the OBJECTIVE JERK
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the OBJECTIVE JERK
A HENCHMAN’S LEGACY: Two Mass Shootings, And A Rant On Culture And Media
We move from Advent musings and 80s action-movie nostalgia to two fresh shootings, the trust gap in media, and a raw debate over borders, culture, and gun laws. Family life, sports, and faith ground the rant with small, steady wins that keep hope alive.
• Remembering Al Leong and classic action films
• Australia Hanukkah attack and the civilian hero
• Migration, culture clashes and assimilation claims
• Brown University shooting and missing details
• Bias, slow reporting and media trust
• Youth voters, campus safety and consequences
• Gun laws, deterrence and layered security
• Family updates, pickleball wins and MTB plans
• Advent, prayer and everyday faith
Again, thanks for hanging out with me!
Please feel free to comment or send an email to theobjectivejerk@gmail.com
You were listening to the objective jerk, and I am said jerk. What's up? How's everybody doing? Hope everybody's doing well. What's what's what's been going on lately? Right now it's Advent, which I'm still kind of learning the holidays and everything for the Catholic year. I want to need to get a calendar. There's a calendar that Taylor Marshall has, but it's hard to get stuff over here like that unless it's on Amazon. I wanted to talk about some of the shootings that's been going on. Two of them, like same day, I think. But before I talk about that, I just got done taking a deuce or leaving a deuce, I guess. And I was watching a video on Al Young. I don't know if I'm saying that quite right. Al Young. Obviously, Asian, right? Now, you probably have no idea who that is by the name, but if I showed you a picture, which I may do, actually, if I remember, I always forget to do that sometimes. I'm gonna put a picture of the dude so you'll see it and you'll be like, oh yeah. Well, if you're watching, but if you're not watching, if you're listening, guarantee you would know looking at his picture, the guy you'd be like, oh, I know that guy. I know that guy. And as soon as I start talking about it, more you'll know. I'm not gonna talk too much about it, but I just he's so he he's 47, and this guy is like part of my childhood as far as films go, right? He's not a character actor, but he's been in a crap load of films, but he's always a henchman. You know what I'm talking about? An Asian guy who's always a bad guy in a crap load of movies. He's in, he was in, let's see, I mean, tons, but Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, Big Trouble in Little China. What else? What else? What else? Tons of TV shows. But yeah, as a kid growing up, you know, 80s and 90s, he was everywhere. And yeah, so I saw the video and I was like, oh yeah, whatever happened to that guy. The guy's still around, but he he had he had a brain cancer, which he was able to get rid of, but he got a stroke, which kind of left him unable to do his martial arts and everything. So he's still around doing the the what do you call the circuits, the the you know, fan circuit, whatever. Because the dude, if you still don't know who I'm talking about, he's the guy in die hard, the henchman guy that's sitting there and they're waiting for the cops to come up and he sneaks a candy bar out of the little whatever, right? He's the guy in big trouble in little China, like the main bad guy who like yells to start the whole battle in the alley. He's the guy that electrocuted Mel Gibson, Riggs, and lethal weapon. And he's just in tons and tons of stuff, but yeah, he's still around, so it's kind of cool. Oh, the fan. I always forget to turn the dang fan off.
SPEAKER_00:Hold on. I can always I hear the noise whenever I don't talk.
SPEAKER_01:It's like like I can hear it while I'm talking. You know, it's the what do you call it? I talked about before, but it to help background noise, so it kind of mutes it. And then when I'm in between my talk, I I hear it, but I I don't think it's coming through though once it gets processed. I don't think you guys hear it, so maybe I should just quit worrying about it. Anyway, so um so yeah, so that's what I was you know, taking a deuce, leaving it a deuce, watching the video on that guy. So yeah, I remember him. He's just in everything, every movie, like all the you know, die hard, classic. Love that film. Lethal Weapon, classic, love that film. Big Trouble Little China, classic, probably one of my favorite films. I mean, his part was pretty small in that, but it's he just was he had a very distinct look, you know. The Fu Man Choo kind of, he had like long hair, but it was like mine, thin and bald on top. But yeah, so I'm gonna grow my hair like that. I'm gonna get my hair long on the back and the sides. My wife would kill me. Anyway. What else? Okay, so yeah, so the shootings. Again, this is not a informative, is that a word? I don't deal with like a hundred per, you know, I'm not trying to give information to people. Um, I'm just bullshitting, giving my opinions. So if you're here to try and get like, you know, breaking news, uh, this ain't it. There are some YouTubers and social media people that that aren't mainstream media that are pretty good about it, and you can get unbiased, you know, news as it comes out. More on that later. But so yeah, so we got what two shootings. So we'll talk about the first one. The first one was in Australia. Where exactly I can't think off the top of my head, but it was a Hanukkah celebration, if I'm not mistaken. And two individuals shot up a crowd of primarily Jewish individuals, killing 11, I think. The last thing I read, it was a father-son duo. They were both Islamic. Well, I mean, Islamic is a religion. We don't know if they were Islamic, most likely, but they were Muslim. You know, their background, whatever. And the one, the main, or yeah, so there was two of them, but this guy only took. But anyway, so a pedestrian, pedestrian? Is that no a civilian? He charged after one of the gunmen and took him down. Getting shot in the process, probably saved countless lives. I don't know what happened to the other guy. I think he took down the son and then the father. I don't know. The last thing I maybe the police got him. But so but what's you know, so people are, you know, so you got a hero. This guy's a hero.
SPEAKER_00:But then this guy is Muslim. All Muslim is Islam is a religion, Muslim.
SPEAKER_01:Nancy, now I'm forgetting. But anyway, so it's kind of, you know, so people, you know, a lot of people are talking, you know, you you take in the third world, you get third world people, or you take in, you know, these individuals, and and you you can have these problems and stuff. But then you got the guy who saved the lives, who was, you know, I mean, he could have been born, you know, there. But I'm willing to bet the individuals that did the shooting were there illegally, and the guy that stopped them was there legally, you know. He's just trying to live his life, and probably tired of of you know, the BS that the radical Islamists bring to them, you know. And it's it's a lot, man, because it's it's true, like it's so much, like it just doesn't work. Like, why that's why I always say it is like the another crusades, which is actually I think I did a I did a podcast talking about like we're in the middle of the third crusades, but there was actually four or five, I think, technically. So this would be six, or what whatever. But we're in another one, right? Maybe we've been in other ones that were minor, but it does kind of seem like, you know, so the crusades basically started because you know Islam was you know was growing, not because they were growing, but because they were attacking Christians who were on pilgrimages, pilgrim, pilgrim pilgrimages, and you know, and it took a while, and then finally, so you know, Christians and started fighting back, and that's how it all started, and then just kind of from there on. I am not the person to get all the facts about I can give you the facts about myself, that's about it. But there is some interesting individuals out there that know a lot more about it, and you know, it's it's uh it's it's interesting history, and it but anyway, so you know you can't help but think that that it's going on again today. You just have you have people from parts of the world that are Muslim or whatever, and they come to other countries and they're bringing all the stuff that it's like if why did you leave your country? Oh, because of we wanted a better life and this and that. It's like, well then why are you bringing all the stuff that's part of your culture? If you're if it's so bad and you gotta leave it, why are you bringing it with you? It's almost like the same thing with Democrats who leave Democrats-ran cities because they're trash, and then they move to Republican-ran cities and then turn around and vote Democrat. It's like, hello, are you stupid? Yes, you're a Democrat. So, you know, it's kind of like the same thing. It's like if you're coming over to another country, you need to abide by their culture, you know what I mean? Mixing all the different cultures doesn't work, it just doesn't. So if you want to be Muslim and come here because you believe in Mohammed and that's you know, that's fine, but don't, you know, they they're like building like cities and naming streets and the mosques everywhere in this net. It's like, you know, there should not be a mosque on every corner like a Starbucks. There should be mosques should be a little harder to find.
SPEAKER_00:I'm sorry, but you know, that's how I feel.
SPEAKER_01:But you know, this is kind of the problem, though, when you just kind of let willy-nilly every anybody in. Think about how many people, how many radicalized individuals, criminal that were let in when Biden was president, were let into America. You know what I mean? I mean, the the borders were open, and there was dude, millions of people, you know, unvetted, that are still there. Was were some of them, you know, just trying to make it, yeah. But when you looked at the large groups of people coming in, they were all male, you know, 19 to 30, mostly. And then, you know, sometimes you'd find an actual family or or woman with some kids, but that's all things that they would show you on the media, right? And then so you got that going on in Australia. Did I do it right? I can't do accents for shit. And then you had a shooting at Brown University, which not a whole lot of information is being released, which so this I saw one comment or one report that said the individual yelled something, quote unquote something, and they have no idea. I mean, this happened a day ago now, and there's no information on what this guy is, who he is, what was he doing, or what you know what I mean? Nothing. So that right there, this is how jacked up mainstream media is in America right now. I mean, all over the world, really, but so this is just from that shooting at Brown University, guy yelled something and they aren't releasing anything. There's a Muslim that yelled Allah Akbar. 100%. I have no idea, but willing to bet that's exactly what it was. Because they don't want to release, they never, whenever they're like so slow to release races or whatever, then it's you know, it's a trans or you know, a person of color or an immigrant, because they don't want to and they did that in end, they don't want to, you know, harm the community. It's like shut the hell up, just report the news the facts, give us the facts. And they don't, they they gotta hide everything. So that's that's what I'm talking about with the with the media and how retarded it is. I was wondering if the post. That's one thing about Facebook, or the one thing I like about Twitter or X, which I don't get on very much, but if you see a post on on X, and then you close it and you come back later, you could kind of scroll up. It may take some time, but you could still find that post. Facebook, it refreshes and then it's just you can never find it again. So the only way to kind of keep track of posts is by liking them or something.
SPEAKER_00:Anyway, so I was looking to see. But yeah, so it's if it's just it's obvious.
SPEAKER_01:So maybe it's already out, I'm not seeing it, but I would bet, you know, a hundred bucks, easy. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's what it was. Because if it was some white dude that yelled, go MAGA, then it would have been instantly before he was caught, they would have had reports of a guy saying yelling MAGA, this is MAGA country and all this kind of stuff. It happens every single time.
SPEAKER_00:That's how you know. That's how you know little ice coffee. Anyway.
SPEAKER_01:So yeah, so it's it's and then I don't know, it's kind of weird when there's a video of some kids in a classroom and like they're barricading themselves, which is what you know they're supposed to do. And they're sitting there and somebody's record it something seems fake though. I don't wanna I'm not saying it is, but it just something about the video just doesn't seem quite legit. I don't know. I can't I can't say why exactly. It's just that that gut feeling. I don't know. I'm not saying it didn't happen or whatever, but but there was comment, you know, and some people were you know saying kind of probably stuff stuff that I agree with, but I wouldn't say, you know what I mean? Just some, you know, well, you know, they they want to let all these people in, you know, because they're at Brown University, so it's generally like liberal, you know, quote unquote smart people. And well, they vote, you know, this, they want this, they want to this and that, they want to defend the defund the police and whatnot. And this lady made a comment and she's like, I cannot believe all the comments in this thing. I mean, these are college students, they're basically children, and it's like no, they can vote, so it is, you know what I mean? That's that's it's that's a life lesson. I mean, it's like it's it sucks for kids to kind of go through this, you know. So I mean but the thing like some of the comments that people were saying regarding is kind of distasteful, I guess. But they're not wrong in a sense because they you know, like Democrats are constantly trying to get the voting age to go down even further, to like 16 or something, I think it's 16, because they want young people, because to statistically speaking, maybe not so much it's changing now, but before, if you were younger, you know, between the ages of you know 15 to 25 or something, you were very liberal-minded. So chances are you'd probably vote liberal just because that's what all the films and celebrities and musicians tell you to do, so they're gonna do it. So, but then now, you know, you have individuals who are 18, 19, 20, oh, but they're children, you know. It's like, well, you can't have it kind of both ways. Either, you know, they can vote at 16 because oh, they're they know stuff, they can blah, blah, blah. Well, okay, then you know they're gonna have to reap what they vote for. You know what I mean? It's now, did any of these kids in this video, if it's you know, did they vote? Probably not, you know, but their parents probably did. And I don't know, it just kind of sucks that people have to learn about the real world and how things kind of work and how you need to have police, and defunding the police is retarded, and letting a bunch of immigrants come in willy-nilly is retarded, and deporting all of those illegals is good, and crying over it is retarded. But it takes things like this for people to for especially liberal people to be like, whoa. Just like there's that video of a couple in somewhere in South America, and they're like at a a little food stand, or they're at something, male and female, and all of a sudden some guys come in and start assaulting the female, and the guy just kind of runs out, runs away, and he's kind of just sitting there watching his girlfriend, friend, whatever, she's a female, getting assaulted by these individuals trying to like steal her bag or something. That guy right there is a liberal. Telling you that right now. Because I'm not saying every conservative Christian individual, you know, is badass and can fight and knows all this, but they're not just gonna sit there and let somebody, you know, manhandle their friend, girlfriend, wife, whatever. It's a fee, you know, it wouldn't even if it was a male friend, you know, you're gonna get in there and and and try and help protect your friend. So that guy right there, the guy that ran and let the girl get beat up is because he's a big fat pussy that's never been punched in the mouth, yet he's gonna sit there and tell other people how to vote and do this and that. Those are the kind of People that are crying the loudest about a lot of this stuff, you know? And they just don't know. I wonder if I wonder if that moment will change that guy's mind. Who knows? It sucks. It really sucks that things like this have to happen to get people to kind of wake up. And then, you know, is it 100% real? Is it kind of is it influenced by something like Manchurian candidate kind of stuff? Maybe. But I don't know. I'm not sure about these ones exactly. But, you know, there is also people trying to influence individuals to do stronger gun, you know, laws and everything. Like there, this, this would be, you know, why why can't people wake up and and and you know make guns, you know, stricter? Dude, all of these Australia's got some of the strictest gun laws in the world. Not the strictest, but pretty damn strict. Look what happened. Brown University, where they're at, they got strict gun laws. Chicago has strict gun laws. You know what I mean? It's it doesn't matter. Unless you get a genie and rub a lamp and have him poof every kind of firearm and all the knowledge and black powder and all that kind of stuff out of the world, it doesn't matter. But even if you could, bad people will still find a way to do bad things. It doesn't matter. It's just it's so retarded. We give up our Second Amendment, and we're gonna end up like England right now, where people are being arrested for memes. They are posting memes and they're being arrested. Legit. No bullshit. I bet you a lot of those people wish they didn't give up their guns now, huh? Dumb punks. Hey, I got through this without saying the F-word. Alright. Anyway, I appreciate you guys. Oh, wait, no, I'm looking at the wrong thing. Okay, on my video, I got 30 minutes, but on the podcast, I'm not even at 23 minutes yet. Oh no. I could still say the F-word. Alright. Anyway, that was my rant on that. Pickleball. Pickleball's been kind of I haven't been recording much, just been kind of busy, trying to stay busy. So it's like mountain bike season. So I've been riding my bike, trying to go to the gym with my son, and then my wife and my kids have been playing, or my two younger ones have been playing pickleball, and I've been playing sometimes. But it's more their thing. And they just had a tournament this weekend, so that's kind of cool. My wife sold some of her bread and some other stuff while she was playing in the tournament. My one of my sons and his teammate won the tournament, so it's kind of cool. Yeah, that's kind of all that's been going on with me. Me and my old bike riding buddies. All my my friends, so I'm 47, and all my my basically my friends that I go bike riding with are all in their 60s, mid to late 60s. But we're going on like a little overnight camping bike thing. We're trying to plan, so do that by the end of the month. So that'd be kind of cool. I actually have not been camping since I moved here, so it's been over five years, but then I don't think I think it's been like seven years since I camped. And it's hard to go camping here because it's so damn hot. But it does cool off, it is cooling off a little bit right now. I think it's looking like it'll be nice and cool, and we'll be up like on a mountain ridge, and it'll be kind of windy, so it'll be kind of nice. So that'll be fun. I'm looking forward. I I just want to camp. I don't even care about mountain biking there. End of the year ride. I don't even think I've ridden with my one friend at all this year, you know, because it's just our schedule is never. I mean, I don't have a schedule really, but just never lines. But I was just like, man, let's just go somewhere, hike up there and camp. That'd be cool. But but yeah, so that's what's going on with me. I hope everybody's doing doing alright and staying active, praying the rosary, going to church, getting the Eucharist, doing all that good stuff. Alright. Or just reading the Bible at least, right? You know, for those that aren't Catholic. You know, Catholics do read the Bible more than people think. I mean, they do kind of not really, but it's kind of because, man, I just totally went to like uh that was the worst segue in anything, but you know, because you know they go to mass and they they have a schedule and the the Catholic Mass is all set up to discuss not the entire Bible, but basically, you know, there's a they talk about each each book or parts of the whole book throughout the year, so they'll discuss stuff. They don't really like people to do like their own reading. I mean, you can read the Bible, but like they don't want you to like have a Bible study group and kind of come up with your own ways because that's how people get become Protestant and do all this other stuff. Oh man, I don't this is kind of weird. So if I I I I want to be able to divorce my wife, man, come on, this sucks. I'm gonna become Protestant so I can divorce my wife and everything's cool.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, there are some rules that Catholics, you know, are supposed to abide by, but it's not really hard at all.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know. It's kind of crazy, but anyway, I don't know why I just talked about that a little off the cuff there. But anyway, I hope everybody's doing well. I will if if I don't do I should do a I should record something before Christmas, but if not, Merry Christmas and possibly happy new year, but I'm sure I'll do something before then. You guys take it easy. Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you next time. All right, God bless. All right, bye.
