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Tonight's episode, The Mechanic and Mr. Machine.

Last week, we were in a neck of the woods familiar to me for my childhood, and tonight we're headed down to Scott's stomping grounds in the Carolinas, the Kakalakis, to one of those old family houses that everybody related to it has a story about.

And nobody fully agrees on.

You know the kind.

Deep front porch, slate roof, the paint's so thick, you can't see the joints of the wood

anymore.

And are we talking about a screened-in porch, Scott?

Well, and

certainly could be, but not necessarily in this story, but certainly in plenty of houses in my

life in history, in my family's history. Well, you need to, right, if you want to sleep on the

porch and not get devoured by mosquitoes. It just depends on where you are, especially

the low country or near it, which is where tonight's story is actually taking us. I'll step in here for people who don't know my home state of North Carolina. A picture it geographically as three kind of long bands running from the southwest to the northeast in a way that we have the mountains in the west, one of the oldest ranges in the country, and I think possibly the world, the Appalachians, which is why they're so much smaller than the Rockies. The Rockies are

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