Many years ago, I was contacted by a Southwest Airlines pilot named Steve Churchill, who's

on the show today.

He's on the show today, not in his capacity as a pilot, but in his capacity as the founder

urban worm company, who for many years now have made our favorite worm composting bag.

We just talked about the continuous flow through system and how that works just generally

yesterday.

Steve, I figured it'd be interesting for people to hear your story as it is a bit weird

that a Southwest Airlines pilot has become a worm god.

That's nice.

Yeah, it is, it is weird.

You know, it's funny.

My wife, actually, I'm going to blame my wife for all of this because she said, I think

it was in about 2011, we got our new house out here in this Philadelphia suburbs and she

goes, I want a compost pile and I said, okay, and so I started a compost pile, I couldn't

get it hot enough.

I ended up going to one of these convenience stores that are out that's around here and

I got like literally hundreds of pounds of very nitrogen rich coffee grounds, brought

them home, mixed them up with leaves, wet it down and couldn't believe it when I came

out a few days later and my pile was at 150 degrees.

That's what got me interested in composting, but then I noticed that these worms were

very attracted to my compost pile.

I thought they were composting worms as it turns out, these are highly invasive worms that

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