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.
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JUNE ISN'T JUST ABOUT RAINBOWS: The Forgotten Awareness of June
The host shares personal experiences with severe tooth pain despite having no cavities, and reflects on different awareness months in June beyond Pride Month, focusing particularly on PTSD Awareness Month and Men's Health Month.
• Detailed account of mysterious severe tooth pain that turned out not to be cavities
• Discussion of various awareness months in June including PTSD, Men's Health, Alzheimer's, and others
• Personal experiences with PTSD triggers, particularly the smell of welding metal
• Reflections on the disproportionate attention given to Pride Month compared to other awareness months
• Thoughts on the commercialization of Pride Month and its recent changes
• Memories of a battle buddy who took his own life during Mental Health Awareness Month
Again, thanks for hanging out with me!
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Speaker 1:I'm trying to think about what I talked about. I know I talked about my battle buddy who passed, unfortunately, and he passed on the month of, you know, mental health awareness month, or I think it is. Anyway, talk a little bit about that more later. But so I went to Manila, had some fun, got some things done, ate some Texas Roadhouse, spent a lot of money I mean, it's expensive for here. So it's like I'm used to kind of spending and then when I've I've learned how much the peso is worth around here, like so when I first got here, I was just like throwing money away. Oh, it's nothing, what is that? 20 bucks, 20 bucks, big deal. Now I'm like a thousand pesos, what? Yeah, so, but it's all good, um, so, yeah, we came back and um, and then, yeah, my battle buddy had passed.
Speaker 1:It did that podcast and then after that I, I think I talked a little bit about my teeth, maybe kind of hurting. I don't remember, but man, that last weekend was rough. So, like Friday, saturday, friday night is when it happened, I think, when it was like oh man, it hurts. And then I dealt with it Saturday and Sunday and it just kept getting worse and worse. Sunday night and Monday, holy shit, it was painful. My whole face would just, and if anything hot hit it, dude, I feel like my head was gonna explode. Um yeah, tooth pain is no joke.
Speaker 1:Um, so, finally, so I'm sitting here thinking like, dude, I got some gnarly tooth that's all jacked up with cavities and I'm like I'm just going to tell her to just yank that thing out. Man, get it out, thing hurts, get to the dentist. She's looking at it and she's like so. So then she asked me again like what's going on this and that? Because she tells me she can't find any cavities on the teeth. And I was like what, how is that possible? And she's looking around and nothing. She's like there's one tooth that maybe. But she's like but nothing to nothing. That's like, hey, I got a drill, or hey, I got a pole or something you know. And so I was like so she gives me some pain meds which didn't work for shit, I mean, I take them, but. And then some antibiotics. And she's like here, take this as prescribed, come back next week.
Speaker 1:I was just, I was like kind of, I was kind of bummed out. I mean I was like, okay, it, okay, it's cool, there's no cavities, I'm not losing a tooth, but man, this pain is like what the fuck. So I come back. And then yesterday just sucked, like that whole day Monday I was just sipping cold water because that was the only thing that would kind of get rid of the pain temporarily. I'd have to like sip a little cold water and it would sit there, the pain would go away and then like for 10 minutes I was good and then all of a sudden it would start coming back sharper and sharper and sharper. And then I was like, ah, gotta drink some more water. So that was, yeah, yesterday, and then took some meds and some ibuprofen and I was able to sleep. And then I woke up this morning and I actually feel pretty good. I mean it's still, it's like tender. So she said it was. You know, it was a little swollen. She could see some swollenness. So that's why she was like, let's take some antibiotics and everything. So I mean there's still a little bit of pain slightly. I just ate lunch and I just made sure not to eat on that side and it was. I have to chew really slow, so nothing goes over there and yeah so. But now it's like I was like man, this pain I swear it was on the upper jaw in the back, right on my cheekbone, cause it just was like, just like it just pain going up my face. But now that it's kind of went away, I can kind of like press on my teeth and the only one that feels like tender is on my bottom and I was like, and it did kind of feel like my bottom was hurting too, you know, but I was like god, do I got two, or is it just? You know? I was like what's going on and you know, but I was like God, do I got two, or is it just? You know? I was like what's going on, and you know she said that can happen. You know, when you have pain somewhere it kind of feels like it's, but it seems like it's on the bottom. I know she checked the bottom, but so now I'm kind of thinking that tape is going to have to get drilled or be pulled Now that the pain is subsiding. I'm okay, for you know she's got to do some work on it, but man, I was so ready just to yank that thing out. Yeah, that sucks, so, yeah. So now it's well.
Speaker 1:It's June 3rd now and you know, every month is some kind of awareness, right, but there are several awarenesses this month. What does everybody know, though? What is pushed down our throats? It's not so bad this year, it seems like, and we all know why. But here's a little thing here. I looked up some stuff.
Speaker 1:So there are several awareness months celebrated in June, though the five that often get the most attention. There's more of them, which is Pride Month, ptsd Awareness Month, men's Health Month that never gets any awareness. Gun Violence Awareness Month. And Immigrant Heritage Month awareness month. Men's health month that never gets any awareness. Gun violence awareness month. And immigrant heritage month. Ptsd yeah, a little bit, I see it sometimes, but all I see is pride month. That's it. Pride, pride, pride, pride. Just fucking throwing your face, but, um, I guess so alzheimer's anti something syndrome, I can't pronounce it. Audiobook appreciation month what? Cancer immunotherapy month, cancer survivor month, caribbean american hair, children's awareness, great outdoors month, gun well, I already did them. Immigrantigrant Men's Health, migraine, headache Awareness Month. They just got so much crap. But, yeah, the only one that's really out there is Pride Month, and man, it got nuts the last few years with Biden and everything.
Speaker 1:Holy crap, dude, and I keep saying it, it it's like the community, the gay community, a lot of them were not on board and then the thing is it hurt their community. You know what I mean? I've said it before. Things were on a trajectory Is that the right word? Trajectory of people just okay, you're gay, fine, whatever, nobody caring, do what you want, this and that. But then it, just now, they turned it into this thing where they're just trying to force everybody to have a trans girlfriend and all this crap. So now it's like whoa, okay, get the hell out of here, I don't care, I don't want any of this crap. So they ruined it for like whoa, okay, get the hell out of here, I don't care, I don't want any of this crap. So they ruined it for themselves, you know, they totally. They ruined it for everybody, for everybody and themselves, you know. And so now it's like now, you know, I would have been six, seven years ago. I probably would have been like showing a little pride month. You know, I got family that are gay and stuff like that, but now it's like no. So I posted on my facebook I'm not doing like you know, but I did um, national ptsd awareness month and men's health awareness month is what I posted and um, so yeah, we'll see how that goes, but it is kind of crazy, just how you know.
Speaker 1:And that one in black, what is it History? Is it Black History? Black History Month? No, what is it called? But you know, pride and this one are the ones that just get crammed down your throats and then so many other things are just not pushed and it makes you kind of wonder why. I think it is Black History and the Black History Month didn't really bother me. You know there's lots of great historical figures and stories and stuff with black people and it's you know. So I mean that's kind of, that's fine. It never bothered me.
Speaker 1:But there are black folks that don't like it. Why is there a whole month for black people? Why is there a whole month for black people? Why can't there just be like a month of just American history which includes everybody, and during that month they could have whatever? I guess I don't know, but you know you have Memorial Day, which is just a day, but I guess everybody gets off and it's an official holiday, so it's not the same day, but I guess everybody gets off and it's an official holiday, so it's not the same thing, I guess.
Speaker 1:But it's just kind of funny how, how the gay pride is a whole month, because I mean, if you look at the stats of the amount of people who are actually gay compared to the people who are not, it's a pretty big difference. You know, you have to get a whole month, so, and then it's just, and then plus, it's just all year round. Though too, it wasn't just the month, it was like that's when they went crazy and everything was going rainbow. But now this year, nope, nobody's, and it's like what is that? Oh, because Trump's in office. It's like well, what is that? Oh, because trump's in office, it's like well, no, they did it when he was in office before. I think it's because of usa. Usa was throwing money at all this crap. You know, here we'll give you this much money if you put your logo in rainbow. Okay, cool. Now they're like crap, we can't do that, and it's just backfiring and looking bad. So now it's not happening.
Speaker 1:Speaking of USA, bono's a fucking moron huh. Oh my gosh, you notice everybody who's like a Full on liberal Left wing, crazy TDS person Just looks and sounds Like such an idiot and that's why they don't Go on Joe Rogan very often. This person just looks and sounds like such an idiot and that's why they don't go on Joe Rogan very often. In fairness, or in all honesty, I haven't watched the whole episode. I've just seen the part where he's talking about USAID and, oh well, they're reporting. I mean it's not fact, it's not you know.
Speaker 1:But then there's this like and then, and oh well, they're reporting. I mean it's not, it's not fact or it's not you know. But then there's it's like and then, yeah, roman's like, well, yeah, there's, you know, throwing the baby out with the bathwater or whatever is what the term he used. But it's like, yeah, some things are gonna kinda, you know, not be get stopped, get, get um, messed up, I guess you could say. But it's just like resetting. You know they'll go back and they'll look at the stuff that was actually doing something actually important and helping people, and then you know they'll put it in with something else. But there was so much BS, money spent, money laundering going on that they had to just stop it. You couldn't go through and pick this and that and whatever, just had to stop it. And so now you don't see gay pride stuff all over the place. Two years ago you, you walk in the Target, first thing you say or see is just rainbow, rainbow, rainbow tucking underwear, whatever, and just all this stuff. And then now it's just normal. So that's good, I think.
Speaker 1:Again, I'm not. You know, I am Catholic and according to Catholic doctrine in the Bible, you're not supposed to be gay. Gay is not an option, right? But that doesn't mean that they can't change their ways. Maybe I don't know. That whole thing is just crazy, but the thing is is there's so many people that are like gay just because it's kind of cool or trendy, and I've met those people. You know, there's somebody here that my wife knows that he is bisexual and he's been with men because they don't get pregnant, he doesn't have to worry about, you know, having a baby, okay, but yeah, I was going somewhere and I lost it Gay baby, oh. So then and that's the thing too about I mean not to kind of totally change the subject but my battle buddy who died. He took his own life, which sucks because again, through, you know Catholic, you know doctrine and Bible and everything you know it's not good. It's not good taking your life.
Speaker 1:I'm still. I still pray for them, hoping that maybe there's a mistake or something. You know what I mean. I don't know, but you know you can hope and pray. Keep praying. Pray for your. You know, you know what I mean. I don't know, but yeah, you can hope and pray. Keep praying. Pray for your, you know, for all your. You know what's a good word to say Deceased. I guess friends and family Pray for them.
Speaker 1:The time I do it the most is when I pray the rosary. Which man family Pray for them? The time I do it the most is when I pray the rosary. Which man I'm really sucking at. I'm like, once a week I was doing it every day for like two months. I don't know what it is. I'm always like, oh, I gotta do this, I gotta do this and I'll do it after the podcast.
Speaker 1:But yeah, it's just like the whole the dog thing. You know Dogs, they don't go to heaven with us and they're like, oh man, I'm gonna be so sad. It's like you're not gonna, you won't, it's not even gonna be, you know it's like I don't know. It's like going to be. You know it's like I don't know, it's like going to just another dimension. You know, and you're just and you completely are forgotten.
Speaker 1:You know a good analogy I think I've said it before but is you know, going to heaven is kind of like when you're born, right, you're in the womb, which is like earth. You're comfortable, you're happy, you're content, right, everything's great, can't get any better than this, right. And then you're born and you go into the world and you're like whoa, you know, at first it sucks because you don't know, but it's, you know, the whole entire world and all this stuff. You know that's the same thing as like going to heaven. But you know, multiply it by a factor of whatever 100, 10, it's just. You know it's going to blow where we are away and you're not even going to. You're going to be like what I wasn't alive on earth, what no, you're going to be like what I wasn't alive on Earth, what no, it's. You know. I mean, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1:This is from things I've read and so I don't know. But yeah, so June is not only Pride Awareness Month. You know, it's many things which I read, but I'm trying to, you know. But PTSD is a big one for me, for lots of people, not just even soldiers. I mean, soldiers do get it. A lot of soldiers have it more than a civilian, but civilians get it too. Police, what was I just reading? I was reading something.
Speaker 1:Oh, the singer from the thrash band, thrash metal band, sepultura, or he was the singer, and now he created Soulfly a long time ago. But now he's in Soulfly and everything. I listen to him. I'm not like huge fans, but I listen to him occasionally. Max Cavalera, that's his name. So I was reading a little mini thing on him. And his father died when he was like 10, I think, and so you know it was a big funeral and he said there were roses just everywhere. Like just nothing but roses everywhere, everywhere. Like just nothing but roses everywhere. And so afterward, throughout his life, he detested roses and he did not like them, and you know. And then he said, like even when he was way into an adult, if he ever smelled a rose or a scent that was similar to a rose, it would bring him right back to that time when the funeral of his father.
Speaker 1:That's PTSD. You know, he has triggers that goes back to his father. It doesn't have to be getting blowed up in Iraq or you know, shooting a bunch of people feeling guilty or something. Or you know your battle buddy, you know, is killed in action and you're there. It can be other things, you know, but I mean a lot of people are. I think they kind of try and abuse it a little bit Like oh my gosh, I got PTSD because somebody's wearing a Trump hat. It's like come on, shut the fuck up. But I mean other than the retard, liberal stuff, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1:You know getting a car accident. I was in a couple car accidents but I never had. I mean, I was in a vehicle when it was blown up, but I never really kind of I don't know. I guess maybe once I got out and I was driving around, I was a little apprehensive Seeing like trash on the side of the road or a box or something. It was like you know. But for me the biggest thing was smell too. It was like when you cut metal or weld, that would always like. You know, I remember walking through my neighborhood. I think it was like for Halloween.
Speaker 1:I believe I've shared this story before, but whatever, and there was a guy who was welding, working on his vehicle, and he was welding and the the smell like traveled before we even got to him and it hit me and I was just like whoa. And then I was just like I could smell and it was just kind of it brought me back and I was just like. Then I got kind of you know my wife's like's like what's wrong? I'm like man, I don't know, I just. And then as we kept walking, then I saw the guy and I was like, oh, there it is. That's why you know. And then you know that.
Speaker 1:And then when I talked to somebody at the VA talking about that, it was like I was like, oh, okay, yes, triggers. Okay, that was like I was like, okay, yes, triggers, okay, that makes sense now. So I mean there's a couple other ones, but that's the main one. And so that's why I kind of do welding and do stuff, because to kind of you know there's a term for it where it's like you expose yourself, like if you're afraid of water, they're like, well, you need to go swimming in a pool anyway, you know, to get over that fear and stuff like that. So that's kind of why I suck at welding but I still try. I just got to do more, get better. I actually my last thing I welded wasn't too bad, had some decent welds. It was the things for my bed and my son's bed and I made little railings. They turned out pretty good. But yeah, happy Men's Health Awareness Month and PTSD Awareness Month, alright, plus a lot of other things. Like I mentioned, alzheimer's and everything.
Speaker 1:So don't get caught up in the pride. I mean you know I'm not anti-pride. I may sound like it, but see, that's the thing. The whole last few years, this is what they did, man. They just ruined it and that's why sometimes I'm like man, was this actually from the right, right wing, pushed all this and paid for all this stuff because they knew people would hate it if it got crammed down their throats. You know what I mean? It's like I don't know, but it's just kind of crazy because it's like how do you this? I don't know. I mean I could see. Maybe at first they were like, yeah, you know it's exciting, do this and that, but it's like when you could see kind of what was going on in the results. You know they're like oh, and you got people like on tv shows and stuff that are doing the gay stuff, like well, if you don't like it, don't watch it, I don't need your views. And then the show just totally fucking crashes and now it's getting canceled. It's like retard.
Speaker 1:You are so low on the totem pole as far as amount of people. You know what I mean. The percentage of people who are kids so small. If that's all you're gonna do, you're not gonna get. You know, it's okay to have some gay movies, for you know gay people and they want to watch it. But like what was that? One movie about two guys and it completely flopped Because I don't want to go watch that shit. You can make it and gay people can go watch it Cool, that's fine. But then when they take stuff that's for the main audience and they totally change it into gay agenda stuff, that's what pisses people off and then everything's failing. But they don't. They're like you're homophobic. It's like well, yeah, maybe I am now because of you. Thank you, good job, dumbass. Anyway, that's it for me. Thanks for hanging out. Appreciate you, have a wonderful week and I'll see you next time. God bless, bye.
