Al Carrell: Well here we are, back at the B.I.A. Speed House in Honolulu. And everybody's working as quickly as possible with one eye on the clock all the time.
Worker: How much time do we have?
Bob Armstrong: Well, the clocks right out there. We have 38 minutes right now, so it's really hairy.
A.C.: All of the contractors are working feverishly to finish their jobs and be out of the house in 8 hours or less.
B.A.: What have you got left to do?
Worker: That's it, we're done.
B.A.: Good. Get out of here.
A.C.: The last of the carpet's going in. The final paint touch-ups are being done now. A lot of attention is being paid to just about every detail you can think of, and they're all doing it at the same time. The carpets are even being vacuumed, since the goal is to have this house not only built in 8 hours, but cleaned up and ready in move-in condition. Last, but certainly not least, come the appliances. As with every other last detail that's being attended to, right down to the wire.
Michael Holigan: Jim, it's been a long day.
Jim Keller: Oh, it's been a very long day.
M.H.: Tell me about it. Did you expect all this to happen the way it did?
J.K.: It was a day where everybody had to really work together and they did. It was a complete team effort.
M.H.: Any surprises at all?
J.K.: We were on schedule right up to about 2:00 and we were running a little tight on the carpet.
M.H.: Yeah.
J.K.: But everybody pulled through and kicked it in and we got out of there.
M.H.: Is this something you look forward to next year or is this it?
J.K.: We did it five years ago. I hope we don't do it every year. It would be tough to do it every year.
M.H.: I'm thinking it must take five years to forget what it was like.
J.K.: Exactly.
M.H.: And that's why you volunteer.
J.K.: People get a little older they forget what they went through today.
M.H.: You had probably 300 people out here. How did you get them to work together in unison like that?
J.K.: It really was just educating people in the morning that this was not going to an average job and that we were going to be working tight together, bumping heads, and just, you know, be your brother's keeper, so to speak.
M.H.: If you had to do it a week from now is there anything you would change, now that you've gone through it?
J.K.: I wouldn't do it a week from now.
M.H.: You wouldn't do it.
J.K.: That's an easy one.
M.H.: No amount of money?
J.K.: No.
Episode 016 1995 - 96 Season
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