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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It was an expression of you already being safe.
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Robert Cushman was on the Mayflower, and he wrote this in 1621.
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He said, such idle drones, drones back then, the definition of the word drone was an idle person.
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So such lazy people, such idle drones are intolerable in a settled commonwealth, much more in a commonwealth which is but as it were in the bud.
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So he's like, it's it's one thing to have a country that's already established.
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It's making this point earlier.
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I said something like you can't you can't build a country and you can't even
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Keep a country.
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with lazy people.
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And here's the same thing here.
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It's like these drones, you you can't even keep a country like let alone start one.
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Of what earth, I pray thee, art thou made of any better than thou other of the sons of Adam?
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And canst thou see others of thy brethren toil their hearts out?
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And thou sit idle at home, or takest thy pleasure abroad?
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What makes you think you're any different than anyone else here who has to work?
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You're not any different, you're not any better.
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Get up, get to work, you lazy bum.
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He said there's people who think that their purpose in life is to to just take their pleasure.
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And and uh he said, Let let the roof of their house drop through, they stir not, let the field be overgrown with weeds, they care not.
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They must not foul their hand nor wet their foot.
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