Ben and Erin Napierpause their latest home renovation for a pickleball break in Sunday’s new episode ofHome Town.
In the episode, titled “Chasing Waterfalls,” the Napiers help Mike, a civil engineer and artist from Seattle with a generous budget, find the perfect Laurel, Miss. home for his modern-contemporary design style, complete with an outdoor hot tub.
As they prepare for the game, Ben notes that pickleball is the “fastest growing sport in America.” (The New York Timesreportedthat pickleball grew nearly 40% between 2019 and 2021.)
However, they’re not intimidated as they take to the court.
“We’re the least competitive people in the world, so this will be super-easy,” Erin, 38, assures viewers.
“How do you describe pickleball?” Ben, 40, asks Erin.
“Tennis and ping-pong, together,” Erin replies. “And wiffle ball, a little bit.”
While they play, Mike tells the couple he’s made a decision between the two houses they’d presented to him earlier in the episode, and he’s chosen the Burton house, a home Erin says she loves too. Mike then accepts Ben’s invitation for a rematch.
While removing an external shutter from the house she and Ben were sprucing up for a Canadian family relocating to Laurel, Erin was startled to uncover a lizard.
“To me, lizards and snakes are the exact same thing,” Erin explained.
When Ben asked for her thoughts on frogs, she replied that she doesn’t like them either. “She thinks of frogs and lizards as snakes with legs,” Ben said.
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“This is my irrational fear,” Erin revealed. “I get scared of a lizard and someone thinks ‘Well, this is funny’ and they get the lizard and try to put it on me and then I would die.”
source: people.com
