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Rushion Interviews HGTV series "Married to Real Estate,” Egypt Sherrod & Mike Jackson! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: the California Lottery. Tomorrow's Mega Millions jack part is over
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Speaker 1: three million. Play out Please player responsible. He must be
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Speaker 1: eighteen years older to purchase player plan. My guests longtime friend,
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Speaker 1: power house and real estate broker and designer Egypt Shrod
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Speaker 1: and a husband. He's new aboy life and like I've
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Speaker 1: stayed it, builder Mike Jackson. They're based in Atlanta. If
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Speaker 1: you can be a dreamer and you want to dream
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Speaker 1: about it, your home, your fantasy, your your place that
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Speaker 1: you want to rest your head and your family think about.
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Speaker 1: Egypt will design it and Mike will build it. That's
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Speaker 1: a slogan, not buying that stairs. They know plenty by
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Speaker 1: juggling the booming property business, pleasing clients, managing their home
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Speaker 1: and raising three daughters. And they all beautiful dollars, so precious,
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Speaker 1: especially the young one when he had When you have
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Speaker 1: this one scene when he walking around with a pampa
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Speaker 1: in his hand, you will love him. They make it
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Speaker 1: look effortless and fund in a new HDTV series Married
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Speaker 1: to Real Estate, available to stream owned Discovery Plus You
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Speaker 1: can also catch Egypt and Mike's guests judges in the
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Speaker 1: last season of h G t v's mega hit home
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Speaker 1: renovation competition series Rock the Block, where you see four
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Speaker 1: competing teams. You'd also stream each is previously because you
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Speaker 1: know she's been out there. Mike's a new one. You
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Speaker 1: know she's she's bringing them into into the phone. You
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Speaker 1: know the handsome behind up here. Now you see why
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Speaker 1: she's happy all the time. Now Discovery Plus, we're looking
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Speaker 1: at the new renovation King and Queen Kick and Queen
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Speaker 1: of a TV And we thank you for Sean. We
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Speaker 1: appreciate that love. And you're absolutely right. Um, I've been
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Speaker 1: around you and not we know each other play well. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: but it's good. But you know something each it's a
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Speaker 1: good been around because all the time I've always seen you.
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Speaker 1: First of all, your personality has been positive. And one
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Speaker 1: thing I've loved about her MICA's death. You know, opportunities.
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Speaker 1: She's not She's fearless because that's what all of people
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Speaker 1: do because I met her and radio and so when
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Speaker 1: some people start saying I want to do something thelse
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Speaker 1: they can get so locked into and comfortable they don't
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Speaker 1: do it and so and so, so many different levels
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Speaker 1: and so and that was that was that was urban
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Speaker 1: radio that she was in, Okay, and then she came
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Speaker 1: to now she's coming into another area of UM. I
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Speaker 1: want to say, just there's not we don't see many
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Speaker 1: black people, won't see many people of color like you two.
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Speaker 1: That's why it's so refreshing to see that. And I
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Speaker 1: like to believe this is something we're gonna see on
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Speaker 1: the regular basis. But and seeing the first two episodes
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Speaker 1: of your new series, Marriage to Real Estate with like
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Speaker 1: we said, there's a discovery. Plus I found a family
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Speaker 1: environment that I was engaged with. But more importantly, this
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Speaker 1: is what y'all do. I never questioned that you guys
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Speaker 1: who are prop I never called you. I'm saying that
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Speaker 1: that's what can happen. You know, they get a cute
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Speaker 1: couple like you guys, you got the cute little children.
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Speaker 1: You know, they said y'all be a great TV show.
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Speaker 1: It's no doubt in my mind this is what y'all do.
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Speaker 1: But each but I have to go back to this
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Speaker 1: because you know this is I call this my masterclass series.
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Speaker 1: Because you're talking about people in a market. Now we
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Speaker 1: all know it's hard to get a home out that nowadays, Okay,
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's sometimes thirty people waiting on the same
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Speaker 1: building and trying to call their home. How did y'all
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Speaker 1: How did y'all able? How are we all able to
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Speaker 1: do a series and this type of real estate boom
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Speaker 1: where homes are scarce and people are trying to make
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Speaker 1: a decision on different properties while you're doing the show. So, Rishan,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm a real estate Broker's what I've done
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Speaker 1: for you know, twenty years, and that also means that
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Speaker 1: I've lived through and strived through and grew through every
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Speaker 1: real estate environment. You know, when the bubble bursts and
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Speaker 1: you know, people were losing their houses and needed to
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Speaker 1: be saved with short you know, from foreclosures with short sales.
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Speaker 1: I coached them through it and help clients through that.
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Speaker 1: Now we're in an environment where first time home buyers
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Speaker 1: are being edged out completely. Even experienced home buyers are
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Speaker 1: like one of thirty different offers and listenings are going
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Speaker 1: for fifty six seventy thousand over asks the price. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's crazy out here right now, but I think that
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Speaker 1: this is what I've been built for. If that makes sense,
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Speaker 1: all these years of working, through living, through existing, through buying,
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Speaker 1: through renovating, through in our own lives has prepared us
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Speaker 1: for this moment where we can help our clients through
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Speaker 1: and there if I if I told you the house
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Speaker 1: and I would be I would be giving away all
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Speaker 1: my tricks of the trade, m when I go up
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Speaker 1: against other offers. So I won't go there. But what
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Speaker 1: I will say is stay encouraged. And if you're in
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Speaker 1: the market to buy a home, make sure all real
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Speaker 1: estate agents were not created equal. They were not. You
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Speaker 1: take a you take a class, you get a license
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Speaker 1: if you pass the test. But what you want is
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Speaker 1: a season to experience shown improving real estate professional who
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Speaker 1: can coach you and come up with a strategy to
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Speaker 1: help you, you know, get successfully to the finish line. Now, Mike,
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Speaker 1: you know when I google Egypt, you know a lot
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Speaker 1: of things pop up pictures for though she's posing this way,
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Speaker 1: posing this way, and television show, television show, you know,
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Speaker 1: extention background and entertainment business or I just see a
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Speaker 1: reference to a business. Give us a little background on
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Speaker 1: your journey into a building renovations and uh in this
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Speaker 1: market and so we can get assist your culture and
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Speaker 1: your expertise. Definitely. Definitely. So I've been in construction, I
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Speaker 1: would to say since I was a kid. You know.
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Speaker 1: I started with my uncle and my grandfather. They had
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Speaker 1: a construction company and they would always bring me along,
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Speaker 1: um future forward. I started with the local twenty eight
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Speaker 1: trade in New York City where I was a journeysman
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Speaker 1: for sheet metal work, right, and then I transitioned into
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Speaker 1: owning my own company, which is Jackson Draper Renovations, where
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Speaker 1: we pretty much do it all carpentry, plumbing, electricity, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, exterior work, all of the above. It's myself
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Speaker 1: and my uncle, my partner which is um you'll see
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Speaker 1: him on the show as well. His name is Mark.
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Speaker 1: And this is what I do. You know, My wife
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Speaker 1: and I were teaming up what you'll see it on
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Speaker 1: the show where we're trying to merge the two businesses
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Speaker 1: under one umbrella, you know, bringing real estate construction design. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: one design house. But you gotta plait, you're gonna tell
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Speaker 1: the we're shying. I don't think he knows the full
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Speaker 1: story that that's how we met. It is how we met. Yes,
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Speaker 1: thank you, Thank you kept his brother out like you
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Speaker 1: do on the show anyway that It's not that I
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Speaker 1: was trying not to take up too much of the time.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, this is a masterclass we're teaching. We're
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Speaker 1: educating people about this beautiful couple. Here's what was all
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Speaker 1: my mind is why I didn't want to talk too
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Speaker 1: much about me, because I wanted to piggyback off of
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Speaker 1: the discussion you brought up in the beginning. As far
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Speaker 1: as we're not being feeless, she's beyond not feelings. She's
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Speaker 1: also selfless. She's despite to where she doesn't worry about
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Speaker 1: what everyone else is gonna think, despite of what's cool
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Speaker 1: or despite what's hot at the moment, She's gonna do
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Speaker 1: what's gonna make sense for are and what is going
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Speaker 1: to be successful for those around her, meaning family. It's
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Speaker 1: not about the business or the hype of the business.
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Speaker 1: It is about, Okay, what's smart for the moment and
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Speaker 1: what's gonna make sense in the future. So that's what
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Speaker 1: I wanted to touch on them. That's why I can
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Speaker 1: go for much think I'll keep you. Thank you so.
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Speaker 1: But yes, we met in the early stages. I was
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Speaker 1: actually DJ and I still do periodic radio DJ. I
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Speaker 1: tell you when I met you I was a radio
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Speaker 1: DJ was radio okay in worldwide. You know. We met
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Speaker 1: in three separate incidents, but one of them took us
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Speaker 1: back to where I ended up on a rooftop with
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Speaker 1: her because she had her foot. Mioll stuck in the room,
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Speaker 1: you know, trying excuse the shelf the story, please, okay, okay, okay. So,
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Speaker 1: so I was flipping houses in Newark, New Jersey, while
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Speaker 1: I was a radio personality in New York City, right,
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Speaker 1: And I'm a scorpio, And what that kind of means
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Speaker 1: is if you back me into a corner, my stinger
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Speaker 1: comes up and sometimes goes over well, but not always
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Speaker 1: over overwhelming business. And so what happened was all my
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Speaker 1: contractors walked off the job because I came off a
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Speaker 1: way hard. It's hard to be a woman working in
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Speaker 1: construction as well. You know, men don't always take that well.
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Speaker 1: And so when you kind of come also, and that's
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Speaker 1: part of the country, I'm just really chauvinistic. Well just
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Speaker 1: I can tend for a fact, I lived in New York,
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Speaker 1: I've lived all this. It gets really chauvinistic in that
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Speaker 1: northeast part of the country, especialist Jersey area. It does
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Speaker 1: so so they walked off the job, and I later
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Speaker 1: found myself trying to tar a hole in the roof
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Speaker 1: by myself and I fell through the roof, and in
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Speaker 1: that moment I realized I needed some help. I called
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Speaker 1: my mentor at the time, who referred him, And when
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Speaker 1: he pulled up, I'm like, what are you doing here?
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Speaker 1: You're a dj that's funny. That's on it rocking rooftop baby,
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Speaker 1: right right right, right, right right right, I'm a movie
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Speaker 1: walk all over this rooftop, baby, rock your world. I
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Speaker 1: didn't know he was. I didn't know he was really
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Speaker 1: also a businessman, and you know, he was a contractor,
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Speaker 1: and you know that that Djane was a facet of
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Speaker 1: what he did, but it wasn't all that all of
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Speaker 1: who he was. And we kind of fell in love
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Speaker 1: over that renovation. You saved my life, saved the shoe
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Speaker 1: for shore, You saved a shoe for show for shot
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Speaker 1: that you know. The interesting thing about and that didn't
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Speaker 1: even say interesting, is that, you know, I tell everybody
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Speaker 1: and when I look at television now, television is so
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Speaker 1: fun for a person of color to me now, because
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Speaker 1: I see us on television on long stories, I see
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Speaker 1: us in commercials in a racial commercials all it's it's
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Speaker 1: all kind of things that really make you feel comfortable
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Speaker 1: when you turn on the TV and make you comfortablehen
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Speaker 1: you walk in the street. Here, Okay, I guess you
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Speaker 1: were cool now in a way because you can see
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Speaker 1: me banking, me dating, me, having my my Santa Claus
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Speaker 1: is black, all that good stuff. And so our president
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Speaker 1: was black. Yeah, so not advice president is black. So
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Speaker 1: you know, stuff becomes a little normal. We know it's
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Speaker 1: not all normal, but the watching the show, um and
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Speaker 1: seeing you guys, what do you think is the most
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Speaker 1: magical thing about you as a couple on TV talking
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Speaker 1: to people, encouraging them making life decisions and then showing
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Speaker 1: them that this is the best opportunity to move their
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Speaker 1: life forward. Sometimes it's a couple and sometimes as a family.
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Speaker 1: I think that for us, we have these conversations often,
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Speaker 1: right because as a black family, um, you know, on
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Speaker 1: national television where you're not just talking to an African
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Speaker 1: American audience, you know, questions come up. Even an advisory
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Speaker 1: if you know what I mean, you're you're an advisor
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Speaker 1: as well, so you know, an advisory, it's you know,
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Speaker 1: what do we need to change anything to appeal to
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Speaker 1: the masses. And I think for us the blessing in
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Speaker 1: this entire experience, as no one has asked us to
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Speaker 1: change a thing. Like I was on the Today Show
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Speaker 1: this morning in dreadlocks. You know what I mean? I
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Speaker 1: there there, God is locks. There, God is locks. But no,
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Speaker 1: I think, like Funday when I think about it, like Monday,
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Speaker 1: I shot a commercial, a commercial for the International Excuse me,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I I shot a commercial for the Intercontinental
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Speaker 1: Exchange for US stock market, and no one asked me
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Speaker 1: to tone down anything like no attitude, no blackness, no nothing.
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Speaker 1: On our show, that's very much who we are, and
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Speaker 1: our network h G TV loves it like we want,
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Speaker 1: we want you just as you are. I think that
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Speaker 1: that is a blessing in it and just this whole
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Speaker 1: experience our show, the idea that you know, we are
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Speaker 1: a black family successful. You know, we have beautiful children
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Speaker 1: who are sweet, who are educated. We're together, we're you know,
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Speaker 1: we're married. We don't have a a broken home, which
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Speaker 1: is what people stereotypically expect. We don't fight. There's no
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Speaker 1: drama or gossip out fear about us and you know,
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Speaker 1: cheating and all this not. People kind of expect that
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Speaker 1: when they see African American families on TV that there's
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Speaker 1: gonna come a whole bag of tricks with it. And
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Speaker 1: the blessing in this experience, not only that we get
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Speaker 1: to do it together, is that there's no drama, and
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Speaker 1: so we're showing we can do it too. We are
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Speaker 1: with Rashan McDonald. Hey, Mike, I want to say this, Mike, Mike.
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Speaker 1: She kind of said she tries to set you up
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Speaker 1: a couple of times, you know, when she comes in
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Speaker 1: the room, this little baby, just this little baby, and
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Speaker 1: then she references, Oh, you're trying to say something about
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Speaker 1: my week. I said, oh no, just try to set up.
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Speaker 1: No by just try to set you up. So about
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Speaker 1: to feedback over that as well as and answer your
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Speaker 1: question with the magic part. I think the magic in
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Speaker 1: it is that we are really doing the work right.
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Speaker 1: We don't step in and then say cut, okay, somebody
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Speaker 1: else come and do this. Yes, you see a couple,
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Speaker 1: not just a black couple, a couple that is universally
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Speaker 1: appealing to the masses. Right. It's positive. It's full of family,
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Speaker 1: it's full of education, it's full of information, right to
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Speaker 1: where you can say, Okay, I'm used to this. This
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Speaker 1: sounds familiar, This looks familiar. I'm tuning in. But I
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Speaker 1: think what's what it's good too, is you also see
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Speaker 1: a little bit of our masks. You know, you can
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Speaker 1: drive my craze what you're gonna do with my part?
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Speaker 1: My he my boy, not my boy. It's like I said,
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Speaker 1: I just showed you all to examples when you trying
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Speaker 1: to set them up. You know what I'm saying, you know,
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Speaker 1: talking about baby, I think I eat too much? Now,
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Speaker 1: I think I've eaten too much baby? Where you think
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Speaker 1: uh that I'm not answering that question of TV. No,
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Speaker 1: you ain't doing me like that, honey. You know, that's
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Speaker 1: the fun part of what I'm talking about, this relationship,
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Speaker 1: because that's what I'm doing by life, you know, because
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Speaker 1: but it's captured on film organically, and I'm gonna be
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Speaker 1: real about it. It ain't even by race. Now, it's
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Speaker 1: about join a couple. And that gives me information because
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Speaker 1: I watched these shows. These are the type of shows
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Speaker 1: that will be running where you're the car dealerships, sitting
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Speaker 1: there wait on your call, these type calls, This type
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Speaker 1: of shows that are running when you're waiting there in
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Speaker 1: the hospital lobby, these type of shows that are just running.
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Speaker 1: They're so comfortable because they're so informative. And that's the
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Speaker 1: part of it that I love, because I love that
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Speaker 1: part where you know you you walk them through the house,
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Speaker 1: you know, and that's the part where you know people
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Speaker 1: know what they're talking about when you because people really
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Speaker 1: they're about to give their life to you. And in
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Speaker 1: some of these houses that you're walking in, you can't
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Speaker 1: be so forceful that you feel like this is it
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Speaker 1: a y'all? But that part walks through that whole part
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Speaker 1: of creating that organic relationship. Mike as a builder because
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Speaker 1: she's the face of the she's the dreamer, but you
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Speaker 1: have to put it together. And then she comes in
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Speaker 1: and she had changed on you. Well, why I didn't
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Speaker 1: want it like that? I mean, like, come on, don't
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Speaker 1: do Mike like that on film. Don't do them like
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Speaker 1: that on film. But he laughs at I loved it.
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Speaker 1: I loved I loved it. I loved it. When the
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Speaker 1: floor was gold and other floor was browned on the
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Speaker 1: floor with this you go, oh baby, where I got you?
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Speaker 1: I got you? And she walked, Okay, well I'll be
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Speaker 1: back walking walking in. I'll just tell you a couple
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Speaker 1: of things that really messed him up. She on the
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Speaker 1: construction side, y'all. She walking there with hills on, open top,
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Speaker 1: open toes, open toes. Here because Mike saying, Mike, my day.
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Speaker 1: I might be with my real estate clients, I still
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Speaker 1: need to look professional. They don't understand me coming in
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Speaker 1: and work through Mike. You're talking talk to me. Mike
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Speaker 1: talked to me. Mike said, you're gonna used to step
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Speaker 1: on the nail, used step on. I thought I thought
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Speaker 1: me and you were friends. Now you take it his side,
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Speaker 1: because you know, the thing about it is that you
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Speaker 1: know in these shows, because you know, like I said,
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Speaker 1: I love the fact that the potential of who y'all
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Speaker 1: are to me. I'm comfortable. I want to watch, I
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Speaker 1: want to learn. I want to say, can I get that?
18:41
Speaker 1: Can I get them to do that to my house?
18:44
Speaker 1: That's what I know. It's special because I'm going like,
18:48
Speaker 1: because you know, I've done a lot of remodeling. You know,
18:50
Speaker 1: I have people in my house, going so how are
18:52
Speaker 1: you pulling that off? That? And it looks so beautiful.
18:55
Speaker 1: But again, like I was saying, Mike, you are the builder.
18:58
Speaker 1: You know, she comes up with these pricings. Well, we
19:01
Speaker 1: can only do it for a hundred thousand. We can
19:03
Speaker 1: do and they don't know that the gas meter sitting
19:07
Speaker 1: over there with the window gonna be you know what
19:08
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Don't know that though, you know, but she's
19:11
Speaker 1: gonna tell everybody We're gonna put a window there. You
19:13
Speaker 1: gotta come in and go, hey baby, it's a gas
19:14
Speaker 1: meter there. Um, we'll take care, honey, I love you. Yeah,
19:24
Speaker 1: she she you know, she'll give them, um the division,
19:28
Speaker 1: your sir, and then I will, uh you know, softly
19:32
Speaker 1: bring it back down to reality, make them feel comfortable. Um,
19:36
Speaker 1: allow them to trust me, you know, one with smart decisions,
19:39
Speaker 1: showing them how we can get there and for some
19:42
Speaker 1: reason they can't afford how we can get there doing
19:45
Speaker 1: for less, but by doing different options. Right. Um. I
19:48
Speaker 1: think it's all about listening and letting them speak and
19:51
Speaker 1: let them be heard, allowing them to let you know
19:54
Speaker 1: exactly what they want, and then you coming in and
19:58
Speaker 1: making it feel relatable. You know what I love about
20:00
Speaker 1: this man and why why this works is because he
20:05
Speaker 1: lets me be me. He knows that you're right. I'm
20:08
Speaker 1: a dreamer, I'm a visionary. I'm gonna show everything in
20:12
Speaker 1: its purest potential. Um and he'll let me live that
20:15
Speaker 1: out and then he'll humbly bring everybody back down the earth.
20:22
Speaker 1: That's everything that he does. He even I get car sick, uh,
20:27
Speaker 1: you know, so I have to drive, and that's when
20:30
Speaker 1: when anybody's driving, Even if someone sends a car with
20:33
Speaker 1: a driver for me, I'm like, I don't know if
20:35
Speaker 1: I want I want to drive because I get really
20:37
Speaker 1: car sick. You know a lot of men Rashan wouldn't
20:40
Speaker 1: be comfortable with their wife behind the wheel, if you
20:44
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So for on, for seventeen and
20:47
Speaker 1: a half years, he'll sit in the passenger seat, but
20:51
Speaker 1: and let me drive and be okay with that, you know,
20:54
Speaker 1: And he still believe. He still leaves our family even
20:58
Speaker 1: break absolutely absolutely, absolutely absolutely absolutely worried about that seven
21:04
Speaker 1: year itch. You know what I'm saying, that seven year itch.
21:06
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But you know, the beauty
21:09
Speaker 1: of all if we go through the episodes, you don't
21:11
Speaker 1: do this show a loan. You have three or wonderful children.
21:14
Speaker 1: They're girls. They're the part of the show. Andreaged part
21:17
Speaker 1: of the show, like part of the show talk about
21:19
Speaker 1: the overall casting and the need to organically, you know,
21:23
Speaker 1: introduce your family. And like I said, I've only told
21:26
Speaker 1: the first two episodes, so more people are going to
21:28
Speaker 1: be introduced. What was the whole theory behind the introduction.
21:32
Speaker 1: Are you trying to just let everybody know this is
21:35
Speaker 1: us or what was the whole background behind that whole process.
21:39
Speaker 1: I think people had to kind of get to know
21:41
Speaker 1: us first, right, who who each of this, Who my kids,
21:44
Speaker 1: who we are as a couple, who we are as
21:45
Speaker 1: a family with our children. But really, for our business
21:49
Speaker 1: is to work, we could never do it alone. We
21:52
Speaker 1: got a whole army behind us, um and we want
21:55
Speaker 1: people to embrace them as well normally with normalcy. So
21:59
Speaker 1: you know, we kind of gotta ease him and let
22:00
Speaker 1: you let you learn everybody. So Andre is a designer
22:04
Speaker 1: friend of mine. He's super talented. He's done some of
22:07
Speaker 1: the biggest design houses in Atlanta and all over the country.
22:11
Speaker 1: But but really, when everything's off and we let our
22:14
Speaker 1: hair down, He's one of my best friends. So he's
22:16
Speaker 1: the person that I call if I'm like, I can't
22:19
Speaker 1: figure out this room. I need some input, right, you know.
22:23
Speaker 1: And and when I'm I'm doing my my child's room,
22:26
Speaker 1: it's like I want I need second eyes. But Mike
22:28
Speaker 1: can't stand it. Whenever my phone is digging from my
22:31
Speaker 1: bank notifications. Andre has very high elite taste. You know.
22:37
Speaker 1: I do everything kind of on the budget on my own,
22:40
Speaker 1: but when he comes in, the price triples. So Mike's
22:43
Speaker 1: I love you, but you gotta go, bro. But let's
22:46
Speaker 1: let's talk about the pricing and all that, because you
22:48
Speaker 1: know this is we're not talking about to see it.
22:50
Speaker 1: But that's that's that's where the experience comes in. That's
22:53
Speaker 1: when to walk into a property and give an estimate
22:55
Speaker 1: of what it's gonna take to get there. And Mike,
22:59
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to you as a builder, as a
23:01
Speaker 1: person who really is the nuts and boats of renovation.
23:04
Speaker 1: How how does that process work for you that you
23:07
Speaker 1: trust your natural instincts or do you have a roller
23:10
Speaker 1: dex did you just go you fall back on to
23:13
Speaker 1: be able to make sure that you hit that number. Yeah, well,
23:18
Speaker 1: a lot of relationships for one, um with subs, with
23:21
Speaker 1: a lot of big box stores, with a lot of friends.
23:25
Speaker 1: You know, so those relationships, I keep those in mind
23:28
Speaker 1: as I'm going through properties. But in this day and
23:30
Speaker 1: age where wood and materials of fluctuating in price and
23:34
Speaker 1: sometimes over priced, I have to get creative, you know,
23:37
Speaker 1: where we go to refurbished properties or refurbished warehouses and
23:42
Speaker 1: use materials or I use things that I may have
23:45
Speaker 1: in my warehouse, you know. Um, yeah, we actually did
23:48
Speaker 1: that on some of the episodes, where we reuse things
23:51
Speaker 1: and repurpose them right and make them updated. You know,
23:54
Speaker 1: it's not always about let's let's demolish this and make
23:58
Speaker 1: a great scene. It's about let's do those smart decisions
24:00
Speaker 1: that's gonna make sense. So we can't hit that target. Yeah,
24:03
Speaker 1: but Rashan, sometimes we gotta give the bad news. You know,
24:06
Speaker 1: the bad news is this is your budget, but we
24:09
Speaker 1: just can't do it for that budget because the reality
24:12
Speaker 1: is stuff stot of stop right now. We're still in
24:14
Speaker 1: the pandemic and materials are sparse. So you know, it
24:18
Speaker 1: made cost forty more than it would have cost last
24:21
Speaker 1: year or six six months ago. Um, that's when I
24:23
Speaker 1: let him get the bad news material And not only
24:26
Speaker 1: have materials went up, but the price of laborers went
24:28
Speaker 1: up as well. Right, so people are extremely shocked by pricing.
24:32
Speaker 1: So some of some of my clients that booked our
24:35
Speaker 1: company before the pandemic and they wanted to wait, they
24:38
Speaker 1: are now calling in getting side swiped. You know. So
24:44
Speaker 1: story at this moment, Well, we're talking to Egypt Sharad,
24:48
Speaker 1: she's the queen, and Mike Jackson he's the king, and
24:52
Speaker 1: h You're married to real estate as an exciting new show.
24:55
Speaker 1: It's a show. A reason I say it's exciting because
24:58
Speaker 1: they're refreshing, they're entertained. An I want to invite him
25:02
Speaker 1: into my home. You will invite him into your home. Uh.
25:05
Speaker 1: Discovery Plus they're streaming right now. You don't know Egypt.
25:08
Speaker 1: She has a bootcoo amount of work that's on Discovery
25:12
Speaker 1: Plus right now. She is the expert, she's the queen.
25:16
Speaker 1: I've always respect her my long This is not just
25:18
Speaker 1: not being based on my long time of relationship. When
25:20
Speaker 1: I mentioned her name and my house, my wife knew
25:23
Speaker 1: immediately who she was, and that was to be a
25:26
Speaker 1: testament that you know, my wife respects you and wants
25:30
Speaker 1: to be excited about this new venture for you guys.
25:33
Speaker 1: More importantly, I just see a couple of new stars
25:35
Speaker 1: of TV that's going to like take over the game.
25:38
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you something. I'm humble when I
25:40
Speaker 1: say that because I'm blessed that I can say that
25:43
Speaker 1: I could have said this five years ago. That's how
25:45
Speaker 1: times have changed. You guys are landing at the right
25:48
Speaker 1: time on TV. It's nothing on that show that I
25:52
Speaker 1: was not disappointed, and I was. It was funny, it
25:55
Speaker 1: was organic, it was natural, and I felt like it
25:57
Speaker 1: was a couple just happens to have a camera were
26:00
Speaker 1: following them around on a rebuild. That's all I saw.
26:06
Speaker 1: That means a lot coming from you. We know you
26:08
Speaker 1: know talent. We know that you you know you helped
26:11
Speaker 1: mold talent as well. Um, and I actually remember a conversation.
26:15
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember it, but I'm gonna
26:17
Speaker 1: take you down memory lane just a little bit before
26:19
Speaker 1: we go. I was working at w BLS in New
26:22
Speaker 1: York City. I want to say this was about thirteen
26:25
Speaker 1: years ago. Well but thirteen years ago. Uh, And I said,
26:29
Speaker 1: for Sean, I gotta keep this on the down low.
26:32
Speaker 1: But I'm thinking about making the move to Atlanta, and
26:36
Speaker 1: I know that you're in Atlanta. What do you think
26:38
Speaker 1: is that a good move for me? And you said,
26:40
Speaker 1: come on, come over here to my office, which by
26:42
Speaker 1: the way, happened to be like a little production client
26:44
Speaker 1: at that moment. That moment, and you sat me down
26:48
Speaker 1: and you said, this, this is the deal. Atlanta is
26:51
Speaker 1: for big dogs. Everybody's a star in Atlanta. Everybody's got
26:55
Speaker 1: something going on in Atlanta. You got some incredible young
26:58
Speaker 1: black entrepreneur is there. And so if you come in Atlanta,
27:02
Speaker 1: you gotta have your stuff together. So you get your
27:04
Speaker 1: game plan first and then you work your plan. I
27:06
Speaker 1: don't know if you if you remember this conversation, but
27:09
Speaker 1: it sticks out to me because moving here from New
27:12
Speaker 1: York after cementing myself as a radio personality there for
27:16
Speaker 1: many years, was a big, bold move and it was
27:20
Speaker 1: you know, it took a lot of you know, it
27:22
Speaker 1: took a lot of guns, and you know for us
27:23
Speaker 1: to just say we're gonna take a chance and bet
27:26
Speaker 1: on ourselves and rebuild in an entirely different city where
27:30
Speaker 1: we didn't know anybody. And it had several great conversations
27:35
Speaker 1: because you know, she followed us Steve Harvey, now you know,
27:38
Speaker 1: and so we was always talking about Raidis, always talking
27:40
Speaker 1: about winning, always talking about But one thing I did
27:42
Speaker 1: like about us she always had multiple strings of income.
27:46
Speaker 1: Yeah see right there, she was my friend because that's
27:51
Speaker 1: important in today's society to be able to wake up
27:53
Speaker 1: and realize you have options. And when I sat down,
27:56
Speaker 1: I remember that conversation because it's funny, Egypt, I get
27:58
Speaker 1: that a lot from people. To Shane, you mean when
28:00
Speaker 1: you told me this, and I have an honest side
28:03
Speaker 1: of me that I'm gonna tell you, look, you need
28:06
Speaker 1: to stay up here. This hit. But I knew that
28:08
Speaker 1: she had a sense of the gift to be able
28:12
Speaker 1: to do more. But if you go down there, know
28:15
Speaker 1: what you're walking into because it's going to happen. And
28:18
Speaker 1: guess what, everything's time that right, it is the new Hollywood.
28:22
Speaker 1: You know the pricings, Right, y'all have a great show.
28:26
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable now. I just gotta get y'all come by
28:28
Speaker 1: my house and remodel my back. And there we don't
28:31
Speaker 1: talk about that. I'm just making the I'm just making
28:37
Speaker 1: you un you know, you know, you know you're in
28:39
Speaker 1: these calls. And then you go bye bye. I said, Oh,
28:43
Speaker 1: they ain't gonna give me his novel. You know what
28:47
Speaker 1: I'm saying, No, no, no, no, but again watch this show.
28:52
Speaker 1: Is is streaming right now. It's streaming right now on
28:54
Speaker 1: Discovery Plus. Married to Real Estate, Stars of Egypt, Sharrod
28:58
Speaker 1: my Man, Mike Jackson, thank you for coming on Mone
29:00
Speaker 1: and make it comfort. We love It is tomorrow night.
29:04
Speaker 1: But he may be running this Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike.
29:09
Speaker 1: You need to be quiet. You need to be crying.
29:11
Speaker 1: You're saying right there, see TV person, don't know it
29:16
Speaker 1: premiers tomorrow night. Man, you're streaming nowadays. You stream I'm
29:21
Speaker 1: helping him out, at him out. This is. This is
29:24
Speaker 1: a run next week. It's gonna run in the h
29:26
Speaker 1: in March, It're gonna run the summer. We're gonna keep
29:29
Speaker 1: getting dial looads and views. You need to be quiet.
29:35
Speaker 1: I'm tired of nice talking to you. I'm glad you did.
29:40
Speaker 1: You did uh we said, did the Good Morning America
29:42
Speaker 1: Today show? He did? By yourself? Right by yourself. We
29:45
Speaker 1: did Today show. You talked too much. You talked too
29:49
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