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 rant
out the week by touching on some of the subjects
that we've previously gone over and follow wherever
the tangents take us. If you like what we're
doing here, guys, please like, comment, subscribe.
Do all that easy stuff that's just your bit of
finger exercise. Appreciate yous. I don't know
if I fucked that one over again, but I'm using
it. Yes. I love the conviction. Got a joke from
Kobe's Chronicles coming in hot. This week's
joke from Kobe is probably one of my faves. It's
not a Spanish one, this one. Okay. I have a pen
that can write underwater. Right. It can write
other words. I like underwater, though. What
is this? Totally related to you. Appreciate you,
buddy. Fucking hell, that was a good one. And
last week here we were saying, oh, we've got
to give Macca a shout out, and then we just completely
didn't do it. Shit. We'll do it at the start
of this episode. Hi, Macca. How you doing, buddy?
Hey, darling. Maybe turn it off now. You shouldn't
be watching now. Turn it off. Give the iPad back
to Dad and Mum. Love ya. There we go. Goddamn.
Turn it off. Mitchell, take the iPad off Macca.
And go. Okay. I've got a question for you. Yes,
sir. You come to a fork in the road. You're thirsty,
you're hungry, you've got nothing. One road,
sign points to Raccoon City. The other side of
the fork points to Silent Hill. Which one are
you taking? Raccoon City, bro. I'm not going
to that fucking demon spawn place. I'll go to
Raccoon City. I can deal with zombies. Can you?
Yeah. Yeah, I can deal with zombies. I cannot
deal with whatever the fuck is in that alternate
dimension, bro. I'm sorry, but no thanks. It's
only when it gets dark, though. That happens
twice a day. So no thanks. Yeah, but zombies
happen 24 hours a day in Raccoon City. Yeah,
but I'm only going there to get drinking water
and food. And then I'm bailing. I'm fucking out
of there. I'm going back to the fork in the road
and pitching a tent and not the erection of kind.
Yeah. You see, I thought I probably would have
went towards Silent Hill. Why? Lay down low when
it's dark. I've got no mystery to unravel. You've
got fucking 12 hours to figure out where you're
going to hide and fucking 12 hours to ride it
out. No. No. They never try that in the game.
That's a good point. But dogs are everywhere,
mate. Is that a spider? Where? Over there. Are
you a pussy? No. I don't mind spiders. That's
delicious. With sauce. Yeah, no, definitely.
Oh, cool. We both can. Hang on. Was it after
the nuke was dropped on Raccoon City? Probably
not. Damn it. I'm thinking peak. Peak for both
of them. Oh, oh, oh. No, still going to Raccoon
City, bro. Okay. Sly zombies can eat my farts.
And from memory, Silent Hill, there was no kind
of super -powered fucking protagonist and you
could potentially survive. So you reckon that,
oh, what's his name? Stars. Big fucking. Pyramid
head. No, he's in Silent Hill. Sorry. Nemesis.
Yeah, yeah, but like the protagonist that you
play is kind of genetically engineered. Is he?
He's an evil. Oh, no, he's a cop, isn't he? Yeah,
he's a cop. Oh, what am I thinking? I'm thinking
of the movie for a second there. No, stop that.
She was kind of hot and the soundtrack was sensational,
but then it went stupid. Yeah, okay. I mean.
No, I'd still get something. Just because you
said Raccoon City. Such a dick bag. Yeah. Give
me another one. I like these. I don't know if
I've got another one just yet. I asked you another
one before for next week. Now, our good friend
Tarn put us onto a thing that we could do at
the end of this year. We'll round out one of
our shows with our top 10 of the year. Yep. And
look back on 2025. Look back on 2025. the year
that were. But do you just want to do movies?
No, we'll probably fucking. Or media? Yeah, we'll
touch on a lot of things. Touch on, yeah. Sorry.
I get shy. So we'll probably do two specials
over the holiday period. Fuck yeah. And we'll
probably just release one a week, those weeks.
Sounds good. A longer episode, but only one.
Yep. One will probably be a roundup and one will
be something else. Sounds good. I've been getting
a bit flat at work lately, right? It just seems
that the world today in tattooing is just looking
further and further into the AI mantle and they're
like bringing you designs that just cannot be
tattooed. Right. And they don't want to be told
that it can't be tattooed. They're like, but
here it is. And it's like, well, that's an AI
image. I tattooed a young lady the other day
and she wanted this. It was a swallow. She wanted
tattooed on her. And it was four centimeters
wide. Okay. This swallow. Now you think of the
eye, the size of an eye on a swallow. And then
imagine that I have to tattoo it with a needle.
Yeah. The needle. The tip of the needle is about
as big as the eye of this swallow. And when she
left, I got a message saying that she wasn't
happy because it didn't have eyelashes. I'm sorry,
but I couldn't add the eyelashes. The whole thing,
if I put an eyelash in there, the eyelash would
have been bigger than the eye. And it's just
the unreal expectation that's coming with creation.
these days. Like even some of these, like you're
looking at a Tool album from maybe the great
Tool, like all the eyes and shit. Yes, dude.
There are tattoo artists that will attempt that.
I'm not one of them. You know what it'll turn
out like. I know what it'll turn out like. I'm
not going to put something on your body that
I know is going to look like shit. Because at
the end of the day, that's a walking advertisement
for my work. Yep. You are, yes, you do have the
right to get the tattoo that you want, but also
have the right to make sure that it's going to
be a good one. Yep. That it's not going to be,
I'm not just going to take your money for the
sake of taking your money. Yep, 100%. You kind
of have a duty. Yeah, duty of care, exactly.
Duty of care, yeah. But it's just getting to
that point now and it's really, really wearing
me down that you see all these people posting
these trends on Instagram and TikTok and that
and then people are coming in and going, oh,
I want to get this done. You're like, mate, that's
not real. You can't do that. Can you remember
a couple of years back there was that trend that
was going around with the tattoos that had the
tracing light? Like there was like a neon light
that went around the design. Yeah. Can you remember
that? Yeah, it was like. I had people asking
for that. I'm like, dude, that's not real. That's
a video edit. Oh, but it's on Instagram. It doesn't
matter, bro. I'm sorry, but that's not a tattoo.
They thought it would glow. They thought it would
glow. They thought that it would change colour.
I'm like, mate, that's not a – and the thing
is, then you're an arsehole. I'll tell you a
fucking story. I've got a dickbag cousin. And
his missus messaged the page and was asking for
a tattoo. And I said, it's going to cost this
much and it'll take that long. I've never met
this woman. As soon as I gave the quote, she's
like, how can you charge me that much? I'm fucking
your cousin and you're charging me this much.
This is what she said. It's not going to take
you that long. How can you tell me it'll take
that long? Because I've been doing it for 23
years. I know what the fuck. It's going to take
me to do the tattoo. And they, fuck you. Everyone
was right about you, Clint. You are a piece of
shit, asshole, blah, blah, blah. And then plastered
my name in every community page. Yeah, right.
I said it would take me four hours because it's
going to take me four hours. You're a cunt. I
don't want to spend any more than four hours
with you. Yeah. If I could do it in half an hour,
I would because you're a piece of shit. Yeah.
But the fact is I didn't because I want you to
have a good tattoo. I'm going to take my goddamn
time with it even though you're a piece of shit.
Yeah, absolutely. That was not a fart, by the
way. That was a table. It's not like you're printing
the thing out. No, dude. No, you fucking – it
takes time, especially – I don't know. I don't
know what it was like, whether it was grayscale
or coloured or whatever, but there's different
aspects to tattooing that – I know about and
I'm only somebody that kind of looks over your
shoulder, you would know more than I would because
you're the artist. And this is the thing that's
really bothering me. People don't want to listen
to reason anymore. They've got this thing attached
to their hand that tells them everything and
they don't want to listen to anybody else. There's
some tattoos going on. Another perfect example.
A person come here the other week and wanted
a tattoo. I'm like, mate, he wanted it on the
lower forearm. Right. I said, mate, that's not
going to work. That design that you're showing
me is a full sleeve. Yeah. And he goes, no, I
want it compressed down and I want it on the
outside of my forearm. I said, dude, there's
so much detailing that if we squash it down,
it's just going to blob. Yeah. Wouldn't listen.
Oh, I'll take me money elsewhere if you don't
want to do it. I'm like, okay, mate, no worries.
He got it done at a different shop. Yeah. And
it looks just as shit as I told him it would.
I mean, I get how it wears you down, this whole
kind of interaction stuff. There must be a little
satisfying seeing that he's gone else. No, because
I still love tattooing and I want everybody to
get the best tattoo that they can get, whether
I do it or someone else does it. That's true.
Maybe that's just me thinking. Oh, trust me.
Well, in the end, I'm like, I was more upset
at the other artists because they took it on
when they know it's not going to look good. That's
not. Again, the duty of care has to come into
at some point. You can't just go around slapping
things on people just to get a paycheck. You
need to help them make an informed decision.
Yeah, and I mean, I get that. Like, I mean, I'm
a machinist. I work with metal. It can be fucking
cut and welded and done all this shit to it.
But if my boss gives me a job and I'm like, I
can't rightfully do that job. Yeah. I'd knock
it back because I know that I'm potentially going
to spend weeks on something and it not work in
the long run. And then you have to shoulder that
responsibility because you're the machinist.
I'm like, I can't do that. I'd just find somebody
else to do it or tell them you're not going to
do it. It's near impossible for what we have
going on. And yeah, you have the right to refuse.
Yeah. No, I 100 % agree. And that was... It's
just something that's been getting on me a little
bit. And at the start of next year, I'm going
to start doing a lot more want -to -do tattoos.
So I'll be posting more images of what I want
to do. Oh, yeah. So, you know, fingers crossed
I can start doing some fun shit again and just
sinking my teeth back into it. I've got a couple
of shops that I want to go and guest spot. Like
me, my Will Francis is just opening up a new
shop over at Malin. Yep. Called Odium. I want
to go over there and hang out with him for a
week or so. He's fucking insanely talented. Yep.
And the team he's going to have over there is
just fucking incredible. And there's some absolute
black and grey goats that are going to be there,
so I could go over there and just learn so much.
Yep. And that's something that I really want
to do, so hopefully it lights a fire up my ass
next year. Hell yeah. But I'm booked out for
the rest of the year with tattoos, so I'll just
reset for next year. Next year's a new year.
New you, new me. Oh, that felt good. Sorry. Seeing
you got your slab done the other day, mate, when's
your erection going on? So I've got all the pieces
there, but I'll wait until we get the roof done
on our joint. I'll wait until these guys come
in and do the roof, just give them a bit more
kind of area to. Because there's 900 from the
house, I don't want to go plonking the shit up
for them to fucking be trying to fuck around.
So, you know, give them something steady to fucking
get up off or whatever. Fuck, what was I going
to... Oh, you're redoing the roof on your house?
Mm -hmm. The whole thing? The whole thing, yeah.
Yeah, right. Yeah, it's fucking old and fucked.
Cactus. Yeah, and all the... What do you call
them? Not the eaves, the fascia boards? Yep.
Getting replaced with colour bond. They're all
rotted out and shit. Right. Fascia boards? Mm
-hmm. What are fascia boards? So, you know, the
eave, the eave is the part that overhangs the
house. The fascia board is the part underneath
the gutter that faces out towards. Oh, right,
right, right. Yeah. Gotcha. A lot of old houses,
it's wood and painted and stuff. Mine's obviously
been redone in the past. How long have you been
there for? Nearly 14 years, I think. Yep. Yeah.
So within the last 20 years, they've put pine
on there, painted it. Right. And it's just rotted
away. oh, that doesn't look too bad and then
it's kind of looking like it probably needs some
attention and then just kind of overnight the
whole thing just fucking fell apart. Yeah, right.
Pretty fucked. And then the roof leaked into
the ceiling with the big rains that we had a
couple of years ago or a year ago or whatever
because all the rubbers on all the tech screws
on the roof had fucking perished and stuff, which
is not something that you get up on the roof
and check out. No. You should get your roof checked
out every two to three years. Really? Yeah, but
according to the people that like insurance companies
and shit. This is where you need to put that
PDA thing, the more you know. The more you know.
Yeah. That's another thing. Your hot water system,
if you've got a hot water system tank. Right.
Like I had one and it shit itself. Okay. Because
it has a sacrificial fucking anode in the middle,
big rod of fucking steel. that is super corrosive,
so it will... There's a storm coming in. Fuck,
dude, that scared the shit out of me. It has
this super corrosive fucking anode that it's
like the part that will fucking rust out and
flog out in the middle, like a core of your hot
water tank, and you're supposed to get that checked
out every couple of years and replaced. Shows
how much I've been living in the house. Four
years, mate, never done it. Yeah, so three years
ago, my house, my fucking hot water system started
leaking everywhere and was fucked. It was because
that had rusted to fuck all, to nothing, and
then started fucking rusting the tank. So when
he's trying to replace it, he said, yeah, you
know, you meant to get that checked out. I'm
like, where is that written on the paperwork?
Exactly. When I buy a fucking house, then I'm
supposed to look at the fucking rubbers on me,
tech screws on the roof, and I'm supposed to
look at the fucking anode in my water tank. What
fucking anode? Yeah, it's in the middle. I've
lived in a house for fucking 42 years. Exactly.
That's a good win. We're supposed to get fucking
hail and shit too. Yeah, we're underground, people,
and we can hear that. Yeah, we can hear that.
We're fucking 10 metres underground. That's fucking
good. That's fucking great. If we lose power,
guys, we're sorry. Yeah. So, yeah, there's things
that, you know, if you buy a house, it's worth
looking into what needs to be done. Yeah, well,
I have no idea. So now I'm going to check. I'm
going to write down. Do you have a hot water
tank? Hot water tank, check. Well, check out
how old it is and I'll probably get somebody
around to service the cunt. Tank service. Look
how neat my writing is today. It's insanely neat.
Must have had a stroke. But now we have an instant
hot water system. It's good. It's good. But so
I can just hear that rain through the camera.
The only issue with it, it must have a sensor.
So it's not allowed to go over 50 degrees or
something because that's the Australian standard.
where my last hot water system was fucking hot.
You'd only have to put a little bit of hot water
and a whole lot of coal in your suite, and it
would last longer. But now it just lasts forever.
But the problem is if you turn – I like a lot
of water pressure in my shower. I'm a tall guy,
so I'm really close to the fucking shower head,
so it's got to hit me hard to spread. If I turn
it down low like my missus likes it, it's just
this piddly little fucking – thing happening
on my shoulder and it's fucked. I get no coverage
and I get warm and it's fucked. So I need pressure
like at my face. Give me some pressure at your
face. Yeah, you would. So, yeah, especially in
the winter, like even on a cool night in spring
or fucking autumn, if I turn the hot water on
to where it normally goes because I've – We're
getting a fucking hurricane, dude. Yeah. So I've
got half -turn taps. Yep. They're great. I know.
the kind of orientation where I want each one.
So I go heat on, coal on, and the problem is
it must have a sensor for gas leaks. So if you
turn it on and it's supposed to be heating up
and I think if the system isn't staying warm
at the out end, it must think, oh, the flame's
not lit. It must be gas. Right. So it just shuts
down. So I can start a shower, get in. And then
it just goes dead cold because the system turns
off. I'm like, fuck, I've got to turn everything
off, give it a pause, and then start the whole
thing up again. So I do end up using a bit more
water in the winter because I turn it on, let
it run for a bit, wait until the pipes are hot,
start introducing cold, takes a minute. So it
can take me a couple of minutes to get my shower
in the winter. But the rest of the year, sensational.
Longer showers. But I only shower at home once
or twice a week, so it's fine. Really? I shower
at work the rest of the time. Yeah, right. Using
the air fucking water. I can feel that breeze.
Same. It's coming in. Yeah. Do you want to watch
a horror movie? Oh, God. So, award -winning Skinwalker.
Award -winning? This is a little bit longer than
the shorts that we normally watch. It's about
12 minutes. I did see that was 12 minutes. God,
that's beautiful. Jeremiah. The silliest people
tend to make the wildest shit. Why is his name
Ben Gorn? I don't know. These sounds are horrific,
dude. I fucking hate you. Good weather for it.
You just need to watch this with headphones on,
guys. Dude you just dropped a hundred and fifty
dollar hat Oh my god, Mary! Oh my god. What the
fuck happened? I'm just gonna piss on him. Speaking
parcel tongue up in this bitch. I'm really sorry,
brother. It's the only way I could find out for
sure. I knew you'd try to stop me. I knew it
was going to get messy. Now you and your girl
are going to wait right here until we figure
out what the fuck is happening. What awards did
this win? I don't know. Razzie? I'm not. Yeah.
What the hell are you talking about? I've seen
animal killings before. Bears, cougars, all of
it. Are you hiding your face with it, buddy?
But this... This is something different. Ben
Ghosn should have stayed gone. Yeah. I know you
didn't brother Brother brother brother brother.
Yeah, brother I'm almost sure We're hunting an
animal. An animal, Arthur! Don't look at her,
look at me. You don't hunt these things. What
things? What things? You gotta let them hunt
you. I had my suspicions about her, so I allowed
her to tag along. She wanted to help you, idiot!
We're the fucking idiots. She wanted to be with
me. I see how she's got you, Jason. She's been
hunting us. First part is, this would have cost
money to match. Yes. But trust me, I know her.
This isn't you. You wouldn't do this. Please.
I've known you my whole life, Arthur. You're
a good man. Please. We're going to marry here
one day. I'm going to make this fast for you.
Arthur! Don't you watch the Solemn movies? Yeah.
And this is worse. Get off me! Quickly, quickly,
you're on fire. Come here. Don't cut it again.
Where's the silence track? It just cuts in and
out. Where is she? Sand engineering is terrible.
Was that a wooden plank he just picked up then?
I told you. You fucking killed her? She was a
damn skinwalker. Jesus Christ. Mary? Yeah, sounded
just like her. I just look up gun sounds online.
Yeah. Jason. He's constantly in the fetal position
this whole time. Who the fuck recommends all
this shit to you? Stop being friends with them.
Nobody recommended it to me. I don't know where
I saw it, but oh, my God. I'd just like to take
this moment to formally apologise. Follow your
sword. I'm going to pick a show. Have you seen
– did you see the Power Rangers show? Yeah. Did
you? The R -rated one? Yeah, it's good. Yeah?
Mm -hmm. Did you ever watch Mortal Kombat Legacy?
Mm -hmm. The Machinima series that was on the
internet? Yeah. Fucking hell, Jeremy. Tell the
people what you did. What did I do? I didn't
make the shit. No. You brought it to our eyes.
Yeah. Well, you fucking. Checking shit out a
bit more. Award winning. What did it win? Participation
award. Fucking, hang on. Good job, little buddy.
Oh, no. Fucking hell. Skinwalker short. Make
a wish for that. Short film award. It has an
award. It's an honourable mention. The One Real
Short Film Competition in 2023, he got an honourable
mention. Oh, no. Well done, Ben. Fucking dick.
Look, I'm sure he had a great idea. No, he didn't.
It was, yeah. Anyway, on that note. Anywho. I'm
sorry. Thanks for joining us, guys. Like, comment,
subscribe, do all that funny stuff, and we will
see you next week. Love, peace, and chicken grease.
Bye.