Objective Jerk
Catholic Army Veteran, uses MIC / Platform as a form of "Therapy", no schedule, no script, no pressure.
Objective Jerk
ARE WE WITNESSING THE CRUSADES PART 3?: Plus, Finding Humanity in Deep Space Nine
Embarking on a journey through classic Star Trek series has led to surprising emotional connections and reflections on modern storytelling quality.
• Finding Deep Space Nine to be remarkably well-written with compelling character development
• Experiencing unexpected emotional impact from "The Visitor" episode connecting with themes of fatherhood
• Contrasting the nuanced storytelling of 90s television with modern writers' approaches
• Drawing parallels between current cultural tensions and historical religious conflicts
• Observing how immigration discussions often lack nuance despite revealing statistics
• Noting how social media intensifies cultural divisions without meaningful dialogue
• Appreciating Captain Sisko as perhaps the most relatable and effective Star Trek captain
Thanks for hanging out. I'll see you next time and God bless.
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What's up? You were listening to the Objective Jerk and I am said, jerk, how's everybody doing? Hope everybody's doing. Well, wow, I really heard that sip. I turned, oh, man, I can hear everything. I turned off the noise gate because it kept doing this weird thing. So I don't know, I'm going to try it like this. Hopefully my chair and whatever doesn't get annoying Anyway. So, what's up? Man, I've been on a Star Trek journey. I guess I don't know, um, I don't know I'm.
Speaker 1:You know, like I said, I'm not really a fan boy of much, except for like I was, you know, he, some things when I was a kid, he man, I still kind of geek over a little. You know, I got some, I got a couple of he-man figures, um, things like that. But I'm not like you know I. You know I have like a shirt Skeletor on it and some stuff like that. But I'm not like you know, I have like a shirt Skeletor on it and some stuff like that. But you know, I was disappointed with some of the stuff, not really looking forward to this movie that's coming out. Hopefully it's good, I hope it is, but I don't know Like everything else that comes out now, you know, but ooh, that sounds better right there. My, that's a good, that's a good. Trying to get this down, man, I wonder, if I tilt this up a little bit, does that sound better? That sounds better, right, Anyway. So, anyway, so, star Trek, you know, I I've watched the movies, pretty much all of them. I don't think I've seen the last one with the Next Generation crew, I think it was called Nemesis. I want to say, I don't think I've seen that one, so I enjoy them. I've. I don't think I've seen that one, so I enjoy them. I've always, you know, but I was never like a big, huge geek about it. I was more of a Star Wars fan. But even then, you know, just, I was never a fanboy and you know. So I watched the movies.
Speaker 1:I've seen a few of the original episodes. They're kind of the original episodes. They're kind of hard to watch. It's just so campy, it's kind of fun, but at the same time, I don't know, I'd probably have to just really sit down and just give it a chance, you know, and that's kind of what I'm doing right now. That's where I'm at. I'm just watching old stuff that I haven't watched before, things I never watched that are older. I'm watching now because everything sucks now.
Speaker 1:So I, let's see, I started watching Next Generation but I've seen most. Well, I watched a lot of it when it was coming out on TV, when it was aired, you know, and I remember it and I liked it, you know, but, like I don't know, I only watched like one or two episodes and it was just kind of like, I don't know, I couldn't get into it. You know, I was trying to start from the beginning and um, but so I was like, okay, well, what else? And then on Netflix they also have Deep Space Nine and they got Star Trek, voyager Both shows I have seen episodes of when they were aired on TV and stuff. You know, I, if I happen to come across it when it was on, I would watch it.
Speaker 1:But I never, like, set the date and paid attention oh it's on, oh it's Sunday, so Star Trek, or whatever day it came out, you know, uh, I was never like that about Star Trek. I did have some shows where I was like them, but anyway, so don't really know much about it. You know, um, so I decided on deep space nine because it's before Voyager, you know, and so I, you know that's what I've been doing. I've been watching pretty much every night at least one episode, but I watch a few around my lazy days. I, you know, I'm watching them and, dude, it's a good fucking show. You know, um, I don't know, I'm on, uh, I think the I just started the fourth season and um, it's good man, like it's got really good character development and like that's. I think that's what makes it good. It's just it's the characters and the writing, obviously, I guess. But I don't know, it's just it's cool because you just have such different.
Speaker 1:You know, in the other original Star Trek you had, basically everybody was human except for Spock, as far as the, you know, the whatchamacallit, the team you know, except for, like, you know, aliens that they encountered and everything but. And then what next generation had, wharf and data, and then what's her face was like a psychic. But they were all pretty much human, you know. So deep space nine is kind of cool because I mean, but they were all pretty much human. You know, so Deep Space Nine is kind of cool because I mean, yeah, they're all humanoids.
Speaker 1:I guess you'd say, but, like, dax is really an interesting character, and then Odo is awesome and cool. Yeah, once you get past the graphics of him Going to liquid state and whatever you know, that's about the only kind of thing that. As far as special effects goes, I'm like, well, this is in the 90's, you know. But other than that, it's all good. Quark, his son like everything, everybody's little character arcs that are Happening, it's really good. His son like everything, like they're all everybody's little character arcs that are happening. It's, it's really good.
Speaker 1:Um, I just watched man, what is it called? Uh, it's the second episode. So Worf is now part of which I knew, you know, I knew he went to that show eventually, but so Worf is now a part of the Deep Space Nine crew and that was like the last or the first episode, first two of this season with the Klingons and everything. But then this third or second however you want to look at it episode, dude man, I was like bawling my eyes out. I'm like sitting there crying watching Star Trek Deep Space Nine Like seriously I was. I was like fighting back tears and stuff.
Speaker 1:I want to. Where's it at Episodes? Oh, what the crap. This is different than on my phone Star Trek Deep, what is it I'm at? Okay, that's my kids messaging. Okay, um, star trek here it is, premise cast, what the crap they don't. This isn't on. It's different than on the phone season overview.
Speaker 1:It has like episodes, because I do this all the time. I look at it. I guess I'll do this. Okay, boomer, all right. So season. I said I'm season four. This is the space the episode was written. I think this is it right here. I want to make sure though. Um, yeah, okay, so the Visitor.
Speaker 1:It's the the fourth season, episode two, because I guess the first season was, or the first episode was like two parts or whatever. Dude it's. It's a really good episode and maybe it just kind of hit me in the right spot Because, I don't know, my father passed away. It's going to be almost five years now, and then now I'm kind of older and I have kids and everything now, and then now I'm kind of older and I have kids and everything. So it's like I could kind of uh empathize with both. You know his son and him through that. You know what I mean. Like I don't know I'm. This isn't like a star trek deep dive or whatever, but in the episode starts off when, so you have uh cisco who dude.
Speaker 1:Sisko is the man dude. He is so far. So, yeah, he's like my favorite captain. Basically, I like him better than Picard Picard's cool. And then Kirk is alright, I mean, he's the OG, you know. Um, I don't know the Janeway, I guess I'll probably watch Voyager once I'm done with this. But man Sisko, though he's badass. So, as of right now, as a not really a noob but I'm not, you know, like I said, I'm not a fanboy he's probably my favorite captain. He's just, I don't know, he's a good captain man, um, I relate to him, even though he's a black guy, but we got the same haircut now.
Speaker 1:Um, anyway, so he they're on the ship and he gets zapped from the what do you call it, the thing that makes it, so they get the warp drive, I guess, and so he disintegrates and whatever, right. And so his son, jake you know, everybody's mourning him and then all of a sudden, cisco will appear briefly and talk to him. There's so much going on with my family right now, sorry, on Messenger, so I'm kind of anyway. And then he just kind of goes through life, like so he sees him and obviously it's like man, that's rough, it's like your dad is gone, but he's not. Can I do something. Can I help him?
Speaker 1:And for Cisco, it's just like it's brief, you know he just goes to his thing and then like a decade goes by and he comes back and all you know he doesn't. It's not you know, time is not linear wherever he's at, and so it gets to a point to where, you know, he's starting, his son is like doing his crease mary, he's writing, and then when he appears, he's like, oh, that's great man, give me some grandkids, you know. But then he ends up quitting writing to focus on getting a degree in some star trek space thing so he can figure out how to get his dad back. But then it's like, you know, he's kind of wasting his life away to get his dad and that's all I'm going to say about it. But it's like, it's like I feel for like Jake, because it's like man.
Speaker 1:You know, if I could have, you know, done something with my dad, I mean, my dad was, you know, he had health issues and stuff, but you know, I think about him a lot and I miss him using stuff, and but you know, I think about him a lot and I miss him, and but then I also see from like Cisco, or from, uh, benjamin's side. It's like, dude, he's in his thing or whatever it's like don't waste your time on me, man. Live your life, you know, and that's you know. That's that's kind of just all you would want for your kids. You just want your kids to be happy and to you know, live their life and everything. And I don't know man, it was like I was sitting there and watching, I'm watching my phone, I'm just like you know. And then I got done. I'm like dude. I don't think I've ever, you know, cried watching Star Trek before. See, things were, man.
Speaker 1:They just the writers were so much better back then. Writers today suck, I'm sorry, but you suck. All they do is kind of take. So they'll take stuff from you know, next Generation Deep Space Nine and they just change it and add gay people and this and that. Oh, let's do this. Basically take the same thing, but just change it up, because they have no, they have no imagination anymore, man. They're just completely bankrupt. And it shows, it shows, man, it's not, it's not me being biased or whatever it's. You see it. It just it all sucks. It all, it's all. And again I'll say it again. It's why everything is failing, because it's all garbage, but yeah. So that's kind of what I've been doing.
Speaker 1:I've been seeing a lot of. I may still watch news stuff and pay attention, but I've been seeing a lot of things regarding immigrants, especially in the UK and Italy. You have all these immigrants just flooding the world in other countries, other countries, countries that have lenient border restrictions, or you know, just stupid liberal, oh yeah, come in. But it's like I honestly think we are having. This is like the Crusades. I don't know if I said that before, but this is like the third Crusades, because there was two. I know that there was. They were kind of. It was kind of like World War I and World War II. You know, there's 20 years in between, or something like that. There could be more. I'm not going to try and pretend like I'm an expert, but I know there was. There was the Crusades, but crusades but there was. It was separated, because it happened like two times, and I want to say the second one was the more predominant one.
Speaker 1:I don't know, though, but this the thing that's going on right now, where you're just having all these like muslim a lot of them are muslim and they're just flooding other countries with stuff, and then there's all this stuff going on, man, all this crazy violence and stuff, and if you look at the stats you see everything. But then if you point it out, oh you're a racist. Look at this, I saw this. Italy, right, italy's got like like one of the lowest crime rates, I think, as far as countries go. Okay, and then so this is like from january of this year. So there are recent data from italy indicates that, while immigrants constitute approximately only 8% of the population, 8% of the entire population of Italy, they are implicated in the disproportionate I can't say that disproportionate percentage of certain crimes. So, basically, this tiny, small amount of people are responsible for, like most of the crimes that happen in the country 28% of murders are attempted murders, 33% of assaults, 41% of rapes, 49% of burglaries. This is 8% of the population and 49% of burglaries. Look at this, I mean it's, you know. So it's stuff like this. And what's in Italy, man, the Vatican, right, I don't know it. Just it's almost like because you know it's not going to be like it was before Like you could argue that we had a second civil war in America.
Speaker 1:It just wasn't fought on the battlefields with guns and this, and that it just wasn't fought on the battlefields with guns and this, and that it was fought with media and some riots and social media and you know all that kind of stuff and cancel culture and blah, blah, blah, whatever you want to call it, but it was dude. The country was divided. It may not be quite as bad as it seemed on, you know, media and social media and everything, but there was a division, you know, and they're still there. They're still trying to do like the racial thing. And you know, if you're proud to be white, then you're racist, but you can be proud to be everything else and everything. You know if you're a Christian, then you're a Nazi. You know you shouldn't hate other religions and this and that, and it's like it's just, it's kind of crazy. But yeah, you know, I would.
Speaker 1:I think it's like we're in the Crusades again, man, it's just a different, it's just a different aspect. I guess you'd say I don't know, it's just. You know they're trying to flood all the countries, all the Christian countries, with some people and just trying to mess things up. But it's not just that though. It's just all this anti-Christian stuff. You know Olympians that can't say thank you to Jesus or whatever. You know you can't. You know you go to the place where you can make your personalized Coke cans, right, and you get on the computer you can put in Allah, muhammad, you can do all this, but then you can't put Jesus or Christ, or you know what I mean. It's like, it's so like. Oh, I try not to do that like, like, like, but it's so obvious that it's just crazy, I don't know.
Speaker 1:And it's been going on forever because, like I said, I'm watching old shows Like Deep Space, nine man. There's a lot of kind of anti-religion stuff in it, because it's no science in space and you know it deals with a lot of, I guess, contemporary issues, but just in a different way. You know, which is fine. That's how you kind of do it. Really Don't make it blatantly obvious. Or, you know, just write what's the term? Write on the nose like they do now. That's. The thing is the writers can't. Writers back in the day could write about crazy liberal stuff, but write it in a way that even conservatives would be like oh man, that's a good show Today. They don't know how to do that. They just, oh, just make it gay or whatever it is, you know, and it sucks and nobody's watching it. I'm going back to that again. But yeah, it's just kind of you know, and it sucks so and nobody's watching it. I'm going back to that again. But yeah, it's just kind of you know, it's.
Speaker 1:You know how hard it was for me to get a license here. It was a pain in the ass and that's how it should be. But even though I have a license, I can't vote here. I can't vote. Only way I can vote is if I become a Filipino citizen, but then I can't vote here. I can't vote. The only way I can vote is if I become a Filipino citizen, but then I don't know for sure, but I think I would lose my benefits or it's possible, I don't know. But I mean there's no need for me to. You know, not unless I guess America crumbles or something and you know if that comet hits or Yellowstone erupts and just America's gone or something, and you know, if that comet hits or Yellowstone erupts and just America's gone or something, you know, I guess maybe then I don't know I'd still lose my benefits then probably.
Speaker 1:But yeah, it's just dude, we are in the New Age Crusades. I'm going to coin that spread that, the New Age Crusades. That's going to be the title of this podcast. We are living in the New Age Crusades. That's going to be the title of this podcast. We are living in the New Age Crusades, is that right? New Age Crusades, I you know, ooh, there we go. Maybe that's better Crusades. We're in the new Cold Crusades, the Cold Crusades, I don't know. For those that don't know, I use AI with my podcast, right, I upload it and it kind of goes through and it gives me title, ideas based off what I talk about. So I mean I can pick and then, you know, edit it a little bit or do whatever, so we'll see what happens. Come on AI, come up with a title Contemporary Crusades, new World. What did I say earlier? See, I forgot already the Cold Crusades, I don't know.
Speaker 1:But yeah, it's, civil War is over, the contemporary Civil War, and you know the conservative side won. It's still, you know, stuff's still going on. But you can see, like Jaguar with their retardedly gayest marketing campaign I've ever seen, not even showing a car, and they just tanked. And then you have what brand? Is it American Eagle? I think they have just an attractive woman wearing jeans. You know saying things like they used to just, ooh, I got good jeans or whatever Play on words, you know. But everybody's like, oh my god, they're talking about being Nazis and it's like gosh. So I mean now, so the new Civil War is over. Now it's like the cold Civil War, but it's just, you know, because now it's still kind of it's just going on and a little stupid.
Speaker 1:Like you get on whatchamacallit threads, so I get on threads and I'll post and stuff. The reason I kind of get on there is I get more interaction from my stuff that I comment, more so than Twitter. I think it's just because I haven't paid to have an approved Twitter thing, but I just, I don't know, I can't get myself to do it, but yeah it's. I mean Threads has a little bit of everything, but you know, of course they got bots or whatever. I mean Threads has a little bit of everything, but of course they got bots or whatever. But you go through there and you just see some of the retarded takes that people have and I think a lot of it is just people trying to get interaction. People will post something that they don't even necessarily believe, but they know it's going to get interaction and comments and all that kind of crap. So some of it it's just it's all, it's just pointless. You know it really is.
Speaker 1:I do get on there occasionally but it's just funny to see some of the stuff I don't know, but I try to avoid. You know that I think I get on. I get on like let's see what do I have have Twitter Threads, instagram, facebook, and I get on. I check it like once a day. I mean, maybe if I was like a popular YouTuber, this or that, maybe I would check it more. But man, I don't know, I wouldn't like to do that.
Speaker 1:I talked about how I used to be on X a lot with my podcast and I would comment and I would leave a link to my episodes and I was getting downloads. But man, I was on X so much and I just didn't like it. So I'm basically just you. You know, for my podcast I get on, post some stuff, do a couple whatever, and then I don't. I leave it alone. I'm not. You know, it's just, it's just a hobby. I'm not trying to. Thank goodness I don't get as many like oh hey, I'm a marketer, you want me to? Oh, that sounds better.
Speaker 1:I should have been talking closer to the microphone. Huh, been talking back here, but it sounds good either way. Right, which sounds better? Talking like this MSR or what is it called AMSR? I can talk like this into the microphone but then I don't move around. Or is this okay, like when I'm just talking like this away from the microphone? I'm trying talking like this away from the microphone, I'm trying to stay as close as I can. Where am I at 25 minutes? I don't know. Let me know what you think. Are we, did we go on? Did we have a civil war in the States? Are we on the verge of another crusades? I mean, is it technically happening now? Do you like star trek? Anyway, let me know. Uh, appreciate your time. Thanks for hanging out. I'll see you next time and god bless, all right, bye.
