The Neighborhood Listen - From Coyotes To Mail Theft with Chris Renfro

Episode Date: May 5, 2026

Joan shares some new information about herself, Burnt gives an update on the possible upcoming Incident, and Doug discovers a forgotten room. Later, they welcome Shelly (Chris Renfro), who was spotted roaming the neighborhood checking for packages.Go to cbbworld.com and sign up for the Maximus plan to unlock this episode and ALL seasons of The Neighborhood Listen ad-free, as well as full length exclusive BONUS ROOM episodes adventuring deeper into Dignity Falls!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Who's there? Your neighbor. Good. In Dignity Falls, you're never alone. You've got the neighbor half app and us. Burn. And Jod. From coyotes to mail theft to weird things to sell.

We'll cover it all. And meet new neighbors as well. We'll chat about any posts you're missing. So just tune in to the neighborhood listen. Welcome once again to The Neighborhood Listen. This is the podcast that explores the neighborhood of Dignity Falls through the eyes of its many residents. I am one such resident. My name is Burtmea Payday.

A little bit about me. I'm the pharmacist in chief at the Dignity Falls, Macy. Dignity Falls, and maybe the United States's premier pharmacy. I'm very proud of the work we do. And the building itself. And with me, as always is. Don't pedestrian. A lot about me.

I am the top realtor. Bring it. Here in Dignity Falls. I'm also the top local actress, meaning, I love to do community plays at Dignity Falls Playhouse. I am offer only. And I am exploring the other sides of me, like the writing side, the creative side.

I'd like to get into some teaching. I really just like... This is brand new information. I told you it was going to be a lot. I thought you were talking to them. And it wouldn't be so much for me. No, turns out I had some news for you too. Well, this is exciting.

You know, it was probably because of one of our last guests, a sweet young girl, Barbara Nordquist. And she, I think she needs theater. And it just made me think, oh, I can give so much of myself. You know, not only as an actor or actress, but I could actually shame the youth. Did you mean to say actress? I did mean to say actress.

Okay. Well, I always, you know, it's that thing where I have a really hard time and I flip-flop on the actor-actress thing, right? John Kerry. Because it's, did John Kerry do you flip-up a lot? John Kerry. Don't you remember they called him a flip-flopper? They held flip flops at the convention.

Sorry, I thought you said Caradine, and so I was confused. Could you imagine John Caradine in flip flops? John Carrey, what a long face. Yes, very long face. Just so much going on. And so little at the same time. Anyways, I just realized, oh, I could give a lot more of myself creatively. It doesn't just have to be me, me, me, me on stage all the time, time, time.

you want to be a mentor. I love that. Yeah, that's the word. Oh, but what I was going to say is, you know, back in the day, are you upset? I went back. No, no, no.

We sounded exhausted. I was caught off guard. Okay. I'm right here. I mean, caught off guard by once. It felt like, well, I forgot that you were, that's what you were originally talking about, the actor or actress.

Yes. And then it felt like I was in the passenger seat of a car that made a sudden swir. Oh, yeah. And your seat belt went, oh, and it won't let you move for the next five seconds. I grab the thing. Doug hates it when I grab the thing. because if we're going on like a clover leaf sort of turn or whatever and if I grab it

because sometimes he does take it a little fast heart oh he just gets so mad he goes what do you say babe yeah Doug what you say I'm just turning I'm not Mr. Toad that's what he says that's my husband Doug by the way um but I almost said doesband hug and isn't that cute I think that's very cute that's the thing you could say around the house to him I need a doesman hug you know what I Bally about. I almost went to do Elizabeth McGovern from downtown abbey, but we did that last season. No, we called a moratorium on it. One time.

All right. Oh, could I please have a Desmond hug? See, it was worth it. Okay. I won't do it again. But you know what? What you said was the word actoress and that's what I was actually going to say. Because that's what you said.

Yes. Yes. But by accident. But now I'm thinking that's a great way to say it because sometimes I think, oh, I'm taking on the word actress because yes, I'm a woman. I'm an actress. But then sometimes women are like, no. Oh, actor is the actual profession.

We all should be actors. So maybe you could have both by saying actores. Maybe I'm going to start trying it. I don't know if that's both, though, because you're saying, but then everybody has to adopt that. No, no, just women. I'm dubious of this solution. It's still something for us. Can't women have things that are for us?

I understand. I always thought it should be actrics. Actrics. Yeah, like avatrix. That sounds like a space movie. Or executive tricks. Actrics? Yeah.

Where do you get act tricks? What's that about? From like avatrix, from executrix. Hmm. Words that end... I feel like you've never heard these words. Well, you're hearing them now. What does that mean again?

Words that end in TOR, you know, positions. If you, if they end in TOR, that's for a man and for a woman, it would be R.AX. Oh, dominatrix. That's the one I know. I should have said that first. Thank you. I mean, you know me. Do they call them dominators?

Did you say Doug? Do they call him? No. We were talking to you this time. I really heard that. I said now. Do you consider yourself the epitome of now? Why not?

There's no time like it. I have no answer to that. Babe, do you want to tell us where you are? I guess I want to. Okay. Could you let us know where you're recording from today? I'm in the furnace. I'm in the furnace.

You're in the furnace? This is alarming. Wait, what? Well, the furnace. Yeah, I'm not. I didn't know we still had a furnace. I'm not laying over a bunch of coals, you know, on fire. Okay.

I don't know. That's what I was picturing. Okay. So you're in the old, we have an old-fashioned furnace? We have an old-fashioned furnace. I thought it would be a good way to power the house, especially during, you know, times of need. Times of need. What are you expecting?

Well, we talked about the incident might happen. But you know what? Burton said that it actually is looking pretty good. Now it's been a week. Should we check in? first. Hang on. I'm sorry. I have to talk about the furnace again. Where is it? And how long have we had it?

I discovered it. It's been there for a long time. Before we even got the house, I think. That's very loud in my ear. It almost sounds like a fireplace. It does sound like a fireplace. It's wild to me that it sounds more like a fireplace my furnace. My read on this is that it's intensive and

close burning coal in the furnace. That's your read on it. Good read, bitch. You're just not hearing the full scope of the sound. I guess I'm not familiar with coal burning furnaces. I'm not. I didn't know they made this much noise.

I mean, I guess they want. It honestly sounds like there's meat on a spit and it's turning. That's what I'm picturing. Right. I mean, this is just the up closeness and intensity of coal burning furnace. I guess so. Yeah. It's a little bit low on coal.

It's time for a run. A coal run? Coal run. How old is this house? I guess I've never asked that, that you would discover. a coal-burning furnace. It was, here's what's interesting.

It was, and this was what's crazy and almost sort of portentous about my family. It's a bit of a... It was built in 1801. But then it burnt to the ground in 1955. Oh, no.

And then they rebuilt it. So, I mean... So I guess the land, what do you say? I mean, there was only, you know, the only thing was left was the chimney, of course. Yeah, that's a long time

for it to just be charred building. Charred building? 1801 to 1955. No, no, it burned down in 1950. When did they rebuild it? But that's when it finally burned down. It was burning slow and people just kept living in it. It was slow.

It took a year. It took a year for the whole. So part of that was a slow burn. Part of the house was burning and people were like, yeah, they'd walk around the family and they're like, you saw something? You know, and that went on for six months. A bit of the Theseus situation.

Remind me a the sheepheus, babe. The ship of Theseus. If you are replacing parts on a ship, You know, you have to regularly replace parts on a ship Eventually gets to a point where is it the original ship anymore? Got it, got it, got it. Yes. Can you still call it?

Theseus. Yeah. Is that where the ship is from? How did you know about Theseus, babe? I know. I know Theseus. Why would I know Thesius? I know Pythagoras.

Oh. I know Thesias. You did not answer the question, though. That's very interesting. Testicles. You're just. Okay. He just wanted to get that in.

Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Boy. He didn't really answer the question. Of course he didn't. He just said he knows these things. From my readings. From your readings.

There are inscriptions in parts of the house that indicate it might be much, much older than 1801. Despite the burning down. The inscriptions are. Well, they're surviving stones and such. There was a basement that remained. There was a basement that remained. It didn't burn down. Yes.

The chimney. The chimney. The chimney. There's lots of inscriptions on the chimney. So there's runes. There's runes. There's all kinds of clues. Doug loves runes. He can't get enough of them.

He's a real run hound. Yeah, we talk about runes sometimes. Do you really? Did you guys ever go to the Deanyfell's Tavern? Did you go and have a drink last week? We did. That's great. We did.

We had a great time. It was drag Scrabble. The most low-key drag event that I've ever witnessed. It was very quiet. quiet. A lot of frustration. Just a lot of frustration. Just a lot of hush conversations at these various tables. And the queen had nothing to do, really. It was just like, way Scrabble. Just kind of strolling around and checking in on people. How are you guys doing her hand on their

When people are that drunk, it's amazing how bad at Scrabble they are. Yeah. Oh, sure. Yeah. I bet the the words are very short. All of the games were just called off eventually. They kept the tavern open for an extra hour. And then he said, okay, you gotta get out of here. Well, it still sounds like he had a good time. Oh, we had a great time. We were, following up on that, we were, we had a long discussion about how Scrabble should have runes. Yes. Oh, that's what it came to. Why? Can you explain what that means? Well, you know, they do these different monopolies, you know, themed monopolies. Oh, God. There's too many. Dox and monopoly. I agree. Dox and monopoly. Dox and monopoly? Dox and monopolies.

It's all doctors. How I met your mother monopoly. Billions monopoly. It's ridiculous. Ballers Monopoly. Elizabeth Warren loves that one. And we were saying like, why not an elvish scrabble? Oh, okay.

Well, that would be for you too. You guys love all that stuff so much. Are you really that versed in elvish? I'm not as the problem. And so I think it would require so much work. And why did you think it would be a great idea? Was this because you were drunk? Well, I mean, I, admittedly, I was blackout drunk.

It was, I mean, it would expand your options a lot in stradble. I guess so. Well, this is where we- Doug and I parted ways. Because Doug thought it should be like a more elv-glish version where it would be all the English alphabet, but also some runes. Some ruse, yeah. And I was saying, I think it should be all or nothing.

Uh-huh. And you should either have elvish scrabble or no scruple. See, I just don't think that's realistic because I think if elves were among us, they would probably speak some form of elf glish. You're saying if they had not departed the plane of man. Sure. I mean, it's very niche. But to be fair, I have thought before about wanting to just do all musical theater scrabble.

You know, any word you make has to be a lyric, either a word from a Sondheim song or the name of a performer. Okay. So in this case, proper name. proper names are like allowed. So you couldn't get away with like... Like you could do Lepone. Okay.

Mm-hmm. And then you could do like Starlight. Because you could also do titles of shows. Starlight Express. You remember. The Angelid rubber one. I thought you eliminated it as a song time. I know.

I did. But then I forgot the third category is titles of shows. Including title of show. Does that mean you could just do like, oh, exclamation point? No, because that's not the whole title. Are you thinking of O Mary? I'm thinking of a lyric. Oh.

Which lyric? Yeah. Oh. No, no, but which lyric is just O apostrophe? That's what you said. I just feel like that's a common. That's not a song. That's not a Sondheim canon.

That's not a Sondheim canon? An O apostrophe? No. The only place that appears is Brigadune. Do you know what I love? Do you know what I love is really ancient songs like medieval songs? Because they will be songs that start. with and or or now.

Do you think it's kind of weird this whole sea shanty thing that happens? Like it's a whole vibe now online. I feel it's past. Does it come back? Oh, maybe I'm just behind. Remember I'm very behind. I'm about five years behind on social media. It was very manicured, very manicured men.

Actually, even longer than that. Manicured men with auto tune the way. That sounds like a sea shant. Manicured men with auto tune. Those men. The way I see Chanty should properly sound over Zoom. Over Zoom. Because they were doing it in quarantine.

I am very behind. I mean, I only tried to do the Simons Challenge last week. How to go. Oh, it's terrible. Is there anything better than that one English sportscaster guy? Now, this, see, I'm not going to know this. He didn't see what the big deal was about the Cinnamon Challenge. Uh-huh.

And he takes a gigantic spoonful of cinnamon. I didn't see that. The cloud that he coughs out is so big. It's still floating over the ocean. Yeah, they say it's now in our water supply. They say it's nylon overmat of gas growth at this point. Worldwide, everybody's water tastes a little bit like cinnamon. So, Bert, you're saying last week you said that the incident that your girlfriend Gabby is keeping at bay with her fellow smoke jump.

and I guess, I don't know, Secret Service, might not happen now. How's it looking? It's not looking as good as it was last week. Oh, no. The, the, the, what we're calling the, uh, the sort of doorbell of the incident, uh, is, uh, is gaining ground. And, uh, it's, I'm sorry. I made a face because I don't, well, I just can't take these, don't shoot the messenger.

I can't, this feels very strange. things. I can't take these weird cryptic things that you're saying. What does gaining ground mean? What does doorbell mean? The doorbell of the incident? What's the doorbell? Yeah, the doorbell of the incident. It's sort of like if the, okay, so there's stages. All right. So right now.

Okay. Is that, Doug, are you just being a doorbell? Well, I'm just picturing, I'm really getting, wrapping my mind around this. Okay, but just, can you answer me? He didn't answer my question again. You don't even know what's going on. I'm picturing that's, what? You're wrapping your mind around. Here's what happens sometimes. You said the word doorbell,

and ever since that song's been going on in his head. Oh, Joan, I know. Oh, Joan, I know. Well, then why are you even surprised? We're asking. I guess I'm just trying to reason with Doug. I get it. But, you know, it's always going to, that's not.

It's a classic song. It's a classic song. It is a classic. It is a classic. It is a classic song. You think the first lyric of that song is and? Everybody, get out of the floor because it's time for Winchester doorbell. And yes, we're going to play the second half.

Okay, so but what does that mean? The doorbell of the incident means that we will know it's closer than we thought. It's a point where we realize, oh my God, it's about to happen. Like a doorbell ringing. So means there's someone on the other side of the door. Yeah, but usually that's too late. When it's already at your door, it's too late. But you have to open the door.

Okay. Oh, God. I don't even know. What are we to, what's the door? So we get to a point, well, I can't say that. But we get to a point where the incident is about to happen. Do we open the door or not? Can we keep the door closed? Is this supernatural or not? Why are you asking me this?

Oh, boy. His pupils got really small right before. Jones. He answered. It was a strange physical reaction. It's just something I know. I can't believe you'd call attention to that. Yeah, your pupil's puckered.

Oh, Joan! Now I'm very self-conscious. Well, I'm sorry. I'm very scared because I don't know anything. You don't need to be scared for now. Oh, God. Well, look, you're my friends. Of course.

You're going to let us know if we have to like, okay, all right. If Gabby lets me know. All right. She gets to a point where she can't say anything. How often are you seeing her? We are video conferencing using Cisco telesystem. Once a day. It used to be more frequent, but now it's once a day.

And where is she again? I do not know. She blurs out her background. Right. Which she said she would do anyway if we were teleconferencing, and there was no incident happening. Okay, sure. Fine.

All right. Well, I keep hoping to get more information, and I just come away more confused and more scared. But I guess I'll just keep going. and like life is normal. That's exactly what we all have to do right now. We're not already in a paradise, are we? Are we in a paradise situation?

Do you mean are we in an underground city? No, we're not. We'd have no way of knowing. Mind you, I've only seen 45 minutes of the whole entire series. You want to know why? You want to know why? Because it started buffering and then it would never go. And then I've gone back out and I come back in days later.

And it will always cut up. No, it won't. Let me see the end of the first. So I don't really know what I'm talking about. But I was riveted. I really needed to know more. And now unfortunately, I've already seen, you know, stuff for the second season. I'm like, well, Shane Lean Woodley shows up at some point.

I, when I, she does. She does. And when I, I watched the first episode. Okay. And, uh, worked on your computer, I guess. I was, well, I watched it on my television. Oh, I see. Yeah.

I'm old-fashioned. I don't like watching everything. I have to be curled up in. bed to watch something now and I need it right in my face. I watched the first episode and it gets to the end. So the first episode concerns the murder of the president of the United States. Yes. I think, wow, that's juicy, treacherous.

It's treacherous, of course. Juicy, treacherous. And then when I got to the end and it's moving back and forth in time, right? Okay. Then it gets to the end. It's revealed we're in an underground city. Yes. And I said, you know what?

Too many things. I can't watch the show. You gotta keep going. If you get too overwhelmed, you just, you need it simple. But then I went back and I started watching it again. And I enjoyed it. You liked it this time.

I really liked it. I've been watching it without you. What? Oh no. I didn't know that. Oh, I hated when that happens. You know I've had so much, you know I've been trying for a year to finish this episode.

Now, every couple, I believe, has separate shows and then shows they must watch together. That's right. And if you don't watch it together, it's a betrayal. It is. This is sort of in between. It's a gray area. But it's just that he knows I've been trying to sort of get through to the end of this first episode. Do you know what I've done with Gabby?

If she's traveling sometimes. What? I'll just go ahead and watch the show we're supposed to watch together. Okay. Does she know that? Yeah, I'll tell her. And what does she say? The pushback is so slight.

We don't need to be doing this. It really, it snaps in perspective. You could watch it on the phone together. It can be. Maybe a little, maybe erotic. I'm watching. Are you watching? Netflix and phone sex?

Yes. That sounds bleak. Netflix and chills already a thing. So, you know, it's not that far as step. No, I understand the concept. I'm saying it sounds bleak. But I, so I told her, like, you know what? I went ahead and watched the next two episodes of the show that we watched together.

And she went, oh. Oh, okay. That's kind of it. What are you going to do? I think you lucked out. That's not always the reaction. Yeah, it's really done. It really, everything snaps into focus.

This is not that big a deal. You know, here's the other one that's awful for a couple, which is like, for example, Doug read all the Game of Thrones books, okay, way before there was a series. Why did you do that? No, because there was never going to be. I see what you're saying. But anyways, he read them way before the show,

and then he just sat and watched me an inch away from my face. And then the red one, he had like a phone right in my face. No, you got out the old camcorder, and you had it right in my face. Why? And I was like, because he wanted to catch every reaction. Because you know there was that obnoxious point Where it was like, oh, but if you're someone who read the books And now you're watching someone hasn't seen the show

And everyone filmed everybody Because they were smug and they already knew. Oh, really? Oh, yes, you missed this time? I wasn't smugged about it. Remember, I'm like 10 years behind on social media. But I mean, how would they know the pacing of the television show? They can tell by like, because I'm pretty sure

that some of the episodes are named certain things. Like, I believe Red Wedding, everybody knows that one. You have to what? You have to, you have to film them for the entirety of the episode? Yes, people did. What are you talking about? People stick a camera in a lake to show like the Northern Lights for 24 hours. Everyone, people film their entire lives.

That's worthwhile though. I know, but people, to catch the moment, people are never turning off their phones, you know. Boy, that's true, Joan. Talk about bleak. Boy, that's true. People do not turn off their phones. Your pupils are back again. They're normal.

Okay. Can we stop talking about my pupils for five seconds? Sorry, I didn't know that was going to be a hang-up for you. Speaking of measurements of time, Doug, how long have we been recording? Well, probably enough. Let's see. Boy. What's that sound?

Is that the furnace, babe? It is hot in here. I'll tell you. You should get out of there. It's probably good. It's not good. I mean, unless you think of it as a sauna. It's good that it's sounding more like a furnace.

Yes. That's definitely good. 22 minutes. That's fine. That's fine. Yeah, let's end it here. All right. When we return, we'll have a guest right here on the neighborhood.

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as troublesome when we played with it the thing that catches my attention immediately is that she has the blackest eyes of any doll I've ever seen just black as night, black as hell and you know you would

you would put her on her face and you'd push her belly button or the belly button that's on her back, as you can see from the pictures, and then the hair would grow, although sometimes it wouldn't. We started thinking this doll was alive,

not only because she would make noises when you push the button, but as you can see, she ended up having a reverse mullet, as you can see in the picture where she's on her tummy, She's short in the back and very long, just on one side in the front. And her hair was different every time we saw her in the room.

So we just started avoiding her. They also put a tattoo on her butt, which I didn't think was necessary. Any angle you look at it, it's disturbing. So if someone's a collector of horror movie dolls, this would be wonderful for you. your collection. Thank you. Grand welcome back to the neighborhood listen. I'm sorry. Burt, I'm so sorry. What?

Because we got into this last week. But that sounded like you said grand welcome. Babe, did you hear that? Grand welcome. Grand welcome sounds lovely. I know, but did you hear that, babe? Well, I felt it. I felt a grand welcome. I unfortunately...

Doug is not answering any questions today. He really is very evasive. He's very evasive. I do not mean to be evasive. I think that you've been down there for too long. I think that it's messing with your head. I'm sweating a lot. Yeah, of course you are.

What was the point of this furnace room anyways? To power us during times of need. But you know how to do that? I mean, I didn't even know the house. Yeah, you shovel coal in. It's so beautiful and simple. He's just getting up that sequence in the Titanic movie when they're all shoveling and that camera goes through and he just, he never was able to get over the majesty of that.

Sure. That's what he would say, the majesty of it. It really makes you think like, ah, yes, they had to do coal. The furnace room, I feel like is. One of the few people that that's his takeaway from that movie. Because it's the whole takeaway. Yeah. That's what he talks about.

Furnace rooms are at the, they're often a part of stories, like old stories. So now when you find yourself in the furnace room, something happens in that furnace. So you're just hoping something's going to happen. Is that what you're down there? After your first viewing of Titanic, you probably since then have not gotten to the second VHS tape. I have not. Yeah. So many people don't realize that, that it was two VHS tapes.

Big deal. And so Doug, probably after the furnace, the one glimpse of the furnace, the Titanic seems great. Just turn it off. Yeah, he doesn't know what happened. Nothing really that bad happens. But I mean, pretty beautiful. It seems like a nice time.

If you just stop right there. All right, we do have a guest here at the Kitchen Island. And as we do every week, we comb the neighbor app, the social networking application for neighborhoods to look for interesting neighbors to talk to. Maybe they want to amplify their message. Maybe they want to help with something. Maybe they need. to address a controversy.

Oh, I love that. It's fun. It's fun. A little more work to say. Sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I can help myself. I'm so sorry.

I miss it. I miss it. I miss doing it. Doug, you're going to cut that out. Okay. Now, this was submitted by a listener. If you would like to send us post

that you think we should talk about, screenshot it and send it to us at burnt and Joan at gmail.com like Amanda Cunningham did. Thank you, Amanda. This post is just attributed to neighbor. Oh, okay. It's in the crime and safety. section. Spooky cat or coyote roaming the neighborhood checking for Amazon packages. Wow. And that's it. That's it. It goes from the vagueness of spooky cat or coyote to the general, the very

specific checking for Amazon package. The one thing at which there's no doubt is that whenever creature was was checking on the package. This could be anything from a cat to a coyote, but it was definitely looking for Amazon packages. Well, who do we have today? Yes. Please. introduce yourself hello my name is shelly shelby shaw oh shelly shelby shaw what an amazing name is now is that is that is that two names or three names it's one name oh shelly shelby shaw shelly shabby shaw shelly shabby shaw shirley shabby shaw are we saying it correctly shelly shabby shaw shely shabby shaw okay is it bad you know no no No, no, no, it's fine. I had to think about it for a minute. Okay. It was. It gave me pause for a second, too.

I was like, wait, I think we're in the clear. Yeah, okay. And I always, I always get that reaction. And I think, okay, someone's not telling me something about myself right now. No, no. Well, you have an interesting appearance. So can you describe yourself? Yes. So thank you for having me on today. I think that the folks on the neighbor have been talking for a very long time. And it's, I felt it was time for me to reveal my identity. Okay. There's no more hiding after this particular post. I am in fact spooky cat or coyote roaming. Wait, what? Hold on a second. Now, okay, I assumed you were the

person who made this post. So did I. No. Are you even a person at all? I am, I am a person. I would describe myself as something akin to a vigilante. I'm like a like a Batman. What? Or a Spider-Man. Because, yes, you appear to us in a corporal form of a human. You do have a humanness about you. But you also have a... There's something else going on. I can't quite put my finger on.

There's something very feline and sort of canine about you. Yes, I'm an only child. Oh, that explains it. Oh, there we go. Yeah, yeah. I grew up in really, really humble beginnings. Oh. I was like a lower upper middle class up on the east side of town.

Upper middle class. Lower upper middle class. Oh yeah, because lower upper middle class was over there on the upper middle east side. That was where those people lived. Yeah, and they had us all together. Oh, like in one house? We were in one. Oh, really?

Okay, I will admit, very big house. But we had to share bathrooms. Oh, what's share? And we had a lot of bathrooms. but sometimes we had to share. I have to ask. How many people and how many bathrooms? There were four families

in the lower, upper, middle class housing. And all of us are only children. Oh, all of you? Wow. That's 12 people. I come from an unbroken family. Oh, good for you. Oh, good for you.

So a mother and a father very, very regular. Oh, okay. Very, very regular. It's like President Reagan. Very regular down the line. Oh, I wonder if we have the same definition of regular. Yeah, no, it's sort of what I would say, just completely normal.

Oh, okay. I'll take your word for it, I guess. So there were 12 of us and there were only 15 bathrooms. But you had to share. Well, yeah. That sounds like there's more than enough for everybody. There was only one soaking tub. We only had one soaking tub.

Big thing in your culture. I know that's the word to use, but... I'm sorry, how else would you... How else would you soak? Oh, no, no, no. I don't have a dedicated room for soaking in a tub. I mean, I usually like to take a shower. Do you have a tub in your home?

I do, but right now it's used for storage. I do. I do have a... I have a shower in a separate tub. I have all my play scripts in there. In the tub? Is there your shower just? It's like Carrie Bradshaw, putting shoes in the oven?

Yes. Keep all your scripts in the tub. You know, I really relate to that. I also use one of my bathrooms as a bomb shelter. Oh, whoa. Why do you need that? Well, as a vigilante, you never know who might be coming after you. So let's get into the vigilante.

Vigilantees do have to be mindful of bombs. So are you going to paint us an origin story for us? Because you're growing up in this house where you don't have enough room. for your own soaking tub. No. I don't understand what that does to your psyche, but can you explain how hard,

what the difficulty is of that? May I ask a possibly related question? Sure. Is Spooky Cat or Coyote your vigilante name? Yes, correct. Okay. The whole thing, the whole title. Spooky Cat or Coyote Roaming.

Coyote Roaming. Oh, I'm so sorry. Spooky Cat or Coyote Roaming. You're adding an unnecessarily implied comma. Oh, I see. Spooky Cat or Cutter. It's like a Native American name. Spooky Cat or Coyote. Well, I don't want to go that far.

I don't want to... No, I understand. I'm just saying it's akin to that. I understand. SSS.S.S. SS. I'm sorry. Shelby Shaw.

Shelly Shelby Shaw. Thank you. Shelley Shelby Shaw. I guess what I mean to say is, is the idea that you always appear to people as one of the two or both at the same time. You know, where does the name? come from because you clearly do you have a costume I guess what I want to know is working yeah do you have a costume you have an uniform such an incredibly fair and honest question oh thank you for that oh wow thank you for validating me you're welcome

you're welcome oh my god so something about me is that because of my humble beginnings I sometimes have to share a washer and or dryer okay and because of the way that I was only able to one of each type of costume, I would like to have two pairs, but that's just not the reality I live in as a lower upper middle class person. So you have one of each costume, you have one spooky cat costume and one coyote roaming costume? Yeah, well, okay, I understand the confusion. So here's the thing.

I started out as Emperor Miao. Oh, Emperor Miao. I kind of love that. But as I learned on my first night on watch, as I say, as a vigilantee on watch in the neighborhood, I tripped in, it was after the big storm. Okay. So I tripped and fell into what was like a sort of like a sinkhole or maybe call it quicksand. We do have quicksand here. Yeah, we do.

Oh, it's so, so annoying. It muddied the entire face of my costume in such a way that I had to take the top of the cat. Oh, I see. Uniform. One half of it got damaged. Yeah. So I think the spooky moniker that we're seeing me being linked to is because I now, when I use this costume that I'm actually wearing right now. Oh.

I can see that now. I'm typically wearing a mask to hide my identity. Sure. But the only mask that I could get on time was... On time? Have you seen the movie Saw? Yes. I've heard about it.

Would you look like a game? Don't get Byrne going. Burton loves to do it. I love that guy. One of the best movies of the last... Are you appreciating life enough? It's a tremendous film. It really made me appreciate life.

And when that little guy comes out on the tricycle, I mean, come on. Exactly. I have no idea what you're talking about. That is the mask that I wear. You wear a jigsaw mask? I wear jigsaw masks. And so people, I think, rightfully, I understand. I don't like it, but I understand.

Spooky cat. So, yeah, if I can look at it, it does look like a Unitarred with some fur on it. I thought it was just sort of a tank top. But now I'm seeing it goes all the way down. Do you have a tail on the back there? Is that a tail? I used to have like the proper tail. Oh, it's just a little nub in that.

Oh, yeah. It's like a French dog's tail. French bulldog's tail. Right now it is just an ear of corn that I had finished up from earlier. So it is quite nubby. I understand. I don't like it, but I understand. Can I just ask, when did this vigilanteism start?

And if I may build on that. Yeah, I think we have a little something in common because I'm also an only child, of only children. Is that the case for you as well? Absolutely. Yes. So it's a very, it's extremely. Isolating.

It's isolating. Terrifying. Scary. Stinks. Some people even go as far to say is, is the worst hand that you could be dealt in. I don't know about that. I don't know about that.

I don't know about that. I'm sure there's a lot of only children listening that are like, I turned out pretty great. You wouldn't know about it, Joan. Well, I think I might know a little bit about it. But anyways. No, you wouldn't know about it. But I also dabbled a little bit in vigilantism.

My approach was I didn't wear a costume or anything. I just, I hid in places where I thought a crime might happen. And I was prepared to, if I saw a crime about to be committed, just jump up and yell, Hey. And make people at least think twice about what they were going to do. And you had go bags everywhere around the town that had, I believe, ham sandwiches, batteries. Yes, I had cold cuts in there.

I don't think that was related to the vigilantism. I think that was just a thing I was going through. But I did have to go around town and refresh those bags. You did. It became a problem. I assume that you were probably very effective. I don't mean to like paint a picture of you right now. You're not like you're not.

like you're not six foot two. No. You're not probably deadlifting 300, 400 pounds. I was not. Oh, Bird. And may I say, the length of your fingers are quite impressive. Thank you. And I feel like that enabled me.

No one's ever commented on your fingers before. No, they have. My fingers are very long. They're so long. Yeah, I would not want to mess with those fingers. They're really long. It's one of those. You have an excellent.

You think I haven't heard that since that movie came out? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Don't you think every tattoo parlor I ever pass says, I know what you want? I'm sorry, go on. But it was very effective for me to curl my fingers over the top of something and then pull up and go, hey. But now, here's the thing. I've never thought about how difficult that must be for you dealing with pills that are so small all the time. And the fact that you guys wear gloves at the pharmacy, you had probably had to get special-made gloves.

You have to get special make gloves and it's very expensive. I'm sure. And I'm not reimbursed for it. Oh, that's terrible. I imagine that you're incredible at climbing, though. I'm pretty good at climbing, yeah. Yeah, no place is too hard for you to get up into. No, but the thing is, I have the opposite of the free solo guy where I'm, I'm, I don't want to do that.

And you know what fear is, and you feel it. I know what fear is I feel it. But I, so I don't even know if I ever prevented a crime because I never even got the chance to yell, Hey, nobody showed up at any of the places where I thought crimes were going to happen. They probably were going to do a crime. They're like, oh, this guy already beat me here. And was probably more scared of you than you were of them. I was hiding.

Do you think I hit that badly? I think some people might have seen you at some point because a finger might have been sticking out that you weren't aware of. I'm not trying to, it's not a dig on you. It's just a logical. I feel like you're taking this opportunity to have a little fun. Well, we've never talked about it. And my finger's expense. Okay.

I'm really sorry. I'm so sorry. Okay. So then, first of all, we just need to. get to the bottom of when it started? Was it when you were a child in that house? And how did you learn to be a vigilante? Was this in your family?

I need to understand the origin story. And then I would love to know what your methods are. Absolutely. Yeah, well, I mean, I want to know what it is you're trying to do. Yeah, what's your aim being out being a vigilante? No, thank you for all of these questions. I appreciate you when I see you. Sorry, what was that, Doug?

I was just recapping. Oh my husband. That's my husband. He's in a different room. His name is Doug. Is he on fire? Well. I can sense that he might be on fire.

That's so interesting. Oh, do you have like a spidey sense or something? You can sense people's pain. No, I can hear it in his voice. Oh, go ahead and talking again. I mean, I'm on fire in a lot of ways. Oh, what does that mean? Just thriving.

Oh, God. Doug, you're crushing it. Okay, great. I was just all I said was recapping. You're asking Babe for the origin. That's right. Burntz asking for the method. Yeah.

The M.O. I'm looking for the how and the why. But then you also added you want the motive. Okay. That is correct. We want origin story method and motive. Great. Absolutely.

Thank you so much. So I'll go to the long story short version. Oh, love it. I have not been doing this since I was a child. In fact, I have tried many, many, many other things up until this point. I started my vigilanteism at the tender age of 36. Oh, wow. Well, can you name three of the things that you tried to not be a vigilante?

Yeah, I tried to be a third-party growth. at Kroger's. That's where I'd offer my services in my own checkout line. I've never heard of that before. It's like a 1099 kind of thing. What is that? You would be a shopper for people? No, no, no, no, no, no.

No, it's more removed than that. Yeah, they're doing the shopping and then I offer to sort of check out in my own line. And then the problem was, though, is that they wouldn't give me my own. like checkout stand they in fact they told me to go many times but what I was doing was I was many times they told you to go. I was having to use my credit card to go to their

machines and pay for it. I actually lost a lot of money. I'm sure. Okay so that was going to work. What else? And then I was in orthopedic surgeons assistants call center. Oh okay.

The orthopedic surgeons assistants call center. I was the yeah I was I was I was the call center And, um, for the orthopedic surgeon's assistant. Right. Yeah. What kind of calls? Well, that's the thing.

I never got one. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, I was in that job for almost six years. Oh my God. And you didn't do anything. No. Just setting a room by yourself. And unfortunately, the job was commission based.

Oh, dear. So I lost. How interesting you would get a commission from answering a phone. So, so the orthopening surgeons assistant. This was their idea. And they expected, I guess, way more calls of them. perhaps. Yes.

Which was zero. Yeah. Uh-huh. So that really put me into debt because obviously I took out a loan to make the call center. You had to make it yourself? I didn't have to do anything, but I really wanted to show that I was excited for the role. For the role? Can I ask SSS, is this something that you brought to the orthopedic surgeon's assistant?

Or is this something they sought you out for? I guess I never technically asked them to be fair. That makes more sense. Yeah. But I was tenacious. Okay. That's always been my quality. Tenacity.

Would you just contact this person every day and say, no calls today? Exactly. For six years. All right. Well, you know what? That kind of paints a picture. Now I can see maybe you'd move into being a vigilante. So now, can you describe you as your method and your motive?

Amazing. Well, as you can imagine. Wait, that was only two things. You wanted a third? Oh, well, you did ask for three. I do believe you. just, okay, all right. I'm just trying to keep us all honest here.

No, I understand. I appreciate that. I thank you for reminding me. I did start drag scrabble. Oh, you did not drag scrabble. Yeah, as a player, not a drag queen. Oh, okay, well, that'd be fine anyways. I have so many questions for them because I want to know about.

Wait, here's, okay, so the origins of drag scrabble, as I understand is, someone was playing Scrabble at the DTF and was saying loudly, I sure wish there was a drag queen here. That was me. That's how a story goes. That was you. That was you. That was me.

Wow. And you made it happen. I made it happen. You manifested it. That's great. That's incredible. Well, are you getting a cut of that or do you, you know, are you seeing any, oh, I'm so sorry. No, no, no, no.

And that's on me. That's on me. I'm, I didn't put it in the contract. So I'm just sort of like happy to be there. They did have you sign a contract, though. Oh, absolutely. It was intensive. Were you responsible for finding Ms.

Turn. turns tiles because that's she is so amazing her name is jumper jumper turn tiles miss turns tiles yes because she what she'll do

is if she doesn't like the word she'll kind of like mess with you she'll come over and she'll turn the tiles over she'll tip your tiles over so you have to start all over again and she's just kind of like she's sassy that way and I love that but I just don't know

if you discovered her it does ruin the games though oh utterly and completely and that's arguably why this has not been maybe like as successful in terms of R.I. Yeah. Not very successful in terms of R.O.I.

Well, I think because she got bored because you said there's nothing for her to do. So now she just kind of messes with you sometimes. Yeah. And a mean drunk. Yeah. Oh. Is that right? And she signed a long contract.

I think that's probably why she's so unhappy. Probably. Maybe she feels a little bit drunk. She can't perform anywhere else. That's the problem. It's an exclusivity contract with the DTF to have her. Um, so. So, okay, can we get into, all right, so this happens and you started that, but that wasn't enough to fulfill you.

I think that paints an even more clear picture. Yes, yes, yes. So can you take us through the process of becoming a vigilante and what that looks like? What do you do? Yeah, I mean, as you can probably tell from my story, I have just been pushed down completely every time. Job after job, only child after only child. bathroom after bathroom. So I understand if anyone, what it feels like to experience loss.

And I just could not bear to see that being perpetuated in our community. And I noticed that nobody was stepping up to help. And I thought I have to help the most vulnerable in our community. And that being helpless. inert Amazon packages. You're completely defenseless in our community. Hmm. Huh.

I mean, they are. They are. If they, if they're just left on the porch. I thought he was going to say people, defenseless people, not boxes. I also thought it was leading up to people.

Is that, how does? No, I think that, no, I couldn't know, because like people have guns, which I have actually,

which I actually didn't really understand, like the pervasiveness until I started doing this. Like, a lot of people have guns. Like a lot of them. And it turns out not really like constricted to an age either.

Like a lot of kids. No, but a lot of them do have the little flag that comes out. Yeah. That's Doug's big. But not all of them. Yeah, but the problem is impossible to tell which one you're getting.

You don't really want to stand in front of either of them, it turns out. No. Yeah. So then how, take me through the process of what you do once you check on the packages. What do you do then? Yes.

How are you protecting these packages? Well, I'm leaving my scent on them, obviously. That wasn't obvious to me. Well, that wasn't an obviously for me. I feel like given enough time I would have gotten there. I guess maybe you would have. That's the continuity between spooky cat and coyote roaming. Both of them mark their territory.

That's true. And I just want to make sure that I, in my own way, like Batman has his bat signal. Yes. And Superman. He can just hear stuff. Yeah. Superman has cape and everyone's like, ah, the bad signal, the cape,

oh, I'm not going to do the crime. I'm not going to do the crime. Wow. A little walk in there. Not doing the same. I'm not expecting that's a walk in Schwarzenegger. Get in the job. Yeah.

Wow. Wow, no crime. You really got a talent for that. So I pee on the packages. Right. Right. And then, and that's it? Is that the extent of the vigilanteism?

And what does that keep it from happening? You mean, that just keeps what other animals from messing with it? Because the animals come and smell your scent. He's looking at me. With like a real dead, dead ass dare. I know. It's giving me the chills. I mean, I.

Has she said? said something wrong. I just, and forgive me if this is overstepping. What have you done for the community? Wow. Wow. Wow. Well, I put them in houses over and over and over again. You sold them houses. Who side are you on? Spooky cat or roaming coyote or Jones? I mean, your friend. I am somewhat motivated by fear in this moment. I don't want to get Oh, well, good to know who your friends are in the moment when it really matters. But I mean, I do, if we're all, if we're all being honest here, you sell people homes.

You're not placing them in homes. All right. I'll stick up for you, babe. You like to snap off the little pods, the little flower pods in people's gardens as you walk by. It doesn't sound like a good thing. Babe, what are you doing? Do you think you're helping? Snap off the flower pot.

You say it'll help them bloom. All right. That's part of my OCD. Okay. I didn't want to talk about that right now. Okay? Listen, I can say, I started the, I started the neighborhood paperclip library.

That is true. And everyone needs a paper clip. Well, it's like, yeah, it's like a little, little birdhouse looking thing and then there's just paper clips in there. Anything I don't need. Anybody can use them.

Anyone can take them. But please bring some back. But please bring some back. Take a paper, leave a paper clip. Hmm, I don't remember the last time I saw, um, paper. You don't remember the last time you saw paper?

No, I mean. That's actually devastating. That's scary to me. I mean, even my contract was handed to me on an iPad mini. Oh, dear. We really have gone too far. I've admitted. Okay, let's just try to get me off the witness stand right now for a minute and get back to the interview.

I guess I just want to know. I didn't mean to ask it with a judgmental air. Okay. And I didn't mean to come off as any sort of aggressive or anything. The costume is on. I behave. I know, but the hair, all the hair in his back stood up. It was really bad.

It was very present. And his ears went flat. So. Sorry, they're back out again. Okay, thank you. You can tell I'm calm now. Yes, yes. I can't.

I can tell. And I understand, oh, he's also playing with that dabble of sunlight on the kitchen island. You can see that. He's sort of chasing it. A pigeon got in there. You should shut the wind up. What's happening in there?

So what I meant to just ask is what is to, I'm trying to do not judgmentally, how does it protect the boxes? And what does it protect the packages from? Oh, great question, Joe. Two in a row. I think I did it. Well, would you, I'm serious questions. Would you want to touch a soaked and smelly cardboard package? No, I wouldn't.

So you're saying you're keeping it from people like a porch pirates who take the back? Exactly. Thank you. Yes. What happens when the person who it's intended for has to pick up the package? You know? Because I feel like that's probably the source of a lot of the guns is when you're on a porch and you're marking the package

with human urine, then I think that the person People are upset because, hey, that's my package. Yeah. I mean, everyone has cameras now, so that is the problem. They probably see that happening. Simply everyone. I guess I... Oh, we never thought about this.

I guess I never thought about this. This is brand new... This is brand new information. No, I'm... Oh, dear. Okay. No, I'm... I always feel bad when this happens.

No, I'm okay. You are, are you sure? I'm okay. Well, are there other methods that you do? Or is there other things that you do? No, it's kind of just that. It's just the peeing on the packages. Yeah.

So you're... The whole vigilantism amounts to you dress up in a costume that is reminiscent of both a cat and a coyote. Depending on which one. A coyote roaming. And a spooky cat. It's important. Spooky cat or a cat or a cat. Yeah, depending on which one's currently in the washer and or dryer. Sure.

Then you go to people's homes and you, if they have packages on their porch, then you piss on them. I'd piss on them. And then I go on to the next one. No, no. And repeat. But that's the same thing. Yeah. Okay.

There's some sniffing. involved before, sure. But that's for sure. That's not sure that counts. That's ceremonial. Well, maybe you're checking if he's done it on this one before. I already got this one.

Do you have any... That is a good question. Do you have any enemies? Do you have any competitors? Oh, any arch enemies. That's right. That's what I was looking for. Dubious dog.

Dubious dog. We have the dubious dog. What's dubious dog? New to the scene. New to the scene. I haven't. figure out the identity of dubious dog um in fact to me it could be an actual dubious dog um the costume could be incredibly real oh okay um but that can i cuss sure that little freaking guy has been chasing me

around town so mild every night has been chasing you every single night really going hey hey hey oh get Hey, hey, get GER. I was going to say it's human, but then the girth threw me for a minute. That's what I'm saying. Still, though, I think that's a human. Hey, hey. But that does mean that it's a dubious dog.

That is true. Perfectly named, actually. Absolutely. Yeah, but dubious dog has been going around and absolutely shredding these packages. Okay. Which breaks my heart. And then when you pee on them, do you find that he leaves those alone? Yes.

All right. Well, it's doing something. Does work. Yes. So I am doing in a sense the Lord's work here. Right. I mean. You know?

So I don't know why people are getting so. How is the Lord's work exactly? The Lord said do unto others how you would like to be done to yourself. So you want to. But I don't want anyone to pee on me. No, but I do. So. All right.

Well, now we're. I do. We have another piece of the puzzle. Yes, we do. So have you tried to, we'll get into that in one second. Have you tried to explain to any of the gunwielding adults or children that you are, that there's a dubious dog out there who's trying to shred packages? Usually by the point, at the point that we're face to face,

it's sort of like a now or never situation if I need to, if I want to get out of there with my whole life. Sure, sure, sure, sure. So, no, generally not. I would say exclusively not. Exclusively not, yeah. Yeah. That's tough. And so the, is there, have you thought about taking out an ad if you're, if you're, if you're,

as the goal to get to get pita pon? Petapon. Because this seems like a lot of work. If we're going by the golden rule, treat it. Do it want to others as you would like them to do one to you. This seems like such a lot of work to put into something that could be solved by an app. You know,

like sitting on an app. That's what I meant to. Well, I am trying to get funding for, for an app called, yeah, called Pita Pond. But it's not being,

but I'm having a hard time right. now getting it approved by Apple's legal team. They said it's too close to other words that they feel uncomfortable using on their app. Could you do P-I-T-A? P-Depon? And then maybe it's a little bit of sort of a cover for like, oh, I'm just trying to get some Mediterranean.

Yeah, did you know, it's already a Lebanese dating app. You're kidding. Oh, my gosh. Oh my gosh. Turn-Henipon is already Lebanese dating app. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

But I mean, so you, you don't, you'd rather create your own way of making this happen than use traditional avenues. Going to the normal, yeah. I'm just trying to carve out my own path in, in this lifetime, you know? Well, I think you are doing it. I think you're just succeeding. I have never heard of this path before. This is a unique path.

It is. It sure is. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. This is the first time anyone that's ever said anything nice to me. Oh, no. That can't be true. The other only children? never said anything nice? No.

They were all too busy with their terrible problems. Yeah. Yeah. They're incredibly mean. No, I just don't feel like this can't be the narrative of only children. There's several who are just a brilliant,

lovely people. I haven't met one though. Oh, you guys. Okay. This is going to make some of our listeners upset. What do you say? Take that back. Babe, what is wrong with you?

Listen, one of my best friends is an only child. You can't say that. You cannot say that. I can. I can. I can. It means I understand and I empathize. Who is it?

What's their name? John Jidgison. You could have said me. Don Jishison is an only child of a only child? Joan, you could have said me. Yes. I panicked. But wait, John Jigison is a real person?

Yes. I know it sounded made up. It really did, but then Doug corroborated your story. Well, he was parents for only children. They didn't know how to name a child. They didn't even expect to have a child. They were like, I don't know. John Jensen.

That's not even their last name. They thought they were supposed to provide a full first and last name. They didn't know. They didn't know anything. Wow. They really didn't. Yeah.

And that shows you how hard it is out here for only children. We're only expected to marry each other. But where are our spaces? Where are our spaces? You know, we have straight clubs. We have gay bars. We have drag scrabble, which I'll cop too.

Everyone should be welcome there. We have weddings. Where are we allowed? Eyes wide shut. I would argue you're allowed at all of those places you just named. But it's not a place. He's just said eyes wide shut. Yeah, that's another space.

Fidelio. But we don't have, we, there's no only child space. Of course we can be on the fringes of these other spaces we're talking about. No. But it's not the same. Everything is ensemble based. Orchestras, many people, sports teams, many people. Yes.

What we need is no way to be. You know what? What about stand-up comedy? You're never more alone than that. Ew. Ew. Listen, I agree. I agree.

I agree that we made stand-up clubs just to keep them there and keep them out of every other place. But even then, it's one person performing for all these other people. I know, but it's... For village people? For privileged village people. For privileged village people. I understand. Okay, fine.

Look out at that army that just sea of construction workers and bikers. Leatherman One army man And police person Inclusive What about a stand-up comedy club For only-onlys? It's intriguing.

Right? I mean, I love to hear that material. Exactly, right? And you would be in there And everyone would commune and laugh Because then as a group of onlys, you are not alone. Hey, what's the deal?

What's the, hey. Hey, what's the? Hey, what's the? Hey, what's the deal with sisters? Oh, oh, he's trying out. He's trying out some material. What's the deal with sisters? It's like, hey, I'm trying to have guy time right now.

And you're a girl. Bird, is that funny? Hey, what's the deal with milk? How come there's always so much of it in the fridge? What does that have to do with being an only child? Oh, you just because, all right, I didn't need to take the air out of the room. See, these jokes are not for you. I am so sorry.

Don't try to pull holes in logic. Thank you for calling me in on that. Something you don't understand. Thank you for calling me in on that. You grew up with too much milk. Do you overstand now? I overstand. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay, yes. You're welcome. Oh, my eyelashes is coming off. Well, now, girls. Oh, this happens. All the barriers are coming down. There they go.

There they go. Now, as I says, now that you, we've talked about this. And it feels so good. And I'm glad. I'm glad because what we want for this show is to help our neighbors in some way. Either they're trying to help other people

or maybe we can help them help themselves. Do you feel that now that you've laid it all out there, that your ultimate goal really is to get Pete on? Do you think you will continue the vigilantism, or do you think you will put the focus on, making your true goal come true? I just can't bear to admit what I want in this life. Oh, that's so heartbreaking.

Can you try? Just try. It really is a safe place. I'm sorry that I've been a little insensitive, and I really am. I'm learning. You're trying your best. You're an ally.

You're an ally. I have this. I just want you to read this thing. I wrote on notes. Oh boy. On notes app. Can you just read this? I just put some thoughts down.

We have to read it? I don't want to. Oh, there are a lot of slurs. No, no, you don't have to read it out loud. What? There are a lot of slurs. You couldn't know. There must be a typo.

I mean, they're not like the traditional slurs, but they're slurs to us. Oh, my God. But yes. That's an example of an only child's slur. Singleton. Seesaw. Wouldn't it just be C or saw? Well, I mean, the idea of the shoe.

Oh my God. I cannot believe you just said that. Why do you feel so emboldened? I feel like a seesaw must be the most, you know, tormenting sight for an only child. It's up there. It's got to be hard. Another one.

What? Hard. No. That one I don't understand. And it's not yours. you understand. You really can't put that together? Okay. Joan. Anyway, Joan. All right. I know that you are, this is all new to you.

No, do you know what? I'm just going to take a step back and you two can finish this section. You know what? I'll do the same. Really reach for them. So what, this is a safe space. You can say whatever you want. Obviously, this is being recorded for strangers to listen to. Totally. But maybe it would be helpful if you were able to just express what it is your ultimate desire is. Okay, I'll just preempt it by saying that what is difficult about me opening up about my deepest desire is that I've spent my entire life alone. You know, I've faced this world alone and I've learned to live that way. but

oh okay you got it you got it I am my name is Shelley Shelby Shaw and I want to be peed on

that requires the help of someone else so I think my deepest desire is to feel

the inner love and warmth of another human being in any form that may take but preferably piss. Yes. I want everyone to know, I'm gently holding his pinky. Yes.

It's beautiful to see. It's beautiful to see. That felt really good. Good. Good. That was amazing. I'm so happy for you and I'm proud of you. I know it just, it sounds crazy. Oh, like our crazy.

We do not, first of all, we do not on this show. We do not kink shame, but we do kink. Okay, whatever. Okay. Okay. All right. What hurts?

What hurts? Ari, I laughed really hard and absolutely burst of blood vessels. I'm so. No, we're okay. We're okay. It happens a lot. Don't?

It happens. Okay. You know what I think it is? I think it's you felt joy and it's making you dizzy because I don't think you felt this sort of euphoria before. Is that what this is? Yes. Because you know what? We're only as sick as our secrets, okay?

And you just let that. Oh, no. Is that true? Okay, wait, let's all go. Can we all go around? Yeah, I've been told I'm near death. This is terrible news. Can we all go around and admit our deepest hopes and desires?

I don't see why not. Okay. And we'll start with Doug. I hope one day. To taste candy corn. I mean, you cannot taste it right now. No. It just tastes completely neutral to me.

Oh, you're physically, it's not that you haven't tried to procure candy corn. I think I need a taste bud. All you get is, all you get is texture. A taste bud replacement. Yeah. All right. Boy, that sounds tricky. The way people describe the flavor sounds incredible.

Wait, what did you say? You said the way the people describe the flavor of candy corn. It sounds incredible. Wow. I don't know that. First of all, I don't know. Yeah, I think the only time I've heard people describe the taste is in a negative way. The end.

I don't think I've ever. Hey, Doug, I do have the number for an orthopedic surgeon's assistant. Oh. Oh, well, babe, I wouldn't maybe with that. I mean, okay. Direct. I can get them direct. I don't have to go through the call line.

I, you can. Well, you could. My number's blocked. Oh, but you could. Wait, does this orthopedic search assistant still have the call center? That's what I wondered. Well, you're just not working there.

No, I mean, I gifted it to them because it's like, what am I going to do with it? Well, that's very generous. Yeah, I'm still paying the rent. Oh, dear. That's more than generous. It's under my name. Oh, oh.

I signed a really long contract. Oh, what is with the contract in this town? They're so long. Oh. All right. Well, since it sort of happened in front of you all, I will admit, and I'm not going to do this anymore. I've been getting my eyelashes on the black market,

and they are made from the feathers of the endangered Great American Condor, and they reject my eyelids. And that is why they're always coming off. They're rejecting your eyelids. Something about the oil. It's probably why they're endangered. It can't just be my fault. They were already endangered.

when I started doing this, and I have no how terrible that's out. If their feathers took to human eyelids more, then they'd be more in demand. Like, they're not doing themselves any favor of these condors. What? That's hard to argue. No, I see what he's saying. Yeah, if they were like a little less.

They played well with others. Maybe we would breathe them. If we, yes, we'd be fighting to save them if they were compatible. Exactly. Why is the black market doing this anyway? I don't know. I don't know. It's because Doug got into dark Facebook and it was just,

and that's a nice place, but then I just went on a wormhole and it was bad. Do you think you're on dark Timo? I could be. Yeah. Yeah. High quality stuff there. High quality stuff. It's always smaller than the picture.

Always. Yeah. What's your dark secret burnt? Oh. I've never told anyone this. Obviously. And I can't believe I'm about to. but I have a twin brother.

Oh my God. Jesus Christ. And SSS? I want to apologize to you. What? Wait, before I go flying off the handle. First of all, apologize to me too because you came down hard on me. I'll get to everybody.

I want to understand how I'm going to react. Okay. Did this twin brother die in the womb? Oh. No, but there's more. There's more. More. Oh, my God. Oh, no. Sorry, I'm on the wall. Yes, he is. Wow, that's amazing.

It's crazy how fast he got up there. I only discovered this 10 years ago. And we were not raised together. So I thought I was an only child. And I lived as an only child until 10 years ago, until well into adulthood. SSS? Does that, oh, nope. Sounds like both a coyote? And a cat.

So how? I can even hear the roaming part. Oh, my God. Look how nervous had pigeon is. How are the pupils? Actually, the pigeon seems kind of into it. The pigeon's peeing on him. Guys, are you seeing this?

Well, we do. It's hard to miss. Look at that cloaca, like a geyser. It's just, it's really coming out. It's golden showers. Doug. Doug. What are you doing?

This is not a time to weird Al some. Was that an Irish sea shanty? SSS, wait a minute. Look at this guy. Hello. Hello, little pigeon. You are. Oh my goodness.

As I says, you are, you are positively radiant. You are. You're really almost glowing. Oh, my God. I've never really, I never really have felt. this before. Well,

I'm not surprised. I feel good. Oh, I feel good. Oh, boy. Living. This is wonderful. And I'm so happy that we were here.

Yes. For this moment. I'm so glad you shared this with us. And thank you so much. And how do you feel now? I feel on top of the freaking world. That is so great. Does this change everything for you?

No. It absolutely doesn't. Why? I have learned in this moment that we all contain a certain sense of duality. So I can be a weird freaking only child, completely hopeless and without guidance in this world. And I can be peed on. And those things can both exist at the same time. You can be an only child.

and a twin brother. You can have no eyelashes and some eyelashes. You can be both on fire and not on fire. That wants to Doug. Oh, thanks. You're welcome, baby. I had no idea. God, this is beautiful.

Well, you know what? If you're happy, we're happy. Absolutely. I mean, this is one of the best resolutions we've ever had on the show. It really is one of the more messy ones. True. And I do need to clean up. So I'll need to lead soon.

Getting to the truth is messy, Joan. You are correct. I didn't know it smelled so crazy. What did that pigeon eat? I really need to investigate the volume of liquid versus the... Pigeons like asparagus? Getting a pungent sulfur as well. Yeah, which is why all love aside, all love to you, I need to, I need to, we need to clean up.

Yes, we do. But I wish, I wish you and the pigeon, best of luck. Thank you for being here, Pigeon. Thank you for... Such a beautiful call. Really? Just full-throated. I've never been this close to,

I've never been this close to pigeon song before. And it's just so lovely. Great placement. Yeah. That's beautiful. So he gets to sing. Oh, he's doing Little Mermaid. That's so amazing.

He's doing. Is that what a... Yes. Part of your world. Oh, that's so amazing. Oh, well, I'm happy. I'm happy. Listen.

SSS, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for having me. I really did not expect any of this. So this has been beautiful. I expected some of this, but not all, certainly. Not all, yeah. Yes, but thank you. And to everybody out there with Amazon packages,

you're just going to have to take it. Yeah, or just if you can get them inside as soon as possible, that's true too. Yeah, exactly. It's better for the neighborhood, leaving your stuff on the porch. Jesus Christ. God damn it. I'd just like to plug one thing before.

Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah. I recently started the LMC Foundation. So if you would like to donate to the Lower Middle Class Foundation, your donations go directly towards rehousing and late-in-life educational development. That's really important. Please do help lower upper-middle class people. Yes.

Think, you know, it's not as easy as you think it is. Isn't that the truth? All right. We'll be back with the neighborhood listen. When the neighborhood listen comes back. It's Judith. I found my wallet. Marilyn.

I just wanted to give a shout out to Marilyn. Marilyn Monroe. The queen of the silver screen, the golden age of Hollywood. Remember when she stood on the subway grate? And the dress went up. And do you remember when she, that a fella dressed up like a girl because he thought that she had a nice caboose? Do you remember when the president had sex with her? Ah, Marilyn, the watching you on screen is like finding my wallet every day.

This is Judith, the wallet finder of my own. And welcome back to the neighborhood. Listen. Wow. What a journey. That really was. I just got everything cleaned up. We had, it took an hour. Yeah. It was a longer than I thought it would take. It still smells kind of funny in here.

It does. But you know what? All in the name of love. Or I would know if they're in love, but it's probably going too far. And also we shouldn't be in favor of it. Burnt, can we talk about your twin brother? A human and a pigeon? Oh, yeah.

I mean, where is he? What's his name? Have you guys talked? How'd you find out? Is he on your body? No. No. It's not like,

No. I already said we were raised separately. It's a quado. Separated a birthday. It's not a quado. Why do you want me to have a quado so badly? Doug has never been able to get past quato. It's the coolest thing to him.

I remember a band-aid on my shoulder one time. He's like, you're a quato. He's always on the lookout for a quato. I was wearing those tank tops all the time. Yes, you were. I always have Joan check my back for Quados. Oh, yeah.

But hopefully. He's like, do you see any? Yeah. Not like in a bad way. Do you ask her like, check my back for Quados? Yeah. Did you really check all of it?

Okay. Did you really check all of it? You sure? Do you know what that magnifying glasses for that you always have a holster on your belt? Yeah, of course, yeah. He wants to be just the second he gets a feeling, gets a funny feeling like he's got something. Yeah.

And what it is is now just a lot of moles. So we have to go get them checked out. You don't think they'll connect into Aquato, do you? Don't say that. That's what he hopes. Wait, do you want it or you don't want it? I would love it. Of course he would love it.

All right, enough. Enough deflecting. Tell us about your brother. I can't believe this. He reached out to me. Okay. Ten years ago. Right.

And I thought it was a hoax. His name is Tert. Okay. Does he have the last name, Mia, payday? He has taken the last name of me, payday. Okay. Because we are full brothers. We're twins. Yes, that's what you said. Identical? Identical twins. What? Yeah. This is wild. Okay, where is he? He's in New Barn. What? He lives just next door, basically? He is in the neighboring town. He's been there his whole life.

Okay. And what was he adopted? What happened? Why was he, why were you separated? My parents thought they were going to get divorced. It doesn't really answer the question. That makes no sense. They thought, okay, if we're going to get divorced, one of us will take one child, one of us take the other child. My mother was going to move to New Barn. They reconciled and they said, you know what? Wait.

Still pretty good idea. It would actually, yeah, it's a pretty good idea. It would actually be easier with just one child. Oh, no. So wait a minute. If one of them went to New Barn, who would. They leave turned with. They, my parents drove with, with turnt.

This is going to be so sad. To the New Barn fire station. Oh, God. They said, where can we leave this baby here? That's how they said it. They drove all the way there and then asked that. Yes, the fire station said, no. Did we leave this baby here?

They said, no, you can only do that without telling us first. You can't just, we're going to say no. And they did. Okay. So then they went to all of the public utilities saying, can we leave our baby here? That's not a thing. What is wrong with your parents?

They went to the gas company. I mean, they went. Waste management. They didn't go to waste management. You take that back, Doug. Oh, wow. I'm sorry. Is that not a utility?

It is. That's not on Doug. That's not on Doug Burns. This is all of your own. Nobody would take a baby there. This is your defense of nature coming up because you kept this secret. from us. Do not come on. Don't get on Doug's case.

Do you. Oh. Oh. Okay. Okay. So where did he end up? Are you all right? Yes.

You reminded me of Babu Frick. Oh boy. What a nutty episode. Where did he end up? Please tell me this person was cared for. He was cared for. He was taken in by these kindly old folks. So he had, you know, he had old parents, which is always, you know,

like those people that are weirdos that are raised by their grandparents. Okay. Okay. Weirdest people. We are really throwing out some generalizations here and I don't approve of this. Like you did with only children? Yes. Like you did with only children.

You were saying that about them. I was an only child. Don't you understand? Not anymore. So continue. Where did he end up with old people and what happened? And they raised him. They never told him anything for the longest time.

And then 10 years ago when they were in their, 110. You had to have been very old at this point. Yes. They said, look, we're calling it. We don't want to be here anymore. Oh, they meant with their lives. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. They said, we didn't expect to still be here. Yikes. So we're taking this on ourselves. Oh, dear. What did they do? This is so dark. You know that song The Way by Fastball? They did that. It's a good song.

Okay. They just drove until they became skeletons. Okay. So, I have so many questions about that, but I'm not going to ask any of them. Yeah, so it's turned. And so what does he, does he, what, how'd the conversation go? Have you met? We have not yet met.

Why? Best scheduling. No, no, no, no. I think we're both, I think we're both scared. There it is. I think we're both scared. Is he a pharmacist? Does he have a podcast over there?

Doug, you're throwing a lot of questions at me. What does he do for a living? What does he do for a living? He's a farmer. That is a new bar. That's so new barn. He does not have a podcast and he's a radio show. Okay.

He has a ham radio show about farming. Okay. Yeah. What's it called? It's called not only farmers. Interesting. Yeah. All right.

So he has people who obviously aren't farmers on. He has a co-host. Okay. was a good friend. Oh, no. What is that person's name? She. I knew it was going to be she.

Her name is flown. It's Florence and, but people call her flown. Sure, sure. That makes sense. Marathoner. Flowner and they talk to people in the farming community

using the farmer's only app. And let me guess she's a realist painter. Wait, did I tell you this already? Nope. Just had a hunch. She's a real, she's a photo realistic painter. And, you know, like the late Martin Mull. And yeah.

And so we do have a lot of things in common, but we've been scared to meet each other. Wow. Yeah. I'd love to hear their radio show sometime. That would be interesting. Maybe that would be a sort of a first step. Just get used to hearing his voice and see what he's like on a microphone.

Absolutely. I will record it. Great. I'll just, I mean, you could listen to it. Well, you don't have a ham radio.

No, it's a little difficult. But, uh, always surprise me about Doug that he doesn't have a ham radio. I've been trying to get you into this for years. You seem like the guy who would have a ham radio. I do. You might have.

It's like in my memory, I feel like I did have one. I kind of think that too. I think that too. There really is. Yeah, yeah. But no, it's canonical now that you don't. And, um...

Well, Bernie, is Gabby know? Gabby doesn't even know. Gabby knew before I did. He reached her to her first. What? How did he even know what to do that? Oh, that's ridiculous. Maybe you can help me.

Okay. I look at my twin brother. Okay. That is cosmic. She said, I have no idea who you're talking about. That's very cosmic. Maybe he led her to you and we don't even realize it. Oh, my God.

Do you think he did that? He like, masturbated our relationship? Well, what you're going to also need to do is go through all the times that you've injured yourself or had pain. And then you guys are going to have to line up whether or not he had the same thing. Wow. Like L.A. and E.T. Yes.

Well, and also, listen, I have twins. So I'm a font of information. I can answer a lot of questions for you. I guess that's true. So, and believe me, they do, they do hurt. it's hard to tell because they always are hurting each other physically. Yeah. And then they're saying, oh, it's our twin connection.

I'm like, well, no, it's because you both just stabbed each other. That does muddy the waters a little bit. Of course, I'm talking about my twin boys, Matt, and. The heartbreakers. Heartbreakers. So we have one final post we're going to leave you with, even though we could talk for hours about this revelation that just happened that is wild. What a way to kick off season 10.

It is sensational. You got to admit. That was pretty sensational. It's amazing. We have talked about it being sensational a lot. We told ourselves we wouldn't say that. Oh, did we? Yeah.

Oh, I don't remember. But it's okay. We told ourselves we wouldn't say that? We told ourselves we wouldn't say it. We said it so many times? I thought so. We just said we would feel it. Oh.

Oh, interesting. I don't know. I felt like it was appropriate there. Well, now it's out there. It's public. Why did the gate keep sensational? Now it's public. It's out there.

We're sensational. Exactly. Okay. But now I guess we just can't ever falter from that. It's a high bar. I don't know. I think that he's, I think that he is too close to the furnace because he's just been down to the whole time.

Frankenstone throat. All right. So we have one last post. And this is sort of, I don't know, this is awkward to me. This is. Awkward.

This is from Craig. And it says, Hi, neighbors. This is Fred Schneider. Why didn't he sing nice? Oh, it was a fun character. I didn't think he was nice? You think he was nice?

Wait, wait, I'm sorry. Well, I think he could just if he, he, it would sound like he was making fun of it. No, he sounds sarcastic. It was not memorable. I think he was playing a character and I think it was great. Why didn't he sing like rock, rock lobster, down, down, down,

Yeah, because that sounds grounded and normal. I'm still blowing away. You are really coming for me. I am not. Oh, oh, that's a rich thing for you to say. You came at me this whole entire episode. You ganged up with SSS and you guys had a ball. I did.

I guess I wanted to feel like an only child again. By ganging up with someone else? Yep. All right. All right. For a final post. I'm not going to give an adjective to it. I'm just going to read it.

This is from Craig. It says, Hi, neighbors. I'm looking for someone to come play acoustic guitar for my wife's birthday. Why did you say it like that? Because this is my, this is how I feel about this post. It's not like you're trying to find any of it.

Anyone have any recommendations? Thanks so much. I think it's a little weird. Like, if your husband, I thought he was going to say that when I read the post the first time, I was like anyone who can, you know, come and teach, I saw the word guitar, so it teach me guitar, so I could play it for my wife. But now in this intimate setting, you're going to be like, babe, I love you and I just want this strange man to come over here. And I'm, he's going to play guitar for you.

Can't imagine anything worse. All right, but that might be, that might be hyperbole, obviously. But are you being serious? I'm being serious. Oh, you're being serious. The idea of having a romantic dinner of some kind. Yes. And then there's somebody there playing the violin or whatever.

it just makes my skin crawl. Okay, good. You like total silence? I don't think it's about that thing. That wasn't, I wasn't being Fresheniter. I feel like we're, I wasn't fresh tonight or anything.

Everyone's chippy. It's been a lot. Listen, we've dug deep and we've exposed some things. I'm, my eyelids are naked. I don't like it. I can't believe you have false eyelashes.

This whole time. Oh, that's what we're now going to get in. I thought I knew you. You're mad about that, not about the end. major condors. That's what the part that you're bad about. He's thinking about it. You really got me. Okay. So, so yes, the thing is, it's just,

what? Okay. Okay. You really got him. I'm trying to get, I'm trying to get all the, all the cows home. Okay. We're really trying. We're trying to get to the end of this. So I just think. On the topic of that. How dare you? One of my least favorite moments in Red Demp Redemption is when you have to do chores. You have to herd these cows. What? Pick flowers. Yeah.

You do? I want to shoot people. Oh, it seems like that way. Yeah, go collect these herbs. What? No. This is why you should try a Mario car.

I'm a criminal. True. Okay. All right, sorry. No, that's fine. It's just, under one context. It is like in Mario Kart if you had to just,

you know, screw the lug nuts out. Yeah, or if you had to go off and like tend to the flower plants. Go vacuum out the car. Dust the cobwebs and a lot of mansion. That is funny. Go to the post office. That's what you should try Mario Kart.

It's much more fun. All right, then. Okay. Okay. All right then. What I want to know is what context is he going to, because it'll be one thing. If he's like, I wrote a song for my wife, but I'm going to have someone play a guitar, I'm going to sing. But it sounds like, yes, like you said, like while they're eating, what is you just going to hang out in the corner?

Like he's at a coffee shop and play classical guitar. Classical guitar. Bert, I was just about to say classical gas. Well, you didn't. We almost said the exact same thing. We almost did, but I kept going. But that's just so weird. There's just a guy in your house.

Like for how long? There's no specifics. It's just, hey, can you come and play guitar for her? As if she's sitting on the couch and she's supposed to just sit and enjoy it, that's just so weird while he looks at her going, do you like it? That would be great.

I mean, if she's on the couch and then the guitar players is there standing, you know, playing at her, and then the husband is sitting in a chair next to the guitar player just looking at the wife. Yeah, filming her like Doug, me watching Game of Thrones. It's upsetting. You know what I just remembered?

The reason we were both thinking of classical gas. Yeah. At DTF, we did a rendition, an acapella, an acapella classical gas. Oh, fun. And it was really, it got pretty, they loved it. Did Ms. Turn's tiles love it? She wasn't thrilled about it. Oh, okay.

She kept trying to draw focus from us. she was doing like air classical guitar to it as if she was making the sound but we were but she was making like this like this tiny air guitar it was very small yeah like the way people play a tiny fake violin it did almost draw more attention that way because you're squinting at the tiny it was just like this when people do the violin but she did it in front of her his stomach i want her to get new opportunities i feel bad for her i feel like she needs to spread her wings and fly She's terrific and she's wasted on drags scrabble. All right. Well, there's a lot of loose ends here for sure. But we do have to go. This has been quite an episode.

I'm already 25 minutes late for my next appointment. And most of that was because I kept adding things to talk about. And well, thank you so much. Someone cares. Oh my gosh. So many secrets today. I'll tell you next time. Fine.

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