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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Well it's time for you to look sharp, Brendon, because

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Speaker 2: we're about to be in the company of a Bachter

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Speaker 2: Award winning broadcaster. Right, I'm environmentalist, I am it a

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Speaker 2: balloonist and storyteller. You may know him best as the

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Speaker 2: presenter of Grand Designs. It's Kevin McLeod. Welcome to the show,

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Speaker 2: Kevin morning.

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Speaker 3: Thanks, good morning.

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Speaker 2: I am a balloonist. You'd want to be a good

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Speaker 2: one because they're risky things, aren't they.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it's very funny. I to she has girl

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Speaker 1: sent it from from from Melbourne on the radio and

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Speaker 1: she said, she said, how many animals can you make?

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Speaker 1: I said, what do you mean with your balloons? No,

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Speaker 1: it's not that kind of ammasurre bloon.

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Speaker 3: You'd see them, but you could see how she went wrong.

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Speaker 2: Then we're a smart bunch. But do you fly them yourself?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 1: No, no, I just love going up in the midst

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Speaker 1: of the great ways to see a city is to

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Speaker 1: fly over it and do a seeing go really slowly over.

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Speaker 1: It's beautiful and there's that. There are two ways I

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Speaker 1: like to see a city, or maybe three. One is

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Speaker 1: walking at night. One is in a balloon, and one

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Speaker 1: is on the back of a motorbike, because if you

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Speaker 1: get on the back of a motorbike or a scooter,

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Speaker 1: you can just look up, you know, and drive through this.

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Speaker 1: It's a great, great way to get around a place.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got a motorbike, Keev, so any time you

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Speaker 3: want to get.

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Speaker 1: On the back, Okay, no, no, you're on. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: There's nothing better than going across the Harbor Bridge in

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Speaker 4: the city because you can ride in the bus lane.

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Speaker 3: And I just love looking up at that structure that

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Speaker 3: is our harbor bridge.

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Speaker 1: Do you know you're right driving through big bridges like that,

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Speaker 1: either in an open top car or on a bike. Amazing.

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Speaker 2: One of the things I find so intriguing about grand designs,

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Speaker 2: because it gives me recurring nightmares, is that people who

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Speaker 2: want to build houses in the most unlikely places. You

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Speaker 2: look down the bottom of a well and you think, yep,

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Speaker 2: I want to live there inside an overgrown and dilapidated church.

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Speaker 2: I mean, where are some of the weirdest places you've

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Speaker 2: seen people build homes?

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Speaker 1: Well? Probably, actually the weirdest was a cave in It

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Speaker 1: was Angelo who built himself to a cave in Shropshire.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, took an old one and extended it instead.

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Speaker 3: Of his cave. So isn't he just a minor.

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Speaker 1: Then well he became a Yeah, he excavated his own

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Speaker 1: home in the idea. It's kind of amazing. And of

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Speaker 1: course there are no planning laws around caves, so you

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Speaker 1: can do what you want.

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Speaker 3: Oh really, well, it pays to be a hermits.

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Speaker 4: When I lived up in Queensland, there was a family

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Speaker 4: that lived in a water tank in Blimber. I don't

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Speaker 4: know if you've seen that, but there's there's an actual

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Speaker 4: water tank and they made a house inside.

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Speaker 1: It. Isn't that cool? I'm just finding we know, which

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Speaker 1: is a concrete water tank that they're having to punch through.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, people may go home anywhere.

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Speaker 3: What about those a frame houses anyone? Do those anymore?

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Speaker 1: Make fun?

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Speaker 3: The a frame you know, those a frame houses.

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Speaker 4: They look like just two playing cards put in extrail

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Speaker 4: had a lot of time for a while.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, we had a lot of them in

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Speaker 1: about the eighth century. Those made out of frame timber. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's probably the most primitive house form you can make

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Speaker 1: from trees, you know, really really straightforward and simple, but

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Speaker 1: actually you know, time on it. And actually because they're

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Speaker 1: framed pretty resistant and quite you know, you a fantastic

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Speaker 1: weather proof building.

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Speaker 2: You when you're growing up, your dad was a rocket scientist.

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Speaker 2: If anyone can say, look, it's not rocket science, it's you.

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Speaker 2: But is it what we picture that people, you know,

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Speaker 2: crazy experiments at home and explosions in the backyard or

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Speaker 2: did you just go to work like every other dad?

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Speaker 1: No, he did that all work and the big tes laboratories.

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Speaker 1: But no, no, no, he just said that I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you one thing about rocket science. It's not rocket science.

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Speaker 1: That's what he used to say.

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Speaker 3: Well, Kevin, it's great to talk to you. You can

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Speaker 3: see Kevin live in the world.

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Speaker 4: According to Kevin McLeod, it's the twenty first of February,

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Speaker 4: so that's this Friday Friday tickets from ticketmaster dot com

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Speaker 4: dot a you and that offer is there for you

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Speaker 4: anytime you want to get on the back of the bike, keV.

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Speaker 1: Oh, bless you mate, No, no, i'd be dad keen. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I've dropped my I've dropped my fork

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Speaker 4: at a walk at policy as well.

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Speaker 2: So you don't have to kiss him at the end.

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Speaker 1: It used to be a thing in Les.

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Speaker 3: Exactly nice to talk to, take care, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Joined the and Amanda in the Morning on seven SM