Roderick on the Line

◼   ► coming in and now it has been in fact it

◼   ► wasn't yesterday it was the day before

◼   ► it has been 48 hours with not a single

◼   ► Grand Slam or sign of life nor has the

◼   ► dog barked it is back to silence silence

◼   ► silence emptiness complete lack of

◼   ► emotion does this bring us up to date

◼   ► now and now the the entire reason I

◼   ► started to bring this up was right

◼   ► before you called I was sitting in my

◼   ► chair looking out the window at the gas

◼   ► powered leaf blower guy walking around

◼   ► the driveway of the house in question

◼   ► mm-hmm blowing dirt and leaves around

◼   ► which is all those things do just

◼   ► blowing it around and I was like oh

◼   ► Merlin's gonna call and then I've got

◼   ► this leaf blower guy house on your mind

◼   ► and then the phone rang leaf blower guy

◼   ► miraculously stuck turned his motor off

◼   ► almost simultaneously with you and I was

◼   ► I started to tell this story in to prep

◼   ► you for the fact that there might be

◼   ► gasping gone into this expecting to tell

◼   ► me about this whole story no I was just

◼   ► like look you got to be you got to be

◼   ► ready for this there's this things have

◼   ► changed around here and there's gonna be

◼   ► some machine noise in the background but

◼   ► he's gone the Sun is out there's no

◼   ► rooster even I don't know what it's like

◼   ► either we're either

◼   ► everything's gone quiet because the

◼   ► because they're feeling some

◼   ► electromagnetic pulse and Mount Rainier

◼   ► is about to explode or I don't know what

◼   ► happened they everybody got raptured see

◼   ► you have an answer I don't know what's

◼   ► on your 3x5 car it's a startup

◼   ► [Laughter]

◼   ► [Laughter]

◼   ► [Music]

◼   ► oh hi John how's it going oh gosh oh

◼   ► it's going well

◼   ► although although got a little bit of a

◼   ► situation here hmm

◼   ► breaking news so you know over the last

◼   ► year we saw first of all we saw Skeeter

◼   ► died of cirrhosis of the liver and then

◼   ► we lost Randy Randy man Randy is Randy

◼   ► from across the street

◼   ► really Randy who lives in his van down

◼   ► by the river oh and then the house got

◼   ► sold to the flippers mm-hmm and they

◼   ► worked on it for a long time they spent

◼   ► a lot of money on it it up check in with

◼   ► you to make sure you were keeping an eye

◼   ► on things

◼   ► yep check checking in with me checking

◼   ► in to spend a lot of money on it and

◼   ► then for some reason couldn't quite they

◼   ► expected to put it on the market and it

◼   ► would just sell in an instant and I

◼   ► think maybe part of it was that the

◼   ► street appeal was somewhat the street

◼   ► that I live on doesn't have a ton of

◼   ► curb appeal okay

◼   ► patrick living next to me works in the

◼   ► underground sewer installation

◼   ► department of a company that works with

◼   ► the city he's got a he's got a working

◼   ► man's truck out front and and he

◼   ► sometimes I think his son-in-law wrecked

◼   ► a car and so he brought it over to

◼   ► Patrick's and he put it under a tarp

◼   ► this is a neighborhood where people are

◼   ► working they're doing stuff they're not

◼   ► hiding anything under a bushel basket

◼   ► nope I have a I have an RV it's actually

◼   ► presently hidden under a bushel basket

◼   ► but it's a huge basket the the guys that

◼   ► live across the street

◼   ► they have like a business on the side

◼   ► where they're working on cars so

◼   ► sometimes there are other people don't

◼   ► like that now between 13 and 30 cars

◼   ► over there okay

◼   ► anyway they did a very nice job fixing

◼   ► up this house and it didn't sell right

◼   ► away but then it finally did sell and

◼   ► flippers know well and I met the owners

◼   ► on the day before Christmas Eve and they

◼   ► were just a very delightful

◼   ► african-american couple with two

◼   ► children young children five and three

◼   ► something like that

◼   ► and most I mean was it Jamaica was that

◼   ► her name Jamaica

◼   ► then moved so this is a view for people

◼   ► who have deep catalogue this is

◼   ► jamaica's old house

◼   ► this is jamaica's house and Jamaica

◼   ► moved and I don't know where I haven't

◼   ► heard from her since she the last time

◼   ► Jamaican I talked she was asking me if I

◼   ► would take Randy's van into my yard for

◼   ► a couple of weeks while Randy got his

◼   ► stuff figured out got the backdoor pilot

◼   ► that's pretty bad yeah

◼   ► did she decline I did yeah already got

◼   ► this bushel basket over here I did well

◼   ► I said I said and I we may have talked

◼   ► about it at the time I said you cannot

◼   ► we can't do this because this is not a

◼   ► this is not an asset this van is not an

◼   ► asset to you need to stop thinking about

◼   ► it like it's his asset you know what I

◼   ► mean like he's thinking for his door

◼   ► monkey spa yeah and and of course the

◼   ► man we're talking about is not named

◼   ► Randy mm-hmm what is his name

◼   ► Merlin I'm afraid that's okay I think

◼   ► for purposes of this show will go with

◼   ► Randy no but what what is his actual

◼   ► name it's not Jesse Randy is the name of

◼   ► the restaurant down at the bottom of the

◼   ► hill Oh easy easy

◼   ► I know this people yeah yeah it is not

◼   ► Skeeter

◼   ► it's not Skeeter it's not Skeeter it's

◼   ► not

◼   ► it's a name like this oh boy what is his

◼   ► name I just bring that on me like that

◼   ► I don't know well I'm just sitting here

◼   ► thinking like it sounds like it should

◼   ► be Randy but it's not Randy this is like

◼   ► he'd be yelling it is at his youngest

◼   ► Luke phone you know who it is

◼   ► no I know they know yeah people are

◼   ► screaming at us right now

◼   ► it's not Randy it's um Jesse Pinkman is

◼   ► the guy from Breaking Bad right right

◼   ► it's not him

◼   ► no it's it's gonna be one for the hall

◼   ► of fame why did I say no idea it'll come

◼   ► to us yes yes

◼   ► anyway it's not an asset it's not an

◼   ► asset this thing and he thinks it's like

◼   ► a piece of material that he thinks this

◼   ► is where his retirement is in this van

◼   ► and it's garbage it's like it needs to

◼   ► go to the crusher it's not restorable

◼   ► and I'm somebody who has some experience

◼   ► buying and trying to restore this thank

◼   ► you I mean apart from forgetting his

◼   ► name I think you're really missing the

◼   ► elephant in the room which is that I've

◼   ► given you advice before unsolicited

◼   ► advice that whenever you're thinking

◼   ► about a decision that involves a

◼   ► relationship with another person it's

◼   ► just what I ask do I want much more of

◼   ► this relationship or much less of this

◼   ► relationship right just abstract this

◼   ► idea and in this instance the idea of

◼   ► taking his asset unto your property is

◼   ► gonna give you a lot more interaction

◼   ► with the artist formerly known as Randy

◼   ► I do not want that no I hear in his

◼   ► calls no it's nothing there right oh

◼   ► it's the fits I mean they're there it's

◼   ► not salvageable like as a piece of metal

◼   ► like there's nothing in it the it's rust

◼   ► it's rusted it's completely rusted he

◼   ► like it's like it's like full of rats

◼   ► it's like not a it's it's not just that

◼   ► it's not a nice truck it's like not like

◼   ► you it's it's tetanus it's ten anyway so

◼   ► this young couple buys the house we have

◼   ► a we have an extremely pleasant exchange

◼   ► on the street I'm like you guys are

◼   ► moving in on Christmas Eve

◼   ► and they kind of were like yeah like

◼   ► that what we need with two kids that was

◼   ► no big deal and I was like wow that

◼   ► seems like a really big deal move into a

◼   ► new house on Christmas heat but at the

◼   ► same time how amazing you get to spend

◼   ► your first you know like first Christmas

◼   ► in the new house that's for adventure

◼   ► this do yeah and I was like this is

◼   ► gonna be fun we're gonna have a fun time

◼   ► she said that she was a long time

◼   ► satellite he was from Brooklyn and we

◼   ► were gonna get along famously and the

◼   ► thing is I was leaving for Christmas we

◼   ► we spent Christmas up at a little house

◼   ► in the snow and so I was like you know

◼   ► well I'll get together welcome-wagon

◼   ► when I get back and then in January I

◼   ► traveled a lot February I traveled a lot

◼   ► and I didn't see them right I didn't

◼   ► bump into them on the street very often

◼   ► every once in a while there would be the

◼   ► car would pull up they drove like nice

◼   ► cars nice SUV style new ones you know

◼   ► like you know somebody drives up in a

◼   ► SUV and it's like pearlescent Wow nice I

◼   ► don't even know what brand it is they

◼   ► all look the same

◼   ► it's a little class version of having

◼   ► fancy nails you know saying yeah yeah

◼   ► it's like I'm not gonna be digging with

◼   ► my hands anytime soon yeah this thing is

◼   ► full-time four-wheel drive and I'll

◼   ► never drive off of the road

◼   ► but then after a while and then there

◼   ► were there were a couple of Sundays

◼   ► where like Sunday evening I would come

◼   ► home and there would be cars parked all

◼   ► on the street and in our neighborhood

◼   ► there are no sidewalks it feels kind of

◼   ► country out here and so the areas in

◼   ► front of people's houses bye-bye

◼   ► accepted convention in the neighborhood

◼   ► those areas sort of belong to the house

◼   ► if you're gonna park your car on the

◼   ► street you're gonna park it in your area

◼   ► and not bleed over into somebody else

◼   ► right that's somebody else's shoulder

◼   ► yeah and it's not like if there were

◼   ► sidewalks right then you just park your

◼   ► car on the sidewalk and you park your

◼   ► car in a parking spot and they don't

◼   ► belong to people but yeah you know like

◼   ► the gravel in front of my house is

◼   ► an extension of my yard that's how we

◼   ► all art everywhere the neighbor that's

◼   ► right over here that's next to me on the

◼   ► other side they will drink they'll bring

◼   ► the front bumper of their car right up

◼   ► to the fence line but they would never

◼   ► go two inches with their bumper over

◼   ► that fence line ain't it's not yeah I

◼   ► know anyway I would come home on Sunday

◼   ► and there would be a bunch of cars like

◼   ► parked on my side of the street in front

◼   ► of my house where I park mm-hmm and so

◼   ► there was no place for me to park I was

◼   ► like whoa but I talked to my mom about

◼   ► it I was like what do I do in this

◼   ► situation she said these are public

◼   ► roads if you go over and ask them not to

◼   ► park in front of your house you are a

◼   ► very bad person debating that really I

◼   ► was like all right all right I said but

◼   ► what about social convention and she was

◼   ► like these are the public roads you do

◼   ► not mess with the public roads I know

◼   ► better than to disagree with your mom

◼   ► but uh let's say sure about her police

◼   ► work there I think this is a culture

◼   ► this is you know we're living in a

◼   ► society that's what I thought too but

◼   ► you know as you say you don't you don't

◼   ► you know you go against mom and then

◼   ► you'll live to regret it

◼   ► anyway I didn't say anything couple of

◼   ► Sundays went by I was like whatever no

◼   ► problem it's a temporary thing but it

◼   ► did make me feel like oh they're Church

◼   ► people they're having events on Sunday

◼   ► evening after Journal I see where

◼   ► they're inviting people over and so it's

◼   ► gonna be it's gonna be even harder to

◼   ► kind of go into this situation and be

◼   ► like hi I know that you're having like a

◼   ► church event but don't park in front of

◼   ► my house mm-hmm

◼   ► couldn't do it you know it's just like

◼   ► this is just we're just we're learning

◼   ► about each other but then it got real

◼   ► quiet over there and I and by the time

◼   ► the end of February rolled around it had

◼   ► become curious I've never seen or heard

◼   ► the kids well it's just been clear now

◼   ► no more pearlescent SUV coming to going

◼   ► well they have a garage with the door

◼   ► that opens and closes and I could always

◼   ► tell when Jamaica was here and randy

◼   ► paul paulie i can always tell when they

◼   ► were there because the garage was full

◼   ► of garbage so they couldn't park inside

◼   ► so the car was easy

◼   ► there or not but now they could be

◼   ► parking inside they could it's a two-car

◼   ► garage they could it be all inside but

◼   ► you know I'm out at all hours I come and

◼   ► go I never saw them come and go so I was

◼   ► like it's interesting that they're very

◼   ► quiet and I don't mind a quiet neighbor

◼   ► mm-hmm better than karaoke and I'm

◼   ► saying yeah but but you know the house

◼   ► is very neatly kept it was it was put

◼   ► into neat neat zone in order to sell and

◼   ► it still looks like it's a house for

◼   ► sale you know the yard is very kept it's

◼   ► very neat well about two three weeks ago

◼   ► all of a sudden cars were coming and

◼   ► going from the house and it was a

◼   ► situation where I just generally rough

◼   ► you just be clear so you have or have

◼   ► not seen kids playing in the yard or

◼   ► being kids

◼   ► none have not heard of finger you know I

◼   ► fit in my house I listen to what's going

◼   ► on on the street if I was a sibling and

◼   ► lived in a big free-standing

◼   ► single-family house I'd be out playing

◼   ► you'd be out playing he'd be hitting

◼   ► stuff with a stick even though it's the

◼   ► winter but if you come in the car and

◼   ► you get out on the way between the car

◼   ► and the house as you know from having a

◼   ► kid even that closing that that 20 yards

◼   ► from the under under under 10 yeah there

◼   ► won't silence any bikes you don't see

◼   ► any big wheels frisbees skateboards

◼   ► scooters not only do I not but I have

◼   ► never heard someone go mom that's not a

◼   ► single time okay this is you got me I'm

◼   ► hooked so I'm like what's going on over

◼   ► there now I'm peeking through the blinds

◼   ► every once a while but I'm but it's the

◼   ► it's like opposite day I'm peeking

◼   ► through the blinds at nothing nothing's

◼   ► happening but then I'm sitting in the

◼   ► I'm sitting in the living room and I

◼   ► start hearing the tell-tale signs of

◼   ► people coming and going which are you

◼   ► here some you know faint music playing

◼   ► as a car drives up the sits there with

◼   ► the motor running for a minute

◼   ► turns off and then a door slams as

◼   ► somebody gets out of the

◼   ► and that's not you know that's not

◼   ► unusual like I say that the people next

◼   ► door to them they have between 13 and 30

◼   ► cars so he's here door slamming sure but

◼   ► but I started to hear these events where

◼   ► car would pull up and I would hear this

◼   ► slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam

◼   ► slam slam that's that sounds like a mob

◼   ► that sounds like the Mafia to me yes

◼   ► just unsound and I heard nine door slams

◼   ► I would assume that's a bunch of guys

◼   ► getting out of mob cars and and that's

◼   ► what it that's what I felt - and so I

◼   ► did what what you do when you are

◼   ► somebody like me who takes an interest

◼   ► in other people sure I would get up and

◼   ► I would go look out and say who's your

◼   ► social creature that's right and what

◼   ► was happening was there were three cars

◼   ► that were arriving all at the same time

◼   ► and there were between nine and thirteen

◼   ► white kids in their early 20s who all

◼   ► were pretty clean-cut

◼   ► you know like fresh-faced hmm and they

◼   ► we're all getting at they were arriving

◼   ► at the same time all getting out of the

◼   ► car at the same time obviously from the

◼   ► obviously from the multiple slams the

◼   ► grand slam as I like to call it yeah and

◼   ► then they were going in through the gate

◼   ► not in through the front door but in

◼   ► through the gate into the backyard okay

◼   ► okay I think it's a sports team or

◼   ► missionaries well so I immediately think

◼   ► missionaries okay because what are you

◼   ► so you got a young african-american

◼   ► family that has already established that

◼   ► sometimes they have Sunday evening

◼   ► events and then you have a bunch of

◼   ► teenage fresh fresh-faced college-age

◼   ► people who are coming and going as a

◼   ► group I'm thinking this guy is a pastor

◼   ► he's got a youth group of some kind

◼   ► there

◼   ► learning the trade they're here for like

◼   ► youth these are like the leaders the

◼   ► elders of their youth groups or whatever

◼   ► they're getting some extra like Deacons

◼   ► in training yeah oh I should mention at

◼   ► some point on the fence facing the front

◼   ► next to the garage appeared a sign that

◼   ► was the kind of sign that you would get

◼   ► at Target that said like this is Janet's

◼   ► room keep out that's made to look like a

◼   ► street sign right that they could say

◼   ► keep calm and carry on or it could say

◼   ► like Volkswagen bug parking I'm looking

◼   ► for world's greatest people right for

◼   ► world's greatest people but it is shaped

◼   ► like us like a city sign looks like one

◼   ► and it said what does it say it's not

◼   ► visitor parking only it's something like

◼   ► parking for guests only it's it's uh

◼   ► it's worded strangely what it's like the

◼   ► kind of wording it doesn't like a city

◼   ► sign would say you know visitor parking

◼   ► only something simple but this is like

◼   ► parking for guests only it's like

◼   ► something you would find in the front of

◼   ► the Royal Hawaiian hotel this is

◼   ► tickling my zoning phone and it felt a

◼   ► little bit like oh this is the this is

◼   ► the first expression of the family's

◼   ► like personality that they've put in the

◼   ► house they didn't put a little statue of

◼   ► or then put two two white lions on

◼   ► either side of the driveway like you see

◼   ► in my neighborhood a lot they didn't put

◼   ► a Buddha next to the front door they

◼   ► didn't put a like a little wind chime

◼   ► they put this like parking for guests

◼   ► only sign on the fence and and it's

◼   ► charming but but now I'm starting now so

◼   ► they are thinking about parking well

◼   ► yeah oh and that's the other thing I was

◼   ► like oh okay well I mean interesting

◼   ► interesting oh you're knocking we're not

◼   ► gonna put fourteen Lexuses in there

◼   ► fourteen Lex I that's high anyway so so

◼   ► I was here in the Grand Slam a lot Grand

◼   ► Slam in the morning Grand Slam at noon

◼   ► Grand Slam in the other one occasion

◼   ► Grand Slam at night from this one's

◼   ► coming in like white people coming in

◼   ► coming and going okay

◼   ► Grand Slam at 11:30 at night 11:30 at

◼   ► night such that every time I heard a

◼   ► Grand Slam which again is organized is

◼   ► something very organized happening

◼   ► coming and going so and every time I

◼   ► would look out it's not let's just be

◼   ► clear here just cuz my mind I have no

◼   ► idea what this is going if it was a

◼   ► social occasion where you're gonna have

◼   ► some potato salad people would become in

◼   ► a different time some people would be

◼   ► late their kids would be screaming this

◼   ► is a heterogeneous group of people

◼   ► arriving all at the same time and

◼   ► immediately doing a Grand Slam and then

◼   ► heading back through the gate heading

◼   ► back through the gate not going in

◼   ► through the front door okay so I do a

◼   ► little bit I went over and I looked at

◼   ► the cars one of the cars so there's a

◼   ► like 2010 okay 2010 4runner okay all

◼   ► right got it with Montana plate Montana

◼   ► you say and one sticker which is of a

◼   ► blue whale with no other writing on it

◼   ► is it the company they make sportswear

◼   ► nope it's just a blue whale talking with

◼   ► the blue was a whale my daughter likes

◼   ► their sportswear

◼   ► no this is a different this is like the

◼   ► type of blue whale that you would get at

◼   ► an aquarium it's not adorable no it's

◼   ► not cute it is a this is a very similar

◼   ► to dwell okay but it doesn't say like

◼   ► Rhode Island aquarium okay there's

◼   ► nothing just a blue whale okay and

◼   ► Montana plates no other no that's Big

◼   ► Sky Country that's Big Sky Country

◼   ► oh no and one other things there is a

◼   ► little sticker on the bottom corner of

◼   ► the window that I later decipher as a

◼   ► parking sticker for a Boise State

◼   ► College in

◼   ► in Boise Idaho yeah Montana Montana

◼   ► Idaho 4runner

◼   ► guess parking only the second car is

◼   ► what I would guesstimate to be like a

◼   ► 2009 Infiniti with Washington plates and

◼   ► no other sign no stickers no other sign

◼   ► of life like if you look in the windows

◼   ► it's just like grandma's car nothing no

◼   ► one PR sticker no NPR the parking pass

◼   ► no sticker that says like Christian

◼   ► Leadership Conference no sticker that

◼   ► says you know coexist no like no fish no

◼   ► Darwin fish no fish eating a fish

◼   ► nothing and then the third car which

◼   ► always parks in the this parking for

◼   ► guests only spot because the other two

◼   ► cars park on the street they just park

◼   ► on the park what I would consider

◼   ► correctly like on the dirt in front of

◼   ► that house okay but the one that always

◼   ► parks in the slot is a brand new car

◼   ► with temporary license plates okay

◼   ► temporary Washington plates that have

◼   ► expired

◼   ► what so temporary the leader yeah I know

◼   ► but but the plates are ten days got a

◼   ► nice new car they recently either

◼   ► recently moved the area recently bought

◼   ► a car in the area they have not gotten

◼   ► their permanent plates right but they

◼   ► have let it lapse and they park in the

◼   ► place of honor yep

◼   ► so now I am now I'm prepared to the next

◼   ► time I see the kids I'm gonna say like

◼   ► hey hi I'm your neighbor what's up what

◼   ► you guys did you know what you no no but

◼   ► I am never in the in the week that I'm

◼   ► trying to put myself into like this

◼   ► situation I'm never able to get the get

◼   ► to them between hearing the grand slam

◼   ► and them all disappearing behind the

◼   ► game

◼   ► very efficient I just point of

◼   ► information so just took just to cross a

◼   ► tee here if I'm understand this

◼   ► correctly Grand Slam Grand Slam Grand

◼   ► Slam over a period of days but still no

◼   ► sign of the african-american family at

◼   ► all okay this okay yep okay kids never

◼   ► hear a kid no kids oh okay okay we're

◼   ► here a darn thing these these these

◼   ► presumptive missionaries whoever this is

◼   ► they seem to be kind of running the

◼   ► place

◼   ► well except they never go in the front

◼   ► don't they don't go in the front door

◼   ► and when you look at the house at night

◼   ► none of the lights are on oh this is

◼   ► such a good mystery John you're so good

◼   ► at this

◼   ► I remember when it was being fixed up by

◼   ► the flippers by fuller dan and I do

◼   ► remember his name was Dan I toured the

◼   ► house many times and what he did was he

◼   ► turned the downstairs which had been a

◼   ► kind of slap a - mother-in-law

◼   ► he turned the downstairs into a proper

◼   ► you could even call it a three-bedroom

◼   ► apartment although the zoning would not

◼   ► allow you to describe it as that but it

◼   ► definitely there were but if you wanted

◼   ► to have a relative come and live with

◼   ► you they could be there very comfortably

◼   ► very comfortably there there was a nice

◼   ► nice big living room he put a full bath

◼   ► down there there there was a nice

◼   ► staircase up to the main house and it

◼   ► had three I mean one room that qualified

◼   ► as a large legal bedroom and then an

◼   ► office and then a bedroom that was you

◼   ► know like you could have three people

◼   ► living down there for sure means of

◼   ► egress entrance it doesn't have its own

◼   ► entrance okay okay

◼   ► dan was thinking ahead he was he was and

◼   ► and there were a couple of people that

◼   ► came to look at the house during the

◼   ► period when it was for sale that were

◼   ► like yeah we're thing about having my

◼   ► mother live in the basement and I'm like

◼   ► that's a great idea it's a great house

◼   ► you should buy it the the the young

◼   ► family that did buy it did not show any

◼   ► signs of having a mother

◼   ► in law plan but they were like you know

◼   ► they were affluent young family with two

◼   ► kids I assumed that they would fill up

◼   ► that house with with toys and excitement

◼   ► ask a question yeah go ahead

◼   ► I might have missed this how did you

◼   ► establish that the initial

◼   ► african-american family were the owners

◼   ► of the house in the long first

◼   ► conversation so you did you did talk

◼   ► about this and they were they were the

◼   ► people who bought the house in your

◼   ► estimation yeah well they drove they

◼   ► drove up I was standing out I think I

◼   ► was even packing my car to go to the

◼   ► mountains and those I'm sorry Christmas

◼   ► yes yes yes and they drive up and I'm

◼   ► like hello I march over hello and

◼   ► they're like hello okay and I said are

◼   ► you the new owners and they're like we

◼   ► are we just closed and I'm like it's

◼   ► okay yes I'm sorry you didn't establish

◼   ► this so but at that point you've

◼   ► imprinted on this idea that this is the

◼   ► nuclear family that's gonna live in

◼   ► flippered Ann's old house that's right

◼   ► and they are gonna be they're gonna have

◼   ► kids that come over and play with my

◼   ► daughter pushing a hoop around with a

◼   ► stick lemonade stand and they are part

◼   ► of the kind of gentrification that I've

◼   ► been waiting for in the neighborhood

◼   ► which is that because this neighborhood

◼   ► is the most diverse ZIP code in America

◼   ► we we here in this neighborhood want to

◼   ► keep that true we do not want to see

◼   ► what's happened in the rest of Seattle

◼   ► happen here which is that there is

◼   ► displacement we want instead for the

◼   ► standard of living to rise while Maine

◼   ► whilst maintaining a diverse community

◼   ► so they were like decidedly a

◼   ► middle-class family that was going to

◼   ► like increase the tax base so the

◼   ► schools are better you know while at the

◼   ► same time like not changing the fact

◼   ► that I'm the only white person in my

◼   ► neighborhood right they need you they

◼   ► need me I'm the anchor baby in the

◼   ► neighborhood anyway so I keep putting

◼   ► myself in situations where I'm trying to

◼   ► anticipate

◼   ► when this Grand Slam of of white

◼   ► Millennials is going to show up and move

◼   ► as a group really fast through what is

◼   ► just one fence gate like I don't know

◼   ► how they do it frankly and there was one

◼   ► time when I was driving up as they

◼   ► arrived and I was like here's my chance

◼   ► and I put the car in park I opened the

◼   ► door and they they were moving so fast

◼   ► and I got out and kind of was like uh

◼   ► and they they reflexively like looked

◼   ► down and away from me in a way

◼   ► suggesting that they were young people

◼   ► who did not ever want to look at an

◼   ► adult or beat yes not engaged with the

◼   ► olds not engaged nobody was like hi or

◼   ► anything they were just like get us out

◼   ► of here okay so there's a third wrinkle

◼   ► Oh God which is that the Mexican family

◼   ► that lives on the corner that has

◼   ► between 13 and 30 cars for the last

◼   ► several years has had a rooster now they

◼   ► have chickens and the chickens are

◼   ► running around the neighborhood and

◼   ► everybody thinks that's charming but

◼   ► they had a rooster which is technically

◼   ► against Seattle City regulations

◼   ► interesting you're not supposed to have

◼   ► a rooster because roosters are a pain in

◼   ► the ass season ye yeah right even out in

◼   ► the fucking farms roosters are a pain in

◼   ► the ass but in a city what does it

◼   ► rooster do Hawaii if they warned me

◼   ► about the roosters there they got there

◼   ► on their own timetable and this rooster

◼   ► is a fucking dumbass like they all are

◼   ► and it's a very very very first inkling

◼   ► of light he's and he does it all morning

◼   ► and then all day he's just fucking

◼   ► cockadoodle doodling all the time talk

◼   ► of the walk and somebody said to me like

◼   ► well you know with in Mexican culture a

◼   ► rooster is a very important character he

◼   ► plays a B plays a role within like

◼   ► culturally within the whole sort of

◼   ► pantheon like a rooster as a he's a guy

◼   ► right just explaining it's a rooster guy

◼   ► mm-hmm and I'm like all right okay keep

◼   ► keep a rooster around like you know like

◼   ► like I guess I guess the

◼   ► neighborhood jaundice I'm gonna claim

◼   ► the Ravens and the raccoons huh

◼   ► you've got your rooster visit earlier

◼   ► yeah that's right and somebody's gonna

◼   ► want the possum it's not me somebody

◼   ► somebody wants something no thought

◼   ► can't have that we all get the rats the

◼   ► cancer around for us all but the Ravens

◼   ► the Ravens ER and I have an

◼   ► understanding so I was fine with the

◼   ► rooster I mean I wasn't like thrilled

◼   ► about it but I'm not somebody that's

◼   ► gonna pick up the phone and be like the

◼   ► motorcycle he's coming again what's the

◼   ► matter sico you used to it that's right

◼   ► there's a rooster and he wakes me up in

◼   ► the morning and whatever okay so yeah

◼   ► rooster but but they also at some point

◼   ► along the way I cannot remember exactly

◼   ► when bought a dog which they keep pinned

◼   ► in a pen at the far end of their

◼   ► property which is pretty far from the

◼   ► house but very close to the house that

◼   ► I'm describing Oh flip the flipper dance

◼   ► all place good and close to this newly

◼   ► refurbished home

◼   ► yeah the pen oh that's a nuisance John

◼   ► right on the other side of the fence I

◼   ► didn't sign this and if you took a tape

◼   ► measure the pen of the dog is actually

◼   ► probably closer to my bedroom window

◼   ► than it is to any window of the house to

◼   ► which the dog belongs now the dog I've

◼   ► been conscious of the dog for a long

◼   ► time because the dog every once while

◼   ► goes row row row

◼   ► sounds like a dog and I'm lay all right

◼   ► okay I smelled something on the wind

◼   ► there's another dog somewhere in this

◼   ► neighborhood that everyone swallows and

◼   ► then this dog goes okay that happens a

◼   ► few times a day and I go that's just how

◼   ► it is it's just like then the resource

◼   ► and there used to be a dog down the road

◼   ► that was just all day long

◼   ► no see now that's that's and I remember

◼   ► my place when there used to be the dog

◼   ► upstairs oh that dog remembered remember

◼   ► Linus that Linus would attack you with

◼   ► my sweet a sweet little dog but they

◼   ► keep him in a kennel literally right

◼   ► over my head where I worked all day and

◼   ► he would do this in terms of eight feet

◼   ► from my ear was a dog all day and

◼   ► that'll make a person a little bit crazy

◼   ► after a while and they were gone during

◼   ► the day oh gosh yeah that's why - have

◼   ► sweet little - that's why he was in his

◼   ► little in his little kennel is low

◼   ► bastard here you go sweetie here's some

◼   ► cookie dough with some Martha some like

◼   ► a diet dies a pram in it or whatever

◼   ► like I would resort to screaming three

◼   ► times a day well so okay got a lot of

◼   ► pieces on the board here yeah

◼   ► this dog this rooster this situation

◼   ► over here never was a problem for me the

◼   ► the family that lives there is an

◼   ► extended family by which I means there's

◼   ► a family with the automobiles yeah but

◼   ► in the 13 and 30 cars there are also

◼   ► between 3 and 5 families living in the

◼   ► house it's a big house

◼   ► and there are a lot of daughters there

◼   ► are by my estimation at least one

◼   ► quinceanera a year for the last eight

◼   ► years okay bueno

◼   ► so I don't know how I don't know how you

◼   ► do that I don't know how you keep the

◼   ► quinceanera factory spinning like that

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◼   ► neighbors they're extremely

◼   ► conscientious I think that they are you

◼   ► know they're the best sort of version of

◼   ► a hundred percent something nice about

◼   ► this I mean like like the like when I go

◼   ► in next door and people are like oh

◼   ► there's people coming ask you on my

◼   ► packages part of that is there's just

◼   ► not much activity there's not much come

◼   ► and go there's not much like I think I

◼   ► think people are a little bit more

◼   ► respectful of a neighborhood where

◼   ► there's stuff going on it's a

◼   ► neighborhood stuff is happening it's a

◼   ► nice place to live except fetid misters

◼   ► in the morning the girls are always

◼   ► going to school in a big gaggle and in

◼   ► the end then they come home in the

◼   ► afternoon and there are moms around and

◼   ► that's nice cars coming and going and

◼   ► they and everybody and it you know what

◼   ► it is it's a situation where everybody

◼   ► tips their hat over there if you walk by

◼   ► if you drive by I love that John get a

◼   ► little hat tip and you give a little hat

◼   ► tip give a little get a little give a

◼   ► little get a little so it just feels

◼   ► like exactly the right kind of like

◼   ► issue cover this on your the program a

◼   ► lot of people don't know how to do how

◼   ► delicate anymore I know right it's a

◼   ► thing that's a thing that you could find

◼   ► out by listening to Omnibus with Ken

◼   ► Jennings regularly-scheduled predicted

◼   ► to get anyway so the grand slams what

◼   ► I'm realizing is that the Grand Slam

◼   ► comes in goes through the back gate goes

◼   ► around the back into the back door but

◼   ► then I think is sitting around on the

◼   ► back porch of the house in a way that I

◼   ► cannot see but that the Pend dog right

◼   ► on the other side of the fence is very

◼   ► aware of Oh interesting

◼   ► so starting that becomes like a little

◼   ► mirror that lets you look around the

◼   ► corner yes and the way he mirrors it is

◼   ► [Music]

◼   ► okay from 10:00 to 2:00 p.m. p.m. 10:00

◼   ► p.m. to 2 a.m. no that's no good

◼   ► and so you if you ask todd todd todd

◼   ► sleep bro he would tell you he did not

◼   ► want that

◼   ► no no he's mad I'm mad and the thing is

◼   ► for a few days I don't make the

◼   ► connection I'm like what the fuck is

◼   ► going on around here like all of a

◼   ► sudden this dogs that I has been there

◼   ► for maybe between 1 and 11 years I don't

◼   ► know but now I'm conscious of this dog

◼   ► barking all night this isn't how things

◼   ► go around here

◼   ► and there's the fucking kids across the

◼   ► street and where's the family that I

◼   ► thought I was gonna be friends with and

◼   ► what the hell is going on around here

◼   ► and I and I actually got

◼   ► this is what it call this one is locked

◼   ► room mysteries what's a call trapped

◼   ► room Baumbach box it's an Asian American

◼   ► finger trap finger trap how did you even

◼   ► get in this situation you wake up one

◼   ► day all this others fucking roosters and

◼   ► kids in Harrison barking dogs yeah and

◼   ► some kind of a cult is a cult I thought

◼   ► we were I thought it was stability we

◼   ► were getting when when Jamaica and hand

◼   ► and with a little Randy no little Randy

◼   ► went away oh my god I'm spent

◼   ► Oh Larry and he's such a garyun so not a

◼   ► Randy I don't know just know Gary's and

◼   ► Randy's are very related they're usually

◼   ► assistant managers at restaurants they

◼   ► are it's true and the thing is that

◼   ► Randy is the is the stereotype name that

◼   ► we give to Gary's yeah manager a stepdad

◼   ► that's really okay this is how long so

◼   ► the your initial first contact was

◼   ► around in the Christmas holiday period

◼   ► you know where are we up to at this

◼   ► point in the story so so then January it

◼   ► just seemed like oh they're real quiet

◼   ► stipulated January and February you're

◼   ► on the road a lot

◼   ► I'm touring alone gathering as much

◼   ► string you know as many things together

◼   ► and what and it made it plausible that

◼   ► like oh I don't see these two because

◼   ► I'm gone they're on a regular schedule

◼   ► and it's winter three reasons why you

◼   ► might not see people on Sundays every

◼   ► once while I come home and there's this

◼   ► traffic jam but I'm also gone along to a

◼   ► lot of the Sundays so those traffic jams

◼   ► could be happening every Sunday and I'm

◼   ► just not there okay or it could be rarer

◼   ► than that but I if you don't notice you

◼   ► don't notice the things you don't see

◼   ► and you don't notice the things you

◼   ► don't notice right this is what it's

◼   ► like a cognitive bias but but King Midas

◼   ► in Reverse you're once you start

◼   ► noticing you know what you start really

◼   ► noticing but if you're not noticing you

◼   ► can't notice because you don't notice

◼   ► but then once you notice

◼   ► you're starting to put the string

◼   ► together is what I'm saying all I'm

◼   ► noticing up until about the end of

◼   ► February is I still haven't gotten to

◼   ► know my new neighbors but I'm sure when

◼   ► the Sun comes out yeah they're in the

◼   ► yard and I'm in the yard we're gonna get

◼   ► a house in a neighborhood you're buying

◼   ► a family house for a family in a

◼   ► neighborhood I'm not seeing everybody

◼   ► but most Americans in that situation you

◼   ► want to at least like wave to your

◼   ► neighbors that's pretty normal like hey

◼   ► you know everything's good hi

◼   ► like that's just such a normal thing for

◼   ► somebody new in the neighborhood I think

◼   ► well and the thing is I'm not seeing

◼   ► them even to wave at them it's not like

◼   ► they're being unfriendly right I'm just

◼   ► not even seen okay and I understand you

◼   ► know I'm missing a tooth right now sure

◼   ► how's your hair looks pretty good I was

◼   ► looking at your Instagram that's a

◼   ► little bit too short I mean it just

◼   ► seems like if you did have the option of

◼   ► driving up to your house pushing a

◼   ► button the garage door goes up you go in

◼   ► and the garage door goes closed if I'm

◼   ► standing there you know with like a

◼   ► pitchfork in one hand and like a

◼   ► Romanian flag in the other understand

◼   ► why you would go straight in okay that's

◼   ► what that's not happening now it's only

◼   ► in the it's only in March now that that

◼   ► all of this starts to happen all at once

◼   ► the kids the door the grand slam the dog

◼   ► the and and that's all causing me to

◼   ► realize wait I have not seen my

◼   ► neighbors in a long time yeah and it got

◼   ► so bad that I got up got dressed and

◼   ► went out and down the block prepared to

◼   ► ring the doorbell at the Mexicans house

◼   ► to say what's going on let's talk about

◼   ► this dog we've been friends for a long

◼   ► time in certainly Dean I mean they're

◼   ► right there they got the dog that got

◼   ► the cards to get the kids in years

◼   ► they must be seeing stuff well let's see

◼   ► in the backyard too right except that

◼   ► their dog and their dogs all the way

◼   ► down by flipper dams and the house is

◼   ► further away from them than it is for me

◼   ► okay like there are the lots are big

◼   ► here and there between

◼   ► their house and and this and the house

◼   ► in question there are between 13 and 30

◼   ► cars like that's the area that they do

◼   ► all the mechanical work that's where

◼   ► they have the quinceañeras that's where

◼   ► they have a basketball hoop like it's a

◼   ► big area okay

◼   ► so you could be living in that in their

◼   ► house and the dog just sounds like a dog

◼   ► in the distance and the kids just sound

◼   ► like it like kids in the dissing you

◼   ► can't see in the flipper dance yard

◼   ► can't see it okay but so I go down there

◼   ► and and because there's a lot of

◼   ► activity at that house there's a guy

◼   ► standing out in the yard look at Sierra

◼   ► SH at 11:30 at night just he's just in

◼   ► between he's coming and going okay and I

◼   ► think I'm dropping off cars picking up

◼   ► cars there's stuff happening well there

◼   ► are a few families living there so

◼   ► there's a lot there's a lot to me Oh

◼   ► mm-hmm

◼   ► oh and I should say that in that that in

◼   ► the in the different layers of languages

◼   ► that are happening in my neighborhood

◼   ► and particularly there at that house

◼   ► English is down somewhere it's not in

◼   ► first place okay it's like it's down in

◼   ► the it's between 2nd and 5th place of

◼   ► languages that are being regularly

◼   ► spoken so I go over and say hey and he's

◼   ► like hey what's up and I said let's talk

◼   ► about this dog and he says what's going

◼   ► on what oh no he said what did he do and

◼   ► we're both standing there and the dog is

◼   ► going okay and the dog is doing this and

◼   ► I point over at the dog behind the fence

◼   ► and he looks over and looks at me and

◼   ► I'm like and it's doing this all night

◼   ► sparking now like this all the time I

◼   ► don't know what happened I don't know

◼   ► what changed but this is like this has

◼   ► got to stop

◼   ► so I can't just do this all the time and

◼   ► he kind of is concerned and nods and he

◼   ► says well I'll talk to the guy that owns

◼   ► the dog

◼   ► hmm I'm like okay right that makes sense

◼   ► there are a lot of people living in this

◼   ► house yeah lot going on and he this

◼   ► person that I'm talking to is not

◼   ► prepared to take responsibility for the

◼   ► dog and there is a there's an

◼   ► understanding clearly within the house

◼   ► that there are different things are

◼   ► owned by different people it's not like

◼   ► we all are just all in co-ownership of

◼   ► this dog or of of that Volkswagen GTI or

◼   ► you know or whatever of this spit that's

◼   ► like the the the plastic four-foot-tall

◼   ► illuminated Christmas ornament of Jesus

◼   ► that is up all year okay so all season

◼   ► Jesus all season Jesus and it's not

◼   ► clear it's not clear to me anymore who

◼   ► in the house owns it I used to think it

◼   ► was communally owned but now I

◼   ► understand Oh all these things are owned

◼   ► by individuals intent and so he said I'm

◼   ► gonna talk to the guy that I wanted and

◼   ► I'm gonna tell him that you mentioned it

◼   ► I'm like thank you

◼   ► that's all I that's all I can ask for

◼   ► and I went home and and listened for the

◼   ► rest of the night to the dog continue to

◼   ► signal into the night sky that he heard

◼   ► something or had a thought and I and

◼   ► it's frustrating when you go talk to

◼   ► somebody and then the problem doesn't go

◼   ► away immediately yeah I mean this is

◼   ► already you've got a couple different

◼   ► layers here faith faith like I talked to

◼   ► him he's gonna they're gonna have a

◼   ► family meeting tomorrow it's gonna be

◼   ► they're gonna work it out so then there

◼   ► came a climactic moment oh boy which was

◼   ► Graham's grand slam okay grand slam

◼   ► three three guitars and it's a bit and

◼   ► it's a big grand slam this is like the

◼   ► 1213 person grand slam it's not the nine

◼   ► person grand slam it's the big one

◼   ► and I see them they all go through the

◼   ► fence before I can like get my shoes on

◼   ► and get outside and then they and this

◼   ► is like in the afternoon and then I see

◼   ► them through the fence sitting together

◼   ► like some of them sitting up on rock

◼   ► walls some of them sitting you know

◼   ► they're sitting in a semi-circle having

◼   ► a meeting it's not like a culty thing

◼   ► they're having like a meeting and I'm

◼   ► like this is a situation

◼   ► or like go through the gate and say hey

◼   ► since we're all here mm-hmm and I'm like

◼   ► I'm reluctant I'm reluctant do you have

◼   ► a deep confidence that you have some

◼   ► kind of a reason for piercing there

◼   ► perimeter with a question did you know

◼   ► what you're gonna ask me do you have

◼   ► like a you have like a dog collar in

◼   ► your hand going can you help me find my

◼   ► dog no here and that's exactly that's

◼   ► exactly what I should have done right

◼   ► like say hey my fan belt broke can you

◼   ► help but so here are the different

◼   ► factors in place right yeah I do not

◼   ► know like in my neighborhood there is

◼   ► always a racial component to every

◼   ► exchange because everyone is a different

◼   ► ethnicity yeah so anytime one person

◼   ► from one house goes over to the other to

◼   ► another house there's not just sometimes

◼   ► a language problem like the the

◼   ► neighbors over here where the guy parks

◼   ► just up to the fence line and not over

◼   ► they speak English as a second language

◼   ► their primary language is Vietnamese and

◼   ► so all of our exchanges although very

◼   ► friendly are like always somewhat kind

◼   ► of like hi um you guys have been cutting

◼   ► my bamboo for some reason I'm not sure

◼   ► why if it's if it's cultural I'm curious

◼   ► about it did you think it was just like

◼   ► there for you to make fences out of or

◼   ► art is it making you mad is my bamboo

◼   ► making you mad if so the conversations

◼   ► are very difficult super super difficult

◼   ► we have a neighbor that I thought we

◼   ► were on good terms on who

◼   ► slams a door in such a way that the

◼   ► entire house shakes and I went outside

◼   ► to say you know hey neighbor of many

◼   ► many years did you know something you

◼   ► slammed that door

◼   ► our entire house shakes and everyone

◼   ► says so and he got real mad which made

◼   ► me think all the more that he's doing it

◼   ► on purpose that's just me that's just me

◼   ► and like all like I'm like a white tech

◼   ► bro it's like there's not

◼   ► intersectionality that's the wrong word

◼   ► but like there's all these layers and

◼   ► layers of like how we communicate with

◼   ► other people let alone language and

◼   ► culture man whoo

◼   ► that's gonna be a bad about I don't know

◼   ► why it was it felt kind of

◼   ► passive-aggressive well just took it off

◼   ► my trash and I was like yeah no I know I

◼   ► mean we all take out our trash once a

◼   ► week it's just that you just slam that

◼   ► door five times and it Massey literally

◼   ► I don't mean figuratively I mean it

◼   ► literally made our house shake like do

◼   ► you need to slam it that hard every time

◼   ► cuz that seems a little like aggressive

◼   ► and he was he was playing it off legit

◼   ► so I think he's miffed at us about

◼   ► something out know what so now I know

◼   ► the thing to think about you know saying

◼   ► this is the layers it's this layers and

◼   ► I don't so there are a lot there are a

◼   ► few layers here like this is a house

◼   ► this is a house owned by an an affluent

◼   ► african-american family that now has

◼   ► suddenly has like Hercule Poirot has

◼   ► just walked into the train compartment

◼   ► is now ready to bring the entire mystery

◼   ► together yeah but there are a dozen

◼   ► white Millennials coming and going okay

◼   ► so if it's Christian I feel like on the

◼   ► one hand they're probably going to be

◼   ► inclined to answer politely but on the

◼   ► other hand that is a cultural there's a

◼   ► cultural separation between me and they

◼   ► where I'm not sure exactly what I'm

◼   ► asking like just you know I'm just on

◼   ► this no on this index card I've written

◼   ► three words that is my guess at what it

◼   ► is and I'm gonna set it aside okay but I

◼   ► have a guess okay go ahead and also I

◼   ► have at that point there at this point

◼   ► made the connection oh the dog is

◼   ► barking at the kids the dogs been there

◼   ► for years the dog never had a problem

◼   ► never had a kid to Warka no the dog just

◼   ► barked every once in a while some

◼   ► sketchy person walked by the dog and

◼   ► Gary I don't remember the dog barking at

◼   ► Gary being a problem maybe the dog gave

◼   ► Gary like hi bark or a bye bark but he

◼   ► didn't sit and just constantly bark it

◼   ► Gary and when Gary was outside talking

◼   ► on the phone at 2:00 a.m.

◼   ► Gary was the problem not the dog like

◼   ► he's the one I was going out to yell at

◼   ► right Gary goddamn a gel-like so I so I

◼   ► don't feel 100% secure in walking across

◼   ► the street and ringing the doorbell and

◼   ► demanding answers particularly not after

◼   ► my mom told me that I have no right to

◼   ► yell at them about their parking that's

◼   ► gonna be on your mind now so I'm like

◼   ► what are my rights here

◼   ► like this is a mini problem yeah you can

◼   ► do what you want in your own house it's

◼   ► not like it's not like I can go over and

◼   ► say can you 11 people who are all

◼   ► showing up at the same time not all

◼   ► close your car doors at the same time

◼   ► like it's just the nature of 13 people

◼   ► arriving at once they are gonna get a

◼   ► grand slam and they they're millenniums

◼   ► they're not conscious of the dog right

◼   ► they don't even hear the dogs because

◼   ► this dog is just to them it's just the

◼   ► dogs always barking when they're out

◼   ► there so they just think that's what it

◼   ► is

◼   ► I was on a hiking trail the other day

◼   ► with my daughter and we were going down

◼   ► and some people were coming up and it

◼   ► was a wide trail it was a like a jeep

◼   ► trail and there were five kids coming up

◼   ► and they were walking five abreast and

◼   ► they're millenniums and so we're walking

◼   ► down and my daughter turns to me when

◼   ► they're about a hundred feet away and

◼   ► this is the type of little person she is

◼   ► she says with some anxiousness daddy how

◼   ► are we going to get by isn't that

◼   ► Shannon need to find the trail now and I

◼   ► was like wow what an interesting little

◼   ► thing for you to be thinking about

◼   ► already and I said well sweetie and I

◼   ► said it I wasn't whispering I said it in

◼   ► a in a loud conversational voice I said

◼   ► well as we get closer to that

◼   ► I have to assume that they're going to

◼   ► give way for other people using the

◼   ► trail and they're going to move and as

◼   ► I'm saying this we're getting closer and

◼   ► closer to them they're going to move to

◼   ► let us walk by because we're just two

◼   ► people just walking down the trail and

◼   ► they're coming up and they're gonna and

◼   ► as I'm saying this they come right up on

◼   ► us five abreast and it's like two guys

◼   ► in three women and the two people that

◼   ► are like in the area of the trail where

◼   ► lucidi where you'd be allowing other

◼   ► people to go are both women and they

◼   ► just walk straight up on us and then at

◼   ► the very last second kind of like become

◼   ► aware of the existence of other people

◼   ► and like sort of like shrug their

◼   ► shoulders over to the side as though

◼   ► we're passing in a very confined and

◼   ► narrow spaces and like one of them

◼   ► actually brushes past me and and and you

◼   ► know and my kid has kind of gone over

◼   ► into the into the grass on this you know

◼   ► like and there's a ditch there's a clear

◼   ► ditch so she's scared of the ditch or

◼   ► whatever and I'm just like wow I don't I

◼   ► don't know what to I don't know how to

◼   ► do like I don't even know that feels

◼   ► like something though it's something

◼   ► it's a it's a cultural it's a

◼   ► generational difference it never ever

◼   ► ever ever ever would have happened

◼   ► before like that when you're taking a

◼   ► hike you say hi to people and you like

◼   ► it's it's like you're saying like we

◼   ► said we take hikes we say hi like that's

◼   ► the thing you do you say good morning in

◼   ► the culture of hiking that you shared

◼   ► the trail that you say hello when you're

◼   ► when you pass that you ignore but it's

◼   ► just in the culture you don't go for a

◼   ► hike unless you know these things you

◼   ► don't just go sell fire fast I mean like

◼   ► you know help a brother out

◼   ► know we're walking up the trail I guess

◼   ► we own the world it's just like crazy so

◼   ► so but they're over there they're not

◼   ► conscious of them themselves being the

◼   ► the source of the dog barking right I

◼   ► when I was when I was that age I

◼   ► wouldn't have either I don't think

◼   ► that's necessarily like that's just

◼   ► their they're not aware that they're

◼   ► doing that I took me four days to figure

◼   ► it out myself

◼   ► but I don't feel secure I definitely

◼   ► felt secure going over to the people I

◼   ► know and saying the dog like what's up

◼   ► but like to go over ringing the doorbell

◼   ► and say who are you and why are you in

◼   ► my neighborhood all of a sudden and what

◼   ► precisely the fuck is going on here yeah

◼   ► and is this a Jesus thing because that's

◼   ► fine but I want to know and so I'm right

◼   ► at the point where it's like okay this

◼   ► is like this is not like we can't live

◼   ► like this mm-hmm

◼   ► the dog all night kids coming and going

◼   ► but Kim my curiosity's going crazy

◼   ► what's the story here did you guys kill

◼   ► the family that was living there like I

◼   ► need some answers did you make us house

◼   ► is cursed well don't say that it looks

◼   ► great Oh oh god the other thing and the

◼   ► whole reason that I brought this up is

◼   ► that the family that owns the house now

◼   ► Jamaica's house flipper dip it in hires

◼   ► land scrapers to come once a week with

◼   ► gas-powered leaf blower oh come on you

◼   ► walk around man just blowing leaves and

◼   ► dirt how's the dog respond to that so

◼   ► confusing caused a lot of tumult in this

◼   ► neighborhood yeah confusingly the dog

◼   ► doesn't care about the leaf blower the

◼   ► doctor stuff whatever but but leaf

◼   ► blowers just in principle drive me crazy

◼   ► did you ever read there was an article

◼   ► in the Atlantic that's like 1010

◼   ► millenniums on a trail it's so it's so

◼   ► it's so aggressive there was an article

◼   ► in I think Atlantic about some rich

◼   ► neighborhood in Santa Barbara or

◼   ► something some valley that's like a like

◼   ► like a beautiful liberal oasis valley

◼   ► where everybody has a beautiful home and

◼   ► it's and the trees rustle in the wind

◼   ► and it's always 75 degrees and it's the

◼   ► perfect incubator of like middle-aged

◼   ► liberal culture because because there

◼   ► are no problems it seems like that's all

◼   ► that you need is the ball though all the

◼   ► rest of the world

◼   ► to do is just be like them F affluence

◼   ► and passive-aggressive but what happened

◼   ► was at some point a rich white person

◼   ► who lived in the neighborhood broke the

◼   ► social convention and hired landscapers

◼   ► that used gas-powered leaf blowers and

◼   ► it became a huge issue within the

◼   ► community because then there were some

◼   ► people who decided that because the

◼   ► civil rights movement was already tied

◼   ► up with a bow that now they had a new

◼   ► cause which was to fight their neighbor

◼   ► who had a gas-powered leaf blower and so

◼   ► then they were hanging up posters and

◼   ► saying like BAM this gas-powered leaf

◼   ► blower and then the other guy who was a

◼   ► liberal but maybe like one degree more

◼   ► libertarian was like you can't tell me

◼   ► what to do and then then somebody

◼   ► acknowledged that all the people that

◼   ► were doing the work in the neighborhood

◼   ► were all Hispanic and so classic race

◼   ► issue because you're asking them to do

◼   ► this work with a broom

◼   ► what's on your mind as you're going into

◼   ► this situation well I mean every article

◼   ► like that I've read in my entire life is

◼   ► always on my mind in every situation sir

◼   ► like it's part of being as woke as I am

◼   ► II don't walk down the street without

◼   ► being conscious of everything always

◼   ► results all tempest and teapots they're

◼   ► all in there somewhere

◼   ► but in this situation like I feel like

◼   ► dealing with white 22 year olds with

◼   ► that have a blue whale sticker on the

◼   ► back of their of their their Toyota

◼   ► Xterra or whatever I feel like this is a

◼   ► group of people I can address you know

◼   ► in a shared language except for the

◼   ► Millennium Generation X cultural Gulf

◼   ► the the language barrier there sometimes

◼   ► is even greater than them a dog with the

◼   ► consider man yeah oh my god so tonight a

◼   ► little bit of a fit of pique here you're

◼   ► frustrated at this point I don't know

◼   ► what I don't know which way to go

◼   ► okay then yesterday mmm I hear a grand

◼   ► slam in the morning

◼   ► here we go off they go they have not

◼   ► returned houses

◼   ► empty okay of whites of anybody's I see

◼   ► no I see no sign of life there is that a

◼   ► longer than usual amount of time between

◼   ► Grand Slams

◼   ► from the first Grand Slam there was a

◼   ► Grand Slam four times a day through the

◼   ► entire Grand Slam period they were never