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There's no such thing as solutions, only trade offs. Conservatives understand this. Progressives do not. Progressives look for their utopian visions and they seek to achieve them. Conservatives understand that in life, there are no such thing as solutions. There are only tradeoffs. It's true with everything. Do I buy this, do I not buy this? Do I go here or not go there? Invest in this, don't invest in that. Well, there's no such thing a solution. It's only a tradeoff.

Life's full of them NonStop all day. Life's also full of risks, and we calculate those risks all the time. Driving a car is very risky, but you gotta get to work, so you calculate it. Is it worth it? Yeah, it's worth the risk getting an accident, got to get

to work. We are doing a poor job of risk calculation with COVID on this March thirtieth, twenty twenty one, racting like a March thirtieth, twenty twenty We're calculating risks as if millions of people haven't already taken one of these soon to be five vaccines that we have in America, which is amazing because for a while we weren't sure if there would ever be a vaccine. And we're not taken into effect into account that millions more now natural

immunity because they got COVID and recovered. We're not properly calculating risk analysis, and this is what's leading to the vaccine passport that's being thrown around, and that is a very very bad idea. When you drive a car, there's a certain risk you're gonna get in an accident and die. Imagine if I told you, hey, Charlie, I have impending doom of your driving today. Don't do it. I'm scared you'll die. You have so much promise, so much potential

in life. Don't do it. Don't drive today. That emotional plea would would screw up your calculation, your risk calculation, and lead you to make a not proper analysis and a not good decision. We're still doing that with COVID very specifically. This is the head of the CDC. Head of the CDC. She's getting all emotional when she's saying this. She says, I'm going to reflect on the recurring feeling I have of impending doom. We have so much to look forward to, so much promise and potential of where

we are, and so much reason for hope. But right now I'm scared. Lady. This is not helpful. That is feelings over facts. How is this helpful to the American people to have this woman of science say I'm I'm gonna go off script and I'm going to reflect on the feelings I have of impending doom. Why are you unloading your feelings on us. I'm not interested in feelings, I'm interested in facts. What are the facts? Now? You don't have to sugarcoat things to me. I'm an adult.

Give me the reality of the situation. But you also don't have to start to cry and try to emotionally manipulate me. But she got her headlines, she got our attention. And for what, oh to usher in the fear that's necessary to keep you masked, keep you controlled, keep you shut down, keep you locked down, keep you scared until we can get the vaccine passport, and that will save today. The government once again coming in to save the day, rescue us on their white horse that is a super

dystopian vaccine passport. Jim Treachery said, if despair is a disease, the CDC is doing a crappy job of controlling it. It may be the main spreader of it. So it was Biden yesterday saying we got to keep the mask mandates, keep locking down, keep our kids out of school, keep everyone scared. So let's talk about this vaccine passport. A stunningly horrific idea. So right now, he says, they're gathering ideas on how this passport. What it would look like

and how it would work. But it looks like it'd be something like an app on your phone that you would use. You know, your papers, your health papers, to show that you've been vaccinated so that you can go on an airplane, or eat at a restaurant, or go to a concert. I can't. First of all, it's not necessary. Let's just start there. It's just not necessary. We never did this for the flu. Disney World, Disneyland never shut down for flu. This is a disease COVID that once

we get hurt immunity. I'd argue, we're already there. It barely spreads. Remember, Israel right now has a ar not, which is how fast the disease spreads. If it's over one, it spreads. If it's less than one, it doesn't. The ar not in Israel's point seven. Okay, so it's not spreading, it's not growing. So if you get it, most people don't even get sick. Most people don't even know you

get it. Very few people need medical treatment. We have new drugs out there that eliminate death, that just finished their phase three trial, that just yesterday finish their phase three trial. They're getting emergency authorization from the FDA right now. This is completely unnecessary. Two weeks to flatten the curve to prevent hospitals from being overrun. Talk about moving the goalposts. This is a different stratosphere of goalposts. It's completely unnecessary.

We've never done this for any flu, We've never done this for any other illness. There's no need to start now, because I guarantee you once a passport health vaccine passport starts now, they're never going to get rid of it. They will only add more things to it. And if you can't see that by now in your X number of years of life and watching government and watching this country, I don't know what could possibly convince you of that. It must be stopped now. It cannot start. Once it starts,

it will never stop. Thank goodness for Rhonda Santis, Governor of Florida, taking the lead on this. He says, we always said we wanted to provide the vaccine, provide the vaccine for all, but mandate it for none. While it was advised to take, particularly if you're vulnerable. We're not going to force you to do it. It's completely unacceptable for either the government or the private sector to impose upon you the requirement that you show proof a vaccine

to just simply participate in normal society. New York Cities started they called the Excelsior Pass. Excelsior is the motto of the state, the Excelsior ever upward. So you need this, You need your vaccine pass, your Exalsior Pass, to be able to I hate these people, these branding of this right just in the HR one, not to sidetrack HR one. It's this horrific voting reform acting past the House in

the Senate. It's called the for the People Act. Goodness, if you are the four the people act like, you better be throwing red flags on the field. That's like, oh not buy that nice tride flag on the fields. What's this bill really about? Same thing with Excelsior pass. Oh, everybody, this is the Excelsior Pass. Nope, don't like it. What do you mean you don't like it? It's called the Excelsior Pass. Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, you're hind something. What

is it? Really? You need it in order to get into Madison Square Garden in the Barclays Center for Events and other arts and entertainment venues. So in order to live your life. You need you need your papers first of all. So again first point, I should say unnecessary. Second point, what about equity? Oh what about equity? All of a sudden, equity doesn't doesn't mean it. What about lower income people who don't have smartphones? They can't download

the app? What are you gonna do with them? You're gonna You're gonna prevent them from ever going to an arts event. Oh, how racist of you, we're told. At the same time, you know, Georgia passed SP two o two it requires an ID to vote. We're told, how t horrible and oval and evil and Jim Crow two point zero and Biden called it sick to require someone to show government idea to vote, just to show that you're a real person in order to vote. That's the

worst thing ever. If you if you support that, you're the grand words of the KKK. But a vaccine passport to be able to go inside a building full steam ahead? How could you possibly be against that? Wasn't that inequitable? If if listen, the people who are against that Georgia bill, they're the ones who say black people are too stupid or poor to get a government ida. I don't say that that'd be horribly racist. They're the one saying that. But they are requiring everybody to get a vaccine passport

in order to do anything with their life. But what about that same percentage of people also, This is the same people who don't care about the tens of thousands of people streaming across our border without any actual passport or paperwork. But Americans need passports in order to live our normal lives in America. What is it going on?

Who could possibly before this? It's so bizarre, like people are still thinking, they're still operating, like we're living in this dystopian world where people are dropping like flies, like it's the plague. Have you ever read about the plague? Oh, my goodness, you get it. There's a sign that you have it and you're dead in two days. And parents would have to make these horrific decisions like what to

do with their kid who had the plague? Do you just abandon the kid to die alone and or do you stay with them and you risk getting it and dying immediately afterwards? There is nothing anymore. It's like a harrip. People are living like that's what that's what we're doing. People are still living based off what we thought COVID was not what it is, especially with vaccines and all the rest. Yes, people are still gonna get it. People are still gonna get sick. You can't make any COVID

or any illness down to zero. Life is a trade off. There's no such thing a solution, only trade offs. I'll end on this. Think of it as four baskets. There's four baskets of health. The left only thinks of physical health and they want to make sure no one ever gets COVID ever again. But there's other baskets. You have emotional health, spiritual health, economic health, and physical health. And you have a hundred balls, and you decide how many balls you want to put in each basket. Some put

more in the physical health basket. Fine, I put more in the spiritual health basket. I think churches should be open in California. They're still not. And everybody's got to come up with their own decision on how many balls to put into each of these different baskets to find the best balance of emotional, spiritual, economic, and physical health.

It's also worth noting that these baskets are underneath this umbrella of freedom, and no illness is worth giving up our freedom, no illness, especially something as my old as COVID. People still acting like it's the plague. We should be a country that's celebrating the end of COVID right now, and instead we're just we're debating dystopian vaccine passports, insanity. We're not rats in a cage. Stop treating us like

we are. Mike Slater filling in for Buck Sexton. Mike Slater out locals dot COM's by the word, it's going on, Team Buck. Mike Slater in San Diego, filling in for Buck Sexton. Thanks for let me be here these last few days. Buck will be back tomorrow. Mike Slater out locals dot Com is our website. We can stay in touch until next time. Um, this is maybe a good time to talk about it after I got a little a little heated COVID lockdowns and masks and the vaccines

and the whole thing. It's taken on a religious fervor, right, there's a religious fervor to it. Comply or you're excommunicated from the church. If you don't get a vaccine, you are impure. Right. We mentioned this from time to time on my local show. We probably have over the last couple of days. Even in passing, people are less religious than ever in America. But we are designed by our creator to worship. So if you don't worship him God,

you will worship something. Most people worship themselves. That's why a lot of people say, I'm not religious, I'm spiritual. Would you saying, as you worship yourself, you just making up your own religion and you worship you, And a lot of people worship politics. So as we leave church, we've entered this different church. As we leave the Church of God, we've entered this different church of politics. And there's no longer political parties. We are now warring denominations.

God is no longer the center of our lives or the center of our culture, the God who can unite us all. Nope, we all have our own idols and we pray at the pagan altar of politics. Politics doesn't have, you know, this nice, little proper place in our existence. It for many people is the center of our existence. And that is unhealthy. There's an article in the Economist. It's unhealthy for individuals, and it's unhealthy for a country.

The economist says, the evangelical culture warriors on the right that's me take on the Democrats new Puritans. So they started off talking about how Biden is such a great Catholic who you know, supports gay marriage, an abortion, and how Americans are more likely than ever now to claim no religion as their religious preference. But we're no less devotional, no less devotional. We just worship new things, the self

first and foremost, and then politics. And this article mentions this God sized hole in your heart, and that's what I want to talk about here for the remaining two and a half minutes. The God sized hole in your heart that's left when you remove God, and it can't be filled with anything else. The entirety of human history

proves that it cannot be filled with anything else. This is why one of my favorite genres of documentary and one of my favorite genres of story are celebrities who thought that fame and fortune would give them everything, and it doesn't, and we'll never learn. My wife and I we recently watch this Paris Hilton documentary. It's on YouTube.

She is absolutely miserable. And she said growing up that when she makes a million dollars, she'll be happy, and then she said, when she makes one hundred million dollars, she'll be happy. And then she said in the documentary that if only she made up billion dollars. She's traveled the world, she's never left her hotel room. She has no friends, no one she can trust. At one point in the documentary, she's met at the airport by a

bunch of fans. He's in Japan or something, and these two fans come up to her and they say they've drove a couple of hours to see her, and they take us selfie. And then later that night in the hotel room, she's super depressed and miserable, and she says that she has no friends that really love her. And she says, yeah, I have no friends that really love me, you know, except for Sophie and Katie. And I'm thinking,

who's Sophie and Katie? What it would oh? Oh, those are the two girls that she met at the airport for thirty seconds, and the documentarian says, do you have anyone who cares for you? And Paris Hilton looks off in the distance and she looks confused, and she says, what does that mean? She thought there are other things that could feel that God's size tole in her heart and there's there's nothing else. That expression. It comes from

this seventeenth century philosopher and theologian. His name is Pascal. He's the guy who also said, all of humanity's problems stem from our inability to sit quietly in our room, which means you're just you're not at peace, you're not at peace with yourself. So Pascal, here's the full quote. He said, what else does this craving and this helplessness proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness.

There was once in man a true happiness of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace. What does it prove? What does it proclaim? That he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are. None can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object, in other words, by God himself. That's where

the expression God's sized hole comes from. This is, by the way the Puritan Church today of the woke left absolute purity, no deviation, no forgiveness, no grace, no grace, no redemption. If anyone is going to drown witches today it's the woke left. This is not good because now real churches are actually going to split along political lines as well. This is very bad. God should be a uniting force, the good news, the Gospel should unite, and

we're letting politics divide. And you know who loves it, Satan and the politicians. But I repeat myself. Mike's later, filling in for Buck Sexton, spread the word. It's going on Team Buck. Mike Slater and San Diego filling in for Buck for one more day. Buck, We'll be back tomorrow. I'm as grateful as you are. I can't wait for to hear a Buck again. Mike's later dot locals dot com if you'd like to follow us there. Mike's Later dot locals dot com. That's our website. Getting off big Tech.

The Great Wilfred Riley's a professor at Kentucky State. He's wonderful. I think he's the next Thomas soul. I want to quote a bit from his latest piece and then we'll go through it in detail. It's like, well, it's about race relations in America. He says. This picture, which we'll get to. This picture perfectly sums up the dualistic nature

of racial relations in America today. The real picture itself is quite favorable if we can just manage to clean up all the throne muck off the canvas long enough to get a good look at it and appreciate it. So his argument is, and my argument is, that race relations in America are better than ever and actually great.

There just happened to be a few race baiders out there who have this absolute mega microphone or mega megaphone, who get way too much attention and way too many accolades, and have like way disproportionate amount of institutional support, way too much power and control in the media, news, TV, music, everywhere.

I wonder if, I wonder if ever such a small group of people have had so much institutional power, and because they do, they paint this picture for their own power and prestige, and it's easy for the rest of us to get wrapped up in it and to have these people change your perception of reality. They have so much control over your kids too, and your kids now don't have a proper perspective of what reality is. We

mentioned yesterday. I think that if you ask any kid today in high school about slavery, they'll tell you that it's a uniquely white man sin that only white people have enslaved black people. And they'll tell you, many will tell you that it's a uniquely American evil, which is preposterous, but that's what they're told. And there's all these race baders in schools that are telling kids that being black is a disaster. Being black is a death sentence in America.

You'll never get ahead, Lebron James saying he's scared to go outside. It's open season. They're hunting black people. You'll never make anything out of yourself. You have no chance, you'll never be successful. You have it no better than the slaves, maybe even worse. Your life is hopeless. That's the message that's being spread. And all you have to do is buy this book so you can see how bad you have it, and hire me to do your diversity seminar at your work so that I can tell

white people how terrible they are as well. It's grifting. It's for money, it's for power, it's to make themselves feel better, and it's not true. So let's look at some data, shall we. First, you've heard the income gap between white and black people. You've heard of that before, right, White people on average earned sixty five thousand dollars a year. Black people on average earned forty three thousand dollars a year.

That's a gap. Now, a Marxist were. A Marxist worldview looks at everything through the blends of oppressed versus oppressor. So anytime there's a disparity or an inequality, they put it through that framework of oh, well, here's the oppressed people and here are the oppressors. Conservatives look at a disparity and say, okay, well, what are the cultural factors at play? Slash the individual choices that people make that

have led to a disparity. Very different. So if you take that conservative approach and you look at, okay, well what's going on here? Why why do black white people earn sixty five thousand is on average? And you know that's a faulty metric two because it's a lot of people here, but sixty five thousand white people forty three thousand from black people. What's happening here? Okay, Well, first we have to account for age, who generally has more money.

If you lined up a fifty eight year old and a twenty seven year old, which of those two people are going to have more money in a higher net worth a fifty eight year old or twenty seven year old. The fifty eight year old, they've been working longer, working longer, accumulating more wealth. They're more knowledgeable, they have more wisdom and insight. They're they command more money because they're better

at their job because they've been doing it longer. Right, the average is the most common age of a white person in America's fifty eight. The most common an age for a black person's twenty seven. That alone has accounts for a massive difference in incomes because again, who's going to make more money the twenty seven year old or the fifty eight year old, Well, the fifty eight year

old old. So when you have a group with more fifty eight year olds, that group is going to make more money, and you account for that alone, and most of that disparity is gone. Is that oppression? I got some more data shootings. People's perceptions way off. We shared the other day forty four percent of liberals forty four percent think that police kill over a thousand unarmed black men every year. That's three a day. Let me ask you the question, how many unarmed black men are killed

by police? Officers every day every year, And important to note unarmed black men doesn't necessarily mean the guy was innocent, Like, I don't know that the circumstance in each of these, but you know an unarmed man could still be running at a police officer. Right, So, but how many unarmed black men are killed by police officers every year? Forty four percent of liberals think it's over a thousand. What do you think it is? Five hundred, two thousand, three thousand,

four hundred and fifty? What do you think the answer? The answer is thirteen. So why do half of liberals think that police are killing three unarmed black men a day? What messages are liberals getting that has zero resemblance to reality at all? When asked what percentage of people? How do I wear this properly? All? Right? So police shoot a certain number of people a year, what percentage of them are black? Progressives think it's sixty percent. In reality,

it's twenty five. Our perceptions are way off. Seventy five percent of police shootings, therefore, are against white and Hispanic people, right. Seventy five percent of police shootings are against white and his spanning people. But that doesn't get media attention. The media covers that twenty five percent, as with nearly one hundred percent of the coverage, so people, therefore, I think it's nearly all the shootings. Years and years ago, I went to the gay part of town in San Diego,

it's called Hillcrest and for their gay pride parade. Right went out to the gay pride parade and I asked people had a microphone, a camera, It's on the internet somewhere. I went around. I said, what percentage of men in America are gay? What percentage of men of America are gay? You can see the video and people are like, um, I don't know, forty forty percent of men are gay? Someone said seventy percent, twenty five percent, maybe maybe half,

maybe half of people are gay. Like and I didn't edit the video at all, Like I used all the answers. No one was close, no one was anywhere near the right answer of two percent. So think about that. Think about these people are at this gay pride parade and they're like, yes, seventy percent of men are gay, but who are you talking about. By the way, I'm not trying to dunk on anyone with this. This is great news. When I'm sharing there's great news, just like COVID, Right,

we should be celebrating that. COVID's over. Take your masks off. Let's let's have a hug and go to work and go to a restaurant. There's a great news. But no one's happy. No one's celebrating. Too much money to be made in grievance, too much money to be made in power, too much money to be made in control. Same thing with all this race stuff. Too much money to be made and grievance, too much money to be made in self pity, too much money, too much attention, too much power.

Victimhood is a powerful drug. Yeah, that's so wild for people like, oh, a sudden, you're being racist? Do be How is it racist to report some facts going against the narrative is racist? Why? Oh? Because I'm not sensitive enough sensitive to what you've heard. There's Gallup polls that says eight percent of people would never vote for a qualified black person to be president. Eight percent of people would never vote for a qualified black person to be president.

This was in twenty fifteen. Well, seven percent. In that same poll, seven percent said they never vote for a Catholic. Eight percent said they never vote for a woman a woman, nine percent said they never vote for a Jew, nineteen percent said they never vote for a Mormon. So the conclusion I get from this poll is that about seven percent of people are racist about racist or biased or whatever. And that's about right, which, by the way, would be

the lowest percentage of racists in a society ever. No one's ever been more pluralistic, more ethnically diverse in human history, and one five seven percent of people are biased, right, And that's that's what This took a lot of work to get to that point. By the way, the Civil War, for one, six hundred thousand Americans killed to end slavery, civil rights movement it ended fifty years ago. People are

still acting like nothing's changed. You take the ethnic groups in America with the ten highest incomes, seven of them are of color. People from Africa and the Caribbean have higher incomes, and white people in America. It never makes sense to me that people can be racist, or that we're told that people can be racist against a black person from Detroit, but not the black person from Jamaica. And the race baters know this. This is why, in the absence of actual tangible racism and that's why they

make up hate crimes all the time. How many nooses have African American studies professors hung outside their own offices, or people seeing hate crimes? Like my favorite one was there's a noose up in a tree in Oakland, everyone freaked out, the mayor freaked out. Turned out to be a rope left behind by an African immigrant who set up these ropes to do some exercise in the park. Right, So people are seeing crimes, making up hate crimes in the absence of actual tangible hate crimes. They've made up

systemic racism. Oh it's everywhere. It's everywhere, you just can't see it. I'll end with Wilfred Riley. He says, an ambitious young man or a woman of color applying to virtually any selective college or university, to say nothing of government or fortune five hundred jobs enjoys a substantial advantage over an equally qualified white pier. Yet we are told from the mountaintops that we are the most racist society ever created and an existence today. It is a total,

absolute lie. Mike Slater dot locals dot com, filling in for Buck Sexton, spread the word going on Team Buck. Mike Slater filling in for Buck Sexton for one last day. Buck will be back tomorrow. So I don't know if you do lent, but you're a you're almost done. You almost made it. Whether you are Christian or not, or practice lent or not, this is still a good thing to do. Give stuff up. So lent if eno familiar. You give something up for forty days up until Easter here,

you should just do that. You should just give things up. So twenty one percent of people gave up social media, eighteen percent gave up alcohol, thirteen percent gave up sweets, eleven percent gave up soda. So just a little the risk of sounded like jocko. If it's a good idea to give these things up for forty days, it's probably a good idea just to give these things up, just entirely right. You should just give it up. You should

just not drink soda anymore at all, for instance. But I want to talk about the importance of giving these things up, just for your soul, for your brain, for your body, for your life. It's true, first of all, that absence makes the heart grow fonder. I think one reason why people are depressed a lot in our society is because everything is available all the time. We have no delayed gratification. We have instant gratification, NonStop all the time.

And when you're constantly instantly gratified, you don't experience pleasure anymore. One study, there's three groups of people. One was told to eat as much chocolate as they possibly can, another was told to eat as much as they wanted, and a third was told not to eat any for a while, and then they could have a small amount. And it was the third group that derived the most happiness. Oh, I forgot that. I gotta tell this story real quick. A couple of years ago, I was talking to a

man who was taken captive in World War Two. He was a small boy who was eight years old. He was living in the Philippines and he was sent to live in a intermit camp's eight years old with his eleven year old brother. He was there for three years. He weighed like like fifty pounds. Right. It was horrific his mother or his aunt, because they were separated from their families. Their aunt would would boil there are leather

soles of their shoes for food. At one point, he would steal garbage from the Japanese guards and they would boil that and he would drink the broth from garbage. One day, the Red Cross was able to drop in some stuff and there was a chocolate bar, Hershey's Chocolate bar. And Tom said he and his brother each took one square and every day they would take one lick, not even a bite. Every day they would take one lick.

He said, it was heavenly. Who do you think appreciates that chocolate bar more, Tom, or someone just gorges themselves all day with chocolate bars. We notice this with toys with our kids. When our kids started acting greedy and all that, we just get rid of all the toys because they're just not appreciating it. They're overwhelmed. We become numb to pleasure. I'll end with w eb DW Boy. He wrote an amazing letter to his daughter. Let me put it on the website Mike's Letter dot locals dot com.

It's one of my favorite letters. The Boy letter, A little note to myself. He wrote this letter to his daughter who was going to private school in England. She was like sixteen, and he wrote some amazing stuff about her being black and also but at the end he says, read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline. Take yourself in hand and master yourself. Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

I'll put the full lighter on the website mics later dot locals dot com, and I'll put another quote up there from Seneca. Seneca said he gave some advice to his friend. He said, set aside a certain number of days where you eat disgusting food, and you wear really uncomfortable clothes, and you sleep on the ground, just so that at the end of it you can say to yourself, this is the condition I feared, he says. I then assure you, my dear Lucilius, you will leap for joy

when filled with a pennyworth of food. And you'll understand that a man's peace of mind does not depend upon fortune, for even when angry, fortune grants enough for our needs. Put all on the website Mike's Later dot locals dot com. Coming up next, I want to talk about the George Floyd trial and the truth. Well, I'll just tell you what the what the defense is going to present, and you can decide what to do with that. We'll do that coming up next. Mikes Later filling in for Box

Sexton spread the word, Ah, the great disappointment continues. Where's Buck? Bring back back? He'll be back tomorrow. I'm mikes Later, San Diego, filling it for Buck one last day. Thank you for letting me be here the last few days. It's a wonderful honor. And Buck's the man looking forward to him coming back as well. George Floyd trial, you're ready. This has the potential to be an absolute disaster for this country. Trial starry yesterday, continuing obviously today. So Derek

Chaffin charged with murder. The others are charged as accomplices to the murder, and the prosecution has to prove that Derek Chaufin well, there's a couple different charges, right, and everyone is going to be very very up on second degree murder, third degree murder and what the differences between all these are. But I want to be very clear, would what this trial is not? This trial is not was this thing sad? Was this a bad event? Did

I wish this not happened? Did this thing make me upset? Those? The answer to those all those things are is yes, that's not a criminal trial. This prosecution needs to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, unanimously by the journey that this police officer intentionally murdered George Floyd. That's one of the charges. The other charge that the other one is that in the act of committing a felony offense, murdered George Floyd's.

They have to prove that what Derek Choffin did and they're not gonna be able to do this as all talking to a second, he went beyond his role as a police officer, was committing a felony offense, felony assault, and in that act murdered him. I do not believe they are going to be able to prove that. Now does it even matter? It's another question like it's this is like the oj trial, right, nothing that what's her name in the OJA trial said or did? What's her name?

Who's the lawyer? Marcia Marcia, Marcia, Marcia Marcia OJ trial Marcia Marcia, what's her last name? Marcia Clark? Nothing she did, no, no, not think anyone could have done would have resulted in that jury saying that oj Simpson was guilty of murder. There's no so I hope she didn't feel bad about it. There's nothing she could have done. Please, if you have not watched the documentaries about OJ Simpson, you must watch them. There's two ones, a documentary and one is more like

a mini series kind of. They're both fantastic. Watched them both. And it is true that once he was said not guilty, one of the jurors got out of the box and gave OJ the Black Power salute fist in the air. There is no chance that that guy would have said that OJ Simpson was guilty, he should go to jail. Okay. So it entirely depends on jury selection and who's on this jury, And I don't know what that exactly looks like.

But that's another point about human nature, is like does it even matter really what is put forward on this trial or is every single juror's mind already made up? But that being said, it has to be unanimous in order of proven guilty. That's a high bar. But the courtroom in Minneapolis is it's like where they're having a trial, it's like it's like a war zone. Concrete barriers everywhere,

barred wire, everything's blockaded up. And those jurors know that if this police officer is found not guilty and is allowed to walk that activists will burn everything to the ground, not only in Minneapolis, but in every sity in this country. If these officers are quitted, the reaction is going to

be worse than when George Floyd first died. Okay, so let's talk about the defense that Derek Cholfin's going to present, so you can be prepared for this and when people and when your people at work or family members, when they come to you and they are coming at you of with just their feelings and their emotions of it was bad. I hated to seeing it. It was hard to watch. You're like, Okay, yeah, not a that's not criminal trial. That's not what this is. I agree with you.

It was hard to watch. I agree with you. It was terrible and fortunate and awful, not what the criminal trial is about. So what they're gonna show is the medical exam and the toxicology report. Also, don't get mad at me for sharing this either. I'm just telling you what's going to happen. And I'm telling you I think they're gonna get acquitted. Everyone's gonna flip out Biden and harass Oh my goodness, they're gonna call it. Ah, what a gross injustice of the American court system. How could

this have happened? We live in such a racist country. Black men could be murdered by the police on broad daylight. The whole thing anyway, medical report, toxicology report. The medical report says that there was no injury to George Floyd's neck. That's gonna no one's want. No one's gonna want to believe that. That's the premise of this whole thing. Right, The officer kneeled on his neck so he couldn't breathe.

But here's the medical reports saying there were no injuries to his neck and no evidence that his airway was ever blocked. Well, hold on, I thought he choked. I thought he suffocated him and choked him on on the ground. And you're telling me that the medical report says that his airway was never blocked. What do we No one's going to believe that. Here's the medical report, no life threatening injuries identified, no injuries of anterior muscles of neck

or laryngeal structures, larynx breathing. No one's gonna want to believe that. This is the criminal charge against Derek Chofin. It says the medical examiner has made the following preliminary findings. The autopsy revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia, asphyxia, or strangulation. Mister Floyd had underlying health conditions, including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease.

The combined effects of mister Floyd being restrained by the police, his underlying health conditions, and any potential intoxicans in his system likely contributed to his death. So it wasn't the knee on the neck now, it's that last line. There any potential intoxicans in his system. George Floyd said I can't breathe during this situation event occurrence seven times. He said I can't breathe. Before he was even on the ground, before there was even a neck, a knee on the neck,

which leads to the toxicology report. George Floyd had eleven nanograms of fetanol per milli leader of blood. Now, I have no idea what that means. If you if someone zone said, hey, how many nanograms of fetanol per milla leader, I'm like, oh, like one hundred or four. I don't know. Three is fatal. Three He had eleven nanograms, even among hardcore habitual users of fetanol, which there aren't many and not for long. But there's a study of overdose deaths

of people who used fetanol regularly. Nine nanograms was the median fatal dose. George Floyd had eleven. One of the consequences of an overdose is called pulmonary edema. This is when fluid fills up the lungs. The media the medical report says his lungs were two to three times the weight of normal lungs. That means they were filled with fluid.

In the body cam footage early on, this is very early on, before the police car was even involved, right before they even tried to get him in the police car, an officer asked him, why are you foaming at the mouth. Why are you foaming at the mouth. This is before things got heated. This is before again they tried to get him in the right and obviously said why are you foaming at the mouth? And George Floyd said, earlier, I was hooping. I have the audio. It's hard to hear,

but I have the audio. Early he said, I was hooping. Whooping is when you place drugs in your anus. What America saw was a man die of a drug overdose. And the reason why these officers, I believe are going to be acquitted and people are going to burn every city to the round is that these police officers followed Minneapolis police protocol on every single thing they did. They tried to get him in the car and he said, I don't want to go in. I want to go in on one go in and they said, okay, fine,

we'll roll down the windows. He said, I'm claustrophobic. We'll roll on the windows, We'll put on the AC you just gotta get in the car. George Floyd asked to get on the ground and there were three officers on top of them. This is really interesting. When you first saw the video or the main video, you don't see the other two officers. You just see Derek Choffin on top of his neck because the cars in the way. You don't see the other two officers, one on his

lower back and one on his legs. This is what officers are trained to do. Now, you could be against that if you want. You can say that's wrong, we got to get rid of that. Great, I'll definitely have that conversation. But can you charge an officer with murder when they are completely following textbook police protocol as they were trained. If you can how can anyone be a police officer. Also, these officers, they called them lens twice. Once when George Floyd hit his head on the police car,

they called the ambulance for that reason. These are not people that are going out of their way to murder someone. The charge against Derek Choffin of murder was made two days before the toxicology report was issued. To me, that suggests that this was a political decision by the prosecution because the activists were going crazy and the prosecutor and the prosecutor needed to give the city needed to give the activists what they wanted, and they went too soon.

They got out too soon in front of it. Before the toxicology report was released, we talked on my radio show with the former I forgot his exact title, but he was in Philadelphia for decades and he prosecuted police abuse crimes like police officers abusing people, like use of force right, and so he's prosecuted these police officers many

times for going too far. He said, in no circumstance would would these people have been Did these police go beyond what they're called to do and what they should have done, and he believes that they should at least be found not guilty of their crimes that they're charged with. And again, if that happens, get ready. Mike's later dot locals dot com. I'll put all that information on our website. George Floyd Info, I'll put all that on the website

right now. Mike's later, Dot locals dot com. Mike later, filling it for box Sexton, spread the word going on Team Buck. Mike's later in San Diego, filling it for box Sexton, Mikes later, dot locals dot com. I don't know what I just shared. They're made people upset, but get ready, get ready for this trial and then the verdict dot comes. It all depends on the journey. It all depends on the duram um. I want to share a little thing here about minimum wage because so Zoe Rachel.

Zoe Rachel, he made such a great point on my TV show, Buck and I both have shows. On the first he said, when Democrats say there's systemic racism, conservatives come back and say no, there's not. And he says, hey, conservatives, you should say yes, there is systemic racism, and you're the racists, you're the ones doing it. I said, so, what's a good example. I'll give you one right here, minimum wage. Minimum wage is a racist policy. The intent

of minimum wage was to hurt people of color. Now, progressives, they're the ones who are favor of it today still, and they say, oh, we want minimum wage because we're gonna help lower income people. We're gonna give them more money, and then they pat themselves on the back for being so thoughtful and wonderful. And conservatives look at this a minimum wage, and we say, well, hold on, the real

minimum wage is zero. You raise the minimum wage, it's gonna get people unemployed, and they're gonna get fired, and they're gonna get replaced by machine and all this. So this raising them in wage actually hurts the people who progressives say it's going to help. Right, So let's take a single black woman. She's making eight dollars an hour, so now we pass a law raise them inum wage to fifteen dollars. But progressives look at that and say, oh,

now she's making twice as much money. And conservatives look at that, well, no, she was just fired. She makes zero dollars now and now she's entirely dependent on the government and all the problems to come with that. Now, a conservative would look at this and say, hey, progressives, you gotta look at the unintended consequences of a policy. You maybe have good intentions, but you gotta look at the unintended consequences. That's what That's what I used to say.

But now my argument, based on the history of the minimum wage, is that the original intent of the minimum wage was explicitly to kick undesirable people out of the labor for this is not an unintended consequence of the minimum wage. This was the original point of the minimum wage. It's working perfectly. Let me back it up. Eugenics was hugely popular in the early nineteen hundreds in America, very

dark time in our history. But we don't hear a lot about it because it was a progressive idea spearheaded in the Ivy League schools. The most California performed twenty thousand sterilizations just in our mental health institutions to prevent to protect society from the offspring of people with mental illness. Right, and the Supreme Court upheld this. The Chief Justice who used to he was the head of the medical school at Harvard. He said, three generations of imbeciles are enough,

So let's prevent these people from from procreating. Right. So, the Ivy League, they loved eugenics. And if it weren't for this guy, Adolf Hitler coming to power, he who gave it all a bad name, and if it weren't for him in America would possibly still be leading eugenics around the world, although maybe we are with abortion. I bring this up because the idea behind eugenics is we are scientifically going to make a better race of people. So how do we do that, Well, we have to

rid the gene pool of certain people. We have to purify the gene pool and will make them better, stronger people in a better society. Same thinking, if you could rid these people from the gene pool, we can also ban them from the labor force. And what was the way that these people decided to do that? Minimum wage? This is economics Professor F. Taussig. He said, certain types of criminals and paupers. This is back in the day.

Certain types of criminals and paupers breed only their kind, and society has a right and a duty to protect its members from the repeated burden of maintaining and guarding such parasites. The human race could be amensely improved in quality and its capacity for happy living immensely increased if those of poor physical and mental endowment were prevented from multiplying. He said the feeble minded quote should simply be stamped out.

We have not reached the stage where we can proceed to chloroform chloroform them once and for all, but at least they can be segregated, shut up in refuges and asylums, and prevented from propagating their kind. That was the progressive liberal elite view at the time. Similarly, how do we ban the feeble minded from employment? Raise the minimum wage? Arthur Holcomb he was a Harvard professor. He wrote about

the minimum wage in Australia. He said it was done to protect the white Australian's standard of living from the insidious competition of the colored races, particularly of the Chinese. Minimum wage laws were passed in the North when there was a major exodus from black people from the South, and they pass the minimum wage laws to prevent the

black people from taking those jobs. And same thing today it's oh it's couched much nicer, but the end results the exact same, hurts low income people the most, and it hurts people of color the most. So there's three groups of people here when it comes to the minimum wage. You have the utopians, the progressives, who say, oh, we gotta raise the minimum wage and help people. You have conservatives who say, oh, we gotta raise You can't raise

the minimum wage because that will unintentionally hurt people. And then you have me who says, oh, raising the minimum wage, you can't do that because it will do exactly what it was designed to do, hurt certain people. Should I play the left game? Let me play the game. Let me play the game. If you support raising the minimum wage, you're a racist. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. That's our website. Mike Later at locals dot com, filling in for Buck Sexton, spread the word. Hey, what's going on?

Team Buck? Mike Slater filling in for Buck Sexton again. Jeez Buck, come on, hurry back. Hate this Slater guy. We'll be back tomorrow. Don't worry. So we just had two pretty heavy segments there, provocative. I want to lighten it up it and talk about virtue, specifically feminine virtues. We don hear all the time about toxic masculinity, and I would argue that as as screwed up, as as ill defined as masculinity is in our culture, femininity is

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Can we like downshift a minute? So we just talked about George Floyd. We talked about vaccine passports, and we talked about George Floyd, and then we talked about the minimum wage and eugenis, eugenesis systems, eugenics, and it's like, oh, geez, heavy show. Let's take a minute and talk about something beautiful because we need more of that in our culture. Yesterday we spent this hour talking about Little Nasax and his new song and his Satan shoes and all this

is ridiculous stuff. And my point was, don't outsource the raising of your kids to people who hate you and to people who hate your worldview. Take control back and instead of because when you when you let your kids listen to the music that people in Hollywood and the movies that people in Hollywood, and the video games also. But the people who made that stuff they hate you.

I don't like, they hate your world. Blues Clues, Blues Clues did an alphabet song, P was for pride, and it was they had they had the rainbow flag, the gay rainbow flag, and then eight other flags like the transgender flag and the lesbian flag and the intersects flag, and it's like what Blues Clues three to five year old. Blue Blues Clues. Okay, so your kids, if you don't raise your kids, you're letting these people do it for you.

And these people are bombarding your kids with ugliness. So it is your job to surround your kids with beautiful things. That is my plea to you. So what is beautiful, Well, the things that are objectively beautiful. The world shows your kids dancing and it's ugly and it's girl like little girls like shoving their crotch at the camera. Stuff like that's like ugly dancing. So you need to show your

kids beautiful dancing. Show your kids you're I have a little girl as I'm doing this segment, I'm thinking of my daughter, Grace. She's three, just turned three. She's amazing. I love this girl. She's bounding, full of joy. And every once in a while we'll watch videos of ballet and we'll watch videos of the tango. Right, that's a sensual dance, but it's beautiful. The world gives your kids terrible music, So surround your kids and you're in your

home with beautiful music. It's called classical music for a reason. And if you want to modernize it a bit. My son and I we listened a lot to John Williams. John Williams is the composer behind Star Wars and Jurassic Park and et. And we just sit and we just listen to the music, and we say, oh, who are the bad guys? Are the bad guys winning or the good guys winning? And we just talk about the music. Oh do you hear that part? Do you hear the

violin coming in? Or whatever? That's beautiful music. The world pumps terrible TV shows into your home. Watch no TV, go outside if you must, watch The Little House on the Prairie, watch the Andy Griffith Show. And you're like laughing at this, You're scoffing at this. Why you're in charge. You set the culture of your home, and throughout all this promote masculine and feminine virtues in your home as well. And that's what I want to talk about in this segment.

We have been told for a long time now about toxic masculinity. I argue that there's no such thing as toxic masculinity because masculinity is a virtue, and you can't have toxic virtues. The fruits of the spirit are love, joy, peace, patients, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self control. There's no such thing as toxic peace, or toxic joy, or toxic self control. Similarly, masculinity is a virtue. There's no toxicness of it. There's not properly

defined masculinity, no doubt about that. But that's not masculinity. And just as we do a poor job, to say the least, of defining what true masculinity is, we've done an equally if not worse job of defining femininity. Now my local show, we've talked about masculinity a billion times. It's easier for me. I am a guy, and I have two sons, four and one, so I've thought a lot about this, and I haven't thought as much about femininity.

But then I realized I have a three year old daughter, and I better figure this out because if I don't, someone else is going to do it for her. This is my job and I'm not going to outsource it to Cardi b. It is my job to emphasize, to have clearly defined and to emphasize the great feminine virtues in her and give her that to strive for. So let's talk about four great feminine virtues right here, and I'd love to hear some more. Goal goodness, If you

have some more, I'd love to hear them. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Please join us over there, and actually don't let me put some I'll put a post up there so you can comment on the post specifically, uh fem virtue Mike Slater dot locals dot com. So EV is a really wonderful women's online magazine from a conservative worldview. It's really good. It's a beautiful website. E v I E I think it's I think it's just eviie dot com. EVI I E EVE magazine. Yeah, evmagazine

dot com. It's really really good. So they have an article uh, it's called want to attract a good man. Four feminine virtues to strive for this. This magazine is mostly geared towards like millennial and young women. So for feminine virtues, first, be graceful. Being graceful is not necessarily about how you move your body, but about how you conduct and control yourself. It means taking hardship in stride. What's proverbs So Proverb thirty one is all about the

wife of noble character. She's worth far more than rubies. There's one line in here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's clothed in strength and dignity. She can laugh at the days to come. M Proverbs thirty one twenty five. She can laugh at the days to come. She's not full of anxiety and worry. She's in complete control of herself. It means taking hardships and stride, not letting things get to you too deeply. Instead of being petty holding a grudge you're getting mad at someone. A graceful woman is patient

and forgiving. Grace is what helps a woman to manage her relationships and maintain harmony among those around her. Are you seeing the women in your life, the women you know who have this grace or maybe women who don't. Being graceful means leaving people off better off than when we found them. A graceful woman is comfortable with her femininity. She doesn't try to be masculine, and she's not overtly sexual.

See that's the Cardi B and just the culture of today is femininity is you have to be vulgar, right to be a vertly sexual and vulgar like a man. It's like, No, she likes who she is and she's charming, polite, elegant, kind and generous. First feminine virtue graceful. Second, be beautiful. A woman's beauty and her virtue go hand in hand. If a woman acts virtuously, she'll be more beautiful. True

beauty radiates from within to the outer world. Saint Thomas Aquinas wrote that the three characteristics of beauty are radiance, harmony, and wholeness. Oh that's so good, Saint Thomas Aquinas. Let me get a year on, Saint Thomas Aquinas. Here twelve fifty or so. Saint Thomas Aquinas. So, the three characteristics of beauty are radiance, harmony, and wholeness. Beauty occurs when we treat ourselves others in the world around us as best as we can. Striving for health and wholesomeness makes

you beautiful. So again this is obvious one. Right. Our perception of beauty in America is you know, it's just sexual, and that's not true. That's radiance, harmony, and wholeness. Number three, Respect your body. A virtuous woman treasures herself and treats herself like a pearl. She doesn't give her body away just anyone. She has strong boundaries and she knows she's

precious and valuable. A good man will recognize that you're cognizant of the importance of treating your physicality well as you respect yourself so well, so he will respect you. That's true. And fourth, be sisterly. A virtuous woman is not caddy and mean, but sisterly kind. Supportive of other women in her life means not getting, not gossiping, being

manipulative for acting cruel. A virtuous woman will not put other women down with a mistake and belief that it will lift her up, and she'll try her best to be supportive and happy of other women. One of my best friends is dating a girl now, and I said, you know, what's your favorite thing about her? And he said, I love how she is loved by her friends. Her friends love her, which means she is very sisterly. Should be wary of the woman who doesn't have any girlfriends.

So I'll put all those on Mike Slater out locals dot com. Be graceful, be beautiful, respect your body, be sisterly. These are just four of many feminine virtues. I'll end with this story here. It's one of my favorites, Gates of Fire. You have to read it. It's written by Stephen Pressfield. It's about the Battle of Thermopole. It's a must read. And he tells a story of Leonidas and Leonidas the king of Sparta. He shows the three hundred men, and how did he choose the three hundred men? Well,

he chose one husband. He chose this woman's husband and this woman's son. So all these men were gonna die. They all knew it. So this woman was gonna lose her husband and her son, two loved ones. So she went to go see Leonidas and begged him too. I think she put it not visit upon her, this double portion of grief. And Leonidas says, woman, do you know why I chose these three hundred men. Why would you Why do you think he chose these three hundred men. Well,

they're the best fighters, the best warriors. No, maybe they're I don't know, my favorite whatever. Maybe I was bribed to take these three hundred and not others. And Leonidas tells the woman, he says, I chose these three hundred men not for their valor, but for the valor of their wives. He knew that these three hundred men were gonna die. He knew that the Persians were going to march through and once they won that battle at Thermopoli, he knew that the rest of Greece was going to

look to words Sparta on how to react. And the people of Sparta, we're going to look towards the wives and mothers of those who were killed to know how to react. And Leonida says, all of Greece will look to the Spartans to see how they bear this loss. And if they behold that your hearts are stricken broken with grief, then they too will break, and Greece will

break with them. But if you bear up, dry eyed, not alone and during your loss, but seizing it with contempt for its agony, and embracing it, as the honor that is in the truth, then Sparta will stand and all of Greece will stand behind her. The three hundred men were chosen because of the women. We need more spartan women today. Not stoic, that's not it, not emotionless,

but whole and complete and graceful and truly beautiful. Or you could just have him watched Little Nasax's video and Cardi b and dance and saying nect like horrors all down. But that's fine, didn't You can do that for your daughters too. Way. Either way, Mike's later dot locals dot com. I'll put these articles up there so you can read them yourself in comment. Mike later, dot locals dot com. Filling in for Buck Sexmon spread the word. It's going on, Team Buck. I got a few more minutes here, so

let me stay on topic here sort of. So we just talked about femininity, and now I want to talk about a feminist like os Slater. I don't So we just talked about the feminine virtues, some feminine virtues, but now I want to talk about a FEMINISTC sounds the same, It's different. Men are often insulted or can be insulted. When they're called a feminine feminine E F F E M I N feminine. This is a man who is not manly. The second definition in the next dictionary of

a feminine is marked by an unbecoming delicacy. Saint Thomas Aquinas, who we just quoted earlier, he wrote it about this in the twelve hundreds. He called him. He called it molts like a Mollusk's where we get the word mollusk. A mollusk is a soft It's like a snail. Right. It means malty, means softness. Mollusks. The snails are soft on the inside of their shell. Right. And Saint Thomas Acquintas, he quoted Aristotle, the man who is fond of amusement

is a feminine. On the contrary, the persevering man is opposed to the effeminine. He said. The Acquaintas says that a man can be called a feminine if they readily yield to the touch, like a soft breeze rolls through and a man falls over. I love this line, properly speaking. And a feminine man this is a quintas, is one who withdraws from good on account of sorrow caused by lack of pleasure, so I'm not getting enough pleasure. Therefore you crumble and fall and become weak. I'd argue that

we become an effeminine people, weak and soft. The military did this whole study because they were wondering why during basic training so many people's bones were breaking, and they were they were, they were, they were break like you give him a ruck rucksack to have them run, and their bones would just break, like brittle bird bones, a little puny, brittle bird bone breaking, just like going for

a run. So the military to do this whole thing about giving kids more, giving these recruits more calcium with calcium bars and stuff like that. Like when the world's happening, it's because there was weak, soft, a feminine attached to pleasure, video games, immediate gratification. Life is too comfortable. Men, boys, they don't they don't run, they don't lift anything. They're

just weak. I imagine taking a thirteen year old today bringing them back in time one hundred fifty years ago, eighty years ago, when I'm working in the fields with dad and right, it's like, oh, it's like a different planets. Kids stages, they're week, they play video games, eat junk. They we're like a different species. Were like mollusks more than men. And you see it in an adult men too. Men who are attached to the appetites, sexual appetites, food, drink,

video games, sleep, porn. These are men. These are men who are acting out of pleasure. That's not masculinity, that's a femininity. Masculine men put aside pleasure to do what is right and necessary. A feminine men don't. Masculine men don't watch porn. Masculine men put aside urges and protect and serve and love a single woman and put that woman above himself and his immediate gratification. A feminine males have no self control, no self discipline. There are only

They're slaves to their appetites, slave to their cravings. Masculine men are slaves to virtue and reason and build honor in the process. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. That's our website. Join us there, Mike Slader dot locals dot com. Coming up next, I'll tell you the worst thing that I've ever heard so far. At one of these diversity seminars. We'll do a next Mike Slader spread the word Team back America. Is the greatest country in the world. The

great disappointment continues. You tune in Where's Back? Who is this guy? I didn't like Slater? I guess yes, show is okay, but I don't like them anymore. And I want you back back. Where's Buck? Tell you back tomorrow. But thanks for letting me fill in for Buck these last few days. I hope we can do it again.

I have for you this final hour here. After talking about the George Floyd trial in the last hour and vaccine passports in the first hour, and telling an amazing story of Leonidas and the great feminine virtues, what else do we do? Oh? The true story the minimum wage goes back to the eugenics movement about one hundred years ago. I want to talk in this segment about something that an insight that will, if you do it, make your life infinitely better. You have infinitely immeasurable more peace and

harmony in your home if you do this. The thing is you won't And I say that because I don't. I just sometimes sometimes I do. But it's really, really, really hard. If you can do this thing, though, this is a life changing I don't what you call it practice, Yeah, life changing practice. Let me back it up a second. So you've heard, I know Bucks talked about these diversity seminars, diversity, inclusion, and equity, and how they're the opposite of each of

those things, right there. The opposite of diversity, the opposite inclusion, the opposite of equity. San Diego County had one of these. It was the Health and Human Services department. They'd a six hour diversity training seminar, right, Healthy Human Services, Like they got nothing better to do, then sit through six hours the whole day of diversity training. Okay, talking about how racist you aren't. So it's all the normal stuff, right, You're born racist. If you deny it, that's proof that

you're racist. It's the whole segment. Part of it's about how black people can't be racist because racism is biased power. It's all the same nonsense, right. But this is the slide that of all the training samminars, this one may be the worst I've seen. This slide. It says at the top, dear white people, when you say, and then it lists a bunch of things, one of the whole column of things, and then on the other column it says what I hear. Okay, So when you say these things,

I hear these things. Now, there's always going to be a level of misunderstanding in human communication, right, something like words exit my mouth, These sound of vibrations exit my mouth and go into the air unchanged. They leave unchanged, they mouth, They travel through the air unchanged, and as soon as they hit your brain, they're immediately filtered through a giant machine of expectations and bias and pride and offensiveness and life experience and trauma and selfishness and greed

and all. And as soon as that happens, there's going to be misinterpretation. Now, there's always going to be a certain amount of it that's understandable. So if I say, hey, you know what, it's been great to see it. We should get some dinner together sometimes, Now what did I say? I said we should get to dinner. Some get some dinner sometimes. But your brain, your insecurities or whatever, I think, does he really want to get dinner? Or is he just being nice? Does he really like me? Do I

really should we really go out? Do we not want to go out? Do I like? Right? You're like right, you know what? It makes sense? So, like that's a normal range of misunderstanding happens at work, happens a marriage, happens all the time. But then there's this. Okay, so the slide said, dear white people, when you say, if the riots come near my house, I'm going to get my gun, that's what you say. I hear you fantasize about killing black people. Okay, now listen again, normal range

of misunderstanding is allowed. But if I say, again, oh Jesus, these riots come to my house, I'm gonna get my gun to protect my family, and you hear, whoa, So you fantasize about killing me? Oh? What a racist? Like? Come on? Like at a certain point, I can't be responsible for your delusion. I can't. I can't be responsible

for your absolute arrangement. How could I be responsible for complete, completely blowing something out of proportion Like that's not me, that's on you and your therapist, which you should definitely have, by the way, I can't be responsible to that. I would definitely protect my family if riots come to our house. Oh so you want to murder all the blacks? Like? What that was? That the San Diego help in Human Services? That the diversity slide, the diversity seminar. Okay, so what

do we do? What are we doing? Here's the suggestion. We need to assume the best of people that were having conversations with and if we have any questions, ask them. Doesn't that sound healthier? Now let me take it to the next level. Here's the Jordan Peterson clip that will change your life. Now, just yesterday I did this and it worked very well. Also, just yesterday I did not do this with my wife and it went not very well. So can I tell you if you do, it'll change

your life, But it's very hard to do. Here's Jordan Peterson's advice. The next time you get into an argument with your wife, or your friend or a small group of friend, stop the discussion for a moment, and for an experiment, institute this rule. Each person can speak up for himself only after he has first restated the ideas and feelings of the previous speaker accurately. What accurately means

is they have to agree with your restatement. Now that's an annoying thing to do, because if someone is talking to you and you disagree with them, the first thing you want to do is take their argument make the stupidest possible thing out of it. That you can, that's the strong man, and then demolish it. It's like, so then you can walk away feeling good about it, and you know you primates dominated them really nicely. So but

that isn't what you do. You say, Okay, well, I'm going to take what you told me, and maybe I'm even going to make your argument stronger than the one you made. That's useful if you're dealing with someone that you have to live with because maybe they can't bloody well express themselves very well, but they have something to say, so you make their arguments strong. All right? Then you

see what this would mean. It would mean that before presenting your own point of view, it would be necessary for you to really achieve the other speaker's frame of reference, to understand his thoughts and feelings so well that you could summarize them for him. Sounds simple, doesn't it, But if you will try it, you'll find that it's the most difficult thing that you've ever done. M I forgot about that last line there. Yeah, it's true. I like

the line I said. You're great, You've primate dominated them. Good, congratulations, you've primate dominated your wife. You feel good. So what he's talking about is the Steelman making a stealment? We know a strong man argument. Strong man argument is you make the other person's argument weaker and then you crush it. Okay, big deal. Steel man is you make the other person's argument stronger and then you address it. It's absolutely brilliant.

So someone says something, you say, all right, let me, I just want to make sure I hear you right, and then you repeat what they said, and you got to repeat it so so well that they say, wow, yeah that yeah, that's that's that's perfectly. I wish I put it like that. Now you can crush them. But he see how much more noble and heroic that is. No one doesn't. No one doesn't. What are we doing instead? Well,

when we have conversations? Well I got one more Peterson clip here, and this goes back to the slide right, the diversity seminar. If Riot's come to my house, I'm gonna go get my gun, and you hear, oh you fantasize about killing black people. Here's a Peterson said. One of Roger's points is, well, you have to be oriented properly in order to listen, and the orientation has to be look what I want out of this conversation is that the place we both end up is better than

the place we left. That's it. That's what I'm after. And if you're not after that, you got to think, why the hell wouldn't you be after that? What could you possibly be after that would be better than that? You walk away smarter and more well equipped for the world than you were before you had the conversation, and so does the other person. Well maybe if you're bitter and resentful and angry and anxious, and you know, generally annoyed at the world, then that isn't what you want.

You want the other person to walk away worse than you too, because you're full of revenge. But you know you'll get what you want if you do that. So, bitter, angry, resentful, and anxious, generally annoyed at the world, why are we taking these diversity seminars from these people? These people who are bitter, angry, resentful, anxious and annoyed at the world. So they get up there and they shame everyone. Everyone's shaming everyone when what we really need is more honor.

We need more honor. The way to overcome any bias or any prejudice is in someone is to build up their honor, but instead we do the opposite. We shame them. We shame people, and then we force people to shame themselves. We forced, in this case, white people to shame themselves. Oh yes, I am so racist. You're right, and we think that will help. No, No, no, we need more honor in our lives, not more shame. What's his name?

Mc well? I got the book right here. Grants McCracken books called the New Honor Code a simple plan for raising our standards and restoring our good names. Great book. He says, they're anti racing training is dangerous because it asks people to attack their personal honor. Worse, it asks them to attack the very thing we want them to respect in others. That we respect people of color, people different than us is one of the ways we know we are honorable. It's one of the ways we make

ourselves honorable. We respect everyone's dignity as an expression of our own dignity. Yet, yeah, we here, we are. These people are just shaming everyone, and you're supposed to shame yourselves and shame others. No surprise, of course, the woke left these die seminars thing to have a completely backwards. Wow. If we assume they have good intentions, they have it backwards.

If they have bad intentions, if they're bitter, angers and full anxious and generally annoyed at the world and they want everyone to walk away worse, then they're doing a perfect job. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. I'll put that video up on our website. Mike's later dot locals dot com filling it for Buck Sexton's brother the word it's going on Team Buck. Mike's later filling it for Buck Sexton. Four one more day, Buck, We'll be back tomorrow.

I want to play this. Keep here clip here. This is the former Senator from North Dakota Democrat Heidi hit Camp talking about Gina Serrano. This is the ginas She was canceled off of The Mandalorian, the Star Wars show on Disney Plus. She was canceled. So here is uh here's this is from Bill Marshall. I like this picture. Who was the woman and the Mandalorian? What did she do? She likes something? She was ane? Oh that's different, right, I'm thinking she's not a Nazi. She's she's called other

people nat right, which is the Nazi? Okay, everyone's a Nazi. That, um, she does hang with white supremacists like a mel Brooks does. Yea hangs with white I suppose I'm not good subject to defamation. I don't know. I mean it depends on what your definition of white supremacist is. That your the goal post. They're changed a lot. You're guying a clan hood. Who But I think that's great. She listen it. See how cash We're like, oh, yeah, she's a Nazi. But

oh well, she she's involved with white supremacy. She hangs around with white supremacists. What are you talking about? That is a ridiculous way to talk. So I want to talk about this term whiteness. Whiteness od it's everywhere. It's awful. You have it, you are it. It's worse than COVID, no doubt about it. Tortures, it kills. It's been around for four hundred years. It's never been worse. This whiteness. It's everywhere. La Times, Hollywood's entertainment industry. Unions have a

whiteness problem. New York Times, the incredible whiteness of the Museum Fashion Collection, the Smithsonian. Facing your whiteness is hard whiteness. What is my whiteness Washington Post. To understand Trump's support, we must think in terms of multiracial whiteness. Just do a Google new search for whiteness. Saint Louis Dispatch, The Insurrection and the devalued currency of whiteness, La Times at Netflix, Cobra Kai broke out. Now it's whiteness is under a

new spotlight. It goes on and on. What is what is whiteness? Well, it's nothing, which is the point. It's impossible to define. That's why you can just say, oh, yea, she hangs around with white supremacy, supremacist, she's involved with white supremacy. What are you what are you talking about? It's nothing. Whiteness is nothing. It's impossible to define. And that's not a bug of the term. That's the feature, that's the best part of that term. It just means bad.

But it's not even about race. It's an ideology because other races can be can have whiteness, or be white adjacent, or benefit from whiteness, or have close ties to whiteness. Whiteness is just another word for bad, evil, sinful. As a Nanci Pelosi, it's been an epiphany for the world to see that there are people in our country, led by the president. This is about Trump, who have chosen their whiteness over democracy. See that. So it just means

that people have chosen something bad over something good. Whiteness is a smear. If you don't have to be a too great of a student of history to understand that this goes poorly. Smearing people because of their race doesn't end well. But here I am. I was about to go into a whole rant about meritocracy, but meritocracy is whiteness. You look at these slides, let's say aspects of white supremacy.

Meritocracy is one of them. This is why you know Biden's pick for the number two job at Health and Human Services is the Pennsylvania health secretary who first of all, sent COVID patients back to the nursing homes, just like Cuomo did in New York, while removing her mom from the nursing home at the same time. You with me.

So she sent COVID patients back to nursing homes, which ravaged the nursing homes, and she knew it was a bad decision because she took her mom out of the nursing home at the same time, and Biden's pick for this job at he held the Human services as a man who thinks he's a woman. Now are you telling me there's no what else in the country more qualified for this job qualified? Oh, that's your whiteness speaking, doesn't It's not about it's not about merit who. That's pretty

racist of you. It's pretty colonial of you, pretty white supremacist of you. Slater geez. It's all about victimhood. We're here to remove whiteness and white people from positions of power and putting in the marginalized. Now, this guy's white, his name is Richard, but because he's now living as a woman, therefore he can benefit from it all. I love this headline from The Great babylon Be babylon Be. It's like the onion. Far right extremists suggest treating people

of all races equally. Ooh, that is some pretty far right stuff there. Coming up next, I want to some modern day clan stuff right there. I believe we should treat people of all races equally and judge them by the content of their character. Cancel that man. Coming up next, I want to share a story of Telemon and Alexander the Great Mike Slater filling it for Buck Sexton. Spread the word. It's going on Team Buck. Mike Slater filling it for Buck Sexton. Buck will be back tomorrow. So

this is my last day filling it for Buck. Over the last four it's been wonderful. I kind of feel like it's a Friday because it's the last it's your last segment of us together. So I just want to share something here that I've been thinking about a lot lately. And I don't know who needs to hear it, and it may be wildly irrelevant to you. Put it in your back pocket either way, but you may actually really need to hear this today, and I hope, I hope

that's you. I love this story. Alexander the Great, Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Empire and he moved his way into India today would be modern a Pakistan. There's three twenty five BC. And when this Alexander in his massive army, when they got there, they came across these men that they've never seen before, Yogis. They called them hymn sophists, hymn or jim No. It's where we get Gymnasium means naked and sophists means wise men. They were

called the naked wise men. These Yogis, they had nothing. They spent their entire life in poverty, in deep contemplation and stillness. They owned nothing. They had a loincloth and a begging bowl, and they would congregate in the sun along the banks of rivers. Alexander the Great and his men, they've never seen people like this in their entire lives, which it's crazy to think about, right, Like we've I

feel like we've seen everything that there is. Right, there's a statue in um I think it's Trafalgar Square in London, and it's a statue of a lion. But when the guy who made the statue, he's never seen he never saw a lion before, so he could just do it based off of what he heard, and he used like a dog's body, but dogs and lions have different bodies, like the way their legs, so it's like it's all screwed up. But they've never seen a lion, which is crazy.

My kids went to the zoo yesterday saw a line, so like we've we've seen yogi's, Like you could picture a yogi even if you've never seen one in real life. But Alexander's Great, they've never seen these people, like, imagine how bizarre this would be. So Alexander's man, they're looking, they want to pass along this river, but there's a bunch of these silly Yogis in the way and they're meditating.

So one of Alexander's men they rush ahead, and they try to He tells the yogi's to leave, get out of the way, and this Yogi he says, no, we have as much of a right to this space as anyone. So Alexander sees this going on and he approaches the Yogi. He's sitting cross legged, and he says, you guys, gotta get all the way and the Yogi says no. And Alexander's man, he says, don't you know who this man is? This is Alexander the Great. This man has conquered the world.

What have you done? And the Yogi and I imagine in this story, I imagine he doesn't. I imagine he's like sitting cross legged and he's staring ahead, or maybe his eyes are closed and he's looking at it and he doesn't even open his eyes. He doesn't move his head, doesn't That's all imagine it. So the guy says he's conquered the world. What have you done? And the Yogi says,

I've conquered the need to conquer the world. And Alexander the Great cracked up loved that answer, saluted the yogi, and they found another way around him, and he let them all be I conquered the need to conquer the world. One of the men that was with Alexander one of his right hand man, his name was Teleman. And later on they were sitting by the banks of one of these rivers in India, and Teleman was so impressed with

these Yogis. Tell Himan was a mercenary, lived his life as a warrior, and he thought it was time to transition out of that life phase and he wanted to become a sage. So tell Himan goes to Alexander and says, life is a battle, isn't it? And how better to train for it than to be a soldier? For have you not noticed of these sages, my friend, that they're the consummate soldier he's talking about. The yogis inured to pain,

so pain doesn't bother him. Oblivious to hardship, Each takes up his post at dawn and does not relinquish it for thirst, hunger, heat, cold, fatigue. He's cheerful in all weathers self motivated, self governed, self commended. And Alexanders says, are you saying tell him On that your training as a soldier prepares you for the vocation of a sage. And tell him On says, no, no, no, no, these men are beyond me. I would have to apprentice myself to them for many lifetimes. These like I could never

be as wise as these men are. That's how much he admired them. So that's just a cool story. But here's the relevancy to it, perhaps for you. On my local show a while back, we did a segment on the six stages six life stages of a man. I stole it from John Eldritch and the six life stages quickly our boyhood, cowboy, warrior, lover, king, and sage, and each of these phases we don't properly define, we don't

properly understand, we don't properly raise our kids. Actually, I'm gonna put this on the website if you're interested in knowing more, just for the sake of time. I don't have time to do it here life Stages. I'll put it on micslated out locals dot com and you can

listen to a very brief description. Is a great interview you did about these six different life stages and how we don't understand them and therefore we don't do them, and they need to be intentional, and there needs to be a transition between each of them, like a deliberate right of passage between each of these phases. And one of the great failures of our culture today is our

lack of respect for our elders, for the sages. And you compare that to another extreme like Japanese culture, the leader, the elders are are revered all right, and the Confucian ethic it's called filial piety, filial piety, respect for elders. In America, we have a youth culture. Youth culture, right, That's why all of our music is terrible, because it's all focused around appealing to kids. This is why the great global warming leader in America is Greta Thunberg. Okay,

she's a kid. I saw an article about her the other day. She's like, she's like eighteen now, but the picture was still of her when she was twelve. Right, we live in a youth centric culture. Kids run the show, kids run the house. It's just very It's based on this very romantic and i'd say incorrect idea that youth are unspoiled, they're born perfect, and they get ruined the

older they become. Right, that's the romantic idea, that's the Russouian idea, that you're born perfect and pure and civilization ruins you. So we need to listen to the pure, innocent children. And I think folly is bound up in the heart of a child. And kids are idiots, and they need to be taught and raised and trained on how to become adults. Very different worldview, and our culture today is mostly the youth centric one. Then we also have a culture where your worth as a human is

determined based off your productiveness in the marketplace. And younger people can work harder than older people. So these older people, we just toss them aside. Who needs them anymore. We don't have a culture in America the values old wisdom. We don't have a culture that values ancient wisdom like like old books, and we don't like we tear down statues, right, And we also don't have a culture that values old people. We look at old people's backwards, super racist. They're not

with the times. So because of that, we have a tough time in our culture with people transitioning from the stage of king to sage. So king is you're in charge of things. You're in charge of a business, you have employees, you have people under you, you are raising your family, you have a wife, kids, you volunteer at different things, you lead organizations. Right, people look to you. You're the king, You're in charge. You bring order and stability.

It's extremely important. And then when you're getting older, people don't want to let go of that because they think that's the end of their life and they're going to die. And what we need in our culture is to really celebrate the next stage of life, which is the sage. Sage means wise man, and you Greece they had seven sages. We need more sages in America. They're not in power, but they're mentors to the kings who are in positions of authority. Because we have so many kings out there

who are flying blind. They're living without the wisdom of people who have already made all those mistakes before. So we need to change our culture, we need kings that want sage advice, and we need sages who are willing to give kingly advice. I don't know how to change that in our culture other than to encourage you. I mean, maybe it's in our churches, but I think it's just

one on one. Like I just want to encourage you to reach out to a sage or if you are in that sage phase, to really embrace that and reach out to a king. And maybe it should be done in our churches, right, Really connect older people with younger people in business too, like connect younger the current leaders with the leaders who were and get some advice. And think of Telamon, who was a credible warrior who traveled the world and conquered the world with Alexander. The great.

People should be admired him him, the sages should be admiring him, but he wanted to be one of them. So if you're in that warrior king's stage of life, that's awesome, let's crush it. But find a sage. And if you're in the sage stage of life, find that be a mentor find the king, find the warrior, because for either way that can be one of the most fulfilling relationships you could possibly make, and I think our culture is desperately in need of more of it, because

right now we're all just flying blind. Mike Slader dot locals dot com. I'll put that John Eldridge six Stages of Manhood up there up on the website, Mike Slader dot locals dot com, and you can listen to. It's a quick list and then it's wonderful. Mike Slayer dot locals dot com. Filling in for Buck Sextons by the word, it's going on Team Buck. Mike Slader and San Diego filing in for Buck Sexton for one last day, well

five more minutes and Buck will be back tomorrow. This is a while back, but there was an article in the La Times, what can you do about the Trump bites next door? Very short of the story is she's in Tahoe and it's snowed and her neighbor shoveled her walkway, shoveled her driveway and did a great job. But they're Trump supporters, and she turns it into a race thing about, oh, this is the thing that white people do to each other.

You know, white people help out white people, but you know, Hezbollah, the terrorist group in the Middle East. They also giveaway free things to their supporters, and so did the Nazis. She literally says that. She says, my neighbor supported a man who showed near murderous contempt for the majority of Americans. I can't give my neighbors absolution. It's not mine to give free driveway work. As nice as it is, is just not the same currency as justice and truth. And

they're not looking for absolution anyway. I mean, this is a mate, Like she just goes on and just eviscerates this guy, and this is what the guy gets for shoveling her driveway. This is someone who is addicted to hate. Hate is a powerful drug. Read a study they followed eighty nine former white supremacists. Their entire lives were just seeped in hatred and that's what they were addicted to. And this is true for people of all races. It's not a white thing. It's a human experience, and you

don't just snap out of hate into love. It's a drug and people are addicted to it. People are people are addicted to it personally, and business models depend on it. That's the worst part about it. Business models depend on it. Bureaucracies depend on it. We talked the other day about Ohio State twelve million dollars a year and their diversity inclusion equity departments, the top paid guys two hundred seventy five thousand dollars a year. There's a bunch of people.

There's no way any of those people making six figures are going to be like, oh, we're done. Race relations are solved here at Ohio State. Fantastic. It'll just go on forever. The bureaucracy depends on it. Business models depend on it. People's addictions depend on it. It's really hard to get of hate out of your lives and hate out of your society. We were doing a pretty good job of it, but then people really started to monetize

it like never before. And I know we already quoted George Peterson in this hour, but I'll do it again. He has a great riff on fixing yourself. He said, blaming others for your problems as a complete waste of time. When you do that, you don't learn anything. You can't grow, you can't mature, thus you can't make your life better. In my three decades as a clinical psychologist, I've learned that there's two fundamental attitudes towards life and its sorrows.

Those with the first attitude to blame the world, those with the second to ask what they could do differently. I read a study recently and it was a study of it was either CEOs or millionaires, but you know, maybe I think it was millionaires. And they did a psychological analysis of them and they said the starkest difference

between millionaires and not millionaires is when they fail. When a millionaire failed, they blamed themselves and they saw it as an opportunity to get better and learn, and they did better. I suppose other people who blame the world blame others and therefore don't learn and don't get better. It's gonna be very hard to break this world's addiction to hate, right. There's such a grift out there, right, there's people just raking in the money with these diversity

seminars in these books. There was a while and it's probably still true now, but the number one books are all these these anti racist books. It's working, and politically it's working. Still people still haven't caught on to what this is. The activists are infiltrating, have infiltrated our churches already. So there is an ideological battle. There's a march through

the institutions that is almost complete. Maybe business was the last domino to fall, but you see how businesses have gone completely awoke, and it's all based on hate and division. And the people who come in and preach unity, you're called racist. You preach unity, you say, you say, oh, we should judge people by their character. Oh, you're denying the lived experience of people of color. You're the racist

for saying we need to judge. Oh, you believe in meritocracy. Oh, that's a system of structural racism that is defined what merit is. And it's a system that keeps people of call or app blah blah blah. But you can't fix systems. You can only fix yourself. And the only way to fix yourself is to stop blaming others. He says this the Jordan. He says, the proper way to fix the world is not to fix the world. There's no reason to assume that you're even up to such a task.

But you can't fix yourself. You'll do no one any harm by doing so, And in that way, at least you'll make the world a better place. Mike's Later dot locals dot com. A bunch of stuff I got to put up on the website right now for you, Mike's Later dot locals dot com. You can join us there and the great Buck Sexton. Finally, we'll be back tomorrow. Mikes Later. It's by the word