Objective Jerk
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Objective Jerk
SALT LAKE CITY UTAH, IS AWESOME! And here's why:
SLC VIDEO: https://youtu.be/LNBu5RFl09I?si=2cbVHQzttEwVF-P3
SCOTT ON TAPE: https://youtu.be/L5K_h02rRV0?si=ByFBNeW5KJ-hSGbu
What happens when contrasting weather, international danger, and a city's grid system converge into one podcast episode? We kick off by exploring the tumultuous effects of a typhoon in the Philippines and the harrowing news of an American YouTuber's kidnapping in the southern region. With the FBI on the case, we reflect on the perils facing foreigners in this area while urging caution for potential retirees. Alongside these serious notes, we share lighthearted insights into our YouTube obsessions, spotlighting channels like Grim Life Collective and Scott on Tape, which fuel our curiosity about film locations and celebrity lives. YouTube for us is a rabbit hole of endless entertainment, much like Wikipedia's fascinating trails.
Switching gears, we traverse the orderly grid of Salt Lake City, comparing its navigational ease to the winding roads of the Philippines and Washington. Our personal journey through Utah's streets brought unexpected peace and organization to our lives. We muse on how this structured environment fosters a sense of stability, grounding us in ways we hadn't anticipated. As the episode winds down, we find ourselves grateful for how one's surroundings can profoundly shape personal growth, and we extend a heartfelt thank you to our listeners for joining us on this reflective journey.
What's going on? It's the Objective Jerk and I'm said jerk, it's back. I guess I said it last time, but I don't know. It's my little catchphrase for the new people. What's going on Just got done, or there's a typhoon currently hitting us, but we're like on the outside of it, so we're just getting great clouds, wind and rain, which is great.
Speaker 1:It's kind of funny. I used to. I lived a lot in Washington. I grew up in Washington and Utah. Basically I've lived in other places, but that's primarily where I grew up, and Washington is gray, clouds and rain so much that you get tired of it. But here, with the sun and the heat, when it's gray and cloudy, it's like, oh, beautiful day. In Washington it was like, oh man, another one Gosh, you know. So it's just kind of funny.
Speaker 1:I'm going to try something a little different with this one. I got some video clips that I want to talk about, to support what I want to talk about. I'm going to see if I can get it to work right. I don't know. So I'm actually gonna do some editing, so we'll see how it turns out. I mean, I've done some before. I guess a little stuff, but Nothing major. I was gonna play the video and do a voiceover About it, but there's talk, I don't know. I didn't think I would talk, I don't think it'll work, so I'm just gonna play the video, then I'll talk about it, you'll see, you'll see anyway.
Speaker 1:Um, but before I get to that, um, the, the, the individual that was kidnapped here in the Philippines. For those that are following it, I talked about it on my last episode. Let's see. Do I still have the paper? I wrote down information about it, but I think I threw it away. Dang it Eastman was his last name.
Speaker 1:So the guy he goes to Southern Philippines, which Most people know as a foreigner, as an American. It's not a good place to go, just like Detroit's not a good place to go, right, anyway, lions. But so he moves there, he marries his wife, he becomes Muslim. He's like a YouTuber, I guess, and he starts to get threats and like people didn't like him and they're going to tell they were telling me he's going to get kidnapped and all this kind of stuff because he made videos about still hope, the guy makes it out and everything, but it's like dude, that's the whole fuck around, find out, kind of thing. You know? That completely fits the narrative right there.
Speaker 1:I don't know if that's the right words, but yeah, so far I haven't really looked today. I always do that. I need to look before I talk about it, right, but I know the FBI is in country trying to figure out where he went and who has him, but they haven't heard anything. No demands anything. He was shot, but I guess they don't know.
Speaker 1:Some people say in the foot, some people say in the leg. So hopefully they dressed it and took care of it, because if not, you know that's not good. Um, I really don't think he's gonna make it out alive. That sucks to say. I hope so. Hopefully they dressed it and took care of it, because if not, you know that's not good. I really don't think he's going to make it out alive. That sucks to say. I hope so, I really do.
Speaker 1:But yeah, for anybody who's looking to retire over here in the Philippines, I always tell, like on TikTok or certain videos I watch, you know, and they're like these guys, like this is why I love Philippines and this, and that I'm like shut up, dude, shut up, quit making people come out here. But it is great, it is awesome, but don't, if you're gonna live in the Philippines. You gotta live on the main island, luzon, at the very least. Don't live down south. It's pretty down there, from what I'm told, very, very pretty. But yeah, don't live down there. Look at this guy, right? So hopefully he makes it out. I don't know, but I am starting to see a little bit more traction on the media regarding it. So that's good, I guess, and that's probably why the FBI went out there.
Speaker 1:Anyway, on to what I'm going to talk about. So you know, like most people, I watch YouTube. I watch various channels on various things politics, pop culture, whatever. There's one guy there's actually two guys that probably most people watch, that they go to places where movies were filmed, actual locations, or they go to where famous people lived and died, and then they're there's where they're buried and everything like that. Um, the grim life collective, I think it's called, is one that I watch, and then scott on tape, I think that's what it's called, um, he's got like a little mohawk, but so I watch them every.
Speaker 1:You know, okay, like when I'm I don't know, like, a lot of times with YouTube, it's like I'm not really in the mood to watch a movie, I'm not in the mood to read, so if I'm just kind of like I don't know what I want to do but I just want to be lazy, I watch YouTube, you know, and usually then I'll find something and then all of a sudden I'm watching a documentary on this and then kind of goes from there. So YouTube is kind of like the Wikipedia, you know, it's a good starting point for entertainment. And then you just kind of. So I have, like you know, channels that I follow. It's like a wide, you know a wrestling one, pop culture, the, the, that, that one where they're looking, you know the one I just talked about, political one, nerd, erotic Crap like that, some history ones, but anyway. So I was watching Scott on tape and he was showing the locations where they filmed the Sandlot.
Speaker 1:Now, for those that don't know the Sandlot, you're retarded. You need to watch the Sandlot, like now, because it's probably one of, if not the best, baseball movie. You know, field of Dreams is up there, but I don't know if I had to pick one. I mean, field of Dreams is awesome, but man, sandlot is just perfect. Uh, especially when you're younger. Maybe as an adult now, you would kind of probably prefer Field of Dreams, but seeing Sandlot as, like a teenager like I did. You know, it kind of hits home, um, but it's an awesome, awesome movie, it's great. I'm not even like I like baseball, um, but I'm not like a huge fan. I had a friend who was a roommate. He was a baseball fanatic and so that's kind of how I got into it a little bit, but I had seen Sandlot before that. So whether you're a baseball fan or not, it's a great movie, it's awesome. But anyway, so this guy Scott on tape, he went to the you know the locations for the Sandlot and I'm like, oh cool, I like Sandlot. So then I start watching it.
Speaker 1:And that whole movie was filmed in Utah, in places where I lived as a kid, in places I went to like to a park, like a scene where they filmed a baseball scene between like the, the, the kids that were on a baseball team and they had uniforms and they're playing the Sandlot kids. Like that field. I've been to that field for like football games for my kid, like I'm watching, I'm like what what? I've been there, I didn't even know and yeah, and they filmed scenes where I grew up and I'm just like like I don't know, like I was, like I was kind of in shock, like you know. I knew. You know there's movies filmed in like every state and there's probably a YouTube video that shows out you know what movies were filmed in every single state and there's a few of them that have been filmed in Utah.
Speaker 1:Footloose was a big one, which I knew and which this guy did, which was interesting. That's how I got on to the Sandlot one and I was just like dude man. If I would have known that, I would have like checked it out. But anyway, while I'm watching this, he's got like somebody with him right Helping him record and talk about it. He's like another YouTuber or something and they're showing the addresses where they're at. And, for those that don't know, salt Lake has kind of some crazy addresses at first, when you first think about it or when you're first there and you're like what the heck? Why is this 300,000 south? You know what I mean. Like it's big numbers and there's no names and and the guy's like dude, I don't get this. You know this is. This is weird. He's all like it's crazy, but it's actually really, really awesome and it's really smart the way they laid it out and I'm going to show a clip right now that kind of talks about it from a YouTube channel which I'll put a link in if you want to watch.
Speaker 1:It's actually a pretty interesting history on Salt Lake and Utah and everything you know it. Like I was actually baptized Mormon when I was a kid, but I'm not a Mormon but, and you know, love them or hate them. Now you know, the Mormon community does a lot of good. Salt Lake city is actually an awesome city. It's because of the Mormons, you know, and do I think they're more of a cult or started out as a cult? Yeah, I kind of do, but I, I know and knew a lot of Mormons who were awesome people and that I, you know, I, you know, worked with and we're friends with, and so I don't, I don't like hate and think they're, you know, whatever, but love them or hate, bring them young dude.
Speaker 1:He set up Salt Lake Valley, like it's great, and I'll explain more after this clip. Yeah, see, so it's to go from that to here in the Philippines. It was a big because the roads here are so narrow, so nothing. You go from Salt Lake City and I remember moving from Washington to Utah and thinking that, but not really like I mean, I realized it but I didn't think too much about it. Just, the roads are huge, so wide and so much room. It's, it's, it's, it's awesome. Um, I didn't realize that the blocks were as big as they are, like the video shows, you know, and uh, the way it's laid out, so it's, it's you're, you know, living in, growing up and living in Salt Lake Valley, because it's mainly the big valley, the Salt Lake Valley, the Salt Lake County and or, yeah, and then you have Utah County, which, but they're still, as you get out of the Salt Lake Valley, it's still set up the same way.
Speaker 1:But you know, in, in, in Washington, it's like you would have one ways and these curved streets, uphills, and you just like you can't get anywhere. Before GPS, you had to know how to get somewhere, like you can't like, oh, where's? You know Rose Street, rose Street, I don't know that's, that's somewhere. Blah, blah, blah In Utah. Dude, if you got the numbers, it's no problem. Yeah, so did you get that?
Speaker 1:For those that are on the podcast, I'm sorry, I needed maybe I don't know, I should figure out to separate the audio so you can at least kind of hear it, because it's, it's all it's talking, but it's just, there's also pictures, that kind of help. So I was, you know, when I saw the, the video I was talking about, where the guy's like I don't understand, solid, just crazy, you know, um, I mean he wasn't hating on it, but when I got my earbuds on cause I had to watch that video, um, but it's, it is set up so great, but okay, I lost train of thought. So I watched the video and I was like you know what I felt, like I wanted to explain how it's set up, right, and I was sitting there thinking of getting some videos of Salt Lake, different ones for different things and make my own kind of video. But then I ran across this channel the one that I'll put in the comments that created this video. So I was just like, yeah, just take some of his clips and use it, because he explains it pretty well. And then, god, the dialogue in his mouth is off, because when I recorded it on the program that I use, I always have to record a little bit before, stop it, delete that and then start again and record. Like that's how I do my podcast with the video, and so everything's lined up, you know, um, if not, I have to edit it and do all kinds of crap. So it's that's one thing that I learned. So I try and get in the habit every time I record something to record, stop, do it again, and it usually lines up right. But I didn't do that on this video. That's why it's off, which I hate. It bugs me, I don't know.
Speaker 1:But anyway, as you saw in that video, everything was based off the temple, right, and that's kind of the way it was planned out was. You know, you knew how far you were from the temple, people that go there. Now it's that's not really the case, but and there's temples, there's like the main temple, which is it showed like you had the main temple and then you had temple roads that went all around it, but you had North, east, south and West, and when you're in, okay, and then from there after Temple, then it would be 100. Instead of First Street it's 100. So you have 100 South and then 100 East, and so whatever South you are will be, you know how far it is, how far it is. So it's like you know, like, okay, I lived on like 146, 100 south is how it was labeled on the sign.
Speaker 1:So it was 14600, and then it was like west, like 8500 west. I can't even remember now, no, 2700 west. No, no, no man, I can't remember. But remember now, no, 2700 west. No, no, no, man, I can't remember. But so if I gave somebody my address, I'm on 146 south, we, that's what we would say. We wouldn't say 14600. Everybody just kind of took off the last zero. So it was 146 south and 27 west, or maybe it was 27, 75, you know, because once you got, you know you get to 27. Then if it was 27, 75, you know it was a little further before. You know, because once you got, you know you get to 27. Then if it was 27, 75, you know it was a little further before. You know, you know you're in between 27 west and 28 west, so it'd be 27, 10, 27, 22, whatever.
Speaker 1:And then so it was like I remember when I moved there to Utah the first time, and this was like 2000, 2001. And but I lived there as a kid before that, but I'm not going to get into my anyway, but so I remember my dad sat me down, got a piece of paper and he drew like Salt Lake, kind of like on that map that that video just showed. Here's Salt Lake, that's north. You have the Wasatch Mountains, that's east, and then you know south is the other way, and then west is like the, the mine, the Copper, kennecott, whatever mine which you could see, and the thing is so it's like a valley, so everything's pretty flat, so you can see the Wasatch Mountains and know exactly which direction you got to go. You know what I mean during the daylight, so go, you know what I mean During the daylight, so you know.
Speaker 1:So it's like once you teach someone that you could be a pizza, and you know. Obviously now you got GPS, so it doesn't really matter ways or whatever. But before all that, though, you really you just didn't need it. It was so easy to get around, you know. And then I ended up working for my brother and his grandfather, his step brother, and pumping concrete, and you know we'll get the or stepbrother and pumping concrete, and you know we'll get the addresses and then, like, it's like you'd get the address and it's, it's crazy. It's like it's I don't know. You know, hate the Mormons or bring them young, all you want, but, dude, they set up Salt Lake and it's awesome, it's so easy to get around. It's crazy, you know. You know you can see which mountain, you can know which direction this is the address. Bam, I'm going this way. It like it's crazy. It's like you know, it's just like a battleship. You know 3B, you know, you get the three. What I can see, I can't remember now. A4, yeah, so you'd be like A, or like you know C, 10, so you go C and then meet up with 10, bam, there you go. It's set up the same way and it's so easy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, other times you might kind of have a hard time finding stuff because there's like cul-de-sacs or something. Yes, and then you do get to some streets that actually have names, which was pissing me off because, like, more and more streets in Salt Lake were putting the names on there. They still had the number below it, but they're adding names and it's like I hated that. You know, I went from Washington. It's like in Washington state they'd have names for streets and it's like you'd have to know Pacific. You'd have to know the names and then you could kind of go from there, but you don't have to know all that in Salt Lake. I mean, now I don't know, I haven't been there in a while now, but, dude, you just get the numbers and you plot it out. It's so easy, it's so simple, it's awesome. But then I remember, yeah, I was starting to kind of drive around and starting to see they were naming streets and so you couldn't really see the number because they'd still leave the number on there but it'd be like below it. So when you're driving all you do is see, like Harry Street, what's Harry? I don't care who, harry or what, what's the number. I used to get so frustrated because it was like dude, you had this set up awesome and now you're ruining it. But yeah, there was. So I remember, you know I'd been living there for like six months or something and you know this is way.
Speaker 1:After my dad showed me and I had a friend come visit me from Washington state and I picked him up. I think it was nighttime. He came in or was he leaving? No, yeah, so it was. He came in on a flight and then the next day we're going to go to like deer Lake and go jet skiing and stuff, anyway. So I picked him up in my truck and I just I had a new Dodge truck and I was explaining to him how it's set up and how awesome it is Right.
Speaker 1:And then the rear view mirror has the direction that you're going, you know. So I'm driving, but it was nighttime, so it's kind of hard to see, and my internal compass felt I was facing like West or something, or I felt I was facing one direction and my mirror was saying another and I was like what is going on, like I'm trying to explain to them how easy it is to get around here, but then I'm like getting lost kind of. It's kind of funny, but, um, but it is, it is pretty cool. Um, that's one of the things that I loved about uh, utah. Um, yeah, I mean if I had to go back to the States, it'd probably be either Utah or Texas or something that I would live, but but yeah, so I don't know. I just kind of wanted to talk about how it's, cause I just I thought it was amazing.
Speaker 1:Now, you know, with GPS, everybody's got gps and and and on star or whatever and just all that crap. So I mean you don't really need it, I guess, but when the solar flare hits and all that stuff is gone, you're still gonna know how to get around in utah. It's awesome you could get, you could move there and be sat down first time. You know, first time moving to utah, never been there before get sat down, explain how it's set up and how the addresses work, and you could get a job as a pizza delivery guy without a gps, no problem. No problem, it's so simple and laid out, it's awesome. So I mean, like I said, hey, hey, my dad used to say it all the time you know Joseph Smith or not? Well, yeah, he would say Joseph Smith, but technically it was Brigham Young that set it up. You know, they're whatever. You know, he wasn't really big on the Mormons, but he's like, but they knew how to set up a city or lay it out and everything. So but yeah, and it's true, it's, it's pretty awesome. Um, if you ever go to Salt Lake, you know. And then the roads man, so that's the thing is like I went from those huge, wide roads to these narrow, tiny roads where nobody knows how to drive and it's just like, oh, so it's taken me a while to adjust. It really is, but but yeah, so you get a little spoiled.
Speaker 1:Being in America, you know, having all the restaurants and all the stores so close and the roads, it's like, you know, I could see, maybe, why people. I mean, I'm almost to the point where, like, I see Americans complaining about shit and I'm just like God, man, you're. Just, if I was an American I'd be like dude, you're a douche. You know, I could see why people don't like Americans. Because America, you have it all. You have it all. I mean not everybody, I guess some people, but compared to any other country, america is set up so great. Yeah, salt Lake is set up awesome. You know, not every state and every city is like that, but you know, I've lived in a couple different places and and you know, but then it's just people always find something to complain about, you know.
Speaker 1:So then, when you have people living over in countries such as the Philippines where, like for me, the only two, okay, so there's Chow King, which is like a fast food, like a Panda Express sort of, except you order it like you would like McDonald's. You have Jollibee, which is the Filipino McDonald's, and then you have McDonald's. And then every time a new building's being built, I'm like oh, something new, what is it Another Jollibee? What, the what is it another Jollibee? What the what? Let's, let's get a freaking Wendy's or something you know, and then it's just you know, just certain other things I've talked about in the past it's Americans are spoiled brats.
Speaker 1:We really are, and when people see or know how America is and then sees Americans being the way they are, they're like dude, you're whatever. And that's a big reason why people don't like America too. I mean, yeah, they don't like the government and the politics and stuff too. But I made, on my last video, which I talked about the guy, the citizen, being kidnapped, I had a comment from a dude that was like you know, I hate to tell you, but a lot of people don't like America. And it's true, you know, but it's not. It's just because America has everything, and then, plus, they get involved in everything too. It's like we just need to butt out man. But you know, it's true, people love america but they hate americans. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1:Because we're spoiled or we were spoiled, and it shows like with my kids, dude, like I remember for christmas in america was like dude, we would spend so much money on all these presents, huge, whatever. When it's all done, you got a massive pile of wrapping paper here, dude, we get them like one little gift and this and that, and they're good, though, like my kids are, they're happy with it. You know what I mean. They're not, I mean they still bug me for like, oh hey, like my one kid right now he wants an NBA 2K25 or something Like right now his birthday's coming up. So I'm like, dude, she had it. Okay, your birthday's coming.
Speaker 1:So I mean, you know you get a little bit of that, but but they've really, um, been ground. Living here has really kind of grounded them and and um, what's the word just I don't know, made them, kind of made them, you know, more grounded. I don't know. I can't think of the word right now. This is the objective, jerk, and you've been listening to loss for words, um, but that's it. Thanks for listening. Uh, appreciate you. God bless and have a good one, all right, bye.
