Lizards & Dirt

## Overview

Double Heads Variety Hour presents "Lizards & Dirt," where DJs Dillon Minacci and Matt Fox present a playlist combining songs about lizards and dirt. They meet a business duo, share stories about their past week, and learn about lizard behavior. Listen to the episode.

## Episode Summary

Matt Fox and Dillon Minacci start the show by telling listeners about what they did over the past week. The DJs worked together to haul a lot of chocolate loam for a gardening project and also removed a giant lizard from Matt's home. Because of this, they decide the genres should be songs about lizards and dirt.

Before the show gets underway, two strangers enter the studio. Their names are Dirty Dani and Weecho, and they are former Limewire employees who are exploring a new business venture. Weecho worked at the organization for 17 years, and Dani won't disclose how long she was employed there.

Dani and Weecho are visiting the studio to announce their new business venture: a hotel that has lizards in every room, which are offered both in water and non-water settings. Dani is the owner/operator, and Weecho has already been hired as the bellboy despite the fact that the hotel does not exist yet. He is a very in-demand bellboy, and was previously a bellhop who won the allegedly prestigious "Hopping Bell Award for the Best Boy in the Land," which is specific to Sioux Falls, South Dakota – his residence prior to Austin. Weecho was able to work both as a bellhop and at Limewire by teleworking via landline at the latter organization for seven hours a day. He was drawn to Austin by the promise of lizards.

Dani explains that each room of the hotel features a lizard hiding somewhere, and the appeal to the rooms is trying to discover where the lizard is hiding. The lizards also serve as wake up calls, although this is not explained much further. They get a call from Hannah, who is a local nurse interested in learning more about the lizard hotel. Dani reveals that the hotel does not have a brick and mortar location, nor a site to begin building, and Hannah graciously offers her home in East Austin as well as her volunteer time to make the dream a reality.

The DJs ask Weecho more about his time in Sioux Falls – which he refers to as a haven for Los Angeles citizens and the "Boca Raton of the Midwest." While in Sioux Falls he also worked for Visit South Dakota – a third job – and Dillon explains to others in the studio that he once met a Theodore Roosevelt impersonator in Sioux Falls in 2018. Weecho helped run that event.

When asked about the "Dirty" of Dirty Dani, she explains that she received the nickname after refusing to wash her hands after meeting Britney Spears in 1999. She washed them for the first time during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. She also explains that Weecho is the bellboy for her personal home as well as the hotel.

The DJs ask further questions about the hotel, and the business's working title is "Herpy Hotel," and currently boasts a Shy Suite (with small lizards), an Egg Lounge (for expectant mothers/lizards), and the Honeymoon Suite (with a Komodo Dragon). They claim it's a five-lizard hotel, although that rating nor the hotel seem to exist.

They decide the genres complement.

## Characters

Matt Fox

Dillon Minacci

Dirty Dani

Weecho

Hannah

## Featured Music

Far East Movement - Like a G6

Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots

Aphex Twin - Pancake Lizard

Low Cut Connie - Dirty Water

Gorillaz - Dirty Harry

The Dead Milkmen - Laundromat Song