46: Lawn Loathing, Spelling Psammophile, and Guinness World Records

Why are lawns so bad, and what could we grow instead? How much can we learn from an esoteric word like Psammophile? And why is the Guinness Book of World Records wonderful and terrible at the same time? Images/Videos we talk about: Snakes in Sand The Jerboa/Kangaroo Rat/Kangaroo Mouse Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:05:44) Lawn Loathing (00:45:55) Spelling Psammophile (01:19:26) Guinness World Records (01:50:38) Outro We also learn about: lawn enjoyer (derogatory), there are 6x more lawn than corn in the US, how we developed our lawn fetish in the 17th century, the pesticide and fertilizer boom after WWII, the more money and knowledge you have the worse lawns get for the environment, runoff powered sargassum seaweed, 30% of drinking water used for lawns, lawns aren’t even the best greenery for your mental health, “your granny cant push the lawnmower around” okay I don’t want her too! astroturf is even worse, when the sun engulfs the earth all that will remain is our plastic lawns, the no-mow-movement, the alternative lawn movement, make an animal crossing lawn! Ella and Caroline fail the spelling bee, what makes a word tricky…