the OBJECTIVE JERK
I have objective views and I am a jerk. I am catholic and I am conservative, but this is not a faith based or political podcast. I am a "normal" person that likes to discuss many topics and although I view things through a catholic/conservative lens, my time in the Army has also left me with an asshole complex. I am not an expert nor am I perfect, but I am Objective and I am a Jerk, so join the Objective Jerk as my Catholic conscience battles with my veteran outlook.
the OBJECTIVE JERK
ANOTHER COBRA IN THE YARD: When Culture Fatigues, Where Does Meaning Live
We trace how passion fades and faith grows, where pop culture once filled the tank and now feels thin. We wrestle with art versus artist, social media noise, a heated debate on a local shooting, and a late-night cobra that demanded action over theory.
• Envy of lifelong fandom and why it stings
• Faith reshaping tastes in music and film
• Art versus artist and where to draw lines
• How social media kills niche connection
• Debating law enforcement use of force
• Historical cycles and cultural fatigue
• Many small passions as mental health buffer
• Real-life stakes in a cobra encounter
Again, thanks for hanging out with me!
Please feel free to comment or send an email to theobjectivejerk@gmail.com
You're listening to the idiot jerking. You're listening to the objective jerk and this I am holy crap. I'm an idiot. So what's up? How's everybody doing? Yeah, I've been I'm doing what this is my I don't know. Stuff going on, I guess. How's everybody doing? You know, I just watched a a clip, a video of Superman, the guy, what's his face? Henry Cavill. Yeah. Cause the other guy, I don't think he's a dork. I mean, I don't know. So the the newest Superman guy is a dork. Because he's whatever. But Henry Cavill's like, he's a nerd. You know. And but anyway, the clip was I don't know, he's on some show or something. They're talking about like what what does he geek out about or whatever? And his Warhammer 40,000. And I I don't know. I know of it, but I don't really know anything about it. My son's kind of into it. He has a couple books and stuff, and he knows the lore, the lore, a lot of the lore. You know. But I just kind of found myself kind of like jealous, though, you know, just having, you know, he said, I think he said he'd been playing since he was 10. Like all the things I used to get joy out of. I don't, it just, they're gone. You know what I mean? And I have other things that I have I get joy from. I go mountain biking.
SPEAKER_00:I drink coffee.
SPEAKER_02:No, I play drums, not in a band or anything. That'd be cool to just jam with people. I jam with my son sometimes, but most of the time I just play the headphones. Do some woodworking, welding stuff here and there, but generally it's more to fix something, not to create something. And I do a little bit of graphic design stuff, but all those things are mood dependent. You know what I mean? Depends if I'm in the mood. Oh, that sounds good. Or I do, you know what I mean? I don't have I don't have a thing that like I think about a lot all the time, or that no matter how I'm feeling, I'm I'm down to to do whatever, you know, play a game, whatever, whatever it is. I don't have that, you know, I don't have that anymore. And I think I've talked about it before though, but I think some of it has to do with just my growing of faith and everything. Because I mean, things that I used to, you know, like most people, I used to love movies and music, which I still do, but a lot of the music that I once loved, I don't so much because of the messaging, whether it's, you know, anti-Christian or if the individuals are just very liberal and it's you know, you see nothing but them on whatever, it just kind of turns me off to, you know. It's just hard to it's getting harder to disassociate the the artist and their and their art, you know what I mean? Like it, you know, like back in the day, back in the day, early 2000s, I guess. I can't remember. I know it was 2000s, yeah. So it was like 20 years ago now. It's crazy. But Tom Cruise, you know, he's a Scientologist, but everybody in Hollywood is, but he was dating that one actress.
SPEAKER_00:Oh my gosh, she was in the Batman movie, Batman Big Git.
SPEAKER_02:Ugh, sorry. Anyway, so he was on I think Oprah or something, and he just acted weird, and and you know, so this is before social media and everything, so everybody's like, whoa, what is going on? Tom Cruise, he's a little nut job, you know. And his career took a took a hit. It was small, it wasn't very long, but it did take a little bit of a hit. And I remember I was like, well, you know, yeah, he might be psycho. I mean, as long as they're not like, you know, pedophiles, which, you know, chances are in Hollywood they are, but known pedophiles, right? If they're a little kooky or like, you know, I don't quite agree with whatever, then you know, if I like their movies, I like their movies, they're good actors or whatever, right?
SPEAKER_01:But that doesn't that doesn't work anymore though. Like it just it's just kind of strange. It just I don't know, times are changing, you know.
SPEAKER_02:It's the you know, just like with the I mean yeah, what what I don't know, man, I don't know. I just I think about it a lot, you know, just the different it's not just one thing, I don't think. It's it's I mean if you like I said before, if you could put it on one thing, it would be lack of faith and people, you know, not believing in God, you know, not being Christian. I think if you know you, you know, if you had to if I had to tie it down to one thing, but then it's just there's that, obviously, but then there's so much other stuff involved, little things that have happened, 9-11, social media, all the stuff that's just kind of made got us to this point, you know. And it just I don't know, I kind of went off track here a little, like I always do. Off the rails, off the track with the objective jerk.
SPEAKER_01:But it's just, I don't know, it's just kind of crazy.
SPEAKER_02:And just kind of crazy. You know, I do listen to my podcast sometimes. Like as I'm talking, I feel like I'm getting it out. I'm explaining myself, but then I'll go back and I'll listen. I'm like, oh my god, it's horrible. Like I'm about to say what I want to say, but then I'm just assuming you as a listener gets it, so I don't have to finish it. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01:So I got like five listeners. It's okay though. I love you five.
SPEAKER_02:So yeah, so the start off is like I don't have you know, I don't have a passion anymore. I have like a couple little passions, which I guess they say, I don't know, I've read somewhere like that. That's good too, that's better for your mental health. Like, if you if you were like super passionate about us one thing and like your whole life evolves around it, revolves around it, and that's like your all your focus and just all that kind of stuff, whatever that passion is, I mean, depending on what the passion is, can lead to prosperity and wealth, you know what I mean? Because that's all you, but then I guess it can be detrimental to your mental health. So it's they say it's better to have a bunch of little a bunch of passions instead of just like one, which I I fall into that category. I have, you know, I like to smoke meat, I like to, you know, do various things, and you know, I have lots of I'm I'm I'm pretty good with a lot of things, but I'm not an expert in any one thing, you know. I don't know. So that's just kind of but I also read that you know, when you are an individual, when you're kind of finding your faith and you and you're you know giving yourself to Jesus and all that stuff, you do kind of go through a period where nothing, like everything at lost meaning and flavor and everything, kind of like what I'm talking about right now. Like nothing excites me, nothing, you know, this and that. Like I just don't I don't get excited anymore. I get like, oh man, here we go. You know what I mean? Like even Christmas, the birthday of Jesus, which you know, we went, which was it was it's not, dude, I'm nowhere near the good Catholic that I should be. But I'm you know, slowly getting to there. But so you know, we try to I mean my wife likes to do Christmas typical decorations and stuff, but like when we get new decorations now, I'm more about like let's get something that's you know about Jesus, right? So kind of get away from the whole mystical Santa giving presents and everything, and so and then you know we go to Mass and everything. We didn't go to midnight mass though. But it's just kind of yeah, so I just but I do kind of find myself a little like when I see that clip of of Henry Cavill, you know, I I could remember his name, right? Or did I not? And he just got you know the passion. And then what's cool is I don't know what show he's on, but there's like another dude, I don't know who it is. So he's he's you know, he's like, so they're like, what do you geek out about? And he's like, Oh, that's the you know, the the the one thing I you know geek out most is is is Warhammer 40,000. He's like, That's my jam, I think he said, and then the girls, it shows the girls and they're all like laughing because they're like, oh my god, like because they just don't get it, you know. And he says, like, I've been playing it since I was 10. And and then the other guy goes, like, what's your army? And he says, like, his army is like, oh, I'm doing something like that. And he's like, Oh, oh, really? Oh, cool. Oh, you know, and like it's just like they're they're best friends right there, you know what I mean? And uh so that's kind of cool. It's kind of cool stuff, you know. I think a big part of that, like social media kind of ruined that because that's the kind of interactions you used to have. Gotta keep I can hear my microphone, my cup. Those are the kind of interactions that one would have about like bands or you know, DD back in the day, you know, because DD was very niche. And so it was like, oh, whoa, you play DD, you know, and then that was an instant connection, and there was lots of things like that. But now, because everybody knows everything about everything because of social media and everything, you don't have that anymore. You know what I mean? Can I say, you know what I mean more? And you feel me? No, oops, sorry, that seemed that that was loud. Sorry, blow your ears out.
SPEAKER_00:But or I can talk like this into the microphone.
SPEAKER_02:Is that better? Does that sound better? I see, I don't know. I know it's really loud. It sounds good in my ears when I do this like this. It sounds pleasing to the ear, but I know it's actually not, so I'll stop doing it. Oh, am I recording my video? Crap. I just remembered that. Oh, I am okay, cool. I thought I forgot to record it. Okay, so man, that was a long whatever. Anyway, so so yeah, world's it's it's changing, and you know, there's I got into like some debate a little bit with my liberal friend over the shooting in Minneapolis, and then just more and more information comes out, and more and more it's like she, you know, they were part of this group, and that trains you on what to do, how to disrupt the operations of ice. These people have GPS trackers. There's video of another where they have adult diapers, so they'll wear these diapers so they can follow and disrupt longer and not have to use the bathroom. Like it's you know, it's not, oh, she was turning around. No. So that's out the window. So all these little arguments from you know the left and whatever, it's like they're just getting blown out of the water. But even as more and more evidence comes out that she fucked up, Ice did nothing wrong, people are still they don't believe it. You know, they won't they won't accept it. And I mean, I do notice that when this was George Floyd, like right now it's just Minnesota is going through the shit with, you know, the what do you call it? Protesting and and demonstrations and burning and and all that kind of crap. It's not, you know, all over the liberal cities like it was before with George Floyd and stuff. And I'm kind of wondering if it's because USAID was shut down so they don't have the money to fund everybody. They're so they're trying to wait and see if there's actual grassroots. Maybe that's how they actually do it. They kind of see if there is enough of actual organic protesters, and then then they just start supplying and flying in people. You know what I mean? Maybe that's how it works, and and people even hardcore left, you know, they see like, yeah, you know, it's not really like they're trying to make it out to be. That's why it's not all over the place, you know, which is good. But I don't know, I just kind of feel like we're we're man, we're just we're going in that direct. Jesus is coming, man. You know, I'm thinking like another 50 years, maybe. Because I'm I don't know, I'm just trying to look at like just recent history, even. You know, you had so you had like Catholicism was big in the 50s in the states, and then you know, Vietnam War and all the different stuff, and then you had you know the hippies and and and that whole sexual revolution and all that kind of crap that went on, which is kind of similar to what's going on now, just but you know, a little different, obviously. And then you had the 70s, which there was a little bit of a resurgence of Christianity, but not Catholicism, Catholicism, Catholicism necessarily, it was just Protestant, you know, Christian churches and stuff. And then you had the 80s and then the 90s, which were pretty cool decades, and then 2000, and then now we're like, you know, it's all starting over again. So it's like if you were to go off of that model, it seems like we're probably getting we're more closer to the end. We're like, you know, early 70s, where there's still some revolution bullshit going on, but then more people are going to church because they just kind of see everything going on, just like it was like in the 70s, you know. So so maybe the 30s, the 30s, that's crazy. The 2030s will be similar to the 80s. So right now we're like the equivalent of the 70s, kinda, except we had Carter. Carter seemed like to be a legit good guy, but he just he had no balls. I think he was just a puppet as well, you know. But he was, I don't know. Because he didn't really get nothing done. He was kind of like Biden, except he had more charisma and had a soul. I think Biden was just a I don't know what the hell he was, but anyway. So yeah. Oh, I did, oh yeah, I was gonna kind of talk about, let's see. It's not really a flex. I'm not the greatest debater, man. I really not. But and I was kind of surprised that he could. I mean, he always comments on anything Trump. So like I haven't really been posting Trump anything, not even memes. Whoa, okay. This guy had a good Jacob King, he had a good take on it. Anyway, holy crap, where's it at? Been posting too much. So yeah, nothing, it's all mainly like Somalia daycare and this and that. But I did post, see, and as soon as anything Trump, dude, bam, he's immediately, you know, he won't say shit. But I did a I did a post.
SPEAKER_00:Let me see, I'll give the camera. I I'm not very good at doing my podcast Facebook though.
SPEAKER_02:But it's a post, it's AI, it's you know, Trump in the Oval Office, and he's got Maduro, I don't even know how to say his name though, like encased in carbonite, like like Han Solo. And I just thought it was funny, and then of course he like comments saying, and then oh, then there was like one with a bird that looked like Trump, where it's like the Venezuelan bird. So anything Trump, dude, he has to he's got TDS bad. So anything positive Trump, dude, he's but so I posted something regarding the shooting.
SPEAKER_00:I don't can't remember which post it was.
SPEAKER_01:It's not that one. Is it this one? No. Man, you know what? I don't know. Crap. Oh, I guess I can go to my notifications, huh? Okay, let's see.
SPEAKER_02:And then I got another guy. I'm thinking he listens to my podcast. Norman. I don't want to say his full name. Last name Norman. What's up if you're listening? But then he was asking me about something and I was not getting what he was asking. I was like, what do you what? But I think I got it now. And I I don't like really having like discussions like I'm having now on like if he wanted I should have just maybe messaged him directly instead of doing it on the comments for everybody to see. But I guess that's kind of the point. People want to jump in, I guess. I don't know. I mean, it's not like it was personal or anything, but okay, here we go. Let me see. So I was just gonna kind of read some of this. Where am I at? Dang, I'm at 20 already. I mean it said crap. Oh, okay. So this was the post I shared, and it was a meme. The one with Forrest Gum. He's like, and just like that, leftists don't think getting shot in the neck is funny anymore. Which is true, man. It's like, dude, they sit there and laugh hysterically. They don't care about all these other all these people getting killed, shot, stabbed. In the neck, whatever, nothing. Trump shot, haha. Charlie Kirk shot, haha. Then this chick gets shot. And all of a sudden, okay. And you know, if if the cop was in the wrong, then I would get it. You know, but he was doing his job, he was in the right. There's you can't, you know, and they're still they're just like and I know a lot of it's just fake stuff, but not all of it, you know. So this is let's see, so he said, so my liberal friend to that meme, he's like, the only difference is that Kirk's killer is in custody, awaiting trial, and Renee, Renee Good's killer is home waiting for his invitation to the White House for breakfast with the breakfast with the president. And I said, fucking A, he deserves it. And then he's like, Oh yeah, he'll get what he deserves. And I'm like, nah, he he didn't do anything wrong. And then he's like, You must haven't seen the latest video. How did he interview? How did he get in front of me? Honestly, I'm I suck at Facebook, man. I'm not even I reply I thought I replied directly to that comment, but then apparently I didn't because this other guy. But yeah, so he Okay. So he said, You must haven't seen the latest video that was released. When you put all the video evidence together, there's no denying that he straight up killed the girl. And this guy was a cop, dude. He was a law enforcement for a little while. And I worked with him as a federal police officer. So I'm just like, he shot her out of anger. He was mad that she tried to get away. No. See, he's he's looking at it. I mean, you could say the same thing about me. I'm looking at it through my conservative lens, and he's looking at it through his tedious liberal lens. But I do kind of pride myself in being objective, which is the name of the podcast. So I try and look at it, you know, as objectively. And I get what he's saying, but no, he's wrong. And then another person came in and was like, hey, moron, she backed up first as they were telling her to drive over him. Wait, telling her to drive over him, her girlfriend said, drive over him. Oh, I can give you the video from the police officer saying that exactly that. Yeah, now they're trying to be like, oh, he called her a fucking bitch. And it's like, well, yeah, because he got hit with the car and he had to, you know, he didn't want to shoot her, but he had to shoot her. So he's pissed off that she made him shoot. Because I bet you he was like, he knew that they weren't like an imminent threat. You know, they weren't trying to actually cause harm, they were just trying to disrupt. But as soon as she went at him with the car, that changed. So then yeah, he had to shoot. She's down. He got, you know, I mean, I don't know how he he didn't break any bone. He but this guy got dragged another time for the same kind of thing, you know? So it's like, yeah, fucking bitch. Exactly right. And so my my response to his previous comment, the one where he's like, you must not look down, I was like, wrong. I've watched all of it from multiple sources and definitely not mainstream media. And then I was like, it was obvious. Where'd it go? It was obvious she was wrong from the get-go. Like I saw it and it was it's not like it was concrete 100%, but I pretty much felt it in my tingleberries, you know. I was like, yeah, that's that looks good. Even though that was only like two, I think two angles at the time. It was obvious she was wrong from the very get-go, and every new video and angle and information that has come out supports that ICE was in the right. Last time I checked, offending a law enforcement officer isn't a crime. That's not what she got shot for. They're trying to say because they're ooh-hoo, talking shit. I was a city cop.
SPEAKER_01:Professional officers are not supposed to get offended.
SPEAKER_02:But the thing is, is like what they're doing is nothing like a normal it's not like a traffic stop, which is dangerous, one of the most dangerous duties you can do as a law enforcement officer. Because, well, I mean, I guess that's not that's not a good way to do it, because you don't know. When you pull someone over at that moment, you can run the plates and everything, but you have no idea what that person's intentions are, what they have in the car. You know what I mean? So it's very dangerous. But right now, I mean, law enforcement does get attacked and shot randomly and stuff like that, especially in these liberal cities. But right now, what's going on with ICE, which is which has been going on for, you know, I mean, they've been shot at and rammed and I mean all kinds of crap. You could look at all the there's it's it's basically like a little, it's almost like a war, you know. And so these ICE agents, it's similar to like when I was in Iraq and you're in the city and you have no idea what these people or what they're gonna do or what they want to do. It's not quite the same. It's not the risk is not the same, but the unknown and you know, threats are still there. You know what I mean? Like, you know, they're doing these, they don't know, you know, if somebody's gonna I mean, because look at the shit that's going on. So they don't know when somebody blocks them in the in the road like that, they don't know what their intention is. What's what's their game plan? You know what I mean? And the fact that he doesn't see that as a law enforcement officer or a previous prior, just like he's so far gone. You know, he's just he's completely drank the Kool-Aid.
SPEAKER_01:And then, oh, well, that's kind of getting off.
SPEAKER_02:So I said kind of that, and then he's like, Oh, they're not federal agents, they're federal officers, and I'm like, oh my god, dude. Okay, I said I was like, you can't impede with their duties. You protest from the side of the street all you want. They have laws for that in Minnesota. Plus, it's a war zone made possible by the Lib Tard politicians. It's not the same as being a peace officer in a city. Realize that when ICE is being shot at and rammed by dumbass Lib Tards, taxes tactics have to adapt to the threat. So it's, you know, you can't, it's not the same thing as when police officer does pull someone over, and then okay, they make the initial contact, but then they're, you know, the people that just sit there and ignore them and I don't have to give you nothing, or they're being kind of stupid or whatever. It's not the same thing as what ICE is dealing with, and that's what he's trying to compare it to. Oh, you gotta be cool and you gotta. Yes, I agree, you have to be cool, and you have to, you know, try to de-escalate the situation, but they're not responding to a domestic, they're not breaking up a bar fight, they're you know, they're transporting, the cats are meowing. It's like my mic is picking it up. It's just it's not the same situation, you know. And the fact that he doesn't maybe because he was in the army, but he didn't get deployed, so maybe that's why. I don't know. But then I ended it on like, you know, we talked about something else. We always try I always try to be like I always try and end it on like a friendly kind of whatever, you know, we have our debate. You know what I wonder if he would ever do the podcast like we could talk about. Maybe I should try that.
SPEAKER_01:But I don't know. I'm not a good debater though. I'm really not. And I don't think it would be it probably wouldn't be good.
SPEAKER_02:But but yeah, so and then just all this stuff is just so there are people so if you get on social media which don't, I you know, I get on quickly, I check if there's something or post something, and then I get off. Because if I stay on, then I just start getting like, what the crap? But and most of it is just people trying to get clicks. There are you know, there are people that are real people, just but it's a lot less of them, you know, so it's like there's no point.
SPEAKER_00:So let's see.
SPEAKER_02:So there's that. I feel like there was oh yeah, dang it, I totally forgot. Man, it's been 30 minutes. Well, um it's not too much to say, I guess. But so last year, last March, I had three Filipino cobras in my yard, pretty good size. And I told that story, so I'm not gonna tell it again. But had another one had to deal with last night. This one was big. Or I mean, at least, you know, it's not like king cobra size, but it's it was bigger than the other ones from the I still have it in the bag out back, but anyway, so I'm I'll just share the story real quick. So this is something so I was a little, you know, so five years, no cobras, and then last year we had the three cobras, and I told the story, and that was like a little like, oh crap, man, a cobra, I gotta deal with this. So this time it was, you know, it's like I'm starting to get used to it, I guess. But I'm in I'm getting ready for bed and like I'm almost asleep, and also I hear my dog barking in the back. Well, I have a couple dogs, and I'm like, oh, so I'm thinking they're barking at like another dog in the in the in the field or something, or so they start barking, and then you can tell, you know, when dogs are barking at other dogs when they're talking shit or whatever, or if they're actually barking at something in the yard. So it got to the point where I'm like, oh crap, something's in the yard. But I was thinking a cat because there was a cat a few nights ago that was like sitting on the fence and they're just in there, you know. So I was like, so I'm thinking I'm gonna go out there, I'm gonna push a cat off the wall. I know that sounds bad, but there's a bunch of stray toms that roam around and they're always trying to get at, you know, my cats, which they're fixed. Well, one still isn't, but so you know, and they'll just sit there on the on the on the wall. And it's like, get the hell out of here, man. You're fucking keeping me up. Go somewhere else. So I'm thinking I'm gonna have to shoe a cat away. And then I, you know, I got my light and I looked down there, and nope, there's a cobra right there. Just right, you know, because the dogs are kind of and I'm like, oh crap. So then I what did I do? I I ran in. Oh, I I had to go the other side because I didn't want to walk in front of the cobra. So I went through the house real quick. You know, I couldn't I couldn't deal with the cobra and maintain the dog, so I was just trying to hurry up so the dogs would not get bit. They're pretty good about not, but I have the the pit bull though, I don't know about him though. And so ran out there, told my son, my only son that was here, and I went and got like this it's like a metal digging pole. It's got like, you know, it's like a three-inch wide spade end on one end, and on the other end, it's got like a pointy, it was like a it was a rebar. It's like it's a homemade kind of one that you know somebody made and they sell them. But here in the Philippines, everything is clay at some point. So if you're digging, especially deep, you're gonna get into some clay and you're gonna have to use that to really kind of chip away, you know. So that's chip away, anyway. And so I went and got that thinking I'm gonna have to like, you know, like kind of decapitate it, stab it or whatever. And just to be clear, I do kind of feel bad because I think cobras are cool animals. Like, I don't know, there's something about them that's like kind of cool, but I'm not gonna try and catch it. I mean, I could, I got my welding gloves, I guess. I could get a st if I really wanted to, I could catch it without hurting it, but what am I gonna do with it? I can't nobody collects them. There's we're nothing but farmland and farmers, they kill them, they don't want cobras around, which I get, you know. So it's it's you know, it sucks, but it's just you know, gotta do it. So so anyway, so go back, I got the light, and the dogs are kind of you know barking and running back and forth. So they're keeping the attention of the snake, and it's it's in the corner, like up against the wall that runs along the house. And so I kind of come up behind it and I'm debating on what I'm gonna do. And then like last time it didn't work out so well when I tried stabbing it. So I was like, oh, maybe I'll just see if I can just bam, I'll just smack the hell out of it. So I hold the flat end up over it, and it has no idea, and it's pretty heavy. So with my force and the heavy, I just fucking bam right on its head, smashed its head, and got it immediately. So it didn't suffer, you know, it did its death rows or whatever for a little while and stuff like that, but and then I I crushed the head a little bit more just to make sure there's no kind of you know reac you know how they kind of can bite and this and that from and then I stuck it in a bag and it's hanging out in the back right now. I gotta figure out. I guess I might have to borrow it or borrow, bury it. I thought I thought there was this guy that likes to eat cobras, and that's the guy that came last year, but no, my wife just paid him to kill it and they took it, so I don't know. So I guess we're gonna have to bury it, or I don't know anyway, but yeah, so that's a day in the life or a night here in the Philippines again. So they they come up, they gotta come up from the farm somewhere and they just get in. I think it was actually chasing a toad because there was also a toad in the same area just further along the wall. So I'm guessing it was tracking that toad and gonna eat it, and then the dogs ran into it and started barking it, and you know. But anyway, yeah, so that's if you want to come see some cobras, come to the Philippines. All right. Well, thanks for listening. I appreciate your time. Took it a little far. Let me know what you think, and I'll see you guys next time. All right, God bless, and bye.
