WEBVTT - The Left's Attack On Meaningful Work

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<v Speaker 1>You're in the freedom hunt. Thanks for listening to the

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<v Speaker 1>Mike's later San Diego filming in for Buck again today.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for being here. So we're gonna talk about in

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<v Speaker 1>this hour Biden's uh press conference. I guess we have

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<v Speaker 1>plenty of descriptors coming up in a minute. Heere, we'll

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<v Speaker 1>talk about that. And got some stuff about the the

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<v Speaker 1>border that he lied about. I don't know, he said,

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<v Speaker 1>we didn't. We haven't changed any policy with the border.

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<v Speaker 1>going on Team Buck. Mike Slater here in San Diego,

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<v Speaker 1>filling in for the great Buck Sexton. Thanks for being well.

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<v Speaker 1>We have TV shows together, Buck and I in the

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<v Speaker 1>same network on the first and you can follow me

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<v Speaker 1>on Mike Slater dot locals dot com. We put everything

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<v Speaker 1>do everything we do here as well, Mike's letter out

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<v Speaker 1>locals dot com. So Biden's press conference yesterday, it went

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<v Speaker 1>just about how you expect it to go. This is

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<v Speaker 1>not normal what you're about to hear. It's not normal,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's not good. Clip one. So the best way

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<v Speaker 1>to get something done if you if it holds near

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<v Speaker 1>and dear to you that you like to be able

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<v Speaker 1>to anyway, We're ready to get a lot done. And

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<v Speaker 1>if we have to, if there's complete lockdown and chaos

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<v Speaker 1>is a consequence of the filibuster, then we'll have to

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<v Speaker 1>go beyond what I'm talking about. Okay, um, hang on,

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<v Speaker 1>uh sorry, oh saying man this Kim So just saying no,

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<v Speaker 1>you are not allowed to ask any questions about the

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<v Speaker 1>president's mental health. You're not allowed to ask any question

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<v Speaker 1>How dare you ask any questions about the president's cognitive ability? Dimension? So,

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<v Speaker 1>here's how this is gonna work. Right now, it's only

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<v Speaker 1>fringe far right activists who are asking these questions, and

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<v Speaker 1>then soon it'll be more mainstream conservatives. We're gonna be

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<v Speaker 1>asking these questions, and then oh but as that's happening,

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<v Speaker 1>by the way, the left and the media will rip

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<v Speaker 1>these people to shreds. How dare you say anything about

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<v Speaker 1>the president's mental health? How dare you question his health?

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<v Speaker 1>You're emboldening the nation's enemies by suggesting he's not well

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<v Speaker 1>and unfit. How dare you that's so unpatriotic. You're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>hear the whole thing. And then more moderate conservatives are

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<v Speaker 1>going to start asking these questions, and then far left

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<v Speaker 1>activists are gonna outflank the right, come around on the

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<v Speaker 1>other flank to attack the President and his mental health.

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<v Speaker 1>And the media is going to do the best they

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<v Speaker 1>can to hold this off for as long as they can,

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<v Speaker 1>and then one day something will happen and it will

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<v Speaker 1>be absolutely undeniable, and the Democrats who are really running

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<v Speaker 1>the show will throw old Joe out to pastures so

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<v Speaker 1>fast his key card to the Oval office. It just

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<v Speaker 1>won't work one day. Have you ever been fired, or

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<v Speaker 1>you know somebody's been fired and no one told them,

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<v Speaker 1>and you got your key card to get back in

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<v Speaker 1>the building, and then it just doesn't work. That's gonna

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<v Speaker 1>be Joe in the Oval office. No one's gonna no

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<v Speaker 1>one's even gonna tell him. And one days, maybe maybe

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<v Speaker 1>he'll sneak in. One day in Kama will be sitting

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<v Speaker 1>behind the desk. I don't know, but Como is gonna

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<v Speaker 1>be president and Joe is gonna be thrown out to

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<v Speaker 1>pasture and thrown down the memory hole like it never

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<v Speaker 1>even happened. So that's how it's gonna go. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know the timing, but it's gonna be far right conspiracy theory,

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<v Speaker 1>far right hit job and just nothing, nothing, nothing, and

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<v Speaker 1>then boom gone overnight, and Kama will fit right in.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's Chris Wallace. Yeah, I U and I have to

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<v Speaker 1>say I was also and by the fact that it

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<v Speaker 1>seemed gone every foreign policy question, not the others, but

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<v Speaker 1>on foreign policy, he went to his briefing book like

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<v Speaker 1>Jensaki does sometimes in the briefings, and was reading obviously

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<v Speaker 1>White House guidance, white House talking points covering Ronald Reagan

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<v Speaker 1>for six years. I never saw that. Watching a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of news conferences over the years, I've never seen that

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<v Speaker 1>a president and a news conference reading talking points. He

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<v Speaker 1>did that on it seemed every foreign policy. So here's

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<v Speaker 1>an example of that strike striking fear in the hearts

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<v Speaker 1>of our enemies, and you can't tell them the radio.

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<v Speaker 1>But he never looks up from his paper, not one

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<v Speaker 1>time does he look up from his paper? Here? Here

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<v Speaker 1>it is overnight. We learned that North Korea tested two

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<v Speaker 1>ballistic missiles. What if any actions will you take and

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<v Speaker 1>what is your red line on North Korea? Let me

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<v Speaker 1>say that number one UN Resolution seventeen eighteen was violated

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<v Speaker 1>by those particular missiles that were tested. We're consoling with

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<v Speaker 1>our allies and partners, and there will be responses if

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<v Speaker 1>they choose to escalate. Um, we will respond accordingly. But

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<v Speaker 1>I'm also prepared um for some form of diplomacy. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>but it has to be conditioned upon the end result

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<v Speaker 1>of denuclearization. So um, that's what we're doing right now,

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<v Speaker 1>consoling with our allies. Like what is that? Like? Can

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<v Speaker 1>you believe that that's that's the That's the commander in

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<v Speaker 1>chief right that Ronnie Jackson, who is a Republican. He's

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<v Speaker 1>a congressman. He's a congressman running a guy. I think

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<v Speaker 1>he's a congressman from Texas. He was a Navy rear

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<v Speaker 1>admiral and he was the White House physician from twenty

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<v Speaker 1>thirteen throughout Obama's term until twenty eighteen hundred. Trumpsho was

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<v Speaker 1>the the White House physician, and he said after the

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<v Speaker 1>press conference that this press brief was embarrassing. Could you

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<v Speaker 1>imagine what the press would have done if Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 1>had told something like this shameful and embarrassing. And it's

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<v Speaker 1>hard to talk about here because if you do, you

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<v Speaker 1>immediately will be called out as being partisan and you're

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<v Speaker 1>so mean and how dare you? And that's fine, I

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<v Speaker 1>don't care. It's just a matter of time, Just a

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<v Speaker 1>matter of time. He's seventy eight, you think he's gonna

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<v Speaker 1>lastly he's eighty two. Maybe maybe he won't. But it

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<v Speaker 1>really just depends. It's all about the media. Depends about

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<v Speaker 1>the media. How much can his people hide him, how

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<v Speaker 1>much can his people hide him? And how much and

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<v Speaker 1>how long will the media cover for him? That's the question.

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<v Speaker 1>Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson. This was nineteen twenty, So he

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<v Speaker 1>just spent nineteen nineteen negotiating the Treaty of Versailles the

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<v Speaker 1>end of World War One, spent six months doing that.

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<v Speaker 1>Then he was on this like barn burning tour to

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<v Speaker 1>try to get support for the League of Nations. So

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<v Speaker 1>he traveled by train, and he spoke train station at

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<v Speaker 1>train station and trains station all across the country. This

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<v Speaker 1>was the nineteen twenty and in between one of his speeches,

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<v Speaker 1>he got the splitting headache and his face started to twitch,

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<v Speaker 1>and his doctor, his chiefest staff, and everyone on board.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, it was obvious that he had a stroke.

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<v Speaker 1>So they called the whole rest of the thing off.

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<v Speaker 1>They went right back to DC as quickly as they could,

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<v Speaker 1>and his doctor and chief of staff. They kept him

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<v Speaker 1>in bed, away from everybody. He was paralyzed on his

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<v Speaker 1>left side, he couldn't see out of one of his eyes.

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<v Speaker 1>He was still president, and they kept him there for

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<v Speaker 1>a year. No one saw him except for his wife,

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<v Speaker 1>doctor in chief of staff. That's it. They pulled this

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<v Speaker 1>off for a year. Now this is nineteen twenty. Can

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<v Speaker 1>that same thing be pulled off in twenty twenty one,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. But the media covered for Woodrow Wilson,

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<v Speaker 1>just like the media is covering today. There was one

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<v Speaker 1>report in particular's name is Lewis Cibold, sci Bold Lewis Cibold,

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<v Speaker 1>and he was the reporter of the New York World,

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<v Speaker 1>and he wrote this article. The headline is correspondent in

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen twenties voice correspondent in three hour visit finds President's

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<v Speaker 1>mental vigor unimpaired by the same thing. With the Washington

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<v Speaker 1>Post people today, they're like, oh, what a press conference. Wow,

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<v Speaker 1>that was amazing. He was quick and witty and on

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<v Speaker 1>it and high energy. Like what are you talking about?

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<v Speaker 1>Executive gains twenty pounds in two months, and he does

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<v Speaker 1>more work now than before confinement. That was the article

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<v Speaker 1>during the three hours. This is what Wilson. During the

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<v Speaker 1>three hours I spent with the president, I saw him

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<v Speaker 1>transact the important functions of his office with his old

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<v Speaker 1>time decisiveness method and keenness of intellectual appraisement the correspondent,

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<v Speaker 1>the reporter. I heard him dictate his decisions on matters

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<v Speaker 1>of great governmental importance with a facility of expression and

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<v Speaker 1>directness of meaning that indicated no impairment of the efficient

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<v Speaker 1>mental machine that is known only the hardest kind of

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<v Speaker 1>work for forty years. And this is where it goes

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<v Speaker 1>over the top. It was the same angular face, quite

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<v Speaker 1>as full in cheek and not the least sunken. At

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<v Speaker 1>the temples. There was the same face registered in a

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<v Speaker 1>mental picture eight months before. They were unmistakably the Wilson eyes, keen,

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<v Speaker 1>searching and snappily intelligent. The whole articles right there, All

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<v Speaker 1>of it was made up. Every single word of it

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<v Speaker 1>was made up. They never met Woodrow Wilson. Could not

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<v Speaker 1>walk again, his entire left side was paralyzed. His attention

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<v Speaker 1>span was about sixty seconds. He was not having Hours

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<v Speaker 1>of conversation did not happen. He couldn't sign anything properly,

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<v Speaker 1>he couldn't move properly. He coudn't do anything. This interview

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<v Speaker 1>was a total fake. Never happened. Wilson's Woodrow Wilson's chief

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<v Speaker 1>of staff made up all the answers. And here's the kicker.

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<v Speaker 1>Lewis Cybold, the writer of that article, won a Pulitzer

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<v Speaker 1>Prize for it. This wasn't just one some hack article.

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<v Speaker 1>And this isn't just a guy who won the Pulitzer Prise.

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<v Speaker 1>He won a Pulitzerprise for that totally made up story,

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<v Speaker 1>protecting Woodrow Wilson for a year as he was paralyzed

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<v Speaker 1>and in bed. So it's been done before. Every reporter

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<v Speaker 1>today covering Biden will try to pull a Lewis Cybold,

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<v Speaker 1>And as they're doing it, they're gonna know it's wrong,

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<v Speaker 1>but they're gonna keep doing it. And what's going to

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<v Speaker 1>motivate them. Is they think they're gonna win a Pulitzer

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<v Speaker 1>because of it? Who knows? These days, they're probably right.

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<v Speaker 1>Mike Slater filling in for Buck Sexton. Mike Slater dot

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<v Speaker 1>locals dot com. Spread the word, Hey, what's up, Team Buck?

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<v Speaker 1>Mike Slater, San Diego, filling in for Buck Sexton, Mike

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<v Speaker 1>Slater dot locals dot com. That's my website, Mike Slater

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<v Speaker 1>dot locals dot com. Everything's up there. So Biden in

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<v Speaker 1>the press conference yesterday, he said, we're sending back the

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<v Speaker 1>vast majority of families that are coming. Vast majority. What

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<v Speaker 1>does vast majority mean to you? It's not just majorities.

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<v Speaker 1>Majority means fifty percent, So vast majority, that to me

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<v Speaker 1>means seventy eight percent or more. That's my end. That's

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<v Speaker 1>my number for eighty percent. Is that vast majority? Maybe

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<v Speaker 1>maybe I'll give you a sixty five Someone says sixty

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<v Speaker 1>five percent or more. Maybe that's fine. Thirteen percent and

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<v Speaker 1>Biden world, that is vast majority thirteen percent. Axios came

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<v Speaker 1>back and reported that here is the as it end

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<v Speaker 1>on the detention centers. I realize it's much more heart

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<v Speaker 1>wrenching than it is to deal with a five and

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<v Speaker 1>six to seven year old. But you went down there

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<v Speaker 1>and you saw the vast majority of these children seventy

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<v Speaker 1>percent or sixteen years old, seventeen years old, mostly males.

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<v Speaker 1>Don don't making good better and different. But the idea

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<v Speaker 1>that we have tens of thousands of kids in these

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<v Speaker 1>god off of facilities that are really little babies crime

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<v Speaker 1>all night, there's some that's true. Oh jeesus, that is

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<v Speaker 1>obviously off script. The last segment we talked about him

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<v Speaker 1>reading off papers that was not read off of paper.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sure as people were not happy about him admitting

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<v Speaker 1>that they're god awful facilities. Barack Obama and Joe Biden

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<v Speaker 1>built the original cages. Trump got rid of the cages,

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<v Speaker 1>He got rid of the need for cages, and Biden

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<v Speaker 1>brought them back. Biden said in the presser that nothing

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<v Speaker 1>has changed regarding border policy and that a surge happens

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<v Speaker 1>every single solitary year. Those are hits where its nothing

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<v Speaker 1>is changed regarding border policy. This is just your normal

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<v Speaker 1>every year spring surge. Not true on both counts. First

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<v Speaker 1>of all, there were no spring surges under Trump, so

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<v Speaker 1>it doesn't happen every single year. But more importantly, here.

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<v Speaker 1>There were two policies that Biden changed, two massive policies.

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<v Speaker 1>And this is what I'm saying here is not a

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<v Speaker 1>partisan hit. These are absolute facts. Two policies. First, safe

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<v Speaker 1>third country is what it's technically called. So if you're

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<v Speaker 1>seeking asylum from Honduras or Brazil or wherever you seek it,

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<v Speaker 1>in the first safe country that you get to, you

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<v Speaker 1>don't get to go country shopping. If you're in Brazil

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<v Speaker 1>and you want to leave Brazil, you don't just get

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<v Speaker 1>to pick whatever country you want in the world to

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<v Speaker 1>go to and say, oh, America, and then you're entitled

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<v Speaker 1>to come America. That's not how that works. Trump enacted

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<v Speaker 1>the safe third country policy, So if you're leaving a country,

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<v Speaker 1>you're safe in the very first one you get to.

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<v Speaker 1>That's where you stay, and then you can apply to

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<v Speaker 1>come to America afterwards. But not on asylum. Trump and

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<v Speaker 1>acted that he negotiated that with the countries to our south.

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<v Speaker 1>How did he negotiate it? Money aid leverage? Years ago,

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<v Speaker 1>I remember talking on the radio about foreign aid and

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<v Speaker 1>I was asking why. I was genuinely asking why do

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<v Speaker 1>we give so much money to foreign countries? Why do

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<v Speaker 1>we have so much money to countries we hate. And

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<v Speaker 1>the best argument I heard and I just filed away

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<v Speaker 1>because I never really came up again until recently. The

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<v Speaker 1>best argument I heard was that this aid is leverage

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<v Speaker 1>that we have over other countries. Right, you do what

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<v Speaker 1>we want or else we're going to take away the aid.

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<v Speaker 1>It happens all the time. This is what Joe Biden

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<v Speaker 1>did with Ukraine to help his son Hunter, remember this clip.

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<v Speaker 1>And I had gotten a commitment from Porschenko and from

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<v Speaker 1>Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor,

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<v Speaker 1>and they didn't. So they said they were walking out

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<v Speaker 1>to prescount said, Nah, said, I'm not going to go

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<v Speaker 1>or we're not going to give you the billion dollars.

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<v Speaker 1>They said, you have no authority, you're not the president.

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<v Speaker 1>The president said, I said, call him. I said, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>telling you're not getting the billion dollars. I said, you're

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<v Speaker 1>not getting the billion, and I'm gonna be leaving here.

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<v Speaker 1>And I think it was what six hours. I look

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<v Speaker 1>at I said, I'm leaving in six hours. If the

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<v Speaker 1>prosecutors not fired, you're not getting the money. Well, son

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<v Speaker 1>of a right, so do what we want or we'll

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<v Speaker 1>remove the billion dollars in aid. So Biden used it

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<v Speaker 1>to protect his son in Ukraine. That's leverage. Trump used

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<v Speaker 1>it to help the American people and stop a surge

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<v Speaker 1>of illegal immigrants for three plus years. And it should

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<v Speaker 1>be noted as well, if you look at the last

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<v Speaker 1>forty years, Donald Trump is number one, number three, and

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<v Speaker 1>number ten in granting asylum requests, number three, number one,

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<v Speaker 1>number three, and number ten in granting legal asylum requests

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<v Speaker 1>more than any other president. And Trump used leverage on

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<v Speaker 1>our foreign using our foreign aid in our southern the

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<v Speaker 1>southern countries to have this third Safe Country agreement, and

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<v Speaker 1>Biden got rid of it. Okay, so it's a policy change. Second,

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<v Speaker 1>Trump had a policy that if you apply to come

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<v Speaker 1>into America, you gotta wait in Mexico, and Biden got

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<v Speaker 1>rid of that as well. So those are two pretty

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<v Speaker 1>big policy changes, and worse than maybe all that words

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<v Speaker 1>spread that if you send your kids across alone, then

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<v Speaker 1>they'll be allowed to stay. That's why we have over

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<v Speaker 1>fifteen thousand unaccompanied kids right now. This is crazy. So

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<v Speaker 1>Trump got criticized for family separation. Right, mom and a kid,

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<v Speaker 1>they come across and we separate them. Now, we did

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<v Speaker 1>that to make sure that family members these people were

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<v Speaker 1>actually related and they weren't just kidnapped kids. Kidnapped kids

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<v Speaker 1>used as props to get special treatment for the smugglers. Right,

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<v Speaker 1>this is the floor As agreement. You heard of, the Flores' Agreement.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me give it the very short of it. Nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>eighty five, there was a fifteen year old undocumented immigrant

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<v Speaker 1>girl from El Salvador, Jenny Flores, and she came over

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<v Speaker 1>to America illegally. She was put in in a camp

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<v Speaker 1>or whatever they call m a center, and her mom

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<v Speaker 1>later sued, saying that she was kept in the same

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<v Speaker 1>area as adult men and that wasn't safe. So this

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<v Speaker 1>case went all the way up to the Supreme Court,

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<v Speaker 1>and a decade later, our government came up with what's

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<v Speaker 1>called the Flores Agreement, and among other things, it says

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<v Speaker 1>children have to be separated from adults because it's not

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<v Speaker 1>safe to put them together when they're not necessarily related.

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<v Speaker 1>So we separated kids for the safety of the kids.

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<v Speaker 1>So America got criticized when we kept adults and kids together.

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<v Speaker 1>We get criticized when they get separated, but we did

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<v Speaker 1>it for their own safety. Now, were to spread that

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<v Speaker 1>if you send your kids across a loan, they have

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<v Speaker 1>a better likelihood of staying so. Now the family separation

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<v Speaker 1>is happening on the other side of the border. Mothers

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<v Speaker 1>making the heart wrenching decision to send their twelve year

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<v Speaker 1>old daughter across a loan they made. We see him

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<v Speaker 1>again and we're okay with this. That's the compassionate thing

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<v Speaker 1>to allow this, to enable this to embolden. The cartels

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<v Speaker 1>didn't make this, to allow this to happen, and the

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<v Speaker 1>people who support this are compassionate somehow. Drug cartels kidnapping kids,

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<v Speaker 1>sending them across the border, often which we'll talk about

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<v Speaker 1>in the next hour, ending up in sex slavery, either

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<v Speaker 1>on this side or our side or this side of

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<v Speaker 1>the border, raped along the way, some dying on the journey,

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<v Speaker 1>and the people who enable this, they get the credit

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<v Speaker 1>for being compassionate. Mike Slater dot locals dot com Filling

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<v Speaker 1>it for Buck Sexton's read the word. It's going on

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<v Speaker 1>Team Buck. Mike Slater out of San Diego, filling it

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<v Speaker 1>for the great Buck Sexton. Thanks for being here. Mike

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<v Speaker 1>Slayter dot locals dot com is where we hang out

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<v Speaker 1>and we put everything TV show, radio show, This show Everything,

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<v Speaker 1>Mike Slater dot locals dot com. So last week on

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<v Speaker 1>my local show, we talked about Evanston, Illinois, thirty minutes

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<v Speaker 1>north of Chicago reparations. They enacted reparations for black families.

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<v Speaker 1>Every black family gets twenty five thousand dollars for home purchase,

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<v Speaker 1>home improvements, anything related to the home. Twenty five thousand dollars.

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<v Speaker 1>And immediately the activists said, oh, that's wonderful. We are

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<v Speaker 1>content and grateful. Now immediately they said, no, that's not enough.

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<v Speaker 1>So we went from zero dollars in reparations because it's

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<v Speaker 1>an insanely absurd idea. We went from zero dollars to

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<v Speaker 1>twenty five thousand dollars. And though immediately it's not enough,

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<v Speaker 1>not enough, It'll never be enough. No. That So that

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<v Speaker 1>was outside Chicago. Oakland did not want to be outdone.

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<v Speaker 1>They have a new guaranteed income program that's called a

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<v Speaker 1>couple different things, um universal basic income, guaranteed minimum incomes,

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<v Speaker 1>different names for it across our country and in Europe,

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<v Speaker 1>same thing though, but in Oakland, this guaranteed income is

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<v Speaker 1>for all families of color. No white people, yeah white,

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<v Speaker 1>you're white, and nah, no you don't get any got

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<v Speaker 1>to be of color whatever. That even means five hundred

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<v Speaker 1>bucks a month, no strings attached. So they did this

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<v Speaker 1>in Stockton a couple of years ago, one of the

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<v Speaker 1>nation's first pilot programs up it, and there was a

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<v Speaker 1>study done of it, totally non biased study apps, no

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<v Speaker 1>oh bias whatsoever. And they concluded, again no bias. Residents

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<v Speaker 1>who received regular payments experienced less income volatility, secured more

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<v Speaker 1>full time employment, we're better parents and partners, and even

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<v Speaker 1>saw improvements in their health and overall well being. Well, gosh, golly,

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<v Speaker 1>one's you know this is great? Then there's no problems

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<v Speaker 1>at all, nothing bad happened at all. It was great.

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<v Speaker 1>You give free you give money. You give people free money,

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<v Speaker 1>and they're happier, and not only happier, but they're better

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<v Speaker 1>parents and somehow get more employment for some magical reason

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<v Speaker 1>that makes no sense at all. How about that one

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<v Speaker 1>you give people, give people five bucks a month and

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<v Speaker 1>they get more employment. Ah, but it's great, Let's go ahead.

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<v Speaker 1>That's all the study I need to see. So in Oakland,

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<v Speaker 1>you are eligible for free money if you have a

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<v Speaker 1>child under eighteen, make less than fifty nine thousand dollars

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<v Speaker 1>and then you get you another sixth grand a year.

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<v Speaker 1>And the key with this program is you have to

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<v Speaker 1>be black. Why because white people in Oakland on average

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<v Speaker 1>make three times as much as black households. So that's inequity,

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<v Speaker 1>and every inequity is racist and needs to be even down. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>what if you're a white family who makes twenty thousand dollars. Nope,

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<v Speaker 1>that's you still have white privilege. If your white family

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<v Speaker 1>makes twenty thousand dollars year in Oakland, you are not

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<v Speaker 1>eligible for this program because you're not black. And this

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<v Speaker 1>is a wonderful way to run a society. Sorry, my

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<v Speaker 1>little sarcastic this morning sarcasm doesn't really come across the

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<v Speaker 1>radio that well. I apologize. I'll stop with the sarcasm.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a terrible way to run a society. But

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<v Speaker 1>I love this. It's a great line from CBS. CBS

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<v Speaker 1>totally straight here with this line. Guaranteed income has been

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<v Speaker 1>a goal of the Black Panther platform since it's founding.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh goody, Now, I'm convinced if the Black Panthers have

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<v Speaker 1>been for it, that's good since it's founding. Oh good,

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<v Speaker 1>The Black Panthers in the sixties were for it. Therefore,

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<v Speaker 1>or it's a great idea. Good night. So the left

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<v Speaker 1>is going to keep pushing for this statewide in California surely,

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<v Speaker 1>and then nationwide absolutely as well. It's just a matter

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<v Speaker 1>of time. This is what they do. It's what they do.

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<v Speaker 1>They slowly inched in, slowly inched in, and then people

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<v Speaker 1>get used to it and very quickly. You can't imagine

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<v Speaker 1>life without it, right, that's it, right right now, Like

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<v Speaker 1>the idea of everyone gets free money, like that's insane,

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<v Speaker 1>but oh, it's just it's just five hundred dollars. It's

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<v Speaker 1>just some people five hundred dollars. That's oh, well, thousand dollars,

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<v Speaker 1>thousand dollars, more people. We need more people to everyone

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<v Speaker 1>gets two thousand dollars. And then years ago on and

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<v Speaker 1>now if anyone were to propose getting rid of it

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<v Speaker 1>or making any amends to it, like so security, for instance, Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>you can't touch it, can't, right, I can't live life

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<v Speaker 1>without it. My favorite example of that is the Headstart program.

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<v Speaker 1>Head Start program. Headstart started in nineteen sixty five. It

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<v Speaker 1>was a two week long catch up summer school program

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<v Speaker 1>to get kids ready for elementary school. Two weeks. A

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<v Speaker 1>few kids of a certain age getting ready for school.

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<v Speaker 1>Now it's a ten billion dollar program, and it's all

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<v Speaker 1>the way down to infants. And if you dare suggest

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<v Speaker 1>we make any amendments to it whatsoever, then you hate children.

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<v Speaker 1>That's how it works always, and that's how it's going

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<v Speaker 1>to work with universal guaranteed income as well. There's an

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<v Speaker 1>assembly men in Californium who has a bill. It's a

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<v Speaker 1>thousand dollars a month for all low income families. He

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<v Speaker 1>was gracious enough to include white people on this one,

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<v Speaker 1>at least for now. So that's going to cost a

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<v Speaker 1>cool one hundred twenty nine billion dollars a year, which

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<v Speaker 1>just a couple of years ago would have been double

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<v Speaker 1>the state budget of California one hundred twenty nine billion.

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<v Speaker 1>Right now, it's only half the budget, only half, and

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<v Speaker 1>it's gonna be paid for by a new one percent

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<v Speaker 1>tax on the rich. Everybody over two million dollars an income.

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<v Speaker 1>That's it. Piece of cake. That's all it takes. And

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<v Speaker 1>he says, the guy who wrote this bill, he says

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<v Speaker 1>it's probably not going to pass this year. And here's

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<v Speaker 1>the king, but he said his goal is to get

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<v Speaker 1>people comfortable with the idea. Quote the initial shock seems

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<v Speaker 1>to wear off the more people are educated and realize

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<v Speaker 1>the benefits of having more control over their lives. That's fantastic.

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<v Speaker 1>If you think free money from the government gives you

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<v Speaker 1>more control over your life, you're absolutely out of your mind.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, you don't think that's going to come with

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<v Speaker 1>strings attached. They say, no strings attached. Okay, there are

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<v Speaker 1>a million economic reasons to be against this, and we'll

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<v Speaker 1>have plenty of time for that. Let me make the

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<v Speaker 1>moral argument. Can we make the moral argument against him?

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<v Speaker 1>Because this is the one that's most overlooked, and I

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<v Speaker 1>think it's the most foundational. The most important work is good.

0:27:04.280 --> 0:27:08.800
<v Speaker 1>Thomas Soul would argue that we've removed from the family

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<v Speaker 1>the dad with the obvious implications of that, and now

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<v Speaker 1>we've removed the job. Work is good. Work is dare

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<v Speaker 1>I say, essential to finding proper meaning in life? And

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<v Speaker 1>it's not the work itself necessarily. I'm not saying you

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<v Speaker 1>should find meaning in in the work you do. It's

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<v Speaker 1>meaning in the process of work and the reasons why

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<v Speaker 1>you do the work. That's the most important thing. Why

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<v Speaker 1>are you doing the work? Who are you providing for?

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<v Speaker 1>That's what matters. Arthur C. Brooks. He wrote a great

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<v Speaker 1>book I definitely recommend. It's called The Conservative Heart. And

0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:53.600
<v Speaker 1>he says there's four it's a couple of years maybe

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<v Speaker 1>eight years old, telling you, and he said, there's four

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<v Speaker 1>institutions of meaning. That's what he calls him. Institutions of meaning.

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<v Speaker 1>He says, his faith, family, community, and meaningful work. Faith, family, community,

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<v Speaker 1>meaningful work. These are the things that we as individuals

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<v Speaker 1>need to lean into, and we as a society need

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<v Speaker 1>to encourage faith, family, community and meaningful work. When you

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<v Speaker 1>take away someone's need to work, when you take away

0:28:21.800 --> 0:28:26.480
<v Speaker 1>their need to work, they can spiral deeper into depression

0:28:26.520 --> 0:28:29.600
<v Speaker 1>and uselessness and hopelessness, and they lose dignity and they

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<v Speaker 1>know it. There's a homeless charity in town here called

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<v Speaker 1>Solutions for Change in San Diego, and part of their

0:28:34.560 --> 0:28:36.639
<v Speaker 1>deal is you're in this program, you wake up early,

0:28:36.680 --> 0:28:40.280
<v Speaker 1>and you get to work. They know it's essential to

0:28:40.320 --> 0:28:42.840
<v Speaker 1>building someone's dignity back. This is the clip I want

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<v Speaker 1>to play. This is Jordan Peterson of all Places, the

0:28:45.160 --> 0:28:47.960
<v Speaker 1>dontor Oz Show, and they're talking about redistribution of wealth

0:28:47.960 --> 0:28:49.960
<v Speaker 1>and George Peterson gets into it a bit, and so

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<v Speaker 1>I was very attracted to that end of the political spectrum.

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<v Speaker 1>But as I came to investigate some of the problems

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<v Speaker 1>I've been discussing more deeply, I started to understand that

0:29:00.400 --> 0:29:05.040
<v Speaker 1>mere economic rectification was insufficient, that that wasn't the level

0:29:05.040 --> 0:29:09.520
<v Speaker 1>of analysis that was appropriate for my inquiry. Anyways, translated,

0:29:09.840 --> 0:29:13.520
<v Speaker 1>redistribution of income doesn't work. Well, think about it this way,

0:29:14.520 --> 0:29:18.080
<v Speaker 1>the guaranteed basic income idea. It's like, well, that's predicated

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<v Speaker 1>on the idea that man lives by bread alone. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>that isn't how it works. And I've certainly seen that

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<v Speaker 1>in my clinical practice. I've had clients, especially addicts, if

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<v Speaker 1>you gave them money, they would die. And the reason

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<v Speaker 1>for that. Like one guy that I remember in particular,

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<v Speaker 1>I liked him quite a bit. It had a bad

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<v Speaker 1>cocaine problem, and as long as he was flat broke,

0:29:38.680 --> 0:29:42.480
<v Speaker 1>he wasn't dead. But as soon as he was on disability,

0:29:42.480 --> 0:29:45.360
<v Speaker 1>as soon as his disability check came in, he was

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<v Speaker 1>faced down in a ditch three days later. So while

0:29:48.880 --> 0:29:50.800
<v Speaker 1>and you think, well, maybe that's a consequence of his

0:29:50.960 --> 0:29:53.800
<v Speaker 1>overwhelming poverty, etc. You could come up with some social

0:29:53.960 --> 0:29:56.600
<v Speaker 1>reason for that path that he took, But it wasn't

0:29:56.600 --> 0:29:59.320
<v Speaker 1>by any stretch of the imagination. That's simple. It's like,

0:29:59.560 --> 0:30:05.600
<v Speaker 1>people need purpose more than money. Even people need purpose

0:30:07.080 --> 0:30:11.960
<v Speaker 1>more than money. Even people need purpose more than money.

0:30:12.000 --> 0:30:14.520
<v Speaker 1>Even does man live by bread alone. We have a

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<v Speaker 1>major problem in our country of nihilism, lack of meaning,

0:30:18.200 --> 0:30:21.840
<v Speaker 1>lack of purpose, and we think throwing money at the problem,

0:30:22.680 --> 0:30:26.640
<v Speaker 1>we'll make people happy and fix it. The problem is

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<v Speaker 1>much worse than that, and throwing money at it will

0:30:29.040 --> 0:30:30.920
<v Speaker 1>only make it worse. I got one more thing to

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<v Speaker 1>say about this. I gotta take a break. Mike Slater

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<v Speaker 1>dot locals dot com. Mike Slater filming it for Buck Sexton.

0:30:34.960 --> 0:30:37.280
<v Speaker 1>Spread the word eighteen buck Mike Slater and San Diego

0:30:37.320 --> 0:30:39.600
<v Speaker 1>filming it for Buck Sexton today. Mike Slater dot locals

0:30:39.600 --> 0:30:43.280
<v Speaker 1>dot com. Um, we're talking about guarantee minimum income. Oakland

0:30:43.440 --> 0:30:48.280
<v Speaker 1>is the first big city to do this. They just started.

0:30:49.240 --> 0:30:52.760
<v Speaker 1>It's only for families of color as well, but it's

0:30:52.760 --> 0:30:54.240
<v Speaker 1>gonna grow and it's gonna expand it. We got to

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<v Speaker 1>be prepared with the argument against this because it's it's

0:30:57.480 --> 0:31:00.520
<v Speaker 1>the Democrats are definitely pushing this, and there's a million

0:31:00.560 --> 0:31:03.760
<v Speaker 1>economic arguments to make against it, and they're all rock solid.

0:31:03.800 --> 0:31:05.560
<v Speaker 1>But I want to make the moral argument, and that

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<v Speaker 1>is that meaningful work is important, and it's not necessarily

0:31:08.520 --> 0:31:11.800
<v Speaker 1>the work itself, although yes, it's who you're working for.

0:31:12.440 --> 0:31:14.560
<v Speaker 1>Why are you working, Who are you providing for? Who

0:31:14.600 --> 0:31:18.600
<v Speaker 1>are you caring for? That's what matters. You take that

0:31:18.600 --> 0:31:22.959
<v Speaker 1>away from somebody and they can spiraled deeper and darker

0:31:23.240 --> 0:31:30.520
<v Speaker 1>and denihilism and meaninglessness and purposelessness Joinan Peterson. He says,

0:31:30.560 --> 0:31:34.600
<v Speaker 1>it isn't the provision of material well being with ease

0:31:34.840 --> 0:31:40.000
<v Speaker 1>that allows people to live properly. It's purpose and that's

0:31:40.000 --> 0:31:41.920
<v Speaker 1>a much more difficult problem to solve. You just can't

0:31:41.920 --> 0:31:45.520
<v Speaker 1>throw money at it. The mere offering of material sustenance

0:31:45.560 --> 0:31:47.640
<v Speaker 1>to people is not going to solve that problem, he says.

0:31:47.680 --> 0:31:50.160
<v Speaker 1>Dostoyevski knew this one hundred fifty years ago. He said,

0:31:50.160 --> 0:31:53.040
<v Speaker 1>if you gave people everything they wanted, everything they wanted,

0:31:53.320 --> 0:31:55.880
<v Speaker 1>so all they had to do is eat cakes and

0:31:56.040 --> 0:31:59.880
<v Speaker 1>busy themselves with the continuation of the species. So eat

0:32:00.040 --> 0:32:03.400
<v Speaker 1>have sex. The first thing they do is smash it

0:32:03.440 --> 0:32:08.480
<v Speaker 1>all to hell so that something interesting could happen. Men

0:32:08.560 --> 0:32:12.760
<v Speaker 1>are made for more than then, more than just money.

0:32:14.560 --> 0:32:16.640
<v Speaker 1>Peter Cove, He says, work does so much more than

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<v Speaker 1>provide for our basic needs. Work draws us into the

0:32:19.720 --> 0:32:25.320
<v Speaker 1>public square and instills in us a sense of personal responsibility.

0:32:25.320 --> 0:32:27.600
<v Speaker 1>These are the deeper things that are so important to

0:32:27.640 --> 0:32:31.240
<v Speaker 1>want someone's life and to raising children. It allows people

0:32:31.280 --> 0:32:33.960
<v Speaker 1>to feel the pride and self respect that come with

0:32:34.120 --> 0:32:37.920
<v Speaker 1>supporting their spouses and their children. Again, so it's not

0:32:37.960 --> 0:32:43.680
<v Speaker 1>the work, although yes, the quality of work, yes, but

0:32:43.800 --> 0:32:46.440
<v Speaker 1>it's who you're doing it for, who you're providing for,

0:32:47.360 --> 0:32:50.600
<v Speaker 1>who you're supporting in it. Dostoyevsky, he made the point

0:32:50.640 --> 0:32:54.880
<v Speaker 1>that we're not keys of a piano. We're not just

0:32:55.080 --> 0:32:59.680
<v Speaker 1>piano keys. Humans are not cogs in some grand economic machine,

0:33:00.040 --> 0:33:02.640
<v Speaker 1>which is how the left looks at humans. That's how

0:33:02.640 --> 0:33:06.880
<v Speaker 1>the left looks at people. That's how communists looked at people,

0:33:06.920 --> 0:33:09.600
<v Speaker 1>that we were just tools of the state. We're here

0:33:09.640 --> 0:33:12.440
<v Speaker 1>for the state. Everything's purpose becomes not to glorify God,

0:33:13.200 --> 0:33:16.720
<v Speaker 1>but to glorify the state. That's how that's how the

0:33:16.920 --> 0:33:19.720
<v Speaker 1>digression goes. So first, the highest is to glorify God.

0:33:19.880 --> 0:33:21.320
<v Speaker 1>So we've gotten rid of God. So now what do

0:33:21.320 --> 0:33:23.360
<v Speaker 1>we do? What we glify ourselves. That's what we've been

0:33:23.360 --> 0:33:25.400
<v Speaker 1>doing with that. The narcissistic culture that we've been living

0:33:25.400 --> 0:33:28.720
<v Speaker 1>in for how many decades? Now we glorify ourselves. The

0:33:28.760 --> 0:33:36.320
<v Speaker 1>next degradation of that is you glorify the state. There

0:33:36.400 --> 0:33:38.760
<v Speaker 1>is no humanity, there is no God, there is no humanity,

0:33:38.800 --> 0:33:41.040
<v Speaker 1>there is no individual, there is no family. It's all

0:33:41.080 --> 0:33:43.440
<v Speaker 1>about the government. This is why Martin Luther King Junior

0:33:43.480 --> 0:33:45.680
<v Speaker 1>was against communism. People think that Martin Luther King Junior

0:33:45.760 --> 0:33:52.000
<v Speaker 1>was a supporter of communism. No, No, he expressly denounced it.

0:33:53.160 --> 0:33:58.600
<v Speaker 1>I gotta quote he says, I opposed communisms, political totalitarianism,

0:34:00.200 --> 0:34:03.880
<v Speaker 1>and communism. The individual ends up in subjugation to the state.

0:34:05.120 --> 0:34:07.360
<v Speaker 1>And if man so called rights and liberties stand in

0:34:07.360 --> 0:34:10.080
<v Speaker 1>the way of that end, weal they're swimp simply swept aside.

0:34:12.920 --> 0:34:16.120
<v Speaker 1>A man's liberties of expression, his freedom to vote, his

0:34:16.200 --> 0:34:18.120
<v Speaker 1>freedom to listen to what news he likes, or to

0:34:18.239 --> 0:34:21.080
<v Speaker 1>choose his books, are all restricted. Man becomes hardly more

0:34:21.120 --> 0:34:26.400
<v Speaker 1>in communism than at depersonalized cog in the turning wheel

0:34:26.480 --> 0:34:35.000
<v Speaker 1>of the state. Okay, Marloco Jor the Reverend explicitly denounced communism,

0:34:36.920 --> 0:34:39.560
<v Speaker 1>and he gave it a shot. He read das Capital,

0:34:39.640 --> 0:34:42.920
<v Speaker 1>he read the Communist manifesto. He read people's writings about

0:34:42.920 --> 0:34:46.840
<v Speaker 1>those works and he rejected it all. He said, communism,

0:34:46.880 --> 0:34:54.239
<v Speaker 1>avowedly secularistic and materialistic, has no place for God. Communism

0:34:54.239 --> 0:34:57.800
<v Speaker 1>looks at man as a one dimensional, one dimensional economic creature,

0:34:57.840 --> 0:35:01.160
<v Speaker 1>and that's it. And that's what the left is today.

0:35:01.239 --> 0:35:03.920
<v Speaker 1>Now they couch it better. Oh goodness, they couch it better. Right,

0:35:03.920 --> 0:35:05.799
<v Speaker 1>the communists, they were flat out about it, right, like

0:35:06.120 --> 0:35:10.160
<v Speaker 1>you don't matter, You're just a wheel in the system, right,

0:35:10.280 --> 0:35:13.480
<v Speaker 1>or a cognist system today they know they do. That

0:35:13.480 --> 0:35:16.359
<v Speaker 1>doesn't sell, right, So people today who pitch this these

0:35:16.400 --> 0:35:19.359
<v Speaker 1>same communist ideas, they pitch them. Oh but oh, it's

0:35:19.360 --> 0:35:22.480
<v Speaker 1>about dignity, and it's about helping people, and it's about

0:35:22.520 --> 0:35:26.799
<v Speaker 1>flourishing in life, and it's about achieving your dreams. Oh,

0:35:26.880 --> 0:35:28.759
<v Speaker 1>we can pay this person and then they can go

0:35:28.800 --> 0:35:31.000
<v Speaker 1>achieve their dreams. They don't have to work. They can

0:35:31.080 --> 0:35:34.800
<v Speaker 1>go be an artist and reach their full potential. Nah,

0:35:34.840 --> 0:35:39.680
<v Speaker 1>it's the same old stuff, just better marketing. They couch it.

0:35:39.680 --> 0:35:44.120
<v Speaker 1>Of course is helping. We're helping our fellow man. They're

0:35:44.160 --> 0:35:47.759
<v Speaker 1>destroying souls in the process. I want to come back

0:35:48.560 --> 0:35:54.239
<v Speaker 1>with a story of illegal immigration that no one wants

0:35:54.280 --> 0:35:57.600
<v Speaker 1>to talk about no one wants to listen to. I'm

0:35:57.600 --> 0:35:59.840
<v Speaker 1>taking a risk here because I'm this great honor to

0:36:00.000 --> 0:36:04.800
<v Speaker 1>all in for Buck Sexton, and I'm gonna do something

0:36:04.840 --> 0:36:07.480
<v Speaker 1>that no one wants to hear. It was really hard

0:36:07.480 --> 0:36:10.280
<v Speaker 1>to hear, and it's quite a downer on a Friday,

0:36:10.320 --> 0:36:13.960
<v Speaker 1>I admit, but I don't hear anyone talking about him,

0:36:13.960 --> 0:36:16.480
<v Speaker 1>and it's essential to understand and get a firm grasp

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<v Speaker 1>of and I think once we do, then the people

0:36:22.200 --> 0:36:25.120
<v Speaker 1>who are at least taking credit for being the compassionate ones,

0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:28.200
<v Speaker 1>the open border people, they get credit for being compassionate,

0:36:29.080 --> 0:36:31.880
<v Speaker 1>maybe they'll start to see the light that they're not.

0:36:32.600 --> 0:36:35.240
<v Speaker 1>Mike Slater dot locals dot com filling in for Buck Sexton.

0:36:35.239 --> 0:36:38.040
<v Speaker 1>It's broad the word eighteen buck, Mike Slater and San

0:36:38.080 --> 0:36:40.080
<v Speaker 1>Diego filling it for the great Buck Sexton. Bucket. I've

0:36:40.080 --> 0:36:41.680
<v Speaker 1>been friends for a long time. We both have TV

0:36:41.719 --> 0:36:45.880
<v Speaker 1>shows on the first and it's an honor to be

0:36:46.000 --> 0:36:49.440
<v Speaker 1>filling in for for Buck today. Mike Slater dot locals

0:36:49.520 --> 0:36:51.239
<v Speaker 1>dot com is my website. We put everything up there,

0:36:51.280 --> 0:36:55.080
<v Speaker 1>Mike Slater dot locals dot com. So I want to

0:36:55.120 --> 0:36:57.600
<v Speaker 1>talk about something here that no one wants to hear,

0:36:57.640 --> 0:36:59.840
<v Speaker 1>and I'm hesitant to do it, to be honest, because

0:37:00.080 --> 0:37:01.600
<v Speaker 1>I have this great honor of filling it for back

0:37:01.680 --> 0:37:04.200
<v Speaker 1>and I'm just gonna ruin it. I guess everyone's gonna

0:37:04.239 --> 0:37:06.480
<v Speaker 1>change the station because no one wants to hear this.

0:37:08.400 --> 0:37:11.239
<v Speaker 1>But I think it's really important. So if if you

0:37:11.440 --> 0:37:14.920
<v Speaker 1>or someone can pick this up and run with it,

0:37:14.960 --> 0:37:17.640
<v Speaker 1>then then I think it's worth it. So we talked

0:37:17.680 --> 0:37:20.200
<v Speaker 1>about the border earlier in the first half hour of

0:37:20.200 --> 0:37:23.400
<v Speaker 1>the show, so I want to talk about it, and

0:37:23.480 --> 0:37:25.520
<v Speaker 1>you know, Biden talking about how, oh, there's been no

0:37:25.640 --> 0:37:29.719
<v Speaker 1>border change policy at all, like what there's been two

0:37:29.960 --> 0:37:35.160
<v Speaker 1>massive policy changes. Actually we went a great detail about

0:37:35.160 --> 0:37:37.480
<v Speaker 1>that in the Floor's agreement from nineteen eighty five and

0:37:38.040 --> 0:37:40.680
<v Speaker 1>all that earlier. But I want to talk about an

0:37:40.719 --> 0:37:46.840
<v Speaker 1>aspect of the border. And I know, I know we

0:37:46.880 --> 0:37:49.440
<v Speaker 1>should have we should have much lighter fare on a Friday.

0:37:51.160 --> 0:37:52.839
<v Speaker 1>But this is a very dark side of the border

0:37:52.880 --> 0:37:54.520
<v Speaker 1>story that no one wants to talk about. We skirt

0:37:54.560 --> 0:38:00.319
<v Speaker 1>around it. It's funny that there's some people don't want

0:38:00.400 --> 0:38:02.960
<v Speaker 1>to come anywhere near the truth when it comes to

0:38:03.000 --> 0:38:04.359
<v Speaker 1>the border. They just want to live in their fair

0:38:04.440 --> 0:38:07.160
<v Speaker 1>tale land about what goes on there, and some people

0:38:07.280 --> 0:38:09.439
<v Speaker 1>they say they want the truth, but they still don't

0:38:09.440 --> 0:38:12.560
<v Speaker 1>want to hear the really difficult and dark things because

0:38:12.560 --> 0:38:16.600
<v Speaker 1>who wants to be bummed out? But in this segment,

0:38:16.600 --> 0:38:18.040
<v Speaker 1>and I want to keep it just a one segment,

0:38:18.640 --> 0:38:21.839
<v Speaker 1>it's for those who want the depth of truth that

0:38:22.360 --> 0:38:25.600
<v Speaker 1>I think we need to really understand to get the

0:38:25.640 --> 0:38:27.440
<v Speaker 1>fullness of the problem that we're dealing with at the border.

0:38:27.680 --> 0:38:31.279
<v Speaker 1>People who are for open borders, they choose to make

0:38:31.360 --> 0:38:34.960
<v Speaker 1>up this story in their head about the downtrodden immigrant

0:38:34.960 --> 0:38:37.359
<v Speaker 1>who comes to America wants to make a life better

0:38:37.400 --> 0:38:40.120
<v Speaker 1>for themselves and works hard and succeeds, succeeds, hooray. And

0:38:40.160 --> 0:38:46.360
<v Speaker 1>that's the dreamers. That's their story. Everyone's a dreamer coming

0:38:46.360 --> 0:38:49.400
<v Speaker 1>over here. And the fewer details that they make up

0:38:49.400 --> 0:38:50.640
<v Speaker 1>in their head, they make up a movie in their

0:38:50.640 --> 0:38:52.520
<v Speaker 1>head about what this is like. In the fewer details

0:38:52.520 --> 0:38:57.439
<v Speaker 1>they provide in their head, the better they'll think as

0:38:57.560 --> 0:39:00.480
<v Speaker 1>little as they need to think in order to feel

0:39:00.520 --> 0:39:06.160
<v Speaker 1>good and pat themselves on the back for being such

0:39:06.160 --> 0:39:14.399
<v Speaker 1>a good person. But they don't want to consider are

0:39:14.400 --> 0:39:18.000
<v Speaker 1>the young girls and women who are kidnapped into the

0:39:18.040 --> 0:39:23.160
<v Speaker 1>sex trade. There's a documentary from Fusion. It's on YouTube,

0:39:23.200 --> 0:39:25.960
<v Speaker 1>it's free. It's called Pimp City. It's about a city

0:39:25.960 --> 0:39:29.680
<v Speaker 1>outside of Mexico City that their main industry is kidnapping

0:39:29.800 --> 0:39:35.360
<v Speaker 1>girls and young women and sending them to Queens Queens,

0:39:35.400 --> 0:39:40.200
<v Speaker 1>New York, where they're prostituted out up to sixty times

0:39:40.200 --> 0:39:46.799
<v Speaker 1>a day. Houston is a major sex trafficking hub. It's

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<v Speaker 1>right in the middle of the whole thing, right to

0:39:49.040 --> 0:39:51.600
<v Speaker 1>the middle of la in Miami, and also in the

0:39:51.600 --> 0:39:54.760
<v Speaker 1>middle of the United States in Latin America, and obviously

0:39:54.760 --> 0:39:56.920
<v Speaker 1>it's a major port city, the whole thing. And women

0:39:57.000 --> 0:39:59.879
<v Speaker 1>who are looking to come to America, they're told, oh, well,

0:40:00.000 --> 0:40:04.160
<v Speaker 1>get your cross, will get you a visa, no problem.

0:40:04.880 --> 0:40:11.799
<v Speaker 1>But they don't have any money, right Guatemala. Guatemalans live

0:40:11.880 --> 0:40:14.200
<v Speaker 1>on the world under the world poverty rate, which is

0:40:14.200 --> 0:40:17.360
<v Speaker 1>a dollar ninety a day. Okay, they don't have any money.

0:40:19.320 --> 0:40:21.359
<v Speaker 1>And then people say, oh, that's no problem, that's what

0:40:21.400 --> 0:40:23.120
<v Speaker 1>I've come with us. And you just work a little

0:40:23.120 --> 0:40:25.279
<v Speaker 1>to pay it off. Work in a restaurant. You'll be

0:40:25.320 --> 0:40:27.239
<v Speaker 1>a wait waitress in a restaurant. That's all no big deal.

0:40:29.160 --> 0:40:31.000
<v Speaker 1>So they do, and they come across and their job

0:40:31.040 --> 0:40:36.359
<v Speaker 1>description changes, and they're moved to a different city every

0:40:36.360 --> 0:40:42.160
<v Speaker 1>two weeks, and their slaves. The Houston DA says about

0:40:42.280 --> 0:40:45.120
<v Speaker 1>seventy percent of trafficking victims end up in the sex trade.

0:40:47.360 --> 0:40:49.719
<v Speaker 1>You don't see those, don't talk about those, don't hear

0:40:49.760 --> 0:40:53.560
<v Speaker 1>about those. So they're going rate to get to America

0:40:53.719 --> 0:40:57.680
<v Speaker 1>through these traffickers. It's thirty thousand dollars, but you live

0:40:57.719 --> 0:41:02.080
<v Speaker 1>in Thailand or some Eastern European poor country or Latin America,

0:41:02.120 --> 0:41:06.839
<v Speaker 1>you've got thirty grand. So it's an installment plan, that's all.

0:41:08.719 --> 0:41:10.319
<v Speaker 1>Because you think. Also, you're like, all right, I don't,

0:41:10.360 --> 0:41:12.839
<v Speaker 1>I don't thirty thousand dollars, right, make a dollar ninety

0:41:12.840 --> 0:41:17.640
<v Speaker 1>a day. I'm thirty thousand dollars. But in America everyone's rich. See,

0:41:17.640 --> 0:41:20.000
<v Speaker 1>you'll make it in no time. Thirty thousand bucks will

0:41:20.000 --> 0:41:24.239
<v Speaker 1>make that in no time, no problem. So girls say yes.

0:41:29.760 --> 0:41:31.239
<v Speaker 1>And then you find out that if you don't pay

0:41:31.280 --> 0:41:36.520
<v Speaker 1>your debt, your family will pay it, or really your

0:41:36.560 --> 0:41:43.319
<v Speaker 1>family will pay for it with their lives. So you

0:41:43.360 --> 0:41:45.680
<v Speaker 1>come across the border, You do the harrowing journey to

0:41:45.719 --> 0:41:48.960
<v Speaker 1>get here, get raped along the way, of course, and

0:41:49.120 --> 0:41:51.680
<v Speaker 1>he die along the way. But you get here and

0:41:51.760 --> 0:41:55.120
<v Speaker 1>your new boss buys you lunch, and you're amazed. You're like,

0:41:55.120 --> 0:41:59.080
<v Speaker 1>this is unbelievable. This the portions, look at all this food,

0:42:02.160 --> 0:42:06.360
<v Speaker 1>and no one wants anything from me. Huh. Let me

0:42:06.360 --> 0:42:10.040
<v Speaker 1>read this is from a Texas Monthly magazine. While you're

0:42:10.080 --> 0:42:13.520
<v Speaker 1>in this state, dizzy, disoriented, your boss takes you to

0:42:13.560 --> 0:42:16.640
<v Speaker 1>a place that isn't a restaurant or a factory and

0:42:16.719 --> 0:42:19.120
<v Speaker 1>tells you to unpack your few belongings in a dingy

0:42:19.160 --> 0:42:21.680
<v Speaker 1>back room. He tells you that this is where you're

0:42:21.640 --> 0:42:24.640
<v Speaker 1>gonna work to pay off your debt. You will be

0:42:24.640 --> 0:42:27.160
<v Speaker 1>a prostitute, he explains. And by the way, you'll be

0:42:27.239 --> 0:42:29.279
<v Speaker 1>charged for room and board while you're paying off that

0:42:29.320 --> 0:42:34.400
<v Speaker 1>thirty grand. When you protest, he beats you, starves you,

0:42:34.960 --> 0:42:37.799
<v Speaker 1>keeps you awake for days on end. Then, just to

0:42:37.840 --> 0:42:40.120
<v Speaker 1>make himself clear, he holds up a picture of your son,

0:42:41.600 --> 0:42:44.160
<v Speaker 1>or your parents or your sister and tears it in half.

0:42:48.520 --> 0:42:51.560
<v Speaker 1>That's all I can handle of that. If you want

0:42:51.560 --> 0:42:53.759
<v Speaker 1>to read more again Texas Monthly, and it's an article

0:42:53.800 --> 0:42:56.959
<v Speaker 1>called the Lost Girls, let me put it on the website. Actually,

0:42:57.000 --> 0:42:58.840
<v Speaker 1>I'll put it on Mike's later out locals dot com

0:42:58.920 --> 0:43:00.600
<v Speaker 1>and you can read it yourself, can read the whole

0:43:00.600 --> 0:43:03.760
<v Speaker 1>thing if you want to know the fullness of the story.

0:43:06.239 --> 0:43:07.839
<v Speaker 1>This is why we need to shut down the border.

0:43:07.840 --> 0:43:09.080
<v Speaker 1>If people ask me, why do we need to shut

0:43:09.040 --> 0:43:11.120
<v Speaker 1>the board, this is the numb one reason we need

0:43:11.160 --> 0:43:18.160
<v Speaker 1>to stop sex trafficking across the border on that side,

0:43:18.480 --> 0:43:20.240
<v Speaker 1>because some of these girls never even make it across.

0:43:20.480 --> 0:43:23.600
<v Speaker 1>And of course on our side. Months or years ago

0:43:23.640 --> 0:43:25.479
<v Speaker 1>in San Diego, we talked to a human trafficking expert.

0:43:25.520 --> 0:43:27.920
<v Speaker 1>There's a ton of human trafficking in San Diego border

0:43:27.960 --> 0:43:30.880
<v Speaker 1>town and he said every public high school, so we say,

0:43:30.880 --> 0:43:35.200
<v Speaker 1>he said, every public high school has a student who's

0:43:35.239 --> 0:43:38.960
<v Speaker 1>a member of a human trafficking gang or a gang

0:43:39.000 --> 0:43:43.200
<v Speaker 1>that's in the human trafficking business. And this student their

0:43:43.320 --> 0:43:47.439
<v Speaker 1>job is to be on the lookout for girls who

0:43:47.560 --> 0:43:54.080
<v Speaker 1>are lost, girls who their family is going through divorce

0:43:54.239 --> 0:43:58.200
<v Speaker 1>or whatever it is, right, whatever difficult situation, they're just

0:43:59.360 --> 0:44:03.600
<v Speaker 1>out of it. And of course these king members are

0:44:03.600 --> 0:44:07.360
<v Speaker 1>going to look for migrant kids who have no families

0:44:07.920 --> 0:44:10.080
<v Speaker 1>who are going to be flooding our schools now, fifteen

0:44:10.080 --> 0:44:13.040
<v Speaker 1>thousand of them, and they're going to work to seduce

0:44:13.080 --> 0:44:16.440
<v Speaker 1>them into the sex trade. And those ones who even

0:44:16.440 --> 0:44:17.879
<v Speaker 1>make it to high school, those are the lucky ones.

0:44:17.920 --> 0:44:19.359
<v Speaker 1>I mean, they're lucky they made it even that far

0:44:19.400 --> 0:44:23.080
<v Speaker 1>along the journey. But they're never out of it. Orry,

0:44:23.080 --> 0:44:24.720
<v Speaker 1>many of these girls never even make it too America.

0:44:24.760 --> 0:44:26.359
<v Speaker 1>They never make it to a family, they never make

0:44:26.360 --> 0:44:29.440
<v Speaker 1>it to a high school. But even then they're not

0:44:29.480 --> 0:44:35.880
<v Speaker 1>out of it. People are shocked to find out the

0:44:37.160 --> 0:44:39.759
<v Speaker 1>how prevalent this is. And my point of bringing it

0:44:39.800 --> 0:44:41.320
<v Speaker 1>up here again, I'm sorry to be a Debbie Downer

0:44:41.360 --> 0:44:42.960
<v Speaker 1>on Friday. I'm sorry to be a Debbie Downer on

0:44:43.000 --> 0:44:52.640
<v Speaker 1>Bucks show. But there are people who enable this. They

0:44:52.800 --> 0:44:58.480
<v Speaker 1>enable this with their open borders. They empower the cartels

0:44:58.520 --> 0:45:04.120
<v Speaker 1>and the sex traffickers of women and little girls. It's

0:45:04.120 --> 0:45:05.800
<v Speaker 1>not just me. This is not, you know, right wing.

0:45:05.840 --> 0:45:07.560
<v Speaker 1>This is so weird. This is something you would think

0:45:08.000 --> 0:45:10.120
<v Speaker 1>the bleeding heart liberal would be all about, right, You

0:45:10.160 --> 0:45:12.319
<v Speaker 1>think they'd be jumping up it down and years ago

0:45:12.360 --> 0:45:13.880
<v Speaker 1>they were. This is New York Times. They wrote an

0:45:13.960 --> 0:45:16.640
<v Speaker 1>article you have to Pay with your body, the hidden

0:45:16.760 --> 0:45:20.239
<v Speaker 1>nightmare of sexual violence on the Border, and they tell

0:45:20.280 --> 0:45:21.680
<v Speaker 1>a bunch of stories. I'm not going to share them.

0:45:21.719 --> 0:45:24.520
<v Speaker 1>This is just one a smuggler raped to twenty three

0:45:24.600 --> 0:45:29.600
<v Speaker 1>year old Honduran woman and her four year old daughter. Right,

0:45:29.640 --> 0:45:31.160
<v Speaker 1>So when you hear Nanti Pelosi and you hear all

0:45:31.160 --> 0:45:33.600
<v Speaker 1>the the rest and they're like, oh, come on over

0:45:33.680 --> 0:45:35.360
<v Speaker 1>and we'll take care of the whole thing, that's what

0:45:35.400 --> 0:45:41.040
<v Speaker 1>they're enabling. That's what they're enabling. We hear this when

0:45:41.040 --> 0:45:42.920
<v Speaker 1>it comes to gun control bills, right, gun control, but

0:45:42.960 --> 0:45:46.839
<v Speaker 1>if it saves just one life. But you don't hear

0:45:46.880 --> 0:45:50.759
<v Speaker 1>that same thing on the border. We need to shut

0:45:50.800 --> 0:45:53.799
<v Speaker 1>down the border to stop enriching and empowering the cartels.

0:45:56.640 --> 0:45:59.439
<v Speaker 1>We need to order at the border because I don't

0:45:59.440 --> 0:46:03.680
<v Speaker 1>want women, children to be raped and drugged into sex slavery.

0:46:08.719 --> 0:46:13.640
<v Speaker 1>We need a coherent, clear message to the cartels that

0:46:13.719 --> 0:46:16.280
<v Speaker 1>this is not possible. You will not make it across,

0:46:16.320 --> 0:46:20.040
<v Speaker 1>and we need a streamlined process for those who want

0:46:20.040 --> 0:46:23.160
<v Speaker 1>to make it here. Legally, it's better for us, and

0:46:23.280 --> 0:46:25.160
<v Speaker 1>more importantly, it's better for the people who want to

0:46:25.160 --> 0:46:31.239
<v Speaker 1>come here. General rule of thumb for Mike Slater. As

0:46:31.280 --> 0:46:34.240
<v Speaker 1>I think about policies, I'm generally for policies that drug

0:46:34.239 --> 0:46:39.759
<v Speaker 1>cartels don't like. I'm generally for policies that sex traffickers

0:46:39.840 --> 0:46:45.640
<v Speaker 1>don't like. If they don't like, it's probably a good thing.

0:46:46.640 --> 0:46:48.600
<v Speaker 1>An order at the border would be one of those.

0:46:51.520 --> 0:46:53.440
<v Speaker 1>Mike sladd out locals dot com. I'll put up both

0:46:53.480 --> 0:46:55.839
<v Speaker 1>those articles right now. Mike slated out locals dot com.

0:46:55.960 --> 0:46:58.320
<v Speaker 1>Spread the word eighteen buck, Mike Slater film it for

0:46:58.320 --> 0:47:01.880
<v Speaker 1>Buck Sexton today. Mike Slater dot locals dot com Changing

0:47:01.880 --> 0:47:07.000
<v Speaker 1>gears here. I saw a really nice visual representation of

0:47:07.640 --> 0:47:11.000
<v Speaker 1>what's going on in our country today and the main

0:47:11.080 --> 0:47:12.800
<v Speaker 1>debate that's going on in our country, because the debate's

0:47:12.800 --> 0:47:15.600
<v Speaker 1>not about the Second Amendment, right, Although yes, I saw

0:47:15.640 --> 0:47:18.400
<v Speaker 1>a great segment on Bucks TV show last night on

0:47:18.440 --> 0:47:20.680
<v Speaker 1>the latest gun control laws coming out of DC and

0:47:20.719 --> 0:47:23.319
<v Speaker 1>how they do nothing to address crime and they make

0:47:23.320 --> 0:47:27.239
<v Speaker 1>a criminal out of you. But I'm talking about the

0:47:27.320 --> 0:47:29.520
<v Speaker 1>deeper philosophical debate that's going on in our country. So

0:47:29.560 --> 0:47:30.920
<v Speaker 1>I want to try to spell this out. I'll try

0:47:30.960 --> 0:47:33.280
<v Speaker 1>to make this visual on the radio. Here a little

0:47:33.480 --> 0:47:36.879
<v Speaker 1>theater of the mind. So imagine a pyramid. You would

0:47:36.880 --> 0:47:40.719
<v Speaker 1>may imagine a pyramid, and there's three levels to the pyramid, bottom, middle, top.

0:47:41.400 --> 0:47:47.200
<v Speaker 1>At the base of the pyramid is modernism. Modernism is science,

0:47:47.800 --> 0:47:56.799
<v Speaker 1>reason objective truth. The middle are these classical liberal ideas capitalism,

0:47:57.080 --> 0:48:03.719
<v Speaker 1>freedom of speech, individualism, equality of opportunity, meritocracy. And then

0:48:03.760 --> 0:48:09.840
<v Speaker 1>at the top is politics. So these are cultural norms, laws, institutions,

0:48:09.880 --> 0:48:16.040
<v Speaker 1>things like them. Cool, the normal progressive and the normal conservative.

0:48:16.080 --> 0:48:21.200
<v Speaker 1>They argue over the top section your neighbor and you

0:48:21.200 --> 0:48:23.920
<v Speaker 1>you you got you know, back in the day, we

0:48:24.200 --> 0:48:28.400
<v Speaker 1>debate about policies and laws and things like that, and

0:48:28.520 --> 0:48:31.320
<v Speaker 1>progressives would want to change these things, and conservatives generally

0:48:31.360 --> 0:48:34.920
<v Speaker 1>want to conserve, conserve or preserve these things. Makes sense.

0:48:35.680 --> 0:48:38.560
<v Speaker 1>That's a you know, a normal debate, and there's that's

0:48:38.600 --> 0:48:40.160
<v Speaker 1>this is good, this is a good thing. No problem

0:48:40.200 --> 0:48:43.320
<v Speaker 1>here whatsoever. Democrats says we need to raise taxes. Conservative

0:48:43.360 --> 0:48:46.399
<v Speaker 1>says we need to lower taxes. Fine, I miss those

0:48:46.400 --> 0:48:49.839
<v Speaker 1>old fashioned debates. Right, that's a fine conversation to having

0:48:49.840 --> 0:48:52.880
<v Speaker 1>a very good, healthy thing in a healthy society. And

0:48:53.040 --> 0:48:55.279
<v Speaker 1>both of these people, to progressive and the conservative, think

0:48:55.320 --> 0:48:58.000
<v Speaker 1>that the bottom levels of this pyramid are good and

0:48:58.080 --> 0:49:01.800
<v Speaker 1>need to be preserved. Everyone here in this conversation believes

0:49:01.800 --> 0:49:04.200
<v Speaker 1>that truth exists and that capitalism and freedom of speech

0:49:04.200 --> 0:49:09.480
<v Speaker 1>and meritocracy are good things. But then there are another

0:49:09.520 --> 0:49:12.000
<v Speaker 1>group of people. Not you're run of the middle democrats,

0:49:12.280 --> 0:49:15.480
<v Speaker 1>but Marxists with a Marxist worldview, they come into the

0:49:15.480 --> 0:49:18.480
<v Speaker 1>picture and they say, oh, you regular progressives, you democrats,

0:49:18.520 --> 0:49:20.520
<v Speaker 1>you don't go far enough. We don't just need to

0:49:20.600 --> 0:49:26.799
<v Speaker 1>change policies and laws. A Marxist believes that it's the

0:49:26.880 --> 0:49:31.200
<v Speaker 1>liberal ideas of America that are the problem. It's the

0:49:31.239 --> 0:49:34.680
<v Speaker 1>liberal ideas of America that inevitably lead to oppression. So

0:49:34.880 --> 0:49:36.360
<v Speaker 1>not only do we need to change the laws and

0:49:36.400 --> 0:49:39.560
<v Speaker 1>the policies, but we gotta get rid of capitalism. We

0:49:39.560 --> 0:49:41.840
<v Speaker 1>gotta get rid of individualism, we gotta get rid of meritocracy,

0:49:41.840 --> 0:49:44.000
<v Speaker 1>we gotta get rid of freedom of speech entirely. That's

0:49:44.040 --> 0:49:48.400
<v Speaker 1>the middle level of the pyramid. And this is why

0:49:48.480 --> 0:49:52.360
<v Speaker 1>you see Marxists justify shutting down freedom of speech and

0:49:52.360 --> 0:49:55.920
<v Speaker 1>calling for an end of capitalism itself. That's why these

0:49:55.920 --> 0:49:59.080
<v Speaker 1>people who run these diversity seminars, they you know, they

0:49:59.120 --> 0:50:01.000
<v Speaker 1>have a list of whites of primacy values, and one

0:50:01.040 --> 0:50:03.680
<v Speaker 1>of them is merit. Merit is a white supremacy value.

0:50:05.400 --> 0:50:09.880
<v Speaker 1>Kamala herself saying, it's not about equality of opportunity, it's

0:50:09.880 --> 0:50:12.239
<v Speaker 1>about equality of outcome. That's what matters. The most we

0:50:12.239 --> 0:50:14.040
<v Speaker 1>actually got a clip of this was during the campaign.

0:50:16.480 --> 0:50:21.560
<v Speaker 1>So there's a big difference between equality and equity. Equality suggests, oh,

0:50:21.600 --> 0:50:24.839
<v Speaker 1>everyone should get the same amount. The problem with that

0:50:25.480 --> 0:50:28.319
<v Speaker 1>not everybody's starting up for the same place. So if

0:50:28.360 --> 0:50:30.520
<v Speaker 1>we're all getting the same amount, but you started out

0:50:30.560 --> 0:50:33.080
<v Speaker 1>back there and I started out over here, we can

0:50:33.120 --> 0:50:34.560
<v Speaker 1>get the same am up, but you're still gonna be

0:50:34.560 --> 0:50:39.960
<v Speaker 1>that far back behind me. It's about giving people the

0:50:40.120 --> 0:50:43.719
<v Speaker 1>resources and the support they need so that everyone can

0:50:43.800 --> 0:50:47.800
<v Speaker 1>be on equal footing and then compete on equal footing.

0:50:48.719 --> 0:50:51.799
<v Speaker 1>Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same

0:50:51.840 --> 0:50:56.200
<v Speaker 1>place there, it is. Equitable treatment means we all end

0:50:56.280 --> 0:50:59.799
<v Speaker 1>up at the same place. So meritocracy, it doesn't need

0:51:00.400 --> 0:51:03.560
<v Speaker 1>equality of opportunity none on it's equality of outcome. Right,

0:51:03.600 --> 0:51:06.080
<v Speaker 1>So they're in the middle, they're they're debating the middle

0:51:06.160 --> 0:51:09.680
<v Speaker 1>part of this pyramid. That's very different than arguing over

0:51:09.760 --> 0:51:13.960
<v Speaker 1>higher taxes or lower taxes. This is trying to overhaul

0:51:14.000 --> 0:51:19.799
<v Speaker 1>the building blocks of this country. That's the Marxist view.

0:51:20.280 --> 0:51:22.840
<v Speaker 1>Of course, they've taken over college campuses, and that's infiltrated

0:51:22.880 --> 0:51:25.160
<v Speaker 1>now out of college campuses, of course, into really every

0:51:25.160 --> 0:51:31.640
<v Speaker 1>institution in America. The march through the institutions you name it, Hollywood, music, academia,

0:51:31.719 --> 0:51:34.680
<v Speaker 1>K through twelve, medical school, law school, everything, AM talk

0:51:34.800 --> 0:51:37.120
<v Speaker 1>radio we're the only people left. AM Talk Radio is

0:51:37.120 --> 0:51:40.399
<v Speaker 1>the only conservative institution left in the country. Everything else

0:51:40.520 --> 0:51:43.160
<v Speaker 1>is taken over by not only progresses, but by Marxists

0:51:43.160 --> 0:51:46.600
<v Speaker 1>who want to undermine that, undermine and overhaul that middle

0:51:46.640 --> 0:51:52.239
<v Speaker 1>section of the pyramid. And then finally the bottom level

0:51:52.640 --> 0:51:59.040
<v Speaker 1>of the pyramid, the modernism level. You have not progressives,

0:51:59.280 --> 0:52:04.200
<v Speaker 1>not Marxist, but you have postmodernists. A postmodernist comes in

0:52:04.239 --> 0:52:08.560
<v Speaker 1>and says, hey, you guys, you're you progressives, You're you're

0:52:08.600 --> 0:52:11.040
<v Speaker 1>not taking it far enough. It's not just the laws

0:52:11.080 --> 0:52:13.600
<v Speaker 1>and institutions and policies that need to change. Goodness, No,

0:52:14.000 --> 0:52:19.359
<v Speaker 1>and Marxists, you're not going far enough. It's not just

0:52:20.200 --> 0:52:24.480
<v Speaker 1>capitalism that has to go. It's not just freedom of

0:52:24.560 --> 0:52:28.920
<v Speaker 1>speech and individuality and individualism and meritocracy, and it's we

0:52:29.000 --> 0:52:33.960
<v Speaker 1>gotta go way further than that. It's objective truth that

0:52:34.000 --> 0:52:37.760
<v Speaker 1>has to go. There's no such thing as objective truth.

0:52:38.800 --> 0:52:42.080
<v Speaker 1>Reason has to go. And this is where you get

0:52:42.080 --> 0:52:44.560
<v Speaker 1>people talking about like lived experiences and things like this,

0:52:44.640 --> 0:52:49.400
<v Speaker 1>like these ideas where truth doesn't even exist, there's no

0:52:49.440 --> 0:52:52.439
<v Speaker 1>such thing as truth. Who are you to say what's

0:52:52.520 --> 0:52:55.560
<v Speaker 1>right or wrong? Two plus two could equal five? We

0:52:55.600 --> 0:52:57.600
<v Speaker 1>spent a ton of time on my local show about

0:52:58.200 --> 0:53:01.680
<v Speaker 1>postmodern math that called anti racist math. Where are two

0:53:01.680 --> 0:53:03.440
<v Speaker 1>plus two could equal five? Who are you to say

0:53:03.440 --> 0:53:07.360
<v Speaker 1>it doesn't? And these people are becoming more and more prevalent,

0:53:07.440 --> 0:53:10.319
<v Speaker 1>not necessarily a number, although yes, but in power and

0:53:10.440 --> 0:53:18.759
<v Speaker 1>influence postmodernists. Take a look at your kids textbook. Take

0:53:18.800 --> 0:53:21.560
<v Speaker 1>a look at your kids school textbook. Popular Mechanics wrote

0:53:21.560 --> 0:53:24.359
<v Speaker 1>an article recently why some people think two plus two

0:53:24.360 --> 0:53:28.680
<v Speaker 1>equals five and why they're right. There's a ton here.

0:53:30.280 --> 0:53:31.680
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna put it on the website too. I'll put

0:53:31.719 --> 0:53:35.440
<v Speaker 1>it on mics later out locals dot com so you

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<v Speaker 1>can see it yourself. And it's really important to know

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<v Speaker 1>who you're talking to. First of all, who you're talking to,

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<v Speaker 1>but also who you're receiving inputs from in your life,

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<v Speaker 1>like who's right. So when you watch a movie or

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<v Speaker 1>watch a TV show, or put your kids in front

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<v Speaker 1>of the TV, or put your let your kids brows

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<v Speaker 1>the internet, or send your kids off to certain schools,

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<v Speaker 1>what inputs are they receiving. Are they receiving inputs from progressives,

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<v Speaker 1>from Marxists or from postmodernists? Are these progressives who disagree

0:54:06.160 --> 0:54:10.280
<v Speaker 1>on policy? Are these Marxists who disagree on the principles America?

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<v Speaker 1>Are these postmodernists who disagree on reason and objective truth

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<v Speaker 1>even existing at all? We need to be able to

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<v Speaker 1>understand that, know that, and then respond accordingly. We'll put

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<v Speaker 1>it on the website. Mike's later dot locals dot com.

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<v Speaker 1>Coming up next, one of my favorite Abraham Lincoln stories.

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<v Speaker 1>You're gonna love this story. I think about it all

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<v Speaker 1>the time. We'll share it next. Mike's later dout locals

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<v Speaker 1>It's going on Team Buck. Mike's later, filling it for

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<v Speaker 1>Buck again today, thanks for being here. I want to

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<v Speaker 1>share here one of my favorite stories in this next segment.

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<v Speaker 1>It just I don't know. I think about everyone's a while,

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<v Speaker 1>and it it inspires me to read more, to dive deeper

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<v Speaker 1>into topics, to fight against culture, and to be better

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<v Speaker 1>than what culture is feeding us and just dragging us down.

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<v Speaker 1>So what culture drags us down? It gives you such

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<v Speaker 1>the Freedom Hunt with Buck Saxons. That's what I want

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<v Speaker 1>to talk about coming up in this segment right here.

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<v Speaker 1>Slash Buck, it's going on Team Buck. Mike Slater here

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<v Speaker 1>in San Diego, filling in for the great Buck Sexton today.

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<v Speaker 1>Mike Slater dot locals dot com. That's where we put everything.

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<v Speaker 1>That's our website. Mic Slater dot locals dot com. All right,

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<v Speaker 1>I want to share this story. It's one of my favorites.

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<v Speaker 1>This is from Neo Postman's book. It's called Amusing Ourselves

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<v Speaker 1>to Death. Amusing Ourselves to Death. Look, I just read

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit. He says. The first of seven famous

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<v Speaker 1>debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas took place

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<v Speaker 1>on April excuse me, August twenty first, eighteen fifty eight,

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<v Speaker 1>in Ottawa, Illinois. Aren't we there? So we got the

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<v Speaker 1>Lincoln Douglas debates eighteen fifty eight. The arrangement provided that

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<v Speaker 1>Douglas would speak first for one hour, Lincoln would take

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<v Speaker 1>an hour and a half to reply, and then Douglas

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<v Speaker 1>a half hour to reply to Rebut it, so, what's

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<v Speaker 1>that we got? It was an hour and an hour

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<v Speaker 1>and a half, half hour, three hours, three hour tour.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a long time. How many movies do people watch

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<v Speaker 1>it and they're like, oh, yeah, it was good about

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<v Speaker 1>three hours so long. Neil Postman says, this debate was

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<v Speaker 1>considerably shorter than those which these two men were accustomed.

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<v Speaker 1>In fact, they've tangled several times before, and all of

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<v Speaker 1>their encounters had been much lengthier and more exhausting. For example,

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<v Speaker 1>check this out. Eighteen fifty four, in Peoria, Douglas delivered

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<v Speaker 1>a three hour address Bach, a three hour speech to

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<v Speaker 1>which Lincoln, by agreement, was to respond when Lincoln's turn came.

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<v Speaker 1>So everyone in the audience just listened to Stephen A.

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<v Speaker 1>Douglas for three hours. Now it's Lincoln's turn. He reminded

0:58:10.200 --> 0:58:14.160
<v Speaker 1>the audience that it was already five pm, and that

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<v Speaker 1>he would probably require as much time as Douglas, and

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<v Speaker 1>that Douglas was still scheduled for a rebuttal to him.

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<v Speaker 1>He proposed, therefore, that the audience go home, eat dinner,

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<v Speaker 1>and return refreshed for four more hours of talk. The

0:58:34.640 --> 0:58:39.320
<v Speaker 1>audience amiably agreed, went home, a dinner, came back, and

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<v Speaker 1>matters proceeded. As Lincoln had outlined, what kind of audience

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<v Speaker 1>was this? Who were these people who could so cheerfully

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<v Speaker 1>accommodate themselves to seven hours of oratory? The audience's attention

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<v Speaker 1>span would obviously have been extraordinary by current standards. Is

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<v Speaker 1>there any audience of Americans today who could endure seven

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<v Speaker 1>hours of talk or five or three, especially without pictures

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<v Speaker 1>of any kind? That amazing? This is a major problem

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<v Speaker 1>that we're not very smart. Now, before you get offended

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<v Speaker 1>at that, I'm including myself in that absolutely as well.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not very smart. Have you ever take it? So? First,

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<v Speaker 1>all the citizenship exam, right, like, only twenty percent of

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<v Speaker 1>high schoolers can pass the citizenship exam. This is like

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<v Speaker 1>basic stuff like how many states are there? But have

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<v Speaker 1>you ever seen these tests from like a middle school classroom?

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<v Speaker 1>I got like a fifth Crede classroom from nineteen thirty

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<v Speaker 1>And I don't know any enough the answers. They're ridiculously difficult.

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<v Speaker 1>The bar is so low today. I have not read

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<v Speaker 1>nearly any of the classics. I really haven't, and I'm

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<v Speaker 1>starting to. I've been starting this last year or so. Actually,

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<v Speaker 1>when I first heard that Abram this Abram link a store,

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<v Speaker 1>I shared ready, I was like, I got some work

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<v Speaker 1>to do, but I just I don't have I haven't

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<v Speaker 1>read these classics. It certainly didn't read the grown up

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<v Speaker 1>and I don't have the tools that are necessary to

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<v Speaker 1>think deeply about important topics. Recently, a friend of mine

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<v Speaker 1>who I recruited for this effort, we read Hamlet, and

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<v Speaker 1>even just reading Hamlet, I feel myself, you know, thinking

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<v Speaker 1>back on it a lot all the often. But then

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<v Speaker 1>I get this regret, like, oh what if I what

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<v Speaker 1>if I spent my childhood learning about the classics? Reading

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<v Speaker 1>the classics? You know, very few people do. Almost no

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<v Speaker 1>one these days has a complete tool belt to think

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<v Speaker 1>about things deeply. Almost no one today he could listen

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<v Speaker 1>to Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas or anyone talk for

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<v Speaker 1>seven hours about things. Abraham Lincoln, he was a boy.

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<v Speaker 1>He didn't have iPads, right, he didn't have the latest technology.

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<v Speaker 1>But he just devoured every book he could get his

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<v Speaker 1>hands on. He would read it multiple times. Every book

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<v Speaker 1>was gold. He had a much longer attention span than

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<v Speaker 1>we do, and much fewer choices. Today, we have infinite

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<v Speaker 1>choices and no attention span. Try that one on. Abraham

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<v Speaker 1>Lincoln had very few choices and a very long attention span.

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<v Speaker 1>We have infinite choices and no attention span. Which is better?

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<v Speaker 1>Which would you choose? We're living in the ladder, and

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<v Speaker 1>we are spastic. We're spastic because of it. Just choices

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<v Speaker 1>non stop. How many times do you catch yourself reading

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<v Speaker 1>something and you just write a couple of pages and

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<v Speaker 1>you're like, oh, I don't I just I just blinked out.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't read any of that. Are you reading something

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<v Speaker 1>online and just scrolling? Scroll scrolls? Just scrolling? On the Twitter?

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<v Speaker 1>You just scrolling. You're not really good at the tweet.

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<v Speaker 1>Just scrolls, scroll, scrolls, scrolls, scroll, just infinite choices, no attentions. Man,

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<v Speaker 1>think about the Lincoln Douglas debate right in fifty four

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<v Speaker 1>before they weren't even running for anything, by the way,

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<v Speaker 1>or they mean they were running for They weren't running

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<v Speaker 1>for presid should say they weren't run for president. In so,

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<v Speaker 1>think about all these people at these original Lincoln Douglas debates.

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<v Speaker 1>They had longer attention spans if you were choices. What

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<v Speaker 1>else were they gonna do after dinner? There's nothing else

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<v Speaker 1>going on? So imagine the excitement in town when this

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<v Speaker 1>was going on. I think this is one reason why

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<v Speaker 1>we're just in a bad place today. Here's what Neil

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<v Speaker 1>Postman wrote, and I love this so much. He says,

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<v Speaker 1>So there's two dystopian books that are often cited, and

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<v Speaker 1>one of them much more than the other. You've got

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<v Speaker 1>George Olls nineteen eighty four and Huxley's Brave New World,

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<v Speaker 1>two dystopian futures, two very different dystopian futures. And Neil

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<v Speaker 1>Postman said, what George Orwell feared were those who would

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<v Speaker 1>ban books, right, so he'd he feared big brother coming

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<v Speaker 1>in banning books. What Huxley feared was that there would

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<v Speaker 1>be no reason to ban a book, for there would

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<v Speaker 1>be no one who wanted to read one, right. I

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<v Speaker 1>think about We've talked a lot on my local show

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<v Speaker 1>about Ryan Ryan t Alexander, his book about transgenderism and

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<v Speaker 1>anyway it's from a conservative perspective, if you will, and

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<v Speaker 1>banned from Amazon, and how many people even really care? Right, So,

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<v Speaker 1>we're closer to Huxley, where people like ah, whatever, it

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't matter. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information.

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<v Speaker 1>Huxley feared those who would give us so much information

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<v Speaker 1>that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. And

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<v Speaker 1>that's where we are today. We got this new cycle

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<v Speaker 1>constantly bombarding you with too much So you're just numb

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<v Speaker 1>to it. George Orwell feared that the truth would be

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<v Speaker 1>concealed from us. Huxley feared that the truth would be

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<v Speaker 1>drowned in a serious sea of irrelevance. Or Well feared

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<v Speaker 1>we would be we would become a captive culture. Huxley

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<v Speaker 1>feared we would become a trivial culture. Compare us with

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<v Speaker 1>that audience in Peoria, Illinois in eighteen fifty four. You'd

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<v Speaker 1>think we'd be so much smarter if you were to compare. Honestly,

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<v Speaker 1>if you were to line us up the people in

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<v Speaker 1>Peoria in eighteen fifty four and wherever you are today

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<v Speaker 1>in twenty twenty one, and you put these two people

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<v Speaker 1>next to each other, it would be like they wouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>even be two different cultures, to be two different species.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean they think like from two different planets. So

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<v Speaker 1>the question is how can we intellectually, morally even too,

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<v Speaker 1>How can we live like it's eighteen sixty five in Peoria, Illinois.

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<v Speaker 1>Were more focus and fewer distraction, right, So how can

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<v Speaker 1>we live? This is the question, how can we live

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<v Speaker 1>in twenty twenty one? Because we can't go back, So

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<v Speaker 1>how can we live in twenty twenty one, with the

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<v Speaker 1>modern conveniences and the benefits et cetera, et cetera, living today,

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<v Speaker 1>but with more focus and fewer distraction. First thing, demand

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<v Speaker 1>more out of yourself, as Postman said, what kind of

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<v Speaker 1>man do you think I am? That's what we need

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<v Speaker 1>to ask these people who are peddling garbage. He said,

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<v Speaker 1>any rational decent man would ask to the people who

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<v Speaker 1>are peddling this garbage, what kind of man do you

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<v Speaker 1>think I am? So, but you need to know that

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<v Speaker 1>you're better than what you're being fed by our culture.

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<v Speaker 1>And once you start saying you start saying stuff like that,

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<v Speaker 1>like oh, like you think, like what kind of person

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<v Speaker 1>do you think I am? You're gonna get a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of Pressure're gonna be like, oh, you think you're so

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<v Speaker 1>much better than that? Yes, yes, I do. I believe

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<v Speaker 1>I we you even are much better than this, and

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<v Speaker 1>just don't partake it anymore. Have have some respect, man,

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<v Speaker 1>and then so demand more, and then find the places

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<v Speaker 1>and the things that bring you perspective in peace. And

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<v Speaker 1>that's what we try to do on my show and

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<v Speaker 1>Buck as well. Perspective and peace, that's the name of

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<v Speaker 1>the game. We need more of that. So find someone

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<v Speaker 1>finds something that brings that to you and latch onto

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<v Speaker 1>it because it's going to help just get rid of

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<v Speaker 1>distraction and it's going to help focus. So again, how

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<v Speaker 1>can we intellectually live like it's eighteen sixty five with

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<v Speaker 1>fewer distraction and more focus. That's my challenge this year.

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<v Speaker 1>Mike's later dot locals dot com filling in for Buck

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<v Speaker 1>sex spread the word eighteen buck Mike Slater and San

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<v Speaker 1>Diego film in for Buck Sexton. Mike Slater dot locals

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<v Speaker 1>dot com. That's our website. There was a high school

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<v Speaker 1>in Columbus, Ohio. Of course they got rid of the

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<v Speaker 1>classics because they're racist, and you got to replace everything

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<v Speaker 1>with the the new. Oh they're so great, these new things.

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<v Speaker 1>This in one case they in this school they replaced

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<v Speaker 1>a classics with a slam poetry book called The Poet X.

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<v Speaker 1>In the first two pages, the underaged character Zimara Xio

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<v Speaker 1>m A R. Zimara approached drug dealers who cat called her,

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<v Speaker 1>and the drug dealers says church girls are all freaks, Ao, Zimara,

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<v Speaker 1>you need to start wearing dresses like that. This word

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<v Speaker 1>I can't say on the radio. You'd be wiped up.

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<v Speaker 1>Before going back to school. That's how you read the

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<v Speaker 1>slam poetry. You say some words like this with awkward

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<v Speaker 1>breaks in them, and that's called slam poetry, especially knowing

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<v Speaker 1>you church girls are all freaks. That's the first page

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<v Speaker 1>of this book for high school. The main character believes

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<v Speaker 1>that Christianity, the bedrock of her familiar values, hinders her

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<v Speaker 1>ability to live freely. It's this is the poem. It's

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<v Speaker 1>not any one thing that makes me wonder about the

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<v Speaker 1>capital good, about a holy trinity that doesn't include the Mother.

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<v Speaker 1>It's all the things. Just seems as I get older,

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<v Speaker 1>I begin to really see the way the church treats

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<v Speaker 1>a girl like me differently. Sometimes it feels them all

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<v Speaker 1>I'm worth is under my skirt and not between my ears.

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes I feel life wouldn't be eat would be easier

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<v Speaker 1>if I didn't feel like such a debt to a

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<v Speaker 1>god that didn't really seem to be out there checking

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<v Speaker 1>from me. It's like, whatever feed our garbage to there,

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<v Speaker 1>to our kids, you're gonna drop your kids off at

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<v Speaker 1>a public school. Let's say I'm a guest of Bucks today.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm pretty sure would agree with me. But I want

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<v Speaker 1>to be a little a little asident to go on

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<v Speaker 1>a full rant as I do in my local show

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<v Speaker 1>about how you should never ever drop your kids off

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<v Speaker 1>at a public school for the rest of your life.

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<v Speaker 1>It is child of use if you do, so stop

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<v Speaker 1>doing it, because this is the garbage they're being peddled.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's a weird tension, and I get it where

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<v Speaker 1>the teachers' unions are using your kids not being in

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<v Speaker 1>school as leverage for more money. So the left doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>want your kids back in school. So conservatives are like, no,

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<v Speaker 1>we need kids back in school, and I just want

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<v Speaker 1>to be here, like, well, hold on, you should never

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<v Speaker 1>want your kids back in public school. I don't understand

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<v Speaker 1>the conservative who's like, come on, governor, my kids got

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<v Speaker 1>to get back and then indoctrination center as quickly as possible.

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<v Speaker 1>He's got to learn all about the horrible things about America.

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<v Speaker 1>Now this is a terrible country, and how all white

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<v Speaker 1>people are racists. Get our kids back in school. All

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<v Speaker 1>like like, wait a second, why are you fighting for this.

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<v Speaker 1>You should be using this last year, have been using

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<v Speaker 1>and you should continue to use whatever time you have

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<v Speaker 1>left to do whatever it takes to never send your

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<v Speaker 1>kid to a public school ever. Again. And don't tell me, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>my kid goes to a good public school. No they don't,

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<v Speaker 1>because their curriculum all comes from the top. I live

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<v Speaker 1>in California, so ours are like one of the worst.

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<v Speaker 1>But every state is becoming more and more like this.

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<v Speaker 1>And don't tell me, oh, my kid is in the

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<v Speaker 1>excelled program. No they're not. Those won't exist for long.

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<v Speaker 1>I did a segment on this couple weeks ago in

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<v Speaker 1>San Diego. The next day, the second biggest school district

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<v Speaker 1>in the county released that they're getting rid of they

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<v Speaker 1>called their Gate program. They're Gifted and Talented program. They're

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<v Speaker 1>getting rid of. It's inequitable, not enough black in the

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<v Speaker 1>span of kids in it, too many white and Asian kids.

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<v Speaker 1>So they got rid of it because it's not fair. Okay, gone,

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<v Speaker 1>So all these advanced programs are gone. Anyway, everyone's gonna

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<v Speaker 1>have to do the same garbage curriculum from the state,

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<v Speaker 1>from these progressives. It's a terrible thing. Never drop your

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<v Speaker 1>kids off there and ever and about sider. They'll learn

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<v Speaker 1>new oh yeah, poetry like this good. Yeah, They'll learn

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<v Speaker 1>about how God is awful and God's terrible, and how

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<v Speaker 1>Christianity treats women poorly and only to seize them as

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<v Speaker 1>you know, only sees their worth as what's under my skirt.

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<v Speaker 1>That's good, This is good, No problem there, hurry up,

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<v Speaker 1>drop your kids off there. Anyway, I'm not going to

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<v Speaker 1>do that segment because we don't really know each other

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<v Speaker 1>well enough for me to be so bold. Yesterday, I'll

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<v Speaker 1>end on this. Yesterday we talked to quite a bit

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<v Speaker 1>about transgenderism, and my point of bringing all this transgenderism

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<v Speaker 1>stuff up is first to help you if you know

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<v Speaker 1>someone who's struggling with gender dyst for you. But that's

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<v Speaker 1>not many people, for a vast majority of us. The

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<v Speaker 1>reason I bring up this transgenderism stuff is because it's

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<v Speaker 1>a propaganda war. If they can get you to consent

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<v Speaker 1>to transgender ideology, all right, If they can get you

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<v Speaker 1>to agree with this stuff that you're not born an agenda,

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<v Speaker 1>you decide your gender, You can change genders if you

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<v Speaker 1>agree with that. If they get you to agree with that,

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<v Speaker 1>there's nothing they can't get you to agree with. It's

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<v Speaker 1>very similar with critical race theory. If they get you

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<v Speaker 1>to agree that you're born racist, all white people are racist,

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<v Speaker 1>and all that. If you admit to that and you

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<v Speaker 1>start to flagellate yourself in shame. There's nothing they can't

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<v Speaker 1>get you to do, and that's what propaganda really is.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'll end with this quote from one of my

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<v Speaker 1>favorite writers, Theodore Dalrymple. He says, I came to the

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<v Speaker 1>conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to

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<v Speaker 1>persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate. The

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<v Speaker 1>point of propaganda is to humiliate you. The point of

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<v Speaker 1>this transgenders and stuff is to humiliate you. The point

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<v Speaker 1>of this critical race theory stuff is to humiliate you.

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<v Speaker 1>And therefore the less it corresponded to reality, the better.

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<v Speaker 1>When people are forced to remain silent when they're being

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<v Speaker 1>told the most obvious lies, or even worse, when they're

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<v Speaker 1>forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose one sin

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<v Speaker 1>for all their sense of probity. Let me look at

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<v Speaker 1>this word real quick self respect, I believe. Let's see

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<v Speaker 1>the quality of having strong moral principles, honesty, and decency.

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<v Speaker 1>To assent to obvious lies is to cooperate with evil,

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<v Speaker 1>and in some small ways, to become evil oneself. One's

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<v Speaker 1>standing to resist anything is thus eroded and even destroyed.

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<v Speaker 1>If you don't stand up against the most absurd of

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<v Speaker 1>the propaganda being spewed your way, then you won't have

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<v Speaker 1>the strength, or courage or intellectual ability to stand up

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<v Speaker 1>to anything. Let's draw some lines and not back down.

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<v Speaker 1>Mike Slater dot locals dot com. I'll put that quote

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<v Speaker 1>on our website. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Spread

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<v Speaker 1>the word. It's going on, Team Buck. Mike Slater here

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<v Speaker 1>in San Diego, filling it for the great Buck Sexton.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for being here, Mikeslater dot locals dot com is

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<v Speaker 1>our website. We've already put a ton of stuff from

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<v Speaker 1>the show today up there. Mike Slater dot locals dot com.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to share this story here. I think about

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<v Speaker 1>this story a lot, and I hope once you hear it,

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<v Speaker 1>you think about it a lot too. In the first hour,

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<v Speaker 1>so first we kicked off talking about Joe Biden's press

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<v Speaker 1>conversation today. We talked about the border. He said, we

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<v Speaker 1>haven't changed any immigration policies. What are you talking to?

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<v Speaker 1>Two massive policies you changed. We talked all about that,

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<v Speaker 1>and then we got into this conversation about the importance

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<v Speaker 1>of work, the importance of meaningful work because Oakland is

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<v Speaker 1>the first big city they're stocked in. A couple of

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<v Speaker 1>other cities have done this before, but the first big

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<v Speaker 1>city to have guaranteed minimum income five hundred bucks a month,

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<v Speaker 1>no strings, no strings attached, and their twist is only

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<v Speaker 1>for families of color, which is going to be great.

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<v Speaker 1>So we talked all about the problems with that, and

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<v Speaker 1>not just the economic issues of that, and there's a

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<v Speaker 1>million of those, but the moral issues with that and

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<v Speaker 1>what that does to one's soul. And we played a

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<v Speaker 1>clip of Jordan Peterson and he speaking against this, and

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<v Speaker 1>he said, does man live by bread alone? We have

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<v Speaker 1>a much deeper problem in America than just lack of money.

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<v Speaker 1>We have a nihilism problem, lack of meaning, lack of purpose.

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<v Speaker 1>You throw money at that and it just makes it worse.

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<v Speaker 1>So we talked all about work and the importance of work,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's not necessarily the work even itself as much,

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<v Speaker 1>although yes, as much as why you're doing it and

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<v Speaker 1>who you're supporting in the process. You take that away

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<v Speaker 1>from people, You rob people of that, and people will

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<v Speaker 1>spiral into a dark place very quickly. You're taking people's

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<v Speaker 1>dignity away from them. And we talked about how it's

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<v Speaker 1>being spun to trick you. So we did that all

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<v Speaker 1>in the first hour. On that point, I want to

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<v Speaker 1>tell the story of Richard Montagnes Richard Montagnez. Richard Montagnas

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<v Speaker 1>grew up in Cucamonga Valley. It's in Riverside County. It's

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<v Speaker 1>north to San Diego, east of La went to school,

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<v Speaker 1>could barely speak English. Every day he'd come home crying

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<v Speaker 1>to his mom. Kids were asked what they wanted to

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<v Speaker 1>be when they grew up, and you know, it was

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<v Speaker 1>the usual doctor, astronaut, and he said nothing. He said,

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<v Speaker 1>there was no dream where I came from. He had

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<v Speaker 1>no no dream to become anything when he grew up.

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<v Speaker 1>He dropped out of school in the fourth grade, worked

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<v Speaker 1>in farms and factories. He got a job as a

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<v Speaker 1>janitor out of factory four dollars an hour. He was

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<v Speaker 1>eighteen years old at this point. Richard montagna is eighteen

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<v Speaker 1>years old janitor four bucks an hour. His first day

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<v Speaker 1>of work, his grandfather pulled him aside his grandfather. They

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<v Speaker 1>lived in a little concrete hut with he was eighteen

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<v Speaker 1>family members. So he's eighteen years old on his first

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<v Speaker 1>day of the job, and his grandfather pulled him aside,

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<v Speaker 1>and he said, son, make sure that floor shines and

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<v Speaker 1>let them know that I'm Montagnes mopped it. Don't just

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<v Speaker 1>go and do the bare minimum and do the job

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<v Speaker 1>and get done and come home. No, no, no, no,

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<v Speaker 1>make sure that floor shines and let them know I'm

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<v Speaker 1>montagne is mopped in. So he decided, I'm going to

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<v Speaker 1>be the best janitor that this company's ever seen. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>gonna make a name for myself as a janitor. So

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<v Speaker 1>he went and he did a great job mop at

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<v Speaker 1>the floors, but he wanted more. So we spent time

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<v Speaker 1>learning about the company's products and their manufacturing methods and

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<v Speaker 1>their marketing. He even asked a salesman if he could

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<v Speaker 1>tag along with him as they sell. I mean, think

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<v Speaker 1>about the think of that goal. The janitor roll Imagine

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<v Speaker 1>you're the salesperson. The janitor rolls up and says, hey,

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<v Speaker 1>do you mind if I come on a sales call

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<v Speaker 1>it with you? You'd be like, what do you what?

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<v Speaker 1>This is mid nineteen eighties and the CEO of the company.

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<v Speaker 1>The company wasn't doing well, and the CEO started this

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<v Speaker 1>new initiative called Act Like an Owner. They had three

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<v Speaker 1>hundred thousand employees and it wasn't going well and they

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<v Speaker 1>needed new ideas and new buy in a new right.

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<v Speaker 1>So Richard he called the CEO like, this is your thing,

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<v Speaker 1>I act like an owner. All right, I'm gonna call

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<v Speaker 1>you up. So this gretary picks up up mister Enrico's office.

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<v Speaker 1>Who's this, says Richard. Montagne's in California. Oh, Richard, are

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<v Speaker 1>you the vice president overseeing California? No? I work at

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<v Speaker 1>the Rancho Cucamonga plant. Oh so you're the vice president

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<v Speaker 1>of operation. No, I actually work inside the plant. You're

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<v Speaker 1>the manager. No, I'm the janitor. To the secretary's credit

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<v Speaker 1>and to the CEO's credit, he picked up the phone

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<v Speaker 1>and Richard made his first pitch over the phone, and

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<v Speaker 1>the CEO said, Okay, make a presentation delivered in person.

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<v Speaker 1>You got two weeks. So Richard, who again dropped out

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<v Speaker 1>of school in the fourth grade, went to the library,

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<v Speaker 1>picked up a book on marketing strategies. Two weeks crash course,

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<v Speaker 1>got ready, got himself a suit and tie, met with

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<v Speaker 1>the met with the met with the janitor, and met

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<v Speaker 1>with the CEO and all the executives. And you could

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<v Speaker 1>picture this in your head perfectly, can't you like, I

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<v Speaker 1>just imagine this long wooden table. It's like so corporate.

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<v Speaker 1>This room is super corporate, long wooden table, everyone in

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<v Speaker 1>the same color suits, ceo way at the end and

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<v Speaker 1>in walks the janitor. Now I have two different versions

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<v Speaker 1>in my head. In one version, he's still wearing his

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<v Speaker 1>janitor uniform, which is awesome. I like that version in

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<v Speaker 1>my head. But I also got one where he bought

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<v Speaker 1>like a brown suit and like this this ugly brown

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<v Speaker 1>yellow off gold tie. Are you with me? You can

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<v Speaker 1>imagine where you want, But I think we're all pretty

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<v Speaker 1>much in the same ballpark with envisioning this. And he says, listen,

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<v Speaker 1>I learned or I came up with this idea when

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<v Speaker 1>I went on a sales call to a Hispanic neighborhood

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<v Speaker 1>and there was no product for Mexicans. Where I grew up,

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<v Speaker 1>we had Mexican street corn, and I think people were

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<v Speaker 1>really like something that's inspired by that. And the CEO said,

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<v Speaker 1>all right, what's it tastes like? He said, glad? She asked,

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<v Speaker 1>And he pulled out a hundred plastic baggies and he

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<v Speaker 1>made his own mix, made his own mix inside each

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<v Speaker 1>little baggie passed around the room and the CEO tasted

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<v Speaker 1>it and said, put your mop away, you're coming with us.

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<v Speaker 1>Richard was the janitor at the Rancho Cucamonga Friedo Lays factory,

1:21:40.680 --> 1:21:45.040
<v Speaker 1>and he was the inventor of what would become Flaming

1:21:45.320 --> 1:21:50.280
<v Speaker 1>Hot Cheetos, one of the most successful launches in Friedo

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<v Speaker 1>Lay history. He became a vice president and is now

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<v Speaker 1>worth twenty million dollars. It's a couple lessons from this

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<v Speaker 1>awesome story. First, in America, we have the rags to

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<v Speaker 1>riches story. We love it. We love the rags to

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<v Speaker 1>riches and we should, but oftentimes we make it when

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<v Speaker 1>we tell the story, we make it seemed too much

1:22:14.800 --> 1:22:21.600
<v Speaker 1>like luck or too much like oh, his success was inevitable.

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<v Speaker 1>Of course he was going to be a rags to

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<v Speaker 1>riches because we're looking back on it and he became

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<v Speaker 1>a riches so we're like, oh, yeah, of course it

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<v Speaker 1>was gonna go that way. No, No, Richard was poor.

1:22:32.160 --> 1:22:34.559
<v Speaker 1>He did a lot more than show up to get rich.

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<v Speaker 1>We tend to YadA YadA YadA, over all the defeats

1:22:38.479 --> 1:22:40.760
<v Speaker 1>and difficulties and challenges. Right, we tell the story of

1:22:41.040 --> 1:22:44.320
<v Speaker 1>he was poor, showed up got rich. Like no, there

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<v Speaker 1>was a lot of work, the difficulty, the research, the

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<v Speaker 1>courage to ask salespeople to go on sales calls, right,

1:22:50.160 --> 1:22:52.519
<v Speaker 1>his unpaid time off going on a sales call away

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<v Speaker 1>from his family. Sacrifice. This is a huge canyon between

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<v Speaker 1>rags and riches, and you can't just gloss over that.

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<v Speaker 1>Also the root of the story, of course, it comes

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<v Speaker 1>from his grandpa eighteen years old. First day, make sure

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<v Speaker 1>you make sure that floor shines and let them know

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<v Speaker 1>that a montagne is mopped it. And that's the deal.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the difference. It's a pride in your work. A

1:23:21.360 --> 1:23:23.320
<v Speaker 1>pride in your work therefore a pride in yourself. So

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<v Speaker 1>when you go back to Oakland and they're like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>you don't have to work, because that's where we're headed.

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<v Speaker 1>We're headed towards guaranteed minimum income and we're all gonna

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<v Speaker 1>be living like a bunch of flat fat slabs and

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<v Speaker 1>wally being zipped around, all of us with the iPad

1:23:32.720 --> 1:23:34.599
<v Speaker 1>in front of our face, and no one having to work,

1:23:34.640 --> 1:23:37.280
<v Speaker 1>and it's gonna be so liberating. They say, No, a

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<v Speaker 1>pride in your work, he goes, A pride in yourself.

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<v Speaker 1>And here's the other truth of this story that I

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<v Speaker 1>love so much. Even if he didn't hit it big,

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<v Speaker 1>even if the story does not end with oh, and

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<v Speaker 1>he's the vice president, he's worth twenty million dollars. Even

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<v Speaker 1>if Richard Montagnez only mopped that floor until it shined,

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<v Speaker 1>and if one person, if really no one, if he

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<v Speaker 1>knew that a Montagnez mopped it, even that is a

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<v Speaker 1>beautiful American story. Even that is a job well done.

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<v Speaker 1>Even that is the foundation of a life well lived.

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<v Speaker 1>It doesn't have to be the rags to riches, the

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<v Speaker 1>richest part doesn't have to be there. I'm sure if

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<v Speaker 1>he put that much pride into his mopping, I'm sure

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<v Speaker 1>he also put that much pride into his family and

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<v Speaker 1>all the other things that matter in life as well.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's the thing that needs to be celebrated. Whether

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<v Speaker 1>he got the riches or not. Maybe the CEO never

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<v Speaker 1>picked up the phone and that was the end of

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<v Speaker 1>that whole story, It's still the story worth telling. The

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<v Speaker 1>Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. He said, if a man

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<v Speaker 1>is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep

1:24:58.880 --> 1:25:03.479
<v Speaker 1>streets even as a might Colangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music.

1:25:03.560 --> 1:25:07.559
<v Speaker 1>Or Shakespeare wrote poetry, he should sweep streets so well

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<v Speaker 1>that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause

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<v Speaker 1>to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did

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<v Speaker 1>his job well. Now you know the rest of the story.

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<v Speaker 1>Mike Slater dot locals dot com filling in for Buck Sexton,

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<v Speaker 1>spread the word eighteen buck. Mike Slater, San Diego, filling

1:25:25.800 --> 1:25:28.000
<v Speaker 1>in for Buck Sexton. Mike Slater dot locals dot com

1:25:28.160 --> 1:25:31.000
<v Speaker 1>is our website. Let me let me keep going on

1:25:31.080 --> 1:25:33.360
<v Speaker 1>this because this is such an important theme. As as

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<v Speaker 1>universal basic income becomes more popular, it's going to be

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<v Speaker 1>pushed more and more nationwide. Have we got a couple

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<v Speaker 1>of small cities like Stockton started a couple years ago,

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<v Speaker 1>obviously some European cities. Oakland is now the first big

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<v Speaker 1>city to do it. Goodness Evanston, Illinois has a reparations

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<v Speaker 1>program for black families twenty five thousand dollars a year

1:25:50.760 --> 1:25:53.360
<v Speaker 1>that they can use for mortgage or home improvements or

1:25:53.400 --> 1:25:56.880
<v Speaker 1>buying a house or whatever. Only black families. Right, So

1:25:57.320 --> 1:26:01.360
<v Speaker 1>this is growing and it's gonna happen, right unless, well,

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<v Speaker 1>it's gonna happen. It's gonna be more popular unless we

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<v Speaker 1>make a stand against it, particularly universal basic income, guaranteed

1:26:08.640 --> 1:26:12.360
<v Speaker 1>minimum income. It is a bad thing. It's been an

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<v Speaker 1>idea for a long time. It's been a bad idea

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<v Speaker 1>for a long time. The economics of it, yes, but

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<v Speaker 1>the moral arguments is what conservatives really need to fully

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<v Speaker 1>understand and articulate the dignity of meaningful work. And again,

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<v Speaker 1>it doesn't matter what the work is. I want to

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<v Speaker 1>share the story of a guy named Dallas. He was

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<v Speaker 1>at a gang. He was in a gang when he's fifteen,

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<v Speaker 1>homeless by eighteen, spent decades homeless, and he couldn't do

1:26:42.120 --> 1:26:46.559
<v Speaker 1>it anymore, and he went to a charity job training

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<v Speaker 1>program and the very first job that he that he

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<v Speaker 1>had was called push the bucket. Push the bucket. Dallas

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<v Speaker 1>put on a blue uniform and he pushed a bucket

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<v Speaker 1>and mop up and down the filthy streets of New

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<v Speaker 1>York City, cleaning up trash. Now, a lot of people,

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of progressives, we'll look at that is demeaning

1:27:12.720 --> 1:27:16.280
<v Speaker 1>and undignified, and it's offensive to have someone clean sidewalks

1:27:16.360 --> 1:27:23.760
<v Speaker 1>like that, that's beneath them. Let me quote Dallas. Before long,

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<v Speaker 1>I wasn't just picking trash off the streets I was

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<v Speaker 1>picking up values, morals and principles. I was picking up

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<v Speaker 1>self esteem. And I would look when I would look

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<v Speaker 1>back at the block I just cleaned, and see what

1:27:40.479 --> 1:27:43.799
<v Speaker 1>a great job I'd done. I realized I'd picked up pride.

1:27:46.200 --> 1:27:48.120
<v Speaker 1>He said, the greatest day of his life. There's a big,

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<v Speaker 1>giant snowstorm in New York City and the whole city

1:27:49.880 --> 1:27:52.360
<v Speaker 1>shut down, but he and his brothers in blue shoveled

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<v Speaker 1>the sidewalks. And he said it was the most incredible

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<v Speaker 1>day for him because he said, just a few weeks

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<v Speaker 1>before that, he was sleeping on the sidewalks, sleeping in garbage,

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<v Speaker 1>people stepping over, I'm ignoring him. He was dead to

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<v Speaker 1>the city. And he said, now here, I am helping

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<v Speaker 1>to bring this city back to life. That's what I

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<v Speaker 1>mean by meaningful work. There's a Cardinal Dolan. He tells

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<v Speaker 1>the story of the renovating of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, New

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<v Speaker 1>York City, and he said one day he was walking

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<v Speaker 1>around inspecting the progress and he asked one of the people,

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<v Speaker 1>He said, what are you doing? And one of the

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<v Speaker 1>workers said, you know, I'm doing the whatever, some scaffolding

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<v Speaker 1>work here or whatever. And he asked another guy said

1:28:31.520 --> 1:28:33.559
<v Speaker 1>what are you doing. Oh, I'm doing the rewiring here.

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<v Speaker 1>And he asked a third guy said, oh, what are

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<v Speaker 1>you doing? And the guy said, I'm rebuilding a cathedral.

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<v Speaker 1>Just be beamed. I'm rebuilding a cathedral. And one day

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<v Speaker 1>I'll bring my grandkids here and show them what I

1:28:53.840 --> 1:28:59.200
<v Speaker 1>helped to do. That's what I mean by meaningful work

1:28:59.240 --> 1:29:02.720
<v Speaker 1>and progress. Who are pushing these guarantee minimum InCom there

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<v Speaker 1>they're robbing people of this. And it's not just guaranteed

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<v Speaker 1>minimum InCom I mean, it's all. It's all welfare programs

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<v Speaker 1>we currently have. It's just a failing economy. It's raising

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<v Speaker 1>taxes and results in fewer jobs, and it's all. It's

1:29:14.240 --> 1:29:17.360
<v Speaker 1>all these government programs that are ruining the economy. They

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<v Speaker 1>all have this effect. The Cardinal quotes Pope Francis. He says,

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<v Speaker 1>and Pope Francis said, there's no worse material poverty than

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<v Speaker 1>the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and

1:29:29.000 --> 1:29:33.160
<v Speaker 1>deprives them of the dignity of work. Jesus was a

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<v Speaker 1>carpenter for the love of being. Adam and Eve, they

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<v Speaker 1>worked the garden. God didn't have them just laying around

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<v Speaker 1>doing nothing. They worked but to the left, since Marxism,

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<v Speaker 1>to the left, work is seen as drudgery and dehumanizing,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's a bad thing. So the progressive goal is

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<v Speaker 1>to not work, to be free from work, to be

1:29:53.760 --> 1:29:57.519
<v Speaker 1>liberated from work, and instead to seek pleasure. But it's

1:29:57.560 --> 1:30:02.439
<v Speaker 1>pleasure is not the same as happiness. Actually, there's something

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<v Speaker 1>I want to play in the next segment on that point.

1:30:04.680 --> 1:30:11.560
<v Speaker 1>Pleasure and happiness are very different, very different. Let me

1:30:11.640 --> 1:30:13.960
<v Speaker 1>take a break here and we'll do that. Come here next.

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<v Speaker 1>But think about this, think think always. Whenever there's a

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<v Speaker 1>proposal from a government, we tend to think initially to

1:30:21.520 --> 1:30:23.439
<v Speaker 1>the economic aspects of it. And that's good, right, you

1:30:23.479 --> 1:30:26.280
<v Speaker 1>need to do that, But think think of like I

1:30:26.360 --> 1:30:28.960
<v Speaker 1>take a pause and think one step deeper, what's the

1:30:29.120 --> 1:30:32.280
<v Speaker 1>moral implications of this? And also, instead of being tricked

1:30:32.479 --> 1:30:36.479
<v Speaker 1>by the left of oh we're giving you this, no

1:30:36.560 --> 1:30:38.160
<v Speaker 1>such thing as a free lunch, what are you also

1:30:38.320 --> 1:30:42.320
<v Speaker 1>robbing of me? Oh, we're just giving this family five

1:30:42.439 --> 1:30:44.519
<v Speaker 1>hundred dollars a month. We're just giving them this, We're

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<v Speaker 1>just giving them this, all right, what are you also

1:30:46.320 --> 1:30:50.920
<v Speaker 1>robbing of them? Robbing from them? People don't see that,

1:30:51.120 --> 1:30:54.240
<v Speaker 1>They don't think of that until it's too late, until

1:30:54.240 --> 1:30:56.640
<v Speaker 1>they've already taken it. They have the thing they were

1:30:56.680 --> 1:30:58.160
<v Speaker 1>told they were going to get, and they didn't even

1:30:58.240 --> 1:31:00.320
<v Speaker 1>know that they had that thing. Take and at the

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<v Speaker 1>same time, so think of the moral arguments for things,

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<v Speaker 1>and think of what's being taken when we're told we're

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<v Speaker 1>being given. Mike Slater at locals dot com. Mike Slater

1:31:12.439 --> 1:31:14.840
<v Speaker 1>filling it for Buck Sexton. Spread the word eighteen Buck.

1:31:14.960 --> 1:31:17.080
<v Speaker 1>Mike Slater filling it for the great Buck Sexton. Thanks

1:31:17.120 --> 1:31:18.920
<v Speaker 1>to Buck for having me back here. Mike Slaer out

1:31:18.960 --> 1:31:21.760
<v Speaker 1>locals dot com. Gosh, we've covered a ton today. Kicked

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<v Speaker 1>off the show, of course, talking about the press conference yesterday.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe we can do a little recap have that coming

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<v Speaker 1>up as well. I'll just give you the very very

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<v Speaker 1>short of what's going to happen right now. Only far right,

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<v Speaker 1>fringe crazy activists are questioning Joe Biden's mental acuity, and

1:31:39.520 --> 1:31:42.600
<v Speaker 1>how dare you, by the way, how dare That's so

1:31:42.800 --> 1:31:47.360
<v Speaker 1>unpatriotic of you. You're emboldening our enemies by questioning the

1:31:47.439 --> 1:31:50.680
<v Speaker 1>president's mental health. And then more mainstream conservatives are going

1:31:50.720 --> 1:31:52.479
<v Speaker 1>to do it, and then people on the far left

1:31:52.560 --> 1:31:56.760
<v Speaker 1>are gonna try to flank the president by questioning his

1:31:56.920 --> 1:31:59.479
<v Speaker 1>mental acuity, and then again you're gonna be attacked by

1:31:59.520 --> 1:32:01.320
<v Speaker 1>the media for so how dare you? You're the worst,

1:32:01.320 --> 1:32:03.680
<v Speaker 1>You're terrible, it's awful, blah blah blah. And then one

1:32:03.760 --> 1:32:07.000
<v Speaker 1>day something's going to happen, and it's gonna be so

1:32:07.120 --> 1:32:10.400
<v Speaker 1>obvious to every single person, including the Democrats, and old

1:32:10.479 --> 1:32:12.720
<v Speaker 1>Joe is going to be thrown out to pasture and

1:32:13.120 --> 1:32:16.799
<v Speaker 1>he may not even know it. And one day Kamala

1:32:16.840 --> 1:32:19.599
<v Speaker 1>will be sitting behind the Resolute desk and that will

1:32:19.600 --> 1:32:22.800
<v Speaker 1>be the end of Joe Biden. I don't know when

1:32:22.840 --> 1:32:24.439
<v Speaker 1>it's going to be. Could be pretty quick, but he

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<v Speaker 1>ain't making it to eighty two, that's for sure. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>we told the story of Woodrow Wilson in nineteen he

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<v Speaker 1>had a terrible stroke and for a year he was

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<v Speaker 1>still president. For a year, he was half his body

1:32:35.920 --> 1:32:38.960
<v Speaker 1>was paralyzed. He couldn't focus for more than sixty seconds

1:32:38.960 --> 1:32:41.559
<v Speaker 1>at a time, he couldn't speak properly, obviously, he could

1:32:41.560 --> 1:32:43.760
<v Speaker 1>only see out of one eye, and for one year

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<v Speaker 1>the media propped him up Weekend at Bernie Style, and

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<v Speaker 1>one guy in particular, Lewis Cibold, and we read from

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<v Speaker 1>the article. He wrote this article in the New York World,

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<v Speaker 1>and it was all about how healthy Woodrow Wilson was,

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<v Speaker 1>and he was more alive than ever and sprightly and quick.

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<v Speaker 1>I quitted and could focus now actually on the things

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<v Speaker 1>that really mattered, and like raise total like oh, he's

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<v Speaker 1>the best person ever. And it was completely made up.

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<v Speaker 1>The whole story was completely made up, every single word

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<v Speaker 1>of it. It never happened. The interview never happened. They

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<v Speaker 1>didn't have three hour conversation. Woodrow Wilson couldn't couldn't talk,

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<v Speaker 1>You couldn't focus for sixty seconds. It was entirely written

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<v Speaker 1>with by the chief of staff. The only people that

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<v Speaker 1>saw Woodrow Wilson for a year was his doctor, his wife,

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<v Speaker 1>and his chief of staff for one years. His nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>twenty They could pull that off in nineteen twenty, but

1:33:33.479 --> 1:33:36.360
<v Speaker 1>can they media pulled that off in twenty twenty one.

1:33:36.800 --> 1:33:39.679
<v Speaker 1>I'm not as certain. But that guy who wrote that article,

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<v Speaker 1>Lewis Seibold, he won a Pulitzer Prize for it. So

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<v Speaker 1>there's gonna be a lot of journalists in America today

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<v Speaker 1>who are going to be doing their best to prop

1:33:50.760 --> 1:33:52.200
<v Speaker 1>up Joe Biden for as long as they can, and

1:33:52.240 --> 1:33:53.920
<v Speaker 1>they're going to be encouraged by the fact that if

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<v Speaker 1>they do a great job of it, they'll win a

1:33:55.680 --> 1:34:00.120
<v Speaker 1>Pulitzer for it. Anyway, that was the first half hour

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<v Speaker 1>the show. I want to continue this point about work

1:34:02.479 --> 1:34:05.000
<v Speaker 1>and the importance of work and fulfillment and happiness. There's

1:34:05.040 --> 1:34:07.800
<v Speaker 1>a difference between pleasure and happiness that's super important. Let

1:34:07.880 --> 1:34:09.280
<v Speaker 1>me build to it, though. First I want to share

1:34:09.320 --> 1:34:12.640
<v Speaker 1>this quote from Thomas Williams. He says, of all the

1:34:12.840 --> 1:34:15.800
<v Speaker 1>possible privileges to have. We hear about privilege all the time, right,

1:34:17.520 --> 1:34:21.760
<v Speaker 1>white privilege, sis siss, male privilege, but all this stuff

1:34:21.760 --> 1:34:24.719
<v Speaker 1>for all his privilege, he says, all the possible privileges

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<v Speaker 1>to have health, beauty, charisma, intelligence, athleticism, all of which

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<v Speaker 1>respect no boundaries of race, ethnicity, religion, or class, have

1:34:37.520 --> 1:34:42.000
<v Speaker 1>to be the most important by far. And of course

1:34:42.040 --> 1:34:44.280
<v Speaker 1>he's completely right. Of all the possible privileges to have

1:34:44.360 --> 1:34:49.840
<v Speaker 1>its health, beauty, charisma, intelligence, athleticism. The extreme example of

1:34:49.920 --> 1:34:52.200
<v Speaker 1>this is Jeremy Meeks. Do you remember this guy, Jeremy

1:34:52.280 --> 1:34:54.439
<v Speaker 1>Meeks and name may Ringabell. He was known as the

1:34:54.560 --> 1:34:58.280
<v Speaker 1>hot felon So this guy, he was eighteen, he beat

1:34:58.360 --> 1:35:00.800
<v Speaker 1>up a sixteen year old, served two years in prison

1:35:01.880 --> 1:35:07.000
<v Speaker 1>in California, joined the crips year later. Year after after

1:35:07.080 --> 1:35:09.560
<v Speaker 1>he was picked out or got out of jail, he

1:35:09.760 --> 1:35:12.120
<v Speaker 1>was swept up in a stocked in gang sweep and

1:35:12.240 --> 1:35:14.680
<v Speaker 1>his mug shot was put online and he's a good

1:35:14.680 --> 1:35:18.040
<v Speaker 1>looking guy, and it went viral and he went on

1:35:18.120 --> 1:35:21.240
<v Speaker 1>to become a suit a model though grow an article

1:35:21.320 --> 1:35:26.040
<v Speaker 1>they called him the buff bad boy. At the time,

1:35:26.120 --> 1:35:29.160
<v Speaker 1>he was married to a woman. They had the woman

1:35:29.200 --> 1:35:33.160
<v Speaker 1>had two other kids. They had a kid together, and

1:35:34.360 --> 1:35:36.240
<v Speaker 1>he got out of jail and he was with this

1:35:36.280 --> 1:35:38.360
<v Speaker 1>woman still. But he was seen in the tabloids kissing

1:35:38.400 --> 1:35:40.920
<v Speaker 1>the heiress of a British billionaire on a yacht in

1:35:41.000 --> 1:35:44.360
<v Speaker 1>the Maldives. And they now have a two year old together.

1:35:44.720 --> 1:35:46.320
<v Speaker 1>But they're not together anymore, but they have a two

1:35:46.520 --> 1:35:50.320
<v Speaker 1>they're co parenting, which is very nice. So that is

1:35:50.360 --> 1:35:52.240
<v Speaker 1>a very deep dive into the life of this person

1:35:52.320 --> 1:35:54.519
<v Speaker 1>that you did not know you needed today. But that's

1:35:54.560 --> 1:35:57.280
<v Speaker 1>a gang bang and felon, who no way would be

1:35:57.400 --> 1:36:00.200
<v Speaker 1>able to get on a yacht with a billion are

1:36:00.280 --> 1:36:05.800
<v Speaker 1>hairis if he wasn't very very ridiculously good looking. That

1:36:06.080 --> 1:36:11.240
<v Speaker 1>is beauty charisma or beauty privilege. I say beauty privilege,

1:36:13.160 --> 1:36:15.960
<v Speaker 1>but it's also true of other character traits too. I

1:36:16.080 --> 1:36:18.600
<v Speaker 1>forget the numbers exactly. You can, you can look them up,

1:36:18.680 --> 1:36:25.280
<v Speaker 1>but it's um top the hype privilege, hight privilege. There,

1:36:25.600 --> 1:36:28.960
<v Speaker 1>it's something like, these are ballparks. Don't quote me none,

1:36:29.000 --> 1:36:31.040
<v Speaker 1>this is ballpark. The average height of a guy is

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<v Speaker 1>five nine, and it's something like two percent of men

1:36:38.520 --> 1:36:42.559
<v Speaker 1>are over six two, two percent of men over six two.

1:36:43.040 --> 1:36:46.559
<v Speaker 1>But it's like forty or fifty percent of CEOs are

1:36:46.600 --> 1:36:52.120
<v Speaker 1>over six two. And they've done they've done the math.

1:36:52.200 --> 1:36:54.680
<v Speaker 1>On every inch of height, you end up earning like

1:36:54.880 --> 1:36:58.360
<v Speaker 1>ten thousand dollars more per year on average. Right, Taller

1:36:58.479 --> 1:37:02.200
<v Speaker 1>people do. Why well, because when you're taller, people have

1:37:02.280 --> 1:37:05.040
<v Speaker 1>this perception that you're a better leader, or that you

1:37:05.120 --> 1:37:07.880
<v Speaker 1>have all these other characteristics of a leader. Just because

1:37:07.920 --> 1:37:14.400
<v Speaker 1>you're tall, you're promoted more often. Right, height privilege. There's

1:37:14.439 --> 1:37:26.080
<v Speaker 1>also dressing nice privilege. Right, talking articulately privilege. We hired

1:37:26.120 --> 1:37:28.200
<v Speaker 1>someone on my TV show once because he showed great

1:37:28.439 --> 1:37:35.800
<v Speaker 1>enthusiasm for the opportunity. That's enthusiasm privilege. And if we

1:37:35.840 --> 1:37:39.479
<v Speaker 1>would focus more on these things, then we could stop

1:37:39.600 --> 1:37:46.080
<v Speaker 1>with the goofy race and ethnicity, bias, privilege conversation. Okay,

1:37:46.200 --> 1:37:50.600
<v Speaker 1>this is there's these YouTube videos and they're called like

1:37:51.840 --> 1:37:53.760
<v Speaker 1>I don't know what, they're rich but not happy or

1:37:53.800 --> 1:37:55.880
<v Speaker 1>something like that. And there's a bunch of these and

1:37:57.040 --> 1:37:59.800
<v Speaker 1>I love them because they just they interview celebrities or

1:37:59.800 --> 1:38:06.320
<v Speaker 1>they're clips of these celebrities who are miserable. And people

1:38:06.400 --> 1:38:08.400
<v Speaker 1>think they have it all and you're rich and you're famous,

1:38:08.439 --> 1:38:09.720
<v Speaker 1>and you have this and that, and you also have

1:38:09.920 --> 1:38:12.080
<v Speaker 1>I just I recently watched the Michael Jordan documentary and

1:38:12.200 --> 1:38:14.280
<v Speaker 1>there's just one scene where he's in the height of

1:38:14.360 --> 1:38:16.960
<v Speaker 1>his fame and he's sitting in the hotel room and

1:38:17.160 --> 1:38:19.280
<v Speaker 1>he can't go, he can't leave. He just wants pizza.

1:38:19.320 --> 1:38:21.599
<v Speaker 1>You can't leave his hotel room because you get mobbed

1:38:21.600 --> 1:38:23.280
<v Speaker 1>by all these people. And he's miserable. He hates it,

1:38:23.360 --> 1:38:26.320
<v Speaker 1>he hates his life. He's miserable. So people think that

1:38:26.640 --> 1:38:27.840
<v Speaker 1>you know that you get rich and famous, then you

1:38:27.880 --> 1:38:29.360
<v Speaker 1>have it all and it's everything you want. But it's not.

1:38:29.439 --> 1:38:32.080
<v Speaker 1>There's a difference between pleasure and happiness. We keep seeking

1:38:32.120 --> 1:38:37.840
<v Speaker 1>after pleasure and we're missing the fulfilledness, the fulfillingness of

1:38:38.000 --> 1:38:40.200
<v Speaker 1>life that we should be seeking for instead. Anyway, here's

1:38:40.280 --> 1:38:42.760
<v Speaker 1>just an example of these videos, and this the one

1:38:42.800 --> 1:38:44.639
<v Speaker 1>at the end. The person at the end is Marilyn Monroe.

1:38:46.560 --> 1:38:56.920
<v Speaker 1>Do you feel that you're happier right now? Sometimes? This

1:38:57.200 --> 1:39:00.640
<v Speaker 1>is sometimes, But I feel like the way that I

1:39:00.720 --> 1:39:04.480
<v Speaker 1>have money kind of took away a lot of my happiness.

1:39:05.080 --> 1:39:08.800
<v Speaker 1>Then what happened was I then experience the things that

1:39:09.240 --> 1:39:11.960
<v Speaker 1>I was culturally indoctrinated to believe would be a kind

1:39:12.000 --> 1:39:18.839
<v Speaker 1>of salvation. Fame, fortune, attention, limitless filat show if required,

1:39:20.680 --> 1:39:25.120
<v Speaker 1>And yet salvation did not come. I bought pleasure for

1:39:25.280 --> 1:39:28.559
<v Speaker 1>so long. I can't buy happiness. You can buy pleasure, though,

1:39:28.760 --> 1:39:30.840
<v Speaker 1>And a lot of people say, like, oh, money isn't happiness, Well,

1:39:30.960 --> 1:39:32.400
<v Speaker 1>money can buy a boat and a boat and maker

1:39:32.680 --> 1:39:34.320
<v Speaker 1>happy to that kind of thing. I think it can

1:39:34.880 --> 1:39:38.000
<v Speaker 1>completely destroy human being and it I got to a point,

1:39:38.040 --> 1:39:41.240
<v Speaker 1>did it almost destroy complete? Yeah? It almost completely destroyed me.

1:39:41.360 --> 1:39:43.760
<v Speaker 1>But I was lucky enough, by the grace of God,

1:39:43.880 --> 1:39:46.800
<v Speaker 1>to have people that care about me enough to be like, hey,

1:39:46.880 --> 1:39:51.479
<v Speaker 1>j back on. Happiness is an emotional response to an outcome.

1:39:51.840 --> 1:39:54.200
<v Speaker 1>If I win, I will be happy. If I don't,

1:39:54.320 --> 1:39:57.400
<v Speaker 1>I won't. It's an if then cause and effect with

1:39:57.680 --> 1:40:02.400
<v Speaker 1>broke boat standard that we cannot sustain because we immediately

1:40:02.479 --> 1:40:05.760
<v Speaker 1>raise it every time we attain it. Do I feel

1:40:05.840 --> 1:40:15.920
<v Speaker 1>happy in life? Let's see. Let's see. I hope I'm

1:40:16.040 --> 1:40:21.360
<v Speaker 1>finding happy now. But I'm not just generally happy. If

1:40:21.400 --> 1:40:28.519
<v Speaker 1>I'm generally anything, I guess I'm generally miserable. I don't know.

1:40:29.640 --> 1:40:32.200
<v Speaker 1>M so sad at the end, lapse it off. I'll

1:40:32.200 --> 1:40:34.639
<v Speaker 1>put that video on our website, Mike Slater and locals

1:40:34.720 --> 1:40:37.519
<v Speaker 1>dot com. I'll end with this. Candice Bush now, she's

1:40:37.560 --> 1:40:40.080
<v Speaker 1>written a bunch of books, including the books that inspired

1:40:40.120 --> 1:40:42.280
<v Speaker 1>Sex in the City, the TV show, and she's now

1:40:42.520 --> 1:40:47.360
<v Speaker 1>in her sixties and she's miserable. So she wrote these

1:40:47.400 --> 1:40:51.880
<v Speaker 1>books about Carrie Bradshaw and the the quintessential independent woman

1:40:52.000 --> 1:40:54.839
<v Speaker 1>and forget about the patriarchy, and forget about family, forget

1:40:54.840 --> 1:40:58.280
<v Speaker 1>about getting married, just go absacks and your career and

1:40:58.479 --> 1:41:02.080
<v Speaker 1>all this time. And she took that path herself, and

1:41:03.760 --> 1:41:11.800
<v Speaker 1>she's miserable. She has no family. She never considered where

1:41:11.880 --> 1:41:14.120
<v Speaker 1>she'd be today when she was in her twenties and thirties,

1:41:14.120 --> 1:41:17.040
<v Speaker 1>because she was living the feminist dream and being married

1:41:17.080 --> 1:41:19.240
<v Speaker 1>and having kids would be a distraction from the true

1:41:19.360 --> 1:41:22.080
<v Speaker 1>feminist meaning of life, and that is work. And she

1:41:22.120 --> 1:41:24.000
<v Speaker 1>says when she knows women in her fifties and sixties

1:41:24.000 --> 1:41:27.600
<v Speaker 1>who are clubbing and dating younger men, and like some

1:41:27.880 --> 1:41:30.599
<v Speaker 1>divorce their husbands because they saw their fifties as their

1:41:30.680 --> 1:41:34.040
<v Speaker 1>last chance to find a new husband, and they're just miserable.

1:41:34.600 --> 1:41:36.679
<v Speaker 1>And it's so sad because not only is she miserable,

1:41:36.720 --> 1:41:39.519
<v Speaker 1>She's inspired so many other women to have that feminist

1:41:39.600 --> 1:41:44.160
<v Speaker 1>mindset that work is paramount of life. And I'll never marry,

1:41:44.160 --> 1:41:46.320
<v Speaker 1>I'll never have kids. And here she is finally admitting

1:41:46.360 --> 1:41:52.559
<v Speaker 1>that that was not wise. Counsel, be careful about these

1:41:52.600 --> 1:41:56.360
<v Speaker 1>influences in life, these forces in life. Make sure your

1:41:56.400 --> 1:42:00.360
<v Speaker 1>kids understand the difference between pleasure and happiness. I want

1:42:00.360 --> 1:42:03.439
<v Speaker 1>to come back with something that I can't believe this

1:42:03.520 --> 1:42:05.920
<v Speaker 1>comes up every year. I'm so sick of the story.

1:42:05.920 --> 1:42:07.800
<v Speaker 1>It comes up every year, and I can't believe the

1:42:07.920 --> 1:42:11.200
<v Speaker 1>Left still tries it. We'll do the very short of

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<v Speaker 1>it next Mike's later dot locals dot com. That's my website.

1:42:14.040 --> 1:42:16.000
<v Speaker 1>Feeling in for box Sexton spread the word eighteen Buck,

1:42:16.080 --> 1:42:18.200
<v Speaker 1>Mike Slater, San Diego feeling in for Box Sexton. I

1:42:18.280 --> 1:42:22.280
<v Speaker 1>don't Every year they keep doing this, they keep harping

1:42:22.360 --> 1:42:24.439
<v Speaker 1>on this. I guess the other day was Women's pay

1:42:24.520 --> 1:42:27.120
<v Speaker 1>Day or equal pay Day or out of something. And

1:42:27.320 --> 1:42:30.600
<v Speaker 1>every year they preyed up the women's soccer team. I

1:42:30.680 --> 1:42:33.439
<v Speaker 1>don't know who thinks this is a good idea or

1:42:33.520 --> 1:42:35.960
<v Speaker 1>that this messaging and marketing works from these people, I

1:42:36.000 --> 1:42:37.800
<v Speaker 1>don't know, And they get up there and they talk

1:42:37.800 --> 1:42:39.960
<v Speaker 1>about how unfair it is that the women's soccer team

1:42:40.000 --> 1:42:42.280
<v Speaker 1>makes less money than the men's soccer team. How do

1:42:42.400 --> 1:42:45.760
<v Speaker 1>people not see this yet? Here's Meghan Rapino at the

1:42:45.800 --> 1:42:49.400
<v Speaker 1>White House. I'm a member of the LGBTQ community with

1:42:49.560 --> 1:42:52.720
<v Speaker 1>pink hair, and where I come from, I could have

1:42:52.800 --> 1:42:55.400
<v Speaker 1>only dreamed that I would be standing in the position

1:42:55.840 --> 1:42:58.080
<v Speaker 1>I am today at the White House. I'm also a

1:42:58.160 --> 1:43:01.560
<v Speaker 1>professional athlete, and I've helped, along with all of my

1:43:01.640 --> 1:43:06.920
<v Speaker 1>teammates virtually here today, one teammate literally here today, win

1:43:07.040 --> 1:43:10.479
<v Speaker 1>four World Cup championships and four Olympic gold medals for

1:43:10.600 --> 1:43:15.080
<v Speaker 1>the United States. And despite those wins, I've been devalued.

1:43:15.640 --> 1:43:19.840
<v Speaker 1>I've been disrespected and dismissed because I am a woman,

1:43:20.439 --> 1:43:22.880
<v Speaker 1>and I've been told that I don't deserve any more

1:43:23.479 --> 1:43:27.680
<v Speaker 1>than less because I am a woman. You see, despite

1:43:28.000 --> 1:43:31.080
<v Speaker 1>all the wins, I'm still paid less than men who

1:43:31.200 --> 1:43:34.280
<v Speaker 1>do the same job that I do. For each trophy,

1:43:34.840 --> 1:43:38.320
<v Speaker 1>of which there are many, and for each win, for

1:43:38.479 --> 1:43:42.360
<v Speaker 1>each tie, and for each time that we play, it's less.

1:43:43.120 --> 1:43:45.240
<v Speaker 1>And I know there are millions of people who are

1:43:45.360 --> 1:43:49.679
<v Speaker 1>marginalized by gender in the world and experience the same

1:43:49.760 --> 1:43:52.040
<v Speaker 1>thing in their jobs. And I know that there are

1:43:52.120 --> 1:43:55.560
<v Speaker 1>people who experience even more where the layers of discrimination

1:43:56.720 --> 1:44:00.200
<v Speaker 1>continue to stack against them. And I and my teammates

1:44:00.320 --> 1:44:03.040
<v Speaker 1>are here for them. We own the US women's national

1:44:03.120 --> 1:44:06.120
<v Speaker 1>team today, are here because of them. Yeah, that's all

1:44:06.120 --> 1:44:08.920
<v Speaker 1>I can take is that they good. I love this.

1:44:09.040 --> 1:44:11.760
<v Speaker 1>I am deef value, disrespected, and dismissed because I am

1:44:11.840 --> 1:44:15.280
<v Speaker 1>a woman, says the millionaire soccer player while speaking with

1:44:15.320 --> 1:44:19.160
<v Speaker 1>the President and First Lady at the White House. It's

1:44:19.200 --> 1:44:21.040
<v Speaker 1>the same as Meghan Marko a couple weeks ago saying

1:44:21.280 --> 1:44:24.479
<v Speaker 1>I have no voice. I just have no voice, as

1:44:24.520 --> 1:44:26.280
<v Speaker 1>she's doing an interview with Oprah in front of one

1:44:26.320 --> 1:44:31.920
<v Speaker 1>hundred million people. No voice, all right, So here's the deal. Megan.

1:44:32.000 --> 1:44:37.000
<v Speaker 1>It's not that you deserve less money because you're a woman.

1:44:39.240 --> 1:44:41.519
<v Speaker 1>It's that you deserve to make less money because your

1:44:41.600 --> 1:44:46.040
<v Speaker 1>sport makes no money. Men's soccer is the most popular

1:44:46.080 --> 1:44:51.720
<v Speaker 1>sport in the world, women's soccer isn't. You may win

1:44:51.800 --> 1:44:54.519
<v Speaker 1>more games against women's teams, but no one buys tickets

1:44:54.560 --> 1:44:56.280
<v Speaker 1>to see them, and that's all that matters. Because here's

1:44:56.280 --> 1:44:58.519
<v Speaker 1>the deal. This is tricky for people to understand you,

1:44:58.720 --> 1:45:01.439
<v Speaker 1>not for you to understand. For most people, you don't

1:45:01.680 --> 1:45:04.640
<v Speaker 1>do the same job as men's soccer players. This is

1:45:04.680 --> 1:45:07.000
<v Speaker 1>what they're concerned. They're They're like, oh, we do the

1:45:07.080 --> 1:45:09.519
<v Speaker 1>same job. We both play soccer, and we're actually better.

1:45:09.560 --> 1:45:11.960
<v Speaker 1>We win games. The men's soccer team doesn't win games.

1:45:12.160 --> 1:45:14.320
<v Speaker 1>That's not the point. That's not your job. Your job

1:45:14.479 --> 1:45:17.280
<v Speaker 1>is not to play soccer. You thought your job was

1:45:17.320 --> 1:45:21.360
<v Speaker 1>to play soccer. I don't know. Your job is to

1:45:21.520 --> 1:45:26.880
<v Speaker 1>generate revenue. Your job is to sell tickets so people

1:45:26.960 --> 1:45:30.240
<v Speaker 1>buy hot dogs and soda in the stands. Your job

1:45:30.360 --> 1:45:33.040
<v Speaker 1>is to generate revenue by having people watch your games

1:45:33.040 --> 1:45:36.479
<v Speaker 1>so they can sell TV commercials. That's your job. You

1:45:36.680 --> 1:45:39.040
<v Speaker 1>do it by playing soccer. But playing soccer's not your job.

1:45:39.120 --> 1:45:40.960
<v Speaker 1>Your job is to generate revenue, and the men do

1:45:41.040 --> 1:45:44.000
<v Speaker 1>a lot more of that thing. That is a very

1:45:44.000 --> 1:45:47.200
<v Speaker 1>important difference. It's true for every job. I have a

1:45:47.280 --> 1:45:51.439
<v Speaker 1>radio show, Buck has a radio show. Right, I get

1:45:51.479 --> 1:45:54.880
<v Speaker 1>paid less, and I can't say, oh, that's unfair. Buck

1:45:54.920 --> 1:45:56.840
<v Speaker 1>and I both do the same job. No you don't,

1:45:57.920 --> 1:45:59.680
<v Speaker 1>I mean, oh, yeah we do. We both have three

1:45:59.720 --> 1:46:02.800
<v Speaker 1>hour radio shows. Yeah yeah, Buck generates more money for

1:46:02.840 --> 1:46:05.639
<v Speaker 1>the company. Your job's not to talk for three hours.

1:46:05.680 --> 1:46:08.120
<v Speaker 1>Your jobs to generate revenue. It's true for everyone. But

1:46:08.240 --> 1:46:10.439
<v Speaker 1>this is our narcissistic Megan Rippino as she thinks her

1:46:10.479 --> 1:46:13.720
<v Speaker 1>job is to play soccer. Also, you lost a game

1:46:13.720 --> 1:46:15.240
<v Speaker 1>a couple of years ago to a team of fifteen

1:46:15.280 --> 1:46:17.519
<v Speaker 1>year old boys. Right. I love Biden the other day

1:46:17.560 --> 1:46:20.360
<v Speaker 1>said women can do anything that men can do. That's

1:46:21.200 --> 1:46:27.120
<v Speaker 1>not true. That definitely, most definitely not true. Nor would

1:46:27.160 --> 1:46:28.840
<v Speaker 1>you want it to be true. That's what's weird about

1:46:28.840 --> 1:46:30.960
<v Speaker 1>the progressive world as well, nor would you want to.

1:46:30.960 --> 1:46:33.000
<v Speaker 1>Actually this ties into the third segment we had today

1:46:33.000 --> 1:46:35.320
<v Speaker 1>about the pyramid. I'm time to go into it now.

1:46:35.400 --> 1:46:39.960
<v Speaker 1>But Ali best Stucky, who I love, has a great quote.

1:46:40.000 --> 1:46:42.040
<v Speaker 1>She said, maybe I'm weird but I just don't need

1:46:42.120 --> 1:46:44.639
<v Speaker 1>this patronizing nonsense to feel great about being a woman.

1:46:45.520 --> 1:46:47.760
<v Speaker 1>I'm so glad there are things men can do that

1:46:47.880 --> 1:46:50.519
<v Speaker 1>I can't. I'm also pretty thrilled that I can do

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<v Speaker 1>things men can't, like carrying and delivering babies. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>want to be like a man. How ungrateful to can

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<v Speaker 1>you be? To be a woman? In America today the safest,

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<v Speaker 1>most prosperous time to ever be alive. You play soccer

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<v Speaker 1>for a living, You travel the world. Do you make

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<v Speaker 1>a pretty good living out of it? Do you know?

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<v Speaker 1>There were times when Major League baseball players needed a

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<v Speaker 1>second job to make ends meet on the off season.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a baseball card of nineteen seventy three, and on

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<v Speaker 1>the back is a cartoon of a baseball player pumping gas.

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<v Speaker 1>Because in the off season, this player pumped a gas

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<v Speaker 1>and installed air conditioners. That was nineteen seventy three. Back then,

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<v Speaker 1>the Major League baseball minimum was fifteen thousand dollars. He

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<v Speaker 1>needed a second job. Today, the minimum in the major

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<v Speaker 1>leagues is four hundred thousand dollars. All right, so this

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<v Speaker 1>is a new phenomenon. Even that men were paid any money.

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<v Speaker 1>You're a woman today on the US soccer team. You

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<v Speaker 1>make one hundred and seventy thousand dollars a year. I'd

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<v Speaker 1>be pretty darngrateful for them team. Hope you have a

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<v Speaker 1>wonderful weekend. Mike's later dot locals dot com. We can

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<v Speaker 1>hang out all weekend and we'll see you again. True story.

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<v Speaker 1>Mike later spread the word