Hi everyone, it's your boy Zach. So the amount of birds in the background are only going to increase. Put up a bird feeder and that's changed the whole... The funniest thing is if I forget to feed it, the birds will actually hang outside the door like peeping, like they know a giant comes out here and give some food every day.
And if I forget one day, they'll let me know. It's hilarious. But anyway, so getting old ain't for the weak.
Like it's difficult. And it's difficult in ways you don't imagine. Like the amount of pills you want to, you know, if you want to be healthy and vital, it's not just take these pills.
It's like this one has to be on a full stomach. This one has to be on an empty stomach. This one has to have a... You have to eat it with this type of food because it carries it better.
This one, avoid this. Like it's a lot. It's like it's kind of an all-day event every couple hours.
So Supergirl is coming out, what, next month? Pretty excited about that. Really excited about He-Man. He-Man and Street Fighter.
But Supergirl is one of those things where just the more I see about it, and I was even talking to a friend, he's like, I think this is actually going to be the good one of the summer. He's like, I'm getting a good feeling about it as well. Other 50-year-old men or men around my age, not so good.
They actively want it to fail in a way that is worthy of study because, you know, everyone of every age is going to go see this. But this is a movie made for eight-year-old girls, you know. And it's going to be general audiences as well, but like it's really weird.
And all these guys always get all angry when I point this out. It's like, we're fighting for the culture. No, you're not.
There's some other thing happening, you know. It's like we used to have this phrase, crazy cat lady, and then we found out that there's an actual bacteria in cat food that can like migrate to the brain if you don't properly clean up. And it makes you act like a crazy cat lady.
I think, not bacterial or viral, but I think a similar thing is happening to men because it's happening to too many of them. It's happening in a repeatable, clinical, identifiable way where they just, they want things to fail. There are entire channels just about, they'll say like, we cover pop culture and tech.
It's like, and then they'll cover like a runs of franchise going out of business. And it's literally just anything bad happening to anyone that isn't me. But then there's subcategories, which is the 50-year-old man really wanting like Strawberry Shortcake, the movie, the musical to fail.
And it's not happening like here and there, once or twice. No, it's like, it's an industry now. My favorite thing is when they will hyperlink to themselves as if they're an authority, but their authority is just, the latest one is there's some website that does tracking and it's like awareness and appeal.
So it's numbers. It's more sports ball bullshit. So the latest one, it's like a month ago, the numbers were 48, 46, but now they're 49, 45.
And the one that's 45 is the more important one. What is this? This has never existed before, ever. This didn't exist five years ago, 10 years ago.
Certainly not 30 years ago. I mean, we were aware that like, you know, Batman did really well and Baron Munchausen did really poorly, but nobody knew like, oh, the budget. And then the thing is they have these conversations.
And the funny thing is that it's actually become like, like a sermon, almost like a fire and brimstone thing. Like you're talking about the latest Star Wars movie, but you're really talking about every petty grievance you've accumulated over an entire lifetime. It's like, and then Kathleen Kennedy appeared and lo did I behold.
How much of your brain is grievances and very exact knowledge of like, who was the CEO of Disney studios in 2005? Like, holy shit. So, um, I saw a TikTok and I was very, very excited about it. And then I found out it was from a, like a Ted talk from like five years ago.
I was like, oh, that's not as topical, but it is because there's Ethan Hawke and he was talking about, um, he went to go see Top Gun with his brother and they loved it. And he's like, he's like, we exited the theater and we both knew this wasn't just a movie like this woke something awoken, awakened, something woke up, something was created. There was a drive.
It wasn't just, we had fun. It was like a big deal to them. And he said, and I think, I think this is a little apocryphal, but I think this is how he remembers it.
Um, he said, you know, my brother saw it and said, I want to do that. And I saw it. And I said, I want to do that, but we wanted to do different things.
So Ethan Hawke, obviously he said, I want to make stuff that makes people feel the way I felt watching this movie. He wanted to be an actor. He wanted to be creative.
His brother said, I want to be in the military. And so I guess his brother did like 25 years. Uh, I think he did some time with special forces and I always check on this cause anyone can say it, but I Googled it and he has like this awesome last name of powers.
Um, but yeah, his brother went into the army, did like 25 years retired and he has a charity that works with the gold star families and just the idea that, and I'm not a fan of Top Gun. Um, but you can, you know, so, so, you know, they talk about, and Ethan Hawke's around my age as well. Um, so, uh, you know, you can see a movie and you can be inspired to create, you can be inspired to be what that was.
Um, I can't like comprehend. It's like, Oh yeah. Guess what? The Q3 deliverables for the original Top Gun were in Kuala Lumpur.
Disappointing. Yeah. And my insider said it costs more than they said it did.
It always, they always have that one in the hip pocket. They always, so yeah. So the latest one is some tracking of like awareness of movies and interest in them.
Um, uh, because you know, ratings and box office isn't enough. We need another way to mathematically hate things. And it's really weird and it's a new phenomenon and it doesn't seem to be going away.
It's getting bolstered. You know, uh, Nerdrotic, Critical Drinker, they can get one, two million people just to watch them. Critical Drinker did a review of, of Mandalorian and Grogu, and it was a review of the plot summary.
It wasn't even a movie. Like the weirdest thing is the movie is almost immaterial. It's just thing we hate today and there's never a day where there isn't thing we hate today.
There's never, it's like, Hey, what's, what's happening? Oh, yard work. I was reviewing, you know, it was the last trading day of the month yesterday. So it's going through the whole month scene.
It was a pretty good month. Yeah. Um, it's just like, did you hear the thing? Well, there's so many things to be excited about.
First of all, three runs us in Omaha, Nebraska. They didn't go out of business. That would be amazing, but they didn't meet their metrics.
Something failed on earth. And that makes me happy. We need to study that.
I'm not being, I know I'm doing kind of a jokey voice. It's a real thing. It's a phenomenon.
What happens? Why? I think it's something, one of the things that I kind of didn't know is I thought, you know, you grow up and then that's you, you're a grownup and you might get fatter or balder or whatever, but your hair goes gray. I didn't realize that like the brain can change, the structures can change, that it can be rerouted. That's what I think is happening to men, men who spend a lot of time online and get rewarded with dopamine for hating things.
And I think it is restructuring their brains because I have talked to these people before this. They weren't like this. It feels like something happened to them and not just getting older and bitter and stuff like that.
They're different people than when I first started talking to them. And it's kind of even worse when you didn't know them and you just find out this guy's like, this stupid girl is going to make $3 and it costs $5 billion. There's no hope for it to make a profit.
Are you an accountant? What is this? This is like fantasy football for AARP incels. What is this? Yes. There was an awareness of box office throughout the years.
Yes. Everybody knew that Gone With The Wind made a ton of money and Cleopatra lost a ton of money. It was kind of like common knowledge back in the day.
Nobody was, hey, you know, the appeal index for Supergirl. And the other thing is stuff will be good and they'll just not talk about it. So Mandalorian Grogu did well internationally, domestic plus international.
Domestika did okay. It's solid. So they only report on that.
So it's like, oh, they only made a hundred millions dollars. It's like they made back their production budget the first weekend. And then you can just, you just, you can just feel it.
They just got that. They just got that in their hip pocket and they pull it out and you just kind of see it all happening in slow motion. Yeah, well, my insiders said their budget was much larger than they claim.
And I just want to know what's happening in your brain when you say that, because you look stupid as fuck. You look, it's funny. I was talking to a friend.
I was like, when I was a kid, I was terrified of kids who ate their boogers because I was like, this is insane. And they just do it. Like these, they're all going to grow up to be serial killers.
And I think it's actually worse. They didn't grow up to be serial killers. You know, they just worked at the pickle factory till they were in their forties.
And then they found out about culture war. They got a YouTube channel and they're like, my insight is say that the soapy skulls movie, it ain't going to make no money. It's got to lose so much money.
And that's really bad. Really? Because your eyes are twinkling. This, this is your joy in life at this age.
I, I'm, I can't even form like a thesis. I think I'm just going to just, just go wander, just wander around until somebody checks on me. Are you okay? Sir, sir, are you okay? It's like, no, it's sorry.
It's just men my age really want the super girl movie to fail. Yeah. We seen that.
It's really sad. It happened to our uncle. Okay.
Yeah. So I'm not the only one noticing it. The good news is that again, the whole history of the channel is me saying something, people flipping the fuck out.
And then one to five years later, the people who are flicking, flicking, flipping out on me are saying what I said word for word. In some cases, the funniest one is when they're saying what I was saying when it was difficult and they waited until it was easy. And then in the next sentence, they will attack me for saying the thing that's difficult to say now.
And they'll say it in five years when it's easy to say. So yeah, this is, this has gone beyond just like, Oh, those, those wacky guys on YouTube. It's like, there's something wrong.
Men were never like this, but they're like this a lot now and it it's worthy of being studied. Anyway. Uh, thanks for watching.
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And now I hear a bunch of angry black activists want to damage the brand by boycotting it because there's not enough black representation I guess?..... Well the brand is already damaged even BEFORE they get their panties in a bunch because of the terrible choices they already made, so I highly doubt they're going to make any real negative effect on it that hasn't already happened.....ESPECIALLY with crap like this.
