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September 30, 2024 14 mins

Dilruk and Claire attempt to figure out what this woman is doing with these... things...

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Here's one picture with no context and two comedians with
no clue.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
This is Picture Discuss.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
In this episode, a woman is holding two large sticks
with round balls on the ends, right up to her eyes.
Ken Claire Hooper and Deal Rook Chay Singer tell us
why find out at the end of the episode. Now
here's your host.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Merk what thanks for joining me and my friends for
Picture Discuss. If you want to see the picture that
we're going to be talking about, it's on your phone.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
Easy yet, Ready to go?

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Claire Hooper, Derok Josoner, Welcome to Picture Discuss.

Speaker 5 (00:39):
Claire.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
I'm going to ask you to describe what you see
on our screen.

Speaker 5 (00:42):
Well, Merek, I can't be sure exactly what it is,
but it is definitely and we'll get to it. It
is definitely an Australian music album cover from the nineteen seventies,
but it's a onond. It's a blonde woman with a
peaceful eyes, closed expression on her face and she is
high holding two I mean they're not toffee apples, but

(01:07):
large drumsticks slash small toffee apples up to her eyelids.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Could I throw in potentially maracas?

Speaker 5 (01:15):
Well, I don't know, it's safe to shake a moraca
that close to a human eye.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
But all right, I have gone for a therapy a
message called I know this is gonna, but it's called
gong massage.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
And it's where you lie fully clothed and there's all
these massive gongs around you and this the therapist beats
the different vibrations to try and heal you. So when
you say maracas that close, what comes to mind is
I feel like the vibrations of the moracas could be
soothing for migraine.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
Can we throw the childless person out of the room place?

Speaker 4 (01:47):
Wow, you've got the time to go for gong message.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
I can't even get a fifteen minute shopping center rub
down and you're getting ah, you like, I.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Don't even have a shower alone.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
Massage?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, I swear to god. That was a big part
of why I went. I went. I've tried a lot
of different message maues. I tried.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Does dong massage work?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Look, to be honest, I did. But you close your
eyes and you're trying to focus on the vibrations and
eventually you start to feel the vibrations like any like
if you're standing extra subufa, you'll feel you know, your
body changing, right, Yeah, so that I noticed was interesting.
When he was near my feet, the gong that she
was hitting was like kind of massaging my calves a bit.
She said, don't be afraid if at some point because

(02:31):
I started feeling related.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
I love that phrase in a massage, don't be afraid.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Because I felt like I wanted to start crying at
one point for some reason. She's like, Oh, don't be afraid.
That's normal. That's your body just like moving around energies
and it's pushing and if it's like something that's blocking you,
maybe that's what this is. It's loosening it up, so
let it flow.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
Amazing. Yeah, so it's quite reasent.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Now I'm kind of curious now massage.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
It was in Regional w A in Albany. What Yeah,
I'm not even sure.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
They've got McDonald's in Albany.

Speaker 5 (03:03):
They got the dog rock and the gong message.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yeah, yeah, gong message there. Of all the places, how.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Much was thevent for a gong massage?

Speaker 5 (03:12):
He has a question, A good question.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
One hour gong forty five to an hour whatever.

Speaker 5 (03:17):
Sixty five dollars, No, come on, that's one hundred and
sixty five dollars and.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Sixty five for a gong Wow?

Speaker 4 (03:23):
How much was it?

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Sixty?

Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah? There you go.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
Yeah, it's good Albany worse worth the seven hundred dollars
in plane tickets. Yeah, and a night in a motel
to get a sixty dollars gong message.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Every second is ten cents, you know, making money? Question?

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Question for it? If in normal message you have to
be wiped down with the towel. Do you get wiped
down with a towel after you've had a gong message? No?

Speaker 2 (03:46):
No, She pulls out a half.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
And half I was running wipe down? How many people
in this room? Why are we talking about? Talk about one?

Speaker 5 (03:56):
For the question that is, have you had a non
gong massage since? And did you miss the.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Es?

Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (04:05):
No, no, I believe it was one gossage about a
ye and a half ago. I've been keeping an eye
out for it some elsewhere, but it's and you know,
we travel a lot with our work. I feel like
this is a one off.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
If I'm not googling it though, it's just belave it.
Both Claire and I are going to everyone's going to
be googgling right now. Gong message?

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Is it real?

Speaker 5 (04:23):
Get the spelling right, you're going to get.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
Donga message.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
That the miracas. The fact that you can't bring Americas
to close to your eye is what made me go no, no,
I feel like you can't.

Speaker 5 (04:38):
You're looking at a picture.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, we're a podcast called Picture Discussed, not massage plus.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Okay, Claire, what do you reckon? Those things are like.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
It does feel like they've got a steel shaft or
metal shaft, but they look like a rubber kind of
head there, don't.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
They They do.

Speaker 5 (04:53):
There is a real there's a real drumstick vibe like,
but your big drums, your temper need steel drum like
a good you know, like marimba. Is that a big one.
The point is it feels like a drumstick for a
big drum. It's that flat top. And also like they
really do look like toffee apples. But just as you
don't shake a maraca clus to your eyes, you don't

(05:16):
put a toffee apple that close to wispy flyaways. That's
somebody with.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Okay, So it's not like a red toffee apple and
a crazy you know, blue toffee apple just for laughs.
These are well, these look like they're they do look
like they're an instrument of some kind, but they don't.

Speaker 5 (05:35):
I don't know, like is she summoning her energies for
a bit of drumming, or is she drumming herself, like
you know the last.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Just before that, she's taking it all in the tension
of the crowd.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
When I first saw it, when she's like in a
prayer moment, I was like, oh, okay, so this is
like maybe this is the early origins of hillsongs where
she's like, you know, she's focusing in channeling God into
the drumsticks that she then bashes and then you know,
just like this real kind of you know, like summoning.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
The wands or even not to have the apple. Now
she's got two toffee apples in her hands and symbolizing
her temptation.

Speaker 5 (06:17):
Yes, this is a burlesque word about.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
This is a safe sex version of tea bagging. Okay,
let's move on from that.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
We go.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Off microphone there, and that is an indicated that I
went somewhere We shouldn't.

Speaker 5 (06:36):
Know about the parameters of this, because it's really the
graininess and the amazing like like that looks like hair
curled with rags, you know, like this does not look
like a modern image. This has got a real vibey,
sort of like seventies or prior.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Like a Kate Bush video.

Speaker 5 (06:54):
Right, can you like, is this definitely modern day or
have we somehow picked a pick You're out of a
time machine because.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
It's this image and I can tell you was at
the very cusp of black and white to color photography.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
So look at the hair.

Speaker 5 (07:12):
I know this is not a woman who owns a GHD.
This is this is a beautifully like overnight curled hair. Okay,
well in that case, sorry guys. As a woman, I've
heard a lot about things that women do to make

(07:32):
themselves beautiful, and there's no way that's not a beauty remedy,
you hear. I know it's not an eyebrow brush. So
that is that is somebody like that is somebody giving themselves.
And it's interesting you mentioned the gong massage. I reckon
that's a face massage happening there.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
Really, so do you reckon?

Speaker 3 (07:49):
She's applying the sticks directly to contacting her head the beauty, I.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
Reckon, she's doing some light tapping all over her face
to bring the blood to improve the complexion.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
You've seen those saying it will work.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
I'm just saying that that's what she's doing. Every generation
of women has gone through their cocker maybe beauty regimes.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, what about the one I've seen recently? There's like
a silver roll on bit that a lot of women
just roll on their faces like lights on their face.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
They look like I know it's so, I mean, gosh,
bless them all, but it's also silly. I actually feel like,
out of you an ideal, you'd be the one most
likely to use the light's face mask.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
We face mask and get gonged at the same time.

Speaker 5 (08:35):
Well, if there's a way dial fined.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
I'm close to getting one of those masks, because that
got told it's only like three minutes a day, and
then it keeps you looking youthful.

Speaker 5 (08:46):
Number one, it was number one? What's so good about
looking young? Your comedy might only improve if you if
you grow a little bit of like status and respect,
maybe maybe a little bit more salt and pepper in
the temples of you, and people will be like, all
of a sudden, I'm taking what he says more serious.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
See that's because you assume that my comedy is my focus. No,
I'm single again, Claire, and I'm nearly forty and I
like have had a heart attack and broken back and
all kinds of issues. I'm like, like I should I
picked way, you know.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
Can you break your back? But the gong didn't feel it.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Or what we may have because it hasn't happened since
there you go. Don't knock the gong yet. But yes,
so I I you know, I do like a little
bit of silver. What's it called temp bolding. I'm not
happy about it. There's a little patches starting to come that.
I'm like.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
Your beautiful beautiful hair. I don't think the light face
mask wis sort of but I tell you what, get
too large drumsticks? Yes, whack him on your bolt SPoD gently.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
I kept apples on him.

Speaker 5 (09:53):
Also, del rote, you got a lot more going for
you than your beautiful beautiful hair. You're gonna be fine, mate,
I do.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Have good eyebrows.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
Personalities. Can somebody just take this beautiful young woman and
take her by the shoulders and say, put the drumsticks
down and your personality?

Speaker 2 (10:12):
People want, but there isn't. Can we accept there is
a real like sense of calm on her face, just
like I want to kind of gravitate towards How do
I achieve that? Do I achieve it through these drumsticks
being rubbed against my eyelids? You know, just.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
Assuming I still say light tapping.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
Definitely light tapping, not rolling, not rolling action.

Speaker 5 (10:33):
Well I don't see what that. No, I don't feel
like rolling is going to bring the blood to the surface.
You think it's light tapping.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
So you think it's light tapping for a beauty purpose,
for vanity.

Speaker 5 (10:45):
Yeah, yeah, that's.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
I think based on your clue about it, sort of
the cusp of color black and white thing. This might
be one of the first performances for the queen and
you know this is that.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
And she's in her for the final drug. Okay, if
women were allowed to blade drums for the queen.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
Maybe drums?

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, way too masculine? Yes, love.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Alright, let's find out where this picture actually comes from.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Did they guess it right?

Speaker 2 (11:20):
The reveal is coming right up.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Want more picture discussions, check out our back catalog.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
Oh, these gadgets were sold by so called heartless promoters
who claimed that by tapping the eyes no. Two hundred
times a day with these drumstick like conventions, your vision
would improve.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Oh my god, I reckon.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
Probably not, No, I reckon, if anything, you might sustain
a little down.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, I can't believe that the gold the closest story
to this. It was such an obscure reference, but you
know it.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
It's basically this is how dar gets a message. The
balls at the end are made the sticks made out
of a semi hard rubber, so he knows what they
were able to give their pages therapeutic benefits they had.
The scammer is said to have made a small fortune
from this fraud, but the number of people who may
have damaged their eyesight by falling for this strange scam unknown.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
So they because they can't fill the form out, there's
no internet.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
To complain to me, so they just gon' I can't
see because I've smashed my one.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Hundred times a day a day with the time at
that two hundred.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
So they were sold.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
You'd just do the first day and you'd be like, yeah,
I reckon, this is working.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
Okay, here we go.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Right, I'm gonna ask you now you're out of this
one til you can't answer this if I nothing right,
I just came to you and I said, what do
you think is truly more official from a therapeutic level?
Having somebody bash of gong in a room that you're
in near your feet to give you calf relief, or
gently tapping your eyes with two rubbert pineapple, two rubber

(13:13):
toffee apples for two hundred repetitions a day, What would
you honestly think is better for you?

Speaker 5 (13:18):
Fair point mass It is true that I be like
that gong stuff. Sounds like you'd be ship those rubber drumsticks.
That's too far fetched not to work your physically damaging
your retina.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Like so right now, what was saying is that there's
somebody in Albany in w A right now is just
sitting there just tapping their own face with a couple
of toffee apples and going no, no, this is good.

Speaker 5 (13:41):
And then after what I love those gong massages until
I got those toffee apple She.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Was the gong monieur is absolutely lovely. I feel bad
I may have given her business bad No.

Speaker 5 (13:51):
No no no, you've done nothing, but you've said business
her way good.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Calves feel better.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
Now, let's taking deal or clear. Thank you very much
being part of the picture discussed.

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