you're all. so much parking all the world all the world all the world's a stage and we are definitely a player. on larry king now probably brothers through. everything in our lives it's very unexpected there was no trajectory that said what we're going to do but even being born there's no ultrasound we were born with serious complications and the doctor didn't know they were twins which i was one baby i was born doctor left and then the nurse called them back and so i think there's another one and he was born to my

mother saying. you know. now it is a lot of cities first time homebuyers so they just can't afford to get into the market so work. with people as to how they can stretch budget how they can get into and also work for their family with which you know it was funny to me is a lot of people that spend more time kicking the tires of a coffee maker buying a wal-mart than they do about it like some people walk in the house just buy it they don't know that you could lose your shirt you want the professionals around to watch your back as most people don't know. people think now there's nothing that can be done with this house i can make any house beautiful we can find any house. you have to just ask yourself is it a good financial decision all next on larry king. they are. real estate moguls autos emmy nominated t.v. personalities hosts a slew of massive leap. they're edgy t.v.

shows including property brothers and brother versus brother and are co-founders of scott brothers entertainment and scott living their forthcoming collective memoirs called it takes to our story it's available september fifth and the new season of property brothers buying and selling airs wednesday at nine pm on aids ye t.v. how little is stopped. i was a sort of seven years old when we started our first business we were always a little go getters go back even further and start when we were born what happened at birth i won the original brother versus brother competition i was born first i was sitting on your head in the womb for nine months yes he was born with his little butt imprint on his head and everything in our lives it's very unexpected there was no trajectory that said what we were going to do but even being born there was no ultrasound when we were born unless there was a complication and the doctor didn't know they were twins that i was one baby i was born doctor left and then the nurse called him back and i think there's another one and he was born to my mother saying. yeah. what did they call you other you know

they just what did you dad do so before we were born my dad actually came over when you're sixteen from scotland and he was one of the cowboy he's watching old cow with movies and he did he became a cowboy the rocky mountains and that's remote my mom they fell in love they moved to the west coast were born in vancouver and he started writing in commercials as a stunt man and he became you know that was a go to the labatt's man at one point and he then started doing more acting and eventually started directing as well in t.v. and film and he actually tried to dissuade us from doing television because he said there's frankly a lot of real in the t.v. space and you know i want to make sure that you're working around people that you like and so regardless of his influence away from it it's still sort of drew us in as he retired yeah he's eighty three he retired years ago growing up he actually gave up being in the industry just to raise us and we had a ranch with governor ranch and so he just worked the ranch so how did this housing

thing go to college you know what we did but have originally actually we were actors as kids johnson is an illusionist so we had all these creative outlets some a director and we didn't want to be struggling artists as young young adults coming out of high school so we actually were looking we were seventeen for where we could make some money to fund our own endeavors our creative endeavors and we heard real estate was a great way if you ever saw those infomercials that had the guys at the boats and the babes and behind and they would make millions with no money down and so we. bought the infomercial like let's do it and most of us misinformation but we got just enough of a nugget of an idea we bought our first house at eighteen years old what did you. want to do the age seven we started our own business hangar business right and that was we just saw these crafts that these people had made where they weave nylon around a hanger like oh we could do that and so we started making these like mad at seven years old the entrepreneurial spirit came into the when we were doing the houses bought a house at eighteen and fix that up too and we've been over cheever's our whole lives is t. the goals real estate or method of getting in just like showbiz well they were

originally released it was a way to fund us we wanted as kids we want to make our own films and so at the time we thought if we could pay for our own films then we would do that and then it just ended up taking off and i would never thought a million years that people would pay to look at this yes although i never thought of it happens in the era of real said what your expertise was your pull on the shows we showcase john is a licensed contractor and designer and i'm a real estate agent but in reality what we've been doing since the beginning which you see on our show brother versus brother is that we've both been renovating the house as we've both been doing the real estate side and so yeah we showcase his talent as a licensed contractor and we showcase me as the license way back in the beginning drew actually used to get in and do all the work with me and admittedly did not enjoy getting dirty is likely manicures now a lot of guys do this right fixer uppers what brought you to do it on television you know we were actually approached to do it because we when we started renovating houses we you know saw that there's potential to have a big business there we licensed or is a realtor i went to school i was actually going to school for business left that

went to college for construction design we started our company around or for ten years and then we were approached to do a show of actually i was approached first this other true talent here i was approached for a show called realtor idol it was basically american idol for realtors is the dumbest idea ever but then from there i told my brothers a contractor and then they pitched us what we were already doing with families helping them buy a place and renovate not that i think the peel was that we don't take ourselves too seriously. we love and you know i think some people in design especially they take themselves too seriously and you know what if as a family renovating a house if you're not having fun with the process something's not right you don't have the right trade you know ready to run whatever it is so we the families we work with we just have so much fun we aerate over one hundred fifty countries now and i love when we can be overseas we were just in barcelona a month ago and people are approaching us we don't even speak the same language yet we can see that we've inspired them it's a book about it's obviously you know we should be like ninety years old for the amount of things that we've done and people wonder all how did you get to where you

are today and you know what makes you stand for what you stand for and these are stories that nobody has ever heard before that really give you a good you know perspective of why we are the way we are growing up i mean the influence from our parents sort of we were always different kids we you know we got along with everybody but we sort of marched our own beat in and it shows sort of how we shaped ourselves to become who we are today. so. the main area we grieve for the family separates play area with kid storage so that we can close not arc it doesn't even exist you know we want to see kids' toys everywhere and my headache right now is that they cannot agree on where to go i'm taking a half hour north of here so that's going to have the property of a law is not going to have it all well i just get to focus on the simple things like finishing the drywall you have to deal with psychological and emotional issues exactly i think i need to play a little bit every word all by yourself. don't you heard what i just painted the

doors to be professional yeah this is. serious business i'm going to go to my house tour and then you sit here and texture here because it's a mess. you know the tyler i wear the tie on the fashion brother only she t.v. you still buy foreclosed properties and fix them up on occasion we don't know a lot anymore because we're doing fifty renovations you're for the shows but if we see a property that we think right now we found a house through his fiance found. incredible ninety five year old house here in l.a. and so we're doing a top to bottom got on that property and it's just a gorgeous home there are opportunities with foreclose foreclosures but the one problem is a lot of people think that's where they can get the deal and then they end up getting themselves up and pay more than the house would actually just sell for in the regular market the house buying today is kind of common in america right everybody is obsessed with real estate even people who don't own it yet want to talk about it people are always looking at things they can do with their own places so i think that if you thought of any subject that people love to talk about the most i would say is probably real estate is that the biggest buy in the life right

it is most people who realize that is their biggest purchase in their life and it's their base investment the tough thing is now it is in a lot of cities that you know first time home buyers feel they just can't afford to get into the market in l.a. new york san francisco it's expensive so we're we're trying to inspire people and educate people as to how they can stretch a budget how they can get into a house will work for their family without blowing which you know it's funny to me is a lot of people that spend more time kicking the tires of a coffee maker they're buying at wal-mart than they do about how like some people walk into a house not just buy it they don't know that you could lose your shirt there are so many problems you have to come across that's why you haven't inspected exactly you want to have professionals around you to watch your back as most people don't know about that stuff was your first deal the very first deal for the first house we purchased it was actually a two hundred thousand dollars house it was across the street from the university of calgary we had moved to calgary because it was a hot market in the mid ninety's and they were canadian and and so we were kids first year university straight out of high school and we end up learning a couple of things of how to get in a property with no money down so we use an assumable mortgage we took over some as

mortgage we used vendor financing from the seller and we bought this two thousand our house for a two hundred fifty dollar downpayment the person who had built it had a stucco fetish everything was stuck on the walls inside and this is the roots everything was this was a to renovate and another little tip actually that we learned and that was the last time we fell victim to this is if you ever tour a house and every window is open and every plug has an air freshener in it this there is a cat. had sprayed over everything in the house and so that was a nightmare to clean and try to mask smells or did you make on it so that first house we actually sold it a year later for a fifty thousand dollars profit and that was when the first light bulb went on for us to say ok this real estate thing because we've never made money like that before and allies were high school kids before that and so we thought this is some we could do do we go to the club and just i think your head john of the john there when let it rain i reinvested i have a friend who's the probably the most famous realtor in beverly hills and malibu he's also was called the second best realtor in america could wrap up for next to

me and the wall street journal and he said the joy of a realtor is first got to patients is. you deal in the happiest moments of people's lives you turned over a key. they're happy when they're moving in that thing when they're buying and the seller is happy it's always a win win right why do you do you really interested or you therapists that's you know you say that we are always called therapists because we don't just deal with those happy moments with you know getting that your new keys when you're doing a major renovation that can be one of the most stressful things even buying and selling to be the most stressful thing especially in relationships or even if you have kids if you're renovating so you have to be a therapist ability the stress off the shoulders of the buyers i thought it was demo therapy is the best therapy taking a sledgehammer and just busting out an old has never gone through a wall that's the best therapy if you've never tried this i will get you a sled like to break down a house oh my gosh it's because people think now there's nothing that can be done with this house i can make any house beautiful we can find any house and we can

polish it make it beautiful you have to just ask yourself is it a good financial decision what it cost to much to make the house beautiful again but i tell you there's potential in any space you did have you dealt with multimillion dollar homes we have i mean right now the house that we're ready waiting here in l.a. it's a multimillion dollar home we've done a few others in new york in connecticut different areas up in vancouver as well every everybody thinks that their house is completely neat that nobody i. it had a house like this the issues are going to come across they think it's unique but it's not we've seen it all we've been renovating houses building houses we've come across everything since the mid ninety's so really we see a surprise that we haven't dealt with a chip for a first time home buyer trust professionals you want to bring people in who know the things that you don't because nothing will derail a renovation faster if you take it on yourself and all of a sudden you start to encounter problems you start to lose trades you'll double your budget in your timeline in no time is it true you want to do a talk show is that your next goal yeah we get asked all the time and we've been approached as well and we come from an improv comedy and sketch background we love

live i mean we're actually doing a book tour we're doing a live house parties the scott brothers house party got to be kicking off this month in september and it's exciting for us and we just love the opportunity to be out there face to face and feed off that energy i think the main difference from doing television especially a renovation type show is you don't connect directly with people you don't have to people through the t.v. screens but being on stage live with somebody like what i used for magic or whatever it is i think it's different just to connect with somebody directly but what's one little bit of advice you give us because we've been watching your career our whole life has for you had to be sincerely curious and you hopefully you have guests who know more than you do and don't boast on this long questions don't show warmth be involved in the get go on interview all kinds of people. and as twins you probably can fire back and forth right oh does he used to the national banter can you read into things that he's thinking yeah it's so funny because it's like

we'll say when you have a best friend and you finish each other sentences when you're identical twins it's times one hundred so there's a lot of times where we'll have a whole conversation in front of somebody we know exactly what each person's thinking is it just looks like but then again. coming up we're talking big risks in secret towns with the stock brothers plus some politics without a name guess that's next. the mission of news with the ad is to go to the people tell their side of the story our stories are well sourced we don't hide anything from the public and i don't think the mainstream media in this country can say that i think average viewer knows that our t. america has a different perspective so that we're not hearing one echo chamber that mainstream

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a few points local good old expediential street good looks like the trails in the streets would be analyzed in this paper the bottom good. piece of my life whether they like it that not i got to. put up with. the phrase that this was going on lisa. that would be very successful scott brothers my god probably brothers brother versus brother the forthcoming book it takes to our story probably brothers buying and selling the new season of that is wednesdays at nine pm on h g t the couple things on in the area of canada do canadians or god you are so i believe differently than a lot of things i mean i think the navy is

a more laid back you know there are a lot laid back who very people think canada's so different than the us we've lived in the us for eight years johnson's been here i think ten years there are a lot of similarities but at the end of day they're very proud as well and so they you know we live here they're probably mention. of or in interviews and what we're doing but it's it's a great country lately i've had canadians tell me with every breath because we have a normal leader. or somebody who sees was not like a twitter like trudeau well you know the interesting thing is i haven't followed a lot of canadian politics at the end of the day i think that the leader whether they're american or canadian or any leader in general i think it has to be somebody that should lead by example is somebody that you would trust to come into your house and babysit your children and i do think that there are a lot of policies that you see coming out of the katyn government that are a lot more considerate of their neighbor not a fan of mr trump but you know we've definitely had our disagreements yeah we've had a few but i would definitely say that justin trudeau has better hair than our president

and you both environmentalists right very much so i mean they're going to be disappointed leaving the parasitical of course but it's really nice though to see everyone else is picking up where they left off and i think there's so much that we have to do and said by at least others have lead by example and so even when we're filming for a she t.v. for our show here the renovation we're doing everything that we can to show that we're going green the climate reality john the. was just with al gore what two weeks ago and for that it's fascinating about pulling out of the paris accord is it was just a letdown to the majority of the american people was also let down the rest of the world because they do look to us as a leader but it was interesting because the reaction is the opposite of what we thought it was going to be people were so appalled by the fact that you know even though they were aggressive goals they were very very realistic that it's actually had the opposite effect helped yeah it's almost like that whole every action has a reaction ok we play a little game of if you only knew all right ok secret talents secret talents of

ping pong have a ping pong nerd you know it's less for me jadick a lot of people don't know you biggest risk given the taken oh man i would say a movie in las vegas you know the economy collapsed and i gave up everything i came to las vegas and started fresh i want to say we had left me well that's when i'd gone from calgary at this is ten years after high school i moved back to vancouver to pursue acting and actually that was the launch for a property of others because if i didn't go back there to start auditioning again we would have never been to approach for the show childhood celebrity crush. christina applegate who's from facts of life joe overplayed joe had a big crush on you guilty pleasure haunted houses discoveries their escape always give another escape route you have to do one with us because you need to have intelligence when you're in the room if you ever heard of them skate escape or you get locked in a room you have to solve riddles and puzzles to find hidden clues and hidden keys to get yourself out if you don't get out within an hour they kill you you never want to be the dumb friend in the room with everybody because you'll be ridiculed

but we have done them all over the world what's what's on your bucket list. i can check this interview off for a bucket list one hundred percent leaving interviewed by larry king on a person you'd trade places with for a day michelle obama we've done some work with her on mosque just seeing things that we don't even know are coming down the line something you wish you were better at. taking downtime and enjoying. personal time yeah something really and do you work i am just a workaholic what do people get wrong about canada. we don't live in igloos and take sleds with dogs to work i think it's that we're so different from americans you know i think we have more similarities than we have differences but people seem to focus on the latter what do you know dead wrong about twins we're not attachment umbilical cord let's test if he feels that yeah yeah i'll think. yeah people are names wrong all the time that's the one thing i don't really get it's jonathan and scott if you want in real estate or would you be don't. probably magic i love

magic just always love that love that look of what i think i would be acting and directing scripted full time that's my other big passion so you might both still be doing that someday right i think yeah i mean we see those ghosts you could be very successful and still do well they're all so that's exactly it and we still do our production companies cover those entertainment is still does some scripted people can have many passions and told me something people don't know about you i'm actually a very shy person like of right if i'm not with people that i know what not i'm not the guy to ever be out in front of people i like to sit back and listen to people he leaves out to me some people don't know about me. i'm a i'm addicted to sport i like i like all sports. playing watching hugely do when you see other magicians do tricks do you know how they do it most of the time yes and i can still enjoy it regardless of whether or not i know how it's done

but you love it i love it when somebody stumps me but oh there's some tricks that you know you couldn't do. that master magician oh it's because even even the stuff i used to perform when i was performing full time i wouldn't do it today because you have to practice like any sport you have to practice to be good at what you see too like some of the sleight of hand there are people take d.v.d.'s or c.d.'s and then actually make them appear in the literally do about one hundred in a row that that takes time that's it's like it's like a sport to be able to practice to get that first of all finding a d.v.d. today yeah. he was of so. media questions for you lorna what's your favorite thing about your job and what's your favorite thing about your brother ok you first our favorite thing about the job actually i would say is that i get to work with family like we shoot we do fifty renovations a year we have we do more content than any other host on the number one a week yeah you think you get annoyed with each other but we just laugh all day long are one big happy family crew i love the moment that we finish the design and hand the keys over the homeowners and they give you

a big hug because you're changing people's lives so for me that's the most validating part of what we do how do you know what to charge we don't charge our time so we just for the show yeah so we do it for the show and for a shitty but the you know the homeowners they get a lot out of it you know we basically pimp ourselves out to get discounts for them so that everything we can do to reduce their budget help start the ones out to where we want to be able to give to these families who thought they'd never be able to get what they do another front lawn if you had a bigger house that you had redone to live in which one would you choose i would do a castle i were scottish i have always wanted to take a castle and restore it its original beauty but add all the modern amenities out a little organ music playing it would be fantastic the hearst castle and that's an amazing property if you've been there i haven't yet but we're amazing become it can you tell us something cheesy about your other brother. something cheesy. and funny actually about john and i tease him about this all the time he has this thing where

he is like nails on a chalkboard if you listen to somebody brush their teeth but it's like over the top of him he will really shiver and he'll run these are a show. same for you fall out the house oh you are above him for drew something people don't realize he wears a garter to hold his shirts down and they are it's like a reverse garter on his legs that holds his dress shirt from an talking if you don't you have not used these this is apparently all the rage now you're a man doing it i did i mean that's exactly it it holds a bomb the sure if you've ever wonder how i'm so polished on the she t.v. that's him but you don't want to walk in on him while these dresses are better than holding your socks up as is true actually reverse character design a two one one two eight two what are some unusual d.i.y. projects you have seen clients try to do in rows and renovation. yourself so yeah we had this one homeowner i'm buying and selling that we were working with we were what come in to consult with her for the first time this is we're fixing up

their house to sell for top dollar and she had this it was dark broken tile piece of tile and she had a hammer with this dark black grout and i thought we thought she was taking it out because it was a dated feature i'm like thank goodness you're taken out but she's actually putting it in thing it's adding value and so that's something i think what you like personally has no bearing on what your house is going to sell for you have to think of what buyers the longer we've been doing these shows the more i've realized people have awful taste terrible awful taste and so if everyone was a designer everyone would have a beautiful house and we've got or not so i like it the people can use our shows as inspiration but should you design your house for you not about selling it that would come later well buying and selling is what we're doing that show that's literally just propping your home to sell for top dollar on so if you're going to be staying in a house and living there yeah you can do certain things but we always say don't do something that's so personal for example we have this person who they built a secret compartment off their. master bathroom to get into their star trek paraphernalia room it's really weird and very specific but that's something that

will never add value in the end don't go spend a fortune doing something so unique and different that it's going to cost you a fortune to renovate about and not even just for that too you got to think about your family your home the whole purpose our philosophy is your home should make your life easier so if you have you know four kids three husbands and six dogs you're going to be you know trashing the hardwood floors if you want hardwood floors so there's products today that are like single board laminate that are indistinguishable from engineer hard what and they're one hundred times more durable so there's there's ways to design a house a little step function for your family so our advances in technology have also come into homes so he absolutely especially for being eco friendly you know when you're looking to reduce your carbon footprint you're looking to reduce pollution you know v.o.c. there may also products today that do a phenomenal job and even solar solar is i mean the cost of solar has plummeted even subtly if you want digital blinds you can digitally close the blinds in your window nowadays you can check your fridge or fridges that have cameras inside some of the grocery store and you can check your shelves to see what you're missing it's

great tech you can watch larry king on your bathroom mirror while you're brushing your teeth of you know that you can do any glass surface you can digitize and make a t.v. that is not in the technology exists and l.z. of our company at what age did each of you have u.f.o. should date and where did you go john there was the dawn one before i was i was hardly awkward i was a kid. i remember the very first thing i said the girl that had a crush on her on the swing set in elementary school and she had been seeing this other kid who was away and i said to her if if you kiss me right now i'll never bug your talk to you ever again and she said well how about you kiss me and we stay best friends you know my first day was a drive through i went to a drive in movie theater so that was you know i got you know i don't remember the movie was back then he was so awkward guarantee to do not half back what is it like to have your brother and fuchsias just two more as clients for reggie. for renovation it is like this. no it's not about so we have i mean it's their house

i'm actually leaving a lot of the design to them to bring in influence of things that they're looking for fiance linda is an incredibly creative person so i love working with people who can make decisions and people who are as creative as the linda also went to school for architectural design so having her myself and jonathan working together three minds are better than one for what we're trying to create not do this if you shows a real right they are realists there we get that all the time when people ask for their that's when we get real emotional shows and finally one i just became a real estate agent shana starks any advice the big thing i would say is you get the experience by joining a team instead of trying to go out on your own it can be more expensive that way to learn from a team an experienced real estate agent if you can and remember that you are your own brand so you have to build your brand over and above the brokers you work with you're your own brand and your best business is going to come from staying in touch with past clients you're not just servicing people to buy their home you're staying in involved in their lives so that you're an advisor and anything really goes a great thank you so it's

a good letter and thanks to my guest john a. memoir it takes two was available september and probably brothers buying and selling is one of those days at nine pm on h.g. to the and there's always the funny. things see you next time. i'm a trial lawyer i've spent countless hours poring through documents that tell the story about the. corporate media read users to talk about the. i'm not a pretty clear picture about how disturbing. corporate conduct has been in my league. stories that you know know it's. closed to the american. west.

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