WEBVTT - COURTNEY AND GRANT - THE BLOCK - CHANNEL NINE 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.320 It's in the news today, but it was actually on TV. 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:05.480 Reload the podcast last week Their Life. Hey guys, welcome 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:07.760 back to TV Reload. I want to thank you for 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:11.000 clicking and downloading on today's episode with Courtney and Grant, 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:14.200 two of the latest contestants on the Block, which has 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:18.080 been dazzling the audience this year on Channel nine. I'm 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:20.320 actually a big fan of this couple's work, and so 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:22.440 far I think they are the most likely to win 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.560 this season. So this is not without their faults. By 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:29.080 the way, audiences are often quite taken aback by their 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:33.159 communications style and there are some very interesting theories that 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.680 they are following a winning formula by Stephan Gian who 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:40.040 we saw last year. I will talk about their relationship 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:42.720 and what they think of watching their interactions on National 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.720 TV back and that includes some of the reactions from 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.800 the Australian public. You will get to hear us unpack 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:54.720 their modern Terraneum theme and what influences they actually had 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:58.000 that led them to that styling. There is some real 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:02.000 challenges with multiple teams in terms of their builders this year, 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.199 and I'm curious to know why this season so much 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:08.000 seemed to go wrong in that space. We will even 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.960 get an insight into the production and what they think 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.160 of how this show gets put together. There is a 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.200 lot to talk about, and you know, this season of 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.360 the Block is wild. So sit back and relax as 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:25.360 we unpack the Block twenty, the biggest season today. Hi, Hi, 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:26.399 how are you? Both? 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:26.800 Hi? 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:27.120 Ben? 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:28.000 Good mate? How are you? 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.560 I'm doing really well. I don't know why I'm laughing 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.160 because I think I think this season's really shocked me 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:36.560 in some ways. I think I was like, oh, it's 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.840 the twentieth anniversary season. You know, there's going to be 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.600 balloons and party pis and it's all going to be really, 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:43.840 you know, sweet and lovely. But it actually is quite 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.960 a dramatic season. So much drama, so much drama. There's 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:48.440 so much for us to talk about today. 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:50.200 Let's do it. Let's do it. 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.760 I think the most important question that I have for 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.560 you is what is watching this show back been like 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:57.720 for the both of you? Do you drink a lot 0:01:57.720 --> 0:01:59.240 of wine? Do you have people come over? 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.040 I mean to know, honestly, it's actually been really fun. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.200 Yes we have been one, but like that's nothing new 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:08.560 recording okay in a fun way. 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:10.880 Yeah, Look, I think we've been pretty low key the 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:11.960 first few weeks. 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.760 So well, we've enjoyed watching it. We were nothing but ourselves. 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.200 So nothing's really come across and shopped us, if we're 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.320 honest from what we saw of us, yes, and other 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:23.560 things that shopped us. 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:25.799 But I think in some ways, because there's so much 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.000 happening in the other houses for you guys, we haven't 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:32.000 seen as much maybe as what we could have. I think, 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.040 you know, there's a lot of other things happening. What 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.000 do you do when you come on screen? Are you excited, like, Hey, 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.120 this is us? Or are you kind of cringe? Like 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:39.800 what I want to know? 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:41.120 Now? We're excited? 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.960 So like last night? Was it last night? Yet whenever 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.520 it was Wednesday, we're watching the episode and it was 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:48.120 half an hour in. Like, are we even on the 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.880 block in twenty what's happening here? 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:55.160 I wasn't sure if they booted, couldn't see it anyway. 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.800 They'll edit you in later. I remember doing Big Brother 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.200 in twenty twelve, and I remember thinking, they eliminate me. Now, 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:02.680 no one will remember me. 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:06.079 You need the drama. 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.080 You need the drama. So then I just threw drinks 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:12.440 in people's faces. How has the Block experience. Grant you 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:14.359 kind of did say it, don't it hasn't shocked you. 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:17.160 But like in comparison to what you signed up to 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.040 and what you expected to, what is the finished product now? 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:21.240 Like are there shocks in that? 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:22.440 Look? 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:24.960 The only thing that sort of got me by surprise, 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:25.920 and I still think. 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:30.040 About it, you know, even here, how quick everything moves 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.240 on the block. That's the only thing that they really 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.200 shocked us in terms of watching ourselves back or anything 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.680 like that. I think Court and I we always said, 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:39.840 will come in here and be you know, be ourselves, 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:41.800 and you know it will be nothing. But yeah, it 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.120 defends people. Then it defends people, and if people liked it, 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:44.840 will then you. 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.080 Know even better. So yeah, that's the only thing I 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:47.720 look back and. 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.000 Go that I was only surprised by the speed of 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:50.840 the twelve weeks. 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.400 No, I think that this show is so fast paced. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.080 It's also one of the only reality shows that I 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.920 think is still on television that quite real, Like we're 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.600 actually capturing a lot of real content where a lot 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.360 of other shows these days are quite manufactured and set up, 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:07.080 where it's real, fly on the wall kind of television. 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.760 Yeah, we've been asked for so like what's scripted and 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:10.120 what's not. 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.880 I'm like, no, no, no, this is this is all real, 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.240 this is all happening, Like these things are actually happening. 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:17.600 The tears are real, the tears are real, all the 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.479 drama is real. Like it's just you look back now 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.440 after doing it all, you just think, yeah, it doesn't 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.039 really seem like it could be real. But it all happens. 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:27.279 It all happens very quickly. 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.599 Does it change the way you guys talk to each other, 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.120 because there's a lot of conversation about how the couples 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:36.039 this year have like a love language that's quite volatile. 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.360 And I've been watching it and changing my own behavior 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.920 with my with my partner because I'm like I was 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.080 saying to him, I'm like, these people are quite outspoken, 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.159 you know, And he goes, you talk to me like that, 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.919 He goes Everyone in Australia talks to their partners like this. 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.360 But I wondered whether or not watching it back has 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.960 made you think about it differently. 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:57.599 I was thinking about it during filming. 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.520 I think I not held back, but think I became 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.200 a lot more patient because I didn't want to lose 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:03.240 my temper all the time. 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.080 I feel like you definitely change for better. 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:08.359 But one thing with Cordy and I was and we 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.119 always you know, it's always been so, even pre block 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.240 was it's always been a two way street. So if 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.760 we're arguing, we're both arguing, it's never been you know, 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:17.440 we both can give it back. It's just as good 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.240 as we as we get it. So yeah, some people 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.400 might find it weird or confronting, but for us it 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:23.720 was it's almost healthy. 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.280 Yeah, And we still support each other and you know, 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:33.039 we laugh more than we're arguing, so it's all healthy. 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.120 What was really interesting was when I met the two 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.400 of you. And this sounds bad because I'm making a comparison. 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.719 Everyone that day was talking about there being a like 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:43.640 some couples going to get a divorce or something, and 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:45.760 there was a rumor going around that day. So all 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.280 of the media, we're watching you guys so intently, and 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:52.120 you two in particular, I was watching and whilst you 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.159 guys did have a particular style of language between the 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.080 two of you, I actually thought that you had the 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.039 most genuine relationship out of everyone. 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:03.160 We have been told that before, Okay, Grant and I 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.120 and I've said this before on the show, like we are, 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.719 We're best friends, like there's no one else we're closer to, 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.200 and we get each other through and through, and I 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.240 think that's kind of what got us through the block. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.560 And you know, without that support, Like Grant said. 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.720 It's two way and we both support each other through 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:19.320 thick and thin. 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:21.599 But yeah, it made us so much stronger. 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:22.880 Definitely, it put you. 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.200 Yeah, and I'm sure having kids also has a similar feeling. 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.279 Like you, it's those really intense moments that make you 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:31.520 grow as a person and become closer. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:33.440 So I feel like the block did that for us. 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:34.240 Yeah, for sure. 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.039 Well I may touch into this a little bit later, 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:37.680 but I really want to ask you about what sort 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:40.599 of preparation, Like I think about if I did the block, 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:42.839 what the hell would I be doing? Would I be 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.359 thinking themes? Would I be doing research? Would I know 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:47.880 a kind of guideline as to what I'm going to bring? 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.159 What did you guys try and do as like homework 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.480 preparation before turning up in Phillip Island. 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.120 Yeah, I mean the hardest thing for us is I 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.560 think we got told as one of the last couple, 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:02.440 so we were told to be days I think days 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.160 before before we got there, so we had a few 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.480 things going on work wise and personal and whatnot, so 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:10.920 we really didn't even have a chance to breed, to 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:12.920 be honest, before we got there. We made you know, 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:14.880 a little bit of a plan, but we came in 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:16.120 almost very loose. 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.880 Not all our trains were confirmed and everything like that. 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.280 So in terms of design, we had a bit of 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:22.000 a plan. 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.000 We knew, I mean, we were already planning on like 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.600 hopefully building again in the future, so I already had 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:30.200 a bit of a mood board, an idea of what 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.240 we'd want to do then. So we thought we could 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.920 just do a similar thing on Philip Island. So I 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:39.280 came in you know, modern Mediterranean, the Moditerranean term. It 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.720 was week one will kind of just like I fumbled 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.000 my words and we came up with that. But each 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.120 room we had an idea of what we want to do, 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.240 kind of color scheme. But you also don't know, you know, 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.320 you know, you're roughly like who your sponsors are, but 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.800 you don't know like how much sponsorship ships dollars go 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.120 towards different vendors. So I think that's that's one thing 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.000 that you have to really figure out when you get there. 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.240 But an overall style, Like if anyone can prep for out, 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:04.440 I think that's really important. 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.680 The modern Tranean theme is genius though, So I love 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.400 that you've just revealed to us that you basically fumbled 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:11.480 across that well done. 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.440 Yeah, no, it really the modern Mediterranean. 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.720 We definitely had a vision, but Moditerranean, I mean, I 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:19.360 think that was just a fluke immunity, be honest. 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.400 Especially, hey we've got Moditerranean. 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:26.520 I think it was at Beaumont Tile the first time, 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:26.840 and I. 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:28.040 Was like, we grant. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.440 You were so hilarious because you kept getting corrected at 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.880 the start, you know, this is the theme they have properly, 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.120 and then later on we even call it out like 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:37.000 I don't know if you've seen that, but later on 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.280 you're like, oh wow, I just said it correctly. It 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:40.560 just rolls off the tongue. 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:43.079 It's converted. 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.960 But after watching Stephanjiwn, I'm so surprised that that's the 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.000 truth of that story because I just imagine, being as 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.320 as smart as I know you both are, that you 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.920 must have looked at Japande last year and realized that 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:57.959 having a theme like this, having a comprehensive theme that's 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.240 kind of fresh and exciting works on this series, like 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:02.240 the Block, I. 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.440 One hundred percent agree, And I think what Stephan Jon 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.040 did was amazing, Like they built the most amazing house. 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.080 But I think when you're building anything new, any new house, 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.520 you always have well, like from experience, like it's always 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.800 really important to have a style or a theme. Otherwise 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.040 if you don't, Like I'm one where I'll see something 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:20.520 pretty and I'll be like, oh my gosh, I want that. 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.200 If I don't have that direction, then you can just 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.400 go in all different tangents. So I think for me 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.679 is just when I'm designing a space, I need that 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:30.960 I have that at home, like I'll have that one 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.600 any projects I'm working on. I think it's Yeah, it's 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:35.400 really important to have that directional theme. 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.480 It's a great pull through. And I think, yeah, something 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.600 that's very easy to sell because you've simplified it and 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.600 it actually really does explain your house in a very 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.040 simple way, and that kind of pull through works for 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.600 your branding moving outside of the block later on. That 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.120 must have been a part of the conversation even if 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.320 you started having that in the first week. Oh, come on, 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:56.720 this is going to be the pool through it. This 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:57.400 is going to work. 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.040 Yeah, And I think, I mean, we probably didn't and 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.520 realized how important it was until the judges started giving 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.920 us feedback and you know, talking about moderterranean and making it, 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:08.960 you know, more than what we thought it was. So 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.640 I think that was really encouraging from them. 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.040 I think that there's going to be some rivalry and 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:15.880 I don't want to start this, but I just feel 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.040 like Stephan Gian with their like when I walked through 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:20.560 your house, and I may have it and said that 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.080 to you on the day, like it's so comprehensive. This 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.360 is the bathrooms, this is the bathrooms version of it, 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.400 it is the loud rooms version. It's very well done. 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.440 But there are some nodes that seem like have come 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.280 from a very Stephan Gyon world. Do you think there 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.679 could be some block rivalry between the two of you, 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.960 considering that there are some very similar things being worked on. 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.199 I think what is similar is just the both our 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.880 houses have that consistent look so in each space, and 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.520 I think that is really important. Obviously, you've got that term. 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.720 They had Japane, so they followed that throughout the whole house. 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:54.200 They had that stone. 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:57.640 So with us doing modern Mediterranean right at the beginning, 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.360 we knew that we would have that same cohesion look 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.000 as well, although it's obviously a very different style. But 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.440 I think like other houses had their own direction as well, 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.199 but then maybe they just didn't permit like what we 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:10.920 did made a big thing about it. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:14.360 Yeah, I mean without saying, you know, this is not 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.240 a spoiler, because nothing. We don't know how the show ends. 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.760 I do feel like what you've decided to do in 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.720 that space of modern Mediterranean is going to win you 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.680 the show. And I want to know how you feel 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:29.480 about audiences already saying that as well, that you guys, 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:31.800 you know, are pulling comparisons to seven GWN they're going 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:33.440 to win like last year. This is a very you know, 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.240 how do you feel about the pressure that's on you 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:38.320 that you guys look like you're going to walk in 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:38.839 and win it. 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.160 If only the judges thought we're going to win it too, 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.120 because right now we've lost by half a point two. 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.040 It's a compliment, like we we've obviously you know, we've 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.040 met Stephan Giann and whatnot, so and obviously we followed 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:54.440 their journey last year, so they've done incredible things. No 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.000 matter what, it's a compliment what happens on auction day. 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.679 I think we've learned over you know, nineteen seasons and 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:01.200 now the twentieth. 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:02.280 That nothing's guaranteed. 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.720 We genuinely came on the show to experience something that 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.040 not many people can say they've done, prove that we 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:09.400 could do it and do. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.840 It without maybe losing our shit every two minutes so 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:13.080 and just being creative. 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.439 I think that's what the main thing was like, We just. 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.680 We were ready to build again in our own in 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:19.360 our own life, so we thought, well, why not get 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:20.559 somebody else to pay for it? 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.880 So whatever way, the show ends where you know, we're 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:24.079 happy and yeah. 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.480 People think we're going to be successful and win it, 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:30.120 and obviously that's that's a compliment, but it's nicely. 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:32.840 You don't always do nice things online. 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.280 You don't stop reading the comments, Cordney, What is wrong 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:36.880 with you? Don't read I have. 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.040 To stop stop comments. 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.520 Don't read them. You're just as bad ground and both 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:43.080 of you need to stay away from that. There's no 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.080 can I just tell you. There's a very famous quote 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.800 from Sandra Bullock and she she says, never read the 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.680 comments section, and then she reads out what she read 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:55.000 on the comments section that day, and they were just horrific, 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.840 Like what, who? Where? Do people feel like? This is 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.080 what I don't understand if you wouldn't say it to 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:04.440 someone's face, don't get online with your cats and your 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:07.400 birds and write the ship to people. Come on. 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:09.840 Well, I'm hoping maybe at the end of the show 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:11.720 you and I can sit down for another podcast and 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:13.719 we can read out some of the meanest tweets about me. 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.600 I've already got the theme it of it suggy because 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:17.600 I don't listen to it. 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.400 Apparently grumpy reads grumpy comments. 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.319 Because you are really grumpy, because then that's one of 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.240 my favorite grant do you know what it's? So you're 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.160 so refreshing on this show because there are some moments 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.640 with you interacting with your builders and things like that 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:33.800 where I think some people are like, oh, wow, he's 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:35.839 very grumpy, but I just think that's very real. You're 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:39.360 just very passionate bloke who says what he's thinking. Isn't 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.920 it better to be upfront than to, you know, be 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:43.640 wishy washy and meek and mild. 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.040 What you see is what you get with me. You're 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:47.240 only going to get the truth. You know. 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:48.640 I'm not going to be the type of person that 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:52.200 goes in comments about something on Facebook or I actually don't. 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.520 I hate social media, so I'm on it. Don't get 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:55.640 me wrong, but I do hate it. 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:57.640 And you know, if somebody, if I've got a thought 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:59.480 about somebody, I'll make sure that they know it. 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.560 By the end of the conversation. But you're also very 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.000 just honest. It's just I've got no time for bullshit. 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:09.160 Yeah, but I feel like you're also very respectful. Until 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.880 someone obviously disrespects. 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.679 Somebody breaks trust or breaks loyalty, they they don't have 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:15.800 respect anymore. 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.600 Yeah, yeah, pretty pretty much. 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.440 Look, I'll give everybody I grew up in, you know, 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:22.640 from it in a mind frame where you know, you 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.080 give everybody respect, you give everybody at the time of day, 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:26.880 no matter what. But until you you know, you break 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.680 loyalty or break trust, then yeah, then that's that all 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:30.560 gets thrown out the windows. 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:31.720 To be honest, and you're pretty cut through. 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:32.840 Yeah, pretty yeah. 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.080 I don't just love anyone that anyone who takes someone 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.360 to task. I don't know why. It's my favorite thing. 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.720 Just just just get the popcorn out because just. 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.160 Do it like I love it to come. 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.400 Look, grant, I'm not surprised I'm not surprised. I'm here 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:50.840 for it. You know, I'm wondering extra large boxes of popcorn. 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:51.480 But you'll need it. 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.360 Come on with this with the way you talk to 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.400 the builders, what do you think about this? Like did 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.200 you get bad builders? Like what what happened? Like what 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:03.280 really has on down to have you at this situation 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.120 of the show at odds with them? 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:06.360 Yeah, Look, I. 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.400 Think if I sat here and said that everything was 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.000 smooth sailing and it was a great build, they were 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:11.000 great builders, and that would be. 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:12.560 An absolute life the TV show. 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.840 As we mentioned before, they don't try and bend words 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:15.600 or twist words. 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:16.280 It is what it is. 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:18.680 What's shown is what's shown, and obviously it was there 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:20.960 was a there was a poor level of professionalism then. 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.640 And you know, I'm in an industry where, you know, 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:27.400 you hold professionalism in high regard. So yeah, I mean, look, 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.920 it's there was also a part of me, and it's 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:31.960 probably wasn't It was probably the only part of me 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:33.920 that that wasn't my true self. 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:35.640 I thought I had to. 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.160 Be loyal throughout that, you know, throughout the period with 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.480 the with these builders, so you know. 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.200 And that's something I probably should have cut ties with earlier. 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:44.600 And you wanted to see what would play out. 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:46.240 Yeah, I wanted to see what play I wanted to 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:47.840 give them the benefit of the doubt, which I don't 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:49.680 often do. I should have should have probably followed my 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:51.760 brooper gut instinct that I had in you know, in 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:53.920 week one. But you know, it is what it is, 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.200 you know, Hunt, that's a wonderful thing. 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.400 So do you have advice for people that will go 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.040 on the block out to you about their like, can 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.600 you do things? Would you do things differently about hiring 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:08.240 your builder? And how important is finding a builder that 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.800 is right for you to work straight away? 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.720 It's so important, it really is. Like I think I 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.040 had doubts from day one with our builders, and I 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.240 mentioned that to court anyone when we met them, But 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.840 you know, it is what it is. I would yet 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.960 definitely suggest that, you know, any future contestants that they 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:26.560 meet a few different types of people. 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:28.880 You know, it's really hard you're trying to pick these 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:30.280 trades in them all. For us it was in the 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.640