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Texas. Do you, guys love your name of Texas? Listen to somebody
else? Do you love your neighborhood? Guys? Thanks? I love my
neighborhood, same Mike. Where do you live? I live in oak Cliffe,
North oak Cliff, Danny, where do you live? I live in
Richardson Half For about a year, love my neighborhood. You guys take part
in the next door app though to have an account, I uh get notifications
from them often to the point where I have to change my notification settings to
get them. Yeah, you kind of have to. Yep, let's go
and turn these off. I sometimes like to jump in on threads just every
once in a while, just to pop in and go have a funny comment
to something you know. But not often, but I'll tell you what it's
At least once a week. I just pull it up and scroll it,
and I find amazing things. It's not even always chaotic stories or neighbor fights.
Sometimes it's actual questions, real things, real inquiries. So in order
to uh, well, I was just thinking listen that this could be a
good segment that I think is very local and relatable. These are actual things
in our neighborhoods here in the Metroplex. So if you have similar stories,
you can feel free to call in or text in two one four eight one
seven seven eight seven nine seven one. But this is the debut of a
new Downbeat segment, Neighborhood Watch. When the world has never seemed so divisive,
one radio show has taken it upon themselves to help bring the Metroplex together.
Before we can change the world, first, we must better our neighborhoods.
The Downbeat is on the case, it's time for neighborhood watch. Who's
the new voiceover guy. I know it's weird, he sounds older. Yeah,
it's kind of like a I don't know, mysteriously whimsical, but point
it because he's right. We can change the world if we just how our
neighbors are currently acting. So let's yell at them. So I've got some
pulled ahead, I've got some just things that I saw that. So these
are all probably coming from the Richardson area, but I thought some of these
are like really good questions, dilemmas, things like this, You got the
ones that I sent you or you sent me too, Yes, I can
have those. You have those up and ready to go. This is from
Darryl Daryl says. I'm in the Burtnor Park area, Richardson. I want
to comment on the advertising packets and newspapers that are being distributed in the neighborhood.
I think half of them don't get picked up and they're just littering the
neighborhood. I called the city and they said these advertisers are not breaking any
laws, meaning there's no code violation. I would like to get people's viewpoint
on this because I feel we should have the right to stop this outdated form
of advertising, which is basically wasting more paper and littering the neighborhood. Your
thoughts, gentlemen, interesting, are we talking about nail and crap on on
electrical posts? So I'm thinking he's talking about the uh, the random small
outlets, the old Quick magazine, the Lakewood Advocate, the Richardson Daily,
you know, whatever it is to have the strifty nickel that they or sometimes
there's signs like at a out of business building, you know, where they'll
put seven of the same sign in a row of like a rap album that's
getting dropped, or like a movie that's coming out, and then they sit
there for months and months and get half ripped off in water damage and is
sort of a blight on society. It might be a little bit of that,
But he says, the advertising packets and slash newspapers that are being distributed
in the neighborhood, how are they being distributed? Not left inside the front
door of the seven to eleven. That's kind of the greatness of the next
door app too. Very rarely do you see someone giving you the specific details
of something you need. Yeah, clarity is not a requirement to post on
next door is not just all caps is all you need. I'm a fan
of you know what, one small thing, pick up something, throw away
your trash, do not litter all in on that. But there is the
hopeless nature that does creep in when you go the amount of mail that we
get delivered to us that's just throwaway, and it's coupons will never use in
their vow packs and all the just like that. If you're not recycling,
it is just another waste, and that's a bigger waste than I think the
local Richardson, you know, community newspaper putting a you know, putting out
a little newspaper. What do you call it? The the box with the
paper in it. I don't know what you call those things, like a
news stand, but no a news Yeah it's not a new but in the
the coin Yeah, the dispenser a newspaper dispenser at all either, don't anymore
used to see him out front of the convenience. Still, I think we
will age out of these things, probably within about twenty years, because I
think the last generation that even pays attention to those print ads and val packs
and things things like that. I don't know anybody our age my age,
even especially you guys ages that are that are opening even opening those up to
see what's inside them, they immediately go into recycling. They do at my
house. I don't even look at them. I think that you know,
people that are between sixty maybe sixty five and eighty five might still be their
target demographic. But for the most part, no, And I think that
we'll see a day in the next twenty years which those just disappear, paperless
existence. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, yeah, let's go to phillis
phyllis rights acorns, acorns, acorns? Does anyone know how to get them
out of the grass? Got idea, phillis, just leave them? Maybe
I let the squirrels come get the nuts. Well, the squirrels will get
them, but oftentimes unless they're storing them, they'll just crack them open right
there. So would you end up having or acorn shells all in your yard?
Is that's a bother? You know? I see it a lot,
and I'm not sure exactly which trees produce them, but they're on in my
neighborhood, in oldies or far e Stylus. There's a ton of old trees
there that are, you know, fifty sixty seventy years old, and they
the ones that do produce. They are everywhere and you can you'll you'll actually
have to be careful walking on the sidewalk because they kind of roll and you
can slip and bust your buns. Really yeah, because of rolling acorns.
I think that you get them by like a yard vacuum or something like that.
Well, that sounds like some soroy industry is hard at work. Soroy
industry yard yard vacuum on them in it dump all that. I don't know
how you get rid of them, honestly, no, I mean they go
in between the little little spokes in your rake, you know. I don't
know, Kevin, any solutions for picking up acorn. Kevin, what's the
answer? Get out there and pick them up by hand. There's millions of
them, bro, Then don't worry about it. I just leave mine.
I mean, are you running around barefoot in your backyard if you want to?
Most a lot of people would like to mm hmm, yeah, I'm
not. I have to wear socks at all times. Sorry, I have
to wear socks at all times. I have shower socks. I do not
like my feet touching things. You're a weird bird. Wait, you bought
soroy industry shower socks? Yes? Do you do? You were? That's
not true. I don't like the bottom of my feet touching it. But
in the power you clearly know you weren't. Shower slipper showers, shower slippers,
shower socks? What are shower socks? Don't make stuff up. It's
like a little It's like I don't know the even what the the fabric is
that I'm jamming my foot into. But they're very disposable, like almost like
disposable rubber gloves, but they're not rubber or softer, almost like a hair
or something you might put on your hair, like your hair in net,
almost, but it's not a And you you own these and you put them
on to your feet when you take a shower. Yes, are you doing
a thing? No? I don't. Do you wash your feet? Well,
of course it wash your feet, but the soap runs down when you
wash your body, the soap runs down into enough to wash your feet.
Don't scrub my feet, and the soap just goes into the sides of your
shower sock and it just kind of swishes around in there and you feel like
that's yeah, it's good, good enough job. I don't believe you.
Are you seeing anything shower socks? When you look this up, I just
imagine Kevio in the shower with one of these things that you need to protect.
No, it's not like that. It's way smaller and way more.
Think of a disposable latex rubber glove. Eyah, except for your feet.
A collar wants to weigh in on the acorns. I don't know if I
can move on, but fine, hey collar, Hello acorn collar. What's
your name? Chris? Chris? Where are you calling from? Right now?
I'm in Mansfield, Shot. So the acorns come acorns as the country
come from oak trees, and that can be the live oak that holds its
leaves. Ninety percent of the year can be from the just a regular white
oak tree or the big beautiful red oak tree. The old timers has been
telling us. I don't know if anybody's listening, but this was supposed to
be a colder, wetter year, and due to that, God's given us
a lot more acrons to keep the critters warm. Because acorns have proteins,
the wildlife live off of it. I have seen an abundance of acorns in
the neighborhood, like more so than normal. And that's that's the reason is
because this was, you know, by nature predicted to be a colder winner.
Therefore it was going to produce more food for the critters. I had
no idea. That's what the word on the street is. So, Chris,
you're suggesting that we just leave the acorns out there and then the critters
eat them and a circle of life takes care of this. You can do
what you want with your acorns. Chris, thank you for your time today
and your nut expertise. Do what you want with your acorns, y'all have
a great day. Thanks Chris, say had a man's field for us?
Oh God blesses you too. Man useful? Yeah, want one more on
the acorns and then we'll jump off. Okay, Hi, what's your name?
Hey, you're not out of this yet. I'm gonna let you move
on. I have not forgotten what yesterday was my birthday. No, this
is getting discussed Lydia right, this might be our socks. And by the
way, this is a neighborhood watch here, next door, apprit our people
here, all caps out here in our city, just things they're going through.
Lydia writes, this might be weird, but do y'all think cats and
dogs can sense when a woman is pregnant? Yes? I think dogs dogs
can. I checked the comments on this one full yes, yes, what
according to the comments? Yeah, I think I think it's stupid to think
cats and dogs can know when someone's pregnant. No, dogs can sense things
that are beyond our understanding, when storms are coming and when someone's on their
deathbed. Yes, and they hear, they hear things, They smell things
that we can't. They hear things we can't hear. They smell things we
can't smell, and I think that they can. They can find dead bodies.
Of course, they can determine whether a woman's pregnant or not. They're
dogs. They're bad ass. They are bad ass. And just because you're
scared of a puppy dog's gonna bite your shower socks off of you, you
weren't read it neither were you. No, it was a big German shepherd,
and you weren't. You weren't rop paid by a German chef. Well
it does. That doesn't mean when you're having to fight it off Okay,
that's one thing. You're being attacked but not Yeah, so excuse me if
I'm not the most you know, open to anything goes with dogs. By
the way, love Simon one of my guys, thank you. I don't
think you know what love is? What was yeah? Something? What was
he talking about? Pregnant? Yeah, because I was one of dogs can
immediately tell gender, and they probably I don't know about immediately. But you
know it's like, not Simon, but Hendrix. You know Kendricks is cool
with girls. Yes he does. I would love to know what dogs actually
know. There's I know. I'm with you. They know more than we
think they know. I'll just think something, and I know Simon already knows
it, like if I stand up the same way, he knows, this
is what about to happen if there's food or a walk or whatever. They're
smart, smart little little rascals. Go ahead, Kevin uh. Diana writes,
I'm in search of someone who can repair a hole in a wall,
to which I commented, what was the hole there for? It wasn't it?
What was the glorious hole there for? What was it? It's very
simple? Oh that's all you asked, Diana what was the hole there for?
Did she answer? No, not yet. Oh here's one. Cheryl
writes, My neighbor's my ninety one year old dad is living with us now.
He's in great health, but he's needing someone to hang with him a
few nights a month while we were at Bible study. Okay, how much
would you take? How would you? I mean, i'd there'd be a
price tag for me. I could not volunteer my time to hang out with
a ninety one year old Let's say this says, what a couple a few
nights a month? What's a few four? Yeah, three to five once
a week, once a week, you have to go from seven to ten
or six to nine pm, go hang out with a ninety one year old
man that you don't know. That sounds actually amazing. Yeah, maybe you
learn a little something, Kevin. Provide companionship for you know, what might
be a really difficult time in someone's life. Yes, donate a sliver of
your so busy life to help the elderly. Yea, so no money,
pick up some wisdom, here's some stories. Well, I just don't do
it. I want you to do this. I'm not the one that wants
to insist that you say yes and you do this end charge a fee.
I't think you do it for nothing. I think you donate your time.
Why can't you do it because it's not our neighborhood. Yeah, I don't
live in Richardson. We're ineligible. Okay, that's how you're going to get
out of it and see any of those requests in far East Dallas, bro
let's go to Dan. You want some yeah, yeah, from next door?
Any recommendations for someone who can remove cat pea stains from my hardwood floors
and restain them to match who else? Sir? I can't help you with
the staining part, but my friends at zero res could help getting rid of
the cat pea stains and odors twenty three percent on all services right now.
It's zero res, zero Resdallis dot com. Think I can help you?
Forward in back fantastic. There's one good job da. This one has an
accompanying picture photograph and what you see and this boy, this is so my
neighborhood right here streets. What you see here are five chickens just walking in
the streets. Anyone in Little Forest Hill's missing five chickens? These ladies are
currently on Eustace Groveland foraging in leaves. That's more popular than I thought though.
People keeping chickens for eggs, egg production. Yeah, yeah, like
five chickens got out in my neighborhood. These girls, these ladies are currently
on us foraging. Yep, very common. This was one day ago as
of last night. And then finally I have this one and it is a
picture of a deceased owl that has been placed inside a box on a towel.
The text reads is this found this poor little screech owl on the ground
in front of a window. Not sure if it hit the window and died
or ate a poisoned rat. I tried to see if I could revive it,
to no avail. We buried it out of respect for the owl.
Also, if it was rat poisoning, we wouldn't want another animal eating it
and getting sick. Blessed soul ps. I called Rogers Wildlife Bird Rescue to
make sure I did the right thing, and I did, but it still
breaks my heart. You know, it's a lot of it extraors, a
lot of old people just over sharing things too, it is, And you
know what it's it's older people that probably are largely alone that are seeking some
type of connection that figured out that they have the Internet, or is this
ninety one year old man in your neighborhood is a real human being that doesn't
want to that's not trying to reach out virtually. You have a golden opportunity
to be able to connect with this wonderful man that is in dire need of
a companionship. And it's not even him because of his pride. He's not
even asking his family because, let me tell you something, that man probably
served and he's too damn proud to ask for some snot nosed brat like U.
Caviot to come sit on his bedside and listen to his damn war stories.
Yes, he's not gonna ask you that. You know you'd be honored.
He's a damn man. And the first question you asked is what's that?
What does this gig pay? Yeah? What is it? Hey?
Would you pay me? Well, I'm done with the free labor. It's
not labor. It's a privilege. It's a privilege that's been bestowed upon you
by your neighbor. If you just walk across the street, and you won't
walk across the street to help an elderly man seeking companion, and like Mikey
said, maybe actually learn something kevioh. Maybe you should be paying him.
Yeah, maybe you should be paying him for his knowledge. Why can't he
just hold it down at the house for three hours while they're at Bible study.
You truly are human garbage. I don't think I can sit at this
microphone again. Is Jim Day gonna take us the rest of the way.
I got one lightning fast only because it came in yesterday. And I never
click on these because I just get the emails. Yeah right, turn that
setting off and just go check it at at your leisure. I don't know
how to turn it off. It's killing me because I go and then it's
ten things click to stop this, this, this, this, I'm like
all everything. I don't know. It's always just hard to find. And
then I do it and they just pop up the next damn day too.
That's brutal. So I see the emails come in, almost never click on
them, but then you get your curiosity and you're like, all right,
I'll click on this. So just yesterday I get one that it made me
click on it because all it said is urgent? Is this anyone? Baby?
Is this anyone baby, And I'm like, wait, if there's literally
a baby, I'm curious about this, you know, So Yvette posted urgent
is this anyone baby? This is posted around Keith Park and it is a
found dog, uh found dog letter that's posted to an electrical thing, and
I lost interest. Obviously, the reason that I ceased any and all next
door notifications is because I used next door as an information source, an information
sharing source to let people know if there was a missing pet, if there
were feral dogs in the neighborhood that were kind of on the loose, to
try to get photos of them, and street intersections to let people know.
It's like, hey, maybe if you're out walking your dog, there's these
two rottweilers that look to be homeless that are kind of terrorizing the neighborhood,
be careful or this is clearly someone's dog. It has a collar, he
won't let me catch him. He's running up whatever street, Boca Wood over
here, and post that, and rather than people going thank you, I'll
keep an eye out, it ends up being people, probably elderly, that
don't have anything else better to do, that are in dire need of a
visit from Kevo that they don't have anything better to do, then get on
next door and yell about owners keeping their dogs inside. Well, this wouldn't
be a damn problem if people kept their dogs in their damn yard. Like,
no, no, no, you don't understand. I'm posting this to
let the owner out there, to get the biggest reach that I can,
to let the owner know there's probably a dog out there. Is this your
dog? Like compier dog, I'm trying to catch the dog not. I
don't need to be schooled or or or or talked down to. It's not
my dog. But thanks for the advice, and I get to see it's
so angry blad reply back, not helping Eunice, stuff like that based it's
good that it exists because it's probably probably contributed to more lost pets being found
than like almost as much as Corby. Sure. True. Well that was
the first debut. That was the pilot episode of Neighborhood Watch. I think
will be we'll bring it back in February. Coming up next things One of
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