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Speaker 1: Welcome to you Stuff you should Know from house Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Josh Clark, There's Charles t. W Chuck Bryant, and we

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Speaker 1: were just talking about Canada, so I said to you,

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Speaker 1: and there's Jerry over there. So this is stuff you

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Speaker 1: should know. Hello, live from the Bowling Green how Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com. Mhm, that's what the site's slogan is. Yeah, uh,

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Speaker 1: are you doing all right? I'm doing great? Watch this, chuck. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: have you ever seen grass? I have, sir, you won't

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Speaker 1: find a lot of good grass in my yard. But no,

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Speaker 1: is it terrible. I've I've seen it before. I don't remember.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty bad. Well, I mean i'll I will um

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Speaker 1: bemoan myself all throughout this one. So well you have.

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Speaker 1: It turns out the traditional American yard, did you know

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Speaker 1: that peck dirt, maybe a little bit of garden around, um,

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Speaker 1: and there you go some native grasses. That's the that's tradition.

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Speaker 1: And it turns out, um, that's the way if you

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Speaker 1: went to an American house, chuck um, pre Industrial Revolution. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: pretty much you're going to find that. Like you're just

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Speaker 1: gonna find peck dirt in the yard, maybe a garden,

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Speaker 1: some weeds. Nobody really cared much. They were more um

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Speaker 1: trying to survive. Yeah, right, And then um in the

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Speaker 1: nineteenth century, as Americans said, you know, we've been hanging

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Speaker 1: out here for a hundred years, let's go back to

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Speaker 1: England and visit. Yet they found it was But they

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Speaker 1: also found that the English had something called a lawn,

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Speaker 1: which is a beautiful, well manicured expanse of grass that

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Speaker 1: a very wealthy English could afford. Well, wealthy Americans were

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Speaker 1: never wants to be um out by wealthy British now,

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Speaker 1: So they came back and they're like, I want a lawn.

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Speaker 1: I am worth so much money it's mind boggling. Make

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Speaker 1: me a lawn. And whoever they were talking to said,

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Speaker 1: we can't really do that here, right, The native grass

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Speaker 1: is not conducive to camped lawn. You can't pop over

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Speaker 1: to the big box hardware store and buy huge sacks

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Speaker 1: of seed, right, And so they said, well, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I'll be right back. I'm going to the UK to

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Speaker 1: buy my seed. And then they traveled there, and then

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Speaker 1: fourteen weeks later they made it all the way back

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Speaker 1: and they said, here, you go grounds keeper, Willie, make

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Speaker 1: me a lawn. Here's some British seed for turf grass.

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Speaker 1: And he said, hey man, he said, when I'm done

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Speaker 1: with you, they're going to need a compost mortem. Whoa wow,

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Speaker 1: the deep cut. That was good. I think that was

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Speaker 1: treat house with horror, like oh the one where he's ready. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: nice man. Gonna need to come Postmoredom. So he said that,

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Speaker 1: and then he said, well, here's the problem. Our climate

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Speaker 1: is different than the UK's and these seeds aren't going

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Speaker 1: to survive here. So the lords and the ladies said,

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Speaker 1: I give up. We'll figure something else out. And it

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Speaker 1: took the Golf Association, the U. S. Department of Agriculture,

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Speaker 1: and the American Garden Club to finally get together and say,

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Speaker 1: let's make this happen. Everybody. Yeah, they got together. The U. S.

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Speaker 1: D A got together with the U S. G A

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Speaker 1: and they said, our names are similar, so let's let's

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Speaker 1: plant some grass together. Right. Uh So what they had

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Speaker 1: to do basically was looked for, you know, kind of

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Speaker 1: full around with the right combination of seed varieties which

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Speaker 1: they imported from around the world. Yeah, just to see

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Speaker 1: like all right, what this, what's gonna grow here in

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Speaker 1: this new country because we gotta place in golf. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like Kentucky bluegrass. Friends, that's from Europe. Firm muta grass.

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Speaker 1: Where do you think that's from? Obviously Africa, that is right.

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Speaker 1: God knows where Zoisja came from, although I believe Asia

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Speaker 1: and not just because Zoysia and Asia are somewhat similar sounding. Uh.

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Speaker 1: It took him about fifteen years and they finally kind

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Speaker 1: of settled on some good combination of grasses. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: you can thank golf to start. So if you hate

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Speaker 1: golf but you love your lawn, yeah, you have to

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Speaker 1: kind of like golf anyway. That's right, Um, but still chuck.

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Speaker 1: Even though they finally came up with the right grass combinations,

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Speaker 1: you had to still be pretty rich to have a lawn.

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Speaker 1: The reason why was because irrigation was a factor. Cutting

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Speaker 1: it was a big factor. Like all of those manor

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Speaker 1: job it was was to cut grass with a scythe Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people, I would imagine. Yeah, because these

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Speaker 1: Um all the livestock that you know, they did cut

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Speaker 1: He was saying like, look, what you can do is

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Speaker 1: so do it. And then he sold the wool or

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Speaker 1: auctioned it off for like a hundred thousand dollars. Wow,

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Speaker 1: and he kept it. Probably it's a good story. Um.

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Speaker 1: The lawnmower mechanical mowing in the nineteenth century became a

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Speaker 1: real thing when an Englishman named Edwin Budding, who was

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Speaker 1: that is R E L And you've seen these. You've

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Speaker 1: probably seen some suckers in your neighborhood with one. I'm

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Speaker 1: just kidding. I actually have a real mower. I live

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Speaker 1: in a Konda. Yeah, real mower's I mean you can

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Speaker 1: still get him in. They're great and they have zero emissions.

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Speaker 1: Which is really neat because a lot of lawnmowers, um

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Speaker 1: are pretty bad offenders. Yeah, their internal combustion engines, which

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Speaker 1: means they put out all sorts of greenhouse gasses. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and and they're not you know, it's not like a car.

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Speaker 1: You know, they don't have catalytic converters and things like that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just straight up bad junk. So you

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Speaker 1: it is. You've seen them. It's a series of blades

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Speaker 1: around a cylinder and uh it is. It's geared, which

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be cutting a lot of grass. But there's a

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Speaker 1: sixteen to one gear ratio, so when you're pushing it,

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Speaker 1: how they work. And apparently, um Mr Budding said or

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Speaker 1: and that's kind of where he got the idea. And

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Speaker 1: People were like, hey, we can have lawns. Now, let's

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Speaker 1: buy these things. Apparently there were somewhat affordable. In eight five,

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Speaker 1: America built fifty thousand of these things and sent him

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Speaker 1: around the globe. Yeah, that was the beginning of lawns

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Speaker 1: in America. Really. Uh. And you know what else that

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Speaker 1: got in vided? What the adjustable wrench? Is that? Right? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You dynamo or is they called it the adjustable spanner?

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Speaker 1: Who called it that? Uh? The internet? And I was like,

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Speaker 1: that may be an English thing. So um. The garden

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Speaker 1: It was kind of like, Okay, Richie, rich love your lawn,

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Speaker 1: I don't really care. I don't need one. And the

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Speaker 1: American Garden Club said, oh, yeah, it's the nineteen fifties.

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Speaker 1: You live in suburbia. You have to have a lawn

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Speaker 1: if you are a clean cut, decent America Rican person.

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Speaker 1: And the American Garden Club had this whole thing where

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Speaker 1: and basically drummed it into the head of every American man, woman,

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Speaker 1: have a perfect lawn sally. Yeah, and there was this,

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Speaker 1: uh this article, man, I can't remember what the the

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Speaker 1: I could, because you know this, they did a great

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Speaker 1: I guess stipulation that's an appropriate type of lawn was

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Speaker 1: inch and a half, too short, uniformly green, and neatly edged.

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Speaker 1: And then today Americans spend about thirty billion dollars a

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Speaker 1: year on lawng care, you know how like people are

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Speaker 1: billion really thirty billion on long care? Yeah? Now is

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Speaker 1: that long care? Is that outdoor care care? Ok? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I looked it up to just grass long care, not

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Speaker 1: planning a zaleus. No. I imagine like just the whole

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Speaker 1: of thirty billions long care. I mean I looked because

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Speaker 1: that that UM article we borrowed from way outdated. Well

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Speaker 1: it was from like two thousand survey and it was

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Speaker 1: like seventeen billion on all outdoor stuff, outdoor home improvement.

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Speaker 1: I think they put thirty billion dollars on lawns. That's crazy. Yes,

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Speaker 1: all right, let's get into grass. Um. It is the

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Speaker 1: name for the Grandma gramina family of plants, of which

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Speaker 1: there are more than nine thousand species. And uh, if

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Speaker 1: you think, well, nine thousand species of grass, you might

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Speaker 1: not realized that things like corn and rice and oats

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Speaker 1: are grass plants. Bamboo is grass. Yeah, so building materials, plastics, room, sugar,

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Speaker 1: look at your bermuda grass plants, because your lawn, although

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Speaker 1: it looks like one large, single organism, and technically you

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Speaker 1: little individual plants closely, it doesn't look so far off

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Speaker 1: of a corn plant. Thank you for that thought for

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Speaker 1: me obviously growing No, but what is corn but a

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Speaker 1: type of flower? Right? Yeah? I guess is it? No,

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Speaker 1: that right? M I don't know. I'm not a farmer.

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Speaker 1: We used to grow corn when I was a kid,

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Speaker 1: but hated gardening when I was a kid. Man, I

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Speaker 1: have to say, you remember we just recorded sushi, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it made me want want sushi. This is like, man,

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Speaker 1: I love gardening. Yeah. Yeah. I think when you get

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Speaker 1: older you get into gardening because eventually, like you might

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Speaker 1: And gardening is just really uh like that's why every

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Speaker 1: because it's just quiet and peaceful and it's just a

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Speaker 1: Like I say, I've got like a pretty nice little

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Speaker 1: Do you know? I believe it is. There was one

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Speaker 1: bird feeder that squirrels love to attack. But I hung

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Speaker 1: it will appear blue at the tops. Beautiful. Yeah. And

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00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 1: I never knew that. I didn't either Chuck schooled everybody, Terry.

422
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,280
Speaker 1: Did you know that everybody, well everyone Kentucky is going

423
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:23,720
Speaker 1: no crap, buddy man, Did I just insult Kentucky? That

424
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 1: was dead? Only? Okay? I love Kentucky. All right, so

425
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 1: you're you're picking your grass, you probably uh will end

426
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,640
Speaker 1: up getting unless you're you know, a big bermuda ficionado

427
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 1: or something, You're probably gonna get a mixture or a blend.

428
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 1: Mixture is a combo of types of grass, and a

429
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,720
Speaker 1: blend is a combo of varieties of the same type

430
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:46,920
Speaker 1: of grass. Right, So like, um, a mixture is like

431
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 1: warm and cool season grasses maybe, or you get a

432
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 1: zoisha blend and it's all different types of zoisha. Yeah, uh,

433
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,680
Speaker 1: And a blend is not as adaptable, but it will

434
00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 1: probably look more uniform and attractive. Been pretty right. It's

435
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 1: not like pets work. But if you're just looking to

436
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 1: fill in like some shady spots or something like that,

437
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 1: you might want to get a mixture, agreed, um. And

438
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 1: then another thing you want to take into account when

439
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 1: you're considering what kind of grass to get is the

440
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 1: amount of sunlight that your yard gets. Like grass loves

441
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 1: sun direct sunlight. Uh, some love shade or not love shade,

442
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:27,159
Speaker 1: but some tolerate shape. That's way better way to put it. No,

443
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,439
Speaker 1: grassually love shade. And then there's some areas that are

444
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,680
Speaker 1: like just shady all the time, in which case you

445
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,119
Speaker 1: might want to consider something else like monkey grass or

446
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,399
Speaker 1: something that's not a turf grass but it's still a

447
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 1: grass that you can cut. Or zero escape. Yeah you

448
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:42,920
Speaker 1: could do that too. I got that big oak tree

449
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 1: and it's just not very sunny in my front yard. No,

450
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 1: which I'm glad you bring up zero escape because reading this,

451
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,119
Speaker 1: especially when we get to the watering part, it's like

452
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 1: grass is not going to be around for many more decades. Lawns.

453
00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:00,040
Speaker 1: If we're gonna start fighting resource wars over water the

454
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 1: next fifty years, there's no way that there's going to

455
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: be such a thing as lawns. Yeah, it's a good point. Yeah,

456
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 1: we're back to the old dirt dirt DApp or days. Yeah.

457
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:16,639
Speaker 1: I'd welcome that dusty America, would you really? Yeah? The

458
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: dust Bowl was great times. We have one game it

459
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 1: was called chew the bark off the Tree. What's that from?

460
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,919
Speaker 1: What was the crumpy old man the Dana Carvey thing?

461
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, to the park off the tree.

462
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,439
Speaker 1: I think that's what he said. That's pretty good. Uh

463
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 1: So the sun is you're gonna, like I said, or

464
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 1: like you said, take that into account, and then the

465
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 1: water as well, um, there are grasses that like water

466
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,120
Speaker 1: more than others, and some do a little bit better

467
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,400
Speaker 1: without as much water. So if you live in Phoenix, um, well,

468
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 1: you're probably just watering all the time. But if you

469
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 1: don't want to water all the time, because you shouldn't

470
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: be watering all the time, because we'll get into watering

471
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: later and you should never be watering every day. No,

472
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,160
Speaker 1: I predict lawns won't be around in fifty alright, mark

473
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:06,640
Speaker 1: my words. No, Launce, we'll be dead. But let's see,

474
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 1: I could still be around. I'll be Aney three. If

475
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 1: I'm still around in anty three, it's that'd be a

476
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,639
Speaker 1: sad case of the human beings. I don't know, chuck, Like,

477
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 1: they're making some serious advances in um in aging. Do

478
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 1: you want to be that old if I were healthy

479
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: and happy? Heck yeah, all right, sure, especially if you

480
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 1: know friends and loved ones were like that old too. Yeah,

481
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: I guess so. I mean I wouldn't want to be

482
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: like cursed to walk the earth forever and like just

483
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,920
Speaker 1: me be that way. But I mean I'm not talking

484
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: about a science fiction movie. No, I'm talking about, like,

485
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 1: you know, advances in aging. Supposedly, if not our generation.

486
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 1: Then definitely the one right below us will see the

487
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 1: triple digits for average life expectancy. And yes, that's the key. Yeah,

488
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 1: I don't want to be chuffling around and drooling on myself. Well,

489
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 1: there's a whole school of thought that like all of

490
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: these are un necessary byproducts of aging. That it's not.

491
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: You don't automatically become stooped over and demented just because

492
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 1: you get old, Like we're doing something wrong or not

493
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 1: doing something that we should be. Well, that can come

494
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: bad all that. Like sarcopania, Yeah, that's easy, but like

495
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: getting into the brain stuff, that's a little trickier. But

496
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,360
Speaker 1: I mean we're there and you and I may live

497
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: to benefit from it. Yeah. I think keeping the mind

498
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 1: active is huge totally because you know, Emily's grandmother's in

499
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: her nineties. She's sharp as attacked because she does puzzles

500
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,959
Speaker 1: all day long and reads and on the internet. Balance

501
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: your checkbook all that chance. All right, So let's talk

502
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 1: about if you want to start a new on as

503
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 1: they call it, establishing a lawn. You can plant seed.

504
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 1: If you want to go the cheap, hard working route, yes,

505
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 1: but you have to wear nothing but overalls, nothing under

506
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 1: them no shoes. While you're planning seed. You can do SOD,

507
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 1: which is we'll talk about that, or you can do

508
00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: the plugs and sprigs which I mentioned. Um, first things first,

509
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to do this for all three methods.

510
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to prepare your soil. Yeah, so you

511
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: want to get like a tiller. Yeah, go down to

512
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: like your hardware store and rent one. Yeah, my mom's

513
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: got one in this case. Okay, so borrow it from

514
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 1: your mom. Anyone can borrow it from my mom. And

515
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 1: basically you're gonna it's probably a good idea to depending

516
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: on where you live. But if you live in a

517
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 1: subdivision and you value your cable UM TV or internet,

518
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,959
Speaker 1: you might want to call your local cable provider, your

519
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 1: gas company, you like a company and say, hey, someone

520
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: your people out and mark this and they'll come and

521
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna spray paint your lawn and everything and give

522
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: you an idea of how deep it is. But you'll

523
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 1: know where your cables are and you can make sure

524
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: the areator does then go too deep. You're gonna cut

525
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: right through one of these cables. That's a good point.

526
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 1: So once you've done that, then you're gonna take that, um,

527
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: not areator, I'm sorry, the tiller, and you're gonna till

528
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 1: the dirt up. You're just kicking it up down to

529
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: probably what six inches or so, I would guess. Yeah,

530
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: and you you can, um, if you're oil is bad

531
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: and you know this, that's when you're gonna add in

532
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 1: your top soil or fertilizer compost and you just kill

533
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 1: all that up together to a delicious soily soup. Yes, chuck,

534
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: it is very important to add something to your soil. Like.

535
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 1: You can't just kill it, that's right, and just leave

536
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: it like that? Well you can, I mean, if you've

537
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: got good soil, I guess, But I mean it doesn't

538
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: hurt to add more nutrients, does it? No? Probably not.

539
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: But in some parts of the country you're good, like

540
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 1: you've got great soil and you're good to go. But

541
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 1: in Georgia, like I said, there's so much freaking clay

542
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 1: it's a nightmare. Um. Then you want to break that

543
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: and level it out. They said you can use a

544
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 1: board scraper two. But you don't want to leave it

545
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: super bumpy and clumpy, right, Just smooth it out as

546
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: best you can. Yeah, and you're gonna thank yourself later,

547
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: because if you have big bumps or holes or divots

548
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: or whatever, you're gonna run into those with your lawnmower.

549
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: So you're doing yourself a favor by smoothing things out

550
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: and leveling them. Now, that's right. Then you want to

551
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 1: scatter your seed. Um, you can't do it by hand.

552
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 1: But what you want is one of those little walking

553
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: behind spreaders, uh that you get it hardware store. They're

554
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: pretty cheap, and you just dump your seat in there

555
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: and uh remember when you dump your seat in there

556
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 1: to keep a little gate closed, otherwise it'll just start

557
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: pouring out in a big pile. And then start walking

558
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 1: and open your gate. And it's got a little wheel

559
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 1: that's flywheel that spins and flings the seed out in

560
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: in a nice equal distributive manner. Yes, if you're doing

561
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 1: it by hand, you're probably gonna put too much some

562
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: places and not enough in others unless you're really good.

563
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: It's very tough to do that unless you're that soil

564
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: whisperg guy he can do anyware right because his ghost friend.

565
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: That's right. And then you take like a regular rake

566
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 1: and you just kind of want to cover this stuff up.

567
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: A little bit, just rake over it. About half of

568
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 1: the seat is covered. Yeah, if you have a lawn roller,

569
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: you can use that, but um, I've never used that.

570
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: So that um is basically it's like a big metal

571
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: drum that you fill a certain amount of water to

572
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: make it heavier and you just roll that over it

573
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: to compact it something. Yeah, And like I said, I've

574
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: never done that. Um, but I got a crappy lawn

575
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: that was the key. Yeah. Maybe so Uh, then you

576
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: want to cover that up if you want, with straw

577
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: multi material. They sell stuff in sheets as well. Um,

578
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: I've never done that either. I'm telling you I think

579
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: I realized the mistakes I'm making. I think that you

580
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,719
Speaker 1: should be a case study in this induced step by

581
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: step exactly what it says, and see what happens here long.

582
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: All right, maybe I will Maybe I can get work

583
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: to pay for it. I'll bet you could. If I

584
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: document it via video, I'll back you up. All right.

585
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: We'll see about that. Uh. Or you can go the

586
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: easy route, which is side and that is when you

587
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: see the big rectangular rolls have already grown awesome turf

588
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: and you you roll it out on your lawn after

589
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 1: your soil is prepared green side up and straight rows.

590
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: Make sure it's green side up. Stab. My friend used

591
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,239
Speaker 1: to yell at out the window when he'd go by,

592
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: like lawn cruise green sewed up. This is really obnoxious

593
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: a little. He's not my friend anymore because of that.

594
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 1: But that says a lot about why greens, you know, uh,

595
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 1: and you want to stagger it, like if you're doing

596
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: a brick wall, don't lay them out, you know, and

597
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: exactly in a row, right, because the water will just

598
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: run right through there. It won't get trapped. Yeah, and

599
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: it'll look a little funny for a while. It'll look

600
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: like squares of grass, and it will eventually grow together

601
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: and look like one big solid turf unit. That's right.

602
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: And the closer you lay your side together, um, the

603
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: better off you're gonna be because any patches in between

604
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: them will allow weeds to grow. Uh. And that's a

605
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: big problem with using spriggs, which is the third way.

606
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: Spriggs are plugs and spriggs are plugs. A sprig is

607
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 1: just a grass plant, a little individual grass plant that's

608
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: bare root. A plug is the individual grass plant with

609
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: like a little dirt root ball associated with it. Yeah,

610
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: and you can order those online and get a bunch

611
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: of them shipped to your house if that's what you're into. Yeah,

612
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: because some some grass doesn't it doesn't grow well from

613
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 1: seed like zoisja isn't. It doesn't propagate well from seed.

614
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 1: But then some people are like, I don't have the

615
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: money for sod. See can order a bunch of sprigs

616
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: or plugs zoeysa and do the work yourself. And you

617
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: dig these little holes about six or twelve inches apart,

618
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 1: fill them with water. Then you take your plug, your sprig,

619
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,439
Speaker 1: put them in the hole and cover around it with dirt.

620
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:27,879
Speaker 1: There you go, boom. You want to weed these things

621
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: while they're growing in But zoisa apparently grows very fast

622
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: with the stolens and its rhizomes and whatnot. And uh,

623
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:42,280
Speaker 1: there you go lawn sixty eight weeks later or months

624
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: or years. Yeah, and all of these methods, you're gonna

625
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna water a lot at first, um, just to

626
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 1: get things going. But we'll get into watering here in

627
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: a minute. To all right, Um, before we get into maintenance,

628
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 1: should we talk about weed and feed? Oh yeah, which

629
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: is like the shampoo plus conditioner lawn care pretty much.

630
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,840
Speaker 1: That is a combination of weed and feed um herbicidal

631
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: chemicals and fertilizer chemicals. It might be pre emergent if

632
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: you don't know what that means. That is a herbicide

633
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 1: that kills weeds before they sprouted in the cradle, that's right,

634
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: or post emergent, which kills already grown up weeds. And

635
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: UH experts say this is not a good way to

636
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:26,800
Speaker 1: go because optimum fertilizing time isn't the same as optimum

637
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 1: weed killing time. Yeah. Plus another problem is it's like

638
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: you may not need her and herbicide all over your lawn,

639
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: Like you don't want to use it just as a

640
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 1: matter of course, Like if you have some real problem

641
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: with weeds, um, you want to target them as much

642
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 1: as possible using kind of a low level herbicide rather

643
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 1: than just spraying herbicide all over your lawn because your

644
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: lawn is a plan as well. Yeah, and if you

645
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: have the children and animals and yeah, that you know

646
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: you don't want to grap in your yard, at least

647
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: I don't. So you got your plugs grown in, uh

648
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 1: you or your sod or your seed or whatever, and

649
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:07,720
Speaker 1: you're like it's ready, I'm ready to maintain this lawn,

650
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: it's established, what do you do? Well, there's eight steps

651
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:15,399
Speaker 1: to lawn maintenance, and we will start with watering. Um.

652
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 1: And like I said, you never want to have a

653
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 1: sprinkler set to water your lawn every day. No, it's

654
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: total waste. It's a total waste. Um. You might have

655
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 1: to water every day at first, but once it's established,

656
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we should say that, like when you plan

657
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 1: or whatever, you have to water a lot more than

658
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: you normally would, I guess. Yeah, but once you're up

659
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: and running, um, it's a total waste of water. Um,

660
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: and you're gonna run your bill up and it's not

661
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: good for your lawn either. So you're really there's absolutely

662
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 1: no reason to know. What you want to do is

663
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: deeply soak your lawn when you water it and when

664
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 1: it needs it. Right, and you can tell when it

665
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,360
Speaker 1: needs it when you're when you step on it and

666
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 1: it doesn't bounce back in a minute a few seconds,

667
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: then uh, it probably needs water. Yeah, it might curl

668
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: up a little bit. If you see it curling up

669
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: or changing color at all, you need to water, um.

670
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: And so get out there in the morning. Yeah, that's

671
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: the best time to do it. Yeah, don't dur in

672
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: the middle of the day, it'll burn off. Yeah, it'll evaporate,

673
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 1: and the water in the morning will keep the soil

674
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: cool throughout the day. That's right. It's just a big

675
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: treat for your lawn. Yeah. And like we said, you

676
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 1: deeply soak it, so much so that you want to

677
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 1: have about an inch of water collecting above ground. Like

678
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 1: that's a that's a big long soak. Yeah. And if

679
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 1: you think, well, how in the world do I figure

680
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: that out? Just put a little cup out there, turn

681
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: your sprinkler on, and when that cup has an inch

682
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: of water in it, you're all set. I don't know

683
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:43,359
Speaker 1: if that's right now, that's exactly right. No, because think

684
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: about it, that cup is going to fill up immediately

685
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: because no water is soaking through it. No, that's that's

686
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: how you do it. You put a cup and the

687
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: cup just collects little drops and it takes, you know,

688
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: about an hour or more to fill that thing up

689
00:37:55,040 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: an inch. I think what I said makes sense anyway,

690
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: because you out there and or not when when it

691
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 1: fills up in how is he going to tell if

692
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 1: it's I don't know. I guess you would take a

693
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 1: little measuring stick and like go out there every once

694
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: in a while and see you just put a cup.

695
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: Trust me, I think mine's better. Just guess. No, measure

696
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 1: with the measuring stick, because then you're measuring how much

697
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: water is collecting on top of the ground. And that's

698
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: what you're looking for because that means about six to

699
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,280
Speaker 1: eight inches of the ground has been soaked. So measure

700
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: down six to eight inches. Is that what you're saying. No,

701
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,360
Speaker 1: just put it on top of the grass, like on

702
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 1: the ground to like put it in the grass until

703
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: its measuring stick a ruler. So want I want to

704
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: get this. You stick a ruler into the ground. No,

705
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: you stick a ruler into the grass until it comes

706
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: in contact with the ground. And then when there's an

707
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 1: inch of water that measures up to the inch, but

708
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: it doesn't it soaks into the dirt, right, and you

709
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 1: want to keep doing it until there's about an inch

710
00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:00,800
Speaker 1: of water that's collected. Yeah, I'm telling you, dude, you

711
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 1: will never have an inch of water sitting in your yard.

712
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: That's called the lake. Dude, I'm telling you, that's what

713
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:09,320
Speaker 1: this article is saying. All right, I'm gonna leave it

714
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: out there. Okay, this is what we're gonna do the

715
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: people here. We're going to call for a turf pro

716
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,799
Speaker 1: to tell us which one's right, and he will say, dude,

717
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 1: if you have an inch of water, that means you

718
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:24,439
Speaker 1: are flooded. We'll just find out. Agreed. So you're saying

719
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 1: the water the ground has become so supersaturated that the

720
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 1: water sits on top of the ground. Yeah, I'm not

721
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: saying it's saturated, but the water has accumulated enough that

722
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 1: it hasn't all soaked down enough. Okay, Okay, I think

723
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 1: it's clear he lives in the condo. Anyway, I recommend

724
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: you put a cup out. When that cup fills up

725
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: to an inch, then that means you're watered enough. I'm

726
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 1: calling for a terf expert to let us know what's what.

727
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 1: All right, this is a good, legitimate disagreement. Okay, so

728
00:39:55,080 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: we were done with water? Yes, well, yea, that's right.

729
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: Uh and we mentioned water in the morning. Um. Mowing

730
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 1: is the second part of upkeep, and this is another

731
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: important thing because a lot of people think, oh no, man,

732
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 1: you mow really low and then you don't have to

733
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: mow as much, and that is not what you should do.

734
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:17,719
Speaker 1: You should you should let it grow because it's better

735
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 1: for your lawn because when you cut too low, that

736
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,240
Speaker 1: grass is gonna race to try and grow more blades

737
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: to make sugar, and it's gonna grow super fast, and

738
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: it's gonna use storage sugar. It's gonna weaken your plant

739
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: if you have tall grass, and that storage sugar is

740
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 1: gonna make new rhizomes and so it'll just be thicker

741
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 1: and more lush. Yeah. But if you let it grow

742
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: too long, then it's using up a lot of the

743
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 1: nutrients from the root system and a lot of energy.

744
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 1: So if you do something in between, I think for

745
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: like a cold seasoned grass, they say keep it at

746
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 1: about three inches um. When you cut it, you're just

747
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 1: basically forcing it to propagate because it's like, oh I

748
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: need to I need to pretty small chlorophyll, so I'm

749
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: gonna grow some more blades. So actually cutting it unlike hair,

750
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: actually does make the grass thicker and more lustrous or

751
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:10,879
Speaker 1: your lawn. Yeah. So you're doing the lawn of favor

752
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: and yourself with favor because you're not gonna to mo

753
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 1: your grass as much. That's the dirty little secret. And

754
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 1: you can tell your wife, no, you're supposed to let

755
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 1: it grow and she'll say look it up and show me,

756
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 1: and then you go to how stuff works. That's right. Uh.

757
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 1: And in the summer you should let it grow a

758
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: little longer to in the falling winter, um, and spring

759
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: you cam o a little bit closer because you're um,

760
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 1: your temperatures are cooler, right, so you don't need to

761
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: sweat it as much. Um. And then when you do mow,

762
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 1: you should vary the direction you mow in, so like

763
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 1: one week mo north to south right and then the

764
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,799
Speaker 1: next week mo east to west. Yeah. And I think,

765
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 1: and a lot of experts think you should always leave

766
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: your clippings on your lawn and not bag them and

767
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 1: dump them. Um. Because when you're doing that, what when

768
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 1: you leave in the clippings, it ends up coming compost

769
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 1: and it just helps your soil. If you constantly are

770
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: removing the clippings, that soil is gonna compact and get

771
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:11,240
Speaker 1: hard and um. Yeah. So I'm I'm a big proponent

772
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: of of getting a multi mower and just leaving the clippings.

773
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: And those clippings are do not equal thatch. Apparently the

774
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 1: clippings breakdown in like a week. Um. Thatch is actually

775
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 1: build up of dead crown and calms and other stuff

776
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 1: of the plant. It's not the cut blades. Yeah. It

777
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: actually if you remove your clippings, you're gonna encourage that. Yeah,

778
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: So don't do it. Yeah, that's is no good. No,

779
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: it isn't good because it keeps air and water out

780
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 1: of the soil, which are essential. Well, a little bit

781
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: of thatch can be okay some yeah, but not much. No. No.

782
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 1: And if you do have a thatched problem, you can

783
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 1: just break it out, yeah, and then your clippings will

784
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 1: come back the next week exactly. Uh. Fertilizing is key.

785
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 1: You want to add nutrients to the soil. Um. Granular

786
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: fertilizer once or twice a year is the way to go.

787
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:05,360
Speaker 1: The spray on stuff it you know, that's not a

788
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:06,800
Speaker 1: great thing because that just kind of gets on the

789
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 1: blade of grass itself. The granular stuff soaks into the

790
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: ground over the course of weeks, and it's like slow releasing, right, yeah,

791
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 1: slow releasing. And um, a lot of these are chemical fertilizers.

792
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 1: I'm not into it. There's a great brand called Ringer

793
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: and it's natural and um a lot of the chemical

794
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 1: fertilizers are just salt, and salt is no good for

795
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: the ground. So it's really weird that made up of

796
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: salt understood that then the Romans used to salt the

797
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:36,359
Speaker 1: earth of the lands they conquered. People couldn't grow stuff. Yeah,

798
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:40,799
Speaker 1: I mean what about idiocracy accidentally salted the soil using

799
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 1: gator right? Really? Yeah, I remember aerating, something I've never done,

800
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 1: which is one of my reasons why my lawn stinks. Well,

801
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 1: that's basically like, so over time, your soil becomes more

802
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:55,439
Speaker 1: and more compact, and as it becomes compact, there's less

803
00:43:55,680 --> 00:44:01,280
Speaker 1: error movement. Water trickles through, it's easily and is um aerobic,

804
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 1: which means they need oxygen bacteria that helps like keep

805
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 1: things nutrient rich down there, and if they're not getting oxygen,

806
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 1: they're not able to do their thing. That's right. So

807
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 1: you want to aerate, depending on how high traffic you are,

808
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,800
Speaker 1: maybe once a year where you use like one of

809
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 1: those it looks like what's the drum barrel the drumroller thing,

810
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:25,720
Speaker 1: but with spikes, hollow spikes and they just pull plugs

811
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 1: out of the grass that you just leave in place

812
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:31,359
Speaker 1: and bam, aerraated. Yeah, and you can rent those two

813
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: at a hardware store. Um or they even have these

814
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: if you have a small yard. Um, they have aer

815
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 1: rating shoes that like, yeah, you just basically attach them.

816
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: You just attach them to your regular shoe and strap

817
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 1: them on. And it's like just spikes that you walk

818
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: around in your yard. But you'd have to have a

819
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:53,759
Speaker 1: pretty small onto, you know. Or kids. Yeah, that's true. Yeah,

820
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:56,439
Speaker 1: put them to work, attach spikes on their shoes. Yeah,

821
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,839
Speaker 1: that's probably safety. Like go run around, just don't run

822
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 1: around the same place. Um, we've talked about detaching. Uh.

823
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: And then there's weeding. Um. Weeding is the bane of

824
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,880
Speaker 1: my existence. And I don't really know what else to

825
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 1: say about it. It stinks I got a lot of weeds. Um.

826
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 1: Weeds aren't necessarily terrible for your yard if you have

827
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:20,760
Speaker 1: a few, But um, no, and what are weeds besides

828
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:24,320
Speaker 1: plants that we decided we didn't like. Yeah, but certain

829
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: types of weeds can indicate like if you have a

830
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 1: lot of dandelion, that means you're soil is too alkaline

831
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,240
Speaker 1: or to compact, Or if you have a lot of clover,

832
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 1: means it's too low in nitrogen. So it can be

833
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,879
Speaker 1: a sign of some amendments that you need to take

834
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 1: care of. You can read the weeds. Yeah, read the weeds.

835
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:43,720
Speaker 1: And one thing if you, um, don't make the mistake

836
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: I made, which is, hey, I'm gonna put a bunch

837
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:49,720
Speaker 1: of weed killer on my yard and see what happens.

838
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: Because it's um. You might be surprised of how much

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Speaker 1: with some seed. Yeah, I need to start from scratch

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Speaker 1: back there anyway, in the backyard. Yeah, it's just it's time.

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Speaker 1: And then do you have pests? Yeah, I got all

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Speaker 1: kinds of pests. So there's UM this I guess it's

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Speaker 1: it's a gram positive bacteria. It's similar to the stuff

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Speaker 1: They eat this stuff and it creates a um, a

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Speaker 1: and so the things starved to death and you can

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Speaker 1: just put that stuff on your soil. Basically, you're putting

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Speaker 1: bacteria on your soil and it will take cara pests.

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Speaker 1: It's nice, man, that was this is informative, I think. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It was like, we don't do a lot of how twos,

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Speaker 1: but we just did the mother of all how twos?

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Speaker 1: Has you got anything else? I got nothing else, man,

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Speaker 1: So if you want to know more about grass, you

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Speaker 1: demonstrative picture too. Oh yeah, uh, and I said demonstrative,

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Speaker 1: which means it's time for a listener. Now, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: call this fish bowl at the LaBrea tar Pits. Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: a huge fan of the show. Gets me through my

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Speaker 1: long commute. Just listen to the LaBrea tart Pits and

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Speaker 1: the fish bowl at the Page Museum sounds similar to

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Speaker 1: a setup that I've worked in before at the Aquarium

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Speaker 1: It's pretty nice. Is there a fish bowl? Is offich

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Speaker 1: bowl there? Well, there's a fish bowl where they work.

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Speaker 1: I interned at the veterinary department which had glass wall. Also,

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Speaker 1: visitors could check out the procedures. Turns out the glass

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Speaker 1: for the fish inside, meaning uts. I never saw anyone

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Speaker 1: tap on the glass and yelled nerd, but we did

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Speaker 1: have a regular onslate of small children tapping and smashing

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Speaker 1: their faces against the glass. One day, in particular, we're

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Speaker 1: doing surgery on a chuck wala, a lot of people

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Speaker 1: were outside the glass watching a little boy started tap

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Speaker 1: tap tap tap tapping. Eventually, the veterinarian got fed up,

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Speaker 1: slowly turned with a scalpel and glared and pointed at

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Speaker 1: the little boy. Ve shook his finger at him, and

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Speaker 1: the little boy's eyes widened in fear and he ran

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Speaker 1: away crying. And that was my favorite day of my internship. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: that story always makes me chuckles. I wanted to share

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Speaker 1: keep being awesome, And that is from Caitlin with a K.

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Speaker 1: Nice thanks a lot, Caitlin. Yeah, you threatened a boy

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Speaker 1: with a scalpel and that was Caitlin was just witnessed

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Speaker 1: that and he cried, and that was Caitlin's favorite day.

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Speaker 1: If you have a favorite day, oh that's a good one, Chuck.

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