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[♪ dramatic music playing]
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[whooshing]
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[flag smacking]
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[overlapping radio broadcasts]
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I'm Jeff Wentworth.
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My neighbor has built a wall
that's way too high.
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[Alexa Person]
I'm Alexa Person.
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This is my wall.
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My neighbor Jeff
wants me to take it down,
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and I am not taking it down.
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Well, I think you can see why
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anybody living
across the street
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from that cartel-looking
residence would be unhappy.
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[whooshing]
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[Steven Unverzagt]
She was my Black mama.
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Everybody hates when I say that,
but she was,
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she totally took care of me.
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We had a great relationship.
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All of a sudden,
he start filming me,
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constantly.
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He's a psycho.
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I needed some eyes.
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So, I went and I bought
a couple of cameras.
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I had no idea how much
activity I would capture.
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[Joanne Webb]
I'm like a specimen to him.
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Just like a specimen.
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If she needs that
kind of privacy,
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she picked
the wrong neighborhood.
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[Alexa]
I need protection
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from this really dark,
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disturbed human being.
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I could feel the anger
growing inside of me.
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He's dangerous.
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[♪ dramatic music playing]
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[garage door whirring]
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[Jeff Wentworth] Every day,
I'm affronted by this wall.
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I'm offended by it.
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It aggravates me
every single day.
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I open the front door
to get the paper
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and there's that wall,
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a scar on
the neighborhood.
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When she first moved in,
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I walked across the street,
rang the doorbell.
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Alexa answered,
and I introduced myself,
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welcomed her
to the neighborhood
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and told her if there's
anything she needed,
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please feel free to come
across the street.
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[Alexa] I first met Jeff
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about a week
after I moved in.
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We were both getting our mail.
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He was kind enough
and nice enough.
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Then, I didn't see him again
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until we were well
into construction.
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I began seeing her build
an eight-foot fence.
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His face was red
and he was yelling,
"I can't see in!"
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"What is this wall?"
And, "What's happening here?"
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And, "This shouldn't be here."
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One day, I found
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some strangers
in my backyard
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leering at my pool.
That was scary.
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I needed to secure
this perimeter.
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We've seen no crime,
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uh, to speak of at all
in this neighborhood.
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[Alexa]
Jeff doesn't understand
that the wall,
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it's gonna be a mix of
an Italian and a French villa
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with landscaping
and water features.
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Jeff's never seen the plans.
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[Jeff] This is a photograph
of the compound
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where Osama bin Laden hid out.
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We did the right thing
in tracking him down
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and getting rid of him.
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And it's very tall.
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Here's a huge, black,
metal gate.
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[mouse clicking]
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Well, 10-feet high,
12-feet high.
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Structures like that
are built to keep people out,
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and that's exactly
what she has over there.
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[Alexa]
You want your home
to be safe.
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It needs to be a sanctuary.
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Like, what's the point of
attacking someone over a wall?
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Although it's been
incredibly challenging
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and frustrating at times,
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it underscores my work.
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[keyboard clacking]
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[Jeff] I don't know the woman.
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But this is her site,
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which is kind of strange.
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It describes her as
an "alchemist of light."
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She says she,
uh, helped,
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"Starseeds activate
their earthly mission
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by remembering
who they are."
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It's unusual, and I'm not
interested in buying her books.
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I'm an author,
a professional lecturer,
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and speak where I'm invited.
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What do you do?
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Well, I am an alchemist.
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There are four
different realities
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happening simultaneously.
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Consciousness and everything,
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it's working
in a multidimensional space.
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People are deciding
which path they're gonna take.
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There's fear or love.
Choose wisely.
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My name is no accident.
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"A. Person."
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This represents a paradox.
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I'm everyone and no one.
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I have the gift of seeing
people's energies.
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If you activate it
through kindness,
through love,
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through unity consciousness,
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it grows outward.
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If you are dealing
with the dark,
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that's where you end up.
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My neighbor
is firmly right here,
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fear.
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I don't know Jeff well.
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He was in the Texas Senate
for a while.
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He's been a figure
in San Antonio for many decades.
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The far right of my party
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decided I wasn't really
Republican enough,
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that I was really a Republican
in name only, a RINO.
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So, to counteract that,
I bought this painting
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and hung it in my office
at the State Capitol.
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So...
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Give me a break.
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I started out as
a county commissioner,
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served in the Texas
House of Representatives,
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and then served
in the Texas Senate,
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and then was the judge
of a justice court
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for the last ten years.
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I introduced
the Castle Doctrine bill
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that says you have the right
to defend yourself in your home,
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in your motor vehicle,
or your place of business.
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I discovered that Texans
had a duty to retreat
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if they were attacked
in their homes.
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That is completely un-Texan.
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We should have a right
to defend our family
and ourselves.
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What we're talking about is
the right of self-preservation.
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We will pass it in Texas.
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This was taken in the East Room
of the White House.
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That's our oldest son
and the president.
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It shows President
George H.W. Bush,
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George W. Bush,
with Karla and me.
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After he was president,
he told me
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that he missed our talks
on the back porch
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when he was governor.
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I don't follow
the party line always.
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On the issue of abortion,
I was the only
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pro-choice Republican
member of the Senate.
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I just did what
I thought was right.
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There are a lot of ways
you can be a good neighbor
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in terms of conflict,
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and that is to, you know,
confront them directly.
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And if they correct
the problem, good.
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If they don't,
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then consider this a battle.
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[♪ tense music playing]
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Hi, I'm Steven Unverzagt.
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Uh, this is my home.
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Uh, next door is where
my neighbors,
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Jack and Joanne, live.
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We became really close,
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particularly after my divorce.
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I mean, she was
pretty instrumental
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in helping me
get back on my feet.
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He didn't handle well
when the wife done left him.
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I felt sorry for him.
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She embraced me,
big, bald, white guy.
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I fed him, and tried
to be a mama to him,
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and a friend to him.
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-Yeah.
-Don't talk the walk,
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he walk the walk.
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[Joanne] Look, look.
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He lived over here.
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He could come in
and just walk in the door.
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And the children will say,
"Oh, ain't nobody but Steve."
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I've been over there
for almost all the holidays.
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-Easter.
-Christmas.
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-Thanksgiving.
-Fourth of July.
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Juneteenth.
That's a big one for them.
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And, boy, can they cook.
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And we always included Steve.
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Jack would come over
quite a bit,
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and have a-- have a drink.
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Here's a key to Steve house.
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We would go over there
and feed his cat,
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clean up his house.
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I did everything
I could for him, as a neighbor.
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[Steven]
They're very racist people.
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Boy, they love
to make fun of Mexicans.
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They love to make fun
of white people.
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I was told many times
I was the exception.
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Yeah, I was over there one day,
we're sitting on the patio,
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and they're like, "You know,
you can say it, right?"
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And I was like,
"Nope. Not saying it."
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They're like, "No, no, no,
you're cool. You're one of--
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You're one of us.
You can totally say it."
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I mean, it had to have been
ten minutes of them berating me,
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"Say it! Say it! Say it!
Make it happy."
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So, alright,
I dropped an N-bomb.
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There was always some kind of--
a race-based joke of something.
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I was outside, Joanne was--
was on the deck,
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and she said, "Hey!
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"Let me borrow that
white privilege card you got.
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I need to do
something with the city."
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And I laughed, and said,
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"Joanne,
you know that's not real,
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I don't have
a membership card."
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I thought,
if I give this to Joanne,
she's gonna love it.
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This is my white privilege card
that Steve gave me.
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-Have you ever lived next door--
-To a psycho.
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A racist psycho.
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[Steven]
Right joke, wrong time.
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And that's when things
went real south.
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[Joanne] We had to put up
a fence to get away from him.
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I just didn't know
what else to do.
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Someone told me,
"Hey, there's a guy
in your yard measuring.
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Are you building a fence?"
And I said, "No."
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And I walked outside
and I asked the gentleman,
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said, "What are you doing?"
He said,
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"Well, they want to build
a fence." And I was like,
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"First, you're
not even in the right spot."
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And I was told I can go spend
my white boy money
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on a survey if I want to,
but they're not gonna help.
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We put up the fence and we
didn't get the measurement done,
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and it was three feet
on his side.
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And he lost it.
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I don't know why he went crazy
'cause that fence was there.
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You have time for
my bullshit 'cause you have
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time to fucking steal my land.
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Shut up, motherfucker!
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Get that off of my property!
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Go to hell!
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A neighbor is stalking her.
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Metro Police!
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He's been destroying my fence.
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They're gonna make her
remove all this shit.
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That's all without code.
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I get creative
when I get mad.
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I was familiar with
how propaganda works.
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I studied World War II,
like, I studied Goebbels.
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That guy was an evil genius.
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Evil as fuck,
but a genius nonetheless.
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Oof!
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I had no recourse,
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and so, that's when
I put stuff on YouTube.
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I wasn't planning
on doing a channel, per se.
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Yeah, I consider myself
a storyteller.
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I mean, it's--
it's in my blood.
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I wanted to build
a little community around this.
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My Discord's called
"My Neighbor Karen."
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It turned into
a group of people
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moving through
this story with me.
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I started to learn
that I'm certainly not alone.
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We have people
sharing stories
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currently about their own
little fence issues
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or encroachment issues.
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And I'll make a decision
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and then run it by them
and say,
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"This is what I feel like
I'm gonna do with this.
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What do y'all think?"
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And I'll get direct feedback.
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The biggest video
on my channel
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currently has
4.4 million views and rising.
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Kiss my ass!
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And the whole time
she's screaming
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that I'm harassing her.
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Get off of my fence!
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[Steven] [grunts]
That's assault, Joanne.
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That's embarrassing.
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It's a horrible situation,
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and I'm sick and tired
of seeing myself in that light.
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And I-- I feel so bad.
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And Jack said that
I was embarrassing the family.
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I felt like a piece of shit.
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You know,
he was very upset.
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And I said, "Oh, my God,"
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I wasn't trying
to shame nobody.
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And when you can't
defend yourself,
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you think of everything,
you lash out to get back at him,
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and you're not doing anything
but hurtin' yourself.
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I regret the way I responded,
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but I felt like I was
backed in a wall.
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This is a message for Steve.
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I am imploring you, Steve,
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to please take down the video
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that you're getting
paid off me.
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It has ruined my life,
my comfort, my serenity,
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'cause it's very embarrassing,
and I am your neighbor.
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-Please take down--
-[mouse clicks]
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[Steven]
$26,076.44 to date.
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But it's a non-negotiable
to remove it,
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because if I remove it,
well, then I've got nothing.
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And if they start up again,
I've got nothing.
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[phone line ringing]
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[Alexa] Every single time
my neighbor calls the city...
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I am fined $2,000 a day.
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[customer service] [on phone]
And I'm so sorry,
what was your name?
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Senator Jeff Wentworth.
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Oh, look, it's Jeff.
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[Jeff] [on phone]
Has to do with this, uh, fence
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-across the street
from my house.
-[camera shutter clicking]
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[Alexa]
Jeff had an article posted
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that I must have
cartel associations
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and be doing some illegal
activity behind that wall.
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So, I bought
a blacked-out Escalade
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and very proudly
pick up the mail
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in my fur coat and glasses.
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If you're gonna
call me mafia,
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well, then I'm gonna
be mafia for you.
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[Jeff] As you may have heard,
my neighbor across the street
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is in the process
of constructing,
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without a building permit
allowing her to do so,
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a very tall cinder block wall,
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directly across the street
from our house.
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[printer whirring]
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There he is.
How are you, my man?
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[Marc Whyte]
How's it goin'? I'm good.
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So, we're dealing with--
with this wall.
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[Jeff]
I mean, it's like a fortress.
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It looks like a--
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an Osama bin Laden
compound in Pakistan.
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-Right.
-[Jeff] It offends
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the essential character
of the neighborhood.
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I don't blame you
for being unhappy,
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you or your neighbors,
and so, this is something
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that-- that we'll take
a look at.
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I really appreciate it.
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-Thank you, Marc, very much.
-[Marc] Yeah, of course.
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[Alexa]
As far as Jeff and his
political affiliations,
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he's pulled some strings
and continues to.
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My contractors are meeting
with the city.
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-This is Roland,
the chief building inspector.
-Hey, how's it going, Roland?
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[Alexa] They're going to take
their little measuring tapes
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and measure every side
of the wall
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to make sure that
it's in compliance.
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[Ryan Richter] I mean,
she's already had somebody
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climb over the wall
and-- and go up.
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There's, like, crackheads
that come through here.
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It's crazy.
But there's a lot of homeless.
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Some raw land back
in here, they camp.
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You know, I mean,
like, it doesn't follow
the three-foot form,
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but it-- it follows
the architectural design--
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you know, form,
like-- you know,
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I want us to try
and work this out
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and not let them
get into an arg--
you know what I mean?
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Because it's just--
it's never gonna go away.
347
00:13:02,115 --> 00:13:04,909
[♪ tense percussive
music playing]
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00:13:06,411 --> 00:13:11,291
Uh, city attorneys come back
and they're trying to use
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bits and pieces
of my conversation
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on our initial walkthrough
against us.
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[Alexa]
Like, where are we
chopping then?
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Not the side walls.
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No, the side walls
in the front yard.
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00:13:21,092 --> 00:13:22,385
-Oh, no!
-Yes, yeah.
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We have to take those down, too?
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All the way to the side--
to the two walls...
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Basically, to the house.
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So, I'm just gonna be open,
completely open?
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-In the front, yeah.
-Yeah.
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Fuck.
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The only reason
why you're having the issue
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that you're having right now
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is because of Jeff
across the street.
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We should be able to apply
for a variance up to a foot.
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-[Alexa] I can?
-Well...
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-Technically...
-...we can look
into some options.
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[Ryan] Let me look
into some options.
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[insects chirring]
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[♪ melancholy music playing]
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[Joanne]
My flowers are my life.
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I have so many.
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And some of 'em
are getting ready to bloom.
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I don't do anything else
but work in my yard
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and, uh,
try to make it beautiful.
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I love my yard.
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I like my peace,
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00:14:07,347 --> 00:14:08,681
and he took that from me.
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00:14:08,723 --> 00:14:10,308
From being stressed out,
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00:14:10,350 --> 00:14:12,935
I had open-heart surgery.
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00:14:12,977 --> 00:14:15,938
I had to have a new valve
put in my heart,
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all this because
of harassment.
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00:14:18,983 --> 00:14:22,779
And he just picked me
till I was sick.
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00:14:22,820 --> 00:14:25,281
[♪ melancholy music continues]
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[Steven] Thank you.
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00:14:26,616 --> 00:14:28,034
[Autumn Kleinschmidt]
You're welcome.
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00:14:28,076 --> 00:14:30,370
So, how are things going
with you and the neighbors?
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00:14:30,411 --> 00:14:32,288
-[bacon sizzling]
-You know, Joanne's been sick.
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00:14:32,330 --> 00:14:33,664
Like, real sick.
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00:14:33,706 --> 00:14:36,000
Uh, at least that's what
I've been told.
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00:14:36,042 --> 00:14:37,960
God, when I found out
she was in the hospital,
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I was devastated.
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00:14:39,962 --> 00:14:42,340
Like, I was-- I went outside,
I cried a little bit.
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00:14:42,382 --> 00:14:44,133
I would hate
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for our relationship
to literally end...
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00:14:47,261 --> 00:14:49,180
and have nothing resolved.
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00:14:49,222 --> 00:14:50,640
Have you thought
about reaching out?
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00:14:50,681 --> 00:14:51,974
Or have you guys
talked at all,
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00:14:52,016 --> 00:14:53,976
anything of that nature?
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00:14:54,018 --> 00:14:55,686
[keyboard clacking]
400
00:15:03,236 --> 00:15:04,195
That's not bad.
401
00:15:08,074 --> 00:15:09,283
[♪ melancholy music continues]
402
00:15:11,786 --> 00:15:13,079
I have to constantly--
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00:15:13,121 --> 00:15:14,497
Okay, now, that's not good.
404
00:15:14,539 --> 00:15:16,541
[keyboard clacking]
405
00:15:19,127 --> 00:15:21,754
It's a very thoughtful
and emotionally
intelligent approach.
406
00:15:21,796 --> 00:15:23,047
[chuckles]
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00:15:26,467 --> 00:15:27,552
I like this version.
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00:15:28,928 --> 00:15:31,681
"Dear Jack and Joanne,
I've been reflecting
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00:15:31,722 --> 00:15:33,724
"on how things have felt
between us lately,
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00:15:33,766 --> 00:15:36,060
"and I wanted to reach out.
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00:15:36,102 --> 00:15:38,771
"It's been weighing on me,
and while I really don't expect
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00:15:38,813 --> 00:15:40,731
"anything to be
resolved overnight,
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00:15:40,773 --> 00:15:42,733
"I-- I do hope
that there's a way
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"we can move toward
a more comfortable
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00:15:44,318 --> 00:15:45,611
"and respectful place.
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00:15:45,653 --> 00:15:47,697
"I'd welcome the chance
to do better
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00:15:47,697 --> 00:15:50,116
"and to understand what's
happened with-- with time.
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00:15:50,158 --> 00:15:51,701
"And maybe we can
even get to a point
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00:15:51,742 --> 00:15:53,035
to where we can both
feel at peace."
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00:15:53,077 --> 00:15:54,287
"...at peace.
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00:15:56,247 --> 00:15:57,498
Apologies."
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00:15:59,459 --> 00:16:01,752
Go-- kiss my ass.
Excuse me.
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00:16:01,794 --> 00:16:04,005
-[♪ tense percussive
music playing]
-Yeah, that's no good.
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00:16:05,923 --> 00:16:07,800
[♪ tense percussive
music continues]
425
00:16:13,139 --> 00:16:14,474
I've got your king
in check again.
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00:16:14,515 --> 00:16:16,058
[groaning]
427
00:16:16,100 --> 00:16:17,727
Warren, what do you think
about the...
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00:16:17,768 --> 00:16:18,811
[yawning]
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00:16:18,853 --> 00:16:20,438
...fence across the street
from us?
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00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,733
[Warren Wentworth]
I didn't really mind the wall.
431
00:16:23,774 --> 00:16:26,944
Because it-- that was
none of my business.
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00:16:26,986 --> 00:16:29,947
-Mm-hmm.
-I just remember that
you didn't really like it.
433
00:16:29,989 --> 00:16:33,159
Well, it's, uh, it doesn't fit
in this neighborhood.
434
00:16:33,201 --> 00:16:36,579
Well, when did you get, like,
a little mad about that?
435
00:16:36,579 --> 00:16:38,581
Well, I didn't get mad,
I just went down to the city
436
00:16:38,623 --> 00:16:40,290
and asked them to come out
and look at it.
437
00:16:40,333 --> 00:16:42,960
-Is it against the law?
-Yep, it's against the law.
438
00:16:43,002 --> 00:16:45,796
-[chess pieces clinking]
-Oh, yeah, I missed that one.
439
00:16:45,838 --> 00:16:48,591
What she's doing now
is asking the city
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00:16:48,633 --> 00:16:50,927
to give her an exception
to the rule.
441
00:16:50,968 --> 00:16:52,345
-No, let me do it.
-[Warren groans]
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00:16:53,304 --> 00:16:55,264
And build a nine-foot wall
443
00:16:55,306 --> 00:16:57,266
completely around her
whole property.
444
00:16:57,308 --> 00:16:59,268
It looks like a giant box.
445
00:16:59,310 --> 00:17:01,938
-Looks like a what?
-A giant box.
446
00:17:01,979 --> 00:17:03,814
Right. Right.
447
00:17:05,273 --> 00:17:07,443
[Alexa]
I decided to gather my team
448
00:17:07,484 --> 00:17:09,694
to help me get through
the next phase
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00:17:09,737 --> 00:17:11,489
of how we are gonna
solve the problem
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00:17:11,531 --> 00:17:15,201
of satisfying the city
and keeping my vision
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00:17:15,242 --> 00:17:18,329
for this beautiful,
romantic courtyard and wall.
452
00:17:19,372 --> 00:17:23,792
The city needs
to approve all this
and give us a variance.
453
00:17:23,834 --> 00:17:26,045
Will this meet the parameters--
454
00:17:26,087 --> 00:17:28,631
Yeah, how do we-- how do we
connect sacred geometry to this?
455
00:17:28,673 --> 00:17:30,967
Columns themselves,
the-- the spacing and the height
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00:17:31,008 --> 00:17:33,386
creates what's known
as the feet ratio.
457
00:17:33,427 --> 00:17:34,887
That's present in
the Great Pyramid.
458
00:17:34,929 --> 00:17:36,514
Who do you think
built the pyramid?
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00:17:36,556 --> 00:17:37,974
It was Thoth.
460
00:17:38,015 --> 00:17:39,225
-[gasps] Thoth again?
-Thoth--
461
00:17:39,267 --> 00:17:41,644
Thoth was the
high priest in Atlantis.
462
00:17:41,686 --> 00:17:42,687
[Alexa] Okay.
463
00:17:42,728 --> 00:17:44,814
The sides are based
upon a three,
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00:17:44,855 --> 00:17:47,233
four, five rectangle.
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00:17:47,275 --> 00:17:49,151
That creates an energy--
a vibration.
466
00:17:49,193 --> 00:17:50,736
What's the purpose
of architecture?
467
00:17:50,778 --> 00:17:53,531
Architecture is to act
as your second skin,
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00:17:53,573 --> 00:17:55,866
to nourish your spirit,
as does nature.
469
00:17:55,908 --> 00:17:58,327
This is the first time
I've been in a skin suit...
470
00:17:58,369 --> 00:18:00,037
[laughing]
I guess you would call it.
471
00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:02,039
I don't think I've ever
revealed that before.
472
00:18:02,081 --> 00:18:03,666
[pen scribbling]
473
00:18:03,708 --> 00:18:06,002
This book,
the first of a trilogy,
474
00:18:06,043 --> 00:18:10,339
chronicles my tightrope walk
between Texas everywoman
475
00:18:10,381 --> 00:18:12,550
and interstellar traveler.
476
00:18:12,592 --> 00:18:14,844
As a child,
I intuitively knew
477
00:18:14,885 --> 00:18:17,305
I couldn't share
my alternate reality
with anyone.
478
00:18:18,389 --> 00:18:19,849
My heart didn't understand
479
00:18:19,890 --> 00:18:22,059
the darkness inside those
who held me now.
480
00:18:22,977 --> 00:18:25,479
I am everyone and no one.
481
00:18:26,564 --> 00:18:27,607
I am alone.
482
00:18:28,983 --> 00:18:31,360
It's not easy having
to walk everywhere
483
00:18:31,402 --> 00:18:33,863
when you remember
what it was like
484
00:18:33,904 --> 00:18:35,865
to have wings.
485
00:18:35,906 --> 00:18:39,201
I'm gonna go through some
of the images in my books.
486
00:18:39,243 --> 00:18:41,203
This is a self-portrait.
487
00:18:41,245 --> 00:18:44,373
That planet was destroyed
and I was there to help.
488
00:18:44,373 --> 00:18:46,792
There's a-- a whole story
behind this
489
00:18:46,834 --> 00:18:48,794
which probably
don't need to get into.
490
00:18:48,836 --> 00:18:53,466
This is allegedly me
and my galactic partner.
491
00:18:53,507 --> 00:18:55,885
And this entity in particular,
492
00:18:55,926 --> 00:18:59,972
attempted to prod, and poke,
and implant me,
493
00:19:00,014 --> 00:19:01,932
and was extremely cruel.
494
00:19:01,974 --> 00:19:04,477
And here I am sitting
in this situation
495
00:19:04,518 --> 00:19:08,147
where I'm engaging war
on the darkness right now.
496
00:19:08,189 --> 00:19:10,775
I need a strong boundary
497
00:19:10,816 --> 00:19:12,610
between me
and the outside world.
498
00:19:12,652 --> 00:19:15,571
I am in enemy territory.
I am surrounded
499
00:19:15,613 --> 00:19:17,740
by some darkness.
500
00:19:17,782 --> 00:19:20,493
I think Jeff is involved
in the Masonic lodge
501
00:19:20,534 --> 00:19:23,120
-and is a 33rd Degree Mason.
-You're kidding!
502
00:19:23,162 --> 00:19:24,830
Why does he keep fucking
with that stupid stuff?
503
00:19:24,872 --> 00:19:27,124
[Alexa] Since 1968,
he was a Grand Master.
504
00:19:27,166 --> 00:19:29,919
I don't want anything to do
with any kind of backlash
505
00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:31,921
for even talking about this.
506
00:19:31,962 --> 00:19:33,756
[Jeff]
My father was a Mason.
507
00:19:33,798 --> 00:19:36,467
I'd say it's
a quest by a man
508
00:19:36,509 --> 00:19:38,928
to learn how to be
a better person.
509
00:19:38,969 --> 00:19:42,932
Morally, spiritually,
and in every way.
510
00:19:42,973 --> 00:19:46,811
We don't need
a prison-wall-looking, um,
511
00:19:46,852 --> 00:19:48,354
fence across the street
from our house,
512
00:19:48,396 --> 00:19:49,647
when it should be
three-feet tall.
513
00:19:49,689 --> 00:19:51,899
Are you gonna
take them to court?
514
00:19:52,566 --> 00:19:54,485
Yes. Yes, we will.
515
00:19:54,527 --> 00:19:56,278
[♪ determined music playing]
516
00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:57,488
Hey.
517
00:19:57,530 --> 00:19:58,614
-Hey!
-Good morning.
How you doing?
518
00:19:58,656 --> 00:20:00,116
Jeff Wentworth,
I live right here.
519
00:20:00,157 --> 00:20:02,118
-Hey, good morning.
-Hey, good morning.
520
00:20:02,159 --> 00:20:03,160
Morning. Good morning.
521
00:20:03,202 --> 00:20:04,286
-Good morning.
-Hi!
522
00:20:04,328 --> 00:20:05,621
I know you're opposed
to the wall.
523
00:20:05,663 --> 00:20:07,456
-Oh, yeah.
-She did file for a variance,
524
00:20:07,498 --> 00:20:11,293
asking for a nine-foot fence
surrounding the perimeter.
525
00:20:11,335 --> 00:20:12,628
I'm kinda curious.
What do you--
526
00:20:12,670 --> 00:20:13,838
what do y'all think
about this wall?
527
00:20:13,879 --> 00:20:15,214
-Um...
-That's a big wall.
528
00:20:15,256 --> 00:20:17,133
Kind of like a prison, or...
529
00:20:17,174 --> 00:20:19,093
We said it was kind of
like Kim Kardashian.
530
00:20:20,136 --> 00:20:22,722
So, what I'm trying to do
is get neighbors like you
and others
531
00:20:22,763 --> 00:20:25,182
to go down to the Board
of Adjustment hearing.
532
00:20:25,224 --> 00:20:26,809
Since you're president
of the Oak Park-Northwood
533
00:20:26,851 --> 00:20:28,185
Neighborhood Association...
534
00:20:28,227 --> 00:20:29,812
...and testify?
535
00:20:29,854 --> 00:20:32,648
What do you suppose
I'll have to, uh, comment on?
536
00:20:32,690 --> 00:20:34,984
Well, the fact that
you don't like it.
537
00:20:35,025 --> 00:20:36,152
Alright.
538
00:20:36,193 --> 00:20:37,486
They obviously want privacy.
539
00:20:37,528 --> 00:20:38,904
What about your opinions?
540
00:20:38,946 --> 00:20:40,740
Well, it reminds me
of the Osama bin Laden...
541
00:20:40,781 --> 00:20:42,032
...compound like he had...
542
00:20:42,074 --> 00:20:43,159
...in Pakistan.
543
00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:44,326
[♪ determined music continues]
544
00:20:44,368 --> 00:20:47,413
-I can see that.
-Uh, yeah.
545
00:20:47,455 --> 00:20:49,206
You have the support of
the Neighborhood Association.
546
00:20:49,248 --> 00:20:51,041
-Great. Thank you
very much.
-You're welcome.
547
00:20:51,083 --> 00:20:52,835
-I'll be there. I'm in.
-Good deal.
548
00:20:52,877 --> 00:20:54,253
I'm glad
you're pioneering this.
549
00:20:54,295 --> 00:20:56,422
-[Jeff] I need your vote, Ed.
-[neighbor laughing]
550
00:20:56,464 --> 00:20:58,549
-[♪ rock music playing in bar]
-[Steven] They're really pissed.
551
00:20:58,591 --> 00:21:01,886
I put 'em on YouTube,
like, really pissed.
552
00:21:01,927 --> 00:21:03,721
-[laughing]
-Like, sued me
553
00:21:03,763 --> 00:21:05,347
for 100 grand, pissed.
554
00:21:05,389 --> 00:21:06,891
-What?!
-They tried to.
555
00:21:06,932 --> 00:21:08,517
-That's crazy.
-It-- it didn't go anywhere.
556
00:21:08,559 --> 00:21:10,227
That's crazy, it's crazy that
557
00:21:10,269 --> 00:21:12,855
me and my best friends
are at odds.
558
00:21:12,855 --> 00:21:14,356
It's got to be dealt with
in some kind of way.
559
00:21:14,398 --> 00:21:16,066
-It can't just sit and fester.
-Right.
560
00:21:16,108 --> 00:21:17,443
[Steven] 'Cause if it does,
I mean, you're aware...
561
00:21:17,485 --> 00:21:18,694
[both]
It's just gonna get worse.
562
00:21:18,736 --> 00:21:21,238
Yeah. I mean, is there
anything really nice
563
00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:23,699
that you could do for them
that you can think of?
564
00:21:23,741 --> 00:21:25,910
Maybe something
that guys did before,
565
00:21:25,951 --> 00:21:28,871
that would be just a--
a gesture of some sort?
566
00:21:28,913 --> 00:21:32,416
-[line ringing]
-[indistinct]
567
00:21:32,458 --> 00:21:34,210
Uh, yeah, I need
to get a delivery
568
00:21:34,251 --> 00:21:36,253
of a case of Coronitas.
569
00:21:37,296 --> 00:21:38,881
[Steven]
Oh, the-- a whole case.
570
00:21:38,923 --> 00:21:41,300
During the pandemic,
I'd go out foraging
571
00:21:41,342 --> 00:21:42,635
for whatever
I was gonna get,
572
00:21:42,676 --> 00:21:44,470
and I'd always
pick 'em up a case,
573
00:21:44,512 --> 00:21:46,472
uh, and leave it
on their porch.
574
00:21:46,514 --> 00:21:49,809
[♪ hopeful music playing]
575
00:21:58,984 --> 00:22:00,778
Come on, Joanne.
576
00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:06,283
[♪ hopeful music continues]
577
00:22:18,128 --> 00:22:20,339
[Steven] I'd like to do
a pound of brisket,
578
00:22:20,381 --> 00:22:23,008
and then a pound
of pulled pork,
579
00:22:23,050 --> 00:22:25,261
uh, with the sweet sauce,
and some ribs.
580
00:22:25,302 --> 00:22:26,679
[customer service] [on phone]
That is not a problem.
581
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,806
[Steven]
Can-- can I include
a note in that?
582
00:22:28,848 --> 00:22:30,474
I want to send this
as a gift.
583
00:22:30,516 --> 00:22:32,184
"To Jack and Joanne,
584
00:22:32,226 --> 00:22:35,187
"I just wanted to send
this delicious barbecue over
585
00:22:35,229 --> 00:22:36,689
"as an act of good faith.
586
00:22:36,730 --> 00:22:38,566
Hope all is well..."
587
00:22:47,157 --> 00:22:48,784
Barbecue,
588
00:22:48,826 --> 00:22:52,621
and baked beans, and pota--
and potato salad, and...
589
00:22:52,663 --> 00:22:55,958
Oh, look, hot wings.
He got hot wings too.
590
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,503
He's feeling bad
because he's an idiot.
591
00:22:59,545 --> 00:23:01,463
I'm sorry.
592
00:23:01,505 --> 00:23:04,800
He shouldn't have been
fuckin' with Miss Joanne.
593
00:23:04,842 --> 00:23:06,510
[Alexa]
Today's the variance hearing
594
00:23:06,552 --> 00:23:09,305
and I've chosen
to stay home.
595
00:23:09,305 --> 00:23:12,808
I don't feel the need
to expose myself
596
00:23:12,850 --> 00:23:15,519
to the darkness
of my neighbor,
and all the others
597
00:23:15,561 --> 00:23:17,688
that apparently
he's lined up to speak.
598
00:23:17,730 --> 00:23:20,232
So, I'm going to do it
through Zoom.
599
00:23:20,274 --> 00:23:22,860
My lawyer will be attending
and representing me.
600
00:23:22,902 --> 00:23:25,738
There's no reason
to walk into a viper's nest.
601
00:23:25,779 --> 00:23:27,990
[Jeff]
I'll be very disappointed
602
00:23:28,032 --> 00:23:30,242
if they do grant
the variance.
603
00:23:30,284 --> 00:23:32,328
The more people
that show up,
604
00:23:32,369 --> 00:23:34,914
the more likely it is
they'll deny it.
605
00:23:34,955 --> 00:23:37,374
But I don't know
how many there will be.
606
00:23:37,416 --> 00:23:40,753
[lawyer]
We are here today
to ask for a variance.
607
00:23:40,794 --> 00:23:43,213
One neighbor sitting
across the street
608
00:23:43,255 --> 00:23:45,674
on his chair,
taking photographs,
609
00:23:45,716 --> 00:23:47,676
daily, of my client's house.
610
00:23:47,718 --> 00:23:49,011
She's there alone,
611
00:23:49,053 --> 00:23:53,390
and she feels significantly
safer this way.
612
00:23:53,432 --> 00:23:54,934
I've got my client here.
613
00:23:54,975 --> 00:23:56,852
[Alexa] [over video call]
I'm surrounded by darkness.
614
00:23:56,894 --> 00:23:59,521
I feel it, I see it,
I sense it.
615
00:23:59,563 --> 00:24:01,190
He sat there with a camera
616
00:24:01,231 --> 00:24:03,859
photographing my house.
617
00:24:03,901 --> 00:24:07,029
[over video call] I do not
feel safe without any wall
618
00:24:07,071 --> 00:24:09,782
or some sort of a barrier
of protection.
619
00:24:09,823 --> 00:24:11,533
Uh, my name is Jeff Wentworth,
620
00:24:11,575 --> 00:24:13,369
and by the way,
I'm the photographer.
621
00:24:13,369 --> 00:24:15,537
What we have plopped down
in the middle of this
622
00:24:15,579 --> 00:24:17,915
very attractive
and desirable neighborhood
623
00:24:17,957 --> 00:24:19,583
[over video call]
is something that looks a lot
624
00:24:19,625 --> 00:24:21,877
like a Mexican
drug cartel compound
625
00:24:21,919 --> 00:24:24,254
completely at odds
with every other
626
00:24:24,296 --> 00:24:26,882
of the 58 homes on Country Lane.
627
00:24:26,882 --> 00:24:29,760
It's not a fence,
it's a cinder block wall.
628
00:24:29,802 --> 00:24:32,930
Why is someone building a prison
on Country Lane?
629
00:24:32,972 --> 00:24:34,556
To quote Ronald Reagan,
630
00:24:34,598 --> 00:24:37,059
"Mr. Gorbachev,
tear down this wall!"
631
00:24:37,101 --> 00:24:39,269
[lawyer]
You know, my client
is a single mother.
632
00:24:39,311 --> 00:24:40,604
[zoning board member]
I don't understand
633
00:24:40,646 --> 00:24:43,148
what you're protecting
the homeowner from.
634
00:24:43,190 --> 00:24:45,067
-The permit was for three feet.
-[lawyer] Yes.
635
00:24:45,109 --> 00:24:48,070
It was not built three feet.
What happened?
636
00:24:48,112 --> 00:24:50,239
Well, the...
637
00:24:50,239 --> 00:24:51,573
[Donald Oroian]
I gonna step in here.
638
00:24:51,615 --> 00:24:53,242
If a contractor builds it
five feet higher,
639
00:24:53,283 --> 00:24:55,953
that's completely
not by accident.
640
00:24:55,995 --> 00:24:57,621
So, I wasn't there.
641
00:24:57,663 --> 00:24:58,956
[Donald] Thank you very much.
We're gonna see
642
00:24:58,998 --> 00:25:00,749
-if we have a motion.
-[lawyer] Thank you.
643
00:25:00,791 --> 00:25:02,167
Going once...
644
00:25:02,209 --> 00:25:04,253
[♪ suspenseful music playing]
645
00:25:04,294 --> 00:25:06,255
...going twice.
646
00:25:06,296 --> 00:25:07,756
♪♪
647
00:25:07,798 --> 00:25:10,926
Alright, case dies
for lack of motion.
648
00:25:10,968 --> 00:25:12,636
[sighing heavily]
649
00:25:12,678 --> 00:25:13,846
We'll move on
to the next item.
650
00:25:13,887 --> 00:25:15,097
[sighs heavily]
651
00:25:15,139 --> 00:25:18,100
[♪ dramatic music playing]
652
00:25:18,142 --> 00:25:19,309
[sighs]
653
00:25:19,351 --> 00:25:22,354
♪♪
654
00:25:23,647 --> 00:25:26,442
[Steven]
Hey, Jack, Joanne,
this is Steve.
655
00:25:26,483 --> 00:25:28,277
Uh, I hope that
you guys have got
656
00:25:28,318 --> 00:25:30,612
some of the things
I've sent over,
the beer and the barbecue.
657
00:25:30,654 --> 00:25:32,656
If there's an opportunity
for you guys today
658
00:25:32,698 --> 00:25:34,450
to come and have a chat,
659
00:25:34,450 --> 00:25:36,994
we could probably solve a lot
of our issues with each other
660
00:25:37,036 --> 00:25:38,620
if we simply talk them out.
661
00:25:38,662 --> 00:25:40,497
[on voicemail]
So, if you can,
662
00:25:40,539 --> 00:25:43,292
uh, I'll be at
the Donelson Pub
at three o'clock.
663
00:25:43,333 --> 00:25:45,002
I hope that we could
maybe forge
664
00:25:45,044 --> 00:25:47,129
some sort of new path
forward together,
665
00:25:47,171 --> 00:25:48,464
instead of, you know,
666
00:25:48,505 --> 00:25:50,632
being at odds with
each other all the time.
667
00:25:50,674 --> 00:25:52,676
[♪ music stops]
668
00:25:59,099 --> 00:26:03,771
[♪ soft, suspenseful
music playing]
669
00:26:05,022 --> 00:26:07,191
-Hello.
-Hi.
670
00:26:07,232 --> 00:26:09,234
I just want you to know,
671
00:26:09,276 --> 00:26:11,195
I'm done with you.
672
00:26:11,862 --> 00:26:13,155
I tried to help you.
673
00:26:13,197 --> 00:26:15,157
And that's all
I've always tried to do,
674
00:26:15,199 --> 00:26:16,992
be a friend to you.
675
00:26:17,034 --> 00:26:19,495
I-- I thought the world of you.
676
00:26:19,536 --> 00:26:23,707
We cared about you
like you were my child.
677
00:26:23,749 --> 00:26:27,086
And I've never been this close
to a neighbor before.
678
00:26:27,127 --> 00:26:29,588
And now, that's gone.
That's gone.
679
00:26:29,630 --> 00:26:31,215
So, I have to
tell you something.
680
00:26:31,256 --> 00:26:34,843
-You ain't gotta tell me shit.
-I loved our friendship.
681
00:26:34,885 --> 00:26:36,929
Go to hell.
Come on, I'm going.
682
00:26:36,970 --> 00:26:38,347
-You a piece of shit--
-Please, try to sit down
683
00:26:38,388 --> 00:26:39,765
and-- and talk this out.
684
00:26:39,807 --> 00:26:42,267
I don't want to talk to you
ever, about anything.
685
00:26:42,309 --> 00:26:44,228
-Okay? You see?
-Well, that's--
that's the problem.
686
00:26:44,269 --> 00:26:45,604
-That's how we got here.
-No, you are the problem.
687
00:26:45,646 --> 00:26:46,897
You are the problem.
688
00:26:46,939 --> 00:26:49,608
I paid $6,000 for that fence
689
00:26:49,650 --> 00:26:51,693
just to separate myself
from you.
690
00:26:51,735 --> 00:26:53,195
I don't have to look at you,
691
00:26:53,237 --> 00:26:55,948
you filming me every time
I go down the side of my house.
692
00:26:55,989 --> 00:26:59,201
And I can't take any stress.
No more stress.
693
00:26:59,243 --> 00:27:02,371
They had to find a valve
to go in my heart
694
00:27:02,412 --> 00:27:04,873
to keep me alive.
695
00:27:04,915 --> 00:27:07,543
Previous to all of this,
when we were friends,
696
00:27:07,584 --> 00:27:10,796
and you were insisting
that I call you my Black mama...
697
00:27:10,838 --> 00:27:12,381
-I didn't insist a damn thing.
-...that's how close we were.
698
00:27:12,422 --> 00:27:13,715
-You did.
-You said-- you're a liar.
699
00:27:13,757 --> 00:27:15,551
God gonna knock that lying
700
00:27:15,592 --> 00:27:17,719
out of your ass,
you watch and see.
701
00:27:17,761 --> 00:27:20,556
Now you're always try
to make yourself
702
00:27:20,597 --> 00:27:22,724
greater or smarter
than anybody,
703
00:27:22,766 --> 00:27:24,560
-but you ain't smart
worth a damn.
-Okay.
704
00:27:24,601 --> 00:27:26,436
Mr. Technology.
705
00:27:26,478 --> 00:27:28,272
I've been watching you.
706
00:27:28,313 --> 00:27:29,648
-Alright.
-I got your ass.
707
00:27:29,690 --> 00:27:31,233
Is this a threat?
708
00:27:31,275 --> 00:27:33,402
You can call it
whatever you want to.
709
00:27:33,402 --> 00:27:34,778
-You a piece of shit.
-Can we just try to sit down
710
00:27:34,820 --> 00:27:36,280
and-- and talk without
cussing and demor--
711
00:27:36,321 --> 00:27:37,739
-demoralizing each other?
-Give me my fucking money
712
00:27:37,781 --> 00:27:38,949
that you got off me.
713
00:27:38,991 --> 00:27:41,326
-What money?
-Off that YouTube deal.
714
00:27:41,368 --> 00:27:42,828
Why would you do me
like that?
715
00:27:42,870 --> 00:27:44,788
Because it's the only
recourse I had.
716
00:27:44,830 --> 00:27:46,248
The only recourse
thing I can do.
717
00:27:46,290 --> 00:27:47,749
-You-- you don't get a--
-Because I could
718
00:27:47,791 --> 00:27:49,001
-rip the fence out.
-What? Lemme tell
you something.
719
00:27:49,042 --> 00:27:50,127
I could vandalize,
I could be violent.
720
00:27:50,169 --> 00:27:51,962
There's lots of options
I could do.
721
00:27:52,004 --> 00:27:53,505
-You oughta be talking, fucker.
-But instead,
I give you social pressure
722
00:27:53,547 --> 00:27:54,840
-to get you to change your mind.
-Look, fuck you. Fuck you.
723
00:27:54,882 --> 00:27:56,300
-And it worked.
-Fuck you.
724
00:27:56,341 --> 00:27:57,801
-You're just mad it worked.
-And fuck you.
725
00:27:57,843 --> 00:27:59,928
-You need some help.
-I'll tell you,
726
00:27:59,928 --> 00:28:01,680
if you would like
all of that to go away,
727
00:28:01,722 --> 00:28:04,141
-you can make an offer
and you can have the channel.
-Kiss my ass!
728
00:28:04,183 --> 00:28:06,977
You piece of shit!
You think you're smart?
729
00:28:07,019 --> 00:28:08,395
You gonna get it.
730
00:28:08,729 --> 00:28:10,147
And it's comin', too.
731
00:28:10,189 --> 00:28:11,857
You don't even have
a garage.
732
00:28:11,899 --> 00:28:14,193
-What does that mean?
-I'm better than you!
733
00:28:14,902 --> 00:28:16,820
-Joanne, I--
-And, "Joanne," hell.
734
00:28:16,862 --> 00:28:18,614
Your actions speak
louder than words.
735
00:28:18,655 --> 00:28:20,490
-It's--
-I forgive you.
736
00:28:20,532 --> 00:28:22,868
[♪ dramatic music playing]
737
00:28:22,910 --> 00:28:25,662
[Joanne cackling]
738
00:28:25,704 --> 00:28:28,332
I've had enough of this
bullshit for one day.
739
00:28:29,499 --> 00:28:31,835
You can't talk to a psycho.
740
00:28:31,877 --> 00:28:33,670
How you gonna talk
to a psycho?
741
00:28:35,005 --> 00:28:36,840
-Mm! Thank you, baby.
-Bye, sweetie.
742
00:28:36,882 --> 00:28:38,967
-Have a good night, honey.
-Thank you, you too, baby.
743
00:28:39,009 --> 00:28:41,345
He is not
my neighbor anymore.
744
00:28:41,386 --> 00:28:43,555
He's just somebody that
lives next door to me
745
00:28:43,597 --> 00:28:45,557
that I can't stand.
746
00:28:45,599 --> 00:28:47,809
[rocks clattering]
747
00:28:47,851 --> 00:28:49,394
[jackhammer knocking]
748
00:28:49,436 --> 00:28:50,896
[mallet thudding]
749
00:28:50,938 --> 00:28:54,733
[♪ dramatic music playing]
750
00:28:57,069 --> 00:29:01,073
[Alexa] Now, we're left with
a completely open front yard.
751
00:29:02,866 --> 00:29:05,244
I no longer have a buffer
between myself
752
00:29:05,285 --> 00:29:06,536
and the neighbor.
753
00:29:08,413 --> 00:29:11,708
Something was trying
to get me to be afraid.
754
00:29:23,887 --> 00:29:25,764
[Alexa] I have,
and it works really well.
755
00:29:27,766 --> 00:29:29,434
[nurse] And then also,
it'll have magnesium in it
756
00:29:29,476 --> 00:29:31,853
in a high dose, it'll be helpful
for your headache as well.
757
00:29:31,895 --> 00:29:33,397
[Alexa] Magnesium, yeah.
758
00:29:33,438 --> 00:29:36,692
Whatever else you wanna do,
'cause I am nauseous, I'm sick.
759
00:29:36,733 --> 00:29:39,403
I'm clearly
in a spiritual attack.
760
00:29:39,820 --> 00:29:43,699
Last week,
my alarm system went down,
761
00:29:43,740 --> 00:29:45,701
my internet went down,
my garage doors
762
00:29:45,742 --> 00:29:48,203
were opening on their own.
Lights have been flickering.
763
00:29:48,245 --> 00:29:50,747
And then I started thinking,
I need to pray.
764
00:29:50,789 --> 00:29:52,541
So, the minute
I started praying,
765
00:29:52,582 --> 00:29:54,251
I just started vomiting.
766
00:29:55,127 --> 00:29:57,254
I don't have a fence.
I have no protection.
767
00:29:57,296 --> 00:29:58,797
I can't stay in a place
768
00:29:58,839 --> 00:30:01,300
when the neighbor
directly across the street,
769
00:30:01,341 --> 00:30:05,053
his whole mantra
is shadowy fear.
770
00:30:05,095 --> 00:30:07,472
[nurse]
Did you consider moving?
771
00:30:07,514 --> 00:30:09,433
I've put the house up
for sale.
772
00:30:10,350 --> 00:30:13,061
I'm certain that
Jeff thinks he won,
773
00:30:13,103 --> 00:30:14,980
and he conquered
the woman
774
00:30:15,022 --> 00:30:16,773
across the street
with the wall.
775
00:30:18,191 --> 00:30:20,819
Well, this is a message
for you, Jeff.
776
00:30:21,653 --> 00:30:24,072
-Darkness is a choice...
-[whooshing, squelching]
777
00:30:24,114 --> 00:30:26,450
-...and the price is forever.
-[electricity crackling]
778
00:30:26,491 --> 00:30:29,619
In the blink of an eye,
you can release all that.
779
00:30:30,787 --> 00:30:32,956
Release the darkness.
780
00:30:32,998 --> 00:30:35,542
[energy zooming]
781
00:30:36,460 --> 00:30:38,045
[echoing] Find love.
782
00:30:40,464 --> 00:30:41,465
Hmm.
783
00:30:47,012 --> 00:30:50,015
[♪ mystical music playing]
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