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Speaker 1: Yeah anyway, welcome to close Friends.
Speaker 2: Sorry chaos in the studio this morning. Yeah. So I'm
Speaker 2: Britney Saunders. I'm all right. Hey, you made you way
Speaker 2: under your close friends. You've got the juicy Estermario on
Speaker 2: your main Sorry cap close friends. Here we go. You've
Speaker 2: got a story bus today. I'm very intrigued. All you've
Speaker 2: given me is that you've got a nightmare neighbor. Oh
Speaker 2: book story.
Speaker 1: Say, Look, I don't want to start drama with my neighbors. Look,
Speaker 1: I don't think they know but I only think they
Speaker 1: know me or follow me on social media or anything. Okay,
Speaker 1: So we live in a house, We've got neighbors on
Speaker 1: either side.
Speaker 2: That's usually how it works.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I could be on a corner.
Speaker 2: True, you still have neighbors on either side though, right, pardon,
Speaker 2: you still have neighbors on either side, they just be
Speaker 2: around the corner.
Speaker 1: So on one side we have our nice neighbors, old couple,
Speaker 1: gorgeous seventies or eighties, and we're like friends with them.
Speaker 1: We know them by name. We say hello, they're gonna
Speaker 1: come look at our house once it's done. Because that
Speaker 1: nice neighbor he originally built our house. Oh, because they're
Speaker 1: two houses are side by side, they're almost identical. No,
Speaker 1: so he built both. So it's really cute. We're fully
Speaker 1: ripping his house to shreds that he built like fucking
Speaker 1: seventy years And is he exactly the same same house,
Speaker 1: same house? Yeah, yeah, they're really similar. But we're like,
Speaker 1: but like his is still in that it can be original. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we're if you break in his heart, we're having
Speaker 1: big modern extension on the background.
Speaker 2: Imagine having a whole life and you've lived all through
Speaker 2: all the trauma of your entire life, and then one
Speaker 2: of your most proudest creations, this bitch comes in and goes, nah,
Speaker 2: that is exactly I'm going to toure it up.
Speaker 1: Hey in might defense, So it's like a nineteen twenties
Speaker 1: cavity brick home, Like it's an old fashioned home. We're
Speaker 1: keeping a lot of the character and just adding like
Speaker 1: this modern extension on the back so they can see
Speaker 1: into our backyard and they can see all the renaults
Speaker 1: that are happening in the backyard. Right now, my backyard
Speaker 1: is like a construction zone. The whole back of the
Speaker 1: house is ripped off. And so when you like, I'm
Speaker 1: only learning all this now because it's my first time
Speaker 1: renovating a house. But when you are doing any major
Speaker 1: renolds to your house, you have to put everything through
Speaker 1: the council. You can't just like fucking renovate, Like you've
Speaker 1: got to get counsel approval to do things to your house,
Speaker 1: down to the fucking amount of gardens that you have
Speaker 1: to have.
Speaker 2: In inside or does it include our inside or.
Speaker 1: Exactly sure, I think it's any major works and like
Speaker 1: we're putting a plunge pull in and it's just been
Speaker 1: mind blowing the amount of shit like admin that you
Speaker 1: have to do. You have to give the plans to
Speaker 1: the council. They have to approve it. They have to
Speaker 1: have someone come out and test the soil to make
Speaker 1: sure that it can like hold a pool and then
Speaker 1: you've got to get the concrete tested, like all this shit, right,
Speaker 1: and they even like we got knocked back at one
Speaker 1: point because there wasn't enough greenery on our drawings. So
Speaker 1: like you've got to, like, if you're renovating in your backyard,
Speaker 1: it's got to have like this standard of how many
Speaker 1: shrubs you have and how many trees and plants. I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's this whole fucking thing. Anyway, we found
Speaker 1: out the other day and I didn't know this either,
Speaker 1: but when you are going to be doing like work
Speaker 1: in your yard or on a deck or out the
Speaker 1: back where it's going to be making a significant amount
Speaker 1: of noise for a certain period of time, over however
Speaker 1: many weeks, both of your neighbors get a letter to
Speaker 1: say that you know, this neighbor at this address is
Speaker 1: going to be doing works, and they can say that
Speaker 1: they don't want it to happen. So it's like a vote.
Speaker 1: And we found these out through our nice neighbor, right,
Speaker 1: So our nice neighbor spoke to AJ and said, we
Speaker 1: got a letter, and the other neighbors on the other
Speaker 1: side got a letter, and the neighbors on the other
Speaker 1: side went to our nice neighbor and said, how do
Speaker 1: we stop this from happening? They did not want us
Speaker 1: to renovate our house. What mind you like? We have
Speaker 1: never interacted with the other neighbor. They're renting their house
Speaker 1: on the other side of us. We've never had any interactions.
Speaker 1: And so the only interactions that we've had with them
Speaker 1: is when we first moved in. They've got some trees,
Speaker 1: like we've got trees in the front yard, and they
Speaker 1: both kind of overlap into each other's front yards, and
Speaker 1: apparently the guy that used to live in our house
Speaker 1: used to trim them for the next door neighbor kind
Speaker 1: of thing. And so when we very first moved in,
Speaker 1: a parent like it's like a couple and like an
Speaker 1: adult kid living next door. Apparently she said to aj
Speaker 1: out the front, I hope she's not listening to this.
Speaker 2: I can't knock on their door and say let's have
Speaker 2: a conversation mat this.
Speaker 1: The thing is, we've never had a conversation with it.
Speaker 1: We never see them. But when we first moved in,
Speaker 1: she said, then he used to trim that tree. You're
Speaker 1: gonna be the one trimming that tree.
Speaker 2: Let me over there, I'm coming out knock on the door.
Speaker 2: And so I feel like I've been a bit angry lately,
Speaker 2: so I'm ready to I'm ready on unleashed. So you
Speaker 2: just let me know what you want me to say,
Speaker 2: and I'll knock on that door.
Speaker 1: And so Neil, that's our nice neighborby. Yeah, he told
Speaker 1: aj the other neighbor didn't want us to be allowed
Speaker 1: to renovate our house because they didn't want the noise
Speaker 1: of like hammering and stuff. But it's like, this is
Speaker 1: what happens sometimes when you have a house that's next
Speaker 1: to another house. There might be renovations at some stage,
Speaker 1: and it's not forever. It's just for like a couple
Speaker 1: of months and then it's done. Anyway, by the time
Speaker 1: he went to the neighbor's house to say, let's try
Speaker 1: and stop this from happening, it was already too late,
Speaker 1: because like the neighbors have like a certain amount of
Speaker 1: time to like say no kind of thing, and apparently
Speaker 1: Neil is just like what the fuck, like no, they're
Speaker 1: allowed to renovate their house. And so the renovations have started,
Speaker 1: and he's already been making complaints over the fence to
Speaker 1: the builders, saying, like can you keep the noise down.
Speaker 1: It's like, we're renovating a house. What you want me
Speaker 1: to get a silent fucking hammer. I'm speechless, Like that's
Speaker 1: just life, Like sometimes people are gonna make noise. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go and live on a farm on an acreage, and
Speaker 1: live on a farm on an acreage if you don't
Speaker 1: want your neighbor to maybe fucking renovate their house. And
Speaker 1: like it's just for now, it's not gonna be forever.
Speaker 1: And apparently he's like said to the trades over the fence,
Speaker 1: like can you keep it down? Apparently the trades are
Speaker 1: like fuck off. Yeah, good because they're just doing their job.
Speaker 3: Them back the same energy. This is what I was
Speaker 3: saying in the main episode. You give them back the
Speaker 3: same energy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, our neighbors don't like us, and we've never had
Speaker 1: any interactions with them. I'm like, what did we do?
Speaker 2: But you see you're better than I am, because I
Speaker 2: will have an interaction with you, darling. I'm coming over
Speaker 2: and saying, what's the problem. Can you stop harassing my
Speaker 2: workmen in the backyard because you harass them every day
Speaker 2: and I'm going to call the police if you keep harassing.
Speaker 2: Just step it up. You know what I mean, go
Speaker 2: on over there. I can't control myself. Like, if that's
Speaker 2: how you want to act, I'm actually going to double down,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to go there because then they'll
Speaker 1: know that Neil told us about the letter, and then.
Speaker 2: You know, but they've taken you. He's now yelling at
Speaker 2: your people in the backyard, so that's what you're there for.
Speaker 1: I've just never had any troubles with neighbors, and now
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh fuck, I might see them out front,
Speaker 1: Like look the other way.
Speaker 2: We've only ever had nice neighbors or not known our neighbors,
Speaker 2: and I actually prefer not knowing our neighbors. I have
Speaker 2: lived in apartments the last few years, so it's a
Speaker 2: bit different because everyone sort of keeps to themselves.
Speaker 1: It's actually got me thinking about neighbors because I think,
Speaker 1: like you said, you're in an apartment, so it's different.
Speaker 1: But my memories from childhood and like neighbors is so
Speaker 1: different to now. And I know it would be different,
Speaker 1: like depending on your street and where you live. But
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what my dream is. My dream is
Speaker 1: to have really nice neighbors that we become friends with
Speaker 1: and then we have barbecues.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I.
Speaker 1: Would love that. And I remember when we were kids
Speaker 1: growing up, we were friends with neighbors on both of
Speaker 1: our sides and there was all kids. Like, it's probably
Speaker 1: different when you have kids and you're living near other kids,
Speaker 1: and it would just always be like running back and
Speaker 1: forth between the two backyards. Our parents will get pissed together,
Speaker 1: have barbecues, and you made genuine friends with your neighbors.
Speaker 1: And then sometimes we'd live in like a coulder sack,
Speaker 1: and then the whole coulder sack was friends. And I
Speaker 1: feel like that's not a thing anymore. Maybe it is
Speaker 1: in different areas, but now I feel like everyone really
Speaker 1: just keeps to themselves and you don't really know your
Speaker 1: neighbors that much. Whereas I I'm putting it out there,
Speaker 1: someone moving next door in the house that doesn't like
Speaker 1: me will get them evictied. Someone apply and live next door,
Speaker 1: become besties with AJ and I. You can come over
Speaker 1: and swim in our plunge pool and have a barbecue
Speaker 1: on our back deck. Yeah nice, I'm taking application.
Speaker 2: See I'm the opposite to you. Don't talk to me,
Speaker 2: don't look at me, don't do what you want I
Speaker 2: won't complain about your renovations, but don't. I don't want
Speaker 2: to know.
Speaker 1: Story, don't come home from work and then just you
Speaker 1: see your neighbor over the fence. You come over for
Speaker 1: a wine, and they just come over and you just
Speaker 1: winge about life. That's a dream for me.
Speaker 2: Can't imagine anything worse. Actually, no, in a house, because
Speaker 2: in an apartment, I actually quite like. Yeah, when I
Speaker 2: move into an apartment, I quite like that. I know
Speaker 2: no one's coming over with a fucking gift basket with
Speaker 2: fruits and muffins in it.
Speaker 1: Neighborhood for an hourse, it's perfect.
Speaker 2: Don't knock on my door, stay away. I don't want to.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think we need to be such
Speaker 2: good friends because you know each other. But then on
Speaker 2: the other half, you want them to look out for you,
Speaker 2: don't you. You want your neighbors to be your friends.
Speaker 2: So they go, there's a suspicious car bark down at
Speaker 2: front the other day. You know anything about that? And
Speaker 2: I'll go, oh, yeah, Dyln.
Speaker 1: It's just I love neighbors.
Speaker 2: I love neighbors too, but I don't need to be
Speaker 2: your best friend, and I don't need to be cooking
Speaker 2: use sausages in me.
Speaker 1: I want neighbors, best friends.
Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough. I feel like you need to live
Speaker 2: in a colder sack.
Speaker 1: I feel like I need to live in like a
Speaker 1: a state, like you know, houses that are estates. I
Speaker 1: feel like that's where neighbors, friendships happen.
Speaker 2: Oh you reckon?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, whereas it's in a random suburb.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking colder sack vibes. It's nice, very housewives, very
Speaker 2: neighbors in itself the TV show.
Speaker 1: Maybe I need to move if we've finished renovating, just move.
Speaker 3: St See I don't understand that either. I mean, are
Speaker 3: you're planning to flip the house, because I just don't
Speaker 3: imagine going through all that fucking renovation. You've pissed off
Speaker 3: your neighbors in the pro I'm not moving.
Speaker 1: We're going to enjoy the fuck out of this.
Speaker 2: Okay. Good.
Speaker 1: We're not flipping it and selling it. We're renovating it
Speaker 1: for our own enjoyment.
Speaker 2: Okay. I can't imagine going through renovating the then going
Speaker 2: all right, we'll go living in the state.
Speaker 1: Now through colder sack experiences with anyone live in a
Speaker 1: colder sack that has a spare house. Let me know
Speaker 1: I'm coming to move in so we can.
Speaker 2: So if you live in a colder sack, email us
Speaker 2: and tell us whether you've got yes neighbors if it's
Speaker 2: a nice community in your colder sack. And al said,
Speaker 2: if you've got any neighbor horror story, email us as well.
Speaker 2: The emails in the show notes.
Speaker 1: I went to school with this, went to primary school
Speaker 1: with a girl and I've still got her on Facebook.
Speaker 1: You know, you just have your primary school friends on Facebook.
Speaker 1: And where her mum and dad live, the house she
Speaker 1: grew up in. The mum and dad still live there.
Speaker 1: She's moved out and whatever, But they've had beef with
Speaker 1: their neighbors since childhood and I see her post updates
Speaker 1: on Facebook all the time, and it's literally gotten to
Speaker 1: the point where they've gone to court and everything because
Speaker 1: the neighbors have like tried to sabotage them that badly.
Speaker 1: So there's some terrible neighbors out there.
Speaker 2: I think, following one on TikTok at the moment of
Speaker 2: a neighbor feud, I don't know where. I think it's
Speaker 2: in Sydney somewhere, and anyway, one of them, one of
Speaker 2: them is just shat in the mailbox. Yes, one of
Speaker 2: the neighbors is just shatting the other one's mailbox, which
Speaker 2: is gorgeous, lovely, you know, so that when she's gone
Speaker 2: to get a mail, she's put her hand in the mouth.
Speaker 2: That's fuss shit human.
Speaker 1: Also, can we get rid of mail? I fucking can't
Speaker 1: stand it. Like, who sends letters anymore? Just make it
Speaker 1: all in an email?
Speaker 2: I quite like it. I'd I don't get many letters.
Speaker 2: The last letter I got was last week. It's for
Speaker 2: my car registration nine hundred and something dollars. God, that's
Speaker 2: jumped up cost of living.
Speaker 1: The only let us life fucking get his fines from
Speaker 1: parking outside here at Nova.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, true, Well I've shown you the six hour part.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Look, in the last year of us doing this, I've
Speaker 1: only gotten two. So I feel like that's all right
Speaker 1: because it's two hour parking and then we're always here
Speaker 1: for like three hours. But I pay for the two
Speaker 1: and hope that no one comes in the last hour, whereas.
Speaker 2: I make us stop recording and go down because some
Speaker 2: of us don't have money to burn. So I rolled
Speaker 2: down a year ago, top up the parking.
Speaker 1: A year of parking every week getting two fines is
Speaker 1: not bad. But now Matt's found a little sneaky six
Speaker 1: hour area and we're parking.
Speaker 2: Ahead of in Sydney. How bad.
Speaker 1: But I've got a complaint to make about that as well.
Speaker 1: When you go to pay, you know how you click
Speaker 1: the p because you're parking, then it automatically goes to
Speaker 1: six hours and it's thirty seven dollars or something. Then
Speaker 1: you have to go beep, beep, beep.
Speaker 2: And bring it down ten minute incrementals No, it's.
Speaker 1: Like four minute bucking increments. It takes like six minutes
Speaker 1: to get it back down to like three hours. I
Speaker 1: want to make a complaint to the Council of Sydney,
Speaker 1: make it so you can just like why does it
Speaker 1: go to the highest payment? You know.
Speaker 2: What I've found really strange is a lot of the
Speaker 2: councils in the Sydney area now do which I'm so
Speaker 2: sorry to everyone internationally, but this is very niche. But
Speaker 2: you've got your parking meters like that one where you've
Speaker 2: got to do it all manually. But I find or
Speaker 2: I have found that all of the other surrounding councils
Speaker 2: now have either this app called easy park where you
Speaker 2: just top it up, like in a restaurant. You can go, oh,
Speaker 2: my parking's run out. I'll just quickly top it up
Speaker 2: and you pay for more parking on your phone without
Speaker 2: having to leave like the restaurant or whatever you're doing.
Speaker 2: And then on top of that, there's other ones where
Speaker 2: you just put your number plate in and that's how
Speaker 2: you're paying. There's no it's easier on the phone. City
Speaker 2: of Sydney, like Sydney Council with it has the oldest,
Speaker 2: most geriatric parking meters I've ever seen my life that
Speaker 2: you can never see the bloody screen. I've got an
Speaker 2: idea what I'm pressing. I just press for the best, honestly,
Speaker 2: but six hour parking is unheard of anyway. I think
Speaker 2: we should wrap this up because we are talking about
Speaker 2: parking meters. Yeah, I just feel like it's not really
Speaker 2: riveting content for the scrollers, is it. But anyway, this
Speaker 2: is close friends. We talked about all the stuff we
Speaker 2: don't want to put in our main episodes. So oh,
Speaker 2: my voice is going must be that glass back in
Speaker 2: the back of my throat. Anything else you want to
Speaker 2: say today, Brittany, what are you doing on your phone.
Speaker 2: Get off your phone.
Speaker 1: I've got people fucking messaging me left and right.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, is this the commitment that I give
Speaker 2: to this podcast my phone. I'll just let you know
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Speaker 1: I have sixty employees.
Speaker 2: Okay, hire someone to look after them while I'm podcasting.
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Speaker 2: Hang on second, I might take that job. I need
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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening.