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Today you learn about a type of log that's so rare and valuable people actually risk their lives looking for them from author and TV host Kevin O'Connor

Then we'll answer a listener question about why you feel tired after you take a long trip

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

When you think about buried treasure, you probably don't think about trees and lumber.

And yet, deadhead logs are sought after because they could make you rich if you're willing to risk your life for them.

Today to share the story is Kevin O'Connor, host of the Emmy winning home improvement series This Old House.

He just wrapped the first season of his new podcast, Clear Story, which sheds light on the surprising

stories behind our homes.

And today Kevin joins us with a brief history of Deadhead Logs, starting with what happened when European colonists first arrived in America hundreds of years ago.

When the colonists first got here, they were looking for resources and there were abundant

resources.

It was virgin growth forests here in this continent.

Literally a billion acres of this continent,

of this country covered in trees.

And for better or for worse, we harvested them pretty aggressively

throughout the 17 and 1800s and in the process we took some

magnificent supplies eastern white pines that were 200 feet tall straight as as an arrow, that had been growing for 100 years and

were 40 feet around.

We harvested them in mass, those northern forests of Minnesota that we shipped down to the Great Lakes, we clear cut them.

We clear cut them in Minnesota, we clear cut them in Maine, New Hampshire, and in that process because

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