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Cade
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Nicole Parker
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Cade
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Nicole Parker
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Nicole Parker
And now please enjoy this episode of the Neighborhood.
Cade
Listen. Knock knock.
Nicole Parker
Who's there?
Cade
Your neighbor.
Nicole Parker
Good Indignity Falls. You're never alone. You've got the neighbor half ass and us, Vern and Joan. From coyotes to male theft to weird things to sell.
Cade
We'll cover it and meet new neighbors as well.
Nicole Parker
We'll chat about any posts you're missing, so just tune in to the Neighborhood Listen.
Cade
Welcome once more to the Neighborhood Listen, the podcast that looks at the neighborhood of Dignity Falls. I am your host, Burnt Miapede. But you know what? I'm not the only host. Why? Who's this?
Nicole Parker
Hello, I'm Joan Pedestrian and I'm a realtor here in Dignity Falls. The top one.
Cade
That's right.
Nicole Parker
And I'm a local actress as well.
Cade
That's correct. And I'm a pharmacist at the Dignity Fallsmassy. The pharmacist in chief.
Nicole Parker
If we're, if we're going to be bragging about, toot our horns.
Cade
Yes, let's toot those horns.
Nicole Parker
It's a new year. Let's toot our horns. It's a new season. Are we calling it season Susan? Because I really liked that.
Cade
I like season Susan.
Nicole Parker
Doug's pitch was season great.
Cade
Season great. Which I think is nice. But I don't think it's for us to say.
Nicole Parker
I'm not sure. Yeah, I don't think it is. But that is the quickest we've gotten to introducing ourselves in several episodes.
Cade
Right. I led with it this time.
Nicole Parker
Yeah, you really did. And you stayed. You state, you stared straight ahead. You would not look at me.
Cade
No.
Nicole Parker
It was like you were concentrating on a fixed point just to get through it.
Cade
Because I feel if I look at, you know, you have a very expressive face.
Nicole Parker
Oh. And so sometimes you talking about.
Cade
So sometimes when I, when I say these things and I'm looking at you.
Nicole Parker
You'Re due too much reaction. Well, I throw you off.
Cade
Yes. You're not doing anything wrong. I don't think you're doing anything wrong.
Nicole Parker
You know. Have you ever had it? Well, this happens in theater a lot, but I don't know if it happens in, you know, any kind of other way. And I know we did a mirroring exercise last season and it very much upset you.
Cade
It scared me.
Nicole Parker
Right. Well, because I think I was trying to show you what a theater exercise is. And then I think it turned into. You think I was mocking you and I was over mirroring and I felt very badly.
Cade
I was also very scared that that's what I. That's what how people see me.
Nicole Parker
Oh, no, it's not at all. It's not at all. But what sometimes will happen when like you're auditioning for a show, maybe if you're in acting class and you're doing something like voting or singing, the person who's the teacher, the director, they do it with you. You know, they sort of go through the motions with you. And you want to say, stop, just let me do. I know how to do it, you know, and it's very, very frustrating.
Cade
That is. That surprises me because I would think that, look, I'm not an actor, of course.
Nicole Parker
Right.
Cade
But I've heard of actors who sometimes, if you are acting opposite this actor, there are certain actors who will be mout.
Nicole Parker
Mouthing the lines. Yes, yes. My mother in law does that. Doug's. Hey, babe. Hi. We haven't introduced you yet.
Cade
This is our Engineer.
Nicole Parker
Doug is our engineer. Hello? Hello?
Cade
Hello? Doug, are you there?
Doug
Yes.
Paul F. Tompkins
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Nicole Parker
What's that, Doug?
Cade
What is that? What are we hearing?
Doug
I'm in the trash compactor.
Nicole Parker
Oh, God.
Cade
You're in the trash compactor?
Doug
Oh, yeah. I'm looking for my golf clubs.
Nicole Parker
And if you're asking, yes, it's modeled after the Star wars one. And, yes.
Cade
Is there a bunch of water in there?
Nicole Parker
100%, yes. 100%.
Doug
It could be anything in that water.
Nicole Parker
Oh, God. You know what's in it? You've rigged it. Do you have, you know, something?
Doug
Yeah. I put eels in.
Nicole Parker
Swim past. You put eels in there? This is, as you could imagine, not one of the rooms. That was my idea. You know, my ideas are, like the linen closet and the bean room.
Cade
Okay.
Nicole Parker
I was gonna say I didn't ask for a trash compactor room.
Cade
No, no.
Doug
And it's so we can use it.
Nicole Parker
What do you mean we can't. We have. We don't need it.
Doug
We're covered in trash.
Cade
We're covered in trash.
Nicole Parker
We're up for years. We are not. You make me sound like I run a dirty home. I run a very clean home, babe.
Doug
I would never say that.
Paul F. Tompkins
This.
Cade
Your house is very clean.
Doug
Most of the trash.
Nicole Parker
I do pride myself on this.
Cade
I've only ever seen two rooms of your home, but. But those rooms are very clean.
Paul F. Tompkins
Okay.
Nicole Parker
Thank you.
Doug
I appreciate space, but I've seen the.
Cade
Kitchen and the mudroom.
Nicole Parker
I make you go to the bathroom in the mudroom.
Cade
That's right.
Nicole Parker
Somehow you've never seen a bathroom.
Cade
Chamber pot in there.
Nicole Parker
I'm sorry. I should let you use the bathroom once in a while. No, it's okay.
Cade
It would be weird now to use it.
Doug
So, Doug, we have surprisingly few bathrooms.
Nicole Parker
It is true. We have, like, 250 rooms more than that. And we have two bathrooms, right? Is that right?
Doug
Two and a half.
Cade
So it's a.
Nicole Parker
It's a. Yeah.
Cade
We have a 250 bed, two bath and a half.
Doug
It's not the happy at all.
Nicole Parker
Powder room. We take that.
Cade
Not the half you'd want. What does that mean?
Doug
It's more of, like, a closet. But, I mean, you can go in there if you want.
Cade
So there's no tub in there either.
Doug
No tub.
Cade
Okay. So it's just. It's a closet.
Doug
It's not a half bathroom, but it's got a low window.
Nicole Parker
He doesn't know what a half bath is.
Cade
Do you think half bathroom means half of it is the room and the other half Is the.
Doug
Well, I mean, if you take half of a bathroom, it could be any part.
Nicole Parker
It could be anything. I mean, look, if I could just be a realtor for the moment in the room, it means that you're not. You're going to have probably a bath or a shower. Just got a half bathroom. But which. Which makes no sense because the word bath then probably shouldn't even be in the. In the. In the description at all, because it is confusing. I get that. You know, and he also thought it meant half bath, like half of a bath. So one time he did just put. Bring in a half bath. He like, sawed it in half. And then he sort of like. What do you use for the end of it, babe?
Doug
The end of the bath.
Cade
To cauterize it.
Nicole Parker
Yeah.
Doug
Use a hot poker. Cauterize it.
Nicole Parker
Okay. I think that that was the wrong word to use.
Cade
Yeah.
Doug
I'll be honest. In our half bath, which is basically a closet, there is a window positioned pretty low to the ground. And I will use that sometimes when the other bathrooms are. Are filled.
Nicole Parker
It's like a doggy door, I suppose, is what he's saying. It's what he uses it for. That's terrible.
Doug
But I was going to say our children do pile up a lot of trash in the house.
Nicole Parker
Well, especially because they're all here now, as I mentioned before. The twins, their pilot.
Cade
Yeah.
Nicole Parker
For the Chick Fil A streaming network. Did not work. It didn't go right.
Doug
Right.
Nicole Parker
The prank pilot. And they are parents.
Cade
Prank pilot.
Doug
They are really in a funk.
Nicole Parker
They really are. They really are in a funk. And I think that's why he's building this, because this is one of the things that the boys loved. Back in the day in the bathtub, they used to play trash compactor. Like the Star wars trash compactor. They'd get like all the Star wars toys in there.
Cade
Yeah.
Nicole Parker
You know, they get like.
Cade
They would be the compactor.
Nicole Parker
Yes. Or they'd be the compacted. I mean, it was a whole thing. They made a mess. There was no.
Cade
The compactor has become the compact.
Nicole Parker
All the water out of the tub. I mean, it was a mess. So he's trying to do something to make them happy because they're just in a funk. And they are doing kindergarten right now.
Cade
Yeah. How is that going?
Nicole Parker
Well, with that old, old man. Yeah, the old, old man. They're there and he comes here. Just everyone's very clear. Because it's not appropriate for them to Billy Madison it. We're not doing that. They are. They're they're sort of regressing almost, you know. Yeah. They're. They're. They're not doing. They're the R's and their L's now all of a sud. They're like, mama, I love you. No, they're really 22. It's very weird.
Doug
They hold their crayons, like, in a fist.
Nicole Parker
And they're obsessed with poop.
Cade
Okay.
Nicole Parker
And dinosaurs.
Cade
And dinosaurs, sure.
Nicole Parker
So it's a bit strange. Although it's kind of lovely. I knew you were going to say that, Doug.
Cade
That's why they put in Jurassic Park.
Nicole Parker
It's actually.
Cade
They knew their audience.
Nicole Parker
It's been so. It's been sort of sweet, to be honest. And. And I don't. I mean, I do. I don't. But I do want to bring up what happened last time when I spoke to you about Gabby, your girlfriend, and I asked you, and you said you're thinking about next steps.
Cade
Yes.
Nicole Parker
And then I. And then you. You said, it does mean marriage or it does mean marriage. And then you got. You broke into a full sweat. And then we had to. We had to take a break.
Cade
Yes. Because we are talking about moving in together.
Nicole Parker
Oh, wow. Okay.
Cade
And, you know, it's obviously. It's a big step, and it's obviously very scary.
Nicole Parker
Are you okay?
Cade
Yes, I'm good. I just. It does make. I haven't shared space with someone in that way in a very long time.
Nicole Parker
Yeah.
Cade
And I'm a little apprehensive about it.
Nicole Parker
Yeah, it does. Oh, wow. It does seem like it. It does seem like it. Oh, Bert just took out a beer.
Cade
Is that okay if I crack a cold one?
Nicole Parker
No. No judgment, but you should have gone into, you know, Doug's beer room for that. You know, he's got the one that looks like the mountaintop. I know, but in the super bowl.
Cade
Commercial, I didn't bring my rooms, and I just thought, I'll bring this one.
Nicole Parker
It is a hassle to go downstairs and do it.
Doug
Yeah.
Nicole Parker
Oh, God.
Cade
Let me ask you this. In the trash compactor, why would your golf clubs be in there?
Doug
You know, I got so frustrated with golf. I was just. I. I swore it off forever.
Cade
Right.
Doug
And I just threw them in there.
Cade
Yeah.
Doug
And having second thoughts.
Cade
Right.
Nicole Parker
By the way, he only did ever mini golf. He would bring the full set of clubs.
Doug
Yeah. I'd bring my driver.
Cade
Now, I understand that made them very mad.
Nicole Parker
It made them so mad. It made them so mad. And it wasn't appropriate because he was getting in. You know, it's like you can have anger on the adult golf course, but not on a mini golf course. You know.
Cade
That's right.
Nicole Parker
And have anger.
Doug
I think it's healthy.
Nicole Parker
No, not in front of the little.
Cade
Not the kids.
Nicole Parker
You got to show it. Mini golf is only for people on a first date or with kids.
Cade
Doug, we never said you would hurt anyone.
Nicole Parker
Oh, yeah, no, we didn't say that.
Cade
Anger. It's not good to display that at a. You know, I would try to go.
Doug
Behind the windmill and, you know, take it out on that windmill. But behind, you know, I try to.
Cade
Hide the noise is. And that thing's flimsy.
Nicole Parker
And also it's, it's just, it's very dangerous if no one brings a drink or bring a driver to a mini golf course. You know, like shipping. Yeah. You should be chipping from anywhere.
Doug
Selling the short game.
Cade
No, that's all mini golf is.
Nicole Parker
That's all mini golf, short game.
Cade
It's all putting.
Nicole Parker
Literally all the short game falls.
Doug
Mini golf, though some of the holes are pretty long.
Nicole Parker
Well, now it is true.
Cade
That is very true.
Nicole Parker
It's.
Cade
It's the 60 hole course. It takes up more room than an actual golf.
Nicole Parker
It does. It goes underground.
Cade
Yeah.
Nicole Parker
There's.
Cade
It's all black light down there.
Nicole Parker
There's an underground element.
Cade
Yeah.
Doug
There's the sewers and part of it.
Nicole Parker
Yeah. And one is like a par 29. I think it's really what it takes for. Some people give up at that point.
Cade
Oh, you. No one's ever done it.
Nicole Parker
Wait, no, I didn't know. No one had ever done it.
Cade
Ever done it. People. It's. It's by far the most frustrating hole and people just end up picking up the ball and taking it to.
Doug
Yeah, it's almost straight up.
Cade
Yeah. It's kind of impossible.
Nicole Parker
Yeah, it's like one of those things where like you, you, you, you whack the hammer to see how strong you are. It's like that the balls almost try. You're trying to get the ball to travel almost vertically. That's right. That's right. And then go into a hole.
Cade
Yeah. And then go into all.
Nicole Parker
Yeah. And it has this crazy sort of like waterfall one where it's a trap door. But it's like, you know how it'll go through like a castle and then it'll come out at the next, you know, sort of green over to the side. Right. It goes through a tunnel on a normal one, you know, you hit your ball into the castle or the trap door, goes through the little tunnel and Lands. Oh, I guess I used to call them trapdoors, but they really aren't. They're just the entrances, I guess. The entrance to the haunted house, the entrance to the castle. What would you call it?
Cade
A door.
Doug
But the door moves.
Nicole Parker
Yes, sometimes it moves. And that's why I called it a trap door.
Cade
I see, I see, I see.
Nicole Parker
Sure, fine. It's just a. It's just a.
Cade
So you have to. You have to get it in there while it's, While it's open.
Nicole Parker
Yes, yes. But. Okay, you know what I mean, though. It's going to go someplace else. It comes out at a different green.
Cade
Yes.
Nicole Parker
Okay.
Cade
Yes.
Nicole Parker
I'm not sure it's worth it now because that took so long.
Cade
It's always worth it. It's always worth it.
Nicole Parker
Well, they have one where it goes to the green but goes in another hole, then it goes to another.
Doug
Is where you get frustrated on the course.
Nicole Parker
Yeah, well, I stopped going because, you know, I'm not a great golfer. I'll be honest. I'm. I'm a singer, I'm an actress. I'm a realtor. You know, I'm, I contain multitudes, but one of them is not mini golf.
Cade
You know, I believe it was Craig on Southern Char who said, I'm. I'm a lawyer and a storyteller.
Nicole Parker
Huh? Wow.
Cade
Yeah.
Nicole Parker
Those people.
Doug
And I'm all out of storyteller.
Cade
They are.
Nicole Parker
I just can't get into it. What did you say, babe?
Doug
It didn't make any sense.
Cade
Wow. We're really second guessing ourselves on this episode.
Doug
I said, and I'm all out of storytelling.
Cade
You're all out of storytelling.
Doug
I'm a lawyer and a storyteller and I'm all out of storytelling.
Cade
Oh, like I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum.
Doug
Yeah.
Cade
Was that they Live? Was that the first instance of that saying, I love that movie.
Nicole Parker
Oh, but here we are in a movie again. Long to get us on a movie. This is becoming a movie.
Cade
And again, if you're listening for the first time, we are not a movie podcast.
Nicole Parker
We're not a movie guys. We just talk about movies a lot. Yes, they live. Is this a horror film? Because, you know, I do not like horror.
Cade
Not really a horror film.
Nicole Parker
What's it about?
Cade
It's more of a sci fi thriller kind of.
Nicole Parker
Really.
Cade
Yes.
Doug
It's about starting Rowdy Roddy Piper.
Cade
That's right. And Keith David. And you know what it's really about?
Nicole Parker
Zombies.
Cade
America, to put it quite simply.
Doug
I've heard that.
Cade
Got it from Me?
Doug
Yeah.
Nicole Parker
I haven't seen. They Live.
Doug
And that's where I heard it.
Cade
All right, well, we've got that all squared away.
Doug
I'm not hearing it. I heard it.
Nicole Parker
Should we start over? Well, I feel like we should definitely go way back. We should go way back.
Cade
We should go way back.
Nicole Parker
To where? I really wanted to hear about you moving in together, because this is what sent you into a spiral earlier.
Cade
So you want to hear more about that? Well, I mean, knowing that it sends me into a spiral.
Nicole Parker
So I feel like you're telling me. Please don't ask me.
Cade
I'm. I'm very.
Nicole Parker
Eyes. You're very.
Cade
My eyes.
Nicole Parker
Okay.
Cade
My eyes and my mouth are saying, please don't. Yes. It makes me very anxious.
Nicole Parker
All right. Because I don't want to blow.
Cade
I don't want to blow it.
Nicole Parker
I don't want to blow it.
Cade
But then what if I find out that we shouldn't be together? What if we move in together and it's a terrible mistake?
Nicole Parker
Bert, I'm just going to say this. It seems interesting to me that the two of you last year would have gone through a harrowing experience where you left Greece, and as you were leaving Greece, Mount Aetna exploded. Erupted, as we say.
Cade
Yeah, as we said.
Nicole Parker
And you made an emergency lava landing.
Cade
Lava landing, yes.
Nicole Parker
And you had to evacuate and sit on top of the plane.
Cade
That's right. We thought we were invincible for a while.
Nicole Parker
Squadron of helicopters came and picked you up. And then you had amazing sex afters.
Cade
As did everyone else on the plane.
Nicole Parker
And thought you were immortal for an entire year. Almost.
Cade
Correct.
Nicole Parker
It seems strange that after that, what you're worried about is just moving in together. Because I can't think of anything more scary than what you two went through.
Cade
Maybe it's that it's so normal.
Nicole Parker
Okay. Right. Because you guys were really living on the edge for a while.
Cade
We truly were.
Nicole Parker
And you also spent Christmas jumping into a fire with her father. Stepmother. Biological father. There was a cousin, I think her mother.
Cade
Her niece.
Nicole Parker
Sounds like a cult. Honestly, to me, if I'm gonna say that makes me worry. I know.
Cade
A little judgmental.
Nicole Parker
Well, it just. Well, it was a strange story. I'm just gonna say.
Cade
Okay.
Nicole Parker
And I love Gabby.
Cade
I would say it's unconventional.
Nicole Parker
Okay. That's a nice way of putting it.
Cade
Yes, it is. Nicer than strange.
Nicole Parker
I'm sorry. I apologize. All right. Well, I don't. I mean, I don't want to talk about myself, really, because I feel like I do it too much on this Podcast.
Doug
Can I just give one word of advice?
Cade
Sure.
Doug
Guy to guy.
Cade
Sure.
Nicole Parker
Guy to guy.
Cade
Hush, hush. I do. I what?
Nicole Parker
Oh.
Doug
Pinball machine in the garage.
Cade
You think that'll do it?
Doug
Oh, smooths everything. Yeah, yeah.
Cade
So if I'm ever, if I'm ever feeling sort of trapped or claustrophobic.
Doug
Yeah.
Cade
Go to the garage.
Doug
And there's the old drops and quarters.
Nicole Parker
He worked out a lot there. He had it. Yeah, he had it rigged up so that you still to put quarters in, but then you could just immediately get them back out. He worked out a lot in there and it worked out a lot of problems.
Doug
KISS pinball.
Nicole Parker
It was a KISS pinball machine.
Cade
My favorite was a. There was a 60 minutes pinball machine that I used to love and it.
Nicole Parker
Would play GM Warrior or GM Mike Wallace.
Cade
It was all of the whole gang.
Nicole Parker
Leslie Stahl.
Cade
It would be so Mike Wallace's biggest picture. And then like around him, like a sort of almost like a, like a sort of horoscope, astrology kind of thing would be the heads of, you know, Leslie Stahl, Cokie Roberts, Morley Safer. Andy Rooney.
Nicole Parker
Yes. Oh, Andy Rooney. Oh, yeah, I can't remember.
Cade
Remember when he got an earring, he was well into his 60s. He was like earring time. Harrison Ford. Same thing.
Nicole Parker
Oh yeah, you're right.
Cade
He's an older man. He's like, I'm gonna.
Nicole Parker
And is Andy Rooney like at his own special feature, like on the board. Like is it just his.
Cade
He rises up.
Nicole Parker
Oh, I love that.
Cade
You get the ball in a certain place. He rises up, starts complaining.
Nicole Parker
I, I don't get it.
Doug
They ask you hard hitting questions.
Cade
That's right. To distract you.
Nicole Parker
Yeah, right. And then as you're running out of time, it's. Yeah, right. You just hear the tick, the ticking.
Cade
It's playing the whole time.
Nicole Parker
Whoa, that's terrible.
Cade
And you have to play it for a full 60 minutes. It just giving you the balls. You don't want to play anymore. But it's like it's. There's something, I don't know, it's sort of a flesh magnet. It keeps your hands on the flippers.
Nicole Parker
Sounds terrible.
Cade
It is in it. But what a great.
Doug
It'll fry the circuit board if you don't complete the 60 minutes.
Cade
That's right. Then the guy comes out and says, did you break my machine?
Nicole Parker
Yeah. Where was.
Cade
Was on the pier.
Doug
Yeah.
Nicole Parker
Really?
Cade
Yes.
Nicole Parker
All right. So we'd have to explain this. We've never talked about the pier because there's like no water left, have we?
Cade
Never Talked about the. Never talked about it used to be so much fun.
Nicole Parker
It used to be so much fun. We had a pier. Oh, I mean, we have a pier still. And is that arcade still even operational?
Cade
No.
Nicole Parker
Okay.
Cade
All the stuff is.
Nicole Parker
It.
Cade
It is 100 abandoned.
Nicole Parker
Right. It was called Pier 62, even though there's no other piers.
Cade
No.
Nicole Parker
And it was, you know, it was a family place for a while. Yes. And then there was a casino on it. Yes. It was the Pure family that spelled differently. Yes.
Cade
Their name was spelled P E A, R. Yeah. And people called them the Pear family. And they would get so my furious.
Nicole Parker
They're like big spear without the S. Yeah. So they would yell.
Cade
But then they would put. They had a picture of a pear on the sign.
Nicole Parker
So confusing.
Cade
Good riddance.
Nicole Parker
But it fell into disrepair. It sure did everyone.
Cade
They would not fix anything.
Nicole Parker
No.
Cade
They just let it crumble around them.
Nicole Parker
Yes.
Cade
And then.
Nicole Parker
Because they lived on the pier too.
Cade
They lived on the pier.
Nicole Parker
There was a mans on the pier.
Cade
Yeah. Very precarious.
Nicole Parker
So precarious.
Cade
Because it. The mansion was the width of a pier.
Doug
We really need zoning laws.
Cade
We sure do. Doug.
Doug
You can't just build a house.
Cade
We sure do. I mean, that's the one. That's the one thing I would change about Dignity Falls is put in some zoning laws.
Nicole Parker
For sure.
Cade
People can just do whatever they want.
Doug
It's the charm of the place, though.
Nicole Parker
It's some of the charm of it.
Cade
Allowed you to build an insane.
Doug
No rules at all.
Nicole Parker
Nope. He doesn't do anything through the city.
Cade
But it's a very tall mansion.
Nicole Parker
It's a very tall mansion. It looks a lot like the Despicable Me mansion.
Cade
I'll take your word for it. I haven't seen the film.
Nicole Parker
Oh, you haven't?
Cade
No, I haven't.
Nicole Parker
Oh, they're fun. They're fun. Steve Carell's like, girls.
Cade
What's that?
Nicole Parker
He says girls. He's saying girls. That's right. But it's like 25 syllables. Girls.
Cade
Is he addressing the HBO girls?
Nicole Parker
No, he's not. That'd be a weird crossover. I'll tell you what, that'd be very interesting.
Cade
The same universe.
Nicole Parker
Absolutely not. Maybe Adam Dr. Do you know?
Cade
I have not seen those.
Nicole Parker
He's honestly very Despicable Me. I'm giving Despicable Me.
Cade
I've not seen any of the Despicable Me's, but I heard so much about the Minions.
Nicole Parker
Yes. Oh, God.
Cade
So I said I have to look.
Nicole Parker
Up these Minions and that my boys. Oh. And of course I'm talking about my twins. We do. I didn't discuss. When I was talking. I'm talking about my boys. I'm talking about my twins. Matt and Dippity don't. Dippity don't. Yeah. Matt and Dippity don't. Dippity don't especially. They're very into the Minions right now because again, like I said, they're aggressive. Super into it. Y. Just run around going. But banana. That's what they like to say.
Cade
They love to say banana.
Nicole Parker
Yeah. And so you've seen the Minions where?
Cade
On. On YouTube.
Nicole Parker
On YouTube.
Cade
Yes. And I really enjoyed them. And I thought maybe I don't need to see these movies. I could just watch all these clips.
Nicole Parker
Well, sure, but it's fun to give them context, you know?
Cade
Is it. Is it more fun than what I'm already having? It's just seeing these pills talking to each other.
Nicole Parker
Pills?
Doug
Is that what they are?
Cade
They're pills, right?
Nicole Parker
They're not pills. I mean, they're shaped like they're not pills. And as a pharmacist, of course you see them as pills, Joan.
Cade
You're right. Yellow different.
Nicole Parker
Little yellow different. Remember when you ordered all that fake Dutch new print?
Doug
I do remember.
Nicole Parker
And it was never forget. It was a paralytic. You wouldn't bathroom for.
Doug
For about a week.
Nicole Parker
Oh, that was a crazy time. That was a crazy time. I forgot what he ordered. All that black market. Definitely not new. It's spelled like N, I, E, U, P, R, Y, N. Who knew I.
Doug
Had an inspiration new.
Nicole Parker
I understand why you, as a pharmacist in chief, would see those things as pills.
Cade
Didn't even make that conn. You're absolutely right.
Nicole Parker
Because they're living, breathing organisms. They're not. They can't be pills.
Cade
That's why I won't. I won't take Tic Tacs because they.
Nicole Parker
Remind you of Minions.
Cade
Oh.
Nicole Parker
Because everybody. Tic Tacs are useless, frankly. They're just the worst. They used to be.
Cade
Terrible invention. They're for children.
Nicole Parker
They're for children.
Cade
Yes, yes, yes, yes. Remember they made those orange ones that weren't even.
Nicole Parker
Those are my favorite. I loved.
Cade
Of course. I did, too.
Nicole Parker
And then they said they do nothing.
Cade
To freshen your breath.
Nicole Parker
Nothing to freshen your breath.
Cade
No.
Nicole Parker
They're just sugar.
Cade
Yeah. Yeah. When you're going through that whole give.
Nicole Parker
Me real pills any day, I wish.
Cade
Real pills came in the Tic Tac container.
Nicole Parker
That would be great. But I think that people would do the. You know, I think they'd Shake them all into their mouth like you used to do with Tic Tacs. You would take too many too quickly.
Cade
And then everybody could hear you.
Nicole Parker
Isn't that a saying? Like she takes them like. Like you take Tic Tacs, which means a lot.
Cade
Yes. When they're talking about someone who does. Who does too many pills.
Nicole Parker
Sure.
Cade
Now, the only other sort of thing I can remember that had a container like that was.
Nicole Parker
Okay, I thought you were gonna talk about despicable me. And the last thing you remember.
Cade
The last thing I remember about despicable means Gorals ads.
Nicole Parker
Oh, okay.
Cade
Breath Ashore was the only other container that you have. The little tiny.
Nicole Parker
Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah.
Cade
And Breath Ashore was a. Was a. Supposed to be some revolutionary breath thing where it would. It would freshen your breath from the stomach outward.
Nicole Parker
Ew, that sounds terrible. That's disgusting.
Cade
It was supposed to be plant based or something. I forget. I remember the commercial. Chlorophyll was in it. I can't remember chlorophyll. I'm terribly terrible.
Nicole Parker
It sounds nutty. What are you talking about? What are you talking about?
Cade
I didn't realize I was going to upset you both and I.
Nicole Parker
We really did have a big. Doug and I are on the same page when it comes to chlorophyll.
Doug
Yeah. I never thought one.
Nicole Parker
No need to go to the pinball machine for that one. I'll tell you why.
Doug
Someone puts chlorophyll on your mouth. I never thought they were fresh.
Nicole Parker
No, like, we never thought about it. So we never had to go out to the pinball.
Cade
Oh, no need to go to that.
Doug
When you see someone put chlorophyll to someone else's mouth. I never thought they were freshening their breath.
Nicole Parker
Definitely not.
Doug
Although I suppose.
Nicole Parker
But that's two different things.
Cade
Just so I'm hearing you, Doug, you said when you. When you would see somebody put chlorophyll in someone else's mouth, is that the.
Nicole Parker
Thing that is called chloroform? That's chloroform.
Cade
To knock someone out.
Doug
It's gotta be.
Nicole Parker
Yeah, babe.
Cade
And they don't put it in the mouth.
Nicole Parker
We're talking about a. We're talking about a. Like a. Like a. Sort of. Sort of like a plant's like actual biological reaction to something. Are you talking about something different? You're talking about making someone pass out?
Doug
I must. Yeah.
Nicole Parker
Okay. How do you feel?
Doug
Why do they name them so similar, you know?
Nicole Parker
Well, are they chloroform?
Cade
Chlorophyll.
Nicole Parker
That's pretty close, I guess. And you definitely don't want to get.
Doug
That's pretty close.
Nicole Parker
You don't want to get them up.
Cade
That would be funny.
Nicole Parker
It'd be funny in both cases.
Cade
I'm forgetting what chlorophyll actually is.
Nicole Parker
Well, I believe it's what is. Is created in a plant from. From a sun.
Doug
From a sun.
Cade
So the sun is the plant's food. They love it.
Nicole Parker
In fact. What is it? In fact, I had to say it with my whole chest. I'm afraid I'll be wrong.
Cade
Oh, I know I'm wrong. I know very. I.
Nicole Parker
To be honest, I might be crazy, but I think it's also what gives it the green color. I believe it's what gives it the act. Well, no. Well, let's say the word no. Chlorophyll is the word of the actual reaction, the actual thing that makes it green. So this is terrifying.
Cade
Plant eats sun, then plant make chlorophyll.
Nicole Parker
Women destroy man. Dinosaurs. And her. What?
Cade
Diners drive ins and dives.
Nicole Parker
Sorry, I was trying to do the part where Laura turn in Jurassic Park. Interrupts. Interrupts Jeff Goldblum. And she says dinosaurs kill man and women inherit the earth. But I got it all backwards. You know, my brain got ahead of my mouth.
Cade
Sure.
Nicole Parker
Happens so often.
Cade
Happens to us all.
Nicole Parker
Oh, my goodness.
Cade
I just. So people know. I do know some science because I am a pharmacist, but I only need. I only know the science that I need to be a pharmacist.
Nicole Parker
Right. Chlorophyll wouldn't be in there. Chloroform would almost be something you need to know more about.
Cade
Absolutely. Because we have a lot of chloroforming synt. People coming in in a daze and they have a.
Doug
You could get a prescription for that.
Cade
You could get a prescription.
Nicole Parker
Yes.
Cade
That will. That will shock you out of your chloroform haze and back to reality. You know, we should take a break.
Nicole Parker
We sure should. I need a minute. I need a beer. Did you bring an extra one?
Cade
Sure.
Nicole Parker
Okay, great.
Cade
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That was so great.
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Nicole Parker
Hi, this is Susan. I am selling a mannequin for $25. That's it. I. As you can see, she is photographed here. She is lovely. She is the epitome of impossible achievable standards. Yes. My husband and her are having an emotional affair, and it is time for her to go. But if you could come quickly because he does not know why I'm doing this. Please come get her. I can't take it.
Cade
Oh, yeah, that was for me, maybe.
Doug
Oh. Can I join you guys?
Cade
Sure.
Nicole Parker
Oh, there we go. Wow.
Cade
This is gonna be a fun record.
Nicole Parker
This will be a fun record.
Cade
All right. We do have a guest here on the neighborhood. Listen, here's what we do. We scour the neighborhap, the social networking application for neighborhoods, and we look at Dignity Falls or residents, See if there's anybody interesting to talk to, somebody who needs to amplify a message, somebody who has a question, somebody who is in some sort of trouble.
Nicole Parker
Oh, yeah. Sometimes.
Doug
God.
Cade
Yeah.
Nicole Parker
It's okay.
Doug
Sorry. This was a can of tomatoes.
Cade
Why would it have an opening?
Nicole Parker
Like. Is it because you got it in the trash compactor? Oh, yeah. Ew. That's so disgusting.
Doug
It was unopened.
Cade
It's also wasteful just to throw an unopened can of tomatoes.
Nicole Parker
Most cans of tomatoes don't open like that.
Cade
No, they shouldn't.
Nicole Parker
No.
Doug
Well, this one has a lot of gas.
Nicole Parker
Yeah. They don't hiss. They don't make that sound.
Cade
Is it expired?
Doug
I. I believe so.
Nicole Parker
And also, I'm very concerned that you got as far as actually drinking out of it. And nothing else tipped you off that it wasn't a beer.
Cade
Is there any light in there?
Paul F. Tompkins
Is it V8?
Nicole Parker
We've got. Wait. We have to introduce our guest. Fine. We just don't want you to not. We want everyone to know who you are.
Cade
It's probably good you did that because.
Nicole Parker
Thank you.
Cade
We would have been talking to Doug about being in the trash compactor with.
Nicole Parker
No lights on for alibi saved us. But let's find out who we're talking to for everybody's sake.
Cade
So what we do is we scour the neighborhap, look for interesting people to talk to. And this is no different. If you have one that you think we should talk about, why don't you screenshot it and send it to us at Bert and Joan gmail dot com. This we have a listener that sends us this. Michael Mearson sent us this post. And this is a post in the recommendations section. And this is from someone named Cade. The sort of headline is Land Access. Good afternoon all. Cade continues. I have a super odd question. I'm kind of a history nerd, especially when it comes to local history. And there's a hidden cemetery located on the Falls Farms property that a lot of you probably don't even know about. It's pretty old and nobody has been buried here in at least 100 years and contains some of the earliest settlers in the old dig area. I'm interested in getting some photos of it for a couple genealogical websites and was curious if any of you had any good contact information that I could get in order to receive permission to access the property. I hope you all have a good weekend. Cade signs off. And here to tell us more about this is Cade. Cade, welcome to the neighborhood. Listening.
Paul F. Tompkins
Thrilled to be here. Thank you for having me.
Nicole Parker
Oh, our pleasure. Yes, yes, yes.
Cade
So you're a history buff. Specifically Laura. Local history.
Paul F. Tompkins
I'm just interested in how people lived.
Nicole Parker
Oh, okay. Which is interesting because you were asking about a cemetery.
Paul F. Tompkins
That's right.
Cade
Great catch.
Nicole Parker
Thank you. So what are. Can you give us an example of some other parts of Dignity Falls that you have explored history wise? Some things that you have maybe. Do you have an Instagram account or do you have a substack? Where are you sort of letting us know what you've discovered?
Paul F. Tompkins
You know what? People have been talking to me that I should do a sub stack.
Nicole Parker
Okay.
Paul F. Tompkins
And I understand that it's sort of like only fans for writers, but I think that I am not. I don't know if I'm there yet. I don't know how I would charge. But that is definitely.
Cade
You can do it for free as well.
Nicole Parker
That is true.
Paul F. Tompkins
Why would you do that?
Cade
I don't have a good answer for that. I suppose. I suppose it depends on how civic minded you are. If you. If you feel like this. Sharing this information is helpful to other people as well.
Nicole Parker
I do always feel bad when I read a sub stack and the thing pops up and it's like, you know, do you want to join or what? And says something like, I'm bored. Or like, no, I'm not that interested. You have to click on something that's very.
Cade
Oh, I love those.
Nicole Parker
Of course you do. And let me. I'm sorry, while we're. While we're stopped. Babe, this is my husband. You can't hear him, but he's in a different room. Just, you know, substack. We're talking not about a sandwich, not about a big sandwich. And I know that's what you're thinking about.
Cade
He's picturing 100%. He's definitely a stack of submarine sandwiches.
Nicole Parker
With, like a gigantic five foot toothpick going through it.
Paul F. Tompkins
Is your husband Dagwood?
Nicole Parker
No. Oh, my goodness. Oh, very good. Amazing.
Paul F. Tompkins
What would it have been like if he lived?
Nicole Parker
Doug? Oh, wow. Right?
Cade
Oh, that's.
Nicole Parker
That's like an alternate history. Oh, I like that.
Cade
What if Dagwood was a real person?
Nicole Parker
Yeah, I like that. So, okay, so you're not sure you want to do a substack, but tell us about some of the historical places you've discovered in Dignity Falls.
Paul F. Tompkins
Well, of course, all of the haunts that you all know. That's where we all start. Right?
Nicole Parker
We.
Paul F. Tompkins
You know the town square.
Nicole Parker
Oh, yes. So much there.
Paul F. Tompkins
You know, I even have, like, of course, like, all of us interested in, like, various, like, murder houses.
Nicole Parker
Yes, yes, Unfortunately, a lot of. Yes.
Paul F. Tompkins
It is unfortunate, but you know the map at Halloween that gets passed around of all the murder houses? I helped put that together. And that really is.
Nicole Parker
I love that. It actually is. Really. It's very informative.
Cade
It's very informative. It's very whimsical and very. It's gruesomely detailed.
Nicole Parker
It really is.
Paul F. Tompkins
And some people have.
Nicole Parker
The mat bleeds. It bled. It's amazing. Yeah.
Cade
How do they.
Doug
Scratches.
Nicole Parker
How do you do that?
Cade
It's scratch and sniff.
Paul F. Tompkins
It's very visceral.
Cade
There's a QR code that leads to pictures of the victims.
Paul F. Tompkins
Now, my. My part of it is some people don't enjoy as much. I get kind of lost in sort of the weeds of like. Of just the tiles.
Nicole Parker
Oh, the weeds and the tiles.
Paul F. Tompkins
So I kind of get hung up on that, you know.
Nicole Parker
Okay.
Paul F. Tompkins
Because that's just so interesting. It's like, did. And for me, it's. What's interesting about that is, did that lead to the murder or is there any correl it hasn't yet. It has. I haven't found it, but it's like I. That's one of my thoughts.
Nicole Parker
So do you visit these murder houses? Is that what you're saying?
Paul F. Tompkins
Oh, of course I have. Of course. Accurate.
Nicole Parker
Oh, yes. Because I Like in like a cold case kind of way.
Paul F. Tompkins
No, no, no. In an appreciation of homes. And they have happen to be connected to gruesome murders.
Cade
Okay. Are you interested in homes that have no connection to a gruesome murder?
Nicole Parker
It's just a question.
Paul F. Tompkins
What the public is interested at this time.
Cade
I see. So you're following what people are interested.
Paul F. Tompkins
Yeah, but of course we have a lot of interesting architecture. I'm looking at Doug, but he's not in the room.
Nicole Parker
But you're referencing him. He can always feel it when people are gesturing to him.
Paul F. Tompkins
There's very interesting.
Nicole Parker
It's uncanny.
Paul F. Tompkins
There's not a lot of mid century modern here.
Nicole Parker
That is true.
Cade
We skipped over that period.
Nicole Parker
Yeah, we really, really did.
Paul F. Tompkins
It's just mainly what we call Franken Victorians.
Nicole Parker
Yes. That. The. The pier. The how? The Paris. The pier. Pier house.
Paul F. Tompkins
Right, of course.
Nicole Parker
On the pier. I just don't know how to say.
Paul F. Tompkins
It is a real Hotel Transylvania.
Nicole Parker
It really is. It really is. Oh, burnt. That's another great one. You've got to watch. Adam Sandler plays a vampire. It's great.
Cade
Wow.
Nicole Parker
Never seen that. Yeah. Oh, it's fun, baby. Love it.
Cade
Sounds like.
Nicole Parker
Watch it with the boys. They'll love it anyways.
Doug
Sorry, Meaning Tony and my friends.
Nicole Parker
Your children. Those boys, baby. What?
Cade
What?
Nicole Parker
Wow.
Doug
You say the boys.
Nicole Parker
Okay, you're right.
Cade
Well, we've got our boys.
Nicole Parker
We've got our boys back in the house. So.
Doug
Yeah.
Nicole Parker
Anyways, I'm so sorry.
Paul F. Tompkins
They're 22, you said they are. Oh, wow.
Nicole Parker
Yeah, yeah, they are. I don't want to talk about it much.
Paul F. Tompkins
Oh, my goodness.
Cade
They love to set fire.
Nicole Parker
But they loved your murder house map. Let me tell you. Boy, oh boy. They. They would have just gone crazy for that as kids. Like, they would have really loved it. But okay, so. So you are in the houses. And how often would you visit these houses? Would you. You say?
Paul F. Tompkins
I mean, to make. To help complete that map. I probably spent upwards of a year.
Nicole Parker
Wow.
Paul F. Tompkins
But just to really see how people walked. I'm interested in that way. How did they live? How they walked within the house, how did they breathe?
Nicole Parker
Oh, so you're literally in the house. Wait a minute. This is. How can you even determine that?
Paul F. Tompkins
I'm a history buff.
Nicole Parker
Is that what it could there be.
Cade
That much difference between how people breathed then and how we breathe now?
Paul F. Tompkins
I like to immerse my. Yes, of course there's environmental factors. I'm sure.
Nicole Parker
Okay. Okay.
Paul F. Tompkins
Maybe socioeconomic factors.
Cade
Sure. In breathing.
Paul F. Tompkins
Absolutely.
Nicole Parker
Maybe.
Paul F. Tompkins
You know, there are. They use the makeup. Max factor.
Nicole Parker
Oh yeah. In the 80s. Max Factor is definitely a factor.
Doug
Dental.
Paul F. Tompkins
Dental.
Doug
Different dental.
Cade
It includes dental.
Paul F. Tompkins
You know, you're born with all of your teeth ready to go, stacked up.
Nicole Parker
It's so creepy. That creeps me out. I don't like thinking about it.
Paul F. Tompkins
It's amazing.
Cade
It is.
Paul F. Tompkins
I guess it is amazing.
Nicole Parker
So now I want to know what you were interested in. Is the. In the cemetery.
Paul F. Tompkins
It's not sexual. Oh, wow.
Nicole Parker
I didn't mention that at all.
Paul F. Tompkins
I think we were gonna guess.
Nicole Parker
I wouldn't have thought that. But now I have a lot of follow up questions.
Paul F. Tompkins
It's not. And the murder house is not sexual at all. I just want to get ahead of that.
Cade
I know the first thing that wasn't sexual.
Nicole Parker
The cemetery.
Cade
The cemetery.
Nicole Parker
Okay. And now the murder houses aren't. Why do you feel the need to get out ahead of it?
Cade
Yes.
Paul F. Tompkins
My ex husband.
Nicole Parker
Oh boy.
Paul F. Tompkins
When I told him about this, he was like. Because this is like some sort of kink. And I kept have to say no, no.
Cade
But that was his first question. Question.
Paul F. Tompkins
Yeah. But he's. He's just trying to hurt me.
Nicole Parker
And as we always say, we do not kink. Shame. On the show, never. That's our policy.
Cade
Not on Mike. And his name. His name was Murray.
Paul F. Tompkins
Murray.
Cade
Okay.
Paul F. Tompkins
Yeah, Murray. Murray Leonard.
Nicole Parker
Okay.
Paul F. Tompkins
We still live together.
Cade
Oh, really?
Nicole Parker
That like.
Paul F. Tompkins
It's not great. It's just.
Nicole Parker
And why is it. Is it just a financial situation? Sure, sure, sure.
Paul F. Tompkins
Absolutely. And it's. It's. I think it's really tough to find a roommate.
Cade
What necessitates you still having to live together?
Paul F. Tompkins
I don't make a lot of money, okay? Oh, that's why you're selling.
Nicole Parker
Because you don't have any way of making money for your. You know, you didn't get paid for the maps. You didn't sell them.
Paul F. Tompkins
I did. But it's just. It's not a lot. It's not, you know, And I did try.
Nicole Parker
See, someone just handed one to me. I don't know where I got mine, but I didn't know you were selling them.
Cade
No one ever knows.
Nicole Parker
Is that part of the mystique? You just wanted it to feel like it just came into our hands.
Paul F. Tompkins
Sometimes I. I dress in a ghillie suit. And I just. Every Wednesday, I dress in a ghillie suit.
Cade
If people don't know, ghillie suit is one of those things that hunters use and snipers where it looks like you're a big grass monster.
Doug
I love those.
Nicole Parker
Yeah, they're great.
Paul F. Tompkins
But oftentimes it's very comfortable. I don't try to pretend like I'm a monster. I'm more like, oh, it's a bush that hands you a flyer.
Cade
The idea of them is not to.
Nicole Parker
Pretend, it's not to scare, it's to inform.
Cade
That's just a pleasant bonus that you can do.
Paul F. Tompkins
I'm just trying to sort of blend in and just observe. And also just have a little whimsy.
Cade
Yeah.
Paul F. Tompkins
On a Wednesday.
Nicole Parker
I love. I love a little whimsy on a Wednesday.
Cade
So do you do this at Gilly Park?
Paul F. Tompkins
I do.
Nicole Parker
I do.
Paul F. Tompkins
I do a Gilly park. And then it is sort of like.
Nicole Parker
A nude beach of ours, except for everyone there.
Cade
Everyone there is wearing ghillie suits. But the.
Nicole Parker
The trees seem to move.
Cade
All of the natural occurring greenery there also looks like ghillie suits. So it's really a perfect magnet.
Paul F. Tompkins
It's mainly. There's less trees there and more just sort of hedges and shrubs. And of course, you know, the maze.
Doug
People put their dogs in ghillie suits too.
Nicole Parker
That's a very sweet moment.
Cade
It's very sweet.
Nicole Parker
And the maze is treacherous, though. That could be really. We've lost a lot of people.
Cade
There's so many people still in there.
Nicole Parker
Yeah, that's right.
Cade
Like that movie the Corn or whatever I saw. The Children of the Corn.
Nicole Parker
It says literally a movie called the Movie.
Cade
I think there's. I think it's called the Tall Grass.
Nicole Parker
You're kidding.
Cade
And it is just tall grass that people get lost.
Nicole Parker
Oh, no, that's ridiculous.
Cade
Time and space shifts and all that.
Nicole Parker
Oh, boy.
Paul F. Tompkins
Terrifying.
Nicole Parker
Don't bother.
Cade
Don't bother everyone.
Nicole Parker
So, okay, so then 20, 19. He looked it up. Fast. Faster than he can tell us how long we've been talking.
Cade
How is that possible?
Doug
I would have guessed that was in the 60s or something.
Nicole Parker
No, that does sound like a sort of a. Yeah, it makes actually sound a lot of sense. People weren't paying attention to.
Paul F. Tompkins
Is that Clint Eastwood? Am I a Hmong kid?
Doug
My dad used to always yell at.
Paul F. Tompkins
Us, get out of my yard.
Nicole Parker
What did he yell at you?
Doug
Stay out of the tall grass.
Nicole Parker
Okay. Yes, yes, yes. Very good. Yes. So I want to get to the cemetery of it all.
Paul F. Tompkins
Yeah, Just this idea. And I know you're in real estate.
Nicole Parker
I am.
Paul F. Tompkins
And that's why I agreed to come on. Well, I guess first just get ahead of that. It has nothing to do with sex.
Cade
Okay.
Nicole Parker
You keep getting parts that we or.
Paul F. Tompkins
Any of that type of stuff.
Nicole Parker
Intimacy. What an extra detail tail do with that. But because now even if I thought.
Cade
Sex, I never would have got my intimacy.
Nicole Parker
Absolutely not. Absolutely not.
Paul F. Tompkins
Isn't that the edges of the same sword? Sex. Intimacy.
Nicole Parker
Have a point for the listeners.
Paul F. Tompkins
I'm pretending that I'm holding Excalibur.
Nicole Parker
Yes.
Paul F. Tompkins
Flipping it.
Cade
Yeah.
Paul F. Tompkins
You're sword.
Cade
You're doing well. Giving it the weight.
Paul F. Tompkins
Yes.
Nicole Parker
Yeah, we're giving receiving of it forged by Merlin. Oh, well, I can tell you a little bit about the cemetery and you know about it.
Paul F. Tompkins
Yes.
Nicole Parker
Well, yeah, but here's the thing. I guess. I guess I. I thought that I had discussed this on the podcast, but maybe I haven't because people weirdly don't know this. I mean, when you become a realtor, they tell you this. It's kind of like when you become the president, they tell you where like the aliens are. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah.
Paul F. Tompkins
You get.
Nicole Parker
So when I was sworn in and there is a swearing in when you become a realtor. Filter. Do they tell you at a day spa.
Cade
Do they tell you about Area 54 here in Dignity Falls?
Nicole Parker
Yes.
Paul F. Tompkins
There's an Area 54.
Cade
Yes. Some people say it's a disco. Some people say it's where aliens are. Some people say it's both.
Nicole Parker
What it really is is a silo for salt. You know, it's a. It's where we store the salt for the summer.
Cade
Boo.
Nicole Parker
No, no, no. What I mean is it. It. It. It looks like it appears to be that on the outside.
Cade
Oh.
Nicole Parker
But this is why it's very. You know, because when do you ever look inside those things? Never. So that's what I'm trying to say. That's awfully awesome. Obviously what its front is. I've only ever seen fronting for assault. Silo.
Cade
Sure. I've only ever seen the inside of a silo in the movie Witness.
Nicole Parker
Oh, yeah.
Cade
Where someone is. I think it's Danny.
Nicole Parker
Lots of. Lots of fraught looks in that movie.
Cade
Lots of fraught looks.
Paul F. Tompkins
Is this a movie podcast?
Cade
I know.
Nicole Parker
I knew you were gonna say that.
Cade
So sorry, Kade.
Nicole Parker
It is always how to explain that. I'm so sorry. You came here for information about that cemetery. So what I was told was. And most people don't know this because they think it was a Studio. That is the cemetery where Thriller was shot.
Paul F. Tompkins
What?
Nicole Parker
Yes.
Cade
What?
Paul F. Tompkins
Yes, I have been in discords, in message boards, in gorge. Engorged.
Cade
What?
Paul F. Tompkins
Babe gorged on the board.
Cade
Doug, that was. What did you say?
Paul F. Tompkins
You know, I did say engorged.
Nicole Parker
Doug.
Paul F. Tompkins
NY's tone has merged.
Nicole Parker
Wait, that was you, Bert.
Cade
What is.
Nicole Parker
Who said gourds?
Paul F. Tompkins
I said.
Cade
I did say.
Doug
Gordon, why are you so upset about that?
Cade
Because I heard discords and message boards and I. I just. I panicked.
Nicole Parker
Okay, I understand. I'll admit I panicked. Sorry, I didn't mean to throw a wrench in the works. Okay, so you've been on all the boards and all of the chat rooms, and people have been trying to discuss that.
Paul F. Tompkins
The Reddits. But no. No one's brought up.
Nicole Parker
Oh, no one. No one knows.
Paul F. Tompkins
Spread up any sort of connection to the late. And rest in peace, Michael Jackson.
Cade
Peace.
Nicole Parker
Vincent Price also was flown out. He stood there and did the monologue right as everyone was coming, just off camera, as they were coming out of. No, but they were like. They were like, this is going to make it like, I feel it. It'll help the dancer, it'll help the dancers, it will help the zombies.
Cade
Anger is leg from every tomb Are closing in to seal your doom. The funk of 20,000 years.
Nicole Parker
I hate that part. That's my least favorite part. The funk of 20,000 years.
Cade
It's awful.
Nicole Parker
No, thank you. No, thank you.
Cade
Oh, Kate's doing the dance.
Paul F. Tompkins
She had the dance. I have some moves.
Nicole Parker
So what is really the reason why no one really talks about this is because they did exhume some bodies in order to make space for people to get in there and climb back out.
Cade
They also made some of the bodies dance. What they did was what? You know that thing where you have a pole and you could put dummies on the pole.
Nicole Parker
There was no cgi. There was no AI back then. This is what they had to do. No way.
Paul F. Tompkins
And use of a mannequin seems not realistic.
Cade
Well, it was. John Landis was the director and he really wanted to do it this way.
Nicole Parker
He's a real sicko.
Paul F. Tompkins
Yeah. Rest in peace, sicko.
Nicole Parker
RIP He's a real sicko.
Cade
He's a real sicko. Rest in peace. Eventually.
Nicole Parker
Eventually.
Cade
So it is. It is. I think that's a lot of the reason why people. They don't let people back in the cemetery, I would guess.
Nicole Parker
Well, yes. I mean, I think they're trying to keep the secret, which this is why I feel weird about. We might just cut this part out. Sure. But while I'm trying to just sort of keep the secret of that. Because the realtors keep the secret.
Paul F. Tompkins
We're the.
Nicole Parker
We're the cemetery secret keepers.
Paul F. Tompkins
You're the oath keepers.
Nicole Parker
That's right.
Cade
The body keeps the score, and the realtors keep the secret.
Paul F. Tompkins
Wow.
Cade
Yeah.
Nicole Parker
But. So I think that, like. But I think if you go there, people say there's still some remnants of, like, the evidence of people being. Of people being there, of the set having been there, of the production team having been there. You might find some crazy things if you went there. Some fun mementos.
Paul F. Tompkins
Yeah.
Nicole Parker
Maybe a shoe. Maybe there's one of Michael's shoes. I don't know. Oh, I don't know. That's hoping for too much.
Paul F. Tompkins
Do you know if the bodies that were exhumed were put back or were they. What happened?
Nicole Parker
Oh, I sure hope so. Although, I don't know, maybe they made it big because that was their big break in the video.
Paul F. Tompkins
You think they got more work?
Nicole Parker
I think so. Do you think they got easier representation than a real person? Anything's possible.
Paul F. Tompkins
I bet they were Taft, Hartley.
Cade
Some of those corpses are in the union now. The Screen Actors Guild.
Nicole Parker
Yeah, absolutely. A couple. Yeah. I mean, it was a day. Right. But who knows? The shoot.
Cade
Oh, day race shoot.
Nicole Parker
The shoot famously took two months.
Cade
That was a close one.
Nicole Parker
And they had to do it in the dark. Dark of night, you know, every night. So I don't Word is that, like, they were all living here in town, you know, while they were shooting it, but no one knows where they stayed. Which would be another great thing for you to find out, like, where did they put up Michael Jackson?
Paul F. Tompkins
Well, that Bed and breakfast, obviously.
Nicole Parker
I mean, it seems obvious, right? It does seem obvious.
Paul F. Tompkins
We don't.
Nicole Parker
Yeah, the beat at Airbnb does seem obvious.
Cade
And that's the Beat it family.
Nicole Parker
Yeah. They say it's Airbnb.
Cade
Id.
Nicole Parker
That's right. Beaded.
Cade
Beaded Family.
Paul F. Tompkins
And that. That was the family owned it. They called it way before Airbnb. It wasn't.
Nicole Parker
Because it wasn't Michael Jackson. Stage coincidence.
Cade
Yeah.
Doug
I think I thought they were trying to lure Air Jordan.
Nicole Parker
Why?
Doug
But they got Michael Jackson.
Nicole Parker
How would they been luring it with the word. With the name. Beaded air. Beat It. Air.
Doug
Beat and Beat It.
Paul F. Tompkins
But you said that it was before Airbnb, Doug.
Nicole Parker
Air Jackson. Oh, boy. Wow.
Doug
I think we got a. I think this tomato.
Cade
Yeah, that's right. I bet. I bet it's off. It's gone off. Yeah.
Paul F. Tompkins
Huh?
Nicole Parker
It has gone off. It Definitely has gone off, that's for sure.
Cade
So, Cade.
Paul F. Tompkins
I know, I. When I say titillated, I don't mean.
Nicole Parker
It'S sexual, of course, or intimacy or.
Paul F. Tompkins
Intimate in any way in the way that you think of.
Cade
You don't think of it as sensual, essential.
Paul F. Tompkins
But I will say you are describing. Okay, I'm going to be. Come up. Come clean up.
Nicole Parker
Oh, wow.
Paul F. Tompkins
Okay.
Nicole Parker
Oh, wow.
Cade
Please.
Nicole Parker
We do love.
Cade
Honestly, you can say whatever you want here.
Nicole Parker
Yeah, it's a safe space.
Paul F. Tompkins
I. I guess I just have a bee in my bonnet and an ID idea that I've been thinking about. I mean, you've heard of, like, you know, like, improving your gut biome.
Nicole Parker
Oh, sure.
Cade
Yes, I have.
Nicole Parker
Right.
Paul F. Tompkins
And how some people will put like, babies poop and they'll correct like a douche.
Nicole Parker
This is true. It's true. Burn. This is true.
Paul F. Tompkins
You.
Cade
You.
Nicole Parker
Have you heard of this?
Cade
No, and I wish I could remain that way.
Nicole Parker
You know what? I gotta say, I've never seen burns eyes bigger than they are now. When they say people's eyes are saucers. This is actually true. Your eyes are bugging out of your.
Cade
I'm trying to figure out how this would improve anything.
Nicole Parker
Well, because apparently the gut biome of one person is different from your own, and so maybe theirs would benefit you.
Cade
So this is. One man's trash is another man's treasure.
Nicole Parker
Correct. In case. In this case, it's feces.
Paul F. Tompkins
One man's waste.
Nicole Parker
That's right. This is another man's wealth.
Paul F. Tompkins
Well, that's right. That's right.
Cade
And it's something to do with babies.
Nicole Parker
Well, sometimes they use a baby. This is so true.
Paul F. Tompkins
So you put it in sort of like. You know what? I.
Nicole Parker
It's hard to say it in any way other way. Yes, exactly. Put it up your butt. You put it up your butt, you make it juice. Or you can take it in pill form, which is actually terrifying to me, apparently.
Cade
Is this what adrenochrome is?
Nicole Parker
Oh, I don't know.
Paul F. Tompkins
I don't know what that is. Tell me about it.
Nicole Parker
Is that the new Christopher Nolan?
Cade
I wish I hadn't said that, because.
Paul F. Tompkins
Now you have to explain it.
Cade
Well, this is the thing that certain people believe. Believe that the wealthy elites are extracting this from children and drinking it so.
Nicole Parker
They can live forever. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. It's not that. This is not.
Paul F. Tompkins
It's not this.
Nicole Parker
There's actually some regular people.
Cade
For a moment I thought.
Nicole Parker
Well, I mean, now they're regular.
Paul F. Tompkins
Well, I'm a little nervous to keep Going.
Nicole Parker
No, please, no. We've already passed the shop.
Cade
I apologize. I apologize.
Nicole Parker
I'm here to also corroborate this for you. This is a thing.
Paul F. Tompkins
Yeah. So you put like, let's say maybe.
Nicole Parker
I don't know where it's going re the cemetery and dead people.
Paul F. Tompkins
But I, I appreciate that you're going to accept anything that I say.
Nicole Parker
Great. I'm ready to do it.
Paul F. Tompkins
That's what I hear. So the.
Nicole Parker
I have a reputation.
Paul F. Tompkins
A grandmother might say, oh, let me put a little bit of my grandson's dookie.
Cade
Perhaps a grandmother.
Paul F. Tompkins
Can I have a little bit of his dookie?
Cade
Okay, okay.
Paul F. Tompkins
And I put it in sort of a douche. And I shoot it up.
Nicole Parker
That's right.
Paul F. Tompkins
The grandmother shoots it up.
Nicole Parker
True.
Paul F. Tompkins
And it helps with her microbiome.
Nicole Parker
That's right.
Paul F. Tompkins
I'm interested. Is what. Okay. I'm interested in the part I'm waiting for. Right. I'm like, oh, oh, okay. A baby who's. Who's alive now, but what if like a hundred year old. Wait, because like when you die, right? Don't you like. Like you get rigor mortis and then you shit. Right.
Cade
I think it's the other one. The second one first.
Nicole Parker
Wait, please say you're not talking about. Can I jump ahead to where you're talking about putting anything of a dead person in your body?
Paul F. Tompkins
That's exactly what I'm saying.
Nicole Parker
Oh, dear. I think this has gone beyond what we've our scope, our realm of this podcast so far.
Paul F. Tompkins
So it's okay for Michael Jack to exhume these.
Nicole Parker
These. Getting really upset.
Cade
It was John Landis.
Paul F. Tompkins
John Landis. R I P E. John Landis.
Nicole Parker
Eventually.
Cade
Ripe.
Paul F. Tompkins
John Landis to use these settlers from our beautiful town, treating them like other extras he would use later as. As, you know, play things. Then for me to just like take a look.
Nicole Parker
What is it that you want to do? What is it you want to do with them? You said, is it wrong for me and you haven't said it yet. What is it you want to do?
Paul F. Tompkins
Just to take a little bit of their.
Nicole Parker
Their. Their dead poop. Yes and yes. Put it in you. Why do you think that would be any better?
Paul F. Tompkins
Because I'm interested of how people lived.
Nicole Parker
I started. Honey, I don't know know that that's going to teach you that it's why.
Paul F. Tompkins
People do the paleo diet. Right.
Doug
Wouldn't it be white by now?
Cade
Kate, I have Doug.
Nicole Parker
No, babe, I would actually just say we. We said before. Stand down, Doug.
Cade
Stand down.
Paul F. Tompkins
Are you thinking about How Dog. Dog poop used to be white.
Nicole Parker
It gets petrified and turns white.
Cade
We're the last place that has the white.
Paul F. Tompkins
It's amazing.
Cade
Dog.
Paul F. Tompkins
But I'm not interested in putting dog.
Cade
Cade, may I. I have to say two things to you.
Nicole Parker
Great.
Paul F. Tompkins
Here we go. First of all, number one, while this.
Cade
May not appear sexual, it definitely appears intimate.
Nicole Parker
Oh, I.
Cade
Number two.
Paul F. Tompkins
But I did say. Just. I want to hear number two.
Cade
Yes.
Paul F. Tompkins
Just before you get to number two. It's just I said intimacy, as you are thinking of it. Which. That's what I did say that. And so I.
Cade
But you said it was not that.
Paul F. Tompkins
Fair enough. Go ahead. Number two.
Nicole Parker
You really turned her around on that one.
Cade
Number two, although the. The. The. The process of one's bowels bladder voiding upon the moment of death.
Paul F. Tompkins
Yeah.
Cade
They don't typically put it in an.
Paul F. Tompkins
Urn like the Egyptians did with, like, their organs.
Cade
Right. Or bury it with the people in the graveyard.
Nicole Parker
Yes, that happens. And then it's taken care of. And then they're put.
Cade
That usually happens at the point of death, wherever they died. Unless they.
Nicole Parker
It's not like the second you put the dirt on them, they go, oh, no. And then everything comes out.
Paul F. Tompkins
Well, the Egyptians, they would.
Nicole Parker
You.
Paul F. Tompkins
They would take their organs.
Nicole Parker
They would put.
Paul F. Tompkins
They would put it in an urn that you could have it. You know, as you crossed over once. They did the whole away your soul thing.
Nicole Parker
Ah, yes.
Cade
You know, also take into account this is how much the weighs.
Paul F. Tompkins
Because when you're in heaven, you want to be made whole.
Nicole Parker
Yes, Right.
Cade
They put that right back in. And now I know we have a large Egyptian community here, but I don't.
Paul F. Tompkins
Sydney falls. Diversity falls. Am I right?
Nicole Parker
Oh, that's really nice. No, you're not wrong.
Cade
We have all kinds of people here. It's a wonderful community.
Nicole Parker
Yeah. And it's called big Egypt.
Cade
It's called big Egypt because it's.
Paul F. Tompkins
They're so bigger than Egypt. It's called big Egypt. There's more Egyptians here than the country.
Cade
More people of Egyptian descent extent living in digby falls than there are in Egypt.
Nicole Parker
That's right. It's wonderful. It's wonderful.
Cade
It's wonderful.
Nicole Parker
I love it. It's one of the things I love about this town.
Cade
But I don't. I don't think that you're going to find what you're looking for in the cemetery. And I also think even if you're granted access by whoever holds the keys to the. To the cemetery in that land.
Nicole Parker
Yes.
Cade
I don't Think they're going to let you, especially after the John Lantis thing. I don't think they're going to let you dig up more bodies.
Nicole Parker
Bodies and their marquees.
Cade
And a lot of them went to Hollywood.
Nicole Parker
A lot of them went to Hollywood because, you know, it's hard to not chase that dream even in death.
Paul F. Tompkins
But isn't there something to of like act first and then apologize later? Isn't that something.
Cade
Oh, better to ask for forgiveness and for permission.
Paul F. Tompkins
Yeah, sure.
Cade
I mean, that is a thing that.
Paul F. Tompkins
People say, but it is a lifestyle for some.
Cade
For some, yeah.
Paul F. Tompkins
And it sounds like you do have action access, Joan.
Nicole Parker
No, it's not. I was. Listen, we were taken on a tour one time and never to return again because it was. Again. They just.
Cade
Is that what they tell you?
Nicole Parker
And that's the thing. You can only visit the cemetery once.
Paul F. Tompkins
Wow.
Cade
And you don't get a key like a Gramercy park situation.
Nicole Parker
No, no. It is a one time only thing. And Jebediah, who is the. No last name. Who is the chair. Go. That's it. Sorry.
Paul F. Tompkins
Just like Cher.
Nicole Parker
Just like Cher, Yeah. I mean, honestly, he's an icon and he's been through a lot and his autobiography is amazing, but he has all the keys. And there are so. And you know, there are keys to each grave. That's why there are so many keys.
Cade
Right.
Nicole Parker
Because they don't want this to ever happen again. And he did tell us on the tour that this is a very special exemption that apparently the sellers that they did, except Zoom, had wished for that to happen. And it was very weird. They had actually somehow it was writ in a book where it said, shall the event ever come to pass that a celebratory musical festival may happen on these hallowed grounds? Dig me up. So not only a part of it.
Cade
They'Re not just saying it's okay. They're saying, do it.
Nicole Parker
They're saying, please.
Paul F. Tompkins
Was there anything about microbiome or sort of any.
Nicole Parker
And see, I don't remember. I don't remember seeing any of that. Doesn't mean it. It doesn't mean it's there. But it also doesn't mean it's a good idea because I.
Cade
What is it that you think is going to happen?
Nicole Parker
That's a great question.
Cade
Yeah, we never got to this.
Paul F. Tompkins
I think.
Nicole Parker
I mean, do you think it's gonna do more than what normal practice of this gut biome exchange is? Do you think something extra is gonna happen? And what is it?
Paul F. Tompkins
I don't have any grandchildren. I always I don't have children.
Nicole Parker
What a place to start.
Paul F. Tompkins
So. So then I was like, let's. Let's think outside the box.
Nicole Parker
Wait, no, wait a minute. You're not talking about this getting. We're not talking about this as a fertility thing, are you?
Paul F. Tompkins
No, no, of course not. I'm beyond that. It's not. Not sexual? Well, it's not even for pleasure. It's. It's just I'm. I'm wondering if it would unlock something in me, sort of like the limitless pill, but coming from a different orifice.
Nicole Parker
Oh, well, I mean, I would just do something like go to, like, a retreat or like go to, like, a yoga class. I feel like that's going to give you more sense of self than injecting old dead tissue from someone into your body.
Paul F. Tompkins
Interesting. I guess I. I'm just a. I'm just curious. I'm curious, and I think that's what keeps me young. But I'm also interested in this idea that I have perhaps could keep me young as well.
Cade
So again.
Nicole Parker
Oh, so you're thinking it's like a Holy Grail, sort of. Sort of fountain of youth situation?
Paul F. Tompkins
Yes.
Cade
Is that what you think?
Paul F. Tompkins
Cemetery. My El Dorado.
Nicole Parker
Oh, okay.
Cade
Wow.
Nicole Parker
Wow.
Cade
So you feel this will. This will sort of halt or even reverse the aging process?
Paul F. Tompkins
Possibly.
Cade
Possibly.
Paul F. Tompkins
Possibly.
Nicole Parker
She might be able to tell you the truth. There's nothing sexual about El Dorado.
Paul F. Tompkins
Not sexual.
Cade
That's true. That's true. So that's one thing. That's possible, but it's possible. Right. Are you considering any other possibilities, like it could be fatal?
Paul F. Tompkins
Oh, yeah.
Nicole Parker
That's my concern. That's.
Paul F. Tompkins
Not once have I thought that I.
Nicole Parker
Would listen to on this. Not once.
Cade
I can't guarantee you. I am a pharmacist.
Nicole Parker
That's right.
Cade
I can't guarantee you that it would be fatal, but I think the likelihood is high. High. Oh, yeah.
Paul F. Tompkins
Why?
Nicole Parker
Because, well, I mean, famously dead bodies, aren't they. There's a lot of. There's a lot of things going on. The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out. Right.
Paul F. Tompkins
And there's back.
Doug
Can't change that. You can't debate that.
Nicole Parker
Which one? You can't up for debate worms? Doug is putting his foot down. Doug is putting his foot down.
Paul F. Tompkins
100 years ago, people didn't eat food with preservatives, okay? They had cleaner lifestyles. You know, there wasn't. They weren't eating Captain Crunch all the time.
Cade
That's true, but they were dying of dysentery.
Paul F. Tompkins
And if you Gave them one dysentery, though. That means there's probably a lot for me to.
Cade
Diseases and viruses were on the air, like feathers.
Nicole Parker
It's not sanitary. It's. It's.
Cade
There's nothing about this that's good.
Nicole Parker
Have you ever thought against the laws of nature?
Paul F. Tompkins
Look, we. Even with the. We're. We're gross about the grandmother putting the grandson's dookie up.
Nicole Parker
Okay, well, burnt was. To be fair, I already knew about it.
Doug
If you gave one medieval peasant.
Paul F. Tompkins
Right. Like, so.
Doug
If you gave one medieval peasant a crunchberry.
Paul F. Tompkins
Yeah. What would happen?
Doug
Explode. That's what they say.
Cade
Yeah.
Nicole Parker
You know who's they?
Paul F. Tompkins
I'm curious about that. I never followed.
Nicole Parker
He never follows up on the day. Who's they? Are they with us now?
Doug
No. No. I'm not losing my mind.
Paul F. Tompkins
We're on this. We're on the same Reddit.
Nicole Parker
Not what I meant it. They're on the same Reddit.
Cade
What's your handle on Reddit?
Nicole Parker
Oh, that's a good question.
Paul F. Tompkins
Cade the spade.
Nicole Parker
Yes.
Cade
Does that sound familiar? Doug, what's your handle on Reddit? Doug?
Doug
Not Doug.
Cade
Okay. So are you. Are you sure you guys haven't crossed paths on it?
Paul F. Tompkins
It's possible. I'm on so many. So many. Yeah.
Nicole Parker
Doug is on Reddit all the. The time. That concerns me all the time.
Doug
Mainly on, like, home improvement.
Nicole Parker
Sure.
Doug
You know, subreddit stuff.
Nicole Parker
How to build a trash compactor in your home.
Paul F. Tompkins
But every Reddit is going to. It's going to start one way and it's going to end another.
Nicole Parker
Do devolve? Yeah, they really do.
Paul F. Tompkins
That's just, you know, that's just what it is.
Cade
Yeah.
Paul F. Tompkins
So I just want to. I don't know if you realize this, because I think you're grossed out by poop, and that's like, an issue for you.
Cade
It's not my favorite thing, but please continue.
Paul F. Tompkins
There is a Netflix documentary if you'd like to educate yourself on this.
Nicole Parker
Okay, I'll watch it. What is it?
Paul F. Tompkins
It's. It's about this whole thing now. It's not about now.
Nicole Parker
I'll just look up Netflix.
Cade
Is this the Tony Hinchcliffe Special?
Paul F. Tompkins
It's not. This is truly a documentary that Netflix paid for. So that means it's absolutely got to be good.
Nicole Parker
Yeah. It means it's got to be legit.
Paul F. Tompkins
Probably isn't two episodes longer than it should be.
Nicole Parker
Probably not.
Cade
Probably not. Something could have just been 90 minutes at most.
Nicole Parker
That's right.
Paul F. Tompkins
I'm just saying. I lost my train of thought.
Nicole Parker
What's the documentary about, right? Yeah. What she's talking about putting it in your body. Yeah. The poop douches. Not from dead people. But that would be a great. Dead people on cbs, but the dead people, Tim Allen.
Paul F. Tompkins
That's, of course, sort of my sort of idea. That's kind of what I'm bringing to it. And the only. Only way I can know is to do it. Like I would never. You know what I mean? Like I wouldn't do it to somebody else. I wouldn't know on Doug, you know? So it's like, I'm not gonna sneak do. So it's like this is your.
Nicole Parker
Does your ex husband who you live with know about this? Does he know about this?
Paul F. Tompkins
Yes. And that's why he. Murray was worried. That's why he wanted.
Nicole Parker
Thank you, Murray.
Paul F. Tompkins
He was. He was like. Is he intellectual? No.
Nicole Parker
Well, he said this is sexual.
Paul F. Tompkins
He.
Nicole Parker
Yeah. Why does he say that?
Paul F. Tompkins
Because he's just riding my ass. He's just. Oh. There was a reason why we got divorced.
Nicole Parker
Wait a minute.
Paul F. Tompkins
I just. What?
Nicole Parker
Well, I mean, the fact that you're any. Anyways, there. There seems to be a lot of sexual sexuality in the things we choose to say.
Paul F. Tompkins
Why we got divorced is that we weren't sexual anymore. So, you know, I mean, I just.
Nicole Parker
Keep thinking, is this something you think is going to, like, save your marriage? Maybe you just need a marriage counselor.
Paul F. Tompkins
I don't want to be married to him. I don't even want to live with him. But it's just. What I know.
Cade
Right?
Nicole Parker
Oh, I understand.
Cade
So this all came about because you're a history buff.
Paul F. Tompkins
I'm a history buff. I'm so interested how people lived. How did they walk? How did they breathe?
Nicole Parker
Specifically, murderers.
Paul F. Tompkins
How were they killed? Does that correlate to tiling, to roofing? To the gourds? And they're.
Cade
Okay.
Paul F. Tompkins
Well, that.
Cade
That was something I said.
Nicole Parker
Well, wow. I mean, this one has me stumped because usually there's a suggestion we can make. In this case, my suggestion would be don't do that.
Cade
Yes.
Paul F. Tompkins
What I hear. I have gotten a lot of. Of information from you today, Joan.
Nicole Parker
Oh.
Paul F. Tompkins
And what I'm understanding is, is that I need to take that super simple test that makes you a realtor. I need to.
Cade
Makes you one.
Nicole Parker
Yeah. It's not. I don't think I ever said it was super simple.
Paul F. Tompkins
No, but we all know that realtor tests are super simple and it takes five seconds to pass.
Cade
You know, Joan, I know there was a test.
Nicole Parker
There sure is.
Paul F. Tompkins
There's an exam. But, I mean, there's a realtor exam. Half of it is a eye test.
Doug
Seeing.
Cade
Being able to see is a big part of being a Realtor.
Paul F. Tompkins
Big part.
Nicole Parker
There's feeling and identifying fabrics. That section, you have to say curb appeal.
Cade
Baking. You have to learn how to bake.
Nicole Parker
You have to bake cookies. It is very. It's. It's very, very intense. I'm telling you. They really put you through it.
Paul F. Tompkins
Yeah. And so.
Nicole Parker
And then you do that.
Paul F. Tompkins
You do the oath, and then you get one visit to the cemetery.
Nicole Parker
Well, you know what? Listen. I know. And you say it like she's gonna try. There you go. She's saying it like she's not gonna take just one visit. Do not bother Jebediah, okay? He. No one knows how old he is, and no one knows when he's gonna die.
Cade
And your idea is to become a realtor?
Paul F. Tompkins
Yeah.
Nicole Parker
Go to the cemetery.
Cade
Get access to the cemetery and harvest as much corpse shit as you possibly can.
Nicole Parker
That sums it up.
Cade
I don't think you're gonna be able to do that.
Nicole Parker
I just think they're gonna stop you. See, I do think you will be stopped. I just. I mean, listen, live your life. Go for it. We need more. More Realtors in town. Although I don't think you're going to be doing anything with realty. Actually doing it just to get access to.
Paul F. Tompkins
Have no interested. Interest in that. I.
Cade
Although it be good to have a job. And you sure would.
Paul F. Tompkins
Well, I. On the side. On the side. I do a home organization.
Nicole Parker
Really.
Paul F. Tompkins
Just on the side. It's like. That's just to make a little bit of money. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know.
Cade
What does that entail?
Paul F. Tompkins
Oh, that's just. You have cereal boxes. I throw away the box and then I put it in a plastic thing. I'm main. What I mainly do is I label. I love to label. I'm really into sort of stationary. I like to express myself through the pen choices that I do to label.
Cade
I like that because it does make you feel like you're living in a hospital, which is fun.
Paul F. Tompkins
That's right. All right.
Nicole Parker
Well, Kate. Okay. Yeah, no, you're right. To wrap this up.
Cade
Yeah. I mean, I don't know what to tell you other than don't do this.
Paul F. Tompkins
Okay.
Nicole Parker
I think. Yeah. I do want. I do want that to be our strong message.
Paul F. Tompkins
Questions.
Nicole Parker
And also just to listeners at home, don't do this. Three questions real quick. Real quick. Rapid fire.
Paul F. Tompkins
Rapid fire. Jebediah, you don't know how old he is.
Nicole Parker
Do not could he be immortal? I have considered it.
Paul F. Tompkins
Okay.
Nicole Parker
And I'm afraid to say that because I think it'll draw you even further to him, even 100%.
Cade
It will.
Nicole Parker
Yeah. Well, this is rapid fire. I didn't have any.
Cade
Question number two.
Nicole Parker
Okay.
Paul F. Tompkins
Will you give me some of your poop?
Nicole Parker
Oh, she's pointing to Bert.
Cade
That's a flat no.
Paul F. Tompkins
Okay, now it's to you, Joan. Same question.
Nicole Parker
No, Doug. Don't answer. Do not answer three questions. Doug is ready to give you his.
Cade
Yeah, and he just drank expired tomatoes, so I wouldn't.
Paul F. Tompkins
I don't want it. I don't want his.
Nicole Parker
All right, Kate, we wish you the best of luck.
Cade
We wish you the best of luck. And thank you for joining us today.
Paul F. Tompkins
Thank you.
Cade
More when the Neighborhood Listen returns. Nicole.
Nicole Parker
What?
Cade
I hate telling you this.
Nicole Parker
Oh.
Cade
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Nicole Parker
Oh, I think that's great news.
Cade
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Nicole Parker
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Cade
Yeah.
Nicole Parker
You wanna know what the best part is?
Cade
Sure.
Nicole Parker
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Cade
A shark on it.
Nicole Parker
It does not have a shark on it.
Cade
Oh, it's a white T shirt. That's great. I see. I myself treated myself with our discount to a cashmere hoodie.
Paul F. Tompkins
Ooh.
Cade
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Nicole Parker
Oh, I love that.
Cade
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Nicole Parker
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Paul F. Tompkins
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Nicole Parker
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Cade
All right, first of all, don't use my name. Here it is. It's a coffin for the title. Choose be. No. And then I'm asking 1250 for it. That's $1250. And then for the description, just put. Yep. Now, if anybody sees the picture, I want you to know I'm not selling the space heater. I'm not selling the tiny fan. And I'm not selling the hospital to tub. Not selling the red curtain either. I need this coffin out of my living room. No.
Nicole Parker
Yep.
Cade
Coffin. And welcome back to the neighborhood. Listen.
Nicole Parker
How you doing, Burnt? You have. You are pale.
Cade
That was.
Nicole Parker
Yeah, that was.
Cade
All of that.
Nicole Parker
That was hard. Sorry about that.
Cade
Unsettling.
Nicole Parker
Yeah, it was.
Cade
I think that Kate is a strange person. And I don't think she should be allowed in that cemetery under any.
Nicole Parker
Definitely. I think I might even just go, you know, talk to Jebediah and just give him a heads up that I think you should. That she might be coming by.
Cade
How. How often do you have audiences with Jebediah? Like what?
Nicole Parker
Where?
Cade
Where what? What?
Nicole Parker
He's his brother.
Cade
Oh, okay.
Nicole Parker
How often do I have audience with.
Cade
Well, I mean, what do you call it? He seems like a very sort of, you know, mysterious figure.
Nicole Parker
Yeah, well, you definitely have to, like, if you want to meet with him, you have to go out there. You have to leave an offering. I mean, it could be anything, you know, it could be a Yo yo.
Doug
He's not picky about the offerings. He's incredible at yo yo.
Nicole Parker
Oh, yes. Babe. Babe. How are you doing, by the way? I'm also concerned about. About you. Are you. What are you eating now? From the trash compactor. Get out of there.
Doug
It's.
Nicole Parker
Oh, God. He's waiting through it.
Doug
Looking for this.
Nicole Parker
So many cans.
Doug
The problem is this place is it's closing in.
Cade
Oh.
Doug
So I gotta.
Nicole Parker
Of course it is. Oh, boy.
Doug
And it will crush you.
Nicole Parker
Oh, boy.
Cade
You shouldn't be in there.
Nicole Parker
You shouldn't Also have it so that it could ever fully compact.
Doug
That'll powder you. Yeah.
Cade
You know. Yeah. It also shouldn't be a walk in compactor.
Nicole Parker
For sure. I think.
Doug
Why do you think the Death Star did it?
Cade
How much trash do they have at that Death Star?
Nicole Parker
No kidding. Right. And if you really look closely at it, you know that it was just people. I just throw some stuff in there. But if we really look closely at. It's like what is all that from? Where's that coming from?
Cade
How did a living thing get in there? I know it's. It's. It's not a planet. It's a man made thing.
Nicole Parker
Yeah. And to be honest, it really is out of the. For that first movie. I. This is probably going to get a lot of people upset. Just feels like an almost out of the universe sort of creature. Right. Almost from a different world. Like maybe not once you get through all of the films but that first one. Is there anything really like that? I don't know. I shouldn't be waiting in a Star wars because it's not my world.
Cade
There is.
Nicole Parker
Okay, fine. You know what? It's settled. I take it back.
Doug
Lucifer himself in the case.
Cade
That's right. The devil is there. A werewolf is there.
Nicole Parker
Ah, Lucifer himself. Oh my God.
Cade
But I mean this is also. There's also like a. Just a mouth that is in the desert.
Nicole Parker
Well, no, that happens later. Right, then it makes sense.
Doug
The Italian pronunciation.
Nicole Parker
All right, well, listen, we have one last post.
Cade
Yes.
Nicole Parker
And do you want to say about. Did you already talk about if you wanted descendant posts? Do you already do that?
Cade
I did.
Nicole Parker
Okay, great. Then we don't worry about it. Okay, so here's a picture. Here's a picture of a rainbow.
Cade
Very pretty.
Nicole Parker
These posts always kill me though.
Cade
It's a very tall rainbow.
Nicole Parker
It is a very tall rainbow. It doesn't look like it's an actual bow.
Cade
No.
Nicole Parker
Right. It's like rainbow column.
Cade
A column up to heaven.
Nicole Parker
And Loretta says, did anyone else see this beautiful rainbow? And that's always interesting because like this rainbow is almost gone. You know how you can see that? It's sort of like, yes, how's anyone going to see this in time? Run out. The entire skyline has changed.
Cade
Also, if you. What do you get out of. What do you.
Nicole Parker
What response do you want exactly?
Cade
Yes, I did.
Nicole Parker
I feel like I could more understand. I more could understand. Just here's a beautiful rainbow. You know, exactly as opposed. And I don't know why I get so worked up about this, but because this app is like, you know, so. So much a part of our life. I've developed a lot of little pet peeves about it.
Cade
Sure.
Nicole Parker
And this is one of them. Which is just why, you know. Why what? Like what you said. What are you expecting in response for this?
Cade
Because it's. I don't mind if someone wants to just share a pretty picture of nature.
Nicole Parker
Of course. Great. Love it.
Cade
But there always seems to be some sort of. You know what these people are hungry for. Engagement.
Nicole Parker
Or is it a little smug? Like, did anyone else see it? I saw it here. It was. I had eyes on it.
Cade
Pics. It did happen.
Nicole Parker
And Loretta, you're probably a lovely gal. So I'm really sorry. I don't want to go there. I'm not coming for Loretta.
Cade
She could be a disgusting monster.
Nicole Parker
Well, Brent, this episode is really. Is really.
Cade
Maybe I'm unsettled by Cade.
Nicole Parker
Yeah, I think so.
Cade
And also, Doug, eating expired food in a trash compactor that's built human sized.
Doug
You kind of gave to the tomatoes.
Cade
No, no, you don't.
Nicole Parker
No, we're not gonna do that.
Cade
You mustn't. This is like alienation with the expired milk all over again.
Nicole Parker
Don't never watch that show. Happy. No idea. It was a movie first.
Cade
It was a movie first.
Nicole Parker
One thing I know, it was a.
Cade
Movie first with Manny Patinkin and James Khan.
Doug
Did we talk about that on this show? No, they. And their heads look like Dutch Crunch bread.
Cade
That's right.
Doug
Which I got in San Francisco when we went for Sketch Fest.
Cade
Yes, that's right. And you share with us a picture of both the bread and the head.
Doug
And the head.
Nicole Parker
Yeah, the bread and the head. And were they similar?
Doug
Oh, yeah, they're very similar. Identical.
Cade
Yeah.
Nicole Parker
Well, gonna have to look it up pretty close.
Cade
Okay, well, that's it for us. Squeezed in another movie there.
Nicole Parker
We did.
Cade
We managed to in our non movie podcast. Thank you so much for listening, everyone.
Nicole Parker
Oh, that's how. That's how Max Matt says it now.
Cade
Yeah, everyone.
Nicole Parker
They both say everyone.
Cade
They call a lot of house meetings.
Nicole Parker
Yeah. Everyone please come down here.
Cade
Come into the tv. All right, thank you all for listening. We'll be back next week with another episode. And until then, goodbye and bye.
Nicole Parker
All of the posts used in this episode were real. Only some geographical specifics have been changed.
Cade
The Neighborhood Listen is hosted and produced by me, Paul F. Tompkins and me.
Doug
Nicole Parker, and me, Brett Morris.
Cade
This episode's guest was played by Kulab Vilaisak. The Neighborhood Neighborhood Listen is a production of Comedy Bang Bang world.
Nicole Parker
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Episode Summary: "Hidden Cemetery with Kulap Vilaysack"
Introduction
In this episode of The Neighborhood Listen, hosted by Burnt Millipede (Paul F. Tompkins), Joan Pedestrian (Nicole Parker), and Doug (Brett Morris), the trio delves into the intriguing mysteries surrounding Dignity Falls. Their guest for the episode, played by Kulap Vilaysack, brings a unique perspective on local history and hidden secrets within the town.
Listener's Inquiry: Discovering the Hidden Cemetery ([32:31] - [34:27])
The episode kicks off with a listener post from Michael Mearson, who poses an unusual question about accessing a hidden cemetery located on the Falls Farms property. Mearson explains that the cemetery is over a century old, housing the graves of some of the town's earliest settlers. His goal is to obtain photographs for genealogical websites and seeks contact information to gain permission for property access.
Introducing the Guest: Cade ([34:27] - [36:22])
Kulap Vilaysack introduces her character, Cade, a passionate history enthusiast with a deep interest in Dignity Falls' local lore. Cade shares her fascination with how people lived in the past, emphasizing her desire to explore the hidden cemetery to uncover the stories of those buried there.
Exploring Dignity Falls' Historical Mysteries ([36:22] - [45:17])
The conversation shifts to broader discussions about Dignity Falls' historical sites, including infamous "murder houses" and unique architectural landmarks like the pier house, reminiscent of the one in Despicable Me. Cade reveals her involvement in creating a detailed map of these murder houses for Halloween enthusiasts, complete with scratch-and-sniff features that add a visceral element to the experience.
One notable moment occurs at [45:36], when Cade proposes a controversial idea about improving the human microbiome by incorporating dead bodies' feces into one's system. This suggestion sparks a flurry of reactions from the hosts:
The hosts express concern and disbelief, emphasizing the ethical and health implications of such an idea. Nicole firmly advises, "Don't do this," highlighting the podcast's stance against unconventional and potentially harmful practices.
Cemetery Secrets and Local Legends ([45:17] - [60:35])
Cade continues to unravel the enigmatic aspects of the hidden cemetery, linking it to local legends and possible connections to Hollywood productions. She mentions Area 54, a silo for storing salt, which locals mistakenly associate with alien activity due to its imposing exterior and restricted access policies. The discussion hints at deeper secrets guarded by the town's realtors and the mysterious figure, Jebediah, who holds the keys to each grave, ensuring that visitors remain infrequent and the cemetery's lore intact.
At [59:18], Nicole reveals her exclusive tour experience, stating, "You can only visit the cemetery once," underscoring the cemetery's guarded nature. The hosts speculate on the reasons behind these restrictions, considering both preservation and the desire to keep supernatural elements hidden.
Humorous Interludes and Concluding Thoughts ([60:35] - [80:24])
The episode seamlessly blends serious discussions with lighthearted banter. The hosts and Cade engage in playful exchanges about expired food, trash compactors, and absurd hypothetical scenarios, maintaining an entertaining atmosphere throughout. Notably, Cade's unconventional ideas provoke both amusement and skepticism, reinforcing the podcast's comedic undertone.
Notable Quotes
Conclusion
"Hidden Cemetery with Kulap Vilaysack" offers a captivating blend of local history exploration and comedic improvisation. The episode invites listeners to ponder the hidden facets of Dignity Falls while providing ample laughs through the hosts' witty interactions. As always, The Neighborhood Listen delivers an engaging narrative that balances intrigue with humor, making it a must-listen for both newcomers and longtime fans.
Key Takeaways:
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