Speaker 1: From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio and the George Washington
Speaker 1: broadcast there arm Strong and Jetty Show. Yo yo yo.
Speaker 1: I will get to those stats later this hour. Mark
Speaker 1: Thiessen put together for his opinion piece in The Washington
Speaker 1: Post today about how incredibly unlikely it is that you
Speaker 1: get sick at all, and certainly how unlikely that you
Speaker 1: die from COVID if you've been vaccinated, and unlikely it
Speaker 1: is that your kids could possibly get it and die.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's like getting struck by lightning
Speaker 1: while you hold a winning lottery ticket in your hand. Unlikely.
Speaker 1: But we'll get to that a little bit later. But
Speaker 1: joining the Armstrong and Getty Show right now is a
Speaker 1: friend of the show, Mike Slater. You listen to him
Speaker 1: every day noon to three on AM seven sixty in
Speaker 1: San Diego. If you're not in Zaniego, whether you know
Speaker 1: him or not, I don't know. Maybe you catch him
Speaker 1: on What is This Thing? Mike? The first first online
Speaker 1: TV networks on Pluto, Roku, Apple TV, everything, I'll streaming networks.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at the publicity photo that they got here,
Speaker 1: and they got Buck Sexton on their Dana Losh Bill O'Reilly,
Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly and you you're the only one that's smiling.
Speaker 1: Everybody else went with kind of a mysterious grimace sort
Speaker 1: of thing, and you smile. Well, they put me on
Speaker 1: the end too. It's it's like that debate where Trump said,
Speaker 1: look at you, Jeff, look at you. You used to
Speaker 1: be in the middle, and now you're falling off the edge. Right,
Speaker 1: it's barely on the scene. Hey, did you have you
Speaker 1: ever had Josh Rogan on from the Washington Post? Uh no?
Speaker 1: Is he the one who did that story that you're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about in a little bit. Uh no, he
Speaker 1: we I just did like twenty minutes with him. He's
Speaker 1: the best guy out there on sticking it to China
Speaker 1: over this whole COVID origin thing. He is so freaking good.
Speaker 1: So and his main point was that, Hey, most of
Speaker 1: the scientists I talked to last weeks, say Rand Paul's right,
Speaker 1: and Anthony Anthony founction he is kind of doing a
Speaker 1: whole definition of what is is thing to try to
Speaker 1: keep himself out of trouble. So we've been talking a
Speaker 1: lot on the show, and I think conserving as they
Speaker 1: really need to understand the depths and reach of China's
Speaker 1: desire for global domination and how they're doing it with
Speaker 1: the Belton Road initiative, and how they're doing it even
Speaker 1: socially um soft power through TikTok and other propaganda means
Speaker 1: throughout the world. It's insidious and no one's paying attention
Speaker 1: to it. Well, this is my gift to you, Josh Rogan,
Speaker 1: because he is so good on all that stuff, and
Speaker 1: he's he's absolutely fantastic. And we were just talking about
Speaker 1: So the w h O has got this Kovacs initiative
Speaker 1: where they're trying to get vaccines to people all around
Speaker 1: the world. China is doing zip on it, and we're
Speaker 1: doing everything. And I just wish the Biden administration would
Speaker 1: do a better job and the media would do a
Speaker 1: better job of recognizing how worth such the good guys
Speaker 1: and so many stories and China is such the bad guys.
Speaker 1: So in this Covacs thing that everybody in the world
Speaker 1: is supposed to be donating to, China has donated zero
Speaker 1: dollars and zero shocks, where we have donated four billion
Speaker 1: dollars already fifty five million shots and if like five
Speaker 1: million more, it is absolutely But the w h ooa,
Speaker 1: we're talking about they licked the boots of China the
Speaker 1: whole time they've been doing China's bidding. And that's China's
Speaker 1: goal is to take over all these global institutions, whether
Speaker 1: it's the W H O U, the U n uh
Speaker 1: internet like global Internet Advisory Boards. They are doing it
Speaker 1: with Chinese values and not American values. Jack, And I
Speaker 1: tell you one real quick thing about masks I heard
Speaker 1: just talking about Acondum the drama in the Slater home.
Speaker 1: Is my daughter three and a half years old. She's
Speaker 1: three and a half now. She's so stinking cute. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe, like for round four is the perfect age
Speaker 1: for children. I will I will babysit a four year
Speaker 1: old any anywhere, anywhere in the world. You want me
Speaker 1: to come babysit your four year old? So freaking cute?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, old enough to talk to like self sustainable
Speaker 1: enough you know, to change diapers. That there. So, she's
Speaker 1: been looking forward to months, months to go to ballet months.
Speaker 1: We finally got her and once. So all weeks she's
Speaker 1: been decided to go to her first ballet lesson literally
Speaker 1: this morning, Jack, she wakes up. The first thing she
Speaker 1: says to me, is how many more sleeps? How many
Speaker 1: more naps? Like? How many more sleep starting until ballet? Like?
Speaker 1: Was it now or is it after nap? Oh honey,
Speaker 1: it's after your nap. It's gonna be so good. Last
Speaker 1: night we got an email saying all kids are required
Speaker 1: to wear masks, so we have to mask our three
Speaker 1: and a half year old daughter, which I find to
Speaker 1: be a monstrous imposition on anyone, let alone on a child,
Speaker 1: for all the reasons that every single person listening to
Speaker 1: your show now knows, uh, in order for our daughter
Speaker 1: to participate in ballet. And I don't know what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do, because I'm not gonna break my little daughter's
Speaker 1: heart and tell her she can't go today. And now
Speaker 1: I gotta strap her up like she's some leper. Strap
Speaker 1: her up like a leper. You hate to do that.
Speaker 1: So that's the drama today. Um, I get to say,
Speaker 1: I got the numbers right here since you brought it up.
Speaker 1: This is from Mark Theeson and the on the Washington Post.
Speaker 1: But he is actually just going with JOHNS. Hopkins Studies.
Speaker 1: So there have been six thousand deaths in America as
Speaker 1: we all know of COVID the number of people under
Speaker 1: eighteen three hundred and thirty five can'ts or something and right,
Speaker 1: and they have no idea at the c d C
Speaker 1: whether they had, uh, you know, a co morbidity or
Speaker 1: anything like that at this point, whether they died because
Speaker 1: of COVID or with COVID. And but three hundred three,
Speaker 1: even if it was straight out COVID, three hundred three,
Speaker 1: five out a six thousand is such a nothing. It's
Speaker 1: unbelievable that we were acting the way we are. Anyway, Um,
Speaker 1: you were a swimmer, were you not? Yes, in college
Speaker 1: and at a pretty high level. Uh. Yeah, how much
Speaker 1: you want me to brag? Well, I want to I
Speaker 1: the truth is not bragging, you know what. Just uh,
Speaker 1: if you're if you're in C double a level swimmer,
Speaker 1: you're a good swimmer. When I was twelve, I swim
Speaker 1: next to Michael Phelps. How about that? Okay, that's what
Speaker 1: I was there. That's my claim to fame and the
Speaker 1: pool and uh and you're good enough to actually do
Speaker 1: it in college. So maybe you have some insight on
Speaker 1: this whole mental breakdown of Simone Biles. What's what's your
Speaker 1: taking that? Yeah, you never leave your team behind you
Speaker 1: don't quit. How about that? For my mental any human
Speaker 1: being can recognize, whether you do one athlete or you
Speaker 1: do the elliptical at the gym once every year, you
Speaker 1: don't quit. You keep going. Uh. And I want to
Speaker 1: be very clear, I don't care about women's gymnastics at all.
Speaker 1: That's one of the common criticisms gotten backs, like oh, Sarah,
Speaker 1: are you making such a big deal about this. I
Speaker 1: don't care about women's gymnastics. What this says about our
Speaker 1: country today and our culture today and where we're going
Speaker 1: says a lot. And this is what matters because people
Speaker 1: are celebrating the fact that she quit. Yeah. So I'm
Speaker 1: looking at the two articles in the USA today today. Um,
Speaker 1: the headline at the top is I have to do
Speaker 1: what's right for me, and then there are two different
Speaker 1: articles underneath, some things are more valuable than gold and
Speaker 1: on how she did something so special for all of us,
Speaker 1: and then the article is it's brave and simply human
Speaker 1: to protect themselves. You have made us so proud. No,
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking if Tom Bray quit during the halftime
Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl and said everybody said I was
Speaker 1: the greatest, and the pressure got to me. I don't
Speaker 1: think this is the reaction it would be. So I
Speaker 1: just think the it's interesting how we're treating a woman
Speaker 1: versus a main during this period of time where women
Speaker 1: and men are supposed to be the same. Great point.
Speaker 1: I love this. In the Week, the headline is Simone
Speaker 1: Biles is withdrawal is more impressive than winning. You're like, no, like, no,
Speaker 1: that's definitely not more impressive. Hodah, who's like the Today
Speaker 1: Show host and she's like the gymnastics liaison for NBC
Speaker 1: or whatever, she sent out this blowhardy tweet about how
Speaker 1: you've already won, Simone, and it's like, no, you have
Speaker 1: definitely not already won, and no, no stretch of the
Speaker 1: imagination did you already win? You quit your team, by
Speaker 1: definition lost and you let your country down. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's it's the Olympics. I don't really care it's women's
Speaker 1: but you don't quit. I don't know why this is
Speaker 1: ridiculous that people are like, oh, you know, you're such
Speaker 1: a hero. If you do a Twitter search for Simone
Speaker 1: Biles and the word redefine, you have all these people writing, oh, Simone,
Speaker 1: thank you for redefining what it means to be a champion.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, thank you for redefining, redefining strength and success
Speaker 1: and what it means to be a teammate. And I
Speaker 1: don't want to live in a country where losing is success,
Speaker 1: quitting is winning, right Uh, Betraying your team is being
Speaker 1: a good teammate. Weaknesses strength and that's where we are today.
Speaker 1: That's why this matters. And you know, back to my
Speaker 1: men versus women theory on this is how they handle
Speaker 1: I think if Michael Phelps had quit and said, you know,
Speaker 1: the pressure of being the greatest and being all the
Speaker 1: ads had gotten to me, I think all the stories
Speaker 1: should be about what a head case he is and
Speaker 1: not and not about what a champion he is. Well,
Speaker 1: especially if he did it behind the blocks, right before
Speaker 1: he was about to jump into the pool, right. I'd
Speaker 1: be one thing. If if Simone two months ago said
Speaker 1: you know what, I can't take it, I got the
Speaker 1: yips and um now I just I don't want to
Speaker 1: it's dangerous or whatever. We'd be like, oh, lame, but okay,
Speaker 1: let you get someone else a chance. But to do
Speaker 1: it in the middle of the competition, that's pathetic and
Speaker 1: we should not be celebrating it at all. It should
Speaker 1: be defined as one of the greatest fall from graces.
Speaker 1: I can't in sports history, I can't think of a
Speaker 1: single instance of any other Olympic athlete ever quitting except
Speaker 1: for physical injury. But even then you don't quit. Remember
Speaker 1: Carrie shrug, she broke her ankle, continued to do the
Speaker 1: vault one ft won the gold medal totally Like we
Speaker 1: love that, of course and innate in us we love
Speaker 1: the overcoming. But that's our culture today, victimhood. We we
Speaker 1: used to celebrate overcoming obstacles and now we celebrate not
Speaker 1: overcoming off. That's hurting me. That's hurting me. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can't even, is the expressions. I can't even, and she
Speaker 1: couldn't even, And we're supposed to celebrate that and I
Speaker 1: can't be a part of that. That's an interesting point
Speaker 1: text line. What do you think of that four five
Speaker 1: k ftc um so when like, when you're at the
Speaker 1: height of you're taking swimming seriously, how many hours a
Speaker 1: day or week or whatever you practice? Oh uh, four
Speaker 1: three or four hours in the pool every day? Four
Speaker 1: hours a day. Yeah, we'd swim. We've probably spent twelve
Speaker 1: to fifteen thousand yards, so that's ten thousand yards is
Speaker 1: seven miles a day. Oh my god. And I was
Speaker 1: I was d one, but I wasn't, you know, I
Speaker 1: wasn't these guys like these guys, it's extremely difficult. There
Speaker 1: was actually a little bit yet they played before Um
Speaker 1: she competed and she looked very sad and she was
Speaker 1: talking about how she's old and injuries are hard and
Speaker 1: it's difficult. And my wife and I both saw it,
Speaker 1: looked at each other and we're like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: like she's not in a good headspace. There's no doubt
Speaker 1: about that and what these people have to do. But
Speaker 1: if you're gonna do it, you do it to be
Speaker 1: the best. It's a high cost. It's a cost that
Speaker 1: most people aren't willing to spend. And I would advise
Speaker 1: most people not to do. Actually, I don't know. If
Speaker 1: you want to be the best in the world at
Speaker 1: a thing, No, I yeah, absolutely should. Joe was here.
Speaker 1: He'd tell this one of his favorite stories. And I
Speaker 1: forget who said it. It's um, somebody said to a
Speaker 1: great piano player, one of the great small time and
Speaker 1: I remember what was but I'd give my life to
Speaker 1: play the piano like that. And he said, I did Um,
Speaker 1: and you know that's very very true. If if you
Speaker 1: pick a sport, musical instrument, or whatever, do I want
Speaker 1: to put in the time in my entire life to
Speaker 1: be as good as him? I actually don't know. I
Speaker 1: really actually don't even if I had the talent to
Speaker 1: do it, I actually don't know. You give up your family, right,
Speaker 1: And let's just even do money. Right, Do you want
Speaker 1: to be the richest, Do you want to be super
Speaker 1: super rich? Well, you're working a hundred hours a week
Speaker 1: and your kids hate you, so congratulations you have a
Speaker 1: nice car. Yeah, Like it's not worth it, totally not
Speaker 1: worth the cause of Tiger Woods, right, Tiger Woods best
Speaker 1: in the world. His dad, his dad and him had
Speaker 1: a safe word. It was enough if you said the
Speaker 1: word enough tiger because his dad was so abusive, emotionally
Speaker 1: abusive to him that if Tiger Wood ever said the
Speaker 1: E word, they called it the E word. That was
Speaker 1: the safe word to knock it off. And he never
Speaker 1: used it. And his dad and him had a horrific relationship,
Speaker 1: even though his portrayed as a as a great father
Speaker 1: son relationship. Um, and then he you know, you know
Speaker 1: that everyone does us a story like he's found almost
Speaker 1: dead all the time in his car from all the
Speaker 1: pills and everything. Because you want to be the best
Speaker 1: golfer in the world. Like, no, I'd rather be as
Speaker 1: good at jack at the golf especially. We always talk
Speaker 1: about that with the spelling Bee. Would I trade my
Speaker 1: summers as a kid to be the next you? Not
Speaker 1: even close? Yeah, that's interesting. Now listen, if you're going
Speaker 1: to do it, you do it to the end. That's
Speaker 1: the other right. So if you're gonna be someone Boles
Speaker 1: and you make the choice to take a spot away
Speaker 1: from another girl on the team and to take the
Speaker 1: weight of the country on your shoulders onesome, you do it.
Speaker 1: You do it, and we will cheer you on. You
Speaker 1: don't quit. Now. If she fell or or failed or
Speaker 1: missed or slipped or whatever, we would still lift her
Speaker 1: up as like ah bummer, like you didn't do it,
Speaker 1: but it's okay, you tried. We can't live in a
Speaker 1: country where we celebrate people who don't even try the
Speaker 1: armstrong and yet show. So in San Diego, you know him,
Speaker 1: Mike Slater. He's on noon to three on AM seven
Speaker 1: sixty nationally. You catch him on TV. I see a
Speaker 1: popping up on shows now and then where else do
Speaker 1: we catch him? Mike Slater um websites mic Slater on
Speaker 1: locals dot com because I try not to be on
Speaker 1: the socials too much. But yeah, that that's one interesting
Speaker 1: thing about the Simone Biles thing is is how much
Speaker 1: of it was the social media that got in her head.
Speaker 1: And I can't believe her coaches even let her look
Speaker 1: at social media. Let me go one step, Furst, this
Speaker 1: is my my We'll go one deeper. Uh Naomi Osaka
Speaker 1: familiar with her the tennis party, so she's all into
Speaker 1: this called mental health thing, and she dropped out of
Speaker 1: one of the tennis Grand Laguage because she didn't want
Speaker 1: to do the media. And I kind of defended her
Speaker 1: because I think those media post match press conferences are
Speaker 1: really stupid and pointless, so I defended her. But then
Speaker 1: she keeps dropping out of stuff because her mental health. Apparently,
Speaker 1: Simone bo this is the New York Times. Simone Bob's
Speaker 1: watched a documentary that Osaka did on mental health, and
Speaker 1: I think that knocked her out. I think that messed
Speaker 1: with her brain and she's like she like identified with
Speaker 1: Osaka too much and became a quitter. I thought so
Speaker 1: I blamed her coaches for letting her get anywhere near
Speaker 1: social media. As he said, it's also near Osaka. She's
Speaker 1: a virus. Osaka is the virus you gotta stay sixty away.
Speaker 1: So Mike Slater, who likes she criticize young women on
Speaker 1: the line with abuse victims, that's the one I get
Speaker 1: to like, don't you know she was a victim of
Speaker 1: sexual abuse. It's like, okay, like did she forget that
Speaker 1: until she was right behind the fault or something? She
Speaker 1: just remembered that she was. That's what took her out.
Speaker 1: Give me a break. So what's your hot take? On
Speaker 1: the January sixth, heoring, Okay, I got a hot take,
Speaker 1: and I got a conspiracy theory, which is interested in both.
Speaker 1: Let's do conspiracy theory. I thought I was red pilled.
Speaker 1: And then I read the story about the governor of
Speaker 1: Michigan the kidnapping plot, and how there's this whole plot
Speaker 1: and everyone makes a movie up in their head about
Speaker 1: how how she was kidnapped and gonna be kidnapped, like
Speaker 1: it's some like the cage movie or something, right, And
Speaker 1: there were It turns out there were twelve FBI informants
Speaker 1: for six arrests. So it's like somewhere much closer to
Speaker 1: twelve FBI informants and some guy who just wanted re
Speaker 1: pizza in like a giant entrappedment set up, right, So
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, well, hold on. If the left wants
Speaker 1: to paint a draw direct line from the kidnapping plot
Speaker 1: of Governor Whitmer to the riot, the insurrection on January six, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's draw it. How many FBI informants were there? How
Speaker 1: many FBI informants were at the January six riot? That
Speaker 1: that would be a good thing. And I wonder if
Speaker 1: that will come out of that hearing or not. So
Speaker 1: that's my that's my conspiracy theory. Take. I'm going deep
Speaker 1: into that with Glenn Greenwalds. We was hoping for earlier.
Speaker 1: I wish we could have, and it would take the
Speaker 1: right makeup of the committee, and neither the Republicans or
Speaker 1: the Democrats want to do it. But I wish we
Speaker 1: could get up there and have some sort of a kumbaya, say, hey,
Speaker 1: how about we all agree and TIFA doesn't beat police,
Speaker 1: BLM doesn't beat police, and uh and whoever, those guys
Speaker 1: worth the Capitol don't beat police. We just don't beat police,
Speaker 1: and like, can we all agree on that, just to
Speaker 1: have one point of agreement. No, I can't do it,
Speaker 1: because this, this has to be used as a manipulative
Speaker 1: tool to make every one of your listeners Jack a insurrectionist.
Speaker 1: And I gotta get people to see that. To them,
Speaker 1: you are an insurrectionist. You are a domestic terrorist. You
Speaker 1: are a white supremacist. If you want, do you own
Speaker 1: a gun? You're a right wing militia member. Whenever they
Speaker 1: talk about domestic terrorists being the biggest threat to the
Speaker 1: American homeland, they're talking about you. So it's getting to
Speaker 1: be kind of like the whole white thing or institutional racism.
Speaker 1: So we're all, oh, it's insidious. It's everywhere. You're You're
Speaker 1: a white right wing militia member in waiting. You're you're ready.
Speaker 1: You're just ready to erupt at any moment. Uh So
Speaker 1: we need to crack down on you before it becomes
Speaker 1: a problem, before there's an outbreak. Um, that's how that
Speaker 1: always goes. Hey, we got twenty seconds plug another thing,
Speaker 1: because since you're kind enough to come on dot Slider
Speaker 1: Radio on Twitter, Mike Slider dot locals dot com. And
Speaker 1: oh yeah, how to change someone's mind. And Imagine Jack
Speaker 1: and the History Kids is my kids book. It's awesome.
Speaker 1: Imagine Jack in History Kids. That is a cool book
Speaker 1: for your kids. Mike, I really appreciate you coming on today.
Speaker 1: You're a good man, Jack. Thank you. It was nice
Speaker 1: of you. Yeah, he was a Division one swimmer, so
Speaker 1: he would know something he's talking about about competing, you
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