July 8, 2024 • 16 mins
Danielle and Prue are on a quest to uncover the truth behind this mysterious picture. Will they climb their way to the answer?
In every episode of Picture Discuss two comedians try to work out the context behind weird pictures that Merrick Watts has found on the internet.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
There's one picture with no context and two comedians with
no clue. This is Picture Discuss. In this episode, a
group of climbers at tend to scale a tower. But
what exactly is the tower made of? I have no idea.
Hopefully Prue Blake and Danniel Walker can tell us. The
(00:22):
truth will be revealed at the end of the episode.
Now here's your host, Merrick whats A.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It's a pleasure to have your company. We're going to
discuss some pictures. You can find these pictures that we're
going to discuss by going to our Instagram handle.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Or you can just have a look at your phone.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Have a look at that photo there, Prue Blake, Daniel Walker,
Welcome to Picture Discuss.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Prub Blake. This tower is it? Is it? What is it?
What are are they? Those tiny plastic bosoms or something?
What are they?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
I've looked at this picture for a long time now
and I still do not know what could be going
on These little white domes. They're like fun hats or bowls, frisbees.
I think they look like big for of nooses for nooses, Oh,
like the Dutch biscuit. Yeah, tasty.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
I don't know if I'm saying it right. That's how
I like to say, you know, like gingerbread things with white.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Big noses.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, okay, well fireless offensive than when I said they
were like tiny busies. Yeah, but they look I don't
know exactly what they are yet. That's what we're here
to discuss. But first of all, I mean, obviously we've
got a tower of for for nooses potentially, and a
group of people climbing appears, climbing upwards on this this tower.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Is it a race? If it's a race to the top,
what's at the top?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Can? I is it? Like something like? So we have
the minty man in like when we would do sports
as a child, at the end of the season would
have the Minti man and it would be like.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
No, that's unique to you.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
I think Greenhole used to have a bit about it
because the Minti man was like it was a sporting thing.
I guess in the country, there's one child at the
end all the the you know, your sporting team. Like
we were parks hockey team. We had like a one
of the teenage boys who was part of the organization.
He would wear like a hard Yaker suit, like a
hard Yaker onesie and all the mums would get together
(02:14):
the week prior and hands so minty's onto the suit
with a piece of I guess thread, so that then
you drive them into the middle of the field and
a ute and then get the kids age bracket wise
lined up, and then you would yell age brackets and
the ute would run into the field and then the
minti went run off and he'd start running and the
mintis would start falling off, and then you'd announce like
(02:36):
minkys and then you'd be like seven eighths and then
they'd all start running, and the younger kids they'd start
picking the minties off off the ground as the mintis
were flying. And then as it got to the big kids,
it would just start being.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
A free for all of like you'll go get the
man and murder the meting, pumble him into the ground
and tear the minting and this kind of looks like
an intern tower of like wow, and they climbing it up.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
A memory for me, I think I've chased after that.
After that, I've never heard of it.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I mean, I'm a bit older, so we just when
I was that, we just had straight up old school pedophiles.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
We didn't have that.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I surely had a bit of fun with it, minty man.
And then you'd lose a tooth on the minter. Yeah,
and so it was a lot of casualties.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
How bad is that if you pull out a filling
or a tooth in a MINTI and you just go,
oh god, this is supposed to be a freshman anyway.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
I think you're upset by the loss of the.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Actually you pull out the tooth and compeating them.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Into disappointed that we didn't have MINTI man. Like when
you said that this sounds a bit made up, and
then when you said he goes on and stuff, I went,
hang on, this is this is definitely made up.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
But it's not.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I've definitely chased that. I remember the jacket. Yeah, yeah,
there was a little tree, and I mean I was
a little fat kid. I'm not like.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
As going after the on the ground on the ground,
I'm not going nowhere.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Near and like the ones that have been missed near
the start by the more over excited even bit a
residue left on here.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Right all right, Well, I don't think it's a tear
of minties.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
My first impression was that they were collecting them and
putting them into the.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Sacks behind them. But I actually don't think that's the case.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I mean, it's funny if they if they've made them
wear a sack and they're not collecting.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
Them, they've just got this empty, little funny backpack.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
That's not what we want at all. But yeah, maybe
there is something I think in those whatever they are
in the plastic bags, there's got to be money in
some of them. Right, I'm not climbing anything like that
for no money.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I don't know it.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
It does feel like it's a very much like a
bit of an athletic, you know, outcome here because they're
if you look at the on the far left end
of the screen, you've got somebody there with black pants
and you can see that they've got those rock climbing shoes. Yeah,
they're those weird rock climb shoes. Whenever you see somebody
wearing those in the supermarket, you instantly hate them because
you know that they're only wearing them in the supermarket
to show you that they can rock climb. And there
(05:15):
are a clumb Surely you had another pair of shoes
in the car, mate.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Surely, Yeah, those.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Vene those people, you know, those shoes like I can't.
They're called the clip. No, they've got the ones with
the toes like the towy runners you know where.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Yeah, my boyfriend loves wearing these. Really there's nothing butter
than barefoot running, running, more than anything in.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
The whole world.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Can you wear socially those like he says he's been
hit on more now he wears those out of the house.
But he also does have our tiny chill hour in
a satchel. That's the thing. I haven't seen the women,
which women getting.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Something well, they all seem to they seem to be
like pretty well equipped, you know, in terms of like
what they do.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Because there's a couple of people with those shoes on.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Definitely can see those in the images there, so you
feel like they're rock climbers if you done rock climbing.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Actually had a crack at it.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Oh only in Scouts when we would do like ab
sailing stuff. I've not done it since Scouts due to trauma.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I did it at school camps and this was the
trauma happened to me. I was like just a normal
sized kid, but I had size ten feet twelve, so
I could never fit my feet on the little rock
climbing some it was just me them trying to put.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Me on the wall, my feet just popping.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Off it and never being able to get above like
thirty centimeters onto the wall, and then I'm just giving up.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Do I feel like they're simultaneously funny and also to
bit if I.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Saw it, it would make me cry.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Please somebody helped put with no upper arm strength, I'll
just hold.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Onto the wall.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And like, let's have a look at the discussion of
safety issues here, right, because they've got all the all
the gear but no idea. But if you look at
the guy on the far left right and he's got
the blue vest on, obviously he has all the safety
gear on, and he seems to have a harness on,
but he's not it doesn't seem to be tethered to
that rope.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
So I'm wondering whether not those ropes.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Oh there's a guy in the bottom right hand, so
he appears to be tethered, but pussy.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Flowering down let's go.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
So obviously there is a degree of safety. Then if
they've got those ropes there, which kind of defeats the
purpose of the entertainment value for other people.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
It's just like, were you just climbing safely.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
But they're also all kind of on one side of
the tower, so I'd love it to start tipping leaning
tower of pizza stuff. Oh yeah, it's just start falling
direction and.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Tower drinking that towel like when it's not being used.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I reckon it's perfect based off how insane it is,
I would say that that's they've not just found a
random tower, and this is perfect for this activity.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
One of these little plastic balls that have been here
this whole time.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
This is nature, This happened in nature.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
They're getting their things little crevices there, like finding the
little gaps between the what are they called Probably will
probably edit that part out, so in the FUF for noose, Yeah,
they're finding the cracks in between it like that, which
means that you assume that there's and there's some gloves
(08:40):
there on that person with the pink So you go,
all right, well these people are professional either rock climbs
or what if I use the word spilunka that not caves. Yeah,
but splunker is just the funny word to say. It
feels like, you know, it feels like it's something it
should be a bit dirty and a bit wrong. But
it's actually just nice.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Doesn't sound like something like when they're like, oh, I
gave her the Boston air Steamer or something, and.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Then she showed up with some spalunka yah, you.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Like, stop telling me that some British splunking I wouldn't
want to hear about it. Have you ever seen the
horror movie of the Descent?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
No very scary?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Is this the one in the cave underneath the ground
with the old creepy lady thing?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Yeah? I don't like that. The women, so it looks
like it's gonna be a camp fun horror movie because
it's like five naked women on the cover and their
bodies form a skull. And then you get into it
and it's like an intense splunking movie with a little
bit of fear, and they kind of just turn on
each other and kill each other.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
I don't think I was actually talking about the.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Thinking of the matrix.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Kidnapped children and then and then she became like a
monster and was like trying to breastfeed them. It was really.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
There's two films I'm never going to you're describing those,
and this is the third.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Do we think that.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Do we think this is a recreational thing for like
a fate or a fair or some sort of festival,
carnival or something like that. Is these people amateurs or
professionals who were doing this because they seem to be
taking it pretty seriously.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
That's amateur stuff.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Yeah, it's definitely either at festival or fate or if not,
it's like a Netflix series games.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
This could be seriously do you think this could be
like some sort of like a squid game sort of
you know, trial or something like that. It's part of
like a game show even.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Yeah, like the hundred, yeah, one hundred shows.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Yeah, because something.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
They look like when I say the team to seriously,
look at number four there right in the foreground, she's
got tape on her fingers and wrists, right, so she's
really she's she's done some of this recently.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
She's trained.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, she's this is a big deal for her.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Mark.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
I like that, you like, do you think they're taking
too seriously? I read an article that said you, in
preparation for s A s Australia, tied yourself up to
a chair and made everybody leave the house so that
you could get out of.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Taking it too seriously.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
And here you are, leave me alone.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Don't give me any help.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
That that was a convening excuse for a sexual something
that we completely wrong.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Is it in your mouth? Are they going to put
a ball.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
In your mouth? It's funny that you still use that
excuse you were, didn't you do it? This is still
going on.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Bridle, let it go.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Would you rather climb or abseil from a great height?
So down rather than climb up?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
For sure? The down is the fun bitner, Yeah, to
get the ab cel down.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
No, because look, some of them they climb up like
you know, you see cliff climbers. They climb up to
the top and then they just like there's conveniently there's
a hole waiting at the top of them to drive
them home. That happens a bit. Yeah, but I don't know.
Maybe I don't know. I don't do a lot of
rock climbing.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Would you rather abs?
Speaker 5 (12:22):
I don't like heights, so probably all just because it's
faster I can get grow faster.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
And it's also there's not a risk. I mean, I
guess there is a risk of falling with ab selling,
but that is kind of you're still going in the
direction direction of yeah, rather than.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
And somebody is down the bottom holding it, holding the
other cord.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I would want to know a few people you're in
control of it, like you're you're you're in control of
the brat.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
To have somebody else like down the bottom being you're
like spotted below a manager.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not letting my manager below me.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
It's not going to be the.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Professional.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
You've got to have somebody who's going to like literally,
you know, be there to save your lots.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Someone quite heavy set.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I don't think, yeah, okay, I don't want to make
you pick, but we have to because it's quid games.
You're going to abseil down in a rope person to
make sure that you know you're safe.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Safety is there, right? So who do you pick between
me and Daniel?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
I mean I obviously picked Mark. He's on that training.
I've probably been scarred for life when I get to
the bottom, and.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Is going to force you to face your fears on
the way down.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Americ would be doing a few like dropped, all right?
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Are we ready to find out?
Speaker 7 (13:48):
Where?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
I'd be crying at the bottom, worried that if you fell,
I'm going to go.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Yeah, we'd both be afraid.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Are we ready? To find out exactly the nature of
this picture.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I mean I can't. I want to never know, but
I guess.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
The truth behind this picture is coming up. But when
you're done with this discussion, don't forget to check out
some of our older episodes.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
This is one of the major spectacles at Hong Kong's
renowned Bun Festival.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Buns that makes sense?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
That is that close to was it for full?
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Yeah, I guess there're a hard buns, but you are
almost closer.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
With boobies, okay in a way.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, I mean, well it's this is Bun snatching is
a highlight at the event, involving dozens of people scrambling
up three sixty meter sorry sixty feet bamboo towers decked
out with plastic white buns at the stroke of midnight.
So midnight they go up there. I mean, it's always
good to do things recklessly at night. Buns used to
be offered to appease the gods, but nowadays competitors climb
(14:48):
them for points. The higher the climb, the more points
of climber can earn to try and win the competition.
So it is a competition and it is to climb it.
But they're just plastic so that you can't actually eat those.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Really, that's disappointing.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I love when a casual fund competition gets overtaken by
people that take it way too seriously.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I'meric.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Yeah, you know where people like you come in and
I must win.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
With everything. We're just going to catch a tram. I'll
catch it better. I'll catch the fastest tramp.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
I'm gonna run. I'm going to run faster than the tram. Like,
have you ever been to the Chinchilla Watermelon Festival?
Speaker 5 (15:27):
No, I've not been to the Chinchilla Watermelon Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, I've heard of the Chinchilla Watermelon Festival.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
A big deal whereabouts.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
It's in Chinchilla. I haven't spent that much time in
Chinchilla because queens has quite a big state.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Yeah, it is big, but I think you would love it.
But they have a watermelon skiing competition where you put
watermelon shells on your feet. Yeah, and then you kind
of like ski down a hill and try and go
the fastest.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
That's fine. That couldn't be any more Queensland.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
In every other state in Australia, that's highly illegal Queens No,
that's part of it.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Fun.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
You have some rum and then you go water skiing
on watermelon skins.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Can we confirm if it is highly illegal or marrister
SAIDs putting watermelon on your feet is highly illegal to
any other state.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
If that's the.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Last thing we need to do is fact check on
a show that is about fact checking.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Daniel Walker and Prue Blake thank you very much for
being a part of this picture discuss.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
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Speaker 3 (16:35):
Good on you.
There's one picture with no context and two comedians with
no clue. This is Picture Discuss. In this episode, a
group of climbers at tend to scale a tower. But
what exactly is the tower made of? I have no idea.
Hopefully Prue Blake and Danniel Walker can tell us. The
(00:22):
truth will be revealed at the end of the episode.
Now here's your host, Merrick whats A.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It's a pleasure to have your company. We're going to
discuss some pictures. You can find these pictures that we're
going to discuss by going to our Instagram handle.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Or you can just have a look at your phone.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Have a look at that photo there, Prue Blake, Daniel Walker,
Welcome to Picture Discuss.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Prub Blake. This tower is it? Is it? What is it?
What are are they? Those tiny plastic bosoms or something?
What are they?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
I've looked at this picture for a long time now
and I still do not know what could be going
on These little white domes. They're like fun hats or bowls, frisbees.
I think they look like big for of nooses for nooses, Oh,
like the Dutch biscuit. Yeah, tasty.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
I don't know if I'm saying it right. That's how
I like to say, you know, like gingerbread things with white.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Big noses.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, okay, well fireless offensive than when I said they
were like tiny busies. Yeah, but they look I don't
know exactly what they are yet. That's what we're here
to discuss. But first of all, I mean, obviously we've
got a tower of for for nooses potentially, and a
group of people climbing appears, climbing upwards on this this tower.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Is it a race? If it's a race to the top,
what's at the top?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Can? I is it? Like something like? So we have
the minty man in like when we would do sports
as a child, at the end of the season would
have the Minti man and it would be like.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
No, that's unique to you.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
I think Greenhole used to have a bit about it
because the Minti man was like it was a sporting thing.
I guess in the country, there's one child at the
end all the the you know, your sporting team. Like
we were parks hockey team. We had like a one
of the teenage boys who was part of the organization.
He would wear like a hard Yaker suit, like a
hard Yaker onesie and all the mums would get together
(02:14):
the week prior and hands so minty's onto the suit
with a piece of I guess thread, so that then
you drive them into the middle of the field and
a ute and then get the kids age bracket wise
lined up, and then you would yell age brackets and
the ute would run into the field and then the
minti went run off and he'd start running and the
mintis would start falling off, and then you'd announce like
(02:36):
minkys and then you'd be like seven eighths and then
they'd all start running, and the younger kids they'd start
picking the minties off off the ground as the mintis
were flying. And then as it got to the big kids,
it would just start being.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
A free for all of like you'll go get the
man and murder the meting, pumble him into the ground
and tear the minting and this kind of looks like
an intern tower of like wow, and they climbing it up.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
A memory for me, I think I've chased after that.
After that, I've never heard of it.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I mean, I'm a bit older, so we just when
I was that, we just had straight up old school pedophiles.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
We didn't have that.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I surely had a bit of fun with it, minty man.
And then you'd lose a tooth on the minter. Yeah,
and so it was a lot of casualties.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
How bad is that if you pull out a filling
or a tooth in a MINTI and you just go,
oh god, this is supposed to be a freshman anyway.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
I think you're upset by the loss of the.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Actually you pull out the tooth and compeating them.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Into disappointed that we didn't have MINTI man. Like when
you said that this sounds a bit made up, and
then when you said he goes on and stuff, I went,
hang on, this is this is definitely made up.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
But it's not.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I've definitely chased that. I remember the jacket. Yeah, yeah,
there was a little tree, and I mean I was
a little fat kid. I'm not like.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
As going after the on the ground on the ground,
I'm not going nowhere.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Near and like the ones that have been missed near
the start by the more over excited even bit a
residue left on here.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Right all right, Well, I don't think it's a tear
of minties.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
My first impression was that they were collecting them and
putting them into the.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Sacks behind them. But I actually don't think that's the case.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I mean, it's funny if they if they've made them
wear a sack and they're not collecting.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
Them, they've just got this empty, little funny backpack.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
That's not what we want at all. But yeah, maybe
there is something I think in those whatever they are
in the plastic bags, there's got to be money in
some of them. Right, I'm not climbing anything like that
for no money.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I don't know it.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
It does feel like it's a very much like a
bit of an athletic, you know, outcome here because they're
if you look at the on the far left end
of the screen, you've got somebody there with black pants
and you can see that they've got those rock climbing shoes. Yeah,
they're those weird rock climb shoes. Whenever you see somebody
wearing those in the supermarket, you instantly hate them because
you know that they're only wearing them in the supermarket
to show you that they can rock climb. And there
(05:15):
are a clumb Surely you had another pair of shoes
in the car, mate.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Surely, Yeah, those.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Vene those people, you know, those shoes like I can't.
They're called the clip. No, they've got the ones with
the toes like the towy runners you know where.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Yeah, my boyfriend loves wearing these. Really there's nothing butter
than barefoot running, running, more than anything in.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
The whole world.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Can you wear socially those like he says he's been
hit on more now he wears those out of the house.
But he also does have our tiny chill hour in
a satchel. That's the thing. I haven't seen the women,
which women getting.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Something well, they all seem to they seem to be
like pretty well equipped, you know, in terms of like
what they do.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Because there's a couple of people with those shoes on.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Definitely can see those in the images there, so you
feel like they're rock climbers if you done rock climbing.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Actually had a crack at it.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Oh only in Scouts when we would do like ab
sailing stuff. I've not done it since Scouts due to trauma.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I did it at school camps and this was the
trauma happened to me. I was like just a normal
sized kid, but I had size ten feet twelve, so
I could never fit my feet on the little rock
climbing some it was just me them trying to put.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Me on the wall, my feet just popping.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Off it and never being able to get above like
thirty centimeters onto the wall, and then I'm just giving up.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Do I feel like they're simultaneously funny and also to
bit if I.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Saw it, it would make me cry.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Please somebody helped put with no upper arm strength, I'll
just hold.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Onto the wall.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And like, let's have a look at the discussion of
safety issues here, right, because they've got all the all
the gear but no idea. But if you look at
the guy on the far left right and he's got
the blue vest on, obviously he has all the safety
gear on, and he seems to have a harness on,
but he's not it doesn't seem to be tethered to
that rope.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
So I'm wondering whether not those ropes.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Oh there's a guy in the bottom right hand, so
he appears to be tethered, but pussy.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Flowering down let's go.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
So obviously there is a degree of safety. Then if
they've got those ropes there, which kind of defeats the
purpose of the entertainment value for other people.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
It's just like, were you just climbing safely.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
But they're also all kind of on one side of
the tower, so I'd love it to start tipping leaning
tower of pizza stuff. Oh yeah, it's just start falling
direction and.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Tower drinking that towel like when it's not being used.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I reckon it's perfect based off how insane it is,
I would say that that's they've not just found a
random tower, and this is perfect for this activity.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
One of these little plastic balls that have been here
this whole time.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
This is nature, This happened in nature.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
They're getting their things little crevices there, like finding the
little gaps between the what are they called Probably will
probably edit that part out, so in the FUF for noose, Yeah,
they're finding the cracks in between it like that, which
means that you assume that there's and there's some gloves
(08:40):
there on that person with the pink So you go,
all right, well these people are professional either rock climbs
or what if I use the word spilunka that not caves. Yeah,
but splunker is just the funny word to say. It
feels like, you know, it feels like it's something it
should be a bit dirty and a bit wrong. But
it's actually just nice.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Doesn't sound like something like when they're like, oh, I
gave her the Boston air Steamer or something, and.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Then she showed up with some spalunka yah, you.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Like, stop telling me that some British splunking I wouldn't
want to hear about it. Have you ever seen the
horror movie of the Descent?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
No very scary?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Is this the one in the cave underneath the ground
with the old creepy lady thing?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Yeah? I don't like that. The women, so it looks
like it's gonna be a camp fun horror movie because
it's like five naked women on the cover and their
bodies form a skull. And then you get into it
and it's like an intense splunking movie with a little
bit of fear, and they kind of just turn on
each other and kill each other.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
I don't think I was actually talking about the.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Thinking of the matrix.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Kidnapped children and then and then she became like a
monster and was like trying to breastfeed them. It was really.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
There's two films I'm never going to you're describing those,
and this is the third.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Do we think that.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Do we think this is a recreational thing for like
a fate or a fair or some sort of festival,
carnival or something like that. Is these people amateurs or
professionals who were doing this because they seem to be
taking it pretty seriously.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
That's amateur stuff.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Yeah, it's definitely either at festival or fate or if not,
it's like a Netflix series games.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
This could be seriously do you think this could be
like some sort of like a squid game sort of
you know, trial or something like that. It's part of
like a game show even.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Yeah, like the hundred, yeah, one hundred shows.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Yeah, because something.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
They look like when I say the team to seriously,
look at number four there right in the foreground, she's
got tape on her fingers and wrists, right, so she's
really she's she's done some of this recently.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
She's trained.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, she's this is a big deal for her.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Mark.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
I like that, you like, do you think they're taking
too seriously? I read an article that said you, in
preparation for s A s Australia, tied yourself up to
a chair and made everybody leave the house so that
you could get out of.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Taking it too seriously.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
And here you are, leave me alone.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Don't give me any help.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
That that was a convening excuse for a sexual something
that we completely wrong.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Is it in your mouth? Are they going to put
a ball.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
In your mouth? It's funny that you still use that
excuse you were, didn't you do it? This is still
going on.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Bridle, let it go.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Would you rather climb or abseil from a great height?
So down rather than climb up?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
For sure? The down is the fun bitner, Yeah, to
get the ab cel down.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
No, because look, some of them they climb up like
you know, you see cliff climbers. They climb up to
the top and then they just like there's conveniently there's
a hole waiting at the top of them to drive
them home. That happens a bit. Yeah, but I don't know.
Maybe I don't know. I don't do a lot of
rock climbing.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Would you rather abs?
Speaker 5 (12:22):
I don't like heights, so probably all just because it's
faster I can get grow faster.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
And it's also there's not a risk. I mean, I
guess there is a risk of falling with ab selling,
but that is kind of you're still going in the
direction direction of yeah, rather than.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
And somebody is down the bottom holding it, holding the
other cord.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I would want to know a few people you're in
control of it, like you're you're you're in control of
the brat.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
To have somebody else like down the bottom being you're
like spotted below a manager.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not letting my manager below me.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
It's not going to be the.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Professional.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
You've got to have somebody who's going to like literally,
you know, be there to save your lots.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Someone quite heavy set.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I don't think, yeah, okay, I don't want to make
you pick, but we have to because it's quid games.
You're going to abseil down in a rope person to
make sure that you know you're safe.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Safety is there, right? So who do you pick between
me and Daniel?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
I mean I obviously picked Mark. He's on that training.
I've probably been scarred for life when I get to
the bottom, and.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Is going to force you to face your fears on
the way down.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Americ would be doing a few like dropped, all right?
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Are we ready to find out?
Speaker 7 (13:48):
Where?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
I'd be crying at the bottom, worried that if you fell,
I'm going to go.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Yeah, we'd both be afraid.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Are we ready? To find out exactly the nature of
this picture.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I mean I can't. I want to never know, but
I guess.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
The truth behind this picture is coming up. But when
you're done with this discussion, don't forget to check out
some of our older episodes.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
This is one of the major spectacles at Hong Kong's
renowned Bun Festival.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Buns that makes sense?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
That is that close to was it for full?
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Yeah, I guess there're a hard buns, but you are
almost closer.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
With boobies, okay in a way.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, I mean, well it's this is Bun snatching is
a highlight at the event, involving dozens of people scrambling
up three sixty meter sorry sixty feet bamboo towers decked
out with plastic white buns at the stroke of midnight.
So midnight they go up there. I mean, it's always
good to do things recklessly at night. Buns used to
be offered to appease the gods, but nowadays competitors climb
(14:48):
them for points. The higher the climb, the more points
of climber can earn to try and win the competition.
So it is a competition and it is to climb it.
But they're just plastic so that you can't actually eat those.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Really, that's disappointing.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I love when a casual fund competition gets overtaken by
people that take it way too seriously.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I'meric.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Yeah, you know where people like you come in and
I must win.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
With everything. We're just going to catch a tram. I'll
catch it better. I'll catch the fastest tramp.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
I'm gonna run. I'm going to run faster than the tram. Like,
have you ever been to the Chinchilla Watermelon Festival?
Speaker 5 (15:27):
No, I've not been to the Chinchilla Watermelon Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, I've heard of the Chinchilla Watermelon Festival.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
A big deal whereabouts.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
It's in Chinchilla. I haven't spent that much time in
Chinchilla because queens has quite a big state.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Yeah, it is big, but I think you would love it.
But they have a watermelon skiing competition where you put
watermelon shells on your feet. Yeah, and then you kind
of like ski down a hill and try and go
the fastest.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
That's fine. That couldn't be any more Queensland.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
In every other state in Australia, that's highly illegal Queens No,
that's part of it.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Fun.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
You have some rum and then you go water skiing
on watermelon skins.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Can we confirm if it is highly illegal or marrister
SAIDs putting watermelon on your feet is highly illegal to
any other state.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
If that's the.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Last thing we need to do is fact check on
a show that is about fact checking.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Daniel Walker and Prue Blake thank you very much for
being a part of this picture discuss.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
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Speaker 3 (16:35):
Good on you.
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