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October 7, 2024 12 mins

Is this karate? Is this Yoga? Tom Ballard and Lizzy Hoo will have to figure it 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. An
older man karate chops a watermelon sitting atop a woman's stomach.
You really need to see this picture yourself to understand it.
Will Lizzie Who and Tom Ballard be able to tell
us what is happening? Stick around and find out at

(00:24):
the end of the show. Now here's your host, Merrik what.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Thanks for joining me for Picture discuss. If you want
to see the picture that we're going to be talking about,
it's on your phone. I look at that photo there.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
That's one we're going to discuss. Or you can also
find them in the links on the show notes. I'm
joined by Tom Ballab and Lizzie Who. Tom just very
quickly describe what's going on in this picture.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
We have a woman bent over backwards, like as all
women are.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Am I right? Lizzie's sisters, do you hear me? How
I live my life? She's bent over backwards.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
There is a man chopping a watermelon in half on
her stomach. If they've described that, probably there are quite
a few watermelons on the ground. He's clearly done a
few of these. It's some kind of martial arts demonstration,
chopping the watermelon in half on the stomach of a
woman who has bent over backwards.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
We've got to assume that he's over forty.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, I think that's a really safe assumption.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, yeah, I think absolutely.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
You're in a really safe territory there.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
He's a hot zone of being a boomer. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
He looks like a bit of a Kerry.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
What's his face, Kerry Brian, Yeah, a little bit Peter
Peter Beatty.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Do they have a child together?

Speaker 3 (01:34):
I think so. He also looks as red as the
inside of the watermelon. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, he's putting, He's dirting an enormous amount of effort there.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Just what straight sex is like?

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Is this like this is isn't it?

Speaker 5 (01:47):
Watermelon to the stomach?

Speaker 3 (01:49):
That's what sick? I think. I think it's against God.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, that's pretty standard. I'd reckon. I mean, I think
he's in slightly the wrong position, but she's absolutely spot
on that standard. That's what we call missionary. I don't
know how your people do it to standard missionary persition.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Whatever you want to do with the privacy your own
home is fine, But okay.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
So listen. Did the woman say, I've always dreamt of
being a watermelon table, but this is truly a very
special day for me because it's it doesn't I mean,
she's obviously cooperative in this, you reckon, because she's she's
taken a few watermelons to the abdomen there. Yeah, why
would any woman think that this was a good idea?

Speaker 5 (02:29):
I actually think this is an ABS test. Oh yeah,
I don't think it's martial arts. I think it's ABS
test and they're testing to see who has the strongest ass.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
It's got to be a better way. There's got to
be a better way.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
Well, it's nicer than punching someone directly in the stomach,
That's true. You can't get away with that.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
It's look. I mean, I presume, and I'm probably going
to be correcting this. It feels like it's somewhere overseas.
It feels like it's in Europe, in Hamburg.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
So I think it's Hamburg.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
I just said Hamburg.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
It's work, hand and work. It's like Hamburg featuring work
or something.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, Hamburg, Hamburg featuring craft work. They're playing the music to.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
The dot d yes right again, which is what the Netherlands.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Okay, so we're getting closer. There were starting to feel
a though it's in Europe. I mean, we already guessed
that from for so many reasons. Number one. Number one,
that guy, we've already had a bit of a description
of his face. But he does look to me like
he could have been a scientist that may have had
to appear in a wartimes crub unal, a war crimes tribunal.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
Or like a doping Yeah, yeah, yeah, doping coach.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
Coach, Yes, what you're talking about. I'm naturally skilled chub
wavelens in half. That's my natural training. And I didn't
move to Argentina and I did forty six. I'm a
normal man. I mean, yes, So well, are you get
the presson in some kind of martial arts vibe or.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Is it gymnastics? Is it one of one or the other?
Which one, because it looks like it's part of both.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
I feel like the focus has to be on the
man cutting the watermelon in half with his hands.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
That isn't that.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
Insanely hard to do it?

Speaker 2 (04:15):
It was really hard to do.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
I mean, obviously, I don't want to take anything away
from this woman's efforts with holding all that benjover backwards
is hard enough.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
But then withstanding the impact of that.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Multiple times as well, damn multiple partners.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
Do you think they're a team. I reckon they're a duo.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Father daughter, other daughter, daddy daughter, bring your daughter to workday,
splash water.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Or maybe capta hostage as a relationship we're looking for there.
I don't know, he's just he's just giving off a
fairly creepy vibe. The guy on the left, let's discuss
what he's wearing, because he he looks like he is
a martial arts expert or he's got because that tracks
had just screamed European martial arts expert very much to

(04:58):
his name's eagle.

Speaker 5 (05:00):
I love that tracks, right, I want that good track.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
So I just think that he's not watching either, Like
a man is chopping a watermelon in half of a
lady's stomach, and this guy's like, yeah, whatever, what's going
on over here?

Speaker 5 (05:12):
Unless it's happening all around? Really there's like ten.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Group efforts, yes, oh yeah, it could be like part
of a larger exhibition. You're here, Tom, have you ever
done martial lights? I just presume you're an expert in
a black belt in several forms. Oh that was never.
I didn't even see you coming. I did not even
see you coming. It's so many.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Brass.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
Yes, I did taekwondo, actually taekwondo, and I did.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
What Moonley taekwondo moon Lee taekwondo, that is, it's a
brandwran taekwond taekwondo.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Oh, I just did the regular kind, the white kind.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
And what what belt?

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Just a vanilla taekwondo for ethingggs?

Speaker 2 (05:53):
What's what stunning belt did you get to?

Speaker 3 (05:55):
I try to remember now.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
I think I got to Bluebell with two or three
stripes as well.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
I mean, whether that's.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Reflection of my skill or my dedication with my parents
paying the fees or whatever.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Your parents make you do it, tom No, I was with.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
You know what, I this is truly embarrassing. But because
when I was when I was a kid, I loved.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
Like Zorro and the Three Musketeers, and I asked my parents,
can I do fencing?

Speaker 3 (06:25):
And you'll never believe it, but it was.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
There were no fencing lessons in water Ball and Victoria.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
It was, but it was actually for agricultural purposes.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
So you want to do fencing, do you?

Speaker 2 (06:38):
All right?

Speaker 3 (06:38):
I'll fix up these panics.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
No, I want to be in sixteenth century. Friends, I
want you to call me.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
Because I did fancy Catholic school. No, at the Camp
Hills School of Art. Shit, it was like maybe five
hundred meters from my house. I did most sports five
hundred meters from my house because Mum was into that.
She's like, yeah, you can walk there, that's great where
you walk. Yeah, but my dad fenced, really ie fence.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
We still have all the stuff, the foils. Yeah, it was.
It was such a fun time.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Was the greatest thing you've ever done. The tom has
the greatest thing.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
I've ever done. It was all electronics. So whenever you
hit someone, it'll be like and stuff.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
So what do you wear like a chess play some
of that?

Speaker 5 (07:33):
Yeah, like I sort of well, it was like a
pillows sort of thing for kids. You just dot a
pillow and then the helmet. Yeah, it was unreal. I
did Taekwonda, but just like to yellow belt, I wasn't
as as good as.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
I didn't look at really yeah, but I only got
to second black belt, oh State champion when I.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Was God, no, I know where you picked this just
to get.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Fit? It's me, It's not egor it's me. It was
a way to get me into this.

Speaker 5 (08:11):
I'd love to see you guys fight.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
No, no, you always must be ready in a constansatle letters.
I'm sorry the producer, I just destroy this is This
appears to be a sponsored event as well. It appears
to be some sort of gashy and something clonen Bergen.

(08:35):
Who's who's sponsoring a martial arts demonstration where you split
open watermelons?

Speaker 5 (08:41):
Well it looks like a house over that ampersand there,
so it's some sort of development property development, right, we
can build houses as strong as this guy.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
Maybe like a supermarket chain who's like he's allowed bad,
bad product.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
You won't get these bad watermelons exact.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
We're chopping prices in half.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Oh yeah, that's good. That's a lot better, beautiful.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
Do we think this would be insensitive in the context
of a cost of living crisis when people can barely
afford groceries, that someone's just cutting watermelons at half for.

Speaker 5 (09:20):
Entertainment, That didn't even cross my mind.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
I guess I'm in touch with the people.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
You're in touch with the millennials, Yeah, I saw ol
the people. We're just like, yeah, those watermelons were just
draw down the mortgage and by a midian, whereas millennials
look at that and they just go, look at all
that amazing watermelon. It's gone to waste that we could
have put into some sort of punch with some cheap
vodka could have been the drain there.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
What I can't get over is her side boob.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, that's pretty pretty impressive there.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
Yeah, it's almost.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Is that muscular or is that I think it's ree basking.

Speaker 5 (10:00):
That book it's tissue.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
Definitely would be more impressive that as he hits the
watermelon slices in half, the boobs pop out at the
same time.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
Yeah, no, no, Yeah, it's going to say.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
I don't know if I want to comment on that,
because it might come back to buy me in the message.
You'd be better for a boob fell out. We didn't
kind of. You guys can get away with it. It's
harder for me.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
All right.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
So we've got an old guy chopping a watermelon and
a half using some sort of martial arts chop on
a woman bent over and bridge position. Great flexibility and
endurance from her. Yeah, do we want to know where
this picture actually comes from?

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Did they guess it right, The reveal is coming right up.
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Speaker 2 (10:52):
Oh my god, you're not gonna believe this. This is awesome.
Hamburg whoa I was right. March twenty twenty three, Mohammed
kar marchand oh boy, Kara Mannikov Boy Karamanovitch, Karamanovitch, Muhammed
Karamanovitch set a world record by using his hand to
smash sixteen watermelons on Lukretzia Albanese's stomach.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
So up until that point, people had only managed to
get to fifteen watermelons. He broke it with sixteen, so
obviously not a lot of people. They're taking on watermelon
chopping as a professional sport. And there's a video of
him smashing eighty seven watermelons in a minute. Jesus Christ,
that's what he does, only watermelons. He's very specific, martial less. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
And her surname is Albanese.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah wow, yeah, I know right, I mean, yeah, she's Albanese,
Lucrezia Albanzi, I'm saying Italian, and Muhammad is from somewhere
in the world. And that was only just last year
that they did that, So I don't know how we
missed this in the new That is a wonderful place,

(12:03):
all right, Okay, well, now that we're wrapped up the
pension of the chopping listen who Tom Bella, thank you
very much for being on the Picture to Discuss.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Thanks than.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
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