Two In The Think Tank - The Egg Throwing Incident - Do Go On Mini

Episode Date: June 21, 2020

In 2019, seventeen year old Will Connolly made world wide news when he egged right wing senator Fraser Anning. This young crusader was dubbed ‘Egg Boy.’ But he wasn’t the original egg boy... Over 100 years earlier, Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes was egged, and all hell broke loose. This is the 1917 Egg Throwing Incident.This is the podcast version of episode four of our new web series that we made with Stupid Old Studios. You can watch the video of the episode complete with animations, props and lots and lots of regret face right now on The Stupid Old Channel YouTube page (link below).Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EBFJIz2_WWcOur website: dogoonpod.comSupport the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-Topic Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hey team, it's Dave, Matt and Jess here just dropping into your feed to tell you what you're about to hear. There's a little audio version of our web series that we've been working on and putting out on the stupid old channel. Yeah, we've got how many episodes out now? A few. This is number four. Of nine. Whoa. A number I, you know, still feel uncomfortable with, but that's okay. We told you just we're happy for you to do an extra report. And I said you go fuck yourself. I will not do any more work. So we agreed on nine. So three eight. But they're over at the stupid old channel. And they're a lot of fun, but we thought we would chuck in the audio

of last week's episode to, you know, wet your whistle. Yes, wet the whistle of your ears. But if you're a wet-willy. If you're a wet-willy. If you're a wet-willy. Because it totally works as a podcast, but if you wanna see it in full, high definition.

Yeah, it was an amazing set. We've got animations. I put makeup on the boys, I put makeup on the boys. I don't want to give away too much, but this is the egg throwing incident. So there's a lot of eggs in this episode. Yes. A lot of egg animation. Yeah.

So there's so much to look forward to. If you want to watch it, all this into it, there's a link in the description of this episode that you can easily click if you want to watch the video of it. But apart from that, enjoy this. The 1917 Egg Throwing Incident. In 2019, 17-year-old Will Connolly made worldwide news when he egged a senator. Australia and the media dubbed this young crusader, egg boy. But did you know that he wasn't the original egg boy? In many ways, he was the second coming. This is the story of the 1917 egg throwing incident.

Hello and welcome. My name is Dave Warnke and I'm sitting here in a lovely library with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Hello. Did you notice that you said coming in either of us laugh? That was, that showed a lot of restraint and personal growth from us. Well, what they didn't know was that was my 17th take. My laughter, every kill. Shut up.

I mean professionalism. That's what we're all about here. Where are you look at this? Fake lobby, I mean real lobby. Real lobby. Real lobby, real plant. Yep. Real face.

Real horse, this is a real horse. Don't look below, but there's a full horse body under there Oh, we're here to talk about some egg incidents here today. How do you feel about eggs? Very negatively I thought that might be the case. Yeah, I don't like eggs. Yeah, I I want to be better and not eat them, but Parched was a bit of a card on veg and might on toast. I tell you a lot. That's starting your morning right. But also, you know, the vegans out there doing great work. That's great. I want to be better and eat more eggs because I think that this is a great breakfast. A lot of them. If people want to throw eggs at me, if they're cooked and on a plate and not thrown,

I would accept those. So if people want to serve eggs to you. Yes, please, that is what I'm saying. Okay, sure that makes sense. Well, we're here to talk about the two egg throwing incidents. Just in case people are familiar, egg boy was the name given to 17-year-old Will Connolly. I'm sure you remember this was a big news in Australia. Oh, yeah. In March 2019, the legend of egg boy was born when he egged Queensland Senator Fraser Anning. Whilst Anning was speaking at a political meeting in Melbourne.

So the whole thing was called on film, so let's take a look at it. There's Anning there. We've got an egg and then the copped one in the face from a senator, punching a 17-year-old. Yeah. Natural reaction. Hitting a kid. Oreg and the first one is instinct. Tricon?

Yeah, Oreg and someone just hit you in the head. You don't know what, it's an egg or what. I reckon, oh, I'm not gonna start defending him. All right. Yeah, you go, you're dangerous. I forgot who we talk about. Well, the reason you won't start defending is, I've got here, now you don't know who phrase

the ranting is, which some of our overseas watches may not know, frankly, you don't want to know. Oh. He wasn't and still isn't very popular in our country. He was our anti-immigration, anti-Muslim and supported the extreme right. And you might be wondering, who would vote for a guy like that? Well, he received just 19 below the line first preference votes. So just 19 people singled in him out and voted for him.

But he got into the Senate when another right-wing climate changed an eye at Malcolm Roberts. Oh, Senate's weird. He got kicked out for not being an Australian citizen. Right. So who stepped up at the party? I was the Andy immigration. Because I got kicked in for nothing in the show. Look, I just want to say.

I can come here. Yeah. But others cannot. Please. I think this all proves our system works anyway. Yeah. Well, let me tell you more about why Fraser Anning was egged. There is a method possibly to the madness. Fraser Anning made headlines when just moments after the Christchurch Mosque shootings in New Zealand, in which 51 people were

callously murdered by an Australian man, Fraser Anning tweeted, quote, does anyone still dispute the link between Muslim immigration and violence? End quote. He let it double down on this stance and said, quote, the real cause of bloodshed on New Zealand streets today is the immigration program, which allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate to New Zealand in the first place.

End quote. So there he is blaming the victims of the shooting. And people from all sides of politics rightly condemned his horrible comments. It's hard to follow the logic. So people came out and said they're horrible comments but only one man or boy took matters into his own hands and eggdanting a couple of days after the comments and this video went viral and egg boy became a sensation. His face was plastered on t-shirts, he was interviewed on

national TV, he graced magazine covers around the country and he even got made into an action figure. He also went to Splendor in the grass and was interviewed at the forum there. So I mean you know you know you know you get to meet him. Did you get to meet him? Yeah. You met Eggboy. Actually I saw him in the tent backstage I didn't want to hassle him. Right, I got none of this. You met Egg Boy. Actually, I saw him in the tent backstage. I didn't wanna hassle him. Right, I got none of this. I got none of this. Can you show my egg?

Woo! It was a big deal for a while, wasn't it? Yes. Huge deal. I think you gotta have a half a million Instagram followers, almost instantly. He was big deal. He's not any other sort of egg incident since. I'm waiting for the Egg Boy rap remix.

Egg, egg, egg, egg, egg. He's on talk shows, egging hosts, Conan is like, come on, that's the word. Do the thing. Well, no. A GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign was started to cover his legal costs and raised almost $100,000 Australian dollars, which egg boy donated to the survivors

of the cross church terrorist attack. $100,000, what is that in today's money? With inflation it is almost a hundred. This was about, it was something like $300 off a hundred thousand, which would have really upset you. It was so close. It's been anything you should have made that for a hundred donations. I didn't know.

To get in Bangalore. I can't go back in time and make a donation, Dave. Can't you? Can I? Evan, do you know how time travel works? Can I go back in time and make a donation? Evan? Evan, do you know how time travel works? Can I go back and make a donation? Evan? Evan's left.

You sick of that dumb question. Egg Boyd denied being affiliated with any groups or political organisations and said that he was just pro-humanity. Yeah. I also assume pro-eggs. Well I assume, well I don't know, he wasted an egg. Yes. Maybe he's not.

Anti-egg. It's like you. His mum, I think I remember his mum, sort of saying like, obviously I don't know, he wasted an egg. Yes. Maybe he's not. Antioge. Yeah. It's like he. His mum, I think I remember his mum, sort of saying like, obviously, I don't think he should have egged him, but also pretty proud that he stood up for what he believed in. And I was like, yeah, egg boy mum. Sit on that fence. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, well, I think egg boy also came out and said that he admitted that what he did was wrong. Right. He's interviewed on the project. Yeah. All right. But still, I mean, a lot of, there was big debate as well. came out and said that he admitted that what he did was wrong right to be done the project all right but still i mean a lot of it was big debate as well people coming out here very heated the social media some people large following saying that he was a hero other people coming out

saying that i don't care what phrase running said you can't get scarring edging people i like when those debates happen because i i'm easily swayed i'm like of yeah, of course you should have egged that guy and I'll read another thing like, hmm, but maybe he should definitely not have egged that guy. Now hang on a second, what this other guy says means, yes, he should have egged that man. So, the last opinion you've read is what you usually go with. The last one I heard is egg was mom sitting on the fence now i'm under side of the

uh... in the end eggboy and a phrase ranting both avoided charges but eggboy did receive an official caution you'd be pleased to know that a couple of months after the egging phrase and in lost his seat so thankfully he's no longer a senator another weirder took him his yeah dozens of we've ready to go. Ready to go.

Waiting in the wings. I've got a replacement right wing host ready to step up at any time. Anytime. It's right, they're running. Hello, Fraser. Nope. All right. We're not on a...

He doesn't have a like on it. Not on our first name term, so I should have called him Mr. Ranting. Yeah. So sorry. But, Connolly wasn't the original Aussie egg boy. Over 100 years earlier, two young men egged then Prime Minister, Billy Hughes. Billy Hughes.

Billy Hughes. Do you know much about Billy? No. Yeah, Billy the Wild Dog Hughes. He is a wild dog. Honestly, he's a wild dog. He's a wild dog. He's a wild dog.

Literally. He's a dog. I didn't know. We had a dog prime minister. I didn't know. We had a dog. It didn't go. You've got to carry this machine, all eyes, or whoops. Well, whoops.

All right. Mr. Prime Minister. He would have, if he was around today, he would probably would have been ready to step up in a phrasey at Bannon's seat. He was that kind of weirdo. He allegedly. Relatively.

Well, he's dead. We can talk about him like that. Billy Hughes is a bit of ao? He allegedly. Relatively. Well, he's dead. We can talk about him like that. Billy Hughes is a bit of a political legend in Australia, holding the record for being the longest-serving member of parliament. In total, he served for over 50 years. Oh, my God. Retire.

Well, sadly, all good things must come to an end. And the only thing that could stop his career was he died in 1952 at the age of 90. He was still working and he was working in the parliament at age 90. Oh my god. And he was a dog. So in 30 years that's like 630. That's an old dog. Good on him. What a good innings. An old dog. What a good boy. One of the days I taught him any new policies or anything like that. He can't be sweat.

Over 50 years he represented six political parties during his career, leading five outlasting four and being expelled from three. Nice. Wow. He was also our Prime Minister from 1915 to 1923, a period that included most of World War I. And Billy Hughes was a bit of a badass. At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference that followed World War I, which Billy Hughes demanded,

Australia should be represented at, US President Woodrow Wilson thought that this Australian was asking too much for the size of this tiny little country. Oh, Woodrow. Woodrow. He said, this is Woodrow, quote, but after all, you only speak for five million people. To which Prime Minister Hughes replied, quote,

I represent 60,000 dead. Oh, and they're common for you. Yeah, I'm trying to get out of here. Where are you seeing? We have zombies. I press this button and a bunch of zombies are coming for you. Oh, no, okay, you don't want to be a hot one. And that's how we won World War One.

Now, one of the most controversial times of his career as prime minister was during World War One when Hughes was in favor of conscription for overseas military service. In 1916, Hughes and the Labor Party put forth a plebiscite, which is a big vote where Australians got asked the question, do you support conscription? Yes or no? And they voted? No. Hughes, who remember was

the Prime Minister, had pushed for conscription during this time, but a lot of his labour colleagues were against the idea and it got to the point where the infighting split the party into two factions. Oh, I never split the party. Never split the party. We've learned that. Billy Hughes was expelled from the Labour Party, which he was the leader of, the kicked him out, and he and some other Labour members formed a new party, which eventually became the nationalist party of Australia. This party also teamed up with his Conservative opposition, the Commonwealth Liberal Party.

So he got kicked out, got a few members, got people from the other side that, you know, a week before he would have been saying, you're a whole, you're a wrong, you're a liar. Now they formed a new party. The following year, Billy Hughes won the election with this new party to stay on as prime minister. Oh, well. And his labor colleagues that kicked him out and probably, ah, crap. Damn it. But that's kind of like, that'd be a bit unheard of of creating a new party and then winning.

Yeah, it's crazy. It was an unknown new party. It was a different time back then, obviously. Because there would like, Federation, we happened to like, less than two decades earlier. Yeah. So they're all kind of new parties already.

Yeah, true. I think there was a lot more movement back then, but now it's been a two-party system so long it would be bizarre for that to happen. Like I've made up this new party. It's called Jeff's Super Awesome Politician's Gang, and I'm running for what's the top job Prime Minister? I want that. That's fine. I've finished Jeff, what are your policies? More parties, more... Because you want to split the party again? No, like parties. Oh, right, sorry.

More beach babes. Um... Okay, you got my vote. Uh, and, um, uh, like, I don't know, free shit. Free shit. Both me, free shit. Free shit. Free shit.

Free shit. Oh, I get it. So, for Jeff. That does sound like some of the real minor parties that have fled around with the move. Like the weird parties still get made now. They just don't get in the government. They don't get far. Well, as we've discovered, you only need 19 votes to get in.

Hang on, sorry. He had to have known more than 19 people. Just that. That's true. So not even people that he knows personally are feeling an obligation to vote for him. Did his mum vote for him? I could get more than 19 votes. I reckon you can get a big family.

I've come from a big family. I've got more than 19 family members. Dumb, sorted. Both below the line. It's a bit of an effort. How well do they know him? How much they care about him? Like filling out all the boxes.

Yeah, you're right, you're there for a while. Just go above the line. Go get your sausage and get out of the process. And then we'll get all you voting in. Yeah, phrases here. Yeah, yeah, vote if you vote. Yeah, you're there for a while. Just go above the line, go get your sausage and get out of the program. And then you're still voting in. Yeah, phrases here, yeah, I voted for you guys one. And voted for you afterwards. I did both for the day. Celebrated with a bit of voting on the area.

So I assume you'll get in, because we all voted for you and voted for you. And then he checks, it comes out, and he, 19, he's campaign manager, 19. Our campaign team has got 24 people in it. He just goes around the room, Trevor, who do you vote for? Chris, who do you vote for? Trish, who do you vote for? He can't prove. I know they also. All right, we're going to go again. Five of you are lying at least. Start again. Trevor. You're waiting for Trevor to survive. In 1917, Devotion. Waiting for trevits to survive.

In 1917, with Britain pushing Australia for more soldiers to help in the war effort, Billy decided to try again for conscription. He held another plebsite, another big vote, and asked the Australian voters if they thought men should be conscripted into the army. Billy Hughes went on a campaign around Australia holding speaking engagements to try and convince people

to vote for this conscription idea. And you really needed the state of Queensland to vote yes, so we headed there on a train. On November 29th, 1917, the train stopped at Warwick, just south of Tuwumba. Billy got off the train, put on his top hat, and stepped onto his soap box to address the crowd that had gathered. A top hat. Oh, I don't like that. You don't like that. No.

I like it when you well into that. He's really trying to make himself same tall, standing in a soapbox, wearing a tall hat. Yeah, okay, he's got a really small dog next to him. Look at Big Eye, I am. He's holding an apple behind him. Look, this is a normal size apple. Look how small it looks compared to me. Why an apple?

I don't know if I'm telling you, it was a mad dog. This is a forest barn. Well, massive, up huge. You should listen to me because I'm massive. Well, people have gathered around to see what this massive man had to say. Oh, he's a bigger. He was sitting on a, on a Shet bigger. He was sitting on a Shatland pony. He was also on a soapbox.

Actually arrived on a miniature train and sitting on top of it. Too, too long. I would have thought, I'm thinking of more like how politicians these days will go out to the country and they'll put on an Acubra and they'll wear jeans, but a good shirt and boots. Yeah, but so tie.

No tie. They might roll up the sleeves. You know, just to look like. I feel like this. Look like the every man. You know how I'm very comfortable on the land. It's like, what's that? A sheep.

Oh, okay. Oh, cool. What's that wooly cow? Yeah. Yeah, that's a weird looking dog you guys have. It's very small. That's what I'm picturing, but no, he turns in, he's sitting over the top hat. You look great. Two of the crowd members were local anti-conscription campaigners, Patti Brosnan and his brother Bart.

Bart Brosnan. Bart Brosnan. Patti Brosnan. Yeah, what do you reckon? No. Love it. Oh, thank goodness. Good. Love patty. Or can you, or can you,

gonna like patty? I reckon I am too. The boys were fearful of being conscripted and midway through hues of speech. Patty and Bart grabbed eggs from their pockets and held them at the Prime Minister. They always get around with eggs. That was gonna be their lunch.

Just a guess. Yeah. Greg some, some, I was gonna call them wet eggs. What do you call non-cooked eggs? Yeah, wet eggs. Wet eggs. We're gonna get a lot of wet eggs in there.

Chuck is a couple of wetties. Oh, yeah, it's, it's about knock off time on every couple of wetties. On a wet your whistle, sure do. Huh. On a crack of wetty to a whirlpool. Evan, can you make it look like an egg is going in my mouth?

A lot, don't. Mmm. Australia. Sorry, Evan, can we do that again, It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right.

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It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. As a matter of fact, I got it now. The biggest giant terst needs a big wet egg. Wet eggs. Do you mean raw? Raw egg.

Raw egg. That's it. That's it, my mind as well. It was funny that like chickens would be like, I mean raw egg. This is their natural steak. It's an egg. Just call it an egg.

Just call it an egg. Just call it an egg. Call it an egg. I think that's an egg when it's just raw. And then you have to specify what you've done to it. What have you done to that egg? Excuse me, sir. What have you done to that egg?

I can't talk about it during this time slot, sir. What have you done to that, when egg? The default egg is a raw, when egg. That's a raw, when egg. A raw, when egg. You made a long ago. That's wed egg. A raw wed egg. That's a long cut. That's the default.

And just to be clear, they've thrown two wed eggs. They're not hard boiled or anything. Okay. These are our wed eggs. So what's on your pocket? A default raw wed egg? Okay. Just wanted to be clear.

Yeah, that's been being patted down by security before going in. Oh, please, are it raw wed egg? Please, please, please. I was like, you build up a bit of a thirst. You got a spare one for me? What can you drink at the same time? Weddy. Yeah. Holiday gatherings are happening.

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Potential Savings will vary. Discount is not available in our seats and situations. So they're both through these wet eggs, bats missed, but Paddy, his egg hit Hughes in the head and knocked his top hat clean off. Yeah. That would have been fun. That was a bullseye. That was a bullseye. That was a bullseye. This angered Prime Minister Billy Hughes to the extreme and he made a b-line for the crowd He even reaching into his coat for his revolver. That seems fair. No, that seems fair. I'm going to do an egg, you retaliate by shooting them. We're at war.

Yeah. With egg throttles. Why was the Prime Minister carrying a revolver? Well, he pulled out the revolver, he went to pull out a revolver, only to discover that he'd left it on the track. Oh no! What a way to find out! That's the only thing that stopped a sitting prime minister from shooting a civilian. The next time you've ever known who it was, shooting a crowd.

He made a b-line for the crowd. All right, that's it. Can you make a b-line for a mass? Like that? What about, he gets everyone to show their hands that there's any remnants of egg? And if you've got it. Bang. I love the idea that there'd be remnants of egg

from throwing a hard shell of egg. The only person who's got remnants is like his political advisor who's had egg sprayed on them from his... I'll just go, I... He threw it, he must have thrown it. Pfft. I'll kill him to be sure.

So he doesn't have his own got on him. So the prime minister then demanded local police sergeant Kenny arrest the egg throwers immediately. Only for the officer to reply quote, ideal only in Queensland law, this is a common wealth matter. In quote. Okay. Well, that's a confusing sentence.

This isn't my jurisdiction. This is not my jurisdiction, Euro Prime Minister only to local Queensland law. What did he say? Ideal. Ideal only in Queensland law. So say law. Ideal only in Queensland law.

I thought it was some of your oldie talk. Ideal only in Queensland law. That was so baffled. So sorry if I put a comment on that. I'm not a deal. Right, well that makes a lot of sense. Do a pretail ideal. So that's funny, it's like, oh no, egg throwing, that's a federal amount of.

That's a federal offense. Which at the moment doesn't exist. Is he saying only because it was involving the prime minister? The prime minister is saying, yeah, yeah. Basically, he was saying, I don't want to do that. A little of both. So the prime minister is saying, do this and he's like, well, I don't answer to you. You're the Prime Minister. I answer to the state. And early on in Australia, the states had a lot more power than federal governments.

Yeah. I was slowly like dished up from the states that dished up in egg form to the federal government. They took a piece by piece. Those wild dogs in camera, hey? Just clowns up there in the big tub. Tell it like it is. I think clowns and dogs. They clown dogs. Circus dogs, circus animals.

Clampish. No, absolutely not. Sorry to fuh. I'm so sorry. Sorry. Hugh said, arrest this man. Police officers said, absolutely not. Hugh's was fuming over this.

Patty and Bart did get beaten up by the crowd because there were lots of Hughes supporters, a bit like a egg boy was taken away and had locked up. Or at least that was beaten up. I think goodness. Because I mean, I feel like being shot to death might have been an overstep,

but beaten by a mob, that feels about right for throwing an egg. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, that's great. They knocked off his hat. Oh, I know. And I'm curious. lot of fun. I mean, they knocked off his hat. Oh, I know. And it was a nice, I'm curious. It was a nice hat. It was his best hat. I wouldn't have broken on the hat.

It would have bounced off and broken on the advisor. But the hat hit the ground, might have got a bit of dust on it. Yeah. Dusty hat for the Prime Minister. How do you get dust out of a hat? I'll tell you. Arrest this man. Yeah. I do not deal in fashion, please. That's actually where I got the nickname Paddy, because he was there trying to pat the dust off the hat.

His name was actually Gregory. Gregory. Gregory Bros. Well, so the police officer still refused to arrest these men, but they were assaulted. He's got back on the train and resumed his journey, but the egging and the police's inability to stop the assault really stuck with him.

He decided the only way to uphold federal authority was by creating a separate Commonwealth police force. Here's moved quickly, and the Commonwealth Police Commissioner was appointed just a couple of weeks later in December 1917. This police force became the Australian Federal Police in 1979, which still exists. So basically, we have a Federal Police Force because of Patti Brosnan, the original Egg Boy. That's why we started. That's cool.

So weird. So 2019 Egg Boy might have inspired an action figure. But 1917 Egg Boy inspired an entire police force. I love it. Their only law at first, the only thing they were able to, how good of me talking now. In force? In force. Good in force is egg related crime. Yeah, the rule book only has one so far. If anyone knocks off the prime minister's hat with an egg, we can kill them. So most of our days are sitting around, but we're always vigilant.

Whenever a prime minister in a hat, well, we crack an action. So I just beg so about that, partner accidental. We crack an action in case there's a crack on the hat. And if there is, then we will kill a man. Or boy or child or dog. We don't care. He throws it. We've been looking in with some dogs can throw eggs now.

I read it somewhere. What about women? Throwing eggs, good luck. With those dainty arms. Don't reckon. I've never seen it. I'm in character. Yeah.

It's said at so much sociality, usual opinions, I was really hard to tell. Yeah but with a slightly different voice. Is that a different voice? I don't know. Oh we're going British now, okay. So there's the homicide squad, the drug squad and the egg squad. Yeah.

Um, the E.A. Cover all the bases. And that's for the plebiscite. 13 days later, Australians rejected prescription by an even greater margin than the first. I don't know if that's egg boy related, but I'm gonna claim it. It does feel like Billy Hughes, take the message mate. Come on. Come on, Billy boy.

Come on. Hughes-ee. Not a new party, you dog. Hughes-ee. Not a new party, a literal dog. He probably did. The anti- Egg Party. So, wait, so how many bars did you say you went through?

Six, we just kicked out of three. And you kicked out of his own one? Yeah, it's like, you got kicked out of the label one. When I bet I mean his new one, the one he invented. Oh, no, I didn't think so. It has left that one, his own, of course. Well, that one did eventually dissolve, yeah. But in 1952, Patty Brosnan, the original.

Did he egg the coffin? No, I wish I could turn to the funeral when he egg the coffin. Not the lid of the coffin. And the first time. He's that good. That's what Billy would have wanted. I wish I could turn to the funeral in the egg the coffin. Not the lid of the coffin. And the first... That's what Billy would have wanted. He's being buried naked too, so he's knocked the lid off and everyone's just like, oh!

All he's got, he's got a gun, like, stapes to his side. It's what he would have wanted. But in 1952, the original egg boy looked back on the incident when Prime Minister Billy Hughes sadly died, saying he did it simply because, quote, he didn't want to be conscripted. Patti also sent a telegram of condolence to marry the widow of Billy Hughes. That's nice. Nothing personal.

The egg-throwing incident, or the Warwick egg incident, is commonly referred to as the Weggy by Warwick locals, has been reenacted on special occasions, including on the 90th and the 100th anniversaries of the incident. The wiki! The wiki! That's how we're going to avoid. We're going to avoid. Apparently, I think it's quite a cult thing in that area of... I think we're really proud of it.

But around the rest of Australia, it's not very well known this incident, but around there, they know the wiki. The wiggies. That's great. They're red carpet for the wiggies. Absolutely. Who are you wearing? Who are you wearing? Australia's most prestigious award. Sorry, loggie. Weggy, loggie. Yeah, surely. Big time.

And I, but I'm sad to report that there's a video on YouTube that we will link in the description. You can watch them reenact it for the 100th anniversary. And I'm sad to say that during the 100th anniversary reenactment of the egg throwing, they missed. Oh. They know. Who do you choose to? Not a woman. I mean, not a woman. Like, would you get like your best, I don't know, cricket player or something?

Yeah, getting worn out. Baseball or a picture. Baseball, yeah, yeah. Something, someone who's got a precision. Or softballer. A bit of underarm. Yeah, like a work, whatever. Just a bit of howarm. Yeah, I could work whenever I just about a hair you throw the egg It's about hitting the target

Could be a nebola. Yes, could be a nebola. Yeah, see I don't know what he's lob it up. I know I'm a nipple. What? Yeah, men complain about see lob it up and it comes down Been no touching and I moved your fate You can pick one pivot foot. And only the goal shooter. Goal took. I played a little netball, so I'm like, I've never played it.

But don't look at me like, I'm the queen of netball. I ain't no ball. So who do you think egg did better? The original egg boy, 1917 or will Connolly 2019? I reckon the throw knocking over hat ending conscription. Because that is a throw so it's

and as a prime minister. It was more of a slap. Yeah. Yeah. You got to say it. Yeah, super. If you'd missed then you'd be disappointed. Oh, that'd be so embarrassing.

So we're saying who do we think? Yeah, who who egg did better? The weggy or egg boy? I think it was the weggy. He knocked off a hat, did it from distance. It was a prime minister rather than like a fringe senator. It all seemed bigger and better to me. I'm going to say modern egg boy because he's going on to use his profile to be an activist

for things. I don't know why, but he's, and you know, donated that money. Yeah, that was really good. That was good. Eric and current egg boy. But until that was really good. That was good. That was good. Eric and current egg boy. But until the next egg boy. That's right. There will always be another egg boy.

It was like a phantom. Yeah. Every generation. There's a new egg boy. New egg boy. The ghost who eggs. That's the ghost farted. Yeah, that's part of it as well. That's how they get anointed it goes farts on you

In a politician today Got that Ghost eggy smell and ghosts have horrible dines. Yeah, yeah, can't eat much It's something like the mix between a vegan and a meat eater. You know, the two worst farts there are. Well, that's it for the 1917 extra on incident. Let us know in the comments who you thought egg'd it better. No, a bit of engagement going on. Waggy, or egg. Or ghost eggy. The ghost eggies. The ghost eggies. The ghost eggies. The ghost eggies.

They keep getting higher and higher. They keep getting higher and higher. And that's how they are sandwiched in the afterlife. I've got all the unfinished business. Hold on. Bye. The ascension sand also sounds like a fart. Because it is. They fart, because it is.

They fart out into the sky. Yeah, how the ghost fly with fart? Hot air, hot air rises. And they're very light ghosts. Very light. Very light. They don't have any sort of mortal coil, which I believe means something or other. We out yet?

No, because I'm going to say this is a spin-off of our podcast. Do go on with over 200 episodes to listen to. So if you like this topic, check out some of our other political episodes like the disappearing Prime Minister Harold Holt, assassin John Wilkes Booth, or the Canadian October crisis. Who could forget that episode, am I right, Jess? I don't remember the last two. We have fun here.

Subscribe for free on your favorite podcast app and be sure to subscribe to this channel to check out our other videos. Dave. Should I listen to our podcast? I think you should. I forget. Are you in the room when we're doing it?

Well, arguably. Physically, yes. Up here, 50, 50. Your egg ghost is off the other business. Yeah. Oh! My sparring day! Oh!

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