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Speaker 1: It is back on Sunday, and I cannot wait, judging

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Speaker 1: by what I've seen of the promos for it, and

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Speaker 1: there's going to be drama and I don't even have

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Speaker 1: to wait more than about forty eight hours to see

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Speaker 1: some the Block. Sunday seven o' block on Channel nine

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Speaker 1: and nine. Now Scott cam.

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Speaker 2: Is with us. Good morning, Oh morning guys. It's so

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Speaker 2: good to be he haven't been in Perth for two years.

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Speaker 1: Yes, blocked out.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I was going, oh yes, I did, yes, funny.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're blake here cod.

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Speaker 1: It was.

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Speaker 4: But you're happy with.

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Speaker 3: Him, the great Wall of Mark. Well, he's overwhelming winning

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Speaker 3: the elections. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's Yeah.

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Speaker 1: No, I think most people are pretty happy with except

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Speaker 1: for the vocal minority.

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Speaker 2: Well, I you know, I obviously miscoming to Perth, but

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Speaker 2: it was a nice little break for me because they're

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Speaker 2: normally flying a couple of times a week or something

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Speaker 2: like that, doing all that sort of stuff like we're

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Speaker 2: doing now. So that was a nice little break.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a lot.

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Speaker 4: Regroup.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Now this is a year of first and the Block,

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Speaker 1: first regional build, first time you're building a house on

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Speaker 1: the show as well, and the first time someone has

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Speaker 1: down tools and walked out before the show barely gets underway.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's been a fair bit happening in the

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Speaker 2: first forty eight hours of the series, which is great.

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Speaker 4: And I do build my own house.

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Speaker 2: I've got a nice team of people with me helping

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Speaker 2: me out, so that's great. And it's the original homestead

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Speaker 2: that was on the property that we bought the McGeorge family,

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Speaker 2: immigrants from Scotland, and they were there in the eighteen

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Speaker 2: sixties and this is the original house for they built

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Speaker 2: and we've brought it back to its former glory, which

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Speaker 2: is terrific.

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Speaker 3: And we do have a team that leaves after forty

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Speaker 3: eight hours.

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Speaker 4: Wow, they well and look there's.

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Speaker 1: All sorts of reasons. Yeah, and rumors being that she

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Speaker 1: didn't want to wear the high vis.

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Speaker 4: Well, you're going to have to ask them.

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Speaker 1: She's an influencer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're going to have to ask them why they left.

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Speaker 2: They didn't really tell us why they were. They sort

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Speaker 2: of like up and packed up in the morning.

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Speaker 3: Thaks of they were gone.

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Speaker 4: Well, they sort of like wake up in the morning

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Speaker 4: and got in the car and took off.

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Speaker 3: Oh they did the phantom like you do to your friends.

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Speaker 1: At the pub back we're got a frich exit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, a little bit, a little bit like that,

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Speaker 2: and and we wish them well, you know, the block's

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Speaker 2: not for everybody, right and a good stuff, but.

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Speaker 4: Forty eight hours well you know.

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Speaker 2: And and you if you ever speak to them, ask

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Speaker 2: them why they left, and then I'll be able to

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Speaker 2: find out.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, it's that much of a mystery. She rolled

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Speaker 3: up with. I'm speaking of the female member of the

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Speaker 3: What was going on there?

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Speaker 4: A little bit jar Jabor. Yeah, but of course it's

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Speaker 4: high all the way on the block.

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Speaker 2: You've got you can't wear your fashion gear and your shoes.

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Speaker 2: You've got to wear your boots. You're still caps in

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Speaker 2: your high viz and that's a rule of course safety.

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Speaker 4: Oh and s your a building side.

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Speaker 3: So anyway, you got to ask them, Yeah, I do.

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Speaker 3: I do.

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Speaker 1: Recall the photo that I saw on social media of

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Speaker 1: them leaving the block back when you know, it was happening,

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Speaker 1: and I counted about twenty five suitcases and I thought,

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Speaker 1: of pajamas. Do you think people are less resilient now,

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Speaker 1: I mean you kind of know what you're signing up for.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, look, I don't think so.

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Speaker 2: We had we had some great contestants there and the

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Speaker 2: twom that replaced them that that's the bonus. We've got

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Speaker 2: a great couple out of that. And they did a

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Speaker 2: fantastic job. And the teams that were on the show itself,

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Speaker 2: they worked fantastically, some better than others, but that's always

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Speaker 2: the case. And you know, once people talking of resilience,

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Speaker 2: head down, bum up. They did a fantastic job and

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Speaker 2: on the block. And I've said this many times, you've

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Speaker 2: got to give like one hundred and fifty percent. If

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Speaker 2: you think that you are giving one hundred percent, you've

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Speaker 2: actually got to give a little bit.

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Speaker 3: More, right, Okay, to get through it, keep pushing througheah.

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Speaker 3: And lots of difficulties, I mean obviously give you know,

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Speaker 3: issues with labor and materials and this time, but also

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Speaker 3: a muddy site. You had a lot of rain.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we had a lot of rain. I think in

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Speaker 2: a forty five day period we had thirty nine days

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Speaker 2: of rain, drizzle and stuff like that. And the seventy

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Speaker 2: acres was you know, it was dirt, so it was

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Speaker 2: mud and our crew trudged through that Saturday contestants. It

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Speaker 2: was really tough and everybody struggled. Three months of.

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Speaker 4: That is tough.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine there are some things that you have

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Speaker 1: to get done that you would say, well, I need

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Speaker 1: this window of opportunity of dry weather to so everyone

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Speaker 1: would be trying to get that done on the same

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Speaker 1: the little window of opportunity that they had, well madness.

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Speaker 2: In actual fact, they had to push through their own

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Speaker 2: and get it done. You've got a week to do

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Speaker 2: something and Sunday nine o'clock comes.

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Speaker 4: Around pretty quick.

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Speaker 2: The big issue we had because it was very cold

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Speaker 2: out there, We got pushed back six weeks because of

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Speaker 2: various reasons with counsel.

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Speaker 4: The paint wasn't drying, yeah, because it was so cold, and.

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Speaker 1: The plaster just a domino effective hold you are.

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Speaker 2: So, you know, we've got the great sponsors of Kennards

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Speaker 2: who gives us, give us anything we want. So we

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Speaker 2: had like twenty big heaters blowers blowing hot air into

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Speaker 2: paint it.

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Speaker 3: And you can paint, yeah, and what.

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Speaker 1: What is a bit different to other years is, of

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Speaker 1: course these houses are really spread out. Like most of

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Speaker 1: the time they're in the same street. They've been in

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Speaker 1: the same building and you could just you know, look

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Speaker 1: over the back fence and see what your neighbor's doing.

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Speaker 1: But these guys are like a kilometer.

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Speaker 4: Apart from it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but like because we're seventy acres and they've all

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Speaker 2: got ten acres each. Yeah, so yeah, you're right. From

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Speaker 2: House one to five was like three quarters of a k.

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Speaker 2: So I hosted dinners twice a week, bring them together,

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Speaker 2: give them information, have a bit of fun, give them

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Speaker 2: a chance to win some money as well, because that

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Speaker 2: money's key to this whole thing.

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Speaker 4: And so that was how.

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Speaker 2: We got them together to interact, and we did challenges

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Speaker 2: and little bits and pieces. And we had a because

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Speaker 2: we had a ten kilometer of speed limit on the

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Speaker 2: site because we'd roads and people and trucks, and so

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Speaker 2: we had one of those signs that when you drove

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Speaker 2: it told you how fast you're going. Right, So one

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Speaker 2: Saturday morning, I said, let's get let's get everybody.

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Speaker 4: Out onto the onto our main road and we'll have

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Speaker 4: a running race.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, So who goes the fastest?

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Speaker 4: Yes, because as you run it comes up.

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Speaker 3: How fast it?

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Speaker 1: I know who went the fastest to the world.

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Speaker 2: So i'd get Saturday contestants were all running a thousand bucks.

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Speaker 4: On the line.

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Speaker 3: Oh nice, Yes, okay, So that's the sort of things

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Speaker 3: we did. Stall Gift and it was Stall Gift.

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Speaker 2: We call it the Gismond Gift was a race.

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Speaker 3: But before you go, you have a little Boodie has

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Speaker 3: told us that you lived in Perth once, right, A

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Speaker 3: lot of people don't know that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I did. I lived in the eighties.

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Speaker 2: I moved I was traveling around Australia and I lived

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Speaker 2: in Fremantle for about two or three years, and then

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Speaker 2: I moved up to Exmouth.

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Speaker 4: For a couple of years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I lived up there as a carpenter.

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Speaker 1: And of course Freemantle is the perfect location for a

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Speaker 1: way block.

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Speaker 2: It is, yes, And I lived in Harvest Road in

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Speaker 2: North Freemantle, I think that is, and in a little

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Speaker 2: Victorian terrace tee type house. It was fantastic, like there

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Speaker 2: was there was five twenty five year olds in the house.

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Speaker 4: It was unreal times.

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Speaker 3: I didn't do that much.

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Speaker 1: The block launches Sunday at seven o'clock on Channel nine

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Speaker 1: and nine now and we look forward to it.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for coming Instau, thank you guys.

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Speaker 4: Great to see you.

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Speaker 3: Finally, don't leave it two and a half years this

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Speaker 3: time