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Speaker 1: and your grace and kindness to me these last couple
Speaker 1: of days. Coming up, we're gonna talk about the passports,
Speaker 1: the COVID passports and how ridiculous that is. And then
Speaker 1: an amazing article from the great Wilfred Riley, who is
Speaker 1: the next generation of Thomas Soul. Is the next Thomas Soul.
Speaker 1: He's wonderful. So we'll talk about race relations and the
Speaker 1: truth of race relations in America. That's coming up first,
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Speaker 1: around these last couple of days. One of the most
Speaker 1: pivotal things I've ever heard. It's I think about it
Speaker 1: every day for maybe the last two years since I
Speaker 1: first heard it. It's from the great Thomas Soul. He said,
Speaker 1: There's no such thing as solutions, only trade offs. Conservatives
Speaker 1: understand this. Progressives do not. Progressives look for their utopian
Speaker 1: visions and they seek to achieve them. Conservatives understand that
Speaker 1: in life, there are no such thing as solutions. There
Speaker 1: are only tradeoffs. It's true with everything. Do I buy this,
Speaker 1: do I not buy this? Do I go here or
Speaker 1: not go there? Invest in this, don't invest in that. Well,
Speaker 1: there's no such thing a solution. It's only a tradeoff.
Speaker 1: Life's full of them NonStop all day. Life's also full
Speaker 1: of risks, and we calculate those risks all the time.
Speaker 1: Driving a car is very risky, but you gotta get
Speaker 1: to work, so you calculate it. Is it worth it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's worth the risk getting an accident, got to get
Speaker 1: to work. We are doing a poor job of risk
Speaker 1: calculation with COVID on this March thirtieth, twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: racting like a March thirtieth, twenty twenty We're calculating risks
Speaker 1: as if millions of people haven't already taken one of
Speaker 1: these soon to be five vaccines that we have in America,
Speaker 1: which is amazing because for a while we weren't sure
Speaker 1: if there would ever be a vaccine. And we're not
Speaker 1: taken into effect into account that millions more now natural
Speaker 1: immunity because they got COVID and recovered. We're not properly
Speaker 1: calculating risk analysis, and this is what's leading to the
Speaker 1: vaccine passport that's being thrown around, and that is a
Speaker 1: very very bad idea. When you drive a car, there's
Speaker 1: a certain risk you're gonna get in an accident and die.
Speaker 1: Imagine if I told you, hey, Charlie, I have impending
Speaker 1: doom of your driving today. Don't do it. I'm scared
Speaker 1: you'll die. You have so much promise, so much potential
Speaker 1: in life. Don't do it. Don't drive today. That emotional
Speaker 1: plea would would screw up your calculation, your risk calculation,
Speaker 1: and lead you to make a not proper analysis and
Speaker 1: a not good decision. We're still doing that with COVID
Speaker 1: very specifically. This is the head of the CDC. Head
Speaker 1: of the CDC. She's getting all emotional when she's saying this.
Speaker 1: She says, I'm going to reflect on the recurring feeling
Speaker 1: I have of impending doom. We have so much to
Speaker 1: look forward to, so much promise and potential of where
Speaker 1: we are, and so much reason for hope. But right
Speaker 1: now I'm scared. Lady. This is not helpful. That is
Speaker 1: feelings over facts. How is this helpful to the American
Speaker 1: people to have this woman of science say I'm I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go off script and I'm going to reflect on
Speaker 1: the feelings I have of impending doom. Why are you
Speaker 1: unloading your feelings on us. I'm not interested in feelings,
Speaker 1: I'm interested in facts. What are the facts? Now? You
Speaker 1: don't have to sugarcoat things to me. I'm an adult.
Speaker 1: Give me the reality of the situation. But you also
Speaker 1: don't have to start to cry and try to emotionally
Speaker 1: manipulate me. But she got her headlines, she got our attention.
Speaker 1: And for what, oh to usher in the fear that's
Speaker 1: necessary to keep you masked, keep you controlled, keep you
Speaker 1: shut down, keep you locked down, keep you scared until
Speaker 1: we can get the vaccine passport, and that will save today.
Speaker 1: The government once again coming in to save the day,
Speaker 1: rescue us on their white horse that is a super
Speaker 1: dystopian vaccine passport. Jim Treachery said, if despair is a disease,
Speaker 1: the CDC is doing a crappy job of controlling it.
Speaker 1: It may be the main spreader of it. So it
Speaker 1: was Biden yesterday saying we got to keep the mask mandates,
Speaker 1: keep locking down, keep our kids out of school, keep
Speaker 1: everyone scared. So let's talk about this vaccine passport. A
Speaker 1: stunningly horrific idea. So right now, he says, they're gathering
Speaker 1: ideas on how this passport. What it would look like
Speaker 1: and how it would work. But it looks like it'd
Speaker 1: be something like an app on your phone that you
Speaker 1: would use. You know, your papers, your health papers, to
Speaker 1: show that you've been vaccinated so that you can go
Speaker 1: on an airplane, or eat at a restaurant, or go
Speaker 1: to a concert. I can't. First of all, it's not necessary.
Speaker 1: Let's just start there. It's just not necessary. We never
Speaker 1: did this for the flu. Disney World, Disneyland never shut
Speaker 1: down for flu. This is a disease COVID that once
Speaker 1: we get hurt immunity. I'd argue, we're already there. It
Speaker 1: barely spreads. Remember, Israel right now has a ar not,
Speaker 1: which is how fast the disease spreads. If it's over one,
Speaker 1: it spreads. If it's less than one, it doesn't. The
Speaker 1: ar not in Israel's point seven. Okay, so it's not spreading,
Speaker 1: it's not growing. So if you get it, most people
Speaker 1: don't even get sick. Most people don't even know you
Speaker 1: get it. Very few people need medical treatment. We have
Speaker 1: new drugs out there that eliminate death, that just finished
Speaker 1: their phase three trial, that just yesterday finish their phase
Speaker 1: three trial. They're getting emergency authorization from the FDA right now.
Speaker 1: This is completely unnecessary. Two weeks to flatten the curve
Speaker 1: to prevent hospitals from being overrun. Talk about moving the goalposts.
Speaker 1: This is a different stratosphere of goalposts. It's completely unnecessary.
Speaker 1: We've never done this for any flu, We've never done
Speaker 1: this for any other illness. There's no need to start now,
Speaker 1: because I guarantee you once a passport health vaccine passport
Speaker 1: starts now, they're never going to get rid of it.
Speaker 1: They will only add more things to it. And if
Speaker 1: you can't see that by now in your X number
Speaker 1: of years of life and watching government and watching this country,
Speaker 1: I don't know what could possibly convince you of that.
Speaker 1: It must be stopped now. It cannot start. Once it starts,
Speaker 1: it will never stop. Thank goodness for Rhonda Santis, Governor
Speaker 1: of Florida, taking the lead on this. He says, we
Speaker 1: always said we wanted to provide the vaccine, provide the
Speaker 1: vaccine for all, but mandate it for none. While it
Speaker 1: was advised to take, particularly if you're vulnerable. We're not
Speaker 1: going to force you to do it. It's completely unacceptable
Speaker 1: for either the government or the private sector to impose
Speaker 1: upon you the requirement that you show proof a vaccine
Speaker 1: to just simply participate in normal society. New York Cities
Speaker 1: started they called the Excelsior Pass. Excelsior is the motto
Speaker 1: of the state, the Excelsior ever upward. So you need this,
Speaker 1: You need your vaccine pass, your Exalsior Pass, to be
Speaker 1: able to I hate these people, these branding of this
Speaker 1: right just in the HR one, not to sidetrack HR one.
Speaker 1: It's this horrific voting reform acting past the House in
Speaker 1: the Senate. It's called the for the People Act. Goodness,
Speaker 1: if you are the four the people act like, you
Speaker 1: better be throwing red flags on the field. That's like,
Speaker 1: oh not buy that nice tride flag on the fields.
Speaker 1: What's this bill really about? Same thing with Excelsior pass. Oh, everybody,
Speaker 1: this is the Excelsior Pass. Nope, don't like it. What
Speaker 1: do you mean you don't like it? It's called the
Speaker 1: Excelsior Pass. Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, you're hind something. What
Speaker 1: is it? Really? You need it in order to get
Speaker 1: into Madison Square Garden in the Barclays Center for Events
Speaker 1: and other arts and entertainment venues. So in order to
Speaker 1: live your life. You need you need your papers first
Speaker 1: of all. So again first point, I should say unnecessary.
Speaker 1: Second point, what about equity? Oh what about equity? All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, equity doesn't doesn't mean it. What about
Speaker 1: lower income people who don't have smartphones? They can't download
Speaker 1: the app? What are you gonna do with them? You're
Speaker 1: gonna You're gonna prevent them from ever going to an
Speaker 1: arts event. Oh, how racist of you, we're told. At
Speaker 1: the same time, you know, Georgia passed SP two o
Speaker 1: two it requires an ID to vote. We're told, how
Speaker 1: t horrible and oval and evil and Jim Crow two
Speaker 1: point zero and Biden called it sick to require someone
Speaker 1: to show government idea to vote, just to show that
Speaker 1: you're a real person in order to vote. That's the
Speaker 1: worst thing ever. If you if you support that, you're
Speaker 1: the grand words of the KKK. But a vaccine passport
Speaker 1: to be able to go inside a building full steam ahead?
Speaker 1: How could you possibly be against that? Wasn't that inequitable?
Speaker 1: If if listen, the people who are against that Georgia bill,
Speaker 1: they're the ones who say black people are too stupid
Speaker 1: or poor to get a government ida. I don't say
Speaker 1: that that'd be horribly racist. They're the one saying that.
Speaker 1: But they are requiring everybody to get a vaccine passport
Speaker 1: in order to do anything with their life. But what
Speaker 1: about that same percentage of people also, This is the
Speaker 1: same people who don't care about the tens of thousands
Speaker 1: of people streaming across our border without any actual passport
Speaker 1: or paperwork. But Americans need passports in order to live
Speaker 1: our normal lives in America. What is it going on?
Speaker 1: Who could possibly before this? It's so bizarre, like people
Speaker 1: are still thinking, they're still operating, like we're living in
Speaker 1: this dystopian world where people are dropping like flies, like
Speaker 1: it's the plague. Have you ever read about the plague? Oh,
Speaker 1: my goodness, you get it. There's a sign that you
Speaker 1: have it and you're dead in two days. And parents
Speaker 1: would have to make these horrific decisions like what to
Speaker 1: do with their kid who had the plague? Do you
Speaker 1: just abandon the kid to die alone and or do
Speaker 1: you stay with them and you risk getting it and
Speaker 1: dying immediately afterwards? There is nothing anymore. It's like a harrip.
Speaker 1: People are living like that's what that's what we're doing.
Speaker 1: People are still living based off what we thought COVID
Speaker 1: was not what it is, especially with vaccines and all
Speaker 1: the rest. Yes, people are still gonna get it. People
Speaker 1: are still gonna get sick. You can't make any COVID
Speaker 1: or any illness down to zero. Life is a trade off.
Speaker 1: There's no such thing a solution, only trade offs. I'll
Speaker 1: end on this. Think of it as four baskets. There's
Speaker 1: four baskets of health. The left only thinks of physical
Speaker 1: health and they want to make sure no one ever
Speaker 1: gets COVID ever again. But there's other baskets. You have
Speaker 1: emotional health, spiritual health, economic health, and physical health. And
Speaker 1: you have a hundred balls, and you decide how many
Speaker 1: balls you want to put in each basket. Some put
Speaker 1: more in the physical health basket. Fine, I put more
Speaker 1: in the spiritual health basket. I think churches should be
Speaker 1: open in California. They're still not. And everybody's got to
Speaker 1: come up with their own decision on how many balls
Speaker 1: to put into each of these different baskets to find
Speaker 1: the best balance of emotional, spiritual, economic, and physical health.
Speaker 1: It's also worth noting that these baskets are underneath this
Speaker 1: umbrella of freedom, and no illness is worth giving up
Speaker 1: our freedom, no illness, especially something as my old as COVID.
Speaker 1: People still acting like it's the plague. We should be
Speaker 1: a country that's celebrating the end of COVID right now,
Speaker 1: and instead we're just we're debating dystopian vaccine passports, insanity.
Speaker 1: We're not rats in a cage. Stop treating us like
Speaker 1: we are. Mike Slater filling in for Buck Sexton. Mike
Speaker 1: Slater out locals dot COM's by the word, it's going on,
Speaker 1: Team Buck. Mike Slater in San Diego, filling in for
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton. Thanks for let me be here these last
Speaker 1: few days. Buck will be back tomorrow. Mike Slater out
Speaker 1: locals dot Com is our website. We can stay in
Speaker 1: touch until next time. Um, this is maybe a good
Speaker 1: time to talk about it after I got a little
Speaker 1: a little heated COVID lockdowns and masks and the vaccines
Speaker 1: and the whole thing. It's taken on a religious fervor, right,
Speaker 1: there's a religious fervor to it. Comply or you're excommunicated
Speaker 1: from the church. If you don't get a vaccine, you
Speaker 1: are impure. Right. We mentioned this from time to time
Speaker 1: on my local show. We probably have over the last
Speaker 1: couple of days. Even in passing, people are less religious
Speaker 1: than ever in America. But we are designed by our
Speaker 1: creator to worship. So if you don't worship him God,
Speaker 1: you will worship something. Most people worship themselves. That's why
Speaker 1: a lot of people say, I'm not religious, I'm spiritual.
Speaker 1: Would you saying, as you worship yourself, you just making
Speaker 1: up your own religion and you worship you, And a
Speaker 1: lot of people worship politics. So as we leave church,
Speaker 1: we've entered this different church. As we leave the Church
Speaker 1: of God, we've entered this different church of politics. And
Speaker 1: there's no longer political parties. We are now warring denominations.
Speaker 1: God is no longer the center of our lives or
Speaker 1: the center of our culture, the God who can unite
Speaker 1: us all. Nope, we all have our own idols and
Speaker 1: we pray at the pagan altar of politics. Politics doesn't have,
Speaker 1: you know, this nice, little proper place in our existence.
Speaker 1: It for many people is the center of our existence.
Speaker 1: And that is unhealthy. There's an article in the Economist.
Speaker 1: It's unhealthy for individuals, and it's unhealthy for a country.
Speaker 1: The economist says, the evangelical culture warriors on the right
Speaker 1: that's me take on the Democrats new Puritans. So they
Speaker 1: started off talking about how Biden is such a great
Speaker 1: Catholic who you know, supports gay marriage, an abortion, and
Speaker 1: how Americans are more likely than ever now to claim
Speaker 1: no religion as their religious preference. But we're no less devotional,
Speaker 1: no less devotional. We just worship new things, the self
Speaker 1: first and foremost, and then politics. And this article mentions
Speaker 1: this God sized hole in your heart, and that's what
Speaker 1: I want to talk about here for the remaining two
Speaker 1: and a half minutes. The God sized hole in your
Speaker 1: heart that's left when you remove God, and it can't
Speaker 1: be filled with anything else. The entirety of human history
Speaker 1: proves that it cannot be filled with anything else. This
Speaker 1: is why one of my favorite genres of documentary and
Speaker 1: one of my favorite genres of story are celebrities who
Speaker 1: thought that fame and fortune would give them everything, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't, and we'll never learn. My wife and I
Speaker 1: we recently watch this Paris Hilton documentary. It's on YouTube.
Speaker 1: She is absolutely miserable. And she said growing up that
Speaker 1: when she makes a million dollars, she'll be happy, and
Speaker 1: then she said, when she makes one hundred million dollars,
Speaker 1: she'll be happy. And then she said in the documentary
Speaker 1: that if only she made up billion dollars. She's traveled
Speaker 1: the world, she's never left her hotel room. She has
Speaker 1: no friends, no one she can trust. At one point
Speaker 1: in the documentary, she's met at the airport by a
Speaker 1: bunch of fans. He's in Japan or something, and these
Speaker 1: two fans come up to her and they say they've
Speaker 1: drove a couple of hours to see her, and they
Speaker 1: take us selfie. And then later that night in the
Speaker 1: hotel room, she's super depressed and miserable, and she says
Speaker 1: that she has no friends that really love her. And
Speaker 1: she says, yeah, I have no friends that really love me,
Speaker 1: you know, except for Sophie and Katie. And I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: who's Sophie and Katie? What it would oh? Oh, those
Speaker 1: are the two girls that she met at the airport
Speaker 1: for thirty seconds, and the documentarian says, do you have
Speaker 1: anyone who cares for you? And Paris Hilton looks off
Speaker 1: in the distance and she looks confused, and she says,
Speaker 1: what does that mean? She thought there are other things
Speaker 1: that could feel that God's size tole in her heart
Speaker 1: and there's there's nothing else. That expression. It comes from
Speaker 1: this seventeenth century philosopher and theologian. His name is Pascal.
Speaker 1: He's the guy who also said, all of humanity's problems
Speaker 1: stem from our inability to sit quietly in our room,
Speaker 1: which means you're just you're not at peace, you're not
Speaker 1: at peace with yourself. So Pascal, here's the full quote.
Speaker 1: He said, what else does this craving and this helplessness
Speaker 1: proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness.
Speaker 1: There was once in man a true happiness of which
Speaker 1: all that now remains is the empty print and trace.
Speaker 1: What does it prove? What does it proclaim? That he
Speaker 1: tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking
Speaker 1: in things that are not there the help he cannot
Speaker 1: find in those that are. None can help, since this
Speaker 1: infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and
Speaker 1: immutable object, in other words, by God himself. That's where
Speaker 1: the expression God's sized hole comes from. This is, by
Speaker 1: the way the Puritan Church today of the woke left
Speaker 1: absolute purity, no deviation, no forgiveness, no grace, no grace,
Speaker 1: no redemption. If anyone is going to drown witches today
Speaker 1: it's the woke left. This is not good because now
Speaker 1: real churches are actually going to split along political lines
Speaker 1: as well. This is very bad. God should be a
Speaker 1: uniting force, the good news, the Gospel should unite, and
Speaker 1: we're letting politics divide. And you know who loves it,
Speaker 1: Satan and the politicians. But I repeat myself. Mike's later,
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Speaker 1: I'm as grateful as you are. I can't wait for
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Speaker 1: The Great Wilfred Riley's a professor at Kentucky State. He's wonderful.
Speaker 1: I think he's the next Thomas soul. I want to
Speaker 1: quote a bit from his latest piece and then we'll
Speaker 1: go through it in detail. It's like, well, it's about
Speaker 1: race relations in America. He says. This picture, which we'll
Speaker 1: get to. This picture perfectly sums up the dualistic nature
Speaker 1: of racial relations in America today. The real picture itself
Speaker 1: is quite favorable if we can just manage to clean
Speaker 1: up all the throne muck off the canvas long enough
Speaker 1: to get a good look at it and appreciate it.
Speaker 1: So his argument is, and my argument is, that race
Speaker 1: relations in America are better than ever and actually great.
Speaker 1: There just happened to be a few race baiders out
Speaker 1: there who have this absolute mega microphone or mega megaphone,
Speaker 1: who get way too much attention and way too many accolades,
Speaker 1: and have like way disproportionate amount of institutional support, way
Speaker 1: too much power and control in the media, news, TV, music, everywhere.
Speaker 1: I wonder if, I wonder if ever such a small
Speaker 1: group of people have had so much institutional power, and
Speaker 1: because they do, they paint this picture for their own
Speaker 1: power and prestige, and it's easy for the rest of
Speaker 1: us to get wrapped up in it and to have
Speaker 1: these people change your perception of reality. They have so
Speaker 1: much control over your kids too, and your kids now
Speaker 1: don't have a proper perspective of what reality is. We
Speaker 1: mentioned yesterday. I think that if you ask any kid
Speaker 1: today in high school about slavery, they'll tell you that
Speaker 1: it's a uniquely white man sin that only white people
Speaker 1: have enslaved black people. And they'll tell you, many will
Speaker 1: tell you that it's a uniquely American evil, which is preposterous,
Speaker 1: but that's what they're told. And there's all these race
Speaker 1: baders in schools that are telling kids that being black
Speaker 1: is a disaster. Being black is a death sentence in America.
Speaker 1: You'll never get ahead, Lebron James saying he's scared to
Speaker 1: go outside. It's open season. They're hunting black people. You'll
Speaker 1: never make anything out of yourself. You have no chance,
Speaker 1: you'll never be successful. You have it no better than
Speaker 1: the slaves, maybe even worse. Your life is hopeless. That's
Speaker 1: the message that's being spread. And all you have to
Speaker 1: do is buy this book so you can see how
Speaker 1: bad you have it, and hire me to do your
Speaker 1: diversity seminar at your work so that I can tell
Speaker 1: white people how terrible they are as well. It's grifting.
Speaker 1: It's for money, it's for power, it's to make themselves
Speaker 1: feel better, and it's not true. So let's look at
Speaker 1: some data, shall we. First, you've heard the income gap
Speaker 1: between white and black people. You've heard of that before, right,
Speaker 1: White people on average earned sixty five thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 1: Black people on average earned forty three thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 1: That's a gap. Now, a Marxist were. A Marxist worldview
Speaker 1: looks at everything through the blends of oppressed versus oppressor.
Speaker 1: So anytime there's a disparity or an inequality, they put
Speaker 1: it through that framework of oh, well, here's the oppressed
Speaker 1: people and here are the oppressors. Conservatives look at a
Speaker 1: disparity and say, okay, well, what are the cultural factors
Speaker 1: at play? Slash the individual choices that people make that
Speaker 1: have led to a disparity. Very different. So if you
Speaker 1: take that conservative approach and you look at, okay, well
Speaker 1: what's going on here? Why why do black white people
Speaker 1: earn sixty five thousand is on average? And you know
Speaker 1: that's a faulty metric two because it's a lot of
Speaker 1: people here, but sixty five thousand white people forty three
Speaker 1: thousand from black people. What's happening here? Okay, Well, first
Speaker 1: we have to account for age, who generally has more money.
Speaker 1: If you lined up a fifty eight year old and
Speaker 1: a twenty seven year old, which of those two people
Speaker 1: are going to have more money in a higher net
Speaker 1: worth a fifty eight year old or twenty seven year old.
Speaker 1: The fifty eight year old, they've been working longer, working longer,
Speaker 1: accumulating more wealth. They're more knowledgeable, they have more wisdom
Speaker 1: and insight. They're they command more money because they're better
Speaker 1: at their job because they've been doing it longer. Right,
Speaker 1: the average is the most common age of a white
Speaker 1: person in America's fifty eight. The most common an age
Speaker 1: for a black person's twenty seven. That alone has accounts
Speaker 1: for a massive difference in incomes because again, who's going
Speaker 1: to make more money the twenty seven year old or
Speaker 1: the fifty eight year old, Well, the fifty eight year
Speaker 1: old old. So when you have a group with more
Speaker 1: fifty eight year olds, that group is going to make
Speaker 1: more money, and you account for that alone, and most
Speaker 1: of that disparity is gone. Is that oppression? I got
Speaker 1: some more data shootings. People's perceptions way off. We shared
Speaker 1: the other day forty four percent of liberals forty four
Speaker 1: percent think that police kill over a thousand unarmed black
Speaker 1: men every year. That's three a day. Let me ask
Speaker 1: you the question, how many unarmed black men are killed
Speaker 1: by police? Officers every day every year, And important to
Speaker 1: note unarmed black men doesn't necessarily mean the guy was innocent, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know that the circumstance in each of these,
Speaker 1: but you know an unarmed man could still be running
Speaker 1: at a police officer. Right, So, but how many unarmed
Speaker 1: black men are killed by police officers every year? Forty
Speaker 1: four percent of liberals think it's over a thousand. What
Speaker 1: do you think it is? Five hundred, two thousand, three thousand,
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty? What do you think the answer?
Speaker 1: The answer is thirteen. So why do half of liberals
Speaker 1: think that police are killing three unarmed black men a day?
Speaker 1: What messages are liberals getting that has zero resemblance to
Speaker 1: reality at all? When asked what percentage of people? How
Speaker 1: do I wear this properly? All? Right? So police shoot
Speaker 1: a certain number of people a year, what percentage of
Speaker 1: them are black? Progressives think it's sixty percent. In reality,
Speaker 1: it's twenty five. Our perceptions are way off. Seventy five
Speaker 1: percent of police shootings, therefore, are against white and Hispanic people, right.
Speaker 1: Seventy five percent of police shootings are against white and
Speaker 1: his spanning people. But that doesn't get media attention. The
Speaker 1: media covers that twenty five percent, as with nearly one
Speaker 1: hundred percent of the coverage, so people, therefore, I think
Speaker 1: it's nearly all the shootings. Years and years ago, I
Speaker 1: went to the gay part of town in San Diego,
Speaker 1: it's called Hillcrest and for their gay pride parade. Right
Speaker 1: went out to the gay pride parade and I asked
Speaker 1: people had a microphone, a camera, It's on the internet somewhere.
Speaker 1: I went around. I said, what percentage of men in
Speaker 1: America are gay? What percentage of men of America are gay?
Speaker 1: You can see the video and people are like, um,
Speaker 1: I don't know, forty forty percent of men are gay?
Speaker 1: Someone said seventy percent, twenty five percent, maybe maybe half,
Speaker 1: maybe half of people are gay. Like and I didn't
Speaker 1: edit the video at all, Like I used all the answers.
Speaker 1: No one was close, no one was anywhere near the
Speaker 1: right answer of two percent. So think about that. Think
Speaker 1: about these people are at this gay pride parade and
Speaker 1: they're like, yes, seventy percent of men are gay, but
Speaker 1: who are you talking about. By the way, I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to dunk on anyone with this. This is great news.
Speaker 1: When I'm sharing there's great news, just like COVID, Right,
Speaker 1: we should be celebrating that. COVID's over. Take your masks off.
Speaker 1: Let's let's have a hug and go to work and
Speaker 1: go to a restaurant. There's a great news. But no
Speaker 1: one's happy. No one's celebrating. Too much money to be
Speaker 1: made in grievance, too much money to be made in power,
Speaker 1: too much money to be made in control. Same thing
Speaker 1: with all this race stuff. Too much money to be
Speaker 1: made and grievance, too much money to be made in
Speaker 1: self pity, too much money, too much attention, too much power.
Speaker 1: Victimhood is a powerful drug. Yeah, that's so wild for
Speaker 1: people like, oh, a sudden, you're being racist? Do be
Speaker 1: How is it racist to report some facts going against
Speaker 1: the narrative is racist? Why? Oh? Because I'm not sensitive
Speaker 1: enough sensitive to what you've heard. There's Gallup polls that
Speaker 1: says eight percent of people would never vote for a
Speaker 1: qualified black person to be president. Eight percent of people
Speaker 1: would never vote for a qualified black person to be president.
Speaker 1: This was in twenty fifteen. Well, seven percent. In that
Speaker 1: same poll, seven percent said they never vote for a Catholic.
Speaker 1: Eight percent said they never vote for a woman a woman,
Speaker 1: nine percent said they never vote for a Jew, nineteen
Speaker 1: percent said they never vote for a Mormon. So the
Speaker 1: conclusion I get from this poll is that about seven
Speaker 1: percent of people are racist about racist or biased or whatever.
Speaker 1: And that's about right, which, by the way, would be
Speaker 1: the lowest percentage of racists in a society ever. No
Speaker 1: one's ever been more pluralistic, more ethnically diverse in human history,
Speaker 1: and one five seven percent of people are biased, right,
Speaker 1: And that's that's what This took a lot of work
Speaker 1: to get to that point. By the way, the Civil War,
Speaker 1: for one, six hundred thousand Americans killed to end slavery,
Speaker 1: civil rights movement it ended fifty years ago. People are
Speaker 1: still acting like nothing's changed. You take the ethnic groups
Speaker 1: in America with the ten highest incomes, seven of them
Speaker 1: are of color. People from Africa and the Caribbean have
Speaker 1: higher incomes, and white people in America. It never makes
Speaker 1: sense to me that people can be racist, or that
Speaker 1: we're told that people can be racist against a black
Speaker 1: person from Detroit, but not the black person from Jamaica.
Speaker 1: And the race baters know this. This is why, in
Speaker 1: the absence of actual tangible racism and that's why they
Speaker 1: make up hate crimes all the time. How many nooses
Speaker 1: have African American studies professors hung outside their own offices,
Speaker 1: or people seeing hate crimes? Like my favorite one was
Speaker 1: there's a noose up in a tree in Oakland, everyone
Speaker 1: freaked out, the mayor freaked out. Turned out to be
Speaker 1: a rope left behind by an African immigrant who set
Speaker 1: up these ropes to do some exercise in the park. Right,
Speaker 1: So people are seeing crimes, making up hate crimes in
Speaker 1: the absence of actual tangible hate crimes. They've made up
Speaker 1: systemic racism. Oh it's everywhere. It's everywhere, you just can't
Speaker 1: see it. I'll end with Wilfred Riley. He says, an
Speaker 1: ambitious young man or a woman of color applying to
Speaker 1: virtually any selective college or university, to say nothing of
Speaker 1: government or fortune five hundred jobs enjoys a substantial advantage
Speaker 1: over an equally qualified white pier. Yet we are told
Speaker 1: from the mountaintops that we are the most racist society
Speaker 1: ever created and an existence today. It is a total,
Speaker 1: absolute lie. Mike Slater dot locals dot com, filling in
Speaker 1: for Buck Sexton, spread the word going on Team Buck.
Speaker 1: Mike Slater filling in for Buck Sexton for one last day.
Speaker 1: Buck will be back tomorrow. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: you do lent, but you're a you're almost done. You
Speaker 1: almost made it. Whether you are Christian or not, or
Speaker 1: practice lent or not, this is still a good thing
Speaker 1: to do. Give stuff up. So lent if eno familiar.
Speaker 1: You give something up for forty days up until Easter here,
Speaker 1: you should just do that. You should just give things up.
Speaker 1: So twenty one percent of people gave up social media,
Speaker 1: eighteen percent gave up alcohol, thirteen percent gave up sweets,
Speaker 1: eleven percent gave up soda. So just a little the
Speaker 1: risk of sounded like jocko. If it's a good idea
Speaker 1: to give these things up for forty days, it's probably
Speaker 1: a good idea just to give these things up, just
Speaker 1: entirely right. You should just give it up. You should
Speaker 1: just not drink soda anymore at all, for instance. But
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the importance of giving these
Speaker 1: things up, just for your soul, for your brain, for
Speaker 1: your body, for your life. It's true, first of all,
Speaker 1: that absence makes the heart grow fonder. I think one
Speaker 1: reason why people are depressed a lot in our society
Speaker 1: is because everything is available all the time. We have
Speaker 1: no delayed gratification. We have instant gratification, NonStop all the time.
Speaker 1: And when you're constantly instantly gratified, you don't experience pleasure anymore.
Speaker 1: One study, there's three groups of people. One was told
Speaker 1: to eat as much chocolate as they possibly can, another
Speaker 1: was told to eat as much as they wanted, and
Speaker 1: a third was told not to eat any for a while,
Speaker 1: and then they could have a small amount. And it
Speaker 1: was the third group that derived the most happiness. Oh,
Speaker 1: I forgot that. I gotta tell this story real quick.
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago, I was talking to a
Speaker 1: man who was taken captive in World War Two. He
Speaker 1: was a small boy who was eight years old. He
Speaker 1: was living in the Philippines and he was sent to
Speaker 1: live in a intermit camp's eight years old with his
Speaker 1: eleven year old brother. He was there for three years.
Speaker 1: He weighed like like fifty pounds. Right. It was horrific
Speaker 1: his mother or his aunt, because they were separated from
Speaker 1: their families. Their aunt would would boil there are leather
Speaker 1: soles of their shoes for food. At one point, he
Speaker 1: would steal garbage from the Japanese guards and they would
Speaker 1: boil that and he would drink the broth from garbage.
Speaker 1: One day, the Red Cross was able to drop in
Speaker 1: some stuff and there was a chocolate bar, Hershey's Chocolate bar.
Speaker 1: And Tom said he and his brother each took one
Speaker 1: square and every day they would take one lick, not
Speaker 1: even a bite. Every day they would take one lick.
Speaker 1: He said, it was heavenly. Who do you think appreciates
Speaker 1: that chocolate bar more, Tom, or someone just gorges themselves
Speaker 1: all day with chocolate bars. We notice this with toys
Speaker 1: with our kids. When our kids started acting greedy and
Speaker 1: all that, we just get rid of all the toys
Speaker 1: because they're just not appreciating it. They're overwhelmed. We become
Speaker 1: numb to pleasure. I'll end with w eb DW Boy.
Speaker 1: He wrote an amazing letter to his daughter. Let me
Speaker 1: put it on the website Mike's Letter dot locals dot com.
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite letters. The Boy letter, A
Speaker 1: little note to myself. He wrote this letter to his
Speaker 1: daughter who was going to private school in England. She
Speaker 1: was like sixteen, and he wrote some amazing stuff about
Speaker 1: her being black and also but at the end he says,
Speaker 1: read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline. Take
Speaker 1: yourself in hand and master yourself. Make yourself do unpleasant
Speaker 1: things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
Speaker 1: I'll put the full lighter on the website mics later
Speaker 1: dot locals dot com, and I'll put another quote up
Speaker 1: there from Seneca. Seneca said he gave some advice to
Speaker 1: his friend. He said, set aside a certain number of
Speaker 1: days where you eat disgusting food, and you wear really
Speaker 1: uncomfortable clothes, and you sleep on the ground, just so
Speaker 1: that at the end of it you can say to yourself,
Speaker 1: this is the condition I feared, he says. I then
Speaker 1: assure you, my dear Lucilius, you will leap for joy
Speaker 1: when filled with a pennyworth of food. And you'll understand
Speaker 1: that a man's peace of mind does not depend upon fortune,
Speaker 1: for even when angry, fortune grants enough for our needs.
Speaker 1: Put all on the website Mike's Later dot locals dot com.
Speaker 1: Coming up next, I want to talk about the George
Speaker 1: Floyd trial and the truth. Well, I'll just tell you
Speaker 1: what the what the defense is going to present, and
Speaker 1: you can decide what to do with that. We'll do
Speaker 1: that coming up next. Mikes Later filling in for Box
Speaker 1: Sexton spread the word, Ah, the great disappointment continues. Where's Buck?
Speaker 1: Bring back back? He'll be back tomorrow. I'm mikes Later,
Speaker 1: San Diego, filling it for Buck one last day. Thank
Speaker 1: you for letting me be here the last few days.
Speaker 1: It's a wonderful honor. And Buck's the man looking forward
Speaker 1: to him coming back as well. George Floyd trial, you're ready.
Speaker 1: This has the potential to be an absolute disaster for
Speaker 1: this country. Trial starry yesterday, continuing obviously today. So Derek
Speaker 1: Chaffin charged with murder. The others are charged as accomplices
Speaker 1: to the murder, and the prosecution has to prove that
Speaker 1: Derek Chaufin well, there's a couple different charges, right, and
Speaker 1: everyone is going to be very very up on second
Speaker 1: degree murder, third degree murder and what the differences between
Speaker 1: all these are. But I want to be very clear,
Speaker 1: would what this trial is not? This trial is not
Speaker 1: was this thing sad? Was this a bad event? Did
Speaker 1: I wish this not happened? Did this thing make me upset? Those?
Speaker 1: The answer to those all those things are is yes,
Speaker 1: that's not a criminal trial. This prosecution needs to prove
Speaker 1: beyond a reasonable doubt, unanimously by the journey that this
Speaker 1: police officer intentionally murdered George Floyd. That's one of the charges.
Speaker 1: The other charge that the other one is that in
Speaker 1: the act of committing a felony offense, murdered George Floyd's.
Speaker 1: They have to prove that what Derek Choffin did and
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be able to do this as all
Speaker 1: talking to a second, he went beyond his role as
Speaker 1: a police officer, was committing a felony offense, felony assault,
Speaker 1: and in that act murdered him. I do not believe
Speaker 1: they are going to be able to prove that. Now
Speaker 1: does it even matter? It's another question like it's this
Speaker 1: is like the oj trial, right, nothing that what's her
Speaker 1: name in the OJA trial said or did? What's her name?
Speaker 1: Who's the lawyer? Marcia Marcia, Marcia, Marcia Marcia OJ trial
Speaker 1: Marcia Marcia, what's her last name? Marcia Clark? Nothing she did, no, no,
Speaker 1: not think anyone could have done would have resulted in
Speaker 1: that jury saying that oj Simpson was guilty of murder.
Speaker 1: There's no so I hope she didn't feel bad about it.
Speaker 1: There's nothing she could have done. Please, if you have
Speaker 1: not watched the documentaries about OJ Simpson, you must watch them.
Speaker 1: There's two ones, a documentary and one is more like
Speaker 1: a mini series kind of. They're both fantastic. Watched them both.
Speaker 1: And it is true that once he was said not guilty,
Speaker 1: one of the jurors got out of the box and
Speaker 1: gave OJ the Black Power salute fist in the air.
Speaker 1: There is no chance that that guy would have said
Speaker 1: that OJ Simpson was guilty, he should go to jail. Okay.
Speaker 1: So it entirely depends on jury selection and who's on
Speaker 1: this jury, And I don't know what that exactly looks like.
Speaker 1: But that's another point about human nature, is like does
Speaker 1: it even matter really what is put forward on this
Speaker 1: trial or is every single juror's mind already made up?
Speaker 1: But that being said, it has to be unanimous in
Speaker 1: order of proven guilty. That's a high bar. But the
Speaker 1: courtroom in Minneapolis is it's like where they're having a trial,
Speaker 1: it's like it's like a war zone. Concrete barriers everywhere,
Speaker 1: barred wire, everything's blockaded up. And those jurors know that
Speaker 1: if this police officer is found not guilty and is
Speaker 1: allowed to walk that activists will burn everything to the ground,
Speaker 1: not only in Minneapolis, but in every sity in this country.
Speaker 1: If these officers are quitted, the reaction is going to
Speaker 1: be worse than when George Floyd first died. Okay, so
Speaker 1: let's talk about the defense that Derek Cholfin's going to present,
Speaker 1: so you can be prepared for this and when people
Speaker 1: and when your people at work or family members, when
Speaker 1: they come to you and they are coming at you
Speaker 1: of with just their feelings and their emotions of it
Speaker 1: was bad. I hated to seeing it. It was hard
Speaker 1: to watch. You're like, Okay, yeah, not a that's not
Speaker 1: criminal trial. That's not what this is. I agree with you.
Speaker 1: It was hard to watch. I agree with you. It
Speaker 1: was terrible and fortunate and awful, not what the criminal
Speaker 1: trial is about. So what they're gonna show is the
Speaker 1: medical exam and the toxicology report. Also, don't get mad
Speaker 1: at me for sharing this either. I'm just telling you
Speaker 1: what's going to happen. And I'm telling you I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna get acquitted. Everyone's gonna flip out Biden and
Speaker 1: harass Oh my goodness, they're gonna call it. Ah, what
Speaker 1: a gross injustice of the American court system. How could
Speaker 1: this have happened? We live in such a racist country.
Speaker 1: Black men could be murdered by the police on broad daylight.
Speaker 1: The whole thing anyway, medical report, toxicology report. The medical
Speaker 1: report says that there was no injury to George Floyd's neck.
Speaker 1: That's gonna no one's want. No one's gonna want to
Speaker 1: believe that. That's the premise of this whole thing. Right,
Speaker 1: The officer kneeled on his neck so he couldn't breathe.
Speaker 1: But here's the medical reports saying there were no injuries
Speaker 1: to his neck and no evidence that his airway was
Speaker 1: ever blocked. Well, hold on, I thought he choked. I
Speaker 1: thought he suffocated him and choked him on on the ground.
Speaker 1: And you're telling me that the medical report says that
Speaker 1: his airway was never blocked. What do we No one's
Speaker 1: going to believe that. Here's the medical report, no life
Speaker 1: threatening injuries identified, no injuries of anterior muscles of neck
Speaker 1: or laryngeal structures, larynx breathing. No one's gonna want to
Speaker 1: believe that. This is the criminal charge against Derek Chofin.
Speaker 1: It says the medical examiner has made the following preliminary findings.
Speaker 1: The autopsy revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis
Speaker 1: of traumatic asphyxia, asphyxia, or strangulation. Mister Floyd had underlying
Speaker 1: health conditions, including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease.
Speaker 1: The combined effects of mister Floyd being restrained by the police,
Speaker 1: his underlying health conditions, and any potential intoxicans in his
Speaker 1: system likely contributed to his death. So it wasn't the
Speaker 1: knee on the neck now, it's that last line. There
Speaker 1: any potential intoxicans in his system. George Floyd said I
Speaker 1: can't breathe during this situation event occurrence seven times. He
Speaker 1: said I can't breathe. Before he was even on the ground,
Speaker 1: before there was even a neck, a knee on the neck,
Speaker 1: which leads to the toxicology report. George Floyd had eleven
Speaker 1: nanograms of fetanol per milli leader of blood. Now, I
Speaker 1: have no idea what that means. If you if someone
Speaker 1: zone said, hey, how many nanograms of fetanol per milla leader,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, like one hundred or four. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Three is fatal. Three He had eleven nanograms, even among
Speaker 1: hardcore habitual users of fetanol, which there aren't many and
Speaker 1: not for long. But there's a study of overdose deaths
Speaker 1: of people who used fetanol regularly. Nine nanograms was the
Speaker 1: median fatal dose. George Floyd had eleven. One of the
Speaker 1: consequences of an overdose is called pulmonary edema. This is
Speaker 1: when fluid fills up the lungs. The media the medical
Speaker 1: report says his lungs were two to three times the
Speaker 1: weight of normal lungs. That means they were filled with fluid.
Speaker 1: In the body cam footage early on, this is very
Speaker 1: early on, before the police car was even involved, right
Speaker 1: before they even tried to get him in the police car,
Speaker 1: an officer asked him, why are you foaming at the mouth.
Speaker 1: Why are you foaming at the mouth. This is before
Speaker 1: things got heated. This is before again they tried to
Speaker 1: get him in the right and obviously said why are
Speaker 1: you foaming at the mouth? And George Floyd said, earlier,
Speaker 1: I was hooping. I have the audio. It's hard to hear,
Speaker 1: but I have the audio. Early he said, I was hooping.
Speaker 1: Whooping is when you place drugs in your anus. What
Speaker 1: America saw was a man die of a drug overdose.
Speaker 1: And the reason why these officers, I believe are going
Speaker 1: to be acquitted and people are going to burn every
Speaker 1: city to the round is that these police officers followed
Speaker 1: Minneapolis police protocol on every single thing they did. They
Speaker 1: tried to get him in the car and he said,
Speaker 1: I don't want to go in. I want to go
Speaker 1: in on one go in and they said, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: we'll roll down the windows. He said, I'm claustrophobic. We'll
Speaker 1: roll on the windows, We'll put on the AC you
Speaker 1: just gotta get in the car. George Floyd asked to
Speaker 1: get on the ground and there were three officers on
Speaker 1: top of them. This is really interesting. When you first
Speaker 1: saw the video or the main video, you don't see
Speaker 1: the other two officers. You just see Derek Choffin on
Speaker 1: top of his neck because the cars in the way.
Speaker 1: You don't see the other two officers, one on his
Speaker 1: lower back and one on his legs. This is what
Speaker 1: officers are trained to do. Now, you could be against
Speaker 1: that if you want. You can say that's wrong, we
Speaker 1: got to get rid of that. Great, I'll definitely have
Speaker 1: that conversation. But can you charge an officer with murder
Speaker 1: when they are completely following textbook police protocol as they
Speaker 1: were trained. If you can how can anyone be a
Speaker 1: police officer. Also, these officers, they called them lens twice.
Speaker 1: Once when George Floyd hit his head on the police car,
Speaker 1: they called the ambulance for that reason. These are not
Speaker 1: people that are going out of their way to murder someone.
Speaker 1: The charge against Derek Choffin of murder was made two
Speaker 1: days before the toxicology report was issued. To me, that
Speaker 1: suggests that this was a political decision by the prosecution
Speaker 1: because the activists were going crazy and the prosecutor and
Speaker 1: the prosecutor needed to give the city needed to give
Speaker 1: the activists what they wanted, and they went too soon.
Speaker 1: They got out too soon in front of it. Before
Speaker 1: the toxicology report was released, we talked on my radio
Speaker 1: show with the former I forgot his exact title, but
Speaker 1: he was in Philadelphia for decades and he prosecuted police
Speaker 1: abuse crimes like police officers abusing people, like use of
Speaker 1: force right, and so he's prosecuted these police officers many
Speaker 1: times for going too far. He said, in no circumstance
Speaker 1: would would these people have been Did these police go
Speaker 1: beyond what they're called to do and what they should
Speaker 1: have done, and he believes that they should at least
Speaker 1: be found not guilty of their crimes that they're charged with.
Speaker 1: And again, if that happens, get ready. Mike's later dot
Speaker 1: locals dot com. I'll put all that information on our website.
Speaker 1: George Floyd Info, I'll put all that on the website
Speaker 1: right now. Mike's later, Dot locals dot com. Mike later,
Speaker 1: filling it for box Sexton, spread the word going on
Speaker 1: Team Buck. Mike's later in San Diego, filling it for
Speaker 1: box Sexton, Mikes later, dot locals dot com. I don't
Speaker 1: know what I just shared. They're made people upset, but
Speaker 1: get ready, get ready for this trial and then the
Speaker 1: verdict dot comes. It all depends on the journey. It
Speaker 1: all depends on the duram um. I want to share
Speaker 1: a little thing here about minimum wage because so Zoe Rachel.
Speaker 1: Zoe Rachel, he made such a great point on my
Speaker 1: TV show, Buck and I both have shows. On the
Speaker 1: first he said, when Democrats say there's systemic racism, conservatives
Speaker 1: come back and say no, there's not. And he says, hey, conservatives,
Speaker 1: you should say yes, there is systemic racism, and you're
Speaker 1: the racists, you're the ones doing it. I said, so,
Speaker 1: what's a good example. I'll give you one right here,
Speaker 1: minimum wage. Minimum wage is a racist policy. The intent
Speaker 1: of minimum wage was to hurt people of color. Now, progressives,
Speaker 1: they're the ones who are favor of it today still,
Speaker 1: and they say, oh, we want minimum wage because we're
Speaker 1: gonna help lower income people. We're gonna give them more money,
Speaker 1: and then they pat themselves on the back for being
Speaker 1: so thoughtful and wonderful. And conservatives look at this a
Speaker 1: minimum wage, and we say, well, hold on, the real
Speaker 1: minimum wage is zero. You raise the minimum wage, it's
Speaker 1: gonna get people unemployed, and they're gonna get fired, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna get replaced by machine and all this. So
Speaker 1: this raising them in wage actually hurts the people who
Speaker 1: progressives say it's going to help. Right, So let's take
Speaker 1: a single black woman. She's making eight dollars an hour,
Speaker 1: so now we pass a law raise them inum wage
Speaker 1: to fifteen dollars. But progressives look at that and say, oh,
Speaker 1: now she's making twice as much money. And conservatives look
Speaker 1: at that, well, no, she was just fired. She makes
Speaker 1: zero dollars now and now she's entirely dependent on the
Speaker 1: government and all the problems to come with that. Now,
Speaker 1: a conservative would look at this and say, hey, progressives,
Speaker 1: you gotta look at the unintended consequences of a policy.
Speaker 1: You maybe have good intentions, but you gotta look at
Speaker 1: the unintended consequences. That's what That's what I used to say.
Speaker 1: But now my argument, based on the history of the
Speaker 1: minimum wage, is that the original intent of the minimum
Speaker 1: wage was explicitly to kick undesirable people out of the
Speaker 1: labor for this is not an unintended consequence of the
Speaker 1: minimum wage. This was the original point of the minimum wage.
Speaker 1: It's working perfectly. Let me back it up. Eugenics was
Speaker 1: hugely popular in the early nineteen hundreds in America, very
Speaker 1: dark time in our history. But we don't hear a
Speaker 1: lot about it because it was a progressive idea spearheaded
Speaker 1: in the Ivy League schools. The most California performed twenty
Speaker 1: thousand sterilizations just in our mental health institutions to prevent
Speaker 1: to protect society from the offspring of people with mental illness. Right,
Speaker 1: and the Supreme Court upheld this. The Chief Justice who
Speaker 1: used to he was the head of the medical school
Speaker 1: at Harvard. He said, three generations of imbeciles are enough,
Speaker 1: So let's prevent these people from from procreating. Right. So,
Speaker 1: the Ivy League, they loved eugenics. And if it weren't
Speaker 1: for this guy, Adolf Hitler coming to power, he who
Speaker 1: gave it all a bad name, and if it weren't
Speaker 1: for him in America would possibly still be leading eugenics
Speaker 1: around the world, although maybe we are with abortion. I
Speaker 1: bring this up because the idea behind eugenics is we
Speaker 1: are scientifically going to make a better race of people.
Speaker 1: So how do we do that, Well, we have to
Speaker 1: rid the gene pool of certain people. We have to
Speaker 1: purify the gene pool and will make them better, stronger
Speaker 1: people in a better society. Same thinking, if you could
Speaker 1: rid these people from the gene pool, we can also
Speaker 1: ban them from the labor force. And what was the
Speaker 1: way that these people decided to do that? Minimum wage?
Speaker 1: This is economics Professor F. Taussig. He said, certain types
Speaker 1: of criminals and paupers. This is back in the day.
Speaker 1: Certain types of criminals and paupers breed only their kind,
Speaker 1: and society has a right and a duty to protect
Speaker 1: its members from the repeated burden of maintaining and guarding
Speaker 1: such parasites. The human race could be amensely improved in
Speaker 1: quality and its capacity for happy living immensely increased if
Speaker 1: those of poor physical and mental endowment were prevented from multiplying.
Speaker 1: He said the feeble minded quote should simply be stamped out.
Speaker 1: We have not reached the stage where we can proceed
Speaker 1: to chloroform chloroform them once and for all, but at
Speaker 1: least they can be segregated, shut up in refuges and asylums,
Speaker 1: and prevented from propagating their kind. That was the progressive
Speaker 1: liberal elite view at the time. Similarly, how do we
Speaker 1: ban the feeble minded from employment? Raise the minimum wage?
Speaker 1: Arthur Holcomb he was a Harvard professor. He wrote about
Speaker 1: the minimum wage in Australia. He said it was done
Speaker 1: to protect the white Australian's standard of living from the
Speaker 1: insidious competition of the colored races, particularly of the Chinese.
Speaker 1: Minimum wage laws were passed in the North when there
Speaker 1: was a major exodus from black people from the South,
Speaker 1: and they pass the minimum wage laws to prevent the
Speaker 1: black people from taking those jobs. And same thing today
Speaker 1: it's oh it's couched much nicer, but the end results
Speaker 1: the exact same, hurts low income people the most, and
Speaker 1: it hurts people of color the most. So there's three
Speaker 1: groups of people here when it comes to the minimum wage.
Speaker 1: You have the utopians, the progressives, who say, oh, we
Speaker 1: gotta raise the minimum wage and help people. You have
Speaker 1: conservatives who say, oh, we gotta raise You can't raise
Speaker 1: the minimum wage because that will unintentionally hurt people. And
Speaker 1: then you have me who says, oh, raising the minimum wage,
Speaker 1: you can't do that because it will do exactly what
Speaker 1: it was designed to do, hurt certain people. Should I
Speaker 1: play the left game? Let me play the game. Let
Speaker 1: me play the game. If you support raising the minimum wage,
Speaker 1: you're a racist. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. That's
Speaker 1: our website. Mike Later at locals dot com, filling in
Speaker 1: for Buck Sexton, spread the word. Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Team Buck? Mike Slater filling in for Buck Sexton again.
Speaker 1: Jeez Buck, come on, hurry back. Hate this Slater guy.
Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow. Don't worry. So we just had
Speaker 1: two pretty heavy segments there, provocative. I want to lighten
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Speaker 1: We don hear all the time about toxic masculinity, and
Speaker 1: I would argue that as as screwed up, as as
Speaker 1: ill defined as masculinity is in our culture, femininity is
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Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow. I want to change gears here,
Speaker 1: Can we like downshift a minute? So we just talked
Speaker 1: about George Floyd. We talked about vaccine passports, and we
Speaker 1: talked about George Floyd, and then we talked about the
Speaker 1: minimum wage and eugenis, eugenesis systems, eugenics, and it's like, oh, geez,
Speaker 1: heavy show. Let's take a minute and talk about something
Speaker 1: beautiful because we need more of that in our culture.
Speaker 1: Yesterday we spent this hour talking about Little Nasax and
Speaker 1: his new song and his Satan shoes and all this
Speaker 1: is ridiculous stuff. And my point was, don't outsource the
Speaker 1: raising of your kids to people who hate you and
Speaker 1: to people who hate your worldview. Take control back and
Speaker 1: instead of because when you when you let your kids
Speaker 1: listen to the music that people in Hollywood and the
Speaker 1: movies that people in Hollywood, and the video games also.
Speaker 1: But the people who made that stuff they hate you.
Speaker 1: I don't like, they hate your world. Blues Clues, Blues
Speaker 1: Clues did an alphabet song, P was for pride, and
Speaker 1: it was they had they had the rainbow flag, the
Speaker 1: gay rainbow flag, and then eight other flags like the
Speaker 1: transgender flag and the lesbian flag and the intersects flag,
Speaker 1: and it's like what Blues Clues three to five year old.
Speaker 1: Blue Blues Clues. Okay, so your kids, if you don't
Speaker 1: raise your kids, you're letting these people do it for you.
Speaker 1: And these people are bombarding your kids with ugliness. So
Speaker 1: it is your job to surround your kids with beautiful things.
Speaker 1: That is my plea to you. So what is beautiful, Well,
Speaker 1: the things that are objectively beautiful. The world shows your
Speaker 1: kids dancing and it's ugly and it's girl like little
Speaker 1: girls like shoving their crotch at the camera. Stuff like
Speaker 1: that's like ugly dancing. So you need to show your
Speaker 1: kids beautiful dancing. Show your kids you're I have a
Speaker 1: little girl as I'm doing this segment, I'm thinking of
Speaker 1: my daughter, Grace. She's three, just turned three. She's amazing.
Speaker 1: I love this girl. She's bounding, full of joy. And
Speaker 1: every once in a while we'll watch videos of ballet
Speaker 1: and we'll watch videos of the tango. Right, that's a
Speaker 1: sensual dance, but it's beautiful. The world gives your kids
Speaker 1: terrible music, So surround your kids and you're in your
Speaker 1: home with beautiful music. It's called classical music for a reason.
Speaker 1: And if you want to modernize it a bit. My
Speaker 1: son and I we listened a lot to John Williams.
Speaker 1: John Williams is the composer behind Star Wars and Jurassic
Speaker 1: Park and et. And we just sit and we just
Speaker 1: listen to the music, and we say, oh, who are
Speaker 1: the bad guys? Are the bad guys winning or the
Speaker 1: good guys winning? And we just talk about the music.
Speaker 1: Oh do you hear that part? Do you hear the
Speaker 1: violin coming in? Or whatever? That's beautiful music. The world
Speaker 1: pumps terrible TV shows into your home. Watch no TV,
Speaker 1: go outside if you must, watch The Little House on
Speaker 1: the Prairie, watch the Andy Griffith Show. And you're like
Speaker 1: laughing at this, You're scoffing at this. Why you're in charge.
Speaker 1: You set the culture of your home, and throughout all
Speaker 1: this promote masculine and feminine virtues in your home as well.
Speaker 1: And that's what I want to talk about in this segment.
Speaker 1: We have been told for a long time now about
Speaker 1: toxic masculinity. I argue that there's no such thing as
Speaker 1: toxic masculinity because masculinity is a virtue, and you can't
Speaker 1: have toxic virtues. The fruits of the spirit are love, joy, peace, patients, kindness, goodness, gentleness,
Speaker 1: and self control. There's no such thing as toxic peace,
Speaker 1: or toxic joy, or toxic self control. Similarly, masculinity is
Speaker 1: a virtue. There's no toxicness of it. There's not properly
Speaker 1: defined masculinity, no doubt about that. But that's not masculinity.
Speaker 1: And just as we do a poor job, to say
Speaker 1: the least, of defining what true masculinity is, we've done
Speaker 1: an equally if not worse job of defining femininity. Now
Speaker 1: my local show, we've talked about masculinity a billion times.
Speaker 1: It's easier for me. I am a guy, and I
Speaker 1: have two sons, four and one, so I've thought a
Speaker 1: lot about this, and I haven't thought as much about femininity.
Speaker 1: But then I realized I have a three year old daughter,
Speaker 1: and I better figure this out because if I don't,
Speaker 1: someone else is going to do it for her. This
Speaker 1: is my job and I'm not going to outsource it
Speaker 1: to Cardi b. It is my job to emphasize, to
Speaker 1: have clearly defined and to emphasize the great feminine virtues
Speaker 1: in her and give her that to strive for. So
Speaker 1: let's talk about four great feminine virtues right here, and
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear some more. Goal goodness, If you
Speaker 1: have some more, I'd love to hear them. Mike Slater
Speaker 1: dot locals dot com. Please join us over there, and
Speaker 1: actually don't let me put some I'll put a post
Speaker 1: up there so you can comment on the post specifically,
Speaker 1: uh fem virtue Mike Slater dot locals dot com. So
Speaker 1: EV is a really wonderful women's online magazine from a
Speaker 1: conservative worldview. It's really good. It's a beautiful website. E
Speaker 1: v I E I think it's I think it's just
Speaker 1: eviie dot com. EVI I E EVE magazine. Yeah, evmagazine
Speaker 1: dot com. It's really really good. So they have an
Speaker 1: article uh, it's called want to attract a good man.
Speaker 1: Four feminine virtues to strive for this. This magazine is
Speaker 1: mostly geared towards like millennial and young women. So for
Speaker 1: feminine virtues, first, be graceful. Being graceful is not necessarily
Speaker 1: about how you move your body, but about how you
Speaker 1: conduct and control yourself. It means taking hardship in stride.
Speaker 1: What's proverbs So Proverb thirty one is all about the
Speaker 1: wife of noble character. She's worth far more than rubies.
Speaker 1: There's one line in here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's clothed
Speaker 1: in strength and dignity. She can laugh at the days
Speaker 1: to come. M Proverbs thirty one twenty five. She can
Speaker 1: laugh at the days to come. She's not full of
Speaker 1: anxiety and worry. She's in complete control of herself. It
Speaker 1: means taking hardships and stride, not letting things get to
Speaker 1: you too deeply. Instead of being petty holding a grudge
Speaker 1: you're getting mad at someone. A graceful woman is patient
Speaker 1: and forgiving. Grace is what helps a woman to manage
Speaker 1: her relationships and maintain harmony among those around her. Are
Speaker 1: you seeing the women in your life, the women you
Speaker 1: know who have this grace or maybe women who don't.
Speaker 1: Being graceful means leaving people off better off than when
Speaker 1: we found them. A graceful woman is comfortable with her femininity.
Speaker 1: She doesn't try to be masculine, and she's not overtly sexual.
Speaker 1: See that's the Cardi B and just the culture of
Speaker 1: today is femininity is you have to be vulgar, right
Speaker 1: to be a vertly sexual and vulgar like a man.
Speaker 1: It's like, No, she likes who she is and she's charming, polite, elegant,
Speaker 1: kind and generous. First feminine virtue graceful. Second, be beautiful.
Speaker 1: A woman's beauty and her virtue go hand in hand.
Speaker 1: If a woman acts virtuously, she'll be more beautiful. True
Speaker 1: beauty radiates from within to the outer world. Saint Thomas
Speaker 1: Aquinas wrote that the three characteristics of beauty are radiance, harmony,
Speaker 1: and wholeness. Oh that's so good, Saint Thomas Aquinas. Let
Speaker 1: me get a year on, Saint Thomas Aquinas. Here twelve
Speaker 1: fifty or so. Saint Thomas Aquinas. So, the three characteristics
Speaker 1: of beauty are radiance, harmony, and wholeness. Beauty occurs when
Speaker 1: we treat ourselves others in the world around us as
Speaker 1: best as we can. Striving for health and wholesomeness makes
Speaker 1: you beautiful. So again this is obvious one. Right. Our
Speaker 1: perception of beauty in America is you know, it's just sexual,
Speaker 1: and that's not true. That's radiance, harmony, and wholeness. Number three,
Speaker 1: Respect your body. A virtuous woman treasures herself and treats
Speaker 1: herself like a pearl. She doesn't give her body away
Speaker 1: just anyone. She has strong boundaries and she knows she's
Speaker 1: precious and valuable. A good man will recognize that you're
Speaker 1: cognizant of the importance of treating your physicality well as
Speaker 1: you respect yourself so well, so he will respect you.
Speaker 1: That's true. And fourth, be sisterly. A virtuous woman is
Speaker 1: not caddy and mean, but sisterly kind. Supportive of other
Speaker 1: women in her life means not getting, not gossiping, being
Speaker 1: manipulative for acting cruel. A virtuous woman will not put
Speaker 1: other women down with a mistake and belief that it
Speaker 1: will lift her up, and she'll try her best to
Speaker 1: be supportive and happy of other women. One of my
Speaker 1: best friends is dating a girl now, and I said,
Speaker 1: you know, what's your favorite thing about her? And he said,
Speaker 1: I love how she is loved by her friends. Her
Speaker 1: friends love her, which means she is very sisterly. Should
Speaker 1: be wary of the woman who doesn't have any girlfriends.
Speaker 1: So I'll put all those on Mike Slater out locals
Speaker 1: dot com. Be graceful, be beautiful, respect your body, be sisterly.
Speaker 1: These are just four of many feminine virtues. I'll end
Speaker 1: with this story here. It's one of my favorites, Gates
Speaker 1: of Fire. You have to read it. It's written by
Speaker 1: Stephen Pressfield. It's about the Battle of Thermopole. It's a
Speaker 1: must read. And he tells a story of Leonidas and
Speaker 1: Leonidas the king of Sparta. He shows the three hundred men,
Speaker 1: and how did he choose the three hundred men? Well,
Speaker 1: he chose one husband. He chose this woman's husband and
Speaker 1: this woman's son. So all these men were gonna die.
Speaker 1: They all knew it. So this woman was gonna lose
Speaker 1: her husband and her son, two loved ones. So she
Speaker 1: went to go see Leonidas and begged him too. I
Speaker 1: think she put it not visit upon her, this double
Speaker 1: portion of grief. And Leonidas says, woman, do you know
Speaker 1: why I chose these three hundred men. Why would you
Speaker 1: Why do you think he chose these three hundred men. Well,
Speaker 1: they're the best fighters, the best warriors. No, maybe they're
Speaker 1: I don't know, my favorite whatever. Maybe I was bribed
Speaker 1: to take these three hundred and not others. And Leonidas
Speaker 1: tells the woman, he says, I chose these three hundred
Speaker 1: men not for their valor, but for the valor of
Speaker 1: their wives. He knew that these three hundred men were
Speaker 1: gonna die. He knew that the Persians were going to
Speaker 1: march through and once they won that battle at Thermopoli,
Speaker 1: he knew that the rest of Greece was going to
Speaker 1: look to words Sparta on how to react. And the
Speaker 1: people of Sparta, we're going to look towards the wives
Speaker 1: and mothers of those who were killed to know how
Speaker 1: to react. And Leonida says, all of Greece will look
Speaker 1: to the Spartans to see how they bear this loss.
Speaker 1: And if they behold that your hearts are stricken broken
Speaker 1: with grief, then they too will break, and Greece will
Speaker 1: break with them. But if you bear up, dry eyed,
Speaker 1: not alone and during your loss, but seizing it with
Speaker 1: contempt for its agony, and embracing it, as the honor
Speaker 1: that is in the truth, then Sparta will stand and
Speaker 1: all of Greece will stand behind her. The three hundred
Speaker 1: men were chosen because of the women. We need more
Speaker 1: spartan women today. Not stoic, that's not it, not emotionless,
Speaker 1: but whole and complete and graceful and truly beautiful. Or
Speaker 1: you could just have him watched Little Nasax's video and
Speaker 1: Cardi b and dance and saying nect like horrors all down.
Speaker 1: But that's fine, didn't You can do that for your
Speaker 1: daughters too. Way. Either way, Mike's later dot locals dot com.
Speaker 1: I'll put these articles up there so you can read
Speaker 1: them yourself in comment. Mike later, dot locals dot com.
Speaker 1: Filling in for Buck Sexmon spread the word. It's going on,
Speaker 1: Team Buck. I got a few more minutes here, so
Speaker 1: let me stay on topic here sort of. So we
Speaker 1: just talked about femininity, and now I want to talk
Speaker 1: about a feminist like os Slater. I don't So we
Speaker 1: just talked about the feminine virtues, some feminine virtues, but
Speaker 1: now I want to talk about a FEMINISTC sounds the same,
Speaker 1: It's different. Men are often insulted or can be insulted.
Speaker 1: When they're called a feminine feminine E F F E
Speaker 1: M I N feminine. This is a man who is
Speaker 1: not manly. The second definition in the next dictionary of
Speaker 1: a feminine is marked by an unbecoming delicacy. Saint Thomas Aquinas,
Speaker 1: who we just quoted earlier, he wrote it about this
Speaker 1: in the twelve hundreds. He called him. He called it
Speaker 1: molts like a Mollusk's where we get the word mollusk.
Speaker 1: A mollusk is a soft It's like a snail. Right.
Speaker 1: It means malty, means softness. Mollusks. The snails are soft
Speaker 1: on the inside of their shell. Right. And Saint Thomas Acquintas,
Speaker 1: he quoted Aristotle, the man who is fond of amusement
Speaker 1: is a feminine. On the contrary, the persevering man is
Speaker 1: opposed to the effeminine. He said. The Acquaintas says that
Speaker 1: a man can be called a feminine if they readily
Speaker 1: yield to the touch, like a soft breeze rolls through
Speaker 1: and a man falls over. I love this line, properly speaking.
Speaker 1: And a feminine man this is a quintas, is one
Speaker 1: who withdraws from good on account of sorrow caused by
Speaker 1: lack of pleasure, so I'm not getting enough pleasure. Therefore
Speaker 1: you crumble and fall and become weak. I'd argue that
Speaker 1: we become an effeminine people, weak and soft. The military
Speaker 1: did this whole study because they were wondering why during
Speaker 1: basic training so many people's bones were breaking, and they
Speaker 1: were they were, they were, they were break like you
Speaker 1: give him a ruck rucksack to have them run, and
Speaker 1: their bones would just break, like brittle bird bones, a
Speaker 1: little puny, brittle bird bone breaking, just like going for
Speaker 1: a run. So the military to do this whole thing
Speaker 1: about giving kids more, giving these recruits more calcium with
Speaker 1: calcium bars and stuff like that. Like when the world's happening,
Speaker 1: it's because there was weak, soft, a feminine attached to pleasure,
Speaker 1: video games, immediate gratification. Life is too comfortable. Men, boys,
Speaker 1: they don't they don't run, they don't lift anything. They're
Speaker 1: just weak. I imagine taking a thirteen year old today
Speaker 1: bringing them back in time one hundred fifty years ago,
Speaker 1: eighty years ago, when I'm working in the fields with
Speaker 1: dad and right, it's like, oh, it's like a different planets.
Speaker 1: Kids stages, they're week, they play video games, eat junk.
Speaker 1: They we're like a different species. Were like mollusks more
Speaker 1: than men. And you see it in an adult men too.
Speaker 1: Men who are attached to the appetites, sexual appetites, food, drink,
Speaker 1: video games, sleep, porn. These are men. These are men
Speaker 1: who are acting out of pleasure. That's not masculinity, that's
Speaker 1: a femininity. Masculine men put aside pleasure to do what
Speaker 1: is right and necessary. A feminine men don't. Masculine men
Speaker 1: don't watch porn. Masculine men put aside urges and protect
Speaker 1: and serve and love a single woman and put that
Speaker 1: woman above himself and his immediate gratification. A feminine males
Speaker 1: have no self control, no self discipline. There are only
Speaker 1: They're slaves to their appetites, slave to their cravings. Masculine
Speaker 1: men are slaves to virtue and reason and build honor
Speaker 1: in the process. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. That's
Speaker 1: our website. Join us there, Mike Slader dot locals dot com.
Speaker 1: Coming up next, I'll tell you the worst thing that
Speaker 1: I've ever heard so far. At one of these diversity seminars.
Speaker 1: We'll do a next Mike Slader spread the word Team
Speaker 1: back America. Is the greatest country in the world. The
Speaker 1: great disappointment continues. You tune in Where's Back? Who is
Speaker 1: this guy? I didn't like Slater? I guess yes, show
Speaker 1: is okay, but I don't like them anymore. And I
Speaker 1: want you back back. Where's Buck? Tell you back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But thanks for letting me fill in for Buck these
Speaker 1: last few days. I hope we can do it again.
Speaker 1: I have for you this final hour here. After talking
Speaker 1: about the George Floyd trial in the last hour and
Speaker 1: vaccine passports in the first hour, and telling an amazing
Speaker 1: story of Leonidas and the great feminine virtues, what else
Speaker 1: do we do? Oh? The true story the minimum wage
Speaker 1: goes back to the eugenics movement about one hundred years ago.
Speaker 1: I want to talk in this segment about something that
Speaker 1: an insight that will, if you do it, make your
Speaker 1: life infinitely better. You have infinitely immeasurable more peace and
Speaker 1: harmony in your home if you do this. The thing
Speaker 1: is you won't And I say that because I don't.
Speaker 1: I just sometimes sometimes I do. But it's really, really,
Speaker 1: really hard. If you can do this thing, though, this
Speaker 1: is a life changing I don't what you call it practice, Yeah,
Speaker 1: life changing practice. Let me back it up a second.
Speaker 1: So you've heard, I know Bucks talked about these diversity seminars, diversity, inclusion,
Speaker 1: and equity, and how they're the opposite of each of
Speaker 1: those things, right there. The opposite of diversity, the opposite inclusion,
Speaker 1: the opposite of equity. San Diego County had one of these.
Speaker 1: It was the Health and Human Services department. They'd a
Speaker 1: six hour diversity training seminar, right, Healthy Human Services, Like
Speaker 1: they got nothing better to do, then sit through six
Speaker 1: hours the whole day of diversity training. Okay, talking about
Speaker 1: how racist you aren't. So it's all the normal stuff, right,
Speaker 1: You're born racist. If you deny it, that's proof that
Speaker 1: you're racist. It's the whole segment. Part of it's about
Speaker 1: how black people can't be racist because racism is biased power.
Speaker 1: It's all the same nonsense, right. But this is the
Speaker 1: slide that of all the training samminars, this one may
Speaker 1: be the worst I've seen. This slide. It says at
Speaker 1: the top, dear white people, when you say, and then
Speaker 1: it lists a bunch of things, one of the whole
Speaker 1: column of things, and then on the other column it
Speaker 1: says what I hear. Okay, So when you say these things,
Speaker 1: I hear these things. Now, there's always going to be
Speaker 1: a level of misunderstanding in human communication, right, something like
Speaker 1: words exit my mouth, These sound of vibrations exit my
Speaker 1: mouth and go into the air unchanged. They leave unchanged,
Speaker 1: they mouth, They travel through the air unchanged, and as
Speaker 1: soon as they hit your brain, they're immediately filtered through
Speaker 1: a giant machine of expectations and bias and pride and
Speaker 1: offensiveness and life experience and trauma and selfishness and greed
Speaker 1: and all. And as soon as that happens, there's going
Speaker 1: to be misinterpretation. Now, there's always going to be a
Speaker 1: certain amount of it that's understandable. So if I say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, it's been great to see it. We
Speaker 1: should get some dinner together sometimes, Now what did I say?
Speaker 1: I said we should get to dinner. Some get some
Speaker 1: dinner sometimes. But your brain, your insecurities or whatever, I think,
Speaker 1: does he really want to get dinner? Or is he
Speaker 1: just being nice? Does he really like me? Do I
Speaker 1: really should we really go out? Do we not want
Speaker 1: to go out? Do I like? Right? You're like right,
Speaker 1: you know what? It makes sense? So, like that's a
Speaker 1: normal range of misunderstanding happens at work, happens a marriage,
Speaker 1: happens all the time. But then there's this. Okay, so
Speaker 1: the slide said, dear white people, when you say, if
Speaker 1: the riots come near my house, I'm going to get
Speaker 1: my gun, that's what you say. I hear you fantasize
Speaker 1: about killing black people. Okay, now listen again, normal range
Speaker 1: of misunderstanding is allowed. But if I say, again, oh Jesus,
Speaker 1: these riots come to my house, I'm gonna get my
Speaker 1: gun to protect my family, and you hear, whoa, So
Speaker 1: you fantasize about killing me? Oh? What a racist? Like?
Speaker 1: Come on? Like at a certain point, I can't be
Speaker 1: responsible for your delusion. I can't. I can't be responsible
Speaker 1: for your absolute arrangement. How could I be responsible for complete,
Speaker 1: completely blowing something out of proportion Like that's not me,
Speaker 1: that's on you and your therapist, which you should definitely have,
Speaker 1: by the way, I can't be responsible to that. I
Speaker 1: would definitely protect my family if riots come to our house.
Speaker 1: Oh so you want to murder all the blacks? Like?
Speaker 1: What that was? That the San Diego help in Human Services?
Speaker 1: That the diversity slide, the diversity seminar. Okay, so what
Speaker 1: do we do? What are we doing? Here's the suggestion.
Speaker 1: We need to assume the best of people that were
Speaker 1: having conversations with and if we have any questions, ask them.
Speaker 1: Doesn't that sound healthier? Now let me take it to
Speaker 1: the next level. Here's the Jordan Peterson clip that will
Speaker 1: change your life. Now, just yesterday I did this and
Speaker 1: it worked very well. Also, just yesterday I did not
Speaker 1: do this with my wife and it went not very well.
Speaker 1: So can I tell you if you do, it'll change
Speaker 1: your life, But it's very hard to do. Here's Jordan
Speaker 1: Peterson's advice. The next time you get into an argument
Speaker 1: with your wife, or your friend or a small group
Speaker 1: of friend, stop the discussion for a moment, and for
Speaker 1: an experiment, institute this rule. Each person can speak up
Speaker 1: for himself only after he has first restated the ideas
Speaker 1: and feelings of the previous speaker accurately. What accurately means
Speaker 1: is they have to agree with your restatement. Now that's
Speaker 1: an annoying thing to do, because if someone is talking
Speaker 1: to you and you disagree with them, the first thing
Speaker 1: you want to do is take their argument make the
Speaker 1: stupidest possible thing out of it. That you can, that's
Speaker 1: the strong man, and then demolish it. It's like, so
Speaker 1: then you can walk away feeling good about it, and
Speaker 1: you know you primates dominated them really nicely. So but
Speaker 1: that isn't what you do. You say, Okay, well, I'm
Speaker 1: going to take what you told me, and maybe I'm
Speaker 1: even going to make your argument stronger than the one
Speaker 1: you made. That's useful if you're dealing with someone that
Speaker 1: you have to live with because maybe they can't bloody
Speaker 1: well express themselves very well, but they have something to say,
Speaker 1: so you make their arguments strong. All right? Then you
Speaker 1: see what this would mean. It would mean that before
Speaker 1: presenting your own point of view, it would be necessary
Speaker 1: for you to really achieve the other speaker's frame of reference,
Speaker 1: to understand his thoughts and feelings so well that you
Speaker 1: could summarize them for him. Sounds simple, doesn't it, But
Speaker 1: if you will try it, you'll find that it's the
Speaker 1: most difficult thing that you've ever done. M I forgot
Speaker 1: about that last line there. Yeah, it's true. I like
Speaker 1: the line I said. You're great, You've primate dominated them. Good, congratulations,
Speaker 1: you've primate dominated your wife. You feel good. So what
Speaker 1: he's talking about is the Steelman making a stealment? We
Speaker 1: know a strong man argument. Strong man argument is you
Speaker 1: make the other person's argument weaker and then you crush it. Okay,
Speaker 1: big deal. Steel man is you make the other person's
Speaker 1: argument stronger and then you address it. It's absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 1: So someone says something, you say, all right, let me,
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure I hear you right,
Speaker 1: and then you repeat what they said, and you got
Speaker 1: to repeat it so so well that they say, wow,
Speaker 1: yeah that yeah, that's that's that's perfectly. I wish I
Speaker 1: put it like that. Now you can crush them. But
Speaker 1: he see how much more noble and heroic that is.
Speaker 1: No one doesn't. No one doesn't. What are we doing instead? Well,
Speaker 1: when we have conversations? Well I got one more Peterson
Speaker 1: clip here, and this goes back to the slide right,
Speaker 1: the diversity seminar. If Riot's come to my house, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go get my gun, and you hear, oh you
Speaker 1: fantasize about killing black people. Here's a Peterson said. One
Speaker 1: of Roger's points is, well, you have to be oriented
Speaker 1: properly in order to listen, and the orientation has to
Speaker 1: be look what I want out of this conversation is
Speaker 1: that the place we both end up is better than
Speaker 1: the place we left. That's it. That's what I'm after.
Speaker 1: And if you're not after that, you got to think,
Speaker 1: why the hell wouldn't you be after that? What could
Speaker 1: you possibly be after that would be better than that?
Speaker 1: You walk away smarter and more well equipped for the
Speaker 1: world than you were before you had the conversation, and
Speaker 1: so does the other person. Well maybe if you're bitter
Speaker 1: and resentful and angry and anxious, and you know, generally
Speaker 1: annoyed at the world, then that isn't what you want.
Speaker 1: You want the other person to walk away worse than
Speaker 1: you too, because you're full of revenge. But you know
Speaker 1: you'll get what you want if you do that. So, bitter, angry, resentful,
Speaker 1: and anxious, generally annoyed at the world, why are we
Speaker 1: taking these diversity seminars from these people? These people who
Speaker 1: are bitter, angry, resentful, anxious and annoyed at the world.
Speaker 1: So they get up there and they shame everyone. Everyone's
Speaker 1: shaming everyone when what we really need is more honor.
Speaker 1: We need more honor. The way to overcome any bias
Speaker 1: or any prejudice is in someone is to build up
Speaker 1: their honor, but instead we do the opposite. We shame them.
Speaker 1: We shame people, and then we force people to shame themselves.
Speaker 1: We forced, in this case, white people to shame themselves.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, I am so racist. You're right, and we
Speaker 1: think that will help. No, No, no, we need more
Speaker 1: honor in our lives, not more shame. What's his name?
Speaker 1: Mc well? I got the book right here. Grants McCracken
Speaker 1: books called the New Honor Code a simple plan for
Speaker 1: raising our standards and restoring our good names. Great book.
Speaker 1: He says, they're anti racing training is dangerous because it
Speaker 1: asks people to attack their personal honor. Worse, it asks
Speaker 1: them to attack the very thing we want them to
Speaker 1: respect in others. That we respect people of color, people
Speaker 1: different than us is one of the ways we know
Speaker 1: we are honorable. It's one of the ways we make
Speaker 1: ourselves honorable. We respect everyone's dignity as an expression of
Speaker 1: our own dignity. Yet, yeah, we here, we are. These
Speaker 1: people are just shaming everyone, and you're supposed to shame
Speaker 1: yourselves and shame others. No surprise, of course, the woke
Speaker 1: left these die seminars thing to have a completely backwards. Wow.
Speaker 1: If we assume they have good intentions, they have it backwards.
Speaker 1: If they have bad intentions, if they're bitter, angers and
Speaker 1: full anxious and generally annoyed at the world and they
Speaker 1: want everyone to walk away worse, then they're doing a
Speaker 1: perfect job. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. I'll put
Speaker 1: that video up on our website. Mike's later dot locals
Speaker 1: dot com filling it for Buck Sexton's brother the word
Speaker 1: it's going on Team Buck. Mike's later filling it for
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton. Four one more day, Buck, We'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I want to play this. Keep here clip here. This
Speaker 1: is the former Senator from North Dakota Democrat Heidi hit
Speaker 1: Camp talking about Gina Serrano. This is the ginas She
Speaker 1: was canceled off of The Mandalorian, the Star Wars show
Speaker 1: on Disney Plus. She was canceled. So here is uh
Speaker 1: here's this is from Bill Marshall. I like this picture.
Speaker 1: Who was the woman and the Mandalorian? What did she do?
Speaker 1: She likes something? She was ane? Oh that's different, right,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking she's not a Nazi. She's she's called other
Speaker 1: people nat right, which is the Nazi? Okay, everyone's a Nazi. That, um,
Speaker 1: she does hang with white supremacists like a mel Brooks does.
Speaker 1: Yea hangs with white I suppose I'm not good subject
Speaker 1: to defamation. I don't know. I mean it depends on
Speaker 1: what your definition of white supremacist is. That your the
Speaker 1: goal post. They're changed a lot. You're guying a clan hood.
Speaker 1: Who But I think that's great. She listen it. See
Speaker 1: how cash We're like, oh, yeah, she's a Nazi. But
Speaker 1: oh well, she she's involved with white supremacy. She hangs
Speaker 1: around with white supremacists. What are you talking about? That
Speaker 1: is a ridiculous way to talk. So I want to
Speaker 1: talk about this term whiteness. Whiteness od it's everywhere. It's awful.
Speaker 1: You have it, you are it. It's worse than COVID,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Tortures, it kills. It's been around
Speaker 1: for four hundred years. It's never been worse. This whiteness.
Speaker 1: It's everywhere. La Times, Hollywood's entertainment industry. Unions have a
Speaker 1: whiteness problem. New York Times, the incredible whiteness of the
Speaker 1: Museum Fashion Collection, the Smithsonian. Facing your whiteness is hard whiteness.
Speaker 1: What is my whiteness Washington Post. To understand Trump's support,
Speaker 1: we must think in terms of multiracial whiteness. Just do
Speaker 1: a Google new search for whiteness. Saint Louis Dispatch, The
Speaker 1: Insurrection and the devalued currency of whiteness, La Times at Netflix,
Speaker 1: Cobra Kai broke out. Now it's whiteness is under a
Speaker 1: new spotlight. It goes on and on. What is what
Speaker 1: is whiteness? Well, it's nothing, which is the point. It's
Speaker 1: impossible to define. That's why you can just say, oh, yea,
Speaker 1: she hangs around with white supremacy, supremacist, she's involved with
Speaker 1: white supremacy. What are you what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: It's nothing. Whiteness is nothing. It's impossible to define. And
Speaker 1: that's not a bug of the term. That's the feature,
Speaker 1: that's the best part of that term. It just means bad.
Speaker 1: But it's not even about race. It's an ideology because
Speaker 1: other races can be can have whiteness, or be white adjacent,
Speaker 1: or benefit from whiteness, or have close ties to whiteness.
Speaker 1: Whiteness is just another word for bad, evil, sinful. As
Speaker 1: a Nanci Pelosi, it's been an epiphany for the world
Speaker 1: to see that there are people in our country, led
Speaker 1: by the president. This is about Trump, who have chosen
Speaker 1: their whiteness over democracy. See that. So it just means
Speaker 1: that people have chosen something bad over something good. Whiteness
Speaker 1: is a smear. If you don't have to be a
Speaker 1: too great of a student of history to understand that
Speaker 1: this goes poorly. Smearing people because of their race doesn't
Speaker 1: end well. But here I am. I was about to
Speaker 1: go into a whole rant about meritocracy, but meritocracy is whiteness.
Speaker 1: You look at these slides, let's say aspects of white supremacy.
Speaker 1: Meritocracy is one of them. This is why you know
Speaker 1: Biden's pick for the number two job at Health and
Speaker 1: Human Services is the Pennsylvania health secretary who first of all,
Speaker 1: sent COVID patients back to the nursing homes, just like
Speaker 1: Cuomo did in New York, while removing her mom from
Speaker 1: the nursing home at the same time. You with me.
Speaker 1: So she sent COVID patients back to nursing homes, which
Speaker 1: ravaged the nursing homes, and she knew it was a
Speaker 1: bad decision because she took her mom out of the
Speaker 1: nursing home at the same time, and Biden's pick for
Speaker 1: this job at he held the Human services as a
Speaker 1: man who thinks he's a woman. Now are you telling
Speaker 1: me there's no what else in the country more qualified
Speaker 1: for this job qualified? Oh, that's your whiteness speaking, doesn't
Speaker 1: It's not about it's not about merit who. That's pretty
Speaker 1: racist of you. It's pretty colonial of you, pretty white
Speaker 1: supremacist of you. Slater geez. It's all about victimhood. We're
Speaker 1: here to remove whiteness and white people from positions of
Speaker 1: power and putting in the marginalized. Now, this guy's white,
Speaker 1: his name is Richard, but because he's now living as
Speaker 1: a woman, therefore he can benefit from it all. I
Speaker 1: love this headline from The Great babylon Be babylon Be.
Speaker 1: It's like the onion. Far right extremists suggest treating people
Speaker 1: of all races equally. Ooh, that is some pretty far
Speaker 1: right stuff there. Coming up next, I want to some
Speaker 1: modern day clan stuff right there. I believe we should
Speaker 1: treat people of all races equally and judge them by
Speaker 1: the content of their character. Cancel that man. Coming up next,
Speaker 1: I want to share a story of Telemon and Alexander
Speaker 1: the Great Mike Slater filling it for Buck Sexton. Spread
Speaker 1: the word. It's going on Team Buck. Mike Slater filling
Speaker 1: it for Buck Sexton. Buck will be back tomorrow. So
Speaker 1: this is my last day filling it for Buck. Over
Speaker 1: the last four it's been wonderful. I kind of feel
Speaker 1: like it's a Friday because it's the last it's your
Speaker 1: last segment of us together. So I just want to
Speaker 1: share something here that I've been thinking about a lot lately.
Speaker 1: And I don't know who needs to hear it, and
Speaker 1: it may be wildly irrelevant to you. Put it in
Speaker 1: your back pocket either way, but you may actually really
Speaker 1: need to hear this today, and I hope, I hope
Speaker 1: that's you. I love this story. Alexander the Great, Alexander
Speaker 1: the Great conquered the Persian Empire and he moved his
Speaker 1: way into India today would be modern a Pakistan. There's
Speaker 1: three twenty five BC. And when this Alexander in his
Speaker 1: massive army, when they got there, they came across these
Speaker 1: men that they've never seen before, Yogis. They called them
Speaker 1: hymn sophists, hymn or jim No. It's where we get
Speaker 1: Gymnasium means naked and sophists means wise men. They were
Speaker 1: called the naked wise men. These Yogis, they had nothing.
Speaker 1: They spent their entire life in poverty, in deep contemplation
Speaker 1: and stillness. They owned nothing. They had a loincloth and
Speaker 1: a begging bowl, and they would congregate in the sun
Speaker 1: along the banks of rivers. Alexander the Great and his men,
Speaker 1: they've never seen people like this in their entire lives,
Speaker 1: which it's crazy to think about, right, Like we've I
Speaker 1: feel like we've seen everything that there is. Right, there's
Speaker 1: a statue in um I think it's Trafalgar Square in London,
Speaker 1: and it's a statue of a lion. But when the
Speaker 1: guy who made the statue, he's never seen he never
Speaker 1: saw a lion before, so he could just do it
Speaker 1: based off of what he heard, and he used like
Speaker 1: a dog's body, but dogs and lions have different bodies,
Speaker 1: like the way their legs, so it's like it's all
Speaker 1: screwed up. But they've never seen a lion, which is crazy.
Speaker 1: My kids went to the zoo yesterday saw a line,
Speaker 1: so like we've we've seen yogi's, Like you could picture
Speaker 1: a yogi even if you've never seen one in real life.
Speaker 1: But Alexander's Great, they've never seen these people, like, imagine
Speaker 1: how bizarre this would be. So Alexander's man, they're looking,
Speaker 1: they want to pass along this river, but there's a
Speaker 1: bunch of these silly Yogis in the way and they're meditating.
Speaker 1: So one of Alexander's men they rush ahead, and they
Speaker 1: try to He tells the yogi's to leave, get out
Speaker 1: of the way, and this Yogi he says, no, we
Speaker 1: have as much of a right to this space as anyone.
Speaker 1: So Alexander sees this going on and he approaches the Yogi.
Speaker 1: He's sitting cross legged, and he says, you guys, gotta
Speaker 1: get all the way and the Yogi says no. And
Speaker 1: Alexander's man, he says, don't you know who this man is?
Speaker 1: This is Alexander the Great. This man has conquered the world.
Speaker 1: What have you done? And the Yogi and I imagine
Speaker 1: in this story, I imagine he doesn't. I imagine he's
Speaker 1: like sitting cross legged and he's staring ahead, or maybe
Speaker 1: his eyes are closed and he's looking at it and
Speaker 1: he doesn't even open his eyes. He doesn't move his head,
Speaker 1: doesn't That's all imagine it. So the guy says he's
Speaker 1: conquered the world. What have you done? And the Yogi says,
Speaker 1: I've conquered the need to conquer the world. And Alexander
Speaker 1: the Great cracked up loved that answer, saluted the yogi,
Speaker 1: and they found another way around him, and he let
Speaker 1: them all be I conquered the need to conquer the world.
Speaker 1: One of the men that was with Alexander one of
Speaker 1: his right hand man, his name was Teleman. And later
Speaker 1: on they were sitting by the banks of one of
Speaker 1: these rivers in India, and Teleman was so impressed with
Speaker 1: these Yogis. Tell Himan was a mercenary, lived his life
Speaker 1: as a warrior, and he thought it was time to
Speaker 1: transition out of that life phase and he wanted to
Speaker 1: become a sage. So tell Himan goes to Alexander and says,
Speaker 1: life is a battle, isn't it? And how better to
Speaker 1: train for it than to be a soldier? For have
Speaker 1: you not noticed of these sages, my friend, that they're
Speaker 1: the consummate soldier he's talking about. The yogis inured to pain,
Speaker 1: so pain doesn't bother him. Oblivious to hardship, Each takes
Speaker 1: up his post at dawn and does not relinquish it
Speaker 1: for thirst, hunger, heat, cold, fatigue. He's cheerful in all
Speaker 1: weathers self motivated, self governed, self commended. And Alexanders says,
Speaker 1: are you saying tell him On that your training as
Speaker 1: a soldier prepares you for the vocation of a sage.
Speaker 1: And tell him On says, no, no, no, no, these
Speaker 1: men are beyond me. I would have to apprentice myself
Speaker 1: to them for many lifetimes. These like I could never
Speaker 1: be as wise as these men are. That's how much
Speaker 1: he admired them. So that's just a cool story. But
Speaker 1: here's the relevancy to it, perhaps for you. On my
Speaker 1: local show a while back, we did a segment on
Speaker 1: the six stages six life stages of a man. I
Speaker 1: stole it from John Eldritch and the six life stages
Speaker 1: quickly our boyhood, cowboy, warrior, lover, king, and sage, and
Speaker 1: each of these phases we don't properly define, we don't
Speaker 1: properly understand, we don't properly raise our kids. Actually, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put this on the website if you're interested in
Speaker 1: knowing more, just for the sake of time. I don't
Speaker 1: have time to do it here life Stages. I'll put
Speaker 1: it on micslated out locals dot com and you can
Speaker 1: listen to a very brief description. Is a great interview
Speaker 1: you did about these six different life stages and how
Speaker 1: we don't understand them and therefore we don't do them,
Speaker 1: and they need to be intentional, and there needs to
Speaker 1: be a transition between each of them, like a deliberate
Speaker 1: right of passage between each of these phases. And one
Speaker 1: of the great failures of our culture today is our
Speaker 1: lack of respect for our elders, for the sages. And
Speaker 1: you compare that to another extreme like Japanese culture, the leader,
Speaker 1: the elders are are revered all right, and the Confucian
Speaker 1: ethic it's called filial piety, filial piety, respect for elders.
Speaker 1: In America, we have a youth culture. Youth culture, right,
Speaker 1: That's why all of our music is terrible, because it's
Speaker 1: all focused around appealing to kids. This is why the
Speaker 1: great global warming leader in America is Greta Thunberg. Okay,
Speaker 1: she's a kid. I saw an article about her the
Speaker 1: other day. She's like, she's like eighteen now, but the
Speaker 1: picture was still of her when she was twelve. Right,
Speaker 1: we live in a youth centric culture. Kids run the show,
Speaker 1: kids run the house. It's just very It's based on
Speaker 1: this very romantic and i'd say incorrect idea that youth
Speaker 1: are unspoiled, they're born perfect, and they get ruined the
Speaker 1: older they become. Right, that's the romantic idea, that's the
Speaker 1: Russouian idea, that you're born perfect and pure and civilization
Speaker 1: ruins you. So we need to listen to the pure,
Speaker 1: innocent children. And I think folly is bound up in
Speaker 1: the heart of a child. And kids are idiots, and
Speaker 1: they need to be taught and raised and trained on
Speaker 1: how to become adults. Very different worldview, and our culture
Speaker 1: today is mostly the youth centric one. Then we also
Speaker 1: have a culture where your worth as a human is
Speaker 1: determined based off your productiveness in the marketplace. And younger
Speaker 1: people can work harder than older people. So these older people,
Speaker 1: we just toss them aside. Who needs them anymore. We
Speaker 1: don't have a culture in America the values old wisdom.
Speaker 1: We don't have a culture that values ancient wisdom like
Speaker 1: like old books, and we don't like we tear down statues, right,
Speaker 1: And we also don't have a culture that values old people.
Speaker 1: We look at old people's backwards, super racist. They're not
Speaker 1: with the times. So because of that, we have a
Speaker 1: tough time in our culture with people transitioning from the
Speaker 1: stage of king to sage. So king is you're in
Speaker 1: charge of things. You're in charge of a business, you
Speaker 1: have employees, you have people under you, you are raising
Speaker 1: your family, you have a wife, kids, you volunteer at
Speaker 1: different things, you lead organizations. Right, people look to you.
Speaker 1: You're the king, You're in charge. You bring order and stability.
Speaker 1: It's extremely important. And then when you're getting older, people
Speaker 1: don't want to let go of that because they think
Speaker 1: that's the end of their life and they're going to die.
Speaker 1: And what we need in our culture is to really
Speaker 1: celebrate the next stage of life, which is the sage.
Speaker 1: Sage means wise man, and you Greece they had seven sages.
Speaker 1: We need more sages in America. They're not in power,
Speaker 1: but they're mentors to the kings who are in positions
Speaker 1: of authority. Because we have so many kings out there
Speaker 1: who are flying blind. They're living without the wisdom of
Speaker 1: people who have already made all those mistakes before. So
Speaker 1: we need to change our culture, we need kings that
Speaker 1: want sage advice, and we need sages who are willing
Speaker 1: to give kingly advice. I don't know how to change
Speaker 1: that in our culture other than to encourage you. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe it's in our churches, but I think it's just
Speaker 1: one on one. Like I just want to encourage you
Speaker 1: to reach out to a sage or if you are
Speaker 1: in that sage phase, to really embrace that and reach
Speaker 1: out to a king. And maybe it should be done
Speaker 1: in our churches, right, Really connect older people with younger
Speaker 1: people in business too, like connect younger the current leaders
Speaker 1: with the leaders who were and get some advice. And
Speaker 1: think of Telamon, who was a credible warrior who traveled
Speaker 1: the world and conquered the world with Alexander. The great.
Speaker 1: People should be admired him him, the sages should be
Speaker 1: admiring him, but he wanted to be one of them.
Speaker 1: So if you're in that warrior king's stage of life,
Speaker 1: that's awesome, let's crush it. But find a sage. And
Speaker 1: if you're in the sage stage of life, find that
Speaker 1: be a mentor find the king, find the warrior, because
Speaker 1: for either way that can be one of the most
Speaker 1: fulfilling relationships you could possibly make, and I think our
Speaker 1: culture is desperately in need of more of it, because
Speaker 1: right now we're all just flying blind. Mike Slader dot
Speaker 1: locals dot com. I'll put that John Eldridge six Stages
Speaker 1: of Manhood up there up on the website, Mike Slader
Speaker 1: dot locals dot com, and you can listen to. It's
Speaker 1: a quick list and then it's wonderful. Mike Slayer dot
Speaker 1: locals dot com. Filling in for Buck Sextons by the word,
Speaker 1: it's going on Team Buck. Mike Slader and San Diego
Speaker 1: filing in for Buck Sexton for one last day, well
Speaker 1: five more minutes and Buck will be back tomorrow. This
Speaker 1: is a while back, but there was an article in
Speaker 1: the La Times, what can you do about the Trump
Speaker 1: bites next door? Very short of the story is she's
Speaker 1: in Tahoe and it's snowed and her neighbor shoveled her walkway,
Speaker 1: shoveled her driveway and did a great job. But they're
Speaker 1: Trump supporters, and she turns it into a race thing about, oh,
Speaker 1: this is the thing that white people do to each other.
Speaker 1: You know, white people help out white people, but you know, Hezbollah,
Speaker 1: the terrorist group in the Middle East. They also giveaway
Speaker 1: free things to their supporters, and so did the Nazis.
Speaker 1: She literally says that. She says, my neighbor supported a
Speaker 1: man who showed near murderous contempt for the majority of Americans.
Speaker 1: I can't give my neighbors absolution. It's not mine to
Speaker 1: give free driveway work. As nice as it is, is
Speaker 1: just not the same currency as justice and truth. And
Speaker 1: they're not looking for absolution anyway. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: a mate, Like she just goes on and just eviscerates
Speaker 1: this guy, and this is what the guy gets for
Speaker 1: shoveling her driveway. This is someone who is addicted to hate.
Speaker 1: Hate is a powerful drug. Read a study they followed
Speaker 1: eighty nine former white supremacists. Their entire lives were just
Speaker 1: seeped in hatred and that's what they were addicted to.
Speaker 1: And this is true for people of all races. It's
Speaker 1: not a white thing. It's a human experience, and you
Speaker 1: don't just snap out of hate into love. It's a
Speaker 1: drug and people are addicted to it. People are people
Speaker 1: are addicted to it personally, and business models depend on it.
Speaker 1: That's the worst part about it. Business models depend on it.
Speaker 1: Bureaucracies depend on it. We talked the other day about
Speaker 1: Ohio State twelve million dollars a year and their diversity
Speaker 1: inclusion equity departments, the top paid guys two hundred seventy
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars a year. There's a bunch of people.
Speaker 1: There's no way any of those people making six figures
Speaker 1: are going to be like, oh, we're done. Race relations
Speaker 1: are solved here at Ohio State. Fantastic. It'll just go
Speaker 1: on forever. The bureaucracy depends on it. Business models depend
Speaker 1: on it. People's addictions depend on it. It's really hard
Speaker 1: to get of hate out of your lives and hate
Speaker 1: out of your society. We were doing a pretty good
Speaker 1: job of it, but then people really started to monetize
Speaker 1: it like never before. And I know we already quoted
Speaker 1: George Peterson in this hour, but I'll do it again.
Speaker 1: He has a great riff on fixing yourself. He said,
Speaker 1: blaming others for your problems as a complete waste of time.
Speaker 1: When you do that, you don't learn anything. You can't grow,
Speaker 1: you can't mature, thus you can't make your life better.
Speaker 1: In my three decades as a clinical psychologist, I've learned
Speaker 1: that there's two fundamental attitudes towards life and its sorrows.
Speaker 1: Those with the first attitude to blame the world, those
Speaker 1: with the second to ask what they could do differently.
Speaker 1: I read a study recently and it was a study
Speaker 1: of it was either CEOs or millionaires, but you know,
Speaker 1: maybe I think it was millionaires. And they did a
Speaker 1: psychological analysis of them and they said the starkest difference
Speaker 1: between millionaires and not millionaires is when they fail. When
Speaker 1: a millionaire failed, they blamed themselves and they saw it
Speaker 1: as an opportunity to get better and learn, and they
Speaker 1: did better. I suppose other people who blame the world
Speaker 1: blame others and therefore don't learn and don't get better.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be very hard to break this world's addiction
Speaker 1: to hate, right. There's such a grift out there, right,
Speaker 1: there's people just raking in the money with these diversity
Speaker 1: seminars in these books. There was a while and it's
Speaker 1: probably still true now, but the number one books are
Speaker 1: all these these anti racist books. It's working, and politically
Speaker 1: it's working. Still people still haven't caught on to what
Speaker 1: this is. The activists are infiltrating, have infiltrated our churches already.
Speaker 1: So there is an ideological battle. There's a march through
Speaker 1: the institutions that is almost complete. Maybe business was the
Speaker 1: last domino to fall, but you see how businesses have
Speaker 1: gone completely awoke, and it's all based on hate and division.
Speaker 1: And the people who come in and preach unity, you're
Speaker 1: called racist. You preach unity, you say, you say, oh,
Speaker 1: we should judge people by their character. Oh, you're denying
Speaker 1: the lived experience of people of color. You're the racist
Speaker 1: for saying we need to judge. Oh, you believe in meritocracy. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's a system of structural racism that is defined what
Speaker 1: merit is. And it's a system that keeps people of
Speaker 1: call or app blah blah blah. But you can't fix systems.
Speaker 1: You can only fix yourself. And the only way to
Speaker 1: fix yourself is to stop blaming others. He says this
Speaker 1: the Jordan. He says, the proper way to fix the
Speaker 1: world is not to fix the world. There's no reason
Speaker 1: to assume that you're even up to such a task.
Speaker 1: But you can't fix yourself. You'll do no one any
Speaker 1: harm by doing so, And in that way, at least
Speaker 1: you'll make the world a better place. Mike's Later dot
Speaker 1: locals dot com. A bunch of stuff I got to
Speaker 1: put up on the website right now for you, Mike's
Speaker 1: Later dot locals dot com. You can join us there
Speaker 1: and the great Buck Sexton. Finally, we'll be back tomorrow.
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