WEBVTT - He's Got Trump Hands! - Mike Slater talks with A&G 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.520 Mike Slayer, who joins US now. He can be seen 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:07.320 anywhere people want to hear smart people talk about things 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:09.880 like Fox News, Fox Business. He's been on CNN, hand 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:13.440 line news, anywhere, and he's been He is his currently 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:17.439 and has been a San Diego radio legend, particularly on 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:19.920 a M seven sixties The Mike Slater Show weekdays from 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:21.840 twelve to three. Mike's later joins US now. He Mike 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:25.200 a big fan of Jack armshean um. It's not easy 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:27.000 to become a radio legend when you're only thirty five. 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:30.280 Thirty five seven. You're thirty seven, so this is a 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:33.400 two years old thirty seven. God, you you have no 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:35.839 idea the knee pain you have coming toward you. I 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:40.440 dislocated a rib last week. What we're hearing my daughter 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:42.320 upside down by our ankles, and I tripped over a 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:44.760 pillow and I did everything I could not paralyze here, 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:46.800 So I took the took one for the team here, 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.800 and I haven't been able to breathe for about I'm 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:53.240 getting old. The carrying your kids upside down by the ankles, 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:55.240 they love that, but there reaches a point where either 0:00:55.560 --> 0:01:02.360 they're too heavy or you're too old. And it. Um God, 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:05.000 I'm just looking at the overall landscape of things before 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:08.319 we get to a particular on this horrible shooting story 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:12.679 with the almost nine wrong track we've got going in 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.679 America right now. I just read this piece by a 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.759 thinker that we may never have a president above at 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.840 approval rating any time in the near future just because 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:26.720 of the way were the way politics work right now. Um, 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.080 you're a more optimistic person than me. I tend to 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.880 uh tend to tend toward pessimism. Are we gonna come 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.759 out of this funking anyway? Are we? Just? Are we 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.000 at the low point of the pendulum swing and things 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:38.880 are gonna get better? I feel like we got more 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:41.280 bad to come. Yeah, that's wild. So I used I 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.400 used to be a proptimistic guy. My expression used to 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.960 be my class isn't half full, it's overflowing. And now 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:53.080 I'm a lot more like Jack Armstrong. Right, It's like, oh, 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:57.200 we have a long long way to go. We're nowhere 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.480 near rock bottom. And if you know any addict, then 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:02.680 you're like, oh, this has to be rock bottom and 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.200 then there's like years and years of it still to go. Um. Now, 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.280 so I think it's gonna get much much worse. But uh, 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:11.079 I think it's good because the worst things get, the 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:13.840 greater the need and more obvious it is that we 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.280 need to uh turn things around and have a true 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.079 revival in our country. You know that, you know the 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.400 cycle You've read right, The strong men made good times, 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:24.919 absolutely and we're in and I'm glad. I'm especially glad 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.079 to be raising kids in the beginning of the hard 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:33.040 times make strong And that is there, there's a guy 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.080 making lemonade out of lemons right there. Is that you 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.639 want your kids to grow up in the hard times 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.440 you learn to you know, my kids are gonna learn 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.560 something um that I think kids and your kids are 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:49.079 that slightly older kids didn't about. You know, we don't 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:50.920 go out to eat, it's too expensive, and you know, 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:52.760 all these different sort of things that I grew up 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:56.120 with that got lost there for many decades because we 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.280 were we were a land of plenty, and the credit 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.560 was forever and the economy would always be good and 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.919 all that sort of stuff. I hear these people talk 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:04.959 about how, you know, we can't have kids now because 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.480 you know, the economy or the planet to global warming, 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.359 Like we can't bring kids into the world, and it's like, 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:13.040 what are you talking about. Slaves had kids, right, like 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.680 real slaves were like, I'm still gonna bring kids into 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.720 this world. Peasant farmers thousands of years ago, who's for 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.360 thousands of years their families were nothing but peasant farmers 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.840 to the king, and and like you're at risk of 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.320 like getting raped and pillaged by the tribe next door. 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.160 They had kids, And you live in the most luxurious 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.359 time in humanistry, and you're like, oh, gee, I don't know, 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.200 my credit scores a little low. I don't know if 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.560 give me a break, people, that's pretty ridiculous. And I 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:44.280 think about my parents. They didn't know how bad things were, 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:46.760 and I think things were like in a lot of 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:48.320 ways just as bad. At least the fruit of the 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.040 seeds were there. Uh So they weren't aware, they weren't 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:55.000 on it. They weren't as protective of our home, uh 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.440 and as they needed to be. Um And now like 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.480 there's no TV nows right here. I mean like we're 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.600 not putting you in front of the TV to to 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.520 listen to people who hate you and hate our worldview, 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.080 teach you and raise you in my stead. Uh So 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.520 we're a lot more protective in a in a good way. Interesting. 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:16.000 Um to the particulars of the horrifying shooting or shootings 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:19.919 that keep happening across America. Um, what what? What do 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.440 you think in general is going on with the the 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.600 angry young men of America? Yeah, there's a million, right 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.040 that I've I've known it down at least. My study 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:32.520 is identity and isolation. It was my two eye words. Uh, 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:34.600 let me make one point first night. I'm super glad 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:36.120 I can ask you this and get your thought before 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.040 I go into my rant. I'm trying to articulate and 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.200 I can't do it right. This concept that when we 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.440 hear a murder like this, this is just the tip 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:49.400 of the sphere of despair. It's just it's just like 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:54.520 the most platent. But for every murderer, there's a million 0:04:55.160 --> 0:05:00.440 young men who are in some spectrum of despair, and 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:04.080 they have different ways of of exhibiting it. Right, So 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.760 it could be like, for every murderer, there's ten young 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:10.600 men who commit suicide, and there's uh ten thousand who 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.280 are not drugs and almost overdosing drugs, and then there's 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.080 a hundred thousand who are drunk all the time, and 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:16.960 then there's a million, right Like, so, I don't know 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:18.760 how to articulate that better, but every time I hear 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.280 a murderer like this, I think of also the millions 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:23.480 of people who are in despair out of that. Can 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.000 you think a better way to put that? No, that 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:26.960 that's a very good point. And you know in the 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:31.000 the the mass shootings that don't happen get so little attention, 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:32.680 which has always seemed a little weird. There was a 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:34.359 thirteen year old and got stopped with a gun in 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.799 his car, And the other day um was headed somewhere 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:38.880 with a gun and now what what he was gonna 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.760 do you don't know, But that could have been just 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.480 you know, the random luck of we're talking about that 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:47.160 particular shooting. Well how about this, you know in Chicago 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.599 for this last fourth weekend, there were seventy one people 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.800 shot and ten other people murdered. Right, So, but like 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:55.960 so that's what I mean, I just like mourn for 0:05:56.080 --> 0:06:00.000 so much. But then there's the person who doesn't commit suicide, 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.000 was like like almost overdoses on drugs and like that 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.159 doesn't make the news, right, But there's that level of despair, 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:07.880 and I think it's all caused by the same thing. Uh, 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:09.360 so I want to kind of talk about I want 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.160 to think about all of those as as I'm kind 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.640 of ranting here, so real quick, let me just so identity, Um, 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.520 we have no identity. So hundreds of years ago, you 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.159 at fourteenth century, you asked someone who are you? And 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.560 they'll say, well, I was born here and my parents 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.039 are farmers, and I'm gonna get married here at this 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:26.880 church over here, and I'm gonna get married to someone 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:28.440 who I met when I was like ten, because like 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:30.640 this is our talent, and like, and I'm gonna die 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:32.360 and I'm gonna be buried at that church. Like your 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.720 identity was around you and external, and then there was 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:37.960 the industrial Revolution and people go to the cities, and 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.200 like there was like ambitions now, like you could be 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:44.159 something different, you can make choices. And now, uh this 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.799 this idea of self was much more in your head, 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.720 like what do I want out of life? Who can 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.920 I become? And then you add Freud and all these 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.560 other thinkers from the late eighteen Hunters that said that 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:00.440 your life, yourself is defined by your desires. So it's 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.760 not your external factors, it's it's in your head. And 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:05.400 you don't need to be a Christian understand that the 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:09.000 Christian ethic is the exact opposite. The Christian ethics says, 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.920 your desires are wicked, and your heart is deceitful above 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:17.040 all things, and your heart produces evil thoughts, and you 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.680 should not follow your desires. But now you have the 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:23.360 world today that says you are your desires. That's like 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:27.400 the whole transgender or even like homosexual, like I am gay, 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.960 or I am a woman in a man's body, like 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.720 my desires are everything, they are natural, they are in me, 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.800 they are good, and and the Christian ethnic is the opposite. 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.960 It's like, oh, what is in you as bad? And 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.200 you need to be different? Uh, And you can see 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.880 where problems would come from that there's exact opposite. Interesting, 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.320 we were talking about the so many of these recent 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.720 shooters or through the past several decades are in this 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:56.960 age gap of late teens early twenties where my parents 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.600 were married and having kids already, and you know, all 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.600 their ends were so there that you went from being 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:06.120 a kid, which is you know, a pretty um uh 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:10.280 confined lifestyle instead of needs and responsibilities. You're in school 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.600 and all that sort of stuff too married and raising kids, which, 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.320 as you know as a parent, is an all encompassing 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:22.040 life purpose. We now have. You know, you have this 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:26.000 gap of ten to twenty years where it's just kind 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.120 of float around trying to figure out who you are. 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.000 And I'm not sure that's working out. Now. There's like 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.000 new concept of adolescents. I think young men in particular, 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:34.920 they ask who am I? And do I have what 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:38.040 it takes? And I think young men are given no 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.240 direction and no purpose, and they're given no opportunity to 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.520 even prove to themselves that they have what it takes. 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.079 And I go in these rants all the time about 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.120 rights of passage. We have no rights of passage for 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.240 young men in our country. I think the only right 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.000 of passage we have are like things by accident, like 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.440 you get your driver's license, or like that's stupid, or 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:57.520 you have sex for the first times, like no, that's 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:01.760 not it, Like no, like intentional purpose. Other men directed 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.200 right of passage into manhood, and we wonder why so 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:09.079 many men are floundering and unmoored and lost. Yeah, and 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.920 moored is a term I used a lot yesterday. So 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.200 we got this text responding to something I said last 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:15.920 hour I was actually talking about. I don't know how 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:19.079 to refer to these people like scumbag murderer. I'm fine 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.040 with unless it turns out there completely insane and then 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:23.840 I don't know, you know how much I'd blame them. 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.200 But anyway, we got this text, Jack, I agree with 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.040 you on most topics that are discussed on the show. 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.280 Parents of these kind of scumbag murders is where we 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.880 part ways. I'm a teacher almost twenty years now, and 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.920 I've seen hundreds of parenting styles. Parents are absolutely responsible 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.160 for their kids turning out to be scumbag shooters. These 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.120 kids of young adults, mass shooters or gang related never 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.920 come from households where there are two emotionally stable, involved parents. 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.800 They come from households where there are self absorbed, uninvolved, 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:53.280 uninterested parents of broken homes or broken homes. There is 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.600 a lot of truth to that. Yeah, I uh, you'll 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:59.000 get kicked out of the story. Charlie Sheen, Remember Charlie Sheen, 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.320 Crazy down whatever and his daughters, eighteen year old daughters 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.320 now a porn star. She has her own fans, and 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:10.080 Charlie Sheen's like, hey, uh, this isn't my fault. Uh, 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.840 this didn't happen under my roof. She's living with her mother, 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:14.880 This didn't happen under my roof. And I'm like, yeah, 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:20.160 I know, that's the problem. You didn't provide a roof. 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.760 You weren't there. You were sleeping around with porn stars 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.120 when she was seven. Like his big breakdown was was 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.480 when she was about seven, like the exact age. She 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.880 needed a man and a roof, and he didn't provide it. 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.200 So that's a good example. Like his daughter didn't go 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.080 on to murder people, right, So she doesn't really make 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:38.440 the new I mean she does because she's famous, right, 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.040 but but like someone who does these destructive behaviors out 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.880 of despair like she is doing wouldn't normally make the news. 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.920 But that's the like the amount of despair there is 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:48.800 out there, even if it doesn't make the news. And 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.199 it's all because of what that listener just said. It's 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:53.920 just just broken homes and just lost Now should we 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:55.880 only have a couple of minutes and then I gotta 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.720 let you go? Um? Is Joe Biden going to be 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:04.400 the nominee for the Demmo Credit Party? Can he? Even 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.480 he gets like like there's no way. Is Kamala Harris 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:12.080 going to be the least likable person ever. But like, no, 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:17.040 I'm almost thinking like two like after November. So I 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.680 miss understood the question. Uh no, no, those are both knows. 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:25.520 Will Donald Trump be the nominee through the Republicans? Do 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.800 you have any names that you I mean, it's very early, 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:31.360 but no, it's Ron Right and Mike Pompeo. Okay, yeah, 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:34.959 I just went through to santis Is. He kind of 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:38.600 hides his background, and I wish we didn't do that. 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.360 I feel like the populism on the right makes a 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.200 lot of candidates feel like they have to hide the 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.880 fact that they're brilliant, successful people, and he is, and 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.240 I hope he puts that out in front a little more. 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.440 The fact that he was the lawyer representative for the 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.200 Navy seals in Iraq, and you know, Harvard and Yale 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:56.840 and all that sort of stuff. And he's got the 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.560 Trump hands. He does the exact same pay into movements 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:04.920 as Trump. Trump. I've never I've never seen anyone do 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.280 Trump hands except for Trump and Ron decants. Watch him next. 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.480 Prescott moves him around like a pointer, finger and thumb 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:16.600 like a okay signal connected moving them. It's unbelievable. That's hilarious. 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:20.600 Mike Slater, San Diego red radio legend on a M 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.280 seven sixty, thanks for joining us to thank you. Just 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:26.720 you know what Mike Slater is. He's just a smart 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.880 guy who's good at phrasing things and uh, that's a 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:35.480 very listenable combination for radio hilarious. He's got Trump hands.