S18: Throwback Thursday: Chris Lambert - Your Own Backyard
Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff
Bob Ruff
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In light of recent developments in the Kristin Smart case, let's jump back 5 years to when Chris' "Your Own Backyard" podcast was new. Chris has done amazing work on the case and uncovered information that contributed to the conviction of Paul Flores.
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| 0:00.0 | From NBII Studios, this is Truth and Justice, a crowdsourced investigation in real time. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm Bob Ruff. |
| 0:36.1 | Thank you. I am. Dude, what an amazing podcast you made. |
| 0:39.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:40.4 | I am. |
| 0:42.2 | A listener, a few listeners had suggested that I checked out your own backyard and I gave it a listen. |
| 0:48.8 | And you kind of gave a little bit about your background in the beginning that you were, |
| 0:53.4 | you were trying to make a documentary film |
| 0:55.1 | and you had a background in music i was flabbergasted by the the audio production that you put |
| 1:03.2 | together i mean i mean besides the case stuff that we'll get into just the sound design like |
| 1:07.9 | what did you learn all that on the fly? Yeah, yeah, I did. I've been a recording |
| 1:15.4 | engineer for most of my life. I started recording in my bedroom when I was like 12 or 13 years old, |
| 1:21.1 | and I've always had four-track, eight-track recorders, and so audio is my world. And so I thought |
| 1:26.9 | going into this, I don't have the skills to make |
| 1:29.1 | a big feature production but right now it seems like a lot of people are able to get pretty far with |
| 1:34.5 | just audio so let's see what I can do yeah and you did I mean everything from the scoring the music |
| 1:40.3 | and I assume since you're a musician that it was all your music that you were that you used on the show right yep yeah it was it was it was it was very impressive very well done |
| 1:49.0 | before we get into the actual case the Kristen smart disappearance um you tell us a little bit |
| 1:54.8 | about yourself I know you you you have this background in in recording but uh first all, how old are you? |
| 2:01.8 | I'm 32. |
| 2:02.7 | 32, young fella. |
| 2:04.4 | I have to say I'm impressed with your beard. |
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