Everyone Wants One, But Are They Really Worth It?

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Episode Transcript

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Oh, we are heading into theseason. Really, it's the official start
of or the official lawn official startof summer in Minnesota. Right this episode
of Tell You What? Would youwant? A lawn mower that is entirely
self driving? Yeah, yeah,I know they've been out for a little
while, but now I guess they'vereally got them down. Yeah. Why

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because I'm talking too, I'm talkingto two health nuts here. There's it
is really a great exercise to mowthe lawn. I mowed the lawn yesterday.
It was it added thousands of stepsto my day all of a sudden,
just mowing a few getting a fewstripes in. It's amazing a few
rows in all of a sudden.My fitbit was like, you're over ten

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thousand steps, So why wouldn't youwant to mow? Well, Chris,
why don't you want to vacuum yourown floor? I don't exactly, So
what do you vacuuming? Is there'sa difference. There's side the weather has
to be fairly nice to do.Nobody mows in the rain. I mean
you're not, No, you don't. I mean it doesn't it's it's not

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productive to do that. It's badfor your lawnmower. I mean, I
don't think it really hurts it thatmuch, but it's just you can't do
it. You don't want to slipand slide. But it's it's kind of
peaceful, it's loud, it's usuallyget softer lawnmars. I mean you get
lawn barely here, the one thatmy neighbor has across the street. There's

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other outdoor activities that you can dothat will get you physically active that you
might enjoy even I guess if weget too crazy with the um robotic mops
and vacuums, they both do themat the same time, and you get
the robotic mores, we're just gonnabe sitting around like fat sacks. A

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crap. No, I mean somepeople that's their exercise. I'm not saying
that, you know, hey,get off the couch, get but I
know that's what that's some some ofthat stuff is. I maintain that's why
my mom lived as long as shedid. She was always moving up until
the end. Well, I meanthat's a different deal, but she was
always moving in her elderly years.She didn't hire anybody, but she could

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afford it to come in and dothe house and everything, and she didn't
if there were gizmos, she didn'thave all the latest gizmos. Yeah.
Yeah, I think that there's acertain element to it though that by having
these these whatever it is, likerobots, yeah, like robot mores,
robot vacuum cleaners, things like that. I think that there's a certain element

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to it where now that's like oneless thing that you need to plan on
doing, one less thing that's goingto suck up your time, maybe you'll
have a little bit more free timeto pursue like let's maybe you want to
do yoga, maybe you want todo swimming. When you replace it with
that, sam you purist, you'rejust saying therapeutic pace people they're going to

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sit around any chips, or youwant to spend more time with your kids.
Yea, these are tasks that ifyou don't need to do them.
But this is not venturing into anotherarea. You're spending a lot of money
to have something do something automatically.Yeah, a good robotic vacuum, if
you're going to get one that's actuallyreally truly a smart, functional robotic vacuum.

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I've looked because I'm a lazy askedthere I mean, you can get
one for three hundred dollars, butit's when it sucks. It doesn't suck
enough. I mean truly it sucks, but it doesn't suck enough because now
this is something that you want tosuck more than anything. You got to
spend north to two grand to getone that really knows your house, that

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isn't given get hung up on shadesand chords and say, I mean,
you need a true smart vacuum.So now you're spending a lot of money.
I don't know, I haven't thingthat you could be spending that on
your children. You could be spendingthat on other things. It's just different
because if you have the if you'reable to afford one of those vacuums,
it's fine, then afford one ofthose vacuums. I have a cheap one,
and it sometimes might get tangled upin a shoelace or something. It's

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not the end of the world.I just pull it out. Does it
really work? Though? They saythose vacuums say the cheaper ones though,
just they leave. I think it'sgood if you let them go every day.
Some people run them every day andit just keeps nickel and diming and
picking the stuff up so it doesn'tclump up. But if it's you know,
every month or every three weeks,then it's it's too much for that.
I don't know. I yeah,maybe. I mean. I have

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two very high shedding dogs and Irun mine daily and I right shedding,
Okay, shedding, they shed alot. I have a black Lab and
a Boykin Spaniel. Now that beingsaid, anyway, your dogs are out
and the robotic more goes out.All right, the robotic more's out there,
more in your yard and it startschasing one of your dogs. They'll

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figure it out. I've seen movies. The stuff happens, They'll figure it
out. I'll figure it out.The root. There's only a room for
one laid moving oscillating however, manythousand times. Yeah, they had to
make it safe in order to letlet it loose out into the world.
It's not gonna just it's not justlike a meet grinder grinding around your yard,

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like it's just gonna suck up whateveranimal comes nearing, somebody watched by
your house. Your mower gets alittle close, chucks a rock at all.
No, I'm just saying with thisstuff. No, No, I
actually don't think so. If youlook at one hundred years ago, two
hundred years ago, whatever, peoplehad no time for jobs like ours,
like fun fun radio job, havinghobbies like riding horses for fun, anything

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painting. People didn't have any timefor any kind of hobby because their entire
life, their entire day in existence, was consumed by daily maintenance and tours.
So these advances that were making thatjust give us more and more free
time. But they were happier.Well it's a simpler time. But I
don't see simple. Their families.They were so invested in their family.
And yes, but I don't Yeah, but yes, Prairie, that's like

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family oriented. Like I can seewhere Sam's saying that if you've got something
that's mowing the lawn for you,you could take that time and do it.
If they do that, to takea walk with your wife, take
a walk with your kids. Ifyou still want to get that exercise,
go throw a boy. See somebodygoing honey. I bought the electric robotic
lawn more so we could take awalk, and let's go take a walk,

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and then you come back and thething just chewed off your mailbox.
Of them went after the elderly neighborwho's sitting in a wheelchair as driving some
right now, we're dangerous. Iremember walking alongside my dead and he'd hit
a rock and yeah, but that'she's he's manning it and he can do
something about it when you're inside playingvideo games, because that's what people are
gonna do when the robotic Moore's goingon out there. But yeah, but

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I mean it's like Moore's are weapons. If you don't know, it could
get confused. It's not just anopen blades getting around your yard like a
boomerang, but it could be likedude, somebody gets in and hacks the
app, right, and then theystart chasing bikers down the street. I

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mean that is a possibility. Thatis I'm just electuring like a little room
bud just there would be quite asafraid of. But a robotic more.
If I have neighbors that are prettydog gone dialed in with their stuff,
like with their electronics, that's great. They're no, I mean they are.

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They get their house is full ofeverything is done for them. And
I could just see me, youknow, me hooking up my app with
my password one two three on myyard for me let me write that Chris
is Chris is Moore's out there.Oh, let's send it down the street
a little bit, harass some children. At leaste people get actually self driving

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cars. They've they've been hacked it. It's gonna be okay, you,
like I think, just you gottaembrace the change because it's coming. Man,
life's just advantage. There's something toogoing out like this weekend grilling our
own pros. Yeah, but prettysoon there's gonna be some an automatic thing.
They're gonna fly choice for yourself.So if you're like, you know

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what, I'm not going to usemy robot today. I want to waste
my time and I want to justcut blades of grass for fun. You're
moving, you're doing something, youfeel productive. I feel great after the
yard is done. It's a timeto clear your thoughts a little bit.
And I'm just right after I eata bowl of ice cream, I clear
my thoughts. I feel good.I don't feel though. I don't see

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what you mean, Chris, becauseI understand like accomplishing a physical task and
having that instant gratification. But I'malso saying that these this is just like
an advancement toward just I don't know. I'm with you, but I think
it's more to it than I thinkit's multifaceted. I think it's a self
gratification. There's also your health andeverything. Now, remember but I'm also

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talking the hacks that get into it, the issues that these machines have.
People have already died with the selfdriving cars, people have been hit everything
else. And remember all of that. I say all of that, But
what did I say at the beginning? What did I say at the beginning
this conversation? I would take thefloor mop, You would take the floor
up? You thought about it.I take the floor mop in the vacuum.

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What if if it works, thatit was good? What if it
was a chore you didn't like,Like, I know you don't like doing
dishes particularly, but I have adishwasher. My wife doesn't. Isn't it
but that? But isn't that kindof lazy? Like with your dishwasher?
Shouldn't you be doing my head?Think about all the movement saying that his
wife was joking. She doesn't shejust well Hawthorne makes the same joke,

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which is probably why I was asready dishes as stuff does? I unload
that thing and load that thing.We totally trade that. Wow, I'm
not saying, but I also forcedmy kids to do it too. And
when my kids do it, there'sno plan. I mean it's like they'll
take plates and put them on topof the spindle things without like sticking them
in. They just shove crap inthere. You know. There's it's loading

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a dishwasher is a little like Tetris. You got a line everyth up,
real nice, you know. Andsometimes they do that for the most purpose,
like, Okay, I got threethings, I gotta stick them in
there somewhere, and then there itis. I mean they'll actually put time.
I think Landon put hooked a cupon the spinning things. It's because
he know the series these dude.You know that that spins around. No

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it doesn't, Yeah it does.That's the thing that spins the water or
that's what it does. No,you're hanging things you don't thanks from the
spinning thing and then I spin itwith my hand. This was a couple
of years ago, so he's grownsense. Okay, everyone, enjoy the
Memorial Day weekend. Enjoy your modernconveniences, but don't forget to burn a
couple of calories. Because otherwise,if you're using all this automated crap and

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you're eating cheese Broughts, it's notgonna look good for you. Don't tell
me how to live my life inthis car. Thanks for listening this episode
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