My name's Will DeFries, and this is the Sunday Scaries podcast, your cure for the Sunday Blues.

Today we welcome a very special guest. Whether you realize it or not, you've probably seen him

online somewhere. Whether he's ranking beers ranking beers bars or sundays he's emerged

as one of my favorite online personalities after finding him on ticot a couple years ago he's also the

host of play date and how cool ladies and gentlemen rusty featherstone russie for having me

how's it going today dude it's going I was telling you a little bit about how I

kicked my day off. I try and get a new trinket. Every week, I'm really into trinkets. And today's

trinket is a glass elephant that I bought from an artist here in Venice. And I asked him if it was, or Will asked him

if it was an Asian elephant or an African elephant,

which I feel like if you made it,

should be a thing you know.

And he basically said he doesn't know.

So one of the two were very excited about it.

And it's gonna look lovely with all my other ones.

There has to be a reference point for any artist when they're doing some type of sculpture

like that.

Yes. I think he might have just Googled elephants, which no shame in that, but maybe just

fake it, fake it a little bit.

Yeah. Well, Rusty, for anyone who isn't familiar with you, you know, you've gotten very popular

online over the past few years. Where did you get your start? Then just kind of what, how did you,

how did you kind of rise up into doing what you're doing now? I was cleaning pools. I was a pool boy

in Maine. And I don't know if you know this about cleaning pools, but it's a very monotonous task.

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