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July 22, 2024 14 mins

Is this a strange day at the beach or something weirder? Andrew and Tom might have to dig all the way down to China to find out.

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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 men stand together on sand. They all look
towards the sky, except for one whose head is planted
in the sand, legs plainly in the air. Will Tom
Cashman and Andrew Hamilton figure out why? Stick around to

(00:24):
the end to find out. Now, here's your host, Merrik Watts.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Thank you for being a part of this. We're going
to discuss some pictures. You want to have a look
at the picture easy, It's on your phone. Just have
a look at it, or you can also find it
on Instagram. Here we go, Tom Cashman Andrew Hamilton, Welcome
to Picture Discuss. Cash What are we seeing here? What's
in front of us?

Speaker 3 (00:45):
So what's in front of me currently is a beautiful
comedian named America. But behind that there is a picture
and I will describe that picture.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
We're looking at six blokes.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
One bloke in particular stands out to me, but we'll
get to that in a second. On the left, we've
got a man long hair staring up. It's nighttime that
We've got another man staring up. Then we've got another
man staring up then we've got another man who is
misunderstood the brief somewhat. He's got his head under in
the ground, in the sand, and he's feeder up. And
then we've got two more guys looking up. However, these

(01:15):
guys are a bit different because they are not wearing shirts.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
One of them is definitely standing out Andrew, it looks
like it's raining.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Men.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
What's your first thoughts when you see this picture.

Speaker 5 (01:24):
There's a lot going on, isn't there. It's busy. I'm
you think they look busy. I think they look like
that too much busy.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
I think they're trying to look busy.

Speaker 6 (01:37):
There's a lot of question marks all over it.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
I'm worried about this guy's neck in the middle, with
his head buried in the sand. I'm worried about whether
he can breathe. And also no one else seems to
be at all caring about him.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
So there's a really good point, right is You've got
five guys looking to the sky like there's going to
be another one falling, but nobody in his stage is gone.
Let's help Gary. So you think this.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Guy's fell, well, I don't know. So there is a
man with a head he's in his sand. It's like
he's attempted to some sort of head spin DJ move
and kind of headspin too much into the That's what
I kind of had assumed was happening, or some sort
of metaphor for someone having the head in the sand.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
But you think that he's fallen from the sky.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
I know what it is. It's an unsuccessful rap battle
at a beach.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Could have ever thought that such a thing would go wrong?

Speaker 2 (02:22):
His name was Gary. It's a turbo. He's going to
do a headspin and he's just corkscrewed himself into the air.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
To be honest, I think if you are doing a
headspin at a rap battle, you deserve to be corkscrewed
into the ground because that's kind of at tension seeking behavior.
The focus should be on the rap and the battle
and the lyrics, the lyricism of each of the rappers.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
If you're doing headspins like look, I can break dance too,
that's just he.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
Mustly got some speed on that corkscrew to get that
deep though.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, he's actually work. He's shouldered deep, isn't he. It's
like he's really in there. This is not like just
a superficial kind of surface level drilling down that he's
going to He's put himself in there.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
You know what this reminds me of.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
I don't know if this happened to you, but when
I would be mucking around as a kid in like
a sand pit, it would be common where if you
dug a hole even a little bit deep, someone would
be like, be careful if you dig too far. You
go to China, you're familiar with.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
This, yeah, because you can't.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
That always frustrated me because I'm like, China's quite just
not even close to being on the other side of
the world. China is just a bit above Australia. Clearly,
that was like a saying for like English people, I guess.

Speaker 6 (03:29):
Still strong at geography, even as like a small kid.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
That's That's what I'm trying to imply.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
I was very across the positioning of the I was, Yeah,
I had an Atlas poster in my room as a kid.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
It's just it's just like, really the netlesupposed that you
having a Netlas posally in your room as a kid,
not pictures of this checks right what we were about
to say, hot bikinis.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
Bikinis?

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Did you That's way better and more evolved for a
five year old to have you strange.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
It was, well, no, no, no sand pits. At fifteen,
I had dinosaurs. You guys are the weird guys. This
is what I've been sexualized too early. You don't develop properly.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
And in puberty you're still playing in sand pits because
you're all confused from your weird sexual choices.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Okay, so these guys obviously didn't have any pictures of
any geographic maps in their rooms. That obviously they'd started early.
Let's start Andrew. Let's have a look at the fact
that these guys are all covered in sand. Right, So
not just old mate who's got his head buried in it,
but the rest of the guys are actually covered in
sand as well. So they've had some activity going on
this sand, some of them taking their shirts off. Is
this a wrestling thing?

Speaker 4 (04:35):
What do you reckon?

Speaker 6 (04:36):
What's led to this moment? I mean the shirtless guys.

Speaker 5 (04:39):
Yeah, I was wondering about that, like whether they had
just had such vigorous work in the sand they got
a bit sweaty.

Speaker 6 (04:44):
They've taken those off.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
The scenario because it's got a loud sandpit. It's almost
like the environment for a rodeo. Oh yeah, and it
looks as if perhaps a rodeo couldn't take place because
like the bull is sick or something, and then all
the blokes that were going to ride that are just told, like,
get out there and do something entertaining, and they're just
trying to improvise some sort of show for like an
angry rodeo crowd. Because it's not clear kind of in

(05:06):
the background, it's it's quite dark. It's not clear if
there's anything there.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
I guess I can see one.

Speaker 6 (05:13):
I can see one woman in the crowd, but it's like, yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Oh yeah, absolutely there's woman there, and she appears to
be wearing a hat, which make you think maybe possibly
it's outdoors. It looks like it appears as though it's raining,
but you can't tell if that sand or if it's
like regular right.

Speaker 6 (05:31):
It looks like it looks a bit cold for a
day at the beach.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
But these guys with the sand in the hair suggests
that maybe this guy with his head in the sand
wasn't the first one to do.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
It, okay, so somebody else has had to try.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
It's amazing, you know, I really love six of this
five more of this yeah kind of vibe.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Or maybe the guy with the tape on his arse there,
maybe he's done it, he's got sand in his hair
and he's gone. That was the worst experience I've ever
had in my wife. But what I'll do is I'll
tell Gary it was great. I love it right, and
it won't be the only one who's been a.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Dickey halfway to China.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
The other thing that this reminds me of is, I
don't know if you ever had this as a as
a child and when you were doing sports contests as
a teen. This is kind of only when it happened,
and you have to kind of denote the two teams
a shirts versus skins suggestion would be made, which I
always felt was like people would frame it as if

(06:26):
it was such a casual thing.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
It's like, oh, should we just do shirts and skins?
Who's going to be shirts, who's gonna be skins?

Speaker 2 (06:31):
You'd be skins for sure.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
I'm not skinned. I don't want to make nipples out
like that was. The game had already started at that point.
I think it was like a psychological battle of who
was comfortable getting their rigaut basically and showing everyone the
nipples and potentially getting a melanoma.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Getting a melanoma, Yeah, from some casual sport outdoors.

Speaker 6 (06:48):
I didn't think about that being a roadblock that you
didn't want to be picked on.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Skin so comfortable with shirts and skins when you're a teen, Yeah,
I wasn't faced.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
You were unfazed by shirts of skins. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Oh do I want everyone see my nipples? Or do
I want to continue wearing the shirt that I chose
to wear today?

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (07:04):
I'm shirts, Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
But then if you say anything like that, all of
a sudden, you're a weirdo and they're going to pullby
target you and.

Speaker 5 (07:10):
They you were like automatically saying, I'll be team captain,
i'llby shirts.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
I would never never assume what captain? Are you sure?

Speaker 2 (07:19):
You seem like a leader of men.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
I'm the leader of little boys. I could lead a boy.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Hopefully that will be here to sit out. It probably
won't be.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
A boy to school to be educated. Chip that up.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Are you the sort of person that would use a
metal detector at the beach?

Speaker 4 (07:39):
Okay, first of all, fuck you. Second of all, I
mean I've.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Never had how did you know I've always wondered what
kind of a particular smell.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Smell like cheese and cracket.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
I'm not interested in finding anything, but I do like
the idea of listening to some heaps at the beach,
which is what it would be because they've got big
headphones and.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, so if you threw a whole lot of coins
in that, you can make it.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
I don't want coins because that would ruin the rhythm
of the dude. You know that's my that's my favorite song,
shut Off at the Beach.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
I'm wearing three.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Layers, a coat, a big trench coat, no pants, and
then I'm going to lead a boy.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
He's a He's an interesting question for these guys, right,
is it? Is this a Is this a sober event
or have they been drinking? Is this the sort of
thing you do when you've had a couple of drinks?

Speaker 4 (08:34):
We call this an event.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
I don't know. There seems to be some sort of are.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
We assuming we're assuming there's a crowd? Yeah, okay, I
think so. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
We can see I mean, Andrew pointed out that there's
one woman there.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
Yeah, I think a woman the professionals needed for this
kind of stunt means they must be sober, but I.

Speaker 5 (08:50):
Don't know if they're drinking. But if I was going
to be involved in this, I would need.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
A few beers, would be maybe there's like you just go, hey, guys,
I want to go and do some head bearing in
a sand contesting doors and go, okay, should we have
a few drinks before?

Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, we will definitely a few drinks and then we're
gonna bury Gary. Can I point out something here At
the top of the right hand side of the picture.
There there's a green light which looks like an exit
lin Oh true, Now that's good stuff. Yeah, good pick merriy, Wow,
well done you the hoist. That looks like an exit sign, which.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
Is what I was looking for when I got on
that riff about that boy.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
I wish i'd seen that sooner.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
It does feel like it's less competitive to me. Now
it feels like it's more performative. They're not they're not
competing against each other.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, this is absolutely there's no competitive aspect to this.
This looks like some sort of I was like contemporary dance.
I was going to say, the sand is what's throwing me.
In terms of contemporary dance, I associate with like a
very white floor clean and if it's all about the
body movement, this is kind of yeah, rodeo meets contemporary Andrew.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Where do you reckon this is from? If you had
to put this in, like just name a country, where
do you reckon? This is.

Speaker 6 (10:08):
Romania?

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Okay, European because some of these guys, like they do
give that kind of like recreationist kind of vibe. Like
if you said to them, any of you interested in
Viking folklore? I feel like you get a pretty warm
response from these guys. Particularly I made his breaking his neck.
He's like he's totally up for some odin. So that's
just to me, like it feels like maybe Nordic. Okay,

(10:31):
I don't know what's your what's.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
On this one? So hang on?

Speaker 3 (10:34):
So this I thought we were guessing, like what's going
on in the photo, but now it's becoming country took place.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
We can do that, we can do it. I mean,
you took at the boytown and we never asked for that.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
And I'm the guy with the atlas.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
I feel like Romania and extremely specific choice just because
I think I'm gonna go. I mean, I can't help
but look at the race of all the people. I
feel like we've got a redhead, we've got a guy
who could be of like Latino descent.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
I guess in the middle it feels European. No, if you're.

Speaker 6 (11:09):
Digging through the sand, I'm gonna go the.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
World to go America.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
I can't go back because of the rodeo aesthetic and
the multicultural background of the six gentlemen.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
I originally thought America, but then I was like, I
don't know, getting strong Viking vibes from some of those.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Guys that I mean, the guy in the right, the
redhead guy looks like he's had some sort of premonition
about an Odin lord.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
I agree, yeah, But no ship tattoos on any of them,
which is like a classic Viking fan. All right, gentlemen,
are we ready to find out the truth behind this picture?

Speaker 4 (11:39):
I'm ready.

Speaker 6 (11:40):
Yes, it's gotta be some kind of performing arts.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
I'm surely.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Did they guess it right?

Speaker 4 (11:46):
The reveal is coming up.

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Speaker 2 (11:54):
This is a scene from a dance theater production, Oh.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
It good stuff called Fallen.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Seventy tons of sand was hauled into the center of Berlin.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
Okay, that's closer to Scandinavia than Romania is yeah, and
Americans the country, thank you, I lose by thousands of kilometers.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Several thousand kilometers. It was dragged into the center of
Berlin to create a giant sandbox, which became the stage.
The show focused on themes of anger, powerlessness and longings
of young men. Oh is that's what it says? Yes, yeah,
I'm deadly serious young As I was reading. As I

(12:44):
was reading there, I was just going Cashman's dead.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
Let's just say.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
I don't know if you're familiar with the English language,
but a synonym for a young man is boy.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
The performers descend into attacks against each other. Apparently it
is quite brutal. There is no music in the show either,
just the huffing, puffing and grunting of the young men
in the sand.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
A really really shit play.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
And if you can see in the background there behind
above the right foot there there seems to be posted
that's actually an atlas which is on the wall there.
Stop it. So in conclusion, it is performative arts in
Berlin felt European, and they are all professionals and they're

(13:30):
acting out some horrific play that none of us are
ever going to go and say.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
Then the grunting is what got me the least interested.
No music, just no music and all grunting. It's like, yeah, okay,
we got it. That's the strip back masculinity. I've lived
a life.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
Of experiencing that enough to not be reminded.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Of the.

Speaker 6 (13:50):
Said it was called fallen.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Fallen?

Speaker 5 (13:52):
Yeah, okay, well, I mean Gary pretty much snailing that
one literally alert.

Speaker 6 (13:59):
I think it's no matter was a bit more abstract.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Please, yeah, I think we should actually stacling him gunto
as well. That was unfair. Okay, Tom Cashman, Andrew Hamilton,
thank you for helping me decipher this picture for Picture
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