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A&E's Zombie House Flipping With Tommy Harr · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking about zombie houses, and you gotta
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  Speaker 1: explain this one to me because there are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people out there that are getting mixed up in
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  Speaker 1: their zombies. I love the show. I love what you're
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  Speaker 1: doing because I grew up doing this as a kid.
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  Speaker 1: Except dude, we broke the houses down. We didn't replenish him.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't, you know, do a continuation. So therefore I
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  Speaker 1: watch with total jealousy.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome. No, I mean it's a labor of love.
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  Speaker 2: You know, these houses are really really bad and putting
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  Speaker 2: them back together is not easy. So we had to
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  Speaker 2: assemble the dream team, which is my family, which you
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  Speaker 2: guys are gonna see on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I love the way that you call it a
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  Speaker 1: zombie house, because usually when I'm walking through the forest
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  Speaker 1: and I see these houses here in Carolina. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you've been a Carolina or not, but
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of these zombie homes. I just call them.
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  Speaker 1: I just walk by, go up, there's another COVID at
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  Speaker 1: home because they moved out. Everybody moved out, and they
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  Speaker 1: are They're very scary from the outside. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: where you get the hootspud'll be able to walk inside.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, my dad used to do what's called property preservation
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  Speaker 2: growing up, so when the bank's foreclosed on things, he
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  Speaker 2: was doing the boots on the groundwork. So I grew
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  Speaker 2: up trashing out those houses, mowing the lawns doing so.
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  Speaker 2: I've been around vacant, decrepit houses pretty much my entire life.
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  Speaker 2: So it gave me the confidence as I get older
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  Speaker 2: to maybe swing some hammers on them and make them
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  Speaker 2: come back to life and give them to a nice family.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now you've included your family in this. So now
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  Speaker 1: I've got to ask you a question, and this is
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  Speaker 1: going to prove to you that I've done this. How
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  Speaker 1: many nails have you stepped on or how many times
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  Speaker 1: did your mom to say, if you're going in there,
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  Speaker 1: watch out for the nails.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I mean that's happened thousands of times. I mean
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  Speaker 2: the first episode she walks into the house, she's like, Tom,
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  Speaker 2: I've got my good shoes on. I'm like, Mom, how
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  Speaker 2: many times have we gone through this rigmarole? Like, come on,
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  Speaker 2: you should not wear your good shoes to the first
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  Speaker 2: walk through.
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  Speaker 1: But see, that's the way that it is though, because
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  Speaker 1: it is like a fashion show. You're walking into this
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  Speaker 1: place that's all torn apart, it smells like junk, but
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  Speaker 1: yet your mom brought in some beauty. I mean that's
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  Speaker 1: the greatest thing about it.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yeah. She makes the house sparkle at the end,
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  Speaker 2: and she has to have the master plan, so she
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  Speaker 2: has to come in the beginning and see it when
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  Speaker 2: it's all nasty. If I didn't have to, I wouldn't,
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  Speaker 2: but she has to come and give me the designs.
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  Speaker 1: So now you being up there in the in the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio area, I mean you only have a window that's
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  Speaker 1: only open what two months to do this or are
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  Speaker 1: you traveling across the country.
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  Speaker 2: No, we're doing it only in Columbus, going through the wintertime.
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  Speaker 2: So we shot through the wintertime kind of for a
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  Speaker 2: couple months, and it definitely made it a little bit harder.
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  Speaker 2: When it starts to snow and it gets cold, it
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  Speaker 2: makes it a lot harder to renovate these houses.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I love the idea you don't see these houses
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  Speaker 1: as being a disaster, but rather what it is. It's
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  Speaker 1: a power of continuation. And I love that about you
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  Speaker 1: because I mean, I'm here in Charlotte versus Charleston. Charlotte
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  Speaker 1: doesn't care about the past, whereas Charleston.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, yeah, I mean we have inventory just
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  Speaker 2: like Charleston here in Columbus eighteen hundreds all the way
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  Speaker 2: to twenty twenty, and a lot of the houses that
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  Speaker 2: we are renovating are the eighteen to nineteen hundreds early houses,
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  Speaker 2: and those are really really hard, Whereas in Charlotte, I
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  Speaker 2: know a lot of people there, they're just knocking them down,
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  Speaker 2: they're building new. Columbus is not like that. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So then what do you do in those situations when
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  Speaker 1: you walk into the house. Do you have to study
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  Speaker 1: the architecture of the home, because dude, they were doing
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  Speaker 1: some crazy stuff in those old days compared to you
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  Speaker 1: know what we're doing now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's why I bring along my mom,
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  Speaker 2: because she knows a lot of the old, timeless stuff,
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  Speaker 2: whereas most househloopers they're going to just wipe it clean
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  Speaker 2: and get rid of some of that charm. So those
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  Speaker 2: old houses, they have beautiful woodwork, they have great trim,
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  Speaker 2: they have really cool things to them, and we try
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  Speaker 2: to actually keep those in those houses for the next family.
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  Speaker 1: So are you like me when it's all set and
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  Speaker 1: done er while it's going on, are you the dude
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  Speaker 1: that has to go out there and pull the nails?
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  Speaker 1: Because I spent my entire damn childhood pulling nails.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, I'm past the pulling nails part. I kind of
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  Speaker 2: just yell at people when they don't pull the nails now.
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  Speaker 2: But my little my little brother in the show, my
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  Speaker 2: youngest brother, rather will he's doing project management in the
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  Speaker 2: show as well, and he's the one getting his hands
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  Speaker 2: dirty and making sure that all's going well.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, there's nothing worse than when you're sitting there and
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  Speaker 1: everybody says, yeah, it's a clean board. But what they
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  Speaker 1: did was they took off the head of that nail
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  Speaker 1: and they pounded it in there, and you get that skill.
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  Speaker 1: Saw me Oh yeah, and that's it, dude.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you've definitely you've definitely done this before. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Oh and the trip to the dump, geez, we would
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  Speaker 1: do that just to find new stuff to take home.
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  Speaker 1: You know, dad's going to rip a house down. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to the dump.
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  Speaker 2: Dude. Yep, yep, I mean did that growing up. And
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  Speaker 2: now I'll post them on my Instagram and people like,
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  Speaker 2: why don't you go searching for treasure. It's like if
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  Speaker 2: I did that, I would literally that'd be my full
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  Speaker 2: time job just digging through these houses.
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  Speaker 1: You know that there's treasures in there because I found
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  Speaker 1: stuff behind the lath all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Man. Oh absolutely, there's a lot of treasure in some
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  Speaker 2: of these houses.
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  Speaker 1: What did you usually find, like the magazines or did
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  Speaker 1: you ever find any jewelry or anything? Because only one time
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  Speaker 1: up on Grand Avenue and Billings we were able. I
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  Speaker 1: found jewelry and I was like, ah, get the owner.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not taking this home. I'll go to hell for
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  Speaker 1: this one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I never found any nice jewelry, but sometimes some
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  Speaker 2: decent clothes like shoes and maybe. So I mean always
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  Speaker 2: the magazines, I mean there's always that, and then just
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  Speaker 2: a lot like food and junk and trash.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, please don't move. There's more with Tommy Harr coming
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  Speaker 1: up next. A and E's Zombie House Flipping. We are
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  Speaker 1: back with Tommy Harr. When you call it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: zombie housing. Do you come across ghosts? Because I still
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  Speaker 1: believe that. I weigh I've got one from somewhere that
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  Speaker 1: I can't shape.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I don't necessarily have that feeling in me,
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  Speaker 2: but my wife does. And there was actually an episode
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  Speaker 2: it's probably I think it's episode eight in the series
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  Speaker 2: that there we thought there was a ghost in one
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  Speaker 2: of the houses, so they might be there. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, when you come on a three
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  Speaker 1: story home and it includes the basement, are you going
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  Speaker 1: down in that basement? I don't have that to that
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  Speaker 1: place is always scary.
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  Speaker 2: It's terrifying. I mean, especially when the house is vacant
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  Speaker 2: there's no lights. But you got to do it. That's
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  Speaker 2: the biggest part of the house, it's the most important,
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  Speaker 2: the foundation, the framing, the mechanical systems. That's where all
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  Speaker 2: the big ticket stuff lies. So that's where I head
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  Speaker 2: down first.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but don't you like where we are these days?
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  Speaker 1: The stuff that you don't keep inside one of your
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  Speaker 1: zombie houses, that you can take it to a place
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  Speaker 1: where they can resell that trim, where they can you know,
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  Speaker 1: if anybody really is looking for laugh or if they're looking
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  Speaker 1: for flooring. I mean, we've become such a recyclable world.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been great. We actually did a couple scenes
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  Speaker 2: out of place in Columbus called Columbus Architectural Salvage. So
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  Speaker 2: we went and actually bought stuff and they took a
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  Speaker 2: couple of mantles from us. So they have this massive
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  Speaker 2: warehouse of just really cool old stuff that you can make.
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  Speaker 2: These houses have that old school charm and pick a
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  Speaker 2: mix a match.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I've always believed that the reason why there's so
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  Speaker 1: many brick houses around here is because people forgot how
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  Speaker 1: to build with wood. Is that true? Because I mean
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  Speaker 1: you're actually in there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that could be. That could be true
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  Speaker 2: because you don't see it much anymore, and maybe people
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  Speaker 2: just don't have the patience anymore either.
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  Speaker 1: What about people like Bill who puts an ice skating
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  Speaker 1: rink in his backyard. Can you believe that he could
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  Speaker 1: have put in a dang pool for his kid? But no,
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  Speaker 1: he went with the ice skating rink. What's up with
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  Speaker 1: Bill there?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe he wanted his son or daughter
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  Speaker 2: to be a professional hockey player so I could see
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  Speaker 2: my son my son's too, So I mean, you can't
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  Speaker 2: can't have a big enough pool to maybe become a
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  Speaker 2: professional swimmer. So I understand where he's coming from.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but what are the craziest things that you have found?
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  Speaker 1: Because you know, when people leave, they always leave something
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  Speaker 1: embarrassing behind.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, I always go back to when I was
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  Speaker 2: younger and my dad was doing property preservation. There was
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  Speaker 2: a house that I walked into and every i'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: say square inch of that house was filled with dog poop,
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  Speaker 2: so top to bottom. Yep, you couldn't step anywhere without
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  Speaker 2: stepping in it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, that is so that's a yep. I can
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  Speaker 1: relate with you, And for some reason, I instantly got
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  Speaker 1: that smell in my nose.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you. Yeah, welcome.
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  Speaker 1: So then where can people go to find out more
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  Speaker 1: about what you're doing? Because I really honestly believe this
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  Speaker 1: is a franchiseable thing where you guys are the king
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  Speaker 1: daddies and you could go on to Shark Tank or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: And you could sell this and really make it into
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  Speaker 1: a very very big profitable business.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, tune into the show. It airs this
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  Speaker 2: Saturday at eleven am Eastern Time at Zombie House Flipping
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  Speaker 2: Family Business. And then if you want to see behind
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  Speaker 2: the scenes, if you want to see more of my family,
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  Speaker 2: my instagram is the best place to go to. It's
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  Speaker 2: Tommy Harror zero five and you get a lot of
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  Speaker 2: fun stuff there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm jealous of you because you're seeing a side
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  Speaker 1: of history that a lot of it don't because it's
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  Speaker 1: ripped down. So I'm really super jealous of you. And
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  Speaker 1: I hope that you're keeping a journal and you're keeping
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  Speaker 1: photographs of this kind of stuff because you are Americana.
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  Speaker 1: I really do mean that.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Eric. I appreciate the kind words.
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  Speaker 2: And if there's anything you need for me up north,
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  Speaker 2: I just holler at me absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today, okay, sir, Thanks sir.