WEBVTT - TOM & SARAH JANE WON'T DO THEIR BLOCK OVER YOUR COMMENTS! 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:01.720 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:05.080 TV Reload the podcast last week they right welcome back 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:08.160 guys to TV Reload. My name's Benjamin Norris and on 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:11.000 this podcast I go behind the scenes with the biggest 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:14.560 players in television. Each episode you will get a front 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:19.280 row seat with content makers like executive producers, writers, editors 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.360 and casting agents, plus the talent that we see on 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.960 our screens. TV Reload reloads the shows that you are 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:28.840 currently watching and gives you a better insight into our 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:31.600 television industry and our streaming services. 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:32.159 Today. 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.599 On the podcast, I have two of this year's biggest 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:38.280 personalities on Australian screens. It is Tom and Sarah Jane 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.400 from Channel nine's The Block. This year, The Block has 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:43.960 had a tree change and taken on a challenge that 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.960 would and should normally send anyone a little crazy. With 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:51.360 five houses situated on ten acres of land each and 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:55.320 weather conditions harsher than any season before, it's no wonder 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.600 the ratings for The Block have smashed expectations of TV 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:02.440 critics right across Australia. One of the most important parts 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.440 in making a show like The Block successful is getting 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.679 the casting right. So when Tom and Sarah Jane applied 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.199 for the twenty twenty two series. It's no surprise producers 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.679 were quick to snap up these two Victorians from Gladstone Park. 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.840 The two have a different love language to any other 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:22.320 contestant this year or probably ever seen on the show before, 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:26.720 and while Australian audiences are certainly polarized by the married 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:31.200 couple's ability to navigate the competition, I think their honesty 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:34.520 with each other is quite entertaining and quite realistic of 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:39.240 how most couples reach resolution in conflict. We will discuss 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.480 what they think of their fiery relationship at times, what 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:45.959 they think of audience's opinions, if their relationship with the 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.240 other houses has evolved, and who they think will come 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.400 out with the most amount of cash. 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:53.560 However, let's get started with today's guest. 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.680 I'd like to welcome Tom and Sarah Jane from the 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:58.919 Block to TV reload. 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.000 For me personally, when I was there, I never thought 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:04.440 about the whole TV side of it. 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:08.920 Meet Tom and Sarah Jane. They come to us from Melbourne, 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:10.560 Gladston Park. 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.720 To be exact, we're normal people, we argue and we're 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.079 going on a TV show, so I hide it. 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.639 Tom as a plumber with over seventeen years worth of experience. 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.000 That's just how we palk to each other in high 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.760 pressure situations, which you know can be confronting for some people. 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.560 Sarah Jane is a social worker. They're married and have 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:32.120 an eleven month old daughter. 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.160 I kind of looked back and I thought, hmmm, I 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:36.600 care bitch, I'll see what you did. 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:36.839 Then. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.000 These two are huge fans of the Block and have 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:41.600 watched every season. 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:45.040 We have no idea what's going to play out on auction. 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:46.520 We have no idea who's going to wear. 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:50.400 Hey, Tom and Sarah Jane, how are you both? Hello? 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.080 We're very well, thank you. 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.520 How long had you both been trying to get onto 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:54.959 this show? 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:55.600 Oh? 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.000 Whether we only tried the once. This is our first 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:02.040 time applying. And I think they just saw the crazy 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:03.080 and was like, yeah, cool on. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:05.880 I heard a story that maybe you guys had been 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.760 wanting to do like a tree change, and so the 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:10.640 fact that you guys had been wanting to do a 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.680 tree change that sort of fitted with what the theme 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:13.600 of the show was going to be. 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:14.760 Is there any truth in that? 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:15.600 Yeah? 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.960 I mean, we love the country, got a little place 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.200 up in the country and it's always been a dream 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.120 for us to have some land and move up to 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.800 the country. And prior to COVID, we Dinard and really 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.359 started looking into moving up to Gisburn a fel my 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.720 mate have made the change up there, but it was afforded. 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:34.680 It was an affordable it was. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.960 So much more affordable. I mean, you know, thanks to COVID. 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.320 It's just fuck the whole world. So when the block 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:41.760 popped up, we just thought. 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.320 Well, as soon as we heard that was I'm a 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:46.440 Sunbury girl, so it's only ten minutes down the road 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:47.920 from where I grew up. When we had it, was 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.560 engivesmen like, that's it, we're doing it. Well, I was like, 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:52.080 I'm applying and you're coming. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.760 You know, that's a common thing with couples who want 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:57.800 to do the block. There's usually one that really wants 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.840 to do it, and so it's it's not that usually 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.160 get two people just as passionate, but watching the show 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:04.880 seems like you're both pretty cool to be there, right. 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.000 I don't know, I never really that. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:10.360 I've always watched the block, but watching it on TV, 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.520 I just thought, oh, there's no way I'd go there 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:14.839 and have fun working in those conditions. 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.200 But so you ended up loving it more than I only. 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.240 I loved it more than everybody there. It was awesome. 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.960 I love watching when you go and go and talk 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:23.960 to everyone else that you're like, all right, I'm just 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:25.839 going to go chat to every other people and enjoy 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.240 myself from being there on the day when I met you. 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:28.599 Both. 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.160 You are exactly who you are in real life as 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:32.080 you are on television. 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:33.479 There's no blurred lines. 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.480 Nah, We've been getting told that a lot, and it's 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.720 the only right way to go on TV. I reckon, 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.520 You've got nothing hard and nothing to be disappointed about 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:42.160 with the edit. 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:46.320 So yeah, yourself, and you can't look like an idiot exactly. Well, 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:48.560 you still can look like an idio you're. 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.880 Still, but only be yourself. 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.680 And even our family were like, you guys are exactly 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:56.040 the same, and I'm like. 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:57.640 Yeah, like, well wouldn't you be? 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.360 You know, it is what it is like. We can't 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:01.560 change our personalities. 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.480 People try to, though, you know, with reality television you 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:06.760 see it all the time. People try, but these shows 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.320 a films so long that they come undone. You know, 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.680 you can't pretend to be someone you're not for a 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:13.640 very long time. You might as well, just gone in 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:15.240 there and be Watson all yourself. 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.960 Right, Yeah under high precious situations are going to let 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.479 you see some people in their worse and your true 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.480 colors are going to shine sooner or later, so you 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:24.440 best be yourself. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:25.560 Yeah, totally. 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.080 And Sarah Jane, I need to ask you this, Do 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:31.920 you need a strong relationship to be able to survive 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:32.680 a show like this? 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:34.960 I think so definitely. I think you need to have 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:38.000 a strong relationship. I think you need to understand each 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.520 other on all levels. I think you need to have 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:44.240 been in testing situations before, because if you haven't, and 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.160 then you're going to go on the block twelve weeks 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:50.000 in those conditions and the stress, I mean, you will 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.880 come out and you'll want a divorce. I mean we 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.800 renovated our our own home together and he's been living 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:57.000 with me for eight years. If he was going to 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.320 leave me, he would have left me seven half years ago. 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.039 You know. Start, I just can't be bother packing. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.160 Yeah, it's really lazy, It's great. 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:07.919 A lot of shit to pack. 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.680 How have you both been coping watching the show? I mean, 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:12.680 have you been enjoying what you get back? Do you 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.880 sit back and have a laugh, or do you cringe? 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:16.040 I mean, what are the emotions. 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:20.039 We sit back, we watch it religiously every night, and 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.200 it's actually really fun to watch because I mean, look 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.760 for me personally, when I was there, I never thought 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:27.200 about the whole TV side of it. 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:27.960 I just for me. 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:29.520 I just felt like I was on a work side 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:33.040 every day. So you carrying on as you normally do, 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:35.479 but the camera gets to capture all that and seeing 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.120 it all come to get it on TV, you get 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:41.000 to reminded of little snippets, Yeah that happened, and you're like. 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:44.080 Oh, that's that's funny actually, and it's been good, good 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:44.440 to watch. 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.880 Haven't had any cringe. 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.120 I cringed slightly when I told Tom I was kind 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.240 of punching in the face the other night. But I 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.520 mean Tom knows that I'm actually going to punch him 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.599 in the face, and he knows that. 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:57.839 You know, that's just how we pork to each. 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.960 Other in high pressure situations, which you know, can become 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:00.760 hunting for some. 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.440 People, because you know, not everyone likes to have their 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:04.240 fights out there. 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:06.360 Who put that there? 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.240 I'm done, Tom, I will literally punch you in the face. 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:11.640 Get out of my. 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.720 Way, Tome, watch you don't trip again. 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.320 Besides that, I'm like, oh, well shit, that's just me, 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.640 Like I mean, take it or leave it, And you know, 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.840 if you want to leave it, just change the channel 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:26.320 come back in an hour and a half. 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.360 You kind of talked about the bickering between the two 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.160 of you as a bit of a love language. 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:30.920 Is that what it is? 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:31.840 Yeah? I guess so. 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:35.080 Yeah, we bicker and it's us sort of taking the 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:36.760 piss out of each other having a laugh. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.240 But we don't. I don't know. Some people look at 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.800 it and go, oh my god, they're just toxic. They're 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:42.560 blah blah blah. 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.320 But I don't think it's anything but toxic. We're just 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.640 real normal people. I mean, how many couples have been 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:50.760 on the show, you know, husband and wives that have 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.520 been on the show over the last eighteen seasons and 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.360 they just try to hide it like we're normal people. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.240 We argue and we're going on a TV show, so 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.160 I hide it. I thought we signed up for yourself. 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:04.560 Our fights are just like that, Like we don't ever 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:05.880 fight with love and respect. 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:11.680 Like unfortunately the fight mate, Like how do you if 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:15.720 you're not having a proper fight, your makeup sets like 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:17.720 it's been nice to me. 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.840 Love the bickering, I really do, because it makes you, 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.920 guys real. Do you think that bickering is a normal 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:25.640 part of a functioning relationship. 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:26.680 Yeah, totally. 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:29.640 And you know what, we pick up for five minutes 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.440 and then we're done. We're over it, Like we just 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.120 let our feeling out right there and then and. 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:35.520 Then we go again five minutes later. 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:40.079 You got to keep it exciting. 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.240 Did you discuss limitations between the two of you or 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.280 did you just agree to be what's in all, just 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:47.400 exactly who you are. 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:48.400 I mean, I don't know. 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.040 I sometimes feel like you might have needed a safe 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:52.199 word between the two of you. 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.839 We've got we're potty mouse, and I'm pretty sure we 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:55.360 got it. 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:55.840 We did. 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:59.720 We got awarded the biggest body mouse in block history, 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.640 So I mean, we do swear a lot, and we 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.559 did get asked to sort of try and curve out 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.600 a bit. But we didn't discuss limitations with each other. 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.439 But I reckon a couple of funny things might have 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:12.480 got cut out because it was probably just going to 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:16.000 be too much beeping in him. But we probably should 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.920 have spoke about swearing his limitations because we do swear 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:19.240 a lot. 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.000 We're just we've probably come across the world. 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:22.559 I love that. 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:24.480 And the safe work would be a swear word, right, 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:31.240 the safe work would be fuck or if you. 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:30.120 All shut the fuck up. 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:34.240 There, Jane. 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.760 I can't stop laughing at the way in which you 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.760 over dramatize things where you say I'm dying when you're 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:44.200 not dying or dead dead and that phone call where 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.400 you're just like on the phone and all you're saying 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:47.559 is dead, I'm dead. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:54.760 I'm dead, Sarah Jane calls Rachel to me. The pain job, the. 0:09:54.800 --> 0:10:00.319 Downlight's not one up, the weird the ceiling rows, I'm dead. Yeah, Yeah, 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:05.160 I'm dead. I'm sure that's that's that's a last place. 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.640 That's the last place for what I've been. I just 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:09.040 can't even kind of a comprehension. 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:17.640 Yeah, absolutely definite, hundred bad love you, lady. 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:17.960 Bye. 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.040 And you know what it's like, I mean, I know 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:26.400 that my voice is already killing people, Like that's one 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.400 thing that I've heard a lot of, like, oh my. 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:29.120 God, her voice. 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.880 But get used to that because it's like I've got 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.480 to speak, and all I say is you'll hear it dead, dead, dying, 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:41.040 hungy you like, And then and you'll hear a lot 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:42.120 of love that for you. 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:43.280 Love that for you. 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.280 Sometimes when you're talking and I'm a fast talk or 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.280 when I'm doing a podcast to slow it all down, 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.839 so I speak fast and I hear fast. But there's 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:52.720 been a couple of times where I have to rewind 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.200 it back to listen to what you've said again. And 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.960 it's very well put together, like you're you know exactly 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.079 what you're saying. It's just moving so fast that the 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.280 normal human brain can't compute it. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:02.680 Yeah. 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:06.480 I just that's because I was brought up on Gilmore Girls, 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:10.280 and Gilmore Girls was my sole TV show, and they 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.480 talked so quickly to each other, So I just conversed 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.400 with Gilmogl's my whole life, and that's why I speak 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:15.880 really quickly. 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.000 Yeah, that's just put so many pieces together for me. 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.520 You are the lourel I, but you're like both laurel 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:22.120 Ees together. 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:23.559 Yeah, I'm Lorelei and Rory. 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:23.880 Yeah. 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.400 If I could have called my daughter Sarah Jane after myself, 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:26.920 I would. 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:27.120 Have as well. 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:31.040 But I don't even know who that is. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.160 Oh, it pains me when you say that. Please don't 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:34.720 talk about Gem Girls with such disrespect. 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:36.560 Best that you don't the best, that you don't know 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.520 who that is. I don't think it's your cup of tea, Tom, 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:42.000 But talking to you about things that are happening online, 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:43.760 what do you think of all the audience making the 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:45.400 Shannon Nole references? 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.160 Do you have you been told you look like before? 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:49.480 Yeah? 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.679 I've been told I look like Shannon for years. 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.080 I don't see it. Maybe I need like a little 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:54.880 Godie funny. 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:59.319 He's been told Shannon, Noel and God. He's got in 0:11:59.360 --> 0:11:59.880 both of it. 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:01.200 I don't know how you get both. 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.160 So he's like a little Australian or hybrid. 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.920 Probably when I had he probably could have said Anthony 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:07.520 Khalia too. 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.600 Yes, and they ever want the same surname. 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:10.840 No, it's similar. 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.440 I just think it's hilarious because people keep talking about it, 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.640 and then on another channel at the same time, people 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:17.440 are trying to guess who these masks are on the 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:21.000 mask singer and I think Channon is the blowfly, and 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.839 so there's all these tweets and then people are getting 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.439 confused and they're calling you a blowfly, and I'm like. 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.600 Guys, you know, stick to the stick to the one network. 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:32.520 It's just it's actually Tom under there. 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:37.200 Nah, mate, I've been told for years I look like Shannon. No, 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.280 I don't see it all. 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.079 I'm a lot sh a well. 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.520 A big question in this series of the block is 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:48.400 what is country? Which appears to be interpreted very differently 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.920 with each house. But what does country mean to you? 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:52.920 If you have to put it into words. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:53.199 I don't know. 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.480 You walk into an old country home, like say from 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.720 the fifties, what do you see? I think you see paneling, 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:04.920 you see heritage corners, You'll see stealing roses. Wherever there's 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:09.439 a pendent light. You'll see big skirting boards, big architravees. 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.959 Hugs you like like I have a warmth yeah. 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:19.360 Like deep colors, cottage hugs you I think like farmhousey. 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:22.680 Warm colors, nothing sterile. You don't go into country homes 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.280 they're all white. You go into old So you go 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.640 into an old mansion, they're all like bold colors. You know, 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:33.760 marone walls, purple. I'm not purple maron carpet. 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.760 A lot of inspiration from like old pubs too, like 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:42.199 country pubs with those deep greens and reds, and so 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.920 I have a lot of deep colors. And that's I 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.640 took that from, like Country pubs, And what about. 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.200 The kingsman robe and the window position, which was a 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:51.640 major pain in both of your bums. 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:53.840 Did we work out who was to blame for that? 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:54.280 Yeah? 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:56.240 It was I don't see a problem. 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.280 The only thing that I stuffed up was the ward 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.679 at the Kings and wardrobes there probably which. 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:05.800 Something. But you're admitting that you're actually wrong. 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:07.559 The windows in the right spot. 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:13.160 Dish modifucker? Can I just can't, Mama. 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.520 Tonight, I was chatting a Darren Palma and because he 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.640 posted something about our room and the nice colors, and 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:21.640 you walk in and blah blah blah, and you turn 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:23.160 around and you look to the right and you look 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.320 at the window, and I'm like, yet, I see what 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.560 you're saying. And then I sent him a photo which 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:29.800 here had already. He already knows what the facade of 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.200 our house. And it looks like I sent him a photo. 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.080 I said, Now, do you see why I didn't move 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:35.200 that window to the side. 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:36.480 It just it was. 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.520 Right out the front. It would have looked so stupid 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:43.200 having that window crammed against the side. If it was 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.360 down the side of a house, well, the viewers don't 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:46.120 get to see. 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:47.400 This until week twelve. 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.200 But yeah, I should have Originally we should have just 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.680 had shelving in that far cup and instead of a 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:55.320 cupboard door. 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:59.720 Yes, agreed, But that will be the resolution to the issue. Yeah, 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:01.920 is the door will come off and they will just 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:03.840 be shelfing. That's it, open shelving. 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.840 Yeah, but yeah, that's that's my doing and I take 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:08.400 responsibility for it. 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.880 And we know the windows will stay. 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:12.800 Jane, take a photo of this. 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.040 Actually, I've got the audio, so we've got this for 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:16.640 on record forever. 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.480 The tom is wrong, you wouldn't send that audio to me. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:21.960 I would like to listen to it on my deathbed 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:22.320 as I go. 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:26.040 The window is not wrong, by the way, the last 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:27.480 cupboard door should have been shelby. 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:29.560 How about I rephrase it as this, if we could 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.440 go back in time, would you have left the window. 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.360 There still be there? 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:34.840 Okay? 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:36.600 In my own home it would still be there. 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:37.000 Okay. 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:37.680 Up. 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.040 What is your relationship with the judges, Like, do you 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:44.000 think some of the other contestants have taken you know, 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:45.440 the commentary to personally. 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.680 We didn't really get to hang out with the judges 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.800 that much because normally we're at Block HQ doing our 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.240 master interviews whenever rooms are getting judged. 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.800 So met that once for like a whole two minutes. 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:57.880 That's it, the whole, the whole. 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.280 Yeah, and then like a couple of small snip but 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.120 never got to spend a day with them or anything. Look, 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.520 I think when you've put your heart in silent your 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:09.480 room all week, sleepless nights, and normally when we're hearing 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:13.040 that judging on a Sunday night, that's after coming off 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.840 the back of a night with no sleep. So I mean, 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.560 you get told don't take it personally, but it is 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.760 personal because you personally, you personally. 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:22.920 Did that room. 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:28.200 So I mean it's not personal personal, but it's constructive 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.960 criticism and it's easy to get pissed off when you 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:31.320 hear it. 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.160 But people took it personally sometimes. 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:34.640 And I think people did take it personally. 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.000 So you just went around that question for like five 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.840 minutes when some people took too personally, I think Anyways, I. 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:42.600 Don't really think we did. We did. 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.520