Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sheepgit Sheared podcast.
I'm your host, Austin Creed, and my friends, I want to lead out the gate with an apology.
I don't normally do so.
In fact, I don't really apologize ever.
The reason I feel the need to apologize is I said the last episode I did would be the
last audio only for a while, and unfortunately, I might have to alternate between doing them
just because I'm not at my new apartment very much.
I'm always out trying to get new leads, trying to get paperwork done with insurance.
I can make every excuse in the book, but I don't want to give you excuses.
I just wanted to give you an update on what's going on.
I don't want to make this show just about me because this message, this community, is
so much bigger than me.
I just wanted to let you guys know what's going on when it comes to my personal life
because I'm sure that the more you listen to the show and the more that you listen to
me, you know, even though I can't see you at the moment, I'm looking out the front
of my car, in between getting my coffee break in the afternoon and getting back to work.
Well, I may not be able to see you.
I talk with some of you in the comments, you're great guys, you tell your stories.
And, you know, I enjoy talking.
I enjoy, I feel like, you know, this is a conversational forum and I think it's fantastic.
So I just wanted to give you all an update in the first couple, first couple seconds
of the show.
I just wanted to give you guys an update, but that's not the whole show.
The whole show is not meant to be an apology by any stretch of the imagination.
In fact, we're talking not about me or really about you, we're talking about big money today.
Money is important and all of us need it to survive.
That's not really what we're talking about either.
We're talking about how big money shapes everything in your life.
You're talking about your concept of how you even make money or earn money because the
only people who make money are those who work at the Fed, those who work in the Department
of the Treasury.
Oh, they're the ones who print the money.
They're the only ones who make money.
The rest of us, us plebeians out there, we have to earn money.
Big money shapes that big money shapes how we see relationships, whether you're straight
or not straight.
It doesn't, it's all a part and parcel of how big money shapes everything that you read,
everything that you hear, everything that you see, everything that you touch arguably.
And to me, this is not something that we should be talking about some corporate boogeyman because
we could do that.
I mean, let's be real.
I mean, if people talk about that before, but I don't want to get too far afield.
I'll give you guys an example of how big money shapes everything at the new company I'm
working for.
There's a billionaire who's he's the biggest investor in our company.
And he's been out here in this business for a long time.
And he and his buddies are trying to expand the roofing business.
They're trying to make it so that everything is easier to travel to get to storms to help
people out to deal with insurance companies and all that.
And my general manager of the area man in Kansas City, he told me straight up, he said,
Austin, a lot of people, when you get to a certain level, they just want to find a place
to park their money.
The same way that people joke about Swiss bank accounts, the Cayman Islands bank accounts,
these are just jokes.
They really do happen, and it's more normal when you might think.
And the reason why we want to talk about big money is because politics is controlling
everything right now, especially in an election year.
Politics has saturated everything from everything.
Kamala Harris, this Trump that walls this JD Vance that I mean, the whole thing can
make you sit when you look at it for too long.
That is, unfortunately, I do because I have a political bone in my body.
Politics to me is something that is both enjoyable, but also tragic to dive into, frankly.
But when we get into the conversation of big money, big money can often be seen as a boogie
man like we talked about a couple seconds ago.
But the reason I don't want you to think of it as some corporate boogie man, you know,
whether it's like you saw the All King of the Hill cartoon and you heard Dale talk about
the beast, you know, in the read in the book of Revelation and the New Testament.
I don't like to think of it that way because then it seems like it's so far out of our
reach that there's no point in us doing anything.
And we should just sit back and take it, basically.
No, I don't think that's a good philosophy to have at all.
I think the philosophy you should have is saying, you know what?
Yeah, money affects everything.
But that being said, how does that affect you?
Because let's be let's get down to business.
One of the ways you're exploited in this life is being led to believe you are powerless,
that you have no say in that you're kind of just along for the ride, that you're a passenger
in the car of your own life.
To me, that's the worst possible mindset to have.
And it's very easy to get to that point because a lot of times politics, religion, relationships,
money, all of these things can seem like they're so much bigger than us.
How can we possibly know it all, understand it all and operate it in a way that will benefit
us?
Well we need to break it down into bite sized pieces.
That's all I found that works.
And those of you who are older and we've been doing this harder than me, maybe you've found
a better way to do it.
If you have, please go in the comments, let us know because I'd love to hear it.
I'd love to learn whether to learn new things, stuff I haven't thought about yet.
And that's why I love to read your comments because at the end of the day, I can only
think about so much at one time.
I can only process so much at one time.
I'm not an artificial intelligence where I can go through, come through millions of
words, different databases and websites that I can do all at one time.
I'm just an ordinary guy.
I'd have a limitation just as you have limitations.
But big money can often seem like it has no limitations.
Like it's saturating everything.
I mean for God's sake, does anybody else see how crazy the internet went yesterday when
Elon Musk interviewed Trump on X spaces?
Millions of impressions, millions of people watching the internet went crazy.
Because big money sways everything.
Not much money is put in these political campaigns by the so-called millionaires and
billionaires that Bernie and Elizabeth and Kamala and Biden and all these people talk
about taxing that they don't ever tax them.
Go tax you.
Go tax me.
I smell class and lower class guys.
Even the middle of upper class.
Go tax us.
They're not taxing the guys you can afford on an army of lawyers and accountants who
would pay even more in Buffett.
Mr. Shaky from Omaha even he said he pays less taxes than a secretary and he's a billionaire
where the richest man on the planet God bless him.
He even says he pays less taxes than a secretary.
How is that possible?
Answer because the very people they say they'll tax they won't and they'll make you pay
the bill in plain English.
Now you could sit there and resent them and I don't blame you for that.
That's what a lot of people do.
That's why the Communist Party has become so popular.
That's why Karl Marx and Frederick Engels' philosophy whether it be the baby version
of socialism or the adult version of communism that's why it's popular because when people
are young or maybe they've worked a lot of their life they don't have a whole lot to
show for it.
They want to blame somebody else.
They want to live in a fantasy world where you work a certain amount and you're guaranteed
to win this win that or have an opportunity here or there and the world doesn't work
that way.
Never has it never will.
Now it is again you might say well Austin this ain't fair.
Life is not fair.
One of my favorite characters from I don't watch a lot of Disney anymore because it's
become so woke I can't even watch it anymore.
I might as well just brainwash myself but in the older Disney the one that you know can
make a good movie and not just a propaganda poster that's written off as a movie.
One of my favorite characters is Davey Jones from the Power to the Caribbean franchise
and one of his lines is life is cruel.
Why should the afterlife be any different?
Life is not fair.
So why should business?
Why should relationships?
Why should anything be any different?
And the answer is it's not and it can't be.
Now you could sit there and resent that fact or try to change it or you could accept the
realities we live with except the world you live in and you can then use that to your
advantage.
So here's a problem my friends as I'm sure a lot of you will test to we spend time in
our lives thinking about what should be, will be, what ought to be and all that.
A lot of people spend a lot of their time and expend a whole lot of common dioxide discussing
them about the should or what it could as a universe.
They want to talk about if only so and so did this or if so and so did that or if you
did X, Y or Z the things would be better but let me tell you something.
People who talk like that are usually the most powerless people, number one.
Number two, they're under the illusion they have power when in fact they have nothing
but a big mouth full of ideas and nowhere to show for it.
My friend, if you listen to if you only listen to me this for this first time, this is the
first time you listen to me, you don't know where I'm talking.
You don't know what I'm talking about.
You don't know where I'm talking about.
You don't know where I'm coming from.
Those of you who have listened to the show over the last year and a quarter now or even
over the last month, month and a half or you've read my book, Biblical Bachelor, that's the
pillar of one of the pillars of this community.
You can see that I don't just talk out of the both sides of my mouth.
I live what I'm talking.
I live what I preach and I practice it every day.
I don't plan on getting married.
I wrote a whole chapter about surrogacy.
I wrote a whole chapter about embracing being single, whether it's single by choice or
whether it's single by somebody else's choice, whether it's a divorce or a separation or
whatever have you.
You can't choose everything that happens to you.
You can't.
If you have, please let me know your secret.
I'd love to hear it.
But I can guarantee you there's been a time in your life as there has been in mine that
things have happened to you that were outside of your control.
You didn't know what to do, you didn't know how you even got there necessarily, but you
just knew you didn't like where you ended up.
You might have felt powerless in that situation, but the one thing you had power over was how
you responded to what happened to you.
And that will always be the case.
You will never be taken away from you.
That's why whenever I hear someone say, oh, I had no choice.
Yes, you did.
Oh, yes, you did.
You just didn't like the choices.
Or you were too much in the moment to see them.
But they were there.
Oh, yeah.
They were there.
You didn't like them or you didn't see them.
It does not mean they weren't there.
It just means you weren't paying enough attention to see them.
My friends, when we talk about big money and how it affects everything that we read, hear,
see, etc.
It can cause us to become discouraged, especially if we're not the ones pulling the strings
which I doubt it.
I don't know, maybe you're part of the 1% of the 1% and you listen to the show and
you use a fake alias to, you know, watch the show because you're fascinated by it because
you just can't stop listening.
I don't know.
I doubt it, but I don't know.
If you are, then you know exactly what I'm talking about and you find it fascinating.
If you don't, which is statistically where we are, but we're none of us are in that group.
It doesn't mean that our life holds no meaning or that there's no reason for us to strive.
You know, our life is struggle.
Comfort is an illusion.
Comfort is a lie.
It is meant to pacify you and make you malleable and I don't want you to be malleable.
I want you to be made of something tougher than the opposition.
I want you to be made of something different because there's a lot of people out there
who their entire existence is.
I want to fit in.
I don't want to rock the boat.
I want to be accepted.
I don't want to. I don't care about that crap.
I seriously don't.
You don't have to believe me.
Just listen to the show.
Just listen to the show when you'll quickly find out that you don't hear people talk
the way I talk.
You're not here to talk about similar topics, but they don't explore the way we explore
it because the other day everybody's out for a buck.
Everybody wants to make money and they want to earn a living and they want to make it
through life one way or another.
There's no shame in that.
There is shame in giving up.
There is shame in throwing in the towel when you have so much left in the tank to give.
This as far as I'm concerned.
Big money can shave everything.
Government.
This course.
Free speech.
The economic market itself.
Everything.
It's not something that you have no power or that nothing you do matters.
Means you must understand your role in the universe, your role in your country.
And then find something that matters to you so then you can put yourself in a better position
instead of whining about other people's positions.
Do something about your own.
Don't whine and complain because if you complain, you're doing yourself to stay the same.
Use that energy.
Use that anger.
Use that resentment.
Use that jealousy.
Destroy for something more out of your life instead of sitting there whining and, uh,
no, it's not fair.
I should have been slashed off that.
Fuck no you shouldn't because you haven't earned it.
You have to earn what you get in this life.
You don't deserve stuff by default.
I can't stand it when I hear anybody.
I don't care if they're men, women, professionals, purse people, my personal life, who talk about
how this person deserves that and this person should have that.
No, they shouldn't.
If they did, if they'd earned it, they'd have it.
Period and the story.
Nobody deserves anything as far as I'm concerned.
Freedom is not free and nobody deserves anything.
Period and the story.
All part anybody saying anything otherwise is trying to sell you something, whether it
be an idea, a concept, a course, I don't know.
They're lying to you.
And my friends, one of my goals is never to lie to you.
In fact, I want you to actively check everything that I say because I don't want to lie and
I don't want to be misinformed as I am sure you don't either.
My friends, how little have you experienced big money and it's sway in your life, personal,
professional, I'd love to hear about it because it affects everything directly and indirectly.
Money talks BS walks.
I heard that when I was a little kid and I've heard it ever since.
My friends, take care of yourselves.
Do you have any comments you want to add?
Please feel free to do so.
This is an open forum for you.
I don't delete comments.
If it doesn't show up with YouTube or the social platform blocking you, it's not me.
My friends, take care of yourselves.
I look forward to hearing what you have to say and I'll see how much I can keep getting
done.
I would love to, excuse me, put out a video episode here shortly.
I won't make excuses.
I'll get it done.
My friends, take care of yourselves.
I'm out of here.
Take care.
Look forward to the next session...