From the dungeons of Morningstar, my name is
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 round out the week by touching on some of
the subjects that we've previously gone over,
and follow wherever the tangents take us. If
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us around, look at our face, laugh at us, tell
us we're dicks. You didn't see that coming, did
you? No, I did not. I thought that was the intro.
I thought we were already in. We're in. Wow.
Well, I was just talking to you about some sick
shit. I was ranting about you about some sick
music, and then we come into the fucking episode.
I thought we were already recording. No. No.
Clearly we weren't. Oh, you know what? How good's
wetting your whistle? Please stop making those
noises. What the fuck is wrong with you? I don't
know. Tell me about your name. Oh, you've been
smoking? No. Why'd you cough then? Because I've
been fucking machining cast iron all week. Why?
Because it's your job. Because they pay me. Fair
enough. Yeah. You know what? I wish that we could
get paid for doing something that we enjoy. Maybe
one day. It would be lovely. It would be nice.
Sell our souls. I was thinking that maybe next
year, once the shed's up and stuff, we could
replace this segment with a live Twitch maybe.
Ooh. So it would be us talking shit while playing
games. Dude, I'm fucking down. I've been playing
this new game, Ark Raiders, bro. Mm -hmm. Fucking,
it's a looter shooter. It's so good. So the story
goes we've been pushed underground by machines.
They've all built their own little robotic thing
and taken over the world. Some of these machines,
man, like city blocks large and they're all like
spiders and you see them. You're running around
the maps and shit and you can see them in the
distance just in hazy shadow like they're way
back. But the scale of them is huge. So you've
got to go to the surface and roam around these
maps collecting stuff to take back down and then
you sell it. It becomes a commodity, things down
to apricots and seeds and stuff like that, all
the way up to guns, ammunition. And then you've
got to extract. So you've got to get to a designated
extraction zone and then they suck you back down
the elevator. Yeah, right. But you've got to
dodge other people because it's PvP and you've
got these robots that walk around and fly around
and shit. Nice. I was thinking more along the
lines of some of these indie four -player co
-op games where you've got to all fucking do
shit. Yeah, the hilarity ensues. Like horror
ones or that? No, no, no. Do you want to know
why I'd hate fucking horror games? Why? Because
they're immersive and you get – horror games
are worse than movies. Horror games are worse
than anything. It'd be great content. Fucking
worse than anything. Have you ever played – We'll
have random guests on because it's four player.
No, no. Fuck off. Don't go putting something
on because I can't fucking sort it out later
in the fucking – Hang on a minute. I'm just going
to open Steam here. And I'm going to show you
this horror game I've got that I play in virtual
reality. It's fucked. Is it the Mortuary one?
No. I want to play that one. No, it's Phasmagoria.
Phasmagoria? Phasmagoria. Phasmagoria? Phasmagoria
is a word, I believe. But, dude, it's virtual
reality. I'm so interesting. And you're a ghost
hunter and you go into houses and you've got
to. find these ghosts and you've got to figure
out why they're there, what sort of entity it
is, and then, again, you've got to get out. But
you can cleanse it as well, but you've got all
these different things like, you know, you've
got your ghost boxes and you're fucking, no.
But the worst part is you're in virtual reality.
So you're walking around and what you're doing
is this, and then all of a sudden a fucking hand
will come out of nowhere and grab your face and
you're dead. And then you become a ghost. All
right. And if you're with your friends, you can
haunt them. Yeah, there's some pretty good little
indie four -player ones where you've got, there's
one, RV. Mario Kart, Mario Kart, Mario Kart.
RV there yet? So it's four of yous are going
camping and you've got to, like, fucking guide
each other through fucking the trails and shit
and it's, like, really kind of low -budget looking,
but it's just. cunts yelling at each other because
nobody's doing the right thing. Sounds like.
Could you imagine getting Clem on there and somebody
else to play games with us? But Clem knows exactly
everything about the game and he's just sitting
in the back going, you cunts are fucking stupid.
The scathing. Yeah. You probably won't want to
put his face on it. No. Just be the voice. Yeah.
You fucking morons. Oh. No, because I know the
rules of the fucking game. Yeah, stuff like that.
I think it would be fun. I reckon that would
be cool. With the D &D clan, that would be sick.
Yeah. Without Ranger, because fuck me dead, dude.
No, you have to have Ranger. You have to. We'd
have to put Alicia on Lingy. If we can work into
his schedule. We'd definitely have to put Alicia
on Lingy. Yeah, it could be fun. I reckon that'd
be sick. Mm -hmm. Do you think it'd be sick?
We're going to do it anyway. Yeah, fine. It doesn't
matter. Who are we kidding? Yeah, who are we
kidding? Yeah, and that way, like, you know,
we'd just fucking do it on Twitch, just upload
the entire fucking session to YouTube once we're
done, and then just probably get some clips out
of it. That would be funny. Fuck yeah. Sweet
ass. Why Twitch? Because we don't have enough
followers on YouTube to do it on YouTube. Oh,
yeah. Hurry up. We don't want to stream on Twitch,
do we? Yeah, man. Fucking, yeah. But Twitch does
silly things. Like? Like if nobody's typing.
Can't get your tits out or shit like that. No,
no, no. If you're not typing in chat, Twitch
doesn't consider you a watcher. So you have to
interact in chat for Twitch. So you've still
got to sit there and watch their ads, but you
can't just sit there and watch a content creator.
You have to interact. Unless you pay. Isn't there
a fucking, I don't know, as a viewer, you can
watch Twitch without the ads and shit? No, no,
no. It's the content creator, his views aren't
going up because there could be 90 people watching,
but the candle will only say like 40 because
no one's interacting in the chat. Or if, you
know, you put that on a larger scale, if that
was 9 ,000 people watching but only 4 ,000 people
saying, that's a lot. Yeah. 90 is more than we're
getting now. 90 is more. Yeah. I don't know.
These are all things. We're not even. We've gone
viral on a couple. Yeah, on jokes. That's not
really the main premise of this show. No. We're
reeling them in. Oh, yeah. We'll sucker punch
him with some fucking content later. Dude, we,
you know what would be also cool? If when we
did the live streaming things, we just spoke
shit about like conspiracy theories and stuff.
Man, it could go anywhere. I love conspiracy
theories. It could go anywhere. And you know
what we'll do? We'll get a teleprompter. Because
that'll make us look fancy. Yeah, I don't know.
But I'm guessing you will be at home. I will
be at home. Everyone will be. Doing their thing
from their own spot. Oh, so not from the dungeons
or the shed. I'll be in the shed. You'll be behind.
How come? Well, I mean, I think just the setup.
Would that be hard to do? No. I think you just
all have to log into the game and you would have
an OBS, I'd have an OBS. Whoever's playing with
us wouldn't. So we just screen record what we're
fucking doing. And either both of us have. Or
logged into the fucking Twitch. I don't know.
I've got to look into this shit. Could it be
done? Could be done, yeah. All right, fantastic.
Sign me up. I'm keen. I've just got to get this
shit sorted. I started wrecking it this weekend.
What day? Probably tomorrow morning. Are you
excited? Hell yeah. Are you? Well, I haven't
got that many free weekends between now and Christmas,
and I want it up before the new year, so. Yes,
dude. So I need to get a chunk of it done this
weekend so I can do stuff through the week after
work. Is it just you and Endine do it? Probably
just I. Why? Man, it's not that hard. Why haven't
you? No. No. No, I will not stand for this. Man,
it's that small. We'd probably get in each other's
way. No. No. No. It's over six metres long. No,
it's not. There it is. No, it's not. Six metres.
It's 5 .2. 5 .2 by 3 .8. Nice. The internal room
will be 3 .6 by 5. Nice. Which is the size of
the living area that we play D &D in. Hell yeah.
I'm going to build a table for D &D and for the
podcast. Shit's going to steamroll. Snowball.
Snowball. Yeah, snowball. Yes. Well, look. I'll
help. Yeah. You better let me. And I'll get fucking
Uncle Dave. Uncle Dave will work through the
weekend. Yeah. We'll get B -Pop to come around
and whinge at us. Branch can be foreman. Honestly,
I don't, like, if I had a day to put aside, I'd
probably get a heap of people around, but I don't.
I've got part days and there's no point in getting
people around just to do small shit. What are
you doing tomorrow? We'll be. Recting the uprights,
probably fucking squaring everything up and might
put the roof on. I don't know. Depends. I'll
come help. You don't have a say. I'm going to
wake you. If the weather's okay tomorrow, I'm
going to take a little dirt bike ride and then
you have no say. Fair enough. I can only get
so far tomorrow because I don't have any, what
do you call it? Sarking. I'm going to buy some
sarking. Some sarking. Oh. Lucky we don't want
to watch that right now. We'll wait until it
restarts. Yeah. Sarking. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the
fucking waterproof shit that goes underneath.
That's one layer of insulation, and then I'll
insulate the walls with thicker shit. Yeah, that's
getting loud. And then I will align the walls
with zip rock. Did you ever, speaking about Thomas
Jane, because we were just talking about 1922,
did you watch The Expanse? No. I've heard so
much about it, dude. Everybody tells me to watch
it, but I haven't seen it. Two seasons, right?
Mm -mm. Five? Five seasons. And they finish with
a movie. Is that that one? Or am I thinking of
something else? Is there a movie? How did they
finish it? They finished it earlier than the
books. I don't think there's a movie. I don't
know what they did. I can't remember. I don't
think I've even seen the books anywhere. Yeah.
There's nine books and six novellas. It's a solid
series. It's good. Is it? Even the show? Yeah.
I haven't seen it. Well worth checking out. I
want to give it my top. It's so much. Like, and
especially maybe we're talking about how much
content's coming out to our end of this year
and the start of next year. It just keeps coming.
Oh, yeah. It keeps rolling. What I like about
it is how, so it's not too far in the future,
but just far enough that, you know, we've colonised
Mars. Mars and Earth have had a war, a fight.
Everything's settled down. They've colonised
the asteroid belt. Yep. And there's like outposts
on Europa and shit like that. Then some fucking
funky shit happens. But it all starts with Thomas
Jane's character is one of the main characters
and he's like a detective and something goes
down and he's kind of neo -noir kind of detective
and kind of, yeah, it's very cool. But then the
science in it is all legit. Yeah, right. They
talk about how, like, the Gs of doing manoeuvres
and how wherever they're travelling to there's
a midpoint where they've got to do the turn and
burn and decelerate the entire, like, because
you can't, you've got to decelerate as much as
you've sped up. Yeah. So they get to the midway
point, flip, burn and slow down. Yeah. And, yeah,
just all the science is really fucking spot on
in it. And they talk about how... You know, all
these humans that have grown up in the belt who
have grown up with little to no gravity. They're
all taller, skinnier because they've had no compression
from the fucking... Fucking air. Yeah, it's pretty
cool. And do you meet these people? Yeah, yeah,
yeah. Yeah, right. There's the belters, they
call them, from the belt. And then you've got
Mars, which is like a military state. They have
all the real cool tech. Yeah, right. And then
there's Earth, which is the mother of this whole
system. And then there's some alien shenanigans
go on. Yeah. Yeah, it gets real cool. So it was
with Syfy, the channel that is on Foxtel. I think
it's a channel over in the States. Yep. And they
did well with it, did really well. But then they
canned it and it got picked up by Netflix. Right.
I love when they do that. Yeah, the next series,
like the next season, took place on a planet
where there was, you know, for the first three,
maybe four seasons, it was all indoors, very
kind of claustrophobic because they're in spaceships
and shit like that. Very rarely, if you saw a
planet, it was Earth and it was very computer
generated and whatnot. But then you could tell
the difference in the cinematography in the new
season when they're on this planet and it looked
like a volcanic ash but, like, dormant planet.
Fuck, yeah. Really cool. I like it. Dude, see,
that's in my wheelhouse. Like, I love sci -fi,
dude, and good sci -fi. And the fact that I haven't
seen it pisses me off. And the books are great.
But it's all on Netflix, isn't it? I believe
it's all on Netflix now because they bought it.
Yeah, fuck, yeah. They had all the back to season
one. And then put their Netflix original tag
up front. Probably. And it was a series, the
book ended great. The series and the book ended
great? The TV show they did different. They ended
it early. Right, okay. But they ended at a point
where things shift in the books. Yeah, right.
But where they ended the book, how they ended
the books was great. I really liked it. It was
a good ending. Should I watch the series and
then read the books from the end of the series
to the end? Would that make sense? I would say
watch it at least the first season before you
start reading them because then you get the picture
of everybody in your head. I like that. Even
like when I listen to Ready Player One now, like
I've got the visual. Oh, no, I don't. No, I hated
that movie. Did you really? Yeah, they fucked
it. They did. Yeah. They did. You could have
easily got a fucking trilogy out of that. Yeah,
could have. Usually. Purely out of spite. I hate
that movie. I love it. I love that movie. I'm
happy for you. And it gives me great joy. However,
the book is sensational. You give me, if you
give me three movies, the first key, the first.
Like you get the first egg, first key, second
egg, second key, third egg, third key, and then
you do your finale. Would have been fucking incredible.
Would have been. Would have been way better than
Lord of the Rings. You know me. I don't re -watch
or re -read stuff. I've listened to the book
and read it twice. Yeah. It's that good. It's
fucking that good. Yeah. Second one was a bit
weird. I'm not going to read it. Read it. No.
It's still good. No, no, no. That first one is
perfect as it is. And see, but that's why it
could have just stayed that. The Martian. Substantial.
Beautiful. Still one of the best audiobooks I've
ever heard. Yeah. Narrated by the best narrator
on earth, R .C. Abray. And the movie, one and
done. Done perfectly, dude. That movie is epic.
Yeah. It's not epic. It is epic. I loved it.
So, yeah, I agree. Do I want to see more Ready
Player One on the screen? I'd love a reboot and
I'd love it to be done right. If HBO picked it
up. Oh, it just came. I mean, I just got excited.
And they did it like on the level that they did
in the books. I know for a lot of people it would
kind of be boring. Like especially the Pac -Man
scene. Yeah, where he's trying to get the perfect
game. Perfect game. I reckon if you had the right
people, you could make that scene interesting.
Dude, even if you did like a time -lapse, like
there's a zoom in around him, like the old retro,
like he's just banging on the game, it'd be sick.
Like you don't have to have it running like the
amount of games he's playing. And the soundtrack
could be sick. Oh, my God. Dude. I mean, a lot
of people know Rush. You could get some sick
Rush happening and get into the mainstream. I
think it would work well. Dude, that'd be so
shit. That'd be shit hot. Yeah, I'm like, shit,
no, I think it'd be good. That'd be amazing.
HBO, we know yous don't watch us. Manifest it.
Manifest. Come on. Speaking about books, I'd...
I don't really reread. I have reread some stuff.
There's a book that, have I ever told you about
House of Leaves? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I just,
I ordered the hardcover. They've done a re -release
with a hardcover with colour and stuff in it
because it's got pictures in the appendix in
the back, which is like evidence from the whole
thing that goes in it. So coloured stuff, it's
pictures. But there's three different. in the
book. So there's three different fonts and they've
got coloured fonts in this as well to kind of
break it up because it's a deep book. Why would
you say it's a deep book and why? So the book
is about this fella who has a pretty rough life.
On the droves, off the droves, fucking whatever.
Anyway, he's looking for an apartment and he
finds this trunk in this apartment which has
all this fucking crazy writings and stuff, but
then like a diary and shit. So it's him reading
about the last person who had started looking
into a documentary based on... An event. So there's
kind of four levels. So you're getting his voice,
the dude, the druggie dude. You've got footnotes
from the guy who he's reading and rewriting.
Yep. And then you've got, like, excerpts from
this documentary. Fucking hell. About this experience
that they had in this house. So you get bits
of their story as well. So, yeah, four layers.
And, like, as you're reading the book, it starts
off all neat and tidy and kind of concise and
working out well and you're getting a feel for
the story and, you know, the levels and where
everybody stands and stuff. And then by about
the middle of the second act, he's fucking losing
it. And the guy who he's reading has obviously
lost it from his writings. He's beginning to
lose it and then it shows in the text in the
way it's formatted and pages where it's written
like. Fuck off. And then upside down and you've
got to turn the book around and like things are
written like one word a page for like 10 pages
and then it's like a descent into madness and
it kind of goes along with the main story that
they're talking about this house. So the house
is about. It's a dude who's a photographer, always
been away from his family, like shooting pictures
in the wars and like kind of all over the world
for National Geographic and shit like that. His
wife's younger, hot, kind of like a socialite,
but he's kind of repressed her into like being
a mother to their children, but he's never home.
So they move into this place kind of rural -ish.
And they get this house and things aren't great
with them, but that's why they've kind of moved
out there. And then there's a door that wasn't
there before. And then he's like, okay, there's
a space in between these two doors that wasn't
there before. And then he's measuring the inside
of the house and it doesn't match the outside
of the house. And then, okay, so he gets in contact
with his brother, his twin brother, who he hasn't
talked to for a long time. They had a falling
out. who is actually a contractor, kind of good
with all this shit. It's about time I'm in that
bridge, get him in there, and they're fucking
talking, and the brothers, obviously, the, you
know, he's a tradie, doesn't have a family, bit
of a drunkie, whatever, drunkle, to all my kids
and stuff like that, so he's kind of happy to
be there and just be talking to his brother and
stuff, and they're trying to figure out what's
going on with his house, and then another door
opens, and it just goes off into nothing, and
then they get, like, these university professors
and people in to explore it and some big characters
come in and kind of wanted, you know, this new
frontier and this fucking weird kind of paranormal
thing going on. Why is there fucking, like, stories
and stories below the ground and, like, everything's
black? Has this ever been made into a movie or
a show? They couldn't. They could not. Why? Impossible.
It's just that deep? Yeah, and I can't wait to
reread it. I'm waiting until winter. I read it
in the winter. I'm going to read it a year later.
Is it that good? Oh, man, it's an experience.
There's no audio book to it. You've got to read
it. How big is this book? She's thick. She's
pretty thick. But in saying that it's thick,
there's plenty of pages in there. A little one
word. One word. And, like, you've got to constantly
flip back to the appendix because it. fucking
refers to it in the fucking footnotes and shit
like that. And then trying to decipher the footnotes
is pretty fun too. Like some of them I think
I've heard of that and then others are just obviously
completely made up so they're fucking from textbooks
within this world that don't relate to the real
world and, yeah, it's heavy, dude. It's a heavy
fucking read. And it's just one book. One book,
yeah. House of leaves. Fucking Jesus. Not L -E
-A, like not leaves of a tree, but like leaves,
but leaving. That doesn't make sense. Is it spelled
the same way? Leaves? Yes. It is? Okay. Fuck,
I don't know. I don't know then. Is it leaving,
like house of leaving, or is it house of leaves
because it's rural? Or is it both? Toronto Maple
Leaf. Or is it both because then that adds complexity
to the whole thing as well? I don't know. I don't
know. All I know is it's the Toronto Maple Leaf.
Yeah, true. Yeah, I had my head leave as in L
-E -A -F -S. No, that doesn't sound right. As
soon as I said it, I'm like, no, you fucking
idiot. But, yeah, no, good book. This is why
we don't want your kids to watch this show, guys.
You don't want to learn shit from us. Yeah, no,
because I hadn't done. We. Hey, I'm as dumb as
you. You think you are. Thanks, mate. You're
welcome. Got your back, bro. Look, that sounds
fucking nuts and something that I think I'd have
a stroke at and not the good kind. I might give
it a whirl and I may put it down. Yeah, fair.
How long does it take you to read it? I mean,
I read it when I could. Probably took me two
weeks to read it. Is it? Is it well written to
the point where it's easy to follow or it's a
brain fuckery? There's a reason I want to reread
it. You think you missed some shit? I think I
could figure more stuff out. I probably have
missed stuff in it, but yeah. I love that about
books, dude. Like I've read the Harry Potter
series twice and the second time is just so much
better. Yeah. So I think the third time might
be fucking great too. See, that's the thing.
Like when I listen to that book or I read that
book, it's awesome. When I read Lord of the Rings,
I felt fucking retarded. Why? Because it wasn't
written for kids. Yeah. It just wasn't. I don't
know. I discovered Harry Potter later in life.
I was probably 32, 33 when I found it. So I've
got love all the way from Philosopher's Stone
all the way through. I love sitting down. If
it's raining, Harry Potter goes on the TV, and
we all just sit down and do a Harry Potter marathon,
start from the start and at the end. I've never
sort of sat down and by choice watched The Lord
of the Rings. Oh, dude. I can't do it. See, you
described that cosy indoor day. That's Fellowship
of the Ring for me. That's too much of a slog.
Oh. Yeah. No. Yeah. It warms the cockles in my
heart. It'll warm your cockle, I tell you. It's
the same as the book. The book is fantastic,
man. There's something about it, the way... His
words roll. Come on now. They do. Yeah, roll
off a fucking cliff. Like poetry. Yeah, or what?
My black cat. Woo, poetry. Fuck off. Don't start
with me about poetry. Okay, cool. Have you not
watched Slam Poetry? Fuck off. I'm not talking
about Slam Poetry. Stop it. It's got poetry in
it. That's not what I'm talking about and you
know it. Do you know who does great poetry? Yeah,
dudes are fucking rage wild. He, dude. Drew does,
yeah. He is fucking good. He is good. Absolutely.
But Lord of the Rings is not poetry. Stop it.
Just, you know what I'm like. I love fucking
world building. I love the depth of fucking.
The world he's created. Look, oi, okay, I'll
pay that. Yeah. It is an incredible world he's
created. And, like, nobody did elves like he
did until he did elves. You wouldn't have elves
like you do in D &D if you didn't have Tolkien.
You reckon? 100%. You wouldn't have the wars.
When was that, 27? No, it was after, yeah, it
might have been. Yeah. Is that when it came out,
27? Oh, I don't know. You're testing me there.
After the First World War, I know that. Well,
it'll be after that. Oh, 54. 54, okay. There
are some scenes in that where I'm like, this
is fucking epic. But there's just so many holes
that I don't like that piss me off. And this
is the thing with the whole Peter Jackson thing.
I know you want to stay faithful to the books,
in which I'm sure he did. He'd done an unreal
job. His vision is incredible. His scale is fucking
untouchable. Well, actually, so a lot of the
way things look are actually based on a series
of art made by somebody way before the movies
were even made. Yeah, right. Yeah, so he took
his inspiration from this certain artist, which
I'll put up here somewhere. I forget the name
of him. Yeah, right. But, dude, look, it looks
fantastic. I don't like that through all this
struggle, eagles pick them up off the side of
a mountain at the end of it. Why? Why didn't
they just fucking fly the eagles over the top
of it anyway? You've got to understand. So, like,
the wizards, like Gandalf and that, they're descended.
They're angels. Right. They're not meant to kind
of have a direct effect. That's why they kind
of, they push everyone around them. But see,
this is the thing. There's the hypocrisy because
one of the best scenes in it is, you shall not.
So he directly interacts with the thing. So the
Balrog is like their opposite and there's nine
of them in Middle Earth which shouldn't be in
Middle Earth. So he's fighting one of his own
kind basically. Right. Yeah. I'm sure he interacts
more. He does. He pushes a bit more than he probably
should have, but it's only because it's directly
in contradiction to Saruman, who is supposed
to be the head of their order and was supposed
to be the one doing the right thing, and then
he flips. Yeah. So the balance is flipped, so
then hence why he comes back as the wight. What's
that got to do with the eagles? Well, he couldn't
just employ the eagles just to drop the ring
in. The mortals who would inherit Middle Earth
had to kind of sort out their own shit. You said
the Eagles ethereal. I don't know the Eagles
story, but they don't meddle with most of what's
going on. It's only at Gandalf's behalf, really,
that they do anything. See, if you're interested
in the balance and you're interested in Iceland,
they've got fucking flies over on their team.
Why don't we have flies over on our team? Well,
I mean, the amount of times the Eagles actually
do help. Yeah, but that's the thing. They don't
just drop the ring because, you know. I know
it would have been a pretty shit story if they
did. But that's the thing. Like, just don't have
the Eagles at the end because it's basically
the only scene you see them. Just don't put them
in there. It would have been heaps better. He
has to get out of there somehow. Walk! You motherfuckers,
just walk there! That's the whole point, is they
put everything into getting there. They were
ready to lay down and kind of give it up. The
Gattaca of it all. Yeah. It was like they were
ready to lay down their lives and be done with
the whole thing that they've risked their lives
for. And it's like this miracle that happens
that they get. And did you notice that in the
movies they send three eagles to get? Smeagol
as well, because Gandalf doesn't know that Gollum
fucking turned on him in the end. No, I didn't
notice that. There's three eagles, but only two
survive. Two eagles? No, two of the party that
made it into. So worried about the eagles. Yeah,
so, you know, Gandalf was holding out hope that
fucking Gollum would, you know, be good in the
end. Looks dead. Looks fantastic. And I will
show it to my kids for sure. It's, you know,
it's cinema, dude. It doesn't get much bigger
than that. Yeah. It was a fucking spin out. I
fucking loved it straight away as soon as it
came out. I've never seen anything like it. Oh,
that's another thing, dude. Nothing was done
like that ever. Like it kind of harkened back
to like Dark Crystal and Labyrinth and kind of
in the depth of. world building and kind of fantasy.
Fucking right, you know. Yeah. That kind of was
missing for maybe a generation, two generations.
Yes. And then we get hit with this and it's a
blockbuster and it blows people's socks off and
it looks and sounds fantastic. Bro, when was
the last time you seen something like that? Never
Ending Story, The Dark Crystal. It's all 80s
and 90s, bro. Exactly. So it was kind of that.
So then I watched that and I'm like, this is
what I've been missing in my life. Like I didn't
realise there was this gap. So then I went out
and I read the books and I got to Tom Bombadil
and I'm like. That's when you came out to your
parents. I'm like, what the fuck is this? Tom
Bombadil. And I don't know whether I would have
preferred to have read it first and then not
have Tom Bombadil in the show. In the movies.
He's my favourite bit. Or is it better to be
kind of like. Maybe I should have read something
on the internet which I didn't look into it too
much before I started reading it that, hang on,
there's this whole section that is missing. Like
an acid trip? Yeah. Tom Bombadillo, Tom Bombadillo.
Yeah. But for world building, it is the pinnacle.
Yeah. In the fantasy realm at least, yeah. Look,
I'm not going to deny that. No, I can't deny
that. It is pretty special. But I still had no
idea that said Lord of the Rings at the top.
Fuck, you get comments about that posted, don't
you? People love it, yeah. I don't know why.
These are all fucking weird. I think it's fantastic.
I'm so glad I got it from a 30 -year -old. It's
fantastic. Where was it? Oh, yeah. Did you pick
it up out of the garbage or something? No. Fucking
UFO up there. There's so much hidden in this
fucking picture, man. Really? Yeah. It's this
weird little elliptical thing and it's got a
heap of dots in series over it that looks like
a classic fucking UFO. So the guy that drew this,
he drew this, I believe he was either as a teenager
or in college. So he's Irish, I think. And he
ended up going on to be in a band which was pretty
big in Ireland. And one of their big music videos,
they got a million dollars in cash, put it in
a fucking, like a cabin and burned it to the
ground. Yeah. They got that out, right? No. That
wasn't real money in there, right? No, no. Jimmy
Colty, Jimmy Colty, I think his name is. He's
editing, right? No, no, no. They burnt it as
like a stunt. They burnt a million dollars. Bro,
you didn't have to do that. Just make the illusion.
So I think there's another Lord of the Rings
image that he did and then a couple of other
images that he's done. And like he's done other
stuff, but like pop culture reference wise. Yeah,
the things I've learnt about that since I got
it, I never even knew it existed. Yeah, if I'd
have found it in a thrift shop, I thought, oh,
Jeremy will like that and gave it to me for my
30th. I was like, that's fucking sick. Dude,
so many people commented about it. I think that's
our most interactive thing. Yeah, yeah. My mum
had it, my dad had it, I still have it. I had
it as a kid but lost it, rah, rah, rah, yeah.
So many times. If anybody reaches out and wants
it, just contact me and I'll ship it. Just because
it's in your shop doesn't mean it's your fucking
property. God, no. I would know that. Silly.
Well, that's fucking 43 minutes. Holy shit, we've
talked some shit. Sorry, guys. We'll be right,
you know. Jumper? It's already a feature film.
No funny business Just give it to me No way.
Dude, that was pretty fucking cool. It was funny.
You were complaining about it at the start, and
I was going to say, have you noticed that I've
been doing sci -fi shit instead of fucking horror
stuff? And all you're going to do is fucking
whinge about it? No, not at all. What did I whinge
about? We've seen this. This has been done before.
It was. It was just X -Men. It was X -Men. It
was Jump Up. But that was cool. It was cool.
Like, that was, you think back in 2015, 2016,
that would have been. Top quality special effects.
Oh, yeah. Looked good. It did. Thanks, Charlie.
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