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Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: On the podcast, I have two of this year's biggest
Speaker 1: personalities on Australian screens. It is Tom and Sarah Jane
Speaker 1: from Channel nine's The Block. This year, The Block has
Speaker 1: had a tree change and taken on a challenge that
Speaker 1: would and should normally send anyone a little crazy. With
Speaker 1: five houses situated on ten acres of land each and
Speaker 1: weather conditions harsher than any season before, it's no wonder
Speaker 1: the ratings for The Block have smashed expectations of TV
Speaker 1: critics right across Australia. One of the most important parts
Speaker 1: in making a show like The Block successful is getting
Speaker 1: the casting right. So when Tom and Sarah Jane applied
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty two series. It's no surprise producers
Speaker 1: were quick to snap up these two Victorians from Gladstone Park.
Speaker 1: The two have a different love language to any other
Speaker 1: contestant this year or probably ever seen on the show before,
Speaker 1: and while Australian audiences are certainly polarized by the married
Speaker 1: couple's ability to navigate the competition, I think their honesty
Speaker 1: with each other is quite entertaining and quite realistic of
Speaker 1: how most couples reach resolution in conflict. We will discuss
Speaker 1: what they think of their fiery relationship at times, what
Speaker 1: they think of audience's opinions, if their relationship with the
Speaker 1: other houses has evolved, and who they think will come
Speaker 1: out with the most amount of cash.
Speaker 2: However, let's get started with today's guest.
Speaker 1: I'd like to welcome Tom and Sarah Jane from the
Speaker 1: Block to TV reload.
Speaker 3: For me personally, when I was there, I never thought
Speaker 3: about the whole TV side of it.
Speaker 2: Meet Tom and Sarah Jane. They come to us from Melbourne,
Speaker 2: Gladston Park.
Speaker 3: To be exact, we're normal people, we argue and we're
Speaker 3: going on a TV show, so I hide it.
Speaker 4: Tom as a plumber with over seventeen years worth of experience.
Speaker 5: That's just how we palk to each other in high
Speaker 5: pressure situations, which you know can be confronting for some people.
Speaker 2: Sarah Jane is a social worker. They're married and have
Speaker 2: an eleven month old daughter.
Speaker 5: I kind of looked back and I thought, hmmm, I
Speaker 5: care bitch, I'll see what you did.
Speaker 1: Then.
Speaker 3: These two are huge fans of the Block and have
Speaker 3: watched every season.
Speaker 4: We have no idea what's going to play out on auction.
Speaker 4: We have no idea who's going to wear.
Speaker 2: Hey, Tom and Sarah Jane, how are you both? Hello?
Speaker 4: We're very well, thank you.
Speaker 2: How long had you both been trying to get onto
Speaker 2: this show?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: Whether we only tried the once. This is our first
Speaker 5: time applying. And I think they just saw the crazy
Speaker 5: and was like, yeah, cool on.
Speaker 1: I heard a story that maybe you guys had been
Speaker 1: wanting to do like a tree change, and so the
Speaker 1: fact that you guys had been wanting to do a
Speaker 1: tree change that sort of fitted with what the theme
Speaker 1: of the show was going to be.
Speaker 2: Is there any truth in that?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean, we love the country, got a little place
Speaker 3: up in the country and it's always been a dream
Speaker 3: for us to have some land and move up to
Speaker 3: the country. And prior to COVID, we Dinard and really
Speaker 3: started looking into moving up to Gisburn a fel my
Speaker 3: mate have made the change up there, but it was afforded.
Speaker 4: It was an affordable it was.
Speaker 3: So much more affordable. I mean, you know, thanks to COVID.
Speaker 3: It's just fuck the whole world. So when the block
Speaker 3: popped up, we just thought.
Speaker 5: Well, as soon as we heard that was I'm a
Speaker 5: Sunbury girl, so it's only ten minutes down the road
Speaker 5: from where I grew up. When we had it, was
Speaker 5: engivesmen like, that's it, we're doing it. Well, I was like,
Speaker 5: I'm applying and you're coming.
Speaker 1: You know, that's a common thing with couples who want
Speaker 1: to do the block. There's usually one that really wants
Speaker 1: to do it, and so it's it's not that usually
Speaker 1: get two people just as passionate, but watching the show
Speaker 1: seems like you're both pretty cool to be there, right.
Speaker 6: I don't know, I never really that.
Speaker 3: I've always watched the block, but watching it on TV,
Speaker 3: I just thought, oh, there's no way I'd go there
Speaker 3: and have fun working in those conditions.
Speaker 4: But so you ended up loving it more than I only.
Speaker 6: I loved it more than everybody there. It was awesome.
Speaker 1: I love watching when you go and go and talk
Speaker 1: to everyone else that you're like, all right, I'm just
Speaker 1: going to go chat to every other people and enjoy
Speaker 1: myself from being there on the day when I met you.
Speaker 2: Both.
Speaker 1: You are exactly who you are in real life as
Speaker 1: you are on television.
Speaker 2: There's no blurred lines.
Speaker 3: Nah, We've been getting told that a lot, and it's
Speaker 3: the only right way to go on TV. I reckon,
Speaker 3: You've got nothing hard and nothing to be disappointed about
Speaker 3: with the edit.
Speaker 6: So yeah, yourself, and you can't look like an idiot exactly. Well,
Speaker 6: you still can look like an idio you're.
Speaker 4: Still, but only be yourself.
Speaker 5: And even our family were like, you guys are exactly
Speaker 5: the same, and I'm like.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like, well wouldn't you be?
Speaker 5: You know, it is what it is like. We can't
Speaker 5: change our personalities.
Speaker 1: People try to, though, you know, with reality television you
Speaker 1: see it all the time. People try, but these shows
Speaker 1: a films so long that they come undone. You know,
Speaker 1: you can't pretend to be someone you're not for a
Speaker 1: very long time. You might as well, just gone in
Speaker 1: there and be Watson all yourself.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah under high precious situations are going to let
Speaker 3: you see some people in their worse and your true
Speaker 3: colors are going to shine sooner or later, so you
Speaker 3: best be yourself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: And Sarah Jane, I need to ask you this, Do
Speaker 1: you need a strong relationship to be able to survive
Speaker 1: a show like this?
Speaker 5: I think so definitely. I think you need to have
Speaker 5: a strong relationship. I think you need to understand each
Speaker 5: other on all levels. I think you need to have
Speaker 5: been in testing situations before, because if you haven't, and
Speaker 5: then you're going to go on the block twelve weeks
Speaker 5: in those conditions and the stress, I mean, you will
Speaker 5: come out and you'll want a divorce. I mean we
Speaker 5: renovated our our own home together and he's been living
Speaker 5: with me for eight years. If he was going to
Speaker 5: leave me, he would have left me seven half years ago.
Speaker 6: You know. Start, I just can't be bother packing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really lazy, It's great.
Speaker 6: A lot of shit to pack.
Speaker 1: How have you both been coping watching the show? I mean,
Speaker 1: have you been enjoying what you get back? Do you
Speaker 1: sit back and have a laugh, or do you cringe?
Speaker 1: I mean, what are the emotions.
Speaker 3: We sit back, we watch it religiously every night, and
Speaker 3: it's actually really fun to watch because I mean, look
Speaker 3: for me personally, when I was there, I never thought
Speaker 3: about the whole TV side of it.
Speaker 6: I just for me.
Speaker 3: I just felt like I was on a work side
Speaker 3: every day. So you carrying on as you normally do,
Speaker 3: but the camera gets to capture all that and seeing
Speaker 3: it all come to get it on TV, you get
Speaker 3: to reminded of little snippets, Yeah that happened, and you're like.
Speaker 6: Oh, that's that's funny actually, and it's been good, good
Speaker 6: to watch.
Speaker 3: Haven't had any cringe.
Speaker 5: I cringed slightly when I told Tom I was kind
Speaker 5: of punching in the face the other night. But I
Speaker 5: mean Tom knows that I'm actually going to punch him
Speaker 5: in the face, and he knows that.
Speaker 4: You know, that's just how we pork to each.
Speaker 5: Other in high pressure situations, which you know, can become
Speaker 5: hunting for some.
Speaker 4: People, because you know, not everyone likes to have their
Speaker 4: fights out there.
Speaker 6: Who put that there?
Speaker 5: I'm done, Tom, I will literally punch you in the face.
Speaker 4: Get out of my.
Speaker 6: Way, Tome, watch you don't trip again.
Speaker 5: Besides that, I'm like, oh, well shit, that's just me,
Speaker 5: Like I mean, take it or leave it, And you know,
Speaker 5: if you want to leave it, just change the channel
Speaker 5: come back in an hour and a half.
Speaker 1: You kind of talked about the bickering between the two
Speaker 1: of you as a bit of a love language.
Speaker 2: Is that what it is?
Speaker 6: Yeah? I guess so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we bicker and it's us sort of taking the
Speaker 3: piss out of each other having a laugh.
Speaker 6: But we don't. I don't know. Some people look at
Speaker 6: it and go, oh my god, they're just toxic. They're
Speaker 6: blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: But I don't think it's anything but toxic. We're just
Speaker 3: real normal people. I mean, how many couples have been
Speaker 3: on the show, you know, husband and wives that have
Speaker 3: been on the show over the last eighteen seasons and
Speaker 3: they just try to hide it like we're normal people.
Speaker 3: We argue and we're going on a TV show, so
Speaker 3: I hide it. I thought we signed up for yourself.
Speaker 4: Our fights are just like that, Like we don't ever
Speaker 4: fight with love and respect.
Speaker 5: Like unfortunately the fight mate, Like how do you if
Speaker 5: you're not having a proper fight, your makeup sets like
Speaker 5: it's been nice to me.
Speaker 1: Love the bickering, I really do, because it makes you,
Speaker 1: guys real. Do you think that bickering is a normal
Speaker 1: part of a functioning relationship.
Speaker 6: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 5: And you know what, we pick up for five minutes
Speaker 5: and then we're done. We're over it, Like we just
Speaker 5: let our feeling out right there and then and.
Speaker 6: Then we go again five minutes later.
Speaker 4: You got to keep it exciting.
Speaker 1: Did you discuss limitations between the two of you or
Speaker 1: did you just agree to be what's in all, just
Speaker 1: exactly who you are.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I sometimes feel like you might have needed a safe
Speaker 1: word between the two of you.
Speaker 3: We've got we're potty mouse, and I'm pretty sure we
Speaker 3: got it.
Speaker 6: We did.
Speaker 3: We got awarded the biggest body mouse in block history,
Speaker 3: So I mean, we do swear a lot, and we
Speaker 3: did get asked to sort of try and curve out
Speaker 3: a bit. But we didn't discuss limitations with each other.
Speaker 3: But I reckon a couple of funny things might have
Speaker 3: got cut out because it was probably just going to
Speaker 3: be too much beeping in him. But we probably should
Speaker 3: have spoke about swearing his limitations because we do swear
Speaker 3: a lot.
Speaker 4: We're just we've probably come across the world.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: And the safe work would be a swear word, right,
Speaker 1: the safe work would be fuck or if you.
Speaker 6: All shut the fuck up.
Speaker 2: There, Jane.
Speaker 1: I can't stop laughing at the way in which you
Speaker 1: over dramatize things where you say I'm dying when you're
Speaker 1: not dying or dead dead and that phone call where
Speaker 1: you're just like on the phone and all you're saying
Speaker 1: is dead, I'm dead.
Speaker 2: I'm dead, Sarah Jane calls Rachel to me. The pain job, the.
Speaker 4: Downlight's not one up, the weird the ceiling rows, I'm dead. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm dead. I'm sure that's that's that's a last place.
Speaker 4: That's the last place for what I've been. I just
Speaker 4: can't even kind of a comprehension.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely definite, hundred bad love you, lady.
Speaker 3: Bye.
Speaker 5: And you know what it's like, I mean, I know
Speaker 5: that my voice is already killing people, Like that's one
Speaker 5: thing that I've heard a lot of, like, oh my.
Speaker 4: God, her voice.
Speaker 5: But get used to that because it's like I've got
Speaker 5: to speak, and all I say is you'll hear it dead, dead, dying,
Speaker 5: hungy you like, And then and you'll hear a lot
Speaker 5: of love that for you.
Speaker 4: Love that for you.
Speaker 1: Sometimes when you're talking and I'm a fast talk or
Speaker 1: when I'm doing a podcast to slow it all down,
Speaker 1: so I speak fast and I hear fast. But there's
Speaker 1: been a couple of times where I have to rewind
Speaker 1: it back to listen to what you've said again. And
Speaker 1: it's very well put together, like you're you know exactly
Speaker 1: what you're saying. It's just moving so fast that the
Speaker 1: normal human brain can't compute it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I just that's because I was brought up on Gilmore Girls,
Speaker 5: and Gilmore Girls was my sole TV show, and they
Speaker 5: talked so quickly to each other, So I just conversed
Speaker 5: with Gilmogl's my whole life, and that's why I speak
Speaker 5: really quickly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's just put so many pieces together for me.
Speaker 1: You are the lourel I, but you're like both laurel
Speaker 1: Ees together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm Lorelei and Rory.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: If I could have called my daughter Sarah Jane after myself,
Speaker 4: I would.
Speaker 2: Have as well.
Speaker 6: But I don't even know who that is.
Speaker 4: Oh, it pains me when you say that. Please don't
Speaker 4: talk about Gem Girls with such disrespect.
Speaker 1: Best that you don't the best, that you don't know
Speaker 1: who that is. I don't think it's your cup of tea, Tom,
Speaker 1: But talking to you about things that are happening online,
Speaker 1: what do you think of all the audience making the
Speaker 1: Shannon Nole references?
Speaker 2: Do you have you been told you look like before?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I've been told I look like Shannon for years.
Speaker 6: I don't see it. Maybe I need like a little
Speaker 6: Godie funny.
Speaker 4: He's been told Shannon, Noel and God. He's got in
Speaker 4: both of it.
Speaker 6: I don't know how you get both.
Speaker 4: So he's like a little Australian or hybrid.
Speaker 6: Probably when I had he probably could have said Anthony
Speaker 6: Khalia too.
Speaker 4: Yes, and they ever want the same surname.
Speaker 6: No, it's similar.
Speaker 1: I just think it's hilarious because people keep talking about it,
Speaker 1: and then on another channel at the same time, people
Speaker 1: are trying to guess who these masks are on the
Speaker 1: mask singer and I think Channon is the blowfly, and
Speaker 1: so there's all these tweets and then people are getting
Speaker 1: confused and they're calling you a blowfly, and I'm like.
Speaker 2: Guys, you know, stick to the stick to the one network.
Speaker 4: It's just it's actually Tom under there.
Speaker 3: Nah, mate, I've been told for years I look like Shannon. No,
Speaker 3: I don't see it all.
Speaker 6: I'm a lot sh a well.
Speaker 1: A big question in this series of the block is
Speaker 1: what is country? Which appears to be interpreted very differently
Speaker 1: with each house. But what does country mean to you?
Speaker 1: If you have to put it into words.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: You walk into an old country home, like say from
Speaker 3: the fifties, what do you see? I think you see paneling,
Speaker 3: you see heritage corners, You'll see stealing roses. Wherever there's
Speaker 3: a pendent light. You'll see big skirting boards, big architravees.
Speaker 4: Hugs you like like I have a warmth yeah.
Speaker 5: Like deep colors, cottage hugs you I think like farmhousey.
Speaker 3: Warm colors, nothing sterile. You don't go into country homes
Speaker 3: they're all white. You go into old So you go
Speaker 3: into an old mansion, they're all like bold colors. You know,
Speaker 3: marone walls, purple. I'm not purple maron carpet.
Speaker 5: A lot of inspiration from like old pubs too, like
Speaker 5: country pubs with those deep greens and reds, and so
Speaker 5: I have a lot of deep colors. And that's I
Speaker 5: took that from, like Country pubs, And what about.
Speaker 1: The kingsman robe and the window position, which was a
Speaker 1: major pain in both of your bums.
Speaker 2: Did we work out who was to blame for that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: It was I don't see a problem.
Speaker 3: The only thing that I stuffed up was the ward
Speaker 3: at the Kings and wardrobes there probably which.
Speaker 4: Something. But you're admitting that you're actually wrong.
Speaker 6: The windows in the right spot.
Speaker 4: Dish modifucker? Can I just can't, Mama.
Speaker 3: Tonight, I was chatting a Darren Palma and because he
Speaker 3: posted something about our room and the nice colors, and
Speaker 3: you walk in and blah blah blah, and you turn
Speaker 3: around and you look to the right and you look
Speaker 3: at the window, and I'm like, yet, I see what
Speaker 3: you're saying. And then I sent him a photo which
Speaker 3: here had already. He already knows what the facade of
Speaker 3: our house. And it looks like I sent him a photo.
Speaker 3: I said, Now, do you see why I didn't move
Speaker 3: that window to the side.
Speaker 6: It just it was.
Speaker 3: Right out the front. It would have looked so stupid
Speaker 3: having that window crammed against the side. If it was
Speaker 3: down the side of a house, well, the viewers don't
Speaker 3: get to see.
Speaker 6: This until week twelve.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I should have Originally we should have just
Speaker 3: had shelving in that far cup and instead of a
Speaker 3: cupboard door.
Speaker 5: Yes, agreed, But that will be the resolution to the issue. Yeah,
Speaker 5: is the door will come off and they will just
Speaker 5: be shelfing. That's it, open shelving.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, that's that's my doing and I take
Speaker 3: responsibility for it.
Speaker 6: And we know the windows will stay.
Speaker 2: Jane, take a photo of this.
Speaker 1: Actually, I've got the audio, so we've got this for
Speaker 1: on record forever.
Speaker 5: The tom is wrong, you wouldn't send that audio to me.
Speaker 5: I would like to listen to it on my deathbed
Speaker 5: as I go.
Speaker 3: The window is not wrong, by the way, the last
Speaker 3: cupboard door should have been shelby.
Speaker 1: How about I rephrase it as this, if we could
Speaker 1: go back in time, would you have left the window.
Speaker 6: There still be there?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 6: In my own home it would still be there.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 6: Up.
Speaker 1: What is your relationship with the judges, Like, do you
Speaker 1: think some of the other contestants have taken you know,
Speaker 1: the commentary to personally.
Speaker 3: We didn't really get to hang out with the judges
Speaker 3: that much because normally we're at Block HQ doing our
Speaker 3: master interviews whenever rooms are getting judged.
Speaker 4: So met that once for like a whole two minutes.
Speaker 4: That's it, the whole, the whole.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then like a couple of small snip but
Speaker 3: never got to spend a day with them or anything. Look,
Speaker 3: I think when you've put your heart in silent your
Speaker 3: room all week, sleepless nights, and normally when we're hearing
Speaker 3: that judging on a Sunday night, that's after coming off
Speaker 3: the back of a night with no sleep. So I mean,
Speaker 3: you get told don't take it personally, but it is
Speaker 3: personal because you personally, you personally.
Speaker 6: Did that room.
Speaker 3: So I mean it's not personal personal, but it's constructive
Speaker 3: criticism and it's easy to get pissed off when you
Speaker 3: hear it.
Speaker 4: But people took it personally sometimes.
Speaker 6: And I think people did take it personally.
Speaker 5: So you just went around that question for like five
Speaker 5: minutes when some people took too personally, I think Anyways, I.
Speaker 6: Don't really think we did. We did.
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about me, I'm we're talking about the others.
Speaker 2: We're talking about said do.
Speaker 3: You think some people took Yeah, yeah they did, But
Speaker 3: I don't see a problem with that, to be honest.
Speaker 5: Like, we get why they would have, but did some
Speaker 5: people take it too personally?
Speaker 4: Yes? Do we see maybe why they would have.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, If you saw these people at the pub,
Speaker 1: would you go up to them and would you just
Speaker 1: be like hey, hey, going or would you be cross
Speaker 1: with them?
Speaker 2: Would you have things that you'd wanted to discuss with them?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: No not no, No, I'd be like, oh my god,
Speaker 5: so glad to meet you, thank you for all the
Speaker 5: nice things you ever said. Like no, I wouldn't like
Speaker 5: absolutely not. They're just doing a job. We're just trying
Speaker 5: to out best.
Speaker 3: It is what it is, and really it was in
Speaker 3: everybody's best interest to take their yeah, crucism, because whenever
Speaker 3: you took their criticism, you were awarded the following week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like it always paid off.
Speaker 1: I think also as well, it would just feel like
Speaker 1: the block experience, Like even if I did something in
Speaker 1: some they'd criticize it really badly. I'd be like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I'm on the block, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like it would be like this surreal moment. It's not like,
Speaker 1: you know, some horrible nobody has just made a comment
Speaker 1: about your walk in wardrobe, Like these people are iconic
Speaker 1: to the block, and that's what you've signed yourself up for.
Speaker 4: Like when I'm put down by I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: it's got pulled down by Shane.
Speaker 5: How amazing is that? Like I need to calm my
Speaker 5: mom and life. That's how I took I. I was just
Speaker 5: so excited that than you my name, so I was like, yeah,
Speaker 5: you traghic girl, talk about me more. We were still
Speaker 5: waking up week ten and looking at each other in
Speaker 5: bed and we're like, we're on the block.
Speaker 6: I never felt like we were on the block.
Speaker 4: What happened? How did we get here?
Speaker 1: You both deserve to be there and the best thing
Speaker 1: about this is no judgment to the rest of the contestants,
Speaker 1: but Australia is falling in love with you guys because
Speaker 1: you are the type of people we love to see
Speaker 1: on the block. You are appreciative of being there and
Speaker 1: this is a real opportunity for your lives to change.
Speaker 6: It was never ever a day.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think Australia's really got to see
Speaker 3: how much we actually work. It seems that there's a
Speaker 3: lot of interviews, a lot of flashbacks, a lot of
Speaker 3: decision making moments, but they don't show how much you
Speaker 3: actually work and a teen now, I've never worked so
Speaker 3: hard in my whole life. For twelve weeks we're doing.
Speaker 4: Tom was doing like twenty hour days, like.
Speaker 3: Twelve weeks straight, and it was doing bin runs through storms.
Speaker 3: Because we didn't get skips in air house. You didn't
Speaker 3: get rubbish bins. Every single bit of rubbish you had
Speaker 3: on your site you had to manually lift, put it
Speaker 3: in the back of the forward ranger and take it
Speaker 3: to the Bingo recycle. And mate will done that at
Speaker 3: two three in the morning. We did use every minute
Speaker 3: like it was their last.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Whatever happens on auction day happens, and it's not because
Speaker 3: of our lack of trying.
Speaker 4: So it'd be so surprised that you talk this much, Tom.
Speaker 6: Like, well, that's because you're not.
Speaker 2: It is. It is a surprise that you are talking
Speaker 2: as much.
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought we would need it, Sarah Sarah,
Speaker 1: Jay and I would need a talking stick.
Speaker 4: Oh Le's say.
Speaker 5: Everyone that knows me knows that I talk a lot,
Speaker 5: but now pretty much hold Australian as I talk a lot.
Speaker 4: I love a loss and I just loved a chat.
Speaker 1: So well, what did you think about, you know, should
Speaker 1: the boys have just come out with exactly what they
Speaker 1: wanted when they had that sort of body corporate first
Speaker 1: body corporate meeting, or do you think that there was
Speaker 1: something dodgy about the way in which they might have
Speaker 1: been wasting people's time.
Speaker 4: I don't think that was.
Speaker 5: The intention, and I genuinely don't think it was the
Speaker 5: intention to like call on a Saturday around the bush.
Speaker 5: I think that it just worked out that wa way.
Speaker 5: I think Dan Foreman Dan wanted to answer it happened
Speaker 5: to be in Saturday. Obviously, Saturdays are so important because
Speaker 5: it's your last twenty four hours until it tools down.
Speaker 5: But we didn't care, Like at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: we looked at Body Corps like if people wanted something.
Speaker 6: They work, didn't care. Nah.
Speaker 5: We were like pretty much nine numbercent always want to
Speaker 5: say yes because if we wanted something down the track,
Speaker 5: we wanted to have them on board too. It was
Speaker 5: a little bit annoying, but it wasn't It wasn't anything Triman.
Speaker 6: No, Yeah, we didn't think it was.
Speaker 4: No, we didn't think it was uncalled for anything.
Speaker 6: Nah.
Speaker 4: We were just sitting there thinking, oh gee, we don't
Speaker 4: want oh.
Speaker 6: Mate, that's why I was just like, conqueror, now you
Speaker 6: can have you concres.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we were like, no concrete in our country home
Speaker 5: like that.
Speaker 4: No, thank you.
Speaker 5: It is always wooden floors. If you want to go
Speaker 5: down that brute, you do it. We're not interested.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: One of the things I love about this show is
Speaker 1: that we all get to feel so included when we're
Speaker 1: watching it. We all think, you know, we're experts at
Speaker 1: home judging everything that you guys are doing. And for
Speaker 1: an example, with you, when you mentioned the autumn leave
Speaker 1: bed sheets, I was like, yes, oh my god, that's nice.
Speaker 1: That's different, that's unusual.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: But then when we saw it, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't think I like those autumn bed sheets. Do
Speaker 1: you think that's the magic at the Block is that
Speaker 1: the audience gets to be judge and jury of what
Speaker 1: you guys are doing.
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think so, because I think when we used to
Speaker 5: watch the Block, like the best part was the judging
Speaker 5: and we would listen, I'm like, oh no, that's she
Speaker 5: has that all wrong. Like, you know, you think you're
Speaker 5: the experts in that.
Speaker 6: Home, and there's no right or wrong.
Speaker 3: Really, it's and everybody's got their own opinion, and I
Speaker 3: don't know. People even like your stuff or they hate it,
Speaker 3: and that's fine. It's I liked every single room we
Speaker 3: did more than every single other room that was done
Speaker 3: on the block because it was it was how we
Speaker 3: wanted to build our hair, so I wouldn't We had
Speaker 3: the opportunity to build however we liked, And if we
Speaker 3: were millionaires and had millions of dollars, how would we
Speaker 3: build a hat? That's how we would have built it.
Speaker 3: So for us, that's what we liked the most. For viewers,
Speaker 3: some don't like it, and that's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Their visions are the same as our, so when they
Speaker 5: see something, they're going to be like, oh no, And
Speaker 5: then sometimes I probably surprise them and be like, oh gee,
Speaker 5: that looks really nice. Other times I'm going to be
Speaker 5: like that is hideous? How did she get that score?
Speaker 4: Or whatever? It's the way it is.
Speaker 6: It's the game. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Has your relationship with the other contestants evolved since you
Speaker 1: first met them?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 6: We're pretty close with House too.
Speaker 5: I speak to Rachel every day. I speak to Jenny
Speaker 5: still a lot. Shuzz and angks. The boys, you know,
Speaker 5: what We all still genuinely speak to each other, and
Speaker 5: after going through such an intense experience like you just have,
Speaker 5: even through the highs and lows, and like I talk
Speaker 5: about some of them on camera, and I'm sure they
Speaker 5: talk shit about us, but you have such an immense
Speaker 5: respect for these people because they survive the same experience
Speaker 5: that you did, and you know how hard it is.
Speaker 5: So I think you're always going to have that bond.
Speaker 5: Obviously you bond more with certain people.
Speaker 4: That's just life. But we have it.
Speaker 5: We all have a block group chat, so we're all
Speaker 5: whatsapped throughout the day pretty much every day.
Speaker 2: And you will see the same theraphy, which helps.
Speaker 5: Yes, we all went to the same doctor and got
Speaker 5: the five free health mental health sessions, so it's great.
Speaker 1: What about getting to know them more as the TV
Speaker 1: show plays out? Has your relationship been impacted by watching
Speaker 1: what's happening on television?
Speaker 4: No, not yet.
Speaker 3: It's interesting to see what It's fun to see what
Speaker 3: happens in the other houses because we're so far apart.
Speaker 3: We didn't know what was happening down in at House three,
Speaker 3: four and five. Sometimes we went days without seeing any
Speaker 3: of them house too, though, Ryan and Rache. We were always,
Speaker 3: you know, somebody needed building materials or someone needed to close.
Speaker 5: We saw them the most, so we developed such a
Speaker 5: close friendship with you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we sort of always knew what was happening
Speaker 6: in their place.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't think any of it changes as a show progresses.
Speaker 5: Have you become closer with certain people, But I don't
Speaker 5: think like occurs with other couples, if that makes sense,
Speaker 5: as as it goes on, like, we're all still pretty chummy.
Speaker 5: I'll just have to see he talks it about me
Speaker 5: and then and then I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 2: Maybe I don't want to know. I'm still friends with
Speaker 2: all of them at this point.
Speaker 1: Do you guys have any bets on who's gonna who
Speaker 1: might come out on top? I mean, the Block's the
Speaker 1: only show where everyone's a winner kind of situation a situation,
Speaker 1: But who do you think is going to come out
Speaker 1: on top? Do you have any idea at this point?
Speaker 6: I think it's I don't. I don't.
Speaker 3: I just hope. I just have hope that we do.
Speaker 3: I don't think. I don't lean towards a certain hat.
Speaker 5: I lean towards two certain houses. I like to think
Speaker 5: that house one will be victorious because.
Speaker 4: Is that the right word victorious?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it. It's a good word for you.
Speaker 5: I like to think that House one is victorious because
Speaker 5: you've got to back yourself. But three is always I've
Speaker 5: always thought was a threat because of the positioning of
Speaker 5: the house. It's got spectacular views, spectacular views, and I
Speaker 5: feel like you just need one buyer to be like
Speaker 5: those those views are everything.
Speaker 6: But that also not appeal to a lot of people
Speaker 6: as well.
Speaker 5: So yeah, well there's those presents with all of that correctly,
Speaker 5: and then house to complete.
Speaker 4: I was like, I kind of looked back and I thought, hmm, okay, bitch,
Speaker 4: I'll see what you did.
Speaker 5: Then that was that was a dub Wall's all right,
Speaker 5: Like hmmm, alright, you've been playing that since week one half.
Speaker 3: I still like Airhouse a million times over everyone else's.
Speaker 3: And I don't know, I think it all just comes
Speaker 3: down to a bar on the two buyers on the
Speaker 3: day fighting over it. So you hear it, these like
Speaker 3: favorites already on sports bet and all that stuff, and
Speaker 3: it's like that means nothing. Honestly, everything comes down.
Speaker 6: To auction day.
Speaker 4: Ideally we all make a shipload of cash. And that's
Speaker 4: the best thing about Block.
Speaker 5: Like you said, it's one show, reality TV show, where
Speaker 5: ever everybody is essentially a winner, like you all walk,
Speaker 5: you all pray that you know, you walk away with
Speaker 5: something more you walked in with.
Speaker 6: You never know.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think in Australia, I think that's why
Speaker 1: the show's rating so highly is because we're desperate to
Speaker 1: watch someone succeeding and it's all happening in front of
Speaker 1: our eyes. So many shows are pre recorded these days
Speaker 1: and you can have them spoiled where not even the producers,
Speaker 1: not even the executives at Channel nine, know what's going
Speaker 1: to happen.
Speaker 2: So we're all on board with the journey.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 5: And it's funny because some people they have never watched
Speaker 5: the Block, but they were just watching because they're our
Speaker 5: friends or family.
Speaker 4: They keep on going like say, do you guys win,
Speaker 4: And I'm like, no, it doesn't look that way. Like
Speaker 4: we're not hiding this secret.
Speaker 5: We're not sitting on half a million dollars like behind
Speaker 5: your back.
Speaker 4: We genuinely have no idea what the reserves are. We
Speaker 4: have no idea what's going to play out on auction.
Speaker 4: We have no idea who's going to win?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 1: That's the best thing about it. You know, everyone who
Speaker 1: joins the podcast gets asked this question, what is something
Speaker 1: from behind the scenes, something that we didn't see that
Speaker 1: we won't see from your time on the Block?
Speaker 5: That's a and I feel like you're going to see
Speaker 5: a lot of me and Tom because.
Speaker 4: I don't know crazy shit.
Speaker 3: I was really impressed with, like how awesome the crew was,
Speaker 3: Like I thought, we're going to meet crew that I
Speaker 3: would hate. There wasn't one sound man or woman, camera
Speaker 3: person or producer that we didn't like. The crew that
Speaker 3: Jules was put together is it's it's amazing. It's literally
Speaker 3: you you literally feel at home from the minute you
Speaker 3: walk in there, like everyone.
Speaker 6: There's your friend. And as wanky as it sounds.
Speaker 4: It's just a vibe.
Speaker 3: Isn't it that those people just become your immediate family,
Speaker 3: that they are who you hang around.
Speaker 6: For the next three months and Australia you won't getting
Speaker 6: see any of that.
Speaker 5: Oh you don't get to see the Block family behind And.
Speaker 6: It does sound wanky, the Block family, but it's a thing.
Speaker 3: And we still keep in touch with a lot of
Speaker 3: the producers and stuff, so that surprised me.
Speaker 6: A lot of.
Speaker 5: Showers porter showers, like you know how like there's a
Speaker 5: port of toilet, there's such thing as porter showers where
Speaker 5: there's and we had to shower in them for the
Speaker 5: first like, oh, I didn't five weeks because even though
Speaker 5: we now we did it in week one, no time
Speaker 5: showered about once week.
Speaker 6: Not even sometimes. I think I went like ten.
Speaker 3: Days, and I know I'm proud of that.
Speaker 5: I had so many bites. But I brought like a
Speaker 5: ten pack of baby wipes with me. But because I
Speaker 5: just had this feeling about showers, I was just like,
Speaker 5: I don't know how this works, So I'm going to
Speaker 5: bring a million baby whips with me.
Speaker 4: And it was the best thing I ever did.
Speaker 5: And so that that you don't get to see people think,
Speaker 5: oh they've got a bathroom. Now they shower in that bathroom,
Speaker 5: but none of it is actually hooked up. So for
Speaker 5: the first like four weeks, you're really showering in a
Speaker 5: port shower.
Speaker 4: I don't It was mind blaming to me.
Speaker 6: I think so far from what I've watched, it hasn't.
Speaker 4: Showed the horrificness of the caravan.
Speaker 6: Oh no, not that.
Speaker 3: I mean the weather was pretty tough, and the weather
Speaker 3: was full on. It was like that. We had days
Speaker 3: that it was like chill. Fuck, it was like past
Speaker 3: minus six and and.
Speaker 4: It rains like thirty six days in a row.
Speaker 6: Streight. Yeah, I don't think. I don't know.
Speaker 3: That was buddy tough. As fun as it was, it
Speaker 3: was still very tough. I don't think people sitting at
Speaker 3: home will ever understand and never ever understand.
Speaker 5: How to get out of a shower and take two
Speaker 5: steps to your bedroom and somehow a toe would get
Speaker 5: mud on it, a suck would get mud on.
Speaker 4: It, like York jama pants.
Speaker 6: It was just like, yeah, like it's all right.
Speaker 3: Trying to build in that because at the end of
Speaker 3: your day at work, you go home, you have a sharing,
Speaker 3: you sit on the couch.
Speaker 6: For us, we.
Speaker 3: Were there living and breathing it, you know, days not sharing.
Speaker 6: That was my choice. I was about to say, but
Speaker 6: you know, you're still sleeping in the cold too.
Speaker 4: You don't have no heating, so you've got a bed.
Speaker 3: But I think, yeah, there were For me, from what
Speaker 3: I could think of that it was those two things
Speaker 3: that I think Australia won't get to see.
Speaker 1: I went there for one day and I had a
Speaker 1: pair of boots that were never the same that the
Speaker 1: boots had to be thrown and away, and they were
Speaker 1: good boots.
Speaker 2: The people the.
Speaker 1: Crew were like just looking at me, like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: everyone else has dealt with much work.
Speaker 6: When you were there, that was a good day. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that was a very good day.
Speaker 2: It was fucking awful about.
Speaker 5: Somewhere you feeling warm in the house like that was
Speaker 5: a good day.
Speaker 1: Well, as a bit of a tease, guys, your house
Speaker 1: was phenomenal and so I think Australia is going to
Speaker 1: go on a really great journey to see what happens.
Speaker 2: So excited that I got to have this chat with you.
Speaker 4: Normal is I'll speak for itself. I'm fabulous that laughs.
Speaker 2: Sorry, it's so good. No, that's the iconic laugh. That's
Speaker 2: what we want