Property Brothers star Drew Scott sits down with Bobby to talk about the massive success of the show, how much business it has generated over the years, and what 650 episodes later feels like. He shares the real reason he agreed to do Dancing with the Stars, how that experience tied into his wedding, and why he’s now getting back into acting and getting ripped for a new role. Drew also talks about going into business with Michael Bublé, getting recognized for home advice everywhere he goes, what it would actually take for him to work on your house, and how he thinks about money and raising his kids after years of success.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You know Disneyland or Disney World, how you can get
the guide like the VIP guide. Jonathan said, No, with
our kids, I'm going to make them just do the
regular ticket and they have to wait in lines which
could be like two hours or three hours, because I
don't want them to feel privileged. And I said, hey, Jonathan,
that I'm actually going to give my kids the VIP
because I don't want to punish myself.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Hey guys, we're going to talk with Drew Scott to
is one of the brothers from the Property Brothers, one
of the twins that you for sure know that you've
either watched one or all their shows religiously or maybe
like myself in a dentist chair occasionally. They're super nice.
I've been fortunate enough to spend some time with Drew.
He's actually the one that I would say, convince me
(00:49):
to do Dancing with the Stars back in the day,
and we do talk about that. But just a super
talented guy. He is very much an actor. He's very active.
He does more martial arts all that we get into
and even how Em and his brother started which they've
been kind of hustling since they were seven years old
and they have so many shows. And he says this too.
(01:09):
He's like, we have so many shows. But Property Brothers
under pressure, that's one of them. Don't hate your house
with the Property Brothers. And this is HGTV and also
HBO Max and all those properties well of the Property Brothers.
But yeah, here he is. This is Drew Scott, one
of the Property Brothers. All right, I'm going to bring
(01:30):
on Drew Scott from the Property Brothers, who I really like.
And I like you on camera, but I like you
in person. I feel like when you're by yourself you only.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Get to shine. You ever feel like just sometimes you
want to be by yourself? Drew?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
You know, I agree with you if you ever feel
that where your twin brother just drags you down, He
just brings up the worsting and you just want to
kick him to the curb so you can really grow
in life.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah, I hear you. Do you ever think no, it's
it's been a while there.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, you ever feel like because when you're in your
together you definitely have a cadence and a thing, but
when you're by yourself you get to just be.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
A little more free at times. Do you feel that way?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I mean in general. You know, we've done everything, like
most of our lives, we've worked together. You know, we
went to school together. Obviously, we played together, we have
businesses together, and everybody you know, will tend to lump
you into you have to be with your brother. The
first thing people say when they see me is, where's
your brother? Like, I have no idea. We don't sleep
in bunk beds anymore, but it's but it is nice
(02:29):
to do our own thing. I mean, Jonathan just posted
on social he's got a talk show that he's he
announced that he's working on and that's super exciting and
he's really good at it. And then for me on
the acting front and getting back into that side, it
just lets you shine and your individual things. So it's
not that everything has to be together.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
So are you going and taking classes and kind of
like redunking yourself fully into acting or are you just
already good and you're just going Oh no.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I mean I'm sort of like the no ego lifelong student,
like I love training to improve. In fact, just last
week I just popped up into improv I mean with
what we do with our TV shows, we are improvising
because we don't have a set script and I like that,
but I haven't done stand up, sketched improv in eighteen
plus years. So for me to dive back into that's
fun any time, you.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Know, I'll still say too.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Even though I'm on TV and I have been for
twenty years, I'm not like I'll still put something on
tape because people don't know me as an actor. So
I work with my acting coach that I've had for
twenty years, will work a scene and then I'll submit it.
So it's fun. Though again, I just want to do
what I love to do. I love property brothers, I
love helping people. We've done six hundred and fifty houses
for families now with our shows, six hundred and fifty episodes.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
But I love scripted, I love story, I love.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Acting, and to dive in on that side is just
that really fills the bucket.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I feel.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's sort of completing what I've put on the back
burner for the last eighteen years.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
How vulnerable does improv feel?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
See, it's funny, which maybe you can relate because now
you're a parent. When I was younger, I was more
insecure and I wouldn't let myself go. Now as an adult,
you know, I have two kids and I'm in my forties.
I have no problem letting go. I don't care if
I look silly. I mean I look silly. I walk
down the street with my kids walking like a monkey
because my little guy finds it funny. I don't care
(04:11):
what people buy standards think. I'm just a dad trying
to have a good time with my kid. And when
I stepped back in to the class or do improv,
it was great. It was refreshing to feel that I
could tap into things. And again, you're not have you
done improv?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah, so you know you're not.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You know you don't need improv to try and be funny.
You just want to be in the moment right. You
want to react, and if you're doing it well and
you're setting yourself free, it will be funny, it will
get emotional, different things will happen, and so it's almost
like free therapy.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Where I felt the most vulnerable is doing stand up
because you're alone and everything depends on what you are doing.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Absolutely, I find I had done just a little stand
up in our sort of Vancouver and surrounding area, nothing huge,
and I wouldn't say I was great at it because.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
You got to re the room a bit.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You have to have, you know, a bunch of your
jokes or whatever kind of stand up you like to do,
ready to go, and from one audience to the next
can be like complete opposites. You have no idea what
the one audience is gonna like. And so I didn't
like that as much. I just like being in the
moment and improvising. I love sketch comedy as well, because
at least you have something you can work through and
play off with with other talent. But I don't know
(05:23):
if I would do I don't know if I would
do stand up again. We did a thing with Oh
my gosh, what's his name David Spade a few years back.
That was just a comedic thing that was a little
bit of a like they wanted he was in our ear,
Jonathan in my ear, and we did stand up with
an audience that didn't know that David was in our
ear giving us the jokes and he was setting us
up to fail. So all these people in the audience
(05:45):
just thought, oh my god, this fucking property brother sucks
at stand up, And it was very funny once you
knew that they were in our ear, but the audience
just thought I was terrible.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
What was your homelight growing up?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I mean we had We grew up in a ranch,
so it was sort of like, you know, suck it
up and get out there and do the work. So
we were from a young age we were really hands
on physical with the ranch.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Our parents were great.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I mean they give us. You know, we don't come
from money or anything like that, so we really had to.
My parents worked really hard to be able to put
a roof over our heads and have us you know,
we did karate, and we did different sports and stuff,
but they're always encouraging, but they made us do the work.
There was never a shortcut. And we also couldn't start
something and quit right away. You're interested in karate, great,
you can never quit. And it was like that for
(06:30):
most things. So it gave me as I got older,
it gave me an appreciation for sticking through the tough
because you're not going to get better at something unless
you actually stick through the tough stuff. But yeah, it
was great to have a built in best friend with
Jonathan j D. I think you've met JD and my
older brother as well. We were the annoying little brothers
Jonathan and me and JD just didn't want much to
do with us in high school, but then we started
(06:52):
to have the same group of friends once we're coming
out of high school.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
But I loved it. I have such great memories from
the young years.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Did you do a lot of winter sports.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Coming from Canada, everybody assumes I love the winter and
I love to get outside and ski and snowboard. I'm
terrible on a board or skiing. I like summer sports.
I should have been born in the Caribbean. Give me
a beach, volleyball or something like you know that I
can do in the summer. I'll take that. But you know,
get outside for ten minutes, build a quick snowman. But
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I grew up in Vancouver, so it was really wet.
So the snow was really really wet, and you couldn't
really roll it to big snowmen like you can on
the East Coast. So we would basically it was wet
and then it would freeze. So we would basically get
like a garbage can lid round flat like this, maybe
an inch or too thick. We would put snow in it.
It would freeze and then we would just stand it
up and it looks like a round snowman. That's how
(07:42):
we would make snowmen where we've come from.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I'm going to do the thing where I go, oh, Canada.
My radio show is in a bunch of Canadian cities,
and so there's some Canadian comedians that I really like.
And I don't know if you consume any Canadian media
at all, but I'm going to do the thing. Have
you seen the Nirvana, not the band, but Nirvana, the movie?
The band those guys are I haven't so freaking funny.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
I haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I know of it, and I look forward to seeing it,
and I've had several people tell me about it.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
But no.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
They also did the BlackBerry, the BlackBerry.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Movie, which the BlackBerry Movie.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, yeah, like that was my thing works on from
Arkansas and people will go, oh, do you know this person?
And I'm like, I don't. I'm just from Arkansas. I
don't know everybody. So I just did that to you
from Canada.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
You did you say, do you know Joe from Canada?
Of course I do.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
He's great.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, we get that all the time. But no, they're great,
Like I was just I did the podcast for Julie Kim.
I don't know if you know Julie Kim, comedian. She's hilarious,
but she's from Vancouver as well, and it's it's kind
of funny. So when I bump into people down here
in LA that I don't realize are from Canada, but
pretty quick you realize. Actually, I bumped into Matthew Lillard yesterday,
you know, the actor Shaggy, and I thought he was
(08:52):
Canadian because his name kept coming up over the years
filming in Canada and whatnot. And I just thought he's
just a really nice guy. And I'm like, oh, he's
obviously Canadian, but no, he's not. I realized I'm wrong.
So you never know.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
So if somebody is so nice, you automatically fill their
Canadian like I felt that it has.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
To be yes, yeah, you know, or they're going to
kill you absorbed.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah yeah, one of the two.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Ye yeah, exactly. I pretend to be nice, but I'm
actually a psycho killer. So look out.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
When you and your brother were getting like through high school,
when did you guys decide you wanted to do a
project together.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Well, you know, we were always go getters, so from
a young young age, our parents saw that that Jonathan
and I. We did everything together. But it's nice when
you're young and trying to figure something out to have
a built in backup. So we supported each other, and
you get more confidence when somebody else is in your corner.
And so we started our first business at seven years old.
I mean we were making these decorative hangers, like weaving
(09:45):
nylon around a hanger with a little rosette and selling
them to family friends door to door. And we realized
we had seen this at a craft sale and we
thought it looked good. We thought we could make some money.
So we were little, you know, wheel earned dealers at
a young age. We started selling them. We started selling
thousands of them, and then we found a woman from
She had a chain of American paraphernalia stores in Japan
and she started buying them by the thousands from us
(10:05):
as well. So at seven years old, without any real
influence from our parents, Johnathan and I were balling our
way to the bank with this hangar business. And then
we got we realized, what's that.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Oh I'm sorry, I was just gonna ask. You got
to keep all the money at seven?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Yeah, oh yeah, whatever.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Growing up on a ranch too, like we would have
we were like the union negotiators with our parents were like, Okay,
we know you got cheap labor because you got three
kids here working in the ranch, but.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
We need to get paid.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
So they would give us like a nickel aboard when
we paint the fences, and then I negotiated up to
twenty five cents a board, and we would clear like
we had an acreage and there were giant like boulders
and rocks, and it was just it wasn't great for
out in the field with the horses out there and stuff.
So instead of my dad spending like one hundred dollars
to get a rock pick, which is like a rake
that goes behind the truck, to get this done by
(10:51):
a professional piece of machinery, he has three young boys,
so he would just send us out to the field
with a bucket to pick these gigantic rocks. So we're like, no,
I need to get to sense a bucket. Then it
was twenty five cents. I'm like, I'm doing this for
fifty cents or a dollar a bucket. And then finally
my dad's like, you're too expensive. I'm going to get
help elsewhere. So we just learned to negotiating and be
go getters. Whatever we made, we kept. We weren't allowed
(11:13):
to just have my parents buy. They wouldn't let us
make them buy us something. If we're at a store,
good earn it and then you can buy it yourself.
And I think that stuck with us as we got older.
So Jonathan and I we had a lot of energy
and we were you know, musical theater, and then we
realized we could entertain if we were clowns for parks
and rec we could entertain and get paid to entertain,
and we had a blast with it. So that's how
(11:34):
we got into entertaining. And then Jonathan started to do
magic and then I got more into the acting side,
and that's sort of what's paved are two different paths
for some of what we do. Property Brothers was literally
just we were flipping houses when we came out out
of high school, just so we weren't struggling artists. He
wanted to be a magician and I wanted to be
an actor. And then all of a sudden, after growing
a real estate company for ten years and I tried
(11:55):
to get back to acting, I just started getting host
auditions as a real estate expert. That's where Property Brothers
came from. I pitched Property Brothers, and then now it's
just funny for me to go full circle to come
back to where I wanted to be acting. I literally
thought when I was younger that I would have been
an action star because I have a martial arts background.
I was an eight time national fight champion, and I
(12:16):
was like, I'm going to get all these action roles,
and I booked nothing. The only thing I ever got
was I got one punched in a David Hasselhoff movie,
and so here I am. Eighteen years later, Tina Feye
put me in one of her series in an action
role fighting Paula Pelly. You know Paula pell so like
me fighting a six year old lady is just a
comedic thing that Tina Faith thought would be great. That
I was seen by eighty seven North, who does Bullet Train,
(12:39):
the fall Guy, Nobody they do all the big action,
splash the actions. They put me in one of their
movies because they saw Tina's that went over really well.
And then this has moved on to some other projects
I have lined up. So it's it's just been a
wild ride. You never know where life's going to take you.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Tell me more about your martial arts background, like when
did you start studying and how competitive did you get
because it sounds like you fought in a lot of tournaments.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Oh yeah, I mean are my older brother he was
in it too, but he wasn't competitive. He did he
kind of like set back and did his own thing.
Jonathan and I almost drove each other to compete and
then to do better. It wasn't like I didn't want
to knock Jonathan down. We pushed each other to do better,
and so we ended up being you know, it would
come down to him and me in the final fights
half the time, and the reps wouldn't even be able
(13:20):
to tell who's who because we're twins and they're like, wait,
who is that this guy?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
What?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
And so we started when we were seven years old.
Same year we started that hangar business, we started in karate.
Our dad literally said you can go into scouts or
you can go into karate, and he made it so
exciting and so we're like, yeah, that one. And then
once we joined, he said you can't quit. And so
in the beginning I didn't like it because just forcing
me into it. Then I saw the fighting and competition side,
(13:44):
and I really got into it, and so I started
as a kid, as a young teen, I started fighting
in the adult tournaments, and for me it was just
a lot of fun. So we did the provincials and
then into the nationals and we did There's Kata, team
kata and then fighting. Jonathan was bad with the form
than I was with the different moves. I was better
with the fighting, and so for me it was just
(14:05):
a natural progression. I saw that as an actor, thinking
it's an asset that most actors don't have. And then
I never got to use it when I was younger,
and so my goal now is before I'm so old
that I can't use it, let's get in there and
kick some ass.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Did you ever consider mma?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I you know, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I did, so I did showdcan karate and iikido when
you look at so for acting, taekwondo is great because
it's very showy and flips and jumps, so we don't
do a lot of that. Like showa can has a
lot of power to strengthen power speed. And then I thought, well,
I like mixed martial arts because if I go up
against the jiu jitsu guy, he's gonna get inside my punches,
like get close to me and he'll take me down,
(14:41):
and I'm useless. So at one point I started doing
a little bit of boxing, a little bit of jiu jitsu,
and just learning a bit of these different things. I
never stuck with it, as silly or vain as it
might sound. The only reason I didn't get more into
mma is I didn't want cauliflower ears. And everybody I
know who's a fighter that gets in to physical sports
like that, they have like crooked nose and these big
(15:03):
chunky ears.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
You can't mess with this.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Hey, I have friends that wrestled, and they have and
their ears are never even perfectly cauliflowered evenly. Because I'm
so ocd I would at least like for them to
be caulliflowered evenly, like one is always.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
A little bit like breaking your one ear, and it's.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
It's a bizarre The cauliflower ear is bizarre. When what
age did you have to stop doing martial arts competitively?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Well, some not that I had to stop. I stopped
when I was in my early twenties. I think it
was because I was getting more into my you know,
I played basketball as well, I played at a college level,
so I wanted to play college and then I was
starting again in my work life, and just life got
in the way, so I stopped training. By the way,
I wanted to wrestle as well. When I was in
elementary school, I was wrestling. I was really tall and skinny,
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and I kept just picking up the other kid and
throwing them down, and I kept losing, and I'm like,
I'm obviously beating this kid. How am I losing? But
They're like, your technique was not right. You can't pick
them up and drop them. And I'm like, okay, this
is not for me if I'm obviously stronger than this
kid and I can't win. But yeah, the tournament stuff,
(16:09):
it was a blast, but it took up a lot
of time because when you train for the national team
and then you're on the road, it just eats up
a ton of time. So theater, I would still do
theater if I didn't, if it didn't take such a
huge chunk of my time because I'm constantly filming, whether
it's acting or hosting. I would love to dive back
into theater. That would be just the most exciting thing
for me.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
As a ballplayer. Give me your best high school stat line.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Then well, my best stat was I was a forty
three inch vertical so when I this is just out
of high school when I was training. So I did
two seasons where I played pre season and then I
injured myself, so I never got to play in season.
But I could jump and touch my head on a
ten foot rim I had. You know, my stats were
like seven plus blocks a game. I was a great defender.
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And then I also I'm a lefty, so I would
always you know, rack up. I think I averaged around
twelve or fourteen points a game, but I would I
would take people from the side they didn't expect, and
I have nice long arm, so I would block all
the big guys download from karate. I had a really
strong center of gravity, so they would park me up
against a six foot eight guy down low and I
would just I would push him out because I was stronger.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
See.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I think this is the true that more people need
to know. Like we have no idea that you're basically
newt Rotney. We just know you were trying to sell houses.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I always, you know, I just need to get out
there and show people that if even on property Brothers,
if someone doesn't go with my offer on the house,
I will body slam you. I will take you down
off the top ropes.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Who do you see doing acting movies, shows, whatever?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
That you like what they do and not that you
are trying to mimic what they do, but you're a
bit inspired by what they do because you do something
somewhat similar.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Well, you know, there are so many actors, you know.
For me, I like diversity, Like I don't want to
just be an action guy. I don't want to just
be a comedian comic guy. I want to show that
I have ranged. I studied acting to show the dramatic side.
So for me, the diversity of roles is important. So
my production company, we're producing some roles that will really
showcase what I can do, and then I'm sort of
(18:06):
seeded into other projects that are known projects. Alan Richson
is an example. You know, he does Reacher and he
has that big film on Netflix that just came out.
I can't remember the name of it, but he's something
I think is amazing. He came in first as an actor,
and it's just from my perspective, I don't know his
whole story, but he was just a giant guy. Like
he's like Dwayne Johnson, He's just a giant guy. People
(18:26):
thought that was amazing and intimidating. But he's really studied,
Like he's really studied his acting or he's improved his
acting so that he has emotional range. He's also really
really hit the business side of it in a smart
way so that he's able to grow the kind of projects,
work on the kind of projects he wants to do.
Dwayne Johnson is the same. I love that he has
that range for comedy in action. Ryan Reynolds another amazing Canadian.
(18:49):
I just love that he is topped into the business
side and they've become marketing experts, so he's grown his
brand and his bank ability on how they market the brand.
But yeah, I mean, the big thing for me on
the action front is I'm not a big, brooding you know,
I'm not Jason Statham or.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
The Rock kind of a guy. I'm sort of a
goofy dad.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I like to be, you know, sort of a bit
of a silly dad kind of a character. But why
can't that guy be the one that kicks ass? So
to me, that's a more relatable character instead of having
to be this big, huge, muscle bound guy that the
kicks ass. So yeah, I mean, I'll lean in where
it's there, where the opportunities are, and I just like
working with great people and story, for me is the
most important thing. I've been pitched projects that are comedies
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where they're just writing for a joke and a setup,
or I've had actions where they're just writing the action
but the story is so weak. The character needs to
have some sort of range or arc, and the story
has to make sense before any of that the rest
that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Well, now I'm curious what your workout was before we
started doing this, because you were following with proteins, so
that means you have a plan.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
So what were you just doing before we came on?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
So yeah, today it was a heavy push day, so
chest and uh, you know, try steps shoulders. So I
have a I can't talk about it yet, but I
have a film coming up in the new year that
is an action comedy, and then I have another project,
a series that's another action and so I gotta get
rid of some of that dad weight down low and
(20:17):
I need to kind of like keep these things going.
So I was eating my my beef and broccoli post
workout snack. How do you look to grams of protein?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
How are you looking without a shirt on?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
You know, do you want me to get naked right now?
Is that what you're asking me?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Not, not directly. I was just kind of dancing around it.
Are they are these? Because then again, there's so much action,
there's so much you're such an athlete. Do you have
to have like a ripped up body to do these
these these roles?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I mean, I just you don't have to. I just
did a movie again. It's son announced. Ye, I'll announced
in the next couple couple of months, but it's I
was leading a in a rom com and uh for that,
I didn't have any shirt off scenes. I'm like, good,
I can keep the cushion. But what I have coming
in the new year, it definitely I need to whip
myself back into shape. But if I feel better that
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way anyway. You know, I have a two year old
and the four year old. And as you will soon
relate as yours gets older. When you think you have
time for you, ah, you don't. It's taken away from you.
So that every time I would be ready to sneak
over to the gym. I have the gym at the
house here and I have everything you can possibly need.
Right as I about to go, the kids start crying,
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or they need something, or they poop a diaper. So
it really affects your routine that you can get into
to stay healthy. But now lind and I are getting
back into it where you know, a little plates we
get my few workouts in. It just makes me feel better.
I need to play more basketball. That's the one thing.
I don't move like I used to when I was
on the court. And you know I'm forty eight. You've
got to keep those ankles pliable.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
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Speaker 2 (22:00):
We build a pick a ball court here where I live,
and playing solo pickleball is a burn and a grind.
We have a gym here too, and I try to
hit it a few times a week.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
But if I did play solo pickleball, like that is
almost as much as basketball.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Oh, I mean, I play ping pong in I sweat
like like literally, I'm so competitive with everything that I'll
sweat and pickleball is no different. I actually just bought
into a pickleball company up in Canada, and I'm excited
because I have large aspirations for how we're growing across Canada.
But for me, sport is it's unlike most other things
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for how it can bring people together. It can improve
your health, and it can also improve your state of mind,
your confidence, your your self assurance, your drive. That's what
That's what basketball did, Karate did for me, and so
I'm excited. My little guys, like Parker was not the athlete.
He was more of the theater kid, you know, you'd
love to sing. But now he's starting to get more
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into sports. So all I do is I leave balls
in every room of the house so that they can
play with it. And our little two year old, she
just came out swinging like she looks like a little
baseball player or a soccer player. So they if either of
them played basketball, I'll be over the moon. But I've
realized I'm not going to force them into what I
want them to do. I'll just support whatever they like.
I just hope they like sports.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Something that I wanted to do if I had enough
success was to have a sports team, like own a
sports team, and so I invested in I'm hoping Nashville
gets a pro baseball team, so I invested way early,
so if we do hit it, I'll be a very
fractional owner. But I did buy part of a major
league pickleball team just because I wanted to own part
of a team.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
What about that you have any sports teams?
Speaker 4 (23:35):
I do?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah, I mean so, I've been pitched most sports, the
Major League, table tennis, the pickleball majors, they just didn't
quite work out. I was also pitched like chicken and
pickle and a couple of like restaurants slash pickleball locations.
But what I bought into is a hockey team, a
major junior. Michael Boobley and I are owners of a
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hockey team in Vancouver, the Vancouver Giants, and we actually
just announced on Amazon where we have a series that
will be following our team. It's called Hometown Giants, so
that'll air in the next couple of months. But for me, again,
it's that's even better because Mike and I are both
from Vancouver.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
We grew up out here.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
This is us supporting our community and the same way
like you're saying you want to have baseball come to Nashville,
I want the NBA to come back to Vancouver. I
have lofty goals to grow from. I have pickleball, now
I have hockey. What else can we bring to my hometown.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Is there a love for the Grizzlies? They're gone, but
do you guys want that back.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I don't want the Grizzlies back. I'm not looking to have,
you know, Big Country come back, but I would love
to have a team, and I would love to there's enough.
I think we have enough population in this area, and
you know, Seattle's right there as well, like we have
enough that we could draw a lot of people to games.
So for me, it makes sense that we could have
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Canada could have two teams, the Raptors and the West
Coast team.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I haven't thought about.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Its just exciting.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Like I've always loved sports, I've loved and on the
business side of my brain, I love the logistics of
how a franchise works, where a league works, and so
now to have a little taste of that with Major
Junior for hockey and then pickle ball is different because
we have locations for the brand ipop that are expanding
from the West Coast out. But it's maybe this you
and I will talk, We'll talk baseball, we'll talk basketball.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
I think when of the last time I saw you.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
We were playing in a celebrity baseball or softball game
down in Nashville.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
We were a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
And the first thing, I haven't thought of Brian Reeves
in a long time, So, I mean, it's probably been
fifteen years since I've thought a big country Brian Reeves
and you bringing them up. That's a funny memory. And
then two, yeah, we were playing ball and that's when
I asked you, Hey, should I even do Dancing with
the Stars because I was really on the fence about
it and.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I was working for American Idol.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
And I've credited you with saying, hey, I had never
danced before, so I think, and you told me you
had a really great time at it, and I didn't
realize you were such an athlete. Like a little bit,
I feel like you sandbag me because had I known
that you had done martial arts and played basketball and
all this, I would have said, yeah, but you're naturally
a gifted athlete. But I credit that conversation that we
had to me doing the show.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Period.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Remind me, how far did you make it?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I won?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Oh, you one year year I forgot that. Oh my god,
you beat me out. I came what was I? I
made it to the finals and I came fourth.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Yeah, I won, but you were a way, way, way
better dancer than I was. Who was your partner?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Emma Slater was my partner? But you know my problem
was so Frankie Munez and I were the two that
made it the finals that were not dancers. And again
I'm not a good dancer anyway. But the Jordan Fisher
who won is a professional dancer. He's a Disney kid
and he's a dancer singer. And then Lindsay Sterling, who
came second, is a dancing violinist. So there's no way
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that I was going to compete with Lindsay and Jordan
with their their grace and their movements. And Lend the
one judge who was there from our season, he used
to make fun of me, said, what's with your lobster claus?
What are you always doing this with your hands? You
look like lobster claws. I'm like, well, I'm not graceful.
So all I was doing it with Emma is I
would do strength moves because I was stronger than all
the other dancers, so I would pick her up and
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flip her, I would spin her around. At one point,
the producer came over and said, I think you're gonna
kill Emma. Can we be careful here? And Emma was like,
no more more, it's so good, And we ended up
being I don't know what your dynamic hid.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Who was your partner, Sharna?
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Okay, yeah, so I don't know what your.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Dynamic was, but like Emma and I were the funny
duo and so we you know, we had heart, we
had We had a lot of heart, but just a
lot of goofy moments that really people loved our Sharna
is amazing too.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah, our dynamic was you know how you see like
the woman wearing all black letters that whips the dude
with the ballgag in his mouth. That was our dynamic
because she was just whipping me around the whole time
because I had no idea what I was doing and
she's hardcore and so I that was us, me just
every week, just gasping for air.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
So basically, you guys used a fifty shades inspirations, whereas
we used like a Ben Stiller move as our inspiration.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah, Emma is like the greatest though. You got so
fortunate with her as a partner.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
No, I did so.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I actually, you know, they sort of asked, I don't
know if they did for you, but they said, like,
who's your dream partner from watching and whatever, and I
just said, you know, she she's the one that my
mom is her favorite. I had watched a little bit,
not as much as my mom, but I loved Emma's
funny attitude, but also Sasha.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
It was there too.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
It was her hobby at the time, and he when
I was dancing, he was one of the troops, so
he didn't have a partner, and so he actually would
come from the men's men's perspective and give me a
couple of pointers too, So it was almost like I
had a little bit of a two and one, which
kind of helped me. But the only reason I did
Dancing with the Stars, I don't know if I told
you this was it was just a few months before
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our wedding and Linda and I were getting married, so
this was two thousand and eight. This would have been
twenty seventeen or two thousand early twenty eighteen, and I
said to them, I'll do Dancing with the Stars. But Emma,
you need to help teach Linda and me our first dance.
And I didn't want to do like a boring first dance.
I want to do a mashup of a few different songs.
So we're going to start with the really generic basic
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dance and then a scratch track, and then we moved
into genuine Pony, and then we did a couple other songs.
So in our first dance, Sasha or Sasha Farber and
Emma Slater they taught us the flips, the different moves
and it was just so much fun energy, and then
they helped choreograph herre all we had ten bridesmaids and
ten groomsmen. They all came in and joined us for
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this big, epic final dance and it was the most
fun dance party you would ever have at a wedding.
I don't even remember half the wedding. I was so exhausted,
but it was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
How did that turn out? As far as the big
wedding dance? Did everybody kind of nail it?
Speaker 1 (29:42):
So the funny thing is we make fun. So Linda's
there are five siblings on her side she has. They're
the four sisters and a brother, and so one of
her sisters messed up because she started to come over
for the group dance while Linda and I were still
in the middle of our compilation single dance just the
two of us and one of her friends. Her our
bridesmaids did the same thing. And then on my side
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a bunch of my guys. They are not dancers, so
they didn't screw it up. But it wasn't really as
it didn't look as good as what the girls were doing,
but again, who cares. It was just for fun. Linda
got her heel stuck in her dress, but even with
her heel stuck in her dress, she still did I
did a spitting flip and she still did the whole
thing and carried up the entire dance. So it was Yeah,
it was hardcore. I'll share I have a link to
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it somewhere, maybe my team can share it with you.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
But that's all it. We just wanted fund.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
We were in Pulia, we went to Italy, we did
our wedding was ten days with all our family had
three hundred and five family and friends with us, and
we just did every day. It was a different activity,
karaoke nights, the big party, dance. We did another thing
that was just basically like a friend of ours. If
you ever heard a fitness marshal on YouTube, he basically
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came out and did this big dance and then we
all took cake and it was just a big like
throwing cake at everyone party in the middle, just goofing
off like a bunch of kids.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
The Bobby cast will be right back. This is the
Bobby Cast.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
With the show.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
When did that actually hit to where you started to
see yourself a bit in pop culture?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
So the show hit fast, but the pop culture side
of it didn't come for a few years. So we
had originally pitched. Cineflix was the production company who originally
was interested. They saw me for a show called Realtor Idol,
which was basically realtors like American idols, like realtors competing
to be realtors, and it was a terrible show idea.
But then they liked me, and then I pitched them
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Property Brothers and that this is interesting. So they pitched
the show to HGTV in the US, which is the
largest home you know, home and garden type destination in
the world. They turned it down because they only wanted
husband wife combos at the time, and then they pitched
it to HGTV in Canada, who turned it down, and
then a networking Canada called w Network, the Women's network.
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They picked it up and the executive there her exact
words for green lighting the show was two young, hot
guys and tight jeans renovating, Yeah, we'll buy that show.
And so we started airing. Within three weeks we were
the top show of the night. Within three months, we
were the top show on the entire network. So with
those stats, we went back to the US and they
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bought the show, and then again within three months in
the US, we became the top show on AGTV and
we've been there for well eighteen years. We've been doing
the show now eighteen nineteen years. So I would say
after the first few years where it really started to
explode in the US, and then we exploded globally because we're.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
One hundred and sixty plus countries.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
That's where we started to notice no matter where we were,
we were being referenced. I think John Oliver referenced us
again on his Sunday show this last Sunday and It's Fun.
SNL has done like ten spoofs on us, and we've
been there for one skit.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
It just makes it fun because I don't take myself
seriously and I don't care if somebody's making fun of
me or inspired by me. I just want you to
enjoy what we do.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I have a friend that's vet veterinarian, and so she
gets a lot of people. They're constantly asking her questions
about animals and just expecting that she's going to give
them a lot of free advice and help on animals.
Does this happen with you and people in your life
that want house advice?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Absolutely, it absolutely happens all the time. In fact, I'll
catch friends that keep avoiding me going to their house.
They want to come to our house. I'm like, why
let's go to your house this time or whatever, and
it's because they're embarrassed. They don't want me to come
and judge their home. I'm like, don't worry about it.
I'm not going to judge you. Well, I will judge you,
but you know I'm not going to make fun of you.
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I'll give you pointers if you want, No, I won't
judge it's.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
It is funny.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Or if if I ever have to hop into like
a home depot, I'll literally be a couple of asles
over and someone will hear my voice and they'll recognize
me by my voice, and they'll be running over with
their like kitchen plans and ask me for inspiration. And
that's great. I mean, I love We've had twelve and
a half thousand products in the home space. We love it,
and I have a real estate portfolio, and for me,
the main thing is everyone deserves to live in a safe, happy,
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healthy home, affordable home. And we're in a time right
now where everywhere, all around North America and a lot
of parts of the world is a housing crisis. So
hopefully I can do my little bit to make people
enjoy where they live and feel inspired by where they live.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Do you do the thing that I do where if
I see a house, I zillow it to see how
much it would cost.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Well, yeah, but I probably have more filters than that,
Like I like to see what because if you zillow it,
you know that's what other homeowners or potential buyers are doing.
That doesn't mean it's the value of the house, and
so I have more criteria to actually get to what
the value is. But in the minds of those other people,
I'll know that's what they think the value is because
a lot of times Zilo give It gives you a
generic rating based on the stats of the area, but
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it doesn't always take into account renovations that were done
in other houses and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Are you just curious how much stuff costs or can
you just kind of bird dog it and go, I
know how much the house costs by driving by it.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Most of the time, if it's a market like here
in LA where I really know it, or in a
lot of Canadian markets. At one point when I was
in Nashville affair bit working, I could tell you. But
in an area that I don't know, pretty quickly, I
can figure out the value within a matter of you know,
twenty minutes, because I'll pull up stats and I'll do
a quick analysis, whereas most people will just look at
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a Zillo number. But I find it fun still. I mean,
I love seeing an old house that's run down and
knowing I'm like, I could take twenty grand, or I
could take fifty grand, and I could make that thing
sparkle like a diamond. But a lot of people just
don't have that, So you see really run down streets.
In fact, last year in La I just for funzies
for social I just did a thing where I just
randomly went up to people's houses and just fixed some things.
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And some people are like, no, go away, I'm going
to call the police. I'm like, I'm offering to pay
for this and do it for free, so if you want,
and I did, what did I do?
Speaker 3 (35:52):
So?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
I fixed some windows, broken windows, broken door, swapped out
some appliances, an old water damage vanity, some yard work.
It's just fun because people don't expect it. But that's
the easy part for me. If you just bring me
over to your house, I'll give you nice inspiring ideas.
I'm not saying it wouldn't cost a lot to fix
some of these things, but at least I can give
you ideas.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
If someone wanted to hire you as Drew to come
and look at their house as the celebrity Drew.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Have they ever tried to do that?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Yeah, all the time, But I don't do that, like
the only time I'll do something like that. This year,
I've done two where it was a charity charities that
I work with, and so I offered as a you know,
I think we raised like one hundred grand or whatever.
And I offered to do that as a part of it.
But if you know, if it's just friends that are asking,
I have no problem just helping them out. But I'm
not going to be able to take on someone's full project.
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I have too much on my plate. But I also
have a big team, like we've I've built up like
I have each city that I work in, I have,
you know, six to eight contractors, I have sub trades,
I have designers, so a lot of times I would
pull a team together that would do most.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Of the leg work.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Have you made a billion dollars?
Speaker 1 (36:57):
I mean, if you look at her two to the point,
if you look at our product line, We've sold billions
of dollars of our products. I mean, when we have
that many products, it's it adds up fast. So yeah,
I mean it's I like that. I like that I
can grow my business and I like that I can
do good for people as well. At the same time,
it feels better when you can do both.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
I think you're low key, so so rich. There's a difference.
And before we started, you were like, asked me anything.
So I wouldn't have asked that to anybody that I
wasn't cool with. But I think you're low key, so
so so rich that people don't even understand how rich
Drew is.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
You know, I'm rich in life. There we go.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
No, I don't like for me, I don't care like
like Yes, I care about growing businesses. That's my thing,
and that's why I look at all the things that
are important to me. Our production company, our property, brothers, brand,
I love that. But the sports side that I was
telling you, with the hockey team whatnot, that is a
huge part of my life.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Sport is a big part.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
And the acting side in the scripted production company, Paperhouse Entertainment,
those are huge things for me. And so I just
want to focus on passion and I want to focus
on time with the kids and Linda, And as long
as I can do all those things, I'll keep I'll
keep at it. The moment I start to think that
I'm just working to make money, I'm out.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
So you mentioned how you grew up and now your
kids are grow up completely different, and I'm going through
this now at least trying to think of how I'm
going to approach it.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
But how do you make sure that your kids aren't jerks?
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Whenever they're growing up with a different lifestyle than what
you did where you had to go out and work
hard for everything.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
It's hard, and it's not hard, I guess because Linda
and I are just who we are right like, like
we don't you know, there's no ego and I'm not
into that hole when people are like, oh the la scene,
not into that at all. Our core group of friends
here like are just such amazing, down to earth people.
It's who we surround ourselves with, I think, and that
I think will help shape the kids. Again, I'm the same.
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I'm trying really hard to be a present dad. Like
you know, if I get pulled away for a film
for a month, that's really hard. If I'm a way
for the kids, so Linda really tries to work with
me and bring them so I at least see them
for part of it, I want to be. I think
that's gonna be helped, that's gonna really help shape the kids.
I want to show them how much I love Linda
and that affection because I think that's important for the
kids to see. And I want to have them surrounded
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by I want them to surrounded by kids from all backgrounds.
I mean, I don't want them to be in some
elite private school where it's a lot of stuffy attitude.
I want them to be real. It's funny, Jonathan said
something to me. I think it was last year.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
You know.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
You know Disneyland or Disney World. How you can get
the guide, like the VIP guide, so they'll take you
around and it fast tracks you basically.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
But you pay a fair bit for it.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Once you do that, it's like sitting courtside at a
Lakers game, Like once you do that, you can never
sit in another seat. Like it's just the best thing ever.
Jonathan said, No, with our kids, I'm gonna make them
just do the regular ticket and they have to wait
in lines, which could be like two hours or three hours,
because I don't want them to feel privileged. And I said, hey, Jonathan,
fuck that. I'm actually going to give my kids the
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VIP because I don't want to punish myself.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
I'll find other ways to make sure the kids.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Don't feel privileged. So, yeah, I just don't want to.
I don't want to for myself, but I do want
to make sure that they grew up grounded, and we
do a lot of charitable work. We take our kids
to like a sense of home, which is a charity
we support, Heal the Bay, and so we've done beach cleanups.
We've packaged the household like a full house of furniture
and decor for families and given it to the families,
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and we brought the kids to that too, So that
makes the difference.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
I told my wife I wanted to present some adversity
to our baby, and she's four months old, and I've
invented a baby weighted vest to just make it a
little harder on her. She didn't go for that.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
You know, though, it isn't a bad idea because when
they're trying, when they're so like, ah, a little bit
of weight on the chests as they're trying to sleep
is actually not a bad thing.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
It helps me, you know.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
This is like full weights in the vest, like making
it hard to crawl, like you don't get everything.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
You know, Yes, you work hard now, and then they'll
become a they'll either never be able to walk or
you're going to make them into the ultimate athlete one
or the other.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
All right, two final things.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
And I just wanted to go through because I was
looking at the shows that are coming on, and what
would dislike for you to tell me the difference in
these shows, so I have four of them. Number one
is Property Brothers under Pressure.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
So Property Brothers under Pressure is you know, if you
think of how we've helped people over the years with
buying and renovating home or trying to figure out what
to do. We're in a time right now where there
is a housing crisis and people can't it's just so
much to tackle. They can't even wrap their head around
how they could live in a home that functions for
their family, how they could afford to have the perfect
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home that helps them, you know, the kids thrive, and
so with under pressure. The last season, we have some
families that came together, like two sisters, they brought their
families together to get one house because that's how they
could afford it. We have other other families that lost
with two families that lost their homes in the fire
and so they were building back their lives. We have
other families that had to build in guest suites because
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the only way for them to afford to have space
for them in the city where they were was to
have a rental income. So that's what it is. It
is us helping try and paint the picture for people
in the most costant effective way possible in a time
when they're under pressure financially, to show them how they
can still thrive in life. Everyone should be able to
just take a sigh and relax when they're at home.
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When you're stressed because of where you live, it's not fun.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
The second one is don't hate your house with the
Property Brothers, so.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
Don't hate your house again.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
These are slight different iterations if you were to think
of if you're to think of Jeff Ross coming in
to roast your house. There was a little bit of
element of that because a lot of people, you know,
they just they're done with their home. They hate their home.
So that was right before under pressure, that's just the
show that we did, and so we would come in
and in the most loving way. It's kind of pointing
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out the things that really need to work. And the
homeowners are also saying, like, I'm beyond done with this house.
They just want to leave and find something else, and
we were showing people how just no, don't hate the house.
I'll show you how you could love this again. You
don't have to go and spend on a different property. Plus,
when you think about it, when you sell and then buy.
There are so many different fees, taxes, different costs that
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you're paying, so you're losing a lot of money on
the transactions. Stay with your house. Put that money towards
fixing it and changing it. So even for example, there
was a family that had two kids that were almost
like they were late teens, almost adults. They had a
three bedroom They had a two bedroom home, so the
kids were sharing a bedroom. So we showed them how
to reconfigure their home. We added a nice big bedroom
(43:23):
for the other kids, so now they have their own
space and it still worked perfectly. So it's just helping
us reimagine. At the end of the day, we've had
six thousand shows and so I mean, it's a little
obnoxious and some of them feel very much in the
same vein, but they're just tiny tweaks. What Jonathan I
try to do is we try to bring to the
audience what they're asking for through social media or the
(43:45):
feedback that the network gets. And some people might just
be like enough Property Brothers already. Other people liked the
little tweaks.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
Okay, I got two more, though I need backed by
the bros.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
Brother versus brother, So backed by the bros.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Have you watched Shark Tank, Yes, and then like the
Canadian version is dragons Den. I'm actually one of the dragons.
And so when you look at the dragons or the
sharks and the people are pitching them businesses and they
invest backed by the bros. Was in some ways that
in a house form. People were pitching us their real
estate investments that they were going under on like they
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just were over their heads. And some people this was
like building like a triplex or a four unit building.
Other people it was a commercial space or at least space,
and they were just losing their shirt and they didn't
know what to do and where to go. So we
would come in, we would assess these investments and then
we would bring some you know a lot of times
we're bringing our own materials or our own contacts, our contractors,
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our designers to help these people get over the hurdle
where they were so they actually had a thriving investment.
Some of the homeowners or some of these investors would
not listen. There's this one young guy. I was laughing because,
oh it was his name John. I think his name
was actually John, because he reminded me of a little
Jonathan my brother. He wouldn't listen to other people. He
wouldn't listen to us. He thought, at nineteen years old,
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he had it all figured out. He had this investment
property down in he was Malibu. Anyway, he would not
take our advice. He just kept overspending and doing things
that were just stupid things to do. And it made
for a great episode in the end. And I'm sure
he'll have some successes. But he's a kid that, like
in high school, he started like some sort of a
product sales business through social media, and he had crazy
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sales when he was just a kid, and he took
that money and put it into a property investment and
then he was just blowing it. So yeah, all the
stories were really fun, but that show is unlike any
other because it was actually investments that we were helping
people with versus just helping somebody.
Speaker 4 (45:40):
With their own home.
Speaker 3 (45:41):
The other one on my list is Celebrity IOU.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Celebrity IOU to Me is such a great show because
this is us helping huge celebrities. You know, Brad Pitt,
Viola Davis, Michael Boublay, you know these massive names. We've
done seventy different major celebrities, Jay Leno, and we're helping
them give back to somebody who's really important to them
in their life, whether it was, you know, like Halle
(46:04):
Berry was her elementary school teacher, or like Michael Boublay
was the two nurses that helped his grandfather before he passed.
And so we would go in and we would renovate
these people's homes and so for us, it's really cool
because the audience gets to see a different side of
these celebrities. And what I think is really amazing is
these celebrities don't get paid. Like if you look at
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a Brad Pitt, like what does he get like a
million dollars to show up for five seconds for something
like he's such a big name. We don't pay any
of these talent to come and do this. We just
work with them to give back to somebody they love.
And I think it really shows how much heart these
these celebrities have to be able to to be vulnerable.
I made Brad Pitt cry, like that's you got to
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be doing something right if you can make a celebrity
like that cry.
Speaker 2 (46:49):
My final last question only comes because you just mentioned this.
You're on the Canadian version of Shark Tank.
Speaker 4 (46:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
So the original version is the Canadian version, and in
the UK version it's dragons Den, and so I'm one
of the dragons and it's been great.
Speaker 4 (47:05):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
I mean for me, just like in regular life, I
get pitched, especially when it comes to home real estate
design products or services. I get pitched on the daily
by different businesses. But what I like with with dragons
Den is that it takes it beyond that because there
are other areas of my life, like the supporting side
we've talked.
Speaker 4 (47:24):
About, or tech technology.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
I love it and I want to get more involved
on that side of investment. So it's it's sort of
like a curation of these amazing entrepreneurs that are pitching us,
and that this is my second season doing it and
I love it.
Speaker 3 (47:38):
Do you have to use your own money?
Speaker 4 (47:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (47:40):
Yeah, it's all your own money and you have to
do your own due diligence and everything, and it's just
like like again, I have like the way we're Our
corporate offices are in Nashville, our production companies out of Toronto,
but we've built up a team that deals with the
investment side of what we do as well. And this
is just one extra compt and with that, I love it.
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I mean, honestly, Dragon's Den and the Dragons too, Like
if you look at like Arlene Dickinson and some of
them that have been there forever, they're so savvy and
they've done this for so long. But it's really fun
to be able to see what I've learned over the
years from business, you know, from the production company to
the real estate company and whatnot, and then to kind
of blend with these other greats that have been doing
this for so long. It's fascinating.
Speaker 3 (48:22):
Dragons Den's kind of a more baller name than Shark Tank, so.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
I think if I recall, it's that whoever has Shark Tank,
I can't remember who is that ABC or who has that.
They didn't want to pay the license or whatever for
dragons Den, so they just created their own version, Shark
Tank to come after it. So some of the Sharks
have been Dragons as well in the past.
Speaker 4 (48:44):
But I love it. I mean, both shows are amazing.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
I can watch it over and over again, and just
the terrible pitches when everybody comes in pitching, oh, my
company's worth ten million dollars, what are your sales? Well,
we haven't had any sales yet, but it's worth ten
million dollars. I'm like why, and they're like, I've watched
every episode of the show that I'm like, well, then
why are you coming and pitching a stupid pitch like that?
Speaker 4 (49:04):
Come on, Drew.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
I really appreciate the time, and I'm looking forward to
seeing what you're doing in the acting space. I know
you've got stuff that's going to be announced soon, but
I'm really excited about that for you.
Speaker 4 (49:13):
Yeah. Thanks man.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
Yeah, there's a whole lot of things coming up in
the next little bit. It'd be fun. So hopefully I'll
make it down to Nashville again sometimes soon pop on
something down there.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
Yeah, I would love to see it, Drew. Thank you
for the time, man, rooting for you. You don't need
my rooting, but I'm rooting for you. You're always so
so nice to see and you were always so kind
to me.
Speaker 3 (49:28):
So thanks, Drew.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
And if you do need baby advice, I am here.
I have the longest list and I've tested all the products,
car seats, strollers. If you need advice, I can tell
you what's best for traveling, what's best for nap time.
Speaker 4 (49:43):
I got you.
Speaker 3 (49:43):
You have a baby line. Do you guys have a
baby line?
Speaker 1 (49:45):
We have some products, there are kids products, but we
don't have a specific baby line per se. But yeah,
it's it's it's in the works, it's growing.
Speaker 3 (49:54):
I'm sure it is. Drew. Thanks man. I hope you
have a great day.
Speaker 5 (49:56):
Thanks buddy, thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast production
You know Disneyland or Disney World, how you can get
the guide like the VIP guide. Jonathan said, No, with
our kids, I'm going to make them just do the
regular ticket and they have to wait in lines which
could be like two hours or three hours, because I
don't want them to feel privileged. And I said, hey, Jonathan,
that I'm actually going to give my kids the VIP
because I don't want to punish myself.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Hey guys, we're going to talk with Drew Scott to
is one of the brothers from the Property Brothers, one
of the twins that you for sure know that you've
either watched one or all their shows religiously or maybe
like myself in a dentist chair occasionally. They're super nice.
I've been fortunate enough to spend some time with Drew.
He's actually the one that I would say, convince me
(00:49):
to do Dancing with the Stars back in the day,
and we do talk about that. But just a super
talented guy. He is very much an actor. He's very active.
He does more martial arts all that we get into
and even how Em and his brother started which they've
been kind of hustling since they were seven years old
and they have so many shows. And he says this too.
(01:09):
He's like, we have so many shows. But Property Brothers
under pressure, that's one of them. Don't hate your house
with the Property Brothers. And this is HGTV and also
HBO Max and all those properties well of the Property Brothers.
But yeah, here he is. This is Drew Scott, one
of the Property Brothers. All right, I'm going to bring
(01:30):
on Drew Scott from the Property Brothers, who I really like.
And I like you on camera, but I like you
in person. I feel like when you're by yourself you only.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Get to shine. You ever feel like just sometimes you
want to be by yourself? Drew?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
You know, I agree with you if you ever feel
that where your twin brother just drags you down, He
just brings up the worsting and you just want to
kick him to the curb so you can really grow
in life.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah, I hear you. Do you ever think no, it's
it's been a while there.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, you ever feel like because when you're in your
together you definitely have a cadence and a thing, but
when you're by yourself you get to just be.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
A little more free at times. Do you feel that way?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I mean in general. You know, we've done everything, like
most of our lives, we've worked together. You know, we
went to school together. Obviously, we played together, we have
businesses together, and everybody you know, will tend to lump
you into you have to be with your brother. The
first thing people say when they see me is, where's
your brother? Like, I have no idea. We don't sleep
in bunk beds anymore, but it's but it is nice
(02:29):
to do our own thing. I mean, Jonathan just posted
on social he's got a talk show that he's he
announced that he's working on and that's super exciting and
he's really good at it. And then for me on
the acting front and getting back into that side, it
just lets you shine and your individual things. So it's
not that everything has to be together.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
So are you going and taking classes and kind of
like redunking yourself fully into acting or are you just
already good and you're just going Oh no.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I mean I'm sort of like the no ego lifelong student,
like I love training to improve. In fact, just last
week I just popped up into improv I mean with
what we do with our TV shows, we are improvising
because we don't have a set script and I like that,
but I haven't done stand up, sketched improv in eighteen
plus years. So for me to dive back into that's
fun any time, you.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Know, I'll still say too.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Even though I'm on TV and I have been for
twenty years, I'm not like I'll still put something on
tape because people don't know me as an actor. So
I work with my acting coach that I've had for
twenty years, will work a scene and then I'll submit it.
So it's fun. Though again, I just want to do
what I love to do. I love property brothers, I
love helping people. We've done six hundred and fifty houses
for families now with our shows, six hundred and fifty episodes.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
But I love scripted, I love story, I love.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Acting, and to dive in on that side is just
that really fills the bucket.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I feel.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's sort of completing what I've put on the back
burner for the last eighteen years.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
How vulnerable does improv feel?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
See, it's funny, which maybe you can relate because now
you're a parent. When I was younger, I was more
insecure and I wouldn't let myself go. Now as an adult,
you know, I have two kids and I'm in my forties.
I have no problem letting go. I don't care if
I look silly. I mean I look silly. I walk
down the street with my kids walking like a monkey
because my little guy finds it funny. I don't care
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what people buy standards think. I'm just a dad trying
to have a good time with my kid. And when
I stepped back in to the class or do improv,
it was great. It was refreshing to feel that I
could tap into things. And again, you're not have you
done improv?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah, so you know you're not.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You know you don't need improv to try and be funny.
You just want to be in the moment right. You
want to react, and if you're doing it well and
you're setting yourself free, it will be funny, it will
get emotional, different things will happen, and so it's almost
like free therapy.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Where I felt the most vulnerable is doing stand up
because you're alone and everything depends on what you are doing.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Absolutely, I find I had done just a little stand
up in our sort of Vancouver and surrounding area, nothing huge,
and I wouldn't say I was great at it because.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
You got to re the room a bit.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You have to have, you know, a bunch of your
jokes or whatever kind of stand up you like to do,
ready to go, and from one audience to the next
can be like complete opposites. You have no idea what
the one audience is gonna like. And so I didn't
like that as much. I just like being in the
moment and improvising. I love sketch comedy as well, because
at least you have something you can work through and
play off with with other talent. But I don't know
(05:23):
if I would do I don't know if I would
do stand up again. We did a thing with Oh
my gosh, what's his name David Spade a few years back.
That was just a comedic thing that was a little
bit of a like they wanted he was in our ear,
Jonathan in my ear, and we did stand up with
an audience that didn't know that David was in our
ear giving us the jokes and he was setting us
up to fail. So all these people in the audience
(05:45):
just thought, oh my god, this fucking property brother sucks
at stand up, And it was very funny once you
knew that they were in our ear, but the audience
just thought I was terrible.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
What was your homelight growing up?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I mean we had We grew up in a ranch,
so it was sort of like, you know, suck it
up and get out there and do the work. So
we were from a young age we were really hands
on physical with the ranch.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Our parents were great.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I mean they give us. You know, we don't come
from money or anything like that, so we really had to.
My parents worked really hard to be able to put
a roof over our heads and have us you know,
we did karate, and we did different sports and stuff,
but they're always encouraging, but they made us do the work.
There was never a shortcut. And we also couldn't start
something and quit right away. You're interested in karate, great,
you can never quit. And it was like that for
(06:30):
most things. So it gave me as I got older,
it gave me an appreciation for sticking through the tough
because you're not going to get better at something unless
you actually stick through the tough stuff. But yeah, it
was great to have a built in best friend with
Jonathan j D. I think you've met JD and my
older brother as well. We were the annoying little brothers
Jonathan and me and JD just didn't want much to
do with us in high school, but then we started
(06:52):
to have the same group of friends once we're coming
out of high school.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
But I loved it. I have such great memories from
the young years.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Did you do a lot of winter sports.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Coming from Canada, everybody assumes I love the winter and
I love to get outside and ski and snowboard. I'm
terrible on a board or skiing. I like summer sports.
I should have been born in the Caribbean. Give me
a beach, volleyball or something like you know that I
can do in the summer. I'll take that. But you know,
get outside for ten minutes, build a quick snowman. But
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I grew up in Vancouver, so it was really wet.
So the snow was really really wet, and you couldn't
really roll it to big snowmen like you can on
the East Coast. So we would basically it was wet
and then it would freeze. So we would basically get
like a garbage can lid round flat like this, maybe
an inch or too thick. We would put snow in it.
It would freeze and then we would just stand it
up and it looks like a round snowman. That's how
(07:42):
we would make snowmen where we've come from.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I'm going to do the thing where I go, oh, Canada.
My radio show is in a bunch of Canadian cities,
and so there's some Canadian comedians that I really like.
And I don't know if you consume any Canadian media
at all, but I'm going to do the thing. Have
you seen the Nirvana, not the band, but Nirvana, the movie?
The band those guys are I haven't so freaking funny.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
I haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I know of it, and I look forward to seeing it,
and I've had several people tell me about it.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
But no.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
They also did the BlackBerry, the BlackBerry.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Movie, which the BlackBerry Movie.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, yeah, like that was my thing works on from
Arkansas and people will go, oh, do you know this person?
And I'm like, I don't. I'm just from Arkansas. I
don't know everybody. So I just did that to you
from Canada.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
You did you say, do you know Joe from Canada?
Of course I do.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
He's great.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, we get that all the time. But no, they're great,
Like I was just I did the podcast for Julie Kim.
I don't know if you know Julie Kim, comedian. She's hilarious,
but she's from Vancouver as well, and it's it's kind
of funny. So when I bump into people down here
in LA that I don't realize are from Canada, but
pretty quick you realize. Actually, I bumped into Matthew Lillard yesterday,
you know, the actor Shaggy, and I thought he was
(08:52):
Canadian because his name kept coming up over the years
filming in Canada and whatnot. And I just thought he's
just a really nice guy. And I'm like, oh, he's
obviously Canadian, but no, he's not. I realized I'm wrong.
So you never know.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
So if somebody is so nice, you automatically fill their
Canadian like I felt that it has.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
To be yes, yeah, you know, or they're going to
kill you absorbed.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah yeah, one of the two.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Ye yeah, exactly. I pretend to be nice, but I'm
actually a psycho killer. So look out.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
When you and your brother were getting like through high school,
when did you guys decide you wanted to do a
project together.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Well, you know, we were always go getters, so from
a young young age, our parents saw that that Jonathan
and I. We did everything together. But it's nice when
you're young and trying to figure something out to have
a built in backup. So we supported each other, and
you get more confidence when somebody else is in your corner.
And so we started our first business at seven years old.
I mean we were making these decorative hangers, like weaving
(09:45):
nylon around a hanger with a little rosette and selling
them to family friends door to door. And we realized
we had seen this at a craft sale and we
thought it looked good. We thought we could make some money.
So we were little, you know, wheel earned dealers at
a young age. We started selling them. We started selling
thousands of them, and then we found a woman from
She had a chain of American paraphernalia stores in Japan
and she started buying them by the thousands from us
(10:05):
as well. So at seven years old, without any real
influence from our parents, Johnathan and I were balling our
way to the bank with this hangar business. And then
we got we realized, what's that.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Oh I'm sorry, I was just gonna ask. You got
to keep all the money at seven?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Yeah, oh yeah, whatever.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Growing up on a ranch too, like we would have
we were like the union negotiators with our parents were like, Okay,
we know you got cheap labor because you got three
kids here working in the ranch, but.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
We need to get paid.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
So they would give us like a nickel aboard when
we paint the fences, and then I negotiated up to
twenty five cents a board, and we would clear like
we had an acreage and there were giant like boulders
and rocks, and it was just it wasn't great for
out in the field with the horses out there and stuff.
So instead of my dad spending like one hundred dollars
to get a rock pick, which is like a rake
that goes behind the truck, to get this done by
(10:51):
a professional piece of machinery, he has three young boys,
so he would just send us out to the field
with a bucket to pick these gigantic rocks. So we're like, no,
I need to get to sense a bucket. Then it
was twenty five cents. I'm like, I'm doing this for
fifty cents or a dollar a bucket. And then finally
my dad's like, you're too expensive. I'm going to get
help elsewhere. So we just learned to negotiating and be
go getters. Whatever we made, we kept. We weren't allowed
(11:13):
to just have my parents buy. They wouldn't let us
make them buy us something. If we're at a store,
good earn it and then you can buy it yourself.
And I think that stuck with us as we got older.
So Jonathan and I we had a lot of energy
and we were you know, musical theater, and then we
realized we could entertain if we were clowns for parks
and rec we could entertain and get paid to entertain,
and we had a blast with it. So that's how
(11:34):
we got into entertaining. And then Jonathan started to do
magic and then I got more into the acting side,
and that's sort of what's paved are two different paths
for some of what we do. Property Brothers was literally
just we were flipping houses when we came out out
of high school, just so we weren't struggling artists. He
wanted to be a magician and I wanted to be
an actor. And then all of a sudden, after growing
a real estate company for ten years and I tried
(11:55):
to get back to acting, I just started getting host
auditions as a real estate expert. That's where Property Brothers
came from. I pitched Property Brothers, and then now it's
just funny for me to go full circle to come
back to where I wanted to be acting. I literally
thought when I was younger that I would have been
an action star because I have a martial arts background.
I was an eight time national fight champion, and I
(12:16):
was like, I'm going to get all these action roles,
and I booked nothing. The only thing I ever got
was I got one punched in a David Hasselhoff movie,
and so here I am. Eighteen years later, Tina Feye
put me in one of her series in an action
role fighting Paula Pelly. You know Paula pell so like
me fighting a six year old lady is just a
comedic thing that Tina Faith thought would be great. That
I was seen by eighty seven North, who does Bullet Train,
(12:39):
the fall Guy, Nobody they do all the big action,
splash the actions. They put me in one of their
movies because they saw Tina's that went over really well.
And then this has moved on to some other projects
I have lined up. So it's it's just been a
wild ride. You never know where life's going to take you.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Tell me more about your martial arts background, like when
did you start studying and how competitive did you get
because it sounds like you fought in a lot of tournaments.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Oh yeah, I mean are my older brother he was
in it too, but he wasn't competitive. He did he
kind of like set back and did his own thing.
Jonathan and I almost drove each other to compete and
then to do better. It wasn't like I didn't want
to knock Jonathan down. We pushed each other to do better,
and so we ended up being you know, it would
come down to him and me in the final fights
half the time, and the reps wouldn't even be able
(13:20):
to tell who's who because we're twins and they're like, wait,
who is that this guy?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
What?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
And so we started when we were seven years old.
Same year we started that hangar business, we started in karate.
Our dad literally said you can go into scouts or
you can go into karate, and he made it so
exciting and so we're like, yeah, that one. And then
once we joined, he said you can't quit. And so
in the beginning I didn't like it because just forcing
me into it. Then I saw the fighting and competition side,
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and I really got into it, and so I started
as a kid, as a young teen, I started fighting
in the adult tournaments, and for me it was just
a lot of fun. So we did the provincials and
then into the nationals and we did There's Kata, team
kata and then fighting. Jonathan was bad with the form
than I was with the different moves. I was better
with the fighting, and so for me it was just
(14:05):
a natural progression. I saw that as an actor, thinking
it's an asset that most actors don't have. And then
I never got to use it when I was younger,
and so my goal now is before I'm so old
that I can't use it, let's get in there and
kick some ass.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Did you ever consider mma?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I you know, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I did, so I did showdcan karate and iikido when
you look at so for acting, taekwondo is great because
it's very showy and flips and jumps, so we don't
do a lot of that. Like showa can has a
lot of power to strengthen power speed. And then I thought, well,
I like mixed martial arts because if I go up
against the jiu jitsu guy, he's gonna get inside my punches,
like get close to me and he'll take me down,
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and I'm useless. So at one point I started doing
a little bit of boxing, a little bit of jiu jitsu,
and just learning a bit of these different things. I
never stuck with it, as silly or vain as it
might sound. The only reason I didn't get more into
mma is I didn't want cauliflower ears. And everybody I
know who's a fighter that gets in to physical sports
like that, they have like crooked nose and these big
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chunky ears.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
You can't mess with this.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Hey, I have friends that wrestled, and they have and
their ears are never even perfectly cauliflowered evenly. Because I'm
so ocd I would at least like for them to
be caulliflowered evenly, like one is always.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
A little bit like breaking your one ear, and it's.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
It's a bizarre The cauliflower ear is bizarre. When what
age did you have to stop doing martial arts competitively?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Well, some not that I had to stop. I stopped
when I was in my early twenties. I think it
was because I was getting more into my you know,
I played basketball as well, I played at a college level,
so I wanted to play college and then I was
starting again in my work life, and just life got
in the way, so I stopped training. By the way,
I wanted to wrestle as well. When I was in
elementary school, I was wrestling. I was really tall and skinny,
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and I kept just picking up the other kid and
throwing them down, and I kept losing, and I'm like,
I'm obviously beating this kid. How am I losing? But
They're like, your technique was not right. You can't pick
them up and drop them. And I'm like, okay, this
is not for me if I'm obviously stronger than this
kid and I can't win. But yeah, the tournament stuff,
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it was a blast, but it took up a lot
of time because when you train for the national team
and then you're on the road, it just eats up
a ton of time. So theater, I would still do
theater if I didn't, if it didn't take such a
huge chunk of my time because I'm constantly filming, whether
it's acting or hosting. I would love to dive back
into theater. That would be just the most exciting thing
for me.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
As a ballplayer. Give me your best high school stat line.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Then well, my best stat was I was a forty
three inch vertical so when I this is just out
of high school when I was training. So I did
two seasons where I played pre season and then I
injured myself, so I never got to play in season.
But I could jump and touch my head on a
ten foot rim I had. You know, my stats were
like seven plus blocks a game. I was a great defender.
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And then I also I'm a lefty, so I would
always you know, rack up. I think I averaged around
twelve or fourteen points a game, but I would I
would take people from the side they didn't expect, and
I have nice long arm, so I would block all
the big guys download from karate. I had a really
strong center of gravity, so they would park me up
against a six foot eight guy down low and I
would just I would push him out because I was stronger.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
See.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I think this is the true that more people need
to know. Like we have no idea that you're basically
newt Rotney. We just know you were trying to sell houses.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I always, you know, I just need to get out
there and show people that if even on property Brothers,
if someone doesn't go with my offer on the house,
I will body slam you. I will take you down
off the top ropes.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Who do you see doing acting movies, shows, whatever?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
That you like what they do and not that you
are trying to mimic what they do, but you're a
bit inspired by what they do because you do something
somewhat similar.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Well, you know, there are so many actors, you know.
For me, I like diversity, Like I don't want to
just be an action guy. I don't want to just
be a comedian comic guy. I want to show that
I have ranged. I studied acting to show the dramatic side.
So for me, the diversity of roles is important. So
my production company, we're producing some roles that will really
showcase what I can do, and then I'm sort of
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seeded into other projects that are known projects. Alan Richson
is an example. You know, he does Reacher and he
has that big film on Netflix that just came out.
I can't remember the name of it, but he's something
I think is amazing. He came in first as an actor,
and it's just from my perspective, I don't know his
whole story, but he was just a giant guy. Like
he's like Dwayne Johnson, He's just a giant guy. People
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thought that was amazing and intimidating. But he's really studied,
Like he's really studied his acting or he's improved his
acting so that he has emotional range. He's also really
really hit the business side of it in a smart
way so that he's able to grow the kind of projects,
work on the kind of projects he wants to do.
Dwayne Johnson is the same. I love that he has
that range for comedy in action. Ryan Reynolds another amazing Canadian.
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I just love that he is topped into the business
side and they've become marketing experts, so he's grown his
brand and his bank ability on how they market the brand.
But yeah, I mean, the big thing for me on
the action front is I'm not a big, brooding you know,
I'm not Jason Statham or.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
The Rock kind of a guy. I'm sort of a
goofy dad.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I like to be, you know, sort of a bit
of a silly dad kind of a character. But why
can't that guy be the one that kicks ass? So
to me, that's a more relatable character instead of having
to be this big, huge, muscle bound guy that the
kicks ass. So yeah, I mean, I'll lean in where
it's there, where the opportunities are, and I just like
working with great people and story, for me is the
most important thing. I've been pitched projects that are comedies
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where they're just writing for a joke and a setup,
or I've had actions where they're just writing the action
but the story is so weak. The character needs to
have some sort of range or arc, and the story
has to make sense before any of that the rest
that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Well, now I'm curious what your workout was before we
started doing this, because you were following with proteins, so
that means you have a plan.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
So what were you just doing before we came on?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
So yeah, today it was a heavy push day, so
chest and uh, you know, try steps shoulders. So I
have a I can't talk about it yet, but I
have a film coming up in the new year that
is an action comedy, and then I have another project,
a series that's another action and so I gotta get
rid of some of that dad weight down low and
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I need to kind of like keep these things going.
So I was eating my my beef and broccoli post
workout snack. How do you look to grams of protein?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
How are you looking without a shirt on?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
You know, do you want me to get naked right now?
Is that what you're asking me?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Not, not directly. I was just kind of dancing around it.
Are they are these? Because then again, there's so much action,
there's so much you're such an athlete. Do you have
to have like a ripped up body to do these
these these roles?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I mean, I just you don't have to. I just
did a movie again. It's son announced. Ye, I'll announced
in the next couple couple of months, but it's I
was leading a in a rom com and uh for that,
I didn't have any shirt off scenes. I'm like, good,
I can keep the cushion. But what I have coming
in the new year, it definitely I need to whip
myself back into shape. But if I feel better that
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way anyway. You know, I have a two year old
and the four year old. And as you will soon
relate as yours gets older. When you think you have
time for you, ah, you don't. It's taken away from you.
So that every time I would be ready to sneak
over to the gym. I have the gym at the
house here and I have everything you can possibly need.
Right as I about to go, the kids start crying,
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or they need something, or they poop a diaper. So
it really affects your routine that you can get into
to stay healthy. But now lind and I are getting
back into it where you know, a little plates we
get my few workouts in. It just makes me feel better.
I need to play more basketball. That's the one thing.
I don't move like I used to when I was
on the court. And you know I'm forty eight. You've
got to keep those ankles pliable.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
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Speaker 2 (22:00):
We build a pick a ball court here where I live,
and playing solo pickleball is a burn and a grind.
We have a gym here too, and I try to
hit it a few times a week.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
But if I did play solo pickleball, like that is
almost as much as basketball.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Oh, I mean, I play ping pong in I sweat
like like literally, I'm so competitive with everything that I'll
sweat and pickleball is no different. I actually just bought
into a pickleball company up in Canada, and I'm excited
because I have large aspirations for how we're growing across Canada.
But for me, sport is it's unlike most other things
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for how it can bring people together. It can improve
your health, and it can also improve your state of mind,
your confidence, your your self assurance, your drive. That's what
That's what basketball did, Karate did for me, and so
I'm excited. My little guys, like Parker was not the athlete.
He was more of the theater kid, you know, you'd
love to sing. But now he's starting to get more
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into sports. So all I do is I leave balls
in every room of the house so that they can
play with it. And our little two year old, she
just came out swinging like she looks like a little
baseball player or a soccer player. So they if either of
them played basketball, I'll be over the moon. But I've
realized I'm not going to force them into what I
want them to do. I'll just support whatever they like.
I just hope they like sports.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Something that I wanted to do if I had enough
success was to have a sports team, like own a
sports team, and so I invested in I'm hoping Nashville
gets a pro baseball team, so I invested way early,
so if we do hit it, I'll be a very
fractional owner. But I did buy part of a major
league pickleball team just because I wanted to own part
of a team.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
What about that you have any sports teams?
Speaker 4 (23:35):
I do?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah, I mean so, I've been pitched most sports, the
Major League, table tennis, the pickleball majors, they just didn't
quite work out. I was also pitched like chicken and
pickle and a couple of like restaurants slash pickleball locations.
But what I bought into is a hockey team, a
major junior. Michael Boobley and I are owners of a
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hockey team in Vancouver, the Vancouver Giants, and we actually
just announced on Amazon where we have a series that
will be following our team. It's called Hometown Giants, so
that'll air in the next couple of months. But for me, again,
it's that's even better because Mike and I are both
from Vancouver.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
We grew up out here.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
This is us supporting our community and the same way
like you're saying you want to have baseball come to Nashville,
I want the NBA to come back to Vancouver. I
have lofty goals to grow from. I have pickleball, now
I have hockey. What else can we bring to my hometown.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Is there a love for the Grizzlies? They're gone, but
do you guys want that back.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I don't want the Grizzlies back. I'm not looking to have,
you know, Big Country come back, but I would love
to have a team, and I would love to there's enough.
I think we have enough population in this area, and
you know, Seattle's right there as well, like we have
enough that we could draw a lot of people to games.
So for me, it makes sense that we could have
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Canada could have two teams, the Raptors and the West
Coast team.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I haven't thought about.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Its just exciting.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Like I've always loved sports, I've loved and on the
business side of my brain, I love the logistics of
how a franchise works, where a league works, and so
now to have a little taste of that with Major
Junior for hockey and then pickle ball is different because
we have locations for the brand ipop that are expanding
from the West Coast out. But it's maybe this you
and I will talk, We'll talk baseball, we'll talk basketball.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
I think when of the last time I saw you.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
We were playing in a celebrity baseball or softball game
down in Nashville.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
We were a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
And the first thing, I haven't thought of Brian Reeves
in a long time, So, I mean, it's probably been
fifteen years since I've thought a big country Brian Reeves
and you bringing them up. That's a funny memory. And
then two, yeah, we were playing ball and that's when
I asked you, Hey, should I even do Dancing with
the Stars because I was really on the fence about
it and.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I was working for American Idol.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
And I've credited you with saying, hey, I had never
danced before, so I think, and you told me you
had a really great time at it, and I didn't
realize you were such an athlete. Like a little bit,
I feel like you sandbag me because had I known
that you had done martial arts and played basketball and
all this, I would have said, yeah, but you're naturally
a gifted athlete. But I credit that conversation that we
had to me doing the show.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Period.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Remind me, how far did you make it?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I won?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Oh, you one year year I forgot that. Oh my god,
you beat me out. I came what was I? I
made it to the finals and I came fourth.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Yeah, I won, but you were a way, way, way
better dancer than I was. Who was your partner?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Emma Slater was my partner? But you know my problem
was so Frankie Munez and I were the two that
made it the finals that were not dancers. And again
I'm not a good dancer anyway. But the Jordan Fisher
who won is a professional dancer. He's a Disney kid
and he's a dancer singer. And then Lindsay Sterling, who
came second, is a dancing violinist. So there's no way
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that I was going to compete with Lindsay and Jordan
with their their grace and their movements. And Lend the
one judge who was there from our season, he used
to make fun of me, said, what's with your lobster claus?
What are you always doing this with your hands? You
look like lobster claws. I'm like, well, I'm not graceful.
So all I was doing it with Emma is I
would do strength moves because I was stronger than all
the other dancers, so I would pick her up and
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flip her, I would spin her around. At one point,
the producer came over and said, I think you're gonna
kill Emma. Can we be careful here? And Emma was like,
no more more, it's so good, And we ended up
being I don't know what your dynamic hid.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Who was your partner, Sharna?
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Okay, yeah, so I don't know what your.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Dynamic was, but like Emma and I were the funny
duo and so we you know, we had heart, we
had We had a lot of heart, but just a
lot of goofy moments that really people loved our Sharna
is amazing too.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah, our dynamic was you know how you see like
the woman wearing all black letters that whips the dude
with the ballgag in his mouth. That was our dynamic
because she was just whipping me around the whole time
because I had no idea what I was doing and
she's hardcore and so I that was us, me just
every week, just gasping for air.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
So basically, you guys used a fifty shades inspirations, whereas
we used like a Ben Stiller move as our inspiration.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah, Emma is like the greatest though. You got so
fortunate with her as a partner.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
No, I did so.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I actually, you know, they sort of asked, I don't
know if they did for you, but they said, like,
who's your dream partner from watching and whatever, and I
just said, you know, she she's the one that my
mom is her favorite. I had watched a little bit,
not as much as my mom, but I loved Emma's
funny attitude, but also Sasha.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
It was there too.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
It was her hobby at the time, and he when
I was dancing, he was one of the troops, so
he didn't have a partner, and so he actually would
come from the men's men's perspective and give me a
couple of pointers too, So it was almost like I
had a little bit of a two and one, which
kind of helped me. But the only reason I did
Dancing with the Stars, I don't know if I told
you this was it was just a few months before
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our wedding and Linda and I were getting married, so
this was two thousand and eight. This would have been
twenty seventeen or two thousand early twenty eighteen, and I
said to them, I'll do Dancing with the Stars. But Emma,
you need to help teach Linda and me our first dance.
And I didn't want to do like a boring first dance.
I want to do a mashup of a few different songs.
So we're going to start with the really generic basic
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dance and then a scratch track, and then we moved
into genuine Pony, and then we did a couple other songs.
So in our first dance, Sasha or Sasha Farber and
Emma Slater they taught us the flips, the different moves
and it was just so much fun energy, and then
they helped choreograph herre all we had ten bridesmaids and
ten groomsmen. They all came in and joined us for
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this big, epic final dance and it was the most
fun dance party you would ever have at a wedding.
I don't even remember half the wedding. I was so exhausted,
but it was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
How did that turn out? As far as the big
wedding dance? Did everybody kind of nail it?
Speaker 1 (29:42):
So the funny thing is we make fun. So Linda's
there are five siblings on her side she has. They're
the four sisters and a brother, and so one of
her sisters messed up because she started to come over
for the group dance while Linda and I were still
in the middle of our compilation single dance just the
two of us and one of her friends. Her our
bridesmaids did the same thing. And then on my side
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a bunch of my guys. They are not dancers, so
they didn't screw it up. But it wasn't really as
it didn't look as good as what the girls were doing,
but again, who cares. It was just for fun. Linda
got her heel stuck in her dress, but even with
her heel stuck in her dress, she still did I
did a spitting flip and she still did the whole
thing and carried up the entire dance. So it was Yeah,
it was hardcore. I'll share I have a link to
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it somewhere, maybe my team can share it with you.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
But that's all it. We just wanted fund.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
We were in Pulia, we went to Italy, we did
our wedding was ten days with all our family had
three hundred and five family and friends with us, and
we just did every day. It was a different activity,
karaoke nights, the big party, dance. We did another thing
that was just basically like a friend of ours. If
you ever heard a fitness marshal on YouTube, he basically
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came out and did this big dance and then we
all took cake and it was just a big like
throwing cake at everyone party in the middle, just goofing
off like a bunch of kids.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
The Bobby cast will be right back. This is the
Bobby Cast.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
With the show.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
When did that actually hit to where you started to
see yourself a bit in pop culture?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
So the show hit fast, but the pop culture side
of it didn't come for a few years. So we
had originally pitched. Cineflix was the production company who originally
was interested. They saw me for a show called Realtor Idol,
which was basically realtors like American idols, like realtors competing
to be realtors, and it was a terrible show idea.
But then they liked me, and then I pitched them
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Property Brothers and that this is interesting. So they pitched
the show to HGTV in the US, which is the
largest home you know, home and garden type destination in
the world. They turned it down because they only wanted
husband wife combos at the time, and then they pitched
it to HGTV in Canada, who turned it down, and
then a networking Canada called w Network, the Women's network.
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They picked it up and the executive there her exact
words for green lighting the show was two young, hot
guys and tight jeans renovating, Yeah, we'll buy that show.
And so we started airing. Within three weeks we were
the top show of the night. Within three months, we
were the top show on the entire network. So with
those stats, we went back to the US and they
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bought the show, and then again within three months in
the US, we became the top show on AGTV and
we've been there for well eighteen years. We've been doing
the show now eighteen nineteen years. So I would say
after the first few years where it really started to
explode in the US, and then we exploded globally because we're.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
One hundred and sixty plus countries.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
That's where we started to notice no matter where we were,
we were being referenced. I think John Oliver referenced us
again on his Sunday show this last Sunday and It's Fun.
SNL has done like ten spoofs on us, and we've
been there for one skit.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
It just makes it fun because I don't take myself
seriously and I don't care if somebody's making fun of
me or inspired by me. I just want you to
enjoy what we do.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I have a friend that's vet veterinarian, and so she
gets a lot of people. They're constantly asking her questions
about animals and just expecting that she's going to give
them a lot of free advice and help on animals.
Does this happen with you and people in your life
that want house advice?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Absolutely, it absolutely happens all the time. In fact, I'll
catch friends that keep avoiding me going to their house.
They want to come to our house. I'm like, why
let's go to your house this time or whatever, and
it's because they're embarrassed. They don't want me to come
and judge their home. I'm like, don't worry about it.
I'm not going to judge you. Well, I will judge you,
but you know I'm not going to make fun of you.
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I'll give you pointers if you want, No, I won't
judge it's.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
It is funny.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Or if if I ever have to hop into like
a home depot, I'll literally be a couple of asles
over and someone will hear my voice and they'll recognize
me by my voice, and they'll be running over with
their like kitchen plans and ask me for inspiration. And
that's great. I mean, I love We've had twelve and
a half thousand products in the home space. We love it,
and I have a real estate portfolio, and for me,
the main thing is everyone deserves to live in a safe, happy,
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healthy home, affordable home. And we're in a time right
now where everywhere, all around North America and a lot
of parts of the world is a housing crisis. So
hopefully I can do my little bit to make people
enjoy where they live and feel inspired by where they live.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Do you do the thing that I do where if
I see a house, I zillow it to see how
much it would cost.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Well, yeah, but I probably have more filters than that,
Like I like to see what because if you zillow it,
you know that's what other homeowners or potential buyers are doing.
That doesn't mean it's the value of the house, and
so I have more criteria to actually get to what
the value is. But in the minds of those other people,
I'll know that's what they think the value is because
a lot of times Zilo give It gives you a
generic rating based on the stats of the area, but
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it doesn't always take into account renovations that were done
in other houses and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Are you just curious how much stuff costs or can
you just kind of bird dog it and go, I
know how much the house costs by driving by it.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Most of the time, if it's a market like here
in LA where I really know it, or in a
lot of Canadian markets. At one point when I was
in Nashville affair bit working, I could tell you. But
in an area that I don't know, pretty quickly, I
can figure out the value within a matter of you know,
twenty minutes, because I'll pull up stats and I'll do
a quick analysis, whereas most people will just look at
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a Zillo number. But I find it fun still. I mean,
I love seeing an old house that's run down and
knowing I'm like, I could take twenty grand, or I
could take fifty grand, and I could make that thing
sparkle like a diamond. But a lot of people just
don't have that, So you see really run down streets.
In fact, last year in La I just for funzies
for social I just did a thing where I just
randomly went up to people's houses and just fixed some things.
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And some people are like, no, go away, I'm going
to call the police. I'm like, I'm offering to pay
for this and do it for free, so if you want,
and I did, what did I do?
Speaker 3 (35:52):
So?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
I fixed some windows, broken windows, broken door, swapped out
some appliances, an old water damage vanity, some yard work.
It's just fun because people don't expect it. But that's
the easy part for me. If you just bring me
over to your house, I'll give you nice inspiring ideas.
I'm not saying it wouldn't cost a lot to fix
some of these things, but at least I can give
you ideas.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
If someone wanted to hire you as Drew to come
and look at their house as the celebrity Drew.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Have they ever tried to do that?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Yeah, all the time, But I don't do that, like
the only time I'll do something like that. This year,
I've done two where it was a charity charities that
I work with, and so I offered as a you know,
I think we raised like one hundred grand or whatever.
And I offered to do that as a part of it.
But if you know, if it's just friends that are asking,
I have no problem just helping them out. But I'm
not going to be able to take on someone's full project.
(36:42):
I have too much on my plate. But I also
have a big team, like we've I've built up like
I have each city that I work in, I have,
you know, six to eight contractors, I have sub trades,
I have designers, so a lot of times I would
pull a team together that would do most.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Of the leg work.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Have you made a billion dollars?
Speaker 1 (36:57):
I mean, if you look at her two to the point,
if you look at our product line, We've sold billions
of dollars of our products. I mean, when we have
that many products, it's it adds up fast. So yeah,
I mean it's I like that. I like that I
can grow my business and I like that I can
do good for people as well. At the same time,
it feels better when you can do both.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
I think you're low key, so so rich. There's a difference.
And before we started, you were like, asked me anything.
So I wouldn't have asked that to anybody that I
wasn't cool with. But I think you're low key, so
so so rich that people don't even understand how rich
Drew is.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
You know, I'm rich in life. There we go.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
No, I don't like for me, I don't care like
like Yes, I care about growing businesses. That's my thing,
and that's why I look at all the things that
are important to me. Our production company, our property, brothers, brand,
I love that. But the sports side that I was
telling you, with the hockey team whatnot, that is a
huge part of my life.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Sport is a big part.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
And the acting side in the scripted production company, Paperhouse Entertainment,
those are huge things for me. And so I just
want to focus on passion and I want to focus
on time with the kids and Linda, And as long
as I can do all those things, I'll keep I'll
keep at it. The moment I start to think that
I'm just working to make money, I'm out.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
So you mentioned how you grew up and now your
kids are grow up completely different, and I'm going through
this now at least trying to think of how I'm
going to approach it.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
But how do you make sure that your kids aren't jerks?
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Whenever they're growing up with a different lifestyle than what
you did where you had to go out and work
hard for everything.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
It's hard, and it's not hard, I guess because Linda
and I are just who we are right like, like
we don't you know, there's no ego and I'm not
into that hole when people are like, oh the la scene,
not into that at all. Our core group of friends
here like are just such amazing, down to earth people.
It's who we surround ourselves with, I think, and that
I think will help shape the kids. Again, I'm the same.
(38:47):
I'm trying really hard to be a present dad. Like
you know, if I get pulled away for a film
for a month, that's really hard. If I'm a way
for the kids, so Linda really tries to work with
me and bring them so I at least see them
for part of it, I want to be. I think
that's gonna be helped, that's gonna really help shape the kids.
I want to show them how much I love Linda
and that affection because I think that's important for the
kids to see. And I want to have them surrounded
(39:09):
by I want them to surrounded by kids from all backgrounds.
I mean, I don't want them to be in some
elite private school where it's a lot of stuffy attitude.
I want them to be real. It's funny, Jonathan said
something to me. I think it was last year.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
You know.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
You know Disneyland or Disney World. How you can get
the guide, like the VIP guide, so they'll take you
around and it fast tracks you basically.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
But you pay a fair bit for it.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Once you do that, it's like sitting courtside at a
Lakers game, Like once you do that, you can never
sit in another seat. Like it's just the best thing ever.
Jonathan said, No, with our kids, I'm gonna make them
just do the regular ticket and they have to wait
in lines, which could be like two hours or three hours,
because I don't want them to feel privileged. And I said, hey, Jonathan,
fuck that. I'm actually going to give my kids the
(39:53):
VIP because I don't want to punish myself.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
I'll find other ways to make sure the kids.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Don't feel privileged. So, yeah, I just don't want to.
I don't want to for myself, but I do want
to make sure that they grew up grounded, and we
do a lot of charitable work. We take our kids
to like a sense of home, which is a charity
we support, Heal the Bay, and so we've done beach cleanups.
We've packaged the household like a full house of furniture
and decor for families and given it to the families,
(40:18):
and we brought the kids to that too, So that
makes the difference.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
I told my wife I wanted to present some adversity
to our baby, and she's four months old, and I've
invented a baby weighted vest to just make it a
little harder on her. She didn't go for that.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
You know, though, it isn't a bad idea because when
they're trying, when they're so like, ah, a little bit
of weight on the chests as they're trying to sleep
is actually not a bad thing.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
It helps me, you know.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
This is like full weights in the vest, like making
it hard to crawl, like you don't get everything.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
You know, Yes, you work hard now, and then they'll
become a they'll either never be able to walk or
you're going to make them into the ultimate athlete one
or the other.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
All right, two final things.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
And I just wanted to go through because I was
looking at the shows that are coming on, and what
would dislike for you to tell me the difference in
these shows, so I have four of them. Number one
is Property Brothers under Pressure.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
So Property Brothers under Pressure is you know, if you
think of how we've helped people over the years with
buying and renovating home or trying to figure out what
to do. We're in a time right now where there
is a housing crisis and people can't it's just so
much to tackle. They can't even wrap their head around
how they could live in a home that functions for
their family, how they could afford to have the perfect
(41:29):
home that helps them, you know, the kids thrive, and
so with under pressure. The last season, we have some
families that came together, like two sisters, they brought their
families together to get one house because that's how they
could afford it. We have other other families that lost
with two families that lost their homes in the fire
and so they were building back their lives. We have
other families that had to build in guest suites because
(41:50):
the only way for them to afford to have space
for them in the city where they were was to
have a rental income. So that's what it is. It
is us helping try and paint the picture for people
in the most costant effective way possible in a time
when they're under pressure financially, to show them how they
can still thrive in life. Everyone should be able to
just take a sigh and relax when they're at home.
(42:11):
When you're stressed because of where you live, it's not fun.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
The second one is don't hate your house with the
Property Brothers, so.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
Don't hate your house again.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
These are slight different iterations if you were to think
of if you're to think of Jeff Ross coming in
to roast your house. There was a little bit of
element of that because a lot of people, you know,
they just they're done with their home. They hate their home.
So that was right before under pressure, that's just the
show that we did, and so we would come in
and in the most loving way. It's kind of pointing
(42:42):
out the things that really need to work. And the
homeowners are also saying, like, I'm beyond done with this house.
They just want to leave and find something else, and
we were showing people how just no, don't hate the house.
I'll show you how you could love this again. You
don't have to go and spend on a different property. Plus,
when you think about it, when you sell and then buy.
There are so many different fees, taxes, different costs that
(43:03):
you're paying, so you're losing a lot of money on
the transactions. Stay with your house. Put that money towards
fixing it and changing it. So even for example, there
was a family that had two kids that were almost
like they were late teens, almost adults. They had a
three bedroom They had a two bedroom home, so the
kids were sharing a bedroom. So we showed them how
to reconfigure their home. We added a nice big bedroom
(43:23):
for the other kids, so now they have their own
space and it still worked perfectly. So it's just helping
us reimagine. At the end of the day, we've had
six thousand shows and so I mean, it's a little
obnoxious and some of them feel very much in the
same vein, but they're just tiny tweaks. What Jonathan I
try to do is we try to bring to the
audience what they're asking for through social media or the
(43:45):
feedback that the network gets. And some people might just
be like enough Property Brothers already. Other people liked the
little tweaks.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
Okay, I got two more, though I need backed by
the bros.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
Brother versus brother, So backed by the bros.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Have you watched Shark Tank, Yes, and then like the
Canadian version is dragons Den. I'm actually one of the dragons.
And so when you look at the dragons or the
sharks and the people are pitching them businesses and they
invest backed by the bros. Was in some ways that
in a house form. People were pitching us their real
estate investments that they were going under on like they
(44:20):
just were over their heads. And some people this was
like building like a triplex or a four unit building.
Other people it was a commercial space or at least space,
and they were just losing their shirt and they didn't
know what to do and where to go. So we
would come in, we would assess these investments and then
we would bring some you know a lot of times
we're bringing our own materials or our own contacts, our contractors,
(44:41):
our designers to help these people get over the hurdle
where they were so they actually had a thriving investment.
Some of the homeowners or some of these investors would
not listen. There's this one young guy. I was laughing because,
oh it was his name John. I think his name
was actually John, because he reminded me of a little
Jonathan my brother. He wouldn't listen to other people. He
wouldn't listen to us. He thought, at nineteen years old,
(45:02):
he had it all figured out. He had this investment
property down in he was Malibu. Anyway, he would not
take our advice. He just kept overspending and doing things
that were just stupid things to do. And it made
for a great episode in the end. And I'm sure
he'll have some successes. But he's a kid that, like
in high school, he started like some sort of a
product sales business through social media, and he had crazy
(45:25):
sales when he was just a kid, and he took
that money and put it into a property investment and
then he was just blowing it. So yeah, all the
stories were really fun, but that show is unlike any
other because it was actually investments that we were helping
people with versus just helping somebody.
Speaker 4 (45:40):
With their own home.
Speaker 3 (45:41):
The other one on my list is Celebrity IOU.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Celebrity IOU to Me is such a great show because
this is us helping huge celebrities. You know, Brad Pitt,
Viola Davis, Michael Boublay, you know these massive names. We've
done seventy different major celebrities, Jay Leno, and we're helping
them give back to somebody who's really important to them
in their life, whether it was, you know, like Halle
(46:04):
Berry was her elementary school teacher, or like Michael Boublay
was the two nurses that helped his grandfather before he passed.
And so we would go in and we would renovate
these people's homes and so for us, it's really cool
because the audience gets to see a different side of
these celebrities. And what I think is really amazing is
these celebrities don't get paid. Like if you look at
(46:25):
a Brad Pitt, like what does he get like a
million dollars to show up for five seconds for something
like he's such a big name. We don't pay any
of these talent to come and do this. We just
work with them to give back to somebody they love.
And I think it really shows how much heart these
these celebrities have to be able to to be vulnerable.
I made Brad Pitt cry, like that's you got to
(46:46):
be doing something right if you can make a celebrity
like that cry.
Speaker 2 (46:49):
My final last question only comes because you just mentioned this.
You're on the Canadian version of Shark Tank.
Speaker 4 (46:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
So the original version is the Canadian version, and in
the UK version it's dragons Den, and so I'm one
of the dragons and it's been great.
Speaker 4 (47:05):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
I mean for me, just like in regular life, I
get pitched, especially when it comes to home real estate
design products or services. I get pitched on the daily
by different businesses. But what I like with with dragons
Den is that it takes it beyond that because there
are other areas of my life, like the supporting side
we've talked.
Speaker 4 (47:24):
About, or tech technology.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
I love it and I want to get more involved
on that side of investment. So it's it's sort of
like a curation of these amazing entrepreneurs that are pitching us,
and that this is my second season doing it and
I love it.
Speaker 3 (47:38):
Do you have to use your own money?
Speaker 4 (47:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (47:40):
Yeah, it's all your own money and you have to
do your own due diligence and everything, and it's just
like like again, I have like the way we're Our
corporate offices are in Nashville, our production companies out of Toronto,
but we've built up a team that deals with the
investment side of what we do as well. And this
is just one extra compt and with that, I love it.
(48:01):
I mean, honestly, Dragon's Den and the Dragons too, Like
if you look at like Arlene Dickinson and some of
them that have been there forever, they're so savvy and
they've done this for so long. But it's really fun
to be able to see what I've learned over the
years from business, you know, from the production company to
the real estate company and whatnot, and then to kind
of blend with these other greats that have been doing
this for so long. It's fascinating.
Speaker 3 (48:22):
Dragons Den's kind of a more baller name than Shark Tank, so.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
I think if I recall, it's that whoever has Shark Tank,
I can't remember who is that ABC or who has that.
They didn't want to pay the license or whatever for
dragons Den, so they just created their own version, Shark
Tank to come after it. So some of the Sharks
have been Dragons as well in the past.
Speaker 4 (48:44):
But I love it. I mean, both shows are amazing.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
I can watch it over and over again, and just
the terrible pitches when everybody comes in pitching, oh, my
company's worth ten million dollars, what are your sales? Well,
we haven't had any sales yet, but it's worth ten
million dollars. I'm like why, and they're like, I've watched
every episode of the show that I'm like, well, then
why are you coming and pitching a stupid pitch like that?
Speaker 4 (49:04):
Come on, Drew.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
I really appreciate the time, and I'm looking forward to
seeing what you're doing in the acting space. I know
you've got stuff that's going to be announced soon, but
I'm really excited about that for you.
Speaker 4 (49:13):
Yeah. Thanks man.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
Yeah, there's a whole lot of things coming up in
the next little bit. It'd be fun. So hopefully I'll
make it down to Nashville again sometimes soon pop on
something down there.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
Yeah, I would love to see it, Drew. Thank you
for the time, man, rooting for you. You don't need
my rooting, but I'm rooting for you. You're always so
so nice to see and you were always so kind
to me.
Speaker 3 (49:28):
So thanks, Drew.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
And if you do need baby advice, I am here.
I have the longest list and I've tested all the products,
car seats, strollers. If you need advice, I can tell
you what's best for traveling, what's best for nap time.
Speaker 4 (49:43):
I got you.
Speaker 3 (49:43):
You have a baby line. Do you guys have a
baby line?
Speaker 1 (49:45):
We have some products, there are kids products, but we
don't have a specific baby line per se. But yeah,
it's it's it's in the works, it's growing.
Speaker 3 (49:54):
I'm sure it is. Drew. Thanks man. I hope you
have a great day.
Speaker 5 (49:56):
Thanks buddy, thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast production
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