1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,320 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the sheep get sheared podcast. I'm your host Austin Creed 2 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:12,280 My friends welcome back to the show. I know the show has been different recently. I'm I'll be honest with you 3 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:14,280 I think my 4 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,480 All this traveling all this going around to different places 5 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:23,600 I think it's been affecting me a little bit and also I know that 6 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:31,480 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 7 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:33,960 but 8 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaking of relaxing one of the things I've actually done a last couple days with a little bit of time 9 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,280 I have had to relax is look at the debate 10 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:42,640 Oh 11 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:46,320 Between Trump and Biden if that's what you want to call it. It would look like more of a 12 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:52,300 Trump just trolling everybody the whole time because you could tell he couldn't actually say what he wanted to say 13 00:00:52,300 --> 00:00:58,340 So he really just kind of made little jabs at Biden and was kind of just saying that look 14 00:00:58,340 --> 00:01:01,580 This is what I'm gonna do like he was very bare bones with a lot of the stuff 15 00:01:01,580 --> 00:01:05,700 He said you could tell he was holding back and he wanted to go way harder 16 00:01:05,900 --> 00:01:10,460 But he basically had a hand tied behind his back if we were talking about like a boxing match 17 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:17,540 But the reason I bring up the debate is not because I want to get into a really deep political discussion with you 18 00:01:17,540 --> 00:01:22,580 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 19 00:01:22,740 --> 00:01:24,740 I think we need to discuss 20 00:01:25,060 --> 00:01:32,860 The media trust crisis. So what I mean is does anybody actually trust the media anymore? I don't the alphabet channels 21 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:37,900 You know what they are, you know, like in my estimation CNN MSNBC ABC 22 00:01:38,300 --> 00:01:40,660 See all these different places, right? 23 00:01:41,420 --> 00:01:43,580 Do people actually trust them anymore? 24 00:01:43,580 --> 00:01:48,980 Does anybody does anybody listening to the show watch these channels anymore unless they have a special event or 25 00:01:49,580 --> 00:01:54,460 Special going on that you can only watch there and even if you watch these outlets 26 00:01:54,980 --> 00:02:01,100 Do you not just watch them on like Max or Hulu or Disney Plus or whatever? 27 00:02:01,980 --> 00:02:03,980 Instead of going on a table 28 00:02:04,300 --> 00:02:06,300 dish or direct TV 29 00:02:06,940 --> 00:02:09,700 Set up and watching it. I don't think people really do that as much anymore 30 00:02:09,700 --> 00:02:14,740 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 31 00:02:15,180 --> 00:02:20,380 He's probably he's way different politically than me. So I highly doubt you never listen to the show 32 00:02:21,460 --> 00:02:22,660 but 33 00:02:22,660 --> 00:02:25,260 it's interesting when you look at the fact that 34 00:02:26,100 --> 00:02:32,860 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 35 00:02:33,100 --> 00:02:35,100 I am not a 36 00:02:35,100 --> 00:02:40,500 Republican by my voting records. I am a independent and I'm a registered independent 37 00:02:40,500 --> 00:02:42,740 I am not in the pockets of one or the other 38 00:02:43,020 --> 00:02:48,940 I am fully aware that both have their problems the Republicans are known for 39 00:02:49,380 --> 00:02:52,100 Just sitting in Congress and wanting to make money 40 00:02:52,100 --> 00:02:57,500 Meanwhile the Democrats tend to be more power hungry and they pretend like that for the little guy to get their vote 41 00:02:57,500 --> 00:03:00,980 And then they screw them over for money and power Democrats 42 00:03:00,980 --> 00:03:08,620 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 43 00:03:09,380 --> 00:03:10,460 huge 44 00:03:10,460 --> 00:03:16,660 Overgeneralization, but I think it's largely correct. But when we get into this idea of media distrust 45 00:03:16,660 --> 00:03:19,660 I think we both understand if we pay attention 46 00:03:20,660 --> 00:03:22,660 into the media that 47 00:03:22,940 --> 00:03:25,140 These people are basically just puppets 48 00:03:25,140 --> 00:03:31,980 Saying whenever their corporate bosses want them to say and one of the reasons I think the influencer culture is just skyrocketing 49 00:03:32,340 --> 00:03:38,380 Is because people want the they don't want to listen to talking heads. Well, at least not 50 00:03:39,060 --> 00:03:40,900 overtly obvious ones 51 00:03:40,900 --> 00:03:47,020 They would rather listen to people who have more raw and authentic reactions, you know kind of like look 52 00:03:47,020 --> 00:03:50,620 I'm not gonna to my own hornier, you know, I don't normally do it. But I 53 00:03:50,620 --> 00:03:54,260 I'm very I'm very raw reactions to things 54 00:03:55,060 --> 00:04:00,660 Why because I'm human. I'm not being paid to say what I'm saying. There's nobody behind me 55 00:04:00,660 --> 00:04:02,660 I don't have a 56 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:07,460 Advertising machine. I don't have people from affirmative action 57 00:04:08,020 --> 00:04:12,220 Over my shoulder telling me what I can and cannot say like Trump did during the debate 58 00:04:12,940 --> 00:04:18,220 But when we look at the fact that people can just overtly lie whether they be in the major news networks 59 00:04:18,220 --> 00:04:23,420 Whether they be politicians whether they be people who are bail this flag bearers 60 00:04:24,060 --> 00:04:29,640 With political opinions and they pretend like they're all good American. You're a good American archivist 61 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:35,460 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 62 00:04:35,700 --> 00:04:38,460 Schmendrick in a column. Oh, we don't know who that was 63 00:04:39,140 --> 00:04:44,460 All his name. He was actually the guy who helped moderate the debate the other night. Oh, yeah, you didn't know about that 64 00:04:44,460 --> 00:04:49,460 Did you yeah, he's obsessed with Trump Schmendrick apparently the sick bastard? 65 00:04:49,860 --> 00:04:51,140 anyways 66 00:04:51,140 --> 00:04:57,260 Back to the news networks themselves the reason I don't trust them and I think a lot of people will 67 00:04:57,820 --> 00:05:04,300 Understand this and as you might as well that the major news networks back in the day 68 00:05:04,300 --> 00:05:07,500 They were at least not as obvious with their very 69 00:05:09,420 --> 00:05:11,420 Disgustingly 70 00:05:11,420 --> 00:05:16,220 Biest opinions versus now it's out in the open now 71 00:05:16,220 --> 00:05:21,660 Some people still pretend like they're objective journalists when they are not but for the most part people are slowly 72 00:05:22,500 --> 00:05:29,140 Starting to say hey, you know what? This is my opinion. This is not a fact. This is just me expressing 73 00:05:29,460 --> 00:05:31,780 based off of the facts quote-unquote 74 00:05:32,620 --> 00:05:33,940 my 75 00:05:33,940 --> 00:05:37,620 Reaction to it. It's becoming more about the person's reaction to something 76 00:05:37,620 --> 00:05:41,820 That actually about the facts themselves now there are exceptions 77 00:05:41,980 --> 00:05:47,740 but I think that the social media influencers are gaining huge public opinion because 78 00:05:48,300 --> 00:05:50,300 They tend to be more 79 00:05:50,300 --> 00:05:57,020 Forthright that they're not objective versus the old talking heads on the alphabet channels. They tend to not 80 00:05:57,660 --> 00:06:01,300 Disclose that they tend to pretend like they are actually 81 00:06:01,940 --> 00:06:04,980 Objective journalists. There's their journalists 82 00:06:04,980 --> 00:06:12,260 You know they pretend like they're better and smarter than the average guy or gal who actually can read the news 83 00:06:13,340 --> 00:06:16,420 But let's get to this idea of fake news 84 00:06:16,420 --> 00:06:20,260 Anybody ever heard of this a concept the fake news of course you have trip 85 00:06:20,260 --> 00:06:25,700 I think Trump was the one who made it popular back in like 2017 when after he won they just 86 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:30,260 slammed it over and over again how much they were just oh 87 00:06:30,260 --> 00:06:38,540 Do Trump did this and Trump is evil and whatnot and I think we we all saw it all front and center 88 00:06:38,940 --> 00:06:44,580 That people were just making up stories or they're exaggerating and pulling things out of proportion 89 00:06:44,580 --> 00:06:49,940 And that's what led this idea of fake news because a was catchy and B 90 00:06:49,940 --> 00:06:54,860 It was based off of the truth. There was a lot of propaganda going on and there still is now 91 00:06:55,260 --> 00:06:59,020 They might ask what is propaganda? Well, we talked about propaganda 92 00:06:59,020 --> 00:07:06,940 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 93 00:07:07,300 --> 00:07:11,180 across multiple continents and multiple countries and 94 00:07:12,380 --> 00:07:18,620 So when people started to get disinterested with the war when people started to say 95 00:07:18,620 --> 00:07:19,260 Hey, you know what? 96 00:07:19,260 --> 00:07:23,660 I don't want to be sent to go live in a trench and treads through my own feces and and 97 00:07:23,660 --> 00:07:30,860 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 98 00:07:31,140 --> 00:07:34,900 So what do they do? They made it fashionable. They made it 99 00:07:35,780 --> 00:07:40,420 Culturally imperative that you go and you send it for the war in World War two was the same way 100 00:07:40,420 --> 00:07:44,540 Oh, we got to beat those nasty Germans. Oh, we got to beat those nasty Japs 101 00:07:44,660 --> 00:07:51,220 We got a you know get uncle Sam that there's say I want you to recruit for the US Army 102 00:07:51,220 --> 00:07:56,260 You know stuff like that or the silver back gorilla who would look like I think he had the resemblance of 103 00:07:56,860 --> 00:08:02,780 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 104 00:08:02,780 --> 00:08:05,940 It was like it's supposed to be the Germans coming to take away American women 105 00:08:06,420 --> 00:08:13,220 That's the propaganda we're talking about now. There are principles of propaganda that go back way before World War one 106 00:08:14,020 --> 00:08:17,220 But because there was so much technological advantage 107 00:08:17,220 --> 00:08:20,540 So much innovation that happened in a very short period of time 108 00:08:20,540 --> 00:08:26,980 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 109 00:08:27,540 --> 00:08:30,580 Like I said a lot of innovation happened in a very short period of time 110 00:08:30,940 --> 00:08:38,140 The radio was arguably the biggest tool used up until recently when we started using television and social media and the internet 111 00:08:39,060 --> 00:08:43,460 But the idea of propaganda is you want people to think a certain way 112 00:08:43,460 --> 00:08:47,460 You don't want to teach them how to think for themselves 113 00:08:47,460 --> 00:08:52,340 You don't want to give them all the information and let them come to their own conclusions 114 00:08:52,620 --> 00:09:01,180 No, what propaganda does is it tells you just enough to get you to think exactly what they want you to think 115 00:09:01,540 --> 00:09:07,020 Come to the conclusion they want you to come to that benefits them and not you 116 00:09:07,940 --> 00:09:09,060 It 117 00:09:09,060 --> 00:09:16,300 Circumnavigates your logic and more appeals to your emotions and when you asked why you believe something 118 00:09:16,300 --> 00:09:21,220 I very tell tell sign that you have been brainwashed or that you've been 119 00:09:21,580 --> 00:09:28,420 Propagandized properly is when asked why you support something why you're in favor of something instead of saying 120 00:09:28,420 --> 00:09:32,740 Oh, I support this for x y and z reason you are like um 121 00:09:33,540 --> 00:09:37,660 um, well, um you see um I uh 122 00:09:37,660 --> 00:09:39,660 You don't know 123 00:09:39,940 --> 00:09:44,700 You don't know why you support something you just do that is propaganda 124 00:09:45,580 --> 00:09:54,860 Slowly seeping its way in and a good example of this in the modern day is the rainbow alphabet army people the LGBTQ people 125 00:09:55,660 --> 00:10:01,180 Why would I say such a thing? Well when you look at the fact that back and I think it was 2008 126 00:10:01,180 --> 00:10:10,460 The average person was not for homosexual marriage versus now you can't imagine a role without it and 127 00:10:11,660 --> 00:10:13,660 What it's only been like 16 years 128 00:10:14,620 --> 00:10:19,180 And when you look at the fact that throughout human history there have been people who have practiced that lifestyle 129 00:10:19,540 --> 00:10:26,020 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 130 00:10:26,020 --> 00:10:32,900 And so when you look at how the public opinion has been so heavily swayed in such a short period of time 131 00:10:33,220 --> 00:10:40,580 You have to ask yourself how it happened and it happened because a lot of different forces that have a large collective influence 132 00:10:41,380 --> 00:10:44,700 Got it in your head to emotionally accept this 133 00:10:45,340 --> 00:10:53,140 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 134 00:10:53,140 --> 00:10:59,140 They don't tend to actually have a debate that leaves the other side saying I learned something 135 00:10:59,140 --> 00:11:02,260 it was more just them screaming or talking at each other and 136 00:11:04,220 --> 00:11:08,420 The soundbites go viral on YouTube and Twitter and that's about it 137 00:11:09,820 --> 00:11:12,420 That's why a lot of people thinking they can't handle a debate 138 00:11:12,780 --> 00:11:16,620 Because they don't actually want to walk away with anything new 139 00:11:16,620 --> 00:11:23,420 They just want the other person to see what they had to say was correct and the other person was wrong 140 00:11:23,620 --> 00:11:28,100 That's not where the biggest actually supposed to be at least not in my opinion 141 00:11:28,740 --> 00:11:34,940 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 142 00:11:34,940 --> 00:11:40,660 They don't want you to learn anything. They just want to get you riled up enough to support whatever 143 00:11:40,660 --> 00:11:46,620 With a bio of the products their bosses are being advertised on the chat on their channel and 144 00:11:47,260 --> 00:11:52,620 To have the people in politics who had you know who the people in the 145 00:11:53,580 --> 00:11:58,100 Corporate bosses who own these platforms also pay the super PACs 146 00:11:58,220 --> 00:12:02,580 They support the political machine by giving money to it 147 00:12:03,220 --> 00:12:06,420 Arguably on both sides from what I've seen in my estimation 148 00:12:06,420 --> 00:12:13,260 And so when you break it all down, it's basically a pyramid like a lot of other schemes. It's a pyramid and 149 00:12:14,540 --> 00:12:21,340 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 150 00:12:21,420 --> 00:12:27,780 They're marionettes who are doing a say and do whatever their corporate bosses say they should say and do 151 00:12:28,660 --> 00:12:34,340 So that they then can make money and that they can convince you to hate your neighbor 152 00:12:34,340 --> 00:12:39,300 So they can make money and so you can watch their shows and buy their products 153 00:12:40,460 --> 00:12:45,820 That's why I don't sit here and say and Democrats are good or publicans are bad or vice versa 154 00:12:46,380 --> 00:12:51,500 Because at the end of the day, I'm not gonna sit here and tell you just to be divisive for money 155 00:12:51,500 --> 00:12:59,020 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 156 00:12:59,020 --> 00:13:06,700 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 157 00:13:07,500 --> 00:13:11,020 It's sorry is is to teach you about what it is 158 00:13:11,180 --> 00:13:16,580 What is going going to exploit you? What is out there to get you so that you are not? 159 00:13:17,500 --> 00:13:22,260 Easily exploited by these entities so you are not led into the meat grinder 160 00:13:22,860 --> 00:13:27,540 That everybody else is being walked down to when they're smiling while walking in I 161 00:13:27,540 --> 00:13:34,580 Want you to understand that the public opinion is shaped by these corporate talking heads and 162 00:13:35,980 --> 00:13:43,260 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 163 00:13:43,300 --> 00:13:48,780 It's a circle and we will avoid being stuck on this hamster wheel of lies and 164 00:13:48,780 --> 00:13:57,660 We need to avoid buzzwords that just give us what we want to hear and to keep consuming these news outlets 165 00:13:57,660 --> 00:14:00,940 And I think the debate was a good example of this 166 00:14:00,940 --> 00:14:04,980 They had commercial breaks in there that they had not had historically by the way 167 00:14:05,220 --> 00:14:11,500 Which only goes to show you that it's all about ratings and revenue and at the end of the day 168 00:14:11,500 --> 00:14:15,900 I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that I don't care about money who doesn't everybody cares about money 169 00:14:15,900 --> 00:14:22,460 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 170 00:14:22,460 --> 00:14:28,100 I also want to give you the truth because the truth is more 171 00:14:30,300 --> 00:14:32,460 It's more explicit than the most 172 00:14:33,460 --> 00:14:40,700 Aggregious pornography at this particular point because you can get prawn anywhere you want versus you can't get the truth pretty much anywhere 173 00:14:40,700 --> 00:14:49,540 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 174 00:14:49,540 --> 00:14:51,460 And that's across the board 175 00:14:51,460 --> 00:14:57,420 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 176 00:14:58,620 --> 00:15:04,820 Everybody almost without exception is doing it on a level almost unheard of 177 00:15:04,820 --> 00:15:12,740 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 178 00:15:13,380 --> 00:15:18,420 It's national public radio that you would expect. It's paid for by taxpayer money 179 00:15:19,380 --> 00:15:25,060 Versus you look at others are so-called private corporations and they act pretty much the exact same way 180 00:15:26,980 --> 00:15:28,980 My friends 181 00:15:28,860 --> 00:15:31,820 When we get into this idea of trusting the media 182 00:15:31,820 --> 00:15:38,660 When we get into this idea of trusting the media and the propaganda landscape that expands the entire spectrum 183 00:15:39,260 --> 00:15:42,500 We cannot just say I like this one side 184 00:15:42,500 --> 00:15:48,260 So I'm gonna choose to agree with them doing so will undermine your ability to understand the world 185 00:15:48,260 --> 00:15:57,020 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 186 00:15:57,020 --> 00:16:03,220 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? 187 00:16:03,220 --> 00:16:07,620 Would you go a little would you go in harder? Would you go in softer pause? 188 00:16:09,140 --> 00:16:14,100 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 189 00:16:14,100 --> 00:16:16,700 I know a lot of people didn't even watch it. They didn't want it 190 00:16:16,700 --> 00:16:19,620 They don't want anything to do with politics politics is a nightmare 191 00:16:20,220 --> 00:16:23,300 But my friends in the meantime, I hope you think for yourself 192 00:16:23,300 --> 00:16:29,700 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 193 00:16:31,100 --> 00:16:38,380 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 194 00:16:39,140 --> 00:16:44,500 But first let me know what your thoughts are on this issue because politics is extremely 195 00:16:44,500 --> 00:16:51,980 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