BOBBYCAST - Property Brothers’ Drew Scott on How Much the Show Made, Why He Did DWTS & Going into Business with Michael Bublé

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In this episode of BobbyCast, Drew Scott, one half of the iconic Property Brothers duo, shares insights into his career, personal growth, an

Key takeaways

• Drew Scott emphasizes the importance of staying true to oneself even when overshadowed by a twin brother or public persona.
• He views improvisational comedy as therapeutic and a way to reconnect with spontaneity and emotional authenticity.

Main topics

• The Property Brothers' business success and franchise reach
• Drew Scott's return to acting and improv training

Notable quotes

"I mean, Jonathan just posted on social. He's got a talk show that he announced that he's working on. And that's super exciting. He's really good at it."

"It was great. It was refreshing to feel that I could tap into things. Again, you're not trying to be funny. You just want to be in the moment."

Conclusion

Drew Scott's journey reveals a man deeply committed to growth, authenticity, and connection—both on

Transcript preview

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Yeah, I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. Listen to Pro Society on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your Speaker 3 (1:04) podcasts. Speaker 2 (1:06) Our hometown is not a test tube. Speaker 3 (1:09) 90 miles northeast of Nashville, a battle for the future of America plays out in one small town. Speaker 7 (1:15) Developers with right-wing ties have purchased hundreds of acres of land. We need cities on a shining hill. Speaker 3 (1:21) This is Our Town, a podcast about what happens when a small town becomes the site of a social experiment and fights back. Guess you didn't move in on a bunch of dumb hillbillies now, did you? Listen to Our Town on the iHeartRadio app. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Speaker 1 (2:05) Listen to the latest episode of Hey Jonas on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Speaker 5 (2:18) You know Disneyland or Disney World, how you can get the guide, like the VIP guide? Jonathan said, no, with our kids, I'm going to make them just do the regular ticket and they have to wait in lines, which can be like two hours or three hours, because I don't want them to feel privileged. And I said, hey, Jonathan, f*** that. I'm Speaker 2 (2:34) actually going to give my kids the VIP because I don't want to punish myself. Speaker 4 (2:40) Hey guys, we're going to talk with Drew Scott, who is one of the brothers from the Property Brothers, one of the twins that you for sure know that you've either watched one or all their shows religiously or maybe like myself in a dentist chair occasionally. They're super nice. I've been fortunate enough to spend some time with Drew. He's actually the one that I would say convinced me to do Dancing with the Stars back in the day, and we do talk about that. But just a super talented guy. He is very much an actor. He's very active. He does martial arts, all that we get into. And even how him and his brother started, which they've been kind of hustling since they were seven years old. And they have so many shows. And he says this too. He's like, we have so many shows. But Property Brothers, Under Pressure, that's one of them. Don't Hate Your House with the Property Brothers. And this is HGTV and also HBO Max and all those properties. of the Property Brothers. But yeah, here he is. This is Drew Scott, one of the Property Brothers. All right, I'm going to bring on Drew Scott from the Property Brothers who I really like. And I like you on camera, but I like you in person. I feel like when you're by yourself, you really get to shine. You ever feel like sometimes you want to be by yourself, Drew? Speaker 5 (3:55) You know, I agree with you. You ever feel that where your twin brother just drags you down? He just brings out the worst in you and you just want to kick him to the curb so you can really grow in life. Yeah, Speaker 4 (4:06) I Speaker 5 (4:06) hear you. Do you ever think? No, it's been a while. Speaker 4 (4:09) Yeah, you ever feel like, because when you and your brother are together, you definitely have a cadence and a thing. But when you're by yourself, you get to just be a little more free at times. Do you feel that way? Speaker 5 (4:19) Yeah, I mean, in general, you know, we've done everything. Like most Speaker 8 (4:22) of our lives, we've worked together. We went to school together, obviously. We played together. We have businesses together. And everybody will tend to lump you into, you have to be with your brother. The first thing people say when they see me is, where's your brother? I have no idea. We don't sleep in bunk beds anymore. But it is nice to do our own thing. I mean, Jonathan just posted on social. He's got a talk show that he announced that he's working on. And that's super exciting. He's really good at it. And then for me on the acting front and getting back into that side, it just lets you shine in your individual things. So it's not that everything has to be together. Speaker 4 (4:56) So are you going and taking classes and kind of like re-dunking yourself fully into acting? Or are you just already good and you're just going? Speaker 8 (5:05) Oh, no. I mean, I'm sort of like the no ego lifelong student. Like I love training to improve. In fact, just last week, I just popped back into improv. I mean, with what we do with our TV shows, we are improvising because we don't have a set script. And I like that. But I haven't done stand up sketch and improv in 18 plus years. So for me to dive back into that's fun. Any any time, you know, I'll still say to even though I'm on TV and I have been for 20 years, I'm not like. I'll still put something on tape because people don't know me as an actor. So I work with my acting coach that I've had for 20 years. We'll work a scene and then I'll submit it. So it's fun though. Again, I just want to do what I love to do. I love Property Brothers. I love helping people. We've done 650 houses for families now with our shows, 650 episodes. But I love scripted. I love story. I love acting. And to dive in on that side is just, that really fills the bucket. I feel it's sort of completing what I've put on the... back burner for the last 18 years. How Speaker 5 (6:01) vulnerable does improv Speaker 4 (6:02) feel? Speaker 5 (6:03) See, it's funny, which maybe Speaker 8 (6:05) you can relate because now you're a parent. When I was younger, I was more insecure and I wouldn't let myself go. Now, as an adult, I have two kids. I'm in my 40s. I have no problem letting go. I don't care if I look silly. I mean, I look silly. I walk down the street with my kids walking like a monkey because my little guy finds it funny. I don't care what people by standards think. I'm just a dad trying to have a good time with my kid. And when I stepped back in to the class or to improv, it was great. It was refreshing to feel that I could tap into things. Again, you're not, have you done improv? Yes. Yeah, so you don't do improv to try and be funny. You just want to be in the moment, right? You want to react. And if you're doing it well and you're setting yourself free, it will be funny. It will get emotional. Different things will happen. And so it's almost like free therapy. Speaker 4 (6:51) Where I felt the most vulnerable is doing stand-up because you're alone and everything depends on what you are doing. Speaker 5 (7:00) Yeah, absolutely. I find Speaker 8 (7:02) I had done just a little stand-up in our sort of Vancouver and surrounding area, nothing huge. And I wouldn't say I was great at it because you got to read the room a bit. You have to have, you know, a bunch of your jokes or whatever kind of stand-up you like to do ready to go. Speaker 2 (7:17) And from one audience to the next can be like, Complete opposites. You have no idea what the one audience Speaker 8 (7:25) is going to like. And so I didn't like that as much. I just like being in the moment and improvising. I love sketch comedy as well because at least you have something you can work through and play off of with other talent. But I don't know if I would do stand-up again. We did a thing with, oh my gosh, what's his name? David Spade a few years back. It was just a comedic thing. That was a little bit of a like they wanted he was in our ear, Jonathan in my ear. And we did stand up with an audience that didn't know that David was in our ear giving us the jokes. He was setting us up to fail. So all these people in the audience just thought, oh, my God, this fucking property brother sucks at stand up. And it was very funny once you knew that they were in our ear. But the audience just thought I was terrible. Speaker 4 (8:05) What was your home like growing up? Speaker 5 (8:08) I mean, we had, we grew up in a ranch, so it was sort of like, you know, suck it up and Speaker 8 (8:12) get out there and do the work. So we were, from a young age, we were really hands-on, physical with the ranch. Our parents were great. I mean, they give us, you know, we don't come from money or anything like that. So we really had to, my parents worked really hard to be able to put a roof over our heads and have us, you know, we did karate and we did different sports and stuff. But they were always encouraging, but they made us do the work. There was never a shortcut, and we also couldn't start something and quit right away. You're interested in karate? Great. You can never quit. And it was like that for most things. So it gave me, as I got older, it gave me an appreciation for sticking through the tough because you're not going to get better at something unless you actually stick through the tough stuff. But yeah, it was great to have a built-in best friend with Jonathan. J.D. I think you've met J.D., my older brother as well. We were the annoying little brothers, Jonathan and me. And J.D. just didn't want much to do with us in high school. But then we started to have the same group of friends once we were coming out of high school. But I loved it. I have such great memories from the young years. Speaker 4 (9:09) Did you do a lot of winter sports? Speaker 8 (9:11) No. Coming from Canada, everybody assumes I love the winter and I love to get outside and ski and snowboard. I'm terrible on a board or skiing. I like summer sports. I should have been born in the Caribbean. Give me a beach volleyball or something like, you know, that I can do in the summer. I'll take that. But, you know, get outside for 10 minutes, build a quick snowman. But I grew up in Vancouver, so it was really wet. So the snow was really, really wet and you couldn't really roll it to big snowmen like you can on the East Coast. So we would basically, it was wet and then it would freeze. So we would basically get like a garbage can lid round, flat like this, maybe an inch or two thick. We would put snow in it. It would freeze. And then we would just stand it up and it looks like a round snowman. That's how we would make snowmen where we've come from. I'm Speaker 4 (9:56) going to do the thing where I go, oh, Canada. My radio show is in a bunch of Canadian cities. And so there's some Canadian comedians that I really like. And I don't know if you consume any Canadian media at all. But I'm going to do the thing. Have you seen the Nirvana? Not the band, but Nirvana, the movie, the band. Those guys are so freaking funny. Speaker 8 (10:16) I haven't seen it yet. I know of it, and I look forward to seeing it. And I've had several people tell me about it, but no. Speaker 4 (10:22) They also did the Blackberry movie. Speaker 5 (10:27) The Blackberry movie, yeah. Speaker 4 (10:28) That was my thing, because I'm from Arkansas, and people would go, oh, do you know this person? And I'm like, I don't. I'm just from Arkansas. I don't know everybody. So I just did that to you from Canada. Speaker 5 (10:37) You did? You said, do you know Joe from Canada? Of course I do. He's Speaker 8 (10:39) great. Yeah. We get that all the time. But no, they're great. I did the podcast for Julie Kim. I don't know if you know Julie Kim, comedian. She's hilarious. But she's from Vancouver as well. And it's kind of funny when I bump into people down here in L.A. that I don't realize are from Canada. But pretty quick, you realize. Actually, I bumped into Matthew Lillard yesterday. You know the actor? Shaggy. That's Speaker 4 (11:01) how Speaker 8 (11:01) I know him. And I thought... He was Canadian because his name kept coming up over the years, filming in Canada and whatnot. And I just thought he's just a really nice guy. And I'm like, oh, he's obviously Canadian. But no, he's not. I realize I'm wrong. So you never know. So Speaker 4 (11:15) if somebody is so nice, you automatically feel they're Canadian. Like I felt that. It Speaker 8 (11:19) has Speaker 5 (11:19) to Speaker 8 (11:19) be. Speaker 4 (11:19) Yes. Speaker 5 (11:20) Yeah. You know, or they're going to kill you. Yeah. Speaker 4 (11:23) Yeah. One of the two. Speaker 5 (11:24) Yeah, exactly. I pretend to be nice, but I'm actually a psycho killer. So look out. Speaker 4 (11:28) When you and your brother were getting. like through high school, when did you guys decide you wanted to do a project together? Well, Speaker 8 (11:35) you know, we were always go-getters. So from a young, young age, our parents saw that, that Jonathan and I, we did everything together. But it's nice when you're young and trying to figure something out to have a built-in backup. So we supported each other and you get more confidence when somebody else is in your corner. And so we started our first business at seven years old. I mean, we were making these decorative hangers, like weaving nylon around a hanger with a little rosette and selling them. to family friends, door to door. And we realized we had seen this at a craft sale and we thought it looked good. We thought we could make some money. So we were a little, you know, wheeler and dealers at a young age. We started selling them. We started selling thousands of them. And then we found a woman from, she had a chain of American paraphernalia stores in Japan. And she started buying them by the thousands from us as well. So at seven years old, without any real influence from our parents, Jonathan and I were balling our way to the bank with this hanger business. And then we realized, what was that? Speaker 5 (12:27) Oh, Speaker 4 (12:27) I'm sorry. I was going to ask if you got to keep all the money at seven. Speaker 5 (12:30) Yeah. Oh yeah. Whatever. Growing up on a ranch too, like we would have, Speaker 8 (12:34) we were like the union negotiators with our parents were like, okay, we know you got cheap labor because you got three kids here working the ranch, but we need to get paid. So they would give us like a nickel a board when we paint the fences. And then I negotiated up to 25 cents a board and we would clear, like we had a, an acreage and there were giant like boulders and rocks. And it was just, it wasn't great for out in the field with the horses out there and stuff. So instead of my dad spending like a hundred dollars to get a rock, pick which is like a rake that goes behind the truck to get this done by a professional piece of machinery he has three young boys so he would just send us out to the field with a bucket to pick these gigantic rocks so we're like no i need to get 10 cents a bucket then it was 25 cents i'm like i'm doing this for 50 cents for a dollar a bucket and then finally my dad's like you're too expensive i'm i'm gonna get help elsewhere so we just learned to negotiate and be go-getters we whatever we made we kept we weren't allowed to just have my parents buy they wouldn't let us make them buy us something. If we're at a store, good, earn it, and you can buy it yourself. And I think that stuck with us as we got older. So Jonathan and I, we had a lot of energy, and we were in musical theater, and then we realized we could entertain. If we were clowns for Parks and Rec, we could entertain and get paid to entertain, and we had a blast with it. So that's how we got into entertaining. And then Jonathan started to do magic, and then I got more into the acting side, and that's sort of what's paved our two different paths. for some of what we do. Property Brothers was literally just, we were flipping houses when we came out of high school just so we weren't struggling artists. He wanted to be a magician and I wanted to be an actor. And then all of a sudden, after growing a real estate company for 10 years and I tried to get back to acting, I just started getting host auditions as a real estate expert. That's where Property Brothers came from. I pitched Property Brothers. And then now it's just funny for me to go full circle to come back to where I wanted to be. I literally thought when I was younger that I would have been an action star because I have a martial arts background. I was an eight-time national fight champion. And I was like, I'm going to get all these action roles. And I booked nothing. The only thing I ever got was I got one punched in a David Hasselhoff movie. And so here I am 18 years later. Tina Fey put me in one of her series in an action role fighting Paula Pell. Have you known Paula Pell? So it's like me fighting a six-year-old lady. It was just a comedic thing that Tina Fey thought would be great. I was seen by 87 North, who does Bullet Train, The Fall Guy, Nobody. They do all the big action, splashy actions. They put me in one of their movies because they saw Tina's. That went over really well. And then this has moved on to some other projects I have lined up. So it's just been a wild ride. You never know where life's going to take you. Speaker 4 (15:04) Tell me more about your martial arts background. When did you start studying and how competitive did you get? Because it sounds like you fought in a lot of tournaments. Speaker 5 (15:11) Oh, yeah. I mean, my older brother, he was in it too, but he wasn't competitive. He kind of like sat back and did his own thing. Jonathan and I almost drove each other to... to Speaker 8 (15:20) compete and then to do better. It wasn't like, I didn't want to knock Jonathan down. We pushed each other to do better. And so we ended up being, you know, it would come down to him and me in the final fights half the time. And the reps wouldn't even be able to tell Speaker 5 (15:32) who's who cause we're twins. And they're like, wait, who