he's like it's not termites we're at a dermatologist right now we're not at the fucking there's a leak in the bathroom too i didn't want to tell you i was like that's when

i learned what mites were i'm like we basically got body crabs is that what the fuck you're saying no more sleepovers for a few weeks everything Oh, you're out. Yeah, everything's getting washed and burned. Man. Dude. Lice. Yeah, never got that, but got the mites. Yeah, lice twice. Once ruined Fourth of July.

Driving home, getting yelled at. I don't know why, because we had lice. Fucking fireworks going off in the distance. And we're up in the bathroom, and she's got that lice comb. Fucking. She's husking corn. Fucking just ripping scalp out but she fucking hit me and she's like uh and she you know my mom do you remember how she said it um just just straight up just fucking hit me with it and my i'm super close with my mother super close super close with my dad and they're fucking they're you know the best like literally the best.

And, you know, they've always been very with all the rough edges and the fighting and the dysfunction, super loving. Like, I could go back there now. I could go to my mom's house now and live there for the rest of my life if I want it. You know what I mean? Cutlets, laundry, the whole nine yards, which some would say is it was a detriment to why I'm such a fucking pussy. But either way, the cutties are hot.

You know what I mean? So that's how I do. They're cool as shit like that. But yeah, she was just like, you know, that funeral we went to. I remember exactly. Do you remember that funeral we went to a week ago? That was Robbie's. He passed away.

And that was it. And then fucking a heater came out. The radio went back up. We were coming yeah fucking lionel getting me three times son of a bitch we go back to the house and uh i remember i just went up into my room and i had this picture of me and him like something out of back to the future you know the back to the future picture with the brother and the sister yeah it's literally eating and so i got a philly shirt on i got a fucking jean jacket pair of jeans he's got a fucking like

penn state sweatshirt on and it's just fucking me and him like fucking buddies in a foxhole just fucking smiling and hugging and i fucking stared at that thing for fucking, man, what felt like days. And just that's when it started to all. That's when I realized nobody had died up until then, except people that had passed before I could remember. Like my mom's mom had passed away. But up until that, I was somewhat clean. And her dad passed away when she was uh when she was young which that kind of leaked in into us you know that trauma leaked into us a little bit

but this was the first fucking hit and it was a fucking kid you know what i mean so that's when i realized like oh fuck you know i'm gonna die we're all gonna die and death always became a fucking you know like it is with everybody. Just fucking just brutal. And then a few months later, I think my grandfather died. Or maybe my grandfather might have passed a few months before. So that was like a double hit. Was that your mom's dad?

It was my dad's. Do you remember seeing him? No, I got that. I fucking answered the phone, though. He died. They were super close and fucking you know you asked me before why why do i go by h foley and not henry um so when i was a little kid i had this like wooden plaque hanging over my crib and over my like my first little bed that said h period foley in wood it was one of those wood shop johns that one of my cousins had made for

my grandfather uh because i'm named after him he's henry william foley i'm henry william foley so when you know he passed and all that stuff that you know that was my inheritance that's your heirloom wood shop other people get fucking life insurance wills that's what i got hypertension factor five light and a soapbox car nothing yeah you got a you got an heirloom wooden piece yeah uh which just hangs in my nephew's room now because he's he's an h um but uh i couldn't read it or understand it you know what i mean because it was in like that dark wood and it wasn't they didn't do a great job be honest with you they weren't the best in wood shop so it was it would just look like a like a like a dark piece of wood and then when i finally figured out that oh h foley h foley that's for you know what i mean as a little kid so i always told myself that that's what that's

what i would use you know kind of in honor of him plus i like the way it sounds but my dad was super close with him man your dad and h foley as well no no he was terry okay terrence michael um but they were super close and this was around the rob the robbie time like i can't really remember but i remember my dad took his death really really hard because we we had this bar downstairs that he had made and we were having like a again like a christmas party or something like that and i was sitting on the bar like on the bar facing in and you know he was always a fucking rock you never saw any emotion other than don't do that what are you doing and you know whatever or you know a little bit of paranoia but you never saw crying or anything like that and he just see

he just was sitting there standing there and like you know there's a full party going on he had his head in between my lap and i'm like daddy what's the matter he just said i miss pop rip your heart out brutal so yeah best friend grandfather bang bang there you go yeah i um my grandmother was our mom basically and she was i remember you telling us that yeah she died and i remember a moment at my younger brother's wedding my twin brother is not like nothing he's zero emotion zero he'll call me and say something like you should have seen your niece at this dance recital today almost cried he'll you know what i mean like he'll never let himself it ain't those are the guys that when they do when when they go, everybody's going.

It's like that one viral video where the guy's like, he just fucking lets out 40 years of crying. Dude, when those, because I've been in situations where, like, I did see my dad actually cry. You did? Oh, man. It was. Tell me about the first time you remember seeing your dad cry.

I remember that. This is going to be another real humdinger, and I apologize. I apologize to everybody. This is what this story is. I mean, this show is, dude. Tune into the crying fat guy show, everybody. I'm going to fucking fill my water. We had a situation in our family where one of our cousins had a new baby,

Sid's, right away. I've done benefits for that. And that was a fucking shockwave through the family. And that was the first time I ever saw my dad. And I think I was probably maybe 11 or 12 at the time, maybe 13. And, yeah, never seeing him or my uncles or anybody like that ever fucking break down. And man, they were fucking grown men.

They realized the gravity of the situation, and it fucking shook the shit out of them. And fucking, like I'm saying, when they start crying, everybody's fucking crying. Yeah. Yeah. Fucking brutal. I don't know. It's something about a man crying makes me cry more oh you know when i'm see a dude kind of like oh it's a bitch crying man yeah yeah especially when you like respect them and you know they don't cry yeah

whoo but i remember but then they throw on field of dreams they're all fucking yeah let's go i uh at my brother's wedding so this they have this you know video on and my grandmother pops up and my brother looks at me he's like i miss grandmom and i mean this is like that's the mo and i was and i see him tear up and stuff and i was like me too dude and i just let myself cry and i'm like he's just over there all watered up. I'm like, did you just sneeze or are you feeling something deep here right now? You know what I mean? Like, it's motherfucker. Man.

Statue-esque. Yeah. So I want to talk to you a little bit about this because you said your father just passed and you've just started talking about it. Yeah, he passed in September of last year. So a year ago. Year ago. Sick for a little while. From what?

He got... So he was in Vietnam, and he got Parkinson's and something called Lewy Body's disease. What's that one? It's like a form of dementia, and it's one of the diseases that if you were in Vietnam during that time

when they used Agent Orange, which he was, he was fucking in the thick of it. That was something that could happen. So they figure and we have no history of any of that in our family or anything like anything like that. So he got fucking he got that shit from from from Agent Orange fucking slowly snuck up on him. So how old was he when things started affecting his body that way? I would say probably 68, if I'm right or wrong. I could be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure he was 72 when he died. And I think it was about a three or four year situation.

You know, the hand started going a little bit. And then what got him was the Louis bodies. It just fucking, it just shuts your bodies down. Don't quote me on this, but it's something about some kind of protein in your brain that attaches itself to something. And it slowly just fucking, you know, stops everything from working. But, yeah, so that was, I would say that really started to hit before the pandemic. Maybe sometime in 2019, he didn't tell anybody about it for a while. He just started seeing shit.

All right. Now, we were kids from the war. Every once in a while, if my mom wasn't home, he would turn off all the lights in the house. No. Oh, yeah. He would turn off all the lights in the house. I'm talking the funnest fucking guy. We're playing guns.

We're running around. We're fucking making popcorn. We're fucking hanging out. We're playing Atari together, all that stuff. And every once in a while, fucking all the lights in the house, the floodlights would go up up and he'd make me and my brother sit in the little picture window and look just look out for how long just for like you know an hour we never you know i mean till he felt like everything was cool was he right there with you yeah he would sit there with us damn i'm thinking he's out of patrol no i'd be out smoking a joint out back like he's motherfuckers alone look out out here I think what a

we think what a patrol he's out there look at it he's got the Galinsky kid jacked up against a fucking wall you fucking VC you son of a bitch fucking playing Russian I deliver your newspaper Mr. Foley take it easy

I got your newspaper, Mr. Foley. Take it easy. I got your grass. You have two kids who are fine. I borrowed your wife's line on Richie's CD. Don't you remember? No. He was stationed on a PBR base, the little boats. And when he first got there in 1971, there was like 1,500 American soldiers soldiers on his base the fucking like the army was across the delta all that stuff the last few months that he was there it was him and 15 guys

they had pulled out they had you know whatever moved the thing and it was them training the south vietnamese how to use all this stuff and the the fear of being they were 40 miles south of the demilitarized zone. And the fear, I think the main thing, they weren't like in the shit, but getting overrun every night, I think was a thing. And I think that translated into that kind of behavior where like sometimes he would just wake up in the middle of the night,

turn all the floodlights on and just fucking look out and we'd come down or if the dog started barking out there or something like that. So he would would do shit like that so there was there was a little bit of that in it and the way i kind of uh analyze it or deal with it i feel like the symptoms you get from that shit is stuff that is things that were rooted in you your whole life like if you're an anxious person or whatever because you started seeing like real fucked up shit so was it always war related or was it just

everywhere no no no so so the the way we kind of all found out about it was uh at work he was he was he sold insurance after retire after he retired from the Navy, worked with two guys, real great guys. They were real tight, small little all state office. All of a sudden he would just be looking out the window and be like, you see those people in those cars? And he did that a couple of times to where the boys were like, something's going on here. And then one day he like wouldn't let it go. He's like, there's people in those cars.

You don't see those people in those cars. There's people in those cars. And then he called my mom and my mom was like what the fuck so it turns out like a year before that my dad said he was sitting there one night you know because he doesn't say anything or want to go to the doctor or anything like that it's fine everything's fine he's like i was looking out the window and i saw like this like big pop of light like big flashes of light or something like that. And, you know, you should have done something about it.

Not that it would have helped him, but, you know, do you let it go or whatever? Or just, you know, kind of ignored it. And then when that happened, then they went and they, you know, saw the neurologist and the VA and all this stuff. And, you know, months of a process. So they figured out it was Parkinson's and Lewy bodies. Then he started getting the shakes and shit like that. And then, uh, right before the pandemic, he was just a little slow. You know what I mean? A little, you know, a little, a little groggy, a little slow, not as sharp. And that's why as fucked up as it is the time that I got to, cause when the pandemic

hit, uh, I stayed in New York for March and April. You know what I mean? Just because that was when it was like super, super fucking tight. And then June or May, June, July, we went down to my parents. And it was literally our own little world. The happiest I've ever been. Just being able to, you know, literally just everything that i've ever wanted right there being just them two fucking being able to spend time with him you know going for walks with him going you know just also at that point he could still get around he could still get around a

little bit yeah there was starting to be some you know help him up help him this you know things were starting to get into that phase, into that zone, where last summer that zone hit really hard. He was going to physical therapy. And I think in February of 2022 of last year, he just came out of physical therapy and he just fell and they couldn't get him up. His legs just, that was it. The brain wasn't saying no more.

No more. It was done so they took him home they got him they got him in bed and stuff like that and then the next morning like like my brother and my cousin had to come and you know help him up and all that stuff and then the next morning the same thing happened again and that was uh the start of fucking just the fucking worst of the worst that wheelchair bound now that was that was hospital that was hospice care in our in our in our in our this first floor of our house oh but was that was his den that was his fireplace that's his fucking tv fucking his i'd rather be there than some

hospital buddy and that's why i said before if they got your back you don't leave and fucking patty foley showed that i mean she always did but if they got your back, you don't leave. And fucking Patty Foley showed that. I mean, she always did, but she had his fucking back because, you know, he had hospice care. He had hospice nurses, all that stuff. But she was fucking round the clock. Everything you can imagine of that situation. She did. Hundred percent.

Yeah. And, you know, I was home a lot. My brother was over there a lot and it was just this you know just this year period of uh you know just around the clock fucking taking care of him which you know if he knew what was going on because at a certain point you know he started to whatever it just got just slowly got worse and worse and worse and worse and worse he wouldn't have wanted it he wouldn't you know just fucking kill me that's probably what he would have fucking said um and there were a lot of times where you know like me and my brother would just not discuss that but but like he would fucking hate this he would hate that some lady's fucking

changing his diaper and that fucking you know fucking peggy from down the street is standing at the foot of his bed like oh you're a little trooper get the fuck out of here yeah you know fucking peggy from down the street is standing at the foot of his bed like oh you're a little trooper get the fuck out of here yeah you know all that stuff would have hated it but obviously the alternative wasn't fucking you know realistic we're not in fucking we're not in laos you know what i mean just kill me man yeah so you know that was was it's fucked up, but it was like a real this. It was like a real beautiful time. That's nice. We never had patience as Foley's. Never impatient.

Fighting back and forth that over a very, very long period of time. Eventually, kind of in that moment, taught us patients to be patient to not get frustrated with them and not get frustrated with my mom which we did you know what i mean and her not to get frustrated with us and this and that so it was uh it was it was a real fucked up weird thing and then um we uh we were on tour at the time and he was they were all they're always my whole life We were on tour at the time, and they're always my whole life job, sports, career, fucking whatever. That comes first.

They would never want us to miss anything because, no, no, no. You go. You made an album. You go. So we had this leg of the tour in, I want to say, where's Springfield? Missouri? Yes. Illinois. Yeah, we were Missouri.

And it was looking pretty dicey. You know what I mean? They were getting close. It's crazy. The hospice nurses. I don't know if you ever dealt with them. They know. They fucking know.

They could tell by the way the toenails look like, oh, he's starting to go. Yeah. Wild. But we had like a four day run coming up up and it was like he probably ain't gonna be here wait for you if you leave and every go you gotta go that's your fucking you know the thing that you know and they my my dad got to see us i wanted to ask you ever get to see you perform oh yeah he got to he got to come to the to the last show we did in uh in philly you know we you know sold out a comedy club that you know wouldn't pass us fucking 10 years before we

fucking sold it out our fans are fucking the absolute fucking best they got to see us yeah he got to see us build the show and you know all those fucking years that he saw me struggle and fucking all this stuff he got to you know he got to see it happen and shit like that and you know he was a huge fan of the show and fucking kippy and fucking this and that it was kippy doing and all that stuff because that's what he would when he was home you know they'd watch they you know of course they'd watch they'd watch are you garbage sit there and watch break balls this guy that guy would i like that kid oh hey chris de stefano a funny guy but it was like like they were like, go. Just, you know, you got to go.

You know, you fucking made an obligation. Fucking people are counting on you. Fucking go. So we went and he passed when we were in when I was in Springfield in the morning. Who called you? Lionel Rich richie which is listen it sounds crazy masterful turns out my mom was banging him the whole time now my brother my brother was in there uh he was there with him he was there and we had we

we had a fucking we had a run for a little while um of those situations in our extended family where it hits like that where like yeah we're like you know my my uncle was like one of the first ones that like fucking just devastated me my uncle mike fucking like just devastated same thing you know and uh it might be tonight it might be tomorrow we don't know so everybody was kind of skilled in that and you know the, you know, gathers closer and closer as it gets to it. And I think the day before, my brother was like, you know, it's probably it's going to be could be an hour. It could be tomorrow. And then it was it was the next morning.

Called me in the hotel, woke me up, you know, said he was gone. Did the show. I think that night got up the next next day flew to philly and uh you know did did the thing were you able to have any like conversations with your dad about that stuff we always we always did though or did he not want to talk about death at that time and stuff what do you mean just as the what during the time he was sick and you went back and you were able to be with him did you have conversations about death and things like that? Or was he like, no, I don't talk about that shit?

No, he does. I mean, he always had a great attitude about it. You know what I mean? I think the experience he had in Vietnam was what he had always told us was getting out of that, everything was gravy on top of that. So he always said, hey, listen, when your time's up, your time's up. He said that a billion times. Didn't worry about anything like that. You know what I mean?

If something happened, like, you know, he went to the doctor and they found a spot or something like that, you know, he'd stop, you know, quit smoking because, you know, they found something on his lung or whatever. So he was always he was never like scared of any of that stuff and he always had a good attitude about it but we always had such good there never had to be that final i love you i'm sorry for everything that happened all the time you know what i mean and me being you know younger uh the younger one i was i mean i always you know i you know i squeeze his cheeks like you, you show Chubby and you know what I mean? I was always very affectionate with them to the point where he get off me.

I quit screwing around. I get over. I love you. You know what I mean? So we always had that. So there was never any of that. And there's never, there's not, I, you know, believe it or not, don't have, um, much guilt as far as not being there, because I know that he would want me to be where the fuck i was supposed to be and that you know that was uh that's what the fucking boys doing doing are you garbage living your dream yeah yeah yeah he would they would all about that all about that i um you know having a daughter now too I don't care if she's eight or nine or ten.

Go play. Go play. Go fucking play. Yeah. Don't be here today and around this shit. Go play. I agree. I agree.

Yeah, they always have. Well, you may, you know, if you're a good parent. I would have been fucking pissed. Where the fuck were you? Where is the fucking blue room? You fucking iced me for the blue room? Yeah, the blue room. We just went. Shout out to the blue room. Yeah, the blue room. We just went.

Shout out to the blue room. Yeah, we just went. Dude, this has been a great episode, man. Thank you for doing this. I love you, man. I love you as well. And I'm going to ask you what I ask everybody when it's their first time on. Now that we've talked about what we've talked about,

advice you would give to 16-year-old H. Foley, you version of H. Foley. I always, this is a you version of H Foley. Uh, I always, this is a little bit of off thing, but I always, I torture Kevin with this. I always say,

if I could go back in time, you know what I mean? I always use old movies. If I could somehow get into the screen of planes, trains, and automobiles, I could go back and I could warn everybody. I could tell my uncle about his liver.

I could tell my dad what's going to happen. They could, you know, whatever. Um, but I, I, everybody i could tell my uncle about his liver i could tell my dad what's gonna happen they could you know whatever um but i half think to myself i would go back and fucking change everything that i did you know what i mean where could i be now if i if i would have fucking done everything fucking right then i say to myself that would take away everything that i am and i really honestly like going back honestly, going back to what I said, I'd always want to be a Foley. I'm glad that it worked out like this. What me and him, me and Kevin are doing together, the connection that we have with the fans,

we're the stripped down version of ourselves, and we're being ourselves as much as we possibly, as much as we possibly can. I really wouldn't change anything because all those fucking lumps and all those fucking missteps and all that stuff eventually got us here. And, you know, I'm so grateful for it. I would tell myself to fucking be single in high school because I was in a serious relationship. And, you know, I know i you know i put a lot of pressure on myself and you know we put a lot of pressure on ourselves of like you know that again that bruce springsteen like i love you baby we'll be together forever so that's the only thing i'd probably go back and uh and change to fucking be a little bit chiller with that shit all right yeah dude thank you for doing this thank you buddy um plug and promote everything

one more time please um are you garbage.com for all the tickets for the for the stay trashy tour um two episodes a week on patreon anywhere you get your podcast and then we do uh two episodes every week on uh on patreon did i just say that you did i did i fuck you do two regular and two public yeah you do four a week you do four a week damn you do guys do four a week? You do four a week. Damn, you do guys do four a week. That's a lot. Yeah. Yeah, the one that we do is Hard Feelings, which is a separate podcast. We do that in the Icebox in a little separate studio where it's just us.

That's the HR, just us bitching back and forth that we used to do in my car for about 50 people for about two years. Hell yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's good stuff. Good for you guys. Thanks, buddy. it's good stuff good for you guys thanks buddy um love you brother love you yeah as always ryan sickler on all social media ryan sickler.com come see me on tour we'll talk to you all next week I'm out.