The Great Mistake, by Garbage Brain University

What is Reality Television? We take a look at the metaphysics of reality television, the Great Reality TV Con, linguistic shifts in confined populations, cops, and give you the details of our brand-new reality TV show. Subscribe to hear more episodes & join our community: • natalie & drew This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes...

Get in touch with dirt! Natalie & Drew talk about gardening, plastic animals, rosemary, the heaven of a huge dirt pile, and what happens when you buy a raw whole chicken from Amazon. You’re still listening to us talk and it’s been 250 episodes, so you clearly love it, and we dearly need your support, and you’ll get twice as many episodes, so please subscribe now. Hit this brown button: • natalie &...

Having a great time with lizards! (Just kidding, lizards aren’t any fun.) Why Natalie doesn’t want to touch them, what Drew’s lizard was like, a lizard quiz, and the answers to all the lizard questions you’ve ever had. Subscribe and you’ll keep us making more (and hear the 124 episodes that you have to pay to hear.) • natalie & drew This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with othe...

What do beavers smell like? Who is more pious, Drew or Natalie? And how do you hold a beaver? Also: high risk texting, beaver dams, human nature, Jeff Bezos’s space lie, Keyboard Cat, zoomer pants, and thousands of other facts and ideas. Subscribe for more. • natalie & drew This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.gar...

Welcome to 2022! We talk septic tanks, garbage disposals, not pooping on trips, boycotts, pony kegs, and why we’re not any smarter than ancient people. Also: the first quiz of the year! Subscribe for more episodes (there are over 120 you haven’t heard.) • natalie & drew This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.garbage...

Time loss! Time dilation! And actual time travel. We talk about these as well as aliens’ ability to time travel, the Vatican’s chronovisor, John Titor, magick as relating to the wave function, gravitational waves, time as a single point, and the rat experiment that may have proved global consciousness is possible. Not a subscriber? You’re missing the deepest and best episodes we have (over 120 now...

Natalie & Drew go inside the secret world of magicians to find out: Why are they so corny? Why do they want to impress people so much? What secret club did Drew try to join fruitlessly for years? Also: Clothesless yoga, cat circuses, Tom Of Finland, steampunks, and the worst kind of monologue you have to hear constantly. Subscribe if you haven’t already! You’ll get access to our secret social-medi...

Fairies: the little guys who are sneaky beepers. What are they? What do they look like? And what do they do all day? We answer these plus over 18,000 other questions you didn’t ask in today’s episode. Please consider subscribing to help us continue making GBU, if you haven’t already: * natalie & drew This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bo...

Modern sloths, ancient sloths, sloth metabolism, sloths in the water, sloths eating, sloth facts, all amazingly fast and capable compared to nature’s slowest boy, the Sloth. If you haven’t already, please become a patron/subscriber today so that we can keep making GBU. You’ll get a ton of episodes you haven’t heard, plus our eternal goodwill, which is available nowhere else for this low price. • n...

Today’s special GBU episode is about turds: how they’re used, why they look the way they do, paying for poop, getting paid to poop, shitting on the moon, and hundreds more facts. Missed episode 233, 231, 229, and all the other odd-numbered eps? That’s because you don’t subscribe. Do that now & you’ll also keep us making GBU! • natalie & drew This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this...

All about shrimp: what they do, why their tails are like that, and why people eat them so much. Plus: being old! Being reborn! Shrimp Lips! Shrimp holidays! Eating bugs! And a harrowing tale at the very end of the episode you can’t miss (so don’t close it as soon as we say Harlem Township.) Subscribing gets you all the benefits we’ve promised for years, plus a community of fellow listeners and the...

Think about it. Also: why aliens want human bones, investigating haunted houses, using poppers, measuring ghosts, and why the earth is full of skeletons. Our latest in the spooky Halloween episodes (have you noticed the trend?) Subscribe if you missed the odd-numbered episodes, of which there are 115 at this point, including many spooky Halloween topics. •  natalie & drew This is a public episode....

HALLOWEEN SEASON IS HERE! Today we’re talking werewolves, but also: how to become a werewolf, why a werewolf might have depression, putting on the wolf belt, werewolves on trial, and L. Ron Hubbard. Not subscribed? Please do that • natalie & drew This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.garbagebrainuniversity.com/subs...

Natalie & Drew unearth ancient Danzig lore, and explain how owls fly. Also: What are owls? Who is Danzig? Why does he hate wigs? What happens when you show your boobs on a podcast? And why does THIS guy have a raven as a pet? Also owl facts. Subscribing helps us keep making GBU and gives you access to the 113 episodes you’ve never heard as well as our Discord chat room. Join us! • natalie & drew T...

The history of the world’s shittiest field of pursuit: advertising! Why it sucks, why they’re everywhere, and why anything good doesn’t need an advertisement. Plus: Esperanto, brand managers, strip club advertising, and how we trapped an ancient man on earth by talking about his ads. Not a subscriber? You can fix that immediately. Please click this: • natalie & drew This is a public episode. If yo...

Today! All the information on the POTUS you KNOWTUS and some you might not have already knowntus. Plus: Why all politicians are psycho, how presidents die, the Crypt Keeper, why rap and America are intertwined yet rap about America sucks beyond words, anarchists, and, of course, how to impress Jodie Foster. Subscribe now for the 111 episodes you’ve never heard, plus our group gaming and memes on D...

It’s Tom Cruise time! We dig up over a thousand Tom Cruise facts you’ve never heard, and reveal that, unbeknownst to anyone, he’s been a book star this whole time, not a movie star. Not a subscriber? You need to do that if you want the 110 premium episodes you’ve never heard! ($5.00) • natalie & drew This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bo...

Candle thoughts. Candle meditation. Making smores with candles. Over 4,700 candle facts and stories. Plus: Artificial fragrance, why you don’t need to give notice when you quit your job, why people are never happy, and why the unenlightened hate Ohio. Please consider, at this point, on episode 218 of this podcast that you’ve been listening to for over two years, a subscription. Your five dollars a...

It turns out you’re mostly fluid. A juice box, really. It’s an indignity, and we’re talking about it today. Venture inside the human body’s fluids with Drew and Natalie. This episode was suggested by hromi on Discord - if you’re not a Discord member, and you want to suggest future episodes to us or just join to chat, subscribe now! You’ll also hear the 108 subscriber-only episodes that are locked...

What did kids do before Mindcraft and T-Pose? Natalie & Drew take a look at the bizarre world of antiquated childrens’ games, such as Duck On A Rock, British Bulldogs, Conkers, Dandy Shandy, Don’t Lick The Chalice, Jackin Balls, and thousands more. Not a subscriber? Please do that now so we can keep podcasting. Thank you. * natalie & drew This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this wit...

Natalie & Drew go deep on animals that eat people. Snakes, birds, fish, cats, and even people eat people. Plus: the bizarre world of Peter Caine, what Bigfoot tastes like, and how to develop a taste for human flesh. Not a subscriber? That’s almost as stupid as not getting vaccinated for SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus which has killed 623,000 Americans to date. Unlike the vaccine, a subscription...

Natalie explains how she won a national dance competition! Drew tells you why disco is, despite what your parents told you, great music. And we also talked square dancing, cowboy dancing, dervishes, bullying, ballet, school dances, and Drew’s high-concept ballet that might not be worth a million dollars, but would be worth watching, for once. Plus: the dirty world of drama and lies at 80s dancing...

How does anything live in the desert? And why? We tackle these difficult subjects, as well as the weird looking kid, Drew’s doppelgänger, triscuits, hobbits, and our first quiz in a long time. Play along while you listen, if you dare. Not subscribed? That’s a horrible mistake, because you can’t hear half of our episodes, or join our Discord chat room. * natalie & drew This is a public episode. If...

Elevators, escalators, eleskaters, and everything in between. Natalie & Drew explore the bizarre world of indoor human transportation, and what you should (and shouldn't) be scared of, awake or not. Also, how to control reality and tell if you're still in it. (You're probably not.) Not a subscriber? Please subscribe so we can continue to write and record GBU! • natalie & drew This is a public epis...

Why you can’t study wild parrots! Why parrots keep their boyfriends forever! Why they crap out little hard balls that contain baby parrots! And at least a couple more parrot facts await you in this, the 204th episode of Garbage Brain University. Subscribe now please (you’ll get over 100 episodes you’ve never heard, and we need your help to keep making this show!) * natalie & drew This is a public...