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Natalie & Drew are joined by our friend Brett Pain from Street Fight Radio to talk about “flyover country,” that imaginary region of our nation in between the two very important coasts. In this double-sized episode, we talked about gross food, saying “thank you,” why it’s all right to live in the gloomiest place in the country, and why you have to say “sorry,” even if sometimes it means you apolog...

Natalie & Drew talk about why school spirit sucks, what happens when you only listen to Pretty Hate Machine, and how to follow someone backwards, in your car. We also listed 45,000 different facts about winter, and why Natalie loves it, and Drew hates it so much. Listen now and make the next hour of your life better. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you’re missing half of our episodes. You can fix t...

This is our 53rd episode, and we’re finally sharing Natalie’s vast knowledge of soda, pop, coke, fizzfizz, bupples, glunk, diet bupples, or whatever you want to call the non-alcoholic flavored drinks you put in your mouth. There are MULTIPLE quizzes, and Drew shares his theory about why fish are aliens. It goes deeper than you’d think. Did you hear our last episode, about knives? If not, you’re go...

Hey! It’s Drew & Natalie Dee, back again with another Garbage Brain University for you. This week, we’re talking horses, donkeys, zebras, and zonkeys. We’ve got a panoply of horse facts and weird horse stories for you. As always, there’s a play-along quiz, and Natalie sings a tiny, weird horse song. Also, due to popular demand, we’ve got Garbage Brain University t-shirts and hoodies now! Here’s wh...

Drew & Natalie Dee explain why Siri, and all personal digital assistants, plop. We also talk about the Panopticon, improving your Ad Experience, getting clickbaited, why Drew isn’t an Eagle Scout, and why Natalie refuses to use self checkout. Also, a play-at-home quiz you can take while you listen, and a guest appearance by Siri, who turns out to (spoiler alert) be part of the global war experienc...

This week, we had our friend Rodney Anonymous (of the Dead Milkmen) on to talk about witches, witchcraft, spells, and what happens when someone pulls a knife on you in a sub shop. Listen (and play along at home) to our most bizarre quiz yet, and find out what happens when Rodney demands a spell to stop him from pants disaster. It’s a mega-sized episode, it’s just in time for Halloween, and you can...

Natalie and Drew expose the hidden world of vampires in this episode. We talked half-human/half-vampire hybrid babies, why we hate Beowulf, why zombies are less real than vampires, bags of blood, and all of the myriad ways you can become a vampire. Plus, a play-along quiz you can take while you listen! It’s all on this week’s episode of Garbage Brain University. Hit this button to subscribe to Gar...

Natalie Dee & Drew reveal the dark secret behind two well-known pizza chains in this episode of Garbage Brain University. Also, we talk Thanksgiving Pizza, Columbus (Northwest) Pizza, have a regional pizza quiz you can play along with while you listen, and dig into why non-pizza-foods flavored like pizza are Yucktown, Grosslahoma. New to Garbage Brain? Run out of free episodes? You’ll get instant...

Natalie Dee & Drew present to you the bizarre story of Mothman, the legendary West-Virginia-based creature that might be real. Or not real. Maybe he’s real, but constructed by the CIA. We expose the facts, explore all of these theories, and more, right here, right now. Here’s an illustration of M-Man himself, as drawn by ???? in the year ???? (see, we told you it was mysterious.) It’s The Smiling...

NAMES! You probably have one. In this episode, Drew & Natalie talk about your name (probably) and a bunch of other peoples’ names. Natalie explains why she doesn’t have a name, and Drew plays a name quiz that you can play along with as you listen. We also have dozens, maybe thousands, of name-based facts. We also mentioned that it’s illegal in Sweden to name your son Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmn...

Drew’s boss tried to make him drink experimental chemicals. Natalie got paid five dollars to consumer-test cereal. We reveal why whitening toothpaste doesn’t work, Drew almost breaks a non-disclosure agreement with a billion-dollar company, Natalie reveals why she loves watching real surgery, and then makes Drew take a quiz, which you can play along with as you listen. Want to get this in your ema...

Natalie and Drew attempt to figure out what, exactly, chickens are. We talked about the strange life of Mike The Alive Headless Chicken, the exotic jungle origins of the humble normal chicken, and what chickens use their brains for. We also talked Chicken Baby, Shrimpy Chicken, Chicken Frankenstein, and more. Before we get to it, slam the Subscribe Now button! Right now! Right here: That photo is...

Natalie & Drew dig deep to find the least boring sports-related facts possible. We tell you what it’s like to live in the third-largest football stadium in America, and why Drew’s childhood included a gun-factory bar with an outdoor chimp who smoked cigarettes. ( It’s real - but read the article after you listen, if you would.) Did you hang out with an imprisoned primate as a child? Play Titanic?...

In the best episode of Garbage Brain University that’s been recorded so far, Natalie & Drew let the world in on our fantastic dog inventions, discover dozens of bizarre dog facts, and let you play along with a quiz about dog breeds. We also found the origins of “raw dog,” and this photo of a dog wearing jeans. Subscribe to hear our fifteen premium episodes (one new premium episode every week!) You...

Our friend Elissa ( @badgirlfriday ) joins us again to bring us bizarre facts and stories about cemeteries! She’s the administrator of a fairly large cemetery, and tells us about how to create a museum for yourself after you die, what happens when detectives dig your dead ass up and chop it up, and how a dead body is put back together. Plus, facts about modern sarcophagi, why groundhogs live in gr...

Subscribers have already heard the first half of this extremely long school-based episode! Non-subscribers, here are our school facts from around the world, as well as even more stories. What happens in Catholic school if you’re not Catholic? Why do cigarette companies directly advertise to schoolchildren in some places? What do you do when your daughter kicks some little boy’s ass? How do you qui...

Natalie & Drew investigate the facts (“facts”), lore, and stories about America’s favorite cryptid, Bigfoot. How big are its feet? How about its hands? Its femur? Is it real? Where is it? We sort of answer these questions, and two or three more questions. It’s really hard to find facts on Bigfoot. Subscribers get to hear the episodes that non-subscribers don’t, as well as leave comments, which we...

Natalie & Drew dig into the world of hygeine and find out that there’s poop on everything, everywhere. Learn about how people used to bathe, why nobody used to pick lice out of their hair, what happens when a child sneezes directly into your mouth, and the exact amount of poop that’s in every swimming pool. (Unfortunately, it’s a lot.) There’s also a quiz you can play along with as you listen! It’...

We talked facts about alien encounters, why aliens are our dads, shared some UFO stories from our listeners (follow @NatalieDee if you want to participate next time!) and both of us laid out never-before-heard theories about extraterrestrial life. There may or may not be content about kicking ET’s ass. You’ll have to listen to find out. Here are the videos Natalie mentioned - the first is from 200...

Natalie & Drew dig into weird telephone facts, tell you how to make a telephone out of garbage, divulge the contents of cowboy-names.txt, place a call through miles of barbed wire, and invite you to play along with the Telephone Quiz while you listen. All in this single episode of Garbage Brain University. You can get twice as many Garbage Brain episodes each week by subscribing, which you can do...

Horehound! Rock candy! Candy corn! Salty candy! Drowning ET in a trash can! Throwing books on ET and drowning him! And swedish fish! It’s all about candy, and nothing else, especially not murdering Spielberg aliens from 1982, and it’s on this week’s free episode of Garbage Brain University. Make sure you follow @NatalieDee and @drewtoothpaste on twitter for more great shit, if you liked this episo...

The true, and bizarre, tale of how Drew’s barber stole hair from Neil Armstrong. A review of the collections of Twitter followers of @NatalieDee . Hoarding problems! An obscure video game where you hit a frog! HOMETOWN SMILES! A quiz that you can play along with while you listen! All this, and more, in this fresh episode of Garbage Brain University. Paul Brockman, shown here, has collected over fi...

Natalie’s girl gang. Drew’s opossum, covered in chicken grease. Trash cops, a cunning fake recycling program, and the reason why you should throw out all of your coffee mugs. Plus: a play-along trivia quiz, how Drew ended up on some shitty teen’s TikTok, and the reasoning behind Natalie’s head-to-toe glistening sheen. Thanks again to Substack for our podcast/newsletter setup, to The Melvins for ou...

We have to phrase this one delicately, since it’s tales from the back room at a video store and the other end of a 1-900 phone line. Play along with our “spicy video quiz” and learn what the French population searches after dark. And find out what a customer at Natalie’s old job used to do with peanut butter. (It’s not great.) We have a sequel to this episode in the works, but you’ll have to be a...

Drew & Natalie Dee are back with more weird facts and bizarre stories. Sub shop rivalries, a milkshake down your shirt, pancakes of the world, the trash bag full of burgers, and, somehow, even more. It’s all in this episode of Garbage Brain University! The oldest restaurant in the United States is the Union Oyster House , which was started in 1826 in Boston. It wasn’t only a place to eat, but a so...