63: The Wayback #63 | Sam Tripoli

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Podcast Summary: The Wayback #63 | Sam Tripoli

Episode Information:

• Title: The Wayback #63 | Sam Tripoli
• Host: Ryan Sickler
• Guest: Sam Tripoli
• Release Date: March 13, 2025
• Description: Ryan Sickler and guest Sam Tripoli reminisce about their childhood antics, uncovering nostalgic memories filled with laughter, wild stories, and heartfelt reflections.

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1. Childhood Adventures and Mischief

The episode kicks off with Ryan and Sam diving into their shared childhood experiences, particularly revolving around car-related antics. They recall the era of station wagons and the playful yet reckless behaviors they engaged in.

• Ryan Sickler [02:24]: "Have you ever actually sat in this seat growing up?"
• Sam Tripoli [02:33]: "It was a station wagon. David used to love to do something where he would just, he would just come up to a car and for no reason hit the brakes really hard so it sounded like he was screeching."
• Unknown Co-host [03:15]: "We would dip the shoulder and just take your hand and loosely over the wheel like this."

This segment highlights their mischievous drives, including dangerous maneuvers like sudden braking to startle others and playful headlight flashing to mock radar detection.

• Ryan Sickler [03:28]: "We used to put the blinker on it just as someone's coming. People would swerve like we're going to kill something."
• Sam Tripoli [04:49]: "Driving in upstate New York was always crazy because even when I go back, man, there's just like dead animals everywhere."

2. The Heartbreaking Moment: Discovering Santa Claus Isn't Real

A poignant moment arises when Sam shares the impactful experience of learning that Santa Claus is not real, a revelation that shattered his childhood innocence.

• Sam Tripoli [05:08]: "I found out Santa wasn't real. I was super young."
• Ryan Sickler [05:22]: "You're devastated, man."

The discussion delves into the emotional turmoil that comes with losing the magic of childhood beliefs and how it affects one's perception of the world.

• Sam Tripoli [09:05]: "Santa Claus is the first conspiracy because it's a giant blackmailing scheme to get you to act like a good kid."
• Ryan Sickler [09:35]: "You’re never getting presents again. You only think that's where they come from."

They reflect on the balance between maintaining childhood wonder and the harsh truths of growing up, exploring how these revelations influence personal development.

3. Realizing Pro Wrestling is Scripted

Transitioning from childhood myths to popular culture, Ryan shares his moment of realizing that professional wrestling is scripted, mirroring Sam's earlier experience with Santa Claus.

• Ryan Sickler [13:19]: "Do you remember the moment I found out wrestling was fake?"
• Sam Tripoli [14:15]: "It's basically a men's soap opera with fighting."

They discuss the overlap between scripted entertainment and real emotions, pondering the authenticity within staged performances.

• Ryan Sickler [14:42]: "It started out as shoot wrestling, and then they realized they'd rather control the outcome."
• Sam Tripoli [16:01]: "I can't watch any. I just watch Hulk Hogan beat the Iron Chic at Madison Square Garden."

This segment highlights their deep appreciation for the theatricality of wrestling and how it parallels other aspects of their lives.

4. Bowling Memories and Family Legacy

A significant portion of the conversation centers around Sam's passion for bowling, tracing back to his family's involvement and his brother's exceptional skills.

• Sam Tripoli [17:03]: "My grandfather was an awesome bowler."
• Ryan Sickler [17:26]: "Did you ever bowl a perfect game?"
• Sam Tripoli [17:32]: "My brother could bowl 300 with both hands."

They reminisce about family bowling leagues, the competitive spirit instilled by his father, and the camaraderie within the bowling community.

• Sam Tripoli [25:49]: "I catch fire. I couldn't miss the pocket, dude."
• Ryan Sickler [26:00]: "If I get a turkey, you ain't going to hear me. I'm done."

Their stories underscore the joy and challenges of perfecting a skill, as well as the bonds formed through shared hobbies.

5. High School Antics and Streaking Stories

The conversation takes a humorous turn as Ryan and Sam recount their high school days filled with daring antics, including streaking at bowling alleys and orchestrating pranks.

• Ryan Sickler [20:05]: "We'd dare you to just poke your head in Pizza Hut and scream, 'Hey, did anybody call cab?'"
• Sam Tripoli [21:23]: "We'd have to totally forget about."

They laugh over their youthful bravado, the thrill of breaking rules, and the lasting memories of their rebellious behaviors.

• Sam Tripoli [21:22]: "I miss it, dude. I remember when my brother beat my dad for the first time in bowling."
• Ryan Sickler [23:07]: "I'm doing it on stage in the comedy, right?"

These stories highlight their creative and sometimes reckless attempts to inject excitement into their teenage years.

6. Regrets and Reflections

Towards the end of the episode, Sam opens up about his personal regrets, offering a more introspective view of his life choices and relationships.

• Sam Tripoli [23:26]: "My biggest regrets are three things. I left my mother too early because my dad was just pounding on me."
• Sam Tripoli [24:05]: "I never did shrooms with Brody Stevens. I wish I could have done shrooms with that guy."

He reflects on familial relationships, missed opportunities with friends, and cherished family legacies, providing listeners with a heartfelt narrative of growth and self-awareness.

• Sam Tripoli [29:09]: "My shoulder. Dude. Erected at work, brother."
• Ryan Sickler [29:20]: "Thank you for doing this with me."

7. Promotions and Closing Remarks

As the episode draws to a close, Sam takes the opportunity to promote his latest projects, including his new comedy special and podcasts.

• Sam Tripoli [29:31]: "Go to SamTripoli.com for all things Sam Tripoli. My new special is called 'Quiet,' available on Rumble."
• Ryan Sickler [30:07]: "As always, Ryan Sickler on all your social media. RyanSickler.com."

Both host and guest express mutual appreciation, wrapping up the episode with a sense of camaraderie and anticipation for future collaborations.

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Notable Quotes:

• Sam Tripoli [09:05]: "Santa Claus is the first conspiracy because it's a giant blackmailing scheme to get you to act like a good kid."
• Ryan Sickler [14:42]: "It's basically a men's soap opera with fighting."
• Sam Tripoli [25:49]: "I catch fire. I couldn't miss the pocket, dude."

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Conclusion:

In "The Wayback #63," Ryan Sickler and Sam Tripoli offer listeners a rich tapestry of memories that blend humor, nostalgia, and heartfelt reflections. From childhood mischief and the bitter loss of innocence to the camaraderie of bowling lanes and the thrill of high school pranks, the episode captures the essence of growing up and the enduring bonds formed along the way. Sam's candid admissions about his regrets add depth to the conversation, making it both entertaining and emotionally resonant for the audience.

Transcript

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[Ryan Sickler]

I'm headed back to Zany's in Nashville. Friday, March 28th and Saturday, March 29th Madison, Wisconsin. I'm excited to announce I'm shooting my next special at your club, Comedy on State. I was there not too long ago, had such a great time, such a great club. I'm excited to work with them and bring you my next special two shows Saturday, April 12th. Get your tickets now at Ryan Sickler.com hey baby, we going to be here all day? We're going to be here all day, baby.

[Sam Tripoli]

I like that kind of party.

[Ryan Sickler]

Welcome back to the Way Back. Everybody. Ryan Sickler here. Ryan Sickler.com and Ryan Sickler on all your social media and starting this episode like I start all my episodes on my podcast by saying thank you, gratitude, thank you for supporting this show. All right. I'm very excited to have this guy here in the Way Back with me. Ladies and gentlemen, Sam Tripley. Welcome back.

[Sam Tripoli]

Good to be back. Well, good to be here for the.

[Ryan Sickler]

First time in the way back.

[Sam Tripoli]

In the Way Back.

[Ryan Sickler]

Dude, before I ask you about this seat, please promote whatever you'd like. That's you right there.

[Sam Tripoli]

Go to sam Triple E.com for all things Sam, Tripoli, my dates, my T shirts, all that stuff. I have a special that's out right now. Holl at your boy, boy. It's called quiet. Basically, it's why is everybody getting quiet? You can find it on rumble, Sam tripoli.com Twitter X probably should put it on YouTube, but that sounds like a waste of time. And then just check out my podcast. I have three really great ones. I have a bunch of podcasts. But the ones I really want you to know about are Broken Simulation, where me and Johnny Woodard, we just go over the week. That is the Broken Simulation, the Tinfoil hat, which is my, you know, flagship podcast about conspiracies. And then my one of my favorite shows is called Deep Waters with Dylan Wren. And it's a debate show. You know, he's a wood gypsy, I'm a weirdo, and we just debate conspiracies and politics. So go check that out.

[Ryan Sickler]

I usually start these episodes off we're the same age, so I know you remember this seed I usually started off with. Have you ever actually sat in this seat growing?

[Sam Tripoli]

Yes.

[Ryan Sickler]

So who had that car.

[Sam Tripoli]

David Palmetter, one of my good friends, his dad had a really nice clothing store on Main street of Cortland, New York.

[Ryan Sickler]

Do you remember what kind of car it was?

[Sam Tripoli]

It was one of those long. One of those things. It was, it was a station wagon.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah, I know.

[Unknown Co-host]

Do you remember what Kai.

[Ryan Sickler]

Like, I don't know.

[Sam Tripoli]

No, no, no, no, no. I just know it was like a brown and tan.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah.

[Sam Tripoli]

Which everything at that time was brown and tan.

[Ryan Sickler]

We had a brown one. Yeah, we had a brown fort. And you're sitting back here looking out.

[Sam Tripoli]

And David used to love to do something where he would just, he would just come up to a car and for no reason hit the brakes really hard so it sounded like he was screeching. And you just see go. He did it all the time.

[Unknown Co-host]

Something we used to do that's.

[Ryan Sickler]

It's so dangerous and so stupid. But here, hold my mic. I'm going to show you what we used to do. We'd be making a left turn. Okay, hold on, wait. Traffic's coming at you, humming at you, and you're waiting to make your left. And we used to put the blinker on it.

[Unknown Co-host]

Just as someone's coming. We would, we would dip the shoulder and just take your hand and loosely over the wheel like this. And dude, people are like, oh, they see you hitting the hands over the wheel and you're running them loose, dude, they would swerve like we're going to kill something. The best, the best. The fear. The fear.

[Ryan Sickler]

Another one we used to do because I lived out in the county too, so you'd be driving a lot on two lane roads, double yellow but no shoulder, just grass or maybe a little bit of grab, you know what I mean? Out in the country and a big thing was flashing your headlights, you know, to let people know there was a cop up there. Radar. And, and oh yeah, dude, people used.

[Sam Tripoli]

To do that all the time and.

[Ryan Sickler]

If you get caught, you get in trouble. But dude, we used to do this where there was no cop, but if.

[Unknown Co-host]

You were hauling ass toward us, we'd hit those headlights and we would look into rear view and die laughing because they hit those brakes. That car is doing an end though. And they're throwing thumbs up like, you know, like.

[Sam Tripoli]

I love that, bro.

[Unknown Co-host]

It's so good.

[Sam Tripoli]

I love that. Dude, driving in upstate New York was always crazy because even when I go back, man, there's just like dead animals everywhere. You don't see that now.

[Ryan Sickler]

Forget about deer and raccoon and everywhere, just carcasses like.

[Sam Tripoli]

Like it's. It's like fallout or something like that. Just dead bodies all over the place. Everyone just driving like nothing happened.

[Ryan Sickler]

All right, so it's you, your brother, you got just two of you, right? I ask everybody talking about stories, and you have one. I want to talk because I. I don't think anyone's ever. Come on. We've loosely touched on it, but when you found out Santa wasn't real, bro.

[Sam Tripoli]

I found out Santa wasn't real. I forget. Was I, like, four?

[Ryan Sickler]

Like, I was young.

[Sam Tripoli]

Yeah, yeah, I was super young.

[Ryan Sickler]

It's young because my daughter's nine right now, and yesterday she said something about making a Christmas list that she's like, oh, people could get that for me for Christmas. I go, or we could put it on there for Santa. And she went, yeah.

[Unknown Co-host]

And I was like, oh, we haven't had the conversation yet.

[Sam Tripoli]

I was so upset. I was at my next early.

[Unknown Co-host]

Dude.

[Sam Tripoli]

Yeah.

[Unknown Co-host]

What happened?

[Sam Tripoli]

The little boys were next door and were very close. We were very close in, like, elementary school. We grew up together.

[Ryan Sickler]

What school?

[Sam Tripoli]

In elementary school.

[Ryan Sickler]

Elementary. I don't know. I've never heard anybody say it.

[Unknown Co-host]

Like, Kirsten, how do you say.

[Sam Tripoli]

How do you say elementary? Elementary?

[Ryan Sickler]

Like element with a tree in there.

[Sam Tripoli]

Oh, great. Now I got. Now I'm a idiot. Well, dude, I. First grade, bro. What do you want from me?

[Unknown Co-host]

I forget about that.

[Sam Tripoli]

Yeah, I. I would. Dude, I remember when I said documentary.

[Ryan Sickler]

And then like, documentary.

[Sam Tripoli]

Yeah, there we go. There we go. Dude, I don't say I'm upstate New York. We say different. I'm.

[Ryan Sickler]

Do you say documentary? Says elementary, too. Josh Potter says elementary. Oh, that's upstate New York.

[Sam Tripoli]

Must be an upstate New York city.

[Ryan Sickler]

Thank you for that, Buffalo fans. Come here, princess.

[Unknown Co-host]

What do you say?

[Sam Tripoli]

Girl's bullying me over here.

[Ryan Sickler]

She likes. She wants you to know.

[Sam Tripoli]

Okay, well, you are. The co.

[Ryan Sickler]

Host likes it. Okay, so go ahead. Sorry.

[Sam Tripoli]

So they were next door neighbors, and we were all like. There was like a. I'd say there's about five of us or four of us. Danny was the next door neighbor. Then we had the Gleason sisters down the street. And like, as my daughters get older, I think about, like, when I was their age and what we were doing. I'm like, oh, I'm horrible. That's probably why I'm a train wreck of a human being. What we were getting into, because your parents would just let you go and you had the whole neighborhood and you.

[Ryan Sickler]

Just run around and what are you getting into? What are you Doing well.

[Sam Tripoli]

I remember one time I ran away.

[Ryan Sickler]

Hold on. Santa's not real. You got to stay on the story. Okay, so you found out.

[Sam Tripoli]

So, you know, it's around, and we're.

[Ryan Sickler]

Gonna come back to running away.

[Unknown Co-host]

Don't let us forget.

[Sam Tripoli]

It was around Christmas time, and, you know, we. We went over to the Lavoise, and we were all just sitting around, and we were. You know, they were asking me if I'm super excited about Christmas. And I go, yeah, I'm so excited. Now, here's the thing about Christmas that. That makes my whole, you know, story really crazy, was that we would go to Niagara falls every Christmas. So what I was told by my parents is, like, we would drive on Christmas Eve. So what I was told by my parents was that Santa came a day early to give us the gifts. And I always go, man, that's. That's got to be tough, because you got to do the world.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah.

[Sam Tripoli]

The next day.

[Ryan Sickler]

But the Tripoli's first.

[Sam Tripoli]

This guy's like this triple.

[Unknown Co-host]

Come on, Rudolph.

[Sam Tripoli]

Yeah. Or maybe he had his intern just dressed like him.

[Unknown Co-host]

So, wait, is Lavoy.

[Ryan Sickler]

Also. Is it Jewish? Is that.

[Sam Tripoli]

It's. They were French Canadian. He was French Canadian. His father was only as a lumberjack.

[Ryan Sickler]

That's how it got ruined in our neighborhood, because the Jewish kids always knew there was no.

[Sam Tripoli]

No, we had. We had one Jewish family and one black family in my. All of my upstate New York, which was about Cortland, which was, at the time, maybe 17,000 people, which is basically, like, now, like, the block I live on. That's how many people I live in my block in l. A. So we go over there, and they're talking about, you know, Christmas. I'm like, I can't wait till Santa comes. And then Danny, who is my friend, his sister, who's younger, is Julie, and Julie just goes, santa's not real. I go, what? What are you talking about? Of course Santa's not real. She goes, mom, isn't Santa not real? And, dude, this grown woman.

[Ryan Sickler]

No.

[Sam Tripoli]

Who is the nicest person outside this moment goes to me. Yes, Sam, Santa's not real.

[Ryan Sickler]

This lady code signed on it and.

[Unknown Co-host]

Broke it to you like that. Oh, that's devastating. That's the worst.

[Ryan Sickler]

Are your parents there in front of her?

[Sam Tripoli]

No, we were over there. They were in my.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, no, dude.

[Sam Tripoli]

The worst. I will keep that lie going forever with my.

[Ryan Sickler]

Wait, did you go back and tell your parents and they said, yeah, it's true, or did they fight that?

[Sam Tripoli]

I remember going back, and they were Just like, oh, who knows? He's just joking. And I go, no, man. And, and I tell people this all the time. People always go, what is the first conspiracy that you believed in? I go, santa Claus is the first conspiracy because it's a giant blackmailing scheme to get you to act like a good kid, Right? If you act like good kid, you're.

[Ryan Sickler]

Wait, did you believe in Jesus before Santa?

[Sam Tripoli]

Yeah, I believe in Jesus now, bro. I'm a, I'm a holy roller, dog.

[Unknown Co-host]

You don't think that's the same as Santa?

[Sam Tripoli]

No, no, no way, bro. You think Jesus and Santa are in the same, same kind of realm?

[Ryan Sickler]

I think that the mindset of controlling people is in the same realm.

[Sam Tripoli]

I understand what you're saying.

[Ryan Sickler]

That it's the religion keeps people in check the way Christmas keeps people.

[Sam Tripoli]

I'm not a religious guy. I'm a spiritual dude. I do say.

[Ryan Sickler]

But you just said you were a holy roller.

[Sam Tripoli]

I am. I do love Jesus, dog. Now you're gonna tell me he's not real. Great. Now I'm gonna go on another podcast.

[Ryan Sickler]

But I'm not telling you Jesus.

[Sam Tripoli]

So, dude, I. So when she told me that, I was devastated. Yeah, I was really upset, man. I was really upset.

[Ryan Sickler]

Are you searching for answers? Like if, Were you scared also?

[Sam Tripoli]

Like, you know what I said, if.

[Ryan Sickler]

He'S not real, I'm never getting presents again. You know, Cuz you only think that's where they come from, right?

[Sam Tripoli]

100%. And I just started have. It was like my kill Bill moment where I'm like, I'm going to revenge this moment. I'm going to teach her. Like, I always used to have fantasies of dressing up as Santa Claus, just dropping a deuce right on her porch.

[Unknown Co-host]

Did you really?

[Sam Tripoli]

Oh, yeah.

[Unknown Co-host]

You had Santa Claus revenge.

[Sam Tripoli]

I was so pissed you told me Santa wasn't real. I was so upset.

[Ryan Sickler]

You had a good four more years, minimum.

[Sam Tripoli]

You did join that, dude. Enjoying thinking that.

[Ryan Sickler]

Did you then go tell kids in school?

[Sam Tripoli]

No, dude.

[Ryan Sickler]

You kept that shit to yourself.

[Sam Tripoli]

Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

Did your brother know at that point?

[Sam Tripoli]

No.

[Ryan Sickler]

Did you tell him?

[Sam Tripoli]

No. Wow, dude, I swore at that point.

[Ryan Sickler]

You weren't like, dude, you ain't going.

[Sam Tripoli]

No, no, no, no. I, I was. Dude, I don't mind you, I tell you, I was devastated.

[Ryan Sickler]

I, I fully.

[Sam Tripoli]

My world is rocked.

[Ryan Sickler]

I don't remember the moment like that. I don't remember the moment. I sort of remember, you know, because once you also get to be 8 or 9, you got kids in school who's have, who have Older brothers and sisters, and they're already telling them that ain't real. And then it filters down, and then you got to go to your parents, and they got to figure going to answer that question. I still say, like, look, if you don't believe, it ain't coming.

[Sam Tripoli]

Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

You know, has a great bit about.

[Sam Tripoli]

How you don't want your kid to be the first.

[Unknown Co-host]

Yeah.

[Sam Tripoli]

But you don't also want them to be the last.

[Unknown Co-host]

That's true, too.

[Sam Tripoli]

Right. You want kind of in the middle. I think that's good. But, yeah, four or five is just too early to learn about that. And it takes away all the magic.

[Ryan Sickler]

I do remember once we knew Santa wasn't real, too. My dad was like, listen, and if you tell your little brother, you ain't getting anymore, like, okay, we're shutting the up. Like, that's the one thing I would say we could. You know, we're united on.

[Sam Tripoli]

I wish I still.

[Ryan Sickler]

We get up in the morning and we go down, and we would just, like, poke a pinhole in the gift. And I'm like, you got Luke Skywalker. You know, we just little things like, what's that? You got a baseball glove? You know, and then we go back upstairs and sleep and get up like, hey, a baseball glove.

[Unknown Co-host]

Lou Skywalk.

[Sam Tripoli]

I remember as I kept the facade going, I believed in Santa Claus. I found where they hid the presents, and I was just lifting them up, and it's like, you know, it's like when you do with a melon, you kind of hear it. I go, okay, robot dinosaurs.

[Ryan Sickler]

Because you start figuring out. So I'm like, why is the wrapping paper the same every year? Oh, well, then it became Santa just delivers them, and we have to rap. I'm like, really?

[Unknown Co-host]

That's hard to be.

[Sam Tripoli]

Hold on to it.

[Ryan Sickler]

But I do remember the moment I found out wrestling was fake.

[Sam Tripoli]

Oh.

[Ryan Sickler]

I mean, I already had my suspicions, but the moment my dad said something where it clicked, and I was just so funny. Dude, my dad.

[Sam Tripoli]

How old were you?

[Ryan Sickler]

Probably, like, I don't know, nine, ten, maybe younger, a little bit. But right around that pocket. First, second, third grade and I, we were so into it. We were also really into sports. And my brother and I would wrestle and fight and football and everything, and. And my dad would always tell us the guy coming out second's gonna win. Like, how do you know this, dad? And he's like, it's fake. And we're like, it is not fake.

[Sam Tripoli]

He's like, I was so upset.

[Ryan Sickler]

It's fake. And I'm like, how's it fake? And he goes, all right, I'll ask you a question. This is what did it. He goes, if you and I are wrestling and I grab you by the arm and I throw you against the ropes, what are you gonna do? And I went, hold on. And he goes, yup. And I went, oh, no.

[Unknown Co-host]

Like, why do they slingshot off? Like they don't have any power to rap it all? And when he said that, I thought that I was like, it was over.

[Sam Tripoli]

What do you know?

[Unknown Co-host]

I was like, oh, my God. I would never slingshot.

[Sam Tripoli]

Do you know that wrestling started real?

[Ryan Sickler]

No, it was. I mean, look, I know everybody gets. It is still very real what they do and all they get, dude, the whole. I had no idea. There was the pageantry behind it and the. The storylines and, you know, all this.

[Sam Tripoli]

It's basically a men's soap opera.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah.

[Sam Tripoli]

With fighting. That's really it. But it started out as shoot wrestling, and. But then they realized that, you know, they'd rather control the outcome so they can know. But, you know, so funny. It's like, I don't remember how old I was when I found out that wrestling wasn't real, but I remember. And this goes back to conspiracies. I remember being absolutely devastated that the Iron Chic and Hacksaw Jim Duggan got busted in a car drunk together.

[Unknown Co-host]

Yeah.

[Sam Tripoli]

And again, another time, my reality shatters. I'm like, you two are supposed to hate each other.

[Unknown Co-host]

Enemies.

[Sam Tripoli]

You're enemies. He's like, I ran number one. He was the original hot, too.

[Unknown Co-host]

He got. He was right. The higher cheek was the original hotel to a guy. Right.

[Sam Tripoli]

And then, dude, they were. I'm like, oh. And they got big trouble after that. They were basically ran out of WWE because they got caught. But, dude, I used to love pro wrestling, man. If you ever just really want to feel what. What pro wrestling is about, just go watch the match between Hogan and the Ultimate Warrior. And it is.

[Ryan Sickler]

Do you know what I've been doing lately? I can't watch any. I can't find anything to watch anymore. I just watched Hulk Hogan beat the Iron Chic at Madison Square Garden. The whole thing. I just watch Hogan and the Warrior. I go back and I watch old School Jimmy Snooka.

[Sam Tripoli]

Oh.

[Ryan Sickler]

And when he's jumping off ropes, I mean, I. It was a fun time.

[Sam Tripoli]

It was the best time, dude. Energy is fire. Yeah. By the way, podcast is Piper's pit, dude.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah. Oh, that's an interesting point.

[Sam Tripoli]

That's the original pod.

[Ryan Sickler]

That's an interesting point. I mean, the whole cracking the coconut over Snook took it all to the 84. Wow. For. I mean, 12 years before the Internet exists, right?

[Sam Tripoli]

Dude, that's the first one by people on.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah.

[Sam Tripoli]

And then I remember when he had the guy who's had, like, one name. His name was like, George. And he's like, please welcome George.

[Ryan Sickler]

George Animal Steel.

[Sam Tripoli]

No, no, no. It was the guy who just had, like, the tighty whities. They'd be like. And that. And he was always there to lose. Do you remember those guys?

[Ryan Sickler]

I do remember those guys.

[Unknown Co-host]

Like the ultimate special delivery.

[Sam Tripoli]

Right, Versus Bill. And you're like, bill's gonna get annihilated.

[Ryan Sickler]

We were talking before the show, too, and you said you come from a family of bowlers. Talk to us about that. Who's in the family was bowling, dude? Everybody grandparents started.

[Sam Tripoli]

Oh, my grandfather was. Is a awesome bowler.

[Ryan Sickler]

Is that right?

[Sam Tripoli]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

Ever bowl of 300?

[Sam Tripoli]

I don't have a lot.

[Ryan Sickler]

Your grandfather.

[Sam Tripoli]

Oh, my brothers did it all the time.

[Ryan Sickler]

Bold, perfect games.

[Sam Tripoli]

Both hands. No, my brother could bowl 300 with both hands. Yeah, he lived it, dude. He lived in court lanes. Yep. Me and my brother almost bought that, dude, it's the best, bro.

[Ryan Sickler]

That's your bowling alley?

[Sam Tripoli]

Yep. That's where my brother reigns supreme, bro.

[Ryan Sickler]

How did he not go pro? Rolling perfect games, dude.

[Sam Tripoli]

My brother was. We talked about this, I think, before, but my. I used to call my brother the white Bo Jackson because he could dominate.

[Unknown Co-host]

He was that kid bowling and like, a neighborhood legend.

[Sam Tripoli]

Just white. Just white sports. He was. He was amazing. And when you're from upstate New York. Okay, now, the crazy thing about Cortland, they just won the Division 3 football league. Like, yeah, dude, that's. That's where I was raised. I was raised in those lanes.

[Ryan Sickler]

On those lanes, huh?

[Sam Tripoli]

Every Saturday, man, we would go bowl in a bowling league. And my brother was your brother the.

[Ryan Sickler]

Best bowler in the family?

[Sam Tripoli]

Oh, my brother, at one point was probably the best high school bowler in New York State.

[Ryan Sickler]

Is that right?

[Sam Tripoli]

No, he was.

[Ryan Sickler]

So why didn't he do anything with that?

[Sam Tripoli]

My brother just is a man on his own journey, dude. He. He. He. I love him very much. He has, like. He got a. He got a scholarship, Wichita State. He didn't.

[Ryan Sickler]

For bowling.

[Sam Tripoli]

For bowling, bro.

[Unknown Co-host]

I didn't even know that he didn't take it. I'd have been up in Wichita bowling the. Out of, bro.

[Sam Tripoli]

They would. We. They had this thing on Saturday nights called Rock and Bowl, and we just, like, turn off the lights glow stuff. Yeah, that's rock and ball right there. I used to love what rock and bowl and Luke Portland is so shady.

[Ryan Sickler]

Dude, did they serve alcohol in that one?

[Sam Tripoli]

Oh, yeah, they said, dude, it was.

[Ryan Sickler]

You can probably get messed in there back in the day. What's that you see in fights back, dude?

[Sam Tripoli]

Tables. I mean, chairs getting thrown. Because you talked while he was approaching the lanes.

[Unknown Co-host]

Dude, you just reminded me of a great story I forgot about.

[Ryan Sickler]

There's two of them. I never even heard of the term lean courtesy in my life. It's high school. I've been bowling a bunch, and I walk up at the same time. The guy to my left walks up and this dude starts going off on me. He's like, you got a problem? You don't have lane courtesy? And I'm like, what? This is a grown man? And I was like, did I cut you off driving here or something? He's like, what the are you talking about? I was like, what the are you talking about? What's lane courtesy goes, you don't walk up the same time somebody else does.

[Unknown Co-host]

I was like, bro, that's a thing.

[Sam Tripoli]

That's a big thing.

[Unknown Co-host]

But he could tell I was genuinely confused because I was like, was I driving here?

[Ryan Sickler]

Cut you off?

[Unknown Co-host]

Like, what are you talking about, lanes?

[Ryan Sickler]

He's like, like, no, bro, you let everyone go.

[Sam Tripoli]

Yeah, whoever sets up first goes first.

[Ryan Sickler]

So I totally forgot about this. We used to do these dumb dares. We would do, like, we'd just be out bored. We'd be like, hey, take this wig. It looked like a Tommy Lee wig from Motley crue back in the day. And we'd like, dare you to just poke your head in pizza hut and just scream, hey, did anybody call cab?

[Unknown Co-host]

It was back when, by the way, that's back when pizza was a restaurant. And there's people sitting in there, not just the carry out counter. And we would just do that.

[Ryan Sickler]

We put on like a big mullet.

[Unknown Co-host]

Wig and we just have a cigarette in our mouth. We've been to high school, open the door to pizza. Just lead in. Be like, anybody call cap? And just look around like that. And no one says anything. We do like this non stop.

[Ryan Sickler]

So my buddy decides we pull some money together, and he's like, I'm gonna streak the bowling alley. We're like, you're crazy. He's like. I was like, that's a long run. He's like, I'm a streak. And he's like, here's the deal, though. You got to be on the other side waiting. And we're like, if you're honestly going to get naked and sprint, they're going to, you know, bowling alley, they're going to come in this side, they're going to run and they're going to go out that side and they're like, you got to pull money together. So we pull. I mean we're all high school. We get like a hundred and a couple bucks.

[Sam Tripoli]

That's pretty good.

[Ryan Sickler]

That's not bad. In the. In the late 80s, early 90s. So my buddy Anthony and I forget who the other guy was. Another friend's like, I'm gonna do it with him. Like, okay. And like, you better not us. When we had our station wagon, he's like, you better be over there waiting. And we're like, we're gonna be there and we drive. We go right over and they wait so they can see us. Okay. They are buck naked and they sprint and they're coming. They're making all kind, dude.

[Unknown Co-host]

They're jumping up down like banji. Ah, there's families in there. Their dicks are out or whatever. They get to these doors, right? We are tripling. They're locked, they're locked, dude. They gotta go back. They the fear on their face. And then we realize like, yeah, we're. And they just see these white asses. Now people know what the going on and they're yelling out like, hey, you better come back here, dude. Bare ass running into our station wagon on the other side to get out, dude, you have to totally forgot about.

[Sam Tripoli]

Dude, that is hilarious. You have to be a. Definitely a show or not a grower to street. Yeah, dude, I could not do it.

[Ryan Sickler]

Even if I got scared my dick would go up.

[Sam Tripoli]

My buddy worked. He worked at cbs. My buddy from high school school, you know. So I was the only one who moved from L. Cortland to high school to My friends from high school moved here and they just dominated, dude. Like they were. One was a VP at Disney. The other one was head of a. Of non scripted programming at cbs.

[Ryan Sickler]

Damn.

[Sam Tripoli]

So he hits me up one day.

[Ryan Sickler]

He's like, no, Survivor.

[Sam Tripoli]

And over there he goes, you want to do Survivor? I go, what? He goes, you want? I'll get you on. I go, I go, I go, I can't do it, dude.

[Ryan Sickler]

I'm doing it on stage in the comedy, right?

[Sam Tripoli]

I go, bro, I'm. I'm a grower, not a shower. I'm not gonna go on survival. Be known as baby dick, dude.

[Unknown Co-host]

Yeah, baby dick Sam. Baby dick trips.

[Sam Tripoli]

I can't streak, dude. My.

[Unknown Co-host]

You could never come back to the comedy community either. Roll me over.

[Sam Tripoli]

But you know, because I the they're using the pixel. It's the smallest pixelation they've ever had to use. Yeah, dude. So that was, that was crazy. So my brother, such a great. My grandfather was such a good bowler. Like, I don't have a lot of regrets in my life. I used to have one. Now I, I, I got rid of that. But my biggest regrets are in my life are three things. I left my mother too early because my dad was just pounding on me. Gotta get out of this town. You gotta get out of this town. And he kind of ran a psyop on me. I talked about this before to give me the Vegas. I left my mom too early. I really do regret that. The next one is I never did shrooms with Brody Stevens. Like, I wish I could have done shrooms with that guy. Get him out of his own head and accept where he was. Yeah. And that probably was gay. And then, then the last one is, is my grandfather had this amazing bowling trophy back when people cared. And it was an encased bowling trophy with a little stick guy bowling that had the 710 split. Had the 7.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, no.

[Unknown Co-host]

Yeah.

[Sam Tripoli]

Yeah, because he picked it up.

[Ryan Sickler]

He did hit one.

[Sam Tripoli]

He got it. You know how hard it is to get a 7 10?

[Ryan Sickler]

I mean, I don't know what the odds are, but I do know it's the, the hardest thing in bowling to.

[Sam Tripoli]

Do the hardest thing in bowling.

[Ryan Sickler]

Is that harder than bowling a perfect game?

[Sam Tripoli]

I think, because I don't know anyone who's ever pick a 710 split. And I know my brother's old 3 hundreds with both hands.

[Ryan Sickler]

That's crazy. I mean, if I get a turkey, like, if I get one you, I won't shut up. You ain't going to hear me. I'm done. I'm all over you at the lane.

[Sam Tripoli]

So my brother, I'm sitting like this.

[Ryan Sickler]

I'll never sit like this. I'm at the lanes like this. If I'm rolling a turkey, you're the Jesus man.

[Unknown Co-host]

These are how I sit at the lanes. You know what I mean? Just like this.

[Ryan Sickler]

I'm like, yeah.

[Sam Tripoli]

Staring at the women walking by.

[Unknown Co-host]

A turkey. Just bowl the turkey.

[Sam Tripoli]

So my brother grew up in, grew up in the bowling alley. So we're getting older. There's a bowling club at my school, and my dad decides he's gonna coach it. My brother is the best on the team. He's averaging.

[Ryan Sickler]

Like, how could he not be 270. He could be the best right handed and left handed on the team, but he did with both hands. D, dude, come on, girl.

[Sam Tripoli]

So I decided to do it, dude. I start out, bro, at like a 130 average. By the end of the season, I was up to 180 average, dude.

[Ryan Sickler]

Okay.

[Sam Tripoli]

I was hitting two hundreds all the time because I was getting that spin action, dog, where you get like kind of the little tips here and you get your hand and I bang.

[Ryan Sickler]

That's something. I could never get the spin, dude.

[Sam Tripoli]

Dude, my brother.

[Ryan Sickler]

Or it dances on that edge like that.

[Sam Tripoli]

And then you get that. I call it pin action when the thing explodes.

[Ryan Sickler]

Who do you think you are? I am. That's who your brother could have been.

[Sam Tripoli]

Yeah. 100.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah.

[Sam Tripoli]

So we go to county, dude. Like, there's a legitimate.

[Ryan Sickler]

I think we had a bowling team at all.

[Sam Tripoli]

We had a bowling team.

[Ryan Sickler]

Did you have it the whole time or was it something you guys created while you were there?

[Sam Tripoli]

I don't know, man, because one day it was there. I don't know. I don't know if it was there when. I didn't know it was there, but it was there. And my dad ran it and he did it for free. For as crazy as my dad was, he. He did that bowling team. He coached the bowling team for free. And we went to. We went to county, bro. Dude, I. I caught fire one day. I caught fire, dog. I couldn't miss the pocket, dude. And I. Dude. And you ever see, like, the crazy bowlers are like, yeah, yeah, dude. We would watch Saturday Morning. We would watch, like, everyone else is watching football. We're watching professional bowling. My dream was to be in the syracuse NBC channel three Saturday bowling thing where they have kids on. Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

1985. Yeah.

[Sam Tripoli]

Yeah, bro, I did that.

[Ryan Sickler]

Seven, one, two. Are you. If you're in this, I would laugh so hard. 12, right?

[Sam Tripoli]

Yep. I did it, Dude.

[Ryan Sickler]

Are you in this? This?

[Sam Tripoli]

I wish I was. Look at that. That poor chick never recovered from that. Never recovered from that. So my dad's the team. He takes us to county and, dude, I catch fire. I catch fire. But I'm watching. Like, my dad would make us watch bowling with him, and these bowlers were just like, bang, bang. I'm like, dude, I'm gonna go for it. So I just bowl. Get, strike. I'd be like, wow, dude, it's getting so crazy. The other team starts cheering for me. They like. They're like, triple A. I'm like, nothing but pin that. And, dude, I'm just wigging it out there. Bang, bro. I bowled, so I think I hit like 220, 240.

[Unknown Co-host]

One of your best ever.

[Sam Tripoli]

One of the best ever.

[Unknown Co-host]

Great.

[Sam Tripoli]

But then we ended up losing county. But, man, that was such a glorious day because I. I could never make any teams, but I made. I was most improved on my bowling team because my. My bowling average went up 40 points.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah.

[Sam Tripoli]

Because I started getting pin action dog. I. Just kidding. As a bang. I just throwing it out there. Pow, bro. It was the. I mean, I want to join a bowling league so bad. I miss it, dude. I mean, I remember when my brother beat my dad for the first time in bowling.

[Ryan Sickler]

You remember?

[Sam Tripoli]

We're like, damn. That just happened. The old man got cooked.

[Ryan Sickler]

And what he said he was not happy.

[Sam Tripoli]

He's just explaining it. My arm. Oh, God, my. My shoulder. Dude. Erected at work, brother.

[Ryan Sickler]

Thank you for doing this with me.

[Sam Tripoli]

I know this is great. It's over. It's so fast.

[Ryan Sickler]

Fast and fun and quick.

[Sam Tripoli]

Even get to the fat goth girls.

[Ryan Sickler]

Promote. You come back, dude. Promote everything right there, please. You're special.

[Sam Tripoli]

All that stuff go to Sam Tripoli dot com. My new special that's dropped. It's called Quiet. It's basically. Why is it. Why is everybody getting quiet? It's an hour. I hope you enjoy. It's about my life. You can get on rumble Sam tripoli.com Still debating whether I'm gonna put it on YouTube, but go check YouTube. I'm sure it'll be up. And just listen to my podcast. Broken Simulation, Tinfoil Hat, and Deep Water, AKA Deep Water. So thanks for having me on. I love you, buddy.

[Ryan Sickler]

Always love you, too. As always, Ryan Sickler on all your social media. RyanCickler.com we'll talk to y'all next.

[Unknown Co-host]

Next weekend.