Objective Jerk
I use my MIC and my platform as a form of "therapy" or "medicine" for myself.
Objective Jerk
DOES BALDING AT A YOUNG AGE MAKE YOU A MURDERER?: Is Netflix worth keeping?
Ever wondered how a small change in your workspace can revolutionize your productivity? Or how you can find peace amidst chaos through a structured prayer routine? This episode takes you through my recent journey of transforming my workplace with a new standing setup and navigating the turbulent weather affecting my daily life. From the typhoon causing havoc in my area to the severe storms in Florida, I discuss how these natural events have touched our lives. Additionally, I'll share my evolving approach to prayer, focusing on morning, afternoon, and evening routines, and my dedication to the Chaplet of Divine Mercy for America's well-being. Plus, we'll touch on recent news about Netflix losing subscribers due to political endorsements and my own stance on corporate political involvement.
Considering whether to stick with Netflix or switch to another streaming service? My mixed feelings about various platforms like Apple TV, Disney Plus, and Amazon Prime might resonate with you. I recount the shock and disappointment with Netflix's "Cuties" and the challenge of finding worthwhile content. If you're a fan of physical media, you'll appreciate my struggles with obtaining Blu-ray movies in the Philippines. On a lighter note, I'll share a humorous story about my hair issues, and how a recent show made me reflect on the impact of seemingly minor events. Tune in as I navigate these personal stories and cultural reflections, offering a blend of humor, insight, and heartfelt moments.
What's going on, everybody, how you doing? I almost did my little thing, but, yeah, I haven't really gotten any feedback on my changing of the podcast, so I'm just going to keep it as it is, I guess. Anyway, um, yeah, I moved some stuff around a little bit. I got this, um, put my computer on this table. That um it, um, it's like standing. You know, it's a little like a bar stools whatever. I made it like a year ago for in my garage, like when hanging out and stuff like that, but don't really hang out in the garage, like I was kind of thinking so, uh, so I brought it in here, put my computer on to give me a little bit more room, cause it's it's you room, because it's not a long table, it's narrower but it's taller and it's got a little shelf so I can put my printer on. So it actually works out pretty good. But, yeah, so I did that. So now I'm standing, which actually I did when I tried my first.
Speaker 1:It wasn't a podcast, it was like a YouTube channel or something. The first time I ever played around with it. I stood up and did it, but I held the microphone in my hand just because I kind of was. I was wanting to be different, I guess I don't know, but but then I quit doing the podcast. I was like I don't know, I don't, I can't like I was just talking about news and stuff and I talk about news, obviously. But I just can't like I was just talking about news and stuff and I talk about news, obviously, but I just don't like being pigeonholed, I guess I just I just like to talk about whatever I feel like talking about. You know, that's that's basically how it goes.
Speaker 1:So, um, but yeah, right now got uh typhoon I forget what it's called us, but it actually went up north. So it's not, we're just getting, you know, some wind and some heavy rain. Some areas flood, pretty good, nothing like Florida man. Florida got hit pretty hard, but you know, it happens here every year. You get a little bit of. You know, we got a generator and got some gas.
Speaker 1:Actually, the electricity stayed on pretty good. This time it did go out, for, let's see, it went out um, the day before or something like that, but it's only for an hour. Usually the power might go out for whatever reason, like something will circuit or uh, you know, I don't know, I'm not an electrician, I don't, and I don't know how it is here, but the power may go out on a you know, unexpectedly, uninspectedly, but it's usually like about an hour. So I give it like an hour. If it doesn't come back on, then I'll turn on the generator. Um, but then yesterday it went out for a while because the water levels were going up so much they didn't want it to hit some sort of power junction, thingamajig, and so they turned the power off to wait for the water to recede. So it was out for a few hours, but we had the generator, so it was all good.
Speaker 1:But yeah, it's funny, it's like you know, for once a year I have like lakeside property just all around my property because like the farm fills, just totally fill up with water. So you know, but it went down though because it's I mean, it's raining a lot but it's not as heavy as it was, like it was just god turning on a you know one of those massive shower heads, just like it just comes down. So like, not last night, but the night before, I got like no sleep because it's like I'd fall asleep. Then all of a sudden the rain would just come crashing down and wake you up and then you might fall back asleep and then it'll stop and then all of a sudden it does it again. It just keeps doing that throughout the whole night. It's annoying, but compared to what some people are going through in florida, I think it's not that annoying. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:So prayers to florida and as add them into my, my daily prayers. So I've been doing pretty good with my prayers, man. So I got. So I got a little. I've been doing rosary and then I have I do morning prayer, which I used to kind of like I'd get my coffee and do some things and then I'd do my morning prayer. But now what I do is like, immediately the first thing I do when I wake up is I go and just do my morning prayer and then, usually like around lunchtime, I'll do the rosary and then I'll do an evening prayer before I, you know, lay down to chill before I go to bed or whatever.
Speaker 1:And then I'm trying to get in the habit of doing the chaplet, the uh. Hold on, oh, I just wrote it on here, but it's something. It's the chaplet, so you're using the rosary, but it's, it's uh, uh, I forget actually what I was just told, I'm just doing it for America to help America get out of the craziness that it's in. But, um, but yeah, that's kind of all that's been going on with me. Hope everybody's well. Uh, it's been a little bit since I did a podcast and I basically just wanted to. Kind of I saw that Netflix lost like 300 million subscribers or something and I was like what happened, you know and so, but because the owner endorsed Trump or not Trump, but endorsed Kamala and gave a bunch of money and it's like why can't they just stay out of it, man? I mean, yeah, okay, if they had endorsed Trump, I would have been like oh, what really? Like I would have been thinking it's cool, because it's kind of like a surprise, because, you know, we all know that wouldn't have happened, but it just just dude, if you want to donate money, then just do it, but quit all this endorsing and whatever.
Speaker 1:It's really dividing people, you know, and it's just, the liberals are such idiots. They think they're the majority, but they're not. You guys are not the majority, you're not, neither is, you know, conservative. We're not the majority either. It's like the center kind of people that kind of go back and forth or whatever, that just want a normal life, you know. But they think that you know, just like, oh, hey, we're gonna endorse, we're gonna endorse kamala, and then it's gonna be awesome. And or we're gonna make stupid shows that cater to a certain percentage of people, and then they fail and they get all pissed off and it's like, oh, you got, you guys, your misogyny. It's like, okay, yeah, but it's not made for us, you're not getting any views. What does that tell you? It's like I guess it's a good thing that liberals are so stupid. They don't, they don't get it, they don't see it. And maybe some of the politicians are the same way like they think, they think like everybody thinks like them, but they don't, and not most people think like me either. You know, we're like minorities on the spectrum. I mean, I used to be more centered, I guess, but I don't know. I think I still am. But just like I said, right now I can't stand. Can't stand the libs, but I'm trying to stay out of the politics, you know. Extend the libs, but I'm trying to stay out of the politics, you know. And so I.
Speaker 1:When Netflix, they did that show cuties, I guess it's called about like little girl pageants or something. They don't watch it, but I remember seeing it I was just like what the crap is this, you know? And I was like man and I wanted to cancel it then but my wife wouldn't let me. I barely even watched Netflix. You know, like the last thing I watched was Brooklyn. Wait, what was the last thing I watched, I don't know. Oh no, I started watching the Menendez story with the Menendez brothers, which we'll talk about later, I guess. But yeah, so I started watching that and then before that, I watched like one thing once a week, maybe on Netflix.
Speaker 1:I don't watch it at all. Like if I didn't have Netflix I wouldn't really care and I wanted to get rid of it on back when the whole cuties thing happened. But my wife, you know, that's the only thing we have here, that's the only thing. Only kind of television type entertainment that we have is Netflix. We don't have anything else. We don't have local cable, satellite, whatever. We tried it for a little bit, but it just we didn't really watch it. I mean, we don't really watch Netflix either, but my wife does, and then my kids do like some anime stuff and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. It seems like all my kids are watching that right now and then every once in a while I'll watch, typically like a documentary kind of thing, but even then it's like it's not just any documentary.
Speaker 1:You know, I got to look and see. I got to look and research who's behind the documentary and see what kind of stuff they put out before, and all this kind of stuff to see if I'm even going to try and take in the propaganda. You know what I mean. But the Chosen I watched the Chosen Chosen, the Chosen, which I didn't realize it was just the first season, so. But I'm watching it on something else, on a like a free Chosen app. I guess I hope it's free. I wonder if it's just free for the first, whatever. Anyway, so don't have.
Speaker 1:Um, I had Apple for a little bit, but like I'd watch a couple of things and then it's just, I don't know, I've, I've, I've gotten Apple, and then I've gotten rid of it, and then I've gotten it, and then I've gotten rid of it, then I've gotten it, then I've gotten rid of it, because sometimes something will come on and I'll want to watch and then I don't ever watch it, so I get rid of it. What else is there? Well, disney Plus, obviously, but I don't care if there's something on Disney Plus that I'm like, oh, I want to watch, I'm not going to get Disney Plus. And then what else is there? Oh, amazon, I had amazon for a while because we had amazon prime, which I might get again because it does. I am kind of starting to realize it's harder to get some stuff, especially like like blu-rays. So I'm all about having physical media for my movies and it kind of seems like I don't know if it's, I don't know I got.
Speaker 1:I'm thinking about doing Prime Prime again just to kind of test the waters. But, um, I didn't really watch like Prime video, that much. Like not everything that's available in the States on Prime video is available here, you know. And and then the shipping with Prime is it's still kind of the same thing, like I don't have. I live in the philippines so I don't have free shipping like next day, kind of like you do in the states. So it takes a little bit to get here, but it does get here. Um, but like I was, like, is it even worth it? My pain for the, the prime, you know, whatever.
Speaker 1:But I think now I was thinking, or I was thinking about the other day I was looking for some movies and I'm like gosh, why does it seem like it's hard to? I mean, I know physical media is not as popular as it was, but I was like man, I don't know. So I think I might do the Prime membership again and see if maybe some of these movies because I'm having a hard time finding certain blu-ray movies that I want, like older ones or whatever, and it just, and then, you know, a lot of times it's like oh, it won't ship to your area. So I'm like dang it, you know, because I gotta I try and find one that are eligible for free shipping. So, like I have to have like $50 worth of items that are eligible for the free shipping and then I'll get those items, you know, free. So and I, you know, but I think my options are a little bit less I'm kind of starting to notice. So might have to go back and do prime, but I don't really watch, you know, I don't know, but I mean I'm kind of like that anyway.
Speaker 1:Like, but I don't really watch, you know, I don't know, but I mean I'm kind of like that anyway. Like I just don't really, I'm just falling completely out of love of of, uh, hollywood and and movies and all that kind of stuff. You know I'll watch the old, the old stuff, but that's about it. My point is they just need to. They're just kind of stupid that they sit there and they think that most of their viewers, I mean, maybe they look at like what, what movies were watched, or whatever, and they're thinking, oh look, we've had this many downloads or whatever, I don't know. But see, you get a lot of people that don't like either politician and maybe we'll vote, maybe not, I don't know. But they will kind of like how I was, you know, I used to watch anything and everything.
Speaker 1:I didn't really, I didn't care. If it looked good, I would watch it. Um, and you know I didn't really get too involved in politics and stuff. But but now, and it's not, it's not the politics, it's just it's all the, it's all the like lies and stuff that go on, you know, that are really blatant, that just kind of annoy me and I just don't want to. Plus, just how sick like Hollywood is. I mean, you know, you've always kind of heard like, oh, hollywood's, you know it's an evil place, you don't want to, whatever, you know it's an evil place. You don't want to whatever. You know it's always kind of been whatever. But the last 10 years or something, you really kind of see a lot more and more stuff and you're just like man and I just don't want to support that crap really.
Speaker 1:So I'm in, you know, not that I don't watch movies ever. You know I watch. I have a bunch of physical copies that I will watch every once in a while and generally the only thing I watch on Netflix is older movies or like a documentary or something you know. Um, okay, I swear I bring that up like every time. Okay, I'm done talking about, but anyway, um, I did take a couple notes so I talked about, okay. So, yeah, the.
Speaker 1:So I watched the first two episodes, I think, of the, the Menendez brothers and, um, I don't, I don't know a ton of the. You know the backstory, just like OJ and Dahmer. You know all this stuff was going on when I was younger, so I really didn't follow what was in the news and the headlines, that much. I just remember it going on and seeing it all the time and you know people talking about. But then as soon as you would see the Menendez brothers or whatever, I would just come in, okay, whatever. And you know, do my own thing, own thing, because I was like, you know, I was a teenager, kid or whatever, didn't care so.
Speaker 1:But these shows, these documentaries that they're doing, it's I like it because it comes from a time in my life, even though I don't, you know, I didn't follow it, you know, but it's like, oh, I remember this, okay, and you know. So I enjoyed the Dahmer show um the OJ, and then this one, I, I can't help but feel like they're really trying to justify the two brothers killing their parents. I mean, maybe their parents were douchebags, like they seem to be portraying, I don't know, maybe it's just like their perspective, and then we'll see another perspective. I don't know, like I haven't watched the whole thing so I can't really critique too much, but it does kind of seem like. I mean, they're obviously off kilter, the brothers, but it kind of seems like they're, you know, trying to Get some sympathy from the viewers for them or something. I don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 1:But, um, what's crazy is um, and I knew this too. I knew that I, I I don't know who's who, which one's which, but the older brother I knew he was like balding. I remember hearing about that Um, not at the time, this was years later that he wore a toupee and stuff and um, but I kind of forgot about it. And then so I'm watching it and then, you know, he gets his toupee ripped off and it's like, oh shit, that's right, you know. And it's like man, how old was he? That's kind of crazy. But I guess you know his hair wasn't like that. He probably had it shaved clean for the toupee. He probably had some hair, it was just thin. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:But I was sitting there thinking like like Well, first of all, you know, I obviously, if you haven't noticed, I don't have much hair on my head and I started kind of noticing my hair thinning. I would say I was probably 19, 20, which is probably pretty average, and I still had a lot of hair. But when you're looking at it and you're like oh my gosh, oh my God, you know what I mean it is kind of traumatizing. And so my hair was like kind of of. I noticed it like up here in the front. I remember there was like some pictures I would see and the sunlight's directed on it and you could be like, oh my gosh, and it's totally you know. Now, when I look back at some of those pictures, I'm like, dude, I had so much hair. What was I freaking out about? But but I was you know, and so I started shaving my head like I shaved my head. I would say I was you know. And so I started shaving my head Like I shaved my head.
Speaker 1:I would say I was 20, 21 maybe, I don't know. I shaved my head just to kind of like I'm going to get here eventually, so let me see what it's like. And I shaved my head and, as you can tell, I got like I'm like a xenomorph. I got a crazy shaped head Front. This way is fine, fine, but profile is bad, excuse me.
Speaker 1:Um, but so I, you know, I shaved my head for a little bit and then then I stopped and then I shaved it again for a little while, like in the summer, because it is actually kind of nice not having to deal with my hair. You know what I don't. I don't think I've ever been like, oh man, I wish I, I don't know. Yeah, I don't really miss it, it's it's. It's just what's annoying actually is now, at this point, I just kind of wish all my hair would not grow, so I didn't have to shave it, because that's more annoying than shaving it, um, but but yeah, I just I always kind of like in the summer I would end up shaving my head in the summertime and then, once I joined the army, you have to shave your head, and then I just kept it shaved and then every once in a while I would kind of grow it a little bit.
Speaker 1:But I remember I just I felt like some self-conscious, like, oh my gosh, it's so thin, you know, and then, and all this, whatever, and but then it's like. I'll see pictures of like when I first met my wife where we first got married, and you can see like, you know, I was like I still got so much hair, you know, but it was just like. I guess it's kind of like you know somebody, who, somebody who's anorexic, and they look at themselves and they look great, you know, but they, they look at themselves and they just see fatness and like, oh my God, I got to starve myself. I guess it's the same kind of thing, like, because it just to me it looked like oh my gosh, I look old, my hair is thinning, I'm just gonna shave it, and so I did, you know. But then when I look back at those pictures I'm just like, dude, I had so much hair. Why did I? I should have let it grow while I could, you know.
Speaker 1:But whatever, now my oldest son, his hair is kind of thinned a little as he's gotten a little older. I don't know if you know, but he's got a good shaved head, because we had to shave his head once when he was a kid, not because of lice, I don't think. I think he had some kind of skin something and we had to get some cream or something like he had bad dandruff or something. I can't remember now, but I just remember we had to shave and he had like this weird thing about getting his hair cut and he would not let us do it. So I had a basic he doesn't remember it, thank God, but maybe that's why, because it's suppressed but we had to wrap him in a towel. He was probably like three or something around that age, three or four, no, I think it was three, I don't know, but anyway. So we had to wrap him in a towel, like a straight jacket, and I had to shave his head because he wouldn't let us do it and he's like screaming and and I felt so bad. It was funny, but it was like gosh man, I feel bad for him and but he doesn't even remember it. He was like he thinks it's funny now but I don't know. But he I remember thinking like man, he's got of it right. Oh.
Speaker 1:But the whole point of me talking about this whole thing was so I'm watching the show and I guess when in the show it shows that it's his mom, they're having a fight and his mom rips off his toupee, and that's when his brother learns that he even has a toupee, like his brother didn't even know, which seems kind of crazy. They're so close and they I don't know. But and then I guess it was like a week after, that is when they shot their parents. And I was thinking like man, just think if that dude wasn't losing his hair or he wasn't so self-conscious and just shaved his head and accepted it, I wonder if his parents would still be alive. You know what I mean, because that seemed to be kind of like the catalyst.
Speaker 1:I mean, from what the show is portraying and from what I can see so far, I mean it was more than just that, but that was kind of like the straw that broke the camel's back. Where did that even come from? I guess they used to haul straw, put too much, oh, camel's back broke, and then, oh great, now we're screwed, can't haul no more straw. It's kind of one of those things you know, but anyway. But yeah, it's just kind of weird to think about. You know, something as simple as that If the guy just had all his hair and had no problems and that that particular incident never happened, would their parents still be alive and would they? You know what? I mean? It's kind of crazy to think about. It's possible, you know, if that wasn't the case and then the one kid was old enough, he would have moved out. And then, you know, but from the little things I've read and and what the show has shown is like that was kind of the. You know, that was the thing that sparked the idea, Plus, I guess, another movie where some they got the inspiration for, of course it's kind of crazy, but um, but yeah, so I got to finish that.
Speaker 1:So I will keep my Netflix, not because of that show, but because my wife won't let me get rid of it. Really. But every once in a while there's a nice thing on Netflix, I get excited when I see that Kevin Costner movie, that newest Western one that's like five hours long or something. Supposedly it was going to go on Netflix. I was excited about that. Um, didn't happen. And then Zack Snyder I was excited about that, but I don't know.
Speaker 1:I watched, I watched the PG-13 version, which wasn't bad. I didn't hate it but it was like okay. And then I watched the R-rated version, but I only watched the first. I didn't hate it, but it was like okay. And then I watched the R-rated version, but I only watched the first part. I didn't watch the second part. Yet I kind of I would rather. I think I would have liked it more if they didn't release the PG, just did the R-rated version. Maybe it would have been, I don't know. But anyway, that's it. My time is up. Thanks for listening. Let me know what you think and I will see you guys next time. God bless, bye-bye.
