Non-Rabbie Behavior with Joe Wengert

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The Neighborhood Listen
Episode: Non-Rabbie Behavior with Joe Wengert
Release Date: November 25, 2025
Guest: Joe Wengert as Dennis Siara
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Episode Overview

In this episode of The Neighborhood Listen, hosts Burnt Millipede (Paul F. Tompkins), Joan Pedestrian (Nicole Parker), and Doug (Brett Morris) explore another curious post from the Dignity Falls neighborhood app, welcoming Dennis Siara (Joe Wengert), whose attempt to domesticate a possum has gone awry. The team deconstructs the definition of "non-rabby," unpacks the social and emotional intricacies of accidental pet-ownership, navigates Doug’s attempt to recreate a Rainforest Cafe, and, as always, riffs brilliantly on local oddities and community drama.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Opening Banter: Listeners’ Cravings for “Violent Scenarios”

• Burnt and Joan discuss listener feedback requesting more “violent scenarios,” jokingly reading fan messages that ask them to hypothesize violence, which they find disturbing but faintly flattering.
  • “There was a guy…He said, ‘I love violent scenarios. Could you squeeze more of them in?’” – Burnt (06:46)
  • Joan questions if this is listener kink and reaffirms they don’t kink-shame but are surprised that people want hypothetical, not real, accounts.

2. Burnt’s Relationship Update: Gabby’s Dramatic Return

• Burnt recounts his ongoing saga with Gabby, including her eerie return home, a chilling monologue, and a surprise proposal—with a lava ring.
  • Notable quote: “She said, ‘There's something about that brain that I find fascinating.’” – Burnt, relaying Gabby (14:06)
  • The team riffs on theatrical devices: Joan wants to use Gabby’s monologue for audition material and jokes about walking around tables being peak drama.
  • Outcome: Burnt accepts Gabby’s proposal, marking their second engagement. (23:22)

3. Doug’s Rainforest Cafe in the Home

• Doug strives to recreate the Rainforest Cafe experience, complete with dubious whale sounds and jungle ambiance.
  • Doug plays sound effects, which the hosts lovingly roast (“That whale is in trouble…” – Joan, 18:24).
  • Discussion diverges into nostalgia for themed restaurants, zoo food, and the peculiar sensory thrill of grocery produce misters.

4. Broadway Tangent: Jamie Lloyd & Performance Fetishes

• The hosts get sidetracked chatting about theater director Jamie Lloyd’s penchant for actors in underwear and covered in substances—debating public versus private fetishes and referencing famous productions.

5. Main Segment: The Curious Case of Dennis Siara and the Possum

a. Introduction to the Neighborhood Post (32:03)

• Dennis Siara posted seeking help: “I need help getting a possum out of my room. I'm stuck in my bathroom... animal control said they couldn't help because of it being a non rabi animal.”
• “Non rabi” is debated—is it a typo for rabid or something more?

b. Dennis’ Background & Family Legacy

• Dennis speaks glowingly of the Siara legacy (showing up, “showing out”), and his role in renaming “Sharp Court” to “Sharb Court” to make the street less “violent.”
  • “We lobbied for the community to change the name from Sharp Court. Then we changed it to Sharb Court.” – Dennis (34:45)

c. Dennis’ Symbiotic Struggle with “Pink” the Possum (37:37)

• Dennis admits he intentionally courted the possum for companionship amidst post-divorce loneliness but is now a hostage in his own home, as “Pink” dominates the house, relegates him to the bathroom, and perhaps prepares to give birth.
  • “She’s got a bright pink tail. I call her Pink...” (39:11)
  • The hosts note his dynamic with Pink resembles an abusive relationship—Dennis is charmed and subservient, refusing to fight back or even to stop feeding her.

d. Exploring “Non-Rabby” Status and Possum Behavior

• Doug assures the group possums are virtually immune to rabies, while Dennis invents a “spectrum of rabidity”—from rabid, to “rabby,” to “non-rabby.”
  • “I believe we're all somewhere on the spectrum of rabidity…” – Dennis (47:13)

e. Email Communication, Family Dynamics, and Dysfunction

• Dennis, a remote customer service rep, prefers email to verbal communication—mirroring the communication breakdown in his failed marriage and his isolation from extended family.
  • His ex-wife is now dating his uncle, and their courtship was entirely over email, exacerbating his sense of estrangement (59:36).
  • He muses about setting up an email account for the possum, seeking to reestablish connection.

f. Possum Domination and the “Pet” Reversal

• Joan and Burnt posit that Dennis is, in fact, the pet, not the owner. Dennis embraces this, seeing merits in being “cared for” by Pink.
  • “You're restricted to certain areas…Pink is in charge.” – Burnt (70:43)
  • “I love it.” – Dennis (71:25)
  • Doug suggests he open his mouth wide, “like a possum does…to let her know you want food.”

g. Advice Conundrum and Dennis’ Reluctance

• The group advises humane trapping and stopping feeding Pink, but Dennis resists, valuing the strong presence Pink brings to his life.
  • “I think all you can do is…let her know that you understand the situation. She understands the situation.” – Burnt (75:28)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "I want to see if we can figure out who actually enjoys violence. Do you get secret DMs about…’hey, Burnt, love the dick bit, want more?’" – Joan (05:19)
• “She turned her kitchen into her bathroom, because I'm in the bathroom.” – Dennis (64:00)
• “Have you thought about setting a trap in your house?...so you can take power back?” – Joan to Dennis (59:19)
• “You are the pet.” – Burnt to Dennis, revealing the reversal (70:43)
• “How do you feel about eating trash?” – Doug to Dennis, on embracing the possum lifestyle (72:07)
• “You never love when someone says ‘I fancy myself an amateur veterinarian.’” – Joan (68:32)

Timestamp Guide to Key Moments

• 06:06 – Listener DMs requesting violence
• 11:26 – Gabby’s monologue & the dramatic proposal
• 18:19 – Doug’s Rainforest Cafe “whale sound”
• 32:03 – Introduction to Dennis’ possum predicament
• 39:47 – Pink the possum dominates the house
• 46:44 – Debating “non-rabby” and animal control
• 64:00 – Pink takes over Dennis’ kitchen as a bathroom
• 70:43 – Burnt and Joan label Dennis “the pet”
• 75:03 – The team realizes Dennis wants to remain the pet

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Episode Tone and Style

The episode is classic Neighborhood Listen—warmly absurd, deeply humane, and packed with tangents spun from local color and listener contributions. The tone is playful, occasionally wistful, crackling with improv chemistry and the unique personalities of its hosts.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

• The story centers on Dennis Siara’s failed attempt to have a possum as a half-wild, half-domestic pet, only to be outmaneuvered by the animal, forced to live in his bathroom as the possum takes over his home. Despite helpful advice, Dennis is curiously satisfied with the power dynamic, feeling less alone and somewhat grateful for Pink’s presence.
• The hosts indulge in delightful asides—local theater gripes, nostalgia for themed eateries, the performative limits of modern Broadway, and the lively internal culture of the Dignity Falls community app.
• As always, the show is equal parts silly and sincere, offering real comfort and oddball solidarity for anyone feeling a little bit like an outsider in their own neighborhood.

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Final Thoughts

This episode weaves together themes of loneliness, the need for connection (human or animal), and the blurry lines between control and surrender—framed, as always, with affectionate mockery and the eccentric flavor of Dignity Falls. Dennis leaves with little changed, but with a sense of community, and listeners leave with gratitude that sometimes, it’s best not to keep feeding the possum in your life.

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Transcript

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We'll cover it all and meet new neighbors as well.

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We'll chat about any posts you're missing, so just tune in to the Neighborhood Listen.

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Foreign. Welcome once more to the Neighborhood Listen. This is the podcast that explores the neighborhood of Dignity Falls through the eyes of its many residents. We are some of those residents. Who am I, you ask? My name is Burnt Miapede. I am the pharmacist in chief of the Dignity Falls Missy, right here in Dignity Falls.

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And with me, as always, is Joan Pedestrian. I'm the local realtor and local actress. Two for one, baby.

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Local twice over.

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Well, you know what happens a lot of times if someone decides to buy a house, I give them a discount at my latest show. It's a great deal.

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That is a good.

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People love it. You get a house and a show.

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Hold on a second. When they spend the money to buy a house, you give them a discount?

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Can we ask a billboard? My billboard, which says, if you lived here, you'd be seeing my show right now.

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That's also now. Joan, I think you're terrific, and I'm a big fan. You know I'm your number one fan.

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Is that right?

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Yes.

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Certainly not. Mitch McNutt, even town critic.

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I hate him.

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Please stop spitting on my floor when.

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I say I'm sorry, but he disgusted me.

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Just find a different way to express it. Last time you said you want to cut his dick off.

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Well, I do. And I'll go further and say, too far, and I would like to feed it.

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That was a step, too.

[C]

Oh, God.

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That made my headphones come off.

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Well, he's just. I don't. Yeah, I don't care for him.

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Bird, there's a darkness in you that I have yet to explain.

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Oh, Joan, do you think our listeners.

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Want to hear that? Someone could have been driving. They might have crashed the car.

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You know, somebody wants to hear it. It's a big world.

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You know what? We're not going to turn this around. You're not going to make me feel bad for what you said.

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That's the last thing I'm trying to joke. It's the last thing I'm trying to do.

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When you repeat what you say several times. I know that you're on the defense. I know that you know you're wrong anyways, when I repeat things. Let's not. Let's not spend any more time on this, okay? Yes, I. I answer your Question. I know what. I shouldn't have to answer your question. Yes, I do. You wanted to know more details about selling home.

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So you thought it was okay? People were okay with hearing that I wanted to cut his dick off?

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No, I don't think so. I was gonna go further and explain, but we already pushed it.

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That's the part that you brought up.

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We already push it. I know it is. I. Maybe it was. I was setting up to apologize to our fan. Not our fans. Our listeners. Listeners do not have fans. We only have listeners. We want to be very.

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We don't want to be presumptuous.

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We certainly don't. And. And I don't want to be presumptuous that that's what our fans want to hear. That's not the kind of content they come here for. For that kind of violence.

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You know, some of them do what?

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You keep saying that. Do you get secret dms? Are you getting DMS about. Hey, hey, burnt. Love the dick bit. Want more?

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I have gotten some DMS where people say. I wish you guys would. Would just hypothesize about some more violent scenarios.

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You have gotten actual DMs?

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Yes. For more than one.

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Scenarios. Were there words?

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Yes.

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Wow.

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People. There. There was a guy. I'm presuming. I'm presuming it's a guy.

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Of course. Of course.

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It was said. I love violent scenarios. Could you squeeze more of them in?

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He knows this podcast is not about that at all.

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He acknowledged that.

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Oh, he did.

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He said.

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I didn't include that.

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He said, I understand this is not what you're.

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The purpose of the pod text burnt. Nothing. You know, everyone hates things out of context. I'll just go context, please.

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Let me look it up.

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Source.

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Dear. Dear Burn. Well, I'm not crazy about that. Love the show. I listen to it every time it comes out. Why are you. You're peeking. You don't. You don't believe me.

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I did. Listeners. I did lean over the island because it's really big.

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Dear Burn.

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And I looked at his screen across the island.

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Dear Burn. I love the show. I listen to it every time it comes out. While I know this is not the main thrust of your program, I wouldn't mind hearing some more violent scenarios. It doesn't have to be super violent. It could be just pushing someone to the ground. But I really love hearing these things and love hearing you and Joan talk about it, especially when Joan will chastise you for doing such a thing.

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Oh, well, Asked and answered. Delivered today. We delivered for you, sir.

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Just a humble request from someone who hopes to be a fan one day.

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Wait a minute.

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Oh.

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Oh, that's sweet. Hopes to be a fan one day, did it? What's the. What's the handle on.

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The name is redacted. I'm not gonna.

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Redacted.

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Yes, I've redacted the name. I put a black square over that.

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Okay. Right. Yes, that's what that means. All right. Well, at least we did what he wanted this time, because you just. We talked about violence. I chastised you for it. And I think that we've checked that box.

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Yes. So you're welcome.

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You're welcome. Hopefully you're a fan by now. Anyways. That is wild burnt. I did not realize you. That you were going to. And that's just the proof, right? But I think it is just the one.

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No, there's been others.

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Oh, you're kidding me. I don't really want you to read one more, but maybe look up one more so we can read it later.

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If I'm honest, there's only been three.

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Oh, good. Thank you for being honest. I appreciate that. Now, when we last.

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Oh, did you not.

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Nope. Go for it.

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I thought you.

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Well, this person put the tea on. At least. That's good.

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Yes, they did.

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Okay, great.

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Hello, Berndt. Longtime listener, period. As a Dignity Falls resident, I love getting to know my neighbors in varied ways. We are a quirky neighborhood, and I really love that about us. Could you please talk about some violent scenarios?

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Wait, they said the same thing. Violent scenarios?

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Yes. I'm telling Jo. This is what I'm telling you.

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This is what I'm telling you. Weird way to put it.

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I know.

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Like. Like they don't even care. You know what it sounds like? It sounds like they don't even care if it happened. They just want to hear us. Did you know we don't kink shame on this show? Of course not. But if that's the thing, they just want to hear us talk about violence, even if it's not real.

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That's what this person said.

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No kidding.

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It said it doesn't have to be real, but I would love it if it sounded like it could happen.

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That's so weird. I just said that, and then that's exactly what they were.

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You read their mind.

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What a coincidence.

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Well, I mean, I. It makes me feel like we're tapping into something that we didn't mean to tap into.

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Correct. And I think we should. I think we should tamp it down.

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The writer goes on to say, oh, like what if someone rushed the cabin of a 747?

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No, they're getting burnt. I didn't want you to read one of them, AB.

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You absolutely said you wanted to hear it.

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Well, I take it back. I take it back. All right. Oh, my goodness. No, this is terrible.

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It's not great. It's not great.

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I thought our listeners were sort of like a very. Sort of genteel, cuddly nature. This is not. This is not that. No, not that.

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This is not that.

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Well, I would like to just. Let's move on right now. I don't need to hear. I don't need to hear the third one, because we know there was a third one.

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I agree.

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And I want to stick with the rule of twos. I think it's satisfying for everybody.

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Yep.

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I really want to talk about Gabby, because when we were last talking last week, you spent the night on Sprun Mountain, the lacquered sprue mountain, which is, we all know, is a bunch of Kleenexes because of everyone's allergies that then gets lacquered in town square. And nobody wanted it because we tried to shop it out to other cities this year. Didn't work.

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Yes.

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So you ended up having a black eye. For some reason, you drew another one on to match.

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I had. Didn't have a black eye. I didn't sleep well, and I had a dark skin. The crows did not peck my face. Joan, why. Why are you rewriting history?

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Never. I am not. You did not specify what part of your body.

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No, I didn't, but it's interesting.

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I knew I was going to infer that it was your eye.

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Interesting that you said my eyes.

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Does this count as a violent scenario? Because it feels like one.

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Well, it was, but it's not a hypothetical. This really happens. Actually, I had. I had a dark circle under one eye from lack of sleep, and then because it was mismatched, I drew another one on.

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I know. I understand.

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So it wouldn't look weird.

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I understand. I looked much better.

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The crows pecked at my chest, if you must know.

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Okay. Oh, my God. You should see this. Everybody talk about violence.

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That is just open my shirt.

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Those are open wounds.

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They're not that open. They're. They're a jar. Wounds.

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Is that a technical pharmacist term?

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It is, actually.

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Okay.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Okay. Well, anyways, what you found at the note is, it said from her, this is his girlfriend Gabby, that she was back home, and you hadn't had time to go back home to check, so I want to know the burning question. Is she back home?

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She was back home.

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Oh, thank you.

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I went. I went back to our place, and she was there. And it was, what a classic scenario. The lights are off. I see a shadowy figure. I turn on the lights, There she is, sitting behind the kitchen table.

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Oh, God.

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Just waiting for me.

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Oh, no.

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Yes.

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This is like a Blumhouse film.

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Yeah.

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Was she turned her back to you? Because then I would never enter.

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No, she was. She was looking straight at me.

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Okay.

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Yeah, she was looking straight at me.

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But with all the lights off.

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Yeah.

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And did you turn the mom when you went inside?

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Yes.

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Oh, thank God. Okay, so you're staring at her. What happens?

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She said, hello, burnt.

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Oh.

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And I said, gabby, you're home. She said, for now.

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Oh, heavens.

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Yeah.

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This is chilling. I don't know what's going on. What happened next?

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I walked toward the table.

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Okay.

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She put up her hand.

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Oh.

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Not a word. Put up her hand. I stopped in my tracks.

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I bet I did myself.

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She stood up from the table. Big sigh.

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Oh.

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She started walking around the table. She said, you know, burnt. It's funny.

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Oh. She, like, started monologizing. You guys are in a Pinter play now.

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Long pause. She resumed walking around.

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Oh, boy.

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I was transfixed. I bet she said, you know, burn. It's funny. She said it twice. When you said, remember that time we almost got married? I was filled with an incandescent rage.

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Oh.

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And I left. And I made you hunt me down. And you tried, but you couldn't do it. I had to really make it easy for you.

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Oh, wow.

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She's walking.

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So this is actually a monologue.

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She's walking.

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So, okay, I'm picturing it.

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But as I was waiting here with the lights off. And yes, the lights have been off for a few hours because I wasn't sure when you were going to get back here.

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I mean, I still have questions about that, but go on.

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And, yes, I'm a little sore from sitting in a kitchen chair for that long.

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Okay.

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I realized something. You're doing the best you can with the brain you have.

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Oh, With the brain you have.

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I started to cry.

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Of course.

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A single tear rolled down my cheek.

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Oh, nice. You're matching her for drama. Burnt. I like that.

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I wasn't trying to do that.

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Well, I can't.

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I can't cry on cue.

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Well played. Well played.

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Well, thank you. I guess. Now she's standing right in front of me.

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Okay.

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And she said, there's something about that brain.

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Oh.

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That I find Facts. Fascinating. She did not say facts.

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No, I didn't imagine that. I didn't imagine that. It doesn't sound like her. She would, she's, you know why? Because she rehearsed this. Trust me, she rehearsed.

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I don't know if she did.

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Maybe she did. By the way, I want to use this as a monologue, by the way.

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So there's something about.

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I would nail this.

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I bet you a crush.

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I love the Walking around the Table. It's so good. I tried. It's very effective. It's an old theater trick, by the way.

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Walking around the Table.

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Oh yeah. It's how Marcia Gay Harden got her second nomination for a Tony. Sure. Everyone knows the Walk around the Table. Well, she won for God of Carnage, but everyone knows the Walking around the Table. It's a classic. I tried to, I tried to. I did it in Steel Magnolias, but it was a very small table and it was really not as effective because I got very dizzy. And you know what? Mitch McDonald's got very dizzy because he was small.

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The table was so small. You were going too fast. Your revolutions were.

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And Mitch McNutt wrote it in this review. Joan Pedestrian was walking around the table. She should have walked right off the stage. And I almost did because I was so dizzy.

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How small was the table?

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It was like a little end table for a couch.

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Did you not request, like during rehearsals, can we get a bigger table in here?

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I, I, you know, it's, the thing is it was like I kind of wanted to save it as a surprise. You know, it's something where, something like when you do rehearsal, sometimes you're supposed to have a kiss. You're like, let's skip the kiss for now. You know, people get nervous about that or, or you want to just like surprise your partners or your scene partners, you know, so it was something try out. People love that, love that.

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In front of an audience.

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Yes, yes. Absolutely spontaneous, you know?

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Yes.

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So I didn't think it through. I really, I mean, listen, I'll admit that I didn't think it through and, and I just sort of, I, I saw it, I side eyed it. I was like, I side eyed that side table. I was like, that might be a problem later. But you know, I got, I was just so involved in, in just everything else, the memorization of the lines and everything. There's a lot to think about. I hated my wig.

[C]

Why did you hate your wig so much?

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Well, I mean, they say it's supposed to look like a football. I was playing Millenn you know the part that Sally Field made famous?

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The wig's supposed to look like a football.

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It's referenced in the. In. In the script. And, you know, they. They make fun of. Of her hair at first. You know, that they just. It makes like, a big foot. It looks like a football helmet. Well, I think it means like a football helmet.

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Okay, that's different.

[A]

This was a long time ago. I can't remember my lines.

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I thought it was like a, hey, Arnold situation. Was he the one with the football head?

[A]

I feel like it. I'm not sure. Anyways, I didn interrupt this. That was such a tangent, and I apologize.

[C]

That's quite all right.

[A]

That's probably the only time I'll get to talk in the. In this first section.

[C]

Joan.

[A]

No, it's fine, because we. Do you know who we haven't even talked to yet? We haven't even talked to Doug yet. Who? Come on.

[C]

Oh, my God.

[A]

Listen, listen. Let's first finish. Let's first finish. Oh, fine. We'll say hi to Doug really quickly. Doug's in the Rainforest Cafe.

[C]

No.

[A]

Yes. Yes, now. Meaning desperately wanted one. He's started talking about some. Some people online. There's, like, a meme going around about, like, Remember Rainforest Cafe? And, like, you know, the body shop. You know, these very, like, cool, like, you know, whale sounds. You know, music and shops that were new agey in the 90s. And he was like, you know, rainforest Cafe was a good time. You know, it was just a good time. And he liked it because it was like, kind of like going to a zoo, but not. And you could eat, and all the animals were always awake because they were.

[C]

The worst part of going to the zoo is. And you see those animals eating. Like, that's making me hung.

[A]

Exactly.

[C]

Why don't we get free food here?

[A]

Right? But they never have good food at the zoo. No one's ever like, oh, we had this great lunch at the zoo.

[C]

Oh, first date. You know where you should take them? The zoo.

[A]

Make sure you finish with the dippin dots.

[C]

Ice cream of the future. So, Doug, you've built a Rainforest Cafe.

[A]

Yeah, it's true.

[C]

What is that noise?

[A]

Here's what he's done. He did.

[D]

Oh, that's supposed to be the whale sound.

[C]

Oh, that whale is in trouble. Is that the loneliest whale? The one that the other whales can't understand? That whale has long coveted.

[D]

Oh, I think the speaker must be.

[C]

That'S surprised to be the whale.

[A]

I'm asking you to stop that, babe. Can you please stop that? Because I don't know what that's doing to our listeners, but.

[C]

Oh, there's a whale.

[A]

There's whale. Whale. Oh, this sounds like a video game.

[C]

Are you back in the Tron room, by the way?

[D]

I borrowed some components.

[A]

Is all you've gotten so far is just sounds. Is there no actual building yet?

[D]

It's pretty complicated. I'm looking over these. These documents. How to build one.

[A]

I used to do that old thing that you did for, like, how to build the tv. How to build Mama's family set. Yes.

[D]

I went back to Instructable.

[A]

He used Instructables to recreate the monster for his mom because she was visiting and he knew she'd love.

[D]

Went off without a hitch. Mama's family.

[C]

Sure.

[A]

It sure did.

[C]

Absolutely.

[B]

But.

[C]

But this one, a little more challenging.

[D]

It's a little bit more challenging.

[C]

Yeah. Now, I've never been to a rainforest Cafe.

[A]

And you never will because they don't exist anymore. So you missed out. I don't believe so. I don't think people would be so nostalgic about them if there was one. Oh, it was fun. You know, it was like. There was this big overreaching. It was just. The kids loved it. There was this big overreaching tree in the front, and I believe they had some animatronic, like, animals. And the food was always fun. It was like, get the monkey fries or the cheetah quesadillas, something like that. You know better than that.

[C]

I'm not what made it fun. Just being able to say monkey fries. They weren't shaped like monkeys. Monkeys didn't deliver them.

[A]

I had a friend who worked at a downtown Chicago rainforest cafe, and she said was just full of just white women who go, we would love the fries, but we're being bad. We're being bad. We're gonna get them for the whole table. Yeah. And that. She says, very annoying, but. And then there would be a rainstorm, right? There would be like a. Like a sort of thick rainstorm, but, like, much more exciting than when, like, you know, it rains on the vegetables at the grocery store. My twins love the rainstorm because, you know, they tried to. Tried to, like, literally stand under, get wet. There's a fountain. They got in. They were not supposed to. Of course, I'm talking about my twin boys, Matt and Glimmer man and the Glimmer Man.

[C]

Now, do you know, one time I was. And this is embarrassing, but I was startled by the fake rain at the grocery store. I was actually.

[A]

I was actually getting as a Grown man.

[C]

I was getting.

[D]

Yes.

[C]

No, this is recent.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

I was getting produce at the time, and then the thunder happened, and it genuinely, genuinely startled me. And then I was mortified that somebody saw me jump.

[A]

No. Oh, boy. It is kind of funny that they still keep that going. You know, it's kind of. It's a. It's a weird little quirk that. That I just think stands on its own. It's very unique. Who goes.

[C]

Absolutely.

[A]

Who goes out of the way to make that fun effect for grown ups?

[C]

Is it. Is it that they're saying, hey, get out of the way? Because this could be a warning, in.

[A]

Which case you reacted appropriately?

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

You talking about the mist on the vegetables?

[A]

I'm talking about the mist on the vegetables.

[D]

I don't think that's a show. Are you saying that that's. Oh, I thought you just suggested.

[A]

I think you say show is a lot.

[C]

You had so much time to think about this.

[D]

Pretty sure Joan was just.

[C]

She was likening it.

[A]

It was. It was just a fun little quirk, like for someone's amusement or entertainment. I didn't say show.

[B]

Oh.

[D]

Yeah. But I don't think it's for your entertainment.

[A]

Okay. I don't know. What Rainforest Cafe did you wake up on today, babe? I know that.

[C]

Great question, Joe.

[A]

Thanks.

[C]

What side of the bit did you wake up one day?

[D]

I'm always on the Northeast.

[A]

That answers it. Now, speaking of shows, let's get back to the show that Gabby was putting on. Okay, so she's now leveled you. You know, she's talking about your brain. And she. We were. We were stopped right there. She talked about your brain. What did she say?

[C]

She's right in front of me.

[A]

Me. Yes.

[C]

She is. Yes. Doug.

[A]

What.

[C]

Is this for the. Is this scoring my story?

[D]

Yeah. Okay.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

Well, I thought her circling the table.

[A]

Sure. It's a little. I think it's a little sexy. It's a little too sexy for what's going on right now.

[C]

Is it?

[A]

If I may, Is it. Oh, is it gonna turn? Oh, no.

[C]

Because she said, oh, boy. I find that brain fascinating, and I can't live my life without it. I need that brain in my life. Then she got down on one knee.

[D]

Whoa.

[C]

And she said, burnt Pietro millipede, will you do me the great honor of making me the happiest smoke jumper on Earth?

[D]

No.

[C]

And becoming my husband.

[A]

What? She proposed to you?

[C]

She pulled out a ring.

[A]

This is a.

[C]

She had a little box with a ring in it. Rocks. Was made of pure lava.

[A]

Of course it was Hardened lava. In reference to the lava landing you had to make on your plane as you were exiting Greece as the volcano erupted.

[C]

That's right. She slipped it on my finger. Fit perfectly.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

And we're engaged.

[D]

I mean, the fact that you agree with my music.

[A]

Yes. Honestly, Doug. Well played.

[C]

Well, don't gloat. Don't gloat.

[A]

Oh, don't glope, Doug. Coincidence.

[D]

This is called night blues.

[C]

I'll say it is.

[D]

Exquisite slow blues. Setting the mood. With grace.

[A]

Oh, no.

[C]

With grace. This is very graceful.

[A]

It really is.

[C]

This is the most graceful, exquisite blues I've ever had.

[A]

This is wild. First of all. What did you say?

[C]

I said yes.

[A]

Okay. I just want to make sure. Keep going. Get it out with it. I think we're done with the music. I think we don't need.

[C]

Because I was responding. Yes. Yeah, you were cutting back just under the wire. Yes. So we're engaged now for the second time.

[A]

Okay. Well, congratulations, I guess.

[C]

Oh, thank you. I just mean congratulations, I guess.

[A]

It's just a wild trip she took you on. It's strange that, like, she just sort of shut you out of her life. She. I guess. I guess I thought she was going to break up with you, but I guess what it was, was instead she just wanted you to prove yourself one more time, and then if you did, she knew she was going to propose.

[C]

That's right.

[A]

Okay, well, you know what? Good, Good job, bird. Good, good on you making that journey. What'd you say, babe?

[D]

I said, good, good job. I'm echoing you.

[A]

Oh, he's giving you a good, good job.

[C]

I did. Well, you said good, good job. And that's why I did.

[A]

Didn't notice. Yeah. These guys, they never let me get away with it. They're always on top of it. If I say something different.

[C]

You need a ling, Joan.

[A]

I don't need Doug. My prenunciation of words. Just because I said a couple extra words.

[C]

Doug, you haven't done the Elizabeth recovered from.

[A]

Yeah. By the way, that's what we're doing. Of course, we now must do it every episode because it's.

[C]

Oh, there we go.

[A]

Oh, did you do it?

[D]

Good job, babe.

[A]

Do it again. Oh, that's good. Well, did you set a date yet? This is very exciting. Burn. I'm just a little shocked. Just excuse my. My reaction. This has just been a real. What an adventure. This has been it, Joan.

[C]

You put it perfectly. It has been an adventure.

[A]

Oh, good, good.

[C]

And it's not over yet. I'm excited.

[A]

Oh, good. I'm so glad. I'm so glad it's not over yet. I mean, it's just beginning, it sounds like. Well, that's how I like to think of it. All right, so now you're both at home, the lights are on, everyone's happy. Is that right?

[D]

I imagine that ended with your signature penetrative sex.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Babe, why did you have to make him say it? Oh, Lord. Every time. Are we done? Can we be done? Can we bring our guest on?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

How long have we been talking?

[D]

All right, well, okay. What I'm seeing.

[A]

Here we go. Always. What is here? What are you. Are you doing invasive surgery? What's happening?

[D]

I have to look at the orangutan clock.

[C]

Oh, of course, of course.

[A]

So he's managed to get the clock up in the cafe somehow.

[C]

Doing that takes the same amount of time.

[A]

Looking at the clock is like, now. Let me see here.

[D]

Well, I have to go through telescope involved.

[C]

Where's the clock?

[D]

I have to hack through a little bit of jungle.

[A]

Oh, I see it. So you have done more work. There's actually not just your music. You have like a jungle in there now.

[D]

Well, there's a whale sounds, as we've heard.

[C]

What's that?

[A]

Ferns Adventure Cafe, just past the ferns. Hopefully you don't get by mosquito and get dinky fever.

[C]

Oh, don't get dingy.

[A]

Don't get dingy fever. Okay.

[C]

Oh, dang.

[A]

How long have you.

[D]

24, 25.

[A]

Oh, that's good. That's great. 24, 25. Still couldn't get. We're not sure, but Take her. Take her. Take one or two minutes away.

[C]

Take her down.

[A]

Take a minute or two.

[C]

Take her down a minute or two.

[A]

All right, so that's it for that section.

[C]

Yes, it is. We'll be back with the neighborhood. Listen after this.

[A]

Hi, it's Melissa and I have dried flower bunches for $2. Beautiful dried flower bunches for decor. I laid them out on a ziploc bag. As you can see, it looks as if I just walked past an empty lot and there were just dried weeds and that I'm trying to sell this as actual flowers of any kind. Why am I even bothering to charge $2? I mean, hell, just. Just go outside and pick your own. I'm so lonely.

[C]

And welcome back to the neighborhood. Listen, Dan.

[A]

Welcome back.

[C]

Is that what I said? Curious.

[A]

I can't be the only one who get comment on people's words. I mean, you can't be the only one. Oh, I messed it up. Oh, Joe did it again.

[C]

Sixes and sevens.

[A]

Oh, don't do that. So now you just lost half the. Do you think that's all? The adults are now so annoyed you said that. And if there were teenagers in the room, they screamed.

[C]

Do you think they're getting that from that expression?

[A]

Absolutely not. Do I think that they're getting that Gen Z is getting that expression from a song by Andrew Lloyd Webber?

[C]

Or is it six, seven?

[A]

What?

[B]

It's.

[C]

I mean. I mean, not Gen Z. Is it Gen Alpha?

[A]

Okay, fine, it's both Gen Z. It's Gen Alpha and a little bit of Gen Z.

[C]

But Andrew Lee Weber did not invent that expression.

[A]

I understand. But you say. Okay, okay, well, you know what? I only think of it as the musical theater expression because that's how much of a nerd I am.

[C]

What song is it from?

[A]

Oh, don't Cry for Me, Argentina.

[B]

Oh, really?

[A]

Sixes and sevens with you.

[C]

Wow. Okay.

[A]

I didn't say it was good.

[C]

Fair.

[A]

But Rachel Zegler's gonna do it in her underwear, and everyone's gonna love it.

[C]

Why is she gonna do it in her underwear?

[A]

Because it's a Jamie Lloyd production.

[C]

Who is that?

[A]

You haven't heard about that? Oh, give me a break. Jamie Lloyd, he's that guy who redirects everything with everybody in their underwear and everyone has blood at the end. Oh, Nicole Scherzinger. The.

[B]

The. The.

[A]

He directed that.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

And he directed Bill and Ted's excellent adventure doing Waiting for Godot. That's the thing. Bert, did you know that he directed it?

[C]

I didn't know.

[A]

No one's in their underwear. But it is a really stripped.

[C]

They're wearing underwear. Probably.

[A]

Actually, do you know what? Maybe they are. I think they.

[C]

Oh, it's a strip down Waiting for Godot. None of the bells and whistles.

[A]

They got rid of the full symphony orchestra. The turntable unplugged, the helicopter. Yeah. So now Jamie Lloyd is doing a Vita with Rachel Zegler, and they did it out in London, and she actually stands on a balcony when she sings, and a bunch of people actually film her in a real meta moment. You know, all the poor people who can't afford to see the West End show.

[C]

Right.

[A]

Burnt just rolled his eyes so far back in his head that I thought he was gonna tip over.

[C]

She goes out on a balcony.

[A]

Correct. In real life.

[C]

In real life, correct.

[A]

Or actual. Just random people on the street are waiting for her because they know about it and they film her.

[C]

Right.

[A]

And then it's also filmed and projected back in the audience. Okay. On a big Screen.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

And it's all just eating its tail.

[C]

But she. But. And she's in her underwear for some reason.

[A]

She's not in her underwear for that moment, but at the end. And a lot in the show.

[C]

Yeah, a lot in the show.

[A]

Mostly in her underwear. And this time there's no blood. But Che is covered in some sort of blue goo. It looks like a cake or something. I don't. Someone has to be covered in some sort of substance in their underwear for his bows. It's ridiculous.

[C]

How. I mean, this is a fetish with this guy?

[A]

I think so.

[C]

And it's just on display, like Tarantino.

[A]

It's like everyone just accepts it. Yes.

[C]

Shouldn't be allowed. Fetishes are supposed to be private. It's supposed to be special.

[A]

You don't fetish your king. Shame on the show.

[C]

We do not fetish your kink shame. But we do say that if you really want to enjoy your fetish, make it private.

[A]

We say that. Bird says that.

[C]

No, we all say.

[A]

I don't have a take on. I haven't decided.

[C]

Oh, now you're on mic. You're too scared to say what we say off mic. Not that what we all agree to.

[A]

Hey, wait a minute.

[C]

Well, it's time to bring in a guest. Joan.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

As we do every week, we combine the neighborhap, the social networking application for neighborhoods, and we look for interesting people to talk to in our neighborhood of Dignity Falls. And if you see a post that you think we should cover, why don't you screenshot it and send it to [e-mail]? this one came from a listener. This is from. Sorry, let me get the information here. This is submitted by Ryan Brown. Thank you, Ryan. Ryan has submitted this. This is the recommendations segment of the neighborhap. And it comes to us from someone named Ciara. Ciara writes, I need help getting a possum out of my room. I'm stuck in my bathroom currently. And animal control said they couldn't help because of it being a non rabi animal. R A, B, B, I, E. Non rabi animal.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Here to tell us more.

[A]

Oh, that's it.

[C]

That's it.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Is. I'm sorry, Is it? I just have to. Cr. Yes, Yara, welcome to the neighborhood.

[A]

Listen, is that your. What's your full name?

[B]

My full name is Dennis. CR okay, thank you.

[C]

Just go by Sierra I.

[B]

When I post on social media. Yes.

[C]

Oh, I see. Just the last name.

[B]

Just the last name.

[A]

Is there a reason for that?

[C]

Great question.

[B]

I think it's a beautiful name, and I'm proud of it and my family's legacy.

[A]

Oh, that is a beautiful answer.

[C]

Absolutely.

[A]

What is the legacy, if I may, of your family?

[C]

Another great question.

[A]

Thank you.

[B]

We've been in the country for four generations now. Wow. And the Sierra family is. I think we're good people. I think we add to the community, and we do strong, strong things for the community.

[C]

Strong, strong things. What are some of the strong things you've done?

[A]

Great question, Bert.

[C]

Thank you, Joe.

[B]

You know, I think we're just the kind of people that are gonna show up when you need to show up.

[A]

I love that.

[B]

And we show out when we get there.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

And then out.

[A]

I like that phrase, show out.

[B]

I think we're just a good. We're a hearty folk. We're almost never sick. I'm proud of that.

[A]

Jealous of that.

[B]

We.

[A]

That is something to be proud of.

[B]

We're great communicators.

[A]

Wow. Where. Can I ask? Where. Where. Where's your family from? You know, like, where. Where. Where do you. Where are your roots originally?

[B]

Ireland.

[A]

Ireland. Okay.

[C]

Sure. Sierra. And I hate to call it such as here, but when you say show up for the community, can you think of an example of something that you or someone in your family has done this?

[B]

So I live on Sharb Court.

[A]

Oh, okay.

[C]

Sharb Court.

[B]

Yes. And it was formerly known as Sharp Court.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

And that was a thing where sort of my ex wife and I felt that that was too violent of a name for a street. And so we sort of lobbied for the community to change the name from Sharp Court. And then we changed it to Sharp Court.

[A]

Oh, I remember this because again, normally we have a lot of streets that are tree names and Sharp Tree. A Sharp tree is not a thing. Except for Indignity Falls. There is such a thing as a sharp tree. And you are right, Dennis. It is a very. It's a vi. Violent tree. It's a. It's a very. It's. It's what it sounds like.

[C]

It has sort of like a cactus.

[A]

Yes. Sort of like a cactus.

[C]

But it can shoot the needles out.

[A]

Yes. And it's shaped like a Christmas tree. So children are very tempted, of course.

[C]

They look gorgeous. They look gorgeous.

[A]

Gorgeous. And yes, if you get too close, it will shoot the needles out at you.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And so I don't even know why they planted extra and.

[B]

And they've all been ripped out.

[A]

Good. I actually think that's good. I normally wouldn't advise, you know, taking. Taking out trees, but Those are just. They actually are a threat.

[C]

Y.

[A]

Yes. So you got to change to char. Charb.

[D]

Char.

[B]

Charb.

[A]

Shar. And how did you arrive at that?

[B]

We didn't want whole new signs. We wanted to just change one letter. And so we figured it would be.

[A]

I see.

[C]

You could just add the little extra rounded.

[A]

Oh, yeah. You can make the K into a B. K. Sorry.

[B]

We made. We figured. Change that P into a P. Yeah.

[A]

Just now became shark in my head. I'm sorry. Sharp. Yes. Very easy to make a beat. Go on.

[B]

I'm glad. Well, shark. We would have had a similar problem.

[C]

Oh, absolutely.

[A]

You would have. You would have. Also dangerous.

[C]

Yes, also dangerous. I would hate to see a shark tree.

[A]

So would I. So let's get. Oh, wait. So the community. Okay, so that's one example where you sort of made the change for the whole community.

[B]

Great.

[A]

Now let's get to this post. The possum was inside your home.

[B]

It is currently still.

[C]

Oh, it's still there.

[A]

When did you write this post?

[B]

This. This was a few weeks ago.

[A]

Oh. Are you living at home with this possum?

[B]

I am. And that was by design. Oh, I. I corded the possum into my home.

[A]

You corded it?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

How does that work?

[B]

Well, I.

[A]

And why?

[B]

Well, I.

[C]

And when.

[A]

All right, let's stop there. Let's just stop with the first three.

[C]

We already know who.

[A]

We sure do. And we know where.

[D]

How?

[A]

Babe, that's my husband. You can't see him, but you can hear him. He's in another room recording Doug.

[C]

His name is Doug.

[B]

Dennis.

[C]

No, his name is Doug.

[B]

His name is Doug.

[C]

Yes, he's said it out loud.

[A]

Nope. No, not right now, babe. But we'll get to you in a minute. All right? Please go ahead, Dennis.

[B]

My wife and I are separated, and I wanted to get a pet. Oh, okay. But I don't have the time for a dog. Dog is too much.

[C]

It's so much work. Yes.

[B]

And so I was looking for something that was a unique pet. It would maybe be startup conversation with people, since I'm trying to put myself out there.

[C]

Absolutely.

[A]

Okay. Got it.

[B]

And then I was also looking for an animal that could do sort of an indoor outdoor thing, like, you know, some cats you can let out and they'll come back in. Right. So there's. I've spotted this possum in the neighborhood, and I started feeding it.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

And I. You know, just berries and. And nuts and seeds stuff. And then I tried to coax it, you know, into the house, and then I was successful.

[C]

Now you're gesturing a sort of Khmer kind of thing.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

So you would feed it some berries and then you would give it the old Khmer.

[B]

I would sort of point to the berries and go, like, pretty good, right?

[A]

And then I would go, how long the process was this. Would you say, how long did it take to court him or her? Do you know if it's a him or her?

[B]

I believe it's a her.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah. I haven't. I haven't gotten close enough to.

[A]

Fair enough.

[B]

No, for sure.

[A]

So I'm sorry. Couldn't you just pull up the post again? Bernd, are you able to.

[C]

Absolutely.

[A]

Okay. Because I just want to revisit the tone of this post again.

[C]

We're not tone policing.

[A]

Oh, no, we're not.

[C]

How long did it.

[A]

Again. How long did it take to get her in?

[B]

Not long. Not long.

[A]

Like a day or a couple? Like a week?

[B]

Oh, I would say it took about four days. Okay. Four days and five.

[C]

And you were certain it was the same possum every time?

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

Yeah. Okay.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Oh, yeah. She's got a bright pink tail. I call her Pink because of the tail. And Kate, do you spell it the.

[C]

Way the singer spells it with an exclamation mark for the I?

[B]

No, I don't.

[C]

That's cute.

[B]

No, I mean, I. I could. I guess I could. I haven't written it out yet. Oh, I do. I just only verbally said it, but I'm not saying it.

[A]

Okay, so then can you. Can you take us from. Can you. Can you help us. Us with the journey from. I'm the journey, but I'm purposefully courting this possum into my house. I need help getting a posum out of my house.

[C]

Animal control will not help.

[A]

Fill in the gap first.

[B]

I'm trying to get it out of my.

[D]

Hold on a second.

[C]

You know what this is?

[A]

What?

[C]

This is like a record scratch. I bet you're wondering how I got here. That's what this.

[A]

Oh, I love it when shows do that. Oh, it's my favorite when they pause and give us all the information. Okay, so go ahead.

[B]

I. Well, I. I want a relationship with Pink. I. I want her to be my pet, but I want her out of my room. There's a dominance thing happening now where she's taken my.

[A]

So right now you got more than you bargained for. At this moment, right now, this has become.

[B]

Okay, she came in and sort of made me know that she was in charge and she's the boss.

[A]

How did she do that?

[B]

A lot of baring of teeth. Oof.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

A lot of baring of her nails. She's pretty. She's got some dexterity. And she's able to sort of grab. I guess not. Can you be dexterous with your teeth?

[A]

Oh, sure. Why not?

[C]

Interesting.

[A]

I mean, I see what you're trying to say.

[B]

She's very good at picking something up with her teeth and then throwing it at me in an accurate way.

[A]

Are you still continuing to feed her?

[C]

Even though she does have little hands? She uses her teeth to do this.

[B]

Yep. And I think she's pretty proud of it.

[C]

It.

[A]

You know what's kind of sweet, though? I already feel like they have sort of made this bond where he's still sort of charmed by that, you know, the. The smile it put on your face to think about that.

[B]

I'm impressed.

[A]

Okay. Okay.

[B]

I'm. I'm very impressed. And I. I think if I can get to a place where it's. We're both on the same page about this relationship, then I could take her for a walk on a leash and that'll sort of. I. We'd be the talk of the town.

[A]

So she's in your.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

I mean, those are. That's relationship goals. Goals. But she's in your bedroom. Is that correct?

[B]

She's in the bedroom.

[A]

She's in the bedroom.

[B]

Where.

[A]

So you. You come home and what does your routine look like? Where are you sleeping?

[B]

I'm sleeping in the bathroom, like.

[A]

And you have a living room, like, why. Why in the bathroom?

[B]

She's. Whenever I go into the other parts of the house, she's making a lot of hissing sounds and a lot of noises to let you know.

[C]

She has confined you to the bathroom?

[B]

Yes, she's made it. She's kind of done the reverse of what I did with the snack where she was kind of like gesturing for me to go. She's very smart.

[A]

Okay, well, then here's my question. Did you try stopping feeding her? Because, you know, that's what got her. What if you take away what she wanted and needs?

[B]

I don't. Again, I. There. There's something about this possum where I just can't say no. And I would like to have a relationship with her, and I feel like. Like it's gotten. It got so combative so quickly. If I immediately then removed the food.

[A]

Can I maybe get too personal too soon? Is that okay with everybody in the room, please? Okay. You said to your wife and you recently separated, can you describe the nature of that relationship. What caused the separation? What was the dynamic thing?

[C]

Timeline. Vis a vis Pink and the what? The timeline.

[A]

Oh, the timeline. Sure, sure. But what I really want to know is what was the dynamic between you and your wife that caused the separation?

[C]

Well, I wanted to see.

[B]

I know.

[C]

I'm looking for a pattern.

[D]

I'm just.

[A]

No, but. I know, but just like, let me cook. Let me cook.

[C]

Come on, let me cook. I'm just.

[B]

The relationship fell apart long before Pink and. And in my.

[A]

Okay. He answered yours first. Good.

[B]

I.

[A]

Now. Now me.

[B]

I. We were having. And this is difficult for me because it's one of the points of. Of family pride for me in terms of the Sierra legacy. We were having communication issues.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

You said you were great communicators.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Oh, no. For a Sierra, this has got to be.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I couldn't talk to any of my brothers or uncles or anybody about it or anybody in my family because it's just. That's just something that we don't do.

[A]

Sure.

[B]

That's not what this year.

[A]

So what? So was it a silent home or you just would.

[B]

I was pushing it for. For it to be more silent. I was trying to do more text based communicating just because that's what I'm comfortable with.

[C]

Right.

[B]

I see. I was like, couldn't this be an email or could we be chatting more to your wife? Because that's what I do for. For work.

[A]

Oh, what do you do for work? Like what? What? Can you give me the title I.

[B]

Do in I do. You know when you need help with a product and you go to the website and you have an option to chat with someone?

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[B]

Customer service.

[A]

Oh, you're the guy.

[B]

You're the little dot I blanked on the very common.

[A]

Oh, gosh.

[B]

Name of the thing that I do for a living.

[A]

Well, you probably haven't been getting good sleep for the last couple of nights. So you've been sleeping on the floor in the bathroom.

[C]

I thought maybe you thought we didn't know what that was. You were trying to describe it.

[A]

I was feeling the same way. Okay, great.

[B]

Nope. I just took the long, longest passable possible way to tell you. What about.

[A]

That's all good. Do you enjoy that? Do you do that from home or do you have to do that at.

[B]

Like a. I do it from home. Yes. Which is why I see. You know, I. I feel like I'm not seeing. I'm not seeing a lot of people. I'm not meeting a lot of people, and I'm trying to find A way to meet more people. And I thought sort of, you know, a conversation pet, like a possum, would help me.

[A]

A conversation pet meaning. Oh, hey, you have a possum. That's interesting. That's a conversation starter. Yes, got it.

[C]

Conversation.

[A]

But you. Right, but you can only do that if you can get the. The possum out of the house and invisible and seen. Has anyone responded to you regarding this.

[B]

Post on the app? I've gotten a couple. I've gotten only very, very upsetting sort of violent scenarios. Oh, boy.

[A]

We're gonna make a couple people. We're gonna make exactly three people happy right now.

[C]

What? What, What? I mean, like, what were people saying in response?

[B]

I. I even hate to. To repeat it. Well, stab that thing. Oh, shoot that thing in the face.

[A]

Oh, no. Oh.

[B]

Put some poison in the bird seed and let it eat that. And then make it think about what it's done. Just that. Just very.

[C]

I don't see how you do that.

[A]

Exactly. I would do. I would reverse it, because otherwise, what's the point? But. So ignore that last one.

[C]

But I'm ignoring all of them.

[B]

That's.

[C]

That's not what I meant.

[A]

That's what I meant. Yeah, well, that's not helpful.

[B]

I should have made put it clearer in the post that I don't want to just remove the possum from the room. I want to remove the possum from the room, but not for my life.

[A]

But do you want to remove it from your house? Do you want it to be outdoor pet?

[B]

It sounds like it should be.

[A]

Because if. If I'm correct me if I'm wrong, but possums are generally not, first of all, ever pets. Second of all, which I think we also need to address.

[C]

Sometimes they are. Doug is correct. Sometimes they are pets.

[A]

Okay?

[C]

On Instagram, there's always some weirdo who has.

[A]

Okay, careful. We have a guest here.

[C]

Well, no, he's on. He's under. He's a hostage to this possum. It's not the same thing, okay?

[B]

I'm gonna. I'm aspiring to be a weirdo.

[A]

Understood. But I'm saying if you were to call, like, Animal Control, I feel like they would say to you, well, you shouldn't be having this as a pet.

[B]

They would just. Again, that's a similar sort of. Well, they wouldn't. First of all, they wouldn't engage with me at all because it's non. Rabby.

[A]

So I wanted to get to that.

[C]

Yes, yes. R, A, B, B, I, E. Rabby. Yeah.

[A]

Now I Know what it means to me?

[C]

Here's what I thought.

[D]

Good one, babe.

[A]

Thanks, baby.

[C]

I assume. I assumed when I read this that you meant it was a non rabid animal. And so animal control, if you have an animal who's rabid who has rabies, that's a. That's a. That's a danger.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Then they have to come help you.

[B]

Yeah, I. I think that's a little bit too black and white for. I sort of see like a spectrum of rabidity, I guess.

[A]

Wait, was this your own diagnosis of the possum?

[B]

Oh, yes. Okay.

[A]

And how did you come.

[B]

Well, because they asked me if it was foaming at the mouth. I mean, they were very black and white animals. Was it rabbit or non. Rabbit. But I feel like, you know, there's. There's rabid, and then at the other end of the spectrum is. Would be a rabid, which is no signs of rapid behavior at all. And then rabbi is in the middle and there's semi rabi.

[A]

And so there's no signs. They don't.

[D]

They don't. How do you know?

[A]

How do you know I don't know this? How do you know this?

[D]

Well, I had to study a lot for the Rainforest Cafe.

[C]

Oh, sure.

[A]

Yeah, we're possums. A big part of the Rainforest Cafe.

[C]

Is that why they went out of business? They didn't have more pops, remember?

[D]

Well, they get run over a lot in the parking lot, but they're not.

[A]

Jungle parking lot for Rainforest Cafe, babe.

[D]

Well, I want the full experience.

[A]

Also, Rainforest Cafes were sort of generally in malls, so, you know, there wasn't really like a dedicated parking lot. But I don't. I'm surprised.

[C]

Sometimes a restaurant will be on the outside of the mall.

[A]

That is true. Wow. All right, we're not trying to pile on the.

[D]

Sometimes I think I get a little bit.

[C]

Needle. Who's needling you?

[A]

So. Okay, hang on a second. So then. I don't know. I don't know what to tell you about the fact that Doug just told us possums don't get rabies. But. But you just. You've decided that they're. You're saying that there are some signs of it to you because you have it. You have her in the middle.

[B]

I believe we're all somewhere on the spectrum of rabidity.

[A]

Okay, that's probably.

[B]

Oh, sure. Oh, sure.

[A]

We're probably gonna find that out years from now. We were all somewhere on the spectrum of rabies. That was the problem.

[B]

If I get angry at somebody on the road for cutting me off. I feel like a little. That's a little pop of rabbit baby. Spittle. Yeah, just a little. Not a full foam.

[A]

But listen, we all have animalistic, you know, sort of instincts that live without within us, so I suppose I get what you're saying.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I mean, animal control was really like, it's this or it's that. And they didn't see certain. Okay signs. And so they didn't want to get involved.

[A]

Can I ask.

[C]

They're very binary.

[A]

They're very binary. Can I ask if you talk to your family about this yet? Has anyone weighed in and how. Just how big. Give me an idea. How many siblings, like, how big is a family? Do they all live here?

[C]

Here?

[B]

I. I have two brothers.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

And they're both in Germany.

[C]

Oh.

[B]

So difficult to talk with them for the time. Time difference.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

They're doing club promotion. They're club promoters in Germany.

[C]

Do they work together or are they separate club promoters?

[B]

They're competing.

[C]

Oh, no.

[B]

Yeah. It's tough.

[D]

The Sierra Legacy.

[A]

Oh, boy. Competing.

[B]

And they're both. They're. They're great at getting the word out about their.

[C]

Well, competitive communication club. Absolutely.

[B]

But it's confusing because they're both going by the last name.

[A]

Oh.

[B]

You know, in their business. So one of them is Sierra Productions, and one of them is a Sierra joint. Is how he labels his promotions.

[A]

Do the Germans tend to lean towards one or the other in terms of, like, how they're doing business wise?

[B]

They're both doing poorly.

[A]

Okay. Oh, no, it's terrible.

[C]

I was actually thinking they were both doing great.

[A]

I did have that. Well, b. Because the way he set up his family, you know, that they're. They just sound like a bunch of winners.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

But.

[C]

And I guess the clubs are not happy about this.

[B]

The clubs that they hire know.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

The clubs that have taken a gamble on them. I mean, they're more affordable than a lot of other club promoters. But then they're just not doing a good job.

[C]

Well, you get what you pay for. Unfortunately.

[B]

I think one of the big things for them is they don't speak the language. Language.

[A]

So that would be a number one roadblock.

[C]

So all their promotion is in English.

[B]

It's all in English.

[C]

Which there are.

[A]

I mean, listen to me. Better than we do.

[C]

Sure. But it might turn you off.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

Even if you understand English in your country, to see promotions exclusively in English, you might think, well, that's not for me. That's for Americans or English people. What was that joke?

[A]

Oh, I was Just trying out my German accent.

[C]

Let me hear it.

[A]

Nope, you missed it.

[C]

I'll take.

[A]

Listen to it on the playback.

[C]

I'll listen back on the playback. Yeah.

[A]

So, okay. And then who's here? Do you have any family here?

[C]

You said you mentioned some uncles.

[B]

Yes, yes.

[A]

You. You did.

[B]

I did, yes. That. Of course I have.

[C]

Of course.

[B]

Of course.

[C]

Of course.

[B]

We, our family, throughout the generations, it's. It's been a lot of three. Three siblings to a family. So I have two.

[A]

Oh, okay.

[B]

I have two. My dad has two uncles and my mother has no siblings at all. Oh, really? I just have those two uncles.

[A]

But wait, your dad has two uncles? But does he always have two also uncles? It's fine. He probably has two uncles, too.

[C]

It would stand to reason.

[A]

Sure would.

[C]

Everybody's got two uncles.

[A]

Everybody's got two uncles.

[B]

He's got two brothers. Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. And do they live here?

[B]

They do live here.

[A]

Oh, great.

[C]

And do the people that marry into the Sierra family, do they typically have no uncles, no siblings? Yeah.

[B]

Wow. If we can get. If we can manage it, you know, because it's hard in matters of love, you know, sometimes you fall in love with somebody that doesn't fit those criteria.

[C]

Boy, that's true.

[A]

Has anyone, have you told anyone in the family about this possum debacle?

[B]

I tried to talk to my Uncle Greg about it a little bit, and his feeling is that. That I've made a poor choice in terms of the pet.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I wonder if that.

[B]

And he would say that he's afraid of possums, and a lot of people are.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. So now I feel like he's treating me a little bit differently.

[C]

Oh, no. I'm sorry to hear that.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You think, you think it's mostly the fear is probably his, his reasoning for not wanting to engage with this topic.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And maybe he just feel.

[B]

I, I think it just creeps him out to talk about it.

[C]

Wow. Like, what does he say if you, when you went to him and said, said, uncle Greg, I have this problem.

[A]

Or did you email him? I mean, was this, Is this how you like to do with everybody in your family?

[B]

I email. Yeah.

[C]

All right.

[B]

And he's. And he doesn't check his email very often because, you know, he doesn't, he doesn't use it.

[C]

So do you feel, Are you an outlier in the, in the Sierra family in terms of using.

[B]

I think it's a general. I think it's a generational thing. He's. He's much older, so.

[A]

Sure.

[C]

But the Time difference is a problem in communicating with your brothers, even though you. Your. It would be email.

[A]

I don't know that they would be much help with this possum thing. I mean, it sounds like they've got their own problems.

[C]

Well, maybe they're better at figuring out animal control than they are.

[A]

Possibly.

[C]

Well, certainly, I thought you're gonna say possumly.

[A]

What a missed opportunity.

[C]

We should clarify for people in other parts of the world that when we say possum, we're talking about opossums, right?

[A]

Oh, yes, because another animal.

[C]

It doesn't look anything like an opinion. Possum.

[A]

You're kidding.

[C]

Yeah. In Australia, they have possums.

[A]

I didn't know that.

[B]

What do they look like?

[A]

Well, we got to pull one up.

[C]

They're much cuter, I have to say.

[A]

Are they?

[C]

Yes, they are.

[A]

Oh, all right. Well, babe, can you. Can you. Can you work on that?

[D]

Sure.

[A]

Thanks. Give us a picture of a possum. Give us the possum. Opossum difference. Did you know about that, Dennis? I didn't know about that.

[C]

That sounds like a good thing you could use in a promotion. It's the opossum. Oh, it's opossum. Opossum difference.

[A]

Tell your brothers. Okay, so what is. What is your plan? It doesn't sound like you're gonna get a lot of help from the outside world. Oh, yeah? I thought those guys were called quals. Ah, yes. You never heard of a quo?

[C]

No quo.

[A]

Q, U, O, L, E. Q, U, O, L, L. Oh, they're adorable. Yes, yes, they're adorable. They're like a mix between a lemur and a koala. They're really. They're.

[B]

They're. They're.

[A]

They're great. Oh, wow. See? Oh, the possum is. Look at how terrifying the. That left one is.

[C]

Well, that's not fair.

[A]

It looks like the terrifier.

[C]

Doug, send me that picture again, because I will have to. I'll have to share it when this episode.

[B]

It makes me think if I could get a non o possum, that maybe they'd be more into the.

[A]

Yeah, you should just get a possum situation, not an opossum. Did you look up coal yet? Burnt.

[C]

I did.

[A]

Cute, right? They're.

[C]

They are cute. They're. They're strange.

[A]

Are they.

[C]

They're. They're.

[A]

Well, I wouldn't call them strange.

[C]

This guy looks a little strange.

[A]

That is not a good picture of a coal. I'll find a better picture of a cool.

[C]

No, here's a good picture. Of a coal. Now, this is very adorable.

[A]

Yeah, very.

[C]

That's very cute.

[B]

Oh, very cute.

[A]

We're just giving you other options. Can I ask you this question, Dennis? You know, you were going to say something.

[B]

What were you gonna say? Well, I just think that I, I. I don't want to give up on the idea because I do think it's the kind of thing that I could ride out until after. Yeah. Because I think that pink is going to give birth, and I think that's part of what the behavior.

[A]

Oh, my goodness.

[B]

And I'm hoping that once that happens, some of the sort of. Sort of protective, like, behavior will sort of calm down, because I think she's.

[A]

How do you know?

[B]

Why do you think that she's ripped up my mattress and sort of turned it into a nest.

[A]

I did that when I was pregnant.

[B]

With the twins, and I remember that. You ripped up your mattress.

[A]

I did. I did.

[B]

To turn it into a nest.

[A]

I did.

[B]

So you did literal.

[A]

The boys just made me cr. Like I told you. Animal instincts. I went feral. I just. I didn't even remember half of it.

[C]

You were a real night.

[A]

Now, listen, I take issue with that. That movie was fantastic, and I don't want to hear anyone tell me otherwise. It was accurate.

[C]

Well, I made no judgment on the film at all. You were digging. You dug holes in the yard.

[A]

I did. I did, yeah. I absolutely did. Found a lot of stuff that Doug had buried.

[D]

And I was very patient with that.

[C]

You were, if you don't say so yourself.

[B]

Well, I would be. I wanted to see it, but I. Online. I bought the wrong ticket, and I ended up at night instead.

[A]

Oh, no.

[B]

Which came out. It was sort of Dante's Peak volcano thing that happened. They came out at the same time. Very different movies, different subjects.

[A]

Cool J. Who else was in that?

[B]

It was LL Cool J& Charlie. Day.

[A]

Jay and Day.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Oh, I remember those posters now. Yes. J and Day J. Day J and Day Knight.

[A]

That's right. They did a whole promotion with J date, and everyone was like, oh, you get it.

[B]

Short movie. Short movie.

[A]

Yes, it was.

[B]

Yeah, it was. It was about 15, 16 minutes long.

[C]

But they still squeezed in a cameo by Silent J.

[A]

And there were 30 minutes of previous.

[C]

I'm so sorry.

[B]

Oh.

[A]

What? Oh, wrong. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

You could tell that they wanted Jay. They wanted Jay, but they couldn't get it. But they got Silent Bob.

[C]

There was a J. There was a J from the Insane Clown Posse who was a Something J. Oh, I don't.

[B]

Was he violent?

[C]

J Violent J Violent, violent. You can see how close I was. Violent J and Silent Bob.

[A]

Violent J and Silent Bob. So, okay, let me get back to this. So you think that she's pregnant because she ripped up your mattress. Also this is a problem that now your mattress is ripped up. I mean, I guess I feel like you're already in maybe what might be. I don't want to say abusive relationship. And also it's an animal. And I'm not implying that you're in any kind of intimate relationship, but I think you're in. In sort of an abusive situation. She's dominating for you.

[B]

I'm being dominated.

[A]

And I don't know quite why you're allowing that to happen because she is a lot smaller than you. Have you thought about setting a trap in your house? Then you can carry her outside. Then you like you have, you can take power back.

[C]

Did your other uncle give you any advice?

[B]

No, I'm not talking to him right now.

[A]

The Sierra Legacy is really in trouble right now.

[C]

Communication. She was one of the 10.

[A]

I said it wrong.

[C]

Why, why are you not speaking with your. What's his name?

[B]

He's in a relationship with my ex wife. Oh, good reason. Yeah, good reason.

[A]

Very good reason. Fair.

[B]

And it. What really bothers me is their whole courtship happened over email, so. Oh, she didn't want to email me, but she wants to email my uncle.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And now I got to think about it, every Thanksgiving, Christmas, all of the.

[C]

Family holidays overlap in your relationship. And how would you.

[A]

I mean, no. Unless you get to get to look at those emails and see when they're.

[B]

Dated to her emails. And I won't do it.

[C]

Gotta release those emails.

[A]

That's honorable.

[B]

Well, maybe that's something. Diana, if you're listening to the show, release the emails just so I can know.

[C]

And what's your uncle's name?

[B]

His name is Steven. And it's easy for me to recall it. He's my uncle.

[C]

I know it.

[A]

Of course it is.

[B]

I've known him my whole life.

[A]

But I'm sure it's not easy for you to say it. Right, but it's not easy for you to say it. No, of course.

[C]

And I do apologize for asking.

[A]

Now forget advice his uncle was going to give him. How about the advice I just gave you? What about setting a trap?

[B]

I like that idea. Again, like I feel an attachment to her.

[A]

But guess you trapped the trap. The traps they make now you don't have to hurt the animal. You know, it's like you just. No, there's a lot of traps that are very animal sensitive and they're not cruel. And it's just. It just gets her in there and then. And then immediately you have the power again. Right. Just like that.

[B]

I just am worried about the optics of me trapping a pregnant possum and putting them out.

[A]

I mean, I don't know how there can be optics since nobody knows this.

[C]

Is gonna be leaked to the media.

[B]

I feel like this is one of the. Somebody's gonna have to see me doing it.

[C]

How would that.

[A]

No, I'm sorry, bird. How would someone see you doing it? What do you mean by that?

[B]

I don't think it's gonna be a quick and easy get her. I feel like there's gonna be yowling and howling, and it is.

[A]

It happens very quickly. Listen, we. We had. We had a groundhog problem in our yard, and it's actually hard to tell who buried what. You know, either the groundhog or the dog. It's very.

[C]

The dog or the dog.

[D]

She used to call me the dog hog.

[C]

The dug hog. Not the ground duck.

[D]

That could have been an option.

[A]

Well, that name was safe for special occasions.

[B]

Well, it's making me feel better that you guys have none of our business dealt with this. You've. You removed a ground.

[C]

They did. I remember the way they did it was, you know, the police sometimes will say, you know, you want a free boat or whatever, that. That's how they get people to come in standing warrants or a concert. And they set up a thing like that with the ground groundhog. But they had signs all over the yard saying, you've won a fresh patch of dirt to dig a hole in. And then. And then they just. They closed in.

[A]

But. But in terms of. But, yes, that is true. And at the same time. At the same time, that's the way Doug wanted to do it. But I had also researched a lot of traps, and it. It really is just, you know, you put a little food in there, there's plenty of room. There's nothing that gets caught when the trap closes. They're just in there, not yowling or howling. Maybe a little bit of hissing on her part because she might realize she's stuck, but not because she's in pain. Okay. There are ways to do this that are painless and in your own home. I can't imagine anyone would see it.

[C]

You know, Go ahead.

[D]

Oh, sorry.

[A]

No, go ahead.

[C]

What's that?

[D]

Can I. Go ahead.

[A]

Go ahead.

[D]

They usually just play dead if you scare them enough.

[A]

It is. If it's true.

[D]

You could just pull a gun on her and then she might just pull.

[A]

A gun on her.

[C]

Does a possum know what a gun is?

[B]

Right.

[A]

Violent scenario.

[D]

Say I have a gun.

[A]

I'll.

[C]

Just stick a finger in your pocket.

[A]

You could literally just like make a. You make sort of like some sort of like lunging, sort of like, you know, motion. That's enough to make them play dead.

[B]

I feel like she's been in there for long enough and she's observed me enough that she knows even if I had a physical gun, I'm not pulling the trigger.

[A]

You really think she's in your head?

[C]

This.

[A]

This opossum is in your head?

[C]

Well, here's the thing as well, is like, in order to trap a possum, I would imagine the bait would be some kind of food. But you're already feeding this possum.

[B]

I have to stop that. She's definitely immediately.

[A]

Because now if she's pregnant. That does seem cruel.

[B]

But she's gotten control of the kitchen too, and I feel like she's gonna be able to get in.

[A]

What does that look like? An apostomy? In control of the kitchen?

[B]

She's got a. She's turned her kitchen into her bathroom. Because I'm in the bathroom. Boy, when do I think she has good bathroom. Bathroom manners?

[C]

She doesn't have good bathroom manners. I'm not familiar with this concept.

[A]

Ads all over.

[B]

She's. She's not. Yeah, she's. She's leaving it a mess in there, you know.

[A]

Really?

[B]

What?

[A]

But like, this makes it sound like she's actually preparing things in there or she actually brought stuff in there. Maybe she's just breaking glasses and stuff. Right, right.

[C]

Leaving the fridge door open, that sort of thing. Yeah.

[A]

This is. You are. You are. You are trapped. You are absolutely trapped.

[B]

I'm trapped.

[A]

You are housebound. You're bathroom bound. I, I can. Can. Are you able to now that you're out. And, and also, you look. You actually look remarkable. I wouldn't have guessed that he's been spending the night on the bathroom floor. I, I really wouldn't.

[C]

So is that what you're doing? Or are you. Do you have a tub? Are you crawling in there?

[B]

I, I.

[C]

Good point.

[B]

I don't want to sleep in my tub. We have a claw foot tub. And it seems.

[A]

Oh, dear. It reminds you of the possum.

[B]

Yeah. I'm in the belly of an animal having a lot of dreams of that. Devour.

[A]

I never thought of it that way either, but in a way, you are yes, it has digested you.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

But I. I feel like I look good because I'm in there with. And I don't. And I'm spending so much time in there that I'm spending a lot of extra time on grooming.

[C]

Oh, you have all your products and. And do you have to look. Leave through the bathroom window, or you can't just walk out the door?

[B]

No, I've got a slider window, and I had a.

[A]

Thank goodness for that.

[B]

Yeah. It's up high, which I now regret. Which at the time I loved it as a feature because it's up high and people can't look in and see what I'm doing.

[A]

Sure, sure.

[C]

Exactly. So how do you get up there?

[D]

Why make it a slider?

[A]

What does that mean, babe?

[D]

Well, if it's so high.

[C]

Doug, that's a great point.

[B]

What sort of window do you think should be? We should have it just be a block.

[A]

One that doesn't even open, right? Yes.

[B]

You want to have a little extra ventilation sometimes.

[A]

That's fair, babe. A little ventilation.

[B]

How about that frosted glass? Well, this is the house. Came with it.

[A]

And I. Frosted glass creeps me out. I don't like. I feel trapped and claustrophobic. I do not like it.

[D]

Yeah. If she sees any frosted glass.

[B]

Oh, it's creating silhouettes. If there's something on the other side.

[A]

Like that. Like that. That show the. The Haunting of Hill House. No. Right.

[C]

Sure. Yeah.

[A]

Where? Where? Right where the kit. Right. No, right where there's a. There. There's a moment where they're in, like, a therapy room or something.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Glass door. And then there's a shadow behind it. Absolutely not. And I already hated frosted glass before then, but now. Forget it.

[D]

Doesn't even like when I have a frosty mug.

[C]

Mug.

[A]

I do not. But what's in that glass?

[B]

I have a precarious A W's whole campaign.

[C]

The frosted mug Taste.

[A]

What's in that glass?

[C]

That's also a good.

[A]

That would be a good one.

[C]

Yeah. Why don't you sell that to your brothers? What's in that club.

[B]

Oh, that's good.

[C]

I don't know how you would say it in German.

[B]

Well, they could figure that that's only a couple of words.

[C]

Yeah. Right.

[B]

And I'm also on them always of like, guys, come on, you're immersed. And let's learn the language.

[C]

How long have they been there?

[A]

I feel like you weren't far off.

[B]

They've been there for 12 years.

[C]

That's too.

[B]

That's too long to not know.

[C]

It's too long.

[A]

Excuse du lingo or something.

[D]

Hasen feer.

[A]

Good job, babe. Okay, so. Okay, so you're here. You're sneaking out the window. You're coming back in through the window. How are you eating? You're just eating out.

[B]

I'm eating all my meals out, which I don't.

[A]

I love prohibitive for you. This is. This is. This is not good.

[B]

It's just. I think it's been helpful to hear to come here and talk to you guys about it. Cuz now that I'm saying out loud, I'm realizing.

[A]

Yeah, you're hearing it. You're hearing this is not a way.

[B]

Normalized it for myself. You absolutely have to gotten into the routine.

[A]

I get that. Don't beat yourself up about it. But now's the time to make a change. You need to have a plan before you go back to that house. I mean now, today's the day.

[B]

Yeah, I think either today or I'm going to ride out, wait for the babies to come.

[A]

No, I'm not sure. Now do you see how those are two totally different things? One is you're imprisoned for life. Okay. And another one is you change your life today.

[B]

You think, you think you can't write it out?

[A]

First of all, you don't know for sure that she's pregnant. I mean, with all due respect, you're not a veterinarian. Right. You can't assess that and you can't get animal control surgery.

[C]

Is that fair to concede?

[A]

It doesn't look like he wants to give that to me.

[C]

It does. Really.

[A]

He thinks he knows.

[C]

He seems.

[B]

I fancy myself a bit of an amateur veterinarian.

[A]

I never love when someone says, you never love it. I fancy myself and then says something like that afterwards.

[C]

You never love when people do it.

[B]

But I guess I'm not.

[A]

I don't. I'm going to stick with it. Now, if I said it on this podcast, then strike me down. I am wrong. Oh, wow. So I really. I can't again, I never mean to like sort of like really push our guests too much, but I feel like you people come here for a reason and it's because probably they haven't gotten help or they need to amplify I their message that's on this platform. And so I'm trying to give you that and I really want you to hear me right now on this is that we really try to help people here. And I really think you need to have a plan before you crawl Back in that house.

[B]

I be. I appreciate.

[A]

Because I need to do it sometimes.

[C]

But here. Here's. Here's the thing, Sierra, and I have to say this. You seem very resistant to any kind of advice that people are giving here. Do you. Are you actually just happy with the situation the way that it is?

[A]

Oh, Jo, let me cook.

[B]

I will say I like having a strong presence in my life, dear. I feel like I am. I needed a change. And sleeping in the bathroom and to get up out of that high window, I feel like is good exercise that I haven't been having. It's making me appreciate little things about my bathroom that I didn't. I feel like I was taking for granted before. The tiling in there is gorgeous. And a lot of the rest of the house is connected to a lot of memories of Diana, so it's kind of nice to. I don't have a lot of shared memories of me and Diana in the bathroom together, because it was. It's not. We didn't have two sinks, and it was my turn.

[C]

Your turn.

[B]

And very much. That was how we would say it. One at a time. Dying.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

Can I also posit. And this is. This is a bit of a leap, and I hope you won't take any offense to this. It seems like you are the pet. Burnt.

[A]

That's such a good point.

[C]

Right?

[B]

I'm the pet.

[C]

You're restricted to certain areas.

[B]

And Pink is in charge.

[C]

You're not allowed on the bed.

[D]

Yes.

[B]

She is very clear about when I go out and when I come in.

[A]

I mean, the only difference is, is. Is that you still feed her, which is why I think you really do have to stop feeding her, because you have to remind her how this is supposed to go.

[B]

She should be feeding me.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

No, no, no, no. That's just. Now somebody's got to get fed and feed him. This is just. This is going to reinforce him being the pet.

[D]

If he's the Peter. The pet.

[C]

But do you sort of like it?

[B]

I love it.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

He loves it.

[A]

All right. So we're going to just knowingly send a human being back into this very sort of rather dangerous situation, which I think is only going to get worse. And then he's going to be raising these possum kids. How's that going to work?

[C]

Joan, we've had so many people on this podcast, and how many have we helped? How many people have listened to us? 3.

[A]

Oh, I'd say more than that.

[C]

Would you?

[A]

We've done okay.

[C]

I think three people have taken Our advice and actually improved their lives.

[A]

I would say like 5.

[C]

Most of the people walk out saying, actually, I'm fine the way I am.

[A]

This is true. Okay, well, look, Sierra, I'm sorry if we. If you don't want this advice, then. You know what? Forget what I'm saying. Burnt is saying, live your life.

[D]

How do you feel about eating trash?

[C]

Great question, Doug.

[A]

Why is that a great question?

[C]

It's a very rare.

[D]

What level?

[B]

What level of trash?

[D]

Because that's probably what you're going to be eating.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

If you go this route. But that's basically human food still.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, some people are so wasteful. There's tons of stuff being thrown away. That's perfectly fine.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I'm not.

[C]

Although you wouldn't be the one throwing it away because you're confined to the bathroom.

[A]

So you're just going to be getting trash that comes to you via. In your opinion on the rabies spectrum, Mouth.

[B]

Oh, and I. But, but, but to be clear, I think she's non rabbi. I think she's very low, Very close to a rabbit. I think she's almost. Almost there.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

So I feel she's as much as an opossum can be. I think she's has all of her.

[C]

Mental faculties so late in the conversation to get hung up on the non rabbi. But it's just.

[A]

Pronunciations are confusing me.

[B]

Is it. It was that. It is a little bit. Because it. But it's. It's non rabby. But it's got potential for some rap. Right. But.

[A]

But if some rabbit.

[B]

I've never in my life met an animal or a human. That's a rabbit.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

No kidding.

[C]

All right, I got that. So Arabit is no rabies.

[A]

No rabies.

[B]

And will never have.

[A]

He's saying he's never been a human. That was completely Arab.

[C]

Understood.

[A]

Oh, a rabbit. You have to be careful. Sorry.

[C]

So it's the non in rabby. If rabby. The idea of rabby is that's on the. Not rabid, but rabby. Where does the non. Where does that get it?

[B]

Yeah. That really makes it seem like none.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Because almost sounds like none.

[A]

Yeah, it almost does.

[C]

Yeah. Kissing cousins.

[B]

Do you guys know how to edit?

[A]

Speaking of rabbi. Wait, What?

[B]

Do you guys know how to edit a post?

[C]

I do not. Do you?

[A]

I. I've tried. I've tried. I'm not always the best at it.

[C]

I think once it's up there, it's up there and that's all you can do.

[A]

Maybe you might just have to delete it and put up a new post.

[C]

Do you know why you can't. That. I, I think the reason is because when people try to sell, you can't say free and then Change it to $1,000. Said it right there.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Then I'm in support of it. Don't change it for me.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Well, okay.

[B]

The people. You know what?

[A]

I think that's how you want your life in general. Don't change it for me. I don't think you want anything to change.

[B]

Is there. Do you guys. Should I, Should I bring her something to let her know that I am subservient and that I want to embrace the pet role? If I go with your idea.

[A]

Well, if I, If I maybe Sibold. I think she already has gotten the message. I was already there. I don't think you need.

[C]

I think the message. I think it's the.

[A]

Yeah, she's taken over.

[C]

Absolutely.

[A]

You have no rights in your own home. You sleep on the bathroom floor. I think it's clear.

[C]

I think all you.

[B]

I'm not making eye contact with her.

[A]

That's even darker.

[B]

That's another. That's another.

[C]

Why are you not doing.

[B]

Out of respect.

[A]

Oh, I see. Eyes down.

[B]

Uhhuh.

[C]

All right.

[A]

Oh, boy. You're not like.

[B]

So maybe I could start making eye contact with her, but then take it back away again.

[A]

This is all. This is all him being the pet. Pretty soon he's going to just put a dead mouse at her feet.

[C]

I think the only thing that you need to do, I guess, is. Is let her know that you understand the situation. She understands the situation.

[A]

Sure does.

[C]

But she, she might think. She might be thinking, this guy doesn't get it. He's the pet. So if you. Yeah, maybe.

[A]

Okay. Okay.

[C]

But you might. You might indicate to her, like. Yeah, I get it. And then maybe she'll treat you nicer.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You'll be allowed in more areas.

[B]

When she's passing by the bathroom. I could. I could vocalize and say, you leave the door open.

[C]

Yeah. But anytime you go near her, she hisses.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, that's.

[D]

I think you should open your mouth like a, Like a possum does. Like as wide as you can kind of like put food in here.

[C]

Maybe if you filed your teeth down the little triangle.

[A]

That's what Doug does sometimes when he's hungry. He's. He just. He either says, put food in here, and then he opens his mouth.

[D]

I point to my mouth sometimes to my gaping mouth.

[A]

Well, Sierra, I, I, I, I. We say this a lot. We wish you the best of luck.

[B]

Thank you.

[A]

I'm worried about you, but it doesn't seem like you. We are worried about you. So I guess I will take some comfort in that.

[C]

I mean, it's not. You haven't been bitten, right? Yeah. It seems like it's just an arrangement.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

You know, know.

[A]

Try to stay non rabies for as long as you can.

[C]

Non rabby, non rabi or rabi.

[B]

Yeah. I don't want to be rabby. I don't want to be more than rabby. I don't want to be semi rabby. I. I'd like to. I'd like to stay non rabbit. I know I'll never be a rabbit.

[C]

Of course, none of us.

[A]

None of us are.

[B]

But anywhere else on the spectrum of, you know, the. That's. I'm willing to take it and I'll learn how to live with it. And I've got. I've got. I've got a. I've got a possum right there that. I'm sure she knows people that if I could communicate. I went. I wish I could just speak English with her. I know how my brothers feel in Germany.

[C]

Have you tried. Have you tried emailing her?

[A]

Not a bad idea. That is not a bad idea.

[B]

I gotta figure out what her email is.

[C]

Set up an email account for her.

[A]

There you go. Okay. Just let her paw at it. You never know. She might. She might give you Shakespeare.

[B]

I'm gonna write. As soon as I leave here. I'm gonna go to the Apple store, I'm buying her a laptop and I'm setting.

[A]

Oh, I don't. I mean, you could really.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

She gets her own laptop.

[C]

Okay, Pink, if you're listening, as of you know, when this is released, we'd like to hear from you. All right, well, Sierra, I. I'm. I. I hope we provided you something that you needed.

[B]

Yes, I. You provided me with a sounding board and you provided me with a community. I feel less alone. Great.

[C]

And. And on behalf of all of digy Falls, I just want to say to you and the Sierra family, thank you for always showing up and showing out.

[A]

Absolutely. Amen to that Legacy.

[C]

We'll be right back with the return. This is Elizabeth. For sale. Well, free. Blue bucket with handle. It's a blue bucket with a handle featuring a design. The design seems to be a globe of some kind. I think it's a globe of planet Earth. And then there's these symbols. All right, I'll be honest. I can't read, so that might be.

[B]

A word.

[C]

And it might have something to do with the globe. The globe in space. I don't.

[D]

The one.

[C]

The one symbol looks like a sort of the point of a spear plunging down. And then there's another one that just looks like a line, and then there's another one that has a line, and then there's three little lines jutting out of the side. So if you know what this is, I hope it's not satanic or something. I consider myself a woman of the world, but I don't. I don't know how to read. But I do know that Satan is real, so take your chances, I guess. It's blue, so Satan's usually a red thing. I don't know. Guys, this is Elizabeth. Well, that was weird.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah, it was. I. You know, he's a really nice man. He's.

[C]

As far as we know.

[A]

Every time I try to do this.

[C]

Part, Joan, as soon as these people leave you, but you try to act like they're normal.

[A]

I'm not saying anything about his situation is normal, but the two things can be true. He can be living an abnormal life and also be kind of a nice guy.

[C]

Boy, that's true.

[A]

You know, he wasn't combative. He wasn't rude. Yeah, he was.

[D]

You know, he's a Sierra.

[A]

He's a Sierra through and through, that guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

I feel. I feel guilty that I was not familiar with the family who was such a. A big part of this community.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, I do sort of wonder, once you heard him talk more about them, is that just sort of in. In his mind? I'm not sure about the legacy of it all. It's probably the only thing he came up with was changing the name of this street that was Sharp to Sharb.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

That was it.

[C]

That was the.

[A]

That was the contribution.

[C]

Yeah. That was their showing up and showing out.

[A]

I am glad they got rid of the sharp trees, though. Good Lord.

[C]

Oh, they were a real menace. And people. Terrible people would try to get them in their house for Christmas.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

Because they do sort of sleep for a little bit where you can chop them down, but then they wake back up.

[A]

You put them in the water, actively sleep.

[C]

They sort of go to sleep. Yeah. You can approach them.

[A]

You can see it sort of taking a breath and then down and a breath and then down this. Or they move like that, and then, you know, they're asleep. I have to clear something up because, again, I've been. Remember one of the things on my vision board for this season.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

Was Season Client Was feeling fine. Kevin. I. I always want to be impeccable with my movie trivia because I have not been.

[C]

Absolutely.

[A]

And I mentioned Sound of Music and the song My Favorite Things last week. I just want to say I'm. I'm still mostly right that it doesn't come at the time that we think it does. Like in the actual cinematic movie.

[C]

Right.

[A]

In the musical. In the musical. In the musical. Well, there's now so many versions I could be referring to. I could refer you to the live television version with Carrie Underwood.

[C]

Well, no one would ever think that.

[A]

I know two people.

[C]

Do you think that's ever. Is there anyone that that's the first thing they think of when you think of the Sound of Music?

[A]

Less people think of that than the amount of people that want violent scenarios on this show. So, I mean, that's just true. But it's not the mother at Bess's idea to sing the song. She brings Marianne because she's in trouble for singing out loud out because you felt that's such a sin to one.

[C]

Of the problems that needs to be solved.

[A]

That plus the flibberity divot of it all.

[D]

A clown.

[A]

A clown.

[C]

Reminds me of Nico.

[A]

Oh, yes.

[C]

She'll build you up to bring you down. What a clown.

[A]

Anyways, again, like I said, for the two people who will care. But I. This is a promise I made to our listeners, you know, so I just need to. To make. I need to make it right and, and, and say that it's just. It's not the Mother Abbess song that she likes to sing to cheer herself up. Maria mentions it that this is a song that she enjoys singing and this is the song she was caught singing. And Mother Abbess is so taken with it, she kind of decides to sing along herself. Really? Also sinning before God and they do it together.

[C]

Is singing itself just a bad thing?

[A]

You know, it's ridiculous because when I looked it up. Listen, you're more of a Catholic expert than I am. But she was singing. She was. She had. She sang in the garden without permission.

[C]

You need.

[A]

You need permission to sing.

[C]

No. Who permitted you to sing?

[A]

Because otherwise you are committing a crime. For the Lord didn't give you permission to sing. You should be ashamed.

[C]

Imagine if people found out.

[A]

But you know, it's funny that you mentioned Christmas trees because there's this post about it. And this is from Alan. And Alan says, need help installing top of 15 foot Christmas tree. Need someone who has 17 to 20 foot ladder or scaffold to help us with top 10% of this interior tree. Please reply or Rico Reco. Is that how you say it?

[B]

Reko?

[A]

I've never heard, like, a short for recommendation.

[C]

I need a Reco.

[A]

Can I get a Ricko? They only must say that in a stressful. I need a Reco for demo.

[C]

I need it. I need to know something about this tray.

[A]

That had five syllables. And then. Yeah, it just says thanks. And, I mean, he literally posts a picture of the stupid tree. That is.

[C]

Why is.

[A]

Here's the thing. If you have this treat, you know you're gonna have this problem. Like, figure it out on your.

[B]

Your own.

[A]

This is. This is an internal problem. I'm sorry. Not something you outsource. You had to have seen it coming. Thank you.

[C]

Had to. When you're considering purchasing, you know how.

[A]

Tall it is, you're like, okay, this is not a surprise.

[C]

Yeah. Now is not the time.

[A]

These are the kind of. That drive you crazy. Yes. And then someone else come help. No, no. You did this to yourself.

[C]

Here's. Here's what my Reco is. Here's what my Reco is.

[A]

What's your rec.

[C]

A ladder.

[A]

Well, but he's asking for somebody to bring it.

[D]

He asked for scaffolding.

[A]

Scaffolding up.

[C]

It's not Rockefeller Center.

[A]

New York City scaffolding. It's just ridiculous. Alan. Give me a break.

[C]

Alan. Go to hell, you fool.

[A]

Oh, that's not in the Christmas spirit, Burns.

[C]

Well, it's not Christmas. I've got time.

[A]

At the moment, it's not.

[C]

I've got time.

[A]

Oh, okay. Babe, how's it going in the Rainforest Cafe?

[D]

It's going all right. It was raining, and then it just.

[A]

Oh, wait, can we hear it? It's like a little sprinkle. Babe, I think you're gonna want to do more.

[C]

Oh, wow.

[A]

That sounds like trucks driving in the rain.

[C]

Torrential.

[D]

Yeah, it's more like a hose directly. And.

[C]

And at the window.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

That was exciting. When you were a kid, somebody sprayed the hose at the window.

[A]

It was that sound it would make.

[C]

And the way it looked. It was really cool.

[A]

Yes, it did. It was rather.

[C]

It was.

[A]

It was titillating.

[C]

It was rather tittling.

[D]

That's why I. I go to the car wash. Like the ones you drive through.

[A]

Doug loves the car wash. When he's in a bad mood, I know exactly what to do. I take him in and he's, like, not going to smile. I'm not going to like it. I'm not going to like it. And then, sure enough, that shampoo that goes on that rainbow color.

[C]

He's in the backseat on his blanket.

[A]

He's in the backseat on his blanket. It.

[C]

He loves it.

[D]

Love it. You play Night Ranger through the car.

[C]

Night Ranger?

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Really? That's your. That's your car wash choice?

[D]

Oh, God, it's so good.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Do you know that Dignity Fells has been doing that haunted car wash for the last few years? And I can't think of a worse thing. And the line on the street is like a mile long and I'm just trying to get home and everyone's just wait. They'll wait for hours for that damn.

[D]

Thing we talked about with the Yetis.

[C]

Yes. Yes.

[A]

Yeah, they're still doing it. Drives me crazy. What were you going to say? I'm.

[C]

It's terrible. Just because it takes so long. Because they have to keep resetting.

[A]

Yes. You know, and they have to dry everything. They have to dry. They dry.

[C]

They have to dry everything. They ring out.

[A]

30 minutes set up in between all those weird mops. Those weird mops.

[C]

Yeah. It's. It's a real. It's. It's also. It's. That should just be Halloween time. It shouldn't be all year round.

[A]

Oh, absolutely. Yes, you're right.

[C]

If only worth the one car wash in town.

[A]

The only car wash in town. They make so much money, though.

[C]

They really do.

[A]

They make so much money. And honestly, it doesn't. It doesn't wash your car. I mean, it's literally exit stained in blood.

[C]

Yeah, I guess your car will be awash in blood. That's not the same as having your car washed.

[A]

It is not. Well said.

[C]

Close that window.

[A]

Should we? Okay. I was opening it because it's a little bit. It's very humid in here. Because what Doug is doing with the Rainforest Cafe is always trying to match the climate.

[C]

Yes. And it is.

[A]

And it's made everything really.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

Babe, you okay?

[D]

What happened?

[A]

Usually we usually say one last name.

[C]

Well, we mentioned your name. We usually. You try.

[A]

We said your name.

[D]

Oh, but you didn't actually ask me anything.

[A]

Usually that doesn't stop you.

[C]

Yeah, I don't recall ever asking you anything.

[A]

Listen, I'm just glad you guys are getting along because if you remember, you were testy a little while we were a little. You guys had to go to the bar.

[C]

We went. We went to Sodf. We played some golden tea and now we're good.

[A]

Good. Thank goodness.

[D]

I am having a little bit of an issue with all the insects. I wanted to make it more authentic. People were Offended slightly. At the Rainforest Cafe. Cafe.

[A]

If I remember, back in the day. Were they. Oh, dear. Why were they offended?

[D]

Said we were stealing the rainforest culture and not portraying it. Accurate. Totally accurately. The truth about a rainforest is you are covered in insects.

[A]

Sure, that's true.

[C]

That makes sense.

[A]

You'd have centipedes on. Crawling on your. But you're not gonna do that to the people who come in, are you?

[C]

I didn't even think centipedes. I just thought I'm like swarms.

[A]

Mosquitoes. No, no, those big, huge millipedes and centipedes. Oh, they're terrible.

[C]

I don't like that.

[A]

Yeah, one of the.

[C]

Makes me think that Willy Wonka boat ride.

[A]

Also. Also terrifying.

[C]

Why was that in there?

[A]

I don't know.

[C]

Crawling across that guy's face. What was that for?

[A]

I hated that. It was really. Honestly, it was very terrifying.

[C]

Great song. I think A worm.

[A]

Why would there be a word?

[C]

Why would there be a word?

[A]

Yeah, you know, they had. Okay, so they didn't really have a lot of. Okay. If you look at their menu, maybe it was a little problematic. I mean, they had something called the China island chicken salad. They had a tropical island chicken salad and a big islander chicken.

[C]

Big islander. Three different kinds of chicken salad and island. Do they serve anything else other than chicken salad?

[A]

There was something called the Oscar awesome appetizer adventure, which I know you're gonna do because that was your favorite thing there. There were chimicha chas, spinach, chimicha, choke tip, tri color tortilla chips. What's more fun than that? What is more fun than blue, red and white? Come on.

[C]

What is a chimicha cha?

[A]

I have. No, it's a short. Short for chimichangas. I don't know. Chimichangas. Yeah. Chimicha's is upsetting. Cheese sticks, chicken tenders. Serve with fresh guacamole and coconut curry sauce. And add a side of St. Louis style pork ribs.

[C]

A side of them.

[A]

A side of them for only 6.99.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

This. Oh, and then. Yeah, it was called an Amazon feast. That's not great.

[C]

It's not feast.

[A]

Mojo bones. Jungle steak. Oh, dear. Okay.

[C]

I'm.

[D]

Mostly.

[A]

Some of this, I don't think. Oh, no. They had something I imagined.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Know.

[A]

Repurpose that anaconda pasta.

[C]

I don't want none, hon.

[A]

These are.

[D]

All right.

[A]

So we know we're not going to do the menu, babe. We're not going to recreate the menu in that way. We can't use the same names, but you can put whatever you want to on the menu. Just give them appropriate names.

[D]

Python Penny.

[C]

What is a python penny? Like pen pasta?

[A]

Is that what you meant? Good hall burn. Good catch. I bet you it's not Penny Penny pennies don't even exist anymore. We're not supposed to talk about them.

[D]

Rip. You're not supposed to talk about them.

[A]

I mean, we don't talk about penny. Yeah, penne, it's usually called penny, is an uncoin.

[C]

We don't talk about them anymore. You mustn't mention them.

[A]

All right, you can do python pen A. All right. I guess. Why not?

[C]

Why not?

[A]

Why not your own. It's your own home.

[C]

Who's gonna come in here?

[A]

Nobody.

[D]

I hope there's a giant serpent that is. I don't know. I feel like.

[C]

I feel like you buried the lead.

[A]

Yeah, I mean, you mean like you're building like a fake building a giant. But that's kind of fun. I like that. Out of. Out of what?

[D]

Like a serpent God.

[A]

Oh, a serpent God. Oh, now it sounded like Indiana Jones.

[B]

Jones.

[D]

Okay.

[A]

Is it a little bit Indiana Jones?

[D]

Everything.

[A]

One of the Doug philosophies.

[C]

Everything's a little bit Indiana Jones if.

[A]

You think about it and then think about it. Everybody just think about it for the next week.

[C]

Why don't you just take a moment for everybody to think about it?

[A]

That was Doug rubbing his beard because that's how he. That was a little ASMR for you. On behalf of Doug for. Thanks. I hope you enjoy that, everybody.

[C]

Thanks, Doug.

[A]

Thanks, babe.

[B]

Moment.

[D]

Yeah, you're welcome.

[B]

You're welcome.

[D]

He's really not responding to us.

[C]

Scalp tingling moment.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

What's he.

[A]

No, I think you made it too humid down there, babe. You made it way too humid. You're bowing to the silly God.

[D]

Can be on my side on this one. I don't think I was called on to speak.

[A]

Right. But what I'm saying is you so often are not. Babe.

[D]

I think when I. Listeners.

[C]

Ken, I thought you said lizard skin.

[A]

Oh, no.

[C]

I think the lizard skin can be on my side.

[A]

I think it's time when we all start mishearing each other, it's time to leave. Yeah, that's true.

[C]

That's true. I also thought lizard skins was maybe something you were gonna serve at the rainforest. Our world famous lizard skins. Like pork cracklings.

[D]

I don't like that.

[A]

All right.

[D]

I like that a crackling is a. Is a thing I kind of.

[A]

For food.

[D]

Crackling should be, you know, agitated.

[A]

But that's. It is babe as a noun, shouldn't.

[C]

Be used as a noun.

[A]

It's you. Some people love love to eat a crackling. You can't.

[D]

People love it.

[A]

That's right. You can't go after people like Jesus.

[D]

I love the food. I love the flavor.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

I mean, nothing like a flavor of the crackling. Don't want to talk about it.

[C]

Nothing like it.

[A]

I don't want to talk about either. So I think we should just.

[C]

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[A]

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[C]

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[D]

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[A]

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