00:00People our age now see as a status symbol.
00:04Do you know what it is?
00:06Men and women.
00:08Men see this.
00:09Guys our age.
00:09I think it was particularly men.
00:11The way that I read the article was, maybe I was just receiving and putting myself in
00:16the position that it was basically saying that, yes, there's not all guys, but there's
00:20guys that see this as a status symbol.
00:23So the traditional status symbols are like a car.
00:27A nice house.
00:28A nice house.
00:29Maybe I know the younger people, like Mars age, they're into watches, fancy watches.
00:37I don't know.
00:38A boat.
00:40Maybe a boat like Valdez, besides if you had a big ass boat.
00:44So much maintenance though.
00:45Upkeep.
00:46Expensive.
00:47Boats are expensive.
00:48Like your friend own the boat.
00:51I'll give you a clue.
00:51It's something that some people spend a lot of time on.
00:56Okay.
00:57Others farm it out.
01:00They're lawn.
01:02The perfect lawn.
01:04Oh, that's so not my, that is not my status symbol whatsoever.
01:07I have nothing but clovers in my, my, my, I have so many clovers.
01:12I feel, it's been a bad season.
01:14I had to trim up like around my like air conditioner so it doesn't get overgrown.
01:18Like weeds and like just random like growths back there.
01:22There, I filled up four lawn bags, four, I know it's nothing for some people, but after
01:29about the third one, I was like, some people actually like doing, like they like doing yard
01:34work.
01:35Like they're into like working in their yard and beautifying it.
01:40And I'm, I'm just not one of those people.
01:42I will never be one of those people.
01:43Well, that's their hobby is to be outside and edge.
01:46Yeah.
01:46That is not my hobby.
01:47All this stuff.
01:48That's not my hobby.
01:49It's a, it is a chore.
01:51It will always be a chore.
01:53And it's, it's never, I've never once been doing any sort of yard work and said, man,
01:57I'm having a great time.
01:59I want to keep doing this.
02:00Do you ever covet somebody else's lawn?
02:02Yes, I actually do.
02:03I actually don't.
02:04I actually do.
02:05If I, I, I have one neighbor up the street and his yard's spectacular.
02:09Actually, yes, there is one.
02:10I think I've mentioned this on the show before.
02:12There's a neighbor in a different neighborhood that we've walked by their house.
02:16They've ripped up the grass and replaced it with some form of fancy Astro turf.
02:20I'm jealous of that because there's no maintenance.
02:24Super expensive.
02:25My wife wants to do that.
02:26And it looks super expensive.
02:28It looks, it looks like a football stadium or it looks like you're at, at a
02:32Augusta according.
02:33And I look at them like, well, it's kind of cheesy because it's fake, but there's
02:37also no maintenance.
02:39You're done.
02:40You're done with the yard work forever.
02:421-800-636-1067.
02:45Do you covet people and look up to them because they have a perfectly manicured
02:50lawn?
02:51When I see an exceptional one.
02:53And do you look down on neighbors who have trifling lawns?
02:561-800-636-1067.
02:58So yes, totally unkempt.
03:01Like not, not, I, if you drive by and somebody hadn't mowed their lawn in four
03:06weeks or something, you know, and it's all, you know, it looks like it's abandoned.
03:11Yes.
03:11I look down on those people.
03:13I look at, if somebody, if somebody's spending six hours or so on their yard, like
03:18over a weekend, I look at them like, you could be, you could be playing pickleball.
03:22You could be playing tennis.
03:24That's what they love.
03:25You could be playing golf.
03:25You could be doing a million other things other than sitting on your riding mower or
03:30weed whacking, like the spots in between your sidewalk.
03:34But what if you don't know?
03:37Like I know on my street, I live kind of on the main road of my neighborhood.
03:43There are two houses that have unbelievable lawn.
03:46I have no idea if they do it themselves or they farm it out, whatever.
03:49But I kind of covet them and say, wow, it's amazing how green it is.
03:55Like, I don't know if they got a sprinkler system going.
03:57I don't know what they do, but they, they don't have all of the clovers like EB and I
04:02seem to have on our grass.
04:03I have a million clovers.
04:04Clovers just overtook my lawn this year.
04:07My lawn is the lawn that when they come and they usually do it on a Friday, weather permitting,
04:12right?
04:13A Friday or a Saturday if you can't.
04:15It looks good until about Tuesday around 3 p.m.
04:18Right.
04:19By around Tuesday at 3 p.m., the clovers start coming out, really, and they start getting
04:23uneven.
04:24Then all of a sudden you'll pop some like yellow weeds or whatever, flowers in the middle
04:28of it.
04:28Dandelions.
04:29By Thursday, it looks like a horse's ass.
04:33And then it's humiliating until they come and mow it.
04:36And then they mow it again from afar.
04:38It looks silly.
04:40From afar.
04:40My grass looks great from across the street.
04:43If you're across the street, in fact, somebody actually complimented my lawn.
04:47Man, your lawn looks great.
04:48And I said, well, you haven't been on top of it.
04:50Yeah.
04:50You look on top.
04:51I have a lot of clover.
04:52The most clover I've ever had.
04:54Yeah.
04:55I don't know.
04:55Is anybody going over like really grilling it?
04:58No.
04:58They're looking at it from across the street or as they drive by in their car.
05:01But I feel bad.
05:03My next door neighbor has, I think he uses True Green or one of those companies and his
05:10lawn looks really good.
05:11I actually saw him the other day and apologized.
05:13And he said that he talked to his guy because his lawn is like money.
05:18Because your stuff is going to infringe on it.
05:19He doesn't want mine to infect his.
05:22That's what's going to happen.
05:22And he talked to, he said that his guy said to maybe throw down some fescue.
05:27So he's basically putting a divider.
05:29To have a barrier.
05:30To have a barrier.
05:31To look like the British Open in your front yard.
05:32You're getting lawn shamed.
05:35Yes.
05:35Yeah.
05:36So according to Psychology Today, it's the mowing phenomenon that dominates our brains.
05:45It's a male's way of being creative.
05:47What?
05:48To mow?
05:49It's not mowing.
05:50It's the people that do that.
05:52That's how males express themselves.
05:54What do you mean?
05:55It's through yard work.
05:56Through yard work.
05:56Yard work.
05:57Okay.
05:57Not specifically mowing.
05:59No.
05:59No.
06:00Landscaping.
06:00The landscape.
06:00The landscape.
06:01It's like your artistic side coming out with the lawn and sort of things.
06:07I think it's your anal side coming out is really what it is.
06:12It is.
06:12No.
06:12It's a, here's why it's a flex.
06:14Because not everyone can do it.
06:15Not saying like it takes knowledge and work.
06:20Or money.
06:20And money.
06:21Because like my mom didn't mow her lawn.
06:24But in Bowie, relative, she had one of the best like lawns and landscaping.
06:30But she paid Paco a ton of money.
06:32Yeah.
06:32Well, I mean, there's people who live in nice neighborhoods who have nubs lawns.
06:36Yeah.
06:36They don't care.
06:38I'm a one trick pony, though.
06:40I just know weed and feed.
06:42And I did my pass of weed and feed.
06:46And it didn't work.
06:48I had an extra bag of weed and feed.
06:50I ripped it open.
06:51I did my pass.
06:52I have the little spreader thing.
06:54And all I did was kill certain chunks.
06:57There's a couple areas where too much got on the grass.
07:00Yeah.
07:01And it did nothing for the weeds.
07:03I have more clover than ever.
07:05Yeah.
07:07So I'm a one trick pony.
07:07It is a status symbol.
07:08When I drive by someone's house with a nice lawn, I'm like, man, I'd kill to have that.
07:14I don't care about his car in the driveway.
07:16I don't even really care about like what else he has going on.
07:19When I see a nice lawn, I'm like, man, that guy worked for it.
07:22He learned how to do it.
07:23He put the work in.
07:24He's a grinder.
07:24And that thing pops.
07:25Yeah.
07:26Yeah, I guess.
07:28I don't need mine to pop.
07:29I just need it to not look gross.
07:31Yeah.
07:32I would like mine to be average.
07:33You don't even have, in your front, you don't have much of a lawn because your tree dominates.
07:37I mean, it takes up a good chunk.
07:39Like I could probably mow.
07:41I've got a big driveway too.
07:41I can mow your front lawn probably in five minutes.
07:44How long does it take to mow your front lawn?
07:46When the guys come and actually do it with the right-up lawn, it takes them like three
07:50minutes.
07:51Yeah.
07:51Then they hit the back, another three to five minutes.
07:53That's it.
07:53Then they blow some stuff off.
07:55It's the easiest yard to cut ever.
07:57Wow.
07:57That's like EB and I when we had top hat lawn mowing service.
08:01That's true, we did.
08:02We had one lawn.
08:03I think it was on Palm Lane in Bowie.
08:05The guy paid us 40 bucks.
08:06I mean, what a windfall.
08:07It was like stealing 20 bucks each.
08:09What a windfall for like a 14-year-old.
08:12The best was EB and I, we'd had a couple jobs already, but that summer, for whatever reason,
08:18we didn't have a job.
08:19And we would take my dad's lawnmower, his dad's lawnmower, throw it in his nubby Chevy
08:25Malibu.
08:27Two beater lawnmowers in a beater vehicle.
08:29Our lawn service was driving around in our parents' cars with lawnmowers in the trunk.
08:35And we couldn't even close the trunk.
08:37To call what you had a service is a disservice.
08:41A disservice to services.
08:42We had like three lawns, but I'll never forget, we were playing video games, you know, like,
08:47I don't even know what the system was.
08:49You guys played Pong.
08:50You know, like the original, maybe the original Nintendo.
08:53No, sadly, Cakes, I think we were like 20.
08:55Yeah.
08:55We were like 19.
08:56Yeah.
08:57And dad said, you guys need to get jobs.
08:58What do you mean?
08:59We mowed our lawn.
09:00We're good.
09:01Made 20 bucks today.
09:02I think at the peak of our powers, we had 10 lawns.
09:05That's a lot.
09:06The problem was that once July hit, most of them burned, so you didn't have to mow them anymore.
09:10But there was this one dude, now we always, we had kind of a theory that he was a little
09:14sketchy, like maybe he liked us.
09:17He paid us well.
09:18Because he gave us 40 bucks.
09:19Everybody else was paying us 20 or 25, and he had a tiny lawn giving us 40.
09:23He's like, why don't you guys take your shirts off?
09:25Yeah.
09:25Yeah.
09:25Were you guys mowing shirtless?
09:28Hey, make some shorty shorts next time you make the pass here.
09:31If he would have given us 50, we probably would have done it.
09:35What was the last time you saw a guy driving around in his dad's car, like a Malibu classic
09:40with a lawnmower sticking out of the back of it?
09:4240 years ago.
09:42Two of them, because we just used your dad's car.
09:45I mean, we didn't have a trailer.
09:46No.
09:47We didn't.
09:47No.
09:47We just threw a lawnmower in the trunk and didn't close it, and hoped it didn't fall out.
09:51I don't even know if we bagged.
09:53No chance you bagged.
09:54I don't think we bagged.
09:56Zippy chance that happened.
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10:00We're the Junkies.
10:01Be right back.
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