My Favorite Episodes of 2022 Part 2

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[00:00:25] Eric Goranson: Now, coming up in this hour, we have unlimited hydroplane racing with strong racing, talking about putting a hydroplane together, emergency preparedness. Ross Trai from this old house and True Crime meets home improvement with my friend Tool Girls Garage. Sarah Listy, we have so much more coming up in this episode today that you don't wanna miss.

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[00:00:55] Intro: when it comes to remodeling

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[00:01:01] Intro: we've got you covered. This is around the house.

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[00:01:20] Caroline Blazovsky: We

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[00:01:25] Caroline Blazovsky: I love it.

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[00:01:44] Eric Goranson: If there's nothing about unlimited hydroplane racing, is that a bunch of people doing DIY when it comes down to it as a team, and so this is kind of the ultimate. T I Y project. I wanna introduce Daryl Strong from strong racing and [00:02:00] my favorite driver out there. Brent Hall. Welcome to Around the House Brothers.

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[00:02:07] Brent Hall: Thank you. Yep.

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[00:02:09] Caroline Blazovsky: So, Brent, if you love nascar, this is way better. Like this is the ultimate cream puff. So just tell our audience, Eric, a little bit about what this is, because not everybody knows I'm from New York, so we don't have it. At least that I'm aware of.

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[00:02:49] Eric Goranson: And I would go watch the races. I'd hang out in the. And I would watch this circle track of unlimited hydroplane racing, where guys, back in the day, [00:03:00] safety was a thought, but secondary, it was the best they had with the technology at the time. And uh, I would go out and watch people doing, you know, 150 to 200 miles an hour as a kid watching on the right or river out there.

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[00:03:38] Eric Goranson: Darrell, what's your thought on, on unlimited hydrogen plane racing where it is today?

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[00:03:59] Darrell Strong: Mm-hmm. . And you [00:04:00] think the great thing now is I think Brent, when you think at least four boats could win any race, and, uh, agree. You look at our boat and Madison, um, was. Neck and neck with the boat, uh, TheStreet boat that's won most of the national championships for the last, uh, six, seven years. And we were actually going faster on the outside until we, you know, took off like

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[00:04:28] Eric Goranson: airplane.

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[00:04:53] Eric Goranson: Yeah.

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[00:05:10] Brent Hall: Yep. But now to have several boats that can win and. For me, I think the big thing, we've gotta get the stories out about the drivers and uh, for people to get to know the drivers. Yes. So, just like we're doing with this particular podcast, you need to know who we are. And so I think that's one of the things that's really important to me and there's great stories behind that and excited to share some of those throughout

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[00:05:31] Eric Goranson: Absolutely. Absolutely. Daryl. So let's, let's start out with you kind of the history of this. You know, we talked a little bit before the show started, but, uh, how did you get into. Unlimited hydro plates because I know you grew up in the same town. I did.

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[00:05:52] Darrell Strong: Uh, well, if, if you're not, and everybody's shocked because it's, it's like our Super Bowl. Yeah. And, and little did I [00:06:00] know that I know now after being at all the race courses, it's actually the best. . Cool. It's the, it's the best race. You can ask anybody, but I started going, we moved there when I was seven and we went to somebody's house up on Canal By where you, yep.

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[00:06:24] Eric Goranson: that was Atomic Cup days, right?

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[00:06:45] Darrell Strong: Um, nice. And we've been married 43 years now, so we got married right outta high school, but that was our first date and it was just a big part of our life. I mean, anybody, I mean, you would know this. Growing up the tri-cities, [00:07:00] when they had the, uh, the piston boats and, and back then they would actually come like on Tuesday or Monday.

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[00:07:07] Eric Goranson: It was Monday, Tuesday. It was a whole week. Yeah.

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[00:07:18] Eric Goranson: was out. . Oh yeah, absolutely. And where I was up on Canal, there was times that I would go down there, I was running across the freeway, down there trying to get across there and climbing fences and doing all the stupid stuff a kid at that age shouldn't be doing.

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[00:07:36] Darrell Strong: better shape, I think. Yes.

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[00:08:11] Eric Goranson: Yeah. And that was crazy. And now the safety is so much better than what it used to be back then. Yeah, absolutely.

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[00:08:19] Darrell Strong: hundred percent, we had a driver, like I said, we'll get into it later about our wreck, but he did that at 186 miles an hour and he walked away and was at. Trophy presentation and half an hour later and woke up the next day wasn't even so.

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[00:08:39] Caroline Blazovsky: do we have this in the Northeast? I'm from New York, New Jersey area. So you guys, is this something that Brent, I'm gonna throw this to you being the driver and ladies, like if you like NASCAR and you like the drivers like I do, I'm seeing Brent and he's a good looking man and he's got the whole package going on here,

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[00:09:11] Brent Hall: Yeah. So in the Northeast, uh, it had been there before, um, but we need to bring it back again.

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[00:09:37] Brent Hall: There's nothing like it. And very similar to Daryl for me. Um, you know, I grew up watching these as a kid and every summer we'd have a party on our deck and we had a peek of view, view of the race, and that just meant Summer

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[00:09:53] Intro: important messages.

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[00:10:02] Eric Goranson: listening

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[00:10:04] Intro: with Eric G.

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[00:10:09] Intro: should too.

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[00:10:31] Caroline Blazovsky: I'm doing well. How are

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[00:10:41] Eric Goranson: We've got more snow that we've had up in the mountains in 20 years. You guys, you know, a week or two ago, got some weather. Those people got caught on the freeway for 24 hours. We figured it was a good time to talk a little bit about emergency preparedness inside your home if you're out traveling. So that way you're ready for the next [00:11:00] time.

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[00:11:02] Caroline Blazovsky: my friend was talking to me the other day, she called up and she said, look, you know, we just moved from San Francisco to Austin, Texas, and what do we do? What do we do with ice? Cuz they're not prepared, you know, if they have an ice storm, they're concerned that they may lose power for seven days.

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[00:11:24] Eric Goranson: I just heard her Austin Radio listeners boo us and say, why would your friend move here? Tell her to move back.

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[00:11:34] Caroline Blazovsky: Oh my goodness. They're a very strange,

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[00:11:45] Sarah Listi: But they are gonna be getting some love colder weather. Love .

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[00:11:50] Eric Goranson: colder weather. Texas, we love Californians too. .

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[00:11:56] Eric Goranson: no, no, no. We do, but it's just a common it. I mean, it, it's [00:12:00] like, it's like rivalries in sports.

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[00:12:10] Caroline Blazovsky: Oh, like my Jets

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[00:12:15] Eric Goranson: When has that happened? Never.

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[00:12:18] Intro: rivalry. .

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[00:12:24] Caroline Blazovsky: Hey.

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[00:12:32] Intro: It's, it's

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[00:12:45] Eric Goranson: I like, I like to show you. Go. There you go. Whatever. Anyway, we'll, we'll get back on track here. So, yeah, getting your house, getting yourself ready, you know. Disaster [00:13:00] for that storm is a big deal. You know, I've got myself pretty well dialed in just because I've been talking about this so long, you know?

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[00:13:24] Eric Goranson: you.

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[00:13:38] Caroline Blazovsky: So they were like, what do we do with the water? Which is a basic thing. So, okay, let's say you're gonna get an ice storm and you're gonna get freezing temperatures and no power. So what do you do with the water supply in your house so you don't get pipes freezing? Because that's the number one. No pipe break.

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[00:13:53] Eric Goranson: Well, and in Texas they have not really, through the years, done a great job of insulating pipes because the freezers weren't, that weren't that [00:14:00] common over the years. You know, the first thing I say is, is when you're planning for natural disasters like this, the first thing to do is think about what you need to do to sustain life.

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[00:14:37] Eric Goranson: So for me, filtration is a better answer versus just storing water. Hmm. And

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[00:14:58] Caroline Blazovsky: So, you know, I'm, I always say have at least a [00:15:00] month supply of drinking water, however you wanna do that. Bottled water, et cetera, liquid. Um, but those are types of things where you can store water easily. Tubs

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[00:15:21] Eric Goranson: So you've gotta come up with a place for that. Well, I'm saying.

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[00:15:38] Caroline Blazovsky: And like in my house, I mean, we've got bottled water if necessary and, and all kinds of stored water and, and drinking supplies and stuff. Yeah. So, and it could last us a while. I mean, you're not gonna be drinking. 10 times a day, but you will have enough

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[00:15:59] Eric Goranson: Mm-hmm. . So [00:16:00] that's the thing. You need to have enough Yes. For to sustain yourself until you know, a charity neighbors or the government shows up to help you. And those are all things that can happen slowly, depending on where you're. For food and talk about

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[00:16:24] Caroline Blazovsky: Make sure you're shutting off your water in a freeze, making sure that you're, um, keeping a drip in the faucet, making sure there's covers on all your outside spics. Yeah, for, for free, all

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[00:16:44] Eric Goranson: But until then, flowing water is going to be a better way to keep pipes from bursting than if you shut it off. So you wanna keep it dripping running. And what I wanna see is not only just the cold water running, I wanna see a little bit of the warm too, [00:17:00] because if you've got an uninsulated hot water pipe that is 30, 40 feet away from the, from the water heater, that's, that's in a place where it could freeze.

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[00:17:30] Eric Goranson: If you've got the water heater out in the garage, for instance, make sure you keep that garage door closed. Maybe the door open out to the garage to make sure that's not freezing. Make sure that you've got those things ready to go. That's the big key. And watch that water meter to make sure that you don't have a leak.

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[00:17:54] Caroline Blazovsky: keys. Yeah. The key. The key to your shutoff.

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[00:17:59] Caroline Blazovsky: that? So you

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[00:18:09] Eric Goranson: But in most cases, that's either out in the yard or in the street, and you need a street key to go down and do that. And that's just the, it's a little, you know, depending on how deep it is, you know, if you're in the Midwest where you get really cold, that could be, that meter could be down three or four feet, six feet.

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[00:18:49] Eric Goranson: And that's one of the keys right there. Don't go anywhere. We'll be right

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[00:19:00] Intro: Hey, this

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[00:19:08] Intro: with Eric. Raise your best.

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[00:19:21] Eric Goranson: Now let's get back to Ross Shui from this old house. Welcome to The Round the House Show. This is where we talk everything about your home every single week. Thanks for joining us. We have a special guest in the studio today, Rossi founder, lead engineering over at TE two Engineering. But you might have seen him on this little show called Ask This Old House or This Old House as their technology expert.

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[00:19:52] Ross Trethewey: This is

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[00:20:12] Eric Goranson: So, uh, it's, it's refreshing to have a conversation like that with somebody that, uh, really knows their. Yeah. Well,

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[00:20:28] Ross Trethewey: You know, just really trying to promote indoor air quality, making sure that the, the air quality inside of our buildings is healthy to breathe. Um, and it's, you know, promote, um, you know, uh, You know, us, uh, having longevity, uh, and all the other good things that come, you know, from good indoor, you know, people focus on what they eat.

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[00:21:08] Ross Trethewey: And we eat about four pounds of food a day. Mm-hmm. , see how much air we breathe. In

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[00:21:20] Ross Trethewey: So it's about 30. So a typical human at, you know, at ne normal condition, steady state will breathe about 30 pounds of air a. And, uh, you know, that's, you know, just comparing that's what we eat in terms of four and what we, you know, drink in terms of eight.

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[00:21:38] Eric Goranson: So, and think about what's in your air filter when you change it. Oh my goodness. That's all. What's entering your body, right?

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[00:21:54] Ross Trethewey: So like, we think of our houses being healthy cl you know, clean environments, you know, but a lot of [00:22:00] times it's the Petri dish. It's the exact opposite that they, we've locked in all these. , you know, contaminants, and it gets, some of it gets trapped in the filter, of course, and some of the higher quality filters obviously do a really good job of capturing the small stuff.

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[00:22:29] Ross Trethewey: But, um, it can't be good.

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[00:22:52] Eric Goranson: Oh

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[00:22:59] Eric Goranson: like a [00:23:00] recirculating toilet. How is that what we could do here? , I, I, it blows me away, Anna, and this is again, soapbox. How can I walk into a home center and buy a recirculating hood?

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[00:23:12] Ross Trethewey: shouldn't be allowed. Shouldn't be allowed. Yep, yep. Or, hey, I just cracked the window. I have no hood at all. , or I have, I put the microwave above it, you know? And, uh, even though a lot of those s can be vented to the outside, they just choose not to. Yeah, yeah. You know, it's just, it's crazy.

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[00:23:28] Eric Goranson: Ah, it's, it's wild. And then, you know, I like using new technology. I've got, uh, I'll use the name out there cause it's worked well, but it's also kind of starting to scare me now. I've got one of those Heiss, um, you know, they're one of the air scrubbers in my house. Mm-hmm.

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[00:23:58] Eric Goranson: So she has to go take it. [00:24:00] And I'm like, wait a minute. Okay, that's making me a little nervous. I know it's really doing a great job of scrubbing the air, but it's killing the yeast, so I don't know if I want that in me either. Right? I'm not familiar with the

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[00:24:25] Ross Trethewey: And to be honest with, with you and with everyone that asks me, I say, you know, just put in a hepa. Um, and, uh, or a really, really good, you know, air filter in your house as, as good as you can get. Um, but just that, that doesn't have any additional kind of chemical reactions taking place because we don't know what those, the chain of reactions that gets created.

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[00:25:05] Eric Goranson: hundred other problems.

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[00:25:21] Ross Trethewey: Yeah. I mean, so we did a lot of, uh, diy, what I'll call, um, I dunno if you heard about the cor, the Corsi

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[00:25:28] Eric Goranson: Or Colorado Cube.

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[00:25:47] Ross Trethewey: And it's just an awesome, you know, you know, um, media filter for capturing the small stuff and the big stuff that's inside our house. So it's instantly making our quality better. And everyone inside my family, you know, felt a difference, you know, [00:26:00] from running those machines. Um, and, um, and so, yeah, so my, my viewpoint on most of this is just put in the best air filter you can, um, do it in the rooms that you're going to be living.

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[00:26:25] Eric Goranson: Yeah. And in, in full disclosure, I put a brand new system in about a year and a half ago. I put one of the, uh, just. Carrier Infinity Systems in. Yeah. You know, multi-zone, old seventies house with their good filter in it. Yeah. So I've got that in the UV in that. Nothing else. Crazy, you know, a big six inch type filter and.

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[00:26:46] Ross Trethewey: Right, right. Oh my goodness. Yeah. I can actually breathe .

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[00:26:55] Ross Trethewey: Yeah. You know, it's a, that's a great system, you know, and I always say mef, uh, MEF 13 is the [00:27:00] minimum that I would recommend for everybody and four inch all the way up to six inch thick.

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[00:27:24] Ross Trethewey: So if I have a six inch versus a one inch, you can, the six inch is gonna be covering much, much more area. So that means lower pressure drop, that means more filter. , uh, time and life expectancy. Um, uh, less resistance on the air motor, you know, the lower motor inside your air handler. Um, a lot of good things that come out of it.

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[00:27:47] Eric Goranson: And those cheapy one inch ones, the little fiberglass ones, those are there to keep animals out of the, outta the, outta the blower motor. And that's all they do.

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[00:28:00] Eric Goranson: Yep, yep, yep. Exactly. That's, that's where it is. But at the same point, and we're gonna get into more technology here, but I also warn though, of taking some old 30 year old system and jamming in a Merv 13 filter. Mm-hmm. And making sure that that actually will flow enough air for your system, cuz you can freeze.

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[00:28:22] Ross Trethewey: exactly. I'm glad you brought that up. There are a lot of situations where homeowners say, oh yeah, I just ripped out my one inch, you know, MEF four, and I threw in the MEF 13, and all of a sudden now I'm not getting heating or cooling or whatever.

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[00:28:43] Eric Goranson: yet, don't change that channel around the house. We'll be

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[00:29:01] Intro: after Christmas

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[00:29:20] Eric Goranson: This is where we talk about everything, home improvement, construction, DIY design every single week. Thanks for joining us. I have my good friend in the house here. Two girls garage. Sarah Listy. There are so many. I can't even put you in a box. ,

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[00:29:42] Eric Goranson: Welcome to Around the House and famous TV show person too.

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[00:29:55] Eric Goranson: there. Oh yeah. You know me. This is what we do. So Right. . [00:30:00] First off, you're fun to be here. Yeah. I love your show, by the way. And I don't say that a lot about stuff, and it's not just because I've got a friend up there, but it's a real legitimate show that I go, oh wow, this is not super script.

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[00:30:18] Sarah Listi: No, in fact, there, I mean, there's no scripting behind it, which I was excited about. You know, we hear, I mean, I don't know how you feel about it, but when you go into, uh, a TV scenario, you never really know what to expect and Exactly. This is my first filming experience like that.

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[00:30:54] Sarah Listi: Oh my gosh. The stuff that like ended up on the cutting room floor. You can't [00:31:00] imagine.

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[00:31:05] Sarah Listi: So Roku Original is original, so it's Which cool with Roku is, it's a free. Um, mm-hmm. , I believe it's in 80 million households now.

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[00:31:31] Sarah Listi: I wish I had like, inside Scoop. I don't, but , um, just the little tidbits I hear, it sounds like it's gonna be a really fun couple of years for.

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[00:31:53] Eric Goranson: You guys just like started out with the rocket ship Ferrari or something. You did not hold back on the first episode. [00:32:00]

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[00:32:20] Sarah Listi: Recent. I mean, it was the Jodi Aria's house where she murdered her then boyfriend Travis Alexander. Really tragic, gruesome murder and brutal, oh my gosh. And n very little of the house had been updated or changed. So by the time we came in, even though it's been, I wanna say it's like 10 years. Yeah. I mean it was almost eerie looking at crime scene pictures and like being like, oh my God, this is the same tile.

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[00:32:51] Eric Goranson: the same bathroom sink was pretty shower

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[00:33:04] Sarah Listi: It just didn't cross their mind. They just thought they were getting a really great deal and by the time they found out they couldn't do anything about it, you know? And so it was a big honor, I think to be able to, you. Be a part of something like that and to be able to walk into, you know, a family's home and like that family, that young kids and, you know, it was a family house.

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[00:33:47] Sarah Listi: That feeling was, uh, I, I've told you obviously, In our conversations, like you couldn't, if you could bottle that emotion of like, Showing this family a house and like these cut, and [00:34:00] it wasn't just them, it was all of them. Like, oh my gosh, that would be amazing. You just wanna like, smell it on a bad day or something, you know?

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[00:34:07] Eric Goranson: the way, smell it on a bad day. I, I, I'm happy we didn't have smell of vision for that when you guys were pulling that carpet up, by the way. That was disgusting.

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[00:34:28] Sarah Listi: Mm-hmm. Just because you and I both know being in the construction industry, like sometimes corners get cut, unfortunately, and we've all been there and seen that. Yeah. As

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[00:34:39] Sarah Listi: percent. Yeah. And because of like how the family came to own the home, like that carpet had already been replaced.

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[00:35:08] Sarah Listi: For sure. But, um, it was, it's

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[00:35:15] Sarah Listi: we just didn't, the smell is not what I would've expected. Yeah. Cause it's, I mean, Ew. It was, yeah, it was hard to explain. I'm glad that the smell of vision, that would've been convenient.

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[00:35:30] Eric Goranson: but see, knowing you, I watched that. I know your reaction. I'm like that there is no way that's scripted. I can tell that is a hundred percent real. Cuz that was just 100% Sarah right there. I was just laughing going, there it is. There it is. That is the real deal.

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[00:36:11] Sarah Listi: It really meant a lot for me to hear because you just don't know how things are gonna get, you know? You just don't

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[00:36:32] Eric Goranson: I mean, yeah,

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[00:36:56] Sarah Listi: Um, but also like it makes for a really [00:37:00] fun storyline because I think obviously, especially in in the renovation TV world, as much as I wish some more we could have seen or some as I could have shown more, um, it, I feel like it kept a nice pace and it kept it fun and interesting. You know, there weren't really any lulls in the show, which I think yeah, obviously is a credit to not for them being quicker episodes, you.

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[00:37:37] Sarah Listi: Well, and, and you know, that one was sad because, uh, This woman had the owner, she beautiful, beautiful woman.

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[00:38:04] Sarah Listi: And so hearing that, and then of course, you know, You know, things start to make sense. People start to give her information. Um, and then she realizes, oh my God, what am I gonna do? And her bedroom was the room we renovated. And that was unfortunately where the Golden State Killer like entered and, you know, committed this just, I mean, Eric, the gruesome crime.

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[00:38:39] Eric Goranson: Oh wow. Okay. So all the stuff that didn't make the show, I mean they talked about Yeah, the, the dishes for a second and that was it.

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[00:39:13] Sarah Listi: What would I wanna change? How, you know what I mean? Like, how would I feel better here?

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