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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to Outspoken Plus. It's your extra dose

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Speaker 1: of the hottest influencer and pop culture news. I'm Amy

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Speaker 1: Torber and coming up on today's show, Laura Henshaw doesn't

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Speaker 1: want you to know she's selling her home and Kick

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Speaker 1: Studio membership prices are unveiled. But first, Laura Byrne and

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Speaker 1: Maddie Jay have divided their audience after announcing their beach

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Speaker 1: house is available to rent for holidays. In a post

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Speaker 1: shed on their Beach Homes Instagram account, they wrote, this

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Speaker 1: year with Poppy hating the car and life pulling us north.

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Speaker 1: We haven't been able to give her the time she deserves,

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Speaker 1: and it felt wrong for her to sit empty waiting,

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Speaker 1: so we've decided to share her magic now. The couple

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Speaker 1: purchased the Alla Dulla home in twenty twenty four and

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Speaker 1: spent a year restoring it into.

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Speaker 2: A luxury escape.

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Speaker 1: They of course documented the process on the home's Instagram account,

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Speaker 1: and people absolutely fell in love with the renovations.

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Speaker 2: It is an absolutely stunning home.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's a pretty big house, so on the listing,

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Speaker 1: it said it can accommodate up to ten guests in

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Speaker 1: its four bedrooms. It's also got two bathrooms and the

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Speaker 1: most amazing waterfront view. The view is definitely the draw card.

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Speaker 1: But what everyone is focusing on is the cost per night.

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Speaker 1: So in order to stay at Laura and Maddie Jay's house,

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Speaker 1: you have to pay either one one hundred dollars a

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Speaker 1: night and that is in the non peak period, or

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Speaker 1: sixteen hundred dollars a night during school holidays. What do

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Speaker 1: you think, Amy, It's pretty pricey, but then again they

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Speaker 1: probably can demand that price because of the fact that

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Speaker 1: they've got an Instagram account for it. There's you know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of demand for these influencers homes. People want

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Speaker 1: to stay in Maddie Jay and Laura's house. I personally

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Speaker 1: wouldn't pay that much. I mean, we went to Middleton

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Speaker 1: recently and we paid the same price of one night

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Speaker 1: for about a whole week's stay. So it depends what

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Speaker 1: your budget is. I don't know if I'd be paying it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I personally couldn't afford it, But I don't

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Speaker 1: think it is so out of this world compared to

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Speaker 1: other homes on the coast and New South Wales, particularly

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Speaker 1: homes that are newly renovated. And I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: their argument was well, if you divide it by ten,

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Speaker 1: that's one hundred and fifty dollars per night, per person.

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Speaker 1: But I suppose when you think about Maddie Jay and

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Speaker 1: Laura's audience, it's young families who were going, oh okay,

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Speaker 1: it might stay down like they do and think, oh,

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Speaker 1: hang on, oney, one hundred dollars divided by two because

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Speaker 1: you know your kids aren't chipping in for their night's day,

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Speaker 1: that's a lot of money. I mean, I saw someone wrote, well,

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Speaker 1: I did the math, and if we wanted to stay

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Speaker 1: there for a week, it was going to be seven

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Speaker 1: seven hundred dollars, Like wouldn't.

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Speaker 2: You go to Bilin?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe they've made it so high because they only

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Speaker 1: want and this sounds terrible, but a certain caliber of

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Speaker 1: person staying there because the fact that.

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Speaker 2: They you don't want schoolies there tell.

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Speaker 1: You yeah exactly. And the fact that they both have

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Speaker 1: these huge profiles and they've probably got all of their

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Speaker 1: belongings there and stuff. Maybe they're like, fuck this, if

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Speaker 1: we're going to rent it out, we're going to make

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Speaker 1: a pretty penny from it.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like a complete headfuck for me.

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Speaker 1: I would be so worried if I was them that

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Speaker 1: they'd leave something in, you know, the bathroom. That was

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Speaker 1: embarrassing because I mean if it was me staying there,

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Speaker 1: I'd probably like have a little poke around. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: now they're renting it out, they probably clear everything out.

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Speaker 1: I wonder is it actually just four bedrooms or are

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Speaker 1: there five bedrooms? Because at this place we stayed out

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Speaker 1: in Middleton, they had a locked room and I was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: we're all debating do they keep spare mattresses in there?

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Speaker 1: Like do they switch out the mattresses or what is

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Speaker 1: actually in that room because you would think, oh, maybe

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Speaker 1: it's the master bedroom, but no, the master bedroom was

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Speaker 1: upstairs with it on suite. This was just another tact

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Speaker 2: Well, it was pretty scary.

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Speaker 1: So when I stayed in this airbnb two years ago

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Speaker 1: when we were in Melbourne for the Australian Open, and

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Speaker 1: it was advertised as a one bedroom apartment but it

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Speaker 1: actually had two. The second bedroom was just locked up.

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Speaker 1: But what freaked us out is we went out one

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Speaker 1: swear someone had opened the window. So we were half

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Speaker 1: thinking if someone sleeping in that room. We ended up

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Speaker 1: actually barricading our door because we weren't sure what it

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Speaker 2: It was actually terrifying.

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Speaker 1: Well I don't like that at all. Did you click

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Speaker 1: entire though when you booked it?

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Speaker 1: It's not like it was a situation where you accidentally

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Speaker 1: book and then realize that you only have one room.

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Speaker 1: In terms of Laura and Maddie Jay's Airbnb, they've actually

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Speaker 1: created a whole website for the house and they've put

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Speaker 1: the floor plan on it, and from what I can see,

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Speaker 1: there's no fifth bedroom. So maybe they've got a seller

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Speaker 1: under the house that they're hiding. They are pretty open

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Speaker 1: on their podcast. I don't think much would actually embarrass

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Speaker 1: them now. They are also renting their home out for

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Speaker 1: photo shoots, which seems to be the done thing in

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Speaker 1: the influencer space at the moment. Sarah's Day, who is

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Speaker 1: yet to actually redesign her beach house, said that once

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Speaker 1: it's done, they will be renting it out for photo shoots,

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Speaker 1: and earlier this month, Georgie Stevenson faced backlash from her

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Speaker 1: followers when she revealed that she actually rents out her

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Speaker 1: family home for photo shoots, so she lives in a

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Speaker 1: six point five million dollar mansion that she bought last year.

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Speaker 1: The house has a name, of course, because all mansions do.

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Speaker 1: It's called Palm Hill. A lot of other houses do.

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Speaker 1: Don't have to vomit, I know they can, But in

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Speaker 1: terms of percentages, you would say a higher number of

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Speaker 1: houses that are mansions would have names over just your

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Speaker 1: humble abode. Do you ever back in the day when

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Speaker 1: you used to say mansion, a mansion was a house

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Speaker 1: that cost a million dollars. Now I'm only talking from

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Speaker 1: a perspective adelaide that's nearly like the median house price.

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Speaker 1: Like that will get you a pretty standard home now, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: definitely not a six point five million dollars in mansion

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Speaker 1: with a name. Yeah, Georgie Stephenson's home is a legitimate mansion,

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Speaker 1: and that's why people want to book it out. The

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Speaker 1: is that she has to take her toddler and her

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Speaker 1: in order for people to use it for photo shoots,

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Speaker 1: so clearly the money must be worth it. They charge

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Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy five dollars per hour, and they

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Speaker 1: But this is how the rich stay rich. They have

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Speaker 1: all of these different revenue streams coming in because people

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Speaker 1: would go way to sex. She's already got millions of dollars.

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Speaker 1: Why does she need three hundred seventy five per hour?

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Speaker 1: But she's smart, like they constantly have money rolling in,

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Speaker 1: like I would do it if I was in her position.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that's exactly the feedback she got.

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Speaker 1: One follower wrote, don't you already have enough money, while

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Speaker 1: another commented it sounded very inconvenient for a young family. Now.

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Speaker 1: Georgia hit back, saying that a one day photo shoot

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Speaker 1: can cover their entire mortgage for the week.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it even covers the.

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Speaker 1: Mortgages of all four of their properties for the week.

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Speaker 1: What a flex. It's like, hang on, hold my beer.

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Speaker 1: I know what I'm doing with money. I've got full properties.

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Speaker 1: She also wanted to say it was an incredible income

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Speaker 1: stream and helped with her aim to retire by the

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Speaker 1: age of forty. I saw this pop up on news

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Speaker 1: dot com dot au and the headline was very misleading.

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Speaker 1: It was like, this is what this one influencer does

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Speaker 1: she was an OnlyFans, and of course the comment section

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Speaker 1: of all the Burgers was like aw, that's deplorable and everything.

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, it's rent to go

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Speaker 1: house out, like fucking click on the article. Let's be honest, though,

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Speaker 1: in the current finance climate that we're in, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we've just had another rate rise, I would say not

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Speaker 1: many people are feeling that thrilled for these influences that

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Speaker 1: have these extra revenue streams coming through when they're already loaded,

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Speaker 1: Like it is hard to be happy for them when

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Speaker 1: you're like, oh god, like I wouldn't even be able

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Speaker 1: to have a beach house, let alone rent your beach

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Speaker 1: house out for a night or for a photo shop.

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Speaker 1: I get all of that, but I actually think a

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Speaker 1: lot of the genuine concern came from mothers that were like,

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Speaker 1: fucking hell, imagine just having to take your baby out

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Speaker 1: of the house. And I have felt that today because

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Speaker 1: we're having renovations currently and we had very noisy builders

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Speaker 1: and Dad's house and it's a fucking nightmare. So I

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Speaker 1: get it. They're like, really, you're worth that much, why

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Speaker 1: would you even bother like that just sounds like such

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Speaker 1: an inconvenience. I don't actually think it's coming from a

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Speaker 1: of like I honestly couldn't be bothered. I mean, I'd

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Speaker 1: Jay and Laura Burn is just on average. I know

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Speaker 1: there are peak times where they charge more for the house,

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Speaker 1: they have the potential to make three hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: of money. Laura Henshaw is selling her home, except she'd

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Speaker 1: prefer you not to know. The Kick founder and her

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Speaker 1: entrepreneur husband privately listed their home through White Fox Real Estate. However,

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Speaker 1: the famous owners. Yeah, so on Thursday, real estate dot

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Speaker 1: the renovator mansion listed by White Fox was owned by

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Speaker 1: Laura and Dalton Henshaw. Now, for privacy reasons, we won't

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Speaker 1: be discussing the home's location, as the couple may still

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Speaker 1: Dalton purchased the home in July twenty twenty one for

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Speaker 1: four point four million dollars after undergoing ex extensive renovations,

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Speaker 1: they're now asking for more than double what they paid,

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Speaker 1: with the home listed for nine million dollars. When I

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Speaker 1: I thought that Laura and Dalton were keen to be

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Speaker 1: a part of the story. But when you delve a

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Speaker 1: their names being out there. Because when real estate dot

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Speaker 1: real Estate, Lana Samuels, she declined to comment on who

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Speaker 1: the owners of the property actually were. I'm predicting that

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Speaker 1: Laura Henshaw, in a similar vein to Steph Lesmith, will

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Speaker 1: release a podcast episode complaining that this private information got

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Speaker 1: out there. Now, in terms of the home, it's very unique,

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Speaker 1: so it still has the facade of the original heritage home,

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Speaker 1: but then has this massive cathedral style extension on the back. Now,

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Speaker 1: the open plant living area is definitely the big selling point.

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Speaker 1: It's got these beautiful floor to ceiling glass overlooks a

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Speaker 2: I felt like the home was very Laura Henshaw.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it's a beautiful home. I can kind of though

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Speaker 1: So they've unveiled foundation membership packages now according to the

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Speaker 1: So a three month minimum Foundation membership costs sixty nine

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Speaker 1: This pass was recorded on the traditional land of the

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