 Hi, welcome to scrambled my name is Dylan Miguel get and I'm Norfilae and today We're gonna be looking at rugby both the Clatchy rugby Davis high rugby all kinds of guys with rugby even Jesuit rugby We're also gonna review a few movies and theaters right now starting with the hard-hitting testosterone flowing patriotic Thriller, I GI Joe retaliation starring Dwayne the Rock Johnson former wrestler and now Successful actor. It's gonna be a really cool episode. So I hope you guys enjoy it Stay tuned think about the injuries that come along with like those contact sports So we did an interview with a boy named at Betay and He goes to McClatchy high school and during a game versus Jesuit He was hit and he got a massive concussion on the field and he also started to have a seizure So I thought that this would be a good opportunity to ask him about his experience and now How he views the sport rugby and while we uncover this brutal gentlemen sport you might just find a few surprises Let's take a look. Yeah so I'm here with Betay and We're going to talk about rugby So You find rugby to be better than other sports. Yes. That's right. All right. So why why do you think it's better than? say football, I mean The friendships it creates really I know people from New Zealand, Canada all over California that I've played with and against I mean, it's really just You're playing this sport where it's brutal, you know, you're hitting each other and getting into it There's blood, you know, there's pain So it really brings people together Yeah, I mean Whether it's Shakespeare, I believe who had the quote he who sheds his blood with me shall forever be my brother And that's kind of become a rugby quote Because oftentimes people are sharing blood, you know, you get cut playing but afterwards, you know you've had this really intense experience with the other team and You all gather together, you know, your coaches say a few things Pick a player of the match who you thought did well for the both the backs and the forward It's almost like MVP but for both teams, then you get up everyone, you know, they introduce themselves And then the hosting team Well, they're playing they're preparing a meal and you all eat together. The idea is to eat together and Make a new friend basically because you're gonna end up playing with them at some point most likely, you know It's a pretty small it's growing, but it's still a small community So a lot of the people you play with, you know, you'll play with in college or you'll play the The kid you were just tackling you'll end up on his team at some point. So I mean it really it makes friendships and there's Very much stresses camaraderie More than any other sport. I've played the highest level soccer here in America and after those games, you know People are still just cussing at each other and you know one to get in fights Yeah, I mean the parents even, you know, I was a nationals for soccer We had a parent from the other team throwing rocks at our coach in rugby afterwards, you know, the parents meet each other too and Like I've I mean I've gotten a few fights in the game and afterwards, you know, your friends with the players So that's why I say it's better than any other sport is because it really it bonds both the teams It's not my team is better than your team. It's hey, we're playing the sport together. Let's be friends So when I watch rugby, I kind of see mixes of soccer and football Is it like a combination of the two or more like I mean it came rugby came out of Soccer in 1823 William Webb Ellis at the rugby school of England He picked up the soccer ball while they were playing because he was like screw this I don't need to kick it with my feet and someone tackled him So I screw that guy. He just picked up the ball and then when it came over to America actually the Athletic instructor at Yale. He kind of turned it into football with the whole yardage and Like having downs so football came out of it is why you kind of see similarities there People started hitting more aggressively. So they added the pads because you're gonna people were dying or getting hurt And that just comes out of the line of scrimmage, you know That you're gonna have those bigger kick hits when you're going, you know You have someone running a route this way and then they just get smacked because they're turning to catch a ball And rugby the ball is coming back so you can see everything that's gonna happen Rugby you can only throw the ball backwards you throw the ball backwards sideways And you can kick the ball forwards So I mean football changed that they started throwing it forwards and now you're getting those huge hits You know someone's turning to catch it and they're getting hit from this side. So they kind of had to add patty Okay, so I did hear though that you got into a little rugby accident What happened with that? I mean it comes with the game had a little little concussion Still out from it, but hopefully we'll get back Dramatic affair. Yeah Basically, I got Hit blind, you know, I was passing the ball off to my teammate Just got hit, you know got other guys standing up didn't get low Which is kind of one of the techniques tackling that makes it a safe game and he didn't do that. So Head-to-head contact went down Hit my head again started seizing and It was just all bad from there, you know It's in the hospital that night got to come home Luckily, there was no real Brain damage or anything CT scan and it was good one. So that's good but yeah, I missed a week of school the next week was spring break, so I didn't go to school that week either and Came back to school all my teachers up. They're really good about it. You know, they didn't give me homework They're you know accommodating for it making sure that I'm not getting headaches in class or anything like that So still on the path to recovery, but I think I'm getting pretty close So would you say this sort of things common for rugby? No, not at all. I mean, it was it was kind of a freak thing Unlucky. I've never seen it Happen before I have seen When my teammates go down and start seizing a little bit, but that was his fault He just didn't tackle right. He tried to tackle him straight with his head. He's got knocked so But he was at fault. Yeah, I mean he knows he was at fault in the pillar minutes this day, but No, it's very common for that to happen. It was kind of I was shocked when I heard what happened You know, it's like wow Yeah, I do have a grudge against the guy that hit you at first a little bit Now that I've seen him and he's apologized to me and remembered that we were friends Alright, so let's take a break from all that concussion and rugby stuff Dylan went to go and see GI Joe. So he saw it twice So I think he's got a pretty good movie review for us today Well GI Joe a lot of people would go insane. It's just gonna be a big cheap dumb action movie It's based on an action figure not a doll an action figure, which is Amazing. That's how it came off as our whole lives. We have been suppressed by feminism Everything's romantic comedy Barbies are so prominent. No, we need action figures. We need GI Joe. We did America's Heroes and in the first GI Joe film Channing Tatum was cast as the lead character and He was nothing then and since then he has become something and he has become a sex symbol for women with magic Mike and all that He has no place in action movie anymore anything relatively masculine So he was killed off in the first, you know 20 minutes in the movie to be replaced by Dwayne the Rock Johnson America in a man. He has biceps bigger than most people's wastes He's just amazing and that is the spirit of this movie the spirit of America and the spirit of hard work Spirit of baseball spirit of hot dogs spirit of beer just everything we need God that movie like most movies just like a smooth little Prius driving along the highway No, that was a monster truck jacked up with steel testicles hanging down the back America flags flowing everywhere It was just nice. All right sure it had no plot It was completely cliche, but it had Bruce Willis come in for no apparent reason And that was also awesome because Bruce Willis is another actor comparable to Dwayne the Rock Johnson Just artists in their craft and man. Was it a thrill ride? So did you like it? Yes, I did Nora. So if you compare that movie to let's say something like the Godfather How would it compare? Godfather's all Italian stuff and I don't know. I didn't really understand it very much I mean sure Coppola gave his best shot, but you cannot compare it with John Chew's gi Joe retaliation in theaters now All right, so let's take a little peek at the trailer From what I took from it it really looks like it's geared toward boys even though it does have all these female sex symbols Would you take them as male role models? I guess well That was the one complaint I have about the movie There was a woman whose entire drive to serve in the armed forces Was so her father would salute her and to be taken seriously as a soldier now I think women should just be cast as the sex symbol and not really given that sort of drive because I thought that kind of you know provoked feminism and I thought it should just been more Dwayne the Rock Johnson just Killing hoards of people. Oh wait, so okay. What were they killing or was this in like an Iraq or? well a Division called Cobra had kind of overthrown the armed forces and the president and you don't do that with the gi Joe's or America so we had to rise up and just Kill Cobra basically Yeah, because they tried to cause a huge nuclear crisis and they built a satellite-based weapon system that destroyed London Which is fine with me because we took our freedom from London exactly All right. Well, you know, I can't say this is a movie I would rush to and go and see but apparently For a male audience it was attractive Yeah I took from it so maybe in the next 15 years I will stumble across watching this movie But I'm not gonna it'll be required in schools in probably two years Yeah, I don't I'm not sure about that But Yeah, okay So After gi Joe what other movie did you see? Well, I saw Olympus is falling which also had a good strong American message But it was kind of a copy of diehard and I really liked diehard So I don't know how I felt about that He's the same system that they kept broadcast on the same channel so we could talk to both the villain do the witty remarks You know, but he dried butler could not pull it off like Bruce Willis could So I can't say I was a fan of that I had a lot of plot holes seem kind of improbable How they overtook the most secure building on the planet like in ten minutes But besides that Other movies and theaters. There's the host which is a Stephanie Meyer novel. So it's awful What else do we have I don't know. They're all building up for Gatsby. So yeah Gatsby should be interesting We're looking forward to that reviewing that on this show um Yeah, but I have to say that I will be going to see the host because I feel like I need to see that one. I'm kind of curious how alien mind invasion is going to work If the because I read the book I I will admit it. I read the book and the entire book Takes place in this one girl's head So there's two characters inside one person. So I'm really curious how they will show that in a movie I guess they could use a lot of narration but Yeah, but why the host It's kind of like a little pretty cupcake, you know, you have the decorations and it's all cute and might be nice to look at You know, had a bridal bridal shower a baby shower or any kind of shower. It's an alien end of the world book Okay, that's how it markets itself. It says, oh, it has so much action. Let's get all the guys to come in So you people blow each other up. That's cool. No, it's not that that's a disguise Kind of like twilight. They said, oh a big vampire war That's the previous like oh look at this battle. So epic conclusion. No at the core It's a love story and I'd rather take the big steak With no women involved just at a steak house road house just long horns on the walls Truckers bikers. That's what I want. I don't want your little pretty cupcake. So dylan How often do you see these movies by yourself? All the time Probably nine times a week. Yeah, which you might say is more than once a day It is more than once a day Yeah, well, you know, I kind of got that from this movie review Sort of what you do with your time Um, all right. Well, I have to say that I am most looking forward to seeing Gatsby this year I was a huge fan of is it because it's set in America? Oh my gosh was no no it is from the director who did Mulan Rouge and I like the songs in that movie. So I don't know if they will be singing in Gatsby a lot of jack white Um judging by the trailers Yeah, I I don't know if they're doing that But it will be really pretty in artsy and Leonardo DiCaprio is fantastic as He always is You know, and I hopefully actually he's he's gonna die in this one too Wow Thank you. Not all of us have read the novel Oh Well, you know what it That is a crime against america if you have not read that american class. It's a crime against america. They haven't seen gi joe yet Oralympus has fallen. Yeah, it's like why don't you just move to france or some other hipster place? I don't know. Yeah, you probably don't even watch baseball Um, all right, so I think that concludes our movie review. Um Yeah, so let's go back to rugby I know that your games weren't So we're joined here with brendan and nash and they are on the dhs rugby team So actually excuse me. That was actually the davis rugby team. You're not a part of dhs. No, we're not We're basically we're basically a club team that's affiliated with davis high school So it's not necessarily a high school sport, but we're in connection with the school So like the middle child of davis sports just always neglected a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we can say that I'm sorry. Well, first off, can you tell us a little bit about the sport of rugby? Um, I don't know a whole lot about it. I know that in the east, uh, in you know, europe and south africa Specifically, it's really popular from what I've heard. Uh, it originally started at a european or I think it's english boarding school And it was like a soccer game or something And some guy picked up the ball and everyone thought it was brilliant And so it just kind of took off from there and now it's just basically Popular worldwide except for the united states. You don't see it as popular But specifically in south africa, they have like rugby boarding schools for high schoolers. It's just insane. It's this huge following All right Sounds like quite a cultural impact. Yeah and, uh Any injuries? I mean I've heard about nashes I got two concussions in one game because uh I got take it I I came down and I'm like the field where I'm playing on I had a bunch of dirt patches in it And I came down on the side of my head and I remember blocking out And then I went to the sideline And like everyone told me not to go back in But for some reason I went back in somehow and I got hit again And so I got knocked out that time and I couldn't remember my name or anything And they don't have trainers that stop you from going back in after you've obviously suffered a major head injury Sometimes we do. I mean at this one we it was in a way game. Um, normally when we play home games We have a trainer there with us, but in this case we didn't and uh I was kind of confused as to why nash was back in the game and by the time I realized it nash was on the pitch knocked out but Well, it seems to be a pretty common thing for rugby. I've heard of tons of kids getting concussions Is it do you think it's more common than say football? I I football is actually worse. Yeah, I got pretty unlucky. Like I usually I don't know for some reason in rugby. I get unlucky with injuries Like last year I tore my sternum So yeah It's kind of random I think with football the whole thing is is we have these helmets on and these pads So we like think we're protected and so we accelerate to just way faster than we should be and we lead with our heads We're in rugby. It's more protective. So we don't necessarily try to hit someone with our head But well, you don't you don't have any padding on it all though. It's not like you have helmets I hear I mean sometimes you have a little leather things I've seen pictures of people who have that but it doesn't seem like it would really help against a 200 pound guy slamming into you They teach you how to tackle differently in rugby where you don't use your head as much It's like mostly your arms and the rest of your body So it helps a lot. Yeah, the padding is pretty amenable I mean they have you can wear some padding like you said they're called scrum hats and they're basically like An inch or so thick maybe half an inch of just kind of squishy material And you can wear shoulder pads like I wear these little shoulder pads. They're basically the same thing But they provide enough support. So that's not necessarily a huge Impact, but just it's pretty minimal. Yeah And scrum caps are usually just used for your ears for cauliflower ear So like they're not really meant for protection. What is cauliflower ear? Yeah, it's um When you scrum like when you get in the scrum You put sometimes like if you play lock your head is in between other two other people It's like thighs like your ears will rub together So it makes kind of like they like swell up and get filled with this like liquid It's like severe ear trauma and like you'll see it sometimes in wrestlers too It's like the ear kind of turns inside out and so it just it doesn't look very good. It looks nasty. Yeah So you mentioned that about the between two other men's thighs and the scrum How often would you say you scrum in one game? Um, it just depends on the game because uh, yeah Like the more knock-ons the more you'll scrum. So it just like depends on the game But I'll be like on the average That's at least 20 Yeah, if we're playing like a bad team one where there's a lot of minor penalties We'll like we've scrum like 30 times in a game and then it's terrible Then you play like a good team and you maybe have five or six and Yeah, so the less scrums the better So who's attracted to this sport? Is there like a certain kind of guy that likes to scrum or? Uh, or maybe even a ruck if that's what you're into um Just kind of anyone really like A lot of random people play they're just like anyone can play Yeah, this being our first year we have a lot of guys from the football team out there And so a lot of people who are used to you know hitting people in contact But really anybody can play the sport. That's what's really cool about it You have 15 people on the field at the time if you're playing 15s and It's all teamwork. And so not one person has to be just that insane monster You know, of course, it's nice to have those people but anybody can really play the sport So we get a good mixture out there And uh take us through some rugby terminology everything is a little switched up from football Which people confuse because they associate the sport with football Because it's America. Yeah, and um anyways There's a few terms that was kind of unclear on a try Try example It's like the equivalent to a football touchdown And the only difference is that once you get into the try zone Which is like the touchdown or the end zone you have to put the ball down and wherever it's placed You have to kick from that angle also tries only with five points and kicks are worth two So kicks are with a lot more like In relativity in the sport, but you can't attempt a drop goal at any time and score three points, right? Yes, it's it's it's essentially like a field goal except. It's at any time you want to okay And there are no stops in rugby, right? It just all continues all flows into the game. Yeah pretty much non stop There's like penalties and breaks and stuff But it's it's kind of like soccer in the sense that it doesn't really stop. There's just a running clock I must be tiring. Yeah I've heard talk about a girls rugby team in davis Can you share some information about that? Is it the exact same thing or is it different? Same sport just like a really aggressive honda Girls rugby. I mean, I think our girls team is actually pretty good I'm fine with a couple of them, but the girls rugby is just They're they're aggressive people. I mean they're they're good at what they do and they're nice people But you know girls have long hair and nails and it it can just they're physical So I've seen a movie called Invictus, uh, do you think that's a good portrayal of the sport rugby? I think it glorifies it a lot I haven't particularly seen the whole movie actually so I don't know a ton But I think from what I've heard about it. It's really just it really resembles how much rugby Means to the population in south africa and all of african europe It's just how much you can have a whole country on your back as a national team At least that's what I can gather from it. And so I think that's really good for the sport Yeah, it's not really the case in the united states quite yet. Yeah, maybe someday. So rugby doesn't actually kill racism I I don't I don't know it might it could I haven't had to come across that situation yet Well, I thought we found a cure So I want to hear more about this concussion. Are you still playing or yeah actually got cleared To play tomorrow So how long were you out for I was out for three weeks And I had to do I took a baseline test and I had to get back up to my baseline before I got cleared and I took like These brain steroids. I don't even know they said steroids. But yeah, so um Yeah, that helped a lot I guess And now I'm back Did the brain steroids enhance anything else in your academic life? No, no, unfortunately. No Well, and how would they test you for concussions to make sure that you're back to the bar They gave me this concussion test and it has a bunch of questions Like do you have a headache all these other questions like dizziness and nausea and um after it happened I couldn't really walk because I kind of had to like help Get walk to the car. His parents carried him to the car. Yeah Yeah, they just said I had all the symptoms of concussion And I completely back to normal now. Yeah, actually, yeah You guys go ahead. I'm gonna address that. Yeah, so what do you have? I've heard that people who have gotten concussions are more likely to get them again Do you have that fear of playing rugby now that you're more susceptible to another head injury? Uh, not really. I just want to like I'll probably play a little more careful But I just want to play because I missed three weeks and Yeah Like for me, I think like I've had concussions before and I think that if I from rugby or football Uh, not from rugby. I think but basically it's just I think if I go out there Worried about getting hurt or playing a concussion. It's just going to happen more because I'm not focused I think if you're going full speed doing what you're supposed to do You're not as likely to get an injury. And so I think that uh If I go out there thinking I'm going to get hurt then I Just it's more prone to happen. Yeah, it's all about mindset. Yeah, okay I'll now show the audience what the object is Now I'll show nash car think car Another question, uh, so The fear of Concussions in other sports, do you think it's as high? Um compared to rugby or is rugby like this sport that you're just going to get hurt in? No, um rugby really isn't that bad. Um, there's actually more injuries in soccer than rugby and I feel like football Get most injuries. Yeah, let's get pretty unlucky rugby for some reason Yeah, it's I think rugby is just it gets a bad rap just because there's no pads and There's a lot of collisions, but it's really not as bad the physicality of it is still there But it's it's weird to say but it's a good physicality. It's gentle gentle hitting. Yeah At times it's just the physicality is better because you just after you get hit you're right back up and moving And so it's just kind of like a stinger and you're like, oh, it's fine. And so you feel better All right dylan. Are you ready to share your next? past with nash The audience will see what it is Now nash What do you think this is? Nigh Oh, I got this It's a rugby ball. Yeah, what? All right It's like it's a little like a knife. It's like three-dimensional. See it's like a see through rugby ball It's like a it's like three bananas Yeah, I can I feel like we see the effects of the concussion And now we go on to the more abstract part of the test All right, um, so for Future games Are you hoping to see like a growth in? People who want to be a part of the game Yeah, I mean we're coming up to the end of our season now We've been going since december or so. Yeah, so it's a pretty long season. Oh, um, but we've got Yeah, one or two more weeks and then a playoff tournament and so it's going to be It's going to be good and we're hoping next or more people will come out Yeah, there's probably going to be more interest in the sport because you guys have been doing well, right? Yeah, yeah, especially for a first-year team. It's been uh, it's been nice. We've had lots of support too So it's good. It's really enjoyable It's good All right, we'll now move on to the rorschach test Nash, what do you see? scribbles Oh Dots and some scribbles. Maybe a signature that's kind of weird I don't know It's a lamp. I thought it was a face I thought it was a face. Yeah, like two eyes and nose and an ear kind of a Picasso-esque It looks nice. Good. You should frame it It's good. All right. Well, I feel like from this test we can see that there's Definitely some side effects that come with concussion Not being able to read between the lines in that way when Nash Said that this picture illustrated simply scribbles and dots indicates The effects of brain injury and why you should always make a scrum cap All right, well, do you guys have any other closing statements you would like to say? I just I think rugby's good and anybody who's out there who wants to play rugby Definitely come out join the team try it out next year. I think it'll be great for you And then it'll definitely be great to have you out there. So That's that's what I think Do you want to draw anything? Um, all right. Well, thanks for joining us with Nash, Brendan and We will go and see one of their practices My highlight was scoring my first try in the first game of the season As the third try over of our team. That's pretty sweet. That's pretty sweet Do you guys like each other as teammates? Yeah, we're pretty tight. Yeah, I like him. Oh, us? Yeah, yeah, our team's pretty close. Yeah, we get along pretty well. We have fun Well that about wraps it up Today we covered a lot of things such as rugby concussions film I did a review of The epitome of fallow sled filmmaking in hollywood And I really think that rugby is going to be the next american football You know with all the violence. I think it's really going to be a huge draw for people in the years to come nor Yes, Dylan American football is the next american football and baseball is the second next american football We'll see We will see All right Well that about concludes things here on scrambled. We'll see you next time Stay classy, davis