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Welcome back to the way back everybody.

Ryan Sickler here.

This is the junkyard series.

This episode here is with one of my brothers in life.

We go back to sixth grade.

Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Lamb.

Everybody, welcome to the way back, Chris Lamb.

Thank you for having me.

It's a pleasure to be here.

I didn't realize.

Chris Lamb, before we get into how we met in our stories, let's get a little backstory on you.

You can even refresh my memory.

You're both parents from Maryland originally.

Yeah.

Mom and dad.

Yes, sir.

That's correct.

And how they meet.

I have no idea.

Was it high school?

They met young, right?

Yeah, yeah, they both graduated.

You're their only child, correct?

Broke them old.

They couldn't stand the beard.

They couldn't stand the beard.

They didn't even like each other, right?

So that's me and that's it, right?

Okay.

And how would you win your parents' split?

So I was in third grade.

So when you're trying to figure out how to do...

Curse of.

Curse of...

Curse of...

Curse of the right corner.

In multiplication, I was trying to figure out whose house I was going to do.

Right?

So, yup.

Do you remember any of it?

Do you remember them saying, hey, we're doing this?

So, I've had this conversation with my wife many times.

There was never an explanation.

My mother said, hey, dad's going to work.

And in three years later, he shows up down the street, remarried.

So there was never an explanation.

See, I didn't know that.

So Rita...

Rita's mom's name.

Rita Lamb.

Rita told you he was going to work like what?

Like in Alaska?

Like a way?

On a way job?

No, I mean, so he was...

A lot of people say that and their partner's going to prison.

Right.

So he was a local firefighter, Baltimore County, shout out, right?

So he went to work and, you know, she just...

That's how she covered it.

But there was definitely a lot through that, right?

When we were living on Gator with her, he would call.

She'd get angry.

She totally asked for it.

Okay.

That's what I want to get to.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

So you went with Rita first.

Correct.

But when I met you, you're at dads.

Yup.

So what happens between that and that that you get into dads?

Because we meet in sixth grade.

Also, I want to give a shout out to Rita Lamb.

Rita Lamb, if you watch my special lefty son,

if you haven't, go watch it, is the lady who...

It's his mom that told us about the crazy lady at Springfield.

The lady that would jump on your hood.

That's who we're talking about right now.

Okay.

So you're living with Rita all through what?

Great.

So third day split, third through six.

I think by sixth grade, she had just had enough single mom

trying to figure out how to raise me.

And I was probably a handful.

I'm sure I was a problem solved at that time, right?

You know, with all that.

And no therapy or counseling or anything to figure

anything out back in the day, right?

So then I think she was just like,

I've had enough.

I'm sending him off with his father, right?

So that was literally my dad moved away,

got remarried and moved three miles from the house.

Right.

We lived that.

I can tell you how many people I've had come on the podcast

over the God knows how many years I've been doing this.

And so many of them.

My mother included,

leave the house and move right down the damn street.

They don't move to another state.

You can see him at the grocery store.

You know what I mean?

It's so weird.

So you don't hear anything.

And then poof instant family over here down the street.

Yeah.

Like already pre-made family already put together

with perfect children and you're throwing this.

So when you lived with Rita,

bless her heart, single mom worked at night.

I don't even think what she did was legal now, right?

Because she'd put me to bed at night

and go to work at Springfield 11 to 7.

Then I was home alone and then she would show up in the morning

and you're ready.

Where?

In grandma's?

No, at Gathor Road.

When we were at 7.

So you had an apartment there?

No, so we were at the house right above the apartment.

Oh, okay, okay.

Right there.

And you're sleeping in there by yourself as a little kid?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So me and the dog, all good stuff.

Well, your mom was leaving to go to work.

Mine was going to bang dudes.

Either way, CPS was coming to bed.

Yeah, right.

Right, all right.

So, um, yeah.

So then had to go to dads,

instant family, new wife, you know,

perfect kids and then they throw me in, right?

Stop brother and step sister, right?

Correct.

Correct.

Okay.

Well, still obviously you're older because...

Just by a little bit.

Yeah.

By one year.

Jenny, Jennifer was below me by one year apart.

Yeah.

And it takes nine months to have a baby.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I knew that, man.

Yeah.

Somebody was doing that.

I don't know why Rita was throwing ash trees.

Right, right, right.

So, um, and Rita didn't have a lot of rules or regulations, right?

So I was pretty much like raised by wolves, right?

No, no, like, hey, brush your teeth, go to bed at this time.

So hey, these chores are not for you.

Everyone you're about to see on these episodes is the exact same way.

That was the exact same pair of things.

Right.

Right.

So then now, move it fast forward three years.

Now I'm at Central Avenue,

dad, new step mom, instant family,

and I come in and I'm like,

what, uh, heck did I just get myself into, right?

So, um, go in there, listen,

and, you know, you're put in a bedroom with a brother

that you never knew and you're supposed to be brothers right away.

You're kind of, you know, round peg in a square hole,

kind of trying to figure it out.

Lots of rules, lots of restrictions.

So I don't mean it interrupt here, but in that three years,

they had both kids.

It wasn't.

No, no, no.

Those kids weren't dads.

Oh, oh, I didn't know that.

I thought those were his children as well.

So you're, you are true steps.

Yeah, siblings, not half brother.

Correct.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, good.

Go ahead.

Um, so then, move into another room.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

Go ahead.

Um, so then move into an element where like rules, restrictions,

and I was like, what did I just get myself into, right?

Brown socks on non-Jim days.

If you remember that, right?

No.

You had to wear, she made you wear it?

Yeah, she made you wear penny loafers and khakis on non-Jim days.

Like, if you didn't have Jim, I don't remember that.

There was no getting out of it.

You're walking in the snow with awesome penny loafers.

Take it.

No, we were sitting on it.

Interests up socks, right?

So, you know, remember, that's why, well, as we get into it, my biggest punishment was because

I went out and played outside when I had in our clothes.

I've told that story.

Okay.

We're going to tell.

I want to hear from your side.

Yeah.

So we were living on Irongate Road in, in Eldersburg.

We were pretty cheats on lefty.

They split.

We move into Westminster for one year.

Okay.

That was sixth grade year.

Sixth grade year.

Um, Sykesville Middle School had an asbestos problem.

Do you remember?

We had to say it.

And where do we go?

We went to St. Joe's Church.

And that's where I would go to CCD.

Yeah.

Every Sunday.

So I'm like, now we're in this motherfucker.

Six days a week.

Come on.

Right.

But they had an asbestos problem, which you think about now.

It's like, but seventh and eighth grade floors are five.

And there's a problem with asbestos in the building, the whole building.

Not fine.

Right.

But we did.

We attended sixth grade in the basement of St. Joe's and the catechism classes.

Yeah.

Remember that?

Yes, sir.

Yep.

So then they actually, so then we meet you in the right after sixth grade.

Be the summer after because we moved to second avenue.

Right.

After that.

And second avenue is when we were all walkers.

Right.

And I still, I asked people to come on the podcast too.

Like, were you a walker?

And it was nice because it was first thing you heard at three, three o'clock walkers

are dismissed.

We're out there.

And I wish I'm going to jump around here.

I wish there were more principles, vice principles like Mr. Chase, because that dude,

that dude drove his fucking Cadillac around the neighborhood, made sure nobody was fighting.

He'd break them up if they were.

Yeah.

Like that guy actually gave a shit.

Do you remember his, what he would say?

You want to talk about the birthday song or get your coat and hat?

Get your hat and coach out of here.

Yeah.

He was sending your hat.

He was sending you out.

Do you remember the fucking paddle he out on his wall with holes in it?

Yeah.

And say that was so your, so your skin could come through what he said.

Do wore a suit, wore a three-piece suit.

Oh.

Professional as fuck.

Mr. Stan Chase.

He was very much Joe Clark from Lean On Me, you know, the principal from Lean On Me.

He was very much of that, you know, mold.

Do you remember he was like our referee in high school.

And we'd be like, come on, Mr. Chase.

That's a bad call.

He'd be like, uh-uh.

Black and white on the field, son.

Mr. Chase after the game.

I mean, all right.

Yep.

But he was great.

And so then we were walkers.

We would walk.

I wanted to go back.

I do want to go back one day and clock it because it wasn't a, it wasn't a short walk.

No, it wasn't.

Not from 74 or 17 second Avenue.

Up that hill.

And then down the hill and then back all the way.

I'm at the halfway point.

No one in this style would take a break, right?

You had to catch your breath.

I have it as they all know, a twin brother.

So we're walking together to seven grade.

And we just see you on there.

And we start talking, walking with you and your petty loafers and dress socks.

And that begins a friendship.

Just a non-gift days.

Just a non-gift days.

That begins a friendship of God.

What are we 12 then, maybe?

I mean, 30 or 40 years now.

Long time.

Long time.

All right.

Tell me what you remember about the drives of school.

Start with your grandfather.

So your grandfather.

So just real quick.

When you got a little older, you got out of that house.

And you went back to with your mom.

But you lived in your grandmother's house then, correct?

Correct.

On aether road.

Back to schoolhouse.

And describe to house them.

Tell them how close the train tracks were in the yard.

Like describe it.

I mean, literally.

The house would rattle.

The window train would come by.

No joke.

People first time ever staying there, jump out in the middle of the night.

They think something's wrong, right?

It's just a train.

It was literally 50 feet.

You know.

It didn't really want.

Yeah.

It was closer than you expected.

You could spin on it.

Yeah.

You could spin on it.

Yeah.

So it was right there.

It was pretty cool.

Did you remember hopping the trains in the winter and stuff like that?

We definitely hopped trains.

We would take the little iron ore off them and use them as slingshots and knock down people's bird feeders.

So Derek and I.

Yeah.

We're going to get to that.

That was you know who didn't do that to me.

But you know, we got y'all never.

Yeah.

I got to.

I got to remember that outside by that.

Yes.

Yes.

So I.

I was telling you know, we used to go down to God.

What was it?

Was it?

What was the big main road that went down to the railroad tracks in downtown Sikesville?

Raincliffe.

I don't know.

Spout Hill.

Thank you.

Yes.

So we would go down to Spout Hill, jump the train there and then we could ride it in the winter and jump off into your yard.

I've done that a couple of times, which is insane.

Right.

It's insane to do that.

Yeah.

But it would come right through the backyard and you had quite a few parties there back in the day.

Yes.

But let's go back to the ride.

So your grandfather and grandmother owned that home.

Yep.

And they would drive you to school in the morning.

Yep.

Grandpa, I believe just wanted to get out of the house and get away from grandma, right?

So he volunteered to drive us to school.

So he would get me, not only getting me, he'd swing by second avenue, get you and your brother.

Yeah.

Another guy down on second avenue and we go out.

We go out Raincliffe.

We go out the road in the Brown Dodge Omni, right?

Stick shift.

Stick shift, right?

I got to stop you.

I told you.

I think I might have told you this recently.

I am sitting outside of this McDonald's and I see the Brown, it's a Brown Dodge Omni.

It's got to be what?

A 70 something.

I don't know.

His channel comes to go damn a free.

Yeah.

But late 70s.

And I'm just staring at this thing and I'm reminiscing.

And I'm like, man, that's the same damn.

How about that?

You know, I try to take moments and like that to like stop for a second.

Let me take it in.

And as I'm taking it in.

This fucking home sky sits up at it.

Because what are you doing?

I'm taking pictures of it.

Yes.

It's got some jumpers.

Oh my god.

I don't know.

You were living in there, dude.

He's like, what are you doing?

I go, I know this doesn't look good.

But.

And then I tell him the story.

Dude, that guy sat there and talked to me.

I was like, is that a stick?

He's like, it is.

I was like, oh, he's that was stick with two.

Yeah.

But your mom had a white one that I think was automatic, right?

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You're a Dodge Omni family.

So when when you're going up the hill, grandpa would, he would grind third gear every single

time.

And he'd always be looking off to the left, never on the road.

Right.

He'd be like, look, how many deer?

He would count how many deer in the field every time.

Right.

So.

And now I'm guilty of that.

Right.

That that skills been passed on to me all the time.

My wife would be like, can you watch the road?

The road is here.

You're over here counting deer in the field.

Right.

That's not no good.

So.

Tell me about what you remember when we started driving in the Aspen wagon.

Do you remember the time that the hubs fill off?

Let me tell you, Ryan.

March 8th or 9th?

When's your birthday night?

March 8th.

Got it right.

March 8th changed my life, right?

Because of March 8th, the whole world opened up to an experience I had never.

I was a sheltered child until that point in my life.

Whatever.

March 8th came.

You guys come.

Come up in schoolhouse in the Aspen station wagon in life.

Change day.

Tim, he's sitting right here off camera.

That Aspen wagon was his aunt's wedding limbo.

That was his aunt's wedding limbo.

And it's now our first car to share.

Yes.

Yeah, and we're coming to get you.

Yeah.

You come get me.

And then the whole world opened up.

We're picking up so many people in the way we had Wagner.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You weren't even supposed to be driving in there.

No, you weren't at all.

We got about eight kids pulling up in the high school.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then it opened up everything, right?

Then we could go to Rysherstown and buy beer from Carly's.

Carly's.

Carly's liquor is right on the corner of Rysherstown.

We've looked it up on the podcast.

We went to the corner like, that's where you went to get beer.

That's where we went to get beer.

Dude, it was insane to go there.

Yeah.

You start seeing lake trout signs in the city.

Like, if we'd probably shut me down here.

Yeah.

We would go to Carly's with a horrible fake ID.

Right.

And they were Asians.

Right.

They were all bulletproof, remember?

Yep.

And every time we would go, be a bunch of black guys

are sitting on a car like, y'all eight twenty one.

They'd be doing that shit.

Yeah, he's supposed to be down here.

We're a power walker.

Yeah, that's right.

And then we'd be like, can we get a case of course light?

And they would just give you like bush light.

Right.

And they just were like, they knew.

And they were like, what the fuck are you getting?

Right.

Get the fuck out of here.

Right.

And we would get the fuck out of there.

Yeah.

Carly's.

So I want to jump back to middle school too.

So we would walk.

And you know, winters, we walked Maryland winters to school.

And we'd come get you.

Yeah.

And you were never on time.

That was the thing.

Your ass was always.

I was looking for my brother on socks.

You know what I mean?

I had to find the socks.

Oh, Marcus pennies are missing.

I mean, yeah, man.

I had to have the socks match.

I had to have the belt on, dude.

Like, it had to.

We're out there freezing.

But here's the bitch of it.

It was a weapon that you were late.

It was that she wouldn't let us come in the house.

She would not let us come in.

We sat on that little like, you know, those little swans

and wooden little benches people have out in their porch in Maryland.

She's out there freezing.

And after a while, we were like, all right.

Fuck lamb.

And there's no text.

And we couldn't be like, we're coming up the hill.

Right.

It was if we swing by and you ain't out.

We're gone, bro.

It's cold and shit.

Right.

Yeah.

Yup.

You used to sit out on a yellow glider.

And it had the big bay window.

And I could see you out there.

And I'm like, I'm coming.

I'm coming.

I'm going to come get you.

I'm going to be there.

Just not be fine.

I need one more sock.

I can't find my belt.

I can't find my belt.

It's so funny because my mom didn't like any of her kids.

Right.

But she liked you.

She always liked you.

She liked Shannon.

Shannon got to pass.

I think Eric Lee probably got a little bit of a face.

You know why she liked me?

Because she rolled over on me the time I got my bike.

Remember, so when we were supposed to be,

we were supposed to be inside playing, right?

We were out in the woods in the wrestling ring.

In the rope swing.

In the rope swing, right?

So in the back of our house, we had,

but actually built a pretty impressive wrestling ring.

Amazing.

Amazing.

Yeah.

We would all come in back to our wrestle with music and stuff.

Yeah.

We had to stay in the art wrestling ring.

And then just beyond that,

a little farther back in the woods was a great rope swing.

Off a real sturdy tree.

But with a drop under that son of a bitch that was treacherous.

Yes, sir.

It's just to swing the rope and you get a good,

you get a good swing around.

But it was also a knot right on the side.

And if you could put it on that knot,

when your weight came around, it would hit that knot

and it would draw, I mean, aggressively drop.

And you had to hold on, you know,

you could break your neck.

But of course, we're kids.

We're like, this is what the fuck we're doing today.

We have no sense.

So we asked you to come and over and play.

I was doing anything to get out of that.

Yup.

And you had a white shwin.

I'll never forget.

Yeah.

White shwin.

10 or 12 speed.

Nice, buddy.

Yeah, yeah.

And you rode that.

Just, I mean, hell, you could have just kicked it once

and drifted all the way down the hill our house.

Yeah.

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You come in.

We're all playing Nintendo as we did.

And then we're like, all right, let's go out in the woods.

You're like, I'm not supposed to be outside, guys.

We're like, we're not going to get dirty.

You know, we were just going to go hit the ropes away.

You'll be fine.

One of my many talked into decisions that didn't turn out well.

Not even supposed to be outside.

We're not going to get into the woods.

And we're all taking turns on that rope swing.

And it's one of those things too.

It's another time when.

When Derek did this jump, I'll talk to about, but off the sidewalk

where he hit the lip of the sidewalk.

And, and I mean, it looked like evil.

Can evil going into my mind.

I'm like, I'm never beaten that.

But then you realize, oh, he's out of control.

You know what I mean?

This is not a control.

Yeah.

This is this is the structure.

Right.

And you're turned.

If we swing that rope and that damn thing hit that knot.

And this day, I've never seen it drop and pull up like a bungee cord.

And your ass went fly it.

I mean, face down in the mud.

You came up with it in your mouth.

We were like, oh, in my teeth.

In my ear.

I had mud for it.

I'm not even supposed to be outside.

If you look like your mud wrestler.

So we go back inside and you know, we're kids.

We're all like, all right.

What's the lie?

We're going to tell you're going to get so much trouble.

So if I'm, I'm pretty sure I remember this correctly.

I tried to say that you would come down the hill.

And we all did use to just cut over the curb, jump the curb into our front yard.

You're a skid.

A lot of percent.

Terror yard out, right?

And so we tell that you did that.

You skid, you lose control.

That's how you got dirt in my ear.

But in my ear.

It was, yeah.

And teeth.

That's how you got dirty.

You were, you were not outside after you got to our house.

Just in between yours to ours.

Right.

That's why we told.

Yeah.

And you went home and told that.

Yeah.

And then what happened?

It didn't go.

It didn't really do.

I got grounded for two months.

No.

Six.

Was it six?

Listen, it was six months to the day.

I'll never forget.

And I remember, can I remember because I remember my mother felt bad.

Like this, again, not for her kids.

One of the times I remember being like, this lady might have a tiny bit of heart in there.

She said, I really feel sorry for Chris.

I was like, yeah.

She made you do all six months.

Yeah.

I didn't get off her good behavior.

Nothing.

I had to serve the whole time.

Nothing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I got grounded quite a bit there.

Because I really wasn't fitting into the program.

You know, like it was this well-oiled machine.

And then here comes this thing.

It, well, supposedly.

From the outside.

Right.

I was wondering, I know we weren't allowed in.

It dropped me.

From the outside.

That's all I saw from.

And you know what's crazy about that story?

Yeah.

We had a nice for you.

You could have come in and taken your shoes off.

Wait, listen.

We came in one time.

One time.

Yeah.

That was when she's like, I should ain't happening again.

Right.

Right.

So yeah.

All punished.

Right.

So I came in and told the story how I rehearsed it all the way from your house to that house.

That's right.

Like, man, this is going to work.

I've convinced myself that this is going to work.

Right.

You know what I mean?

I've told this enough.

I go in there and tell this story.

You spit that.

You spit that.

You spit that.

You know, I hurt my ear.

I couldn't get it all out for like a week, right?

In my teeth.

All over my face.

Oh, it's not even exactly right.

It's not.

It is so ridiculous.

Like, it should have never had.

It's like God took it.

Just slammed it out in the mud.

And then you go look, you go take some.

I remember one one side.

It wasn't this side.

It was only this side.

It was cakes in mud.

Right.

So is just one side of my body.

Right.

So, yeah.

Go in, I'm like, hey, man, I'm telling this story.

I think I walked past Debo downstairs.

My dad was down there, my stepbrother playing in television,

right?

Yeah, we were playing some in television,

grinding back on the day, and said, hey, dad,

fell off the bike, crazy story, going down,

tried to cut in a driveway, fell at the bike.

I didn't get much response from him, you know what I mean?

Yeah, I thought, maybe he bought it, right?

Like, maybe it's gonna work, right?

And then I look up at the steps out of corner of my eye

to steps, like it had an open stairwell back in the day, right?

I see you're pushing the swing bike down the steps.

No, she brought it in, I didn't know this.

She threw it down the bike, and she said,

hey, no way in hell you wrecked that bike.

There's not a drop of dirt on that bike.

How are you so dirty?

It's all on me.

It's how are you so dirty?

That bike is stottling us.

I never knew that's how it was.

That bike is stottling us.

She could wait.

She called me out.

So I was like, so then I guess she got on the phone

with Judy, right?

And Judy's like, yeah, it'd have been outside for hours.

You know what I mean?

She didn't know it was a story we were supposed to be telling.

Awesome, my mother wouldn't have known

if we were in a basement or where it was.

She had no idea.

So, Trudy, right, did you?

Well, no, Trudy told Debbie that, yeah, we were outside.

She didn't know she was supposed to be covering for us, right?

She wasn't part of the story.

That's why she felt bad for me to rest her life, right?

I see.

That's why she still gives me a hug.

She gives me a hug.

You're like, I'm so sorry about ground up for six months

because I'm just glad you're off.

She said last time I saw, I'm just glad you're not being grounded

anymore.

They're the half a year when you're in seven.

That's the wonder years.

There goes half a one.

Oh, and the grounding was, we were wondering where the fuck

you were when you were getting out.

That's what I wanted.

Well, I only, you know, Perole was walking to school.

That was my only sense of sanity.

What do you remember about, there's two stories I'm going

to ask you about.

My mom, you know the two, and together forever.

Which one would you like to tell first?

Let's go, I think the together forever one was older, right?

Is that probably?

Well, seventh grade's when the thing happened with my mom.

Together forever was like, my dad, that was like 10th grade.

Oh, okay.

I'm going to go, let's go to my mom's.

All right, all right.

So one of the many days you're over hanging out.

Just trying to mind my own business, like you had a,

I had to in television, which was crap back even still, right?

But you had to, you had to in a tent, though.

We had to.

Yeah.

So man, that was the place to go to go play in a tent, though,

at your place.

I didn't have to the little paddle on the television.

Remember, it was sucked, right?

We just looked it up the other day, the goal won

with the disc.

Yeah, it got a goal paddle, right?

And you couldn't control the stuff.

You're all over the place.

I'm just minding my own business, trying to, you know,

play Mario or whatever it was, right?

And it wasn't that out of the ordinary for a little bit

of bickering to happen.

Maybe you're out there, like a little bit of duty throwing cups

in our heads, a little bit of back and forth.

And I'm just like, man, I'm just, I'm Nintendo on it, right?

So I'm just on Nintendo playing Mike Tyson's puns.

Yeah, right.

That's a remember that was awesome.

So, yeah.

So some little bickering back and forth, a lot of bickering,

it's getting louder, it's getting louder,

but that wasn't different to me, right?

I grew up in the same thing, Rita would raise your voice

from time to time.

And so I'm on the couch here.

There was a little couch, and then there was another couch here,

and then Ryan's in the seat, Judy come up in,

like all up in Ryan's business, right?

Like all like all aggressive, like all in his business.

And I don't know what happened.

I love Judy.

That lady put hands on me.

It all out of Judy.

That lady put hands on me.

Judy might have put hands on you.

I want a man attention.

I want a man attention.

She was playing Mike Tyson's puns out with me, okay?

So then, next thing I know, Judy is up in the grass,

up in the air, but feed in there, man.

Feet going up, Judy down, knock down on the couch.

Next day, I'm up over in Judy's laying down there.

And I said, what just happened?

What just went down?

So I caught a little bit out of corner my eye,

I think it was a little bit of push,

but when she got, the motion got going.

It wasn't going up, it wasn't, she wasn't catching herself.

You know what I'm saying?

When she started falling, it was down.

It was down there.

What I didn't realize is that when I,

I just shoved her to get her off of me.

And what I didn't know is there was an ottoman

right behind her leg.

I didn't see that.

I just was trying to get some distance between us.

But man, she took that stutter step and hit that ottoman.

And Andre the giant started leaning.

And that's when I was both excited and terrified.

I'm like, I think it's just going to go.

I mean, that's probably, hey, I think it might be time for me to go.

I think I hit, I think I hit Debbie calling me, right?

So I better be getting up out of this place.

I mean, if you, I think about all the time,

if you ever, we were two little kids.

Could you imagine just being a,

seeing somebody push their mom over the ottoman?

Holy cow, you know, that was pretty.

That was, that was a pretty, that's core memory.

Definitely, that's a core memory.

That's what I was like, oh.

And then she called my dad, I'll never forget.

She's yelling and stuff.

And you know, this is back when he had to get him on a work phone

and he had to be around, you know, and he's like,

oh, okay, he's put on the phone and I go, he goes,

what happened?

I was like, she's beating the shit out of me in front of

fucking Chris.

And I just, I said, honestly, dad,

I just tried to push her off.

I mean, I did not know the ottoman was there.

He's like, she go down hard.

I was, you know, on hard.

He said, don't let me hear, don't let her hear me laugh.

Start laughing so hard.

He's like, listen, don't do that shit again.

I'm like, I'm not doing that shit again.

I think she's going to kill me if I can.

Right, right.

So I tell Shannon this all the time.

We have to remember to be this cool with our kids.

But my dad, and Mr. Roy, who's up front,

took us to see, run DMC and the Beastie boys together forever.

It was me, Derek Shannon, Todd, did you go to that with us?

I think I did, yes.

And then we had our cousin there.

Yeah.

And we all got shirts.

And I've recently looked at that concert shirt up.

And it's fucking, that concert shirt is $500 or $800.

It might even be 1200.

Like we've ended up on the market.

That's a shame you ripped, Derek.

I mean, he could have retired by now, right?

I told his daughter.

So another probably, I feel like it was a heated soccer.

You saw a lot of secular brother fights too.

So you were used to that.

Like when we fought at the wedding, you were like,

I can't say no.

Can I get another drink?

No, so not because didn't have siblings, right?

Not understanding, but just figured it out.

Like there would be some fights in the basement playing soccer, right?

Somebody would get offended.

It's a lot of testosterone.

It's middle school, early high school.

And we're just alphas, right?

So we're all out there trying to work through it, right?

So I think it was another heated soccer match,

probably a loss in overtime.

Somebody might have got an elbowed into the pole

down there in the middle, right?

Yeah, the watch out for the pole, right?

So anyway, come upstairs and I think,

I don't know exactly.

I think were you in the same chair?

You're not truity down there.

That's all right.

I was in my spot.

Yeah, I was just out right out there, right?

So as you come in the door, that was there, right?

And then I don't remember how,

or I don't know if the run DMC shirt

might have got ripped in the basement.

I don't know.

No, it was upstairs delivery.

It was.

Okay, I remember that too, yeah.

I really could not.

I know everything in all of it, but I'm curious.

I want to know your side of it,

because I genuinely could not remember

what fucking started this one.

I fought Derek so many times.

I kept remembering.

I don't remember what that day's application was

or what escalated it to throwing hands, right?

So, but we got to that point and something went down.

It was you on top of Derek, right?

And he come out and everybody's getting themselves together

and resorted back.

And Derek had a rip across the front of his run DMC shirt.

Like right here, man.

And it was heartfelt, man.

Like he was hurt.

Like he was, he was put out.

Like you would never get nut back.

We're not going to cry.

We're not going back for me.

We're not getting another run DMC concert shirt

from 1983 together forever.

Right?

Not unless you will spend like 12 hundred dollars, you ain't.

So, you know, you done ripped his run DMC shirt.

Now, if that's not fighting terms,

like I don't know how you slept with not one.

I thought you shared a room with him was one of them.

Yeah, so you got to sleep next to him.

And the motherfucker you're fighting with all day

is the son of a bitch.

Yeah.

So, just him too.

It's not just some normal kid.

It's some kid grabbing snakes out of the yard

and putting them in the house with you.

Like Derek was mental.

Derek's got problems.

Like we all do, but he's got like extra level problems.

Well, he's your brother.

So you got to share the same.

We're separate as I go, though.

Separate eggs, you know what I mean?

We're not identical twins.

We have my own egg.

I was like, what you got to say?

We got the same genes, right?

So, oh god damn.

Yeah, that was, he was, I remember the,

I remember the rip was right here, right?

I don't even know how he was here

and in his heart right here.

I would think you were fisting.

You were throwing hands.

It'd be ripped up here.

Like you were grabbing up here.

So I know what you're doing,

grabbing down here on his shirt, right?

Like you down here.

You must say, he must, I don't know how to have.

We come up, ripped down the middle of the front DMC shirt.

Man, and that guy was distraught.

I'm telling you why.

I really wasn't.

That was, I even was like, man,

he's really upset about this.

But not the parents going through all that stuff.

None of that, right?

Just, no emotions through all that.

I never, I remember, no issues, no emotions with any of that.

Right, say with me, right?

But that run DMC T-shirt,

though you don't know what's the mess.

Man, it, like it opened up something, right?

It opened up.

Not only a shirt, but a can of worms, right?

Like he, he was, he was distraught.

He was so upset.

He knew it was snow going back.

He knew it was snow going back.

That's, we were all killed, bro.

He knew, he knew we weren't getting that run DMC shirt out.

He knew it.

And I have one, too.

But he went rip mine after that.

I was like, I don't get this yet.

I can't wait to see what he remembers about that.

But I was, yeah, when shooting got knocked over to,

I don't think, that's, that's funny,

because I may be downstairs and we were upstairs doing something

or maybe he was outside shooting a beer feeder with,

were you part of that?

Yeah, it's like.

So we'll tell that one.

Yeah, that's a great story.

So one day, it's my turn to cut the grass.

And we live next to the Moriartis.

And Shannon was always solid.

She still is.

She'll hit me up every now and then her brother passed away

rest of the piece for Moriartis.

And we lived, you know, I don't know what do you have,

maybe a 10 yard space in between the houses.

And it's my turn to do the grass.

And I'm out there push mowing and stuff.

And her mom is, man, little punk over here shooting up

my bird feeder.

And I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about, lady?

And she's like, you shooting up my bird feeder.

And, you know, I'm out there giving it to her.

Like, I ain't shooting up your fucking bird feeder.

I don't even know what you're fucking talking about.

Fuck off.

Cutting the grass, cutting the grass.

I go inside and I'm just like, man,

fucking old lady Moriartis over there yelling at me

about shooting her bird feeder.

And then you guys all just start laughing.

I'm like, you know what's the thing?

I never even considered it.

I never considered you guys were in there doing that.

And I'm just, I'm just, I'm just defending all of us.

And you guys like, yeah, I'll even do it.

Right?

You defending your homeland.

And Dagger up on a deck.

I mean, there was plenty of stuff to shoot out.

I don't know why you've shoot at their house.

And the bird feeder, right?

Like her precious bird feeder.

She was like, she liked her bird feeder and her bird, right?

So, for some reason, he thought.

Dazy, 880 BB gun.

High powered fucking BB gun next door.

He thought taking out the bird feeder

was the mission that had to be accomplished.

So he's like, each shoot out a couple of times.

Hey, you shoot out.

I shoot out a couple of times until we,

I think we took it out, but we cracked it

or did something like that.

So, yeah, that was tough.

Do you know the ramifications of that?

Do you know what happened to us because of that?

No.

You don't know?

No, what happened?

So one day, we're about to go crabbing.

And my dad's like, Ryan, go get the motor

and put her on the back of the boat.

Now, that motor was a Johnson.

We started with this little Evan Roode

and then we had a big ass Johnson.

And it was a heavy motherfucker.

And I carried it by myself and put her on the back of that boat.

And the reason I know that is because I carried

that heavy motherfucker by myself.

So we run up the K-Mart and when we come back,

I'm like, dad, the motor's gone.

And he's like, no, it's not, you didn't put, I said dad.

I carried that thing up by myself and put her on,

he's like, no, no, no, no, Moriarty, brother, stole it.

Because you all stopped that bird feeder.

They got you back, they got you back.

You took that bird feeder.

They got you.

I was going crabbing that day.

They got it.

They got it.

They got it.

They got it.

They got it.

They got you back.

They got you back.

You took that bird feeder.

They got it.

In the middle of the day, they walked over and stole

that big ass thing and no one, no neighbor saw or anything.

And I'm like, you motherfucker, Derek.

Ruined our crab and dead.

Another great lefty story.

I remember riding in the Aspen with a lefty.

Like, Kudos to Mr. Lefty and Mr. Roy, man.

Like, they invested us and took us places.

I had, like, Rita couldn't take, I mean, like,

she just put me off because she couldn't figure out

how to deal with me, right?

I think part of the time.

But I was always with you guys.

And lefty, we'd be riding in a car

and somebody would rip one, right?

Remember what he would do?

He would lock all the windows.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

And put the heat on.

And put the heat on.

So then he locks all the windows

and everybody just got to sit in it, right?

And then no one would ever admit it, right?

Like, no one would ever fuss up.

So he's like, if nobody's messing up,

we're all sitting in it, right?

And he would roll the windows up

and turn the heat on, we would just sit in there.

So he had lots of great stories, man.

You guys took me everywhere, like everywhere.

The Patterson's taught me in a Disney, you know,

like, that was a story, right?

With Mr. Roy and Ms. Sandy, me and Shannon and Kelly,

and she had a friend in the car, right?

So we had to take...

Drove?

We drove it apart from...

So it was three and three in the Lincoln Tower.

Oh, no way.

We had to rotate.

That's a long ride.

We had to rotate who had to sit between Roy and Sandy

up front, right?

Cause we couldn't put the four kids in the back.

So whoever drew the short straw

and had to sit up front with Roy and Sandy.

So, you know, like, you might get a four-hour shift

right here in the front, you're sitting between Roy and Sandy.

And I don't remember him bickering, but it wasn't, you know,

like, it was probably a husband, wife,

wife telling the husband how to drive kind of thing, right?

So there was always a little bit of that going on.

So then you would rotate, right?

Next pit stop, gas out, Shannon go to the front.

I'm in the back with the girls

and then, you know, you steady rotated.

But we just...

And Mr. Roy, he would just hammer down, right?

Just run it and hammer it down.

Florida, no stopping, hold your pee, right?

We're not stopping.

So...

Brother, I love you.

I love you.

Thank you for doing this.

Thank you.

This is great.

We're going to do more together in a group episode

that we'll have for everybody.

But this is fucking awesome.

Thank you so much.

And look, this is something, I don't know if Shannon's

going to sell this yard or what,

but this is something I'd like to come back

maybe twice a year and do.

All right.

Definitely not what it's 100 and fucking four degrees.

And we're drinking.

Thank you, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, like he is.

This is your heat, this humidity here.

Jesus Christ.

Right, right.

Thank you, bro.

I love you.

Chris Lamb, everybody.

Thank you so much.

Keep an eye out.

We're going to have so much more of these episodes.

This is the Way Back to Junkyard Series.

I'm Ryan Sickler.

I hope you enjoyed the Way Back to 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 a comment in there,

let me know.

We'll keep on doing it.

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