August 28, 2023 • 8 mins
Can Reuben Kaye and Oliver Coleman look past this obvious setup for a bad joke and figure out why these men are hanging out with a horse in a bar.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
There's one picture with no context and two comedians with
no clue. This is picture that's Gus. In this episode,
a horse and four men sit together in a bar.
There is no punchline, Ken, Ruben Kay and Oliver Coleman
figure out why stick around to the end to see
(00:22):
if they do. Now here's your host, Merrick Watts.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, and welcome to the podcast where we find out
the truth behind bizarre pictures. You can play along bay
checking out the picture in the description. I'm here with
Oliver Coleman and Ruben Kay. Ruben, can you please describe
exactly what we're looking at right now?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Okay? Black and white photo? Four men who definitely looked
like they didn't make enough money in the depression to
throw themselves out of a skyscraper sitting gambling. Can I
say quite tiny?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Cards?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
They're cute, they're darling. Each of them has got beer,
and there is a horse lingering over, replete with bondage gear.
Oh saddle, same thing.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I like how you noticed the horse last there, Reuben,
because I would unlike I would have gone straight to
the horse. Oliver, what do you see in first impressions
of this? What could this possibly be?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:19):
I feel like Reuben might be onto something with the
with the bondage gear. Maybe it's like a very specific
kind of horse fetish club. The horse gets put up
in bond wrapped in bondage gear, and his fetish is
to watch old men play cards.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
So it's a symbiotic relationship, is what you're saying before
animal between beast and man.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
So what's funny is you're not that far off the
truth because I know where this photo was taken because
I was watching a documentary on old Hollywood shows and
not many people know this. Before he was picked for stardom,
mister Aired actually worked as a topless waitress in a
Schnitz and Tit's joint and this is taken from that time.
(02:00):
The horses, I can speak the language of the oppressor.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yes, the horse is wearing some sort of I think
a yoke, So it's a work horse.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
He's working hard, however, hard for the money. Have a
look at this cute little love heart over there on
the face there so that the horse got it from Ishka.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Oh yeah, it's got some salt to it.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
That's a good details.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's a little love heart medallion on its forehead or
is it a target for love.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
No, it's a target.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
This horse is working as one of the show girls
as the Schnitz and Tips place. I feel like if
you zoomed out these the men would be the odd
one there. It's just all horses. It's a casino, four
horses run by horses.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Do you think that's actually the security go to as
and those men, Sorry, we've just realized you're not horses.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
You're going to have to leave it exactly, And they're going,
what do you mean blended?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Well, it's like they are completely oblievious to the fact
that there is a gigantic horse in front of them.
Not one of them is looking at the horse. They're
all just like, let's just pretend this is not happening.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Do you reckon? They're playing for the horse, gambling for
the horse. Yeah, whoever gets it gets the prettiest horse
to take home for the night, and.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
That's the price. So this is or is this an
old school version of the meat tray? Yeah? Yeah, where
the meat raffle actually is alive and you take it
home because you don't want to have to sit on
your lap.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
This is before refrigeration.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Or if you lose you have to have sex with
the horse.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
You can't notice because we come from.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Very different world where that's seen as a punishment.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I defaulted, you can't notice because it's blocked by the
guy and the hat on the right. But the horse
is ready. Yeah, it's around.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
The horse is absolutely erected.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It does have a saddle, though, which means somebody has
ridden it in there at some stage.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
So where's the she's the bottom what you're saying at least?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Verse?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Verse a term I've only just recently been enlightened to,
but now I know what it is.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yes, very funny. Where did you by the way, this
is I don't like how many straight people are learning
gay terminology, and I don't know if it's really for
the betterment of society. Where did you learn the term? Verse?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Only today?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Congrats my mate Cai and who Yes, And he said it,
and I was like pretending I knew what it meant.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I was like, uh huh.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I thought maybe it's an age thing. And I was like,
I don't want to pick like the old dad in
the room, so I was like yeah, verse yeah, and
then and then I just like, he clearly knows I
don't know what it means, so I just said, what
does it mean? And then he explained to me, and
I went, oh, fuck, these full gentlemen of a scenario.
It's like a peaky blinder is minus the blinder, because
the only one that's got the blinders on, of course,
(04:40):
is the horse.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
That's very good. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I did work on that for several days. So maybe
the horse actually doesn't know that they're there. Is there
a chance that the horse is not actually aware that
it is in a bar at all?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Maybe they're all blind.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Then why does that little guy have glasses at the
back just for show?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Also to how would they be able to play Domino?
So I didn't think that one.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
They've got the brail.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Domino's also good drag name. The horse has got phenomenally cold,
dead dark eyes. It's terrifying the eye and thinking about
how big the eye of any other animal is. I
always get creeped out by the size of such a
huge eye compared.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
To my owner.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I immediately think of it on a plate, sure like
a coconut, your jam a straw in it, right.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Drink the juice? Of course?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Was that what you were thinking?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
We wanted to do that drink.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
What do you reckon? What animal do you reckon? Proportionally
has got the largest eye of any animal in the world.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Hippo, blue whale, octopus, star proportionally.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yes, they have large eyes, so delicious.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I spent but one of the birthdays in lockdown I am.
I spent watching My Teacher, which is just Charlotte's web
with a different animal taking ketamen and eating octopus.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
It was that is a complicated night kidder me, which
of course is a horse tranquilizer provided by this picture.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
It's all a circle. The antelopes eat the grass. I'm
in the dark, shadowy place. You shouldn't go to.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
The horses. A drug dealer, you think he's just trotted over.
He's like, do you guys want to bay some ketamine?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
He guys, He goes look a bit awake, Yeah, he
goes awake.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Want to chase the cave?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, I've got some in the bum bag, also known
as a yoke. So the yok is actually just full.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Of k exactly if they can't take a yoke.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
All right, So now at the end of the fact
that this is not some sort of seeing eye horse
with those we've also established that potentially it might be
a high stakes game of which one of these men
might be betting the horse.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Is it a spy hole? Over the elderly gentleman with
the beard's head.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
On the left? There the little gray patch.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
When you say spy hole, I know one other term,
glory hole.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I recently found out the Spanish for gloryhole aguero glorioso,
that beautiful, right, learnt that in Switzerland from a Spanish dancer.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Would we like to know the story behind this photograph?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Yes, yes, please, that's an interesting theory. Is it correct?
Probably not, but let's find out.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well, there's not a lot to go off except for
the fact that it was in October nineteen thirty seven.
Mister Jack Fowler, a coal merchant in Bedford. You would
never think that these bikes would be involved in coal winning,
would you.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Because they look so happy.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Regularly brought his horse Sam into the public bar of
the ballroom in for a beer and a game of dominoes.
Of the lads, the horse would drink beer.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I was going to say, only a pony, though.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Get out.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
There is also a pony on the table. Yeah, there's
a little one. It's a little old.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, it's a pony, and that's what they do. And
that was one of the gentlemen's horse. That's why they're
all just kind of like, oh, yeah, he's brought his.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Horse, says the horse's name.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Glue factory. Glue factory.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
That is that on the Is that just I just
picked up the paper and make it look.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Like it very well, the nickname for dominoes is bones,
so I feel like maybe the dominoes are made from like,
hold horses bones.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh yeah, that's not disconcerting at all.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
For the horses, you need to be exactly well.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
There you have it.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And if you want to see the picture that we
were discussing, he just heads the link in the show
notes picture of the scarsk is an iHeart production catcher
on the next one. Thanks for your company.
There's one picture with no context and two comedians with
no clue. This is picture that's Gus. In this episode,
a horse and four men sit together in a bar.
There is no punchline, Ken, Ruben Kay and Oliver Coleman
figure out why stick around to the end to see
(00:22):
if they do. Now here's your host, Merrick Watts.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, and welcome to the podcast where we find out
the truth behind bizarre pictures. You can play along bay
checking out the picture in the description. I'm here with
Oliver Coleman and Ruben Kay. Ruben, can you please describe
exactly what we're looking at right now?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Okay? Black and white photo? Four men who definitely looked
like they didn't make enough money in the depression to
throw themselves out of a skyscraper sitting gambling. Can I
say quite tiny?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Cards?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
They're cute, they're darling. Each of them has got beer,
and there is a horse lingering over, replete with bondage gear.
Oh saddle, same thing.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I like how you noticed the horse last there, Reuben,
because I would unlike I would have gone straight to
the horse. Oliver, what do you see in first impressions
of this? What could this possibly be?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:19):
I feel like Reuben might be onto something with the
with the bondage gear. Maybe it's like a very specific
kind of horse fetish club. The horse gets put up
in bond wrapped in bondage gear, and his fetish is
to watch old men play cards.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
So it's a symbiotic relationship, is what you're saying before
animal between beast and man.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
So what's funny is you're not that far off the
truth because I know where this photo was taken because
I was watching a documentary on old Hollywood shows and
not many people know this. Before he was picked for stardom,
mister Aired actually worked as a topless waitress in a
Schnitz and Tit's joint and this is taken from that time.
(02:00):
The horses, I can speak the language of the oppressor.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yes, the horse is wearing some sort of I think
a yoke, So it's a work horse.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
He's working hard, however, hard for the money. Have a
look at this cute little love heart over there on
the face there so that the horse got it from Ishka.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Oh yeah, it's got some salt to it.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
That's a good details.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's a little love heart medallion on its forehead or
is it a target for love.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
No, it's a target.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
This horse is working as one of the show girls
as the Schnitz and Tips place. I feel like if
you zoomed out these the men would be the odd
one there. It's just all horses. It's a casino, four
horses run by horses.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Do you think that's actually the security go to as
and those men, Sorry, we've just realized you're not horses.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
You're going to have to leave it exactly, And they're going,
what do you mean blended?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Well, it's like they are completely oblievious to the fact
that there is a gigantic horse in front of them.
Not one of them is looking at the horse. They're
all just like, let's just pretend this is not happening.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Do you reckon? They're playing for the horse, gambling for
the horse. Yeah, whoever gets it gets the prettiest horse
to take home for the night, and.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
That's the price. So this is or is this an
old school version of the meat tray? Yeah? Yeah, where
the meat raffle actually is alive and you take it
home because you don't want to have to sit on
your lap.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
This is before refrigeration.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Or if you lose you have to have sex with
the horse.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
You can't notice because we come from.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Very different world where that's seen as a punishment.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I defaulted, you can't notice because it's blocked by the
guy and the hat on the right. But the horse
is ready. Yeah, it's around.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
The horse is absolutely erected.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It does have a saddle, though, which means somebody has
ridden it in there at some stage.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
So where's the she's the bottom what you're saying at least?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Verse?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Verse a term I've only just recently been enlightened to,
but now I know what it is.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yes, very funny. Where did you by the way, this
is I don't like how many straight people are learning
gay terminology, and I don't know if it's really for
the betterment of society. Where did you learn the term? Verse?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Only today?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Congrats my mate Cai and who Yes, And he said it,
and I was like pretending I knew what it meant.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I was like, uh huh.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I thought maybe it's an age thing. And I was like,
I don't want to pick like the old dad in
the room, so I was like yeah, verse yeah, and
then and then I just like, he clearly knows I
don't know what it means, so I just said, what
does it mean? And then he explained to me, and
I went, oh, fuck, these full gentlemen of a scenario.
It's like a peaky blinder is minus the blinder, because
the only one that's got the blinders on, of course,
(04:40):
is the horse.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
That's very good. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I did work on that for several days. So maybe
the horse actually doesn't know that they're there. Is there
a chance that the horse is not actually aware that
it is in a bar at all?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Maybe they're all blind.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Then why does that little guy have glasses at the
back just for show?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Also to how would they be able to play Domino?
So I didn't think that one.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
They've got the brail.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Domino's also good drag name. The horse has got phenomenally cold,
dead dark eyes. It's terrifying the eye and thinking about
how big the eye of any other animal is. I
always get creeped out by the size of such a
huge eye compared.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
To my owner.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I immediately think of it on a plate, sure like
a coconut, your jam a straw in it, right.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Drink the juice? Of course?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Was that what you were thinking?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
We wanted to do that drink.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
What do you reckon? What animal do you reckon? Proportionally
has got the largest eye of any animal in the world.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Hippo, blue whale, octopus, star proportionally.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yes, they have large eyes, so delicious.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I spent but one of the birthdays in lockdown I am.
I spent watching My Teacher, which is just Charlotte's web
with a different animal taking ketamen and eating octopus.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
It was that is a complicated night kidder me, which
of course is a horse tranquilizer provided by this picture.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
It's all a circle. The antelopes eat the grass. I'm
in the dark, shadowy place. You shouldn't go to.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
The horses. A drug dealer, you think he's just trotted over.
He's like, do you guys want to bay some ketamine?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
He guys, He goes look a bit awake, Yeah, he
goes awake.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Want to chase the cave?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, I've got some in the bum bag, also known
as a yoke. So the yok is actually just full.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Of k exactly if they can't take a yoke.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
All right, So now at the end of the fact
that this is not some sort of seeing eye horse
with those we've also established that potentially it might be
a high stakes game of which one of these men
might be betting the horse.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Is it a spy hole? Over the elderly gentleman with
the beard's head.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
On the left? There the little gray patch.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
When you say spy hole, I know one other term,
glory hole.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I recently found out the Spanish for gloryhole aguero glorioso,
that beautiful, right, learnt that in Switzerland from a Spanish dancer.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Would we like to know the story behind this photograph?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Yes, yes, please, that's an interesting theory. Is it correct?
Probably not, but let's find out.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well, there's not a lot to go off except for
the fact that it was in October nineteen thirty seven.
Mister Jack Fowler, a coal merchant in Bedford. You would
never think that these bikes would be involved in coal winning,
would you.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Because they look so happy.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Regularly brought his horse Sam into the public bar of
the ballroom in for a beer and a game of dominoes.
Of the lads, the horse would drink beer.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I was going to say, only a pony, though.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Get out.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
There is also a pony on the table. Yeah, there's
a little one. It's a little old.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, it's a pony, and that's what they do. And
that was one of the gentlemen's horse. That's why they're
all just kind of like, oh, yeah, he's brought his.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Horse, says the horse's name.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Glue factory. Glue factory.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
That is that on the Is that just I just
picked up the paper and make it look.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Like it very well, the nickname for dominoes is bones,
so I feel like maybe the dominoes are made from like,
hold horses bones.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh yeah, that's not disconcerting at all.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
For the horses, you need to be exactly well.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
There you have it.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And if you want to see the picture that we
were discussing, he just heads the link in the show
notes picture of the scarsk is an iHeart production catcher
on the next one. Thanks for your company.
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