Grief Ain't Funny (Guest: Rickey Smiley)
Dear Future Wifey
Laterras R. Whitfield
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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In this episode of the Dear Future Wifey Podcast, host Laterras R. Whitfield sits down with Rickey Smiley, a comedian and author who shares his personal story of grief and healing. Rickey opens up about the loss of his son and how it led him to write his book, "Side Show." He talks about the importance of community and the role of prayer in his life, as well as his experiences with the power of kindness and generosity. Rickey also shares his thoughts on marriage and relationships, highlighting the value of finding someone you can live without.
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, it's your boy, B. Titty. |
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| 0:24.2 | Subscribe now and ride with the crew because if you ain't tuned in, what is you doing? |
| 0:30.0 | Now it's time to get in your business. Ricken, where aren't you married? |
| 0:32.8 | Oh, let's talk. I was married for 12 years. |
| 0:36.7 | My goal is not finding someone to live with. Finding someone I can't live without. A woman that's soft. I don't like that Auntie energy. Because I cuss you back out. I was about to ask you that, Ricky. You didn't cuss at all. Why you start cussing now? Because people got on my nerves. you. And as we all got older, we get in that space where, hey, you ain't better talk to me like that. And your mama. It's Ricky Smiley. What is the value of marriage to you? Everything. I grew up. I watched my grandmother and my grandfather coexist. That's what I would like to have. I'm seven, eight years old making drinks. |
| 1:11.9 | I never had a drink. |
| 1:13.2 | I never smoked a day of my life. |
| 1:13.6 | Why not? |
| 1:14.2 | Why not drink? |
| 1:15.9 | Because my grandparents told me not to. |
| 1:20.6 | I lost my father like that to drugs. |
| 1:23.3 | And then my mother struggled with drugs all through high school. |
| 1:24.6 | I didn't want that life. |
| 1:35.4 | Watching what my grandparents went through April the 11th, 1976, is more devastating to this day than watching what I went through myself. |
| 1:39.7 | I always wondered all those years, how did that make them feel? |
| 1:41.6 | And then I became him. |
| 1:43.3 | Well, I'll see your son. |
| 1:45.2 | How have you been navigating that space? My son died on a Sunday. That Wednesday, I became him. Velocel to your son. How have you been navigating that space? |
| 1:46.8 | My son died on a Sunday. |
| 1:48.3 | That Wednesday I woke up. |
| 1:50.6 | I was like, let me get up and get back on the radio. |
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