Hi everyone, it's your boy Zach. So uh, the lawn is looking good. It's looking freaking good, oh my god.
So the uh, the trick this year is that I didn't really mess with it much. All I did is if there was like a, you know, an ant pile, I'd kill the ant pile. And then I'd just stir the soil around and I'd just let the surrounding... Oh, oh yeah, I uh, I used to um, like cut it really low, like scalp it sometimes.
So I go for like, you know, I just let it grow and um, cut it, you know, let it grow real long and uh, it's a lot better now. So uh, anyway, so the Soupy's Girls movie is coming out next week. Um, apparently they changed, so they have these things called Embargoes, where um, uh, they let people see it, but you're not allowed to like, sometimes you can just say, I liked it, I didn't like it.
Usually there's like two phases. First one is, you can't, well, three, you can't talk about it at all, and then it's like on this day you can say whether you liked it or not, general impressions, and then on this day you can just do a full review. Um, so a lot of times they'll make that like, just like the night before if they're not very confident.
They just, just let it go like a week early, which is a sign of confidence. Um, and uh, the uh, the reviews are good, but there's like this weird, like blanket on everyone. There's like a wet blanket, and what it is, is the Unks, the Doomer Unks, and they're just gonna do their level best to just absolutely ruin this for everyone.
I've talked ad nauseam about the Doomer Unks, I hate them so much, that being said, I have a strategy. And it works really well. In fact, I came up with this, well, in a couple stages, but I used it a couple months ago, and then right after it worked, I recorded a video about it, and I was kind of vague, but I gave enough that if the guy I was talking to, he's like, hey, that's me! What? You're doing a strategy on me? And the deal is, I wouldn't say that the Doomer Unks, with some rare exceptions, are necessarily bad guys.
They're just kind of dumb and kind of mean and getting old and they're sad but they don't know how to deal with it. So they act up, they act out. But I was getting very frustrated, because some of these guys I just really despise, but some of them are my friends, and it just becomes difficult to talk to them, because it's just like these minefields.
It's like, oh, I can't say this, I can't like this, oh, I've gotta hate this. So I did this thing I call the grilled cheese maneuver, and it just happened randomly in my life. If I've mentioned it a couple times, actually many times, I actually put it into the first Ironsights book, but it just came off as just a character saying something random, when the point of the grilled cheese maneuver is all explained.
So I had a buddy who was going through his first divorce. And it was very dramatic for him, it was just, you know, a Tuesday for me. And he was going through that weird phase of a divorce where it's like, you've moved out, everything's been decided, but you're still kind of married, like, in your head.
You know when you move to some place, but you dream of like, all your dreams, you're at the last place, it takes a while for your psyche to catch up? Same thing with the bootcamp. Like the first week or two of bootcamp, I would wake up and be like, what the hell? Because all my dreams were just regular stuff from home. So he was getting all stressed out, his ex-wife was like, blowing up his phone with a million text messages, and he was showing me, they were long.
It was like the whole screen, then you would have to like, scroll, and it would just still be going. And I was like, did something happen? He goes, no, she just does this, like, every couple days, she'll just get in, she'll just do, like, I don't know what to do. So I thought for a second, and I said, ask her if she likes grilled cheese sandwiches.
He's like, and he was so desperate, like, he didn't do it as a troll. He was so desperate. He would try anything.
So he just typed, do you like grilled cheese sandwiches? She's like, of course I do. And I'm freaking starving. I gotta go, bye.
And he's like, holy shit, it worked. I was like, I kind of thought it would. Because we have this thing in the military called battle drills.
And it's just kind of like basic scenarios and how to handle them, like how to clear a trench. And one of them is how to deal with a near ambush. Now, a near ambush is different because you just turn towards the guns and just bum rush them.
The idea is you are, you know, you bubble fucked your way into a freaking L-shaped ambush. You're toast. The only way to survive is just to rush right at them, firing from the hip, essentially.
And the thing that's so exciting about it is, like, you know instinctively that it works. Because those people in the ambush, they've just been waiting for hours, maybe days. They gotta piss.
They're getting bitten by bugs. They just want this shit to be over. But also in their head, they're like, oh, we're gonna get them.
We're gonna get them. And they're so excited. They are not expecting a 19-year-old who can, like, squat 300 pounds rushing at them with a saw firing from the hip.
And they know our battle drills. But, like, you're like, oh, no, they're just gonna freak out. They're gonna die.
They're gonna run away. No, if you're that close, you just rush them. Because it just discombobulates them.
So what I do is, if I'm talking to a friend who has turned into a doomer unk, I don't think anyone becomes friends with doomer unks. You just realize your friends and probably some of your family members are just turning into doomer unks. They're bloated.
They're angry. They are obsessed about... I saw a comment yesterday. He's like, I'm not gonna see Supergirl.
I only want to see the Lobo scenes. But I liked that director when he did the Cruella movie. I'm like, holy shit.
What is this? What is what is what is with you alpha patriots and Disney princess movies? I think it's a hormonal thing. But anyway, you just you kind of distract them and you kind of just you just you guide them because their whole life is arguing. Their whole life is like, oh, the government is against me.
Oh, the corporations is against me. Oh, the women's is against me. So if you, you know, try to bump chests with them, they're ready for that.
They live for that. What you got to do is just kind of subtly guide them. If they're doing that doomer unks shit where they can never admit something is good, like, oh, what do you think about the movie? It's like, it was OK, I guess.
You go, yeah, it was pretty good, wasn't it? And then you just kind of move on and you'll notice that they'll kind of pick up on it because one of their traits is they're just they're just lonely guys. Like nobody in any situation says, you know, it would be great if like a bloated, bearded 50 year old man with a bad attitude was just here. That would be, wouldn't that just, wouldn't that make, nobody wants that.
Nobody ever wants that except for other bearded, bloated 50 year old men who hate things. So you kind of just, you know, you guide them towards like not being so negative because they will talk about things they like, but in their communities, like they're not allowed to like openly like something. That's where they're like, when someone says something's mid, it means they enjoyed it.
Like it was good. It was good because these guys never hesitate to say something's bad. So mid, meh, OK, that's their way of saying good.
So you just guide them. It's like, yeah, that was pretty good. I'll probably, you know, yeah, you know, buy that when it goes on to what's it called? Premium streaming or whatever.
And so, yeah, so you're just basically kind of guiding them away from the negativity without directly opposing them. So if you get locked into like, they just really want to talk about the Supergirl box office and it's just, they don't work at Warner Brothers. Like why we don't work.
We don't work in accounting at Warner Brothers. I don't know why we're having this conversation. You just distract them.
You know, things like food, things like sports, all these these guys talking about box office, they're always huge sports fans. So you talk about World Cup and you don't really have to say much. You can say the most vague thing.
It's like, oh, I'm really loving the World Cup. And they're like, oh, yeah, I love it too. Portugal and freaking Iraq, you know, I don't understand how they do the matchups because it feels like they just match up countries that are opposite.
Like it's never similar countries. It's always like Angola versus Sweden. It's like, how is that the matchup? It's like 90 minute games to end zero zero.
And they go, oh, that was a great game. It's like, was it? Was it though? Was it? Was it really? So they like food because they're fat. They all all of these guys are all sports balls.
They're all sports fans I've talked about. I think it's actually I think that makes the worst comic fans because they see this as a game that is won or lost. That is something that is enjoyed or enriches you.
It's just like this number is larger than the other number. That means that's more good and that's more bad. It's like, OK.
But yeah, so you distract them with food or they like electronics. Oh, I just bought this. I just got a new TV.
They go, oh, really? I just got this new TV. So distract them with food, sports, electronics. Exercise is usually that's just pops and clicks to them.
But some of them. But yeah, so you distract them or you just kind of guide them away. So you just like, oh, it wasn't the worst movie I ever saw.
Yeah, it was pretty. I enjoyed it. I'm glad you enjoyed it, too.
That type of thing. So anyway, just it's funny for I think they stopped doing this, but they always used to have these. It's like how to deal with your conservative relatives at Thanksgiving.
Like every family is like some sort of TV show family where they're like arguing politics. But it's going to be a rough week, especially if you just want to talk about Supergirl or you don't, because if you want to talk about it, most of the conversations are going to be stupid. And if you don't want to talk about it, good luck.
Good luck. This is this is it's it's essentially a Disney Princess movie for them. Like they're just going to obsessively hate it.
But you can distract them. You can divert them or you can just shock and awe them with the grilled cheese maneuver. Just say something random because everybody likes grilled cheese.
What is going to somebody say? Do you like grilled cheese? No, my father died choking on a grilled cheese sandwich. And you know that, you know, that's a hurtful memory. Nobody has a bad opinion about grilled cheese.
Nobody has a negative. Everybody likes grilled cheese. They might say something like, oh, yes, but only with tomato soup.
Those fucking weirdos. But they'll like it. So distract them with something they like.
Guide them to admitting they like things. And then they'll actually be pleasant. They're just fine.
You just got to handle them, essentially. You got to manage them. Anyway, thanks for watching.
Bye.
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