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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: A'd be time to get your screen time picks for

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Speaker 2: this weekend, and Carl Pushman is here with his top takes.

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Speaker 2: I cannot wait cal for the new season of Grand Designs.

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Speaker 3: I know right for me, this is a show that

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Speaker 3: somewhere along the line went from being a guilty pleasure

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Speaker 3: to being your bog standard normal pleasure. Yeah, it's conceded simple.

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Speaker 3: Each episode follows a single home build or renovation project

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Speaker 3: from initial planning through the completion. The fun part was

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Speaker 3: that the build actually finishing is not always guaranteed. As

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Speaker 3: the title says, these are grand designs that these people

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Speaker 3: are taking on. And what I always liked about it

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Speaker 3: is that you'd have normal people like your Eyjack, deciding

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Speaker 3: that they could project manage these ludicrously ambitious and complex

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Speaker 3: builds themselves with no prior experience in the trades whatsoever.

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Speaker 3: It'd be sort of like deciding to take an F

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Speaker 3: one car out for a spin and hoping that things

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Speaker 3: don't go terribly wrongly. Things often go terribly wrong very quickly,

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Speaker 3: And you know that was a big part of the

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Speaker 3: appeal When I initially started watching the show was just

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Speaker 3: seeing what was going to go wrong. The flip side

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Speaker 3: of that is that these incredible projects still, somehow miraculously

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Speaker 3: most of the time come to life, and it's often

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Speaker 3: just through stubborn refusal to give up by the couple

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Speaker 3: building these things. And that's what is really the heart

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Speaker 3: of the show is seeing these crazy builds coming to

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Speaker 3: life and all the heartache and stress and pressure that

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Speaker 3: comes that comes with getting these things done. The New

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Speaker 3: Zealand version is now on season ten and that framework

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Speaker 3: still holds strong. Our host Tom Webster does a passible

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Speaker 3: job of filling the original UK series host Killing McCloud's

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Speaker 3: impressive shoes. He doesn't have that same air of what

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Speaker 3: I'd like to call sort of support of doubt or

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Speaker 3: authoritative synicism that McLoud often displays when talking to the people,

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Speaker 3: and I do miss that. But I think Tom Webbs

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Speaker 3: is doing his own thing and it really works here,

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Speaker 3: especially in a New Zealand environment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, this.

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Speaker 3: Oh sorry. The first episode lives up to the title

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Speaker 3: with a couple taking on a Category one protected building,

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Speaker 3: Earns Clue Castle, done in Clyde, just beside Queenstown, so

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Speaker 3: as you can imagine there is all manner of headaches

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Speaker 3: going on with this build. And yeah, the amount they

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Speaker 3: had to go through in this years long renovation is incredible.

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Speaker 3: To the show's massive credit credit budget talks are frank

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Speaker 3: because you know, Kiwis, we don't like to talk about

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Speaker 3: money particularly, and here the show, budgets are openly discussed,

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Speaker 3: which is really important. And this episode is a complete

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Speaker 3: shocker when it comes to budget blowout. So yes, a Grand,

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Speaker 3: a grand viewing experience.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I can't wait. I just love it too.

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Speaker 2: Every time I watch it and the person's like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: and we think the build's going to be done in

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Speaker 2: four months and yeah, and we know it's across winter,

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Speaker 2: but it should be all good, and you know, and

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Speaker 2: we're thinking we're going to come in at you know,

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Speaker 2: like three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And I'm always like, ah,

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Speaker 2: have you never seen screen television someone.

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Speaker 3: Who struggles to put up a painting They think they

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Speaker 3: can do this.

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Speaker 2: But I love her. I love it. I just and

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Speaker 2: I still somehow watch the show and think, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'd love to ever go at that. Yeah, what could

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Speaker 2: go wrong?

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Speaker 3: Grand Designs New Zealand as.

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Speaker 2: A new series that begins seven thirty tomorrow night on

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Speaker 2: TV and Z one. Tell us about the new series

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Speaker 2: of My House, My Castle.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, from an actual castle to pretend castle, I guess.

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Speaker 3: For its twelve season, My Housemark My Castle has had

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Speaker 3: a bit of a reno, a bit of a spruce up.

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Speaker 3: Comedian and broadcaster Hailey Sprawl has moved in his as

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Speaker 3: host and this takes a very different tact. Where Grand

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Speaker 3: Designs is slow and measured across years, My House My

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Speaker 3: Castle is just a tight half hour with the available

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Speaker 3: space just maximized. It is absolutely crammed with segments around housing, housing, market,

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Speaker 3: housing trends, housing, what have you. Episode one looks at

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Speaker 3: the death of the traditional Kiwi quarter acre dream. It

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Speaker 3: charts its history and the reasons for its demise. Talks

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Speaker 3: to a whole bunch of different people that are living

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Speaker 3: in big sections, small sections, in between sections, all that

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Speaker 3: kind of stuff that whizzes around from experts like architects,

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Speaker 3: interior designers, real estate agents. They all chime in on it,

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Speaker 3: and you know there's flashy graphics everywhere. Having Sprawl you

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Speaker 3: can get some comedy skits in and she sort of

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Speaker 3: has an excitable commentary the whole way through which drives

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Speaker 3: the pace. It does what it does well. It was

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Speaker 3: all a bit breathless and full on for me, but

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Speaker 3: it is solid entertainment and the amount of them for

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Speaker 3: they cram in is really commendable. But yeah, I like

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Speaker 3: my excitement at a little more less if you will,

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Speaker 3: And it was just very full on. But to its

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Speaker 3: credit you do get the history of the quarter acre section,

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Speaker 3: the reasons for why we can no longer have them.

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Speaker 3: A little bit dispointed that none of the experts talk

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Speaker 3: about the negatives around that. That's all very gung ho positive,

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Speaker 3: but you know that's the kind of show it as. It's, yeah,

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Speaker 3: a positive look at what's going on in the housing

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Speaker 3: market and little small renovation of a backyard section in

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Speaker 3: a townhouse gets done, which you get to see how

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Speaker 3: they maximize the space there. So, like I say, it's

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Speaker 3: a very tight half hour and it does do what

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Speaker 3: it does well, but put up against Grand Designs, it's

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Speaker 3: not really a fair comparison.

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Speaker 2: There, Okay, cool, well, well there two different options there.

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Speaker 2: Sound great, thanks sir Carl. So those shows once again,

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Speaker 2: My House my Castle is on three and three. Now

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Speaker 2: Grand Design starts tomorrow night on TV and Z one

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Speaker 2: and TV and Z Plus, and you can hear more

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Speaker 2: from Carl on his sub stack screen.

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