Katie
Appearances
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
So she comes up to the door, starts doing her typical routine. But then she gets angry at the dogs and screams again. And then she throws a bag of charcoal at the window where the dogs are barking at her. And then on her way back to her house, she knocks the grill over. Oh. Again, all this on video. The cops come and then this time they do make contact and they do criminally ban her.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
And basically they say she's being really nice. Like, I just wanted to see if someone still lived there. I hadn't seen them in a while. Oh my God. And then they said, the second that they said, ma'am, there's video evidence of you doing this. She like flipped and was like, I don't care. Arrest me then. Oh. Immediately had this weird reaction. So I don't know if there's a dementia element going on.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Kind of sounds like it. It's sad.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
After this, the cops are basically like, if I were you, I would file an affidavit and basically say that you want her to be charged with discharging a weapon in city limits, harassment, and trespassing. She does get charged. As far as I know, she had to appear in court.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
so i guess she has a record now from then on we really have not seen much of her other than her going to get her mail and then also apparently she had been walking around the neighborhood during a heat advisory and knocking on doors asking for help one lady this is the one that came and talked to us answered the door and she said something about i don't know where my husband is they took him away from me and so she was like okay well i can't really help with that but i can at least drive you back to your house
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
And then she showed up the following night in the middle of the night saying the same thing. Yeah, there's some, yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
She could have knocked during this. It would have been so great. My dream is that someone at the end of their crazy neighbor story just goes, I have a shout out. Can I just bring in real quick? And it's their neighbor. Well, you're the first, so it might happen. Okay.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
It sucks. It's like, oh, we have this sweet old lady and we just had this baby.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
I'm going to give a quick shout out. My mother-in-law, Lee, was sad that she couldn't be up here to pop in at the end.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
She started listening to this with me on like a road trip.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
No, I'm in Jonesboro. It's like northeast, close to Memphis.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
It's all right. It's just okay. If I were going to be like Northwest, that's like Ozark. That's a place to really be, I think.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Yeah, I was like, that's so cute. That'd probably be second for me to Northwest Art. Yeah, if we had to rank, which is what this podcast is about, is me ranking the different places in Arkansas.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
I do. I kind of had to make myself some notes to keep all of this straight. We have a lot of timeline info going on. Okay, great. So my husband and I moved here in September of last year from South Arkansas, where we're from. And I was very pregnant. I was due in December. Our house that we ended up buying is like a split level. It's got like a wraparound deck on the top level.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
And that's where the primary bedroom is, the living room, the kitchen. And then our driveway has two entrances and exits. And then so does our neighbor's driveway. And we share one of those entrances and exits. So on move-in day, our trash can was in the shared drive roped off to keep people from going in that drive, which we thought was odd. Like, have we already pissed somebody off?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
And so we were like, oh, let's do something nice, like go get cookies and introduce ourselves to that neighbor. But before we could do that, we actually saw her go to get her mail. And my husband, humble brag, he's pretty cute and he's really nice.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
So, you know, I'm like, let's send him out there to talk to this old lady.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Yeah, go schmooze a little bit. Go rub elbows with this old lady neighbor. And so he goes out. She's wearing a muumuu. She has a walking stick and some big cataract glasses. Oh, wow. already kind of giving off character energy.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
I'm trying to remember what character. There's a weird old lady in Harry Potter. Yes, Mrs. Squibb or something like that. Creepy, like jump scared. Rob also has images of this lady.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
So anyway, he goes and he talks to her and he comes back. He's like, oh, she's nice. She put the trash can there because there was a small pothole and there had been people looking at the house. She didn't want someone to get their car damaged, something, something. Okay, great. She said her husband was in the hospital with a bladder infection.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Check up on her, you know, if we don't see her for a while or something because she was there by herself right now. She did say some kind of kooky old lady things. One example was she said, don't you just love the night?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
And he was like, okay. She said something about how she just loves to stay up and she watches TV. And so, of course, then we continued to say, don't you just love the night? It's like a weird thing to creep each other out.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
They exchanged phone numbers just so that we could contact her if we hadn't seen her in a while. She's in her late 70s. We just saw Wicked, so we're going to call her Mrs. Glenda. Okay. Okay. A couple weeks later, after we move in, we go to dinner. We come back and we're dilly-dallying around the house and we see a bullet hole through the window. Oh, my.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
We did call the police and we said we think there's a bullet hole. There's also an image of this. It went all the way into the dining room.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
So next to that pasta painting, there's like a nick in the drywall. And then if you look at those three windows to the left there, it came from one of those windows. So it literally went like all the way across and then into that drywall that we had to then patch up.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Yeah, they took a report, but they also basically were like, well, you're in the South. You're kind of in a wooded area, even though you are in city limits. So it might be someone hunting where they're not supposed to. Nothing we can really do. Time moves on. October, my husband called to check on her because we hadn't seen her in a bit. Usually we would see her going to get her mail almost daily.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
And she said, actually, there is something you can do for me. You can call the police. Okay. I want to file a report. There have been people watching me and trespassing on my property. So we're kind of getting weirded out because we just had this bullet hole. So we call, they come out, they talk to her. We don't hear anything about that because it's not really our business. But we get to November.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
We came home from an OB appointment. And as I was walking back out to the car to get something out of the car, my husband rushed me back inside and said, Miss Glinda's dancing around with a gun. Go back inside. Oh, oh, oh. Oh my God. And I was like dancing around with a gun. And he was like, go downstairs and I'll come get you.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
He comes back in and he's called the police, obviously. And he said she came out from behind the side of her house where we can see her from our house and said that she was wearing like a helmet. And he said she had a rifle slung over her shoulders. Oh my God. And was yelling and doing almost like a scarecrow looking sort of movement. Very odd.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Then he said that the helmet kind of tilted down over her face and then she tripped and almost dropped the rifle.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
If it wasn't a gun, it would be like a different situation. But once the gun is in the mix, we're having an issue. So the police come, they talk to her apparently, and then they come talk to us since we're the ones that called. And they said that she definitely seemed kind of off, but they didn't see the firearm.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
And they said she was holding a cardboard box with the words birth control scribbled on it. What? She told the cops that she had been filming a video for her kids. Uh-oh.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
So we're already getting into weird territory.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
bizarre. So we get to February. One day she came and banged on our door. We weren't home, but when we did get home, we saw her like walking out around her house and she kind of yelled across the yard, Hey, don't use my driveway anymore. Oh. And we were like, okay, no problem.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
At this point, I'm two months postpartum. So I'm like literally whatever I can do to not have you talk to me. Awesome.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
So we stop using that driveway. We don't even walk up it when we get our mail, even though our mailbox is on that side. Now we go like all the way around. So later this month, my husband shoots bows. We have like a target in the yard. And so he's standing out in the driveway area shooting this target. And he had our baby in the bassinet stroller situation just out with him.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
I'm inside and I hear a gunshot. I'm immediately freaking out because I know that this woman has a gun and I know that my husband and my baby are outside. Ugh. And so I run out. I don't see either one of them. So now I'm even more panicked. And then I realize he's down the street on the phone with who I assume at the moment is the cops. And so I'm like, okay, thank God they're okay at least.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
But I did see her holding a pistol, like walking into her house.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Yes, which isn't abnormal in the South, but this is when we get into an issue where it's like, how do you take away someone's guns when they are not mentally sound enough to have them, which she clearly is not. The cops come, they file a police report, and literally in the police report, it says, cops advise the suspect that it is illegal to discharge a weapon in city limits.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
FYI, that's illegal. And she did admit she was like, oh, I was just shooting at the woods. Oh, my God. Okay. I have to figure out who this person... Does she actually have children? What about the husband that was in the hospital?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
To this day, we have never seen the husband.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
That's not right. We... Have a lot of theories, obviously. You know, did she kill the husband? We don't know. Also, those bladder infections can get you.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
I do some online sleuthing and I do find that she has two adult children. One, at least I knew, lived in town. He was a realtor. And so I found his cell phone on his realtor website and I called him and I explained the situation. I'm like, hey, we live next door to your mother. She's firing guns. Can we figure this out? And he was like, oh, we're estranged.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
he says a few years ago he tried to talk to her about her mental health and she basically said you're trying to steal my money and my house and put me in a home don't talk to me oh boy and so he suggests calling the sister he says last i heard they were still talking maybe give her a call so he gives me her phone number i call her she says we're estranged talk to my brother oh my god cool i am on my own
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
but he did tell me that his father had had a stroke a few years back and he said to his knowledge the father is still alive and wasn't in a home okay in march my husband leaves the house he's a director of a soccer club can i ask a quick question the time you came out where you're shooting the bow and he was down the road did he tell you what had happened had she come out and just start firing in his direction
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
He also heard the gun and then he saw her walking around the house. But anyways, he leaves to go to soccer practice. I'm home alone with the baby. And here comes Miss Glinda to the house. She starts ringing the doorbell and banging on the front door. I'm not going to answer because I don't know if she has a gun. I don't know what's happening. And I'm by myself with the baby. Oh my God.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
And this is where the upper deck wraparound deck comes into play. So essentially she's ringing the bell. She's banging on the door. I have two big dogs. They start going absolutely nuts. So I'm like, okay, I'm just going to take me and the dogs and go into the bedroom. She'll think we're not home. Also, I have a sleeping baby downstairs. I'm trying not to wake the baby.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
And she's banging on every single door. She's jiggling door handles. She's banging on every window. She's looking in. She laps the entire deck two times. She goes out to the garage area. She goes like she's going to maybe even go into the downstairs backyard area. And at this point, I'm freaking out. I don't know if she has a gun on her. I don't know if I've accidentally left a door open.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
What if I've done that and she comes into my house thinking that I'm in her house? Sure. Yeah. So I'm calling my husband. I'm in tears. And he immediately rushes home. He's on the phone with me the whole way. And I have this on video, even though he wouldn't want me to share it. But my husband's very non-confrontational. I'm very confrontational.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
You just see in the video, like he squeals up into the driveway. She's coming around at the front door and she's like, hey, neighbor, how's it going?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
And he's like, you have my phone number. There is no reason for you to be on our property over here banging on doors, jiggling door handles. She starts to get pissy. They get into a cussing argument. She's walking back to her house, like cussing him out. We call the police, file a police report, et cetera, et cetera. Like we do every one of these incidents.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
And all of the days and weeks after this confrontation, she's walking out to her mailbox and like flipping us off. After this, I filed an APS report, Adult Protective Services, because I'm like, she's off her rocker. She might be her husband's primary caretaker. None of her kids can get through to her. I don't know what else to do.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
And I do know that they came out for a visit because they accidentally came to our house. I'm not privy to the info after that. So this leads me to my final event. We get to April while my husband and I were out. Miss Glenda comes onto our property holding what looks like open mail. She's throwing the mail everywhere.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
She walked towards our front door and she's saying, hello, Katie and Rex are names. And she's proceeding to scream at our dogs through the window. That's that one photo where it looks like she's screaming.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
And she's saying, where are you? Walks around the entirety of the deck multiple times, doing the same thing, jiggling the door handles, knocking on everything. And then again, we call and report this to the police. When the police come this time, they're like, would you like us to go criminally ban her from your property? And I'm like, sure, great. Why are we just now doing this?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
So they go, they attempt to make contact, but she doesn't answer the door. So they can't criminally ban her because she doesn't answer the door. Oh my gosh. That's the...
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Yes. I don't know if this is a state thing, but you can't file a restraining order unless there's already been evidence of physical altercation.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Exactly. Again, my husband leaves to go to soccer practice, and I am home alone with the baby. And here she comes again. This is later the same day. Oh, my God. She's back. I see her coming and I'm on the phone with 911 and I'm like, y'all better come here right now. I'm done with this lady. In my head, I'm like, I'm about to let my dogs out.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Yeah, exactly. And also they keep saying, well, we can't do anything unless we catch her on the property. And I'm like, I have video evidence of her being on the property. What's the point of the videos then? I don't know.
Office Ladies
Superfan Episode: Hot Girl
How are you? Okay. Good. I'm Kate. Hi. Hi. Nice to meet you. What's your name? Pam. Hi. Nice to meet you, Pam. Let me ask you a question. Do you read a lot of fashion magazines? Because you look really fashion forward. And I just wanted to let you know. Hi. How are you? Hi. I have a great opportunity today to get in on some of the newest styles.
Office Ladies
Superfan Episode: Hot Girl
Because I know with your working hours, you don't really probably have a chance to go to the mall very often. So what I have to offer you today is some excellent purses. And if I could just have a space to set up, maybe show you what I have and some of your other... Here, feel that. Yeah. It really brightens you. Yeah. Don't you think that gives her a nice color? I don't.
Office Ladies
Superfan Episode: Hot Girl
It really suits you. I've got faux leather. I have some really great fakes. You wouldn't even be able to tell the difference. I don't want to. Just like all the movie stars.
Office Ladies
Superfan Episode: Hot Girl
Okay, is there somebody that I could talk to? Like, who would authorize? Is that you?
The Ramsey Show
Your Debt Should Make You Uncomfortable
I have a big problem. Well, I don't know if it's too big, but my question is, how do I tackle my debt while establishing an emergency fund and investing at the same time?
The Ramsey Show
Your Debt Should Make You Uncomfortable
So I've held on to this large amount of money in my savings account. I started saving since I was 16. And I just, I'm exhausted of seeing it just sitting there. I want to do something with it. My frustration is I'm not knowledgeable in investing and I don't even know where to start. I don't know.
The Ramsey Show
Your Debt Should Make You Uncomfortable
Oh, my goodness. That's exciting to hear. It is.
The Ramsey Show
Your Debt Should Make You Uncomfortable
One credit card in the amount of 6563. Another credit card in 6783.
The Ramsey Show
Your Debt Should Make You Uncomfortable
monthly spending. I have a problem of I like seeing the money there. I like feeling secure. I like feeling safe. My problem is just letting go of that money.
The Ramsey Show
Your Debt Should Make You Uncomfortable
For him and me, myself together? Yeah, as a household. I want to say roughly $6,000. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
Your Debt Should Make You Uncomfortable
With finances, it's kind of you earn your money, you make your money. We share the mortgage. So you just sell me the money and we're OK with that. All right. My money is my money. And yeah.
The Ramsey Show
Your Debt Should Make You Uncomfortable
We're okay with working together. I'm sure he'd be okay with that too.
The Ramsey Show
Your Debt Should Make You Uncomfortable
Yes. Okay. We don't, we really, I don't want to hear about, um, That's hard to say. His financial struggles. No, you're good.
The Ramsey Show
Your Debt Should Make You Uncomfortable
Oh, gosh, that was unexpected. Yes, you've definitely unpacked it.
The Ramsey Show
Your Debt Should Make You Uncomfortable
Yeah. My parents, they got divorced because of money. Ah. So that's a big fear. In the background, my husband, he has let a few credit cards go to collections recently, as soon as my daughter was born. He's been underwater for what feels like a long time, probably two years already. And if I mention this, you're going to say sell it. Well, tell us. The truck. It's the truck.
The Ramsey Show
Your Debt Should Make You Uncomfortable
He has $11,000 left on it, but it's these monthly payments of $600 that he wants to be free from.
The Ramsey Show
Your Debt Should Make You Uncomfortable
I want to say roughly it's $7,000. Okay. Anything else? Now you've opened my eyes. No, not that I know of. Maybe I need to have a discussion with him.
The Ramsey Show
Your Debt Should Make You Uncomfortable
Yes, he is. Okay, let me dig deeper. It just came in. So we have this watercraft boat. It is under both of our names, but he takes financial responsibility for it, and the balance is $11,000.
The Ramsey Show
Your Debt Should Make You Uncomfortable
What else? Anything else? Aside from his truck, the car, and a few credit cards, there is nothing else.
The Ramsey Show
Your Debt Should Make You Uncomfortable
No idea. Okay, okay. We haven't looked into it. It's very precious. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
Your Debt Should Make You Uncomfortable
I'm pretty sure he will call the show tomorrow.
The Ramsey Show
Your Debt Should Make You Uncomfortable
What'd you say? 5,000 left. Yeah. I would have 5,000 left. So I'm paying off my two credit cards.
The Ramsey Show
Your Debt Should Make You Uncomfortable
I'm paying off my car. Yes. Selling the boat. And you suggested paying off the truck. Yes.