WEBVTT - KIRSTY AND JESSE LOOK BACK ON THE BLOCK 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:01.720 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:03.640 TV Reload the podcast last week. 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:08.000 Am I how would I describe a television set, oh Man. 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.640 From a headline grabbing point of view, the hack producer 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:13.720 me says one hundred percent put him in. 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.400 Welcome back guys to TV Reload. My name's Benjamin Norris 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.079 and on this podcast I go behind the scenes with 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:22.720 the biggest players in television. 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:23.919 Yeah, great questions. 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:26.279 The show's about the game. 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Today. 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:03.920 On the podcast, I have Kirsty and Jesse, who have 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.440 proven to be a strong competitor on this year's massively 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:11.400 successful season of The Block. Fans versus Favorites. Channel nine 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.560 has served up a showdown of epic proportions in twenty 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:19.240 twenty one. As Australia's most successful renovations reality program, The 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:23.119 Block grew the ratings to epic proportions and no one 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.319 will be forgetting today's guests in a hurry together. Since 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.560 they were sixteen and married for seven years, Kirsty and 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.640 Jesse are a rock solid couple. Whatever they do, they 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.480 give one hundred percent and being on the Block was 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:39.200 no different. Coming from humble beginnings, they saw the competition 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.319 as a huge opportunity to get ahead in life and 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.600 very soon we will see them go to auction. Today 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.720 we'll talk about their time on the show, their relationships 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:52.520 with the other houses, and is Jesse a gay porn 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:56.200 star from McDonald's diets to their thoughts on the negative 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.120 comments online. We will get a front seat to the 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:03.440 final fullhouse reveal this Sunday. However, let's get started with 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.760 today's episode. I'd like to welcome Kirsty and Jesse from 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.240 the Block to this week's TV reload. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.239 Honestly, I do feel sorry for Tenure Better because the 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.640 amount of hate they've copped online is just out of 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:15.120 this world. 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:16.760 After twelve weeks of building the. 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.280 Block block, they've already admitted they were just scared of 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:23.000 getting kicked off the show using two thousand liters of paint. 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.880 The headline makes it out like Jesse's been on gay 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:27.560 porn sites. 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:31.560 Our blockads A completed a whopping eighty eight crews. 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:33.920 It took a while for me to get comfortable in 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:34.639 front of a camera. 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.240 It all comes down to this, the last week on 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:40.919 the Block twenty twenty one. One thing that we knew 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.280 if we could get on it would literally change our lives. 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:47.040 Hey, guys, how are you going good? Doing really well? 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.840 And I have to start by saying congratulations on your 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.480 house this season, I mean leading up to the final reveal. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:54.760 Are you proud of what you've been able to achieve 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:55.120 so far? 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.359 We are so so proud. We're actually in the blockhouse 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.200 right now, gearing up waiting for auctions, and we just 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.760 look around and we go, wow, this is amazing, Like 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:07.160 we just literally cannot believe from where we've come from. 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.360 What we've been especially in twelve weeks, you know, and 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.480 a house this flash. We'd never even been in anything 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:15.280 this fancy, you know, so too. 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:17.800 Like we literally shopped that came up before the block. 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.600 That's it. Yeah, so yeah, we see super proud mate. 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:24.040 I think it's really interesting with there being favorites coming back, 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.120 you know, people that are already established, it seems like, oh, 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.880 you gravitate towards them to start with. But you guys 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.079 with a sort of slow and steady race that came 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.720 up and now everyone's talking about you. Is that kind 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.640 of how you felt as well, like that you just 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:39.040 were sort of slowly creeping up. 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.600 Yeah. Well, I kept saying, you know, in those first 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:43.960 original weeks when we were doing like a guest bedroom, 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:45.600 I was like, I'm not going to waste my best 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:47.880 ideas on a guest bedroom, and I'm not going to 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:48.920 waste all our budget. 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.320 And we knew we had such biggest bases coming up, 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:52.680 like backyard especially that way. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:54.400 Yeah, we knew that where we wanted to put our 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.760 money would be like the kitchen and the backyard and 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:00.120 our basements. So yeah, we did start out slow and steady, 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:03.120 and I think we probably weren't so much competition in 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.760 the beginning, and it's funny now seeing we've come second 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.520 on the leaderboard only by a few points. So we're 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.280 really proud because we're huge fans of what the Favees do, 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.960 and it's funny for us watching it back and seeing, 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:16.679 you know, some of the things that you know, someone 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.080 like Ronnie will say and I sit there and laugh, 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.159 and I think for someone that always talks about how 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.839 great they are in the competition and that they're the best, 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.600 they're worried about what we're doing quite a lot. So 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:28.920 it's actually funny for us. 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.040 As a compliment. If they're worried about us, then yeah, 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:33.880 we'll take it as a compliment, so they should be. 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.520 What was the most surprising thing though about the filming 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:38.839 process of the show. 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.640 Well, I guess you go into it us, especially never 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.320 done any kind of reality TV before, you just don't 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:46.240 realize how full on it is. Like we used to 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.800 sit at home and watch and we would kind of 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.200 make fun of the contestants sometimes and go, what are 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.640 these people crying about? Oh my god, they're crying about 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.240 title choices, Like, surely there's bigger things going on in 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.599 the world out there, but you don't realize just how 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.159 hectic it is on the show, and how little sleep 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:02.159 you survive, on. 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.280 Just how overwhelming it is just having four or five 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:09.160 crews of cameras and producers just constantly around you and 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.440 on you and say, if you start to sleep up 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.800 and make a mistake, more cameras arrive. So it was 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.360 just really overwhelming and just all the pressures involved in that. 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.120 I just wasn't prepared at all, mate. It was just 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:24.479 really overwhelming, and you mix up with no sleep at all, 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:28.039 being stressed and just stressed and instant decisions, you know, 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.719 like you'd have three or four suppliers lined up one 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:32.840 after another and they're saying, Okay, you've got till two 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.680 o'clock to day to tell us where every skylight in 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:37.520 this house is going. I'm like, mate, I haven't even 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.200 got a floor plan yet. I don't even know where 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.279 the rooms are. And he goes, well, figure it out. 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.599 I remember when we had to measure our kitchen up 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.839 and we're literally measuring dirt outside. I'm like, how we 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:49.839 meant to measure where these kitchen cameras are going? We 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:50.880 don't even have walls. 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:54.120 Yeah, So all those pressures, it was just overwhelming, is 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:55.120 how i'd explain it. 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:56.960 I just love that when the cameras turn up, that's 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:58.840 sort of a sign. It's either things are going really 0:05:58.839 --> 0:05:59.960 well or they're going really bad. 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:04.080 That's it. Yeah. So Ronnie especially was always chasing the camera. 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.039 He loved it, And every time I saw a camera, 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.359 I'm like, oh no, there was something bad's about to happen, 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.600 you know, Like he just he loves the camera. I'm 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:11.719 just down polar opposite. 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:13.479 Well, Jesse raise a good point there because I was 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.560 talking to a girlfriend of mine who's a blockhead. I 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.960 didn't know what a blockhead was, but apparently I am one, 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.880 and she was saying, you know, Jesse, you looked probably 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:24.640 the quietest when it came to the confessionals. She said 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.440 to me, I guarantee you that Jesse would be the 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:28.720 best to go out on the piss with. 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.080 Yeah. I pumped up a little bit when I'm on 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.240 the turps mate that I think just being on the show, 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.400 I was probably only about forty percent of myself, you know, 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.360 just because you're just so exhausted and tired, and. 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:42.120 You're not the biggest talker at the best. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:43.839 Yeah. So I'm not the biggest talk at the mess 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:45.640 of times, so then you mix out with no sleep 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.159 and the exhaustion. Yeah, I just turned in this little 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.840 old man. That's just yeah. I didn't talk too much. 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.680 I just think that there's such a genuine affinity between 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:55.520 the two of you which comes across like even just 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.640 talking to you now, which made great television, you know, 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.279 it made great TI because I think it felt real 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.120 as well. There was a couple of points where I think, Kirsty, 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.279 you were saying about Paulie or you made a comment 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:09.040 about him. I don't know, maybe I read into it 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.280 a little bit. And one of my aunties said to me, 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.160 she was like, well, she can't say that about another 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.520 bloke in front of him, And I was like, well 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.120 she can, because I think if you're in a real 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.800 relationship and you're confident about what the relationship is and 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:21.920 how it's working, you can kind of say that kind 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:22.520 of stuff, right. 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.040 I would hit on Paulie every day. He's so sexy. 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.360 I don't agree, he's a sexy man's I agree. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:31.920 Sometimes are we driving along and I'll see Jesse, like, 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.120 check out a chick that's like running along and I'll say, 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:35.760 don't we to go back? And you know, get a 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:39.080 number for you. We've been together for sixteen years now, 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:43.360 and we're just so close in our relationship that I 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.760 feel like I should be able to say anything to 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.600 Jesse and the same with him. There's never anything like 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.000 I would say to a girlfriend that I wouldn't say 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:51.560 to Jesse. 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:53.800 Yeah, there was a really good quote. I think it 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.480 was on Secret Life of Us years ago and Deborah 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.520 Mailman said to her boyfriend who checks someone out? She 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.920 said said, oh, sorry, I shouldn't have done that, And 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.360 she said, no, that's good. It just means that you've 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.440 got blood flowing through your body, you know what I mean, 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:07.120 Like you're alive. 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:08.400 That's not really human. 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.000 This season, you know, there really was probably the most 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.800 dramatic season of the block in history. Do you guys 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:16.640 feel like you stayed out of a lot of that. 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:18.920 We tried to stay out of the drama as best 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.280 we could, and I think we really did in the 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.120 majority of it. But in the last couple of weeks, 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.960 we you know, other contestants tried to drag us into 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:27.200 some of the drama. 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.240 But and the only drama eventuator when people would sort 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:34.280 of almost attack us, and Cursey is super defensive of us. 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.360 So she was just defending us and she wasn't going 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.360 out searching for drama or anything like that. It was 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.800 only when we got put into a corner that drama 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:43.360 would happen around us. 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.040 Yeah, it's only when people really started to realize that 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.320 we were competition, I think. But yeah, we did try 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.000 to stay out of the dramas as much as possible 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.200 because number one, we just didn't have time to get 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.360 involved in it. You know, we're just we would say, 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.240 how are these other people going out and you know, 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.360 doing actual fun things going and playing, yeah, bolleyball and 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:04.319 stuff like that. We didn't have any spare time at all. 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.440 So I think I left the house. Yeah, probably about 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:10.160 five times in the whole show. So it's been fascinating 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.720 for me to watch us to watch because like, I 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.440 didn't see any of that carry on that happened out 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.880 on that side of the street. I just it's just 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.480 it's been fascinating for me to watch, like everyone at all. 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:22.720 How did you feel I was sort of on top 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:24.880 of all these budget issues that were happening, you know, 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.320 you obviously both have been really stressed about that, but 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.880 then to have Luke last week sort of come out 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:31.760 one of the twins come out and try and call 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.040 you about saying that the producers were helping you out 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:35.600 with this money. I mean, how did that make you feel? 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.600 Yeah? I was really disappointed in that. Obviously we saw that, 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:42.320 and friends were sending us the stories that they were posting, 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.880 trying to say that we will give an extra money, 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:46.640 and the show's trying to cover it up, which is 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.920 just laughable. And you know, we're watching this show going, well, 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.559 how are these guys actually affording where they're getting the 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:54.960 money from to change all their rooms around? And we 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.120 don't actually know where this is coming from. Like, the 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.040 reason we were so stressed in those last couple of 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:00.960 weeks is because we literally ran out of money. Like 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.240 in front yard week, we literally had to send all 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.800 of our landscapers home after I think they too, and 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.199 it's just us and our one main landscaper and PAULI 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.480 a build up while he's touching up other stuff inside 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.360 the house and trying to help us in the front yard. 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:17.760 I do, honestly don't know where that's come from, being I. 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.800 Don't blame them. You're probably going to have to give 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:23.720 them money to be able to finish their backyard and 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.240 their property. That's why we're all upset, okay, because it 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:29.920 was obvious to us that the Hallway week was given 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:33.040 to them for this reason, So they haven't saved at all. 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:35.600 There was a huge expense. 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.760 It's actually funny to have a look at their domain 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.520 listing and see how much their house. 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.640 Has changed changed since when they left it. 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:47.480 And you're like, this is really confusing, you know, so 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.240 it's actually quite laughable. Who it's actually coming from. 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:52.560 Well, it comes down to that old scenario. You know, 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.600 if someone's if you're worried about your partner cheating on you, 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.760 it usually means that you're cheating yourself. So like when 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.320 it came down to him talking about the producers help 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.040 that you were getting it, it kind of made me 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.400 feel like, well, what are you guilty of? Like what 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.199 if the producers helped you with you know what I mean? 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.199 Yeah, hundred percent. I've always said, you know, those that 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:13.000 do that are often deflecting from themselves. And that's why 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.440 I found it funny when they actually first accused us 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.720 of cheating and wanted an audit, I was thinking, you know, 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.440 they weren't worried about any team's cheating in the beginning 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.160 when it actually when the cheating benefited them, But all 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.880 of a sudden, now that they think that they're cheating 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.000 going on and it's not benefiting them, they're all worried 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.199 and wanting to make sure that you know, everything's above board. 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:32.960 Well, they make great television, but I just thought the 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.400 breathing of him on that video that he made was like, 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.480 you know, like it's like because they're so young, and 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:41.440 they just remind me of kids in a way. You know, 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.320 like when kids come into the room and they're trying 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.520 to get themselves out, they do the breathing, they're like yeah, 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:47.040 and then they did this and then. 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:50.319 They yeah, no, I get that made. But yeah, I 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.839 don't think twenty seven is Yeah, everyone goes either. But 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:54.440 they're only young. But you've got to remember our bill 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.600 to Paulie is younger than them. So when you're putting 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.720 them two together and you see what part a wise 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.439 old Paulie is and he's younger than them, Yeah, I 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.839 don't think they can play on the we're just young card. 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.320 What was the most shocking thing that you saw watching 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.559 the showback kind of as a viewer, I. 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:14.120 Think for me, especially when Kursey's then passed away and 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.040 we had to leave for the funeral, and then everyone 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.559 we come back and you could just feel it because 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.400 on Sundays we had to be together and just walking 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:25.480 past people on the street like they'd be throwing daggers at. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.120 We didn't being really weird towards us. 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.000 I don't know what's going on, And that was obviously 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.720 because of the backyard, and they all sort of started 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:34.839 to turn on us, and it was just a really 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.600 hard yeah to take, I guess seeing what they said 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.600 about especially when we're at Yeah kurse and the funeral, 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:42.359 I thought that was just really disappointing. 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.160 And yes, especially you know a lot of things Ronnie said, 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.320 especially we thought we were really good, like we are 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.880 good friends with them still, but at the time watching 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:51.640 it back some of the things he said, we're like, 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:52.719 oh my gosh. 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.120 And that's why we really loved about Mitchell Mark. You know, 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:56.880 they just come straight up to us and say like, 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.120 what's going on here? We don't understand, and we'd explain 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:00.680 ourselves and they makes sense. 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.079 It literally comes touts and said, yeah, are you guys cheating? 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:07.400 Yes, So I'd always rather someone stabby in the chest 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:08.840 and then in the back you know, so Mitch and 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:10.640 Mike would always just come straight to you, but everyone 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.960 else's sort of seemed to be talking behind our backs. 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:14.800 It was actually no one ever come up and had 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:16.280 the chat to us apart from Mitch and Mark. 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:18.360 There was a whole episode where the boys were talking 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.480 about trees that apparently we had, you. 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:22.680 Know, that was another big one there. 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.120 Taken or apparently we got the majority of these trees, 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.160 and when we were watching it, that was the first 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.400 we heard about it. No one mentioned the single thing 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.760 to us about these trees, and as it turned out, 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:33.880 they found out it was actually Mitch and Mark they 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.240 got the majority of the trees. But then they said, oh, 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.000 but that's okay. We want to see Kirsty and Jesse struggle. 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:40.959 And I'm thinking they're saying they want to see a 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.960 struggle while we're at a funeral, worn about family members, 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.040 like they really not like us. 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.640 And I don't understand why they hated us so much, 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.480 because I don't think we ever really. The only thing 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:55.080 was Kersey mentioned to them that their builder wasn't Land 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.960 of Paint in the first ever episode. But if that, 0:13:58.080 --> 0:13:59.880 if you hate someone so much because of that, that's 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:00.640 really nice. 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:02.800 I don't know from a viewer's perspective. I mean, I 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:04.800 think Mitch and Mark I just love them. I think 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.280 that they come across really well. But in saying that, 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:09.599 I'm not going to say that there's any favorites for 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:13.640 me personally, because I like people who are kind of 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.760 a bit evil. Yeah, like as well, like I like 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.560 the shading, I like the yeah exactly right, Like you 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:22.360 kind of love the villains in these sorts of shows said. 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.640 Exact same thing. We actually thank them for being the 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.320 characters that they are because it's made this show so 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.480 successful this season. And I'm actually going to put it 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.760 thank you for them in my album credits when the 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:35.040 new album comes out, I'll say thank you Tenure, thank 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:35.920 you Josh and Luke. 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:37.320 They're getting a Christmas card. 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:38.240 Yeah, it's definitely not. 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.920 You know, the Bloc has just grown to be so 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.560 undefeated in the ratings. Why do you think this show 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:48.200 resonates with Australians, you know, seventeen years later, Well, it's. 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.160 Funny that, you know, you read some comments on social 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.320 media going oh I hate the drama and blah blah blah, 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.920 and it's like, no, you don't. You love the drama 0:14:56.000 --> 0:15:00.600 that's why you're watching every week and obviously Strane's love renovating. 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:02.920 You know, you've only got to look at Bunnings and 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:04.840 Might of ten on a weekend to see how packed 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.680 that is every single weekend, every public holiday you have, 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:09.480 it's always packed. That's what Ozzies are doing. 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.360 To me. It's just fascinating to see that there's actually 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:14.200 people out there in the world like that and see 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:18.080 how they behave as three pressure. I think people just 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.000 are intrigued by the personalities. It's just as much as 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:22.160 the building side of things. 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.800 Well, we all aspire to buy houses in our lives. 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:26.640 I mean, it's one of those checkpoints that we kind 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.280 of all, you know, I think that's what we're going 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.840 to do. And then that inherent thing about being a 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.520 child building a cubby I think really comes into it. 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:35.840 And you know, you guys did say you watched the 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:39.080 show before. Why did you apply? You know, what was 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:40.360 the driving force for that? 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.600 Well, for us, we've been big fans of the show 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:44.800 for a long time. We actually first applied back in 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:48.160 twenty twelve and we've been applying over the years, like 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.440 trying to get on. It was it was always this 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:52.560 one thing that we knew if we could get on 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.520 it would literally change our lives forever. You know, we 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.960 do come from very humble beginnings. My mum was only 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.080 sixteen when she felt pres with me. My parents were 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.840 teenagers and there wasn't a whole lot of opportunity for 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.240 them and for us growing up. You know, my first 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:08.440 house was a caravan. Literally, I came home from the 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:11.720 hospital to a caravan. And you know, Jesse grew up 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:13.920 in humble beginnings as well, with a single mom, and 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:15.960 we've always known that if you could get on a 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.320 show like this, it would just change our lives and 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.680 set us up forever, and especially having the love for renovating, 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:25.000 Jesse always had this goal of buying a house when 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.640 he was a teenager. We've been together since well sixteen, 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.080 and it was the one thing he would always talk about. 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:31.760 His mum instilled in him that if you're going to 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:33.800 get ahead in life, you need to buy a house. 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.800 And so he started his apprenticeship at sixteen and would 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.240 say all of his pay every week because obviously he's 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.040 still living at home with his mum. And by the 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.120 time we turned eighteen, we had a little deposit there 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:46.880 to buy our first house, it was only one hundred 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:50.200 and sixty five thousand dollars, but that's what started us off, 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.840 and you know, kick started our love of renovating and 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.680 we could see that, you know, it can be life changing. 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.720 And that very first house that we renovated, it was 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:00.880