WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.339 From the Dungeons of Morningstar, my name is 00:00:02.339 --> 00:00:05.240 Clint. And I'm Stretch, and this is Prevailing 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:19.460 Strange. This instalment of Prevailing Strange 00:00:19.460 --> 00:00:22.600 is what we like to call rant and sundry, where 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:24.559 we round out the week by going over some of the 00:00:24.559 --> 00:00:26.780 things that we've previously talked about and 00:00:26.780 --> 00:00:29.780 follow wherever the tangents may take us. Just 00:00:29.780 --> 00:00:31.679 give me one second, please, mate. If you like 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:33.079 what we're doing here, please like, comment, 00:00:33.100 --> 00:00:35.359 subscribe, follow along, share us around to your 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:39.460 family and friends. You are a wanker. What's 00:00:39.460 --> 00:00:42.460 wrong, buddy? Did I scare you? Well, yeah. We 00:00:42.460 --> 00:00:46.399 weren't expecting it a second time. It's not 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:48.899 news, but I'm going to talk about it and you're 00:00:48.899 --> 00:00:51.840 going to listen. Okay. We're going to talk about 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:57.070 it. Nathan Fillion has won the internet. What 00:00:57.070 --> 00:01:02.909 is he doing? Yeah. What is going on? Is he going 00:01:02.909 --> 00:01:05.489 to set us up for? I don't think it's going to 00:01:05.489 --> 00:01:07.430 be a reunion thing because they've already done 00:01:07.430 --> 00:01:11.769 one of those. Yep. Could it just be a one -off 00:01:11.769 --> 00:01:15.430 movie? I don't know. Could it be a TV show? I 00:01:15.430 --> 00:01:17.950 don't know. Could it just be everybody going 00:01:17.950 --> 00:01:22.329 to be in the same episode of The Rookie? We don't 00:01:22.329 --> 00:01:24.989 know. Or are they all going to be on Once Were 00:01:24.989 --> 00:01:29.219 Spacemen? I don't know. So I don't know how well 00:01:29.219 --> 00:01:33.680 Once Was Spaceman is doing, but it may have been 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:35.760 something that has drummed up enough success 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:42.159 to kind of elicit a reboot or a second season 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:46.099 to wrap the story up or who knows. Dude, I honestly 00:01:46.099 --> 00:01:49.000 don't care. We need to bring Wash back into the 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:51.409 whole thing. For years, I don't know what we're 00:01:51.409 --> 00:01:53.329 talking about. We're talking about Firefly and 00:01:53.329 --> 00:01:55.670 the cast of Firefly are doing this thing at the 00:01:55.670 --> 00:01:59.530 moment on the interwebs, on the socials, where 00:01:59.530 --> 00:02:02.390 Nathan Fillion, who plays… Captain Malcolm Reynolds. 00:02:02.709 --> 00:02:07.189 Yes, is visiting each and every one of the cast 00:02:07.189 --> 00:02:10.250 and telling them it's time. Yeah, and they're 00:02:10.250 --> 00:02:14.289 responding in such ways like Jewel, who plays 00:02:14.289 --> 00:02:18.280 Kaylee. Jesus Christ. In character. Yeah, I'm 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:21.020 starting to get excited. Yeah, responded shiny 00:02:21.020 --> 00:02:24.020 and I'm like, oh, get out of it. Yeah. And then 00:02:24.020 --> 00:02:28.460 Simon Tam responded like speaking Chinese and 00:02:28.460 --> 00:02:31.240 stuff. And River did the weird tattoo thing. 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:40.680 Yeah, dude. So I'm, come on. Come on. I was talking 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:42.560 to Nasty about it today and she's never seen 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:46.000 it. Nasty's one of our tattoo artists upstairs. 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:50.039 And she literally has never seen or heard of 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:55.139 Firefly. So I was explaining that 25 years ago 00:02:55.139 --> 00:02:57.819 we had this one season show that was cancelled 00:02:57.819 --> 00:03:03.599 halfway through. And so the last four episodes 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:05.659 were written knowing that there was never going 00:03:05.659 --> 00:03:09.599 to be a second season. And it's one of them amazingly 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:13.539 beautiful shows that we're still, everybody's 00:03:13.539 --> 00:03:16.800 still talking about 25 years later. To the point 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:19.960 where. Massive cult following. It's this huge 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:26.099 podcast that they've just started. And this, 00:03:26.580 --> 00:03:29.139 you read the comments, man, and it's all just 00:03:29.139 --> 00:03:32.680 don't give me hope. If this is a, I swear on 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:35.460 my pretty pink floral bonnet, I'll end you if 00:03:35.460 --> 00:03:39.539 this is fake. The fact that this show has still 00:03:39.539 --> 00:03:43.280 got this much of a strong following 25 years 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:46.750 later than it had. one season well i remember 00:03:46.750 --> 00:03:50.050 when it was cancelled and there was like like 00:03:50.050 --> 00:03:54.389 why it was well received enough like yeah um 00:03:54.389 --> 00:03:58.210 i mean buffy didn't break any kind of um numbers 00:03:58.210 --> 00:04:01.729 back in the day but they gave it nine seasons 00:04:01.729 --> 00:04:05.050 or whatever it ended up having um and the fact 00:04:05.050 --> 00:04:09.090 that a whole original show that was coming out 00:04:09.090 --> 00:04:11.430 and the production was good and the story was 00:04:11.430 --> 00:04:14.319 good and like There was absolutely nothing wrong 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:17.240 with it. I don't know what actually pulled that 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:21.480 linchpin and kind of gave him the reason to cancel 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:24.759 it. During its 12 -episode run, Buffy started 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:32.220 with 4 .59 million viewers and dipped down to 00:04:32.220 --> 00:04:42.170 2 .47 by the finale. Now... Did Firefly come 00:04:42.170 --> 00:04:45.829 out before or after Buffy? After. After? Yeah. 00:04:46.149 --> 00:04:49.329 Holy Christ. Apparently it was cancelled due 00:04:49.329 --> 00:04:53.350 to low ratings, high production costs, and poor 00:04:53.350 --> 00:04:57.769 network management at Fox. I believe that. So 00:04:57.769 --> 00:05:04.149 after the 11th episode, there was 14 planned 00:05:04.149 --> 00:05:06.230 for the season. They didn't air the last three. 00:05:06.410 --> 00:05:10.110 Yep. So it was cancelled after 11 episodes. And 00:05:10.110 --> 00:05:12.490 their average, their viewership average was 4 00:05:12.490 --> 00:05:18.050 .7 million viewers. Buffy's would have been like 00:05:18.050 --> 00:05:26.709 3 .2. Yeah. So I'll never understand that. No. 00:05:28.490 --> 00:05:31.170 I'll never understand. And the fact that the 00:05:31.170 --> 00:05:33.930 viewers and the fans rallied and they made that 00:05:33.930 --> 00:05:38.500 movie, you shouldn't have killed Wash. You shouldn't 00:05:38.500 --> 00:05:44.019 have killed Walsh. Yeah. But, man, 25 years later, 00:05:44.139 --> 00:05:46.100 people are still clamouring for the brown coats. 00:05:46.620 --> 00:05:49.199 I'd love to see it. Yeah. I don't even need to 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:53.139 have Joss Whedon attached to it. Anybody that 00:05:53.139 --> 00:05:55.639 watches that one season of Firefly we've got 00:05:55.639 --> 00:06:00.500 understands. You will watch it and you'll understand 00:06:00.500 --> 00:06:03.500 the exact whole reason why people love it so 00:06:03.500 --> 00:06:07.279 much because it's brilliant. I do have hope. 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:13.740 I hope I am not disappointed. I don't. If it's 00:06:13.740 --> 00:06:17.680 just a thing, you know, rummaging up viewers 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:19.860 for his podcast or just that they're all going 00:06:19.860 --> 00:06:21.800 to be in the rookie, I'm so going to be upset. 00:06:22.459 --> 00:06:25.920 Surely it wouldn't be such a cheap thing. I don't 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:29.740 think he'd do that to the fans, man. Nathan Fillion 00:06:29.740 --> 00:06:33.639 loves his fans. Yep. So I honestly don't think 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:37.339 he would do this. Alan Tudyk as well. Yeah. He's 00:06:37.339 --> 00:06:40.660 so great with his fans as well, so I don't think 00:06:40.660 --> 00:06:43.899 they'd do this. But there's still a couple of 00:06:43.899 --> 00:06:46.759 cast members that they haven't gone to. Yet. 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:48.139 Yeah, they haven't gone to Jane. I mean, the 00:06:48.139 --> 00:06:52.399 announcement is, when is it, the 13th? So they've 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:55.560 given a date. The one with River Tam, they said 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:58.459 there will be an announcement. Nice. Yeah, dude, 00:06:58.500 --> 00:07:01.279 I'm pumped. I cannot wait for it. Have you watched, 00:07:01.459 --> 00:07:04.819 you've watched Badlands, haven't you? No. You 00:07:04.819 --> 00:07:06.920 haven't watched it neither? Mm -mm. I haven't 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:08.319 watched it yet. I thought you said you watched 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:10.300 it and it was bad. No, why? Maybe somebody else 00:07:10.300 --> 00:07:13.879 watched it. Oh, Badlands. No, I'm thinking of, 00:07:13.939 --> 00:07:18.579 what was that one with Cate Blanchett? Oh, Borderlands. 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:21.540 Borderlands. That was terrible. Yeah, Badlands. 00:07:21.660 --> 00:07:23.259 I haven't gone around watching that yet and I 00:07:23.259 --> 00:07:26.459 don't know why. You're always at work. True. 00:07:26.939 --> 00:07:28.800 It's a bit hard to watch things when you're always 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:31.079 at work and when you're not at work, you're watching 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:34.600 our two mugs on your laptop. Yeah. I think I've 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:37.199 got sunburned through my clothes. My back's so 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:40.680 itchy. You know it's possible, right? Clothes 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:42.319 are only like. You know what we should have named 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:45.399 the podcast? First World Problems with Clint 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:48.620 and Jeremy. First World Problems. I'm out there 00:07:48.620 --> 00:07:52.819 sweating my ass off in the sun. My back's itchy. 00:07:53.240 --> 00:07:56.300 Today I was doing a tattoo on an inner bicep. 00:07:57.680 --> 00:07:59.839 In the air conditioning. Yeah, in the air conditioning. 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:01.860 It was so cool out there. It was like 21 degrees. 00:08:02.420 --> 00:08:05.100 And me mate Dan Gould was over and his dad come 00:08:05.100 --> 00:08:07.000 for a ride in and he's one of the OG tattooers 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:10.620 in the Hunter Valley. So he's come down and I've 00:08:10.620 --> 00:08:12.360 gone out. I'm like, yeah, a bit starstruck. He's, 00:08:12.420 --> 00:08:16.040 you know, one of the OGs, dude. So big deal. 00:08:16.379 --> 00:08:20.019 And I've walked out and I opened the door and 00:08:20.019 --> 00:08:25.100 I'm like, what is this? I said, dude, I'm going 00:08:25.100 --> 00:08:28.660 back inside. This is terrible. It was about 31 00:08:28.660 --> 00:08:33.779 degrees. It was, yeah. And that was enough. And 00:08:33.779 --> 00:08:37.580 then it was like me cousin's like, oh, move up 00:08:37.580 --> 00:08:39.240 to Queensland, man, move up to Queensland. I'm 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.960 like, no. Yeah. No, I moved to Tassie because 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:47.299 it's cold and I'm like. Bring on winter. Man, 00:08:47.340 --> 00:08:49.450 I can't wait for winter. Hell, yeah. Let's just 00:08:49.450 --> 00:08:51.990 move down to Melbourne or somewhere. We'll move 00:08:51.990 --> 00:08:54.789 down to Tassie. That way it's cold all year round. 00:08:55.049 --> 00:08:58.450 Would be nice. And then you and me could walk 00:08:58.450 --> 00:09:01.950 around dressed up as Sasquatch and prank people. 00:09:02.289 --> 00:09:06.669 And get shot at. Yeah. That'd be my luck. I'd 00:09:06.669 --> 00:09:11.049 be my luck so hard. Which is then or earlier. 00:09:12.330 --> 00:09:14.750 It just started to swell and every once in a 00:09:14.750 --> 00:09:23.580 while I'll bite it again. So not fair. Rightio, 00:09:23.620 --> 00:09:27.100 here we go. If superheroes actually existed in 00:09:27.100 --> 00:09:30.899 the real world, would governments actually allow 00:09:30.899 --> 00:09:32.879 them to operate or would they immediately try 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:36.500 to control them? There'd be control for sure. 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:42.320 The world's not about vigilantes. Not at all. 00:09:43.220 --> 00:09:46.840 Vigilantes for sure. If Batman refuses to kill 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:50.100 a villain, Is he actually responsible for the 00:09:50.100 --> 00:09:53.639 death caused when they inevitably escape? That's 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:56.419 a big thing, isn't it, about Batman? He constantly 00:09:56.419 --> 00:09:58.940 putting him in Arkham and they're escaping and 00:09:58.940 --> 00:10:01.460 they're killing a whole lot of people, which 00:10:01.460 --> 00:10:05.059 is funny because that's the kind of thing they 00:10:05.059 --> 00:10:08.059 kill these parents in the first place. Criminals 00:10:08.059 --> 00:10:11.919 out on the streets doing bad things. Yeah. You 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:13.759 kind of have to look at Batman and sometimes 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:16.860 think that he has some kind of... Mental illness 00:10:16.860 --> 00:10:19.879 that just wants him to be out there and beat 00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:22.820 people up. Yeah, he wants to chase the bad guy. 00:10:23.159 --> 00:10:27.399 Just wants to relive the hunt. Yeah. I think 00:10:27.399 --> 00:10:31.240 so. I think so too. If the Infinity Stones existed, 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:34.399 which one would actually be the most dangerous 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:38.620 in the hands of an average Joe? Most dangerous? 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:44.980 Personally, the Reality Stone. Oh, man, like 00:10:44.980 --> 00:10:48.200 it could just unravel. You could just destroy 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:50.500 people's lives just by walking up and saying 00:10:50.500 --> 00:10:54.139 stuff. Yeah. Walking up and imagining stuff, 00:10:54.340 --> 00:10:56.159 you destroy someone's life. See, it's funny. 00:10:56.279 --> 00:10:58.500 It depends on whether we're talking in the comics 00:10:58.500 --> 00:11:02.259 or whether we're talking in the MCU because whenever 00:11:02.259 --> 00:11:05.139 he changed stuff, it changed back afterwards. 00:11:05.620 --> 00:11:08.799 Like it wasn't a permanent thing or was that 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:11.559 him using the reality stone to turn it back? 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:16.139 You know what I mean? Like whenever he was not 00:11:16.139 --> 00:11:18.879 around that returned back to normal reality, 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:22.120 you're saying? So there was the first time when 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:25.000 Gamora, when he tricks Gamora and Star -Lord 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:27.159 and they're in nowhere and nowhere looks normal 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:32.159 and then he takes off and then, or no, or is 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:35.320 it revealed beforehand where nowhere's burning 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:38.399 and everything's been destroyed? No, no, no, 00:11:38.419 --> 00:11:41.500 it reveals itself when he speaks. Yeah, that's 00:11:41.500 --> 00:11:45.759 right. Then he pops out of nowhere. So it's either 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:50.039 him controlling it to do that or whether it just 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:53.200 resets back to default reality. I don't know 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:55.759 how it works. If it was something like could 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:58.840 you imagine if the reality stone was something 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:02.600 where you could change reality and whatever change 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:09.019 was just implemented and then you just and then 00:12:09.019 --> 00:12:14.440 if you like had to. like actively change it back. 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:19.799 Yep. Like what you could forget in changing it 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:22.360 back, what could be missing from the original, 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:25.259 it would never be the same again. Yeah. Like, 00:12:25.259 --> 00:12:27.919 yeah, that would be, if that was the case, that 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:31.679 would be the most dangerous. I reckon. Why do 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:37.840 alien invasions always happen in New York? Iconic 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:42.350 skyline. I think that's what it is. Yeah. I think 00:12:42.350 --> 00:12:45.830 it's just there's so much. I think they get more 00:12:45.830 --> 00:12:47.690 bang for their buck when it comes to destruction 00:12:47.690 --> 00:12:52.029 in small areas that's so kind of built up and 00:12:52.029 --> 00:12:55.350 dense. Well, saying that, my question's just 00:12:55.350 --> 00:13:00.149 been a bit of a kick in the butt because when 00:13:00.149 --> 00:13:02.889 Mars attacks is one of my favourite invasion 00:13:02.889 --> 00:13:04.850 movies that happens in Vegas. Yeah, well, they're 00:13:04.850 --> 00:13:07.070 not all like that, but a lot of them are kind 00:13:07.070 --> 00:13:10.190 of the bigs. Yeah, but you think like. In Vegas, 00:13:10.309 --> 00:13:12.809 you can destroy the Eiffel Tower. You can destroy 00:13:12.809 --> 00:13:16.049 Egypt. You can destroy, you know, all that stuff. 00:13:16.149 --> 00:13:18.610 That was pretty funny. So I love that. I like 00:13:18.610 --> 00:13:23.889 that for when Muzz attacks. At what point does 00:13:23.889 --> 00:13:26.350 the cinematic universe become too large to follow 00:13:26.350 --> 00:13:30.389 and do you think we're already there? I think 00:13:30.389 --> 00:13:32.710 with the MCU, they probably should never have 00:13:32.710 --> 00:13:37.950 gone to television. Preach, sir. That kind of 00:13:37.950 --> 00:13:41.159 got. Too much and to the point where a lot of 00:13:41.159 --> 00:13:44.360 people said it feels like homework. 100%, dude. 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:48.000 It's funny because I love world building and 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:53.139 I love the expansiveness of it, so it's not a 00:13:53.139 --> 00:13:55.980 big thing for me, but for the average person, 00:13:56.139 --> 00:14:01.240 you probably shouldn't go beyond a trilogy. Yeah, 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:10.000 I see that and I agree. To maintain. a fan base 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:15.240 to prevent that kind of not tiredness. What's 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:20.360 the word? Fatigue. Fatigue, yes. I think trilogies 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:23.799 are – there's something about the power of three. 00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:28.039 Like three is a pretty powerful kind of number 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:32.659 and, yeah, I think trilogy is probably as far 00:14:32.659 --> 00:14:35.799 as you should really go. The MCU is a completely 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:41.039 different monster though. Yeah, I agree. Because 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:44.960 some of these movies aren't just. Indiana Jones 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:49.539 movies are all Indiana Jones movies. The MCU, 00:14:49.860 --> 00:14:53.720 you've got, let's go, we'll take the Captain 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:56.539 America franchise, for example. Captain America, 00:14:56.779 --> 00:14:59.399 the first Avenger, was a Captain America movie. 00:14:59.960 --> 00:15:02.600 Captain America Winter Soldier, that was a Bucky 00:15:02.600 --> 00:15:05.840 Barnes movie, dude. That was a Bucky Barnes. 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:10.279 Captain America Civil War, that was an Avengers 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:15.500 light movie. That was an Avengers movie. So Captain 00:15:15.500 --> 00:15:19.379 America's really only got one movie. Yeah, basically. 00:15:19.620 --> 00:15:22.799 The rest of them are team -ups. But then it's 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:24.360 interesting because then you start thinking about 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:28.200 things like Star Trek. Okay. Seven different 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:35.820 shows across thousands of episodes. Not much 00:15:35.820 --> 00:15:39.259 of it's good though. I never said it was good. 00:15:39.700 --> 00:15:42.659 Did you say it had to be good? No, I didn't. 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:48.120 Yeah. See, I absolutely loved, and when I say 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:49.980 I absolutely loved, I mean it with everything 00:15:49.980 --> 00:15:55.940 that I have, J .J. Abrams. He's reimagining Star 00:15:55.940 --> 00:15:59.840 Trek now. Absolutely killed it. I loved it. I 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:02.210 loved how polished it was. The lens flare could 00:16:02.210 --> 00:16:05.889 have dimmed down a little bit. But, dude, that 00:16:05.889 --> 00:16:09.129 was just classic JJ. It was great storytelling. 00:16:09.210 --> 00:16:12.690 The soundtrack was bangers and it was gorgeous. 00:16:12.950 --> 00:16:15.929 Yeah. I didn't mind some of the old Star Trek, 00:16:16.070 --> 00:16:20.389 especially when it was on Foxtel and I just put 00:16:20.389 --> 00:16:23.750 it on in the background. Yep. A lot of it was 00:16:23.750 --> 00:16:27.009 garbage though. Yeah, a lot of it was garbage. 00:16:27.250 --> 00:16:29.529 Some of it posed some interesting questions. 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:33.440 You've got to sort through a lot to get to it. 00:16:33.500 --> 00:16:36.179 It really showed how bad of an actor William 00:16:36.179 --> 00:16:40.679 Shatner is. He's so bad. Yeah. He's so terrible. 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:45.500 100%. Apparently a terrible person. Terrible 00:16:45.500 --> 00:16:48.940 singer too. That's one song. I forget what that 00:16:48.940 --> 00:16:54.840 one song was. I have not listened to his music. 00:16:55.019 --> 00:16:57.320 Okay. Now you have one song out there for a while 00:16:57.320 --> 00:17:01.059 that was. A cover of an old song. I think it 00:17:01.059 --> 00:17:06.599 was about some woman being a, I think she was 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:12.099 rich and she wants to be a normal person. I almost 00:17:12.099 --> 00:17:15.160 had the name of the song on the top of my, the 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:18.240 edge of my, tip of my tongue. You don't need 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:21.839 to. Yeah, no. Have you seen what I have come 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:27.839 across on my Facebook? So these new. Jerseys 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:32.039 have popped up. God damn it, Domino. God damn 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:36.200 it, Domino. But there's more. There's like, this 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:42.099 is an outrage. That's cool. New achievement. 00:17:43.380 --> 00:17:47.140 So there's, I want to get a couple. That's Dungeon 00:17:47.140 --> 00:17:49.859 Crawl Carl, if you are familiar with it. Like 00:17:49.859 --> 00:17:57.259 this one. Bongo is appalled. Have you seen footage 00:17:57.259 --> 00:18:00.619 of the fellow recording that? No. He does all 00:18:00.619 --> 00:18:02.920 the voices. No, I didn't. Oh, I'll have to send 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:08.119 you a bit later. Pretty cool. It's – I'm really 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:12.599 – I love – I'm getting that tabletop RPG when 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:15.920 it comes out. I'm going to crawl a car one. Dude, 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:18.539 it's so much fun, that book. It is, yeah. You 00:18:18.539 --> 00:18:22.900 know, I was a bit, eh, this is shit at the start. 00:18:23.230 --> 00:18:24.890 It was hard for me to get used to it. Now I'm 00:18:24.890 --> 00:18:28.990 so – I've just bit my lip again. I'm so excited 00:18:28.990 --> 00:18:32.369 for the new book to come out. Hell, yeah. But 00:18:32.369 --> 00:18:34.789 I've just been too busy re -listening to the 00:18:34.789 --> 00:18:37.769 last chapter of Project Hail Mary for the last 00:18:37.769 --> 00:18:40.950 three or four days. When's that come out? 14th. 00:18:42.250 --> 00:18:47.150 I get to go on the 14th. Yeah. Lucky son of a 00:18:47.150 --> 00:18:55.099 gun. I'm so excited. The thing is when Rach and 00:18:55.099 --> 00:18:57.640 I went to Sydney for Jack's 18th a couple of 00:18:57.640 --> 00:19:01.740 weekends ago and then on the way down we were 00:19:01.740 --> 00:19:04.940 listening to Project Hail Mary and she started 00:19:04.940 --> 00:19:07.019 falling in love with it and then on the way back 00:19:07.019 --> 00:19:10.579 and then it was almost finished the other day 00:19:10.579 --> 00:19:12.299 when we were on our way back from Newcastle. 00:19:13.779 --> 00:19:15.920 I said, we're about three chapters from the end. 00:19:16.539 --> 00:19:20.029 Do you want to keep listening? Or do you want 00:19:20.029 --> 00:19:21.369 me to turn it off? And she goes, no, no, no, 00:19:21.369 --> 00:19:22.970 no, no, just turn it off, turn it off. I'm like, 00:19:23.009 --> 00:19:25.109 righto, sweet. So she doesn't know the ending. 00:19:26.410 --> 00:19:29.329 But I'm going to fuck. Oh, no, I'm going to fall 00:19:29.329 --> 00:19:33.390 out of the dead set chair, bawling my eyes out, 00:19:33.410 --> 00:19:38.769 rolling around on the floor. Yeah. It's a great 00:19:38.769 --> 00:19:41.109 story. It's such a great story. And it's funny 00:19:41.109 --> 00:19:46.250 because I had watched The Martian, read The Martian, 00:19:46.369 --> 00:19:49.220 listened to The Martian. and enjoyed all three 00:19:49.220 --> 00:19:51.799 installments of it. And it was like a very grander 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:54.500 type thing. And then Project Hail Mary started 00:19:54.500 --> 00:19:56.200 off. I'm like, oh, yeah, this is very kind of 00:19:56.200 --> 00:20:00.039 similar -esque. And then it goes full sci -fi. 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:04.279 I'm like, oh, I'd like this even more. Dude, 00:20:04.779 --> 00:20:07.299 you've got to listen to Artemis. Artemis is great. 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:09.980 Because it's a bit more sci -fi. It's in the 00:20:09.980 --> 00:20:13.180 future and it's on the space station. On the 00:20:13.180 --> 00:20:16.930 space station, right. Like an actual city up 00:20:16.930 --> 00:20:19.269 there where people have jobs and there's shops 00:20:19.269 --> 00:20:21.670 and people have like there's black market trades 00:20:21.670 --> 00:20:24.430 and shit. Nice. It's really good. Pretty funny 00:20:24.430 --> 00:20:28.589 story. So Steph's in a book club, right? Is that 00:20:28.589 --> 00:20:31.410 the one that she's in with my wife? No one. Okay. 00:20:31.450 --> 00:20:34.130 Well, she's in the smutty one with my wife. So 00:20:34.130 --> 00:20:36.990 it's funny because Steph isn't a very smutty 00:20:36.990 --> 00:20:41.630 book reading person. She likes romanticies like. 00:20:42.089 --> 00:20:45.349 more heavy on the romance than the smart, but 00:20:45.349 --> 00:20:48.069 loves fantasy world building and stuff like that. 00:20:48.390 --> 00:20:55.049 Anyway, so she kind of really worries about her 00:20:55.049 --> 00:20:57.309 choice, and there's like 12 of them in this club, 00:20:57.430 --> 00:20:59.569 so it's once a year it comes around that she 00:20:59.569 --> 00:21:02.750 has a choice in what book that they read. And 00:21:02.750 --> 00:21:07.710 the last one she suggested was book one in a 00:21:07.710 --> 00:21:10.559 series of two. which is a book that I put her 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:13.599 onto that she really liked and they liked it 00:21:13.599 --> 00:21:15.880 or half of them liked it. But the fact that it 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:18.900 was more than one book, a lot of them kind of 00:21:18.900 --> 00:21:22.619 got bent out of shape. So this year she's trying 00:21:22.619 --> 00:21:24.799 to figure out what to get them to read and I 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:29.940 suggested two books in particular and she misheard 00:21:29.940 --> 00:21:35.210 one of them or whatever. It was another book 00:21:35.210 --> 00:21:37.289 that I had talked about that I think she should 00:21:37.289 --> 00:21:39.650 read at some point, but it wasn't one of the 00:21:39.650 --> 00:21:43.809 ones I suggested for this book club, mainly because 00:21:43.809 --> 00:21:46.089 I thought it would be geared towards what they 00:21:46.089 --> 00:21:50.130 would like to read. So they like, they seem to 00:21:50.130 --> 00:21:54.829 be reading a whole lot of Gone Girl, kind of 00:21:54.829 --> 00:22:01.029 that kind of mystery, kind of, I don't know what 00:22:01.029 --> 00:22:03.569 you'd call that. Speculative fiction. No, not 00:22:03.569 --> 00:22:05.450 speculative fiction. Anyway, whatever it is. 00:22:05.529 --> 00:22:08.750 Anyway, so there's one called The Sundown Motel. 00:22:09.990 --> 00:22:11.750 It's about a woman that comes to town and she 00:22:11.750 --> 00:22:15.769 works at this motel on a night shift. And there 00:22:15.769 --> 00:22:19.430 was a murder there so long ago. But then it gets 00:22:19.430 --> 00:22:23.190 paranormal and it flashes backwards and forwards 00:22:23.190 --> 00:22:24.809 between the story. It's really good. I enjoyed 00:22:24.809 --> 00:22:27.029 it. And I thought it would be right up their 00:22:27.029 --> 00:22:30.430 alley because it's that kind but has a paranormal 00:22:30.430 --> 00:22:34.680 kind of. kicked to it. She misheard me and thought 00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:37.359 it was another book called Babble. Babble was 00:22:37.359 --> 00:22:41.440 okay, low fantasy kind of academic type thing. 00:22:41.500 --> 00:22:43.680 I didn't really like it. I think Steph would 00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:47.619 like it, but she thought I said that. And the 00:22:47.619 --> 00:22:49.740 other book was another book, my favourite book 00:22:49.740 --> 00:22:52.420 that I've probably ever read, and it's called 00:22:52.420 --> 00:22:56.130 The Library at Mount Char. I've never heard of 00:22:56.130 --> 00:22:58.750 it. You've never heard of it? It's a weird title. 00:22:58.809 --> 00:23:01.289 It doesn't make sense right until the end of 00:23:01.289 --> 00:23:03.950 the book. I don't want to describe anything about 00:23:03.950 --> 00:23:06.529 it because it gives stuff away. But it's one 00:23:06.529 --> 00:23:08.289 of the funnest things I've ever read and it's 00:23:08.289 --> 00:23:11.349 completely weird and left field and it's good. 00:23:12.430 --> 00:23:14.710 And I want Steph to read it and she kind of thought, 00:23:14.789 --> 00:23:17.990 no, that's a bit much. So she suggested another 00:23:17.990 --> 00:23:24.690 book that was written by this one person. I think 00:23:24.690 --> 00:23:27.009 it's called, and it's about vampires and werewolves 00:23:27.009 --> 00:23:29.789 and she looked it up and kind of said romantic 00:23:29.789 --> 00:23:33.569 fantasy kind of enemies become lovers and all 00:23:33.569 --> 00:23:37.869 that kind of shit. So there's a whole lot of 00:23:37.869 --> 00:23:41.509 banging between werewolves and vampires in this 00:23:41.509 --> 00:23:46.430 and the anatomy of a dog and she's like, she 00:23:46.430 --> 00:23:49.859 read it in her night and she's like. mortified 00:23:49.859 --> 00:23:52.339 that she suggested this book to this book group. 00:23:52.900 --> 00:23:55.299 She's like, this is not what I read. What the 00:23:55.299 --> 00:23:59.480 hell does this even mean? I'm like, why didn't 00:23:59.480 --> 00:24:01.500 you suggest Sundown Motel like I said to you? 00:24:01.619 --> 00:24:03.759 She's like, you said Babel. I said, no, I didn't. 00:24:05.339 --> 00:24:08.980 Hot damn it. But, yeah, I'm waiting to hear back 00:24:08.980 --> 00:24:11.900 about how that next meetup goes. So she's been 00:24:11.900 --> 00:24:15.420 amped up for a year. Yeah. There's dog dicks 00:24:15.420 --> 00:24:17.970 in it. Yeah, there's dog dicks in it. Talking 00:24:17.970 --> 00:24:20.490 about getting dog locked and knots and stuff. 00:24:20.769 --> 00:24:28.049 Whoa. Yeah. Whoa. Yeah. Tough crowd. Yeah, some 00:24:28.049 --> 00:24:31.369 of these smut books are fucking messed up. Look, 00:24:31.710 --> 00:24:34.710 Rachel's read me some excerpts from books that 00:24:34.710 --> 00:24:42.589 the other book clubs done. Jesus. Yeah. What? 00:24:43.529 --> 00:24:45.250 There's some stuff in there that shouldn't be. 00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:49.940 And I'm weird. Yeah, apparently. Because there's 00:24:49.940 --> 00:24:52.319 a guy with the best mate who's a spider and they're 00:24:52.319 --> 00:24:55.960 saving the planet. Okay. These are not fucking. 00:24:56.240 --> 00:25:03.180 Exactly. God damn. And he's up in there with 00:25:03.180 --> 00:25:07.779 Rocky for like three, four months. Not once has 00:25:07.779 --> 00:25:09.779 he mentioned that he's whacking her. Oh, you 00:25:09.779 --> 00:25:13.059 know why? Rocky watches him sleep. He does, doesn't 00:25:13.059 --> 00:25:14.880 he? I forgot about that. He watches her sleep. 00:25:14.940 --> 00:25:17.910 Yeah, because. That's what they do. Oh, I don't 00:25:17.910 --> 00:25:21.430 want to spoil it for anyone. Oh, Eric. Eric. 00:25:21.730 --> 00:25:24.809 I'll put the brakes on that one for anybody that 00:25:24.809 --> 00:25:29.829 hasn't seen it. You're in for a treat. Sellouts. 00:25:29.970 --> 00:25:33.390 Dude, this movie better sell out. You know what? 00:25:34.369 --> 00:25:38.549 I don't even care because it's one story. It's 00:25:38.549 --> 00:25:41.210 a rounded story. It's got a start and it's got 00:25:41.210 --> 00:25:43.470 an end. And I don't have to wait until next month 00:25:43.470 --> 00:25:45.470 for a new episode. As long as they don't change 00:25:45.470 --> 00:25:47.329 the ending. Oh, if they change the ending, I'm 00:25:47.329 --> 00:25:49.130 going to poke myself in the eye with a hot poker. 00:25:50.349 --> 00:25:54.369 They couldn't do it. Man, they do. They did it 00:25:54.369 --> 00:25:55.990 with The Martian though? They fumble stuff. They 00:25:55.990 --> 00:25:58.509 fumble stuff. They didn't with The Martian? No, 00:25:58.549 --> 00:26:00.650 they just cut it short by a third of the book. 00:26:00.710 --> 00:26:05.789 So much shorter. We missed out on the whole rover 00:26:05.789 --> 00:26:08.589 rolling over and everything in the movie. That 00:26:08.589 --> 00:26:10.630 would have been pretty tedious, I think, on film. 00:26:11.119 --> 00:26:14.160 Well, you didn't see the drill shorting out either 00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:17.740 when he lent it against the toolbox. It was actually 00:26:17.740 --> 00:26:19.319 a lot cut out of that, wasn't it? It was, yeah. 00:26:19.700 --> 00:26:25.500 But you're right if they do. Yeah, I try not. 00:26:25.740 --> 00:26:29.240 This is why I prefer to read the book afterwards. 00:26:30.099 --> 00:26:33.000 Okay. Yeah, because you can always be more excited 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:35.980 when you find out more stuff because when they 00:26:35.980 --> 00:26:38.059 leave stuff out. But that was one of my favourite 00:26:38.059 --> 00:26:40.839 bits. Yeah. Follow the Rings when I read it. 00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:44.960 Who the fuck is Tom Bombadil? Tom Bombadil. It's 00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:47.259 worse when you listen to the audiobook and you 00:26:47.259 --> 00:26:51.059 got bloody, what's his name? Circus? Andy Circus. 00:26:51.079 --> 00:26:55.779 Andy Circus. I'm Tom Bombadil. No, stop that. 00:26:56.640 --> 00:26:59.680 Stop. Especially when I never looked it up on 00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:01.519 the internet because I read this back in like 00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:07.740 early 2000s or like when it first came out, 2000. 00:27:09.110 --> 00:27:12.789 I read it after the movie came out, 2000. Oh, 00:27:12.789 --> 00:27:15.089 right. Yeah. Not the book. Not the book. I was 00:27:15.089 --> 00:27:17.029 going to say. Hang on. Pretty sure Toggle was. 00:27:17.630 --> 00:27:20.589 Yeah. And then I get, I'm like, what is this 00:27:20.589 --> 00:27:24.630 whole section of book? I'm like, I had no idea. 00:27:25.069 --> 00:27:27.910 You couldn't tell by the thickness of the thing? 00:27:28.529 --> 00:27:30.730 Well, I just thought he would explain the trees 00:27:30.730 --> 00:27:34.529 a lot more than he did. I mean, he was pretty 00:27:34.529 --> 00:27:37.049 explicit about kind of everything, the scenery 00:27:37.049 --> 00:27:39.309 and that and that in the beginning of the book. 00:27:39.450 --> 00:27:42.210 Did you read The Silmarillion before you read 00:27:42.210 --> 00:27:44.529 Lord of the Rings or was that after after? I 00:27:44.529 --> 00:27:46.670 haven't read The Silmarillion. Haven't you? Read 00:27:46.670 --> 00:27:48.509 The Silmarillion. Then you'll know why there's 00:27:48.509 --> 00:27:52.750 so much dog shit in Lord of the Rings. And Peter 00:27:52.750 --> 00:27:56.670 Jackson went through and like just nitpicked 00:27:56.670 --> 00:27:58.569 all his favourite little bits out of it because 00:27:58.569 --> 00:28:03.640 the book is trash. The movie's no. Better, but 00:28:03.640 --> 00:28:06.759 still. The book's great. No. The movie's pretty. 00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:10.960 Some parts of the movie are absolutely stunning, 00:28:11.140 --> 00:28:17.079 but there's so many holes in it. Like what? The 00:28:17.079 --> 00:28:19.400 eagles, Jeremy. I told you about the eagles. 00:28:19.940 --> 00:28:22.960 That don't make sense. What do you mean it doesn't 00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:24.900 make sense? There's a whole other side to the 00:28:24.900 --> 00:28:26.220 mountain. The mountain is a three -dimensional 00:28:26.220 --> 00:28:27.960 shape. He could have gone around the other side 00:28:27.960 --> 00:28:29.980 where the eye would not have seen the eagles. 00:28:30.740 --> 00:28:34.980 Yeah. He could have gone, let's say he is Mount 00:28:34.980 --> 00:28:42.779 Doom. He is the Eye of Sauron, right? If he was 00:28:42.779 --> 00:28:45.599 walking up here to the mountain, right, if the 00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:53.259 eagles just went half a day, no one dies. Yeah, 00:28:53.299 --> 00:28:56.119 but then you wouldn't have a story. Then don't 00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:59.059 put them in at the end. Just leave them out. 00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:01.279 You just had to leave them out. That's it. But 00:29:01.279 --> 00:29:05.460 it's a miracle. Not a miracle. It is. It isn't. 00:29:05.460 --> 00:29:08.819 It was a task that was completed by a group of 00:29:08.819 --> 00:29:14.420 people. A fellowship, as it were. Do you know 00:29:14.420 --> 00:29:16.339 the whole reason why he wrote Lord of the Rings? 00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:19.279 Because he was bored? No. And he needed money? 00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:23.099 No. He was delusional? No, listen. He had a fetish 00:29:23.099 --> 00:29:25.490 for hairy -footed kids? As we all know. Whoa. 00:29:25.490 --> 00:29:29.009 Whoa. Hey, whoa. You put the kids in there like, 00:29:29.069 --> 00:29:35.549 hang on, what? You're like. No, so he was always 00:29:35.549 --> 00:29:39.549 kind of fascinated by ancient Greek and ancient 00:29:39.549 --> 00:29:43.009 Roman kind of mythos. Well, he failed them both. 00:29:43.170 --> 00:29:48.349 So when the Saxons came to England, like way 00:29:48.349 --> 00:29:51.890 back, whoever was settled there, I forget what 00:29:51.890 --> 00:29:56.240 they're called. they destroyed a whole lot of 00:29:56.240 --> 00:29:59.619 culture that was already here or in England. 00:30:00.019 --> 00:30:04.680 So England no longer had their ancient history 00:30:04.680 --> 00:30:07.279 the same way that Greece did, the same way that. 00:30:07.619 --> 00:30:09.839 Is that why they went and stole everybody else's? 00:30:09.960 --> 00:30:15.400 Yeah. So he wanted to write the story of what 00:30:15.400 --> 00:30:21.500 like Zeus and all that, but what was for their 00:30:21.500 --> 00:30:23.690 part of the world. And that's what the Lord of 00:30:23.690 --> 00:30:30.269 the Rings are, is their ancient history. His 00:30:30.269 --> 00:30:39.450 made -up version of their ancient history. Has 00:30:39.450 --> 00:30:42.670 he ever had magic mushrooms? I mean, he's probably 00:30:42.670 --> 00:30:45.289 smoked a bit of Gillyweed, but. Oh, wow. Now 00:30:45.289 --> 00:30:46.970 you're crossing over to Harry Potter's territory, 00:30:47.170 --> 00:30:50.109 mate. Isn't that what they call it? No. Oh, okay. 00:30:50.190 --> 00:30:51.230 What do they call it in the Lord of the Rings? 00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:54.740 I was going to ask Matt then, but I turned it 00:30:54.740 --> 00:30:57.920 off already. It's something weed. I forget what 00:30:57.920 --> 00:31:05.799 they call it. What weed do hobbits smoke? It's 00:31:05.799 --> 00:31:10.559 a very frequently asked question. It's called 00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:14.259 pipe weed. Pipe weed. Okay. Tolkien explicitly 00:31:14.259 --> 00:31:18.119 describes it as a variety probably of nicotiana. 00:31:18.650 --> 00:31:21.569 A plant genus that includes tobacco. Right, okay. 00:31:22.049 --> 00:31:25.509 They don't even smoke in good weed. Anyway, so, 00:31:25.609 --> 00:31:30.990 yeah. That was what he set out to do was create 00:31:30.990 --> 00:31:35.289 this kind of mythology for England that they 00:31:35.289 --> 00:31:41.289 had lost when the Saxons sacked. Yeah, they didn't 00:31:41.289 --> 00:31:45.170 like it, did they? Who? The Brits. They didn't 00:31:45.170 --> 00:31:47.759 like getting sacked, did they? It just went and 00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:49.140 did everywhere else. Well, it was well before 00:31:49.140 --> 00:31:51.599 Britain or anything was set out. Doesn't matter. 00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:56.539 Hang on, wasn't he 1887 or something? When he, 00:31:56.700 --> 00:32:01.539 yeah, okay. Come on, mate. God, come on, man. 00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:03.400 You're going to make up stories. You're going 00:32:03.400 --> 00:32:05.539 to make up stories. At least make them realistic. 00:32:05.859 --> 00:32:09.000 Yeah, okay. Chuck in like, I don't know, someone 00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:12.210 being a great director or something. Anyway, 00:32:12.210 --> 00:32:14.750 guys, thanks for joining us. You're really going 00:32:14.750 --> 00:32:16.630 to just bounce off the moon talking, aren't you? 00:32:16.630 --> 00:32:19.430 Man, I can't talk about the moon right now. I 00:32:19.430 --> 00:32:27.509 can't deal with that shit. He's a bit tired. 00:32:27.589 --> 00:32:31.430 He's been building a 21 by 27 metre shed all 00:32:31.430 --> 00:32:35.329 week. He's a little bit tasseled, aren't you, 00:32:35.349 --> 00:32:39.099 Seller? Cooked. He'll be right, mate. Yeah. I'll 00:32:39.099 --> 00:32:40.680 be good next week. Go and get a wife to give 00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:44.740 you a good deep massage. Yeah. Put your knees 00:32:44.740 --> 00:32:48.759 between your... Jesus Christ. On that note, we're 00:32:48.759 --> 00:32:51.240 going to go now. Put your knees between your 00:32:51.240 --> 00:32:58.519 kneecaps. Long, legs, flat tongue. Just say bye, 00:32:58.660 --> 00:33:03.480 Heidi. Thanks for joining us, guys. See you next 00:33:03.480 --> 00:33:05.319 time. Love, peace, chicken grease. Bye.