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Speaker 1: All right, ladies and gentlemen, our special guest is a

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Speaker 1: new author, a TV designer on the Drew Barrymore Talk Show,

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Speaker 1: and a notable interior designer. He goes way back with

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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey as the set designer for your Steve Talk Show,

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Speaker 1: Steve in Chicago. He's a good friend of the show

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Speaker 1: and he's here now to tell us about his brand

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Speaker 1: new book, hot off the presence. It's called The Forever Home.

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the show. Mchel welch goo.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm doing great. You know, the book is out

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Speaker 2: finally and yeah, I just can't believe it.

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Speaker 1: Well we can, and we're very happy for you. And

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Speaker 1: congratulations again, mchael. Now, you and Steve. If our audience

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Speaker 1: doesn't know you, guys have a history with your daytime

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Speaker 1: talk show, that was the first time you even you

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Speaker 1: ever did set design for a national TV show. Now,

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Speaker 1: what was that like? We know what it's like, But

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Speaker 1: what was it like for you to work with Steve

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Speaker 1: Harvey that.

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Speaker 2: You know, well, you know he's very particular. I mean

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Speaker 2: you think you think very particular. You know, he wants

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Speaker 2: everything masculine and smokey, and please don't bring that man

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Speaker 2: any small furniture because I learned the hard way. Yes,

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Speaker 2: if he cannot, you know, he needs to be able

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Speaker 2: to sit next year and have a lot of space,

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Speaker 2: because you're gonna.

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Speaker 3: Hear about it.

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Speaker 2: And I learned the hard way not to bring them

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Speaker 2: in any small furniture.

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Speaker 3: So we ain't in no tiny house. We don't need

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Speaker 3: no tiny and I ain't no tiny man. So but

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Speaker 3: you did good though. Man. He decorated not only on

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Speaker 3: the set, but he decorated my private dressing rooms, which

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Speaker 3: was really fly, very really dope. Yeah yeah, Michael, So,

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Speaker 3: so tell us about the new book, man.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So the book is called The fore Ever Home.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Of course, Drew Barrymore she wrote the fourth for the book.

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Speaker 2: But honestly, it's really about all of the design tips

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Speaker 2: that we learned in Chicago, and I'm basically teaching people

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Speaker 2: how they will get magazine worthy looks without spending a

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Speaker 2: lot of money, because let's face it, everybody doesn't have

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Speaker 2: millions of dollars like you to uh, you know, pull

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Speaker 2: off the face, so I have to tell them how

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Speaker 2: to get some.

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Speaker 3: Hey, I detected a little hate and everybody ain't got

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Speaker 3: a dollar.

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Speaker 1: It's a true statement.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to teach them how to live like you

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Speaker 2: just you know, on different fos.

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Speaker 3: Have you have you ever decorated Mississippi Monica's house?

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Speaker 2: Oh you know what I did? I did, and how

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Speaker 2: we experience well, you know, we had to work through

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Speaker 2: it because you know, she is very particular. She tries

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Speaker 2: to do your job. So I don't know that she

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Speaker 2: is necessarily biant. Yeah, she likes to do your job

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Speaker 2: and she's gonna tell you how to do and then

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Speaker 2: double check the prices is a lot, but.

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Speaker 3: You shouldn't at the buy now. She got a whole

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Speaker 3: closet full of stuff that's blown to us.

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Speaker 2: She got a oh I didn't know about this closet.

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Speaker 2: We might have to talk offline about this closet.

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Speaker 1: Michuel in your book Forever at Home, which is out

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Speaker 1: right now, give us some tips, like what are the

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Speaker 1: trends in homes?

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Speaker 2: Yea, now, I think one of the biggest trends right

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Speaker 2: now people love color watching the wall. That's basically where

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Speaker 2: you're adding like a fan sentiment to the wall. It

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Speaker 2: adds a lot of you know, texture to the wall.

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Speaker 2: So those are really huge. And then the other thing

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Speaker 2: that people are straying away from it is that blue

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Speaker 2: clay fabric. You all know that one white little fabric

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Speaker 2: everybody's been putting on furniture. Yeah, it's time to let

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Speaker 2: that go. But the book has a lot of like

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Speaker 2: design ships that have diagrams that have pictures so you

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Speaker 2: can like literally see what to do so you don't

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Speaker 2: mess it up.

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Speaker 4: Okay, what kind of advice can you give people? Because

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Speaker 4: it takes a lot to decorate your home and redesign

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Speaker 4: or refresh it, and then when you get your coins

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Speaker 4: together to do all of that, and then the certain

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Speaker 4: trends in certain styles are going away.

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Speaker 2: How do you VALI.

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Speaker 3: A while, sir, and by the time you got money,

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Speaker 3: it was out of style.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know what I'm saying. Trends come and go,

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Speaker 4: you know, quickly, So.

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Speaker 2: I know what you're saying. So the thing with that is,

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Speaker 2: don't try to do trends on major like fixtures, like

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Speaker 2: things that are permanent, because those are gonna cost you

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Speaker 2: a lot of money. Try to stick to like trendy

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Speaker 2: things are like access free or something that you know

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Speaker 2: you can easily just pick up with one finger and

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Speaker 2: change it. Because when you try to like change and

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Speaker 2: go with the trends on things that are like permanent pictures.

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Speaker 2: That's where you mess up with only stick to the

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Speaker 2: trends on things that you can easily replace by just

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Speaker 2: running down to your local store. Don't try to go create.

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Speaker 3: You gotcha, Like for example, there's lamp that Monica got

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Speaker 3: on her zoom, that one that could easily be just

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Speaker 3: taken away purpose over there. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: You've been doing book signings all week. Tonight you will

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Speaker 1: be in Atlanta, Georgia with a book signing. Have you

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Speaker 1: gotten great turnouts at your book signings? How's that been

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Speaker 1: going for you? The book?

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Speaker 3: Where's the book signing in Atlanta?

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Speaker 2: This one is going to be at the Design House

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Speaker 2: in Atlanta from five to eight pm. That wants to

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Speaker 2: be a lot of fun and the turnout has been great.

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Speaker 2: We've had over one hundred and eighty people last night,

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Speaker 2: so people have been showing up the support. But Atlanta,

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Speaker 2: we invite you to come, grab a cocktail, buy a book.

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Speaker 2: Those who don't just come there and drink, but you know, yeah,

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Speaker 2: by book Shirley.

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Speaker 3: Where can everybody buy the book?

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Speaker 1: App it's called The Forever Home. It's available now online

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Speaker 1: and in bookstores. Michel Welch, we are proud of you.

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Speaker 1: We're so happy for you. We congratulate you on your

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Speaker 1: brand new book, The Forever Home, and we'll see you

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Speaker 1: at the book signing tonight.

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Speaker 3: All right, buy the book Forever Home and give it

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Speaker 3: out as a gift to people who need something done

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Speaker 3: to their house. Don't get a book to old people.

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Speaker 3: They knocked in the change.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Michael, Thank you guys. Thank you. Harvey.

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