Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the sheep get
sheared podcast. I'm your host Austin Creed and
we're in today we're gonna be talking about both
the news of the day as well as the just We're
gonna really break down why it is So many men
fail to launch in today's day and age, you know
before I really get into the nitty -gritty details
I Got something I want to say Am I the only person
who when I go to the gym? I'm at the gym, right?
I'm trying to do some pull downs. I'm trying
to do my back of my biceps and is am I the only
one who walks in the gym and Every single time
without fail. I don't know if it's just me I
don't know if it's just the area I'm living in
currently, but for some reason, every time I
walk in the gym, every time I sit down, I set
my water down, I have my headphones in, and I'm
listening to my music, or I'm listening to the
talk radio, or whatever I'm listening to, and
then for some reason, every time, not only are
the girls just like OnlyFans chicks without fail,
90 % at least, they manage to set up a freaking
tripod, Every time right in front of me. I'll
be working out There'll be the giant wall mirror
and then they set up their goddamn camera right
there Well, I'm trying to work and I was there
first by the way They had the nervous at the
camera up and then just look at you like you're
in their way when it's like bitch I was here
first This isn't your gym This is a Kim Kardashian's
house Who the hell do you think you are coming
in here and trying to tell me? Oh, you have how
dare you don't be a creep, even though I sat
with my goddamn booty shorts in your face. I
don't fall for it, by the way. Oh, no. I'm not
going to catch a boy out here staring. Absolutely
not. I have to play the huh? I can't look in
front of me like a normal person. And so I got
to play Where's Waldo with stains on the wall
or with on the on the weights or whatever. I
play Where's Waldo with random crap instead of
being able to look right in front of me like
a normal person. But now that I've got that out
of my system, I'm starting to realize why so
many men fail to launch in today's society. You
know, it's really easy to just say, oh, the boomers
had it easy. They could work a menial job out
of high school and live on the wage. That's really
easy to say. It's really, really easy to just
skate to castigate the conversation and pigeonhole
it. But I don't want to do that because that's
too easy. Instead, I want to more talk about
how, in my opinion, a lot of people are very
selfish and by people I mean parents a lot of
times there are guys like myself and I'm not
talking about my parents my parents are great
they're actually one of the few who actually
do what I'm describing and it was highlighted
I thought it was normal what is very highlighted
to me that people don't do this they don't set
their kids up for success instead they want to
sit there and be like why are you not a success
They want to be like a stereotypical doctor or
lawyer or whatever. That's like talk to me when
you doctor You know saying they wanted to pull
that garbage out on you when you have no way
to get ahead Especially in today's day and age
when immigrant h1b to h1 is it it's h1b visas
are being issued out the wazoo Thank you. What's
the guy's name again? I'm blinking on his name
Vivid Rama Swami. Thanks, bro You backstabbing
piece of garbage. I don't understand how you
can support this But shout out to Trump for getting
rid of all the illegal aliens, or at least he's
working on it. I think it's great. And people
want to sit there and say, oh, but Austin, if
they don't have people to work the fields, how
are we going to have an economy? Hmm. You know,
I seem to recall an exact equivalent argument
about 150 years ago by guys in the South who
owned plantations. You might have heard of them
before. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. What's this woman's
name? Crockett. Crockett Rep. Jasmine Crockett,
I think is her name. This witch. I don't know
how she got where she is, unless she's a Democrat
hack. In my estimation, she was put in office
by the Democrat machine to try to get back the
black man vote who voted for Trump. Oh, yeah,
I guarantee you she was put there to get back
the black man vote who voted for Trump because
black women voted for Kamala. overwhelmingly,
but black men voted for Trump. I don't know if
you know that. I guarantee you this woman's put
there as a wannabe mammy to try to get the black
men to vote Democrat again. I can guarantee it.
But this woman has the nerve to get up and talk
about all kinds of random garbage, especially
relating to Trump, as if any of us want to listen
to what she has to say. And then she has the
nerve to say that we need the immigrants here.
because they're going to do jobs Americans won't
do as in picking like strawberries in the fields
in California and et cetera. And it's so baffling
to me, my friends, because this is the type of
rhetoric that is why so many in my generation,
including myself at times, have a really hard
time getting ahead in this country. The problem
is because we don't have a lot of very good entry
level jobs and a lot of people, they don't want
to work in high school. When there's a good episode
of South Park that talked about this like 15
years ago It goes to show you how far Trey and
whatever his name is are ahead of the curve But
so many people been talking about illegal immigration
since the 90s, but and so I'm not trying to jack
them of their ideas But the problem is so many
of us we don't have the ability to get these
entry -level jobs And I'm not blaming the immigrants
for taking them. By the way, you don't mistake
me for two seconds They come over here overwhelmingly
and they try to... Again, there are a lot who
get out welfare. Do not sit here and tell me
otherwise, but a lot of them do work really hard
and I see them working really hard. But the problem
is they will accept lower wages and so a lot
of times us, us meaning the American taxpayers
and our kids, we are the ones who get shortchanged
in the long run and too many of us... Don't we
wonder why we can't get good paying jobs. We
wonder why so many jobs are getting exported
to China Mexico and the Caribbean India Etc we
wonder why it's happening. The answer is because
of a unfettered greed and to because the wages
have just decreased over time and This is part
of the failure to launch problem. And that's
why I think it's very important for a lot of
parents to understand that their world when they
were youth is not the same world of today when
you're 18 to 25, 18 to 30. It's super hard out
here to make a living, by the way. Unless you're
trying to just scrape by, it's very hard to make
a living. It's very hard to get ahead of the
pack without taking tremendous levels of risk.
And so my friends, Of course, there's some jackass
with a bike next to me. Oh god. I don't understand
people like this why do you have to be a gigantic
asshole and Just mod the hell out of your bike
and be as loud as possible I swear a lot of these
bikes are designed to be as loud as humanly possible
They want everybody within a quarter mile radius
to hear them thinking they're all cool when everybody
just thinks you're being an annoying asshole
as far as I'm concerned But my friends, part
of the show relating to people's politics and
popular culture is understanding the world around
us. And it's very easy to get on a podcast like
mine and just talk about politics day and night.
Just talk about men's issues day and night. But
the problem is I don't want to do that. Instead,
I really want this to be more about what talk
radio is supposed to be about that. I hear big
names like Hannity, guys like Mark Levin and
these other. Barton, Dan Bongino, guys like this
who data all they do is talk about Trump did
this. The Democrats didn't do that and whatnot,
which is all well and good, but it's not the
holistic show that we're supposed to have. It
is life has more than just what Donald Trump
ate for breakfast today or what some know nothing
moron said about Trump to the New York Times.
There's more to life than that. The problem is
so many of us we lose sight of that we lose sight
of the fact that we need more Life skills and
we need more understanding that life is complex
and that there's no simple solution to them for
the modern man The problem is, so many of us,
we think we're not normal with how dreary life
can be, how upsetting our life is, how we're
not happy where we're at in our life or what
we've achieved so far, whether you're a younger
guy or you're an older guy. You always think
you can do more. You should have done more. Or
maybe that's just me. I could be projecting and
you are totally in disagreement with me, but
I can sense it. You're not. Oh, no, you agree
with me way more than you expect it to. You say
to yourself, I know I like that guy Austin But
sometimes I don't agree with the politics or
maybe I don't agree with what he says about certain
things But overall there's something about him
that I just can't really get on or maybe it's
the first time you've ever listened to the show
Maybe this is the first time you listen Maybe
you found me off of some incendiary things I
said on X and maybe you're listening to the show
for the first time or maybe you've been here
since the beginning I know who you are. I know
the ones that have been here since the beginning.
The problem is so many of us We let the little
things distract us instead of really focusing
on what we want to do with our lives and Make
no mistake money's not a small thing, but so
many of us We have this attitude of lack instead
of this idea that we can do whatever we want
It just won't be easy and we have to pay the
price So many of us we don't want to pay the
price because paying the price means going without
something that we want It means doing something
we don't necessarily want to do. I'll tell you
guys a story I'm right now going through a really
tough phase in my life. I'm not going to bore
you like I'm here. I'm not going to treat you
like I if you're my psychiatrist. But so many
of the times in recent the recent week, I've
really questioned whether I want to do the job
I'm doing. Maybe I should be doing something
else. Maybe I should just throw myself into podcasting
full time or maybe I shouldn't be doing this
at all. Maybe all of you are just not interested
in what this show has to offer. Maybe I'm just
one guy with a microphone and a string talking
to myself. You know, that's one thing that's
very different about whether it's talk radio
podcasting solo or like stand -up comedy You
can kind of read the audience a little bit, but
so many times I find myself I know I'm not alone
with this broadcasters won't tell you this because
they want to seem like oh They know everything
they're doing all the time, but it's total total
farce a Lot of times we wonder if people actually
are listening to us if they care about what we
have to say or if we're just Talking to ourselves
in a room or in a truck or in a car And my friends,
life is not easy. I don't care what stage of
life you're in. I don't care what you've accomplished.
I don't care about any of that. There's no simple
solution to most problems in life. Or maybe the
solution is simple and you just don't want to
do it because you don't like the situation that
you're in. That's a whole nother conversation
entirely is knowing what you need to do, but
not wanting to do it. That's a whole nother discussion.
My friends, the failure to launch epidemic in
this country and across the entire Western world
is largely because the politicians in my estimation
are buying votes. And the only guy that I know
right now who, and he's not, he's not perfect,
but the only guy that I know right now that's
really trying to fix that problem is Donald Trump.
I'm not one of those guys that kisses Trump's
behind. I don't know him. He doesn't know me.
What I do know is he's not. gaining any friends
in Hollywood. He's not getting any friends on
Wall Street. He's not getting any friends in
the billionaire business club by doing what he's
doing, unless you're Elon Musk. Everybody else
is trying to take him down. And when somebody
is getting attacked like that for voicing their
opinions and doing what they know needs to be
done, it's like. You ever seen those in a scene
in a movie where they're like the bones out of
place and then you snap? stuff back in, whether
it's a medical show or a war movie or whatever,
and they had to like snap the bone back in the
place and it hurts really bad for a little bit,
but then it feels fine. That's what's happening
in America right now. They're trying to fix decades
of bad choices, decades of bad deals and decades
of debt, garbage, anti -Americanism, and they're
trying to put it into a new day and age in this
country. And I'm not excusing behavior, I'm not
excusing the means to get the ends don't always
justify the means. OK. The problem is we don't
always have that conversation. My friends, I
want you to understand that the failure to launch
in the political climate and the people with
loud audiences and the popular culture, they're
all wrapped into one giant burrito. We need to
focus on ourselves. We need to focus on what
we can achieve and what we want to do I'm in
that boat right now where I'm not sure what I
want to do I'm working still I'm still grinding
but I find myself questioning my destiny questioning
the direction of my life and if you are also
experiencing these these questions these doubts
as part of your journey don't feel like you're
alone because you are not in fact You're in very
good company, but people don't want to advertise
it. People won't be vulnerable like this. I watch
people, or at least I used to do it more often
than I do now. I don't always have the time anymore.
What I used to do is watch guys on YouTube talking
about you need to do this and you do that. Don't
be weak, blah, blah, blah. And you know what?
There's a time and a place for that. But there's
also a common place to be vulnerable as a man
and say, you know what? As much as I would love
to sit here and tell you that I got all these
hoes, I got all this money, I got all this opportunity,
it's not always true. In fact, I'd argue it's
largely never that way. But people try to build
their brands off of deception because as Sun
Tzu wrote in The Art of War, all warfare is based
on deception and love is war. Business is war.
Life in and of itself is a war in case you didn't
know it. We're all competing for resources. We're
all competing for clout We're all competing for
everything that we eat every everywhere that
we go everything that we possess We have to constantly
fight to gain more and to maintain what we have
And if you don't agree, I'm sorry. I don't know
what to tell you, but that might sound cruel
It might sound terrible, but it is a fact of
life my friend If you don't like it, well, then
you're gonna have to get out of the way Well
those of us who want to achieve those ones who
want to be more And are sacrificing you're gonna
have to get out of the way because we're coming
for it My friends the failure to launch is incredibly
dynamic, but I think overwhelmingly we overlook
the fact that a lot of people Don't want to suffer.
They want to have everything for nothing. They
don't want to make hard choices I talked a whole
did a whole show about hard choices with my girlfriend
and As much as I love to sit here and say that
she's perfect, she is not. Trust me, I wrote
a whole book before I met her about being single,
so trust me when I tell you I'm not a simp. I'm
not someone who just gives everything for nothing,
I hold a very tight leash. You have to really
think for yourself in every facet of your life.
because people will try to sway you any which
way that they possibly can and a lot of times
you're not going to know what to do or where
to turn and the only way you really need to turn
is inward and once you have a good understanding
then you can turn outward otherwise you're wasting
your time as far as I'm concerned my friends
take care of yourselves I'll be out of here I
gotta get back to work I'm out peace