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Speaker 1: The Block begins seven o'clock on Sunday on Channel nine

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Speaker 1: and Scott cam is joining us now morning, scottber morning, guys.

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Speaker 2: How lovely to talk to you. Sorry, I'm not there.

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Speaker 2: I didn't make it the Perth this year through circumstances

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Speaker 2: and I had a few things on, so I'm really

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Speaker 2: sure I'm not there.

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Speaker 3: That's all right.

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Speaker 1: I wanted against you. This is season nineteen. I can't

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Speaker 1: believe it. Some people have grown up with this show.

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Speaker 1: The season has a nineteen fifties theme to it. Does

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Speaker 1: that mean they are houses built in the nineteen fifties?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? What it was. We luckily we got five houses

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Speaker 2: side by side, all built in the nineteen fifties, all

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Speaker 2: very similar, same brick, same color, but a little bit

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Speaker 2: of a different layout inside and slightly and all original.

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Speaker 2: They hadn't been renovated. That's good, and it was just perfect.

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Speaker 2: So we thought we dressed them up as if Nana

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Speaker 2: had just moved out and you were moving into Yunan's

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Speaker 2: house basically with all the furniture, and you've got to

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Speaker 2: modernize it now in.

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Speaker 4: The mid century work going on there, Scott. Look, you're

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Speaker 4: looking to.

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Speaker 3: Get rid of the doors and the mustard smell.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely exactly. Now you're looking very fonsy in the primo there.

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Speaker 4: You look like you had a little bit of fun

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Speaker 4: putting a lot together.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry about that story. That leather jacket I

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Speaker 2: had on. It was brand new and you know, the

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Speaker 2: wardrobe supplied that for me to dress me up, and

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Speaker 2: they had to cut it right up the back so

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Speaker 2: I could do it up.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's one way of taking it home.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And then I took it home and because they

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Speaker 2: were going to shout out yeah, and my wife had

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Speaker 2: it fixed for fifty bucks and I got.

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Speaker 4: It to the Would you put a bit of a

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Speaker 4: bit of alcro on there? Mone, would you?

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Speaker 2: I don't know what they did did something.

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Speaker 1: So this is great for the first time in quite

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Speaker 1: a while, Scott, and I mean, I know.

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Speaker 3: COVID had a lot to do with it. But there

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Speaker 3: will be a w a couple again. Tell us about

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Speaker 3: Kyle and Leslie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're terrific and they build a beautiful home and

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Speaker 2: they're a little bit deer in the headlights at the start,

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Speaker 2: because that has most contestants are. They get stuck into

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Speaker 2: it and crack. And interestingly, we had a launch last

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Speaker 2: week and a few people went through all the houses

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Speaker 2: and quite a few people said they liked Carlin Leslie's house. Nice.

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Speaker 2: That's interesting feedback.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it certainly is. Mate. What about the judges, there's

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Speaker 4: a little addition coming in there on belief, So there's

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Speaker 4: still Shaner and Darren and Neil in both.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and Neil's having a little bit of time off throughout,

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Speaker 2: so he does a few. We've got Marty Fox, who

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Speaker 2: is a real estate agent in Melbourne, which I think

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Speaker 2: is a really good perspective to put on the judging,

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Speaker 2: to judge it from a real estate viewpoint, So I

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Speaker 2: reckon that's not a bad addition. And he does a

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Speaker 2: great job. And actually he speaks his mind too about

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Speaker 2: this will never sell, this is no good, and this

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Speaker 2: is good. So he's actually very good. And the confesses

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Speaker 2: don't like him. That means he's a good judge.

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Speaker 1: And he couldn't have a more real estate tycoon name

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Speaker 1: than Marty Fox. It sounds like a name for a sitcom,

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Speaker 1: doesn't it.

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Speaker 2: And he doesn't wear socks and magic. It's classic.

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Speaker 4: You can see the sign now, okay, the real estate.

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Speaker 1: Sign Tom from last year, as in Tom and Sarah Jane,

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Speaker 1: I believe he's going to be the official plumber.

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Speaker 2: Well, what we've done this year is we've done a

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Speaker 2: few things different. We've given them the whole schedule, so

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Speaker 2: they know what's coming up next week and the week

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Speaker 2: after and the.

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Speaker 1: Weekend that's going to be absolutely because it's such a

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Speaker 1: big build, we thought we needed to give.

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Speaker 2: Them a heads up. We also give them all their

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Speaker 2: money upfront. Then they could plan their money out because

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Speaker 2: they know what's coming with the schedule. And then a

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Speaker 2: lot of the times where they waste money on their

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Speaker 2: budget and it becomes critical towards the end is because

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Speaker 2: of plumbers and electricians. They're standing around they're not ready

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Speaker 2: for them. So we've decided to supply the plumbers this

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Speaker 2: year and the electricians and Tomas in charge on the plumbers,

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Speaker 2: and he's doing that. He's doing that and if you're

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Speaker 2: not ready for him, then they just move next door.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, giving someone all the money up

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Speaker 1: front is going to go.

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Speaker 3: One way or the other. Yeah, I speak from you

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Speaker 3: know experience.

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Speaker 1: The auction day will be as challenging as any with

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Speaker 1: these interest rate rises over the past eighteen months.

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Speaker 2: Is the world it is, and this is our show.

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Speaker 2: We copy what mums and dads are doing every weekend.

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Speaker 2: They're every budding their house. It's then selling it or

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Speaker 2: putting it to market, and that's exactly what the show is.

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Speaker 2: It's real. But the market changes. And I think the

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Speaker 2: Melbourne market has survived it's interest rate unbelievably, it's still holding.

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Speaker 2: But it all depends what's going to happen in three

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Speaker 2: months time.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, right to inhold for the time being, Scott,

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Speaker 4: But you engine everything will be crossed. But you imagine auction.

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Speaker 4: It's a very different situation this year because last year

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Speaker 4: we move on, don't we.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like some sold crazy and some didn't. And that's

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Speaker 2: that's the nature of the beast on auction day.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 2: I wake up gee a little bit sick of the

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Speaker 2: stomach because I've got no control the most important episode

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Speaker 2: of our series and we have absolutely no control over it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but the buys, the real estate agents and the auction

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Speaker 2: is they're in control.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well this season Ground zero is in Hampton East and

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Speaker 1: it's on Charming Street.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I can't believe.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe you actually found five houses ready to

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Speaker 1: go on Charming Street. All the sides are there, I

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Speaker 1: think for a good one.

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Speaker 4: Your Prince Jermy, I think so.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well, well we'll check back in with you

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Speaker 3: as we get going.

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Speaker 4: Scott, thanks Mabie.

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Speaker 2: Talk to you guys.

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Speaker 4: Take