Mike Slater
speaker
22,161 appearances
95 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard yesterday
Mike Slater’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 95 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 31.
Appearances
And think of that experience.
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That experience will change you.
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They'll strengthen you.
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Today that corn husker tradition has been rendered all but extinct by new technologies.
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And farm country isn't the only place this is happening.
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Teenage work has evaporated across the country since the nineteen eighties.
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And that's where the 35%, he says 35% of teenagers had a summer job this year.
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Technology's on pace to eliminate many starter jobs like flipping burgers and running checkouts.
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This is an economic reality, and on the whole, it leads to greater prosperity, but we have to acknowledge the trade-off because life isn't all about prosperity.
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To go back to my opening point that there's a thousand different metrics for an economy, one of them would be a stock market.
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We want a good stock market, we want a thriving.
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record stock market, but that's not the only thing that matters.
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Gentleman called into the show after I shared that story.
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He said, Yeah, I grew up on a dairy farm.
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He said he was up every day, every morning, milking the cows, cracking dawn.
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I said, Yeah, but you took off Christmas and Thanksgiving and your birthday, right?
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Right.
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Took your birthday off.
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And he buzzed it out laughing.
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He's like, No, the cows don't care.
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