The Left's Attack On Meaningful Work

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going on Team Buck. Mike Slater here in San Diego, filling in for the great Buck Sexton. Thanks for being well. We have TV shows together, Buck and I in the same network on the first and you can follow me on Mike Slater dot locals dot com. We put everything we do on my local show up there, and we'll do everything we do here as well, Mike's letter out locals dot com. So Biden's press conference yesterday, it went just about how you expect it to go. This is

not normal what you're about to hear. It's not normal, and it's not good. Clip one. So the best way to get something done if you if it holds near and dear to you that you like to be able to anyway, We're ready to get a lot done. And if we have to, if there's complete lockdown and chaos is a consequence of the filibuster, then we'll have to go beyond what I'm talking about. Okay, um, hang on, uh sorry, oh saying man this Kim So just saying no, you are not allowed to ask any questions about the

president's mental health. You're not allowed to ask any question How dare you ask any questions about the president's cognitive ability? Dimension? So, here's how this is gonna work. Right now, it's only fringe far right activists who are asking these questions, and then soon it'll be more mainstream conservatives. We're gonna be asking these questions, and then oh but as that's happening, by the way, the left and the media will rip these people to shreds. How dare you say anything about

the president's mental health? How dare you question his health? You're emboldening the nation's enemies by suggesting he's not well and unfit. How dare you that's so unpatriotic. You're gonna hear the whole thing. And then more moderate conservatives are going to start asking these questions, and then far left activists are gonna outflank the right, come around on the other flank to attack the President and his mental health.

And the media is going to do the best they can to hold this off for as long as they can, and then one day something will happen and it will be absolutely undeniable, and the Democrats who are really running the show will throw old Joe out to pastures so fast his key card to the Oval office. It just won't work one day. Have you ever been fired, or you know somebody's been fired and no one told them, and you got your key card to get back in the building, and then it just doesn't work. That's gonna

be Joe in the Oval office. No one's gonna no one's even gonna tell him. And one days, maybe maybe he'll sneak in. One day in Kama will be sitting behind the desk. I don't know, but Como is gonna be president and Joe is gonna be thrown out to pasture and thrown down the memory hole like it never

even happened. So that's how it's gonna go. I don't know the timing, but it's gonna be far right conspiracy theory, far right hit job and just nothing, nothing, nothing, and then boom gone overnight, and Kama will fit right in.

Here's Chris Wallace. Yeah, I U and I have to say I was also and by the fact that it seemed gone every foreign policy question, not the others, but on foreign policy, he went to his briefing book like Jensaki does sometimes in the briefings, and was reading obviously White House guidance, white House talking points covering Ronald Reagan for six years. I never saw that. Watching a lot of news conferences over the years, I've never seen that

a president and a news conference reading talking points. He did that on it seemed every foreign policy. So here's an example of that strike striking fear in the hearts of our enemies, and you can't tell them the radio. But he never looks up from his paper, not one time does he look up from his paper? Here? Here it is overnight. We learned that North Korea tested two ballistic missiles. What if any actions will you take and

what is your red line on North Korea? Let me say that number one UN Resolution seventeen eighteen was violated by those particular missiles that were tested. We're consoling with our allies and partners, and there will be responses if they choose to escalate. Um, we will respond accordingly. But I'm also prepared um for some form of diplomacy. Um, but it has to be conditioned upon the end result of denuclearization. So um, that's what we're doing right now,

consoling with our allies. Like what is that? Like? Can you believe that that's that's the That's the commander in chief right that Ronnie Jackson, who is a Republican. He's a congressman. He's a congressman running a guy. I think he's a congressman from Texas. He was a Navy rear admiral and he was the White House physician from twenty thirteen throughout Obama's term until twenty eighteen hundred. Trumpsho was the the White House physician, and he said after the

press conference that this press brief was embarrassing. Could you imagine what the press would have done if Donald Trump had told something like this shameful and embarrassing. And it's hard to talk about here because if you do, you immediately will be called out as being partisan and you're so mean and how dare you? And that's fine, I don't care. It's just a matter of time, Just a matter of time. He's seventy eight, you think he's gonna lastly he's eighty two. Maybe maybe he won't. But it

really just depends. It's all about the media. Depends about the media. How much can his people hide him, how much can his people hide him? And how much and how long will the media cover for him? That's the question. Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson. This was nineteen twenty, So he just spent nineteen nineteen negotiating the Treaty of Versailles the end of World War One, spent six months doing that. Then he was on this like barn burning tour to

try to get support for the League of Nations. So he traveled by train, and he spoke train station at train station and trains station all across the country. This was the nineteen twenty and in between one of his speeches, he got the splitting headache and his face started to twitch, and his doctor, his chiefest staff, and everyone on board. You know, it was obvious that he had a stroke. So they called the whole rest of the thing off. They went right back to DC as quickly as they could,

and his doctor and chief of staff. They kept him in bed, away from everybody. He was paralyzed on his left side, he couldn't see out of one of his eyes. He was still president, and they kept him there for a year. No one saw him except for his wife, doctor in chief of staff. That's it. They pulled this off for a year. Now this is nineteen twenty. Can that same thing be pulled off in twenty twenty one, I don't know. But the media covered for Woodrow Wilson,

just like the media is covering today. There was one report in particular's name is Lewis Cibold, sci Bold Lewis Cibold, and he was the reporter of the New York World, and he wrote this article. The headline is correspondent in nineteen twenties voice correspondent in three hour visit finds President's mental vigor unimpaired by the same thing. With the Washington Post people today, they're like, oh, what a press conference. Wow, that was amazing. He was quick and witty and on

it and high energy. Like what are you talking about? Executive gains twenty pounds in two months, and he does more work now than before confinement. That was the article during the three hours. This is what Wilson. During the three hours I spent with the president, I saw him transact the important functions of his office with his old time decisiveness method and keenness of intellectual appraisement the correspondent,

the reporter. I heard him dictate his decisions on matters of great governmental importance with a facility of expression and directness of meaning that indicated no impairment of the efficient mental machine that is known only the hardest kind of work for forty years. And this is where it goes over the top. It was the same angular face, quite as full in cheek and not the least sunken. At the temples. There was the same face registered in a

mental picture eight months before. They were unmistakably the Wilson eyes, keen, searching and snappily intelligent. The whole articles right there, All of it was made up. Every single word of it was made up. They never met Woodrow Wilson. Could not walk again, his entire left side was paralyzed. His attention span was about sixty seconds. He was not having Hours of conversation did not happen. He couldn't sign anything properly, he couldn't move properly. He coudn't do anything. This interview

was a total fake. Never happened. Wilson's Woodrow Wilson's chief of staff made up all the answers. And here's the kicker. Lewis Cybold, the writer of that article, won a Pulitzer Prize for it. This wasn't just one some hack article. And this isn't just a guy who won the Pulitzer Prise. He won a Pulitzerprise for that totally made up story, protecting Woodrow Wilson for a year as he was paralyzed

and in bed. So it's been done before. Every reporter today covering Biden will try to pull a Lewis Cybold, And as they're doing it, they're gonna know it's wrong, but they're gonna keep doing it. And what's going to motivate them. Is they think they're gonna win a Pulitzer because of it? Who knows? These days, they're probably right. Mike Slater filling in for Buck Sexton. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Spread the word, Hey, what's up, Team Buck?

Mike Slater, San Diego, filling in for Buck Sexton, Mike Slater dot locals dot com. That's my website, Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Everything's up there. So Biden in the press conference yesterday, he said, we're sending back the vast majority of families that are coming. Vast majority. What does vast majority mean to you? It's not just majorities. Majority means fifty percent, So vast majority, that to me means seventy eight percent or more. That's my end. That's

my number for eighty percent. Is that vast majority? Maybe maybe I'll give you a sixty five Someone says sixty five percent or more. Maybe that's fine. Thirteen percent and Biden world, that is vast majority thirteen percent. Axios came back and reported that here is the as it end on the detention centers. I realize it's much more heart wrenching than it is to deal with a five and

six to seven year old. But you went down there and you saw the vast majority of these children seventy percent or sixteen years old, seventeen years old, mostly males. Don don't making good better and different. But the idea that we have tens of thousands of kids in these god off of facilities that are really little babies crime all night, there's some that's true. Oh jeesus, that is obviously off script. The last segment we talked about him reading off papers that was not read off of paper.

I'm sure as people were not happy about him admitting that they're god awful facilities. Barack Obama and Joe Biden built the original cages. Trump got rid of the cages, He got rid of the need for cages, and Biden brought them back. Biden said in the presser that nothing has changed regarding border policy and that a surge happens every single solitary year. Those are hits where its nothing is changed regarding border policy. This is just your normal

every year spring surge. Not true on both counts. First of all, there were no spring surges under Trump, so it doesn't happen every single year. But more importantly, here. There were two policies that Biden changed, two massive policies. And this is what I'm saying here is not a partisan hit. These are absolute facts. Two policies. First, safe

third country is what it's technically called. So if you're seeking asylum from Honduras or Brazil or wherever you seek it, in the first safe country that you get to, you don't get to go country shopping. If you're in Brazil and you want to leave Brazil, you don't just get to pick whatever country you want in the world to go to and say, oh, America, and then you're entitled

to come America. That's not how that works. Trump enacted the safe third country policy, So if you're leaving a country, you're safe in the very first one you get to. That's where you stay, and then you can apply to come to America afterwards. But not on asylum. Trump and acted that he negotiated that with the countries to our south. How did he negotiate it? Money aid leverage? Years ago, I remember talking on the radio about foreign aid and I was asking why. I was genuinely asking why do

we give so much money to foreign countries? Why do we have so much money to countries we hate. And the best argument I heard and I just filed away because I never really came up again until recently. The best argument I heard was that this aid is leverage that we have over other countries. Right, you do what we want or else we're going to take away the aid. It happens all the time. This is what Joe Biden did with Ukraine to help his son Hunter, remember this clip.

And I had gotten a commitment from Porschenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor, and they didn't. So they said they were walking out to prescount said, Nah, said, I'm not going to go or we're not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority, you're not the president. The president said, I said, call him. I said, I'm

telling you're not getting the billion dollars. I said, you're not getting the billion, and I'm gonna be leaving here. And I think it was what six hours. I look at I said, I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutors not fired, you're not getting the money. Well, son of a right, so do what we want or we'll remove the billion dollars in aid. So Biden used it to protect his son in Ukraine. That's leverage. Trump used it to help the American people and stop a surge

of illegal immigrants for three plus years. And it should be noted as well, if you look at the last forty years, Donald Trump is number one, number three, and number ten in granting asylum requests, number three, number one, number three, and number ten in granting legal asylum requests more than any other president. And Trump used leverage on our foreign using our foreign aid in our southern the southern countries to have this third Safe Country agreement, and

Biden got rid of it. Okay, so it's a policy change. Second, Trump had a policy that if you apply to come into America, you gotta wait in Mexico, and Biden got rid of that as well. So those are two pretty big policy changes, and worse than maybe all that words spread that if you send your kids across alone, then they'll be allowed to stay. That's why we have over fifteen thousand unaccompanied kids right now. This is crazy. So Trump got criticized for family separation. Right, mom and a kid,

they come across and we separate them. Now, we did that to make sure that family members these people were actually related and they weren't just kidnapped kids. Kidnapped kids used as props to get special treatment for the smugglers. Right, this is the floor As agreement. You heard of, the Flores' Agreement. Let me give it the very short of it. Nineteen eighty five, there was a fifteen year old undocumented immigrant girl from El Salvador, Jenny Flores, and she came over

to America illegally. She was put in in a camp or whatever they call m a center, and her mom later sued, saying that she was kept in the same area as adult men and that wasn't safe. So this case went all the way up to the Supreme Court, and a decade later, our government came up with what's called the Flores Agreement, and among other things, it says children have to be separated from adults because it's not safe to put them together when they're not necessarily related.

So we separated kids for the safety of the kids. So America got criticized when we kept adults and kids together. We get criticized when they get separated, but we did it for their own safety. Now, were to spread that if you send your kids across a loan, they have a better likelihood of staying so. Now the family separation is happening on the other side of the border. Mothers making the heart wrenching decision to send their twelve year old daughter across a loan they made. We see him

again and we're okay with this. That's the compassionate thing to allow this, to enable this to embolden. The cartels didn't make this, to allow this to happen, and the

people who support this are compassionate somehow. Drug cartels kidnapping kids, sending them across the border, often which we'll talk about in the next hour, ending up in sex slavery, either on this side or our side or this side of the border, raped along the way, some dying on the journey, and the people who enable this, they get the credit for being compassionate. Mike Slater dot locals dot com Filling it for Buck Sexton's read the word. It's going on

Team Buck. Mike Slater out of San Diego, filling it for the great Buck Sexton. Thanks for being here. Mike Slayter dot locals dot com is where we hang out and we put everything TV show, radio show, This show Everything, Mike Slater dot locals dot com. So last week on my local show, we talked about Evanston, Illinois, thirty minutes north of Chicago reparations. They enacted reparations for black families. Every black family gets twenty five thousand dollars for home purchase,

home improvements, anything related to the home. Twenty five thousand dollars. And immediately the activists said, oh, that's wonderful. We are content and grateful. Now immediately they said, no, that's not enough. So we went from zero dollars in reparations because it's an insanely absurd idea. We went from zero dollars to twenty five thousand dollars. And though immediately it's not enough, not enough, It'll never be enough. No. That So that

was outside Chicago. Oakland did not want to be outdone. They have a new guaranteed income program that's called a couple different things, um universal basic income, guaranteed minimum incomes, different names for it across our country and in Europe, same thing though, but in Oakland, this guaranteed income is for all families of color. No white people, yeah white, you're white, and nah, no you don't get any got to be of color whatever. That even means five hundred

bucks a month, no strings attached. So they did this in Stockton a couple of years ago, one of the nation's first pilot programs up it, and there was a study done of it, totally non biased study apps, no oh bias whatsoever. And they concluded, again no bias. Residents who received regular payments experienced less income volatility, secured more full time employment, we're better parents and partners, and even saw improvements in their health and overall well being. Well, gosh, golly,

one's you know this is great? Then there's no problems at all, nothing bad happened at all. It was great. You give free you give money. You give people free money, and they're happier, and not only happier, but they're better parents and somehow get more employment for some magical reason that makes no sense at all. How about that one you give people, give people five bucks a month and they get more employment. Ah, but it's great, Let's go ahead.

That's all the study I need to see. So in Oakland, you are eligible for free money if you have a child under eighteen, make less than fifty nine thousand dollars and then you get you another sixth grand a year. And the key with this program is you have to be black. Why because white people in Oakland on average make three times as much as black households. So that's inequity, and every inequity is racist and needs to be even down. Now,

what if you're a white family who makes twenty thousand dollars. Nope, that's you still have white privilege. If your white family makes twenty thousand dollars year in Oakland, you are not eligible for this program because you're not black. And this is a wonderful way to run a society. Sorry, my little sarcastic this morning sarcasm doesn't really come across the radio that well. I apologize. I'll stop with the sarcasm. This is a terrible way to run a society. But

I love this. It's a great line from CBS. CBS totally straight here with this line. Guaranteed income has been a goal of the Black Panther platform since it's founding. Oh goody, Now, I'm convinced if the Black Panthers have been for it, that's good since it's founding. Oh good, The Black Panthers in the sixties were for it. Therefore, or it's a great idea. Good night. So the left is going to keep pushing for this statewide in California surely,

and then nationwide absolutely as well. It's just a matter of time. This is what they do. It's what they do. They slowly inched in, slowly inched in, and then people get used to it and very quickly. You can't imagine life without it, right, that's it, right right now, Like the idea of everyone gets free money, like that's insane, but oh, it's just it's just five hundred dollars. It's just some people five hundred dollars. That's oh, well, thousand dollars,

thousand dollars, more people. We need more people to everyone gets two thousand dollars. And then years ago on and now if anyone were to propose getting rid of it or making any amends to it, like so security, for instance, Oh, you can't touch it, can't, right, I can't live life without it. My favorite example of that is the Headstart program. Head Start program. Headstart started in nineteen sixty five. It was a two week long catch up summer school program

to get kids ready for elementary school. Two weeks. A few kids of a certain age getting ready for school. Now it's a ten billion dollar program, and it's all the way down to infants. And if you dare suggest we make any amendments to it whatsoever, then you hate children. That's how it works always, and that's how it's going to work with universal guaranteed income as well. There's an assembly men in Californium who has a bill. It's a

thousand dollars a month for all low income families. He was gracious enough to include white people on this one, at least for now. So that's going to cost a cool one hundred twenty nine billion dollars a year, which just a couple of years ago would have been double the state budget of California one hundred twenty nine billion. Right now, it's only half the budget, only half, and it's gonna be paid for by a new one percent tax on the rich. Everybody over two million dollars an income.

That's it. Piece of cake. That's all it takes. And he says, the guy who wrote this bill, he says it's probably not going to pass this year. And here's the king, but he said his goal is to get people comfortable with the idea. Quote the initial shock seems to wear off the more people are educated and realize the benefits of having more control over their lives. That's fantastic. If you think free money from the government gives you more control over your life, you're absolutely out of your mind.

You know, you don't think that's going to come with strings attached. They say, no strings attached. Okay, there are a million economic reasons to be against this, and we'll have plenty of time for that. Let me make the moral argument. Can we make the moral argument against him? Because this is the one that's most overlooked, and I think it's the most foundational. The most important work is good.

Thomas Soul would argue that we've removed from the family the dad with the obvious implications of that, and now we've removed the job. Work is good. Work is dare I say, essential to finding proper meaning in life? And it's not the work itself necessarily. I'm not saying you should find meaning in in the work you do. It's meaning in the process of work and the reasons why you do the work. That's the most important thing. Why are you doing the work? Who are you providing for?

That's what matters. Arthur C. Brooks. He wrote a great book I definitely recommend. It's called The Conservative Heart. And he says there's four it's a couple of years maybe eight years old, telling you, and he said, there's four institutions of meaning. That's what he calls him. Institutions of meaning. He says, his faith, family, community, and meaningful work. Faith, family, community, meaningful work. These are the things that we as individuals need to lean into, and we as a society need

to encourage faith, family, community and meaningful work. When you take away someone's need to work, when you take away their need to work, they can spiral deeper into depression and uselessness and hopelessness, and they lose dignity and they know it. There's a homeless charity in town here called Solutions for Change in San Diego, and part of their deal is you're in this program, you wake up early, and you get to work. They know it's essential to

building someone's dignity back. This is the clip I want to play. This is Jordan Peterson of all Places, the dontor Oz Show, and they're talking about redistribution of wealth and George Peterson gets into it a bit, and so I was very attracted to that end of the political spectrum. But as I came to investigate some of the problems I've been discussing more deeply, I started to understand that mere economic rectification was insufficient, that that wasn't the level

of analysis that was appropriate for my inquiry. Anyways, translated, redistribution of income doesn't work. Well, think about it this way, the guaranteed basic income idea. It's like, well, that's predicated on the idea that man lives by bread alone. Well, that isn't how it works. And I've certainly seen that in my clinical practice. I've had clients, especially addicts, if you gave them money, they would die. And the reason for that. Like one guy that I remember in particular,

I liked him quite a bit. It had a bad cocaine problem, and as long as he was flat broke, he wasn't dead. But as soon as he was on disability, as soon as his disability check came in, he was faced down in a ditch three days later. So while and you think, well, maybe that's a consequence of his overwhelming poverty, etc. You could come up with some social reason for that path that he took, But it wasn't by any stretch of the imagination. That's simple. It's like,

people need purpose more than money. Even people need purpose more than money. Even people need purpose more than money. Even does man live by bread alone. We have a major problem in our country of nihilism, lack of meaning, lack of purpose, and we think throwing money at the problem, we'll make people happy and fix it. The problem is much worse than that, and throwing money at it will only make it worse. I got one more thing to say about this. I gotta take a break. Mike Slater

dot locals dot com. Mike Slater filming it for Buck Sexton. Spread the word eighteen buck Mike Slater and San Diego filming it for Buck Sexton today. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Um, we're talking about guarantee minimum income. Oakland is the first big city to do this. They just started. It's only for families of color as well, but it's

gonna grow and it's gonna expand it. We got to be prepared with the argument against this because it's it's the Democrats are definitely pushing this, and there's a million economic arguments to make against it, and they're all rock solid. But I want to make the moral argument, and that is that meaningful work is important, and it's not necessarily the work itself, although yes, it's who you're working for. Why are you working, Who are you providing for? Who

are you caring for? That's what matters. You take that away from somebody and they can spiraled deeper and darker and denihilism and meaninglessness and purposelessness Joinan Peterson. He says, it isn't the provision of material well being with ease that allows people to live properly. It's purpose and that's a much more difficult problem to solve. You just can't throw money at it. The mere offering of material sustenance to people is not going to solve that problem, he says.

Dostoyevski knew this one hundred fifty years ago. He said, if you gave people everything they wanted, everything they wanted, so all they had to do is eat cakes and busy themselves with the continuation of the species. So eat have sex. The first thing they do is smash it all to hell so that something interesting could happen. Men are made for more than then, more than just money. Peter Cove, He says, work does so much more than

provide for our basic needs. Work draws us into the public square and instills in us a sense of personal responsibility. These are the deeper things that are so important to want someone's life and to raising children. It allows people to feel the pride and self respect that come with supporting their spouses and their children. Again, so it's not the work, although yes, the quality of work, yes, but it's who you're doing it for, who you're providing for,

who you're supporting in it. Dostoyevsky, he made the point that we're not keys of a piano. We're not just piano keys. Humans are not cogs in some grand economic machine, which is how the left looks at humans. That's how the left looks at people. That's how communists looked at people, that we were just tools of the state. We're here for the state. Everything's purpose becomes not to glorify God, but to glorify the state. That's how that's how the

digression goes. So first, the highest is to glorify God. So we've gotten rid of God. So now what do we do? What we glify ourselves. That's what we've been doing with that. The narcissistic culture that we've been living in for how many decades? Now we glorify ourselves. The next degradation of that is you glorify the state. There is no humanity, there is no God, there is no humanity, there is no individual, there is no family. It's all about the government. This is why Martin Luther King Junior

was against communism. People think that Martin Luther King Junior was a supporter of communism. No, No, he expressly denounced it. I gotta quote he says, I opposed communisms, political totalitarianism, and communism. The individual ends up in subjugation to the state. And if man so called rights and liberties stand in the way of that end, weal they're swimp simply swept aside. A man's liberties of expression, his freedom to vote, his freedom to listen to what news he likes, or to

choose his books, are all restricted. Man becomes hardly more in communism than at depersonalized cog in the turning wheel of the state. Okay, Marloco Jor the Reverend explicitly denounced communism, and he gave it a shot. He read das Capital, he read the Communist manifesto. He read people's writings about those works and he rejected it all. He said, communism,

avowedly secularistic and materialistic, has no place for God. Communism looks at man as a one dimensional, one dimensional economic creature, and that's it. And that's what the left is today. Now they couch it better. Oh goodness, they couch it better. Right, the communists, they were flat out about it, right, like you don't matter, You're just a wheel in the system, right, or a cognist system today they know they do. That doesn't sell, right, So people today who pitch this these

same communist ideas, they pitch them. Oh but oh, it's about dignity, and it's about helping people, and it's about flourishing in life, and it's about achieving your dreams. Oh, we can pay this person and then they can go achieve their dreams. They don't have to work. They can go be an artist and reach their full potential. Nah, it's the same old stuff, just better marketing. They couch it. Of course is helping. We're helping our fellow man. They're

destroying souls in the process. I want to come back with a story of illegal immigration that no one wants to talk about no one wants to listen to. I'm taking a risk here because I'm this great honor to all in for Buck Sexton, and I'm gonna do something

that no one wants to hear. It was really hard to hear, and it's quite a downer on a Friday, I admit, but I don't hear anyone talking about him, and it's essential to understand and get a firm grasp of and I think once we do, then the people who are at least taking credit for being the compassionate ones, the open border people, they get credit for being compassionate, maybe they'll start to see the light that they're not. Mike Slater dot locals dot com filling in for Buck Sexton.

It's broad the word eighteen buck, Mike Slater and San Diego filling it for the great Buck Sexton. Bucket. I've been friends for a long time. We both have TV shows on the first and it's an honor to be filling in for for Buck today. Mike Slater dot locals dot com is my website. We put everything up there, Mike Slater dot locals dot com. So I want to talk about something here that no one wants to hear, and I'm hesitant to do it, to be honest, because I have this great honor of filling it for back

and I'm just gonna ruin it. I guess everyone's gonna change the station because no one wants to hear this. But I think it's really important. So if if you or someone can pick this up and run with it, then then I think it's worth it. So we talked about the border earlier in the first half hour of the show, so I want to talk about it, and you know, Biden talking about how, oh, there's been no border change policy at all, like what there's been two

massive policy changes. Actually we went a great detail about that in the Floor's agreement from nineteen eighty five and all that earlier. But I want to talk about an aspect of the border. And I know, I know we should have we should have much lighter fare on a Friday. But this is a very dark side of the border story that no one wants to talk about. We skirt around it. It's funny that there's some people don't want to come anywhere near the truth when it comes to

the border. They just want to live in their fair tale land about what goes on there, and some people they say they want the truth, but they still don't want to hear the really difficult and dark things because who wants to be bummed out? But in this segment, and I want to keep it just a one segment, it's for those who want the depth of truth that I think we need to really understand to get the fullness of the problem that we're dealing with at the border.

People who are for open borders, they choose to make up this story in their head about the downtrodden immigrant who comes to America wants to make a life better for themselves and works hard and succeeds, succeeds, hooray. And that's the dreamers. That's their story. Everyone's a dreamer coming over here. And the fewer details that they make up in their head, they make up a movie in their

head about what this is like. In the fewer details they provide in their head, the better they'll think as little as they need to think in order to feel good and pat themselves on the back for being such a good person. But they don't want to consider are the young girls and women who are kidnapped into the sex trade. There's a documentary from Fusion. It's on YouTube,

it's free. It's called Pimp City. It's about a city outside of Mexico City that their main industry is kidnapping girls and young women and sending them to Queens Queens, New York, where they're prostituted out up to sixty times a day. Houston is a major sex trafficking hub. It's right in the middle of the whole thing, right to the middle of la in Miami, and also in the middle of the United States in Latin America, and obviously

it's a major port city, the whole thing. And women who are looking to come to America, they're told, oh, well, get your cross, will get you a visa, no problem. But they don't have any money, right Guatemala. Guatemalans live on the world under the world poverty rate, which is a dollar ninety a day. Okay, they don't have any money. And then people say, oh, that's no problem, that's what I've come with us. And you just work a little to pay it off. Work in a restaurant. You'll be

a wait waitress in a restaurant. That's all no big deal. So they do, and they come across and their job description changes, and they're moved to a different city every two weeks, and their slaves. The Houston DA says about seventy percent of trafficking victims end up in the sex trade. You don't see those, don't talk about those, don't hear about those. So they're going rate to get to America

through these traffickers. It's thirty thousand dollars, but you live in Thailand or some Eastern European poor country or Latin America, you've got thirty grand. So it's an installment plan, that's all. Because you think. Also, you're like, all right, I don't, I don't thirty thousand dollars, right, make a dollar ninety a day. I'm thirty thousand dollars. But in America everyone's rich. See, you'll make it in no time. Thirty thousand bucks will

make that in no time, no problem. So girls say yes. And then you find out that if you don't pay your debt, your family will pay it, or really your family will pay for it with their lives. So you come across the border, You do the harrowing journey to get here, get raped along the way, of course, and he die along the way. But you get here and your new boss buys you lunch, and you're amazed. You're like, this is unbelievable. This the portions, look at all this food,

and no one wants anything from me. Huh. Let me read this is from a Texas Monthly magazine. While you're in this state, dizzy, disoriented, your boss takes you to a place that isn't a restaurant or a factory and tells you to unpack your few belongings in a dingy back room. He tells you that this is where you're gonna work to pay off your debt. You will be a prostitute, he explains. And by the way, you'll be charged for room and board while you're paying off that

thirty grand. When you protest, he beats you, starves you, keeps you awake for days on end. Then, just to make himself clear, he holds up a picture of your son, or your parents or your sister and tears it in half. That's all I can handle of that. If you want to read more again Texas Monthly, and it's an article

called the Lost Girls, let me put it on the website. Actually, I'll put it on Mike's later out locals dot com and you can read it yourself, can read the whole thing if you want to know the fullness of the story. This is why we need to shut down the border. If people ask me, why do we need to shut the board, this is the numb one reason we need to stop sex trafficking across the border on that side, because some of these girls never even make it across.

And of course on our side. Months or years ago in San Diego, we talked to a human trafficking expert. There's a ton of human trafficking in San Diego border town and he said every public high school, so we say, he said, every public high school has a student who's a member of a human trafficking gang or a gang

that's in the human trafficking business. And this student their job is to be on the lookout for girls who are lost, girls who their family is going through divorce or whatever it is, right, whatever difficult situation, they're just out of it. And of course these king members are going to look for migrant kids who have no families who are going to be flooding our schools now, fifteen thousand of them, and they're going to work to seduce

them into the sex trade. And those ones who even make it to high school, those are the lucky ones. I mean, they're lucky they made it even that far along the journey. But they're never out of it. Orry, many of these girls never even make it too America. They never make it to a family, they never make it to a high school. But even then they're not out of it. People are shocked to find out the how prevalent this is. And my point of bringing it up here again, I'm sorry to be a Debbie Downer

on Friday. I'm sorry to be a Debbie Downer on Bucks show. But there are people who enable this. They enable this with their open borders. They empower the cartels and the sex traffickers of women and little girls. It's not just me. This is not, you know, right wing. This is so weird. This is something you would think the bleeding heart liberal would be all about, right, You think they'd be jumping up it down and years ago

they were. This is New York Times. They wrote an article you have to Pay with your body, the hidden nightmare of sexual violence on the Border, and they tell a bunch of stories. I'm not going to share them. This is just one a smuggler raped to twenty three year old Honduran woman and her four year old daughter. Right, So when you hear Nanti Pelosi and you hear all the the rest and they're like, oh, come on over and we'll take care of the whole thing, that's what

they're enabling. That's what they're enabling. We hear this when it comes to gun control bills, right, gun control, but if it saves just one life. But you don't hear that same thing on the border. We need to shut down the border to stop enriching and empowering the cartels. We need to order at the border because I don't want women, children to be raped and drugged into sex slavery. We need a coherent, clear message to the cartels that

this is not possible. You will not make it across, and we need a streamlined process for those who want to make it here. Legally, it's better for us, and more importantly, it's better for the people who want to come here. General rule of thumb for Mike Slater. As I think about policies, I'm generally for policies that drug cartels don't like. I'm generally for policies that sex traffickers don't like. If they don't like, it's probably a good thing. An order at the border would be one of those.

Mike sladd out locals dot com. I'll put up both those articles right now. Mike slated out locals dot com. Spread the word eighteen buck, Mike Slater film it for Buck Sexton today. Mike Slater dot locals dot com Changing

gears here. I saw a really nice visual representation of what's going on in our country today and the main debate that's going on in our country, because the debate's not about the Second Amendment, right, Although yes, I saw a great segment on Bucks TV show last night on the latest gun control laws coming out of DC and how they do nothing to address crime and they make a criminal out of you. But I'm talking about the deeper philosophical debate that's going on in our country. So

I want to try to spell this out. I'll try to make this visual on the radio. Here a little theater of the mind. So imagine a pyramid. You would may imagine a pyramid, and there's three levels to the pyramid, bottom, middle, top. At the base of the pyramid is modernism. Modernism is science, reason objective truth. The middle are these classical liberal ideas capitalism, freedom of speech, individualism, equality of opportunity, meritocracy. And then

at the top is politics. So these are cultural norms, laws, institutions, things like them. Cool, the normal progressive and the normal conservative. They argue over the top section your neighbor and you you you got you know, back in the day, we debate about policies and laws and things like that, and progressives would want to change these things, and conservatives generally want to conserve, conserve or preserve these things. Makes sense. That's a you know, a normal debate, and there's that's

this is good, this is a good thing. No problem here whatsoever. Democrats says we need to raise taxes. Conservative says we need to lower taxes. Fine, I miss those old fashioned debates. Right, that's a fine conversation to having a very good, healthy thing in a healthy society. And both of these people, to progressive and the conservative, think that the bottom levels of this pyramid are good and

need to be preserved. Everyone here in this conversation believes that truth exists and that capitalism and freedom of speech and meritocracy are good things. But then there are another group of people. Not you're run of the middle democrats, but Marxists with a Marxist worldview, they come into the picture and they say, oh, you regular progressives, you democrats, you don't go far enough. We don't just need to change policies and laws. A Marxist believes that it's the

liberal ideas of America that are the problem. It's the liberal ideas of America that inevitably lead to oppression. So not only do we need to change the laws and the policies, but we gotta get rid of capitalism. We gotta get rid of individualism, we gotta get rid of meritocracy, we gotta get rid of freedom of speech entirely. That's the middle level of the pyramid. And this is why you see Marxists justify shutting down freedom of speech and

calling for an end of capitalism itself. That's why these people who run these diversity seminars, they you know, they have a list of whites of primacy values, and one of them is merit. Merit is a white supremacy value. Kamala herself saying, it's not about equality of opportunity, it's about equality of outcome. That's what matters. The most we actually got a clip of this was during the campaign. So there's a big difference between equality and equity. Equality suggests, oh,

everyone should get the same amount. The problem with that not everybody's starting up for the same place. So if we're all getting the same amount, but you started out back there and I started out over here, we can get the same am up, but you're still gonna be that far back behind me. It's about giving people the resources and the support they need so that everyone can be on equal footing and then compete on equal footing. Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same

place there, it is. Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place. So meritocracy, it doesn't need equality of opportunity none on it's equality of outcome. Right, So they're in the middle, they're they're debating the middle part of this pyramid. That's very different than arguing over higher taxes or lower taxes. This is trying to overhaul the building blocks of this country. That's the Marxist view.

Of course, they've taken over college campuses, and that's infiltrated now out of college campuses, of course, into really every institution in America. The march through the institutions you name it, Hollywood, music, academia, K through twelve, medical school, law school, everything, AM talk radio we're the only people left. AM Talk Radio is

the only conservative institution left in the country. Everything else is taken over by not only progresses, but by Marxists who want to undermine that, undermine and overhaul that middle section of the pyramid. And then finally the bottom level of the pyramid, the modernism level. You have not progressives, not Marxist, but you have postmodernists. A postmodernist comes in and says, hey, you guys, you're you progressives, You're you're not taking it far enough. It's not just the laws

and institutions and policies that need to change. Goodness, No, and Marxists, you're not going far enough. It's not just capitalism that has to go. It's not just freedom of speech and individuality and individualism and meritocracy, and it's we gotta go way further than that. It's objective truth that has to go. There's no such thing as objective truth.

Reason has to go. And this is where you get people talking about like lived experiences and things like this, like these ideas where truth doesn't even exist, there's no such thing as truth. Who are you to say what's right or wrong? Two plus two could equal five? We spent a ton of time on my local show about postmodern math that called anti racist math. Where are two plus two could equal five? Who are you to say

it doesn't? And these people are becoming more and more prevalent, not necessarily a number, although yes, but in power and influence postmodernists. Take a look at your kids textbook. Take a look at your kids school textbook. Popular Mechanics wrote an article recently why some people think two plus two equals five and why they're right. There's a ton here. I'm gonna put it on the website too. I'll put it on mics later out locals dot com so you

can see it yourself. And it's really important to know who you're talking to. First of all, who you're talking to, but also who you're receiving inputs from in your life, like who's right. So when you watch a movie or watch a TV show, or put your kids in front of the TV, or put your let your kids brows the internet, or send your kids off to certain schools, what inputs are they receiving. Are they receiving inputs from progressives,

from Marxists or from postmodernists? Are these progressives who disagree on policy? Are these Marxists who disagree on the principles America? Are these postmodernists who disagree on reason and objective truth even existing at all? We need to be able to understand that, know that, and then respond accordingly. We'll put it on the website. Mike's later dot locals dot com. Coming up next, one of my favorite Abraham Lincoln stories. You're gonna love this story. I think about it all

the time. We'll share it next. Mike's later dout locals dot com filling it for Buck Sexton. Spread the word. It's going on Team Buck. Mike's later, filling it for Buck again today, thanks for being here. I want to share here one of my favorite stories in this next segment. It just I don't know. I think about everyone's a while, and it it inspires me to read more, to dive deeper into topics, to fight against culture, and to be better than what culture is feeding us and just dragging us down.

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Slash Buck, it's going on Team Buck. Mike Slater here in San Diego, filling in for the great Buck Sexton today. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. That's where we put everything. That's our website. Mic Slater dot locals dot com. All right, I want to share this story. It's one of my favorites. This is from Neo Postman's book. It's called Amusing Ourselves to Death. Amusing Ourselves to Death. Look, I just read

a little bit. He says. The first of seven famous debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas took place on April excuse me, August twenty first, eighteen fifty eight, in Ottawa, Illinois. Aren't we there? So we got the Lincoln Douglas debates eighteen fifty eight. The arrangement provided that Douglas would speak first for one hour, Lincoln would take an hour and a half to reply, and then Douglas a half hour to reply to Rebut it, so, what's

that we got? It was an hour and an hour and a half, half hour, three hours, three hour tour. That's a long time. How many movies do people watch it and they're like, oh, yeah, it was good about three hours so long. Neil Postman says, this debate was considerably shorter than those which these two men were accustomed. In fact, they've tangled several times before, and all of their encounters had been much lengthier and more exhausting. For example,

check this out. Eighteen fifty four, in Peoria, Douglas delivered a three hour address Bach, a three hour speech to which Lincoln, by agreement, was to respond when Lincoln's turn came. So everyone in the audience just listened to Stephen A. Douglas for three hours. Now it's Lincoln's turn. He reminded the audience that it was already five pm, and that he would probably require as much time as Douglas, and that Douglas was still scheduled for a rebuttal to him.

He proposed, therefore, that the audience go home, eat dinner, and return refreshed for four more hours of talk. The audience amiably agreed, went home, a dinner, came back, and matters proceeded. As Lincoln had outlined, what kind of audience was this? Who were these people who could so cheerfully accommodate themselves to seven hours of oratory? The audience's attention

span would obviously have been extraordinary by current standards. Is there any audience of Americans today who could endure seven hours of talk or five or three, especially without pictures of any kind? That amazing? This is a major problem that we're not very smart. Now, before you get offended at that, I'm including myself in that absolutely as well. I'm not very smart. Have you ever take it? So? First, all the citizenship exam, right, like, only twenty percent of

high schoolers can pass the citizenship exam. This is like basic stuff like how many states are there? But have you ever seen these tests from like a middle school classroom? I got like a fifth Crede classroom from nineteen thirty And I don't know any enough the answers. They're ridiculously difficult. The bar is so low today. I have not read nearly any of the classics. I really haven't, and I'm

starting to. I've been starting this last year or so. Actually, when I first heard that Abram this Abram link a store, I shared ready, I was like, I got some work to do, but I just I don't have I haven't read these classics. It certainly didn't read the grown up and I don't have the tools that are necessary to think deeply about important topics. Recently, a friend of mine who I recruited for this effort, we read Hamlet, and even just reading Hamlet, I feel myself, you know, thinking

back on it a lot all the often. But then I get this regret, like, oh what if I what if I spent my childhood learning about the classics? Reading the classics? You know, very few people do. Almost no one these days has a complete tool belt to think about things deeply. Almost no one today he could listen to Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas or anyone talk for seven hours about things. Abraham Lincoln, he was a boy. He didn't have iPads, right, he didn't have the latest technology.

But he just devoured every book he could get his hands on. He would read it multiple times. Every book was gold. He had a much longer attention span than we do, and much fewer choices. Today, we have infinite choices and no attention span. Try that one on. Abraham Lincoln had very few choices and a very long attention span. We have infinite choices and no attention span. Which is better? Which would you choose? We're living in the ladder, and

we are spastic. We're spastic because of it. Just choices non stop. How many times do you catch yourself reading something and you just write a couple of pages and you're like, oh, I don't I just I just blinked out. I didn't read any of that. Are you reading something online and just scrolling? Scroll scrolls? Just scrolling? On the Twitter? You just scrolling. You're not really good at the tweet.

Just scrolls, scroll, scrolls, scrolls, scroll, just infinite choices, no attentions. Man, think about the Lincoln Douglas debate right in fifty four before they weren't even running for anything, by the way, or they mean they were running for They weren't running for presid should say they weren't run for president. In so, think about all these people at these original Lincoln Douglas debates. They had longer attention spans if you were choices. What

else were they gonna do after dinner? There's nothing else going on? So imagine the excitement in town when this was going on. I think this is one reason why we're just in a bad place today. Here's what Neil Postman wrote, and I love this so much. He says, So there's two dystopian books that are often cited, and one of them much more than the other. You've got George Olls nineteen eighty four and Huxley's Brave New World,

two dystopian futures, two very different dystopian futures. And Neil Postman said, what George Orwell feared were those who would ban books, right, so he'd he feared big brother coming in banning books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would

be no one who wanted to read one, right. I think about We've talked a lot on my local show about Ryan Ryan t Alexander, his book about transgenderism and anyway it's from a conservative perspective, if you will, and banned from Amazon, and how many people even really care? Right, So, we're closer to Huxley, where people like ah, whatever, it doesn't matter. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much information

that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. And that's where we are today. We got this new cycle constantly bombarding you with too much So you're just numb to it. George Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared that the truth would be drowned in a serious sea of irrelevance. Or Well feared we would be we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture. Compare us with

that audience in Peoria, Illinois in eighteen fifty four. You'd think we'd be so much smarter if you were to compare. Honestly, if you were to line us up the people in Peoria in eighteen fifty four and wherever you are today in twenty twenty one, and you put these two people next to each other, it would be like they wouldn't even be two different cultures, to be two different species.

I mean they think like from two different planets. So the question is how can we intellectually, morally even too, How can we live like it's eighteen sixty five in Peoria, Illinois. Were more focus and fewer distraction, right, So how can we live? This is the question, how can we live in twenty twenty one? Because we can't go back, So how can we live in twenty twenty one, with the modern conveniences and the benefits et cetera, et cetera, living today,

but with more focus and fewer distraction. First thing, demand more out of yourself, as Postman said, what kind of man do you think I am? That's what we need to ask these people who are peddling garbage. He said, any rational decent man would ask to the people who are peddling this garbage, what kind of man do you think I am? So, but you need to know that you're better than what you're being fed by our culture.

And once you start saying you start saying stuff like that, like oh, like you think, like what kind of person do you think I am? You're gonna get a lot of Pressure're gonna be like, oh, you think you're so much better than that? Yes, yes, I do. I believe I we you even are much better than this, and just don't partake it anymore. Have have some respect, man, and then so demand more, and then find the places

and the things that bring you perspective in peace. And that's what we try to do on my show and Buck as well. Perspective and peace, that's the name of the game. We need more of that. So find someone finds something that brings that to you and latch onto it because it's going to help just get rid of distraction and it's going to help focus. So again, how can we intellectually live like it's eighteen sixty five with fewer distraction and more focus. That's my challenge this year.

Mike's later dot locals dot com filling in for Buck sex spread the word eighteen buck Mike Slater and San Diego film in for Buck Sexton. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. That's our website. There was a high school in Columbus, Ohio. Of course they got rid of the classics because they're racist, and you got to replace everything with the the new. Oh they're so great, these new things.

This in one case they in this school they replaced a classics with a slam poetry book called The Poet X. In the first two pages, the underaged character Zimara Xio m A R. Zimara approached drug dealers who cat called her, and the drug dealers says church girls are all freaks, Ao, Zimara, you need to start wearing dresses like that. This word I can't say on the radio. You'd be wiped up. Before going back to school. That's how you read the

slam poetry. You say some words like this with awkward breaks in them, and that's called slam poetry, especially knowing you church girls are all freaks. That's the first page of this book for high school. The main character believes that Christianity, the bedrock of her familiar values, hinders her ability to live freely. It's this is the poem. It's not any one thing that makes me wonder about the capital good, about a holy trinity that doesn't include the Mother.

It's all the things. Just seems as I get older, I begin to really see the way the church treats a girl like me differently. Sometimes it feels them all I'm worth is under my skirt and not between my ears. Sometimes I feel life wouldn't be eat would be easier if I didn't feel like such a debt to a god that didn't really seem to be out there checking from me. It's like, whatever feed our garbage to there, to our kids, you're gonna drop your kids off at

a public school. Let's say I'm a guest of Bucks today. I'm pretty sure would agree with me. But I want to be a little a little asident to go on a full rant as I do in my local show about how you should never ever drop your kids off at a public school for the rest of your life. It is child of use if you do, so stop doing it, because this is the garbage they're being peddled. And it's a weird tension, and I get it where the teachers' unions are using your kids not being in

school as leverage for more money. So the left doesn't want your kids back in school. So conservatives are like, no, we need kids back in school, and I just want to be here, like, well, hold on, you should never want your kids back in public school. I don't understand the conservative who's like, come on, governor, my kids got to get back and then indoctrination center as quickly as possible. He's got to learn all about the horrible things about America.

Now this is a terrible country, and how all white people are racists. Get our kids back in school. All like like, wait a second, why are you fighting for this. You should be using this last year, have been using and you should continue to use whatever time you have left to do whatever it takes to never send your kid to a public school ever. Again. And don't tell me, oh, my kid goes to a good public school. No they don't,

because their curriculum all comes from the top. I live in California, so ours are like one of the worst. But every state is becoming more and more like this. And don't tell me, oh, my kid is in the excelled program. No they're not. Those won't exist for long. I did a segment on this couple weeks ago in San Diego. The next day, the second biggest school district in the county released that they're getting rid of they called their Gate program. They're Gifted and Talented program. They're

getting rid of. It's inequitable, not enough black in the span of kids in it, too many white and Asian kids. So they got rid of it because it's not fair. Okay, gone, So all these advanced programs are gone. Anyway, everyone's gonna have to do the same garbage curriculum from the state, from these progressives. It's a terrible thing. Never drop your kids off there and ever and about sider. They'll learn

new oh yeah, poetry like this good. Yeah, They'll learn about how God is awful and God's terrible, and how Christianity treats women poorly and only to seize them as you know, only sees their worth as what's under my skirt. That's good, This is good, No problem there, hurry up, drop your kids off there. Anyway, I'm not going to do that segment because we don't really know each other well enough for me to be so bold. Yesterday, I'll

end on this. Yesterday we talked to quite a bit about transgenderism, and my point of bringing all this transgenderism stuff up is first to help you if you know someone who's struggling with gender dyst for you. But that's not many people, for a vast majority of us. The reason I bring up this transgenderism stuff is because it's

a propaganda war. If they can get you to consent to transgender ideology, all right, If they can get you to agree with this stuff that you're not born an agenda, you decide your gender, You can change genders if you agree with that. If they get you to agree with that, there's nothing they can't get you to agree with. It's very similar with critical race theory. If they get you to agree that you're born racist, all white people are racist, and all that. If you admit to that and you

start to flagellate yourself in shame. There's nothing they can't get you to do, and that's what propaganda really is. So I'll end with this quote from one of my favorite writers, Theodore Dalrymple. He says, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate. The point of propaganda is to humiliate you. The point of

this transgenders and stuff is to humiliate you. The point of this critical race theory stuff is to humiliate you. And therefore the less it corresponded to reality, the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they're being told the most obvious lies, or even worse, when they're forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose one sin for all their sense of probity. Let me look at

this word real quick self respect, I believe. Let's see the quality of having strong moral principles, honesty, and decency. To assent to obvious lies is to cooperate with evil, and in some small ways, to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded and even destroyed. If you don't stand up against the most absurd of the propaganda being spewed your way, then you won't have the strength, or courage or intellectual ability to stand up

to anything. Let's draw some lines and not back down. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. I'll put that quote on our website. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Spread the word. It's going on, Team Buck. Mike Slater here in San Diego, filling it for the great Buck Sexton. Thanks for being here, Mikeslater dot locals dot com is our website. We've already put a ton of stuff from the show today up there. Mike Slater dot locals dot com.

I want to share this story here. I think about this story a lot, and I hope once you hear it, you think about it a lot too. In the first hour, so first we kicked off talking about Joe Biden's press conversation today. We talked about the border. He said, we haven't changed any immigration policies. What are you talking to?

Two massive policies you changed. We talked all about that, and then we got into this conversation about the importance of work, the importance of meaningful work because Oakland is the first big city they're stocked in. A couple of other cities have done this before, but the first big city to have guaranteed minimum income five hundred bucks a month, no strings, no strings attached, and their twist is only for families of color, which is going to be great.

So we talked all about the problems with that, and not just the economic issues of that, and there's a million of those, but the moral issues with that and what that does to one's soul. And we played a clip of Jordan Peterson and he speaking against this, and he said, does man live by bread alone? We have a much deeper problem in America than just lack of money. We have a nihilism problem, lack of meaning, lack of purpose. You throw money at that and it just makes it worse.

So we talked all about work and the importance of work, and it's not necessarily the work even itself as much, although yes, as much as why you're doing it and who you're supporting in the process. You take that away from people, You rob people of that, and people will spiral into a dark place very quickly. You're taking people's dignity away from them. And we talked about how it's being spun to trick you. So we did that all in the first hour. On that point, I want to

tell the story of Richard Montagnes Richard Montagnez. Richard Montagnas grew up in Cucamonga Valley. It's in Riverside County. It's north to San Diego, east of La went to school, could barely speak English. Every day he'd come home crying to his mom. Kids were asked what they wanted to be when they grew up, and you know, it was the usual doctor, astronaut, and he said nothing. He said, there was no dream where I came from. He had no no dream to become anything when he grew up.

He dropped out of school in the fourth grade, worked in farms and factories. He got a job as a janitor out of factory four dollars an hour. He was eighteen years old at this point. Richard montagna is eighteen years old janitor four bucks an hour. His first day of work, his grandfather pulled him aside his grandfather. They lived in a little concrete hut with he was eighteen

family members. So he's eighteen years old on his first day of the job, and his grandfather pulled him aside, and he said, son, make sure that floor shines and let them know that I'm Montagnes mopped it. Don't just go and do the bare minimum and do the job and get done and come home. No, no, no, no, make sure that floor shines and let them know I'm montagne is mopped in. So he decided, I'm going to be the best janitor that this company's ever seen. I'm

gonna make a name for myself as a janitor. So he went and he did a great job mop at the floors, but he wanted more. So we spent time learning about the company's products and their manufacturing methods and their marketing. He even asked a salesman if he could tag along with him as they sell. I mean, think about the think of that goal. The janitor roll Imagine you're the salesperson. The janitor rolls up and says, hey, do you mind if I come on a sales call

it with you? You'd be like, what do you what? This is mid nineteen eighties and the CEO of the company. The company wasn't doing well, and the CEO started this new initiative called Act Like an Owner. They had three hundred thousand employees and it wasn't going well and they needed new ideas and new buy in a new right. So Richard he called the CEO like, this is your thing, I act like an owner. All right, I'm gonna call you up. So this gretary picks up up mister Enrico's office.

Who's this, says Richard. Montagne's in California. Oh, Richard, are you the vice president overseeing California? No? I work at the Rancho Cucamonga plant. Oh so you're the vice president of operation. No, I actually work inside the plant. You're the manager. No, I'm the janitor. To the secretary's credit and to the CEO's credit, he picked up the phone and Richard made his first pitch over the phone, and the CEO said, Okay, make a presentation delivered in person.

You got two weeks. So Richard, who again dropped out of school in the fourth grade, went to the library, picked up a book on marketing strategies. Two weeks crash course, got ready, got himself a suit and tie, met with the met with the met with the janitor, and met with the CEO and all the executives. And you could picture this in your head perfectly, can't you like, I just imagine this long wooden table. It's like so corporate.

This room is super corporate, long wooden table, everyone in the same color suits, ceo way at the end and in walks the janitor. Now I have two different versions in my head. In one version, he's still wearing his janitor uniform, which is awesome. I like that version in my head. But I also got one where he bought like a brown suit and like this this ugly brown yellow off gold tie. Are you with me? You can imagine where you want, But I think we're all pretty

much in the same ballpark with envisioning this. And he says, listen, I learned or I came up with this idea when I went on a sales call to a Hispanic neighborhood and there was no product for Mexicans. Where I grew up, we had Mexican street corn, and I think people were really like something that's inspired by that. And the CEO said,

all right, what's it tastes like? He said, glad? She asked, And he pulled out a hundred plastic baggies and he made his own mix, made his own mix inside each little baggie passed around the room and the CEO tasted it and said, put your mop away, you're coming with us. Richard was the janitor at the Rancho Cucamonga Friedo Lays factory, and he was the inventor of what would become Flaming Hot Cheetos, one of the most successful launches in Friedo Lay history. He became a vice president and is now

worth twenty million dollars. It's a couple lessons from this awesome story. First, in America, we have the rags to riches story. We love it. We love the rags to riches and we should, but oftentimes we make it when we tell the story, we make it seemed too much like luck or too much like oh, his success was inevitable. Of course he was going to be a rags to riches because we're looking back on it and he became a riches so we're like, oh, yeah, of course it

was gonna go that way. No, No, Richard was poor. He did a lot more than show up to get rich. We tend to YadA YadA YadA, over all the defeats and difficulties and challenges. Right, we tell the story of he was poor, showed up got rich. Like no, there was a lot of work, the difficulty, the research, the courage to ask salespeople to go on sales calls, right, his unpaid time off going on a sales call away

from his family. Sacrifice. This is a huge canyon between rags and riches, and you can't just gloss over that. Also the root of the story, of course, it comes from his grandpa eighteen years old. First day, make sure you make sure that floor shines and let them know that a montagne is mopped it. And that's the deal. That's the difference. It's a pride in your work. A

pride in your work therefore a pride in yourself. So when you go back to Oakland and they're like, oh, you don't have to work, because that's where we're headed. We're headed towards guaranteed minimum income and we're all gonna be living like a bunch of flat fat slabs and wally being zipped around, all of us with the iPad in front of our face, and no one having to work, and it's gonna be so liberating. They say, No, a pride in your work, he goes, A pride in yourself.

And here's the other truth of this story that I love so much. Even if he didn't hit it big, even if the story does not end with oh, and he's the vice president, he's worth twenty million dollars. Even if Richard Montagnez only mopped that floor until it shined, and if one person, if really no one, if he knew that a Montagnez mopped it, even that is a beautiful American story. Even that is a job well done. Even that is the foundation of a life well lived.

It doesn't have to be the rags to riches, the richest part doesn't have to be there. I'm sure if he put that much pride into his mopping, I'm sure he also put that much pride into his family and all the other things that matter in life as well. And that's the thing that needs to be celebrated. Whether he got the riches or not. Maybe the CEO never picked up the phone and that was the end of

that whole story, It's still the story worth telling. The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. He said, if a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a might Colangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music. Or Shakespeare wrote poetry, he should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. Now you know the rest of the story. Mike Slater dot locals dot com filling in for Buck Sexton,

spread the word eighteen buck. Mike Slater, San Diego, filling in for Buck Sexton. Mike Slater dot locals dot com is our website. Let me let me keep going on this because this is such an important theme. As as universal basic income becomes more popular, it's going to be pushed more and more nationwide. Have we got a couple of small cities like Stockton started a couple years ago, obviously some European cities. Oakland is now the first big

city to do it. Goodness Evanston, Illinois has a reparations program for black families twenty five thousand dollars a year that they can use for mortgage or home improvements or buying a house or whatever. Only black families. Right, So this is growing and it's gonna happen, right unless, well, it's gonna happen. It's gonna be more popular unless we make a stand against it, particularly universal basic income, guaranteed minimum income. It is a bad thing. It's been an

idea for a long time. It's been a bad idea for a long time. The economics of it, yes, but the moral arguments is what conservatives really need to fully understand and articulate the dignity of meaningful work. And again, it doesn't matter what the work is. I want to share the story of a guy named Dallas. He was

at a gang. He was in a gang when he's fifteen, homeless by eighteen, spent decades homeless, and he couldn't do it anymore, and he went to a charity job training program and the very first job that he that he had was called push the bucket. Push the bucket. Dallas put on a blue uniform and he pushed a bucket and mop up and down the filthy streets of New

York City, cleaning up trash. Now, a lot of people, a lot of progressives, we'll look at that is demeaning and undignified, and it's offensive to have someone clean sidewalks like that, that's beneath them. Let me quote Dallas. Before long, I wasn't just picking trash off the streets I was picking up values, morals and principles. I was picking up self esteem. And I would look when I would look back at the block I just cleaned, and see what a great job I'd done. I realized I'd picked up pride.

He said, the greatest day of his life. There's a big, giant snowstorm in New York City and the whole city shut down, but he and his brothers in blue shoveled the sidewalks. And he said it was the most incredible day for him because he said, just a few weeks before that, he was sleeping on the sidewalks, sleeping in garbage, people stepping over, I'm ignoring him. He was dead to the city. And he said, now here, I am helping to bring this city back to life. That's what I

mean by meaningful work. There's a Cardinal Dolan. He tells the story of the renovating of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, and he said one day he was walking around inspecting the progress and he asked one of the people, He said, what are you doing? And one of the workers said, you know, I'm doing the whatever, some scaffolding work here or whatever. And he asked another guy said what are you doing. Oh, I'm doing the rewiring here. And he asked a third guy said, oh, what are

you doing? And the guy said, I'm rebuilding a cathedral. Just be beamed. I'm rebuilding a cathedral. And one day I'll bring my grandkids here and show them what I helped to do. That's what I mean by meaningful work and progress. Who are pushing these guarantee minimum InCom there they're robbing people of this. And it's not just guaranteed minimum InCom I mean, it's all. It's all welfare programs we currently have. It's just a failing economy. It's raising

taxes and results in fewer jobs, and it's all. It's all these government programs that are ruining the economy. They all have this effect. The Cardinal quotes Pope Francis. He says, and Pope Francis said, there's no worse material poverty than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work. Jesus was a carpenter for the love of being. Adam and Eve, they worked the garden. God didn't have them just laying around

doing nothing. They worked but to the left, since Marxism, to the left, work is seen as drudgery and dehumanizing, and it's a bad thing. So the progressive goal is to not work, to be free from work, to be liberated from work, and instead to seek pleasure. But it's pleasure is not the same as happiness. Actually, there's something I want to play in the next segment on that point. Pleasure and happiness are very different, very different. Let me take a break here and we'll do that. Come here next.

But think about this, think think always. Whenever there's a proposal from a government, we tend to think initially to the economic aspects of it. And that's good, right, you need to do that, But think think of like I take a pause and think one step deeper, what's the moral implications of this? And also, instead of being tricked by the left of oh we're giving you this, no such thing as a free lunch, what are you also robbing of me? Oh, we're just giving this family five

hundred dollars a month. We're just giving them this, We're just giving them this, all right, what are you also robbing of them? Robbing from them? People don't see that, They don't think of that until it's too late, until they've already taken it. They have the thing they were told they were going to get, and they didn't even know that they had that thing. Take and at the same time, so think of the moral arguments for things, and think of what's being taken when we're told we're

being given. Mike Slater at locals dot com. Mike Slater filling it for Buck Sexton. Spread the word eighteen Buck. Mike Slater filling it for the great Buck Sexton. Thanks to Buck for having me back here. Mike Slaer out locals dot com. Gosh, we've covered a ton today. Kicked off the show, of course, talking about the press conference yesterday. Maybe we can do a little recap have that coming up as well. I'll just give you the very very

short of what's going to happen right now. Only far right, fringe crazy activists are questioning Joe Biden's mental acuity, and how dare you, by the way, how dare That's so unpatriotic of you. You're emboldening our enemies by questioning the president's mental health. And then more mainstream conservatives are going to do it, and then people on the far left are gonna try to flank the president by questioning his mental acuity, and then again you're gonna be attacked by

the media for so how dare you? You're the worst, You're terrible, it's awful, blah blah blah. And then one day something's going to happen, and it's gonna be so obvious to every single person, including the Democrats, and old Joe is going to be thrown out to pasture and he may not even know it. And one day Kamala will be sitting behind the Resolute desk and that will be the end of Joe Biden. I don't know when it's going to be. Could be pretty quick, but he

ain't making it to eighty two, that's for sure. Now, we told the story of Woodrow Wilson in nineteen he had a terrible stroke and for a year he was still president. For a year, he was half his body was paralyzed. He couldn't focus for more than sixty seconds at a time, he couldn't speak properly, obviously, he could only see out of one eye, and for one year the media propped him up Weekend at Bernie Style, and one guy in particular, Lewis Cibold, and we read from

the article. He wrote this article in the New York World, and it was all about how healthy Woodrow Wilson was, and he was more alive than ever and sprightly and quick. I quitted and could focus now actually on the things that really mattered, and like raise total like oh, he's the best person ever. And it was completely made up. The whole story was completely made up, every single word of it. It never happened. The interview never happened. They

didn't have three hour conversation. Woodrow Wilson couldn't couldn't talk, You couldn't focus for sixty seconds. It was entirely written with by the chief of staff. The only people that saw Woodrow Wilson for a year was his doctor, his wife, and his chief of staff for one years. His nineteen twenty They could pull that off in nineteen twenty, but can they media pulled that off in twenty twenty one. I'm not as certain. But that guy who wrote that article,

Lewis Seibold, he won a Pulitzer Prize for it. So there's gonna be a lot of journalists in America today who are going to be doing their best to prop up Joe Biden for as long as they can, and they're going to be encouraged by the fact that if they do a great job of it, they'll win a Pulitzer for it. Anyway, that was the first half hour the show. I want to continue this point about work and the importance of work and fulfillment and happiness. There's

a difference between pleasure and happiness that's super important. Let me build to it, though. First I want to share this quote from Thomas Williams. He says, of all the

possible privileges to have. We hear about privilege all the time, right, white privilege, sis siss, male privilege, but all this stuff for all his privilege, he says, all the possible privileges to have health, beauty, charisma, intelligence, athleticism, all of which respect no boundaries of race, ethnicity, religion, or class, have to be the most important by far. And of course he's completely right. Of all the possible privileges to have

its health, beauty, charisma, intelligence, athleticism. The extreme example of this is Jeremy Meeks. Do you remember this guy, Jeremy Meeks and name may Ringabell. He was known as the hot felon So this guy, he was eighteen, he beat up a sixteen year old, served two years in prison

in California, joined the crips year later. Year after after he was picked out or got out of jail, he was swept up in a stocked in gang sweep and his mug shot was put online and he's a good looking guy, and it went viral and he went on to become a suit a model though grow an article they called him the buff bad boy. At the time, he was married to a woman. They had the woman had two other kids. They had a kid together, and he got out of jail and he was with this

woman still. But he was seen in the tabloids kissing the heiress of a British billionaire on a yacht in the Maldives. And they now have a two year old together. But they're not together anymore, but they have a two they're co parenting, which is very nice. So that is a very deep dive into the life of this person that you did not know you needed today. But that's a gang bang and felon, who no way would be able to get on a yacht with a billion are

hairis if he wasn't very very ridiculously good looking. That is beauty charisma or beauty privilege. I say beauty privilege, but it's also true of other character traits too. I forget the numbers exactly. You can, you can look them up, but it's um top the hype privilege, hight privilege. There, it's something like, these are ballparks. Don't quote me none,

this is ballpark. The average height of a guy is five nine, and it's something like two percent of men are over six two, two percent of men over six two. But it's like forty or fifty percent of CEOs are over six two. And they've done they've done the math. On every inch of height, you end up earning like ten thousand dollars more per year on average. Right, Taller people do. Why well, because when you're taller, people have this perception that you're a better leader, or that you

have all these other characteristics of a leader. Just because you're tall, you're promoted more often. Right, height privilege. There's also dressing nice privilege. Right, talking articulately privilege. We hired someone on my TV show once because he showed great enthusiasm for the opportunity. That's enthusiasm privilege. And if we would focus more on these things, then we could stop

with the goofy race and ethnicity, bias, privilege conversation. Okay, this is there's these YouTube videos and they're called like I don't know what, they're rich but not happy or something like that. And there's a bunch of these and I love them because they just they interview celebrities or

they're clips of these celebrities who are miserable. And people think they have it all and you're rich and you're famous, and you have this and that, and you also have I just I recently watched the Michael Jordan documentary and there's just one scene where he's in the height of his fame and he's sitting in the hotel room and he can't go, he can't leave. He just wants pizza. You can't leave his hotel room because you get mobbed by all these people. And he's miserable. He hates it,

he hates his life. He's miserable. So people think that you know that you get rich and famous, then you have it all and it's everything you want. But it's not. There's a difference between pleasure and happiness. We keep seeking after pleasure and we're missing the fulfilledness, the fulfillingness of life that we should be seeking for instead. Anyway, here's just an example of these videos, and this the one at the end. The person at the end is Marilyn Monroe.

Do you feel that you're happier right now? Sometimes? This is sometimes, But I feel like the way that I have money kind of took away a lot of my happiness. Then what happened was I then experience the things that I was culturally indoctrinated to believe would be a kind of salvation. Fame, fortune, attention, limitless filat show if required, And yet salvation did not come. I bought pleasure for

so long. I can't buy happiness. You can buy pleasure, though, And a lot of people say, like, oh, money isn't happiness, Well, money can buy a boat and a boat and maker happy to that kind of thing. I think it can completely destroy human being and it I got to a point, did it almost destroy complete? Yeah? It almost completely destroyed me. But I was lucky enough, by the grace of God, to have people that care about me enough to be like, hey,

j back on. Happiness is an emotional response to an outcome. If I win, I will be happy. If I don't, I won't. It's an if then cause and effect with broke boat standard that we cannot sustain because we immediately raise it every time we attain it. Do I feel happy in life? Let's see. Let's see. I hope I'm finding happy now. But I'm not just generally happy. If I'm generally anything, I guess I'm generally miserable. I don't know.

M so sad at the end, lapse it off. I'll put that video on our website, Mike Slater and locals dot com. I'll end with this. Candice Bush now, she's written a bunch of books, including the books that inspired Sex in the City, the TV show, and she's now

in her sixties and she's miserable. So she wrote these books about Carrie Bradshaw and the the quintessential independent woman and forget about the patriarchy, and forget about family, forget about getting married, just go absacks and your career and all this time. And she took that path herself, and

she's miserable. She has no family. She never considered where she'd be today when she was in her twenties and thirties, because she was living the feminist dream and being married and having kids would be a distraction from the true

feminist meaning of life, and that is work. And she says when she knows women in her fifties and sixties who are clubbing and dating younger men, and like some divorce their husbands because they saw their fifties as their last chance to find a new husband, and they're just miserable. And it's so sad because not only is she miserable, She's inspired so many other women to have that feminist mindset that work is paramount of life. And I'll never marry,

I'll never have kids. And here she is finally admitting that that was not wise. Counsel, be careful about these influences in life, these forces in life. Make sure your kids understand the difference between pleasure and happiness. I want to come back with something that I can't believe this comes up every year. I'm so sick of the story. It comes up every year, and I can't believe the Left still tries it. We'll do the very short of it next Mike's later dot locals dot com. That's my website.

Feeling in for box Sexton spread the word eighteen Buck, Mike Slater, San Diego feeling in for Box Sexton. I don't Every year they keep doing this, they keep harping on this. I guess the other day was Women's pay Day or equal pay Day or out of something. And

every year they preyed up the women's soccer team. I don't know who thinks this is a good idea or that this messaging and marketing works from these people, I don't know, And they get up there and they talk about how unfair it is that the women's soccer team makes less money than the men's soccer team. How do people not see this yet? Here's Meghan Rapino at the

White House. I'm a member of the LGBTQ community with pink hair, and where I come from, I could have only dreamed that I would be standing in the position I am today at the White House. I'm also a professional athlete, and I've helped, along with all of my teammates virtually here today, one teammate literally here today, win four World Cup championships and four Olympic gold medals for the United States. And despite those wins, I've been devalued.

I've been disrespected and dismissed because I am a woman, and I've been told that I don't deserve any more than less because I am a woman. You see, despite all the wins, I'm still paid less than men who do the same job that I do. For each trophy, of which there are many, and for each win, for each tie, and for each time that we play, it's less. And I know there are millions of people who are marginalized by gender in the world and experience the same

thing in their jobs. And I know that there are people who experience even more where the layers of discrimination continue to stack against them. And I and my teammates are here for them. We own the US women's national team today, are here because of them. Yeah, that's all I can take is that they good. I love this. I am deef value, disrespected, and dismissed because I am a woman, says the millionaire soccer player while speaking with

the President and First Lady at the White House. It's the same as Meghan Marko a couple weeks ago saying I have no voice. I just have no voice, as she's doing an interview with Oprah in front of one hundred million people. No voice, all right, So here's the deal. Megan. It's not that you deserve less money because you're a woman. It's that you deserve to make less money because your sport makes no money. Men's soccer is the most popular

sport in the world, women's soccer isn't. You may win more games against women's teams, but no one buys tickets to see them, and that's all that matters. Because here's the deal. This is tricky for people to understand you, not for you to understand. For most people, you don't do the same job as men's soccer players. This is what they're concerned. They're They're like, oh, we do the same job. We both play soccer, and we're actually better. We win games. The men's soccer team doesn't win games.

That's not the point. That's not your job. Your job is not to play soccer. You thought your job was to play soccer. I don't know. Your job is to generate revenue. Your job is to sell tickets so people buy hot dogs and soda in the stands. Your job is to generate revenue by having people watch your games so they can sell TV commercials. That's your job. You do it by playing soccer. But playing soccer's not your job. Your job is to generate revenue, and the men do

a lot more of that thing. That is a very important difference. It's true for every job. I have a radio show, Buck has a radio show. Right, I get paid less, and I can't say, oh, that's unfair. Buck and I both do the same job. No you don't, I mean, oh, yeah we do. We both have three hour radio shows. Yeah yeah, Buck generates more money for the company. Your job's not to talk for three hours.

Your jobs to generate revenue. It's true for everyone. But this is our narcissistic Megan Rippino as she thinks her job is to play soccer. Also, you lost a game a couple of years ago to a team of fifteen year old boys. Right. I love Biden the other day said women can do anything that men can do. That's not true. That definitely, most definitely not true. Nor would you want it to be true. That's what's weird about the progressive world as well, nor would you want to.

Actually this ties into the third segment we had today about the pyramid. I'm time to go into it now. But Ali best Stucky, who I love, has a great quote. She said, maybe I'm weird but I just don't need this patronizing nonsense to feel great about being a woman. I'm so glad there are things men can do that I can't. I'm also pretty thrilled that I can do things men can't, like carrying and delivering babies. I don't want to be like a man. How ungrateful to can

you be? To be a woman? In America today the safest, most prosperous time to ever be alive. You play soccer for a living, You travel the world. Do you make a pretty good living out of it? Do you know? There were times when Major League baseball players needed a second job to make ends meet on the off season. There's a baseball card of nineteen seventy three, and on the back is a cartoon of a baseball player pumping gas. Because in the off season, this player pumped a gas

and installed air conditioners. That was nineteen seventy three. Back then, the Major League baseball minimum was fifteen thousand dollars. He needed a second job. Today, the minimum in the major leagues is four hundred thousand dollars. All right, so this is a new phenomenon. Even that men were paid any money. You're a woman today on the US soccer team. You make one hundred and seventy thousand dollars a year. I'd be pretty darngrateful for them team. Hope you have a

wonderful weekend. Mike's later dot locals dot com. We can hang out all weekend and we'll see you again. True story. Mike later spread the word