This Is Cate Blanchett's Sexiest Word To Say

Yo, what's up guys? We're on our way to go meet up with Cate Blanchett for Subway Takes Uncut. I have no idea what's about to happen. We're meeting on 67th Street, going uptown on the one train till 125th. I'm pretty excited 'cause she's one of the greatest actors of all time—two Oscars, couple of other awards. I don't know. We're going to see what she has to say here. [Music]

So what's your take? My take is that leaf blowers need to be eradicated from the face of the Earth.

100% agree. I was in Miami the other day. I literally saw a guy blowing one leaf. Blowing. But where was he blowing it? It was on the beach, on the boardwalk. He was blowing one, one leaf.

So maybe he was trying to blow the sand? No, no, no. He was—I was watching him. No, so he'd been blowing that leaf probably from five blocks away. It had finally got onto the beach and his employer had said, "If you don't [bleep] get rid of that leaf, you were, you were done."

No, I had this thought. I said, "Whatever happened to rakes?"

What? See, this is the thing: not only are leaf blowers ugly and their noise pollution—then your neighbors hate you because, in the end, all you're doing is blowing the leaves onto your neighbor's lawn. So it's really bad for, for neighbor relations. They're really bad for your health—not only your ears, no, but I think the rise of, um, cardiac problems has gone through the roof because people are not doing the physical exercise. Make your [bleep] kids do it.

Really? A good point. It's true. The rake—you have to move it. Your lats are getting weaker and weaker. It's like with phones. We're using this digit is now the most powerful digit around. Well, my thumb hurts. So I had to convert to this, like, 'cause I used to do this, but now this hurts, so now I do this.

So how do you eat? How do I eat? What? How? What? With, with your hands?

No, no. But do you? How do you use a knife and fork? Not like this, you don't. But don't you use it? Your thumbs are really important digits. Or you just resting it?

No, no. So I massage my thumb. I actually bought this thing from Japan where I massage my thumb. Um, back to the, the leaf blower conversation though. What I've never understood—and somebody brought this up to me the other day—is why do they blow instead of suck, like a vacuum cleaner? But see, you still wouldn't solve the pollution problem.

I agree. Unless you had a leaf blower the size of Texas. I'm say, how many—you know? But the stupidity, this is the thing—it's, it's a metaphor for what's wrong with us as a species. Is we blow [bleep] from one side of our lawn to the other side, and then the wind is just going to blow it back.

Yeah. And what does that solve? Well, it's also like a snowblower. Why? Why are, why are we obsessed with blowing?

I know. Hair dryers. Everything's blowing, nothing's sucking.

I know. You know? But you, you suck. You've still got to get the bag at the end and put it somewhere, right? It's pretty terrible. I, I, I'm with you 100%. I think most of the population is—this a problem in, like, Australia? Where do you—you live in Australia or Britain?

It actually, my rage went through the roof in Washington, where I think there's the highest concentration of leaf blowers anywhere in America. Yeah, yeah. And they banned them. So now you can—if, if, um, I think it's because this is—this is truly, truly terrible. Apparently, they did a study back in, I don't know, 2010 or something, that 30 minutes on a leaf blower—this is going to make you really sick—has more pollution than driving a pickup from Texas to Alaska. 30 [bleep] minutes. It's really bad. So they've banned them in Washington. But I don't think Washington—that's the only place they're banned. But they're—no, but they're everywhere. And I, my, my gardener in Australia, I said, "If you use a leaf blower, it's over. You should be ostracized."

Yeah, yeah. I said my kids—I'll pay my kids two bucks an hour. Okay, three bucks an hour to, to rake the leaves and make sure their hearts are in good condition. Old are they? Well, they're now 24, so they don't listen to me. They deserve $3 an hour. They're 25 years old. They're going to work minimum wage these days.

I wanted to get your opinion on, uh, some of the other takes that—oh, well, yeah. What do you think? My suit. You like my suit? I just got it, actually, for you, you, you can camouflage so that no one knows.

Well, I thought that the glasses were going to be good camouflage, but now they've become a signature look, so I can't leave the house with, with glasses. So you never do this without your sunglasses on?

No, because I, I want—so I'm also an actor and a writer and a producer and such. And I wanted people to be surprised when they saw me on screen that they would see my eyes and I wouldn't just be the guy from the show. Oh, you think we wouldn't recognize you on screen because of those glasses?

Oh [bleep]! It's you! That's good acting. That's pretty good acting. I wanted to get—so this is called "Takes on Takes." So these are some takes that have been on the show recently. We don't need any more podcasts. Do you 100% agree or disagree?

No, I think we do need more podcasts. You think? More. I think we need more. I, we need to triple—triple the amount of podcasts that we get 'cause where else are we going to get people talking to people?

Not here. People not—certainly not here. No. People who aren't yelling at people. People actually speak to one another and listen a little bit on podcasts. You're a podcast fan? I am a podcast fan. I listen to podcasts. I do 'cause I end up being on the train a lot in England.

Oh, you take—yeah. I live in the country. So I've done this on—been a what? Done a podcast show? Yeah. This is technically the world's shortest podcast.

This is the world's shortest podcast. I think more podcasts. Yeah? Okay. More podcasts. She's in: Men should have to menstruate once a year. I think men should have to menstruate every month.

No, twice a month. Twice every day? You can't do twice 'cause what I've learned is that the menstrual cycle lasts the entire month. Male chickens—they do. Male chickens—they're, they're called roosters. Yeah. I think, I, the world would be a kinder, more compassionate place if men—if men had to give birth.

I mean, it would be a game changer. Well, I watched my wife give birth, and let me tell you, I would—I would just not do it. I would say, "You know what, I'm just going to not." It happens very slowly. The whole thing, yeah.

I've done it four times. Well, three times. Three and a half, yeah. Three and a half. Three and, um, yeah, I, I, I, I. I mean, I've always known that women were stronger than men. Facts. That is true. But then after you see the physical—like, the pregnancy and the birth—I think it's just, you just—are you okay with blood? I'm okay with blood, but I don't know if I'm okay with the head coming out of the vagina.

Well, it has to. I know. Yeah, but, but after that, it's just like—and it just comes out. I don't mind the other stuff. It, it was really just the body, like, 'cause it becomes very extraterrestrial in that moment. But, but after it's all over, like, when, when it happened to me and I, fortunately I had—I had three easy, relatively easy births, I just wanted a cheese sandwich. The first thing I wanted was like—easy to please. I want to have another baby and a cheese sandwich in that order.

All right, uh, certain compliments mean more coming from certain races. So an example that I gave is that if a Black guy tells you you look cool, it means you really, really look very cool. Okay, but, but what if it's a Black guy who's dressed so badly? Doesn't happen. It doesn't happen. I've literally never seen—I live in New York City. I've never seen a Black guy dressed poorly ever.

No, that's probably true. What if a Black woman tells you you look cool? Well, the, the, the highest compliment I think that would be better for me—well, the highest compliment to come from a Black woman is, like, "You're cool." Like, not "you look cool," but "you are cool." You are cool. Yeah.

Uh, and then: People who wear white sneakers don't [bleep]. Oh, that is so—that is so rude. I have four kids, and, and they—the stork didn't bring them. Did you? Just, did you plan ahead? No, I literally had no idea what you were going to wear.

Can I show you this? This is insane. So—