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Speaker 1: This is the Fitsy and with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: Give us a call with your idea of what the

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Speaker 2: most UnAustralian thing is that's going on in the suburbs

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Speaker 2: where you live. Right. This is broken out online and

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of debate about whether it's un Australian

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Speaker 2: or whether it's the most Australian thing of all. There's

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Speaker 2: a photo and this is probably happening out the front.

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Speaker 3: Of your place.

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Speaker 2: There's a photo of a house or two houses, maybe

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Speaker 2: three in the street and out on the median strip

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Speaker 2: there's the lawn and part of the lawn has been

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Speaker 2: mode directly out the front of a house because I'm

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Speaker 2: guessing that's the person who have done their lawns that

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Speaker 2: weekend and they have only mode as far as their

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Speaker 2: property goes, even though the median strip and the strip

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Speaker 2: of lawn is continuous, but in the center they've purely

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Speaker 2: just mode their median strip lawn. I don't know is

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Speaker 2: it an Australia or does it actually represent what we're

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Speaker 2: all about, which is I'm not going to I'm not.

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Speaker 3: Can I can I go on?

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Speaker 4: Right? You know, I was just going to say, now

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Speaker 4: we don't know the background of this. If this was

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Speaker 4: the first time that it's ever happened, I can understand

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Speaker 4: it's ridiculous. But if this has been an ongoing thing, Kate,

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Speaker 4: So I understand if you're going to help, you could

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Speaker 4: mow the next door neighbors lawn that little bit. You

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Speaker 4: can do that for the first time. But if you're

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Speaker 4: not getting it back in return, it gets to a

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Speaker 4: point where you put your foot down and.

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Speaker 3: Go, well, I'm not doing yours anymore? Can I have it?

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Speaker 2: You have a bit of a tempt in.

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Speaker 3: This UnAustralian story how much lawn is left on their side? Like,

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Speaker 3: how is it another? Is it just as much as

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Speaker 3: they've already mowed that they need to mark?

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Speaker 2: It would be identical?

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Speaker 3: Is it identity?

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Speaker 2: So maybe the frontage on the property might be like

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Speaker 2: ten meters or something like that. I think a smaller,

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Speaker 2: you know, morlish home.

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Speaker 3: I guess I think it's un Australian. You've got to

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Speaker 3: a neighbors lawn.

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Speaker 2: Can I say something? Though? I have also been part

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Speaker 2: of a discussion where some people don't like you mowing

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Speaker 2: their median strip because they have their very particular way

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Speaker 2: of mowing doing that strip. They do it at their

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Speaker 2: at their time. Their schedule of mowing might not fall

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Speaker 2: in with yours. So then their front median strip lawn

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Speaker 2: and their back lawn or something maybe growing at different intervals.

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Speaker 2: And then God forbid to go out there and you

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Speaker 2: mow it too low and it's summer and then the grass.

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Speaker 3: Do I suggest something absolutely crazy here? Hey, Steve, I'm

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Speaker 3: just doing the front lawn. You want me to do

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Speaker 3: your nature strip as well? Gat mate? Thanks?

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Speaker 2: Or don't worry mate, I'm doing it on the Saturday.

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Speaker 3: And then it's worked out very clearly good on no worry, Steve.

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Speaker 4: We've got to shared garage, right, and we're in a

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Speaker 4: strata building in Bao main right, and underneath the leaves.

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Speaker 4: When when the wind picks up, a lot of the

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Speaker 4: leaves come down into the garage. So when I blow

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Speaker 4: them up, right, so I get the blower out and

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Speaker 4: I suck them up. I do everybody. You've got to

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Speaker 4: do everybody. You can't just do yours and yours is

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Speaker 4: just free of leaves. You've got to do everybody well,

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Speaker 4: especially with leaves. Firstly, I don't understand blowers. If they

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Speaker 4: suck suck the leaves great. If they're blowing the leaves.

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Speaker 4: I don't understand blowers at all, because you're just blowing

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Speaker 4: your problem into someone else's life.

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Speaker 3: You can blow it into a pile no one does

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Speaker 3: you know.

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Speaker 2: What they do? They standing out the front of their

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Speaker 2: house and they blow their leaves just to the part

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Speaker 2: of their lawn, the next door neighbor's lawn that you

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Speaker 2: haven't bothered, divert.

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Speaker 3: I actually bought a blower and sucker in one Stacy

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Speaker 3: and Glenwood.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Hey, here you going good Stacey?

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Speaker 2: What do you think Stace?

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Speaker 1: Guys, come on, it's the great lawn debate?

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Speaker 3: What do you reckon?

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Speaker 1: So Australian to well, I reckon it is I constantly

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Speaker 1: struggle with my neighbor. So we share a median strip.

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Speaker 1: We've both got a meter on each side, and I

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Speaker 1: refuse to mow theirs because it's covered in weeds and

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Speaker 1: mine's perfect. I don't far as a weblake to edge

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Speaker 1: a line between the lawns so that their weeds won't.

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Speaker 5: Croak on my.

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Speaker 3: You're a stinker. You've got to do it, because I

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Speaker 3: think if you do it, it just sets a good

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Speaker 3: tone for your neighborhood relationship.

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Speaker 2: So the next it's a silent handshake.

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Speaker 3: Is I kicked the footy over the fence the other

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Speaker 3: day and then Susu was in the backyard. She kicked

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Speaker 3: her back and then threw a couple of lemons over

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Speaker 3: for the salad that night. Because we do, I do

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Speaker 3: Susu's strip on the weekend, she left her.

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Speaker 4: Alrighty, can we out to Jason and bell Rose?

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Speaker 3: He's a keyway.

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Speaker 4: What do you think of this Australian act?

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Speaker 6: Jason, Oh, it's totally an Australian total.

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Speaker 2: You think everyone should be mowing each other's lawn, cutting

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Speaker 2: each other's grass. It's just a neighborly thing to do.

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Speaker 1: To cross mode my neighbor's lawn.

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Speaker 6: The first time I did mine, he came out of

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Speaker 6: it finishing up and looked at me, shook his head

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Speaker 6: and hasn't really spoken to me. Says he's a true blue?

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Speaker 1: Was he?

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Speaker 3: Is it because you're a key wee? Jason?

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Speaker 1: Well, look, I do get that grown grown to just

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Speaker 1: accept that and move on.

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Speaker 3: You don't cross the ditch, and you don't cross my

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Speaker 3: patch of lawn.

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Speaker 4: You might have to cut his grass in other ways, Jason,

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Speaker 4: you know what I mean. Lana in COLEROI your experience.

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Speaker 4: You're experiencing the exact same issue.

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Speaker 6: Exactly the shame. So our neighbor on the right doesn't

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Speaker 6: know our half the Nature Street, even though it's three

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Speaker 6: by three, and so I make sure that I know

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Speaker 6: use just to prove.

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Speaker 2: The point that, yeah, I think that's a lovely Atlanta.

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Speaker 4: Maybe pouring a bit around up into a D, D

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Speaker 4: and B into their lawn might help them, Mike, help

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Speaker 4: them cut it.

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Speaker 3: It looks like some of your lawns start. It's in

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Speaker 3: the shape of a.

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