Objective Jerk
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Objective Jerk
SHANE GILLIS AT THE ESPYS; THE DECLINE OF LEFT-WING COMEDY: When did we stop laughing at ourselves?
The intersection of daily life in the Philippines with observations about comedy and entertainment culture reveals how authenticity is becoming increasingly rare in our polarized world.
• Living in rural Philippines presents unique challenges with well water systems instead of city water
• Pressure washing during rainstorms is surprisingly effective for maintaining exterior surfaces
• Shane Gillis's ESPYs monologue highlighted the left's inability to laugh at itself
• Authentic comedy should target everyone equally, not just politically acceptable targets
• Movie criticism often seems ideologically motivated rather than honest assessment
• Warner Brothers missed an opportunity by not completing the Man of Steel Superman trilogy
• Rushing to compete with Marvel's success prevented proper character development in DC films
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What's going on. You are listening to the Objective Jerk and I am said, jerk, how's everybody doing? Hope, everybody's doing well, and you know all that jazz Finally got like a. So you know, part of the reason here in the Philippines that it rains is because there's typhoons that you know create the rain and the clouds and everything. So a lot of times, like, we're not hit directly by the typhoon, but we're getting the rain. So I've been waiting. So I've been waiting.
Speaker 1:I did, um, pressure washed my father-in-law's house because you know, algae builds up around here with the rain and when it's dry it's fine, but when it rains, man, it gets really slick. So you got to pressure wash to get all that stuff off. And and it's a lot harder when it's not raining, Like because I did his house when it was kind of dry and so it's like it took so much longer to pressure wash it. So I'm like, okay, I'm going to wait for when it's raining to do our house, because our house needs a bed and we got a long driveway, because when it rains it kind of gets everything wet and it gets obviously and it just brings everything out and kind of like loosens it all up so you can pressure wash it so much easier. So it is raining now and it's supposed to rain all day. So as soon as I'm done with this, that's kind of what my plan is is just go out there in a couple, in a pair of swim trunks and just barefoot and everything, and just pressure wash the area around my house. Good times, still don't have the extension for it, though it sucks. Well, it'll come out a little easier because, like I said, because of the rain.
Speaker 1:But yeah, it's almost something you have to do annually. I think it's. I didn't do it last year but I did the year before, but yeah it's. Or you know, I guess, put some, get some vinegar Couldn't get some vinegar and spray it all over and probably get rid of some of it, I guess, but then that doesn't quite clean it as well. It looks so much better though after you pressure wash it. And plus, honestly, if it didn't matter if it was easy or hard or not with the rain, but, like I like, because we have well water, so you have to have water going constantly. You know a little, the hose just turned on a little bit to fill up for the pressure washer, cause we don't have, we don't do. We don't do, um, like I don't hook the hose up to the pressure washer because we have well water, so I don't want to clog up. So it's just, you know, it has like a hose that has like a little filter thing put in a bucket stuff. So it's the same thing. It just helps keep the pressure washer from getting, you know, because even though we have like a filtration system in our water, it's still stuff gets through and calcium deposits and all that kind of stuff one of these days. See, that's the thing is like I haven't.
Speaker 1:The thing I've talked about before is we had some like little water heaters for our showers. That worked kind of like a cure egg, you know. It just like immediately heats up the water and then you get I don't know how it, but you know you kind of heat it as it would go. So you fill up the water and then hold it for a minute, heat it up, and then it spits it out. I guess I don't know. Just a little thing. It was kind of crazy, but it was. It worked great for a while, but over time it just starts to kind of clog up. It doesn't work right, and so we haven't.
Speaker 1:So it was like we're like boiling water and then putting it into our shower, a little bucket, doing the filipino thing, and so sometimes, you know, I mean it's not a big deal, but sometimes it's, I miss having like a hot shower. I mean I have hot water and stuff, but it's not, you know, it's not the same. I mean we don't use as much water, which is good, but but, like I said, it's well water, so we're not paying for it. But the goal is, though, once we get a good filtration system which we'd have to have larger filters plus, um, what do you call it? Water softener and all that kind of stuff then then we can get like an actual water heater, um, and then get like probably, a dishwasher stuff like that we can't do that with because we don't have city water here, um, because we're kind of out in the farm area and, um, the well water is just it's well water. You know it's kind of how it is, but but yeah, so that's all, that's all that's going on with me.
Speaker 1:I wanted to talk about um shane gillis, uh, the comedian. He's a I mean I'm sure a lot of you know some of you don't know he's a big down syndrome looking white guy who's pretty funny. He was hired on SNL right at the beginning of, I think, covid I think it was 2020-ish somewhere around there, I think so but he was doing podcasts and everything like that and he made some joke that wasn't even. It was like nothing compared to even some of the jokes he did at the sbs recently, you know. But then you had people oh, we don't want him on it. So then he ended up getting fired, but it's fine because he's huge.
Speaker 1:Now he's, you know, popular as ever, and snl sucks. So I mean I think he it was a good thing, you know, popular as ever and SNL sucks. So I mean, I think he it was a good thing, you know, I mean, even if he got on, he probably wouldn't be there still now anyway. So SNL just doesn't hold the same weight it used to, you know. But I don't know if you guys saw it I'm not going to play, I don't. You know show clips and stuff. Sorry, I'm lazy, but if you haven't seen it, you know, get on YouTube and look up the SB's Shangulous monologue. It's pretty good. It's good because, I mean, there's some good jokes on there. Better is like the a lot of the crowd just are. You know he, Shane Gillis, is. He's not right wing or anything like that, but he pokes fun at everything and he's not. He's definitely not liberal, you know what I mean. So, and ESPN very liberal.
Speaker 1:The ESPYs and a lot of whatever kind of you could argue are, but they went out of their comfort zone. So whoever that was in charge of the ESPYs that hired Shangulas did a good job and is smart, because nobody nobody watches the ESPYs that hired Shane Gillis did a good job and is smart because nobody watches the ESPYs. Nobody even knows what. You know, you don't even know who the host was last year, the year before, the year before. You know nobody. You don't ever hear about the ESPYs. Nobody gives a shit right of shit right. You don't give a shit about the, the awards, that that the retarded left celebrities and stuff throw for themselves and make themselves feel better because they're pieces of trash. You know, nobody cares. Um, so the only reason people knew that theYs even happened is because of this the clip of Shane Gillis doing his monologue. My hand is itching, but yeah, it was, it was.
Speaker 1:So whoever hired him, you know, good job. I think that's. That's pretty cool. It's going back a step in the right direction, right, instead of just coddling everybody. And there's a lot of you know and you can see, you got to watch it.
Speaker 1:It's funny Because, like I said, it's funny because it's almost like for that crowd. He almost bombed in a sense. You know what I mean. I mean you got people laughing, but it's not the whole crowd, you just some people who you know, who have a sense of humor, but then you have a lot of you know people that are like oh, oh my God, did he just say that? Oh my, you know what I mean? And it's like that's actually what's almost more entertaining is just, you see, the left part of the crowd, just like, oh my gosh, did he say that? You know just, and I think that's hilarious.
Speaker 1:I think it's funny, you know, and he pokes fun at the people there, he does, you know, because he's introducing. He's like hey, hey, we got so-and-so in the crowd and, dude, I haven't man since, since coming here to the Philippines, I don't know. I mean, I know who. Like Simone Biles, is that her name? I know who. She is the gold medalist, you know, I know who.
Speaker 1:Some, I know who, caitlin Clark, I know, but, like I haven't football, I don't even know, like, who the quarterback for the Steelers is. You know, I don't know. I don't even know who the quarterback for my team is, because I don't even, like, I don't know the name. I just checked out and it's easy for me because it's not on TV and on the. You know what I mean. It's just it's not around here because I'm over here. The only thing that's big over here is basketball. So, you know, I can't really, you know, say anything much.
Speaker 1:But the joke, the whole reason I'm talking about this is so he's introducing people and, like I said, some of them I know, most of them I don't know. It's like oh, we got so-and-so in the house and blah, blah, blah, this and that and, and then he's like hey, we got he names, a name and you know, wnba, whatever this and that, and everybody's cheering and it shows. You know, they put the camera on her and they're clapping and whoo, he's like haha, that's actually the wife of my friend. She's not an nwa player. You know, I'm not surprised. You know, you guys don't know any nwa players. You know it just makes everybody look like a fool. You know, because it's true, you know they're trying to make it like oh my gosh, but nobody watches the nwa and the only reason they are now is because of caitlin clark, you know, but I thought that was funny.
Speaker 1:And then, um, his epstein joke was pretty good. Uh, again, if you haven't seen it, go watch it. Don't let me destroy all the good ones and don't listen to what I have to say. Go watch it, um, because it's pretty funny. Then he's like, uh, oh, he's like oh, we had originally, we had an. Destroy all the good ones and don't listen to what I have to say. Go watch it, um, cause it's it's pretty funny. And then he's like, uh, oh, he's like oh, we had originally we had an Epstein joke here, but I guess it got deleted, or maybe it deleted itself. And, uh, he's like um, I guess, yeah, you know, I guess it's not a big deal, we'll just move on. It's pretty funny. I thought I'm ruining the joke, so you need to go watch it.
Speaker 1:What was the other one? Oh, when he's talking about the soccer lesbian chick that had pink hair. Damn, what was her name? Ramon, no, dang, what was her name? But he was like so-and-so is not here. She's like the really angry, lesbian, short-haired, you know, chick, that was on the American soccer team or the US. But he's like, oh, she's not here, so that's good.
Speaker 1:And then people are like, oh, he's like, oh well, we're just going to pretend she's a good time, you know, because it is, she's fucking a horrible person. You know what I mean. But because she's a woman and she's lesbian and she's in sports, you have to, like, you know, suck her dick. You know, oh, she's brave and all this kind of stuff. No, she's a terrible person, she's a bitch, she's a cunt, whatever you want to call her.
Speaker 1:You know, and see, that's kind of the thing about the left, dude. Well, hold on before I get to that. And then he makes some jokes about Trump, which were funny, but it was a story and he was just kind of poking a little fun at Trump. But you know, if he would have said something that was totally attacking Trump, then everybody would have been like, yeah, but no. So this is why this is one of the things why the left is failing at a lot of things. I mean, look at, you have Stephen Colbert. The Late Show has been canceled because nobody watches it, because he's trash and it's all bullshit trash and then Like YouTube channels, right, people that review.
Speaker 1:So, okay, you know what I'm talking about with the people who were like, oh my gosh, they don't want to laugh at the expense of somebody. That is like they'll the left how do I say this? Like they don't like to laugh at other people and it's not like you know. They're so hung up on the whole bullying and making whatever, but it's like they're jokes. They're so hung up on the whole bullying and making whatever, but it's like their jokes or comedians, that's their jobs, so everybody can be made fun of. To an extent, you know what I'm saying. But it's like if you, if you make a joke as somebody that's in their group or whatever, they don't want to laugh, group or whatever they don't want to laugh I mean, if it's, you know, a republican trump, whatever this and that then all they'll laugh all day long, right, even if it's not even funny. But it's like if you're poking fun at other people like the dang what was her name? Maroon, maroon, I don't know, the lesbian soccer lady, you know, but because she's a lesbian and left-wing and that they can't laugh at that, and that's where that's why the left is failing though, because they're just they're not genuine. You know what I mean. They're not honest, they're just not.
Speaker 1:And that goes with, like you know, movies and and like a big thing right now is like superman. Right, the superman film, which i't seen, but I've watched people talk about it, break down the movie, spoilers and everything, because I'm not going to watch it. It's not for me, so I don't care if it's you know, and just the clips I've seen and from what I heard, I'm like God, it just doesn't look good. But then they'll be like oh my gosh, it's so great, it's so great. You have people that will. Movies that are shit. They'll still be like oh, we try and find the good in it. We don't want to. It's like. No, if it sucks, it sucks. If it's good, it's good. It doesn't matter what it's about, who wrote it, whatever what it's about, who wrote it, whatever you know.
Speaker 1:But like there's always like this weird agenda and I don't know I mean it kind of goes back the other way too. There's what's his name? There's a YouTuber that I used to watch, benny Johnson I guess, who is very political. I mean, I quit, I'm kind of cutting out my political channels, but I stopped watching this guy because he would be like, oh, breaking news, this and this. And you're like, oh, what's going on?
Speaker 1:And then you watch it and it's just like it's nothing. It's like what he just kept like, oh, he, maybe he meant he said this, but this is what he meant. I'm like, no, that's not. How do you get that from that? Like what? It's just no. So I was just like got to a point where I was like, okay, I'm done watching this guy and he kind of seems like he's a propagandist for Trump. You know what I mean. And it's like I don't want that either. I don't want people to. Just I just want to know the facts. What's going on, you know, and this whole thing about certain, oh, this is what's happening. And then you watch the video and you're like, what, nothing has changed. What are you talking about? And so it's just you know.
Speaker 1:So both sides do it, but the left is really bad about it right now just because they're, because they're, you know, kind of declining. You know, like steven colbert, um, but then he's, but he's still got like another year. The show's not going to be canceled for like another year, which is kind of crazy. So I don't know, I just find that kind of weird. I mean it's like the end of the tv, whatever, but it's almost like they do that. So maybe people are like, oh my gosh, I don't want to fail, so then more people will watch it and save it. Maybe I don't know, maybe that's why I like it when they're like, oh, this isn't doing any good, so we got rid of it, it's gone, no more. What is that Buzzing? Oh, it's just because it's not level. But yeah, so I mean the left.
Speaker 1:If you know, unless you're attacking Trump or meat or masculinity or something, they're not going to laugh. You know what I mean. It's just insane. And then people that are like that say like, oh my gosh, you know, like Shane Gillis isn't funny. It's like, well, you're just. Then you are not funny, you know what I mean. Then you, that's just not, you're not, you don't like jokes, you don't have a sense of humor. Then you know what I mean. Then you, that's just not, you're not, you don't like jokes, you don't have a sense of humor. Then you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying all of his jokes were pure gold. I mean a lot of it had to do with where he was at, which made it better, and they were actually kind of tame. I'm sure there it's, you know, because he he's not writing them all and they have to go through. You know somebody's gonna be like, no, we're not saying that, or yeah, that's okay, or whatever. But it's just like.
Speaker 1:You know, like the Superman movie it, from day one it did not look interesting to me. You know, the first picture, the first shot of what his uniform looked like, I was like I don't like that. And then the first shot of this, and then it was like and then the first trailer, I was just like man, no, it's just, it doesn't look good to me. I, I don't care to watch it. And then, just every time more information or more whatever would come out, it just I wanted to see it less and less. And now I'm just like I don't, there's no, you know, and before you know, so many years ago I would have felt like I was missing out, oh man. But now I'm like I don't care.
Speaker 1:But and some people like it, and that's fine to say, like I enjoyed it because of whatever, this and that. But what's annoying is like when people are just like oh my god, it's the greatest movie of all time, it's so great. But like they're overly compensating. They're trying to because it's, you know, and I think it's just because Superman is like the not the goat, but one of the goats of masculinity you know what I mean, and they completely got, they totally took that out. Superman, you know, superman gets his ass kicked the whole time. Everybody disrespects him, and it's just you know. So it's like poking fun at that whole masculinity thing, and so, of course, people want to like hoop and holler and say they love it and everything, and I mean, I don't know, is there some people that really think it's the greatest? Yeah, I'm sure, but I think there's a lot of people, especially in the whole um sphere of, you know, reviewing movies and stuff that are kind of like that are lying a little bit.
Speaker 1:The thing is, though, everything that I've seen about this one, it just looks like it's not going to have any kind of gravitas that's not the right word. It's not going to have any lasting like it won't be. I hate to say it because that's what I keep seeing everywhere. Like it won't be. I hate to say it because that's what I keep seeing everywhere. Like, ooh, we want to be iconic. It's not going to be iconic, it's just going to be like Superman Returns. It was all right, it came and went, nobody really. Oh, I liked it when I was younger but, yeah, I haven't watched it now. Yeah, it's not that good now. It was good at the time but now it's like you know, um, it's just, it's not going to hold any kind of water.
Speaker 1:I think man of Steel still does, cause it's very cinematic. The score, the, the cinematography and everything is much, much better. And, um, you know, and I get why people don't like some things about it. Like you have the comic book people that don't like a certain whatever, but overall they like the film. They like it better than the new one. People that used to hate on man of Steel like it better than this new one. You know what I mean. And it's like the other people that don't like it is because of it was more masculine.
Speaker 1:You know, honestly, man of steel, which I guess no man still didn't have, lex luther, he came in with batman versus superman. Huh, man of steel. I the only thing I mean. What's? Um, the actress that played Lois Lane. I think she's attractive and I like her as an actress. Yeah, I don't think she's the greatest Lois Lane, but she's not. She's alright.
Speaker 1:You know, um, the the only thing that really kind of bugged me about man of Steel I mean the whole universe that Zack Snyder did I didn't like what's-his-face as Lex Luthor. This guy who's the new Lex Luthor in the new movie, the new movie looks better. I wish he would have been, and you know the Batman versus Superman. But the only thing I didn't really like about man of Steel was when he's when Superman is fighting Zod and Zod loses his his you know little face helmet thingy, and then he starts feeling the effects and all that kind of stuff. Why didn't Superman get at him right then and there? Because he knows what he's going through. He went through that as a teenager, so he knows he's disoriented. He can't, you know, do whatever. That's the prime time to freaking go after him. It's like so that always kind of bugged me. I'm like man, that's when, you know, rip that shit off, get on. You know, beat the hell out of him, that's your time. But then he doesn't and then he gets away and then all of a sudden, now he can have, you know, laser eyes and all you know, I mean it's like it needed to happen for the story, I guess. But so that was the only thing that really kind of bugged me about man of steel. Um, yeah, I guess what's his face?
Speaker 1:Henry Cavill, his Clark Kent wasn't. I mean, it just looked like Superman with glasses on, like literally. You know what I mean. But I mean that whole shtick is kind of stupid. Anyway, you comb your hair a little bit different, you put glasses on and they can't recognize you, and that's always been a joke, you know. But yeah, I think I mean I never liked the whole. Oh, gee, golly Lois, I don't know, acting like a retard, so that people don't mistake him for Superman. But I think Henry Cavill could have done something a little different, like they could have done a little something to kind of you know, but not make him like the goofy doofus that he is in, like the original Superman movies. That was the thing I hated about Superman or Clark Kent and everything I don't know. I just, you know, man, I keep, I guess, because man, it's just Superman thing is just everywhere, but it's looking like it's not. It's looking like it's going to make less, just for inflation and everything. It's going to make less money than the man of Steel. So it kind of makes you wonder what's going to happen, because I mean, man of Steel was pretty damn good Made, because I mean man of Steel was pretty damn good, made a lot of money, but then it was like they were just Warner Brothers. And that's the thing too.
Speaker 1:A lot of people attack Zack Snyder. He does the slow motion thing, I get that, but his movies are very masculine men that are manly, you know what I mean. And so then you have left people that don't like the movies. His movies are very masculine, you know what I mean. It's men that are manly, you know what I mean. And so then you have left kind of people that don't like the movies, and that's why. But the shit, what was I? I was trying to say something Every time, every time, every time, every time. It works 30% of the time, or how does that go? It works 30% of the time Every time, I don't know. Dang it. Zack Snyder, oh yeah, so the that's where they messed up with the whole. I'm already at 27 minutes, so I gotta hurry up.
Speaker 1:They did man of Steel and then they went right to Batman vs Superman and then they did Wonder Woman and then they did Justice League, like, and it's because I mean, I'm sure Zack Snyder wanted to get there eventually, but I think the movie studios and I'm not mistaken that I didn't read this somewhere, but they were really just trying to push to get so they could get up to Avengers and get. You know, they wanted to get that Avenger money in. Instead of building the foundation first, they just wanted to get right to the penthouse. Does that make sense? But it's like if they would have done man of Steel, then maybe even man of Steel 2., then did Wonder Woman and then a Batman with Ben Affleck and then maybe even man of Steel 3. He could have done man of Steel 3, but then did Justice League and then did man of Steel 3. I think it would have been so much better.
Speaker 1:And that's another reason why people who they call the Snyder Bros or whatever they're like that movie's over. It's no longer here, there's a new one, so get over it. The reason people can't get over it is because they didn't get a complete trilogy. If people would have got a man of Steel trilogy that showed a complete arc for Henry Cavill's Superman, then people would be fine, they wouldn't care about this new one, whatever. Hey, we got our man of Steel trilogy, so I'm good. But because Warner Brothers sucks and don't know what the hell they're doing, they just drop the ball on that one. You know what I mean. But yeah, then people wouldn't care as much. You know, like, if we'd gotten, you know, you know what I mean. But yeah, then people wouldn't care as much. You know, like, if we'd gotten.
Speaker 1:You know, you had the Dark Knight, right, but you had the trilogy. A lot of people didn't like the third one. I liked the third one, I liked all of them really. But you know, you had closure. You know, because you had all three, okay, and that's over.
Speaker 1:And then you know all of a sudden they're doing batman versus superman. You're like man, they're already doing another batman. It was kind of shocking for me. I was like god, they just got done with the dark knight, now they're doing another. They're rebooting batman again. I was like, okay, whatever, I guess, like I was surprised, but it wasn't a big deal because we had, you know, we had that trilogy but since man of Steel never got that, that's why people kind of are still up in arms. It's like man, if we could just have that man of Steel trilogy, then we wouldn't care. We wouldn't care if you made Superman gay because we wouldn't watch it, we wouldn't care. It's like you know we want. We would like a, because that movie made a lot of money.
Speaker 1:A lot of people like man of Steel and you can't say that they don't. And if they would have made it a trilogy, then and then when you look at the way the new Superman movie is, I think they're like damn it, maybe we should have. I think they might be kind of regretting it a little bit Because the new one just looks like it looks like a TV show and people are like, oh, it's so comic, accurate and this and that. And I'm like you know, if I want a comic book, I'll read a fucking comic book. I want a film, a cinematic version of the comic book. You know what I mean? I don't want a comic book come to life. I mean me personally, that's what.
Speaker 1:Yes, I want things, I don't know, but I'm kind of on the other spectrum, whatever. I don't like the superman underwear on the outside and like. I always thought that was hokey. Like I said before, I was not a fan of Superman until man of Steel, and even then I'm still not like this huge. I don't have Superman shirts and I don't collect anything Superman. You know I like Batman and stuff, but anyway, that's it. Yeah, I've been talking for too long, so I appreciate your time. Thanks for hanging out. Let me know what you think. I'll see you next time and God bless, all right, bye.
