July 29, 2024 • 16 mins
Why isn't this a sport at the Olympics? Alex and Tom attempt to figure out what is going on this picture.
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 boys dressed in opposing teen colors wrestle each
other against a brick wall. Another group dressed in their
Sunday best sit atop the wall. Amused by it all, Ken,
(00:21):
Tom Walker and Alex Ward tell us what is going on?
The answer at the end of the show. Now here's
your host Mark, What hi.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
There, and thanks for joining me for Picture Discuss, where
we discuss pictures that we found. If you'd like to
find these pictures, you can get them on our Instagram
handle or it's on your phone. Just have a look
at it. Have a look at that photo there. That's it.
That's one we're going to discuss. Alex Will Tom Walker,
Welcome to this episode of Picture Discussed. Tom, do you
want to start off by just briefly explaining what is
(00:52):
in front of us in this picture?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well, if I had to guess, it looks like just
an English private school visiting a public school. Honestly, this
is exactly how I picture the UK comedy scene.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
This is crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Got a brick wall, We got a bunch of two
warring groups, underneath looks like they're wearing some gorgeous stripes,
and up the top, we've got some men in formal wear,
I would say, young adults, you know, teenagers looking down
on them, dressed in their formal best. Actually kind of
looking like, I want to say, like choir boys.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Almost.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Yeah, it's a bit ale esque.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yes, not that.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Were they choir boys?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
No?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
No, but I understand.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Did you did you get to private school? Did you
get you went to private school?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
That you can guess that that's the one that porcelain? Yeah,
I know, my hands as soft as so much like
I've got an ineffable quality of the undeserved ruling class
about me, for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yes, that's what it was like.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Though well from the view from the bottom, so I
couldn't tell what they were doing up the top, but
I think they were probably looking down.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
How did you fit in with your peers in private school?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
It went okay. I was big.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I wasn't like one of the athletic bigs, but I
was big enough that I could kind of let all
the bully and kind of sail around underneath me. I
was very unathletic. I got out of rugby because when
I was in like when I was like sixteen, theater
sports got accidentally listed as an actual sport, and so.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I took advantage of that.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
So that got me out of rugby, where I was
in the tenths, which is like the lowest of the lows.
We I think we won one game in four years,
and so I just started doing like whose line is
it anyway games? Instead of getting pushed into the dirty
you're still blocking absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I mean, if there's anybody who can resource somebody to
be in the arts, it's people who can afford to
send their kids to the private schools, you know what
I mean? Like, it's what's more elite than being a comedian.
There's only a handful of us in the world, and
we're fucking good, aren't we?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Good?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Well, I pushed back, good. I don't know that we're good.
You know, we are America. We're all complete psychos.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
The doctors are You think that because the only people
you hang out with the comedians, you're not hanging out.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
With doctors is playing God. We just think, what would
you rather do?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Would you rather play God or the n more theater?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'd rather play God. I would rather play the more theater.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
You're insane.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
No, no doctor would say that. Only a doctor would
say you're insane.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I would love to be a pract school kid. No,
being a doctor is so much. You're a doctor. I'm
not a doctor.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I wish you are a surgeon. To look at yourself.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
No, I do, you could.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
We'll discust.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
I say I hate two comedians right now.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
It is right.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Specifically, Yeah, I'm going to guess which private school I
reckon you went to Crazy You went to Sydney.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Okay, so in Sydney I reckon you would have gone to.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Sure, that's right. But also did you say, yeah, you're
you're one hundred percent right? But also, I think I'm
coming across pretty well here in comparison to the guy
who knows a bunch of all boys schools off the
top of his.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
No, because all the schools that I could have gone
to if I wasn't a fucking yeah right, I didn't
get it. No, I could have gone to Mate.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
It just sat online looking at all the other schools
all day.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I could go to any of these schools. Mum, and
Mom's like, no, you can't go to any of those schools.
Let's go back to the picture for a second, Like
you said that there seems to be a some sort
of feel of class, Like I mean that that's scrumm
down the bottom. They're two teams, but I mean those
colors for starters, they're private school colors. Like you know,
you don't wear those in the public school. Those colors
got the bottom gun. Yeah, the guys in the bottom
(04:35):
and I'm clearly at the top. They just they look like.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Profit school uniforms, not pajamas.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Right, It's like something ren Fair esque. You know, it's
got the hair older colors of purple and orange on
the guys on the right, and you know, the burgundy
and white, I want to say, on the left, or
maroon and white. It looks like we're dealing with two
people from you know, two peoples from two neighboring villagers
fighting over a pig's bladder or whatever sport was before
it was good.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The thing that makes me feel like it's not rugby
is the gigantic wall that they seem to be smashing into.
It's not typical in the middle of a sporting field,
is it.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Well, I think it could be rugby union, given the
fact that it seems to be watched exclusively by upper
class people. But that's just that's just across the plate home.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Run in how they don't really do the scrum properly
anymore in rugby union, well not many people know that.
Before that, they used to just scrumb straight into a
brick wall, and they've slowly been easing out because it's
so dangerous.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, you expect intelligent people to realize that the best
form of playing field is one that doesn't have a
brick wall that you can smash into it.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yeah, you kind of want it mostly to be soft edges.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
It's really I'm feeling when I look at this pictures
really highlighting where I'm standing in the class spectrum, because
when I see a wall like that, I can't help
but be like, what a beautiful wall, Like I can't
really see anything else because I'm so inner city Melbourne
now that that wall is like my goal for my
entyle like living around Like, yeah, I saw that wall
and I was like, oh, I'd love to get married
in front of that wall.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I love.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
I really couldn't focus on. I was like, oh, imagine
a plant on that wall, or imagine oh my god,
I imagine me having a drink with my friends in
front of that wall, Like, I just love that wall.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
So if you had a courtyard at home and that
was a good yeah, just a couple of plants on
either side of that, I get rid of the obviously,
get rid of those dirty, filthy whatever players they are
in the middle there, and then that would be.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I'm part of the problem of gentrification. I've given up
on owning land, but I just want to own a wall,
own some brick. I just want to own a brick wall.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, you got to start brick by brick, you know,
kind of steadily build up your collection, and then steadily
they become something greater than the summer their past, and
we're going to get water your wall.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
I know you're joking, but I actually have so many
loose bricks at home. I have been collecting and I
wasn't even sure why, but then I know I want
this wall collect bridge. Yeah, because I was like, maybe
I'll put some bricks under my bird bath. But I
still haven't done it.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I know, I mean collecting bricks.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Are you walk?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
How do you collect a brick? Lay it out for
me now.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
I was walking down the street a couple of years
ago and there was free bricks, and I was like, well,
I'll take the bricks if they're just there, Like, how
good is there wall that they don't even need these bricks?
But the bricks were they like, no, some of them
are quite built up with cement around them too.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Some of them are ye, let me be cleaned. What
are we reckons underneath that scrum there? Because we can't
actually see them, but they're obviously fighting over something.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
One woman, Oh, Life's greatest treasure. I can't get enough
of those things.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
She just finished building the wall.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Whoever gets it gets to have a mum.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Perfect. So there's because they're really they're really at it
down there. There's something very very deep underneath those guys
that they're trying to get out. They're playing also to
as we said, like against a brick wall does feel
a bit remiss, not for any of the place, not
to ring in head gear.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
It looks like the kind of game you'd see played
at a very minimum security, white collar prison, like.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Which is essentially that's a private school. You're the security
prison is a private school.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
And sometimes you get people who leave the prison and
they go like, oh, I got to go back, man,
I'm not meant for the outside world.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
They become old boys.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
This guy's vainy arms, suss I reckon, there's no way
he's got a hand on that.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That's not that's not an arm, that's a what is
That's a dick.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
They don't make digs that big dick stop out of
like three four inches hard tops.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
I agree that is a He's.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Not touching the ball, he's touching something.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
He's getting in there to cause mischief.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, he's doing something un towards him there. But I
feel like, particularly with it the tough to gray here,
that he doesn't want to be doing this. When you
were kids, was there a sport that your parents made
you do that you didn't want to do.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
I think I was made to do Irish dancing, which
I think isn't isn't really who I am today. Mind you,
I was quite good at it. I was quite good,
but I annoy I quit, I should I reckon, I
could have gone, I could have gone big. I don't
know how much money you make as a professional Irish dancer.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I think it's in the negatives.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
But I don't think my mother was taking much in
of who I was as a person, getting me into dancing.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
No, No, she wasn't reading the room.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
No, she should have been like, well she's collecting a
bunch of bricks. Irish might just go straight to softball
with this one she's brought.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
She brought herself a bird bath and we live in
an apartment.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So is Irish dancing riverdance, hands at sides just footwork?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Or am I thinking.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
That's just footwork? I was like, really good at not
moving half my body.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
What I'd give to see it now?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I really because I do like to talk. I've started
sort of talking about on stage. But the fear I
have is someone like a Heckler's going to be do it.
So I feel like I need to, Like, then you
need to need.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
To You're really scared that you might accidentally have the
world's greatest closer.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Oh no, and everyone will watch and they'll love it.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Come on, my even better closer now will be playing
this after the dance.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Well that's merk Watson, I guess his son.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Tell what about you? Was there a sport that you
were forced to play as a kid or something, or
a recreation of miny current?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah, every single one. All I wanted to do was
be inside on computer. But I had to go outside.
I did like basketball rugby, and I was like tall
as a kid, but I'm so uncoordinated. I remember in basketball,
I once scored a basket for the opposing team. I
went out for a rebound.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Need you do that?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
I got it so wrong. I went up for a rebound.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
You downst off the court, and I like tipped it
with my fingers and I went back up and went
in our basket, and their side that You've never heard
a team cheer louder.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Everyone's confused.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
They had to stop down the game because the people
running the scoreboard were like, we don't know what to
write down to credit that this has never happened before.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I've never heard of that happening before.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Oh man, the trudge back to my side of the
court was so brutal.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
You're the only person in the world who's ever done that,
Like in the entire world of any level of basketball.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
It's experience.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, okay, you're sitting on top of the wall. What
type of heckels are you yelling down at this group
like you want to put one of these sides off.
I mean, these guys on the wall that don't seem
overly enthused. But they're British, I presume, so they're not
enthusing about anything other than having bad dental hygiene. So
what do we think that they are going to be
able to yell down to the guys at the bottom
(11:48):
there to put them off the game.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
It's high school, right, so it's pretty brutal.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
It's going to be pretty gruesome stuff being said if
you're getting heckled by a high schooler. High school is
still scare me to this day. Don't age out of
getting scared of, like still sixteen or seventeen year old
talking to you.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
If it's so cool. They're so cool.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Some on the tram the other day and I was like,
I actually caught myself being like what are they wearing?
I mean, like, I gotta go buy me some.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
It's weird. Though you don't age out of it.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I thought I would get to a point where I don't, like,
I'm not scared of, you know, a bunch of seventeen
year old see me and going ew or whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
But it doesn't change. Still still there because you can't
have it.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
They're so powerful. They lead the world though, they like
decide what like clothes and music is going to be in.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yeah, they're just they're when I'm in the nursing home,
They're going to be the ones pulling the plug out
and then putting it back in just to scare me.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Ha ha. You die for a few seconds. So how
to God for us? Oh you're back? Did you say it?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
By then it'll just be like clicking as well. It'll
be all like wireless. Thought is my hat? It's scary
and you're like, I don't understand the technology.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Of pulling the plug on, Grandma, You're just doing the clapper.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
All right. So if we're going to give this what
I presume is a unique sport a name, what would
you call this?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Tom Ah got to be? I mean, it looks like
a brodown to me.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Bro down, yeah down.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
It seems to be getting together with the boys, causing
some concussions and a great way to just get in
some off the books bullying.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Because I had war ball.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Warball's great.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, all right, what are you going to name for
the sport?
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Have you a little brick banter, brick bantam? Wait, I
said banter, which is worse brick banster? Sorry, no, brick banter,
warball and bro down.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Let's find out what this picture is.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
In fact, did they guess it right? The reveal is
coming right up. Did you like this picture discussion, Share
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older episodes.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
This photo depicts the school's borders surprise surprise, versus other students.
So that's like the super rich versus the not as
quite as rich, well in boarding school terms, that's like
you've got the life sentences versus the guys who are
getting out on Monday.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
And so the borders are looking to cause some damage
because they've got, you know, Mum and Dad.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Have shipped them off to not think that life.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, no matter what crime I commit, theyre still staying.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
It's like if you it's like, if you're wrong, a
guy who's never getting out, you've got to be really scared.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Yeah, because like the ones that you know do get out,
not the borders. They're like, I must do well to
tell my daddy, and the others are like, imagine how
hard you hit when you're like, my daddy doesn't talk
to me.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yeah, I can't actually get marked on my face because
I have a date with Samantha on Saturday, and the
border is just like I know where I am on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
It's at school. It's always at school. I'll die here
where my.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Parents don't ever have any love for me. The borders
versus other students at Eton College Eaten in England back
in two thousand and seven taking part in the annual
Wall game. It's actually just called wallgame. It's called wall game.
This is one of the school's longest running traditions, and
while the origin for the game has been lost, the
time the first every game recorded was in seventeen sixty six.
(15:14):
Holy shit, that's before Australia.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
We even know they had walls then it was the
first one. They didn't think of playing the game.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Before Prefirst Fleet. The aim of the game, here we go.
The aim of the game is to get a ball
to either end of the wall and score a goal,
which has not happened since nineteen oh nine.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Guys, I think we've got to stop playing the game.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
That's ninety eight years with no decide, ninety eight years
in the position, those.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
That goes for ninety minutes.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Those on top of the wall, they're just spectators. That's
why they're all just up and they're eating cloaks. Famous
pass players of the war game include Prince, Harry, Boris
Johnson and George Orwell DEVI all play this game and
we wonder what's wrong with the UK. I think we've
got an answer to that now. I'm gonna let everybody
go now so they can collect some bricks. Alex Ward,
(16:07):
Tom Walker, thank you very much for being part of
this Picture Discuss.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Thanks Marek, thanks for having.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Us, Thanks very much to my guests, and thank you
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There's one picture with no context and two comedians with
no clue. This is Picture Discuss. In this episode, a
group of boys dressed in opposing teen colors wrestle each
other against a brick wall. Another group dressed in their
Sunday best sit atop the wall. Amused by it all, Ken,
(00:21):
Tom Walker and Alex Ward tell us what is going on?
The answer at the end of the show. Now here's
your host Mark, What hi.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
There, and thanks for joining me for Picture Discuss, where
we discuss pictures that we found. If you'd like to
find these pictures, you can get them on our Instagram
handle or it's on your phone. Just have a look
at it. Have a look at that photo there. That's it.
That's one we're going to discuss. Alex Will Tom Walker,
Welcome to this episode of Picture Discussed. Tom, do you
want to start off by just briefly explaining what is
(00:52):
in front of us in this picture?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well, if I had to guess, it looks like just
an English private school visiting a public school. Honestly, this
is exactly how I picture the UK comedy scene.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
This is crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Got a brick wall, We got a bunch of two
warring groups, underneath looks like they're wearing some gorgeous stripes,
and up the top, we've got some men in formal wear,
I would say, young adults, you know, teenagers looking down
on them, dressed in their formal best. Actually kind of
looking like, I want to say, like choir boys.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Almost.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Yeah, it's a bit ale esque.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yes, not that.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Were they choir boys?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
No?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
No, but I understand.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Did you did you get to private school? Did you
get you went to private school?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
That you can guess that that's the one that porcelain? Yeah,
I know, my hands as soft as so much like
I've got an ineffable quality of the undeserved ruling class
about me, for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yes, that's what it was like.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Though well from the view from the bottom, so I
couldn't tell what they were doing up the top, but
I think they were probably looking down.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
How did you fit in with your peers in private school?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
It went okay. I was big.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I wasn't like one of the athletic bigs, but I
was big enough that I could kind of let all
the bully and kind of sail around underneath me. I
was very unathletic. I got out of rugby because when
I was in like when I was like sixteen, theater
sports got accidentally listed as an actual sport, and so.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I took advantage of that.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
So that got me out of rugby, where I was
in the tenths, which is like the lowest of the lows.
We I think we won one game in four years,
and so I just started doing like whose line is
it anyway games? Instead of getting pushed into the dirty
you're still blocking absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I mean, if there's anybody who can resource somebody to
be in the arts, it's people who can afford to
send their kids to the private schools, you know what
I mean? Like, it's what's more elite than being a comedian.
There's only a handful of us in the world, and
we're fucking good, aren't we?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Good?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Well, I pushed back, good. I don't know that we're good.
You know, we are America. We're all complete psychos.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
The doctors are You think that because the only people
you hang out with the comedians, you're not hanging out.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
With doctors is playing God. We just think, what would
you rather do?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Would you rather play God or the n more theater?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'd rather play God. I would rather play the more theater.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
You're insane.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
No, no doctor would say that. Only a doctor would
say you're insane.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I would love to be a pract school kid. No,
being a doctor is so much. You're a doctor. I'm
not a doctor.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I wish you are a surgeon. To look at yourself.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
No, I do, you could.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
We'll discust.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
I say I hate two comedians right now.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
It is right.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Specifically, Yeah, I'm going to guess which private school I
reckon you went to Crazy You went to Sydney.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Okay, so in Sydney I reckon you would have gone to.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Sure, that's right. But also did you say, yeah, you're
you're one hundred percent right? But also, I think I'm
coming across pretty well here in comparison to the guy
who knows a bunch of all boys schools off the
top of his.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
No, because all the schools that I could have gone
to if I wasn't a fucking yeah right, I didn't
get it. No, I could have gone to Mate.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
It just sat online looking at all the other schools
all day.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I could go to any of these schools. Mum, and
Mom's like, no, you can't go to any of those schools.
Let's go back to the picture for a second, Like
you said that there seems to be a some sort
of feel of class, Like I mean that that's scrumm
down the bottom. They're two teams, but I mean those
colors for starters, they're private school colors. Like you know,
you don't wear those in the public school. Those colors
got the bottom gun. Yeah, the guys in the bottom
(04:35):
and I'm clearly at the top. They just they look like.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Profit school uniforms, not pajamas.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Right, It's like something ren Fair esque. You know, it's
got the hair older colors of purple and orange on
the guys on the right, and you know, the burgundy
and white, I want to say, on the left, or
maroon and white. It looks like we're dealing with two
people from you know, two peoples from two neighboring villagers
fighting over a pig's bladder or whatever sport was before
it was good.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The thing that makes me feel like it's not rugby
is the gigantic wall that they seem to be smashing into.
It's not typical in the middle of a sporting field,
is it.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Well, I think it could be rugby union, given the
fact that it seems to be watched exclusively by upper
class people. But that's just that's just across the plate home.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Run in how they don't really do the scrum properly
anymore in rugby union, well not many people know that.
Before that, they used to just scrumb straight into a
brick wall, and they've slowly been easing out because it's
so dangerous.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, you expect intelligent people to realize that the best
form of playing field is one that doesn't have a
brick wall that you can smash into it.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yeah, you kind of want it mostly to be soft edges.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
It's really I'm feeling when I look at this pictures
really highlighting where I'm standing in the class spectrum, because
when I see a wall like that, I can't help
but be like, what a beautiful wall, Like I can't
really see anything else because I'm so inner city Melbourne
now that that wall is like my goal for my
entyle like living around Like, yeah, I saw that wall
and I was like, oh, I'd love to get married
in front of that wall.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I love.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
I really couldn't focus on. I was like, oh, imagine
a plant on that wall, or imagine oh my god,
I imagine me having a drink with my friends in
front of that wall, Like, I just love that wall.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
So if you had a courtyard at home and that
was a good yeah, just a couple of plants on
either side of that, I get rid of the obviously,
get rid of those dirty, filthy whatever players they are
in the middle there, and then that would be.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I'm part of the problem of gentrification. I've given up
on owning land, but I just want to own a wall,
own some brick. I just want to own a brick wall.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, you got to start brick by brick, you know,
kind of steadily build up your collection, and then steadily
they become something greater than the summer their past, and
we're going to get water your wall.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
I know you're joking, but I actually have so many
loose bricks at home. I have been collecting and I
wasn't even sure why, but then I know I want
this wall collect bridge. Yeah, because I was like, maybe
I'll put some bricks under my bird bath. But I
still haven't done it.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I know, I mean collecting bricks.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Are you walk?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
How do you collect a brick? Lay it out for
me now.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
I was walking down the street a couple of years
ago and there was free bricks, and I was like, well,
I'll take the bricks if they're just there, Like, how
good is there wall that they don't even need these bricks?
But the bricks were they like, no, some of them
are quite built up with cement around them too.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Some of them are ye, let me be cleaned. What
are we reckons underneath that scrum there? Because we can't
actually see them, but they're obviously fighting over something.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
One woman, Oh, Life's greatest treasure. I can't get enough
of those things.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
She just finished building the wall.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Whoever gets it gets to have a mum.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Perfect. So there's because they're really they're really at it
down there. There's something very very deep underneath those guys
that they're trying to get out. They're playing also to
as we said, like against a brick wall does feel
a bit remiss, not for any of the place, not
to ring in head gear.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
It looks like the kind of game you'd see played
at a very minimum security, white collar prison, like.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Which is essentially that's a private school. You're the security
prison is a private school.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
And sometimes you get people who leave the prison and
they go like, oh, I got to go back, man,
I'm not meant for the outside world.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
They become old boys.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
This guy's vainy arms, suss I reckon, there's no way
he's got a hand on that.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That's not that's not an arm, that's a what is
That's a dick.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
They don't make digs that big dick stop out of
like three four inches hard tops.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
I agree that is a He's.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Not touching the ball, he's touching something.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
He's getting in there to cause mischief.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, he's doing something un towards him there. But I
feel like, particularly with it the tough to gray here,
that he doesn't want to be doing this. When you
were kids, was there a sport that your parents made
you do that you didn't want to do.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
I think I was made to do Irish dancing, which
I think isn't isn't really who I am today. Mind you,
I was quite good at it. I was quite good,
but I annoy I quit, I should I reckon, I
could have gone, I could have gone big. I don't
know how much money you make as a professional Irish dancer.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I think it's in the negatives.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
But I don't think my mother was taking much in
of who I was as a person, getting me into dancing.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
No, No, she wasn't reading the room.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
No, she should have been like, well she's collecting a
bunch of bricks. Irish might just go straight to softball
with this one she's brought.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
She brought herself a bird bath and we live in
an apartment.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So is Irish dancing riverdance, hands at sides just footwork?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Or am I thinking.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
That's just footwork? I was like, really good at not
moving half my body.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
What I'd give to see it now?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I really because I do like to talk. I've started
sort of talking about on stage. But the fear I
have is someone like a Heckler's going to be do it.
So I feel like I need to, Like, then you
need to need.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
To You're really scared that you might accidentally have the
world's greatest closer.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Oh no, and everyone will watch and they'll love it.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Come on, my even better closer now will be playing
this after the dance.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Well that's merk Watson, I guess his son.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Tell what about you? Was there a sport that you
were forced to play as a kid or something, or
a recreation of miny current?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah, every single one. All I wanted to do was
be inside on computer. But I had to go outside.
I did like basketball rugby, and I was like tall
as a kid, but I'm so uncoordinated. I remember in basketball,
I once scored a basket for the opposing team. I
went out for a rebound.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Need you do that?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
I got it so wrong. I went up for a rebound.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
You downst off the court, and I like tipped it
with my fingers and I went back up and went
in our basket, and their side that You've never heard
a team cheer louder.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Everyone's confused.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
They had to stop down the game because the people
running the scoreboard were like, we don't know what to
write down to credit that this has never happened before.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I've never heard of that happening before.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Oh man, the trudge back to my side of the
court was so brutal.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
You're the only person in the world who's ever done that,
Like in the entire world of any level of basketball.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
It's experience.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, okay, you're sitting on top of the wall. What
type of heckels are you yelling down at this group
like you want to put one of these sides off.
I mean, these guys on the wall that don't seem
overly enthused. But they're British, I presume, so they're not
enthusing about anything other than having bad dental hygiene. So
what do we think that they are going to be
able to yell down to the guys at the bottom
(11:48):
there to put them off the game.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
It's high school, right, so it's pretty brutal.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
It's going to be pretty gruesome stuff being said if
you're getting heckled by a high schooler. High school is
still scare me to this day. Don't age out of
getting scared of, like still sixteen or seventeen year old
talking to you.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
If it's so cool. They're so cool.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Some on the tram the other day and I was like,
I actually caught myself being like what are they wearing?
I mean, like, I gotta go buy me some.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
It's weird. Though you don't age out of it.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I thought I would get to a point where I don't, like,
I'm not scared of, you know, a bunch of seventeen
year old see me and going ew or whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
But it doesn't change. Still still there because you can't
have it.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
They're so powerful. They lead the world though, they like
decide what like clothes and music is going to be in.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yeah, they're just they're when I'm in the nursing home,
They're going to be the ones pulling the plug out
and then putting it back in just to scare me.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Ha ha. You die for a few seconds. So how
to God for us? Oh you're back? Did you say it?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
By then it'll just be like clicking as well. It'll
be all like wireless. Thought is my hat? It's scary
and you're like, I don't understand the technology.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Of pulling the plug on, Grandma, You're just doing the clapper.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
All right. So if we're going to give this what
I presume is a unique sport a name, what would
you call this?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Tom Ah got to be? I mean, it looks like
a brodown to me.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Bro down, yeah down.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
It seems to be getting together with the boys, causing
some concussions and a great way to just get in
some off the books bullying.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Because I had war ball.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Warball's great.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, all right, what are you going to name for
the sport?
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Have you a little brick banter, brick bantam? Wait, I
said banter, which is worse brick banster? Sorry, no, brick banter,
warball and bro down.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Let's find out what this picture is.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
In fact, did they guess it right? The reveal is
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Speaker 2 (13:58):
This photo depicts the school's borders surprise surprise, versus other students.
So that's like the super rich versus the not as
quite as rich, well in boarding school terms, that's like
you've got the life sentences versus the guys who are
getting out on Monday.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
And so the borders are looking to cause some damage
because they've got, you know, Mum and Dad.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Have shipped them off to not think that life.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, no matter what crime I commit, theyre still staying.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
It's like if you it's like, if you're wrong, a
guy who's never getting out, you've got to be really scared.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Yeah, because like the ones that you know do get out,
not the borders. They're like, I must do well to
tell my daddy, and the others are like, imagine how
hard you hit when you're like, my daddy doesn't talk
to me.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yeah, I can't actually get marked on my face because
I have a date with Samantha on Saturday, and the
border is just like I know where I am on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
It's at school. It's always at school. I'll die here
where my.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Parents don't ever have any love for me. The borders
versus other students at Eton College Eaten in England back
in two thousand and seven taking part in the annual
Wall game. It's actually just called wallgame. It's called wall game.
This is one of the school's longest running traditions, and
while the origin for the game has been lost, the
time the first every game recorded was in seventeen sixty six.
(15:14):
Holy shit, that's before Australia.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
We even know they had walls then it was the
first one. They didn't think of playing the game.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Before Prefirst Fleet. The aim of the game, here we go.
The aim of the game is to get a ball
to either end of the wall and score a goal,
which has not happened since nineteen oh nine.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Guys, I think we've got to stop playing the game.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
That's ninety eight years with no decide, ninety eight years
in the position, those.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
That goes for ninety minutes.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Those on top of the wall, they're just spectators. That's
why they're all just up and they're eating cloaks. Famous
pass players of the war game include Prince, Harry, Boris
Johnson and George Orwell DEVI all play this game and
we wonder what's wrong with the UK. I think we've
got an answer to that now. I'm gonna let everybody
go now so they can collect some bricks. Alex Ward,
(16:07):
Tom Walker, thank you very much for being part of
this Picture Discuss.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Thanks Marek, thanks for having.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Us, Thanks very much to my guests, and thank you
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