September 6, 2023 • 34 mins
Join Savage as she sits down with owner/developer Amanda Jensen of "Sanctuary Treehouse Resort"...one of the largest treehouse resorts in the world.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ooh seven. I like to keep it real simple. It's
about that time.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's Wednesday, and our guest today so super fun.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
This is nuts.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I cannot believe I went out there. I had no
idea what to expect whatsoever, and I went out there
and I had the best time ever. Our guest today
is Amana Jensen. Can you tell us where you are
from and what your company name is and what you do?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
All right, Well, I.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Live over here in the Smoking Mountains, superable, Tennessee. My
name's Jens, and my husband and I, Brian, are the
developers of Sanctuary Treehouse Resort. It's the world's first interactive
treehouse resort right here in the Smokys.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I was so excited when you guys reached out.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And said, hey, would you be interested in coming and
checking this place out?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And I was like, what is it? Well, heck, yeah,
this sounds super fun.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
And I saw this slides and just all the different
cool things that you could do.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
So let me backtrack.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Josh and I had gone to TikTok flew me out
to Austin. So I had gone to Austin and then
there was a trip to Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
So initially I was supposed to come to the treehouse.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
First, so early early July, right, yes, early July, and
I had to switch it around because I went to
Austin and then from Austin to Atlanta, and I thought,
you know what, we're gonna come from Atlanta back up
through and we'll hit Tennessee and we'll have a good time.
And it was the absolute best time for me. And
(01:38):
I'll tell you why. Traveling, then traveling some more and
then finding yourself in this super cool treehouse. You walk
up the stairs, you're not really sure what to expect.
You open the door, and it was blazing hot. I
mean we got there probably one of the hottest days
in July. Everywhere we went that time was like so hot.
(01:59):
So we get there and it's like, Okay, the scenery
is really pretty.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Everything's really pretty. You walk in, there's air conditioning there.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Everything is luxury, and you're like, oh, this is not
what I was expecting at all. And you guys had
it decked out for us too.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Had a little love sign. We stayed at a place.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Called the honey Hole and it had a love sign
and little rose petals everywhere and just was so magical,
especially coming off of oh this traveling and just being tired,
and it was like you walked in and you were
just instantly like a weight was off your shoulders and
you're like, oh, this is like a little.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Piece of heaven.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So thank you for inviting me and letting me take
a look at everything. How did you guys even create
this concept, this idea?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Well, years and years ago we decided to skip a
a sprain break and we were like, we wait around
know where we wanted to go to with the kids,
but we were like, what, some let's just instead of
spending money out of a k, let's go build a
treehouse in our yard for you guys. And so the
whole family did the whole week we were down there,
just a little bit of complaint, but the treehouse and ziplines,
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bomb beds, Brian thought everything. He had a fire pole
off of it. It was insane eskap, patch ladder, all
of that. So the kids played on that for years
and then you know, as they get older, they go
to those things less and less right.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
And you know, treehouses, we'd heard people were building.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Them and renting them out, so we made the joke
all the time we should just go ahead and find
out Airbnb that thing, but over time we just ended
up tearing it down because you know, it was decrepit
after a while, so that kind of smarked it. Brian
was like, hey, what if we built you know, over
the years, there's probably true for year period there it
was like, what if we just build like six.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
To town on some of our property over here. That
would be fun, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
So had me there, it was fine, and then I
made the uber mistake of taking him to a treehouse
that I found over in South Carolina, and of course
when he saw what I paid, he was like he
paid what to stay where? And but we got there
it was neat.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
It kind of grew his ideas from there.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
He was like, people paid this to stay here and
there's like really nothing to do.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
And I'm like, well, that's kind of why I brought
you here. But he went the other direction.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
He was like, what if you could actually do things
on your tree house? And so his little wheels started turning,
and then from there it went from six to ten
to forty acres becoming available right here in our.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Backyard because we lived were right by.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
And we heard developers were going to take it and
scalp the mountain and build big apartments or cabins, and
we knew we didn't want.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
To look at that, so we bought it. And then
it was the question of what do we do? And
so Brian already knew. He already knew, he just had
to get meet on board. Slowly, it's like, what's the
world's largest.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I'm like, I see seventeen in North Carolina and he's like,
so we would get to eighteen, we'd be the world's largest.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I'm like, well, what are you doing? Then he was
doing it.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
It wasn't done, and so he was like, to be
an interactive, world's first interactive and then you know, we
can just keep building it.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And I think I can get it.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
We're gonna make the golf you know, the reasupport golf
cart access, so only without removing in a lot of
treaties and staying.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Within the topography of the lane.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I think I get about one hundred and twenty eight
hun and thirty on here and still will be esthetically
pleasing and preserve that property. And I'm like, oh, oh,
here we go back to work. I hope our marriage survives.
But so we well, okay, let let's go back.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Let's go back. So how long have you guys been married?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
This will be in October or nineteenth year.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
First of all, they both look extremely young. They are
the most genuine people. I mean, I just adore the
both of you, meeting you and hanging out and just
getting to know you. Like I have to have her
on the podcast, I have to come back down. I
genuinely felt like we're going to be lifelong friends. So
if you guys have to, you have to check this
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place out. And I love it even more because of
that family feel. And I was able to meet you
guys and attach it with Okay, you guys have worked
extremely hard.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You have built this. You haven't said, oh hey we
have all this money, we're gonna throw this.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And someone else go do it. You guys literally are
in the day to day. So let's go back, like
I said, nineteen years when you first met him, Because
this man is a thinker, like his.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Brain does not stop. So when you first met him,
what was he doing? What were you doing?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Actually, I just moved back from New Jersey.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I did a program computers for the Federal Aviation Administration,
and I took a position back in Knoxville as a
national marketing coordinator for a.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Company that raised money for schools.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Brian was actually retired from our other business in the
Gallenberg SkyLife Park our shop up there, and he was
building our home that we live in right now.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
He did not.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Want to hire anybody, wanted to just build his dream home.
He didn't think about who was going to have to
clean this thing.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
So he decided, well, let's the skylift that's downtown Gatlandtown.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Oldest attraction in Gatlinburg. We got the skylift that rides
up and now they have North America's longest suspension bridge
with the glass in it and heather viewing on.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
That which we got to go across, which was pretty cool, fantastic.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
There's a whole lot to do up there, and there's
more coming as well. But we owned the gift shop
and the photo business and the cafe and the bar
that's up there. It's been in Brian's been for over
sixty years and we purchased it from them a little,
I guess almost thirty years ago, so that, yeah, yeah,
we've got some great management and place up there. So
we've just kind of retired and just started traveling with
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the kids and I'm schooling and here we are back
at work again.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
So he built his dream house and you guys get married.
Is the house done before you get married.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
We met when he was about halfway maybe a little
over halfway with this, and so I was not.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Immediately impressed with him. He was kind of like brought
to me.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
And I was just a single mom like you at
the time, and I was just quite happy being the
single So neither one of us really he had been divorced, and.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Neither of us want to meet anybody.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
So that was the best opportunity for us to not
have our best representative for We got to know each
other quick because we weren't trying to impress one another,
and so I think we got married within eight months.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
What hurried that up is I was a single mom.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Like I said, Brennan was about to start kindergarten and
we had to decide where he was going to go
because I didn't want him being pulled in and out.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
So I just have condo in Knoxville, and he had
this house.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
So he won, and I moved to the Smokey's so and.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
The rest is history of that. Okay, So you have
how many children all together?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
We have four. We have four.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
My son is twenty four, our oldest daughter is seventeen,
and then we have twenty ten year old girls are.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Our joy which I got to meet three.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah, meet ye, I got to meet the three.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I got to meet the three.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So you have the children, you guys are retired, you're
traveling around, you're homeschooling. And he just says, this is
what we're doing. What's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Actually, his thing was like, look, we our least could
end at the Gamberg SkyPark.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And I'm like, that's okay.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
We would just say properly, we invest properly, will be okay.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
He's like, no, no, no, that was my family's legacy.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
There will not be a legacy if we don't renew
our lease up there. And what about doing a project
where we don't have partners. We get to be as
creative as we want. We suffer the consequences if it's
poor choices. We weave the rewards if it's a good choice.
And I'm like, we like all.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
That this hook and fait and switched, and.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
You know, of course he's sharing all of his ideas
and I was like, you know, can we theme m
and no?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
But yes, so we just kind of went from there.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Has he always been like, I don't even know how
we're really what you call it. I mean, he is
just a constant thinker, but yes, he is. Brilliant is
definitely a word for him. But he is just you
can see when you're talking him, the wheels are just moving,
and it's really neat to just sit and watch and
you'll have an idea and then all of a sudden
(10:05):
you just hear him start talking through and you're like,
that's really cool. I like that.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Really sometimes you do have to really men sometimes.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
But yeah, now he's very creative and he does what
he thinks.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I've got a couple of my daughters that are like this.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
They might not know how right away, but they're going
to figure it out, Like I think this would work,
and then they could start with drawing it, and then
they start with making up models or mockups of it,
and then boom, it's like reality. And I don't have
that gift, but but they do. And it's really neat
to see that talent in them for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
So he comes to you and says, this is what
we're going to do. How long ago was that?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
We end up purchasing that property. I think during COVID.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I think it was twenty twenty twenty one, okay, and
then we waited almost a year. You know, there was
planning involved, you know, you got to get all your
drawings and architectural designs in place. And so we started
building our guests in twenty twenty two, maybe towards the
end of twenty twenty one. Kind escapes me, but yeah,
and so I said, you know, he goes, well, we're
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just gonna build these slow.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
This was the plan.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Okay, We're gonna build these this first seven. I'm gonna
be there because it's just a concept in my head.
I can't tell anybody what I want.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
So I got to do it.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
We'll throw them on Airbnb vrbos, see how they go.
But the world wide media caught a hold of us
and had better plans for us there, and so I
was like, I need a date.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I think I can take reservations.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
He was like, all you have is renderings. I'm like,
they're wanting to book. And so we started to take
our reservations on our first seven, almost a year before
we even opened them.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Even and we delivered. We delivered what we promised. People
show up and they're like, your marketing isn't enough. You know,
there's all these little touches.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
All the little things that you didn't tell us.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
I'm like, well, yea for surprises, right makes it harder.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
To come right now. It is so hard to put
in towards Even when I did live feeds and videos,
all the little is like you said that, you're like, oh,
oh that has heated toilet seats.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Oh that hasn't a day Oh that actually has the
towel warmer. Oh that has a fireplace outside.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Oh there's all these little tiny surprises when you get
there that it just makes it even more magical, It
really does.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
So I love that.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I love the fact that he said he needed to
be here because this was all in his head. So
he takes a big part in actually building these.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Oh yeah, he loves to be over there with this
to belt on.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
So those first seven, you know, he had his small
crew alongside him that he was showing, and guys that
didn't have the skills he was training them.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
This is how you're going to do this, and whether
you stay with me or not, these are skills you
could take anywhere.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
So he even spent time training people to do different
types and forms of you know, carpentry and things like that,
which I thought was cool because he also is not
the best teacher, honestly he did, except he's good a
lot of things, but he's not good at that. And
then the next seven he kind of let them go.
He was like, all right, we've got a bigger construction
crew here. You guys know how to build the features.
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I can come in, you know, on anything you don't.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Feel positive about, but go go.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
And they have been going, and so the idea was
to let the bigger construction group come in and start
popping them up quicker so that Brandon I focus on
our check and building and our other amenities throughout the property.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
So just finding those people. But the next seven are
supposed to come on, he.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Said the other day one to two months, but he
won't give me a date. But fallow winter I got seven,
so I'm already thinking them right now, pretty excited.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I'm like, go ahead and start renting these if you
just go ahead and let me, but give me a date.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Okay, So what are the themes in the names of
the first seven?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
So our first luxury one is the one you stayed in.
That's honey Hole Sleep Septo four. And then we have
the tree Fort double, which is Tarzan and Jane. It's
connected with a working draw bridge that you can raise
and lower. Those are for larger families or groups. And
then our tree fords are air Fort one, chasing Fireflies,
Squirrels gone Wild and treatment as Fun.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
And all of these are our themes. So they're not
just the name. It's literally the honey hole. When we
walk in, there's bees and your your daughter did the mural, right,
so there's this huge mural.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
It is so stinking cool, like so gifted. She's so gifted.
And they have I mean even down.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
To like the soap dishes and the soap and all
of these things that like you thought of that go
with that theme.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
But you genuinely feel like.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
This could be a honeymoon suite for sure, and the
cool little intricacies of being able to she said, it
sleeps far how you can sleep.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
It's a queen size bed, right or is it a
king sized bed?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
The King? And then it will roll out secrets.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
So the King, the King.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
When you walk in, you see the king size bed there,
and then you can actually crank out out a bed
that's underneath. It just slides out and you crank it
out and there's a queen sized bed there, and then
you can crank it back in.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
So it can sleep up to four.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
And then my mom and my son and my sister
stayed in the chasing fireflies right, And that was super
fun because I think honey Hoole's the only one.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
That does not have the slide correct.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It has its own.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
The only like working feature it has is the drink
shoot where you can drop any size can or bobble
down from the kitchenette to the lower deck.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
But it has its own. It's a little more of
the upgraded up decor and features.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
It's got tiled showers, it's got an indoor slipper tub,
outdoor soaking tub, hanging day beds.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah, the bed, it was amazing. We hung out on
that bed. We had to hang out out there next
time we come. We said, we want to actually do
the soaker tub outside.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
But you can take the curtains and put the curtains
around and have your privacy whether you're sleeping on the
bed at night or during the day and then taking
a little you know, soaking.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
This hub.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
It makes it all nice and private, but having different
themes for each one, we were able to go into
them all and it was so cool. So the Chasing
Firefly and that had the mural that I believe your
daughter was that an award winning piece.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Okay, watercolor, that's one of her original ones. It's pretty
popular here in the area. She's kind of being touted
as the next Robertina, which is our Smoking Mountain artist.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I mean, he is our big feature here and artist,
but he.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Blows up her artwork for me into big canvases whenever
it's appropriate for the theme, and I try to decorate
around that scene.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
That's so cool.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
So then we went over to Tarzan and Jane and
the cool feature there, Like she said, there is this
drawbridge so you can actually rent them together and that
way at the end of the night, right when you
want to go to one, like you can go to
Tarzan and then the other family can go to Jane.
But there's that drawbridge in the middle that connects them.
Or if you're just renting one of them, the drawbridge
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goes up and then it's private and no one can go.
But there's two slides that go down, so you can
race down the slides.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
But the cool feature in that one are the little buttons.
Do you want to talk about the buttons?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yes, which it's so funny. We've labeled these every which way.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
We know how guests think it's an emergency button because
it says to call for help push button. And we
had one of our guests, you know, my daughter asked her,
did you push that button? And she said, oh, no,
Man and Brian have done so much for me, I
don't want to bother them. She goes, push the button
and it's the Tarzan yew. So we don't know how
to label this. The guests was conceiving, like, I guess
we'll need to make a whole sign spelling it out.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Push the button, Just push the dang button.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Push the button. You'll have fun. It's really cute. But
it does have the Tarzan and Jane theme. So the
pictures and things like that, it's just each one is
thought out from the corner of the room top all
the way to the bottom to the other corner, like
every little detail, every little nook and cranny, And I
appreciate that from not just the bill inside of things,
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you know, from Brian, but the decorating side from you,
I mean, when you're coming in, you're like, this is
really cool, this is so unique. Then you come in
you're like, whoa, I got this one, and then the
airport one, like it's just so amazing, Like there's so
much thought in each one, and you can come and
stay and you know from you come. It's like you
can come and stay in a different one and get
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a different experience an overall similar experience, but you get
a different experience in each one.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
So and you're not staying in the heart.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Of the busy Pigeon Forge or Gatlinburg. That is what
I loved. We were able to go on the deck
and look out and see the mountains but not hear
all of the commotion and not feel like you're in
the middle of a city where when we stayed the
last time we went down, you could hear a lot
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and I really just wanted to relax, but I could
hear a lot of commotion.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
So this makes it really nice.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
When you're and you're coming in, whether it's north or south,
you're coming in and you don't have to get in
the hustle and bustle of things. So I really like that.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Friend says, we are on the easy side of Segura. Well,
that's what's really cool is you know, most of the
time you come here and you've got to like fight
the traffic to get to your place. You don't have
to do that.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
And guests love it because they get out and let
the kids run around a stretch and before they want
to go into town and you know, drop their things
whatever they wanted to do, and then go in when
you're ready, you know, refresh yourself or whatever. A lot
of them find themselves there and they're like, we just
want to stay right here. We didn't now we would
enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
This is much.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I'm like, sorry, yeah, we loved it. We loved it. Well,
the funny thing is is, I guess.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
The chamber was like, hey, what do you want to
do while you're here? And there are so many options
for us to do, and I was like, you know what,
I just kind of want a day to hang out here.
But this place is so awesome, Like I love it here,
So we really really enjoyed it. Now, let's talk about
how many how many treehouses are on the plan the
brand plan for you guys for this resort.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Resort map is on our website and it's it's laid
out that we're going to have one hundred and thirty.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
You know.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Originally Brian just wanted to make them Altree Force all
the same.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
No themes, so I had to kind of work on
him a little bit, you know, just like what you mentioned,
like we have them themes.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
The people have a reason to come back and want
to stay at a difference, right if you. And I'm like,
can you give me one for couple of those maybe
it's a little more bougie and he was like fine.
So then I get the look and I'm like, what
about if we have bigger groups? You know, people come
with your families all the time. They can run several
tree outs or something. And that's when he came up
with the drawbridge. So what's funny? At our grand opening,
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I loved this because people were raving about the themes
and stuff, and he's like.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Well that's Amanda. She got her way on that.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
And then the second thing was, you know, like, oh,
we love the drawbridge and he's like, well, we're thinking
about doing a triplet where we have justice in between,
or a wagon wheel where you could have a roch treat.
I'm like, wow, these are stellar ideas, Tonny. So you know,
I knew once he kind of got going and not
because you just can't make everything the same and that's boring, right.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
So, but they are.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
They're laid out all over the property in different setups
right now, wagon wheels, triplets because we are we're having
a lot of larger groups that are coming and they'll
rent several at a time, and they're all our first
little seven are close together to their own little neighborhood,
hurried up and open them up because people wanted.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
To come stay.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
But yeah, there are plans to have up to one
hundred and thirty on there. That's enough parking wise that
we could have and also wouldn't just totally lit over
the mountain to make it asthetically not pleasing.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
And that's what I liked when we were doing the tour,
you know, you took us through the whole property.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I liked hearing that you're trying.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
To preserve trees and the mountain in general, like that
whole side that you didn't want to just wipe everything
off and start and say, okay, this is what we're doing.
So that was really cool to know that you being
down there, you appreciate that piece of land. You appreciate
not wanting to commercialize completely everything everything down there, because
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every time I would come down, I'm like, oh there's
something new, Oh there's something new. This feels like instead
of wiping out and dropping something new, you guys placed.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
It around around nature, which is really cool. And there's
a big tree there that you guys are keeping it.
Don't talk about that.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Yeah, like we call it, we call it high Point,
and that's kind of where we're going to design a
community area. We're going to rebuild the deck that's around there,
maybe have someone smoking meats up there, maybe have food
trucks come. We are talking about doing some in ground
hot springs. As far as other amenities, I love it
most of your amenities around your treehouse. But we are
building out other things. But we will not have what
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you can get everywhere.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Else, like hot tubs or a tennis court or pools.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
You know, our guests get half off at Soaky Mountain,
which is you know, half a mile up the road.
We just don't want to do what everybody else has done,
and we want to have things that are going to.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Encourage people to get out into nature.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
We've got a walking trail that's under construction, should be
open this fall, a little over four miles of walking trails,
and my girls have set up a scavenger hunt along
the way with little points that are hilarious for you know,
I got the map already ready. Kids'll get a map
and they'll get some compasses when they check in, and
it's to encourage them to go find these items and
get them to the end of the property out walking.
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So and it's hard to keep their attention from those devices,
but that's one of our efforts here a magancy.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
See how it goes.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
But we ran our kids through it and they're in
charge of it so and they're doing a really good job.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
And that's such a cool. Other piece to this is
that you guys are all involved.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
When we were there, we met the kiddos, they were
doing things super nice. I love that you're incorporating them
into what you're doing and you're instilling hard work into
them as well. It's not just let's be honest, you
guys have already retired. You could just say, hey, you
know what, here's a silver spoon, let's go. And that's
not what you're doing. And this is why I love
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and appreciate you guys so much. Is that you're saying, Hey,
not only do I want to leave a legacy for
our children financially, that's kind of secondary. We want to
leave this legacy of you need to work hard, you
need to be able to have your own thoughts, you know,
your own dreams, all of those things. I really appreciated
taking a step back. Maybe you saw me seeing those
(24:09):
things or processing those things, but as a mom, I
really appreciated that because for my son, I want him
to do what he loves.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I want him to know the value of working.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Hard, know the value of being able to be almost
a chameleon and get along with everyone and understand people.
So you guys doing you know this will call it
like hospitality type industry, right of having people in They
get to meet so many different people, and they were
just the absolute sweetest to everyone that I watched them interact,
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not just us, but to everyone that I watched them
interact with. So kudos to the parenting side of things
as well.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
So they've traveled a lot and they're used to meeting
a lot of people. They're not used to being the
ones that are stationary. You know that they're not on
the on the trip, but they do love meeting everybody.
They're not always super excited about helping all the time
their kids.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
But their kids great their kids exactly.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Another way, Brian sold me in the heartstringing manner through
of all of this, as he was like, we can
show them how you can take an idea and make
something of it.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
You know, they're seeing.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
All that unfold and I'm sure those lessons will come
even later, you know, putting all this together, kind of
watching by example, And.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
This makes it easy for me when people say, hey,
where would you go?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Where would you go on vacation? What do you think?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
This is such a unique experience, not just going and
staying in the treehouse, but all of it, watching it
be a family affair. All of these things are just
so unique and so wholesome that I want to see
people in your direction. I want people to have an
amazing time and a great stay and just feel that
warmth and love that we felt when we came and
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we stayed.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
So thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And I definitely feel like you have to if you're
listening Sanctuary Treehouse Resort, you have to go and check
it out, even if you go online and look at
all the cool fun things. But there's so many new
amenities that will be coming down in the next few years.
You even discussed having golf carts, so when you come in,
you park your car and then the resort will only
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be golf cart accessible, which is really cool. And then
you talked about the natural springs, all of the cool things.
When you guys took us around and showed us, I'm like, oh,
I cannot wait.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I always want to rush you guys. I'm like, can
you guys hurry because.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I'm rushing this enough to calm down. I don't have patience,
It's not something. But then I look back. Today's our five.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Month anniversary of being open, and I look back and
I'm like, wow, this really has gone quickly. But we've
done you know, in the amount of time that we have.
It did move faster than I thought it. You know,
So I need to readdress patients to pray for more.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I mean, everyone has their thing. Patience isn't my thing either.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
So I was strong in other areas, yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I don't think if tigers changes. There are stripes at
my age.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I'm probably going to I think we're the same age.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
So this is who we are, This is.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Who we are, this is it take it or leave it.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
No, we're so easy to have. You are so easy
to love.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
And I'm so glad that you know we had you
guys here or got to meet your family, and I
know we're going to have you back. You just say
the words. So there's more income. I'm ready to get
started on the creative process. And then there's some things
that we're not even talking about.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yet that we're pretty sure we're going to do, because you.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Don't want to put something out there unless you know
you're going to do it. And then there's probably going
to be some other ideas. Brad and I drive the
property almost every day and we come up with other stuff.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
We're like, what about this?
Speaker 4 (27:44):
And then even better, now that the guests are here,
they have great ideas.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
More we talk to them more, we were like, we
didn't think of that. I love it, I love it.
Write it down.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Well, that's so smart on your part too, to listen
to your guest, because so many people are like, no,
this is just how it is. You listen and take that,
and you're like oh, hey, that's actually a good idea,
and you can you can see you're actually engaging and listening.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
There's times where you know, you talk to someone.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
You're like oh, blah blah blah blah, and they're like,
oh okay, and you can tell they're being dismissive.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
You guys are like, wait, what else? What was that?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
So you're just great, genuine people, and we Josh and
I adore both of you. There are times where I
work on projects and I'm like, oh, they're really nice.
But I will say, like, you guys have broken that
mold of not only was I excited to work with you,
I can't wait to get back.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
And we were trying to come back, you know, this weekend.
We're like, okay, how can I make it? Haw time
a second.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
So I definitely feel like people get linked up for
reasons and be you know, they're in each other's lives
for reasons, and so I'm really excited about this.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I cannot wait to see where this.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Grows and how amazing. I feel like this is something worldwide.
People are going to say I need to come and
I need to stay there. So I can't wait to
help be a part of that in whatever capacity.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
For sharing it.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Okay, here we go. Here's the last part. This is
you might not love me after this one.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
We'll see.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I heard the Savage something seven questions, and I was
not getting a heads up.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yes, no, no one, no one ever knows.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
So this is the Savage seven where I ask you
seven rapid fire questions. You can have one skip if
you would like. Don't be don't be too nervous. It's okay,
I promise I was. I was kind of gentle on yours. Okay,
it's kind of.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Gentle on yours. Okay, are you ready?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I'm ready?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
She scared?
Speaker 1 (29:38):
All right? Who would you love to have as a guest?
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Oh, Matthew McConaughey. Oh, as long as he doesn't say
too much. It's a tough Brian. That's who I'll leave
you for.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I was gonna ask you, who's your whole pass?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Guess is math?
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Does Brian have one?
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Uh? Oh? What is her name?
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I don't know a lot of celebrities. I can see
her base and Penelope.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Something Cruise maybe Penelope Cruise maybe, I don't know. That's
the only Penelope. I think that's the only one I
could think of. Okay, the next laundry too.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Next, next question, what's the craziest thing a guest has
ever left behind?
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Oh? A plant?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
And and we went and searched to this plant. It
was very special to this person and we just mailed.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
It back to them yesterday. She said it was so special.
I left it on the back porch of the any hole?
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Could you I mean, could you go out there and
find it and mail it to us? And so we
were like, is there something in the planet right?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
It was dead?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I could be loved it so much? Why'd you leave
it out there?
Speaker 4 (30:55):
We had to wait for the guests to check out
that we're in there to go get the plant, and
then we get it on my check underneath the dirt.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
In there, like, why is you know what this?
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Is there a message in there? Or is there something
illegal in there? Because it looked dead dead dead? And
we send her pictures. She's like, no, no, no, I have
to have that plant there.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Oh okay, Well we're not going to ask any other question.
I don't know, okay.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Next question, craziest thing that you want to add to
the resort.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Craziest thing that we want to add to it?
Speaker 4 (31:25):
M h okay, So I can, I can, I can
say this.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
We have this tower idea in mind. Our kids have already.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Drawn it up where we have a rotating restaurant and
you can sit up there and slowly see all thet
three hunters. They see degree views while you go around,
and then there's oods hanging from it that people can
stay in.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
That's amazing. I'm hoping that one's I'm hoping we're banking
on that one coming true. It will be a destination
that's freaking amazing.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Okay, if you could build one of these treehouses anywhere
in the world, where would it be?
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Saint Croix.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Oh, that's my favorite place other than here is Saint Croix.
And I may still ask some property there. Maybe I
do build the first treehouse on the island. We're actually
going to build ourselves a bigger treehouse on the end
of the property, so that when we're too all to
maintain the house we're in, give to the kids and
then we have like that and the place in Saint
Croix just pop back and forth.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
See, you guys are always thinking.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Making the plant. We've already named it. It's going to
be called assisted living. Our kids are going to come
and visit us, and.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Well you have like a little thing that like lifts you,
like elevator that lifts you guys up and down?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Oh all one level?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
One level?
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Okay, it was one. If it was one level, the
I don't have to think on that one.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Well, I was gonna ask you your favorite place to visit.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Definitely Saint Croix anywhere in the Caribbean. I love it
at water Beach girl.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
All right, last question. I always ask everybody this question.
Something you would never eat.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
We're talking food here, I'm talking whatever.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Oh gosh, all right, keep goodness. Crawfish, Mmmm, crawfish. I'll
keep it nice crawfish. And then you even get silly, right.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I saw the wheels turn and you're like, okay.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
All right, well we'll keep it. We'll keep it at that.
We'll keep it at that. God love you, listen. I
have had so much fun having you on. I can't
wait for people to go and check it out, even
if they go online.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
To take a peek at it.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
It is so unique and so awesome and just such
a really, really, really fun place to stay. So I
wish you guys all the best with everything. I can't
wait to see how quickly this grows because I know
you guys are not going to sit on it, and
it slowly grow.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
I know it's going to like boom.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
But thank you for letting us hang out and be
a part, and thank you for being a guest on
the podcast.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
You're so welcome. I love you too, all right, guys,
on that note, we're out.
Ooh seven. I like to keep it real simple. It's
about that time.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's Wednesday, and our guest today so super fun.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
This is nuts.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I cannot believe I went out there. I had no
idea what to expect whatsoever, and I went out there
and I had the best time ever. Our guest today
is Amana Jensen. Can you tell us where you are
from and what your company name is and what you do?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
All right, Well, I.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Live over here in the Smoking Mountains, superable, Tennessee. My
name's Jens, and my husband and I, Brian, are the
developers of Sanctuary Treehouse Resort. It's the world's first interactive
treehouse resort right here in the Smokys.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I was so excited when you guys reached out.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And said, hey, would you be interested in coming and
checking this place out?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And I was like, what is it? Well, heck, yeah,
this sounds super fun.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
And I saw this slides and just all the different
cool things that you could do.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
So let me backtrack.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Josh and I had gone to TikTok flew me out
to Austin. So I had gone to Austin and then
there was a trip to Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
So initially I was supposed to come to the treehouse.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
First, so early early July, right, yes, early July, and
I had to switch it around because I went to
Austin and then from Austin to Atlanta, and I thought,
you know what, we're gonna come from Atlanta back up
through and we'll hit Tennessee and we'll have a good time.
And it was the absolute best time for me. And
(01:38):
I'll tell you why. Traveling, then traveling some more and
then finding yourself in this super cool treehouse. You walk
up the stairs, you're not really sure what to expect.
You open the door, and it was blazing hot. I
mean we got there probably one of the hottest days
in July. Everywhere we went that time was like so hot.
(01:59):
So we get there and it's like, Okay, the scenery
is really pretty.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Everything's really pretty. You walk in, there's air conditioning there.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Everything is luxury, and you're like, oh, this is not
what I was expecting at all. And you guys had
it decked out for us too.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Had a little love sign. We stayed at a place.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Called the honey Hole and it had a love sign
and little rose petals everywhere and just was so magical,
especially coming off of oh this traveling and just being tired,
and it was like you walked in and you were
just instantly like a weight was off your shoulders and
you're like, oh, this is like a little.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Piece of heaven.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So thank you for inviting me and letting me take
a look at everything. How did you guys even create
this concept, this idea?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Well, years and years ago we decided to skip a
a sprain break and we were like, we wait around
know where we wanted to go to with the kids,
but we were like, what, some let's just instead of
spending money out of a k, let's go build a
treehouse in our yard for you guys. And so the
whole family did the whole week we were down there,
just a little bit of complaint, but the treehouse and ziplines,
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bomb beds, Brian thought everything. He had a fire pole
off of it. It was insane eskap, patch ladder, all
of that. So the kids played on that for years
and then you know, as they get older, they go
to those things less and less right.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
And you know, treehouses, we'd heard people were building.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Them and renting them out, so we made the joke
all the time we should just go ahead and find
out Airbnb that thing, but over time we just ended
up tearing it down because you know, it was decrepit
after a while, so that kind of smarked it. Brian
was like, hey, what if we built you know, over
the years, there's probably true for year period there it
was like, what if we just build like six.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
To town on some of our property over here. That
would be fun, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
So had me there, it was fine, and then I
made the uber mistake of taking him to a treehouse
that I found over in South Carolina, and of course
when he saw what I paid, he was like he
paid what to stay where? And but we got there
it was neat.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
It kind of grew his ideas from there.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
He was like, people paid this to stay here and
there's like really nothing to do.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
And I'm like, well, that's kind of why I brought
you here. But he went the other direction.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
He was like, what if you could actually do things
on your tree house? And so his little wheels started turning,
and then from there it went from six to ten
to forty acres becoming available right here in our.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Backyard because we lived were right by.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
And we heard developers were going to take it and
scalp the mountain and build big apartments or cabins, and
we knew we didn't want.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
To look at that, so we bought it. And then
it was the question of what do we do? And
so Brian already knew. He already knew, he just had
to get meet on board. Slowly, it's like, what's the
world's largest.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I'm like, I see seventeen in North Carolina and he's like,
so we would get to eighteen, we'd be the world's largest.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I'm like, well, what are you doing? Then he was
doing it.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
It wasn't done, and so he was like, to be
an interactive, world's first interactive and then you know, we
can just keep building it.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And I think I can get it.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
We're gonna make the golf you know, the reasupport golf
cart access, so only without removing in a lot of
treaties and staying.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Within the topography of the lane.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I think I get about one hundred and twenty eight
hun and thirty on here and still will be esthetically
pleasing and preserve that property. And I'm like, oh, oh,
here we go back to work. I hope our marriage survives.
But so we well, okay, let let's go back.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Let's go back. So how long have you guys been married?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
This will be in October or nineteenth year.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
First of all, they both look extremely young. They are
the most genuine people. I mean, I just adore the
both of you, meeting you and hanging out and just
getting to know you. Like I have to have her
on the podcast, I have to come back down. I
genuinely felt like we're going to be lifelong friends. So
if you guys have to, you have to check this
(05:56):
place out. And I love it even more because of
that family feel. And I was able to meet you
guys and attach it with Okay, you guys have worked
extremely hard.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You have built this. You haven't said, oh hey we
have all this money, we're gonna throw this.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And someone else go do it. You guys literally are
in the day to day. So let's go back, like
I said, nineteen years when you first met him, Because
this man is a thinker, like his.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Brain does not stop. So when you first met him,
what was he doing? What were you doing?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Actually, I just moved back from New Jersey.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I did a program computers for the Federal Aviation Administration,
and I took a position back in Knoxville as a
national marketing coordinator for a.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Company that raised money for schools.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Brian was actually retired from our other business in the
Gallenberg SkyLife Park our shop up there, and he was
building our home that we live in right now.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
He did not.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Want to hire anybody, wanted to just build his dream home.
He didn't think about who was going to have to
clean this thing.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
So he decided, well, let's the skylift that's downtown Gatlandtown.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Oldest attraction in Gatlinburg. We got the skylift that rides
up and now they have North America's longest suspension bridge
with the glass in it and heather viewing on.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
That which we got to go across, which was pretty cool, fantastic.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
There's a whole lot to do up there, and there's
more coming as well. But we owned the gift shop
and the photo business and the cafe and the bar
that's up there. It's been in Brian's been for over
sixty years and we purchased it from them a little,
I guess almost thirty years ago, so that, yeah, yeah,
we've got some great management and place up there. So
we've just kind of retired and just started traveling with
(07:38):
the kids and I'm schooling and here we are back
at work again.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
So he built his dream house and you guys get married.
Is the house done before you get married.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
We met when he was about halfway maybe a little
over halfway with this, and so I was not.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Immediately impressed with him. He was kind of like brought
to me.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
And I was just a single mom like you at
the time, and I was just quite happy being the
single So neither one of us really he had been divorced, and.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Neither of us want to meet anybody.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
So that was the best opportunity for us to not
have our best representative for We got to know each
other quick because we weren't trying to impress one another,
and so I think we got married within eight months.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
What hurried that up is I was a single mom.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Like I said, Brennan was about to start kindergarten and
we had to decide where he was going to go
because I didn't want him being pulled in and out.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
So I just have condo in Knoxville, and he had
this house.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
So he won, and I moved to the Smokey's so and.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
The rest is history of that. Okay, So you have
how many children all together?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
We have four. We have four.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
My son is twenty four, our oldest daughter is seventeen,
and then we have twenty ten year old girls are.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Our joy which I got to meet three.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah, meet ye, I got to meet the three.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I got to meet the three.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So you have the children, you guys are retired, you're
traveling around, you're homeschooling. And he just says, this is
what we're doing. What's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Actually, his thing was like, look, we our least could
end at the Gamberg SkyPark.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And I'm like, that's okay.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
We would just say properly, we invest properly, will be okay.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
He's like, no, no, no, that was my family's legacy.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
There will not be a legacy if we don't renew
our lease up there. And what about doing a project
where we don't have partners. We get to be as
creative as we want. We suffer the consequences if it's
poor choices. We weave the rewards if it's a good choice.
And I'm like, we like all.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
That this hook and fait and switched, and.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
You know, of course he's sharing all of his ideas
and I was like, you know, can we theme m
and no?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
But yes, so we just kind of went from there.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Has he always been like, I don't even know how
we're really what you call it. I mean, he is
just a constant thinker, but yes, he is. Brilliant is
definitely a word for him. But he is just you
can see when you're talking him, the wheels are just moving,
and it's really neat to just sit and watch and
you'll have an idea and then all of a sudden
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you just hear him start talking through and you're like,
that's really cool. I like that.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Really sometimes you do have to really men sometimes.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
But yeah, now he's very creative and he does what
he thinks.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I've got a couple of my daughters that are like this.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
They might not know how right away, but they're going
to figure it out, Like I think this would work,
and then they could start with drawing it, and then
they start with making up models or mockups of it,
and then boom, it's like reality. And I don't have
that gift, but but they do. And it's really neat
to see that talent in them for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
So he comes to you and says, this is what
we're going to do. How long ago was that?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
We end up purchasing that property. I think during COVID.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I think it was twenty twenty twenty one, okay, and
then we waited almost a year. You know, there was
planning involved, you know, you got to get all your
drawings and architectural designs in place. And so we started
building our guests in twenty twenty two, maybe towards the
end of twenty twenty one. Kind escapes me, but yeah,
and so I said, you know, he goes, well, we're
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just gonna build these slow.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
This was the plan.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Okay, We're gonna build these this first seven. I'm gonna
be there because it's just a concept in my head.
I can't tell anybody what I want.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
So I got to do it.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
We'll throw them on Airbnb vrbos, see how they go.
But the world wide media caught a hold of us
and had better plans for us there, and so I
was like, I need a date.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I think I can take reservations.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
He was like, all you have is renderings. I'm like,
they're wanting to book. And so we started to take
our reservations on our first seven, almost a year before
we even opened them.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Even and we delivered. We delivered what we promised. People
show up and they're like, your marketing isn't enough. You know,
there's all these little touches.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
All the little things that you didn't tell us.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
I'm like, well, yea for surprises, right makes it harder.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
To come right now. It is so hard to put
in towards Even when I did live feeds and videos,
all the little is like you said that, you're like, oh,
oh that has heated toilet seats.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Oh that hasn't a day Oh that actually has the
towel warmer. Oh that has a fireplace outside.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Oh there's all these little tiny surprises when you get
there that it just makes it even more magical, It
really does.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
So I love that.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I love the fact that he said he needed to
be here because this was all in his head. So
he takes a big part in actually building these.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Oh yeah, he loves to be over there with this
to belt on.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
So those first seven, you know, he had his small
crew alongside him that he was showing, and guys that
didn't have the skills he was training them.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
This is how you're going to do this, and whether
you stay with me or not, these are skills you
could take anywhere.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
So he even spent time training people to do different
types and forms of you know, carpentry and things like that,
which I thought was cool because he also is not
the best teacher, honestly he did, except he's good a
lot of things, but he's not good at that. And
then the next seven he kind of let them go.
He was like, all right, we've got a bigger construction
crew here. You guys know how to build the features.
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I can come in, you know, on anything you don't.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Feel positive about, but go go.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
And they have been going, and so the idea was
to let the bigger construction group come in and start
popping them up quicker so that Brandon I focus on
our check and building and our other amenities throughout the property.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
So just finding those people. But the next seven are
supposed to come on, he.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Said the other day one to two months, but he
won't give me a date. But fallow winter I got seven,
so I'm already thinking them right now, pretty excited.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I'm like, go ahead and start renting these if you
just go ahead and let me, but give me a date.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Okay, So what are the themes in the names of
the first seven?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
So our first luxury one is the one you stayed in.
That's honey Hole Sleep Septo four. And then we have
the tree Fort double, which is Tarzan and Jane. It's
connected with a working draw bridge that you can raise
and lower. Those are for larger families or groups. And
then our tree fords are air Fort one, chasing Fireflies,
Squirrels gone Wild and treatment as Fun.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
And all of these are our themes. So they're not
just the name. It's literally the honey hole. When we
walk in, there's bees and your your daughter did the mural, right,
so there's this huge mural.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
It is so stinking cool, like so gifted. She's so gifted.
And they have I mean even down.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
To like the soap dishes and the soap and all
of these things that like you thought of that go
with that theme.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
But you genuinely feel like.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
This could be a honeymoon suite for sure, and the
cool little intricacies of being able to she said, it
sleeps far how you can sleep.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
It's a queen size bed, right or is it a
king sized bed?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
The King? And then it will roll out secrets.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
So the King, the King.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
When you walk in, you see the king size bed there,
and then you can actually crank out out a bed
that's underneath. It just slides out and you crank it
out and there's a queen sized bed there, and then
you can crank it back in.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
So it can sleep up to four.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
And then my mom and my son and my sister
stayed in the chasing fireflies right, And that was super
fun because I think honey Hoole's the only one.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
That does not have the slide correct.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It has its own.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
The only like working feature it has is the drink
shoot where you can drop any size can or bobble
down from the kitchenette to the lower deck.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
But it has its own. It's a little more of
the upgraded up decor and features.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
It's got tiled showers, it's got an indoor slipper tub,
outdoor soaking tub, hanging day beds.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah, the bed, it was amazing. We hung out on
that bed. We had to hang out out there next
time we come. We said, we want to actually do
the soaker tub outside.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
But you can take the curtains and put the curtains
around and have your privacy whether you're sleeping on the
bed at night or during the day and then taking
a little you know, soaking.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
This hub.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
It makes it all nice and private, but having different
themes for each one, we were able to go into
them all and it was so cool. So the Chasing
Firefly and that had the mural that I believe your
daughter was that an award winning piece.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Okay, watercolor, that's one of her original ones. It's pretty
popular here in the area. She's kind of being touted
as the next Robertina, which is our Smoking Mountain artist.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I mean, he is our big feature here and artist,
but he.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Blows up her artwork for me into big canvases whenever
it's appropriate for the theme, and I try to decorate
around that scene.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
That's so cool.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
So then we went over to Tarzan and Jane and
the cool feature there, Like she said, there is this
drawbridge so you can actually rent them together and that
way at the end of the night, right when you
want to go to one, like you can go to
Tarzan and then the other family can go to Jane.
But there's that drawbridge in the middle that connects them.
Or if you're just renting one of them, the drawbridge
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goes up and then it's private and no one can go.
But there's two slides that go down, so you can
race down the slides.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
But the cool feature in that one are the little buttons.
Do you want to talk about the buttons?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yes, which it's so funny. We've labeled these every which way.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
We know how guests think it's an emergency button because
it says to call for help push button. And we
had one of our guests, you know, my daughter asked her,
did you push that button? And she said, oh, no,
Man and Brian have done so much for me, I
don't want to bother them. She goes, push the button
and it's the Tarzan yew. So we don't know how
to label this. The guests was conceiving, like, I guess
we'll need to make a whole sign spelling it out.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Push the button, Just push the dang button.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Push the button. You'll have fun. It's really cute. But
it does have the Tarzan and Jane theme. So the
pictures and things like that, it's just each one is
thought out from the corner of the room top all
the way to the bottom to the other corner, like
every little detail, every little nook and cranny, And I
appreciate that from not just the bill inside of things,
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you know, from Brian, but the decorating side from you,
I mean, when you're coming in, you're like, this is
really cool, this is so unique. Then you come in
you're like, whoa, I got this one, and then the
airport one, like it's just so amazing, Like there's so
much thought in each one, and you can come and
stay and you know from you come. It's like you
can come and stay in a different one and get
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a different experience an overall similar experience, but you get
a different experience in each one.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
So and you're not staying in the heart.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Of the busy Pigeon Forge or Gatlinburg. That is what
I loved. We were able to go on the deck
and look out and see the mountains but not hear
all of the commotion and not feel like you're in
the middle of a city where when we stayed the
last time we went down, you could hear a lot
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and I really just wanted to relax, but I could
hear a lot of commotion.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
So this makes it really nice.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
When you're and you're coming in, whether it's north or south,
you're coming in and you don't have to get in
the hustle and bustle of things. So I really like that.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Friend says, we are on the easy side of Segura. Well,
that's what's really cool is you know, most of the
time you come here and you've got to like fight
the traffic to get to your place. You don't have
to do that.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
And guests love it because they get out and let
the kids run around a stretch and before they want
to go into town and you know, drop their things
whatever they wanted to do, and then go in when
you're ready, you know, refresh yourself or whatever. A lot
of them find themselves there and they're like, we just
want to stay right here. We didn't now we would
enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
This is much.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I'm like, sorry, yeah, we loved it. We loved it. Well,
the funny thing is is, I guess.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
The chamber was like, hey, what do you want to
do while you're here? And there are so many options
for us to do, and I was like, you know what,
I just kind of want a day to hang out here.
But this place is so awesome, Like I love it here,
So we really really enjoyed it. Now, let's talk about
how many how many treehouses are on the plan the
brand plan for you guys for this resort.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Resort map is on our website and it's it's laid
out that we're going to have one hundred and thirty.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
You know.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Originally Brian just wanted to make them Altree Force all
the same.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
No themes, so I had to kind of work on
him a little bit, you know, just like what you mentioned,
like we have them themes.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
The people have a reason to come back and want
to stay at a difference, right if you. And I'm like,
can you give me one for couple of those maybe
it's a little more bougie and he was like fine.
So then I get the look and I'm like, what
about if we have bigger groups? You know, people come
with your families all the time. They can run several
tree outs or something. And that's when he came up
with the drawbridge. So what's funny? At our grand opening,
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I loved this because people were raving about the themes
and stuff, and he's like.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Well that's Amanda. She got her way on that.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
And then the second thing was, you know, like, oh,
we love the drawbridge and he's like, well, we're thinking
about doing a triplet where we have justice in between,
or a wagon wheel where you could have a roch treat.
I'm like, wow, these are stellar ideas, Tonny. So you know,
I knew once he kind of got going and not
because you just can't make everything the same and that's boring, right.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
So, but they are.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
They're laid out all over the property in different setups
right now, wagon wheels, triplets because we are we're having
a lot of larger groups that are coming and they'll
rent several at a time, and they're all our first
little seven are close together to their own little neighborhood,
hurried up and open them up because people wanted.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
To come stay.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
But yeah, there are plans to have up to one
hundred and thirty on there. That's enough parking wise that
we could have and also wouldn't just totally lit over
the mountain to make it asthetically not pleasing.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
And that's what I liked when we were doing the tour,
you know, you took us through the whole property.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I liked hearing that you're trying.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
To preserve trees and the mountain in general, like that
whole side that you didn't want to just wipe everything
off and start and say, okay, this is what we're doing.
So that was really cool to know that you being
down there, you appreciate that piece of land. You appreciate
not wanting to commercialize completely everything everything down there, because
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every time I would come down, I'm like, oh there's
something new, Oh there's something new. This feels like instead
of wiping out and dropping something new, you guys placed.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
It around around nature, which is really cool. And there's
a big tree there that you guys are keeping it.
Don't talk about that.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Yeah, like we call it, we call it high Point,
and that's kind of where we're going to design a
community area. We're going to rebuild the deck that's around there,
maybe have someone smoking meats up there, maybe have food
trucks come. We are talking about doing some in ground
hot springs. As far as other amenities, I love it
most of your amenities around your treehouse. But we are
building out other things. But we will not have what
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you can get everywhere.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Else, like hot tubs or a tennis court or pools.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
You know, our guests get half off at Soaky Mountain,
which is you know, half a mile up the road.
We just don't want to do what everybody else has done,
and we want to have things that are going to.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Encourage people to get out into nature.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
We've got a walking trail that's under construction, should be
open this fall, a little over four miles of walking trails,
and my girls have set up a scavenger hunt along
the way with little points that are hilarious for you know,
I got the map already ready. Kids'll get a map
and they'll get some compasses when they check in, and
it's to encourage them to go find these items and
get them to the end of the property out walking.
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So and it's hard to keep their attention from those devices,
but that's one of our efforts here a magancy.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
See how it goes.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
But we ran our kids through it and they're in
charge of it so and they're doing a really good job.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
And that's such a cool. Other piece to this is
that you guys are all involved.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
When we were there, we met the kiddos, they were
doing things super nice. I love that you're incorporating them
into what you're doing and you're instilling hard work into
them as well. It's not just let's be honest, you
guys have already retired. You could just say, hey, you
know what, here's a silver spoon, let's go. And that's
not what you're doing. And this is why I love
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and appreciate you guys so much. Is that you're saying, Hey,
not only do I want to leave a legacy for
our children financially, that's kind of secondary. We want to
leave this legacy of you need to work hard, you
need to be able to have your own thoughts, you know,
your own dreams, all of those things. I really appreciated
taking a step back. Maybe you saw me seeing those
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things or processing those things, but as a mom, I
really appreciated that because for my son, I want him
to do what he loves.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I want him to know the value of working.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Hard, know the value of being able to be almost
a chameleon and get along with everyone and understand people.
So you guys doing you know this will call it
like hospitality type industry, right of having people in They
get to meet so many different people, and they were
just the absolute sweetest to everyone that I watched them interact,
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not just us, but to everyone that I watched them
interact with. So kudos to the parenting side of things
as well.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
So they've traveled a lot and they're used to meeting
a lot of people. They're not used to being the
ones that are stationary. You know that they're not on
the on the trip, but they do love meeting everybody.
They're not always super excited about helping all the time
their kids.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
But their kids great their kids exactly.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Another way, Brian sold me in the heartstringing manner through
of all of this, as he was like, we can
show them how you can take an idea and make
something of it.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
You know, they're seeing.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
All that unfold and I'm sure those lessons will come
even later, you know, putting all this together, kind of
watching by example, And.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
This makes it easy for me when people say, hey,
where would you go?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Where would you go on vacation? What do you think?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
This is such a unique experience, not just going and
staying in the treehouse, but all of it, watching it
be a family affair. All of these things are just
so unique and so wholesome that I want to see
people in your direction. I want people to have an
amazing time and a great stay and just feel that
warmth and love that we felt when we came and
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we stayed.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
So thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And I definitely feel like you have to if you're
listening Sanctuary Treehouse Resort, you have to go and check
it out, even if you go online and look at
all the cool fun things. But there's so many new
amenities that will be coming down in the next few years.
You even discussed having golf carts, so when you come in,
you park your car and then the resort will only
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be golf cart accessible, which is really cool. And then
you talked about the natural springs, all of the cool things.
When you guys took us around and showed us, I'm like, oh,
I cannot wait.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I always want to rush you guys. I'm like, can
you guys hurry because.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I'm rushing this enough to calm down. I don't have patience,
It's not something. But then I look back. Today's our five.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Month anniversary of being open, and I look back and
I'm like, wow, this really has gone quickly. But we've
done you know, in the amount of time that we have.
It did move faster than I thought it. You know,
So I need to readdress patients to pray for more.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I mean, everyone has their thing. Patience isn't my thing either.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
So I was strong in other areas, yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I don't think if tigers changes. There are stripes at
my age.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I'm probably going to I think we're the same age.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
So this is who we are, This is.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Who we are, this is it take it or leave it.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
No, we're so easy to have. You are so easy
to love.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
And I'm so glad that you know we had you
guys here or got to meet your family, and I
know we're going to have you back. You just say
the words. So there's more income. I'm ready to get
started on the creative process. And then there's some things
that we're not even talking about.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yet that we're pretty sure we're going to do, because you.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Don't want to put something out there unless you know
you're going to do it. And then there's probably going
to be some other ideas. Brad and I drive the
property almost every day and we come up with other stuff.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
We're like, what about this?
Speaker 4 (27:44):
And then even better, now that the guests are here,
they have great ideas.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
More we talk to them more, we were like, we
didn't think of that. I love it, I love it.
Write it down.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Well, that's so smart on your part too, to listen
to your guest, because so many people are like, no,
this is just how it is. You listen and take that,
and you're like oh, hey, that's actually a good idea,
and you can you can see you're actually engaging and listening.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
There's times where you know, you talk to someone.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
You're like oh, blah blah blah blah, and they're like,
oh okay, and you can tell they're being dismissive.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
You guys are like, wait, what else? What was that?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
So you're just great, genuine people, and we Josh and
I adore both of you. There are times where I
work on projects and I'm like, oh, they're really nice.
But I will say, like, you guys have broken that
mold of not only was I excited to work with you,
I can't wait to get back.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
And we were trying to come back, you know, this weekend.
We're like, okay, how can I make it? Haw time
a second.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
So I definitely feel like people get linked up for
reasons and be you know, they're in each other's lives
for reasons, and so I'm really excited about this.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I cannot wait to see where this.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Grows and how amazing. I feel like this is something worldwide.
People are going to say I need to come and
I need to stay there. So I can't wait to
help be a part of that in whatever capacity.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
For sharing it.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Okay, here we go. Here's the last part. This is
you might not love me after this one.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
We'll see.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I heard the Savage something seven questions, and I was
not getting a heads up.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yes, no, no one, no one ever knows.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
So this is the Savage seven where I ask you
seven rapid fire questions. You can have one skip if
you would like. Don't be don't be too nervous. It's okay,
I promise I was. I was kind of gentle on yours. Okay,
it's kind of.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Gentle on yours. Okay, are you ready?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I'm ready?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
She scared?
Speaker 1 (29:38):
All right? Who would you love to have as a guest?
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Oh, Matthew McConaughey. Oh, as long as he doesn't say
too much. It's a tough Brian. That's who I'll leave
you for.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I was gonna ask you, who's your whole pass?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Guess is math?
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Does Brian have one?
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Uh? Oh? What is her name?
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I don't know a lot of celebrities. I can see
her base and Penelope.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Something Cruise maybe Penelope Cruise maybe, I don't know. That's
the only Penelope. I think that's the only one I
could think of. Okay, the next laundry too.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Next, next question, what's the craziest thing a guest has
ever left behind?
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Oh? A plant?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
And and we went and searched to this plant. It
was very special to this person and we just mailed.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
It back to them yesterday. She said it was so special.
I left it on the back porch of the any hole?
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Could you I mean, could you go out there and
find it and mail it to us? And so we
were like, is there something in the planet right?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
It was dead?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I could be loved it so much? Why'd you leave
it out there?
Speaker 4 (30:55):
We had to wait for the guests to check out
that we're in there to go get the plant, and
then we get it on my check underneath the dirt.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
In there, like, why is you know what this?
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Is there a message in there? Or is there something
illegal in there? Because it looked dead dead dead? And
we send her pictures. She's like, no, no, no, I have
to have that plant there.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Oh okay, Well we're not going to ask any other question.
I don't know, okay.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Next question, craziest thing that you want to add to
the resort.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Craziest thing that we want to add to it?
Speaker 4 (31:25):
M h okay, So I can, I can, I can
say this.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
We have this tower idea in mind. Our kids have already.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Drawn it up where we have a rotating restaurant and
you can sit up there and slowly see all thet
three hunters. They see degree views while you go around,
and then there's oods hanging from it that people can
stay in.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
That's amazing. I'm hoping that one's I'm hoping we're banking
on that one coming true. It will be a destination
that's freaking amazing.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Okay, if you could build one of these treehouses anywhere
in the world, where would it be?
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Saint Croix.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Oh, that's my favorite place other than here is Saint Croix.
And I may still ask some property there. Maybe I
do build the first treehouse on the island. We're actually
going to build ourselves a bigger treehouse on the end
of the property, so that when we're too all to
maintain the house we're in, give to the kids and
then we have like that and the place in Saint
Croix just pop back and forth.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
See, you guys are always thinking.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Making the plant. We've already named it. It's going to
be called assisted living. Our kids are going to come
and visit us, and.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Well you have like a little thing that like lifts you,
like elevator that lifts you guys up and down?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Oh all one level?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
One level?
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Okay, it was one. If it was one level, the
I don't have to think on that one.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Well, I was gonna ask you your favorite place to visit.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Definitely Saint Croix anywhere in the Caribbean. I love it
at water Beach girl.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
All right, last question. I always ask everybody this question.
Something you would never eat.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
We're talking food here, I'm talking whatever.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Oh gosh, all right, keep goodness. Crawfish, Mmmm, crawfish. I'll
keep it nice crawfish. And then you even get silly, right.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I saw the wheels turn and you're like, okay.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
All right, well we'll keep it. We'll keep it at that.
We'll keep it at that. God love you, listen. I
have had so much fun having you on. I can't
wait for people to go and check it out, even
if they go online.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
To take a peek at it.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
It is so unique and so awesome and just such
a really, really, really fun place to stay. So I
wish you guys all the best with everything. I can't
wait to see how quickly this grows because I know
you guys are not going to sit on it, and
it slowly grow.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
I know it's going to like boom.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
But thank you for letting us hang out and be
a part, and thank you for being a guest on
the podcast.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
You're so welcome. I love you too, all right, guys,
on that note, we're out.
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