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  • 5/16/2025
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Joey and Al are back to their Chicago roots to lay waste to the cookie-cutter lawns of America. One of their cherished childhood memories: screaming cicadas drowning out the stresses of the city.

About Kill Your Lawn:
Best friends Joey and Al set out across America to accomplish their mission: carry out a turficidal killing spree and leave a trail of pollinator-friendly, native plant gardens in their wake. It’s time to laugh our way to a lawn-less future!

This clip comes from Season 2, Episode 1: "Little Ghost on the Prairie"

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Transcript
00:00 [EXPLOSION]
00:01 Kill Your Lawn descends upon Chicago,
00:04 where Joey and I grew up.
00:05 This is one of the most Chicago things you see.
00:08 With Louie at our side, we're on a mission
00:10 to kill lawns and replace them with the native plants that
00:13 evolved and grew here for millennia
00:15 before the death cult of the lawn arrived.
00:17 The soundtrack of our Chicago childhood
00:22 was the sound of the cicadas.
00:26 This is the song of the periodical cicadas.
00:28 Oh, the cicadas.
00:30 So nice, bro.
00:31 They're just going off.
00:33 Some species come out screaming every summer,
00:35 with males able to hit the same decibel level
00:38 as a running lawnmower.
00:41 Mowers and cicadas blend into a soundscape
00:44 of insects and machine.
00:46 And the man to blame for the cacophony of lawnmowers
00:49 and leaf blowers roaring around Chicago today
00:52 was Mayor Richard J. Daley.
00:55 He was a high priest of lawn culture,
00:57 whose policies either paved over native plants
01:00 or replaced them with turf grass.
01:04 It's time to take on not only the lawn,
01:06 but mainstream landscapers still clinging to the idea
01:09 that a person's yard should be a sterilized, controlled,
01:12 and orderly place.
01:13 That paint by numbers scheme, that really rigid,
01:16 you know, all the yellows together,
01:17 all the purples together.
01:18 This is a good example of what a diverse native garden
01:21 looks like.
01:23 This is nice and mixed, and it's just rich with diversity.
01:26 Let the cicadas and the bumblebees and the dragonflies
01:29 drown out the stress of the city.

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