Dennis Prager Show - Stir-Crazy? People Use Pets as Excuse to Get Outside⎜The Dennis Prager Radio Show
Aired: 2020-04-17
Duration: 09:59


=== Job Losses Cause Suffering (05:14) ===

[00:00:01]  Well, yeah, 22. Oh, NPR reported that, you know, it's very bad, but it's less than last month.
[00:00:09]  This was the NPR report.
[00:00:11]  Last week.
[00:00:12]  Was it last week?
[00:00:13]  Yeah, last week.
[00:00:14]  No, no, no.
[00:00:16]  There's Betsy McCoy, former lieutenant governor of New York State in the New York Post.
[00:00:24]  We must count the deaths from shutdowns as well as from coronavirus.
[00:00:29]  It is almost certain to kill more Americans than the virus.
[00:00:34]  Job losses cause extreme suffering.
[00:00:37]  Every 1% hike in the unemployment rate will likely produce a 3.3% increase in drug overdose deaths and a.99% increase in suicides, according to data from the National Bureau of Economic Research and the medical journal Lancet.
[00:00:55]  These are facts based on past experience, not models.
[00:01:01]  Good dig on the models, folks, on the left.
[00:01:05]  If unemployment hits 32%, some 77,000 Americans are likely to die from suicide and drug overdoses as a result of layoffs, deaths of despair.
[00:01:18]  Then add the predictable deaths from alcohol abuse caused by unemployment.
[00:01:22]  Health economist Michael French of the University of Miami found a significant association between job loss and binge drinking and alcoholism.
[00:01:33]  The impact of layoffs goes beyond suicide, drug overdosing, and drinking, however.
[00:01:39]  Overall, the death rate for an unemployed person is 63% higher than for someone with a job, according to findings in the journal Social Science and Medicine.
[00:01:52]  To make reopening possible, schools should resume in most places so working parents can return to jobs, even in New York State.
[00:02:01]  Only a single child under the age of 10 has died.
[00:02:08]  Why aren't they allowed to go to school?
[00:02:12]  That's tragic, but very unusual.
[00:02:14]  Some 84% of fatalities in New York are people over 60. Okie dokie.
[00:02:21]  Just thought you should know.
[00:02:23]  Oh, it's just money.
[00:02:25]  That's the left's argument.
[00:02:27]  It's just money.
[00:02:28]  People, conservatives, just care about money.
[00:02:34]  That's the intellectual and moral level of the left.
[00:02:39]  We just care about money.
[00:02:42]  I should read the article.
[00:02:44]  Where was that article about the guy in Cambodia who can't sell clothing now?
[00:02:48]  Americans aren't buying.
[00:02:50]  LA Times.
[00:02:52]  We were in Cambodia.
[00:02:55]  Cambodia is still reeling from the auto-genocide of the communists.
[00:03:04]  Which, of course, if you went to Yale, you don't know about.
[00:03:08]  It's a cute comment, but I mean that completely 100% sincerely.
[00:03:14]  If 5% of Yale seniors can identify Pol Pot, I will send Yale a donation.
[00:03:25]  You learn so little of importance at universities.
[00:03:28]  The only good thing, well, it's not the only.
[00:03:31]  I have a list of good things that might come out of this.
[00:03:33]  Kurt Schlichter wrote a very powerful piece, too.
[00:03:36]  Maybe people won't send their kids to college.
[00:03:39]  That garbage waste of money.
[00:03:42]  Unless you have to.
[00:03:43]  I mean, if you have to, you know, there are things you can't study physics on your own.
[00:03:48]  I get that.
[00:03:49]  It's a very...
[00:03:55]  We should put the Betsy McCoy piece up.
[00:03:58]  it's already up from the New York Post yeah I can't even imagine what it is like to have a job and then not have it.
[00:04:17]  No income.
[00:04:21]  It overwhelms me with despair on behalf of such people.
[00:04:29]  See, I'm a big believer, too, in human dignity.
[00:04:31]  Dignity is a big deal to me.
[00:04:34]  Big deal.
[00:04:35]  Probably too big.
[00:04:38]  But in any event, it's very big.
[00:04:43]  And to be able to sustain yourself is a source of dignity.
[00:04:57]  That's a big part of where dignity comes from.

=== Walks and Pet Coverings (04:58) ===

[00:05:03]  Okay, let's see what you have to say.
[00:05:06]  I certainly have a lot.
[00:05:10]  Ken in La Crescenta, California.
[00:05:12]  Hi.
[00:05:14]  Hi, Dennis.
[00:05:15]  I live right next door to you in La Crescenta, and I got this email last night from the city of Glendale, and at first I thought it was a hoax.
[00:05:27]  I read the caption, face coverings are required, and then I read the first paragraph.
[00:05:33]  Face coverings are now required anytime you leave your home.
[00:05:38]  Yep.
[00:05:38]  This includes going on a walk, picking up essential goods, walking your pet.
[00:05:45]  Yep.
[00:05:45]  I know I played it on the air.
[00:05:47]  Play it again, Sean.
[00:05:48]  This is the message my wife got.
[00:05:51]  Face coverings are now required anytime you leave your home.
[00:05:56]  This includes going on a walk, picking up essential goods, or walking your pet.
[00:06:01]  Okay, I do like that.
[00:06:02]  Who the hell are you in any city to tell me I have to wear a mask when I walk my pet?
[00:06:09]  What is it?
[00:06:11]  Walk your pet?
[00:06:13]  Do you walk anything besides a dog?
[00:06:16]  That's a very funny, that's a very funny question.
[00:06:19]  Other than a dog, what do people walk?
[00:06:22]  Well, Sean walks his armadillo.
[00:06:26]  So I think they were thinking of you.
[00:06:29]  You know, what is the armadillo?
[00:06:33]  That's very good.
[00:06:34]  Who gets antsy?
[00:06:35]  The armadillo?
[00:06:36]  That's very funny.
[00:06:38]  That was very witty.
[00:06:40]  You know what?
[00:06:41]  That was so witty that the next time you deserve, you're going to get a pass the next time you deserve to go into the punishment room.
[00:06:49]  That was one of the wittiest comments of my lifetime.
[00:06:55]  Your armadillo got antsy if he didn't walk.
[00:06:58]  That is great.
[00:07:00]  What's his name again?
[00:07:02]  Oh, it's a woman.
[00:07:04]  Ant Eater.
[00:07:05]  That's correct.
[00:07:06]  A-U-N-T. Her name is Eater and you call her Ant Eater.
[00:07:11]  That's really nice.
[00:07:13]  Okay.
[00:07:15]  Your question is valid.
[00:07:16]  What pet do you walk?
[00:07:18]  You don't walk a cat.
[00:07:19]  That is clear.
[00:07:20]  Your cat would pee on you.
[00:07:22]  I mean, he'd be so angry.
[00:07:24]  No, yeah, I have never seen a cat.
[00:07:27]  Look, Alan has owned cats since he is married.
[00:07:31]  Okay, Alan lives with cats.
[00:07:34]  He refuses to have the charge of ownership made.
[00:07:40]  Okay.
[00:07:42]  Fine, anyway, walk your pet.
[00:07:44]  Anyway, you know what it is?
[00:07:46]  They don't want to be sued by cat owners.
[00:07:49]  You know, this is what it is.
[00:07:51]  You can't discriminate on the basis of pet.
[00:07:57]  Oh, my God.
[00:07:58]  No, no.
[00:07:59]  She's right.
[00:08:00]  My wife is right.
[00:08:01]  So here's the answer to you.
[00:08:04]  This is the IM from my wife, who for the first time in 15 years sent me two giant emojis as an IM text, which I only respond...
[00:08:17]  You are definitely flipping out.
[00:08:18]  This is so atypical of my wife.
[00:08:22]  I don't know what prompted it.
[00:08:24]  Be that as it may, I told you last night an Italian woman was fined for walking her tortoise in Rome.
[00:08:32]  Now, we have two tortoises who, by the way, they weigh about 65 pounds.
[00:08:36]  They're gigantic.
[00:08:39]  In fact, that's how I got my wife.
[00:08:41]  Because I remember I put an ad in Match.com, Want Woman with Tortoises.
[00:08:47]  Who also loves classical music, is an ethical monotheist, and she just fit the bill.
[00:08:59]  She does not walk the tortoise.
[00:09:02]  That is correct.
[00:09:03]  That is exactly right.
[00:09:05]  Yeah, it's in Newsweek.
[00:09:07]  Here's the piece.
[00:09:08]  Italian woman fined for taking her turtle.
[00:09:10]  I can't believe they said turtle.
[00:09:14]  Oh, my God.
[00:09:15]  They don't know the difference.
[00:09:16]  The difference between a turtle and a tortoise is humongous.
[00:09:19]  Turtles go in the water and tortoises would drown.
[00:09:23]  Anyway, Italian woman fined for taking her turtle for a walk during coronavirus quarantine.
[00:09:32]  That's really something.
[00:09:37]  Okay.
[00:09:38]  Yes, indeed.
[00:09:40]  Health Uber Alice.
[00:09:42]  How many times have I said that?
[00:09:45]  Better safe than sorry.
[00:09:47]  The new motto used to be land of the free and home of the brave.
[00:09:52]  I take this seriously.
[00:09:53]  It's a terrible virus, by the way.
[00:09:55]  Needless to say.
[00:09:57]  But I take a lot of things seriously.