August 26, 2024 • 14 mins
Chris Parker and Tom Walker take a guess at what these Germans are up to.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Here's one picture with no context and two comedians with
no clue. This is Picture Discuss. In this episode, men
dressed in lederhos and strain against each other, both pulling
on a device with one hand. Can Tom Walker and
Chris Parker figure out what is happening here? Stick around
to the end of the show to find out. Now,
(00:24):
here's your host, Merrik.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
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. How look
at that photo there?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
That's one we're going to discuss. Or you can also
find them in the links on the show notes. Chris Parker,
Tom Walker, Welcome to this episode a Picture Discuss.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Tom.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I'm going to get you to describe what is going
on in this picture.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Sure looks like I want to say, Bavarian or Germanic people,
just based on my knowledge of stereotypes, are wrestling over
a small link of like bike chain or a bracelet.
It They are literally curled up into the fetal position
in an aggressive way. And I know that sounds strange,
but if you look at the picture, it does make sense.
(01:10):
They're putting all their little bodies into this.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
They're really having to go, aren't they. Look, let's stay
the Obviously this is clearly German, isn't it, Chris, It's
going to be German.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
You can tell by the nice even though this Ikea
stools that they're on, Definitely there's an area of Europe.
I'm looking at the furniture a little bit, sorry, but I.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Got a lot of activity going.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, there is a lot of stools.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, Like there's a guy with a very German looking
hat on, some German looking pants on, and you've gone
nice stools the giveaways.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
A diamond doesn't in my community, but a nice proportioned stool,
you know, that's that's very rarely you come across one
of those. There's a lot of gear. There's a lot
of tech in the back. You know, there's a bike,
there's some skis, there's like like some tap shoes, looks
like there's a lot of some trophies.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
We can I point out right that there is on
the left side. There's you pointing out right, there's a
set of skis. Then there's a bike next to it.
So you've got to imagine that somebody has made an
error in their choice of transport options to get to
this event today, because somebody's just gone, I'm going to
ski and the other one's gone, I don't reckon it's skiing,
whether it's orion, I'm going to take my mountain bike.
(02:18):
You look like a fool. And then they've just scriped
their entire way to this event.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, it definitely seems to be a celebration of the
Alpine because I know that skis are what you know,
you do on a mountain in the winter, and then
on summer you ride your back your bike down that sucker.
They just keep the slopes just where they are twenty
seven Monday, switch it over so you're riding a bike
over a big jump instead of just going over on skis.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Spring bak break all year round, isn't it. In Germany
it's spring break break winter break, I mean a break.
The Germans famously a very holiday focused people. Yeah, and
so jovial as well. You know, they love a sense
of humor.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
And I was supposed to be at Riffer not making
funny jokes, but I'm actually trying to solve what's going
on the back here. I think there are a bunch
of prizes, you know, like it seems to be some
sort of like what was the game? Do you mean
that game where like all those cool things would like
float past and then you have to remember what they were,
and then that like the foot spar, the sort of skis,
it's like the price is Lineum game Allennial it was called.
(03:15):
I used to watch with my grandma all the time.
But it's that kind of a range of stuff. You're like,
there was a set of skis, there's a bite and
if you can remember.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, it's like a game of recall.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah, but I used to always That's when I first
was introduced the idea of having a footspar. Oh okay,
and I.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Still a fantastic daytime TV invention.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
But for me, it's like sort of a tear of
elegance or of luxury that I don't I should just
buy one. I don't think they're probably probably be the
same price as an air fry, but.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I think they're much less but also much less. I
think they can go as cheap as you want. I
think if you go, it's one of those inventions where
if you go below a certain invisible threshold of cost,
you will die using it. Yeah, like it will immediately
shock you and kill you. But I feel like, is
that something you want?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Chris?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Do you want to sit down and use the footspar
at the end of a long day?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yeah? Wouldn't you?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Have you done? Have you done stuff like that before?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I've a bar? Yeah? No, I mean I've never owned one.
I just kind of thought I wasn't allowed one because
it feels too of course you're something. No, You're.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
No, I understand what you down like that.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I think that's yeah, because I've had a footspar. I
haven't owned one, but I've had one. Yeah, But I
feel like I feel like they should be accessible to everyone.
I just agree, but I feel like that there should
be a class system.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
What situation were you in that you had a footspar?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Mar?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Was it a I was at a like a massage place,
like in a shopping center and they said, and I
was waiting to have a massage and they said, would
you like to have a footspar in the interim? And
I was like, yeah, sure, I mean I mean try
new things. And at first, yes, it was nerves. Of course,
I was anxious. Well, I wouldn't I be for me?
At first they're offering me something I've seen on television.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Yeah, and you're going your dogs out and the mall.
It sort of feels bare.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Foot in public, is a I mean, I'm always so
paranoid about the smell. Yeah, as a famously stinky man myself,
like I as soon as the dogs can't out, I'm
worried that everyone hears the bark, right.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
No, well, that's not my problem. It's like about, you know,
having such beautiful feet that people will.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Be jerking off on them all.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, I mean, and that happens quite The photos are
hitting the Twitter as soon as they can't.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Exactly, So it's like that's my issue. But no, I
think everyone should have access to fospone. There's probably one
there in the price. Sweet Let's get back to these prizes, So, jennmen,
can I bring your attention to we haven't even talked
about what the fuck these guys are doing. We're already like, so.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
They're fighting. It seem to be some sort of tugger
wats like it looks like.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
A piece of like rubber tubing, like from a bike
tire or something like that. Whatever it is, it's own couple.
They've they've chalked up their hands. These guys are taking
this super serious.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Got a chalk up.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, one of them has just got like a leather
bracelet on his arm, like he just wears that for real.
That's not a watch, that's just a piece of leather,
Like it's some sort of Nordic Viking guy.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Sensation of what they're going through. It feels like when
you're coming back from this market and you're like, I've
got I can make this in one trip from the
car and yeah, and it's like cutting and and you're
this is back when they were the plastic bags, which yes,
honestly we should have just kept They were great. There
was nothing wrong with them, Yeah except for the environment.
But I don't know, as you think the damage was
that bad considering like the amount of waste that's going
(06:12):
in compared.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
To drink straws. They're the thing killing the universe.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah exactly, yeah, yeah, no, you're right, this would This
is giving me an intense, like empathic feeling of this
cutting into my fingers, even with like a chalked up hand,
also a low like you know, you can see the
shoes are hooked in under the table. The table's bolted
to the ground, but I just know you're banging your
(06:35):
shins on that thing.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I like these support guys. They've got two guys that
are sort of supporting them on either side, sort of spotting,
like they've obviously this has gone bad so many times
that they were like, hey, guys, I know that we're
all here for fun and giving up prizes, but we
need two people on support. Do you think because too
many people have been concussed?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Do you think that the spotters are here? Know them personally?
Because every time I, you know, you go to the
gym and you're, you know, doing something, sometimes you'll ask
someone to spot you on a bench press or whatever
you or they'll just volunteer. And I always find that
so difficult because sometimes they'll start talking to you and
giving you a pep.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
You're in a relationship with them, then there's a law
of reciprocity that like they spot you, you have to
spot then. Yes, So like you don't.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Want to be like you're trying to hit the right
vibe of like do I count under my breath or
do I kind of give it a nice loud like
one encouraging two? Do they not want me to count?
Because when they're doing it, for me. I could just
hear them whispering. Like one time a guy was like,
come on, man, give me two more and I started laughing.
I was like, I'm not giving you anything. I don't
(07:42):
owe you anything.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Showers, mate.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
And when they transgress that line into becoming your coach,
you're not my dad.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
It's weird that, And it's a sort of weird little
of vulnerability with a stranger that I remember, like when
I got like a personal training session with like a
free one at the gym and the guy was like,
I'm watching you to failure, mate. It's like, it's so
weird have your body fail in the arms of a
guy who listens to a Joe Rogan podcast. Absolutely, it's like,
and you're there, like your body is giving out and
he's holding you.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Suddenly, I'm giving over my body my safety to you,
and I know you're seconds away from telling me what
a cold plunge is.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I just want to. I want to be in the
arms of a trained nurse that my body is failing surgery.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Not you guys have just described me. I'm just letting
you know, really, you're that guy. I love ice plunge.
I into all that sort of stuffy.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Yeah, and it's all bullshit, but it does feel good.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
It's amazing. What it does is it leads you to
wanting to do things like this. Yeah, not the podcast.
I mean just you know, you can see yourself in
and grappling over the first German. Sure, I give it
a crack, but I mean, can I just point out
a couple of details. That guy's got a half sock
on on the left there, it's only got like half protection,
but no ankle protection on that song far right hand.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
So yeah, I've been so distracted by the spotterer on
the far live with the shoe with no sock, and
it's making me feel so ill, like the idea of
a leather shoe was no socks like that. The it
that gives me, you know what, all.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
The feeling that's giving me is I don't get invited
to too many occasions. It will surprise neither of you.
But I was, okay, be too fast on the name.
No thanks man, we'll put that in in the addit.
But I went to one. I went to a friend's
wedding and I, you know, bought I had to buy
new shoes every time I get to go to a wedding.
It happens rarely enough that I have to buy a
(09:29):
new set of shoes and wear.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
The growing Oh I'm a growing boy.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
They keep growing smellier and smellier. Yuck. But I wore
these shoes and I got I think roughly like three
to four minutes into the wedding, and immediately had holes
torn in the back of birth of my feet, just
like they were the least well fitting shoes I've ever
so no, I was wearing socks, but it felt like
it honestly felt like the socks I'd put on were
(09:55):
like a sheet of paper and someone had just taken
a katana and just suck like all the way through.
It was so crazy.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I love a grand man and a socke.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Well, that's that's it. That's like a car fit. That's
like it, and that looks like it's been knitted by
a family member, passed down from generation generation, probably along
with those suede shorts. Okay, let's get back to the prizes.
There's a bolt cutters and loose. There's some appears to
be a set of state knives on the floor.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
There, and kitchen or whatever it is. I know this brand.
I think it's like a little water blaster thing and
it's still in the box. That's just brilliant.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
It's got some really good prices. Yeah, Like, I mean
there's some stuff to play.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
There for Yeah, I reckon, you know the reason why?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Now it kind of justifies to me why these guys
are tearing their hands and like these prizes are actually worse.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I do anything for those.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
There's a kasher there in the background.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
That's a good in the box, you know, it's like
and a mountain bi like that. You know those are expensive?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
How do we decide the winner?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Hit?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Here's here's the thing. I can't figure out this part
of this picture.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
How do you win the guy over the table?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Is it pull them over the table, snap the hand off,
get them to release, like you know, it seems it's
a battle of attrition, right, But is it the first
person to release? Is it the first person to fall
off the stool because they're not allowed to They don't
appear the other guys don't appear to be able to
stabilize the stool. They're just there to catch them when
they they go. So maybe it's like a first person
to be pulled off the stool.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Must be I think you're right. I think you've cracked
it right on the head there. First run off the stool,
just went off the stool.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I think it might be first one to stop gripping
onto the bracelet. And so the stool is valuable because that's,
you know, supporting some of your weight. You're not just
like putting all of your body weight on this horrible
little thing that's cutting into your hand. But I think
it's going to be first one to let go of
the bracelet losers, or potentially maybe we're just getting completely
bamboozled here. And the only person playing is the man
(11:52):
in the exact middle of the frame, and he loses
if he stops paying attention. He loses if he like
goes on his phone or something, you know, something nice
and latable like that. It's hard not to go on
your phone even with this in front of you.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
We're all agreeing though, that the guy whose face we
can see is the most handsome man with ever he's
he's really good looking, so gorgeous, hard like, that's the
kind of guy you hope you bump into in Germany
and uniform too, Like he's just he's just.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
He's a triumph of design. Isn't he in that Germany
German way?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
He stuot Guard.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
His name is incredibly those face.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
He kind of you know, all right, let's find out
what this picture is all about.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Did they guess it right?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
The reveal he is coming right?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
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Speaker 2 (12:41):
Just in traditional clothing. In Mittenvod, southern Germany, men attend
to drag their opponent over a table during the Alps
fingers Wrestling Championships. This is a traditional rural sport where
you battle to pull your opponent over a marked line
on the tabletop. Back in the day it was used
to settle disputes, but now it is seen as a
(13:03):
serious sport by those who compete.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I bet I couldn't get you over this table cloud.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
You could pull me.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Off the table. If only they over the table eight.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
If only he made it.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
To the point where the competitor has trained their finger
strength by doing single finger pull ups with weight lifts
of up to fifty kilograms with an individual finger, so
they will do like a finger pull up fifty kilos,
so they would have like that. Masturbating would be very
dangerous for these guys. I'd reckon you could really do
yourself a mischief.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yeah, I mean you'd be going to flat palms, kind
of pressing it together, very fingers getting around that. Yeah,
crust in hydraulic press.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Absolutely, it's it's a danger for everyone. Chris Parker, Tom Walker,
thank you very much for helping me discuss this picture.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Thank you for having me, Thanks for showing us this picture.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I just like the cutout of just.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
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Here's one picture with no context and two comedians with
no clue. This is Picture Discuss. In this episode, men
dressed in lederhos and strain against each other, both pulling
on a device with one hand. Can Tom Walker and
Chris Parker figure out what is happening here? Stick around
to the end of the show to find out. Now,
(00:24):
here's your host, Merrik.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
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. How look
at that photo there?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
That's one we're going to discuss. Or you can also
find them in the links on the show notes. Chris Parker,
Tom Walker, Welcome to this episode a Picture Discuss.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Tom.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I'm going to get you to describe what is going
on in this picture.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Sure looks like I want to say, Bavarian or Germanic people,
just based on my knowledge of stereotypes, are wrestling over
a small link of like bike chain or a bracelet.
It They are literally curled up into the fetal position
in an aggressive way. And I know that sounds strange,
but if you look at the picture, it does make sense.
(01:10):
They're putting all their little bodies into this.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
They're really having to go, aren't they. Look, let's stay
the Obviously this is clearly German, isn't it, Chris, It's
going to be German.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
You can tell by the nice even though this Ikea
stools that they're on, Definitely there's an area of Europe.
I'm looking at the furniture a little bit, sorry, but I.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Got a lot of activity going.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, there is a lot of stools.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, Like there's a guy with a very German looking
hat on, some German looking pants on, and you've gone
nice stools the giveaways.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
A diamond doesn't in my community, but a nice proportioned stool,
you know, that's that's very rarely you come across one
of those. There's a lot of gear. There's a lot
of tech in the back. You know, there's a bike,
there's some skis, there's like like some tap shoes, looks
like there's a lot of some trophies.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
We can I point out right that there is on
the left side. There's you pointing out right, there's a
set of skis. Then there's a bike next to it.
So you've got to imagine that somebody has made an
error in their choice of transport options to get to
this event today, because somebody's just gone, I'm going to
ski and the other one's gone, I don't reckon it's skiing,
whether it's orion, I'm going to take my mountain bike.
(02:18):
You look like a fool. And then they've just scriped
their entire way to this event.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, it definitely seems to be a celebration of the
Alpine because I know that skis are what you know,
you do on a mountain in the winter, and then
on summer you ride your back your bike down that sucker.
They just keep the slopes just where they are twenty
seven Monday, switch it over so you're riding a bike
over a big jump instead of just going over on skis.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Spring bak break all year round, isn't it. In Germany
it's spring break break winter break, I mean a break.
The Germans famously a very holiday focused people. Yeah, and
so jovial as well. You know, they love a sense
of humor.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
And I was supposed to be at Riffer not making
funny jokes, but I'm actually trying to solve what's going
on the back here. I think there are a bunch
of prizes, you know, like it seems to be some
sort of like what was the game? Do you mean
that game where like all those cool things would like
float past and then you have to remember what they were,
and then that like the foot spar, the sort of skis,
it's like the price is Lineum game Allennial it was called.
(03:15):
I used to watch with my grandma all the time.
But it's that kind of a range of stuff. You're like,
there was a set of skis, there's a bite and
if you can remember.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, it's like a game of recall.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah, but I used to always That's when I first
was introduced the idea of having a footspar. Oh okay,
and I.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Still a fantastic daytime TV invention.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
But for me, it's like sort of a tear of
elegance or of luxury that I don't I should just
buy one. I don't think they're probably probably be the
same price as an air fry, but.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I think they're much less but also much less. I
think they can go as cheap as you want. I
think if you go, it's one of those inventions where
if you go below a certain invisible threshold of cost,
you will die using it. Yeah, like it will immediately
shock you and kill you. But I feel like, is
that something you want?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Chris?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Do you want to sit down and use the footspar
at the end of a long day?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yeah? Wouldn't you?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Have you done? Have you done stuff like that before?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I've a bar? Yeah? No, I mean I've never owned one.
I just kind of thought I wasn't allowed one because
it feels too of course you're something. No, You're.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
No, I understand what you down like that.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I think that's yeah, because I've had a footspar. I
haven't owned one, but I've had one. Yeah, But I
feel like I feel like they should be accessible to everyone.
I just agree, but I feel like that there should
be a class system.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
What situation were you in that you had a footspar?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Mar?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Was it a I was at a like a massage place,
like in a shopping center and they said, and I
was waiting to have a massage and they said, would
you like to have a footspar in the interim? And
I was like, yeah, sure, I mean I mean try
new things. And at first, yes, it was nerves. Of course,
I was anxious. Well, I wouldn't I be for me?
At first they're offering me something I've seen on television.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Yeah, and you're going your dogs out and the mall.
It sort of feels bare.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Foot in public, is a I mean, I'm always so
paranoid about the smell. Yeah, as a famously stinky man myself,
like I as soon as the dogs can't out, I'm
worried that everyone hears the bark, right.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
No, well, that's not my problem. It's like about, you know,
having such beautiful feet that people will.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Be jerking off on them all.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, I mean, and that happens quite The photos are
hitting the Twitter as soon as they can't.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Exactly, So it's like that's my issue. But no, I
think everyone should have access to fospone. There's probably one
there in the price. Sweet Let's get back to these prizes, So, jennmen,
can I bring your attention to we haven't even talked
about what the fuck these guys are doing. We're already like, so.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
They're fighting. It seem to be some sort of tugger
wats like it looks like.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
A piece of like rubber tubing, like from a bike
tire or something like that. Whatever it is, it's own couple.
They've they've chalked up their hands. These guys are taking
this super serious.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Got a chalk up.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, one of them has just got like a leather
bracelet on his arm, like he just wears that for real.
That's not a watch, that's just a piece of leather,
Like it's some sort of Nordic Viking guy.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Sensation of what they're going through. It feels like when
you're coming back from this market and you're like, I've
got I can make this in one trip from the
car and yeah, and it's like cutting and and you're
this is back when they were the plastic bags, which yes,
honestly we should have just kept They were great. There
was nothing wrong with them, Yeah except for the environment.
But I don't know, as you think the damage was
that bad considering like the amount of waste that's going
(06:12):
in compared.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
To drink straws. They're the thing killing the universe.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah exactly, yeah, yeah, no, you're right, this would This
is giving me an intense, like empathic feeling of this
cutting into my fingers, even with like a chalked up hand,
also a low like you know, you can see the
shoes are hooked in under the table. The table's bolted
to the ground, but I just know you're banging your
(06:35):
shins on that thing.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I like these support guys. They've got two guys that
are sort of supporting them on either side, sort of spotting,
like they've obviously this has gone bad so many times
that they were like, hey, guys, I know that we're
all here for fun and giving up prizes, but we
need two people on support. Do you think because too
many people have been concussed?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Do you think that the spotters are here? Know them personally?
Because every time I, you know, you go to the
gym and you're, you know, doing something, sometimes you'll ask
someone to spot you on a bench press or whatever
you or they'll just volunteer. And I always find that
so difficult because sometimes they'll start talking to you and
giving you a pep.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
You're in a relationship with them, then there's a law
of reciprocity that like they spot you, you have to
spot then. Yes, So like you don't.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Want to be like you're trying to hit the right
vibe of like do I count under my breath or
do I kind of give it a nice loud like
one encouraging two? Do they not want me to count?
Because when they're doing it, for me. I could just
hear them whispering. Like one time a guy was like,
come on, man, give me two more and I started laughing.
I was like, I'm not giving you anything. I don't
(07:42):
owe you anything.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Showers, mate.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
And when they transgress that line into becoming your coach,
you're not my dad.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
It's weird that, And it's a sort of weird little
of vulnerability with a stranger that I remember, like when
I got like a personal training session with like a
free one at the gym and the guy was like,
I'm watching you to failure, mate. It's like, it's so
weird have your body fail in the arms of a
guy who listens to a Joe Rogan podcast. Absolutely, it's like,
and you're there, like your body is giving out and
he's holding you.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Suddenly, I'm giving over my body my safety to you,
and I know you're seconds away from telling me what
a cold plunge is.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I just want to. I want to be in the
arms of a trained nurse that my body is failing surgery.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Not you guys have just described me. I'm just letting
you know, really, you're that guy. I love ice plunge.
I into all that sort of stuffy.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Yeah, and it's all bullshit, but it does feel good.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
It's amazing. What it does is it leads you to
wanting to do things like this. Yeah, not the podcast.
I mean just you know, you can see yourself in
and grappling over the first German. Sure, I give it
a crack, but I mean, can I just point out
a couple of details. That guy's got a half sock
on on the left there, it's only got like half protection,
but no ankle protection on that song far right hand.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
So yeah, I've been so distracted by the spotterer on
the far live with the shoe with no sock, and
it's making me feel so ill, like the idea of
a leather shoe was no socks like that. The it
that gives me, you know what, all.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
The feeling that's giving me is I don't get invited
to too many occasions. It will surprise neither of you.
But I was, okay, be too fast on the name.
No thanks man, we'll put that in in the addit.
But I went to one. I went to a friend's
wedding and I, you know, bought I had to buy
new shoes every time I get to go to a wedding.
It happens rarely enough that I have to buy a
(09:29):
new set of shoes and wear.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
The growing Oh I'm a growing boy.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
They keep growing smellier and smellier. Yuck. But I wore
these shoes and I got I think roughly like three
to four minutes into the wedding, and immediately had holes
torn in the back of birth of my feet, just
like they were the least well fitting shoes I've ever
so no, I was wearing socks, but it felt like
it honestly felt like the socks I'd put on were
(09:55):
like a sheet of paper and someone had just taken
a katana and just suck like all the way through.
It was so crazy.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I love a grand man and a socke.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Well, that's that's it. That's like a car fit. That's
like it, and that looks like it's been knitted by
a family member, passed down from generation generation, probably along
with those suede shorts. Okay, let's get back to the prizes.
There's a bolt cutters and loose. There's some appears to
be a set of state knives on the floor.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
There, and kitchen or whatever it is. I know this brand.
I think it's like a little water blaster thing and
it's still in the box. That's just brilliant.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
It's got some really good prices. Yeah, Like, I mean
there's some stuff to play.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
There for Yeah, I reckon, you know the reason why?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Now it kind of justifies to me why these guys
are tearing their hands and like these prizes are actually worse.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I do anything for those.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
There's a kasher there in the background.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
That's a good in the box, you know, it's like
and a mountain bi like that. You know those are expensive?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
How do we decide the winner?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Hit?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Here's here's the thing. I can't figure out this part
of this picture.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
How do you win the guy over the table?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Is it pull them over the table, snap the hand off,
get them to release, like you know, it seems it's
a battle of attrition, right, But is it the first
person to release? Is it the first person to fall
off the stool because they're not allowed to They don't
appear the other guys don't appear to be able to
stabilize the stool. They're just there to catch them when
they they go. So maybe it's like a first person
to be pulled off the stool.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Must be I think you're right. I think you've cracked
it right on the head there. First run off the stool,
just went off the stool.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I think it might be first one to stop gripping
onto the bracelet. And so the stool is valuable because that's,
you know, supporting some of your weight. You're not just
like putting all of your body weight on this horrible
little thing that's cutting into your hand. But I think
it's going to be first one to let go of
the bracelet losers, or potentially maybe we're just getting completely
bamboozled here. And the only person playing is the man
(11:52):
in the exact middle of the frame, and he loses
if he stops paying attention. He loses if he like
goes on his phone or something, you know, something nice
and latable like that. It's hard not to go on
your phone even with this in front of you.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
We're all agreeing though, that the guy whose face we
can see is the most handsome man with ever he's
he's really good looking, so gorgeous, hard like, that's the
kind of guy you hope you bump into in Germany
and uniform too, Like he's just he's just.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
He's a triumph of design. Isn't he in that Germany
German way?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
He stuot Guard.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
His name is incredibly those face.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
He kind of you know, all right, let's find out
what this picture is all about.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Did they guess it right?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
The reveal he is coming right?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
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Speaker 2 (12:41):
Just in traditional clothing. In Mittenvod, southern Germany, men attend
to drag their opponent over a table during the Alps
fingers Wrestling Championships. This is a traditional rural sport where
you battle to pull your opponent over a marked line
on the tabletop. Back in the day it was used
to settle disputes, but now it is seen as a
(13:03):
serious sport by those who compete.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I bet I couldn't get you over this table cloud.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
You could pull me.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Off the table. If only they over the table eight.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
If only he made it.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
To the point where the competitor has trained their finger
strength by doing single finger pull ups with weight lifts
of up to fifty kilograms with an individual finger, so
they will do like a finger pull up fifty kilos,
so they would have like that. Masturbating would be very
dangerous for these guys. I'd reckon you could really do
yourself a mischief.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yeah, I mean you'd be going to flat palms, kind
of pressing it together, very fingers getting around that. Yeah,
crust in hydraulic press.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Absolutely, it's it's a danger for everyone. Chris Parker, Tom Walker,
thank you very much for helping me discuss this picture.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Thank you for having me, Thanks for showing us this picture.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I just like the cutout of just.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Get to cut that down for you. A big thanks
to my guess And if you've enjoyed the episode, make
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