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🗓️ 28 September 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Meghna recently appeared on this episode of This Old House Radio Hour to talk about her childhood home in Corvallis, Oregon. She has a great time talking about the house, her family, and the American dream. We hope you enjoy it too.
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| 0:39.9 | Hey there, it's Megna, and today we have something special for you. |
| 0:44.7 | It's a break from our usual programming, but I think, I hope you might like it. |
| 0:50.2 | Because I recently had the honor of being included in one of the great public media franchises |
| 0:56.6 | of all time, this old house. The long-running show about home repair has a podcast, and they |
| 1:04.8 | asked me to bring them to my old house in Corvallis, Oregon, where I grew up with my family, and we talked about that |
| 1:13.7 | house, we talked about the American Dream, and so much more. So we're dropping this episode |
| 1:19.0 | in our feed today. I hope you like it. You can subscribe to the This Old House Radio Hour, |
| 1:25.2 | wherever you get your On Point podcast. Enjoy. |
| 1:29.9 | From LASD and APM American Public Media, it's This Old House Radio Hour. I'm your host, |
| 1:35.2 | Jen Larges. On today's show, imagine your house producing as much energy as it uses. |
| 1:40.6 | That's what it means to go net zero, and today our guest is here to share why he did it and how you can too. |
| 1:46.0 | When you look over the year, I'm producing more energy than I actually use. |
| 1:50.0 | On Point's Magna Chakrabardi takes us back to our childhood home in Corvallis, Oregon. |
| 1:54.9 | It's a completely non-flashy 1970s-style Oregon ranch house. |
| 2:01.2 | There's nothing remarkable about it, but I love that place. |
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