Do Go On - 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.

Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serenji Amarna 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there. Canada, we are visiting you in September this year.

If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. 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 are 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 Jess, we're happy for you to do an extra report. And I said, you go, fuck yourself. Sons of bitches, I will not do any more work.

So we agreed on nine. Oh, yes. So three each. 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. Yeah.

But if you're wet willy. Because it totally works as a podcast, but if you want to see it in full high definition. Yeah, with an amazing set. 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. A lot of egg animation. Yeah. So there's so much to look forward to. If you want to watch it, or listen to 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, Bill 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 Wonki and I'm sitting here in a lovely library with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Hello. Hey, did you notice that you said coming and neither of us laugh? That showed a lot of restraint. and personal growth from us.

Well, what they don't know is that was my 17th take. And I laughed every other time. I'm in professionalism. That's what we're all about here. Look at this. Fake library. I mean, real library. Real library. 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. 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, Jess. Yeah, I don't like eggs. Yeah, I want to be better and not eat them, but Jeez, poached was a bit of avocado and vegamite on toast, I tell you what. 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 there's a great breakfast. I love 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.

Yeah, sure, that makes more sense. Well, we're here to talk about the two egg throwing incidents. Just in case people aren't familiar, Egg Boy was the name given to 17-year-old Will Connolly. I'm sure you remember. This was big news in Australia. In March 2019, the legend of Eggboy 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. Let's take a look at it. There's Anning there. Bam, got an egg, and then copped one in the face from a senator. Yeah. Punching a 17-year-old. Yeah. Natural reaction.

Hitting a kid. I reckon the first one is instinct. Do you reckon? Yeah, I reckon. Someone just hit you in the head. You don't know what it's an egg or what. I reckon, oh, I'm not going to start defending him. Yeah, you're going to go down dangerous.

I forgot who we're talking about. Well, the reason you won't start defending him is, I've got here now. You don't know who Fraser Anning is, which some of our overseas watchers may not know. Frankly, you don't want to know. He wasn't and still isn't very popular in our country. He was an 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 him out and voted for him. But he got into the Senate when another right-wing climate changed an eye, Malcolm Roberts. Oh, Senate's weird. He got kicked out for not being an Australian citizen. Right. So who stepped up for the point? Is he anti-immigration? The guy got kicked They're not being a chance. Look, I just want to say... I can come here, 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 later doubled 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. Yeah, that doesn't make sense. So people came out and said, they're horrible comments, but only one man or boy took matters into his own.

hands and egged anning a couple of days after the comments. And this video went viral and Eggboy 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, yada, yada, yada. 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, because everyone. I got nervous. Can you sign my egg?

He was a big deal for a while, wasn't he? Huge deal. I think he got over half a million Instagram followers almost instantly. He was a big deal. Has he done 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 host.

Conan's like, come on. Let's do it. Do the thing. We all know. A GoFundMe crowd funding campaign was started to cover his legal costs and raised almost $100,000 Australian dollars, which Eggboy donated to the survivors of the Christchurch terrorist attack. $100,000, what is that in today's money? With inflation, it is almost 100. There was something like $300 off $100,000, which would have really upset you. It was so close.

If anything, you should have made that final donation. I didn't know. To get him bang on. I can't go back in time and make a donation, Dave. Can't you? Can I? Evan, do you know how to time travel works? Can I go back and time and make a donation?

Evan? Evan's left. He's sick of our dumb questions. Eggboy denied being affiliated with any groups or political organizations and said that he was just pro-humanity. Yeah. I also assume pro-eggs. Well, I don't know. He kind of, he wasted an egg.

Yes. Maybe he's not. Anti-egg. Yeah. Just like you. His mum, I think I remember his mum sort of saying, like, obviously I don't think he should of egged him, but also pretty proud that he stood up for what he believes in. And I was like, yeah, Eggboy, Mum. Sit on that fence. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think Eggboy also came out and said

that he admitted that what he did was wrong. Right. He was interviewed on the project. Yeah. Oh, right. But still, I mean, a lot of, it was a big debate as well. People coming out, also, very heated debate. Social media, some people with large following saying that he was a hero, other people coming out saying that, I don't care what Fraser running said, you can't just go around egging people. Yeah. I like when those debates happen because I'm easily swayed. I'm like, yeah, of course he should egg that guy. I'll read another thing.

Hmm, but maybe he should definitely not have egg that guy. No, hang on a second. What this other guy says means, yes, he should have egged that man. So are you just, the last opinion you've read is what you usually go with? The last one I heard is Eggboy's mum sitting on the fence. So now I'm undecided. It's confusing. In the end, Eggboy and Fraser Anning, both avoided charges.

but Eggboy did receive an official caution. You'd be pleased to know that a couple of months after the egging, Fraser Anning lost his seat, so thankfully he's no longer a senator. Another weirdo took him his place. Yeah, stepped up. We've got dozens of weirdos 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 Fraser Anning. Hello, Fraser. Nope. All right. We're not on... He doesn't have Michael.

Not on first name turns. I should have called him Mr. Anning. 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. Do you know much about Billy? Yeah, Billy the Wild Dog Hughes.

He is a wild dog. Honestly, he's a wild dog. He's a wild dog. Literally. It's a dog. I did not know. We had a dog, Prime Minister. He did go?

You want to carry this motion? All eyes or whoops? Well, whoop. Okay. Mr. Prime Minister? If he was around today, he probably would have been ready to step up in a phrasing running seat. He was that kind of weirdo.

Allegedly. 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 when he was 90. He was still working in the parliament at age 90. Oh my God. And he was a dog. So in dog years, that's like 630. That's an old dog.

Good on him. What a good innings. What an old dog. What a good boy. I wonder if they taught him any new policies or anything like that. No, he can't be swat. 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 1. And Billy Hughes was a bit of a badass. At the 1990 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 coming for you.

You don't let us in. We have zombies. I press this button and a bunch of zombies are coming for you. Oh, don't. Okay. You know what if you want. 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

World War I when Hughes was in favour of conscription for overseas military service. In 1916, Hughes and the Labour 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, never split the party.

Never split the party. We weren't there. Billy Hughes was expelled from the Labour Party, which he was the leader of, that 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 all wrong, you're all liars. 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, wow. And his Labour colleagues that kicked him out and probably like, ah, oh, cram. 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. With that unknown new party. It was a different time back then. obviously because there were like federation only happened at 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 of so long it would be bizarre for that to happen like i've made up this new party it's called uh jeff's super awesome uh politicians gang and um i'm running for what's the top job prime minister i want that that's fine now jeff what are your policies um more parties More, because you want to split the party again? No, like parties. Oh, right, sorry.

More beach babes. Okay, you got my vote. And like, I don't know, free shit. Free shit. Vote for me, vote for Jeff. Free shit. Free shit. I like it.

Vote for Jeff. That does sound like some of the real minor parties that are floating around. Like, the weird parties still get made now. They just don't get in the government. They don't get far. No. Yeah. Well, as we've discovered.

You only need 19 votes to get in in our country. Hang on, sorry. He had to have known more than 19 people, just personally. That's tragic. 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 he definitely could.

I come from a big family. I've got more than 19 family members. Done. Sordid. Voting below the line is, you know, it's a bit of an effort. How well do they know him, how much they care about him? Like filling out all those boxes. Yeah, you're right.

You're there for a while. Yeah. Just go above the line. Go get your sausage. you get out of the primary school you're voting in. Yeah, phrases. Yeah, I voted for you boys want. And boated for you afterwards.

Oh, really? Yeah, I did both. Voting. Celebrated with a bit of boating on the area. Yeah. So I assume you'll get in because we all voted for you. And then voted for you. And then voted.

And then he checks, it comes out. He's campaign manager. 19. Our campaign team has got 24 people in it. He just goes around the room. Trevor, who did you vote for? Chris, who do you vote for? Trish, who'd you vote for?

vote for. He can't prove. Oh no, they all say, all right, we're going to have to go again. Five of you are lying at least. Start again. Trevor. You're waiting for Trevor to slip up. 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 plebiscite, 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 he really needed the state of Queensland to vote yes, so he headed there on a train. On November 29th, 1917, the train stopped at Warwick, just south of Toowoomba. Billy got off the train, put on his top hat, and stepped onto his soapbox to address the crowd that had gathered. A top hat?

Oh, I don't like that. You don't like that. I thought you'd be well into that. He's really trying to make himself seem tall, standing in a soap. Box wearing a tall hat. He's got a really small dog next to him. Look how big I am to scale. He's holding an apple behind him.

He's like, this is a normal size apple. Look how small looks can be to me. Why an apple? I don't know. I'm telling you. He's a mad dog. This is a forest behind me. I'm massive. I'm 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. It was sitting on a Shetland pony Who was also on a soapbox He actually arrived on a miniature train He was sitting on top of it Toot to look

I'm thinking of more like how politicians These days will go out to the country And they'll put on in a cobra And they'll wear jeans But a good shirt Yeah but boots No tie They might roll up the sleeves

Just to look like Look like the every man You know Oh, I'm very comfortable on the land. It's like, what's that? A sheep. Oh, okay. Cool.

What's that woolly cow? 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 his tuxedo and a top hat. He looks great. Two of the crowd members were local anti-conscription campaigners, Patty Brosnan and his brother Bart.

Bart Brosnan. Bart Brosnan. And Patty Bronz. Rosnin. Yeah. What do you reckon? No? Love it. Oh, thank goodness. Good. Love Paddy. I reckon you're going to like Patty. I reckon I am too.

The boys were fearful of being conscripted and midway through Hughes's speech. Patty and Bart grabbed eggs from their pockets and hurled them at the Prime Minister. They always get around with eggs. That was going to be their lunch. Just in case. Yeah. Cracking some, some marble. I was going to call them wet eggs. What do you call them non-cooked eggs? Yeah, wet eggs. Wet eggs? Wrecking a couple of wet eggs into there. Jack is a couple of wetties. Oh, yeah. It's a couple of wet eggs.

It's about knock off time. I want to have a couple of wetties. Want to wet your whistle? Sure do. I want to crack a wettie into a whirlpool. Evan, can you make it look like an egg's going into my mouth? Oh, I don't. Mm.

Australia. Sorry, Evan, can we do that again but make it look slightly wetter? Oh, that's a wettie. Look at that drip. Look at it. It's in your eye. Oh, it's in your beard. Oh, God.

Put it away, son. You can get it anyhow. Matter of fact, I got it now. The big Australian thirst needs a big wet egg. Wet eggs. Do you mean raw? Raw eggs. That's it.

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

I call it an egg. I think it'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. What have you done to that wet egg?

The default egg is a raw wet egg. A wet egg. A raw wet egg. You made it longer. That's the default. And just to be clear, they've thrown two wet eggs. They're not hard boiled or anything. These are wet eggs.

So what's that in your pocket? A default raw wet egg? Okay. Just wanted to be clear. Yeah, that's then being patted down by security before going in. Oh, please, real wet egg. Please be fair enough. It looks like you've built up a bit of a thirst.

You got a spare one for me. What can you drink and eat at the same time? Weddie. Yeah. So they both threw these wet eggs. Bart's missed, but Patty, his egg hit Hughes in the head and knocked his top hat clean off. Yeah. That would have been fun.

That would have been fun. That is a bullseye. This angered Prime Minister Billy Hughes to the extreme and he made a beeline for the crowd, even reaching into his coat for his revolver. That seems fair. No, that seems fair. I want to throw an egg, you retaliate by shooting them. We're at war.

Yeah. With egg throwers. Why was the Prime Minister carrying a revolver? Well, he pulled out the revolt. He went to pull out a revolver only to discover that he'd left it on the train. Oh, no. What a way to find out? That's the only thing that stopped a sitting Prime Minister from shooting a civilian.

But he would have 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 remnant of egg. And if you've got it. Bang. I love the idea that there'd be remnants of egg from throwing a hard shelled egg.

The only person who's got remnants is like his political advisor who's had egg sprayed on them from him. Oh, this guy. He threw it, you must have thrown it. 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, Sergeant Kenny, arrest the egg throwers immediately. only for the officer to reply, quote,

I deal only in Queensland law, this is a Commonwealth matter, end quote. Okay. Well, that's a confusing sentence. This isn't my jurisdiction. This is not my jurisdiction. You're a prime minister. I only do local Queensland law.

What did he say? Ideal only in Queensland law. Oh, ideal only in Queensland law. I thought it was some of your oldie talk. Ideal, only in Queensland law. I was so baffled. I'm so sorry if I put a comma in that was not... Ideal.

Right. Well, that makes a lot of sense. Do a pretel, I deal. So that's funny. It's like, oh no, egg throwing. That's a federal matter. That's a federal offence. Which at the moment doesn't exist.

Is he saying only because it was involving the prime minister? Or 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. And it was slowly like dished up. So they... So they... Fished up in egg form. To the federal government. They took it piece by piece. Those wild dogs in Canberra, hey?

There's clowns up there in the big top. Tell it like it is. And they're clowns and dogs. They're clown dogs. Circus dogs. Circus animals. Clownfish? No, absolutely not.

Okay. Sorry, too far. I'm so sorry. So Hughes said arrest this man Police officer said absolutely not Hughes was fuming over this Paddy and Bart did get beaten up by the crowd because there were lots of Hugh supporters

A bit like an egg boy was taken away And headlocked or pinned Oh thank goodness Because I mean I feel like being shot to death It might have been an overstep But beaten by a mob That feels about right for throwing an egg Yeah I agree

Yeah I mean they knocked off his hat Oh I know And it was a nice It was a nice hat 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 and might have got a bit of dust on it.

Dusty hat for the prime minister? How do you get dust out of a hat? Arrest this man. I do not deal in fashion police. That's actually where he got the nickname Patty, because he was there trying to pat the dust off the hat. His name was actually Gregory. Gregory.

Gregory, Broson. Well, you know. Well, you know. Well, so the police officers have still refused to arrest these member, they were assaulted. Hughes 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. Hughes 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 Patty Brosnan, the original Eggboy. That's why it was 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. And their only law at first, the only thing they were able to, how good of me talking now. Enforce? Enforce. It could enforce with egg-related crimes. 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. Legally. So most of our days are sitting around, but, you know, we're always vigilant. Whenever the Prime Minister is wearing a hat, well, we crack in action. So I suspect. Sorry about that pun accidental. We crack in action in case there's a crack on the hat. And if there is, then, yeah, we will kill a man.

or boy or child or dog we don't care who throws it I mean we've been looking into it some dogs can throw eggs now I read it somewhere what about women well throw an egg good luck with those dainty arms

don't reckon I've never seen it I'm in character yeah it sounded so similar to your usual opinions so it was really hard to tell yeah but with a slightly different voice is that a different voice

I don't know oh we're gone British now I love that. So there's the homicide squad, the drug squad and the egg squad. Yeah. The EEA. Cover all the bases. And as for the plebiscite,

13 days later, Australians rejected conscription by an even greater margin than the first. I don't know if that's Egg Boy related, but I'm going to claim it. Yep. It does feel like Billy Hughes. Take the message, mate. Yeah, come on. Come on, Billy Boy. Come on.

Hughesy. Does a new party, your dog. Hughesy. Stun you party, your literal dog. He probably did. The anti-egg party. So how many parts did you say he went through? Six, we just kicked out of three.

Did he get kicked out of his own one? Yeah, the labour. He got kicked out of labour. But I mean, his new one, the one he invented. No, I don't think so. He just left that one of his own accord. Well, that one did eventually dissolve, yeah. But in 1952, Paddy Brosnan, the original...

Did he egg the coffin? No, I wish I could tell. He'd go to the funeral when he egg the coffin. Knock the lid off the coffin. He's that good. That's what Billy would have wanted. He was being buried naked to. So he's knocked the lid off and everyone's just like, oh.

All he's got, he's got a gun, like, tapes 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. Patty also sent a telegram of condolence to marry the widow of Billy Hughes. Oh, that's nice.

Nothing personal. The egg throwing incident, or the Warwick Egg incident, is commonly referred to as the weggie. by Warwick locals and has been reenacted on special occasions including on the 90th and the 100th anniversaries of the incident. The Waggie! The Weggy!

That sounds like an award. Apparently, I think it's quite a cult thing in that area. They're really proud of it. And the rest of Australia, it's not very well known this incident, but around there, they know the Weggy. The Waggis. That's great. Is there a red carpet for the Waggis? Absolutely. Who are you wearing?

Who you're wearing for the wigs? Australia's most prestigious award. Sorry, Logie. Wegie. Yeah, big time. 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.

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, you're warning up there. Baseball, I reckon. Baseball, yeah, yeah. Something, someone who's got precision.

A bit of underarm? Yeah, that could work, whatever. It doesn't matter how you throw the egg. It's about hitting the target. It could be a netballer, Jess. Could be a netballer. Yeah, see? I don't mind.

You lob it up. Men can play netball. What? Yeah, men can play netball. So you lob it up and it comes down. But no touching. And don't move your feet. You can pivot, one pivot foot.

And only the goal shooter. The goal attack. a little netball. It could be a lot of... I've never played netball. Don't look at me. Like, I'm the queen of netball. I hate netball.

So who do you think egged it better? The original egg boy, 1917, or Will Connolly, 2019? I reckon the throw, knocking off a hat, ending conscription. Because that is a throw. And as a prime minister. Egg was more of a slap egg. Yeah. You got to say, Patty.

It was a close range. Yeah, super. If you'd miss then, you'd be disappointed. Oh, that'd be so embarrassing. So we're saying who do we think was there? Yeah, who egged it better? The Waggie or Eggie? Or egg boy.

I think it was the waggy. 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 gone on to use his profile to be an activist for things. I don't know what, but he's, and you know, donated that money. Yeah, that was really, that's good. That was good.

I reckon current egg boy. Until the next egg boy. That's right. They will always be another egg boy. It's like the phantom. Yeah. Every generation. There's a new egg boy.

A new egg boy. The ghost two eggs. That sounds like a ghost farted. Yeah, that's part of it as well. That's how they get anointed. A ghost farts on you. Oh, I am the egg on. I'm a politician today.

Okay. Got that ghost eggy smell. And ghosts have horrible diets. Yeah, yeah. Can't eat much. It's something like the mix between a vegan and a meat eater. You know, the two worst farders there are. Well, that's it for the 1917 eggs rowing incident.

Let us know in the comments who you thought egged it better. Well, a bit of engagement going on here. Weggie. Wedgy or Eggie. Or Eggie. The ghost two eggs. The ghost of eggs. Boose.

Woo. Boose. We keep getting higher enough. And that's how they ascend into the afterlife. I've got a little unfinished business. All done. Bye. Their ascension sound also sounds like a fart, because it is.

They're fart powered into the sky. Yeah, how do ghosts fly with farts? 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.

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Well, arguably. Physically, yes. Up here, 50-50. Your egg ghost is offered with other business. Yeah. My's powering down. Don't forget to sign up to our tour mailing list so we know where in the world you are and we can come and tell you when we're coming there.

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