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The Wayback with Ryan Sickler

90: The Wayback #90 | Ali Siddiq

The Wayback with Ryan Sickler

The Wayback with Ryan Sickler

Comedy Interviews, Stand-up, Society & Culture, Relationships, Comedy

4.8781 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Ali Siddiq is here for his second ride in The Wayback as we roll straight into the 80s.  (Check out his YouTube specials "Rugged," "My Two Sons," and "The Domino Effect" ).  Ali gets nostalgic about moving around a lot as a kid, and takes us to see some of his early grade schools, reminiscing about his youth sports career, school dances during the breakdancing era, and watching the Challenger shuttle explosion in class.  We also trade stories about childhood games like hot ball, spread eagle, and bottom's up.  Then we do a deep dive on early video games like Pong, Pitfall, 1942, Track & Field, Galaxian, and Double Dribble!

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0:00.0

San Diego. I'll be at the Grand Comedy Club Friday, October 3rd. Get your tickets now on my website at ryan sickler.com.

0:13.7

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.

0:19.9

Welcome. Back to the way back, everybody. Ryan Sickley here. Thank you for supporting this show. This is one of the shows you've got to watch. This is a produced show where we die back into people's childhoods, get nostalgic, have fun. I'm very excited to have this guest back here and the way back his second time ladies and gentlemen

0:38.2

ali sadique welcome back to the way back allie saddick thank you for bringing me way back make

0:43.4

sure y'allie sadik dot come look at all the specials rugged my two sons go back and watch

0:49.1

since we're going way back go back and watch um the dom effect, which is pretty good. Man, way back

0:56.4

where we started, how back we started. Well, when you came here the first time, we got a good one.

1:01.6

We talked about Underreuse, Superman, homemade Halloween costumes. So I wanted to ask you, you, if I say before we were recording, were you a vacation family?

1:14.9

And if so, did you, did you drive? Did you fly? Like, what were you guys doing to get away from home?

1:21.8

We really wasn't vacation. My mom, when, you know, she's a very responsible mom, when she wasn't able to

1:30.9

take care of us and we would, she would just start a new career and, you know, she was going to

1:35.6

need money and she was going to just be able to fend for herself. She would send me and my sister

1:39.9

to live with our relatives. So that was our vacation.

2:01.5

So, you know, you just get sent away. Just get sent away. You know, I lived in Mississippi. I lived in Chicago. I lived in. Are these for summers or? No, these for whatever. This is for life. Like, we're not getting. So mom's starting a new job and it's like, y'all got to get out of here until I get settled in. I got to go to school.

2:02.7

I'm only going to be take care of myself.

2:03.7

So hey, listen, you're going to So mom's starting a new job and it's like, y'all got to get out of here until I get settled in. I got to go to school.

2:01.9

I'm only going to be able to take care of myself. So, hey, listen, you're going to live with your relatives in California. So buy. Pack everything up. Don't leave anything. Is that right? Yeah, that's true. And how long would you go live with them for? Until it was time to come back. This is an until situation.

2:19.8

This is like being locked up for, um, yeah, I was going to say. They were like, hey, you got, you got 10 years in a day. Like, what day? Just, well, no, what we decide? And you would go, where did you stay out here? Englewood.

2:34.6

Okay.

2:35.6

And where in Mississippi?

2:37.0

Clarksdale.

2:38.3

And where else did you go?

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