109: My Twin Brother Derek PART 2 | The Wayback w/Ryan Sickler – Baltimore Junkyard Series #109 Full Ep.

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Podcast: The Wayback with Ryan Sickler
Episode: 109: My Twin Brother Derek PART 2 | The Wayback w/Ryan Sickler – Baltimore Junkyard Series #109
Date: January 29, 2026
Guests: Ryan Sickler (host), Derek Sickler (twin brother)

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Episode Overview

This episode features comedian Ryan Sickler sitting down with his twin brother, Derek, for a collection of uproarious, nostalgic, and occasionally poignant stories from their Baltimore childhood and wild early adulthood. The conversation is fast-paced, irreverent, and deeply personal, giving listeners a front-row seat to the kind of brotherly banter and shared memories that shape families. This is Part 2 in a series reflecting on their upbringing, family dynamics, infamous neighborhood escapades, and the idiosyncrasies of growing up Sickler in Baltimore.

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Key Discussion Points & Highlights

1. The Infamous Bird Feeder Incident

[06:39 – 09:37]

• Derek recounts the story of using a scoped rifle to shoot a neighbor's bird feeder, turning it into a childhood contest to see who could spill the most seed.
• Neighborly justice arrives when a local kid catches Derek in the act, confiscates the gun, and demands they buy a replacement feeder.
• Ryan is wrongly accused and gets in trouble with the neighbor while mowing the lawn, unaware of his brothers' misdeeds.

Notable Quotes:

• “We're just popping this thing. Boom, boom...the seeds are all coming running out of it." – Derek ([07:46])
• "I'm like, man, I'm yelling at her, telling her, nobody shot the bird feeder like we shot the bird feeder." – Ryan ([08:40])

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2. The "Oscars," Basement Animals, and Urban Legends

[09:41 – 10:23]

• Discussion of neighborhood kids and their fascination with exotic pets (including an "Oscar" fish that could eat anything, even chipmunks or shaved gerbils).
• The siblings reminisce on bizarre basement scenes and local urban legends (like feeding rodents to predatory fish).

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3. Pranks and Childhood Terror

[10:29 – 14:13]

• Recounting an elaborately staged prank involving a Teddy Ruxpin doll, an audio cassette of creepy voices, and a plan to scare their brother Russell by convincing him Michael Myers lived nearby.
• The caper includes monster masks, scratching at windows, and coordination with their younger brother Todd—resulting in an epic scare and their dad storming out in his underwear to restore order.

Notable Quotes:

• “This motherfucker screamed like nobody's ever screamed.” – Ryan ([13:10])
• “Dude, he had to come out there in the middle of getting some ass. She was so mad that we were torturing her son. We're like, this is what we do here, man.” – Ryan ([14:03])

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4. Sibling Shenanigans: Beatdowns, Door Tricks, and Parental Discipline

[14:13 – 16:15]

• The brothers swap stories about tricking their mother using shoestrings to pull the bedroom door shut—bracing for inevitable discipline.
• Flashbacks to the “ass-whoopings” with objects like metal lunchboxes and broomsticks, and how their mother's mood could flip instantly when the phone rang.

Notable Quotes:

• “She'd be screaming at you, bloody murder...and then the phone would ring...‘Hello?’" – Derek ([15:54])
• "Nobody. No kids deserve to get their ass beat like we got our ass beat." – Ryan ([17:57])

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5. Lighting Matches in the Closet & Lessons from Mom’s Boyfriend

[18:01 – 19:06]

• Derek tells the story of being forced to light a whole box of matches as a “lesson” from their mom’s much-disliked boyfriend.
• The story escalates with Derek setting off the whole box at once, filling the house with smoke, and the brothers laughing about the absurdity of the supposed discipline.

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6. Crabbing Stories & Boat Mishaps

[21:12 – 22:47]

• The brothers reminisce about going crabbing with their dad—motors getting stolen, early-morning outings, catching bushels of blue crabs, and the unique childhood those experiences gave them.
• Bittersweet recollections of their father, including losing his glasses while grabbing for a giant crab.

Notable Quotes:

• “There’s nothing like going home and steaming those [crabs] right out of the water.” – Ryan ([21:45])

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7. Teen Risk-Taking: Jumping Cars & Crashing Dad's Honda

[22:47 – 25:08]

• The conversation turns to youth daredevil stunts: launching their cars over hills near the neighborhood (Lion's Mill Road) and the consequences, including broken vehicles.
• Derek confesses for the first time about how his rightful-of-way, “point-proving” crash led to their dad’s Honda never running right again, much to Ryan’s surprise.

Notable Quotes:

• "Basically that's why we lost the car." – Ryan ([24:35])

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8. Sports, Dads, and 1980s Little League

[25:08 – 26:16]

• Remembering their dad's ever-present support at their games, and coaches who smoked during batting practice—things unimaginable today.

Notable Quote:

• “That guy would smoke cigarettes while he's helping you bat. He's going like this, and the smoke's going to your eyes. You're like, God damn.” – Ryan ([20:42])

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9. Living Rough: The “Enchanted Hills” Apartment and Roach Motels

[26:19 – 31:59]

• Hilarious and horrifying tales from their first post-high school apartment: realizing they’re the only white tenants, rampant drugs and crime, Papa John’s refusing delivery, and abject filth (including roaches everywhere and people tossing others’ laundry on the floor to use the machines).
• Neighbors like Adolph (the opium-loving school bus driver), and misadventures with the police raiding their complex.

Notable Quotes:

• “It got to the point where we just kept our dishes under sheets on the dining room table... everything, dude.” – Ryan ([29:56])

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10. Epic Parties & the Final Bash at 9:12

[32:06 – 33:26]

• The legendary July 3, 1991 party, where over 200 people descended on their tiny house—years before “Project X.” Bouncers, fistfights, and neighborhood drama ensue.

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11. Wildest Childhood Antics: Hydrant Mischief & Bridge Jumping

[34:06 – 37:54]

• Derek confesses to hijinks involving opening fire hydrants with a stolen city wrench, leading to local drought reports and media coverage. Afterward, he throws the evidence into the reservoir.
• Daring bridge jumps into the reservoir become an adolescent right of passage, leading to injuries, vomiting blood, and hefty cash bets.

Notable Quotes:

• “That was 100ft from the top of the bridge rail to that water...at that time, it’s nine, 100ft. And everyone, not everyone but a piss blood for like two months.” – Ryan ([36:10])
• "For 50 bucks, I flipped and then didn’t know what to do after that." – Derek ([36:38])

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Notable Sibling Dynamics

• The Sickler brothers bond through mischief, shared grievance about strict parents, and scrappy Baltimore upbringings.
• Both marvel (and laugh) at having survived with no serious legal trouble, crediting each other, their Dad, and Grandma for keeping them on a mostly straight (if not always narrow) path.

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Closing Sentiments

[38:02 – 38:06]

• The brothers exchange a heartfelt “I love you,” reflecting the foundation of love beneath the chaos.
• Ryan encourages listeners to leave feedback so the “Baltimore Junkyard Series” can continue.

Notable Quotes:

• "I love you. This was great. Thank you for doing this." – Ryan ([38:02])
• "You're welcome, Ryan. I love you, too." – Derek ([38:05])

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Episode Takeaways

• The theme of finding humor and resilience through adversity and wild times shines throughout the conversation.
• Ryan and Derek’s stories are deeply Baltimore, raw, honest, and relatable for anyone who survived a rowdy childhood.
• Nostalgia, being “back home,” and sharing old war stories with your siblings is as powerful as ever.

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For full authenticity, all quotes reflect the casual, unfiltered tone of the Sickler brothers.

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[Ryan Sickler]

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[Derek Sickler]

Hey, baby, we gonna be here all day.

[Ryan Sickler]

We're gonna be here all day, baby. I like that kind of party. What's up, guys? Ryan Sickler here. I'm back home in Baltimore. Very excited to be here to do something that I've been wanting to do for a long time. You guys have been asking for years to have my brothers on, old friends, family, and I'm finally able to make it happen. Make sure you're subscribed. You're going to get episodes for a while. We got a bunch of them coming your way. Can't wait for you guys to see this. Welcome back to the Way Back, everybody. Ryan Sickler here. Very excited to do this episode. It's been a long time in the making. You've been saying, get your brothers on the podcast. Get your brothers on the podcast. Well, we brought the podcast to my brothers and sitting next to me right here, ladies and gentlemen, my twin brother, Derek Sickler, everybody. Welcome to the Way Back, Derek Sickler.

[Derek Sickler]

Thanks for having me.

[Ryan Sickler]

All right, so talk about the bird feeder, because I know parts of the story. So I was the one accused of it again. I'm outside cutting grass. I'm cussing at this lady, telling her to shut the up. She doesn't know what she's talking about. Turns out, does know it's.

[Derek Sickler]

This is how I remember that story. We was. Me, I don't. I don't remember Chris being there, but it was definitely me and Wagner. And we were. We started off inside. Remember how we had the box, the kerosene box down there with the target on it with all the paper? And we used to, like, that's where I dial my scope in.

[Ryan Sickler]

And also inside.

[Derek Sickler]

Inside. So we're. We dialed a scope in. Dial a scope in. And we're like, well, let's see how good this thing's dialed in. So we take turns shooting her bird feeder to see who could hit it at the lowest possible spot to get as much seed of it out of.

[Ryan Sickler]

It as we could. Tell the people to put this in their mind, how close our deck are you shooting out of Dad's window?

[Derek Sickler]

Shooting out the basement door.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, you're shooting out of the basement door up this way. Like, not Dad's window or the deck of the house.

[Derek Sickler]

I'm on ground on.

[Ryan Sickler]

You're like leaning out the door ground.

[Derek Sickler]

Floor with just like the barrel sticking out of the gun.

[Ryan Sickler]

Out of. It's up on her. Where's it was.

[Derek Sickler]

It was in the yard, like on a post.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, okay. In the yard.

[Derek Sickler]

And you're shooting it and we're just popping this thing. Boom, boom. And, oh, I got it halfway down.

[Ryan Sickler]

All the seeds are all coming running out of it.

[Derek Sickler]

So then Jeff would go, and then.

[Ryan Sickler]

I would go and how many times did you shoot the.

[Derek Sickler]

At least a dozen. This thing had holes.

[Ryan Sickler]

It was no wonder.

[Derek Sickler]

And so I forget. I don't know how many times, how far in it was, but I got the gun out the door, and next thing I know, I see this hand come from around, like the foundation of the house where the basement was. And he grabs the barrel.

[Ryan Sickler]

Who?

[Derek Sickler]

The one of the brothers from the moriard.

[Ryan Sickler]

The one that said, I know none of this.

[Derek Sickler]

He grabbed that gun and snatched it away from me and that. He gave it back to me. But he. He said, you're gonna buy my mother another.

[Ryan Sickler]

Is that right?

[Derek Sickler]

Yeah. So we got her another bird feeder. But then they stole our.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah, the part I come into is I'm cutting the grass and that lady's outside and she's like, shoot my goddamn bird feeder, you brats. I'm like, what are you talking. Nobody's shooting your bird. I'm over there like, nobody's shooting your bread. And I go inside and I'm like, you guys playing Nintendo or whatever? I'm like, old lady next door yelling at me about shooting a bird feeder. You guys start laughing. I'm like, man, I'm yelling at her, telling her, nobody shot the bird feeder like we shot the bird feeder. So then you guys had to buy our new bird feeder.

[Derek Sickler]

Bought our new bird.

[Ryan Sickler]

And then we had the Johnson motor, which was heavy as. And we were about to go crabbing the next day, and dad said, ryan, go down the basement, put the motor on that.

[Derek Sickler]

It was a nine horsepower Mercury, brand new.

[Ryan Sickler]

Was that when we got the new one? The nice black one? Oh, I see. I thought the reason we got the Mercury is because this one got stolen. That's the reason I thought. But we had the Big John. We started with the little Evan Rude, then we had the Johnson, and. And that thing was no joke. It was heavy as. And I. When you carry something like that by yourself, you remember it. We all go to Kmart. We come back and I see it. I'm like, the motor's gone. Dad's like, you didn't put that motor on there. I'm like, I carried it up my self. That motor is gone. And there goes crab and cuz you guys shot her bird Feeder.

[Derek Sickler]

Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

One of those guys got you. I didn't know that. I just thought she figured it out.

[Derek Sickler]

Whatever one had that Oscar and remember the one that had the Oscar in the basement? Did you ever go in there?

[Ryan Sickler]

Hell no. I peaked in one time. Dude had a prawn. He told me he was going to put a chipmunk in the tank. And I was like, I don't even want to see that.

[Derek Sickler]

He was. He was. I went in there one day with Tommy.

[Ryan Sickler]

Was the short heroin's name Tommy who caught me.

[Derek Sickler]

Yeah. And he.

[Ryan Sickler]

He was.

[Derek Sickler]

Shannon took me in there. Wasn't that her name? Shannon?

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah. She's great.

[Derek Sickler]

She still took me in there, I think.

[Ryan Sickler]

And her brother once in a while.

[Derek Sickler]

Her brother was shaving a gerbil or something to feed this fish. So it didn't eat all the hair. He was like shaving.

[Ryan Sickler]

So he really did feed those to the piranha. Oh my God. I thought he was just being.

[Derek Sickler]

It wasn't a piranha, but it was.

[Ryan Sickler]

What's an Oscar?

[Derek Sickler]

Same dam thing. But really pretty much same thing. Oh.

[Ryan Sickler]

So when you said Oscar I thought you meant he had like a statue in there.

[Derek Sickler]

It would eat little. Whatever you put in there was. It's going to eat it.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, let's talk about this one the night. Okay. So dad starts dating. I was laughing with lamb last night about this. Like dad got new and a new air conditioner and die within a year. Like didn't get the joy of the new or the new air conditioner. So dad gets a girlfriend and finally Todd is not the young one in the group anymore. And now Todd wants to with Russell. Do you remember what we did to Russ?

[Derek Sickler]

You don't. We might have put a mask on or something. I don't remember.

[Ryan Sickler]

Man, this is legendary.

[Derek Sickler]

Went outside the window.

[Ryan Sickler]

Got all parts of it in there. Yeah. So what we really did. Todd had a Teddy Ruxpin and we had played like Iron man and in the Teddy Ruxman with the cassettes and stuff. So we get the idea that we're going to scare the out of Russell. And it got planned. The sea got planted. Because we drive by Springfield Mental Hospital and dad jokingly says that's where to Russell. Like that's where they keep Mike Myers. Do you remember this?

[Derek Sickler]

No.

[Ryan Sickler]

And when I heard that I was like I'm gonna file that away for later Mike.

[Derek Sickler]

Until you just said are you serious?

[Ryan Sickler]

Anyway, dad says that's where they had Michael Myers and Russell. Are you serious? Are you serious? And so we're like, we're all. That's Michael Myers. Michael Myers. So we get home later that day, and we're all playing Nintendo again, as we always do. And we're taking a. A cassette recorder with a microphone, and we're all just going, russ, you don't remember that? I don't remember that. And we're doing it while everyone's playing, passing around for, like an hour. So it fills the side of the tape and everything. And then he's gonna sleep in Todd's room. And now he's up on the top bunk. Todd's on the bottom. We're in our bedroom right there. Dad hadn't had in God knows how long. So we decide we're gonna put Teddy Ruxpin under Todd's bed with the tape. That's like, Ross.

[Derek Sickler]

That's right. You put a cassette tape in it. Yeah, Ross. And it would say it.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah. And then Todd was in on it. Todd was in on it. And Todd had to, like, press and stop everything on it.

[Derek Sickler]

So I'm always got Todd that, like, good. The cabbage patches and all that crap.

[Ryan Sickler]

You mean her daughter? Well, that's. That's what she wanted him to be. I feel like. I feel like the reason they tried to have another kid is because they. Mom, really. And she didn't get one. Then she was like, all y'. All. I wonder if a sister would have changed everything.

[Derek Sickler]

She is.

[Ryan Sickler]

Wait, where were we? What was Teddy Rux. Teddy. Russell. Russell. Russell. So then the plan is you and Wagner are playing Nintendo. I'm gonna put that. Do you remember that old green witch mask?

[Derek Sickler]

That's what I remember.

[Ryan Sickler]

With the mole on it.

[Derek Sickler]

I remember that.

[Ryan Sickler]

And. And somebody had a monster hand, like a Frankenstein on the screen. Yeah. And I was gonna go outside in the yard and just tap on the screen and scratch it. And Todd's like, I don't hear anything. And Russell's freaking the out. He's hearing all. I'm like, you don't hear that? And Todd's like, I don't hear anything. Saying your name. He's like, it's saying Russell. He's like, I don't hear anything. And then it's a pat on the wind. He's like, did you hear that? And you could see him, like, looking out like this. I'm running back and forth in the yard. And he's like, you don't see that out there. You don't see that out there. And then Todd's like, I wonder if that's Michael Myers. And he starts freaking out. A little bit. And then as he's looking out the window, I'm under it and I pop up in front of his face and I bang on the window. And this motherfucker screamed like nobody's ever screamed. And I'm panicking now because I'm like, oh, I'm trying to run back in the house and get everything off. And dad comes out and Tighty Whitey's. You remember? You don't remember all. He's like, wagner, go home. And he went off on me. He was like, what the fucker? I was like, you said to Mike Myers, we're just. I didn't know the kid was going to panic like that, dude. He had to come out there in the middle of getting some ass. She was so mad that we were tortured, her son. We're like, this is what we do here, man. What are you talking about?

[Derek Sickler]

Remember when we told mom you ran away and left the window? Dude, I'm glad. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

And I was in the closet.

[Derek Sickler]

I didn't even think she was going to give a. But she did.

[Ryan Sickler]

That's the only time I could get peace.

[Derek Sickler]

That's what I was thinking. She's not even gonna care. Tell me to shut the window, go back to sleep.

[Ryan Sickler]

She just drove up down Second Avenue. She didn't really go looking. I was. I was in. One time I was in the closet. The other time I was in the woods. Just went right to the wrestling ring in the woods. She wasn't going back there. Do you remember? Okay, this is one of the things I wanted to ask you about. So fat laces come and go. We got a pile of them in the closet. And mom's yelling at us one night, and we keep shutting the door. Like, shut up. We keep shutting the door. And she's like, don't shut that goddamn door. And she kept coming and opening the door. And she goes, if you get out of bed one more time.

[Derek Sickler]

Yeah, we had them tied to the door.

[Ryan Sickler]

And I said, okay. And I got those shoestrings out there to the edge of my bed, tied. We tied a bunch of them. We had a nice long string and we stayed right there and we just slowly pulled.

[Derek Sickler]

When you did stuff like that, you had to be willing to accept the ask.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, yeah. You knew you were getting up. Yeah. Like, listen, if we're gonna be treated like this, if I'm gonna be yelled at, I'll be yelled at for something I really did. Let's take that ass whooping. And we would pull a string in the door. She's like, God damn it. She. But the thing she never did was latched it. She was wanting to be in control, to come in. And since she didn't latch it, we could just keep pulling that. I used to laugh so hard at that. Dude, give me. Give me a beating from Mom. You remember? Let me hear one of your beatings.

[Derek Sickler]

I don't even remember what brought them on. I remember. Metal lunchbox, broomstick.

[Ryan Sickler]

GoBot lunchbox. I took a GoBot plastic one.

[Derek Sickler]

It might have been Transformers, I think that got me. Like, she'd be screaming at you. Bloody murder. And then the phone would ring.

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[Derek Sickler]

Yeah, like she wasn't whooping the out of you.

[Ryan Sickler]

Two seconds. Stomping you under it while I was talking about.

[Derek Sickler]

Hello, you couldn't. Like there was certain shit you couldn't.

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[Derek Sickler]

You had to sit. She made us eat. Like finish all your dinner before you could get up from the table. Just dumb. I don't I don't even. I don't even know what I did to deserve the ass kickings. Honestly, nothing.

[Ryan Sickler]

Nobody. No kids deserve to get their ass beat like we got our ass beat.

[Derek Sickler]

I remember. You remember when Summerhill made me. Made me light all them.

[Ryan Sickler]

One of my favorite stories ever. That's a lesson to teach that old fucking old fuck.

[Derek Sickler]

Thought he was going to teach me a lesson.

[Ryan Sickler]

So my mom is running around on my dad at this time with this old man and.

[Derek Sickler]

And that night I was willing to get burned in that closet.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah.

[Derek Sickler]

I mean in a closet lighting matches to teach me a lesson. I lit the whole thousand pound box. Or a whole,000 book.

[Ryan Sickler]

Bo. So I see you remembered in a closet. I remember it on the porch outside.

[Derek Sickler]

I was in the closet where I.

[Ryan Sickler]

Think you were able to play and you got in trouble doing that. And then he said, I'm gonna teach you a lesson. Here's a thousand. He said like these you'll see. And eventually thinking you'll burn yourself.

[Derek Sickler]

Teach yourself one at a time.

[Ryan Sickler]

Made a teepee out of these and took one match. He lit one and dropped that into 999 that said Hove up on the point. He came running out. He said I lit them all. Was like God damn, that's a goat right there.

[Derek Sickler]

I remember being in the closet doing that. And smoke. Like having smoke.

[Ryan Sickler]

She's in the closet now. He's got smoke inhalation. He's. He's plugging people in the point. Yeah, I remember that. I remember. Do you remember she used to make us go to his house and. And the pool would be dead snakes and squirrels. Dead squirrels were going to swim in that pool.

[Derek Sickler]

It's just a concrete.

[Ryan Sickler]

Just while mom's banging this dude, we're down there lighting matches and learn how to make lean tos.

[Derek Sickler]

Getting the stung out of you there because you thought you were smarter than me to go underneath. Remember that? We were crayfishing in that creek.

[Ryan Sickler]

Todd will be here in a minute. And I know you like.

[Derek Sickler]

You guys.

[Ryan Sickler]

You guys, all three of us. You guys stung.

[Derek Sickler]

I didn't get.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yes you did.

[Derek Sickler]

I went over the tree. You two.

[Ryan Sickler]

More on how you go over a.

[Derek Sickler]

Lightning crack tree like this. I went like around it and over to where it was down near the ground. You guys went underneath where it was laying up against the tree and MBS tore your ass.

[Ryan Sickler]

Double digit stings. Easy.

[Derek Sickler]

Tore you up. Eas.

[Ryan Sickler]

Easy. Easy. It was me. I was like. And it wasn't. The water wasn't deep enough to go.

[Derek Sickler]

Under no, just a stream. That guy was a piece of too.

[Ryan Sickler]

Do you remember the time dad confronted him at Little George's while we waited in the car? Do you remember that?

[Derek Sickler]

No, you don't.

[Ryan Sickler]

He's like, wait here. And he went in the store, started yelling at him and came out and I was like, yeah.

[Derek Sickler]

Who were the two kids that lived behind him?

[Ryan Sickler]

Joe Wisby and his brother Wisbees. Yeah, I remember how we met them. We met the Whisbys because our mom's banging some senior sisters, like climbing trees.

[Derek Sickler]

And I climbed one at his house that, like, I was scared to come back down. Like it was swaying in the breeze. I was like, I don't know how high off I was. I was scared to climb back. I thought the tip was going to break, and I was going with it.

[Ryan Sickler]

Do you remember our little league coach, Al guy with smoke in our face? You can't do any of that anymore. That guy would smoke cigarettes while he's helping you back. He's going like this, and the smoke's going to your eyes. You're like, God damn. God damn, dude.

[Derek Sickler]

He's like, why can't you do remember that guy?

[Ryan Sickler]

He had like. He always wore the mirror glass. He was probably like 26 when you look back at it. You know what I mean? Smoking cigarettes, teaching kids Little League. Give me some crab. In memories, everybody talks about the big one I missed.

[Derek Sickler]

I mean, yeah, I saw. I ate one like that the other night that you missed. The thing was humongous. Didn't fit in a net. I. I remember dad, like, losing his glasses, getting pissed off.

[Ryan Sickler]

How funny was that? He turned his head real quick, that glasses. I was for the big crab I missed. I think I was all the.

[Derek Sickler]

Until we got the new motor. The motor didn't run right. You couldn't just go at a nice slow speed. You were always like, crooked.

[Ryan Sickler]

I'll say this, though, for people who never gone crabbing. We crushed it. That trot line. We come home with two. He would sit on milk crates and put extra ones in a bushel of.

[Derek Sickler]

Crabs in an hour.

[Ryan Sickler]

Nothing like it. There's nothing like going home and steaming those right out of the water.

[Derek Sickler]

Maddie wanted me to do that with her.

[Ryan Sickler]

But you didn't set the trot line up.

[Derek Sickler]

I gotta put a boat. I'm gonna need a boat to put in salt water. I ain't putting odds. Right. You're.

[Ryan Sickler]

You're on fresh water. Do you remember?

[Derek Sickler]

See, you guys remember blowing up out of the.

[Ryan Sickler]

I was about to say it, and he Made me go out 50 and clean it.

[Derek Sickler]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

All blew up out of shattered. All over 50. He's like, Ryan, go out there and get that. I'm like, what? I'm running out.

[Derek Sickler]

It took us longer to get there and back than it did to catch the crabs.

[Ryan Sickler]

Well, we'd start at sun up. There was nothing like going out when the sun's barely up and you see the floaters on the water.

[Derek Sickler]

Like, I went with him without you guys most of the time because you didn't want to get up.

[Ryan Sickler]

No fishing. You did. I know. I never missed crab. And I was like, fishing, y' all and go. I don't give a. I was not patient enough to fish then. I am now, but I wasn't then. Plus, I. I mean, I wish, you know, obviously now I wish I went on every fishing trip and every ride to Kmart and all that. Oh, let's talk about jumping cars.

[Derek Sickler]

Jumping cars?

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah. Off of Ward's Chapel. Do you remember?

[Derek Sickler]

Yeah, it was that Forerunner dude. Remember that Forerunner?

[Ryan Sickler]

I.

[Derek Sickler]

You could get some.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, my Tercel was. I mean, but also, it was like landing on 10 speed tires. That car. Like that thing, it got so bad, it started pulling to the right and it pulled itself into a ditch off of Bennett Road. But that thing, it would fly.

[Rocket Money Narrator]

I.

[Ryan Sickler]

Look, I might be misremembering this, but I don't think I am. Did George Wilk lay down? Someone did, Right? Okay. I'm not making that up. It might be Wilk. I'm wrong, but did someone lay. We were like, you're gonna die.

[Derek Sickler]

Yup.

[Ryan Sickler]

And they went right over on Ward's Chapel Road. Was it Ward's Chapel? Is that first? No, Lion's Mill. Lion's Mill. You cut off and hit that jump.

[Derek Sickler]

Yeah. No, I forget when you. I think.

[Ryan Sickler]

What.

[Derek Sickler]

We used to go to Owings Mills that way. Is that how we used to go?

[Ryan Sickler]

That's how we lived back in the park.

[Derek Sickler]

Every time I. Every single time I got to that hill, I was. I went as fast as I could.

[Ryan Sickler]

The white 4Runner.

[Derek Sickler]

Every single. Whatever I was driving, I went as fast as I could to see how far down the hill I could launch.

[Ryan Sickler]

All right, let's have a confession out of you now. Here. What did you do to Dad's Honda Civic? That never made it run right again. For real. No mechanic ever fixed that car.

[Derek Sickler]

The only thing that ever happened to that was that.

[Ryan Sickler]

Crashed it.

[Derek Sickler]

That girl hit me in it. I never did anything to it.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah, I think he was at Ocean City when you Crashed that car with the.

[Derek Sickler]

I was with George and somebody else and we were going Carrolltown across the street to Carrolltown mall.

[Ryan Sickler]

From where? McDonald's or the next intersection? No, who?

[Derek Sickler]

Bucky Foot, I think. Isn't that who lived down that street down there? I think we were at the foots and we were leaving there and coming across that light and this dumb bitch thought she could make the left hand turn before I could get across there straight. And I didn't. I just, just. I hit her just to prove a point.

[Ryan Sickler]

Basically that's why we lost the car.

[Derek Sickler]

Dude, I remember fixed after that.

[Ryan Sickler]

Well, there you go. There's a confession I didn't know right there.

[Derek Sickler]

I remember dad was so excited that car had air conditioned. That's all he gave a.

[Ryan Sickler]

Remember now the air condition was. No, it's. That meant you were rich if you had air condition in your car back in the day, that was a luxury, not just an option. A luxury option.

[Derek Sickler]

This gas mileage up.

[Ryan Sickler]

Not that much. I mean you look at. Maybe back then the car didn't run as good as they do today with ac but what do you remember about sports?

[Derek Sickler]

Just him always being there.

[Ryan Sickler]

Do you remember going to skipjack?

[Derek Sickler]

I remember him hollering at Lamb. That one.

[Ryan Sickler]

We talked about that yesterday.

[Derek Sickler]

I remember going out there and plowing Lamb.

[Ryan Sickler]

You didn't hit him. Somebody did. Nobody hit him. And dad got mad at us because we didn't plow. No, you didn't. Dad was like, you should have hit him for that. And none of us hit him for that.

[Derek Sickler]

He's hot. He was going Hollywood. Yelling, Hollywood.

[Ryan Sickler]

Hollywood. That's what. Could not remember what he said. That's exactly what it was. That's what it was. Hollywood. And he's like, shut up. You right? That's what it was. He's a coach now. He's like, if somebody would have said that to me, I'm like, yeah, you think? Hilarious. Hollywood. That's exactly what it was. That's exactly what it was. I still have my glove where he wrote my name and number on it.

[Derek Sickler]

Who died.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah. Still says from high school. Still says Ryan Sickler 795-1573 on that. That's the last handwriting. I think I have any of that.

[American Express Representative]

I don't.

[Derek Sickler]

I don't know. What I have is other than a couple of his guns, his old 12 gauge.

[Ryan Sickler]

You ever shoot it?

[Derek Sickler]

No, not recently. Used to get high.

[Ryan Sickler]

Well, yeah.

[Derek Sickler]

I want to cut that and do shotguns.

[Ryan Sickler]

It's insane.

[Derek Sickler]

Blow it down to bear.

[Ryan Sickler]

I watched you and doing Owings Mills. Yeah, let's talk about our Owings Mills apartment. So. Oh, God.

[Derek Sickler]

Nothing in there was safe.

[Ryan Sickler]

You were living with your girlfriend or her parents. I'm staying with Aunt Marguerite and Timmy, I'm living there, promising we're going to get a place, which we do. But the mistake I make is going during the day, which you should, obviously, but. And it's quiet and it's nice.

[Derek Sickler]

Yeah. Night time.

[Ryan Sickler]

Then we get to night time and I'm like, parking lot's empty. Everybody works at night. Then we quickly realize that we're the. I mean, maybe two of the only white people in the whole. Do you remember? Papa John's wouldn't deliver to us. It was so bad.

[Derek Sickler]

They were getting arrest.

[Ryan Sickler]

Adolf, he's next to us. I listen.

[Derek Sickler]

You smell the weed coming through the walls.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yes. But do you remember one time, you guys, we all went to the dead show. You guys got opium. And I'm like, I'll sit here and watch you smoke opium. And next thing we know, there's a knock on the door. And I go over and go, who is. I'm like, it's Adolph. And I open the door, he goes, who's smoking opium in here? He knew the smell. Were you there? He knew the smell of opium. He knocked on the door and said, who's smoking opium? You know what he did? Do you remember what he said he did? He drove like kids on like. He was like a school bus driver for, like private, you know, events.

[Derek Sickler]

I always liked him. He was a problem out of him.

[Ryan Sickler]

Black dude named Adolph who loved opium. That's our neighbor. But the first night we're there had.

[Derek Sickler]

That distinct, like a violet. Like if violet had purple.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah. Taste. Yeah, I agree. He so. So we get in, we find out very quickly we're like the white people in the whole community. And I come home from UPS. Shout out to UPS Baltimore Ho. Primary 1 Joe Avenue that night. And I think I worked there first.

[Derek Sickler]

You did. You worked there and play football with Shane McQuay. And Shane McQuay parking lot afterwards.

[Ryan Sickler]

And a few other people did too.

[Derek Sickler]

Two hand shove at like three in the morning.

[Ryan Sickler]

Now that night I have to go to work and we're playing Sega Genesis. You guys are all playing. And when I come home, it's everyone's gone. And I guess car finding got into a fight or something because the carvine was crushed. Literal fist fights. So I come home, everybody's gone, but there's cops all in. Do you remember this? All in the parking lot. And I'm Like, I assume immediately it's us. And I'm like, great. And when I go to walk down the stairs, there's a cop standing right there. And I don't say anything. And he just looks at me. He goes, go ahead. And I walk down. I go in our place, I shut the door, I turn the lock right away. And their cops on the stairwell and right here across the hallway, they kick the. They battering ram the door open. You don't remember this is our first night and I wake you up. There's a cop at our window with his. Because remember how we were sunken down? So he's at the window with his gun drawn. We can see it.

[Derek Sickler]

I don't remember.

[Ryan Sickler]

They're screaming at this guy, where's the weapons? And the girls telling him there's no gun. They drag him out, they put him on the stairs. They lean on his neck in between the steps. They're this dude up. And I'm like, oh my God, this is where we.

[Derek Sickler]

No, you know what?

[Ryan Sickler]

I. Then it was roaches.

[Derek Sickler]

Roaches. But you know when you do your laundry, the would throw your.

[Ryan Sickler]

I shut the door for you and watch it while you pissed in the dryer.

[Derek Sickler]

I was there clothes and throw my on the ground.

[Ryan Sickler]

Put your money in and they take your out and they throw theirs. Let it cook in there too. Yep. And then it was roaches like I've never seen in my life. I mean, you open a drawer and it was shells.

[Derek Sickler]

It wasn't even like. Like it wasn't even. It wasn't even like just little one. It was hundreds different sizes.

[Ryan Sickler]

Hundreds. It got to the point where we just kept our dishes under sheets on the dining room table. Everything. Cigarettes in the fridge, Put your cereal in the fridge, the cold cigarettes, everything. Pretzels were going in the fridge. Like everything, dude. And people still came over like I would Never forget. Car 5 was passed out one day. It was a couple of them running across the space. We're like, look at the roaches.

[Derek Sickler]

Old Greg over there.

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[Ryan Sickler]

That place is disgusting.

[Derek Sickler]

That place was a dump.

[Ryan Sickler]

It was so dirty. Enchanted Hills, was it? I don't even know. And it got so dangerous that Papa John's like, nope, we don't. We don't deliver there after dark. That's what they used to say. Like, God damn it, we got to go get that pizza. Yeah, it was a good one. It was. Look, it was. It was necessary. It was ours and it was necessary. Yes. And we were out all that madness and finally had our own place.

[Derek Sickler]

And that was like a year out of high school.

[Ryan Sickler]

No, that was after grandma's two years.

[Derek Sickler]

Two years.

[Ryan Sickler]

Do you remember the July 3, 1991 party at 9:12 before we got kicked out? The final, final party.

[Derek Sickler]

That's all that place was.

[Ryan Sickler]

Was. Do you remember we were going to orientations for different colleges and we would just tell anybody there, any stranger, hey, we're having a party here tonight. You don't remember it? Shannon remembers that. It was like 200 people showed up at that little house.

[Derek Sickler]

Yeah, I think I remember we had.

[Ryan Sickler]

Barry Pre from across the way bouncing because he was Mr. Maryland. Yeah. Eric Lee got faced and mom let them put a camper on that little grass area.

[Derek Sickler]

Somebody there that night? Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

I don't want to say his name, but D.C. his old neighbor. His old neighbor.

[Derek Sickler]

Y.

[Ryan Sickler]

He was in the car. He just punched him right in the face and get out. Everyone was welcome with that kid.

[Derek Sickler]

Three quarters of a fifth of Jack Daniel.

[Ryan Sickler]

Why didn't you like that kid? What was it?

[Derek Sickler]

I don't know.

[Ryan Sickler]

You never really liked that kid.

[Derek Sickler]

Sorry about that, Darren. But yeah, George held the window down and I just started wailing on his face sitting in the car just for no reason, because I told him I didn't want him There.

[Ryan Sickler]

And he showed up anyway. Yeah, so many people showed up to that party. Well, you got the classic line of ever. I'm not. I ain't or nothing. Do you remember that?

[Derek Sickler]

Yeah. Well, when the bathroom's in the kitchen.

[Ryan Sickler]

So disgusting. Three high school kids taking hot shits in the kitchen.

[Derek Sickler]

I went on a cruise ship a long time ago and the room was so small that I couldn't. Couldn't shut the door and take a. I had to leave the door open.

[Ryan Sickler]

Just like that place.

[Derek Sickler]

Just like that place.

[Ryan Sickler]

I tried to mentally put myself in that shower. I tried to remember what was taking a shot. I can't. I can't even do it. I can do it at grandma's. No, I know where it was, but I'm talking about actually the water running and hitting me. Like we did that for two and a half years. Absolutely no parents for two and a half years.

[Derek Sickler]

Five bucks was dinner.

[Ryan Sickler]

Everybody graduated. Everybody did well in school. Had to keep it going. We'll talk about more of that when Todd gets here too.

[Derek Sickler]

That's what's amazing is that none of us ever got. Went to jail.

[Ryan Sickler]

Well also the thing that. That obviously we had such a good.

[Derek Sickler]

Dad and grandma guns. I mean, I don't know how much damage we used every. We just went mailbox baseball. Yeah. Fire. Like we drained that water tank with the member. The fire hydrant wrenches. Yeah. People left on the plug.

[Ryan Sickler]

So someone left the fire. I've told this before too. Someone one night somewhere left a wrench. A fire hydrant.

[Derek Sickler]

I'll tell you right where it was. It was Route 26. Remember the road we used to practice on for soccer where that ran into Liberty Road. That fire hiding right there on the left was where that wrench was sitting. And I was like, george, you gotta stop. Let me go get that. And we started like we were letting them. We were cracking them loose across 32. And then watching people like drive through it with their cars. That it was pushing their car out.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah, the lane. It was coming out so hard. And then you started doing it in people's neighborhoods. I remember. Or being like, you guys, mud coming out of my pipes, man, he was so fucking hot.

[Derek Sickler]

I don't have any.

[Ryan Sickler]

And then it hit the news. Do you remember? It was on the news.

[Derek Sickler]

That's when I threw. And after that I took it. You remember I threw that wrench in the Liberty Reservoir.

[Ryan Sickler]

Like WBFF that I was on today is like. Yeah, there's a. What was it? It was a massive drought from the reservoir. Because these Are letting hydrants off left and right across the county. And I mean everywhere to the point that people were. Everyone new in school. So now they're yelling at you and jump off. You remember jumping off the bridge and.

[Derek Sickler]

You and Will me flipped off.

[Ryan Sickler]

There's a video somewhere, so I might.

[Derek Sickler]

I might have that.

[Ryan Sickler]

If you have it, you gotta send.

[Derek Sickler]

It or Wilt has it. One of us have it.

[Ryan Sickler]

You got scared.

[Derek Sickler]

For 50 bucks, I flipped and then didn't know what to do after that.

[Ryan Sickler]

Because it was 100ft straight. People argue with me. They're like, no, it's, I'm like, listen.

[Derek Sickler]

It was, we measured it.

[Ryan Sickler]

It was 100ft from. It might be eight. Yeah, but it's still to the, the, not the rafters. The top of the bridge. The rail to that water was a hundred feet. And look, obviously that could vary depending on the, you know, water level rising or whatever, but at that time, it's 9,800ft. And everyone, not everyone but a piss.

[Derek Sickler]

Blood for like two months.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah, a bunch of people are jumping. And then you and George Welk decide, that's not enough. We got a flip. And you do that flip where you, you, instead of going straight over, you just off to the side form, you know. And then it was, it was, it was, it was the bike jump all over again. And I mean, rib slap on the side. We're all in the water. We all come up and get you. And then, yeah, you're spitting up blood. I didn't know it was that long, but I knew you were spitting up blood.

[Derek Sickler]

Had this yellow bruise for I don't know how long. For 50 bucks? No, hell, I jumped straight a girl.

[Ryan Sickler]

Stitches.

[Derek Sickler]

You'd have to wear tennis shoes, though, because it would sting your face.

[Ryan Sickler]

I only did it once, and that was the mistake I made. I, I, I, I went in with my feet flat. And the next day, my ass and my. Because I went to school the next day, my ass and my feet. I, I didn't really want to do it, but I knew. So I went up with Sheila. It was Jamie Sarah to make sure if I said, if Sheila goes, I'll go. And I knew Sheila wasn't going. So we go up to look at it. And you know when you're down and you look up, it doesn't look that high. But when you get over and you look down, you see those leaves floating on that water. You're like, this is high. And I was like. She was like, I'm in my school clothes, man. I was like, here we go, he ain't going. This ain't going. And I turn around, I'm talking to Bubbles, and next thing I hear, I hear the wind go. And I said, nah. And I look over and there he goes. And I was like. And he hit that water. He came out. He said, yeah, he's all excited. I was like, God damn it.

[Derek Sickler]

I'll tell you what, when I went in there, you better have a good breathful air because you went down so.

[Ryan Sickler]

Far you didn't freeze.

[Derek Sickler]

You could see lighter.

[Ryan Sickler]

It was nice and warm first maybe five feet. But man, you go down into that.

[Derek Sickler]

Dark cold, the rafters is where we usually mess.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah, that was the.

[Derek Sickler]

They were only like 30 back.

[Ryan Sickler]

I love you. This was great. Thank you for doing this.

[Derek Sickler]

You're welcome, Ryan. I love you, too.

[Ryan Sickler]

Thank you. And thank you guys. Thank you for watching. Thank you for subscribing to this show. I love it. This is the Way Back the Baltimore 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, throw a comment in there, let me know and we'll keep on doing it.

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