Speaker 1: It's a weekend special of course, Brooke and Jeffrey in
Speaker 1: the morning, this is your second Date Update podcast. And
Speaker 1: every Sunday we like to do something a little different,
Speaker 1: throw in something else we've done on the show that
Speaker 1: we think you'll love because it's heavy in the relationship drama.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and today we got a textual healing. But
Speaker 1: before we started, Alexis, you got some good comments, right yeah.
Speaker 1: Morgan Dodgson said, this show is the best thing that
Speaker 1: came out of TikTok for me. I listen all day
Speaker 1: of work, all the way from Alberta, Canada. I love
Speaker 1: you guys.
Speaker 2: Ps.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make the bet that Jose is a loud
Speaker 1: snore just a thought. What I actually don't snore?
Speaker 3: Really, every girlfriend, every person I've ever slept around, my family,
Speaker 3: they've always told.
Speaker 1: Me, like I sleep like I bet you look like
Speaker 1: a little angel baby. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: When I wake up and I turned into the.
Speaker 1: Devil, he may suck his thumb in his sleep though.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, all right, thanks for being here. Your
Speaker 1: textual healing starts right now.
Speaker 4: What's the one thing you would never want your neighbor
Speaker 4: to know about you?
Speaker 1: Oh, that's a crazy.
Speaker 3: Question that you don't actually recycle all of your glass bottles.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you let your dog pee in their yard, or
Speaker 3: that large hole you dug in the middle of the
Speaker 3: night wasn't for a new tree.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 3: Look, wells caught his neighbor doing something that's making him
Speaker 3: feel very uncomfortable. It's actually happened multiple times, and he
Speaker 3: feels like he has to tell them. But this is
Speaker 3: a conversation that's definitely text worthy and not something you'd
Speaker 3: ever want to actually say to them in person. You're
Speaker 3: gonna hear it in a brand new textual healing coming
Speaker 3: up right after this text you will he then text
Speaker 3: you will do you have an important text to send
Speaker 3: but aren't quite sure what to say. In the past,
Speaker 3: Mike soft Words Clippy would pop up on your screen
Speaker 3: and go, Hey, looks like you're sending a text. Can
Speaker 3: I help?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Clippy. I don't think Clippy was around
Speaker 1: when we were sending text message.
Speaker 3: Yes, well Clippy is long long dead. Yeah, he can't
Speaker 3: help you anymore. And you certainly can't trust your friends
Speaker 3: because they'll just gossip about it behind your back.
Speaker 4: So all that's left is your radio fam.
Speaker 3: That's right, we are paid a very very small salary
Speaker 3: to help strangers with their personal lives.
Speaker 1: Wait, gossip about it behind their back.
Speaker 4: Oh no, we are, We're not friends.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So today we have a guy who is in a
Speaker 3: tough spot and has turned to us for help. His
Speaker 3: name is Jimmy. Jimmy, welcome to Textual Healing.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the help.
Speaker 1: Okay, well I wouldn't say that right off the bat. Jimmy,
Speaker 1: you don't know what kind of help you're going to.
Speaker 2: Get better than anything I'm getting. Now, this is a
Speaker 2: little bit of a tickle.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, like that, Jimmy was all, what's going on?
Speaker 3: Why'd you email the show?
Speaker 2: Here's what's going on. Ext door neighbor names Hannah. I'm
Speaker 2: sure she's I don't really know it. She seems to
Speaker 2: be a lovely lady. Okay, it's the problem. I work
Speaker 2: from home, and this has happened on multiple occasions where
Speaker 2: I'm up in my office and I take up like
Speaker 2: an astronom break and I'll, you know, off stretch, I'll
Speaker 2: look out the window.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're in your office. Is this an apartment building?
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to picture here.
Speaker 2: No, No, I live in a nice little two story house.
Speaker 3: Okay, how many bedrooms and how many baths?
Speaker 1: I need to know how far away this neighbor is?
Speaker 4: Is it Victorian Star? It's a house with a window,
Speaker 4: so you look out the window and.
Speaker 2: I can see into her yard. And several times she's
Speaker 2: just been laying out there sunbathing. But she's been laying
Speaker 2: out there sunbathing topless.
Speaker 3: Ah, and what.
Speaker 4: Are you wearing when you're inside the house.
Speaker 1: And Jeff, why she really doesn't care. She's in her
Speaker 1: own backyard.
Speaker 3: I know, but yeah, that's why you don't want to look.
Speaker 1: Do you feel creepy when you see this?
Speaker 2: I bet I feel very creepy. Yeah, I look. The
Speaker 2: first time I look. I'm not gonna lie do it.
Speaker 2: The first time I look, I lingered for a couple
Speaker 2: of seconds because it's like wow, and then of course
Speaker 2: your guy yeah, and I turned around. I was like,
Speaker 2: let me get back to work or ignore this.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, dude. If it was my neighbor, I'd
Speaker 1: be like like, go.
Speaker 2: And here's the thing. It's not like it's our two houses.
Speaker 2: If I can see it, the neighbors can also see.
Speaker 1: Do you think she doesn't realize that we.
Speaker 2: All have bushes, you know, they're pretty high. Some people
Speaker 2: have fences, so you can't see him from like round level.
Speaker 2: And it's during the day, so I don't know who
Speaker 2: else is home.
Speaker 3: Oh so you you actually may be doing her a
Speaker 3: favor by if you were.
Speaker 4: Is that what you're trying to do is let her
Speaker 4: know that she's you can see her. Oh God, that's
Speaker 4: so hard to say.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean at first I thought like, let it go,
Speaker 2: it's just un of my business. But like the second
Speaker 2: or third time, well, I just literally just turned around.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, she's up there. It occurred to
Speaker 2: me like, yeah, you know what, I'm not the problem
Speaker 2: that she doesn't know she has? Do know?
Speaker 1: What do you know about her?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Are you friends or what's your relationship with her?
Speaker 2: I just really no relationship at all. I know that
Speaker 2: she's married. I've met her maybe once. I've met her
Speaker 2: husband once or.
Speaker 1: Twice, Okay, and we know she obviously hates tamlines. Yeah
Speaker 1: are you is her husband look really strong and tough,
Speaker 1: like he could beat you up?
Speaker 2: I say, it's pretty even when it comes between me
Speaker 2: and her husband, I wouldn't. I'm not a physical consultation
Speaker 2: type person.
Speaker 3: Yeah, bro, that's not It sounds like you want to
Speaker 3: do the right thing and just warn her that maybe
Speaker 3: other people can see if she doesn't realize it. But
Speaker 3: that's definitely an awkward conversation to have with anybody. I
Speaker 3: can understand why you wouldn't want to do it in person.
Speaker 3: You can't just by the way.
Speaker 1: I mean if you when you text her, is she
Speaker 1: even going to know who you are?
Speaker 4: Did you get the phone number from her?
Speaker 2: No? I didn't. I got her number from the HOA,
Speaker 2: the contact with from the HOA. Everybody just has their
Speaker 2: number there. Oh wow, I actually don't know. Here's the thing.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I should put from my phone
Speaker 2: and identify myself.
Speaker 1: Can you stay anonymous?
Speaker 2: That's even Crippierpier if I stayed anonymous.
Speaker 3: Let's go around the room really quick and get ideas.
Speaker 3: Alexis will start with you. What does he send?
Speaker 1: I agree. I think he just seem to say the
Speaker 1: neighbor first of all, I'm sure reply to it.
Speaker 3: I'm your neighbor, and I see you naked. Okay, that's
Speaker 3: one idea, Alexis.
Speaker 1: Or I think you say, hey, it's Jimmy. We haven't
Speaker 1: met before, and this may be the most uncomfortable thing
Speaker 1: I've ever had to tell someone and then just let
Speaker 1: her respond to that.
Speaker 4: So basically what Alexis said, but really long winded. What
Speaker 4: do you think? I think you need to be professional
Speaker 4: and generic.
Speaker 1: I think that's the best way.
Speaker 4: Okay, but what do we in a corner or embarrassed?
Speaker 1: Maybe we put those bug eye emoji.
Speaker 3: I was going all emojis where it's like I emoji
Speaker 3: bathing suit emoji, sun oil emoji, two houses next to
Speaker 3: each other. Emojis make her decipher what you're saying.
Speaker 1: I don't think she would be mad at you. I
Speaker 1: think she's just getting an embarrassed I already know.
Speaker 3: So we threw a lot of ideas at you there, Jimmy,
Speaker 3: which one do you want to go with?
Speaker 2: Younger, we would definitely go with the all emoji deciple.
Speaker 4: You want to do all emojis?
Speaker 2: No, if I was a younger earlier Manka, she.
Speaker 1: Would text back, she would be like, what is this?
Speaker 2: I think you get it, but I think I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have to go generic and professional.
Speaker 4: All right, So go ahead and tell us what you're writing.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, Hi, this is your next door neighbor Jimmy,
Speaker 2: just so you know, we can see you sunbathing.
Speaker 4: Topless okay and okay finger emotion.
Speaker 1: Don't put topless in there, just sunbathing, sunbay.
Speaker 2: Call good call, right, we can see you sunbathing.
Speaker 4: And three thumbs up emojis.
Speaker 2: I just deleted no no emojis, I just deleted the
Speaker 2: word topless. Okay, okay, okay period At the end of
Speaker 2: the sentence of sunbathing question.
Speaker 3: We're just alerting her that that she's being seen, so
Speaker 3: we'll see if she responds. We're gonna come back and
Speaker 3: continue textual healing with your next door neighbor as we
Speaker 3: alert her that you can see her topless in her
Speaker 3: backyard right after this. If you're just joining us, we're
Speaker 3: in the middle of textual healing with our accidental peeping
Speaker 3: tom named Jimmy because he works from home and has
Speaker 3: spotted his next door neighbor sunbathing multiple times in her
Speaker 3: backyard with her top off.
Speaker 1: And I gotta say, we got to give him credit
Speaker 1: that he wants to help her out and not just
Speaker 1: let her continue like some gross guy will, So I
Speaker 1: really actually appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Don't just say gross guy, you would do it too.
Speaker 4: Brook maybe you would keep looking.
Speaker 3: But he did want to be a good neighbor and
Speaker 3: warn her that she is visible to him and probably
Speaker 3: to other houses.
Speaker 1: Nearby, and they god, kids are building treehouses all.
Speaker 3: Around right now. Thing is, it's awkward because he doesn't
Speaker 3: really know her very well, only met her like one
Speaker 3: So how do you tell that to somebody without coming
Speaker 3: across creepy and awkward.
Speaker 1: Well, and he knows for sure she's married.
Speaker 3: Right, So we decided the best route was to go
Speaker 3: with a professional text, basically saying, Hi, I'm your neighbor,
Speaker 3: just letting you know I can see you when your
Speaker 3: sonbathing in your backyard. We emitted all the dirty emojis
Speaker 3: that we suggested. Not sure why, but that was Jimmy's choice.
Speaker 3: Jimmy did she respond? Okay?
Speaker 2: She well, okay, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: What yea, why are you so stressed out?
Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. Okay, I got a response. The
Speaker 2: problem is I've got a response from the husband. What.
Speaker 2: There are two names, two constant numbers on the hl
Speaker 2: A list, and I guess maybe they mixed them up.
Speaker 4: Oh god, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think if a guy read that text, he could
Speaker 1: totally interpret that the wrong way.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was not happy at I didn't get a
Speaker 5: lot of EMOCHI, but I got a lot of swearing
Speaker 5: from the husband. From the husband, and you know he's
Speaker 5: serious because there was no there's no real big mistakes.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Wait, what what can you read of his response? Can
Speaker 1: you read any of it?
Speaker 2: What do you mean? You? And then this, you know,
Speaker 2: a couple of words.
Speaker 4: That wonderful, helpful neighbor?
Speaker 2: Is that not? The last text is she shouldn't be
Speaker 2: showing it all? Here's her number? You tell her what? Yeah,
Speaker 2: he gave me her number.
Speaker 1: That's weird.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe he's oh my god, like he's like, she
Speaker 3: shouldn't be doing that, like in their own backyard.
Speaker 1: Why would just deal with that relationship?
Speaker 3: Maybe that's not the first text that he's gotten like
Speaker 3: that about his wife.
Speaker 1: Didn't think about that. He's like pastor complaints to her. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's like it's a problem now, So now we have
Speaker 1: to retext the wife and actually tell her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I listen, I already texted. I just texted her
Speaker 2: the same message I said the first time.
Speaker 1: Okay, any information about how you accidentally told her husband?
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 4: If you would have said I talked to your husband.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I didn't see a reason to make
Speaker 2: the situation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I could cause it any more awkward.
Speaker 2: So I'm just waiting for a response right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh god, okay, so now we're still oh geez, we're
Speaker 3: going to make it super awkward with you and the husband.
Speaker 4: Now, well, I.
Speaker 1: Don't know, Maybe that the husband is just really mad
Speaker 1: at his wife. Oh, it sounds like it.
Speaker 3: Sounds like it's bugging him. I want to know.
Speaker 2: Hold on, I just I just got a response. I'll
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what she responds right now. Let me
Speaker 2: just open it and read.
Speaker 4: The wife responded.
Speaker 2: She just responded, are you the one with the binoculars? Oh?
Speaker 3: Oh my Godlars.
Speaker 4: Okay, this is the time you need to be honest
Speaker 4: with us.
Speaker 2: No, no, let's get that out of the way. I
Speaker 2: didn't I don't know. I mean, I'm right, like if
Speaker 2: I wanted. Okay, why are.
Speaker 1: You still so much? This should be a very simple response.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not looking at her with binocular Okay.
Speaker 3: Is it a telescope that you're using? What device?
Speaker 2: No? No, wait, what do I say to that?
Speaker 4: I mean, no, yeah, yeah, that's the truth.
Speaker 3: Doesn't sound like.
Speaker 4: It's the truth.
Speaker 1: I think you need to say No, that's horrifying. I
Speaker 1: was writing you to warn you that people could see you.
Speaker 2: I like that. I don't like the horrifying part.
Speaker 4: Boobs are harassing our neighborhood. It makes it sound like
Speaker 4: the view is not a good view.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I didn't take it that way.
Speaker 3: Well, it's not you that he's texting, and.
Speaker 1: We just know that isn't me, not even OMG.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you need to reply a little bit
Speaker 3: more surprised, even at the insinuation.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing. I don't anything like that. I don't
Speaker 2: want to engage more than I have to know that
Speaker 2: wasn't me. Once I put know that wasn't me, I
Speaker 2: think we're good.
Speaker 3: I mean I think you should at least explain. I'm
Speaker 3: just trying to warn you into other wrong to be
Speaker 3: helpful here.
Speaker 2: Okay, No, that wasn't me. I just wanted you to
Speaker 2: know what was going on.
Speaker 4: Sure, if you.
Speaker 3: Want to get it simple like that, that's up to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think as simple as possible. I just want
Speaker 2: to get it over with.
Speaker 3: You know, I think it doesn't make sense, alexis what
Speaker 3: doesn't make sense about that. That's the end of it.
Speaker 1: You're gonna let her know what's going on. What's going on?
Speaker 1: You didn't say anything?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well no, no, no, no. I just want to know
Speaker 2: that people can see it. That's it. There's no need
Speaker 2: to He's just going back and forth. I'm just trying
Speaker 2: to be a good neighbor. Here's what's happening.
Speaker 1: Why are you so defensive?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: You seem really like amped up and stressed out about this.
Speaker 2: Is it something you didn't expect to have to do
Speaker 2: with the husband? And this was the whole thing with
Speaker 2: the guy basically yelling at me over the text.
Speaker 4: You don't deal with drama, No, not at all, got it?
Speaker 1: You know, I work for a home or re the
Speaker 1: husband back and say I'm so sorry or something.
Speaker 2: Right, I could, but now it's like you want me
Speaker 2: to text two people and I just want to get.
Speaker 1: Okay all the answers. You're gonna have to sell your
Speaker 1: house and move.
Speaker 3: You're gonna be the most hated person in the neighborhood
Speaker 3: at the end of this. But just start with the
Speaker 3: text to the wife where you're just politely telling her
Speaker 3: I just was trying to warn you that I could
Speaker 3: see you.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's go with U with or without binoculars. I
Speaker 4: can see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm closing enough, right, Okay, So the response to
Speaker 2: are you the one with the binoculars is just gonna
Speaker 2: be No. I just wanted you to know what was
Speaker 2: going on, Okay.
Speaker 3: I mean I wasn't really our suggestion, but you're telling you.
Speaker 2: I don't want to leave it open for like a
Speaker 2: back and forth conversation, Okay. I just wanted you to know.
Speaker 2: Just sound where I'm gonna have to go back and forth.
Speaker 3: Stop talking, start hitting send on your text message.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I'm gonna do that right now.
Speaker 3: Let me just it's more more words.
Speaker 1: Isn't going to end.
Speaker 3: I feel like even if she was like James for
Speaker 3: letting me know, and the guy.
Speaker 2: Was like thank you, Okay, I just sent it.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank god.
Speaker 1: This is just such a simple situation.
Speaker 2: It was definitely wasn't in the beginning. And then you know,
Speaker 2: I gotta I don't know this guy. I know he's
Speaker 2: going to react when he comes home from work.
Speaker 3: You know, you got to pay more attention when you're
Speaker 3: looking at what numbers you're texting.
Speaker 1: That's why you need to know your neighbors.
Speaker 2: I was it's got to be a mistake on the
Speaker 2: h o A list. And the more I think about this,
Speaker 2: the more as creepous it sounded.
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you you're talking is not going to
Speaker 1: help you. If you have to talk to this guy
Speaker 1: in person.
Speaker 4: It's actually better that we're doing this overtext.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, she does. She's typing a response.
Speaker 5: Dott stot starts, stops.
Speaker 2: What was that? But that's supposed to do that?
Speaker 4: You were supposed to that.
Speaker 2: Okay, here's a response.
Speaker 4: Oh god?
Speaker 2: What this is? Her response is what if I said
Speaker 2: I wanted you to see me smirk emoji?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, yeah, you're getting beat up by us?
Speaker 2: This? Yeah, this is great. Now I really do have
Speaker 2: to move.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, just just right back and say I'm not
Speaker 1: into that. Leave it, Blake. Let her guess what you
Speaker 1: are into it.
Speaker 2: No, I don't want to leave anything netting. Could I
Speaker 2: just say I think it would be maybe easy to
Speaker 2: just say no, thank you and then just block their number,
Speaker 2: block her.
Speaker 1: You have to live.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe do a bikini emoji and then a thumb's
Speaker 3: down or like a green barf emoji.
Speaker 1: Oh god, it's terrible. I think I'm not into that.
Speaker 1: It is probably good.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, it's that's the way to let her
Speaker 3: know that he doesn't want.
Speaker 1: To You said, I said horrific view or something like that,
Speaker 1: and you were worried about it.
Speaker 3: Before I realized she was going to be really into
Speaker 3: people looking, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, now that I think about it, I don't
Speaker 2: know blocking her is a good idea because she's right
Speaker 2: next door, like they already know who I am.
Speaker 3: That you can't block her you live next The only
Speaker 3: way this could be worse is if the husband texted
Speaker 3: you saying, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 4: Are you not into her?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You guys, I just I don't want to be
Speaker 2: involved in this weird triangle, or any triangle for that matter.
Speaker 1: It is strange that the husband told him I was
Speaker 1: just trying to be a good neighbor.
Speaker 2: And now this whole thing's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: You're their house.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a party with just the three of you,
Speaker 3: all right, But at least it sounds like we helped
Speaker 3: you do what you set out to do. You wanted
Speaker 3: to tell her that people can see, and now she
Speaker 3: definitely is aware.
Speaker 1: You don't have to feel bad if you look because
Speaker 1: parents she.
Speaker 3: Wants you to. You can go ahead and get those
Speaker 3: binoculars back.
Speaker 2: Out and can not meetculars Yeah, okay, sure, or even
Speaker 2: binocular
Speaker 1: Brook and Jeffrey in the morning.