Juno News - July 06, 2020


Everything’s Just Beachy


Episode Stats

Length

27 minutes

Words per Minute

184.2051

Word Count

5,049

Sentence Count

320

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Canada's Most Irreverent Talk Show.
00:00:06.460 This is the Andrew Lawton Show, brought to you by True North.
00:00:14.900 The Andrew Lawton Show starts right now.
00:00:21.520 Welcome to the Andrew Lawton Show, Canada's Most Irreverent Talk Show here on True North.
00:00:26.460 Good to have you with us as we kick off another week in July.
00:00:30.200 The summer is coming down here. It is like 35 degree temperatures.
00:00:33.540 So I'm glad that I'm holed up in the basement studio, which has a nice 16 to 17 degree chill sometimes.
00:00:40.460 So I'm not looking forward to the new studio in the winter, but for now it's actually quite nice.
00:00:46.460 We'll rename it the Meat Locker before long, depending on how things are going.
00:00:51.000 In any case, let's talk about all the things that are happening right now,
00:00:54.240 because a few items on the 2020 bingo card that I didn't have.
00:00:58.620 The first was President Kanye West, and the second was bubonic plague.
00:01:04.260 These are two things that I didn't know were coming down the pipeline, but evidently are.
00:01:09.200 Kanye West tweeted the other day, as a matter of fact, on the 4th of July,
00:01:13.240 we must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building
00:01:19.980 our future. I am running for President of the United States. Hashtag 2020 vision.
00:01:25.840 Now, this was very quickly endorsed by Elon Musk, who has decided to offer his full support
00:01:32.960 to Kanye West. And then it became a running gag of which other celebrities are going to get into it.
00:01:38.160 And Paris Hilton tweeted that it was time for her to run for President, which, you know what,
00:01:42.740 wouldn't be as bad as some people might think. I would take Prime Minister Paris Hilton over
00:01:47.040 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. So, in any case, the whole point of the Kanye West campaign,
00:01:52.600 I'm not entirely clear. This is a guy who's got a really good record at self-promoting.
00:01:58.280 He's also had a come-to-Jesus moment in the last year, in the most literal sense of it.
00:02:03.520 He's actually found God, has, by all accounts, legitimately changed his life. And even though
00:02:08.320 I'm not a huge fan of Kanye, his music or his personality, I'm interested in the end game,
00:02:15.180 because he's a very smart business guy, same as the Kardashians. People like to mock them,
00:02:19.180 but they're very smart. And, I mean, Kanye now is an honorary Kardashian, having married Kim Kardashian.
00:02:25.320 So, I'm not sure if it's legitimate. He's been very closely tied with Donald Trump. So,
00:02:30.280 could this just be like an elaborate plan to railroad Joe Biden by going after
00:02:35.420 the black vote, by going after independents? I don't know. I'm interested in it anyway,
00:02:40.340 but we've already decided, and there's no political charge to this, but we've already decided that we
00:02:45.820 can elect an outsider who's been a reality TV star to the presidency. So, if this is now kind of the
00:02:51.680 new reality of it, I think we just have to roll with it. So, good on Kanye, I guess.
00:02:56.060 And then, yes, I mentioned bubonic plague. We've got another virus to worry about. Forget about
00:03:01.940 coronavirus. Forget about murder hornets. Forget about dust storms. Forget about monkeys that
00:03:06.500 transport the coronavirus. We now have in China, specifically in Inner Mongolia,
00:03:12.820 a case of the bubonic plague. According to state reports, a herdsman is in quarantine,
00:03:18.860 albeit in stable condition. However, officials are also investigating a second case because of the
00:03:25.540 most feared disease in the world, the bubonic plague. But they say, ah, it can be easily treated
00:03:29.780 now. You know what? I'm not going to take this for granted because in 2020, when anyone says,
00:03:35.060 oh, we can easily contain it, let me clarify. When China says, oh, we can easily contain it,
00:03:40.140 I think it's safe to say that we're, just when we start to wean ourselves off of coronavirus
00:03:44.800 countermeasures, we can gear right back up to prevent another black plague. So, this is how 2020
00:03:51.380 is going. You know, my wife, the other day, we were cleaning the house a bit, and she came across
00:03:56.400 a 2020 planner and said something along the lines of, you know, how naive we were to think that
00:04:00.900 anything could be planned in 2020, which I think was probably the most shrewd observation one could
00:04:06.640 come up with. But not just about planning, by the way. I'm finally, in the last few days, learning that
00:04:13.920 I get to go somewhere again. Yes, I'm going to be on a plane to Calgary in a week and a half,
00:04:19.660 just for a couple of days. So, this is like, for me, I used to travel a fair bit for work,
00:04:23.960 just stuff to cover and other things that I do. And this is going to be like the first time in a
00:04:28.660 while that I've actually been able to go anywhere. So, I mean, have they taken all the fun out of it?
00:04:34.380 So, probably, because you have to wear a mask on the plane and you can't touch anything and all of
00:04:38.400 that stuff. But, and they closed down, you know, all of the stuff at the airport where you might want
00:04:42.840 to hang out. So, if you've got a long connection, you don't really have anything to do. But,
00:04:46.820 it is a sign that we are getting back, at least to some semblance of normalcy. But not too normal,
00:04:54.720 because, oh no, the public health bureaucrats don't like that. We had, mostly across the country,
00:05:00.160 beautiful weather on Canada Day and the couple of days before and after it. And a lot of people,
00:05:05.360 because they have been cooped up since March, decided, hey, I want to go out. I want to have fun.
00:05:10.320 I want to get outside. And we've also been told, remember, that getting outside is completely fine.
00:05:16.580 That outdoor transmission is virtually nil. That during the Black Lives Matter protests,
00:05:23.080 for example, there was no spike in cases. In fact, very few cases at all from these,
00:05:28.100 proving that you can all be outside doing whatever you want and there's no risk of contracting the
00:05:33.000 coronavirus. And remember, Justin Trudeau was in the protests himself. Other public health officials
00:05:39.220 and political leaders were in the protests. So, I do not fault any Canadian for looking at this and
00:05:45.240 saying, I guess it's fine for us to be outside. So, when I see pictures of people at beaches,
00:05:51.900 I don't think, oh my goodness, what menaces to society these are. I think, well, I can't really
00:05:57.520 blame them because, after all, their political leaders have been proving to them that there's no
00:06:01.920 real risk of anything happening to you outside. So, I saw this footage. I'm not a big beach person
00:06:06.880 myself. I burn too easily. I hate the sun and the water's always too cold for me. But if someone
00:06:11.880 wants to go to the beach, I'm not going to blame them for it. But then you have this story out of
00:06:16.660 CTV where a bunch of beachgoers in Wasaga Beach in particular were told by the deputy fire chief,
00:06:25.660 they couldn't even get the full fire chief there, that they were emblematic of the worst form of human
00:06:32.240 behavior. This is what he said in a news report from CTV. Well, you've likely seen the images of
00:06:37.900 packed beaches and the lack of physical distancing. The result in some cases, like in the U.S.,
00:06:43.280 massive spikes in COVID numbers. Those concerns have now prompted strong action from the town of
00:06:48.700 Wasaga Beach. CTV's Craig Momney joins us now. And Craig, what is the town doing to stop that trend?
00:06:54.780 Sean, with temperatures on the rise, it's no surprise people are flocking to local beaches.
00:07:02.060 But for the past few weeks, the town of Wasaga Beach has been dealing with overcrowding issues,
00:07:06.380 with yesterday being the final straw. Now town officials are cracking down.
00:07:12.380 With limited things to do because of COVID and with temperatures on the rise,
00:07:15.740 people are flocking to beaches around the region. But the town of Wasaga Beach says every weekend
00:07:19.740 since June 20th, beachgoers have been neglecting safety measures, with Canada Day being the last straw.
00:07:24.780 We saw human behavior at its worst, quite frankly. Many visitors displayed a reckless disregard for
00:07:30.740 public health guidelines when ignoring physical distancing recommendations.
00:07:34.920 So that was Wasaga Beach Deputy Fire Chief Craig Williams saying people going to the beach
00:07:39.960 is human behavior at its worst. Now, I know it's still early. I have not yet heard of any
00:07:47.000 coronavirus contractions from Wasaga Beach. I have not heard of any beach transmissions of
00:07:54.380 coronavirus at all. I know other beaches as well, like Grand Bend, Ontario, where we're similarly busy
00:07:59.820 and not everyone was wearing masks. Because again, the messaging on this has been so mixed.
00:08:04.560 We were told at first, don't wear a mask because it's bad for you. Then wear one if it makes you feel
00:08:10.100 better. To now, as we talked about last week, some municipalities saying you've got to wear a mask.
00:08:15.980 But then everything went out the window when the protests were happening. Whether you think the
00:08:20.740 protests are justified or not, all of the previous public health guidelines about, oh, don't hang
00:08:25.800 out with your neighbors and don't have kids' birthday parties and don't go to church and don't
00:08:29.360 have funerals and don't have picnics and don't have your family over. And remember at one point in
00:08:34.020 Ottawa, they were saying don't talk to your neighbor over the backyard fence or don't talk from driveway to
00:08:39.800 driveway to your neighbor. So all of that went out the window when they started to say, you know what,
00:08:45.440 if you're going to a protest, just try to be safe about it. You know, Teresa Tam had said, try not
00:08:50.400 to yell. They said, maybe wear a mask. They said, yeah, if you can keep six feet, try to. Every
00:08:55.880 previous bit of advice about what you have to do or what you aren't allowed to do outdoors was
00:09:01.180 obliterated. So if someone says, you know what, I've been cooped up since March. This is now four
00:09:06.900 months of my life. I haven't been able to go anywhere. I haven't been able to do anything. I haven't had
00:09:10.960 much of a social life. I mean, I never did, but for them, that's a big problem. I get it for them
00:09:16.540 to say, we're going to go to the beach. If the politicians, the public health officials, the
00:09:21.640 bureaucrats didn't want that, they shouldn't have started to change the advice based on the
00:09:26.760 political narratives of protest. They should have stuck to it. Now I would celebrate this, by the
00:09:32.220 way. I mean, I wasn't looking for anyone to contract coronavirus at a Black Lives Matter
00:09:36.820 protest. I was thrilled that no one did. A, because that's good for a healthier population
00:09:41.360 if people aren't getting sick, but more importantly, because it proved that, okay, we can start getting
00:09:46.500 back to normal. We've proved the concept that you can have big groups, big gatherings outdoor. I mean,
00:09:52.360 what's the difference between having 10,000 people at an outdoor concert versus having 10,000 people in a
00:09:58.480 park for a protest? Absolutely nothing. So if what the evidence is telling us is that people can do
00:10:05.340 whatever they want outside, that would include the beach. You shouldn't need to have Black Lives
00:10:10.640 Matter bathing suits on for going to the beach to be safe. If it's safe to be outside and in close
00:10:16.000 quarters with other people having a good time, then it's safe to do it no matter what the circumstances
00:10:20.860 are, regardless of the moral worth of the particular activity or the particular venue at which you're
00:10:27.660 deciding to partake in this. So, you know, anytime people are not following the official guidelines,
00:10:34.600 we can generally blame it on the fact that the official guidelines have changed. In some cases,
00:10:39.520 they've changed two, three, four times. So in a week and a half, after that 14 days has elapsed from
00:10:47.220 Canada Day, by July 15th, if we haven't seen any uptick in cases, then it will once again prove the
00:10:53.620 point that we can get rid of a lot of these lockdowns because clearly the bans on outdoor activity
00:10:59.940 are not in alignment with the science. The restrictions on outdoor activities are not
00:11:07.260 consistent with the science. And that's what we should all be hoping for. The problem is that
00:11:12.480 you've got to wait and they keep extending that period of time. So remember, at first it was, okay,
00:11:18.140 14 days. When Justin Trudeau was self-isolating, he did it for like a month because he was basically
00:11:23.460 saying, all right, he had to double the 14 days just to make sure there was no wiggle room on either
00:11:28.200 side or something like that. But you know, the whole point of this comment from Deputy Chief
00:11:33.800 Williams here, human behavior at its worst, this is being panned online. And I think justifiably so
00:11:39.840 because of all the things we're going to look at in human behavior. And by the way, I'm fine with
00:11:44.900 exaggerations and literary flourishes and making a point, embellishing for effect, all of that.
00:11:51.580 But to say human behavior at its worst, you know, I don't want to make everything about the
00:11:56.920 Holocaust. I know that's Godwin's law, but you know, the Holocaust, we have many other acts of
00:12:02.820 evil. We had a killing rampage in Nova Scotia a couple of weeks ago. We have people that butt in
00:12:08.340 line at the grocery store. I mean, the sheer list of things that I would say are worse human behavior
00:12:14.000 than going to the beach is longer than the coastline itself of all the Great Lakes combined. So human
00:12:21.480 behavior at its worst is people just deciding, you know what, clearly we're able to safely gather
00:12:26.420 outside. I want to have a bit of a party to celebrate the birth of my country. So this is
00:12:32.700 going to continue because right now everything just keeps getting extended. The border shutdowns
00:12:37.920 are extended. All of this stuff is just getting renewed over and over again. And we are headed
00:12:43.200 towards something of a permanent lockdown where it's not just until the curve flattens or planks,
00:12:49.480 it's until there's not a single case anywhere in the world. And then all of a sudden we're going to
00:12:54.480 be worrying about the bubonic plague. So time to quarantine again. But there doesn't seem to be
00:12:59.760 an eagerness at all among lawmakers to get us to that point where we can completely open up.
00:13:06.380 And I shouldn't say never, right? I mean, in some provinces they are. Alberta, for example,
00:13:10.840 is okay with mass gatherings. Clearly we've reopened churches in Ontario. So that's a positive and
00:13:17.180 elsewhere in the country as well. But there still is this resistance, especially at the federal level,
00:13:23.600 and in a lot of provincial governments, to just saying, all right, you know, I think we've beat
00:13:28.840 this. We've reduced our ICU capacity. We flattened the curve. Anything that happens is manageable.
00:13:35.920 I can't stress enough that when this started, the point was not zero cases. The point was not zero
00:13:43.180 cases. The point was that everyone is going to get it anyway. We want to make sure that not everyone
00:13:48.740 is getting it at the same time. And this seems like a distant memory now, but I very distinctly
00:13:55.040 remember when that was the messaging that, listen, this is going to just go wide and a lot of people
00:14:00.180 are going to contract this. We're going to develop that herd immunity. However, we need to ensure
00:14:05.680 that what we do is have a population that is getting it in a staggered, measured way so that when
00:14:12.640 the serious cases are putting people in the hospital, we have the capacity and the means to
00:14:17.240 treat it. And this is why, I mean, hospitals were girding themselves. We had field hospitals being set
00:14:24.920 up that were completely unused because there was no flood. Now, I don't consider that evidence that we
00:14:30.580 shouldn't have responded to the pandemic. I feel like that's evidence that we did the right thing,
00:14:35.220 that we did flatten the curve. Remember, it was just that two weeks. It was that first two weeks was
00:14:40.960 what they wanted. But the curve was flattened. Hospitals have been basically empty, not just
00:14:46.100 because no one's going into them with coronavirus, but people have been avoiding hospitals for other
00:14:50.900 things because they think hospitals are unsafe places, which by the way, is not entirely inaccurate.
00:14:57.420 So what's happened now is we've got a healthcare system that is ready for this. The point was never
00:15:04.860 eradication. And that's the point here. And I don't want the response to that to be,
00:15:10.660 oh, you're okay killing grandma. No, the focus from the get-go should have been on the vulnerable.
00:15:16.740 It should have been on the people that were at high risk. You want zero cases among them. You want
00:15:21.800 zero cases among long-term care homes. Those restrictions, no one's arguing with even now.
00:15:27.860 But when you have a general healthy population that is able to withstand and get over this,
00:15:34.920 the whole point was just about making sure that we didn't have a flooding of the gates of the
00:15:41.820 hospitals, which we've already succeeded against. So the moving goalposts continue to move beyond
00:15:47.600 flattening the curve, beyond planking the curve. It's going to be vaccination. Then when the vaccination
00:15:52.060 comes, it's going to be, you know, make sure we get through two seasons. And ultimately, I get that cases
00:15:57.660 are happening. I get that the U.S. is still seeing these little flare-ups. But the whole point is that a lot
00:16:03.080 of what's happened in the U.S. has been because people wanted to react against overreactions.
00:16:10.460 So that's where the whole point about trust in political leaders comes in. Because if people
00:16:14.780 don't trust the political leadership, they're not going to trust them when they say, oh, well,
00:16:18.920 I mean, just cede over your rights to us and we'll take care of you. And this is where we are now.
00:16:25.060 When people have proven themselves to be hypocrites and they say, don't go to the beach,
00:16:28.540 a beach-going population is saying, you know what? Screw you. We've done everything you've wanted.
00:16:33.360 We've succeeded. We've done our part. And you can't even do yours. Because you couldn't even
00:16:37.240 let a protest go by without showing up and virtue signaling for the cameras. When we come back,
00:16:42.800 more of The Andrew Lawton Show here on True North.
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00:16:50.060 Another week and the desecration of monuments, statues, pretty much anything is continuing.
00:17:02.140 It's hit close to home as well. We had last week vandalism of the memorial site or what is going
00:17:08.540 to be the memorial site for Canada's memorial to the victims of communism. This is spray painted,
00:17:14.760 as you can see in this tweet from the Ukrainian Canadian Congress with a hammer and sickle signs
00:17:20.360 and communism will win. Now, is this an example of just a bunch of stupid teens or actual communists?
00:17:27.900 I have no idea. But the whole point is that nothing is safe from this scourge of desecration
00:17:33.720 that's going on right now. And no one is safe from it. I mean, we've had people that are Confederate
00:17:38.920 leaders that have had statues taken down. Also people that are entirely uncontroversial or should be
00:17:44.500 uncontroversial that have had their statues removed. And then you have this one in Rochester, New York,
00:17:51.380 not too far from Southern Ontario. Frederick Douglass statue was torn down and vandalized. Now,
00:17:58.180 this statue was on the site of where one of Douglass's most famous speeches was given in 1852. Frederick
00:18:05.620 Douglass was an abolitionist. He was a human rights activist. He was a profound and intellectual thinker,
00:18:12.980 and he was black. He was a black man. The site of the speech was a site along the Underground Railroad where
00:18:21.860 Douglass, alongside Harriet Tubman, had actually helped shuttle slaves to freedom. So the idea that
00:18:28.900 in this wave of Black Lives Matter protests, Frederick Douglass is seen as not able to withstand
00:18:35.860 the scrutiny and standards of 2020, is not just absurd, but it's actually an abomination.
00:18:43.460 And I don't take delight in this. I don't say, oh, well, the left is cannibalizing its own. I mean,
00:18:47.460 here they're taking down the statue of the guy they should love. It's actually heartbreaking to me
00:18:52.260 that there is such an antagonism to history, that not only is everyone seen as an anachronism,
00:18:58.900 but that everyone is seen as evil, that there is going to be no more history because no one's going to want
00:19:04.580 to talk about any historic figures, and no one's going to want to celebrate the good of any of this.
00:19:11.060 So now people are wondering, is this just retaliation? Are people retaliating against Black Lives Matter
00:19:18.020 protesters by taking down Frederick Douglass? But there's no evidence to suggest that. In fact, the evidence is
00:19:23.780 that everyone's just taking down every single statue, and the people doing it are people that think that
00:19:28.740 these things are monuments to evil. And that's just so not the case. And you know, there is something
00:19:36.180 very dangerous in all of this. You know, statues have been used to idolize, yes, they're not just there as
00:19:42.580 historic artifacts. But the whole point about statues, and someone brought up this point to me the other
00:19:48.420 day, and I thought it was interesting. They're saying, you know, why do you have statues up to people if they
00:19:53.620 are controversial? Why wouldn't you have a statue of Hitler up, for example? Because, oh, well, it's a part
00:19:59.140 of history. And the best explanation that I thought of for that was that you're talking about different
00:20:04.580 regimes there. So, you know, Hitler would not be idolized because the Germany now is a different
00:20:10.260 Germany than it was then. He was toppled. He was seen as bad. The regime changed. Germany's now on a
00:20:16.180 better path. You look at, you know, Confederacy is a bit of a different example because they lost. I mean,
00:20:22.660 like it or not, why would you have monuments up to losing generals? However, when you look at other,
00:20:28.980 like, Wilfrid Laurier, John A. Macdonald, past prime ministers, this is all one Canada. This is all part
00:20:35.620 of the series of prime ministers, the series of Canada's history that brought us to the point we
00:20:40.900 are at right now. And it's important to protect that history because everything the country is,
00:20:47.780 is because of its past. And when people start to say, well, you know, it's all about context and
00:20:53.780 all of that, they're missing the mark. You know, John A. Macdonald might not have said the right
00:20:58.020 thing about Chinese people. He might not have done the right thing about Chinese people. He might have
00:21:02.020 said some things about aboriginals that were very in poor taste considering what we know and think now.
00:21:07.940 Although, by the way, he was actually on the Aboriginal issue. John A. Macdonald was very
00:21:12.580 progressive compared to a lot of his contemporaries. So I don't even like going down that road with it.
00:21:18.580 But the reason I bring this up is to say that he still created a country that has the capacity to
00:21:26.020 fight back against all of these things. He created a country that has the capacity to seek freedom,
00:21:31.700 to seek equality, to seek justice. And if you believe in the notion that a country is bigger
00:21:38.260 than the people who govern it, that a country is an idea rather than a collection of people,
00:21:43.620 it's easy to say, yeah, no one needed to be perfect in history for the country itself to rise above that
00:21:50.660 and to shed anything that is negative and to continue to grow. And this is something that I was
00:21:56.260 reflecting on and hadn't quite figured out how to express when I did the Canada Day show. And I know
00:22:01.700 we were talking with David Millard Haskell for a lot of that too. But it is something that I think
00:22:07.140 we need to internalize here, especially in the United States, because in the US they do hold to that
00:22:12.660 idea that the United States is an idea. They cling to that notion very significantly. And the whole point
00:22:19.140 of it is that yes, you know, in spite of everything that's happened, for better, for worse,
00:22:23.380 the United States continues as a country, one of the most uninterrupted, long lasting democracies
00:22:31.940 or republics in the case of the US in the world. I mean, you think of how few countries there are
00:22:39.220 that can go on for centuries without interruption. And that's pretty darn impressive. I mean, the British
00:22:47.540 is one example. Canada at 150 years, yes, it's a relatively young country. But if you look at how
00:22:53.700 few countries can do that for 150 years without changing regimes, that's quite significant. So we
00:22:59.380 need to celebrate the history, not tear down the statues. People that I'm talking to on the show right
00:23:04.260 now, I know get this. But I'm hoping we can in society start to reach the point where people are not
00:23:11.460 throwing out everything. And when the Frederick Douglass statue comes down,
00:23:18.660 it's amazing how a lot of the people that are okay with the Christopher Columbus statue coming down,
00:23:23.380 that are okay with, you know, the George Washington and the Thomas Jefferson statues coming down,
00:23:28.500 and are okay with the Washington Monument being defaced, are thinking, whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on,
00:23:32.580 no, we don't want to take down statues. And that's a point here that I think needs to be raised is that
00:23:39.460 there is always going to be someone that wants to push the destruction a little bit further,
00:23:44.580 no matter what, because there are some people who just like the destruction, no matter what,
00:23:48.100 no matter who, they just want to destroy things. And these people need to be stopped,
00:23:55.460 because eventually there's going to be nothing left to celebrate. There is going to be no history.
00:24:02.100 And make no mistake, they are not interested in social justice. They are not interested in just
00:24:07.700 finding a way to, you know, remedy this, to right this wrong, to fix this problem.
00:24:12.740 They actually just want everything gone. And I've said it time and time again,
00:24:17.060 they are not interested in creating anything. They are only interested in destroying. And what comes next
00:24:22.820 is someone else's problem. Yeah, I watched on, on Friday, I watched Hamilton, which I saw it on
00:24:29.380 Broadway, but a year, year ago or so, and it's now on Disney Plus. So my wife and I watch Hamilton,
00:24:34.660 and there's a great song in it. I'm not going to give away too, too much, but you can look up the
00:24:38.180 song on YouTube if you want. I'm not going to play it. The, the King George character who is in the
00:24:44.420 show sings, what comes next? And it's basically about the American revolution has just happened.
00:24:50.420 America is independent. King George comes out and in this mocking tone asks rhetorically,
00:24:55.700 what comes next? And you know, there's a funny thing about that. Now, in the case of the American
00:25:00.100 founding fathers, they knew what came next. They did that. But in the case of the people tearing
00:25:04.180 down the statue saying we have to get rid of this bit of history and that bit of history,
00:25:08.340 they have no clue what comes next. And what's worse is they don't even care. They don't even care.
00:25:15.700 That is someone else's problem. They've done their part by pushing over a statue. But you know what,
00:25:21.140 it's a heck of a lot easier to topple something than it is to build it. And they're not interested in
00:25:27.460 the building. So what we need to do is see through this for what it is, which is a hollow movement
00:25:33.700 based not on social justice, not on countering racism, a hollow movement based on destroying
00:25:38.740 things that they already hated in the first place. And this is far more important than,
00:25:45.620 you know, this company changing its name, the Dixie Chicks becoming the chicks, Lady Antebellum
00:25:49.940 becoming Lady A and all of that stuff, because this is actually messing around with something that
00:25:54.740 matters. I don't, if the Dixie Chicks go away, it doesn't bother me. If the history of civilization
00:26:00.100 starts to go away, that does bother me a fair bit. And it's not being overdramatic because these people
00:26:06.100 want our history reduced to the very worst. Part of history is celebrating the good, celebrating the
00:26:13.300 bad and figuring out the difference between the two. Destroying the statues isn't just taking down
00:26:19.140 monuments and idols, but it's also about rewriting and revising. Because a lot of these people don't
00:26:25.300 think that in a museum, a lot of these figures should be given that positive treatment anyway.
00:26:31.060 So it isn't just about the celebration of them, like some critics tend to say.
00:26:36.820 So my point on this would be recognize the end game, recognize what they want. It's not just about
00:26:42.580 the statues. It's about what the statues represent, which is the very ideals on which
00:26:47.620 Canada and the United States have been founded, which these people fundamentally despise.
00:26:53.460 And I know I'm going out not on a chipper note here, but it's an important note. So I hope you
00:26:58.420 heed it. And again, to the legacy of Frederick Douglass, that this man ends up with his statue
00:27:03.620 on the ground is just an abomination. We've got to wrap things up for today. My thanks to all of you
00:27:08.820 for tuning into the show. We'll talk to you in a couple of days with more of Canada's most irreverent
00:27:13.780 talk show. Thank you. God bless. Good day, Canada. Thanks for listening to the Andrew Lawton Show.
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