114: Chris Sheeler | The Wayback with Ryan Sickler – Baltimore Junkyard Series #114 — Full Episode

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Wayback with Ryan Sickler – Episode 114: Chris Sheeler | Baltimore Junkyard Series

Release Date: March 5, 2026
Guest: Chris Sheeler
Theme: Childhood memories, growing up in Baltimore, friendship, mischievous adventures, and meaningful nostalgia among long-time friends.

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Main Theme Overview

Episode 114 of The Wayback is a riotously nostalgic journey with Ryan Sickler and his childhood friend Chris Sheeler, taped at an auto recycling junkyard in Baltimore. True to the “Junkyard Series,” the episode is packed with laughter, wild neighborhood tales, makeshift games, and wistful looks back at their adolescence in Baltimore’s suburbs. The two reflect on their tight-knit crew, the shared sense of mischief, and the enduring bonds that shaped their lives.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Origins & Family Roots

• Chris recounts his family's Baltimore roots, including how his parents met at Towson State University (now Towson University) ([02:49]).
• The transition between neighborhoods—Towson, Essex, Columbia, and into the Sykesville area—sets the geographical stage for their stories ([03:24]).

2. Meeting & Early Friendships

• Chris and Ryan’s friendship ignited between 6th and 7th grade at Sykesville Middle School.
• The group’s camaraderie blossomed from daily walks to school—being “walkers”—and pick-up games in the cemetery ([05:19]-[06:10]).
• A memorable anecdote: The story of Ryan awkwardly discovering that his friend's mother was truly buried in their local cemetery ([06:23]-[07:19]).

3. Neighborhood Antics & Fights

• The episode’s tone is playful and honest about the rough-and-tumble adolescent years, like the infamous church bus stop fight where a well-aimed kick and a dramatic, shirt-ripping brawl introduced Ryan to “real-life titties” for the first time ([07:46]-[10:42]).
  • Quote: "Shannon Moriarty grabbed her shirt and she ripped that shirt off. And that's the first time I saw titties in real life. Not in a magazine or anything." – Ryan ([10:32])

4. Life on Second Avenue & Differences in Parenting

• The laid-back, unsupervised nature of the neighborhood is discussed, with tales of coming home by streetlight, limited parental oversight, and learning independence ([11:17]-[12:58]).
• Reference to old-school parenting reminders—“It’s 10pm, do you know where your children are?”—sparks laughter ([11:40]).

5. Neighborhood Oddities: “The Belly Button Game”

• Chris reluctantly details a bizarre, unsettling incident he and friends witnessed involving a neighbor family and the “belly button game” ([12:29]-[15:27]).
  • Quote: "It was the oddest thing I have ever seen before." – Chris ([15:13])

6. Nicknames & Roasting

• The friends’ penchant for affectionately roasting each other—sometimes mercilessly—through nicknaming (“Tartar” for a kid with bad teeth; “Left Looker” for a peer with an unusual habit) ([16:32]-[18:14]).
  • Quote: "Once somebody had a name, whatever the name was, it just stuck. See him today, I'm like, what's up, Tartar? I'm talking 51, you answer." – Unidentified Friend ([17:30])

7. Adolescent Encounters with Pornography

• Their era’s “woods porn” and the legendary communal Snake Eyes VHS tape, stashed around different homes in creative hiding spots like chimneys ([18:46]-[19:26]).
• Conversations on sibling privacy and finding parental stashes after fathers’ deaths ([21:59]-[22:22]).

8. Homemade Competitions & Creativity

• The origin of neighborhood championship “belts,” using cardboard, foil, and hockey cards for their heated NHL video game tournaments ([22:58]-[24:19]).

  • Quote: "We had belts for Nintendo...A nice belt for what it was, cut out piece of cardboard, trace it, aluminum foil..." – Chris ([23:55])

• The group’s do-it-yourself mentality extended to making “Free James Brown” t-shirts with iron-on logos ([25:29]).

9. Chaos and Resilience at “North Avenue”

• After Ryan’s mother’s passing, the friends became a surrogate family—hosting sleepovers, policing each other, and relying on sports and academics for structure despite near-total unsupervision ([26:01]-[28:41]).
• Collective problem-solving shines in stories like last-minute solar system projects, with all hands pitching in to save a grade ([27:39]-[28:41]).

10. Legendary Mischief: Mailbox Bombings

• Detailed stories of blowing up a notorious neighbor’s mailbox with M80s, describing the escalation from metal mailboxes to makeshift buckets ([34:32]-[37:13]).

11. Shared Loss and Uncanny Coincidence

• The conversation turns reflective as the friends connect over the identical date their fathers died, six years apart ([37:28]-[38:05]).
  • Quote: "To know somebody as long as we've known each other and then our dads die on the same day is pretty wild." – Ryan ([37:57])
• Ryan expresses belief in signs and meaningful coincidences, connecting the past and present ([39:16]-[39:38]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote/Description | |-----------|---------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 06:29 | Ryan | "He pulled in there, took me to the headstone. I said, oh my God." | | 07:37 | Ryan | "That church on the corner is the first place I saw titties." | | 10:39 | Ryan | "That’s the first time I saw titties in real life. Not in a magazine or anything." | | 15:13 | Chris | "It was the oddest thing I have ever seen before." | | 17:30 | Friend | "See him today, I'm like, what's up, Tartar? ... I'm talking 51, you answer." | | 23:55 | Chris | "We had belts for Nintendo...cut out piece of cardboard, aluminum foil...NHL hockey cards..." | | 28:41 | Ryan | "Everyone working together, making sure no one got in trouble, so we could keep doing this..." | | 37:57 | Ryan | "To know somebody as long as we've known each other and then our dads die on the same day..." | | 39:22 | Ryan | "I 100% believe in all that. ... These signs are telling us...that you are doing the right thing."|

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• 02:49 – Chris’s family background and early moves
• 05:19 – How Ryan and Chris became friends and neighborhood routines
• 07:46 – The infamous church fight and first real-life “titty” sighting
• 11:17 – Life and freedom growing up on Second Avenue
• 12:29 – The bizarre “belly button game” story
• 16:32 – Legendary neighborhood nicknames and relentless teasing
• 18:46 – Tales of “woods porn” and the communal VHS tape
• 22:58 – Intense video game rivalries and homemade championship belts
• 25:29 – Homemade t-shirts and early DIY creative streaks
• 26:01 – The unique, unsupervised environment on North Avenue
• 27:39 – The infamous last-minute solar system science project
• 34:32 – Adventures with mailbox bombings and the “dog” family
• 37:28 – Reflecting on the coincidental shared loss of their fathers
• 39:16 – Ryan’s reflections on fate, coincidence, and meaningful signs

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Tone and Language

• The episode is conversational, irreverent, and thick with affectionate banter.
• There’s a persistent theme of nostalgia, with moments of raucous laughter and blunt honesty about both the fun and the dysfunction of their upbringing.
• It’s rich in specific detail (neighborhood names, adolescent rites of passage), presented with the warmth and edge of old friends letting loose.
• Explicit language and mature content are common, in keeping with the genuine, uncensored nature of their friendship.

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Final Takeaway

Episode 114 of The Wayback is a masterclass in storytelling, camaraderie, and the formative power of a close-knit crew. Ryan and Chris embrace the misadventures, occasional chaos, and bittersweet milestones of their adolescence—capturing the spirit of a time when friendships, laughter, and innovation helped them stumble through growing up. Their stories are as hilarious as they are heartfelt, making this episode a nostalgic highlight of the Junkyard Series.

Transcript

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[Ryan Sickler]

hey, guys, Ryan Sickler here. I wanted to let you know that I'm headed to Connecticut. Come see me at Comics Roadhouse March 13th and 14th, Dallas, Texas. I'm headed your way. March 27th and 28th, Spokane, Washington. I'll see you guys April 3rd and 4th, Buffalo, New York. I'm headed your way. I'll see you guys Friday, April 24th and Saturday, April 25th. Get your tickets now on my [e-mail].

[Unidentified Friend]

Hey, baby, we going to be here all day. We going to be here all day, baby. I like that kind of party.

[Ryan Sickler]

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 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 Wayback, everybody. Ryan Sickler here. Thank you guys for supporting this show, bringing you another episode of the Way Back junkyard series here. While I'm back in Baltimore, I wanted to shoot a bunch of content with my family and friends. You guys been asking for years to do this and what better place to do this than auto recycling of Baltimore. Shannon Patterson's junkyard here in Baltimore City. This episode here goes back again all the way to sixth grade. It's one of my best friends, Another brother to me, ladies and gentlemen. You've seen him on the Patreon Honey do with y'.

[Chris Sheeler]

All.

[Ryan Sickler]

Chris Sheeler, everybody. Welcome to the Way Back.

[Chris Sheeler]

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

[Ryan Sickler]

You're welcome, buddy. Before we get into how we met, let's get a little back history on you and your family. So obviously I know your dad very well. Your mom just came to see me in Phoenix on The road. Barbara, how did they meet? Like, what are they a Maryland family? Are they Maryland people originally?

[Chris Sheeler]

Maryland people, you know, met at Towson State University, which is now. University, yeah. So you were Towson before you left in California. Towson State, then, yes. So they were still Towson State. So they met there. Gosh. I mean, you know, my mom was what, 19, 20 when she had me, so long time ago. Too long ago, actually. But. But so met there, you know, and I'm. I'm Baltimore, you know, born, raised, have been in the area, I guess now since, you know, since what, last 50 years of my life. And. But that's, you know, that's what my parents met and, you know, been in this Baltimore suburb area for a long time.

[Ryan Sickler]

So where were. Was that your first home? Were you born into? So we met. Let me just tell everybody. We met sixth grade, somewhere between sixth and seventh grade. We all went to the same middle school, Sykesville Middle School.

Did you.

Was that the house you were born into, Lexington run?

[Chris Sheeler]

No, no. So I lived. Actually lived in Towson with my parents were young, right. So my, you know, I lived with my dad's. My dad's mother, my grandmother for a couple years when I was. When I was a newborn, and then lived actually right. Not far from here, Essex Bowley's 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 actually moved to Columbia to go to.

[Ryan Sickler]

Benji's driving.

[Chris Sheeler]

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, know, being here as well.

[Ryan Sickler]

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

[Chris Sheeler]

Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

So, okay, so you did elementary school. Like, was that pretty much in the city?

[Chris Sheeler]

Yep, elementary, which is like, down. Down, I guess, police quarters. Essex. So then we moved to, you know, got to lessons, run around the. The fifth grade, you know, time frame. Carol Town Elementary. I'm not sure what you. I met you the next year, but,

[Ryan Sickler]

yeah, I want the freedom. Freedom. Sixth grade at 6.

[Chris Sheeler]

St. Joe's St. Joe's right. Well, see, you mentioned Sykesville because Sitesville Middle School was our middle school, but we had the asbestos issue there. We had.

[Unidentified Friend]

We were just slamming about it because,

[Ryan Sickler]

like, hey, everybody, the building's so bad, sixth grade can't come. Seventh and eighth or five.

[Unidentified Friend]

What are you talking about, man? One whole floor has asbestos, but the other two are all right, man, let those kids. One year.

One year There you're rolling. Next year it's all back in the classrooms again. So. So St. Joe, Sykesville.

[Chris Sheeler]

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.

[Ryan Sickler]

We meet in sixth grade. We don't move into that neighborhood until like the summer between 6th and 7th. So we all become walkers. You're one of the walkers?

[Chris Sheeler]

I'm a walker for sure.

[Ryan Sickler]

We all walk to middle school every day. Like the male post office, whatever weather, we're walking. Ain't nobody driving us 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?

[Chris Sheeler]

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.

[Ryan Sickler]

So we all play football in the cemetery.

[Chris Sheeler]

Yeah, cemetery. And just pick up games. So it all just kind of picked up. And so we just really.

[Ryan Sickler]

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. You remember Mark Orlando?

[Chris Sheeler]

Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

All right. Mark Orlando. Who? CFL champion, great wide receiver, also a Towson State alum.

[Unidentified Friend]

Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

One time was driving me home from school. We're passing that cemetery. And he goes, my mom's buried in that cemetery. I just start laughing like, no, she's not, dude. And he's like, yes, she is. I'm like, stop with me. Your mom is not buried in the cemetery. All of a sudden, we're just driving by the cemetery. Now your mom is buried in there. He's like, she's buried. And I go, no, she's not.

[Unidentified Friend]

He pulled in there, took me to the headstone. I said, oh, my God.

Wait, now is it.

[Chris Sheeler]

Hold on.

[Unidentified Friend]

Is this the one?

I said, oh, my God. She said, Mrs. Orlando. Basically, she's right there.

But hold on.

I felt terrible, dude. I felt terrible.

[Chris Sheeler]

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

[Ryan Sickler]

Right by this, the Chatterbox Orphanage.

[Chris Sheeler]

This is where? Right by the church there. Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

That's the one that they used.

[Chris Sheeler]

Well, that's where my dad's buried.

[Ryan Sickler]

Your dad's buried.

[Chris Sheeler]

Mr. Sealer's on the headstone, you know.

[Unidentified Friend]

Right.

Ms. Orlando.

We just sit driving in the car together.

Is that right?

It is.

[Chris Sheeler]

It's the. It's the same. That little. The cemetery.

[Unidentified Friend]

Right. Church on the corner.

[Chris Sheeler]

We would play football there and stuff like that.

[Unidentified Friend]

Church on the corner.

[Ryan Sickler]

Were 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.

[Chris Sheeler]

Okay. What.

[Ryan Sickler]

So this is the story. And you were. I know you were there because we all rode the bus back. This is ninth grade. We all. The bus stop was the.

[Chris Sheeler]

The church right there. Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

Where your dad.

[Unidentified Friend]

You say your dad's.

[Ryan Sickler]

We'll see.

[Unidentified Friend]

I'll drive by Mark Orlando and I'll cruise.

[Chris Sheeler]

Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

And right here, we're all on the bus that day. Norris put on the bus. On the bus. And he used to get picked on. Actually, we might have been in 10th grade right before we got our license. 10th grade. Because the kid's in 9th grade, and he's picking on Norris, and he won't stop picking on Norris. And 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 die. So we get off the bus. You remember this? And they go to square up. Finally, like, Norris has had enough, and rightfully so. This kid had been bugging weeks.

[Unidentified Friend]

Weeks.

[Chris Sheeler]

I remember. Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

So we get off in front of this church, and they square up, and they start fighting. The Norse is beating the. Out of them. And this girl. I think her name was Jennifer, I can't remember. Norris is on top of all fours, just wailing them up.

[Chris Sheeler]

Do you remember this?

[Ryan Sickler]

And the girl comes up behind Norris and, I mean, hit a.

[Unidentified Friend]

Hit a Justin Tucker 63 yards right in his nuts. I never in my life. I heard a boom. And he said, oh, he rolled over. He goes. I'll never forget. He goes, somebody get her.

Somebody get her.

He said, yeah. So wait. Oh, my God.

[Ryan Sickler]

That kid runs away. And Norris is like.

[Unidentified Friend]

We're all like you.

[Ryan Sickler]

You. Well, if you remember Shannon Moriarty. Shannon the best. Shannon was our old school. Like, she was our age Dirt, you know, head. Whatever you called him back then. Her brothers were Harley bikers.

[Chris Sheeler]

Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

No, the whole.

[Unidentified Friend]

I'm talking about her older brother.

[Ryan Sickler]

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 up.

[Unidentified Friend]

Yeah, I remember.

Tomorrow I'm you up. And we were all like, oh, even if I drove, I'm taking a bus tomorrow.

I promise. The girlfriend. The girlfriend next to her.

[Ryan Sickler]

So we get on that bus and Shannon Moore already walks in and it's already, it's palpable. It's 3 o' clock high, for sure. And she. Remember, she punched her in the face on a bus as an appetizer. She punched her right in a girl glasses. She's like, you're not gonna hit a girl glass. Shannon said, boom. Punched her right in the face. She goes, wait till we get off this bus. We get off that bus, and Shannon Moriarty grab that girl. Do you remember this? She had really big boobs for being in, like. And Shannon Moriarty grabbed her shirt and she ripped that shirt off. And that's the first time I saw titties in real life. Not in a magazine or anything.

[Unidentified Friend]

Like, I was like, oh, my God, there's some flash.

[Ryan Sickler]

And then she pummeled that girl like a dude. I mean, beat the out of her. And Norris, if you remember, he took

[Unidentified Friend]

her binder and he was skipping through the cemetery.

[Chris Sheeler]

You remember that?

[Unidentified Friend]

She.

That girl up, man. And we saw titties. Like, that's the first time. I was like, thank you, man.

Oh, my God.

[Ryan Sickler]

All right, so we meet, you sixth grade. We all walk to 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.

[Chris Sheeler]

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. We would all hang out there. We go up, like I said, up the street, pick up games. You're, you know, you're.

[Unidentified Friend]

You're.

[Chris Sheeler]

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. No time set. Just good times, fun times.

[Ryan Sickler]

We talked about this on this show. Do you remember the commercial? It's 10pm do you know where your children are? Because it was a problem that people didn't know where the.

[Unidentified Friend]

Their kids were.

[Ryan Sickler]

You had to remind them, like, oh, yeah.

[Unidentified Friend]

Oh, yeah, we have kids.

Oh, my God, it's 10 o'.

Clock. Yeah. You hear somebody whistle for dinner, the light comes on.

Yeah, my dad.

But that's.

[Chris Sheeler]

But that's what it was. And then, you know, you just. It was just every day there was like, you know, the way that technology is today, even sitting here. Technology and, you know, all the different apps and stuff like that didn't have that stuff back 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, yes, 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 along the block and a mile away and stuff like that. Just easy to get to and just a lot of great times. So, yeah, fun.

[Ryan Sickler]

I'm gonna jump around because you had a. We had a wild neighborhood. We did had a lot of characters in the neighborhood. I want to know about the belly button stuff that used to happen with

[Unidentified Friend]

your neighbors that you used to tell us. We get all together, so we.

[Chris Sheeler]

I probably shouldn't say name for this.

[Unidentified Friend]

Yes, you definitely should not say their names for this.

Somebody will know them at some point.

Do not.

So. So.

[Chris Sheeler]

So we. This is now. This is where I was, Bunker Hill, which is not far, you know, down the road. You're a Second Avenue, just down this

[Unidentified Friend]

Paul Revere Lexington run.

Little, little. Little. You know, the war, the Colonial War, right?

Colonial Ware Court.

[Chris Sheeler]

So neighbor of mine, which I will say the Beckers, right, Went to, we're talking, I guess Liberty High School in a bit, but high school, he was probably sliced in middle school too. But we were out common area, just camping out. It was like, you know, Friday, we're all like in sixth, seventh grade, whatever it is. And there's a neighbor that said maybe catty corner to where this common area is. You know, it's like this is.

[Ryan Sickler]

And you're in a court.

[Blinds.com Announcer]

Court.

[Unidentified Friend]

But it's like, did you call to

[Ryan Sickler]

court or call to sack?

[Chris Sheeler]

I called her record.

[Ryan Sickler]

I mean, it was a cul de sac, but all growing up, it was a court until someone told us the name Cul de sac. That was so dumb, we started saying,

[Chris Sheeler]

yeah, so, yeah, yeah, me in the court, right?

[Unidentified Friend]

So.

[Chris Sheeler]

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. And so it's like this time of the night was like six o', clock, whatever. It was summer, summertime, up in the window. You had like Split windows, I guess

[Unidentified Friend]

the two bed stuff make me laugh. So all of a sudden there's two.

[Chris Sheeler]

Two boys and there's like the mother and father and.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, wait, you're seeing this.

[Chris Sheeler]

We saw.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, I thought they told you about it.

[Chris Sheeler]

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

[Unidentified Friend]

I didn't know you saw. Okay, my bad. Go ahead, continue.

We saw this. So we look up and there's, you

[Chris Sheeler]

know, there's like, I don't know, six, seven people out where the tents going up and stuff like that. And we see like the family just. Just with their fingers, just like the mother's poking the one son the belly

[Unidentified Friend]

button, the other son's poking the other.

[Chris Sheeler]

Yeah. And then I'm like, what the hell is going then?

[Unidentified Friend]

So they. Eventually it's supposed to go on for

[Chris Sheeler]

like maybe a minute or two, and then they. But they were like, you know, they had like, even the mother, like, no clothes on. Shirtless. Shirtless. Right. This is. This is true story. Shirtless. So they come downstairs with two kids that lived in the 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 dealing with a poking the belly button? And they got all kind of quiet and they go. And then somebody said, oh, the belly button game. 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.

[Ryan Sickler]

So they admitted to playing the. A belly button game.

[Chris Sheeler]

And they said, they. They do it once in a while in the evenings and stuff like that.

[Unidentified Friend]

I'm like, well, what is. What does that mean?

I think we know what it means. I think the belly button game is the beginning of it. That's what I think.

But it was very.

[Chris Sheeler]

It was really. It was very disturbing. For who, though?

[Unidentified Friend]

You know what I mean?

I guess for both of us.

Disturbing for those kids too. Like, what's going on?

They saw us in the window. I mean, it was just the most ridiculous. That's the.

[Ryan Sickler]

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

[Unidentified Friend]

that house and go away.

[Chris Sheeler]

What the.

[Unidentified Friend]

Y' all get hugs over here and

[Ryan Sickler]

cereal and what's going. It's a different.

[Chris Sheeler]

And then you mentioned about seeing the, you know. You know, tis the first time up on the church lot with the. With the Shannon Moriarty.

[Unidentified Friend]

First time I saw titties was at a church.

[Chris Sheeler]

This was maybe like.

[Unidentified Friend]

Well, this is like a mother. What are you, sixth, seventh grade. A mother with no shirt on.

Yeah, that's true.

That's true. So that was pretty. That was pretty.

That's wild, dude.

Yeah, we're trying to say, oh, she's not having any clothes on them.

[Ryan Sickler]

I tell the story of my stand up. Like, we were very lucky to live in a neighborhood where there were a good dozen kids within the same age. I'd say six to eighth grade.

[Chris Sheeler]

All the same age. Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

And all pretty athletic. All had good arms. All like to around. All like to get in trouble. And everyone was a ball buster. And I. 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 Tartar.

[Unidentified Friend]

Tartar. This kid had plaque all over his.

He had so much black and all over his teeth. We nicknamed the Tartar. And then we call him that.

Like, it was like, Barry, you know

what's up?

Tartar. What'd he say? What would he say?

I don't got this no more.

That no more, man. We're like, yeah, you do, dude. You got a lot of tartar on your.

The best of the best ones. I'm not playing the game harder, bro.

It's hot.

Ridiculous. And once you know what happened too? Once somebody had a name, whatever the name was, it just stopped.

See him today. I'm like, what's up, Tarter? Like, I'm talking 51. You answer.

It doesn't matter. And I remember when we really choose this, you mentioned choose the sports teams. Like about football or baseball. You said, I'll take Tim, Give me Larry. I guess I'll take Tartar.

I guess I'll take Tartar.

He pop right up like that.

All what the was. He had like hair on his teeth, dude. And he had to live with that nickname. Like, who else could we get today? Call Tartar. Call Tartar.

Call Tar. Come down and play. Oh, my God.

[Ryan Sickler]

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 called him the left looker.

[Chris Sheeler]

The left looker?

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah, that guy. You talk to him, he just always

[Unidentified Friend]

looking, always looking down the left, always

looking to the left. You bet.

[Ryan Sickler]

You got tickets?

[Unidentified Friend]

We got.

[Ryan Sickler]

Why you.

[Unidentified Friend]

What's over there, dude?

What's over there.

[Ryan Sickler]

We have a lot of stories about like first porno and early porn on this show. And it. Depending on the age it seems to be, men in their 50s often would have porn 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 in.

[Unidentified Friend]

I'd go in the woods. It was in the woods. Heaven in the woods. I'm like, it wasn't. We'd have a magazine in the woods. You can just go, leave it at the tree. Go back and look at the woods.

[Chris Sheeler]

Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

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.

[Unidentified Friend]

Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

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. Like 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, in his chimney. And I go over, I think I'm with you one time. And he like goes up in the chimney and there's a ledge when you go up and there's a ledge here. Who, who.

[Unidentified Friend]

I don't even know how he figured that out.

[Ryan Sickler]

And that's where you would hide that. Where'd you hide it when you had it? Where would you keep it?

[Chris Sheeler]

Gosh, I probably, probably like in a drawer under clothes and stuff like that.

[Unidentified Friend]

Obvious places.

[Chris Sheeler]

Well, I mean, nobody was gonna look probably. But under like stacks of T shirts or like a drawer nobody looked at

[Ryan Sickler]

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[Unidentified Friend]

I

[Ryan Sickler]

never, I never went through. I was not a snooper. I never went through my dad. My. Like I didn't know my dad had a porno until after he died and people were cleaning his out. You know what I mean? It was like one porno in there.

[Chris Sheeler]

I think my mom, when my dad died gave me his whole stash.

[Unidentified Friend]

I'm serious.

He's like what labels?

[Chris Sheeler]

No, 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 I gu something, you know.

[Unidentified Friend]

Yeah, I'll take it.

[Chris Sheeler]

So. But yeah, I mean I guess you said, mentioned about. You mentioned your brothers, you know, the drawers, I mean under.

[Ryan Sickler]

You ever go through your brother's stuff?

[Chris Sheeler]

No.

[Ryan Sickler]

So what's the age difference between you and Corey? Four years?

[Chris Sheeler]

Three and a half.

[Ryan Sickler]

Three and a half. It's like us and Todd then.

[Chris Sheeler]

Yeah, basically. Yeah. So I never did. But I mean but you know, under a bunch of shirts like. And also like a comp. A drawer that no one's going to really check it. You know what I mean? So. But chimney. But when he had them in the chimney, like I don't know. I don't know how you can find a ledge. That's what I'm saying the chimney. But I mean, he had him. He had a lot of them too, which was.

[Ryan Sickler]

Tell me about. I want to talk about some of the. Because I got to give you props, man.

[Unidentified Friend]

We, we.

[Ryan Sickler]

You especially were very early on with the belts for.

[Unidentified Friend]

Nowadays you can get a belt for

[Ryan Sickler]

anything and they look great. But we had. Yeah, we had belts for Nintendo. We were playing Nintendo and Sega. We had Sega's one that really got aggressive.

[Chris Sheeler]

Oh, it was. There was some.

[Ryan Sickler]

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.

[Chris Sheeler]

Well, the big thing. The big thing. The big thing at our house, there was. I mean, there was tons. But the big one, the big game we always played was what the NHL hockey.

[Unidentified Friend]

Right.

[Chris Sheeler]

And it was when you had Mario Lemieux and Mark Messier and all that

[Ryan Sickler]

stuff you were paying. I always play with the Blackhawks. I had Steve Smith.

[Chris Sheeler]

Yeah, I remember there was always the. What we said it was. But when I. When you and I would yell about it. But there was always the glitch with the man.

[Unidentified Friend]

Like, you know, as long as you got him down the center ice, you couldn't. You could potty chat, you couldn't stop him.

[Chris Sheeler]

But so we, so we, we had. We play that game and we created, like you said that, you know, we. I don't know who. Who did it, but we, we did the belt too.

[Unidentified Friend]

We had a nice bell for what it was.

They, you know, cut out piece of cardboard, trace it, aluminum foil.

[Chris Sheeler]

But like, but presto on it, right? Yeah.

[Unidentified Friend]

And then like the hot NHL hockey

[Chris Sheeler]

cards, like out of the. Out of the, you know, like the tops, pat and staple them all under the belt and stuff like that. So we all come over there, you know, we have like, you know, whoever was. Whoever was the champion that you had. The belt's up for grabs, right? We're playing it. There were so many times where I would tell you, remember, like, just get out of my house.

[Unidentified Friend]

You know, like, you know, because we're playing, I lose and 10 to 2,

you're like, call me when you're out of play. I'm like, it is me.

[Ryan Sickler]

10 to 2.

[Unidentified Friend]

Of course you would like instigated and stuff like that. My brother, I just beat the shit

[Chris Sheeler]

out of him, like, you know, like

[Unidentified Friend]

to applaud if I lose to him.

[Chris Sheeler]

But the biggest story with that was we were all there, the belts up there, stuff like that.

[Ryan Sickler]

You had the belt.

[Chris Sheeler]

Yeah, maybe I had it. You did My dad. I guess we were all arguing or all fighting about the different games. My dad comes down from upstairs, like

[Unidentified Friend]

tighty whities on, like, T shirt. Just takes the console and just completely rips it out of the wall, Takes it upstairs. And we're just sitting. We're just a TV. TV's off.

He didn't say a word.

Came down and ripped that.

He didn't say, guys, just keep it easy. Just ripped it out of the wall. You know, the TV's off. And then. And then, you know, that was pretty much it.

[Chris Sheeler]

But I think I did. When that happened, I think I did retain the title. I think, though.

[Unidentified Friend]

No, you lost.

That's why you fought.

Oh, yeah, man.

Your brother beat and you ripped the belt. That's when your dad came down. Nothing is belt and everything else.

[Chris Sheeler]

It was bad. It was bad.

[Unidentified Friend]

Yes, that was.

[Chris Sheeler]

That was.

[Unidentified Friend]

That was another good one, too.

[Ryan Sickler]

We were also very early adapters on screen printing T shirts ourselves. Do you remember? We made James Brown free James Brown T shirts. We all wore them to school. We made them like, bad iron on stuff from Joanne Fabrics. We had free James Brown T shirts in high school.

[Unidentified Friend]

People like, what are you doing?

And they're all. They're all like, just as.

What do you do?

[Ryan Sickler]

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

[Chris Sheeler]

No.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah, nobody's there. However, we. The rule was, if you up, it's over for everybody. That wasn't for us.

[Chris Sheeler]

We were done.

[Ryan Sickler]

But everyone came over. Monday to Sunday, people are sleeping over. I said, I tell them how we're still all friends. And I'm like, would you let your

[Unidentified Friend]

kids do some like that?

[Ryan Sickler]

Like, no, but we're doing that. And I. And people ask me all the time. I'm like, listen, man, sports were the most important thing. 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 and arbutus, 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. And if you up, you couldn't do it. So I said, we all graduated, I think, except maybe. And a couple of us did. 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 Night Court on here. We got Nintendo Little League Baseball going here. And you realize that you have a mobile due tomorrow of the solar system.

[Chris Sheeler]

Do you remember this?

[Unidentified Friend]

And people are like, what do you do? I said, I'll tell you what we did.

[Ryan Sickler]

We drove to Kmart just in time. Time.

[Chris Sheeler]

It was the most.

[Ryan Sickler]

Back when Kmart had. You could get little Styrofoam balls section because Joanne Fabrics wasn't. It had just come later, I think.

[Chris Sheeler]

Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

So we go there, we get all these balls, and I'm like. We come home and I'm like, shannon, you're Jupiter.

[Unidentified Friend]

Timmy, you're Saturn, You're Pluto, you're. And we're just doing it.

[Ryan Sickler]

And then you went in the next day. Do you remember what happened to.

[Unidentified Friend]

The whole thing broke apart, but they

[Ryan Sickler]

gave you an A.

[Unidentified Friend]

The teacher saw it.

He's like. It was.

[Chris Sheeler]

Yeah, it was Durkin, right?

[Unidentified Friend]

Durkin, for.

He gave us an A. He gave us an A.

He goes, hey, it was a good effort. He gave us an A. He gave us an A.

[Chris Sheeler]

But, yeah, I mean, I remember coming to you saying, hey, I got. You know, of course I'm staying here tonight. I'm not going home.

[Unidentified Friend]

And I say, but as.

We got a problem Thursday.

But we got a problem. I got this. I got this project, too. And I'm like, I can't if I

[Chris Sheeler]

don't get it done, you know, et cetera. So we. Yeah, we got. We got it all done. But it took, like, what, I don't know, three, four, five. You know, just doing it. Like, putting it together.

[Ryan Sickler]

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 yin and a yang. You couldn't just be. We don't go to school. We sit here and smoke cigarettes and drink beer.

[Chris Sheeler]

And that's. What you mentioned was amazing, which we could have.

[Unidentified Friend]

Yeah, we really could.

[Chris Sheeler]

And it's amazing thing that you said about that was that with all the people that were over there on a given day, random weekends, obviously, parties 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, truthfully, you know what I mean? I mean, we get up in the

[Ryan Sickler]

morning, hey, listen, today CPS is coming to that house.

[Unidentified Friend]

We're all minors. We're not, you know, I mean, they're coming.

[Chris Sheeler]

Yeah.

[Unidentified Friend]

Where's the person that's supposed to be

[Ryan Sickler]

in charge of you kids?

[Unidentified Friend]

We would go to school and her

[Ryan Sickler]

boyfriend in Sykesville Apartments.

[Unidentified Friend]

Don't worry, we're caroling over there.

[Ryan Sickler]

Do you remember?

[Chris Sheeler]

But we didn't like in the morning get up and say, oh, whatever, let's not go to school today. And we just went to school and then it was like a repeat cycle. Come home and then do it again. And sometimes like, you know, I think I had a key to the house, I think, right?

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah.

[Unidentified Friend]

When you just climb up on the roof and get through the window and

then you guys come and go, go, go. How you hell you're in my house without even me being here.

[Chris Sheeler]

Well, we got a key.

[Unidentified Friend]

Or somebody had like a legacy key and pass it around.

Legacy key. Get the out of here with legacy. So all you had to do was hop up on the side roof and pop that window. We couldn't shut that window. Everybody would cut. We'd be in there and coming home.

[Chris Sheeler]

Oh, God.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, let's talk about sleepovers at your house. I only did it. I think I only did it once.

[Chris Sheeler]

I never came back with the, the hamster.

[Unidentified Friend]

Yeah.

[Chris Sheeler]

Okay, well that was. I can see why. Probably why, I mean, so, so the, the hamster. The hamster in the cage. And just probably like, you know, obviously hamster has chips in the case. It's what, sixth grade, seventh grade early. But the hamster just ran the wheel, right? Ran the wheel.

[Unidentified Friend]

You're wearing the wheel all night. Like a crack hands,

you're on the floor. And I remember, I think like, I don't know, it's like one o' clock in the morning. You go, I just can't. I just can't take this anymore. I got ships off in my head, in my hair.

[Chris Sheeler]

I got

[Unidentified Friend]

shipping in my face and my mouth and I'm like, I ain't spending the night over here. God, dude, that's ridiculous.

You didn't get any sleep. And the chips all over the floor.

[Ryan Sickler]

Do you remember putting everybody's memory to the test? Do you remember what pet we had at North Avenue. Think about it.

[Chris Sheeler]

With pet.

[Ryan Sickler]

It was. It was poor. It was such a poor little thing we commented on all the time.

[Chris Sheeler]

Did you have you get it Ferret? No, but it was something similar.

[Ryan Sickler]

It was. It was a floppy eared rabbit.

[Chris Sheeler]

Oh, the rabbit. Yeah. Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

So we had a rabbit in the. So, all right, so after my father dies, we get moved into that apartment 9 12. 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 stop in here so I can go sleep tonight?

[Unidentified Friend]

Guys, non stop.

[Ryan Sickler]

Like go.

[Unidentified Friend]

My mom's bed. Nobody. You know what I mean? Why don't you go in there? So what if it's got a bunch of geese everywhere in there. Just look past it. Look past it. You're getting pussy. Why are you in my bed?

[Ryan Sickler]

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

[Unidentified Friend]

Oh yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

And we'll let him. There's so many people in the driveway area.

[Chris Sheeler]

Like there's ram cars park.

[Ryan Sickler]

You get blocked in and everything. When Todd would want to drive young so we would let him be like, move the cars.

[Unidentified Friend]

Yeah.

This might be the best story, one

[Chris Sheeler]

of the best ever there as far as from. From your brother's perspective. But so anyway, we're in the house. I don't know, we're probably just same thing, playing the video games, whatever. Like that. Todd comes in and goes, Ryan's people trying to leave. And you know your cars, your car's boxing. And I just pull it out. He can you go? Yeah, here's how. Here's the key. Let's just go. Let's go. Pull it out. All right.

[Unidentified Friend]

So Todd's. He's like cool, you know, he's 13,

[Chris Sheeler]

he wants to dry. He comes out, he gets 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 just pull the car back in, back in. Next thing you know, you hear like this, you know this of the steps.

[Unidentified Friend]

He butters the person out. Ryan, Ryan, call Ma. Hit the propane tank on the side of the house immediately. We're smelling it like a whistling. You guys hit the propane tank right beside the building.

So that's how shitty of a place we are.

[Ryan Sickler]

We're getting powered by propane for this. That's where our heat and our gas and everything's coming from this little house. House? This little what? It wasn't even a house. It was a duplex.

[Unidentified Friend]

And Ty's going, what's that? What's that whistling sound?

[Ryan Sickler]

Stinks like propane so bad. So he calls my mother, and she's like, I'm not coming over there.

[Chris Sheeler]

Oh, just turn the valve off and leaves it.

[Unidentified Friend]

The things had copper wires hanging out of this thing. It's sideways like this. We look up and it says, it could blow a city block apart, this thing. If it blows up, we're still in

the house playing games, and we're just

people smoking, smoking cigarettes. I'm like, stop smoking cigarettes. We're gonna die. There's no smoking for one night, everybody.

Oh, my God.

[Chris Sheeler]

That might have been the funny just

[Unidentified Friend]

how he was out of breath, too.

He was so excited to drive cars. And he came out. We're like, what? Oh, no. My mother couldn't have cared 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, boom.

I mean, but it was. That was unbelievable. That was one of the biggest times crashed the show.

[Ryan Sickler]

Okay, let's talk about how we used to go blow up mail.

[Chris Sheeler]

Oh, I was just telling stories.

[Unidentified Friend]

Let me explain who this guy was

[Ryan Sickler]

first, because I've talked about him before. But there was a family. They were called the Dogs. And I believe one of them might be gone now. Maybe both are at this point.

They were.

Listen, I'm not even going to sugarcoat here. They were a family that lived on a hill off the to of the road with no indoor plumbing.

They.

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?

[Unidentified Friend]

They were hillbilly people?

[Chris Sheeler]

Yeah. It was either mountain people, like West

[Ryan Sickler]

Virginia mountain people that relocated. And he would. With people. He wasn't innocent. He would be like with people because they would with him. But we would go and we would take M80s. Go ahead.

[Unidentified Friend]

M80s.

[Chris Sheeler]

And so where the house was.

[Unidentified Friend]

The house.

[Chris Sheeler]

Like you said, the house was pushed up on the hill. Right. So the house is further away, called the road.

[Unidentified Friend]

Oh, yeah. Oh, it wasn't even a real road.

I'm going to be tartar on hill.

I mean, I can't recall the name of the road now, but if you said, I know exactly what you're talking about, but. So the hills up on the house

[Chris Sheeler]

up on the hill. And the. And the mailbox is way down from the house, like right off of the street. So we would drive, you know, weekend. What it was Friday, Friday, Saturday night, I think it was. Who, like have somebody had the M80. I know the M80s.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, who know?

[Unidentified Friend]

Everybody.

[Chris Sheeler]

Shannon might have had them too, but everybody had the.

[Unidentified Friend]

Everybody had that made ease.

[Chris Sheeler]

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 long it took. Would it take like 10 seconds?

[Unidentified Friend]

Seconds.

You know, you're like just. Just like boom.

[Ryan Sickler]

The sides would blow open, the back would shoot off into the leaves.

[Unidentified Friend]

The leaves. And we're leaving the thing you always

[Chris Sheeler]

do too, you should never do, right? What do you do? Like you dry back to the scene of the crime, right? You come back around the corner and then we take five minutes, come back and then the mailbox, which is usually a little, you know, metal mailbox, just completely gone off the. Off the. Off the post. It's just a post there. And then the next day we drive by, right, because they had to get the mail.

[Unidentified Friend]

They have like a little pale.

A five gallon box.

Just a mail.

We were doing.

They.

They spent money on mailboxes. We blew that mailbox up so many times. They probably left that bucket up like it's a five gallon bucket. It said male, had a flag. And then we threw an M80 in that. That was bulletproof after that.

[Ryan Sickler]

Godamn.

[Chris Sheeler]

I think, yeah, I think that was

[Unidentified Friend]

the end of our run.

[Chris Sheeler]

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. That was unbelievable.

[Ryan Sickler]

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 27, 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?

[Chris Sheeler]

Johns Hopkins.

[Ryan Sickler]

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 dies. How many years later?

[Chris Sheeler]

What year was it he died in? 95.

[Ryan Sickler]

95. So six years later. That's crazy. To know somebody as long as we've known each other and then our dads die on the same day is pretty wild.

[Chris Sheeler]

Yeah. I mean, and it's. It is strange. And we thought we did it. We. And I was. I was a guest on the Honeydew with you all a couple years ago when we did. Talked about this. But it's. That is surreal though. Like, I mean, like, you know, you thought. Because again, you can always say it's a coincidence or just a day two people died. I mean, I guess it's small. If I looked it up, like, you know, your dad. My dad who died on the 27th. Probably a lot of people. You know what I mean? But when you have a connection like that and it's. And two different. Dies at the same day, you have to. But, you know. And I do. But you have to believe in a higher.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, yeah.

[Chris Sheeler]

Higher being, you know, God. Purpose of the.

[Ryan Sickler]

Look, right over there. Right now, over there. So I walk in today. Mr. Roy starts talking to me about my. 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 it says they're. They're called Irwin Clamps. Ir. 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 Escape room?

[Chris Sheeler]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

So we're all in there. You know, they come in to tell you the story of the room and everything. His name, Irwin.

[Chris Sheeler]

Wow.

[Ryan Sickler]

I was like, get the fuck out of here. So I 100% believe in all that. I firmly. He's 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?

[Chris Sheeler]

Yeah. Never. Sure.

[Unidentified Friend]

Dude, thank you for doing this.

[Ryan Sickler]

This was a really fun episode.

[Unidentified Friend]

We're gonna do more together. We're gonna do a big group one.

[Chris Sheeler]

Yeah, man.

[Ryan Sickler]

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.

[Chris Sheeler]

Yeah, I love you too, man.

[Ryan Sickler]

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

[Chris Sheeler]

Sam.