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Hoarders »     by Andy Dehnart / November 29, 2011, 2:17 PM Three awesome quotes from Clutter Cleaner Matt Paxton, while cleaning the house that included a “mountain of diapers” that began to violently shake because of a 5.8 earthquake, in the “Mike; Bonnie” episode of Hoarders : “I don’t want a flea landing on me that’s been in someone’s poop for the past five years.” “When you’re sitting on three feet of poop on top of all that, it’s not the safest feeling in the world.” “The last place I’m going to die is underneath all your diapers, going through the floor. That’s the worst place to die right there.” advertisement (comments are below) View the original article here

Hoarders »     by Andy Dehnart / November 10, 2011, 8:25 PM Hoarders Matt Paxton was one of the subjects of my Playboy piece about the effects of reality TV , so when he came to Central Florida to clean a house for the show and asked to interview me for his new podcast, I agreed. The resulting episode is now live on his 5 Decisions Away podcast , which you should subscribe to. (Here’s the direct iTunes link ; it’s free. You can also listen online .) It’s basically us talking for just over an hour about reality TV and, in heavier moments, things like life. Since we recorded it in the early evening, it’s not quite as crazy of a conversation as his previous episode with the show’s animal hoarding experts , which was recorded late at night and includes lots of hilariously childish genitalia jokes amid the interesting analysis of animal hoarders’ behavior. And his first episode features a conversation with his Clutter Cleaner colleague Cabell Hatchett about the work they do. But especial...