From the Dungeons of Morningstar, I'm Clint,
and I'm Stretch, and this is Prevailing Strange.
This installment of Prevailing Strange is what
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hear from you. Hey, buddy. Tangents. Tangent.
Touch my tangent. Want to start off with some
jokes? Oh, all right. I do want to correct something
that I figured out while editing. Okay. Last
week I said how I'd like to see. The New Mutants
in the MCU. Okay. Yeah, and then how we're talking
about the lineup of X -Men that we'd like to
see. Yep. And I had said Cannonball because I'd
never seen him. Yeah. Either I didn't realize
at the time or I had forgotten, but Charlie,
whatever his name is from Stranger Things in
The New Mutants was actually Cannonball. Wow.
Gives you how much you care. Yeah, like I don't
know if I knew at the time. I didn't pick that
either. His power set's a little different to
what he is in the comics. Yeah, I didn't pick
that either. Because he always had like his hand
in a cast and stuff like that. The whole idea
about Cannonball is he's pretty much indestructible
while he's flying. Yeah. I just wanted to clear
that up, people, that I am sorry. Sometimes I'm
wrong. But they didn't really, like they weren't
calling her Wolfsbane and they weren't calling
him Cannonball in the show, were they? No, they
weren't. Putting names on them. I don't think
they did. But, yeah. All right. Thank you. Yeah.
For seeing the error of your ways. I just wanted
to be transparent. Perhaps you could, since you've
admitted you were wrong in that aspect, you could
go back and watch. Aquaman shit. I'm not, man.
Do you know the worst part? No one has ever agreed
with you. Lingy has. Again. He even put it in
the comments on the last fucking episode. No,
we don't talk about that ever. Lingy's got my
back. I'll give you all back to get. Jesus. That
was weirdly sexual. Weirdly or just pretty much
straight down the eyes. So you were talking on
Wednesday's show about Untamed and, you know,
Salmonee and stuff like that. A couple of reels
and TikToks I've seen lately. Have you seen these
fire look outposts? Yes. That would be. Kind
of cool. It'd be a harrowing job. Well, I mean.
Not many, once you see that fire, not many of
them survive. Mm -hmm, mm -hmm. Yeah, I get that.
But, you know, if you had a good season, it'd
be a fantastic job. Which part do you think's
a good season? Seeing heaps of fires or no fires?
No fires. Yeah, okay. A whole heap of sunrises,
being out in the middle of nowhere, getting some,
you know, shit done by yourself. Yeah, all right.
But then again, wouldn't you always be having
to look out? Isn't that your job? Basically the
idea is you spend the time in the tower. Yeah.
360 degree view. You're going to see a plume
of smoke and all you do is report it when you
see it. It would be your job. Don't be so relaxed.
Top of a mountain, middle of fucking nowhere.
Yeah. Out there by yourself sleeping and fucking
spending your time in this fucking lookout. Would
you shit in the toilet or would you shit over
the edge? You'd probably have to clean it up
if you shit over the edge. Well, the time it
hits the bottom, depending on what you've been
eating for dinner, it's either going to leave
a hole or it's just going to dissipate on your
way down. You know how you throw a bucket of
water and it goes, it turns into like a mist?
Just don't throw it into the wind. Yeah. If you've
had a good sturdy diet of baked beans, it's just
going to turn to mist by the time it hits the
floor. However. If you've had some Doritos and
that hits the ground or, heaven forbid, some
little beautiful piece of wildlife just minding
its own business down there. Just taken out by
a dookie. Yeah, like a fucking bear taking two
cubs out for a stroll. Oh, guys, look, we're
beating hibernation fucking bam. 2 .2 kilos.
Shit, scones won't screw in the face. Death.
It's falling from 150 metres into the sky. That
thing's hit it at fucking Mark 10. Not that high.
And, dude, when I pinch off, when I pinch off,
you get a tapered end. And if it dries out, if
it dries out by the time it hits the deck, it's
a fucking javelin, mate. And you think by the
time that hits like terminal velocity, it's stretched
out. It's not hitting terminal velocity. You've
never seen the size of it. It'll hit terminal
velocity, mother effer. We're talking about distance,
not fucking weight. Yeah, same thing. It'll be
fine. It comes out with, it's not just going
to go. No, it's going to come out with a fucking
vengeance. By the time it gets to the bottom,
it's going to have a cape. It's going to have
a fucking mask. I'm Batman. Punishes that bear.
Batman doesn't fly. No, it falls with style.
Fucking hell, God. You see some shit speaking?
I was trying to talk about some quality fucking,
like, wholesome shit. People need to ask. People
need to know the answers. Would you shit in a
toilet or over the edge? And, and. I'd definitely
shit over the edge. Yeah, see? See? You think
I'm silly. Well, no, I don't know. I just say
the stuff that you're too scared to think of.
No, I'm not scared. I just, you know, whatever.
I was trying to talk about other things anyway.
There was a video that Old Love had taken. I
think they do it like months at a time. It might
be a month or two months or whatever. When he's
saying kill a heap of people? No. She was up
there and she's saying that, you know, she's
out in the middle of nowhere. Nobody has. Any
right to be anywhere near where she is and she
wakes up in the middle of the night and a car
pulling up to it. Like how fucking kind of freaky
would that be? See, this is where you should
have a bucket of your shit. Shit in a bucket,
keep it stockpiled. Hoik it at the car. Have
them get foil, make moulds. Right? Moulds of
what? Your shit. No, but the shape. Yeah. Rocket
-shaped. Rocket -shaped. Little fins on the back.
So if they're coming, and they're dried out,
so you can hold them, either dry them out, or
if it gets cold out there, they're frost -bitten,
so they're just like fucking hunks of ice. And
you're throwing them with the same gusto that
you used to throw a fucking torpedo back in the
day, you know, them whistling balls. What were
they called? Vortex. Just fucking pelting these
vortex -sized shits. While we're on this subject,
I know somebody who's shitting a condom and threw
it on the next door neighbour's house. Oh, to
shit in a condom and use as a sex toy. Put it
in the freezer. The Alaskan pipeline. Yeah. Jesus.
Anyway, the car rocks up. Fuck, we're getting
wild here. Yeah, it rocked up. With his own bucket
of shit. No, stop talking about buckets of shit.
Ended up leaving, but she's like, you know. on
edge because he's like, this car. She doesn't
have a rifle? Don't know. She didn't confront
him at all. What happens if a bunyip climbs a
ladder? I'm pretty sure you can pull the ladder
up from fucking the first story. And she didn't?
No, that's what I'm saying. She probably did,
but even still. Praise the Lord. It would be
scary though. Oh, man. I'm not scared of anything.
That would be one of the freakiest things is
having. why is there people here when there shouldn't
be people here in the middle of nowhere, you
know what I mean? Like if you saw like a big
fucking creature out there, you could kind of
be like, oh, it's a bear or it's, you know, nature.
Could have still been a bear. But why the fuck
is there a person? Could have still been a bear.
Could have just had a heap of clowns in the back.
Cocaine bear rocks up in a fucking. Yeah. In
his fucking caddy escalade. 24 -inch rolls. Yeah,
no. Bear comes out. You killed my cub. It's learnt.
It's learnt how to speak in the time since it's
had a shit pegged at its head. You killed my
cub. Oh, fuck. It's brought its own ladder. Yeah,
it's coming for you. It's actually got a cannon
mounted to the top of the Cadillac Escalade.
Three clowns jump out the back. You know there's
50 more coming. We're outnumbered. If you can
fit 25 in a mini, imagine how many clans you
can fit in an Escalade. You're fucked. Doesn't
matter if you pull up that ladder. They'll fucking
make a clan ladder. They'll just climb up each
other. You're fucked. That bear is getting you
one way or the other. You're fucked. One way
or another, you're going to be that bear's shit
by next day. True story. True. Never a truer
story has been told. You're lucky I've been drinking.
Well, so we're talking about the nostalgia TV
coming back. Captain Planet, Power Rangers. Absolutely.
Everything coming forward. Gargoyles have been
fucking rumoured for years. I want another one
of those. So you've got all this shit and it's
like. TV is like 90 % nostalgia. All the movies
that are coming out is like just nostalgia -driven,
right? It's like every network's sort of like
going, oh, what are we going to do? We've got
no original things. Oh, no, let's just bring
back TV from kids' childhoods, you know? Let's
bring all their trauma back in high definition.
Do you think we're losing what made TV awesome?
It's funny because I just wrote down a prompt
then for later to ask. Okay. Do you think that
Gen Zed had or Gen Alpha will ever have something
that hit as hard as Rugrats did back in the day?
No. Man, that theme song. That tickles a part
of your brain, doesn't it? Yep. You hear that
and you're like. It's a movie. It's a show about
babies, dude. Why was that so good? Come on,
Tommy. Can you remember the Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles theme song? From 1994, mind you. Oh,
fuck. Off the top of my head, no. Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles. Bam, there it is. It's back. Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles. Straight away. Bam, I'm
42, dude. Can I remember what I got for my 10th
birthday? No? No. Not at all? No. I can remember
the theme song to fucking Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles, huh? It was a great theme song. I'm
sorry I forgot it, people, but yeah. Took you,
what, two bars to fucking remember it? Oh, man,
as soon as you said it, I was like, bam, I got
that. Nothing does that. You know, an equally
good morning cartoon. I can't even tell you one.
Can you? Okay. Nothing in the world right now
is bigger than Bluey. Can you sing me the Bluey
theme song? Mum. Is it dad first? It's mum first,
isn't it? Pretty sure it's mum first. Mum first.
Yeah. Okay. Oh, man. Bluey might be Rugrats of
Gen Alpha. Because that song is fucking catchy.
To me, dude, Bluey. transcends all media. You
watch Bluey with your kids, nothing hits harder
than that show, man. I watch Bluey without my
kids. Fuck. That show has brought me undone more
times than I'll be proud to say. Oh, my God.
The sign, fuck off. When he kicks that sign down
and all of his kids just run and jump, oh, fuck
off. Bluey can suck it. Okay. Hit me. What's
the one? What is the worst one for you? Is it
the sign? No. There's one where Chili's doing
it tough. And she's sitting there and she's contemplating
being a mum and why she thinks she's a bad mum.
And then I think it's. The little Pomeranian,
what's the Pomeranian's name? She's like, oh,
I thought you only had one kid. And she goes,
no, no, I've had seven. She's like, you're doing
great. And then she's like, why did I, why did
I, hang on, why did it take Bluey so long to
walk? I don't know, blah, blah, blah, blah. And
then she goes, and why did she walk? Oh, you
know, she was just in the kitchen. She goes,
oh, she must have really seen something she wanted.
And she's just stumbling towards her mum. And
it's like, fuck off, dude. Oh, I hate cattle
dogs. I hate blue healers. This show is bullshit.
There's two that stand out for me. The first
one is the camping episode. Oh. The French dog.
Yeah. So they're camping. Jean -Luc. Jean -Luc.
And she makes friends with. A kid that does not
speak the same language as her. Yeah. Obviously
they form a friendship and then it does that
fucking fast forward at the end to where they
meet again. And they are adults. Oh, fuck me.
Well, yeah. Yeah. That one, man, I'm getting
fucking goosebumps on the back of my neck thinking
about it. There's that one or the beach where
Bandit keeps looking off into the middle distance
and Chili's like, Bandit, come on, come back
to us. Yeah. Oh, man. That one's going to bring
me undone thinking about it. There's one where,
so Chilly's trying to get her dad to settle down.
He's getting old. So she's chasing him around.
On the jetty. Oh. And she goes, look at that.
And he goes, fuck. And she's like, yeah, that
was such a long time ago, didn't he? He goes,
no, it was yesterday. Fuck, dude. Oh, Bluey can
suck a fart, man. Two fucking grown men sitting
here shedding tears over fucking Bluey. It is,
man. Oh, no. For me, it was yesterday. Get fucked.
And then you go and you hug your kid. You're
like, fuck, dude. There's one day where there's
going to be a day where he doesn't want to sit
on my chest anymore. And I said to him the other
day, I said, mate, what are you going to do when
you're too big to sit on? Because when we watch
telly, me and him. He will sit there. He will
sit on my chest and lean up against my head.
So he's like this, and we'll just watch telly,
getting ready for our shower. And I said, mate,
what are you going to do one day? You're going
to be too big to sit there. And he just bawled.
Instant dude, just bawled. And he's like, what
do you mean I'll be too big? And I'm like, well,
one day you're going to be jack -sized. And he
goes, and you won't let me sit on your chest.
Of course I will. If you want to, mate. Dude,
if you want to, I'm never going to say no. The
problem is you're not going to want to. Yeah.
And that's the thing that hurts the most is one
day you're not going to want to do that, pal.
And it's going to fucking break my heart. I'm
going to say one day, whoa. And he's going to
go, no, I'm okay. And I'm just going to melt.
Oh, man. It's like that. I think it began as
a Reddit post. And then I'll shit in a bucket
and throw it in. Do you realize that one day
your parents just stopped picking you up? Yeah.
Fuck me. Nah. Give me another drink. Yeah. Fuck,
let's do some meth about it. Oh, man, how did
this swing so hard? Oh, dude. I was making you
laugh and now we're crying. This is an emotional
fucking rollercoaster. Oh, that's what you're
in store for if you keep watching Prevalent Strange.
Keep watching Prevalent Strange. We're going
to fucking flip the script on you more times
than you can tell. You're right, big cat. And
I think, you know how when we go away for family
holidays and shit at the end of the year, we
usually go up to Fingal Bay. And our kids, I
think, are some of the luckiest kids ever because
both you, me, Branchie, Dave, Brett, very hands
-on dads. We're always. willing to take the kids
to the beach or go down the pool with the kids.
And I think surrounding myself with like -minded
people has been probably one of the better things.
But as well, dude, the day – because you, me
and Brett and Branchie, all our kids are around
the same age. So we're all going to be going
through that shit at the same time, fella. Oh,
yeah. Yeah. You know what we should do? Keep
our kids away from each other so that they can't
talk to each other, so that they can't - Influence
each other? Yeah, they can't influence each other.
Like - Fuck, dude. Yeah. We can fuck off. I'm
glad my kids, some kids that they're, you know,
similar ages too because, you know, a few of
our friends, they've got older kids. Yeah. And,
you know, we see them, they're fucking early
teenagers now. Oh, dude. That's fucking wild
to see. But then we've got kids that are younger.
And I'm glad that, you know, we've got kids that
are similar ages. And I'm glad that they're going
to have those people growing up with. Yeah. Because,
you know, me growing up. So my dad's from Queensland.
Mum was in Newcastle. Didn't have many. John
May from Queensland? Yeah, he's a banana bender.
Yeah, right. That's why he says Philham and Newcastle.
What a douchebag. I used to like that guy. Now
I know he's a Queenslander. I'm going to delete
all the pictures I've got of his sack off my
phone. Fuck that guy. Love you, Petey. It's not
true. I love you. So, yeah, we never kind of
had like that kind of mum and dad didn't have
a big friends base in Cessna. So, you know, I've
got my cousins. I've got two here, two in Western
Australia. Yeah, right. Yeah. Friends I made
are the friends I made. I've never had friends
that we kind of bounced around with. I think
there was a couple of people that Dad was friends
with, but they ended up moving away and shit
like that. True. So I'm glad my kids will have
that. So Steph grew up going up to Southwest
Rocks every year, and she's got people that she
knows from going up there every year. that would
visit the caravan park at the same time as them.
Nice. Every year. And, like, they're from down
as far as fucking Melbourne. People would travel
that far up, but she knows them and will, you
know, talk to them and whatnot. So that kind
of whole relationship, yeah, I don't think a
lot of people had it when we were our age. I
agree. Yeah. I was the same. Like, I grew up
in this area. So all my cousins, like, so I've
got cousins like Chad, Nakia and Abby. They're
all from Marnie Bronwyn and Uncle Kitch. They
were the three that I was closest to when I was
growing up. Then I had my cousin Gavin, who's
literally one year and seven days older than
me. My cousin Jamie, who's a year older than
me. Cousin Clifton, who's 50 now, so he's eight
years older than me. So we're all ways around
the same age. Michael Kitsch lived in West Walls
End. Uncle Mark and Aunty Gala lived in Head
and Greeter. So we would have barbecues like
every fourth week. So I was always around other
people around the same age. But as you grow older,
man, everyone just goes, everyone has their own
fucking life and moves on with shit. So that's
like. We do brother dinners at least once a month.
And it's getting to that time now where Jack
and PJ are coming. They're getting to that age.
Dude, it's going to be a blink of the eye until
Landy Man's coming. It's literally, he's nearly
eight. It was last week we were celebrating his
first birthday, man. He was in a high chair getting
his cake smashed on his face. Yeah, 100%. What
the fuck? I think group chats have a long way
to go for that. If we didn't have group chats,
there's quite possibly. All else is basically
just dick and fart jokes, though. Basically.
But I've got group chats with other groups of
friends. And there's like a quite real possibility
that we probably would have fallen out of friends
if we didn't have group chats. Without the group
chat. I've got mates that have moved either in
a state or far enough away to be like. a day
trip to get to. Yeah. That I might see once a
year if that. But that group chat keeps it fresh.
They're still in the loop even if they might
not be, like, commenting all the fucking time.
But if they're coming down, bam. Yeah, that's
hanging up a group chat. And, like, you know,
yeah, I think group chats are fucking sensational.
Yeah. Well, we've got our group chat on Instagram.
But then I've got. my Discord channels. So when
I play Ark and that, I'm talking to them guys
every day, even though they're from different
countries. So I've got some friends from Canada,
one from Florida, one from Wales, one from fucking
Great Britain. So Wales is in Great Britain,
but anyway, fuck, shut up. And so that was what
I was planning on going over to Florida at the
end of the year so we could all sort of meet
up and that bit. And it's funny how as soon as,
like I haven't spoken to them guys in probably
about a week and a half now. Because your bases
got wiped. Yeah. So it's like even if you hit
them up, you're like, hey, bro, what's going
on? What are you playing? Do you just want to
play a game or something? They'll be like, oh,
no, I'm all right, man. I'm a bit busy. Or they
won't respond. And it's just the group chat aspect
of it just sort of. falls away when you haven't
got that mutual thing. Yeah, that's fucking shit.
Yeah, I agree. Yeah, so are you still playing
Ark by yourself? No. No, you just gave up on
it? With Ark, like I've played Ark with the same
guy for nearly eight years and I can't play it
without him because it's just not as fun. Like
he's funny as fuck. You know, you don't really
even have to talk to do shit that you're doing
in the game. And it's just, yeah, it's just chill.
And it's never an issue. And then I've got another
mate, Wilkes, who, and this is the thing, man.
Wilkes is, I think he's like 32 or something.
So he's 10 years younger than me. Or he's 28,
something like that. Anyway. So. When we've got
Ark to talk about, it's easy. Yeah. It just flows.
We're going to do this, got to do that, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah. But again, he's a dad.
He works real hard. So to have that one thing
that brings people together and then when that's
gone, it sort of just quietens down a bit. Yeah.
Which I don't like because I want to talk to
people all the time because I don't shut up.
Yeah, I get that. Wow. In the best possible way
in like I want to talk to people as well. I think
that's been – I see it in Landon. When I was
a kid, I wanted to talk to everybody. Yeah. And
for the longest time, I tried talking to everybody
and I learned the hard way that not everybody
wants to talk to me. Fuck them. Anyway. Exactly.
Fuck them. It took me a long while to learn that
and I'm trying to steer Landon through that moment.
Right. So now I think I've gotten quite good
at breaching that kind of distance between people
if I want to talk to them. I have a lot of interests.
Yes. And I can put on, I wouldn't say the mask,
but like. A hat. A hat for that group and a hat
for that group and a hat for this group. They're
all me. Yeah. But like. Not everyone can be like
us where you've got seven different interests.
The majority of people might only have one or
two. Yeah, but there is an aspect like every
now and then I'll pick up somebody from one group
who kind of gets in another chat and they kind
of like, man, if these two people got together
because I'm fucking sending some fucking shit
to these people. They're on pretty similar wavelengths,
even though they're from one group to another
group. I'm like, oh, maybe one day, but anyway.
But that's like even our group chat for D &D,
the guys in that, fucking Jesus Christ. Yeah.
Now, I never met Lingy until you and me got close.
I never met Clem until you and me got close.
I knew Naz from school. Trotter, I didn't know
Trot. And your brother, I wasn't close with your
brother either until I met him. Of course. I'm
not saying he's a bad person or anything. Just
that, you know, he's younger than me. So everyone
usually is. I can know I'm old. So, yeah, I didn't.
If. How can I put it without sounding like a
fucking moron? I don't think I'm their kind of
person. However, in the vein of D &D in our group
chat, they've welcomed me with open arms. I'm
not going to fucking sugarcoat it. I'm not everyone's
cup of tea. But when we're in that vein, yeah,
they're my people. Yeah. That's the thing. If
you can pick an interest with somebody, you can.
Absolutely. Cultivate a friendship. It's like
when I started playing D &D, I didn't know anybody
I played with because nobody I knew played D
&D. So I went out and started playing with people
that I'd met fucking on Facebook. And, yeah,
that first game I played with my DM, Mo, by the
time it was maybe the fifth or sixth session.
I think there was only one person that was in
the second game that had remained. And then I
ended up being in that game for two years. Oh,
shit, yeah, right. But once that group got solid,
like towards the end there, the last just over
a year, it was good. And those people I still
talk to today. Nice. And some of them I call
really good friends. Some of them I send some
pretty fucking gnarly shit to and they send gnarly
shit to me and, yeah, others I would, you know,
invite around for a game whenever I get a chance
to. I haven't had a chance to yet but, you know,
it's nice to kind of know people and like most
of them are younger than me, like at least 10
years younger, at least some of them way younger
than me. But, yeah, it's funny how things can
bring people together. Yeah. It's like work relationships.
I was just about to mention that. Like owning
my own business, like when we started, it was
just me, Rachel, and Gunsy. Yeah. Gunsy became
like my second wife. I know that's shit to say,
but we spent every day together. Yeah, that kind
of proximity. It was just me and her in a fucking
25 -meter squared shop. Mm -hmm. And then when
everybody else came along, because it was such
a small shot, we were forced to interact. And
then, like, I had people like Hemi, who is, I
think she's like 26, 27. You got Brian, who's
around the same age. Jacinta, who was fucking
23 when she started with us. But every single
one of them people. are my people. Like, they
message me when they're not doing well. They
message me when they're doing great. And they're
people that have left. Like, they don't work
here anymore. But they still, like, Brian messaged
me today. Miss you, dude. Miss you more. It's
great. The right people that have left on good
terms, they still talk to me all the time. Yeah.
So fuck them for living because I do miss talking
to them every day. Like when I was coming into
work and sometimes it's just me and Anastasia,
sometimes it's just me and Jack, sometimes it's
just me and Ali. Sometimes it's all four of us.
Yeah. And I love working with my wife. I love
my wife. She's my best friend and, like, suck
it. But, like, she's been through some shit and
we've been through some shit together. And, yeah,
I do have to – she doesn't want me to bring the
shop into ill repute. So I've got to fucking
– Tone down my shit at work because, fuck, dude,
some shit I would say. Just like I get you to
tone shit down here. Yeah. Well, it was worse
because we had, at one stage, we had like 17
people in the shop at one time. And when we would
get on a roll, fucking good luck stopping us.
Like we would go deep, man. Obscene. Holy shit.
We would have been arrested if there was police
in the room. Which is funny considering you have
a whole lot of random people in here getting
tattooed. Everyone used to laugh, eh? Like, you
look at our Google reviews. If you had a look
at our Google reviews, every single one of them
says the bands are fucking incredible. And that's
what made Morningstar special was the fact that
it wasn't just a place where you went and got
sick tatties. There was a bunch of people who
genuinely loved each other in the same area.
It's just that, you know. Tattooing isn't a place,
isn't a job where you want to stay in the same
place all your career. Yeah. So some stayed for
five years, some stayed for six years, some stayed
for two years. Yeah. You get what you need, you
get what you want, and then move on, work with
other people. I'm just, yeah, we're very blessed
that they still, you know, like us. Yeah. But,
yeah, shit in their bucket. Shit in their bucket.
Yeah, I was going to say it's pretty funny. I've
got my mechanical engineering trade as a machinist.
Here we go. Yeah, I'm going to fucking. You start
off as a fucking boiler. As a boiler, I go, oh,
oh, oh. And then there's an engineer. Well, I'm
not an engineer. I'm a machinist, but I've got
an engineering certificate. It's funny that one.
Get that out of your mouth, God damn it. Sorry.
Starting off, like I didn't start off young.
I was 21, 20 when I first started my apprenticeship.
What were you doing before that? I didn't work
for two years because of a car accident. Yeah,
I remember that. Yeah. So I left school. Was
that in high school or was it after school? So
year 12. So I left school. halfway through year
12, got to the half -yearlies and went, fuck
that, peace, I'm out. Not for me. Can't do that
anymore. Yeah, I was only there for the social
aspect. Same. Yeah. Got the half -yearlies, peaced
out. Wow, that tasted horrific. Yeah, nice. I
think I left, at the time I had a job at Coles,
stacking shells at night, and then I picked up
two more jobs. I was doing like 65 hours a week.
Holy fuck. Far out. For like, I don't know, it
was like three months or something like that.
And then I had the car accident and didn't work
for two years. I wasn't allowed to work. Anyway,
so they're like, oh, you know, what do you want
to do? Because a part of the claim with the insurance
company was, okay, how can we retrain you? Because
I was having trouble standing up the entire time
because me fucking foot hurt. So they're like,
I was like, oh. I've always had a fascination
with fucking diggy things, as I called it as
a kid, like fucking excavators and all that kind
of shit. So I got all my tickets for that. I
did that for maybe six weeks. And I got a job.
I was working a backhoe. Fun as fuck, man. Oh,
dude. I'd go back and do it. That'd be a fun
job. In like a heartbeat. But the place I was
working at, they laid off me, another fella,
no, three other fellas. And two of them had been
there for like an extended amount of time. They'd
lost a contract, needed to cut fat, got rid of
us all. And I looked at that and I'm like, well,
okay, I've got this ticket, but if I'm going
to be dropped like that, I don't want to be chopping
and changing jobs. Yeah, dude. So then it was
like, okay, I might get a trade. So Centrelink
did a pre -apprenticeship course. I thought I
was going to be a boilermaker. Wanted to fucking
build mini trucks and shit. Yep. So part of the
boilermaking pre -apprenticeship course, half
of it is machining. Turns out, oh, I really like
doing this machining shit. I'm kind of good at
it. So I got into a machining job, did that.
So I don't know why I went down this path. Anyway,
I was saying I was young. I wasn't super young.
Yeah. So I started when I was 20 -ish. Anyway,
the place I was working at, there was a couple
of dudes there that were like. Older, older fellas.
And it's funny, we're talking about work friends
and stuff. Yep. And how as an early 20 -year
-old can be friends with somebody in their early
60s. And like there's one fella there, Bob. I
loved talking to him every day. Loved talking
to him. Looked forward to it. It was great. But
then we were there for, I was there for almost
eight years and the place was going sideways.
I took voluntary redundancy. They gave him redundancy
because he was almost retirement age. And, you
know, I haven't spoke to him since. But I think
about him. All the time. Man, I want to message
him now, but I don't know whether that would
be fucking weird or whatnot. I don't know how
fucking what he's doing or whatever. He's probably
dead, man. Sorry. I hate to be the bearer of
bad news. Yeah. But, yeah, it's funny. I'm going
to go visit him. Yeah. These work relationships
that you can cultivate. Absolutely. Bizarre.
Like people you would just never be in contact
with outside of. You're 100 % right. Like I would
never have thought of talking to the people that
I've worked with outside of this. But now that
I've met them and I've seen what they're like,
I can't not have them in my life. And I understand
that's why, like. People struggle because, dude,
I spent every day with these people for five
years, six years, seven years. So, yeah, to not
see them every day and not to hear from them
every day and not to speak to them every day,
I can understand. I can understand why someone
would be really upset. Yeah. So, yeah, like that.
So anybody that has watched this deep into the
third episode of this week. Oh, fuck, man. This
has gotten emotional. We miss you guys. We do.
We think about you. Yeah, exactly right, dude.
100%. And I don't know. Now I'm thinking. I don't
know my feelings. I'm drawing a black circle
on the paper. Draw a hole in the fucking paper.
Black hole, son. What? Jesus Christ. Chris Cornell.
RIP. Oh, actually, okay. We're going to get off
this fucking sad shit. Okay. Did you see that
Good Things is starting again this year? No.
And they're teasing their lineup. Okay. Now,
anybody that knows me knows Electric Callboy
is the greatest being on earth right now. They
are. Okay. Sleep token who? Fuck off. Now. This
music festival season, if you could have five
bands that you could see right this year, who
would they be at a festival setting? Go. Any.
Any band. Any band. I'm trying to think of who
I haven't seen. Oh, yeah, right. And then who
I'd want to see again. I mean, that's too big
a question. That is too big a question. Wow.
Yeah. And have you got? I do. You've pre - No,
not at all. I can just tell you straight up.
Okay, tell me. So Electric Callboy. Mm -hmm.
And then Tool. Mm -hmm. And then, dude, everyone's
going to hate on me, but I don't give a fuck.
Linkin Park. Because Linkin Park. With the current
lineup? We can't have Chester. He's dead, bro.
Yeah, I didn't know whether it was a dream thing
or – Look, if I'm going to have Chester, I can.
If I'm going to have Emily, I'll take it. Lincoln
Park's Lincoln Park. She can't – well, no one
can sing Chester Bennington. Fuck that. But she
can sing Emily really well. So, yeah, there we
go. Electrical Boy, Tool, Lincoln Park, Deftones.
Mm -hmm. All right. And then – One more. Fuck.
Now I'm stumped. So you were half thinking about
this whole situation before you asked me. No,
not at all. Not really. Not at all. Yeah, a little
bit of my ass. Ramstein. Boom. Boom. Any bands
that have to be current? No, Rammstein's not
current at the moment. How dare you? They're
not together at the moment. I think you are.
He's fucking recording his own album, isn't he?
Probably. Yeah. To Lindemann. I just hope if
Electric Callboy does come again, which they
played last year and the year before, if they've
been doing this thing. where they play as Electric
Callboy and they headline and then they come
back at like 1 .30 in the morning, 2 o 'clock
in the morning, they play a fucking – DJ set?
Yeah. Electric Bass Boy they're called. Holy
shit, dude. Give me some molly and set me free.
It's funny. One of the things about festivals
is I always liked Soundwave for the fact that
I would find bands there. Yeah, okay. Yeah, there
was bands that I wanted to see. But if I had
nothing that I wanted to see, I'd go check out
bands. Right. And just fucking, you know, fall
for them. Well, that's how I found Bliss and
Esso. I found them at Fat as Butter. I didn't
know what Bliss and Esso was. I thought they
were like a DJ set or something. And then I went
and listened to them and they were fucking sick.
Okay. Alpha Wolf. I haven't seen a whole set.
Alpha Wolf would be fucking sick, man. What I
saw was good. Fuck you. The second one would
be I would see The Wonder Years again. They just
fucking. Who the fuck are The Wonder Years, bro?
Just keep up. They're fucking sensational every
time I see them. Okay. We'll go heavier again.
I missed out on fucking NotFest, the 25. 25 -year
anniversary of fucking self -titled. Missed out
on that this year. I'd like to see that set.
Sleep not. Mm -hmm. I've got two more. Fuck you,
guy. You said electric call, boy, for fuck's
sake. Hey. Hey. Fucking what, tank? Get on this
guy. What? Okay. You just fried electric cowboy
juice now. I did not. I was frying you. You just
fried electric cowboy. Have you ever listened
to electric cowboy? I've heard them in your car
before. Have you listened to them? Have you watched
them? No. I'm going to send you just one of their
vlogs. Watch it and tell me they're not fun.
Man, I don't watch vlogs. You will watch this
one. Tank the tech, does it? And he wears a GoPro
while he's doing it. Come on, come on. One more.
Let's go. Two more. I've got two more to go.
Oh, okay. I'm just trying to fucking figure it
out right now. Probably say hole. Smashing pumpkin.
Same bed. Oh, fucking Northline. I've found Northline.
You found a North Lane. I found North Lane at
Good Things. I've never heard of North Lane before
Good Things. When you were saying if I didn't
know a band, so I charged to the front for Electric
Callboy, but we were there three hours early.
Yeah. There's only two main stages, right, at
Good Things. Yeah. So we charged to the front.
I got to see North Lane, and they were fucking
sensational. Mm -hmm. And I seen Mastodon. which
were great. I'd like to see Killer Be Killed
again. Put it on after this, if you like. That's
Killer of Killers, isn't it? Yeah. I don't know
what Killer Be Killed is. Killer Be Killed is
a kind of a super group with the lead singer
from Macedon playing bass as well. The lead singer
and guitarist from Dillinger Escape Plan. Max
Cavalera. And I think the first album was the
drummer from the Mars Volta, but then they changed
it up to a different drummer after that. But,
man, like a perfect album, that Killer Be Killed
self -titled album is, like, sensational. You
said one band. What? I asked for five. You've
given me one, Slipknot. And the band that...
Only ever released one EP. If I could see them
live, it would be sensational. A band called,
an Australian band called The Get Through. All
good music. Look it up and fucking entertain
yourselves. Educate yourselves on some good stuff.
No one's going to take your word for it because
you've just said nothing. Fuck you, guy. You
said Slipknot. That was it. I said Slipknot.
I said The Wonder Years. I also said The Get
Through. or get through, as they're called, Alpha
Wolf and Killer Be Killed. Anyway, that's all
we've got time for. Fuck this guy. We're out.
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