Speaker 1: This is a Wells Cast with Wells Atoms and I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio podcast. You guys, ready, yeah, ready are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm just so you know, I'm doing this
Speaker 1: from my mom's house because I'm quarantining away from my fiance.
Speaker 1: Uh So, I mean, you guys are lucky. You get
Speaker 1: to see what my childhood bedroom looked like. It looks nice, right,
Speaker 1: you get the inside scoop. Yeah, that's pretty cool. That's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Do you guys have rooms in your house
Speaker 1: that are the walls are painted margarine or no, actually
Speaker 1: doors were hurt. The other house that we have is
Speaker 1: like kind of like a yellowish, like a bright margarine color.
Speaker 1: We can relate. All right, let's do this thing alright.
Speaker 1: Back on the Welles Cast. Very excited to have the
Speaker 1: stars of Bling Empire on Netflix. Terry and Jesse here,
Speaker 1: how are you, guys? We're good? Okay, so obsessed with
Speaker 1: your show, and I gotta be honest with you, like,
Speaker 1: I like all the storylines, but your guys storyline to
Speaker 1: me is the best. When you watch your back do
Speaker 1: you guys feel like, yeah, we're the stars of this show.
Speaker 1: I think there were a lot of stars, but I
Speaker 1: think we're definitely the stars of the show as well.
Speaker 1: We're very authentic on the show. We were absolutely no filter.
Speaker 1: That was my life and just the whole timing how
Speaker 1: everything had happened. When I think back, it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, he just rewatched our scenes last night. He
Speaker 1: watches our scenes like all the time. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like a every other day like activity that he does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he he just loves the scenes with the kids,
Speaker 1: like and and watching Javom being born again and again
Speaker 1: and again again, Like He's was like, Wow, Gravon, you know,
Speaker 1: I can't believe, like he went through all that with
Speaker 1: me and my mom and he just came out the
Speaker 1: happiest baby, and we're grateful for that. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: the birth of Givon, that particular saying was very special
Speaker 1: to me, and it's just such a blessing and kind
Speaker 1: of honored to be able to have that captured and
Speaker 1: be able to kind of relive that at that moment.
Speaker 1: He Ashley cried when Javon was born, and I was
Speaker 1: really shocked. I was like, why are you crying? Well,
Speaker 1: he didn't cry, like who's the sobbing? He did tearing
Speaker 1: up and then and then it hit me that, you know,
Speaker 1: he as much as my mom has affected me, it
Speaker 1: affected him too. And obviously my mom affected me, which
Speaker 1: affected Javon Right was pregnant the whole time and he
Speaker 1: was very sensitive to it, but he never showed it
Speaker 1: to me until that moment, which was kind of edit
Speaker 1: out of the you know, the scene because everyone thinks
Speaker 1: like a birth in one minute, and that's not true.
Speaker 1: I was pushing for a while. I mean, yes, I
Speaker 1: wasn't grunting or screaming, but I didn't do that my
Speaker 1: first pregnancy too. I didn't sweat like it wasn't It's
Speaker 1: not Hollywood. This is a reality. That's how I give birth.
Speaker 1: And a lot of my friends give birth that way too,
Speaker 1: and some people have full glam, some people have no glam.
Speaker 1: And I just you know, I mean, I was so depressed,
Speaker 1: like and I just it was excited to see Javan
Speaker 1: I didn't I just want to be natural and not
Speaker 1: have a glam. Because my friends were like, how come
Speaker 1: you didn't you know, some of my friends who love makeup,
Speaker 1: They're like, how come you didn't doll up for the scene.
Speaker 1: I'm like, why would I dollop? Giving birth? Like I
Speaker 1: don't know, like to me, my focus is just give
Speaker 1: birth like I And also I didn't have a time, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, when he comes, I'm not gonna call my
Speaker 1: makeup birthers, hey stand by, come come doll me up,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know. It wasn't my thing, So it
Speaker 1: was very natural, very natural. Yeah, the whole thing was
Speaker 1: I went there and you know, I had contractions and
Speaker 1: I went there and I gave birth. Yeah. One of
Speaker 1: my favorite subplots of your son being born is this
Speaker 1: whole past life reincarnation thing that you guys touch on.
Speaker 1: But I want to know more at it because, um,
Speaker 1: it's fascinating to me and I like believe in that stuff. Obviously,
Speaker 1: your daughter plays a big role in like the narrative
Speaker 1: of that. You know, she recognizes your son as your mother,
Speaker 1: and I want to know, are they like other things
Speaker 1: that were cut out that were like signs of that
Speaker 1: that we didn't see. I think they captured a lot
Speaker 1: of it. Obviously. George talked about my mom every day.
Speaker 1: Even last night she was telling me that my mom,
Speaker 1: you know, doesn't want to get shots anymore. She's tired
Speaker 1: of the pain, like getting shots, and she wants to
Speaker 1: be relaxed and enjoy her day. And I was just
Speaker 1: like okay, Jars. And then my friend had told me something.
Speaker 1: You know, babies are so special. They come from heaven,
Speaker 1: so it's like a recognizable place that that they can
Speaker 1: feel things and see things that we cannot feel because
Speaker 1: we've already evolved into you know, our own personalities and characters.
Speaker 1: At the moment, had convinced me that your mom was
Speaker 1: my mom, and I felt very convinced because I remember
Speaker 1: telling my mom, Hey, um, you know is it's too
Speaker 1: painful for you and you want to let go. I
Speaker 1: understand because she my mom went through a lot of
Speaker 1: pain for ten months, and I told her, you know,
Speaker 1: if you want to come back as Dravan, I will
Speaker 1: take care of you like I will. You know I
Speaker 1: would do. I will go to extra steps even more
Speaker 1: than than ever to take care of her. And the
Speaker 1: whole time, I really felt Ravan could have been my mom.
Speaker 1: But now that time has passed, I feel Gravan is
Speaker 1: just Ravan, like he is such a big blessing to me.
Speaker 1: He truly came to me to Earth too, because I
Speaker 1: don't know, for some reason, the universe knew my mom
Speaker 1: was gonna get sick, so they blessed me with this
Speaker 1: little baby boy. He used the happiest baby like he's
Speaker 1: happy all the time. Whenever I'm sad, he's happy. Whenever
Speaker 1: I'm happy, he's happy like I'm just he's always smiling
Speaker 1: like it's just wonderful. And I don't know, I feel
Speaker 1: like he's just such a true blessing. Honestly, I would
Speaker 1: say it's over and over again. He saved my life.
Speaker 1: He did because without him, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I want to survive my mom not being here.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously I have Jesse Todoin, who I love
Speaker 1: so much, but Javon, because he has inside me, I
Speaker 1: had to control myself. I had to control my depression.
Speaker 1: I had to control my sadness, control my crying. And
Speaker 1: I thought once he was out, I was going to
Speaker 1: drink myself to death or something. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Not drink myself to death, that's not the
Speaker 1: right thing. But I was just gonna at least have
Speaker 1: some drinks. But I didn't even drink at all. Like
Speaker 1: I had drinks here and there, but it wasn't like
Speaker 1: I drink because I was depressed. You know some people
Speaker 1: do that and I don't. I don't you know, promote
Speaker 1: that at all. But I'm glad that he had brought
Speaker 1: me so much happiness and I didn't didn't think about
Speaker 1: anything else. Really, Jesse, what are you? What are your
Speaker 1: thoughts on all of this? My fiance is very like
Speaker 1: into astrology. There's a lot of me that's like, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm buying a lot of this. I'm
Speaker 1: more more of like a like a realist or a pragmatist,
Speaker 1: and I feel like you're kind of on that same plane.
Speaker 1: I wonder like when Terry is like, I think that
Speaker 1: maybe like our son is embodied in my late mother.
Speaker 1: Are you like, oh no, I think you need a drink, baby,
Speaker 1: or you like, oh cool? Well, I mean obviously, you
Speaker 1: know I I was supportive or whatever. She's kind of over,
Speaker 1: you know, being able to kind of handle the situation, right,
Speaker 1: because you know, even though I personally would differentiate between
Speaker 1: Gavan and her mom, I still want to keep her
Speaker 1: whatever her faith is, her belief at that time, to
Speaker 1: be that motivation factor, right because obviously she was going
Speaker 1: through a lot with the loss of her mom, and
Speaker 1: and the last thing I want to do. It's it's
Speaker 1: kind of complicated situation. So whatever it is that she
Speaker 1: was gonna help her through. Like I'm supportive, but at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I want to be logically
Speaker 1: kind of for its my opinion, right, Like, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you want to keep a little difference between your
Speaker 1: mom and Gavan and just you know, allow Jivan to
Speaker 1: be who he is. And and it so happened that
Speaker 1: Javon is part of mom. You know, we are just
Speaker 1: one big Yeah, it's just all based off of feelings
Speaker 1: and how we feel. Yeah, absolutely well, I will say
Speaker 1: this like in your Netflix Family, I think there's a
Speaker 1: show called like Life After Death and they and they
Speaker 1: talk about a lot of people who feel like they
Speaker 1: had like a reincarnation and they all have a very
Speaker 1: similar thing. Like when they're young, they have a lot
Speaker 1: of information, uh and embody a lot of stuff of
Speaker 1: someone who has passed and then as like time goes on,
Speaker 1: that kind of strips away or or maybe that person
Speaker 1: that was kind of you know embodying them is allowed
Speaker 1: to like go or feels good about letting go. And
Speaker 1: it's something that like in the beginning, I was like
Speaker 1: this is crazy talk, and now I'm like, I totally
Speaker 1: believe it. I think it's so cool. So I think
Speaker 1: it's really cool that it came out on your Guys show,
Speaker 1: which is just so fun to watch it in general. Jesse,
Speaker 1: here's my question, were you ever like, why the funk
Speaker 1: am I doing this show? Ye? Are you still like that? Um? No,
Speaker 1: I have to say, it's uh, the show has been released,
Speaker 1: and what should we touch base on. I really enjoyed
Speaker 1: the part, and I feel very blessed and honored to
Speaker 1: be part of it. I really do being able to
Speaker 1: reflect back and have all that capture. I think it's
Speaker 1: I think we're very honored to be part of that show.
Speaker 1: I think he watches the shows, I mean not the shows,
Speaker 1: but r be Um more than anyone I know. The
Speaker 1: second person, pub my cousin, like she'll she she actually
Speaker 1: clipped the scenes to only me and you know, replay it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just a memory. I mean, just being able to
Speaker 1: kind of rewatch it and just live that moment, it's
Speaker 1: very special to me. I mean, I really enjoyed it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've been on seven reality shows, seven or eight, and
Speaker 1: I always asked this question when I talk to reality
Speaker 1: TV personalities it's an inevitability that you're gonna like some
Speaker 1: of the stuff that you see, and then you're not
Speaker 1: gonna like some of the stuff you see. That's just
Speaker 1: what happens when you don't have control. In the edit, Bay,
Speaker 1: I wonder, do you guys have anything that when you
Speaker 1: look back on Season one of being like I hated
Speaker 1: the way that was perceived, I wish or like that
Speaker 1: was wrong. I don't know, we got lucky. I don't know,
Speaker 1: like I know a lot of people had problems, but
Speaker 1: we were actually really lucky with it. For me, it
Speaker 1: was more like my my post part of body outfits,
Speaker 1: like I shouldn't chosen any more loose spitting. I don't know,
Speaker 1: while it's so confident to where like tight closing after
Speaker 1: I just gave birth, and like, no, I shouldn't have
Speaker 1: done that, and it was just for me. It's just
Speaker 1: outfit choices, Like I wish I made a little bit
Speaker 1: about better outfit choice after I gave birth, but when
Speaker 1: I was pregnant, I thought I was still opportunities were
Speaker 1: good on my part, I mean, for me, I think
Speaker 1: it's just kind of seeing how Shari felt right about
Speaker 1: the non proposal from my part, right. I think I
Speaker 1: think that part was very but but you know, she
Speaker 1: just recently kind of find out kind of like my
Speaker 1: little plan behind the scene and kind of the reasoning
Speaker 1: why you know, I have been hesitant. So but you know,
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I think to show him out. Great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's pretty crazy because him and I have actually
Speaker 1: been looking at engagement rings for ever since we met,
Speaker 1: like every since the door was like I was pregnant
Speaker 1: with the door, and and every time I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: you're thinking of proposed, but now it's kind of like
Speaker 1: a like a gift or something. So I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: well that's not a proposal. So you know, it has
Speaker 1: gone past me many times, and that's why I just decided,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm just going to do it. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna propose. Well, my god, I have this thing
Speaker 1: in my mind that I want, I wanted to do
Speaker 1: with it, so I want to make sure when it
Speaker 1: does happen, I want to make sure it kind of
Speaker 1: I'm able to do what I envisioned. And timing, like
Speaker 1: I said, it's it's everything and and just unfortunately timing
Speaker 1: has been kind of off. But you know, I mean
Speaker 1: it's it will come. Here's what I assume happened in
Speaker 1: that scene where she proposes to you. So the show
Speaker 1: shows like you take a beat, like there's hesitancy in it,
Speaker 1: and I would assume that that's not how that went down.
Speaker 1: There was no pause, but it it was just like
Speaker 1: we filmed it and then and then obviously on my end,
Speaker 1: I had some you know, like planning on my end
Speaker 1: because it's a big thing for me, right to post
Speaker 1: to someone. I mean, never in my life, but I
Speaker 1: thought I would think I would do that, right usually,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm waiting for someone to propose to me,
Speaker 1: which would obviously be him. But yeah, okay, I think
Speaker 1: the pause can take it different ways, right. The pause
Speaker 1: wasn't about whether or not I was gonna say yes
Speaker 1: or no. The pause was I was literally shocked. He
Speaker 1: was shocked, and he was just shocked back from Asia.
Speaker 1: He was no sl jet lag everything, you know. I
Speaker 1: felt bad for him. Yeah, I mean, I literally just
Speaker 1: got back from Singapore that day and I and I
Speaker 1: mean I barely made the party, so I'm still kind
Speaker 1: of jet lag. But the thing is, I was seriously shocked, like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I mean, is this this really happening. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so no, but I think it's a great thing. And
Speaker 1: I'm kind of looking back it's and my face was wow.
Speaker 1: I mean when you watch it back, and obviously Jesse's
Speaker 1: watching it back a lot, I love that. I love that,
Speaker 1: Like You're like, I've now become a super fan of yourself.
Speaker 1: This is amazing. Who like, aside from from you guys,
Speaker 1: like watching you guys, who is your favorite character on
Speaker 1: the show. I think because I had just met Anna
Speaker 1: and I didn't know much about her, and then when
Speaker 1: I watched her on the show, I'm just like, Wow,
Speaker 1: I was blown away. She's very motherly, very sincere. I mean,
Speaker 1: for everything that she has. I was really blown away
Speaker 1: by her character. She's very humble too, and you know
Speaker 1: she Yeah, I mean that kind of blew me away.
Speaker 1: I personally really liked the duo of k and Kevin.
Speaker 1: I think I think the duel between them too, I
Speaker 1: mean really made. But it's a trio. It was me
Speaker 1: Kan and Kevin. Yeah, we were together pretty often actually,
Speaker 1: but obviously this is before they even film, but Canan
Speaker 1: Kevin came to the hospital all the time, including Jesse
Speaker 1: to you know, help me my mom, to pray to chant.
Speaker 1: We went to the temple all the time. I was pregnant,
Speaker 1: like getting up and down to the temple like you know, praying,
Speaker 1: doing what I should be doing. But I mean I
Speaker 1: probably could have given birth to the temple because I
Speaker 1: was always a bi down, like up and down and doubt.
Speaker 1: That's how you pray, you Kane, Kevin and I and
Speaker 1: Jesse did this like eight hour chat. Wait was any hours?
Speaker 1: I think it's four hours and you get a one
Speaker 1: hour lunch break and then you continue again for another
Speaker 1: three or four hours. So that was very intense. And
Speaker 1: that was my first like time doing that prayer session.
Speaker 1: And it's pretty incredible because Kevin does it speakinning Chinese.
Speaker 1: The whole chances in Chinese. I mean, it's even difficult
Speaker 1: for me and him, and you know, it's just great
Speaker 1: that we have that relationship. I mean, they're they're wonderful
Speaker 1: people and they're my good friends. Yeah, speaking of your
Speaker 1: heritage as someone who's who understands like doing reality shows
Speaker 1: and then it becoming a big thing and then garnering
Speaker 1: this huge following on social media, what inevitably happens with
Speaker 1: my shows people that come on it, there's really great
Speaker 1: comments and like really wonderful support, and then there's just
Speaker 1: also just a lot of like vile internet troll people
Speaker 1: say terrible things with you guys, your heritage. I feel
Speaker 1: like people could really use that against you. In terms
Speaker 1: of the show, Have you experienced that at all for
Speaker 1: us as a family, I mean, we were accepted everyone's opinions, right.
Speaker 1: I think that's part of the thing is what make
Speaker 1: us kind of move forward, is that we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to accept from both sides. Right. There are different people,
Speaker 1: different perspective. So I think the first thing that we
Speaker 1: can do as a family, it's just as respects everyone's perspective.
Speaker 1: For me, you know, my kind of past and growing up,
Speaker 1: I just have to realize that, you know, as I
Speaker 1: get older, that you just can't please everybody. And it's okay,
Speaker 1: but the most thing's gotta be true to yourself and
Speaker 1: be good person, right, and then hopefully all that leads
Speaker 1: to all the positive in the future. But we just
Speaker 1: got to kind of hold ourselves accountable and hold ourselves
Speaker 1: positive and let that kind of be our message. Has
Speaker 1: the show helped or hurt your business career? I mean
Speaker 1: I think it's still Yeah, well I think it's still
Speaker 1: very early to say or another. But I think again,
Speaker 1: kind of going back to kind of my philosophy in
Speaker 1: life in general, it is the fact that you know,
Speaker 1: we just be ourselves and do good things. I think
Speaker 1: the positivity will spread and and you know, as control,
Speaker 1: we cannot control everyone's perception, which is hoped by our actions.
Speaker 1: You know, people will kind of turn around if they
Speaker 1: have any negative view on us, that they will see
Speaker 1: the positive side of things. What can everyone expect for
Speaker 1: seasons going forward to Bling Empire? I mean, we don't
Speaker 1: know season two it's gonna happen, right and in second
Speaker 1: you know, Sara, and I mean, if if that does happen,
Speaker 1: we have to talk among us as a family to
Speaker 1: see where we see you guys fitting all right, But
Speaker 1: but regardless, just the fact that we've been part of
Speaker 1: this show and kind of in a way pioneering, it's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. I mean, it's very it's very honorable as itself.
Speaker 1: So I mean, we don't know what the future holds,
Speaker 1: but you know, we we'll just have to wait and see. Okay,
Speaker 1: So if Netflix comes back to you and says, all right,
Speaker 1: we're green lighting season two, three, and four, we'll renegotiate
Speaker 1: your contracts to whatever you guys want. Are you saying
Speaker 1: yes to that or are you still thinking about it? Definitely,
Speaker 1: we'll have your discussion with the production team right because
Speaker 1: again we have to see where we fit in because
Speaker 1: as we have sure we have mentioned and during the
Speaker 1: first season, we're very true to ourselves and we really
Speaker 1: want to make sure that what they kind of envision
Speaker 1: for us as far apart for our season two in future,
Speaker 1: we want to make sure your lines will what our
Speaker 1: visions are and what fits within our family because we do,
Speaker 1: you know, have two little babies and we have to
Speaker 1: kind of think outside of just ourselves. I have to
Speaker 1: think it's a family. Yeah, we definitely have to think
Speaker 1: for the babies because they're well being is everything and
Speaker 1: as well as education. And also, I mean, Jesse's super
Speaker 1: busy with his businesses. I have some projects coming up,
Speaker 1: and it would be great too for the show to
Speaker 1: show what his entrepreneurial skills because he's in that way
Speaker 1: all his life. And also most people don't know he's
Speaker 1: like a workout free like a gym gym rat something
Speaker 1: like well, I mean I just ca yeah, like we
Speaker 1: were we bumped into guy the other day and he
Speaker 1: was like, oh, Jesse, you're looking fit, But I was thinking, no,
Speaker 1: Jesse was even more fit before. But now he he
Speaker 1: only is limited to one hour per day at the gym.
Speaker 1: Back then he would be went three hours at the gym,
Speaker 1: like he just loves it. And I remember when we
Speaker 1: first started dating and we had no babies, he would
Speaker 1: invite me to the gym and I'm the opposite of
Speaker 1: a gym rat, like I'm so lazy and I am
Speaker 1: o c D. So I think everything's dirty. I don't
Speaker 1: want to touch it. I'm okay, gotta wipe it out
Speaker 1: of a a web. And this is like way before COVID.
Speaker 1: And then he's like, what's wrong with you? And I'm hungry?
Speaker 1: Can't we leave? Like and then so I used to
Speaker 1: go through the gym and I would I would literally
Speaker 1: bring him down. So now we know, just me stay
Speaker 1: at home with the kids whatever and help. He gets
Speaker 1: to go to the gym on his own and it's
Speaker 1: very therapeutic for him, and I shouldn't go bother him,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Go Back then, he was like,
Speaker 1: what you've all look at here for half an hour
Speaker 1: and you're tired because I just I don't know if
Speaker 1: you have it in me. I'm like a I like
Speaker 1: to go to the grocery store and they'd like to
Speaker 1: go shopping. That's like my gym. And actually the kids
Speaker 1: playing with them is a lot of work. That's my
Speaker 1: gym too. I mean most moms don't know that. I
Speaker 1: think I begin a question, I'm surely how did you
Speaker 1: lose weight so quickly? Well, it's literally my son. He
Speaker 1: treats me like I'm a human gym. Like I'm like
Speaker 1: lifting him up every day on my legs and beans.
Speaker 1: And it's a lot of work, but I love doing it.
Speaker 1: I love that bonding time with him. I'm grateful for it.
Speaker 1: And yeah, everyone out there, if you haven't seen Bling
Speaker 1: Empire and netfl you need to go. You just binge
Speaker 1: the whole thing immediately. It's absolutely phenomenal. First, is there
Speaker 1: anything that you guys want to talk about it promote
Speaker 1: that I didn't talk about in terms of the show,
Speaker 1: or other things that you want to talk about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Artequila brand, which we're very excited about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've got somebody. Yeah, we've got some pretty special things
Speaker 1: coming out soon. Being able to create a private label
Speaker 1: right for people to purchase. Um and you know, I
Speaker 1: mean I think it's a continue again elaborate at the
Speaker 1: private label. Okay, well you know, tell what you told me. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's just being able to have it
Speaker 1: own barrel aged in Mexico and able to kind of
Speaker 1: buy into the whole you know, your own barrel the
Speaker 1: way you want the age that just everything else. You
Speaker 1: mean you can buy one barrel to yourself. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you'll be able to buy the whole barrel. Correct and
Speaker 1: a and we know number eight, it's always number yeah.
Speaker 1: So we're very out about that. That's kind of launching
Speaker 1: into this month and uh coming up soon, so I'll
Speaker 1: definitely look out for that. Well, hey, I'm the bartender
Speaker 1: on Bachelor in Paradise, which films in Mexico. So I
Speaker 1: expect to have a barrel sent down to Sally Alita
Speaker 1: and we'll get all those beautiful idiots very drunk on
Speaker 1: your amazing tequilo. Okay, well, let make it happen. Okay. So,
Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone told you, but the premise
Speaker 1: of my show is origin Stories. I'd like to see
Speaker 1: how people became successful. So if you got a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes, let's reel back the clocks and see where
Speaker 1: the hell you guys came from and how the hell
Speaker 1: you got here? You go with that? S all right,
Speaker 1: quick break, we come back. The stars of Bling Empire,
Speaker 1: Sherry and Jesse will tell us how the hell they
Speaker 1: got on this stupid podcast. Stick around all right, back
Speaker 1: in the wells, gast. If you guys haven't seen Bling
Speaker 1: Empire and Netflix, you absolutely have to. I was trying
Speaker 1: to think of like a way to explain your guys show,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of like Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Speaker 1: or like the Hills mixed with like crazy rich Asians.
Speaker 1: How do you guys explain what your guys thing is
Speaker 1: for us? Our participation in the show as first when
Speaker 1: we when we kind of talked to the production team,
Speaker 1: it's really just a show about being able to kind
Speaker 1: of show a little bit about the Asian culture, right
Speaker 1: because the cast is still die first between so many
Speaker 1: different Asian countries. This this is kind of like a
Speaker 1: way for us to assemble this past, to be able
Speaker 1: to show the world a little bit of our background.
Speaker 1: So you know, at that time, you know, I didn't
Speaker 1: really look at comparison or or to any other show,
Speaker 1: because there wasn't an at that time, right, and that's
Speaker 1: really the motivation force for us to be part of it, right,
Speaker 1: He actually didn't. I mean both of us were were private.
Speaker 1: We didn't want to show anything, and and every time
Speaker 1: they asked something he would actually just reject it, like
Speaker 1: okay we and he's like no. And then I mean,
Speaker 1: normally can I say this, but if we go to
Speaker 1: Vegas like we would, he would like literally get the
Speaker 1: best like Penthouse there, but if they're filming, he'll just
Speaker 1: get a regular room. I'm Mike, okay, but that's not us.
Speaker 1: But he said, I don't want to show anything like
Speaker 1: because that one trip that we went yeah for for me,
Speaker 1: I just you know, again our tape participation on this
Speaker 1: shows it's not about I guess the point right. Really again,
Speaker 1: our our thing is really just kind of wanting to
Speaker 1: showcase the heritage and the culture. But just the timing again,
Speaker 1: come back to life and timing is during the filming,
Speaker 1: it went through sort of the happiest and saddest time
Speaker 1: and the time when when we talked about show that
Speaker 1: wasn't even wasn't subject, wasn't even yeah, including Yeah. They
Speaker 1: didn't ask us about any of the playing or anything.
Speaker 1: It was more like, oh my gosh, shee with your mom. Okay.
Speaker 1: We thought were going to be able to film a
Speaker 1: clip of me going to help my mom, but not
Speaker 1: sure my mom's face or whatever my mom is comfortable with.
Speaker 1: If she didn't want to do it, we wouldn't do
Speaker 1: that either. But sometimes I look back, I said, Oh,
Speaker 1: I wish there was me holding my mom's hand in
Speaker 1: the show, Like how wonderful would that be? I have
Speaker 1: like so many videos on my phone, but and I
Speaker 1: won't give up my phone because the old iPhone, I've
Speaker 1: had it forever. I won't give it up because I
Speaker 1: feel like my mom communicated me through this phone. I'm crazy,
Speaker 1: but she really does. And it's like freezing on me
Speaker 1: because I have so much content on there now. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of looking back, let's go back to the beginning,
Speaker 1: ladies for Sherry, Where did you come from? Where are
Speaker 1: you born? I'm born in Los Angeles County, California and
Speaker 1: literally born to raise here. But you need to open
Speaker 1: How many siblings do you have? Where do you fall
Speaker 1: in birth order? Yeah? I'm the only child. This just
Speaker 1: me and my mom growing up, parents separating at a
Speaker 1: young age, and I am stuck to my mom like Blue,
Speaker 1: I'm so close to her, so for me to lose
Speaker 1: hersel sending so quickly, She's very young and at the
Speaker 1: moment I thought she was healthy, like very shocking to me.
Speaker 1: That's very, very shocking by Lobster. Was your relationship with
Speaker 1: your mom growing up? Mother daughter or like sister sister?
Speaker 1: Definitely mother's daughter. She was very strict with me. Actually
Speaker 1: didn't see her opting because she was always working. I
Speaker 1: was usually with my grandparents or bananny's and but even
Speaker 1: then I had a really great relationship with my grandpa's too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my grandma's been really really strict. I think because of
Speaker 1: my grandma, I learned how to, you know, be very
Speaker 1: what's that we're called. I'm very thrifty or not not thrifty.
Speaker 1: I'm very what's the work called? You know, when you're
Speaker 1: good in the kitchen, like I'm very good with knives
Speaker 1: and cooking and bowing water estic I'm very domesticated. Yes,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have learned those things for my mom, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because she was always working and my grandmothers. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: kind of kids were you? Were you like a good student?
Speaker 1: Were you mischievous? Were you an athlete? I am not
Speaker 1: an athlete. I was actually always inquire. Um, I guess
Speaker 1: you can say I was popular. I was come queen.
Speaker 1: I am not an athlete. I'm very, very terrible at sports.
Speaker 1: I am not good with go work. I'm not good
Speaker 1: with homework, active study, really hard to get good grades. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean about doing good. I heard somewhere though that
Speaker 1: you had visions of being a doctor or a pediatrician
Speaker 1: or something. Oh yeah, because my mom forced me. She
Speaker 1: said I had to choose to be a doctor, a lawyer. Okay,
Speaker 1: can I do pharmacy or a pediatrician? But then I
Speaker 1: went to volunteer. When did you first get your first
Speaker 1: designer bag? It's spoiled. I think I got it when
Speaker 1: I was him. I've all got me question, I guy,
Speaker 1: Do you still have it? Yeah? I still have it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have We have a lot of stuff like stories. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have a lot of stuff. Okay, I'm running out
Speaker 1: of time with you, so we gotta flip on over
Speaker 1: to Jesse. Where are you from? Born in Taiwan State
Speaker 1: when I was fairly young, and I grew up in Dallas, Texas,
Speaker 1: so that's still why I reside in the majority of time.
Speaker 1: But no, I mean, you know, it's like I'm I'm
Speaker 1: in Texan. You know, maybe a lot of people can
Speaker 1: pick us on my Texan you know accent, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I do have a little bit of me
Speaker 1: the South. I'm the only child as well, um and good.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I'm the only child because if I had
Speaker 1: any siblings, I would be I would be just owned
Speaker 1: by man. Okay, we don't have to go into academics
Speaker 1: because it's probably non existent with me, so we don't
Speaker 1: need doing academics. But I was I was really into sports,
Speaker 1: so on like should we I was really into sport.
Speaker 1: I was gonna be the first Asian NBA player and
Speaker 1: I went down the too real quick. I realized that
Speaker 1: the horror way. But that's how I did a focus
Speaker 1: growing up playing sports and uh, you know, being Dallas,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean that's and we actually had the
Speaker 1: first Asian NBA player that played for the Dallas Matters.
Speaker 1: You know. I was always driven and work, even though
Speaker 1: within and wasn't accomplished academically. I really enjoy working. I know,
Speaker 1: I know it sounds kind of funny, but you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: even when I was working for my parents growing up,
Speaker 1: actually found a night job just to work outside of
Speaker 1: my parents growing up. Once I turned sixth thing, I
Speaker 1: got my first job, and I still remember the first
Speaker 1: night when to work, I had to stay in close
Speaker 1: and I had to mop the floors before I had
Speaker 1: to go. I was able to go home, and my
Speaker 1: parents were so worried about me. I mean this is
Speaker 1: before like you know, cell phones, right, So my parents
Speaker 1: actually drove up through my work and looked through the
Speaker 1: window and saw me mopping, and my mom said she
Speaker 1: actually cried, and then and then they day. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: the next day my mom was like, help if I
Speaker 1: pay you and you just moped the mop the house, right,
Speaker 1: And I was like, no, no, you know it's it's
Speaker 1: not just about that, right, It's just about the responsibility
Speaker 1: part and being able to earn a place. I think
Speaker 1: that kind of really drives me for the longest time
Speaker 1: I helped you jobs. I go to work during the
Speaker 1: day and my parents company, and at night I go
Speaker 1: find a night job. I just get that experience, diligent manner,
Speaker 1: this one here always working. What was the job that
Speaker 1: you had to mop the force. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys know, but it's called Bronze ice cream. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of like, yeah, so it's a mixture between
Speaker 1: like you know, like a little mini market and a
Speaker 1: fast food. Right. So so I remember when I finally
Speaker 1: made it up to drive through. That was a big accomplishment.
Speaker 1: I mean people actually work at those fast food they
Speaker 1: will understand, like what, yeah, because yeah, because when when
Speaker 1: I first got higher, right, like they have to go
Speaker 1: do a series of like you can promotion, right like
Speaker 1: you know, and then like when you get to the
Speaker 1: drive through, I mean, it just means that you have
Speaker 1: made it honestly, like you know, it went for this
Speaker 1: like you know what, when you get to certain points,
Speaker 1: there's a I'll put you in drive through position. I
Speaker 1: actually definitely drive through position. So what did you enjoy
Speaker 1: more working like at that time, working for your family,
Speaker 1: or like making it to the top of the mountain
Speaker 1: and becoming the drive through guy. Well, I have to
Speaker 1: say both kind give me a little bit of different
Speaker 1: aspect experiences. But I have to say the drive through
Speaker 1: experience was pretty It felt pretty good because you know, it's, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a self accomplishment, right, like like you went through
Speaker 1: every single park of the of that particular process for
Speaker 1: you to get there, and being able to look back
Speaker 1: and what I did, you know, being able to did
Speaker 1: from everything, like I said, from cleaning and my mopping
Speaker 1: all the way to cooking to the drive through. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's a big accomplishment. In my opinion, he's really
Speaker 1: really intelligent. No you are. I mean why is did
Speaker 1: you because your businesses? But he just yeah, he never
Speaker 1: I think you would have really loved going to the university.
Speaker 1: You would have been great. You would have had so
Speaker 1: much fun. But we would have had a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's maybe too much fun. Take me to the
Speaker 1: moment you guys met. We met through mutual friends in
Speaker 1: Vegas and then we just kind of kept in touch
Speaker 1: from there. And then he invited when he came to
Speaker 1: l A. Because he can ballance, right, so he came
Speaker 1: to l A. He's surely let's go to this event
Speaker 1: together here to say event? What did you say, Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go to the dinner together. So I was kind
Speaker 1: of like hesitant, us like dinner like me? And you
Speaker 1: asked him so many questions, thought that can I invite
Speaker 1: my friends and He's like no, and then he was like,
Speaker 1: this is like dodging all my questions. And then and
Speaker 1: then I showed up to the dinner. I thought it
Speaker 1: was like a private Rose Voice dinner party thrown for
Speaker 1: Jesse and it was only what people, yeah, people, And
Speaker 1: then some of my friends were there, and you know,
Speaker 1: as he's crazy, what a small world it is. And
Speaker 1: I guess to him that was our first date, but
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. We're just like hanging out, like
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, was it love at first sight?
Speaker 1: I can't speak for hard, but for me it was
Speaker 1: for me, I'm I'm very careful, right, and uh so
Speaker 1: you no, it was not love at first side of
Speaker 1: part what I thought he was a great person. I
Speaker 1: mean he had like maazing body. Because when I first
Speaker 1: hugged him, I thought it wouldn't work out because I'm
Speaker 1: a foodie. I love like trying different foods and stuff.
Speaker 1: I thought he didn't eat. But then in terms like
Speaker 1: he's actually really big Frudi too. He would plan his
Speaker 1: restaurants first like me, and then travel there and if
Speaker 1: the restaurants didn't work out, we don't we don't go.
Speaker 1: So I mean we just kind of went hand, and
Speaker 1: now we have like a lot in common. And I
Speaker 1: thought I wasn't gonna be able to date someone who
Speaker 1: had like a rock body like. His body was like
Speaker 1: so skiff like it was perfect. I mean it's still perfect,
Speaker 1: but still perfect body. But oh my gosh, I heard
Speaker 1: him not just like wait, if I thought like a
Speaker 1: rock like, it was so hard because he obviously Jim
Speaker 1: rat Okay, I'm running out of time. If you before,
Speaker 1: I let you guys go, You ready for some rapid
Speaker 1: fire questions? Okay, rapid fire questions with three and Jesse
Speaker 1: from Bling Empire. First thing, night in, Night Out. If
Speaker 1: you could change your name, what would you change it to?
Speaker 1: My name? It would be sure, it would be Jesse.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't change your name if you Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'll probably be Givannivan. Yeah, I mean I thought my
Speaker 1: name is so Coolvan. What was the first concert you
Speaker 1: ever went to? Chicago? I think didn't think you had
Speaker 1: different generations? You see you see the gap there? Up?
Speaker 1: Who would you call to get you out of jail?
Speaker 1: It would be my mom, but she's not here. What's
Speaker 1: the idea? It'll be my mom? For sure? Favorite book
Speaker 1: was that The Like bo Jackson biography. Yeah, nice, favorite
Speaker 1: superhero now I have to say probably Batman. Favorite ice
Speaker 1: cream cream Rosewater recently like this Rosewater ice cream. I mean,
Speaker 1: you married a man who worked at a ice cream parlor.
Speaker 1: So first job you ever had? I watch their mom. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the first job, first car you ever owned? A wink?
Speaker 1: Who's your first kiss? The question is that I'm not
Speaker 1: answering you. Wow, we don't remember my question? What is
Speaker 1: your hidden talent? I don't know if I have any.
Speaker 1: It didn't quite dancing? Oh gosh, no, No, can give
Speaker 1: him like the good stuff, pequila, religion, tequila, he'll he'll yeah,
Speaker 1: really dancing, you know, really he guesses with the kids,
Speaker 1: like he's always dancing with the kids. So yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's that's new to me. That's great. She
Speaker 1: is so nice to you. Jesse. By the way, you're
Speaker 1: so intelligent. You have rock hard abs, You're a great dancer,
Speaker 1: those smart. What the hell is he bad at? This
Speaker 1: is what I want to know. He's not the greatest
Speaker 1: singer because only because I'm very, very peaky when it
Speaker 1: comes to music. Although I think I'm a Grammy. We're
Speaker 1: winning artists in the show somehow she doesn't think I
Speaker 1: am a I think it sounds so good. It's actually
Speaker 1: good at many things. Yeah, well, you guys are really
Speaker 1: good on Bling Empire. Everyone go watch season one on Netflix.
Speaker 1: Sharia and Jesse, thank you guys so much for taking
Speaker 1: the time again. Remind everyone where to follow you on
Speaker 1: social media and about the tequila company and when people
Speaker 1: can buy that stuff. I'm just mostly on Instagram. Shari official. Alright,
Speaker 1: the official and our religion, tquila is actually tequila religion,
Speaker 1: and you know tequila religion. I'm treating a not spell
Speaker 1: it right. He's just the official. And can you buy
Speaker 1: the tequila now? Only in the states that were currently
Speaker 1: distribute in Texas, Louisiana, Colorado, Nebraska, in the northeast of
Speaker 1: five states. We're working on it. We're expanding into California
Speaker 1: and Florida this year. Very cool. Thank you guys so
Speaker 1: much for taking the time to come on Wells Cast.
Speaker 1: Big fan of the show, big fan of you guys,
Speaker 1: and you're just as awesome in person as you are
Speaker 1: on the show. So thanks again. No, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for having us. All right, see you guys, Thank you,
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