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Welcome to garage sales 
Unhinged. 

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Where the characters are as 
quirky as the vines. 

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I'm Julie. 
And I'm Jake. 

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Join us as we dive into the wild
world of garage sales, yard 

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sales, estate sales, and 
anywhere secondhand sales are 

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happening from. 
Bizarre bargains to hilarious 

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haggles. 
You won't believe the stories 

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we've got lined up. 
Let's get unhinged. 

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So the the neighborhood Julie I 
live in, the median age around 

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here is got to be like 65. 
Hot. 

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Yeah, that's. 
Sexy is all good out. 

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That's right man, all the 
casserole you could want. 

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All the hard candy. 
Oh baby, there you go. 

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A lot of lap sitting and truth 
is like most of the home walk 

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the dogs all the time right? 
Yep. 

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And thing I I tend to do, 
walking the dogs is like, hey, 

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let me count how many houses are
for sale or are clearly not 

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inhabited. 
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And there's a lot, I mean, like 
for one, yeah, that's the 

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housing market right now. 
I get it. 

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But even before the market kind 
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it's been in, there's a lot of 
houses that have been empty 

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because, you know, the the prior
resident recently passed away 

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and the house is either in 
probate or something like that 

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and it's just empty. 
It's kind of. 

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So, OK, hold, I'm going to pause
you right there. 

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I follow this guy on the socials
where he goes in and he will cut

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people's lawns whenever their 
grass gets too high and he does 

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it for free. 
And part of it, it's just an 

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ASMR video because I'm like, oh,
look at those clean lines. 

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Look at it like it's all getting
trimmed. 

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I don't know, but a lot of the 
properties he goes and he tries 

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to talk to the homeowner to say 
like, hey, is this OK? 

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But some of the properties he 
goes to, no one lives there. 

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It hasn't been inhabited because
a lot of the houses are in 

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probate and the family may live 
out of state or something like 

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that. 
So no one's actually taking care

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of the house or the the yard. 
And I was like, yeah, that, that

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is a hard conundrum to be in 
because I'm sure they're also 

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getting letter. 
Well, I'll, I'm saying for sure,

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I'm sure the city wants to send 
a letter to the homeowner saying

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you need to cut your yard or 
something like that, but then 

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it's stuck in probate, So what 
do you do? 

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Yeah, whose responsibility is 
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I'm curious about this guy 
you're talking about that lawn 

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bombs people. 
He's saying he does this for 

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free, but it also sounds like he
does this for passive 

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aggressiveness. 
Like it's just people. 

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Tell them your yard's out of 
order, ma'am. 

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He'll just go and cut it and be 
like, isn't that better? 

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And you know what it is? 
So he, he does it one day out of

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the week. 
So he owns a, a lawn company. 

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He, he actually gets paid to do 
people's yards. 

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But one day out of the week he 
will go to someone's, he'll go 

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to a property that needs to be 
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And a lot of times he is, I 
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looking, but he's looking for 
like maybe it's single moms or 

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older people. 
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Or houses that are in probate, 
something of like this is A1 

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house in a neighborhood that's 
just not being taken care of. 

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And how can he help out that 
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But he also has kids. 
And so he gets his kids involved

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in the lawn company. 
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though he doesn't charge them 
for this thing, he records the 

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whole process and he makes money
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Yeah. 
So only, you know, I'm not going

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to yuck someone's Yum. 
And also I like to watch the 

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videos. 
All right, Well, that's the 

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situation around here. 
A lot of houses that you presume

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are in probate, they're, you 
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I mean, it's not that they're 
going into disrepair or anything

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like that, but there's some, 
some of them do have to lock 

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boxes on the front door. 
There's clearly not a lot of 

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activity there. 
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So you go like, well, no one, no
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One of those situations is right
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OK. 
And I'm this is a story in three

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parts. 
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Part 1 This story about a 
property in this situation that 

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is immediately adjacent to mine.
We actually share a fence. 

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Part 1 is called Memento Mori. 
OK, memento what? 

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Memento Mori. 
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And you've made light of my 
Latin studies before, but I know

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what that means. 
Yeah, I don't know what it 

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means. 
OK, it's a reminder of death. 

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Oh, that's very dark, Yeah. 
So Part 1, walking the dogs and 

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the, you know, there's a lot of 
old folks in the neighborhood 

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and they love the dogs. 
Oh, they love to pet the dogs 

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and everything like that. 
A lot of them give them treats 

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and the dogs are kind of 
addicted to it and it's kind of 

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a problem sometimes. 
But right next door, I've only 

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seen her since like the, you 
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maybe 3 Times Now, you know, 
working in her kind of some of 

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the some of the garden up front,
some of the landscaping, kind of

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trimming a Bush or something 
like that tiny little old lady. 

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I mean like a wisp of a person 
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feel like way there, you know, 
acknowledge high and nothing, 

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nothing. 
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people are like, Hey, you know, 
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something cool one time. 
Hold on. 

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The way you said a sounded like 
the Fonz from. 

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I'm just here to trim your yard.
You know you're a single old 

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lady, right? 
And you know it. 

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And those little old ladies 
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There you go. 
One time she was trying to pull 

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her trash can back toward the 
house and clearly struggling 

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with it. 
I had these dogs on the leash 

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and I was offering to help. 
I was like, do you need help? 

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And she was, it was clear that 
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hearing me or understanding me 
or just like didn't want me to 

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even engage. 
Eventually I was like, you know,

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this is probably scary for her. 
I'm just going to disengage and 

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continue. 
And hope to God she gets this 

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thing up the street and is OK. 
Fast forward a little bit months

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later. 
Hadn't seen the lady in a while.

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Turns out she had passed away. 
Very sad. 

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Yeah, very sad. 
Can I? 

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OK, Hopefully she had a good 
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isn't really like. 
It's not the end. 

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Yeah, with Hellraiser has made 
that point many times. 

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But can I just flip it around? 
Like would it be more sad if she

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had turned into a zombie? 
Go on. 

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I mean like at the end of your 
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Just struggle with the trash 
can, you know? 

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Yeah, it's like, oh, you know, 
at the end of your life, like, 

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OK, now I get to rest. 
I, you know, I'm, I'm done. 

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And then it's like, oh, you 
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She turned into a zombie and now
she's just always hungry for 

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brains. 
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into perspective people. 
So that happens. 

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And even before then, like part 
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know, across the yard, really 
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I mean like really bad shape. 
This fence is like really 

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leaning, threatening to fall 
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know, go over there and knock on
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fence and hey, how can we take 
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Because I don't want it to fall 
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the other stuff. 
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worried if I knock on the door, 
she will like crumble into a 

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pile of dust. 
I don't want to do that. 

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So I just kind of let it flies 
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tried to jury rig it on my side,
but it's the problems on the 

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other side. 
And so like, well man, well, 

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maybe eventually somebody will 
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the estate so I can actually 
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Time goes by and nobody's there.
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One time I'm going by and I see 
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like finally let me go do this. 
I'm going to go take care of 

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this, walk over there and talk 
to at first the yard guys, the 

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yard guys explain what's going 
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Yep, the lady had passed away, 
this and that. 

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We're contracted to take care of
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Oh, OK, cool. 
Well, I have to think about the 

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fence. 
That's really not us. 

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That's the management company. 
And there's this piece of paper 

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on the door that's got a number 
you can call. 

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All right, cool. 
I do that, I call up and the 

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management company answers and 
says, OK, we're going to be out 

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there on this day, let's look at
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Yes, great day comes. 
I go out there, those folks are 

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there. 
They're inside the house 

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clearing out. 
Like the house is still full of 

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stuff, obviously. 
And they were really nice. 

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They actually were like, hey, 
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OK so I go in Part 2 is what 
happened inside the house. 

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The investigation. 

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OK, Do do we need to have like 
one of the courtroom dolls of 

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like, where did they touch you? 
Right, right, right, right. 

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So go inside this house and it's
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Turns out the lady, her husband 
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10/15/20 years earlier. 
She'd been living there alone, 

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you know, the entire time. 
No surviving family. 

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OK. 
None. 

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No children, no siblings, 
clearly no parents, but so the 

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house. 
I don't, I don't know. 

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I want to say the word arrears 
because it makes me laugh every 

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time I say it, but I don't know 
if that term applies here or 

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not. 
But there's no real, I mean part

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of the to figure out what. 
Why does a rears make you laugh?

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He's got rears, rears. 
It's a butt joke. 

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It's a butt joke. 
It's the butt of the joke. 

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A joke of the butt. 
But probate is meant to figure 

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out, well, OK, who who's all 
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Who's responsible for the stuff?
And one thing I've learned is 

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about something called intestacy
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When there's no widower, there's
no kids, there's no relatives, 

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what happens? 
Does it go to the neighbor 

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right? 
That'd be proud of school. 

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As long as there's no fence 
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I don't know, they're kicking it
down, but so that was the 

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situation. 
The House was paid for, 

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obviously, she'd been there 
forever. 

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But there's no one for it to go 
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There's no money owed on the 
thing other than the paltry 

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taxes, you know, overtime. 
It doesn't at at that point, you

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belong to a management company 
that was just managing it while 

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they're sorting out who this 
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So here's everything at stake 
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OK. 
House full of furniture and 

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because they've been there so 
long, the furniture, you know, 

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it's, it's not the most modern 
stuff, but it kind of I'd say 

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the furniture is, you know, 
sixties, 70's, the stuff in the 

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house that's not furniture, you 
know, as it is like people 

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collect stuff that spends their 
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So there's stuff in there that 
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Her husband was clearly a 
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They have all of this like an 
armoire fool of actual China, 

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actual crystal like, and to the 
point that like, I only knew 

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that because the lady that was 
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It's like, look, grabs a piece, 
thumps, it does that whole 

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thing. 
The wing things like, isn't that

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neat? 
All of this is like that. 

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Yeah, that's neat. 
Leaded stained glass windows all

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over the place. 
Oh my, yeah. 

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Antique dishes, vintage stuff. 
I mean, it was like a like a 

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crazy bonanza of things. 
Those folks were in there. 

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They're like, Oh yeah, we're 
going to take this, this, this 

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and this because I something 
between either the bank or the 

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lawyer or something. 
These things are going 

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someplace. 
But everything else, who knows. 

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If you want it, make an off. 
And it was like, I was kind of 

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like locked up. 
I was like, do you mind if I 

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look around and take some 
pictures? 

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Yeah, sure. 
What? 

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Did they even ask for your ID? 
No. 

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No, no. 
You could have been just, you 

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could have been, you know, some 
just guy driving through the 

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neighborhood and going, yeah, I 
think that looks like. 

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I, I simply was, I mean, I was, 
I walked over there, but I'm 

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it's disarming how handsome I 
am. 

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And so they were fine with. 
Hold on. 

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OK. 
So they were struggling with a 

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section of the house, a bathroom
that had been converted into a 

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utility room. 
So it's got a washer and dryer 

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in what was clearly a walk in 
shower at some point. 

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And they're trying to figure out
how to get the machines out of 

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there. 
And I pointed out to was like, 

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it's clear over here from the 
outside of this room. 

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The only way they got those 
things in there was that they 

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took the door frame out, put the
machines in there, and then put 

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the door frame back. 
Oh my. 

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And they? 
Were like, well forget it, like 

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I'm not, I'm not messing with 
all that. 

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That's somebody else's problem. 
Yeah. 

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So they left a fully 
functioning, fairly new washer 

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and dryer set and a lot of other
stuff. 

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I mean, this place was filled 
with appliances, furniture, art,

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dishes and a garage full of 
stuff including a Cadillac. 

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Like how old is this Cadillac? 
You know, early 90s, yeah. 

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It wasn't a Fish Tale. 
You know, Sweden that that would

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have been a different story. 
But all of this stuff, and 

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they're just like, Yep, we'll 
figure out where this stuff goes

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eventually. 
But if you want it, you can make

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an offer, I guess. 
I didn't do any of that, though.

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There was a lot of cool stuff, 
but time goes on and I'm walking

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the dog still because we pass by
there all the time on the route 

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and the grass, it's higher and 
higher and higher and higher. 

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At some point there's a bad 
storm in the area and actually 

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knocked off a big chunk of a 
tree in the yard and like it 

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falls into the street. 
Didn't damage the house, didn't 

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damage any wires or anything 
like that, but it's a, a good 

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chunk of the tree that's in 
like, you know, 1/4 of the 

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street. 
And I'm calling the number on 

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the paper going, hey, here's the
thing, here's what happened. 

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Can we, what's up? 
And by the way, this fence, like

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I, I still have my problems, you
know, like and so, but at some 

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point the person answering the 
phone goes, Oh, we don't, that's

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not in our books anymore. 
So where? 

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Who owns the house? 
So here's the thing before I get

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to Part 3. 
Oh, OK. 

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The end of Part 2 in the 
investigation is that at some 

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point the House wasn't able. 
The investigation meaning just 

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what you know. 
Yes. 

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Oh, OK, yeah. 
That's good. 

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I, I, I walked the 30 feet more 
than once to go and look. 

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I, I never saved the number. 
So I had to go look at the 

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number a few times to call it, 
this is me and that I did a 

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little Googling and part of what
I found out was that at some 

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point this house was in probate.
Probate went, we got nothing. 

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There's nowhere for it to go. 
No one like the only person that

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owned the title has passed. 
There's there's not a balance 

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due to the bank, so it doesn't 
belong to the bank and now the 

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house doesn't belong to anyone. 
Jake, have you thought about 

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going to court to say my sweet 
old neighbor said that I could 

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have the house? 
We connected over the trash can 

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thing. 
Yeah, yeah, it's. 

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Sweet, he left the house to my 
dogs. 

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That's right. 
Yeah. 

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And honestly, it is. 
It's got a lot of really cool 

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things to it. 
It's got a lot of damage to it, 

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too, but whatever. 
But right now, the house doesn't

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belong to a bank. 
It doesn't belong to a person. 

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It doesn't belong to an estate. 
It doesn't belong to anybody. 

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It's in limbo and this was 
happening like, you know, here 

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just like right now. 
So I'm not sure if it's 

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something supposed to be 
happening to it or not, but I'm 

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really not sure how the law 
works in this situation. 

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I, I don't know if you or 
anybody listening has a point of

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view on this, but when the house
has no and when property has no 

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antecedent, you know, when it 
doesn't go to anybody, there's 

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nobody for whom to it to go to, 
you know, is it anybody's 

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property? 
I mean, if there's no will, I 

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would and it, you know, the bank
doesn't own it. 

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No, I feel like it would go back
to like the county because at 

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some point the property taxes 
are not going to be paid. 

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Right. 
And then I would imagine the 

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county would be able to put a 
lien or foreclosure on it and 

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then potentially bank would come
in and or you know, an investor 

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or somebody would come in and 
buy it. 

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What about all those stuff? 
What about the Cadillac? 

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I mean, you buy it as is. 
So like whatever is there, they 

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get. 
And here's the thing, like part 

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of it is, and I'm assuming this 
folks, I have no clue. 

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I'm just assuming because that's
what I do, Like if the county 

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goes to take ownership of it, 
they may like have somebody come

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in and clean it out and then 
that stuff would go to like a 

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county auction or city auction 
or something like that. 

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That's what the initial 
management company had 

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mentioned. 
Like that's what they were, they

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were there to do. 
But now they're telling me like 

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they wash their hands of it. 
They're like, not us. 

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And well, the city, they're 
like, not us. 

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So that takes me to Part 3. 
You should call the county. 

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No. 
Oh. 

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OK. 
I don't have the county on speed

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dial. 
You just said how you googled 

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things. 
Oh. 

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Yeah. 
How cold is it your story? 

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So Part 3 of the story is one 
that will maybe cover on a later

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episode. 
And it's the gift because I was 

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like, I, the curiosity got the 
best of me and I, I, I got you a

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gift. 
From The Zombie Lady. 

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No. 
Oh. 

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How rude of you I. 
Mean what? 

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Where'd you get my gift from? 
Who's? 

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To say at this point I mean you.
You got it. 

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You. 
Did it? 

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You, you got it, so you should 
be the person to say. 

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So when we do get to our our 
fabulous holiday episode where 

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we exchange gifts, no that I 
didn't have to go far to find 

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yours. 
Did you go 30 feet? 

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Up there about. 
Is it a washer and dryer that 

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you had to? 
Take before it's a washer and 

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dryer in the back of a Cadillac.
Honestly, this sounds great. 

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My price is right, dreams are 
coming true. 

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So yeah, no, it's, it was just 
kind of a unique situation as 

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far as property and what happens
to it. 

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And like things, you know, when 
things are out of your hands, 

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the stuff you leave behind does 
go into some sort of a secondary

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market, whether you have clear 
directions on how it does so or 

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not. 
But here was a situation where 

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there was no clear direction and
there's no clear executor, yeah,

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no clear antecedent to receive 
the property. 

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Yeah. 
It's also this is a good call to

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our listeners of please do a 
will make sure that you get that

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thing filed with the right legal
entities so that your neighbor, 

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you know, this neighbor of yours
didn't have living family or 

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anything like that. 
But also now as your neighbor, 

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you get to live through the 
ramifications of no one taking 

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ownership of any of this stuff. 
Yeah, I will say here recently 

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the the place did get mowed and 
somebody did come and chop up 

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the giant branch that fell. 
What about the fence? 

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No, no, no dice there. 
Well, one issue is that their 

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side of the fence is just like 
completely overrun with vines 

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and thorns. 
So I'm, I'm waiting until like 

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now, like it get cold like this,
I'm going to go over there and 

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take care of it and patch it up.
The patch up job is going to be 

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on that side. 
I don't got to look at it, but 

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the fence is not going to fall 
down. 

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So but mysterious interloper, 
probably this, this passive 

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aggressive hunk that you're 
talking about, went over there 

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and took care of the yard and 
like got some content out of it.

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And right now, it's not as much 
of an eyesore, you know, for 

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this neighborhood, for what 
that's worth. 

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But godspeed, little old lady. 
You seemed really cool. 

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Your house is very nice. 
Don't eat my brains. 

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Yeah. 
If we lived in a world where 

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zombies are a real thing and 
it's like, oh, you know, Julie, 

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she passed. 
She lived a good life and she's 

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gone, that's one thing. 
The other thing is, like poor 

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Julie, she lived a good life and
now she's a zombie and she's 

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just walking 20,000 steps a day 
dragging her left leg like no, 

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just let me die. 
Yeah, but but her. 

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But her strata app is still 
going. 

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She's really logging in those 
steps, keeping up with her, 

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still kind of reading the 
system. 

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When there's zombie walkers out 
there, you can't really keep up.

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For all the people that are like
doing the, the Wellness 

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challenges at work, you have to 
get so many steps. 

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Just imagine a zombie having a 
bunch of Apple Watches and 

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Fitbits and the the rings that 
you that track all your steps 

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and like just weighed down with 
all this technology and just 

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walking across America for help.
Kind of kind of sounds like 

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you're drafting up a pretty good
satire. 

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No, it's reality. 
But also pour one out for your 

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neighbor. 
Yes, so that that's what's up 

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mystery kind of solved. 
We'll see what happens. 

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Honestly, I from the way this 
whole thing looks, you could 

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probably buy the place for 
pennies on the dollar and who 

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knows if you'd be able to resell
it, But if you could, it'd be, 

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I'm not going to say easy money,
but because I don't want anybody

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to like beat me to the punch, 
so. 

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Well, I look forward to Part 3. 
Yes, well, now. 

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I'm invested. 
I got to. 

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I got to know what happened. 
I'll probably forget they all 

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have build up from from this one
when we get to that, but remind 

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me if if you remember it before 
I do. 

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OK, I don't mind. 
All right. 

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All right, see you later. 
Bye.