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
EASTER BEACH DAY THERAPY: How I Survived Sand, Speakers, and Social Obligations
I share my surprising Easter beach day experience, including discovering a beautiful resort with an infinity pool that sparked dreams of owning beachfront property.
• Family beach day turned unexpectedly enjoyable despite initial reluctance
• Resort discovery with infinity pool creating illusion of swimming in ocean
• Mountain biking mishaps with my son including overgrown trails
• Bicycle maintenance issues when my crank arm completely detached mid-ride
• Reflections on traditional vs. modern Catholic practices following the Pope's passing
• Concerns about gradual changes in Eucharistic traditions since Vatican II
• Observations about tech bias against Christianity in smartphone emoji suggestions
Again, thanks for hanging out with me!
Please feel free to comment or send an email to theobjectivejerk@gmail.com
What's up? This is the Objective Jerk, where I use my microphone as a form of therapy to share my innermost demons. I'm a jerk. What's going on? How's everybody doing? I think the not drinking coffee while doing the podcast actually helps with my sinuses, mucus, all that kind of stuff, so I'm not constantly. It seemed like it was better last time, so I'm giving it another shot. So what's up? How's everybody doing? Turn this down a little bit there, I guess I don't know Anyway. So let's see Some stuff going on in the news.
Speaker 1:But before we get to that, talk about me. Had a happy Easter, by the way. Everybody, I don't know, did I record? I can't remember if I recorded before, like right before. Anyway, happy Easter, late Easter, if I recorded before, like right before.
Speaker 1:Anyway, happy Easter, late Easter, me and the family went to the beach. I was really not looking forward to it If the water was cooler. It's funny because people in the States, especially on the East Coast, they want warmer water. But here on the East Coast, you know, they want like warmer water, but it's like here, it's like it's too warm, man, and so I wish it was a little more cooler, a little more, and it's very salty, you know. So for me it's not the, I don't know, I don't like. Maybe if I they do have some surfing. It's nothing crazy here, but they do up north a little bit, I guess Me and my son were kind of talking about it. I've never surfed, so maybe take some lessons and learn how to surf. I think that'd be fun. But yeah, so I don't, you know. And then sand just gets everywhere and it's so hot and plus just being around people, I don't like. It's just I was not looking forward to it.
Speaker 1:But so we rented two little. So they had like a main hut kind of cover thing that has a light and electricity if you need it, and then it has like a little bamboo kind of hut down closer to the beach, on the beach right, so you don't have real far to go back and forth to the water. So I was like, yeah, that sounds good, we should get, um, we should get the two. So we have, you know, the kids that want to play in the water if they want, and they have a shorter distance to the water, and then some shade, you know. And and then up at the main one where we set up all our food I brought a fan just in case, but the wind was great, there was a nice cool breeze going the whole time God, I can't even talk Going the whole time. And yeah, it was actually nice. Kids brought the football. We threw the football around the hut on the beach.
Speaker 1:Actually kind of was we could have done without it, cause some people sat there and hung out and that, but not not like I thought. I thought that would be the main hangout but it wasn't. Um, you know. So it was nice, though it wasn't. I wasn't too hot. Um, people were doing battle of the speakers or they bring like big speakers and play their music and then pretty soon someone over here's turning on their music and it was just like, oh man, it was kind of annoying, but whatever, um, and then we walked down the beach because a family member, who's her significant other, he works at a resort that's down the beach and they had a little coffee bar.
Speaker 1:So I was like, oh, let's go get some coffee. So we walked down there. It was a little further than I thought, but so we walked there. And then it's a nice resort and they got this awesome pool, just great pool, huge pool, nobody's in it, and I was like dude, let's swim in this thing, you know, while we're waiting for a coffee. So we had to pay some money to swim, which was fine, you know. At first he was like you know, just go swim. But I was like, no man, it's your work, you know, it's your place of work or whatever. We don't want to, we'll pay. So we swam, we bought some coffee and it was just like the way the pool was set up and made like it. It kind of went off. It looked like. So if you got to a certain like, if you got down and looked at the ocean because it's right on the beach it looked like you were swimming in the ocean. You know, optically, optically, it looked like you were swimming in the ocean. So it's kind of cool, it's a nice pool. And I was like, dude, we to come back here and get a room.
Speaker 1:And then every time I experience something like that here, I'm always like man, I want to buy a little property on the beach. That'd be so awesome to have a house on the beach, built on a platform though, in case the water comes up or typhoons raise the water levels. But just build something so that when you wake up in the morning, get your cup of coffee and go out on your balcony and there's the ocean. It's badass. But anyway, I don't know, I don't think there's a whole lot of Everything's pretty much owned already, and what isn't owned is like really, really expensive, or it's only like large properties for a, a resort. But it's like I don't want to build a resort, I just want to build a small little house to hang out at the beach. You know, beach house, you know, maybe, maybe we'll look into it anyway, uh, so let's see, we did that, and then that was Sunday, and then Monday, didn't? What's today? Today's Tuesday? Oh, okay, I was thinking today was Wednesday.
Speaker 1:So yesterday I didn't do a whole lot because I was, you know, I was still, you know, even though the cool breeze was coming and I was in a good mindset, mindset, I still paid for a lot of it. Yesterday, you know, running around in flip-flops, I have like a bone spur on my achilles, so like I have to wear a little, uh, space, not spacer. But you know, just a little step, a little little cushion thing in my shoe, because my right leg is, like you know, centimeters shorter than my left leg and over time. Because of that, I've gotten this bone spur so I have to wear this. I can't think of what it is right now, but just you know, just a little lift basically right now, but just you know, just a little lift basically, I guess. But it's, you know, pretty small and it helps with the bone spur. And so when I used to work, when I was on my feet, I had to, you know, have those in my boots and stuff. And I don't know if I think about it and plan it. Good enough, I would, because I have one little lift thing. But you know, at the beach I'm just wearing flip-flops, so there's no lift. So I didn't run around too much, but I did a little bit.
Speaker 1:And so yesterday I was feeling it and I didn't drink or nothing, you know, I just drank water and coffee. No, I did have one beer, because everybody there drinks. There's always a table. When you got a family, a group of family, there's always another little table when all the men sit around drinking gin and beer. And I'm just like I'm just over that shit. I don't care to drink anymore. I'll have like a nice good German beer, if I ever get one. Sometimes there is a place nearby, a couple of how long is it? An hour and a half away, they got a restaurant there that has some nice beer. So I'll get, like you know, I'll get one of those. But other than that, I just, I don't know, I don't really care to drink anymore. I just I'd rather have coffee.
Speaker 1:Why was I talking about this? So we were hanging out people drinking. Oh yeah, because I, you know, yesterday, I you know, if I had drank, it probably would have been worse, you know. So. And then the sunscreen we had was actually pretty good. My wife bought some sunscreen spray and sprayed it on, and and it seemed to do the trick pretty good. I mean, I got some and sprayed it on, and and it seemed to do the trick pretty good. I mean, I got some color, but I didn't get burned, which was surprising. And then my oldest he kind of looked like he was going to get burned, but, same thing, he just browned up a little. So so, yeah, it was a good day, man Good. You know, I'm wearing my rosary the whole day. Unfortunately, you know, the Pope, he passed away, but I'm not getting to that just yet. I mean, never mind, I'll talk about it in a second. So, yes, I had Easter, it was great, I enjoyed myself.
Speaker 1:Yesterday. I had to recover mainly just because it was just being around people and being. You know, it takes a lot out of me as an introvert and my PTSD and everything. It takes a lot out of me to be sociable and you know, doing all this kind of stuff and it really does Like mentally it just is exhausting. So it's like I got to have a day where I'm just like you know, nobody. And then my wife again is like hey, let's go here and have dinner. I'm like no, I'm not going anywhere. It's like we've been married for how long and you still. She seems to forget that sometimes. But um, cause, if I go? Because if I go then I'm just honorable, honorable, honoree and irritable. Take honoree and irritable put together, you get honorable. But so, yeah, I didn't do much yesterday and then today. So today was like okay, I'm going. Right, kids have a day off from school. So I took my son.
Speaker 1:We're gonna go riding our mountain bikes, but the trail that we've been riding is very it's like clay soil kind and lots of motorcycles and people use it. So it gets at this time of the year it gets really dusty and really soft dust and it just gets over everything and, you know, kind of makes it a little hard for the tires to grip, so it kind of sucks. I'm kind of tired of riding it. So basically, let's see, it's april, may, june, july, so it's going to be like five months before riding. It will be fun again because rainy season will come and it's going to be muddy, so that's not going to be any fun. But then, after rainy season ends and then the ground it like hardens and it's compact, that's the best time to go riding. So October, november, that'll be the when I go back to riding it.
Speaker 1:So I went to one of our other trails and it hasn't been ridden much or cleared. It's not like it's a city park mountain trail thing. These are all just trails that my riding buddies have found and used over the years and they or we have to be the ones that kind of clear it and keep it going. And I hadn't ridden in a while and this trail was, out of all the trails near us, it was like my least favorite, but it's not bad. You know that it splits up and does different things and so I kind of I was wanting to go with one of my buddies so I would know where to go. But I was like let's just go. So I took my son and we went. I'm like I think this is it.
Speaker 1:We went down and it's like started off good and it's like, yeah, riding it, and then all of a sudden it just kind of ends at the road and I'm like crap, this is the wrong one. So we were supposed to turn and then you, you know it'd be a longer ride and everything, um, so we went back and I was like, okay, I think this is the way to go. But then going down, it was just really overgrown. We couldn't get through, we'd have to clear it and everything. So I was like crap. And then, plus, there was like lots of trash around and everything.
Speaker 1:And usually when I ride this trail it is after the rainy season. Most of the riding I've done has been after a rainy season, so everything's nice and green. So now everything's kind of more dead and brown. You know, I mean as far as as much as it can be in a tropical environment. But so then we're you know. So I didn't get to do anything. I was like, man, this is a bust. So I was're, you know. So I didn't get to do anything. It was like, man, this is a bust. So I was like, well, let's go back to the trail we ride, which is the dusty one. But we're gonna, instead of riding the whole thing, we're gonna split off and go up the road and take this other trail that I actually rode again not too long ago.
Speaker 1:So it was a little bit later in the day, you know, than I was like by the time we got here, that's like usually by the time we're ending, but it's fine. So we start riding and then also my pedal falls off, and I'm not talking about my, the platform pedal, like the crank arm, fell off. I'm sitting there riding and also it was like whoa, I'm glad I wasn't like hauling ass or anything, it was like right at the beginning, going just kind of slow. So I'm thankful for that. But you know, so I was like what the hell man? So you know, I we had couldn't ride anymore.
Speaker 1:So to go home, and I looked at it briefly, but I had my glasses and it's got grease on everything, but it kind of to me it looked like the, the, the teeth and the little gears because it slides into the shaft and then you tighten it. It looked like they got, you know, stretched or torn up a little bit and I was like, oh man, so I'm going to have to buy a whole new crank set. So I was just pissed off and ornery like normal, but a little bit more elevated. But by the time I got home I got my glasses on and cleaned it up. I could see, okay, nothing was damaged, so it was good. So I was like thank God, thank you, jesus, right.
Speaker 1:But then there's this little plastic like a lock washer kind of thingy we call the lock. It's just a little plastic thing. So once you slide the crank onto the, the crankshaft, then you put that on and you tighten that, and then you tighten the little allen keys to tighten it onto the crankshaft. It's kind of hard to explain if you know, you know. But anyway, this little plastic thing that got ripped and torn. So I think what happened was the guy that took all of my old components and put it on this new frame. I think he screwed up or he forgot to properly tighten it. I'm not, you know, ultimately it's. You know, if I'm going to ride a bike I should check and make sure everything's tightened. And I did actually kind of tighten those Allen keys a little bit, but what I think he did is he stuck it on there and he just kind of screwed in the, the lock, the thing that broke, and that was it. And then when I got home and I kind of checked, I was like I'll tighten this a little bit, but it just it wasn't enough. You know, um, and I assumed so it's kind of both of us, I know the guy didn't tighten it right, and then, you know, I should have maybe looked at it a little closer. But I mean, I just, you know that's the whole point of having a bike mechanic right Is to have somebody that you can take your bike to to get the maintenance it needs. I shouldn't have to go back over it, right, I was a little pissed, especially when I thought the crank was actually broken.
Speaker 1:I was going to have to buy one, but then when it turned out just the little lock, the little lock nut, then I wasn't as upset, you know. But then they didn't have any kind of replacement. So I had to reach out to the guy that I bought my crankshaft from or my drivetrain, and so he's got some and he's just giving it to me. He's like, hey, I got one for you, you can have it, just pay for the shipping. But I was like, well, do you have something else? Maybe like some grips or something else that I can purchase, nothing crazy. But you know, I don't know. So I'm waiting to hear from that and then hopefully get that shipped here.
Speaker 1:I'm imagining he'd ship it tomorrow, wednesday, so maybe I'll get it Thursday, because I got my crankset on my drivetrain pretty quick when he shipped it, so it took like a day. Well, he shipped it in the afternoon. If he ships it tomorrow morning, I would get it Thursday. He shipped it in the afternoon. If he ships it tomorrow morning, I would get it Thursday. Ships it in the afternoon, I'd get it on Friday, I think, anyway. So I just told him, if he can like expedite it, I'll pay for it. So now I can't ride. That sucks. So now I got to wait for that one little plastic thingy to put it back together.
Speaker 1:But it could have been worse. You know, like I said, I could have been hauling ass downhill pedaling and it fell off, and then my foot would. I mean it could have been nasty, so thankful for that. And then you know, like I said, the only thing that's I have to replace is that little plastic thing which you think it wouldn't be plastic. It kind of locks it. So it's like the crank that the pedal's connected to slides onto the crankshaft I don't know if that's what they call it which is part of the other crank on the other side right, and then this little lock thing screws into that and just kind of tightens it to the, puts it in place on the crankshaft. And then there's Allen keys on the sides that you tighten those down and that tightens, and then you know that's it, you're good. Tighten those down and that tightens, and then you know that's it, you're good. So I mean, I guess theoretically I could put it on without it, tighten it down, but probably wouldn't, wouldn't last long and I just end up causing more damage or hurt myself for sure. So I gotta wait, I'll be patient.
Speaker 1:I guess I'm trying to lose some weight. Man, I talked about somebody saying like quit eating shit. It's like, well, I don't eat. You know, I eat pretty decently actually. I mean, if the kids have cereal, sometimes I'll eat some cereal which is not, you know, just sugar, but I don't eat out all the time, fast food, anyway, okay, so, yeah, so stuff that's going on.
Speaker 1:What's going on? Well, the Pope passed away, which is kind of crazy, I know. You know people are well all Catholics and a lot of Christians, most Christians, I mean. You know there are Christians that don't care about the Pope, but all Catholics are sad, but some are sad but optimistic because you know, he was very, I guess liberal, you could say, I guess liberal, you could say he kind of went with what was trending right now, which goes against a lot of what Jesus taught and what's, you know, what's taught in the Bible, you know. So I think a lot of people are hoping for a more conservative Pope that's going to follow the teachings a little bit more, because even though times change, it doesn't change Catholicism, it stays the same.
Speaker 1:I don't know, the church that I go to is part of the uh, nova sordo, that's how you say it. That's when, um, the, the catechism, when they changed like the rules, basically, um, during the Council of Trent, and this was like in the 60s. I think this happened Because Catholicism was huge in the States in the 50s and then they changed a lot of things about mass. You know just certain it was little stuff but it's like they said it was to to try and bring in, you know, the, the people who are like afraid of, like the, the, you know the traditions and everything, and bring in the more like some of the, the Protestant style kind of churches where it's you know the traditions and everything, and bring in the more like some of the Protestant-style kind of churches where it's you know singing and dancing and doing all this stuff. I mean they didn't make it that, but they did little things to kind of to bring in, like the younger crowd supposedly. I mean, this is what was official, right, but what a lot of people who are more traditional. They kind of saw it as basically Satan infiltrating the church and you might be like what, but it's just, it's the little things you know. So one of the things I mean there's lots of little stuff, you can look it up, but one of the things that they changed.
Speaker 1:So before, when, during communion, the priest would put the you know the body of Christ, the little, what do you call it, I can't remember. Anyway, you know they'd put it directly on your tongue. You'd go up and open your mouth and put your tongue in, and they'd put it on your tongue and you'd close it, you know, and then you'd sign cross, you go pray and you know, communion Eucharist. But then Norvus Ordo changed it to where you just place it in your hand and then you can take it in your hand and put it in your mouth and it's like, I guess maybe it's to kind of help move things along, supposedly. But the thing is, to this day, satanists and whatever will try and take one of those communion wafers and use them for whatever anti you know, anti-christian hail, satan kind of stuff that they do. And so it makes it easier to do that by placing it in their hand.
Speaker 1:And you might think that's something kind of stupid and small, but this started in the 60s or 70s Actually I think it was the end of the 60s and then it actually officially went in the 60s or 70s. Actually I think it was the end of the 60s and then it actually officially went in the 70s. So now, from what I can tell, it's not like mandatory, like you can go up there and you can, you know, stick your tongue out and then the priest will put it on there. But so I've done both here, but it seems like they're, so I do it in the hand because it just they're not. I think my first communion I so I do it in the hand because it just they're not.
Speaker 1:I think my first communion I did. I did it on my tongue, um, and it was from the priest that I knew after I was baptized and but ever since then I tried it once before and they just kind of looked at me like weird and like they kind of hesitated and so I was like, oh crap, okay, here here's my hand. So you know, and to some people that's like, well, what's the big deal? But it's like cause, it's cause that that wafer is been. You know, the, the priest. I'm not an expert, I don't know all this stuff, so I'm really not. This is not a Catholic podcast or a Catholic channel. I'm still learning a lot.
Speaker 1:And then, of course, you know me, I forget terms and everything, but it's kind of sacred at that moment. And then they give it to the individual, puts in their mouth and it starts to dissolve. So there's no chance of any kind of you know like there's. No, you know, when it comes, right from after, the priest does his thing and I can't think of what the term is called and blesses basically the wafers. They become the body of Christ and then you give it to the individual, but when you put it in their hand, it kind of it's like now it's like you're giving it to yourself. So it was the priest giving it to you. Now it's like he puts it in your hand and then you're giving it to yourself. So there's, you know there's that kind of. But then it's also the people who have to yourself. So there's, you know there's that kind of. But then it's also the people who have nefarious plans of. You know you put in their hand and they pretend like they take it, but then they use it for whatever. And there's videos and there's plenty of stories of priests stopping people, you know, and they notice that and then they're like hey, and they take it back or whatever, because it's sacred, you know, it's the body of christ basically, and so it's just little stuff like that.
Speaker 1:There's lots of other things, you know. They have like some people singing music. That's kind of like the, the newer, whatever, instead of the old. You know um chants, the old, um gregorian chants, so anyway. So my church is the Novus Ordo, so they go by the newer, whatever. But there is a church that's about an hour, maybe a little longer than an hour in a way, maybe two, actually, I think, possibly three, but I think it's two.
Speaker 1:There's a Latin Mass, or old you know, you call it Latin Mass or traditional Mass, I think, where they you know so it's the priest is facing forward. There's no microphones, you know, because it's like you don't there isn't like the I don't know they. Just it used to be very like the old school. I haven't been there, I haven't witnessed it, so that's why I'm not talking too much about it. But it's just, you know, you go there and you pray and then, like, the priest does this thing and you take your Eucharist, but it's not, it's not like a. I mean you're there as a, you know, in a church, as a group of people, as a whatever I can't think of the word for it but you're also it's more there personally for God and for Jesus. You know what I mean Like there's, you're not there to kind of BS with the priest and all this kind of stuff. It's very just you go there and you pray and do they stand up the whole time. It might be confusing that with orthodoxy, which is might be they might stand up the whole time. You have to dress up. There's more of a dress code. The women wear the veils and then you know it's very, it's very like old school tradition, you know what I mean, not like the new, yay, you know kind of stuff that's like in the big churches and stuff now, um, but anyway, so I want to go to that one. I want to go and check it out.
Speaker 1:Eventually I was kind of hoping to go there, yeah, yeah, I didn't want to go on easter out eventually. I was kind of hoping to go there. I didn't want to go on Easter, because Easter is crazy. That's when everybody goes to church. Catholics don't go to church all year. Some don't set foot in church unless something bad happens or they want something, or it's like Easter or Christmas. So I try to go every week, once a week, to take communion and everything. So I didn didn't get to go yesterday, but I'm going to go tomorrow. I go in the morning because it's English, it's much cooler because it's early and there's less people, so it's perfect for me. But yeah, so you know, there's some.
Speaker 1:It seems like there's been ever since the Council of Trent, there's been this slow push to infect Catholicism with ideas and traditions that are not that go against what Jesus laid out. You know what I mean. And it's just been little stuff over time. And so, yeah, people are like, oh my gosh, you're crazy. It's like what? Okay, well, I don't know. So, if that seems crazy, then get your phone. Well, get specifically an iPhone. Right, if you have an iPhone, you know how you can go on messenger or whatever, and you and you and you and you put like happy birthday, and it'll bring up icons, a balloon, a present, this, this and that. Right, you can put up Easter on the phone and it'll bring up the rabbit chocolate, all that kind of crap.
Speaker 1:I put Jesus, nothing. I put Catholicism, nothing, christian, nothing. I put rosary and it brings up the Muslim thing that they have. I can put Islam, and it brings up a little icon with the moon and the star. I can type in Buddhism and it brings up the little three thingy, whatever, this and that. But no, you try and do Jesus or Christianity or anything like that, nothing. Why is that? Why is it okay to hate on Christianity and Catholics? Think about that. Anyway, I think that's it. I've been talking for a while, so thanks for hanging out with me. Let me know what you think. See you guys next time. God bless, alright, bye.
