I REBUILT MY SETUP, PRESSED SOME SHIRTS, AND SETTLED ON A LENT ROUTINE.

I rearranged the "studio" from the ground up,(Again). Pressed first runs for my small shirt brand in the Philippines, and I get honest about thumbnails, simple gear, and making a standing setup work. 

Let’s talk about protests in schools, sports programming choices, grief for a grandfather, and a Lent practice built on habits that hold.

• Camera placement, standing workflow, and less clutter
• Early Kalbo shirts, heat vinyl limits, sizing in the Philippines
• Thumbnail experiments, Rumble views, and design muscle
• Questioning a high‑profile missing person case and media certainty
• Schools and protests, culture wars, and audience trust
• ESPN programming shifts and what viewers actually want
• Losing a grandfather, regret over distance, and aging markers
• Lent goals: fasting to 3 PM, daily rosary, dropping vices, building habits

Email me: theobjectivejerk@gmail.com • Check out Kalbo Klothier on Facebook • “Let me know about the thumbnails” • “What are you doing for Lent?” • “If you live in the Philippines, check out my shirts” • Blake@kalboklothier.com

Chapters

• 0:00 New Setup And Studio Shuffle
• 2:27 Balancing Podcast Backdrops With Shirt-Making
• 5:37 Camera Placement And Standing Workflow
• 8:37 Family Shirts And Early Brand Steps
• 11:37 Thumbnails, Rumble Views, And Design Skills
• 16:37 News Story Skepticism And Media Trust
• 23:10 Schools, Protests, And Culture Wars
• 29:10 Sports Media Choices And Audience Fit

Transcript

New Setup And Studio Shuffle

SPEAKER_00 0:08

You're listening to the objective jerk, and I am said jerk. How are all y'all doing? Again, my stuff has changed. I've been obviously exciting. Uh so yeah, I've been moving moving stuff around a lot, moving my my office slash podcast slash man cave. I don't know. But so I've been moving stuff around, and every time I moved, I was always keeping in mind what was behind me for the podcast. So it doesn't it wasn't really working. So I had my office set up and it worked for the podcast, and I thought it worked for when I'm starting to, because I started working on making the shirts. And but the first day it was like it just was not working. I didn't have enough room, it just wasn't working. So I made my first few things and then I started changing around and redesigning the layout of my little office slash whatever you want to call it. So now this is it, which this is actually kind of like my old background, but originally I was trying to figure out okay, what am I gonna do? Because I I I designed it with not even thinking about the podcast. I was like, okay, how am I gonna I want to set it up because I got like the the tools for the heat press stuff, and then here's a computer and just the various things to you know make it efficient, right? So oh man, I don't I had the shirts hung up here. Go check out Calbo, Cabo Claudiere on Facebook, and you can see some of the shirts I started anyway. So I was like, man, I gotta do a podcast, but I wasn't really set up. So I was playing around with doing green screen. I even had like a sheet in the background because behind me, where I you know, behind me is like where I'm sitting on the computer is just some cabinets, so it's pretty, you know, not interesting. Not that my background is you know cool and interesting, but you gotta have something, you know. So I was working on that, and I was just like, dude, this is not gonna work. And then I suddenly was like, man, if I could put my camera on my bookcase over there, then I was like, I could do that. I'm like, well, you know what? I might be able to excuse me, just do it like where I have it. So I have it set up on this little table kind of thing where my printer's at. Got the tripod up, and I'm standing again. I did I I did a few podcasts for a little while standing up, but I needed that table for something else, so I had to move it so I had to go back to a regular kind of desk. But I like doing it this way anyway, so but yeah, so that's what's going on with me. I made a couple shirts for my kids, I made a shirt for my wife and some dresses for so these like pickleball dress, sports dress skirt thing that she bought, and then her some of her friends wanted it, so I put you know the logo that she wants, the pickleball, and I put their name, and then I put my my branding that I'm creating, Calbo, right? And so I've been doing that, it's been fun. But I definitely I'm just gonna hold my coffee cup, so what? I don't probably can't even see it. I'm not even looking, I can't see what I look like. I mean, I know I'm in frame and everything, but because I'm trying to just look at the camera. Anyway, so yeah, so making that. I need a heat press though. That's the next thing I want to get. But I don't want to just spend a bunch of money on I want to start making some money, so I'm just making some shirts with the shirts that I got and the vinyl that I got for like my kids. I don't think there's shirts, Filipino shirts here are not big enough for me. Like the extra large is like a medium in America, maybe a large, but so I'm gonna have to find like some lane. Oh, I got some shirts that are plain. I could probably put some on. I'll do that. But they're not white. That's kind of my thing, is just a white shirt with some black imagery or text. Um I do have other colors. Obviously, it's because I'm just doing heat vinyl, so I you can't really get too detailed. And then as it progresses, I'll get a DTF, you know? Wait, am I saying that right? Direct to film. Yeah, okay, DTF. Alright, so yeah, so that's it. Enough of me. So what do you guys think of the thumbnails? I hate doing them, to be honest with you. But do you think it's I haven't well, I guess on Rumble, it seems like the thumbnail videos are they're getting views quicker. I don't know if it's because of the thumbnail, but if you do watch the video, let me know about the thumbnail. I know the thumbnails aren't the greatest. I'm not like, you know, I don't spend too much time. I'm trying to let's see, where am I at? I'm in the middle. If I'm over here, trying to get it to where I'm okay, there we go. So yeah, I'm still kind of I used to do graphic design briefly as a as a job, but it was always more of like a hobby. But I didn't really get too detailed into it, and then I took the class, I talked about that. See, that's the only thing about not doing the podcast in a while, is I kind of forget, but you guys don't care about that, right? Working on though. Love and affinity. Affinity's awesome. Let's see. Oh, yeah, what's up? I meant to look that up. Maybe I'll do that. The news anchor woman who had her mother kidnapped. What the hell is that about? You know what I mean? Like what's going on with that? Like the beginning, when it first happened, I was just like, what? This just seems odd. It seems like a smalletting. Smoletting. It looks like it's fake, it's a fraud, and they're trying to either, you know, drum up some kind of publicity, or maybe her mom died accident. I don't know. Like, it's crazy. I'm gonna look it up real quick though. Let's see. News. I don't know what her name is. Anchor. Oh, there it is, mom missing. So let's see. Two days ago. Update on missing anchor. Let's see. BBC though, they're very liberal. New York Post is kinda in the middle. Let's see. When was this? This was the 13th. What's today? 26 dude, so like nothing is going on with it? They found blood on the porch. Alright, well, let me see when this came out. So this was what? That's older. Dude, what is the newest? Two days ago. USA Today. Yay. Anyway. DNA evidence analyzed in Savannah Guthrie. That's right. Missing mom case. Authorities in Arizona are continuing their search for Nancy Guthrie nearly three weeks after the 84-year-old mother of Dude, she's done. She's dead. Something investigators are now. Okay. Over the weekend the sheriff's department said, okay. Speaking with is that a different that's a whole nother article. Well, that was short. Over the weekend, the sheriff's department said gloves were recovered that appeared to match those worn by a man seen in the doorbell camera. Yeah, and I don't know. The whole thing is just weird. That's it. They don't have nothing. So what we I thought there was like a ransom. She. I'm kind of thinking that she died mysteriously. Or maybe maybe she killed herself and they're not gonna be able to get like the life insurance, so they made this whole thing up, and she's never gonna, you know, they just dumped her in the ocean somewhere. And I don't know. Like it's just the whole thing is just odd. It's just weird. I'm not saying like, oh my gosh, it's bullshit, but it's just you know, it's just it's just kind of weird. And with today's technology and cell phones and just so many cameras and microphones everywhere, like, how do people get abducted? As far as especially somebody that's like high prior, you know, high profile, I guess. I mean her mom's not so much, but in a gated community, I think it was a nice I don't know, it's just it's just weird. It is weird, right? So about a week or so ago, a week or so or a week or so ago, sounds like a dinosaur. I posted, I saw some schools in Washington that were having the children go outside and protest as a school activity. We're all gonna go and protest. And I talked about it, and I was like, I think that just pisses me off. I mean, like I said, I wouldn't even want my kids to go to a Trump rally, one, because you might get shot. Crazy liberals trying to kill Trump all the time. And then it's just I don't know. I just don't think kids need to be involved in politics. I mean, if they naturally kind of go that route, that's one thing. But like I said, I'm trying not to, I think I skipped it. Son of a I'm trying to see when oh, here it is, February 4th. So almost two weeks ago. So I posted it, and then it was just like some people are like, What? Where'd you hear this? Man, I love you, but you're crazy, man. But it's and now it's like more and more schools, more and more kids, and the kids are fighting like some middle-aged guy who looked like he was wearing a Trump hat, but I don't know. And you know, and they're just it's it's like the school's allowing them to just, you know, do violent protests and like kick and scream and yell, and and you know, and if somebody shows up saying like I support ICE, they're like, I'm gonna stab you, you know, they get all angry and pissed off, and it's like they're creating this psycho-liberalism that's going on right now, and they're just making it worse, and they're getting at them younger. So instead of college, I guess because you know, people are learning in college, they're starting to, so now they're going younger. So now they're going to the high schools in the junior high. Pretty soon they're gonna have elementary school protesting, and then pretty soon they're gonna be going after the embryos, you know. They're oh no, don't don't get an abortion. That's a future protester right there. Yeah, let's uh let's try and we'll just play, you know, protesting chants and to the womb and all this cuff. It's like, jeez. They are psycho, psycho, man. Liberals are mental, like for real. It's not even like oh, you're such a jerk, you're so crazy. No, they're fucking psycho. Oh, I said the F-word. ESPN, right? They're replacing Sunday night baseball with WNBA, I guess. It's like, I guess you guys don't like having viewers on Sunday night. That's again, they're trying to take some sort of property. It's the same thing with Hollywood. They're making, oh look, you have all these fans that love Star Trek, but we're gonna take a show that's Star Trek that's gay and stupid, and and they'll watch it. No, nobody does. We're on to it now, you know. So now they're trying to do that with this. They're thinking that, oh, more people will watch WNBA. They might at first, when it first comes on, then people are gonna, well man, what oh that's right, and they're gonna turn it off. But to me, that says that and it's I think the NWA W NY what do I say? NWA Nichols with attitude. W N B A. I think they're it's not gonna be around for much longer. I mean they had they had dude, they they had the golden ticket, they had the thing that they needed, which was a cons I don't know if she's conservative, but she's a straight white individual who was awesome and bringing but no, they didn't want that, so they you know they're stupid, dude. They're stupid. I do kind of check and see what time I'm at though. That's the only thing. I'm good, I got a ways to go. So back to personal. So I think, yeah, the last podcast I talked about how Robert Duvall died, and he was 95, I want to say. Well, I think it was the same day, actually. My my own grandfather had passed away, and he was also I think he might have been 96 or 7, but he was right around there. He was about the same age. And you might be like, dude, how do you not know your grandfather's you know age? It's like, well, I wasn't really close to him. He was my last grandparent, too. All my other grandparents have passed, which you know, I'm 47. This kind of goes with territory, I guess. But I can't look at the camera, I always gotta look off and stuff. I don't know why.

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News Story Skepticism And Media Trust

Schools, Protests, And Culture Wars

Sports Media Choices And Audience Fit

SPEAKER_00 13:48

So yeah, he passed, and it kind of sucks. So it's my father's father, and my dad died some years ago, six years ago, almost now. Dang, that's crazy. So he was, you know, he lived an old life. He had some knee replacement surgeries and stuff like that. I guess he wasn't the greatest husband family man at the beginning when he was younger. He had a drinking problem. But he stopped though. He stopped drinking, and and but by then it was too late. So him and my grandmother, they divorced well, they separated. But he continued to, you know, be a father and grandfather. Well, to me a little bit, but more to his other kids and their their kids, so his other grandkids, you know. So from his son, my dad, I'm the only grandchild. We're the only out of the family, I'm the only one like continuing the name, you know, it's kind of crazy. But then now the name is situ or is part of the Filipino landscape culture, whatever you want to say. But yeah, we never like when I think of my grandfather, when I say hey, like my grandpa is my my stepgrandfather, who was actually my mother's stepdad. But he was my grandfather my whole life and spent the most time with him, grew up with him, you know, when I was a kid, and I thought he was mean and unfair. Now it's like I try to be him, you know, because he was actually just a based individual that, you know, didn't take no shit, didn't put up with no shit, which means the same thing. But you know, he wasn't, you know, abusive or mean or hard. He was strict, you know, but that's it. As a kid, I was like, man, I gotta do chilling, just like my kids are. But all the stuff he had me do and learn and everything, dude, I cherish that and I appreciate it so much. So I am, you know, and then I had my other grandfather, who was in my life a little bit, but when I was younger. But and then so my grandfather who just passed, he was a nice guy, he was nice to me. We would talk occasionally, although I haven't talked to him in six years. But it just was it felt kind of forced, you know what I mean? Like he's like, I gotta be a grandpa, maybe I should talk. We I don't know, we just we didn't really have too much when I was growing up with him, too much time with him, you know what I mean? And it wasn't his fault, you know. We I lived in a different state. He lived in Colorado. I never went to Colorado. I would visit my dad, and if he happened to be there, that's when I would see him, which wasn't very often. And he was nice to me, and and he probably did more for me than I actually realized, you know. Probably had some items that were bought that I maybe cherished that were from him, but I don't know, remember, or realize it. So I mean he was a nice guy, and and I've man, for the last ever since my dad died, really, I've been like, I shouldn't I should call and just start talking to him again. And you know, just the kind of something. But it's just I don't know. I always I always put it off just because it just our conversations were just kind of awkward, you know what I mean? It's like we're trying to force a conversation. It's like, hey, what's going on? So did you see the movie? No. Oh, okay. You know what I mean? It's like you're just the the it's not engaging conversation, you know. It's just and I don't know. That's I mean, it sucks. And now I really I I should have just called him anyway. Because I knew that too. I was like, man, he's getting older, he's in his 90s. I should call him before he passes. And I didn't, and now he's gone, and you know, that's uh you know, it could have had something. But I wonder if maybe, you know, if I would have done that and we were talking on a regular basis, I'd probably be a lot more tore up, you know, which is that kind of selfish to look at it that way, but yeah, so it kind of sucks, you know, no more grandparents, no more parents. Man, yeah, everybody it's just it sucks. That's the thing that sucks about getting old is you start losing people, you know. There's that saying where it's like, you know, when you're younger, you know, you're kind of living your life, and then you know, the people that you were around that you went to high school with, or your friends growing up, they start getting married, like, oh, so-and-so got married, oh, this person got married, and then it's like, man, everybody's getting married. So then everybody's married, and then pretty soon, oh, so-and-so had a kid. Oh, this person had a kid, and then all of a sudden everybody's got kids, and then I don't know, then it's like people are retiring, or you know, their kids are going off to college, or and now it's like people are dying. There was a a girl I went to high school with that she passed away a few years ago, and I didn't know. I mean, I didn't, it's not like we were friends or anything, but I just I had no idea. And I remember I remember her in high school, she was really nice to me, and she was, I don't know, we didn't hang out or nothing, but you know, I I remember her. There's lots of people in high school that I don't remember. If I was to look at the yearbook, I'd be like, oh yeah, oh yeah. Like, you know, you see people on your friends pop-up thing, it's like, hey, you may know this person, and and you look and see. I look and see who the who the mutual friend is, and it's like, okay, this is somebody I'll high school with, so that's probably somebody I went to high school with, and I'll sit there and be like, Who is that? And I'll try and figure it out, and I'm like, I don't know. Or same thing with the army. If it's friends with somebody I was in the military with, then I try, you know, because you there was I was in high school and went to high school with uh a lot of people, graduated with a lot of people, but you know, you only have your group of friends and some people that you kind of remember, so but anyway, it's just yeah, now I'm at that age when people are are dying. Like my age, not just my grandparents and stuff like that. So had off the top of my head, three people pass away that I went to high school with. I've had more than that that I was in the army with, you know, so that kind of tells you something. And those all the military ones were all from self-inflicted, you know, which sucks. Like I can one, two, three, three I can think of right now. But there's probably more if I was a really so yeah, it's just that's you know, that's what sucks about getting old, really, is just losing people. I mean, even if you're not even, you know, I don't talk to people. But you want them to be happy and have a good life and everything, you know. So so my this grandfather that I was talking about, he I I don't really know. I think he's on the as far as political, politically, uh you know, he's probably center, probably left, more left. But his daughters, my aunts, are very liberal and stuff, so there's not a whole lot of communication. I mean, we do talk sometimes, but yeah, they don't, you know, I do a lot of you know posts and memes. I don't really use Facebook what it's for, but one of the things for Lent is I'm going to not post anything political. A lot of people are like, ha ha, good luck, good luck. But thing is, I probably just won't post anything really, so I'm not gonna post anything for 40 days. Well, less than that now. But speaking of Lent, this is my first year really kind of getting down and doing, you know, we I did do Ash Wednesday last year, but it was kind of I was still kind of, you know, trying to learn other stuff and I didn't even know it was that. And my, you know, my wife's like, hey, it's Ash Wednesday, let's go. So I went and but I just didn't really kind of, you know, lent and everything to It was just, I wasn't there yet, you know, it was above my pay grade at that time. But so this year, it was like, okay, here we go. So Ash Wednesday, and then now I'm trying to pray the rosary every day during Lent. I mean, you should pray it every day regardless, but that's one of the man, it's hot, but I can't have my fans on because it makes noise. So praying the rosary. I'm fasting in the morning, so I can't eat until 3, which is when Jesus died, which is an hour from now, I'll be able to eat something. But like fasting and just no masturbating. Not that I'm like, you know, like you ever see that skit of Keen Peel, where he's like a detective. He's like, but no, I mean, you know, I'm not gonna lie. I, you know, sometimes like when my wife is in her, you know, monthly cycle and and you know, horny, I guess, you know, in the shower might do it, whatever. And then you see all this stuff like, oh, it's good for your prostate, you should do it this much, and it's like I don't know. But anyway, so it's I'm trying to like not do it at all, you know. It's not that addicted. But anyway, that's one of the things. So it's like no matter what, you know, if my wife and we're like about to get down, and then something comes up and she has to leave, and I'm sitting there like, oh, gotta deal with it, gotta suck it up, and just yeah, so not do that. So there's that, there's fasting and praying the rosary every day, and trying to read a little bit of the Bible every day, which are all things that you're supposed to do, you know. And I think that's kind of what the Lent is kind of for, is I mean, you know, you have the basic stuff. Oh, you can't eat meat on Friday, but you have like people like, I'm gonna give up chocolate or whatever. Did I already talk about this? I feel like I did. But I think that's for you know, a devout Catholic that don't really, I mean, everybody has their issues, but you know what I mean? Like they just don't really have they they go to they go to mass, they pray the road, they do what they're supposed to do. And so they're trying to find something. Okay, what is it I like? Uh okay, chocolate. So they, you know, stuff like that. But I think it's more for people that do have the vices and the sins and all that kind of stuff. And it's like, okay, here for 40 days, I'm gonna not, yeah, like watch porn, or I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna, I don't know, maybe like if you have a concubine or something, I'm not gonna cheat, or you know, little stuff. I mean, that's you know, not gonna drink, not gonna smoke weed, not gonna whatever it is, because they say it's like it takes 30 days to break a habit or to make a habit, you know what I mean? So Lent is 40 days, so it's like, okay, if I can't pray the rosary every day during the year, I'm gonna I'm gonna do it for Lent, and then you you build that that habit, you know. And then if you're like, I don't want to drink, so I'm not gonna drink during Lent. So by the time it's over, you're good. You're like, I don't have the urge, you're not fighting it. It's not like, you know, it's just like, you know, when I first moved here, and then all the all the DEI crap and all the you know BLM and all the stuff and football, you know, the kneeling and stuff, and I was just like black national anthem, all this kind of crap, and it was just like this is stupid. So I was just like, I didn't even try and watch football, but it's easier for me here because it's not you know everywhere. But at first I kind of was like, I missed it, you know, and but now it's like I don't care. I don't, you know, a lot of that so anyway, so Lent, yeah. So 30 days, right? 30 days to break a habit or create one, break the bad ones, create good ones. So that's what I kind of think it's all about, really, you know, and it's just you can start off, you know. I don't know, I'm trying to think of something else, maybe that, but you know, people have lots of maybe I don't know, people. I don't want to get too too graphic, I guess. I've already been a little too graphically personal. I guess that's kind of it. I wanted to test out, you know, my new setup. I think it's gonna work out. I'm sweating though right now, so yeah, I think I'm about to call it a day. But anyway, email me the objective jerk at gmail.com, or you can comment on the videos. Let me know about the thumbnails. I'm gonna make one for this one. I'm kind of hoping people are like, eh, thumbnails are dumb, so then I can stop. I mean, it's letting me practice with affinity, I guess, but I don't know. I just it's so much easier before. Plus, it kind of, you know, you kind of recognize, you know, my now it's like people maybe who looked for it are like, where's it at? I don't see it because it's got a thumbnail, you know. So I don't know, let me know. Is it you know, is it good? Is it bad? Do you care? Let me know. What else? What else? What else would you do for Lent if well for all the Catholics out there, you know, what are you doing for Lent? Is anybody curious? Is anybody like curious about Catholicism? I mean, there are way better, a hundred times better podcasters and you know, video creators, content creators that talk about this stuff. But I mean, I don't know, maybe from the point of view of someone who's kind of a noob. I'm still kind of learning, I'm still trying to practice, I'm still trying to, you know, get it down. You know, I don't know. Let me know if you got questions about that. But check out my well, you're not gonna buy if you live in the Philippines. Yeah, I guess I could ship. But if you live in the Philippines, check out my shirts if you want one Calbo Claudier on Facebook and then the email is I have to look it up. Blake at callboclair.com. I think that's it. Give it a shot. Anyway, that's it. I appreciate your time and hanging out with me. Hope to see you again and God bless. Alright, bye.