From the Dungeons of Morningstar, my name's Stretch.
And I'm Clint, and this is Prevailing Strange.
So this is Rant and Sundry, an instalment of
Prevailing Strange where we talk shit and you
get to listen. I've got a few jokes for you.
Oh, fuck. Straight into it. All right. Okay.
Just so you know, take it easy on me for the
first couple because I'm a little bit tipsy and
I'm a little bit high. So just be easy on me,
all right? Okay. We'll start easy. You laugh
before already. Okay. Yeah. Let's go. Come on.
Be serious. We're professionals. Come on. My
granddad, he... poured his blood, sweat, and
tears into his profession. Truly great man. Fucking
horrible chef. Hey. Might have been a cannibal.
Might have been a cannibal. It's fucking, man,
it's on fucking, on brand. Whoa. Whoa. Does that
mean you're a cannibal? No. You said you were.
Why'd the old man fall down the well? Because
he couldn't see that well. Like a horrible man.
That's terrible. You said the start off easy.
Have you got more? Yeah, dude, I've got three
more. Oh, shit. Okay. Composed. You want to know
why I wear socks during sex? Because condoms
are too expensive. Do you know why I find that
doubly funny? Because when I refer to people's
stepkids, I call them socks. And you wear them.
You want to know why Mexico doesn't do too well
in the Olympics? Because anyone that can run,
jump or swim has made it across the border already.
I didn't go seek world champion. One more. Oh,
fuck off, dude. Okay, one more. Two fellas are
walking down the street. They see a dog licking
its balls. Oh, you son of a bitch. One says to
the other. Wish I could do that. Everyone looks
back and goes, yeah. Probably try patting him
first. Buy dinner first. When you pet a dog,
dude, and he just lets you do it. All right,
they're my jokes. Oh, dude. That cracks me up.
Dude, speaking of being a pedophile, man. Dude,
Theo Vaughn, one of the funniest men. If I didn't
know that fucking line, I'd be like, whoa, hang
on. When you met a dog, he just let you do it.
God. Even the little baby one that comes out
is so good. But I was sitting there the other
day and even just watching Theo with people who
have been through some shit and he just. One
of the funniest people alive and when they start
getting deep, he just lets them and listens.
He's so patient and, dude, there should be more
people like Theo Vaughn in the world, that's
for sure. And then I seen a reel the other day
of this bloke he was up in. It was in a band
and they were playing in this venue where Theo
Vaughn was. Anyway, he's walked up to Theo and
Theo was, you know. This is the altercation.
Yeah, dude. And he's just like, old mate was
getting up in his face and literally, dude, I
don't know if. Some bloke that I don't know,
regardless if I'm famous or not, got up in me
face. Even if he's just being nice, drunk people
spit everywhere. Sober people spit everywhere.
If you spit on me face, dude, I'm not going to
stand there and cop it either. I'll push you
away. Just because he's famous doesn't mean you
deserve his time. Even everybody deserves their
personal space. Don't get up in his face. Just
because they're famous doesn't give you access
to them whenever they're out. Watch them on TV.
Watch them in a reel. But go to their concert
if you want to see them. But don't fucking leave
them alone when they're outside. Hey, man, love
your work. Yeah. And if he wants to chat, he'll
chat. Dude, fucking oath. Yeah. And you see a
lot of that with the reels of like Post Malone
and that. And he is overly friendly, overly genuine
guy. Like if you say something nice to him, he'll
sit down and have a conversation with you and
shit. That's. It's all well and good for a little
bit, but what happens when he's got a family,
he's got kids? Yeah. You know, he's led – there's
this – I reckon if you're in the public eye,
if you're – let's say you're a music star. If
you go out, no one should ever approach you.
It's just a thing. You're a human being. I don't
just walk up to a stranger on the – if I see
a stranger on Facebook and I walk up and I'm
like, hey, man, I've seen you on Facebook the
other day. Yeah. It's like – It was probably
six years ago. I went and seen the Wonder Years,
one of my favourite bands, in Camber. And beforehand,
we'd seen them in a restaurant having dinner
before the show. And I forget who it was with.
They'd kind of said, oh, you're going to go say
hello? I'm like, nah. Nah, they don't need that.
They're having dinner. Let them be. They're about
to go stand up in front of 200 people, 300 people,
400 people, whatever. Yeah. Yeah. You know, people
do meet and greets for a reason. You want to
meet your star, go to their event, go to their
meet and greet. Yeah. If they don't have a meet
and greet, sorry. Yeah. Yeah, they put out music
that you enjoy. Yeah. Content that you enjoy.
They don't owe anything to you. Not at all. No.
If anything, you owe them their privacy. Yeah.
You have access to them all the time. Put their
CD in the thing. Oh, put this in. Fuck, show
my age. Put their MP3. Stream their thing on
Spotify. Get on Netflix and watch their movie.
You've got access to their craft and their art
constantly, dude. Feel free. And then, yeah,
like you said, any time that they do conventions,
they do. AMAs on Reddit. Yes, dude. Like there
is ways to kind of – Have that personal interaction.
When they want that. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know,
man. I've never been – you know, I've been a
rugby league fan all my life. Played it since
I was eight. And there's been times where me
and – even when me and Branchie went to Melbourne,
we were literally from – me to that doorway from
Paul Gullen. And, you know, he was a New South
Wales captain at that time, one of the biggest
stars of – one of the biggest heroes in the NRL
to date. But – Thanks, mate. You could have waited.
That's right. But me and Branch, you just – it's
fine. Yeah. Just when you walk past, Paul, love
your work, mate. Yeah. Yeah, and he'll probably
appreciate that more. He'll probably think about
you more than some other arsehole that's come
up in their face. It's like that dickhead on
the aeroplane with Mike Tyson and he was just
kissing the back of his head, being a smart arse.
Just Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike. And then gets
punched in the mouth and all of a sudden wants
to just take him into court and shit. Yeah. Hey,
mate, you played the agile game of fuck around
and find out and guess what, son? You won first
prize. 100%. The baddest man on the planet for
a reason. He bites off blokes' fucking ears.
He wanted to eat his children. And you thought
he could badmouth the kid? Man, I love this version
of Mike Tyson, but when you sit there and you
watch an interview with him and then he's sitting
there and he's like laughing, he's jovial and
that, and then he talks about his daughter. And
then you just see this switch, man, his eyes
just. And he's like, you've got to go. You need
to leave right now. And it wasn't he was pissed
off. It was just he was thinking about his daughter
again. And he got up and he goes, I appreciate
your time. Shook his hand. He goes, but you need
to leave. Baddest man on the planet, motherfucker.
Yeah. Baddest man on the planet. Like, Tab, that
switch is never going to go away. Yeah. Fuck
no. It's there. Speaking about dangerous people,
beings, whatever. Back to the Yautja, the predators
we were talking about last week and collecting
their skulls in a touchback on next week, last
week's episode. You need to get away from eating
people right now. You're going down a slippery
slope. It's all right to fantasize. Oh, bro.
Oh, fucker. So I did some research on that because
we had talked about it and I genuinely didn't
know. Prey. In prey, they eat the root. That's
right. You watch. So the marigold is what it
is. So apparently it does have properties in
reducing body temperature and fever. They've
pushed it a little bit further to, you know.
To be sub -zero. But, I mean, that's kind of
cool that they. Bring a bit of science. Yeah.
So it's generally acknowledged that they collect
the skulls as trophies. Yes. just to showcase
their prowess. This does seem to be some correlation
between the first two Predators and the Predators
movie, where they only keep the spines of those
who have stood up for others, that have only
taken up a blade, like a primitive weapon, and
saved others. Oh, right. Apparently. So they
think there's a... Genome or something in the
spinal fluid that gives them a thing. So that
came out, that was related to The Predator, the
last movie. They kind of said that. Not everybody
kind of likes that lore. Predators? No, no, no,
The Predator. Oh, where he gets a predator suit
at the end. The one with Olivia Munn and all
that. Yeah. I haven't seen it. No, dude, honestly,
give it a watch. Not overly bad, no. Not bad.
The last five minutes gets a bit fucky, but,
dude, not bad at all. It's good. I think a lot
of people don't like that one. Yeah. That's where
the spinal cord thing came in. So, yeah, apparently
I was reading this Reddit page. My mate said
that, yeah, he only keeps the spines of people
who have sacrificed themselves for others. Yeah,
right. Yeah, and who've taken up primitive weapons
against them. Nice. So, yeah. I like that. Like
we were talking earlier on about the internet.
Mm -hmm. Have you heard this theory, the dead
internet theory? Oh, that does sound familiar,
like a rabbit hole I went down on a long time
ago. Well, I was fucking just scrolling last
night and Race was like, oh, look at this, and
showed me this reel. And it was this chick just
talking on Instagram, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah. Yep. Just doing all this thing, and then
she's taking her clothes off and shit, and she's
like. Broadcasting her OnlyFans link in the bottom.
I'm like, what the fuck? Okay, fair enough. And
I just didn't think anything about it. She goes,
that's not real. Like what? She goes, that's
a dude on Instagram who only films AI content
and then posts it as this AI character on OnlyFans.
This motherfucker had 275 ,000 subscribers on
OnlyFans. Well, I mean, there's. AI influences
people who have got virtual. Do these dumb cunts
not know that they've got the tools as well to
do that shit? I mean, yeah, I don't know. I mean,
people watch hentai. It's literally drawn fucking
shit. Whatever floats your boat, really. As long
as it doesn't hurt anybody that's innocent, I
don't give a fuck. AI scans from millions of
files, right? Billions of files, trillions of
files every day. and every second to get access
to that AI content, right? Like it depends on
the model. It pulls from different areas and
mixes it into one. So most AI models only have
a certain, they don't have complete access to
the internet. Right. They've only got whatever
they're fed. Right. So would I maybe happen to
feed images to this AI thing to create his AI
model? No, he would have generated something
on a prompt. Yeah, right. And then I would imagine
he would have created a character. He's paying
high end, obviously, for this kind of content
to create it in the first place because, man,
some of the free stuff, pretty fucking janky.
11 fingers. Yeah, yeah. So there is some pretty
convincing shit out there. Yeah. You cannot tell.
Yeah. No, there's an uncanny valley. I don't
think I've been fooled yet. Fucking not on this
one. It looked like she was wearing a beauty
filter when a bottle passed in front of her face
and that was it. Yeah. Legitimately. But I was
probably quarter asleep at the time. So they've
probably, you know, had some prompt to generate
a skin and they're probably using videos. Well,
he is doing, he's puppeting. Okay, yeah. So he's
mo -capping it. Yeah. Which is weird because
if she's doing OnlyFans content, where is he
putting that dildo? Who knows? He's either simulating
or he's doing the thing. To his gooch. To his
chocolate starfish. And hot dog flavoured water.
But that's what I thought about earlier. I'm
thinking then in my dead internet rabbit hole
that I went down, I see the breakup that's stopping
the nation. Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk. The
best parody there is to America. The lover's
spat. America is a parody of itself. Oh, dude.
He's come out tonight, he's like, oh, the only
reason why Donald Trump's not releasing the Epstein
files is because he's on them everywhere. They're
trading shit backwards and forwards because I
don't think Trump's on X at the moment. I think
he's on something else. But people are screenshotting
shit. Oh, right. So it'd be on threads. Yeah.
Oh, no, that's run by the robot. So it'd be heavily.
I think he's, I don't know what he's on. Maybe
he's on like some Patriot or some bullshit. I
don't know. Some fucking made up. Yeah. That
Elon Musk must not sleep. And like, it's, it's
highly documented that he doesn't. Three hours
a day, man. Yeah. And he's just like, when I
saw that, I went and checked out his. And he's
just fucking sharing and fucking carrying on
fucking all hours of the day. Like, it sounds
like fucking high school shit. It shows the time
that he does it. Yeah, it's got the time stamp
on it. And it's like, man, this is like high
school drama. It's fucking hilarious. Ten bucks,
one of them's dead in 12 months. Oh, man. But,
like, the amount of money. that Trump has made
himself since he's done all this tariff bullshit.
I try not to get into politics. Oh, yeah, dude.
You kind of can't help it. This isn't politics
at the moment. It's a fucking comedy. It's comedy.
It's a comedy of errors. Yeah. His worth is like
10 times what it was before he was president,
some bullshit. Oh, dude, they've had so many
schemes pop up in the last six months. It's ridiculous.
Surely, surely they have to fucking. Not indict.
What would they do to him before? Impeach. Surely
they'd have to impeach him again. And he wants
to run for a third season. He wants to be the
first president to ever do it. Yeah. Even though
that's not what they do. Fuck off. But, I mean,
he's the only one to come back after being outed.
And he pardoned himself, bro. If that's not just
going, yeah, motherfuckers, watch this. That's
the definition of hold my beer. Big dick energy.
Yeah, dude. Oh, man, he's a fucking. I can't
stand him. I just can't stand the fella. I remember
when he first come in and everyone's like, oh,
he's a businessman and he's this and they're
trying to kind of. He's burning this fucking
down. And now a lot of these same people are
like, what's he doing? I'm like, come as fucking
lost to begin with. It'd be hilarious if at the
end of this America is better than it ever was.
That'd be so fucking, that'd be the ultimate
dick punch. Well, see, he was saying something
about that's it, Apple. You're not manufacturing
in China anymore. You're doing everything in
America. Fucking Apple stuff products are expensive
enough as it is. Yeah. Well, I think it's going
to cost them like $600 million or something just
to move their fucking shit to America. Let alone
they've got to start sourcing their own, like
China's not going to give them the cobalt and
everything that they need if they take their
stuff away, surely. He doesn't think of this
shit though. But that was like, oh, fuck. He
just runs his fucking mouth. Dude, he runs his
mouth and he just doesn't think. Like there was
one the other day about there was a tattoo on
Knuckles and he goes, oh, that really says MS
-13 on it right there. And they're like, mate,
that's Photoshopped. And he goes, you didn't
see the picture. It said MS -13. No, mate, it
was Photoshopped to say that that's what they
thought, them icons on his knuckles. Fuck off.
Speaking of Oompa Loompas, I watched this thing
the other day. It was on YouTube and it's a five
-minute, it's like a trailer introduction, right?
But it's an Oompa Loompa speaking to the camera.
Right. And they're talking about it's shot like
a true crime thing, like a true crime documentary.
With all the kids dying in the factory. Have
you seen all these AI fucking interviews of like
a man in fucking ancient Rome and fucking they're
talking to David before he fights Goliath and
man, AI is fucking bullshit. It's fucking...
Or like these fake interviews at fake fucking
conventions and shit with completely fake people
that... If you were just to scroll past it, you'd
think it was just 100 % real, but it's like you
watch it for a couple of minutes and you're like,
yeah, something's off about this. The amount
of time between when AI really kind of kicked
off to now, what, 16 months, 18 months, fucking
two years, maybe three? Yeah. What's going to
happen in the next three years with AI, man?
Yeah. Like they've got fucking people getting
confused by AI -generated fucking clips of their
own voices and they're like, which one was your
voice? You can't tell. And they can't tell. They're
like, it's very similar, like what did they say,
but they're like, I don't know. It did. And like
you said, what's it going to be like in 12 months?
What's it going to be like in two years? What's
it going to be like in five years, man? We're
middle -aged. We've only lived, touch wood, we've
only lived half our life. Yeah. What the fuck's
going to happen in 10 years, Stretch? Is this
fucking VHS fucking streaming for us? You know
what I mean? But not just that. We're the only
generation that's seen VHS, CRT TV. The LaserDisc,
CD -ROM, all that sort of shit, right? Straight
to full digital. Straight to full digital, dude.
You're walking around with the power to launch
the fucking NASA rocket in your hand. A hundredfold.
A hundredfold. Yeah. In your hand. Yeah. I've
got it on my watch. It's fucking wild, man. Like,
I have heard that statement before that as millennials,
our generation is the generation that went from
kind of one world to another. Yeah. you know,
pre -information age to the information age and,
like, just the quantum leap in fucking technology
and media and everything that we've had is fucking
wild. It will be interesting because you look
at things today and you're like, fuck, that is
the clearest TV I've ever seen. I can't tell
if that's AI. Oh, that might be AI. Man, that
music is so clear. It sounds like I'm in a fucking
auditorium listening to that. That's now. Are
we going to get that same progression in the
next 30 years from the last thing I kind of remember?
Or do you think it's going to cap out? Or are
we just going to get slightly better for a while?
Right. Until that format changes to something
else, to like brain interface. This is where
we're going. I reckon we're going to go to the
singularity. We're going to be going to the direct
brain interface. We're already getting, we've
got a Neuralink already. It works. It's out there
right now. There's people walking around with
Neuralink right now. Give that 10 years, we're
all going to have Neuralink. It's now a literal
fact that you can buy something off the internet
right now where you run it around the outside
of this table and then everything in the inside
of that table is powered wirelessly. It costs
you $16 to buy that cable. You get 10 years and
you will have direct brain neural link access.
Like your phone won't be a thing. You'll think
of something, it'll happen. And I'm excited.
It's wild times, man. I'm so pumped, dude. To
go from VHS to fucking neural link in our lifetime.
Yeah. The thing that I'm interested about that
is, is it going to slow down? Like, man. Facebook
and all that kind of thing, how much social media
has kind of dumbed down generations, I think,
around us. It has. Older and younger. So that
kind of influence, what's this influence going
to have like on, say, the space race? Are we
going to kind of give up on space because it's
just easier to fucking jack off to fucking porn
in your head? Idiocracy. Yeah. Yeah, everyone's
going to be wearing Crocs. Hosing their yard
down with fucking Gatorade. Need electrolytes,
man. We need electrolytes. No, bro. Oh, man,
it's going to be weird. Well, you can see now,
President Camacho right now is the President
of the United States. Terry Crews is running
the country right now from idiocracy. Pretty
much. Kind of rock up in a monster truck scene,
you watch. Pull up on the fucking White House
lawn in a monster truck, limousine with big gold
fucking bull horns on the thing. Fucking turn.
Dude, I'm going in November. I can't wait to
see me mates, but fuck me am I scared. I'm so
nervous. Nah. It gets played up. I know I'm a
white male, so I'll be okay, but. Fucking President
Camacho. The mind boggles at what is potentially
going to happen. But see, and then you got this
other, you swing the other way. In the 60s, they
went to the moon. Did they? Yeah, 100 % they
did. Yeah, they did. Yeah, they did. They did.
Why didn't they? Because they, well, if they
did, they didn't step foot on it and they went
to the dark side, seen some shit that they didn't
want to see, come home and cried. And why is
there mirrors on the moon? So that he can have
a good hard look at himself. No, it's so they
can measure how far the moon is moving away from
us. I know there's mirrors on the moon. That
we put there? Yeah, they could have been put
there remotely though. With that technology that
we had? Yeah, you can. No, there was a three
minute delay between fucking the moon and earth.
Yeah, but the president was talking to them live
in colour, in black and white. It was a delay.
No. The president spoke, they responded. True
story. I was there. Yeah. But, again, we talk
about it. We should be able to launch a mission
to Mars or to, not Mars, mission to the moon
with our phone. So why haven't we? There's nothing
there for us. The dark side hasn't been mapped
yet, buddy. Why? When the compass at the moon
holds no kind of financial kind of. Like, I think
China wants to go there. But, like, so they went
there, they found some fucking rocks and shit,
like, came back, there was nothing of interest.
It cost them a lot of money and the race was
kind of compelled by the space race with Russia.
But then once they'd already made it to the moon,
it was kind of like, no, we don't really need
to go back. Yeah, but we don't need to put a
fucking Tesla Model S into the fucking, into
the low orbit either. No, that's gone. That's
gone, man. They've sent that out. Yeah, I know,
but there was no point to it. He still spent
millions of dollars doing it. I mean, Matt Rober
just spent millions of dollars putting a camera
in space so you can take a selfie up there. You
can access the satellite from your computer and
then you can take a selfie from space. He spent
$5 million of his own money doing that. Yeah,
okay. Yeah, I just didn't. I don't think there
was any kind of monetary reason for him to go
back. Just to say we can. We did that. Yeah,
but did we? Yeah. I don't believe you. They did
it twice, didn't they? Didn't they go to the
moon twice? Once, man. Oh, no. No, just that
foot on the moon twice, yeah. Yeah, but where's
the footage, Jeremy? What do you mean? There's
no footage. The original footage was lost. It
was taped over. Yeah. You got to watch the White
Files, man. Did you watch the Joe Rogan? Shout
out to Joe Rogan. Needs all the help he can get.
Follow, subscribe. Did you watch his podcast
the other day with AJ Gentile? AJ Gentile. Fucking
another dead set legendary podcaster. The White
Files. Give him a shout out. They've got like
seven million followers or whatever. Dude, you
got to watch it. A really good episode. Yeah.
I've heard it's pretty good. They both geek out
about each other and they both geek out about
stuff that's weird and abnormal and fucking exciting.
I've seen the crypts. Hang on a fucking minute.
Don't you like Bigfoot? I wish cryptids were
real. Do you believe we went to the moon? Yeah.
Silly sausage. So silly. I honestly do not see
a reason for him to lie for that. To bankrupt
the USSR. To say, oh, we're doing this, we're
doing this, so the USSR pledges all their money
to it and just before the USSR releases their
thing that they're going to the moon, the United
States go, oh, we've already been there. Stanley
Kubrick directed by the movies. No. Let's go,
conspiracy theories. I actually seen a pair of
jeans the other day. They look pretty fucking
sweet. There was a burning tower on one leg and
a burning tower on the other. Fuck, it looks
so good. But then again, I've seen this other
reel the other day, and it's like, if a man can
go back in time, what would he do? And it's like
these planes are flying towards the Twin Towers,
and a bloke pulls out an RPG and goes, and blows
both planes out of the air. And everyone's like,
yeah, yeah. And then the building just falls
down anyway because it was an inside job. The
planes had nothing to do with it. Did you see
the other day in the Ukraine? A plane flew into
a building. You know what it did? Broke some
windows. Oh, man. Yeah, I'm on the fence about
9 -11. I don't know. I feel like Lois Griffin
when she's going for mayor and she just gets
up and she goes, 9 -11. And everyone's like,
oh, my God, yes, woo. And then he's like, what
about your policy? Like a reporter goes, what
about your policies? What are you going to show
us? Are you going to see the American people?
And she goes, nine. And the crowd goes, and she
goes, 11. And it was like, yeah, woo. It's just
like, fuck off. And that's exactly what it's
about. Oh, man. I don't know how Seth MacFarlane
has a mean shot. If there's someone I'd like
to shake hands with, it's that bloke. Yeah. Not
someone that's going to cure cancer or anything,
that guy. I'll tell you what, we're talking about
conspiracy theories. How about next week our
rant and sundry is just conspiracy theories?
I'm going to need more time. You're going to
have to get more SD cards, bro. People like conspiracy
shit. Oh, dude, I froth on conspiracy theories.
Hang on. If you're on the fence about 9 -11,
can you tell me how Building 7 burned down? No.
Can you tell me how the building was shut down
for three hours every night for 14 days leading
up to the bombing? No. Oh, shit. That's what
I'm saying. I'm not an offence about it. Can
you tell me how the beams burnt for three days
later and they were cut on a 45 -degree angle?
I think that was done post -accident to kind
of clear. There was no thermite on the site.
What? There was no thermite on site. Gas acts
a fucking pole to fucking cut it. It was thermite.
They'd done chemical analysis on it. Yeah, I
don't know. Like, listen, when it comes to conspiracy
theories, I am a curious observer. I'm a curious
sceptic. I want to believe. I'm a curious sceptic.
With everything, I'm interested. I am not going
to put my life on the line for, I'm not going
to die on any hill. No, don't die on a hill.
Die in my arms. By the way, we should get a little.
We should Deadpool. You should animate his face
and he can be our little character and he just
says obnoxious shit. Like just such weird. You
do that. Oh, yeah. All right. Wrap us up, buddy.
Thanks so much, everybody, for joining us on
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Please give us stuff to talk about. Otherwise,
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