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Your most trusted resource to bring you advice and inspiration for your new dream home, remodel, or backyard D.I.Y. project. We'll dive deep into topics relating to the home building industry, interior design, residential architecture, and more.
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Hey! We're Michelle and Mark. I'm Michelle, a long-time realtor from Tulsa, Oklahoma. And I'm her husband Mark. I've spent more than 40 years as a TV news anchor and reporter from coast-to-coast. Together we’ve started a podcast called Let’s Talk, where we dive deeper into trending topics and talk to real people making a difference in their community. And we have fun doing it.
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What's the "in" paint color this year? How do you keep celery fresh in the refrigerator for a month? Just a couple ideas you'll learn in this episode. Michelle and I talk with interior designer Julia Kirkendall and restaurant owner and chef Nancy Bruce. We're on location at Studio by K/D in Tulsa. Kirkendall's new venue offers "a broad range of int…
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What's best? Crispy or chewy chocolate chip cookies? Michelle and I have a debate. She likes cookies that are gooey and chewy and I like them crispy. I baked some crispy cookies recently and Michelle challenged me to make ones she likes. So I did. But we needed an impartial judge. We found one. Our 8 month old grandson Jack was hanging out with us …
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Michelle and I usually hike in our national parks in the summer and fall. As we ended 2023 and began the new year we visited Estes Park, Colorado and nearby Rocky Mountain National Park. Hiking in the winter brings on a different set of challenges, namely the weather. It's cold and icy and snowy. But if you love to hike and explore, you make it wor…
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Michelle has loved to fish practically her entire life. Only recently has she picked up fly fishing. And she's hooked! Every time we go to either Glacier or Grand Teton National Parks she packs her fishing gear with her, an Orvis rod and Simms waders and boots. Once again this summer we booked a guided trip down the Snake River in Jackson Hole, wit…
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The entire world is watching what's going on with Israel and Hamas right now. But do we really understand what led up to this war? And what's it like to be Israeli and to be constantly defending yourself from hate and rockets? In this episode I talk with Avner Boskey who lives in the Beersheba region of Israel and oversees Final Frontier Ministries…
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What's it like to fish with a professional fisherman? Michelle and I met recently with Fred Roumbanis on Oklahoma's Lake Tenkiller to fish for small and large mouth bass. "Boom Boom" as he's called, is on the Major League Fishing circuit. I shot Michelle and Fred fishing for a November segment on American Dream TV, and we made this podcast out of i…
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We visit Grand Teton National Park every year, and sometimes twice. It's our favorite national park. But we also love going up into Yellowstone National Park when we're there. We make a beeline to the far northeastern corner of Yellowstone. The Lamar Valley is wild, rugged, remote and beautiful. It's often called the Serengeti of North America beca…
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I checked a hike off my bucket list recently. Michelle and I spent a week in Utah exploring Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks. While in Zion we hiked Angels Landing. Everything I had heard and read about Angels Landing is how scary and dangerous it is. And how popular the hike has become. So popular that you have to enter a lottery drawing to ge…
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LIV Golf just finished a tournament in Oklahoma. The event was at Cedar Ridge Country Club in Broken Arrow. Some of the best golfers in the world teed off in our backyard ... Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson, Cam Smith, Talor Gooch, Brooks Koepka, Sergio Garcia. DJ won in a playoff. Lainey Wilson performed on Friday night after the firs…
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Many people have asked us how we get around our National Parks and get the photos and videos of the wildlife and beautiful scenery. Michelle and I still work full-time and get limited time for our adventures. So we haven't pulled the trigger yet on an RV or trailer. That'll come when we have a lot more time to explore the great outdoors. Until then…
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As we anxiously wait for Yellowstone to return, Michelle and I tour an Oklahoma ranch for an upcoming episode of American Dream TV. Greg Ganzkow and his wife Rachel own and run (along with their three young children) the Keystone Ranch in Osage County. And you know what? Greg looks a lot like Rip on Yellowstone!! And he told us there IS a railroad …
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Michelle and I have gone to Grand Teton National Park so many times, we know where and when to find the wild animals. We've seen grizzlies, black bears, bison, elk, moose and more up close. Sometimes too close. This will tell you where you have a good chance of spotting these animals and the stories behind our adventures (for example, when we ran T…
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2022 was a year of adventure for us. In Part One, we explored Vail, Jackson Hole, Oregon and Spain. We finish out the year with our trips to Cancun, Glacier National Park and Grand Teton National Park. In each of these epic adventures Michelle and I give you our tips for a better experience. We have advice on where to go or not go in Mexico, plus h…
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As we near the end of January, Michelle and I are in a vacation holding pattern. We don't have any trips planned for a couple of months. So we're taking this time to look back on 2022. It was a year full of adventure! So much adventure we're splitting it up in two parts. In part one we review our trips to Vail, Jackson Hole, Oregon and the highligh…
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It was a first for Michelle and I. For the first time in more than 25 years, we went on a ski trip to Vail, Colorado without kids. Our youngest boy, Tommy and his wife Ines, went to Miami for the holidays. Jacob and wife Mandi took their two year old Ava to Disney World. David and Ashley have three kids (including twins) under the age of 2 and a ha…
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Just about every home has color issues ... some minor, others major. The walls aren't the right color, maybe the trim doesn't match, or you're just tired of the brick and need a make-over. Don't just automatically call a painter for these jobs. What you may need is a colorist. We had a minor emergency with our outdated fireplace. The brick was bori…
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Here's quick announcement that Michelle will soon be on American Dream TV. ADTV has been around for a few years, and is streaming and airing in nearly every major city. And now it's coming to Tulsa. While the central focus is real estate and the people behind it, it's more than that. ADTV is a lifestyle show. Each program will feature something or …
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Michelle and I decided at the last moment to take a quick trip up to Grand Teton National Park in late September. We usually visit in the summer, and went up to Glacier National Park instead. Early fall in Wyoming was beautiful. Michelle did a lot of fly fishing on the Snake River, and on the last day we decided to hire a local fishing guide, Ed Du…
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Michelle and I have taken up camping over the past five years. It's more of a form of glamping. We rent a campervan every year and head up to one of our National Parks. We've actually become very good at getting around in the Mercedes Sprinter van we rent from a company based in Jackson, Wyoming called Moterra. We've been renting from owners Trevor…
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With more than 700 miles of trails, Glacier National Park is known as a hiking park. Maybe the signature hike is The Highline Trail. The trailhead is at Logan Pass and almost immediately cuts a narrow path along a granite wall high above the Going-To-The-Sun Road. For nearly 8 miles you're hiking with views of unsurpassed beauty. The Highline takes…
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In this episode Michelle and I tackle one of Glacier National Park's premiere trails. The hike up to Grinnell Glacier is quite a trek, especially on a hot summer day and when you take a wrong turn! We eventually make it, and it was certainly worth taking in one of the few remaining glaciers in America. We also talk about our exciting and scary enco…
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Michelle and I recently visited Glacier National Park. It's a trip we've been wanting to take for several years, and finally made it happen in late August. The first thing we did was book a guided fly fishing trip down the wild and scenic Flathead River. Michelle fishes, I take pictures. It works out perfectly! We hired a guide from Glacier Guides.…
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Michelle and I took a quick trip to Cancun and the neighboring Isla Mujeres. We were told on social media that the seaweed/sargassum that's plagued the beaches wasn't a problem this summer. So we checked it out for ourselves. Spoiler alert: It's still a big problem! We spent most of our time at a resort called the Valentin Imperial in the Riviera M…
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This has been quite a summer for America’s first national park. It’s Yellowstone’s 150th birthday, and it’s reeling from devastating flooding in June. In this episode of Let’s Talk, Michelle and I learn more about what’s going on in Yellowstone, a place we visit every year. The flooding washed out roads, toppled bridges, sent thousands of tourists …
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This is a tale about a trip to Spain. In it, a fairytale wedding on an exotic island ... the marriage and meeting of two cultures. But there's also plenty of drama and intrigue. A fire on a runway, missed flight, car crash, the mysterious missing (maybe lost!) (possibly stolen!!) luggage, a late night theft and a striptease! If Ernest Hemingway was…
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It's never easy saying goodbye to a parent. Michelle and I recently traveled to Oregon for my mother's memorial. Wilaura "Sue" Bradshaw lived a long and fruitful life. She passed away at the home of my sister at the age of 95. Mom and dad had been married nearly 74 years when he passed away in 2019. In this episode, Michelle and I talk about her le…
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It was certainly an entertaining first round of the PGA Championship at Southern Hills in Tulsa, OK. From a limping Tiger Woods to the eccentric John Daly running around in a golf cart. Certainly there was a lot of great golf for the tens of thousands of fans. But there was also some shock and anger from a few of the fans who, after a long and hot …
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The PGA Championship is this week at Southern Hills in Tulsa. The best golfers in the world are in town for golf's major. Tiger Woods is already here. But the defending champion will not be.. Late last week the PGA of America announced Phil Mickelson would not be playing. In this episode of Let's Talk! Michelle and I talk about the upcoming golf to…
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It may be a week late because of the lockout, but the Major League Baseball season is underway. And we’re stoked! We’re baseball fans, but nothing like Robert Taylor. You could say he’s truly a baseball fanatic. When we heard about Taylor’s baseball memorabilia collection we had to check it out. It’s incredible! Like many young boys and girls, Tayl…
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Animal cruelty and neglect is a big problem everywhere. In this episode we talk with two members of the Oklahoma Alliance for Animals about the issue in Oklahoma. Just about every weekend they respond to calls fo alleged abuse. They show us several recent and graphic examples, including one where 84 filthy and emaciated dogs were found. One of the …
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Caroline Mathias is certainly an interesting and intriguing woman. Her bio caught our attention. Transformation coach, author, podcast host, empowerer of women and deliciously obsessed with Freddie Mercury. But we had no idea how obsessed she was with the flamboyant lead singer of Queen until we met her. She just finished a portrait of Mercury … on…
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House flipping has been popular and profitable for many years, but what about in 2022? Home prices are soaring, supply chain issues, building materials cost more and labor shortages. We talk with a former television news anchor whose been buying, renovating and selling homes since he retired three years ago. Charles Ely was an anchor and reporter f…
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So many questions now that Russia has invaded Ukraine. Today I talked to a former CIA and NATO specialist who's from Henryetta, Oklahoma. Brad Sellers is an expert on Russia and terrorism. We talked about what Putin wants in Ukraine and how big a deal the invasion is for the rest of the world, especially the U.S. But our conversation really gets in…
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The Super Bowl is the biggest football game of the year. It's also the unofficial kickoff to the Spring real estate season when things heat up. Are you thinking of selling your home? Don't fumble the deal. Instead catch the best price for your home. Ok, enough of the corny puns. In this episode of Let's Talk!, real estate professional Michelle Brad…
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Jackson Hole Wyoming is a nature lover's paradise. We've enjoyed and explored it in the summer for many years, but never in the winter. In this episode we ski Jackson Hole Resort, cross-country ski along Teton Park Road and snowshoe to the famous Moulton barns on Mormon Row. We see thousands of elk in the National Elk Refuge, two bald eagles on top…
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Bear scares, bison encounters, a moose on the loose and a cute, playful red fox. These are just a few of the highlights of our travel adventures last year. 2021 was full of scenery and wildlife. Michelle and I started the year skiing in Vail, Colorado. From there we took in the gorgeous rock formations of Sedona, Arizona and central Oregon. Smith R…
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Vail Colorado is one of the top ski towns in the world. In this episode of Let’s Talk we explore some of the things to do in Vail in the winter … from legendary skiing to its epic shopping and amazing restaurants. We’ve been coming to this little Bavarian style village in the heart of America for years. What makes it so popular? What are the snow c…
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What’s it really like being Santa? In this episode of “Let’s Talk!”, we hear from a long-time Santa the good and bad that comes with the job. Does a list really exist? What special tool do you have to determine if a boy or girl is naughty or nice? Have kids peed in your lap? Do you have supply chain issues this Christmas like the rest of us? Is it …
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The Covid pandemic has been rough on businesses, especially restaurants. So many have floundered and failed, or have had trouble keeping employees. In this episode of “Let’s Talk” we talk with the owner of Mondo’s Ristorante italiano in Tulsa. Mondo’s is truly a family run business. Rob is among 8 Aloisios who work there. We discuss the big changes…
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Lincoln Riley is now the former coach of the University of Oklahoma Sooners. Riley shocked the sports world by announcing he's leave OU to become the next head coach of The USC Trojans. In this episode of Let's Talk I chat with NewsChannel 8 sports director TJ Eckert about the news .. from possibly losing players and recruits to who might be the ne…
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Holiday stress is a real thing. What’s supposed to be the most joyful time of the year is often the most stressful. Cooking meals, work parties, shopping, entertaining, politics and finances are just a few demands that cause us stress. And now add Covid-19 to the mix. Are your holiday guests vaccinated or not. In this episode, a clinical psychologi…
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