The Matt Walsh Show - April 20, 2020


Ep. 469 - The Elites Want To Ban Homeschool


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39 minutes

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174.61438

Word Count

6,928

Sentence Count

424

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

A Harvard professor has made the case for banning homeschooling, and her argument is insane on many levels. We ll get into all of that, and much more, on this episode of the Matt Walsh Show. Plus, the media is freaking out about people going to the beach, but isn t it a lot healthier and safer to be outside in the sun? And in our daily cancellation, we cancel a CNN anchor who cried for a reason that is not on the approved reasons for a man to cry list.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, a Harvard professor has made the case for banning homeschooling,
00:00:05.060 and her argument, of course, is insane on many levels. We'll get into all of that. I'll dissect
00:00:10.060 her argument today. Also, five headlines, including the media freaking out because
00:00:13.400 people in Florida are committing the crime of going to the beach.
00:00:17.680 But isn't it a lot healthier and safer to be outside in the sun, in the fresh air,
00:00:23.260 than inside breathing recirculated air along with the other people in your house?
00:00:28.060 And in our daily cancellation, we cancel a CNN anchor who cried for a reason that is not on
00:00:34.620 the approved reasons for a man to cry list. And so we'll talk about that, and we'll go over that
00:00:39.420 list again because it's very important that we all understand that. So all of that coming up.
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00:02:27.320 country shut down, millions of parents, of course, have discovered the considerable joys and also
00:02:32.560 considerable challenges of homeschooling. And I think this has made our bettors in the media and
00:02:38.400 academia extremely nervous. And for good reason, really, because what if a sizable portion of
00:02:45.560 these parents decide that they quite prefer teaching their own kids? What if they never
00:02:50.200 send their offspring back into the government's education factories? Well, then they, our bettors,
00:02:56.100 I mean, may lose their hold on an entire generation of children, and that would be a great tragedy for
00:03:01.420 them. Anyway, for our kids, it would be great, but for our bettors, it would be pretty bad.
00:03:05.380 And that's why we're seeing now this sort of full court press from academia and the media
00:03:11.080 against homeschooling, which homeschoolers know that for decades, we've been sustaining these
00:03:18.580 attacks on the fact that we educate our children, but it's just been ramped up in recent weeks.
00:03:24.220 So there was a recent article in the Washington Post, which was pretty forthright about these fears.
00:03:29.240 The editorial claimed, quote, homeschooling during the coronavirus will set back a generation of
00:03:34.360 children. And then Harvard Law School is holding a summit to discuss these problems. The summit will
00:03:41.120 focus especially on, quote, educational deprivation and child maltreatment that too often occurs under
00:03:47.880 the guise of homeschooling in a legal environment of minimal or no oversight. And the conversation will
00:03:54.040 be led by experts, of course. You always got to have those experts in there who will offer suggestions
00:03:59.540 on, quote, legal reform for homeschooling. Now, you hear legal reform, you think, what does that
00:04:06.200 mean? Well, to give you an idea of what legal reform might mean, at least to the folks over at Harvard,
00:04:11.960 we can look at an article that was just published in Harvard Magazine titled, The Risks of Homeschooling.
00:04:19.180 And it's accompanied by this unintentionally ironic picture, which I'll show you here. Take a look at
00:04:26.980 this picture. So you see there's a homeschooled child locked in a prison made of books, which
00:04:34.800 there's a lot to be said about that image, that books are a prison. But so the homeschooled child
00:04:40.680 is locked in a prison, looking out despairingly at all of these public school children who are outside
00:04:46.940 frolicking in the great outdoors. That's how they want us to see the dichotomy between public school
00:04:55.320 and homeschool. Of course, in reality, it's exactly the opposite. The public school child is chained to
00:05:01.400 a desk in a government building for eight hours a day. It's the homeschool child who can go outside
00:05:06.780 whenever they please. You know, we homeschool, especially when it's nice out, my wife will take the kids
00:05:12.000 outside to homeschool. We can homeschool outside, you can homeschool anywhere.
00:05:16.940 And so it's public school where, you know, you might get 35 minutes of rec time like you're in
00:05:22.800 prison, where the kids can go outside in a very controlled environment. Don't play dodgeball.
00:05:28.640 You know, you don't want to play any aggressive games. Kickball, probably no good. But they can go
00:05:34.240 outside and play approved recreation for 35 minutes. That's the public school environment,
00:05:40.140 not the homeschool environment. Now, while the picture is a hilariously poor representation
00:05:44.580 of homeschooling, it is a spot on representation of the article, which time and time again confuses the
00:05:52.900 problems of public school with the problem of homeschool, with the problems in homeschool.
00:05:58.900 The piece extensively quotes Elizabeth Bartholay, I'll just pronounce her name that way,
00:06:06.340 who we are told is the public interest professor of law and faculty director of the law school's
00:06:12.340 child advocacy program at Harvard. And Bartholay advocates an outright ban on the dangerous
00:06:19.360 practice of parents teaching their own kids. And all the reasons she gives are both illogical and
00:06:26.920 morally absurd. So let's go through and take a look at it. There's basically three points to her
00:06:33.480 argument, and we'll go through each of those three points. One, she worries that the unregulated regime
00:06:40.980 of homeschooling, as she puts it, unregulated regime, might allow parents who, quote, don't read or
00:06:47.080 write to handle, or rather, I suppose, mishandle their children's education. And as evidence of this
00:06:54.220 problem, she points to a memoir written by a woman who was homeschooled by survivalists in Idaho.
00:07:00.360 And I guess she thinks that that's fairly representative of the way most people are homeschooled.
00:07:05.980 Now, if she had any evidence, any actual evidence that any significant or even insignificant percentage
00:07:14.620 of homeschool parents are illiterate, then she should provide it. But giving us an anecdote
00:07:20.700 about survivalists in Idaho is not going to cut it. Because I would dare say that a sizable majority
00:07:30.280 of homeschool parents are not Idahoan survivalists, right? Nothing against Idahoan survivalists,
00:07:37.240 by the way. Besides, two can play at the anecdote game, right? I was public schooled for 12 years,
00:07:43.400 13 years, including kindergarten. And I could give you plenty of anecdotes, all right? If we want to
00:07:48.040 play the anecdote game, we could do this all day. So I could, for example, tell you about the
00:07:52.560 geography teacher I had in high school who didn't know that Georgia was the name of a state and a
00:07:57.720 country. Or I could tell you about the Spanish teacher I had in seventh grade who was rather
00:08:02.520 hampered in her Spanish teaching duties by the fact that she apparently could not speak Spanish.
00:08:08.020 And so instead we watched the movie Selena with Jennifer Lopez about five times all the way through
00:08:12.480 during school. So for every story about dumb and neglectful homeschool parents, which I admit that
00:08:17.920 there are, that they exist, but for every one story of those you could, you could, you could present,
00:08:22.480 I could dig up 10 about dumb and neglectful public school teachers. So this, this isn't going to
00:08:27.560 work. Now, if we're going beyond mere anecdotes to compare the relative quality of homeschool and
00:08:33.700 public school, and we start looking at data and statistics, homeschool still fares pretty well.
00:08:42.100 Homeschoolers tend to perform better than the national average on both the ACT and the SAT.
00:08:47.660 Um, now granted standardized tests are, in my opinion, not a good way to measure these things,
00:08:54.540 but that in itself is another argument against public school as the entire public school system
00:09:00.040 is structured around these tests. But the point is that homeschooled kids can beat the public school
00:09:06.340 kids at their own game and succeed and do better on the, on the standardized tests than they do.
00:09:11.980 And this is a fact that I'm convinced makes the Elizabeth Bartholays of the world hate homeschool
00:09:17.060 even more. Now putting standardized tests to the side, all we need to do is take a look around
00:09:24.240 society, a society, which is largely the product of the public school system to see how effective
00:09:30.840 that system has been because by their fruits, you shall know them, right? According to a certain
00:09:36.680 hugely influential book that public, that at least kids in homeschool are still allowed to study.
00:09:41.380 Uh, uh, whereas a pub in public school, you're not allowed to, but surveys and studies show that
00:09:46.940 most American adults are downright ignoramuses in subjects like civics, geography, math. Uh, now most
00:09:55.040 Americans may know how to read and, and most homeschool parents do as well, despite what, what we're told
00:10:00.380 in this article, but they've largely given up on the practice, which, which to me is, is an even,
00:10:05.300 even more disturbing indicator. It's not just that many Americans are poorly educated. It's that
00:10:12.120 they've given up on education. And I think in large part, because they've been so poorly educated,
00:10:17.360 they have no interest in learning anymore. So they leave public school and then maybe they go to
00:10:20.900 college and they leave college and they give up on learning. They don't read anymore. They don't
00:10:23.820 learn anything. That's what you see when you look around. Now it would be irrational to lay the blame
00:10:29.340 for all of this entirely at the feet of public school. I'm not saying that we do that, but
00:10:32.700 it also would be irrational to survey this landscape of ignorance and stupidity, uh, that is modern
00:10:39.300 American culture and conclude that the education system is doing a bang up job. It obviously isn't,
00:10:43.940 it's doing a very poor job. And that's a big part of the reason why parents are pulling their kids
00:10:49.420 out of it. Now we'll go to the second argument, which is even worse than the first, but before we do,
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00:12:09.240 Okay, so the second argument she gives, she says that homeschooled families are driven by
00:12:14.540 conservative Christian beliefs. God forbid. And that some of these parents, quote, are extreme
00:12:21.100 religious ideologues who question science and promote female subservience and white supremacy.
00:12:27.280 Now, her fears in this case are partially justified, of course, because it is indeed true
00:12:30.700 that many homeschool parents have committed the crime of being Christian. But then all educators
00:12:35.400 in all educational environments have underlying beliefs, and inevitably they will bring those
00:12:40.160 underlying beliefs into the classroom with them. Whether that's in homeschool or public school,
00:12:43.360 it's going to happen. It does happen. As for the notion that homeschool parents promote
00:12:47.680 female subservience and white supremacy, I mean, this is, of course, nothing short of just ridiculous
00:12:53.680 fear-mongering that has no evidentiary basis whatsoever. And she doesn't bother to try to
00:12:59.020 prove that. I think her research into homeschooling apparently has consisted of reading like Jezebel.com
00:13:04.760 and the Daily Kos and that's it. Now, as far as homeschool parents questioning science and rejecting
00:13:11.720 science, and you hear this a lot from the anti-homeschool crowd, that they're worried that homeschool
00:13:16.780 kids will not get a good science education because these are all science deniers, right, that homeschool
00:13:22.780 their kids. I have to ask, though, we need some qualification here because when she says
00:13:27.660 questioning science, does she mean actual science or the kind of, quote, science they teach in public
00:13:33.460 school these days, the kind that says that girls have penises and boys can get pregnant? Because if
00:13:40.260 that's the kind of science she's talking about, then yes, as a homeschool parent, I fully admit,
00:13:44.320 I question that science. And in fact, that science is, again, one of the reasons why my kids are not
00:13:50.540 stepping foot in a public school classroom. Three, finally, she says that some homeschool parents
00:13:58.720 might abuse their children. And she explains that most public school teachers are mandated reporters
00:14:05.440 to the government. And so they can alert authorities if there's signs of abuse in the home. And she says,
00:14:11.060 if a child doesn't go to school, then he's being abused, there's not going to be anybody there.
00:14:16.360 There might not be anyone there to save him from the abuse. Now, the problem with this argument is
00:14:21.120 that it completely fails to account for the abuse that happens in public school. There was a study
00:14:27.280 commissioned a few years ago, several years ago, by the Department of Education. This is a Department
00:14:32.820 of Education commissioned study that found that one in 10 public school kids are victims of sexual
00:14:39.560 misconduct by educators. That's 10%. 10% of kids are victims of some form of sexual harassment,
00:14:49.360 abuse, or misconduct by educators. Now, there's how many kids go to public school? I think it's like
00:14:53.940 50 million or something like that. So 10% of that, you do the math. And that's to say nothing of the
00:14:59.920 many thousands of children who have been sexually abused at school by other students. Now, when you
00:15:05.940 compare this to the rate of abuse at home, and even when you compare just sexual abuse in school to all
00:15:15.560 forms of abuse at home, even when you do that comparison, it seems still apparent that a child
00:15:22.140 who is homeschooled will not be rescued from his situation by a vigilant teacher. It seems pretty
00:15:30.960 apparent that a child is more likely to be abused at school than at home. That's what the numbers tell
00:15:37.760 us when you look at the numbers. Percentage of kids that are abused at home versus percentage of kids
00:15:42.580 that are abused in school. And when you look at those numbers, it's more likely to happen at school.
00:15:48.120 So the idea of the school being there as this savior to save kids from abuse, that does happen
00:15:54.920 sometimes. But it's more likely. So yes, you may have kids who are abused at home and then are saved
00:16:01.220 from it because a teacher at school notices and is vigilant. That does happen. But it's much more
00:16:08.640 common that a kid who is not abused at home goes to school and is abused there. Now, on top of all
00:16:15.340 this, public school also offers bullying, suicide, drug abuse, alcoholism, social ostracization,
00:16:23.000 peer pressure. You know, when you consider the myriad dangers of public school and the harmful
00:16:29.320 effect it so often has and the generally abysmal job it has done of educating our children,
00:16:35.700 you start to think that if we're banning any form of school, maybe it should be public school that we
00:16:40.760 ban. Now, I'm not sure that I would go that far, but I could make a much more persuasive argument
00:16:47.660 in that direction than the one that Harvard Magazine has offered or that any anti-homeschool
00:16:52.920 person offers against homeschooling. But as I said at the top, even though their arguments are absurd
00:17:01.740 and are easily debunked, there's a good reason for these people to be nervous about homeschooling
00:17:09.680 and for them to oppose it. Because when it comes down to it, they want to have control over your
00:17:14.700 children. They don't trust you. It's not they don't trust you because they think that you're
00:17:18.680 physically abusing your kids. No, they don't trust you to instill the right values in your kid. This
00:17:24.880 is all about values and ideas. And they don't trust you with that. And so they want you to send your kid
00:17:30.780 into the government building for eight hours a day, five days a week, nine months a year for the first
00:17:34.980 13 years of their, or at least for 13, for 13 years or more of their formative years. They want
00:17:40.600 you to do that so that they can take over that part of it and make sure that your kids become
00:17:44.480 the right sort of person in their minds. Now let's move on to headlines. Number one, Florida opened
00:17:52.240 their beaches back up and the media has not stopped having a panic attack over it. Just to give you one
00:17:59.140 example among many, there's this headline in the Daily Beast. It says, very, very scary. Officials
00:18:04.920 dumbfounded as Florida beaches reopened three days after death spike. And the article goes on to quote
00:18:10.740 local officials who are very scared and scandalized by all the people allegedly packing the beaches.
00:18:16.980 Now, a guy who works on the Biden campaign posted a viral tweet showing the carnage. Take a look at this
00:18:24.760 picture here. And with the caption, it says, Jacksonville beach reopened 26 minutes ago. This is a
00:18:28.920 live picture. Oh my gosh. Terrible. This is terrifying. Look at all those, look at all those families
00:18:36.300 spaced out on the beach, in the open air, in the sun. Wait, so what exactly is the problem here?
00:18:48.560 Because when I look at that picture, I see clumps of people who we can assume are families. They went to
00:18:53.960 the beach together. Most people don't go to the beach by themselves. So what I see are little clumps of
00:18:58.700 people, families. And then I see a lot of space in between the clumps. And so I don't understand
00:19:04.600 what the problem is. And then the Hill posted a montage of video footage of the beaches. And this
00:19:10.940 is all, again, supposed to be terrifying when you see all these allegedly stupid people, reckless,
00:19:16.240 who've gone to the beach. So let's look at this montage. And again, for the most part, people are
00:19:21.780 spaced out. Now, you do see groups closer together, but those are in the shots where people are walking by
00:19:27.760 each other. So we're not looking at a bunch of whole crowds of people setting up shop,
00:19:33.920 camping out right next to each other. They're just walking by each other on the way to somewhere else.
00:19:38.880 Now, let me ask you, what is the chance that you transmit or catch the virus while walking past
00:19:46.500 someone for two seconds outside in the sun, in the heat, in the open air? What's the chance?
00:19:52.000 I'm not saying it's impossible, but what's the chance of it happening? I don't know the answer
00:19:59.160 to that. And neither does anyone freaking out about this. But all of the available research
00:20:04.300 tells us that the virus does poorly outside and especially in the sun. And it is not very
00:20:10.440 efficiently transmitted when you're out in the air where there's air circulation.
00:20:14.740 So the chance is very low. I think we can at least say that. Very, very low. And I would argue
00:20:21.980 that the negligible risk is counterbalanced by the psychological and physical benefits of getting
00:20:27.460 exercise and getting sun. Now, by the way, drive-thrus are still open everywhere in the country,
00:20:33.960 as far as I know. Even places like Dunkin' Donuts are open. So you can drive through. Now,
00:20:40.940 Dunkin' Donuts apparently is essential because you might really need that donut,
00:20:44.120 which, okay, I get it. Sometimes donuts are essential. But you can go to the drive-thru
00:20:49.780 at Dunkin' Donuts, for example, and come within six feet of another person to get a donut. Now,
00:20:56.000 they do have to, you might be in the drive-thru, but you are, I mean, most people, their wingspan
00:21:00.080 isn't more than six feet. So you got to get closer than six feet so they can pass the donuts to you.
00:21:03.660 Unless you're 50 feet away and they're throwing you the donuts, maybe we'll get to the point where
00:21:08.880 that's how it's done. But right now, you're getting within six feet so somebody can hand you
00:21:14.540 a donut, which they touched with their hands. So let's think about this for a second.
00:21:24.060 Which of those is more dangerous? To eat a donut that a stranger hands to you or to walk by a
00:21:32.900 stranger on the beach? Now, both, I think, are very safe and nothing to worry about. But which is more
00:21:39.360 likely to be an occasion of viral transmission? Seems pretty obvious to me that it's the one
00:21:44.980 where you're putting something in your mouth that a stranger has touched. Yet, everybody is shaming
00:21:50.420 the people on the beach, not the people in line for a glazed donut. That, to me, doesn't make any
00:21:54.760 sense. And there's a lot of shaming happening. Here's a video someone took of people at a park.
00:22:00.680 This is not in Florida, but this is at a park. But again, shaming them for being outside.
00:22:07.300 So you look at this. Once again, what's the problem? People are well-spaced. They're outdoors.
00:22:14.880 They're in the sun. Meanwhile, you're filming while you're driving. Just so you could be a snitch.
00:22:23.360 Which is a greater danger to public health? Someone who's more than six feet away from you outside or
00:22:29.580 someone who's filming while driving? Number two, there were protests all across the country this
00:22:35.920 weekend. Thousands of people taking to the street to demand an end to the lockdowns. Of course, many
00:22:40.120 proponents of the lockdowns have been less than charitable to the protesters, shall we say,
00:22:45.960 accusing them of being selfish, stupid, conspiracy theorists, so on and so on. But if you're wondering
00:22:53.100 why these people are protesting, let me give you a little hint. Here's a shot of a food bank line in
00:22:58.660 Texas. And this is happening all over the country. We've seen images like this in Maryland, Pennsylvania,
00:23:04.800 Florida, California, all over the country we've seen this. So if people are protesting, you know,
00:23:11.000 if you're confused about it, you're wondering, why would people protest? Well, maybe it's because they
00:23:14.680 can't eat. Have you thought about that? Maybe it's because they would like to be able to eat,
00:23:20.540 and the government has taken that ability from them. Now, for another hint at why might people
00:23:26.740 might protest, we could look at this image from a CNN article. It's a woman who was protesting in
00:23:32.560 Maryland, and she's got a very crudely made sign, and she's saying she wants to save her business.
00:23:40.400 You know, she needs her business to live. That's her livelihood, which makes sense, doesn't it?
00:23:44.820 You may not agree with the protesters. You may support the lockdown still. But if you sneer in
00:23:52.400 contempt at them, as so many people have been doing, then you're just a bad person. Because any
00:23:58.380 decent person, agree or not, can at least understand why desperate people who've had everything taken
00:24:05.340 from them and cannot even afford to eat or to feed their children would want this to end. You should at
00:24:12.040 least be able to understand that and sympathize with it. It is not selfish or dumb for a person
00:24:19.580 to fight to protect what they work their entire lives for. It is not selfish or dumb for them to
00:24:26.340 fight so they can feed their kids and care for their families. You know, I got into a back and forth
00:24:31.320 with somebody yesterday online, and they were telling me that, no, it is selfish and dumb because,
00:24:37.740 you know, besides, you don't really need your job. The government will take care of you.
00:24:43.120 If the government's there, the government can give you money. Well, the problem there is, number one,
00:24:49.380 that solution isn't working, and we'll talk more about this in a minute. But a lot of people who
00:24:54.760 need the money aren't getting it. A lot of people who are getting the money need a lot more than what
00:24:59.900 they're getting, the government cannot step in and become the sugar daddy for tens of millions of
00:25:07.240 Americans all at once. It just can't do that. The money has to come from somewhere, and it doesn't
00:25:11.960 work. And besides that, this person who I was talking to was a man, a man, allegedly. And I think a man
00:25:23.200 especially should understand, you know, this, as a, at least for me, as a man, I want to be able to provide
00:25:32.700 for my family, not have the government do it. I want to provide for my family. And if you took that away from
00:25:39.960 me, even if, if you took that away from me, even if the government was able to step in and compensate, which
00:25:47.420 it wouldn't be able to do, but even if it did, that would still be a great tragedy for me. Because I
00:25:54.920 want to provide for them. And you are taking that from me. That is something real and important that
00:26:00.240 you are taking from me. And from my family. That's something that every man should be able to
00:26:06.640 understand. And if you're a man and you, and you, you act like you don't understand that, then I have
00:26:09.600 to question your, your basic manhood, honestly. Now I'm not saying that there, there, this is exactly my
00:26:15.900 point. I'm not saying that if you, if you're a man and you're not able to provide for your family
00:26:18.660 right now, and the government has to step in, I'm not saying you're less of a man. My point is,
00:26:22.700 it's a terrible thing that's, that's happened to you. I'm sympathizing with you. And if I was in your
00:26:27.700 boat, well, look, if I was, if I lost my income, I would take whatever help I could get for the sake
00:26:32.840 of my family. And that would, in that sense, in that case, be the manly thing to do, to humble
00:26:36.940 yourself. But it's, it's, it's, it's not ideal. It's not good. It's, it's a tragedy.
00:26:41.940 Um, and I just can't help but take note of the fact that seemingly the vast majority of the people
00:26:49.620 criticizing lockdown protesters, certainly the loudest and most visible critics in media,
00:26:54.800 still have incomes. They have an income, but they're calling you selfish for wanting your income
00:27:01.220 back. Uh, three, and, uh, here are bulldozers in California filling a skate park in with sand,
00:27:08.500 uh, the Venice, uh, skate park to stop people from skateboarding there.
00:27:12.820 So there you go. Uh, once again, you know, because, of course, we don't want people outside,
00:27:18.920 you know, if you, if you skateboard past somebody, I'm sure there's a real outside,
00:27:23.780 I'm sure there's a real great chance of, uh, of, of the virus being transmitted, right?
00:27:28.300 And, you know, it's, it's better to, rather than having the kids outside in the sun, in the open air,
00:27:32.700 rather than that, let's have them inside with their older relatives, having prolonged contact
00:27:39.060 with their older relatives. That's, that's a much better plan, right? For here's an MSNBC report
00:27:44.100 about police departments across the country using Chinese made drones to spy on citizens for the
00:27:52.200 sake of enforcing social distancing. And I want you to especially pay attention to, uh, when, when
00:27:57.760 they're listing the areas where you might be spied on, there's one area in particular that I think
00:28:02.920 should cause your ears to perk up. Watch this. Mayors need to be creative. We have to figure out
00:28:09.240 a way to get to people that police cars can't get to. Elizabeth city police shot this video for us to
00:28:15.760 show us how drones work. The drones make it easier for police to see into certain areas where access by
00:28:22.800 patrol cars is more difficult. That includes tight spaces between buildings, behind schools, and in
00:28:29.440 backyards. Failure to comply could lead to a summons or a thousand dollar fine. You think the drones
00:28:38.300 watching over people is a good idea or a bad idea? I think at any, at this point, it's worth a try. It's
00:28:44.760 just an invasion of your privacy. The mayor's heard it all. My answer to those people are, if these drones
00:28:51.540 save one life, it is clearly worth the activity and the information that the drones are sending.
00:28:59.020 The drones donated by DJI, a Chinese company have gone to 43 agencies in 22 States, all to help
00:29:06.400 enforce social distancing rules. You should not be complicating in groups. Authorities say the drones
00:29:12.580 aren't taking pictures or collecting evidence. It's a high tech warning against a deadly virus.
00:29:18.160 Backyards. Backyards. You heard that, right? They said they're spying on you in your backyard
00:29:25.080 with a drone that was helpfully donated from China. I'm sure out of the goodness of their heart.
00:29:33.240 China, out of the goodness of its heart, has donated spy drones that police departments can use to spy
00:29:40.140 on Americans when they're sitting on their own property. And then the mayor there gives us the old,
00:29:45.660 if it saves one life bit. I mean, they're still giving us this. If it saves one life, you know,
00:29:52.060 if it saves one life, I, because I'm, I'm, I'm a humanitarian. This is, this is really, I'm so
00:29:57.100 concerned about saving lives. That's, that's all this is about. That's it. Well, guess what? No,
00:30:02.660 no, it is not worth it. If you save one life, it's not worth you spying on me in my own yard.
00:30:13.120 If it saves a life, I'll tell you this. I don't care if it saves 10,000 lives,
00:30:17.280 which it won't by the way. Okay. The drone's not going to save any lives. It's going to save zero
00:30:24.220 lives. But even if it saved 10,000 lives, it's not worth the price of having our privacy completely
00:30:33.280 destroyed and being spied on the, in the government by the government when we sit in our own yards.
00:30:41.300 I mean, maybe you could save lives by performing random house checks, maybe going door to door,
00:30:47.800 barging into people's homes, checking to make sure they're washing their hands correctly and so on.
00:30:52.040 In fact, you know what? Actually maybe install, install cameras in people's bathrooms and kitchens
00:31:00.260 to just to, you know, make and have hand-washing experts in the government watching. And if somebody
00:31:06.440 doesn't wash their hands properly, you know, they can come on over the intercom and they can
00:31:10.520 give, give instructions. Citizen, you did not wash your hands correctly. Maybe something like that.
00:31:16.280 That could save lives. Good. But, you know, I guess I'm so cruel and heartless. I would say,
00:31:23.780 I don't care if that would save a million lives. I would, I would say absolutely not.
00:31:30.440 The, the complete forfeiture of our privacy and freedom is not worth it. Period. Is not worth it.
00:31:38.040 I would rather die than have that. I would rather be dead. That used to be the American attitude.
00:31:46.460 That in fact is the attitude that our country was literally founded on. And now you have people
00:31:52.040 embracing this kind of stuff because they're scared. It's pathetic. But of course, you know,
00:31:57.880 we're really playing the government's game in a way when we argue about whether this is worth it to
00:32:02.020 save lives because it's not saving lives first of all. And that's not why they're doing it anyway.
00:32:07.140 That's not the point. So I, I feel the need to engage with this argument of it's worth it if it
00:32:12.560 saves one, saves one life, but, but maybe the best thing is to not engage with it because this is just
00:32:16.720 the excuse they're giving. Do you, do you really think the mayor, whatever mayor that was there,
00:32:20.240 I don't remember, um, sending spy drones to your house, you really think he's a humanitarian who
00:32:26.860 cares, who gives a damn about saving lives? No, it's just power. It's a, it's enormous power.
00:32:33.060 And he's saying to himself, Oh my gosh, I mean, I, you know, I have these fancy drones now
00:32:36.620 and I can go spy on people. Awesome. That's all the thought going into it from people like that,
00:32:43.300 that goober there that you saw. It's just, Whoa, cool. I can spy on people. Sweet.
00:32:50.360 That is the entire, that's it. That's the entire thought process.
00:32:55.500 Number five, uh, Shake Shack has announced that it's returning a $10 million government loan that was
00:33:00.200 part of the small business relief package, uh, for the coronavirus and they're returning it saying
00:33:06.960 they don't need it. I mean, good for Shake Shack. So they should be applauded for that. A little,
00:33:10.400 little positivity there. But of course this raises a question of why Shake Shack, which is definitely
00:33:16.560 not a small business, ever got a small business loan as part of the coronavirus relief effort.
00:33:21.260 And they aren't the only ones by a long shot, many large restaurant chains and other large businesses,
00:33:27.560 um, who, who by the way, are still operating and making money have been given these loans while
00:33:33.640 many actual small businesses have not. And this is why we were talking about before. This is why you
00:33:38.600 cannot shut down the economy and expect the government to fill in the gaps. The government
00:33:44.500 is not nearly competent enough for that, um, is far too corrupt. And even if the government was,
00:33:51.960 was perfectly benevolent and competent, it still would not be able to do this. You still wouldn't
00:33:56.460 be able to shut down a, a multi, multi trillion dollar economy, grind it to a halt and have a
00:34:03.620 bureaucracy step in and, uh, nothing is lost, lost in translation. That it just, it's, it would not
00:34:08.760 work. It can't work. All right, finally, let's go to your daily cancellation. Uh, today we have to
00:34:13.780 cancel CNN anchor, Brian Stelter, who, um, perhaps you might say has a bit of a melodramatic streak.
00:34:24.780 And so over the weekend he tweeted, this is what he tweeted. Take a look. He says,
00:34:29.500 last night I hit a wall gutted by the death toll, disturbed by the government's shortcomings,
00:34:34.540 dismayed by political rhetoric that bears no resemblance to reality, worried about friends
00:34:39.000 who are losing jobs, kids who are missing school and senior citizens who are living in fear.
00:34:42.300 I crawled in bed and cried for our pre pandemic lives. Tears that had been waiting a month to
00:34:49.260 escape. I wanted to share because it feels freeing to do so. Now is not a time for faux invincibility.
00:34:55.980 Journos are living this, hating this like everybody else. Okay. Now listen, uh, this is a tough time
00:35:06.180 for all of us. And I agree, but pull yourself together, man, pull yourself together. Be a man for
00:35:16.820 God's sake. Can you imagine? I asked the ladies in the audience, I ask you to imagine this.
00:35:22.040 What would you do if you, if you climbed into bed at night and you found your husband there sobbing?
00:35:26.920 Be honest. Okay. You'd feel bad for him. Probably part of you would feel bad for him,
00:35:33.500 but at the same time, wouldn't you be at least, wouldn't at least part of you also be embarrassed
00:35:39.040 for him as well? Unless he has a good reason, obviously. Um, and you know, we've gone over
00:35:46.380 before. What are the good reasons? What are the acceptable reasons for a man to cry? There are only a
00:35:51.200 few, but if he's crying because his dad just died or another immediate family member. Okay.
00:35:57.980 Or because his team just lost in the playoffs. Um, or because the cat jumped up on the counter and
00:36:04.340 knocked over his bottle of whiskey. Um, that would be acceptable. Or because he just watched the movie
00:36:12.480 Rudy. Uh, that, that would be fine. Or because he was just stabbed in the stomach. Now only in the
00:36:20.620 stomach, if he was stabbed like in the arm or the leg, then it's, I mean, it's walk it off. Right.
00:36:24.680 But if stag, stab like in the gut, and if it just happened 10 seconds ago, maybe you're the one who
00:36:31.260 stabbed him. Then I think you have to allow for a few tears, a few manly tears. And then, you know
00:36:36.780 what? I'll also allow for, um, for tears related to fatherly pride. So for example, if your son hits his
00:36:46.300 first, uh, home run in little league, you could cry over that also fatherly shame. So if your son,
00:36:55.540 if we're, you know, five games into the season and your, your son has not even gotten a hit yet,
00:37:00.240 hasn't even got a base hit. He strikes out every time because he's a bad athlete. Then you might
00:37:04.160 weep a little bit in the stands when you realize that your nerdy son has no athletic skill whatsoever.
00:37:09.000 So either of those I'll allow, but, but that that's pretty much it. And hopefully if you,
00:37:16.060 if you see your husband crying over that, you'll console him because that is a manly cry.
00:37:22.100 But if he's crying because he's stressed about stuff that's happening in the world,
00:37:25.760 well then yeah, part of you pities him, but the other part of you is worried
00:37:28.680 that you may have accidentally married a woman. Um, the real problem though, is I think just talking
00:37:35.340 about it publicly? Like, okay, you cry, you have a nervous breakdown, whatever. You don't need to
00:37:40.980 advertise it to everybody else. As a man, you shouldn't be going around telling people that
00:37:46.140 you cried last night. Have some self-respect, even if it's for one of the acceptable reasons.
00:37:52.060 That's still, it's an intimate moment. Maybe one other person witnessed you cry.
00:37:58.500 I mean, as a man, there should only be a very few people in your life who have ever seen tears
00:38:04.000 exit your tear ducts. And, um, and you don't want to share it with everybody else.
00:38:10.980 So have some self-respect. And if you don't have self-respect as a man, then you're canceled,
00:38:15.920 which will give you another thing to cry about, I suppose. Um, all right. And of course we haven't
00:38:24.240 even, I mean, we could even put all that aside in just the fact that he's again, trying to make
00:38:28.020 journalists, the victims and the heroes of this. It's just repulsive. So, um, but that's it. We
00:38:35.980 will, uh, we'll leave it there. I'm going to go have a good cry myself. I'm, I'm, I'm scheduled for
00:38:39.980 one and I'll talk to you guys tomorrow. God bless. Stay safe. Godspeed.
00:38:45.320 We'll see you next time.
00:39:15.320 Well, Brian Stelter couldn't get to work last week cause he had to cry like a little girl and
00:39:30.300 the media wants the rest of America to do the same. The elites have a message for you. Let them eat
00:39:35.060 dust. We have a message too about what they can eat and I'll talk about it on the Andrew Klavan show.
00:39:39.520 I'm Andrew Klavan.