Being a Tweenage Latchkey Kid in Bremerton

Ya know that awkward age where you’re not a little kid anymore, but not quite a responsible young adult? Trouble seemed to follow this demographic in 1980s suburban America and Bremerton was not spared. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:20

What is up, Bremerton fans? We're back again from Bremerton. It's Schnazzle and Jerry with B Town Stories. I'm Schnazzle. And I'm Jerry Lagar. And uh welcome back to season three, buddy. Been missing recording with you.

SPEAKER_03 0:34

Yeah, man. Fucking uh, you know, we had some things to do though, so it's all good.

SPEAKER_02 0:39

But um, yeah, man. So what's been going what's been new? Let's uh what's just been going on with you during this thing? I mean, uh, I just gotta tell you, you're looking pretty ripped.

SPEAKER_03 0:47

Uh well, I don't know if I'm fully ripped yet, but you know, I I've been going to the gym on a pretty regular basis. Well, so have you. Yep. And uh sometimes though, like I'll go in my car when we leave, and then you'll leave. And I was like, Man, I feel like going back in there, and I'll just go back in there for another 45 minutes or something.

SPEAKER_02 1:06

Good scenery in there, too. You know what I mean? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:11

Yeah. Basically just working and fucking pumping iron. Sweet. Um, dude, I know you have a well, and I've also been doing some hand modeling.

SPEAKER_02 1:22

That's right, guys. I published my first book. Uh it's super awesome, and I want to read a little plug for it. Um, it's called Wedding Scam, and it's available a lot of places, but um uh I'm just gonna read you the trailer, like it's a trailer. In high school, Billy Schlitter's band, The Badlanders, were the punk rock kings of Bremerton, destined for rock stardom, until one fateful weekend after graduation, everything changed. Billy's bandmates lied to him and said they had shit to do, and then took their girlfriends to the gorge to see Annie DeFranco. How dare they! And then at that concert, they all got their girlfriends pregnant.

SPEAKER_03 2:09

Wait, wait, was it like an orgy?

SPEAKER_02 2:12

I think there was just so much estrogen at the show. Oh, you know, uh so forced to become parents, Billy's bandmates left the Badlanders, leaving Billy bandless with no mechanism to achieve rock stardom, and it drove him mad. For decades after, Billy Schlitter attempted scam after scam after scam to get his band back together with no luck. Until now. Ride shotgun with Bill Billy Schlitter as he teams up with fellow punker Angie Mitchell and embarks on the most ratchet, scandalous Bremerton scam ever in Wedding Scam.

unknown 2:52

Woohoo!

SPEAKER_02 2:53

Available on Amazon and other online bookstores, paperback and digital. Oh, and also in Kidsap County bookstores. Uh Away with Words in Paulsbow, Killer Bookstore, Salmonberry Books in Port Orchard, Cups in Manchester, and there's a couple of place deals I'm working uh out in Bremerton right now with uh a couple of bookstores, but uh by the time this hits the air, I'll probably be able to get in in some Bremerton bookstores as well. So uh check out weddingscam.com for more information.

SPEAKER_03 3:23

And the reason I said I was a hand all is because my hand's on the cover of the book. Yeah, because I have a bunch of tattoos and he needed tattooed hands to you know portray these scummy punkers.

SPEAKER_02 3:35

Yes, and we got another killer uh Bremerton hand model, Chorus NYX. She is has both of your tattoos together look so killer. Yeah, it just looks really fucking it's so aesthetic. It came out so Bremerton, it's Bremerton AF. Mia five years ago would say it was so aesthetic. Um, but all right, man. And also, you know, I've been doing I've been putting together a film commission up here on the Kidsap and Olympic Peninsula.

SPEAKER_03 4:01

Oh, yeah, that's fucking cool.

SPEAKER_02 4:02

It's gonna be super cool, man. Um, it's called the Peninsula Film Commission. And um, we are galvanizing the communities together to try to get some more productions up here in our neck of the woods. Yeah. So uh check Peninsula Film Commission.org for updates on that. And uh and yeah, I think we segue into a B Town story, man.

SPEAKER_03 4:24

Yeah, I don't really have any websites to plug. Um well, you you used to have some, right? Meat.com. I've been working in the meat shop. Uh yeah, yeah, I just like I just really like don't do much besides this go to work and fucking go to the gym. I mean, that's like but that's solid. I mean, that's filling up my time and it's very rewarding.

SPEAKER_02 4:53

Well, I gotta say that I feel like you've been crushing it and like you've been getting me to go to the gym more and like to be, you know, like you've been a good accountability.

SPEAKER_03 5:01

It's funny because like you're the one that was like trying to to convince me to go, and eventually I did. I just was like, oh fuck, I love this.

SPEAKER_02 5:11

It's my new favorite thing to do. It's really dope, dude. It's like a good mental thing to get to the gym, and just for me, it's just like I get on the treadmill and just like you know, it just clears my mind.

SPEAKER_03 5:21

So yeah, I I just like yesterday was my my three-month anniversary of going to the gym every day. Dope. So I uh well, I missed two days in the last three months. Uh so I was like, I'm gonna celebrate by working out for two and a half hours. That's wild, dude. Like I always judge like the like intensity of my workout by how far the sweat is down on my shirt. Yesterday it was three inches above belly button. I was like, that's a pretty good fucking workout.

SPEAKER_02 5:53

Hell yeah, brother. Um, so dude, I had a fun topic. I was thinking about this today, and I wanted to pitch it out to you and see if you wanted to wax on it. So um, so there was like kind of this period in my life where it I mean, it boils down to like the the era in Bremerton life that was right before you became a latchkey kid. It's essentially like your parents, you know, they had to get childcare for you in some way uh up until a certain age, right? When you could watch yourself, but in that little pocket where it was weird to have babysitters, yeah, yeah, but also like you had to be supervised, you know, and there in that space, there's been some interesting uh stories with me and also like some odd like that's when you it's weird to have a babysitter, you know, because usually like a only two years older than me. What the fuck are you doing here? Like so, in this space exists some interesting stuff, and uh I bet you got some cool babysitter stories. Then after that, we're gonna have our first ever guest to explain this period um with me.

SPEAKER_03 7:02

The great okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02 7:04

So anyway, is it a surprise? Yes, it is. We're gonna win. I wonder who it is. So uh so yeah. So what's what happened with you and Mike? Were you watching Mike?

SPEAKER_03 7:17

No, like it was never I was never ever the one put in charge. Like at first, my mom had like a couple neighborhood 16-year-olds, and I guess this is like sixth grade, seventh grade, like that, like 11, 12 for me. Yeah, and I guess so my sister is a year older, she's already in junior high. Uh, but my mom had just gone back to work after being a stay-at-home mom for 10 uh years or whatever it was, you know. So she went back to work for the the DOD, and uh so we had a couple different uh babysitters from our neighborhood, and the first one we had was this chick named let's just call her uh Tina. No, wait, let's call her Bina. Bina, okay, and she was like literally 15 years old, and I don't know how my mom knew her mom or whatever, just from the neighborhood or whatever, and she was so unattentive. Like, if she would have had a cell phone at this time, like we would have all died because her face would have just been buried in this fucking phone the whole fucking time. But she just did not give a fuck what we were doing. She was on the phone gabbing with her girlfriends and all this shit. That's cool. She we had one of those like 20-foot long fucking phone cords so you could wrap it from the chick the kitchen all the way out.

SPEAKER_02 8:52

Oh, yeah, one of those coarse air, like with the huge buttons where it's like yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:56

Uh but one she did something that was very disturbing. Now, this isn't funny, and if you're gonna be offended or weirded out by this, just plug your ears. But I don't know why. Like, she had how do I describe this? Um huge mammaries, and uh gosh, and you know, those are things you notice as an 11 to 12-year-old boy, you know.

SPEAKER_02 9:28

And uh you're really starting to notice them at that age.

SPEAKER_03 9:31

Yeah, and me and my brother were constantly like, hey, check out, you know, Bina's uh stuff there. And uh hold on one second.

SPEAKER_02 9:43

Was this your like first exposure to a woman?

SPEAKER_03 9:47

Uh I guess, yeah. I don't know if at this point um I'd seen any uh Woods prawn. Okay if I'd found any of that at this point, but uh she was just like there was a point where she like started acting like kind of sexual towards Mike and I. Weird. And she was just like, hey, you guys want to feel my boobs? And we were like, uh yeah, sure, yeah. And honestly, I don't remember anything happening more than that, but I just thought that was super weird.

SPEAKER_02 10:30

Well, that's an amazing, like, I had it so much worse than you, dude. So, like, my do you remember Kinder Care? Oh yeah. That was like it's still there. Is it still there? Is it? I don't know, dude. I was like in fourth and fifth grade, and like it was the closest place to my house for like you know child care. For child care. Yeah, yeah. So I was there with Jason Alpress. We were the only old kids. Rest in peace, right? Rest in peace, Jason Alpress. Yeah, so like I'm in fifth grade rolling up to like uh woodlands in a kinder care van. It's akin to a small business. But like one time I was in the like in class, and do you know like when the the principal gets on the loudspeaker, you know? And it was kind of dangerous and cool for like the principal to say your name. They'd be like, uh, Ryan Sheehan. And everybody in the class is like, ooh, yeah, yeah. And uh I was just like puffing out my chest, and then he was like, the kinder care bus is gonna be five minutes late today.

SPEAKER_03 11:35

I just picture everyone laughing and pointing at you.

SPEAKER_02 11:38

It was horrible. I used to run out the back and then jump in the back seat and like bury my head under the camera, but it that became too just too rough, like I was getting picked on, you know what I mean? And uh me and Jason all pressed too, and I think his little sister Jamie was also in that, but she was like a little bit younger than us, so she wasn't getting clowned as much. But um, maybe the memories were so taxing on my memory, I blocked out the subsequent years. But really, what happened was I told my father that I needed an out, and he hooked up with one of his Navy friends, and I think it's a good time we bring in bring on our new guy, Kevin Jones, who will be producing it this year. And uh funny how we got hooked up on the on on he was uh listening to uh B Town Stories and then reminded me of all this time we had together. So we we got to get you on the show. Uh what's up, Kevin L. Jones? Welcome to B Town Stories. Hey, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 12:38

Uh, I first want to just start by saying I'm really sad for our listeners that there's no video because you guys are ripped. Man, the gym has really been paying off. My God, I see two six packs over there. It's like a 12-pack of dude.

SPEAKER_03 12:54

Thank you, thank you. That's the fresca.

SPEAKER_02 12:58

So so let's talk about. Well, first of all, let's talk about what you've been doing, uh, just briefly. So, like we're we're me and Josh are very thankful to have somebody who's actually knowledgeable about this stuff now. You know what I mean? Yeah, so thank you for coming on and uh doing this with us, man.

SPEAKER_00 13:14

Oh, yeah, yeah. No, I um after uh Bremerton, I lived there until I was about 13. Then I was forced to go to the Tri-Cities, but then I made my way to Seattle, met my now wife, came down to California to go to Berkeley, and basically I've been a journalist for 20 years now. Cool, yeah. Yes, no, now this is my kind of news, man. Low point of your career. I know I would say it's a peak, my friend. Oh, nice. Even though I do have a pea body, but whatever. That's a whole other thing.

SPEAKER_02 13:50

Well, dude, I mean, like I was interesting when we were chatting about it. I mean, Bremerton sticks with you though, right? Like, I mean, you still feel a kinship to the city, right? Like you cla you claim Bremerton still, right?

SPEAKER_00 14:03

Oh, oh, totally. Because especially how much I hated the tri-cities, like I was absolutely missing Bremerton when I moved because it was cool. I mean, honestly, I mean, you know, like it it did there was this weird atmosphere for delinquency, you know. Like there's definitely totally there's I I mean, like I tell like my my wife who was born and raised in Berkeley, like the kind of things I did, you know, growing up here. And she's like, what is wrong with you? And I'm like, I boredom. I mean, we were that bored, you know, but uh no, I still I mean, I loved it. There was a great, you know, you had uh when I was here it was early 90s, so you had a the skateboarding scene in R World, they had a record store coming in that would hell uh had punk rock stuff. Um, you had Jackson Hall, you had all these great shows. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Which by what my friend Owen wrote a zero called that. Hopefully, we'll hang on sometime.

SPEAKER_03 14:57

I have uh all the copies of that.

SPEAKER_02 15:00

You do? That's bad. Owen's hilarious, dude. He's like a wrestler and a comedian now, or something, which is cool.

SPEAKER_00 15:06

Actually, even crazier. So he did that for years in New York. Now he's a Buddhist bike repair person. Wow. Guy's a legend, man. Is he still missing the the front tooth? Yeah, uh, yes, yes, yeah. What a great look.

SPEAKER_03 15:22

A couple years ago, well shit, like 15 years ago, I was um booking comedy shows here in Bremerton at the Manette Saloon and and a couple other places, and he came back to town and I I booked a comedy show with Owen. That was the last time I saw him, though. I gotta say it was probably like 15 years ago or something like that. Nice, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:45

It's really funny. And I was gonna say, you know, he wrote the best song about work ever. Do you do you know this song with this band, The Trots? No, I don't. It's called Paid to Pooh, and the lyrics go.

SPEAKER_03 15:56

Oh, I do know that song.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

Yeah, when the boss ain't looking, you know what to do. Go take a shit and get paid to poo.

SPEAKER_03 16:05

Was it uh Larry Ricketts in that band, too? Yes, he was the drummer, totally Larry's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 16:12

So, so Kevin, let's talk about um we what was interesting, you filled in a lot of blanks for me. So after Kin after I was at Kindercare, so Kevin lived down the street from me just off Winter's Road, back in that little batch of cul-de-sac. Yeah, yeah. He was at the end, yeah. Um, and our parents knew each other, right? Yes, yeah. So, like they um uh uh our dads are both Navy, yeah. Both lieutenant commanders, yeah, both lieutenant commanders. So I got pawned off on you guys before and after school, yeah. Right? Yeah, and and take and just take our audience through some of those experiences from your perspective.

SPEAKER_00 16:48

Oh, yeah. Well, uh first, I should just say it was not an unusual situation to have a latchkey kid uh in in our neighborhood. Yeah, uh, like there was people like Garrett, who lived in the middle of the road, who constantly smelled like urine. I don't think he ever bathed.

SPEAKER_02 17:03

Garrett had a hot sister who was like a rocker, though. Renown.

SPEAKER_00 17:06

Yes, remember her? Yes, and they all hung out with Danielle at the like Hesher house, like uh on the corner there, you know, like right before your cul-de-sac. Yeah, but and there's also like yeah, like there's another guy, Matt, who was uh his dad was in the Navy, so he's constantly gone. So I think he was had a constant babysitter, ate TV dinners all the time, and it was the first kid I knew that watched all the nightmare on Elm Street at like eight years old, you know. You also had like Chuck McAvoy in the McAboy family, which the McAvoys were great, yeah. Yes, yes, and like, but at the same time, they the mom was home, but there were so many kids that they were basically Lashkey kids running around causing chaos, you know. But I would say Ryan was king chaos.

SPEAKER_02 17:50

Ryan was the guy, I was a horrible monster. It's one of the reasons why I don't like I'm scared to have kids. Like, I could not raise myself, I would kill that kid.

SPEAKER_00 18:00

So I know, because it was totally like the stuff you'd be up to. We'd be like, what are you doing, dude? I mean, I we all heard about you mooning the school bus, and we were both like, I mean, we're all like, God damn it, right? But then also, too, like, of course he did, you know, like of course that's what he did, you know.

SPEAKER_02 18:19

Was I smoking at that age? No, but I wouldn't be surprised.

SPEAKER_00 18:24

Yeah, yeah. If you would have had a chance, you probably would have. Like, that was the kind of thing, too, you know. Like, just but you were, I mean, you were the guy that like would somehow have fireworks, you know. Like, I still, I mean, that still blew my mind when you were sitting in like it was way before July 4th, and you're sitting out the outside of this other latchkey kid's house ripping apart Saturn missiles and like holding them in your hand and just shooting them at my neighbors. It's like, dude, this can't be good.

SPEAKER_02 18:55

Like, I gotta get out of here, you know. I seem to I seem to have a recollection of like doing horrible shit at the bus stop. Like, didn't I like throw a rock at some through somebody's window once or something?

SPEAKER_00 19:08

Like, truly one of the like first great stories of my life. Yes. Again, which house was yeah, I'll let you tell it. Okay, so so there was the church that you uh dig the ditch in front of. There was this house that was way in the back, it had like a long driveway, and there was like some navy uh Hesher dude that lived there, like you know, but beautiful mullet, always in jeans, you know. And uh, so we're sitting there waiting for the bus. And of course, on Winters Road, there was a bunch of bus stops. So, you know, we would be lined up with the kids that were going to Esquire Hills. I was going to Brownsville. There's also kids going to Ridgetop on that same road. So we're all sitting there and we're watching you and your and your friend. I don't know, I don't remember his name, but you guys are just throwing rocks at this house. Maybe it was Tori. Tori Gruber? Maybe it was Tori Gruber. I don't know. Did he rock a blonde mullet? You know? No. Uh okay.

SPEAKER_02 20:10

That was Dan, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 20:11

Oh, I think it was Dan. I think it was Dan. Yeah. But yeah, that would make sense. Um, he he didn't live in our cul-de-sac for long. But um, so you guys are just sitting there throwing rocks, and though we're not saying anything, we're all kind of like, this isn't gonna be good. Like, like, what does he do? Like, dude, you know you're gonna break a window. And I like, do you think you were honestly going, like, I hope I break a window, which would totally be Ryan at this moment, too. Just like, fuck yeah, dude, so rad if I broke a window right now, like be so awesome. And then it happened, and then you hear this, and then you I see you, I see your eyes get wide, and you just start fucking booking. Now, Dan stayed, but you booked down to the cul-de-sac that was down on in the bottom, and just and and then, and then next thing you know, you just see this dude running like a gazelle, fucking only in blue jeans. I swear he had a fucking six-pack and this beautiful mullet just flowing behind him, going, I'm gonna get you running! I'm gonna fucking get you, and and then of course, like two minutes later, I hear, like just screaming. Dude, he was just I think he might have got me. Yes, yes, he he had you by your arm and a leg and like dragging you on the wet pavement, going and fucking like, no, you're going down, Ryan. This is finally it. And the entire time, no, I'm sorry. Oh, please don't, no, and and then, of course, too, as he's walking Ryan to his house, he's like, Dan, I'm coming back for you. I know you were part of it too. And then, of course, as we're getting on the bus, we see the cops pulling up. We're like, Yep, that that's Sounds about right.

SPEAKER_02 22:01

Bremerton AF, dude. That's how we roll.

unknown 22:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:06

This just sounds like something I did all the time, too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:10

I mean, I think that was there was no internet.

SPEAKER_03 22:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:13

So like we were left to our own devices with no supervision. And it was like cool to do horrible shit.

unknown 22:20

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 22:21

Yes. Like I was telling going out skateboarding, going to the Fred Meyer parking lot with a pack of black cats and red devils, lighting them and trying to throw them at old couples, hoping we could see them have a heart attack. Like that's like that's what you do in Bremerton, you know?

SPEAKER_03 22:39

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Speaking of the Fred Meyer, I would just like go in there and go in. Remember when you go into Fred Meyer by the subway, and it was like the whole area on the bottom was like a hot topic store. Oh yeah. I would just go in there and fucking put on a band shirt, put my shirt on over and just walk out. I needed a new Allison Chains shirt.

SPEAKER_02 23:04

After you started kind of explaining, Kevin, like some of the like our after school shenanigans. A couple things. I remember my dad would like buy me snacks, you know? He would buy me like some like little candy bars to eat. And then like I would just eat them all on Monday. What are some of the other shit we used to do back in double hitch court and that little cul to Zach?

SPEAKER_00 23:27

Well, I still remember there was the time that we got my mom's uh uh cat nip and went around feeding cat nip. Dosing cats, yes, and it was so great too because you were so into it, you would be like, Yeah, look how fucked up that cat is. That cat, that's so awesome. And I was like, Yeah, man, yeah, this is so cool. You know, especially, yeah, and I especially too. I'm just like, oh, I get to hang out with Ryan. He's so cool, you know, he's older than me, and watching him do the shit. And like, I still remember like joking about it later at the bus stop, and we had dozed to one of this this one girl's cat. She was so angry that she ran away, like, I'm gonna go tell my mom, and she ran, but we could see her that she just ran to her front yard and hid behind a bush until the bus came. I just she just didn't know what to do, you know. But yeah, yeah. Didn't Ron, didn't Ron Dump it used to live in our hood? Yes, yeah, he was my next door neighbor. He was the one guy in the cul-de-sac with a Nintendo, so everybody wanted to hang with Ron, and Ron took advantage of this power, but like he didn't you eventually get a Nintendo, your place? Yeah, but way later.

SPEAKER_02 24:38

Got it, yeah. He was also like pre-order Nintendo guy, yes, he was the guy.

SPEAKER_00 24:43

He like he was the guy that had, yeah, had kung fu too, not just Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt, but like had other games when we first moved in. And so we like seriously, and he would like if he didn't like you, he would just ignore you were knocking on the door, like waiting to play, you know. But I do remember this one time, it was so great because he also was into Legos, and he we would build like these big ships, you know, and he was very detail-oriented. He would put like all the matching colors, you know, like everything looked, you know. I would I had like Frankenstein stuff, so you know, it was like like an old house Lego set that I would turn into a spaceship, you know, and it just looked like you know, whatever. But like he was like meticulous, you know, and this is before the kids, too, you know. So he's like sitting there designing all these things, and then one day he gets this idea to do uh like a Lego spaceship fight because apparently you had Legos too. I wasn't like a virtuoso like that guy, though. Yeah, you know, yeah, like you your ships looked like mine. I was like, oh yeah, this makes sense, you know. But it was all the kids in the neighborhood, and so um back in in that neighborhood, you had like you would have these houses, and then in the front yard you'd have these kind of like raised islands with like trees and like flowers and stuff, but they were kind of like surrounded by rocks, and so what we did is we set up our spaceships like it's all gonna be a war and a battle. And then I think we were like, all right, so what do we do now? And I don't think we realized, you know, like I think Ron had the idea of like just using our imagination, but Ryan was said, fuck that, and he started picking up rocks from the island and just started smashing, and oh man, I Ron cried so hard, like just broke down. No, that's not what we're supposed to be doing.

SPEAKER_03 26:28

No, what is with you and throwing rocks at shit?

SPEAKER_02 26:32

Dude, I'm just I was a horrible child. I think it came from just like I mean, we talked about this earlier, yeah. Just like it was cool to be a like a shitty kid, yeah, and you know, like we mean you went through a couple divorces and we're just like we're fucking wild kids, you know what I mean? Kevin, that's why we're excited to have Kevin now because he's like a well-adjusted professional human man.

SPEAKER_00 26:58

But you'd be surprised, like what what other people would say too, you know.

SPEAKER_03 27:02

You know, it's weird, like when I was like in that phase of life, like what would you say? It was like a tween in the tween years, yeah. But like before tween was a co was a term that people used, you know. But like I don't know, I just didn't feel like I was doing bad stuff for some reason. Like, I was just like, this is just what you do, you know, when you're at this stage of life and just cause fucking chaos, you know.

SPEAKER_02 27:27

Yeah, but uh when as soon as I could watch myself, then it really got real, you know. Did you leave, Kevin? Is that did you leave when I I don't know if you left, which has caused me to be able to watch myself, or if that was no longer an option. I don't remember, I don't remember recall. His parents were probably fucking sick of you and said that they were moving.

SPEAKER_00 27:52

I I do remember the time when you stopped coming in the morning and it was actually really sad. I loved having you come over and we'd watch Tom and Jerry together, and he would, you know, corrupt me. Um, but yeah, I uh I was I so I left uh when I was about 12 or 13. My dad um got a job in the Tri-Cities. Um, but by then I was skateboarding, like you know, smoking weed when I could find it, but also hanging out with Chuck McAvoy, and he was like, he was like you, which was just like, let's fucking push it, you know? Like what kind of chaos can we like? And and one of the things we we used to love to do is just kind of break into places that we knew were empty. He was really good at picking locks. Like he he we broke into Brownsville one time. Uh we would we could get into like we got in there's that church behind Mr. Russell's house. The Mr. Russell was the uh uh I forgot the the the freeway that like that little highway, but he was the one place that had horses, and uh, but there was a church there that we would practice skateboarding at, and uh and he would break into that and like look around, and it was like, oh, let's steal a firing extinguisher. You know, it was always nothing. But I remember the most notable story I have about this um was there was up Winters Hill, there there was a new house, and it was down this long driveway that you could skate. If you skated it, you'd get the speed wobbles, it was like that long and winter's Road proper. That one it was like or it was off of Winters Road, but yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was like this weird driveway, it was this big house that was being built. And one time we went in there, you know, we skated down to skate around, and we went in the house to like look around, it's all construction and stuff. And for some reason, every time Chuck had to break in somewhere, you usually had to shit, like you usually just had a random big dump, and there was always huge dumps too. Like he'd leap for me to see, and I'm like, Jesus, dude, that's curling around the top bowl. Like, what is wrong with you, man?

SPEAKER_03 29:50

Gnarly, I don't know anything about that, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:54

But so anyway, so the house was at this point where it has two levels, but there was no guardrail on the second level, so there was kind of like it was like the big open center, and you could walk around the top of it and like look down, but there's no guardrails, and so Chuck got the great idea to take a shit off the second level, like and we're just like, okay, let's do it, man. Like, you know, again, preteens, no internet, we're bored. This is our entertainment. So he gets up there, drops trowel, uh, a scene I've seen multiple times at this point, and he takes a shit, and it's a huge one, and it dropped, but here's the thing: it dropped right on a two by four that was on a sawhorse, and the thing flipped up and hit him right in the ass. Yeah, gnarly.

SPEAKER_02 30:46

Oh man. Dude, that that was such a fun hood we were from. You know, I went back there recently, I just kind of drove through it, and it's it's it's uh not the same, man. It's it's pretty broken up, you know. Some of the houses have been updated a little bit, but not you know, not majority of them. So yeah, good times.

SPEAKER_00 31:06

Yeah, I've done I've did that before. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off, Josh.

SPEAKER_03 31:09

Oh no, I was just thinking of this one time. Uh, do you remember just you're talking about MacAboys that we were over at Eric Roberts and we were all drunk, and Joe was puking in the bathroom?

unknown 31:20

Oh, I think I remember this.

SPEAKER_03 31:22

And Eric's dad just comes, knocks on his door, and he's like, Eric, who's throwing up in the bathroom? Uh Joe. Joe needs to go home. So I had to fucking drive drunk Joe home, and I'm drunk too, and probably fucking stoned. Drive him all the way from fucking like West Silverdale all the way back to fucking Winters Road at fucking one o'clock in the morning.

SPEAKER_02 31:50

Dude, Peck is a legend, man. Joe Peck. We've I mean, we used to play um, he he was like the big Commodore 6064 computer dude. Yes. And uh we played like Wasteland and Eye of the Beholder. Yes. Also, like um we we each we got our first job together. My father was worked at um Alpine Christmas Tree Farm during this Christmas, and they needed people to like get up in the back of the trucks and like take the and cram the trees into the trucks. And one time, like Joe was like basically taking the the trees from the back of the truck and passing them to me, and he turned around and they smacked him directly in the middle of the head with like a cedar, while this little stone laid him out.

SPEAKER_04 32:36

That's funny.

SPEAKER_00 32:37

Yeah, it was so crazy. Oh, it was so crazy too. You guys would just sit there in the room and watch him play video games. Like it's so many times I'd go over to Chuck's house and hang out, and then you guys would just be crammed into his room as he's playing Eye of the Beholder, like, and you're just watching him Twitch before there was Twitch, yeah, yeah. You just go watch Peck play Eye of the Beholder. Yes, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 33:00

That was our that was our first computer too as a Commodore 64. The big games for me was the Winter Olympic Games. Oh, yeah, that one was fucking great. Uh TNC Surf designs. It was like a surfing skater die. Yeah, no, it was kind of there. I remember TNC, yeah. TNC uh skate and surf, and then also Michael Jordan's basketball. And you're sitting there playing it with the keys, you know. We didn't have a joystick, we're playing it with the keyboard. That's awesome, man. But I was pretty good at it. But uh about uh me and Mike sold that computer to a thrift store for weed. Like you and Mike sold everything for weed, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:42

Yeah, but I had a friend that had a Commodore 64 with the Predator game, which was crazy. Because you could see you could see it, he would rip out the spine and the head of like people he killed, you know, as a part of, but it was all like pixelated. You're like, oh that looks like a spine, like the worst graphics ever.

SPEAKER_02 34:00

But um, but yeah, man, a uh wonderful reminiscent. Uh do you got anything else about your tween years, Josh? You can think of.

SPEAKER_03 34:09

I just like got some fucking funny like babysitter stories. Like, well, so after Tina, I mean Bina, Bina, Bina, sorry, uh violated me and my brother. Um my mom decided to let my sister try to babysit us.

SPEAKER_02 34:27

Oh, I bet she just whooped your fucking ass.

SPEAKER_03 34:29

She did. And I don't know what instigated the fight. She was just being mean as she always was. She's not mean anymore. She's like one of my great, great homies now. But uh, she threw a fucking knife at me. Really? Like I was running out of the front of the house, and and I turned around, and there was like a a three-tier step system from the house down to the driveway, and she threw a fucking knife at me, and I kind of like matrixed, like tried to like move out of the way, and my leg went up and my foot went back, and the knife went right into my foot.

SPEAKER_02 35:08

Oh, Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_03 35:10

I thought I dodged it. Thing was though, it was a butter knife. Oh my god, but it still pierced my skin, and I still have a huge scar on my foot from that.

SPEAKER_02 35:21

And that was just when we were talking about basically kids were tough and dangerous, now they're just like little sissy lalas.

SPEAKER_03 35:28

You know, I was mischievous and like bad, but I was not tough. That's I will never claim that I was tough when I was a little a little bit. But uh, yeah, that was just another funny thing.

SPEAKER_02 35:44

That's awesome, man. Well, uh, I'm very excited to get into season three. Kevin, excited to have you on as a producer. Gonna we're gonna be able to get a lot of guests on this year, and uh yeah, man. Yes, I'm just stoked to get back into it and um and then start uh spreading the B Town love.

SPEAKER_03 36:02

Yes, switching up the format a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 36:04

I think you know, change is good, change is good, and it's fun to learn and collaborate.

SPEAKER_03 36:10

Exactly. And I really uh appreciate uh Kevin's enthusiasm. Very enthusiastic about this whole thing. Plus, he has a bald head and a beard, which is what I have. Yes, so that's cool too. Brothers, yeah. But uh, so I uh we're just gonna call him Kev Pro from now on.

SPEAKER_02 36:29

Kev Pro. I love it, producer Kevin, Kev Pro. I love it, man. Well, uh, I think that's a great place to pinch this one off, as we say here.

SPEAKER_03 36:39

Um, Josh, you got anything else? I think I'm good. You know, I'm just you know stoked to get back in the Studio de Shit.

SPEAKER_01 36:46

Yes, Studio de Shit with Kev Pro.

SPEAKER_02 36:50

All right, thanks for uh joining us for another wonderful episode of B Town Stories with Schnazzle and Jerry. I'm Schnazzle. I'm Jerry, and until next time, friends. Take her easy.

SPEAKER_03 37:19

Beatown Stories is a red cobra production created, produced, and written by Schnazzle Simpkins and Jerry Lagar. Also produced by Kevin L. Jones, with theme song by the supple dongs and logo design from Darren Chalman.