Hey Proof listeners, we hope that you enjoyed season 3 of Proof, and we're working hard on new amazing food stories.

We'll have more of those for you this spring, but in the meantime we've got a special treat for you today.

We're going to be sharing an episode from our friends at this old house.

They've got a new podcast called Clear Story and we're going to share that in a minute. But first here's a conversation

that I had with Clear Story host Kevin O'Connor.

One of the great things about being in the public broadcasting spheres, you get to meet some

fantastic people. A show that I've been watching since I was a child is this old house and ask this old house. I am sitting here with

Kevin O'Connor host of this old house. Glad to be here. So a lot of people will watch a

TV show and they think, hey I would love to be on that show or I could do that

Now several years ago Kevin you were on asked this old house as this old house as this old house has actual homeowners on that have written questions

asking for advice help and you you're on the show I was watching that show I

remember that show so tell us how that all came about.

The short story is I grew up watching the show, like a lot of people. I loved it. I watched it with my dad,

with my brothers. It got me interested in my brothers it got me interested in

construction it got me interested in old houses so when my wife and I got married we

immediately set out to find the oldest most rundown house we could afford knowing that we would fix it up and like a lot of

homeowners as soon as we started that process we were like oh oh there's a lot I

don't know maybe I should have paid close to attention.

But it caused us actually during this renovation

of an 1890s Queen Anne Victorian

to write to this old house looking for information.

And it happened to be the first season of Ask This Old House.

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