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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you supposed to gift your neighbor something?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I guess that would be really nice. I think you
have to. It is a nice gesture.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
I'd never heard of that, and I definitely have never well,
I mean, I also never really had anything done where
it's like I would felt like, oh, this is really
going to inconvenience the neighbors. So I don't think I've
ever had anything like that. But I also have never
had a neighbor gift me something for.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Something like that.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
As a matter of fact, I don't think I've ever
given a given a neighbor a gift.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Oh come on, really, even if you go for like
a neighborhood party or something, No, I meant.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
That, not for that, like if it is. I mean,
I don't go to a lot of neighborhood parties. But
like Nelly lives down the street. You know, I may
bring him a pack of smokes or something. I don't know,
but the but I don't. I don't think I've ever
given a neighbor.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
A gift when you moved in, when I moved in?
Are you not counting that?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
But why give me a gift? Welcome me? Why would
I give Why would I give a gift.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
We went around and give every buddy like brownie's and
a jar.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Did you really wait for when when you moved in? Yeah,
why'd you do that?
Speaker 5 (01:08):
To introduce ourselves to the people in the cul De side.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Like when we moved into our house in false Church,
not Arlington, but in False Church, our neighbor, our neighbor,
one of their kids brought over, like to welcome us,
brought over brownies. But that was a gift for the
person coming in. Yeah, which is how it should be
to know, Well, if.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
You want to engage in sort of some kind of outreach, yeah,
you'll see me in that, you'll see me outside. I
also got an insulting gift from a neighbor soon after
I moved in.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
What does that mean?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
It means it was meant, I think with the best
of intentions.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Thank you, but thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
But it was I think it was commentary on something
that was happening in my yard.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
The Hey, here's a hose the what did they get you?
A leaf?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Flower?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
By the way, it's a nice gift. See but is
it a hand me down or is it brand new?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
But I knew it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
But I get what Tyler's saying that on the surface,
you go, well, that's.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Awesome, says a lot. He's here in raking the what
I was doing.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I was raking, But it's also a your yard looks
like trash. No, no, I'm being serious. I get I
get where that would be a little unsettled.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's gonna serve you a little bit better than the
rake does.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
The yes, exactly, because you look at your yard it
looks like trash.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
He was an older man.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
But do you think it was inadvertent, Like do you
think he meant to insult you?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
No, No, I just think he saw that I was struggling.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And wanted to.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Assist the see and that that I do believe. So yesterday,
that's what I was reading this thing yesterday. And it
involves people that don't live any kind of life that
we do.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
But I didn't know the zucker birds out in uh out.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Mark, Yes, well and his wife, Yeah there having they
bought a bunch of houses.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, they have like a compound, don't they.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Well, they bought a bunch of houses that they're tearing
down and rebuilding.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
And so there has been this has been months would
be short but there's been a lot of work in
the neighborhood. So the Zuckerbirds thought, well, this will be
in order to be kind, we'll we'll give everybody a gift.
And in the story it talks about how that's pretty common,
not just for the Zuckerbirds but just for people.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Number One I've never done.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
But then they went on to say the gifts that
they're giving their neighbors, the neighbors are actually very insulted
by why because they're like, this is you're ruining the neighborhood.
This has been going on forever. The fact that you're
giving everybody sound what is it, noise canceling headphones, is.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
That it's insulting. It's insulting.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And the whole thing was, Hey, sorry about the noise
and the hammering and the jackhammering and the trucks and
the back of the boobo and all that.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
But they don't.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Imagine the scale of that contect.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Trust me when I tell you you can't. I don't know,
but you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Like, on the surface, if somebody said, Elliott, here's a
pair of noise canceling headphones, you'd be like, wait, what
a great gift. But the neighbors are like, no, suck it.
That is because you know you're annoying us. Don't give
me a gift because you know you're annoying me. Same
thing with the with the leaves, Like I'm trying to
rake my yard, don't don't come over here and give
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me a quote a gift that is really just insulting
because my yard looks like trash.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It's not exactly the same thing, but it kind of
falls in that.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
But when Zuckerberg gert been better if you just gave
him like a bottle of wine, probably.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Like here's a big gift basket.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yeah, he gave him something else.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
It was the They were really pissy about the noise
canceling headphones, which I was like, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I get why those upset people.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh and yeah, what Krispy Kreme got them? Krispy Kreme?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You stick with the donuts. Yeah, the I'd be happy
with It's always pretty safe.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
The I'd love to get a good box of Krispy
Kream Are you kidding? Every day?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Now you want it every day?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You're worth a billion and a half dollars. I think
you could get me, uh some some Crispy kream.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
But with the year protection, It's like, stop complaining here
with the donuts or wine or food, or if it was,
like like Diane said, just a basket of assorted goods,
then it's just like, I know this is rough on you,
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I also said a lot of neighbors are upset because
they've had their tires popped by all the nails and
stuff that are on the street.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
That happened, same, Yeah, no, remember I lost like two
tires in a month.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah, did you get did you get a gift?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I just think it.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
There's would you have felt better if they gave you
noise canceling headphones?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I take those? Oh so were these like this is
a good reason headphones? Or were these just what you
wear as a landscaper to protect them?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Oh for like sensory stuff. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, you see that as well in that regard.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I mean, does it really matter?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Well yeah, yeah, if your Zuckerberg give me bows quest
VR headsets?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Is this just what you wear at Monster Jim? But
I was once offered and now I'm thinking of another
one and then the thank you get.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
By the way, this is why I'll never get a
neighbor a gift, because they'll find some way to be
insulted by my good my good intention I was offered.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
I didn't realize that a bush that hung over the
sidewalk was mine to deal with. This is again right
when I moved in, I thought it was the landscaping
company that does the community. But apparently one of my
neighbors knew it was my deal, so he offered to
give me shears.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
It was like a big bow on them. Which did
you go insulted?
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Which I didn't have, And I said no, I'm so sorry.
I didn't realize that was my responsibility. I can go
out and buy something to cut this with.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
And here, use these and do it. Now.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
We'll hold on in the time between me getting to
Low's and doing it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
He cut it for me, I'll just do it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
So then I was like, well, I gotta thank him.
Why because he handled maintenance on my property.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Did you get him not bow's just sensory noise canceling headphones.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
I got him a case of beer. Oh that's good,
until I found out he doesn't drink. It's recovering alcoholics.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Oh no, I don't know the reason he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Drink, that would be my luck. Yes, I'd go over.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Well, first I'd call melissam Olay and go, hey, I
need a case of beer from Lono. I'd get the
case of beer and I'd bring it over and as
I was giving it to him, he'd flip his three
year coin in the air while I was giving it
to him. But that's what I mean. That could be insulting.
That could be insulting, even though it's not intended that way.
So that was a whole circle of gas. Did you
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learn how to be a better neighbor? I had never
lived in a single family home on a property before.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, no, I get it. I get it. If you
have no idea, if you don't know, you don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
But that's why you can't get people in the neighborhood
gifts or I would get everybody. I would get everybody
like But the same thing with food. You got to
be careful. You got to be careful. I would give somebody.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Donuts and they'd be like gluten free. Like, no, you
run the risk of being insulting no matter what it is.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Thank you and accept it.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
And how about just that I'm living here? You know
what I mean, like, this is my life.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Well what about this. As an approach to that, w
Ross says, the gift is the upgrade to your house,
the renovation or the repair. That's for not just you,
but the neighbors.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I don't like looking at it that way. That's like,
you know what that is? No, that is.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Because that yes, I understand what he's saying, that it
makes the neighborhood look nicer, increase his property value. Number one,
I'm not selling my house. Number two, By the time
I am going to sell my house, maybe your house
looks like trash again. Number three, Now I have to
improve my house to make it as nice as your house.
So you're you're all over the place that that is
(09:04):
the same of Hey, you know what for Christmas this year,
instead of gifts, we're making a donation in your name.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Nope, why don't you just name a cloud after me?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Wait, you could do that.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I meant stars, name a cloud.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
It's an ephemeral Yeah, isn't that your claim to fame?
Though you're the only person in this room who has
two stars in his name.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I have two stars that are named after me, absolutely
one of them. One of them purchased from me by famous,
famous Alison Stewart.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, she bought me a she bought me a star.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Was that a wedding gift?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
No, she made a donation in my name.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Line two, Hi Elliot in the morning.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Hey, good morning.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Is this is it better as me?
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
What's going on dude?
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Hey, good morning.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
I was just calling listening to the conversation. I moved recently,
in the last couple.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Of months, into a new home, into a new neighborhood,
and I'm hearing you guys talk about the gift giving.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
And oh damn it, you're breaking up? Are you there?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Are you there?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Yeah? So, oh can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah? Okay, I got you back? You hot towers? So
you just moved into a new neighborhood. Yes, okay, hold tight,
one second, hold on one site. That's what Dan, That's
how cell phones work. He's finding a new tower.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
He's roaming, blaming Diane's cloud. It's atmosphereic Line one, Hi.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Elliet the morning, Elliot.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
What's happen? Then?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Hey, what's going on dude?
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Not much, Hey, listen.
Speaker 9 (10:51):
I was just calling to kind of clarify some things. So,
you know, so I work for a homer modeling company.
And so what we do when we do work in
some people's neighborhood is we will sometimes go around, depending
on the neighborhood, and put little gift baskets on like
the closest seven or eight neighbors around the home we're
working on, uh, just to let them know we're working
in the area. If they have any issues, uh, you know,
(11:14):
to give up the call and we'll you know, remedy
the situation right away.
Speaker 10 (11:18):
So that sometimes helps. Is that common people not common,
but a lot of some companies do that. It's you know,
it's a it's a marketing tactic. It's also a way
to jump up business. It's a way to just kind
of let the people know, Hey, you know we're going
to be working.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
We know it's going to be an inconvenience for you.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
So if we leave, hey, what's in the gift basket?
Speaker 10 (11:37):
Yeah, we put in silly stuff, like, you know, just
chopsky stuff, like a little one of those old screwdrivers
with like multi heads on it, with like Phil's head
and flathead. Or we'll put in, you know, like a
flyer about our business. We'll put in maybe like a
gift card for Starbucks.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Like there we go, there, we go, there, we go
on like that when he does your mom no, that's
you know.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
And another thing is that, you know the big thing
where you have to get to. So hoa's are all
different hoa's.
Speaker 10 (12:07):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
You if you do something and you're in an HOA,
you have to give them plans and designs and let
the HOA approve what you're doing to make sure it
matches what they allow in the community. But if you
do something bigger, we've come against us all the time
in Arlington. Is if you're doing what they call a variant,
so you're trying to build something that's on your property,
but it goes within the setbacks of your property and
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encroaches on your neighbors. That's when you have to go
around to all your neighbors and get them to sign off.
You have to tell them what you're doing. They have
to approve what you're doing. Then you have to take
it in front of the board in Arlington County and
show them that you got all the approvals from your neighbors.
It's a gigantic pain in the ass.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Going in front that that Board's ridiculous. That board is dumb.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Why do you say that that's why you should just
live in the woods and you don't have any neighbors
and they can do what you want.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
That's a good point. That's a wod point.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
The no, there was the we have a fence at
our backyard and part of it was jacked up, so
we were going to redo that part of the fence,
but you had to get it cleared by the board.
So I had to go stand in front of the
board with Jackie and the person who was going to
do the fence. To get approval to build the fence,
that you had to go to like a like the
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like the Rlington County like board of Supervisors, and you
get the like five people with these great big sticks
in their ass and they go, well, what kind of what?
I don't know, I'm putting up the fence, jackass, Like,
who knows? But you can't say that. You got to
be very like oh yeah, and I'm like, okay, I'll
have a fence. And at one point I was like, final,
(13:37):
I'll just let my dogs run through the fence.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
What do I care?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
This was just a repair. Yes, wow, that's for gas.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, no, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Because they want to make sure that you're not like
gonna make it, you know, push it further back into
someone's yard that's still within your property. You know that
the match, what's there, the defence face the right way.
You can't put the ugly side of the fence facing
your name.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, bingo, Yeah, that's what we got.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
They want to make sure, yeah, that it's all done right.
And then you, you know, in the back of your
mind the whole time, your thing is like, hey, guess
what I paid for this house. I paid the mortgage.
How about I just do whatever the hell I want
to do, and I don't have to get you to
clear it.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
But that's the way it is.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
By the way, that's what I've decided, I'll do any
any move after that one experience. And then I'm in
the thing and some as I'm walking up there, some
guy yells out, smell my face.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
So that looks horrible.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
As I'm going up to talk to the board, and
I don't know why I'm nervous going up talking to
the board. Well I know why if not, I got
a big hold on my fence the and so this
guy's like, hey, smell my face. I'm like, oh, thanks,
And so I went up and I did it and
everything was fine. I decided I want to run to
be on the board. I'll let anybody do whatever they want,
except for those five people. Dude, I will be up
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their ass like no one's business, like no one's business.
Speaker 8 (14:53):
Yeah, it's it's painful, and you know, and people want
to do it, and then they want to do these remodels,
and they want to do these upgrade to their property,
and they're just hamstrung by all the regulations that they
have to go through, like it can add two or
three months just to the process before you even start
doing the work.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I decided, next time, I just do whatever I want.
If the county doesn't like it, they could pay to
take it out. I'm doing whatever I want.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
It's all about asking for a forgiveness rather than for permission.
But the lines are so steep. Their lines are so
steep that people that prevent people from doing that.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Can hear you.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I got these noise canceling headphones as a gift. All right, dude,
I appreciate it. Thank you, my friend, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Remember I currently have a damaged fence right where a
six foot span of it is broken in two spots,
and I call a fence company, and it was way
too expensive for them to come out and do it.
And I understand they're used to repairing or replacing entire fences,
not just sections. They suggested maybe hiring a handyman. But
then I was like, you know what, it was the
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neighbors who caused it by reckless lawnmowing, So screw it.
They can look at two broken rails for as long
as I don't fix it.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
But then I was thinking, well, why would you even
fix it.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
They broke it.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I don't have proof they broke it.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh did you break it? No, then they broke it.
It didn't break on its own.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
But you have to be careful with the harmony of
the neighborhood because in my head I was still O,
my god, because I was thinking, my neighbor hates me.
They can't say anything about the fence because they have
a mattress leaning against their house still. But just like
yesterday with the milkweed, they got rid of the mattress,
so no, no, my leg up on them just went down. Yes, yeah,
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just went They got to be really careful. Maybe I
just fix it myself with some duct tape.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
By the way, I got an update on the old
Milkweed House. Where am I gone? Line three? I can
do that. Hi Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Hey, good morning class.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Good? Real quick? What can I do for you?
Speaker 7 (16:51):
I was going to tell you I moved into our
current apartment and it's primarily older individuals that live in
the building, and the movers quickly broke the elevator, which
was kind of harsh for older people. But then we
found out our neighbor across the hall is in a wheelchair,
so she could not get into her apartment for a
few days. And then one of the movers knocked the
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Wi Fi out in the entire building. So we've spent
the past year trying to make up with gifts the
lore to anybody that will open the door for us,
and old people really hold a grudge as they do.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Hey, just out of curiosity, because I want to know
what the gift to the woman in the wheelchair, you know,
the one that couldn't get into her apartment for a
couple of days.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
What was your gift? What was your gift to her?
Speaker 7 (17:40):
We've been doing like banana bread or husband drinks beers,
so a bottle of wine here and there, kind of
a priceless reimbursement.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yeah, no, I get that.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I wanted that to be a gift that was well intentioned,
but like, does it come like.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, like something.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Something where it's like, oh, this will be good. She's
in a wheelchair, we'll give her this, And then it's
like new shoes. I don't know something.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Where you mean, well, doesn't fit. It just doesn't doesn't
fit right, doesn't fit right. Oh dude, that sucks.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
But also I wouldn't have I wouldn't have gone out. Hey,
thank you, sir. I wouldn't have gone out of my way.
The movers did.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
It, but you are guilty by associations. That doesn't feel responsible.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
But the apartment building needs to fix that. It's not
up to me. Put a no downstairs. Hey, sorry, what
the movers did? Donezo.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Whenever a delivery truck drives down our street and takes
down branches, I blame the person whose house they're bringing
whatever to.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Who cares I do it? Ruins? There's canopies
Are you supposed to gift your neighbor something?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I guess that would be really nice. I think you
have to. It is a nice gesture.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
I'd never heard of that, and I definitely have never well,
I mean, I also never really had anything done where
it's like I would felt like, oh, this is really
going to inconvenience the neighbors. So I don't think I've
ever had anything like that. But I also have never
had a neighbor gift me something for.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Something like that.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
As a matter of fact, I don't think I've ever
given a given a neighbor a gift.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Oh come on, really, even if you go for like
a neighborhood party or something, No, I meant.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
That, not for that, like if it is. I mean,
I don't go to a lot of neighborhood parties. But
like Nelly lives down the street. You know, I may
bring him a pack of smokes or something. I don't know,
but the but I don't. I don't think I've ever
given a neighbor.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
A gift when you moved in, when I moved in?
Are you not counting that?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
But why give me a gift? Welcome me? Why would
I give Why would I give a gift.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
We went around and give every buddy like brownie's and
a jar.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Did you really wait for when when you moved in? Yeah,
why'd you do that?
Speaker 5 (01:08):
To introduce ourselves to the people in the cul De side.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Like when we moved into our house in false Church,
not Arlington, but in False Church, our neighbor, our neighbor,
one of their kids brought over, like to welcome us,
brought over brownies. But that was a gift for the
person coming in. Yeah, which is how it should be
to know, Well, if.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
You want to engage in sort of some kind of outreach, yeah,
you'll see me in that, you'll see me outside. I
also got an insulting gift from a neighbor soon after
I moved in.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
What does that mean?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
It means it was meant, I think with the best
of intentions.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Thank you, but thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
But it was I think it was commentary on something
that was happening in my yard.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
The Hey, here's a hose the what did they get you?
A leaf?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Flower?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
By the way, it's a nice gift. See but is
it a hand me down or is it brand new?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
But I knew it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
But I get what Tyler's saying that on the surface,
you go, well, that's.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Awesome, says a lot. He's here in raking the what
I was doing.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I was raking, But it's also a your yard looks
like trash. No, no, I'm being serious. I get I
get where that would be a little unsettled.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's gonna serve you a little bit better than the
rake does.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
The yes, exactly, because you look at your yard it
looks like trash.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
He was an older man.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
But do you think it was inadvertent, Like do you
think he meant to insult you?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
No, No, I just think he saw that I was struggling.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And wanted to.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Assist the see and that that I do believe. So yesterday,
that's what I was reading this thing yesterday. And it
involves people that don't live any kind of life that
we do.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
But I didn't know the zucker birds out in uh out.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Mark, Yes, well and his wife, Yeah there having they
bought a bunch of houses.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, they have like a compound, don't they.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Well, they bought a bunch of houses that they're tearing
down and rebuilding.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
And so there has been this has been months would
be short but there's been a lot of work in
the neighborhood. So the Zuckerbirds thought, well, this will be
in order to be kind, we'll we'll give everybody a gift.
And in the story it talks about how that's pretty common,
not just for the Zuckerbirds but just for people.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Number One I've never done.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
But then they went on to say the gifts that
they're giving their neighbors, the neighbors are actually very insulted
by why because they're like, this is you're ruining the neighborhood.
This has been going on forever. The fact that you're
giving everybody sound what is it, noise canceling headphones, is.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
That it's insulting. It's insulting.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And the whole thing was, Hey, sorry about the noise
and the hammering and the jackhammering and the trucks and
the back of the boobo and all that.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
But they don't.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Imagine the scale of that contect.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Trust me when I tell you you can't. I don't know,
but you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Like, on the surface, if somebody said, Elliott, here's a
pair of noise canceling headphones, you'd be like, wait, what
a great gift. But the neighbors are like, no, suck it.
That is because you know you're annoying us. Don't give
me a gift because you know you're annoying me. Same
thing with the with the leaves, Like I'm trying to
rake my yard, don't don't come over here and give
(04:23):
me a quote a gift that is really just insulting
because my yard looks like trash.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It's not exactly the same thing, but it kind of
falls in that.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
But when Zuckerberg gert been better if you just gave
him like a bottle of wine, probably.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Like here's a big gift basket.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yeah, he gave him something else.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
It was the They were really pissy about the noise
canceling headphones, which I was like, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I get why those upset people.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh and yeah, what Krispy Kreme got them? Krispy Kreme?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You stick with the donuts. Yeah, the I'd be happy
with It's always pretty safe.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
The I'd love to get a good box of Krispy
Kream Are you kidding? Every day?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Now you want it every day?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You're worth a billion and a half dollars. I think
you could get me, uh some some Crispy kream.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
But with the year protection, It's like, stop complaining here
with the donuts or wine or food, or if it was,
like like Diane said, just a basket of assorted goods,
then it's just like, I know this is rough on you,
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I also said a lot of neighbors are upset because
they've had their tires popped by all the nails and
stuff that are on the street.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
That happened, same, Yeah, no, remember I lost like two
tires in a month.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah, did you get did you get a gift?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I just think it.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
There's would you have felt better if they gave you
noise canceling headphones?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I take those? Oh so were these like this is
a good reason headphones? Or were these just what you
wear as a landscaper to protect them?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Oh for like sensory stuff. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, you see that as well in that regard.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I mean, does it really matter?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Well yeah, yeah, if your Zuckerberg give me bows quest
VR headsets?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Is this just what you wear at Monster Jim? But
I was once offered and now I'm thinking of another
one and then the thank you get.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
By the way, this is why I'll never get a
neighbor a gift, because they'll find some way to be
insulted by my good my good intention I was offered.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
I didn't realize that a bush that hung over the
sidewalk was mine to deal with. This is again right
when I moved in, I thought it was the landscaping
company that does the community. But apparently one of my
neighbors knew it was my deal, so he offered to
give me shears.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
It was like a big bow on them. Which did
you go insulted?
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Which I didn't have, And I said no, I'm so sorry.
I didn't realize that was my responsibility. I can go
out and buy something to cut this with.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
And here, use these and do it. Now.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
We'll hold on in the time between me getting to
Low's and doing it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
He cut it for me, I'll just do it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
So then I was like, well, I gotta thank him.
Why because he handled maintenance on my property.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Did you get him not bow's just sensory noise canceling headphones.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
I got him a case of beer. Oh that's good,
until I found out he doesn't drink. It's recovering alcoholics.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Oh no, I don't know the reason he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Drink, that would be my luck. Yes, I'd go over.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Well, first I'd call melissam Olay and go, hey, I
need a case of beer from Lono. I'd get the
case of beer and I'd bring it over and as
I was giving it to him, he'd flip his three
year coin in the air while I was giving it
to him. But that's what I mean. That could be insulting.
That could be insulting, even though it's not intended that way.
So that was a whole circle of gas. Did you
(07:53):
learn how to be a better neighbor? I had never
lived in a single family home on a property before.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, no, I get it. I get it. If you
have no idea, if you don't know, you don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
But that's why you can't get people in the neighborhood
gifts or I would get everybody. I would get everybody
like But the same thing with food. You got to
be careful. You got to be careful. I would give somebody.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Donuts and they'd be like gluten free. Like, no, you
run the risk of being insulting no matter what it is.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Thank you and accept it.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
And how about just that I'm living here? You know
what I mean, like, this is my life.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Well what about this. As an approach to that, w
Ross says, the gift is the upgrade to your house,
the renovation or the repair. That's for not just you,
but the neighbors.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I don't like looking at it that way. That's like,
you know what that is? No, that is.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Because that yes, I understand what he's saying, that it
makes the neighborhood look nicer, increase his property value. Number one,
I'm not selling my house. Number two, By the time
I am going to sell my house, maybe your house
looks like trash again. Number three, Now I have to
improve my house to make it as nice as your house.
So you're you're all over the place that that is
(09:04):
the same of Hey, you know what for Christmas this year,
instead of gifts, we're making a donation in your name.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Nope, why don't you just name a cloud after me?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Wait, you could do that.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I meant stars, name a cloud.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
It's an ephemeral Yeah, isn't that your claim to fame?
Though you're the only person in this room who has
two stars in his name.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I have two stars that are named after me, absolutely
one of them. One of them purchased from me by famous,
famous Alison Stewart.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, she bought me a she bought me a star.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Was that a wedding gift?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
No, she made a donation in my name.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Line two, Hi Elliot in the morning.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Hey, good morning.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Is this is it better as me?
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
What's going on dude?
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Hey, good morning.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
I was just calling listening to the conversation. I moved recently,
in the last couple.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Of months, into a new home, into a new neighborhood,
and I'm hearing you guys talk about the gift giving.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
And oh damn it, you're breaking up? Are you there?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Are you there?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Yeah? So, oh can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah? Okay, I got you back? You hot towers? So
you just moved into a new neighborhood. Yes, okay, hold tight,
one second, hold on one site. That's what Dan, That's
how cell phones work. He's finding a new tower.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
He's roaming, blaming Diane's cloud. It's atmosphereic Line one, Hi.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Elliet the morning, Elliot.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
What's happen? Then?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Hey, what's going on dude?
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Not much, Hey, listen.
Speaker 9 (10:51):
I was just calling to kind of clarify some things. So,
you know, so I work for a homer modeling company.
And so what we do when we do work in
some people's neighborhood is we will sometimes go around, depending
on the neighborhood, and put little gift baskets on like
the closest seven or eight neighbors around the home we're
working on, uh, just to let them know we're working
in the area. If they have any issues, uh, you know,
(11:14):
to give up the call and we'll you know, remedy
the situation right away.
Speaker 10 (11:18):
So that sometimes helps. Is that common people not common,
but a lot of some companies do that. It's you know,
it's a it's a marketing tactic. It's also a way
to jump up business. It's a way to just kind
of let the people know, Hey, you know we're going
to be working.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
We know it's going to be an inconvenience for you.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
So if we leave, hey, what's in the gift basket?
Speaker 10 (11:37):
Yeah, we put in silly stuff, like, you know, just
chopsky stuff, like a little one of those old screwdrivers
with like multi heads on it, with like Phil's head
and flathead. Or we'll put in, you know, like a
flyer about our business. We'll put in maybe like a
gift card for Starbucks.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Like there we go, there, we go, there, we go
on like that when he does your mom no, that's
you know.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
And another thing is that, you know the big thing
where you have to get to. So hoa's are all
different hoa's.
Speaker 10 (12:07):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
You if you do something and you're in an HOA,
you have to give them plans and designs and let
the HOA approve what you're doing to make sure it
matches what they allow in the community. But if you
do something bigger, we've come against us all the time
in Arlington. Is if you're doing what they call a variant,
so you're trying to build something that's on your property,
but it goes within the setbacks of your property and
(12:29):
encroaches on your neighbors. That's when you have to go
around to all your neighbors and get them to sign off.
You have to tell them what you're doing. They have
to approve what you're doing. Then you have to take
it in front of the board in Arlington County and
show them that you got all the approvals from your neighbors.
It's a gigantic pain in the ass.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Going in front that that Board's ridiculous. That board is dumb.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Why do you say that that's why you should just
live in the woods and you don't have any neighbors
and they can do what you want.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
That's a good point. That's a wod point.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
The no, there was the we have a fence at
our backyard and part of it was jacked up, so
we were going to redo that part of the fence,
but you had to get it cleared by the board.
So I had to go stand in front of the
board with Jackie and the person who was going to
do the fence. To get approval to build the fence,
that you had to go to like a like the
(13:16):
like the Rlington County like board of Supervisors, and you
get the like five people with these great big sticks
in their ass and they go, well, what kind of what?
I don't know, I'm putting up the fence, jackass, Like,
who knows? But you can't say that. You got to
be very like oh yeah, and I'm like, okay, I'll
have a fence. And at one point I was like, final,
(13:37):
I'll just let my dogs run through the fence.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
What do I care?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
This was just a repair. Yes, wow, that's for gas.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, no, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Because they want to make sure that you're not like
gonna make it, you know, push it further back into
someone's yard that's still within your property. You know that
the match, what's there, the defence face the right way.
You can't put the ugly side of the fence facing
your name.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, bingo, Yeah, that's what we got.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
They want to make sure, yeah, that it's all done right.
And then you, you know, in the back of your
mind the whole time, your thing is like, hey, guess
what I paid for this house. I paid the mortgage.
How about I just do whatever the hell I want
to do, and I don't have to get you to
clear it.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
But that's the way it is.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
By the way, that's what I've decided, I'll do any
any move after that one experience. And then I'm in
the thing and some as I'm walking up there, some
guy yells out, smell my face.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
So that looks horrible.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
As I'm going up to talk to the board, and
I don't know why I'm nervous going up talking to
the board. Well I know why if not, I got
a big hold on my fence the and so this
guy's like, hey, smell my face. I'm like, oh, thanks,
And so I went up and I did it and
everything was fine. I decided I want to run to
be on the board. I'll let anybody do whatever they want,
except for those five people. Dude, I will be up
(14:48):
their ass like no one's business, like no one's business.
Speaker 8 (14:53):
Yeah, it's it's painful, and you know, and people want
to do it, and then they want to do these remodels,
and they want to do these upgrade to their property,
and they're just hamstrung by all the regulations that they
have to go through, like it can add two or
three months just to the process before you even start
doing the work.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I decided, next time, I just do whatever I want.
If the county doesn't like it, they could pay to
take it out. I'm doing whatever I want.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
It's all about asking for a forgiveness rather than for permission.
But the lines are so steep. Their lines are so
steep that people that prevent people from doing that.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Can hear you.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I got these noise canceling headphones as a gift. All right, dude,
I appreciate it. Thank you, my friend, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Remember I currently have a damaged fence right where a
six foot span of it is broken in two spots,
and I call a fence company, and it was way
too expensive for them to come out and do it.
And I understand they're used to repairing or replacing entire fences,
not just sections. They suggested maybe hiring a handyman. But
then I was like, you know what, it was the
(15:52):
neighbors who caused it by reckless lawnmowing, So screw it.
They can look at two broken rails for as long
as I don't fix it.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
But then I was thinking, well, why would you even
fix it.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
They broke it.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I don't have proof they broke it.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh did you break it? No, then they broke it.
It didn't break on its own.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
But you have to be careful with the harmony of
the neighborhood because in my head I was still O,
my god, because I was thinking, my neighbor hates me.
They can't say anything about the fence because they have
a mattress leaning against their house still. But just like
yesterday with the milkweed, they got rid of the mattress,
so no, no, my leg up on them just went down. Yes, yeah,
(16:33):
just went They got to be really careful. Maybe I
just fix it myself with some duct tape.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
By the way, I got an update on the old
Milkweed House. Where am I gone? Line three? I can
do that. Hi Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Hey, good morning class.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Good? Real quick? What can I do for you?
Speaker 7 (16:51):
I was going to tell you I moved into our
current apartment and it's primarily older individuals that live in
the building, and the movers quickly broke the elevator, which
was kind of harsh for older people. But then we
found out our neighbor across the hall is in a wheelchair,
so she could not get into her apartment for a
few days. And then one of the movers knocked the
(17:13):
Wi Fi out in the entire building. So we've spent
the past year trying to make up with gifts the
lore to anybody that will open the door for us,
and old people really hold a grudge as they do.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Hey, just out of curiosity, because I want to know
what the gift to the woman in the wheelchair, you know,
the one that couldn't get into her apartment for a
couple of days.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
What was your gift? What was your gift to her?
Speaker 7 (17:40):
We've been doing like banana bread or husband drinks beers,
so a bottle of wine here and there, kind of
a priceless reimbursement.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yeah, no, I get that.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I wanted that to be a gift that was well intentioned,
but like, does it come like.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, like something.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Something where it's like, oh, this will be good. She's
in a wheelchair, we'll give her this, And then it's
like new shoes. I don't know something.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Where you mean, well, doesn't fit. It just doesn't doesn't
fit right, doesn't fit right. Oh dude, that sucks.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
But also I wouldn't have I wouldn't have gone out. Hey,
thank you, sir. I wouldn't have gone out of my way.
The movers did.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
It, but you are guilty by associations. That doesn't feel responsible.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
But the apartment building needs to fix that. It's not
up to me. Put a no downstairs. Hey, sorry, what
the movers did? Donezo.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Whenever a delivery truck drives down our street and takes
down branches, I blame the person whose house they're bringing
whatever to.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Who cares I do it? Ruins? There's canopies
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