Speaker 1: Hey, it's brigand Jeffrey and you found the Second Date podcast.
Speaker 1: If you've heard a textual healing before, then you know
Speaker 1: how this works. If you haven't, it's where we have
Speaker 1: a listener write in that needs some help texting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sometimes you just don't know the right words to say.
Speaker 1: You're stuck in a weird situation and.
Speaker 2: Like today's needs help with her neighbor texting.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yea.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna go through that today in just a second.
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Speaker 1: your textual healing starts right now.
Speaker 4: I don't think this has ever happened on the show before.
Speaker 4: Where mid call we just had to pause and tell
Speaker 4: the woman on the phone to just breathe. She was
Speaker 4: that worked up, But you know what, you might feel
Speaker 4: the same way if you were in her shoes, dealing
Speaker 4: with her neighbor next door and the tiny problem that's
Speaker 4: been slowly ruining her life. We're gonna try and help
Speaker 4: her fix it with our fingers, all eleven of them,
Speaker 4: and you're gonna hear what that problem was. We're gonna
Speaker 4: do I use an extra one when I text I
Speaker 4: don't want to know, you'll hear her problem in a
Speaker 4: brand new textual.
Speaker 3: Here why do I ask questions?
Speaker 4: And it's coming up right after this.
Speaker 1: Text.
Speaker 4: You will then text you wal there's a saying that
Speaker 4: good fences make good neighbors. Yes, there's another saying that
Speaker 4: says bad neighbors make good fertilizer. I don't support that one,
Speaker 4: but I will say I do see the point, ah,
Speaker 4: because annoying neighbors can really get on your nerves and
Speaker 4: create unnecessarily problems for you in your life.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's true.
Speaker 4: And apparently there's something that's going on with one of
Speaker 4: our listeners, Allison and her next door neighbor.
Speaker 3: Please tell me the neighbor's still above ground. After Jeffrey's
Speaker 3: intro there, let's find out.
Speaker 4: Yes, maybe she needs to text the Morgue or something
Speaker 4: to come pick them up. Allison, how you doing?
Speaker 5: Oh? Do I need you guys help? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: Oh we're not that close of friends. Man, I'm not
Speaker 3: taking one down.
Speaker 5: I'm telling you. I have these neighbors. So a few
Speaker 5: months ago they got this cute white dog and it
Speaker 5: was fine. I heard some barking, and then the barking
Speaker 5: got more. Every single time there's a wind blowing a
Speaker 5: squirrel a rabbit, we have rabbits in the backyard barking,
Speaker 5: driving me nuts.
Speaker 1: I mean really, okay, it feels like you're gonna break
Speaker 1: right now just even talking about it.
Speaker 4: Is there any way that you could get rid of
Speaker 4: all the squirrels and stop the wind in your neighborhood that.
Speaker 3: I like that?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, really, so get this. I've already texted neighbors
Speaker 5: and I said, hey, listen because I hate confrontation, you know,
Speaker 5: And I was like, please, the dog's been sparking for
Speaker 5: five hours. Could you just like you maybe take him
Speaker 5: in a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know, though, I will say, when we first got
Speaker 1: our dog, we didn't realize that when we would go
Speaker 1: out to the bars at night.
Speaker 3: She would stay out barking all.
Speaker 1: Night, and so finally one of our neighbors wrote us
Speaker 1: a no, and we felt terrible. You know, of course
Speaker 1: we didn't let the dog out at night.
Speaker 3: Anymore appened in my apartment complex.
Speaker 4: I remember one of the gas was like, we didn't
Speaker 4: even know.
Speaker 1: Or.
Speaker 4: So, how did how did your neighbors react when you
Speaker 4: sent that message to them?
Speaker 5: Well, see, now you guys would act like a normal neighbor. Okay.
Speaker 5: So they said, all right, we're going to do something
Speaker 5: about it. And then, oh my god, it's the dog.
Speaker 4: Anyway, they said that I know you're very wound up
Speaker 4: about this house, and we can understand why. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: just relax a second. We're here to help you. Yeah,
Speaker 4: And it sounds like you actually got a decent response
Speaker 4: from that.
Speaker 3: They said they'd take care of it.
Speaker 5: Well they didn't. They didn't take care of it at all.
Speaker 5: A matter of fact, the barking got worse. So I
Speaker 5: sent them another text method now we're getting messy.
Speaker 4: Okay, Oh god, what did you say there?
Speaker 5: Okay? So I was like please please, and I put
Speaker 5: three pleases, you know, please stop your dog from barking,
Speaker 5: and they just never responded after that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it sounds too polite. No, neighbors don't respond to that.
Speaker 3: No, please, please please is not polite. One please is plate.
Speaker 1: Three pleases is like condescending almost.
Speaker 5: Okay, but for the record, the first time I was
Speaker 5: very nice. I mean, this is like the third text
Speaker 5: I've sent. I just I can't take it anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we could tell. We can tell people than.
Speaker 4: The dogs barking all the time? Are they bad neighbors
Speaker 4: in any other way?
Speaker 5: They're fine everything else I have. There's nothing else wrong really, Okay, Okay,
Speaker 5: I'm not a complainer. I hate confrontation.
Speaker 4: You're not a complainer, but you will come on the
Speaker 4: radio and voice all the pleasure about it, which is different.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we needed that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for this segment, we get that healthy, safe place
Speaker 4: to do.
Speaker 1: So you don't want to ruin the relationship, because like
Speaker 1: living next door to someone that you hate or hates
Speaker 1: you is going to be even worse than the dog barking.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, do you remember in New York City a
Speaker 5: really long time ago where that you know, there's the
Speaker 5: son of Sammy's the thing that made him snap with
Speaker 5: the dog barking?
Speaker 3: Okay, back to the fertilizer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're not sure one hundred percent if exactly like
Speaker 4: what she wants to do with this.
Speaker 1: Text messag, I don't know if I want to know
Speaker 1: after she just made that reference.
Speaker 4: I mean, Alison, what's your overall goal with doing the
Speaker 4: call this way?
Speaker 5: All right? Okay, So here's the thing. I've been listening
Speaker 5: you guys. I love, love, love you guys, and I thought,
Speaker 5: you know what, these are the people to help me.
Speaker 5: I just know it, And I just want to know.
Speaker 5: Do you all have any kind of like ideas or
Speaker 5: anything I could say? I mean, I just I'm at
Speaker 5: a loss here and I.
Speaker 4: Think you but as far as the goal of the
Speaker 4: texting here, are you trying to say we need to
Speaker 4: figure out one text to get the dog to stop barking?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, well, I mean the first.
Speaker 4: Thing we have to do they agreed to it before,
Speaker 4: but nothing happened.
Speaker 1: But the first thing we have to do is even
Speaker 1: get them to respond again because they have left her on.
Speaker 3: Read they don't like her.
Speaker 4: Right, that's a good point. I think if we text
Speaker 4: you about the dog, they're knocking her answer. It's just
Speaker 4: been the whole vibe of your relationship lately has been
Speaker 4: so serious between you and your neighbors. Maybe we should
Speaker 4: start off on a lighter note with like a dog
Speaker 4: pun or a dog joke, like a knock joke.
Speaker 3: I don't I like it? You don't like that, Alexis.
Speaker 2: I mean, I wouldn't reply to anybody's puns, so maybe
Speaker 2: i'm a background.
Speaker 4: We won't go with the pun to do the knock
Speaker 4: knock route. You're like, knock knock, who's there? Your dog's
Speaker 4: still barking? Dog emotion?
Speaker 5: You know what you guys, humor. I've noticed in my
Speaker 5: whole life humor always worked. I think that's a great idea.
Speaker 3: All right, that is it. It's a take.
Speaker 1: So let's make sure that we also included it's going
Speaker 1: to be the knock knock joke, who's there?
Speaker 3: Your dog?
Speaker 4: Who's there? Your dogs still barking?
Speaker 3: To do that one, they're not going to get it
Speaker 3: to reply to it. It should just be a random
Speaker 3: dog joke. Like I don't know, do I like the
Speaker 3: dog I like the knock knock? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I feel like that's maybe if.
Speaker 5: I put a happy face and it's like you know,
Speaker 5: emojis or something.
Speaker 4: I would take this as route.
Speaker 3: You need to do cry.
Speaker 4: I would literally read this and be like, this is
Speaker 4: the most backhanded I agree, but.
Speaker 3: I want to see what they respond anyway, entertainment, all right.
Speaker 4: Like knock knock, guess it's still barking.
Speaker 1: If you add a laughing crying emoji and a cute
Speaker 1: little puppy emoji.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 4: A great idea, even though this is probably some of
Speaker 4: the worst advice we've ever given. I'd you want to
Speaker 4: try it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's remember it is Jeff's idea.
Speaker 4: I will take full response.
Speaker 3: Don't put it as a paragraph.
Speaker 4: That's a good call. Good call. So knock knock, period return.
Speaker 4: They are question mark return. Yes, your dog's still barking emoji,
Speaker 4: laughing emoji and a dog emoji.
Speaker 5: Y got it.
Speaker 4: I'm going to give it a shot. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: You know it's going to get a response.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going to get a positive response,
Speaker 1: but it's going to get a response.
Speaker 4: That was one of the two goals that we sent,
Speaker 4: so we'd be halfway there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe it'll just haha back all right.
Speaker 4: You know so you sent that out, Alison, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: We're going to come back to warn her neighborhood.
Speaker 4: We could or we're the greatest peacemakers of all time
Speaker 4: and they should use this technique at the United Nations.
Speaker 4: We're gonna come back and we'll continue with textual healing.
Speaker 4: Right after this, we're on the phone with Alison for
Speaker 4: another segment of textual healing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm worried about her heart rate.
Speaker 4: She's stressed out because she has an issue with her
Speaker 4: next door neighbors, who actually, from the sound of it,
Speaker 4: seem like very nice, reasonable people, but they are fed
Speaker 4: up with Alison because Alison keeps texting about their barking dog.
Speaker 4: She's messaged several times before pleading that they get their
Speaker 4: pupp to stay quiet. Nothing has worked, which is why
Speaker 4: Alison came to us for help, and we decided to
Speaker 4: go with a little knock knock dog humor. Yes, and
Speaker 4: we have her texture neighbor knock knock, who's there? Your
Speaker 4: dog still barking in the backyard? Laugh emoji dog emoji?
Speaker 4: Because funny to us, because right, But just one of
Speaker 4: our goals of this whole thing was to get them
Speaker 4: to respond red totally. Alison, have you gotten anything back
Speaker 4: from your neighbors yet?
Speaker 5: Oh? My god, I totally got to respond.
Speaker 3: Yes, oh my god, is it good or bad?
Speaker 4: Done with our job, our goal?
Speaker 3: I am dying to hear what they said.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, this is what they wrote back. They said,
Speaker 5: we've tried, but Barney needs to express. Barney the dog
Speaker 5: needs to express his emotion, and we took him to
Speaker 5: the vet. This is what our vet said. If we
Speaker 5: get a holistic vet and Barney has to express himself,
Speaker 5: that's what they told me.
Speaker 4: He's barking for his mental health.
Speaker 1: Then my dog sees a holistic vet to holistic the acupuncture.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how do you feel about that? Alison? What's your reaction?
Speaker 5: I am beside myself. I mean, what the world health? Not? Well,
Speaker 5: she has a.
Speaker 4: Holistic you should try barking express Okay, so now we
Speaker 4: need to respond alexis, what do you think you're expert?
Speaker 4: You're an expert at dealing with like high confrontation and
Speaker 4: you love dogs to name.
Speaker 2: That plays the bagpipes and I don't say anything to
Speaker 2: that guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but your roommates twin sister is in vet school.
Speaker 3: We're pro dogs. The neighbor actually we usually say it's
Speaker 3: the neighbor's fall.
Speaker 4: Well, let's let's use. I mean, they clearly trust what
Speaker 4: their vet says. Maybe we can go off of something
Speaker 4: like veterinary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what if we throw some information back at them,
Speaker 1: because I mean the thing with holistic health is sometimes
Speaker 1: there's some gray area. And what if you said that's interesting,
Speaker 1: Because that's not saying you agree or disagree with the
Speaker 1: holistic fat you just say that's interesting. Maybe your dog
Speaker 1: could express themselves in other ways, like playing fetch, or
Speaker 1: have you thought about getting one of those doggie pads
Speaker 1: where it talks to you when it pushes the buttle,
Speaker 1: or some.
Speaker 4: Sort of like dog art class that lets you get
Speaker 4: your rage after paint.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what? Why not? I mean maybe I
Speaker 5: should take a little more calm approach.
Speaker 4: It sounds like you like it, Allison. Let's text it
Speaker 4: the yeah yeah all right. Let Brooks say that again
Speaker 4: so that Allison can.
Speaker 3: Text you just say that's interesting. Maybe your dog could
Speaker 3: express itself in different ways?
Speaker 4: Good? Perhaps perhaps that.
Speaker 3: Or one of those dog pads where it can talk
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 4: Okay, good, good thing. This is a Twitter and you
Speaker 4: don't have like a cap limit on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, do you remember I write it down?
Speaker 4: I think that's good because at that point, you're not
Speaker 4: attacking them anymore. You're trying to be helpful and part
Speaker 4: of the solution. And Brooke did a good job. Asking
Speaker 4: questions is good because you're trying to help and learn
Speaker 4: and like it. I know jose Is giving brook the
Speaker 4: credit there, but let's give Alexis credit for that text.
Speaker 2: Okay, Brooks took the words out of my mouth before
Speaker 2: I say that.
Speaker 1: It was like telepathectly, like a deer in a headlight
Speaker 1: when you ask after you stole my answer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Allison, go ahead send that if you haven't already.
Speaker 5: Okay, I just sent it. I send it already. Okay, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: All right, you sound like that sounded like a small dog.
Speaker 5: Bigre shuld stand in the backyard and bark.
Speaker 1: Right, do you work from home? Is that why this
Speaker 1: is such an issue for you? The dog barking?
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, you read my mind. Yes, I do.
Speaker 5: I work from home.
Speaker 3: The mind reader as well. Jeffrey, just to me, can you.
Speaker 4: Guess what they're going to respond with Brooke? What are
Speaker 4: they going to say back to our text?
Speaker 1: Well, they're probably gonna shoot down both her ideas.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: That maybe we could send him an Amazon link. Next.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, they just they just responded. They said
Speaker 5: that I have to respect the free will of all creatures,
Speaker 5: and they remained free. And then she said, he chooses
Speaker 5: to be an outside dog, we have to let him
Speaker 5: be free. Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean the old answer if is you then
Speaker 1: have to wake up at two in the morning and
Speaker 1: start practicing drums or something.
Speaker 4: You mean in retribution, Well, that's getting ugly.
Speaker 5: You know what maybe I should take You know, my
Speaker 5: mom always used to say, take the high roads, right,
Speaker 5: get high.
Speaker 3: These people aren't even on the road.
Speaker 4: Look. Maybe because maybe we just lean into this even more.
Speaker 4: That's what alexis in her all her wisdom would tell you.
Speaker 4: Don't try and push back constantly, try and lean into it.
Speaker 4: And instead of fight with them, why not say you
Speaker 4: know what you're right? That immediately disarms them. Wait wait, wait, see,
Speaker 4: let me finish your right. Who are we to say
Speaker 4: when and where your dog can bark? I want to
Speaker 4: get to know your dog better. Please let me dogs
Speaker 4: sit further you on your next vacation.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, what do you I don't do you hear Alison?
Speaker 3: I don't trust her being alone.
Speaker 4: When he disappears under your care. It's like it was
Speaker 4: the dog's free will. Who was I to stop your
Speaker 4: dog from to go back to the genius.
Speaker 3: This is not my idea. That is terrible broke.
Speaker 4: No, seriously, though, are you open to like dogs sitting
Speaker 4: and maybe that'll disarm the tension between the two neighbors.
Speaker 5: Here's the thing. I love animals. I just don't want
Speaker 5: them barking in my face twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 5: But you know what, maybe if I got to know him,
Speaker 5: you know, and he is pretty cute, and I don't know,
Speaker 5: maybe I should just I really, maybe I should just
Speaker 5: take the high road, you know.
Speaker 4: And why did you you both take the high road?
Speaker 4: Be nice to the doggie, but leave the front gate
Speaker 4: on lock, just in gage.
Speaker 1: I mean that is free will because they're actually going
Speaker 1: against their dogs free will by keeping them in a
Speaker 1: caged Ye.
Speaker 4: Don't care, don't tell them, you know what.
Speaker 5: You're right though. It's an interesting point.
Speaker 4: Okay, So that's exactly what you should text to your neighbor.
Speaker 3: So we didn't really solve anything.
Speaker 4: Well, I think we've at least got the communication going
Speaker 4: between the two neighbors again. And there's not so much
Speaker 4: like anger and animosity between you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what, you made me laugh. You did
Speaker 5: solve something. You feel good.
Speaker 3: That's our mission, guys, that's what we always wanted. But
Speaker 3: don't actually like lose the dog on purpose. Right, we
Speaker 3: understand that was a joke.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're just kidding.
Speaker 5: No coyotes and stuff, right, no, no, no.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, I'm going to call that a successful
Speaker 4: edition of textual healing because we're out of time here.
Speaker 3: But I like your loose interpretation of success.
Speaker 4: Alexis calls it success, and that's all that.
Speaker 2: I feel good about this one.
Speaker 4: It's Brook and Jeffrey in the morning.
Speaker 3: Brook and Jeffrey in the morning. Well, that wasn't exactly
Speaker 3: how we wanted things to No, not at all. That's
Speaker 3: why you just go back and being passive aggressive with
Speaker 3: your neighbors.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: And he's actually tried to talk to him about the problem.
Speaker 1: But we did have a lot of comments come in
Speaker 1: after this textual healing.
Speaker 3: What did you see, Alexis.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, one person said, maybe some type of
Speaker 2: petibles they should give them to call them now they
Speaker 2: actually have ye dog casually drugging the neighbor's dog.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's the same stuff we give our dog on
Speaker 1: fourth of July. That neighbor just needs to walk the dog.
Speaker 3: More, honestly. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, and then someone else said, I've experienced this type
Speaker 2: of dog barking, and I downloaded an app that transmitted
Speaker 2: the silent ringing noise that.
Speaker 3: Dogs can hear but we can't.
Speaker 2: It worked every time, and my own dog was never affected,
Speaker 2: only the neighbors.
Speaker 3: That's actually really, that's correct. How we should have called
Speaker 3: you at the beginning of this phone.
Speaker 5: Though.
Speaker 3: There is seriously an app for everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, Okay, listen, let's make that sound right now
Speaker 1: for all the dogs listening.
Speaker 3: I think that's just our normal voice. Oh yeah, it
Speaker 3: was Alexis. Sorry, you're right, all the gods went crazy
Speaker 3: after you. All right there it is. Thank you so
Speaker 3: much for being here.
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