Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the sheep get sheared podcast. I'm your host Austin Creed
My friends welcome back to the show. I know the show has been different recently. I'm I'll be honest with you
I think my
All this traveling all this going around to different places
I think it's been affecting me a little bit and also I know that
It's been a little different but my vacation slowly coming to an end. Well, I guess it's more of a trip coming out a whole lot of time to relax
but
Speaking of relaxing one of the things I've actually done a last couple days with a little bit of time
I have had to relax is look at the debate
Oh
Between Trump and Biden if that's what you want to call it. It would look like more of a
Trump just trolling everybody the whole time because you could tell he couldn't actually say what he wanted to say
So he really just kind of made little jabs at Biden and was kind of just saying that look
This is what I'm gonna do like he was very bare bones with a lot of the stuff
He said you could tell he was holding back and he wanted to go way harder
But he basically had a hand tied behind his back if we were talking about like a boxing match
But the reason I bring up the debate is not because I want to get into a really deep political discussion with you
Maybe we might do that at some point, but that's not what I want to do right now what I want to do instead is
I think we need to discuss
The media trust crisis. So what I mean is does anybody actually trust the media anymore? I don't the alphabet channels
You know what they are, you know, like in my estimation CNN MSNBC ABC
See all these different places, right?
Do people actually trust them anymore?
Does anybody does anybody listening to the show watch these channels anymore unless they have a special event or
Special going on that you can only watch there and even if you watch these outlets
Do you not just watch them on like Max or Hulu or Disney Plus or whatever?
Instead of going on a table
dish or direct TV
Set up and watching it. I don't think people really do that as much anymore
The only person I know who still does that is my grandpa, you know shout out to him. I doubt he listens to the show
He's probably he's way different politically than me. So I highly doubt you never listen to the show
but
it's interesting when you look at the fact that
Everywhere without exception and I mean both on the left and the right by the way, I'm an independent just so we make things clear
I am not a
Republican by my voting records. I am a independent and I'm a registered independent
I am not in the pockets of one or the other
I am fully aware that both have their problems the Republicans are known for
Just sitting in Congress and wanting to make money
Meanwhile the Democrats tend to be more power hungry and they pretend like that for the little guy to get their vote
And then they screw them over for money and power Democrats
And power Democrats tend to like power more than money and the Republicans tend to like money more than power least that's a very
huge
Overgeneralization, but I think it's largely correct. But when we get into this idea of media distrust
I think we both understand if we pay attention
into the media that
These people are basically just puppets
Saying whenever their corporate bosses want them to say and one of the reasons I think the influencer culture is just skyrocketing
Is because people want the they don't want to listen to talking heads. Well, at least not
overtly obvious ones
They would rather listen to people who have more raw and authentic reactions, you know kind of like look
I'm not gonna to my own hornier, you know, I don't normally do it. But I
I'm very I'm very raw reactions to things
Why because I'm human. I'm not being paid to say what I'm saying. There's nobody behind me
I don't have a
Advertising machine. I don't have people from affirmative action
Over my shoulder telling me what I can and cannot say like Trump did during the debate
But when we look at the fact that people can just overtly lie whether they be in the major news networks
Whether they be politicians whether they be people who are bail this flag bearers
With political opinions and they pretend like they're all good American. You're a good American archivist
Yes, yes, yes, I'm a good American are there and they on the other side and they want to just talk about Trump's
Schmendrick in a column. Oh, we don't know who that was
All his name. He was actually the guy who helped moderate the debate the other night. Oh, yeah, you didn't know about that
Did you yeah, he's obsessed with Trump Schmendrick apparently the sick bastard?
anyways
Back to the news networks themselves the reason I don't trust them and I think a lot of people will
Understand this and as you might as well that the major news networks back in the day
They were at least not as obvious with their very
Disgustingly
Biest opinions versus now it's out in the open now
Some people still pretend like they're objective journalists when they are not but for the most part people are slowly
Starting to say hey, you know what? This is my opinion. This is not a fact. This is just me expressing
based off of the facts quote-unquote
my
Reaction to it. It's becoming more about the person's reaction to something
That actually about the facts themselves now there are exceptions
but I think that the social media influencers are gaining huge public opinion because
They tend to be more
Forthright that they're not objective versus the old talking heads on the alphabet channels. They tend to not
Disclose that they tend to pretend like they are actually
Objective journalists. There's their journalists
You know they pretend like they're better and smarter than the average guy or gal who actually can read the news
But let's get to this idea of fake news
Anybody ever heard of this a concept the fake news of course you have trip
I think Trump was the one who made it popular back in like 2017 when after he won they just
slammed it over and over again how much they were just oh
Do Trump did this and Trump is evil and whatnot and I think we we all saw it all front and center
That people were just making up stories or they're exaggerating and pulling things out of proportion
And that's what led this idea of fake news because a was catchy and B
It was based off of the truth. There was a lot of propaganda going on and there still is now
They might ask what is propaganda? Well, we talked about propaganda
Let's get down to what it is. Well, let's look back at World War one World War one was the first major war
across multiple continents and multiple countries and
So when people started to get disinterested with the war when people started to say
Hey, you know what?
I don't want to be sent to go live in a trench and treads through my own feces and and
And then fight and get the Clegg and die. They said we got to find a way to get people to want to sacrifice themselves
So what do they do? They made it fashionable. They made it
Culturally imperative that you go and you send it for the war in World War two was the same way
Oh, we got to beat those nasty Germans. Oh, we got to beat those nasty Japs
We got a you know get uncle Sam that there's say I want you to recruit for the US Army
You know stuff like that or the silver back gorilla who would look like I think he had the resemblance of
Nazi Germany at the time and he was holding a woman under his arm and he's like I'm coming to take your women
It was like it's supposed to be the Germans coming to take away American women
That's the propaganda we're talking about now. There are principles of propaganda that go back way before World War one
But because there was so much technological advantage
So much innovation that happened in a very short period of time
I want to use one more one in World War two because it's not that long ago in the history of the world and
Like I said a lot of innovation happened in a very short period of time
The radio was arguably the biggest tool used up until recently when we started using television and social media and the internet
But the idea of propaganda is you want people to think a certain way
You don't want to teach them how to think for themselves
You don't want to give them all the information and let them come to their own conclusions
No, what propaganda does is it tells you just enough to get you to think exactly what they want you to think
Come to the conclusion they want you to come to that benefits them and not you
It
Circumnavigates your logic and more appeals to your emotions and when you asked why you believe something
I very tell tell sign that you have been brainwashed or that you've been
Propagandized properly is when asked why you support something why you're in favor of something instead of saying
Oh, I support this for x y and z reason you are like um
um, well, um you see um I uh
You don't know
You don't know why you support something you just do that is propaganda
Slowly seeping its way in and a good example of this in the modern day is the rainbow alphabet army people the LGBTQ people
Why would I say such a thing? Well when you look at the fact that back and I think it was 2008
The average person was not for homosexual marriage versus now you can't imagine a role without it and
What it's only been like 16 years
And when you look at the fact that throughout human history there have been people who have practiced that lifestyle
But they've been the underground they've never been so far out in the open like they have now except for arguably ancient Greece
And so when you look at how the public opinion has been so heavily swayed in such a short period of time
You have to ask yourself how it happened and it happened because a lot of different forces that have a large collective influence
Got it in your head to emotionally accept this
Because logically you would say it would hold no weight all you gotta do is look at debates that happen between so-called right-wingers and left-wingers
They don't tend to actually have a debate that leaves the other side saying I learned something
it was more just them screaming or talking at each other and
The soundbites go viral on YouTube and Twitter and that's about it
That's why a lot of people thinking they can't handle a debate
Because they don't actually want to walk away with anything new
They just want the other person to see what they had to say was correct and the other person was wrong
That's not where the biggest actually supposed to be at least not in my opinion
You're supposed to always be open to learning something and so when we go to this idea of propaganda and the news media of today
They don't want you to learn anything. They just want to get you riled up enough to support whatever
With a bio of the products their bosses are being advertised on the chat on their channel and
To have the people in politics who had you know who the people in the
Corporate bosses who own these platforms also pay the super PACs
They support the political machine by giving money to it
Arguably on both sides from what I've seen in my estimation
And so when you break it all down, it's basically a pyramid like a lot of other schemes. It's a pyramid and
This is why a lot of people are waking up to it because they see that the people on stage are not masters of knowledge and wisdom
They're marionettes who are doing a say and do whatever their corporate bosses say they should say and do
So that they then can make money and that they can convince you to hate your neighbor
So they can make money and so you can watch their shows and buy their products
That's why I don't sit here and say and Democrats are good or publicans are bad or vice versa
Because at the end of the day, I'm not gonna sit here and tell you just to be divisive for money
I want to tell you how to avoid being exploited not to help you get exploited because what the hell would be the point of that
There's enough people to do that here on the planet. My job as a commentator on this on this podcast is not to teach you
It's sorry is is to teach you about what it is
What is going going to exploit you? What is out there to get you so that you are not?
Easily exploited by these entities so you are not led into the meat grinder
That everybody else is being walked down to when they're smiling while walking in I
Want you to understand that the public opinion is shaped by these corporate talking heads and
A lot of it is to sell products that then turn you back onto their shows and the shows turn you back onto the products
It's a circle and we will avoid being stuck on this hamster wheel of lies and
We need to avoid buzzwords that just give us what we want to hear and to keep consuming these news outlets
And I think the debate was a good example of this
They had commercial breaks in there that they had not had historically by the way
Which only goes to show you that it's all about ratings and revenue and at the end of the day
I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that I don't care about money who doesn't everybody cares about money
But I'm not gonna undermine my own credibility by telling you that I'm not out to make money every once in a while
I also want to give you the truth because the truth is more
It's more explicit than the most
Aggregious pornography at this particular point because you can get prawn anywhere you want versus you can't get the truth pretty much anywhere
Especially on these corporate news sites who might put a drop of the truth and their concoction of lies and deceptions have truths and propaganda
And that's across the board
I'm not gonna say you're just say that it's just CNN in my estimation. That's doing it. Everybody's doing it
Everybody almost without exception is doing it on a level almost unheard of
But the most nefarious part is that back in the day they have like for example, you look at NPR NPR is actually fund by the government
It's national public radio that you would expect. It's paid for by taxpayer money
Versus you look at others are so-called private corporations and they act pretty much the exact same way
My friends
When we get into this idea of trusting the media
When we get into this idea of trusting the media and the propaganda landscape that expands the entire spectrum
We cannot just say I like this one side
So I'm gonna choose to agree with them doing so will undermine your ability to understand the world
And it will undermine your ability to learn things that are new and exciting and things that might lead you to fulfillment and greater understanding
So my friends, I think I'm gonna leave there. What do you think? Do you think I'm wrong? Do you think I'm right?
Would you go a little would you go in harder? Would you go in softer pause?
Let me know I'd love to hear about it. Also, let me know what you thought about the debate if you even watched it
I know a lot of people didn't even watch it. They didn't want it
They don't want anything to do with politics politics is a nightmare
But my friends in the meantime, I hope you think for yourself
I hope you do me a feed the feedback that you want. Let me know what you care about right now that you'd like me to talk more about I
Won't be out here doing this cut these types of shows just audio only for much longer because I'll be back in the States in the next couple days
But first let me know what your thoughts are on this issue because politics is extremely
Polarizing especially during an election year. So I love to hear what you have to say in the meantime to care of yourselves and I'm out peace