From the Dungeons of Morningstar, I'm Clint.
And I'm Stretch. And this is Prevailing Strange.
This installment of Prevailing Strange is what
we like to call Rant and Sundry, where we get
to expand on some of the subjects that we've
touched on previously this week and maybe follow
some tangents down. Some kind of rabbit hole
where we don't know what we're going to talk
about. Tall chick get it, you dog. You wrote
a few things down earlier. I didn't. You didn't.
Did I? No, I didn't. I thought you were. No,
I was just writing down. Well, I wrote down the
audio book you said to listen to. A bit of news
that I want to talk about next week. The alarm
from that fantastic freaking four trailer. I'm
going to say it again. Why? It didn't even need
to be there. Yeah. Okay. If it's, right, listen.
Right. If that's coming in from outer space,
he's already got a ship that goes into space.
They've already been out there. It's clearly
in our atmosphere. Do they have satellites yet?
Because when the fucking Fantastic Four first
started kicking off, it was like the early 60s
or whatever. Motherfucker, he's car flies. Yeah,
but all the other cars are gas guzzlers. Yeah,
but no, but he's got a spaceship. They've got
a black and white TV. Yeah, but he's got a spaceship.
It's retro, bro. He's got a spaceship. With a
big four on it. Yeah, it doesn't mean they've
got satellites. But they've got a spaceship.
Why were you going out as... Nah. You can't,
oh, we go out of space, but you don't have satellites.
No, I don't want to hear it. I don't want to
hear it. I'm pretty sure we went to space before
we had satellites. No, no, I don't know. We still
haven't been, we haven't been, we've only been
to the moon once. If you've got some sort of,
okay, all right, how did that alarm go off? What
was it sensing? What was it sensing? Because
it was in the atmosphere when the alarm goes
off. I think you're getting too hung up on this.
I'm all. I'm more concerned about the beard.
The beard was weird. No, the beard doesn't bother
me because rocks are fine. You can do what it
wants. But he doesn't grow hair on his head.
He doesn't have hair. He's got rocks. Why is
he growing hair on his face? Well, as far as
I knew, and from what I've seen, Michael Chiklis
was bald, so he could have grown a beard because
his hair on his head didn't grow. Our new thing
has hair on his head. But when he's the thing,
he doesn't have hair on his head. So I don't
know. Yeah. We still haven't seen John Malkovich
yet. No. Do you think he could be playing Galactus?
The beard? The beard. No, Galactus was our cast.
Who's our cast? I've never heard of him before.
Was cast. Cut. Look, I don't know. I've got no
idea. All I know is that I'm really, really,
really hung up on that alarm. Fair enough. Do
you have a joke? I've got a couple here. I knew
you did, you dirty bitch. Okay, go. My wife paid
$7 ,000 for a boob job. She did. I paid $30 ,000
for a hand job and I'm the pervert? You got another
one? I've got a few. Okay. What do you call a
horse that doesn't fall over? I don't know. Stable.
Nice. Nice. That was a good one. I love how you
can pose yourself. I've got to get through it
without breaking. Okay. Because he's fucking
good at it. It's still one of my favourite shows.
Okay. What do bars and bras have in common? They
both got three letters. Doesn't matter how many
I've seen, I still want to check out inside.
Nice. Hell yeah. No, you're not allowed. We're
married. It's a joke, mate. Jesus Christ. You're
the only boobs that I want. Not yours, Steffi.
You got any jokes? I don't. Oh, mate. Okay, go
on. What's the difference between a kidney bean
and a chickpea? I don't know. I wouldn't pay
for a kidney to bean on my face. You've got to
get through it. Oh, man. Oh, shit. I wouldn't
pay for a kidney to bean on my face. Kidney to
pee on your face? Bean. Kidney bean or chickpea.
I wouldn't pay for a kidney to bean on my face.
I wish I was a Ryan Gosling. Oh, Jesus. Wait,
did you hear about the circus fire? No. It was
intense. You're welcome, by the way. What's smarter
than a talking dog? A spelling bee. It's so shit.
It is. Come on, mate. You can't have, not all
jokes can be good. That's true. Why does a chicken
coop only have two doors? If it had four, it'd
be a sedan. Oh, no. This is shit. I can just
tell myself jokes and get so sore. Oh, God. I'm
looking at me notes here for what we were talking
about earlier. I know what I want to say, but
I can't remember what. The subject we're talking
about, so if I can bring it up. But I'm going
to talk about it anyway. Yeah, you know why?
Because we can read here. We can. Go for it.
So you know the story 101 Dalmatians? Yeah. So
there was an original, so it's based on a book,
and there was a sequel to that book. Now, in
that book, oh, I know what it was. We're talking
about. The kids and the parents go missing and
shit like that and stuff got weird. All humans
disappear from Earth in the sequel to 101 Denimations.
So it's just dogs. Really? And it gets to a point
where dogs step up into people's positions to
run the world as a dog president. And then they're
telepathic and they're flying. Yeah, it's some
fucking weird kooky shit, man. Really? Yeah,
and this shit was written back in the 20s or
whatever. I don't know what the fucking author
was smoking. Dude, acid. It was on some good
shit. Did they have acid in the 20s? I don't
think they did. I think that was a 60s invention,
wasn't it? Something like that. But I heard a
story the other day, and it was a bloke was tripping
on acid, and he said he was standing there, and
he sat next to his dog, and he said to his dog,
What do you call his dog? The dog's name is Buster.
Good dog name. And he's like, hey, Buster, what's
going on, man? I'm not feeling good. And the
dog looked at him and goes, dude, I'd really
hate that you call me Buster. My name's Dave.
He's like, okay, Dave, no worries, mate. And
then the next day after he'd come out of it,
his dog wouldn't answer to Buster anymore. It
would only answer to Dave. Fuck off. So his dog
wouldn't. Buster, come here. Nope. Dave, come
here. Fucking coming, bro. Trottle over. Come
on. He talked to his dog and his dog said, that's
not my name. My name's Dave. And then from there
on would only answer to Dave. Everyone needs
to be on acid. Everybody at home. Find your acid.
Find your shrooms. Go for it. Man, the human
brain is such a fucking weird and wild thing.
Like they're using acid and MDMA to treat depression
and shit these days. Bro, 30 % of your brain
is used. Yeah, it's rewriting synapses and shit.
Yeah, that's why I'm so much smarter than everybody
else. Like when people have accidents and get
hit on the head and then they wake up as like
savants, mathematic savants, speaking languages
they didn't speak before. And, like, these are
legit studied cases and nobody knows why. Or
they go and kill people. I don't think. No, I
think I did hear something about that. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Head injuries. Yeah. Head injuries
turn people into psychopaths. The bloke who played
half sack in Sons of Anarchy. Yep. So he was
riding his bike one day, come off, head injury.
After that, killed his landlord, his landlord's
dog, and then took his own life. Wow. After the
hand injury, dude, come on. You either see yourself
become a hero or you live long enough to see
yourself become the villain. You're either Batman
or the Joker, whichever, flip a coin. You're
two -faced as well then because you're going
to flip a coin. But you see this shit and you're
like, I've never got stoned and wanted to fight
someone. I've never been on mushrooms. and wanted
to hurt somebody. When I've been drunk, though,
at a pub, I've been in so many altercations it
isn't funny. But for some reason, I can go to
a bottle and buy that. But I can't – well, I
can now because I've got medicinal weed. So I'll
go to the chemist and get that now. But I actually
signed up with Paul Stamets, and they call him
the godfather of mushrooms, right? So you can
sign up for his trial, and he's actually doing
something in the US right now where you can sign
up for his drug trial. He wants to do as much
as he can for the medical field, especially the
brain medicine, where he will put you on something
he calls the Stamets stack. Only one of these
mushrooms is hallucinogenic. The rest are things
like turkey tail, lion's mane, and he'll put
you on this stack. and he wants you to check
in every week. It lasted three months, man, and
the response was overwhelming. There was that
many people who said nothing but positive things
about this, and now it's in front of Congress
to get it passed. I legitimately think that if
you go to your doctor and you go, look, I'm having
these thoughts, I'm feeling a certain way, And
their option is to go straight for a pill. That's
an issue, man. We've got to talk about that.
There's so much other shit that you can do for
your brain. And it's literally, it is, you can
see it on a scan before mushrooms or LSD, after
mushrooms and LSD. There is a physical change
in your synapses. There's a physical change in
your brain activity. Why aren't more people talking
about it? It's pretty fascinating. You've never
had shrooms, have you? No. Dude, I'm telling
you right now, it's going to change your life.
You'll watch so many more movies. See, I'm the
type of person that hallucinates when I get sick.
So I'm like, I'm worried about, like, not worried,
but like I've always kind of been a bit standoffish
about it because I'm like. The first, like that's
why the first time I ever tried any hallucinogenics
was, we're probably going about eight years ago.
And I tried DMT. That was my first ever tasting
of hallucinogenics. And a mate of mine come up
from down Cardiff and he's like, okay, I've done
it before. I'm going to be your guide. So we
sat in my room. It was cool. The lights were
dimmed and I put on some, it was, Allison Chains,
the acoustic version. I'm pretty sure you told
me it was Allison Chains, yeah. And he's like,
okay, mate, this is what we're going to do. Now,
a mate of mine, Bo, had brought that DMT for
me, and he said, you know, take it whenever.
I'm like, okay. So I sat on it for probably about
a year. I wasn't ready. I was going through some
shit, and I ended up just going, okay, tonight's
the night. I rang him up, and I go, bro, I'm
thinking about doing this. He goes, I'm on my
way. So we come up. and sat with me, and he's
like, I'm going to guide you. I'm like, right,
that's sweet. Literally, I went into a different
dimension. There's no other way to explain it.
It was like if you watch Star Trek and you're
going through war. It was like that, and you
open up into this massive plane. It was incredible,
beautiful. Dude, I can't. The feelings you get
from it, you can't explain. Which I find interesting
because, like, you don't hear about anybody having
a bad trip with this. Everybody sees the same
shit. How does everybody see the same stuff,
dude? Yeah, why is it touching a certain - How
can Joe Rogan see the same shit I'm seeing when
we're on opposite sides of the world? Yeah. It's
so fucking weird. There's a comedian, his name
is Paul the Joker. He's a Pommie fella, Scouts
fella. So funny, dude. Fucking funny. His whole
life, dude. Every tattoo he's got now. He completely
changed, he said, after he had it. And, like,
yeah. I am very curious about it. I've seen a
fucking python, bro. The serpent is with me everywhere.
I've got a tattoo on my chest. Dude, and that's
the thing. I would not be where I am today. No.
No. I would not be where I am today. If it weren't
for that trip. Because up until that point, I
was hard against all drugs. Every drug, no. Up
until that point is when I was like, some drugs
have a place. If you're going to wake up every
morning and make yourself stupid, of course.
It's abuse. It's abuse, isn't it? The fact that
I'm 42 years old. I've had DMT once. Damn. Whoa.
Not that old. Yeah, I've had DMT once. I've mentioned
it a lot in this episode. My mate Emily O 'Brien,
she was the first person to give me magic mushrooms.
And I've got more of affinity for magic mushrooms
than anything else. That there is my big reset.
If I've had a massive month. And I'm not okay,
whether it's just bills or shit with life in
general, owning a small business, what's going
on in the world today. If I need a hard reset,
I'll get Rach to make me a tea. And it's just
literally five grams of mushrooms and I'll make
a lemon tea. I sit back, I sip it, and I just
zone out for the night. It's four hours. Four
hours I come back, I feel clear. 90 % of the
shit that I've been concerned about has worked
itself out and not through anything I've done,
not through any other steps that I've taken outside
of that trip. It's basically just in that moment.
Like it's led my brain down a path of it's okay,
mate. Everything's going to be all right. You're
safe. Nothing's going to fucking – the world's
not going to end today. And it keeps me going.
That's awesome. It's the shit, dude. And I try
to tell everybody that I've ever met that – and
I'm sort of – in the end, I feel like Joe Rogan
on podcasts and I tell people about psychedelics.
But he's not as popular as me. Check out Joe
Rogan's podcast, Joe Rogan Experience, wherever
you watch podcasts. Yeah, I've always been curious
about mushrooms. But like I said, when I get
sick, beavers. I hallucinate and they're not
always fucking good, man. They're fucking – they're
pretty wild. And I'm good at telling them apart
from reality, but for a minute there, they're
like, what the fuck is going on here? Yeah, right.
Yeah, so like I can feel for people that are
like schizophrenic and shit like that. Like if
you're living with what I have to cope with once
in a blue moon, they're – Doing that every day
now. Every day. Well, the worst, there was one
trip I had, and I can legitimately tell you down
to the strain of what sort of reaction I'm going
to have. So I've got a mate of mine who grows
his own mushrooms. That's for me when I want
to have a great time, when I'm just like literally
I sat there with Jack and laughed for an hour.
Then I've got another strain. which will, it's
more introspective. Like it's more, hey, dude,
what's going on? Figure this shit out, sort it
out, tell yourself what you need to tell yourself
and let's move forward. And then there's another
one where I just want to see some cool shit.
The ones where I have the introspective, I've
had that once and it was only by mistake because
I didn't know what that strain was going to do
to me. So I've had that and I was laying in bed
with Rach and I'm like, I had a rough month,
dude. I was really struggling and I'm like, I
don't know what the fuck to do. I don't know
how to get over this point. I'll have a tea.
I had a tea and then I literally was laying in
bed with her and Jack and I'm like, who am I
if I'm not your husband and Logan's dad? Am I
anybody? If I died tomorrow, what's going to
be the effect of that? Will rain miss me? Will
Logan realise I'm gone? Is it just going to be
the fact that the bills keep piling up? What's
going to happen after that point? If I stop existing
today, what happens tomorrow? And then in the
end I was like, is there any reassurance you
can give me? And she's like, I think this is
something you're going through on your own and
I know for a fact that if you weren't to come
home tomorrow that your son would be absolutely
gutted. And I'm like, yeah, but that's just nailing
home the fact that am I anyone other than Logan's
dad? And then the other day he had a sleepover
at Brett Naz's. And she told me when I got there
the next day, she goes, he was up last night
and he wouldn't go to bed. I'm like, why? She
goes, because he couldn't go to sleep because
you didn't tuck him in. And I'm like, okay. And
she goes, he didn't know whether you were going
to come back in the morning. I'm like, all right.
And then I said to him, what's up, mate? And
he goes, you're my best friend, daddy. I didn't
know where you were. And I'm like, okay. So that
brought me back to then. I'm not just his dad.
I'm not just the bill payer. I'm someone's best
friend. And when I'm not around, he misses me.
So it calls back to shit. And it sort of puts
a bit of oil on that squeaky part. It's like,
okay, now you're lubricated. Now you know. And
I've never had a bad trip. Never. To hear that
you're someone's best friend even though he's
six years old and that even when you're not there
that he still remembers that daddy tucks me in.
Yeah. It fucking, yeah. Yeah. You'll never hear
me say a bad word about psychedelics, dude. Nice.
I love it. Yeah. I love it. And I love being
my six -year -old son's best friend. That's good.
If that's all you are, that's fucking fantastic,
man. It's pretty fucking good, isn't it? Yeah.
You know you're much better than that. No, that's
right. And like I said to him, Nugget posted
the other day on social media. He's like, what
motivates people? What motivates you to get out
of bed? And I'm like, the bills and to give my
kids the life that I never got. And that's not
just a financial giving the life that I never
got. It's to be a provider, a teacher, a nurturer,
be present. Be present, dude. Fuck a nice one.
Be present because at the end of the day, you
can be a father. That doesn't mean you're a dad.
You can be a father. That doesn't mean you're
present. I was always told, I don't have to like
you. You've got a roof over your head and clothes
on your back. That's shit. It's not something
you say to your son. No. And to hear that. It
fucks you. That's something I could never, ever.
Like, every day I drop Jack off. He's 17 years
old. I'll drop him off at school. Last thing
he does before he gets out of the car, hugs me
to the point where he nearly breaks my ribs.
And he's like, God, you're getting old. Yeah,
be gentle with me, bro. But, yeah, get a hug
from your kids. It's fucking sick, dude. Fucking
hell. Wow, we've really gone down this. This
isn't about movies anymore, is it? Getting a
bit somber. Tell me something about your day.
I'm going to watch Landon's in a production at
school this afternoon. Let's go. Yeah, go check
him out. Should be pretty funny. Pretty fun.
Dude, your kid is so sick. He's so smart, dude.
Holy shit, he could teach me some shit. Oh, yeah.
He's super smart. Flat out. And then you've got
Thea. The hammer. The hammer. It's funny, Landon,
he gets so kind of overexcited about subjects.
I look at him and I'm like, fuck, that was me.
I'd go to school and I'd talk about, you know,
movies I'd watched on fucking SBS, like fucking
Godzilla. So you talk back then about movies
you watch, but now you just don't bother watching
them. I get it. I had more time then. I was fucking
– I had nothing else on. Watching, you know,
Godzilla or other kaiju movies when they weren't
the rage. Watching fucking The Guyver because
I rented it because – but nobody else had heard
about it. Dude. Going to school, talking about
these movies, and just no other kid that I knew
was really kind of aware or interested. And I
remember kind of feeling – you know, ridiculed
because I'd, you know, fucking kids, man. Fuck
kids is shit. I mean, I look at Landon and he
gets overexcited about things. I'm like, where
do you draw the line? Do I tell him that, you
know, it's all right to rein that back to be
excited about things because you got to, you
know, you want to fit him with people? Yeah.
Or do I let him be him? Like, I don't know what
the fuck I can do with that. Dude, if he can
be him with you. Let it go. Yeah. Let it go.
If you show him how excited you get about his
news, then he'll just hold it for you. He'll
be like, oh, I see the way my dad reacts, so
I'll just tell him. And then the kids at school,
if they're giving him grief and shit, then he'll
be like, oh, fuck you, I won't tell you shit.
I'll get home and tell my dad. That's the thing.
He's got this thing where I think he thinks that
it's better to be. friends with everybody than
it is to kind of get that connection with a small
group. His people. So, yeah, it's funny. Yeah,
I don't know. That's something with owning a
business as well. Like you want to be friends
with everybody. Yeah. And you want to make sure
that, you know, they're all happy and everything's
okay. At the end of the day, though, your sanity
needs to come first. Yeah. Because, well, I'm
perfect. Like at one point, man, we had 18 tattooers
here. Twelve. And then like we had 18 different
personalities all gelling together and it was
a great time. And then through like economic
shit and us being out here in the sticks, you
know, everyone's moved into Newcastle. They've
all done their own thing. They're all, you know,
got their own path. And, dude, I love them and
I miss them all the time. Yeah. Can't blame them.
You can't blame them, though. You can't expect
somebody to be in your circle 90 % of the time
when they're their own people as well. That's
right. And that's like I miss talking to them
every single day, but the fact that they've gone
out on their own. And there's some of them that
came to us and that were working here that didn't
really have their own bearings and didn't really
have their own. their own voice as such. And
then they found it and moved on. I'm like, fuck,
you can't be mad at that. No. You can't be mad
at that. You can't be mad at someone progressing
beyond and growing beyond your world. Like, you've
got to, you know, fucking pat them on the back
and, you know, hit them on the ass and go, go
get them, tiger. Fucking get it. Yeah. And, like,
there's so many people out there that if they've
got an apprentice in the tattoo industry. and
that apprentice moves on, apparently they've
got to be your enemy. No fucking way, dude. If,
like, my apprentice Gunsy, she's just got her
own little stew over at Maitland. Fuck, dude,
I'm so proud of her. To come from, you know,
to someone who used to doubt her own artistic
abilities to now just, like, no, I am fucking
good enough to do this shit. I can do it myself.
You can't help but pat someone on the back and
say fucking congratulations, dude. And then you've
got other people that go and do a music festival
after they've ripped off hundreds of people of
thousands of dollars. And I'm like, what the
fuck, dude? You should not be a tattoo artist.
He is so bad. I'm not going to mention his name
on here because he's a fucking dick anyway. But
it's, yeah, there's some people that shouldn't
do this shit. And then there's people that definitely
should. That's one thing I like about the tattoo
industry these days is it's that paradigm shift
to it's more about the creativity than it was
about its fucking roots. It was just pick and
stick back in the day. There's something on the
wall, great, I'll get it down, photocopy it and
stencil it up, that's what you get. But now,
dude, there's so much shit. Like that there,
that was done by my friend Misty and she gets
stoned. And does all these dots. Yeah. Dude,
you should see the shit she's done. Yeah. It's
fucking incredible. But that's her artistic outlet.
Like she's got, if, you know, she has a bad day,
she'll get stoned, sit down and do a dot. Yeah.
But it's so cool that there's like a, when I
say accessible, to an extent, tattooing is accessible
as a. medium for creative people. Absolutely.
Like there's not a lot of kind of creative outlets
where you can get that instant kind of monetary
fucking return. Where you see the creation and
then you get, like if you do a painting, that
painting could sit on the wall for fucking years
before you see any sort of give back. A lot of
artists will have to sit and wait and wait and
wait until they make it. This is a creative outlet.
Yeah, dude. And I can pay my bills with it. Yeah.
I love that for me. Sometimes. Sometimes. But,
yeah. But, yeah. That's all I've got time for
today, buddy. Awesome. You fucking sign us off
for a change. I'll get an urinate. I start us
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