Roderick on the Line

01:00:00 ◼   ► coming in and now it has been in fact it

01:00:04 ◼   ► wasn't yesterday it was the day before

01:00:05 ◼   ► it has been 48 hours with not a single

01:00:08 ◼   ► Grand Slam or sign of life nor has the

01:00:11 ◼   ► dog barked it is back to silence silence

01:00:17 ◼   ► silence emptiness complete lack of

01:00:20 ◼   ► emotion does this bring us up to date

01:00:22 ◼   ► now and now the the entire reason I

01:00:25 ◼   ► started to bring this up was right

01:00:27 ◼   ► before you called I was sitting in my

01:00:29 ◼   ► chair looking out the window at the gas

01:00:32 ◼   ► powered leaf blower guy walking around

01:00:35 ◼   ► the driveway of the house in question

01:00:37 ◼   ► mm-hmm blowing dirt and leaves around

01:00:41 ◼   ► which is all those things do just

01:00:44 ◼   ► blowing it around and I was like oh

01:00:47 ◼   ► Merlin's gonna call and then I've got

01:00:49 ◼   ► this leaf blower guy house on your mind

01:00:51 ◼   ► and then the phone rang leaf blower guy

01:00:55 ◼   ► miraculously stuck turned his motor off

01:00:58 ◼   ► almost simultaneously with you and I was

01:01:01 ◼   ► I started to tell this story in to prep

01:01:04 ◼   ► you for the fact that there might be

01:01:06 ◼   ► gasping gone into this expecting to tell

01:01:10 ◼   ► me about this whole story no I was just

01:01:12 ◼   ► like look you got to be you got to be

01:01:14 ◼   ► ready for this there's this things have

01:01:16 ◼   ► changed around here and there's gonna be

01:01:18 ◼   ► some machine noise in the background but

01:01:21 ◼   ► he's gone the Sun is out there's no

01:01:25 ◼   ► rooster even I don't know what it's like

01:01:29 ◼   ► either we're either

01:01:31 ◼   ► everything's gone quiet because the

01:01:34 ◼   ► because they're feeling some

01:01:35 ◼   ► electromagnetic pulse and Mount Rainier

01:01:37 ◼   ► is about to explode or I don't know what

01:01:41 ◼   ► happened they everybody got raptured see

01:01:47 ◼   ► you have an answer I don't know what's

01:01:50 ◼   ► on your 3x5 car it's a startup

01:01:55 ◼   ► [Laughter]

01:01:55 ◼   ► [Laughter]

00:00:01 ◼   ► [Music]

00:00:06 ◼   ► oh hi John how's it going oh gosh oh

00:00:12 ◼   ► it's going well

00:00:14 ◼   ► although although got a little bit of a

00:00:17 ◼   ► situation here hmm

00:00:18 ◼   ► breaking news so you know over the last

00:00:23 ◼   ► year we saw first of all we saw Skeeter

00:00:26 ◼   ► died of cirrhosis of the liver and then

00:00:31 ◼   ► we lost Randy Randy man Randy is Randy

00:00:37 ◼   ► from across the street

00:00:39 ◼   ► really Randy who lives in his van down

00:00:41 ◼   ► by the river oh and then the house got

00:00:45 ◼   ► sold to the flippers mm-hmm and they

00:00:48 ◼   ► worked on it for a long time they spent

00:00:50 ◼   ► a lot of money on it it up check in with

00:00:53 ◼   ► you to make sure you were keeping an eye

00:00:54 ◼   ► on things

00:00:55 ◼   ► yep check checking in with me checking

00:00:57 ◼   ► in to spend a lot of money on it and

00:00:59 ◼   ► then for some reason couldn't quite they

00:01:03 ◼   ► expected to put it on the market and it

00:01:04 ◼   ► would just sell in an instant and I

00:01:05 ◼   ► think maybe part of it was that the

00:01:08 ◼   ► street appeal was somewhat the street

00:01:14 ◼   ► that I live on doesn't have a ton of

00:01:16 ◼   ► curb appeal okay

00:01:19 ◼   ► patrick living next to me works in the

00:01:22 ◼   ► underground sewer installation

00:01:26 ◼   ► department of a company that works with

00:01:29 ◼   ► the city he's got a he's got a working

00:01:31 ◼   ► man's truck out front and and he

00:01:34 ◼   ► sometimes I think his son-in-law wrecked

00:01:39 ◼   ► a car and so he brought it over to

00:01:42 ◼   ► Patrick's and he put it under a tarp

00:01:46 ◼   ► this is a neighborhood where people are

00:01:48 ◼   ► working they're doing stuff they're not

00:01:51 ◼   ► hiding anything under a bushel basket

00:01:52 ◼   ► nope I have a I have an RV it's actually

00:01:55 ◼   ► presently hidden under a bushel basket

00:01:57 ◼   ► but it's a huge basket the the guys that

00:02:02 ◼   ► live across the street

00:02:03 ◼   ► they have like a business on the side

00:02:05 ◼   ► where they're working on cars so

00:02:07 ◼   ► sometimes there are other people don't

00:02:08 ◼   ► like that now between 13 and 30 cars

00:02:10 ◼   ► over there okay

00:02:11 ◼   ► anyway they did a very nice job fixing

00:02:13 ◼   ► up this house and it didn't sell right

00:02:16 ◼   ► away but then it finally did sell and

00:02:20 ◼   ► flippers know well and I met the owners

00:02:23 ◼   ► on the day before Christmas Eve and they

00:02:32 ◼   ► were just a very delightful

00:02:35 ◼   ► african-american couple with two

00:02:37 ◼   ► children young children five and three

00:02:40 ◼   ► something like that

00:02:41 ◼   ► and most I mean was it Jamaica was that

00:02:43 ◼   ► her name Jamaica

00:02:45 ◼   ► then moved so this is a view for people

00:02:47 ◼   ► who have deep catalogue this is

00:02:48 ◼   ► jamaica's old house

00:02:49 ◼   ► this is jamaica's house and Jamaica

00:02:51 ◼   ► moved and I don't know where I haven't

00:02:52 ◼   ► heard from her since she the last time

00:02:55 ◼   ► Jamaican I talked she was asking me if I

00:02:58 ◼   ► would take Randy's van into my yard for

00:03:04 ◼   ► a couple of weeks while Randy got his

00:03:05 ◼   ► stuff figured out got the backdoor pilot

00:03:11 ◼   ► that's pretty bad yeah

00:03:13 ◼   ► did she decline I did yeah already got

00:03:18 ◼   ► this bushel basket over here I did well

00:03:20 ◼   ► I said I said and I we may have talked

00:03:24 ◼   ► about it at the time I said you cannot

00:03:28 ◼   ► we can't do this because this is not a

00:03:32 ◼   ► this is not an asset this van is not an

00:03:37 ◼   ► asset to you need to stop thinking about

00:03:43 ◼   ► it like it's his asset you know what I

00:03:45 ◼   ► mean like he's thinking for his door

00:03:47 ◼   ► monkey spa yeah and and of course the

00:03:52 ◼   ► man we're talking about is not named

00:03:53 ◼   ► Randy mm-hmm what is his name

00:03:58 ◼   ► Merlin I'm afraid that's okay I think

00:04:01 ◼   ► for purposes of this show will go with

00:04:02 ◼   ► Randy no but what what is his actual

00:04:05 ◼   ► name it's not Jesse Randy is the name of

00:04:10 ◼   ► the restaurant down at the bottom of the

00:04:11 ◼   ► hill Oh easy easy

00:04:14 ◼   ► I know this people yeah yeah it is not

00:04:19 ◼   ► Skeeter

00:04:19 ◼   ► it's not Skeeter it's not Skeeter it's

00:04:22 ◼   ► not

00:04:23 ◼   ► it's a name like this oh boy what is his

00:04:26 ◼   ► name I just bring that on me like that

00:04:27 ◼   ► I don't know well I'm just sitting here

00:04:29 ◼   ► thinking like it sounds like it should

00:04:31 ◼   ► be Randy but it's not Randy this is like

00:04:33 ◼   ► he'd be yelling it is at his youngest

00:04:36 ◼   ► Luke phone you know who it is

00:04:38 ◼   ► no I know they know yeah people are

00:04:41 ◼   ► screaming at us right now

00:04:42 ◼   ► it's not Randy it's um Jesse Pinkman is

00:04:48 ◼   ► the guy from Breaking Bad right right

00:04:51 ◼   ► it's not him

00:04:52 ◼   ► no it's it's gonna be one for the hall

00:04:56 ◼   ► of fame why did I say no idea it'll come

00:05:01 ◼   ► to us yes yes

00:05:05 ◼   ► anyway it's not an asset it's not an

00:05:08 ◼   ► asset this thing and he thinks it's like

00:05:10 ◼   ► a piece of material that he thinks this

00:05:13 ◼   ► is where his retirement is in this van

00:05:17 ◼   ► and it's garbage it's like it needs to

00:05:20 ◼   ► go to the crusher it's not restorable

00:05:22 ◼   ► and I'm somebody who has some experience

00:05:24 ◼   ► buying and trying to restore this thank

00:05:26 ◼   ► you I mean apart from forgetting his

00:05:29 ◼   ► name I think you're really missing the

00:05:30 ◼   ► elephant in the room which is that I've

00:05:33 ◼   ► given you advice before unsolicited

00:05:35 ◼   ► advice that whenever you're thinking

00:05:36 ◼   ► about a decision that involves a

00:05:38 ◼   ► relationship with another person it's

00:05:40 ◼   ► just what I ask do I want much more of

00:05:41 ◼   ► this relationship or much less of this

00:05:43 ◼   ► relationship right just abstract this

00:05:46 ◼   ► idea and in this instance the idea of

00:05:49 ◼   ► taking his asset unto your property is

00:05:53 ◼   ► gonna give you a lot more interaction

00:05:54 ◼   ► with the artist formerly known as Randy

00:05:56 ◼   ► I do not want that no I hear in his

00:05:59 ◼   ► calls no it's nothing there right oh

00:06:02 ◼   ► it's the fits I mean they're there it's

00:06:06 ◼   ► not salvageable like as a piece of metal

00:06:09 ◼   ► like there's nothing in it the it's rust

00:06:11 ◼   ► it's rusted it's completely rusted he

00:06:14 ◼   ► like it's like it's like full of rats

00:06:16 ◼   ► it's like not a it's it's not just that

00:06:19 ◼   ► it's not a nice truck it's like not like

00:06:22 ◼   ► you it's it's tetanus it's ten anyway so

00:06:26 ◼   ► this young couple buys the house we have

00:06:29 ◼   ► a we have an extremely pleasant exchange

00:06:31 ◼   ► on the street I'm like you guys are

00:06:33 ◼   ► moving in on Christmas Eve

00:06:36 ◼   ► and they kind of were like yeah like

00:06:39 ◼   ► that what we need with two kids that was

00:06:41 ◼   ► no big deal and I was like wow that

00:06:43 ◼   ► seems like a really big deal move into a

00:06:46 ◼   ► new house on Christmas heat but at the

00:06:47 ◼   ► same time how amazing you get to spend

00:06:49 ◼   ► your first you know like first Christmas

00:06:52 ◼   ► in the new house that's for adventure

00:06:54 ◼   ► this do yeah and I was like this is

00:06:56 ◼   ► gonna be fun we're gonna have a fun time

00:06:57 ◼   ► she said that she was a long time

00:06:59 ◼   ► satellite he was from Brooklyn and we

00:07:04 ◼   ► were gonna get along famously and the

00:07:07 ◼   ► thing is I was leaving for Christmas we

00:07:09 ◼   ► we spent Christmas up at a little house

00:07:11 ◼   ► in the snow and so I was like you know

00:07:14 ◼   ► well I'll get together welcome-wagon

00:07:17 ◼   ► when I get back and then in January I

00:07:22 ◼   ► traveled a lot February I traveled a lot

00:07:25 ◼   ► and I didn't see them right I didn't

00:07:27 ◼   ► bump into them on the street very often

00:07:28 ◼   ► every once in a while there would be the

00:07:30 ◼   ► car would pull up they drove like nice

00:07:33 ◼   ► cars nice SUV style new ones you know

00:07:37 ◼   ► like you know somebody drives up in a

00:07:39 ◼   ► SUV and it's like pearlescent Wow nice I

00:07:43 ◼   ► don't even know what brand it is they

00:07:44 ◼   ► all look the same

00:07:45 ◼   ► it's a little class version of having

00:07:46 ◼   ► fancy nails you know saying yeah yeah

00:07:49 ◼   ► it's like I'm not gonna be digging with

00:07:51 ◼   ► my hands anytime soon yeah this thing is

00:07:55 ◼   ► full-time four-wheel drive and I'll

00:07:56 ◼   ► never drive off of the road

00:07:59 ◼   ► but then after a while and then there

00:08:01 ◼   ► were there were a couple of Sundays

00:08:03 ◼   ► where like Sunday evening I would come

00:08:06 ◼   ► home and there would be cars parked all

00:08:08 ◼   ► on the street and in our neighborhood

00:08:11 ◼   ► there are no sidewalks it feels kind of

00:08:14 ◼   ► country out here and so the areas in

00:08:17 ◼   ► front of people's houses bye-bye

00:08:21 ◼   ► accepted convention in the neighborhood

00:08:23 ◼   ► those areas sort of belong to the house

00:08:26 ◼   ► if you're gonna park your car on the

00:08:29 ◼   ► street you're gonna park it in your area

00:08:33 ◼   ► and not bleed over into somebody else

00:08:36 ◼   ► right that's somebody else's shoulder

00:08:37 ◼   ► yeah and it's not like if there were

00:08:39 ◼   ► sidewalks right then you just park your

00:08:41 ◼   ► car on the sidewalk and you park your

00:08:43 ◼   ► car in a parking spot and they don't

00:08:45 ◼   ► belong to people but yeah you know like

00:08:47 ◼   ► the gravel in front of my house is

00:08:50 ◼   ► an extension of my yard that's how we

00:08:52 ◼   ► all art everywhere the neighbor that's

00:08:54 ◼   ► right over here that's next to me on the

00:08:56 ◼   ► other side they will drink they'll bring

00:08:58 ◼   ► the front bumper of their car right up

00:09:00 ◼   ► to the fence line but they would never

00:09:03 ◼   ► go two inches with their bumper over

00:09:05 ◼   ► that fence line ain't it's not yeah I

00:09:07 ◼   ► know anyway I would come home on Sunday

00:09:09 ◼   ► and there would be a bunch of cars like

00:09:10 ◼   ► parked on my side of the street in front

00:09:12 ◼   ► of my house where I park mm-hmm and so

00:09:15 ◼   ► there was no place for me to park I was

00:09:17 ◼   ► like whoa but I talked to my mom about

00:09:19 ◼   ► it I was like what do I do in this

00:09:21 ◼   ► situation she said these are public

00:09:23 ◼   ► roads if you go over and ask them not to

00:09:26 ◼   ► park in front of your house you are a

00:09:28 ◼   ► very bad person debating that really I

00:09:31 ◼   ► was like all right all right I said but

00:09:33 ◼   ► what about social convention and she was

00:09:34 ◼   ► like these are the public roads you do

00:09:37 ◼   ► not mess with the public roads I know

00:09:39 ◼   ► better than to disagree with your mom

00:09:40 ◼   ► but uh let's say sure about her police

00:09:42 ◼   ► work there I think this is a culture

00:09:44 ◼   ► this is you know we're living in a

00:09:45 ◼   ► society that's what I thought too but

00:09:47 ◼   ► you know as you say you don't you don't

00:09:50 ◼   ► you know you go against mom and then

00:09:53 ◼   ► you'll live to regret it

00:09:54 ◼   ► anyway I didn't say anything couple of

00:09:56 ◼   ► Sundays went by I was like whatever no

00:09:58 ◼   ► problem it's a temporary thing but it

00:10:00 ◼   ► did make me feel like oh they're Church

00:10:03 ◼   ► people they're having events on Sunday

00:10:06 ◼   ► evening after Journal I see where

00:10:10 ◼   ► they're inviting people over and so it's

00:10:12 ◼   ► gonna be it's gonna be even harder to

00:10:15 ◼   ► kind of go into this situation and be

00:10:17 ◼   ► like hi I know that you're having like a

00:10:20 ◼   ► church event but don't park in front of

00:10:22 ◼   ► my house mm-hmm

00:10:23 ◼   ► couldn't do it you know it's just like

00:10:25 ◼   ► this is just we're just we're learning

00:10:27 ◼   ► about each other but then it got real

00:10:30 ◼   ► quiet over there and I and by the time

00:10:33 ◼   ► the end of February rolled around it had

00:10:36 ◼   ► become curious I've never seen or heard

00:10:39 ◼   ► the kids well it's just been clear now

00:10:42 ◼   ► no more pearlescent SUV coming to going

00:10:44 ◼   ► well they have a garage with the door

00:10:47 ◼   ► that opens and closes and I could always

00:10:50 ◼   ► tell when Jamaica was here and randy

00:10:55 ◼   ► paul paulie i can always tell when they

00:10:58 ◼   ► were there because the garage was full

00:11:00 ◼   ► of garbage so they couldn't park inside

00:11:02 ◼   ► so the car was easy

00:11:03 ◼   ► there or not but now they could be

00:11:06 ◼   ► parking inside they could it's a two-car

00:11:08 ◼   ► garage they could it be all inside but

00:11:11 ◼   ► you know I'm out at all hours I come and

00:11:13 ◼   ► go I never saw them come and go so I was

00:11:16 ◼   ► like it's interesting that they're very

00:11:18 ◼   ► quiet and I don't mind a quiet neighbor

00:11:20 ◼   ► mm-hmm better than karaoke and I'm

00:11:22 ◼   ► saying yeah but but you know the house

00:11:27 ◼   ► is very neatly kept it was it was put

00:11:30 ◼   ► into neat neat zone in order to sell and

00:11:34 ◼   ► it still looks like it's a house for

00:11:35 ◼   ► sale you know the yard is very kept it's

00:11:38 ◼   ► very neat well about two three weeks ago

00:11:47 ◼   ► all of a sudden cars were coming and

00:11:50 ◼   ► going from the house and it was a

00:11:53 ◼   ► situation where I just generally rough

00:11:55 ◼   ► you just be clear so you have or have

00:11:57 ◼   ► not seen kids playing in the yard or

00:11:59 ◼   ► being kids

00:12:00 ◼   ► none have not heard of finger you know I

00:12:03 ◼   ► fit in my house I listen to what's going

00:12:05 ◼   ► on on the street if I was a sibling and

00:12:07 ◼   ► lived in a big free-standing

00:12:08 ◼   ► single-family house I'd be out playing

00:12:10 ◼   ► you'd be out playing he'd be hitting

00:12:12 ◼   ► stuff with a stick even though it's the

00:12:14 ◼   ► winter but if you come in the car and

00:12:18 ◼   ► you get out on the way between the car

00:12:20 ◼   ► and the house as you know from having a

00:12:22 ◼   ► kid even that closing that that 20 yards

00:12:27 ◼   ► from the under under under 10 yeah there

00:12:30 ◼   ► won't silence any bikes you don't see

00:12:32 ◼   ► any big wheels frisbees skateboards

00:12:36 ◼   ► scooters not only do I not but I have

00:12:38 ◼   ► never heard someone go mom that's not a

00:12:41 ◼   ► single time okay this is you got me I'm

00:12:43 ◼   ► hooked so I'm like what's going on over

00:12:46 ◼   ► there now I'm peeking through the blinds

00:12:49 ◼   ► every once a while but I'm but it's the

00:12:50 ◼   ► it's like opposite day I'm peeking

00:12:52 ◼   ► through the blinds at nothing nothing's

00:12:55 ◼   ► happening but then I'm sitting in the

00:12:58 ◼   ► I'm sitting in the living room and I

00:13:00 ◼   ► start hearing the tell-tale signs of

00:13:03 ◼   ► people coming and going which are you

00:13:06 ◼   ► here some you know faint music playing

00:13:09 ◼   ► as a car drives up the sits there with

00:13:12 ◼   ► the motor running for a minute

00:13:13 ◼   ► turns off and then a door slams as

00:13:16 ◼   ► somebody gets out of the

00:13:17 ◼   ► and that's not you know that's not

00:13:19 ◼   ► unusual like I say that the people next

00:13:21 ◼   ► door to them they have between 13 and 30

00:13:23 ◼   ► cars so he's here door slamming sure but

00:13:27 ◼   ► but I started to hear these events where

00:13:30 ◼   ► car would pull up and I would hear this

00:13:34 ◼   ► slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam

00:13:41 ◼   ► slam slam that's that sounds like a mob

00:13:45 ◼   ► that sounds like the Mafia to me yes

00:13:48 ◼   ► just unsound and I heard nine door slams

00:13:52 ◼   ► I would assume that's a bunch of guys

00:13:53 ◼   ► getting out of mob cars and and that's

00:13:56 ◼   ► what it that's what I felt - and so I

00:13:59 ◼   ► did what what you do when you are

00:14:01 ◼   ► somebody like me who takes an interest

00:14:03 ◼   ► in other people sure I would get up and

00:14:06 ◼   ► I would go look out and say who's your

00:14:08 ◼   ► social creature that's right and what

00:14:11 ◼   ► was happening was there were three cars

00:14:13 ◼   ► that were arriving all at the same time

00:14:14 ◼   ► and there were between nine and thirteen

00:14:24 ◼   ► white kids in their early 20s who all

00:14:29 ◼   ► were pretty clean-cut

00:14:33 ◼   ► you know like fresh-faced hmm and they

00:14:37 ◼   ► we're all getting at they were arriving

00:14:39 ◼   ► at the same time all getting out of the

00:14:40 ◼   ► car at the same time obviously from the

00:14:43 ◼   ► obviously from the multiple slams the

00:14:48 ◼   ► grand slam as I like to call it yeah and

00:14:51 ◼   ► then they were going in through the gate

00:14:53 ◼   ► not in through the front door but in

00:14:55 ◼   ► through the gate into the backyard okay

00:14:57 ◼   ► okay I think it's a sports team or

00:15:00 ◼   ► missionaries well so I immediately think

00:15:03 ◼   ► missionaries okay because what are you

00:15:05 ◼   ► so you got a young african-american

00:15:06 ◼   ► family that has already established that

00:15:08 ◼   ► sometimes they have Sunday evening

00:15:10 ◼   ► events and then you have a bunch of

00:15:13 ◼   ► teenage fresh fresh-faced college-age

00:15:19 ◼   ► people who are coming and going as a

00:15:21 ◼   ► group I'm thinking this guy is a pastor

00:15:25 ◼   ► he's got a youth group of some kind

00:15:27 ◼   ► there

00:15:28 ◼   ► learning the trade they're here for like

00:15:31 ◼   ► youth these are like the leaders the

00:15:34 ◼   ► elders of their youth groups or whatever

00:15:36 ◼   ► they're getting some extra like Deacons

00:15:39 ◼   ► in training yeah oh I should mention at

00:15:43 ◼   ► some point on the fence facing the front

00:15:48 ◼   ► next to the garage appeared a sign that

00:15:53 ◼   ► was the kind of sign that you would get

00:15:54 ◼   ► at Target that said like this is Janet's

00:15:57 ◼   ► room keep out that's made to look like a

00:16:01 ◼   ► street sign right that they could say

00:16:04 ◼   ► keep calm and carry on or it could say

00:16:06 ◼   ► like Volkswagen bug parking I'm looking

00:16:09 ◼   ► for world's greatest people right for

00:16:11 ◼   ► world's greatest people but it is shaped

00:16:13 ◼   ► like us like a city sign looks like one

00:16:16 ◼   ► and it said what does it say it's not

00:16:21 ◼   ► visitor parking only it's something like

00:16:24 ◼   ► parking for guests only it's it's uh

00:16:28 ◼   ► it's worded strangely what it's like the

00:16:31 ◼   ► kind of wording it doesn't like a city

00:16:33 ◼   ► sign would say you know visitor parking

00:16:37 ◼   ► only something simple but this is like

00:16:38 ◼   ► parking for guests only it's like

00:16:41 ◼   ► something you would find in the front of

00:16:42 ◼   ► the Royal Hawaiian hotel this is

00:16:44 ◼   ► tickling my zoning phone and it felt a

00:16:48 ◼   ► little bit like oh this is the this is

00:16:51 ◼   ► the first expression of the family's

00:16:54 ◼   ► like personality that they've put in the

00:16:58 ◼   ► house they didn't put a little statue of

00:17:00 ◼   ► or then put two two white lions on

00:17:03 ◼   ► either side of the driveway like you see

00:17:04 ◼   ► in my neighborhood a lot they didn't put

00:17:06 ◼   ► a Buddha next to the front door they

00:17:08 ◼   ► didn't put a like a little wind chime

00:17:10 ◼   ► they put this like parking for guests

00:17:13 ◼   ► only sign on the fence and and it's

00:17:16 ◼   ► charming but but now I'm starting now so

00:17:20 ◼   ► they are thinking about parking well

00:17:22 ◼   ► yeah oh and that's the other thing I was

00:17:24 ◼   ► like oh okay well I mean interesting

00:17:25 ◼   ► interesting oh you're knocking we're not

00:17:28 ◼   ► gonna put fourteen Lexuses in there

00:17:29 ◼   ► fourteen Lex I that's high anyway so so

00:17:33 ◼   ► I was here in the Grand Slam a lot Grand

00:17:38 ◼   ► Slam in the morning Grand Slam at noon

00:17:40 ◼   ► Grand Slam in the other one occasion

00:17:42 ◼   ► Grand Slam at night from this one's

00:17:44 ◼   ► coming in like white people coming in

00:17:45 ◼   ► coming and going okay

00:17:47 ◼   ► Grand Slam at 11:30 at night 11:30 at

00:17:50 ◼   ► night such that every time I heard a

00:17:53 ◼   ► Grand Slam which again is organized is

00:17:58 ◼   ► something very organized happening

00:18:00 ◼   ► coming and going so and every time I

00:18:02 ◼   ► would look out it's not let's just be

00:18:04 ◼   ► clear here just cuz my mind I have no

00:18:06 ◼   ► idea what this is going if it was a

00:18:07 ◼   ► social occasion where you're gonna have

00:18:09 ◼   ► some potato salad people would become in

00:18:10 ◼   ► a different time some people would be

00:18:12 ◼   ► late their kids would be screaming this

00:18:13 ◼   ► is a heterogeneous group of people

00:18:15 ◼   ► arriving all at the same time and

00:18:17 ◼   ► immediately doing a Grand Slam and then

00:18:19 ◼   ► heading back through the gate heading

00:18:21 ◼   ► back through the gate not going in

00:18:23 ◼   ► through the front door okay so I do a

00:18:28 ◼   ► little bit I went over and I looked at

00:18:37 ◼   ► the cars one of the cars so there's a

00:18:41 ◼   ► like 2010 okay 2010 4runner okay all

00:18:51 ◼   ► right got it with Montana plate Montana

00:18:54 ◼   ► you say and one sticker which is of a

00:19:02 ◼   ► blue whale with no other writing on it

00:19:07 ◼   ► is it the company they make sportswear

00:19:09 ◼   ► nope it's just a blue whale talking with

00:19:12 ◼   ► the blue was a whale my daughter likes

00:19:14 ◼   ► their sportswear

00:19:15 ◼   ► no this is a different this is like the

00:19:17 ◼   ► type of blue whale that you would get at

00:19:19 ◼   ► an aquarium it's not adorable no it's

00:19:21 ◼   ► not cute it is a this is a very similar

00:19:24 ◼   ► to dwell okay but it doesn't say like

00:19:28 ◼   ► Rhode Island aquarium okay there's

00:19:30 ◼   ► nothing just a blue whale okay and

00:19:33 ◼   ► Montana plates no other no that's Big

00:19:37 ◼   ► Sky Country that's Big Sky Country

00:19:39 ◼   ► oh no and one other things there is a

00:19:42 ◼   ► little sticker on the bottom corner of

00:19:45 ◼   ► the window that I later decipher as a

00:19:48 ◼   ► parking sticker for a Boise State

00:19:52 ◼   ► College in

00:19:54 ◼   ► in Boise Idaho yeah Montana Montana

00:19:58 ◼   ► Idaho 4runner

00:20:00 ◼   ► guess parking only the second car is

00:20:05 ◼   ► what I would guesstimate to be like a

00:20:08 ◼   ► 2009 Infiniti with Washington plates and

00:20:14 ◼   ► no other sign no stickers no other sign

00:20:18 ◼   ► of life like if you look in the windows

00:20:20 ◼   ► it's just like grandma's car nothing no

00:20:22 ◼   ► one PR sticker no NPR the parking pass

00:20:25 ◼   ► no sticker that says like Christian

00:20:28 ◼   ► Leadership Conference no sticker that

00:20:30 ◼   ► says you know coexist no like no fish no

00:20:36 ◼   ► Darwin fish no fish eating a fish

00:20:38 ◼   ► nothing and then the third car which

00:20:42 ◼   ► always parks in the this parking for

00:20:46 ◼   ► guests only spot because the other two

00:20:49 ◼   ► cars park on the street they just park

00:20:51 ◼   ► on the park what I would consider

00:20:53 ◼   ► correctly like on the dirt in front of

00:20:56 ◼   ► that house okay but the one that always

00:20:58 ◼   ► parks in the slot is a brand new car

00:21:04 ◼   ► with temporary license plates okay

00:21:07 ◼   ► temporary Washington plates that have

00:21:10 ◼   ► expired

00:21:11 ◼   ► what so temporary the leader yeah I know

00:21:16 ◼   ► but but the plates are ten days got a

00:21:18 ◼   ► nice new car they recently either

00:21:20 ◼   ► recently moved the area recently bought

00:21:22 ◼   ► a car in the area they have not gotten

00:21:25 ◼   ► their permanent plates right but they

00:21:28 ◼   ► have let it lapse and they park in the

00:21:30 ◼   ► place of honor yep

00:21:32 ◼   ► so now I am now I'm prepared to the next

00:21:38 ◼   ► time I see the kids I'm gonna say like

00:21:40 ◼   ► hey hi I'm your neighbor what's up what

00:21:46 ◼   ► you guys did you know what you no no but

00:21:50 ◼   ► I am never in the in the week that I'm

00:21:55 ◼   ► trying to put myself into like this

00:21:59 ◼   ► situation I'm never able to get the get

00:22:03 ◼   ► to them between hearing the grand slam

00:22:06 ◼   ► and them all disappearing behind the

00:22:08 ◼   ► game

00:22:08 ◼   ► very efficient I just point of

00:22:09 ◼   ► information so just took just to cross a

00:22:12 ◼   ► tee here if I'm understand this

00:22:14 ◼   ► correctly Grand Slam Grand Slam Grand

00:22:17 ◼   ► Slam over a period of days but still no

00:22:19 ◼   ► sign of the african-american family at

00:22:21 ◼   ► all okay this okay yep okay kids never

00:22:26 ◼   ► hear a kid no kids oh okay okay we're

00:22:30 ◼   ► here a darn thing these these these

00:22:33 ◼   ► presumptive missionaries whoever this is

00:22:35 ◼   ► they seem to be kind of running the

00:22:36 ◼   ► place

00:22:37 ◼   ► well except they never go in the front

00:22:38 ◼   ► don't they don't go in the front door

00:22:39 ◼   ► and when you look at the house at night

00:22:43 ◼   ► none of the lights are on oh this is

00:22:46 ◼   ► such a good mystery John you're so good

00:22:48 ◼   ► at this

00:22:48 ◼   ► I remember when it was being fixed up by

00:22:52 ◼   ► the flippers by fuller dan and I do

00:22:54 ◼   ► remember his name was Dan I toured the

00:22:58 ◼   ► house many times and what he did was he

00:23:00 ◼   ► turned the downstairs which had been a

00:23:02 ◼   ► kind of slap a - mother-in-law

00:23:05 ◼   ► he turned the downstairs into a proper

00:23:08 ◼   ► you could even call it a three-bedroom

00:23:11 ◼   ► apartment although the zoning would not

00:23:13 ◼   ► allow you to describe it as that but it

00:23:15 ◼   ► definitely there were but if you wanted

00:23:17 ◼   ► to have a relative come and live with

00:23:19 ◼   ► you they could be there very comfortably

00:23:20 ◼   ► very comfortably there there was a nice

00:23:22 ◼   ► nice big living room he put a full bath

00:23:27 ◼   ► down there there there was a nice

00:23:31 ◼   ► staircase up to the main house and it

00:23:34 ◼   ► had three I mean one room that qualified

00:23:37 ◼   ► as a large legal bedroom and then an

00:23:40 ◼   ► office and then a bedroom that was you

00:23:43 ◼   ► know like you could have three people

00:23:45 ◼   ► living down there for sure means of

00:23:50 ◼   ► egress entrance it doesn't have its own

00:23:52 ◼   ► entrance okay okay

00:23:56 ◼   ► dan was thinking ahead he was he was and

00:24:00 ◼   ► and there were a couple of people that

00:24:01 ◼   ► came to look at the house during the

00:24:03 ◼   ► period when it was for sale that were

00:24:06 ◼   ► like yeah we're thing about having my

00:24:07 ◼   ► mother live in the basement and I'm like

00:24:09 ◼   ► that's a great idea it's a great house

00:24:10 ◼   ► you should buy it the the the young

00:24:18 ◼   ► family that did buy it did not show any

00:24:20 ◼   ► signs of having a mother

00:24:22 ◼   ► in law plan but they were like you know

00:24:25 ◼   ► they were affluent young family with two

00:24:27 ◼   ► kids I assumed that they would fill up

00:24:29 ◼   ► that house with with toys and excitement

00:24:31 ◼   ► ask a question yeah go ahead

00:24:33 ◼   ► I might have missed this how did you

00:24:39 ◼   ► establish that the initial

00:24:41 ◼   ► african-american family were the owners

00:24:43 ◼   ► of the house in the long first

00:24:47 ◼   ► conversation so you did you did talk

00:24:49 ◼   ► about this and they were they were the

00:24:52 ◼   ► people who bought the house in your

00:24:53 ◼   ► estimation yeah well they drove they

00:24:55 ◼   ► drove up I was standing out I think I

00:24:57 ◼   ► was even packing my car to go to the

00:24:59 ◼   ► mountains and those I'm sorry Christmas

00:25:02 ◼   ► yes yes yes and they drive up and I'm

00:25:04 ◼   ► like hello I march over hello and

00:25:06 ◼   ► they're like hello okay and I said are

00:25:08 ◼   ► you the new owners and they're like we

00:25:11 ◼   ► are we just closed and I'm like it's

00:25:13 ◼   ► okay yes I'm sorry you didn't establish

00:25:16 ◼   ► this so but at that point you've

00:25:18 ◼   ► imprinted on this idea that this is the

00:25:20 ◼   ► nuclear family that's gonna live in

00:25:22 ◼   ► flippered Ann's old house that's right

00:25:23 ◼   ► and they are gonna be they're gonna have

00:25:26 ◼   ► kids that come over and play with my

00:25:27 ◼   ► daughter pushing a hoop around with a

00:25:29 ◼   ► stick lemonade stand and they are part

00:25:31 ◼   ► of the kind of gentrification that I've

00:25:34 ◼   ► been waiting for in the neighborhood

00:25:36 ◼   ► which is that because this neighborhood

00:25:39 ◼   ► is the most diverse ZIP code in America

00:25:42 ◼   ► we we here in this neighborhood want to

00:25:46 ◼   ► keep that true we do not want to see

00:25:48 ◼   ► what's happened in the rest of Seattle

00:25:50 ◼   ► happen here which is that there is

00:25:52 ◼   ► displacement we want instead for the

00:25:55 ◼   ► standard of living to rise while Maine

00:25:58 ◼   ► whilst maintaining a diverse community

00:26:00 ◼   ► so they were like decidedly a

00:26:03 ◼   ► middle-class family that was going to

00:26:05 ◼   ► like increase the tax base so the

00:26:08 ◼   ► schools are better you know while at the

00:26:10 ◼   ► same time like not changing the fact

00:26:13 ◼   ► that I'm the only white person in my

00:26:14 ◼   ► neighborhood right they need you they

00:26:17 ◼   ► need me I'm the anchor baby in the

00:26:24 ◼   ► neighborhood anyway so I keep putting

00:26:26 ◼   ► myself in situations where I'm trying to

00:26:29 ◼   ► anticipate

00:26:31 ◼   ► when this Grand Slam of of white

00:26:34 ◼   ► Millennials is going to show up and move

00:26:37 ◼   ► as a group really fast through what is

00:26:40 ◼   ► just one fence gate like I don't know

00:26:42 ◼   ► how they do it frankly and there was one

00:26:45 ◼   ► time when I was driving up as they

00:26:47 ◼   ► arrived and I was like here's my chance

00:26:49 ◼   ► and I put the car in park I opened the

00:26:52 ◼   ► door and they they were moving so fast

00:26:56 ◼   ► and I got out and kind of was like uh

00:26:58 ◼   ► and they they reflexively like looked

00:27:02 ◼   ► down and away from me in a way

00:27:05 ◼   ► suggesting that they were young people

00:27:08 ◼   ► who did not ever want to look at an

00:27:10 ◼   ► adult or beat yes not engaged with the

00:27:13 ◼   ► olds not engaged nobody was like hi or

00:27:15 ◼   ► anything they were just like get us out

00:27:17 ◼   ► of here okay so there's a third wrinkle

00:27:20 ◼   ► Oh God which is that the Mexican family

00:27:26 ◼   ► that lives on the corner that has

00:27:27 ◼   ► between 13 and 30 cars for the last

00:27:30 ◼   ► several years has had a rooster now they

00:27:34 ◼   ► have chickens and the chickens are

00:27:36 ◼   ► running around the neighborhood and

00:27:37 ◼   ► everybody thinks that's charming but

00:27:38 ◼   ► they had a rooster which is technically

00:27:40 ◼   ► against Seattle City regulations

00:27:43 ◼   ► interesting you're not supposed to have

00:27:45 ◼   ► a rooster because roosters are a pain in

00:27:47 ◼   ► the ass season ye yeah right even out in

00:27:50 ◼   ► the fucking farms roosters are a pain in

00:27:51 ◼   ► the ass but in a city what does it

00:27:53 ◼   ► rooster do Hawaii if they warned me

00:27:55 ◼   ► about the roosters there they got there

00:27:58 ◼   ► on their own timetable and this rooster

00:28:04 ◼   ► is a fucking dumbass like they all are

00:28:05 ◼   ► and it's a very very very first inkling

00:28:09 ◼   ► of light he's and he does it all morning

00:28:15 ◼   ► and then all day he's just fucking

00:28:16 ◼   ► cockadoodle doodling all the time talk

00:28:19 ◼   ► of the walk and somebody said to me like

00:28:21 ◼   ► well you know with in Mexican culture a

00:28:23 ◼   ► rooster is a very important character he

00:28:26 ◼   ► plays a B plays a role within like

00:28:29 ◼   ► culturally within the whole sort of

00:28:32 ◼   ► pantheon like a rooster as a he's a guy

00:28:35 ◼   ► right just explaining it's a rooster guy

00:28:37 ◼   ► mm-hmm and I'm like all right okay keep

00:28:40 ◼   ► keep a rooster around like you know like

00:28:42 ◼   ► like I guess I guess the

00:28:45 ◼   ► neighborhood jaundice I'm gonna claim

00:28:48 ◼   ► the Ravens and the raccoons huh

00:28:51 ◼   ► you've got your rooster visit earlier

00:28:53 ◼   ► yeah that's right and somebody's gonna

00:28:55 ◼   ► want the possum it's not me somebody

00:28:57 ◼   ► somebody wants something no thought

00:28:58 ◼   ► can't have that we all get the rats the

00:29:00 ◼   ► cancer around for us all but the Ravens

00:29:02 ◼   ► the Ravens ER and I have an

00:29:04 ◼   ► understanding so I was fine with the

00:29:07 ◼   ► rooster I mean I wasn't like thrilled

00:29:09 ◼   ► about it but I'm not somebody that's

00:29:10 ◼   ► gonna pick up the phone and be like the

00:29:12 ◼   ► motorcycle he's coming again what's the

00:29:14 ◼   ► matter sico you used to it that's right

00:29:15 ◼   ► there's a rooster and he wakes me up in

00:29:17 ◼   ► the morning and whatever okay so yeah

00:29:19 ◼   ► rooster but but they also at some point

00:29:23 ◼   ► along the way I cannot remember exactly

00:29:28 ◼   ► when bought a dog which they keep pinned

00:29:32 ◼   ► in a pen at the far end of their

00:29:36 ◼   ► property which is pretty far from the

00:29:40 ◼   ► house but very close to the house that

00:29:46 ◼   ► I'm describing Oh flip the flipper dance

00:29:49 ◼   ► all place good and close to this newly

00:29:52 ◼   ► refurbished home

00:29:53 ◼   ► yeah the pen oh that's a nuisance John

00:29:56 ◼   ► right on the other side of the fence I

00:29:59 ◼   ► didn't sign this and if you took a tape

00:30:02 ◼   ► measure the pen of the dog is actually

00:30:04 ◼   ► probably closer to my bedroom window

00:30:06 ◼   ► than it is to any window of the house to

00:30:11 ◼   ► which the dog belongs now the dog I've

00:30:17 ◼   ► been conscious of the dog for a long

00:30:19 ◼   ► time because the dog every once while

00:30:20 ◼   ► goes row row row

00:30:24 ◼   ► sounds like a dog and I'm lay all right

00:30:29 ◼   ► okay I smelled something on the wind

00:30:32 ◼   ► there's another dog somewhere in this

00:30:34 ◼   ► neighborhood that everyone swallows and

00:30:38 ◼   ► then this dog goes okay that happens a

00:30:47 ◼   ► few times a day and I go that's just how

00:30:51 ◼   ► it is it's just like then the resource

00:30:53 ◼   ► and there used to be a dog down the road

00:30:56 ◼   ► that was just all day long

00:30:58 ◼   ► no see now that's that's and I remember

00:31:02 ◼   ► my place when there used to be the dog

00:31:04 ◼   ► upstairs oh that dog remembered remember

00:31:06 ◼   ► Linus that Linus would attack you with

00:31:08 ◼   ► my sweet a sweet little dog but they

00:31:10 ◼   ► keep him in a kennel literally right

00:31:13 ◼   ► over my head where I worked all day and

00:31:15 ◼   ► he would do this in terms of eight feet

00:31:29 ◼   ► from my ear was a dog all day and

00:31:31 ◼   ► that'll make a person a little bit crazy

00:31:33 ◼   ► after a while and they were gone during

00:31:34 ◼   ► the day oh gosh yeah that's why - have

00:31:36 ◼   ► sweet little - that's why he was in his

00:31:37 ◼   ► little in his little kennel is low

00:31:40 ◼   ► bastard here you go sweetie here's some

00:31:47 ◼   ► cookie dough with some Martha some like

00:31:49 ◼   ► a diet dies a pram in it or whatever

00:31:51 ◼   ► like I would resort to screaming three

00:31:54 ◼   ► times a day well so okay got a lot of

00:32:00 ◼   ► pieces on the board here yeah

00:32:02 ◼   ► this dog this rooster this situation

00:32:04 ◼   ► over here never was a problem for me the

00:32:06 ◼   ► the family that lives there is an

00:32:08 ◼   ► extended family by which I means there's

00:32:10 ◼   ► a family with the automobiles yeah but

00:32:12 ◼   ► in the 13 and 30 cars there are also

00:32:14 ◼   ► between 3 and 5 families living in the

00:32:18 ◼   ► house it's a big house

00:32:21 ◼   ► and there are a lot of daughters there

00:32:23 ◼   ► are by my estimation at least one

00:32:28 ◼   ► quinceanera a year for the last eight

00:32:31 ◼   ► years okay bueno

00:32:32 ◼   ► so I don't know how I don't know how you

00:32:34 ◼   ► do that I don't know how you keep the

00:32:36 ◼   ► quinceanera factory spinning like that

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00:34:56 ◼   ► the great shows but I love them as

00:35:00 ◼   ► neighbors they're extremely

00:35:01 ◼   ► conscientious I think that they are you

00:35:05 ◼   ► know they're the best sort of version of

00:35:06 ◼   ► a hundred percent something nice about

00:35:11 ◼   ► this I mean like like the like when I go

00:35:13 ◼   ► in next door and people are like oh

00:35:14 ◼   ► there's people coming ask you on my

00:35:15 ◼   ► packages part of that is there's just

00:35:17 ◼   ► not much activity there's not much come

00:35:18 ◼   ► and go there's not much like I think I

00:35:20 ◼   ► think people are a little bit more

00:35:21 ◼   ► respectful of a neighborhood where

00:35:23 ◼   ► there's stuff going on it's a

00:35:24 ◼   ► neighborhood stuff is happening it's a

00:35:26 ◼   ► nice place to live except fetid misters

00:35:27 ◼   ► in the morning the girls are always

00:35:29 ◼   ► going to school in a big gaggle and in

00:35:31 ◼   ► the end then they come home in the

00:35:33 ◼   ► afternoon and there are moms around and

00:35:35 ◼   ► that's nice cars coming and going and

00:35:36 ◼   ► they and everybody and it you know what

00:35:38 ◼   ► it is it's a situation where everybody

00:35:39 ◼   ► tips their hat over there if you walk by

00:35:42 ◼   ► if you drive by I love that John get a

00:35:44 ◼   ► little hat tip and you give a little hat

00:35:45 ◼   ► tip give a little get a little give a

00:35:47 ◼   ► little get a little so it just feels

00:35:49 ◼   ► like exactly the right kind of like

00:35:51 ◼   ► issue cover this on your the program a

00:35:52 ◼   ► lot of people don't know how to do how

00:35:53 ◼   ► delicate anymore I know right it's a

00:35:56 ◼   ► thing that's a thing that you could find

00:35:58 ◼   ► out by listening to Omnibus with Ken

00:36:00 ◼   ► Jennings regularly-scheduled predicted

00:36:05 ◼   ► to get anyway so the grand slams what

00:36:09 ◼   ► I'm realizing is that the Grand Slam

00:36:11 ◼   ► comes in goes through the back gate goes

00:36:13 ◼   ► around the back into the back door but

00:36:15 ◼   ► then I think is sitting around on the

00:36:19 ◼   ► back porch of the house in a way that I

00:36:22 ◼   ► cannot see but that the Pend dog right

00:36:26 ◼   ► on the other side of the fence is very

00:36:28 ◼   ► aware of Oh interesting

00:36:30 ◼   ► so starting that becomes like a little

00:36:33 ◼   ► mirror that lets you look around the

00:36:35 ◼   ► corner yes and the way he mirrors it is

00:36:39 ◼   ► [Music]

00:36:44 ◼   ► okay from 10:00 to 2:00 p.m. p.m. 10:00

00:36:52 ◼   ► p.m. to 2 a.m. no that's no good

00:36:54 ◼   ► and so you if you ask todd todd todd

00:36:59 ◼   ► sleep bro he would tell you he did not

00:37:00 ◼   ► want that

00:37:01 ◼   ► no no he's mad I'm mad and the thing is

00:37:04 ◼   ► for a few days I don't make the

00:37:08 ◼   ► connection I'm like what the fuck is

00:37:10 ◼   ► going on around here like all of a

00:37:12 ◼   ► sudden this dogs that I has been there

00:37:16 ◼   ► for maybe between 1 and 11 years I don't

00:37:20 ◼   ► know but now I'm conscious of this dog

00:37:22 ◼   ► barking all night this isn't how things

00:37:24 ◼   ► go around here

00:37:25 ◼   ► and there's the fucking kids across the

00:37:27 ◼   ► street and where's the family that I

00:37:29 ◼   ► thought I was gonna be friends with and

00:37:30 ◼   ► what the hell is going on around here

00:37:32 ◼   ► and I and I actually got

00:37:37 ◼   ► this is what it call this one is locked

00:37:39 ◼   ► room mysteries what's a call trapped

00:37:40 ◼   ► room Baumbach box it's an Asian American

00:37:46 ◼   ► finger trap finger trap how did you even

00:37:48 ◼   ► get in this situation you wake up one

00:37:50 ◼   ► day all this others fucking roosters and

00:37:51 ◼   ► kids in Harrison barking dogs yeah and

00:37:54 ◼   ► some kind of a cult is a cult I thought

00:37:56 ◼   ► we were I thought it was stability we

00:37:58 ◼   ► were getting when when Jamaica and hand

00:38:01 ◼   ► and with a little Randy no little Randy

00:38:05 ◼   ► went away oh my god I'm spent

00:38:21 ◼   ► Oh Larry and he's such a garyun so not a

00:38:27 ◼   ► Randy I don't know just know Gary's and

00:38:29 ◼   ► Randy's are very related they're usually

00:38:31 ◼   ► assistant managers at restaurants they

00:38:33 ◼   ► are it's true and the thing is that

00:38:35 ◼   ► Randy is the is the stereotype name that

00:38:38 ◼   ► we give to Gary's yeah manager a stepdad

00:38:42 ◼   ► that's really okay this is how long so

00:38:47 ◼   ► the your initial first contact was

00:38:50 ◼   ► around in the Christmas holiday period

00:38:51 ◼   ► you know where are we up to at this

00:38:53 ◼   ► point in the story so so then January it

00:38:56 ◼   ► just seemed like oh they're real quiet

00:38:58 ◼   ► stipulated January and February you're

00:39:00 ◼   ► on the road a lot

00:39:01 ◼   ► I'm touring alone gathering as much

00:39:03 ◼   ► string you know as many things together

00:39:05 ◼   ► and what and it made it plausible that

00:39:08 ◼   ► like oh I don't see these two because

00:39:10 ◼   ► I'm gone they're on a regular schedule

00:39:12 ◼   ► and it's winter three reasons why you

00:39:15 ◼   ► might not see people on Sundays every

00:39:18 ◼   ► once while I come home and there's this

00:39:19 ◼   ► traffic jam but I'm also gone along to a

00:39:22 ◼   ► lot of the Sundays so those traffic jams

00:39:25 ◼   ► could be happening every Sunday and I'm

00:39:27 ◼   ► just not there okay or it could be rarer

00:39:31 ◼   ► than that but I if you don't notice you

00:39:34 ◼   ► don't notice the things you don't see

00:39:35 ◼   ► and you don't notice the things you

00:39:37 ◼   ► don't notice right this is what it's

00:39:39 ◼   ► like a cognitive bias but but King Midas

00:39:41 ◼   ► in Reverse you're once you start

00:39:43 ◼   ► noticing you know what you start really

00:39:45 ◼   ► noticing but if you're not noticing you

00:39:46 ◼   ► can't notice because you don't notice

00:39:48 ◼   ► but then once you notice

00:39:49 ◼   ► you're starting to put the string

00:39:50 ◼   ► together is what I'm saying all I'm

00:39:52 ◼   ► noticing up until about the end of

00:39:55 ◼   ► February is I still haven't gotten to

00:39:58 ◼   ► know my new neighbors but I'm sure when

00:40:00 ◼   ► the Sun comes out yeah they're in the

00:40:03 ◼   ► yard and I'm in the yard we're gonna get

00:40:05 ◼   ► a house in a neighborhood you're buying

00:40:07 ◼   ► a family house for a family in a

00:40:09 ◼   ► neighborhood I'm not seeing everybody

00:40:11 ◼   ► but most Americans in that situation you

00:40:14 ◼   ► want to at least like wave to your

00:40:15 ◼   ► neighbors that's pretty normal like hey

00:40:17 ◼   ► you know everything's good hi

00:40:18 ◼   ► like that's just such a normal thing for

00:40:19 ◼   ► somebody new in the neighborhood I think

00:40:21 ◼   ► well and the thing is I'm not seeing

00:40:23 ◼   ► them even to wave at them it's not like

00:40:25 ◼   ► they're being unfriendly right I'm just

00:40:26 ◼   ► not even seen okay and I understand you

00:40:29 ◼   ► know I'm missing a tooth right now sure

00:40:31 ◼   ► how's your hair looks pretty good I was

00:40:35 ◼   ► looking at your Instagram that's a

00:40:36 ◼   ► little bit too short I mean it just

00:40:38 ◼   ► seems like if you did have the option of

00:40:41 ◼   ► driving up to your house pushing a

00:40:43 ◼   ► button the garage door goes up you go in

00:40:45 ◼   ► and the garage door goes closed if I'm

00:40:47 ◼   ► standing there you know with like a

00:40:49 ◼   ► pitchfork in one hand and like a

00:40:51 ◼   ► Romanian flag in the other understand

00:40:57 ◼   ► why you would go straight in okay that's

00:40:58 ◼   ► what that's not happening now it's only

00:41:02 ◼   ► in the it's only in March now that that

00:41:08 ◼   ► all of this starts to happen all at once

00:41:10 ◼   ► the kids the door the grand slam the dog

00:41:14 ◼   ► the and and that's all causing me to

00:41:16 ◼   ► realize wait I have not seen my

00:41:18 ◼   ► neighbors in a long time yeah and it got

00:41:23 ◼   ► so bad that I got up got dressed and

00:41:26 ◼   ► went out and down the block prepared to

00:41:32 ◼   ► ring the doorbell at the Mexicans house

00:41:35 ◼   ► to say what's going on let's talk about

00:41:40 ◼   ► this dog we've been friends for a long

00:41:41 ◼   ► time in certainly Dean I mean they're

00:41:43 ◼   ► right there they got the dog that got

00:41:44 ◼   ► the cards to get the kids in years

00:41:45 ◼   ► they must be seeing stuff well let's see

00:41:48 ◼   ► in the backyard too right except that

00:41:49 ◼   ► their dog and their dogs all the way

00:41:52 ◼   ► down by flipper dams and the house is

00:41:56 ◼   ► further away from them than it is for me

00:41:59 ◼   ► okay like there are the lots are big

00:42:01 ◼   ► here and there between

00:42:03 ◼   ► their house and and this and the house

00:42:06 ◼   ► in question there are between 13 and 30

00:42:09 ◼   ► cars like that's the area that they do

00:42:11 ◼   ► all the mechanical work that's where

00:42:13 ◼   ► they have the quinceañeras that's where

00:42:14 ◼   ► they have a basketball hoop like it's a

00:42:16 ◼   ► big area okay

00:42:17 ◼   ► so you could be living in that in their

00:42:19 ◼   ► house and the dog just sounds like a dog

00:42:22 ◼   ► in the distance and the kids just sound

00:42:24 ◼   ► like it like kids in the dissing you

00:42:26 ◼   ► can't see in the flipper dance yard

00:42:27 ◼   ► can't see it okay but so I go down there

00:42:32 ◼   ► and and because there's a lot of

00:42:34 ◼   ► activity at that house there's a guy

00:42:36 ◼   ► standing out in the yard look at Sierra

00:42:39 ◼   ► SH at 11:30 at night just he's just in

00:42:42 ◼   ► between he's coming and going okay and I

00:42:44 ◼   ► think I'm dropping off cars picking up

00:42:46 ◼   ► cars there's stuff happening well there

00:42:48 ◼   ► are a few families living there so

00:42:50 ◼   ► there's a lot there's a lot to me Oh

00:42:52 ◼   ► mm-hmm

00:42:53 ◼   ► oh and I should say that in that that in

00:42:56 ◼   ► the in the different layers of languages

00:43:00 ◼   ► that are happening in my neighborhood

00:43:02 ◼   ► and particularly there at that house

00:43:04 ◼   ► English is down somewhere it's not in

00:43:08 ◼   ► first place okay it's like it's down in

00:43:11 ◼   ► the it's between 2nd and 5th place of

00:43:14 ◼   ► languages that are being regularly

00:43:15 ◼   ► spoken so I go over and say hey and he's

00:43:20 ◼   ► like hey what's up and I said let's talk

00:43:23 ◼   ► about this dog and he says what's going

00:43:26 ◼   ► on what oh no he said what did he do and

00:43:31 ◼   ► we're both standing there and the dog is

00:43:33 ◼   ► going okay and the dog is doing this and

00:43:50 ◼   ► I point over at the dog behind the fence

00:43:52 ◼   ► and he looks over and looks at me and

00:43:54 ◼   ► I'm like and it's doing this all night

00:43:57 ◼   ► sparking now like this all the time I

00:43:59 ◼   ► don't know what happened I don't know

00:44:00 ◼   ► what changed but this is like this has

00:44:03 ◼   ► got to stop

00:44:03 ◼   ► so I can't just do this all the time and

00:44:07 ◼   ► he kind of is concerned and nods and he

00:44:11 ◼   ► says well I'll talk to the guy that owns

00:44:15 ◼   ► the dog

00:44:16 ◼   ► hmm I'm like okay right that makes sense

00:44:21 ◼   ► there are a lot of people living in this

00:44:22 ◼   ► house yeah lot going on and he this

00:44:26 ◼   ► person that I'm talking to is not

00:44:27 ◼   ► prepared to take responsibility for the

00:44:31 ◼   ► dog and there is a there's an

00:44:32 ◼   ► understanding clearly within the house

00:44:34 ◼   ► that there are different things are

00:44:36 ◼   ► owned by different people it's not like

00:44:38 ◼   ► we all are just all in co-ownership of

00:44:43 ◼   ► this dog or of of that Volkswagen GTI or

00:44:49 ◼   ► you know or whatever of this spit that's

00:44:53 ◼   ► like the the the plastic four-foot-tall

00:45:00 ◼   ► illuminated Christmas ornament of Jesus

00:45:04 ◼   ► that is up all year okay so all season

00:45:08 ◼   ► Jesus all season Jesus and it's not

00:45:10 ◼   ► clear it's not clear to me anymore who

00:45:13 ◼   ► in the house owns it I used to think it

00:45:15 ◼   ► was communally owned but now I

00:45:16 ◼   ► understand Oh all these things are owned

00:45:18 ◼   ► by individuals intent and so he said I'm

00:45:21 ◼   ► gonna talk to the guy that I wanted and

00:45:22 ◼   ► I'm gonna tell him that you mentioned it

00:45:26 ◼   ► I'm like thank you

00:45:29 ◼   ► that's all I that's all I can ask for

00:45:31 ◼   ► and I went home and and listened for the

00:45:34 ◼   ► rest of the night to the dog continue to

00:45:36 ◼   ► signal into the night sky that he heard

00:45:40 ◼   ► something or had a thought and I and

00:45:44 ◼   ► it's frustrating when you go talk to

00:45:46 ◼   ► somebody and then the problem doesn't go

00:45:48 ◼   ► away immediately yeah I mean this is

00:45:51 ◼   ► already you've got a couple different

00:45:52 ◼   ► layers here faith faith like I talked to

00:45:56 ◼   ► him he's gonna they're gonna have a

00:45:58 ◼   ► family meeting tomorrow it's gonna be

00:46:00 ◼   ► they're gonna work it out so then there

00:46:06 ◼   ► came a climactic moment oh boy which was

00:46:12 ◼   ► Graham's grand slam okay grand slam

00:46:16 ◼   ► three three guitars and it's a bit and

00:46:18 ◼   ► it's a big grand slam this is like the

00:46:19 ◼   ► 1213 person grand slam it's not the nine

00:46:22 ◼   ► person grand slam it's the big one

00:46:24 ◼   ► and I see them they all go through the

00:46:26 ◼   ► fence before I can like get my shoes on

00:46:29 ◼   ► and get outside and then they and this

00:46:32 ◼   ► is like in the afternoon and then I see

00:46:35 ◼   ► them through the fence sitting together

00:46:39 ◼   ► like some of them sitting up on rock

00:46:41 ◼   ► walls some of them sitting you know

00:46:43 ◼   ► they're sitting in a semi-circle having

00:46:45 ◼   ► a meeting it's not like a culty thing

00:46:47 ◼   ► they're having like a meeting and I'm

00:46:50 ◼   ► like this is a situation

00:46:58 ◼   ► or like go through the gate and say hey

00:47:00 ◼   ► since we're all here mm-hmm and I'm like

00:47:06 ◼   ► I'm reluctant I'm reluctant do you have

00:47:10 ◼   ► a deep confidence that you have some

00:47:12 ◼   ► kind of a reason for piercing there

00:47:15 ◼   ► perimeter with a question did you know

00:47:17 ◼   ► what you're gonna ask me do you have

00:47:18 ◼   ► like a you have like a dog collar in

00:47:19 ◼   ► your hand going can you help me find my

00:47:20 ◼   ► dog no here and that's exactly that's

00:47:23 ◼   ► exactly what I should have done right

00:47:26 ◼   ► like say hey my fan belt broke can you

00:47:30 ◼   ► help but so here are the different

00:47:33 ◼   ► factors in place right yeah I do not

00:47:36 ◼   ► know like in my neighborhood there is

00:47:39 ◼   ► always a racial component to every

00:47:42 ◼   ► exchange because everyone is a different

00:47:44 ◼   ► ethnicity yeah so anytime one person

00:47:47 ◼   ► from one house goes over to the other to

00:47:50 ◼   ► another house there's not just sometimes

00:47:52 ◼   ► a language problem like the the

00:47:54 ◼   ► neighbors over here where the guy parks

00:47:56 ◼   ► just up to the fence line and not over

00:47:58 ◼   ► they speak English as a second language

00:48:00 ◼   ► their primary language is Vietnamese and

00:48:03 ◼   ► so all of our exchanges although very

00:48:05 ◼   ► friendly are like always somewhat kind

00:48:10 ◼   ► of like hi um you guys have been cutting

00:48:14 ◼   ► my bamboo for some reason I'm not sure

00:48:16 ◼   ► why if it's if it's cultural I'm curious

00:48:20 ◼   ► about it did you think it was just like

00:48:23 ◼   ► there for you to make fences out of or

00:48:26 ◼   ► art is it making you mad is my bamboo

00:48:30 ◼   ► making you mad if so the conversations

00:48:32 ◼   ► are very difficult super super difficult

00:48:34 ◼   ► we have a neighbor that I thought we

00:48:37 ◼   ► were on good terms on who

00:48:38 ◼   ► slams a door in such a way that the

00:48:40 ◼   ► entire house shakes and I went outside

00:48:42 ◼   ► to say you know hey neighbor of many

00:48:46 ◼   ► many years did you know something you

00:48:48 ◼   ► slammed that door

00:48:48 ◼   ► our entire house shakes and everyone

00:48:51 ◼   ► says so and he got real mad which made

00:48:54 ◼   ► me think all the more that he's doing it

00:48:55 ◼   ► on purpose that's just me that's just me

00:48:58 ◼   ► and like all like I'm like a white tech

00:48:59 ◼   ► bro it's like there's not

00:49:01 ◼   ► intersectionality that's the wrong word

00:49:03 ◼   ► but like there's all these layers and

00:49:04 ◼   ► layers of like how we communicate with

00:49:06 ◼   ► other people let alone language and

00:49:08 ◼   ► culture man whoo

00:49:09 ◼   ► that's gonna be a bad about I don't know

00:49:12 ◼   ► why it was it felt kind of

00:49:13 ◼   ► passive-aggressive well just took it off

00:49:15 ◼   ► my trash and I was like yeah no I know I

00:49:16 ◼   ► mean we all take out our trash once a

00:49:18 ◼   ► week it's just that you just slam that

00:49:20 ◼   ► door five times and it Massey literally

00:49:22 ◼   ► I don't mean figuratively I mean it

00:49:24 ◼   ► literally made our house shake like do

00:49:25 ◼   ► you need to slam it that hard every time

00:49:27 ◼   ► cuz that seems a little like aggressive

00:49:29 ◼   ► and he was he was playing it off legit

00:49:31 ◼   ► so I think he's miffed at us about

00:49:33 ◼   ► something out know what so now I know

00:49:35 ◼   ► the thing to think about you know saying

00:49:36 ◼   ► this is the layers it's this layers and

00:49:39 ◼   ► I don't so there are a lot there are a

00:49:41 ◼   ► few layers here like this is a house

00:49:44 ◼   ► this is a house owned by an an affluent

00:49:47 ◼   ► african-american family that now has

00:49:49 ◼   ► suddenly has like Hercule Poirot has

00:49:52 ◼   ► just walked into the train compartment

00:49:53 ◼   ► is now ready to bring the entire mystery

00:49:55 ◼   ► together yeah but there are a dozen

00:49:57 ◼   ► white Millennials coming and going okay

00:50:00 ◼   ► so if it's Christian I feel like on the

00:50:05 ◼   ► one hand they're probably going to be

00:50:08 ◼   ► inclined to answer politely but on the

00:50:10 ◼   ► other hand that is a cultural there's a

00:50:14 ◼   ► cultural separation between me and they

00:50:18 ◼   ► where I'm not sure exactly what I'm

00:50:24 ◼   ► asking like just you know I'm just on

00:50:26 ◼   ► this no on this index card I've written

00:50:29 ◼   ► three words that is my guess at what it

00:50:32 ◼   ► is and I'm gonna set it aside okay but I

00:50:34 ◼   ► have a guess okay go ahead and also I

00:50:39 ◼   ► have at that point there at this point

00:50:41 ◼   ► made the connection oh the dog is

00:50:44 ◼   ► barking at the kids the dogs been there

00:50:47 ◼   ► for years the dog never had a problem

00:50:49 ◼   ► never had a kid to Warka no the dog just

00:50:52 ◼   ► barked every once in a while some

00:50:53 ◼   ► sketchy person walked by the dog and

00:50:57 ◼   ► Gary I don't remember the dog barking at

00:51:01 ◼   ► Gary being a problem maybe the dog gave

00:51:03 ◼   ► Gary like hi bark or a bye bark but he

00:51:06 ◼   ► didn't sit and just constantly bark it

00:51:08 ◼   ► Gary and when Gary was outside talking

00:51:11 ◼   ► on the phone at 2:00 a.m.

00:51:12 ◼   ► Gary was the problem not the dog like

00:51:17 ◼   ► he's the one I was going out to yell at

00:51:19 ◼   ► right Gary goddamn a gel-like so I so I

00:51:24 ◼   ► don't feel 100% secure in walking across

00:51:31 ◼   ► the street and ringing the doorbell and

00:51:33 ◼   ► demanding answers particularly not after

00:51:36 ◼   ► my mom told me that I have no right to

00:51:37 ◼   ► yell at them about their parking that's

00:51:39 ◼   ► gonna be on your mind now so I'm like

00:51:41 ◼   ► what are my rights here

00:51:43 ◼   ► like this is a mini problem yeah you can

00:51:45 ◼   ► do what you want in your own house it's

00:51:47 ◼   ► not like it's not like I can go over and

00:51:49 ◼   ► say can you 11 people who are all

00:51:51 ◼   ► showing up at the same time not all

00:51:53 ◼   ► close your car doors at the same time

00:51:54 ◼   ► like it's just the nature of 13 people

00:51:56 ◼   ► arriving at once they are gonna get a

00:51:58 ◼   ► grand slam and they they're millenniums

00:52:02 ◼   ► they're not conscious of the dog right

00:52:04 ◼   ► they don't even hear the dogs because

00:52:06 ◼   ► this dog is just to them it's just the

00:52:09 ◼   ► dogs always barking when they're out

00:52:10 ◼   ► there so they just think that's what it

00:52:11 ◼   ► is

00:52:11 ◼   ► I was on a hiking trail the other day

00:52:14 ◼   ► with my daughter and we were going down

00:52:16 ◼   ► and some people were coming up and it

00:52:18 ◼   ► was a wide trail it was a like a jeep

00:52:20 ◼   ► trail and there were five kids coming up

00:52:24 ◼   ► and they were walking five abreast and

00:52:28 ◼   ► they're millenniums and so we're walking

00:52:31 ◼   ► down and my daughter turns to me when

00:52:34 ◼   ► they're about a hundred feet away and

00:52:36 ◼   ► this is the type of little person she is

00:52:38 ◼   ► she says with some anxiousness daddy how

00:52:42 ◼   ► are we going to get by isn't that

00:52:47 ◼   ► Shannon need to find the trail now and I

00:52:49 ◼   ► was like wow what an interesting little

00:52:51 ◼   ► thing for you to be thinking about

00:52:52 ◼   ► already and I said well sweetie and I

00:52:55 ◼   ► said it I wasn't whispering I said it in

00:52:58 ◼   ► a in a loud conversational voice I said

00:53:02 ◼   ► well as we get closer to that

00:53:03 ◼   ► I have to assume that they're going to

00:53:06 ◼   ► give way for other people using the

00:53:10 ◼   ► trail and they're going to move and as

00:53:13 ◼   ► I'm saying this we're getting closer and

00:53:14 ◼   ► closer to them they're going to move to

00:53:16 ◼   ► let us walk by because we're just two

00:53:19 ◼   ► people just walking down the trail and

00:53:21 ◼   ► they're coming up and they're gonna and

00:53:23 ◼   ► as I'm saying this they come right up on

00:53:26 ◼   ► us five abreast and it's like two guys

00:53:30 ◼   ► in three women and the two people that

00:53:32 ◼   ► are like in the area of the trail where

00:53:35 ◼   ► lucidi where you'd be allowing other

00:53:38 ◼   ► people to go are both women and they

00:53:41 ◼   ► just walk straight up on us and then at

00:53:44 ◼   ► the very last second kind of like become

00:53:49 ◼   ► aware of the existence of other people

00:53:52 ◼   ► and like sort of like shrug their

00:53:55 ◼   ► shoulders over to the side as though

00:53:57 ◼   ► we're passing in a very confined and

00:53:59 ◼   ► narrow spaces and like one of them

00:54:01 ◼   ► actually brushes past me and and and you

00:54:05 ◼   ► know and my kid has kind of gone over

00:54:06 ◼   ► into the into the grass on this you know

00:54:09 ◼   ► like and there's a ditch there's a clear

00:54:11 ◼   ► ditch so she's scared of the ditch or

00:54:13 ◼   ► whatever and I'm just like wow I don't I

00:54:15 ◼   ► don't know what to I don't know how to

00:54:18 ◼   ► do like I don't even know that feels

00:54:22 ◼   ► like something though it's something

00:54:23 ◼   ► it's a it's a cultural it's a

00:54:25 ◼   ► generational difference it never ever

00:54:27 ◼   ► ever ever ever would have happened

00:54:28 ◼   ► before like that when you're taking a

00:54:32 ◼   ► hike you say hi to people and you like

00:54:33 ◼   ► it's it's like you're saying like we

00:54:35 ◼   ► said we take hikes we say hi like that's

00:54:38 ◼   ► the thing you do you say good morning in

00:54:39 ◼   ► the culture of hiking that you shared

00:54:43 ◼   ► the trail that you say hello when you're

00:54:45 ◼   ► when you pass that you ignore but it's

00:54:47 ◼   ► just in the culture you don't go for a

00:54:49 ◼   ► hike unless you know these things you

00:54:52 ◼   ► don't just go sell fire fast I mean like

00:54:54 ◼   ► you know help a brother out

00:54:55 ◼   ► know we're walking up the trail I guess

00:54:57 ◼   ► we own the world it's just like crazy so

00:54:59 ◼   ► so but they're over there they're not

00:55:02 ◼   ► conscious of them themselves being the

00:55:04 ◼   ► the source of the dog barking right I

00:55:06 ◼   ► when I was when I was that age I

00:55:08 ◼   ► wouldn't have either I don't think

00:55:09 ◼   ► that's necessarily like that's just

00:55:12 ◼   ► their they're not aware that they're

00:55:13 ◼   ► doing that I took me four days to figure

00:55:16 ◼   ► it out myself

00:55:17 ◼   ► but I don't feel secure I definitely

00:55:20 ◼   ► felt secure going over to the people I

00:55:21 ◼   ► know and saying the dog like what's up

00:55:24 ◼   ► but like to go over ringing the doorbell

00:55:27 ◼   ► and say who are you and why are you in

00:55:29 ◼   ► my neighborhood all of a sudden and what

00:55:32 ◼   ► precisely the fuck is going on here yeah

00:55:34 ◼   ► and is this a Jesus thing because that's

00:55:36 ◼   ► fine but I want to know and so I'm right

00:55:41 ◼   ► at the point where it's like okay this

00:55:44 ◼   ► is like this is not like we can't live

00:55:47 ◼   ► like this mm-hmm

00:55:48 ◼   ► the dog all night kids coming and going

00:55:50 ◼   ► but Kim my curiosity's going crazy

00:55:52 ◼   ► what's the story here did you guys kill

00:55:55 ◼   ► the family that was living there like I

00:55:57 ◼   ► need some answers did you make us house

00:56:00 ◼   ► is cursed well don't say that it looks

00:56:03 ◼   ► great Oh oh god the other thing and the

00:56:07 ◼   ► whole reason that I brought this up is

00:56:08 ◼   ► that the family that owns the house now

00:56:12 ◼   ► Jamaica's house flipper dip it in hires

00:56:16 ◼   ► land scrapers to come once a week with

00:56:21 ◼   ► gas-powered leaf blower oh come on you

00:56:25 ◼   ► walk around man just blowing leaves and

00:56:30 ◼   ► dirt how's the dog respond to that so

00:56:34 ◼   ► confusing caused a lot of tumult in this

00:56:38 ◼   ► neighborhood yeah confusingly the dog

00:56:40 ◼   ► doesn't care about the leaf blower the

00:56:42 ◼   ► doctor stuff whatever but but leaf

00:56:44 ◼   ► blowers just in principle drive me crazy

00:56:46 ◼   ► did you ever read there was an article

00:56:48 ◼   ► in the Atlantic that's like 1010

00:56:50 ◼   ► millenniums on a trail it's so it's so

00:56:52 ◼   ► it's so aggressive there was an article

00:56:55 ◼   ► in I think Atlantic about some rich

00:57:01 ◼   ► neighborhood in Santa Barbara or

00:57:03 ◼   ► something some valley that's like a like

00:57:06 ◼   ► like a beautiful liberal oasis valley

00:57:11 ◼   ► where everybody has a beautiful home and

00:57:13 ◼   ► it's and the trees rustle in the wind

00:57:15 ◼   ► and it's always 75 degrees and it's the

00:57:18 ◼   ► perfect incubator of like middle-aged

00:57:23 ◼   ► liberal culture because because there

00:57:25 ◼   ► are no problems it seems like that's all

00:57:28 ◼   ► that you need is the ball though all the

00:57:29 ◼   ► rest of the world

00:57:30 ◼   ► to do is just be like them F affluence

00:57:33 ◼   ► and passive-aggressive but what happened

00:57:37 ◼   ► was at some point a rich white person

00:57:40 ◼   ► who lived in the neighborhood broke the

00:57:43 ◼   ► social convention and hired landscapers

00:57:45 ◼   ► that used gas-powered leaf blowers and

00:57:47 ◼   ► it became a huge issue within the

00:57:50 ◼   ► community because then there were some

00:57:51 ◼   ► people who decided that because the

00:57:54 ◼   ► civil rights movement was already tied

00:57:57 ◼   ► up with a bow that now they had a new

00:57:58 ◼   ► cause which was to fight their neighbor

00:58:00 ◼   ► who had a gas-powered leaf blower and so

00:58:03 ◼   ► then they were hanging up posters and

00:58:05 ◼   ► saying like BAM this gas-powered leaf

00:58:07 ◼   ► blower and then the other guy who was a

00:58:10 ◼   ► liberal but maybe like one degree more

00:58:12 ◼   ► libertarian was like you can't tell me

00:58:14 ◼   ► what to do and then then somebody

00:58:17 ◼   ► acknowledged that all the people that

00:58:18 ◼   ► were doing the work in the neighborhood

00:58:20 ◼   ► were all Hispanic and so classic race

00:58:23 ◼   ► issue because you're asking them to do

00:58:26 ◼   ► this work with a broom

00:58:27 ◼   ► what's on your mind as you're going into

00:58:29 ◼   ► this situation well I mean every article

00:58:32 ◼   ► like that I've read in my entire life is

00:58:35 ◼   ► always on my mind in every situation sir

00:58:37 ◼   ► like it's part of being as woke as I am

00:58:40 ◼   ► II don't walk down the street without

00:58:41 ◼   ► being conscious of everything always

00:58:43 ◼   ► results all tempest and teapots they're

00:58:45 ◼   ► all in there somewhere

00:58:46 ◼   ► but in this situation like I feel like

00:58:48 ◼   ► dealing with white 22 year olds with

00:58:51 ◼   ► that have a blue whale sticker on the

00:58:52 ◼   ► back of their of their their Toyota

00:58:56 ◼   ► Xterra or whatever I feel like this is a

00:59:00 ◼   ► group of people I can address you know

00:59:02 ◼   ► in a shared language except for the

00:59:05 ◼   ► Millennium Generation X cultural Gulf

00:59:09 ◼   ► the the language barrier there sometimes

00:59:12 ◼   ► is even greater than them a dog with the

00:59:16 ◼   ► consider man yeah oh my god so tonight a

00:59:21 ◼   ► little bit of a fit of pique here you're

00:59:23 ◼   ► frustrated at this point I don't know

00:59:24 ◼   ► what I don't know which way to go

00:59:25 ◼   ► okay then yesterday mmm I hear a grand

00:59:31 ◼   ► slam in the morning

00:59:33 ◼   ► here we go off they go they have not

00:59:37 ◼   ► returned houses

00:59:41 ◼   ► empty okay of whites of anybody's I see

00:59:47 ◼   ► no I see no sign of life there is that a

00:59:49 ◼   ► longer than usual amount of time between

00:59:50 ◼   ► Grand Slams

00:59:51 ◼   ► from the first Grand Slam there was a

00:59:55 ◼   ► Grand Slam four times a day through the

00:59:57 ◼   ► entire Grand Slam period they were never