Objective Jerk
Army Veteran Asshole that is learning to love Jesus. I use my MIC / Platform as a form of "Therapy", no schedule, no script, just whatever is floating my boat at the moment.
Objective Jerk
HOG ROAST CHAOS & NEW YEAR REFLECTIONS: DIY Adventures, Political Tensions, and Media Narratives
Have you ever tried transforming an old compost pit into a makeshift smoker for grilling a whole hog? Join us as we recount the wild adventure of our New Year’s celebration filled with booming fireworks, neighborhood chaos, and a unique culinary experiment. From crafting a temporary fire pit using repurposed materials to dreaming up plans for a more permanent setup, our tales blend the joy of home improvement with adapting to local customs. Learn how we navigated the challenges of our DIY hog roast, and discover the creativity it sparked for future backyard projects.
Beyond the festivities, we reflect on the intersection of personal milestones and the tumultuous political landscape that marked the start of the year. As we celebrated my baptism alongside New Year’s events, we found ourselves questioning the media's portrayal of political figures and the mental health implications of these narratives. Engage with us in a candid conversation about conspiracy theories, political tensions, and the actions of ex-military personnel that have captivated our attention. Through our stories and reflections, we seek a clearer understanding of today's chaotic world while sharing a few laughs and insights along the way.
What's going on everybody? This is the Objective. Jerk. Happy New Year. How was everybody's New Year party? Was it alright? Hope you stayed home, didn't get in trouble. Man, they so Well. First of all, what got this?
Speaker 1:So this episode is primarily about the looniness of the liberals. Dude, the loony liberals and it's not, it's not many of them, I don't think. It seems like it's just a few, but man, they are fucking psycho, said the F word. Dang it Anyway. Yeah. So I had a good New Year's for the most part. I got baptized, finally in the morning, which was nice, and then went to my wife's family they had, you know, the party this year, or whatever and uh, in the neighborhoods and, and, dude, filipinos are just like nuts about being loud you know what I mean shooting off like the loud gunshot, like fireworks and shooting out the fireworks, and then they all have like this stupid exhaust that and they drive their motorcycles around and it's just like it's annoying. It's so annoying I told my wife never again, I don't care, I don't want to. Where I live, it's kind of. I mean, my house is away from the road and everything, so I don't have to deal with that as much. I just I really don't even give two shits about celebrating New Year's. It's just another day, it's just another year. You know, it's not like nothing magical happens. Oh my God, it's the New Year. You know, it's just whatever. Who cares? But you know, whatever is what it is.
Speaker 1:The one thing I did like about it, that was I. I I smoked or grilled a whole hog, um, for new year's, um, cause we were going to do it for Christmas or something, but we decided against it and I've always wanted to do a whole hog, you know, and I've smoked, never had a smoker that was big enough, and I have, like a pit that when we had some contractors doing some work on on the house, like six months ago or whatever it was, and we have all this cinder block that we ordered that we never used, so it's just sitting there crumbling, but so I, you know, it was like hey, do this all these little things? Because I'm not good, I'm not a masonry man and I think I would do even worse job because of the cinder blocks that are here, that they make they're just, they fall apart. They're really brittle. They're a lot narrower than the cinder blocks you get in the states, you know, but anyway. So while we had those contractors here, I asked them to build. You know, I just kind of drew a line.
Speaker 1:It was like, hey, this thing explained what I wanted. It was just like a big box, a big concrete box, and it's gonna be my compost. So they, you know, dug it down, put the blocks. I don't know if that yeah, they did put a little rebar into it and they filled it with concrete and they, even when they had extra cement for finishing and stuff, they would they put it on there. So it, even when they had extra cement for finishing and stuff, they would they put it on there. So it's like even sealed it even more, you know. So.
Speaker 1:So I've been using that and throwing our, our food, you know, and, and our, um, our yard waste and stuff like that. We don't have grass, so we don't have grass clippings and stuff, but just other stuff. So it's been going in there for months. I don don't, I get it wet occasionally, but I don't really stir it like you're supposed to, um, but anyway, so it was, it was pretty full and on the top of it it just had a bunch of like dry leaves and twigs from the last few times and I was like, okay, I can, I can turn that into a pit, I can turn that into cause.
Speaker 1:I was thinking of clearing this area and then getting, you know, and it takes like 100 blocks or whatever and stacking and doing all this kind of crap and I was like I could just kind of use the compost. It'd be, it'd be. I mean, it still takes some work, but it would be, it'd be a little easier and quicker, you know, and um, so that's what I did. I just kind of burned the compost. So I just lit it and let it, let it burn and then just kind of ash and then it had all the good compost dirt, um, at the bottom. So it all mixed up. So I got that all out and I put it in where I'm going to put a garden, mixed it with the dirt and stuff, so some good soil.
Speaker 1:I think I'm still gonna do another compost. I think I'm just gonna move it somewhere. I'm gonna keep using this as a smoker fire pit until we extend our backyard, because our, our yard, our property goes like really far back. But I've, you know, it's built on like a you you know, like a foundation, so it's over like farming land, right. So when people build, if people have property and they decide they want to build, you know, commercial, or a home or something they build on top of it, so they build a foundation, the cinder blocks fill it with dirt and you know, so on and so forth. So ours is only just, you know, a little bit past our house. So I actually kind of have like a small backyard and but we want to extend it further eventually. So once that happens, then I'll probably build another fire pit.
Speaker 1:That's uh kind of legit, because I actually, you know, I want to, I want to, I want to build a nice good steel smoker, weld it. I got a welder and I've, you know, I've been practicing welding other stuff and that's been a goal of mine for a couple years now, actually, since I've been here, because I I made the current smoker I have, which I don't even really use anymore because it's just, it was just out of a 50 gallon drum and a bunch of rebar laying around and it worked, but it wasn't the greatest and most efficient, you know, and I haven't used it in a while and I'm just kind of like, eh, I don't want to use it anymore, I'd rather get something else. And this pit freaking kicked ass man. So once I burned everything and got all the compost, dirt and all the stuff in there, got it all the way to the bottom, I was originally thinking of getting some rebar and drilling some holes and putting it across and everything. But I'm like man, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1:But what I have or had or I do have, but what I, you know, or I do have, but what I, you know, we had an AC. So each room in our house has like a external, you know, like a window type AC, but it's built into the wall. It's got like a little metal frame around it. You know people not to steal it and um. So we had that in our house. But then we got a split type in our house. We just had this metal frame sitting empty on our room for a couple years and then when those contractors were here that was part of the work we had done we had that taken out and they filled in that wall the little hole for the AC and they actually used it.
Speaker 1:So it's a big steel kind of cube but it's, you know, it's a cage kind of thing and it was sitting on the side because they used it to step up when they were getting some cinder blocks from, and I had forgotten all about it and, um, I was like, oh man, where's that thing? You know was like oh man, where's that thing, you know? Oh man, where's that thing? Um, but so what I did was I took that um like metal frame and I cut off some of the, the bars or rebars, whatever, to make it flush. And then what I did is I just kind of dug a little trench. God, I keep hitting the microphone.
Speaker 1:What I did was I just dug like a little trench that you know the same, you know dimensions as the little, the metal box frame thing. So it'd sit down in there. So the top of it was, you know like 25 inches from the, from where the coals would be you know a good coals would be, you know a good. So I did that. And then I just put a bunch of rock and gravel in there and filled up up to you know the 25 inches. And then so the only thing, the whole point man, I'm a bad storyteller the whole point was I wanted to do it without really spending money, you know what I mean. So I had my compost. I didn't have to build anything, I didn't have to buy any cinder block, I didn't have to buy any rebar, I didn't have to buy, and I actually could have done it without buying the metal. You know, the grate, the grill, I guess you would say. We bought like a heavier duty kind of like fence grate and I just wanted. I wasn't even going to buy anything at first because I have some old rebar grates from my smoker and something else I was just going to use and put those on there and it would have worked.
Speaker 1:But then it was flipping. The hog would have been a pain possibly. Um, I didn't want to try. And I mean, some people flip it. You know before it gets, too, um, um, you know too soft too, too too, uh, tender, that it falls apart. Um, so you know you're supposed to re, you're supposed to like right at a certain temperature. You know, flip it before it gets. You know too well done, and then it falls apart. Or you can do like chicken wire, or what I was doing is like this this, this grading kind of thing. It's not like diamond grading, is. It looks like a fence just a little. You square, grid, square, kind of whatever, and people use them for fencing and stuff like that, but I guess they only sell it in like the four by eights.
Speaker 1:So my wife bought that. And then she bought some wood and some charcoal and that was the only money we spent was just on that grade, which was, I think, less than $10. And then she got some wood and some charcoal, and that was the only money we spent was just on that grate, which was, I think, less than ten dollars. And then she got some wood and some charcoal. Um, so I just cut two of those so it fit in there. Um, so I could put the hog belly down, let it cook and then, when it was time to flip it, I got the other grade, which is the same side, and then we just laid it on top, me and my son, and we just flipped the whole hog. So then it was laying on the new grade and then I just took the one that had been laying on for the last six hours and put that aside. It worked out really good and I still have enough for a big, a bigger grade to do, because I didn't the whole grade, did not take up the whole pit, because I had to get in the sides with charcoal, you know to add wood and charcoal and heat and stuff to cook the pig, right. So it couldn't be all the way. So this, the, the last piece that's left, is actually a lot bigger, so I could actually cook like a lot of chicken, whatever I mean, you know.
Speaker 1:But the point is where am I at? Okay, I'm only in 11 minutes. Okay, this isn't even what I wanted to talk about in the podcast. So I'd never done like a fire pit before. You know, I'd watched videos and stuff and seen different things people do it. Um, so I was.
Speaker 1:You know I was nervous about it. You know I didn't want to mess it up, but doing like you know I said, in the night I had fire burning and just as the charcoal every hour, scoop some charcoal and stick it in all four corners and my little laser thermometer thing and I couldn't find my meat thermometer. You know where you stick in the meat. I had one that was broken. My wife was supposed to buy another one and I was like freaking out about it. I was like man, I don't know, but I was just going by this one recipe that I found and you know the timetables and everything, and it actually it cooked really well, like it cooked. I could have flipped it a little sooner actually than I did, because I was checking the temperature and I was like, man, it might be done, done, it might be ready, but I was.
Speaker 1:I was really nervous about under cooking it. You know, I didn't want to. I really wanted to get that meat thermometer so I can make sure that the hams were at the right temperature, you know. So finally was able to get one, checked it and it was good. It was like a little over. I was like okay, cool, and then, uh, we flipped it and then the skin did not get as crispy as we would like because it was already cooked. So it actually cooked.
Speaker 1:I don't know if it's because of where I'm at, like you know the altitude or the humidity or whatever, but it cooked fast, cooked fast, you know. Um, so instead of like six or seven hours then flip here, I could have flipped it at hour five, you know, and then I could have lined a bunch of charcoal in the whole bottom instead of just the corners. And then when I flipped it to really crisp the skin up, you know, for the last hour or two or something. But that's next. I want to, I kind of want to to do another pig, um, just to, kind of perfect, because you know, if I wait another year it's gonna be oh, what did I do? What I can't remember. Huh, what? Uh? No, you got to do this stuff, or at least I do. I have to do things repetitiously to really get it to sink in and stuff.
Speaker 1:But long story short, it turned out great. I was long story short, it turned out great. I was really happy with how it turned out. It was really good. I wasn't worried about the skin, but Filipinos are, so my wife just like big portions of the skin. She put in the oven to crisp it up and stuff. But we had pulled pork sandwiches. I honestly don't know if the family, how they, if they liked it or not. To be honest with you now that I think about it, I mean they were eating it and so far, whenever I've kind of smoked something like I smoked a turkey one year for Christmas and stuff everybody liked it, you know.
Speaker 1:So trying to bring a little, like you know, american barbecue to over here Not that there there isn't, but just at least in my immediate radius, you know, um, because they do they. They do roast pig on like a spigot and they just kind of cook it. So the skin is always crispy and but it always it's just kind of the same. It's like every, every, everywhere we go and every kind of thing, it's always that same kind of pork, the same way. It just gets kind of old. You know, it's just the best food. No matter how good something is, if you eat it all the time, it starts to get a little bland. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, so, hopefully, what's coming up? Where are we at? We're January, I don't know. My son has has a birthday, but that's pretty soon, and then after that, that's not till, I guess, june. Yeah, so like, almost, like six months, five months from now anyway, but hopefully it gets something, gets something done, get something roasting again so I can perfect it, you know. But anyways, a lot of fun. So I enjoyed that. I love the fact that I got baptized and I cooked a whole hog and it turned out really good. Other than that, I didn't really care. You know it was. I stayed up till midnight, stupid motorcycles and all the crap going on, whatever, but I was just, I was tired, so I went to my father-in-law's and went to sleep, probably about probably about one, I think and then I got woken up around three to go home. So so that was my new year's. How was yours? Oh, really cool.
Speaker 1:Now, the whole reason I wanted to record the podcast. So, as you may or may not know, my podcasts are basically when something kind of comes up in the zeitgeist or whatever, I don't know, in the headlines or something. I mean, there's so much stuff going on right now the car bomb, tesla and the Trump test, you know all this other kind of stuff and I'm just like, oh my gosh, I don't know. You would think that's what I'd be talking about, but I don't know it's. I don't know what to think about that. At first I thought that maybe it was just an like the guy meant to to just do send a message, kind of thing. But now they're saying that he shot himself before.
Speaker 1:So I don't know, it's kind of crazy, but it's just more, more tds, more trump derangement syndrome. You know, I think I hate to say it, but I think there's going to be a lot of suicides once Trump is inaugurated, once it becomes official. I think people are going to lose their mind and then the following weeks there's going to be a like a, a rise in suicides, and it's all going to be like because of trump or something. Seriously, I, I do think that I I hope I'm wrong, but just, you know, like this stuff going on and then like the stuff you see, well, some of the stuff you see in the news, like about them trying to saying, like, kamala Harris can stop the votes of Congress, you know, validating the votes for Trump to be president, and all this stuff, and it's like, well, so what would you call that? Would that not be an insurrection? You know, I mean, so they're? Oh, because he was an insurrectionist, which was never, he wasn't, he was never charged, nothing was whatever. You know what I mean? They're just the news and the media and the lefties have said it so many times, they just think it. It's true. And so they're crying about an insurrection. And he shouldn't, because of the 14th amendment 14th amendment, he should not be president. They're gonna go and do a insurrection. Dude, the people voted, you know, democratically, which the liberals are always crying about democracy, our democracy. Yeah, we voted democratically for Trump.
Speaker 1:Like, what's the problem here? Like what you know, they just can't. They can't get it, they don't, they don't get it. They are so fuck see, I'm trying to say the F word, but they're so stupid they are really. It's not a lot.
Speaker 1:You know, I don't see some of my Well, which ones that are left anyway, that I converse with on the left Friends that are on the left, you know I don't see any of them posting any of this stuff. So I don't think that they, they're like dude, he won it's over. You know I don't see any of them posting any of this stuff. So I don't think that they they're like dude, he won it's over. You know, I think they're a little more realistic.
Speaker 1:So I think a lot of this is just the really gone loonies and a lot of it's like, I think on TikTok or something like that, and they're like oh my gosh, look at this, you know what I mean Like they're getting all excited and it's like oh my gosh, man, it's like do you hear yourself? Do you listen to what you say? You know you're going to, because Trump supposedly is an insurrectionist, you're going to cause an insurrection or you want the you know like and it didn't even happen. It didn't it's. There's so much proof out there showing that they just they don't see it, they just choose not to see it. You know, and it's like now there's all.
Speaker 1:Now there's like a bunch of conspiracies on the left, you know, and it's like you know what? Screw you, man, that's ours, get your own shit. You know what I mean. Like you know what, screw you, man, that's ours, get your own shit. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Just because a lot of the conspiracy theories that were floating around became true doesn't mean that's what's going to happen for you guys. You know what I mean. If you're stupid, you're stupid. What can I say? I don't know, it's just insane. And with the stuff at the Trump Tower, and then you had the guy which wasn't really anti-Trump, that was more. I mean, I don't know, I haven't read too much about it the guy in New Orleans. But it's crazy that they're both ex-military and there's a lot of similarities between the two, which makes you kind of like I don't know, it's kind of weird, but I don't know's kind of weird, but I don't know, it's crazy.
Speaker 1:But yeah, watch, um, I hope I'm wrong. I really do, because no matter how psycho you are, you know I don't want you to end your life. Um, you just need to get help, stay in a hospital psych ward or something. But it's gonna happen. There's gonna be a surge. Yeah, sad, but anyway, don't let it get to you.
Speaker 1:If you're listening to this and you're, and you hate everything, I say I don't know why you'd be listening to this, but you know, and you're dreading trump dude, it's just, it's not gonna be any different than the last other four years he was president. The world's not going to end. See, the media man, they just made everybody so psycho. They think that the world's going to absolutely end because of him. It's no different than when Reagan became president or when Obama became. It's the same. It's like calm down. I mean, yeah, I know there are some, you know some things that some presidential orders that kind of ruin stuff, but I don't know nothing that's going to make the world end, at least not now. I guess I don't know, I guess it's all baby steps, right. Anyway, I think that's it for me. Uh, thanks for listening. Let me know how your new year's went and, uh, I'll see you guys next time. Thank you and God bless.
