From the Dungeons of Morningstar, I'm Stretch.
And I'm Clint. 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 you like what we're
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Please tell us what you think and what you're
watching, what you're listening to, what games
you're playing. Hit us up. I've got a question
for you, buddy. Okay, go. We're going to do the
key for yourself, key for the kids, and get rid
of, again, the Ghostbusters movies. Hang on,
hang on, hang on. Just the original? Or are we
going the original? The lady one and the last
two sequels. The whole shebang? I was more aiming
for the original ones. So the original two. And
we'll go to the new ones. We'll go to the new
ones. We'll go over the last two of the original
cast. Yeah, the all -encompassing Ghostbusters.
The Indiana Jones movies, all of them, all -encompassing.
Yes, even the Golden Crystal Skull. I haven't
seen the latest one. And the Back to the Future
movies. Okay. Straight away? Mm -hmm. I am going
to keep Back to the Future. Hang on. For yourself
or the kids? I'm going to start off by just killing
Indiana Jones. I'm Nixon Indy. Straight up. Yeah.
It's the weakest of the three. There's no doubt
about it. You can't even argue that. Indiana
Jones is only good in one movie. Some people
love it, though. It's not my thing. It's not
mine. So I'm going to save Back to the Future
is for me. And I'm going to say for the kids,
Ghostbusters. Back to the Future for me is because
I grew up with that and you cannot explain to
kids what Michael J. Fox meant to you back then.
So I get emotional seeing him rock up everywhere,
too, because he's such a fucking badass. And
then, sorry for swearing again, guys. And Christopher
Lloyd, them paired still whenever you see him
on stage. It just blows me away. So I don't want
them saving for myself because that's – I think
that's one of the movies that will never, ever
get remade. I think Back to the Future will be
and that's it. That's all we'll ever get because
you cannot improve on them. Michael J. Fox's
Money Will Fly was perfection. Yeah, absolutely.
Sorry if we're getting emotional, kids, but yeah,
fuck yours, Jeremy. Stop swearing. I will get
rid of Indiana Jones as well. Yeah. But I'll
go the opposite way. I will keep Ghostbusters
for myself and keep Back to the Future for the
kids. Why? I'm just a bigger fan of Ghostbusters.
Yeah? Yeah. The reason why I'm the other way
is simply because they're going to make more
Ghostbusters movies and they're going to be more
contemporary. If I showed… Back to the Future
and, oh, that DeLorean looks like crap. I don't
like that car. Oh, special effects are garbages.
Oh, why is he standing on fire, Dad? Why is he
standing there? And it's like, no, but when I
rewatch it, it's still perfect. Unlike what I
was saying in the other episode, how old 8 -bit
and 16 -bit games look crap on any of your TVs.
And the nostalgia of the older games looking
fantastic. And it's like, okay, the reason why
is because on your old CRT TVs, they were all
little squares. Yep. So when the 8 -bit things
were there, it actually looked smooth. Yep. So
you can hold it on. Who's watching this? You're
watching us. If you go back through the archives
one day in a couple of years from now when we're
successful and this is. And people actually listen.
Yeah. I don't know what's going on with that.
I need to get that serviced. Yeah, you're watching
us in 4K right now and the pixels are like minuscule.
Back in the day, we had the CRTV, and if you
got real close to it as a kid, which we weren't
meant to, you would see three colored lines,
a blue, a green, and a red in each square. And
they were hexagonal set out. And, yeah, the way
that they designed those games back in the day
was with that in mind, and you'd have that blurring
effect. Yeah, so characters that look hot when
you're younger, like, man, that looks sexy. And
now you look at it. And you're like. Ugh. What
the crap is that? It looks like it was done in
paint. Yeah. MS stones. Yeah. God's crap. But
yeah, dude, and that's why things look so much
worse these days. Yeah. It's not just nostalgia
going back and thinking, oh, that looked sensational
at the time because that was contextualised to
what we were seeing at the time. What we had,
yeah. It did look better because it was on those
screens. Yep. 100%. I agree. But yeah, but that's
why I'm having Back to the Future for me. Yeah,
fair enough. Now, I stumbled upon something a
couple weeks ago. I told you about this. Unstable
King. Oh, yes. Found him on Instagram. This gentleman
from the UK who is, the tagline was creating
things that should never have existed. In a good
way. In a good way. So he was taking content
from today. Movies from today that he loved and
other people loved and reformatting them and
then taking new old stock and, yeah, putting
these onto VHS. Creating magic, more or less.
It's art. It is art. It is art. So they arrived
last week. Now, I'm going to say, even if they
were blank, still worth. Still worth. But, no,
the movies are on here. No, they're not. Oh,
dude, it's even got the VHS logo on there. So
what was the first one that I told you about
the other day? I don't know. No, Blade Runner.
Was it? Oh, here we go. Dude. It's even got these
little slips on a man. That I used to have, yeah.
How good is that? Yeah. In Earth's future, a
global crud light and second dust bowl are only
slightly rendering the... Planet Inhabitable.
We have Blade Runner 2049. God, that is stunning.
Look at that cover. Yeah, it's... Holy crap,
dude. They are. They're works of art. They are
works of art. They're sensational. Every piece
of this, you look at it and you're like, oh,
that reminds me of when I was a kid, even though
these never came out when we were kids. You can
see that on a shelf in Video Easy. Yeah. Oh,
God, look at that. Oh, that is such a good movie.
It is. It's even got all the warnings. Yep. Running
time. Mm -hmm. Wow. He's got his little Unstable
King home video on there. It's got the PAL stickers.
Dude, it's got foxing on the cardboard. Yeah,
dude. They're pre -distressed. They are absolutely
gorgeous. Whoever, mate, I am going to be spending.
Money with this guy. Wow. And then. Boy, ain't
that the truth. One of the most beautiful, emotional
and original science fiction films from last
decade. Absolutely. 100%. If you guys haven't
watched this movie, Arrival, please do yourself
a favour. It's amazing. It is a bit confusing.
Watch it again. It's incredible. Absolutely beautiful.
And then one of my favourite all -time movies.
Oh, dude. Drive with Ryan Gosling, the best movie
ever made in my opinion. Dude, this is, he's
a skilled Hollywood stuntman. It's Fall Guy,
the prequel. Whoever this guy is, I'm not going
to say his name, but his Instagram is Unstable
King. Get over there and follow this guy because
they are legitimately absolute works of art,
my friend. Wow. So those two are yours? What?
Nah. No way. No, no, you're not allowed. You
can't do that. Screw you, guy. No, you can't
do that. I don't have a VHS player. Neither do
I. How are we going to? Oh, they're in plastic.
No, I can't, dude. No, no, no, I can't. Don't
be a dick. I am being a dick because I'm really
good at it. No, I can't. Yeah. Well, can I leave
them here and can we just do stuff? They can
go on your shelf, whatever. I don't care. Put
those on your side. I'll put these on my side.
Okay. You have to be difficult about it. Dude,
they need to be front and centre because that,
like I said, like we've got art hanging on the
walls and that, but that's out there, man. That
is so goddamn beautiful. Sorry. Goran beautiful.
What a segue. Did you see that segue? We're going
to talk about it. We're going to talk about it.
Mm -hmm. Did you know what the segue was? No,
I've got no idea. Okay. So there's a TV show
from back in 2001 that to stop them from swearing,
they just spoke Chinese. Fire, fire, ladies and
gentlemen. We're talking about it. Oh, what a
segue. Did you see that segue? Oh, that's a good
segue. So that wasn't the main reason they went
the Chinese language. No, hang on. You keep talking
about these because I got too excited and I cut
you off. No, that's fine. So can you request
films from? No. I think you can. So when you
buy, you get a sign up to his Discord. I've chatted
to him a few times now on Instagram. Seems like
a good bloke. He's doing some pretty cool stuff.
Dude, amazing. I think he kind of just does kind
of what he feels at the time. But at the moment,
yeah, look him up. Cool stuff. He's doing a.
He's thinking about doing a coffee table book
right now because he's got all these different,
like, just the old blank VHS tapes. Yeah. So
he's trying to collect two of every one. And
it's just going to be a coffee book of, like,
the pictures of the artwork on them because the
artwork on some of these old VHS tapes. Dude,
they're amazing. Yeah, just the blank, like,
I can't even. I'll throw a couple up. Yeah. Yeah,
he's just got that many that he's going to make
pictures of them and archive them pretty much.
Now, has he got a big following on Instagram?
70 ,000, I think. Wow. Was it 30 ,000? Wow. Well
done. Well done. And what a thing. Like, no one
is seeing these anymore. You can't walk into
a video shop and look at this cover art no more.
It's essentially what they show you on your streaming
services, all the art you see. Something that
was such a big thing back when we were kids when
Blu -ray and DVD came out, the DVD extras, the
Blu -ray extras, the behind the scenes, the blooper
reels and all that sort of thing. The tactility,
like having that thing that you can hold and
look at, we've lost it, dude. And I really think
it's something that needs to come back. So that
someone is just doing this, mate, tip of the
hat, well done, thank you, is what we should
be saying. Absolutely. Because it is artwork,
dude. It is art. Dude, the foxing is what gets
me. Yeah. The distressed cardboard look, just
wow. Yeah, well done. The amount of work that
goes into these things, he's creating these covers,
he's doing the work of the recording, and yeah.
I think he... The other day I saw a reel where
he'd just gone out and bought like 30 VHS players
or something like that just to kind of set his
studio up to be punching them out, yeah. And
that is the thing too, like this is the infrastructure
that he's actually created for himself to take
all these Blu -rays or DVDs and put them on a
VHS. That's well done, man. Thank you. Check
him out, guys. Unstable King on Instagram. Yep.
Phenomenal. Buy all you can. Support this dude.
And he does cassettes as well. What, tapes? Soundtracks,
yes. He did one the other day. This guy's going
to cost me so much money. He did one the other
day. It was a bifold, kind of like the old VHS,
but it had the four spots for the. Because some
soundtracks are that large, they wouldn't fit
on one tape. Where is he finding these? I don't
know, man. He's getting gold, though. When was
the last time you even seen a VHS, a blank one,
for sale? The other day, but I think it's only
influenced by... Where? In Newcastle. It was
four of them for $25. Old, new stuff. Wow. So
they must have been producing them for a while,
but yeah. They're still out there. Dude, I used
to remember having to put tissue on tape over
the – we used to break off a little black thing
to stop you from recording over it. I recorded
over so many home videos. My mum hated it. Like,
you know, you watch TV shows and that and they
put in a tape and they're like, oh, my God, my
wedding. And then it's just animals getting hit
by cars and shit. And they're like, oh, my God,
boy, who done that? Well, I was that person.
I was taping over everything. So you're NASA.
Yeah. No, they just lost them. Lost them. 300
boxes of stuff lost. Anyway, you were talking
about Firefly? Are we finished blowing? I can't
say enough. Dude, that's beautiful. And I love
you so much, man. Thank you so much for that.
That is absolutely stunning and beautiful and
gorgeous. Yeah, I can't stop talking about that.
Holy shit. The worst part is I have to buy a
second one now that we can watch. Yes! Because
I don't want to open them. No, me neither. He
could have duped us and give us blank ones. They're
probably blank. There's nothing on them. It wouldn't
worry me. I'm going to buy, legitimately, this
is going to kick off a collection for me, man.
You know what else I love? They're not all. The
same. Yeah. On the edges. It's like an actual
VHS. They're all different. Yeah. Phenomenal.
Absolutely. Absolutely phenomenal. I can't believe
that. Still can't get over it. That's gorgeous.
Well done, sir. Thank you. All right. So one
of the greatest actors that ever lived, Nathan
Fillion, has been going around. to all of his
former Firefly castmates, except for Ron Glass,
of course. Yes, that's inevitable. He's dead.
But so first of all, we had Gina Torres, who
plays Zoe, Zoe Walsh. Then he went to Marina
Baccarat, who plays Nara. And then we had Summer
Glau. who plays River Tam, Sean Mayer, which
plays her brother Simon Tam, one that I didn't
think we'd get, Adam Baldwin as J. Cobb. Yep.
As soon as they put Jade Cobb up there and he
walked up and he had the bonnet, his little,
had his mum made him. And the apple and the knife.
And the apple and the knife. He's like, what
are you doing here? He's like, we're doing a
thing, he goes. Okay. And it's like, dude, he
hasn't changed. He hasn't aged. He's the same.
And then I nearly cried when Alan Tudyk was the
last one. If none of you know, Firefly is one
of the biggest shows that's one of my favourite
shows of all time. One season, they canned it
halfway through, so they didn't really finish
it off, but we got a movie called Serenity. Which
is the name of the ship. It is. It was, the movie
was okay. It was good. But they killed one of
the greatest characters in it, Wash, which is
Alan Tudyk's character. What we're getting, we
do not know. No idea. We will know before this
episode comes out. We will. We will. So stay
tuned because I'm going to blow the shit out
of this next week. I have not been excited. I
wasn't even excited, this excited, when Robert
Downey Jr. was cast. As Doom? As Doom. Yeah,
I mean, that I kind of wasn't excited about,
but whatever. Yeah, about Doom. Like, cool. Or
Firefly. No, Doom. Yeah. Cool, but like. Could
have been. Kept it a secret. Should have kept
it a secret. Could you imagine? Could you imagine?
Because we're probably not even going to see
Robert Downey Jr. in Doomsday. No. He'll be having
his mask. It'll be behind the scenes sort of
thing. So he's not going to be forefront. Could
you imagine? Could you imagine if they did a
James Earl Jones and didn't even fucking release
it until he shot one scene at the end? If they
did the whole movie where you never knew. And
it was just like a voice and then at the end
he's like. It would have blown people away. They
couldn't have kept that secret. Couldn't have
kept that a secret, dude. There's no way you
could keep RDJ as doomed as a secret. However,
this secret is absolutely close to the chest
because nobody knows what it is. Yeah. If it's
an animated show, I'm going to be upset but happy.
I know that's kind of stupid, but I want a live
action again. I've waited 24 years for another
season two of Wi -Fi. Yeah. I'm not holding out
hopes for anything because I don't want to be
disappointed. I think if they do do a second
season, they're going to ignore Serenity. I agree.
100 % agree. Obviously, because Alan Tudyk's
attached to it. And animation. Now, we had this
discussion earlier about how we think Alan Tudyk's
going to come back in. And there was a couple
of people in our group chat talking about an
AI or a Jarvis type character. I know for a fact,
watching Zoe in that one season of TV, I know
for a fact that she wouldn't allow him to be
an AI. So whether they miraculously save him
after being impaled in Serenity, spoilers, or
whether they're just going to ignore it completely.
I'm hoping. Were they going to Roseanne? What
do you mean? When Dan didn't actually die, it
was all a bad dream. Well, that could work because
Reavers are a big thing in Firefly. They're one
of the scarier things, along with Nesca. Nesca's
still alive in Serenity 2, so it could be cool.
I think the bloke who played him died. I'm not
sure. You've never watched Firefly, have you?
Yeah. Have you? Yeah. You know who Nesca is?
Yeah. Yeah, sweet. It's been a long time since
I've seen it. I watch it every year. Every year.
Yeah, right. Without a doubt. If it's another
season of television, I'm more than happy to
ignore Serenity completely. Yeah. I don't care
for it. Well, Serenity was only ever kind of
like a bandage for an open wound anyway. Agreed,
yeah. Give me a time jump and we'll continue
the story. I fucking love that. And I swore and
I didn't mean to. Yeah. It's deserved. One of
three swear words in an episode. 27 is a bit
much. We're trying to do better, people. We are.
We really are. We need to get out to a broader
audience. Well, not just that, but I don't want
to swear in front of my kid all the time. And
my kid loves watching us on this show. I'm more
worried about Branch's kids. Dude. My kids aren't
allowed to watch it. But if I walk, there's some
times where I'm laying in bed and I'll be asleep
and it's 5 o 'clock in the morning and Logan
sort of trottles out and all of a sudden you
hear him, because he knows the password from
his PC now. So he's like, and then you see him
up there with the mouse, he's like, click, click,
click, and then all of a sudden, from the Dungeons
of Mourning! So I'm like, no! Turn it off. He's
like, you're dead. No. But, yeah, look, I'm going
to start going to the gym pretty heavily just
so that I can do a backflip when this news comes
out. Because, man, I'm going to cry so hard,
man. I think their podcast is doing all right.
We used to be Spaceman. And we are kind of in
that period where they are doing a lot of reboots
of television shows. We've got Scrubs. We've
got Malcolm in the Middle. They did it with Roseanne
until she opened her mouth. Yeah. And then did
they try to continue it without her for a bit?
Or did they just can it all together? I know
they killed her off. Oh, did they? Yeah, they
killed her off in the show. Yeah, so. Could be,
dude. Quite possibly. Imagine Rebooter with the
original cast. Would they have a Shepard book,
though? I don't think. With a time skip, it's
quite. Hang on a minute. Please hold. I mean,
with a time skip and they could pick and choose
what they want from the Serenity movie, we don't
need a book in it. So Ron Glass died. who played
Shepard Bork. He died in 2016, but he wasn't
married and didn't have any kids. I was sort
of thinking, imagine if they put his kid in.
That'd be cool. So sad, man. Okay, so moving
along from Firefly, I went and seen Jimmy Carr
last night for my anniversary. My beautiful wife
bought us tickets to Jimmy Carr live in Newcastle.
Yep. We were seated maybe from here to the back
door away from Jimmy Carr's face. I laughed profusely.
I nearly stopped breathing several times. And
there was a lady two seats up from us who I think
she cracked a smile once, but I'm pretty sure
she was squeezing out a fart. She just looked
offended at everything he said. And I'm like,
why would you pay money to go see Jimmy Carr
if you're going to get offended about everything?
I don't know why some people go to comedy. If
you're not going to laugh, man, and you're going
to be catty about it, why waste the money? Especially
if it's like your partner is the one that's dragged
you along and they're a fan. Yeah. I mean, to
sit there and be quiet is fine. But then you
get some people who get offended and will speak
up and heckle. I don't get that. How dare you
say that about that? Oh, I did. Come on. But
there was something that really shook me, right?
He was making jokes about men and blah, blah,
blah, and then he got a bit serious and he's
like, you know, men need to talk to each other.
Men need to hold space for each other. It's one
of the most disgusting statistics. is the suicide
in men. And he goes, mate, you've got to be able
to talk to people. And he goes, is there any
boys here with their best mates? And two blokes,
he goes, all right, I want you to do me something
right now. I want you to tell him that you love
him. If he's your best mate, tell him you love
him. And the whole crowd just started laughing
and going, fag, gay. And I'm like, all right.
It took probably five, seven minutes. For these
guys to even mumble that they loved each other,
I'm like, mate, I kiss me mates on the mouth.
I tell them all the time that I love them. And
it's like, why is that so, what's the word for
it? Taboo. Yeah, I don't know. To tell your mates,
I love you, bro. Mate, the amount of men that
I love is ridiculous. Dude, Monday night, we
all went out for lunch. We all went out for dinner,
you, me, Brett, Branchie, and Dave. At the end
of that night, we didn't want it to end. No.
We didn't want to go home. We were just like,
dude, let's just keep carrying on. And everyone
was like, oh, we've got work tomorrow. I'm like,
unfortunately. But, yeah, it was like there's
nothing easier than telling me best mates that
I love them. 100%. And to sit there and say,
oh, why are they? It really did. It threw me
for six seeing someone struggle so much to say
something so easy and mean it too. So it was,
yeah, it was like, you know what? Men need to
do better. Absolutely. We need to do better,
dude. Whether it's picking, whether it's your
mate and he's been, you know, being a dick to
his missus or he's been a dick to his kids, pull
them up. If someone's not telling. being honest
or anything like that, yeah, pull them up on
it. Tell your mates that you love them. Tell
your kids you love them. Dude, there's nothing
wrong with it. No. Shut up. No, absolutely. I
agree. You've got to share the love, the positivity
without being a fucking hippie about it. Sorry
about that. There's nothing wrong with being
open and friendly with each other. Yeah. And
then you get to rip shirts off them. And you're
allowed to call them gay if you want to. Oh,
absolutely. After you tell them that you love
them. Yep. And they say it back. Yeah. There's
nothing wrong with it. At all. So last week I
was building sheds with two of my mates and a
couple of other people, but just the banter that
happens the entire time is some of my favourite
stuff in the world. Yeah. I think. What day was
it? I saw Mardi Gras was on. I think I said to
Huck from across the shed, oh, Huck, I'm surprised
you actually hear that. He's like, oh, why? I
said, because Mardi Gras is on. That was a classic
van. Dude, he's definitely not getting up on
the roof. Yeah. But, you know, you can razz your
mates and you can tell them you love them. I
think that's the dichotomy of it. The more you
tell them you love them, the more you can razz
them. Yep. And it's funny you say that, you know.
Like that's something that I miss the most about
having a big – like we used to have like 16 artists
at one time here. And over time it's sort of
dwindled down and dwindled down. We're in a really
good spot now where everybody's – it's usually
a nice bit of a – a quiet work environment. Everybody's
sort of feeling a bit more comfortable now that
there's less personalities to contend with. But,
dude, there's something that I really miss is
the banner. This shop, dude, when it was full
of people, the banter in it was sensational.
And I miss that a lot. But, yeah, I don't know.
I just, yeah, I don't know why people struggle
to tell others that they love them. It weirded
me out. I thought it was more gay that they made
it, they dragged it out. Yeah. I think he's just
won attention. What else have we got to talk
about? I can leave it at that. Oh, now I've got,
oh, I do. Yeah, I've got questions. Hit me with
a couple. Yeah, okay. So these are just classic
F. Mary kills, right? Right. Black Widow. Right.
Wonder Woman. Mm -hmm. Captain Marvel. Mm -hmm.
Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. We're talking comics or we're
talking everything or live action? No, we're
going to go live action because there's movies
in here. So we're talking Gal Gadot? Gal Gadot.
So kill her straight up. Yeah, no offense. Yeah,
yeah. Kal -El, no. I think we're marrying Black
Widow. Yeah? Yeah, I'll rate that. I'll rate
that answer. Okay. Villain edition. Right. Harleen
Quinzel. Mm -hmm. Mystique or Catwoman. Live
action? Mm -hmm. Which versions? Ooh. Which versions?
Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Let's go Stamos
for Mystique. Mm -hmm. Michelle Pfeiffer. Mm
-hmm. We're going to go the old Michelle Pfeiffer
and there's only been one Harleen Quinzel. Mm
-hmm. Yeah. Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. Mary
Harley. Really? She a crazy bitch. Oh, we're
talking about the actual, oh. Yeah, we're not
talking about it. No. Villains, homie. Yeah,
okay, okay. Okay, then F. Yeah, definitely. Definitely.
No. Yes. Yeah. Kill Michelle Pfeiffer. And then
marry Mystique. Mystique. Be Harley Quinn tonight.
Shit. Okay. Okay, I've got another one. Action
heroes. Okay. John Wick, James Bond, Ethan Hunt.
Not the movies, just the actor. Not the actor,
the character. The character. Yep. And then I've
got one more. Who was it? Ethan Hunt. Ethan Hunt,
John Wick, James Bond. John Wick. Marry Bond
because there's such variety how that word would
not come out. Yep, and he's got all the cars
too. Marry him. Yeah, I'd kill Ethan Hunt too.
I ain't running nowhere. I'm not a runner. Okay,
sci -fi icon. Right. Princess Leia. Ellen Ripley.
Sarah Connor. Kill Sarah Connor. Definitely.
Mary Ripley. And then layer in that outfit. That's
it. That's all she needs to be wearing. Bonus
round. I've got one more. This is just chaos.
Are you ready? Deadpool, the Joker, Loki. Couldn't
do anything with Joker. Kill him. Yeah. Definitely.
It wouldn't even be an exciting route, I don't
think. I think you'd have to marry Loki. Definitely.
He's a god. I'm not marrying dead, but I'm not
looking at that face every day. You can wear
the mask for the 10 seconds I'm going to do my
business with, but I'm not marrying that. But,
yeah, that's my F, marry, kill. Thank you. Mine
was a little bit less exciting than yours. Yeah.
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