Audacy’s Danie B. at V-103 in Atlanta sat down for a chat with Honest Renovations hosts Jessica Alba and Lizzy Mathis to get into some details about the project as season two of their show is now streaming on Roku.

Best friends Jessica Alba and Lizzy Mathis are back for another round of surprise renovations, helping families take their homes from “cluttered and chaotic to functional and fabulous.”

“We do a big casting process. It's interesting, it's kind of an art because we want to find families that are relatable… diversity is really important to us,” Jessica says. “We wanted to not only have the obvious ethnic diversity but also just diversity in the types of families that we are showing,”

“So, we have a single mom with a baby, we have a family with seven kids, three are out of the house, we have another family that has four kids,” she explains. “Just showing different ages and stages of families going through different things with family, dealing with illness, another family dealing with loss, another one that has a child that has different needs. For us, it's diversity in every aspect of what that looks like.”

“But we really strive to not be typical,” says Lizzy. Thinking of typical home renovation shows as “cookie-cutter,” she says you “see the before, you see the after, you see a couple things in between. For us, at the heart of our show is the families. We thought about: How do we make a show that still gives the love of interior design and the love of a home renovation show, but flip it on its head and make it more relatable where people can really have takeaways that feel a little bit more special than just the house.”

Getting a budget together to help these incredible families is all thanks to their amazing partners and sponsors, “but we do only have one budget,” Lizzy says. “We have one master budget to work with and we have to split it up between all the houses. It all kind of depends on what house needs what, what we're able to do in every house -- but we can't do everything in every house.”

The idea for this project, Lizzy tells us, stems from her and Jessica’s longtime friendship and wish to one day work on something special together. “We didn't know what it was gonna be, but we wanted to do something together because we always have fun,” she says, “and we were like, ‘We have to do something where we could have a job and have fun because that's the ultimate goal, right?’ Then during the pandemic, we leaned in. We leaned into home design and content, and we created a little studio, which was one of her first houses. We re-did that, we redid her parents' home.”

“Actually, we're dropping my parents' renovation now, next week,” says Alba. “We're going to drop it on our socials, on YouTube… That one was intense because it was like, taking the house down to the studs, which is different than what we do with these families. With these families, we're choosing different spaces and we're doing different levels of remodeling, renovation, updating the space.”

“When we started doing that,” Lizzy adds, “we thought, how do we make this into a show? How do we include families?”

Don’t miss Danie B.’s full chat with Lizzie Mathis and Jessica Alba above, and stay tuned for more conversations with your favorite stars and artists right here on Audacy.

Words by Joe Cingrana Interview by Danie B.

Will Packer and Shaye Ogbonna join The Big Tigger Morning Show to discuss Peacock's all new limited series Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist. Will Packer also discusses his part-ownership of the Atlanta Falcons, how he almost casted Big Tigger on a show, why Terrence Howard was wearing a wig, and FAMU's recent win.

Joining Audacy Atlanta V-103’s The Big Tigger Morning Show with Jazzy McBee to discuss their new Netflix movie The Deliverance, Director Lee Daniels along with Andra Day and Caleb McLaughlin, chatted all about the inspiration and message behind the film, and more.

Chopping it up with “the director of this particular situation,” Daniels as well as two of its stars, Andra and Caleb, ahead of its August 30 arrival, Tigger had some questions about the “very scary” movie.

“It's based on true events, but I switched it up a little bit,” Daniels revealed, “just because I believe that spirits both good and bad come on you… So I just changed her mom in the film to white, because I wanted to explore what a biracial girl goes through having a white mom.”

Admitting he had reservations about even making the movie, “because I didn't want the spirits on me.” Daniel’s added, “but I realized that we are in dark times right now.” And after sitting with the movie for more than 10 years (since he did Precious), it was finally the time to do it.

“I didn't do it then because I thought that… it was horror only," Daniel’s noted, “and now I realize it was time to do it because it was about me finding my higher power, me finding the light. And and so I got the courage to do it.”

Taking inspiration from an Indy Star story from 2011, about a woman named LaToya Ammons who claimed her children had become possessed by a demonic spirit, Jazzy made note that in the film, Lee related it to “something that we all kind of deal with… demons internally and externally.”

“I'm glad you picked up on that,” Andra expressed, “because I think that was a big point for him,” she said about the director. “It’s definitely based off a true story, it’s based off true events, it’s based off of her real experience and the possession with the kids, those things were real… But it's not just a horror film. In my opinion, he's almost created an entirely new genre. A faith-based thriller… a soulful thriller.”

Yes, “there are horror elements to it, but it's also a family drama,” Andra continued. Noting that she makes sure to tell people, “If you just think it’s horror, and you don’t do horror, I think you would be remiss to not see the film, because there's transformation… generational healing. Ebony, my character is trying to heal a lot of trauma in her life and be the best mother she can be to her kids, and there's a spiritual aspect to it as well. As Lee always says, his goal with this film was to scare you to your higher power.”

To hear how they got into character, the extremes of dealing with a movie about a demon, and more, listen to the entire conversation above.

The Deliverance also stars Glenn Close, Mo’Nique, Octavia Spenser, Omar Epps, and more.

Words by Maia Kedem Interview by The Big Tigger Morning Show

Congresswoman Nikema Williams (D-GA) tells Audacy Atlanta's Maria Boynton how popular rapper Lil' Jon just happened to be at the Democratic National Convention repping the Georgia delegation Tuesday night.

The Atlanta artist brought the crowd inside Chicago's United Center Stadium to its feet when he appeared during the ceremonial roll call of states at the convention. When the announcer asked Georgia how it would cast its votes, Lil Jon appeared in the stands as music from his "Turn Down For What?" played. He changed the words to "DNC, turn down for what?" He walked throughout the crowd telling everyone to "get your hands up." The rapper then joined Williams (in pink suit), who with Georgia members Senator Raphael Warnock, and Rep. Sanford Bishop by her side, announced that Georgia was casting all 123 of its votes for VP Kamala Harris.

Williams, who is also Chair of the Georgia Democratic Party, explains that the rapper was initially in Chicago to attend a party she'd thrown on opening night for the Georgia delegation.

She goes on to talk about the excitement surrounding the DNC, the vast support received, and the significance of former Georgia Lt Governor Geoff Duncan, a Republican, being scheduled to speak at the DNC on Day 3, Wednesday.

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Harris for President Communications Director Michael Tyler talks with Audacy Atlanta's Maria Boynton about how the Democratic National Convention is going. Tyler also discusses what this means for the momentum growing in Georgia for VP Harris, former GA Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan's speech tomorrow at the convention, and the contrast between the 2 choices in Georgia: Trump vs Harris.

Issac Hayes III speaks on the Issac Hayes estate suing Donald Trump on The Big Tigger Morning Show.