Short Stuff: Rain Barrels!
Stuff You Should Know
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🗓️ 10 June 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Harvesting rainwater has tons of upsides and not many downsides – you just need to take a few precautions first. Don’t miss this episode, which features some Josh Math™.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.2 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:09.4 | It's Josh and Chuck and Jerry sitting in for Dave, and this is short stuff. |
| 0:13.2 | Rain barrels. |
| 0:14.1 | Let's go. |
| 0:15.4 | That's right. |
| 0:15.9 | I feel like it's 2010. |
| 0:18.7 | This is a bit of a throwback, but I know very little about rain barrels, and I wanted to learn more, and I wanted everybody else to learn more, whether they liked it or not. |
| 0:28.5 | That's right. |
| 0:29.1 | And my quick history of rain barrels is for a while we were collecting rainwater with the small barrels that you attach to your gutter at the edge of the house. |
| 0:37.6 | That ended up kind of a disaster. |
| 0:40.0 | And then at one point we moved to a huge cistern system that collected rainwater from all of our gutters leading into this one cistern. |
| 0:49.0 | And that ended up being a nightmare. |
| 0:51.6 | So you've abandoned the rain barrel thing, huh? |
| 0:54.8 | Yeah, we're not doing rain barrels right now, but, you know, we have some other |
| 0:58.7 | sustainable systems in place that are too boring to talk about. |
| 1:01.7 | Well, maybe we will get to your flush toilets, just go water your vegetable bag. |
| 1:07.5 | That's it. Nailed it. |
| 1:09.1 | Maybe when we get to the parts where you ran into trouble you can |
| 1:13.1 | mention it nah let's just get to it all right so we're talking about rain barrels which are |
| 1:18.2 | essentially just kind of what you said they're cisterns or barrels or whatever that you catch |
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