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Jen’s longtime friend Erin (they met working in marketing at Heinz) joins Amber and Jen for a very Pittsburgh episode.

It starts with the childhood snacks we’d still fight for: Pudding Pops, It’s-It, Bugles, and a couple you might not remember. Then Erin shares her Amazing Race strategy, how her family gets by with one car in the South Side Flats, and her go-to hiccup cure.

In Stories from the Hood, a South Side Slopes homeowner learns the unwritten rules the hard way, starting with Frank’s parking chair. And a sleep-deprived new dad finally confronts the neighbor who runs a leaf blower religiously at 7:15 a.m. Plus: The Mt. Lebanon’s Deer Incident Tracker and our women-owned business gift guide.

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A neighbor kid keeps letting his dog poop on the same lawn. His mom swears he’s an angel despite some pret-ty solid evidence. So one fed-up homeowner starts collecting the deposits. We're talking an entire week’s worth, in bags.

Amber reads the petty revenge story that has commenters yelling “that’s a felony.”

Then we launch a special, new segment, The Secret Life of Suburbanites. This week stars Tunnel Girl. She’s a software engineer who has been digging a full underground mine beneath her Virginia home and stockpiling the stone to build a castle. No lie.

Plus: the most underrated Halloween candy (Junior Mints vs. Fun Dip, and the Campfire Girls mints Jen never knew existed), a recap of the annual neighborhood crawl, and Amber’s real-world tips for hosting a party.

We also finally reveal the color analysis swatches that bring us to life. One winter, one autumn.

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Happy Halloween, neighbors! Amber and Jen show up in full sequins, wigs, and gold hoops (their disco murder mystery party costumes) for a spooky story game: three tales from the hood, and only Amber knows which one is a hoax.

First up - the HOA sets up a Halloween "border patrol" to keep out trick-or-treaters from other neighborhoods (read by Jen as Lady Whistledown) then our second story features a Halloween-obsessed neighbor who answers the door in character. The final tale will startle listeners with visions of spooky Halloween decorations that look a bit too real.

Plus: the song lyrics we've been singing wrong for years, Pittsburgh's escaped-pelican hotline, giraffe obsessions, and Amber's countertop intervention has finally worked on Jen.

Have a spoooooooky week, neighbors!

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In this week's story from the hood, a girl wanders through the woods, finds a cute butter-yellow farmhouse and a friendly woman with a silver tooth, then comes back with witnesses to find nothing but a rotting ruin. Amber and Jen continue spooky season with this ghostly tale that may just give you chills, plus Amber's own haunted hotel room experience (and the phone call years later that confirmed it).

Also on the docket: recurring dreams (elevator cranes, Care Bears, crumbling teeth), the old-person alter egos you didn't know you needed, and a few words for the trolls in the comments.

Plus, Jen learns the hard way that her W-2 wasn't enough for her REAL ID, so learn from her 90-minute DMV wait before you go.

Pull up a chair, it's time to neighbor ;)

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Amber's friend and a former HOA president, Josh Stewart, joins Neighbors Neighboring to confess what really happens when you run the neighborhood: a cloudy pool on opening weekend, furious neighbors, and one very fast resignation.

Josh is a level-two sommelier and the founder of a wine club. He leads a live pod tasting that ends with a wine glass trick revealed.

Plus: a Reddit story about door-to-door visitors who picked the wrong yard (and the wrong garden hose), a crash course in seasonal color analysis, which game show each of them could actually win, and why a letter to your neighbor about their tree might save you an insurance headache.

Silver linings go to Jen's mom and the friends who always stay in touch.

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A neighbor bangs on the door demanding the Halloween decorations come down because his wife has arachnophobia. But the spiders are purple, fuzzy, and have googly eyes. Hmmmmm. Does this make sense?!?!

This week's Stories from the Hood also features a 17-year-old who gets her neighbors blacklisted by every local babysitter after they try to break her vacation nanny deal (good thing it was in writing).

Plus: which movie deserves a sequel with the original cast (we're down for Dirty Dancing & The Goonies), the case against bathing in cologne, car air fresheners, sourdough starter curiosity, and the fall treats we're craving most.

If you love AITA neighbor stories, HOA drama and a little spooky season chaos, pull up a chair and hang with Amber and Jen, neighbors.

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It's eggplant season (if you've been a long-time listener, you know what that means!) and Jen finally spills the secret she's been keeping from Amber (spoiler alert - she hired a cat psychic to find out why Parker's behavior is increasingly more mischievous). The answer? Much to Jen's dismay, pretty much what Google would say.

Amber has her own bombshell too. Strawberries ARE NOT actually berries, but bananas are, which is big news for Jason and may change minds about the green gummy bears.

In Stories from the Hood, new homeowners are done letting their neighbors cut across their driveway, and a very wealthy neighbor "accidentally" opens $900 of someone else's designer shirts and tosses the boxes.

Plus: which fast food chain you'd save if every other one disappeared, Amber's surprise treadmill run, and a Long Island teen who became best friends with his grandpa's pickleball crew.

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A guy buys the cheaper corner lot, then tells his neighbors which bushes they're allowed to plant...because their yard is the only thing between him and the lake view. Well, they planted twenty HOA-approved palms. Amber and Jen get into this Story from the Hood and one about a garden-theft that ends with a grown man getting hosed down over a handful of tomatoes.

Our question of the week reveals the first cars Jen and Amber called their own. Amber shares an unexpected update on the pickleball millionaire (FYI - he's been arrested again) and we cover Pennsylvania's deeply uninspired new license plates.

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