354: Beth Stelling - Dad Tried to Kidnap Me

The HoneyDew with Ryan Sickler

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4.9 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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My HoneyDew this week is comedian Beth Stelling! Check out Beth’s latest special, The Landlord Special, out on her YouTube today! Beth joins me to Highlight the Lowlights of her complicated relationship with her father, growing up around his mental illness, and the trauma that came with it. She opens up about the time he tried to kill her mom, attempted to kidnap the kids, and was still later granted visitation rights. Beth shares the raw truth about her parents’ struggles, the long road toward forgiveness, and how humor helps her carry the heavy with grace and laughter.

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0:00.0	All right, y'all, big news. My new stand-up special live and alive drops Friday, October 24th, right here on my YouTube at 9 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific.
0:12.4	We shot at a comedy on state, Madison, Wisconsin. There were two sold-out shows. The crowds were unbelievable.
0:18.2	And I'm telling you, honestly, it's my best work. All right? This special is special. I'm really proud of it. It's self-produced. It's self-funded. It's self-released and straight from me to you the way it should be. And here's the best part. During the premiere, I'll be live in the YouTube comments with you guys hanging out the whole time. I'll answer questions. I want to watch it
0:38.8	all unfold in real time with you guys like we're there together that night. All right? So make
0:43.4	sure you subscribe to my channel, hit that reminder, and join me on release night. This one means a
0:49.6	lot to me and I would love to experience that first watch with you guys Friday, October 24th, 9 p.m.
0:56.1	Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific, live and alive right here on my YouTube. Subscribe now and don't miss it.
1:05.0	I'm just trying to drift off and try not to die. My whole job is try not to die. And the person I miss the most is my daughter.
1:14.2	I'm a single dad. My daughter's seven at the time. They won't let her visit. I've got one buddy
1:18.4	sitting in there one night with me. He's got a couple girls and he's like, what are you thinking
1:22.8	about? And I was like, my daughter. And he's like, yeah, just definitely don't be thinking about like graduation
1:28.7	or getting married or grand because i was like oh my i wasn't thinking about any of that
1:36.9	at all i'd certainly thought about things that i would miss but i thought about things that were
1:42.9	more current like for example i love to fishing, and I take my daughter fishing all the time.
1:48.9	And at the time, she hadn't caught her first fish.
1:51.3	I want to catch my daughter's first fish with her.
1:53.8	I don't want her mom's boyfriend doing that shit.
1:57.6	F*** Steve.
2:26.3	Steve. Steve Steve Steve The Honeydue with Brian Sickler Thank you. Welcome back to the honey-dew, y'all.
2:29.1	We're over here doing it in the Nightpans Studios.
2:34.1	Ryan Sickler here, Ryan Sickler.com, and Ryan Sickler on all your social media. Thank you for watching this show. If you're watching this far already, drop Sickler.com and Ryan Sickler on all your social media.
2:35.7	Thank you for watching this show.
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