From the dungeons of Morningstar, I'm Clint.
And I'm Stretch, and this is Prevailing Strange.
This instalment of Prevailing Strange is what
we like to call Rant and Sundry, where we finish
out the week by going over some of the subjects
that we've previously touched on, and follow
wherever the tangents take us. So, yeah, if you
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What kind of tangents have you got for us, buddy?
Tangents! Fucking Lefty Callboy and Frank Zuma
released the cover for Still Waiting this week.
So I'm pumped about. Yep. Dude, everyone that
knows me knows Lefty Callboy is just all the
things that are good and pure in the world these
days. Yet to give them my time. You're a piece
of shit. Doesn't mean I won't. Yet to. The best
part is, like, last year when they come over
to Australia, their drummer, David, he ended
up leaving the band at the start of this year.
And they had a – they already had their European
festival tours planned. So they ring up Frank
Zumo, who on six hours notice last year, played
their sets in Australia. Yeah. And crushed it,
dude. He'd done such a good job. So Frank Zumo,
the drummer from Sum 41, has come over and they're
like, hey, mate, we really meshed well last year.
Will you come and do the European Festival tour
with us? And he's like, you know what? Fucking
yeah, let's go. Yeah. They do select a vlog every
time they do one of these big tours. And just
seeing Frank Zuma having such a good time, man,
is so good. And it just warms your heart. And
they recently did a cover of Still Waiting by
Sum 41, Frank Zuma being the drummer for Sum
41. And honestly, man, they killed it. Yeah,
I have heard good things about it. Yeah, knocked
it out of the park. Would I have rather seen
him do Newts? Yeah, I like Newts. I reckon that's
probably one of the better songs anyway. Yeah.
And it was on Fantastic Four. Speaking about
Electric Callboy and when they come out last
year, have you seen the lineup for good things?
Didn't faze me, man. Like if I wanted to go and
spend the last three hours of the day watching
Tool, I would. Any other ban on that? No. Really?
No. No, I'm going. Gay. Yeah. Me, Lingy, Trot,
Partridge. What are you going to watch? Kublai
Kai, Knock Loose, Weezer. I'll say Weezer. Crap.
Tool. I've never seen Tool live before. Whoa.
Okay. I'll hang around for that. I respect that.
I would go just for Tool. Any chance to see Maynard,
I would, but I'm not going to spend $200 plus
to see 45 minutes of – and let's face it, if
you wanted to watch Tool, you could watch them
at home because you don't see the band. Yeah,
I've heard that about them. You don't see the
band. The band plays in shadow. Their visuals
are what you go for. Yeah. And that's what happens.
I'll be interested to see Gua. I've never seen
Gua live before. Dude, okay. Yeah. I hate their
music, but I like their aesthetic. Yeah, yeah.
I'm not there for the music. I'll be there for
the show. Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, I don't know.
This will be the first good things I've been
to. Oh, is it really? Yeah, I just didn't mesh
with the lineups in the past. They're a little
bit too pop punk -ish. In my opinion. They've
learned heavier this year. Really? Mm -hmm. Heavier
this year? Mm -hmm. Yeah. Yeah? Yeah. Last year,
we had Korn. Mm -hmm. Electric Callboy. Yeah.
Northlane. Yeah. The Leafsinger Smashing Pumpkins.
Yeah. Still heavier. God, yes. Tool. That's it.
No. It's the only band of worth. On this draw.
Kublai Kai. Who? Kublai Khan, sorry. Kublai Kai,
that's a fucking TV. That's a show on YouTube,
motherfucker. Kublai Khan, Knocked Loose, two
of the heavy bands. Make Them Suffer does pretty
good. Yeah, and, like, I mean, Tool's pretty
big. They're not heavier, but, you know. Yeah,
there's other bands I want to check out. I don't
know. What are they? Heavy Metal? No, the death
metal. Death metal, there you go. So that's heavier.
What are you writing, you dickhead? I'm writing
heaps. That's what I wrote. I can't see it. Can
you? No. You'll see it when you edit. Mm -hmm.
That's all I've got to say about that. Right.
No, this year is shit compared to last year.
Sure. Yeah, I know. Okay. I believe you. Just
going to leave it there. Did you see that they're
bringing back, not stereosonic, but it's the
same vein of stereosonic called hypersonic, I
think it's called. Coming back to Australia,
it's more like an EDM festival. Of late, I've
really gotten into EDM, whether it's because
I get stoned and listen to EDM, I don't know.
I'd really love to go see Defcon or a Tomorrowland.
Speaking of Tomorrowland, Paris Hilton played
at Tomorrowland. Do you know how much she charged
for her 45 -minute set at Tomorrowland? Big bucks.
Say it. I don't know. I just remember it being
big bucks. For 45 minutes work, $800 ,000 US.
$800 ,000. Considering she charged $175 ,000
just for her to show up at one of your parties,
$800 ,000 for her to sit there and have fun for
45 minutes is insane. Yeah. I've never listened
to one of her sets. I don't even know if she's
any good. Do you want my honest opinion? I'm
not a DJ or EDM connoisseur of such. She's pretty
good, man. That's the worst part. She's pretty
good. I have heard that she's gotten a lot better
than when she started. But whether that's good
or whether that's just mediocre compared to what
she started with, I don't know. Considering she's
famous for being a ditzy bitch and blowing somebody.
Which is all an act. It's all pretend. If you
watch her TV show, man, she's smart as fuck.
Yeah, apparently. Yeah, super smart. Like, super
smart. And that whole, oh my God, it's so hot.
Yeah. It's just a character. And apparently none
of her money is her parents. It's all her. She's
made it all from a BJ video and just kept on
growing. Yeah. Well, you know, good for her.
Girl's got to hustle. Yeah, hustle as shit ever,
bro. Look, if I could make millions of dollars
from blowing a dude, I probably would. I don't
have millions, but. Guys, Patreon link down below
if you'd like to see me blow Jeremy. Jesus Christ.
That's pretty funny. $400 ,000 is where we started.
So crowdfund it to $400 ,000 and then I'll blow
him. You want a clip of all shit, motherfucker?
It's funny. You mention OnlyFans and TikTok does
not rate it at all. Yeah, right. Like it did
that. Reel did like fucking 1 ,200 views or something.
Which one? What reel was that? The OnlyFans Patreon
about farting and shit. Oh, really? Yeah, didn't
really do much on Instagram, but like on TikTok,
one view. That's it for like 12 hours. Oh, shit.
I just deleted it because they don't like you
promoting that type of stuff. Ah, they don't
like promoting other websites. Yeah, man, just
navigating the social medias is such a funny
thing. I went for six months without social media
last year. So peaceful. So peaceful, man. Yeah,
well, I mean, I dropped fucking Facebook for
three years and when it fucking marketplaces,
the only thing that brought me back for that.
Dude, that's the only thing I missed. Yeah, and
then it's like Facebook's dead. And we spoke
about this before, the dead in their theory.
You ever look now, I don't know the exact, exact
number, but I'm going to throw a number out there.
Like 89, 90 % of everything that's on there now
is advertising, is all AI. It's just AI. Yeah.
Like even you could pick, I was sitting down
with VH last night and I was watching. watching
Facebook, and there was this thing about a spray
for men that are balding. And you could tell.
It was going over the dome like this with a spray
can to give the effect of hair. But you could
see the head morphing every time that hand passed
in front of the camera. And I'm like, that's
fucking AI. And you can tell. Remember when Facebook
used to be you go on there to see what your friends
had? Bro, good luck finding your friends on there
now, man. Your friends will be saying some dumb
ass shit and half the time you'd have a giggle
at it or they'd be talking about some injustice
that's happened in their little lives and you'd
be like, oh, that's kind of fucked up, whatever.
But now it's just fucking this, that, this, that,
this, that, and you might get something from
somebody you know, but they're posting like 20
things a day. Yeah. But even then, sometimes
it could be an accidental refresh of that feed.
Good luck finding that again. Fucking good luck,
dude. You're not going to find that again. You're
not going to find that post from your friend
again because there's going to be 7 ,000 posts
from someone trying to sell you some course on
online trading or, oh, you're fat. Here, come
and join the fucking weight loss program. Yeah.
Fucking social media is a fickle beast. It's
not social media anymore. It's basically what
can we sell you and what can we make while we're
sitting at home with an AI bot doing all of our
shit. Yeah, the advertisement feed. Basically
what it is. It's late night shopping on fucking
free -to -air TV just in your phone, in your
face. And this is just me saying this. If they
released an app that was just Facebook Marketplace
that you could access without having a Facebook,
I guarantee you probably 70 % of people would
sign up just for that. Well, I mean, fucking
Gumtree was that here for ages. Yeah, it was
Gumtree. It's no good anymore. It's just old
people posting fucking shit that never sells.
I've got 30 sets of spoons sitting at home. It's
been on my wall since I was 10. My old girl got
them from Holland. $6. Yeah, unfortunately, Facebook
Marketplace is the place to be for stuff. It
is. And I used to be the person that goes to
eBay to purchase something if I couldn't find
it. But now, yeah, it's Facebook Marketplace.
eBay is just like fucking Amazon these days.
You just go there to buy new stuff, not secondhand
shit. Exactly right. It's just people selling
brand new stuff. It used to be a place where
you'd advertise your shit that you had in your
shed for nothing. Now, man, it's not. Good luck.
It's a retailer. Yeah. Not a fucking second hand
marketplace. I had another young bloke the other
day and I just purchased a new tats old chair
for my tattooing. And to purchase this chair
on, let's say, ProTat, after shipping, you're
probably looking around $4 ,800 for this chair
to be delivered. You're spending probably $600
just on shipping. It was $3 ,750 or something.
For the chair on its own. Yeah. I just got this
chair. Another tattoo artist has gone through
a bit of shit time and they signed at least 12
months ago. Last month they got a notification
from their landlord saying, hey, sorry, our building
insurance has gone up $16 ,000, $17 ,000. We
need you to cover that. If you can't cover that,
we're going to have to ask you to move on. We'll
cancel your tenancy. No, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah. Now, mind you, he's just gone out and spent
$60 ,000, $70 ,000 on a fit -out. He's just spent
$5 ,000, $6 ,000 on your bond, all that sort
of shit. He's just gone out and done his advertising.
He's done all that sort of stuff for his landlord
to come and go, hang on a minute, mate, sorry,
we need you to cover this exorbitant amount of
insurance. Now, mind you, with the tattoo industry,
there's two companies worldwide that do insurance
for building insurance for a tattoo shop, right?
They're both owned by the same company. Our insurance,
when we went from the shoebox down there to here,
went up something stupid like $17 ,000, $18 ,000.
That's moving a kilometre up the road and… Our
building. Now, mind you, our building insurance,
we have to pay insurance on part of the building
that we don't even use. I could only imagine
how it feels for one person to go out, start
their dream, go, yes, finally, I've worked my
entire life to get this. And then for a person
behind a desk to go, hang on a minute, in 1998
and 2004, we had a couple of firebombings, so
we're going to put the insurance up and we're
going to have it so that we're the only two companies
in the world, that offer you a building insurance
and we're going to fucking put them premiums
through the roof, man. I know, now this is not,
I've been in the tattoo industry for 25 years.
To have in the last year, I know of five people,
one of these shops, man, was around for 25 years
as long as I've been tattooing and they've had
to close their doors because of insurance policies.
Wow, man. There's a whole thing with this whole
sled and the Australian government trying to
clamp down on the tattoo industry. So they've
basically, if you've got a criminal record, you
can't have a tattoo shop. If you're in a bike
club, you can't have a tattoo shop. If you've
done anything wrong in your life, you cannot
own a tattoo shop. I do not have a criminal record.
I've done some shit in my past. Yeah, I don't
have a criminal record. My family was in a bike
club. They denied me a tattooer's license for
four years, dude. I had to pay over $25 ,000
during court fees, days off, all that sort of
shit to get my tattooer's license. And they still
put the insurance up that fucking price. There's
people out there that are putting in their whole
life savings to have their dream for a real estate
agent to come through and say, listen. Unless
you want to cover this stupid fee, you can't
have your dream. Man. Unfortunately, this country
is – something's going on. Oh! You broke it.
My pen! So – Don't you stand there. Get the rest.
Where is it? I don't know. I hit the deck somewhere.
Don't worry. I fixed it. That might be it. I
fixed it. Oh, cool. So like this country is kind
of built on the back of our natural resources
being coal basically. But we've gotten to the
point where, okay, we're not allowed to do that
anymore. Nope. Fair enough. Like it's shit, but
like that is the backbone of our economy. It
really is. Yeah. So that would allow us to have
the money to put into our economy, spend on other
things, keep other things afloat throughout our
economy. Yeah. Well, now they're fucking saying
that, you know, we're not having that. We're
not having coal -fired power stations. We've
got five left. And every year we're talking about
fucking closing more down despite the fact that
places like China are putting five in a month.
It's counterproductive. We could be doing all
the best stuff in the world, but if there's another
country that if we shut five down, they open
five up, then what's the point? All we're doing.
Because they're not a part of the European Union
or whatever it is that kind of, you know. Right.
Whatever. But we cannot put in nuclear either
because that's fucking a no -no. We're losing
out on all this kind of industry that is kind
of supporting us. holding up Australia to kind
of support smaller businesses and stuff like
that. And, you know, we've got an influx of people
coming in with no real skills or if they do have
skills to put into manual labour. We just don't
have the manual labour there. Like we don't have
the business for it. Okay, so where do we go
from there? Like there's – and it's just – The
fact that they're making it like real estate
is fucked at the moment. Oh, so much, man. That
so many people can own so much real estate. Yeah.
And like monopolies on towns. Yeah. And does
not allow people to, like you, be able to buy
their own premises. Yeah. Run their own business,
get in front. It's just people. And it seems
fucking crooked that people who get these premises
across their desks are allowed to fucking purchase
these places when there's a, what's it called,
a thing of interest. What's that called? They
shouldn't be allowed to buy those things because
it's their business. They work in it. Oh, fuck.
Conflict of interest. Conflict of interest. Thank
you. Yes. There's a conflict of interest. If
you work in real estate, you probably shouldn't
be able to buy real estate. No. Because you obviously,
you can fucking tweak the system. 100%. Yeah.
So like this town is owned by a lot of the place,
is owned by like two, maybe three people. The
person that owns this building owns 75 properties
in the Hunter Valley. Mm -hmm. And then you've
got. People that own 75 properties in the Hunter
Valley, maybe 20 % of them are buildings that
aren't even occupied. Correct. Because it's a
tax write -off. Yes, sir. So you've got people
who want to expand businesses, want to be in
places and open shops, but won't because the
people that own it don't want to spend the money
to maintain the property. they'd rather leave
it vacant as a tax write -off. Yeah. There's
this whole kind of run -on effect where we're
losing one. Did you break another one? Shit,
same pen. Fucking hell. We're losing this whole
big chunk, like the coal. We don't have steel
here anymore, man. We're making fuck all steel
here anymore. And when Newcastle used to make
some of the best steel in the world. Yeah, man.
Everyone used to buy metal from BHP. Yeah. And,
like, we used our own coal. Now we sell it to
China only to buy fucking steel back from them.
That's a shit of grade. Shit of quality. Fucking
right. And they're using our coal at, like, a
dollar to the ton to fucking smelt the shit.
Like, why aren't we doing that shit here and
selling it to the world as, like, a top quality
grade fucking product? 100%, dude. You're not
wrong at all. Like I work in the metalworking
industry and it's just getting smaller and smaller
and the pool's getting smaller. People are moving
out of the industries to do other things. And
the whole system, it feels like it's going to
collapse at some point because it seems like
they don't want us in this manufacturing anymore.
But we don't have anywhere else to go to. At
all. Because people have too many properties.
Well, in saying that, how we're moving out of
that sort of thing, back when I first started,
when I was going through my license and I was
going to court to get my tattooer's license again,
they're like, no, your family's in the outlaw
motorcycle club. I'm not. I've never broken the
law. I have broken the law. I don't have a criminal
record. I'm not going to say I don't break the
law because I'm a human. I make mistakes and
I have broken the law before. I don't have a
criminal record. My behavior has dictated that
I have no criminal record, but you're going to
dictate whether I can or can't provide for my
family because of what other people have done
that share the same last name as me. So I changed
my last name. I've become this whole, all I want
to do is provide for my family. I've done tattooing
for 25 years to the point where I've got my face
tattooed, my neck tattooed, my hands tattooed,
my knuckles tattooed. Everywhere is tattooed.
When they were going to put me through court,
they're like, sorry, we're not going to give
you a tattoo license. Mate, this whole aesthetic
that I have is because all I ever wanted to do
all my life is tattoo. It's the industry. It's
not the lifestyle. That's right. All I've wanted
to do was tattoo my whole life. For you to sit
there and say that I can't do what I want to
do now, what am I meant to do looking like this?
What other job are they going to give me a job
in an office somewhere? No. Can I be a real estate
agent? Can I be a car salesman? No. No one's
going to give me a job looking the way I do.
No one's going to give me a job speaking the
way I do. Every second word I say is a fucking
expletive. Like every single thing I do has been
toward being a tattooist and being a good one
and doing the best that I possibly can. So for
someone that sits behind a desk to come back
and say, no, you can't do this because of something
that your family has done in the past and their
choices, such a kick in the teeth. And now when
we went to look at buying a building in Cessnock,
so me and Rachel were looking at buying a smaller
building in Cessnock and it said auction. Okay,
no worries. I'll contact the real estate. I said,
listen, I want to know. When this is going to
auction, is it going to sell prior to auction?
If it does sell prior to auction, I'd like to
make an offer. Sorry, no, it's being put up for
auction, so it's got to stay at auction. Okay,
no worries. Every week I'd hit them up. Okay,
I just want you to let you know that I'm going
to be at the auction. This is our offer. This
is what we've got to offer. Now, what we're going
to offer is above and beyond what they were advertising
for the auction to start at. Okay, no worries.
When it comes time. It was like six days out,
six or seven days out from auction. And it went
up sold. And I messaged the real estate. I said,
listen, what's the go? I was prepared to make
an offer. I was prepared to offer more than what
they wanted. I was prepared to go to the auction
and offer more than what they wanted. Why is
it that you wouldn't sell it to me, but you sell
it prior to auction to someone else? I find out
through the grapevine that it was the fucking
real estate agent that sold it, that bought it
prior to auction. There's got to be a conflict
of interest. There has to be, dude. It has to
be. You literally cannot say no to somebody else
and then undercut them and make an offer to the
other. Yeah, when it profits you. So wrong. When
it's your job. So wrong. Man. The old buds would
probably like to know about that. Exactly. Yeah.
But, you know. We're still out here paying absorbent
rent every month when all we want to do is get
ahead and do a better life for our children so
that they're not fucking dragging their knuckles
along the ground. Yeah, 100%. But no. And that
was like you, me, Branchie, Uncle Dave, Brett,
we've all talked about the same thing, getting
a block of land, dividing it up and having us
all on the one block of land. Yeah. I inquired
about a block of land the other day that was
103 acres. And I'm like, okay, I want to go in
this with four of my best friends. Okay, no worries.
I inquired about a syndicate, inquired about
having us all go in, buying a whole block of
land and then subdividing. Sorry, you can't do
that. Why not? Because it's zoned RU3. All right,
no worries. You've zoned at RU3. How do we go
about subdividing that into four equal blocks
of land? It's going to cost you around $180 ,000.
Right. Okay. So if I had the $180 ,000 there,
we could subdivide that and turn that into a
compound of such. It's not going to be a compound.
We're not going to be a cult. Compound for lack
of a better word. They're like, okay. So we could
do that, but it could be three or four years,
blah, blah, blah. I'm like, okay, so how do I
expedite this? And they go, well, if you had
this much capital, you had this much to start
with, I could say three months you could have
a subdividing thing. And I'm like, and how much
would that cost? She literally said to me, 350
grand. So if I was a multimillionaire already,
I could buy that for 500 ,000, subdivide it,
and then sell it for 500 ,000 per quarter acre
block. which is what they've just done with the
paddock at Abermain. For a 2 ,000 -square -metre
block at Abermain, it's $970 ,000. Oh, man. It's
fucking wild that, you know, if you've got –
it's not even if you've got money. If you've
got property, if you've had enough to kind of
start off and get a property and then you lend
and you get more and then you lend and you get
more. It's literally lending power based on what
you have. I don't know if they're hoping for
you to fail, but the more you have, the more
they're willing to give you. And it's stupid
because there's that many people out there that
want to buy. Yeah. I don't understand it. Well,
I think I shared it to our group chat the other
day, and I ended up tagging you on branch unit.
I'm like, hey, are yous ready? It was 38 acres
at Abermain. Yeah, it has a river running through
it, the creek running through it. Yeah. And I'm
like, you know. Let's go quarters, boys. But
at the same time, dude, it's like I would, and
I've said this before, and it's a fucking fact
because we have our kids play together and shit,
but I would trust my kids to you, Branchie, Brett,
and Dave. And that's the way it is. That's reality.
I don't have a close family thing for myself,
but I've chosen this family that. that include
my kids, that want to be around my kids, that,
you know, whenever they're around, they're the
most important people in the world. And that's
what I want to be around more. Yeah, 100%. I
want to – I shared a clip to you and the boys
the other night about a ranch in America where
it's just a whole family and they've built around
this 100 -acre block and their kids are at home
one night and they go, oh, we heard a noise.
And then they call their – They're the people
in the compound and they all rock up on these
golf carts and these side -by -sides. That's
what I want, man. Like I want to be able to,
oh, Dad, can I go down and play with Little Stretch?
Yeah, sweet, man. Get on your dirt bike and go
for a ride down to Little Stretch's place. Yeah.
Well, you have lights on your back pagoda kind
of. Turn them on. If you turn them on, that's
fucking go time for anybody else to come up with
if they want. And then have a massive shed in
the middle where we can all go on. There's a
pool table there. There's a ping pong table.
There's a barbecue. Dude, it would be so good.
The dream. The dream. But it's getting further
and further away with fucking how much shit is
costing these days. Yeah. They've got to put
a limit on the amount of properties that people
can buy. There has to be a limit on that because
it's just crazy. I was seeing. With all this
fucking talk about this fucking rally that's
going to be happening and like, you know, fucking
racist and whatever. Yep. It's pretty fucking
crazy and like hopefully it's not another fucking
Cronulla fucking bullshit. Yeah. But they talk
about how, I think it was like 2023 to 2024,
how we had over 500 ,000 people immigrate to
Australia. And we're not talking illegal immigrants.
We're not talking. Yeah. We're talking like Americans,
Englishmen. Yeah. We're talking about everybody.
There's nothing racist about it. They're coming
out here. They're working. They're doing whatever.
They want to make a life out here. Exactly. Perfectly
fine. Like 500 ,000. So you have that maybe they're
coming out as couples. That's 250 ,000 people.
Yep. That year you have. So on average, people
buying homes these days in Australia, as Australian
citizens, are anywhere between 35 and 38. Years.
That's how old they are. Right. And usually as
couples. So you've had 250 ,000 couples potentially
moving into the country. You've had, I think
it was like 160 ,000 people wanting to buy homes
that were already Australian citizens. And they
were projecting to build 250 ,000 homes that
year. So that's 410 ,000 people with 250 ,000
homes. But only built 130 ,000. Oh, for fuck's
sake. And there's our housing crisis. So I don't
know how many people died that year to sell houses,
but I don't see it being that big a number. But
there's just no wonder, like, so my neighbour's
house? The one that you sold, yep. Just sold.
Yep. Dated as fuck. Yep. They built it. They
lived in it up until they died. Right. Never
did anything to it. Wonderful people. Gone. Dated
old house. Just a big yacht. $700 ,000. Went
to market. First day, gone. Sight unseen to somebody
from Sydney. Of course. Yeah. Let me guess. Subdivide?
Two doors down. The exact same thing happened.
They subdivided it. It's got a house in the backyard.
It hasn't sold yet. I mean, yeah, it's a couple
from Sydney. A couple from Sydney. Of course
it is. Okay, this will give you the thing. Why
does there need to be billionaires in the world?
Now, everybody knows about the millionaire, billionaire,
trillionaire, right? So a million seconds, 12
days. Okay, millionaire, everybody should be
a millionaire. It's just the way it is. A billion
seconds? 32 years. It's stupid, yeah. And a trillion?
A trillion? Fuck off. 31 ,700 years. 31 ,700
years. There's 11 trillionaires in the world.
Why? Why? Yeah. Why does there need to be, why
do you need to have $100 billion ever? I saw
an interview with Dan Bilzerian the other day.
Oh, okay. Fucking knobhead. Yeah, what? Yeah,
but he's talking about how he's got all this
money and how money isn't the thing that makes
him happy. He said he'll buy a brand new Lamborghini
and he'll get joy from it from the first two
days. After that, it's just another car. He said
it's hanging out with his friends, surfing, wakeboarding,
chilling out. That makes him happy. So despite
the fact that he is, I don't care about that.
It's just the fact that money doesn't make you
happy. It's hanging out with people. When do
you get time to hang out with people? I don't
because I'm fucking trying to work. Why are you
trying to work? For money. Exactly. Why are you
trying to get money? To feed my family. Exactly
fucking right. We don't have time to go out and
surf of an afternoon. We don't have time to.
To get us to go out for dinner, it takes us,
what, three weeks? Three weeks of trying to organise
it. To pin down one day. Yeah. See, that's what
money makes you happy. It's not the money. It's
not the money. It's the time. It's the freedom
and the time to do these things. It's taken us
three weeks to get five men to be able to figure
out one night to have dinner. Three weeks, dude.
Sit down, shut the fuck up. You think, oh, money
doesn't make you happy. No, but it gives you
the freedom to be happy. If we're at work 10,
12 hours a day and then when we're not at work,
we're trying to make our children good and wholesome
and happy members of society, you've got no time.
You don't have freedom. No. And when you're at
home and you're trying to be the best possible
dad you can be, You're fucked because you've
been working 10 to 12 hours a day. Well, the
worst part is this 40 -hour work week is apparently
based on a time when everybody had in -home fucking
maids and fucking butlers and shit. Here's another
thing. Everyone wants to stay at home, Mum. We
can't fucking afford that these days, dude. We
can't. You know more than most. We've done it.
But my house is run down to shit. How hard is
it, bud? Yeah. How hard is that? It ain't fucking
easy. It's not easy. No. You're having to pick
up every overtime shift you can possibly get.
Yeah. And that's not even just you. And second
jobs. That's every other person at your workplace
trying to get overtime shift because they need
it as well. It doesn't – fuck you and anyone
that says money doesn't make you happy. Yeah.
Maybe it doesn't, but it affords you the freedom
and that time to make happy, to be happy. Yeah.
No, fuck off. I just don't think people should
make money at the expense of others when it comes
to real estate. No, not at all. If you've got
an idea that makes money, all the power to you,
you deserve it. But if all you're doing is fucking
mongering over fucking property and then… Making
people pay exorbitant prices for rent. Yeah.
Fuck you. And the thing that comes down to it
too, like if you, okay, so 105 acres, you get
a building permit regardless. Yep. 104 acres,
sorry, you've got to go through council to get
that building permit. Yeah. I don't want to see
you zoning shit. If I buy 100 acres, I want to
be able to. divide that 100 acres into 52 -acre
blocks to give to my friends, to help them, to
give their – our children, bro, are never going
to be able to buy a property at the rate we're
going. No. I want to be able to buy 100 acres
and give two acres to Landy Man, give two acres
to Thea, give two acres to Remy and David, give
two acres to Logan and just shut the fuck up
and let me do what I want with my 105 acres.
Yeah. Don't tell me what I want to do. I'm not
going to put a crack den on it. I'm not going
to put a dog fighting ring on it. Yep. Maybe.
But, yeah, I want my kids and my brother's kids
to do well. Yep. So one of the fellas I work
with, he's talking about extending his house
at the moment. He lives in Hamilton. No, not
Hamilton. Adamstown. Adamstown. Mm -hmm. Whopping
big shed on his fucking property, big double
brick joint. Ridiculous. House that he's been
in, he renovated when he moved in. He's been
there for fucking 30 -odd years, whatever. Owns
it pretty much. So he's talking about extending
it. Okay, fair enough. So he's talking to all
these planners and stuff. They're like, oh, you've
got a land to landscape ratio that you've got
to comply with? So. He's a wog, so he's got plenty
of concrete, and they're saying that you've got
fuck all grass. Basically, you need to do something
about that to be able to extend. He's like, well,
hang on. What about two doors down where it's
the same size property, but they've just put
fucking eight units on it, and there's like garden
beds? No grass. Oh, well, you know, we've got
inner city living. We've got more people living
on that area. where you buy, you own, you do
what you think you need to do to provide for
your family, but you can't do what you want with
that space because you want your own parcel.
There's only fucking five of you there, but we
can get 16 people in this same spot living on
top of each other, and it's okay. for them to
have concrete from front to back. That's so ridiculous,
dude. The standard is stupid. But that was like
Joel and Robin when they owned their house out
at Abernethy. And they're like, okay, you've
got a half acre block. I think it might have
been half acre. And they're like, but because
yous aren't on town water, yous don't have town
septic, we need you to have a certain amount
of grass in that backyard to be. So when you
have your washing machine, you have the sprinklers
that go down the back for your grey water. Yeah.
Grey water. The house next door had none of that
grass area, but because it had been there for
over five years, it didn't matter. Yeah. So.
Fucking why? My mate from work, he was told,
if you pull up all your concrete, you can extend
that house. And then put the concrete in later
because you don't need DA approval. The double
standards. It all just comes down to money. Yeah.
If you've got the money to break the law and
you've got the money to pay the fines, then you
can do whatever the fuck you want. Ridiculous.
Yeah. Yeah. It's a fucked up type of world we
live in. Yeah. At the end of the day, we've got
friends out of Paxton. who literally have 105
acres, and they have very, very, very, very openly
said that they would sell every one of us five
acres, which would barely put a dent in it. It
would actually make their land a lot easier to
manage. Yeah, to maintain, yeah. But the council
won't say yes. Fucking what? Yeah. It's their
land. They paid for it. Because they're going
to profit from it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But even
Em and Dave said, dude, we'll give you an acre
down the back. You give us what we paid for the
land and you can have it. Well, how much did
you pay for the land? They said $275. $275 for
an acre? That's unheard of around these parts.
Good luck. I would dead set pay $275 for that
acre out there, hand over fist, because that's
a smart investment. Again, council won't let
them do it. But. But if you've got a 700 -acre
square metre, if you've got a 700 -square metre
block, you can subdivide that and put three houses
on it. Why? Fucking figure that one out. But
if you've got 100 acres, we can't let you subdivide,
mate. But people do it all the fucking time.
I drive past them. If you've got millions of
dollars, it's easy to do. I drive past it every
afternoon, like places out towards Ginger's Lane
and fucking. where they're constantly expanding
in all that used to be farmland. Yes, sir. Between
here and Newcastle. Out here at Bellbird, we're
on Wollombi Road. The other day it took Foxy,
it took her 55 minutes to get to Woolworths and
back. That's a five -kilometre round trip. This
one stretch of road every day is so much traffic.
From here. out to Millfield, they're putting
in 3 ,000 houses on one stretch of road. There's
supposed to be something like 20 ,000 homes projected
to come out here within the next five to 10 years.
But you can't put six houses on 105 acres. Fuck
you. Fuck you. Yeah. It doesn't make sense. No.
But if you've got millions of dollars, everybody,
you can make millions more. We just need, you
know what you should do. Make us millionaires.
Make us millionaires. And we'll buy us all a
block of land. We'll try. We'll give you free
stickers or something. Yeah, we'll give you some
stickers and a high five. Yeah, that's our fucking
week of misery from Prevailing Strange. Welcome.
Yeah, pretty fucking woeful. We're sorry. But
we talk about anything here. This is Renton Sundry.
It is. This is it. This is the rant. This is
the rant. And now we're going to go out and cry
ourselves into a sundry. I'm going to go feed
my family. Yeah. I'm probably going to get pizza
on the way through. I think that's what I'm going
to do too. If he's there. He wasn't there last
week, which is a surprise. Yeah, you stitched
me up. I'm sorry. I can't believe you walked
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