This is gonna be a hot take if we have any Gen X boomer fans I think there's a really big problem in the kind of like comic book community where older comic book fans Don't read comics past a certain point and then they just turn into full-blown haters, bro I've seen it happen too often in my comment section where someone will be like, yeah I haven't read Batman since you know, blah blah blah because this shit's all garbage now you dumb little kid Well, it's like hey, listen, I think if you want to be a comic book fan what you've read is valid no matter what But in that same vein, I think a lot of these older guys. I mean, they're all old guys I've never seen an old woman comment this if I'm being real, right? It's all men. It's all old men who are just like bitter and angry at the fact that like their childhood is gone And people are still enjoying this thing, but it's different now and I think you know, it's just kind of depressing It's okay to like stop, you know, this is the logical end point for you.
That's valid, but don't use that against other people Hi everyone. It's your boy Zach and I need some advice from y'all How do you light your fireworks because for the last two fourths fourths That sounds like it's not a full 4th of July last two independence days I bought those lighters It's like a it's like a lighter but it has an extended nozzle so Your fingers don't get burned And I was like, oh, I'm brilliant. I'm changing the game of the Eric's July of fireworks Instead of burning my fingers with matches or a cigarette lighter.
I'll use one of those and man am I crazy or do you get like Five flicks out of those things before they went dry last year. I had two of them and They went dry like super quick. So I was like, oh, maybe that was a bad batch.
I'll get three this time. I Literally tested them like hours before the Sun went down Nice flame easily go use them a couple of couple hours later One immediately doesn't work one runs out in like three flicks one I get like six so I'm literally on instacart at like 9 30 p.m ordering 13 Lighters and explaining to the lady. This isn't an error I actually need 13 lighters and I did I had a hundred dollars worth of fireworks.
That's not a lot. It's like two small bags But again ordered 13 used like five to light the remaining So I need something that I'm not gonna burn my fingers because I burnt a shit on my fingers last year with a little short matches With the extended lighters, whatever you call those Ran out. So is there some better thing or is this just it's just known you have to have like a whole bag of lighters Anyway, that was two minutes.
So I've been going in on The birthday party clowns all these geeks and gamers types And calling them group grumpy old men who can't move on with life To to the general response from them has been Zach went crazy Which is something that happens in Flintstones cartoons and not in the real life. Like what is crazy and what is going crazy? Or Zach's jealous which is Anytime you hear a man of any age Use the word jealous like sincerely testosterone check Immediately that is girl brain you never hear like Who was who was the the British general who defeated corn? Was it Cornwallis? No Cornwallis was Revolutionary war it's on the tip of my tongue, but you never hear like he went to go defeat Napoleon and the French was like he's just jealous He's just like men don't consider the word jealous. That's a female concept if men are constantly Bandying the word jealous back and forth that is low testosterone high estrogen But so I'm just watching tik-tok and I see this podcast and as I mentioned there are a billion podcasts of guys mostly in their 20s and women on tik-tok and Usually they have YouTube but they're more popular on tik-tok and they're just talking about the things that I have been talking about Which is There there's this group of bitter old men who won't leave Who are just? Making everyone miserable, but they're not even reading this shit that they're complaining about in fact.
They will brag about I haven't read Comics in five years. I haven't watched Star Wars in Ten years I haven't seen Star Trek in 20 years and in their peer group that's considered to be impressive Meanwhile, they want to be considered as the customer which is crazy How do you not buy something for five ten twenty years and there be like screeching at the time the customer? We're supposed to cater to you. I've mentioned this before but you have to realize when you're 50 Everybody's disgusted by you You have to understand that when you're a certain age Nobody's happy to see you anywhere.
Have you noticed that no company focuses on you anymore? It's not just comics and entertainment Nobody wants that demographic Nobody wants the bloated bearded or goateed 50-60 seven-year-old men and the idea that you are the audience for Snow White and Supergirl and Moana is laughable and You've protected yourself from these criticisms for the last couple years. Oh, that's jealous Yeah, I definitely wanted to be bearded bloated 50 and sitting in a 10-hour live stream talking about Moana 3 But the thing is as you saw from the clip they absolutely nailed it. It's old miserable men Jumping into every single conversation Unking it up.
You think you know good comics. You don't know Good comics, you didn't read random venom miniseries from the mid 90s But here's the thing about these new fans They are fucking awesome. I Couldn't even dream of better fans because here's the deal They don't see any Distinctions, they don't see any differences to them Comics and manga and anime and Superhero movies and sci-fi TV shows and Warhammer and What is that thing? That's like Warhammer Gunpla, it's like making models It's all just one thing They don't pit any part of it Against any other part of it.
You know the whole anime versus American comics that doesn't exist in their mind It's not like they don't talk about it a lot. They don't talk about it ever that is something that is almost exclusively a competition in the minds and I'm guessing and that gets caught in the Leonidas beards like crumbs and things like that of old men who don't read either one They don't read manga or like once again manga has beaten comics. It's it's not it's not sports Also, aren't you guys all going through organ failure I'm always laughing imagining these guys like in a hospice on their deathbed and they're talking to the Hospice nurse just like you know, I'm kind of famous, right? I was knee slab I fought against the wokies in the culture war of the 2020s they're like sir.
It's still the 2020s. It's 2029 and you are dying of Multiple organ failure Caused by systemic inflammation, it's like can you call the local veterans? Cemetery and ask if I can be buried there as a war a culture war veteran. They're like no, sir.
Also you suck But uh, yeah, so if you think nobody's noticing they're noticing The next generation is noticing they should be looking to you Respectfully you should be earning their respect. They should look to you as a resource. They should be like, hey, I don't really get like Eddie Brock was just like jealous of Peter Parker.
That's kind of like a weird Motivation shouldn't it be something more? It's like well, you know later on They kind of said it was a symbiote and it was a it was a it was like a spurned lover thing of the symbiote You know itself not he was jealous of him for his photo journalism skills But that's that's the classic thing you go to it's like was that was the Peter MJ marriage really a big deal It's like it was a huge deal, but it was also Not because it was just kind of the status quo. This would be like Every you know, David Michelini spider-man, he would be an adventure. He would come home and then They would say oh this happened this happened in the then they would go into their bedroom to fuck So that was it.
She was she was in a negligee or she would come home He was always in his chonies his freaking tighty-whities like all the time. You can make a coffee table book just of 1980s Marvel superheroes in their chonies But uh, anyway, yes, so, um if you think it's just a Zach woke jealous meltdown thing No, the next generation who should be respecting you who should be using you as a resource who should be looking up to you They don't they also see you as grumpy old men They also see you as sad empathetic even worse With nothing to contribute. What is a man if he cannot contribute? He's nothing.
Oh, what is that guy? Nothing? He just kind of brings the room down. Oh, he's got some catchphrases There he goes. Star Wars is poop.
Oh, look his peers are laughing. Why did they all have beards? Beard used to be a symbol. It's like you worked on a ranch.
You worked on an oil rig. You were a frickin rodeo Rustler and now it's like, um, I have a podcast and I complain about Disney Princess movies and you're jealous Just for men should you know, this is this is a what is it called anti-competitive? It's like these men have made beards uncool and we are we this is an anti-competitive practice But anyway, yeah, if you think nobody's noticing they're noticing and so just for for instance when I got into collecting comics Seriously on a weekly basis back in the late 80s. There were older men and they were 36 and they were fine, those are the guys who would run the comic book stores and Occasionally like maybe they would like to make a face if you slid like X-Force one I Usually not usually they would kind of make a joke.
It's like well, I guess I'm gonna pay off my car You know, it's like I'm gonna I'm selling this crap, but you know, I'm gonna benefit from it for whatever But um, they were just unks, but they were cool Like they would just talk about like Ross Andrew and then the guys in their 50s First of all, the guys in their 50s were considered ancient. That was like the Buscema's, you know And they would do these interviews and they didn't even care about comics like they grew up Reading Terry and the Pirates. They were all into adventure comic strips From like the 30s, but you would never see I mean John Buscema famously like didn't like superheroes He but he would just say like I didn't grow up with them.
They're not really my thing I like Conan and I just found a Marvel original graphic novel John Buscema Wrote or you know came up with the idea for the story. I think I think it was co-written But those guys in their 50s again when I was a kid Somebody's in their 50s was a clip equivalent to someone in their 70s. Now.
They were just ancient and They looked old one of the weirdest things about right now is Except for the systemic inflammation and bloating and stupid beards. They don't necessarily look old They just kind of look like bald bearded babies There's not, you know, they don't have the old man voice they don't you know have a bunch of wrinkles They don't have a bunch of sun damage because they've spent their entire life in air conditioning inside but they're old like in their hearts and in their souls and their spirits and it's just like You can't punt this to Zack jealous woke went crazy Wouldn't one of them be enough you always know it's a false charge when it's just like a bunch thrown at once It's like I don't know if the crazy thing will stick so we'll say woke and jealous too. It's like what the fuck But uh You have an opportunity To not be the saddest men who have ever lived you can be a resource you can be respected You can pass on knowledge and appreciation It's funny watching them change their opinions on the absolute line as it makes them look like a fool Do you remember when they're there their cope? I think this was last year It's like sure.
It's popular popular now, but it won't be popular in 20 years You won't be around to know if that was true. You guys are not making it that bloated that inflamed at 45 50 you ain't making it Jack. Okay, you got about 10 years of walking left I Mean walking unaided.
Oh apparently Brits call walkers zimmer frames. It's talking to a friend. She mentioned a zimmer frame like what the hell you're talking about I google it's like that's a walker.
She goes. Yeah, we're kind of extra here. It's like it's a bit much walk a zimmer frame It's a walker But anyway Yeah, you guys suck the next generation.
She's 20 20s compared to 50s and 60s. That's like One and a half two generations. They're noticing and you should be Not happy with that The idea that you're going to slip into late Life and death and you're just gonna be the sad old unk crying about Moana 6 and Toy Story 10 Whenever I like Going through tick-tock.
I see some unk in his 50s. He's like I watch the latest minis movie and I didn't like it You're not supposed to like it. You're in the 50s.
You're supposed to watch like Cowboy movies Detective, you know Philip Marlowe stuff like that the big sleep She's a whole tangent so I watched well What is it the long something good is it just called the long good night The one with Elliot Gould Philip Marlowe from the early 70s One of my favorite movies. Sorry, it's hot out. There's bugs The long is it just called the long good night.
I feel like there might be another word, but it might just be the long good night So it's like Oh Philip Marlowe so I tried a movie called Marlowe from like 1969 James Garner That's what guys in their 50s are supposed to watch like James Garner movies like that style. I didn't like that one I went to go watch the one with Liam Neeson. It had ridiculous like CGI backgrounds I tried to watch the one with Humphrey Bogart and it was better.
But one thing drives me nuts about old movies. So and it happened in the big sleep from like 1946 and Marlowe from 1969 so Marlowe both of them will like go up to a house But it's a set. It's the set of the outside of the house and the yard in the driveway so they'll have a real car go on a driveway in a set and Usually it's kind of like they'll make things curved to make them look longer So it'll be like this curved Driveway, so it'll just be like 20 30 seconds of Marlowe driving the car parking Walking into the house and then you never see that set again They built an entire set that was probably a hundred feet by a hundred feet a hundred Trees the exterior of a house.
So when I saw this massive set I was like, oh, they're probably gonna have a big shootout here There's gonna be a big action scene. That's no they built this giant set just for him to get out of a car Walk through a curved driveway and then go inside to another set Thing I feel like it would have been just easier just to find a house and just light it and It was a 20-second scene like you get the permit. Yeah, you block off the street.
Is it? They just maybe this really liked air-conditioning. I don't know But anyway, I think I've run out of things to say old men suck, but they don't need to Culture war veterans aren't actual veterans. So you don't qualify to be buried in a VA cemetery In case you were wondering Nobody respects you.
Nobody looks at you with anything but laughing and even your supporters are just You're just clowns who do what they say Can you say this? I want to hear the third Tuesday box office of super girl You know, I bet it's bad But no normal person cares about that only the saddest most pathetic men who have ever existed care about the third Tuesday box office of Supergirl, it's hot. I'm just gonna wrap this up. Anyway, thanks for watching.
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I know these people are desperate for a W, but my GOD.... At least be realistic with your expectations.
