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Speaker 1: Ozenoma from The Block Tree Change, who have been a
Speaker 1: delight to watch this season, making block history being the
Speaker 1: first Muslim contestants on the show. Ozenomer love a good
Speaker 1: laugh and their bond throughout the series has been undeniable.
Speaker 1: From the minute the cameras rolled on the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two series, you couldn't help but enjoy their infectious spirit
Speaker 1: and while things may have got them down at times,
Speaker 1: they certainly knew how to pick it back up. This year,
Speaker 1: the series has been pretty full on. These two have
Speaker 1: not escaped their fair share of rumors, which we will
Speaker 1: get a chance to discuss today. From Midnight tradees, the rumors,
Speaker 1: the judges rigged the weekly scores, to the boys fleeing
Speaker 1: the country. Nothing is held back and I have loved
Speaker 1: getting the boys truth on what has been the most
Speaker 1: memorable season on Channel nine yet. However, let's get started
Speaker 1: with today's guests. I'd like to welcome ozen Omar to
Speaker 1: TV Reload.
Speaker 2: Obviously, the negative energy just keeps building up. Meet Omar
Speaker 2: and Osmond. We did care about everyone, but at the
Speaker 2: day it was always osen Omar first.
Speaker 3: Omar is a professional footy plant and Osmond works in
Speaker 3: property maintenance. No one could just possibly come to the
Speaker 3: blockad and it's time throughout the night.
Speaker 2: You have to be registered and on the payroll.
Speaker 1: They have run with the advice that we gave them
Speaker 1: and presented back to something that is really, I think
Speaker 1: quite exquisite.
Speaker 2: I hope we kind of changed a lot of people's
Speaker 2: minds on what they think of two Muslim kids from Australia,
Speaker 2: the winner of week one on the Block Tree Change.
Speaker 2: I've got homes, got my back and let's go to
Speaker 2: the finish line as hard as we can.
Speaker 1: Hi, boys, thanks for coming on the podcast.
Speaker 2: Hey may I remember you right? Yeah? That is smart.
Speaker 1: Smart, Definitely, I paid. I've paid the boys to say
Speaker 1: that for the people that are listening at home. Are
Speaker 1: you guys ready to get off the block? Roller coaster?
Speaker 3: We we definitely, we could comfortably say we are ready
Speaker 3: to get off, But are we ready to let you
Speaker 3: have this home?
Speaker 2: No blood, sweat and teas we put in within this
Speaker 2: beautiful im so not just yet.
Speaker 1: As a viewer, I'm stressed looking at the landscapes. How
Speaker 1: are you guys going to get them done in time?
Speaker 1: Surely they're going to have to let some houses, you know,
Speaker 1: have a little bit more overtime.
Speaker 2: It feels like that. But there's still a few days
Speaker 2: to go, and we'll probably get there come Sunday. We're
Speaker 2: pretty confident that we've got the team to do our
Speaker 2: landscape and do it to the we can. But I
Speaker 2: think come Sunday, it's surprising a lot happens in a
Speaker 2: couple of days on the block. So we'll get the
Speaker 2: lights on overnight and we'll make sure we put in
Speaker 2: those extra hours to get the job done.
Speaker 1: It's been a fairly hectic season of the block right
Speaker 1: from the start. What was the hardest thing about doing
Speaker 1: the show?
Speaker 2: I think The hardest thing would be away from the family,
Speaker 2: the living standard.
Speaker 3: It was just too cold, you know, no time to
Speaker 3: go out and temper yourself, gave a shower, relaxed the mind.
Speaker 2: It's always ongoing.
Speaker 3: It's just fast paced and if you snooze, you lose, right,
Speaker 3: That's what Scottie says Tree every second.
Speaker 2: Like your last, and that's exactly what it was. So
Speaker 2: it was very hard in that sense.
Speaker 1: I think your place has been very ambitious, and after
Speaker 1: walking through the houses, I think that your house has
Speaker 1: a real wow factor about it. You know, what do
Speaker 1: you think worked in the house and what do you
Speaker 1: think didn't, And maybe we'll start with what you thought
Speaker 1: really worked in your build.
Speaker 2: I think just the way our design was, how we
Speaker 2: can just literally grasp the view of like the massive
Speaker 2: and rangers from literally every room of the house. That
Speaker 2: probably was our best feature, the living room and kitchens
Speaker 2: obviously stunning in the fact that we do get those
Speaker 2: views and we're probably the only house that's uninterrupted. So
Speaker 2: being House five did have a lot of downs in
Speaker 2: regards to getting material and everything done so late, but
Speaker 2: I think the view kind of takes over on that one.
Speaker 1: Is there anything that didn't work, Like, what is there
Speaker 1: anything you're looking back on thinking, Oh, I wish I
Speaker 1: had more time, or I wish I would have done
Speaker 1: that differently, I.
Speaker 2: Don't think so. Decisions that and I did was always
Speaker 2: backed up with ourselves.
Speaker 3: Everything we made were always made sure that we backed
Speaker 3: our decisions no matter what. So there might be little
Speaker 3: things that, yes, we might have chosen that, but we
Speaker 3: definitely as the fast pace was goal with decisions made
Speaker 3: was crazy. But just like you got twolve weeks right,
Speaker 3: seven days a week, two and four hours. We wish
Speaker 3: we had more, but the block is always precise of
Speaker 3: their timely so if they say Sunday delivery and nine am,
Speaker 3: it's literally tool down nine am.
Speaker 2: So we wish we had more.
Speaker 3: We all wish we had more time, but unfortunately this
Speaker 3: is the block and you can't play with the time
Speaker 3: he made.
Speaker 1: I always wonder about the relationships between the other contestants.
Speaker 1: I mean you both, I mean all these groups are
Speaker 1: going through the exact same thing at the same time.
Speaker 1: Do you think that you'll walk away with lifelong friends
Speaker 1: out of the other contestants or has the pressure and
Speaker 1: competitive nature of this entire show impacted those relationships.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, honestly, Oz and I are so competitive. We've
Speaker 2: obviously come on the show and it's always family first.
Speaker 2: We definitely want to do well. We do hope everyone
Speaker 2: walks away and does well. I think that the fact
Speaker 2: that everyone had put twelve weeks of hard work in,
Speaker 2: you do want everyone to walk away with something. I
Speaker 2: mean that they probably came into the block the same
Speaker 2: mindset as us looking after their families. So we'll never
Speaker 2: take that away from anyone. In regards to Long Life Friends,
Speaker 2: probably not, to be honest, I think, like I said,
Speaker 2: we are very competitive. We definitely will probably it's going
Speaker 2: to be a weird one. I mean, we've got our
Speaker 2: own family that we're going to go back to. We
Speaker 2: live in a different state than a lot of them,
Speaker 2: so and will probably just be really busy afterwards. Anyway,
Speaker 2: So I wouldn't say long Long Life Friends, but it
Speaker 2: was a very good block experience and we but that
Speaker 2: would definitely be down as the Block family and that's
Speaker 2: it is what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can understand that. You know, the funny thing
Speaker 1: about this season is that everyone online, everyone watching the show,
Speaker 1: everyone talking about the series wants to know what Sharon
Speaker 1: is really like. What's what's your take on Sharon.
Speaker 2: We got along with Sharon. I mean, we've we've had
Speaker 2: plenty chats with her on and off the camera. She's
Speaker 2: she's very nice. Like I mean, obviously itels pretty hard.
Speaker 2: They're not put in a very tough position. We all did,
Speaker 2: but obviously Oz and I came in with a very
Speaker 2: very different attitude. I think I feel like we came
Speaker 2: into the show knowing or was going to be hard.
Speaker 2: But we also said, we don't want to dwell on anything.
Speaker 2: We don't want to take anything that's happened on a
Speaker 2: Monday into Tuesday, because obviously the negative energy just keeps
Speaker 2: building up and then you kind of push it onto
Speaker 2: other people and stuff. So we didn't allow for us
Speaker 2: to do that. Obviously, her experience would be a lot
Speaker 2: different to ours, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: we only cared it. We did care about everyone, but
Speaker 2: at the D day, it was always Oz and Omar
Speaker 2: first life. We care about what we wanted to do
Speaker 2: with the house. We sacrificed a lot to get on
Speaker 2: the show, and we also miss our family day and
Speaker 2: day out. Both got young kids, so we're going to
Speaker 2: focus on ourselves before anyone else pitty much with the
Speaker 2: attitude that we came in exactly.
Speaker 3: We wanted the experience of a lifetime and definitely, if
Speaker 3: you asked me, but you asked Omer, we definitely enjoyed
Speaker 3: the road.
Speaker 2: So it was pretty good.
Speaker 1: I just couldn't believe how much you two were laughing.
Speaker 1: Like it was quite stressful the day that I was
Speaker 1: there and there was mud everywhere and you guys were
Speaker 1: finishing a working week. But you guys have the best
Speaker 1: sense of humor and you seem like you have so
Speaker 1: much fun together. And I don't know when we first
Speaker 1: met you on the series. Well, you boys were just
Speaker 1: always laughing and it's infectious. Where does that come from?
Speaker 2: It's important to enjoy yourselves. Yeah, look, if you ask me,
Speaker 2: I'll be honest.
Speaker 3: It was one of the hardest but the best experience,
Speaker 3: and all comes back to our attitude from the get go.
Speaker 3: We didn't want only to come onto the block to
Speaker 3: build a beautiful home, but enjoy the experience. So we
Speaker 3: go back home and watch with our family, and it's
Speaker 3: all about having each other's back. And we walked in
Speaker 3: knowing that it is going to be the biggest competition,
Speaker 3: the biggest block ever d year. But all we have
Speaker 3: is I've got AMA's back, almos got my back, and
Speaker 3: let's go to the finish line as hard as we can.
Speaker 3: So it's always about keep pushing and the only time
Speaker 3: we look down at each other is literally by helping
Speaker 3: us out, helping each other up. So it's a it's
Speaker 3: experience that beyond beliefs.
Speaker 2: It was good, it was really good.
Speaker 1: Well, you guys are the first Aussie Muslim contestants to
Speaker 1: take part of the format. Was there any hesitation coming
Speaker 1: on the show? When you heard that no hesitation? We
Speaker 1: did feel like we probably had a little bit of
Speaker 1: added extra pressure. I mean, it wasn't just our fa
Speaker 1: that we're going to watch the show.
Speaker 2: We knew that we were going to bring in a
Speaker 2: whole different, like a completely different viewers that probably never
Speaker 2: watched the block, and we wanted to give them a
Speaker 2: good experience. I feel and I feel like we did that.
Speaker 2: I do feel like we had a great time on
Speaker 2: the show. We did really well, built an amazing home
Speaker 2: and I hope we kind of changed a lot of
Speaker 2: people's minds on what they think of two Muslim kids
Speaker 2: from Australia.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I mean, do you both feel proud to be
Speaker 1: a part of a change in conversation. You know, I
Speaker 1: say this because I still feel like there are some
Speaker 1: Australians that might have a fairly warped and out of
Speaker 1: date thought on Muslim Australians. But you guys, just being
Speaker 1: yourself is a real They're just like us.
Speaker 3: Moment Oh definitely, Like take you back to our conversation
Speaker 3: we had with Dan form and Dan we had a problem,
Speaker 3: but what we've been taught from our beliefs is learned
Speaker 3: to forgive and forget. Then and there, we did not
Speaker 3: go on about to the other contestant and say he
Speaker 3: said this, he said this is how we feel.
Speaker 2: We went straight to the source. It was kind.
Speaker 3: Did you sit down and speak to us? And we
Speaker 3: told them is that Yeah, we're feeling and it's beyond
Speaker 3: just us. It's our community, our people, and we need
Speaker 3: to articulate. You know a couple of words that you
Speaker 3: and Kith have said to people to understand back home,
Speaker 3: it's not only us. We understand where you're coming from.
Speaker 3: You've got a hard job, but explain it to people
Speaker 3: because we know you're good, but they don't know that.
Speaker 3: So let's just clear the mind it's more like just
Speaker 3: to clear it and then just move on because we
Speaker 3: still got a long way to go.
Speaker 1: What's the relationship being like for the two of you,
Speaker 1: You know, while the show's been on television, if you
Speaker 1: had a lot of support from Australians well, from everyone
Speaker 1: coming up and saying you're doing a good job on
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we're so happy, Like honestly, we just
Speaker 2: literally before the podcast, we had a few people come
Speaker 2: and say that we were their favorites and we hope
Speaker 2: they hope we do well and all of that, and
Speaker 2: we get that everywhere we go, Like, the support's been unreal.
Speaker 2: Everyone's loved having us on the show, they said, as
Speaker 2: a breath of fresh air. So we do. We are
Speaker 2: very thankful that we've had the opportunity to make them
Speaker 2: feel like that about us. And obviously you're going to
Speaker 2: get the bad comments and the bad negativity as well,
Speaker 2: but I mean that's that's what comes with being on TV.
Speaker 1: It's a bit of a catch twenty two. You want
Speaker 1: to go on a show like this and risk it
Speaker 1: all to try and make some money, but then you've
Speaker 1: also got to deal with everyone watching the show and
Speaker 1: having their opinion you know, what's the strangest rumor that
Speaker 1: you've read about yourselves or you've heard about yourself why
Speaker 1: you've been on the show.
Speaker 3: I think the strangers. The most weirdest comment would be
Speaker 3: a mania abothers.
Speaker 2: Blood brothers. Yeah, blood brothers, be's mates, best mates, best mates.
Speaker 2: I think the weirdest one was the boys fled the country.
Speaker 2: I love that one.
Speaker 1: They were like, the boys have fled the country and
Speaker 1: gone to Bali because they are overwhelmed and they know
Speaker 1: what's about to come on the show. And you know,
Speaker 1: that headline came out a few weeks ago and then
Speaker 1: we saw the next few episodes and there was nothing
Speaker 1: for you really to be worried about. But it's strange
Speaker 1: the way that a rumor can start. But I guess
Speaker 1: the best thing to ask you was how was Bali?
Speaker 2: Exactly? How our kids? It was good? Yeah, like you
Speaker 2: can't you can't pretty much control what media, you know,
Speaker 2: what goes out in the media.
Speaker 3: But it's like when we had the chance to speak
Speaker 3: and people to understand where we come from, will take
Speaker 3: that opportunity.
Speaker 2: But insaying that, you.
Speaker 3: Know, one of the one main advice my father has
Speaker 3: me was when you go on the show, b why
Speaker 3: and people will love you? So that's exactly how I
Speaker 3: were on the show. Be you are what she sees,
Speaker 3: what she got.
Speaker 2: So we love everybody out there, so send them alove.
Speaker 1: Well, no one on the show escapes. You know these rumors.
Speaker 1: There's now rumors over the last week that the judges
Speaker 1: scoring is rigged and that's why the points scores are
Speaker 1: too close. While you were making the show, did you
Speaker 1: ever suspect that maybe the judges on the show were.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely every week. Every week we went home and
Speaker 2: we didn't win, and we thought I was rigged. But
Speaker 2: might be joking, but there was a few weeks. I mean,
Speaker 2: I definitely feel like living the kitchen, we probably did
Speaker 2: deserve a lot more than we got good. But I
Speaker 2: don't in the saying it's rigged. I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 2: I just feel like maybe the judges probably were in
Speaker 2: his open minded that day. I do feel like we
Speaker 2: probably got cut short a little bit on a few
Speaker 2: of those rooms that we put a lot of effort in,
Speaker 2: especially kitchen and living room. I know we got disqualified,
Speaker 2: but I think even losing three points we should have won.
Speaker 2: We should have definitely won living room week But in
Speaker 2: saying that the judges have a tough job as well.
Speaker 2: They've got to go to five different houses every single
Speaker 2: weekend and judge it to the best of their ability.
Speaker 2: But in saying that we did.
Speaker 3: Get a hush punishment from last year, right, Yeah, but
Speaker 3: we both took it like two men. We were open
Speaker 3: about the piano from from Monday, but it was just
Speaker 3: a shame to get that that feedback from Schood here
Speaker 3: on Sunday, you know, while standing there disappointing and we
Speaker 3: were looking forward.
Speaker 2: To living room. You know, we knew we had the win,
Speaker 2: but it is what it is. What can we do? Man,
Speaker 2: We can't change it now.
Speaker 1: That living room you have to stand in it to
Speaker 1: believe it. Because I saw everyone's living rooms and I
Speaker 1: will never forget that moment. It was just it was
Speaker 1: still so livable, but it's still felt like something from
Speaker 1: another world. It's a moment.
Speaker 3: Definitely when you have two minds come together. It's definitely
Speaker 3: out of this world. To be honest, we oh my
Speaker 3: and I are stand at the block at the moment,
Speaker 3: and every time we go to bed, honestly, we make
Speaker 3: a little happy lap around the island bench to the
Speaker 3: fire to that brick wall around the.
Speaker 2: Piano, just a couple of you know, buttons on the piano.
Speaker 2: They straight to bed. But we still can't believe, Wow,
Speaker 2: we did this. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: I love to think of you two doing that.
Speaker 2: I really do.
Speaker 1: I love I love your attitude and I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just watching this show. I think it's it's a
Speaker 1: good attitude for people to have for everyone watching the show.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting just about those judges. People were saying,
Speaker 1: is it time to change the judges? Do you think
Speaker 1: that having the same judges every year works?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: Do you think that they could probably change it up
Speaker 1: every year?
Speaker 2: Like we said before, it's such a tough job to do.
Speaker 2: I mean, don't you think I would say about judging?
Speaker 2: I feel I do feel as though everyone's got different tastes.
Speaker 2: People that are going to be buying the house. They're
Speaker 2: probably some people will like house four or five, some
Speaker 2: people will like House two, three, like the houses are
Speaker 2: completely different. I also feel like the judges do have
Speaker 2: a certain taste. So it's just going to be one
Speaker 2: of those things like you either do it for the
Speaker 2: judges and try when we can week out, or you
Speaker 2: do it you have a certain buyer that you're feeling
Speaker 2: feel like would like a certain house, and at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, for Oz and I, it is
Speaker 2: for the buyer because that's how we're going to make money,
Speaker 2: I guess, and that's who we're going to sell it
Speaker 2: to at the end of the day and make happy
Speaker 2: for the rest of their lives. I have a long
Speaker 2: day live in those houses. So that's what It's a
Speaker 2: tough gig because you want to you want to win,
Speaker 2: you want to make the ten thousand dollars a week
Speaker 2: in week out, and then on the other hand, you
Speaker 2: want to make a house that's going to sell. So
Speaker 2: I think perfect example was probably mentioned Mark. Last year
Speaker 2: judges couldn't stand their style. I think they only won
Speaker 2: one reveal and they ended up winning seven hundred k
Speaker 2: on auction day so and the favorites didn't do so
Speaker 2: well Ronnie and Georgia. So it's one of those things
Speaker 2: that's a tough situation to be in. Being contestants. We
Speaker 2: can weak out you need the money for the budget,
Speaker 2: but you also want to think about the buyers, so
Speaker 2: I don't end the judges. I think I feel like
Speaker 2: it's a very very tough gig to have.
Speaker 1: Do you think all the houses are going to sell
Speaker 1: this year? Do you think all the houses are going
Speaker 1: to make money?
Speaker 2: You know, hard to answer. Everyone.
Speaker 3: Every house has got a different, different style, definite execution.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, we hope everybody.
Speaker 3: The houses are definitely worth it, that's for sure. I like,
Speaker 3: no matter what the price tag is, no matter what
Speaker 3: the reservers, they are definitely amazing homes and the.
Speaker 2: New technology that's something that's never been done before. And
Speaker 2: obviously I'm not we're not really trying to sell their houses,
Speaker 2: but two years lockdown and COVID, these ore the how
Speaker 2: so as you want to live in if there's ever
Speaker 2: going to be a lockdown again, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. I mean the house I saw it just at
Speaker 1: the end of the lockdown. I saw it the last
Speaker 1: week of filming and you know, I still had the
Speaker 1: COVID blues and I was like, these houses represent everything
Speaker 1: that we now want from a home. You know, we
Speaker 1: want from our homes to be where a place we
Speaker 1: can work, where we can socialize, you know, where we
Speaker 1: can have our leisure. Like all of that needs to
Speaker 1: be encompassed into my home and the homes from the
Speaker 1: block this year are just they have everything that you need.
Speaker 2: Well, Oz and I both have kids. I mean, just
Speaker 2: imagine not being able to go to the park, being
Speaker 2: stuck at home, and imagine these COVID houses, like I
Speaker 2: mean the houses that we've done on the block. We've
Speaker 2: got your own basketball, tennis court, play sock out there,
Speaker 2: You've got your own pool, ten acres of space completely
Speaker 2: off the grid, and that that like your kids can
Speaker 2: actually go out and do whatever they want. They don't
Speaker 2: need to travel anywhere. You can get coaches coming and
Speaker 2: help them. So there's a lot like these houses are
Speaker 2: genuinely made to live at home, like they awesome.
Speaker 1: Is that Mitchen Mark in the background or is that
Speaker 1: a magpie?
Speaker 2: That's a magpie?
Speaker 1: Who's going to be the Mitchen Mark of this year? Like,
Speaker 1: who do you think is going to be the person
Speaker 1: that makes the most amount of money?
Speaker 2: Not the Mitchen Mark, but god willing will be the
Speaker 2: winners of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: So there was people talking about Scotti Cam last night
Speaker 1: saying that he's a little bit crankier than this year
Speaker 1: than any other year. I kind of always have loved
Speaker 1: Scotty Cam's cranky nature on the block. I kind of
Speaker 1: enjoy him leaning into that. But what did you guys think?
Speaker 1: Did you think Scotty was a bit harsh this year.
Speaker 3: We've always watched the block. Scotty's a champion, he's a
Speaker 3: real role model and he was a real leader on
Speaker 3: the block this year For him to be seen as
Speaker 3: being more crankier and it was big, it was massive.
Speaker 2: You know. He was the captain to the ships.
Speaker 3: Everything that we were wrong, he was always there to
Speaker 3: solve problems and anything that went right or wrong.
Speaker 2: He was the one to solve everything.
Speaker 3: For us, Like look at him, had to apologize to
Speaker 3: us because they couldn't get our work from home space.
Speaker 3: Really for us, it's never ever happened in block history.
Speaker 3: He knew our frustration. He knew we didn't have a
Speaker 3: chance to win another another room. We understand it's frustration
Speaker 3: because of the shortage of materials and labor.
Speaker 2: But it is what it is at the day. There's
Speaker 2: nothing we could change.
Speaker 3: We did make sure that our voices were heard on many,
Speaker 3: many occasions, but Scotty was there to take lead and
Speaker 3: to keep us composed at all times.
Speaker 2: So it was good.
Speaker 1: There's also been a lot of constant chatter about you
Speaker 1: guys getting more help than any other houses, you know
Speaker 1: with trainings, reportedly working throughout the night. Is that true
Speaker 1: to you? Did you were you guys working throughout the night?
Speaker 1: Do you think that there was any disadvantage to the
Speaker 1: other people because of that?
Speaker 2: I think we were probably the most disadvantage team this year.
Speaker 2: You've been at the blockhouses. It takes probably like twenty
Speaker 2: minutes to get to House five, so without being.
Speaker 3: Security check signed and who you are as an individual,
Speaker 3: so no one could just walk in at any time
Speaker 3: to be out the night. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think well, at the end of the day, if
Speaker 2: anyone does feel disadvantage, it should be us. Perfect example,
Speaker 2: our working from home space, we got an apology obviously
Speaker 2: that room wasn't ready, but we can. Week out we
Speaker 2: were getting things last delivered to our house, whether it
Speaker 2: was material or getting things done for the room to
Speaker 2: get done, like structural stuff. House Wife was always last.
Speaker 2: So we did have concerns very early on in the
Speaker 2: show because we knew how much it was going to
Speaker 2: affect us. We held a body corporate in week two
Speaker 2: and said if we could do the order and rotation,
Speaker 2: we can week out. That went to deaf airs that
Speaker 2: didn't happen and we had to deal with it for
Speaker 2: twelve weeks straight. So if anyone was at a disadvantage
Speaker 2: on the block, it would have been us.
Speaker 1: But one of the houses, when I was talking to
Speaker 1: them on the podcast, they were like, we saw their
Speaker 1: friends and family going to that house throughout the night,
Speaker 1: you know when we shouldn't have been working. Is that
Speaker 1: just jealousy of maybe they're just competitive have how nice
Speaker 1: your house is? Or was there truth in man?
Speaker 3: Well, we'll be from Sydney, so all our friends and
Speaker 3: families are from Sydney, so that we're not from Melbourne,
Speaker 3: right And in saying that, we said it before, when
Speaker 3: I'll say it again, No one could just possibly come
Speaker 3: to the block at and throughout the night. You have
Speaker 3: to be registered and on the payroll, so you know,
Speaker 3: we don't want to sit in his human things. But
Speaker 3: if you're saying it could possibly be the jealousy, then
Speaker 3: why not. We are a big target for week one
Speaker 3: we won the first winning bathroom, so let it be.
Speaker 3: Like I said, we can't control what people say, but
Speaker 3: it's music to our et if they are concerned about us.
Speaker 2: So we don't care. Also, everyone works throughout the night
Speaker 2: on the block. That's how you get your job done. So,
Speaker 2: like you'll probably see it on the show this week
Speaker 2: landscaping week, everyone gets massive ken Ouds lights put outside
Speaker 2: their house to get working through the night. So there's
Speaker 2: no rules against working through the night on the block.
Speaker 2: Obviously there's powerful stuff and that and that you can't
Speaker 2: do so the generator turns off regardless. So I do
Speaker 2: feel like, like I said, there was a massive target
Speaker 2: on our back. We do have a beautiful home and
Speaker 2: it would be frustrating for other contestants to see us
Speaker 2: doing so well.
Speaker 1: To end on a sort of a lighter note, I
Speaker 1: just want to say, what has been the moment for you?
Speaker 1: That's the hero moment for taking part of the show.
Speaker 4: The hero moment would for us obviously, just being able
Speaker 4: to be on the show and create what we created
Speaker 4: over twelve weeks. Revealing rooms to the standards that we
Speaker 4: did week and week out is obviously going to be
Speaker 4: something we're going to be proud of and we're going
Speaker 4: to tell our kids.
Speaker 2: And hopefully a lot of people for years to come.
Speaker 2: But probably one of the biggest moments that was, and
Speaker 2: I shared that we both loved on the block was
Speaker 2: obviously the charity home. Just pointing just being able to
Speaker 2: use a block as a platform and build a dream
Speaker 2: home for two guys that were both awesome kids, I
Speaker 2: mean Tim and Tyler. To get them to I wasn't
Speaker 2: going to do the basketball caught outside and apart, but
Speaker 2: stuff and just see their faces. That was That was
Speaker 2: the most rewarding part of the block so far.
Speaker 1: Well, everyone who joins the podcast gets asked this question
Speaker 1: to finish off the show, and that's what's something from
Speaker 1: behind the scenes, something that we won't see, kind of
Speaker 1: like a behind the scenes secret from being on the
Speaker 1: block for you guys.
Speaker 2: That's a that's a solid that's a solid question. That's
Speaker 2: the good. If they want to know something, they need
Speaker 2: to know that it is so real that it is
Speaker 2: not scripted at all. Like obviously they do edit the show.
Speaker 2: But in regards to how much work we have to
Speaker 2: do and how much stuff we have to do to
Speaker 2: get rooms revealed every Sunday, it's ten times harder than
Speaker 2: you think. Do we get help, No, we don't. Seven
Speaker 2: days to get a room ready.
Speaker 3: Yes, as a builder, I thought it was impossible, but
Speaker 3: now well, wow, seven seven days.
Speaker 2: That's all you've got.
Speaker 3: Let's than seven days, six and a halve days to
Speaker 3: get a room week in week out, really at nine
Speaker 3: am Sunday every morning.
Speaker 2: So it is real. It's the most realious reality TV
Speaker 2: show I have ever seen and actually been a part
Speaker 2: of it. So it's real.
Speaker 3: Guys, The block is real. Do not get help design building?
Speaker 3: No one's at that to help the one you're like
Speaker 3: like a vampire.
Speaker 1: Do they have a therapist that to help you out?
Speaker 1: I feel like i'd need therapy. I think I'd need
Speaker 1: constant therapy.
Speaker 3: The only therapy that we had was omer and was
Speaker 3: this therapy we had each other, so that's the only
Speaker 3: therapy we were accepting.
Speaker 2: At the time.
Speaker 1: Boys, can I just say thank you so much for
Speaker 1: being so generous with your time and talking to me today.
Speaker 1: I've you know, I was so privileged to have been
Speaker 1: able to walk through your house and see how phenomenal
Speaker 1: it is. And just lastly, I just want to say,
Speaker 1: I think it's very amazing for you both to come
Speaker 1: on the show and and be yourselves and show Australia
Speaker 1: that you know, we're all pretty much the same and
Speaker 1: we all should be treated the same.
Speaker 2: We're all the same guys. We are proud Australians and
Speaker 2: we love everyone. Amazing, amazing, Let's let's go.
Speaker 1: Actually, if if you win seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: what are you guys going to do? Would you go
Speaker 1: into business together?
Speaker 2: Like or like? Have you got plans flee the country?
Speaker 2: Flee the country? No? No, no, definitely not Oh annoy
Speaker 2: brand name.
Speaker 3: Now we want to showcase our talent to the world,
Speaker 3: so definitely there's there's got to be media for us
Speaker 3: in regards building.
Speaker 2: Definitely we have something along the way, so see how
Speaker 2: we go. Charity definitely a lot of charity orf.
Speaker 3: That's that's what we do back home, and would like
Speaker 3: to use this platform to really build it to the
Speaker 3: best we can so get that awareness.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people out there that are struggling,
Speaker 2: and I think we're pretty lucky. We've got it so
Speaker 2: good in this country. But there's a lot of kids
Speaker 2: and well we're definitely going to work with kids.
Speaker 3: And one one main point on why our attitude also
Speaker 3: positive on the show, it's just two people. You know
Speaker 3: how many times we got shut down, you know, three
Speaker 3: shutdowns and team shutdowns, many doors shut down on us,
Speaker 3: not on purposely, but just to show people not to
Speaker 3: give up the life. You know, stay composed, take a
Speaker 3: step back and understand who's your loved ones around you.
Speaker 3: I had hom on the show. Knew he had my back,
Speaker 3: I had his back and yeah, Omer, yeah, you know
Speaker 3: we got shut down.
Speaker 2: Do we give up? No, put a smile and just
Speaker 2: keep pushing life. Life is beautiful.
Speaker 3: His life is beautiful and colorful and it's very short,
Speaker 3: so you don't want to regret it.
Speaker 2: So just reach out to your loved ones and make
Speaker 2: sure you just keep pushing. You know, there's always someone
Speaker 2: there that want want to eat your problems. And then
Speaker 2: that's exactly how we took this experience on the block.
Speaker 3: Just have the right attitude, sur around yourself with the
Speaker 3: good people and say less you know, it is what
Speaker 3: it is. At the end of the day, God, God's
Speaker 3: best planners. Now we plan, you plan, but God is
Speaker 3: always known to be the best of planners. So just
Speaker 3: keep cashing less.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm in your audience, guys. I'll be in your
Speaker 1: audience for years to come to see what you guys
Speaker 1: are up to. As I'm sure a lot of other
Speaker 1: Australian tool as well, but yeah, thanks for being on
Speaker 1: the podcast today and good luck at the auction.
Speaker 2: Thanks Legend, Thanks awesome chatting, Mack, thanks for having us chat.
Speaker 2: Lovely to chat to you both. Good Luck. I'll definitely
Speaker 2: remember you this time, because
Speaker 1: I paid you, because I gave you the Mad Guys.