Objective Jerk
I use my MIC and my platform as a form of "therapy" or "medicine" for myself.
Objective Jerk
A MAN MURDERED HIS FAMILY & HIMSELF OVER THE ELECTION: Combatting Violence Through Empathy and Understanding
Can background music really make or break a podcast? Join me, the Objective Jerk, as I tackle everything from sinus troubles possibly linked to my neighbor's burn pit to the sometimes contentious feedback I've received about my podcast's audio quality. As I share candid stories from my personal life, I also confront the unsettling rise in election-induced violence and emphasize the crucial practice of fact-checking news before spreading it. This episode also touches on a deeply personal note about the impact of veteran suicides, highlighting the urgent need for mental health awareness and understanding.
Throughout our journey, I delve into the nuances of mental health stigma, drawing from both personal experiences and societal trends. Listen as I explore the often misunderstood roots of mental health issues, exacerbated by media portrayals, and discuss the healing power of faith and prayer in overcoming anger. Through shared stories of personal growth and a plea for empathy across political divides, I advocate for the importance of faith, community, and seeking help when facing struggles with self-harm or violence. This episode is a heartfelt call to prioritize mental health and understanding in our communities.
What's going on? All you jerks out there, this is the Objective Jerk and I'm the jerk. What's going on? I hope, man, I listen to. So I make little snippets of my podcast and I put it on other social media crap, which I hate doing. But you know, get a little interaction and more views and stuff. But I notice the constant like I can hear me like clearing my throat or whatever, and it's driving me nuts. So it must drive you guys, nuts.
Speaker 1:I got to get, I got to get some lozenges or something to really some menthol, mentholated kind of whatever to kind of suck on to clear my sinuses. When I do these because man and as you can tell, maybe maybe not, I don't know I got like, for some reason, whenever I blow my nose a lot, it I get this line on my nose. So I I sleep with the CPAP machine and I think I got to clean the filters, although I swear I cleaned it not too long ago. But I don't sleep with the CPAP every night but I try to because I do sleep better with it. So I slept with it last night, but then I woke up this morning and I just I've been blowing my nose like crazy. It could be. Also, too, I've noticed my neighbors like got a big burn pit going on burning trash or something, so maybe that smoke from that is coming over and I don't know. But so yeah, so hopefully I'm going to try I really try to clean out my sinuses before I started this time, so hopefully I'm not. Oh man, it was driving me nuts, so I apologize, I'm trying to, I'm trying to improve.
Speaker 1:Also, too, I had some feedback on the TikTok videos because I was adding some music to it and like I'd find a song that kind of went with what I was adding some music to it and like I'd find a song that kind of went with what I was talking about and which I thought some of them were funny or whatever. But like you can set the level of the whatever music you add to it, and so I always do like 5%, and for most songs that seems to work just fine. You can hear what I'm saying and you can hear the music, but some songs are just a little louder. So it's like I have one video where you can't it's hard to hear what I'm saying Because of the music, and I've already deleted the original clip and this and that, so I'm not going to redo it. So it's just, it is what it is. So I just think I'm not going to put music on it anymore, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Anyway, hope everybody's doing well. So far, so good. Right, I did want to. I saw this. I don't remember where I saw it. Hold on, excuse me, see man, what the crap I need to go get a hanky. Hold on. Excuse me, see man, what the crap I need to go get a hanky Hold on. All right, sorry about that. Like I'm streaming, I can just edit that out, but I'll probably just leave it in because I'm lazy.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I saw this article that kind of has to do with what's going on right now the elections and the liberal meltdowns and everything. And yes, many of the meltdowns are hilarious and it doesn't. I'm like I don't know, and you know, some of their, their arguments are just stupid. But there are times when it's not funny and it's I don't know. So, of a horrible, if you haven't heard, there's a horrible, horrible story that I'm going to share and it sucks, you know, I mean it's I'm not going to. I'm still going to poke fun at the liberal tears, but definitely not going to make fun of this.
Speaker 1:It's a very sad tragedy, but you can't blame Trump, I'm sorry. Plus, also, it was Veterans Day a couple days ago and I'm a veteran and I know a lot of veterans and I've known some that have taken their lives and and lots of others I didn't know that have done it, you know. So it's, it's, it's uh, it's sad and um, I don't know it's sad and um, I don't know, it's just not, no matter who it is and for whatever reason, someone, I think ending themselves is just it's not. Uh, I mean less, I guess, except for, you know, hitler, I guess, but it's just not. It's not a good thing, you know, it's just not. It's not a good thing, you know. Anyway, okay, man, I'm trying to like get my. I'm hoping my nose will clear up. Why do I do this? All right, I drink in coffee, but maybe I should have like some, like ginger tea or something, I don't know. Okay, so this is what I wanted to share, which I I saw and was just like what? And then, you know, I saw it on. I don't know if it was like it was either TikTok or um X, and then I double checked to make sure that it wasn't bogus Cause. That's why, you know, when I see stuff on whatever, generally I will double check on it before I post stuff, you know, I mean, unless it's like a joke or satire or something, but anyway. So here we go before before I don't know anyway.
Speaker 1:Minnesota dad this is the title of this. I'm reading the New York Post. Minnesota dad who ranted against Trump election, gunned down wife, ex-girlfriend and his two kids and then took himself out over the election and you'd be like, oh well, maybe there was. You know. Well, yeah, obviously the guy had some problems, but it was because of the election, you know, as you read further. So I'm going to read this article a little bit.
Speaker 1:A Minnesota dad who ranted against President-elect Trump online shot and killed his wife, ex-partner and his two sons before turning the gun on himself. According to authorities, does that mean he did it because Trump won? No, but further evidence would kind of point to that. The shooter, 46, same age as me, anthony, had a pattern of mental health issues. So there's, you know that's no one to blame, really. Duluth Police Chief Mike, that's where I was born too, was Duluth say, I don't know said on Friday, one day after authorities found five people dead inside two homes in the city. So he went to his ex, took her out and the kid he had with her and then I don't know which one he did first It'll probably stay here and then he went home and took out his current significant other and their kid, and then himself significant other and their kid and then himself. Authorities found Anthony ex-partner and their son, who was 15, apparent gunshot wounds inside their home. After identifying Anthony as a suspect, police found his current wife and their seven-year-old son dead from gumshot wounds inside their home. Close by Anthony was also found dead inside the home from a self-inflicted.
Speaker 1:Before his rampage, anthony had been sharing left-wing and anti-Trump posts on his Facebook account. Anthony had been sharing left-wing and anti-Trump posts on his Facebook account. So here we go. This is kind of what shows. So this I mean obviously the guy you know. You got to blame him. He's going through some problems, but this is the kind of stuff that the media has perpetuated. I blame the media, the view, all these people that just go on and on and on about how the world's going to end because Trump's going to win, trying to scare people into vote. This is the kind of ramifications that happen because of it, and I think the family members, I think the news, the Rachel Maddows and the View and all those crazy leftists. They should be held accountable for this.
Speaker 1:So here's a quote from his Facebook account my mental health and the world can no longer peacefully coexist, and a lot of the reasons longer peacefully coexist, and a lot of the reasons. And a lot of the reason is religion, anthony wrote. So obviously you know he thinks um, conservative. See, a lot of people think if you're conservative, that means you're religious. Yeah, usually they go hand in hand, but it's not always the case, though. I am terrified of religious zealots inflicting their misguided beliefs on me and my family. I have intrusive thoughts of being burned at the stake as a witch or crucified on a burning cross, having people actually believe that I or my child are Satan or the Antichrist or whatever their favorite color of boogeyman they are afraid are.
Speaker 1:This week, in another post, he accused Republicans of making it harder for women to leave abusive relationships. How's that, galid? Here we come. Oh, he wrote, referencing the handmaid's tale. See, again, this is like still the I don't know what a dystopian novel turned hulu series, in which women who have been stripped of their rights and are forced to reproduce for the ruling class. People know it's a book and it's a show right Like it's not real.
Speaker 1:Anthony shared other political posts, including the image of former President Barack Obama, trump President, biden, vice President, blah, blah, blah. The word hate sits under Trump's face, while the words hope, heal and grow correspond with democratic politicians. Not that anyone cares, but as an independent voter, I would really like to see both the political parties in our country pick better candidates. He doesn't really sound like an independent voter. I mean, I think a lot of people just say that because they don't want to pick a side, which you don't really need to pick a side, and most people are independent or centric. You know you don't really need to pick a side and most people are independent or centric, you know. But anyway, all right. He wrote we can do better than a binary choice between fascism and not fascism. That doesn't very sound independent, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Anthony previously issued a chilling warning about his mental battles. For millions of Americans, a breakdown leads to suicide or homicide before suicide. Mental health in this country is stigmatized, ignored, treated as a burden for the individual to bear alone, with little help and less understanding. He wrote. It's kind of I mean, he's not wrong or he wasn't wrong, but it is getting better, you know. But that's the thing is like people are so concerned about guns when you need to be concerned about the person who's pulling the trigger and their mental health. Mental health is a huge, huge thing.
Speaker 1:I've had to deal with it my whole life as well and I didn't even realize it until just a couple years ago. I realized that I was going through stuff as a child because I witnessed my mother getting beat by my stepdad and I guess that really affected my life in school and everything. And I remember you know I have memories of certain things but I didn't realize it all correlated and obviously being in Iraq two times, getting a Purple Heart and seeing various things, doing various things. You know just kind of added on to it and everything. So I mean I've dealt with it more, it seems like recently in my life, but I've been dealing with it my whole life as well. You know, I just didn't really realize it and I think a lot of people, you know you don't have to be, you don't have to have gone to war and and or, you know, been attacked or been raped, to have PTSD and to have mental whatever.
Speaker 1:It's like, you know, and so that's. The thing, though, is, like I've noticed, is nobody wanted to admit any kind of mental condition, right. So now people are like, okay, admitting that they're, that they have PTSD or whatever, but now it's like they don't want to be like unless it's like they were attacked or in a vicious car accident or was in war. You know they don't want to say like, oh, I have a mental condition because I fell down a flight of stairs. You know what I mean, it doesn't matter like what, the what, what, what the situation was. If it was painful and it scared you to the point of you know you're not going to live or whatever, and you have reoccurring dreams and nightmares and you were in the hospital, you're. You know it causes PTSD. It doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't have to be, you know, because Jason was chasing after you with a machete.
Speaker 1:It could be something kind of simple, and that's fine, and people do have problems, you know, from some of that stuff, and that's kind of like I think where people are at now, or where the world is, is now it's like mental health is not so much a stigma anymore, but it's the reason why you have the mental health is kind of the stigma, but then, but then you have individuals who it's like they. They are looking for, like they want to have anxiety and all these things to be part of something. You know what I mean. Like a lot of these individuals that are unhappy with with trump winning and everything, and they're just like they're creating these crazy. They're giving themselves anxiety over over nothing. You know what I mean? Um, at least nothing. That's reality, you know, know, so it's, it's I don't know, it's just, it's a weird. We live in a weird time right now. Oh, that was the end of the article, I guess, uh, police and do anyway, so that's uh. So what happened with, with that guy, um, which is very sad, very sad. I mean, you know, it's obviously sad for the children and and his past relationship and current, but it's sad for the guy too, even though, even though, you know, maybe we didn't see eye to eye politically. You know, I feel I feel bad for the guy. You know what he went through and and just the whole scenario, but I think I don't know it's like that's scenario, but I think I don't know it's like that's.
Speaker 1:People are kind of missing the real issues that people have right now. You know, and then you know a lot of people have these mental conditions like like the lockdowns dude, you know how that created such travesty for people's mental health, but you know the left don't talk about that. And the economy and then just everything going on. Like you know, there's some real issues going on, there's some real anxiety and problems going on in the world and yet the left and the media are making people think that women are going to be locked up and made to just make babies, like what, like how? I don't, it's just they're. They're making up like fake issues to to be worried about, to stress about, to have anxiety about, and they do have. I'm not saying they don't have those issues, but they have it because of other things going on in the world. But it's like the media's like no, no, look at this. Oh, look at over here. This is why you're anxious. It's not this, you know I mean it's. I don't know, it's just, it's just, it's just crazy. But you know, that's why I mean yes, I poked some fun at the left and a lot of people are obviously the guy was, I mean you could say crazy.
Speaker 1:I mean, I guess that's not a nice term, but the guy you know is having problems. I would have rather of him seen some help and not done what he did. You know, um, but it's, you know it's. Individuals like that, that kind of are are, are easily manipulated by the media and film and everything. You know what I mean now, and the reason I say that is because when biden won, you didn't have a bunch of Republicans or conservatives freaking out like little tantrum, crazy children. You know what I mean. Were people upset, did people, like I don't know maybe go and shoot at a pumpkin or something I don't know? Probably, yeah, were there some that probably had some breakdown that I'm unaware of. Probably you know what I mean, but nothing, nothing compared to what's going on right now. And and then just the I don't know like what, like what is I don't know. It's just crazy to me, it's almost I don't know, I don't know what to make of it, because it's just. You can kind of see.
Speaker 1:I mean, obviously, and a big thing for this guy was religion. You know, he's like just completely brainwashed to think that like religion is bad. And I was the same way. You know what I mean, because when you look at film in Hollywood, they all bash and make people who love God and believe in God out to be crazy people. Oh my God, they're so crazy. They're always like this crazy, you know, religious zealot, whatever that wants to. You know what I mean. And so people start to think like, yeah, man, because I was the same way. You know, I used to think the same thing, but I was just uninformed, I didn't know. I was just uninformed, I didn't know. But I always still kind of respected my friends and them that were religious. I didn't, I didn't, I didn't trash on it, I didn't. I would maybe give my opinion, which was not really an opinion. It was what I took from movies or whatever. You know what I mean Not really an opinion, it was what I took from movies or whatever. You know what I mean. So it's not, it's not the same. And For this guy to be that afraid of you know of religion is like what does that tell you? That's crazy. You know, I don't know, like I've.
Speaker 1:It took me a while to get here, get here, but since fighting Christianity and more specifically Catholicism, like I've man, it's, it's helped me a lot and I'm still working on it. It's not like it's oh, it just made everything great, now life's easy. No, I still have to struggle with the things I did before. I just deal with them differently. You know, case in point yesterday I was starting to make a little video to put on my stuff with my little, my Indian bajaj, my tok-tok. I bought some cup holders, some metal bracket. You know I can put a coffee cup or whatever, because there's no cup holders in the thing. So you know, I got four of them and I was gonna put one in the front for me and some in the back, and I was expecting it to go pretty smoothly. I started a video oh, this is what I'm planning doing this but I never finished it Because what I assumed that would take a half hour to 45 minutes took two hours and everything that could go wrong would go wrong.
Speaker 1:Even like little stuff, just just little things that just make whatever you're doing more difficult would happen. And it was just like I, just my anger level was just uh, uh, uh, uh. Nothing was going right. I didn't, I I I'm not going to go into all the details, whatever, but it was just. You know, in the past, when something like that would would occur, I would break something, I would punch something. You know, I would sit there, mother, and I'd just sit there and just go off, you know, lose my cool, and one of the things I'm really trying to do and that never, you know, seeing a therapist or taking any kind of meds never helped with this. Praying the rosary every day, asking for God's help so that I don't blow a top off, that's what I've been.
Speaker 1:And so yesterday, as I'm doing this stuff and things are just going wrong and all I want to do is take my drill and smash it to pieces, but and in the past I would have, but I I was able to, just I kept asking God, please, you know, you know, doing the sign of the cross. I'm like God, please help me, stay cool. And I was just. And then, pretty soon, I'm like are you like testing me right now? That's what I'm saying, like I'm like, please, don't test me, just let me get this done, please. You know, and I'm so what I'm saying, like I'm like, please don't test me, just let me get this done, please.
Speaker 1:You know, and I'm so like I'm talking with and so it's going, it's going, and then it's like there was one point in time where I went and talked to my wife and I was like, and I was actually pretty calm and I was just like you have no idea how angry I am right now like, like, like I wanted to cry, I was so furious, but I'm trying to just maintain my cool and it was tough but I got through it and that was like that was the first time that I could remember where I didn't blow my top and I didn't just rage. You know what I mean. Um, I was able to get it done. I was still, you know, a little angry, but it went away and then I thanked god and and and and you know, god is not the problem. God is not, god is good.
Speaker 1:Okay, are there lots of people that take liberties with religion and God and it becomes evil and stuff. It's like, yeah, but you can't blame God for that. That's man, okay. Man has free will, man has original sin, so you can't base religion or Christianity or whatever, god, jesus, on what men do? You know what I mean, and that's one thing I've kind of learned. So, oh crap, I've been talking for a while, okay, but I guess I should not look at the clock. You know, maybe I was on a roll, but I don't know. It's very sad what happened with that guy and his family and no one wants that no one, you know.
Speaker 1:No matter how ridiculous I think some people are in their reasoning for voting for harris or wanting for trump or hating on trump and this, and that you know, even these people that are like we're upset that trump didn't get assassinated or whatever it's like. You don't want this kind of stuff on them. You know it's like, in the end they will realize that ultimately it doesn't matter. Who's president Doesn't matter. You know you're going to die. I'm going to die, everybody's going to die, whether Biden's president, trump's president, whatever. You know what I mean. I mean the country may not be the same as it once was or whatever, but we're all gonna die and that's ultimately. You know what, the afterlife and what and how you live your life, and you know all that. I don't know. That's what matters.
Speaker 1:So don't get hung up on who's in office so much. I mean. And you might be like, oh, look at you. Yeah, I know I.
Speaker 1:You know there was, and maybe it's easier for me to say, because Trump won, yeah, I wonder like how I would, how I would feel right now or what my podcast would be right now if Harris had actually won. But I just kind of knew she wasn't gonna. I knew it, but you never know. You know, I was still like I was pretty confident that Trump was gonna win, but I was still like man, I don't know what's, what's the left capable of, you know? Anyway, point is, if you're having issues, issues and you're thinking of harming someone or yourself, go talk to somebody, seek some help. Way more people seek help or need to seek help than you realize. You are absolutely, without a doubt, not alone, and you know an election is not worth that. Man, I don't know. Stop believing the media, stop believing film and TV shows, and you know, talk to your local preacher. All right, that's all I'll say. Uh, thanks for listening, god bless, and I'll see you guys next time. All right, bye.
