S3 Ep 7 – Hotel Motel
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What feedback episode format introduced the hotel conversation?
Hello and welcome to Tim and Kev's Big Design Adventure, a project so close to my heart, something that Tim and I have been working on for the past couple of years. We've already delivered two complete series, so that's like, you know, I don't know, dozens of episodes. And we're now into our stride into series three. And look, before we go any further, I should introduce my great, great friend, a lovely man, collaborator, professor of architecture. Well, visiting professor of architecture, at least. Yeah, his name's on the tin.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Tim Ross. Thank you so much, Kevin. It's really great to be sharing this podcast with everyone in the UK and Ireland for the very first time. Putting together this podcast has been one of the great joys of my life, and sharing it with you, Kev, is an absolute hoot. So it's been wildly popular in Australia and New Zealand, so it's fabulous to be able to share it with you now. And so strap yourself in. It's quite an adventure.
Nicely said. It is. It's what it says on the tin, isn't it? It's a big design adventure, Tim. It's a big design adventure. This podcast is brought to you in collaboration with RIBA, the Royal Institute of British Architects, who champion architects and inspire design lovers all over the world. To discover more, search RIBA architecture.
Hello and welcome to our big design adventure. G'day, Kev. Hey, mate. Good day and welcome. On today's episode, we're going to talk about a whole bunch of things because we are taking your questions and we are reading through some of your emails.
I was talking to my agent the other day and she said, Kevin, you and Tim just need to spend an episode just talking to each other, not interviewing other people. I said, don't be ridiculous. Nobody's going to listen to that. And I think today that's exactly what we're attempting. Also, what's interesting here is that when you and I, I'm always fascinated by this. We've done this before. When we read an email that's come in, it weirdly, it can lead to a conversation an hour long just based on one email, one set of comments. And that tells me a great deal about how you and I can just bullshit our way through life.
Yeah. Strap yourself in. We might get through more than one email today. Yeah, it's a bit of a feedback episode. Oh, feedback's good. So on Monday night, I spoke, I don't know what the collective term for them is, a group of parliamentarian librarians.
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So they're librarians at parliament houses and throughout Australia and the Pacific.
And what do they do? Do they get together and talk about libraries?
I think so. They were absolutely lovely, lovely. Oh. And I told them a story about... how when I was a kid, there used to be a library that was in a bus, like a mobile library. Of course. Yes. Yeah. Same here. Yeah. Same here. Extraordinary things. And it used to just park up on the nature strip and On a Friday, whenever they turned up or whatever, mum used to drive us down and we'd take it in turns to get on the bus because you couldn't all fit because they were only little. And then we'd get a book each or something or other. And my father used to have a pharmacy across the road from it. And he told this great story about how this woman used to come across after she'd been to the mobile library and get a prescription filled and she'd have it.
She was in her 80s and she'd have a stack of books. And he'd always say, oh, you've got a lot of books there. And she would always say the same thing, too many books and not enough time. And then the other thing Dad used to say, because he was an antiques dealer and he used to always go through and be looking for bits and pieces, and he'd always say, you can always tell in this suburb when someone really smart's just died because the op shops are full of great books. So I told him that. I liked that because it was about books.
That's a nice story. See, that's about books and legacies, isn't it? That's about books as sort of cultural objects and as carriers of personality. It's like when the architecture's gone, the books remain.
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