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Once a bit help dot com, slash bird, that bit of help h e l, p, dot com, slash bird hi, I'm david farrier, a new zealander who accidentally got stuck in america, and I want to find out what makes this country tick now. One thing I love to do is use my ears, because there are so many good things to listen to back in new zealand enjoy listening to the beautiful call, the t bird for the job do braes of a nearby flock of sheep here, america, I'm getting used to different noises. The soothing cooing of a crow then, because I'm allay the gentle hum of traffic, but there's one sound that really cuts through every other sound and it comes without warning.

The least blower, and from what I can tell americans loved, to show their patriotism by blowing leaves from one place to another place, but all that leave blowing comes at a cost. A typical guess, powered leaf blower throws out more pollutants than a six thousand pound twenty eleven ford raptor. I wanted to find out what a mere has against leaves. I wanted to know why they need to be blown around all the time I mean it's like vacuuming, the house been instead of sacking everything up you just blow of the dust into another room, it doesn't make it since my simple key, we mind so get ready to guess at their tanks. You can make your yards, the cleanest, tiniest yard, in town, because this is the least blowers episode

those birds fly. There's a man when I walked in today. I walked through the yard towards the attic and to leave blow assume around me blow. Why were you in a tornado? I was in a tornado was actually read, triggering good and bad way. That was a bad trigger. Why the good trigger was this a major excavations going on around here? Yes, and I love tunnels and I got excited single the dirt and digging being done. Yeah we're gonna, see you just pop up out of the ground, one, that's my dream but it had trigger badly what I'm not alone. I know other people have a problem as well, but it so loud and so stressful yeah. What do you feel when you hear a leaflet

because there are a lot of them around this positive, certainly los angeles, Ah, I walked by a couple leaf, blowing incidents, my walk and I could give us I've just don't care Ah, you don't care at all and I actually feel loved a lot by the people who are leave blind, often because they notice me and then turn stop. Are there and their blower away cause they're trying to protect my heart? That's really plied stop and to be clear, but nothing against the leaf. Going. You is a lot of them in america, there are employed to leave, but yes- and we get into this in the documentary- ok, I don't have beef with them and that beautiful they returning illegal they since you coming, they turn away. I give them a little chin up. Oh you smell them that I don't know it's a china I would like you did. What are you do? How do you communicate with someone when you can order? We communicate and like canada,

you're driving and you lock eyes of the driver and had done something nice. So I dont away you do away yeah uneasy when we do that raised chin briefly that come a male thing. I think asylum It's communicate. This is interesting cause. It doesn't look natural, all sort of the head jerk. Can you stand up and do it? It goes because it maybe it just looks confusing, because you're sitting alone can refer to turn around all day, oh wow, yet it seems funny very when you do it their extreme. Now you ve got no contact. You kindly just be doing nothing, that's. Why is weird, but then what I would do to a leaf blower when they turn away from your waving. I wave or I smiled and gave us less. Roma have a frown on and then If I like the person, then they get at nice smile from me. This might be a waistcoats thing, but I get really fast

I hated driving contain driving lessons I'm gonna at my license, but if I do something nice to another car, I lit the men. Yeah, there's no wave and no hello at all. There's nothing in this blank, and that makes me so furious. It isn't I don't like that either I in the south. We do a lot of waves and smiles and hospitality the whole thing about cause. I've got no beef with the people that are employed to do it. That's fine, but I do have beef with his private individual who has the leaf blower, because there too lazy to rake oh wow, what a state man, it's lazy, it's it's a fish and Emily flour from accurate. Ok, so do you put your lease when you blow them somewhere? Do you gather them and put them in a composts been or are they This loading out for someone else to come up and leave blows somewhere else, and it goes on forever so minds not for leaves events fur like dead parts of the tree and our back patio.

cages blowing it in tibet like dirt to clean up the earth patio area- and I might be wrong on this, but in new zealand when leaves come off a tree- they just decompose. Naturally, it's like nature. Does it and the nature has a natural leave work of the wind yeah, and we, Use their windows is moving. It also into another place you, but it's not creating extra pollutants and noise, because the noise I may even making this podcast each week I record for the documentaries. I recall these little voice, overs and my little apartment. I dont have sound briefing, I'm surrounded by windows. The number of times have been. Interrupted, mid flow, my voice sounding great, you know I'm not coughing and spluttering at so sounding out negotiations through the roof wow, I'm feeling gram, positive, very confident, and then the leaflet begins and I got fuck and have to start again well. This is it I mean ding, ding ding for the lifer

thing right now cause there's lots of noise happening here, lots of construction noise. If there is you hear it that's what's going on, but you don't seem to care about that. No, it's rare! The problem with the lifo is the constant soundtrack to living in amerika. I think, because you be He is so long. You have all become a me into it over time. The numeric drew yearning. That occasionally and it's kind of a thrill wow what a weapon that allow sounds like you think, using there's, no value to blowing and there's no there's. My main point is no value to it at all. Well, yes, is slipping sleeping on leaves over here. If I could, but it's not a banana p is sometimes it right and rarely still, and then they gets stuck on the ground, and then you can slip in die, how many my eyes rob look up, how many people have died, It is mainly eyes. I actually had a bit of a dinner

disaster or near disaster. Recently I went to meet with some new zealand friendless and there was a friend I haven't seen there in a while, but I don't know her well enough just to sort of get stuck in straight away. I sat down. I was late, though. Amid conversation and she just added the sentence fine. I love leaf my parents visiting new zealand, they love them so much. Given the mine and have taken it back to new zealand, my god- and this was a couple of days ago right. So this was fresh in my. in this whole episode and I just launched into a tirade that I thought was funny, but she took as an attack. Of all her mother concern the concern for the environment. It went bad also. She thinks it's good for the environment. The I dont speak for her hadn't thought about. or had got an electric one, which is much much better for the environment. Oh, I see she took it. As you were saying you don't care about the environment, you don't care about your mom, you hate the.

Oh yeah yeah, she took her elder attack on her very core of her being dealt with south real quick. I think you may all her an apology. I sent a message saying nice to see you have to go to sleep at night the sarcastic. It was nice to see her. I was on my social cues or off. I thought it was a funny thing to talk about. It wasn't funny for her. Do you think, maybe because of your face blindness that your ears are hyper sensitive and your hearing the leaf blower in a way that may be the rest of us? Aren't I think that great theory. I was assure us obsessed with an american show called the sentinel as big, ok and the seem to know he got lost in the jungle

because there were no other sounds around my returns from all his sentences got heightened. Yes, I came back to the city. He was like a superhero, now hear everything he could see everything he had saddle. Everything happens that we're up that science. If you are blind, your other senses are often height, and I am but blind face your eye. They spied and I signed in action this weekend. He is so. This is really something reminded how I voted on the scenario. From your point of view. Ok, so David was meeting me, I was whipped. friends in your meeting us and we need at this place. We got

a lot and I normally have a seat. I'm sitting in noise in the corner. Yes, Monica's corner, I call it is in the corner and other people were sitting there. That day, it was horrible, so we had to sit somewhere else, and I do have a regret. I didn't even think about the fact that I should've warned you and I'm sorry I apologize, but I was sitting there and chit chatting and all of a sudden I see you come in, and your inner cat jackets are very hard to miss. You are kind of be aligning towards the corner. I want to just quickly clarify it was a jacket with it's a cat son. It wasn't like a cat jacket made of cat silk hat further clarify I ain't gonna, be there he'll, be line for our spot. Yeah we're smiling a new kind of had the smile I kind of plastered on your face you clearly he did it newer, getting anxious men and they always just took a hard left heard for the bar, and you just sat reply

yourself down there? I was late Tom cruise in a fight, a jet availing foreign pilot who was about to attack. The problem was You were there with a friend right, yet the cap on the corner sitting there I got close I know enough of you. When I get close, I can there's more data. I knew it wasn't you, but by their not being This person- that's when you saw me mainly invasive way to the bank, and I was sick. down to regroup with my family, sit at the berlin pivot gently and see who else that bad and that's when you save me around What would have been very funny if I'd set down in southern italy, I mean realized cause that would have been right, horrific because in she would You came out to buy a manner the situation. Then she would be like I want it didn't happen. It didn't happen, so what does a double faced by going on the woman who I insulted about leap out. She was sitting outside kismet, which is the walk to meeting you. Yes, I blanked her

really told me that at dinner, Outra berated her about the leaf blower. She doesn't recognize me, and so I just had a whole conversation with her about my disability. Back to back. Like that, oh my god, I mean I want to feel compassion right now, but I'm I wish none of this was happen. I can tell you're saying this is a shameless plug. I write a news article web worm. If you've got a web room dot code, I have a whole essay about my facial blindness. If it doesn't make sense to you lipo is I made a documentary about them because it's not just me that has a problem. This is my journey, I've been documenting least blowers for a while now wednesday morning. Here we go so go for like another half hour, at least this leap blow was across the street from where I live, but it still

through my windows and walls, a verbal assaults to an otherwise quiet. Unbidden bedroom apartment and then just moving leaves from one part of the payment into another another day. Another leaf flower lee blowitz stir them going out there through them to too many on sundays, and interrupt my work I go to record of, it's over, like the one you listening to you right now in someone friends on a leaf lower. This puts me under tremendous pressure and stress, because if I don't make the show each week, I'm pretty sure dec or revoke my visa and become an illegal flightless bird in the middle of quoting a voice over four flightless bird, and yet this happens there surrounding me right now. Sometimes they just idle.

Which I see as a direct threats from the leaf blower. It saying don't you d sit down and eat any work done or I'll fuck you up, I'm not even by the window anymore. I'm sitting at my desk from to work between the goes. The wake me up three, a m in this constantly blowing something has to change, or at least I had to try and understand why this was happening. The reason for this torture see back in new zealand,

We have a natural leaf blower, which we call the wind. It doesn't require gas and it's pretty quiet. If that doesn't work, we get out something. We call a rake so and as benjamin capacity on the senior utter settlement magazine, shuttle washington, I'm talking demand german, because he recently wrote a passionate plea about the use of gas guzzling leaf blow is living in their city around so many landscaping, crews that are coming through our citys it's and blowing at the sidewalks, where seemingly there are no leaves to be found, and I've wondered why that is, and it seems like many people at the city are wondering the same thing this a whole other issue, people blowing leaves whither and any leaves. I watched a tick tock day the man on an apartment rooftop who had a leaf flower and he was just

wandering around blowing, nothing bad, absolutely nothing. He was using air to blow air its deranged behaviour lock him up. Have you got to the bottom of why this is happening in a city where you're dealing with leaves? What are they blowing? dust bits of dead duck should one day after the explanation you hear from some folks is well uncertain streets. There are some really you send you need to be able to clear the sidewalks fur folks who might have a heart. time getting around the city, but at the same time I'm there are in seattle the resolution that was asked to phase out gas powered blowers. There are still electric we blowers that could be used or rakes rooms, etc to clear a sidewalk. So not against clearing the sidewalks of anything undressed against using this device that has negative

health and environmental effects miss why seattle has passed a resolution to phase mouse, then are only annoying to uri. Is therein healthy study from I can twenty eleven found that hydrocarbon emissions from thirty minutes of leaf flowing with a guess, powered leaf, blower, roughly the same as a four thousand mile drive from texas to Alaska less, because the two striking

genes found in most gas powered leaf? Blowers are not great. They combine oil and gas in a single chamber which gives it grant and keeps it light enough to carry, but according to a piece in the new york times up to a third of the gases spewed into the air, evaporated poison, two stroke engines to shout chemicals and they whip up dust dust, that's full of pollen, molds, old, dried dog, shit and chemicals from pesticides. Ultimately, this means more risk of things like lung cancer, asthma and heart disease, developing when you suck this stuff into your body and as long as you come into effect, as far as not being able to use the guest leap,

was that come into effect, yet no, no! First of all it's a resolution, so it does not have the force of law. The resolutions are kind of interesting at the city council level cause it's in some ways. A statement of what our policy is, but not actually an enforceable policy useless note to be fair. It's a positive step, but a long step. A five year deadline to face the mouse california is actually set to become the first stage to ban guess powered loan equipment, but you'd hardly know anything listening to the cacophony of leaf flowers outside my window, california, governor, given newsome, signed a bold that said all small off, Road engines need to be zero emission by twenty twenty four he's thirty million towards making that happen, which is great, but it still two more years, Is it me slowly going insane? California is following in the footsteps of,

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ass, our late flowers, but how are we going to have a clear waves which doesn't seem like it speaks loud to our ability to innovate, which we love to celebrate and bitter just about in this country? Obviously, in the grand scheme of things This is the biggest environmental or health negative effects for us to tackle, but it does seem like a little thing. They can change these little annoyances bad. You would think we would have a solution to by now, benjamin chastity. I knew that whole die. I want to know your emotional response is that you well, that was rolling. But another out for twitter on he's having a change is happening. You looked annoyed. Looked at me with disgust at one point. Does I think to myself ending I sound like a bit of it. Fourteen just city, I wasn't happy, we didn't sound like in any a bit yeah. Sound entitled like get, though my loan. because you even said lock- em up- that's a locker, my error, the key mary

serve and I really free lothar people there incarcerated, say incarcerate private citizens, italy flying lesson, bone. I will throw you throw me it was incredibly loud. It was shocking. I thought you were a lot like you went outside and put it right up again and put your mic right up against it, but it was really loud and that would drive me nuts too. If I was trying to work far speaking of sounds. Sounds coming from below the attic. What's that gonna put on music, it's going to be so we have to tell them. Is that decks going into the gym, yeah although it's an episode of noise, maybe it's appropriate. It is because it is like our environment is full of noises, and how are we meant to sort of all get on with each other for all making noise? That's kind of leveling, but also the gas stuff, is crazy, that sucks. I didn't know that electric yea away I'm super happy for electric. I think we should just adopt that It's definitely get rid of the leaf stuffily, not gonna, brooms and rates.

are invited to rooms right, be like way. living in like nineteen ten when, like the old grandmas works for the llamas, they love it they're all about it. We are never going back, we're only moving forward, you're going to have to accept it and just take on the electric leaf blower, as your cars. Also getting rid of leaves is just making a path, not in them in the garbage. Well, maybe sometimes too many, but it's like just making a path through all the leaves. That's what I don't understand. I can remember a place where there are so many, Three animals in lord of the rings is like that trees everywhere, I ve never seen so don't bother say: thou get married and finally, they want grateful great zero as we have trees we have leaves, but for some reason- and I genuinely I don't know why we not blowing them, but we're ok, but maybe we are sitting over on them and I just haven't noticed- maybe I'm so used to that lifestyle of slipping everywhere. I wore, I think you are or

zealand, their blooming and re gang and wasting an hour of their day in amerika? We are about innovation, fastened efficiency and the leaf blow it took off. All those other things and ruining them while one other thing I found out is that the lunar mouth and what a name that lovely He lives in leaves. No. No, it's a beautiful moth. A moth is like a butterfly that beautiful, I rescued a moth the other day. It was on the path I shifted a while. I saw that story That that was sweet. That was a moth. My point, learn. Emma speculation in america is parameters and a lot of that is to do because it lives in an leaf brush under trees, is being blown away Imagine you're living in your home here it blown away by a lot of wind, powerful napoleon,

I think the lunar mouth. I think you need to may be appealed to me in a little bit of a different way. had the lunar mars is not the way in to my amphitheatre occurred a world without the lunar mouth is an yeah. bothering me so much it's not going to make me lose sleep I mean look, I don't want a living thing to go extinct or why aren't they evolved to be a little tougher to be able to stay? and the wind blowing there's a podcast, it was wreckage, vases of podcast is produced, a cow poking TIM was on the show, and he segment call in the early days. Do we need him and he would just go to a scientist with an animal. He true, hated, and so do we need a lot if we got rid of cause, you got stung by a jellyfish so that doing native. Why? What is that jellyfish. Doing a lot has been said, and this part here and obviously as part of an ecosystem behave kip pestering the scientists do we need em and the scientists raise get perturbed because, eventually,

what yet? Why do we do that? We know he isn't the ecosystem, but it's a really hard thing to explain. This is also your fault. You bring up the oh many animals in your forcing me to say I care less about the lunar ma. So do you think I'm evil I don't think, you're evil. I just wanna get worried about this you're, not evil. I live in a bit of a just, have a dream and as well I love animals. I love them too much. That's my problem to valley other way. I don't need to be shifting a mouth off the sidewalk psychotic. I know it always nice back. I think you can do the math, but you should also killed the snake. For me, yeah yeah, I sent you guys a video the other day of a bear attacking a hiker, and it was you felt bad for the bear. Well, not I didn't addict. She was terrified yeah right, it's a terrifying

if a guy on a hike he's he's climbing, so he's sort of precarious he's sort of on a knee and a bear is just rushing him from below keeps trying to kind of get to his base spray. So he ends up just screaming and a really aggressive way which work he did a great job. It was terrifying yeah why that bear was really coming at them. I hope that makes you decide not to go on your bare translate your been made me think twice and caravan shit that figure right back into my journey into the evils of the leaflet, him I'll, be about what I have learned so far that america is phasing out, guess powered leaf blows, but there for all of seattle, posturing,

it's still five years away from actually getting rid of the demon known as the gas powered leaf? Blower California's made a big song and dance about getting rid of them too, but not for another few years, I'll probably be dead by then I'll have choked to death on the fumes of leaf blowers that surround my apartment. I needed to talk to someone in power someone in charge of all this mess. I tried didn't bite in white house, the white house, our high, its David ferrie speaking, I'm just wondering if, as a way to talk to president Joe Biden ought to get a message to him, that's easy, sir! All you have to do it right in an email or a letter and request for a phone call.

he's convenience, ok and as a base to think for male or physical later. What do you think has the least resolve it doesn't matter, because if we d male it's here, it's been dangerously. You go to the white house website. Ok right now, I can do that and the quick question for you are curiously, do use leaf blows around the white house to get rid of the leaves. All I would not know. Any Think about that, sir. That belongs to the ground. People. Ok, fair enough. Had I really appreciate your help. Thank you so much I didn't write my child. I'm getting a reply from the president, so I tried some senators and governance, but none of them wanted to talk to me. I worked laid down the list of power and eventually got to the most powerful person who talked to me village, trusty, Nicole, asked so I'm on my local village council. We call it. The board of trustees, recall is on the village council of a town called pleasantville. Pleasantville sounds like a meda place.

When I looked it up on Google maps and apparently is real founded, upstate new york, I suppose like you, but in a different way. I have not always lived in a situation where the flowers were ubiquitous, but that's the way that they are here. In fact, they are currently I'm playing part of the soundtrack. Of our interview. I thought we were safe. The leaf blowers in my our neighbourhood were for once silent, but almost three thousand miles away in a town called pleasantville they're just fired up. There really is no escape nicole shut, the window, which makes very little difference, and I found it to be overwhelming at times, but. There is also have been a vocal contingent of our community that felt that there was too much of the leaf flowers for some time, but there was a significant up take during the pandemic,

because, as you know, all of a sudden there were a lot more people working from home. This is exactly what bin from seattle met magazine had told me earlier. I've been spending like so many people over the last couple of years. Much more time. in my apartment, during working hours and jeering have frequently these devices are being deployed, his name shocking in the part of the city that amend. I would not have it, fact about like the aliens and invasion of the body snatches leaf blowers had. Essentially been invading allies for decades without us ever noticing, taking you sell for so suddenly, while you're asleep I saw your minds, your memories, but being stuck up I'm all day america. Finally, while cap yeah exactly So we had many many more residents writing in and saying what is it with the constantly floors? This is too much. You know you have to do something about

I don't want any part of it. You forgetting something miles. I sent you No choice there had been attempts it over a number of years, so legislatively floors in some ways and where I live in new york state. There's no state regulation at this point, but many municipalities near where I live, had already passed some kind of regulation, and so it's a little bit over this scatter shot approach and, to be honest, if everybody We have the time and energy to take care of their own lawns. It probably would not make as much of an impact, because who has the time to be out all the time blowing the leaves around science so distracted right now, it's so distract Amy and it has to do with the kind of noise that particular gas partly floors produce right. They have this like low. When you called nicole, is so distracted by the least blower outside her window. She can't get her words out, so let me take over and voice over

because I have no leave both to distract me right now to strictly blows amid a sound there. There really really low frequency up close, they pump out up to a hundred disavowal of low frequency, brain penetrating, so and the as much as a plane taking off she exactly so. What I was saying is that really the more egregious contributors to the problem- and this has nothing against landscapers, but it's the landscape. Companies that show sometimes with two three four backpack flowers at a time and obviously that, This is a lot more sound, but in the summer time, laws are used to blow off grass clippings companies. through and they mow the grass and and people like to have the little bits of grass blown off. That's one. What the most arrange things I've ever heard of my life

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go back on that, I would say, divides roughly in half of people who are in favour of legislation and people who are against legislation, and it raises this interesting question too. what do you do when even a minority of a community is adversely virtually affected by something? Because the truth is. It affects people in different ways. So take the noise sensitivity. For example, we spoke to people who had children who suffered from autism, whose children were particularly disturbing noise for them. It has a much stronger impact depending on where you live at my effect, you a certain way depending on how you work and so on. So if it really doesn't bother a certain amount of the community, but you have say a minority that feels that their quality of life is really affected by then. What is the role of government, which it just is an interesting question. I think blondes themselves, I think, are a fascinating subject when it comes to this country, because we him

ordered it from england. The kind of grass we grow here is not at all designed for even in east coast, climate, that's what they call cool season. Grasses does not like the native grasses we had here at all, and so we have to fuss over them and put such dicky s amount of work in hurting kept the grass to survive. It sister really fascinating phenomenon. I think it's really interesting to think about where it comes from, and what we're signifying by having these immaculate lawns in front of our houses. We have our own little castles on. There are people who study this who are interested in from an anthropological perspective. There are people who speculate that it goes back to africa, we're sort of naturally attracted to these landscapes, in which we can see things from a distance. You know you could sort of the predators from afar, and things like that, which I find kind of interesting. I mean don't get me wrong. I can be seduced. by a beautiful lawn to again it on a certain level. It's just that. I also know what tremendous trouble it

not that I succeed in maintaining a nice long, but you know the pesticides that are required the mowing, but now blowing in some cases it's really a phenomenal matter. Work before I lit nicole returned to local body politics, I had one final question about leaf flows and the changing regulations, laws, motions and resolutions governing their use. What happens violate that a thief religious, say stuff due to the law. I'm going to do what I want, I'm an individual. I have my rights I'm going to blow these leaves all year long technically, what happens is that people can call up either the building department or the police. Alright, the police could potentially

after that they could potentially yeah. It goes first, the building department and then outside of normal business hours. It goes to the police department, but they can technically call the police at any time. I doubt they're going to be super punitive, especially for a first offense. I think that we should let people immediately have this law lock them up. It calls for her time and for being the only american political figure brave enough to talk to me about leaf blowers. I sat down and looked out the window at the beautiful country called the united states of america. I took that precious moment to take it all in knowing that some time very soon and without warning the tranquillity, wouldn't ever been? So angry and one of these episodes you been looking so furious over there is made me uncomfortable like get used to it

we're going to present information like this, I'm sorry but my friend Eric had to call nine one one, because there was someone with a gun. Now in the parking lot, the line was busy an honest to god. If people are calling the fucking police, A leap laura you can go die leg for real you I think you are. I hang up the lines where there is a potential mass shooter in so fora. Try to try to get rid of the loop. The I gotta be honest. I tend to agree with you. I find it difficult to argue for the policing of. what use is very funny to me. I just think it arises early fascinating question. Can I really understand how the laws work? yeah, but we ve got like a law saying: thou must not leave both how those actually enforce causes

more of an agreement in society that you can't do this thing. That ridiculous I mean the police are already overreaching as ridiculous. To think that you can call the cops and some of these states or cities and complain about a leaf blower. It feels like it's like a homeowners association. Type of thing like some of these neighborhoods have rules, but neighbourhood about like sound ordinance mentioned, is as ireland, but just to people that have below too many ladys are also people that are just being hired. I don't really have beef with people hired it's more. What I see is the vigil asked have alone in america, so precise cause. Americans do love there alone. I think about northerners. You had it so manicured into do that they just blowing leaves all day That's the thing. I have a problem here. Let's talk about the minority peason, certain people suffer more from loud noises and others so that

Recital thing right: how do we balance looking out to minority, has sensitive hearing all or reacts to add a wooden leg affection? I guess I'm gonna upsets underway dinner, there is a discussion that we have to have about these blowing sorted out. No. This speaks to a beggar issue, which is how much do Oh everyone for their own person, all issues How do I don't know that I owe somebody's in islands because their ears are too sensitive? I think they might need sir gap airports, I'm not kidding like. I don't have good eyesight. Ok, I'm not expecting every else too, like put their shit closer to me, so that I can see better. No, I need to deal with my own being in the parents need to deal with their kids stop without asking other people. You are level the stuff. I don't know what the answers, but this

being in a society right, as always, balancing out will allow wants and needs. I do think this is such a funny way to this topic, it doesn't really light yards, don't really matter, but they also do here and there a sort of entrenched in this country. I want to put to you Sure that's! What I remember from that film is the perfect american place, has he's perfectly manicured lawns I kind of love and hate, how obsessed some people get out their lawns, I think, is a very funny starting point for this conversation or how it is, I love it if everyone did bring europe closer to every detail. Actually I don't remember me: Flowers. When I grew up, I'm sure they were there. No that's the thing that I think they were, or they snuck in because rule at work, her away from home. You not hearing them pandemic everyone clocked it cause. I let their home all the time and the oh, my god everywhere. I think they have always been with us, we'll just never noticed. The pandemic- perhaps I just wonder of suburban america- has less or more

living in a city, maybe there's more because city streets calf to be cleaned and maintained. You're more people as well or latin mormius, more dust allowing away, but in our lay there, as a minority group that often hired here who are doing these jobs. You work for people work that allows people who and to have a life and support their families. Yes- and I dont want them to have to pull out fucking rake. I want them to be able to do their job with ie. Imagine if I went round screaming at every publicly blow you stop that. Take a right what an asshole. I would be absolutely that's a hundred percent, the other side of it, and also its not just a back yard thing. They need the massive areas and streets of rubbish and they should be able to do that, in a way that is not going to break their back. My beef again is with that personal leaf blow that some one has

they fired up on a weekend alternative, for my part, cost is blowing and its really maybe like sky anderson, though if blowers, probably the gardener which there not just to leave blower, they do in doing this and other main or that keep me everything in life. You haven't I world, turning totalling like cheering a new zealand during the pandemic. Eastern of suddenly realised how important all those workers where which we ever think of that people in the supermarkets and staff who just kip, people alive and other probably the first time in history where people have gone, are probably quite important. Yeah exactly here. What did we learn? Ok, so we learnt that leave blow. Is they met a very low frequency, I've come to apply in taking off learned the lesson

the cylinder engines on gas power, these powers are incredibly bad, electric ones much better, much better and on the increase we like that laws are changing to push the gas causes out, which has great within americans, obsessed with alone, make about culture later wanting a flat space around them. I'm so we can see. Paraded is approaching what we're doing us, how domain the lawn- and he noticed that kind. Halloween time in america, you light loans to become this fixated thing well, yeah, because I'm people put out their scary cats in their scale at ten cents really we also learned that a lot of americans are policies and hands and all a little noise and are like made little baby here, yea, amble workin attack, but also girl, sam at the council that is used to call me a mere rang out just way into a hundred percent amira hang. There was not talking about you, but I will

Where are you this amazing nicest thing you've ever said to me in the context of being in america? That's the kind of thing of ever said, and I just want to acknowledge that people are to, now that I use that, whereby I think I'm allowed to, because I'm a woman goodbye.