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The Happy Rant

Episode #400 - Retiree Lawncare Psychosis and How Our Generation Is Failing as Parents

The Happy Rant

Happy Rant

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8896 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted and Barnabas (sans vacationing Ronnie) wander to and fro through a variety of topics: 1. Winning the local lawncare contest 2. The psyche of obsessive lawn watering 3. The retirement obsession with tinkering...

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0:00.0

Life Audio Hey, welcome to the Happy Ramp Podcast. I am Ted Cluck.

0:19.7

joined as always in studio. my good friends my partner in radio

0:25.1

Barnabas Piper pipe it's just you and me again this is summer

0:28.8

podcasting Ronnie just disappears for long stretches of time. It's hot, unrelentingly hot and humid and we're doing radio by ourselves, you and me.

0:42.0

But this is what it is, man. This is what it feels like. by ourselves, you and me.

0:42.8

But this is what it is, man.

0:44.0

This is what it feels like.

0:45.2

And to the point of it being unrelentingly hot and humid,

0:51.6

do you live in the kind of neighborhood where like guys water their lawns?

0:57.0

Actually, yeah, just to answer that.

0:58.0

We'll start there.

1:00.0

So we bought a house a couple months ago,

1:02.0

moved into the neighborhood, and it's a it's kind of a smaller subdivision

1:05.8

It's really it's literally just a circle every house faces all the other houses about 25 houses in the neighborhood

1:12.1

And so I was anxious is too strong of a word,

1:15.6

but I was hyper aware when I moved in

1:18.8

that this could be the kind of neighborhood

1:20.8

where there's a lot of lawn care contests.

1:23.5

You know, that's the guy who doesn't mow his lawn every four days kind of thing.

1:30.2

And so I was very worried that it was going to be like I was like oh I might have to install a sprinkler system so my neighbors don't hate me etc

1:38.6

Turns out it is not that kind of neighborhood. You know people take care of their property is fine but it's but it's there's not

1:44.4

the like lawn measuring contest kind of thing which is is a great relief to me because I get to mow at a

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