Crack Cocaine To Stand-Up Comedy: How Ali Siddiq Went From Teenage KINGPIN To Superstar Comedian

The Connect- with Johnny Mitchell

Johnny Mitchell

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4.3 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2024

⏱️ 165 minutes

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Ali Siddiq is a famous standup comedian that headlines and sells out comedy clubs and theaters around the world. But his path to success in comedy is not a common one. He grew up in Houston's Third Ward surrounded by drug use and crime. At a young age he began selling drugs and quickly built an illegal empire, reaching kingpin status. He was busted by law enforcement and served time in some of the worst prisons in Texas. It was in these prisons that he discovered his talent for speaking and making people laugh. He turned his life around, got out of prison and has created a wildly successful career for himself as a standup. Ali joins the show to talk about his experiences as well as his regrets and lessons learned from his earlier life as a criminal and how he's encouraging people now to live a more positive life. Go Support Ali! YouTube: @AliSiddiqComedy Website: https://alisiddiq.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/alisiddiq/ This Episode Is Sponsored By: PRIZEPICKS Visit https://www.prizepicks.com/ or download the app today and use code CONNECT for a first deposit match up to $100! Join The Patreon For Bonus Content! https://www.patreon.com/theconnectshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Sherlock Holmes.
0:01.8	It's an unusual name.
0:22.1	Introducing Young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series. What game are we playing today? Discover the origins. It's cleaving. Those days are surely behind me. Of crime's most iconic mind. There has been a break-in. Astoned. You should be a detective. Starring Hero finds Tiffin, Donald Finn and Colin Firth.
0:25.5	If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you.
0:29.7	Young Sherlock, new original series. Watch now only on Prime Video.
0:32.6	We say in Texas is three things that's locked up.
0:39.3	Lions, lambs, wolves.
0:41.3	And the stopping from being a lion,
0:44.2	you have to dismantle him.
0:47.2	My guest today is comedian Ali Sadiq.
0:51.4	Ali is one of the most successful independent comedians in America.
0:54.1	He sells out theaters all over the country. I like big boot his daddy.
0:57.9	But when he was a kid in Houston, he was a crack dealer and drug kingpin. He has insane stories
1:05.2	about growing up in Houston during the height of the crack boom and then later, while he was
1:10.7	serving time in Texas prisons,
1:12.6	where he began doing stand-up comedy.
1:14.6	He's got a new comedy special out on YouTube right now.
1:17.9	It's called The First Day of School.
1:19.8	Go watch that and go see him on the road.
1:22.3	Comedian Ali Sadiq, right here on The Connect with Johnny Mitchell.
1:26.5	Texas prison system is the worst prison
1:31.7	system. Whatever you can get your hands on, you better get it. Get a knife, a broomstick,
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