Josh Clark

You must be a red spy hiding out in suburbia, basically.

Right.

And I think that's a really important kind of overlooked driver for things like perfectly manicured lawns and everybody having the same kind of thing.

Yeah.

And speaking of driver, the other I don't think we've ever mentioned contributor to this was in the 1950s.

Golf started being televised in 1957.

You got golf on television for the first time.

And people look at Augusta National and these golf courses that were beautifully manicured and aesthetically pleasing to the eye.

And they're like, hey, I need to get some of that in my front yard.

Maybe I can practice chipping some balls around in my front yard.

Also, if you're sitting there thinking like, wow, I really love hearing these guys talk about grass, but I'd love to hear them have a dispute over it, you should go listen to How Our Grass Works episode.

It's actually a pretty good one.

It's a classic Stuff You Should Know episode.

It totally is.

But anyway, all that preamble about, you know, us poopooing lawns and why America did that brought us to this, which is weeds became enemy number one and dandelions were maybe even near the top of that list.

Yeah, there's a lot of reasons why.

For all the reasons that they're valuable, the pollinators and other kinds of plants, and that they can grow in marginal lands and basically everywhere, it makes them an enemy as a weed if you're trying to create a monoculture lawn, right?

So they can regenerate from like a one-inch section of root.

Which means that if you cut a dandelion off even below ground level, it's like, good try, pal.

But it just sprouts right back up.