Oct. 22, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
03:06
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| I'm Dennis Prager. | |
| All right, so Jay at Columbus, what's your issue with Basques and your family? | |
| Yeah, first of all, I'd love to meet you. | |
| I'm a pipe smoker. | |
| I'm a retired policeman. | |
| You've taught me so much about Judaism. | |
| I never knew about the religion until I began to listen to you four years ago. | |
| So anyway. | |
| Thank you. | |
| I have been, all since this time, I've been against the vaccination. | |
| I've been... | |
| Believed in, you know, God's will, no mask, despite that there was a mandate in Ohio last year. | |
| So my son is a nurse at a major hospital in Columbus, Ohio. | |
| He's married, has three little grandchildren, three little children, my grandchildren, which I love and adore. | |
| I'm a very involved grandfather. | |
| I'm a retired policeman, so I have a lot of time to be with him. | |
| I've always gone to their sporting events. | |
| Dance recitals, all that stuff. | |
| I've babysat for them. | |
| I've helped them out with money. | |
| You know, they're a young family. | |
| And then all of a sudden, just a month ago, I was told if I didn't wear a mask at my granddaughter's volleyball game, I wasn't welcome. | |
| Even though the masks were not required, they were just recommended by the school. | |
| It was my daughter-in-law who told me this, the wife of my son who's a nurse. | |
| And I said, I didn't even protest. | |
| I just said to myself, well, I won't go to the game if I'm required to wear a mask. | |
| I just simply won't go. | |
| Well, then she lambasted me on text for not appearing. | |
| You know, how dare you not show up at your granddaughter's volleyball game over this simple mask? | |
| And this was a text, and I told her, dear Leah, I said, don't text me. | |
| Just have the courage to call me and talk to me. | |
| And she refused. | |
| She said, I can't talk to you. | |
| I'll get too red in the face. | |
| And then the next thing I know, Dennis, she said, you are not welcome in my house, nor welcome around my grandchildren. | |
| That was one month ago. | |
| And how has your son reacted? | |
| I'm just now about to say that. | |
| I reached out to him to see if he endorsed what she had said, and he had put me off. | |
| He kept putting me off, putting me off. | |
| I've been working a lot, Dad. | |
| I'll get back to you. | |
| And then he didn't. | |
| And it's exactly one month ago, Dennis. | |
| He kept putting me off. | |
| I reached out to both of them to try to resolve this. | |
| We live 15 minutes apart here in Columbus. | |
| Yet he would not. | |
| I'm a very involved grandfather. | |
| Are they at all religious? | |
| She is, but he's not. | |
| She goes to church. | |
| I would love to talk to her and ask her what she thinks about the commandment to honor your father and mother. | |
| My heart breaks for you. | |
| See, it's very, very hard to fight irrationality. | |
| That's the thing I fear the most, is when people are governed by irrationality. | |
| I'm sorry, Jay. |
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