HBM141: Filthy Riches

Here Be Monsters

Here Be Monsters Podcast

Science, Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Personal Journals, Documentary

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When a group of broke college students start throwing lavish feasts, HBM host Jeff Emtman begins to wonder at the source of the food, initially assuming it was stolen. But he’s soon corrected. Confronted with the shocking amount of food waste in the local dumpsters, he quickly turns into a freegan dumpster diving evangelist, but is often thwarted by an angry employee of a local produce stand. An employee whose face is always hidden by a bright headlamp.

These encounters rattle him, making it hard for him to separate reality from his recurring night terrors about the incidents. But, years later, and more than a hundred of miles away, he has an encounter in a chocolate dumpster which cures him of those nightmares.

Many thanks to Jesse Chappelle and Hallie Sloan, who helped in the research of this episode.

Producer: Jeff Emtman
Music: Serocell, August Friis, The Black Spot
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Transcript

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0:00.0	From the heights of heaven to the depths of hell, this is here to be monsters, the 9th season.
0:22.0	So it's about 12.30 in the morning here.
0:26.0	I'm trying to fall asleep and it's not going so well.
0:32.0	I get nervous sometimes when I'm trying to fall asleep.
0:36.0	So I keep a recorder by my bed here and I talk into it.
0:42.0	Yeah, and I'm having trouble falling asleep tonight because I'm thinking about the future.
0:46.0	And I really do think that like social isolation has gotten to me a bit.
0:50.0	And it really hit me when I started looking at the prices of houses
0:55.0	and all the cities that I want to live in someday.
1:01.0	Kind of spun me off in a tailspin of wondering if I was making the right choices in my life.
1:09.0	I've heard that's a fairly common experience to have while looking at houses on Zillow.
1:17.0	So yeah, I need to find some other thoughts to fill my mind now.
1:23.0	You know, on the other hand, I'm really proud of the fact that this show has lasted nine years.
1:31.0	You know, that's longer than almost anything in my life.
1:34.0	I've been making this show longer than I've had a lot of my friends.
1:39.0	This show has outlived all of my relationships to date.
1:43.0	I think I counted it right.
1:45.0	I think I've moved five times since this show started in 2012, twice across the country.
1:52.0	And I started this show in a basement in Colorado.
1:57.0	And now I live in a basement again in Washington State.
2:02.0	It's a basement homecoming.
2:04.0	And the thing is that I kind of like basements.
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