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Speaker 1: This chat, I'm joined by reality TV superstars Mitchard Mark,
Speaker 1: who you would know from two seasons of the Block,
Speaker 1: but are now here to talk about a new lifestyle
Speaker 1: series which they are hosting for Network ten called Location,
Speaker 1: Location Location. The charismatic duo will help ozzies find their
Speaker 1: dream homes, whether they are first time by a downsizing
Speaker 1: for retirement or whatever walk of life these people are from. Location.
Speaker 1: Location Location is based on a British reality program that
Speaker 1: has been on UK screen since two thousand. This is
Speaker 1: a really fabulous opportunity for the boys as they are
Speaker 1: the first gay couple to host a lifestyle program here
Speaker 1: in Australia, and I think it's also really great to
Speaker 1: see men of their age proving it's never too late
Speaker 1: to be exactly who you want to be. I will
Speaker 1: ask Mark about the fashion he will bring to this
Speaker 1: season and how many clothes he made and sourced for
Speaker 1: the show. Mark will talk about why the show was
Speaker 1: a big surprise for him and why he hopes audiences
Speaker 1: will tune in. The boys will also talk about how
Speaker 1: they were approached for this reboot here in Australia, why
Speaker 1: they didn't want to copy previous hosts, and what Endemol
Speaker 1: Shine wanted from them. Plus we will get plenty of
Speaker 1: exclusives from behind the scenes of Location Location Location, which
Speaker 1: starts this Friday at seven thirty on Network ten and
Speaker 1: will be available and will be available on ten plays
Speaker 1: shortly after. Anyway, Let's spring the very fabulous Mitch Mark
Speaker 1: into the podcast and guys, I really hope you enjoyed
Speaker 1: this episode. Very excited boys to be talking to you
Speaker 1: about this show. I actually saw you both at Mardi
Speaker 1: Gras this year and I was blown away. Not I
Speaker 1: shouldn't be, but I was blown away by the amount
Speaker 1: of people that were in this bar that were trying
Speaker 1: to get to you, to talk to the two of you.
Speaker 1: It was just proof that there's so much popularity out
Speaker 1: there for both of you.
Speaker 2: We have been very fortunate and lucky. People are so
Speaker 2: nice when they come up and want to chat. We
Speaker 2: will always make the time to say hello because people
Speaker 2: are always so lovely.
Speaker 1: Well, you're both no stranger to the property market. When
Speaker 1: I heard that Location Location was coming back, I've missed
Speaker 1: a location there, but I think it's a perfect choice
Speaker 1: and how exciting it is to be working on this show.
Speaker 3: It is pretty cool and it is location, Location Location.
Speaker 2: We're not going to miss a location. Yeah. First up,
Speaker 2: thank you so much that you see us as a fit.
Speaker 2: We were real and I mean I was in shock
Speaker 2: when we were asked one to be considered and it wasn't.
Speaker 2: In shock he wasn't And then when you know, we
Speaker 2: were invited to be the host. So one, it's a
Speaker 2: huge onre because this is a format that has so
Speaker 2: much credibility about it and so much history about it, So.
Speaker 3: What could go wrong?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think a lot of people have seen us
Speaker 2: do what we do on the block, maybe didn't fully
Speaker 2: know because we never really talked about it that we
Speaker 2: had done a lot of property flipping, so we had
Speaker 2: done a lot of buying and selling the properties. And
Speaker 2: we looked always at the houses that we did on
Speaker 2: the block as real estate as who would buy it
Speaker 2: in the market, how would somebody live in this house?
Speaker 2: So I love the fact that we can come to location, location,
Speaker 2: location and help people share our experience. It's kind of like, hey,
Speaker 2: twenty years of experience is here at your disposal and
Speaker 2: we can kind of help them on the journey.
Speaker 3: And also to understand that location and home requirement very
Speaker 3: very from suburb to suburb, even block to block, street
Speaker 3: to street, and when people are looking at a home
Speaker 3: in an area and let's say where you run into
Speaker 3: that pub if you look get a home and Darlinghurst
Speaker 3: and they draw a circle around that and say, look,
Speaker 3: I'll go from Darlinghurst to Surrey Hills to Haymarket to
Speaker 3: wool and Mloo, Elizath Bay to rush Cutter's Bay. Every
Speaker 3: little nuance changes with every in and out of a street,
Speaker 3: in and out of a suburb, and there's so many
Speaker 3: intero moving parts to location and to house, and it's
Speaker 3: fun to help people work through that because we've done
Speaker 3: a lot ourselves, and we tend to focus on comparing
Speaker 3: apples with apples as much as you can, and sometimes
Speaker 3: to the oranges and apples, but you've got to work
Speaker 3: out what you're comparing things with and and work out
Speaker 3: what's most important to you and which we've found on
Speaker 3: the show that with Sometimes people think it's all about
Speaker 3: the house and then willing to shift on location, but
Speaker 3: then if they cross over a main row, over the
Speaker 3: the wrong side of a main rate, in their mind,
Speaker 3: all of a sudden they start to get twitchy. And
Speaker 3: then they do realize, well, they've they've got to be
Speaker 3: close to the beach, or close to the schools or
Speaker 3: close to the park, and then their compromises have to
Speaker 3: be well, they can't compromise on suburbs. So maybe they
Speaker 3: can't have the three bedroom house. Maybe it's got to
Speaker 3: be a two bedroom apartment. We kind of take on
Speaker 3: that journey.
Speaker 2: Which is that is a real journey that people the
Speaker 2: audience watching this show I think will be able to
Speaker 2: relate to as well, because, of course, at the moment
Speaker 2: is a hot topic. It's always been a hot topic,
Speaker 2: and sometimes you do need to make those compromises.
Speaker 1: You know. What's interesting about what you were saying just
Speaker 1: a bit before was about how when you're looking at
Speaker 1: a house and you're thinking about the type of person
Speaker 1: that you want to have in that house. I follow
Speaker 1: everything you do on social media, and I saw that
Speaker 1: you went to one of the houses that you built
Speaker 1: for the block. Was that person that you met? Was
Speaker 1: that similar to who you had in your mind when
Speaker 1: you were building that place?
Speaker 2: A great question.
Speaker 3: A working professional couple with children, and that's exactly who
Speaker 3: we thought would be in that house.
Speaker 2: Like it wasn't she? Because that lady, she was so wonderful.
Speaker 2: She pulled up and didn't expect to have us there,
Speaker 2: saying could ask a favor, would you mind if we
Speaker 2: just set a look inside.
Speaker 3: Sie my head in the front door. Once the head
Speaker 3: was in.
Speaker 2: And was all and she kind of went, yeah, come
Speaker 2: in and it's the same as we left it, and
Speaker 2: we actually asked, do you enjoy living here? What's at like?
Speaker 2: She said, absolutely, love it perfect, And we asked her.
Speaker 3: How they have they lived there as a family, and
Speaker 3: that was exactly what we pictured that the family would need.
Speaker 3: So the house worked for them the way we planned
Speaker 3: it to work, which was kind of excited because we
Speaker 3: we've tried to do that with every place with either renovated,
Speaker 3: no matter how big or how small. We've tried to
Speaker 3: envisit firstly, who would want to live there? Generally works.
Speaker 3: We have done some harborfront properties with really super sexy
Speaker 3: bachelor pad vibe and then a little old lady buys
Speaker 3: it and totally blows us away.
Speaker 2: What I like about getting that feedback from the resident, Well,
Speaker 2: first off, she said the steam that steamshower room that
Speaker 2: we put in. Said, before I came into this house,
Speaker 2: I didn't think I wanted that in my house. She said,
Speaker 2: Now I love it, you know, I live about it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I can't live without it. But it gave me personally
Speaker 2: some satisfaction because of course I had some feedback that
Speaker 2: was like, oh, this is not real estate goal. You know,
Speaker 2: this is not going to work in the real estate market.
Speaker 2: It worked in the real estate market, and we now
Speaker 2: bring that knowledge because we trusted ourselves. We knew we knew,
Speaker 2: and now on location occasional location, we're bringing that into
Speaker 2: the real estate market in real time. It's not just
Speaker 2: about how you make a bed or usual cushion, or
Speaker 2: you know, how will your colors work. Yes, that is
Speaker 2: part of making it feel good, but we are now
Speaker 2: in a real estate market working with people who are
Speaker 2: really trying to get in on budgets that vary, you know,
Speaker 2: from needing to be very affordable. These are the bossy
Speaker 2: families through to luxury. We are helping with what we
Speaker 2: know about real estate.
Speaker 3: Also trying to help people have fun on the journey,
Speaker 3: because if they can relax and start to have a
Speaker 3: bit of fun, they'll be able to think more clearly.
Speaker 3: If they're tense, which I think people of them can
Speaker 3: get tense they're looking at properties, it's all about a decision.
Speaker 3: I have to get it right. But if they can
Speaker 3: be relaxed and shared some of their pressure our way,
Speaker 3: they can go in there with more of a clear
Speaker 3: mind and they can see the place for what it is,
Speaker 3: rather than going in there scared and frightened that they're
Speaker 3: going to be pushed into something they don't want. We
Speaker 3: want them to be relaxed and actually think clearly, which
Speaker 3: has been has been really positive, and we get invested.
Speaker 3: So we're overly invested in our people that we're on
Speaker 3: a journey with them, and when they have success, the
Speaker 3: chin starts quivering. The chin starts quivering watching my chin.
Speaker 2: Not the people who are watching the show are going
Speaker 2: to see that complete journey and the tears and the shock.
Speaker 2: You know, we've had people when we put the phone
Speaker 2: down and can say the properties yours. They've accepted the offer,
Speaker 2: people who have been trying for so long, just in shock.
Speaker 2: And one of your couple, it was amazing. I was
Speaker 2: behind the scenes watching this. I was in tears because
Speaker 2: you can see that them, the relief and to be
Speaker 2: able to be part of that is an amazing, pretty special.
Speaker 1: Just even talking to the both of you today, there's
Speaker 1: something incredibly aspirational about the two of you, Like you
Speaker 1: both look like you're from another world. You know, you're
Speaker 1: almost like the genie from the lamp. You know, someone
Speaker 1: someone's rubbed a lamp and you've turned up and you've
Speaker 1: changed their lives in such an extraordinary way. But It's
Speaker 1: the ability to be able to read people and give
Speaker 1: them what they want that I think has been kind
Speaker 1: of the magic of the two of you. In a way.
Speaker 1: You're still so accessible even though you're the genie from
Speaker 1: the lamp.
Speaker 3: It's so funny been hearing you say things about the
Speaker 3: lamp and rubbing it and see what happened. I was
Speaker 3: thinking to myself, There's so much I could do with
Speaker 3: a look, but I'm just staying well because that's a
Speaker 3: mature person that I am.
Speaker 1: It felt to me like for the last twelve months
Speaker 1: that you were kind of auditioning for a show like this,
Speaker 1: was that a particular ploy for endemol Shrine to see
Speaker 1: what you were doing.
Speaker 3: Our whole life has led to that moment. Then we
Speaker 3: planned that we watched kirstin Field when they started twenty
Speaker 3: years ago. Twenty years ago, we thought it, we're going
Speaker 3: to get that show, and we're going to plan our
Speaker 3: social media for twenty years to get there.
Speaker 2: We are not that clever.
Speaker 1: I was wondering whether or not you'd pitch the idea
Speaker 1: to them, or or how it had come about. So
Speaker 1: you guys were just doing your thing and they've called
Speaker 1: you and said, come an audition, so you've auditioned and
Speaker 1: then obviously they're auditioning other people and you've beaten those
Speaker 1: people for this role. I mean, it's it's an impressive
Speaker 1: trajectory for anyone who's been on reality TV to then
Speaker 1: get their own show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's true. We had I kind of remember.
Speaker 2: I think we received maybe an email would we like
Speaker 2: to have conversation, but you know, we're realisting that these
Speaker 2: things don't come along, and I don't know we went
Speaker 2: through the pros. When we finally had the contact saying
Speaker 2: we would like you to host it, I was in
Speaker 2: shock because, you know, really seriously. And I think then
Speaker 2: because it's the first I think, from what I can
Speaker 2: it's the first time that a same sex couple has
Speaker 2: hosted a show. You know, we have gay people and
Speaker 2: trans people, which is fantastic to see that representation, but
Speaker 2: to be a same sex couple that I'm hosting a
Speaker 2: prime show for Channel ten. How amazing the diversity that
Speaker 2: can be represented. And I think I was just blown
Speaker 2: away by that.
Speaker 3: Well, it says a lot about society though too men
Speaker 3: not only the same sex couple, but also a couple
Speaker 3: over sixty to start out with a new show. It
Speaker 3: just shows that we have as society in Australia grown
Speaker 3: so much that we think, you know what, you can
Speaker 3: be old, you can be gay and it's okay, it's
Speaker 3: a new tagline.
Speaker 1: We've come further in lots of ways that I don't
Speaker 1: think we've even realized. But it is not just gay
Speaker 1: people that love gay people. It's you know, it's a
Speaker 1: wider audience than that.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I love that diversity is being embraced that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. What's different about this series in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three because we have seen an incarnation of this show
Speaker 1: on our Telly before you know what tweaks. Do you
Speaker 1: know that they've done from what we saw last time
Speaker 1: it was on Australian screens to what it is now.
Speaker 3: I think in a nutshell. Last time they did a
Speaker 3: version of kristin Phil. It was young, a younger version
Speaker 3: of Christian Phil, kind of very different, but it was
Speaker 3: a version of that show. This time I think that
Speaker 3: actually decided to do the same the same pretense of show,
Speaker 3: but work with a different different, a different couple Christian
Speaker 3: Phil two people that work well together, beautifully together, and
Speaker 3: Mark and I one were a couple, so it makes
Speaker 3: it probably a little more intimate. All so, they've just
Speaker 3: let us be ourselves. We love got Churstian Phil and
Speaker 3: we're very different and we thought we can't be them,
Speaker 3: and the network has been very clear on we don't
Speaker 3: want you to be them, we want you to be you,
Speaker 3: but just being us. So I think because we're playing ourselves.
Speaker 3: It's funny we talk about reality TV. You've had experience
Speaker 3: in reality reality TV as of we, and this is
Speaker 3: called lifestyle. I kind of think that this is real life.
Speaker 1: It is real life, but I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: necessarily true, because the best reality TV contestants are the
Speaker 1: ones that who are genuinely that you know. The magic
Speaker 1: moments that you get are the moments where you're being
Speaker 1: yourself and it's captured. And as I've said, i've met
Speaker 1: you guys in person, who I see on television in
Speaker 1: reality and who you are in this new show. All
Speaker 1: of these things, they're all very real. They're very authentic.
Speaker 1: You're being very truthful about who you are, and people
Speaker 1: love that.
Speaker 2: I guess it's interesting to talk about that because for me,
Speaker 2: I almost a bit like you can't be anything. My
Speaker 2: brain just doesn't compute with how can you be anything
Speaker 2: other than you? And maybe that the journey as gay men.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's from the era that I went through. You know,
Speaker 2: Mitch had his journey. We were in an era where
Speaker 2: in the sixties. I mean I was born in ninety
Speaker 2: sixty one, so I remember the teenage years and the seventies.
Speaker 2: In the eighties, you know, you were not cool, you
Speaker 2: were not to be seen. So you know, maybe kids,
Speaker 2: I had three kids, But maybe from my journey was
Speaker 2: I didn't know that you could be anything other than yourself.
Speaker 2: I think what we bring to this show in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three is us, our fun, our knowledge, and it
Speaker 2: just reflects the change in society over time. But it's
Speaker 2: still a show that is about helping people in their
Speaker 2: property journey, and people who may have had ups and
Speaker 2: downs about property and feel frustrated and been disappointed. We're
Speaker 2: still there to help them through the emotional process of
Speaker 2: buying a property, identifying a property, and hopefully with a
Speaker 2: bit of fun along the way. A few home truths
Speaker 2: maybe as well.
Speaker 1: It's also you guys, that's on brand for you. I
Speaker 1: love a home truth, home truth.
Speaker 3: So sometimes I've tried I thought to myself. I actually
Speaker 3: can't say this. I can't say this to this couple,
Speaker 3: but the people in posts said, oh, you didn't open
Speaker 3: your mouth, but actually fell out of your eyes.
Speaker 1: But it's a good way to be. I think just
Speaker 1: being naturally yourself. I think being authentic is you know
Speaker 1: the way to go. Even when you have something that's truth,
Speaker 1: it's hard for people to understand. As long as it's
Speaker 1: there's no malice in it, As long as you're just
Speaker 1: being genuine, I feel like people can take it on board.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a difference maybe that we see No, it's
Speaker 2: not a difference, but how we approach it is the
Speaker 2: process of coaching.
Speaker 1: Did you guys watch it so just before? Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: got so many things to ask you, But did you watch?
Speaker 1: Because I started watching it today I started like they're
Speaker 1: up to series thirty nine in the UK. You know,
Speaker 1: once you said yes to doing this, did you go
Speaker 1: and watch a lot of the UK version? And did
Speaker 1: you borrow anything that you saw from that series?
Speaker 3: We had seen the show before we were asked because
Speaker 3: we're in the property and we really really enjoyed that
Speaker 3: show in particular, But after we started filming, we then
Speaker 3: watched a few more episodes after we were filming, and
Speaker 3: then it was like, oh wow, that's what we're doing there.
Speaker 3: So we watched it through different eyes after we'd started.
Speaker 2: So I gave us more admiration for kirstin film, Yeah,
Speaker 2: even more. You know, we liked it. But then we
Speaker 2: watched it and when you guys you know your stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah we did, and we thought, oh wow, they did
Speaker 3: that so well. I think I fucked up last week.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming Mitch as well, that you've designed a lot
Speaker 1: of your own fashion as usual. How many outfits did
Speaker 1: you need to make or sauce for a season of
Speaker 1: this show.
Speaker 3: I had quite a big colletion. I sourced a few
Speaker 3: more pieces Mark Mark needed more because.
Speaker 2: He's My style is a little more calm than.
Speaker 3: Easier to find most of mindless stuff that I designed before,
Speaker 3: and I've just been on a big design spree before
Speaker 3: we started filming, so I had a whole lot of
Speaker 3: spare stuff in the trunk.
Speaker 2: So people watching the episodes, each episod so they're going
Speaker 2: to see mitche well, both of us, but multiple there's
Speaker 2: always a reason for it else.
Speaker 3: Color for you today.
Speaker 1: I love it the colors. I still always will think
Speaker 1: of this one iconic moment of television, and that is
Speaker 1: Scotti cam. I think he said something along the lines
Speaker 1: I've never looked more vanilla, or it's iconic for you
Speaker 1: to do that, you know. And I also think it
Speaker 1: takes a lot of courage to do that as well,
Speaker 1: because I think a lot of people spend time at
Speaker 1: home going, oh, I want to buy that dress, so
Speaker 1: I want to buy that suit, I want to look
Speaker 1: a little bit extra, But then they don't do it
Speaker 1: where I feel like for the two of you being
Speaker 1: like that gives people at home that sort of enthusiasm
Speaker 1: to go and represent hood themselves, you know, with their fashion.
Speaker 3: I think it's with fashion you get to I've got
Speaker 3: your stage in life where I decided to please meet
Speaker 3: and if people like it, that's so lovely, and if
Speaker 3: they don't like it, there has to be okay. If
Speaker 3: I get negative press on my fashion, it's like, it's
Speaker 3: okay because I'm not doing it for not doing it
Speaker 3: for everybody and doing for me out of people like it,
Speaker 3: that's a that's a lovely compliment. And if they like
Speaker 3: it enough, they can buy it at our store, and
Speaker 3: that's a better compliment.
Speaker 2: That's better, But then what you're touching on there. I
Speaker 2: remember talking to somebody in our shop six or eight
Speaker 2: months ago and we were talking about brand. She was
Speaker 2: from marketing. She said, oh, you know your brand, you gus.
Speaker 2: I said, well, I think we're about color. You know
Speaker 2: in the store we're not beige, and she was great.
Speaker 2: She just looked at me and she said, no, you
Speaker 2: guys aren't about color. What do you mean? She said,
Speaker 2: You're actually about confidence?
Speaker 1: And what do you mean?
Speaker 2: She said, true, you're about letting somebody come in here
Speaker 2: and feel confident, to give it a go, to try something. Said,
Speaker 2: we give them permission. We give them permission to have
Speaker 2: that confidence. And that's I suddenly went, which is nice,
Speaker 2: that's true?
Speaker 1: And it is true because I think you know what
Speaker 1: it is confidence? Because if I wore some of your
Speaker 1: clothes it would look like Walt Disney threw up on me. However,
Speaker 1: because you can wear it with that confidence, it gives
Speaker 1: it something else. Do you know what I mean? Like
Speaker 1: you do have to have that confidence to be able
Speaker 1: to wear it.
Speaker 3: I've been practicing false confidence my whole life. Been It
Speaker 3: comes easy.
Speaker 1: From being a Reality TV contestant and all the trials
Speaker 1: and tribulations that go with that to then being the
Speaker 1: host of the show. What's the differences between being a
Speaker 1: contestant and you know, the host of the show.
Speaker 3: The big difference is it took us a while working
Speaker 3: with our great team. We've got a great really one.
Speaker 3: We're in a very caring team. We're part of the
Speaker 3: team of producing it. As far as we're not we're
Speaker 3: not in the dark ever, And they've said to us
Speaker 3: on several occasions, you don't need to worry. We are
Speaker 3: going to we're here to make you look like you
Speaker 3: but we're here to we want you to look good.
Speaker 3: We're not set You're not being set up for anything.
Speaker 3: And having done reality TV, you know that sometimes you
Speaker 3: can get a little bit tricked into going down a
Speaker 3: certain path.
Speaker 2: Well, you know that. The difference and the similarity, you
Speaker 2: know a difference for me. You say on the Block,
Speaker 2: you have a challenge every Thursday you go off, so
Speaker 2: you don't know where you're going, Oh what's going to
Speaker 2: happen where?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: For location and location, what we're going into in showing
Speaker 2: people houses, there are no tricks around it. It's not
Speaker 2: like you're looking for a house to get a reaction.
Speaker 2: These homes, these apartments and houses are real properties on
Speaker 2: the market right now that fit within our buyers specifications,
Speaker 2: and sometimes there's a reality about that, which might be
Speaker 2: your budget is not going to get you four bedrooms,
Speaker 2: or your budgets are going to get you the renovator's delight.
Speaker 2: So there's a difference for me about that.
Speaker 3: Well, there could almost be aroundity if we take them
Speaker 3: to a place where everything about them and everything about
Speaker 3: what they told us said this was right. But when
Speaker 3: we get them in there, we get a reaction of
Speaker 3: this is not me, this is wrong. It's like, oh, okay,
Speaker 3: that's the reality, and it's not get out of here.
Speaker 2: And it's not something we that's been set up for
Speaker 2: that to happen, because it's just that's just, oh, we
Speaker 2: thought this would be fine, it's not. I think we also,
Speaker 2: on both the block and location vocation, we worked really
Speaker 2: well with the crew and we respected and particularly the
Speaker 2: second time we did the block too, and the crew
Speaker 2: on location location location is amazing. So that's so with.
Speaker 3: The crew and time.
Speaker 1: Remember hearing though that, I remember, guys, I heard that
Speaker 1: so often. You know, I did a set tour of
Speaker 1: the block when you guys were on it the last
Speaker 1: time that you're on it, not the first time. And
Speaker 1: I knew a lot of people working on the show,
Speaker 1: and everyone raved about working with you, just the work ethic,
Speaker 1: the ability to get the job done, being good talent,
Speaker 1: you know, and being gracious. There was all of that
Speaker 1: being said, not so much about everyone else. But you know,
Speaker 1: I think that was the contrast.
Speaker 2: They're walking through a building site carrying a camera and
Speaker 2: sound equipment. That's tough work. So we always tried, We
Speaker 2: hope that we respected that. The difference from a host
Speaker 2: perspective now is it's not all about us. Our job
Speaker 2: is to learn about our buyers and to share their
Speaker 2: story and to encourage and support them to tell their
Speaker 2: story about their property journey. And that's different. You know,
Speaker 2: when you're on the block, you're the talents, so you're
Speaker 2: telling your story.
Speaker 3: It's interesting because I think when you're on any reality TV,
Speaker 3: whether it's The Bloc or whether it's Big Brother or
Speaker 3: any of those other shows, as a contestant on a
Speaker 3: reality TV show, you don't know enough to realize that
Speaker 3: it's not all about you. You kind of be led
Speaker 3: and to think it is all about you. And I
Speaker 3: think that maybe when we did the Block, we were
Speaker 3: the oldest contestant to ever do the Block when we
Speaker 3: did it, and worse than that is we found out
Speaker 3: to this day we're the oldest couple contestants that have
Speaker 3: ever been on the Block, including the whole twenty years
Speaker 3: that's been running. That's that.
Speaker 2: Living.
Speaker 3: But I think having a bit of age on our
Speaker 3: side help us realize doing that that it wasn't all
Speaker 3: about at us, that we were making a TV show,
Speaker 3: and that the crew who were working on that show,
Speaker 3: like now, the crew on that show, we're we're doing
Speaker 3: their day job and at the end of each week
Speaker 3: they got their their regular day job pay. We were
Speaker 3: lucky enough to be looking at potentially winning nothing or
Speaker 3: a lot of money, So that gave an appreciation for crew.
Speaker 3: Now they're working on a show where we're actually hosting.
Speaker 3: We still realize that it's not all about us. It's
Speaker 3: about it's about the couple we're selling with, but it's
Speaker 3: about the runner, it's about the sound guy, it's about
Speaker 3: the producer, the executive producer, the camera guys. Everybody has
Speaker 3: an equal part, and if everybody tricks each other well
Speaker 3: and does the job right with the direction potentially of
Speaker 3: the executive producer. That way you can make good TV
Speaker 3: and it's not us and it's not the sound guy
Speaker 3: and it's not the producer. It's everything working together. And
Speaker 3: we're lucky that we've got a crew that come together
Speaker 3: that care about each other and having fun and creating
Speaker 3: something that they that they're that they're proud.
Speaker 2: Of, and they care about sharing the stories of these
Speaker 2: buyers that will help an audience who can relate to
Speaker 2: the same journey.
Speaker 1: I think it's collaboration, though, I think you both understand
Speaker 1: a collab you know what I mean, Like, I think
Speaker 1: that you offer the respect to the people you're working with.
Speaker 1: You want to get the job done, you want to
Speaker 1: have a bit of fun while you're doing it, and
Speaker 1: that's collaborating. And when you can collaborate with people really well,
Speaker 1: it makes good content.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Look, we've also had times where we've looked
Speaker 3: at we've got to chown a couple of property and
Speaker 3: then we thought, oh wow, this first property was so
Speaker 3: far off what they actually from what they told us
Speaker 3: to where they're at, this is a mile were miles apart.
Speaker 3: So we've had we've sort of had a team that
Speaker 3: have said, We've said, we've got to find a whole
Speaker 3: set of different properties to show them because this is
Speaker 3: not going to work. And that team has worked overnight
Speaker 3: from six pm when we finished, through till three am
Speaker 3: in the morning, and we've all compared notes at seven
Speaker 3: and said, what have we got here?
Speaker 2: And there's a different house and you walk in and go,
Speaker 2: this is a new one, just on the market. None.
Speaker 2: It's just seen it. To be able to say to
Speaker 2: somebody who has been jaded by their experience and fearful
Speaker 2: about buying property because of their experience, be able to
Speaker 2: say to them, you're the first ones to walk into
Speaker 2: this property is incredible. So we're very privileged.
Speaker 3: So Ben and I'm hearing in ourselves now that we're obsessed.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, we've got to calm down.
Speaker 1: No, No, of course you should be, And of course
Speaker 1: you would be. I think that if you were there
Speaker 1: and you were jaded and you were like, oh, you
Speaker 1: know this is all about me and blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't work. After the last time you're on the block,
Speaker 1: I was like, these guys are going to get asked
Speaker 1: to do every single celebrity show in Australia, so many
Speaker 1: of them. And I thought you, I thought maybe you'd
Speaker 1: be the first two one dancing with the stars that
Speaker 1: you know, wouldn't even need a partner because you just
Speaker 1: dance with each other. Maybe it's going to happen. It
Speaker 1: could still happen.
Speaker 3: I'm a celebrity getting out of here. I'm out of it.
Speaker 1: Never go near that Thing'll never going near home a celebrity. No, no, no, Well,
Speaker 1: now that you're hosting shows that I think it's I
Speaker 1: don't think you need to go down to that level.
Speaker 3: No, it's just that that that show is like buried
Speaker 3: with shit. I don't want to be there.
Speaker 1: No, that's PTSD that you don't need. Guys, you don't
Speaker 1: want to carry that onto season two of Location, Location Location,
Speaker 1: you know, just before you go. As much fun as
Speaker 1: I've had, And as I said to you at the start,
Speaker 1: I honestly I could talk to the two of you
Speaker 1: all day. But what's something of like a behind the
Speaker 1: scenes secret, Like what's maybe something of an anecdote that happened,
Speaker 1: you know whilst you made season one of Location, Location Location.
Speaker 3: I can share one thing that I think will be
Speaker 3: okay to share. There will be two people on the
Speaker 3: show that buyers that it's filming. That was supposed to
Speaker 3: be over one day, but it got late, so we
Speaker 3: had to film the second part of that day the
Speaker 3: next day and the second part of the day. They're
Speaker 3: very tanned.
Speaker 2: Competitive first day, watch for it.
Speaker 1: They were bringing along a home kit of tanning machines.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just watch for it. If we can't stand anymore
Speaker 2: than they just watched for it's in very tanned.
Speaker 3: The next day and I've thought this is continuation of
Speaker 3: the same day and you're very tanned.
Speaker 1: What well, guys, I just want to say, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for your time and your generosity with talking
Speaker 1: to me today. I can't wait to see the show.
Speaker 1: Have you actually have you both seen episodes yet?
Speaker 3: I would see it are parts of one.
Speaker 2: We've seen parts of okay one, and I think people
Speaker 2: I'm hoping, but I think they will love it because
Speaker 2: I watched and I lived it and watched it and
Speaker 2: at the end of our I was in tears. So
Speaker 2: because you are so happy for what people do. People
Speaker 2: love seeing us on the block and what we did.
Speaker 2: They are going to love location, location, location. They can
Speaker 2: get the benefit of both. Come and watch us on
Speaker 2: Friday nights, Channel ten at seven point thirty to learn
Speaker 2: about property.
Speaker 1: We'll all be there, so that's right. The show is
Speaker 1: out right over thirtieth of June, channel ten, and it
Speaker 1: will then be available on Tenplay for people who are listening.
Speaker 1: But boys, thank you so much, enjoy the ride, and
Speaker 1: let's meet up again for series two.