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Speaker 1: Thanks for being here. So we're gonna talk about in
Speaker 1: this hour Biden's uh press conference. I guess we have
Speaker 1: plenty of descriptors coming up in a minute. Heere, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about that. And got some stuff about the the
Speaker 1: border that he lied about. I don't know, he said,
Speaker 1: we didn't. We haven't changed any policy with the border.
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Speaker 1: filling in for the great Buck Sexton. Thanks for being well.
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Speaker 1: same network on the first and you can follow me
Speaker 1: on Mike Slater dot locals dot com. We put everything
Speaker 1: we do on my local show up there, and we'll
Speaker 1: do everything we do here as well, Mike's letter out
Speaker 1: locals dot com. So Biden's press conference yesterday, it went
Speaker 1: just about how you expect it to go. This is
Speaker 1: not normal what you're about to hear. It's not normal,
Speaker 1: and it's not good. Clip one. So the best way
Speaker 1: to get something done if you if it holds near
Speaker 1: and dear to you that you like to be able
Speaker 1: to anyway, We're ready to get a lot done. And
Speaker 1: if we have to, if there's complete lockdown and chaos
Speaker 1: is a consequence of the filibuster, then we'll have to
Speaker 1: go beyond what I'm talking about. Okay, um, hang on,
Speaker 1: uh sorry, oh saying man this Kim So just saying no,
Speaker 1: you are not allowed to ask any questions about the
Speaker 1: president's mental health. You're not allowed to ask any question
Speaker 1: How dare you ask any questions about the president's cognitive ability? Dimension? So,
Speaker 1: here's how this is gonna work. Right now, it's only
Speaker 1: fringe far right activists who are asking these questions, and
Speaker 1: then soon it'll be more mainstream conservatives. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: asking these questions, and then oh but as that's happening,
Speaker 1: by the way, the left and the media will rip
Speaker 1: these people to shreds. How dare you say anything about
Speaker 1: the president's mental health? How dare you question his health?
Speaker 1: You're emboldening the nation's enemies by suggesting he's not well
Speaker 1: and unfit. How dare you that's so unpatriotic. You're gonna
Speaker 1: hear the whole thing. And then more moderate conservatives are
Speaker 1: going to start asking these questions, and then far left
Speaker 1: activists are gonna outflank the right, come around on the
Speaker 1: other flank to attack the President and his mental health.
Speaker 1: And the media is going to do the best they
Speaker 1: can to hold this off for as long as they can,
Speaker 1: and then one day something will happen and it will
Speaker 1: be absolutely undeniable, and the Democrats who are really running
Speaker 1: the show will throw old Joe out to pastures so
Speaker 1: fast his key card to the Oval office. It just
Speaker 1: won't work one day. Have you ever been fired, or
Speaker 1: you know somebody's been fired and no one told them,
Speaker 1: and you got your key card to get back in
Speaker 1: the building, and then it just doesn't work. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be Joe in the Oval office. No one's gonna no
Speaker 1: one's even gonna tell him. And one days, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: he'll sneak in. One day in Kama will be sitting
Speaker 1: behind the desk. I don't know, but Como is gonna
Speaker 1: be president and Joe is gonna be thrown out to
Speaker 1: pasture and thrown down the memory hole like it never
Speaker 1: even happened. So that's how it's gonna go. I don't
Speaker 1: know the timing, but it's gonna be far right conspiracy theory,
Speaker 1: far right hit job and just nothing, nothing, nothing, and
Speaker 1: then boom gone overnight, and Kama will fit right in.
Speaker 1: Here's Chris Wallace. Yeah, I U and I have to
Speaker 1: say I was also and by the fact that it
Speaker 1: seemed gone every foreign policy question, not the others, but
Speaker 1: on foreign policy, he went to his briefing book like
Speaker 1: Jensaki does sometimes in the briefings, and was reading obviously
Speaker 1: White House guidance, white House talking points covering Ronald Reagan
Speaker 1: for six years. I never saw that. Watching a lot
Speaker 1: of news conferences over the years, I've never seen that
Speaker 1: a president and a news conference reading talking points. He
Speaker 1: did that on it seemed every foreign policy. So here's
Speaker 1: an example of that strike striking fear in the hearts
Speaker 1: of our enemies, and you can't tell them the radio.
Speaker 1: But he never looks up from his paper, not one
Speaker 1: time does he look up from his paper? Here? Here
Speaker 1: it is overnight. We learned that North Korea tested two
Speaker 1: ballistic missiles. What if any actions will you take and
Speaker 1: what is your red line on North Korea? Let me
Speaker 1: say that number one UN Resolution seventeen eighteen was violated
Speaker 1: by those particular missiles that were tested. We're consoling with
Speaker 1: our allies and partners, and there will be responses if
Speaker 1: they choose to escalate. Um, we will respond accordingly. But
Speaker 1: I'm also prepared um for some form of diplomacy. Um,
Speaker 1: but it has to be conditioned upon the end result
Speaker 1: of denuclearization. So um, that's what we're doing right now,
Speaker 1: consoling with our allies. Like what is that? Like? Can
Speaker 1: you believe that that's that's the That's the commander in
Speaker 1: chief right that Ronnie Jackson, who is a Republican. He's
Speaker 1: a congressman. He's a congressman running a guy. I think
Speaker 1: he's a congressman from Texas. He was a Navy rear
Speaker 1: admiral and he was the White House physician from twenty
Speaker 1: thirteen throughout Obama's term until twenty eighteen hundred. Trumpsho was
Speaker 1: the the White House physician, and he said after the
Speaker 1: press conference that this press brief was embarrassing. Could you
Speaker 1: imagine what the press would have done if Donald Trump
Speaker 1: had told something like this shameful and embarrassing. And it's
Speaker 1: hard to talk about here because if you do, you
Speaker 1: immediately will be called out as being partisan and you're
Speaker 1: so mean and how dare you? And that's fine, I
Speaker 1: don't care. It's just a matter of time, Just a
Speaker 1: matter of time. He's seventy eight, you think he's gonna
Speaker 1: lastly he's eighty two. Maybe maybe he won't. But it
Speaker 1: really just depends. It's all about the media. Depends about
Speaker 1: the media. How much can his people hide him, how
Speaker 1: much can his people hide him? And how much and
Speaker 1: how long will the media cover for him? That's the question.
Speaker 1: Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson. This was nineteen twenty, So he
Speaker 1: just spent nineteen nineteen negotiating the Treaty of Versailles the
Speaker 1: end of World War One, spent six months doing that.
Speaker 1: Then he was on this like barn burning tour to
Speaker 1: try to get support for the League of Nations. So
Speaker 1: he traveled by train, and he spoke train station at
Speaker 1: train station and trains station all across the country. This
Speaker 1: was the nineteen twenty and in between one of his speeches,
Speaker 1: he got the splitting headache and his face started to twitch,
Speaker 1: and his doctor, his chiefest staff, and everyone on board.
Speaker 1: You know, it was obvious that he had a stroke.
Speaker 1: So they called the whole rest of the thing off.
Speaker 1: They went right back to DC as quickly as they could,
Speaker 1: and his doctor and chief of staff. They kept him
Speaker 1: in bed, away from everybody. He was paralyzed on his
Speaker 1: left side, he couldn't see out of one of his eyes.
Speaker 1: He was still president, and they kept him there for
Speaker 1: a year. No one saw him except for his wife,
Speaker 1: doctor in chief of staff. That's it. They pulled this
Speaker 1: off for a year. Now this is nineteen twenty. Can
Speaker 1: that same thing be pulled off in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: I don't know. But the media covered for Woodrow Wilson,
Speaker 1: just like the media is covering today. There was one
Speaker 1: report in particular's name is Lewis Cibold, sci Bold Lewis Cibold,
Speaker 1: and he was the reporter of the New York World,
Speaker 1: and he wrote this article. The headline is correspondent in
Speaker 1: nineteen twenties voice correspondent in three hour visit finds President's
Speaker 1: mental vigor unimpaired by the same thing. With the Washington
Speaker 1: Post people today, they're like, oh, what a press conference. Wow,
Speaker 1: that was amazing. He was quick and witty and on
Speaker 1: it and high energy. Like what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Executive gains twenty pounds in two months, and he does
Speaker 1: more work now than before confinement. That was the article
Speaker 1: during the three hours. This is what Wilson. During the
Speaker 1: three hours I spent with the president, I saw him
Speaker 1: transact the important functions of his office with his old
Speaker 1: time decisiveness method and keenness of intellectual appraisement the correspondent,
Speaker 1: the reporter. I heard him dictate his decisions on matters
Speaker 1: of great governmental importance with a facility of expression and
Speaker 1: directness of meaning that indicated no impairment of the efficient
Speaker 1: mental machine that is known only the hardest kind of
Speaker 1: work for forty years. And this is where it goes
Speaker 1: over the top. It was the same angular face, quite
Speaker 1: as full in cheek and not the least sunken. At
Speaker 1: the temples. There was the same face registered in a
Speaker 1: mental picture eight months before. They were unmistakably the Wilson eyes, keen,
Speaker 1: searching and snappily intelligent. The whole articles right there, All
Speaker 1: of it was made up. Every single word of it
Speaker 1: was made up. They never met Woodrow Wilson. Could not
Speaker 1: walk again, his entire left side was paralyzed. His attention
Speaker 1: span was about sixty seconds. He was not having Hours
Speaker 1: of conversation did not happen. He couldn't sign anything properly,
Speaker 1: he couldn't move properly. He coudn't do anything. This interview
Speaker 1: was a total fake. Never happened. Wilson's Woodrow Wilson's chief
Speaker 1: of staff made up all the answers. And here's the kicker.
Speaker 1: Lewis Cybold, the writer of that article, won a Pulitzer
Speaker 1: Prize for it. This wasn't just one some hack article.
Speaker 1: And this isn't just a guy who won the Pulitzer Prise.
Speaker 1: He won a Pulitzerprise for that totally made up story,
Speaker 1: protecting Woodrow Wilson for a year as he was paralyzed
Speaker 1: and in bed. So it's been done before. Every reporter
Speaker 1: today covering Biden will try to pull a Lewis Cybold,
Speaker 1: And as they're doing it, they're gonna know it's wrong,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna keep doing it. And what's going to
Speaker 1: motivate them. Is they think they're gonna win a Pulitzer
Speaker 1: because of it? Who knows? These days, they're probably right.
Speaker 1: Mike Slater filling in for Buck Sexton. Mike Slater dot
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Speaker 1: Slater dot locals dot com. That's my website, Mike Slater
Speaker 1: dot locals dot com. Everything's up there. So Biden in
Speaker 1: the press conference yesterday, he said, we're sending back the
Speaker 1: vast majority of families that are coming. Vast majority. What
Speaker 1: does vast majority mean to you? It's not just majorities.
Speaker 1: Majority means fifty percent, So vast majority, that to me
Speaker 1: means seventy eight percent or more. That's my end. That's
Speaker 1: my number for eighty percent. Is that vast majority? Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe I'll give you a sixty five Someone says sixty
Speaker 1: five percent or more. Maybe that's fine. Thirteen percent and
Speaker 1: Biden world, that is vast majority thirteen percent. Axios came
Speaker 1: back and reported that here is the as it end
Speaker 1: on the detention centers. I realize it's much more heart
Speaker 1: wrenching than it is to deal with a five and
Speaker 1: six to seven year old. But you went down there
Speaker 1: and you saw the vast majority of these children seventy
Speaker 1: percent or sixteen years old, seventeen years old, mostly males.
Speaker 1: Don don't making good better and different. But the idea
Speaker 1: that we have tens of thousands of kids in these
Speaker 1: god off of facilities that are really little babies crime
Speaker 1: all night, there's some that's true. Oh jeesus, that is
Speaker 1: obviously off script. The last segment we talked about him
Speaker 1: reading off papers that was not read off of paper.
Speaker 1: I'm sure as people were not happy about him admitting
Speaker 1: that they're god awful facilities. Barack Obama and Joe Biden
Speaker 1: built the original cages. Trump got rid of the cages,
Speaker 1: He got rid of the need for cages, and Biden
Speaker 1: brought them back. Biden said in the presser that nothing
Speaker 1: has changed regarding border policy and that a surge happens
Speaker 1: every single solitary year. Those are hits where its nothing
Speaker 1: is changed regarding border policy. This is just your normal
Speaker 1: every year spring surge. Not true on both counts. First
Speaker 1: of all, there were no spring surges under Trump, so
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen every single year. But more importantly, here.
Speaker 1: There were two policies that Biden changed, two massive policies.
Speaker 1: And this is what I'm saying here is not a
Speaker 1: partisan hit. These are absolute facts. Two policies. First, safe
Speaker 1: third country is what it's technically called. So if you're
Speaker 1: seeking asylum from Honduras or Brazil or wherever you seek it,
Speaker 1: in the first safe country that you get to, you
Speaker 1: don't get to go country shopping. If you're in Brazil
Speaker 1: and you want to leave Brazil, you don't just get
Speaker 1: to pick whatever country you want in the world to
Speaker 1: go to and say, oh, America, and then you're entitled
Speaker 1: to come America. That's not how that works. Trump enacted
Speaker 1: the safe third country policy, So if you're leaving a country,
Speaker 1: you're safe in the very first one you get to.
Speaker 1: That's where you stay, and then you can apply to
Speaker 1: come to America afterwards. But not on asylum. Trump and
Speaker 1: acted that he negotiated that with the countries to our south.
Speaker 1: How did he negotiate it? Money aid leverage? Years ago,
Speaker 1: I remember talking on the radio about foreign aid and
Speaker 1: I was asking why. I was genuinely asking why do
Speaker 1: we give so much money to foreign countries? Why do
Speaker 1: we have so much money to countries we hate. And
Speaker 1: the best argument I heard and I just filed away
Speaker 1: because I never really came up again until recently. The
Speaker 1: best argument I heard was that this aid is leverage
Speaker 1: that we have over other countries. Right, you do what
Speaker 1: we want or else we're going to take away the aid.
Speaker 1: It happens all the time. This is what Joe Biden
Speaker 1: did with Ukraine to help his son Hunter, remember this clip.
Speaker 1: And I had gotten a commitment from Porschenko and from
Speaker 1: Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor,
Speaker 1: and they didn't. So they said they were walking out
Speaker 1: to prescount said, Nah, said, I'm not going to go
Speaker 1: or we're not going to give you the billion dollars.
Speaker 1: They said, you have no authority, you're not the president.
Speaker 1: The president said, I said, call him. I said, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you're not getting the billion dollars. I said, you're
Speaker 1: not getting the billion, and I'm gonna be leaving here.
Speaker 1: And I think it was what six hours. I look
Speaker 1: at I said, I'm leaving in six hours. If the
Speaker 1: prosecutors not fired, you're not getting the money. Well, son
Speaker 1: of a right, so do what we want or we'll
Speaker 1: remove the billion dollars in aid. So Biden used it
Speaker 1: to protect his son in Ukraine. That's leverage. Trump used
Speaker 1: it to help the American people and stop a surge
Speaker 1: of illegal immigrants for three plus years. And it should
Speaker 1: be noted as well, if you look at the last
Speaker 1: forty years, Donald Trump is number one, number three, and
Speaker 1: number ten in granting asylum requests, number three, number one,
Speaker 1: number three, and number ten in granting legal asylum requests
Speaker 1: more than any other president. And Trump used leverage on
Speaker 1: our foreign using our foreign aid in our southern the
Speaker 1: southern countries to have this third Safe Country agreement, and
Speaker 1: Biden got rid of it. Okay, so it's a policy change. Second,
Speaker 1: Trump had a policy that if you apply to come
Speaker 1: into America, you gotta wait in Mexico, and Biden got
Speaker 1: rid of that as well. So those are two pretty
Speaker 1: big policy changes, and worse than maybe all that words
Speaker 1: spread that if you send your kids across alone, then
Speaker 1: they'll be allowed to stay. That's why we have over
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand unaccompanied kids right now. This is crazy. So
Speaker 1: Trump got criticized for family separation. Right, mom and a kid,
Speaker 1: they come across and we separate them. Now, we did
Speaker 1: that to make sure that family members these people were
Speaker 1: actually related and they weren't just kidnapped kids. Kidnapped kids
Speaker 1: used as props to get special treatment for the smugglers. Right,
Speaker 1: this is the floor As agreement. You heard of, the Flores' Agreement.
Speaker 1: Let me give it the very short of it. Nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty five, there was a fifteen year old undocumented immigrant
Speaker 1: girl from El Salvador, Jenny Flores, and she came over
Speaker 1: to America illegally. She was put in in a camp
Speaker 1: or whatever they call m a center, and her mom
Speaker 1: later sued, saying that she was kept in the same
Speaker 1: area as adult men and that wasn't safe. So this
Speaker 1: case went all the way up to the Supreme Court,
Speaker 1: and a decade later, our government came up with what's
Speaker 1: called the Flores Agreement, and among other things, it says
Speaker 1: children have to be separated from adults because it's not
Speaker 1: safe to put them together when they're not necessarily related.
Speaker 1: So we separated kids for the safety of the kids.
Speaker 1: So America got criticized when we kept adults and kids together.
Speaker 1: We get criticized when they get separated, but we did
Speaker 1: it for their own safety. Now, were to spread that
Speaker 1: if you send your kids across a loan, they have
Speaker 1: a better likelihood of staying so. Now the family separation
Speaker 1: is happening on the other side of the border. Mothers
Speaker 1: making the heart wrenching decision to send their twelve year
Speaker 1: old daughter across a loan they made. We see him
Speaker 1: again and we're okay with this. That's the compassionate thing
Speaker 1: to allow this, to enable this to embolden. The cartels
Speaker 1: didn't make this, to allow this to happen, and the
Speaker 1: people who support this are compassionate somehow. Drug cartels kidnapping kids,
Speaker 1: sending them across the border, often which we'll talk about
Speaker 1: in the next hour, ending up in sex slavery, either
Speaker 1: on this side or our side or this side of
Speaker 1: the border, raped along the way, some dying on the journey,
Speaker 1: and the people who enable this, they get the credit
Speaker 1: for being compassionate. Mike Slater dot locals dot com Filling
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Speaker 1: Slayter dot locals dot com is where we hang out
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Speaker 1: Mike Slater dot locals dot com. So last week on
Speaker 1: my local show, we talked about Evanston, Illinois, thirty minutes
Speaker 1: north of Chicago reparations. They enacted reparations for black families.
Speaker 1: Every black family gets twenty five thousand dollars for home purchase,
Speaker 1: home improvements, anything related to the home. Twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: And immediately the activists said, oh, that's wonderful. We are
Speaker 1: content and grateful. Now immediately they said, no, that's not enough.
Speaker 1: So we went from zero dollars in reparations because it's
Speaker 1: an insanely absurd idea. We went from zero dollars to
Speaker 1: twenty five thousand dollars. And though immediately it's not enough,
Speaker 1: not enough, It'll never be enough. No. That So that
Speaker 1: was outside Chicago. Oakland did not want to be outdone.
Speaker 1: They have a new guaranteed income program that's called a
Speaker 1: couple different things, um universal basic income, guaranteed minimum incomes,
Speaker 1: different names for it across our country and in Europe,
Speaker 1: same thing though, but in Oakland, this guaranteed income is
Speaker 1: for all families of color. No white people, yeah white,
Speaker 1: you're white, and nah, no you don't get any got
Speaker 1: to be of color whatever. That even means five hundred
Speaker 1: bucks a month, no strings attached. So they did this
Speaker 1: in Stockton a couple of years ago, one of the
Speaker 1: nation's first pilot programs up it, and there was a
Speaker 1: study done of it, totally non biased study apps, no
Speaker 1: oh bias whatsoever. And they concluded, again no bias. Residents
Speaker 1: who received regular payments experienced less income volatility, secured more
Speaker 1: full time employment, we're better parents and partners, and even
Speaker 1: saw improvements in their health and overall well being. Well, gosh, golly,
Speaker 1: one's you know this is great? Then there's no problems
Speaker 1: at all, nothing bad happened at all. It was great.
Speaker 1: You give free you give money. You give people free money,
Speaker 1: and they're happier, and not only happier, but they're better
Speaker 1: parents and somehow get more employment for some magical reason
Speaker 1: that makes no sense at all. How about that one
Speaker 1: you give people, give people five bucks a month and
Speaker 1: they get more employment. Ah, but it's great, Let's go ahead.
Speaker 1: That's all the study I need to see. So in Oakland,
Speaker 1: you are eligible for free money if you have a
Speaker 1: child under eighteen, make less than fifty nine thousand dollars
Speaker 1: and then you get you another sixth grand a year.
Speaker 1: And the key with this program is you have to
Speaker 1: be black. Why because white people in Oakland on average
Speaker 1: make three times as much as black households. So that's inequity,
Speaker 1: and every inequity is racist and needs to be even down. Now,
Speaker 1: what if you're a white family who makes twenty thousand dollars. Nope,
Speaker 1: that's you still have white privilege. If your white family
Speaker 1: makes twenty thousand dollars year in Oakland, you are not
Speaker 1: eligible for this program because you're not black. And this
Speaker 1: is a wonderful way to run a society. Sorry, my
Speaker 1: little sarcastic this morning sarcasm doesn't really come across the
Speaker 1: radio that well. I apologize. I'll stop with the sarcasm.
Speaker 1: This is a terrible way to run a society. But
Speaker 1: I love this. It's a great line from CBS. CBS
Speaker 1: totally straight here with this line. Guaranteed income has been
Speaker 1: a goal of the Black Panther platform since it's founding.
Speaker 1: Oh goody, Now, I'm convinced if the Black Panthers have
Speaker 1: been for it, that's good since it's founding. Oh good,
Speaker 1: The Black Panthers in the sixties were for it. Therefore,
Speaker 1: or it's a great idea. Good night. So the left
Speaker 1: is going to keep pushing for this statewide in California surely,
Speaker 1: and then nationwide absolutely as well. It's just a matter
Speaker 1: of time. This is what they do. It's what they do.
Speaker 1: They slowly inched in, slowly inched in, and then people
Speaker 1: get used to it and very quickly. You can't imagine
Speaker 1: life without it, right, that's it, right right now, Like
Speaker 1: the idea of everyone gets free money, like that's insane,
Speaker 1: but oh, it's just it's just five hundred dollars. It's
Speaker 1: just some people five hundred dollars. That's oh, well, thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, more people. We need more people to everyone
Speaker 1: gets two thousand dollars. And then years ago on and
Speaker 1: now if anyone were to propose getting rid of it
Speaker 1: or making any amends to it, like so security, for instance, Oh,
Speaker 1: you can't touch it, can't, right, I can't live life
Speaker 1: without it. My favorite example of that is the Headstart program.
Speaker 1: Head Start program. Headstart started in nineteen sixty five. It
Speaker 1: was a two week long catch up summer school program
Speaker 1: to get kids ready for elementary school. Two weeks. A
Speaker 1: few kids of a certain age getting ready for school.
Speaker 1: Now it's a ten billion dollar program, and it's all
Speaker 1: the way down to infants. And if you dare suggest
Speaker 1: we make any amendments to it whatsoever, then you hate children.
Speaker 1: That's how it works always, and that's how it's going
Speaker 1: to work with universal guaranteed income as well. There's an
Speaker 1: assembly men in Californium who has a bill. It's a
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a month for all low income families. He
Speaker 1: was gracious enough to include white people on this one,
Speaker 1: at least for now. So that's going to cost a
Speaker 1: cool one hundred twenty nine billion dollars a year, which
Speaker 1: just a couple of years ago would have been double
Speaker 1: the state budget of California one hundred twenty nine billion.
Speaker 1: Right now, it's only half the budget, only half, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be paid for by a new one percent
Speaker 1: tax on the rich. Everybody over two million dollars an income.
Speaker 1: That's it. Piece of cake. That's all it takes. And
Speaker 1: he says, the guy who wrote this bill, he says
Speaker 1: it's probably not going to pass this year. And here's
Speaker 1: the king, but he said his goal is to get
Speaker 1: people comfortable with the idea. Quote the initial shock seems
Speaker 1: to wear off the more people are educated and realize
Speaker 1: the benefits of having more control over their lives. That's fantastic.
Speaker 1: If you think free money from the government gives you
Speaker 1: more control over your life, you're absolutely out of your mind.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't think that's going to come with
Speaker 1: strings attached. They say, no strings attached. Okay, there are
Speaker 1: a million economic reasons to be against this, and we'll
Speaker 1: have plenty of time for that. Let me make the
Speaker 1: moral argument. Can we make the moral argument against him?
Speaker 1: Because this is the one that's most overlooked, and I
Speaker 1: think it's the most foundational. The most important work is good.
Speaker 1: Thomas Soul would argue that we've removed from the family
Speaker 1: the dad with the obvious implications of that, and now
Speaker 1: we've removed the job. Work is good. Work is dare
Speaker 1: I say, essential to finding proper meaning in life? And
Speaker 1: it's not the work itself necessarily. I'm not saying you
Speaker 1: should find meaning in in the work you do. It's
Speaker 1: meaning in the process of work and the reasons why
Speaker 1: you do the work. That's the most important thing. Why
Speaker 1: are you doing the work? Who are you providing for?
Speaker 1: That's what matters. Arthur C. Brooks. He wrote a great
Speaker 1: book I definitely recommend. It's called The Conservative Heart. And
Speaker 1: he says there's four it's a couple of years maybe
Speaker 1: eight years old, telling you, and he said, there's four
Speaker 1: institutions of meaning. That's what he calls him. Institutions of meaning.
Speaker 1: He says, his faith, family, community, and meaningful work. Faith, family, community,
Speaker 1: meaningful work. These are the things that we as individuals
Speaker 1: need to lean into, and we as a society need
Speaker 1: to encourage faith, family, community and meaningful work. When you
Speaker 1: take away someone's need to work, when you take away
Speaker 1: their need to work, they can spiral deeper into depression
Speaker 1: and uselessness and hopelessness, and they lose dignity and they
Speaker 1: know it. There's a homeless charity in town here called
Speaker 1: Solutions for Change in San Diego, and part of their
Speaker 1: deal is you're in this program, you wake up early,
Speaker 1: and you get to work. They know it's essential to
Speaker 1: building someone's dignity back. This is the clip I want
Speaker 1: to play. This is Jordan Peterson of all Places, the
Speaker 1: dontor Oz Show, and they're talking about redistribution of wealth
Speaker 1: and George Peterson gets into it a bit, and so
Speaker 1: I was very attracted to that end of the political spectrum.
Speaker 1: But as I came to investigate some of the problems
Speaker 1: I've been discussing more deeply, I started to understand that
Speaker 1: mere economic rectification was insufficient, that that wasn't the level
Speaker 1: of analysis that was appropriate for my inquiry. Anyways, translated,
Speaker 1: redistribution of income doesn't work. Well, think about it this way,
Speaker 1: the guaranteed basic income idea. It's like, well, that's predicated
Speaker 1: on the idea that man lives by bread alone. Well,
Speaker 1: that isn't how it works. And I've certainly seen that
Speaker 1: in my clinical practice. I've had clients, especially addicts, if
Speaker 1: you gave them money, they would die. And the reason
Speaker 1: for that. Like one guy that I remember in particular,
Speaker 1: I liked him quite a bit. It had a bad
Speaker 1: cocaine problem, and as long as he was flat broke,
Speaker 1: he wasn't dead. But as soon as he was on disability,
Speaker 1: as soon as his disability check came in, he was
Speaker 1: faced down in a ditch three days later. So while
Speaker 1: and you think, well, maybe that's a consequence of his
Speaker 1: overwhelming poverty, etc. You could come up with some social
Speaker 1: reason for that path that he took, But it wasn't
Speaker 1: by any stretch of the imagination. That's simple. It's like,
Speaker 1: people need purpose more than money. Even people need purpose
Speaker 1: more than money. Even people need purpose more than money.
Speaker 1: Even does man live by bread alone. We have a
Speaker 1: major problem in our country of nihilism, lack of meaning,
Speaker 1: lack of purpose, and we think throwing money at the problem,
Speaker 1: we'll make people happy and fix it. The problem is
Speaker 1: much worse than that, and throwing money at it will
Speaker 1: only make it worse. I got one more thing to
Speaker 1: say about this. I gotta take a break. Mike Slater
Speaker 1: dot locals dot com. Mike Slater filming it for Buck Sexton.
Speaker 1: Spread the word eighteen buck Mike Slater and San Diego
Speaker 1: filming it for Buck Sexton today. Mike Slater dot locals
Speaker 1: dot com. Um, we're talking about guarantee minimum income. Oakland
Speaker 1: is the first big city to do this. They just started.
Speaker 1: It's only for families of color as well, but it's
Speaker 1: gonna grow and it's gonna expand it. We got to
Speaker 1: be prepared with the argument against this because it's it's
Speaker 1: the Democrats are definitely pushing this, and there's a million
Speaker 1: economic arguments to make against it, and they're all rock solid.
Speaker 1: But I want to make the moral argument, and that
Speaker 1: is that meaningful work is important, and it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: the work itself, although yes, it's who you're working for.
Speaker 1: Why are you working, Who are you providing for? Who
Speaker 1: are you caring for? That's what matters. You take that
Speaker 1: away from somebody and they can spiraled deeper and darker
Speaker 1: and denihilism and meaninglessness and purposelessness Joinan Peterson. He says,
Speaker 1: it isn't the provision of material well being with ease
Speaker 1: that allows people to live properly. It's purpose and that's
Speaker 1: a much more difficult problem to solve. You just can't
Speaker 1: throw money at it. The mere offering of material sustenance
Speaker 1: to people is not going to solve that problem, he says.
Speaker 1: Dostoyevski knew this one hundred fifty years ago. He said,
Speaker 1: if you gave people everything they wanted, everything they wanted,
Speaker 1: so all they had to do is eat cakes and
Speaker 1: busy themselves with the continuation of the species. So eat
Speaker 1: have sex. The first thing they do is smash it
Speaker 1: all to hell so that something interesting could happen. Men
Speaker 1: are made for more than then, more than just money.
Speaker 1: Peter Cove, He says, work does so much more than
Speaker 1: provide for our basic needs. Work draws us into the
Speaker 1: public square and instills in us a sense of personal responsibility.
Speaker 1: These are the deeper things that are so important to
Speaker 1: want someone's life and to raising children. It allows people
Speaker 1: to feel the pride and self respect that come with
Speaker 1: supporting their spouses and their children. Again, so it's not
Speaker 1: the work, although yes, the quality of work, yes, but
Speaker 1: it's who you're doing it for, who you're providing for,
Speaker 1: who you're supporting in it. Dostoyevsky, he made the point
Speaker 1: that we're not keys of a piano. We're not just
Speaker 1: piano keys. Humans are not cogs in some grand economic machine,
Speaker 1: which is how the left looks at humans. That's how
Speaker 1: the left looks at people. That's how communists looked at people,
Speaker 1: that we were just tools of the state. We're here
Speaker 1: for the state. Everything's purpose becomes not to glorify God,
Speaker 1: but to glorify the state. That's how that's how the
Speaker 1: digression goes. So first, the highest is to glorify God.
Speaker 1: So we've gotten rid of God. So now what do
Speaker 1: we do? What we glify ourselves. That's what we've been
Speaker 1: doing with that. The narcissistic culture that we've been living
Speaker 1: in for how many decades? Now we glorify ourselves. The
Speaker 1: next degradation of that is you glorify the state. There
Speaker 1: is no humanity, there is no God, there is no humanity,
Speaker 1: there is no individual, there is no family. It's all
Speaker 1: about the government. This is why Martin Luther King Junior
Speaker 1: was against communism. People think that Martin Luther King Junior
Speaker 1: was a supporter of communism. No, No, he expressly denounced it.
Speaker 1: I gotta quote he says, I opposed communisms, political totalitarianism,
Speaker 1: and communism. The individual ends up in subjugation to the state.
Speaker 1: And if man so called rights and liberties stand in
Speaker 1: the way of that end, weal they're swimp simply swept aside.
Speaker 1: A man's liberties of expression, his freedom to vote, his
Speaker 1: freedom to listen to what news he likes, or to
Speaker 1: choose his books, are all restricted. Man becomes hardly more
Speaker 1: in communism than at depersonalized cog in the turning wheel
Speaker 1: of the state. Okay, Marloco Jor the Reverend explicitly denounced communism,
Speaker 1: and he gave it a shot. He read das Capital,
Speaker 1: he read the Communist manifesto. He read people's writings about
Speaker 1: those works and he rejected it all. He said, communism,
Speaker 1: avowedly secularistic and materialistic, has no place for God. Communism
Speaker 1: looks at man as a one dimensional, one dimensional economic creature,
Speaker 1: and that's it. And that's what the left is today.
Speaker 1: Now they couch it better. Oh goodness, they couch it better. Right,
Speaker 1: the communists, they were flat out about it, right, like
Speaker 1: you don't matter, You're just a wheel in the system, right,
Speaker 1: or a cognist system today they know they do. That
Speaker 1: doesn't sell, right, So people today who pitch this these
Speaker 1: same communist ideas, they pitch them. Oh but oh, it's
Speaker 1: about dignity, and it's about helping people, and it's about
Speaker 1: flourishing in life, and it's about achieving your dreams. Oh,
Speaker 1: we can pay this person and then they can go
Speaker 1: achieve their dreams. They don't have to work. They can
Speaker 1: go be an artist and reach their full potential. Nah,
Speaker 1: it's the same old stuff, just better marketing. They couch it.
Speaker 1: Of course is helping. We're helping our fellow man. They're
Speaker 1: destroying souls in the process. I want to come back
Speaker 1: with a story of illegal immigration that no one wants
Speaker 1: to talk about no one wants to listen to. I'm
Speaker 1: taking a risk here because I'm this great honor to
Speaker 1: all in for Buck Sexton, and I'm gonna do something
Speaker 1: that no one wants to hear. It was really hard
Speaker 1: to hear, and it's quite a downer on a Friday,
Speaker 1: I admit, but I don't hear anyone talking about him,
Speaker 1: and it's essential to understand and get a firm grasp
Speaker 1: of and I think once we do, then the people
Speaker 1: who are at least taking credit for being the compassionate ones,
Speaker 1: the open border people, they get credit for being compassionate,
Speaker 1: maybe they'll start to see the light that they're not.
Speaker 1: Mike Slater dot locals dot com filling in for Buck Sexton.
Speaker 1: It's broad the word eighteen buck, Mike Slater and San
Speaker 1: Diego filling it for the great Buck Sexton. Bucket. I've
Speaker 1: been friends for a long time. We both have TV
Speaker 1: shows on the first and it's an honor to be
Speaker 1: filling in for for Buck today. Mike Slater dot locals
Speaker 1: dot com is my website. We put everything up there,
Speaker 1: Mike Slater dot locals dot com. So I want to
Speaker 1: talk about something here that no one wants to hear,
Speaker 1: and I'm hesitant to do it, to be honest, because
Speaker 1: I have this great honor of filling it for back
Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna ruin it. I guess everyone's gonna
Speaker 1: change the station because no one wants to hear this.
Speaker 1: But I think it's really important. So if if you
Speaker 1: or someone can pick this up and run with it,
Speaker 1: then then I think it's worth it. So we talked
Speaker 1: about the border earlier in the first half hour of
Speaker 1: the show, so I want to talk about it, and
Speaker 1: you know, Biden talking about how, oh, there's been no
Speaker 1: border change policy at all, like what there's been two
Speaker 1: massive policy changes. Actually we went a great detail about
Speaker 1: that in the Floor's agreement from nineteen eighty five and
Speaker 1: all that earlier. But I want to talk about an
Speaker 1: aspect of the border. And I know, I know we
Speaker 1: should have we should have much lighter fare on a Friday.
Speaker 1: But this is a very dark side of the border
Speaker 1: story that no one wants to talk about. We skirt
Speaker 1: around it. It's funny that there's some people don't want
Speaker 1: to come anywhere near the truth when it comes to
Speaker 1: the border. They just want to live in their fair
Speaker 1: tale land about what goes on there, and some people
Speaker 1: they say they want the truth, but they still don't
Speaker 1: want to hear the really difficult and dark things because
Speaker 1: who wants to be bummed out? But in this segment,
Speaker 1: and I want to keep it just a one segment,
Speaker 1: it's for those who want the depth of truth that
Speaker 1: I think we need to really understand to get the
Speaker 1: fullness of the problem that we're dealing with at the border.
Speaker 1: People who are for open borders, they choose to make
Speaker 1: up this story in their head about the downtrodden immigrant
Speaker 1: who comes to America wants to make a life better
Speaker 1: for themselves and works hard and succeeds, succeeds, hooray. And
Speaker 1: that's the dreamers. That's their story. Everyone's a dreamer coming
Speaker 1: over here. And the fewer details that they make up
Speaker 1: in their head, they make up a movie in their
Speaker 1: head about what this is like. In the fewer details
Speaker 1: they provide in their head, the better they'll think as
Speaker 1: little as they need to think in order to feel
Speaker 1: good and pat themselves on the back for being such
Speaker 1: a good person. But they don't want to consider are
Speaker 1: the young girls and women who are kidnapped into the
Speaker 1: sex trade. There's a documentary from Fusion. It's on YouTube,
Speaker 1: it's free. It's called Pimp City. It's about a city
Speaker 1: outside of Mexico City that their main industry is kidnapping
Speaker 1: girls and young women and sending them to Queens Queens,
Speaker 1: New York, where they're prostituted out up to sixty times
Speaker 1: a day. Houston is a major sex trafficking hub. It's
Speaker 1: right in the middle of the whole thing, right to
Speaker 1: the middle of la in Miami, and also in the
Speaker 1: middle of the United States in Latin America, and obviously
Speaker 1: it's a major port city, the whole thing. And women
Speaker 1: who are looking to come to America, they're told, oh, well,
Speaker 1: get your cross, will get you a visa, no problem.
Speaker 1: But they don't have any money, right Guatemala. Guatemalans live
Speaker 1: on the world under the world poverty rate, which is
Speaker 1: a dollar ninety a day. Okay, they don't have any money.
Speaker 1: And then people say, oh, that's no problem, that's what
Speaker 1: I've come with us. And you just work a little
Speaker 1: to pay it off. Work in a restaurant. You'll be
Speaker 1: a wait waitress in a restaurant. That's all no big deal.
Speaker 1: So they do, and they come across and their job
Speaker 1: description changes, and they're moved to a different city every
Speaker 1: two weeks, and their slaves. The Houston DA says about
Speaker 1: seventy percent of trafficking victims end up in the sex trade.
Speaker 1: You don't see those, don't talk about those, don't hear
Speaker 1: about those. So they're going rate to get to America
Speaker 1: through these traffickers. It's thirty thousand dollars, but you live
Speaker 1: in Thailand or some Eastern European poor country or Latin America,
Speaker 1: you've got thirty grand. So it's an installment plan, that's all.
Speaker 1: Because you think. Also, you're like, all right, I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't thirty thousand dollars, right, make a dollar ninety
Speaker 1: a day. I'm thirty thousand dollars. But in America everyone's rich. See,
Speaker 1: you'll make it in no time. Thirty thousand bucks will
Speaker 1: make that in no time, no problem. So girls say yes.
Speaker 1: And then you find out that if you don't pay
Speaker 1: your debt, your family will pay it, or really your
Speaker 1: family will pay for it with their lives. So you
Speaker 1: come across the border, You do the harrowing journey to
Speaker 1: get here, get raped along the way, of course, and
Speaker 1: he die along the way. But you get here and
Speaker 1: your new boss buys you lunch, and you're amazed. You're like,
Speaker 1: this is unbelievable. This the portions, look at all this food,
Speaker 1: and no one wants anything from me. Huh. Let me
Speaker 1: read this is from a Texas Monthly magazine. While you're
Speaker 1: in this state, dizzy, disoriented, your boss takes you to
Speaker 1: a place that isn't a restaurant or a factory and
Speaker 1: tells you to unpack your few belongings in a dingy
Speaker 1: back room. He tells you that this is where you're
Speaker 1: gonna work to pay off your debt. You will be
Speaker 1: a prostitute, he explains. And by the way, you'll be
Speaker 1: charged for room and board while you're paying off that
Speaker 1: thirty grand. When you protest, he beats you, starves you,
Speaker 1: keeps you awake for days on end. Then, just to
Speaker 1: make himself clear, he holds up a picture of your son,
Speaker 1: or your parents or your sister and tears it in half.
Speaker 1: That's all I can handle of that. If you want
Speaker 1: to read more again Texas Monthly, and it's an article
Speaker 1: called the Lost Girls, let me put it on the website. Actually,
Speaker 1: I'll put it on Mike's later out locals dot com
Speaker 1: and you can read it yourself, can read the whole
Speaker 1: thing if you want to know the fullness of the story.
Speaker 1: This is why we need to shut down the border.
Speaker 1: If people ask me, why do we need to shut
Speaker 1: the board, this is the numb one reason we need
Speaker 1: to stop sex trafficking across the border on that side,
Speaker 1: because some of these girls never even make it across.
Speaker 1: And of course on our side. Months or years ago
Speaker 1: in San Diego, we talked to a human trafficking expert.
Speaker 1: There's a ton of human trafficking in San Diego border
Speaker 1: town and he said every public high school, so we say,
Speaker 1: he said, every public high school has a student who's
Speaker 1: a member of a human trafficking gang or a gang
Speaker 1: that's in the human trafficking business. And this student their
Speaker 1: job is to be on the lookout for girls who
Speaker 1: are lost, girls who their family is going through divorce
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, right, whatever difficult situation, they're just
Speaker 1: out of it. And of course these king members are
Speaker 1: going to look for migrant kids who have no families
Speaker 1: who are going to be flooding our schools now, fifteen
Speaker 1: thousand of them, and they're going to work to seduce
Speaker 1: them into the sex trade. And those ones who even
Speaker 1: make it to high school, those are the lucky ones.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're lucky they made it even that far
Speaker 1: along the journey. But they're never out of it. Orry,
Speaker 1: many of these girls never even make it too America.
Speaker 1: They never make it to a family, they never make
Speaker 1: it to a high school. But even then they're not
Speaker 1: out of it. People are shocked to find out the
Speaker 1: how prevalent this is. And my point of bringing it
Speaker 1: up here again, I'm sorry to be a Debbie Downer
Speaker 1: on Friday. I'm sorry to be a Debbie Downer on
Speaker 1: Bucks show. But there are people who enable this. They
Speaker 1: enable this with their open borders. They empower the cartels
Speaker 1: and the sex traffickers of women and little girls. It's
Speaker 1: not just me. This is not, you know, right wing.
Speaker 1: This is so weird. This is something you would think
Speaker 1: the bleeding heart liberal would be all about, right, You
Speaker 1: think they'd be jumping up it down and years ago
Speaker 1: they were. This is New York Times. They wrote an
Speaker 1: article you have to Pay with your body, the hidden
Speaker 1: nightmare of sexual violence on the Border, and they tell
Speaker 1: a bunch of stories. I'm not going to share them.
Speaker 1: This is just one a smuggler raped to twenty three
Speaker 1: year old Honduran woman and her four year old daughter. Right,
Speaker 1: So when you hear Nanti Pelosi and you hear all
Speaker 1: the the rest and they're like, oh, come on over
Speaker 1: and we'll take care of the whole thing, that's what
Speaker 1: they're enabling. That's what they're enabling. We hear this when
Speaker 1: it comes to gun control bills, right, gun control, but
Speaker 1: if it saves just one life. But you don't hear
Speaker 1: that same thing on the border. We need to shut
Speaker 1: down the border to stop enriching and empowering the cartels.
Speaker 1: We need to order at the border because I don't
Speaker 1: want women, children to be raped and drugged into sex slavery.
Speaker 1: We need a coherent, clear message to the cartels that
Speaker 1: this is not possible. You will not make it across,
Speaker 1: and we need a streamlined process for those who want
Speaker 1: to make it here. Legally, it's better for us, and
Speaker 1: more importantly, it's better for the people who want to
Speaker 1: come here. General rule of thumb for Mike Slater. As
Speaker 1: I think about policies, I'm generally for policies that drug
Speaker 1: cartels don't like. I'm generally for policies that sex traffickers
Speaker 1: don't like. If they don't like, it's probably a good thing.
Speaker 1: An order at the border would be one of those.
Speaker 1: Mike sladd out locals dot com. I'll put up both
Speaker 1: those articles right now. Mike slated out locals dot com.
Speaker 1: Spread the word eighteen buck, Mike Slater film it for
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton today. Mike Slater dot locals dot com Changing
Speaker 1: gears here. I saw a really nice visual representation of
Speaker 1: what's going on in our country today and the main
Speaker 1: debate that's going on in our country, because the debate's
Speaker 1: not about the Second Amendment, right, Although yes, I saw
Speaker 1: a great segment on Bucks TV show last night on
Speaker 1: the latest gun control laws coming out of DC and
Speaker 1: how they do nothing to address crime and they make
Speaker 1: a criminal out of you. But I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: deeper philosophical debate that's going on in our country. So
Speaker 1: I want to try to spell this out. I'll try
Speaker 1: to make this visual on the radio. Here a little
Speaker 1: theater of the mind. So imagine a pyramid. You would
Speaker 1: may imagine a pyramid, and there's three levels to the pyramid, bottom, middle, top.
Speaker 1: At the base of the pyramid is modernism. Modernism is science,
Speaker 1: reason objective truth. The middle are these classical liberal ideas capitalism,
Speaker 1: freedom of speech, individualism, equality of opportunity, meritocracy. And then
Speaker 1: at the top is politics. So these are cultural norms, laws, institutions,
Speaker 1: things like them. Cool, the normal progressive and the normal conservative.
Speaker 1: They argue over the top section your neighbor and you
Speaker 1: you you got you know, back in the day, we
Speaker 1: debate about policies and laws and things like that, and
Speaker 1: progressives would want to change these things, and conservatives generally
Speaker 1: want to conserve, conserve or preserve these things. Makes sense.
Speaker 1: That's a you know, a normal debate, and there's that's
Speaker 1: this is good, this is a good thing. No problem
Speaker 1: here whatsoever. Democrats says we need to raise taxes. Conservative
Speaker 1: says we need to lower taxes. Fine, I miss those
Speaker 1: old fashioned debates. Right, that's a fine conversation to having
Speaker 1: a very good, healthy thing in a healthy society. And
Speaker 1: both of these people, to progressive and the conservative, think
Speaker 1: that the bottom levels of this pyramid are good and
Speaker 1: need to be preserved. Everyone here in this conversation believes
Speaker 1: that truth exists and that capitalism and freedom of speech
Speaker 1: and meritocracy are good things. But then there are another
Speaker 1: group of people. Not you're run of the middle democrats,
Speaker 1: but Marxists with a Marxist worldview, they come into the
Speaker 1: picture and they say, oh, you regular progressives, you democrats,
Speaker 1: you don't go far enough. We don't just need to
Speaker 1: change policies and laws. A Marxist believes that it's the
Speaker 1: liberal ideas of America that are the problem. It's the
Speaker 1: liberal ideas of America that inevitably lead to oppression. So
Speaker 1: not only do we need to change the laws and
Speaker 1: the policies, but we gotta get rid of capitalism. We
Speaker 1: gotta get rid of individualism, we gotta get rid of meritocracy,
Speaker 1: we gotta get rid of freedom of speech entirely. That's
Speaker 1: the middle level of the pyramid. And this is why
Speaker 1: you see Marxists justify shutting down freedom of speech and
Speaker 1: calling for an end of capitalism itself. That's why these
Speaker 1: people who run these diversity seminars, they you know, they
Speaker 1: have a list of whites of primacy values, and one
Speaker 1: of them is merit. Merit is a white supremacy value.
Speaker 1: Kamala herself saying, it's not about equality of opportunity, it's
Speaker 1: about equality of outcome. That's what matters. The most we
Speaker 1: actually got a clip of this was during the campaign.
Speaker 1: So there's a big difference between equality and equity. Equality suggests, oh,
Speaker 1: everyone should get the same amount. The problem with that
Speaker 1: not everybody's starting up for the same place. So if
Speaker 1: we're all getting the same amount, but you started out
Speaker 1: back there and I started out over here, we can
Speaker 1: get the same am up, but you're still gonna be
Speaker 1: that far back behind me. It's about giving people the
Speaker 1: resources and the support they need so that everyone can
Speaker 1: be on equal footing and then compete on equal footing.
Speaker 1: Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same
Speaker 1: place there, it is. Equitable treatment means we all end
Speaker 1: up at the same place. So meritocracy, it doesn't need
Speaker 1: equality of opportunity none on it's equality of outcome. Right,
Speaker 1: So they're in the middle, they're they're debating the middle
Speaker 1: part of this pyramid. That's very different than arguing over
Speaker 1: higher taxes or lower taxes. This is trying to overhaul
Speaker 1: the building blocks of this country. That's the Marxist view.
Speaker 1: Of course, they've taken over college campuses, and that's infiltrated
Speaker 1: now out of college campuses, of course, into really every
Speaker 1: institution in America. The march through the institutions you name it, Hollywood, music, academia,
Speaker 1: K through twelve, medical school, law school, everything, AM talk
Speaker 1: radio we're the only people left. AM Talk Radio is
Speaker 1: the only conservative institution left in the country. Everything else
Speaker 1: is taken over by not only progresses, but by Marxists
Speaker 1: who want to undermine that, undermine and overhaul that middle
Speaker 1: section of the pyramid. And then finally the bottom level
Speaker 1: of the pyramid, the modernism level. You have not progressives,
Speaker 1: not Marxist, but you have postmodernists. A postmodernist comes in
Speaker 1: and says, hey, you guys, you're you progressives, You're you're
Speaker 1: not taking it far enough. It's not just the laws
Speaker 1: and institutions and policies that need to change. Goodness, No,
Speaker 1: and Marxists, you're not going far enough. It's not just
Speaker 1: capitalism that has to go. It's not just freedom of
Speaker 1: speech and individuality and individualism and meritocracy, and it's we
Speaker 1: gotta go way further than that. It's objective truth that
Speaker 1: has to go. There's no such thing as objective truth.
Speaker 1: Reason has to go. And this is where you get
Speaker 1: people talking about like lived experiences and things like this,
Speaker 1: like these ideas where truth doesn't even exist, there's no
Speaker 1: such thing as truth. Who are you to say what's
Speaker 1: right or wrong? Two plus two could equal five? We
Speaker 1: spent a ton of time on my local show about
Speaker 1: postmodern math that called anti racist math. Where are two
Speaker 1: plus two could equal five? Who are you to say
Speaker 1: it doesn't? And these people are becoming more and more prevalent,
Speaker 1: not necessarily a number, although yes, but in power and
Speaker 1: influence postmodernists. Take a look at your kids textbook. Take
Speaker 1: a look at your kids school textbook. Popular Mechanics wrote
Speaker 1: an article recently why some people think two plus two
Speaker 1: equals five and why they're right. There's a ton here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put it on the website too. I'll put
Speaker 1: it on mics later out locals dot com so you
Speaker 1: can see it yourself. And it's really important to know
Speaker 1: who you're talking to. First of all, who you're talking to,
Speaker 1: but also who you're receiving inputs from in your life,
Speaker 1: like who's right. So when you watch a movie or
Speaker 1: watch a TV show, or put your kids in front
Speaker 1: of the TV, or put your let your kids brows
Speaker 1: the internet, or send your kids off to certain schools,
Speaker 1: what inputs are they receiving. Are they receiving inputs from progressives,
Speaker 1: from Marxists or from postmodernists? Are these progressives who disagree
Speaker 1: on policy? Are these Marxists who disagree on the principles America?
Speaker 1: Are these postmodernists who disagree on reason and objective truth
Speaker 1: even existing at all? We need to be able to
Speaker 1: understand that, know that, and then respond accordingly. We'll put
Speaker 1: it on the website. Mike's later dot locals dot com.
Speaker 1: Coming up next, one of my favorite Abraham Lincoln stories.
Speaker 1: You're gonna love this story. I think about it all
Speaker 1: the time. We'll share it next. Mike's later dout locals
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Speaker 1: Buck again today, thanks for being here. I want to
Speaker 1: share here one of my favorite stories in this next segment.
Speaker 1: It just I don't know. I think about everyone's a while,
Speaker 1: and it it inspires me to read more, to dive deeper
Speaker 1: into topics, to fight against culture, and to be better
Speaker 1: than what culture is feeding us and just dragging us down.
Speaker 1: So what culture drags us down? It gives you such
Speaker 1: a low par and we need to better here in
Speaker 1: the Freedom Hunt with Buck Saxons. That's what I want
Speaker 1: to talk about coming up in this segment right here.
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Speaker 1: Slash Buck, it's going on Team Buck. Mike Slater here
Speaker 1: in San Diego, filling in for the great Buck Sexton today.
Speaker 1: Mike Slater dot locals dot com. That's where we put everything.
Speaker 1: That's our website. Mic Slater dot locals dot com. All right,
Speaker 1: I want to share this story. It's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1: This is from Neo Postman's book. It's called Amusing Ourselves
Speaker 1: to Death. Amusing Ourselves to Death. Look, I just read
Speaker 1: a little bit. He says. The first of seven famous
Speaker 1: debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas took place
Speaker 1: on April excuse me, August twenty first, eighteen fifty eight,
Speaker 1: in Ottawa, Illinois. Aren't we there? So we got the
Speaker 1: Lincoln Douglas debates eighteen fifty eight. The arrangement provided that
Speaker 1: Douglas would speak first for one hour, Lincoln would take
Speaker 1: an hour and a half to reply, and then Douglas
Speaker 1: a half hour to reply to Rebut it, so, what's
Speaker 1: that we got? It was an hour and an hour
Speaker 1: and a half, half hour, three hours, three hour tour.
Speaker 1: That's a long time. How many movies do people watch
Speaker 1: it and they're like, oh, yeah, it was good about
Speaker 1: three hours so long. Neil Postman says, this debate was
Speaker 1: considerably shorter than those which these two men were accustomed.
Speaker 1: In fact, they've tangled several times before, and all of
Speaker 1: their encounters had been much lengthier and more exhausting. For example,
Speaker 1: check this out. Eighteen fifty four, in Peoria, Douglas delivered
Speaker 1: a three hour address Bach, a three hour speech to
Speaker 1: which Lincoln, by agreement, was to respond when Lincoln's turn came.
Speaker 1: So everyone in the audience just listened to Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Douglas for three hours. Now it's Lincoln's turn. He reminded
Speaker 1: the audience that it was already five pm, and that
Speaker 1: he would probably require as much time as Douglas, and
Speaker 1: that Douglas was still scheduled for a rebuttal to him.
Speaker 1: He proposed, therefore, that the audience go home, eat dinner,
Speaker 1: and return refreshed for four more hours of talk. The
Speaker 1: audience amiably agreed, went home, a dinner, came back, and
Speaker 1: matters proceeded. As Lincoln had outlined, what kind of audience
Speaker 1: was this? Who were these people who could so cheerfully
Speaker 1: accommodate themselves to seven hours of oratory? The audience's attention
Speaker 1: span would obviously have been extraordinary by current standards. Is
Speaker 1: there any audience of Americans today who could endure seven
Speaker 1: hours of talk or five or three, especially without pictures
Speaker 1: of any kind? That amazing? This is a major problem
Speaker 1: that we're not very smart. Now, before you get offended
Speaker 1: at that, I'm including myself in that absolutely as well.
Speaker 1: I'm not very smart. Have you ever take it? So? First,
Speaker 1: all the citizenship exam, right, like, only twenty percent of
Speaker 1: high schoolers can pass the citizenship exam. This is like
Speaker 1: basic stuff like how many states are there? But have
Speaker 1: you ever seen these tests from like a middle school classroom?
Speaker 1: I got like a fifth Crede classroom from nineteen thirty
Speaker 1: And I don't know any enough the answers. They're ridiculously difficult.
Speaker 1: The bar is so low today. I have not read
Speaker 1: nearly any of the classics. I really haven't, and I'm
Speaker 1: starting to. I've been starting this last year or so. Actually,
Speaker 1: when I first heard that Abram this Abram link a store,
Speaker 1: I shared ready, I was like, I got some work
Speaker 1: to do, but I just I don't have I haven't
Speaker 1: read these classics. It certainly didn't read the grown up
Speaker 1: and I don't have the tools that are necessary to
Speaker 1: think deeply about important topics. Recently, a friend of mine
Speaker 1: who I recruited for this effort, we read Hamlet, and
Speaker 1: even just reading Hamlet, I feel myself, you know, thinking
Speaker 1: back on it a lot all the often. But then
Speaker 1: I get this regret, like, oh what if I what
Speaker 1: if I spent my childhood learning about the classics? Reading
Speaker 1: the classics? You know, very few people do. Almost no
Speaker 1: one these days has a complete tool belt to think
Speaker 1: about things deeply. Almost no one today he could listen
Speaker 1: to Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas or anyone talk for
Speaker 1: seven hours about things. Abraham Lincoln, he was a boy.
Speaker 1: He didn't have iPads, right, he didn't have the latest technology.
Speaker 1: But he just devoured every book he could get his
Speaker 1: hands on. He would read it multiple times. Every book
Speaker 1: was gold. He had a much longer attention span than
Speaker 1: we do, and much fewer choices. Today, we have infinite
Speaker 1: choices and no attention span. Try that one on. Abraham
Speaker 1: Lincoln had very few choices and a very long attention span.
Speaker 1: We have infinite choices and no attention span. Which is better?
Speaker 1: Which would you choose? We're living in the ladder, and
Speaker 1: we are spastic. We're spastic because of it. Just choices
Speaker 1: non stop. How many times do you catch yourself reading
Speaker 1: something and you just write a couple of pages and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, I don't I just I just blinked out.
Speaker 1: I didn't read any of that. Are you reading something
Speaker 1: online and just scrolling? Scroll scrolls? Just scrolling? On the Twitter?
Speaker 1: You just scrolling. You're not really good at the tweet.
Speaker 1: Just scrolls, scroll, scrolls, scrolls, scroll, just infinite choices, no attentions. Man,
Speaker 1: think about the Lincoln Douglas debate right in fifty four
Speaker 1: before they weren't even running for anything, by the way,
Speaker 1: or they mean they were running for They weren't running
Speaker 1: for presid should say they weren't run for president. In so,
Speaker 1: think about all these people at these original Lincoln Douglas debates.
Speaker 1: They had longer attention spans if you were choices. What
Speaker 1: else were they gonna do after dinner? There's nothing else
Speaker 1: going on? So imagine the excitement in town when this
Speaker 1: was going on. I think this is one reason why
Speaker 1: we're just in a bad place today. Here's what Neil
Speaker 1: Postman wrote, and I love this so much. He says,
Speaker 1: So there's two dystopian books that are often cited, and
Speaker 1: one of them much more than the other. You've got
Speaker 1: George Olls nineteen eighty four and Huxley's Brave New World,
Speaker 1: two dystopian futures, two very different dystopian futures. And Neil
Speaker 1: Postman said, what George Orwell feared were those who would
Speaker 1: ban books, right, so he'd he feared big brother coming
Speaker 1: in banning books. What Huxley feared was that there would
Speaker 1: be no reason to ban a book, for there would
Speaker 1: be no one who wanted to read one, right. I
Speaker 1: think about We've talked a lot on my local show
Speaker 1: about Ryan Ryan t Alexander, his book about transgenderism and
Speaker 1: anyway it's from a conservative perspective, if you will, and
Speaker 1: banned from Amazon, and how many people even really care? Right, So,
Speaker 1: we're closer to Huxley, where people like ah, whatever, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information.
Speaker 1: Huxley feared those who would give us so much information
Speaker 1: that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. And
Speaker 1: that's where we are today. We got this new cycle
Speaker 1: constantly bombarding you with too much So you're just numb
Speaker 1: to it. George Orwell feared that the truth would be
Speaker 1: concealed from us. Huxley feared that the truth would be
Speaker 1: drowned in a serious sea of irrelevance. Or Well feared
Speaker 1: we would be we would become a captive culture. Huxley
Speaker 1: feared we would become a trivial culture. Compare us with
Speaker 1: that audience in Peoria, Illinois in eighteen fifty four. You'd
Speaker 1: think we'd be so much smarter if you were to compare. Honestly,
Speaker 1: if you were to line us up the people in
Speaker 1: Peoria in eighteen fifty four and wherever you are today
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, and you put these two people
Speaker 1: next to each other, it would be like they wouldn't
Speaker 1: even be two different cultures, to be two different species.
Speaker 1: I mean they think like from two different planets. So
Speaker 1: the question is how can we intellectually, morally even too,
Speaker 1: How can we live like it's eighteen sixty five in Peoria, Illinois.
Speaker 1: Were more focus and fewer distraction, right, So how can
Speaker 1: we live? This is the question, how can we live
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one? Because we can't go back, So
Speaker 1: how can we live in twenty twenty one, with the
Speaker 1: modern conveniences and the benefits et cetera, et cetera, living today,
Speaker 1: but with more focus and fewer distraction. First thing, demand
Speaker 1: more out of yourself, as Postman said, what kind of
Speaker 1: man do you think I am? That's what we need
Speaker 1: to ask these people who are peddling garbage. He said,
Speaker 1: any rational decent man would ask to the people who
Speaker 1: are peddling this garbage, what kind of man do you
Speaker 1: think I am? So, but you need to know that
Speaker 1: you're better than what you're being fed by our culture.
Speaker 1: And once you start saying you start saying stuff like that,
Speaker 1: like oh, like you think, like what kind of person
Speaker 1: do you think I am? You're gonna get a lot
Speaker 1: of Pressure're gonna be like, oh, you think you're so
Speaker 1: much better than that? Yes, yes, I do. I believe
Speaker 1: I we you even are much better than this, and
Speaker 1: just don't partake it anymore. Have have some respect, man,
Speaker 1: and then so demand more, and then find the places
Speaker 1: and the things that bring you perspective in peace. And
Speaker 1: that's what we try to do on my show and
Speaker 1: Buck as well. Perspective and peace, that's the name of
Speaker 1: the game. We need more of that. So find someone
Speaker 1: finds something that brings that to you and latch onto
Speaker 1: it because it's going to help just get rid of
Speaker 1: distraction and it's going to help focus. So again, how
Speaker 1: can we intellectually live like it's eighteen sixty five with
Speaker 1: fewer distraction and more focus. That's my challenge this year.
Speaker 1: Mike's later dot locals dot com filling in for Buck
Speaker 1: sex spread the word eighteen buck Mike Slater and San
Speaker 1: Diego film in for Buck Sexton. Mike Slater dot locals
Speaker 1: dot com. That's our website. There was a high school
Speaker 1: in Columbus, Ohio. Of course they got rid of the
Speaker 1: classics because they're racist, and you got to replace everything
Speaker 1: with the the new. Oh they're so great, these new things.
Speaker 1: This in one case they in this school they replaced
Speaker 1: a classics with a slam poetry book called The Poet X.
Speaker 1: In the first two pages, the underaged character Zimara Xio
Speaker 1: m A R. Zimara approached drug dealers who cat called her,
Speaker 1: and the drug dealers says church girls are all freaks, Ao, Zimara,
Speaker 1: you need to start wearing dresses like that. This word
Speaker 1: I can't say on the radio. You'd be wiped up.
Speaker 1: Before going back to school. That's how you read the
Speaker 1: slam poetry. You say some words like this with awkward
Speaker 1: breaks in them, and that's called slam poetry, especially knowing
Speaker 1: you church girls are all freaks. That's the first page
Speaker 1: of this book for high school. The main character believes
Speaker 1: that Christianity, the bedrock of her familiar values, hinders her
Speaker 1: ability to live freely. It's this is the poem. It's
Speaker 1: not any one thing that makes me wonder about the
Speaker 1: capital good, about a holy trinity that doesn't include the Mother.
Speaker 1: It's all the things. Just seems as I get older,
Speaker 1: I begin to really see the way the church treats
Speaker 1: a girl like me differently. Sometimes it feels them all
Speaker 1: I'm worth is under my skirt and not between my ears.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I feel life wouldn't be eat would be easier
Speaker 1: if I didn't feel like such a debt to a
Speaker 1: god that didn't really seem to be out there checking
Speaker 1: from me. It's like, whatever feed our garbage to there,
Speaker 1: to our kids, you're gonna drop your kids off at
Speaker 1: a public school. Let's say I'm a guest of Bucks today.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure would agree with me. But I want
Speaker 1: to be a little a little asident to go on
Speaker 1: a full rant as I do in my local show
Speaker 1: about how you should never ever drop your kids off
Speaker 1: at a public school for the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: It is child of use if you do, so stop
Speaker 1: doing it, because this is the garbage they're being peddled.
Speaker 1: And it's a weird tension, and I get it where
Speaker 1: the teachers' unions are using your kids not being in
Speaker 1: school as leverage for more money. So the left doesn't
Speaker 1: want your kids back in school. So conservatives are like, no,
Speaker 1: we need kids back in school, and I just want
Speaker 1: to be here, like, well, hold on, you should never
Speaker 1: want your kids back in public school. I don't understand
Speaker 1: the conservative who's like, come on, governor, my kids got
Speaker 1: to get back and then indoctrination center as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1: He's got to learn all about the horrible things about America.
Speaker 1: Now this is a terrible country, and how all white
Speaker 1: people are racists. Get our kids back in school. All
Speaker 1: like like, wait a second, why are you fighting for this.
Speaker 1: You should be using this last year, have been using
Speaker 1: and you should continue to use whatever time you have
Speaker 1: left to do whatever it takes to never send your
Speaker 1: kid to a public school ever. Again. And don't tell me, oh,
Speaker 1: my kid goes to a good public school. No they don't,
Speaker 1: because their curriculum all comes from the top. I live
Speaker 1: in California, so ours are like one of the worst.
Speaker 1: But every state is becoming more and more like this.
Speaker 1: And don't tell me, oh, my kid is in the
Speaker 1: excelled program. No they're not. Those won't exist for long.
Speaker 1: I did a segment on this couple weeks ago in
Speaker 1: San Diego. The next day, the second biggest school district
Speaker 1: in the county released that they're getting rid of they
Speaker 1: called their Gate program. They're Gifted and Talented program. They're
Speaker 1: getting rid of. It's inequitable, not enough black in the
Speaker 1: span of kids in it, too many white and Asian kids.
Speaker 1: So they got rid of it because it's not fair. Okay, gone,
Speaker 1: So all these advanced programs are gone. Anyway, everyone's gonna
Speaker 1: have to do the same garbage curriculum from the state,
Speaker 1: from these progressives. It's a terrible thing. Never drop your
Speaker 1: kids off there and ever and about sider. They'll learn
Speaker 1: new oh yeah, poetry like this good. Yeah, They'll learn
Speaker 1: about how God is awful and God's terrible, and how
Speaker 1: Christianity treats women poorly and only to seize them as
Speaker 1: you know, only sees their worth as what's under my skirt.
Speaker 1: That's good, This is good, No problem there, hurry up,
Speaker 1: drop your kids off there. Anyway, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: do that segment because we don't really know each other
Speaker 1: well enough for me to be so bold. Yesterday, I'll
Speaker 1: end on this. Yesterday we talked to quite a bit
Speaker 1: about transgenderism, and my point of bringing all this transgenderism
Speaker 1: stuff up is first to help you if you know
Speaker 1: someone who's struggling with gender dyst for you. But that's
Speaker 1: not many people, for a vast majority of us. The
Speaker 1: reason I bring up this transgenderism stuff is because it's
Speaker 1: a propaganda war. If they can get you to consent
Speaker 1: to transgender ideology, all right, If they can get you
Speaker 1: to agree with this stuff that you're not born an agenda,
Speaker 1: you decide your gender, You can change genders if you
Speaker 1: agree with that. If they get you to agree with that,
Speaker 1: there's nothing they can't get you to agree with. It's
Speaker 1: very similar with critical race theory. If they get you
Speaker 1: to agree that you're born racist, all white people are racist,
Speaker 1: and all that. If you admit to that and you
Speaker 1: start to flagellate yourself in shame. There's nothing they can't
Speaker 1: get you to do, and that's what propaganda really is.
Speaker 1: So I'll end with this quote from one of my
Speaker 1: favorite writers, Theodore Dalrymple. He says, I came to the
Speaker 1: conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to
Speaker 1: persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate. The
Speaker 1: point of propaganda is to humiliate you. The point of
Speaker 1: this transgenders and stuff is to humiliate you. The point
Speaker 1: of this critical race theory stuff is to humiliate you.
Speaker 1: And therefore the less it corresponded to reality, the better.
Speaker 1: When people are forced to remain silent when they're being
Speaker 1: told the most obvious lies, or even worse, when they're
Speaker 1: forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose one sin
Speaker 1: for all their sense of probity. Let me look at
Speaker 1: this word real quick self respect, I believe. Let's see
Speaker 1: the quality of having strong moral principles, honesty, and decency.
Speaker 1: To assent to obvious lies is to cooperate with evil,
Speaker 1: and in some small ways, to become evil oneself. One's
Speaker 1: standing to resist anything is thus eroded and even destroyed.
Speaker 1: If you don't stand up against the most absurd of
Speaker 1: the propaganda being spewed your way, then you won't have
Speaker 1: the strength, or courage or intellectual ability to stand up
Speaker 1: to anything. Let's draw some lines and not back down.
Speaker 1: Mike Slater dot locals dot com. I'll put that quote
Speaker 1: on our website. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Spread
Speaker 1: the word. It's going on, Team Buck. Mike Slater here
Speaker 1: in San Diego, filling it for the great Buck Sexton.
Speaker 1: Thanks for being here, Mikeslater dot locals dot com is
Speaker 1: our website. We've already put a ton of stuff from
Speaker 1: the show today up there. Mike Slater dot locals dot com.
Speaker 1: I want to share this story here. I think about
Speaker 1: this story a lot, and I hope once you hear it,
Speaker 1: you think about it a lot too. In the first hour,
Speaker 1: so first we kicked off talking about Joe Biden's press
Speaker 1: conversation today. We talked about the border. He said, we
Speaker 1: haven't changed any immigration policies. What are you talking to?
Speaker 1: Two massive policies you changed. We talked all about that,
Speaker 1: and then we got into this conversation about the importance
Speaker 1: of work, the importance of meaningful work because Oakland is
Speaker 1: the first big city they're stocked in. A couple of
Speaker 1: other cities have done this before, but the first big
Speaker 1: city to have guaranteed minimum income five hundred bucks a month,
Speaker 1: no strings, no strings attached, and their twist is only
Speaker 1: for families of color, which is going to be great.
Speaker 1: So we talked all about the problems with that, and
Speaker 1: not just the economic issues of that, and there's a
Speaker 1: million of those, but the moral issues with that and
Speaker 1: what that does to one's soul. And we played a
Speaker 1: clip of Jordan Peterson and he speaking against this, and
Speaker 1: he said, does man live by bread alone? We have
Speaker 1: a much deeper problem in America than just lack of money.
Speaker 1: We have a nihilism problem, lack of meaning, lack of purpose.
Speaker 1: You throw money at that and it just makes it worse.
Speaker 1: So we talked all about work and the importance of work,
Speaker 1: and it's not necessarily the work even itself as much,
Speaker 1: although yes, as much as why you're doing it and
Speaker 1: who you're supporting in the process. You take that away
Speaker 1: from people, You rob people of that, and people will
Speaker 1: spiral into a dark place very quickly. You're taking people's
Speaker 1: dignity away from them. And we talked about how it's
Speaker 1: being spun to trick you. So we did that all
Speaker 1: in the first hour. On that point, I want to
Speaker 1: tell the story of Richard Montagnes Richard Montagnez. Richard Montagnas
Speaker 1: grew up in Cucamonga Valley. It's in Riverside County. It's
Speaker 1: north to San Diego, east of La went to school,
Speaker 1: could barely speak English. Every day he'd come home crying
Speaker 1: to his mom. Kids were asked what they wanted to
Speaker 1: be when they grew up, and you know, it was
Speaker 1: the usual doctor, astronaut, and he said nothing. He said,
Speaker 1: there was no dream where I came from. He had
Speaker 1: no no dream to become anything when he grew up.
Speaker 1: He dropped out of school in the fourth grade, worked
Speaker 1: in farms and factories. He got a job as a
Speaker 1: janitor out of factory four dollars an hour. He was
Speaker 1: eighteen years old at this point. Richard montagna is eighteen
Speaker 1: years old janitor four bucks an hour. His first day
Speaker 1: of work, his grandfather pulled him aside his grandfather. They
Speaker 1: lived in a little concrete hut with he was eighteen
Speaker 1: family members. So he's eighteen years old on his first
Speaker 1: day of the job, and his grandfather pulled him aside,
Speaker 1: and he said, son, make sure that floor shines and
Speaker 1: let them know that I'm Montagnes mopped it. Don't just
Speaker 1: go and do the bare minimum and do the job
Speaker 1: and get done and come home. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: make sure that floor shines and let them know I'm
Speaker 1: montagne is mopped in. So he decided, I'm going to
Speaker 1: be the best janitor that this company's ever seen. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make a name for myself as a janitor. So
Speaker 1: he went and he did a great job mop at
Speaker 1: the floors, but he wanted more. So we spent time
Speaker 1: learning about the company's products and their manufacturing methods and
Speaker 1: their marketing. He even asked a salesman if he could
Speaker 1: tag along with him as they sell. I mean, think
Speaker 1: about the think of that goal. The janitor roll Imagine
Speaker 1: you're the salesperson. The janitor rolls up and says, hey,
Speaker 1: do you mind if I come on a sales call
Speaker 1: it with you? You'd be like, what do you what?
Speaker 1: This is mid nineteen eighties and the CEO of the company.
Speaker 1: The company wasn't doing well, and the CEO started this
Speaker 1: new initiative called Act Like an Owner. They had three
Speaker 1: hundred thousand employees and it wasn't going well and they
Speaker 1: needed new ideas and new buy in a new right.
Speaker 1: So Richard he called the CEO like, this is your thing,
Speaker 1: I act like an owner. All right, I'm gonna call
Speaker 1: you up. So this gretary picks up up mister Enrico's office.
Speaker 1: Who's this, says Richard. Montagne's in California. Oh, Richard, are
Speaker 1: you the vice president overseeing California? No? I work at
Speaker 1: the Rancho Cucamonga plant. Oh so you're the vice president
Speaker 1: of operation. No, I actually work inside the plant. You're
Speaker 1: the manager. No, I'm the janitor. To the secretary's credit
Speaker 1: and to the CEO's credit, he picked up the phone
Speaker 1: and Richard made his first pitch over the phone, and
Speaker 1: the CEO said, Okay, make a presentation delivered in person.
Speaker 1: You got two weeks. So Richard, who again dropped out
Speaker 1: of school in the fourth grade, went to the library,
Speaker 1: picked up a book on marketing strategies. Two weeks crash course,
Speaker 1: got ready, got himself a suit and tie, met with
Speaker 1: the met with the met with the janitor, and met
Speaker 1: with the CEO and all the executives. And you could
Speaker 1: picture this in your head perfectly, can't you like, I
Speaker 1: just imagine this long wooden table. It's like so corporate.
Speaker 1: This room is super corporate, long wooden table, everyone in
Speaker 1: the same color suits, ceo way at the end and
Speaker 1: in walks the janitor. Now I have two different versions
Speaker 1: in my head. In one version, he's still wearing his
Speaker 1: janitor uniform, which is awesome. I like that version in
Speaker 1: my head. But I also got one where he bought
Speaker 1: like a brown suit and like this this ugly brown
Speaker 1: yellow off gold tie. Are you with me? You can
Speaker 1: imagine where you want, But I think we're all pretty
Speaker 1: much in the same ballpark with envisioning this. And he says, listen,
Speaker 1: I learned or I came up with this idea when
Speaker 1: I went on a sales call to a Hispanic neighborhood
Speaker 1: and there was no product for Mexicans. Where I grew up,
Speaker 1: we had Mexican street corn, and I think people were
Speaker 1: really like something that's inspired by that. And the CEO said,
Speaker 1: all right, what's it tastes like? He said, glad? She asked,
Speaker 1: And he pulled out a hundred plastic baggies and he
Speaker 1: made his own mix, made his own mix inside each
Speaker 1: little baggie passed around the room and the CEO tasted
Speaker 1: it and said, put your mop away, you're coming with us.
Speaker 1: Richard was the janitor at the Rancho Cucamonga Friedo Lays factory,
Speaker 1: and he was the inventor of what would become Flaming
Speaker 1: Hot Cheetos, one of the most successful launches in Friedo
Speaker 1: Lay history. He became a vice president and is now
Speaker 1: worth twenty million dollars. It's a couple lessons from this
Speaker 1: awesome story. First, in America, we have the rags to
Speaker 1: riches story. We love it. We love the rags to
Speaker 1: riches and we should, but oftentimes we make it when
Speaker 1: we tell the story, we make it seemed too much
Speaker 1: like luck or too much like oh, his success was inevitable.
Speaker 1: Of course he was going to be a rags to
Speaker 1: riches because we're looking back on it and he became
Speaker 1: a riches so we're like, oh, yeah, of course it
Speaker 1: was gonna go that way. No, No, Richard was poor.
Speaker 1: He did a lot more than show up to get rich.
Speaker 1: We tend to YadA YadA YadA, over all the defeats
Speaker 1: and difficulties and challenges. Right, we tell the story of
Speaker 1: he was poor, showed up got rich. Like no, there
Speaker 1: was a lot of work, the difficulty, the research, the
Speaker 1: courage to ask salespeople to go on sales calls, right,
Speaker 1: his unpaid time off going on a sales call away
Speaker 1: from his family. Sacrifice. This is a huge canyon between
Speaker 1: rags and riches, and you can't just gloss over that.
Speaker 1: Also the root of the story, of course, it comes
Speaker 1: from his grandpa eighteen years old. First day, make sure
Speaker 1: you make sure that floor shines and let them know
Speaker 1: that a montagne is mopped it. And that's the deal.
Speaker 1: That's the difference. It's a pride in your work. A
Speaker 1: pride in your work therefore a pride in yourself. So
Speaker 1: when you go back to Oakland and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you don't have to work, because that's where we're headed.
Speaker 1: We're headed towards guaranteed minimum income and we're all gonna
Speaker 1: be living like a bunch of flat fat slabs and
Speaker 1: wally being zipped around, all of us with the iPad
Speaker 1: in front of our face, and no one having to work,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be so liberating. They say, No, a
Speaker 1: pride in your work, he goes, A pride in yourself.
Speaker 1: And here's the other truth of this story that I
Speaker 1: love so much. Even if he didn't hit it big,
Speaker 1: even if the story does not end with oh, and
Speaker 1: he's the vice president, he's worth twenty million dollars. Even
Speaker 1: if Richard Montagnez only mopped that floor until it shined,
Speaker 1: and if one person, if really no one, if he
Speaker 1: knew that a Montagnez mopped it, even that is a
Speaker 1: beautiful American story. Even that is a job well done.
Speaker 1: Even that is the foundation of a life well lived.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be the rags to riches, the
Speaker 1: richest part doesn't have to be there. I'm sure if
Speaker 1: he put that much pride into his mopping, I'm sure
Speaker 1: he also put that much pride into his family and
Speaker 1: all the other things that matter in life as well.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing that needs to be celebrated. Whether
Speaker 1: he got the riches or not. Maybe the CEO never
Speaker 1: picked up the phone and that was the end of
Speaker 1: that whole story, It's still the story worth telling. The
Speaker 1: Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. He said, if a man
Speaker 1: is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep
Speaker 1: streets even as a might Colangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music.
Speaker 1: Or Shakespeare wrote poetry, he should sweep streets so well
Speaker 1: that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause
Speaker 1: to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did
Speaker 1: his job well. Now you know the rest of the story.
Speaker 1: Mike Slater dot locals dot com filling in for Buck Sexton,
Speaker 1: spread the word eighteen buck. Mike Slater, San Diego, filling
Speaker 1: in for Buck Sexton. Mike Slater dot locals dot com
Speaker 1: is our website. Let me let me keep going on
Speaker 1: this because this is such an important theme. As as
Speaker 1: universal basic income becomes more popular, it's going to be
Speaker 1: pushed more and more nationwide. Have we got a couple
Speaker 1: of small cities like Stockton started a couple years ago,
Speaker 1: obviously some European cities. Oakland is now the first big
Speaker 1: city to do it. Goodness Evanston, Illinois has a reparations
Speaker 1: program for black families twenty five thousand dollars a year
Speaker 1: that they can use for mortgage or home improvements or
Speaker 1: buying a house or whatever. Only black families. Right, So
Speaker 1: this is growing and it's gonna happen, right unless, well,
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. It's gonna be more popular unless we
Speaker 1: make a stand against it, particularly universal basic income, guaranteed
Speaker 1: minimum income. It is a bad thing. It's been an
Speaker 1: idea for a long time. It's been a bad idea
Speaker 1: for a long time. The economics of it, yes, but
Speaker 1: the moral arguments is what conservatives really need to fully
Speaker 1: understand and articulate the dignity of meaningful work. And again,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what the work is. I want to
Speaker 1: share the story of a guy named Dallas. He was
Speaker 1: at a gang. He was in a gang when he's fifteen,
Speaker 1: homeless by eighteen, spent decades homeless, and he couldn't do
Speaker 1: it anymore, and he went to a charity job training
Speaker 1: program and the very first job that he that he
Speaker 1: had was called push the bucket. Push the bucket. Dallas
Speaker 1: put on a blue uniform and he pushed a bucket
Speaker 1: and mop up and down the filthy streets of New
Speaker 1: York City, cleaning up trash. Now, a lot of people,
Speaker 1: a lot of progressives, we'll look at that is demeaning
Speaker 1: and undignified, and it's offensive to have someone clean sidewalks
Speaker 1: like that, that's beneath them. Let me quote Dallas. Before long,
Speaker 1: I wasn't just picking trash off the streets I was
Speaker 1: picking up values, morals and principles. I was picking up
Speaker 1: self esteem. And I would look when I would look
Speaker 1: back at the block I just cleaned, and see what
Speaker 1: a great job I'd done. I realized I'd picked up pride.
Speaker 1: He said, the greatest day of his life. There's a big,
Speaker 1: giant snowstorm in New York City and the whole city
Speaker 1: shut down, but he and his brothers in blue shoveled
Speaker 1: the sidewalks. And he said it was the most incredible
Speaker 1: day for him because he said, just a few weeks
Speaker 1: before that, he was sleeping on the sidewalks, sleeping in garbage,
Speaker 1: people stepping over, I'm ignoring him. He was dead to
Speaker 1: the city. And he said, now here, I am helping
Speaker 1: to bring this city back to life. That's what I
Speaker 1: mean by meaningful work. There's a Cardinal Dolan. He tells
Speaker 1: the story of the renovating of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, New
Speaker 1: York City, and he said one day he was walking
Speaker 1: around inspecting the progress and he asked one of the people,
Speaker 1: He said, what are you doing? And one of the
Speaker 1: workers said, you know, I'm doing the whatever, some scaffolding
Speaker 1: work here or whatever. And he asked another guy said
Speaker 1: what are you doing. Oh, I'm doing the rewiring here.
Speaker 1: And he asked a third guy said, oh, what are
Speaker 1: you doing? And the guy said, I'm rebuilding a cathedral.
Speaker 1: Just be beamed. I'm rebuilding a cathedral. And one day
Speaker 1: I'll bring my grandkids here and show them what I
Speaker 1: helped to do. That's what I mean by meaningful work
Speaker 1: and progress. Who are pushing these guarantee minimum InCom there
Speaker 1: they're robbing people of this. And it's not just guaranteed
Speaker 1: minimum InCom I mean, it's all. It's all welfare programs
Speaker 1: we currently have. It's just a failing economy. It's raising
Speaker 1: taxes and results in fewer jobs, and it's all. It's
Speaker 1: all these government programs that are ruining the economy. They
Speaker 1: all have this effect. The Cardinal quotes Pope Francis. He says,
Speaker 1: and Pope Francis said, there's no worse material poverty than
Speaker 1: the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and
Speaker 1: deprives them of the dignity of work. Jesus was a
Speaker 1: carpenter for the love of being. Adam and Eve, they
Speaker 1: worked the garden. God didn't have them just laying around
Speaker 1: doing nothing. They worked but to the left, since Marxism,
Speaker 1: to the left, work is seen as drudgery and dehumanizing,
Speaker 1: and it's a bad thing. So the progressive goal is
Speaker 1: to not work, to be free from work, to be
Speaker 1: liberated from work, and instead to seek pleasure. But it's
Speaker 1: pleasure is not the same as happiness. Actually, there's something
Speaker 1: I want to play in the next segment on that point.
Speaker 1: Pleasure and happiness are very different, very different. Let me
Speaker 1: take a break here and we'll do that. Come here next.
Speaker 1: But think about this, think think always. Whenever there's a
Speaker 1: proposal from a government, we tend to think initially to
Speaker 1: the economic aspects of it. And that's good, right, you
Speaker 1: need to do that, But think think of like I
Speaker 1: take a pause and think one step deeper, what's the
Speaker 1: moral implications of this? And also, instead of being tricked
Speaker 1: by the left of oh we're giving you this, no
Speaker 1: such thing as a free lunch, what are you also
Speaker 1: robbing of me? Oh, we're just giving this family five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a month. We're just giving them this, We're
Speaker 1: just giving them this, all right, what are you also
Speaker 1: robbing of them? Robbing from them? People don't see that,
Speaker 1: They don't think of that until it's too late, until
Speaker 1: they've already taken it. They have the thing they were
Speaker 1: told they were going to get, and they didn't even
Speaker 1: know that they had that thing. Take and at the
Speaker 1: same time, so think of the moral arguments for things,
Speaker 1: and think of what's being taken when we're told we're
Speaker 1: being given. Mike Slater at locals dot com. Mike Slater
Speaker 1: filling it for Buck Sexton. Spread the word eighteen Buck.
Speaker 1: Mike Slater filling it for the great Buck Sexton. Thanks
Speaker 1: to Buck for having me back here. Mike Slaer out
Speaker 1: locals dot com. Gosh, we've covered a ton today. Kicked
Speaker 1: off the show, of course, talking about the press conference yesterday.
Speaker 1: Maybe we can do a little recap have that coming
Speaker 1: up as well. I'll just give you the very very
Speaker 1: short of what's going to happen right now. Only far right,
Speaker 1: fringe crazy activists are questioning Joe Biden's mental acuity, and
Speaker 1: how dare you, by the way, how dare That's so
Speaker 1: unpatriotic of you. You're emboldening our enemies by questioning the
Speaker 1: president's mental health. And then more mainstream conservatives are going
Speaker 1: to do it, and then people on the far left
Speaker 1: are gonna try to flank the president by questioning his
Speaker 1: mental acuity, and then again you're gonna be attacked by
Speaker 1: the media for so how dare you? You're the worst,
Speaker 1: You're terrible, it's awful, blah blah blah. And then one
Speaker 1: day something's going to happen, and it's gonna be so
Speaker 1: obvious to every single person, including the Democrats, and old
Speaker 1: Joe is going to be thrown out to pasture and
Speaker 1: he may not even know it. And one day Kamala
Speaker 1: will be sitting behind the Resolute desk and that will
Speaker 1: be the end of Joe Biden. I don't know when
Speaker 1: it's going to be. Could be pretty quick, but he
Speaker 1: ain't making it to eighty two, that's for sure. Now,
Speaker 1: we told the story of Woodrow Wilson in nineteen he
Speaker 1: had a terrible stroke and for a year he was
Speaker 1: still president. For a year, he was half his body
Speaker 1: was paralyzed. He couldn't focus for more than sixty seconds
Speaker 1: at a time, he couldn't speak properly, obviously, he could
Speaker 1: only see out of one eye, and for one year
Speaker 1: the media propped him up Weekend at Bernie Style, and
Speaker 1: one guy in particular, Lewis Cibold, and we read from
Speaker 1: the article. He wrote this article in the New York World,
Speaker 1: and it was all about how healthy Woodrow Wilson was,
Speaker 1: and he was more alive than ever and sprightly and quick.
Speaker 1: I quitted and could focus now actually on the things
Speaker 1: that really mattered, and like raise total like oh, he's
Speaker 1: the best person ever. And it was completely made up.
Speaker 1: The whole story was completely made up, every single word
Speaker 1: of it. It never happened. The interview never happened. They
Speaker 1: didn't have three hour conversation. Woodrow Wilson couldn't couldn't talk,
Speaker 1: You couldn't focus for sixty seconds. It was entirely written
Speaker 1: with by the chief of staff. The only people that
Speaker 1: saw Woodrow Wilson for a year was his doctor, his wife,
Speaker 1: and his chief of staff for one years. His nineteen
Speaker 1: twenty They could pull that off in nineteen twenty, but
Speaker 1: can they media pulled that off in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: I'm not as certain. But that guy who wrote that article,
Speaker 1: Lewis Seibold, he won a Pulitzer Prize for it. So
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of journalists in America today
Speaker 1: who are going to be doing their best to prop
Speaker 1: up Joe Biden for as long as they can, and
Speaker 1: they're going to be encouraged by the fact that if
Speaker 1: they do a great job of it, they'll win a
Speaker 1: Pulitzer for it. Anyway, that was the first half hour
Speaker 1: the show. I want to continue this point about work
Speaker 1: and the importance of work and fulfillment and happiness. There's
Speaker 1: a difference between pleasure and happiness that's super important. Let
Speaker 1: me build to it, though. First I want to share
Speaker 1: this quote from Thomas Williams. He says, of all the
Speaker 1: possible privileges to have. We hear about privilege all the time, right,
Speaker 1: white privilege, sis siss, male privilege, but all this stuff
Speaker 1: for all his privilege, he says, all the possible privileges
Speaker 1: to have health, beauty, charisma, intelligence, athleticism, all of which
Speaker 1: respect no boundaries of race, ethnicity, religion, or class, have
Speaker 1: to be the most important by far. And of course
Speaker 1: he's completely right. Of all the possible privileges to have
Speaker 1: its health, beauty, charisma, intelligence, athleticism. The extreme example of
Speaker 1: this is Jeremy Meeks. Do you remember this guy, Jeremy
Speaker 1: Meeks and name may Ringabell. He was known as the
Speaker 1: hot felon So this guy, he was eighteen, he beat
Speaker 1: up a sixteen year old, served two years in prison
Speaker 1: in California, joined the crips year later. Year after after
Speaker 1: he was picked out or got out of jail, he
Speaker 1: was swept up in a stocked in gang sweep and
Speaker 1: his mug shot was put online and he's a good
Speaker 1: looking guy, and it went viral and he went on
Speaker 1: to become a suit a model though grow an article
Speaker 1: they called him the buff bad boy. At the time,
Speaker 1: he was married to a woman. They had the woman
Speaker 1: had two other kids. They had a kid together, and
Speaker 1: he got out of jail and he was with this
Speaker 1: woman still. But he was seen in the tabloids kissing
Speaker 1: the heiress of a British billionaire on a yacht in
Speaker 1: the Maldives. And they now have a two year old together.
Speaker 1: But they're not together anymore, but they have a two
Speaker 1: they're co parenting, which is very nice. So that is
Speaker 1: a very deep dive into the life of this person
Speaker 1: that you did not know you needed today. But that's
Speaker 1: a gang bang and felon, who no way would be
Speaker 1: able to get on a yacht with a billion are
Speaker 1: hairis if he wasn't very very ridiculously good looking. That
Speaker 1: is beauty charisma or beauty privilege. I say beauty privilege,
Speaker 1: but it's also true of other character traits too. I
Speaker 1: forget the numbers exactly. You can, you can look them up,
Speaker 1: but it's um top the hype privilege, hight privilege. There,
Speaker 1: it's something like, these are ballparks. Don't quote me none,
Speaker 1: this is ballpark. The average height of a guy is
Speaker 1: five nine, and it's something like two percent of men
Speaker 1: are over six two, two percent of men over six two.
Speaker 1: But it's like forty or fifty percent of CEOs are
Speaker 1: over six two. And they've done they've done the math.
Speaker 1: On every inch of height, you end up earning like
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars more per year on average. Right, Taller
Speaker 1: people do. Why well, because when you're taller, people have
Speaker 1: this perception that you're a better leader, or that you
Speaker 1: have all these other characteristics of a leader. Just because
Speaker 1: you're tall, you're promoted more often. Right, height privilege. There's
Speaker 1: also dressing nice privilege. Right, talking articulately privilege. We hired
Speaker 1: someone on my TV show once because he showed great
Speaker 1: enthusiasm for the opportunity. That's enthusiasm privilege. And if we
Speaker 1: would focus more on these things, then we could stop
Speaker 1: with the goofy race and ethnicity, bias, privilege conversation. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is there's these YouTube videos and they're called like
Speaker 1: I don't know what, they're rich but not happy or
Speaker 1: something like that. And there's a bunch of these and
Speaker 1: I love them because they just they interview celebrities or
Speaker 1: they're clips of these celebrities who are miserable. And people
Speaker 1: think they have it all and you're rich and you're famous,
Speaker 1: and you have this and that, and you also have
Speaker 1: I just I recently watched the Michael Jordan documentary and
Speaker 1: there's just one scene where he's in the height of
Speaker 1: his fame and he's sitting in the hotel room and
Speaker 1: he can't go, he can't leave. He just wants pizza.
Speaker 1: You can't leave his hotel room because you get mobbed
Speaker 1: by all these people. And he's miserable. He hates it,
Speaker 1: he hates his life. He's miserable. So people think that
Speaker 1: you know that you get rich and famous, then you
Speaker 1: have it all and it's everything you want. But it's not.
Speaker 1: There's a difference between pleasure and happiness. We keep seeking
Speaker 1: after pleasure and we're missing the fulfilledness, the fulfillingness of
Speaker 1: life that we should be seeking for instead. Anyway, here's
Speaker 1: just an example of these videos, and this the one
Speaker 1: at the end. The person at the end is Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 1: Do you feel that you're happier right now? Sometimes? This
Speaker 1: is sometimes, But I feel like the way that I
Speaker 1: have money kind of took away a lot of my happiness.
Speaker 1: Then what happened was I then experience the things that
Speaker 1: I was culturally indoctrinated to believe would be a kind
Speaker 1: of salvation. Fame, fortune, attention, limitless filat show if required,
Speaker 1: And yet salvation did not come. I bought pleasure for
Speaker 1: so long. I can't buy happiness. You can buy pleasure, though,
Speaker 1: And a lot of people say, like, oh, money isn't happiness, Well,
Speaker 1: money can buy a boat and a boat and maker
Speaker 1: happy to that kind of thing. I think it can
Speaker 1: completely destroy human being and it I got to a point,
Speaker 1: did it almost destroy complete? Yeah? It almost completely destroyed me.
Speaker 1: But I was lucky enough, by the grace of God,
Speaker 1: to have people that care about me enough to be like, hey,
Speaker 1: j back on. Happiness is an emotional response to an outcome.
Speaker 1: If I win, I will be happy. If I don't,
Speaker 1: I won't. It's an if then cause and effect with
Speaker 1: broke boat standard that we cannot sustain because we immediately
Speaker 1: raise it every time we attain it. Do I feel
Speaker 1: happy in life? Let's see. Let's see. I hope I'm
Speaker 1: finding happy now. But I'm not just generally happy. If
Speaker 1: I'm generally anything, I guess I'm generally miserable. I don't know.
Speaker 1: M so sad at the end, lapse it off. I'll
Speaker 1: put that video on our website, Mike Slater and locals
Speaker 1: dot com. I'll end with this. Candice Bush now, she's
Speaker 1: written a bunch of books, including the books that inspired
Speaker 1: Sex in the City, the TV show, and she's now
Speaker 1: in her sixties and she's miserable. So she wrote these
Speaker 1: books about Carrie Bradshaw and the the quintessential independent woman
Speaker 1: and forget about the patriarchy, and forget about family, forget
Speaker 1: about getting married, just go absacks and your career and
Speaker 1: all this time. And she took that path herself, and
Speaker 1: she's miserable. She has no family. She never considered where
Speaker 1: she'd be today when she was in her twenties and thirties,
Speaker 1: because she was living the feminist dream and being married
Speaker 1: and having kids would be a distraction from the true
Speaker 1: feminist meaning of life, and that is work. And she
Speaker 1: says when she knows women in her fifties and sixties
Speaker 1: who are clubbing and dating younger men, and like some
Speaker 1: divorce their husbands because they saw their fifties as their
Speaker 1: last chance to find a new husband, and they're just miserable.
Speaker 1: And it's so sad because not only is she miserable,
Speaker 1: She's inspired so many other women to have that feminist
Speaker 1: mindset that work is paramount of life. And I'll never marry,
Speaker 1: I'll never have kids. And here she is finally admitting
Speaker 1: that that was not wise. Counsel, be careful about these
Speaker 1: influences in life, these forces in life. Make sure your
Speaker 1: kids understand the difference between pleasure and happiness. I want
Speaker 1: to come back with something that I can't believe this
Speaker 1: comes up every year. I'm so sick of the story.
Speaker 1: It comes up every year, and I can't believe the
Speaker 1: Left still tries it. We'll do the very short of
Speaker 1: it next Mike's later dot locals dot com. That's my website.
Speaker 1: Feeling in for box Sexton spread the word eighteen Buck,
Speaker 1: Mike Slater, San Diego feeling in for Box Sexton. I
Speaker 1: don't Every year they keep doing this, they keep harping
Speaker 1: on this. I guess the other day was Women's pay
Speaker 1: Day or equal pay Day or out of something. And
Speaker 1: every year they preyed up the women's soccer team. I
Speaker 1: don't know who thinks this is a good idea or
Speaker 1: that this messaging and marketing works from these people, I
Speaker 1: don't know, And they get up there and they talk
Speaker 1: about how unfair it is that the women's soccer team
Speaker 1: makes less money than the men's soccer team. How do
Speaker 1: people not see this yet? Here's Meghan Rapino at the
Speaker 1: White House. I'm a member of the LGBTQ community with
Speaker 1: pink hair, and where I come from, I could have
Speaker 1: only dreamed that I would be standing in the position
Speaker 1: I am today at the White House. I'm also a
Speaker 1: professional athlete, and I've helped, along with all of my
Speaker 1: teammates virtually here today, one teammate literally here today, win
Speaker 1: four World Cup championships and four Olympic gold medals for
Speaker 1: the United States. And despite those wins, I've been devalued.
Speaker 1: I've been disrespected and dismissed because I am a woman,
Speaker 1: and I've been told that I don't deserve any more
Speaker 1: than less because I am a woman. You see, despite
Speaker 1: all the wins, I'm still paid less than men who
Speaker 1: do the same job that I do. For each trophy,
Speaker 1: of which there are many, and for each win, for
Speaker 1: each tie, and for each time that we play, it's less.
Speaker 1: And I know there are millions of people who are
Speaker 1: marginalized by gender in the world and experience the same
Speaker 1: thing in their jobs. And I know that there are
Speaker 1: people who experience even more where the layers of discrimination
Speaker 1: continue to stack against them. And I and my teammates
Speaker 1: are here for them. We own the US women's national
Speaker 1: team today, are here because of them. Yeah, that's all
Speaker 1: I can take is that they good. I love this.
Speaker 1: I am deef value, disrespected, and dismissed because I am
Speaker 1: a woman, says the millionaire soccer player while speaking with
Speaker 1: the President and First Lady at the White House. It's
Speaker 1: the same as Meghan Marko a couple weeks ago saying
Speaker 1: I have no voice. I just have no voice, as
Speaker 1: she's doing an interview with Oprah in front of one
Speaker 1: hundred million people. No voice, all right, So here's the deal. Megan.
Speaker 1: It's not that you deserve less money because you're a woman.
Speaker 1: It's that you deserve to make less money because your
Speaker 1: sport makes no money. Men's soccer is the most popular
Speaker 1: sport in the world, women's soccer isn't. You may win
Speaker 1: more games against women's teams, but no one buys tickets
Speaker 1: to see them, and that's all that matters. Because here's
Speaker 1: the deal. This is tricky for people to understand you,
Speaker 1: not for you to understand. For most people, you don't
Speaker 1: do the same job as men's soccer players. This is
Speaker 1: what they're concerned. They're They're like, oh, we do the
Speaker 1: same job. We both play soccer, and we're actually better.
Speaker 1: We win games. The men's soccer team doesn't win games.
Speaker 1: That's not the point. That's not your job. Your job
Speaker 1: is not to play soccer. You thought your job was
Speaker 1: to play soccer. I don't know. Your job is to
Speaker 1: generate revenue. Your job is to sell tickets so people
Speaker 1: buy hot dogs and soda in the stands. Your job
Speaker 1: is to generate revenue by having people watch your games
Speaker 1: so they can sell TV commercials. That's your job. You
Speaker 1: do it by playing soccer. But playing soccer's not your job.
Speaker 1: Your job is to generate revenue, and the men do
Speaker 1: a lot more of that thing. That is a very
Speaker 1: important difference. It's true for every job. I have a
Speaker 1: radio show, Buck has a radio show. Right, I get
Speaker 1: paid less, and I can't say, oh, that's unfair. Buck
Speaker 1: and I both do the same job. No you don't,
Speaker 1: I mean, oh, yeah we do. We both have three
Speaker 1: hour radio shows. Yeah yeah, Buck generates more money for
Speaker 1: the company. Your job's not to talk for three hours.
Speaker 1: Your jobs to generate revenue. It's true for everyone. But
Speaker 1: this is our narcissistic Megan Rippino as she thinks her
Speaker 1: job is to play soccer. Also, you lost a game
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago to a team of fifteen
Speaker 1: year old boys. Right. I love Biden the other day
Speaker 1: said women can do anything that men can do. That's
Speaker 1: not true. That definitely, most definitely not true. Nor would
Speaker 1: you want it to be true. That's what's weird about
Speaker 1: the progressive world as well, nor would you want to.
Speaker 1: Actually this ties into the third segment we had today
Speaker 1: about the pyramid. I'm time to go into it now.
Speaker 1: But Ali best Stucky, who I love, has a great quote.
Speaker 1: She said, maybe I'm weird but I just don't need
Speaker 1: this patronizing nonsense to feel great about being a woman.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad there are things men can do that
Speaker 1: I can't. I'm also pretty thrilled that I can do
Speaker 1: things men can't, like carrying and delivering babies. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be like a man. How ungrateful to can
Speaker 1: you be? To be a woman? In America today the safest,
Speaker 1: most prosperous time to ever be alive. You play soccer
Speaker 1: for a living, You travel the world. Do you make
Speaker 1: a pretty good living out of it? Do you know?
Speaker 1: There were times when Major League baseball players needed a
Speaker 1: second job to make ends meet on the off season.
Speaker 1: There's a baseball card of nineteen seventy three, and on
Speaker 1: the back is a cartoon of a baseball player pumping gas.
Speaker 1: Because in the off season, this player pumped a gas
Speaker 1: and installed air conditioners. That was nineteen seventy three. Back then,
Speaker 1: the Major League baseball minimum was fifteen thousand dollars. He
Speaker 1: needed a second job. Today, the minimum in the major
Speaker 1: leagues is four hundred thousand dollars. All right, so this
Speaker 1: is a new phenomenon. Even that men were paid any money.
Speaker 1: You're a woman today on the US soccer team. You
Speaker 1: make one hundred and seventy thousand dollars a year. I'd
Speaker 1: be pretty darngrateful for them team. Hope you have a
Speaker 1: wonderful weekend. Mike's later dot locals dot com. We can
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