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The Wayback with Ryan Sickler

79: The Wayback #79 | Yannis Pappas

The Wayback with Ryan Sickler

The Wayback with Ryan Sickler

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Relationships, Comedy

4.8781 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Yannis Pappas slides into The Wayback as we roll through Brooklyn, New York in the 1980s!  (Check out his special "Property Owner" on YouTube, and his podcast "History Hyenas").  We get nostalgic about old school 80s TVs, and visit his childhood home in Brooklyn where he ran the streets playing all kinds of games like wiffleball, stoop ball, running bases, manhunt, and kick the can.  Yannis also reminisces about quarter waters, the dangers lurking in Prospect Park, basketball street fights, and the brutality of attending summer camp at a military academy.  A certified class clown who once had a GPA lower than the blood alcohol legal limit, Yannis also talks about being the Ferris Bueller of his high school—"Free Yannis!"

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, baby. We're going to be here all day. We're going to be here all day, baby. I like this kind of party. Welcome back to the Wayback, everybody. Ryan Sickler here. Thank you for supporting this show. This is a fun one you got to watch. I love bringing these old stories to life. I'm very excited to have this guest back here with me today. Ladies and gentlemen,

0:26.2

Yadis Pappas, welcome to the way back, brother. What's up? It's good to be here in 1983. It's 83, bro. What's up? I'm 10 and 83. How old are you in 83? I'm 83. I am seven. Seven.

0:32.4

Yeah. Before we get into some old stories right there, promote your special, promote anything you

0:38.0

want. Yeah, go watch my special on YouTube right now. It's called Property Owner, watch the

0:43.2

history hyenas podcast, and see my live dates on my website, yonestepa's comedy.com.

0:48.8

Great. I don't even know what a website is. I don't even know what I just said. I'm in 1983.

0:53.5

That's a good point. That's a good point. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what I just said, man. Go watch my stuff on a black and white TV. I didn't have color till maybe late 80s. Is that right? Yeah, I grew up in a black and white. I used to watch, I used to watch the honeymooners at 1130 and then Star Trek at midnight. Okay. On a TV that was black and white that had the dial. I'm curious how many people at one point had to get up to turn the channel as a kid. Oh, yeah. Get up and turn the channel. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, they're going away. Yeah, go over there and turn that. Yeah yeah sometimes you would just watch something because

1:28.6

you didn't want to get up you didn't want to turn it you didn't want to get up yeah i mean so you started

1:32.2

with black and white huh i don't know i mean we had a small one in the house you know had the antennas

1:37.7

with the foil and everything on a tv tray that was that was maybe remember but i remember our first tv was like it wasn't just a tv it was, that was, maybe remember that. But I remember our first TV was like, it wasn't

1:47.5

just a TV. It was like a console. Yeah, they're huge. Yeah, with tube in and everything. It took people,

1:53.3

several people to bring it in the house and shit. We had one color TV in the living room and then all,

1:58.5

there was like two or three other ones in bedrooms that were, that were black and white. Yeah. They were black and white. So my TV in my room was black and white. Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn, New York. Yeah. Do you remember your old address? Yeah. Are people's, or family's still there? Nobody's still there. Let's look it up. What's the address? 6 to 8 3rd Street right there, right on Prospect Parkpect Park that's my house this is your building here

2:19.9

the the the the black door the on the right that one over that one that's it that's your house

2:25.9

that's where I grew up so this is your bottom right down here is your living room or living room right

2:30.7

right there yeah my parents room was right above there like that those black windows up

2:35.8

there's my parents room and what's the white windows to the right of that that's another house

2:39.9

so they're all just straight up in yeah those two floors right there got this is where i grew up

2:45.1

and what are you doing here what are you getting into during these days oh we used to play oh this is

2:50.4

crazy so in front of the house is where we played baseball, right? So the strike, so we, that, right in that square in front of my house was the batter's box. And then the pitch you would pitch there. And then if you scroll up, there's an apartment building on the corner.

3:08.4

You see that, you see that garden there?

3:11.3

Yeah.

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