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Guaranteed Human.

Hey, and welcome to the Short Stuff.

I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and this is Short Stuff because Jerry's here for Dave.

And we're talking about the neighborhood watch, so look out.

That's right.

I think the fact of this podcast is right off the bat.

Yep.

Because if you've ever seen a neighborhood watch, like the official neighborhood watch sign,

as in the National Neighborhood Watch Program official organization,

if you've ever seen that sign and that, I was going to say silhouetted,

but it's really just sort of a kind of a cartoony black figure on those orange and white signs.

It looks very much like a film noir villain.

That guy actually kind of peering back over his shoulder.

That dude has a name, and it's Boris the burglar.

Yep.

Very good, nice little trivia point.

Yeah, I think one of the things that fascinates me about this and why I picked this one,

and also thanks to Tara Yar-Lagata and Adoye Johnson, the first from How Stuff Works,

the latter from the Howard University School of Law.

But like when I see signs like that, they seem like an urban archaeological find because they're from the 70s, the very early 70s.

And sometimes in old neighborhood, and, you know, Atlanta's chock full of old neighborhoods.

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