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From New Albany to Family Feud: A Local Family's Television Adventure

• Justin Rush • Season 1 • Episode 10

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When Michaela Nash posted a TikTok video of her family that went viral in December 2022, she decided to follow her dream of applying for Family Feud. Little did the Nash family know this spontaneous application would lead to an unforgettable adventure on national television a year later.

In this engaging conversation, the Nash family—Michaela, Braylon, and Marsha—share their remarkable journey from New Albany, Ohio to the bright lights of Atlanta's Tyler Perry Studios. They reveal fascinating behind-the-scenes details that viewers never see: the multiple audition rounds, the hour-and-a-half filming process for each 22-minute episode, and Steve Harvey's hilarious unscripted comedy breaks between segments. The family's competitive spirit shined through as they won four consecutive games, with Braylon becoming "Steve Harvey's man" and Michaela achieving the second-highest Fast Money score of the season at an impressive 184 points.

Beyond their game show success, we explore how the Nash family's athletic background prepared them for television competition. Braylon, now playing basketball at Ohio State University, credits his multi-sport youth experience for developing his versatile skills. Marsha reflects on raising three children in New Albany and the community's evolution over the years, from struggling to find gym space for youth sports to the development of new facilities. Throughout their story, the value of New Albany's supportive community environment and strong educational system emerges as foundational to their family's success.

The conversation takes a personal turn as Michaela shares news of her two-week-old daughter, the family's first grandchild, highlighting how much has changed since their Family Feud appearance was filmed. Their story beautifully illustrates how embracing opportunities, thorough preparation, and family teamwork can lead to extraordinary experiences—whether on television competing for prizes or navigating life's everyday challenges.

Join us for this delightful conversation filled with laughter, insights, and a firsthand look at what it takes to succeed on one of America's favorite game shows.

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Justin:

Yeah, let's get started. Welcome to White Fence Living Podcast.

Marsha:

Thanks for having us.

Justin:

Yeah, no problem. So we've got Michaela here remotely. Michaela just had a baby. We've got Braylon and Marsha here in the studio. I think I've got everybody on camera right now. I think we have everybody on audio, so that'll work. So thank you guys for coming. You're welcome, appreciate it. Welcome to the video on audio. So, so that'll work um.

Micaylah:

So thank you guys for coming. You're welcome, appreciate it yeah, uh.

Justin:

So the nash family recently had some exciting, uh, exciting news and uh, and that is a trip to family feud. So how was that?

Marsha:

you want to go first there's a lot to be shared. Yeah, we don't have time for all that. Berlin was the star. He can. Mckaylin, why don't you get started? You want to go first? There's a lot to be shared.

Justin:

Yeah.

Marsha:

We don't have time for all that. We'll keep it to ourselves. Mikaela, why don't?

Micaylah:

you get started.

Micaylah:

Well, the whole thing was great. We filmed it about a year ago. I applied for the family just because we love game shows, we love game nights and it seemed like something that I thought would be fun. Didn't really expect to actually be on it, I kind of just applied for fun. And then when we ended up being on the show, it was a blast and Braylon was actually Steve Harvey's favorite. You saw the episodes you saw multiple times he'd called Steve Harvey would call Braylon his man. So yeah, it was a blast.

Justin:

That's awesome, so you're the one that applied to do it. Yes, I did, did what made you, what made you, do that?

Micaylah:

I actually posted a tiktok of our family back in december of 2022 and it kind of went viral and all the comments were like you guys in the tv show, whatever. I was like I don't know about a tv show, but I have always wanted to be on family, so I ended up applying. Um, it was like during winter break, started break from work and I was like I might as well do something this time, and then a year later, we got us to audition for it and I completely forgot I even applied for it and I was like, oh okay, good, so we did a zoom audition and then, a year after, that was when it was actually filmed in Atlanta, may 2024.

Justin:

Wow, that's really cool, really cool, so Really cool. So, like, what was the, what was the audition like? Like, when you're auditioning, like what are they? Do you like go on stage and try it out? Like, what's the audition like?

Micaylah:

It was actually a zoom audition. So me and my husband were living in LA at the time and then everyone else was back in Ohio. So we kind of like all zoomed in with someone that played like a fake steve harvey and then it was kind of just like a one-sided, like fake game that I think we had didn't even win. So we were like, oh, um, but yeah, it was, yeah, just a zoom, fake family feud game. It was really funny, really like bringing the energy. There was the intro music. It was a lot of fun actually that's awesome.

Justin:

So I actually have. I have been on national tv one time. Uh, so I had a. I owned a franchise I won't bore you with that but as a franchisee they were looking for somebody to be on. They had a pr firm that was like looking for, you know, to get promotional shows for for the brand. And so somehow, like I was picked out of all the franchisees to go to fox and friends in new york on like this live bit on topiary. So like cutting shrubs, what was a landscape franchise? I didn't know anything about topiary but for some reason they picked me and I was like, yeah, sure I'll do it.

Justin:

And it was like the most I'll. Like it was fight or flight. It was like, yeah, sure I'll do it, and it was like the most like it was fight or flight. It was like, right before you go on air, you know they do the makeup, they do all of that. And then, like we're at the part that we did was outside. So there's like the set is all set up and the next thing, you know, like the cameras just come rushing from outside, from inside the studio to outside, and it's like in your face and it's like, all right, let's go. You're up and they're like the countdown and bam, you go and it is terrifying. It really is Um, which I, like you, experienced that. I mean, it was it's recorded, isn't it?

Micaylah:

But still, I mean it's not like you audience too, so that added like a whole another yeah, that's uh man, that's crazy.

Justin:

Um so, yeah, what's it like being in front of the audience, like what? So Braylon was the star of the show. What made you the star?

Braylen:

uh, I had some clutch moments. Even Steve would say that I was like the best like clutch player he's seen in a while and I mean that probably just made me the star. Yeah, some like quick answers that kind of saved us the game.

Justin:

Yeah, yeah, and so you guys won, which is awesome that's really cool. Yeah, that's great. So what, what's it like there? Like so? So anybody like what? What is it like going to do that?

Marsha:

Well, can you hear me? Okay, yeah, yeah.

Justin:

I'm going to turn this up a little bit. Yeah, awesome.

Marsha:

So we arrived at Tyler Perry Studios this was a year ago when we filmed and it takes the producers about a year to produce everything, which is crazy. So it actually takes about an hour and a half to film an episode and that 22 minutes airs. So it's yeah, it's like, but when you're live, you're live and it's I don't mckayla and I talk about like. It's like this blackout, out-of-body experience. The cameras roll, you've got to be on it and you've got to, like, just be on your a-game and play, and we're also competitive. So we want to have the right answer. We have that backup answer is where you're like it's just lights, camera, action go, and then Steve Harvey with the bright white teeth and perfect face and everything.

Marsha:

But yeah, we're at Teller Pairs Studios and with other families. You don't know when you're going to get picked because these families they waited years at times to get on the show. So when you finally audition, they pick you and then we gave them one week to work with, based upon all of our schedules Get there last May, right After you graduate from high school, actually in New Albany, and literally two days after we fly to Atlanta to film. And then you get there and you actually rehearse with one of Steve Harvey's sidekick comedians.

Justin:

Oh, wow.

Marsha:

And then that's stressful because you're being judged and you don know, like how they're going to line us up or what flame they're going to choose to go on first. So we got to watch um an episode or two, I think, I don't know. Then they said, the nash's, you're up and it was game on and it's it is. It is no joke, but it's a. It really was like a chance of a lifetime. It really was. We're very appreciative of like that opportunity as much as it was like nerve-wracking kind of. And you know you want to be able to, of course, win. We wanted to win out five games.

Marsha:

You know, we won four, which still is pretty awesome.

Justin:

And are they back-to-back-to-back?

Marsha:

They are.

Justin:

Yeah.

Marsha:

Yeah, well, we went into two days, okay, so we filmed two in one day and then two the next day, so we had an outfit change, yeah.

Justin:

Yeah, yeah.

Marsha:

So you have to coordinate your outfits. Our daughter did a great job helping with all of our outfits and planning all of that.

Justin:

Well, she had to. She's the reason you got there.

Marsha:

She made us look really good on paper, but we had to back it. We had to what do you say? Walk the talk. We had to back it. But it was fun. The producers were great. I mean it was an amazing experience. I always tell everyone, if you can, ever if you aren't interested in actually being one of the family feud if you can go to atlanta and be in the studio audience, it is a phenomenal experience. It is a comedy show. He is just.

Justin:

He's amazing yes, steve's awesome, he is, he's fantastic, I mean, he's, he's really good. Um, was everybody mad at you, michaela, when? When you were like, hey, by the way, I did this and we're going to go audition, was anybody resistant to it?

Micaylah:

Not quite. I think I often have big fun ideas I just throw out and a lot of times I think my family is used to kind of tuning them out. So I was like I applied us for Family View and they're like okay, so what's for dinner? Them out. So I was like I applied us for family view and they're like, okay, so what's for dinner? So when I ended up being like, hey guys, a year later remember, like last year when I applied for us, actually we have an audition this next week. So they're like, oh, I guess this is like actually happening. But everyone's always down to adventure and for fun, so everyone was excited about it.

Micaylah:

But yeah, something else I wanted to add too was which we didn't know before was when you get called to be on Family Feud and you get like flown out there and we're there in person, that doesn't guarantee you a spot on the show. So like, as my mom mentioned, we had like the rehearsal. You have to like re-audition in person on the stage and they sit and like watch you and like other families and see like how you guys are like on the stage and then they pick final families from there. So like you could go and get like flown out and get through the first round and then just never be on the show. So we got there. We're like oh, I guess we're auditioning again, all right.

Micaylah:

And then they like switch around your order, like pick who your captain is, based on all of that. So that was an interesting behind the scenes experience.

Justin:

Yeah on all of that. So that was an interesting behind the scenes experience. Yeah, that's cool, and then they do. They did makeup on everybody, I'm sure. Right, that's kind of an odd experience, like you know especially guys yeah, at least for me, because I'm like sitting there and like they're like putting everything on me and I'm like really yeah, yeah, when those lights come on, make sure you don't shine.

Micaylah:

You look smooth they're like your touch-ups in between rounds too.

Justin:

So you're like trying to lock in the wind, like in your face, like fixing, like your lips, and I'm like, I'm just trying to win this game we play family feud uh, I don't know if we played on the switch, but and like so I've got four kids, so six of us playing and it gets heated. I mean it is like people are trying to help each other and it's like no, you can't do that in the game. And they're yeah, it's uh, it's serious. Um, it's kind of interesting to see that like it is super competitive, like it seems like, at least when you're watching the show, like you don't know what's like, you know what's scripted and what's at you like, but it is, it sounds and seems like super competitive. That's really cool when you're alive.

Marsha:

Yeah, it's. It's like when you break and when he goes into this comedy when I was mentioning it takes an hour and a half to actually film an episode he breaks and be like, oh, I'm stepping over the HR line now and he would just go off and be hilarious. And of course, we're on when we're playing. We're on stage and we're like locked in still and they come out, they want to touch up your makeup and you're like no, we're locked in, we're ready to play this next round, you know, and so it's, and there's signs up here and there, but you know you, you just like it's so much easier.

Marsha:

How does what did Steve say? He said all of you out. There are millionaires sitting at home because you have every answer right question. It really is like like at top of the moment. You don't know how all the people they're surveying oh yeah random.

Marsha:

They see random stuff you know, so it's um, it is kind of, you know, I think mckayla and jason her husband, they had a little bit of strategy. They thought, well, don't be, be more general, don't be too specific, and you know like did you guys study film like you watched old episodes absolutely well you might have.

Micaylah:

I did absolutely absolutely my husband made like a whole list of like, not like a cheat sheet, but like things that he noticed watching and like. Sat down with me and he's a basketball player and a very like breaking down like film and stuff, so like that's his thing. But he was like when they ask you these questions in the fast money, like out of 10, always say like 5, 8, 10, like it's never 7, it's like random stuff like that. Um, and we were really locked in on that and and one of the ones that we saw was we always joked and said it's always the mother-in-law. So there were a few times I hit the buzzer and I was like mother-in-law and I was like so it actually helped a little bit, but obviously most of it you can't really prepare for yeah, and I'm like with family feud.

Justin:

When I'm watching I'm like who are they asking these questions to? Because like these, this, there's no way the average person answers this way, do they? Do you have any insight on? Like it's just random? Has anybody ever been asked a question by a family feud? That's what I want to know. Where are these people? I've never met anybody or heard somebody be like oh yeah, I got asked a random question for a family feud. That's great. You've got a LinkedIn request. You don't know what generation.

Marsha:

They're asking no-transcript. So yeah, you want to kind of cover the basis in your family of five that gets on. You know that someone's going to lock in, especially if you're going to steal the question.

Justin:

Yeah.

Marsha:

That will have some good. Like, take some of those random things can be, you know.

Justin:

What was your guys' strategy for, like, when you play or when you pass? Did you have a strat, like, or was it just category dependent? Or are you just like yep, let's play, Just random?

Micaylah:

Always play, let's take control.

Justin:

Always play. I like it. I like it. Well, I mean, you guys are a super competitive family. So, mikayla, your husband plays basketball right, yep Playing in the NBA, and who's he with now?

Micaylah:

Right now he's in between teams, but he was with the Jazz last season and then the Clippers for two years before that.

Justin:

Okay, nice. So where are you guys living?

Micaylah:

Right now we're in Columbus. We're close to family because obviously we had the baby two weeks ago today, and then in the fall we'll be moving again somewhere else. That's the fun of it.

Justin:

That's a good segue.

Micaylah:

So how's the new baby? She is perfect. My mom's been over basically living with us, helping out a lot too, but yeah, it's been a really beautiful experience. Life has changed really quickly. It's funny because it's like our family feud was a year ago and at that point we were like about to get married no baby. And now we're like watching family feud when I'm like 38 weeks pregnant and I'm like am I going to accidentally just go into labor while we're watching family feud, like I guess we'll see.

Justin:

That's. That's really cool. What's her name?

Micaylah:

Her name is Judy Skye.

Justin:

Judy Skye, nice, nice. Is this your first grandchild? First and only right, first and only Nice. How's that feel?

Marsha:

Amazing. Everyone says being a grandparent you can never put words to it.

Justin:

It's a different type of love, you know, and we're in love again. Good, it's the kind of love you can spoil them and then send them home.

Marsha:

And not have to stay up. Yeah, exactly.

Justin:

Well, congratulations. That's awesome. That's some big life changes Getting married, family feud, having a baby.

Micaylah:

That's really cool. Yeah, on family feud, sometimes if there's a contestant who's pregnant, they give you a name tag to like put on your belly. Oh yeah, I mean, I wasn't yeah, you need a name tag.

Justin:

Let's get a hold of steve I know right above that braylon's gonna have to make the call yeah so, uh, so, braylon is a uh, recent grad, well, graduated last year from New Albany and plays basketball at Ohio State. How's, how's? I was asking a little bit before we were on, but how's, how was your freshman year?

Braylen:

uh, I enjoyed it. Everything about OSU I loved it. Um, basketball season wasn't overall great, but I loved the experience, everything about it being able to be a part of the team and travel and stuff. All that was great. And then just meeting new people at OSU, I didn't realize, like going to a big university, how many people I'd meet and get close to, and I think that just changed my perspective.

Justin:

Yeah, there's a lot of people there, Um, that's, that's, that's, it's. Uh, well, it's really cool. I, you know we. I talk a lot about youth sports cause I coach a ton of youth sports in new Albany. Sports, I don't know anything about and have no business coaching.

Justin:

Um, but you know that's everybody's goal. Well, I shouldn't say everybody's goal, but everybody wants to get to division one, right? Um, so tell me what. How did you get there? Like, what do you think if you had advice for a young athlete, something that you did that you think helped get you to that level, what do you think it is?

Braylen:

Overall, I'd just say being like a well-rounded athlete. I think a lot of athletes now want to be like specific to one sport or just focusing on like basketball or football or baseball. But I feel like when you're young, just try to play everything you can, because I think growing up I played literally any sport I could get my hands on like basketball, football, soccer, baseball, golf, anything and I think overall just like growing up now and seeing how that's made me just well-rounded and able to do different stuff that I can do in basketball like all that translates from when I played soccer when I was 10 years old, or football throughout high school.

Braylen:

I think, that's my biggest advice to a kid who's like young and wants to be like I want to be in the NBA. Like I should just focus on basketball. Like they should probably focus on maybe taking a break in the fall, playing football, getting in the weight room and stuff like that.

Justin:

Yeah, I feel very strongly about that and I know that times are changing and I know that there are sports, that there are like super specific skills, but I just hate to see kids like get pigeonholed into one sport and then my thought always is like what if that doesn't work out? Like what do you have to fall back on? It's like yeah, no, really good to hear. So for anybody listening, especially with young athletes. Here's an example of somebody who you know played them all and I like even as part of your training at Ohio State, do you guys do cross training? Like, do you do training outside of just basketball?

Braylen:

I mean in the weight room we do like a variety of stuff, like I feel like we work on like hand-eye coordination that fit like baseball or like tennis or something. I feel like a lot of the stuff we do off the court translates to other sports like running or jumping and stuff that you can work on in any sport.

Justin:

Yeah, I'm guessing you spend a lot of time outside as a kid.

Braylen:

Yes, a lot of time In the backyard, 24-7. My parents, I mean, they literally had to build a patio for me to stop playing in the backyard.

Justin:

Did you guys grow up in the same? You've been in the same house. Oh, that's awesome, all right. So so Michaela Braylon and then Jordan is older. When did Jordan graduate?

Marsha:

2017. You're older than Michaela, so is that what? 2000? 2017.

Justin:

17?

Marsha:

Okay 17, 18.

Justin:

Did he? Did he play sports as well?

Marsha:

He did Nice and did he, did he play sports as well? He did nice.

Justin:

Yeah, basketball, basketball mostly play basketball a little bit of basketball in college and yeah, so a lot of basketball players not so many in my family, uh, but I I love basketball as a youth sport I think. I think there's two sports that that, if you're going to play a youth sport wrestling and basketball. Wrestling I think is just a phenomenal youth sport for a ton of reasons. But basketball, you're running, you're changing direction, you're jumping, there's hand-eye coordination. I think it's a phenomenal youth sport. I mean, if my son wasn't, if he didn't wrestle, he'd be playing basketball, which is what he does all day, every day in the backyard anyways. He absolutely loves it. And which is what he does all day, every day in the backyard anyways. Like, he absolutely loves it and I encourage him because I think it's so good for just developing athleticism. Yeah Well yeah.

Marsha:

And then it also like you think of picket basketball. You know we've gotten away from that and hopefully we'll. You know, I think a lot of people like to. It seems like we're trending back and back to that a little bit, saying just do picket basketball. You saying just do pickup basketball, yeah, you don't have to have it so super organized, you know, and that's always still expanding their skill sets or whatever it looks like athletically for them, just being more natural about it versus so staged or whatever.

Justin:

you know, yeah, no, and all the pressure right. Yeah, I know it's like we used to when I was growing up. This sound like an old man, but like we'd go to the baseball field and play baseball with like just a group of kids and we would argue and fight and it would be a mess, but like that's just we would go play baseball or we play basketball at the park all the time. There is some nice new basketball courts at Bevelheimer now and they're always full, which is awesome. It's really cool. So you, they weren't probably there.

Braylen:

Oh yeah, you might. You might have got to play in those a little bit. I might have got to plan those a little bit. I think my like senior year was when they were built. But I still go over time and, like my friends are always there, they invite me and stuff and I go over and mess around sometimes, but I mean I see a lot of young kids out there playing, which is awesome new albany's always needed something like that yeah, yeah, no, it's really cool, and then the indoor facility is going to help a ton.

Justin:

I think it's going to be. We need more. It's crazy to think, but we need more facilities like bevelheimer is it's a zoo? It's a zoo. Um, well, that's really cool. Uh, so were you? Were you always good at athletics, like, like? I guess my question is, when did you think that you were like, okay, I've got a chance to go play division one basketball, like at what point?

Braylen:

uh, I mean, it's always my dream, I think growing up, especially in high school, I was stuck between basketball or football, like both sides, getting recruited by both, and then just probably around like my senior year I like knew I didn't want to play college football and then my coach helped me reaching out to colleges and stuff and that's how I got to Ohio State.

Justin:

Yeah, nice, excited for your sophomore year.

Braylen:

Yeah, I'm really excited. I like the group of guys we have and stuff and just starting summer workouts now I think we're already a great group.

Justin:

Yeah, yeah, I mean, they've recruited some big guys, seven-footer right, we just picked up two seven-footers.

Braylen:

That'll help a ton. Nice, yeah, you need some big guys?

Justin:

Yes, definitely. Well, that's awesome. Well, good luck with that. Appreciate it, no problem. What are you studying while you're there?

Braylen:

Sport industry as of now. I don't know if I'll stick with it, but that's my major.

Justin:

Yeah, cool, cool, cool, really cool. So where's Jordan now then?

Marsha:

He's living basically between Columbus and Indianapolis.

Justin:

Okay, he's in.

Marsha:

Gulf sales. So he has a territory of two states. So he's kind of going back and forth with those areas and his girlfriend's in Indianapolis. So he gets to be around us, and her as well, so which is nice.

Justin:

Did everybody golf growing up? Did all of you guys golf Mikayla's like no.

Micaylah:

It's like a new thing kind of. I feel like my dad has always golfed with my mom, of course, and then I feel like in recent years it's kind of became like a new thing for like the guys to do and my mom and I usually like are chilling behind with like some drinks in the golf cart. But I feel like growing up that wasn't like the main sport that was going on around the house yeah, and mckayla, you played softball I played basketball, volleyball and lacrosse in high school, okay, nice very nice and you so what you?

Justin:

in high school you played all three of those nice. What was your favorite?

Micaylah:

um, probably basketball. I mean it kind of always went like up and down basketball and volleyball and then my senior seminar project for obviously senior year was to learn how to play lacrosse. So then I joined lacrosse um lacrosse team my senior year and I had a lot of fun doing that. But basketball has always been my favorite.

Justin:

I've always said lacrosse is a lot like basketball. It really is, yeah especially defense.

Micaylah:

It was really easy to just like transfer those skills over. It was very, very similar yeah.

Justin:

So talking about kids, like just playing pickup basketball, so I coach youth lacrosse and like, did any of you ever play basketball? Do you know what his own defense is? And they're all like what they like. They have no idea and I'm like it is. It's like basic defensive concepts and, um, yeah it, I think it lends in. New albany's had some really good women's and men's lacrosse. It's been really good, well, cool. So when you guys were growing up, what did you do in New Albany? What was your as a family? Where would you go? What would you do? What was your favorite thing to do?

Marsha:

Gosh, I can't believe it. Why don't you all speak up about it?

Justin:

Play basketball.

Braylen:

I'm sure I feel like a lot of time spent at Bevelheimer. Like all the fields any sport, tackle, football, baseball, soccer, any sport I feel like we spent a ton of time out there, yeah.

Marsha:

We were always on a field or in the gym all the time.

Justin:

Yeah, all the time. Do you miss it?

Marsha:

well, I feel like we're still there you're still there like we haven't stopped, because we go to every single high state basketball game, yeah, home and away, and, um, we try to. Yeah, we're still in a gym all the time. It's just, it's, the journey has changed a little bit, you know. But um, whether we're trying to, you know, catch our son-in-law. So we've been traveling out west and so we're just not every day yeah, like it was before.

Marsha:

Yeah, so it's definitely changed from that. Every day, which kid which you know we're, we you know, of course, through many years, of three hotels, only two of us, so somebody has to go to the third one. We got to get somebody else, you know, like grandparent or something. So we went through many years of kids being in different cities or states truly playing sports. And it's a lot of hotels and anyone out there that hears us we get it Like a lot of hotels and a lot of money and a lot of flights, and it's just you know.

Marsha:

But I do feel like the transferable skills for I mean, I feel like our kids are living examples of you know people are like, oh, we don't want to spend this or do that. There's ways to, you know, get funding or whatever, however that looks. But I feel like the investment we put into it was well worth it, truly. And learning the skills that it takes to play on a team, to know how to navigate life that way, the hard things you know you have to deal with, make some stronger decisions you know we have two out of college now, of course, one in college I makes them stronger. And the decisions you know we have two out of college now, of course, one in college I feel like you know new Albany's helped that too. I mean, I feel like our just the school system itself has prepped our kids for college, and it could speak to that more.

Marsha:

But I between the academics here and just us, you know, of course, as parents, supporting them through every sport that they wanted to play. You know might sound crazy, but it helps you navigate life better too. Life isn't easy and you got to figure it out. You know, with whatever career that they end up deciding on, and all that's not, it's not easy.

Justin:

So, yeah, no, it does, it teaches you so much. Yeah, just and and and just outside of the sport itself. Being a teammate in adversity and I mean you guys were athletes you can can relate like not everything always goes the way that you want it to go. Um, so, yeah, I would agree 100%. I, of course, I, my kids, are all playing sports every season, so I'm a firmer, firm believer in that.

Justin:

But we just focus like we don't really focus on the winning and losing and like it's just go like enjoy it, have fun, right, because it gets serious if you want to do it. It gets real serious, real quick, and then it's almost like you kind of miss those days of like just going to play and have fun and like the tournaments with your buddies and yeah, um, that's really cool, it's uh, it. It's amazing how it becomes so much a part of who your family is, you know where, like there's so much wrapped around athletics and and it even to this, like you're super competitive, michaela's, like I'm going to go win family feud and apply and there you are. That's, that's, that's great. So it's just been super busy with with sports. How much has new Albany changed, do you feel like, since they were little till now?

Marsha:

It's vastly different and it's interesting. You brought up, you know, we all the time as parents we like we don't have enough gym space, we don't have this, we don't have that. So to have the facilities that they plan to build for the future is is amazing.

Justin:

Yeah.

Marsha:

You know, and and envious, because I wish we had it with our kids.

Steve Harvey:

We were trying to scrape who has a gym around that we can use you know, our fields or fighting over fields or like, like.

Marsha:

honestly, I remember going back thinking about gym space and doing practice late at night just to get enough gym space. We just didn't have it. We were using the annex back then where Otis was going through and that was crazy and um, but I it's good to see that the community supporting it is backing it. You know Rex is backing it. We definitely needed more facilities.

Steve Harvey:

There's no question.

Marsha:

So I'm happy about that part of it. I don't. I mean, I think we talked about this before we started. I said I can't imagine living anywhere else in.

Marsha:

Ohio truly. I mean we love living here. It's a great community. I feel safe here. I mean our kids all all I feel like thrived here. I mean there's ups and downs like any community, but I felt safe here. I think that, as a parent, that's all you can ask for. In the end, it's up to us to protect our kids, but we need a community that we feel, from what our facilities and our resources are here, truly felt like we were protected and we had, you know, a safe place to raise our kids.

Marsha:

They can run down the street and you know yeah and go, you know friends, houses and what have you, and the park and all that. So it's, I don't know. We just we love it here and don't know where else we would live.

Justin:

Yeah, we. I remind my kids all the time of how lucky they are to like to be at such a good academic school and then in a community that, yeah, they can. He leaves the intermediate and they walk over to starbucks and hopefully don't cause problems which I'm sure they do. But, um, and then, yeah, there's just always somebody around that knows them. Or like I went into starbucks one day and there's a group of kids sitting at a table and I seen two kids kind of causing an issue and the barista had to come over to him. Well, I'd coached him in football so I just like walked up behind him, grabbed the, I scared the crap out of him. So I was like you guys better knock it off. Yeah, it's just cool to be cause it is. It's still small like that, which is really neat.

Marsha:

And I think the kids can attest to that Cause I'll be like that's a great feeling and I feel like we don't get that when you're thinking Columbus being such a big place and especially I grew up in the country and I know a lot of people perceive, oh, you're in a suburb, it's so big, columbus is so big. But we do have that community feel here and I felt like that. You know, raising kids I was a stay-at-home mom for over 10 years and I was involved in New Albany women's network and really you know our, my friend group. We were all raising our kids in the same age and they could have each other and like I just felt like overall we all were kind of living the same. We had the same goals in life. You know we wanted to be able to raise our kids with good academics and be able to, um, be well-rounded, and I feel like new albany does. I'm not just saying it does offer a lot, not not just athletics and that's one thing.

Marsha:

We're not a school, like I'm not going to name other suburbs, it's like we don't push athletics, you know. But I do feel like the kids that you're exposed to from what you grew up with, and Michaela and Jordan, have a lot of different interests.

Steve Harvey:

You know, like the rocket science.

Marsha:

I mean, it's just all over the board and I love that you know that you're exposed to different types of interests and passions, not just sports, of course. We're big on arts too, you know. And then when you get to college it's like you're going to have all the you know. It's a melting pot of all of that too, you know.

Marsha:

So I do think we draw that part into our community, which is nice, and I've seen that over the years and you think of like what you've seen over the years, it continues to. We attract that kind of like for sure, something for everybody kind of thing. You know, we're not just snitched into a certain way of life or whatever.

Justin:

So yeah, definitely we draw that I always hear all the time from like people that have graduated recently or like that come back and they're always like I feel like really well prepared, you know, compared to going. Is that? Do you feel that way, like just in your coursework now?

Braylen:

definitely I think New Albany like school has just set me up like the classes I took and the people I was around like being around like a more like kind of diverse group and just having teachers that pushed me. I think I see that in college, especially around other people who may not have been from New Albany or had the same like like education as I did in high school, like they're like a little behind but like I feel like New Albany kind of just set me up and put me in like a college position in high school and that just makes that made my freshman year a lot easier yeah, yeah, yeah, I would.

Justin:

I it's. It's setting my kids up better than my high school set me up. I know that. I know that Well, and they're putting more in than I did too, but, um, all right. So the only person we haven't talked about, david right, is your husband, david. So tell us about David. What was his experience Like? How did he like the family feud?

Marsha:

Oh, he loved it.

Justin:

He was our number one.

Marsha:

number one guy I think you know he was excited to meet steve harvey yeah it was the most most exciting part. But david was pretty.

Braylen:

Your dad was pretty locked in yeah, he was our captain, so he he was one kind of hyping us up and stuff. I think he loved it more than maybe anyone else on our team but.

Marsha:

But I will say what's funny looking back on the pictures. They send us this whole portfolio of pictures, right, I think was right before we aired, so we didn't really get to see a lot because we signed NDAs you know we can't talk about what happened or anything like that. So when I look back on some pictures, we're all like they want us to look, like we're having fun, we're all celebrating and David's like locked in. He's standing there behind his you know the stands that we're at and he's pretty, pretty focused, you know.

Justin:

So he really took it seriously. We all did, obviously, but he was locked in, he loved it. He had such a great it was a great family experience. Truly, it was awesome. So I I like to play a clip, and I was thinking about this earlier Like I don't know what I can and can't do. It's not like enough people listen to this that I got to. I don't think family feud is going to come after me, but let's, uh, let's play. Yeah, I'm just playing a YouTube clip. Let's, let's play a little bit of it.

Steve Harvey:

Single men. Tell me, ask 100 single men Tell me something you've lied about on a first date Ex ex-girlfriends On a scale of one to 10, how good looking are you? 10. Name something that if a party didn't have it, you wouldn't stay long. Alcohol Name something you might stick in both ears. Q-tip which city in the world has the worst traffic?

Marsha:

LA.

Steve Harvey:

Alright, let's go. We asked 100 single men tell me something you've lied about on the first date. You said lied about the ex-girlfriends. Better. We ASKED 100 SINGLE MEN TELL ME SOMETHING YOU LIED ABOUT ON THE FIRST DATE. You SAID LIED ABOUT THE EX-GIRLFRIEND BETTER SURVEY, said.

Marsha:

WHAT.

Steve Harvey:

I DON'T BELIEVE THAT. That's A TOUGH ONE ON A SCALE OF 1 TO 10, how GOOD-LOOKING ARE YOU? You SAID 10. I AGREE. Survey SAID BOOM, name SOMETHING THAT IF A PARTY DIDN'T HAVE IT, you WOULDN'T STAY LONG. You SAID ALCOHOL. Survey SAID OH YEAH, oh YEAH, rolling RIGHT UP OUTTA HERE. Yeah, name SOMETHING YOU MIGHT STICK IN B rolling right up out of here. Name something you might stick in both ears. You said Q-tip Survey said which city in the world has the worst traffic? You said LA Survey said that's really fun.

Justin:

What's it like going back to watch it Like surreal.

Marsha:

Surreal. You don't know what. You don't realize how big your face is on the television screen, like they're really up in you when you're filming. You don't see all those cameras like that, you're blown up. I will say I want to brag about our mckayla. She broke I mean close to breaking, a record. She had what? 180, 184, 184 on that wow and that's the second highest for the season. For the first um, for the last money. So she um, she rocked it.

Marsha:

That's great she did great. Uh, everyone did great, but but that was pretty cool.

Justin:

Did they ever bring past families back on?

Marsha:

We potentially could go back on.

Justin:

Nice.

Marsha:

We'll see. We'll see what happens. He had asked if we'd be interested.

Justin:

That's really cool. You must have done great then.

Marsha:

Sorry, the baby needed me, I don't know. Be less nervous.

Justin:

That's all right. Michaela, I figured when I saw you go that's what you were doing. Yeah, baby needed me, but I'm here. You missed it. We played a clip of you.

Micaylah:

Was it the pink outfit or the purple outfit? That's kind of how I differentiate.

Justin:

That's a good question, purple.

Micaylah:

Oh nice, yeah, that was crazy. I think there's something. The hardest part about it, honestly, was like they do a little commercial taping break right before Fast Money. So like your family just wins the game, you're all excited. And then they're like, okay, we need two of you. You go out there and they have me or whoever's first for Fast Money. Just stand at the end of the stage for like three minutes by yourself with like the lights on you before you even get to like start answering the questions. So it's really like a mental game of like how to lock in, and my strategy was, like I'm playing on the couch, like I'm not here, next to Steve Harvey, like I'm doing what I do at home.

Justin:

Yeah, you put your head down, yeah exactly, you were locked in. Yeah, that's, hilarious.

Micaylah:

Yeah, it was really fun.

Justin:

Well, good, well, I thank you guys for coming on. This was fun, I think, outside of the Family Feud. I knew that you've been here. You're super ingrained in New Albany. I thought it would be fun to get a perspective from your kids that have graduated from here and what it's like after and yeah, anything else New Albany related that you want to talk about. Well, before we go. So NON, we talked about NON a little bit. New Albany Women's Network. Tell us a little bit about NON, because I think they would be a great fit to bring somebody on to talk about that. So tell me, like I know you're not, it's been a little while since you're with them but tell me a little bit about NON.

Marsha:

Well, it's a I mean, for me, it was a great way to meet other parents, I mean ladies, specifically that you know I was, um, a career person prior to I was a stockbroker and I gave up my career to be a stay at home mom and, and I felt like the ladies I hooked up with with new Albany women's network were all very, you know, passionate people about giving back to our community and and, um, you don't have to be a stay-at-home mom to be part of it yeah but I was all in, you know, I wanted to be leading and I wanted to run the fashion shows and that was really amazing experience.

Marsha:

But it's a amazing way to give back to our community yeah, 100 and a way to network within the ladies, um, within our community as well, and then it helps, you know, especially your kid groups and your play groups and and all of that back from, if my memory's correct, back a while ago. But I remember that part of it. But I definitely think, um, it's important to give back. I mean it's it was a stepping stone for me when I, you know, now I'm in medical sales, so like to move on to like a completely different career, but to really, um, raise money for whatever charity that are. You know, whatever event that they put on is. There's nothing like it, you know, to be able to make a difference in other people's lives and do that hard work. I guess you could say behind. You know, charity is not easy, but there's nothing more fulfilling than giving of yourself and in an unpaid position. That's how I looked at it, you know, like's, I love it I mean, if I could do that again.

Marsha:

Do charity work again. That would be like my goal down the road, but new albany women's network absolutely, it's um would be a great way to um to be part of our community.

Justin:

A lot, of, a lot of ways you can get involved yeah, and that's like just talking about how new albany, like we had irene adams on um and uh, what an amazing person, an amazing foundation, and like there's just there's, there's so many. Uh, I'm gonna get them all on, I'm gonna try to um, like I think it's great yeah, what in them?

Justin:

and I know new albany. This is so cool that there's so many different and they all have their little niches, um, which is which is really neat. So thanks for sharing that. I need to find somebody who's a member of NON now. I'd like to talk with you, so if anybody out there hears this. But thanks again, I appreciate it.

Marsha:

Thanks for having us, this was fun.

Justin:

After the next episode if you guys get back on, we'll have to do it again.

Marsha:

You have to get. David on next time he could talk about coaching on.

Justin:

Next time he could talk about coaching. Yes, I got it.

Marsha:

I got to meet David. You guys would just go back and forth the whole time.

Justin:

Yeah, so I'm thinking about doing a Father's Day episode. I'm a little behind the eight ball. I feel bad because I wanted to do a mom's episode and I couldn't make it happen. So now I feel like I shouldn't make the dads happen. But I may try and I'd love to have them.

Marsha:

Yeah, definitely you could have the moms on talking about the dads.

Justin:

That yes there would have to be wine involved for that. But um well, thanks again, I appreciate it. Thanks, michaela, I don't know if you're still there yes, I'm here.

Micaylah:

Thank you so much, this was so much fun yeah, thank you so much.

Justin:

Talk to you guys soon bye.