Objective Jerk
I use my MIC and my platform as a form of "therapy" or "medicine" for myself.
Objective Jerk
CELEBRITY POLITICS AND MENTAL HEALTH COLLIDE! Rob Reiner's Outbursts, Snow White Controversy, and Trump's Influence
Taking a break from the political whirlwind can be a game-changer for mental health, and that's something I've learned firsthand. Balancing my life by volunteering at my kids' school has been a refreshing escape. On "The Objective Jerk," we delve into the intricate dance between celebrities and politics, focusing on figures like filmmaker Rob Reiner, whose vocal stances on social media spotlight the turbulent intersection of fame and opinion. We ask if Trump Derangement Syndrome might be more than just a buzzword, exploring the potential recognition of this phenomenon as a mental health condition.
Exploring the consequences of celebrities' unfiltered online presences, we spotlight the new Snow White and consider whether celebrity social media accounts need the guiding hand of agents to prevent career pitfalls. The episode sheds light on the growing visibility of mental health issues due to social media exposure and debates the necessity of mandatory evaluations. Drawing from personal experiences, the conversation touches on maintaining a balanced online presence amidst the challenges of censorship and international perspectives, including the unique social media landscape of the Philippines. It's an engaging exploration of how social media, mental health, and politics intertwine in today's world.
What's going on everybody? This is the Objective Jerk how you guys doing. It's been one hot minute since I recorded a podcast, been kind of busy, been volunteering at my kids school with some stuff, so that's been keeping me pretty. It's either I'm doing that or I'm just chilling. I guess I don't know I'm doing that or I'm just chilling, I guess I don't know. Plus, I'm just kind of trying to.
Speaker 1:You know, even though we won, you know I still try not to like just flood my life and my brain with politics all the time. You know what I mean, because it's, I don't know, it can mess you up. You know I would go through periods where I just had to step back, you know, and just quit, quit watching the things I watch and just kind of let my brain have some time off and I'll find something to to distract me. You know what I mean, which is what the system wants. They want you to be distracted, but it's just, I don't know, for some people it's really hard to just politics and all that just 24-7, you know, and the people that can do it well are successful at it, and then you've got people that just can't handle it at all and are checking themselves into psych wards. Um, so yeah, I saw that. Um, rob reiner I don't know if you guys know who he is.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I took a couple notes. Rob Reiner, huge, crazy, liberal, massive Trump derangement syndrome On Twitter. I'll get to that in a minute. But he's made some of my favorite movies. You know, I don't. You know some people, you know he's. I thought there was something on the screen right here, but it was actually something on the wall. Anyway, you know, it's just, people have strengths and weaknesses and various things. You know, and, and most individuals who are artists and filmmakers and all that kind of stuff, that's their strength and they need to stay away from politics and other things because they just don't know what the hell they're talking about. You know what I mean and other things, because they just don't know what the hell they're talking about. You know what I mean, but he, oh, let me turn this off, Let me turn my fan off. I usually turn it off, so I don't have any, but anyway, okay.
Speaker 1:So, rob Reiner for those that don't know, he started off as an actor. I think he has a famous father who was an actor, a comedian or something. He was the old guy in the Ocean's Eleven movies the newer ones Well, not newer now, I guess, but the remakes and then he was in All in the Family, which was an old 70s sitcom. He played Meathead, which kind of fits, but then he went on to be a director and he's directed Spinal Tap. He directed Princess Bride, he did A Few Good Men, which is about the only courtroom movie I really like. I mean he's done other ones, but those are, like you know, in my top 20 favorite, you know, I guess, films. So I mean, you know he definitely Princess Bride, you know, and Spinal Tap is still hilarious, even though no matter how many times you watch it, still, I mean it's not like it was all him. You know the actors and and stuff, but but yeah, so, but then, um, you know the, the past so many years he's just been. He's one of those individuals that's, that's on twitter and just having these crazy. You know he believes all the, the b. You know Trump's going to do all this and he's all you know.
Speaker 1:So, with Trump winning, you know, like many crazy liberals, they flipped out and freaked out and then they went to. What I thought was funny was so then you know so many of them, oh, I'm gonna leave america, and some are, you know, some are actually staying true to their word. Um, or they'll be like I'm leaving, I'm leaving twitter and I'm going to the other one, the um, blue sky, right, which is which is what twitter used to be basically. And I think it's funny because I don't know how long Twitter or Blue Sky has been around. I don't have an account or anything, but I mean, I barely get on Twitter, so there's no point. But so a lot of people, I remember after the election, they were like, oh, I'm going to Blue Sky. So all the you know, left-wing TDS individuals were upset and so they went to Blue Sky their like complaints, or you know, when people like um will flag a post, maybe like flag it for a reason to get looked at, or whatever report it report, you know, or um, anything like that, like those kinds of reports went up like 300%. So just everybody's, just like you know.
Speaker 1:And and then he goes over there, rob Reiner goes over there and he's like oh, my gosh, it's so. This is so horrible over here and it's toxic. And it's like now, granted, yeah, I'm sure there's lots of, uh, you know, right-wing individuals that went over there so they could kind of see what was going on. Do a little trolling, I get it, but all the toxicity is from your side, you know what I mean. And they just they, they can't grasp it. So now he, due to all this crap, he checked himself into a psych ward and I've been saying for years they need to bring the insane asylums back. Now they can call them the TDS asylums.
Speaker 1:I guess I wonder if TDS is going to actually be an actual um, um, you know, uh, dang it. What's the word Condition? I guess it's a mental condition, like it's going to be, you know, a couple of years from now when, uh, psychologists are going to reference that TDS because it's, it's like legit man, I mean, cause you got people that don't like Trump and aren't happy with it, but whatever, they live their lives, you know. But then you just have people that are just insane about it and, um, and he's one of them. I mean, at least he's getting help and he checked himself into something.
Speaker 1:But that's the thing is like dude, you have to, you can't, you got you. You have to just step away from social media every once in a while, especially if it's doing that to you. If you're social media every once in a while, especially if it's doing that to you, if you're getting on there just like multiple times a day checking this and that, checking this, and oh my gosh, you know, and getting pissed off and getting angry and this and that dude, you just need to turn that shit off, do something else, you know, and that's kind of what's really hurt. And that's kind of what's really hurt. You know Hollywood and all these famous people, because they just, you know, they're just like us. A lot of them are stupid, they don't know what they're talking about and they're trying to. You know, just because they're famous, they think that, you know, they have some sort of clout, which was obvious from the election. You know, all these people went out to support, you know, cackling harris and didn't do shit.
Speaker 1:And then you have, like I saw a thing with, uh, yeah, so many people that I used to just would come out with a film or something and I would be like, oh, I'm going to watch it. I'm going to watch it just because of that person. That is over. Like I don't, I don't. You know, even even individuals that maybe have the same political beliefs. You know actors that have the same political beliefs as me. I'm still not. I mean, you know, I won't like, nope, not going to watch, but I'm not going to just watch it just because they're in it. You know what I mean. Just back in the day, man, you could, just because someone was in a movie, you would go watch it. There was, there was actually star power, and then now it's just that's gone.
Speaker 1:But I saw a thing, uh, with Ben Stiller, who's Tropic Thunder freaking classic and that's you know, came out in 2008, hilarious, hilarious movie. But like he was on there saying all kinds of stuff, saying he wishes he was black and support Kamala, and all this kind of crap, you know, and it was just like what? And then, like Trump wins, and then all of a sudden he's talking about how, oh, woke has ruined comedy, and it's like, yeah, we all knew that. But it's like what? Okay, you know, a month ago you're saying this and now you're saying this, like they just don't know, they are so self-centered and just ego, whatever words are, you know, conceited, conceited, uh, man, what are? I know, it's just that's basically most famous people, you know, and I think you, you have to be you know what I mean, because to to sit there and go through that is just like ugh.
Speaker 1:But social media has really has ruined it. You know, if I was like a movie, because you know, back in the day, film companies, you know MGM and whatever you know, they really controlled the actors and actors couldn't really do much without their say, you know. And now it's like they kind of almost need to go back to that because they need to be like dude, not, you're not going to have an account. You're not going to have a social media account, or we'll have you, we'll let you have one, but you're not going to touch it. You're going to have a person that does it for you and they're going to post your shit. You know what I mean? Because it's that's what they're going to have to do, because they it's just everybody just looks at them as complete retards.
Speaker 1:Now, like the chick that's doing snow white, like her dumb ass you know she's a fucking kid and she's just spitting all this. You know, like she knows everything, and because she went to some stupid liberal college and got a degree in gender studies and and and then I don't know, and then she just says all this stupid feminism, crap. And now that movie's gonna tank and they've spent how much money. It's just, and she needs to stay off social media man. I mean it's too late for her. Um, she's already she's done.
Speaker 1:But yeah, you got to have somebody they got to have like an agent. It's almost got to be a whole new position. You know, your assistant or your agent is the person that has access to your twitter and they don't like these famous people. I mean, I guess it's kind of a good thing, because then you know who they really are. But I'm just kind of looking at it from the point, from their, their perspective, from their point, you know, from a, from a filmmaker or a movie head, kind of whatever I'd be like. You don't get access to your own Twitter. Sorry, if you want to like, you know a lot of people have. Sorry, if you want to like, you know a lot of people have. They're going to be in charge of it and they'll record whatever this and that, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:If you want to do something else, you're gonna have to do your original name and you're not gonna be able to do videos or you know what it means. I don't know. Just because it's it's, it's the only way it would work anymore, because because, uh, it's all just going down. You know, I'm sure it'll come back someday, but I mean, hollywood's been around for a while now. When did Hollywood start? Like in the 40s, 30s, I mean, it started before that, I think. But I mean really, when's the golden age, like the 40s and 50s, right, something like that? So I don't know, but yeah, it's just kind of crazy, the some of the you know the meltdowns and everything that you see.
Speaker 1:And, yeah, you have to dude, if you're not, if you're so upset that you need to go to a psych ward, which you know probably a lot of people do. Really, um, you know, you got people that are killing their families and just doing all this stuff. Dude, they need to. They need to. I don't know man, I don't know what they need. They need some help, they need some jesus, they need, you know, maybe certain individuals. Maybe they need to have like a court mandated.
Speaker 1:If you're going to be on social media this much or something, you have to get some kind of evaluation once a month to make sure you're not psycho, or I don't know man, because it is, I don't know. I mean, it's not that I think we have more psychos than we used to. Maybe a little, but it's just, you know, because social media, you just see it all, just think back in the day there was just as many psychos. But I've talked about how maybe it kind of, I think it's it, it helps and it hurts it at the same time. I don't know, they're just.
Speaker 1:You got to find that happy medium, you know, and like that's what I try and do, like when I record a podcast, then that's the only time I really get on Twitter and I'll post my stuff and then I'll scroll through some things and I'll look at, but I'm not really really, I'm just kind of posting hey, look at my podcast, you know, um, I get on Facebook and see what my friends are doing and I'll post a couple of things. I'm not even posting as much on there as I was. I went through like um, since Trump won, I'm not really, but I was, you know, four years ago or whatever. I remember posting some things that were they were like clearly jokes about Biden or whatever, and then they would get false information flag. You know all this crap and it's like what the? It's a joke, it's like it's like clearly a joke, and so I was getting like annoyed because they were like censoring people, you know, and it was blatantly obvious. So I'm like you know what? I'm not okay. I'm not going to use Facebook for like what it's for keeping in contact with family and friends. It's like that. I was done with it. So it's like I got rid of my Facebook and I started another one, like a month later or something, and then it's just been kind of more of my podcast, Although I don't know, here in the Philippines they use Facebook for everything.
Speaker 1:Man, like that's how everybody keeps in touch here, and so it's like I kind of had to like man like marketplace, and you know, if you want to look for something by whatever like it's, you have to use Facebook. It's almost like almost impossible to not use it here. So I was like so that's why I started another one. But I was like I'm just gonna I don't have my name, I don't have whatever, and it's just I'm and I'm just gonna post you know anti-biden stuff once a day get on there and be like maybe it'd be a few posts. You know, usually I would be like find a couple memes that I thought was funny, post it, that's it. Um, but yeah, so that's kind of. That's kind of it.
Speaker 1:You know, if, if you're finding yourself like stressing or high anxiety, can't sleep, you know, and you're just, you're on social media, man, turn that shit off. Man, set, set your phone up or set your social media. You can do that to kind of shut down after so much time. I mean, you can always log in and change it. But if you put it in there and it'll just like turn off and you're like, oh, okay, yeah, that's right, I need to put it away. You need to read a book or something, go to bed, just step back, man, step back from it. And then you know, you think about.
Speaker 1:So back to Rob Reiner. Who reiner? Who, uh, like how? So you have these individuals that are rich, who don't really notice they have so much money in their, in assets and whatever, that they don't really notice the economy like normal people do. That's why they're all like you know they don't really know the difference, because they people do. That's why they're all like you know they don't really know the difference. Because they have money that goes into some account and their assistant has access to that and as long as their assistant makes sure their fridge is full with whatever. They don't care, they're not checking. You know what I mean? Like it's just they have no idea what people are going through.
Speaker 1:And you know, rob Reiner, like how nice is it that he can just check himself out, which is good, into a psych war and spend whatever. But it's like, you know, not everybody can do that. Nobody can just stop working and do whatever. And just, you know, nobody has that luxury. You know or not, a lot of people don't. So I don't know, and so that just kind of shows you too. It's like dude.
Speaker 1:But again, most people are seeing this, like it's obvious. That's why, you know, the famous celebrities didn't help Harris at all and everybody sees through. A lot of people are seeing through the BS. You know the famous celebrities didn't help Harris at all and everybody sees through. A lot of people are seeing through the BS. You know, which is good, I don't know. Hopefully it all goes back to normal. You know, hopefully people don't care so much who you vote for and you can have friends that vote for different people.
Speaker 1:And it's like there's this separation. You know, everybody talks about like man, when did this start? How did this start and everybody points, points, points, points to obama. Obama he's the one that really kind of started all this. Or maybe it wasn't him necessarily, but he was in office when it kind of started. It just was really slow and then it just kind of peaked right when Trump you know the 2016, and then it just kind of went crazy because Trump won and so now it's just been insane. Man, it's just crazy. I don't know. You can see, I got a different view.
Speaker 1:I had to move my uh, I had to move my monitor. I had it up on this like little shelf thing, so it was up higher. But, um, I'm making, like, some PowerPoint classes for my, the volunteering that I'm doing for my kid's school, and uh, so I'm staring at the monitor a lot and I don't really have. I need a little bit closer and so I can do that stuff. It's been a while since I've used to do that a lot um, make classes, training for, you know, law enforcement, security, um, so I'd make powerpoints and would teach them and this and that, and you know. So I got pretty good with them, but then it's been a while.
Speaker 1:So then when I logged so I was like, okay, I'm gonna make. I'm gonna make some stuff for the school principal, you know, to help him out. And it took me forever to get started because I had to kind of relearn setting up the master slide. And then I was building it on the master slide and then realized, oh crap, I had to start all over. I don't know, it took me forever, almost like one whole day just messing around with it. But I figured I got back in the rhythm and so now here I am, which is good, I guess, give me something to do really. So I've been like every morning for this this week, except for all yesterday the school was closed but been, um, just spending like two hours in the morning helping out and then, uh, you know it's, it's good being help out in the community somehow and whatever. So plus it's connected to the church, so you know it's all good instead of me being home and recording podcasts all the time.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I think I think that's it. I just kind of wanted to. I was like man I haven't recorded in a while and I read that thing about Rob Reiner and stuff and I just thought it was kind of funny. But I mean that kind of that tells you right there, kind of a lot. You know, it's not just him.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of people that need to get off social media, get some exercise, both mental and physical, and and, just you know, focus on their life, their life. Their life's not gonna end like like they. They just really think like, oh my gosh, I'm gay, or my friends are trans, or they're immigrants. It's like, okay, nothing's going to happen to those people. Okay, I mean, it's not going to be pushed like it was before. They're not going to force the trans, they're going to cut down on some of the stuff that they were doing, which was bull crap.
Speaker 1:But I mean, like I said before, when Trump, or during that election you know my dad, I told him who I was voting for and he's like well, aren't you worried about Christine? I'm like why? He's like well, because she's an alien or she's an immigrant or whatever. And I'm like, no, she's over here legally. He's like whoa, whoa. You know it's like so he would kind of believe the same BS that they're spewing on the news. It's like they're not going to kick people out that are here legally. It's like, and they just for some reason I don't know what it is, but you got to check out Quit watching. Get off Twitter, get off everything, try and just you know, I don't know Get out there and do something, or, as they say, go down and touch grass. Anyway, all right, I'm done. Thanks for listening, God bless, and I'll see you guys next time. All right, bye.
