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The Wayback with Ryan Sickler

98: The Wayback #98 | Mike Vecchione - School Walkers

The Wayback with Ryan Sickler

The Wayback with Ryan Sickler

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

4.8781 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Mike Vecchione is here for his second ride in The Wayback as we cruise through 1980s Youngstown, Ohio (Check out his stand-up Special "Low Income White" on YouTube).  Mike gets nostalgic when we visit his childhood home in Canfield, Ohio, and we both recall what it was like walking to school as kids.  We then reminisce about the 80s phenomena that was Bon Jovi's "Slippery When Wet," the "satanic panic" around Ozzy Osbourne, and the emergence of other hair bands like Poison and Mötley Crüe.  After a quick detour to Ryan's childhood home in Sykesville, Maryland, we also relive some other 80s childhood staples like Mike Tyson pay-per-views and sitcoms like The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son, and Taxi.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Guys, it's been, I think, a little over a week now, and I can't thank you enough for all the

0:06.8

kind words and the great feedback on this special. I am going to sit here and pat myself on

0:12.2

the back. I went from almost being killed to releasing this special. And it's been a two and a half

0:18.0

year labor of love. And we crushed it.

0:21.1

I found every single person to work on this within a single dad budget living in this expensive-ass city of Los Angeles.

0:29.5

And I'm going to say we crushed it.

0:31.8

We did.

0:32.2

This is nothing like my last special.

0:34.2

This special is special.

0:36.5

It's a bit of a one-man show, a retelling of a near-death

0:40.4

experience, live and alive, streaming on my YouTube now, and go give it some extra love,

0:46.0

because YouTube demonetized it. Within two days, somebody complained about it. They took it out of

0:50.6

the algorithm. We fought. They got us back in there, but it's already killed the momentum. So it is what it is. Go over there. Tell everyone, share everyone, like, comment, help to get back in that algorithm, all right? And while you're there, go to the store, all right? Go to Ryan Sickler.com. Click on the merch. We've got a fall clear in sale going on right now. You're going to get a free t-shirt and three free gifts with every apparel purchase. We got $10 T's and hats. We got $20 hoodies and pants. That's joggers. That's night pants. I'm telling you, you're not going to find this sale anywhere else. Get it now.

1:29.5

When they're gone, they're gone. Christmas is coming. Go to the merch store now. Get your

1:34.5

fuck Steve shirts. Get your honeydew merch. Go get it now.

1:40.1

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 way back, everybody. Ryan Sickler here. Thank you guys for supporting this show. This is one you really need to watch. I love what we got going on here. This has been a really fun show to dive into people's past, get them in here in a way back and see how they grew up.

2:03.8

I'm very excited to have this guest back here with me today, ladies and gentlemen, back in the way back.

2:10.3

Mike Vecchio and everybody, back in the way back.

2:12.7

Thanks for having me on, brother.

2:14.6

Before we get into some old stories and stuff right there promote everything you'd like please um please give me a follow at comic mike v on all social media platforms that's at comic mike v and i also have a special on youtube the nateland youtube page nape bargatsy is a friend of mine, and he's very graciously giving me a second special on his YouTube page.

2:39.0

It's called Low Income White.

2:40.5

Please go watch it.

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