UNVEILING OUR DIGITAL LIFE: Mental Health, Transgender Issues, and Facebook Politics

Imagine a world where cell phones are a menace and Facebook is your political battleground. That's a glimpse into our world, the world of this podcast. Jerk openly shares his perspectives on tech-dependency and the political discourse that accompanies our digital lives. Jerk explores his own journey with Facebook, and how he has reshaped his digital presence to create a thriving podcast community. From dealing with Biden supporters; supporting Trump, to his decision to start afresh on Facebook, Jerk doesn't sugar coat anything.

But he's not just talking tech here. He is breaking down barriers as he discusses the sensitive topic of transgender individuals and the misuse of pronouns. He is questioning the authenticity of some who identify as trans and the societal impact this could have. This episode will take you on a deep dive into the influence of technology on human interactions and the potential pitfalls of a society heavily dependent on social media. He talks about his personal battles with depression and the constant struggle of finding motivation. Sharing how he keeps going, one small victory at a time. Join us on this journey of self-discovery and reflection, and be sure to subscribe and follow our podcast. We promise it's a conversation you don't want to miss.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:19

Hate cell phones, can't stand cell phones. I Don't know what I Just I miss the days of not having cell phones. I Miss the days of having not having smartphones and I Miss the days not having a cell phone. I just miss. The only way people can contact you is the phone at your house, and if you're not there, your answering machine will get it and you'll get to it. When you get to it, it's annoying, all right. So this is the objective, jerk. I'm said jerk, how's everybody doing? I Am currently trying to I Guess I don't know Work on my Podcast stuff. So I've been on.

Speaker 1: 1:15

I didn't realize all the stuff that Facebook has or is trying to do to kind of, you know, catch up with everybody or I don't know. But so I've been playing around with a little bit more. I had set up a Like, you know I guess it's like a business. So if you have a business, you want to sell stuff. You know it's like another Facebook page. So I'd set that up a while back. But it was basically just a copy of my Facebook page, because I already created a Facebook page For this podcast, basically because I got rid of my Facebook. I, I man, I'm kind of going off. I was gonna talk about cell phones and stuff and then. But I'll get back to it. So I Grew up in like a liberal Household, basically my whole life.

Speaker 1: 2:07

I didn't really follow politics or anything like that. So but that's kind of how, you know, I Perceived things. I. You know, when you're young, you you watch. Well, I mean, when I was young you watched MTV and all this and and I remember Watching Pearl Jam unplugged and at the end of it he wrote pro-choice on his arm. I didn't know what that meant, but I told everybody. I remember being in school and this cute girl asked me, you know, if I was pro-life or pro-choice. And I just remembered, oh hey, you know he wrote that in his arms I'm like pro-choice. And of course she was like cool, you know, I didn't, I didn't know, I didn't care, I didn't follow anything. And then, even as a young adult, I didn't still care that much, I didn't really follow. I remember. I remember you know Clinton and his sexual scandals and stuff like that. But you know, I didn't follow anything, I didn't, I didn't care.

Speaker 1: 3:06

And you know, I lived in Washington state, which is always votes blue and is pretty liberal for the most part so anyway. So I, you know, I moved Around between, mainly between, like, utah and Washington. But I had Facebook and I never I didn't get on very much. Just every once in a while I'd get on there and whatever kind of catch up. I'd just kind of see where all my friends, what they were doing, make a few comments, and that's kind of it. I didn't really post anything and so I didn't really start getting on Facebook until I moved here to the Philippines so I could kind of really, you know, stay in touch with the states.

Speaker 1: 3:51

Basically, you know, and I remember I've told the story before, but as I was getting ready to move here is when I kind of saw the, the bias, kind of hypocritical Reporting and, and you know, political things on the news. I'm like what I just I'm not gonna talk about it again, but so that's when I kind of started noticing and paying attention. So when I came here, you know I I did vote for Trump in 2016 just because Hillary was an evil CUNT. I've talked about two before. I was unsure, you know. I remember I almost was just gonna vote for Mickey Mouse or something, but I did end up voting for Trump and he ended up, I think, being a good president.

Speaker 1: 4:43

So, you know, a couple years later I'm on Facebook and you know I got friends from back in Washington and even a lot of In Family in Utah, that are just so anti-trump, and so I'd post stuff and they'd say some things or whatever. But then I come to find out like a lot of people just stopped following me. So I'm like, well, what's the point? Then you know what I mean? Or like I don't know. It should be like not following, but you know, like kind of Stuff coming up in their feed, like they don't want my stuff coming up because it was like Trump, it's cool, trump, this, and they didn't like it, which I get it, I understand, but I think I think they should be like, hey, I'm not down for the Trump stuff. So I'm gonna kind of Not follow you. So if you want to Get in touch with me, do it this way or something.

Speaker 1: 5:35

Because I remember I remember sending some stuff to this friend that I'm talking about, about music and stuff, and I didn't get no replies and stuff like that. I'm like what's going on, you know? And then so when he made that remark, he's like just why, I don't follow you anymore in this net. I was just like, what well, who cares what? I don't know. So it just like anyway. So I Just completely dumped my Facebook, like I totally deleted it, got rid of it. Then, when I started doing the podcast, I Created another Facebook, but it was geared more towards the podcast. So I, instead of you know, just I don't know cuz, that's all, but anyway.

Speaker 1: 6:17

So I started slowly. I'm slowly like adding more and more people. I immediately added, like all my army buddies because, excuse me, you know Whether they're for Trump or against Trump, they can still take, you know, they can take a, they can put up with shit talking, basically. And then I'm slowly like Adding family members, the only only person that I know that hates Trump, that Friends with and I'm in contact with this my mom and we always get into like arguments, not arguments, but we always, you know, debate back and forth on messenger and whatever about it. But I Don't know. I'm kind of slowly starting to be like you know I Should, you know, life short. So it's just, you know, maybe start. I'm slowly starting to kind of grab people from you know friends that I had before, and While I'm doing this, I'm trying to separate my Facebook to my more personal, but I still Like, I still can't not talk shit about Again anyway.

Speaker 1: 7:34

So I have my my personal Facebook and then I have the little professional page or something that's more geared towards the podcast. So I'm trying to separate them, trying to separate them, but the thing is is like I don't want to. I want to talk shit about Facebook and all this stuff because they completely restricted and censored a lot of people's posts. You know what I mean. Oh, that's not right. If you notice, it's gone down a lot. Well, maybe for, not for, for people are just posting pictures of their kitty and and, yay, I love Biden.

Speaker 1: 8:09

Maybe they don't, they don't see it, but when you sit there and you, when you question and put things on there, they're like what you get, these marks you get, you get Facebook jail and all this kind of crap, and it's like dude, what it's like? It's it's free speech. You know, it's not like. We're like, hey, let's go, let's go kill a bunch of liberals or something. It's just people putting their opinions on there and then Facebook is is is like censoring it, and I just looked at the camera and let's see what and I'm all like. I'm all like hey, what's up? How are you doing so? I guess that's good, that's a good reason to have the camera up. Anyway, what was I saying? Oh yeah, so so Facebook is like censoring stuff.

Speaker 1: 8:58

So then I became my mission to just put anti Facebook and anti Trump or anti Biden and pro Trump stuff on Facebook, just to kind of, you know like, stick it to them, you know. So I'm still going to do that, but I'm going to try and I don't know, I'm still figuring it out. So I'm thinking of just trying to, maybe. So I took all my, my memes off the podcast Facebook and I just have links and videos and stuff from my podcast. But I wonder if maybe I'll start just putting my, my memes on there so that I can have Facebook separate for, you know, everybody, so I can talk to my liberal friends and all that kind of stuff. That's what I'm thinking. Let me know, send me an email, comment, whatever. Let me know what you think.

Speaker 1: 10:01

So the reason I'm kind of talk about this is so I, you know, like I said, I've been slowly like requesting friends back with people that I grew up with, and there was this young woman who I went to high school with, and she sent me a message that you know, at least I'm getting some interaction, but it was, you know, it was constructive criticism. I would say, and but I don't know what she's really talking about. Like I don't know if I mean, I say stuff. I don't. You know, some stuff comes out of my mouth that I'm not. I don't know. I mean, I'm sober, I, you know it's my opinion, so I'm not.

Speaker 1: 10:43

But she made it seem like I had a podcast that said like to kill transvestites or something. I don't know. I'm like what? I didn't say that. So I'm trying to think of what you know. And I sent her a message and I'm like, you know, I don't remember saying that I was like I was talking about the trans woman that shot up the school and her manifesto and how they didn't want to release it, kind of stuff. That's what you know. So I don't know if maybe she heard a clip or maybe she read something, maybe I don't know, I don't know. But if you're listening to this, what she's probably not, you know who you are. Send me a message again, let me know.

Speaker 1: 11:20

I mean, I'm not. You know, I don't care to be, I'm not going to like sugarcoat stuff. I'm not trying to attack anybody, but at the same time it's like I just I think I'm pretty good at seeing bullshit. You know this is going off differently. Cell phones I was this whole thing started on cell phones. I do my podcast. I'm like I feel like bitching or talking about something and so I'll do it and that's what this was supposed to be about cell phones. And now I'm going off on another thing, but again, I don't know.

Speaker 1: 11:56

I feel like I talk maybe that's what she's talking about, because I talk about but it just seems like the trans movement that's going on is just a lot of it is mental and and it's just for attention and because it's it's it's it's the cool thing to do. Now you know what I mean. Like I I believe there are people that are honestly in the wrong body or whatever, but I think it's way less than what they're making it seem like and I think a lot of them. It's just it's it's just a mental condition. You know, when I was working at the VA, there was, there was I don't know about daily, but I would see a trans man dressed as a woman and Not to be rude, but they were not pretty you know what I mean Like it was a guy with some lipstick and long hair wearing a dress, and you would see it I saw it more often than I would think and and Turns out, most of them were like special forces and in, you know, they were into some shit, saw some shit done some shit, had some shit happened to them, you know. So it just makes me think it's just kind of it. It's Like they're unhappy with what they did, maybe, and they want to change themselves. So they think that's what way to do it. I don't know, I just a lot of it. I think it's just it's in their brain. Some of them I think is legit, but a lot of it is not.

Speaker 1: 13:29

That's kind of my opinion. I'm not a doctor, I'm not whatever. I just from what I see. That's what I, that's what I get out of it. Anyway, I keep getting closer and closer to them. I need to push the computer back, maybe, all right. Oh, now it's all. What the heck? Oh, no, I'm sitting on a cable. Come on, what is that? Oh, it's the table. Because it's funky, I gotta build a new table. How's that? Is that better? I don't know, not really okay. Anyway, nope, too far there we go. So that's kind of my take on that, you know.

Speaker 1: 14:23

I know I personally know a trans individual. I Like the person, we get along, we talk BBS. You know, when he comes to town, she comes to town, they come to town. I've talked about her Before and I've had an episode where I was trying to maintain the pronoun thing, but I can't do it, it's just hard dude. And you know, you see these videos of people who get so upset. Do I look like a man or? But it's like dude.

Speaker 1: 14:51

It's like if you're doing something, you just hear a Man's voice. You're gonna be like hey, sir, and then, oh crap, they're dressed as a woman. You know what I mean. It's like Understand that you're going through something and you want to be looked at as a female, but you can't, you can't expect everybody to just, I don't know, it's just. It's like there's an epidemic of people like this.

Speaker 1: 15:17

This Dylan Mulvaney guy, that guy's a nut job and he's it's all for attention. You cannot say that he's legitimately a trans and wants to. There's I've seen, you know, like not a documentary, but I've seen stuff that talk about his early videos and the things he did and all this kind of stuff. And it's like he saw this trans movement coming on and he jumped on it and and when he acts like he acts like he Like the the stereotypical, annoying things that women do, that's what he does. You know, I don't know, it's just, it's Things like that. That's okay, that's, it's a mental condition, okay, I don't know. But anyway, what was it talking about?

Speaker 1: 15:59

I guess I'll end it here, with the phones now talked about that Cell phone. So I miss the days of Coming home after work or whatever, coming home from something. Oh, look the lights blinking. I got some messages. Click on it. Hey man, this is so, and so you want to go out this weekend? Let's do this. Hang out, blah, blah, blah, cool, call them back, or whatever. You know.

Speaker 1: 16:21

Simple, it was a simple life. Now it's like You're attached to everybody 24, 7, and it's just that. I remember seeing I think it was a comedian, that was like you know, cell phones have turned everybody into. Firefighters were in, were you know? Or it's like a 911, you know they're always in contact or In touch. You're able to get in touch and if you don't answer, it's like why did you answer the phone. You know what I mean. It's like, dude, chill, I'll get to it when I get to it. You know what I mean. It's like why do we have to be in Immediate contact with everybody all the time? It's annoying. And then now, with smartphones and the internet, it's just even worse.

Speaker 1: 17:06

Man, I don't know, I Don't even have. I mean, I have a smartphone, but I just use it to watch stuff, like it's my little pocket computer. I don't use it as a phone. I do have a cell phone, but it's just like an old-school little keyboard phone. That's what I use, because I don't, I don't really like to be when we go out. I'm, I don't have, you know, I don't, I Don't do that. It's like I just I just want a phone. So if I separate from my wife and she needs to find out where I am or whatever, and I can call her, she can call me, that's it. I Don't want to like be on my phone looking at tiktok or whatever as I'm walking around the mall or whatever. You know, I mean it's just, I don't know, just kind of annoying. And then they talk about having like implants and we're all gonna be able to do all this stuff in our Brain. So we're all gonna be like cyborg from Justice League. Fuck that man. I don't know, that's just weird.

Speaker 1: 18:05

Like it's, it's, it's nice, some of the, some of the things that you can do, but it's like I'm like I'm just waiting for the huge solar flare to come in and knock out our internet and everything. You know, I mean, people are gonna actually have to go to the bank to deposit a check instead of just taking pictures of it. And like it's, it's, it's not the, the, what do you call it? I mean, a lot of things are like it's nice and convenient, but it's just, it's too much, it's too much. They need to slow it down, and and that's kind of part of the problem of everything going on right now too. You know, I Know in my gut or whatever I or I bet that if there was no internet, if it was still, or if internet was more in its infancy, you know, if there wasn't social media, let's say that if there was no tick tock and and I keep saying tick tock, I mean to say Twitter and All that shit we would not have all these trans people, we wouldn't, because a lot of it's just for clicks and for, you know, attention and all this kind of crap. Man, it's just crazy. Um, I, I don't even. I don't even have my Twitter anymore because I can't, I can't get on there.

Speaker 1: 19:36

I I talked about before when I was switching from Chrome to Safari. I guess I could open up Chrome, but I want to, I'm trying to stay away from, I Don't like Google. So so I, you know, and when I tried to set up the Safari, like I wasn't paying attention and as I was logging in, it basically created like another account. So it was like objective jerk 5607 one or something like that. And I remember logging in there and I was kind of on there. And then I'm like what the crap? Why, why am I not seeing whatever this is now? And then come to find out was like another profile. So I was like, oh, what the hell. So I, you know, logged in and that's why I stayed with Chrome for a while because of that.

Speaker 1: 20:18

And so then I got to a point again I talked about I'm just like you know what, I'm going to Safari, don't care. And and I can't try and log in to my old Twitter account. It keeps logging in to that old one, which is now suspended. But I was like I was with their, their, their, you know help center trying to like do, can you not just delete this account, delete, get rid of it? I can't deactivate it because it says it's suspended. So I'm like what the crap, man? So it's like I can't, I don't think I can log in to my actual one until I get rid of this one.

Speaker 1: 20:48

But the support sucked and I was just like you know what, screw this, I Don't need it. And it kind of sucks because it it does help me with my when I do podcasts on certain things, you know, because you can kind of look up stuff that's going on. But oh Well, I don't know. I just I guess I got to get more into Instagram it's basically the same thing, but I Don't know. I'm having a I don't know, we shall see. So let's see, that's kind of it for me. If you would, you know, get on Facebook the objective jerk podcast and Follow it, like it, whatever. So I'm gonna kind of get more involved with with Facebook a little bit and see what it can do. Maybe even do like an ad that they have, see if that does anything. I doubt it, but whatever, anyway, um, I Think that's about it.

Speaker 1: 21:46

Where am I at? Yeah, I'm about time, time to go. It's kind of a short one, I guess, but I got stuff to do. I'm kind of in the In a good mood to get some stuff done around the house and then some, you know, honeydews or some small little Projects that I've been wanting to do. That when I'm depressed I don't care about, I'm just like whatever. And then so then they sit there and then by the time I'm ready to do some, it's like the project is now worse. You know then if I would have done that as well.

Speaker 1: 22:14

I'm trying to. I'm trying to like, when I'm in my depression mood, I'm trying to like pick One thing every day to do, whether it's do a load of laundry or I don't know, just some, some kind of little little thing, or maybe some kind of little thing, or maybe pick something and then, just every day, do a little bit of it. Because it's like when I'm in my Depression, it's like I just don't care, I don't want to, I have no motivation to do that. And then, when I'm in my moods like today, and which I have been other lately too it's like I you know, I cleaned my garage the other day, organized it it's awesome, but it sat there needing it for Like months. You know sucks. Anyway, like subscribe, follow email, all that crap. All right, I'll talk to you guys later. Bye.