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Speaker 2: Week Airline Welcome back to TV Reload. My name's Benjamin Norris,
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Speaker 2: I have two of the contestants from Channel Lines The
Speaker 2: Block twenty twenty two. It is Rachel and Ryan. This year,
Speaker 2: the Block took a tree change and immediately saw two
Speaker 2: contestants run for the hills. With five houses situated on
Speaker 2: ten acres of land and weather conditions harsher than any
Speaker 2: season before, It's no wonder. The first week saw the
Speaker 2: first couple in block history ghost, the popular Channel nine program.
Speaker 2: So when the going got tough, Ryan got going, turning
Speaker 2: up in less than two days and making their mark
Speaker 2: on the highly competitive show. While their scores haven't yet
Speaker 2: won them the week, many fans have been saying that
Speaker 2: these two are still in good stead to win a
Speaker 2: substantial amount of money, and only time will tell. I
Speaker 2: have to say that after I had this chat, I
Speaker 2: fell in love with Rachel and Ryan just a little
Speaker 2: bit more. They're really gorgeous people and super passionate about
Speaker 2: what they do. It's actually just really quite infectious, and
Speaker 2: I hope you enjoy this chat as much as I
Speaker 2: did having it. We will discuss which room might be
Speaker 2: one of their biggest regrets, who has become friends for life,
Speaker 2: what they think of some of the comments that are
Speaker 2: being set online, and also what they think of next
Speaker 2: year's location. However, let's get started with today's guest. I'd
Speaker 2: like to welcome Rachel and Ryan to TV reload.
Speaker 1: Very tricky question.
Speaker 2: Here's our new couple, meet Rachel and Ryan, and.
Speaker 3: I feel like they got into a negative whether they
Speaker 3: couldn't got out of.
Speaker 1: Rachel got you care?
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 1: I thought when she came in, she walked out, and
Speaker 1: I thought, my god, what just happened.
Speaker 2: Rachel and Ryan's first problem was the floor.
Speaker 4: Plan, and as hard as it was, I can't see
Speaker 4: them doing this ever again.
Speaker 2: I think you've got your basics.
Speaker 1: Now go the next level. You know, the crew is
Speaker 1: just a phenomenal on the block, Like, we're going to
Speaker 1: be more thankful.
Speaker 2: Hey, Rachel and Ryan, how are you both good?
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 3: How are you fantastic?
Speaker 2: I am so excited to be talking to you because
Speaker 2: we're well and truly into the competition at this point.
Speaker 2: Has it even sunk into you two that you managed
Speaker 2: to make it onto the block? Oh?
Speaker 1: Look, by now it has. By now, it definitely has.
Speaker 1: We're very aware that we're here, We're very aware that
Speaker 1: we're exhausted, We're very aware of everything that's happening, but
Speaker 1: it is still incredibly surreal at the same time.
Speaker 2: I like when I heard the story that you kind
Speaker 2: of had been told that you weren't going to be
Speaker 2: on the show, and then I heard that you guys
Speaker 2: were at the pub having a few wines when the
Speaker 2: producers rang you and said because I think it was
Speaker 2: like a Saturday or something, and they were like, can
Speaker 2: you be here tomorrow? And you've put the wine down
Speaker 2: and gone, that's commitment if you ask me.
Speaker 3: It was Saturday afternoon and then they called us.
Speaker 4: And they were like, Monday morning, you need to be here,
Speaker 4: and we're like, holy moly, that's quick, and we decided
Speaker 4: to work everything out.
Speaker 2: Who was going to take care of like all of
Speaker 2: the responsibility? Did you make an emergency phone call? Like
Speaker 2: who took over your lives?
Speaker 1: We were pretty lucky. So I truly believe that a
Speaker 1: lot of this is very serendipitous because the people that
Speaker 1: we were at the pub with are two couples who
Speaker 1: were our best friends, and they couldn't have been that.
Speaker 1: We couldn't have been with better people, to be honest,
Speaker 1: they sprang into action straight away. One of my girlfriends,
Speaker 1: one of my best friends, is a publicist, so she
Speaker 1: sprung into action. The other one was a financial advisor,
Speaker 1: so he was like, let's sort all this in because
Speaker 1: obviously your life stops, you know. So it was we
Speaker 1: couldn't have been with better people.
Speaker 2: Who finished the drinks for you? That's what I want
Speaker 2: to know, drink.
Speaker 4: Not only did we finish it, We've got another couple
Speaker 4: of rounds each to work out the logistics.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something really funny, right, So obviously,
Speaker 1: first things first, what's most important was I thought I
Speaker 1: have to get my hair done. Of course, so I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: how am I going? It's three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 1: How am I going to get my hair done? One
Speaker 1: of my girlfriends is on the phone in. My hairdresser,
Speaker 1: who blessed her, came in at seven o'clock that night
Speaker 1: to do my hair, but I'd had too many drinks
Speaker 1: to drive, so I had to get another girlfriend to
Speaker 1: drive me all around Sydney to get all the things
Speaker 1: done that I needed to get done. Because we've been
Speaker 1: at the pub drinking all afternoon.
Speaker 2: I just could have believe how well, I mean, both
Speaker 2: of you are very good. Look, I'm just going to
Speaker 2: say this right now because I've met you in person
Speaker 2: and it's kind of a bit ridiculous, but you look
Speaker 2: so calm on the car when you just have a
Speaker 2: rocking up like it just looked like it was this
Speaker 2: is how it was supposed to be.
Speaker 4: Well, I guess, like you know, we kind of prepared
Speaker 4: ourselves through the journey of thinking that we're going on,
Speaker 4: So it was only a couple of weeks before we
Speaker 4: realized that. We kind of thought, well, I don't think
Speaker 4: we're going on, So we kind of prepared ourselves and
Speaker 4: then with that thirty hour notice, we got everything under control.
Speaker 4: But then the plane ride down. You know, we started brainstorming,
Speaker 4: like we kind of like cycked ourselves up for it.
Speaker 1: I don't I also don't think it was calmness. I
Speaker 1: think it was exhaustion because we actually didn't sleep the
Speaker 1: Saturday or Sunday night. And it's so funny. I think
Speaker 1: in the first episodees Jay says, Yeah, they've got they've
Speaker 1: got such a better advantage than us because they've slept.
Speaker 1: We hadn't slept. Oh, We've been up for to nights.
Speaker 3: It was a horrible for to thirty hours.
Speaker 2: You'd had less sleep, you'd had less sleep than everybody else.
Speaker 1: So it was exhausted.
Speaker 4: And we also had three kids that were wanting our
Speaker 4: attention that we just couldn't give them because we had
Speaker 4: so much things to sort out before we could leave.
Speaker 4: That's half the reason why Rachel had to come back
Speaker 4: after the first week.
Speaker 3: But it was crazy. The thirty hours. It was basically
Speaker 3: a warm up to prepare us for the block.
Speaker 2: Anyway, we're going to put the kids into the home.
Speaker 2: Did you ever go back and collect the kids, by the.
Speaker 1: Way, No, they're still there. That's why we're so calm now,
Speaker 1: they're still.
Speaker 2: There, you know, I've got to ask you, do you
Speaker 2: think it was a disadvantage to be only included in
Speaker 2: the eleventh hour when it comes to like the competition element.
Speaker 1: Very tricky question when it comes to the competitional element,
Speaker 1: without a doubt you knows as much as you're not
Speaker 1: supposed to forward plan. Everyone knew where we were filming,
Speaker 1: They knew we were in Gisbone, they knew we were
Speaker 1: on you know, acreage. Very some very smart people, I
Speaker 1: believe sus doubt who our suppliers were and what different
Speaker 1: things they could do because some people went in with
Speaker 1: plans in the second week that there is no way
Speaker 1: that they would have been able to get had they
Speaker 1: not thought about it prior, and more power to them.
Speaker 1: We missed out on the feedback are during the challenge,
Speaker 1: during the forty eight hour challenge, so that put us
Speaker 1: on a big disadvantage for our first room firstly. Secondly,
Speaker 1: and it's something that you know, we never addressed on
Speaker 1: the show. We went so far over budget in our
Speaker 1: first room, but that was because we got to the
Speaker 1: block on the Monday. All of our trades got there
Speaker 1: on the Tuesday that had already been organized for us.
Speaker 1: So it wasn't until Thursday when I realized, hang on
Speaker 1: a minute, these trades have been here for two days.
Speaker 1: We're actually paying for this THO by that Thursday we'd
Speaker 1: already gone over, so you know, we spent and that
Speaker 1: had already been organized for us. In my mind, I
Speaker 1: was thinking, there must be some kind of agreement here.
Speaker 1: It's Thursday afternoon. No, no, no agreement. It was up
Speaker 1: to you to send them home. You didn't. They're all here.
Speaker 1: You need to pay the bill, and now we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about how far over budget you've gone the
Speaker 1: whole time. So look, it was I do think think
Speaker 1: that it was a disadvantage in us coming in late
Speaker 1: in terms of the competition. Sure, in terms of our
Speaker 1: experience on the block, there's been one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: i think participants on the block and no one has
Speaker 1: ever done what we've done, so that's unique. So we
Speaker 1: got to look at it from that point of view
Speaker 1: as well. You know, we've had such a unique experience.
Speaker 2: I have to also say, so there was the big
Speaker 2: controversy about the couple that walked out. You know, let's
Speaker 2: not mention who they are, but you know, it was
Speaker 2: a bit of controversy. Do you think that they've had
Speaker 2: any regrets? And I wanted to know, had they reached
Speaker 2: out to you to say good luck? Or did you
Speaker 2: ever hear from them at all? Or were you just
Speaker 2: as easily ghosted by them as the rest of the competition.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we didn't hear from them at all. They'd never
Speaker 3: reached out to us at all.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't expect them to. But I think we're in Sydney.
Speaker 1: I was, I was in Double Bay yesterday and I thought,
Speaker 1: oh my god, what if I see l you know,
Speaker 1: like I don't expect them to. If I was to,
Speaker 1: if we were to see them, I would go up
Speaker 1: and introduce myself and say hello, you know, and thank
Speaker 1: them because leaving gave us an opportunity. And do I
Speaker 1: think that they've had regrets? Absolutely not. Oh, and I
Speaker 1: don't think that they should. I don't think that the
Speaker 1: show was suited to them. I especially don't think that
Speaker 1: this season was suited to them.
Speaker 2: I just wish that I could be flying the wall
Speaker 2: whilst that meeting happens, because you know, it is a
Speaker 2: small town. You could easily run into them, and I
Speaker 2: just would not your reactions, but I'd love to see
Speaker 2: their reactions. But that's the sticky beak in me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a sticky beak too. I'd kind of just
Speaker 1: want to see a reaction as well, and so should
Speaker 1: be fine.
Speaker 4: At the end of the day. It doesn't matter because
Speaker 4: they're often we're on it is what it is, It
Speaker 4: is what it is.
Speaker 2: I have been really enjoying your style and I think
Speaker 2: that you have had more of a classic style and
Speaker 2: something that I can relate to a little bit. And
Speaker 2: while you might not have excited the judges every week
Speaker 2: and had these bigger scores, I actually think that at
Speaker 2: the end of this, when it comes to the buyers
Speaker 2: seeing the house, then you guys might do very well.
Speaker 2: Have you coped though through the scoring so far.
Speaker 4: Like we had our ups and downs, and the style
Speaker 4: that some of the other contestants have been doing and
Speaker 4: what we thought the judges wanted from everyone is not
Speaker 4: our style at all.
Speaker 3: We don't like that style.
Speaker 4: We went in there with our vision of what we
Speaker 4: wanted to build a country style home, and that wasn't it.
Speaker 4: We changed a little bit for those first that second
Speaker 4: and third week to try and you know, well, we've
Speaker 4: got to win some money and we're getting really bad feedback.
Speaker 3: We thought, let's try and change it.
Speaker 4: You know, we've got to give ourselves a chance to
Speaker 4: try and win some money each week, and it didn't
Speaker 4: go well. So we got to Master Bedroom week and
Speaker 4: we're like, you know what, screw this.
Speaker 3: We're doing what.
Speaker 4: We originally wanted to do here. Whether we win or
Speaker 4: whether we don't, it's how we finished this house and
Speaker 4: how the flow of the house needs to be very continuous.
Speaker 4: So we stick to our guns from that room, and I.
Speaker 1: Think as well, you know, with the feedback from the judges,
Speaker 1: it's two out of three that aren't vibing with our style.
Speaker 1: Darren Palmer absolutely loves us. He's our biggest supporter. We're
Speaker 1: also in our minds we have to think about, you know,
Speaker 1: past history with the judges and you know they hated
Speaker 1: Mitch and Marx last year. Mitch and Mark won what
Speaker 1: they're seemingly wanting from us. We think that we're giving it.
Speaker 1: We think that we're giving a country home. We don't
Speaker 1: necessarily agree with homes where every single room you walk
Speaker 1: into and it has to make such an impact. We
Speaker 1: believe in like a really beautiful, calming, serene feel and
Speaker 1: that's what we think we're delivering. And you know what, also,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we had to really
Speaker 1: make decisions where if our house doesn't sell and we
Speaker 1: have done what we think is best and our house
Speaker 1: doesn't sell as well as we think it should, well,
Speaker 1: then that's on us. But if we change what we
Speaker 1: believe and what our gut instincts are telling us to
Speaker 1: suit three judges and then our house doesn't sell, well,
Speaker 1: then that's on them.
Speaker 2: And we know, like you know, Mitch and Mark last year,
Speaker 2: you know they're at the moment sleeping in bags of cash.
Speaker 2: So you know, we can't really take all of that
Speaker 2: to heart. So I guess it'll all come down to
Speaker 2: it at the end. I know you've already had a
Speaker 2: fair share of high emotions. You said, you know you
Speaker 2: had to go home to sort some things out. But
Speaker 2: what's the biggest hurdle in taking part of this show
Speaker 2: so far?
Speaker 1: I know what yours is.
Speaker 3: Oh, the biggest hurdle for me is dead set. The
Speaker 3: cold weather.
Speaker 4: Oh man, it is freezing cold down there, unbearably cold.
Speaker 3: And then and then the mud.
Speaker 4: The mud is just like you know, you're building these
Speaker 4: beautiful rooms and spaces and not only do you have
Speaker 4: you know, thirty to forty trades coming through each day,
Speaker 4: you've also got production walking through and they've all got
Speaker 4: two inches of mud on their boots, and it's just like,
Speaker 4: you know, it just never ends.
Speaker 3: It just seems to be mud everywhere.
Speaker 2: Was it you guys that had the slippers in the
Speaker 2: little bin for people to put on, which no one
Speaker 2: else did. That to me was a sign of frustration
Speaker 2: of we have had enough of your money feet in here.
Speaker 2: You know, this isn't about your comfort, this is about us.
Speaker 2: Put the fucking slippers on, you know, exactly right.
Speaker 1: But it was also like it's freezing your toes. Everyone
Speaker 1: had to take their shoes off, your toes will freeze.
Speaker 1: Have some beautiful, warm, comfy slippers.
Speaker 4: It was the perfect idea because we've got polished concrete
Speaker 4: throughout most of our modern extentsion And as Rape said,
Speaker 4: like if you want, no one's going to take their
Speaker 4: shoes off without slippers on because the claws too cold.
Speaker 1: Well right now, you know, but there's heating. There's heating,
Speaker 1: there's heating. I'm just crazy.
Speaker 2: I want people to know. That's funny. I went and
Speaker 2: did like a set tour for people. You know, you
Speaker 2: guys know that I was there, but I did the
Speaker 2: set tour. Those shoes that I wore that day are
Speaker 2: still on my balcony and they are just there blocks
Speaker 2: of mud, like it's they're just blocks of mud, and
Speaker 2: so seem to be believed when you try and tell
Speaker 2: people about the weather conditions. Because I'm still recovering.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you a really funny story. So both s
Speaker 1: J and I had these this one day with our
Speaker 1: kids where Claire was upset and my kids were upset,
Speaker 1: and I had been talking to my kids and I
Speaker 1: came out of my house and I was like walking
Speaker 1: down our path, my path, and I was really teary.
Speaker 1: And Sj's walking down in front of her house and
Speaker 1: she's really teary, and I kind of gave her a
Speaker 1: big cuddle and we're both crying, and I said to her,
Speaker 1: it's all right, babe, like, you know, not much longer.
Speaker 1: We're doing it for them. Blah blah blah. I'm crying.
Speaker 1: She goes, what are you talking about? And I'm like
Speaker 1: the kids. She goes, I'm crying because of the mud.
Speaker 1: I just cracked up laughing.
Speaker 2: That's how bad it was I'm obsessed with Sarah Jane,
Speaker 2: and it's so funny because she's a little bit polarizing
Speaker 2: to some audience, where I just think that she's kind
Speaker 2: of the right amount of batshit crazy for reality television.
Speaker 1: If you asked me, without a doubt, we're very close
Speaker 1: with Tom and Sarah Jane.
Speaker 2: You could see that with you girls a couple of times.
Speaker 2: I'm a few episodes ahead. I think I'm about two
Speaker 2: weeks ahead, but you can definitely see that there's a
Speaker 2: kinship between you girls, and even though you're both very
Speaker 2: different women.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's really funny because the Esja was the first
Speaker 1: person that we met, okay, and I thought when she
Speaker 1: came in, she walked out, and I thought, my god,
Speaker 1: what just happened? I had no idea what had just happened?
Speaker 3: Where is this girl from?
Speaker 1: And then the more that you spend time with her,
Speaker 1: she and you know what, the viewers are starting to
Speaker 1: see it as well. When she coped the most unfair
Speaker 1: criticism from viewers in the first few weeks, really really
Speaker 1: really they went to town on her. And now people
Speaker 1: are like, didn't like you at first, and now I
Speaker 1: love you because she just says it. How it is.
Speaker 1: She's so unfiltered. She wears a heart on her sleep.
Speaker 1: She has the biggest heart I can confirm she has.
Speaker 1: People are you know she's she's polarizing. You meet her
Speaker 1: at first, you're not quite sure. The more you get
Speaker 1: to know her, the more you know is to love her.
Speaker 2: I like people who are genuine, you know, So I
Speaker 2: don't care if people are mad. If you're genuinely mad,
Speaker 2: that's great. I think that's fine. Exactly, I met her
Speaker 2: and I walked into this room and we were alone,
Speaker 2: and papasist were everywhere taking us on the tour, and
Speaker 2: I don't think you were supposed to be left alone
Speaker 2: with you know you guys. And she was within one
Speaker 2: minute in a full conversation as though we had been
Speaker 2: friends forever, and she was confiding stuff into me about
Speaker 2: you know, telling me about I bet you couldn't believe this,
Speaker 2: and I don't even I just felt like, to be honest,
Speaker 2: it felt like I was back in the Big Brother
Speaker 2: House with a contestant that i'd been in there with
Speaker 2: for like, you know, three months. That's how immediate that
Speaker 2: kind of kin, that sort of relationship form.
Speaker 1: So she's a good egg.
Speaker 3: Yah, both good eggs.
Speaker 2: Well, you both have a much calmer approach to the competition.
Speaker 2: I have to say, compared to some of the others.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's time some of the other houses
Speaker 2: play up to the cameras.
Speaker 3: Look, yes and no.
Speaker 4: But the one thing I can say about the block
Speaker 4: is you go in there and you have no time
Speaker 4: to be anyone other than yourself. Okay, all you see
Speaker 4: with all the contestants, how they're reacting, how they are.
Speaker 4: I know shaz and unks are getting smashed, but there's
Speaker 4: a certain level of you have to be yourself because
Speaker 4: you have no time to think about trying to be
Speaker 4: someone else.
Speaker 1: Yet, Look, I like I agree to a certain extent,
Speaker 1: like it's the block is a pressure cooker. Sure, it's
Speaker 1: definitely a pressure cooker, and I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: people are being themselves, definitely, but you don't know how
Speaker 1: you're going to react if you've never been in a
Speaker 1: pressure cooker like that.
Speaker 2: Sure, so I.
Speaker 1: Think play out for the cameras. The cameras are on
Speaker 1: his twenty four seven. You know they're on you twenty
Speaker 1: four seven. I am watching some things where I think, like, God,
Speaker 1: what are you doing?
Speaker 3: Stop?
Speaker 1: There's a camera on you. You know. But then I've seen them.
Speaker 1: They've got me at sometimes and they're hiding behind different things,
Speaker 1: and you know, you just and I'm thinking, stop talking, rage,
Speaker 1: there's a camera on you. But I didn't even know
Speaker 1: that there was anyone on me, you know, So it's
Speaker 1: just interesting. I don't know how much is anyone playing
Speaker 1: up for the cameras. I think the boys play out
Speaker 1: for the cameras a little bit, you know, but they're
Speaker 1: very cheeky, and I think once there's a camera on them,
Speaker 1: that cheekiness just ups. It's anti but in like a
Speaker 1: fun joking way.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm not laughing with them. The funny thing
Speaker 2: is like they're laughing hysterically at the jokes that they're making,
Speaker 2: which are just not funny. But I'm so warm to
Speaker 2: and diard to them because of that. I'm like, good
Speaker 2: on your boys. You're definitely having a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: But I'm certainly not thinking that they're comedians, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like the Boys' motto rarely a lot of the time
Speaker 1: was to just laugh, you know. I remember having numerous
Speaker 1: conversations with Omar when something would go wrong, and I'd say,
Speaker 1: like what you do, like you know with their tilers.
Speaker 1: We've seen so many things with their tilers, and ye
Speaker 1: go what you do say, we just have to laugh.
Speaker 4: I remember, I remember Homa said on the bus fun
Speaker 4: time into judging. He said, if you don't laugh harder
Speaker 4: at your own joke, then it's not funny. You need
Speaker 4: to laugh, laugh harder than anyone else.
Speaker 2: I always thought it was frowned upon to laugh at
Speaker 2: your own humor, but you know, maybe not. I like that.
Speaker 2: I like that idea. While I was there on the day,
Speaker 2: you were telling a story about the first day that
Speaker 2: you turned up and that the camera. I loved this.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it was your story and that the cameraman
Speaker 2: all of a sudden they're on the set and you
Speaker 2: sort of were unsure what to do, and then you
Speaker 2: sort of felt like you could ask for help, but
Speaker 2: then you realize, no, yeah, we do now.
Speaker 3: And you're when we got the plans.
Speaker 1: This is that very first day and we just met
Speaker 1: Scottie and it all happened so quickly. It was such
Speaker 1: a well wind and we just like literally we landed.
Speaker 1: We went to the block HQ. We did a big
Speaker 1: interview where you see us sitting on the couch. They
Speaker 1: gave us the keys to our ranger and off we
Speaker 1: went to the block. Scotty was at the gate waiting
Speaker 1: for us, and then we went to our house. And
Speaker 1: you know, we have this funny thing on the block
Speaker 1: where we say, like, one cameraman, you're fine. Two camera men,
Speaker 1: something's going on. Three cameramen, you're in trouble if there's
Speaker 1: different crews on you, because it means something's about to happen.
Speaker 1: And we would have had every camera crew on the
Speaker 1: block that day on us, so there probably would have
Speaker 1: been about twenty hive vias, camera crew producers all standing
Speaker 1: around and it was dead silent. No one spoke to
Speaker 1: us because obviously they're all filming us, and they're filming
Speaker 1: our reactions, and we're like where do we go? What
Speaker 1: do we do? And we're like looking, We're like looking
Speaker 1: at the different camera crew and they're shaking their head
Speaker 1: like nope, we can't tell you. Don't look at us
Speaker 1: in the eyes, and don't look at the camera. We
Speaker 1: can't tell you where to go. Oh my gosh, it
Speaker 1: was so funny.
Speaker 2: It was my favorite story on the day from meeting everyone,
Speaker 2: and I just thought it was so funny because everyone
Speaker 2: can relate to that. You know, we all go, oh,
Speaker 2: I'd love to be on the block, But then you know,
Speaker 2: the transition between watching it on television actually being there
Speaker 2: is bizarre.
Speaker 1: It's very unnatural, so very bizarre, very bizarre.
Speaker 2: Do you think that you've made lifelong friends out of
Speaker 2: the others and some of the crew? I guess as well.
Speaker 2: I mean this experience, do you think you've made lifelong friends?
Speaker 2: And who do you think you'll be still talking to
Speaker 2: in say, ten years time.
Speaker 4: Where we've become really really close with House Fine, not
Speaker 4: only are they just fantastic people. Everyone on the block
Speaker 4: is awesome. We got along so well with them, but
Speaker 4: we were close. Our houses are quite close, you know.
Speaker 4: House Free was the biggest jump from our house to theirs,
Speaker 4: so it was kind of like a big walk or
Speaker 4: a drive where we could just walk up to one.
Speaker 3: Rachel and SJ got along so well. Me and Tom
Speaker 3: just are so.
Speaker 4: Sort of we're the same, like outside of this, you know,
Speaker 4: when I got to know him about the way we
Speaker 4: grew up and stuff, we kind of had the same
Speaker 4: traits and did the same kind of thing.
Speaker 3: So we just both formed this great.
Speaker 4: Relationship about now on the block, like we start becoming
Speaker 4: really close with them.
Speaker 1: Lifelong friends definitely with everyone, for sure. I would really, really,
Speaker 1: really hope that in ten twenty thirty years we're all
Speaker 1: still going out for dinner at some point, you know,
Speaker 1: because no one will get no one will ever understand
Speaker 1: what we have gone through except for each other, and
Speaker 1: even other contestants in past blocks will never understand what
Speaker 1: we have gone through on this one, because we have
Speaker 1: had quite a few come to visit who just have
Speaker 1: got no idea how we've been able to do what
Speaker 1: we've done. So I think all of us will, fingers crossed, hopefully,
Speaker 1: remain friends. The whole show's still got to play out,
Speaker 1: so who knows what's going to happen, But for now,
Speaker 1: I really hope we all remain lifelong friends, and the
Speaker 1: same with the crew. That's true what they say about
Speaker 1: the block being a family. You couldn't get through it
Speaker 1: without the crew and everyone behind the scenes. They're the
Speaker 1: ones talking to you at three o'clock in the morning
Speaker 1: when you've been up for twenty four hours and you're
Speaker 1: painting green walls and you've got no idea what's going on,
Speaker 1: and then you know the crew is just phenomenal on
Speaker 1: the block, like, we couldn't be more thankful.
Speaker 2: Everybody talks about it, you know, in the in the industry,
Speaker 2: people talk about the crew on that particular show. I
Speaker 2: mean Jules, who's the executive producer. You know that theory
Speaker 2: of it comes from the top. He's just such a
Speaker 2: wonderful person. So I think when you've got someone leading
Speaker 2: the pack there, then yes, you are going to all
Speaker 2: have a great experience. I was going to say, you know,
Speaker 2: it's funny that you say Tom and Sarah Jane because
Speaker 2: I really like their bickering on the show, which my
Speaker 2: partner hates. My partner can't. He finds it really stressful,
Speaker 2: and he says, if we were on a show like this,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't allow this to happen, you know, And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: but then it makes me wonder about the conversations partners
Speaker 2: would have before doing a show like this. Did you
Speaker 2: both make an agreement with anything? Did you say do
Speaker 2: not fight in front of the cameras or were there
Speaker 2: anything that you any guidelines that you tried to set
Speaker 2: for each other.
Speaker 3: Absolutely not.
Speaker 1: No, Well you can't really. I feel like I feel
Speaker 1: like if you start doing things like that the block
Speaker 1: is so different. You know, you can't focus. Your whole
Speaker 1: concentration needs to be on the build that you're doing.
Speaker 1: So you can't. If you're trying to set guidelines for
Speaker 1: yourself and how you're going to act and how you're
Speaker 1: going to be perceived and whatever, the whole thing's going
Speaker 1: to fall apart. So you just you can't. You just
Speaker 1: have to go in there being yourself. I love that
Speaker 1: Tom and Estate. Let me tell you, we could hear
Speaker 1: them give many times. You could hear screaming at each
Speaker 1: other like it was crazy. But I love that you
Speaker 1: know there and it stresses me out. I understand what
Speaker 1: your partners saying, because sometimes it stresses me out. We're
Speaker 1: a little bit different. We don't really fight like that.
Speaker 1: You know. We definitely have had our arguments. Maybe it
Speaker 1: gives us a chance to have a look on pointing
Speaker 1: at Ryan for anyone who can't see. Maybe it gives
Speaker 1: us a chance to be able to look back on
Speaker 1: these on TV and reflect on how we handle arguments.
Speaker 2: This is a podcast, guys, which I'm very disappointed about
Speaker 2: because people should really have seen the look that the
Speaker 2: two of you gave each other. Man, it was amazing,
Speaker 2: but it is a podcast.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: You kind of mentioned as well before about Sharon and
Speaker 2: Ankor and they've been copying a lot of flak. Can
Speaker 2: you see why people have been so frustrated by them?
Speaker 2: And I will sort of put something on top of that.
Speaker 2: I met the two of them, and they are lovely,
Speaker 2: Like just I loved them. I just thought they were
Speaker 2: so lovely, so even I'm a little bit surprised by
Speaker 2: what I'm seeing on television, you know, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 3: We absolutely love them.
Speaker 4: When you finally get a chance to get together with
Speaker 4: the other contestants, we all get along so well, and
Speaker 4: Chas and Angs as such amazing people. Unfortunately the way
Speaker 4: that they kind of handle themselves. And at an early
Speaker 4: stage of the block, I remember Rachel and I sat
Speaker 4: down with him and kind of spoke to him about,
Speaker 4: you know, just try and think a little bit more positive.
Speaker 4: You know, you're only on this for twelve weeks, you know,
Speaker 4: you don't want to sort of get into this negative rut.
Speaker 4: And I feel like they got into a negative.
Speaker 3: Right that they couldn't get out of. They were just
Speaker 3: upset all the time.
Speaker 4: Sharon just got really negative towards the process and the
Speaker 4: block and crew and stuff, and I really wish they
Speaker 4: kind of just snapped out of that, because outside of
Speaker 4: all that, they are generally really really good people and
Speaker 4: they deserve to get seen on TV differently than what
Speaker 4: they are right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is what I was saying before about the
Speaker 1: pressure Cooker. Unfortunately, you know, all of us contestants had
Speaker 1: a phenomenal time together. When we were together, it was
Speaker 1: laughs and it was jokes, and it was lots of fun,
Speaker 1: all of us. Because of the just the sheer scale
Speaker 1: of the block, those experiences are quite limited. So what
Speaker 1: you're seeing right now is unfortunately the rest of their journey,
Speaker 1: and you know, it was it was quite It was
Speaker 1: very hard for them and you're seeing that. And there
Speaker 1: were fun times were laughing and joking and whatever, but
Speaker 1: that was limited to the contestants. I feel like when
Speaker 1: we were all together, and you know, just the past
Speaker 1: episodes you've seen as well, they didn't come to a
Speaker 1: few things just because it was so much for them.
Speaker 1: It's a shame. What like what they're copying online is disgusting.
Speaker 2: You know. And it's funny because Jules said to me,
Speaker 2: he goes before the show had started, He was like,
Speaker 2: you know, we have a contestant this year who's one
Speaker 2: of the best contestants I have had in the eighteen series.
Speaker 2: And he was talking about Sharon, and you know, it
Speaker 2: was it is an amazing She's an amazing person for
Speaker 2: reality television regardless. And I just think that people's relationship
Speaker 2: as an audience, we need to be smarter about what
Speaker 2: we're saying to people. It just bothers me that the
Speaker 2: people who love this show so much will go that
Speaker 2: little bit further and say what they shouldn't say and
Speaker 2: critique something they really don't know what's what's real. You know, Well,
Speaker 2: the thing.
Speaker 1: Is, I do I have to I do think that
Speaker 1: what you're seeing is real. I don't think you know
Speaker 1: that things have been edited in conversations. I've edited, It's
Speaker 1: not that show. But people also need to understand the
Speaker 1: pressures of the show. They need to understand that that
Speaker 1: the show, what you're seeing is people under enormous pressure.
Speaker 1: And even still, even if they you know, they took
Speaker 1: up twenty fold what's happening right now, and you know
Speaker 1: they were more upset or they were more angry, they
Speaker 1: don't deserve what is coming to them online. It is
Speaker 1: so disgusting, it's so uncalled for, and I just think
Speaker 1: that you know, where you say people need to be smarter,
Speaker 1: that's exactly right. Enjoy the show for what it is.
Speaker 3: I should look past.
Speaker 1: It's easier said than that. I've seen comments about us,
Speaker 1: and you know, you want to right back straight away.
Speaker 1: You want to defend yourself. And you know, when it
Speaker 1: comes to those kind of things, we haven't had anywhere
Speaker 1: near as much, which is what they've had. So I
Speaker 1: can't imagine how they're feeling right now.
Speaker 2: What's the most outrageous thing you've read about yourself online?
Speaker 2: That's what I want to know, Like stupid, like crazy?
Speaker 2: Does anything stayed in your mind that you're.
Speaker 1: Like, Oh, everyone's telling yourself rich, we are so rich?
Speaker 1: What like they're so rich? Why are they given give
Speaker 1: it to the battlers? Not giving it to people so rich?
Speaker 3: I'll tell you why we're so rich. Come and pay
Speaker 3: our mortgage, mate.
Speaker 1: It's like they live in one of the most affluent
Speaker 1: suburbs in Sydney. You've obviously never been to Sydney, Like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's just so funny, like they're so well off. I've
Speaker 1: actually started to see it turn out and people are
Speaker 1: starting to defend us, so that that's been good. But yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot about just how rich we are, which I
Speaker 1: just that's the part that I find so funny. We're
Speaker 1: so we're so rich. I'm hopefully soon, hopefully in a
Speaker 1: few months, will be check that.
Speaker 2: Guys feel free to say something, you know, when we're
Speaker 2: sleeping on our bags of cash. But until then, come
Speaker 2: and pay our mortgage fair enough, exactly if so far,
Speaker 2: you know, if you could change one of your rooms,
Speaker 2: if there's one room that you could change and go
Speaker 2: back and redo, what is that room now?
Speaker 3: It would be our suite because we've.
Speaker 1: No it's our no, no, it's definitely our guest bedroom.
Speaker 1: That we did on the second week with that green wall,
Speaker 1: I completely agree with everyone's feedback that the green doesn't go. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: when we made the decision for our wardrobes, I didn't
Speaker 1: get to see. I saw the color of the wardrobe
Speaker 1: on a sample and then that was it. I saw
Speaker 1: it for like five minutes and it was gone. So
Speaker 1: in my mind it was a blue green, and it's
Speaker 1: a brand new color. So it wasn't even on a website.
Speaker 1: No one could give it to me. So in my mind,
Speaker 1: it was a blue green, and then we've painted that
Speaker 1: wall that blue green peacock green, and then our wardrobes
Speaker 1: have been delivered and I'm like, oh my god, it's
Speaker 1: a different color. So Redoo room, Like, we're coming in hot.
Speaker 1: If we get a redoo room, We're coming in hot.
Speaker 2: That did you also read? An interesting question to talk
Speaker 2: to you about is that online there's been a bit
Speaker 2: of a reveal as to the block next year being
Speaker 2: in Hampton, and then you think about we had it
Speaker 2: in Hampton last year and now we've had this big
Speaker 2: tree change. You know, what would you have preferred? Would
Speaker 2: you have preferred this ridiculous tree change on ten acres
Speaker 2: or would you have preferred more of a suburban cul
Speaker 2: de sack like looking at where it might.
Speaker 4: We want we want this one. We want the hardest
Speaker 4: block there's ever been. We want the we want the
Speaker 4: rural property. We love that we one day want to
Speaker 4: build our own, you know, holiday house down in the
Speaker 4: Southern Highlands Way of Sydney, Like this is something that
Speaker 4: Rache and I would actually love to do one day.
Speaker 4: So this is perfect for us, and as hard as
Speaker 4: it was, I can't see them doing this ever. Again
Speaker 4: because it was so big. The weather conditions made it harder,
Speaker 4: but you know what, it just like it was. It
Speaker 4: was crazy and we we're so glad we're.
Speaker 3: A part of it.
Speaker 1: It's funny because that we all saw that, the contestants
Speaker 1: saw it. We all have our own little chat happening,
Speaker 1: and it got set through in the chat, and I
Speaker 1: think Tom was like, we could knock that over a
Speaker 1: nine week we wouldn't need twelve. Get us all in
Speaker 1: there and we'll get it done quick.
Speaker 3: Probably.
Speaker 2: I would love to see that, guys. I'd love to
Speaker 2: see you guys come back, like you know, do get
Speaker 2: the same contestants back for a second year. I mean,
Speaker 2: you might have a breakdown at the end of it,
Speaker 2: but it would be interesting to see the comparison, you know,
Speaker 2: level up.
Speaker 1: I think we don't do it. We'd love it.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: At this point into the series, it's very hard to
Speaker 2: do because you know, the Block is an interesting show.
Speaker 2: No one can really know how much money people are
Speaker 2: going to make. But who do you think is going
Speaker 2: to walk away with the most amount of cash? If
Speaker 2: you're looking into your crystal ball, clearly we don't. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to hold you to this.
Speaker 1: We will, without a doubt, Okay, without a doubt, it
Speaker 1: will be us. Without a doubt, we will. It will
Speaker 1: be us putting it out there into the universe. We're
Speaker 1: going to walk away with so much money and we're
Speaker 1: going to win it.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: This is something that I ask everybody who joins the podcast,
Speaker 2: and that is what is something from behind the scenes
Speaker 2: from your experience on the show, something that we as
Speaker 2: an audience won't see, kind of a behind the scene
Speaker 2: secret of the block from you know, from your time
Speaker 2: on the show.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't tell these ones.
Speaker 1: I know I can give you one that is just
Speaker 1: so funny that like, so at the very beginning, when
Speaker 1: none of us had support it, so we were we
Speaker 1: had the porterloose and we're all making our I think
Speaker 1: it was like our first bathroom or whatever, and we're
Speaker 1: so we had the frames of our house. So when
Speaker 1: anyone needed to, like we in the middle of the night,
Speaker 1: you just if you're a girl, you just hold on
Speaker 1: to the side of the frame and we off the
Speaker 1: side of the house. And if you're a boy, you
Speaker 1: just were off the side of the house. And we
Speaker 1: didn't realize until a couple of days in there, go
Speaker 1: pros everywhere, so we're all we off the side of
Speaker 1: the house, go pros everywhere. So that's a little bit
Speaker 1: of a BCS hope we would ever make the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah TM, I too much information, very much, guys. I
Speaker 2: think you guys are so fun to watching the show.
Speaker 2: Are you doing so well? Well, I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of my friends that are watching
Speaker 2: the show are loving you on the show as well.
Speaker 2: Good luck with the rest of the competition, and just
Speaker 2: enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thank you so much for having us.
Speaker 3: It's so fun.