March 16, 2025 • 39 mins
There was a time when knowing your neighbors wasn't just common—it was expected. Today, that simple connection has become increasingly rare. Josh and Amanda unpack why neighborhood relationships have faded and what we've collectively lost in the process.
The numbers tell a troubling story: nearly one in six Americans don't know any neighbors' names, with this figure jumping to 26% among millennials. Even more striking, 65% of Americans admit to actively hiding from their neighbors. What happened to the neighborhood connections many of us remember from childhood?
Whether you're a front-porch sitter who knows everyone on the block or someone who ducks behind curtains when neighbors approach, this episode will make you reflect on what true community means in today's world. Perhaps it's time to rekindle those front-yard conversations—or at least learn your neighbor's name.
Have you met your neighbors lately? Share your neighborhood stories with us and join the conversation about rebuilding local connections in an increasingly disconnected world.
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Josh (00:00):
Familiar Wilson's Media Relationships are the story.
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(00:21):
I'm Super Familiar the Wilsons.
Amanda (00:28):
Yeah, welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons.
I'm Amanda.
Josh (00:31):
And I'm Josh.
Amanda, you want me to tell youthe first time I saw a naked
woman.
Amanda (00:37):
No, yes, fine, sure, I think I know, though, do you?
I actually do know this story.
Josh (00:43):
We were over at our neighbor's house.
I had to be gosh, I don't knowlike maybe eight or nine, like
Winthrop's age.
Yeah, or maybe younger, oh gosh, yeah, probably eight or nine,
and now that I'm thinking aboutthis story and envisioning him
in it, it gives a whole newflavor.
I'm over at the neighbor's house, and this is neighbors that I
grew up with and we spent a lotof time over there we being you
(01:05):
and your dad yeah, with with thefamily and I was swimming that
day and they had a, a, um, abathroom right there off the
pool deck and I'm like, okay,I'm done, I'm gonna go in there.
I go in there and boom, thereis the had to be mid-20s, you
know, adult child of you knowthose neighbors.
They're coming out of theshower, like what do you do?
(01:27):
At that point I'm eight, Idon't know.
All I know is I've donesomething really bad.
Amanda (01:30):
Oh no, why did you think it was bad?
Because nakey, you're not, nonakey.
No nakey.
Josh (01:35):
It was even the 70s and I knew no nakey, and so I
immediately I immediately turnedaround and jumped back into the
pool and stayed under the waterfor longer than I thought I
could, and then no one spoke ofit again.
Amanda (01:52):
No, you never talked to this woman about this.
Josh (01:54):
Oh my God, are you kidding me?
Amanda (01:56):
No, no, no so wait, you were eight and she was like 25.
So that means she's like she's17 years older than you, so
she's like 70 now.
Josh (02:05):
Yeah.
Amanda (02:06):
Do you think you should call her up and be like do you
remember that time that thishappened?
Josh (02:09):
No, I think that we need to stop this right now.
But I do want to talk aboutneighbors today.
Amanda (02:15):
I've never seen a neighbor naked.
Josh (02:18):
Well, that's good, that's very good.
I'm sure that most people outthere who have crazy neighbor
stories probably couldn't saythe same thing, but I often
wonder if whatever has been setas my ideal woman had initially
Like if that had been imprintedupon me.
Amanda (02:35):
I don't want to know what she looked like.
Do not tell me, okay.
Because I want to know if I fitthat or don't fit that, so
we're just going to move rightalong.
Did you know your neighborsgrowing up?
And I don't mean in the.
Josh (02:45):
I've seen them naked in the shower type of way.
I just mean them in the.
Did you know them growing up?
Amanda (02:49):
Yeah, I only lived in two houses, so the first memory
that I have of the house it waswhen I was like three.
Josh (03:00):
And that's the house that we was an alligator in it, and
the fish game people had to comeget it, okay, so there was no
fence, no, no, no, just pond.
Amanda (03:07):
And there were like three houses on this property.
Josh (03:09):
Right.
And then the neighbors to theWait, what do you mean?
Three houses on the propertyyou lived on, a compound.
Was it a cult?
Amanda (03:15):
No, I mean I'm sure they were individual lots, but it
was like three in the back.
I lived in one of the ones inthe front, our neighbors to the
left of the house.
They were an older retiredcouple and I just remember them
being very sweet and very likegrandparently toward me and they
had a German shepherd namedSheila.
So I know that you didn't meandog neighbors, but I'm going to
(03:36):
talk about this.
This dog would come and sleepunder my, knew which bedroom
mine was and would sleep undermy window every night the entire
like two years that we livedthere because she was very
motherly with me and we'd go onwalks and she we would walk past
like orange groves and therewould be people in the orange
groves working and she wouldswitch between going from
between me and the road tobetween me and the, the people
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like very motherly.
So that was a great neighbordog.
And then when I was five my dadworked in construction like
building supplies but hebasically generally contracted
our own, the building of a house, and I mean they.
My dad lived in that until hehad to go live with my sister.
Like I mean, that was thathouse.
They were there for a very longtime.
(04:18):
It is the only real house thatI lived in for like 20 something
years that I remember.
And those neighbors yeah, I hadneighbors across the street that
I played with.
We had neighbors directlyacross the street that had a
pool that they let us swim in,and then the neighbors next to
them had Dobermans.
See, dogs are in all my stories, but these Dobermans scared the
mess out of me because I waslittle and Dobermans are tough
(04:39):
looking dogs, right, and theirnames were Amanda, which didn't
help, because they would be outthere yelling manda, manda, and
mega.
And I remember walking out intothe garage one day and they're
both just standing there likethe twins from the shining, like
in my garage like zeus andapollo from magnum pi just
terrifying yes, terrifying, andum, I mean they were probably
perfectly fine and we're notgoing to hurt me, but I think my
(05:01):
mom had also created this fearin me.
Like these are big dogs, weleave them alone.
So those were my childhoodneighbors.
Yeah, I remember.
I mean I had, like we played,like we played.
And I tell you about my oneneighbor that lived behind me.
She was selling.
You know how when the childrengo out selling candy to fund
band trips and stuff, and theylike ring the doorbells and I
(05:21):
got these candy bars.
We.
She asked me to do that withher, so I was out walking the
neighborhood with her and we gotto the back of the neighborhood
and in the very back of theneighborhood was a sheriff's
officer and he had a retiredcanine and the dog was just
laying down in the front yardbut not leashed, not fenced.
She went up to the house duringthe doorbell.
(05:42):
I stayed at the foot of thedriveway and it was a pretty
meandering drive and nobodyanswered.
And about halfway back down thedriveway the dog was like all
right, I'm done, and we weremaybe in sixth grade, and he got
up and started walking.
And so then I I just took offrunning and she started running
after me and she was yelling forme to wait and I was like no
I'm faster, I don't have tooutrun the dog, I have to outrun
(06:05):
you, I'm not.
No, no, waiting, no, waitingwill be happening.
And then we ran for quite a bit, but then somebody's trash had
spilled and the dog gotdistracted by the trash.
Josh (06:15):
Are you saying that the dog would have taken you out
otherwise?
Amanda (06:18):
The dog we were on his property.
He didn't like it.
Josh (06:21):
I don't want to talk about neighbor dogs, weirdly.
Amanda (06:23):
But I have lots of dog stories.
Josh (06:26):
I do want to talk about neighbors, because we have a
situation here in ourneighborhood.
It's not a situation, it's justhow it is.
So we moved in at COVID, soeverything was locked down.
We weren't getting to knowpeople or whatever, and now we
have a situation where we don'treally know our neighbors.
Amanda (06:46):
No.
Josh (06:51):
Growing up I knew most all of my neighbors.
I was trying to remember all oftheir names.
On one side I had the Walters,the Yudis.
Interesting thing about theYudis is that their son was a
minor celebrity in the Miamiarea because he saved a woman
getting accosted on the side ofthe road.
He got the crap beat out of himas he was taking this woman
over to his car.
So them.
And then the Seymours, which isthe aforementioned naked lady,
(07:13):
and the Fraziers, which thefather Frazier, was the head
coach of the UM baseball teamfor a while.
And then on the other side, wehad the Goebbels, the Lewises,
the Helmkamps, the Ventimiglias,the I don't remember their name
, but they had a daughter calledMarcy.
So like I knew a lot, of myneighbors.
Amanda (07:32):
I don't know any of their names.
I know all the dogs' names.
I think I like dogs better thanpeople.
Josh (07:36):
I think that that is so.
So I knew a bunch of peoplegrowing up my neighbors and we
don't have that now and I wantedto know whether that was unique
to us or whether in generalpeople don't happen to know
their neighbors now, and so Iasked around and interestingly,
our friend Antonio from theCultworthy podcast, amongst
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others, says that.
He says it's really weird.
In my state, as it's Mormoncountry, pretty much every other
house on my street arenon-Mormons and we know each
other and give each otherChristmas cookies and whatnot.
Our kids play, walk to school.
The Mormon families are nicebut they don't reach out and
they don't community with us.
Mormons tend to stay away frommost non-Mormons in Utah.
Amanda (08:19):
Because you will tempt them with your Christmas cookies
.
Josh (08:22):
Is that what it is?
Or do you will tempt them withcookies is that what it is?
Or just try to steal their holyunderwear?
Um josh scar says I barely knowthe older couple to the north
of my house, and by barely Imean the husband's name is jim,
which I thought was bob forabout four years.
Amanda (08:38):
I really want you to have been calling him bob.
That's so good and I.
Josh (08:42):
I've no clue what his wife's name is.
We lived next door to eachother for nine years.
Wow.
Yeah, I don't think that that'sever happened.
I guess that it has happened.
We had a crazy neighbor in thelast house that we lived in and
it took me a while to rememberher name.
Amanda (08:58):
Well, her name was a very unique name, though she was
a very unique lady.
She was super unique.
Josh (09:02):
We were on a cul-de-sac.
We were the last house.
She's one of these people whowould put you off knowing your
neighbors, though.
Amanda (09:07):
Yeah.
Josh (09:07):
You'd be like okay, well, I've tried that, I'm not gonna
do that anymore.
Amanda (09:10):
But she was like a dichotomy though, because she
would buy toys for Winthrop, butthen also came over.
Josh (09:20):
Do you remember?
Amanda (09:21):
No, I've Again dogs.
Why do I have all these dogstories?
Josh (09:23):
Wait, remind me of this story, because I don't remember
this at all.
Amanda (09:26):
Well she, didn't accuse, but she inquired if we did so.
Josh (09:30):
Oh, how do you slip that into conversation?
Amanda (09:32):
She just came up because I had seen I had taken the Just
wondering.
I had taken the 18-year-oldover to see the puppies and then
she came over, saw me in theyard one day and came over and
said did you or Josh happen toput out like poison on the yard
or like weed control?
(09:53):
I'm like nope, we don't tend tothe yard, that's like.
And she's like oh well, we wokeup this morning and all the
puppies are dead.
Josh (10:00):
So she thought we had poisoned her puppies.
Yeah, okay.
So she thought we had poisonedher puppies, yeah, okay.
Anyway.
Our friend Matt tells us thatthey live in a neighborhood
that's like all the houses aresuburban stamps of each other,
same school district, hoa, runby residents.
There's just a ton ofopportunities to get to know
each other.
My kiddos could walk down ourstreet and knock on any door for
(10:21):
help and would be able to knowwho they are talking to.
And I said, gosh, that mustfeel so safe.
And he's like, yeah, especiallywith all the kids going to the
same school district, I meanthat sounds lovely and that's
what one would want, especiallyfor your kids, that feeling of
safety.
Amanda (10:35):
That does sound lovely, and this whole neighborhood is
owned for one school, or oneelementary school, one middle
school, right.
But part of the issue here isone our HOA is not run by our
neighbors, it's run by thebuilding company.
So they don't do anything toorganize anything because I
think they're afraid that theywill organize against them.
We built the house in 2000 andno, not 2000, 2020.
(11:00):
And we were the last house tocomplete before COVID, and so
it's just a lot of stalledconstruction, a lot of
unfinished property.
The people who lived herebefore COVID all were on one
street and had formed arelationship.
Then we moved in and we haven'thad that opportunity.
But you also don't like it whenI try to talk to them.
Josh (11:20):
What are you talking about ?
I always send you out to talkto neighbors.
Amanda (11:22):
You never send me out to talk to neighbors.
Josh (11:24):
I tried to send you out to talk to neighbors.
You never send me out to talkto neighbors.
Amanda (11:26):
I tried to send you out this morning to talk to the
neighbors.
I went and talked to theneighbor and you were in there
going come on, we'll be walkingdown the street and people will
stop to talk and you tap me onthe back like go, go, go.
Josh (11:33):
More often than not, I have to pee.
Well, that is not my problem.
Amanda (11:44):
No, no, no, no.
So if you want to createcommunity with our neighbors, I
will be more than happy toattempt.
I think you're upset becausethey've all now started playing
pickleball in the road.
So our houses, we have garagesin the back, so we have
alleyways that face each other,and the neighbors behind us have
set up a pickleball court, andthen they all come out and have
a tournament.
And the neighbors behind ushave set up a pickleball court
(12:04):
and then they all come out andhave a tournament, and I think
you're just jealous that youdon't get to play pickleball.
Josh (12:09):
I don't know if you've met me, but for you to accuse me of
wanting to have more physicalactivity, but I am interested
and intrigued by this thing.
Is this phenomenon that we'reexperiencing?
Is it just a Wilson thing?
Are more people feeling this,and is it due to the pandemic?
Or the state of the world orthis, and that you held the
(12:31):
phone up to me.
You have an update.
Amanda (12:32):
Well, I have an update from the plants, our good
friends Mark and Rachel.
Mark and John do the 100 Thingswe Learned from Film Podcast.
John speaks in Scottish on ourpodcast.
Sometimes you don't understandwhat he's saying, and I asked if
they know their neighbors andRachel responded and said we
know our direct neighbors butnot any others.
We've only lived there 18months and it's mainly because
(12:53):
Plantee insists on talking toeveryone.
Josh (12:55):
So he's the Amanda in that relationship.
Amanda (12:57):
So if Mark and I lived in a neighborhood, we'd know
everybody, and you and Rachelwill be very happy just to be
inside.
Josh (13:03):
Yeah, that's right.
But see, here's the thing Iwant the benefit of like hanging
out with a group of people andhaving the luxury of just being
able to be there and experienceit.
I love that I love watchingpeople.
I love listening to interestingconversations.
I'm naturally an introvert.
And so we're not shaming me forthat.
That's why I love being in biggroups, not because, like I,
(13:27):
need to be the center ofattention, but because I just
like that energy.
Amanda (13:30):
I had a really good neighbor relationship in the
house that when Muffy was bornand before you and I were
together in my previous marriage, we had a house in a
neighborhood that was up andcoming, but this was like we
built the house in 2005.
So I think you know this wasway before a pandemic had really
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good relationships with all ofthe neighbors and you know to
like when my mom would come upand visit she would go, stay in
the neighborhood.
The neighbor across thestreet's house, a retired lady
who would quilt, make things forus, and then the neighbor
directly.
I had two, three differentneighbors directly to the left
of us and each set of thoseneighbors were so incredible.
(14:12):
One would sew clothes for Muffywhen she was little.
One.
When I was pregnant with Muffy,there was a different family
there and I had morning sickness, so horribly, and I was coming
home and I remember vividly hadgone to eat at a Cuban
restaurant, had gone to abaseball game a UF baseball game
and was driving home and almostmade it and threw up in the car
(14:37):
before I got home, all overmyself, pulled into the driveway
, left the car running, left thedoor open and ran inside and
got in the shower because I justI wasn't like functioning well
and I was by myself, there wasnobody with me and I figured.
Josh (14:52):
No one, I guess, would steal the car.
That's certainly.
I vomited all over it.
Amanda (14:56):
Right prevention system so when when muffie's dad got
home because we were coming homefrom the baseball game in
separate cars he found the carin the driveway and the neighbor
next door with her wet backcleaning it.
She had seen me come home andcame over to check and see if
everything was okay, had seenwhat had happened and was
cleaning the car.
Josh (15:15):
For me that's very sweet it was very, very kind.
Amanda (15:18):
And then the people who moved in after that.
She I taught her kids, her kidswent to my preschool.
She was super sweet.
Anytime she would make a batchof margaritas.
She would bring another pitcherand leave it on the front door
and text me and say I let you dosomething on the front door and
okay, let me just ask you.
They sound like all veryone-sided relationships here oh
no, it's kind of all them toovery good very good but I'm just
(15:39):
telling you that, like we had areally good relationship with
them but we would do likepicnics in the backyard and
birthday parties and like we, wemade an effort and I thought
about this.
I don't think it's just thatthat I'm older.
I think it's like the beingworn down by the state of our
country, being worn down by thepandemic, but like tomorrow is
(16:02):
St Patrick's day recording on aSunday and I used to make the
biggest deal about.
Josh (16:09):
St Patrick's Day.
Remember when we were firstmarried.
I turned the house upside down,but you also took the gene test
and found out that you weren'tIrish, like you thought you were
.
No, I am like five percentIrish right but I can say that
some of your enthusiasm hasprobably been probably.
But.
Amanda (16:20):
I was laying in bed this morning talking to Winthrop and
we were talking about stpatrick's day and this week is
spring break.
Like they don't have school.
I still have to work, but I'mdoing that from home.
But I was thinking, oh, Ishould have him make a
leprechaun trap and then I coulddo all the stuff.
And I was like I don't have theenergy and that is sad to me
because I feel like he's gettinglike like kind of like cheated
(16:41):
out of things that our otherkids got, because we're old and
tired, yeah, and just worn downby society.
That's true.
Josh (16:47):
So get this, though.
Recent surveys indicate asignificant portion of Americans
are not well acquainted withtheir neighbors.
A 2021 survey reported thatnearly one in six people didn't
know any of their neighbor'snames, with this figure raising
to 26% among millennials names,with this figure raising to 26%
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among millennials.
Additionally, a 2022 articlehighlighted that 57% of
Americans know only some or noneof their neighbors, with this
share climbing to 72% amongyounger adults.
These findings suggest that aconsiderable number of Americans
have limited familiarity withthose living nearby.
A 2024 survey revealed that 65%of Americans admit to hiding
(17:33):
from their neighbors.
Amanda (17:34):
We have a neighbor you hide from and you know you do,
and 48% interact with themmonthly or less.
Josh (17:40):
Additionally, only 17% trust their neighbors with a
house key.
Oh yeah, so this goes beyondpeople not knowing their
neighbors to now inching intothe territory of I don't trust
my neighbors Actively avoidingtheir neighbors.
Now with the younger people.
I wonder if some of that is dueto the fact that they have less
of a sense of ownership, lessof a sense of place because,
(18:04):
they rent and maybe they're inapartments and I feel like I
mean, I've lived in plenty ofapartment living situations, the
people they come and go, youdon't really ever get to
know your neighbors and so Iwonder if that's part of it as
well.
But it's significant to mebecause I feel this want to be a
part of a local community, youknow.
(18:26):
So this idea that we've talkedabout before, of there being
less and less third places andagain for those of you not
familiar with the term, a thirdplace is that place that's not
work, it's not home, it's thatthird place that you go to
experience community right.
And those are going away.
Either we're being priced out ofthe experience, or less and
(18:48):
less people are opening theseestablishments, or both or
whatever.
And the hassle it is, since wedon't live in a walking city and
we don't live in a city thathas public transportation, we've
got to freaking driveeverywhere we want to go.
Amanda (19:01):
No.
Josh (19:02):
I just wanted to be here yeah I want everything to be
within reach.
I want to go hang out withpeople.
Let's just walk over there realquick.
Amanda (19:09):
Even better if they'll come over and pick me up in some
sort of like car, chariot or acart, or, or you know,
wheelbarrow, wheelbarrow, wagon,we'll get you a wagon I mean, I
have some pretty amazingmemories growing up of neighbors
.
Josh (19:22):
Now also like pretty not great stories, my most
embarrassing neighbor story Wasnot seeing the naked lady.
No, no, no, no, no.
As an adult right, it was myfirst apartment with my first
wife and they were nice newerapartments, but we were on the
third floor and it was like sixfloors, so people were densely
packed in.
Amanda (19:41):
Did you have an elevator or was it all walk-up?
It was all walk-up.
Oh man, that's a New York-stylenonsense there.
No.
Josh (19:47):
I mean, but it was like all outdoor doors, right.
Amanda (19:51):
Yeah.
Josh (19:51):
So it wasn't interior apartment building, it was all
exterior.
So imagine taking like sofasand beds up and everything,
these stairs that do the pivot.
Amanda (20:01):
A lot of pivoting.
Josh (20:03):
So we're in this apartment and, like I said, packed in, we
always hear all of ourneighbors and it just becomes a
part of living.
But for me it does my head inbecause I hate noises.
Well, one night the peopledirectly under us are having the
loudest party, and when I sayloudest party, I mean the music
is turned up so loud that I ambloody shocked that no one else
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complained, no one else did athing about it.
But I was losing my mind.
I was so upset and we hadpolice officers living in that
building too, so maybe it waslike 10, 10.30 and I am just
livid and I don't know what todo.
But also I'm dealing with mysocial anxiety, where I'm not
going to walk down there andknock on the door.
(20:48):
Number one, because it's asocial situation, but number two
, I don't know if I'm going toget the crap beat out of me.
So what do you think I did?
Amanda (20:54):
You called the police.
No, you sent your wife down.
Josh (20:58):
Nope.
Amanda (21:00):
You banged on the wall.
Josh (21:01):
Well, again it's the floor .
Amanda (21:03):
I didn't you jumped up and down.
Josh (21:10):
I went directly to picking up the giant ottoman that we
had over my head.
Amanda (21:12):
Oh my.
Josh (21:13):
God and dropping it onto the floor.
Amanda (21:15):
Did it break through and go to?
Josh (21:16):
It did not break through, but the music immediately
stopped right.
Yeah.
Like I, was filled with rage.
Like it's one of the few timesin my life where I could
literally say that I kind of wasoutside of myself looking.
So then there's a knock on thedoor right.
Amanda (21:31):
Yeah.
Josh (21:33):
And I'm like who could that be?
I go to the door and there's agroup of like maybe three or
four people.
Amanda (21:42):
I hope they were just checking to see if you were okay
.
Josh (21:45):
Oh, they wanted to know what the deal was.
And then I very quicklyrealized that my neighbors, the
people standing in front of me,that I had just accosted.
Maybe I broke some glass thatwere on shelves.
Oh, they were all deaf.
Oh no.
I felt this big.
Amanda (22:06):
Well, were they playing the music so they could feel the
vibration?
Josh (22:08):
I do not know, actually come to think of it like all I
gave them was like extrapercussion.
They should have been like wow,let's do it's like the drums
and in the air tonight that waspretty cool.
Amanda (22:17):
Did you communicate with them?
Josh (22:19):
I just very quickly said or tried to convey could you
please turn the music down,whatever, and then close the
door as quickly as possible,because I was I was mortified.
Now here's the thing, and thisis again the the mental and
emotional gymnastics that mymessed up mind does, right I
twist myself and maybe thereaction was unjustified.
Just a little bit, yeah, but Iwas still right.
(22:42):
You were in an apartmentcomplex.
Turn the damn music down.
That's the worst neighbor I'veever been, but it's also in
response to them being prettybad neighbors, yeah, yeah.
Amanda (22:51):
I lived in an apartment when I first got divorced and
the 18 year old and I lived inan apartment and we were on the
second floor.
Josh (22:59):
It was a three story thing , but she wasn't 18 at the time.
Amanda (23:05):
No, it was a three-story thing, but she wasn't 18 at the
time.
No, she was five.
But I got complaints all thetime from the downstairs
neighbor because she would likeshe would dance around and jump
around and whatever.
And these were clearly not madewell, because so that was an
issue that we had to contendwith was keeping her from being
a kid.
Um, and then the upstairs.
This was the worst.
The upstairs neighbors bothworked at, I think, dominoes
(23:26):
maybe, and it was a couple.
They worked the night shift butthey had two dogs that they
crated when they left and thedogs barked all night long and
it I couldn't.
It was right above my bedroomand neither one and she and I
couldn't sleep because the dogsbarked all night long.
My bedroom, and neither one andshe and I couldn't sleep
because the dogs barked allnight long.
And so fine, I was able to talkto them about it because
(23:49):
actually they were.
They wound up being goodneighbors because I left my keys
in the deadbolt one night andthey knocked on the door and
they're like keys on the doorand I was like, hey, thanks,
also, your dogs bark all nightlong, and so they started, they
stopped creating them and thenthat really helped.
But apartment living is not forthe faint of heart.
It is difficult.
Before we move on from neighborstories, can I tell you
(24:11):
probably the most still stuck inmy head neighbor story of my
whole life?
I think maybe I've told youthis Again the same house that I
grew up in that I walkedoutside and the Dobermans were
there.
I was in high school and I wasgoing back to like I'd come home
after school and I was goingback to play rehearsal and I
walked out to go get my car andthere is I hear this noise.
(24:32):
My dad had a riding lawnmowerbecause we had a pretty big
property.
And I hear this like tinkeringat the at the riding lawnmower
and I look over and there's atoddler climbing onto the riding
lawnmower.
There's a toddler climbing ontothe riding lawnmower, what?
So I just looked at him and hejust like looked at me and said
hi, and I was like okay, and soI went back inside and I was
like mom, um, come here.
(24:55):
So she came out and she goesover and she looks and she was
like oh, is your name.
And said whatever his name was.
I mean he's like two.
He's like babbling at her.
She's like yeah, I think helives across the street.
So new people had moved inacross the street and this was
like a pretty major street, likecars would come down like 50
miles an hour, because we wereat the front of the neighborhood
(25:15):
and they were on the other side, which was not in the
neighborhood.
So my mom picks him up, carrieshim over, I go with her and she
knocks on the door and the dadopens the door.
Color drains from his face andthe first thing he says is
please don't tell my wife.
So dad was babysitting orwatching the child.
(25:36):
It's a deal.
But here's my series ofconditions from now on and the
child got out the front dooracross this major road and into
thankfully, our garage was openand there was a place that he
could be and then I found him.
But they got divorcedrelatively soon after this whole
thing happened.
So I don't think that he evertold her.
(25:57):
But I'm saying I don't think itwas the best relationship to
begin with.
Josh (26:00):
They were not destined for success.
No, well, there you go.
Do you all have a story of yourneighbors?
You know, maybe an embarrassingsituation that happened to you?
Or just weigh in what I shoulddo, what we should do, to have
more interactions with ourneighbors here?
Amanda (26:16):
Yes, please, we need advice.
Josh (26:18):
FamiliarWilsons at gmailcom.
And even as we are asking forfeedback, we've gotten more
feedback from our friend Mark.
He says the lady in the houseconnected is mean and looks like
Hoggle from Labyrinth.
I'm going to show you a pictureof Hoggle from Labyrinth.
Amanda (26:35):
Oh, that's unfortunate.
Josh (26:38):
Yeah, her dog keeps getting in our garden.
He's a pain in the bum.
He talks about the people onthe other side.
I'm going to take some namesout here, though A him and a her
.
She picks up leaves in themiddle of the road and dries
their car after it rains.
She has a cleaning obsession.
We assume she has problems, butis lovely and knows everyone
that passes by.
Amanda (26:57):
I get drying your car after it rains, because my dad
used to do that.
My dad did not like water spotson cars.
Your dad have a chamois.
Yes, he did like this and thiswas the thing.
He washed a car every saturdayand then I had to drive the car
around the block to get, like,the first pass of water off of
it and then he would chamois it.
I mean like toothbrush on thewheels, like maybe this is a bit
(27:17):
where my ocd comes from.
Is my father.
I'm now wondering, um, but helike, like I get that, but why
are we picking up leaves fromthe middle of the road Like just
, they're fine over there?
Josh (27:30):
Yeah, I don't know.
Only if you live in DisneyWorld would that be necessary.
Anyway, if anyone else hasanything to say about your
neighbors, let us know Again.
That's familiarwilsons atgmailcom.
What time?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
is it Game time?
Who, who, who, who, who, who,who, who, who, who, who, who,
who, who, who, who, who who.
Amanda (28:02):
Who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who.
All right, that music meansit's game time, and an old
standard here on Wilson'sfamiliar Wilson's for game time
is the flashbacks quiz.
This is where Josh is going tohave to order things that have
happened in history on atimeline.
We're going to ask him to guessthe exact time, but he doesn't
(28:22):
miss points for getting thatwrong.
He just has to put it before orafter the event that I gave him
previously.
Josh (28:28):
All right, so go ahead.
How this starts, then, is yougive me the first event.
Amanda (28:32):
Yeah, the first event is , as smoke fills the city, los
Angeles fears a chemical attack.
It turns out to be one of thefirst cases of smog.
Josh (28:43):
Oh, the first case of smog in Los Angeles.
Well, when did Los Angelesstart to become a big thing?
We're going to say 1950s.
Amanda (28:52):
Do you know?
I was this years old when Ijust realized that smog is a
combination of smoke and fog.
Josh (28:58):
Ladies and gentlemen, Amanda can learn.
It's wonderful.
Amanda (29:03):
Okay, I just never really thought about it.
1943, so close, you're good.
Okay, that's your anchoring oneon the timeline ready.
Now you have to decide if thiswas before or after smog.
In the champagne region offrance, a benedictine monk
starts improving the wines athis monastery.
His name is don paring, if youknow is like a really famous and
(29:24):
expensive champagne.
I didn't know.
It was named after a bum.
Benedictine Monk.
I was going to say BenedictineMonk.
That's not correct.
Josh (29:35):
Okay, let's say gosh.
Amanda (29:37):
I have no idea.
I mean probably before smog.
Josh (29:40):
Yeah, before smog.
But I want to try to nail itdown to a date.
So we're going to say January15th.
Amanda (29:46):
Oh no, just yours, friend.
They don't tell me the actualdates 1566.
1668.
Josh (29:54):
Very close when we're looking at like the perspective
of the universe.
Amanda (29:59):
All right, so number three the BBC rejects several
titles for its new TV comedyshow.
It wants something completelydifferent, so the show becomes
Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Josh (30:13):
Okay, so we're going to put that like 1980.
I think it might be before thenyou.
So we're gonna put that like1980.
Amanda (30:18):
I think it might be before then, you think so, 1969.
Josh (30:21):
You are kidding me?
Well, I got that wrong 1969.
Amanda (30:23):
No, but you still got it right on the timeline.
Yeah, just wrong for yourself.
Okay, king Ferdinand starts theSpanish Inquisition.
Even the Pope becomes alarmedby its power, trying at times to
limit it.
Josh (30:35):
When did the Spanish Inquisition happen?
Amanda (30:38):
I mean probably before Monty Python.
Josh (30:41):
Yes, but again, this is one of these things that I
should know.
Actually, one of the mostfamous Monty Python sketches is
this you know, no one expectsthis Spanish.
Amanda (30:50):
Maybe this is why they're together on the timeline
1550.
Josh (30:53):
Okay, so before Champagne 1478.
Amanda (31:01):
So I mean close timeline 1550.
Okay, so before champagne, 1478.
So I mean close in there.
All right, amid a deepfinancial crisis in new york
city, the designer miltonglazier sketches a logo.
It's inspired by initialscarved in tree trunks it is the
I heart ny logo oh, that feelslike 60s.
Josh (31:18):
Oh god, I'm gonna get this wrong.
This, I'm gonna get this onewrong before 69 is what you're
saying no, oh, this is tough.
This is tough.
I'm gonna get this wrong.
Amanda (31:28):
Uh, yes, 1960 1975, god damn it also the year I was born
.
Okay, the Arawak or Arawakpeoples first arrive in the
Caribbean from South America.
Their island cultures are theorigin of words like hammock,
guava and barbecue.
Josh (31:48):
Okay, so we're going to say 1500s.
Amanda (31:56):
Okay, so after the Spanish Inquisition, but before
Champagne, circa 400 BCE.
Josh (32:03):
Oh, I'm not doing good.
Amanda (32:06):
All right.
F Scott Fitzgerald writes theGreat Gatsby, partly based on
his doom romance with asocialite, Generva King.
She was rich and he was not.
Josh (32:20):
That's the 20s.
Amanda (32:22):
So it's set in the 20s, but did he write it in the 20s?
Josh (32:25):
It's the 30s.
Amanda (32:26):
Let's see, but you're saying it's before smog 1925.
Josh (32:30):
1925.
Amanda (32:33):
All right, two more Ready.
During the Song Dynasty, acommoner named Baisheng 25.
All right, two more Ready.
During the Song Dynasty, acommoner named Bai Sheng
developed a novel way ofprinting books more efficiently
using movable type.
Do you know when the SongDynasty was?
Josh (32:48):
This one's bad.
We should delete this.
Amanda (32:51):
No, no no, this is staying with the people.
They need to see that you'renot perfect all the time.
They need to feel that they canaspire to be like you.
Josh (33:00):
We're going to say 1000 AD 1048.
Bam, I'm back, baby Nice.
Amanda (33:08):
All right, last one Ready.
Josh (33:09):
Yep.
Amanda (33:10):
A child Patrick lands in Ireland, did they throw him.
That's just a funny sentence.
A child Patrick lands inIreland, in Ireland Did they
throw him.
Josh (33:17):
That's just a funny sentence.
A child Patrick lands inIreland.
A child Patrick was brought toIreland from Wales in slavery
and then he joined the church.
And when he joined the churchhe actually got the name Patrice
, or was given the name Patrice.
That's not his original Welshname.
Amanda (33:33):
Believing that the Irish are just as human as the
britons.
He becomes a missionary andlater a saint.
So when did patrick?
Yeah, but the word lands inireland is a little bit
misleading.
It's one it doesn't sayanything about slavery.
Two, it sounds like theycatapulted him there they, they
did again.
Josh (33:52):
It's a monty python Right St Patrick being catapulted over
the waters.
Now, do you know the answer to?
Amanda (34:01):
this I don't.
I mean I would make a guessthat it's between 10,048 and
1478.
It might be between 1478 and1668.
Josh (34:14):
I'm going to say that it's between the first one and the
second one.
Amanda (34:20):
Between 400 BCE and 1048?
.
Josh (34:23):
Yes.
Amanda (34:23):
Okay, all right, dropping it.
And you are correct, it was the400s.
Josh (34:28):
Bam.
Amanda (34:29):
Nice, you're more Irish than I am.
Josh (34:31):
Okay, but what's my final score?
Amanda (34:32):
You got six out of eight .
Josh (34:34):
That's not good.
That's an 80%.
Amanda (34:36):
Yeah, no, that's not good, that's that's an 80.
Yeah, no, that's not the wilsonstandard that's a passing score
, though no one likes to be toldwhat to do.
Josh (34:43):
And now is the time in the program where we tell you what
to do.
Amanda, what should we do?
Amanda (34:49):
sit outside, I mean if you're able to, if it's not
freezing and or stifling hot,maybe you don't have some smog.
But we cleaned up the backyarda little bit yesterday, cleaned
up the front porch, and havespent some lovely time last
night and this morning justbeing outside listening to the
birds and the wind chimes, and Ithink it's restorative.
(35:11):
So my recommendation is justfind yourself a spot to be
outside.
Josh (35:15):
Yes, and listening to the neighbors all having a great old
time without us, Without youyes, yes, except that no, did
you stop recording?
Amanda (35:22):
No, I'm still recording.
Okay, except that you yell back.
Just go ahead and tell them.
They were out there playingpickleball last night and the
guy was grunting, and you, fromthe back porch, within the
privacy fence so they can't seeyou are grunting back at the man
did it once.
Josh (35:37):
It sounded like some sort of call, and so I was just
responding answer because I didnot want him to feel alone all
right, amanda, that's all there.
Is there no more.
The rain is starting to comedown.
(35:58):
We are under a tornado watchhere in Florida, but we're not
going to get the worst of it.
I saw the map and we've gotsome really dangerous-looking
red tornado areas in the Midwest, so of course we were thinking
about those folks.
I don't want anyone to get hurtor have their property
destroyed.
Amanda (36:16):
Tornadoes are terrifying .
Josh (36:18):
So sending you all safe thoughts.
Yep, and we want to sendthoughts to our friends out
there who listen to us everysingle week.
I can see you Not in a creepyway that sounds creepy, not in a
creepy way, but I mean, I seethe numbers coming in and I'm
just so happy that you all arejoining us every week.
Joining us hopefully next weekwill be Chris Barron, lead
(36:38):
singer of the spin doctors aresupposed to talk to him on
Thursday, although he's verybusy, and I remember the last
time we were supposed to talk tohim I called him up and he's
like in a bar.
He's like oh wait, let me gohome.
Amanda (36:52):
And he got on the train and went home so he could record
that's commitment.
Thank you.
Josh (36:56):
That's right.
A couple things.
Check out the hey Try thispodcast.
That's a little show that I dowhere I talk about different
wellness and, as I figure,through emotional wellness and
all this stuff.
So it's really just myreflections in that.
So if you're interested in alittle two to three reflection
(37:16):
on that sort of subject, thenlook up, hey, try this, that.
So if you're interested in alittle two to three reflection
on that sort of subject, thenlook up, hey, try this.
Also, if you go to youtube, thefamiliar wilson's media channel
, uh, I'm doing daily poetry yes, you are daily poetry like like
short little poems to brightenyour day.
Amanda (37:31):
Please do check that out all right, friend, jeff really
loved, loved your poem aboutBaldwin.
I think he identifies with it.
Yes, well me too, Anyway.
Josh (37:41):
so yeah, that's all.
I'm not even asking you to buyanything, right?
This is all stuff that we'regiving away for free, Amanda.
What are you giving away forfree?
I'm pouring my life into thesethings to provide for these
people listening.
What are you doing?
I mean, I'm raising ourchildren For things to provide
for these people listening, whatare you doing?
I mean, I'm raising ourchildren For the world, Alrighty
.
So until next week y'all staysafe and go say hey to a
(38:05):
neighbor.
Be kind while you do it.
Bye, thank you.
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Amanda (00:28):
Yeah, welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons.
I'm Amanda.
Josh (00:31):
And I'm Josh.
Amanda, you want me to tell youthe first time I saw a naked
woman.
Amanda (00:37):
No, yes, fine, sure, I think I know, though, do you?
I actually do know this story.
Josh (00:43):
We were over at our neighbor's house.
I had to be gosh, I don't knowlike maybe eight or nine, like
Winthrop's age.
Yeah, or maybe younger, oh gosh, yeah, probably eight or nine,
and now that I'm thinking aboutthis story and envisioning him
in it, it gives a whole newflavor.
I'm over at the neighbor's house, and this is neighbors that I
grew up with and we spent a lotof time over there we being you
(01:05):
and your dad yeah, with with thefamily and I was swimming that
day and they had a, a, um, abathroom right there off the
pool deck and I'm like, okay,I'm done, I'm gonna go in there.
I go in there and boom, thereis the had to be mid-20s, you
know, adult child of you knowthose neighbors.
They're coming out of theshower, like what do you do?
(01:27):
At that point I'm eight, Idon't know.
All I know is I've donesomething really bad.
Amanda (01:30):
Oh no, why did you think it was bad?
Because nakey, you're not, nonakey.
No nakey.
Josh (01:35):
It was even the 70s and I knew no nakey, and so I
immediately I immediately turnedaround and jumped back into the
pool and stayed under the waterfor longer than I thought I
could, and then no one spoke ofit again.
Amanda (01:52):
No, you never talked to this woman about this.
Josh (01:54):
Oh my God, are you kidding me?
Amanda (01:56):
No, no, no so wait, you were eight and she was like 25.
So that means she's like she's17 years older than you, so
she's like 70 now.
Josh (02:05):
Yeah.
Amanda (02:06):
Do you think you should call her up and be like do you
remember that time that thishappened?
Josh (02:09):
No, I think that we need to stop this right now.
But I do want to talk aboutneighbors today.
Amanda (02:15):
I've never seen a neighbor naked.
Josh (02:18):
Well, that's good, that's very good.
I'm sure that most people outthere who have crazy neighbor
stories probably couldn't saythe same thing, but I often
wonder if whatever has been setas my ideal woman had initially
Like if that had been imprintedupon me.
Amanda (02:35):
I don't want to know what she looked like.
Do not tell me, okay.
Because I want to know if I fitthat or don't fit that, so
we're just going to move rightalong.
Did you know your neighborsgrowing up?
And I don't mean in the.
Josh (02:45):
I've seen them naked in the shower type of way.
I just mean them in the.
Did you know them growing up?
Amanda (02:49):
Yeah, I only lived in two houses, so the first memory
that I have of the house it waswhen I was like three.
Josh (03:00):
And that's the house that we was an alligator in it, and
the fish game people had to comeget it, okay, so there was no
fence, no, no, no, just pond.
Amanda (03:07):
And there were like three houses on this property.
Josh (03:09):
Right.
And then the neighbors to theWait, what do you mean?
Three houses on the propertyyou lived on, a compound.
Was it a cult?
Amanda (03:15):
No, I mean I'm sure they were individual lots, but it
was like three in the back.
I lived in one of the ones inthe front, our neighbors to the
left of the house.
They were an older retiredcouple and I just remember them
being very sweet and very likegrandparently toward me and they
had a German shepherd namedSheila.
So I know that you didn't meandog neighbors, but I'm going to
(03:36):
talk about this.
This dog would come and sleepunder my, knew which bedroom
mine was and would sleep undermy window every night the entire
like two years that we livedthere because she was very
motherly with me and we'd go onwalks and she we would walk past
like orange groves and therewould be people in the orange
groves working and she wouldswitch between going from
between me and the road tobetween me and the, the people
(03:58):
like very motherly.
So that was a great neighbordog.
And then when I was five my dadworked in construction like
building supplies but hebasically generally contracted
our own, the building of a house, and I mean they.
My dad lived in that until hehad to go live with my sister.
Like I mean, that was thathouse.
They were there for a very longtime.
(04:18):
It is the only real house thatI lived in for like 20 something
years that I remember.
And those neighbors yeah, I hadneighbors across the street that
I played with.
We had neighbors directlyacross the street that had a
pool that they let us swim in,and then the neighbors next to
them had Dobermans.
See, dogs are in all my stories, but these Dobermans scared the
mess out of me because I waslittle and Dobermans are tough
(04:39):
looking dogs, right, and theirnames were Amanda, which didn't
help, because they would be outthere yelling manda, manda, and
mega.
And I remember walking out intothe garage one day and they're
both just standing there likethe twins from the shining, like
in my garage like zeus andapollo from magnum pi just
terrifying yes, terrifying, andum, I mean they were probably
perfectly fine and we're notgoing to hurt me, but I think my
(05:01):
mom had also created this fearin me.
Like these are big dogs, weleave them alone.
So those were my childhoodneighbors.
Yeah, I remember.
I mean I had, like we played,like we played.
And I tell you about my oneneighbor that lived behind me.
She was selling.
You know how when the childrengo out selling candy to fund
band trips and stuff, and theylike ring the doorbells and I
(05:21):
got these candy bars.
We.
She asked me to do that withher, so I was out walking the
neighborhood with her and we gotto the back of the neighborhood
and in the very back of theneighborhood was a sheriff's
officer and he had a retiredcanine and the dog was just
laying down in the front yardbut not leashed, not fenced.
She went up to the house duringthe doorbell.
(05:42):
I stayed at the foot of thedriveway and it was a pretty
meandering drive and nobodyanswered.
And about halfway back down thedriveway the dog was like all
right, I'm done, and we weremaybe in sixth grade, and he got
up and started walking.
And so then I I just took offrunning and she started running
after me and she was yelling forme to wait and I was like no
I'm faster, I don't have tooutrun the dog, I have to outrun
(06:05):
you, I'm not.
No, no, waiting, no, waitingwill be happening.
And then we ran for quite a bit, but then somebody's trash had
spilled and the dog gotdistracted by the trash.
Josh (06:15):
Are you saying that the dog would have taken you out
otherwise?
Amanda (06:18):
The dog we were on his property.
He didn't like it.
Josh (06:21):
I don't want to talk about neighbor dogs, weirdly.
Amanda (06:23):
But I have lots of dog stories.
Josh (06:26):
I do want to talk about neighbors, because we have a
situation here in ourneighborhood.
It's not a situation, it's justhow it is.
So we moved in at COVID, soeverything was locked down.
We weren't getting to knowpeople or whatever, and now we
have a situation where we don'treally know our neighbors.
Amanda (06:46):
No.
Josh (06:51):
Growing up I knew most all of my neighbors.
I was trying to remember all oftheir names.
On one side I had the Walters,the Yudis.
Interesting thing about theYudis is that their son was a
minor celebrity in the Miamiarea because he saved a woman
getting accosted on the side ofthe road.
He got the crap beat out of himas he was taking this woman
over to his car.
So them.
And then the Seymours, which isthe aforementioned naked lady,
(07:13):
and the Fraziers, which thefather Frazier, was the head
coach of the UM baseball teamfor a while.
And then on the other side, wehad the Goebbels, the Lewises,
the Helmkamps, the Ventimiglias,the I don't remember their name
, but they had a daughter calledMarcy.
So like I knew a lot, of myneighbors.
Amanda (07:32):
I don't know any of their names.
I know all the dogs' names.
I think I like dogs better thanpeople.
Josh (07:36):
I think that that is so.
So I knew a bunch of peoplegrowing up my neighbors and we
don't have that now and I wantedto know whether that was unique
to us or whether in generalpeople don't happen to know
their neighbors now, and so Iasked around and interestingly,
our friend Antonio from theCultworthy podcast, amongst
(07:58):
others, says that.
He says it's really weird.
In my state, as it's Mormoncountry, pretty much every other
house on my street arenon-Mormons and we know each
other and give each otherChristmas cookies and whatnot.
Our kids play, walk to school.
The Mormon families are nicebut they don't reach out and
they don't community with us.
Mormons tend to stay away frommost non-Mormons in Utah.
Amanda (08:19):
Because you will tempt them with your Christmas cookies
.
Josh (08:22):
Is that what it is?
Or do you will tempt them withcookies is that what it is?
Or just try to steal their holyunderwear?
Um josh scar says I barely knowthe older couple to the north
of my house, and by barely Imean the husband's name is jim,
which I thought was bob forabout four years.
Amanda (08:38):
I really want you to have been calling him bob.
That's so good and I.
Josh (08:42):
I've no clue what his wife's name is.
We lived next door to eachother for nine years.
Wow.
Yeah, I don't think that that'sever happened.
I guess that it has happened.
We had a crazy neighbor in thelast house that we lived in and
it took me a while to rememberher name.
Amanda (08:58):
Well, her name was a very unique name, though she was
a very unique lady.
She was super unique.
Josh (09:02):
We were on a cul-de-sac.
We were the last house.
She's one of these people whowould put you off knowing your
neighbors, though.
Amanda (09:07):
Yeah.
Josh (09:07):
You'd be like okay, well, I've tried that, I'm not gonna
do that anymore.
Amanda (09:10):
But she was like a dichotomy though, because she
would buy toys for Winthrop, butthen also came over.
Josh (09:20):
Do you remember?
Amanda (09:21):
No, I've Again dogs.
Why do I have all these dogstories?
Josh (09:23):
Wait, remind me of this story, because I don't remember
this at all.
Amanda (09:26):
Well she, didn't accuse, but she inquired if we did so.
Josh (09:30):
Oh, how do you slip that into conversation?
Amanda (09:32):
She just came up because I had seen I had taken the Just
wondering.
I had taken the 18-year-oldover to see the puppies and then
she came over, saw me in theyard one day and came over and
said did you or Josh happen toput out like poison on the yard
or like weed control?
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I'm like nope, we don't tend tothe yard, that's like.
And she's like oh well, we wokeup this morning and all the
puppies are dead.
Josh (10:00):
So she thought we had poisoned her puppies.
Yeah, okay.
So she thought we had poisonedher puppies, yeah, okay.
Anyway.
Our friend Matt tells us thatthey live in a neighborhood
that's like all the houses aresuburban stamps of each other,
same school district, hoa, runby residents.
There's just a ton ofopportunities to get to know
each other.
My kiddos could walk down ourstreet and knock on any door for
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help and would be able to knowwho they are talking to.
And I said, gosh, that mustfeel so safe.
And he's like, yeah, especiallywith all the kids going to the
same school district, I meanthat sounds lovely and that's
what one would want, especiallyfor your kids, that feeling of
safety.
Amanda (10:35):
That does sound lovely, and this whole neighborhood is
owned for one school, or oneelementary school, one middle
school, right.
But part of the issue here isone our HOA is not run by our
neighbors, it's run by thebuilding company.
So they don't do anything toorganize anything because I
think they're afraid that theywill organize against them.
We built the house in 2000 andno, not 2000, 2020.
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And we were the last house tocomplete before COVID, and so
it's just a lot of stalledconstruction, a lot of
unfinished property.
The people who lived herebefore COVID all were on one
street and had formed arelationship.
Then we moved in and we haven'thad that opportunity.
But you also don't like it whenI try to talk to them.
Josh (11:20):
What are you talking about ?
I always send you out to talkto neighbors.
Amanda (11:22):
You never send me out to talk to neighbors.
Josh (11:24):
I tried to send you out to talk to neighbors.
You never send me out to talkto neighbors.
Amanda (11:26):
I tried to send you out this morning to talk to the
neighbors.
I went and talked to theneighbor and you were in there
going come on, we'll be walkingdown the street and people will
stop to talk and you tap me onthe back like go, go, go.
Josh (11:33):
More often than not, I have to pee.
Well, that is not my problem.
Amanda (11:44):
No, no, no, no.
So if you want to createcommunity with our neighbors, I
will be more than happy toattempt.
I think you're upset becausethey've all now started playing
pickleball in the road.
So our houses, we have garagesin the back, so we have
alleyways that face each other,and the neighbors behind us have
set up a pickleball court, andthen they all come out and have
a tournament.
And the neighbors behind ushave set up a pickleball court
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and then they all come out andhave a tournament, and I think
you're just jealous that youdon't get to play pickleball.
Josh (12:09):
I don't know if you've met me, but for you to accuse me of
wanting to have more physicalactivity, but I am interested
and intrigued by this thing.
Is this phenomenon that we'reexperiencing?
Is it just a Wilson thing?
Are more people feeling this,and is it due to the pandemic?
Or the state of the world orthis, and that you held the
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phone up to me.
You have an update.
Amanda (12:32):
Well, I have an update from the plants, our good
friends Mark and Rachel.
Mark and John do the 100 Thingswe Learned from Film Podcast.
John speaks in Scottish on ourpodcast.
Sometimes you don't understandwhat he's saying, and I asked if
they know their neighbors andRachel responded and said we
know our direct neighbors butnot any others.
We've only lived there 18months and it's mainly because
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Plantee insists on talking toeveryone.
Josh (12:55):
So he's the Amanda in that relationship.
Amanda (12:57):
So if Mark and I lived in a neighborhood, we'd know
everybody, and you and Rachelwill be very happy just to be
inside.
Josh (13:03):
Yeah, that's right.
But see, here's the thing Iwant the benefit of like hanging
out with a group of people andhaving the luxury of just being
able to be there and experienceit.
I love that I love watchingpeople.
I love listening to interestingconversations.
I'm naturally an introvert.
And so we're not shaming me forthat.
That's why I love being in biggroups, not because, like I,
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need to be the center ofattention, but because I just
like that energy.
Amanda (13:30):
I had a really good neighbor relationship in the
house that when Muffy was bornand before you and I were
together in my previous marriage, we had a house in a
neighborhood that was up andcoming, but this was like we
built the house in 2005.
So I think you know this wasway before a pandemic had really
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good relationships with all ofthe neighbors and you know to
like when my mom would come upand visit she would go, stay in
the neighborhood.
The neighbor across thestreet's house, a retired lady
who would quilt, make things forus, and then the neighbor
directly.
I had two, three differentneighbors directly to the left
of us and each set of thoseneighbors were so incredible.
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One would sew clothes for Muffywhen she was little.
One.
When I was pregnant with Muffy,there was a different family
there and I had morning sickness, so horribly, and I was coming
home and I remember vividly hadgone to eat at a Cuban
restaurant, had gone to abaseball game a UF baseball game
and was driving home and almostmade it and threw up in the car
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before I got home, all overmyself, pulled into the driveway
, left the car running, left thedoor open and ran inside and
got in the shower because I justI wasn't like functioning well
and I was by myself, there wasnobody with me and I figured.
Josh (14:52):
No one, I guess, would steal the car.
That's certainly.
I vomited all over it.
Amanda (14:56):
Right prevention system so when when muffie's dad got
home because we were coming homefrom the baseball game in
separate cars he found the carin the driveway and the neighbor
next door with her wet backcleaning it.
She had seen me come home andcame over to check and see if
everything was okay, had seenwhat had happened and was
cleaning the car.
Josh (15:15):
For me that's very sweet it was very, very kind.
Amanda (15:18):
And then the people who moved in after that.
She I taught her kids, her kidswent to my preschool.
She was super sweet.
Anytime she would make a batchof margaritas.
She would bring another pitcherand leave it on the front door
and text me and say I let you dosomething on the front door and
okay, let me just ask you.
They sound like all veryone-sided relationships here oh
no, it's kind of all them toovery good very good but I'm just
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telling you that, like we had areally good relationship with
them but we would do likepicnics in the backyard and
birthday parties and like we, wemade an effort and I thought
about this.
I don't think it's just thatthat I'm older.
I think it's like the beingworn down by the state of our
country, being worn down by thepandemic, but like tomorrow is
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St Patrick's day recording on aSunday and I used to make the
biggest deal about.
Josh (16:09):
St Patrick's Day.
Remember when we were firstmarried.
I turned the house upside down,but you also took the gene test
and found out that you weren'tIrish, like you thought you were
.
No, I am like five percentIrish right but I can say that
some of your enthusiasm hasprobably been probably.
But.
Amanda (16:20):
I was laying in bed this morning talking to Winthrop and
we were talking about stpatrick's day and this week is
spring break.
Like they don't have school.
I still have to work, but I'mdoing that from home.
But I was thinking, oh, Ishould have him make a
leprechaun trap and then I coulddo all the stuff.
And I was like I don't have theenergy and that is sad to me
because I feel like he's gettinglike like kind of like cheated
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out of things that our otherkids got, because we're old and
tired, yeah, and just worn downby society.
That's true.
Josh (16:47):
So get this, though.
Recent surveys indicate asignificant portion of Americans
are not well acquainted withtheir neighbors.
A 2021 survey reported thatnearly one in six people didn't
know any of their neighbor'snames, with this figure raising
to 26% among millennials names,with this figure raising to 26%
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among millennials.
Additionally, a 2022 articlehighlighted that 57% of
Americans know only some or noneof their neighbors, with this
share climbing to 72% amongyounger adults.
These findings suggest that aconsiderable number of Americans
have limited familiarity withthose living nearby.
A 2024 survey revealed that 65%of Americans admit to hiding
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from their neighbors.
Amanda (17:34):
We have a neighbor you hide from and you know you do,
and 48% interact with themmonthly or less.
Josh (17:40):
Additionally, only 17% trust their neighbors with a
house key.
Oh yeah, so this goes beyondpeople not knowing their
neighbors to now inching intothe territory of I don't trust
my neighbors Actively avoidingtheir neighbors.
Now with the younger people.
I wonder if some of that is dueto the fact that they have less
of a sense of ownership, lessof a sense of place because,
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they rent and maybe they're inapartments and I feel like I
mean, I've lived in plenty ofapartment living situations, the
people they come and go, youdon't really ever get to
know your neighbors and so Iwonder if that's part of it as
well.
But it's significant to mebecause I feel this want to be a
part of a local community, youknow.
(18:26):
So this idea that we've talkedabout before, of there being
less and less third places andagain for those of you not
familiar with the term, a thirdplace is that place that's not
work, it's not home, it's thatthird place that you go to
experience community right.
And those are going away.
Either we're being priced out ofthe experience, or less and
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less people are opening theseestablishments, or both or
whatever.
And the hassle it is, since wedon't live in a walking city and
we don't live in a city thathas public transportation, we've
got to freaking driveeverywhere we want to go.
Amanda (19:01):
No.
Josh (19:02):
I just wanted to be here yeah I want everything to be
within reach.
I want to go hang out withpeople.
Let's just walk over there realquick.
Amanda (19:09):
Even better if they'll come over and pick me up in some
sort of like car, chariot or acart, or, or you know,
wheelbarrow, wheelbarrow, wagon,we'll get you a wagon I mean, I
have some pretty amazingmemories growing up of neighbors
.
Josh (19:22):
Now also like pretty not great stories, my most
embarrassing neighbor story Wasnot seeing the naked lady.
No, no, no, no, no.
As an adult right, it was myfirst apartment with my first
wife and they were nice newerapartments, but we were on the
third floor and it was like sixfloors, so people were densely
packed in.
Amanda (19:41):
Did you have an elevator or was it all walk-up?
It was all walk-up.
Oh man, that's a New York-stylenonsense there.
No.
Josh (19:47):
I mean, but it was like all outdoor doors, right.
Amanda (19:51):
Yeah.
Josh (19:51):
So it wasn't interior apartment building, it was all
exterior.
So imagine taking like sofasand beds up and everything,
these stairs that do the pivot.
Amanda (20:01):
A lot of pivoting.
Josh (20:03):
So we're in this apartment and, like I said, packed in, we
always hear all of ourneighbors and it just becomes a
part of living.
But for me it does my head inbecause I hate noises.
Well, one night the peopledirectly under us are having the
loudest party, and when I sayloudest party, I mean the music
is turned up so loud that I ambloody shocked that no one else
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complained, no one else did athing about it.
But I was losing my mind.
I was so upset and we hadpolice officers living in that
building too, so maybe it waslike 10, 10.30 and I am just
livid and I don't know what todo.
But also I'm dealing with mysocial anxiety, where I'm not
going to walk down there andknock on the door.
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Number one, because it's asocial situation, but number two
, I don't know if I'm going toget the crap beat out of me.
So what do you think I did?
Amanda (20:54):
You called the police.
No, you sent your wife down.
Josh (20:58):
Nope.
Amanda (21:00):
You banged on the wall.
Josh (21:01):
Well, again it's the floor .
Amanda (21:03):
I didn't you jumped up and down.
Josh (21:10):
I went directly to picking up the giant ottoman that we
had over my head.
Amanda (21:12):
Oh my.
Josh (21:13):
God and dropping it onto the floor.
Amanda (21:15):
Did it break through and go to?
Josh (21:16):
It did not break through, but the music immediately
stopped right.
Yeah.
Like I, was filled with rage.
Like it's one of the few timesin my life where I could
literally say that I kind of wasoutside of myself looking.
So then there's a knock on thedoor right.
Amanda (21:31):
Yeah.
Josh (21:33):
And I'm like who could that be?
I go to the door and there's agroup of like maybe three or
four people.
Amanda (21:42):
I hope they were just checking to see if you were okay
.
Josh (21:45):
Oh, they wanted to know what the deal was.
And then I very quicklyrealized that my neighbors, the
people standing in front of me,that I had just accosted.
Maybe I broke some glass thatwere on shelves.
Oh, they were all deaf.
Oh no.
I felt this big.
Amanda (22:06):
Well, were they playing the music so they could feel the
vibration?
Josh (22:08):
I do not know, actually come to think of it like all I
gave them was like extrapercussion.
They should have been like wow,let's do it's like the drums
and in the air tonight that waspretty cool.
Amanda (22:17):
Did you communicate with them?
Josh (22:19):
I just very quickly said or tried to convey could you
please turn the music down,whatever, and then close the
door as quickly as possible,because I was I was mortified.
Now here's the thing, and thisis again the the mental and
emotional gymnastics that mymessed up mind does, right I
twist myself and maybe thereaction was unjustified.
Just a little bit, yeah, but Iwas still right.
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You were in an apartmentcomplex.
Turn the damn music down.
That's the worst neighbor I'veever been, but it's also in
response to them being prettybad neighbors, yeah, yeah.
Amanda (22:51):
I lived in an apartment when I first got divorced and
the 18 year old and I lived inan apartment and we were on the
second floor.
Josh (22:59):
It was a three story thing , but she wasn't 18 at the time.
Amanda (23:05):
No, it was a three-story thing, but she wasn't 18 at the
time.
No, she was five.
But I got complaints all thetime from the downstairs
neighbor because she would likeshe would dance around and jump
around and whatever.
And these were clearly not madewell, because so that was an
issue that we had to contendwith was keeping her from being
a kid.
Um, and then the upstairs.
This was the worst.
The upstairs neighbors bothworked at, I think, dominoes
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maybe, and it was a couple.
They worked the night shift butthey had two dogs that they
crated when they left and thedogs barked all night long and
it I couldn't.
It was right above my bedroomand neither one and she and I
couldn't sleep because the dogsbarked all night long.
My bedroom, and neither one andshe and I couldn't sleep
because the dogs barked allnight long.
And so fine, I was able to talkto them about it because
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actually they were.
They wound up being goodneighbors because I left my keys
in the deadbolt one night andthey knocked on the door and
they're like keys on the doorand I was like, hey, thanks,
also, your dogs bark all nightlong, and so they started, they
stopped creating them and thenthat really helped.
But apartment living is not forthe faint of heart.
It is difficult.
Before we move on from neighborstories, can I tell you
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probably the most still stuck inmy head neighbor story of my
whole life?
I think maybe I've told youthis Again the same house that I
grew up in that I walkedoutside and the Dobermans were
there.
I was in high school and I wasgoing back to like I'd come home
after school and I was goingback to play rehearsal and I
walked out to go get my car andthere is I hear this noise.
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My dad had a riding lawnmowerbecause we had a pretty big
property.
And I hear this like tinkeringat the at the riding lawnmower
and I look over and there's atoddler climbing onto the riding
lawnmower.
There's a toddler climbing ontothe riding lawnmower, what?
So I just looked at him and hejust like looked at me and said
hi, and I was like okay, and soI went back inside and I was
like mom, um, come here.
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So she came out and she goesover and she looks and she was
like oh, is your name.
And said whatever his name was.
I mean he's like two.
He's like babbling at her.
She's like yeah, I think helives across the street.
So new people had moved inacross the street and this was
like a pretty major street, likecars would come down like 50
miles an hour, because we wereat the front of the neighborhood
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and they were on the other side, which was not in the
neighborhood.
So my mom picks him up, carrieshim over, I go with her and she
knocks on the door and the dadopens the door.
Color drains from his face andthe first thing he says is
please don't tell my wife.
So dad was babysitting orwatching the child.
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It's a deal.
But here's my series ofconditions from now on and the
child got out the front dooracross this major road and into
thankfully, our garage was openand there was a place that he
could be and then I found him.
But they got divorcedrelatively soon after this whole
thing happened.
So I don't think that he evertold her.
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But I'm saying I don't think itwas the best relationship to
begin with.
Josh (26:00):
They were not destined for success.
No, well, there you go.
Do you all have a story of yourneighbors?
You know, maybe an embarrassingsituation that happened to you?
Or just weigh in what I shoulddo, what we should do, to have
more interactions with ourneighbors here?
Amanda (26:16):
Yes, please, we need advice.
Josh (26:18):
FamiliarWilsons at gmailcom.
And even as we are asking forfeedback, we've gotten more
feedback from our friend Mark.
He says the lady in the houseconnected is mean and looks like
Hoggle from Labyrinth.
I'm going to show you a pictureof Hoggle from Labyrinth.
Amanda (26:35):
Oh, that's unfortunate.
Josh (26:38):
Yeah, her dog keeps getting in our garden.
He's a pain in the bum.
He talks about the people onthe other side.
I'm going to take some namesout here, though A him and a her
.
She picks up leaves in themiddle of the road and dries
their car after it rains.
She has a cleaning obsession.
We assume she has problems, butis lovely and knows everyone
that passes by.
Amanda (26:57):
I get drying your car after it rains, because my dad
used to do that.
My dad did not like water spotson cars.
Your dad have a chamois.
Yes, he did like this and thiswas the thing.
He washed a car every saturdayand then I had to drive the car
around the block to get, like,the first pass of water off of
it and then he would chamois it.
I mean like toothbrush on thewheels, like maybe this is a bit
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where my ocd comes from.
Is my father.
I'm now wondering, um, but helike, like I get that, but why
are we picking up leaves fromthe middle of the road Like just
, they're fine over there?
Josh (27:30):
Yeah, I don't know.
Only if you live in DisneyWorld would that be necessary.
Anyway, if anyone else hasanything to say about your
neighbors, let us know Again.
That's familiarwilsons atgmailcom.
What time?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
is it Game time?
Who, who, who, who, who, who,who, who, who, who, who, who,
who, who, who, who, who who.
Amanda (28:02):
Who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who.
All right, that music meansit's game time, and an old
standard here on Wilson'sfamiliar Wilson's for game time
is the flashbacks quiz.
This is where Josh is going tohave to order things that have
happened in history on atimeline.
We're going to ask him to guessthe exact time, but he doesn't
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miss points for getting thatwrong.
He just has to put it before orafter the event that I gave him
previously.
Josh (28:28):
All right, so go ahead.
How this starts, then, is yougive me the first event.
Amanda (28:32):
Yeah, the first event is , as smoke fills the city, los
Angeles fears a chemical attack.
It turns out to be one of thefirst cases of smog.
Josh (28:43):
Oh, the first case of smog in Los Angeles.
Well, when did Los Angelesstart to become a big thing?
We're going to say 1950s.
Amanda (28:52):
Do you know?
I was this years old when Ijust realized that smog is a
combination of smoke and fog.
Josh (28:58):
Ladies and gentlemen, Amanda can learn.
It's wonderful.
Amanda (29:03):
Okay, I just never really thought about it.
1943, so close, you're good.
Okay, that's your anchoring oneon the timeline ready.
Now you have to decide if thiswas before or after smog.
In the champagne region offrance, a benedictine monk
starts improving the wines athis monastery.
His name is don paring, if youknow is like a really famous and
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expensive champagne.
I didn't know.
It was named after a bum.
Benedictine Monk.
I was going to say BenedictineMonk.
That's not correct.
Josh (29:35):
Okay, let's say gosh.
Amanda (29:37):
I have no idea.
I mean probably before smog.
Josh (29:40):
Yeah, before smog.
But I want to try to nail itdown to a date.
So we're going to say January15th.
Amanda (29:46):
Oh no, just yours, friend.
They don't tell me the actualdates 1566.
1668.
Josh (29:54):
Very close when we're looking at like the perspective
of the universe.
Amanda (29:59):
All right, so number three the BBC rejects several
titles for its new TV comedyshow.
It wants something completelydifferent, so the show becomes
Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Josh (30:13):
Okay, so we're going to put that like 1980.
I think it might be before thenyou.
So we're gonna put that like1980.
Amanda (30:18):
I think it might be before then, you think so, 1969.
Josh (30:21):
You are kidding me?
Well, I got that wrong 1969.
Amanda (30:23):
No, but you still got it right on the timeline.
Yeah, just wrong for yourself.
Okay, king Ferdinand starts theSpanish Inquisition.
Even the Pope becomes alarmedby its power, trying at times to
limit it.
Josh (30:35):
When did the Spanish Inquisition happen?
Amanda (30:38):
I mean probably before Monty Python.
Josh (30:41):
Yes, but again, this is one of these things that I
should know.
Actually, one of the mostfamous Monty Python sketches is
this you know, no one expectsthis Spanish.
Amanda (30:50):
Maybe this is why they're together on the timeline
1550.
Josh (30:53):
Okay, so before Champagne 1478.
Amanda (31:01):
So I mean close timeline 1550.
Okay, so before champagne, 1478.
So I mean close in there.
All right, amid a deepfinancial crisis in new york
city, the designer miltonglazier sketches a logo.
It's inspired by initialscarved in tree trunks it is the
I heart ny logo oh, that feelslike 60s.
Josh (31:18):
Oh god, I'm gonna get this wrong.
This, I'm gonna get this onewrong before 69 is what you're
saying no, oh, this is tough.
This is tough.
I'm gonna get this wrong.
Amanda (31:28):
Uh, yes, 1960 1975, god damn it also the year I was born
.
Okay, the Arawak or Arawakpeoples first arrive in the
Caribbean from South America.
Their island cultures are theorigin of words like hammock,
guava and barbecue.
Josh (31:48):
Okay, so we're going to say 1500s.
Amanda (31:56):
Okay, so after the Spanish Inquisition, but before
Champagne, circa 400 BCE.
Josh (32:03):
Oh, I'm not doing good.
Amanda (32:06):
All right.
F Scott Fitzgerald writes theGreat Gatsby, partly based on
his doom romance with asocialite, Generva King.
She was rich and he was not.
Josh (32:20):
That's the 20s.
Amanda (32:22):
So it's set in the 20s, but did he write it in the 20s?
Josh (32:25):
It's the 30s.
Amanda (32:26):
Let's see, but you're saying it's before smog 1925.
Josh (32:30):
1925.
Amanda (32:33):
All right, two more Ready.
During the Song Dynasty, acommoner named Baisheng 25.
All right, two more Ready.
During the Song Dynasty, acommoner named Bai Sheng
developed a novel way ofprinting books more efficiently
using movable type.
Do you know when the SongDynasty was?
Josh (32:48):
This one's bad.
We should delete this.
Amanda (32:51):
No, no no, this is staying with the people.
They need to see that you'renot perfect all the time.
They need to feel that they canaspire to be like you.
Josh (33:00):
We're going to say 1000 AD 1048.
Bam, I'm back, baby Nice.
Amanda (33:08):
All right, last one Ready.
Josh (33:09):
Yep.
Amanda (33:10):
A child Patrick lands in Ireland, did they throw him.
That's just a funny sentence.
A child Patrick lands inIreland, in Ireland Did they
throw him.
Josh (33:17):
That's just a funny sentence.
A child Patrick lands inIreland.
A child Patrick was brought toIreland from Wales in slavery
and then he joined the church.
And when he joined the churchhe actually got the name Patrice
, or was given the name Patrice.
That's not his original Welshname.
Amanda (33:33):
Believing that the Irish are just as human as the
britons.
He becomes a missionary andlater a saint.
So when did patrick?
Yeah, but the word lands inireland is a little bit
misleading.
It's one it doesn't sayanything about slavery.
Two, it sounds like theycatapulted him there they, they
did again.
Josh (33:52):
It's a monty python Right St Patrick being catapulted over
the waters.
Now, do you know the answer to?
Amanda (34:01):
this I don't.
I mean I would make a guessthat it's between 10,048 and
1478.
It might be between 1478 and1668.
Josh (34:14):
I'm going to say that it's between the first one and the
second one.
Amanda (34:20):
Between 400 BCE and 1048?
.
Josh (34:23):
Yes.
Amanda (34:23):
Okay, all right, dropping it.
And you are correct, it was the400s.
Josh (34:28):
Bam.
Amanda (34:29):
Nice, you're more Irish than I am.
Josh (34:31):
Okay, but what's my final score?
Amanda (34:32):
You got six out of eight .
Josh (34:34):
That's not good.
That's an 80%.
Amanda (34:36):
Yeah, no, that's not good, that's that's an 80.
Yeah, no, that's not the wilsonstandard that's a passing score
, though no one likes to be toldwhat to do.
Josh (34:43):
And now is the time in the program where we tell you what
to do.
Amanda, what should we do?
Amanda (34:49):
sit outside, I mean if you're able to, if it's not
freezing and or stifling hot,maybe you don't have some smog.
But we cleaned up the backyarda little bit yesterday, cleaned
up the front porch, and havespent some lovely time last
night and this morning justbeing outside listening to the
birds and the wind chimes, and Ithink it's restorative.
(35:11):
So my recommendation is justfind yourself a spot to be
outside.
Josh (35:15):
Yes, and listening to the neighbors all having a great old
time without us, Without youyes, yes, except that no, did
you stop recording?
Amanda (35:22):
No, I'm still recording.
Okay, except that you yell back.
Just go ahead and tell them.
They were out there playingpickleball last night and the
guy was grunting, and you, fromthe back porch, within the
privacy fence so they can't seeyou are grunting back at the man
did it once.
Josh (35:37):
It sounded like some sort of call, and so I was just
responding answer because I didnot want him to feel alone all
right, amanda, that's all there.
Is there no more.
The rain is starting to comedown.
(35:58):
We are under a tornado watchhere in Florida, but we're not
going to get the worst of it.
I saw the map and we've gotsome really dangerous-looking
red tornado areas in the Midwest, so of course we were thinking
about those folks.
I don't want anyone to get hurtor have their property
destroyed.
Amanda (36:16):
Tornadoes are terrifying .
Josh (36:18):
So sending you all safe thoughts.
Yep, and we want to sendthoughts to our friends out
there who listen to us everysingle week.
I can see you Not in a creepyway that sounds creepy, not in a
creepy way, but I mean, I seethe numbers coming in and I'm
just so happy that you all arejoining us every week.
Joining us hopefully next weekwill be Chris Barron, lead
(36:38):
singer of the spin doctors aresupposed to talk to him on
Thursday, although he's verybusy, and I remember the last
time we were supposed to talk tohim I called him up and he's
like in a bar.
He's like oh wait, let me gohome.
Amanda (36:52):
And he got on the train and went home so he could record
that's commitment.
Thank you.
Josh (36:56):
That's right.
A couple things.
Check out the hey Try thispodcast.
That's a little show that I dowhere I talk about different
wellness and, as I figure,through emotional wellness and
all this stuff.
So it's really just myreflections in that.
So if you're interested in alittle two to three reflection
(37:16):
on that sort of subject, thenlook up, hey, try this, that.
So if you're interested in alittle two to three reflection
on that sort of subject, thenlook up, hey, try this.
Also, if you go to youtube, thefamiliar wilson's media channel
, uh, I'm doing daily poetry yes, you are daily poetry like like
short little poems to brightenyour day.
Amanda (37:31):
Please do check that out all right, friend, jeff really
loved, loved your poem aboutBaldwin.
I think he identifies with it.
Yes, well me too, Anyway.
Josh (37:41):
so yeah, that's all.
I'm not even asking you to buyanything, right?
This is all stuff that we'regiving away for free, Amanda.
What are you giving away forfree?
I'm pouring my life into thesethings to provide for these
people listening.
What are you doing?
I mean, I'm raising ourchildren For things to provide
for these people listening, whatare you doing?
I mean, I'm raising ourchildren For the world, Alrighty
.
So until next week y'all staysafe and go say hey to a
(38:05):
neighbor.
Be kind while you do it.
Bye, thank you.
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