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 Man, aka Indrid Cold, as drawn by someone who saw him, supposedly! Our friend Elissa , who you’v...
Oct 07, 2019•1 hr 8 min
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 Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116, which came up because a couple in Sweden tried to name their son exactly this wor...
Oct 02, 2019•54 min
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 email every week, and hear the subscriber-only episodes? Here’s the button you gotta hit: Subscribers! ...
Sep 24, 2019•43 min
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 a Red Junglefowl, the ancestor of the modern chicken! It’s leaner, smaller, and it has a different v...
Sep 17, 2019•53 min
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? Eat Bosco Sticks? Have a gym teacher yell Touch My Ass at you while you’re running? Then leave u...
Sep 09, 2019•57 min
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 can also listen to Garbage Brain University on Spotify , iTunes , and/or Stitcher if you don’t ...
Aug 27, 2019•1 hr 4 min
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 graves, how to haunt your own house, and more. Subscribers may recognize Elissa from our previous epis...
Aug 20, 2019•59 min
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 quit college three times? And most importantly, What Would Dave Thomas (The Founder Of Wendys) Do? If y...
Aug 13, 2019•43 min
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 read and answer right here on the page. So slam this button right now: and we’ll get you twice a...
Aug 06, 2019•54 min
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’s all in this, the currently most recent Garbage Brain University episode. Subscribers can comme...
Jul 29, 2019•56 min
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 2004 and the second is from 2015. They’re recently declassified Navy footage from fighter planes. Liste...
Jul 15, 2019•55 min
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 with this very button: Or, you can even click the play button right up there and listen to us on...
Jul 09, 2019•51 min
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 episode, and subscribe to GBU to get TWO episodes every week instead of one. Twice the education! One low...
Jul 01, 2019•57 min
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 fifty thousand dresses , which he purchased for his wife Margot, also shown here. They store them in a...
Jun 24, 2019•55 min
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 our theme song, and to the people around the world who pick up, transport, process, and recycle the st...
Jun 17, 2019•53 min
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 paid subscriber to listen, since this takes an enormous amount of time to research, record, and edit...
Jun 10, 2019•1 hr 11 min
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 social hub, and for some time, Louis Phillipe, who would later become the King of France, lived on...
Jun 03, 2019•1 hr
Natalie & Drew run down the origins of “Nut Rage,” why you shouldn’t make DMT at home, the bizarre inventions created in dreams, and the time Natalie whooped E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. It’s all in our longest-ever episode, and it’s time for you to listen to it right now. The study of dreams is called Oneirology. Even though interpreting dreams is still wholly subjective, dreaming plays an important role in the health of the human brain. It’s linked to REM sleep, named after the Rapid Eye Mo...
May 27, 2019•1 hr 5 min
The true story of a ghost who convicted her husband of murder! An offramp ghost who just wants a ride! Undead grandmas! Thousands of ghost facts! And the first-ever live summoning of a ghost on a podcast. Smash that play button and let’s get spooky. We talked about Zona Heaster Shue on this episode, the first, and possibly only, ghost who managed to convict her murderer for her untimely death. (Here’s a photo of her grave via Findagrave.) The prosecutor didn’t believe that she really came back t...
May 20, 2019•1 hr
How the post office shot missiles full of mail to Florida! The insanely difficult zip code game (play along while you listen!) The history of sending people through the mail! Nixon’s mail vendetta! And more. Listen to the full episode and subscribe at garbagebrainuniversity.com to get each episode the second it drops. (We’re also on iTunes, Spotify and a handful of other services.) The United States Postal Service handles 47% of the mail in the entire world, and operates 143,000 of its famous “b...
May 13, 2019•56 min
In this episode of Garbage Brain University, we’ve got thousands of squirrel facts, a squirrel quiz, and one very unfortunately dead squirrel. Our new theme song is “Electric Flower” by The Melvins , used with the permission of Ipecac Recordings and The Melvins. If you haven’t already, subscribe @ garbagebrainuniversity.com to get the newsletter that holds all the facts we were unable to cram into the podcast! Squirrels may be the cutest of all invasive species, but they’re fucking everywhere, r...
May 06, 2019•57 min
Hello! It’s Drew & Natalie Dee , who you know from Married To The Sea, The Worst Things For Sale, and other online projects. We’re working with Substack to create Garbage Brain University, a brand-new weekly newsletter and podcast where we’re collecting and sharing weird facts and stories. Some of our episodes will be for paid subscribers only, and some will be for everyone to listen to for free. You’ll be able to listen to Garbage Brain University on your favorite podcast app soon, but sinc...
Apr 29, 2019•52 min
