We get a surprise from GB's mum Kaz! We chat about private schooling, renting a beehive and how good awfully edited videos are.
Show Notes
The Big Dig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuIy5h3qqlE
At a glance
From this episode’s transcript.
- –Private Catholic colleges in Melbourne are roughly $6,000–$7,000 a year, far cheaper than top-tier private schools like Melbourne Grammar, Geelong Grammar or Melbourne Girls Grammar, which can run $30,000–$41,000 per year.
- –Urban beehives can be rented for about $600 a year, housing roughly 80,000 bees, with upkeep visits every 4–6 weeks and an average yield around 9–10 kg of honey annually.
- –Wasps are often maligned but reportedly play a useful ecological role, helping control pest populations like flies, caterpillars and beetle larvae alongside pollinating.
- –Tommy and Josh both enjoy poorly-edited but earnest YouTube videos (e.g. a guy digging out his own basement, a tree lopper felling a 76-metre tree), finding charm in amateur effort overriding technical polish.
- –Listener survey data shows 54% of the audience are women and 73% cited the "Hump Day Replay" segment with George as their favourite part of the show.
Questions this episode answers
How much does it cost to rent an urban beehive in Australia?
According to the hosts, renting a beehive costs around $600 a year, with the provider visiting every 4 to 6 weeks to maintain it; a single hive can contain about 80,000 bees and typically produces roughly 9–10 kg of honey annually.
Do wasps serve any useful purpose, or are they just pests?
The team notes that despite their bad reputation, wasps do more good than harm — they help protect gardens and farm crops by controlling pest populations such as flies, caterpillars and beetle larvae, in addition to some pollination.
How much do top private schools in Melbourne cost compared to Catholic colleges?
The hosts compare fees: Catholic colleges run about $6,000–$7,000 a year, while elite private schools like Melbourne Grammar, Geelong Grammar, and Melbourne Girls Grammar can cost $30,000 to over $40,000 per year, according to figures read out during the episode.
Episode TranscriptShow
Tommy: The Daily Talk Show.
Josh: It's the Daily Talk Show weekend banter episode 760.
Tommy: What's happening, guys? What's going on?
Josh: Sorry, on the megaphone.
Tommy: Sorry, it's up front, isn't it? It's quite abrupt. I got you good yesterday out of the bathroom. Actually, I just—
Josh: yeah, you screamed at me.
Tommy: Josh coming out of the bathroom.
Mason: That was great.
Tommy: It was awesome.
Mason: It scared me.
Josh: And he was on the side that you were.
Tommy: Oh, sorry, guys. Sorry. Everyone's here. How are we all?
Jess: Good.
Josh: Good.
Jess: Good.
Tommy: How are we feeling?
Josh: Great. Yeah, fine. I mean, that's—
Tommy: How are you feeling?
Josh: Same sort of question. Yeah. Jess, growing up in Bendigo.
Jess: Yes.
Josh: Catholic school.
Jess: Yes.
Josh: What? How, how, how like strong is it? Like, is it like— So, I did RE in school. Is it like religious education every week and things like that?
Jess: Yep. And there was a church on the grounds as well that we would go to. And yeah, it was like obviously your Easters, your Christmases, and then just regularly throughout term. Yeah, I still remember the songs.
Josh: So, they're like prayers and stuff that you have to remember, like prayers and shit. What are the go-tos?
Jess: It's all— It's I mean, I can't remember the prayers off the top of my head, but, um, like, our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Yes.
Tommy: Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.
Mason: You're making that up?
Tommy: No, as it is in heaven.
Josh: That's, that's quite impressive.
Mason: That is pretty good.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: Do you want to keep going? Yeah, I can't, I forgot.
Josh: So would you go, so TJ, did you go like in, like Easter and stuff?
Tommy: Would you go? Yeah, Easter I went to, um, went to like a— I think I went to a midnight mass once. The church forced me to get a tattoo on my back of a cross.
Josh: It was crazy. So how did you get the— how did you get the cross? How did that come about?
Tommy: Uh, the father— Father the priest, he was running a side business. No, I just got it. What do you mean?
Josh: Now, what made you get a, a, um, crucifix on your back?
Tommy: 17-year-old kid, I think it was a great idea. How was it? How are the— How was the tattoos happen?
Josh: I mean, that's a bit of a statement, isn't it? What was your mindset?
Tommy: I had lots of young mates who were getting tattoos.
Josh: Crucifix, though.
Tommy: What do you mean?
Mason: I just—
Josh: I just—
Tommy: Crucifixes. It's like saying— Yeah, but it's like you guys not going— Having no business in religion and then getting a crucifix. There's a bit more of a statement there.
Josh: So, you were a Catholic?
Tommy: I grew up in a Catholic family. My mum went to Catholic school, you know, much more religious. Than them. Her upbringing was much more religious than the upbringing that we had, but we still, you know, had a connection to the church.
Josh: Was your mum happy when you got it?
Tommy: I don't know, she didn't mind. I don't think she came with me.
Josh: All girls school or was it mixed?
Jess: It was mixed. Yeah. So I went Catholic primary, then I went to a private school, and then I went to a Catholic school for Year 12. I just decided to leave.
Josh: Really?
Jess: Yeah.
Tommy: Just for one year?
Jess: Yeah.
Tommy: I mean, I did the rounds. But it was, I mean, that was just a sort of tactic to keep myself entertained, to be honest. Where can it, where else can I cause trouble? But leaving at Year 12, that's a big move. Did you have mates at your other school?
Jess: Yeah, I did. And that was the thing. So a lot of my friends went from my primary school to the Catholic school, and I went to the private school. And though I had friends there and it was a really, really good school, I was like, this isn't for me. Like, I'm more social than this because it was very much like like a proper private school, especially when it's the only one in Bendigo as well. Um, yeah, so I decided to leave.
Tommy: So where did Basil go? Our homie Basil, he was, he was, um, where I went for Year 12.
Jess: He was at that school previously, but he was older than I.
George: Okay.
Tommy: Yeah, yeah.
Josh: And so what was the reason for deciding to go to a different school?
Jess: Probably like the social side of things. Like the private school, um, the party, baby. It was, it pretty much came down to that because the private school they had the house system as well. And so I'm quite a sociable person. So I'm going around to all these different houses and being friends with everyone, but they're quite cliquey. It's like I'm in a Hearn or Millwood or whatever it was.
Tommy: You know, we had houses.
George: Yeah.
Tommy: What it sounds like.
George: We Hearn.
Jess: Yeah. That was my— I was the house captain.
Tommy: But is that how it works?
Josh: Houses I feel like are very different in a public school scenario than a private school.
Mason: Because like, do you remember your houses?
Josh: It was like Blue House.
Tommy: Do you remember the name?
Jess: Riley.
Josh: We only got 4 colours.
Jess: Yeah.
Josh: Only had houses in primary school.
George: Definitely not a nice house.
Tommy: So, I went to St. Kevin's for a little bit.
Josh: Is that a fancy school?
Tommy: Catholic college. They have not had the best reputation.
Josh: School fees, what do you reckon?
Jess: That was my school's name.
Tommy: What? St. Kevin's?
Jess: Oh, sorry. Catholic college.
Tommy: Oh, no. They were a Catholic college.
Jess: Yeah, right.
Josh: What sort of school fees?
Tommy: So, Catholic school, Catholic, they're not private. So, you've got like the private schools. So, Wesley, these top end, like up to like Melbourne Grammar. That are exorbitant fees. And then you have Catholic colleges that are like a private school, but they're half the price, maybe $6,000 or $7,000 a year instead of $20,000 fucking $7,000. Yeah, it's crazy what it would be now to do Year 12 at somewhere like Melbourne Grammar.
Josh: Ridiculous. Well, it's more than that. It's like, is it like $30,000? Yeah.
Tommy: Maybe. Yeah. I mean, it was always like going up every year. I remember hearing about it as $18,000 at one point and then Imagine sending 5 kids through private schooling at 30. The guy that came to my house, the, um—
Mason: Oh my God, Melbourne Girls Grammar, $35 grand.
Tommy: What year though? So that is— So each year, so year 10. Year 10. Imagine year 12, dude.
Mason: 10 and 11 and 12.
Tommy: Oh my God, what do they get?
Josh: Is this— That includes excursions, you'd hope.
Mason: Yeah, no, surely.
Josh: I don't reckon it's done with $30 for Scienceworks. Seriously.
Tommy: You want a buffet, all you can eat, one price. Nah, I reckon you'd then have to— so year 9, these private schools go away for a whole term.
Josh: Like, where did you go?
Tommy: Yeah, we went to Clunes, which was— it's a town, gold rush town.
Josh: It was awesome.
Tommy: It was a whole term, 8 weeks away. Sick. Sevs, you look like you've seen a ghost.
Mason: Yeah, Geelong Grammar, $41 grand for year 12.
Tommy: But then Geelong Grammar is a boarding school, I'm pretty sure.
Josh: So you're— so you're getting a college deal.
Tommy: I mean, that's a good deal.
Josh: It's like to get the kid out of the fucking house.
Tommy: 40 grand, you probably cost me 60 at home.
Mason: Well, Melbourne Guilds Grammar, yeah, 36.
Josh: I mean, it's expensive.
Tommy: You know what I mean? Like, seriously.
George: 60 grand a year to have a kid at home?
Tommy: So how much do you cost to stay at home?
George: I don't know. Hopefully not 60 grand a year.
Tommy: What do you make a year?
Josh: Surely you'd think, yeah.
Tommy: No, but seriously. Yeah, I mean, what's rent? Rent on a, say, $500 a week. What are you looking at? 52 weeks. So 25 to 30,000, $35,000 is what most people are paying for rent, whether it's with a, like a, if you've got housemates spreading that across. Like, we pay $590 a week for a house, for a 3-bedroom townhouse. But like, do the math on that for a year because I can't, and then tell me, and then I'll tell you what I think.
Josh: Well, it's like, that would be 5, 5 with the phone, it'd be like $20,000, $25,000.
Tommy: So there's 20—
Jess: 30.6.
Josh: Oh, great.
Mason: They pay for the buses for sport activity and academic purposes.
Tommy: But if your kid wants a new fucking polo top, don't you fucking ask us.
George: Speaking of being at home, yeah, I got presents from Mum.
Mason: Oh, really?
George: For the boys? Yeah.
Mason: Did you?
Josh: New one?
Tommy: Well, well, well. For the boys. You know what? Uh, last time I don't feel like I got a present from your mum because this is the problem. You have a kid and then, I mean, you just get forgotten.
Josh: Did I give you the book?
Tommy: You haven't even given me that.
George: I gave it to him. No, I gave you the book.
Tommy: No, you gave me that book, but then the present that was coming for me from your mum went to Josh, and Josh never gave it back because he was wanting to put it on his bookshelf.
Josh: So George's mum, Karen.
Tommy: You know what Tully says about the guy with the bookshelf?
Josh: Can—
Tommy: Don't worry about it, listen to the episode.
Josh: Um, no, but, uh, no, so your mum runs a bookshop and she was generous enough to get us some books. Uh, thank you. Atomic Habits, great book. James Clear, great author.
Tommy: Yeah, is that where it came from?
Josh: James Clear? Yeah.
Tommy: No, as in that book? Yeah, your mum.
Mason: Sorry, it's just over here.
Josh: Yeah, it's okay.
George: Yeah, it's all good. Um, so she sent me down some gifts. But they're not books. And Tommy, you were disappointed last time. I reckon this is also quite funny. Josh. Josh has got his own present now that he's the tea guy.
Josh: I think he can also—
Tommy: That was before she saw my video.
Mason: Josh. Yeah.
George: Josh, you've got a nice tin of Byron Chai.
Josh: So, a tin of— I've never bought a tin of tea.
Tommy: It's just a different type of container.
George: Just like a loose leaf.
Josh: Taste. It reminds me of like the lemon drops or the raspberry drops that you would get at a Sovereign Hill.
Tommy: It's not lollies, mate. What is it? It is leaf, tea leaves.
Josh: Yeah, delicious.
George: Beautiful chai.
Mason: Thank you.
Tommy: No worries.
George: So you can win that. And TJ and Seb, you've got a shared jar of Byron Bay peanut butter.
Mason: Look, oh, that looks yum.
Tommy: I'm happy with that. No, I'm happy with that. Thank you so much. Absolutely, Caz. I mean, that looks so yum.
Mason: That could be office.
Tommy: That's office office peanut butter. You know who will take that shit? Bodie. He'll come into the office and he'll take it.
Josh: I've got some left over there.
Tommy: Well, I mean, I'd rather him know about that than any cookies that you give him.
Mason: He did see it the other day and was yelling out for peanut butter.
Tommy: He came upstairs with a spoon and he's just eating it.
Jess: Did you see that, Jess?
Tommy: He's a loose unit.
George: Yeah.
Tommy: Anyway, so that's nice. Yeah. What did Jess get?
Josh: She gets some of the tea.
George: Yeah, she got some tea.
Jess: I have to speak to your mother about this.
Tommy: Can we leave these at the office?
George: Because they are nice. Yeah, they're office supplies. But they actually do have your names on top if you want.
Josh: Oh, that is awesome.
Jess: I'm excited for this.
George: I reckon Josh would want some of this too.
Josh: Peanut butter, thank you.
Tommy: And so is that a local—
George: Yeah, I've never tried it.
Tommy: Is that a local naffery?
George: Peanut butter co. Crunchy. She said crunchy or smooth. I said crunchy.
Josh: Is there anything that doesn't come out of Byron?
Tommy: Seriously?
George: Good question. I think there's a Byron Bay brand of like everything.
Josh: Byron honey, definitely.
Tommy: Byron Bay lager.
George: Oh yeah, I mean, Stone and Wood.
Tommy: Yeah, yeah, but then there's the Byron Bay— like, it's like a— oh yeah, yeah, I think, I think it's, it's equivalent to Carlton Draught at this point.
Mason: It's definitely coffee, coffee blends.
Tommy: Chris Hemsworth. There's a murder mystery podcast.
Mason: Oh really?
Josh: How hard do you reckon it is to harvest your own honey?
Tommy: Not hard at all. Amy was saying for future plans for our own place. Like, oh, I want a honey, I want a honey thing. You know, can you look up— I want a beehive. So, you can get urban beehives.
Mason: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tommy: Have a guess how much honey they do.
Mason: It's like 10 litres a month. 10 litres a year.
Tommy: I think it's 10 kilogrammes a year. Can you look this up?
Mason: Yeah.
Josh: So, my water bill is 10 litres. Isn't that an interesting fact?
Tommy: Hang on.
George: Yeah, it's the same, isn't it?
Jess: Yeah.
Tommy: Even when it's some—
Josh: So, 100ml is 100 grams.
Mason: No, of water. No, we're talking water, dude, of water.
Tommy: If it's a different liquid, then— This is why I don't believe it.
George: That's interesting.
Josh: So, what weighs more, 1,000 kilos of feathers or 1,000 kilos of bricks?
Tommy: Same, because you've classified the exact kilogramage. We haven't gone from a millilitrage to a kilogram.
Mason: That's so much for the lawyers.
George: You would have said that so much as a kid, hey? Well, exactly the same.
Mason: So, yeah. So, this Chairman Rick was looking at getting them for our place.
Tommy: Yeah.
Mason: And so they— I've just pulled it up, $600 a year to rent them.
Josh: To rent them?
Tommy: No, that's good.
Josh: Why?
Tommy: Uncommitted.
Josh: Who owns the bees?
Tommy: You don't want to rent them a year. Yeah, yeah, you don't want to make them. I'm not sure about it. I just rent it because I'm not sure.
Josh: What do you not know?
Mason: Like, what's the thing? Well, you don't want to maintain them because what if they like—
Josh: Maintain what?
Mason: The bees. What if they get out of hand? What if they get like—
Tommy: Yeah, yeah, yeah. You could call in something like a chub security for bees. Nah, nah, nah.
Mason: Okay, so they come around.
Tommy: The reason I don't rent my, I don't buy my place is because it's worth $790,000, $750,000.
Josh: You don't have a deposit.
Tommy: And I don't have that cash. Let's be honest.
Josh: And also because the roof's falling in.
Tommy: Yeah, yeah, that too.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: Well, so that's the main reason.
Mason: Yeah. So they come over. I mean, a bit annoying for you, Josh, just admin-wise, 4 to 6 weeks they come around.
Tommy: No, you can't, you're not getting in an apartment block.
Mason: I know, I know. But if Josh owned his own house, I'd just be the admin of someone coming around every 4 to 6 weeks.
Josh: If I had a rental and it was a house, I'm sure I could still get it. What do they need?
Mason: Nothing. Just a bit of land.
Josh: They need land.
Tommy: But where do they be? They're small.
Mason: Just a tiny backyard and they're in a little container. And yeah, so you get about 8 kg of—
Josh: How many bees? And do I need any plants nearby?
Mason: You get 80,000 bees.
Tommy: Mate, they can fly.
Josh: 80,000 bees?
Tommy: No, they can— Josh, they can fly. Are you fucking kidding me? Josh, they fly and they go off.
Josh: Are you kidding me? 80,000 bees? 10,000 bees in my house.
Tommy: No, not in your house. In my garden.
Josh: Even in my garden.
Tommy: Supposedly, Amy's friend had one. She worked with this guy.
Josh: If you had 10,000 bees, if you had 50 bees, it'd be the scariest fucking thing you've ever heard.
Tommy: This is what everyone said. They don't sting you.
Mason: They're not going to sting you.
Tommy: Are you one of the guys, if you see a bee, you lose your mind?
Josh: I had a bee that approached me when I was stuck. I was stuck in a theme park ride. Where they like strapped in, strapped in, held down by the bee. Bees started coming into my face and I couldn't do anything.
Mason: Yeah. I think it's great because it pollinates all the plants around and all the flowers.
George: Can you? I agree with you, Josh. There's too many bees for a house.
Mason: They're not going to— If you put them in your backyard, you're not going to notice them.
Josh: Can you explain what 80,000 bees mean? Well, in a single hive.
Mason: Yeah.
Tommy: So the hive is a problem, mate. It's like, you know, so it starts with 80,000.
Josh: So the first day is fucked.
Tommy: No, but this is how you get—
Mason: No, no, no, no, no, no.
Tommy: This is how you get—
Mason: That's their home. So, they stay— You get 80,000 bees consistently.
Tommy: Can we just work out the kilogramage of 10 litres of honey? And if it is—
Mason: Well, you get 9 kg of honey, but 10—
Tommy: Yeah.
Josh: How much does honey weigh?
Tommy: Yeah, that's what we want. That's what we want. It seems like it would weigh more based on, like—
Josh: I understand it. I fucked my tea 2 nights ago by putting too much honey in. Oh, Bree said, do you want honey? Yeah, I said no thank you because I put like a big teaspoon of honey. I feel like it didn't have enough impact for what it was doing to me.
Tommy: It was honey water. Yeah, yeah.
Mason: Anyway, 1 litre is 1.43 kg.
Tommy: Who's right? Fucking yes. That's not true.
Josh: So the water—
Tommy: so it's basically 1.4.
Mason: So what, 1 to 1 is water? Water is 1 to 1.
Tommy: The viscosity of it. Entered my mind, thought about it.
Mason: Definitely high viscosity.
Josh: But what weighs more, a kilo of feathers or a kilo of bricks?
Tommy: They're the same.
Josh: Yeah.
George: Well, the other one is if you drop a pebble, uh, here we go, from a, from a roof.
Josh: Yeah.
George: Or if you drop a boulder, which one will hit the ground first?
Tommy: How much do they weigh?
George: Doesn't matter, 100 kilos for the boulder and 20 grammes for the pebble.
Tommy: I think the 20-gram one will take, uh, go faster to start with. 100—
Mason: 100— are they reaching terminal velocity?
Tommy: Yeah, it's, it's—
Josh: is that what—
George: I'm pretty sure they land at the same time.
Josh: You're pretty sure?
Mason: Pretty sure. That's it.
Jess: Thanks for that.
Tommy: I don't trust the guy who reckons that he knows the true answer and has seen it with his own eyes.
George: What do wasps do for society?
Josh: So bees are making honey. What do— what—
Tommy: no, bees are doing more than just making Honey, bro.
Josh: I know they're bees, they're putting the flowers, making them honey, whatever.
Mason: Spreading seeds.
Tommy: Wasps.
Mason: Pollinating.
Tommy: I'm sure wasps are still pollinating shit too.
Mason: Believe it or not, wasps do more good than harm. They play a vital role in protecting gardens and farm crops.
Josh: I feel like you're breaking my heart now.
Mason: By controlling pest populations.
Tommy: Who's been stung by a wasp and actually knows it?
Josh: I was stung by a bee.
Mason: Oh, they capture flies, caterpillars, and beetle larvae.
Tommy: Oh, they're just savage killers. Is Jason Statham in a beef in a flying format.
Josh: There is something scary about wasps.
Tommy: I tell you what I've got into. I've been watching stuff. I get— as— because we make videos, I'm, you know, you watch something with a critical eye, understanding how it's made, how it's edited. George can't watch something without sort of just— there's a couple— moaning, groaning, think this, you know.
George: I fall asleep in every movie just because he's so repulsed by the edit.
Josh: Hump Day replay.
Tommy: Yeah, it gets him up and about.
George: I fall asleep in those two.
Tommy: Last night, last night I had some time watching, uh, The Big Dig, hand digging out a 100-year-old basement.
Mason: Oh wow.
Tommy: It's a YouTube video. Just, I, I've, I found the camping guy who does like, um, urban camping and like, hey guys, I'm out the front of the cop station and I'm in my, my patrol car and he's not even a cop, I'm just in my car, I'm gonna do a camping adventure and yeah, strap in. And he's cooking and he's back, you know.
Josh: I love him.
Tommy: He's the worst editor, the worst camera person, iMovie, but the best video. And there's something about, there's something about people who don't know how to make videos but are just giving it their all, which makes up for every piece of they can't do it. And it's just like, this is the best fucking video ever. This guy, The Big Dig, his username's Poppa's Cottage.
Josh: Spell it for us.
Tommy: P-O-P-P-A apostrophe S Cottage, Poppa's Cottage. This video that he posted in Feb this year, 1.1 mil. 1.1 mil. And he's digging out his basement. When you say digging out, so, uh, anyone grow up with a house with a basement? No. No. So it must be an attic and basement. I think about another base, like, uh, the basement has a slab at the bottom of it, whereas like usually houses are built on slabs that are at street level.
Josh: Wait, so the— You're saying the slab is underneath the ground? Yeah.
Tommy: So, they must back in the— Back maybe in America, it's a thing to do because it gets cold. They dig down and slab it and then build up. And so, there's a dirt structure.
Josh: Like an underground car park.
Tommy: Yeah, but it's just for random shit. Like it's just for the bottom.
Josh: Just for shit you don't need.
Tommy: A basement. Think about all the houses over— I mean, they're cyclone basements, but there's like basements in America you see in the movies where they're like, yeah, Home Alone, there's a basement where the washing gets done and he's down there and there's like a little peephole out to the outside. Yeah.
Josh: But it's not—
Tommy: We don't do a lot of them in Australia.
Josh: You had one?
George: Yeah, I had one. Definitely. We used to call it just under the house, but it was like— But it was—
Tommy: Did you get sent there, George?
George: It was really— We used to go down there in summer because it was so much cooler than the rest of the house.
Josh: What was in there?
George: Music stuff, had my drums down there.
Josh: Is it a rumpus room?
George: It's just like a basement. It's like, yeah, it's a basement.
Josh: Can you look up rumpus room? What's a fucking rumpus?
Mason: That's what, yeah.
Jess: Do you know what basements remind me of? Goosebumps.
Tommy: Goosebumps. Oh, the books.
Josh: Never read them. Haven't read them. Many of them.
George: Yeah.
Tommy: So had them all.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: It happened young for you, didn't it?
Josh: Ariel, what's his name?
Tommy: Oh yeah.
Josh: I was going to say R.L. Monsters, which is a Nickelodeon show. What was the guy's name?
Tommy: The good sponsor.
Mason: First thing, Rumpus is a noisy disturbance.
Josh: Okay, Rumpus.
Mason: So, you do your noisy disturbance in the room.
Tommy: Sure. So, you can do some noisy disturbance.
Josh: So, Rumpus Room could have table tennis, table darts, that type of thing.
Jess: Yeah.
Josh: And so, who wrote R.L. Sorry.
Mason: R.L. Stine.
Jess: R.L.
Tommy: Stine. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, this guy, The ceiling would have been 5 feet tall. So, it was like a real annoyance. He couldn't actually walk around in his basement. So, he dug it out. It was just like storage. He went down and he like broke a hole, jackhammered all the concrete slab and like dug down 10 feet. And so—
Josh: So, the house didn't have it.
Tommy: What do you mean?
Josh: So, the house initially didn't have a—
Mason: Rumpus room.
Josh: What's it called?
Mason: A basement.
Josh: Basement.
Tommy: No, it had a basement, but it was just like a useless storage basement. And he then dug it out. So they broke the floor open, took out all the rock, dug through the dirt, went down lower. So then it was like a 10-foot ceiling, had a golf— has a golf range in there and like a gym, had a full Smith machine in there, squat rack. Um, it's just a piece of gym equipment. Which one is it? It's a squat rack that is— has a bench press that runs on tracks up and down, so it's like doesn't go offline. But it has like, it's a squat rack. Yeah, it's like an assisted squat rack, bench press, all that stuff. Anyway, dug out that. But there's just something about awful videos, awfully edited from a technical perspective, that I'm just in love with at the moment.
Josh: I watched one this morning, so much this morning, um, someone cutting down a redwood tree.
Tommy: Solid, I'd watch that.
Josh: 250 metres high.
Tommy: Wow.
Josh: And they basically, um, or 250 feet, sorry, feet.
Tommy: His feet, do you think it'd weigh the same as honey?
Josh: It depends how fat are the bees. I don't know.
Mason: Still, 76 metres, that's pretty big.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: And so, it's real off, like he hasn't even Googled it. And so, I didn't have the conversion.
Josh: This person is on like, what is it called when you sort of strap yourself in and you sort of work your absailing almost?
Tommy: Yeah.
Josh: Okay.
Tommy: He's a tree lopper.
George: Yeah.
Josh: And so, tree lopper, is that what they call it?
Tommy: Lopper.
Josh: Tree lopper.
Tommy: Tree lopper. Tree lopper.
Josh: And so, anyway, this person is at the top of the tree or near the top, and they do one incision and then they do two incisions. And then, so, they almost do like a wedge shape and then they go around the other side of the tree. This is when they're up to 4— What is it?
Mason: 76 metres.
Josh: 76 metres. And then they, using a chainsaw, they chainsaw the final bit and it falls down and then they hold on to the tree as it rocks.
Tommy: Wow. I mean, it's a pretty solid tree. It's probably alive for 100 years and it's grown 76 metres. It's impressive, though. Can you send me the link for that? I'll share mine with you if you share yours with me.
Mason: There's this great video of this bloke cooking Uh, zoodles. No, no, skewers. What are skewers? Kebabs. It's in a vertical cooker and he's in the middle of the snow, and so he's figured out like a way— it's—
Tommy: I'd get around that because it's like kebabs in the snow. Definitely great.
Josh: I think we could definitely do something around outdoor/camping videos.
Tommy: Oh mate, this one, the best bit in this is like, you know, when you as an editor, you're like I wish I could have this room really clean. You're in a messy room and then you click your fingers and then you'd cut to like, it'd hard cut to it being completely clean. He's like, oh, look at this basement, it's so dirty, I wish it could be clean. And he clicks his fingers and it fades over about 3 seconds just to a clean room. I respect it.
Josh: It's a Tommy Jacket special.
Tommy: Oh, 8 fade. Love it. Anyway, I reckon we put the links to these videos in the show notes. Send them over to you now, Sevz. And, um, and yeah, happy weekend banter, right?
Josh: It's a daily talk show. We're still doing that survey, thedailytalkshow.com/survey. Uh, Sevz, you mention it after every episode.
Mason: So yeah, do we ever— do we have a fact that we can ramble off today?
Josh: What for?
Tommy: Oh, from the survey.
Mason: From the survey?
Josh: Yeah.
Jess: Okay.
Mason: Yeah, yeah.
George: Percentage of people that like GBHDR.
Mason: Yeah, what's, what's the percentage of favourite benchmarks from the show?
Josh: Hang on, give me a sec. Stand by.
George: Here we go, standing by.
Tommy: He's using SurveyMonkey, so very clunky on a phone.
Josh: Analyze.
Tommy: Yeah, so clunky.
George: Here we go.
Josh: Is it clunky? 55. Oh my God, 54% women. We know that.
George: Oh, it's gone up.
Josh: Yep. Um, Georgie Boys Hump Day Replay.
Mason: Here we go.
Josh: Uh Exciting.
Tommy: How many people there?
Mason: No, I actually don't have it. I don't have the login.
Josh: Josh is— here we go. Uh, people that, uh, what topics do you most enjoy listening to on the show? Uh, 73% said Georgia Boys Hump Day Replay.
Mason: Wow, that's, that's good.
Tommy: Yeah, that's good, that's good, that's good, that's good.
George: Get that clean for the next episode.
Josh: Coming when? Because you're not doing Wednesday?
George: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tommy: What's this fake news?
George: Yeah, so next Wednesday? Yeah, yeah, no, the one after.
Mason: That was happening.
Tommy: No, it's— you know, he's just stopping. Okay, pressure's on him, he's not stopping.
Josh: Okay, all right, it's a daily talk show. See you tomorrow, guys. Have an amazing Sunday. Do something nice, maybe get a pizza, maybe some fish and chips, you know, hang with your family. Yeah, do it. Catch you. Have a good one. Bye. See you guys.
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