Speaker 1: Mike Slayer, who joins US now. He can be seen
Speaker 1: anywhere people want to hear smart people talk about things
Speaker 1: like Fox News, Fox Business. He's been on CNN, hand
Speaker 1: line news, anywhere, and he's been He is his currently
Speaker 1: and has been a San Diego radio legend, particularly on
Speaker 1: a M seven sixties The Mike Slater Show weekdays from
Speaker 1: twelve to three. Mike's later joins US now. He Mike
Speaker 1: a big fan of Jack armshean um. It's not easy
Speaker 1: to become a radio legend when you're only thirty five.
Speaker 1: Thirty five seven. You're thirty seven, so this is a
Speaker 1: two years old thirty seven. God, you you have no
Speaker 1: idea the knee pain you have coming toward you. I
Speaker 1: dislocated a rib last week. What we're hearing my daughter
Speaker 1: upside down by our ankles, and I tripped over a
Speaker 1: pillow and I did everything I could not paralyze here,
Speaker 1: So I took the took one for the team here,
Speaker 1: and I haven't been able to breathe for about I'm
Speaker 1: getting old. The carrying your kids upside down by the ankles,
Speaker 1: they love that, but there reaches a point where either
Speaker 1: they're too heavy or you're too old. And it. Um God,
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at the overall landscape of things before
Speaker 1: we get to a particular on this horrible shooting story
Speaker 1: with the almost nine wrong track we've got going in
Speaker 1: America right now. I just read this piece by a
Speaker 1: thinker that we may never have a president above at
Speaker 1: approval rating any time in the near future just because
Speaker 1: of the way were the way politics work right now. Um,
Speaker 1: you're a more optimistic person than me. I tend to
Speaker 1: uh tend to tend toward pessimism. Are we gonna come
Speaker 1: out of this funking anyway? Are we? Just? Are we
Speaker 1: at the low point of the pendulum swing and things
Speaker 1: are gonna get better? I feel like we got more
Speaker 1: bad to come. Yeah, that's wild. So I used I
Speaker 1: used to be a proptimistic guy. My expression used to
Speaker 1: be my class isn't half full, it's overflowing. And now
Speaker 1: I'm a lot more like Jack Armstrong. Right, It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: we have a long long way to go. We're nowhere
Speaker 1: near rock bottom. And if you know any addict, then
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, this has to be rock bottom and
Speaker 1: then there's like years and years of it still to go. Um. Now,
Speaker 1: so I think it's gonna get much much worse. But uh,
Speaker 1: I think it's good because the worst things get, the
Speaker 1: greater the need and more obvious it is that we
Speaker 1: need to uh turn things around and have a true
Speaker 1: revival in our country. You know that, you know the
Speaker 1: cycle You've read right, The strong men made good times,
Speaker 1: absolutely and we're in and I'm glad. I'm especially glad
Speaker 1: to be raising kids in the beginning of the hard
Speaker 1: times make strong And that is there, there's a guy
Speaker 1: making lemonade out of lemons right there. Is that you
Speaker 1: want your kids to grow up in the hard times
Speaker 1: you learn to you know, my kids are gonna learn
Speaker 1: something um that I think kids and your kids are
Speaker 1: that slightly older kids didn't about. You know, we don't
Speaker 1: go out to eat, it's too expensive, and you know,
Speaker 1: all these different sort of things that I grew up
Speaker 1: with that got lost there for many decades because we
Speaker 1: were we were a land of plenty, and the credit
Speaker 1: was forever and the economy would always be good and
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. I hear these people talk
Speaker 1: about how, you know, we can't have kids now because
Speaker 1: you know, the economy or the planet to global warming,
Speaker 1: Like we can't bring kids into the world, and it's like,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about. Slaves had kids, right, like
Speaker 1: real slaves were like, I'm still gonna bring kids into
Speaker 1: this world. Peasant farmers thousands of years ago, who's for
Speaker 1: thousands of years their families were nothing but peasant farmers
Speaker 1: to the king, and and like you're at risk of
Speaker 1: like getting raped and pillaged by the tribe next door.
Speaker 1: They had kids, And you live in the most luxurious
Speaker 1: time in humanistry, and you're like, oh, gee, I don't know,
Speaker 1: my credit scores a little low. I don't know if
Speaker 1: give me a break, people, that's pretty ridiculous. And I
Speaker 1: think about my parents. They didn't know how bad things were,
Speaker 1: and I think things were like in a lot of
Speaker 1: ways just as bad. At least the fruit of the
Speaker 1: seeds were there. Uh So they weren't aware, they weren't
Speaker 1: on it. They weren't as protective of our home, uh
Speaker 1: and as they needed to be. Um And now like
Speaker 1: there's no TV nows right here. I mean like we're
Speaker 1: not putting you in front of the TV to to
Speaker 1: listen to people who hate you and hate our worldview,
Speaker 1: teach you and raise you in my stead. Uh So
Speaker 1: we're a lot more protective in a in a good way. Interesting.
Speaker 1: Um to the particulars of the horrifying shooting or shootings
Speaker 1: that keep happening across America. Um, what what? What do
Speaker 1: you think in general is going on with the the
Speaker 1: angry young men of America? Yeah, there's a million, right
Speaker 1: that I've I've known it down at least. My study
Speaker 1: is identity and isolation. It was my two eye words. Uh,
Speaker 1: let me make one point first night. I'm super glad
Speaker 1: I can ask you this and get your thought before
Speaker 1: I go into my rant. I'm trying to articulate and
Speaker 1: I can't do it right. This concept that when we
Speaker 1: hear a murder like this, this is just the tip
Speaker 1: of the sphere of despair. It's just it's just like
Speaker 1: the most platent. But for every murderer, there's a million
Speaker 1: young men who are in some spectrum of despair, and
Speaker 1: they have different ways of of exhibiting it. Right, So
Speaker 1: it could be like, for every murderer, there's ten young
Speaker 1: men who commit suicide, and there's uh ten thousand who
Speaker 1: are not drugs and almost overdosing drugs, and then there's
Speaker 1: a hundred thousand who are drunk all the time, and
Speaker 1: then there's a million, right Like, so, I don't know
Speaker 1: how to articulate that better, but every time I hear
Speaker 1: a murderer like this, I think of also the millions
Speaker 1: of people who are in despair out of that. Can
Speaker 1: you think a better way to put that? No, that
Speaker 1: that's a very good point. And you know in the
Speaker 1: the the mass shootings that don't happen get so little attention,
Speaker 1: which has always seemed a little weird. There was a
Speaker 1: thirteen year old and got stopped with a gun in
Speaker 1: his car, And the other day um was headed somewhere
Speaker 1: with a gun and now what what he was gonna
Speaker 1: do you don't know, But that could have been just
Speaker 1: you know, the random luck of we're talking about that
Speaker 1: particular shooting. Well how about this, you know in Chicago
Speaker 1: for this last fourth weekend, there were seventy one people
Speaker 1: shot and ten other people murdered. Right, So, but like
Speaker 1: so that's what I mean, I just like mourn for
Speaker 1: so much. But then there's the person who doesn't commit suicide,
Speaker 1: was like like almost overdoses on drugs and like that
Speaker 1: doesn't make the news, right, But there's that level of despair,
Speaker 1: and I think it's all caused by the same thing. Uh,
Speaker 1: so I want to kind of talk about I want
Speaker 1: to think about all of those as as I'm kind
Speaker 1: of ranting here, so real quick, let me just so identity, Um,
Speaker 1: we have no identity. So hundreds of years ago, you
Speaker 1: at fourteenth century, you asked someone who are you? And
Speaker 1: they'll say, well, I was born here and my parents
Speaker 1: are farmers, and I'm gonna get married here at this
Speaker 1: church over here, and I'm gonna get married to someone
Speaker 1: who I met when I was like ten, because like
Speaker 1: this is our talent, and like, and I'm gonna die
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be buried at that church. Like your
Speaker 1: identity was around you and external, and then there was
Speaker 1: the industrial Revolution and people go to the cities, and
Speaker 1: like there was like ambitions now, like you could be
Speaker 1: something different, you can make choices. And now, uh this
Speaker 1: this idea of self was much more in your head,
Speaker 1: like what do I want out of life? Who can
Speaker 1: I become? And then you add Freud and all these
Speaker 1: other thinkers from the late eighteen Hunters that said that
Speaker 1: your life, yourself is defined by your desires. So it's
Speaker 1: not your external factors, it's it's in your head. And
Speaker 1: you don't need to be a Christian understand that the
Speaker 1: Christian ethic is the exact opposite. The Christian ethics says,
Speaker 1: your desires are wicked, and your heart is deceitful above
Speaker 1: all things, and your heart produces evil thoughts, and you
Speaker 1: should not follow your desires. But now you have the
Speaker 1: world today that says you are your desires. That's like
Speaker 1: the whole transgender or even like homosexual, like I am gay,
Speaker 1: or I am a woman in a man's body, like
Speaker 1: my desires are everything, they are natural, they are in me,
Speaker 1: they are good, and and the Christian ethnic is the opposite.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, what is in you as bad? And
Speaker 1: you need to be different? Uh, And you can see
Speaker 1: where problems would come from that there's exact opposite. Interesting,
Speaker 1: we were talking about the so many of these recent
Speaker 1: shooters or through the past several decades are in this
Speaker 1: age gap of late teens early twenties where my parents
Speaker 1: were married and having kids already, and you know, all
Speaker 1: their ends were so there that you went from being
Speaker 1: a kid, which is you know, a pretty um uh
Speaker 1: confined lifestyle instead of needs and responsibilities. You're in school
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff too married and raising kids, which,
Speaker 1: as you know as a parent, is an all encompassing
Speaker 1: life purpose. We now have. You know, you have this
Speaker 1: gap of ten to twenty years where it's just kind
Speaker 1: of float around trying to figure out who you are.
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure that's working out. Now. There's like
Speaker 1: new concept of adolescents. I think young men in particular,
Speaker 1: they ask who am I? And do I have what
Speaker 1: it takes? And I think young men are given no
Speaker 1: direction and no purpose, and they're given no opportunity to
Speaker 1: even prove to themselves that they have what it takes.
Speaker 1: And I go in these rants all the time about
Speaker 1: rights of passage. We have no rights of passage for
Speaker 1: young men in our country. I think the only right
Speaker 1: of passage we have are like things by accident, like
Speaker 1: you get your driver's license, or like that's stupid, or
Speaker 1: you have sex for the first times, like no, that's
Speaker 1: not it, Like no, like intentional purpose. Other men directed
Speaker 1: right of passage into manhood, and we wonder why so
Speaker 1: many men are floundering and unmoored and lost. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: moored is a term I used a lot yesterday. So
Speaker 1: we got this text responding to something I said last
Speaker 1: hour I was actually talking about. I don't know how
Speaker 1: to refer to these people like scumbag murderer. I'm fine
Speaker 1: with unless it turns out there completely insane and then
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know how much I'd blame them.
Speaker 1: But anyway, we got this text, Jack, I agree with
Speaker 1: you on most topics that are discussed on the show.
Speaker 1: Parents of these kind of scumbag murders is where we
Speaker 1: part ways. I'm a teacher almost twenty years now, and
Speaker 1: I've seen hundreds of parenting styles. Parents are absolutely responsible
Speaker 1: for their kids turning out to be scumbag shooters. These
Speaker 1: kids of young adults, mass shooters or gang related never
Speaker 1: come from households where there are two emotionally stable, involved parents.
Speaker 1: They come from households where there are self absorbed, uninvolved,
Speaker 1: uninterested parents of broken homes or broken homes. There is
Speaker 1: a lot of truth to that. Yeah, I uh, you'll
Speaker 1: get kicked out of the story. Charlie Sheen, Remember Charlie Sheen,
Speaker 1: Crazy down whatever and his daughters, eighteen year old daughters
Speaker 1: now a porn star. She has her own fans, and
Speaker 1: Charlie Sheen's like, hey, uh, this isn't my fault. Uh,
Speaker 1: this didn't happen under my roof. She's living with her mother,
Speaker 1: This didn't happen under my roof. And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, that's the problem. You didn't provide a roof.
Speaker 1: You weren't there. You were sleeping around with porn stars
Speaker 1: when she was seven. Like his big breakdown was was
Speaker 1: when she was about seven, like the exact age. She
Speaker 1: needed a man and a roof, and he didn't provide it.
Speaker 1: So that's a good example. Like his daughter didn't go
Speaker 1: on to murder people, right, So she doesn't really make
Speaker 1: the new I mean she does because she's famous, right,
Speaker 1: but but like someone who does these destructive behaviors out
Speaker 1: of despair like she is doing wouldn't normally make the news.
Speaker 1: But that's the like the amount of despair there is
Speaker 1: out there, even if it doesn't make the news. And
Speaker 1: it's all because of what that listener just said. It's
Speaker 1: just just broken homes and just lost Now should we
Speaker 1: only have a couple of minutes and then I gotta
Speaker 1: let you go? Um? Is Joe Biden going to be
Speaker 1: the nominee for the Demmo Credit Party? Can he? Even
Speaker 1: he gets like like there's no way. Is Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: going to be the least likable person ever. But like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm almost thinking like two like after November. So I
Speaker 1: miss understood the question. Uh no, no, those are both knows.
Speaker 1: Will Donald Trump be the nominee through the Republicans? Do
Speaker 1: you have any names that you I mean, it's very early,
Speaker 1: but no, it's Ron Right and Mike Pompeo. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just went through to santis Is. He kind of
Speaker 1: hides his background, and I wish we didn't do that.
Speaker 1: I feel like the populism on the right makes a
Speaker 1: lot of candidates feel like they have to hide the
Speaker 1: fact that they're brilliant, successful people, and he is, and
Speaker 1: I hope he puts that out in front a little more.
Speaker 1: The fact that he was the lawyer representative for the
Speaker 1: Navy seals in Iraq, and you know, Harvard and Yale
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff. And he's got the
Speaker 1: Trump hands. He does the exact same pay into movements
Speaker 1: as Trump. Trump. I've never I've never seen anyone do
Speaker 1: Trump hands except for Trump and Ron decants. Watch him next.
Speaker 1: Prescott moves him around like a pointer, finger and thumb
Speaker 1: like a okay signal connected moving them. It's unbelievable. That's hilarious.
Speaker 1: Mike Slater, San Diego red radio legend on a M
Speaker 1: seven sixty, thanks for joining us to thank you. Just
Speaker 1: you know what Mike Slater is. He's just a smart
Speaker 1: guy who's good at phrasing things and uh, that's a
Speaker 1: very listenable combination for radio hilarious. He's got Trump hands.