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
THE MOLAR EXTRACTION CHRONICLES: Elon VS Trump, and Filipino Malls
After suffering from intense tooth pain despite antibiotics, I discovered my back molar was cracked and opted for extraction rather than an expensive root canal.
• Back molar had been causing intermittent pain for over a year
• Dental office is family-run like most businesses in rural Philippines
• Root canal would have cost 20,000 pesos ($800) versus 1,000 pesos ($20) for extraction
• Chewing flavored gum was the final straw that fully cracked the tooth
• Pain was so intense it felt "like being shot in the head"
The Trump and Elon Musk drama seems less like a strategic ploy and more like Elon having difficulty adjusting to diminished influence.
• Dislike for massive omnibus bills is understandable though politicians regularly use this tactic
• Political power tends to change people regardless of their initial intentions
A new SM Mall opened nearby, providing welcome shopping alternatives and more dining options.
• Filipino mall culture remains vibrant like American malls in the 1990s
• Department store offers better selection than older Robinson's mall
• Authentic Italian restaurant provides alternative to typically sweet Filipino-style Italian food
• Parking spaces are too small for larger vehicles
Traffic management and driving standards remain problematic in the Philippines.
• New traffic light confuses drivers unfamiliar with proper intersection protocols
• Driver education exists but standards are too low
• Many drive without licenses and evade police checkpoints
• Law enforcement often focuses more on appearances than effectiveness
Let me know what you think. Have a good one and God bless.
Again, thanks for hanging out with me!
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Hey, what's going on? This is the Objective Jerk and I'm said jerk, what's up? Oh, that was loud. How's everybody doing? Let's see. I'm checking to make sure, okay, so, as you know, I've been dealing with some tooth pain, right. So I was taking antibiotics, um, and I was, and I'm supposed to go this coming Monday was my follow-up appointment but the antibiotics actually started, um, helping, like immediately, like the next day not immediately, because that's the, the day of I suffered, but the next morning I felt better. I was still in pain, but it felt much better. And so I've been.
Speaker 1:You know, I was just dealing with that and then it just but it didn't really seem to it got, it got better, but then it stopped and it only got to a certain point and it didn't get any better, didn't get any worse, but it didn't get any better. But then it stopped and it only got to a certain point and it didn't get any better. It didn't get any worse, but it didn't get any better and it was still painful. So I was like man, I got to go to the dentist on Friday. I'm going to go, I'm tired of this, so I go, and this dentist office is like family run, like most businesses here and you know the rural area of philippines, I guess, or at least where I live, and I'm probably you know most other places they're all family I've talked about before. It's not, it's not corporations, it's all mom and pop, family, business stuff, you know. So you have an older lady who who's the dentist, and then they have their daughter and then they're the father. I guess he went to school to be a dentist but he failed or something. So he just makes like the dentures and lots of other stuff like that, I guess. So I don't know. But anyway, when I first went in and you know she looked at it, she didn't see any cavities. I was absolutely certain it was upper, my upper row, you know, and but she didn't see nothing. I don't know if she looked down below or not, because I told her it did kind of seem like it went, like it hurt all the way through. I don't know why, both, whatever you know. But so she gave me the antibiotics and some pain meds that I don't think worked. I took them, but then I took them with ibuprofen, like 400 milligram ibuprofen, and anyway. So I couldn't drink hot coffee or nothing, nothing hot, for a few days and it was just like I said. The pain was like better because it wasn't debilitating like it was, but it just wasn't getting. It only got so far. It was only so good. So I go back, or no? Okay, so once the massive pain went away, I could like feel my teeth and I could feel that my far bottom one, the far back molar on the bottom, was tender, you know, and it wasn't up above. So I was like huh.
Speaker 1:So I go to the dentist yesterday and I go in there and it's the older lady this time who sees me and I tell her that you know, it's the bottom, not the the top right. So she's looking and she's looking her that you know it's the bottom, not the top right. So she's looking and she's looking at that bottom back molar and she's like oh yeah, I can see some cavities. She's like you're probably going to need a crown. No, what's it called Root canal?
Speaker 1:A root canal, a root canal? The thing is they don't do root canals because of how expensive it is. Like they used to. They had all the stuff needed but then, like the little filler and certain things that you have to use, they have expiration dates and they just all their supply stuff would expire because nobody would get the root canal because it's so expensive, right?
Speaker 1:And I'm like, well, how much is it? And she's like it's like 10,000 pesos per canal and the tooth has two, so that'd be 20,000. So that's $400. No, that's $800. $800. And you know, even though I have the money, I don't want to pay that much. You know, that's just kind of a lot for especially a back molar, you know. And then I'm like, well, how much is it to pull it out? And she said 1,000 pesos. And I'm like, well, that's what I'm going to do. But then I was like, well, let me make sure with the wife, I don't want to do something. So I was like I'll come back. So I go out to the vehicle, I call her and I tell her, and she's like just pull it out. And I'm like, all right, cool, I'm going to pull it out. So I go back in there.
Speaker 1:I had to wait a little bit because somebody went in after me. That's the other thing. They don't I've talked about it before, but they don't have appointments. It's so annoying. It's just first come, first serve. So you come in and you have to wait. Somebody could be getting a full cleaning and it takes an hour and you're sitting there waiting and then you go and they see the next one. The next one's like man, why can't we just, why can't they have, like, maybe the young daughter does first come, first serve, but then the older lady should do appointments or something. That's how it should be done. And the thing is like filipinos are shitty about keeping appointments. I think that's why they do it this way. I don't know. Everything is first come, first serve, there are no appointments and it's fucking annoying.
Speaker 1:Anyway, so I wait for the that customer and I go in there and I'm like, yeah, let's yank it out. So, um, you know, go in there, she numbs it up, she moves it, pulls it out Right, she was great, did a great job. And then she's like, oh, this is what's going on. Oh man, I meant to grab the tooth Well, I guess I do the filter or whatever, so you're not going to really be able to see it but the molar, like a large portion of it, was separated so it was cracked and, you know, cavities were getting down right below the crack a little bit. So what I think cause I might, that tooth has been giving me problems for over a year.
Speaker 1:I didn't know it was that tooth exactly, but you know I would go through periods and I would bite down in just the right way, almost like when you bite your tongue. You just, oh crap, what the hell? You know, I would just be eating some food and maybe something a little hard or whatever would get in there, just right. And you know, oh man, it hurt. I don't remember when I probably cracked it initially, but it's been a while, and so every once in a while I would just bite down and it would just be like, oh my gosh, a sharp pain in my jaw and I'd have to wait and then it would go away and then I would just eat. And so I focus on, you know, chewing my food on my left side. So I've been chewing my food on the left side for like a year and just keep putting it off and putting it off. So that would happen periodically, right.
Speaker 1:And then last Friday, so like about a week ago, I was chewing some gum that were like little tennis balls and they had like little flavored like juice inside, and when I was chewing that, my tooth started hurting. You know I was like, oh man. So I spit it out or whatever, but then it just so. What I think happened is that gum finally cracked it all the way, so it was open to the nerves. You know what I mean. So when I drank something hot, it went right in there and hit those nerves and, oh my goodness, it was painful, like it was just like I felt like I got shot in the head. I was just like, oh, it hurts, so bad. And then it would just constantly pain and then it would kind of go away every 10 minutes. So I was like constantly sipping cold water. So that's what happened.
Speaker 1:And so she pulled it out and she's like, well, at least, you know, a root canal would have been pointless. She's like it had to go out. So it kind of worked out, you know. But, man, that was. It was so painful, it sucked, and so now I'm much better. But you know, it's got to heal when they pulled the molar out and it's still kind of swollen and my gland is a little better, but so it's still like tender and stuff like that, and so it's just. But now I can drink coffee, thank goodness, and so, but it's just for that.
Speaker 1:For that week it was just like nothing was getting better. So once she pulled the tooth out, I was, I was much happier because I, okay, we found. The problem, you know, this is this is gonna start getting better from here on out, you know, man, but it sucked. What else, what else? So, man, okay, so I guess Trump and Elon, right, like what the hell? Oh, man, I think it's one of two things. One, it's all just BS and they're, you know, trolling and being, you know, trying to like mess with the left and the media and stuff, which I kind of hope it is Like. At first that's what I thought, but then, as it's progressed, I'm like, maybe not, I'm hoping it is. I have some friends that still think that, but I kind of think it's just Elon is Elon, he's a little, he's on the spectrum. Some people are like, oh, they say it, but yeah, I'm pretty sure he is.
Speaker 1:He just does things, and I think he got really absorbed by the power he had, you know, and he was in the Oval Office all the time and he was doing this and then, when it ended, it's just like he didn't have that power anymore. And then he doesn't like the bill, the big, beautiful bill, which, which I agree with, because I mean, I don't know, I haven't read it, so maybe it is beautiful and it's awesome in every way. But regardless of which side it is, I don't like when they throw a bunch of shit into one bill. I hate that the left does it and the right does it. I don't know, it just bugs me. It's like I know it's like the only way for them to scam their way to get things, because if they don't do it that way it'll never get passed. But that's the point. Like that's kind of bullshit. Let's get a bunch of stuff that they can't say no to, but then we'll put a bunch of things in there that.
Speaker 1:And you know, like I said, even though I might even agree with what's in the bill, I still don't like the massive bill tactic. You know it's just, it's just dirty and but I mean that's what politicians are. They're dirty, scumbag pieces of shit. So I mean I guess you know you can't put it past them. So I'm not like surprised really, you know, but things were going so great and now you kind of have this.
Speaker 1:But what's kind of funny, I've noticed, is I mean people are talking about it but they're not like what was it a while ago, when people were just trying to be like, oh, elon wants to be president, like the media was just going crazy, saying, how you know, Kind of talking about like what's going on now. But it wasn't going on. And now that it's actually kind of happening, there's not really Nobody's really saying much, I mean, at least not like they were. So it's almost like they're kind of holding back and making sure Because they don't want to fall for, you know, like it's all BS. But that'd be kind of stupid, though, I think, for them to agree hey, yeah, let's mess with the media and this, and that it's like, dude, you're the president and this, and that you know, like some people think it's it's their way of getting them to release the Epstein files, you know. And then you have oh man, then you have Cash Patel and Dan Bongino.
Speaker 1:That just I don't know. I think like Dan Bongino just seems different now and it's just, you know, being in that position and doing all this stuff, like it doesn't matter who you are. I think Dan Bongino just seems different now and it's just being in that position and doing all this stuff. It doesn't matter who you are, it's going to get you. You know what I mean. You can't, no matter what. You could be Superman and take a political office and they're going to turn you into, you know whatever. What's the opposite guy? Superman or Lex Luthor, I guess, maybe even though he's not. You know what I mean. It's just the political landscape is so corrupt and so controlling and powerful that you just can't do nothing. You can't do nothing. I mean, it's just I don't know. It's just crazy and sad at the same time. You know, I don't know.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I think it's just Elon's kind of having a little fit, you know, because he pretty much gets what he wants and I think he just kind of let the whole thing go to his head. And then now that it's all done and he doesn't have a say in anything and he doesn't like. You know, he may see this bill and be like man, that's not, you know, it's not good, um, which I can understand. But has he seen the whole bill? Has he read it? Or is he just kind of like me, like I don't like the big bill stuff, you know? But then he starts saying some, you know, oh, he's on the list, it's like, why would you say that? Like what does like that's so petty. That's either a tactic that they're both in on or he's petty as hell.
Speaker 1:So I'm kind of, until this thing resolves, until we find out exactly what's going on, if it's legit or if it's some sort of trolling, I'm kind of losing a little respect for Elon. You know, like I said, I posted, you know a little thing from this and I said I'm team Trump, but I don't like the big, massive bills, the smorgasbord bills. I don't like them. I don't know, but we'll see, we'll see. Man, I, um, I'm kind of done talking. I don't know what to talk about and I'm only I'm like halfway, well, a little more than halfway. Um, let's see what's been going on. Man, um, driving, no, they got a new mall. Yeah, so they opened a new mall called SM Mall. I always say S&M, but it's called SM Supermarket, I think it stands for, or no, no, it's Hypermarket, I don't know. Anyway, so they opened up this new mall, and the Philippines malls are still a big deal. You know, I've said it before. States people don't go to the mall anymore, but here they do. It's almost it's like it was, you know, in the 90s or something. So they open up this new mall and of course Filipinos got to be the first one and they want to see all the new mall. And of course Filipinos got to be the first one and they want to see all the new stuff.
Speaker 1:And I was like I'm not going to go for a while, I'm just going to let the whole frenzy die down. Stick to the mall that I've been going to, which is Robinson's. Which is weird is the mall is only like 10 ish years old, but it looks like it's 20. Come on, gosh, every time I start talking damn mic, just phlegm starts coming out. So, but then my wife was like, hey, let's go, not that bad, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, all right, fine, so I go, and it wasn't that bad.
Speaker 1:The parking man it's like filipinos can't park, for shit. It takes them forever to back in, so there's always a line to kind of get in. And then the parking spots are small, man, it's like the one at Robinson's is older, but it's like more and more people have, you know, vans and trucks. They need to make these parking spots bigger, or they need to designate maybe vans and trucks and cars or something, because it's just, you're squeezing in, you know it's retarded. Then the mall is very nice. Not all things are open, you know, but it's nice having a different variety. Their department store is much nicer, more selection.
Speaker 1:We went to an Italian restaurant, which is nice because there is no Italian restaurant around here. I mean there might be people trying to do Italian, but a lot of Italian food here is the Filipino style, which is nice because there is no Italian restaurant around here. I mean, there might be people trying to do Italian, but a lot of Italian food here is the Filipino style, which is sweet. So you get a lasagna or pizza and it's like got, you know it's really sweet, which is fine every once in a while. But you know, you kind of miss the Italian style, kind of. So this has that. Now, it wasn't the greatest, but it was just nice to have some.
Speaker 1:We had a pizza that was in the oven thing and my wife didn't like it much. She said it wasn't bad, but I think I didn't mind it. I liked it more than she did. And then the lasagna was a little kind of dry. It didn't have a lot of sauce on it but it still had. It was good but the flavor was like like you had to kind of find it. It's like where's the flavor at? Oh, there's some, okay, I don't know. But it seems like my wife, though. So she's been going to culinary school mainly to do baking. She wants to learn how to bake and make pastries and things like that and kind of go that route, I guess. Um, and ever since that she's really been kind of like a critic to food. I mean, she's always kind of been a foodie, she's. She's a great cook without training, she's just naturally a good cook. It's probably one of the reasons why I married her, you know, because I was like, oh man, she can cook, all right, but so, yeah, so the mall is nice and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:It's just like, yeah, traffic is kind of crazy, and then at that intersection to get there, they, they put in a light, so it's the second light in the area, traffic light, um, but man, oh, dude, filipinos, just they don't, they don't know how to, they don't know how to drive through any kind of intersection, arrow merging. Oh my gosh, they, they just you know it, just they don't know what to do. It is getting better like they. They had it on one day, I remember, and it was just like people were. They didn't know what to do, so they got the traffic guys out there to kind of help, and then it's like everything's flashing yellow and it's like here you do this, this is how you do it. Hopefully they'll get it eventually.
Speaker 1:But the problem is, though, is so they have driver's ed, and people are now having to go through Driver's ed to get their license expires or whatever. There's a lot of people that don't even have licenses on the road, but they don't. They don't set a standard, they don't if they fail, but they give them a little cheese. Oh, it's okay, here you go, here's your license. So you're just, you're not teaching Anything. Nothing's going to change.
Speaker 1:And then there's so many people that don't have a license, and police will set up little checkpoints, and they'll check mainly mopeds, because people on mopeds get away with it. You know they'll check and see if they have it, and the thing is is like somebody on a moped will see, and if there's no way to go around, they'll just pull inside the road and wait. So you, there's like a group of people on mopeds just waiting, and then the police just sit there and they can see them, but they don't do nothing. It's like that. Right, there is kind of uh, um, damn, I forgot the term. You know that's enough to at least talk to the person and ask for their ID and be like what are you doing? This is weird, you know, like they're trying to hide something. Are they moving drugs or whatever? It's probable cause Because they see a checkpoint and they stop. They don't want to come over. It's not like they're stopping at an eatery, which sometimes they do, and sometimes the way hold on. So I don't want to get off track, but it's just like.
Speaker 1:You know, when I used to do checkpoints and whatever, we always had a chase car in the back, so like if we were setting it up and somebody was coming on post and then they turned around, we had somebody pull them over and a lot of times it's they forgot their ID. Their cat card is what they call it. You know they're pulling them to the gate and they're like, okay, let me get my cat card as they're driving. Oh crap, I don't have it, I left it at home, shit. So they turn around or whatever. But sometimes it's because people are doing shady shit, so they should have, you know, a chase vehicle.
Speaker 1:But the thing is too is. It seems like the police always set the checkpoint up right at a spot to where people can get out of it if they want to. You know what I mean. Like they're trying to lessen their workload, so they're going to set it up. Look, we're doing our job, we're setting up this checkpoint, but it's right by an area. So if somebody's coming up and they see it and they're like, oh shit, well, here's a turn, I'll just turn here and I'll wait or I'll bypass it or whatever, you know what I mean that's. The other thing Is the police here are just they don't do shit. They just they'll go out there and do a little something and they'll take pictures and make it look like they're busy and whatever, but they actually don't do anything. They're just for show, they're just for looks. You know, I don't know it sucks.
Speaker 1:I've talked about that too before. Yeah, yeah, yeah, what are you going to do? Yeah, yeah, yeah, what are you going to do? But yeah, that's kind of about it for me. Hopefully my, my tooth and jaw and everything will be back to normal by the time I got to do another podcast and hopefully this Trump and Elon.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't think this is going to hurt Trump at all. I mean, the media will try and make it hurt Trump. If this is all legit, it's just going to Elon's going to be the one that looks kind of like an idiot. I think he needs to stop. He needs to stop and just if it's legit he needs to stop. If they're trolling, then whatever, but I don't know.
Speaker 1:Just it's kind of weird. We'll see, it'll be kind of funny. But at the same time it's like you know, come on, man, you got stuff to do. But I guess, man, in the time we live in and the way the media and everything goes after everything, I guess you got to kind of make the media look stupid thing goes after everything. I guess you got to kind of make the media look stupid. So you do something, so the media jumps on it and then you know, I don't know, maybe that's their tactic. Who knows, we'll see. Let me know what you think. I appreciate your time and I enjoyed hanging out with you. Have a good one and God bless. All right Bye.
