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The HoneyDew with Ryan Sickler

370: Frank Caliendo | The HoneyDew with Ryan Sickler #370 | Full Episode

The HoneyDew with Ryan Sickler

Ryan Sickler

Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Stand-up

4.99.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

My HoneyDew this week is comedian Frank Caliendo! Check out FrankOnStage.com to see where you can catch Frank live near you. Frank joins me this week to Highlight the Lowlights of his upbringing in Illinois and Wisconsin, with Dad playing minor leagues for the White Sox association, teaching Franks AAU teams, and even umping the local neighborhood wiffleball games. Frank reflects on his father’s influence, his lifelong relationship with baseball, the hard truth of walking away from it, and the pivot that brought him to comedy. 🎟️See me live. All tickets atwww.ryansickler.com/tour 🎤Check out my new standup special “Live & Alive” streaming on my YouTube now!youtu.be/PMGWVyM2NJo?si=SrhXjgzR1pe6CyYE 👉 Subscribe for more standup and new episodes of The HoneyDew, The Wayback, and more!youtube.com/@rsickler ✅ Subscribe to my Patreon “The HoneyDew with Y’all”! Get The HoneyDew audio and video a day early, ad-free, for just $5/month! Want more? Upgrade to the $8/month premium tier and get everything above plus The Wayback a day early, ad-free, censor-free, and exclusive bonus content you won’t find anywhere else! patreon.com/RyanSickler 📧What’s your story?? Submit at honeydewpodcast@gmail.com 👕Get Your Merch👕www.bonfire.com/store/ryansickler/ 🎧 Listen to my Podcasts 🎧The HoneyDew - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-honeydew-with-ryan-sickler/id527446250The Wayback - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wayback-with-ryan-sickler/id1721601479Patreon - www.patreon.com/ryansickler 📣 Follow Me📣▪ Instagram:   www.instagram.com/ryansickler/▪ TikTok:   www.tiktok.com/@ryan.sickler▪ Facebook:   www.facebook.com/RyanSicklerOfficial 🕸️ryansickler.com/ 🍈thehoneydewpodcast.com/ 🦀Subscribe to The CrabFeast Podcast🦀 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-crabfeast-with-ryan-sickler-and-jay-larson/id1452403187 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Kansas City.

0:05.9

I'm headed back your way, Valentine's weekend.

0:09.0

That's right.

0:09.6

Valentine's weekend.

0:10.7

I'll be there February 13th and the 14th.

0:14.4

Connecticut.

0:15.2

Come see me at Comics Roadhouse March 13th and 14th.

0:19.9

Get your tickets now at Ryan Sickler.com.

0:24.4

The Honeydew with Ryan Sickler.

0:37.3

Welcome back to the honeyddy-do y'all.

0:40.5

We're over here doing it in the Nightpants Studios.

0:42.7

I am Ryan Sickler, Ryan Sickler.com, and Ryan Sickler on all your social media.

0:47.8

Starting this episode like I start them all by saying thank you.

0:50.7

Thank you for not only watching this show and supporting this show, but anything I do. Tours, whatever, specials, all of it. You guys are the best. And if you got to have more, I'm telling you, you got to check out the Patreon. There's more than the honeydew with you all going on over there. But the honeydue with you all is this show with you guys. And it is, it's the best show on the internet. I swear to God, I love my job because of you. It's the wildest stories you've ever heard. Hundreds of, we've been doing it for years now. It's five bucks a month. A cup of coffee. Go enjoy yourself. All right. That's the biz. You guys know what we're doing here. We highlight the low lights. I always say these are the stories behind the storytellers. Very excited to have this guest here with us. First time on the dude. Ladies and gentlemen, Frank Allende. Welcome to the honeydew, Frank Caliando. Yeah, I'm here. Energy just went up. I needed to fire you up, buddy. Yeah. This has been a long time coming. Thank you for doing this. Yeah, yeah.

1:44.7

I appreciate you being here.

1:46.1

Before we dive in your stories right there, if you'd like, plug everything you want.

1:51.4

Everything I got right now, Frankonstage.com for whenever this comes out.

1:56.2

So just take a look there.

1:57.3

I'm traveling all over the country.

1:59.6

I did Frankonstage.com instead of Frank Colliando.com because people struggled spelling Caliando. I thought you were going to say a Frank Caliando out there got it and was like the protologist. There's a there's a proctologist. Come on. Really? Yeah. And he won't give it up? I don't know. No, well, he's out there.

2:18.4

He does, I have Frank Calliando.com, but so people don't have to spell Calliando. And you notice, I don't even know how to say my own name. I say Calliando, Caliando, that's what my dad says it. There's no E in it, so I don't know where he's getting Caliando. but frank onstage.com for all the dates uh january Omaha, February's, January's got Omaha, Naples, Florida, and February I know has Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Improv.

2:44.7

You ever been off the hook comedy club in Naples?

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