UNCUT | This Is Cate Blanchett's Sexiest Word To Say
episodePreviously titled “This Is Cate Blanchett's Sexiest Word To Say” — renamed by the publisher on Sep 1, 2026
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What are the issues with leaf blowers?
My take is that leaf blowers need to be eradicated from the face of the earth.
100% agree. I was in Miami the other day. Yes. I literally saw a guy blowing one leaf. But where was he blowing it?
It was on the beach, on the boardwalk. He was blowing one leaf. So maybe he was trying to blow the sand.
No, no, no. I was watching him.
So he'd been blowing that leaf probably from five blocks away. It had finally got onto the beach. And his employer had said, if you don't fucking get rid of that leaf, you are done.
No, I had this thought. I said, whatever happened to Riggs?
No, see, this is the thing. Not only are leaf blowers ugly and they're noise polluting, then your neighbors hate you because in the end all you're doing is blowing the leaves onto your neighbor's lawn. So it's really bad for neighbor relations. They're really bad for your health, not only your ears. Oh, I didn't know this. But I think the rise of cardiac problems has gone through the roof because people are not doing the physical exercise.
Oh.
Make your fucking kids do it.
That is really a good point.
It's true. The rake, you have to move it. Your lats are getting weaker and weaker. It's like with phones. We're using this digit is now the most powerful digit around.
Why do people prefer blowing leaves instead of sucking them?
Well, my thumb hurts, so I had to convert to this. Because I used to do this. But now this hurts. So now I do this.
So how do you eat? How do I eat? With your hands. No, no, but how do you use a knife and fork?
Not like this.
But don't you use it? Your thumbs are really important digits.
Or you're just resting it. No, no, so I massage my thumb. I actually bought this thing from Japan where I massage my thumb. Back to the leaf blower conversation, though. What I've never understood, and somebody brought this up to me the other day, is why do they blow instead of suck?
Like a vacuum cleaner. But see, you still wouldn't solve the pollution problem. No, I agree. Unless you had a leaf blower the size of Texas. I'm just saying in general. But the stupidity, this is the thing, it's a metaphor for what's wrong with us as a species, is we blow shit from one side of our lawn to the other side, and then the wind is just going to blow it back.
Yeah.
And what does that solve?
Well, it's also like a snowblower. Why are we obsessed with blowing?
I know, hair dryers.
Everything's blowing, nothing's sucking. I know.
But you suck it, you've still got to get the bag at the end and put it somewhere.
Right, right, right. It's pretty terrible. I'm with you 100%. I think most of the population... Is this a problem in, like, Australia? You live in Australia or Britain?
It actually, my rage went through the roof in Washington, where I think there's the highest concentration of leaf blowers anywhere.
In Washington, D.C.?
Yeah, yeah. And they banned them. So now you can, if you, if, I think it's because this is terrible. This is truly, truly terrible. They did a study back in, I don't know, 2010 or something, that 30 minutes on a leaf blower, this is going to make you really sick. has more pollution than driving a pickup from texas to alaska 30 fucking minutes it's really bad so they've banned them in washington but i don't think it's that's the only place they're bad but they're no but they're everywhere and i my my gardener in australia i said if you use a leaf blower it's over you should be ostracized yeah yeah i said my kids i'll pay my kids two bucks an hour okay three bucks an hour to rate the leaves and make sure their hearts are in good condition how old are they
Well, they're now 24, so they don't listen to me at all. No, no, they deserve $3 an hour. Yeah, exactly. They're 25 years old, they're going to work for $3 an hour.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the issues with leaf blowers?
0:27–1:34
2
Why do people prefer blowing leaves instead of sucking them?
1:34–4:59
3
What makes dirty white sneakers a symbol of fornication?
4:59–6:09
4
What is the plot of Cate's new movie Black Bag?
6:09–7:29
5
How does marriage affect your perspective on relationships?
7:29
6
What is the significance of the word 'felucca'?
5:44–24:25
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