Cape Cod

Oh, I love that

... and, and it was just a cute little Cape Cod house.

Yeah.

So she recommended us for that.

[laughs] I'm telling you, the service is disgusting.

And I said, "Furthermore, I don't appreciate this Cape Cod-looking sofa over here, and this wooden table, it's not rustic, it's faux rustic." Turns out I was in a Pottery Barn the whole time.

Who knew? Shannon trying to get snotty at the jail is hilarious.

"I will not stay in there." "All right, well I'll check out the room and just see if it's, it's [laughs] if it meets my standards." [laughs] She just pushes her in there and shuts the door.

Did, did you and Patty dream about that, or was it just survival? Or like, what, what were you thinking at when you were my age?

What comes to mind is success then was having a station wagon loaded with kids, a Cape Cod house with a white picket fence around it.

Back then, it was the typical lifestyle of middle class in America.

I never had a dream of being outlandishly successful.

Uh, that's not to say there aren't, you know, nice places in all quadrants, but there are usually one that is much more dominant, uh, than the others.

Um, so, but what's fascinating, so what's fascinating is like, you can look at the same 1955, uh, um, little Cape Cod or ranch house that has, that was 900 or a thousand square feet Three bedroom, one bath, two bedroom, one bath built in the favored quarter versus the unfavored quarter.

And the one in the favored quarter still is in a very desirable place.

It's kept up really well.

Uh, we, we bought a ...

You know, we, we bought a little, uh, um, Cape Cod home there, uh, from, from the estate of the original owner.

The house was built in the '40s.

Mm-hmm.

The curtains in an upstairs window twitched as if someone had been watching, waiting.

We settled into Ben's childhood home, a modest Cape Cod his mother had left him, empty since her death, but maintained by a neighbor.

Ben had arranged to have it cleaned, stocked with groceries, made ready for our arrival.

It felt like stepping into a museum of his past.

And I'm thinking, well, that's weird.

Like you would think they'd build something a little more energy efficient up here, but no, they build Cape Cod's, you know, flammable.

four bedroom sort of two-story clapboard kind of houses and i'm thinking what the hell why what are they thinking like isn't doesn't it get cold up here and then labor day came and everyone's pulling their boats out of the mackenzie river and i said and it's 30 degrees out i said why is everyone pulling their boats out it's beautiful out and the guy said oh no we always pull our boats out on labor day weekend because after that it's winter And I think, really? Like I made an ice cream with my kids standing there outside in t-shirts.

Well, a week later, we have six inches of snow on the ground.

Now we had no income.

We sold our house, our beautiful Cape Cod that we just remodeled on the outside and the inside.

And I thought, well, more than four people will join us.

Jesus had 12.