#1128 - Ryan Sickler

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Five, four, three, two, one.

Ryan Sickler brought some Baltimore work ethic. I can't believe you got actual pieces of paper that you brought.

Ryan Sickler (0:12)

Yeah, I...

Joe Rogan (0:13)

What kind of comic are you? What, are you prepared?

Ryan Sickler (0:15)

I'm prepared, man. I'm prepared.

This is just shit to come back to.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

That Baltimore accent is so... I have two very good friends, my good friend John Rollo and my good friend, excuse me, Ben O'Brien, both from Baltimore. And both got that weird, like if you don't know that Baltimore...

Yeah, it's a weird accent. It's like, what is that?

SPEAKER_3 (0:34)

Hey, Joe Rogan.

Ryan Sickler (0:36)

Hey, Joe Rogan. I love your podcast, Joe.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

It's a weird accent.

Ryan Sickler (0:40)

It's so fucking weird.

And people there are like hardcore. They say shit like for sink, they'll say zinc, kitchen zinc, ambulance. Kitchen zinc. I didn't realize I had a Southern accent until I moved here. And I still don't believe I have a Southern accent.

SPEAKER_4 (0:57)

I'll give it a draw.

Ryan Sickler (0:58)

I'll give it a draw.

Joe Rogan (0:59)

It is a Southern accent, but it's a different one.

SPEAKER_4 (1:03)

It's not Alabama.

Ryan Sickler (1:04)

That's Mississippi South.

Joe Rogan (1:06)

It's a friendly Southern accent. It's not like, man, I can't talk to this motherfucker. But it's like, oh, where are you from? It's one of those.

Ryan Sickler (1:15)

People are always surprised when I say Maryland. But when you get into pockets of Virginia, they've got a Southern accent there. Even when you go into Indiana, there are certain areas of Indiana that have a Southern accent and other places that don't. It's really weird about these little settlements, and they've just developed these accents that just stay there.

Joe Rogan (1:32)

I think Baltimore is one of the most misunderstood, though.

That's a weird one, because it's a big city. I mean, Baltimore is a big city.

Ryan Sickler (1:40)

They call it the big little city.

Joe Rogan (1:42)

I mean, how many people in Baltimore, if you had to guess? Couple million?

Ryan Sickler (1:46)

I'd say that's fair.

Joe Rogan (1:46)

Yeah, that's a fucking city.

Ryan Sickler (1:48)

It's a big city.

Joe Rogan (1:48)

Bigger than San Diego, right? Yes.

Ryan Sickler (1:50)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:51)

But it's got its own.

Ryan Sickler (1:51)

And older. It's got history, you know. That's the thing. A lot of history.

Joe Rogan (1:55)

But that weird-ass accent, that if you don't know anybody from Baltimore, you don't know that accent.

Ryan Sickler (2:00)

My buddy owns a junkyard in the city, and I took Jay back when we were on tour. I was like, you got to come meet him, see this junkyard and shit. And, you know, people drop. He's like, oh, we're doing everything. And he's like, do you just put a K on the end of that right there?

Joe Rogan (2:13)

Like everything.

SPEAKER_4 (2:15)

Everything. Yeah, you guys don't know anything you're doing over there.

Ryan Sickler (2:20)

And also for years, I said Washington, DC washer and dryer, because everyone there says it.

And one day somebody said, wait, what did you say? I said, put it in the washer. And they're like, spell washer, W-A-S-H-E-R. Like there's no R in that.

And I started saying to myself, like, oh, my God, I do fucking say Washington and washer. So I trained myself to get out of that. But anytime I see something political on TV, if I hear someone say, we're in Washington, then I'm like, oh, you're from that area. The same way with the days of the week, I was telling you, Monday, Tuesday, we do our podcast, Crabfeast comes out every Tuesday. And I listen to the announcers, like Phil Sims. He's like, well, they were working out on Monday. And I'm like, yeah, you're probably from that area. That's how I pick up little shit like that.

Joe Rogan (3:06)

Yeah, well, I grew up in Boston. That's an obvious accent. Everybody knows that accent.

Ryan Sickler (3:11)

But you don't have it.

Joe Rogan (3:12)

I got rid of it.

Ryan Sickler (3:13)

Oh, so you did have it.

Joe Rogan (3:14)

I shook it loose.

SPEAKER_4 (3:15)

Except that should have dripped.

Joe Rogan (3:17)

But if you hear me from like, well, like early before, pre-2000, I had it, you know? I heard it too much. I heard it in my own voice. I was like, ew.

And then I got rid of it. First time I heard it, I was 19 I did this thing. I was on local television at 19 And I heard my accent. I was like, what in the fuck is that sound coming out of my mouth?