From the dungeons of Morningstar, I'm Stretch.
And I'm Clint. And again, this is Prevailing
Strange. This installment of Prevailing Strange
is what we like to call Rant and Sundry, where
we get to touch on some of the subjects that
we've already touched on. I said touched on twice.
Anyway, yeah, we might tell some jokes and, yeah,
we'll see how we go. Yeah, talk shit. Talk shit.
All right, you got some jokes for me? All right,
I got one for you. Mm -hmm. I really don't understand
America's, like, why are they so against the
metric system? They've been using 9mm in schools
for years. Oh, we're going there already? Oh,
I've got more. Are we going to go one for one
or what? No, you wait. You wait. Today I saw
a small person climbing down the wall of a prison.
I thought to myself, that's a little condescending.
Did you know that Mortal Kombat is actually based
on a Scandinavian church? It's a Finnish hymn.
Fucking hell. That one's a bit of a stretch.
No way. That's fucking good. What do incels and
Excel spreadsheet have in common? Oh, here we
go. Both frequently assume that they're a date,
but they're not. Oh, fuck. That's a good one.
Oh, man. Oh, shit. I'll get ahead of it already.
All right, that's a few. Let me tell a few. Hang
on. No, no, no, you save them for next week.
Oh, you're a dog. A weasel walks into a bar.
The bartender looks down and goes, wow, never
served a weasel before. What's your name? Pop,
goes the weasel. That's so shit and it's so good.
I knew you'd like it. Oh, love shit jokes. Oh,
let's go. Okay, you got two more. Better make
them good ones. Why don't cows have horns? They
do. No, fuck, I stuffed that one up. Silly sausage.
We'll start again if this one doesn't hit. Yeah,
if this one doesn't hit. Anyway, why do cows
wear bells? Why? Because their horns don't work.
It works even better. Fuck. It works even better
because you fucked it up the first time. What's
the difference between Jesus and a picture of
Jesus? It only takes one nail to hang a picture
of Jesus. Oh, fuck off. Fucking Jesus. Cheese
and rice. Well done, sir. Well done. I have a
headache once again. Appreciate you. So that's
it for everything. Oh, dude. Oh, God dang. Well,
that's the jokes. That's the jokes. That's the
jokes of the week. And do you have any subjects
you want to bring up? We were talking earlier.
And I said, I'll leave it for the Rant and Sundry
episode. But I can't remember what it was. I
should have took a note. Probably should have.
We were talking about music art the other day.
Yeah. Now, like I said, there's a band that's
been giving me such good positive juju, Electric
Callboy. Well, they've got a drummer, Frank Zuma.
Right. And he's from Sum 41. So when they come
to Australia, David had to rush home. So that
was their original drummer. And he's recently
left the band. He wants to focus on his family
and blah, blah, blah. So Frank Zumo is now doing
the European tours. And he was done an interview
the other day and he's like, you know, when I
was with Sum 41, we'd get to stage five minutes
early. Electric Callboy, they want to be on stage
half hour early. Yeah, right. And I didn't get
it. Like, why? And he's like, and then they say,
no, you've got to put in your ear monitors. So
he puts on his ear monitor and he's like, it's
just straight hardcore techno. And they're going
nuts. They're having a party before the thing.
And I'm like, man, this is the shit. I've never
been a fan of Frank Zuma's drumming. Yeah. But
it was just, it's this sort of environment that
makes you appreciate other artists. I've never
really been into Sum 41, but now I'm a fan of
Frank Zuma. Yeah, okay. And it's made me want
to go back and re -watch all his other stuff
to the point where I've been watching drummers
on YouTube. Now, there's a clip and it's of Denny
Carey, who's the drummer for Tool, and it's him
playing just isolated drums for him. Have you
ever seen Denny Carey's drum kit? Yeah, but fucking
wild. There's a particular, I don't know if it's
the same clip, him wearing the full fucking Larry
Bird Celtics. Yeah, fucking fantastic. Dude.
Dude, he's a fucking weapon. And it's like I
don't know how literally he's got 50 drums that
he's got access to in that thing and he's just
like. Uses them all. Uses them all. Yeah. And
when you watch him do it. It's effortless. It's
like us breathing. Shout out to Celtics, by the
way. Oh, no one cares. It's effortless, and it
just gives you goosebumps. It makes your breath
skip, like double intake. It blows me away, and
then I'm like, fuck off. How can you do that?
One of me mates, Brian, her partner is in a death
metal, like a metal band. And just seeing like
he gets on Facebook and he just does little licks
on his guitar. Yeah. And just seeing how effortless
it looks like he's not even pushing down on the
strings. And his fingers are just walking and
just making these incredible sounds with six
strings. What the fuck, dude? Yeah. It blows
me away. Yeah. And that's why I could never live
without music. I've been going down a bit of
a rabbit hole with music lately. So being elder
millennials as we are, the kind of music that
was so influential to us, it's pretty cool to
see nowadays on TikTok and Instagram and YouTube.
You have these people who do reaction videos.
That's kind of their bread and butter. They're
watching music videos and just being able to,
like, I wish I could experience some of the music
that we did for the first time again. The next
best thing is being able to watch, you know,
a younger generation experiencing it for the
first time. For the first time. And, like, enjoying
it, you know. Like, in the past I've tried to
show young fellas at work some music and the
eyes glaze over. Obviously it just doesn't hit
right for them, and that's fine. But, yeah, watching
these people, guys and girls, react to the music
that grew up and love and to have that similar
kind of – they're having like a reaction that
shivers and – Yeah. Yeah. Fucking cool. We're
talking about reactions. And this is how I got
onto Electric Cowboy. Yeah. So Tank the Tech,
he's a YouTuber. He's also a musician, guitar
tech. He does all that sort of stuff. So hence
Tank the Tech. So he was doing just YouTube reactions
to music videos and he'd done one too, We Got
the Moves by Electric Goreboy. Might have been
Hyper Hyper first. But he'd done just a holy
shit, I have never heard of these guys. And it
blew his mind. And then over the next few weeks,
he just kept doing more and more of Electric
Callboy stuff. They reached out to him and said,
dude, you do this stuff for a living. Come and
do a tour with us. Yep. Just come and hang out
with us and tour. Now he's a tour manager for
Electric Callboy. That's cool. Now he gets on
stage and he rapped with Electric Callboy in
German for his 38th birthday. He kissed the lead
singer. He's best friends with the other lead
singer. Yeah. When he goes to Germany, he lives
with fucking – it's amazing what YouTube has
done for people. Yeah. And it's amazing to see
people that are so passionate about music and
who have introduced me to music to this – well,
I tell a lie. Scotty Pickering used to say, oh,
Eskimo Corby, which was what? Electric Corby
was first. He's like, oh, you've got to listen
to Eskimo Callboy. And I'm like, no, it's shit.
Get away. And I used to rip shreds off him for
it. Is that what it was literally called, Eskimo
Callboy? It was Eskimo Callboy, and they changed
it because Eskimo is a derogatory term. So they
changed it. Germans changing something because
they're defence people. Who knew? Anyway, we'll
put a fence around it, they said. Anyway, so,
yeah, they changed their name to Electric Callboy.
And got a new singer in. So Sushi went and made
his own band, which is Samurai Pizza Cats now.
Yeah, right. So he's got Samurai Pizza Cats and
has still got Dan Schema, who's also the guitarist
for Electric Callboy. So he's in two bands at
the moment. Okay. And they brought in Nico, and
he's the clean vocalist, and they've got Kevin,
who's the harsh vocalist. And, dude, just seeing
them on stage and seeing their film clips, And
seeing how much fun they have together, you can
see why Frank Zuma is having a ball with them
right now. That's awesome. And, yeah, like I
said last week, you could be having the worst,
worst time ever and you listen to some music
that resonates with you and it'll fix it. Yeah.
Amen. In saying that, though, when I took Rachel
down to Sydney for her birthday, we went to the
art gallery. Which one? The big one. The one
where they do the – it's the big fucking sandstone
building. Yeah, yeah. I know what you're talking
about. I can't remember the name of it. There
on the quay, near the quay. Yeah. Yeah. So we
went in there, and I've never been one for looking
at art, but I was looking at these paintings,
dude, that are a story tall and 10 metres wide,
and I'm just in awe. Oh, man, I've always loved
looking at art. There's never enough time in
the world to go to an art gallery. We got there
an hour and a half before it was to close, and
we were walking around, man, I'm just, wow. But
you see the modern shit and you're like, what
the fuck is that? Well, see, the problem with
modern art, like a lot of modern art, some of
it is good, but I think the whole thing kind
of went downhill with Jackson Pollock. and the
FBI backing and trying to fuck over the Russians.
All I've got to say is a bloke sold an invisible
sculpture last week for $160 ,000. Yeah, see,
that's a problem. Where's the line? Is he fucking
around or what? The fucking banana duct tape.
The banana on the wall, yeah. Just fuck off.
Just fuck off. And then there's the guys that
do them. They do the installations. Oh, we're
going to put buckets on top of each other and
we're going to put a hole in each bucket and
we're going to fill them up with sand and then
watch them fall and that's going to be the art.
No, fuck off. You did nothing. All you done was
fill buckets up and put them in a tower. Gravity
is the artist in that aspect. See, it's a funny
thing. When it hits right, it's so good. Have
you ever seen that installation? It's the robotic
arm with the squeegee. Dude, that's so fucking
heartbreaking. Heartbreaking, dude. Like, what
the fuck, man? Why do you feel that way about
a fucking robotic arm? But then you got the -
That's the funny thing about art. There's that
lady who was in there and she was like, there
was a table and it had all this stuff on there
and like, pick whatever you want and do what
you want to me. She's done it twice now. It took
like an hour for people to start hurting her.
Yeah. Why? And then there was a fuckwit over
in an Italian art studio that put a dog in the
corner. Did you see that? No. That's not art,
dude. That's fucking torture and that bloke should
be arrested. Anyone that walks up to that girl,
even though she's given her permission, that
isn't right. Every single person that hurt that
woman needs to be arrested. Absolutely. I mean,
it says something about society, but it's not
something that I think we need to kind of explore
and kind of make kind of, you know. I don't think
that's art. I think it's fucking heinous. Yeah.
I've seen some of them paintings in the art gallery
the other day that make you sit there and go,
wow. Even the subject matter of the painting,
if it didn't resonate with me. The detailing.
The detail. The brush strokes. The skill. The
way it looks airbrushed, dude, 200 years later.
Yeah. These people were doing this shit. Fucking
mind -blowing. Yeah. If I can suggest anyone
to go out and check out more art, like just have
an open mind. Go in and have a look. Some of
it is fucking ridiculous. Try and like maybe
avoid the modern art. Yeah. Well, they had the
young archibalds up there. So it had, dude, fucking
kids that were doing these portraitures, right?
Sensational. Yeah. Mind -blowing. Incredible.
Do better than me now. Yeah. And I've been doing
this shit for 25 years. These 10 -year -old kids
doing portraits and shit. Yeah. Just in different
mediums, different, none of them, not all of
them were photorealistic. All of them had some
sort of artistic touch to them and they were
differing in different ways. Amazing. There's
an Aussie bird. She's over in America at the
moment, New York. CJ. Hanley, I believe her name
is. If it's wrong, I'll put it on the screen.
Where? Where are you going to put it? Maybe here
or maybe even there. I want you to put in every
single one of them. We'll see. I follow her on
Instagram. So she does this thing where she'll
take a picture of something. Sometimes she'll
scrunch the picture up and then she'll draw it
photorealistic. And, like, some people might
say that that's kind of. What's the point of
that? But, like, the skill put into that? Dude,
yeah. That's the point of it? Is that the one
that done the lady wrapped in plastic? She's
done lots of different things. The ones that
do the shit where things are wrapped in clear
plastic and they make it look photorealistic
with some fucking paint? Oh, no, she uses pencils.
It's still wow. But, yeah, like. She'll take
things like Mickey Mouse, dip it in paint, take
a picture, and then draw that photo realistically.
And then she's done installations and shit and
kind of, yeah, she's done some pretty cool stuff.
Does she do the paint smears as well? Yeah, yeah,
yeah, the paint smear. Wow. Yeah. Wow. She's
there with 100 different shades of pink and does
a paint smear. Yeah. Yeah. And then, wow, incredible
art. It is. French hand. Yeah. Italian hand.
Italian hand, French hand. Italian hand. Italian
hand, yeah. But, yeah, dude, I agree. Like music
will always touch me in a certain way, tickle
me in a certain way. Jesus Christ. Fucking predator
sounds. So it'll always get me in a certain way,
especially my Frank here is going through some
shit right now. I've been through what she's
gone through and it's like I still don't know
how to convey a certain feeling. That was your
stomach, wasn't it? It was gas escaping my throat.
Sorry. I didn't want to bring the mood down.
I'm sorry. Sorry, Kieran. So without having the
same taste in music, I don't know how to convey
how to deal with this because music was. Music
was how I dealt with the majority of it and my
sense of humour. I've got a very dark sense of
humour. Well, you know. Man, I wouldn't say it's
a dark sense of humour, but you definitely pull
the jokes out at the darkest times. Yeah. Oh,
I think it was Marley's birthday a few years
back that I slapped Branchie. I feel bad, but
I had to say it. I'm not going to say it here.
You know what I mean. Yeah. Now, the thing is,
though, I've loved that man for 15 years, and
he has heard me say some heinous shit. Everybody
does. They come after us. Yeah, they come after
us. That's all right. But, yeah, it's, I don't
know, that's how I deal with shit, man. It makes
me feel better. Yeah. Man, if you're not laughing,
you're crying. Yeah. Yeah. Or not feeling anything
at all. And as we know, man, don't feel nothing
at all. Let's not do that. It's funny because
you love music, I love music, and I think that
we have like a Venn diagram of the music that
we like. But I think we have some very kind of
different peripheries. It would be probably pretty
funny to do some reaction videos to some music.
Yeah. Dude. Introduce each other to some stuff.
Yeah. Like you listen to like blues and shit
like that? I mean, I enjoy listening to it. I
don't know anything. Like I'll sit in a cafe
and if it's on, I enjoy it. But I don't sit and
listen to it. Hey, mate. Jeremy Lewandowski is
a tattooist in Cessna. He put me on to this band
years ago called the Teske Brothers. They're
an Australian, they're a Melbourne -based blues
band. It's just these two brothers. Fucking,
you sit there and you listen to it and it pulls
on your heart. Like your chest gets heavy, you
get goosebumps, you get tears in your eyes. And
it's blues. It's not any sort of music that I
thought I would have listened to. But by getting
introduced to that. I started listening to shit
my mum used to listen to, like Gene Pitney and
fucking done a lot of the music for the soundtrack
of Dirty Dancing and shit. Like that sort of
shit, it just jives with me now. Music that I
used to listen to in the car with my parents
going to my nan and pop's for four hours because
it used to take four hours to get to Kempsey.
Fucking music I hated, dude. They'd put it on
the tape deck and I'd fucking want to throw my
head out the window. Amen to that. Bro. And now
I listen to it. Yeah. Johnny Cash. Love it. You
give me some fucking Cat Stevens. Come on. Bruce
Springsteen. No. No. Shut up. That was mum's
jam and I fucking appreciate it now. Do you?
Oh, yeah. It's having that vast taste in music
is really. Dude, I used to hate fucking electric
music. EDM. Used to fucking hate it. Now, I'll
sit there and I'll listen to like Skeller. It's
more techno than anything, but it's so easy going
shit, dude. Trent Reznor eased me into that,
like with Nine Inch Nails. It got me into that.
And then fucking Magic Mushrooms and shit got
me into EDM. So I'll sit there and I'll watch.
The EDM concerts and, you know, the big ones
like Tomorrowland where the thing's coming out
of the screen and it's grabbing at the crowd
and shit. I'm like, I just want to trip balls
and go to that. See, I've never been a fan of
country music. Mum and Dad listened to it a little
bit growing up and I was like, no, never. But
I found a whole genre of what they call Southern
Gothic or Americana. Oh, yeah? Yeah, very kind
of. Imagine like very, I don't even know how
to really kind of explain it. It's kind of the
music you'd hear in soundtracks for particular
TV shows. I can't even articulate the way I would
describe this music. Some of it has satanic kind
of influences. Oh, yeah. Yeah, just very kind
of. like bluesy but spooky kind of sounds and
some very cool shit. Nice. You'll have to send
me a couple. Well, I might have to do some reaction
videos to some stuff. Yeah, dude, I'm all for
that. Like I said, this is us having a ball and
the fact that people watch us and think we're
funny is pretty cool. I was watching that again.
Shout out to Joe Rogan's podcast. Got a message
one day off a bloke, and he's like, mate, I've
got fame out of nowhere. I put a song up during
the lockdown. Give me some advice. Fucking flew
him out, and he was the first music actor to
play at Joe Rogan's Comedy Club. Oliver Anthony
is his name. Now, I don't like country also,
but his music, dude, wow. I don't know whether
it's because he's a battler and the songs that
he sings is so relatable. It's not some rich
bloke out fucking just singing out of his ass.
It's a bloke singing about shit that impacts
him in his actual life. The latest song he just
released was about... His wife is just divorcing
him and wants all of his money, like half of
his money, but wants money going forward. And
it's a song about scorned women. And it's like,
mate, we've all known a scorned woman. So it's
relatable as shit. I've never been related to
some good gang, good gang, good gang, good gang.
That guy just needs a headbutt and a knife. Yeah,
I like old rap. Some of it sucks. Mate, you give
me some Tupac. Do you give me some Eminem? No,
I'm thinking Nas, Wu -Tang. Eastside. Yeah, yeah,
Eastside stuff more so than Westside. Do you
know what fucks me up? What's that? Vicky was
26. And then... Even today, like people go, Biggie
was one of the best rappers that's ever lived.
He released one album. Yeah. He was 26. Yeah.
What the fuck? Wow. I don't listen to that SoundCloud
rapper shit that they've got going on now. Yeah,
nah. Not really. At all. Some songs. There's
some songs that have come out that have hit pretty
hard. I don't mind. But, yeah, not a general
rule that I'll listen to a lot of SoundCloud
stuff. No. The thing that blows my mind now is
the – it's what women are able to do with a microphone,
bro. What do you mean? Well, you've listened
to Ginger before, right? You've never listened
to it? Fuck, motherfucker. We're going to listen
to some ginger next week. Okay. I'm going to
get Pisces up for you. Hang on a second. I don't
want to butcher her name because they're not
English. So her name is Tatana Shmalik. Tatiana
Shmalik. Shmay Luck. Okay. Absolutely stunning
woman. This band is sensational and her vocals
are to die for, bro. Oh, dude. Yeah. Fucking.
And the fact that when she starts singing at
the start, she's really subtle, very nice, smooth
vocals, very fucking beautiful. And then when
it comes to the fucking, when it hits. Oh. Shit.
She switches it to hardcore stuff. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I've heard some fucking pretty cool. Just
deep guttural. It's fucking incredible. Who's
the one that released the song with Knocked Loose
not that long ago, maybe a year ago? Never heard
of him. Okay. Who's Knocked Loose? Knocked Loose.
Never heard of him. Fucking hell, dude. Fucking
big time. Wow. They headlined Coachella last
year for a fucking hardcore band. It's pretty
fucking gnarly. Knock Loose. He was the chick
that sung with that one song. Should we say Poppy?
I'm going to head by her. It is Poppy. I fucking
hate you. It's a fucking sick song, dude. Wrap
us up. You're the one that wraps us up, bro.
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