How To Confront a Crazy Neighbor with Tig Notaro

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

Education, How To

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The trouble began when Sarah put a fern in front of her new condo. Nice, right? The woman who lives in the unit above didn't think so, and without warning sent Sarah a slew of passive-aggressive notes. Sarah thinks it's all a big misunderstanding, but now her neighbor refuses to even speak to her. Sarah is wracked with anxiety, struggling to sleep, and contemplating moving out. On this episode of How To!, we turn to stand-up comedian Tig Notaro, a cancer survivor and host of the new advice podcast Don't Ask Tig, to help Sarah approach the situation with humor and clarity. When things don't go your way, Tig says, you have to take back control of your own story. What would the hero in your favorite movie do? For Sarah, this means gardening with headphones and the Rocky theme on the soundtrack.

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0:00.0	There's so much going on in the world and she's outraged about a fern and yeah you know it's just you all you can do is pity her at this point and start planting ferns. You're listening to how to.
0:16.0	I'm Charles Stujevich.
0:18.0	Each week on the show, we hear from listeners who write us with a problem
0:22.0	and we try and find a creative solution.
0:24.2	And this week we got some help from a freshly minted podcaster.
0:27.6	My name is Tignotaro.
0:29.2	I'm a comedian.
0:31.5	I also host a podcast called Don't Ask TIG.
0:37.0	Don't Ask TIG is an advice podcast in which you probably should not ask, but you still
0:41.7	will ask TIG for advice. Yeah I was like I'm good at this. I don't
0:47.8	want to keep anyone from my talents here. I really enjoyed the ability to unravel nonsense around a topic.
1:01.0	Which is exactly why we ask TIG to join us because as you'll hear there is a lot of
1:05.3	nonsense to help this week's listener unravel. My name is Sarah and I'm a college
1:12.1	counselor I work with high school students who are low income and I just
1:18.3	bought a condo this year. This is the first time I've ever owned a house or anything, so that was pretty exciting.
1:25.0	It's a small building.
1:27.0	There are just three units in it, so it's me living on the first floor and then a guy who lives behind me and then a family who lives upstairs.
1:36.2	This sounds very familiar to me and I know these people you're talking about.
1:41.1	They're very dear to me, but what happened?
1:46.0	Yeah, so one day I got this note in my mailbox from the wife who lives upstairs.
1:55.2	And it said, I am done trying to communicate with you.
2:00.0	It is clear that you are just going to disregard my feelings
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