![]() Lambert first developed an “obsession” with recording music in the eighth grade. I didn’t think I was going to end up in the top echelon of what was charting,” Lambert says. “I didn’t even think about this kind of stuff. A lifetime of practice recording music, and later podcasts, at home is a big part of the answer. 1 charting podcast-helping crack a 25-year-old murder case in the process-is a question Lambert himself still sometimes asks. How a musician from Orcutt who was voted “most bashful” in high school stumbled into creating a No. Until they recover her remains, it doesn’t feel done.” It’s like, no, this is a story, a full story, that I don’t want to break up. “I see each episode as like an album, and to break that up with a mattress ad, is, like, sacred to me. “I’m not interested in selling,” Lambert says matter-of-factly. It’s just a story he felt compelled to tell in pursuit of justice, resolution, and his own creative fulfillment. More than two years later, two men are going to trial for Smart’s alleged murder, Your Own Backyard has a global following, and the Ernest Righetti High School grad is turning down lucrative offers from major entities like CBS, Netflix, and HBO.īut Lambert’s series on Smart is not for sale. 30, 2019, he had no idea what would come next. ![]() When Lambert self-released Your Own Backyard on Sept. “It was very, very low budget, but I spent a long, long time on it.”Ĭhris Lambert’s local podcast, ‘Your Own Backyard,’ rose to the top of the iTunes charts in April following the arrests of Kristin Smart’s murder suspects, Paul and Ruben Flores. “I recorded all the narration at a dining room table,” Lambert says on the patio of Cups and Crumbs, a café in Old Town Orcutt, donning a neat beard, dark-rimmed glasses, and purple plaid shirt. The 33-year-old spent a year and a half researching the unsolved local case-collecting more than 20 years of newspaper clippings, interviewing witnesses and family members, and writing a score-before recording the first episode in his modest apartment next to the Santa Maria Airport. But that’s where Your Own Backyard creator Chris Lambert grew up, lives, and pieced together the hard-hitting 10-part docuseries that investigates the 1996 disappearance of Kristin Smart. Orcutt might be the last place on Earth you’d expect to find America’s most popular independent podcaster. Orcutt podcaster Chris Lambert shares his story and where his hit docuseries on Kristin Smart could take him next By PETER JOHNSONĬentral Coast native Chris Lambert discusses his viral podcast ‘Your Own Backyard’ in his new home studio in Orcutt.
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