From the Dungeons of Morningstar, I'm Clint.
I'm Tom. I'm Ling. And I'm Stretch. And this
is Prevailing Strange. Not the Christmas edition!
Alright guys, so we've got a bit of a special,
probably to wrap up the year. The idea is to
kind of go over... Maybe what's coming out this
year and just having a little talk with some
friends. Fuck yeah, dude. The amount of content
that we've got to cover this, just this last
six months of the year is insane. I don't know
where this is going to go. It's going to go off
the rails quick, I think. We're going to need
more memory cards, my friend. Before we get into
things, we will introduce our guests. Oh, we
better. Yeah. So who have you brought in today,
Craig? Well, this is my friend Tarn. I've known
Tarn since I was about eight years old. I think
it was, what, year two you came to? Year four
I came to. Year four? Cessnaught. Just as long
as you have an own town. I've known Lingy for,
I've known Lingy since kindergarten. Kindergarten?
Yeah, but we're born and bred Cessnaught. We
didn't move here. Oh, so sort of grew here, flew
here sort of thing. Were you going to stash out
in the car park? You're not from Currie, so it
doesn't matter. I did. Actually, I played for
the Currie Currie Bulldogs in my juniors. All
right, you didn't need a car park. Yes, I did.
But, yeah, so Lingi always had, like, the older
siblings where I was the older sibling in my
family. So there was that kind of trickle feed
down of culture and stuff. Yeah. So I learnt
a lot of shit from Lingi back in the day. I know
this guy. It wouldn't have been good. It would
have been shifty as shit. Passed down a lot of
good knowledge from my brothers. You remember
going through Jono's love letters? The jeans.
I do remember that. What was her name? Vicky?
Was it Vicky? It was. I couldn't tell you who
the author of that particular note was. She liked
the way Dick looked in his jeans. Did you say
Vicky? Yeah. She was with... That's Slingy. That's
Slingy's brother. No way. That's Jono Link's
brother, yeah. No way. Because I used to live
next door. To your grandmother. Used to teach
piano. Yeah, Nan Jones. Yeah. Holy crap. What
a small world. She's still living there. It is
Cessnock. Yeah. No, I remember I used to go walk
my daughter to do me piano lessons. There you
go. Oh, wow. Boy, it is great to be actually
known for something other than incest now. Well,
I mean, I did move to Cessnock, but I'd move
to Cessnock as like a... A tyke. Yeah. So I've
got no family relations here. I think I do. My
granddad had like eight brothers. Chances are
high. I was at work up near Musselbrook and I
was chatting to a dude and he had the same name
as me. Yeah, Matt Lean. And I was just chatting
to him and he's like, oh, yeah, we're probably
related. I'm like, well, my granddad had eight
brothers. I told him where I'm from and he's
like, yeah, we're related. Except he owned a
local Chinese shop instead. Oh, yeah, because
of my last name. It's Ling. It sounds kind of
Asian. And at one point, like, half the dudes
in my old workshop thought that my mum ran the
local takeaway. That is what we were telling
them. Well, fair enough. Run with the joke. I
have the opposite problem. I've never met another
Tarn, so my name is. I've met heaps of Tarnays.
Yeah, I've heard Tian, Tarnay. Yeah, but not
a. Yeah, we went to school with the Tian, didn't
we? Yeah, we did, yeah. And then there was, yeah,
and Tani. Was there a Tani? Yeah. I don't remember
a Tani. Yeah. Yeah, so movies are coming out
this year. I kind of agree, like there was some
good stuff, but I think the best stuff I've seen
this year has been older stuff. Agreed. Yeah,
exactly, yeah. Like just the release date, 2025,
all the movies. Yeah, there has been the couple
that have been great, but nothing stood out for
me as an absolute hit. Like it's going to be
something I'll remember and watch again. Yeah,
there wasn't like an anthem. No. Yeah, I was
even thinking about like the best movies, like
probably the most recent one, Frankenstein. I
haven't watched that yet. Haven't? I haven't
watched that yet. I'm keen. Apparently it's beautiful.
It's beautiful. It's the prettiest movie. Not
as good as some of his other stuff, but he's
restricted with what he's doing because it seems
like he's followed the book a fair bit. What
a kick -ass director. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Him and
Nolan, for a director's pick, they're my go -to
men. I'd have to agree with that. Oh, man. Robert
Edgar. Or Eggers. Yeah. How the fuck you say
his name? Yeah. Eggers. Have you watched any
of that yet? You like his stuff, don't you? Oh,
man. I watched all four of his movies back to
back. That was sick. But again, a very, very
Tim Burton where you can, it seems you can pick
him as the director just by like a screen cap
of the movie more or less. No, they've all got
different tones, man. You reckon? Is that his
gorilla? Del Toro dude. Yeah. The dude Frankenstein,
right? Yeah, Gwenamon. Yeah, so have you guys
watched Trollhunters? Yes. I watched that ages
ago before I even had kids and I loved it. Yeah.
I think I watched a few episodes after you said
it was good. It wasn't bad. Hang on, are you
talking about the movie or the animated? Animated.
Television series. No, that was Troll. Trollhunter.
Trollhunter. Was there a Trollhunter movie? Yeah.
Yeah, it was like a found footage. Isn't it called
Troll? No, that's just Troll. Yeah, there's a
second Troll. No, no, you're getting confused.
Troll Hunters is a kid's show. I'm getting confused,
aren't I? There's a few seasons of Troll Hunters,
but they did actually do a movie of Troll Hunters
as well. So that's where I got confused. Yeah,
and then there was other spin -offs from that
Troll Hunters. Yeah, one about wizards, one about
sorcerers, maybe? No, aliens. I loved it because
my kids started watching it. And, you know, when
your kids are picking up shows. Some you just,
like, you cannot stand to watch. But this one
was one I was like, oh, I'll sit here, I'll watch
this one. And I got right into it and it was
really good. I'd already seen it, but I'd only
watched the couple of Troll Hunter seasons. And
then when Harriet got a bit older, I'm like,
let's watch this. And she got in and I'm like,
yes. And then we watched all the spin -offs and
everything and watched the movie. It was great.
You didn't want to get her involved in your stuff,
like? Game of Thrones. Well, yeah, she's watching
them all. No, I'm kidding. She probably agrees
with everybody, mate. That was shit. She kept
saying she wanted to watch Wednesday, and I'm
like, no, there's like monsters and dead people
in it. How old is she? Six. Wednesday's pretty
good. Well, anyhow, the missus is like. The first
one. The second one wasn't that great. I haven't
watched the second one. The first one's okay.
It's like a soft introduction to monsters and
stuff. Anyway, the missus is like, no, she can
watch it. And I'm like, all right, fine. Nah,
she was right. She loved it. I thought that was
a very pretty TV show, man. Yeah. I thought that
looked good. It's different, though, these days,
I think, with kids and movies. Like, I know what
I grew up on, and there's no way, no way I would
let my kids watch that stuff. I would, but my
missus won't, so that's... But, like, my kids
have been... Yeah, exactly. That's what I think.
I've been watching It and fucking... Oh, I watched
some fucking horrible shit back in the day. But,
like... My missus let the kids watch Jurassic
Park from day dot. That's horrific. People die
and, like, it's pretty fucking gory. In the hundreds.
No, that's nothing. But then she wouldn't let
me kids watch, like, the Marvel movies because
there are people fighting. That doesn't make
sense. Oi, hang on, hang on. There is logic to
it. This is the thing. There is logic to it.
You're able to, you know, disband your belief
because there's dinosaurs. We know there's not
dinosaurs in the world. But if it's a person
punching a person, that exists in the real world,
so it's a bit different. I do understand that.
In saying that, the Predator Badlands movie,
it's got a lower rating because they're not killing
people. We actually spoke about this. And when
we spoke about it being PG. You blew up. I blew
up. What the fuck? It's not actually PG. What
is it? It's M. It's PG in the States. Oh, right,
okay. They've got a, what is it, PG -13 rating.
Yeah, they all sell their shootings in school,
so it doesn't really matter. Their ratings, we
don't abide by those. But, like, another way
of looking at it too, right, you watch Jurassic
Park, it's a dinosaur eating a person. Technically
that's their food source. What's the difference
between that and watching a documentary where
a lion's chasing a gazelle? It's not. But would
you let your kids watch Cujo? Probably. No. What's
going to go? Whoa. Stephen King, man. The feral
fucking St. Bernard that gets rabies and kills
everybody in the car. It's pretty old, though.
And it's got Stephen King. It's like 83 or something.
Is it anything like Man's Best Friend? No, but
it's like it's Stephen King, so there's a whole
heap of weird tones. I think the difference would
be the fact that dogs are real and you could
have, like. That fucking poor girl in Singleton.
You're going to be attacked by dogs anyway. And
the fact that dinosaurs were real but aren't
real anymore is probably the kind of, like you
said, you can suspend your belief because, yeah.
But for me, though, with Jurassic Park, there's
no blood. This is true. The only time that when
the dinosaur did attack a human, it was like,
come down, grab him. That was probably the most
involved part. I'm going to say something, though,
and yous are all going to know what I'm saying.
A, B, A, C, A, B, B. We had that code when we
were fucking seven. Mortal Kombat? Yeah. I was
about to say the gore. The gore code. Put it
into the menu. A, B, A, C, A, B, B. Every one
of us had that code when we were fucking seven
years old. But that's the thing. We had shows
like Jurassic Park back in the day, and we all
used to watch like Aliens and shit. But then.
I've never seen aliens. You fucking what? Whoa.
I forgot about that. Anyway. No, no, we're not
fucking skipping over that. No, no, no, no, no.
We're not fucking skipping over what you just
said. I was about to give him the benefit of
a doubt and think he hasn't actually seen a real
alien, but... No. I'm thinking it's more the
movies than TV shows. Please elaborate on what
you just said. I think Jeremy was talking. Yeah,
we'll get back to that in a second. We won't
let that fucking fly. So you fucking cunts. Anyway,
what the fuck? No, I knew that. Just aliens or
alien aliens, Alien 3, Alien Resurrection? I
think I've seen bits and pieces. Like I understand
they're aliens and they're like blood's acid
and stuff. Oh, my friends once took me to the
movies to see Prometheus. That would have made
no sense if you had no idea what you were going
into. You needed the other movies to understand.
Yeah. I like Prometheus. I liked it too. Yeah.
But, again, I probably wouldn't, in your case,
I would not have liked it if I never saw Alien
1, 2, 3. Yeah. Speak on it, Clint. Speak on it.
Don't just sit there like a stunned mullet. That's
not fucking possible. Apparently it is. He needs
an education. You're a fucking geek. How can
you not have watched Alien? Well, I didn't. It's
that easy, Clint. We're going to need a fucking
break. I've seen Predator versus Alien. No, that
doesn't count. What was I going to say before
that whole fucking thing blew up? It was good
too. Fuck me. What I was going to say, though,
getting back to, like I was saying, with kids
and what we watched when they were younger, kids'
movies back for me and around my age included
such things as Never Ending Story. Oh, yeah.
We've talked about this before. Have you seen
that? Yeah, but I don't remember it. You don't
remember the racing snail, the rock eaters, or
the fucking falcor? I remember the rock eaters
and falcor. And Freyu, motherfucker. Freyu and
the fucking horse. Oh, my God. Artax, motherfucker.
Pull one out for our homies. My daughter, like,
cries in every movie. I will not show her that
because I know how devastating. That scene is
for me, and that was when I was younger. That
was the first movie I cried in. That sort of
tone of what was a kid's movie back then is not
it. Dark Crystal. Yes. Fucking, yeah. Fuck, dude.
They were demonic. Yeah. Yeah. I remember thinking.
The Gmork, for fuck's sake. Yeah. I thought my
son, when he was younger, was. mature enough
and, you know, he'd watched fucking Jurassic
Park for fucking Christ's sake since he was a
kid. Okay, it's a bunch of puppets. This will
be sweet. I put on Dark Crystal. Yeah, no. Not
good. Not sweet. No. Not sweet. Jim Henson done
a great job. And the first Ninja Turtles movie,
he couldn't stand that either. The puppets were
too much for him. I haven't shown him for a long
time. That was when he was about four, but yeah.
Yeah, right. That's too much. Man, I love that
movie and I reckon it still holds up today. Holds
up, dude. 100%. They nailed that design. Every
character. Every single character. The story
was done well, everything. When they brought
up the reboot. And they started doing these massive
fucking 10 -foot tall, 11 -foot tall, 12 -foot
tall CGI fucking things. Monstrosities, yeah.
They're supposed to be ninjas and they've got
all this fucking clattery, knackery shit hanging
off their belts and all this shit. Yeah. Fuck
you, Michael Bay. Yeah, no, Michael Bay destroyed
everything. You destroyed fucking my childhood.
At least he didn't make them aliens. Yeah. That
is a fucking good thing. But the funny thing
is, like, you see that meme of Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles, you know, ninjas are supposed
to be quiet and stealthy, but fucking here's
the turtle blimp. It's the toys. It's like, yeah,
okay, that's a bit of a contradiction. Turtle
garbage truck. Yeah. Speaking of turtles, did
you hear that they've actually canned? Yeah.
Oh, fuck off. Yeah, dude. The one thing I was
so excited about, they were going to do so well.
And they're going to do like a live action, but
they want it to be like Sonic the Hedgehog. Yeah,
they want to emulate that success. Yeah. I did
hear that they are still going to do The Last
Ronin. I heard it's been shelved. I don't know
whether we'll ever see it. I just heard that
you're going to change it up. They're going to
go back to the drawing board. And I'm like, no.
Just leave it. Because the way they had it, it
was going to be an adult. You could have ran
that concurrently. You could have done it side
by side. You could have doubled your fucking
double dipped. You could have had the adult.
You could have had the kids. And you would have
had the kids with the adults anyway. Adults are
going to take their kids. There's so many cool
ideas we watched as cartoons as young that would.
Mate, such good gritty. Like a mice from Mars.
That's exactly what I was fucking thinking. Gargoyles.
Fucking gargoyles. Let's go. Come on. Yeah. So
many great properties. Fucking street sharks.
But do you know what I think holds all of that
back is the fact that most of them were brought
in as properties to sell toys. Oh, yeah. The
fact that the toys aren't around anymore. And
I don't know whether. Could see a resurgence
in the toys. Hasbro or whoever owns the rights
to them these days, what they're going to, whether
they'll ever fucking want to go down that path
because action figures aren't a big thing anymore.
No, not really. But I think I mentioned this
a while ago. I would love to see like a shared
universe, like a Hasbro, like all the toys. Get
them all and do like a Marvel Cinematic Universe
type thing. G .I. Joe fucking Transformers. Well,
they did do that in one of the Transformers.
They did bring in some of the G .I. Joe as a
hint. Yeah. But, like, oh, man, it could be cool.
Yeah, dude. Yeah, instead of having, like, the
helpless fucking human that escorts him, could
you imagine the Autobots beside fucking G .I.
Joe going against Cobra and fucking and shit
and stuff like that? It would be fucking cool.
Oh, yeah. The only problem is you've got to get
rid of Michael Bay. He's got to just leave shit
alone. Yeah. I mean, he did some good stuff back
in the day, but he fucking molested the Transformers.
Yeah, but Michael Bay wasn't alone back in the
day. Wasn't he? No, Michael Bay worked with Jerry
Buckheimer with it. And Orky. No, it wasn't the
two. There was two, Michael Bay and was it Jerry
Brackheimer back in the day? They used to do
movies together. I'm trying to think. Oh, yeah,
I don't know. They were a duo, and most of the
big movies, Days of Thunder and all that, there
was a duo, Michael Bay and him. Oh, man, Days
of Thunder. Yeah, so that was good. I haven't
seen it. So you had Michael Bay doing all the
action scene, and then you had the other guy.
I'm surrounded by fucking children. With Jerry
Brackheimer, who did a lot of the heart feel
to it. So together they worked well. When they
went their separate ways, it did not go well.
Right, okay. Because, yeah, Michael Bay is just
bang, bang, boom, boom. Yep. I think the best
thing Michael Bay gave us was the song out of
Team America. Was that from Michael Bay? No,
but they wrote it about Pearl. Oh, about it,
yeah. And that's why Pearl Harbor sucks. And
I miss you. Actually, I did, um, thinking about,
I already read the other day, um, the whole Matt
Damon. Yeah. There was an interview and they
asked about that whole thing. And it's like,
we just couldn't come up with a voice. And we
just finally just said, oh, Matt Damon. It said,
we have no ill will. We actually like Matt Damon.
We just couldn't do his voice, and that's the
only thing that came out, and we decided to go
with that. Some of the watching behind the scenes
for South Park and the writing rooms and stuff
like that. So frantic. Did you ever see the video
where they went to an awards ceremony on acid,
dressed up? Dressed in dresses. And every time
they mentioned something, you just go, it's just
a beautiful night. It's magical. Every question
was like, we're just so honored to be here. It's
such a musical. Magical name, so magical. We
got invited and we thought it would be a great
idea for our first awards ceremony to drop acid.
All right, we'll probably try and get on some
topics. We won't stick to what came out this
year because we've already kind of said that
it wasn't the best year for movies. But I don't
know, what have you checked out this year that
has been your favourite thing? K -pop Demon Hunters.
I would say that the first time I watched it,
but after watching it 20, 30 times with my kids,
I do not want. I find myself bopping along and
I'm ashamed. I haven't watched it, so. I'm not
going to lie. Harriet and I both watch it like
20 times and I'll watch it 20 times happily.
It is good. We ride around in the car and we
blare it loud as hell. I have to admit there's
many times on my Spotify feed it will come in.
To my music. And it'll be halfway through it.
I'm like, I'm singing Longway. I'm like, wait
a minute. What am I doing? All my kids' playlists
are on the do not influence anything else on
my fucking shit. How do you do that? You just
go into the fucking. Because my YouTube has been
fucking molested. Yeah, I don't know about YouTube.
Spotify, you can do it. I'm actually thinking
of changing over to Spotify just to start fresh
again. Because I'm sick of it. Yeah. Yeah, I
think. Probably the best movie I've seen this
year has been Marrowbone. Fucking same. Hands
down. Hands down. It's a fucking great movie.
Oh, so we're not talking just movies coming out
this year. No, no, that's what I'm saying. The
things that came out, not just what came out
this year, this year, what have you seen? Yeah.
Okay. Honestly, I second that. Marrowbone was
such a strong, strong, strong film, man. And
it come out of nowhere. If I seen that in my
feed and it's like stuff you might like, and
I'd just seen the title of it and looked at that
opening photo. I wouldn't have clicked on it.
I would have just breezed past it like every
other drama that I've seen. And, mate, it blew
me away. It was absolutely incredibly well done,
well written, well acted, well performed, just
perfect all around for me. It was good. I was
very happy that you recommended that because
that forced me to watch it. I have to agree.
That was, yeah, such a good movie. It blew me
away, man. Behind that would be Robert Edgar's.
Back catalogue that I watched. Yeah, yeah. Yeah,
definitely. But you still sticking with K -pop
Demon Hunters or have you watched anything else
this year? No, I watched a few movies on the
plane over to China. Nothing that stands out
though? You know the actor that played Short
Round in Indiana Jones? Yeah, yeah. He's been
doing some good stuff. Yeah. He was in a movie,
I think it might have been called Love Hurts
maybe. Yeah, he was in another one. Everything,
everywhere. That was fucking ballistic. The best
part about that, right, is at one point they're
in a fight scene and this dude is going to jump
on something so it goes up his bum. Right? Now,
just saying that sentence, if you haven't seen
that movie, you would have no idea. But the way
they tell the story so well, you know exactly
what's going to happen when that does. You know
what I mean? Yeah. They did such a good job.
It was a brilliant movie, dude. If you walked
in halfway through that movie, it would just
be like, what the fuck? You couldn't catch up.
No, but it goes so weird, but they explain it
so well. I love that movie. It was a great movie.
It was phenomenal. Actually, funnily, I watched,
because I haven't watched it yet, last night,
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. I won't
bother. Why not? No, it's actually good. I actually
enjoyed it. I felt it, compared to the last Indiana
Jones, this was more closer to the older stuff.
That's like saying having my arm chopped off
was bad, but it wasn't as bad as losing everything
below my waist. They both sucked. So you've watched
Old Destiny? Yeah. I thought it was actually
pretty good. I thought it had the old action.
scenes that they usually have and the same story.
The only thing is Harrison Ford is getting a
bit older. But there was a rumour, actually,
when you said short round, he, with his success,
actually thought he was going to make an appearance
because there was a lot of old characters that
come back in it. And it was disappointing. I
think that would have made it a bit better if
he did. But, yeah, no, I didn't mind it, actually.
I thought it was all right. That was the worst
fucking analogy I've ever heard. Yeah, it was
pretty fucking bad, I know. I sat here and I'm
listening to this conversation and I'm like,
what the fuck is that? And it just was a joke
that I kept pulling myself in the head. I enjoy
a lot of the pop culture references from Indiana
Jones, but it's not my favorite IP back in the
day. And the Crystal Skull sucked. Oh, that was
bad. Yeah, that sucked. Yeah, that was bad. So,
yeah, I'm not really interested in watching the
new one. Okay. Well. I'm a massive fan of Last
Crusade. Sean Connery was absolutely brilliant
in it. Sean Connery. Yeah, and it's hilarious.
I liked it, but yeah. Is that the one where Indy
does nothing at all to influence the storyline?
Yeah. That's pretty much most of them. The first
one, definitely, because, yeah, they end up opening
the box anyway. Sorry, yeah, it is the first
one, yeah. That one I didn't like. I did like
Temple of Doom. I think Temple of Doom is the
one I watched most as a kid at my grandparents'
place. And I love that scene. I even heard in
an interview the scene where he's on that bridge
and he's got his whip and they tried many times
him doing this sequence where he uses the whip
against him and I think it was on like the 20th,
30th, whatever. Hey, he's just like, he was tired
of it. He just pulled out his gun and shot him
and they're like. That's it. That's it. I didn't
mind it when I was a kid, but it's not something
I'd return to. Not like things like Terminator
and Alien. I gotcha. I gotcha. It's a big trilogy
I watched as a kid, but I also watched the shit
out of Karate Kid. Yes, and that was the one
that came out this year. I actually didn't mind
too. That was, well, I haven't even. I still
haven't watched it yet. Yeah, me neither. Oh,
yeah, no, I didn't mind it. It's not amazing.
It's not as good as the original. It couldn't
be. No, but it was probably better than the.
Does he have a K -pop demon on his lunchbox?
I've got Harriet's. Oh, it's a sniggle. We've
got a fridge, bro. Fridge right over here. But,
I mean, Jackie Chan and. What's his name? Ralph
Macchio. And Ralph Macchio together. It was good.
I had a good time. Oh, the new movie. Yeah, the
new movie, yeah. Because I did actually think
in the new Karate Kid, I thought Jackie Chan
was amazing in it. They were very emotional.
I don't know. Have you seen that one with? No.
No. Not the new one, like the one before that
with. Will Smith's Kid. Will Smith's Kid, yeah.
There was a scene. Yeah. But Jackie Chan had
a very emotional part with his son dying and
his wife dying in a car crash. So he rebuilds
the car every year and then destroys it. Because
it's what took his family away was that car.
And it was a very emotional scene. And I thought
Jackie Chan showed some chops. He actually can
act and he wants to. Oh, yeah. And that was very
emotional. And I'm like, that was good. The rest
of it, not so much. Trash. I think I'm going
to go watch that. I would think you'd want to
just do that. It seems fucking great. Oh, yeah.
Oh, you haven't seen it? No. Oh, okay. That's
really good. I think that sounds like a great
story element, that. That sounds incredible.
I'm so glad they brought Jackie Chan into, which,
you know, because of the success of the TV show
now with Karate Kid, bringing that all together,
I thought that was really good. And it was a
good watch. I wouldn't say it's amazing, but
it was a good watch. I love Jackie Chan, man.
Oh, yeah. I grew up watching Karate Kid, and
then somebody told me about Cobra Kai, and I
was watching it in bed on my laptop, and I was
starting to contemplate whether to call in sick
the next day. I was just fucking loving it. Dead
set, dude. Oh, the first two or three seasons,
absolutely phenomenal. And the way they actually
go back to, like, the apartment building out
of the movie. Yeah, right. And, like, they do
such a good job of respecting the original material.
You know how sometimes they're like, we're going
to do a show about these movies from X amount
of years ago, and it's just a cash -in. It's
just shit. It's just gut. Do they have the real
Karate Kid in it? Yes. He's, like, the main character
in season one. Yes. No, it's fucking good. Yeah,
it's really good. Fucking Billy Zabka, mate.
Oh, man. Have you seen it? No. I'm just a great
fan of his work, mate. William Zabka all the
way. Seriously, man. Check it out. Start watching
Karate Kid. I'm not going to say anything. I
don't want to spoil it. I've seen Karate Kid
and Karate Kid 2. Sorry, I didn't mean Karate
Kid. I meant to say Cobra Kai. Sorry, I keep
mixing them up. How I Met Your Mother. Who was
the... Barney Stinson. Yes. He'd be very happy
with it. That's all I'm going to say. Barney
would be very, very happy with it. Billy Zabke
gets these come -ups. Yeah. Okay, so maybe we'll
talk some growing up as a kid in the 90s. Fucking
best years ever. 90s, 80s. 80s, 90s, yeah. Like
end of, beginning of, you know, the good times.
90s and noughts, mate. Fucking Jesus. What a
couple of decks. Man, 90s for movies, noughties
for music. Yeah. But, yeah, what kind of. Got
you guys into pop culture. You've obviously mentioned
fucking Karate Kid and Indiana Jones. Well, I'd
have to actually go further back to get back
to what brought me into pop culture. I know as
a kid I used to watch The A -Team, Knight Rider.
Oh, fucking Knight Rider, yeah. And they did
have an original Spider -Man cartoon back then.
And Voltron. Voltron was a big one. I remember
having an Ultron toy. Yeah, dude. Well, I didn't
just have the normal Voltron. My parents bought
me the metal one. Oh, fuck. Kill a kid with that
shit. Yeah. Fucking wrecking. And it was great
until my mum stepped on the head and snapped
it off. And I'm like, nah. But that was, God,
I wasn't even in Cessna then, so I would have
been kindergarten back in that day for those
sort of things. Yeah, and all the cats and fucking.
Yeah. Voltron was the best. And do you remember
the robot that had the cars and it had the arm?
Yeah, and all the cars would come out of the
hands and shit. Yeah. You ever see that? It's
like a matchbox. Hang on. Yeah, you look it up.
Nah, I never watched Voltron. What about you,
Ling? What was the kind of stuff that you realised
that that shit scratched your brain instead of
watching football or something like that? He
could define pop culture. Man, anything that
you reference back, it's popular with most people,
like it can be cartoons, it can be TV shows,
movies. Yeah, no, mostly it was Wilming Brothers
and that I'd watch. Yeah. Because, you know,
I was the youngest, so what was on TV is what
I watched. Yeah, fair. I mean, like of a morning
or an afternoon. Fuck off. Like when you see
morning cartoons or afternoon cartoons, what
were you watching back then? Card games, you
motherfucker. Yeah. Every afternoon I'd get home
and watch Beast Wars and Power Rangers. Ah, Beast
Wars. That was good. I remember watching that.
I never really watched the Transformer cartoons
because I think they were mostly on mornings
maybe and I didn't watch cartoons anymore. Story
matchboxes and it's limbs and shit. Yeah. Badass.
But yeah, I think. $100 at your local Salver
store. Even Transformers was more 80s, I think,
wasn't it? 80s and 90s. 80s and 90s, yeah. I
had the movie on VHS, and I think I watched it
more than the cartoons back in the day. Oh, I
remember watching that at your house. Yeah. You
got the touch! You got the power! Fucking 84,
yo. You remember hanging out at your place and
watching Evangelion? Oh, yeah. How old were you
then watching Evangelion? Man, maybe seven or
eight. Oh, wow. Definitely primary school. Yeah.
Because that was more of a high school thing
for me. Yeah. So my dad had always been a big
fan of movies and stuff like that. So we'd watch
like SBS would have a lot of cult classics and
shit on back in the day on the Friday and Saturday
nights. And they played it Friday and Saturday
night. Yes. Some really good stuff. There's some
really good content. Especially when you were
13 and 14. Hell, yeah. I still remember erotic
ghost stories. I was still waiting three days
for a fucking hopeless picture of Jerry Howell.
But, yeah, I think we were watching, like, we
went through doing, like, Godzilla movies and
shit for a few weeks and the old King Kong movies.
And then they started putting on. Anime movies
and I think the first one I watched was Akira.
Yeah And then they started advertising this new
show coming out called Neon Genesis Evangelion
and I was like giant robots and that's what my
fucking childhood was about giant robots transformers
Robotech Technomania Robotech. Yeah. Yeah. Well
matchbox to the old Robotech. Did you watch Robotech?
Yeah Fucking loved it. It was on Agro's Cardoon
Connection. Every morning, I would not go to
school until I watched it after that. And the
only reason was I had the video on VHS many years
before they actually put it on TV. And I only
had the first two videos showing the first three
or four episodes. And I watched them over and
over and over again, but never knew how it finished.
So then when I saw it come on to Agro's Cardoon,
I'm like, oh, my God. I had to watch everything.
Blew me away that ending was so sad. I don't
even think I've ever seen the ending. So it's
pretty interesting. So it was back in the day
when America would go over to Japan and buy the
rights to anime and then bring it back and they'd
dub it and they wouldn't really edit it but they'd
have to change like dialogue to kind of fit and
it fucking was pretty clunky back in the day.
So they took three different properties and made
one property out of it. Yeah, right. Robotech,
their first season was based on Macross, I think
it was the first one. Yep, the Macross bugger.
Yeah, and then there was another Macross that
they picked up for the second season. They just
called it Robotech Season 2. And then the third
one was a completely different property. Yeah.
And it was based in a different time, like future,
but they called it Robotech anyway. Yeah, right.
And they changed character names and rewrote
the story and stuff like that. So I remember
watching it as a kid and then seeing it at Video
Easy, this Macross movie. I'm like, that looks
like Robotech. What the fuck's going on? And
this is before internet, so I hide and watch.
I'm like, I don't know what's going on. But,
yeah. Which one was better, Macross or Robotech?
I mean, I only watched the movie. I didn't watch
the actual series. Yeah, yeah. So I can't speak
on that. But Robotech was fucking all the way
back in the day, yeah. Well, the first one anyway.
I think I lost it after the second one because
the second season didn't follow the main characters
from the first season. That fell off for me.
They did do the movie after that. Many, many,
many years. And Mark Hamill was actually a voice
on it too. Yeah, Mark Hamill, man, was a big
guy for fucking anime back in the day. Yeah,
right. So The Guyver was an anime manga and that.
And then he made the live action. I remember
watching that one. Yeah. Once again at your house.
Yeah. When we were nine. Yeah. Shouldn't be watching
that. We used to go to Jeremy's house, right?
And then. Would we go to Allendale to visit your
mum or something? Yeah, mum was working night
shifts and shit. And we'd run up and down the
hallways. It smelled like piss. Then we'd go
to Video Easy. Yeah. Then we'd go to Video Easy.
Fuck yes, dude. Grab a heap of horror movies
and stuff that we probably shouldn't have been
watching and then go watch them. It was great.
Did you grow up to be a fuckwit? Not at all.
I think I'm pretty good. I think you're pretty
good. Yeah, no, no, no. I think you're pretty
good. There he goes, right? I don't know if he
does. Yeah, so fucking. We'd just run wild in
Video Easy because, you know, mum started working
again after we'd started school. So that's what
happened. Mum and dad didn't work when I was,
no, sorry, dad worked when I was little when
we first moved to Cessna. Yeah. Hurt his back,
didn't work. Mum didn't work. She was at home
with both of us kids. Then we started school.
Once we both were at school, mum went back to
work. So my brother's in kindergarten. He's five
-year -old. And we're fucking, mum's working
fucking. And that's why Nick has the black ball.
Yeah. And Dad's like, oh, we'll get some movies.
And he just didn't give a fuck about what we
watched. And we watched some pretty out there
shit from a young age. Do you remember the cartoon
Beastly Behaviour? Yeah. No. That was sexual
education. No. Was that it? No. That was where
I came from. Oh, watch Where I Come From. Oh,
I knew that one. Watch that at school. It was
about like a documentary about animals having
sex, but it was done in a very crude way. And
it was fucking hilarious. Yeah. Oh, that's a
card. That'll be fine. What was one I picked
up from Video Easy? It was a puppet. Puppet Master?
No, no, it was like a... Muppet movie? It was
a rip -off. Was it the Herbie's or something
or the Ferrell's? No, no, no. What was it? Oh,
no, it's going to kill me. Yeah, it's a parody
of The Muppets or something, wasn't it? And it
was dirty as all hell. Yeah. It was vomit and
everything. Oh, it was so... And who was it?
It was... Who was the director? Peter Jackson?
Peter Jackson directed it too. Oh, that movie.
Yeah, that was... What's it called? Yellow Cover,
Alien on the front. They're eating vomit and
shit. Yeah, what was that called? And it was
all puppets. Oh, yeah, it was fucking messed
up. It was the first ever movie. Yeah, yeah.
It's a cult classic. Oh, yeah. Oh, sounds like
it. I was way too young to be watching that.
I mean, it had puppets on the cover. Like, what
am I? It was like a puppet thing. No, it's not.
You didn't pay attention to the little R in the
corner? No. Or David did my parents. Dude, I
reckon parody porn is still the best thing going.
Bad taste. Bad taste. That's it. No, no, that's
not the one. Maybe I'm thinking of something
else. It must be. That was his first movie. No,
it must be someone else's. And they're fucking
going around, because it wasn't all puppets,
and these fucking aliens were eating people's
brains and shit, and it was like a send -up of
a fucking zombie movie. Yeah, it's fucking pretty
messed up. Maybe it wasn't Peter Jackson's first
movie, and then he filmed Harry Potter. It was
somewhat a fucking Hobbit. Yeah. One of the first
parody movies that I've ever seen was one called
Chicken Park. I've seen that. It wasn't an Australian
movie. No, I think it was Brazilian and then
it was dubbed. It was a Brazilian knockoff of
Jurassic Park. It was so bad. Yeah, and then
it was dubbed. There was tits in it and shit,
but then there was some fucked up shit in it
too. I'm like, what the hell is this? As a kid,
I didn't understand what a parody was when I
watched it. No, it was Peter Jackson. Yeah, okay.
It's called Meet the Feebles. Meet the Feebles.
That actually sounds familiar. There we are,
Meet the Feebles by Peter Jackson. I remember
that cover, yeah. And it was disturbing to say
the least. That one was really bad, yeah. But
I was probably in the same vein of bad taste,
but yeah. Nice. Fuck me dead. Yeah. Good times.
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