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