Black Dog Salvage Podcast
Black Dog Salvage Podcast
Grayson Goldsmith - "Salvage Dawgs" Crew Member and Fan Favorite
In this episode, the boys chat with Grayson Goldsmith a "Salvage Dawgs" Crew Member and Fan Favorite.
The stars of the hit DIY Network show "Salvage Dawgs" are back! Known for their humorous, family-friendly banter, and passion for saving architectural history from the landfill, Black Dog Salvage’s Mike Whiteside, Robert Kulp, and Tay Whiteside talk with leading experts, celebrities, and personalities about the Architectural Salvage, Maker, and Creator worlds. Listen in as they share a “Tip of the Week” to turn Trash at home into Treasure. Each podcast episode will also go behind-the-scenes of a “Salvage Dawgs” episode, sharing details the cameras missed. And, after filming eleven seasons of reality television, do they have some stories to tell!
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Oh, I'm so sorry. Welcome back from wherever you
Speaker 2:Are your name and tell your name. We're going to go around the table. Hi Mike. White's right there, right there. It doesn't matter. Yeah. Here we go. Who are you today? Hey, it's Mike Whiteside and Robert Culp here and Tay white side. And welcome back to the black dog salvage podcast. We're here again. Dad's office. What you, people that know what we're all about, what the podcast is,
Speaker 3:Because there's a very good chance that they still have no idea what the show is about
Speaker 1:Daily. I don't know either. We might be discovering some stuff right now. Well, what we're
Speaker 2:About the podcast is that is talking to interesting people. Like-minded people, salvage, gag makers are[inaudible] our tastes of people who use our upcycled stuff. Then we're also trying to give people tips, maybe tips on how to salvage things that may be tips just to getting through the day through life. Wow. So we're becoming life coaches are those coming from you? We're going to have, you know, better than that. We're going to have the white side of the psych ward working on here. So I've seen it before and also that we haven't, we haven't seen. And then in every episode, we'll also give you some behind the scenes from different episodes from the show. And we're really excited about that. Then I want to look back when I was 20 pounds lighter and I don't have to go on a diet and still look good in shorts. Absolutely. Really?
Speaker 1:You got worse through this. There's a whole thing[inaudible]
Speaker 2:Talking about. These legs are gorgeous. That's what we're going to do. Don't put generic each and every podcast, but let's talk about what we're going to do in this podcast, because I'm pretty excited about the whole key topic. And we're going to talk to Grayson Goldsmith, hounds work. Everybody should not miss her lucky day. Salvage sister. Oh yeah. My daughter from another mother. And in fact, I think we're going to get our top tip today from grace as our special specialist, whether she knows it or not, she's got lots of skills. I think she's probably still in therapy for that stuff. So she should get battle, battle pay. And you had to have been there guys. Cause it was, it was a tight environment and it wasn't smooth this week. We're going to talk about episode 1, 1, 3, the stick style house. Is that proper? Well, it is correct. I identified it as a stick style house stuck, but it's a Bennett house in Knoxville, Tennessee. Yeah, that was right in there. Apartments were built all around it. And it was this last house from a farm. I think it looks old farm house and it was a, it was a, it was a great house to, to salvage it. So it was sorry to see it go. But it's comic pack. Yeah. It was a dinosaur sitting in the middle of a we'll get back to, oh yeah. You want to stick around for that because dad's going to bleed in this episode of court. Well[inaudible] and we find drug paraphernalia. So hang out for that. Absolutely. But right after the break, when we come, it's Grayson to the rescue. Woo. Nice, crazy. Hey and welcome back to the black dog salvage podcast. It's good to be here. We're pretty excited here. We've got a very special guest with us today.
Speaker 3:Many special guests on the show, but this one in particular. Absolutely. And it's sad that she has to be a guest now. You know, she used to be around us all the time. All we have to do is give her a paycheck. She'll probably come back. I'm guessing. Not
Speaker 1:Quite yet, but
Speaker 3:You all know who we're talking about. It is none other than grace and Goldsmith now. And Hollingsworth, welcome to the show. Thank
Speaker 4:You. Thank you. It's so good to be back at the, at the dog, but not really be back.
Speaker 3:We haven't the four of us since the show really haven't spent that much time together because COVID hit well that too. So it was kind of hard
Speaker 1:To hang out for a little bit.[inaudible] big things. Y'all been working on a house. Yeah.
Speaker 3:But so Grayson, you've been obviously part of the black dog family for a while. I think probably
Speaker 1:What, 10 years. Even longer
Speaker 3:Than that. Well, when did we go to the beach together with your family?
Speaker 1:You guys knew each other way before. I mean, you
Speaker 3:Were, what? 10 years old, maybe go down the Holden beach or Oak island. And I take my cat cannon down there. So we would sell the catamaran down the beach to the volleyball where the family
Speaker 1:Would sit to. My family was set up and uh,
Speaker 4:Yeah, you would take us each out on the catamaran. It was like a two man catamaran right. Or something. I just remember. It was like, that was enough.
Speaker 1:We could take the whole family, but yeah, you would have taught me how to scale it. Yeah. So
Speaker 3:That was, we met your family and you way back when, and then you went off to school. Yeah. Yeah. And
Speaker 4:I remember the Molly birthday parties. Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Every year we have a big open house. You celebrate the first black dog's birthday. It's a big party. And it got so big that we have to stop.[inaudible]
Speaker 1:Like my parents
Speaker 4:Would come to these parties. And so I would come, you know, but I remember coming to those here and I was in school at Appalachian state, but before I studied abroad in Scotland, I came here with my dad and you gave me a t-shirt. I wanted you to wear it in Scotland. So I took that to Scotland. I truly worried around. And like, I still have pictures from my trip. Uh,
Speaker 1:She knew my black dog. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Another thing I might forget is my brother worked here before me remember that. Yeah.
Speaker 1:For family affair as
Speaker 3:Well, you know, we're a small town and we, we hire local. How you got back to us was, as I remember, uh, you just got back into town, your dad was ill and you were needing something and a distraction and distraction. We had both.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I don't know who
Speaker 4:It was that got in contact with me or if I came here first, but it was just the most casual application process ever. I mean, there really wasn't enough. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Mike Mike said, Hey, we need somebody for the television show. We need help at black dog because we were expanding very quickly. This was, and so, okay, well we need some more help in the store and we need some more help on the road. And Mike has, well, how about grace and Goldsmith? And I'm like, yes,[inaudible]
Speaker 1:Approval
Speaker 4:College didn't have any other trajectory that my life was going towards. And so it was an emphatic. Yes. So my part, because I was gonna bring that up, uh, sustainable development. There you go. So I definitely was interested in what I call like the ethos of black dog, you know, are reduce, reuse, recycle. Yeah. Idea
Speaker 2:Of black dog that I like a lot.
Speaker 1:[inaudible] these are,
Speaker 3:We started with Grayson and her first episode in the cold,
Speaker 1:I remember was up at the homestead hotspot,
Speaker 4:Major initiation. Oh yeah. Not that we did that here,
Speaker 1:Mother nature was initiating you, telling you what it was
Speaker 3:Called. I'd always tell everybody when that story is, it was 11 degrees and then it got cold.
Speaker 4:Yes. And there was like two feet snow drift up the building while that we were salvaging that day, it was one of the hardest jobs. Like truly one of the hardest jobs we've ever done. I mean, we were there for, I think four or five days worked the whole day, you know, and just like this building was just a massive building and we just tore it almost completely down. And I was like, okay, so that's,[inaudible]
Speaker 1:At least she didn't sign a contract. You didn't have an[inaudible]. I don't
Speaker 3:Even think we changed. We just went from work close
Speaker 1:To the beer.[inaudible] that are
Speaker 3:Lost already. That we're talking about an episode that I'm sure we'll cover in another one of these episodes. And it's like an episode it's deep. It's like mirror for them. The homestead was episode six, I think of season one or maybe episode five of season one.
Speaker 4:Um, I just looked it up, but it aired. It was 1 0 9 when we filmed it like chronic loss and
Speaker 3:It was her, it was her first venture with us. So you had your degree and I think we all know how rough that transition can be from like college to the real world. Yeah. You've got the degree where you improved your application. What was it like going from degree to a foot and a half of snow in Virginia salvaging a stable and this is your field camera on a national television show. It
Speaker 4:Was, I mean, I don't even want to say it was a rude awakening because I honestly jumped in like just was so excited about this. It was really hard and I was just stoked to be learning more because this was what I saw as a, you know, kind of a continuation of my degree. I just saw this as like furthering my education in this case, it was going to be about architecture and salvage, breaking down of architecture. And little did I know about building you have the best attitude possible?
Speaker 1:[inaudible] remember.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I mean, you didn't have a whole lot of experience with tools. I mean, there was just the reality of the situation is, is that she was a blank slate when it came to field work and exactly she's smart and she's careful and they picked it all up and there's some people who will just, you know, maybe some would get hit in the head and starting to lead and all the time. I wonder who that could be. There was
Speaker 4:That, especially, especially that first week, um, and early on, you know, at my time on salvage dogs, I was really aware of like the role I was playing, being that I was so green to this. I am the only female in the field. I didn't want to seem like the weak link or some kind of stereotypical or something. So I, especially being that this is going to be recorded. So I struggled with not being an expert and trying to not look stupid on national television,
Speaker 3:Took it on as a learning experience and I am green, but I'll do anything I was able to do. And that's where you picked it up. And it also gave us an opportunity to say, Hey, go do this, but this is how this gets done. And you can verbalize, this is how this was going to happen. And some of that made it into the show actually on the down the road. And some of it was just part of the actual learning environment and it was all happening at the same time. That's how you became an expert in what you do to, this is like the hardware you became our hardware expert, which was, you know, we needed. Right. So, uh, Grayson, when you were in new Orleans there for awhile before you came back up to Roanoke, right? That's true.
Speaker 4:Um, so actually between college and moving back to Ronak, I did move back to new Orleans for a little bit and was not also in a field of my expertise. Um, like you do some colleges, kids, uh, went on Craigslist and looked for a job and saw an opportunity as a stand in for Brooke shields. And it turns out she and I are the exact same height and that's pretty much all I needed.[inaudible]
Speaker 1:What a skillset.
Speaker 4:But I got to work for five weeks with her. I don't even know how long maybe it was like five months. She was so nice just as everybody's always said about, I just thought everybody would want to hear that. Exactly. That was my first job on television.
Speaker 1:The silver screen,
Speaker 3:You could reach out to her and see if you can get her on our podcast.
Speaker 1:I would just say to speaking
Speaker 3:Of skills and expertise, that's the part we try to dive into with our guests, with this version of on the job training and loose usage of the word
Speaker 1:[inaudible]
Speaker 3:Maybe, did you feel like became your expertise on salvage or in the shop? Cause you were exposed to a lot of stuff from the salvage to the organization of it, to the selling of it, to the fabrication of stuff in the shop. And that's where I really enjoyed working with you. I mean, I enjoyed the time, but you know, up front was the salvage, but at the same time she, you would call Grayson was at the counter. She
Speaker 1:Was that's the school of hard knocks. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4:There's always people trying to sell stuff. So I had to quickly learn how to suss out what people are trying to sell and what they really want for it. And what we really are willing to pay negotiation.
Speaker 1:One-on-one a lot less than we would. Right. I
Speaker 4:Had a couple of flops, but yeah. So I mean just threw me into the fire, being at the front counter, but I also had to know what I was talking about. If I was selling something, people coming with questions, they're looking for specific items and architecture was not anywhere in my historical wheelhouse. So the
Speaker 3:Ground up OJT, so to speak, you know, cause you have to be able to kind of talk the talk and you knew when not to talk the talk because there's somebody going to call you
Speaker 1:On it. And they do all the time. You know, that's not the carpenter, lockouts are bigger role, Yale
Speaker 3:Details, details, details. Just make up a story. Yeah.[inaudible]
Speaker 1:Yeah. I dare you to call BS on that. You took the thing
Speaker 4:Apart. So you knew where it came from a lot of times and I mean, it would be nice to have the rest of our crew,
Speaker 3:Our, our today crew go along salvage jobs and figure it out because that's how you learn nomenclature through Roberts. Brilliant. Yeah.
Speaker 1:[inaudible] didn't want to say it, but you knew I had another word, but this is a family show. Yeah. I
Speaker 4:Mean, when I started, there was like only 10 people or so working here. So we all wore multiple hats. And so I did get to work in the field at the shop, like at the front counter, down in the shop with Mike a couple of times. And then I ended up doing like a little bit of research towards the end. So
Speaker 3:There's that. And then you took over basically we, we expanded and had to have another warehouse in Grayson was the, uh, the king
Speaker 4:Of the warehouse. That was my domain for a little bit.
Speaker 3:She was our warehouse woman. So we've covered all these things that you as black dog salvage, but then we had this whole other world up here, Mike and you and me really ended up doing was closing the business deals. Maybe every episode and Grayson was the, one of the producers of the operation.
Speaker 1:Didn't get any credits.[inaudible]
Speaker 4:These jobs are episodes. All right,
Speaker 2:Well, listen, we've, uh, we've had a lot of flooding yucking it up here, but after the break, we're going to find out what you really liked about black dog salvage while you were here, stay close to your mic. Like I am closer to like I'm four inches away, four inches of critical wandering around like me folks. We're back with a black dog salvage
Speaker 3:Podcast and we are, we've got grace and Hollinsworth with us today and we're going to keep talking about all the great times we had. And speaking of those, what's your telling me your favorite memories of working here at black dog salvage besides the paycheck[inaudible]
Speaker 4:I have so, so many good memories of working here, but my most favorite salvage Chavez, dear to my heart, which you guys probably know I'm about to say is the one downtown Roanoke at the St. Andrew's that episode, the steeples, we got to salvage part of the staples for them. And it's so special to me because of my family history there I'm not Catholic, but one side of my family is, and my great-grandmother who I was fortunate to know well into my adulthood was a huge number there and kind of a big deal. Yeah. Yeah. Next best thing was, which is ironic. She's so tiny. She was not, she didn't even break five feet, but she was just the biggest firecracker there ever was first generation Italian. And they actually dedicated the grottoes to her. And so there is a plaque there for her, her rosary, her into to there. And some of the roses and flowers are from her garden, still cheer up about this. This is great. Yeah. Was getting to work on the salvage that day was just so incredible because if you guys remember, we got to go to the top of the Spire,
Speaker 3:Which was like wild. Yeah. So for everybody in the audience, this is a Catholic cathedral in downtown Roanoke and it has two very large spires at the front. And the north end of the church started to kind of, yeah, the, it started, it started kind of tip over and there were, this church is on a hill and then these things never thought we would ever be at the top. And you took the crosses off. I think I
Speaker 4:Could cry. Just thinking about it now, the view, the moment of it all was just so big as a broker to be there know, and I, yeah,
Speaker 3:I've just seen as a place on pigeons,
Speaker 1:Pigeons helicopters. Now, Gracie, this is exactly right.
Speaker 4:Have times on salvage jobs where I was like way scared of Heights, but that was
Speaker 3:Not one of them say the same thing to me. It was just walking.
Speaker 4:Mike is not afraid of Heights. One of our last salvage jobs we did was up at the DC, like big complex, you know, Ray salvaging. And we had had a pretty big night. I think this was like the last day we were going to be there for like two weeks
Speaker 1:Really hard into the evening. We celebrated
Speaker 4:Pretty hard that we were about done with the salvage, but we were not done with this salvage. So I remember I was just hung over enough and up in the top of this, like three or four story building with Mike on a scissor lift. And he's just wailing at it. Cause I mean, he's just Mike and I was afraid for my life. I think that's the only,
Speaker 1:And there's no need to be perfectly safe. I had the harness on, but I was just hung over my things. And I was like, I can't do it by
Speaker 4:Taking down lights, nonetheless,
Speaker 1:Get the lighting, the light
Speaker 3:We can touch on it briefly, but I must bring it up because it became such a thing. I think Ted started it just as you're the lighting expert maybe because no one else wanted to pull down lights because Ted didn't want to pull down lights. And so he was like, oh, you're the lighting
Speaker 4:Expert. And I was like, nah. And I had no say, cause it was like,
Speaker 1:Yeah, she was low man on the totem
Speaker 3:Pole in lights down. It was very crucial because one slip of a hammer or screwdriver, like, you know, it's happened before.
Speaker 1:No, I'm not. I'm not. That was a
Speaker 4:Good memory though. Honestly. So Mike and I are thinking of what was the salvage shop? Oh,
Speaker 1:That was in rock hill. Rock hill power plant in rock hill. South Carolina. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:You guys are taking the insulators power line. I was up top and a boat came out of the insulator and goes, I couldn't stop it. So it's like bright I'm outside. Like
Speaker 1:Probably look it up with your mouth. But she was honestly, I was horrified, horrified, only attractive person on the whole crew.
Speaker 4:So this was like two months before my wedding. I was like, I was like, it's cool.
Speaker 1:We're going to have to borrow a new,[inaudible]
Speaker 4:Sorry. It was, I ended up being awesome because I didn't get hurt. It didn't hurt my nerve of my tooth or anything. And I do have half of a fake front tooth and I love that about me now.[inaudible],
Speaker 1:It's a good memory for sure. Is
Speaker 3:There anything else that you'd like to hear in the shop? Did you like being in
Speaker 4:The shop because I'm just so grateful that you guys would even let me come down in the shop because I didn't have any experience beforehand, but everyone was so patient with me when I got down there and encouraging because I could kind of be shy about it. But the first build I did down the shop was really special just because it was my first and I kind of helped come up with the idea with you. It was the book lamp. If you'll remember, that was way back. And my PE helped me braise those doors discussions into a
Speaker 1:Of, which was a lot harder
Speaker 4:Than I, I was like, oh, let's just do this. You know, showed him like a picture. And he was like, oh, okay. I think he worked on that for like the whole weekend. Like drilled a hole in a book before.
Speaker 1:It's not as easy as it might say. I think your whole thing was great. It was great. It was, it was great. We certainly had a lot of
Speaker 4:Views. Yeah. And it was all salvage. That was of course,
Speaker 3:You know, it wasn't the first additions or anything having you in the shop. There's something I want to touch on real quick about like being coachable. And I was going to bring this up earlier when you like started working at black dog and you had the same trial by fire. I had, when I was, what, 10 years old, around whatever the legal age is for illegal child, uh, working age here, I had a permit or whatever you're supposed to, but now I run my own business and I'd work with people. And there's something amazing when you find someone who is coachable and wants to learn and they are patient and they will listen. People. I think a lot of young people now don't really listen all the way. You know, they listen enough to like respond, but there's no like real comprehension. Well, it's not, it's not an app. It's reality. I think patience is the word is, is having the patience to learn and to be accepting of it, as opposed to saying that's enough. I already know that I learned from him that way too. I was a sponge. I couldn't get enough. And I'm shocked to this day. Well, there's some things I had to ring out of them
Speaker 1:Therapies coming in. Oh yeah. That worth every penny.
Speaker 3:But as a craftsman, we are all craftsmen and women. But when you meet someone who does genuinely want to learn and does pick it up, it's like the best feeling ever, because it's like, oh, now I can share this thing that I'm passionate about. And then I've become quite good at, well, yeah, something else. But just, you know, I was lucky enough to not be burdened with at the time, uh, operating the business, it just really felt holistic, you know, just pure passion towards the trade. And like, we got to goof off and learn together.
Speaker 4:I mean, how could you not be like, I don't know. It was just easy for me, but I just, I wanted to learn. And I also wanted to do a good job. And I knew if I was careful and paid attention, I'd probably be able to do some more of that cool thing,
Speaker 3:You know, hard work and learning how to do things. And all at the same time we have a television show while you're, you're learning this stuff and looking good doing it. I mean, just to make it all make sense. It was under a microscope, pretty interesting experience. And we were glad we had you along the way. Oh, I could cry right
Speaker 1:Now. Go ahead.[inaudible] microphones. Not like we're saying no, you know, you're going
Speaker 3:To be back in the well in about two minutes and I know it's not going to be,
Speaker 2:You know, another COVID year before you come back. Is that a new measure in time?
Speaker 1:It's longer than a normal year, 15 months, 15 months.
Speaker 2:All right. So, uh, folks, hang on. We'll be back with Grayson top tip, stay tuned.
Speaker 5:[inaudible]
Speaker 2:All right, guys. Welcome back to the hopefully most
Speaker 3:Useful segment of the show. The DIY tip of the week. This is where we have our guests bring a tip that we can use and apply anywhere at home, on a project, in our professional or personal lives, whatever the life coach comes in, I'm all ears. But this week, obviously we have Grayson with us. And as we've discussed, you wear many hats or had worn many hats and the black dog hats are very heavy, but so what is your tip of the week?
Speaker 4:Okay. So, okay. So first, uh, tip I have[inaudible] Hey wait.
Speaker 3:Just the first time you're making it on a podcast and for the conspiracy theorists out there, it's not mine
Speaker 1:Like the longest running joke.
Speaker 4:Okay. So top tip. First one I have is for those who are interested in salvage and it might seem obvious, but it's easy to forget. Don't wear jewelry on a salvage job. So we're here at my, I shouldn't talk first salvage job with earrings on. And I think Mike, in the best way possible set me straight. So I didn't lose a, an ear lobe. You know, wedding brings those things like that. You could lose a finger by the way. That's a good one top tip I have is if you ever have the wonderful, wonderful pleasure of working with these guys that are around me, come with a really good sense of humor. These guys love innuendos and puns and funny words. That don't mean
Speaker 1:They actually double entendres. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Mike has a whole vocabulary. That's all to his own.
Speaker 1:I still have my alphabet. Y'all putting together
Speaker 3:A glossary for me. Every letter of the alphabet we had sometimes he'd let her have more
Speaker 4:Than one letter your own take on the English language. You need to publish that. Okay. I've got it in my notes right now on my phone. Okay. So, um, do you know the phonetic alphabet, which is like alpha Bravo Charlie. Okay. So we, we have a mix frenetic alphabet. Here it is. We don't have the full alphabet.
Speaker 1:She's read it. And for context,
Speaker 3:If they still need it, if I may just throughout the course of working together forever dad, as I'd like to explain, has a loose relationship with the English
Speaker 1:Language and French too. Sometimes you stick to them for a while and they're not, sometimes we
Speaker 3:Get letters coming out as a sound. Sometimes they are words, words, words. They're an abomination of words. I won't say
Speaker 1:[inaudible].
Speaker 4:I recognize a lot of them. If you watch the salvage dogs show. So cattywampus,
Speaker 1:Obviously I think. Yeah. Well, I mean, obviously that's a real word.[inaudible]
Speaker 3:These are words. It's also that pronunciation as well.
Speaker 1:Uh, tickety-boo obviously
Speaker 4:Patina. We got put it in the bank, I think is, uh, an idiom of yours. Um,
Speaker 3:Eat enough so you don't get hungry
Speaker 1:[inaudible] I should probably leave it there, but no, I would,
Speaker 3:We might consult the producers on maybe posting that list or maybe we'll come through it and yeah,
Speaker 1:We're going to put it in the show notes. You can buy it with the title of the frenetic party.[inaudible] have you ever
Speaker 3:Seen the map of where you have lumps on your head?
Speaker 1:[inaudible]
Speaker 3:His head is the study of the human skull, right? The bumps, all it. It's not science. Science.
Speaker 1:I don't know what science is. That's what you said. So
Speaker 4:Clearly come in with a great attitude and you're gonna have a great time if you work with these guys, because they're the funniest people I know there you have, I know many people
Speaker 3:Now that's a top tip if I ever saw
Speaker 1:It. Yeah.
Speaker 4:And this is like, for everybody, not just those who are interested in salvage, but obviously that as well is to never say she, your hunger for learning always remain open-minded right. Cause even if you do consider yourself an expert, there's probably more, you can learn.
Speaker 1:[inaudible] how hard that is. I forget what all that saying is
Speaker 3:It is just a three-state shame, but the ones you want to worry about as the ones that don't know what they don't, somebody who done good bend care, they make it look enjoyable. That's true. All right. So we've got all tipped out here. So we're going to take a break here. And when we come back, we're going to go over episode one 13, which was the stick
Speaker 2:House, stick style house style house in Knoxville, Tennessee. That's right. So stay tuned guys. Come on back home. We'll be right back. Can I get back in bed? That's not one of the words, but I just happened to look frenetic. Right? Welcome back to the black dog salvage podcast. We still have Gracie with us. And we're into
Speaker 3:Part of the show where we'd like to go over one of our favorite episodes. And this was episode 1, 1, 3, meaning it was a first season and a one of the first episodes that Grayson participated in and episode 13, this was the last episode of our first season is exactly why it took place in Knoxville, Tennessee. And there was a lot of things that went on with the show. You know, each one of the shows had it. We had kind of a pace. So the audience would know, Hey, at the beginning of black dog, we have a, you know, somebody comes in with something they brought in. We get kind of weird, dude. Yeah. And then we'll have our morning meeting, which I always love to talk about the morning meeting because well, the morning of a good morning, good morning meeting always happened though. A couple of weeks after all the show
Speaker 1:With the that's a great point. So we knew exactly what we were going to do. Amazing how we always followed Diane chronology. Oh, watch out for that. Poorly
Speaker 3:Are things about this particular episode beyond that the actual house, the stick style house and knocks that we took apart was was the bill, the shop bill. There was always a shop building and this was a good one. And that was a real good. We found it on another job. You know, the truck front, it was a night class, fifties Ford school bus, front end, front end. Right. And we found that beautiful color, the guy that turned us on to that pig, Jesse Ray, a local musician. And I pulled it aside because I wanted to do a build with it. So when I found something like that, I said, I'll just put aside, it's not for sale. So he came in and wanted it. And I said, oh, the guy who owns Jack Brown's parents, Chuck Brown's burgers and beer, kind of a local franchise, regional franchise. We started in Harrisburg. We're really good. And I told him, no, and that's not unusual for me, but I got a little weepy about this one. And he says, that was, and I just always said, um, what's it gonna take? I said, well, if you bought, I got to build something with it. And he that's what he was going to do with it. Well, the fact of the matter is, is it involves burgers and it evolved beer and it turned into a tax system and it was awesome. Now you can send it back to me. It was brilliant. Yeah. And that's in the Roanoke, Jack Brown. You can see that in downtown Roanoke, right there on my highly advise, going in there and having a beer. They've got a great beer selection, but Hey, by the way, their burgers are all stealer. Nice beyond that, you know, as always, there is a, there's a, the real episode, the meat of the episode, and this was this old cool house in Knoxville, Tennessee, and with a lot of work and a lot of work for who just us going into this segment, is this a bleeder episode or not? I can attest to the fact that this is a major bleeder major means you go to the hospital and have stitches.
Speaker 1:This was because you didn't go to class
Speaker 3:One to 10. This was a class. Okay. We've got a scale. Now, everybody knows this was a bleeder. We're talking about Mike, by the way. But you guys had taken the upstairs. Uh, you and Greg, what was the house? What was the building? What was a beautiful, old stick, style sticks dollars architectural term for some built 1880s, just a particular style it's paneling on the outside of it, the way it was put together. But you know, that's what we named it. And it was, that was a good looking house in a very bad neighborhood. And I had a lot of great also, you know, some syringes and some other good stuff, blow
Speaker 1:Up mattress as I recall, smell it. Yeah. Yeah. So
Speaker 4:It had been broken up to a lot of apartments. I mean, it was a really grand house and it's day. And we see this a lot because obviously when we're coming onto a job, it's the end of this building's lifespan. So the last iteration of this was an apartment complex that apparently would rent to anybody.
Speaker 3:Sad points is this was early on in your college career. And I was amazed at the limited amount of coverage that you got. I mean really Grayson wasn't in the open when we did, in fairness, I didn't get a lot either. I think that's cause we're just still learning how to the pups right early on was like Mike and Robert. I mean, look at the intro Robert,
Speaker 4:I was avoiding like I would like run and hide from this camera. Sometime if I was doing something, I didn't actually know what I was doing.
Speaker 3:You don't have to know what you're doing because it's just the show you can hide.
Speaker 1:I learned that there was
Speaker 3:Nobody else let's get something straight. Right? That's true. The salvage had to be done. And there was no other secret, double secret crew coming in behind
Speaker 1:Us. So we did the work.
Speaker 3:And even when the camera guys had enough, we still had to finish. And this house had really great doors in it. And it had really great hardware manels and tiles this house around it. And one of the great things about these old houses is they tell a story, you know, sometimes it's they tell a story with additions or the way the house was added onto, and you can actually see what happened and how the family grew. But always we would take mantles off, which were pretty easy wood mantles, removing them is probably the easiest money you're going to get. Sometimes they're even on hooks and you can pull them off the wall, but almost invariably there's secrets behind there, Christmas cards. And they were put on the mantles, you know, to Santa Claus. But this one had a picture of a soldier, I think is what it was. That's right. That's right. And so that, that tells the history. This is the mark of man it's leftover from, yeah. I mean this house, this house hosted a hundred, you know, 120 years of, of people's lives and you can pull it out. Maybe, you know, there was five or six behind, one of, one of the mantles with, with photos and then letters and you know, 19 10, 19 25,
Speaker 1:We were always looking for that bear a bond.[inaudible] what happened if
Speaker 3:We ever found one of those, I said, you'd never see us again.[inaudible],
Speaker 1:It's so easy
Speaker 4:To go into a job that you, like you said, we do mantles all the time and you just kind of going out after a mantle. But then when you find something that slows you down, you realize like you said, people have actually lived their lives here. They don't put something on a mantle that you don't care about
Speaker 3:And going under these houses with respect for that, you know, that's, that's one thing that I always felt you felt their presence and your presence, even though you were,
Speaker 1:Despite what people may have said, a lot of our
Speaker 3:Problem is that conundrum for, for us. We, Mike and I got into this business because we loved old houses and old things. And we didn't, we didn't want to see something get thrown into the landfill. And so you get this, this knock together because this particular house, which was in a terrible neighborhood or was not in a great neighborhood and was misplaced there now, and didn't have a future, there was a big effort to preserve that house and it failed, you know, private property and things like that. I'm a big believer in that. And so we ended up having to come in and take down many of the house that people were trying to save. And it was a little bit of tension there. And, you know, I'm there to, you know, I was always trying to say, well, what are you doing to save it? We're saving at least the part it's not on the market for 10 years. He's out there yelling at Madison and says, lady stayed behind the tape.
Speaker 1:[inaudible] the last
Speaker 3:Best hope. And that's where we always worry is when it got to that point at that, you know, 23rd hour, you were, you were there to pick up the pieces and make sure that something lives on again. And we say a lot of great things from that house. I mean, there was some great tasks, arounds and beautiful doors, hardware, but trim was a little tough when it Mike, that's what got you in there. She's like, let's go a lot easier. And so this one didn't, we were breaking a lot of stuff meant Ted NY. And this, uh, I was up, uh, up top pulling off a corner block or a plant. And Jack here, this is the bleeder explanations[inaudible]
Speaker 1:And I was there. I remember you sure. I
Speaker 3:Didn't lose the memory. Uh, but
Speaker 1:I, I hit myself in the head with it. It's not that anything else happened, big old flat bar, flat bar, you
Speaker 3:Can see it. And right away, I knew there was a, there was something going on. My glasses flew across the room, you know, I'm going okay, I'm bleeding. And then I it's so funny cause you know, they're always looking for the blood and in reality TV. So I heard a, the producer, Jeff Weiner say,
Speaker 1:[inaudible] got blood coming down.
Speaker 3:And Robert comes in and says, Hey man, what are you doing?
Speaker 1:Get off your, man. We're not gonna finish like that. Well, as soon as the ambulance comes out, I'll figure that out. But, uh, it was, uh, it was a little gash and uh, you know, any, any headwind always
Speaker 3:Plays more. Cause you know, someone who bleeds knows that the head wound there's a lot of blood up there cause the brain and everything. So
Speaker 1:That's where it goes first. And anyway, so it was classified blades. Great, great
Speaker 3:House, a great salvage project. And like invariably just kind of wrapping things up about this fun episode. Let's get these houses, don't give up easy. And you know, we were, we were taking all the porch, fret work and the posts and all this stuff and beautiful stuff. In fact, uh, I just installed some of those parts in a house that I'm redoing down the street for a nice place to get a good deal. I got a great deal. The last leavings of the porch, you usually want to get the things off the porch, but you don't want to leave a dangerous situation because it's usually going to be torn down for a couple, you know, a couple of weeks. I mean, we want to hear is in the paper the next day that you know, let's try to fold this porch down. We've removed all the supports and there she sits just hanging up in the air and it just like, they don't give up easy. And Mike finally got it with, he got it back on that house. Got a crowbar after it, man. It was a, it was gratifying, but I was going to jump out on there
Speaker 1:With a[inaudible]. It was in the intro for the rest of the show. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Be like that about sums it up. You know, that was season one, episode 13, which originally aired on July 20th, 2013. Thank you so much for being here with us to recap that. And we're going to go to break real quick, but we'll be right back
Speaker 5:[inaudible]
Speaker 2:Okay. And we're back. But you know what? I think that just about wraps up the episode. Y'all I'm sorry too. Cause we can get hit with that means grace is not going to be with us. It's never long enough,
Speaker 1:So good. Hey
Speaker 2:That's great having you grace. And then Hey everybody more about these stories. Uh, you can log onto our website at black dog, salvage.com R a from the intro
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