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Um, so saw this stat and then last night, Chelsea and I were having a discussion and we realized that my outrage about this particular survey that was just done actually had us right in it. Um, and when I tell you this, I want you to call us up if you're one of these people. So there was a study that was just released from a mobile brand called OnePlus, and they found that there are a majority of people that have no idea who the people are that live right next door to them. So 10% of people say that they speak to their neighbors no more than once a month, while 50% of people have had no interaction ever with their neighbors.

Didn't you guys give me so much crap for this?

Megan, I brought this up to my lovely wife, Chelsea, who I know you like a lot more than you like me. I brought this up to her. You said it. I brought this up to her yet, and I said, can you believe all these Megans that are out there that don't do this thing? And then Chelsea says, well, can you name our neighbors? And I literally could only name, out of 40 homes in my neighborhood, I could only name three.

Yeah. I got reamed by you guys and listeners. Absolutely reamed. I know. And now I'm actually in the majority on this one. But to be fair, I think we reamed you because you said that you, like, run into your house or duck or hide if you see a neighbor out. Okay, again, normal behavior. Just like when somebody knocks on the door, you hit the floor, okay?

It's just normal.

That's not normal. It's good to know somebody. It's good to have somebody for emergencies, for borrowing things.

And that's Jen across the street, so that's one. That's Brittany and John a couple doors down from them. that's Arvin next door and Jen. What happened to Terry? Terry moved. Oh, really? Yes, Terry moved.

Terry's no longer. I loved Terry's stories.

And honestly, the family that lives now in Terry's house, the nicest family in the world, I have no idea what their names are. And honestly, I feel bad because I've never like, I probably should just ask them, right? But I say hi to them as they walk their dog down the street, but I don't know. Is this a common thing? Like, more common than we think? Like, you know what this is reminding me of, Megan? When I used to tell Slim that he was insane for covering up the camera on his computer. And I thought he was a conspiracy theorist. Now I'm that guy.

I think the listeners just need to learn that you are wrong all of the time.

Thank you.

It's so funny because back in the day, like I think about growing up on Rose Seal. She means that. We knew everybody. Yeah. We knew every house, every house around the corner. like you just knew everybody you either played with their kids or well that's how my last

neighborhood was that i lost in the divorce we knew all like 60 families everybody knew everybody we partied together we hung out together because we all had kids the same age and it was so awesome when you have kids that age to never have to worry about where they are and who they're with because everybody was looking out for everybody's kids when i moved this new neighborhood i i wanted to be the annoying neighbor to went around and met everybody and i did i got like four or five neighbors down and there's a couple that we hang out more and talk to more than others but like for the super bowl i'm gonna have some

people over this weekend have a couple of the neighbors can i tell you though it's tough because your your daughters are no longer young anymore it's easier when you have little kids if you're just a guy walking around the neighborhood you look like the guy that's trying to scam people out of money right you know what i mean like it doesn't like you can't just like walk up and go hi i'm the new neighbor whatever if you have kids your kids are kind of like the open door of letting

you know who the neighbors are for us it was easy because we moved in in spring and started i started doing all the yard work right away so i was outside every day and it was like people couldn't avoid me if they were outside too they had to come say hi i want to know from our listeners

who doesn't know their neighbors at all but are convinced that they know what they're all about because you got a conspiracy be about them so it's funny our friend katrina i we were over at her place yesterday and she lives in a complex that's you know got a bunch of condos and stuff around her and i said hey do you know all the neighbors and she's like i only know the guy next door, and I say, oh, really? What does he do for a living? She goes, I have no clue. Like, how well do you know this guy? She just says hi to him. But you can, like, see people, and you can actually, you know, pretty much, oh, that guy right there, drug dealer, that guy right there.

I'm convinced my neighbors thought something weird, that I did something weird, which they're not wrong, but because we moved in, and when we moved in, it was October, so it was Halloween, so when I first met all the neighbors, I was dressed up, and I don't even know if I was Batman or what I was that year, but they had no idea who I was.

So they all think that you're like the weirdo in the neighborhood?

I think so, yeah.

Anne is voice disguised as an alias, too. What's up, Anne?

Hi, how are you?

We're good, Anne. Do you know your neighbors?

I'm with Megan on this one. My neighbors don't matter to me, as long as you are not a threat. But there was one neighbor I wanted to meet just because I wanted to bake cookies with him. And we did lots of baking cookies But that was it

That's wild So you actually had a relationship with the neighbor That you thought was the hot one

Yep, he moved in I'm like, you're cute, I want to get to know you But just you, I don't want to know anybody else

Why so aggressive to everybody? Wait, sexually and non-sexually

I'm just, you know

You're like, I don't want to know you Unless you're a threat to me

You're selective selective yeah just selective but you know i did have a guy come over he wanted me to watch his outdoor plant for a day or two i'm happy to do that but other than that i don't i don't want to get to know watch his outdoor plant i watch them or water them water okay okay okay so but

he was but he was not good looking enough to try to screw right oh he was my father's age

He actually worked for iHeartRadio.

Wait, hold on a second. What kind of plants was he growing? I think I know who that guy is. Was his first name Michael? Trent, what's going on?

Nothing. How about you guys? I'm just sitting here laughing my ass off in my car because literally what you guys are talking about, me, my roommate, my girlfriend do every single day.

You guys? You hide from the neighbors?

Well, we didn't originally hide from them until we started coming up with those theories that we know exactly who our neighbors are, and we might be completely off.

We're always victim to those theories because everybody in the morning show is leaving for work at 4.15 in the morning, and everybody always wonders, what are they doing? Why do they leave under the cover of darkness?

Well, yeah, I come home at that time because I work like second, third shift, so it's even better.

What's the craziest theory that you have about a neighbor?

We have Jeffrey Dahmer in our neighborhood, 100%. Oh, Lord.

100%.

But what do the neighbors think about you and your girlfriend and your roommate?

We're the crazy white people on the block.

That's wild. So the Dahmer guy, you think he's eating people, huh?

Oh, yeah, 100%. He has new, and it's the whole man-on-man theory, too. Like, he always has men coming over to his house. Like, and when I come home, it's always a different car, so it's just completely strange.

It's wild.

And, like, the car is never seen again. Like, the next night, that's a new car. Or, like, the next two days, it's a new car.

That's interesting. Maybe the guy's got a bunch of buddies that he's running, like, a poker game with or something.

Well, it's either Jeffrey Dahmer or the best drug dealer I've ever met.

It's probably more of the latter. But it's funny that when you watch the Dahmer, nobody would turn in the guy, even though they all thought the guy was, like, creepy suspicious.

Well, think if you're Megan's neighbor. You not only see her leaving at odd hours and sneaking right home, but she's also never let a single soul into the house. That's true. She has a bunch of cars in the driveway. Megan is that neighbor.

But the best dressed dog in the hood. Yes. The whole neighborhood. Actually, this is going to be so shocking. Are you ready for this?

I have my next-door neighbor's phone number, and we text.

No. Whoa. I don't believe it.

I just got her number last week. I have lived there for two years. What?

Voices, guys, Court. Court?

Hello.

Hi. It's obviously an alias, too. We're good. You've got to have a good one if you're being Voices, guys. Tell us about your neighbors.

So, my neighbors, I don't know them personally, but there were two married couples that lived next door to each other and they ended up like the wife of one house cheated with the husband of another so they got divorced and the two that were cheating they moved into one of the houses together so the people that they were cheating on um that they divorced they actually started dating and moved into the other house

Wow. Oh, my God. What a teacheroo. That's awesome.

So they're still neighbors. But, yeah, it's a little weird in the summer, you know, walking by those houses. It's like, yeah, they're, yeah.

Doesn't it? You know what? That's like the soap.

I would love that.

That's like a soap opera neighborhood, right? I would love to be witness to that. Yeah.

I mean, I guess it makes it easier, like, you know, through a divorce and just, you know, you've already got a house. You've already got a place to live. But wouldn't it be weird living next to, you know, your house?

Your old house.

Yeah.

I'll still never forget when the neighbor, this guy Tom that lived next door to me when we moved into our old neighborhood, came over to me to share with me that I had to watch out for Rick McGill, another neighbor, because he was going to sleep with my wife, because Tom was convinced that Rick McGill was sleeping with his.

Wait, is this really your name and names here?

Yes, I'm naming names. Because I named Tom, but Rick McGill is the guy. Rick McGill already knows the story so well, because I tell it all the time. So the funniest was I see what Rick McGill Looks like And Rick McGill looks like Just an average guy right okay Little tiny average guy Then I see his Tom's wife walk outside And I think to myself There ain't no way I'm like there ain't no way So I told Rick McGill Rick McGill was so devastated that that rumor was going around The woodlands about him Sticky Ricky

When Democrats are messing up, I say it. When Republicans are messing up, I say it. I'm Essie Kupp, a journalist and political commentator. And on my podcast, Off the Cup, I help you make sense of the often nonsensical news. I do this on cable news, too. But on my podcast, I can really let loose and be my honest, unfiltered self. I just want to talk about something that happened this week because it's so bonkers. So stupid. Such incredibly bad politics. We have to talk about it. Come for the hot takes. Stay for the sanity. Listen to Off the Cup on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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