Hey, Fine Homebuilding enthusiasts. We have some big news. Fine Home Building and Benjamin

Obdike are hosting a one-day live event in Portland, Oregon on January 12th. Pro Talk Live will feature

inspiring talks by builders Josh Salinger, Tim and Brian Euler, and architect Lindsay Shack. There's also a

happy hour networking event. All of this takes place at the amazing

Salmon on Red event space. You can enter to win two free tickets to Pro Talk Live on January 12th

at the Red on Salmon in Portland. You can enter to win at findhomebuilding.com slash pro talk sweepstakes.

Entries are accepted between 12 a.m. Eastern Time November 30th and 1159 p.m. Eastern

time Friday, December 3rd. The winner will be chosen on Monday's December 6th. The winner is

responsible for their own transportation and lodging for the event. Once again, you can enter

to win at Fine Homebuilding.com slash pro-talk sweepstakes. I hope to see you there.

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if I find this particular stone and crush it and burn it and then add water to it again,

it's amazing. It's like, what? How did that happen? Welcome to the Fine Home Building podcast, our weekly discussion of building,

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