Rep. Tim Burchett

Well, somebody decided they wanted that business, what I think ended up happening.

And they accused me of taking toxic waste.

They said, there's bacteria in that newspaper article.

There's bacteria in his mulch.

Well, human body contains a half a pound of,

a quarter pound of bacteria.

I mean, it aids in digestion.

If the earth didn't have bacteria, it'd be a cube.

I mean, we just press it.

You know, nothing would.

So, Smoky Mountains, there's not in these parks out here, there's nobody running around in a white suit collecting every leaf, you know, and putting it.

And so, God had a plan and bacteria is part of it.

Well, of course, it had bacteria in it.

And they would test it and they did a faulty test.

And finally, it just got ridiculous.

The EPA even came in.

And oddly enough, the day after they closed my business, I got the EPA report and it cleared me.

It said, in fact, there is bacteria in there, but there's not abnormal amounts.

There's nothing.

And the head of UT's microbiology department, I'll never forget this, Tucker, he ate my mulch on the news to prove that this was just bogus.