Fred's Fun Fact About Grass

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Fread Show is on.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Yeah, my friend's fun fact Fred fun.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
So much. All right, guys, did you know that the
smell Okay, you know the smell when they cut the grass.

Speaker 4 (00:20):
Yes, my favorite fresh cut grass. What No, he loves
cutting grass, dude. Ye know, he's like he thinks about it.
I know from time to time.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
I do at least twice a week, and my grass
twice a week. It's not even long.

Speaker 5 (00:35):
How you know I cut my grass and I don't
think my grass grows lots lower than you ever.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Look up on YouTube and stuff like how to make
it look like real neat like the baseball fields and stuff,
because there's way.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah with striping.

Speaker 5 (00:45):
Yeah, I don't have one of I need one of
those weights to make it strike.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
You need a weight to do that.

Speaker 5 (00:49):
Yeah, it's like a it's like a weighted It's like
a tube with sand in it and it weighs it.
It's it's mainly the sun reflecting on the grass.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, wouldn't make this bonus fun fast.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
I did not know this.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
I feel like if I had a house, I would
obsess over stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
I do.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, I would be like my yard has looked the
best of all the yurs.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Mine's not even mine's like third best on the block.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Here.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
We don't do third place around here. Sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
However, here is the fact, you guys, did you know
the smell of fresh cut grass is actually a distress signal.
Plants release a chemical when they're being cut, like they're
in danger.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
A little blade of grass.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Let's the smell out because you cut it, because it's wow,
just messed up, my bad. Yeah, so that's actually why
it smells good, because the grass is like hold, no, no, no, no,
you know, poor grass. Yeah, poor grass.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
You got to go. But but yeah, you gotta not.
Sorry grass.

Speaker 6 (02:01):
Also, what when you cut the grass, like if you
mulch in the summertime, the grass helps the current grass grow,
like the clippings.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Okay, it has all the nutrients to grow. It's a sacrifice. Yeah,
the new grass.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, my god, I got more thread Show next