Hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast. This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world.

My name is Brooke McCallory. Ben McCallery is my name. And today we have got summer series

slash winter warmies episode two with the delightful Rob Greenfield. We do indeed. Do you remember Rob? I do remember Rob very fondly.

I spoke with him not that long ago. Back in the middle of the year last year 2018 you spoke with

Rob and what a story this guy has. He's the trash suit man. Okay, yay. That is one thing that he has done.

So that's actually how I first came across Rob.

It was a few years ago.

He collected the average amount of trash or rubbish that an American, an individual American

creates in a month.

And then he made a suit out of that rubbish. And he walked around

New York for, I think it was a long time wearing this suit of rubbish. And that was the first

time I had come across him. It's crazy. Go to slowyourhome.com slash 241 and you can see a

picture of Rob standing loud and proud in the middle of New York.

Just got it all hanging out.

He's rubbish.

So this was probably one of the most inspiring episodes of the year, which is a big call because I talk to a lot of his inspiring people.

But because of Rob's origin story, I think, he was just a regular guy living the

like kind of traditional American life completely disconnected from the consequences of his actions.

And this is all something that he said, I'm not, I'm not bagging on him.

And he had this wake-up call.

So he and I talk initially about what that wake-up call was and the catalyst for change.

But then also his realization that as sudden as the, you know, the realization that he wants to change comes, hot on the heels comes the realization that

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