Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Rob Observations. I'm your host, Rob Leifeld. I have been writing and drawing and producing comics for 34 years. We talk comics. We talk pop culture. We talk movies. We talk television. We're going to get right into it today. And there are many topics that we're

going to cover. The one we're going to kick off with is so like it just tickles me that this

needs to be addressed. But based on all of the hubbub that was being passed around yesterday

on social media when some of this news broke, I felt like

this is great. Again, we have an issue that has facts that you can historically back every,

every factual aspect of this up with, but there are those who want to rage against the machine.

And in this case, the machine is truth. The machine is truth. And we are talking about

fourth wall breakage. Who broke the fourth wall? Who did it first? Why does it matter? Why do we

care? That's what I think. Why do we even care? But so funny enough, as you guys

have noticed, and you guys, I come at you trying to explain my passion. There's no gatekeeping

going on here. I started this podcast first and foremost because I realized through the eyes of some family members, younger family members,

nephews, that they just didn't know anything about comics history. And it's dangerous because the

world we live in now, as you all know, it's 24-7. It's discussed all the time. It's discussed

mostly in the realm of politics, but I've seen it also in sports and

entertainment. And it's this lens of, frankly, people rewriting history. There's this new agenda

to post a page and make your opinion a fact. And if you can get one sliver of some sort of

maybe fact to apply to your opinion, then maybe you can make your opinion stronger because it seems like it's more real when in fact it's just the way you want things to be, not the way things are.

And I've seen this across, I mean, so many different, just,

just spectrums. I mean, there are so many realms that this is covering. I've covered this before.

I mean, it's not just my sons. It's an entire generation of kids who are in basketball camp,

who are like, oh, yeah, man, Michael Jordan, he couldn't take

today's players. You know, this idea that Tom Brady, because he has more rings than Joe Montana

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