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This episode here goes back again all the way to six grades. One of my best friends, another brother to me.

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Chris Schiller, everybody. Welcome to the way back.

It's awesome to be here. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

You're welcome, buddy. Before we get into how we met, let's get a little back history on you and your family.

Obviously, I know your dad very well. Your mom just came to see me in Phoenix on the road, Barb.

How did they meet? Like, are they a Maryland family? Are they Maryland people originally?

Maryland people. You know, met at Towson State University, which now you were at Towson.

Oh, they did? Yeah, so you were at Towson State.

That's my favorite. Before you left to California. Towson State, then.

Towson State, then. Yeah, so they were still Towson State. So they met their gosh.

I mean, you know, my mom was what, 19, 20 when she had me. So long time ago, too long ago, actually.

But, um, but, uh, so I met there, you know, and I'm, I'm Baltimore rate, you know, born raised.

Um, I've been in the area, I guess now since, you know, since what last 50 years of my life.

And, um, but that's, you know, my, that's my parents met and, you know, been in this Baltimore suburb area for a long time.

So where were, was that your first home where you born into?

So we met, let me just tell everybody, we met sixth grade, somewhere between six and seventh grade.

Uh, we all went to the same middle school, like some middle school. Um, did you, was that the house you were born into Lexington run?

No, no. So I lived, actually lived in Towson with my parents were young, right?

So my, you know, I live with my dad's, my dad's mother, my grandmother for a couple of years.

When I was, when I was a newborn and then lived to actually write not far from here at six bullies quarters.

You know, as far as, you know, not too far down the road from here, where we are from the junkyard here.

And then, um, actually moved to Columbia to go to Benji's driving.

Yeah, Benji's driving all, you know, all that stuff, like the whole, the whole gamut down there.

So that's been a staple, you know, from, from, you know, being here as well.

Was that your first home before then you went to Lexington?

Yeah. Yeah. So, okay. So you did elementary school.

Like with that was pretty much in the city.

Yeah. Senator Towson.

Senator elementary was laid down down.

And that's, I guess, Paulie's quarter is Essex. So then we moved to, um, you know, got the lesson.

You were on around the, the fifth grade, you know, time frame, Carrolltown, um, elementary.

I'm not sure what you, I'm, I'm at you the next year, but yeah, I went to freedom.

Freedom.

Sixth grade at St. Joe's.

St. Joe's. Right.

Well, see you, you mentioned sitesville, because sites of middle school was our middle school,

but we had the asbestos issue there.

We had it.

We were just like, hey, everybody, the building's so bad, sixth grade can't come.

Seventh and eighth or five.

What are you talking about, man?

One whole floor has the asbestos, but the other two are right.

Yeah, those kids.

One year, one year there.

You're rolling this year.

You guys all back, back in the classrooms again.

Yeah.

So St. Joe's.

Sikesville.

And I guess from there.

I got, you know, geez.

I mean, we're sitting here.

What?

I'm 51 years old.

So we're talking about like, you know, I mean, what 40 plus years?

We meet in sixth grade.

We don't move into that neighborhood until like the summer between sixth and seventh.

Seventh.

So we all become walkers.

You're one of the walkers for sure.

We all walk to middle school every day.

It's like the mail posed off.

It's whatever weather.

We're walking.

Ain't nobody driving up and walking and walking back.

So we meet you.

Do you remember?

Because I really don't remember the way we met lamb was we'd walk by his house.

And this kid was just walking with us all of a sudden.

How do we meet?

Was it through little league?

Was it through the neighborhood?

Like how?

What was it?

I think from I can recollect when we middle school.

We met in middle school.

Obviously going to the same to the same school.

But then I think it was more about the area.

Like, you know, I was at Lexington, Ron.

You were on second avenue.

You know, we had other friends in the area there.

So we just started playing sports all that kind of thing.

So it would all play football in the cemetery.

Yeah.

Cemetery in this pickup game.

So I'll just kind of picked up and so we just wait.

Can I just tell you something out of I'm just going to pause you for a second.

Tell you something about that cemetery that happened.

It was so embarrassing to me.

Cool.

You remember Mark Orlando?

Yeah.

All right.

Mark Orlando, who CFL champion, great wide receiver, also a Towson state alum.

Yeah.

One time was driving me home from school.

We're passing that cemetery.

And he goes, my mom is buried in that cemetery.

And I just start laughing.

I'm like, no, she's not, dude.

And he's like, yes, she is.

I'm like, stop fucking with me.

Your mom is not buried in the cemetery.

All summer just drive by the cemetery.

Now your mom is buried in there.

And he's like, she's buried.

And I go, no, she's not.

He pulled in there.

He took me to the head.

And I said, oh, my God.

Wait, no.

Is it?

Hold on.

Is this the one?

Mark right in front of him.

I said, oh, my God.

This is Orlando, basically.

Is this the one?

She's right there.

But hold on.

I felt terrible, dude.

I felt terrible.

But now, is this the, but hold on a second, because is this the same cemetery?

This is right by, this is the chatterbox orphanage.

This is where it, right by the church there.

It's the one that they used it.

What else are my dad's buried?

Your dad's buried in where we live?

Mr. Shielders on the headstone.

Right near Mr. Land.

Mr. Land.

Right near Mr. Land.

We decided to drive in the car together, right?

Is that right?

It is.

It's the same, the little, the cemetery right by your head.

You had a little church on the corner?

Where we would play football there and stuff like that.

Yeah, church on the corner.

Where you there.

Okay.

That church on the corner is the first place I saw titties.

You might have saw them too.

I mean, in life, real in life titties.

Okay.

So this is the story.

And you were, I know you were there, because we all rode the bus back.

the bus bag. This is ninth grade. We all, the bus stop was the church right there. Yeah.

Where your dad, you say your dad's there. I will see. I'll drive by Mark Orlando and I will

go to Sheila. And right here, um, we're all in the bus that they Norris put on the bus,

all in the bus. And he used to get picked on. Actually, we went and been in 10th grade.

This is right before we got our lights. 10th grade because the kids in ninth grade,

he's picking on Norris and he won't stop picking on Norris. Norris is older, but he's,

you know, at the time, just passive and he's, he's not trying to fight this kid or anything because

if Norris snaps, this kid's gonna fucking die. So we get off the bus. Do you remember this?

And they go to square up. Finally, like Norris has had enough. And rightfully so, this kid

had been bugging. I go like, fuck up. Norris weeks. I remember. Yeah. So we get off in front of this

church. And they square up and they start fighting. And Norris is beating this shit out of him.

And this girl, I think her name was Jennifer. I can't remember. Norris is on top of him.

All four is just wailing. Fucking them up. Do you remember this? And the girl comes up behind

Norris. And I mean, hit a, hit a Justin Tucker 63 yards right in his nuts. I never,

like, I heard a fool and he said, he wrote over. He goes, I'll never forget. He goes,

somebody get her. Somebody get her. Yeah. So wait. Oh my God. That kid runs away.

And Norris is like, we're all like, fuck you. Fuck you. Well, if you remember Shana Moriarty,

Shana Moriarty was the best. Shana Moriarty was our old school. Like she was our age dirt, you know,

whatever you call them back then. Her brothers were hardly bikers. She came up hard. And she told

that girl that boy has picked on Chris Norris for weeks. And he finally stood up for himself.

And just because that kid's losing, he's your friend. You did that tomorrow. I'm fucking you.

Yeah. Yeah. She's now tomorrow. I'm fucking you up. And we were all like, oh, even if I drove,

I'm taking the bus tomorrow. So we get on that bus. And Shana Moriarty walks in. And it's already,

it's palpable. It's three o'clock high for sure. And she, remember, she punched her into face on

the bus as an appetizer. She punched her right now. Got glasses. She, you're not gonna hit a girl

glass. Shana Moriarty punched her right in the face. She goes, wait till we get off this bus.

We get off that fucking bus. And Shana Moriarty grabbed that girl. Do you remember

this? She had really big boobs for being in like nine to ten grade. And Shana Moriarty grabbed

her shirt and she ripped that shirt off. And that's the first time I saw it in real life. Not

in the magazine or anything like that. I was like, oh, my God. There's some. And then she hummeled

that fucking girl like a dude. I mean, beat the shit out of her. And Norris, if you remember,

he took her binder and he was skipping through the cemetery. She fucked that girl, man.

And we saw titties. Like, that's the first time I was like, well, you see it. Thank you, man.

Oh, my God. All right. So we meet you six grade. We all walk the school together. We play

ball together. What do you remember about coming over to our place on second avenue? Let's start

on second avenue. Oh, God. I mean, as far, well, I mean, you know, as far as with your dad and

everything like that, you know, we just, just great times there. I mean, like, you know, it was,

we would all hang out there. We go up to the street, pick it up games. You're, you know,

you're, you're playing all day. This is like back when, you know, obviously street lights come

on. You come home at night time and they come on and stuff like that. There's no time set.

Just good times. Fun times. We talked about this on the show. Do you remember the fucking commercial?

It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are? Because it was a problem that people didn't

know where the fuck their kids were. We had to remind them like, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, we have kids.

Oh, my God. It's 10 o'clock. Where the fuck are the kids? Yeah. You're somebody whistle for dinner.

The light comes on. Yeah. My dad had this thing. But that's what it was. And then, you know,

you just, it was just every day. There was like, you know, the way the technology is today,

even sitting here, technology and, you know, all the different apps and stuff like that.

Didn't have that stuff at then. So it was, it was just simple to be outside and be with people

and just, and do the things that you do. So yeah, so it was a great time. You know, we had all,

you know, and not just around your house, second avenue, but just people that were just all

I'm on the block and mile away and stuff like that. Just easy to get to and just a lot of great time.

So yeah, fun.

I'm going to jump around because you had a, we had a wild neighborhood. We did have a lot of

characters in the neighborhood. I want to know about the belly button stuff that used to happen

with your neighbors that used to tell us we get all together. So we, I probably shouldn't say

name for this, but, yes. You definitely should not say their name for this. Somebody will know

that. Do not say that. So, so, so we, this is, now, this is where I was, bunker Hill, which is not

far from, you know, down the, you're a second avenue, just down the wall, a little, you know,

the whole, the colonial war, right? The colonial war neighborhood or a beer court.

So, neighbor of mine, which I will say, the beckers, right? One didn't want to, we're talking,

I guess, the very high school in a bit, but high school, he was probably, say, some middle school too,

but we were out. Common area just camping out. It was like, you know, Friday, we're all like in

six, seven grade, whatever it is. And there's a neighbor that's in maybe category,

corner to where this common area is. And it's like this is, and you're in a court.

But it's like, did you call it a court or a cul-de-sac? I called it a court.

It is a cul-de-sac. I mean, it was a cul-de-sac, but all growing up, it was a court.

So, someone told us the name of cul-de-sac, that was so dumb.

Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, in the court, right? So, but where this, where this common area was,

you could have like an angle of like houses that were up just another side of the street.

So, it's like this time of the night, which is like six o'clock, whatever it was, some,

or time. Up in the window, you had like split windows in between the two-bedroom stuff.

Make me laugh. So, all of a sudden, there's two boys and there's like the mother and father.

Oh, wait, you're seeing this. We saw this. Oh, I thought they told you about it.

No, no, no. Well, this is that we confronted them and they told us that.

I didn't know you saw. Okay, my bad guy. We saw this. So, we look up and there's, you know,

there's like, I don't know, six or seven people out where the tents are going up and stuff like that.

And we see that the family just with their fingers, just like the mother's poking the one son,

the belly button, the other son's poking the other. You're seeing it.

Yeah, and then I'm like, what the hell is going on, right? So, then,

so they actually, it's supposed to go on for maybe a minute or two.

And then they, when they were like, you know, they have like even the mother like no clothes on,

like shirtless shirtless, right? This is, this is true story, shirtless.

So, they come downstairs of two kids that lived in a neighborhood and they come out and

whatever like that. And so, it was one, it was either myself or somebody else that was out there

said, Hey, what, what is going on with this belly button that you were doing with a poke in the

belly button and they got all kind of quiet and they go and then somebody said, all the belly button

game and then the one kid started to really get upset and stuff like that. But it was, I mean,

it was the oddest thing I have ever seen before. So, they admitted to playing the belly button

game as a family and they said they, they do it once in a while in the evenings and stuff like that.

I'm like, well, what does, what does that mean? I think we know what it mean. I think the belly button

game is the beginning of it. That's what I was. But it was very, it was really, it was very disturbing.

I guess we're both of them. I'm pretty sure I'm just starving for those kids too. Like, what's going on?

They saw us in the window. I mean, it was just a misradiculous thing. That's the shit you

learn when you grow up. Like, everything, no matter what's going on in your house when you're a kid,

it's normal until you then get outside of that house and go, wait, what the fuck is going on?

You all get hugs over here and cereal and shit. What's guys a different house?

And then you mentioned about seeing the, you know, you know, you know,

Tista first sign up on the church lot with the, with the Shantmore yard. For some muscle

titties, was it a church? This was maybe like, well, this is like a mother, well, you say

something great. A mother with no shirt on. That's true. That's true. That was pretty, that was

pretty wild. Yeah, we're trying to, oh, she not everyone goes on. I tell the story of my standup.

Like, we were very lucky to live in a neighborhood where there were a good dozen kids within the same

a, I'd say six to eight. They're all the same age. Yeah. And all pretty athletic, all had good

arms, all like the fuck around, all like to get in trouble. And everyone was a ball buster.

And I wrote some nicknames down that we used to call people that to this day,

I just will be sitting somewhere and I'll think of it. I will laugh so hard.

Do you know what my favorite nickname is? We call it a kid. Tarder. Tarder.

Let's get that plaque all over it. Get so much plaque and shit all over it. See? We nicknames the

Tarder. And then we call him that like it was like. No, it's not Tarder. What do you say?

What would he say? Don't got your shit no more. I got that shit no more, man. Yeah, you do.

You got a lot of Tarder on your body. The best of the best. Why is there not playing the game?

And what's, you know what happened, too? Once somebody had a name, what did a name was?

It's just stop like me today. I'm like, what's up, Tarder? It's like a 51. It doesn't matter.

And I remember when we really choose the team, you mentioned, choose the scores.

It was like about football, baseball, you said, I'll take Tim, give me a Larry. I guess I'll take Tarder.

I guess I'll take Tarder. He popped right up like that. Tarder was his thing.

I knew that shit. What the fuck was he had the air on his teeth, dude?

And he had to live with that nickname.

Who else could we get to? Call Tarder. Call Tarder. Call Tarder. Come down and play.

Oh my god. That was a really good one. One of my other favorite stories, too, is that

kid that now I look back. He's probably autistic, but we call him the left looker.

The left looker. That guy you taught to me just always look at that.

I'm just looking down the left, dude. Always looking to the left. You got Tixie.

Why are you, what's over there, dude?

We have a lot of stories about like first porno and early porno on this show,

and it depending on the age, it seems to be men in their 50s often would have porno in the woods.

Okay, there was always a stash in the woods somewhere. I'm telling you eight out of 10 times,

people are like, yeah, it was not going to woods. It was in the woods.

Having in the woods. I was like, it wasn't. We'd have a magazine in the woods and just go

leave it at the tree and go back to the woods. But then, and I don't remember who got it,

but someone got a porno. I just talked about this one called snake eyes. It was snake eyes,

right? And it was just one VHS that we all had to pass around. It wasn't like the days where

you could burn a CD or whatever. You all had to have snake eyes. And we gave it to Norris,

because we all shared this thing. And Norris hit it up in his in his basement and his chimney.

And I go, well, I'll think of him with you one time and he like goes up in the chimney and

there's a ledge when you go in there's a ledge here who I don't even know how the

fuck he figured that out. And that's where you would hide that. Where'd you hide it? When you had it,

where would you keep it? Uh, gosh, I probably probably like in a drawer under clothes and stuff

like that. Obviously, yes. Well, I mean, nobody was going to look probably, but under like

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I never, I never went through them. I was not a snooper. I never went through my dad's

shit. Like, I didn't know my dad had a porno until after he died and people were cleaning

shit out. You know what I mean? There was like one porno in there. I think my mom and my dad

died giving me his whole stash of it. I'm serious. He's like, what flavor?

Just the magazines and stuff like that. He goes, I don't want this stuff. You want you want to

take it? I'm like, well, yes. I mean, I'll take it. So, but yeah, I mean, I guess you said

mentioned about, yeah, you mentioned your brother's, you know, the drawers. I mean,

under you ever go through your brother's stuff? No. So what's the age difference between you and

Corey four years? Three, three and a half. It's like dust and Todd. Yeah. Yeah. So I never did.

Yeah, but I mean, but you know, under a bunch of shirts, like, and also like, I don't, a drawer

that no one's going to really check it. You know what I mean? So, but chimney, but he had

him in the chimney. Like, I don't know how you can find a ledge. That's what I'm saying. That's

something that chimney, but I mean, he had him, you know, a lot of them too, which was, um,

tell me about, I want to talk about some of the, because I got to give you props, man, we,

we, you especially were very early on with the belts for shit. Nowadays, you can get a belt

for anything and they look great, but we had, we may have belts for Nintendo. We were playing

Nintendo and Sega. We had Sega's when it really got aggressive. Oh, it was, there was some,

tell us about first, we'll start in your house. Tell us about the night you fought with your brother

and your dad came down. Well, the big thing, the big thing, the big thing in our house,

or I mean, there was tons, but the big one, the big game, we always played was about the NHL hockey,

right? And it was when you had a Mary, the, uh, the Mu and Mark Messier, and all that stuff. You

were paying, I always play with the black hawks. I had, I had, I had a radio, I had a ranger. Yeah.

And many bell four. Yeah. And remember, there was always the, um, we said it was, but when I,

when I went, when you and I were yellow about it, but there was always the glitch with the man,

like, you know, as long as you got them down the center, I used to, you couldn't, you could body,

you can stop them. But so we, so we had, we had to play that game and we created, like you said,

the, you know, we, I don't know who did it, but we did the belt too. We had a nice,

for what it was, like, you know, cut out piece of cardboard, trace it, aluminum foil,

but like, but press don't want it, right? Yeah. And then like the high NHL hockey cars,

like out of the, um, out of the, you know, like the top spat and staple them all onto the belt

and stuff like that. So we all come over there. You know, we have like, you know, whoever was,

it's, whoever was the champion that you had the belts up for grabs, right? We're playing it.

There were so many times where I would tell you, and we're like, just get out of my house,

you know, like, you know, because we were playing, I lose and, of course, 10 to 2, but call me when

you know how to play. Yeah, like it is being 10 to 10. Of course, you would like to instigate

it and stuff like that. My brother, I just beat this shit out of him, like, you know, like,

to apologize to him. But the biggest worry with that was we were all there, the belt's up there,

stuff like that. You had the belt. Yeah, maybe I had it. My dad, I guess we were all arguing,

are all fighting about the, the different games. My dad comes down from upstairs, like,

tiny whiteies on, like, just takes the console and just completely rips it out of the wall.

And just takes it up there. And we're just sitting for the TV TVs off. He didn't say a word.

It's aimed at her. Ripped it. He was saying, guys, just keep it easy. Just ripped it out of the wall.

You know, the TV's off. And then that, you know, that, that was pretty much it. But I think I did,

when that happened, I think I did retain the title, I think that you lost. That's why you fought.

Oh, yeah, man. You brother beat him. You ripped the belt. That's when your dad came down.

That was nothing as belt shit and everything. That was bad. It was bad. It was bad.

Yeah. That was, that was, that was all the good ones too.

We were also very early adapters on screen print and t-shirts ourselves. Do you remember we made

James Brown, free James Brown t-shirts? We all warmed the school. We made him, like, bad iron

all this stuff from Joanne Faber. We had free James Brown t-shirts in high school.

So times like North Avenue, I tell everybody, like, we had zero parents.

Nobody's there. However, we, the rule was, if you fucked up, it's over for everybody.

How the one of us? We were done. But everyone came over. Monday to Sunday, people were sleeping

over. I tell them how we're still all friends. And I'm like, would you let your kids do some shit

like that? Like, fuck no. But we're doing that. And people ask me all the time, I'm like, listen,

man, sports were the most important. Like, so for us, after my dad dies and Trudy's already gone,

and now we have an option. We can either go live with our grandmother or our beauties, start a

whole new high school. Don't know anyone start all over or we can stay in the community where we've

been. Stay with friends. We're not going to have a mother. So that's the best thing for us. So

we have to go there. Right. So we go there. And I tell everybody, like, sports were so important to

us. We all had to have good grades. We had to be, you had to be at practice, you had to wear your tie

on on game days, et cetera, et cetera. And you had to really show up. And if you fucked up,

you couldn't do it. So I said, we all graduated. I think except maybe and took a couple of us

didn't. All of us did good grades, all athletes, et cetera, et cetera. And I said, and this is a

night, I wonder if you remember this. I said, they're like, what do you mean? I was like,

there would be 12 people sitting in that tiny little house on a fucking Tuesday night,

drinking beer, or excuse me, I remember it specifically. It was a Thursday night. We got

cheers and nightcourt on here. We got Nintendo, literally baseball going here. And you realize

that you have a mobile due tomorrow of the solar system. Do you remember this?

And people are like, what do you do? I said, I'll tell you what we did. We drove to K-Mart just

in time. Back when K-Mart had, you could get little styrofoam balls and a section because Joanne

Fabrice wasn't, it had just come later, I think. Yeah. So we go there, we get all these balls.

And I'm like, we come home and I'm like, Shannon, you're Jupiter, Timmy, you're Saturn,

you're Pluto, you're, and we're just doing it. And then you went in the next day. Do you remember

what happened to it? The whole thing broke apart. But he gave you an A, the teacher saw it. He's

like, it was a, yeah, it was a Durkin, right? Durkin for, he gave us an A. He gave us an A.

He gave us an A. It was a good effort. He gave us an A. But I mean, I'm ever coming to you saying,

hey, I got, you know, I'm, I'm, of course, I'm staying here and I'm not going home.

I'd say, but we got to put it first. But we got a problem. I got this, I got this project

to, and I'm like, I can't, if I don't get it done, you know, et cetera. So we,

yeah, we got it all done. But it took like, what, I don't know, three, four, five, you know,

just doing it. They put it together. But I mean, everyone working together, everybody making

sure no one got in trouble that we could keep doing this as long as we could. There had to be

a year in a year. You couldn't just be, we don't go to school. We sit here and smoke cigarettes

and drink beer. And that's what you mentioned was amazing, which we could. Yeah, we really could.

And it's an amazing thing that you said about that was that with all the people that were over

there when a given day, random weekends, obviously parries and stuff like that, everybody core,

at least that we know core wise, as far as, you know, that was there. Like you said,

everybody went to school or I mean, even in the world today, people that did that today probably

wouldn't finish school. I mean, you know, you know, I mean, I mean, we got in the morning,

hey, listen, today, CPS is coming to that house. No, we're all miners. We're not, you know,

I mean, we're coming. Yeah, we're the person that's supposed to be in charge of you kids.

We would go to school and then our boyfriend is like, so far, it's nowhere. We're carrying it

over there. But we didn't like get in the morning, get up and say, oh, wait a minute,

talk to the school today. And we just went to school. And then it was like a repeat cycle

of home and then do it again. And sometimes like, you know, I think I had a key to the house

up there, right? Yeah. When you just climb up on the roof and go to the window, it was the key.

You guys going to go, how are you holding in my house without me being here? Well, we got a key.

Or somebody had like a legacy key and pass it around. Legacy key. Get the fuck out of here with

legacy key. All you had to do was hop up on the side roof and pop that window. We couldn't shut

that window. Everybody but we've been there and coming up. Oh, God. Oh, let's talk about

sleepovers at your house. I only did it. Well, I think I only did it once. I never came back

with the hamster. Yeah. Okay. Well, I can see why I probably wanted it. I mean, so, so the hamster,

the hamster and the cage and just probably like, you know, you obviously hamster has chips in the

cages. What six grade seven grade early, but the hamster just ran the wheel, right? Ran the wheel.

You're wearing the wheel all night, like a crack fucking hamster. You're on the floor.

And I remember I thinking like, I don't know. It was like, one o'clock in the morning. You go,

I just can't, I just can't take this anymore. I got chips over my head and my hair. I got

shitty. I'm still damn chicken. I have chip and chip in my face and my mouth. I said, I'll

like ice better than I ever here again. That's fucking big. I need to get a sleep in the chips

over the floor. Do you remember putting everybody's memory to the test? Do you remember what pet we had

at North Avenue? Think about it with pet. It was poor. It was such a poor little thing. We commented

on all of that. Did you have it? You get it. Ferret now, but it was something similar. It was a

floppy yeard rabbit. Oh, rabbit. Yeah. Yeah. So we had a rabbit in the, so, all right. So after

my father dies, we get moved into that apartment 912. And that's where we're all talking about.

And in that apartment, is everyone's doing what I mean, I'd come up to my bed and be like,

can you guys, can you, can you stop fucking in here so I can go sleep, Tyga? No, I'd stop.

Like go fuck my mom bed. No, you know what? I mean, you want to go in there. So what if it's

got a bunch of geese everywhere in there? Just put look past. Look past. Why are you in my bed?

So the night, so my little brother at the time, God, he's 13. We're 16. We're in this house.

It's your parents. Yeah. And we'll let him. There's so many people in the driveway area. Like

there's, I mean, you get blocked in and everything. Top would want to drive young. So we would let

him move the car. Yeah. It might be the best story. One of the best ever there as far as

I'm from from your brother's perspective. But so anyway, we're in the house on it. We're probably

just the same thing, playing the video games, but really that talk comes in and goes, Ryan's,

people are trying to leave. And you know, your car is your car's box in the making. I just pulled

out. You go, yeah, here's the keys. Just go, just go pull it out. All right. So he's like,

cool. You know, he's 13. He wants to drive. He comes out. He just in the car. But he's gone for

like, he's gone for like, you know, not long, but it's like longer than you think. Right? You

should just pull the car back in, back in. Next thing, you know, you hear like this, you know,

this, the other steps, you person a Ryan, Ryan, come on. Hit the propane tank on the side of

the house immediately. We're smelling it. So we got like a whistling. You guys, you can smell the

propane tank. We're right beside the building. So that's how shitty of a place we are. We're

getting powered by propane for this. That's where our heat and our gas and everything's coming

from this little house. This little one, it wasn't even a house. It was a duplex. That's how it's

going. What's that? What's that whistling sound? Stinks like propane so bad. So he calls my mother

and she's like, I'm not coming out there. Oh, just turn the valve off and leaves it. The

fucking things had copper wires hanging out of this thing. It's sideways like that. We look

shit up and it says it could blow a city block part. This fucking thing. It blows up. We're

still in the house playing game. And we're just fever smoking cigarettes. I'm like stop smoking

cigarettes. We're going to fucking die. Just can't sleep. Just smoke it for one night every

month. Oh my god. That might have been the fun. And just how he was all the breath. He was so excited

to drive cars. He came out like. We're like, what? Oh, no. My mother couldn't

care less. It could have, you know what could have happened. It could have been like eight

kids dead in that house. My mother would have been like, I'm going to be boom. I mean, but it was

that was unbelievable. That was one of the biggest times.

He crashed.

Okay, let's talk about how we used to go blow up mail. Let me explain to this guy was first

because I've talked about him before, but there was a family they were called

and I believe one of them might be gone now. Maybe both are at this point. I think they were

listening. I'm not even going to sugarcoat here. They were a family that lived

on a hill off the road with no indoor plumbing. The kid had been suspended multiple times for

his stench and his smell. They tried to put him in the showers at school. He refused to do it.

They were just a really dirty. I mean, almost hillbilly, really. They were hillbilly people.

It was either mountain people like West Virginia mountain people that relocated and he would

fuck with people. He wasn't innocent. He would be like the fuck with people because they would

fuck with him, but we would go and we would take M80s. Go ahead. We would say M80s. And so where

the house was the house, like you said, the house was pushed up on the hill, right? So the house

is further away. We called the road. Oh, yeah. Oh, I wasn't even really going to be

tarder on. I mean, I can't recall any of the road now. But if you said, oh, no, it's not

where you're talking about. But so the hill's up on the house up on the hill and the mailbox is

way down from the house. I write off for the street. So we would drive, you know, weekend. What

are we Friday? Friday, Saturday nights. I think it was who? Somebody had that made another M80s.

Oh, everybody had to have everybody had the M80s. And so we would, you know, put that

meeting in the mailbox, like, you know, you light it, you drive away. I don't know how to

it would have take like 10 seconds. You know, you're like, just I boom, I don't, you know,

the sides would blow open the back would shoot off into the leaves. The leaves that we're leaving.

And for the result, the thing you always do, too, you should never do it. What do you do? Like,

you drive back to the scene of the crime, right? You come back around the corner and then we

would take five minutes, come back. And then the mailbox was just like a little, you know,

metal mailbox just completely gone off the off the post, just a post there. And then the next day,

we drive by, right? Because they had to get the mail. They have a little

pale, a five gallon, but just said mail. They spent money on mailbox. We blew that mailbox

up so many times they probably left that bucket up like fuck. It's a five gallon bucket,

it's a mail out of flag. And then we threw an M80 and that on point. It was bullet proof.

That was the end of our run. I think there was one time where the father, he came running

down the hill, too, at one time. I think when we had, I mean, it was, it was a close call, but

that was, yeah, that was, that was funny. It was unbelievable.

Let's talk about, I don't want to get heavy on it, but I do want to talk about the crazy

coincidence. So I've known you since sixth grade. My father dies November 27th, 1989. I'm in college.

I remember your dad had a brain tumor. I went to visit him in the hospital a couple times,

actually, because it was right down. Where was he? Shep, hopkins by, I was not far from my

school. I go see him after school. And then your dad ends up dying the same day. My dad died.

How many years later? What year was he? He died in 95. 95. So you were six years later. That's

crazy to know somebody as long as we've known each other. And then our dad's died on the same day.

It's pretty wild. Yeah. I mean, and it's, it is, and we thought we did it. We, and I was, I was a

guest on the, the honeydew with you all a couple of years ago when we did talk about this, but

it's, that is surreal though. I mean, like, you know, you thought, because again, you can always say,

it's a coincidence or just a day. It's two people die. I mean, I guess it's molded, if I looked it

up, like, you know, your dad, my dad, who died on the 27th, probably a lot of people, you know,

and I mean, but when you have a connection like that, and it's in two different dads at the

same day, you have to, but, you know, and I do, but you have to believe in a higher,

oh, higher being, you know, God purpose of the look right over there, right now, over there.

So I walk in today, Mr. Roy starts talking to me about my, the out of nowhere, he's like,

I remember the day your brother called me and I'm like, oh, man, so I'm walking around,

just looking, we're setting up everything. And Shannon's got these clamps up here. And as

fucking says, they're, they're called Irwin clamps. I, that's my dad's name, Derek, his son,

my daughter's middle name. We all were in Palm Springs last year. It was Shannon, his daughter,

Jimmy, his daughter, me, my daughter. I think it was just the sixth Kevin came, but he didn't go,

we go to do an escape room. You ever do a escape room? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're all in there.

You know, they come in to tell you the story of the room and everything. His name, Irwin. Wow.

I was like, get the fuck out of here. So I 100% believe in all that. I firmly is obviously here

for this. And also I believe that these signs are things that are telling us, number one, you're aware

and two, that you are doing the right thing. You know what I mean? Yeah, never sure.

Dude, thank you for doing this. This is a really fun episode. We're going to do more together.

We're going to do a big group one tomorrow. Yeah, man. I'm looking forward to tomorrow and

and it's something I'd like to keep coming back and doing. So thank you for doing this, brother.

I love you. Yeah, I love you too, man. This is great. This is Ryan Sickler here, the way back,

the junkyard series. We'll talk to you all next week. I hope you enjoyed the way back the

Baltimore junkyard series, trying something different. Why not? We've got the ability to go do it,

why sit here and do the same thing all the time. So I hope you guys are enjoying it. And if you are

throwing comment in there, let me know and we'll keep on doing it.