WEBVTT - BEHIND MITCH AND MARK'S RETURN TO THE BLOCK 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:01.720 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:03.640 TV Reload the podcast last week. 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:05.120 I'm right, how. 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:07.720 Would I describe a television set, oh. 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:11.160 Man from a headline grabbing point of view, the hack 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:13.720 producer from me says one hundred percent put him in. 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.400 Welcome back guys to TV Reload. My name's Benjamin Norris, 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.079 and on this podcast I go behind the scenes with 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:22.720 the biggest players in television. 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:25.040 Yeah, great questions. The show's about the game. 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:28.400 There's a lot of great television out there in Australia. 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.000 But I've also got to go behind the scenes with writers. 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:33.280 The truth is, when I started writing it, it wasn't 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:36.280 had nothing to do with the news and casting agents. 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.000 They know from a casting point of view what they need. 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:41.360 And editors because that's what we do as editors where 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:45.919 storytellers them. Not to forget some incredible executive producers who 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.959 are making some of the best TV content in Australia. 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.400 I have been on the program since the beginning and 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:53.440 it's kind of in my DNA. 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:56.080 So thanks for joining me each week and I hope 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.360 the podcast continues to give you real insight into the 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.880 magic of te Today on the podcast, I have Mitch 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:06.000 and Mark from Channel Lines the Block fans versus favorites. 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:08.440 Mitch and Mark make up a large percentage of the 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:11.720 Block's favorites part of the twenty twenty one competition, and 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.520 very quickly into the chat, I worked out why the 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:16.760 boys are so much fun to work with. They are 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:21.039 both generous, thoughtful and wickedly funny. Both can tell a 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.080 story better than most and while we could get bogged 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.720 down in the stereotypical parts of their same sex relationship, 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:31.000 they are just normal, everyday Australians living their lives like 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.919 anyone else, maybe with a better relationship manual than most people. 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.760 The boys really do pop on the series this year. 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:41.640 The fashion, the one liners, and the no bullshit mentality 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.920 has really worked. We will unpack their return to the show, 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.920 their current relationship with the other contestants, and stick around 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.840 for a jaw dropping or should I say pants dropping 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:55.760 story that will leave you speechless. The Block is dominating 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.840 the ratings after seventeen seasons. It's a phenomenal show with 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:03.280 a fan base and an audience as loyal as any 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.720 other sporting team. Weekly we learn how to build houses, 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.000 or at least get inspiration to do so. We laugh 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.640 and we cry along with the contestants, and not to 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.400 forget all the drama that has happened this year and 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:19.680 made national headlines. However, let's get started with this week's 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.680 midweek episode. I'd like to welcome to the podcast. 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.079 It's Mitch and Mark. I think Australians have got a 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:29.440 fascination for innovation. It's a coup of all stars, Mitch 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:33.280 and Mark. Our true cells come through. We can't fake it. 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.839 A few years ago on the Oslow, Mitch and Mark, 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:36.880 We're Blindsided. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:38.720 It's a peak inside of people's life. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:40.160 You Mark, I'm. 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.280 Really taken aback at how wrong this feels. 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.560 Even watching it, I felt physically ill. 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:50.040 Next up Mitch and Mark performing Wake Me Up Before 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:50.640 You Go Go. 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.720 But this time I did keep reminding Mark and the 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:56.680 team we are going to have fun. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:58.840 Hey boys, how are you well? 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:00.480 Thank you Ben, nice to be here. 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.280 I have to start this podcast by saying that my 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.200 partner and I fight over which one of you we. 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.680 Are really which one do you want to be? 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:11.360 I was just going to say I think that my 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.040 partner is the best part of both of you, and 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.600 I think I'm probably the worst part of both of you. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.320 So I'll leave, I'll leave that amount of information with you. 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:22.160 Then then I want to you describe then your qualities. 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:24.160 I want to hear one of the worst both of 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:24.800 us together. 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.079 Yeah, oh my god. 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.120 No, It's kind of funny when you're watching the show, 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.760 doesn't matter who you are. And I've been on reality television, 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.040 so I know even when you're watching yourself, you kind 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.000 of hit the television like why would I say that? 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.760 And so I find the two of you the most 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.480 relatable out of this season. I mean, you're both way 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.320 more glamorous than my partner and I, so I'll just 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:45.080 give you that much. 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.960 Stop it, Okay, if you're talking through a young face, 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:50.960 just stop it. 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.520 Well, the one thing that is so obvious to me 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.920 while the drama goes on throughout the show is the 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.200 love and respect that you both have for each other, 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.720 which I think is just so amazing to watch in 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.080 twenty twenty one to see same sex couple like this, 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.000 you know, like the fur flies around with everybody else, 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.320 but you guys, you know that love is still there. 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:11.560 It's quite amazing to watch. 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.960 Yeah, seventeen years in. But we've always had the philosophy 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:18.880 of if it's not working, it should be. And I 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.640 love when people can work things out and stay together, 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:23.839 but I don't think people should be together if they 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:25.880 are going to say nasty things to each other. 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.520 I think a lot of people were maybe surprised to 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:30.960 see that the first season when we did the OSLO 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.480 because a few people said to us, but is that real? 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.039 You really know? Didn't you really fight? And I think 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.240 even we even had a few people suggest some of 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.159 the people who might have been on the block before suggests, oh, 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:42.880 well that's not real. If you're not fighting, that it's 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:43.200 not real. 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:44.320 So well, we don't know. 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.120 We's agree about everything, but we've always said you have 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.520 to respect each other and you can disagree and have 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.440 some respect. And for us on the block, it was like, 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.159 we choose to be with each other and we're not 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.560 going to take offense. We care. So you meet, You 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.360 would often say on the block, you have time where 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.400 you don't know what to do next because it's so 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.159 you're so tired and it's so overwhelming, and then things 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.000 are coming at you. So when your partner says I 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.960 just need you to move the tiles, you don't get 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:12.720 offended and go, don't tell me what to do. You 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:14.480 know some people get into that now you can't tell 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.159 me it, say no, no, I need you to tell me 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.440 that right now, because you can tell I'm feeling overwhelmed. 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.479 But we would look for signs in each other. You 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.440 can generally tell when when you're working such long hours 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.320 the block hours, probably regularly this season it would have 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:31.279 been eight an hour days and little sleep and physically 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.640 worn out as well. There will always be time when 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:35.719 one of you is just not coping as well, and 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.160 we would recognize that in each other, and the one 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.839 who was recognizing it in the other would take over 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.000 and say, Okay, Mark, I want you today, I want 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:48.000 you to move ten time of rubble from that point 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.360 to the skippin, because if you're not coping, you just 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.000 do a job. And we would see each other telling 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:54.960 is that we think, okay, you're recognizing that I'm actually 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:55.680 not coping right now. 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:57.279 I think some of the other couples on the block 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.720 could deal with learning some of these life lessons from 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:01.240 the two of you. 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:03.800 Well. I think it was actually nice to be to 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.040 portrayed this time. More so, I thought we were portrayed 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:10.600 as a couple, whereas the first time we were always 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:14.039 described as the gay granddads. And I do remember saying 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.320 to one of the producers early in the piece, I'm 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.120 cool with been called the gay granddads, but if you're 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:20.800 going to do that, I'd like you to call the 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.960 other couples the heterosexual couple with no children or the 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:29.360 heterosexual couple married with two children. But they probably weren't 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:30.919 going to do that. So I think that if you 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:34.440 can describe someone's sexuality, it's going to be across the board. 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.680 Well, what's nice, I guess for us has been we're 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.760 just being ourselves. Yeah, and what you see on the 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.440 block a lot of people you've had it with reality 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:45.280 TV is can you pretend to be something you're not 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.800 and then when the cameras aren't around, drop that facade. 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.080 That's too well for us, it's too hard. We're too 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:51.760 old to do that anyway. So oh, for God's say, 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.000 we're just us, you know, And I guess in our 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.880 own journeys, you know, we worked hard to be who 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.760 we are. So we're really happy to be where a 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:01.840 couple people that care about each other. We have a family, 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:05.360 we have children, we have grandchildren, and Australia seems too 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:09.360 largely for us embraced that. We have amazing people who 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.120 talk to us and kids who come up and talk 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.080 to us. So I think there's no other way. We 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:15.640 just have That's just who we are. 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.720 Look, that's one of the advantages being older. And it's 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.000 only to talk about being the oldest on the Big 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.600 Brother Mark and I two years ago with the oldest 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.320 couple ever on the block, and then two years later 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:31.160 we're older than that couple. So we're older, oldest couple 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.040 ever on the block. Even more so, the block's been 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:33.600 running forward. 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.360 We can't win a challenge you, but we've got that. 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.560 But the block's been running for seventeen years. We are 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.840 older than any couple today. We're older than any couple 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.720 that have ever appeared on the block, So couples that 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:48.480 appeared seventeen years ago, it's still still way younger than us. 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.480 And apart from a gay couple can work. It was 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.920 also nice to show that a couple that's older can 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.880 still have the youth to work alongside the other guys 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.560 and not be disadvantaged. You don't have to be like 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:03.800 the twins are twenty seven and everyone else. Everyone's all 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:07.400 the way through. We all carried the same energy throughout 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:09.760 the show. So I think it's nice to see that 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.880 the young guys like Josh and Luke, who were out 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.239 of the depths at times, they can work their butts 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.760 off and make it happen. And so a couple of 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:22.120 older guys who people generally expect that you disadvantaged because 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.000 because age and fitness and strength, but you actually can 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:25.960 we can all make it work. 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.400 You know, we're well and truly into the series of 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.320 the Block, and I just wanted to ask, you know, 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.280 this is probably something people asked you at the start, 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.719 but I wanted to know, how did the block come 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.160 up again? Did you guys have an inkling that they'd 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.440 ask you back and you would do it all over again. 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.880 I knew that was coming up. I knew I knew 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:42.480 that back. 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.000 No, No, not at all. You know, we felt very 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.360 lucky first off to be on the Block the first 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:52.079 time around, and that's probably that was never expected. That's 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.719 another story. And then when we were asked to come 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:56.920 back for the All Stars thing for the few days 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:00.760 last year, like, we've felt really privileged that when this 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:04.120 came up, we were sitting basically at this desk talking 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.320 and doing some other work that we've got planned and 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.840 planning our own renovation in our home. And the phone 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.400 went and was Jillian Cress and which is great, but 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.160 we hadn't spoken to Jillian for a while, not for 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.559 any other reason than it's just you're busy in episodes, 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.600 because like, hey, Jeels, and he just said to us, 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.280 you know, I want to talk to you guys about 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.880 would you come back And we thought, oh, all stars, 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:26.640 a couple of days again help people out. Of course 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.480 we would do that. And he said no, to do 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:29.520 the whole thing again. 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:31.959 And we were like, and he did ask, you know, look, 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.240 you want a few days to think about it, and 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.640 I said no, because I have a few days. I 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:39.920 don't know what I'll say, but right now it's hell yes. 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.880 And he was really respectful, like he said to us, 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:44.679 before I go and talk to the network about this, 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:46.640 I need to know whether or not, like I don't 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:48.800 want to pitch you doing it if it's not what 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.800 you want to do. So and the bizarre thing, too 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.679 much is our builder Jason that everyone got to know 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.800 because we've a tag team and he and his wife 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.679 and Steven, he's like for best mates. 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:00.120 Now. 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:04.319 We talked almost every day. We've been speaking to Jason saying, oh, 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.080 somebody is going to approach you to do the block 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.480 this year. You know, what do you think about it? 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:10.360 We were talking with him and he was like, oh, 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.520 I'm not sure if I'll do it again. You know, 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.320 their business has done very well. 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.080 I think ten in a Vide did approach it. 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.000 Tan you well, we found out later Tanya Video did, 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.559 but at the time he was like, I don't know. 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.200 And we were really saying, you know what, Jason, You're 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:25.880 going to have so many people want you. And I'd 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:27.839 even joked with him and said, well, why don't you 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:29.600 let me interview them, because I don't want you to 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:31.520 like them better than us, you know, so you can't 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.800 have someone that you like better than us. So I 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:35.480 joked with him and said, well, why don't you get 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:39.280 me to interview the contestants for you? And so then 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.360 we said to Julian Cres when we said yes, we said, 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.320 well can we use Jason again? And he went, you 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.800 know the Builders can only do it every two years, 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:48.679 so I. 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.520 Think Jason might have been approached to do the High 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:53.200 Pages Angel thing. Yeah. 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.040 So we then rang Jason's wife and said, guess what 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.640 heads up? We're back, but don't tell Jason. And she 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:00.400 rang Jason and said, you need to come home. The 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.320 boys need to talk to you. And apparently he thought 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.840 something was wrong. He was really worried at our age. 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:06.920 You thought it was some we're going to say we 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.720 were sick. And we zoomed him and just said, guess what, Jason, 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:11.480 you're back on the block. And he was. And his 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.000 first response was, I could not watch you build with 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:17.440 anyone else. I couldn't watch it if I wasn't with you. 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.280 So we have Jason Steed. 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.080 The show still resonates all these years later, probably the 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.840 longest running reality TV show probably in the world. I 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.120 like it at this stage. Why do you think the 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.119 show resonates so much with Australian audiences. 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:36.000 I think Australians have got a fascination for renovation. I 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.680 think we're probably the one nation where owning a home 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.480 is such a big thing, and although it's getting tougher 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.360 for young people in the big cities, it still is 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.000 the thing we all aspire to and most people at 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.760 some stage do end up owning a home. They might 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.840 have to move out out of town or whatever they 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:58.400 get there and then making our homes better, making our 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:02.319 nest special. And when we talk about renovation, renovation can 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.440 be you move into a home, even if you're renting, 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:06.360 you still want to make it your own. You still 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.760 want to style in a way that it makes your claim. 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:10.880 So I think we've got a fascination with that. But 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:15.200 we're also curious animals and we like to see people 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:16.480 interact and the block. 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:20.120 And it's aspiration too. I think people look for the 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:24.040 aspiration of taking something and changing it and making it 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:27.400 into something beautiful. I think people like that almost Cinderella story. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:31.720 Each week of the dirt floor and Sunday night, people go, 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.880 oh my god, look at that amazing room. I think 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:36.800 that's also a bit of fantasy. 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:40.040 And it's raw. People are doing amazing work and they're 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.880 out of their comfort zone, and we're working seven days 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:47.600 a week and we're exhausted, and we become real. Even 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:49.560 if people do go on thinking they want to betray 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:54.520 themselves as something something, but not necessarily, our true cells 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.960 come through. We can't fake it. So people get to 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:02.040 know us, whether they like us, lovers like or hate us, 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.280 they get to know us, and we're putting ourselves out there. 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:07.680 So it's a peak inside people's lives. 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.360 But you know, with the block, I think also it's 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.480 something that is kind of hard as well. It's not 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.920 something that everyone can do, and I think that's probably 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:17.280 where the longevity is as well. I think if everyone 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.760 was sitting at home thinking like big brother, oh, I 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:21.960 could just be in house, more people would do it 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.440 and it probably would die off where it is a 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:29.280 real competition that seems to me to be almost impossible 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:29.880 at times. 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.040 But I do think they've been that if any of 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.880 us are told you're going to work seven days a week, 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:38.760 you'll be You'll be getting You'll be working physical labor 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.480 for eighteen hours, sometimes twenty four hours right through. I 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:46.640 don't think it for seven days for twelve weeks. I 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:48.720 don't think any of us would think we can do it. 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.640 But to me, the block taught us the first time 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.679 that there's something in everybody. We're not special, and none 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.960 of the contestants are special human powers. We're just people 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:03.240 put into a situation and you survive. You actually we've 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:04.679 all got something in us, and you. 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:06.960 Can blossom in some of those like we survived, but 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.800 also blossom. You see what in the OSLO that first 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:14.080 one like I'll never forget walking into the Oslo for 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.360 the first time, and when we watched it back, I 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.319 remember that and even now I feel like it it's 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.000 like the overwhelm of the size. 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.920 It just was overwhelmed and the mess and the mess 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.840 and having seen other couples go into those broken places 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:30.400 and then when you walk in yourself, you think, oh shit, 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:31.800 this is real. 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.240 But I think, Mitch, you know, under that pressure the 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.320 other thing that hit me and the Oslo, It's happened again. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.280 I guess this time with the Oslo because it was 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:43.040 so big. When we watched the formal living room being delivered, 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.640 and that was like week two. I think we did 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:47.880 the bedroom bathroom, first time we ever did a bedroom 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:49.480 bathroom in the same week, and I think it was 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:51.360 the next week we went down did the formal and 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.360 I remember watching reveal night. We watched every night that 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:58.120 the season, and I said to Mitch and Jason Rain 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:00.000 and I said to Jason, I know that we did 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.360 because I'm watching it and I know, but I don't 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.120 know how we did it. And I'm like, even watching it, 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:09.320 I was like I felt physically ill because it felt 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.240 like you couldn't do it. So what Mitch is saying 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.600 is right. I think we're just normal people and you 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:17.120 go into a situation. You don't realize what capacity you've 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.400 got until you do it, and sometimes you realize you 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:23.680 can blossom under that. He blossomed with that whole mid 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.440 century modern look that hadn't been seen before. He'd never 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.800 done that before, and it just something happened. I was 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:31.320 obsessed with mid century modern. 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.200 How do you compare these two experiences though, because I mean, 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.240 there are different themes to both of these, but there's 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.520 also different people, so the experience must be somewhat different. 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:42.680 Can you even say without knowing the end result at 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:46.000 this point, but how did the two experiences compare to 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:46.440 one another? 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.400 This was better. I think we got a chance for 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:53.120 a rerun and having a chance for rerun, and I'm 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:55.480 seeing it in It's now where we're up to in 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:57.880 the show. Now, I'm seeing that we're getting caught up again. 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:00.960 We're so we were so folks on doing the best 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.440 job we could that we didn't stop and spend any 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.120 time to enjoy the first time enough, there were of 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.920 course members of joy, but this time I did keep 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.920 reminding Mark and the team we are going to have fun. 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.440 How long did it take to work out all the fashion? 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.920 Because the fashion is phenomenal and I'm just like, if 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:21.560 you've been on the show before, you kind of know 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.160 what angles work. You know, how long did it take 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:25.640 for you to put this fashion together? 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.080 Well? I worked out there there were going to be 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.400 twelve reveals and reveal nights. 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:35.680 There are a lot more reveals that you didn't see 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:37.440 that were tough, right, I did do it. 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:39.400 I did a full naked scene that was that was 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:47.320 quite quite knowing needs quite power. But so I put 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:53.000 together twelve outfits for for both of us, for that shoes, belts, 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:57.560 everything connected, and I timed them to be for each week. 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:01.480 And there's there's a stylist, Emma's an amazing style who 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.840 styles people. And I presented our looks and she said, look, 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:07.560 I just want it all and I told her which 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:09.320 week they had to be come out. And I also 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.400 put in other outfits because I knew there'd be other 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.600 events happening, So I put in other outfits because I 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.359 love fashion. I'm a bit obsessed with it, so and 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:19.600 I just want to play hard. And I suppose also 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.720 being at a stage in life where confident enough that 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.840 dressing to please us. I know what pleases Mark in 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.159 his look, and I know what pleases me in my 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.320 look and not really, and it's not going to appeal 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.879 to everyone. So it's nice to be at the stage 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.159 in life where you're doing it for yourself. And if 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.199 people happen to like it, that's that's fantastic, And if 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.520 they don't like it, that's okay too. I'm sort of 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.640 happy for people to have an opinion on us one 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:46.360 way or the other, because you're putting ourselves out there. 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:48.679 But I have fun. I love fashion. 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:49.040 See. 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.439 I've actually been designing clothes for the past few weeks 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:55.680 because I just decided I've worn all those new ones. 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:57.879 It needs something good for most of those clothes I 0:17:57.920 --> 0:17:59.080 designed and have made. 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:00.919 Will send me photos of all of it because, let 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:02.879 me tell you, my partner and I, after watching the 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:04.439 season the Block, we want to chuck out all of 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.080 our stuff because it's all it's all bloody rubbish. Let 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.760 me tell you what's the strangest story that you guys 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.240 have read being on this season of The Block? 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:16.320 Last time we were seeking treatment for oh yeah, we 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:20.360 were seeking treatment for a botox addiction, and the photograph 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.679 they had of us seeking treatment for a botox addiction. 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:27.320 We both looked so haggard. I thought, seriously, find an 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:28.640 image where we look stunned. 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.480 If we were that addicted, we wouldn't look like this, right, 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:31.840 we would. 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:35.040 And then there was another occasion where where I was 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:38.040 walking out on mark, but it was actually the photograph 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:43.120 was of us arriving arriving at the block together. I 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.920 just love this then, and I had a wasting disease. 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.560 The only thing I have seen was an insiders said 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.320 that maybe auction day won't go ahead because none of 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:53.760 us can stand to be in the same room with 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:56.800 each other. And that's not true. That's absolutely not true. 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:00.359 Mitch talks to Georgia every couple of days. You're here 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.120 at the phone, is that you Georgian? Miki? You talk 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:06.320 to the boys probably every at least once a week, 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.280 Furst in Jesse, probably every couple of days. It's fair 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.480 to say, you know Tanya and Vito. You've reached out 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.160 to them because we know things can be tough. Things 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:17.360 on TVR are tough, and we've kind of you reached out, 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:19.760 just sent the message saying look we're here. 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:23.640 It's happened, And there was crap went down, but that's 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:26.359 behind us, like having been through the block before, it 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:28.280 is behind us, and we know how tough it can be. 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:30.320 So I did sort of say, look, if you want, 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.359 he's my number. Everything's water on the bridge, happy to 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.800 help you through. But you know, and they're working out, 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:37.920 and I suppose they're working. 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:39.919 So that's the weirdest story, the story. No one can 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:41.480 stand each other and they won't be a sitting. 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.320 I did read yesterday though, somewhere it was like Tanya 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:48.240 and Vito I have been ranked the most annoying or 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:51.199 something on the block history. But is that fair? Is 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:52.120 that a fair assumption? 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:54.399 I don't know. Is there a ranking I didn't know 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:56.320 there was a ranking system. I'm sure we'd be on 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:57.240 there somewhere too. 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.399 And it depends. You know, you're annoying everyone, and one 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:02.960 of us is annoying to somebody and to some part 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:05.360 of the audience. I always get a bit cautious when 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:07.240 you read something from a source. 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:11.119 Yeah, but the most, the most. I'm sure we're all 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:13.480 up there. I think my good friend George will be 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:17.040 there too, because she's well, Ronnie's annoying, not Georgia. Ronnie's annoying. 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.679 I had to take what I had to take Ronnie 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:24.080 on an anti annoying training program whilst we're on the block, 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:26.560 and I was doing well, But now that we're not 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:29.680 together every day, I'm worriedy slipping back. 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:33.960 I'm sure she would have told you by now. To 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:36.480 be fair, do you think that it might have been 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:39.240 better to have everyone as an All Star or do 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:41.960 you think that the mix this series has is a 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:43.320 good contrast. 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:46.000 Very good question. I think it was interesting. It was 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:49.440 really interesting not being all All Stars, and it would 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:52.840 have been a very different show with total All Stars. 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:56.240 The viewers are tuning in, so it must be working, 0:20:56.720 --> 0:21:00.240 and what's really interesting all Stars. I felt like like 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.400 once we got in a few weeks, like I don't 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:05.200 know what point it was, whether it was three weeks 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:09.160 or four or two, but we're all block contestants. Yes, 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:13.240 we're all there fighting to do the best we can. 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:18.200 And I felt that that that I didn't see couples 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:21.280 as different. I just saw it. I saw us all 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:23.879 those block contestants, and we got over the fact that 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:25.879 we were all starts pretty quickly. 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:27.879 Well, I think that I think the twist of this 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:30.320 season and it's kind of in a way, I kind 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:31.960 of feel well night. In a way, I do feel 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:33.439 proud of the fact that, you know, Mitch and I 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:36.040 by chance got the biggest block that they've ever done, 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:38.040 and they will never do anything as big, and now 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:40.399 we've got to do the block that has been one 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:42.080 of the most challenging because you had no floor plan 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:45.120 at all. So whilst we hit come in and there 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:47.119 is an advantage, and you know what a week looks 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:49.320 like when you're all trying to work a floor plan. 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:51.560 You know, I don't know how much advantage there is. 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:54.120 Everyone had the same challenge of where do you fit 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:56.400 rooms and is it going to work? And what if 0:21:56.400 --> 0:22:00.399 you do a room that in five weeks time stuff 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:03.040 something up that you didn't think about. So I don't know, 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:06.560 it's an amazing season, amazing But. 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:09.440 Also we all finished our first week room. So on 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:13.120 our first year, one couple properly finished their first week 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:15.720 room and ours wasn't painted right. I think Jesse and 0:22:16.400 --> 0:22:19.640 Jesse in mel their room was finished, completed and really 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:23.720 beautifully finished. Ours was completed, but the painting will take wrap. 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:26.359 I think that was the advantage. Week one was an 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:29.720 advantage because we knew to bite off what we could 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:33.400 chew and what we could finish, but it isn't finish. 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:35.360 Yeah, do you need to have a level head? I mean, 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:38.159 this is something I keep thinking about. And do you 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:41.399 worry too much about upsetting the producers or presenters? I 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:43.879 mean I can see a frustration at times, and I 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:46.480 would worry that they would panalize you. You know, do 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:48.760 you just have to be like, this is authentically myself 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:51.400 and this is how I would react to any given situation. 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:53.840 Or do you try and factor in the fact that 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:55.400 you don't want to upset anyone. 0:22:57.000 --> 0:22:57.639 Iried up? 0:22:58.480 --> 0:22:58.679 You know? 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:03.840 In our experience on this season this time around, it's 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:06.520 fair to say that we'd worked with the camera crew 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:09.560 and the sound guys before. Some of the producers were new, 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:12.040 but we were really excited to go back and work 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:14.520 with them because they're amazing people, and you know, they 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:19.080 create this show. They're carrying heavy cameras through work sides, 0:23:19.160 --> 0:23:21.359 with boots and with stuff everywhere, and the sound guys 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:24.600 and the sound guys are amazing. So they're friends to us. 0:23:24.680 --> 0:23:27.440 But you're raw, You're just who you are, and they 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:29.480 manage it. And I have to say, you know, there 0:23:29.600 --> 0:23:32.840 were times that I was frustrated and angry about things, 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:35.880 and then would go afterwards to that person several times, 0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:37.280 so sorry, and they said, no, we get it. You know, 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:39.440 we would never do what you're doing. I don't think 0:23:39.440 --> 0:23:42.520 which we ever thought, let's not do that because somebody 0:23:42.840 --> 0:23:44.600 may not like it, or they might edit us in 0:23:44.640 --> 0:23:45.200 a certain way. 0:23:45.240 --> 0:23:47.359 You just have to be yourself. I remember where you 0:23:47.400 --> 0:23:50.320 were accused of painting, and you just were like, there's 0:23:50.320 --> 0:23:53.439 no way that that happened, and then you held your ground. 0:23:56.040 --> 0:23:58.480 So you seriously think having done this in two seasons 0:23:58.480 --> 0:23:59.600 one we would let him painting. 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:01.240 I'm going to tell you what I saw. 0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:03.879 No, I'm asking a different question, Keith, I'm asking you 0:24:03.880 --> 0:24:08.240 a different question after after two. No, well it does, 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:10.240 I'm entited to ask a question or lax mine. 0:24:13.200 --> 0:24:16.240 Sometimes you need to be a little bit level headed 0:24:16.400 --> 0:24:18.560 and just you know, you've got to respect other people, 0:24:18.560 --> 0:24:20.119 but you've also got to be true to yourself. 0:24:20.200 --> 0:24:22.000 You know, you've got to be I think sometimes and 0:24:22.040 --> 0:24:24.520 it's probably been from my perspective the work that I 0:24:24.560 --> 0:24:27.439 have done, because my career was in a very different 0:24:27.440 --> 0:24:29.560 area than on the block, so I had dealt with 0:24:29.600 --> 0:24:33.119 people a lot and conflict a lot in my career, 0:24:33.359 --> 0:24:35.399 and in that situation, you know, to me, it's like, 0:24:35.640 --> 0:24:37.639 it's okay to be angry and frustrated. I need to 0:24:37.720 --> 0:24:41.600 have some rational kind of thought here. And sometimes it's 0:24:41.600 --> 0:24:45.120 okay to stand up for something. And somebody years ago 0:24:45.400 --> 0:24:47.080 taught me, and I can't rememberho it was, but it 0:24:47.119 --> 0:24:49.160 was the best bit of advice. They said, anger has 0:24:49.280 --> 0:24:52.239 changed the world. It's okay to actually assert yourself. It's 0:24:52.359 --> 0:24:54.200 what you do and how you deal with it. Anger 0:24:54.280 --> 0:24:56.720 lashing out to hurt somebody is not okay, But being 0:24:56.720 --> 0:24:59.600 angry about something that's an injustice, well, you know that 0:24:59.720 --> 0:25:03.160 drove for us as like Stoneball, it drove the gay 0:25:03.240 --> 0:25:05.439 rights movement. People said, no, enough is enough. We're not 0:25:05.480 --> 0:25:09.080 doing that. You know, we have to actually assert ourselves 0:25:09.160 --> 0:25:11.880 about what we think is right and deal with an injustice. 0:25:11.920 --> 0:25:15.040 So in a small way, when I hear people sometimes 0:25:15.080 --> 0:25:17.280 I go, that's bs, you know it. I know it, 0:25:17.480 --> 0:25:19.720 and I can back down now because it will be 0:25:19.760 --> 0:25:22.439 the best for maybe the vision, because I'm you know, 0:25:22.520 --> 0:25:24.640 you might edit me to make me look a certain way, 0:25:24.760 --> 0:25:27.159 or I can be true to myself and say, you 0:25:27.359 --> 0:25:29.800 know that that's not right. And in the situation you 0:25:29.840 --> 0:25:32.040 were talking about. I remember, I think I said, we've 0:25:32.040 --> 0:25:36.560 done this twice now. I would be completely crazy to 0:25:36.640 --> 0:25:39.440 let anyone else pick up a paintbrush. It is not logical, 0:25:39.520 --> 0:25:41.760 It does not make sense. I do have the same 0:25:41.760 --> 0:25:44.399 interaction with Dan Riley about someone who tried to suggest that. 0:25:44.440 --> 0:25:47.879 I was like, it was like, damn, please do not manipulate. 0:25:48.400 --> 0:25:50.639 I kind of wanted to say to him because Dan's 0:25:50.840 --> 0:25:52.480 trading and he's all right, but he's you know, he's 0:25:52.560 --> 0:25:55.760 not necessarily he hasn't dealt with situations that I dealt with, 0:25:56.080 --> 0:25:58.159 And I was like, Dan, let's just use a bit 0:25:58.200 --> 0:25:59.919 of logic here, but do you really want to have 0:26:00.040 --> 0:26:00.880 this debate. 0:26:00.760 --> 0:26:02.679 One hundred percent? And how much of the show do 0:26:02.760 --> 0:26:04.920 you actually watch back? So I heard before you said 0:26:04.960 --> 0:26:07.440 that you watched every episode of the first time you're 0:26:07.440 --> 0:26:10.000 on the show. You're watching every episode that's on this time. 0:26:10.280 --> 0:26:12.040 And how much do you need to drink to calm 0:26:12.040 --> 0:26:12.680 your anxiety. 0:26:12.880 --> 0:26:16.920 I don't have any problem drinking. I don't think we've 0:26:16.920 --> 0:26:19.639 missed an episode this season. I think I think it's 0:26:19.800 --> 0:26:22.320 I think you've got a responsibility to be on top 0:26:22.359 --> 0:26:24.879 of what's happening on the show. Part of agreeing to 0:26:24.880 --> 0:26:27.760 do the show. You agreed to do the show, and 0:26:27.840 --> 0:26:31.160 if you if you're not paying the respect by watching it, 0:26:31.440 --> 0:26:35.800 you can't then engage with media or with whether whether 0:26:35.920 --> 0:26:39.600 radio interview properly or with the or social media discussions, 0:26:39.800 --> 0:26:42.400 because just because you lived it, you know it doesn't 0:26:42.400 --> 0:26:44.000 mean it's going to be aired. Some of the things 0:26:44.040 --> 0:26:47.720 that happened, and we're watching because it's fascinating because we're 0:26:47.720 --> 0:26:51.320 seeing it with the audience, we don't know what happened 0:26:51.320 --> 0:26:54.080 in other houses. And Mark and I we felt as 0:26:54.119 --> 0:26:56.080 though we weren't going to do well. We thought the 0:26:56.160 --> 0:26:57.879 judges weren't on board with us. So we made a 0:26:57.920 --> 0:27:00.919 decision probably from week one, week too after we had 0:27:00.920 --> 0:27:03.560 a win, and week to we made a decision we 0:27:03.680 --> 0:27:06.879 have to work out butts off because that's our opportunity 0:27:06.920 --> 0:27:10.120 to save enough money to get through. And we thought 0:27:10.160 --> 0:27:12.480 if we if when we win, if we win, that 0:27:12.600 --> 0:27:14.480 has to be a bonus. It can't be what gets 0:27:14.520 --> 0:27:17.600 us through. So we chose to work to make up 0:27:17.640 --> 0:27:21.320 for winnings that may not happen. So it meant that 0:27:21.359 --> 0:27:24.040 we weren't having it took out some of the like 0:27:24.080 --> 0:27:26.760 we see Ronny and Georgia clowning around a lot. But 0:27:26.800 --> 0:27:30.120 they won more, and when you win more, you can 0:27:30.160 --> 0:27:33.760 afford more labor, so you actually can have more time 0:27:33.880 --> 0:27:37.080 to have a chat with the camera crew and money 0:27:37.119 --> 0:27:40.119 with his bike, ride the bike around and whatever. So 0:27:40.280 --> 0:27:43.440 we didn't we didn't have that luxury because we were working. 0:27:43.840 --> 0:27:44.919 We've heard others, we've. 0:27:44.800 --> 0:27:49.440 Heard criticism of it's the reality of how you get 0:27:49.520 --> 0:27:50.359 through your journey. 0:27:50.560 --> 0:27:53.800 They won more so they could afford more labor. We 0:27:53.840 --> 0:27:57.760 won less, and luckily for us, we saw that coming, 0:27:58.160 --> 0:28:00.880 so we were able to make up for the lack 0:28:00.880 --> 0:28:04.800 of winnings with labor. So basically we painted all night 0:28:04.880 --> 0:28:07.439 and I labored as well as doing the styling thing. 0:28:07.560 --> 0:28:10.000 I think it's interesting. Then you know a couple same 0:28:10.000 --> 0:28:13.760 sex couple on reality TV. One question raised with us 0:28:13.800 --> 0:28:15.880 now and then these people said, but they never took 0:28:16.000 --> 0:28:18.040 vision of you in bed. You know, you would see 0:28:18.080 --> 0:28:20.360 that people walking in the mornings, and you see contestants 0:28:20.400 --> 0:28:23.159 in bed and they're working up and we've had I 0:28:23.200 --> 0:28:25.080 know the last season two. A couple of people said, oh, 0:28:25.160 --> 0:28:27.760 was that because it was the same sex relationship. I said, no, 0:28:27.800 --> 0:28:29.560 it's because they never caught us in bed. Because we 0:28:29.560 --> 0:28:34.280 were up early. So we are always on in real 0:28:34.280 --> 0:28:36.800 life too, but on the block, we always were up 0:28:36.880 --> 0:28:40.720 at five o'clock. The producers and the soundies who were 0:28:40.760 --> 0:28:43.240 going really well with the girls who did who hooked 0:28:43.280 --> 0:28:46.200 up audio. We would sometimes have a bit of a 0:28:46.240 --> 0:28:47.720 game with them to see if we could sneak out 0:28:47.800 --> 0:28:48.880 because we were always up early. 0:28:49.040 --> 0:28:52.200 And then I think by kitchen or little living room. 0:28:52.200 --> 0:28:54.680 Week we then moved out. We had our alarm set 0:28:54.920 --> 0:28:56.680 for five fifteen, and I generally wake up just for 0:28:56.680 --> 0:28:58.320 an eln I don't know. It's a weird thing though, 0:28:58.320 --> 0:29:00.440 I do. But then we moved it for we thought 0:29:00.480 --> 0:29:03.720 we need another forty five minutes. For the last five weeks, 0:29:03.760 --> 0:29:05.840 we've got at a four thirty every morning to paint, 0:29:06.120 --> 0:29:08.640 to paint and do stuff. 0:29:09.040 --> 0:29:10.640 Well, I don't know where you guys get the energy from. 0:29:10.720 --> 0:29:13.880 I mean, it's just it's madness. It's just mad I 0:29:13.920 --> 0:29:16.440 do if you could change one thing, I mean, you 0:29:16.480 --> 0:29:19.160 guys are officionados on this now, so you've done it twice. 0:29:19.200 --> 0:29:21.040 But is there a rule that you guys would like 0:29:21.080 --> 0:29:22.960 to change on the block, like maybe painting. 0:29:23.640 --> 0:29:26.520 Oh you know, in some ways I understand it because 0:29:26.680 --> 0:29:30.120 it's a level of all contestants. We don't have a trade, 0:29:30.400 --> 0:29:33.560 and in our first season a number of the couples 0:29:33.600 --> 0:29:36.360 did have a trade. It was interesting the promos there were, 0:29:36.400 --> 0:29:38.560 you know, we were so experienced its yeah, but we're 0:29:38.560 --> 0:29:41.520 not builders, like Matt's a builder, Luke was a builder, 0:29:42.080 --> 0:29:45.800 Jesse was a tyler and this season this season, yeah, 0:29:45.840 --> 0:29:48.880 so painting levels everything, So I don't have an issue 0:29:48.920 --> 0:29:52.560 with that. And Vedos had a trade background Bricky bricky, 0:29:52.720 --> 0:29:55.600 and Jesse was Jesse was Jesse was a builder in 0:29:55.680 --> 0:30:00.520 something in Rose Builder. So I think, no, I probably wouldn't. 0:30:00.560 --> 0:30:03.959 I think the painting means everyone has to get in 0:30:04.000 --> 0:30:08.440 and do something, because otherwise contestants could come on your builders, 0:30:08.480 --> 0:30:12.240 are you backbone? Otherwise you would just be there pointing 0:30:12.360 --> 0:30:13.560 and say do this, do that. 0:30:13.800 --> 0:30:16.160 Sometimes I thought for the builders it's a disadvantage because 0:30:16.200 --> 0:30:19.160 they get they become part of the building team, they 0:30:19.560 --> 0:30:21.360 lose control of coordinating the project. 0:30:21.800 --> 0:30:23.880 It's tougher for them sometimes if you've got a trader's 0:30:23.920 --> 0:30:26.280 to get called into stuff. I think the one thing 0:30:26.760 --> 0:30:29.160 I have not been we have not been shining saying this, 0:30:29.360 --> 0:30:32.240 I think, and particularly given this season with the architecture 0:30:32.280 --> 0:30:35.440 and changing rooms and design. I think judging should include 0:30:35.600 --> 0:30:38.680 maybe an architect and a real estate person. The block 0:30:38.760 --> 0:30:41.239 is a real estate competition. It's not just about the 0:30:41.280 --> 0:30:43.760 design and the color, and that's important when you're selling 0:30:43.760 --> 0:30:47.040 a property, but properties are also about how they're designed 0:30:47.160 --> 0:30:49.680 in terms of the space and the light, the airflow, 0:30:49.960 --> 0:30:52.400 the function for a family, and the real estate market. 0:30:52.760 --> 0:30:55.720 Real estate agents know that better. So I shy away 0:30:55.760 --> 0:30:58.840 from saying I think that probably having three different skill 0:30:58.880 --> 0:31:01.080 sets New Zealand, I think does it. I think it's 0:31:01.080 --> 0:31:01.600 a good idea. 0:31:02.040 --> 0:31:04.240 I've never seen the New Zealand version of the Block. 0:31:04.520 --> 0:31:05.360 I want to check it out. 0:31:05.400 --> 0:31:10.240 Now watch it. You've gone and watched, We've had all 0:31:11.560 --> 0:31:13.760 we've had New Zealander friends tell us that the New 0:31:13.840 --> 0:31:15.520 Zealanders prefer the Australian bloc. 0:31:15.720 --> 0:31:17.800 Oh wow, I think we should go be judges on 0:31:17.800 --> 0:31:18.320 the New Zealand. 0:31:18.400 --> 0:31:20.600 You really should. Well, we should pitch that. You know. 0:31:20.600 --> 0:31:23.800 A few comments, yes, a few comments around this season 0:31:24.280 --> 0:31:26.680 is that this is the Maths version of the Block, 0:31:27.600 --> 0:31:30.720 especially with the biggest cheating scandal. What did you think 0:31:30.720 --> 0:31:32.400 of that? I mean, I wanted to ask you boys 0:31:32.440 --> 0:31:34.720 if you'd ever seen Maths. But then also ask you 0:31:34.800 --> 0:31:37.640 whether or not you felt like the drama was escalated 0:31:37.680 --> 0:31:38.520 more this time around. 0:31:38.680 --> 0:31:42.920 Well, Juells and Camp from Maths live not far from us, 0:31:42.960 --> 0:31:45.440 and they're very good friend mates. So if we're kind 0:31:45.440 --> 0:31:48.160 of and they got married, they're still married and they 0:31:48.160 --> 0:31:49.320 have a beautiful baby, so. 0:31:49.520 --> 0:31:52.280 They bring us after watching the block most nights, what happened? 0:31:53.120 --> 0:31:55.800 Yeah, what the fuck Michie? You said that? 0:31:56.960 --> 0:31:59.920 You know this season, Let's say a lot of people 0:32:00.080 --> 0:32:01.920 and there's a lot of conversation around the block every 0:32:01.960 --> 0:32:04.000 year about I'm got the drama? Can't that just show 0:32:04.080 --> 0:32:06.440 more building? And at some level I would like to 0:32:06.440 --> 0:32:08.160 see a little more of building. You know, there are 0:32:08.200 --> 0:32:12.520 things that every couple transforms. So our living area was 0:32:12.800 --> 0:32:15.400 dirt and we had to dig the stumps and put 0:32:15.400 --> 0:32:18.400 like the building work to do. That was amazing. But 0:32:18.760 --> 0:32:22.160 most people watching it, it's entertainment, and most of the 0:32:22.160 --> 0:32:25.880 buildings watching it do Actually they may deny they want 0:32:25.880 --> 0:32:27.320 the drama, but they do. 0:32:27.560 --> 0:32:28.160 Like a bit of. 0:32:28.120 --> 0:32:30.000 People like to say whatever they you know, like if 0:32:30.000 --> 0:32:32.080 you don't do one small thing, they'll pick at it, 0:32:32.120 --> 0:32:33.680 do you know what I mean? Like, there's never I 0:32:33.720 --> 0:32:36.040 worked out. There was never a correct answer because like 0:32:36.080 --> 0:32:39.000 I remember, after doing Big Brother, I was like, maybe 0:32:39.000 --> 0:32:41.600 if I explained to people online what happened, because it 0:32:41.640 --> 0:32:44.440 obviously was different in real time, And then I just 0:32:44.480 --> 0:32:46.680 realized there's no right answer. So there's no point. 0:32:46.920 --> 0:32:49.400 We've had people write us long emails telling us about 0:32:49.400 --> 0:32:51.760 how we should have designed a room, or I really 0:32:51.880 --> 0:32:53.280 like that that you could have done this and done 0:32:53.280 --> 0:32:53.840 this and stuff. 0:32:54.720 --> 0:32:55.720 I'd really get alive. 0:32:56.120 --> 0:32:59.520 Anyways, we need to talk about who do you think 0:32:59.720 --> 0:33:02.400 is going to win? Like, can we talk about how 0:33:02.520 --> 0:33:04.440 you think this is going to play out? 0:33:04.520 --> 0:33:06.720 I think it's highly likely that Jesse in Cursey's house 0:33:06.760 --> 0:33:10.400 will win. It's a much bigger block of land. They 0:33:10.440 --> 0:33:12.240 keep talking about it being a much bigger house. It 0:33:12.320 --> 0:33:14.560 is such a not much bigger. It's bigger. I don't 0:33:14.560 --> 0:33:15.640 think it's hugely bigger. 0:33:15.840 --> 0:33:17.680 It was interesting because when you look at all the houses, 0:33:17.840 --> 0:33:20.760 I think most of them are four bedroom houses. So 0:33:20.840 --> 0:33:24.320 in terms of facilities that they offer, far from Tanya 0:33:24.320 --> 0:33:26.520 and Vito. They've got three bedrooms, but you know most 0:33:26.520 --> 0:33:29.880 houses are four bedrooms. Have got three Cursing just have 0:33:30.040 --> 0:33:33.080 four bathrooms, but the function and the facility is the same, 0:33:33.080 --> 0:33:35.880 but the property is bigger. And I think the land value, 0:33:35.960 --> 0:33:38.040 somebody will be really interested in that. So I think 0:33:38.040 --> 0:33:40.920 they've got a really good chance of winning. But we've 0:33:40.960 --> 0:33:45.520 seen over the seasons weird things happen. And I've said 0:33:45.640 --> 0:33:48.400 this season and I've said it a couple of times before. 0:33:48.840 --> 0:33:51.920 When you look at the evidence, the people who come 0:33:51.960 --> 0:33:55.560 out judged best by the judges haven't won the block. 0:33:56.000 --> 0:33:59.000 So the people who have the highest score or the 0:33:59.080 --> 0:34:01.800 highest average score, the most room wins in the last 0:34:01.840 --> 0:34:03.760 few seasons haven't won the block. 0:34:04.480 --> 0:34:06.720 Last season, they did, but they did it and it 0:34:06.840 --> 0:34:08.400 south all through, which. 0:34:08.320 --> 0:34:10.319 Was sad for Jimmy and Town because we know them, 0:34:10.360 --> 0:34:12.919 and that was horrible. And then it took maybe nine 0:34:12.960 --> 0:34:15.400 months to sell that property. So in terms of the 0:34:15.440 --> 0:34:18.080 real estate market, if the block's a real estate competition, 0:34:18.480 --> 0:34:22.640 the people the judges choose through their assessment haven't won 0:34:22.680 --> 0:34:25.280 the block in the last three or four years. Who knows. 0:34:25.800 --> 0:34:27.680 I just loved it. You're like when they were talking 0:34:27.680 --> 0:34:31.080 about those pantries in the kitchen, and you guys were like, oh, well, 0:34:32.480 --> 0:34:34.120 this is where we put the dry food, and I 0:34:34.160 --> 0:34:34.759 was loving it. 0:34:37.120 --> 0:34:40.040 There's simply not enough space to store food. This is 0:34:40.080 --> 0:34:44.480 a major issue Jana thinks you have to add some somewhere. 0:34:44.800 --> 0:34:49.480 No, No, it is something that you kind of have 0:34:49.560 --> 0:34:51.600 to factor in, especially if you do know the show 0:34:51.640 --> 0:34:53.680 as well as you guys do, and that is pleasing 0:34:53.719 --> 0:34:56.560 the judges and getting the scores isn't the big picture 0:34:56.800 --> 0:34:57.600 at the end of the day. 0:34:57.840 --> 0:35:00.520 So well, we want the judges vote the first time 0:35:00.640 --> 0:35:03.040 round and came last, and look when we did believe 0:35:03.080 --> 0:35:06.960 we presented a house worthy of a win, and probably, 0:35:07.040 --> 0:35:09.800 in our opinions, whether we're right or wrong, the house 0:35:09.880 --> 0:35:14.000 that was potentially least appealing one. So it's really hard 0:35:14.000 --> 0:35:15.719 to predict. I think Kirsty and Jesse they have a 0:35:15.719 --> 0:35:17.719 point of difference. That's why I picked their house out. 0:35:17.880 --> 0:35:19.960 It's a different market to the rest of us. But Mitchell, 0:35:19.960 --> 0:35:22.640 on that basis, who knows the judges loved our house 0:35:22.719 --> 0:35:23.759 so much, maybe we'll win. 0:35:24.200 --> 0:35:26.719 Well, I just ask this, wasn't going to plan on 0:35:26.760 --> 0:35:29.239 asking this question. But is Jesse as cute in real 0:35:29.239 --> 0:35:31.040 life as how he is on television. 0:35:31.120 --> 0:35:32.240 He's a beautiful angel. 0:35:32.840 --> 0:35:34.840 Someone put on Twitter or photo without his top on 0:35:34.920 --> 0:35:39.560 last night and I may have retweeted it. 0:35:39.680 --> 0:35:43.640 Jesse is, but he's such a beautiful soul. It's just 0:35:43.840 --> 0:35:44.560 so beautiful. 0:35:44.600 --> 0:35:46.680 I remember saying to Kirsty in the early first few 0:35:46.680 --> 0:35:49.680 weeks or something, said are you prepared? So what I said, 0:35:49.880 --> 0:35:52.520 you do know he's going to be Australias sweetheart. You 0:35:52.920 --> 0:35:55.400 do understand that. And at one point, I think Ronnie 0:35:55.400 --> 0:35:57.680 at one point there was some issue going on and 0:35:57.719 --> 0:35:59.120 Runny was, oh, I need to go and have a chat, 0:35:59.120 --> 0:36:01.360 and it was like, running do you really want to 0:36:01.360 --> 0:36:04.480 be on camera having a go at Australia's three? I mean, 0:36:05.239 --> 0:36:07.279 do you want to be the do you want to 0:36:07.320 --> 0:36:08.000 be the one that's kill? 0:36:08.480 --> 0:36:10.839 But do you want to go back to that one thing? 0:36:10.880 --> 0:36:13.680 Mark said that the one who wins where the judges 0:36:13.960 --> 0:36:16.959 doesn't necessarily win. I think Ronnie and George have also 0:36:16.960 --> 0:36:20.080 presented a winning house so and I think their house 0:36:20.160 --> 0:36:22.960 is beautiful regardless of whether the judges thought it was beautiful. 0:36:22.960 --> 0:36:27.000 I think the home is beautiful. I guess they well, no, 0:36:27.080 --> 0:36:29.200 but but I think it's a beautiful. Think that George's 0:36:29.239 --> 0:36:31.080 styling is exquisite. 0:36:31.640 --> 0:36:33.759 But I guess the reason I say that feedback though, 0:36:33.840 --> 0:36:36.319 is in looking at who's going to who we think 0:36:36.400 --> 0:36:38.320 might win the block, I would disregard completely what the 0:36:38.440 --> 0:36:39.799 judges are saying, and look at it from a real 0:36:39.880 --> 0:36:42.439 estate perspective. Whatever they said, I just go, yeah, whatever, 0:36:43.000 --> 0:36:45.400 let's look at the properties in terms of what they offer, 0:36:45.480 --> 0:36:47.960 their position in the coulder, sat that kind of stuff. 0:36:48.000 --> 0:36:50.560 It's it's not about whether or not Neil or Shane 0:36:50.680 --> 0:36:53.560 or Darren loved how cushion was fluffed. It's actually, you know, 0:36:53.640 --> 0:36:54.919 real estate is more than that. 0:36:55.000 --> 0:36:55.359 It is. 0:36:55.440 --> 0:36:58.840 It's but dare I say it? Ben? I do? I believe, 0:36:58.960 --> 0:37:01.800 and of course I'm biased. I believe we have built 0:37:02.320 --> 0:37:08.839 and designed and planned and styled and landscaped the whole kitten, 0:37:08.880 --> 0:37:12.160 the boodle, the best house. Whether or not that wins, 0:37:12.640 --> 0:37:15.920 I don't. I don't have I don't hold, I don't 0:37:15.960 --> 0:37:19.839 hold hope to win. I'm not hanging out to win. 0:37:20.360 --> 0:37:24.239 I don't expect to. If we did, hallelujah, it would 0:37:24.239 --> 0:37:26.640 be nice not to come last. But by the same token, 0:37:26.680 --> 0:37:30.040 we went in last time with the attitude of whatever 0:37:30.080 --> 0:37:32.359 we're going with, and what have we come out with. 0:37:32.480 --> 0:37:35.000 If it's ten thousand dollars, that's ten thousand dollars we 0:37:35.000 --> 0:37:37.480 didn't have the day before. So if we win a 0:37:37.520 --> 0:37:40.680 bucket load, fantastic, But we have to also prepared to 0:37:40.719 --> 0:37:43.960 win nothing, because it's a game of chance, and I 0:37:44.000 --> 0:37:47.320 think for any block contestant, you have to be prepared 0:37:47.440 --> 0:37:49.440 to win nothing. And last time, people said, I, how 0:37:49.440 --> 0:37:51.480 did you feel coming last? And I said, we won 0:37:51.560 --> 0:37:54.880 three and eighty four thousand dollars. That was tax three. 0:37:54.960 --> 0:37:57.040 I felt pretty good about that. The fact that somebody 0:37:57.080 --> 0:37:59.439 else won more, It's like saying, you won a million 0:37:59.480 --> 0:38:01.840 dollars in the but the grand prize was twenty million? 0:38:01.880 --> 0:38:03.880 Are you unhappy about that? No? 0:38:03.880 --> 0:38:03.960 No. 0:38:04.280 --> 0:38:06.440 The last question I do ask all of my guests 0:38:06.640 --> 0:38:10.400 before they go is what's an amazing story from behind 0:38:10.400 --> 0:38:13.120 the scenes that we as an audience may not have seen. 0:38:13.520 --> 0:38:17.840 This year on the block, we actually had Kinsman Kitchens 0:38:18.200 --> 0:38:20.200 offered to do all of our laundry, so they had 0:38:20.200 --> 0:38:22.279 someone come and collect the laundry for us every week, 0:38:22.320 --> 0:38:25.400 whereas previously on the block, your laundry was your problem, 0:38:25.400 --> 0:38:28.439 and until you had a laundry, you had to either 0:38:28.440 --> 0:38:30.520 go to a laundry mat or wear dirty clothes. And 0:38:30.520 --> 0:38:32.160 I remember sitting in a laundry mat. There was a 0:38:32.200 --> 0:38:34.320 one Insecurita that I sat in in the middle of 0:38:34.360 --> 0:38:36.319 the night getting some laundry done. When we needed to, 0:38:36.680 --> 0:38:39.480 but they sent around someone to collect our laundry. So 0:38:39.560 --> 0:38:42.400 I went and got our laundry and we had builders 0:38:42.440 --> 0:38:45.120 all over the site. There was camera crew and sound 0:38:45.200 --> 0:38:48.719 guys and bridges everywhere. So I sort of thought, oh, 0:38:49.000 --> 0:38:50.600 let's have some fun with this. So I said, look, 0:38:50.640 --> 0:38:53.080 you know what, take my shirt to I said, you 0:38:53.120 --> 0:38:55.319 know what, actually, these socks could do with a wash. 0:38:55.440 --> 0:38:56.160 Take my socks. 0:38:56.440 --> 0:38:57.759 I knew this was at that point. 0:38:57.800 --> 0:39:00.520 I knew with this, let's to take my trousers. And 0:39:00.560 --> 0:39:02.359 then I said, look, why don't I get clean under it? 0:39:02.520 --> 0:39:04.240 So I took off my underwear and I was staying 0:39:04.239 --> 0:39:07.919 there stark naked in front of forty fifty people, which 0:39:07.960 --> 0:39:11.320 was for me, it was amazing. It's like, oh my god, 0:39:11.600 --> 0:39:14.520 I'm naked, and it's sort of like that dream you 0:39:14.560 --> 0:39:16.439 wake up and you're naked in a crowded room. 0:39:16.560 --> 0:39:18.560 No, it's a nightmare. You've got it wrong. It's not 0:39:18.600 --> 0:39:21.399 a dream. It's a nightmare when I wake up, when 0:39:21.440 --> 0:39:23.439 I have that dream and I'm completely neuded in front 0:39:23.440 --> 0:39:24.600 of people. Oh my god. 0:39:24.880 --> 0:39:27.480 Yeah, well I well I was, and it was it 0:39:27.520 --> 0:39:30.359 was people were like for all the right runs, I hope, 0:39:30.520 --> 0:39:33.719 but I was. I found it very invigorating. I found 0:39:33.719 --> 0:39:36.200 it empowering, empowering. 0:39:36.960 --> 0:39:40.120 However, the poor guy who was taking the laundry. One 0:39:40.120 --> 0:39:42.239 of the interesting things is two of the guys working 0:39:42.239 --> 0:39:46.200 on a unit show, travel Guys, the Target Boys, Deng 0:39:46.400 --> 0:39:49.520 and Kevin and Dorian. Deng and Kevin were working as 0:39:49.600 --> 0:39:52.240 runners on the block that was pantestic? Were they yes, 0:39:52.440 --> 0:39:55.480 Evan who took kids laundry, who was in shock singing naked? 0:39:56.760 --> 0:39:57.919 That's the story. 0:39:58.120 --> 0:40:00.000 Then after I did that strip in front of him, 0:40:00.200 --> 0:40:02.680 I didn't think to myself, well, should I should have 0:40:02.800 --> 0:40:06.239 checked that it was actually like not affected by the 0:40:06.280 --> 0:40:08.839 people weather. I should I should have. 0:40:08.760 --> 0:40:11.400 Teased me no time for fluffing boys. Can I just 0:40:11.400 --> 0:40:14.239 say it has been so amazing to talk to the 0:40:14.280 --> 0:40:17.080 two of you. I have absolutely loved every single second. 0:40:17.480 --> 0:40:19.600 My partner is going to be devastated when the show's over, 0:40:19.680 --> 0:40:23.200 because you inspire me every day in very different ways 0:40:23.560 --> 0:40:25.680 of tiding things up around the house. I would want 0:40:25.719 --> 0:40:27.919 to present myself better. I want to have a better 0:40:27.960 --> 0:40:30.960 relationship with him, and I think it's just been amazing 0:40:30.960 --> 0:40:32.560 to watch. So I just want to thank you so 0:40:32.640 --> 0:40:36.239 much for your time and and thank you for being here. 0:40:36.239 --> 0:40:36.919 On TV Rilo. 0:40:38.520 --> 0:40:39.520 Thank you, it's a pleasure. 0:40:39.560 --> 0:40:42.680 Thanks for being that's that's too kind.