1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,679 Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda gam Nation. 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:05,200 Speaker 2: Thanks to you for pointing out Escape to the Chateau. 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 2: We're just working on the zoom lenk right now. 4 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 3: To Escape to the Chateau is one of my favorite 5 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 3: ever shows. Dick and Angel took over a chateau in France, 6 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 3: renovated in the most quirky, fascinating, interesting way, and they're 7 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 3: going to come to Australia to do a stage show 8 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 3: to tell us all about it. 9 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: And are they there? 10 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 3: Are they there? 11 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 2: Hellos Jones and Amanda, I'm Amanda, that's Jones. 12 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:28,319 Speaker 1: Well, that's right, I do. 13 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 4: I mean, this is Dick. 14 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 3: I am one of those people that sounds like a 15 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 3: tool when I say this, but I watched from the 16 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:37,199 Speaker 3: very first episode. 17 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 2: Of People You're the ground flour. 18 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 3: I was on the ground floor. And now when people 19 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 3: talk about your go oh obviously, I know. So exciting 20 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 3: to talk to you in the flesh. Can I ask 21 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 3: you how you felt that when you first put the 22 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 3: key in. 23 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: The door of the chateau. 24 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 3: Did you have any concept at all of how your 25 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 3: lives would change? 26 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 4: No? 27 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 5: Yes, I think because you know what. We put the 28 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 5: key in the door after a four and a half 29 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 5: hour drive and we knew that when we put that 30 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 5: key in, before we even looked inside. Angela wanted to 31 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 5: make the offer and we are going to look in 32 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 5: the door, be where she was right to negotiating and 33 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 5: buy the place. But we knew from that moment on 34 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 5: we had phoned. 35 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's probably right when we found it, 36 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 6: opposed to you know, when we when we got the key, 37 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 6: because that that moment, we had searched for four years 38 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 6: for the right place, and we had a few a 39 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 6: few options that were nearly right but not quite right, 40 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 6: you know it is, and and when when Chateau de 41 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 6: LaMotte come up, we just knew that. 42 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 1: Was the one. And I think that's the moment that 43 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 1: the our world's changed. 44 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 3: I get goosebumps just thinking about all of this, and 45 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 3: I know that many people now are trying to live 46 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 3: the same dream. But all the planets aligned with your 47 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 3: skill sets to make this work for you. Your your history 48 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 3: from obviously an engineer Cheff Dick working with the army, 49 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 3: obviously highly qualified, and your incredible creativity. Angel Not everyone 50 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 3: can master it like you. 51 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, that is sweet and Manda, but we talk about 52 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 4: the fact that the planets did aligned because you can't 53 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 4: write a story about I was born in Burma in 54 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 4: the fifties. Angela was born in Essex in England in 55 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 4: the seventies. We end up finding each other, marrying and 56 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:24,800 Speaker 4: living in a chateau that doesn't make any sense. 57 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 5: So there has to be some sort of alignment takes 58 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 5: place to do that. And all our skills that we've 59 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 5: picked up through our careers all sort of came together 60 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 5: when we met, and so it's a lot of things 61 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 5: lined up. 62 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 4: But that's what happens to If you say yes, things happen. 63 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 4: If you say no, they don't. 64 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 6: I think one of the reasons we fell in love 65 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 6: before we found the shateow is that we both we 66 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 6: generally both have a hunger for life and we love 67 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 6: you know, experimenting, try and trying new things. And actually, 68 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 6: you know that has sort of like led us to 69 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 6: where we are. But there are a lot there's so 70 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 6: many things, a million and one thing that have happened 71 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 6: here at the chateau that we will research the night 72 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:05,519 Speaker 6: before and we will give a go. And I think 73 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 6: that's been our real motto because some of the stuff 74 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 6: that we try to be like is this going to 75 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 6: work or not? And you know what, most of the 76 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:13,959 Speaker 6: time it turns out all right. 77 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,079 Speaker 2: And do you feel that you have created a monster 78 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 2: with other people now wanting to buy shadows. 79 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 4: You know, we never say to anybody buy a chateau. 80 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 4: We say, God, and do what you want to do. 81 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 4: But a chateau is a really silly idea. Let's be 82 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 4: completely honest about it. But the thing is, our shadow 83 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 4: costs less than a bedsit in London. So we made 84 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 4: good decisions to get out and get away and do things. 85 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 4: And if you want this sort of life, if you 86 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 4: want to do it, go for it. Do not actually 87 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 4: make excuses because excuses aren't reasons. And what you have 88 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 4: to do is you have to go for it. 89 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, because you describe your chateau as your happy place, 90 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 3: and not everyone can buy a shaateau. But when people 91 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 3: are renovating, what kind of stuff should they keep in 92 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 3: mind to make their own happy places? 93 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 4: Have somewhere clean literally, because we had the young children, 94 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 4: because remember Dorothy was zero and Arthur just had a 95 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 4: second birthday, we always had a little area that a 96 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 4: play pen for Dorothy. Wasn't the cage, honestly, but we 97 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 4: had a little area that there was clean, that they 98 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 4: could go to and you had to always get to 99 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 4: that because. 100 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 1: It's renovation is grubby. 101 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 6: And what's been interesting, particularly about this chateau is that 102 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 6: we had a very grubby first year and then had 103 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:29,840 Speaker 6: our wedding and then it was all clean and then we. 104 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 4: Got a cleaning fixation as well. By the way, just 105 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 4: she just loves to clean. That's faster than she can clean. 106 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:41,479 Speaker 6: I'm going to specifically answer your question note, but I 107 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:43,679 Speaker 6: with with what made what. 108 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: Makes you happy? You've got to do something that you. 109 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 6: Like, you know, don't don't always do things because your 110 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 6: partner likes it or you know, you're allowed to have 111 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 6: that little area that is yours and makes you smile. 112 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 4: You know what there in lies something that's really important. 113 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 4: We have got Dorothy is our health and safety expert. 114 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 4: By the way, just to print in the context, but everything. 115 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 7: You do and everymore you do, we are very very 116 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 7: aware that we're sort of seventy feet tall and places 117 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 7: in the chateau, and there's things that you have to 118 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 7: be very aware of and any I'm an electrical engineer, 119 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,679 Speaker 7: so I'm not scared by electricity and monitoring. 120 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 4: Other people don't understand it. If you don't understand it, 121 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:23,719 Speaker 4: don't touch it. If you can't do it, don't do it. 122 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 5: Yeah. And the whole DIY is it's not supposed to 123 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 5: be that sort of dangerous activity. 124 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 4: It's supposed to be something you do for fun. 125 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: Yeah. 126 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:32,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, very good advice. 127 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 2: No exactly, he hears it. Now, don't chop your hand 128 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 2: out with the circular side. 129 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: It's very embarrassing with. 130 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 3: You guys on stage. What kind of show? I mean, 131 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 3: just listening to you now, I can absolutely picture this stage. 132 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 3: But talk us through what people will say. 133 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 4: Well, we sort off actually, just so the idea is 134 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:52,839 Speaker 4: people get to know us, and it's the there to 135 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 4: do it concept, which is, you know, do it have 136 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:57,280 Speaker 4: a go at life this show. 137 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 1: The show obviously is in two halves. 138 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 6: In the first half takes takes you to the point 139 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 6: where we have found the chateau, but both of us 140 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 6: have had very full and varied lives. So it's a 141 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 6: chatting and it's a visual part, and then there's an 142 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:16,039 Speaker 6: interview at interval sorry, and then the second half of 143 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 6: it we have a little bit of fun and we're 144 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 6: bringing over a nineteen twenties bingo machine. We call it 145 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 6: Chateau Bingo and we have got we've got prizes from 146 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 6: the attic and we've got slates from the from the 147 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 6: roof that were all signed by the family. 148 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: So we're bringing all of the prizes over that. 149 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's yeah, exactly wallpaper and we have a little 150 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 6: bit of fun. 151 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: With the audience. 152 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 6: And then we do a virtual tour of the chateau 153 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 6: as well, which literally we. 154 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:47,719 Speaker 1: Filmed last week. 155 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 6: So we always try and make sure that we've just 156 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 6: got the most up to dates or com and where 157 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 6: we are at the chateau. And it's quite it's a 158 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 6: chunky show, but for us, it goes quite quickly. 159 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 2: I feel like I can't be describe if you need 160 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:04,719 Speaker 2: any rude bingo call out names. Amanda is your She's 161 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 2: got it all there? 162 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: Yes, please, I'm so crap. 163 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 4: That's a photograph but. 164 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 3: That's up in the attic. Well, this sounds absolutely incredible. 165 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 3: Does listen to you describe that? I just this is brilliant, 166 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 3: so great to talk to the Yes. 167 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 2: Get your tickets, dared to do it. It's touring Australia 168 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 2: from the twelfth of February. Head to shadow dot tv 169 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 2: for all the date and ticket information. Dick and Angel, 170 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 2: thank you for joining us. 171 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I'll see you at the show. 172 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 3: Thank you to both of you. 173 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 1: Oh wait man to take care of Bye bye.