[Jack] Keeping tabs on the real estate market,
getting you down?
[high-pitched] There's gotta be a better way!
I'm Jack McBrayer, and we bring you eye-catching,
unique homes on the real estate market,
that satisfy a hunger for...
color! - [audience] Yay!
- [Jack] Texture! - Oh!
And outrageous surprises.
Uh-oh.
I don't think you finished this place, Ron.
[laughs]
Usually people put square pools,
but this is a triangle.
Just to piss people off a little bit.
One house will be crowned--
the wildest! [voice echoes]
So join now!
[main theme music plays]
[chill music plays]
[Jack] Asheville, North Carolina.
Here in the Blue Ridge Mountains,
fresh air, music, food,
and hundreds of breweries collide.
Attracting visitors seeking a unique experience.
So it's only fitting that there's a new listing here
that can... get the party started.
- [blues music plays] - [women shouting]
Well, if there's one thing I've learned from this show,
if it looks normal on the outside,
it's probably crazy on the inside.
- Hello! - Hi, Jack.
- Hi, Ishita? - Yes, hi.
I'm so excited to see this.
I cannot wait for you to walk in.
- All right. - After you.
- Shall we? - Let's do it!
Oh!
This is cool!
I'm seeing a lot of, like, paintings,
murals of musicians.
Is this your house?
Oh, I wish it was, but no.
[music concludes]
I am a designer of this house,
and this is what Asheville is all about,
music, color, culture, and art.
And that's exactly what we brought to the house.
So the investor who bought this house
wants to venture into bigger properties,
in the hospitality world, and that's the reason
he's selling this particular property.
Why don't we walk down the hall to your right?
There's a door,
and there's a surprise for you.
[Jack] I love surprises.
Oh-- oh...
[electric guitars play]
[Jack] I mean, this is like a...
strip club?
Am I allowed to say that?
- Yes! - [laughs]
It's exactly a strip club.
I'm walking into what I can only assume is a strip club.
I've never been.
[celestial music plays]
Someone asked you to design a strip club?
[Ishita] So Asheville draws a lot of weddings.
And this house, being, like, five minutes away
from downtown,
it was no-brainer to design for bachelor-bachelorettes.
So my client, he was like, "Go bold."
Gave me free rein.
I'm thinking about bachelorette parties that I've attended,
so I converted a garage into a strip club.
[shocking music hits]
[Ishita] When I first walked in the house,
it was completely bland, white, sterile home.
And when we started designing, we just went wilder.
There's a pole?
[sensual saxophone plays]
[Jack] OK. I mean, like...
[Ishita] Wow!
Look at that!
♪
[Jack] Wah!
We've been getting some noise complaints here, ladies.
[Jack] Wah!
OK, well, I know that we're still just in the garage.
There's got to be more, yeah?
There are three more stories.
I'm going to learn them all.
- [Jack] Up the stairs? - [Ishita] Yes.
[Jack] OK, we've got a whole 'nother story here.
This is awesome!
Oh, I would spend a lot of time up here.
Look at them chairs!
I see all these fun shapes and textures.
[Ishita] I was working in the Bollywood industry.
- If you've ever seen Bollywood movies... - [Jack] Yeah.
...those grandeur sets, those colorful sets.
[Jack] I mean, that's what they're known for.
That's our culture, too, right? I'm an Indian.
- [Jack] Yes! - We love celebrating colors.
[Ishita] We love textures.
I'm bringing a lot of inspirations
from my set design world.
[Jack] When you have that much color and texture,
it could feel overwhelming.
Not the case here.
It's fun. I'm enjoying it.
Whenever you design, you know,
you go back to your own life experiences.
[Jack] So you have experience with bachelorette parties.
Absolutely.
You know, we had this one bachelorette
all the way in Spain
and we had more suitcases worth of props and decor
than our clothes. - Yes.
All you want to do is spend time with friends and experience,
and create those-- - Eat and drink.
- Eat and drink-- exactly. - And, like, enjoy your time together.
[Ishita] If you come in, you have all the facilities
that you want to enjoy, and you don't have to step out.
[Jack] Just having everything you need right there?
Come on. Sold.
Am I buying this place?
[victory music plays]
Why don't we go up the stairs?
Just go straight ahead to that door.
♪
- Oh... - [Ishita chuckles]
[Jack] What is this!
Ooh!
♪
[Jack] Are these real, just, like, tree branches?
[Ishita] That's exactly what it is.
[Jack] Wow!
[Ishita] Tree house that's nature-inspired.
It's what Asheville is known for.
Yeah, and so this is one of the bedrooms,
I'm assuming, yes? - Yes.
So there are three bunks, like one, two, three.
[Jack] So cool.
How many bedrooms does this whole place have?
It has four bedrooms, one on the ground floor,
two on this particular floor,
and one up top on the rooftop.
[Jack] Oh, OK. So there's more?
There's more. Let's go.
[soft jazz music plays]
[indistinct] Oh...
Oh!
I like this very much.
♪
[Jack] Oh, this is so nice!
I know that Asheville got hit by Hurricane Helene.
Was this property affected?
[Ishita] We actually completed this project right after
Hurricane Helene. - Afterwards, OK.
Yeah, so that was our way
of saying that...
we are alive, we are back.
[Jack] Yeah.
Ishita, this has been absolutely wonderful.
- So thank you so much. - Thank you for coming.
Ah! What a delight!
[Jack] We're off to the Wild Dial!
A home that's a love letter to Asheville's charm
is one-of-a-kind.
The high-energy decor creates the perfect backdrop
for shaking it up
and dropping it low.
Plus, a converted garage
is a strip club!
I guess it's time to get the party started.
Willcox, Arizona offers gorgeous desert landscapes
and small-town living,
with a population just over 3,000.
I don't see a house.
I see a truck. I see a note on the truck.
"Hello, Jack. You will need this.
See you at the top."
[hawk screech]
Oh, no!
[country music plays]
Today, we're taking an off-road detour
to a secluded property that was just bought and will truly
rock your world.
Oh, boy.
I'm gonna break this truck.
[car thumping]
♪
I think I see a house. Please be a house.
[breathes heavily]
Please tell me this is the right place.
Hi!
[chuckling]
- Ah! - You made it!
- Kip. - Hi, Jack.
How'd you like the drive up?
- [high-pitched] Not very much. - [Kip laughs]
- Bethany. - Hello!
Thank y'all for having me.
- I'm Bethany. - I'm Kip.
And we bought a house built on a rock.
[Kip] I personally can't imagine living in a normal house.
I just couldn't do it.
[chuckles]
- That is a trip! - It's a trip.
Yeah, we figured we'd give you the truck so you didn't have to walk.
[Jack] That's very trusting on your part. - [Kip laughs]
- All right, can we go? - [Bethany] Absolutely.
All right, here, let's check it out.
[Bethany] Down to the left, watch for snakes.
[Jack] Watch for snakes?
All right.
Look at this little bridge and everything!
Whoa!
♪
Oh, my gosh, we got a dining room in a cave!
- Is this a rock? - [Kip] It is.
Oh, this is crazy.
I see your kitchen area is back here.
Look at this!
It's trickling.
[Bethany] During monsoon season,
it's a little more than a trickle.
- It's cool. - Why are you smiling?
That sounds terrible.
[Bethany] There's water in the desert.
You gotta have water in the desert.
So y'all didn't, like, create this?
We did not.
I love rocks.
I'm a, you know, self-taught amateur geologist,
become jeweler. - [Jack] Really?
I make all my jewelry out of rocks.
- Like, you legit love rocks. - I love rocks.
And what do you do? Just help her find rocks?
[laughing]
Some days.
[Kip] I'm an automotive engineer,
but I've always loved unconventional architecture.
[Jack] OK, so the entire house is built around this bedrock?
Yeah, the exposed bedrock is
essentially the foundation of the house.
So there's no footings, there's no slab.
The house is built directly on exposed mountain.
[Jack] This is crazy. So all the way through, yes?
All the way through, yes.
- There's more rocks. - More rocks.
[Jack] More rocks to be seen!
- [Kip] To the right. - [Bethany] To the right.
[Jack] To the right?
Oh, is this your bedroom?
[Bethany] It is.
[Jack] How did you find this?
I was doing a doom scroll on social media,
and I-- you know. - Atta girl!
But I was in one of my rock groups,
and I see...
that shot with the bedrock,
and I'm like, "Wait a minute, is that in Arizona?"
I'm in Arizona part-time.
And I sent it to him, like, totally for LOLs,
not serious at all.
I'm like, "Hey, look at this."
And then he took it really surprisingly seriously.
I was just blown away with how cool the house was,
but I couldn't inspect the entire house because
the whole eastern side, where Bethany's studio is at
was infested by killer bees.
- What? - Yeah.
I said, "I'm your buyer. I'm gonna write an offer.
"But you've got to get rid of the bees so I can inspect
the rest of the house."
- The house-- - Kip, that's a terrible idea.
- Well, I wanted to see-- - We love terrible ideas!
We're all about terrible ideas!
Look at us!
OK, so I see this bedroom here.
- Are there more bedrooms or...? - [Kip] Two more.
Right through there is the next one.
- [Jack] Oh, there's one here? - Go behind the curtain.
♪
[Jack] Cool! Oh, my gosh!
And I'm seeing the low ceiling.
- And is this your living room? - Yeah, just follow the rocks.
- There's more rocks. - Just follow the rocks.
[Jack] This is fantastic.
- OK, and another bedroom. - Another bedroom.
And the bathroom's worth looking at.
It's pretty crazy.
I love a bathroom.
Oh, whoa!
- Why can't anything be normal? - [Kip laughs]
[Jack] How did you build a bathtub into these rocks?
[Bethany] Well, we didn't.
[Kip] What we've learned is that the house was originally built
without any bathroom.
So the bathroom here was installed
by the second owner of the house.
[Jack] So what is the story of this house?
[Kip] It was built by this incredible single mother,
Tara Davis, and her two children.
What?
One of the first conversations I had with Tara was,
"You've got to tell me how you built this.
Do you still have all of your blueprints and drawings?"
And she says, "No, I didn't make anything."
I just built what I saw in my mind.
She built the house from the west to the east,
and it's kind of like she ran out of space at the end,
because the house just keeps getting narrower and narrower.
[Jack] Smaller and smaller.
Does it go further out this way?
- [Bethany] It does. - [Kip] Yeah, absolutely.
We should follow some more rocks.
[Jack] All right.
Yeah, you can definitely see the angle of the roof.
Don't want to alarm you. Don't move too fast.
Um, there's-- watch that.
[twangy music plays]
Don't move.
- It's very still. - [Jack] I know but--
- Maybe I'll go pet it. - [Jack] No, no, no, no.
- She's trained, watch this. - Am I staying still?
I'm a trained, uh,
I'm a trained wrangler. - I'm not going to.
Look, you wanna give it a kiss?
Don't-- wait.
- Is that fake? - [laughs]
- [Kip] No, it's real. - At one point it was alive.
Not now.
[laughing]
[Jack] Oh, I'm in danger.
I'm going to do what the experts say
and hold very still.
It was fake.
You're a monster. You're a monster.
Anyone who watched that,
and was not offended is a monster.
Bethany, thank you so much
for this wonderful afternoon. - Thank you.
- Thank you, Jack. - And Kip...
- Absolutely. - This was a delight.
It's been wonderful to have you here
and show you the house.
Let me traipse my way up this mile-and-a-half driveway.
- Watch for snakes. - Don't ever speak to me again.
[laughing]
[Jack] That tour rocked!
A house with no foundation,
built directly into a mountain,
and constructed with raw materials found locally
is utterly unique.
The exposed bedrock serving as walls, flooring,
and decor shows major commitment to Mother Nature.
What's jaw-dropping
is a natural stream
flowing inside the house,
when you're in the desert?
I'm in Olympia, Washington,
a capital city known for its refreshing spirit
and 96 natural artesian wells.
I'm visiting a property for sale
that's just as grounded in both stature and spirit.
Ooh!
This looks like a nuclear power plant.
And I do not have protective gear.
♪
- Hello, Scott. - Hey.
- I am. - Jack.
- Nice to meet you, Jack. - Ooh, I hear an echo in there.
[voice echoes] Echo in there, echo in there.
And I see, like, multiple structures,
and they're all domes.
I'm Scott, and I'm selling my multi-dome home.
This is 8,000 square feet,
and that's just too much space for me.
I can't tell if this is concrete, or I'm seeing,
like, it looks like fabric. What is this?
[Scott] It starts with fabric, as you mentioned.
It's blown up.
Polyurethane foam is sprayed to give it insulation.
And then shotcrete is sprayed over the foam.
It's rebarred, and then the concrete.
[Jack] This is incredible.
So this is a solid concrete house
made from a fabric... - Yes.
...mold, essentially?
What inspired you to make this dome home?
Well, in 2004, I was living in Virginia.
[Jack] Yeah.
And I got hit by Hurricane Isabel.
- It just destroyed the house. - Oh...
And I decided that the next house that I was going to build
was going to be hurricane-proof,
tornado-proof, fire-proof.
[Jack] If you're living in a dome made of this much concrete,
I mean, you're gonna withstand landslides, fires,
neighbors.
- Come on, let's go. - All right.
Oh, whoa! This is huge.
♪
- [Scott] You built this? - [Jack] I did.
[Scott] So I started flipping houses 26 years ago,
and it evolved to, well, why bother flipping it?
Why not just build my dream home from scratch?
I love it. We're in a dome.
- How many domes are there total? - There's four total.
But, like, there's still very, like, house structures in here.
- [Scott] Well, that was sort of the goal. - [Jack] Yeah.
I wanted the safety and security
of the structure. - Yeah... got it.
But then inside,
I just wanted it to feel, like, homey.
But the real reason that I decided to build
this type of home 10 years ago,
I was diagnosed with two brain tumors.
And six months later,
I was diagnosed with a third that appeared to be growing.
It turns out they're benign.
Oh.
But I had already made the decision to retire.
I had put together a bucket list.
Yeah?
And the number one thing on my bucket list
was to build my dream home.
[Jack] So I'm standing in...
number one on your bucket list. - You are.
I would like a tour of this dream, please.
Great. Let's start with the kitchen.
- Great. - It's right down this hallway.
[Jack] This way?
Oh, cool!
Like, this is a... substantial kitchen.
- Are you a cook? - I want to be.
Yeah? [chuckles]
So in a dream kitchen,
I want to be able to prepare
any type of food. - OK.
So we've got to have a microwave.
It's also an air fryer.
We've got a convection oven.
We've got a regular broiler.
We've got a teppanyaki grill,
an electric grill,
and I want a deep fryer.
Is this bucket list stuff?
- Is cooking on the list? - Yes.
[Jack] So you have designed your dream kitchen.
What are other elements of this dream space?
I want to take you to my favorite space.
- Down here. - This way?
- To the left. - All right.
[Scott] Just right through those double doors.
[doors creak]
Whoa!
It is giant.
Oh, my gosh!
Gosh, you got saddle benches.
Scott!
OK, so are we in another dome, then?
We are. We're in the center dome.
And so wait, the living room kitchen is one,
two, three, four? - [Scott] Yes.
[Jack] This is big.
Also, I'm loving the echo in some of these domes.
[echoes] Domes, domes, domes, domes.
So what do you do here? Just relax?
Well, I've invited some friends over.
They have a couple of drinks
and really made this place feel like home.
- Yeah. - Originally,
I was going to turn this into, like, commercial space,
and that's why we have the double doors there.
I wanted to have the feeling of
walking into an office building.
Was that part of the dream for the dream house as well?
It was-- unfortunately...
COVID hit, and all the jobs that I would have brought in
became remote jobs.
[Jack] And so you repurposed this for entertaining.
[Scott] You gotta change with the times.
[Jack] So is there more to see?
There's a whole second story back towards the front door,
and up the stairs. - Let's do it.
OK, upstairs. What all's up here?
[Scott] Well, we have the primary bedroom
right through those doors. - Right through here?
All right.
Oh!
Oh, this is a bedroom!
♪
[Jack] Scott, this is huge!
[Scott] The whole second story is 2,500 square feet,
and this makes up the majority of it.
[Jack] Was a dream to have just a momentous space?
To be honest, I try to live every day like
I don't know if I'm gonna be here,
so my focus was,
let's just keep building.
[Jack] You have created your dream home.
Are there other items on the bucket list?
[Scott] After completing this house,
I've completed everything on my bucket list,
so I gotta think, what's the next thing?
I'm gonna build the same style house,
but a 500 square foot version.
Shut up!
[echoes] Shut up!
Shut up!
One person just can't make use of this much space.
It's a lot of house.
Scott has lived!
It's also a lesson that, like,
tomorrow's not guaranteed for any of us.
What is your bucket list?
Scott, this has been such an impressive tour
of this fortress.
Best of luck with your new dream house,
- The smaller version. - Well, thank you.
Thank you, sir. Take care.
[Jack] Gotta love a bucket list.
A custom multi-dome
that's built to withstand
any natural disaster
checks the list for originality.
An office turned entertainment room
and a kitchen ready to cook up
whatever your heart desires?
This place is committed
to dream fulfillment.
And what's so astounding is
a 2,500-square-foot primary bedroom,
that's bigger than most houses!
Before we find out which home is the wildest,
let's check back in with our sellers.
Looks like Dream Dome has sold! [voice echoes]
For $950,000.
Congratulations to the new owners
of this indestructible dream home.
And Bachelorette Pad is
still looking for a commitment
from a buyer.
And now, it is time to announce
which one is the wildest of the bunch.
Will Bachelorette Pad party it up in the winner's circle?
Will Bedrock Bungalow be crowned the wildest gem
in the collection?
Or will Dream Dome dome-inate its competition?
[mysterious music plays]
And the winner is...
Bedrock Bungalow!
Hello, Kip and Bethany!
- Hey, Jack. - Hey, Jack!
You made it back safe.
You should've gotten a little something in the mail.
Why don't you open that right now?
- Whoo! - [laughs]
Hey, congratulations!
Yours is the Wildest of the Bunch!
- Thank you! - Whoo!
[Jack] This home's built around a mountain's natural bedrock
and features an indoor fountain fed by monsoon water.
The wildest part?
It was crafted without a single blueprint.
The whole thing's incredible,
no matter how far you have to drive to get there.
I think we should put it next to the snake.
[laughing]
But there's still more wild ahead!
♪
- Would it hold me? - It absolutely will.
I'm feeling good, wearing a tight diaper.
I'm about to climb this wall.
Oh, my boy.
[homeowner] This is the world's smallest insect museum.
That is a feature you don't see in every home.
♪