1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,400 Welcome to the Sheep Get Sheared podcast, home of people, politics, and popular culture. 2 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:14,600 I'm your host Austin Kree. 3 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:18,280 I want to welcome you into the show this morning. 4 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:26,240 So my friends, one of the things that the show is all about is finding out the lies 5 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:29,480 and exposing the true realities of life. 6 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:35,880 And one of the realities of life that I've found is we are lied to quite a bit. 7 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:42,340 And a lot of times the lies that are told to us are meant to protect others while harming 8 00:00:42,340 --> 00:00:45,320 another demographic. 9 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:52,400 Now when we talk about the certain ideas that are pushed in society, such as diversity, 10 00:00:52,400 --> 00:01:01,120 inclusion, equality, equity, stuff like that, we need to realize that those are code words. 11 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:05,000 Those are Aesopian language code words. 12 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,560 And you could say, hey, you know what, Austin, I think this is conspiracy theory level stuff. 13 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:13,440 And if that's what you think, go ahead and see if I care, leave, but do so at your own 14 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:17,040 risk as far as I'm concerned. 15 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:23,600 But getting back to Aesopian language, it was used by the democratic socialists in Russia 16 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,000 back in the, before the days of the Soviet Union. 17 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,380 Oh yeah. 18 00:01:27,380 --> 00:01:32,040 You didn't know that democratic socialism is not unique to Bernie Sanders. 19 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:33,120 Oh yeah. 20 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:37,760 It existed back in Soviet Russia before, before became Soviet Russia. 21 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:44,080 The intellectuals of their time called themselves democratic socialists until the revolution 22 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:45,880 happened and then they became communists. 23 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:50,120 Don't figure that out, but they didn't, they didn't discuss things in the open like they 24 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:51,400 do today. 25 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,560 What they did was they discussed things in an Aesopian way. 26 00:01:54,560 --> 00:02:00,560 You ever read Aesop fables as a kid or your mom or your dad or whoever read those Aesop 27 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:07,600 fables to you, you know, the mouse and the lion, the crow and the bug, you know, the 28 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:12,680 spider and the bird, you know, whatever those kinds of fables, right? 29 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,200 Or the moral of the story is implied. 30 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:18,640 It's inferred, but it's never directly stated. 31 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:23,840 Well, my friends, that is the modern political structure we're living in. 32 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:29,480 Because when you look at the modern political landscape, a lot of people use these code 33 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:34,120 words to say one thing, but really they mean something else. 34 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:37,940 If you know, you know, and if you don't know, you're in the dark. 35 00:02:37,940 --> 00:02:40,120 And that is what I'm worried about. 36 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:44,320 And that is why I want to talk about one of these code words today. 37 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:45,720 And that is equality. 38 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:50,540 Now, equality does not exist fully. 39 00:02:50,540 --> 00:02:58,020 It is a code word for bringing other certain demographics up and bringing other demographics 40 00:02:58,020 --> 00:03:01,320 down so that everybody is on an equally medium level. 41 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:08,280 Instead of trying to bring the low bar up, we, they take the high bar down. 42 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:14,960 An example of this in society is, I hate to say this, actually, no, I don't. 43 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:21,200 I love talking about the truth, is men being brought down while women are being propped 44 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:22,200 up. 45 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:27,000 Now, there are some women who don't require this, just as there are some men who require 46 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,000 help. 47 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:29,140 Well, those are the outliers. 48 00:03:29,140 --> 00:03:31,200 They are not the norm. 49 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:33,200 They are not the average. 50 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:36,200 They are the exception. 51 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,680 So my friends, I want to ask you something. 52 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:42,760 Why do you think that men are held to a higher standard in society? 53 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:51,300 You ever notice in family court, in the court of public opinion, that for some reason men 54 00:03:51,300 --> 00:03:56,200 are expected to take an L, whereas we need to let the woman off the hook when she messes 55 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:57,480 up? 56 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:00,020 Let me give you an example, okay? 57 00:04:00,020 --> 00:04:05,080 The example I discussed would be something along the lines of, let's say there's an older 58 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:07,160 man, he's in his 40s, right? 59 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:10,160 And he wants to go and he wants to date a younger woman who's 18. 60 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:11,880 Totally legal, right? 61 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:15,360 But suddenly, oh no, it's immoral, you can't do that. 62 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:19,960 But then if we switch it and it's an 18 year old guy who's dating a 40 year old woman, 63 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:22,120 suddenly, oh, but they're in love, Austin. 64 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:23,480 You can't say nothing about that. 65 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:25,780 They're in love, why you hating? 66 00:04:25,780 --> 00:04:26,780 See that? 67 00:04:26,780 --> 00:04:28,880 I like to play a game called reverse. 68 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:35,560 It's like an, where you put an uno reverse card on the situation and then suddenly is 69 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,240 it more or less okay? 70 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:43,120 That is a perfect example of why equality is bogus. 71 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,400 It's bullshit in plain English, it's garbage, it doesn't work. 72 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,440 Let me ask you something else. 73 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,600 Why are women not eligible for the drafts officially? 74 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,920 I know there are theories going around that there is an executive order. 75 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,120 I'm not sure that's exactly true. 76 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:03,080 I hope it is because that's a good step forward towards actual equality, not just perceived 77 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,120 equality in my opinion. 78 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,880 But here's what I don't get. 79 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:13,080 I believe that women are equally human, so I'm not denying women's humanity whatsoever. 80 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:19,560 But what I'm saying is you can't have equality without equal quality, which means that we 81 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:24,680 have equal responsibilities, equal expectations. 82 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:30,560 But yeah, for some reason that's where the cutoff happens. 83 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:34,520 For some reason, women are seen as, you know, oh, they're more innocent than men, they're 84 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:35,520 weaker than men. 85 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:36,520 That's not true. 86 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:41,160 And the physical department may be, but everywhere else, all hell no. 87 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:42,920 We all know that to be false. 88 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,040 100% false. 89 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:52,480 Women are masters of manipulation versus men are very inept in that department unless they've 90 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:57,680 been taught usually by a woman directly or indirectly. 91 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:03,840 My friends, this idea of women being naive and whatnot is totally false. 92 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:10,420 It is a total fabrication of reality, but it then leads to men having a quote higher 93 00:06:10,420 --> 00:06:18,800 standard for the same rights in society, which is the opposite of what equality means. 94 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,460 That's why I think equality is stupid because it doesn't actually work. 95 00:06:22,460 --> 00:06:23,880 People don't want actual equality. 96 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:26,940 They want perceived equality. 97 00:06:26,940 --> 00:06:30,320 They want to be in the club, but not have to pay the dues to be in the club. 98 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,320 If you get what I'm saying. 99 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,320 You might say, well, Austin, that's mean. 100 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:37,320 You're being unsympathetic. 101 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:39,400 Well, I don't need to be sympathetic. 102 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:40,400 I need to be realistic. 103 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:41,880 And you know what? 104 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:43,920 I'm okay with being cold. 105 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:47,720 I'm okay with if that's what you want to describe me as, go right ahead. 106 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:50,160 I don't care. 107 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:51,480 Because the other day, you know, I'm right. 108 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:52,480 You're getting offended. 109 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:53,480 It's because you know that I'm right. 110 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:55,120 What I'm talking about. 111 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,520 And I wish I could sit here and tell you that this isn't the case. 112 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:00,920 But unfortunately, it is. 113 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:06,240 I wish I could sit here and tell you that everything works as intended and everybody's 114 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:07,360 living better now. 115 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:10,840 But the problem is, that's not true. 116 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:15,120 Why do you think we need this notion of equality if people were equally contributing to everything 117 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:16,680 in society? 118 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:19,000 Unfortunately, that's just not the case. 119 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:26,760 That's just not true, because if it was, then there'd be no issue. 120 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:30,600 So my friends, what are your thoughts on this? 121 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:35,160 Have you heard, have you seen equality in your own life being weaponized against you? 122 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:37,560 I'm trying to bring you to the name of equality. 123 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:38,560 They bring you down. 124 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:39,880 They ostracize you. 125 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:43,520 They throw you in the trash to make room for someone else who's less qualified than you 126 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:45,720 in the name of equality. 127 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,320 The white males need not apply. 128 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:55,720 People philosophy that's very prevalent today in almost every sector available. 129 00:07:55,720 --> 00:08:03,600 My friends, where truly quality means everybody has equal treatment, equal access. 130 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:08,060 But the problem is that doesn't play out that way. 131 00:08:08,060 --> 00:08:12,560 Because some people are just on the bottom of society from a financial standpoint, and 132 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:19,000 thus they don't have the equal networking ability, the equal access, because that's 133 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,680 just not the way the world works. 134 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:23,160 Could you argue that that's immoral? 135 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:28,320 Sure, if you want to argue that way, you can, but that doesn't change the objective reality 136 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:29,400 that we find ourselves in. 137 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:34,960 My friends, how would you define equality? 138 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:38,440 I think my definition is very fitting. 139 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:44,120 It means equal quality. 140 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:48,360 The problem is too many people, they don't see equality. 141 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:52,160 They see this, the stake version of equality that's been pushed forward. 142 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:59,080 It goes back to it being a code word, which means it doesn't, it means one thing to the 143 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:06,760 people who know and another to the general population, which is in the dark. 144 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:12,800 And you can go across racial lines, you can go across gender lines, and just see how certain 145 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:17,320 people are being penalized versus other people are being rewarded, and that is not what equality 146 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:18,320 is supposed to be. 147 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:20,340 That is exactly the opposite. 148 00:09:20,340 --> 00:09:25,920 That's punishing people for something they have no say in, and rewarding people for other 149 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:29,120 people's bad choices. 150 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,440 Do I think there's genuine racism in the world? 151 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:32,440 Yes. 152 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:34,120 Do I think that there's genuine discrimination? 153 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:35,120 Yes. 154 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:40,440 Do I think that everything that's always described as either one of those two things is discrimination 155 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:41,440 or racism? 156 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:42,440 No. 157 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:45,280 Do I think there's systemic racism? 158 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:47,000 No. 159 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,000 I don't. 160 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,280 In fact, if it does exist, it exists against white people, not against minorities. 161 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:53,440 All I had to do was look at affirmative action. 162 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:55,640 But I don't want to get off the track here. 163 00:09:55,640 --> 00:10:00,000 I feel like I'm losing the force for the trees here. 164 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,920 The general philosophy is why are men held to a higher standard? 165 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:05,880 If you can't provide for your kids, why do you go to prison? 166 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:11,520 If you can't, if you don't, quote, pull out or you don't wear protection, and then you 167 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:13,720 get the girl pregnant, why is it your fault? 168 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:16,960 Why is it not equally her fault when she knew she was ovulating when she decided to have 169 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:18,680 sex with you like that anyways? 170 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:22,320 Again, there is not equal accountability across the board. 171 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:24,780 You as a man are held to a higher standard. 172 00:10:24,780 --> 00:10:26,440 Why is that? 173 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:28,560 Where's equality there? 174 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:34,440 Where's equality when it comes to women being rewarded in society for doing the bare minimum 175 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:37,160 whereas men were expected to pitch a shutout? 176 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:40,560 And if we can't undo it, well, then you're just a bad man. 177 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:41,560 You're not a real man. 178 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:47,480 Gosh, you have no idea what contempt I have for that phrase, real men. 179 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:49,360 What is a real man? 180 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:53,320 First of all, I heard recently there was a book out, I don't know by who, but there was 181 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:57,040 a book by a woman who was talking about toxic masculinity. 182 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:01,520 That's like someone writing a book about cancer who's never been through cancer, like surviving 183 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:03,440 cancer but you've never had cancer. 184 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,080 It's like, what the hell are you talking about? 185 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:07,080 Who would read that? 186 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:08,640 I don't understand that. 187 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:13,180 No, I'm not saying that she can't understand it from a clinical perspective. 188 00:11:13,180 --> 00:11:14,180 Of course she can. 189 00:11:14,180 --> 00:11:17,720 Anybody can, but she hasn't lived it. 190 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:25,680 Masculinity has been under attack for years, years, because apparently we as men need to 191 00:11:25,680 --> 00:11:27,920 be all things to all people all the time. 192 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:33,280 And if we're not, then we're no good versus a woman could be on drugs, have mental health 193 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:37,360 problems, but she can still have custody of her kids and people feel sorry for her. 194 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:41,480 And she's a good mom and she's trying versus if you're a dad and you're not there and you're 195 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:43,960 not doing this, that and the other thing, well, then guess what? 196 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:44,960 You're a deadbeat. 197 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:45,960 You're no good. 198 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,960 You're going to jail. 199 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:54,680 The rules in society are stacked against men and are in favor of women. 200 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:56,700 For example, let me put it to you like this. 201 00:11:56,700 --> 00:11:59,100 Let's say that a man is drunk, right? 202 00:11:59,100 --> 00:12:01,960 And the woman is not drunk and they hook up. 203 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:05,400 Did she take advantage of him? 204 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:06,840 What do you think? 205 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:07,840 Let's flip it. 206 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:10,320 Let's say the woman's not drunk, but the man is. 207 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:16,280 If you take advantage of her, you see, you see that to the hypocrisy and that I thought 208 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:17,280 we were supposed to be equals. 209 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:19,040 What happened? 210 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:20,520 What about when paying for dates? 211 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:21,760 Now I'm a traditional guy. 212 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:25,400 I pay for my, if I take a woman on a date, which rarely happens anymore. 213 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:27,320 But if I do, I pay for everything. 214 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:28,320 Why? 215 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:30,800 Because that's what I believe in. 216 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:33,680 But for some reason we want to believe in equality. 217 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:38,960 And yet when a woman is, is expected to pay with her own money that she earned and pay 218 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:41,000 her way, that's no good. 219 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:42,220 You're not a real man. 220 00:12:42,220 --> 00:12:43,400 Real men pay for everything. 221 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:44,480 Well, wait a minute. 222 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:45,480 What about equality? 223 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:46,480 What happened? 224 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:48,440 Again, people don't want equality. 225 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:54,240 They want equal access to the rewards, but not equal responsibility for what those rights 226 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,400 require. 227 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,680 That's the problem. 228 00:12:58,680 --> 00:13:02,520 People want to cherry pick, not be consistent. 229 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:05,120 And that is why men are usually held to a higher standard because we have the double 230 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:06,120 dip. 231 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:12,800 We have the, what's hers is hers and what yours is too, versus the true equality that 232 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:14,880 people preach from textbooks. 233 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:17,680 My friends, what are your thoughts on this? 234 00:13:17,680 --> 00:13:20,960 Do you think I'm fair, foul, fabricating it? 235 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:22,560 What do you think? 236 00:13:22,560 --> 00:13:23,920 I want to hear what you have to say. 237 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:27,800 Cause I know everybody encounters this differently. 238 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:31,600 So my friends, if you want to hit me up in the DMs on X at Cheap Good Shared, you're 239 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:32,880 welcome to do so. 240 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:36,600 Come on any of the thousands of posts that I have made. 241 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:38,040 But my friends, I want to hear what you have to say. 242 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:42,440 Cause I know there are a lot of stories to be told on this issue. 243 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:46,320 When you start to see what it is we're talking about on the show today, you'll start to see 244 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:50,600 things from a different lens, a more realistic lens. 245 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:53,120 I hope that that's what you learned today. 246 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:56,640 I hope I can, could help you build that lens for yourself. 247 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:58,280 My friends, God bless you. 248 00:13:58,280 --> 00:13:59,280 God bless your families. 249 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:00,280 God bless America. 250 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:01,280 I'm out of here. 251 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:02,280 Enjoy your day. 252 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:03,720 Christmas is right around the corner. 253 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:04,720 Let's enjoy it. 254 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:05,720 I'm out. 255 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:16,900 Christmas is rich.