Dennis Prager Show - Banned From Watching His Grand Kids Play!
Aired: 2021-10-22
Duration: 03:06


=== Kept Putting Me Off (03:06) ===

[00:00:00]  I'm Dennis Prager.
[00:00:02]  All right, so Jay at Columbus, what's your issue with Basques and your family?
[00:00:08]  Yeah, first of all, I'd love to meet you.
[00:00:10]  I'm a pipe smoker.
[00:00:11]  I'm a retired policeman.
[00:00:12]  You've taught me so much about Judaism.
[00:00:14]  I never knew about the religion until I began to listen to you four years ago.
[00:00:19]  So anyway.
[00:00:20]  Thank you.
[00:00:21]  I have been, all since this time, I've been against the vaccination.
[00:00:26]  I've been...
[00:00:28]  Believed in, you know, God's will, no mask, despite that there was a mandate in Ohio last year.
[00:00:34]  So my son is a nurse at a major hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
[00:00:38]  He's married, has three little grandchildren, three little children, my grandchildren, which I love and adore.
[00:00:44]  I'm a very involved grandfather.
[00:00:45]  I'm a retired policeman, so I have a lot of time to be with him.
[00:00:48]  I've always gone to their sporting events.
[00:00:51]  Dance recitals, all that stuff.
[00:00:53]  I've babysat for them.
[00:00:54]  I've helped them out with money.
[00:00:57]  You know, they're a young family.
[00:00:58]  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.
[00:01:07]  Even though the masks were not required, they were just recommended by the school.
[00:01:11]  It was my daughter-in-law who told me this, the wife of my son who's a nurse.
[00:01:17]  And I said, I didn't even protest.
[00:01:21]  I just said to myself, well, I won't go to the game if I'm required to wear a mask.
[00:01:28]  I just simply won't go.
[00:01:29]  Well, then she lambasted me on text for not appearing.
[00:01:33]  You know, how dare you not show up at your granddaughter's volleyball game over this simple mask?
[00:01:38]  And this was a text, and I told her, dear Leah, I said, don't text me.
[00:01:43]  Just have the courage to call me and talk to me.
[00:01:46]  And she refused.
[00:01:47]  She said, I can't talk to you.
[00:01:49]  I'll get too red in the face.
[00:01:50]  And then the next thing I know, Dennis, she said, you are not welcome in my house, nor welcome around my grandchildren.
[00:01:58]  That was one month ago.
[00:01:59]  And how has your son reacted?
[00:02:03]  I'm just now about to say that.
[00:02:05]  I reached out to him to see if he endorsed what she had said, and he had put me off.
[00:02:11]  He kept putting me off, putting me off.
[00:02:13]  I've been working a lot, Dad.
[00:02:14]  I'll get back to you.
[00:02:15]  And then he didn't.
[00:02:18]  And it's exactly one month ago, Dennis.
[00:02:20]  He kept putting me off.
[00:02:21]  I reached out to both of them to try to resolve this.
[00:02:25]  We live 15 minutes apart here in Columbus.
[00:02:28]  Yet he would not.
[00:02:29]  I'm a very involved grandfather.
[00:02:32]  Are they at all religious?
[00:02:37]  She is, but he's not.
[00:02:38]  She goes to church.
[00:02:41]  I would love to talk to her and ask her what she thinks about the commandment to honor your father and mother.
[00:02:48]  My heart breaks for you.
[00:02:51]  See, it's very, very hard to fight irrationality.
[00:02:56]  That's the thing I fear the most, is when people are governed by irrationality.
[00:03:04]  I'm sorry, Jay.