Are you thinking about moving to Tulsa Oklahoma? Let’s uncover the treasures of Tulsa Oklahoma with Matt and Jenna Giesow at Vast Media today! In this podcast episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Matt and Jenna, proprietors of a production company based in Tulsa Oklahoma. During our discussion, we delve into various aspects of their business, their mutual respect and admiration, as well as their deep affection for Tulsa Oklahoma and its neighboring suburbs. Operating under the banner of Vast Media, Matt and Jenna's company specializes in a range of services including real estate photography, listing media, aerial photography, drone footage, commercial production, social media management, marketing, and advertising. They underscore the significance of offering comprehensive services to their clientele and forging strong partnerships with real estate agents such as myself. A focal point of our conversation revolves around the duo's perspective on Tulsa Oklahoma's real estate market and the opportunities it presents for their enterprise. Matt and Jenna highlight the city's comparatively lower cost of living, enabling them to maintain competitive pricing while upholding their commitment to delivering top-tier services. Despite facing obstacles, they have achieved notable success and stability within Tulsa Oklahoma's real estate realm. Jenna also provides insights into her personal background, recounting her upbringing across various neighborhoods in Tulsa Oklahoma and the profound impact of rural development loans on her family's journey. She underscores the significance of her ties to Tulsa Oklahoma and expresses gratitude for the city's role in shaping her life and opportunities. Ultimately, our dialogue underscores the strong rapport between myself, Matt, and Jenna, as well as our shared passion for Tulsa Oklahoma, and our unwavering dedication to offering exceptional services within the real estate sector. If you’re thinking about moving to Tulsa Oklahoma be sure to give me a call, shoot me a text, send me an email, or schedule a Zoom call. I’d love to help you make a smooth move to Tulsa Oklahoma! ====== 00:00 - Intro to Uncovering The Treasures Of Tulsa Oklahoma With Matt & Jenna 01:00 - Meet Matt and Jenna: Exploring Their Perspectives at Vast Media 04:06 - Tulsa's Charms: Reflecting on Favorite Aspects of Life in Tulsa, OK 07:00 - Unique Market Insights: Delving into the Distinctive Traits of Tulsa's Real Estate Market 17:40 - Celebrating Achievements: Discussing Tulsa's Vibrant Graduating Class 26:02 - The Future of Tulsa: Excitement Surrounding the Upcoming Amphitheater 30:40 - Finding Joy in Business: Embracing the Fun Aspects of Entrepreneurship in Tulsa 37:40 - Neighborhood Delights: Sharing What Makes Their Neighborhood Special 42:40 - Neighborhood Preferences: Contemplating Ideal Neighborhoods in Tulsa 47:50 - Memorable Milestones: Recalling the Location of Their First Sale in Tulsa 53:44 - Admired Aspects of Tulsa: Highlighting the Gems of the City 01:08:50 - Wrap up to Uncovering The Treasures Of Tulsa Oklahoma With Matt & Jenna ====== ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🤔Thinking of Moving to Tulsa Oklahoma? 🤠 📝 Let Us Help! 📱 Call or Text: 918-637-7826 📨 Email: livingintulsaok@gmail.com 📅 Zoom: https://calendly.com/livingintulsaok/... ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️ ====== ▶Subscribe 👉 / @livingintulsaoklahoma ====== If this is your first time to this channel, and you want to know everything about eating, sleeping, working, playing, the good, and the bad of living in Tulsa Oklahoma, then subscribe▶ and tap the bell🛎 for notifications so you can be the first to know about the current market in Tulsa OK.😁
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What is Living in Tulsa Oklahoma?
Welcome to 'Living in Tulsa Oklahoma,' the podcast that dives deep into the heartbeat of Tulsa Oklahoma! Whether you're a long-time Tulsan, a new resident, or just Tulsa-curious, join us as we explore the hidden gems, cultural hotspots, and community dialogues that make this city unique. In each episode, we'll feature interviews with locals and transplants who share their stories, experiences, and perspectives on life in the former Oil Capital of the World. From historical insights to modern-day musings, 'Living in Tulsa Oklahoma' is your guide to living and thriving in Tulsa Oklahoma. Tune in, engage, and celebrate this vibrant community with us.
Intro to Uncovering The Treasures Of Tulsa Oklahoma With Matt & Jenna
okay we are here with two of my favorite people in the whole world Matt and Jenna
gizo and one of the questions that I ask you guys is tulson you admire and so I
will say when I think of two people that I admire you guys definitely come to mind um they're actually one of my
favorite favorite couples two of my favorite people and so you guys get to
see all the time Tulsa and the surrounding suburbs through my eyes and today you are going to get to see Tulsa
and the surrounding suburbs through your eyes so you guys are super important guest I want to give a little bit of
background information about you uh so the audience will you know get to know where you're coming from sure but so you
guys are small business owners and I think we both started kind of at the same time right we did similar times I
remember yeah yeah so when I started real estate you guys had just launched the business yeah so uh first off thank
Meet Matt and Jenna: Exploring Their Perspectives at Vast Media
you so much for having Jen and I we honored to just be guests and be able to talk about what it is we do um we own a
company called vast media here a small business here in Tulsa it's a uh production company with a primary focus
on real estate photography listing media uh aerial photography drone and then
that flows over into commercial production social media management marketing advertising so um yeah we uh
I I don't know how much further you want me to go into but basically we cross pass with Sabrina early on we were
working at a broker's open and we were I don't know if we were passing out flyers or free head shot or we had done photos
for the the listing agent and Sabrina came through and was like I'm going to give you guys a shot and we really sold
we were like in the beginning we were like man we just need agents that will go all in right we'll just like not
question is this supposed to cost this much or when is this supposed to happen just like TR the process and allow you
to be you so that like we can help build you up even more and build your brand so um I'm happy to say that we're going on
year six now um Sabrina's used us from day one so for all of her listing marketing so I have no doubt that's why
you stand out so yeah one thing I've always appreciated about you as well is that you do not I was just telling Matt
this week there are two different types of real estate agents they see what we do as a business as almost like a
um I don't I don't want to say the word of like a non-negotiable like an annoying non-negotiable like I got to
get the photos right but you really do see it as an investment absolutely and
it it goes beyond like I just got to get the photos to get it listed and then sell it you see it as I have to have my
media my full package you do a great job about taking
it further than you know just beyond the the sell of the house you sell your brand with it you know and so you've
always done a great job about that we admire that about you yeah well I will say that I have had okay you guys are by
far like the absolute best media company um I would recommend you to anyone I do recommend you to anyone you have so many
times over the years and yes we're so thankful and I have people call me and I'm like they're really nice but I was like they're they're like we'll do a
house for free or whatever I'm like there's no need like I'm very loyal I will never switch um so app you guys are
amazing and I love that so if you ever need video service for you know housing or commercials or social media like I
would definitely recommend you guys wonderful and small business is like you know there's these huge corporations
which are great and they provide jobs and stuff but small business is like the backbone um of our economy and so I
think it's just so important so with that that is why I wanted you guys here and I wanted everyone to know about you
just to give um some background information and actually Jenna is from Tulsa and Matt is a
so both of your guys um views are going to be amazing so let's talk about Tulsa
Tulsa's Charms: Reflecting on Favorite Aspects of Life in Tulsa, OK
like what is your favorite thing about Tulsa I love the cost of living yeah I've lived here my whole life minus
going away for college um I'm at Oklahoma State grg go pokes um but aside
from that just you can't beat the cost of living um I think growing up as a kid you don't really think about that I've
never like had a really you know considered that as a kid as much but but now as an adult I'm like oh my gosh I'm
so grateful that I've grown up in a place that's provided like great opportunity um you know and so um that's
been one of my favorite things another favorite thing I love is um it's actually I have to tell this to Matt and when we when we first started dating cuz
we started dating right about the time he did move to Tulsa um he hadn't been in Tulsa long and so he was he didn't
know where anything was and so I still GPS still I'm still like it's a grid
like TS so nav if you can memorize your order of streets like Garnett and
Memorial no Garnett Mingo Memorial Sheridan and and so on you can really
learn your system cuz first through you know 171st all the way out to Bigby but if you know your grid like it's really
navigatable um I know that sounds czy lived in their whole life it really is easy to understand like where to find
everything if you can memorize that um and I've always loved that about Tulsa yeah um I moved down here in
2015 uh from Michigan the great state of Michigan greatest State around very different economy uh go Blue national
champs there so I got yeah I got a ride on that but um I grew up uh in Brighton
Michigan just 10 minutes from Ann Arbor so the big house the Wolverines were like as a kid you like watch them more
than you watched like NFL but when I came down to Tulsa I would agree with Jenna cost of living is drastically
drastically more valuable down here you get so don't your dollars stretch so much farther and that explains why
there's such big booms of new construction neighborhoods and developments and every time you think
something's done they've got three more that are getting ready to go in and those have a little different bent so you do that back in Michigan and it's
like I mean you got to deal with snow for five six months out of the year and like just real estate's more expensive
it's just harder um so anyway I love Tulsa so much just because yeah exactly
what Jenna said the opportunity especially for being a business owner was perfect I mean like it was I don't
want to say it was you know low risk like it was a lot of risk in the beginning but it was actually better to
risk it out here in Tulsa than like do it in California or do it in Florida or do it somewhere else where you might
think the real estate Is So Glamorous and we're going into like commercializing and making that stuff
look as good as it can shouldn't we be somewhere other that like people laugh yeah Jenna's in groups and she does
Consulting and they're like um you know what do you guys do out in Tulsa J like you have no idea there's so much new
Unique Market Insights: Delving into the Distinctive Traits of Tulsa's Real Estate Market
construction there's just lots of opportunities unique about our Market too and even in our line of work and I I
don't think a lot of even like our clientele really realize that like we um are in a really unique market for the
industry we serve um cuz a lot of agencies like ours all around the US
they are working with clientele that are you know gridlocked they don't have any
there's not a lot to build there's not a lot new going in um and they are like
how do I continue to have a business because they're you know experiencing the real estate market and the roller
coaster and for us I'm so thankful we we we take I think that for granted in Tulsa I'm like actually there's tons of
land and there's lots of neighborhoods and there's lots of developments and that means there's actually lots of job
security for us to be honest with you lots of swings at the plate like that's what I tell our guys I was like you know
you're you're blessed like you love to be you love photography all of our media Pros that are in the field love what
they do they actually like genuinely like shooting houses some people do not enjoy photographing houses or
architecture oh it gets boring but they get like five to six appointments a day so they get a lot of swings at the plate
I always tell them like you're going to come into some houses and it's going to be like Drop dech gorgeous there's going to be other houses you're going to come
in that you're like I can't wait to get out of here right it's our job to kind of treat it as a singular product and
our is to make it look as good as possible for whoever hired us so not like do they always have nice Lis things
and we work harder we work as hard as we can for anybody who comes through anyone who visits our website because
ultimately if we didn't our portfolio wouldn't be a portfolio it would just be the best of the best like show me your
worst houses that we've shot so sorry for but that is such a Tulsa thing like just to bring it back like that is
something we experience in Tulsa in our line of work that I don't think like I just don't think other areas oh
hi what babe hey god um it's okay maybe you can use
this yeah um why know you go sit down we'll take you is the closest bathroom just out in the hallway yeah want me can
we pause yeah we can pause just she'll be two you got you got to go pee yes
okay okay great great great it's
fine it's spring break in Oklahoma too yes we got a guest
appearance by Charlie I hope you can use that I know oh my gosh I know when we sched the
podcast I was like well yeah that that day works great and then yeah you always forget the Friday the Friday before
spring break they're out of school but she has been fantastic yeah and you know you when you
got to go you got to go you got to go um I don't actually even mind if we keep this on like it's I mean it's just real
so yeah let's keep going cool um yeah do you have a question well I was going to
say when I talked to cuz you know I started when I started real estate I started um coaching and it was video
coaching you know so that's why video did become so much so important to me um
and why I know it's valuable but I would compare you guys to I mean I have agent friends that are in California in
Washington like you know Coast to Coast um all amazing but your guys's videography is like on point amazing
thank you we've really really I feel like redefined what it is in Tulsa um
you know when we came on the scene there were companies of course there's real estate photography like of course that existed before us we didn't invent that
but I will say we um when Matt first started um I don't think a lot of people know this a part of the business but he
made his first real estate video and he posted it to social media and he had all these brokerages reach out and say how
many can you handle wow we want to serve for our agents and want to pay for them and we want to help our agents and how
many can you do and it was like all of them told him no one does this here no
one does this like this you know um traditionally it's been like slideshows you know and people think that's a video
and it's not a video right um and so we really studied other markets um we had
mentors ourself um one of our biggest mentors um was out in San
Francisco um they've scaled you know A1 million plus company doing what we do
um very different than our Market you know and what what we can really do you know we've always felt we're kind of limited and we know that and I I
actually console other businesses like ours around the US that want to have a business like ours but might be a soul
perur or might be like doing it on their own and they don't really know where to begin they don't have a booking link
they don't they don't even know how to scale it um and so when I talk to them you know we talk pricing they're like
you're actually charging like really way less than you know what I charge in my
area and I'm in you know Seattle or I'm in New York or I'm in and I'm like yeah
but look at my where I live look at our cost of living we're probably last in
the US you know when it comes to anything and it's just really cheap to live here so we're very limited I feel
like in like what we charge in the real estate real estate landscape um but uh
we try with that being said we know we could charge a lot more especially in compar comparison to when you look at it
very traditionally in our industry a lot of people compare they they actually structure their pricing based on um what
the sell of the house is going to be so they actually ask how much how much will it be listed for if it's going to go for
a million plus they're actually going to structure that pricing we'll take half a per they actually like do like a quarter
of a percent like I mean that might be the you work like you're like I've never
had to like tell you how much like we just don't do that it's just based on size and you know our product and so I
feel like that's a big Advantage for our Market here in Tulsa but we we also do that because we live in Tulsa yeah we
live in Tulsa we're aware of that I remember when I was first like first starting out I had no idea what to
charge like cuz there wasn't really like a reference point for what we were doing like videos and photo and then like
starting to give the complete package there was a lot of people that followed after that like copied our pricing model
like you know but it was kind of hard because I was assessing all these people that were like kind of mentoring us from
a distance that were in like California and east coast and I'm like yeah your guys' prices are nice like it's a lot
more expensive to live out there I was like our clients aren't going to pay that or we've really just got to have
something but over the years you know you come in early on and you just try to build value where you can and when
something works and works and the more value it adds like the more value you can add to what you're asking for and
it's not a it's a business decision just like you would go buy a car like you know exactly what you want to pay for
that car the lowest possible right but you ultimately know I want that model of that car so if everything's right like
it's a it's a business transaction so and ultimately the biggest thing I've felt has been a success with vast is a
lot of companies are creative but like if you can be creative in an aspect that ties to pe people's personal financial
success it's like a psychological connection that like it's not even a guess like I got to go find the cheapest
no I have a new listing I got to get vast on it right away like and that's that's kind of how I've always wanted it
to be because at the end of the day we're going to do the best work we can for whoever sends us out in the field so
yeah definitely yeah but Tulsa has been a huge success for that you know um I can't imagine starting from Grand zero
in our line of work and business and any other Market yeah like it really has like I I know that you know the real
estate market has changed over six years of course it has um um but I am really
thankful we have not seen a ton of changes in our business personally I I
just it is what everyone's always like you are you guys busy are you guys you know there's not a lot of listings and
I'm like we are though like I can show you the listings like you can come to us
if you're looking for a house you know want to hit the market we see them all you know that's so um you know so you
know I'm just thankful that it's only I think because of to Market that's actually how we found our house right
that is that is that is how we Jenna and I Jenna and I got a chance to buy our dream home we've been like thought it
was going to be a couple more years in the future and L behold it ended up being a listing that Miss Sabrina Shaw
had and she uh booked our team to come out and it wasn't even me it was a busy week we had a really busy week Jenna and
I went out to dinner and she was like hey have you seen this house that just went live in Broken Arrow and we're
constantly wanting to stay in Broken Arrow which is subur of Tulsa we just like the school district we like where our kids are and um we're like can we go
see it so we literally ended up buying that house after we did the media and it
wasn't on the market but what a day and a half two days or something it it worked out per there's no there's no
other way we would have gotten in the house you not been the list the Stars aligned and for what we wanted where we
wanted it was kind of peculiar too for how nice it was where it was but it was exactly what we yeah you guys are the
perfect people for that house we love that house love it so much so let's um piggyback that from Broken Arrow so is
Broken Arrow your favorite suburb yeah it is I've taught in Bigby and so I used
to um be a teacher and I would drive from Berk andw first married and I would
drive to Bigby high school and I taught in Bigby um but I actually grew up in kaita so I'm from K just another suburb
um and so I have family that lives in Barry Hill M actually okay yeah you were
listing aent on one on some of their land I don't even remember that um yeah I'll tell you I'll tell you I I recomend
I recommended you for one of their their pieces of land and then we shot it and I was like oh but I never actually messaged you and like hey that's my
family um and so so yeah I think growing up in K which for our viewers K is about
20 25 minutes from Tulsa um and I was there in K from third grade to
graduating high school and so pretty much you know my whole upbringing was spent there um so I'm very familiar with
even the smaller areas Porter what was your W yeah what was your graduating class of Ka um 2010 the year or size
Celebrating Achievements: Discussing Tulsa's Vibrant Graduating Class
size 24 okay yeah so what was that 4 a 5A 5A 5A so I was just about to say we
played Claremore we played skyk I played basketball um and we would play all
these you know saula all these you know 5A teams um at the time I don't know if they're still 5A Bigby was 5A at the
time in our um District but um so I was we traveled to all of you know the
suburbs and so growing up in that like it's it's funny cuz Matt was just debating with me on this he's like
you're you didn't like grow up in Tulsa though and I'm like no when someone asks you when someone asks you where you're
from you're from Tulsa like it's not I'm from Kaa I'm not from Burano like I'm
from Tulsa like that and it's primarily if you in Oklahoma you've grown up here it's either you're from Tulsa or you're
from Oklahoma City you know and that's where you just associate it with yeah you gravitate towards the biggest year
the big but I wouldn't say I was from Detroit when I was in Michigan cuz that carries a different connotation I would
say I'm from you know where Ann Arbor is yeah great great city of an Harbor yeah just 10 minutes north of that is where I
grew up so yeah um but it's interesting because I my parents were both in the
military when they were when my mom was pregnant with me and not this like not a lot of people know this which is so
Random about me but I actually wasn't born in Oklahoma I was born on um a military base in El Paso oh my goodness
um and so my mom was in the Army my dad was in the Navy and or yeah yeah Navy
and um they had me on a base and then a week later we moved to Tulsa and then we
moved to North Tulsa and so but this was the '90s um and so I grew up off archer
in the '90s in North Tulsa right down the road from merits before it the one um and so there's a lot of like
iconic places along that area that like I still remember going to as a kid um
it's not really a frequent area now you know that I think a lot of people like tend to like want to go to you know a
ton but I love that area so much um and
we my parents divorced when I was four um and we had a little house over there and we always say if it ever goes for
sale we'll buy it we're trying to get I think I've seen you do host on that house actually yeah yeah it's such
a like near and dear house to me um and then you need to have somebody I don't want to interrupt that story but you
need to have somebody set up a search for you in case that ever goes like I'll do that give you the address yeah so it
triggers so you don't miss that true cuz I think it is a rental I someone I think it we've looked up the tax records yeah
okay but back to your story um and so when my parents divorced um my dad moved away my mom became a single mom um and
it was actually the year that the rle development opportunity came out which
is I think another major bonus of our area and um just knowing you know your
opportunity for a Ral development type loan um but I actually like lived the
testimony of a rle development and how it kind of like changed our life um I
would never imagine we had like no money growing up and my mom was a single mom
at that point we were living out of her work which is crazy um and and she was
like we are going to then we move to an Apartments we live I lived at the greens of Bedford wow off of 61st in Garnett um
so we drive past that a lot and I'm like I remember living there stomping ground
and and then um it came time that my mom was like okay I'm going to see what assistance is available what can we do
and so she applied for Rural Development and we got approved and she tells the story is she just got on the highway and
they told her the area and she just drove until it felt right and she ended up in K she literally just went East on
broken and was like okay they told me this works and so we built a house with Eddie Reynolds um which doesn't he
doesn't build a t anymore say is he still a builder I don't recognize that um he was a builder out of Kaa um for a
really long time Denise mink worked with him Kelsey Mink's mom um loved her um
and so she actually crazy full circle too Denise was my mom's realtor and and
then Kelsey and I went to high school together and grew up together um and then we yeah we moved to K but it's
funny cuz I just like you know I asked my mom about you know I remember building the house and then moving out
to K and like really getting a chance for us to like start again you know and
um she tells me the story of like it just like making cry but she tells me um
she was like yeah I'll never forget like it was just we had never had anything new or like nice and and she was like I
remember closing day came and this is crazy that this happened but she was like the week of closing um they told me
that like 2,000 of my like uh basically
I guess remaining payment or something that she was supposed to maybe like down payment or something um was going to be
like now do and she wasn't allocating for it we're still living at the greens of Bedford and um they were like you're
going to need it and she was like I had that exact much saved up for our appliances and they were like but you
can close on your house and so she had to like take that money put it towards
the so that we could close and she said we moved into the house and we we used
um like ice chest for like 6 months and like washed her own clothes and like we
didn't have and I was just thinking about them I'm like like she was just like so resourceful in that whole proc
cooler you know it she was like oh it was no big deal like it was just you know the way of life and like what we
did but we were in this brand new home um in Ka and I was in a great School District um and we were able to kind of
restart and then um yeah I graduated from K and then I went to Oklahoma State and um first generation college grad so
yeah yeah so um yeah and then I met Matt and we yeah and we don't live far from K
we're inan we're very close to K so Roy's chicken Roy's chickeny chicken
we're going to start shouting out all the local places hey I have to stop right now before anything else and Shout
out what is it Maple tacos what's the taco place right across the street because that's probably some of the best
tacos I've I've eat I just had them the other day oh my goodness I love tacos but like I like torches I like like Food
Truck Tacos but those are just like different yeah those are delicious not
sponsored so yeah so I think just experiencing Tulsa from living in it and
then I've I've actually lived in so many different pockets of Tulsa at this point
at one point when we when we um didn't live at Archer anymore actually the first place we moved to was um Manford
and so in keyone I went to keyone for a little bit and so there like I've you know I've seen so many different schools
I've lived in so many different pockets of it um so I'm just able to like navigate it really well when it comes to
these towns and distance and also just to answer your question too one of my other favorite things about Tulsa is you
can get from beginning to end in like 20 minutes it's really that is nice it's so nice you will not really hardly ever get
caught in traffic unless it's 5:00 on a Thursday or Friday um we go home to see
my parents in Michigan go to Ikea and we're stuck in traffic for 30 and it's not that far away from where they live
it's just it's just different ways of get that's that's another thing about just like living different places
we have and weate a little bit out of our home as well um being a small business
where we can commute to downtown's about I'd say 20 22 minutes something like
that right from our house to downtown which is great um yeah we just take the turnpik you guys are on the outskirts of
broken arrows we are yeah we're like South South ba I mean right on the line of K MH NSU Broken campus that's the
yeah M oh what do you guys think about the amphitheater that's coming yeah we're excited there's a lot of people
The Future of Tulsa: Excitement Surrounding the Upcoming Amphitheater
especially in our neighborhood that are very fired up about this not about it but um I mean we're excited I I think
it's I don't like I've I've lived here my whole life and like being near that
like especially growing up in K you don't have things like that readily next
to you you know and then the minute we hear like bands like The Lumineers could come and yeah I was hearing like it's
some of the similar bands that are on the you know the b or the ticket for like Red Rocks Amphitheater and stuff
like that so like you've got like lumir Mumford like people that are like they could be two miles from my house maybe I
could be up by the pond hearing a little bit of Acoustics like I'm good with that but some of the neighbors are not like
super thrilled but they're also not thrilled about other things other things you know the whole thing I think it's
going to be so amazing and the opportunity The Economic Opportunity that they'll have on um Broken Arrow be
awesome too I mean look what the Gathering Place right there I know that's the Gathering Place but it's like
anything that's positive for the community like that where multiple people can enjoy it and then the
marketing the advertising I mean like I have family obviously from Michigan they're all like they can't my like
Charlie's cousins cannot stop talking about the Gathering Place and they've been to other places they visit for yeah
they come to Tulsa to visit and I was like it's kind of funny cuz I didn't think that was ever like you know it's the top 10 world attractions yeah I know
is insane like it's like right in our backyard I don't take it for granted I just like I appreciate it and like yeah
if they want to do more like that out in broken a like I'm I'm not going to go against that at all so yeah yeah yeah
okay so now Charlie's in Broken Arrow schools so tell me how you guys feel about the schools like how does that
how's that um we love we love bercero we're big public Ed supporters um you
know I think a lot of people are always asking like are you you know what school are you going to put her in and I'm like
I'm going to put her in the district where we live like that's where we're going you know um and we're just we both
love we both are public school kids um we love the opportunity broken Aro provides um I have had the honor to meet
you know um some of the administration and Educators and they really care about
kids and that's what I care about they care about kids and um all the other stuff that comes with Oklahoma politics
just fall by the wayside which is nice yeah they focus on the kids which is awesome and needed and you being in
public Ed me being in public Ed previously like yeah it's so important and I think can completely change the
trajectory of you know a child's life so I love hearing you say that um any
anything good about the public schools now did you start a nonprofit yeah yeah
tell me tell me about that for the public schools yes yeah um edu bridge is what it's called and so we essentially
exist to meet practical needs for educators um without red tape yes is how
I put it um with being in the classroom yourself you know that if you need assistance in any way you need a grant
you need something you need just something that would be better for your kids or you need something personally
likeon I remember being a first year teacher and I was like I'm going to make
how much money I think you're missing a zero you know what I'm saying um
and you know you do it because you love it um but I just I you know I remember being in the classroom in those first
few years and um I'm thankful I was single at that time I don't know how I
would have done it with um I just call it let's call it overhead um of a family
and a house and um one thing I love about edgy bridge and I had a vision for
is that um you know I've had people reach out and say um hey there's two Educators in this District their roof
just collapsed what can we do can we buy him a new roof we've replaced carpet for some teachers houses that flooded that
they have no emergency fund and that is like I'm I'm not talking crayons I'm not
talking tissues I'm not talking hand sanitizer that you can go get from your Supply Closet most likely I'm talking
like practical like my electricity is about to be shut off and but like you're pouring into 140 kids every day and you
shouldn't be worried about that and so but the district can't really do anything about it the district hands are tied there's so much like red tape with
in it and so when we hear of someone like that we're like what can we do and we started doing that and I started
being like this should be where b a way where businesses can fund and give to
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this cause and receive tax deductible benefits for doing so and it just fired
me up that that that didn't exist like and so um I remember remember like
replacing that house and being like okay so here's all our receipts and they were like that's a gift to the and I'm like
no but we were like this should this should exist like we this is an educator
and you know and so I wanted it to be very you know beneficial for businesses
and to be another organization people can give to to it goes directly back to teachers I think it really woke you up
when teachers were posting their like wish lists and you researched it and you
were like huh I just bought like six things off people's wish list not that like we're in it all for the tax
deductions but like you were looking for those and realize that they're not tax deductible like if you as a business
owner that's just something you like I we give to so many different organizations churches and so I am
always keeping records of my tax deductions and I education should be one of them a grand scheme in my head that I
feel like we could fund public education if we could all sit down with some BigTime owners um Quick Trip you are one
of them um you know but I'm like like I just a little goes a long way and I think I'm being in business now and but
like being on the end as a teacher yeah like I have sent invoices now that I used to make in one year mhm and that
sobering thought of like knowing that there is money in business that isn't
like I do this for the cause of good like education of just like we just do
it and I don't make any money but in business it's like I can hustle I can like work really hard I am I am my own
ceiling and not from the side of like I think like you know greed or like we're
going to do this for like us but it's for the side of like I'm going to do this so that we can fund this I'm going to do this so that we have money set
aside to um pay for this kid's trip mission trip to Africa or something you know like so that we have the means to
be able to give and so edgy Bridge has been one of the biggest things um yeah you know a goal for that and I know I
know that's what's so frustrating FES me out I know there are other businesses like that out there that's like where should we give yeah we have the extra we
have we want help but I want to also make sure that my help is a help so like
what does that look like and there's so much just like mistrust in today's world of like yeah donate to this donate to
that but ultimately like one thing we can all agree on in Oklahoma is teachers
in the especially in the public education are vastly like just undervalued and going through that and
experiencing that kind of ticked you off enough to like have a bent towards like we're going to take care of this in any
means possible and you're right the person whose house we were able to like help like replace and renovate and all
that stuff that was like the biggest thing in their life you know at that moment but like at the end of the day
we're like okay who else needs one of those not that it's like look at us it's like if you're blessed you're blessed to
be a blessing and if you're not like it's like you're going to lose most of it anyway I feel like in the long run
people I mean that's a very biblical term but like be stingy and lose everything like the generous are blessed
their world gets bigger and bigger the Bible says so I just it's always suited us well and there have been times there
have been so many times when we were first married when we didn't have like anything to rub together like we used
everything we had to get to where we were business everything was a startup everything was sell Jenna came home and
I was selling furniture and she was like what are you doing I was like we don't need that chair she was like what were you doing I was like oh it was going to
buy part of a lens and she's like it's not even going to buy the lens it's going to buy part of it I was like I mean kind of expensive I started telling
her she wasn't understanding and then that just grew and grew and grew and uh but she saw the value and I I always
positioned it with Jenna as like a proposition first off I've never had to like like get her to agree on any like
we're pretty like-minded in terms of our business savvy and like she came home one time with a bunch of bounce houses
that she bought and she's like let's lach a bounce house business Rand we have some bounce houses now it's not
it's not like I went to the store and I got this shirt today Jenna comes home she's like I got another business I'm like freaking kidding closing his doors
and I was like heck of a deal commercial grade so our neighborhood Highland Creek
is really the only recipient right now cuz I'm too lazy to go to other neighborhoods that's great all the neighbors want them really yeah we ran
them out two hours out of time four four rentals a week made our money great it's like our weekend money so that is
awesome I love it yeah so yeah we're always thinking okay so okay so edge of
bridge bounce house like can they all just find go to vast and get a hold of you or like how do they how do they get
involved if they want to rent a balance house or if they want to give the BCE house or they still such a funny thing
or they want to you know give or talk to you about you know joining your cause because I did not even realize that it
went that far I thought it was more like the educational things but to hear that that is completely amazing I went into
administration because I was a single mom with boys as a teacher I couldn't afford it um so I had to go into
Administration to increase my paycheck so I could be a single exactly where she was she was like I want to go back but
I'm going to be a superintendent or whatever it's the only way I can like afford to stay in the education world because it's just not there's not a
whole lot of money it's unfortunate but like it's so vitally important that like if you throw that by the wayside I mean
you're kind of you're just you're gambling with like the future of everyone basically in terms of diminishing education so and the
teachers that are there for the most part I mean you always hear horror stories but like teachers that are there I mean they have a heart for kids they
are you know they are there that is you know is a giving cause and it is harder and harder to be a teacher now so I
think too just having kids of our own now yes it's just like I see it through a different lens we talk about all the
time what I go back to the classroom and you know I think I think I've had a few people kind of speak this in that
they're like I think he'll be back in the classroom one day but probably not from the teaching side I would love to
go in the to the political side um so I don't know what that looks like for us but yeah we we kind of like we're not
super political people we're not political people but um you know I I can definitely walk into a room and fight
for a good cause and so I feel like Oklahoma education is just such like it's like screaming for a cause for yeah
some help were those stats when you started edgy bridge wasn't it like 48 out of 50
or something like that that was the slogan it's not okay you know to be like that but um yeah so much value and it's
a great place great place place it's a great place okay well let's talk about
um so you talked about Highland Creek a little bit now tell me about your neighborhood like what you like about it
I know you talked a little bit but give us give us more uh what do you like about the neighborhood Highland Creek is
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a great neighborhood you got multiple phases I love specifically where we live
it's positioned right on a pond and on the other side of the pond you've got the swimming pool you've got the
playground for the kids you've got places where you can walk the dogs and throw the ball and then if you walk past
that there's another Pond and walking trails on the other side so there's just like tons to do for the F like that was
a big selling feature not only when we saw the house we fell in love with the house but the fact that all the playground was like I had to look past
the pond all this water and then you saw it right there so I didn't have to get a play set like my kid wanted a playground
so bad we just now it's an excuse we just walk and a pool and like so the neighbors are awesome um we've had
really positive experiences with all of our neighbors which isn't what we had at previous other places we've had great
Neighbors at other places but we've also you know been in those parts in Tulsa where you're like man I wish we could
live out in the country we we toyed with that idea do we love the country enough just to not have neighbors you know but
um we do like being around people and I like that Charlie can go outside the neighborhood kids are really friendly
everyone kind of walks around where the pond is anyway so if you sit in the house and look out the window long
enough you kind of see when everyone's doing something so we love it I love that our neighborhood has a buy sell
trade page Jenna rock yeah I this is really random have you ever lived in a
neighborhood that has this it's its own Faceook Marketplace neighborhood Facebook
Marketplace and so um I buy a lot of stuff on that we do p pick up and we all we all buy each other
stuff that's how we started the bounce house business okay just posting it in that neighborhood and we've gotten busy
enough to I'm like I don't know if I'm ready to start hiring people to like Drive these trucks and buy more boun I'm
like gosh like we got to figure this out if you look at a neighborhood like kyin Creek Highland Creek is massive yeah that's a massive neighborhood I don't I
didn't know was that big would know more than I do like is that are there I mean I think height it's got to be smaller
than Yorktown in Jinx but it's like it feels in Parts like Yorktown just keeps going it's got like phase after phase
but that's what it feels like I constantly forget which phase we're in I still don't know people are always like
oh it's over it's going on over in phase three I'm like is that I don't do you two I think two or three
remember like pop quiz Pop Quiz I failed my quiz um yeah yeah it's massive and I do
like that about the neighborhood though that it is large um and there's a lot of kids in there you know that Charlie goes
to school with um the bus stop there's a lot of kids already that bus you know that's got to be a good sign when
there's lots of kids getting on the bus and like families doing drop off at the bus stop and you know that's a that's a
good sign of I think like a good family neighborhood you know takes me back to the 9s right you remember like running
after the bus like backpacks like one strap in it going through the yard like chips are flying all over like man I
yeah like that is a great sign though because there's a lot of people today's world gets a little crazy but I still
constantly am like looking at Jenna like how do we still want to raise Charlie the parts of the way that we were raised
too because you can't just throw it all out and be like it's 2024 times are different like no no she she needs to go
to school early she needs to know how to be independent she needs to know there's so much just of that that that like gets
lost today I feel like that Jenna and I are constantly like do we want to die on this hill do we want to teach our kid
this or is this like cuz culture is different totally than it was when we went to school totally well I think
that's a large part too why we um Charlie like you know in public education too you know and just the
organization the structure the the exposure to all different types of cultures the conversations when she
comes home are part of it like I mean that you might not get at a Christian School nothing knocking against chrisan
like our kids have been in those up until the point where they had the opportunity to go to public and unless
something drastically changes our mind like that's kind of where we're at with them and she's got great friends and
great teach teach Charlie's teachers up for Teacher of the Year she won teacher of the year she won sorry awesome I'm
late to the par Miss we give her a shout out yeah yeah Miss Meyer at Aeros Springs she's
yeah our little four-year-olds teacher so oh awesome okay well let's move on a
little bit to okay we know you guys love your neighborhood now you have a unique
um lens because literally yeah lens of being able to shoot all of
you know Tulsa's neighborhood so if you could wave a magic wand and live in any
neighborhood not hland Creek like just any neighborhood um in the Tulsa area any of the surrounding suburbs like what
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neighborhood would you choose to if you know the Stars aligned and everything was perfect oh and the sub think I know
where you want to live I think I know um uh I could I mean if money was no object
I okay who you kind of have to break them down uh no it bck no it's not I'm
in Berwick so much it's just new nice houses in B uh historic neighborhood I live in Maple Ridge uh just I mean
somewhere buted up right next to the Gathering Place where it's walkable and money was no object object you know as
long as you have a big yard things like that um I If Money Was No Object I'd
live in Stone Canyon overlooking the golf course if money was no [Music]
lison whatever that's the house I would live in and is it too much 100% it is it's
the it's one of the coolest houses I've seen you know I'm talking about did the Twilight the pool keeps
going I was like has three pools the hill it's like MTV Spring break in the backyard George Lucas I guess did the
theater room on it or something or like his people not him like George but uh no
it's nonetheless it's one of the coolest houses that's like on the market right now that we've shot in the past but um
yeah Midtown has pockets everywhere like the coolest ones are like I mean like
the um what is it the MC Bernie Mansion yeah we shot that that was like I'm only
going off of neighborhoods based on experiences I've had in those neighborhoods so but you had experiences
in those neighborhoods than most more experien this than most so yeah yeah being able to like go into oh this is in
Midtown and oh I didn't even know this house was here and like we've shot some of the largest properties we've ever
shot you can't like see them like you don't even really know they're there that they're there and they're tucked
back I'm like this is $12 million in Oklahoma like that's not a normal like this is ay this is going to sit for a
while unless we do something crazy about it right so we really try to up our game and just give those out ofate buyers who
that might be a dropping the bucket to someone coming from the West Coast or the East Coast a chance if they want to
live life here in also so um yeah I would I would I would live in Stone Canyon um and I would put that lady at
the front gate on payrolls she doesn't put give me such a hard time for pulling in every time sorry fly a drone here she
reminds she reminds me all the production rules about what the Patriot offers and what PS of honor and I'm like look ma'am I was like you don't own the
air I'm compliance I'm in compliance and they want a picture of the Patriots so I'm going to get a picture of the
Patriots so well she her job yeah she is really good at her military I think is
really unique I don't know if you know the story that I think it's just so cool um when um Leo and when Martin SC Stacey
when they all came to film killers of the flower Moon um they were working
with some agents here in Tulsa to find their properties and um I'm not going to
disclose who but basically it's an agent who works with us a lot knows our ins
and outs knows what properties we shoot and everything and um he showed them
like our portfolio like he showed in the neighborhoods they were interested in he showed the house videos that we had shot
and I said yeah what' he say like I literally was like he just said Leo
watch it he's like well he ended up renting one of them over here and I was like so isn't that so cool found their
house from like our work was like I can die happy like I can die happy man at least Leo's gazed upon something
created but no it was really cool a feather in the Hat we ended up shooting the Pioneer Woman's Airbnb out there and
then I started talking with them while we were out there shooting it and realized that's where like Kirsten dun and Jesse plens stayed during the
filming of killers of the flower Mo I was like which room were they like I was literally going through the house it's just can you tell us where this is like
what part PA hus right down North right about an hour north kind of towards
Bartlesville mhm yeah yeah they I mean when by way it's for sale it is for sale
Cindy Morris and how it look Morris yeah you want everyone's getting a plug today
um no it's a it's a really cool like little City PA Huska is cool and it's
right literally down the street from like where their downtown is uh but it's like super historic like I don't know
it's probably built before the Titanic s or something I'm sure like 1910 or something like that but um it's pretty
epic and um yeah we to do all the media on that and I just started asking questions cuz they had all this stuff
about killers of the flower Moon while we were there trying to like promote in our photos like book on the coffee table
stuff like that and I just started asking they're like yeah you know who Jesse plens is I was like yeah I know who Jesse like I'm a big like fan of a
lot of his other work and stuff uh game night like three bags of Tostito Scoops
I see sorry anyway um but uh yeah we've had so many cool opportunities like just
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with people how many houses their house now like I feel like I did this more in the early days cuz now nowadays I'm like
oh yeah okay it just comes with a job but in the early days he would call me and be like you'll never guess which
house I it's this house in um you know tur wigler that we drive by and that
we've always wanted to go in and I'm in it and I'd be like I'd be right there and I'll like go toward it like hi I'm
with v and do like BTS with us you know just cuz I like want to see it and so
that's that's been really cool you know from our our lens of the industry seeing everything and being able and our guys
love that our guys like they you know they're trying to show up and be as professional as we can obviously but
when like a congressman answers the door or something like that you just got to be on your p's and Q you're in people's space but it is it is really really fun
like it's fun and you get a small little glimpse into like what some of those people live like and their tastes and
things like that so yeah I've been when we found our dream home I was able to pick and choose things over the years
that I've liked so when we found that house and Sabrina had it listed it was too perfect to not jump on it cuz I
looked at J I was like we can't build our peace meal together perfect house we're going to have to go out to Bigby
and it's going to be like 125,000 more than we even think it is so we should jump on this now and I'm glad we did so
definitely yeah for sure sorry I keep talking about the house I love it I love it I love it I love it um Keith always
ask how are they like in the house oh my go we love it I need to text them actually see I I want to put a fence to
make a dog run on the side we're trying to fix our grass right now that they screwed up in the backyard so had
someone give us a quote for Turf that was like outrage like I was like yeah how much they're like oh we do all the
the greens and stuff for like the PGA guys houses it was someone a connection from Stone Canyon so I was like yeah
have them come out it's like $100,000 I was like wait one z z like
he's like yeah it was basically like when do you want us to get started I was like never I love you but I don't 100K is you
know that's my magic W life yes just give me a l who knows maybe sometime maybe in 20 years we'll be recording the
podcast I mean I got three dogs they're pain but like I'll like go to you know
I'm say yeah oh my gosh Okay so we've talked a little bit about tulson or
Oklahoma so uh tulson that you admire and I know there's plenty of people to admire so not trying to put you on the
spot and say that you don't ADM people like who's somebody you know whether you you know know him personally or not but
that's made an impact on your life you know making a difference in Tulsa somebody you know that you would love to
meet or that you you know has been you're going to have to go have to go first cuz I'm
still making my selection um well we are big music people um and so one of our
favorite musicians is from Tulsa Ben Rector I know that not everyone may know who that is we love Ben Rector and he's
from Tulsa yeah um another Tolson that we love his music is Paul Klein lean s
singer of Laney which is yeah another fun fact um of course we love Hansen I
mean I love Hansen I grew up you know in the Hansen era so they're from Tulsa yeah I Tulsa has such a rich Heritage
that I'm trying to remember like one time I I saw like a in someone's house in Midtown it had like all the famous
people that were from Tulsa it was like a list and just kind of made up like the Skyline but I was looking I mean there
were people in there that like I I didn't even know like Yeah and I don't
well like I saw like I don't want to say it if it's wrong I saw like Eric Clapton on that list I don't know if he he
wasn't born in Tulsa that I'm aware of so anyway there's a lot of like uh musicians I musicians culture yeah I I
just appreciate what Tulsa is it's such a Melting Pot like for people up North Tulsa you literally if you've never been
here I I assumed like this is so stupid I assumed they legit were like tumble
weeds like I actually thought that was like like the norm like if you drove down the highway like that's not like a
like a poking fun at Western people like that's like what Oklahoma is when I got here I was like man people drive crazier
down here than they do in Detroit like this is like everyone drives pretty fast and um but it's a cool melting pop being
on Route 66 cuz that's like something when you're from up North you're like oh we're going to go with the family and do
Route 66 it's like in our backyard like little hole-in-the-wall motels that look super cool and are so like the American
dream culture like we're big walles people we like walles it's a gas station like bies but it's like when you go in
there it's like you're in like Clark Griswalds like gas station like on the wall it's just like murals of like traveling with the family and I'm like
this is great so Tulsa is a good place for that mhm yeah yeah and I think a lot of people when they hear Tulsa like you
said they just have a totally different opinion of it and then when they start to see it or research it they're like wait a second this place you know might
actually be cool and it really is especially the past I mean you know we grew up at the same time so even like
downtown probably 20 years ago like we would never hang out downtown um youed have to go down there when I was a kid
my my mom would have to go to the courthouse she worked like in the legal aspect and so um she was a single mom so
when I wasn't in school I had to be with her so I literally walked to the Tulsa County Courthouse probably
bazillion times as a kid um we would park right across the street in the parking lot and so I know how to
navigate the courthouse and go to the court clerks and navigate that I I don't even know how I know that but um I think
also I want I want to say another tulson I admire is um Linda Layman I should
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give a shout out to Linda Layman when okay so a lot of people don't know this but when I was growing up um when my
when my parents divorced um my mom put me in Linda Layman which do you remember
L remember Lind no she was located at about 51st in Harvard um but she had an
agency that was for acting and also modeling but I was in there primarily
for acting and my mom just like thought as a kid I just could have a
conversation and walk in a room like even like as you know I loved Larry King live I loved the Today show I just was
just really random I love reading newspapers and journalism and so she put me Linda Layman and um I got casted for
all these commercials and so I I I have filmed for like Community Care I was like their little know kid commercial
you know girl I was a representative um as a kid so Community Care um Oklahoma
um our PSO yeah yeah PSO a bunch of companies she got all these like so they
would I would just like go audition and L they would Linda represented me and they'd be like hey we have a they're going to come film here in Mall of
americ came to Tulsa one time sh I Twain came to Tulsa one time filmed a music video um Oklahoma Highway Patrol lots of
like local you know um big companies that would go find Talent um and so that
was fun because I feel like as a kid I saw a lot of Tulsa like we would go out on sets and go that's fun I didn't have
any of that when I was a kid I would have been en name like I would get paychecks which is insane yeah wow like
they it's crazy is she still so she uh the agency still exists the Linda Layman
agency but she has since then retired okay um yeah so she's given the agency
over to someone else but um yeah yeah a little fun fact I I have a a minor in
theater so that's originally what I studied going into college so yeah yeah I did not know that yeah yeah it's uh
it's hard for me being from like Michigan knowing every Association I had
with Tulsa before moving down here was actually in like the church World um and
I originally moved down here to go to Rama uh Bible College which I don't even know if you knew that about me but
that's what I was doing yeah what brought you here so that's what kind of brought me here nothing other than I was
single had a house and had equity and I was in Michigan and just trying to start over somewhere else um and I had had my
brother and his wife had both went to Rama so they had lived in Tulsa I had visited once before I remembered it was
warm down there when we were shovel in snow in Michigan so I was like that's cool for me like um but yeah it was
always probably over the past like I mean people that were like influential that I
knew were from Tulsa were always like preachers or like people that I had listened to their messages long before I had ever like moved down here but um I
mean Kenneth Hagen senior you know the one who passed he kind of had a big big
deal in what Broken Arrow was before it was even there it was like a field where like all R is and which I feel like
being from here you don't quite like like unless you go there unless you go to church there you for we forget that I
remember when I met Matt and he was like yeah I go to Rama I was like the lights
was like and love you know love them and I just forgot I'm like oh they have a
church and they have a school and people move here from all world you know and honestly I didn't move down here to go
to Rama as much as it was like I was going to go to Rama while I was down here just living on my own working I
worked at Best by like selling cell phones so um I went to Bible school but I was a kids Pastor before I even went
TOA at a church up in Michigan so I I did it backwards most of the time people are like go to Bible school then do that
I had received a lot of training and been on staff at some Churches so like that kind of was my in the- field training I more so was just like hey
it's not a bad thing to get a little bit more of the word from 8 to noon and then go work my job and that that was my life
when I met Jenna actually we met through someone that I went to Rama with that went to high school with her she slid
right into the DMS and the rest was history it's the truth like it's
actually how it happened what it matter it doesn't matter it was awesome just tell the story she get so fired up every
time too that's so funny okay well yeah getting to know how you guys met yeah okay on a final um final question to
wrap up what is your favorite thing you know to do with the kids in Tulsa um and
then your favorite thing to do as a date like date night and family yeah let's do
date night first we um love pickle ball yeah I was just GNA say that so we go to
this place a lot lot of people don't know about it so we go for your podcast they Tulsa Tulsa Athletic Club have you
heard of it it's the 11th and Poria downtown yeah and they've got they've got outdoor bar you can bring in your
own food um they have drinks all the yeah the drinks are it's just like so it's never busy they need to be busier
like it's an amazing place we usually go there have some drinks play a couple games of pickle ball then we're like
starving and we go out to dinner so that's either like just somewhere different each time me Casina am I
saying it right I say it wrong Casino Cas Cas yeah oh you know what that's
another tulson I admire I random you said me Cina made me think of it I ran into Chris and chenowith in the bathroom
at M Cina like coming out of the Stalls together and we're washing our hands and I'm like are you Chris and Jenna with
and we were alone and she was like like she she like you tell she just done working
out and I was like oh my gosh I love you she was like okay okay just she had
security like outside I just didn't even notice it was so funny like she went in and then you went in Security's like
there's someone in there I really admire her and she does a lot of work for broken era Public Schools p and stuff
yeah so and she's really funny and she's really funny and great seeing her anyways um yeah date night um we love M
Casina we love pickle ball not really like I know a lot of people in Tulsa are Foodies we're really not Foodies we
would we're more like your we like to like go be active and get something like
on the run but we're really not like a um I wish we were especially in our
industry we're not like you're like yeah fine wine caviar I mean like we love a
good glass of wine I I hope you know what I mean we're not the type that's like we're going to go to like a really
like nice classy I don't even know what's on my plate type Place yeah we're going to go get tacos and then we're
going to go to Riverside always to a really nice place and Jenna's like and I'm like you don't like
anything on this men chips ques um but
we love Riverside we love biking we love you know anything outside we also
frequent because we live in broken Aro Hillside Drive Hillside Drive in Broken Arrow is our Jam that's kind of where we
operate that's our tell me more about Drive yeah well Hillside Drive didn't exist when I was growing up which is
crazy um but it's in brano and I would say if you live in brano it's essential for your shopping it's got your target
it's got your Marshalls dicks PetSmart um a lot of more shoppings going in but
like also your Sprouts your Hobby Lobby um it's really our central location where we would normally when I was
growing up you had to go to Tulsa to get and it's funny too cuz cuz I'm like you're like I I think you asked this
movie before you came on where's your favorite place to shop I'm such a Tulsa girl I'm like Woodland Hills Mall but I think so many people would
laugh at that because guess what Tulsa Hills didn't exist when I was a kid and UDA exists but it was expensive and only
the rich kids got to go to UA and that's just what I thought um and so is great I
we love though that's a good and my as a kid I'm like I think you have to pay to go walk
there I don't know why I thought that I've gotten almost I've I've got it's free to just be hey I've gotten like
almost asked to leave while just being in the parking lot with my camera in UDA
because some guy was like you can't take pictures of the fronts of the of the uh restaurants and stuff and then literally
a person from the restaurant that I take a picture of that came out was like what are you talking about leave him alone
and the guy I was just like I was like I don't know who to believe I'm out of here like I was just like that happens everywhere we go um but yeah Hillside
Drive is essential to our shopping and then um favorite places for the kids and Tulsa we are aquarium members like
aquarium we love the aquarium um we love Jinx um we love the Gathering Place of
course the discovery lab um and we had a membership before they were in their new buildings so like down here you know in
downtown Tulsa area that's where Charlie went as a baby it was a huge upgrade I used to take her all the time when she
was a little one um and so it was a big upgrade when we got the new building and she she likes going to the movie
theaters like an old she get from yeah popcorn snacks
snacks um the zoo we have a great zoo I feel it's underrated like the Tulsa Zoo
you kind of forget exist it's it's really pushed like back there like almost like a
waso like northern airport area and it's a good zoo like it's a good place um
they've had some Renovations over the past few years so um anywhere else you think of with the kids no the uh kids
have tons to do we go out the rose District we we don't we go out of town on the weekends in the summer we go to
Sky usually so we we frequent we are boat club members at their Marina which
in case you don't want all the headaches of having to launch a boat or buy a boat
or store a boat or maintenance on a boat like boats are awesome but they become so much when you are the guy who does
all of that like going out on the boat's not even membership yeah it's like it's it would be like you saying like I want
to be a golf club member it's like a yach club member you just you go pay a monthly fee and you can take out any boat the the fee is like the same cost
as it would for a storage unit for you to keep the boat in there monthly anyway so it's really not a high monthly fee
they offer how many times can you go any time every day if you want it's insane it's like it's you have to make your
reservations you can take a wake boarding boat out one day a pontoon boat out the next day so like we our staff
that's one of the perks when you come work at vast media you get a corporate boat club membership we do all their marketing so not a lot of people know
that but we work for that's a national company I would say we represent Sunex marinas so they're located in all these
got places like Nashville Napa Valley so if you're a boat club member if you're a boat club member in skyk you could go on
a vacation to Napa Valley and then just take out a boat while you're there and it's no cost cuz you're already paid for
so it's like a car rental agency but you just have to find what marinas have it sky does yeah Sky cross timers Marina we
go there a lot Charlie has learned to love the lake which is like from our house okay so South ba which a lot of people are like wow you live out there
he had a realtor you had a realtor tell you you live in Arkansas like like he was like that it was someone picking
something up on Facebook Marketplace I was like yeah I was like it's the exit nsuba and he's like man you're like in
Arkansas I'm like you must be from the other side of the state like must be from like yeah like Collinsville or like
you know um anyways it's like from to Sky took Lake being on the water like a
40-minute drive which is like not bad no not bad at all 20 minutes to the city 20 minutes in the
Hills so and the hills are like a little bit more Scenic once you start getting they have cabins out there and yeah
that'd be a good place to film some content and that's what I was just thinking take out on a boat yeah come on out that's those homes on on the bluff
that like before you even get into their really nice neighborhood I can't I'm drawing a blank what that neighborhood's called the Gated one it's like their
version of Stone Canyon like kind of out there and it's all the houses that are along the
oh I love that neighborhood I can't think of what it's called either I've done a video on that neighborhood sh three three that I can remember houses
that were in there and they all they're they're tough but like they're so fun to go out on the water and be like look at that house my favorite is like their
sign is like always on the balcony it's hanging off the lake you know when something's for sale you're like oh
there's their like Banner basically you got to get a banner for your listing but Lake life is something that isn't like
doesn't come natural in Oklahoma I feel like coming from Michigan you it comes natural
you bie and it's Lakes are so dirty down here SK lake is clean that's why we go
to SK it's the it's the closest thing that I felt like when we were kids we'd go we'd grow up and like go fishing in
Kentucky and Tennessee and that's what lakes feel like a little bit in Oklahoma like to me you guys have like Michigan
which is like like rock Canyons that were filled in with water and that's why the water looks brown but in Michigan
yeah I mean you can like see to the the it's like swimming in the Caribbean in some Matt's Hometown is just comprised
of all these neighborhoods that live off of lakes every neighborhood has like shared lake neighborhood I'm like this
is so different that was a big shift when I came down here I was like people don't boat unless you like Grand Lake
like people vote but they don't like have it outside their back you have like a cabin like I grew up my friends like
when they got done with dinner like they walk to their backyard because there's a dock there and we'd like go fishing like we' go tubing like that was just kind of
grown up but uh sky is our little piece of trying to inject that into our kids
letting them have a little bit of fun on the water we did that when Co hit we freaked out and didn't think we were
going to be able to take any more vacation so we were like we bought a pontoon owned our own boat for three
years and loved it but just found out a lot and like learned a lot
of I could be a standup comic and Tulsa all I got to do is a bit on like the boat launch and like everything that
ensues at that boat like the divorce oh my God like the things people said to me like whole
thing anyway yeah um so yeah uh I don't know where I was going but Sky yeah Sky
took little plug for that I was about that town I know I know it's a little Paradise that no one ever and everyone
knows about Grand Lake and if you have friends or people that have an inn out there that's great but if you don't it's kind of overwhelming you're like where
do I go Sky look small there's a marina that sells beer and pizza and it's like you can come off the water and have
lunch and watch the Sun go down that's kind of what sold us a little bit I was like we're not like we love golf but
we're not like really Country Club people but I could do this that's what I said to her I was like and I could like deal with not having to own a boat and
like de this so is worth it okay I'm going to have to check that out yeah well thank you guys for joining us I
think that everyone is en has enjoyed seeing Tulsa Through Your Eyes gave some great um pickle ball um the boat club
Wrap up to Uncovering The Treasures Of Tulsa Oklahoma With Matt & Jenna
like all kinds of great uh tips and inside tips for that so Tulsa is a gy and I appreciate you guys coming on yeah
absolutely thanks for having us thanks Sabrina
