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Interview: Darren Palmer & Erin Holland · The Smallzy Show

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  Speaker 1: A small show, a smallsy show.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Aaron Holland.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm Darren Palmer. Home of the Century is the
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  Speaker 3: podcast that makes Property feel possible.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome on the show this afternoon, Darren Palmer, welcome, Thank
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  Speaker 2: you very much. Aaron Holland, welcome to you. Hello, Hello,
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  Speaker 2: you guys both have a new podcast, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: i'm this week's Yes.
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  Speaker 3: How nice now for you to be back on the
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  Speaker 3: right side of the table, the interviewer, not the interviewee.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'll tell you what I feel in my comfortable,
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  Speaker 2: happy place here being the one that drives and asks
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  Speaker 2: all the questions. Your home is a happy place, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, Oh, thank you very much. So quickly, let's
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  Speaker 2: unpack this. It is Home of the Century podcast, Ye
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  Speaker 2: talk me through it. You basically go to stunning homes
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  Speaker 2: and mine was one.
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  Speaker 1: Of them, running homes.
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  Speaker 4: Like it's a lot of place that is. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: absolutely brought to you by Century twenty one. It's all
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  Speaker 4: about real life assies luck, your good self, and and
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  Speaker 4: buriard of others who have found ways to find their
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  Speaker 4: feet in the property market. And like, let's be real,
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  Speaker 4: it's really hard at the moment, and there's there's so
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  Speaker 4: many different ways to do it, and whilst there's always
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  Speaker 4: been this rhetoric I think of you know, your price
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  Speaker 4: out of the market Australia as impossible, avocado and toast
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  Speaker 4: generation like give up. Now there are still ways to
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  Speaker 4: do it and everyone's got their own story.
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  Speaker 2: And then you, Darren, what do you want to Well?
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  Speaker 2: I was scared to have you in my house, he studied. True,
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  Speaker 2: I was scared to have you in my house because
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  Speaker 2: I was like, he's going to judge it. He was gonna.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, it's kind of like, you know, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like someone does interiores, then then you welcome
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  Speaker 2: them into your It's like, you know, a fashion styles
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  Speaker 2: or whatever, and then here's my outfit that I put together.
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  Speaker 2: What's he really think? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: But he liked it.
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  Speaker 2: I loved it.
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  Speaker 3: The first time I went to Allison Langdon's house, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: had me and Matt moranover and her house is pre
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  Speaker 3: renovated and he was cooking. Okay, she was cooking, So like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, you have you have really cast iron?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, no, totally, because you invite a chef to
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  Speaker 2: cook for and an unrenovated house for an interior designer. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: she didn't care.
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  Speaker 3: She was game. You were game. I appreciate it. People
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  Speaker 3: don't invite me into their houses often, and I I
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  Speaker 3: think it's because of my horrible personality. But well maybe
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  Speaker 3: I'm making people nervous of it.
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  Speaker 4: But we gave you the I gave you the opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, look, we've got Darren Palm. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 4: get some free anterior to give me some no dining
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  Speaker 4: styling advice.
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  Speaker 1: And you were like, I think it's perfect.
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  Speaker 4: It's timeless, it's modern, but it's chic. It's not going
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  Speaker 4: to date. He said, all you know, all the right things.
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  Speaker 4: So well done.
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  Speaker 2: Because we were there then and now I'm here now
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you the real Now tell me what
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  Speaker 2: you really thought. Wow, terrible? Why the fur House? No? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So the Home of the Century. You go and you
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  Speaker 2: just I guess interview a variety of people me included
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  Speaker 2: about our stories of how you bought a house or
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  Speaker 2: for my episode, we talked about me because I bought
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  Speaker 2: the house at auction. Right, Oh yeah, it's so nerve racked, King,
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  Speaker 2: It was so nerve racking buying at auction. You, Darren,
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  Speaker 2: do them for fun, for just for your for your
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  Speaker 2: TV career. You just take. You get people to build
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  Speaker 2: a house and then see if anyone wants it.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to tell you, I try to keep the
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  Speaker 3: hell away from auctions as best I can. I've made
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  Speaker 3: a friend buy two houses for me at auction because
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to go near them and I'm nowhere
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  Speaker 3: near a block auction ever.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, you're not, are you. Do they make
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  Speaker 2: you anxious?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely?
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  Speaker 3: How do they not make you anxious? If auctions make
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  Speaker 3: you anxious? Watch the episode Small is on it and
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  Speaker 3: your approach to options and selling and buying and auctions
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  Speaker 3: is absolutely worth seeing. If you want to see Small
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  Speaker 3: as his house. Yeah, yeah, you can see it on
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  Speaker 3: YouTube and Spotify. Yes's house.
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  Speaker 2: They hit the sex room, everybody, they didn't. They didn't
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  Speaker 2: cover the sex room. I didn't show you that. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't show you that one that was that was locked up.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you worry.
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  Speaker 4: That's the thing about real estate. There's no contrived drama.
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  Speaker 4: This is just the reality of trying to own a
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  Speaker 4: home in Australia.
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  Speaker 1: It's stressful, it's drama.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody story totally.
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  Speaker 4: So it's all all just real life experiences and like
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  Speaker 4: for you, you avoided two auctions by selling before the fact.
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  Speaker 1: But you have to buy the house you live in
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  Speaker 1: now at an auction.
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  Speaker 2: I totably did, I totally did. Okay, So Friday afternoon
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  Speaker 2: people might be planning there if they're looking at buying
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  Speaker 2: a house or something at the moment the weekend is
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  Speaker 2: coming open homes, Darren, what would your advice be to
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  Speaker 2: anyone who's looking at a house this weekend? Do you
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  Speaker 2: try to see through someone else's clutter and look for
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  Speaker 2: the bare bones or what's your advice?
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  Speaker 3: I did. That's what I did when I bought my
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  Speaker 3: first apartment. I found something that I knew was great.
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  Speaker 3: I've done all the research, I knew the area, I
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  Speaker 3: knew the value of everything that I couldn't upgrade.
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  Speaker 2: So okay, its.
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  Speaker 3: Location, it's outlook, available light, et cetera. So all the
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  Speaker 3: things that you can't improve onto a property, look for
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  Speaker 3: those things, okay, because everything else you can chan change.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did notice. By the way, we were thinking
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  Speaker 2: about both about painting our office color block it out
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  Speaker 2: black and you saw the swatches on the wall. Is
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  Speaker 2: that a bold move to make? But should we do it?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? So two things there, Yes, it's only paint, so
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  Speaker 3: you should just go hand with paint because paint is something.
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  Speaker 2: That you can replace easily. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: And also don't paint swatches on your wall. You can
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  Speaker 3: get them off the internet from like Dulux whatever. They
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  Speaker 3: send you a four sheets and you can hold it
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  Speaker 3: up on different walls and see it in different lights.
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  Speaker 2: Okash your floor and on.
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  Speaker 3: There's a little freebe tip for us and they're like
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  Speaker 3: two dollars each.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, And you don't have to worry about painting a wall.
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  Speaker 2: And then nothing looks worse than going to someone and
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  Speaker 2: like they swatched that wall like twelve months ago and
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  Speaker 2: they're still under the paint. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I hated this myself. You're like, wow, no way, matter
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  Speaker 1: of guests paid anything.
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  Speaker 2: The podcast is called Home of the Century Auction Advantages,
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  Speaker 2: Episode four that's featuring yours truly. Obviously you've done a
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  Speaker 2: lot of stuff with houses, so I thought I would
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  Speaker 2: just lightning round you just some interior design ix. Feel
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  Speaker 2: free both to chime in. I'm going to throw a
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  Speaker 2: design trend at you. You tell me whether or not
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  Speaker 2: you like them or if we're getting rid of them.
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  Speaker 2: Archways were loving archways archway eron Eron. While I respect you, Darren,
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  Speaker 2: what are we saying giving Greece.
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  Speaker 3: Love them too, and they are towards the end of
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  Speaker 3: their trend cycle.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, that's you know, it's okay, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I'm on.
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  Speaker 3: Board in a Mediterranean environment perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. What about bad faux florals? Should you ever have
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  Speaker 2: fake flowers in the house instead of fresh, real ones?
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  Speaker 1: The pretty good these days?
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to say yes, particularly for open homes, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: particularly if you're trying to sell your house. One of
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  Speaker 3: the best things you can do is have evergreen florals
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  Speaker 3: that aren't going to wilt. Make sure you dust them,
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  Speaker 3: and if you can, put them of out of reach
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  Speaker 3: so that you can look at them but you can't
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  Speaker 3: touch them, and see if you get close enough.
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  Speaker 1: To them, sell your secret by having the feeling.
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  Speaker 2: It's you know what I'm hearing here, Darren Palmer has
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  Speaker 2: fake flowers? Okay? What about Millennial Gray. We're out out
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  Speaker 2: and I have trauma people who and this, Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to I'm going to call this people who have
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  Speaker 2: like doctor surgery, five thousand K white lights in their house.
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  Speaker 2: It's a crime. He didn't know. It is a crime,
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  Speaker 2: a crime the people who buy the I don't know
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  Speaker 2: why they sell bulbs that are like bright bright white.
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  Speaker 2: There should be a slight yellow tinge to every globe
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  Speaker 2: in your house correctly.
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  Speaker 4: Down light is not your friend of the best of times.
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  Speaker 4: When it's like doctor's surgery. Baron Sorley, I'm also sorry,
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  Speaker 4: sorry is rapped Aarren. But I'm also anti down. Like
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  Speaker 4: any light on the roof, put a lamp, puts lamb that.
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  Speaker 1: Looks straight at me. It just gives me, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a softbox glow.
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  Speaker 3: I'm with the age where I would live my life
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  Speaker 3: by candle light. No, you look great because I live
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  Speaker 3: in candlelight.
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  Speaker 2: Ceiling fans with lights in them, the combo.
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  Speaker 3: No unless they're beautiful, and some of them are, but
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  Speaker 3: the very very few of them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, what about you go to some people's houses.
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  Speaker 2: It's a generational thing. But they have live life, love artwork,
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  Speaker 2: or it's wine o'clock, or don't talk to me until
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  Speaker 2: I've had my morning coffee in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: Put it on the Instagram and leave it there where
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  Speaker 1: it belongs.
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  Speaker 3: Only if I walk into a laundry that says wash
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  Speaker 3: or like a kitchen that says eat like, yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: know how to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, And then last one because obviously I think
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  Speaker 2: you're filming the block at the moment, right, non council
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  Speaker 2: compliant alterations are we Yeah, you're nahing? Nay nay.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want that bill when it comes in and
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  Speaker 1: he neighbor dubs you in?
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  Speaker 4: No, we got dogged in once because someone thought our
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  Speaker 4: outdoor sauna was an unofficial shed until we had to
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  Speaker 4: send a photo of it and.
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  Speaker 2: Go, really, it's not. Yeah, So anyone don't do an
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  Speaker 2: on council compliant alteration.
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  Speaker 3: Not unless you're planned to be there for twenty five
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  Speaker 3: years or something. There's a there's some weird rule. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's been there for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Your limitations thinks.
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  Speaker 2: Quote don't quote me last question when asked you darn't.
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  Speaker 2: What are we seeing in designer trends at the moment
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  Speaker 2: if someone is going out to buy maybe a lounge
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  Speaker 2: or something this weekend, is there anything that we should
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  Speaker 2: steer away from non council compliant alterations overarchingly?
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  Speaker 1: See what you did that.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's about conscious permanence. Oh, this is the trend
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  Speaker 3: that's emerging. Okay, moments so things that have found, things
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  Speaker 3: that represent you, things that you've like collated from your trips,
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  Speaker 3: things that look like the things that light you up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's the trend.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So it never regretted if you love it deep.
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  Speaker 3: Down and if it represents you and and the things
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  Speaker 3: that make your heart sing, and it's absolutely right. And yeah,
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  Speaker 3: boot plays sort of on its way out.
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  Speaker 2: So okay, they go, do not get anything in boot Clay,
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  Speaker 2: avoid it.
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  Speaker 3: Although I saw something at Louis Vauton yesterday Alois Vaitton
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  Speaker 3: book play.
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  Speaker 2: So far you can say that, yeah, okay, Louis Vaitton
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  Speaker 2: or his designer boot Play state is always in if
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  Speaker 2: you yep, okay, they're always exception to rules. That's this
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  Speaker 2: is the thing. This is the thing. Okay. The episode
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  Speaker 2: for Home of the Century podcast. Thanks for coming over
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  Speaker 2: to my house, guys. Thank you were the best guests.
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  Speaker 2: I must say thank you.
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