Rep. Tim Burchett
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And they'd pick up all your brush, throw them in the back of one of those big chippers and they'd spit it in the back of the truck.
And I said, what do y'all do with that stuff?
We take it to the landfill.
And I said, really, how much they pay you for it?
And they said, they don't, we pay them to take it.
This was in 1978.
I was in the eighth grade.
And so the wheels started turning.
I was like, man, that's a business idea.
I said, dump that stuff here.
So they dumped it and I composted it.
And I had a crazy, incredible garden.
Squash, beans, strawberries, tomatoes, of course.
And I fed the church, the neighborhood, everybody come by the house.
I had friends and enemies.
I gave them a sack of tomatoes.
Well, fast forward, I went to college, six years of undergraduate studies at the University of Tennessee.
I thoroughly enjoyed my college career, six years of studies.
I didn't drink or smoke pot and it still took me six years.
Ended up agreeing to technological adult education.