From the Dungeons of Morningstar, my name's Stretch.
And I'm Clint, and this is Prevailing Strange.
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best shot. We're back. Oh, fuck it now. I can
see it already. It's a big triumphant looking
motherfucker. Such a fucking child. Wow. How
many children do you know that can sculpt something
like this? It's like... It's fucking art, my
friend. What was that movie? Was it Superbad?
Superbad. Wendigo is right in the middle. It's
the old triumphant looking motherfucker. Pubis.
I don't know why I did that. That's from the
underside. That was just supposed to be a scene.
Vazdefrans. That's just meant to be a seam. That's
just fucking ruined my day. What? You drew the
cock wrong. Yeah. I haven't seen mine in like
ten years. Fair enough. Hey, mate, how's your
day? Good. Better now. Did you smell that fart?
No. You seen that dick? No. Just hanging out
with you, you fucking jerkbag. Thanks, man. Appreciate
you. So last week, when I got home after polishing
that off, I was not well. Really? I just don't
know what it is, man. Alcohol just doesn't agree
with me anymore, eh? Did you have a few drinks
after dinner, with dinner the other night? No,
I just had Coke. I had Coke and a lemon squash
thing. It was alcohol, wasn't it? No, no, no.
Jack had the hard salt. Oh, shit. He's underage.
I'm not supposed to say that. Oh, yeah, okay.
Yeah, he had the tap drink. Yeah, okay. Yeah,
I just had a lemon drink. Yeah. Yeah, dude, I
don't know. Shitty. Just going to start railing
lines. You're about to coke your shit. That's
terrible. Post -mix is all right. Yeah. Dude,
I find myself going to Macca's just to get a
post -mix coke. Man, that was one of the things
I liked about the States was every servo had
a drink fountain. You just go in there and buy
fucking soft serve drinks out of the fucking,
like Macca's Coke. There should be more of that
over here. But you can buy it in like 38 -ounce
fucking cups. Fucking bladder buster. I've seen,
like when we go to the movies and they've got
them, they have to be like. Fucking two litres.
Yeah, it's fucking huge. You've got to have two
hands to hold it. You can't get a popcorn and
that at the same time. Well, you get them over
in the States. They're a big cup, but then they
shrink down at the bottom so they fit in the
cup holder in the car. Stop it. Really? Yeah.
Holy shit. Guys, just put down the sugar. So
you buy the first one, so there's chains of fucking
truck stops everywhere, and you buy the first
one. It's like $1 .38 or something like that.
For the drink. But if you take that cup to the
next one, it's a fucking half -priced drink.
Fucking, yeah. You show them the cup? That's
my cup. It's fucking like 60 cents to refill
it. Are you fucking serious? Yeah, 100%. 60 cents?
Yeah. You're telling me that a bladder -buster
-sized Coke over that size is like $3? Yeah,
like six years ago. No longer than that. 2016
was the last time I was there. Yeah, it was fucking
cheap as. Dude, I can't remember the last time
I paid less than $2 for a fucking Coke every
year. That's ridiculous. I don't even think Macca's
Cokes are under $2 now. Well, I mean, it was
like two years ago you could still get a can
of fucking Coke for $1 at some of the smaller
fucking servos. Over there? No, here, like a
can, but now they're all going up to $1 .50 because
their fucking cartons are going up at Coles and
Lully's. Goddamn tariffs. I don't know what they
do. I've got no idea. I don't think they affect
us. No, not at all. But that's what I was talking
to my client yesterday. And it was just like,
you know how you've got all these people that
walk around the streets with their cameras and
shit? And they're like, okay, I'm going to ask
you some things. And I go, yeah, yeah, sweet.
And they're like, all right. If I was six and
my sister was three. how old is she now if I'm
60? And like, oh, man, this is easy. I'm a mathematician
from way back. She was half your age, so she'd
be 30 now. They're like, you're locking that
in? They're like, yeah, yeah, locking that in.
It's just like in America. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
locking that in. Man, maths question, shit this
in any day of the week. I'm like, no, no, man,
she'd be 57. How do you figure that in? She was
half her age then, half her age now. It's like.
No, mate, that's not the way fucking aging works.
Yeah. But, dude, now, of course, he wouldn't
be showing all the people who got it correct.
Yeah, he'd just be cherry -picking the fucking
diamonds. But the fact that there was more than
fucking one is frightening. Yeah. They have access
to rifles. Yeah. It's gnarly, man. Dude, like.
In Australia, we were imperial one week, and
then we switched over to metric. Do you know
that America's been trying to convert to metric
for the last 15, 20 years? Yeah. And they're
doing it slowly by doing one thing at a time
as metric to sort of get them to get with it.
I mean, NASA, the National American Space Agency,
uses. Metric. Yeah. I just, like, you know. I
watch a lot of YouTubers and there's the American
fellas that work on cars. They're like, I think
it's a 375 35ths. It's like, what the fuck did
you just say? Yeah, unfortunately, I'm pretty
familiar with it because a lot of our, not a
lot, but there is still a lot of drawings that
we reference to make stuff. That is still in
Imperial. Yeah, right. Yeah. Why? Because everything
in the place that we're fixing is in Imperial
because it's that fucking old. Right, okay. So
Mollicott used to be Comsteel, fucking the big
metal plant in Newcastle. Yeah. So probably half
the drawings we get out of them are still in
Imperial. Yeah, from like 50s and 60s and shit.
Yeah. Yeah, right. I just converted to fucking
English. Yeah, converted to English. Yeah, I
just converted to metric. But yeah, I was like,
I don't know why. But even Britain's the same.
They're dragging their feet too. So some of it's,
so you've got miles, you've got meters, you've
got feet, inches, millimeters, centimeters. So
they use everything, which is odd. I thought
they were all metric over there. Why do they
have miles per hour? They don't? They do. They
don't? They do. Have you never watched Top Gear?
They might be going through other parts of the
country, but I'm pretty sure it's all fucking
metric. Are you betting on this? I would be 95
% sure. Miles per hour, motherfucker. Really?
Mm -hmm. The UK uses miles per hour for speed
limits on roads, not kilometers per hour. What
the fuck? It's fucking weird, man. What the hell?
So the UK government committed to a transition
to the metric system in the 60s, but the plan
for the speed limits was postponed and hasn't
been fully implemented yet. That's so weird.
Which is weird. Surely that's the only thing.
All vehicles registered in the UK since 77 have
to have both speedometers with MPH and KPH. Yeah,
I do know that a lot of Euro cars have the dual
fucking speedo. That's fucking weird. Do you
know why America spells things different to England
and the UK? No. Like aluminum. Well, okay, I
can tell you that one in a minute. But like color,
the O -U -R here. So back in the day, the printing
presses and stuff like that, it was cheaper to
shorten words because people could still read
what they said. I have seen a thing like that.
It was a whole heap of jumbled letters, and it's
like if you can still read this, but it was only
the end letters of a word were the same. Yeah,
both ends of it, but if you jumble the ones in
the middle. But, yeah, it was just the whole
simplifying it for the printing presses to make
things cheaper, and that just influenced the
fucking whole education system spelling. It's
like one of the biggest bugbears I have about
reading American books is when they talk about.
You know, this room's lit. Yes. They say lighted.
No. They do. Why? And what else is there? Similar
fucking things. They don't shorten things, which
is funny that they didn't shorten these types
of words because it would have been cheaper on
the printing press. Yeah. They're longer. Yeah,
lighted. Oh, fuck, I can't remember any other
ones. But there's a whole heap of words that
we have shorter words for. Lit, lighted. Yeah,
no, I'm not going to get the rest of them in
my head. I thought if I kept saying lit and lighted,
the rest would come, but it hasn't happened.
Yeah, right. So why is aluminum aluminum? So
aluminum was discovered in or kind of brought
to the fore in America. So they named it first,
aluminum. But when it came out to the wider world
and the scientific community, they put the I
in there to align it with all the other. Iniums.
Iniums, yeah, the elements. Gotcha. Yeah. But
they were just, you know, stubborn. It's aluminum.
The rest of the world, the scientific community
uses aluminum. They use aluminum. And then the
rest of the world uses a metric system, but they're
stubborn and stick with the imperial system.
Bullets for children, I've heard that a bit.
Jesus. I actually heard a thing today of one
of the other kids' clients were saying, instead
of, they're like, oh, why are we having all these
school shootings and that? And it's because people
that, it's kids that aren't being seen or noticed
and they're like, this is them getting to live
forever. It's them, they'll always be remembered.
No matter what happens, their names will always
be in the thing and they go, maybe we should
just start calling them by their pick, like their
bully names then. I'm like, what do you mean?
He goes, well, they're all getting bullied anyway,
so let's just keep bullying them after death.
I'm like, wow. He's like, you know, people just
say that their bully names are getting broadcast
on the news and shit. They're not going to want
to do it. I'm like, I don't know, man. I don't
think that's the way mental health works. I watched
a dude on Instagram, and it's a fella, and he
lives in California. His sister lives in California
as well, and he interviews his mum and dad. He
has a podcast with his mum and dad who live.
And they're massive Trump supporters. Where him
and his sister live in California, they don't
like Trump. They don't like certain things. They
like human rights. They're more liberal. And
they sit there and have this conversation with
their parents. And some of the shit this bloke
says to his own kids is fucking heinous, man.
Yeah, I think I've seen it. Yeah, no good. Like
the young fellow said to his dad, he goes, you
love your guns. If all school shootings stop
tomorrow but everybody had to hand their guns
in, would you do it? He goes, fuck no. He's like,
why would you not want to do that? If you could
save kids' lives. And he goes, how many kids
have died this year in a school shooting? Five.
And he's like, even if it was two, that's still
too many. And he goes, ah, fuck that shit. I
was like, what the? How can people look in the
mirror and believe this shit? Yeah. That's heartbreaking,
man. Like if someone come up to me and said,
dude, you love your guns. I'm like, yeah, I've
never really been a gun person. I like hunting.
I like shooting guns when I go to my pop's property
and stuff. But if someone come to me and said,
you could stop all mass shootings in the world
if you handed in your guns. Take it. Take it,
mate. It's – I have – anybody's free to do what
they want to do as long as it's not impeding
and hurting anyone. That's right, yeah. Yeah,
it's a wild world over there. Oh, dude, yeah.
But then you see – I see another bloke I watch
on YouTube. His name's Sir Ronster. Just a young
bloke. He's never shown his face, always wears
a full -face helmet. But he just buys and reviews
electric bikes. Yep. So he buys all his bikes
and then he shows people what they do, how fast
they go, what you can do to customise them to
make them faster. And sometimes, like, he'll
just ride around LA and he'll talk to homeless
people or, you know, they'll show him through
their homes and shit. Like, there's people that
live in these massive, vast tunnel systems in
LA and they take them through and they've, like,
got full houses set up in these tunnel systems.
And he's like, how long have you lived here for?
Yep. I've been here for like 15 years, man. What
the fuck? Really? He goes, yeah, I'm just peaceful,
man. I just don't want to be bothered. And he's
like, well, thanks so much, man. I don't want
your money, man. I don't want your money. I'll
take care of myself. Wow. And then he goes, he
might write, and he'll be writing for 10 minutes
outside of LA. And there'll be these just towns.
That have all these houses that are kicked in
doors, windows and shit. And there's people living
in all of them. And it's literally five, ten
minutes out of Los Angeles. Yeah. Absolutely
just. Mind -blowing. Blows your mind, dude. Absolutely
mind -blowing. You're right. And I see, like,
we've got a couple of homeless people in Cessnock
now. It's like, to see. That that bloke had been
living in that same spot for 15 years and how
much pride he took in that little hole. It was
a little drainage hole in the wall. It was, yeah.
It's like, holy shit, dude. I don't, I can't
pretend to imagine what that's like. I've always
had a bed to sleep in. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it
can't be easy. Man, there's got to be better
places to sleep than Cessnock at night though,
dude. Fuck, it gets cold here. Absolutely. It's
shit. Yeah. But, like, it's a sad thing though.
We've got a church on nearly every corner. There's
that many churches and places that are vacant
every single night that if, you know, they spend
a little bit of that money that they've been
fucking getting all these years on just some
bunk beds that they can put out and then some
people can sleep, have somewhere to sleep over
night time. You don't have to feed them. You
don't have to do anything else, but give them
somewhere warm and comfortable to sleep overnight.
I'm pretty sure the convent on the top of the
hill is empty, isn't it? Beyond the cop shop?
The one that's been... They've closed off. No,
that is. That is vacant. It's been vacant since
I was a kid. Why don't they do something with
that? Exactly. It'll be all dorms and shit. Exactly,
dude. I don't understand how... That's one thing
that really pisses me off. You always see churches
and that, oh, please donate to this cause, please
donate to that cause. Man, we've got people that
are sleeping on streets, sometimes not even out
of the fault of their own, and they've got nowhere
to sleep, and I'd give them somewhere to sleep.
You want to watch that? Sure. It's called Double
Vision. A cow. Dr. Kayser. It's so fucking clear.
And, like, the frames are high as fuck. Yeah.
Probably seems unguarded. Is there anything in
that dock I can't see? No, I can't fucking see.
Oh, fuck off! No! What the fuck? What are you
doing? This isn't a barrier. I don't know what
you're doing, pal. Just fucking sit there in
the corner, bro. You're fine. No, don't worry.
It's not going to be right in front of you or
scared the fuck out of me at all. In case you
haven't noticed, I boo. Why is that so fucking
scary? Because it's close to being real, you
know what I mean? Like, it's not completely...
No, it wasn't. Because there's no way I'd just
go like this if someone was in my house. That's
not real. That's one of my pet peeves about horror
movies is when people... Get the banana. Go at
the front door. When people don't act like they
would in real life. Yeah. You know what I mean?
I think that's silly. She would have screamed.
She would have ran. I screamed. But those scenes
of just the head looking out, like because it's
not unnatural, you know what I mean? Yeah. It's
just fucking weird. Yeah. They're the scariest
parts about horror movies when you're like, that
could happen. Like literally there's the belief
that that could happen. Despite the fact that
it's a doppelganger, the fact that you're seeing
just a human face looking around the corner.
Yeah. And that last scene in the dark, just the
face. Yeah, there's certain things that hit like
that. Yeah, I didn't like that. That was worse.
That was up there with the one we watched last
week with the Portrait of God. Yeah. Portrait
of God was pretty good. It was pretty good. But
that was... I thought, oh, shit, the camera angles
in this are way off. But you could tell it was
just shot with a mobile phone or something, a
gimbal. Yeah, but I love that shit. But it was,
yeah. That they can make this idea that they
have in their head. Yeah, with their phone. They
do so much with it, man. It's so good. And especially
with these little, well, there was no dialogue
in that, but you can get these little magnetic
microphones that you can't even see. You've seen
that lights out one, haven't you? Yeah. Yeah,
that's fucking, that's a great one. Yeah, it's
stupid. Why is it stupid? It scared me. It was
so good. Just light goes out, there's something
in the dark, you can't really see what it is,
light goes on, it's not there. Yeah. Perfect.
Yeah, and then it just keeps getting closer.
Yeah. Stop turning the fucking light off, bro.
Yeah, just leave the light on. Just leave the
light on. Call the po -po. Do something, I don't
know. Don't call the po -po, it'll take you three
days to get there. You've got too many people
to stop speeding on the way. All right, guys.
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