Arizona homes, roads, water, and repairs.
Rosie on the House mixes home-improvement guidance with Arizona road-trip ideas, agriculture, water use, and live listener questions. It feels practical and local, with trades knowledge sitting comfortably beside holiday chatter, civic asides, and useful detours.
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Rosie on the House is a long-running Arizona advice show with a toolbox in one hand and a road map in the other. Its center of gravity is home ownership: repairs, remodeling, maintenance, security cameras, kitchen refreshes, septic systems, and the endless surprises that come with a place of one’s own. It does not stay indoors for long. The outdoor hours move through gardens, graywater, forage crops, farm tours, chickens, trees, and the larger question of how people live responsibly in a dry state. The show is local in a very specific way. It talks about Arizona homes as Arizona homes, shaped by heat, water, contractors, and Arizona habits. Call-ins and texts keep the broadcast close to ordinary problems. A listener’s question can turn into a mini-class, a trade-school aside, or a reminder to register students for an apprenticeship fair. Then the show may take a holiday turn and head for Blue Mesa Trail, Glen Canyon, Lee’s Ferry, Prescott, or an out-of-the-way base camp. Short and useful. Then pleasantly wandering. The rhythm is part expert desk, part community bulletin board, part weekend conversation. Named guests add texture: Roger Naylor brings Arizona travel knowledge, Julie Murphree frames farm and food topics, Brad Lancaster explains water harvesting, and specialists such as Jacob talk through the less glamorous systems homeowners still need to understand. The show can be sentimental, funny, practical, patriotic, and a little messy around the edges. That is also its charm. It suits listeners who want advice that has been tested in real houses, real yards, real heat, and real Arizona, not generic homeowner content dropped into the desert from somewhere else.
Made for: For Arizona homeowners, DIY learners, Arizona gardeners, road-trippers, and people who like local advice with real contractors, farmers, and specialists in the room.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the Arizona specificity: construction knowledge, water realities, farm life, and travel tips all come through the same local Saturday-morning conversation.
Rosie On The House is Every Arizona Homeowner’s Best Friend! Here to protect, inform and entertain Arizona homeowners on their primary investment. Their house, home, castle or cabin. This podcast page is home to our weekly 3-hour radio broadcast. For additional resources, including the Home Maintenance Calendar & App, Articles, DIY Database, e-Newsletter, and more at RosieOnTheHouse.com.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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