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ady? Are you? Are you ready? Go. Sublime. Well, I'm wearing the swaddling blanket of comfort today. Why? I'll tell you why in a moment at the proper time. Don't rush me. We're gonna do that at the proper time. Issue number one, most important issue possibly in the entire world: leaf blowers. Now here's the thing about leaf blowers. You don't really think that's a big problem, right? It's a mino…
← Previous segment →e by your house. But what happens when everybody's working at home? If everybody's working at home, the leaf blower is going to take 20 percent of your productivity. It basically kills a day, especially if you have a neighbor. So you get yours and then the neighbor starts in the afternoon. You got a full day of leaf blower.
I think it's actually a gigantic problem that looks like a small one, because each individual who's bothered by it just feels like it's an annoyance and maybe you don't complain to anybody. So you've got millions and millions of people losing a day of work. Nobody knows that it's happening to other people. I have a feeling leaf blowers are taking something like, I don't know, two to five percent off the GDP. I mean, it could be that big because you've got a lot of people working at home now.
Anyway, Madonna is promoting some kind of documentary or something, and if you see her, you know that she's bringing sexy back. Madonna is bringing sexy back to senior citizens mostly. And I asked myself, does there need to be an intervention? Because you know the very thing that made Madonna amazing is that she didn't care what you thought and she was going to do it anyway. You know, her single-minded drive and ambition an
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d all that are really what made her special, what made her succeed. But you also have to know when to quit, right? You have to know when to hold them and know when to fold them. And I feel like Madonna has — she probably has lots of room left on her career, but I'm not sure that playing the sexy senior citizen was exactly the right way to play this. I don't know who's advising Madonna, but I feel…
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