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Mikel Welch (2nd Appearance) Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: My next guest. It's an award winning interior designer. We
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Speaker 1: did a lot of great work together on the Steve
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Speaker 1: Harvey Talk Show. His designs have been featured on h
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Speaker 1: g TV, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, and Good Morning America.
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Speaker 1: He's on the show to discuss his journey in the
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Speaker 1: business and his new series, Murder House Flip on Quimpy,
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Speaker 1: Please work with the money making conversations. Mikhail Welch, Hey,
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Speaker 1: thank you for having me. Well, it's always great having you.
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Speaker 1: Got your energy up my man. Yeah, Hey, I'm ready.
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Speaker 1: It's premier day. Well, it's really because a lot of people,
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Speaker 1: you know, we know, we know the times that we're
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Speaker 1: in at this point, that were wondering is it was
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Speaker 1: smart to be on TV at this time. I think
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Speaker 1: you have an audience at the house looking for something new. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: I mean I agree, It's like this is the perfect
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Speaker 1: operation facility. Everybody is sheltering in place and you know,
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Speaker 1: looking for a new outlet. Right, this is the prime opportunity,
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Speaker 1: you know, for I think for television and just people
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Speaker 1: putting out content, but what every brand they're working on,
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Speaker 1: This is the perfect opportunity just to kind of working
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Speaker 1: and crap or work that craft. The name of the
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Speaker 1: show is Murder House Flip. You know, I'm a big designer.
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Speaker 1: I'll be watching, you know, watching. I watched the you know,
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Speaker 1: the Cabin Masters. I watched the Man with the with
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Speaker 1: the amazing pools down in Florida. I love that dude
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Speaker 1: his with his mama. He called a woman on the show.
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Speaker 1: So I'm a I'm a big guy, you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: I'm a big guy watching these flip these I was
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Speaker 1: not saying I'm doing it on my own house now,
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Speaker 1: you know. But I'm a watcher, and I think America,
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Speaker 1: America is really into watching and learning and and it
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Speaker 1: inspires people to go to stores like Home Depot and
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Speaker 1: Lows and all these type of things to carry out
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Speaker 1: their dreams. What got you started? But cal Um, you know, honestly,
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Speaker 1: I tell people all the time, you know, everything happens
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Speaker 1: for a reason. But you know, I graduated from fool
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Speaker 1: with more House with a degree in marketing, and you know, honestly,
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Speaker 1: one day my mom had a conversation with me and
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Speaker 1: told me I needed to find my passion and that
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Speaker 1: I would know what it is because it would be
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Speaker 1: something I'd be willing to do for free. So I
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Speaker 1: ended up, you know, going to work for a furniture
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Speaker 1: company and that turned into you know, many other opportunities.
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Speaker 1: But honestly it started from that one little steed me
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Speaker 1: working in the furniture store and just going out on
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Speaker 1: the women, just putting it all on the line and say, hey,
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Speaker 1: this is when I want to go after And it
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Speaker 1: all started from there. Now, furniture store, yes see, you're
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Speaker 1: a long way from what were you doing in that furniture?
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Speaker 1: Were you selling furniture? Furniture? What were you doing? I
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Speaker 1: was selling the furniture in the furniture store, the storehouse
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Speaker 1: Furniture in Atlanta, And you know, I really got frustrated
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Speaker 1: because I wasn't a great salesman, so I thought, and
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Speaker 1: so UM. I ended up transitioning UH to the warehouse
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Speaker 1: and I was kind of like their UM inventory manager,
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Speaker 1: and I was in charge of all the products that
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Speaker 1: would go like the Oprah when she was doing hurricane
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Speaker 1: or train a relief and something it sparked in me
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Speaker 1: and I said, you know what, I really want to
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Speaker 1: be the person on the other side of that. I
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Speaker 1: don't want to just ship out the furniture. I want
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Speaker 1: to be the one designing the room and so um
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Speaker 1: after I mean, and I'll tell the truth. After several
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Speaker 1: failed attempts, you know, I had three different interviews to
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Speaker 1: become a buyer and it just didn't work out. My
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Speaker 1: boss said to me, he said, y'all like you, but
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Speaker 1: I think you might want to, you know, test something
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Speaker 1: else out. And there was a gentleman on Craig was
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Speaker 1: looking for an interior design assistant and I applied got
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Speaker 1: that job and I worked with him for a year,
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Speaker 1: just really learning the business of design, how to run
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Speaker 1: a firm. And from there I went on Craigslist and
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Speaker 1: I posted um to design one free room for anyone
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Speaker 1: who would allow me into their home. I designed the
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Speaker 1: room for free, as long as they pay for the merchandise.
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Speaker 1: And that's how I built a book, a portfolio. Now,
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Speaker 1: tell us about those early designs, because you know you're
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Speaker 1: walking in there, and now do they look at they're
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Speaker 1: looking at you as an amateur, when they're looking at
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Speaker 1: you as a rookie, you know, when they question your abilities?
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Speaker 1: What did you walk in after free? As free? Okay,
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Speaker 1: we got free, but do you still walking into somebody's
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Speaker 1: house about to make a change, How did you convince
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Speaker 1: them at that next step? Well, you know what, I
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Speaker 1: am one of those people who believe in the sake
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Speaker 1: until you make it. And so you know what, I
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Speaker 1: did use my house as kind of like my first project.
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Speaker 1: So I designed my house, had a friend take some
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Speaker 1: pictures of it, so I at least have some stock
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Speaker 1: images and we must have siss about fifty images all
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Speaker 1: throughout my tiny apartment. But we made it look like
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Speaker 1: it was several different rooms. So I use that as
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Speaker 1: my portfolio. And you know, you have to worry the
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Speaker 1: angles that you have, right. I love that, And so
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Speaker 1: that's why, you know, people always get they always go
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Speaker 1: how do I get started? But it's right there, it's
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Speaker 1: how creative are you? Yes? Absolutely? I mean really is
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Speaker 1: about working your network, you know. So I tell people
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Speaker 1: all the time, if you want to break into design,
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Speaker 1: you don't have any clients, take pictures of your house,
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Speaker 1: take pictures of your friends houses. Like you know, I
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Speaker 1: even in my current house right now, in my New
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Speaker 1: York apartment, I have a wall that is solely dedicated
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Speaker 1: to me rearranging things. So I can't always have extra
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Speaker 1: stock image for my Instagram always absolutely, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: really interesting. It's just like me on baking. You know,
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Speaker 1: people I just bake and I just I have different
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Speaker 1: ways I bake, have different dishes I bake, and so
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Speaker 1: I use those to just sell people that I'm an
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Speaker 1: award winning baker and I transition that because in January
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Speaker 1: this year, you will name House Beautiful's Next Wave one
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Speaker 1: of the next wave designers. What does that mean for
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Speaker 1: your branding, for your career at this point? To get
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Speaker 1: that on, you know, that was a life changing experience.
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Speaker 1: You know, just to be recognized, um as as one
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Speaker 1: of the House Beautiful sent next Way, it was huge.
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Speaker 1: You know for one as an African American designer, there
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Speaker 1: aren't that many of us who even make it to
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Speaker 1: the larger Shelter magazine. So you know, this was big
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Speaker 1: for me because I felt like it was door open.
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Speaker 1: This is going to open up the doors for for
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Speaker 1: others just like me who are trying to get in
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Speaker 1: that door. But to think I came from Craigslist now
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Speaker 1: to grazing House Beautiful, um I mean, it's the most
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Speaker 1: rewarding experience that you know, what I think a designer
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Speaker 1: could ever have. So I'm just grateful for the opportunity.
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Speaker 1: It's hard work, but you know, I see it's paying off,
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Speaker 1: paying out. Well, you know I met you, I felt
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Speaker 1: early in your career. Michael on the Steve Harvey Talk Show. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so as I do prep uh your for the interview,
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Speaker 1: I'm going through. Michael also has the honor of designing
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Speaker 1: room for prominent personalities including First Lady Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey,
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Speaker 1: Faith Hell, Harry Cornell, Junior, halle Berry, and of course
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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey. Now what did all this happened? Did I
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Speaker 1: miss all this? This was happening before you met me. No, off,
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Speaker 1: this was all happening through you. I mean, this is
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Speaker 1: another thing I think. You know again when we talk
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Speaker 1: about making opportunities happen. So when we were on the
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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey Show, every time Oprah came, faith Will, faith Hell,
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Speaker 1: or Halle Berry, First Lady Michelle Obama, every time they came,
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Speaker 1: I was giving a budget to design a special green
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Speaker 1: room for each one of them. I would take those
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Speaker 1: red and I would spend my own money, and I
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Speaker 1: would hire a photographer to photograph each room. And then
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Speaker 1: once I got an opportunity, I would come and I
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Speaker 1: would ask that celebrity if they enjoyed the space, and
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Speaker 1: that little sentence that they told me, I would take
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Speaker 1: that and I would use it as a quote. I
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Speaker 1: would never forget. Oprah, I asked her, and I had
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Speaker 1: to go ask her, I said, you know, to that.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't get that close to her. It was time.
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Speaker 1: I said, you know, did you like your room? And
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Speaker 1: she was like, oh my gosh, what was that? That's
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Speaker 1: a quote? You put that on your website and you know,
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Speaker 1: so it's one of those you have to work the
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Speaker 1: angles that you have and that's how I made that happen. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's one when you know. The thing
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Speaker 1: I love about this interview is just you're not um.
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Speaker 1: First of all, you you trusting yourself and trusting your instincts,
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Speaker 1: and plus you are looking at opportunities because you're you're
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Speaker 1: you're is your feel is a visual feel, walk in,
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Speaker 1: you go, I don't think he knows what he's doing.
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Speaker 1: Oh I like the way that places me in. And
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Speaker 1: so you're taking advantage of those situations, those opportunities that
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Speaker 1: come to you. And then when you promote yourself, you
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Speaker 1: promote you to promoting yourself with credibility and that's a
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Speaker 1: beautiful thing. And so so where are you now in
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Speaker 1: your career as far as developing and building your brand out?
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Speaker 1: So right now, my biggest thing I have the launch
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Speaker 1: of partner with a company called Yosemite home Um out
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Speaker 1: of Fresno, California. And I've just launched my first furniture line.
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Speaker 1: So I have so you can buy something. You can
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Speaker 1: buy something. I can sit there. Absolutely, you can absolutely
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Speaker 1: buy on my website. You can check it out on
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Speaker 1: micals dot com. I'm gonna say I'm mad at you, Michael,
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Speaker 1: because you're not send me any banners so I can
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Speaker 1: post on my soldier because you know, that's what money
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Speaker 1: make conversation is all about, you know, you know, relationships,
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Speaker 1: promoting uh successful people in the business, showing other people
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Speaker 1: that they can be done. Now, you've got a furniture
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Speaker 1: line and I've yet to ever post anything on my
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Speaker 1: social media recognizing this new development or this amazing development
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Speaker 1: your life. Shame on you. You're a busy man. I
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Speaker 1: tried to hope bart you. I tried to wait to
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Speaker 1: you know, I have several things, line back them up
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Speaker 1: and present them toil you start I'll come with these
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Speaker 1: little nuggets with the finish, the story, how many pieces
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Speaker 1: and how did they all come about? Oh so this
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Speaker 1: is a great story. Um so funny story. Uh So
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Speaker 1: last year or UM I was there's a big furniture
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Speaker 1: as High Point Market and I'm doing a tour and
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Speaker 1: I had to take sixty people around to show them
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Speaker 1: my favorite vendors inside of this merchandise smart and I
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Speaker 1: took my mother with me. So my mom's collecting all
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Speaker 1: the free bags that you get, you know, from the vendors.
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Speaker 1: But the problem is every time she stops to get
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Speaker 1: a free bag, they want to talk to me to
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Speaker 1: sell something. And I said, okay, mom, I said, my mom,
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Speaker 1: this is the last store we're going in. And so
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Speaker 1: we go in and I'm looking at a piece and
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Speaker 1: I'm just talking to my mom. I said, I like
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Speaker 1: that piece of artwork, but I don't like the medallion
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Speaker 1: they put on it. Because lady stops to me and
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Speaker 1: she says, what did you just say about that piece
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Speaker 1: of artwork? And I told her and I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 1: lady said, well, tell me what else you think, So
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Speaker 1: we walk around the entire store. At the end of
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Speaker 1: the conversation, she says, I'm the vice president of the company.
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Speaker 1: We've been looking to partner with the designer who can
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Speaker 1: work with you. And that's honestly how it happens. Um. So,
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Speaker 1: so to your mama hustling for freebees, yes, landed you
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Speaker 1: your furniture. Lie, that's what you try to tell us.
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Speaker 1: But you know what also also, I would say this,
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Speaker 1: it's also the preparation because it was all of those
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Speaker 1: things that I had done in the past. My portfolio.
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Speaker 1: The television shows all of the step Harvey appearances, you
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Speaker 1: getting me booked on the Real Housewives of Atlantic, So
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Speaker 1: when they go back to look at my work, it's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: you know, this guy knows what he's talking about. It's
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Speaker 1: being able to back that up and being prepared. That's
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Speaker 1: the biggest thing you just I was, well, you know
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Speaker 1: the thing I love about your Michael, is that you
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Speaker 1: know you and I have a very honest relationship about
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Speaker 1: repeats and now they've got new shows, so I'm happy.
18:11
Speaker 1: I watched Sexy Murder, I watched all those shows. I
18:15
Speaker 1: was just addicted to those type of shows. And so
18:18
Speaker 1: when I when they sent me the trailer of your show,
18:20
Speaker 1: I didn't know what they were sending it. So when
18:22
Speaker 1: they shoot me a trailer about your show about what
18:25
Speaker 1: people are buying houses are renovating houses where people either
18:29
Speaker 1: were murdered in or dying in, I went, wow, I've
18:34
Speaker 1: been sitting on this idea for years. This was the
18:41
Speaker 1: craziest thing I think. I have not even think that
18:45
Speaker 1: the craziest thing I've ever worked on. As a matter
18:47
Speaker 1: of fact, when my manager called me to say, hey,
18:49
Speaker 1: you know you have an audition for Murder House Flip,
18:53
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is this? I thought they were joking.
18:56
Speaker 1: Now I really didn't believe them until they booked. But
18:59
Speaker 1: like the EP of the show, he called me, he's
19:01
Speaker 1: trying to convince me that it's a real show. And
19:03
Speaker 1: until they booked my plane fair, I didn't really think
19:06
Speaker 1: this was real. But it's a legiti show. Um it's
19:10
Speaker 1: myself and a co host, UM my coach with Joel.
19:14
Speaker 1: The two of us, we go into homes where people
19:17
Speaker 1: have you know, have the iconic murders have absolutely murders? Yes,
19:24
Speaker 1: I mean the first episode of This Lady you know,
19:27
Speaker 1: so it was an elderly woman who killed seven people
19:31
Speaker 1: by you know, poisoning them so that she could take
19:34
Speaker 1: their social Security check. So and she buried them in
19:37
Speaker 1: her front yard. So it's it's creepy. Now you want
19:40
Speaker 1: to go out there embarrassing, put some grass down and
19:43
Speaker 1: put some plants down, and have the children play over
19:45
Speaker 1: the dead bodies and all that good stuff. That's that's
19:48
Speaker 1: why I love the show. That's I'm kind of mad
19:51
Speaker 1: and half at the same time because I'm mad because
19:54
Speaker 1: I watched all these homemakeover shows I love them. I
19:58
Speaker 1: watched all these foruristics murder shows, which I love them,
20:01
Speaker 1: and not one time did my dumb behind to go
20:05
Speaker 1: this is a show because you know why, the idea
20:08
Speaker 1: is so crazy and so extreme. It is crazy. It
20:12
Speaker 1: is crazy, even like you saw on the cliff you know,
20:14
Speaker 1: it's the clip where I'm on the staircase of my
20:16
Speaker 1: co host and I tell her, you know, I usually
20:21
Speaker 1: do say ladies first, but I ran down those stairs
20:24
Speaker 1: because it was an energy and I just wanted to
20:26
Speaker 1: get out of that house like we film at night. Yeah,
20:31
Speaker 1: I'm laughing because you look so wimping when you said that,
20:34
Speaker 1: because you were really going down those steps fast. You
20:36
Speaker 1: were going and she's a taller person house and she's
20:40
Speaker 1: taller than you too, so you you're running out those
20:42
Speaker 1: steps real fast. And let's let's let's talk about because
20:45
Speaker 1: you talk about being interviewed. And here's the funny part
20:48
Speaker 1: about it, because you gotta give a d or for
20:51
Speaker 1: anything that you do, whether you believe in it or not.
20:53
Speaker 1: So when you go when you got the opportunity to
20:55
Speaker 1: go down an interview, who did you interview with? And
20:57
Speaker 1: what did your interview consist of? Which? Michale Welch his
21:01
Speaker 1: new show, Uh, Murder House Flip. It's on the Quimby
21:05
Speaker 1: network and uh it's a short form show. Correct? What
21:08
Speaker 1: how long is it? Each episode is less than six minutes,
21:12
Speaker 1: So six minute episodes that are on your telephone, really
21:15
Speaker 1: quick and easy. Okay, cool? Now, how did you audition
21:19
Speaker 1: for this? Um? So, I flew into l A I
21:23
Speaker 1: met at the Sony lot. The show is produced by
21:27
Speaker 1: the parent company of Sony, and we kind of had
21:29
Speaker 1: what they call chemistry tests and for those who don't know.
21:32
Speaker 1: That's when they put a couple of different hosts together
21:34
Speaker 1: and so it's, uh, it's kind of like a group interview,
21:38
Speaker 1: and so your personality just has to shine. And so
21:42
Speaker 1: me and my current co host, Joel, we just kind
21:44
Speaker 1: of hit it off. Basically, what they do is they
21:47
Speaker 1: put an image of a house up on the wall
21:50
Speaker 1: and we have to look at a room and we
21:52
Speaker 1: have to kind of tell them together collectively what we
21:55
Speaker 1: would plan to do or how we re envisioned this
21:58
Speaker 1: house and so that so you you were with a stranger, yes,
22:04
Speaker 1: and you have to improve that moment absolutely. You know,
22:08
Speaker 1: in that moment you have to act like, you know,
22:10
Speaker 1: hey Joel, you know we typically do X, Y and Z,
22:13
Speaker 1: but today we're gonna do this. So we have to
22:14
Speaker 1: go into you know, that moment, act like do this
22:17
Speaker 1: all the time, and you roll with it. Okay. So
22:21
Speaker 1: what is her background? Um? You know, honestly, Joel is
22:25
Speaker 1: a high end um residential designer in Beverly Hills. So
22:30
Speaker 1: this is her first time doing television, so she's never
22:32
Speaker 1: done it before. So this was huge for her too.
22:36
Speaker 1: And so and so both of you guys go in
22:38
Speaker 1: and we talk about the show. Now, how many episodes
22:40
Speaker 1: did you guys take their six minutes long on the
22:43
Speaker 1: quick at work murder house flip? How many did you
22:46
Speaker 1: take now in six minutes? Do a hundred? How many jump?
22:50
Speaker 1: But the way it works is we each house and
22:52
Speaker 1: six minutes excuse me? Each house has three episodes. So
22:56
Speaker 1: you kind of have like the true crime in the
22:59
Speaker 1: beginning kind of the meeting potatoes, of the game plan
23:02
Speaker 1: of how we're gonna design the space, and then the
23:04
Speaker 1: third episode is to reveal and so that each house
23:08
Speaker 1: has three episodes, and I think that's great for the
23:10
Speaker 1: people who like true crime. You have a whole episode
23:13
Speaker 1: that's dedicated to, you know, the still the background story
23:16
Speaker 1: of what happened in the house. So you feed me
23:19
Speaker 1: alone the way you feed me with my my addiction
23:22
Speaker 1: to true crime, you know what I'm saying. Then you
23:25
Speaker 1: feed my addiction to make over how you gonna make
23:29
Speaker 1: it over? And then you feed my addiction to the
23:31
Speaker 1: results now now and then and do you talk about
23:35
Speaker 1: obviously these crimes where they were, are these crimes resolved?
23:38
Speaker 1: Are they still like looking for the killers or what's
23:41
Speaker 1: going on with these crimes? Well, most of them have
23:44
Speaker 1: been resolved. You know, we have a combination. So the
23:46
Speaker 1: interesting thing about this show is, you know, honestly a
23:49
Speaker 1: lot of people move into these houses because the first
23:51
Speaker 1: thing you ask, like, why woult you take the house? Well,
23:54
Speaker 1: if you have a house that's on the market, you know,
23:57
Speaker 1: for let's say six hundred thousand dollars, but then come
24:00
Speaker 1: to the house next door and it's gone for three
24:02
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars, you might just take it because of
24:04
Speaker 1: the price. But um so some people willingly know, but
24:08
Speaker 1: there's a significant difference in the price, and they're okay
24:10
Speaker 1: with it at first. And then you also have some
24:13
Speaker 1: who purchased these homes and like the mid nineties who
24:17
Speaker 1: did not know because we didn't have Google. So unless
24:20
Speaker 1: you're looking on a microphees, you would not know that
24:22
Speaker 1: a parayer happened until your next door neighbor comes and
24:24
Speaker 1: tells you after you purchased the house. And so that's
24:27
Speaker 1: where you're running to the problem. They're not gonna do
24:31
Speaker 1: with a preacher, you know, not knock knock now. Uh.
24:35
Speaker 1: People died and there was a identity of drinking some
24:38
Speaker 1: liquids exactly. And those are the cases where your baby room,
24:42
Speaker 1: your baby room upstairs. Who's a murder on mass murder
24:45
Speaker 1: in your baby room upstairs? They didn't tell you about
24:47
Speaker 1: that exactly exactly. You know, when you put your dinner plates,
24:53
Speaker 1: the four heads up there, they put them in a row,
24:55
Speaker 1: four heads in a row where you got your denter
24:57
Speaker 1: plates right there. So about just take you on the
24:59
Speaker 1: two of the disaster or your home after you purchased it.
25:05
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I'll be honest with you, you know, Um,
25:09
Speaker 1: I joke and laugh about it, but some horrific crimes
25:12
Speaker 1: really happen, and you'll see them, you know, in the
25:14
Speaker 1: next couple of Let me tell you something. Let me
25:16
Speaker 1: tell you something. I have to be able to joke.
25:18
Speaker 1: If you made a decision to go into a house
25:21
Speaker 1: where you know murders have occurred, you can become the
25:25
Speaker 1: butt of my joke. I'm sorry. And you cannot sit
25:27
Speaker 1: up there acting like you are fearful now when the
25:30
Speaker 1: price tag was not fearful. That's all I'm saying. My
25:34
Speaker 1: whole thing is my whole thing is that. That's why
25:36
Speaker 1: I love the show. That's why these people, you know,
25:39
Speaker 1: they always show these people doing the real looking at
25:42
Speaker 1: the shock. I can't believe that they really happened, you knew, Dad,
25:49
Speaker 1: Like you said, house next doing six hundred thousand, Your
25:52
Speaker 1: house a hundred and fifty thousand look exactly the same
25:55
Speaker 1: as the house next door. You're going, what's the problem
25:59
Speaker 1: where you're exactly in the front yard where the roses, like, uh,
26:03
Speaker 1: eight people were buried there? Are you you still want
26:06
Speaker 1: to move in? Yeah? Yeah, we definitely had that. Means
26:12
Speaker 1: one case where a gentleman chopped up his wife and
26:15
Speaker 1: like he was boiling her body part on the on
26:18
Speaker 1: the stove, and that the neighbors smelled that and called
26:22
Speaker 1: the police. And so it's this and and people complain
26:26
Speaker 1: about Chidlin's, people complain about the smell of chikay really
26:35
Speaker 1: now that. But you know the thing about it is
26:38
Speaker 1: that that's why I like the show. I like the
26:40
Speaker 1: show because of the fact that it's different. You're combined
26:43
Speaker 1: to genres in an unusual manner. Now let's talk about this.
26:48
Speaker 1: Now you're flipping this house. What does that mean? The
26:51
Speaker 1: murder house flip? What does that mean? So it's not your's,
26:55
Speaker 1: So first let me give this disclaimer. So the people
26:58
Speaker 1: aren't selling the houses of words flip? Is us flipping
27:01
Speaker 1: it into something that's tops and if it's really what
27:04
Speaker 1: the connotation is. And um, we come in and we
27:08
Speaker 1: strictly work on the room that's been affected. Um. But
27:11
Speaker 1: the thing about that is when we redesign it, we
27:14
Speaker 1: have to make it look completely different. So this is
27:16
Speaker 1: not just oh, put acute sulfa in the room. So
27:18
Speaker 1: we're like tearing down walls or ripping our fireplaces. So
27:22
Speaker 1: every time you see so when the when the homeowners
27:25
Speaker 1: come back into that space, it needs to feel completely
27:27
Speaker 1: different because we're trying to help them forget what happened.
27:30
Speaker 1: Like we're pulling up lono liam tile and we're like
27:33
Speaker 1: poor a solution that we can see the blood things
27:36
Speaker 1: that has speken the room because a lot of so
27:39
Speaker 1: we had to really go in and change these houses, um,
27:43
Speaker 1: so that when they go into these room they look
27:46
Speaker 1: drastically different. So seriously, you actually saw bloodstains absolutely and
27:52
Speaker 1: the trailer there's we're in the bathroom and we um,
27:56
Speaker 1: the family didn't remove the actual tub of the husband.
28:00
Speaker 1: You know, I guess would have watched the residue or
28:03
Speaker 1: whatever the blood. But but when we want to put
28:06
Speaker 1: the linoleum back to the special solution that they use
28:09
Speaker 1: in crimes things and you'll see it. We pour it
28:12
Speaker 1: right on to the floor and the bubbles and you
28:14
Speaker 1: can see it. It's gusting, right, And so that you
28:17
Speaker 1: had to like redesign. Oh, absolutely, we had to gut
28:21
Speaker 1: it completely. I mean it was it was more than
28:24
Speaker 1: just the two of us. I mean we had a
28:25
Speaker 1: team that would you know, come in and help us clean. Um,
28:28
Speaker 1: but we had to gut the rooms and completely redesign them.
28:32
Speaker 1: So you're even gonna see me with power tool. So okay,
28:35
Speaker 1: because this is really interesting. So you said, the three
28:37
Speaker 1: is a three six minutes segments for each episode or
28:40
Speaker 1: each house flip. Just the first part is going to
28:44
Speaker 1: be what happened there? Okay. The second part is you
28:48
Speaker 1: guys are going in meeting the family that lives there. Correct, Okay,
28:52
Speaker 1: did any of these family families have children? Yes? And
28:57
Speaker 1: so I think the most interesting is going to be
29:00
Speaker 1: our finale episode. Um, not to go into grave detail,
29:05
Speaker 1: but the young lady who lived in the house, she
29:07
Speaker 1: was a child when they first moved into the house.
29:11
Speaker 1: Now as an adult, she's still affected by it and
29:14
Speaker 1: doesn't like to even really go back to her parents
29:16
Speaker 1: house anymore. And so that yeah, so they're children, that
29:21
Speaker 1: they're definitely children involved. That's that's really I think that's
29:24
Speaker 1: a lot to put on a child, you know, it is,
29:27
Speaker 1: that's and I don't I don't think that's fair that
29:30
Speaker 1: the parents need their behind They actually need to really
29:33
Speaker 1: understand that that's a that's an emotional burden. Not only
29:36
Speaker 1: for that, but I'm sure she was teached or bullied
29:39
Speaker 1: when she went to school about that, because you're the
29:41
Speaker 1: kids don't care. Kids they get, they get up on you,
29:44
Speaker 1: they're gonna use it. And they have a child to
29:47
Speaker 1: live in that environment. Is really, like you said, as
29:50
Speaker 1: an adult, she's affected by that, correct, Yeah, actually as
29:53
Speaker 1: an adult. And you know in that scenario, they didn't know.
29:57
Speaker 1: They didn't know in the nineties, like they didn't know.
30:02
Speaker 1: But like you said, the neighbors came they to do
30:04
Speaker 1: with the cookies and say, hey, you got the Johnson
30:06
Speaker 1: house and they're like, what is the Johnson house? So
30:09
Speaker 1: they didn't know, right, that's saying. Now, the executive producer
30:12
Speaker 1: this show is from c s I. He's the executive producer,
30:14
Speaker 1: John Berman, So he has a little he has a
30:18
Speaker 1: little something to know. And your co host is who, uh,
30:22
Speaker 1: Joel useell, Joel Rouselle, I'm telling you something. This show is.
30:26
Speaker 1: I'm talking to Michal We's good friend of mine, one
30:29
Speaker 1: of the top young designers. He never failed me. And uh,
30:32
Speaker 1: all the years I was executive producing the Steve Harvey
30:35
Speaker 1: talk show and he's went on them to do even
30:37
Speaker 1: greater things. My man, Murder House Flip premieres on the
30:41
Speaker 1: Quimby Network three six minute episodes per chef for house.
30:47
Speaker 1: And you're not exactly selling the house. You're just flipping
30:50
Speaker 1: the house from a murder crime look to a crime
30:54
Speaker 1: to a much more modern than appealing and in front
30:57
Speaker 1: of trying to get their family emotionally more engaged in
31:00
Speaker 1: of the house and not the history of the house. Correct, Yes,
31:03
Speaker 1: that is correct. It's all about flipping that design, making
31:05
Speaker 1: it positive and allowing the family to like take ownership
31:09
Speaker 1: of the house back without that negative connotation. Oh my man,
31:12
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Give you owe me some banners so
31:14
Speaker 1: I can promote your show, also promote your promote your
31:17
Speaker 1: furniture line. Stay safe out there, Michael. Then thank you
31:19
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