SPEAKER_02 0:00

Heather just texted us out of Buffalo. She's on vacation this week. So uh she texted us, she goes, Good everyone. Happy Taco Tuesday. It's hot as balls today. That's her words. I love that expression. And uh she goes, it's gonna be 94 up there. And she goes, Anybody care to join me in the pool today? Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 0:17

If I had off, yes.

SPEAKER_02 0:19

The interesting thing is, yesterday I was uh getting ready to leave here. Uh it just it was one of those days I don't get the opportunity to work too late, so I'm like, I am catching up on stuff. You know the you know the energy where you're like, Yeah, yeah, let's get this done, right? So I was leaving really late yesterday, and actually Tiffany beat me home and I called her before that. I go, just in case you get there before I do, I'm actually leaving the radio station now. Uh-huh. And I go, Whew, it got hot. She goes, I don't want to hear it. People complain about when it's too hot, and they complain about when it's too cold. She's right. She's not wrong. But you know what? I will take the too hot over the too cold. That's just me.

SPEAKER_01 0:55

Did you end up putting out your kiddie pool? Because I said, You have a kiddie pool. This was yesterday we talked about it. Soak your soak your buns in there right on your deck. How great would that be? Put a drink in your hand. It's just, you know, party of one. Well, I'm sure Tiffany could possibly fit in there with you.

SPEAKER_02 1:11

If she wanted to, she could. Not really. This is a small kiddie pool. It's a real small one. I like the pool. When does it get two?

SPEAKER_01 1:17

Oh my gosh. Have you seen those parties on TikTok where it's BYOP, bring your own pool? Bring your own pool. Yes. All the like all your girlfriends get together, everyone brings their own pool, and you have your little cocktail in your own pool, and you're all just sitting in somebody's yard.

SPEAKER_02 1:29

And then I was telling you about the pothole bandit out of Buffalo that has now made it to Ithaca that fills potholes with art. Well, he's could he could just set up shop in Ithaca because those roads are the worst I've ever seen. Uh and uh they had uh someone that filled, they got so upset with the potholes, yeah, they filled it with red mulch. What is that gonna do?

SPEAKER_01 1:49

Well, it's gonna cushion it a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 1:51

For a minute.

SPEAKER_01 1:52

Yeah, you have to keep on putting mulch and keep on putting mulch. You're right, right. But I mean, if you're if you're packing it down, then I think it could work for yes, a minute. For a minute. A minute. About a minute there.

SPEAKER_02 2:02

All right. Speaking of working for a minute, I I want you to explain why you have a neighbor problem.

SPEAKER_00 2:08

Hey, so here's the situation. Um, so me and my husband have this neighbor who's just a really difficult guy. Um, I don't know what his deal is, but it just seems like he's determined to make sure nobody likes him. Um so recently he installed these like insanely bright security lights around his property. And unfortunately, one of them shines almost directly into our bedroom window. I mean, it honestly feels like we're trying to sleep on the surface of the sun. So, yeah, my husband actually went over there and tried to handle it politely. You know, he just asked if maybe the light can be adjusted a little bit so it wasn't pointing right at our house. And the guy's response was basically not my problem. Like that was the entire discussion. So we ended up buying blackout curtains, which helped quite a bit, but honestly, we're both super annoyed about it. You know, like it's not even just the light, it's the fact that he wouldn't even make the tiniest effort to be neighborly. So, yeah, now my husband keeps joking about getting even somehow. Like he said we should go over there at night and point all his cameras in a different direction, which obviously we're not gonna do. But yeah, we're pretty ticked about it. So we just kind of fantasize about revenge, I guess. Um like I don't want some giant beef with this guy, because in the end we all have to live next to each other, you know. But yeah, just wondering what other people do when they have a total jerk for a neighbor. Like, do you just ignore them or get revenge or what?

SPEAKER_02 3:38

Wow, I I got your c the clearest answer to this. Okay. So do you remember uh an ex of yours? First of all, I'm gonna set it up like this. This is not what I recommend you do, but this is an example. Okay. Do you remember an ex of yours that used to wave at a neighbor that they'd never wave back, finally started flipping them off, and all of a sudden they're like, oh hi, I'm waving now. Yes. Sometimes you gotta point out the obvious to the people. There is only one solution to this problem. Okay. Do you want to take a guess at what my solution's gonna be?

SPEAKER_01 4:06

Well, I have no clue what your solution is gonna be because number one, you've already pointed out the problem by going to their house. Right, and he doesn't care. And then I feel like you have to give them a little taste of their own medicine. You have to give them a taste of that.

SPEAKER_02 4:18

We're getting close to what my solution is.

SPEAKER_01 4:20

Because the uh, you know, the guy just is just not understanding it from my perspective.

SPEAKER_02 4:24

Oh, he's just not caring. He understands he doesn't care.

SPEAKER_01 4:28

That's okay, yes, until it inconveniences him.

SPEAKER_02 4:31

So what you gotta do, you were close. You were dancing right near the edge of what I was gonna t say. Okay. You only have one option. Since this guy did this, you have to go buy the most set of powerful floodlights. In fact, I would rent, you know, those big spotlights? Just to prove my point. You know, like the this is the spotlight like the Batman signal gets from, you know, you see them at movie premieres and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01 4:54

I have something like that uh for sale on eBay. So if they reach out to me, I will gladly sell them. It's a vintage spotlight.

SPEAKER_02 5:01

Okay, so you need one of those big ones that like when you light it up, it's like boom, and you're like nice egg, like dims the lights all around you, and just aim it at the guy's house. If this guy's not because if you've gone the steps of attempting to reason with him and be decent about it, and clearly he's not breaking like an ordinance. I mean, it's lighting up his property.

SPEAKER_01 5:22

Right. And I do give them credit for at least being calm at first and saying, hey, can we be neighborly? Yeah. You've tried. You bought blackout curtains. Right. The fact that he hasn't, that's just so crazy to me.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

Does Sunbelt rent those giant floodlights? Because I will personally call for you and get the thing booked. Anybody with me, text me on this. Is this the only revenge? You have to go so hard back at this guy. You're like landing planes at the Almaya Recording Regional with the light up at the runway. This is how it's gotta go.

SPEAKER_01 5:50

And if you can't do that, because you don't I don't know if renting is gonna be enough. You have to own it and have it on every single day. Don't he rearrange it? Right. This has to be an inconvenience. Have you ever seen the contractor lights that kind of are on the horseshoe type thing?

SPEAKER_02 6:03

Yes, that's better than I mean. Mine was kind of epically like, you know.

SPEAKER_01 6:07

It is epic, I think.

SPEAKER_02 6:08

But you're right, those things are stupid bright.

SPEAKER_01 6:10

And we might have to resort to that. Yeah. But for right now, I need it to be there in his eyes while he's trying to watch the World Cup Jeopardy. Every every single day.

SPEAKER_02 6:21

And they stay on all night. All the time. All night until he realizes Actually, night is gonna feel like day between the two of them.

SPEAKER_01 6:28

Yes.