🍺 PUB TEST: Are You A Fan Of 'The Block'?

Does 'The Block' pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda Jamna down to the Jonesy demand of arms
for the pub test today the block? Does it pass
the pub test? Britt and Taz won the block last night.
Four hundred and twenty thousand dollars in profit they sold.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
I'm not in profit. That's how they've got that. They
sold their place for three point four three point four minutes.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
But they ended up with that money that goes into
their conference, isn't that's right?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
So they sold the place for that, plus they got
money for being the winners.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
I was watching Matt and Robbie, who I thought they
were a gay couple, but they're not. Robbie met Matt
when Matt cut Robbie's hair fifteen years ago, and so do.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
You want to go on the block?

Speaker 1 (00:42):
And Robbie's got a wife, a little baby. And then
I was watching it last night and I thought they
were a thrupple. I thought, this is where we are now.
They've got a thropple on the block. But no, there's
no thruple there.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
But what was not a throuple? But no mystery millionaires.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
And I like money, and devastatingly for them, they only
got one hundred nine thousand dollars over what they were getting.
And I think in the world of auctions, if you
sold a house, you'd think a one hundred thousand dollars
over selling a house is a good thing. I remember
years ago I sold a place and I think we
was pretty much that one hundred thousand, and I thought, well,

(01:17):
that's good, we haven't lost. But I guess on the
TV show it's a different gettle of fish.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
And some years there are millions of dollars that everybody wins.
In some years two of the couple's got nothing, no profit,
no bids.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, hand and Cam.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
They're saying that this is more realistic this season because
he didn't have those big mystery or not even mystery,
the big crazy billionaires coming in and the fact that
was more realistic. Do you feel you've been manipulated in
previous years or how do you feel about the block?

Speaker 1 (01:46):
It's so watchable though. I just loved the show.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
But it was in Dalsford as well, and the price
guides of the block homes were between three million, three
point three million, four times the town's median house price.
Who's going to go to a town? Beautiful, beautiful destination
town ninety minutes out of Melbourne. But there's now five
houses that are multi million dollar homes. Who's going to

(02:08):
buy them? Are there enough homes? Has the block done
the right thing by those contestants?

Speaker 1 (02:13):
We're too close to it. We're good friends at Scotty.
We love the show. I'm not going to say a
bad word about the show. I think it's great. But
what do you.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Think the block? Does it pass the pub test?

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Block does not pass the pub test in its current form.
I'm a fan of the show. The degree of Channel
nine and the fact that the producers have too much
saying what goes on is incredibly annoying. They'll make spilling
paint on carp at a half hour drama, and they'll
actually take the contestants down a road they probably don't want.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
I believe it doesn't pass the pub test. I do
like the show. It's like every reality show at the moment,
it's becoming unrealistic and it's three point something million dollars
in the middle of nowhere, an area half out of Melbourne.
No thanks, it doesn't pass the pub test to me.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
No, I think it's a terrible show, especially when we're
in a house in crisis. People are struggling to pay rent,
and then these idiots go to a small country town
a ridiculously priced number of properties, and even the people
in the town are shaking their head, going WTF. So
I think it's got to be ditched unrealistic expectations, especially

(03:18):
during a housing crisis.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
I guess it only depends on how it rated when
the results come out a little bit later on.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
But the block always wins dividends the channel.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
It really does