From the Dungeons of Morningstar, I'm Clint.
And I'm Stretch, and this is Prevailing Strange.
Welcome back to Prevailing Strange, and this
is the segment, Our Week in Review, where we
cover the content that we've checked out this
week. Yeah. What have you? You're going to hear
us talk about it. You're going to hear us talk
about it. What have you checked out this week,
buddy? Not much, man. Not much? Not much. Watched
Fall Guy today, which was just absolutely epic.
Again. Again. We actually, Ali was tattooing
someone who was on set. So Tommy, her client,
was actually a background actor. Yeah, okay.
So he said he was in one of the big suits and
he had to stay. on set for a whole day in like
scorching heat and just sitting there talking
to him about it, hearing about it. It was pretty
exciting. And Four Guys still one of my top tier
film and Ryan Gosling still in the shit on my
chest. I asked him for Ryan Gosling's phone number.
He doesn't have it, which is a shame because
I'd like his phone number and I'd just send him
a picture of my chest with a target on it. It's
a positive. We talked about Annihilation last
week. I haven't had a chance because a mate of
mine named Stretch has basically told me that
if I didn't watch this show that he'd end our
friendship, in case you haven't paid attention
in previous episodes, called Full Metal Alchemist.
How are you going? Look. It's not how I thought
it was going to be. It's very Pokemon -esque
-like. It's aimed at children. It is. You've
got a kid who skits his out every time someone
calls him short. Yeah. There is comedy to it.
There is some blood and gore sometimes. The first
time I sat down and watched it, I was with Logan.
And it was just the opening scene where he's
doing the transmutation. And I was sitting there
and watching. I'm like, oh, I can't watch this
with Logan. But I can. I could if I wanted to.
It's not overly graphic. But there's parts of
the story that, like last night, I was watching
it and I got a bit emotional. It gets heavy,
man. It's getting there. I'm at episode 36. Teachers
just sort of come in and she's like, I used a
transmutation human. I used human alchemy when
I was pregnant. And this is the homunculus that
come about. And to hear how Al talks about his
brother and how important his brother is to him.
And there was a couple of other episodes where,
and it's all Al, man. I've got a real, I'm more
attached to Al than anyone else. Armstrong is
another favourite character. He's got the shittest
haircut. Mace. Mace died in episode 25 and I
was getting a bit attached to him too, like just
how excited he was to be a dad and just that
sort of shit. And then I've got to go home to
my family and then he's dead. Spoiler alert.
So there are bits that are heavy. I am enjoying
it. I find myself it's. Very, they're going here,
they're going there, but they're not, there's
a lot of time jumps, but they don't say they're
time jumps. So I find myself sort of going, hang
on a minute, hang on a minute. And then it takes
me a minute to reset because I'm not a smart
man. And I get it. I get your attraction to this
and your affinity for this. I really wish it
was more. aimed at adults we'll get to that but
i think i've only got what have we got 30 episodes
to go yeah i think the the reason i wanted you
to watch this first is it's pretty well rounded
yeah it has tropes of anime so i sent a meme
to a friend the other day about um how all anime
has its anime shit yeah we you know Blood out
the nose, the kind of weird faces, the fucking
stupid shit that goes on. There's different levels
of that throughout plenty of different anime.
This is like mid -tier, somewhere in the middle.
Right. You can get serious stuff, you can get
ridiculous stuff. Pardon me. I think this is
just a good introduction. Right, okay. And if
you get through it and you want more, I've got
heaps more. I understand what they're trying
to do. And another thing, it's the whole Super
Mario trope. Ooh, Princess Peach is in another
castle with the Philosopher's Stone. Oh, there's
always a fake Philosopher's Stone. Okay. All
right. And then you've got the seven deadly sins
as well. So you've got envy, gluttony, and all
that sort of shit. So there's a lot of balls
in the air at this point. Yeah. So I'm excited
for it to start wrapping up. Like there was a
scene in episode 27, I think, where they were
sitting there and he's like one of the bad guys
who's in a mech as well. And he's like, your
brother, you're not real. You're not Al. Your
brother created you to fill a hole. And he's
like, no, he's my brother. He loves me. He wants
to help me. And he goes, no, mate, you're just
a mech. You're nothing. Yeah. You think you're
L? You're not. Yeah. And just that existential
overcoming of that, it hit the right notes, man.
Yeah. There's subjects that it touches on. Yeah.
You know, you could probably watch it with a
kid. But if your kids switched on enough to kind
of pick up on things, they're going to be asking
some questions, man. And that's why, yeah. It
was, I mean, look, you were right. I'm enjoying
it. I am. But like you said, it is getting heavier
and heavier, but I'm still attached to Al. Yeah.
He's my character. Oh, Al is great. Al is one
of the backbones. Yeah. But like I said, when
you first said that Al was your favourite, Ed
gets better as he becomes more kind of compelling
because he's complex. He may be silly, stupid,
kind of like short -tempered, whatever, but what
he's trying to accomplish. Is a big thing. Is
a big thing. Yeah. Another character who I found
was really compelling, he is now homunculus,
but he's always whispering. And his daughter
was killed because of something that he did.
And now he is a camera. It's like off -putting
as shit. Everybody's talking like this. And he's
like, I don't know why you're doing this. Fuck
off. Get out. But yeah, enjoying it, man. I'm
enjoying it. Again, this is the first anime I've
ever watched in its entirety. I'm going to finish
it. I've watched bits and pieces of Pokemon.
I've watched bits and pieces of other things.
But when it comes to manga, I've only read one
manga in its entirety, and it was Bleach. Right.
And that, to me, I'm comparing it to Bleach,
and I shouldn't be. Bleach is a completely different
story. Bleach, I enjoyed up until, I never read
the manga, up until Chad, they changed the voice
actor. Right. I haven't watched the anime. I'll
stop watching it. Yeah, right. It just drove
me nuts because I didn't even try and make him
the same, similar voice. Right. It just completely
changed him. When I originally was given Bleach
by Joshy Brennan, who's a tattooist I worked
with when I was at Tattoos on Beaumont, he'd
give me Bleach. And it was off -putting because
I read the first chapter and it was the end.
And I'm like, what the fuck? Munger's written
backwards, man. So I was like, okay, that's a
new thing. Quick question. Last week I told you
about an amazing Deadpool's head. Have you given
it any thought? Not at the moment. Damn it. Maybe
one day when we open a Patreon and people pay
us to not go to work. Because I don't know whether
you've noticed, AI is popping off. I'm following
a couple of Instagram pages. One's called Stormtroopers
POV and one's called The Big Yeti. You sent me
a few of those. Okay. The stormtroopers POV one
is just like the stormtroopers walking around
with a selfie camera going, oh, you know, we're
just looking for these two robots on Dagobah.
We don't know where we're at. Oh, my God, I'm
lost. And it's hilarious. You know that emoji?
That's not prayer hands. It's a high five. I've
sent those to people that have heard bad news.
I thought they were prayer hands. I think a lot
of people do think they're prayer hands, but
no. High five, bro. Congratulations. Shit. Heard
you had to put your rabbit down. It's like I
read this Reddit post of their mum, this person's
mum, would end everything with LOL. Lots of love?
Lots of love. Yeah, no. Laugh out loud. Sorry
to hear about your loss. Hello, Al. Yeah. So
good. I'm going to let you drop this next thing
that we've both watched this week. Yes. I actually
watched it today because I wanted it to be fresh.
I watched it today as well. Killer of killers.
For the fourth time. For the fourth time. I've
watched it four times this week already. It was
sensational. Top tier, man. Top tier. Dan Trachtenberg,
please take a tip of your fucking enormous cap.
Oh, yeah. Which kind of era was your favourite
of the three? We're going to have to go with
the sword. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Fucking feudal
Japan. I've wanted to see one for years, man.
I wanted to see that before I seen Prey. Yeah.
However. However, if you haven't seen Killer
of Killers, I would fucking come back. We're
dropping spoilers, bro. We're dropping spoilers.
I'm sorry. Come back. At the end? Dog! When he's
handed that flintlock, and I'm like, hang on
a minute. Hang on. Where'd that come from? That's
in Predator 2 as well. It was in Predator 2.
That flintlock was given to Neera? Yep, in Prey.
At the end of Prey? Yeah. She takes it from the
French. Yeah. That fucking flintlock has been
more places than anyone. So this Yautja homeworld,
is this the Badlands homeworld? I don't know,
dude, because it looked quite Badlands -y. Well,
you've got the big bad general. How good did
he look, dude, with the spines coming off the
top of his head? Yeah, he looks sick. He's in
the trailer for Badlands. Is he? Yeah. I haven't
watched the trailer for Badlands. We have. We
watched it together, remember? No, we haven't.
Yeah, we have. Remember Ella Fenning's character?
It fucking turns off. She's a fucking... That's
an alien, bro. No, dude. That's in the Badlands
trailer. No, it wasn't. And she is a fucking
synthetic from Alien. No, wasn't that in Alien
TV? Shall we watch that? No, bro. No. That's
the Badlands. Remember with the young Yuu -Ucha?
Oh, yeah. And that big thing comes out? Yeah,
yeah, yeah. I think it is the thing that they
fight in the fucking... Coliseum. Well, this
is what – now, don't get me wrong. The bullet
was my least favourite episode. Yep. But they
needed somebody to fly the fucking thing. But
this is the thing, right? It pissed me off. It
was the whole Will Smith of it all. Oh, Will
Smith, you fought against one in the thing so
you know how to fly. That's the biggest stupid
trope I've ever seen. Oh, I've fought one of
these in the sky. I know how to fight. No, you
don't, dickhead. What if it's got some neural
interface that you have no idea about? Well,
that's the thing. Is there a fucking bipedal
humanoid creature? There's, you know, you assume
there's going to be some kind of similarities
across fucking. Does that mean a orangutan can
drive a fucking car? No. Can it fly a plane?
Well, it's never flown anything of its own. Shut
up. But. You know, if chimps were getting around
in gliders of their own technology, one might
be able to figure out a plane. Maybe. Dude, the
fight scenes in that movie, we're going to call
it a movie. It was a movie, yeah. Sensational.
Yeah. Oh, my Lord, dude. Yeah. I want more. Dude,
give. We're getting more. Dan Trachtenberg, just
everybody. Who's the studio that's doing Predator?
Is it Universal? I'm not sure, but they're doing
it right. Whoever it is, just sign Dan Trachtenberg
to an exclusive fucking contract and let him
do whatever he wants with Predator. Just give
him all the money and go come back to when you
got us something. You know, I'm pretty happy
that I left Pray to watch only a couple weeks
ago. Pray. Yes, sir. We've got Badlands coming
out in a couple of months. Yes, sir. Dude, how
good was it seeing her at the end in that capsule?
Yeah. Now, what I was looking for after I seen
her was, was Arnie in there as well? Yeah, well,
are we going to get her? Could you get Arnie
come back? They did it in Terminator. Yeah, I
don't know. Because the world looks very similar
to what they were. In that end. In Killer of
the Killers. Yeah, the Coliseum kind of. Are
we going to see the characters that escaped?
One Japanese samurai and what was he, Hispanic?
Spanish fucking pilot. Are they going to turn
up in the bad news? Well, the shield maiden is
still alive. She's not dead. She's frozen, yeah.
Oh, dude, I'm pumped, man. And that's the thing.
This is the thing. We're speculating about it,
and that's the best part. Excitement is just
– I'm pumped, man. I'm so excited for it. What
about the skull that the general's standing on
in the Coliseum? How big must have that thing
been for him to have killed it, and it's a trophy?
It's fucking sick, man. The scale of the Yutja.
Is that how we say it? Yutja? Yutja. Yeah. The
scale of them, they were really big. Some of
them. Yeah. Some of them weren't so big. Whereas
in the first Predator, he was quite, quite, he
was a petite king. Arnie was bigger than him.
Yeah, yeah, in size -wise. But, like, we have
seen different sizes. Like the one that they
dragged out, they cut his tentacles or whatever
they are off. Dreadlocks. Dreadlocks. He was
a skinnier cast. Like, yeah, we've talked about
it. I'll say it again. I do like that there's
variation in these characters. Yeah. It's very
cool. I was so – it was like every couple of
seconds there was a scene where I'm like, oh,
oh. Mm -hmm. It didn't go away. It didn't stop.
Even after a fourth watch, it doesn't stop. It's
funny because – Predator's never been my favourite.
The Yautja have never been my favourite, never
been a big fan of them. Didn't really like the
Predator movies back in the day. Watched them,
enjoyed them. Like I said, I've always been an
Alien fan. I'm opposite. These guys, they're
fleshing out the lore. They're becoming way more
interesting to me and I'm liking them a lot.
And that's what I'm hoping with the Alien TV
show, that it shows me something from the Xenomorphs
that I haven't seen yet. Show me some more lore.
Great, perfect. Well, I mean, they tried to show
more lore in Prometheus and stuff like that and
that kind of, a lot of people didn't like that.
But I fucking loved Prometheus. I loved Covenant.
I loved them all. I think Prometheus just showed
me more of the human side than the Xenomorph
side. Yeah. I didn't, I didn't, Prometheus to
me wasn't an alien film. It was more of a. An
antithesis to the human race. It was more of
that, the creation of earth. Yeah. But, dude,
I'm so pumped for this next installment of Badly.
Yeah. I'm so pumped. I like the crop circles
behind the – Behind the mechanic shed? Behind
the mechanic shed. That was pretty fucking cool.
So more review stuff. I finished the Annihilation.
Okay. The novel. I'll be interested to see how
you go when you watch it. Watch the show. I definitely
think it's better to watch the show first. I'm
always that way. And read. I'm always that way.
Yeah, because it's visually spectacular to watch.
Really? Yeah, but they do change some things
up from the book to the movie, which I'm fine
with that because they're almost two separate
things, but there's very similar beats. But,
yeah, you get that picture in your head of what
everything looks like, this Area X. Yeah, very,
very cool. Yeah, right. So I think that's all
I've watched. I've only watched Killer of Killers
this week, Raid Annihilation, and I'm halfway
through book 12 of He Who Fights With Monsters.
Right, okay. Thoroughly enjoying it. Can't wait
for it to be over, but at the same time, not
looking forward to the wait to the next book.
Right, okay. Look, and the fact that they pump
out books as quick as they are these days, and
when we say pump out, they're like doing two
books a year. Well, so Travis Deverell, the author,
who goes by Shirtaloon on Royal Road, that's
where he releases. What's Royal Road? So Royal
Road's kind of like, you know how fan fiction
gets released online? Yeah. So Royal Road's more
for people who want to make original stuff and
release it online. Like a lot of books gain traction
on there. That's what happened with Dungeon Crawler
Carl. Yeah, right. It was released online kind
of chapter by chapter, whether it's weekly, bi
-weekly, monthly, whatever. People read it to
the point where it got that much traction that
somebody went, we'll release that for you as
a book. Well, it's funny you say that because
my dear friend Kira. Oh, yes, she wrote a book,
didn't she? She's written several books. When
we say she's wrote books, she's written these
– she got drunk one night and decided to – that's
not how you write a stall. Are these original
books? Are they fan fictions? Are they spicy
books? No, they're not spicy books. Oh, they
are actually. So it's on – here we go. On Goodreads,
it's got 4 .6 stars and it's got 2 ,693 reviews.
Nice, nice. What's the book called? Store. Store.
S -T -A -L -L. It's on, what is that book that
she releases it on? It's a free, it's again where
you. There's a few of these sites. Yeah. I can't
remember the name of it. Where's she done it?
We'll figure it out later. I'll put it. But she,
dude, she's got millions. And when I say millions,
it's not one. The last time I checked, there
was 3 million reads on this thing. And she has,
the way that she has, I've read a couple of chapters
of this book and it's absolutely incredible.
And she goes, I just got drunk one night and
write. She just writes a chapter every month
and puts it up. Yeah, it's very cool. It's so
good. I think self -publishing is a very big
thing these days where a lot of authors would
have to shop their book around to different publishing
houses and either not get picked up or picked
up. There's so many stories of authors who have
become big time, who have shopped it around to
that many and it's just been somebody's picked
it up on a whim or it's been an accident that
it's been picked up. And they've become one of
the biggest fucking authors in the world. Yeah.
Nobody wanted to give them the time. Well, now
you've got this platform where people can write.
They can either, you know, get their chops by
fucking releasing stuff that might be subpar
to what they eventually release. Yeah. Or they
can be like Travis Deverell or Matt Dinnaman
who did He Who Fights the Monsters. Dungeon Crawl
Carl, respectively, gained so much traction that
they're just like, okay, we'll release this to
people who want to read or listen. Like I said
to Kira, I don't know how you get on Audible
and shit, but I'd love to. See, that's something
I want to do. Since I was in high school, I've
wanted to be an actor or a voice actor or something
like that. I'm like, I'd love to narrate your
book, dude, because it's about a serial killer.
Right. The initial story of how she started writing
it was fucking hilarious. That's something you'd
have to read the book for because I'm not going
to blast her on this. Well, man, a lot of these
people who read books, like narrate books, they
do it from their home in their closets. Yeah.
Well, I still haven't come out of the closet
yet. I'd like to. Yeah, dude, I'd love to do
it. And I talk. Yeah. So much. So, yeah, it'd
be fun. Yeah, it'd be cool. And it's based in,
like, her book is based in Melbourne. Right,
yeah. So my Australian accent wouldn't be out
of place. Well, so he who fights with monsters,
the main character is Australian. Yeah, right.
And the guy that narrates it is Australian. So
there's a lot of comedic beats that I think you
and I would get that international audiences
might not. Yeah. Because he's a smart -ass Australian.
Yeah, right. But apart from your views, man,
that's all I've got for you. Actually, stop.
Rachel, because I'm taking Rachel down to the
Titanic expedition, exhibition, exhibition next
week for a birthday. And she's been watching
everything Titanic. But there's a new documentary
on Netflix about the Titan submersible. Yeah.
My brother was watching it. Bro. Yeah. Bro. How
this guy wasn't arrested, I do not know. Yeah.
They've released... You just kept pushing them
and pushing them and engineers were quitting.
Dude, they released the fucking sounds of this
carbon fibre tube going down. It got to 3 ,000
metres and it sounded like it was just fracturing,
dude. You know how you get an aluminium... Like
this. He's like, oh, we're good. We're good.
We're fine. Bro, you weren't fine. I've seen
the excerpt of his wife up on the ship, and they're
interviewing her as he's down there and doing
this descent, his final descent, and they're
listening in and whatever, and they hear this
particular pop, and she's like, what was that?
And you see, like, the worry on her face, but
then she kind of covers it up, and the people
interviewing her keep on talking. But that was
the exact moment that he was gone. Dude, there
was an underwater observation area, 600, I can't
remember the exact miles, but it was, I think
it was like 600 miles, I think, away. And it's
just like. I heard it. Yeah, right. It picked
up the implosion from 600 miles away. Horrific.
Horrific. The fact that four lives were extinguished,
and you can't blink as fast as they were extinguished,
but the amount of shit that this guy just ignored,
man, and he put three other lives at risk. Fuck
you, dude. You deserve to rot in hell. There
was a kid on that submersible, man. He was told
by university engineers. He was told, I forget
the big firm, but it was, dude, he was told,
don't do this. 50 unmanned to that depth. Do
50 and then talk. He did five manned. He didn't
listen, man. He sacrificed so many people's lives.
And there was a guy who was a social media influencer
who went out and he was going to go down to the
Titanic. And he went out to the ship and for
the six days he was on the ship getting ready
to go down, it was shit weather. So he's like,
you know, it's beyond. So they did a little dive.
I think it was a 50 -meter dive he went down.
And he's got photos on his social media of him
with his feet up on this porthole. Like just,
oh, look at me underwater, blah, blah, blah,
in the submersible. Yeah, having a great time.
Going in to see the Titanic. They interview that
guy. And it's quite literally he left that ship
two days prior to them going down. And, mate,
he just burst into tears. And he's like, the
only bit that's on the bottom of the ocean that
they collected was where he had his feet. And
he's like, why? Why was I allowed to live? Wow.
Horrific, dude. So sad. And just hearing this
carbon fibre splintering. Chilling. Horrendous.
Horrific. Yeah. Fuck that guy. Fuck that guy.
Fur in the arse with a pineapple, man. Yep. On
that note, do you want to send us out? Sorry,
everyone. That's how we're going to go. Yeah.
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