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Cate Blanchett says leaf blowers need to be eradicated and her argument gets increasingly difficult to ignore. Cate Blanchett: “My take is that leaf blowers need to be eradicated from the face of the earth.” Kareem: “I literally saw a guy blowing one leaf.” Cate Blanchett: “Blowing, but where was he blowing it?” Kareem: “It was on the beach, on the boardwalk. He was blowing one, one leaf.” Cate Blanchett: “I think the rise of cardiac problems has gone through the roof because people are not doing the physical exercise. Making fucking kids do it.” Kareem: “What I’ve never understood, and somebody brought this up to me the other day, is why do they blow instead of suck?” Cate Blanchett: “It’s a metaphor for what’s wrong with us as a species, is we blow shit from one side of the lawn to the other side and then the wind is just going to blow it back.”

I think we have normalized spending too much of our lives commuting. Someone wakes up at 5:30 AM, spends 90 minutes getting to work, sits in an office for 8 hours, and spends another 90 minutes getting home. That’s 11 hours of the day gone before they’ve cooked dinner, spent time with family, or done anything for themselves. And in many cases, the actual work could have been done remotely. Companies talk about productivity and employee well-being, but some still measure commitment by how many hours people physically occupy a building. WHY ARE WE SO WILLING TO SACRIFICE PEOPLE’S LIVES TO PRESERVE A COMMUTING ROUTINE THAT DOESN’T ALWAYS IMPROVE THEIR WORK?

Sir Patrick Stewart reveals he called a meeting with the Star Trek cast because they were having too much fun. Before he became one of television’s most iconic captains, Sir Patrick Stewart approached Star Trek: The Next Generation as if he were performing Shakespeare. Conan O’Brien: “You said, ‘I’m going to approach this as if it’s Lear or Hamlet.’ That’s the seriousness with which I’m going to take this.” Sir Patrick Stewart: “I thought it was too internal, too restrained, too solitary, too unconnected with the others. So I resolved that from the start of the second season, I would begin to open him up and let him out.” That change helped shape Picard over seven seasons, four movies, and eventually Star Trek: Picard. But Sir Patrick Stewart also took his leadership role behind the scenes seriously. Halfway through the first season, he called a meeting with the cast because he believed being captain meant more than playing the leader of the Enterprise. Sir Patrick Stewart: “I’m captain of the Enterprise. But because I’d led companies on in the theater, I felt this should be my role here. I’m a leader, not just of Starfleet, but of this band of people who are working these endless days.” “We have got to make their lives easier, and the problem is we are having too much fun.”