Neighborhood Edition: Extremely Nosey Neighbor, Absolutely Knot, Ask Us Anything, & VIP Table

Ep. 7 

This episode is all things in the neighborhood. We kickoff with a story about a backyard wedding with a nosey neighbor. Our Absolutely Knot is things you should not (or can) do as a neighbor. Ask us anything with some personal and wedding answers. We finish with VIP Table Neighbor Stereotypes.

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

All right. Welcome to the Absolutely Not Another podcast. It is just Mr. Cassie and Mrs. Cassie.

SPEAKER_01 0:08

Yep. Just us for it.

SPEAKER_00 0:09

Or today. And Cassie, it is summertime in our household. Officially. Officially.

SPEAKER_01 0:16

Tyson's on summer break, which means we're on summer break.

SPEAKER_00 0:18

Yeah. And we got a vacation coming up next week, taking him to the most magical place on earth, Rat World, as your dad would call it.

SPEAKER_01 0:27

My dad calls it Rat World. That is correct.

SPEAKER_00 0:29

But it doesn't really feel like summertime because here in Pittsburgh, it has gone from 70s, 80 degrees in April. In May, it's been 35, 45, high temperatures, 60 degrees. That's why I'm in a jacket right now, actually.

SPEAKER_01 0:45

It's like I need the weather to decide because I want to swap out my clothes. You know, I want to take all my winter clothes and put them away. But every day, and I'm like, okay, I'm going to do this today. The weather sucks. And I'm like, I'm not going to put all those clothes away because I got to wear them.

unknown 0:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:58

Whenever we were in college, the week of our graduation, it snowed the last week, early May.

SPEAKER_01 1:06

Yeah, I was going to say it probably was exactly the same time frame, early May. That's when we're recording.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

Get me to Florida. Yes. Which is where we went right after for it. The other uh thing happening is I gotta wish you a happy Mother's Day.

SPEAKER_01 1:18

Yeah, Mother's Day. The best day ever.

SPEAKER_00 1:21

You gave me a request on what you wanted for Mother's Day. We have a restaurant that we frequent probably once every week, every two weeks. Maybe twice a week. Sometimes twice a week. They have these empanadas. I might be pronouncing that wrong.

SPEAKER_01 1:34

No, that's correct.

SPEAKER_00 1:35

And a chicken bacon ranch dip.

SPEAKER_01 1:37

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:38

Like, I want you to go down, order it, bring it home to me, let me devour it.

SPEAKER_01 1:42

Yeah, that's all I want for Mother's Day. I don't want anything else, honestly. I want those two appetizers, maybe a pizza from there.

SPEAKER_00 1:49

Maybe some pizza too. Maybe some kid free hour two or three or just a little R.

SPEAKER_01 1:56

Maybe.

SPEAKER_00 1:57

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:58

I don't mind. Like Mother's Day is about being a mom. So, like to me, I'm like, I like to be around the kids.

SPEAKER_00 2:02

Yeah. Give you some relaxation. I got plans, maybe.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 2:06

There's not, it's not really like big plans. It's just I'm like, what are the plans? Just think of maybe take them away for like an hour or two and then come back to rest. Yeah, just have your me time for a moment. And then we'll come back and enjoy our Mother's Day. And party. And party. Oh, we're gonna party.

SPEAKER_01 2:22

As in party, I mean we'll probably be watching Moana.

SPEAKER_00 2:26

Moana, yeah. Tyson.

SPEAKER_01 2:27

Moana or Beauty and the Beast.

SPEAKER_00 2:29

He's into he's been in the beauty and the beast for the last few weeks, and right before Disney, like hold on to that. Yes, there's a lot of cool things in Disney that deal with Lumiere, Cogsworth, Bell, yes, the beast gaston. We can his pub that's there that really isn't a pub. I wanted him to experience that, but right now he's into the crab.

SPEAKER_01 2:48

The crab from Moana. I think it's because he likes crabs. And then like it just naturally he saw that there was a crab in Moana, and he loves villains. So that's like a mashup for him.

SPEAKER_00 2:58

Yeah. And shout out Danny Go. There's one particular video that both the kids like right now that where they do dance like an animal. Dance like an animal, and one of us a crab, and he gets down, he does the crab walk, he does his little crab thing, crab arms. Benny is funny with it too, that whenever the dinosaur comes out, she's like, it's me. She laughs every time.

SPEAKER_01 3:20

That's great.

SPEAKER_00 3:20

It's great.

SPEAKER_01 3:21

It's so funny.

SPEAKER_00 3:22

Um, with summertime, it does bring neighbors out and about. Everyone's been in hibernation. Some have stayed in hibernation. Whenever we move to our neighborhood for the first six months, we shook hands with our neighbors. Pleasure to meet you. I would say four months. Four months of just because then it was March. Yeah, knowing who they are. March hits and it was 2020. Yeah, we all know what happened then. Know what happened then. About few a few weeks pass in 2020, and the neighbors started to get a little stir crazy. We were a part of that.

SPEAKER_01 3:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:56

And one neighbor in particular, our next door neighbor, shout out Steve. If you're listening, I know you aren't, but shout out Steve. I don't even think he knows what a podcast is.

SPEAKER_01 4:06

Probably not.

unknown 4:07

No.

SPEAKER_00 4:07

But he was out there. We're like, we should take the dogs out. At the time we didn't have our kids.

SPEAKER_01 4:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:13

And then all the other neighbors started to congregate and we were six feet apart. Yeah, we stayed six feet apart. And then about a week or two passed, we're like, we haven't gone, no one has gone anywhere.

SPEAKER_01 4:22

That's yeah, we've all just been at our house. I love summertime in our neighborhood or like on our street specifically because there's so many kids that are the same age.

SPEAKER_00 4:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:30

All of the parents are super chill. Everybody on our streets, like very friendly. Very friendly. And like, I don't know, it makes I didn't grow up in a neighborhood. I grew up on a main street, so I didn't have that. So like to have that now, I'm like, I absolutely love that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:43

I grew up uh the street that I was on. My sister was she's over, she's about 10 years older than me. Shout out.

SPEAKER_01 4:52

Don't reveal her age.

SPEAKER_00 4:53

Don't reveal her age. Um she lived two doors down. My sister lived two doors down. And our other neighbors within the neighborhood, so to say, not necessarily my street, but the kids my age, we would go around and play different games. And it was one of those neighborhoods where it was like late 90s, early 2000s. My parents, like, you have to be home when the streetlight comes on. And when I start to hear the buzz of the streetlight turning on, I gotta get home. I gotta hurry up. I gotta get home before they get mad at me. And then it became into turning 16 and getting my license, like be home by 11 o'clock. Like 11:01 hit. Like I'm grounded for a week because I'm a minute late. My parents weren't like harsh, they didn't really ground me, but in my mind, I'm thinking I'm gonna be in like big, big trouble for it. But when we lived in Florida, we never really had we had neighbors, but we did not talk to them.

SPEAKER_01 5:44

I mean, like we maybe said hi.

SPEAKER_00 5:45

We're we were cordial with them.

SPEAKER_01 5:47

Yeah, there was a couple times we maybe had a couple cocktails and ended up like somehow in their house a couple times. I'm like, what are we doing here? I don't know. I literally don't know about these people.

SPEAKER_00 5:56

Why am I here? We do that way too often with our neighbors now. Everyone, like my two best friends outside of my buddies from college or buddies from home are my neighbors always neighbors on the street. Shout out again, Steve and Rick.

SPEAKER_01 6:10

Rick probably knows what a podcast is.

SPEAKER_00 6:11

Rick knows what a podcast is. Rick's always on social media following along. So shout out Rick. I know you're listening. With the summertime hitting and then just seeing the neighborhood kind of come to life, we figured this episode would gear towards neighbors in the neighborhood.

SPEAKER_01 6:30

We got a really good story about a nosy neighbor. So if you didn't know, that's what today's episode's about. Neighbors.

SPEAKER_00 6:38

Neighbors, not the movie.

SPEAKER_01 6:40

Won't you be my neighbor? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:42

Another shout out. We said it maybe an episode in one of the first few episodes. We moved into our neighborhood.

SPEAKER_01 6:49

Right after.

SPEAKER_00 6:50

Right after, right after. Shout out Tom Hanks. If you ever want to get on again. But he filmed not the entire movie, but a couple of the scenes were in our neighborhood, and Tom Hanks was there. And everyone that was living there at the time, they all congregated to the house. I would have been down there. And he was very nice to everybody. He was taking pictures, he was welcoming everybody to our very own neighborhood, I guess.

SPEAKER_01 7:16

I just think that's so cool. Like if that I wish.

SPEAKER_00 7:18

But it is shout out neighbors regardless. Shout out Tom Hanks. And Tom Hanks, shout out to you.

SPEAKER_01 7:24

So all right. And just a friendly reminder before we get into the story that if you have a juicy story or something dramatic that you want to share with us, to email it into infow at weddingprocast.com and title it story submission. If you've changed the names, let us know. Because we always change a couple of details before we share it on the pod. Yeah. And if you have any feedback for us or you've been listening along, make sure you're following. Subscribe on um Apple Music, Spotify, wherever you listen, and also my YouTube channel if you like to watch us. And we are totally open to feedback. We've been having guests on. We'll start having more. If there's something you want to hear or a themed episode that you want, like let us know. Yeah. We want to know less.

SPEAKER_00 8:04

We want to do it. I would say very happy with everyone giving the feedback. We've been five stars across the board. Heck yeah. Five stars only. Five stars only. Four. I wasn't even saying four stars only before. But it's only been five stars, which I appreciate the five-star review.

SPEAKER_01 8:21

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 8:22

Because we can blabble. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 8:23

Okay. We're going to get into the story. This segment is brought to you by memory. That's M-E-M-O-R-I-I. And if you're getting married and can't afford a videographer, then this one's for you. One of the biggest regrets couples talk about after their wedding day is not having enough video footage of the moments that mattered

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SPEAKER_01 8:40

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SPEAKER_00 10:03

That's a federal offense.

SPEAKER_01 10:04

I was just thinking that. Once while on a weekend getaway, she contacted us via Facebook Messenger about the lack of movement in our driveway, saying she looked in our windows to see if we were there and she didn't see anyone, so she called for a welfare check. It was a whole thing. I understand being like a watchful neighbor, but that's too much. We always were very kind to her, talking to her when we were all outside. But when we put up a privacy fence in our backyard, she got even nosier. I frequently found her sitting on her porch just looking around the neighborhood with binoculars. This was very strange to me. Is this a woman married or is she living alone?

SPEAKER_00 10:42

Yeah, she has nothing better to do for sure.

SPEAKER_01 10:45

Okay. We had decided to throw a small wedding about 40 to 50 people at our house. In preparation for the wedding, we contacted the HOA to make sure that would not be a problem. We were doing a daytime cookout style backyard wedding thing. Grilling, we had the pool open for some kids, and we're using the patio for dancing with our home speakers, not even bringing in a DJ. We were doing a courthouse wedding, so this was more of a party celebrating the marriage. I'm so glad we don't have to deal with an HOA.

SPEAKER_00 11:13

Whenever you mention HOA, seeking approval through that is a lot worse than just reaching out to your neighbors around you. Like, hey, we're gonna have our son's birthday parties in our backyard. Please come and we'll be having a good time. The people were gonna be, it's gonna be a little bit louder. It's a kid's birthday party, so it's not like we're getting rowdy.

SPEAKER_01 11:32

So they like contact the HOA. HOA says good. We were going to be wearing our wedding attire and ask people to dress up, not fancy, but dress up for the wedding. We rented a couple of tables and we're bringing in a professional florist to decorate inside and outside. So think fancy home wedding. I don't know how better to describe it. About one month before the wedding, we went around to the neighborhood to let everyone know we were hosting our wedding celebration at our house and that the neighborhood may be a bit busier than usual that day, possibly the day before and maybe the day after.

SPEAKER_00 12:01

Okay, so they're doing their due diligence. Before kids, we would have people over and I would let them know too that hey, there might be extra cars. Sometimes I would ask our neighbor right next to us to adhere to having more cars on like the in the actual road. Can we like pop our cars in your driveway for the day?

SPEAKER_01 12:20

Yeah. Two neighbors on our street were invited to the wedding, and the rest didn't seem to mind at all. They all sent their congratulations and were excited for us. Everyone except for Susan. No surprise.

SPEAKER_00 12:30

Susan's just mad she didn't get the invite.

SPEAKER_01 12:32

When we told her she was mad that the street would be packed with cars and strangers she didn't know, and how she wanted no one parking in or around her house. We told her unfortunately people would be parking near her house because we were neighbors, but we would make sure they didn't park in front of her house. She also mentioned how she would need everyone to be gone around six because that's when she needs her rest time in the evening. We told her that the party was planned until eight, way before the noise ordinance in our neighborhood of 9 30 p.m. After that conversation, I didn't anticipate much more grumpiness, but three big things happened in the final two weeks. Like your party's gotta end at six o'clock. Says who.

SPEAKER_00 13:10

To have a neighbor like Susan, we don't thankfully have one, and we never had one. I never even had one growing up either. Just not something that's I wanna do whatever.

SPEAKER_01 13:21

No. She proceeded to email the HOA about parking concerns five different times. They finally forwarded it my way and asked if I had planned out parking at all. I told them the majority of the guests would park in our driveway and in front of our house, but any extras would be parking on the street. They followed up asking if we could have the others park near the neighborhood playground and walk up to avoid further confrontation from Susan. It was a bit of a walk, about 0.3 miles. We agreed, but we ended up asking our neighbors that were invited to the party if we could use their driveway, which they said yes. This resulted in us having to contact everyone to figure out driving situations so we could assign people exactly where they needed to park. Unnecessary extra work and stress, if you asked me. Agreed. You shouldn't have to do like a parking chart for the cars.

SPEAKER_00 14:08

No. The only time that you really have to do a parking chart is if there's a family that has a baby, and if there's an elderly person that's attending your house, you always want to make sure for like holidays. My grandma was coming. Closest spot. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 14:25

So that must be the first bad thing she did. The week before my wedding, several gifts and decorations were being delivered to the house. We didn't have a wedding shower. So lots of people bought things from the registry and mailed them directly to us. There was one day in particular where eight packages arrived, four larger gifts and four boxes from Amazon that she thought sat out too long. So she took it upon herself to bring them inside for safety. The safe spot she decided on, her own house. I pulled in the driveway to her loading things up onto a wagon and pulling them into her garage again. I think that's illegal.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

Yeah, with this mailing situation. I I always give a thank you to our neighbors. Like we order Chewy for our dogs for dog food. And if it's out there and we're away, I get a text like, hey, you got a big package in your driveway, just FYI. Not like you gotta get rid of it. But it's raining and you might want to bring it in. Or I think one of our neighbors in particular is like, I put it against your garage so it didn't get wet.

SPEAKER_01 15:27

Yeah, because we have the best neighborhood. Yeah. I confronted her and she tried to explain it away, saying it was neighbors watching after neighbors. And I should be grateful to live next to someone who actually cares. I was annoyed and I rolled my eyes and explained that our packages were not going to be stolen. I knew they were going to be delivered, and that was the first thing I was going to do when I got home from work. She then asked, Why wasn't I invited? I found out Tammy and Bob got the invite, and so did the Smiths. I had to explain how we've grown very close to them the past year, and we that we've lived here and we do a lot with them outside of our neighborhood. Not that I should have to explain anything to her. She said, If you aren't going to invite everyone on the street, you shouldn't throw your wedding here. Some of us are feeling very left out.

SPEAKER_00 16:10

Yeah, only one person is feeling left out.

SPEAKER_01 16:13

Every other person was fine with it. I told her it wasn't my intention to have people feel left out, but this is a personal celebration, and I can invite whomever I'd like to my own house. The next smack in the face was a letter she put into everyone's mailbox gauging interest for a garage sale on the street. Guess the date in question, our wedding. I was pissed. My husband went over this time to talk to her, and she said, You don't own the date, and several people on our street have a free day, and I think it would be nice to build community by hosting a neighborhood garage sale. Luckily, everyone else on the street said that date didn't work for them, and she did not move forward with it.

SPEAKER_00 16:48

I gotta give her a little bit of props on it. She knows there's people from the outside coming in already, so she's trying to profit off of the wedding with her garage. Like, oh, I got all these cars coming in. I didn't think of that.

SPEAKER_01 17:01

She's like, these guests might want to peruse before or after.

SPEAKER_00 17:04

Yeah, obviously she might not have thought that through, but in terms of a business standpoint, it's a great garage shell business idea.

SPEAKER_01 17:13

I was thinking more she was trying to make parking more difficult, like make their wedding day more difficult.

SPEAKER_00 17:20

And just yeah, well, if they're gonna have a garage shell, then they're gonna have to park at the playground that's down the street then. And walk up.

SPEAKER_01 17:27

The final punch came one day before the wedding. I was woken up by loud sawing noises. I walk out to see what it was. She decided she needed to have a giant tree removed from her side yard. You guessed it, the side yard that was next to us. Dust chips, tree branches, leaves going everywhere. My husband approached her again because I was so livid I could not talk to her. She told him it was a two-day job and they would be finishing up sometime tomorrow afternoon.

SPEAKER_00 17:54

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 17:56

I didn't realize how crazy tree removal was until I had to see it after that storm. And like that is so noisy. And like they're up in the tree, like right there.

SPEAKER_00 18:07

Yeah, if you even if you have a privacy fence, they are looking over, you can hear everything. That it is the vehicle that gets rid of the tree. Yeah, like the shredder. The shredder. The shredder. Uh yeah, I'm like the tree removal. Yeah, the the back part of the truck, the vehicle they bring in, the shredder, is insanely loud. Yeah. Again, if you got to remove a tree, I understand. But she knew one, there was a wedding happening, and she tried to do a garage shell, and then she was like, Well, the garage shell didn't work. What else can I do to make this worse for them?

SPEAKER_01 18:41

Yeah. This person says, literally, what the hell? Why did she need to do that? I have no clue. There was nothing wrong with the tree. My husband ended up paying the company extra to push the final tree removal to Monday to avoid issues on our wedding day. Good for them. But also They shouldn't have to be paying. Yes. All right. Finally comes the wedding day. And I guess Susan's personal snooping day. She made it her personal mission, I think, to disrupt the plans that we had. She set up a bunch of cones in front of her house to veer people away from parking there with caution tape in between. It looked like a crime scene.

SPEAKER_00 19:15

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 19:16

It's just like unnecessary.

SPEAKER_00 19:19

But we we bought or we didn't do it. Goodness. At the bottom of our neighborhood, there was a new pizza place that opened up. And I get it. Whenever it opened, there's people parking in a very kind of like inopportune. In uh in a place that they should not be parking at. There's a stop sign, it's a lot of traffic that flows through it, and the person put cinder blocks there to blockade people parking there. So I kind of get it in that light, but I'm assuming with an HOA, they probably don't live somewhere that has a lot of vehicle traffic going through.

SPEAKER_01 19:52

Yeah. Doing that is don't you think the HOA is gonna be like you can't put up with it? No, you can't do that.

SPEAKER_00 19:58

Thank goodness I never lived in an HOA. Yeah, like this is proving my desire to never do that.

SPEAKER_01 20:04

When I read the story submission, I felt that this was probably like a fancier neighborhood. That's what I was like getting from.

SPEAKER_00 20:10

Yeah. To be not like I'm great for them, but to say that majority of the cars are gonna be able to park in their driveway, like we can fit four cars max in our driveway.

SPEAKER_01 20:19

They might be able to fit like six. I don't know the size of this house. Okay. It looked like a crime scene. Our guests then started to get worried that they were gonna get towed. I had to answer four calls about it as people were arriving for the wedding. She also made the decision to set up a very tall ladder in her backyard while blasting Jimmy Buffett on repeat. What's the ladder for? She kept climbing up the ladder to dust off the shutters or paint the shutters. I don't know what the hell she was doing up there. She honestly looked like she was climbing up to do nothing, just to look into the backyard. While Margaritaville blasted over and over again, cheeseburger in Paradise can only be heard so many times before it gets annoying. My dad walked over there and asked her kindly to turn it down during the first dance and the speeches, which she did grumpily. Other than that, she didn't cause much chaos. After the wedding, she asked to see photos, and I told her there was no need since she saw it all from her ladder that day. She has been pretty distant since. Tried to yell at us for putting our trash cans too close to her yard once. Other than that, I act like I don't know her if I see her in public.

SPEAKER_00 21:25

Yeah. Everything about this Susan lady is a punchable offense. Susan sucks. You I never wanted to punch somebody more. If I dealt with a neighbor like this, I would be arrested for assault.

SPEAKER_01 21:38

She's also one of those people that like does all these mean wrong things on purpose and then like expects people to be friendly to her. Yeah. That's not how it works.

SPEAKER_00 21:46

I don't need to be cordial with you. Right. I get mad whenever our neighbor that moved in, not to the right of us, but to the left of us, does not cut her grass. Like, and we don't have an HOA. I know you can't do it. Just hire somebody. You have a massive

SPEAKER_01 22:00

Or just ask for help. Like most people are happy to be like, yeah, when I mow mine, I'll mow yours. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:05

We had a neighbor that just moved out of our neighborhood and we did a little going-away party for her at the local restaurant by us. And we mentioned how the neighbor that moved in directly next to me doesn't do any the people that lived there before her did so much landscaping work. It always looked great. It's at the corner going down our street. We're like, she doesn't even cut her grass. And shout out to them. Whenever they moved, they did get their uh mower out and cut the lawn. But they also like left the leftover grass. Shout out Steve, him and I cut it again.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:41

And she's like, oh, I'm surprised. Like neighbors don't really do these nice things like this wherever I was at before. Like, well, like I thankfully it was already cut.

SPEAKER_01 22:51

But also do it. If you can't do it yourself, which some people can't physically do it, hire someone else. If you can't afford that, which is fine too, ask for help. Yeah. Like most people, somebody in this neighborhood is gonna be able to help out.

SPEAKER_00 23:04

Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 23:06

I don't want a Susan neighbor. I'm glad we don't have any Susan neighborhood.

SPEAKER_00 23:12

You are SOL.

SPEAKER_01 23:15

All right. Welcome

Absolutely Knot

SPEAKER_01 23:16

to our signature segment. Absolutely not. Where today we're addressing things you should absolutely not be doing as a neighbor. Okay. Or maybe absolutely yes. Maybe absolutely, yes. We'll see. I'm gonna ask today, and Garrett's gonna give his take and I'll give my other take.

SPEAKER_00 23:32

Yeah, we're professional neighbors.

SPEAKER_01 23:34

Yeah, we are. I guess. All right. Mowing your lawn at 7 a.m. on a Saturday morning.

SPEAKER_00 23:40

Yeah, that's an absolutely not. Saturday morning at seven is the Zen time. Sleep time. Sleep time Saturday or Sunday. To be honest, if you're doing it Monday through Friday at 7 a.m., I will allow it because you're either getting ready to go to work, you left for work, the kids have got to get up for school. So it's kind of a good alarm clock for it. But the the additional thing about people mowing lawns is whenever someone does mow the lawn, then I'm forced to do it.

SPEAKER_01 24:09

Yeah, then you have to go do it.

SPEAKER_00 24:11

Like I'd look at my grasp.

SPEAKER_01 24:12

See, I think 7 a.m. is just too early for any of that. Maybe eight, maybe 8 30 would be the earliest. And on the weekends, nine or later.

SPEAKER_00 24:20

And if you're hiring somebody to do work outside at your house, they're not gonna start until probably eight, eight thirty at the earliest. So except for the trash. Trash, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:32

Trash comes at 6 30 a.m. I'm like, oh my god, the worst is Monday morning.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

We've done it very few times recently, but early on when we move there to our house, it would be like 6 a.m. and I hear the truck, and it's either the recycling truck or the trash truck. And now the trash truck comes later, and I would forget to take the trash out, and then you're stuck with trash for two weeks, and like we fill up quick now with the kids. But back then we would have people over and have parties like we're 20 years old.

SPEAKER_01 25:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:05

And not good, not good.

SPEAKER_01 25:07

Or like we were trying to rush to get the trash cans down. Like you hear it, you're like, Oh, we gotta go, hurry up. Okay. Park parking directly in front of someone's mailbox.

SPEAKER_00 25:17

Yes, again, it's so I think it's okay because you know what the mailman's gotta just get out and put it there. It's not like the mail's gonna skip your house because someone's there, it's just the right thing to not do. Yeah, like don't park.

SPEAKER_01 25:33

I feel like if an if a mailman was answering that question, they'd be like, absolutely not.

SPEAKER_00 25:37

Right. And I'm not a mailman.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

Yeah. I mean, sometimes I feel like I'm guilty of parking in front of the mailbox because that's the only spot, like if I'm visiting someone else's house. Right. Or like our babysitters park pretty close to our mailbox frequently. And I remember once I got the mail and there was a note on it, and it was like, please, it it was like delayed a day because the person didn't get out of the truck, maybe because of weather or something.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

Yeah, weather might have been bad.

SPEAKER_01 26:00

But it was literally like car parked too close to mailbox, and I'm like, oh, yikes.

SPEAKER_00 26:05

So I guess maybe it is an absolutely not. It's parking in front of a mailbox or someone else's driveway, not like directly in front of it. Obviously, you don't want to like blockade if it's a small enough road, if you're parking in front of a driveway, it could be inconvenient. It's inconvenient. It's not necessarily an absolutely not, it's just an absolutely inconvenient.

SPEAKER_01 26:25

Yeah. And like one time our babysitter did that and got her car smashed.

SPEAKER_00 26:29

Yeah. Yeah. So maybe don't do that. Our neighbor also backed into your car and didn't say anything.

SPEAKER_01 26:35

All right. Letting your dog poop in someone's yard while you're on a walk and you don't clean it up.

SPEAKER_00 26:40

Like the first part of it, if you didn't say the last five words, it was it's fine because that's just what happens. Thank goodness your dog's going number two. But to not clean it up, you can't be doing that.

SPEAKER_01 26:53

That's a federal offense.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

Is it really? No, maybe. Maybe if you do it. But no, it was our I love Facebook community forums in our local one. There's a particular drive that's in our like district. And this was probably a few years back. It still gets brought up in like conversation whenever there's something that's really blown up online. But somebody went onto the community forum saying to not let your dog when you're walking to even go to the restroom. Cleaning up wasn't even part of it. It was like I just watched five people walk their dogs and they went number two in my yard. Each one got cleaned up. So then the the joke. Then there's no problem. Yeah, then there's no problem for it. Our neighborhood, we have a lot of dogs, so it happens a lot. My issue is not necessarily yes, you pick it up. Whenever I'm walking the dogs, I take the bags with me. But there are people that will like leave their bag somewhere on the street and then not come back and retrieve it. There's one right now in our on our street that is just sitting there.

SPEAKER_01 28:01

Yeah, and then like cars hit it and it like gets all over.

SPEAKER_00 28:07

Our bags currently for the dogs when I take them on a walk is blue. They have paw prints on it. This is if anyone ever questions me, it's like, you're it's your dog's bag. It's your dog's poop in this bag. It's not because it doesn't have the paw prints. But I'm not picking it up, it's not my bag to pick up.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

Yeah, somebody probably bagged it and was like, I don't want to walk with this, and then just left it there.

SPEAKER_00 28:27

Yeah, it's just rude. It's just rude. The worst part though is when I'm walking the dogs and I carry the poop bags in my pocket. We're gonna have to put explicit because I'm saying poop.

SPEAKER_01 28:38

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 28:38

We're taking the the bags with us. I'm taking the bags with us when I'm walking the dogs, and I'm running low. Like I have two bags left, and I'm walking one of our dogs. Oh, we're like once I get back home for the we have three dogs. So once I get to the second or third dog, I have a fresh bag ready to go. But our chocolate lab, depending on the like distance of the walk, he'll go one to two times most of the time. So I'm good, I'm set two times. But then he has this mystery third one that drops, and it's always just like the goeiest one. And then I'm far away, and I can't, I'm not gonna clean it up with an existing bag that already has stuff in it because I already have it roped up. It's good to go. So then I will leave it, but I'll come back to it. I'll the second dog I walk, or if it's on the last one you loop it, you just pick it up. I'll pick it up, and then you gotta kind of make it seem like if there's I just like envision the neighbors watching me not pick it up. So I kind of just give like a wave like, hey, hey, I'll be back. I just ran out of bags.

SPEAKER_01 29:39

Yeah, I feel like that's okay if you're in an instance where you run out of bags, but if you know you're walking your dog in the neighborhood, just bring the poop bags, like clean it up and don't lay the bag down. Take it back to your house and put it in the trash can.

SPEAKER_00 29:52

Steve, again, our our next door neighbor, he he has this goal in life to be our uh commissioner of our ward. One of his three things that he wants to kind of make his stand on is poop bag stations throughout the neighborhood.

SPEAKER_01 30:09

Yeah. In Florida, they always had those everywhere. Yeah, yeah. Asking how much someone paid for their house before you even introduce yourself to the new neighbor.

SPEAKER_00 30:17

In this day and age, you don't even have to ask. Yeah. Because I'm already looking at what the listing was, and then I see it goes contingent, and then I see that it sold for this much over. These days everything's over. Everything's over. It's never really going under unless the house is a hunk of junk.

SPEAKER_01 30:33

I feel like it's like a hot topic on our street too. Like everyone's following it.

SPEAKER_00 30:37

Yeah. Well, we look at it at like we bought our house six years ago, and the houses that are going on our street are going double of what we paid for.

SPEAKER_01 30:44

Yeah, it's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 30:45

Would I love to eventually get like a bigger house and go somewhere else? Yeah, it'd be nice. And we'd make a profit off of selling our home. But then when we go to another place, we're gonna probably pay triple based off of it. The housing market now is nuts. No, you don't ask somebody that on what they paid for. But again, Zillow is a free app to search homes around the area. And we're not currently like looking for homes, but Zillow is one of my top 10 apps that I go on to just peruse just to look. Sometimes certain screens. I feel like you show me houses.

SPEAKER_01 31:17

Sometimes you're like, oh, look at this house. We could get this house. I'm like, yeah, maybe. Who knows? Who knows where life will take us? Peeking through your blinds every time someone pulls into your driveway.

SPEAKER_00 31:29

Um, yeah, I'm doing it. I'm also doing it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:33

Like even when people are walking down the street, I'm looking at who it is.

SPEAKER_00 31:36

Yeah, if it's my driveway, before I even have to peek, our dogs are seeing somebody pulling our street or uh in our driveway to like hey, there's someone here.

SPEAKER_02 31:46

Hey, what are you doing here? What are you doing? Who's there?

SPEAKER_00 31:48

Yeah, but yeah, walkers that are walking down the street. I'm I'm peeking out. I see some of the neighbors out. Like, well, maybe I'll go out and conversate with them too. No, I think it's all right. I think that's yeah, your own property. I want to know who it is. Most of the time, it's like the pizza delivery guy, or it's an Amazon box coming in where we decide to get groceries delivered.

SPEAKER_01 32:13

We are we are on a cul-de-sac, so we don't get a turn, we don't get a lot of turnaround traffic.

SPEAKER_00 32:17

No.

SPEAKER_01 32:18

But I feel like in certain neighborhoods that would be annoying if you were like a convenient spot to have to turn around. Yeah. That would suck.

SPEAKER_00 32:24

We one of my favorite spots locally around the Pittsburgh, the greater Pittsburgh area, and it's outside of Allegheny County, so local Pittsburghers are like, this isn't really Pittsburgh, but in Greensburg, PA, Joey O's pizza, it's in a very inconvenient place to pick up pizza. Yes. The parking lot's terrible. You got to park either on the street. I think we had to do it the last time, but whenever we were pulling out to get on the road that we needed to get to to go to our next destination, I had to pull into a driveway. And I'm sure that person gets it a lot. So sorry to that person.

SPEAKER_01 32:58

Whoever lives next to Joey as we turned around in your driveway. Sorry about that. Yeah. Creating a neighborhood Facebook post before talking to your neighbor about an issue that you're having.

SPEAKER_00 33:07

Yeah, you can't do it, but I love the drama to like see that online. Like if I go to again, our community forum that's on Facebook, I just eat that thing up. I love seeing that kind of stuff go online.

SPEAKER_01 33:20

The community forums are so funny because it's like, did you hear those sirens? What's going on? It's like two seconds after you hear an ambulance.

SPEAKER_00 33:26

You're like two minutes, two minutes past, and there's already 20 responses. Like, there are people that just sit there and listen all around them to be like, what's going on out there? Something's wrong. Yeah. Is there an accident? Is there a fire? Like they always go to the most dramatic thing.

SPEAKER_01 33:42

And people like listen into the, I don't know what the police thing is. Like you can listen in on a scanner.

SPEAKER_00 33:46

Is that what the Pittsburgh scanner? There's a the Pittsburgh scanner, uh, Twitter or X, the Everything app. I follow that one. I don't really go on X that much, but it's for things like the Pittsburgh scanner.

SPEAKER_01 33:58

But do people like sit around and listen to that for fun? I think so. I'm like, who has the time for that? They're like, well, I know what happened because I was listening on the Pittsburgh scanner. I'm like, really?

unknown 34:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:08

Most of the people that are causing Facebook drama in their community, if you go to their page, it's a flower as their profile picture, or it's like birds with a quote on it. Freedom. Freedom. Freedom. Yeah, the American flag with like a bald eagle. And you're like, okay.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

I also feel like our Facebook community pages are all about pizza. Like everybody's fighting about the best pizza shop.

SPEAKER_00 34:32

And I'm like, that's it's the easiest way to get 100 plus comments. Best pizza place around. I'm gonna do it later and just see what happens.

SPEAKER_01 34:40

I remember I wrote on our Facebook page too when we were like looking for a new babysitter's.

SPEAKER_02 34:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:45

And people are like so rude. They're like, you're just gonna put this information out there on the internet. I'm like, it's just like having people apply for a job. I'm telling them where to contact me so that I can like find out if you are available to babysit. I'm not just hiring any Joe Schmo.

SPEAKER_00 34:59

Yeah. You're yeah, just because you're responding to it doesn't mean I'm gonna hire you. I'm gonna get a background check on it. I'm gonna do whatever. But the pay the Facebook community forums are a sanctuary that never needs to go away. Correct. Like I still follow the one that's from my hometown. Yes. And they got mad about a sign that it was the high school logo. It wasn't by the high school, but it was it took the place of an 84 lumber sign, and everyone was in an uproar about it. Like they it's a different world down in the Mon Valley area, Belvern, and in particular, in terms of the Facebook snobs. Yeah, they're everywhere, they're everywhere on there. So pretty dramatic. I have to stay in it. I have to stay in it. Don't kick me out. I know who runs it. Don't kick me out, even though I don't live there anymore. I don't think they really kick people out. They kick people out whenever they find out they actually don't live there.

SPEAKER_01 35:52

Calling the cops because someone is playing music at 9.07 p.m.

SPEAKER_00 35:57

No, no, yes, no. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 36:01

I don't think.

SPEAKER_00 36:02

I don't think you call the cops, so to say. You call or you maybe say, like, hey, can you turn it down? My kids are asleep. Because going from being a parent to not a parent in a neighborhood, I definitely get annoyed about certain things. Am I a culprit of a lot of the things that I get annoyed with? Absolutely, yes. Like having the music up until like nine, 10 o'clock, sometimes even 11, back during 2020 times. You don't call like the cops on that.

SPEAKER_01 36:29

Yeah. It's like if you have a problem, just go over to the neighbor's house and be like, hey, can you quiet down? If you've asked them multiple times and they're not listening, then of course cops might have to get involved. But I'm like, call me somebody at 907, come on. No. If that was the case, then like our street would have the cops on it every every weekend.

SPEAKER_00 36:45

Every weekend. Not every weekend, every other weekend. But it also gets me is when the kids are going to sleep and someone's going down the street and they honk their horn. And I'm like, oh, it pisses me off. We're going, the kids are trying to sleep. I'm he is fading.

SPEAKER_01 37:00

Yeah, like almost out. And then it's like beep, beep, beep. And then they're like, what was that?

SPEAKER_00 37:04

Who was that?

SPEAKER_01 37:04

I'm like, nobody. It's the nighttime car. Go to sleep. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:08

Yeah. We have the what is it? The night train train. Night time train. Down on the bottom of our hill. There's a train that passes by. Used to be like, oh, we would say, like, oh, it's the 907er.

SPEAKER_02 37:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:19

And that some that doesn't always come at the same time anymore, but it's anywhere between like 8 and 9:30. It passes through. Like, yep, that's time to go to sleep.

SPEAKER_01 37:27

There it is. Okay. Walking your dog around the neighborhood off leash.

SPEAKER_00 37:31

Yeah. No. No matter what. It's not necessarily if your dog is friendly or not, you don't know how a person might be that might run into that dog. They might be afraid of dogs. They might have had a bad experience with a dog. You always got to assume the worst, then assume that your dog's going to be a saint.

SPEAKER_01 37:51

And you cannot control an animal. Like, I don't, we have friendly dogs, but like if an aggressive dog would come up to our dog, like there could be a fight or you could get snipped at. Like we had that that one time we were walking where the dog, it was not the neighbor wasn't, it wasn't the neighbor's fault, but the dog escaped out of the garage while the garage door was closing. And remember, it kind of came at us, and Benny was a baby.

SPEAKER_00 38:13

Yeah, we had the kids in the stroller. We had our chocolate lab, and our chocolate lab's the sweetest dog it can be. It went after our dog. Yes. But then it also jumped towards you and you were holding Benny.

SPEAKER_01 38:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:24

Like, no, that can't be. I'm I'm I I went full dad mode then. I'm like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 38:29

Well you have to because like if the dog would like can it can seriously injure either another dog or a person. Like I know that was a like one of those situations. They didn't mean they didn't mean the dog to come out. Like the dog literally escaped. But like when people are at the park or people are in the neighborhood with their dog off leash, it's like you could think your dog is friendly, and then it's like a switch. That dog could attack another dog. Or animals, no matter what would happen.

SPEAKER_00 38:55

No, yeah. And that German Shepherd that was a German shepherd that went after it, those people that lived in that house moved like a month later. Because we confronted them.

SPEAKER_01 39:06

Pretending you just happen to be outside when you see the neighbors congregating in the street chatting together.

SPEAKER_00 39:12

Yeah, I'm I am a sucker for this one.

SPEAKER_01 39:16

This is an absolutely yes for you.

SPEAKER_00 39:18

Again, peeking out of the window blinds, like, oh, everyone's out. Like, let me go grab the mail real quick. What type of thing? I gotta grab something from my car.

SPEAKER_01 39:27

That is you to a T. I feel like we're both like that, but like I feel like you'll see people outside, and then you're like, I'm just gonna go check if the mail came yet.

SPEAKER_00 39:34

And I'm like, like, did you get the mail yet? And I just am already out. And even though he got it, I already see it on the kitchen counter. But our son does the same thing. If he sees kids out there, he's like, We gotta go, gotta get my crocs on. We gotta go. They're all outside. They're all there. But our dogs do the same thing. Yeah. Where they'll see another dog out there. Like our neighbor, again, shout out Steve. He has a dog that is in an electrical fence, but he'll see that she's outside. So then he wants to go next door. Yeah. So then I get him on a leash and I take him over.

SPEAKER_01 40:04

Take him over. Our next segment is Ask Us

Ask Us Anything

SPEAKER_01 40:06

Anything. We have received a lot of questions coming in from our followers on Instagram and on Facebook. Some are personal, some are wedding related. So today we're going to tackle two of each.

unknown 40:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 40:16

Cool. For the personal. What is your most irrational pet pee about each other? I guess what is your most biggest pet peeve of each other? I don't know why irrational. It doesn't make any sense, but okay. Like it's going to get tense in here.

SPEAKER_00 40:28

Oh, I'm nervous. I think this actually, when we were on a cruise, it was years ago, we got asked this question. We like met a couple that were on the same cruise. Like, if you get selected for it, we already know the questions in advance. So they couldn't. We cheated. We cheated. Don't tell Norwegian cruise lunch. We did win, but the same question got asked, and we didn't, we went through it with each other to know what this answer was. And then we didn't answer it correctly.

SPEAKER_01 40:56

Yeah, it was it was not so newly win game.

SPEAKER_00 40:58

Like wrote it on the board, and you put something, and I had to guess like, is this what she's most annoyed with me? Or and vice versa. We went 0 for 2 on this one. I want to hear your take first because I think I know based off of what happened on that cruise.

SPEAKER_01 41:11

I 100% always say the same thing, but it's finding your contacts like all over, dried up contacts. I'm not talking like the contacts. I mean, those are all over too, but like you wear, do you wear dailies? Is that what I'm saying? Yeah, I'm a daily contact.

SPEAKER_00 41:25

Because my eyes used to get so I used to get itchy. No, not itchy. When I was in middle school and I switched from glasses to contacts, which I never wore transition lenses lenses, by the way. That is a lie. I swear I didn't. You saw she saw a picture of me in glasses and they looked like transition lenses. It had to be the camera because I never did. Anywho, I went from weekly or I was in weekly contacts, and I would get called like a pot smoker in like seventh grade. And I was very anti-that in seventh grade for sure. Student of the year. Yeah, I was dear dare student of the year.

SPEAKER_01 42:00

Dare student of the year.

SPEAKER_00 42:02

I don't even know what it stands for. So then I switched to dailies, and I am a culprit.

SPEAKER_01 42:07

Yeah. It's like I'll be in the bathroom, they're like on the counter in our room, like on your shelf. And it's like, it's not one, it's like 30. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:17

Well, it's right before like I'm like, oh right before I lay down for bed. I'm like, oh, I still got my contacts in. So I just take them out and then I put them on there. Some of them end up falling on the ground. And then when I run the vacuum, it's like and I got a close second. Oh, you got two.

SPEAKER_01 42:33

It's like it's very similar, but instead of contacts, it's dried up zins in the side of my car. Like I know when you've been riding in the passenger seat a lot because of the zins I've like piled up on the car door.

SPEAKER_00 42:50

Yeah, it happens even in my own. Like I will I will specifically drink an energy drink or Gatorade or whatever. And once I finish it, I'll put it to like the bottom left. And then that's now a trash can for my zins.

SPEAKER_01 43:02

No free ads. No free ad zins. Or maybe. Or maybe send us.

SPEAKER_00 43:06

I'm almost I'm almost to enough credits to get a free solo stove.

SPEAKER_01 43:10

Can't wait.

SPEAKER_00 43:11

I could I spent thousands of dollars to get a free solo stove on that one. Right. Yours?

SPEAKER_01 43:16

I could name off five for myself.

SPEAKER_00 43:18

I would give, in terms of like you, you are not an energy saver in any regard. When it comes to lights, you go into a room, that lights on for the rest of the day.

SPEAKER_01 43:31

I don't like it being dark. Like I need the lights on.

SPEAKER_00 43:33

I'm like, I'll come home. If I get home from work, uh there's the chandelier light, there's the kitchen light, there's the chandelier in the above the dining room table, the lamps are on, the kids' bedrooms are on. I'm like, what is happening here? We're gonna blow a fuse eventually.

SPEAKER_01 43:49

I'm guilty 100%.

SPEAKER_00 43:52

Also, I'm this is like such a dad thing to say is thermostat. Like I won't come.

SPEAKER_01 43:58

Yeah, I'm also sorry. Guilty of this.

SPEAKER_00 44:01

Her furnace froze because you turned it down too much.

SPEAKER_01 44:05

It was at 69.

SPEAKER_00 44:06

Yeah, well, that's too low. That's too low.

SPEAKER_01 44:09

It has to be at a hard 70.

SPEAKER_00 44:10

79 now it's 71. Because I don't want to deal with like no AC in the summertime.

unknown 44:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:16

But yeah, even during like when it gets hot, you like turn it up way too much. I'm like, I'm sweating going to bed. I like a nice cold night.

SPEAKER_01 44:23

Okay, well, 71 is not cold.

SPEAKER_00 44:26

It's good. It's a it's perfect.

SPEAKER_01 44:27

It's like if we go to my parents, it's at like 68 or 65. I feel like at your parents it's hot at their house.

SPEAKER_00 44:33

Oh yeah. My shout RAP, my grandma, but we would make jokes on like what that she said. What is it? Yeah, what is it set at right now? And it'd be set at like 77. And it'd be 85 on Christmas Day or Easter Sunday. I'm like, oh my gosh, grandma, you gotta work this. Like we would go there for survivor finales or survivor uh Wednesdays. Like, we gotta open up the back door. Be prepared, dress light. In the dead of winter.

SPEAKER_01 45:09

All right. And the next personal question that I picked out was clearly you two like to be around each other and your kids. I feel like that's a compliment. You like to spend time together. But what are your other hobbies? What else do you guys do?

SPEAKER_00 45:22

Like, oh, I don't know. I feel like a lot of our hobbies like changed once you have kids.

unknown 45:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:28

Your hobbies become what their hobbies are. Like on a nighttime, right now our son's into soccer, so he goes to soccer, baseball, and he did winter baseball.

SPEAKER_01 45:37

I feel like you like to go to the gym.

SPEAKER_00 45:39

Yeah, we like to go work out.

SPEAKER_01 45:40

Frequent gym goer. I like to read. Yeah. Psychological thrillers. I also love to listen to true crime podcasts, I would say. You're you like to listen to podcasts.

SPEAKER_00 45:49

Yeah, when I go, I walk the dogs daily, and that's a podcast or go on a run. I signed up once the marathon just came through, I signed up for the half marathon, so now I gotta do it.

SPEAKER_01 45:58

So shout out to Paige. She did she did the full marathon.

SPEAKER_00 46:00

Yeah, shout out to my niece. She did the full marathon. Very impressive. Yeah, I feel like whenever we before kids, hobbies were about the same.

SPEAKER_01 46:08

Yoga. I love to go out and like have a few drinks, have a good time.

SPEAKER_00 46:13

Yeah. Shoot some hoops.

SPEAKER_01 46:14

Karaoke.

SPEAKER_00 46:15

Karaoke for sure. I karaoke so much that I we brought it to our own house.

SPEAKER_01 46:20

Games. I feel like we used to big be big game people.

SPEAKER_00 46:23

Yeah, but it's hard, it's hard now with kids because they want to play.

SPEAKER_01 46:26

The pieces are small. You can't pay attention.

SPEAKER_00 46:28

Yeah. Like you're not really, you're not gonna win a game with kids when you're playing like a game night with friends. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:33

I really do want to get back into tap dancing. Like it was it's on my bucket list for 2026.

SPEAKER_00 46:38

I'm just gonna never tap dance in my life.

SPEAKER_01 46:40

I want to get back into that.

SPEAKER_00 46:41

But I'm in my mid-30s. I still like to video game. I still like to kind of that's how you stay close with some friends that are still in that same sequence of things. I'm not like an avid video gamer of like playing these like like there's a new game that comes out and everyone gets into it. Like I stick to my same games.

SPEAKER_01 47:00

Yeah, your same few.

SPEAKER_00 47:01

Yeah. Like I don't go beyond. I like I like a uh Madden or college football 34, and I'll play some Fortnite still. Now my son likes to play it. Like, okay. There's a lot of fun. But there's it happens once every about two years, maybe one year. We get back into like Mario games. If I play any story-based game, it's Mario. That's about it. And I'll play it again. Like Mario Sunshine, by far the best video game of my lifetime.

SPEAKER_01 47:28

I liked Mario Party. I still like Mario Party, but like I don't want to play the 50 rounds.

SPEAKER_00 47:33

See, I like Mario.

SPEAKER_01 47:34

Like 20 rounds.

SPEAKER_00 47:35

Well, we never really do 50 rounds. You like 15, and I like 20.

SPEAKER_01 47:39

Like that just gets too long for that.

SPEAKER_00 47:40

Yeah, but if you do 15, you're not really getting the full experience. 20 is like the perfect amount of rounds that you do in a video game for Mario Party. Fair. Shout out best Mario Party map is the hotel one. It's like maybe Mario Party 7 or 8. I like the mall one. The mall one's pretty good on the new one. We we haven't played this in a while. We might have to give it a shot. All right. So the uh wedding-based ones for you. I'm a again professional wedding guest, so I won't really know my insight as well. So I'm gonna ask you.

SPEAKER_02 48:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 48:11

I don't know, understand what and when I should be feeding my vendors. I had no idea about this until my caterer put it on the bill.

SPEAKER_01 48:19

I feel like a lot of people don't know that you're supposed to feed your wedding vendors, and it is like a surprise charge because you're serving them food, you're gonna be charged for it.

SPEAKER_00 48:29

Yeah, but how many more mouths is that?

SPEAKER_01 48:32

So usually I would say on average for a wedding, maybe four to six vendors you're gonna be feeding. You want to feed them a hot meal. Hot and substantial are like the two things I say. Like you don't want to be like, here's a peanut butter jelly sandwich. Maybe you order them a pizza, something like that. But like most of the time in the contract, it's gonna say something like, I require a 30-minute break and a hot meal, and you'll feed them similar to what you're eating, or you'll feed them exactly what your guests are eating. Most of the time it's at a cheaper cost because they're not like sitting in the room like getting, you know, full service three-course meal or something like that. Sometimes they'll walk through the buffet, but you do need to feed them. And if you don't feed them, like that's a breach of contract. Technically, they could walk out, and there's like horror stories of that happening. Yeah, that's not good. I would never do that. But like you do want to be fed. They're there working like super long a super long day, and it's not like a normal office where you can like have a fridge and go in the break room like you need to eat. And what was the other part? Where?

SPEAKER_00 49:30

I always say what and when.

SPEAKER_01 49:31

What and when. So when I would say feed them when the couple's eating at the same time, because when the couple's eating, a lot of them. No formalities, and preferably, I think a lot of people want to sit in like a back room away from the guests.

SPEAKER_00 49:45

Yeah, you don't want to. And there's probably somewhere where like the catering is prepping and such. So set up a couple tables back there for them. And if you don't feed them, I do think it's a little rude as the like vendor to just like upright and leave. Because then it just looks bad if they're not eating. Like if I were a vendor and I didn't get fed, I'd want to eat something substantial. So then I'm like, I might order DoorDash and Grubhub, and then that looks bad. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:12

Or like some contracts even will say something like, If you don't choose to feed us, then we are able to leave for 30 minutes. Yeah. And like you would rather have them on site because say something pops up and they want to capture that moment, they might hear it if they're like not in the room or if they're in the room in the corner, they can like still get up and like capture that moment. But if they leave, they leave. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:31

Uh other one. I am toying around with my bar. I don't want a cash bar, but I can't afford a full bar. What do you suggest?

unknown 50:41

A cash bar.

SPEAKER_01 50:42

Cash bar. Just kidding. I don't suggest a cash bar if you can avoid it. Um, I talk about this a lot on my social pages that I think as the host you should be doing a hosted bar. So your guests shouldn't be paying for drinks. But whatever you're hosting can be anything in between. So sometimes it's like beer and wine and non-alcoholic drinks, or sometimes it's you have a vodka, a tequila, and a whiskey, and beer and wine and non-alcoholic drinks. Whatever it is, you can be a little flexible. Maybe you do signature cocktails, but I do think you should try to figure out how to host your bar in some sort of sense, or if it's going to switch to a cash bar and that's what you have to lean into, then you need to let your guests know ahead of time. Some cash bars literally only take cash, which is crazy to me. But if it's like a company that's coming in, they might not have the capability to do card. Um, and I think it's just good to let your guests know ahead of time. But you don't have to offer every liquor under the sun.

SPEAKER_00 51:41

No. As a professional wedding guest, I do not anticipate to order like high-end alcohol. Usually I'm getting whatever signature cocktail just to try it out, whether it's a his or hers or it's like a dog featured. A lot of people do that now. But I'm getting whatever the domestic beer is, or I'm just going to like a go-to of a whiskey, well, no matter what brand it is, or vodka, whatever brand they have, staying away from tequila, because that gets me going.

SPEAKER_01 52:09

Well, I just feel like there's people that are just so rude and they're like, it's mandatory. You need to have a full open bar. And I'm like, says who?

unknown 52:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:16

Like just be happy with what's being served. Like this isn't a restaurant. No. You don't need all the fixings.

SPEAKER_01 52:21

If you don't like what's being served on the bar, maybe it's not your level of bar that you would prefer. Then like have a non-alcoholic drink, have a coke, have a dye coke. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:30

A lot of the stuff with our trailer, I feel like we don't get these absurd amounts of options. Five options is about it. And like we have enough to make various drinks from those beverages. Yeah. But not anything that's like crazy.

SPEAKER_01 52:47

Yeah. So my advice would just be play around with the different options. It doesn't have to be a full open bar, but cover the costs of the bar, whatever, whatever you decide upon.

SPEAKER_00 52:57

It's very, I'm a millennial, but most of the people that get stingy about needing a particular drink, I'm sorry. Shout out boomers, but it's you. It's the boomers, 100%. I get mad about everything. So okay. This next

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SPEAKER_00 53:12

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SPEAKER_00 54:08

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SPEAKER_01 54:10

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SPEAKER_00 54:12

And I am a grandma. I'm a boomer. This one, VIP table. This is neighborhood stereotypes. There's like very generic ones again.

SPEAKER_01 54:23

Mine are pretty generic. Like some of them are specific, but most of them are like.

SPEAKER_00 54:26

Yeah, I tried to get a stry away from it. I'll let you kick off. I this hair is a little bit more.

SPEAKER_01 54:31

You have it got stuck on my backpack. Yeah. It's crazy. Okay. I'm going first. The neighbor that stops every car to chat about nothing. Like they were walking down the street. Then you have to roll down your window and talk to them. And like they're blocking up the street, but they do it to every person that's coming up and down.

SPEAKER_00 54:50

Okay. One one? You went with that? One one?

SPEAKER_01 54:53

Yeah. I don't know. Maybe mine are bad.

SPEAKER_00 54:56

Yeah. It was like I can I see it as like it. We have it's never bad the small talk, right?

SPEAKER_01 55:02

Not every car. Not every single car. I don't want to talk to the neighbors all the time.

SPEAKER_00 55:06

The only time I actually stop for a neighbor is if it's like few of them. But most of the time it's like a quick wave, a quick go. When you start going on and on a conversation, you're just kind of like talking to talk at that point. Like, all right, wrap this up.

SPEAKER_01 55:21

That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00 55:22

I'm praying for a car to come behind me. Get me out of this situation. Hurry it up. Like, all right, I gotta go. I'll see you later. My first pick is going to be the neighbor that has fireworks for any occasion. Like 4th of July, I get uh like most of the time it's like an American holiday, but the the Steelers just want a football game and there's fireworks going off, or it's Thanksgiving and there's fireworks going off. Like, you don't have to have fireworks.

SPEAKER_01 55:48

That is a good one. Everything we did like I was gonna say, probably at Mia's party, they were like we had my niece's party.

SPEAKER_00 55:54

We she's in the military, she's in the navy, and she hasn't been around for the holidays this past year or this upcoming year. So we did an all-holiday party for her where we did fireworks, but I know the community forum in my parents' hometown, my hometown. Probably so someone had to say something about it because you hear fireworks, and I get the people that get mad about it when it comes to dogs because dogs are fearful of it. And there's people maybe with PTSD that again, I understand it, but to do it for any occasion, it's not necessary. I'm not like a like I don't mind fireworks, but I don't really like the pirates have the a fireworks after a game. I don't need to go to a game to watch fireworks, like they don't really do it for me. Some people, that's some people's MO. Right. Uh, my second pick is the neighbor that makes their launch corps to showcase their political beliefs. Oh, this isn't necessarily just like putting on during an election year or just like a local district representative. It's the signs, or I see people with certain like figurines of a president that they post about. I'm like, all right, you're making this your entire personality there.

SPEAKER_01 57:13

The worst.

SPEAKER_00 57:14

Like they make their own little makeshift like wood signs that spells out their last name, and you're like, okay.

SPEAKER_01 57:22

I do know exactly what house you're talking about. It's not in our neighborhood, but we I pass it and there's like a statue of a president. I'm not gonna say which one.

SPEAKER_00 57:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 57:30

And I'm like, why?

SPEAKER_00 57:31

They have the flag, they have the statue, they have a makeshift thing. There's someone in our neighborhood that has lights that are against their tree that's just that. And they also have that same person that's in their window.

SPEAKER_01 57:46

I know.

SPEAKER_00 57:46

Like, I'm like, all right. If you make your, yeah, you make your political beliefs your personality, you're not.

SPEAKER_01 57:53

Those were both really good. Way better than any of the ones I think I have on my list, but I will go through mine. Um, the neighbors who leave their dogs out in the yard all day and they don't shut up and they bark at everything that passes.

SPEAKER_00 58:07

Yeah. First and foremost, leaving your dog out just for a long time. I get it. Dogs are meant to be outside. That's what they're like, they should be, but to never really like care for them and then just having them yap.

SPEAKER_01 58:19

Or if you have super yappy dogs, like put them in. We all don't want to hear them. Put them in. We all don't want to hear them.

SPEAKER_00 58:26

Exactly. They're there are two in particular dogs of the same breed that are about five houses down from our street that I know someone is walking whenever they're passing. Very loud.

SPEAKER_01 58:37

They didn't inspire that. Maybe they did. The next one I'm calling the ghost neighbor. Literally never seen them. I don't even know if they're alive. Oh my god.

unknown 58:46

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 58:47

We have a few of those. One of my picks are the are they alive neighbor. It's like, you know, they're there. You've seen them maybe once or twice a year. But like, I couldn't tell you. If I saw them out at a store, I couldn't tell you who they were. Right. You know someone's living in the house because you see a light go on like every month or so.

SPEAKER_00 59:05

The garage door goes open, and there's a cat in like one of the windowsills. Like, someone's in there.

SPEAKER_01 59:09

But like everybody else on the street social, and then there's just somebody that you don't know who they are. Ghost neighbor.

SPEAKER_00 59:15

Next pick is the neighbor that receives at least one package a day.

SPEAKER_01 59:20

I think that's us.

SPEAKER_00 59:21

That might be like an Amazon FedEx UPS is pulling up all the time. Their groceries are getting delivered. Are you describing me? It might be us. There's also like it's not just us. There's other people that do it too. But I'm high on the list. Always getting stuff. I'm like, man, we're definitely that neighbor in our neighborhood.

SPEAKER_01 59:40

For the sake of convenience, I'm like grocery delivery.

SPEAKER_00 59:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 59:45

Ordering stuff for vacation. I'll get it from Amazon. It's just like easier than that.

SPEAKER_00 59:48

It's not that we're getting everything grocery delivered. It's like the essential stuff that you don't have to go and like, I need to get lunch meat. I don't want someone picking out lunch meat for me. Even like when it comes to like chicken meat and beef or like whatever our protein is, I prefer to do it because they sometimes like don't get exactly what we want, or they get an absurd amount. Like, we can't be, we don't, I'm not gonna eat all of this. We're gonna have it go to waste.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:16

Dang, that was a good one.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:17

This one also might be us. It is the cookout DJ. So it's the neighbor that is is grilling in the back or wherever their house is. For us, it's in the back, and they're playing on their speakers at a high volume. Oh, yeah. But like I'm a I'm I'm vibing whenever I have a cookout going on.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:37

That's definitely us. I think both yours were me and you.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:41

There was a time I was cooking out, and it wasn't we weren't having like people over. It was just us having.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:48

I just burped, but I hoped your microphone didn't make that.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:51

It wasn't us having a party. It was just us grilling out, and I had the speaker going, and it was during the same time that school was let out, and I got a text from the neighbor, not like, hey, turn it down, but oh, you have it like music or the your music selection is immaculate right now. Like what's going on? I'm like, oh, we're just like we're vibing right here. I gotta have music on whenever whenever I'm on the grill.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:15

Yeah. Oh dang, I don't know what to pick for my last one. Because there's two, but I'm gonna pick this one the tinkering neighbor. What is that? The neighbor that's always working on a project. A car, a tractor, anything that needs fixed.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:30

Like if you need something fixed, you know to go to them too.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:33

You're like, I'm gonna go to that person and see if they could help me. But they're always just like out working on stuff, which is like a hobby.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:40

A good hobby, and they're always willing to help too.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:42

Yeah. They're a helpful neighbor. I'm just that would be my last pick.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:45

That's a good pick. That is one of our neighbors in particular. Shout out Steve. Shout out Steve. He always he's got he goes on Saturday mornings to estate sales to buy his next project, and then he'll bring it home. And he has a place that's in Conyot Lake that'll take it up there to like test it. And then he comes back with it and it's on the market, and a week later someone's buying it.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:07

The Facebook flipper.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:08

The Facebook flipper is also him. All right, kids table. I have I did have the always fixing something in their garage driveway. I had the neighborhood community nebnos. It's just some, it's not necessarily like you're nibbing on everybody, it's the fact that they know everything that's going on within the neighborhood.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:27

I also had like similar, I put the early morning walker who judges everybody.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:31

Yeah. Oh, they know what's going on because they're out and about within the community. Uh, I did have always walking. I had we mentioned it earlier in other segments, but the neighbor who walks his dog with no leash, yeah, his or her dog.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:47

I had the street, the street speeder, like driving 50 in a neighborhood. Like, you gotta slow down.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:54

What are you doing?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:55

It doesn't happen in like communities that like if it's more of a the parking spot police, like you're in a neighborhood where the parking spots are in front of the house on a road, and they it's the Pittsburgh lawn chair syndrome that goes on here. Like that's their spot. And if someone parks there, they're PO's, they're mad. They're mad, mad. I kind of had it growing up where I lived on a street like that. Our street was street parking, and we had I grew up with four siblings. So, but at the time, whenever I got older, my sister and I had a car, or I had a car, my sister had a car, she was post-college living at home still, just graduated, and then my parents had two cars, and like we weren't didn't have like a bunch of houses on the street, but that's taking up four spots right there.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:46

So if we ended up like our spot was taken because there was one extra car that was there visiting somebody else, then where am I gonna park? We had like an alleyway that we would go to for, but other neighbors got a little mad about it. I was the parking spot that was furthest away from our house. Everyone else got like the convenience spot.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:05

You're the youngest, so you had to take it off.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:06

Yeah, I had the Chevy HHR. Yeah, that a lot of the other things. I had the lawn guy, not necessarily someone that like does it at 7 a.m., but like they just meticulously keep that their lawn perfect. And I don't know how they do it. Like I like to keep our lawn well, like I don't you care a lot about the lawn, but and it's not necessarily like lawn, but like landscaping as a whole. Yeah, their shrubbery has to be pristine. They get mulch in every year and just like make that place look nicely. I can't upkeep it.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:41

It's like a whole full-time job. My my only other one that I had that weren't like matching what yours were was the over-decorator who doesn't undecorate. Like they put it up, they put up all the stuff for Christmas in particular, and then it's like February and it's all still up. And I'm like, you know what? If that's what makes them happy, fine. But I'm like, come on, it's it's April.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:03

Take it down. It just gets to a point that I understand you leave it on for a long time because sometimes I'll wait if as soon as it's a nice day, that it's coming down. But if it's negative degrees outside, I'm gonna let it linger a little bit longer just to but at what point do you just be like, let's just leave it up till next? Yeah, you get to summertime. Like now, I don't think anyone has their lights still up. No, you some people do it though.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:29

I know that's why I put it on my list.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:31

It's a it's a good pick. It's a good pick. No, shout out neighbors, shout out Steve.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:36

Yeah, shout out to our neighborhood.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:38

I will I gotta say that like we did hit the jackpot with our neighborhood. 100%.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:42

We have a great, great street.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:43

We're like not not that we were knocking neighbors in it in this at all. No, we're not the one if we brought up anything, most of the time it was against like neighbors that like we don't interact with at all.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:54

Yeah, and it's just like neighborhood stereotypes, it's not in particular, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:58

And we'll probably hang out with them. Later today.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:00

Yes, we will.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:01

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SPEAKER_01 1:06:32

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SPEAKER_00 1:06:37

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