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Lisa & Russell - To Blow or Not To Blow · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Just firing up the leaf blower this morning on the
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Small Music Breakfast show.
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: We've got time for one more thought on the leaf
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  Speaker 2: blower discussion that we were having. I'm interested to know
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  Speaker 2: what Mel in Woodridge thinks because Mel's a school gardener,
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: aren't you, Mel?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I am.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, good morning. What do you make of the debate?
• 0:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, well, I was just actually... using my Karen of
• 0:25
  Speaker 3: the rake world as you were speaking.
• 0:28
  Speaker 4: And I was listening to you having a laugh. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I generally have to blow them into the garden bed
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  Speaker 4: and then get the rake and a garden bag and
• 0:37
  Speaker 4: pick them up.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: This school doesn't have one of those. Whatever works.
• 0:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But the last school I worked at, they had a
• 0:46
  Speaker 4: thing called the billy goat and it was amazing. It
• 0:49
  Speaker 4: would suck up the leaves and turn it into mulch,
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  Speaker 4: into like a bag. All in one.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic.
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  Speaker 6: What do you call it? The billy goat. The billy goat.
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  Speaker 4: It's called a billy goat, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Might be looking that up.
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  Speaker 2: I was putting that on this Christmas list.
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  Speaker 4: There we go.
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  Speaker 1: Lisa, my Christmas present from you.
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  Speaker 3: Give me a billy goat.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, billy goat. Awesome. Yeah, they're a couple of grand,
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  Speaker 4: but they're.
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  Speaker 6: Not worth it. Lisa's good for that.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Mel. Thanks, Mel.
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: I think we all agree that they're a wonderful tool.
• 1:20
  Speaker 2: Just don't blow your leaves onto your neighbour's driveway off yours.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have an argument with that.
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, well, that's okay. We're all in agreement.
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  Speaker 5: Katie. Blanchett and these movie stars who've never picked up
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  Speaker 5: a broom or a rake.
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  Speaker 6: In their bloody lives.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know that.
• 1:38
  Speaker 6: Whinging and complaining and saying that it's everything that's wrong
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  Speaker 6: with humanity.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a.
• 1:42
  Speaker 6: God.
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: Kate has thoughts on a lot of things, but I
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  Speaker 2: still think she's a wonderful actress.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, well, sometimes she should just keep them to herself.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: Now, let me tell you, this morning, if you're out
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: there blowing, the wind is coming from the southeast, all right?
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: Then at about midday, the wind is going to change
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  Speaker 1: and it's going to blow all your leaves back where
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  Speaker 1: you just blew them because it's going to flip around.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's what we were talking about this morning. People
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  Speaker 2: that use a leaf blower to just blow leaves onto
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  Speaker 2: the road, they're just going to blow right back at you.
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  Speaker 6: That I don't have an argument. That I don't have
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  Speaker 6: an argument with. It's just don't go on the broom.
• 2:18
  Speaker 6: All it is is a replacement for the broom, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Kate.
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  Speaker 2: Planchette has absolute rages over it. And we've had quite
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: a few thoughts. Felicity says, I'm on team Kate Lisa.
• 2:27
  Speaker 4: Sorry, Russell.
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: Leaf blowers are a metaphor for what humans do. We
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: create a mess, then we sweep it under the carpet
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  Speaker 2: or into the ocean and wonder why the planet's dying.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't create the mess, the tree. The planet created
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  Speaker 6: the mess. I'm cleaning it up.
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  Speaker 3: Properly.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm doing it responsibly.
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  Speaker 2: Kristen in Darling Down says Bunnings need to have an
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  Speaker 2: idiot exam put in place before anyone is allowed to
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  Speaker 2: buy a leaf blower.
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  Speaker 4: I failed it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if my neighbour is stupid or a jerk,
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  Speaker 2: but he gets out his leaf blower and blows all
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  Speaker 2: his leaves off his property onto ours and the other neighbours.
• 2:55
  Speaker 6: No, see, that's not on. That's not on. I agree
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  Speaker 6: with that.
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  Speaker 2: And Dean from Malaga says, I live with my grandma
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: in Kingsley and she has heaps of trees and can't
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  Speaker 2: do all the work by raking anymore. But at Bunnings,
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  Speaker 2: they now have a blower that also sucks up all
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  Speaker 2: the leaves and debris. But other than that, they're sort
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  Speaker 2: of obsolete if they don't have one that does the
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  Speaker 2: sucking up of.
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  Speaker 1: I think you've got to get a really, really good
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  Speaker 1: one because the cheap ones, they're no good.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's worth it.
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  Speaker 6: Well, no.
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  Speaker 2: No, but, you know, it's one of those things that
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  Speaker 2: I think is a really good investment for yourself and
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  Speaker 2: your sanity and your neighbours.
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  Speaker 1: I put them in the corner and I sweep them
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  Speaker 1: up and I put them in the green bin and
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  Speaker 1: I take.
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  Speaker 6: Care of them responsibly. But it's not me making the mess.
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  Speaker 5: No.
• 3:38
  Speaker 6: It's the trees. Mother Nature at fault again. To blow
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  Speaker 6: or not to blow?
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  Speaker 1: That's the question.
• 3:48
  Speaker 6: Just firing up the leaf.
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: Blower this morning on the Small Music Breakfast show.
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: We've got time for one more thought on the leaf
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: blower discussion that we were having. I'm interested to know
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: what Mel in Woodridge thinks because Mel's a school gardener,
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: aren't you, Mel?
• 4:03
  Speaker 3: Yes, I am.
• 4:04
  Speaker 4: Hello.
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: Good morning. What do you make of the debate?
• 4:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, well, I was just actually using my Karen of
• 4:13
  Speaker 3: the rake world as you were speaking.
• 4:16
  Speaker 4: And I was listening to you having a laugh. Yeah,
• 4:20
  Speaker 4: I generally have to blow them into the garden bed
• 4:23
  Speaker 4: and then get the rake and a garden bag and
• 4:25
  Speaker 4: pick them up.
• 4:26
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 4:26
  Speaker 4: This school doesn't have one of those U-Butte things. Yep, yep. Yeah,
• 4:31
  Speaker 4: but the last school I worked at, they had a
• 4:34
  Speaker 4: thing called the billy goat and it was amazing. It
• 4:37
  Speaker 4: would suck up the leaves and turn it into mulch,
• 4:40
  Speaker 4: into like a bag, like. All in one.
• 4:43
  Speaker 2: Fantastic.
• 4:44
  Speaker 6: What do you call it? The billy goat.
• 4:45
  Speaker 2: The billy goat.
• 4:46
  Speaker 4: It's called a billy goat, yeah.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: Might be looking that up.
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: I was putting that on the Christmas list.
• 4:51
  Speaker 3: There we go.
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: Lisa, my Christmas present from you.
• 4:54
  Speaker 4: Give me a billy goat.
• 4:55
  Speaker 5: Awesome.
• 4:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're a couple of grand, but they're not worth it.
• 4:59
  Speaker 6: Lisa's good for that.
• 5:03
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Mel.
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Mel.
• 5:05
  Speaker 2: I think we all agree that they're a wonderful tool.
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: Just don't Blow your leaves onto your neighbour's driveway off yours.
• 5:14
  Speaker 6: I don't have an argument with that.
• 5:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, well, that's okay.
• 5:17
  Speaker 6: Then we're all in agreement.
• 5:18
  Speaker 5: But I just, these Kate Blanchett and these movie stars
• 5:22
  Speaker 5: who've never picked up a broom or a rake.
• 5:24
  Speaker 6: In their bloody lives.
• 5:24
  Speaker 2: You don't know that.
• 5:26
  Speaker 6: Whinging and complaining and saying that it's everything that's wrong
• 5:29
  Speaker 6: with humanity. I mean, it's like, God.
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: Kate has thoughts on a lot of things, but I
• 5:34
  Speaker 2: still think she's a wonderful actress.
• 5:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, as well. Sometimes she should just keep them to herself.
• 5:39
  Speaker 5: Okay.