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Speaker 1 (00:00):
An army of girls and gays would kill to be
where I am now next to Piker. I see pants
and a pair of neon shorts with black How the
inclined boxer's poking out.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The mainstream media is whitewashing and uplifting internet extremists again,
but this time there's a kind of creepy twist. We're
gonna talk about GQ profiling the left wing internet celebrity
Hassan Piker, and so much more on today's episode of
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The Brad Versus Everyone Podcast, my daily show where we
take on the craziest ideas from across our media, the Internet,
and our politics, all from an independent perspective. Guys, bear
with me today crashing out a little bit on the
inside because I already recorded this entire episode, gave you
my best, did up all my jokes, my sarcasm, everything,
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and then afterwards realized the mute button on this microphone
was on the entire time. So I'm trying not to
scream on the inside a little bit as I sit
down to do this again for y'all. Take two will
hopefully come out. Okay, but let's talk without any further
ado about Hassan Piker's new profile in GQ Gentleman's Quarterly,
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the pretty famous men's magazine. And it is remarkable, and
not in a very good way, if I say so myself,
because we have a journalist and I say that with
the biggest air quotes ever attached to it, openly thirsting
for a terrorist sympathizer, Hassan Piker, and making us incredibly
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uncomfortable in the process. So the headline of this article
is Hassan Piker thinks America might be cooked, which, okay, whatever,
fine headline. But the photo shoot they did here with
Hassan is almost like a play bunny or like a
playboy photo shoot. It's him lying in a bed, it's
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him shirtless, soaking wet. It's him in the bathtub naked
with just bubbles covering up his you know what, And like,
is this normal? Because we're not talking about an actor
or a model here, We're talking about a political commentator
and they're doing like the shoots with him. It's very
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strange stuff. But what's even more strange is that the
journalist again biggest air quotes imaginable behind this article. From
the very first paragraph, it is clear that this journalist
is like in heat for Hassan the entire time. Take
a listen to this clip of the Internet celebrity and
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content creator Ethan Klein, who disclosure does absolutely hate Hassan.
They have bad blood. But him reading the opening paragraph
of this article because I don't even want to read
it myself. I'll feel icky. But it's kind of funny
to hear him, do it. Take a listen to that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
This is where thirty four year old political influencer keeps
his thirsted after body fit. Joined by a few other
neighborhood characters, Piker burns through his seventy minute workout, exhausting
himself in the process. He strips his shirt off guys
an army of girls and gays, not to mention admiring look.
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Maxers would kill to be where I am now, next
to Piker as he pants in a pair of neon
shorts with black how inclined boxers poking out and sun
like glistening off the sweat beaded on his chest hairs.
To kill me? What I am ready to die?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Why?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
That's the intro paragraph, literally the opening of the article.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
What is wrong with these people?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
So this journalist, this guy Kieran Press Reynolds, who I
can really only assume is a gay man, is sam
girling and like in heat practically over being in Hassan's presence,
And it's like, how are you gonna open up an
article like this and then have us take your analysis
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seriously whatsoever? After that? Because now we know that you're
like extremely horny for the subject of the person that
you're profiling, Like you're not thinking with your head there,
my friend. And it shows because the profile that results
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is rambling and really paints a kind of rosy picture
of Hasan by omitting his most controversial and horrific actions, words,
and deeds and perspectives kind of saine washing him and
presenting him as if he's like a normal, you know, acceptable,
mainstream American political pundit, when he's actually someone who openly
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calls for violence on his streams, including calling for the
death of US senators and openly expresses outright support for
designated terror groups. Again, those are objective facts. We've run
it back, we've played the clips on this show. You
can google it and it will come up. But none
of that was mentioned in this profile. Let's go over
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a couple specifics from this article in GQ. The author
describes Piker as the himbo gateway drug, which like a
bimbo but a man, I guess, introducing a legion of
progressive kids, or of kids to progressive ideals like medicare
for all. Then there's this pull quote medicare for all,
testosterone for all, ozembic for all, HRT for all, hormone
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replacement therapy. That's my argument, a son Piker, and then
it's hymn flexing. I found this a very interesting little passage,
little excerpt the GQ cut up and put out on
their social medias because it actually does kind of encapsulate
in a nutshell. The difference between people like me and
then people like socialist influencers like a son Piker is
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that I generally think people should pay for their own shit.
If you want to take testosterone to get ripped in bulk,
or if you want to take stuff to prevent your
hair loss, or the other things he talks about doing
in the article call me crazy. I think you should
do that yourself. You should pay for it yourself. As
an adult. You should generally pay your own way in
life as much as possible. You are responsible for you,
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not all of your neighbors. Yet Hassan seems to have
the opposite attitude that you are entitled to anything you
want in terms of healthcare or even cosmetics or steroids
at your neighbor's expense. It's a real difference. Like, I
think the starting principle should be that you're expected to
pay your own way in life, and then we have
nuance and accommodation for people with disabilities or the truly
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impoverished for whatever reason falls short of being able to
do so. Racy's like, yeah, just the default should be
everyone gets everything they want and somebody else will pay
for it. Don't ask details, don't ask questions about how
that will happen. It's supposed to be funny, but I
actually think it's a revealing and insightful passage there. Also,
I just think, if we're being honest, Hazzan is actually
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pretty bad at understanding politics and culture. He's just entertaining
and I think attractive. Not exactly like my type. The
communism doesn't do it for me, but I think he's
a handsome guy. I don't deny that, and that's why
he's popular. He's entertaining, he's attractive, and then he panders
to certain radical ideologies, but I don't think he actually
understands politics or culture very well. Let me read you
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this passage he talks about Andrew Tate, Nick Quentez, and
other like extreme bigoted, far right influencers. Here's how Hassan
explains their recent rise. I call it vice signaling. These guys,
whether they're real villains or not, are presenting themselves as
bad people, and people like it. Piker says, nobody likes
cancel culture, but goddamn that shit was keeping mother efforts
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in check. This is a really interesting part of the
article for me, because I think it's actually the opposite
of reality. Cancel Culture wasn't keeping these people in check.
They attempt to to brutally cancel these people. Nick Fuents
in particular, was banned from every social media platform and
debanked for goodness sake. He was put on the no
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fly list for gonna and I think he's a testable
person with horrifying views. But you can't say they didn't
try to cancel him. They did, and in fact, he's
only become more popular because they gave him this like
forbidden fruit status, Like ooh, he's telling truce. The establishment
doesn't want you to hear or he you know that
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kind of it totally failed. The attempt to cancel and
censor and deplatform him had the opposite effect, Whereas I
think if you just let him do his little thing
in the open and then debated him, the fact that
a lot of what he views is hateful and just
nonsense would have become apparent to people. Instead, they tried
to cancel him, and it didn't work in the same way.
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The other thing is, cancel culture did not keep these
people in check, and now that it's weighing, they're popular.
No cancel culture, where they were literally canceling people for
making hand gestures that have no nefarious meaning whatsoever. Random
people getting fired. There's an article in the Atlantic about
just like random day laborers getting canceled because a photo
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of them making the okay sign. It really got out
of control, to the point where celebrities had to apologize
for using the wrong color of hand emojis, the wrong
shade of hand emojis. This was so insane. They threw
around racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, blahla lah blah blah blah
all the time. Like Canaan Halloween. They watered these terms
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and these warnings down and then actually hateful, bin bigoted
people like Nick fuent As like Andrew Tate, who are
both very openly anti Semitic, anti gay, and other things.
They kind of flew under the radar because people were
desensitized to the allegations of racism and sexism because y'all
had said it, the cancel culture crowd, the progressive crowd
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had said it so many times that it wasn't true
that this actually gave rise to them. So I think
Hassan gets us totally backwards. But I thought it was
an interesting part of the article. One part of the
article I thought was still interesting, but in this case
very poorly done. Not a lot of critical thinking going
on with this journalist. Maybe he was distracted. He references
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Hassan as almost like this freedom fighter resisting authoritarianism. So
he writes, as political experts sound alarms about authoritarianism, he's
fighting back one explative and brain rat filled livestream at
a time. He's of course talking about like Republican authoritarianism,
the Trump administration, these kinds of things, and he's very
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much framing Hassan as like a freedom fighter in his
edgy style yet just a few paragraphs later he includes
this gem about Hassan and doesn't seem to notice the
total inconsistency here. Of course, Piker himself is an edge floored,
too eager to breach taboos just on behalf of progressivism.
For example, he proposed Nuremberg style trials for those in
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the media who sees as he sees as taking part
in a quote propaganda apparatus for the state. He says
he told the Nelk Boys the context heeries they did
a very softball interview with bib Net Yahoo, the Israeli
Prime Minister. He says he told the Nelk Boys straight
up that they should be tried. But Piker says there
are far more consequential, far more noteworthy figures that deserve
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to put on trial than like the effing Nelk Boys. Specifically,
he says New York Times columnist Brett Stevens, And this
is because Brett Stevens recently wrote an article arguing that
Israel's offensive in Gaza is not a genocide, a perspective
that whether you agree with it or not, is free speech.
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It's his opinion and hasan Piker thinks he should be
put on trial and imprisoned for that, yet he is also,
according to this article, a freedom fighter resisting Trump. The inconsistency,
the total inability to realize that Hassan is actually also
an authoritarian. Again, I think this journalist's thinking was clouded
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here a little bit, just this much maybe. And these
media outlets, whether it's GQ this time around, whether it's
NPR or CNN, which recently did puff pieces about Hassan
as well, they don't seem to realize that he is
playing them, He is using them. He is, whatever you
think of him, adept in the media space. He knows
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what he is doing. And it's not that I think
he shouldn't be spoken to, he shouldn't be interviewed, he
shouldn't be profiled. I actually think he absolutely should. However,
you gotta do it in a critical way. You have
to do it in a way where you're doing journalism,
not fangirling and just horned up over him. That's really
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weird and unprofessional, but also obviously clouds you and makes
your end product to bias. And he is very explicit
about the fact that he is taking advantage of these
journalists and using their puff pieces to pass himself off
as a mainstream part of American political discourse, even though
again is an open violent extremist who calls for violence
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and supports designated terror groups. Take a listen to him
talking about using this exact GQ puff piece and others
like it to sane wash or normalize himself in mainstream
political discourse.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
In my opinion, the GQ article book ends really well
with the nprpiece from the other day. They're both something
you can point to Norman lives if they have questions
about Hassan, the terror supporting guy exactly exactly precisely. That
is the whole point. A lot of these articles are
just like terrorism insurance. Remember that, Okay, this is something
you show your parents. This is something you show like
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insane haters and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
So like, he's not being shy about it, guys, he
is saying that this stuff, these GQ articles, this NPR segment,
the CNN segment is great because then when like a
parent sees their kid watching this on is like, wait,
who is that, they can be like, oh, no, he's
not not anything bad. Just watch the CNN segment about him,
and the mom goes, oh okay, yeah, you can keep
watching him. It is very much explicit, and he knows
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what he is doing, and he for that, I mean,
is smart. I guess you got to give him credit.
But these journalists are just discrediting the profession even more
than it already has. And I say that as a
recovering journalist to myself, and putting their like thirstiness and
I guess like lust or their ideological sympathies over any
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semblance of responsible journalism, and in the process allowing a
legitimate extremist to play a significant role in mainstream American politics.
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we're going to talk about another big story that is
all over my for you page on TikTok right now,
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which comes from the Great State of Texas because the
Texas legislature passed a law banning phones in state in
public schools statewide. That is just kicking in as kids
are going back to school and the reception is a lot.
It is all over the place. You have some people
very happy with how this is working out. Then you
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have some people very unhappy, especially some gen zers posting
on TikTok who are not happy about their new phoneless
school experiences. First though, details on this story here from
NBC five Dallas Fort Worth No Phones more focus. New
Texas law bans use of phones, smart watches and schools.
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A new state law prohibits the use of phones and
other personal electronic devices from the first bell to the
last bell in Texas public schools. As students across North
Texas head back to class this week, they're also adjusting
to a major new rule. Cell phones, smart watches, earbods
and other earbuds, and other personal electronic devices are not
allowed to be used during the school day. The new
state law bans students from using personal devices at any
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time between the first and last bell. That includes hallways,
lunch periods, and other non instructional times. The only exceptions
are for medical needs or emergencies. So already some teachers,
including this one in a mega viral video on TikTok,
are reporting very positive results from this move. Take a
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listen to this video.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
My school, my state ban the phones, ban the phones today.
All of my students, one hundred percent of them, took
notes in my class, did their assignment, asked for help
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when they got stuck, and turned it in, and then
when they were done, they talked to each other. Was
it this easy the whole time? Have we have I
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have been pulling my hair out for like eight years.
Has it been this easy of a solution the whole time?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
So I'm not shocked as somebody who went to high
school when phones were coming out and people were getting
Instagram and all that, But I do remember school before
all of that. Yes, this makes sense. I do think
there's research and evidence and there's so much anecdotal confirmation
of the fact that phones are distracting and they are isolating,
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and they do break down the kind of social stuff
that used to happen in schools and classrooms. And I'm
not surprised at all. This seems about like what you
would expect. I don't think it will solve all the problems.
I don't think it's a miracle cure for everything. But yeah,
it sounds about right that it would work like this.
I'm not surprised, and I think we'll see that play
out in more places. But some staff and teachers are
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like very unhappy about this. So for example, there was
this TikTok that had over four hundred thousand likes, So
this is very widespread sentiment from a principle. And she
wrote over sad music, realizing we will have to print
over thirteen hundred class schedules because students can't use their
phones to see their schedules and where to go each
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period on the first day of school, okay, like, do
you want a cookie? Yeah, you can print out paper schedules.
I think you'll survive. Go to staples, Like, I mean, actually,
you probably have everything you need in your office to
run off, you know, hundreds of copies of class schedules.
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Is that really that insurmountable a task for a school principle,
Because if it is, I mean you should probably be replaced.
And yeah, that might be a little bit of a
hassle for you, but hmm, the trade off here seems
pretty worth it asking school administrators to print some stuff
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versus the mental and social and educational well being of
all their students. Huh, Like, how is this a conversation?
How is this a real principle? And how are hundreds
of thousands of people thinking this is like some great
point against phone bands. They're going to have to print schedules.
What do you think people did for decades? Like I
had a print schedule my classes on it, and after
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a couple of days you learn the order of your
classes and you crumble it up and throw it away,
never need it again until the next quarter or the
next half. What it changes like it's not that deep
and uh, yeah, do your job. I don't know. I yes,
do your job. Here is another teacher from Texas explaining
all the ways in which she feels inconvenienced in her
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job as a teacher by this new policy. Take a
listen to this, guys.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Paper schedules are so easy to lose, right, So go ahead,
take a picture of your oh the phone ban mm wait,
we're gonna do this really fun activity.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Guys.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Everyone scanned the QR code with your ummm. This is
the code for ap classroom So if you guys don't
want to do it now.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
If you'll just take a picture.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
M he was holding hands with another girl in the hallway,
Did you.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Take a picture?
Speaker 5 (20:50):
So, Mmm, you don't know what time you're leaving for
your game today, we'll just text your coach. Necessita's traduce her.
Remember you need a composition notebook for my class. If
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you're not going to remember that, go ahead and put
and text your adult in your family right now, or
take a picture.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
So some of these are just weird or not that consequential,
and she should probably just like deal with it. Other
ones though, Listen, I understand that you integrated technology as
part of your educational process and it may be difficult
to adapt, but you can do it. I believe in you,
like you can learn how to teach kids without QR codes.
It was done for a very long time, and I
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think again, the trade offs here are worth it, Like
you're gonna be okay, And yeah, I think there's some
truths to some of the fact that technology has been
baked into some of this stuff, but I don't It's
not impossible to do school without every kid having an
iPhone in front of them. It's simply not. And if
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you can't do it, then that's a reflection of your
educational skills more than it is the state of modern technology.
Sorry not sorry. Also, like some of this is just yeah,
use the opportunity to teach these kids' personal responsibilities. Here
is your paper schedule, don't lose it. If you do
lose it, you'll have to go to the library and
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print out a new one, or go to the office
and print out a new one. And they're not going
to want to keep doing that over and over again. Oh,
you don't know what time you have to leave for
your game later, ask a teammate. Like the problem solving
skills here that should be already baseline, But clearly aren't
just teach kids how to solve basic problems. I don't
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know what to tell you, Like, you should be able
to address these basic issues without an iPhone, and if
you can't, there are bigger problems. Now, what I was
certainly expecting was that students themselves would not be very
happy about this kind of a change. That seems understandable.
I think in the long run they might actually acknowledge.
Give them six or twelve months. Oh wait, it was
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better this way but of course they're not going to
be thrilled about this. Young people are addicted to their phones,
and so some of them are speaking out and their
tiktoks are going megaviral. Students who are very unhappy about this.
I am going to blur their faces and the video
because they are minors and I want to keep their
identities private, and I won't include any identifying information. But
here's a video entitled FU Texas, and then it links
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to a petition to unbanned phones. This has almost seventy
thousand likes and hundreds of thousands of views from one
young woman who is not happy about this change. Let's
listen to her video.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
This one is for all my bitches that are attending
school in Texas right now. Today was my first day
and I'm pissed. I'm livid. First of all, the phone thing.
We are not allowed to have our phones in class,
which is okay, whatever, in the hallways or at lunch,
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we're not allowed to have our phones at all. And
if they hear them buzz in our backpacks, they'll take
them away. And now, since I can't have my phone
in the hallway, I don't know what time it is
and I don't know when I have to get to class. Also,
since it was my first day, was trying to figure
out my phone schedule, so I was having to hide
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my phone in the hallway to figure out my schedule
because I'm not going to carry my blocky ass iPad around.
They told us on the announcements that they wanted us
to carry our iPads around the hallway to check the
time and our schedules. This is not necessary. All of
this is not necessary because you know what's really crazy
about the whole phone thing. The kids that don't want
to focus in class because they're on their phones are
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not going to focus in class because they don't have
their phones. Most of them are just going to say
a big for you to everyone else and just not
pay attention. Grown people need to stop acting like they
understand what teenagers are like these days, because they don't
at all. They literally don't know how they work.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
And it's so clear anybody else getting flashbacks ough Adults
just don't understand what it's like to be a teenager
these days. Yeah, they don't get it. We're different now, Yeah,
we all felt that way once upon a time. Love
a couple things and again guys, be nice to this girl.
I'm not trying to dug on this girl. I just
think it is useful to talk about how they're reacting.
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We're going to introduce her to a couple new concepts today.
One of them is called a watch. It's this thing
you can get pretty cheap plastic watch that just tells
you what time it is. We're also going to introduce
you to the concept of printing out a schedule and
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then you'll know where you need to go. And then
as far as things like lunch are concerned, yes, it's
actually good. We want you to talk to your other
classmates and your friends and speak with them instead of
sitting in a circle looking all down at your phones
in different Instagram memes and tiktoks and then laughing at
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them like, yeah, that's the point. Good, you might like
try it, you might like it, and all of these videos.
It is remarkable because they they don't seem to be
realizing the extent to which they are proving the point.
They are proving how addicted they are. And I'm not
throwing shite at them. I'm addicted to I really am.
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We all this is just a facet of modern life.
But like, the more they crash out over over not
having their phones like this, the more obvious it is
that they need to not have their phones like this.
Next one is this dude saying he's gonna just fight
people because he doesn't have his phone. Take to listen
to this.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
I went to school today and I thought it was
jok about no phone.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Shit, Beach.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
We ain't had no phone all mother day long, from
when we walked in that mother. So when we left
that mother, whoever made that mother, I'm scrimming for you
and y'all. Mama, I hate to announce it to you,
but you just made a bigger issue because now I'm
just tempted to fight all them of the time. I
got nothing but time patients energy, like I need that
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from any bitch. Look at me, crazy, I don't got
no phone, I don't got no distraction's So I'm on
that with you. What you want to do, bitch that
flu I'm trying to figure out, Like, girl, what you
thought taking my phone away was gonna make me like
calm down or something? But you forna tire of me
up now for real, I don't got no districtions, Bach,
I'm on that with any bitch.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
My friend, if your point was to convince us to
give you back your phone, it did not hit the
way you hoped. It did not hit the way you hoped,
because if you ask me, it's pretty clear this young
man needs to spend more time in a classroom, less
time on the internet, more time learning, And clearly it's
very addicted to the cell phone and the other social
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media feeds if you are this emotionally unstable about it all.
And I also do not buy even for a second,
the argument that, well, kids who don't want to pay
attention won't pay attention anyway, so just let us all
have our phones. They're distracting for people who do want
to pay attention. We all experience it every day. I
get distracted by my phone and when I'm trying to
do my work and edit and bring you this podcast.
(28:22):
And that's why half the time I'll put it in
the other room, or I'll turn it off entirely when
I need to focus on something. But it is not
just oh well, it's not gonna have any impact. It
has a big impact. And we're already seeing that. The
other big point that people keep raising is this idea
that like well, if kids don't have their phones, they
won't be able to respond to emergencies, and what about
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when they're school shootings and all this kind of stuff.
So here's one Texas woman, This is an adult explaining
why she objects to this new policy. Take a listen
to this.
Speaker 8 (28:54):
Never crashed out on this app but here it goes.
Texas State has passed a law that, beginning on August fourth,
for this next school year, our children will not be
able to have their phones on them or on during
the school day. While I understand that it's a cause
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for distraction, I also understand the statistics and what keeps
happening in America to these schools. So what I'm sitting
here thinking is, if you don't send your child to school,
you get in trouble for truancy. If you don't send
your child to school, that's breaking the law. If you
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do send your child to school, you are not allowed
to have communication with them throughout the day, to know
if somebody opens fire weather in the freaking restroom, to
know if a group of fining kids jumped them, To
know if they were denied their lunch for the day,
to know if their stomach hurts, to know if they
bled through their freaking pad, there's no way.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
So it was interesting to me that this person says,
I understand the statistics about what happens happening in schools
in America. Clearly you don't. If you actually think that
school shootings of the type of Uvalde or Parkland are
some kind of regular occurrence, they are not. I know that,
and I don't even blame you, because like CNN and
mainstream media, they repeat these headlines based on these concocted
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statistics that they count everything as a school shooting. They
count a gun going off by accident in the parking
lot and no one gets hurt as a school shooting.
They count a student involved in a gang shooting another student,
one student shooting another as a school shooting, and then
they'll give you a headline five hundred school shootings in
one hundred days so far in twenty twenty five or whatever.
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But it's not talking about like school shootings in the
sense of what people think of when they hear that word.
Not to say they aren't significant events, but the data
are manipulated in a very misleading way there, and regardless,
it's still so incredibly statistically rare as horrible as this
stuff undoubtedly is, it's not a common occurrence in America.
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So just say that, Well, we just can't adapt common
sense policies that are better for students' mental, social, educational
well being because of these tiny, tiny, tiny percent chance
that something terrible might happen is just not realistic, especially
because even in the case of something terrible like that happening,
there's going to be phones in every classroom in the offices.
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The police will get called and notified. And it's not like, oh,
if the students don't have phones on them, they won't
be able to alert the authorities. I don't really think
that's accurate. Also, the policies have exceptions for emergencies, So
if they take the phone out of the bag and
turn it on during a lockdown, I don't think they're
going to get in trouble for that. Same with the
other situations this person described, like, well, what if they
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have this stomach ache or they have a period or
something like that, Like, well, they'll go to the nurse,
the nurse will call the parent. This is how school
ways worked. You can still it's not as if it
without cell phones, it becomes a black hole where parents
cannot get in touch with their child in any way.
That's not how it was when we were kids. It's
simply not and like this idea that, oh, well, you know,
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we have to be in constant communication with our children
all the time. I don't want to judge parents because
I haven't been there, I haven't had a child. I
don't know what it's like. But some of y'all seem
really to struggle with the idea of detaching at all,
of letting your kids figure out anything on your own.
You don't need a play by play of every single
thing going on throughout their day. They don't need to
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text you about every little problem or hiccup they have.
And if some real stuff or a big issue actually
comes up, the school can and will get in touch
with you. I promise y'all it's gonna be okay. It's
probably gonna be for the better. But the uh online
crashouts are continuing, and I don't know that they'll stop
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quite anytime soon. But hopefully in the long run, even
these people will realize that this is in kids' best interest.
What do you guys think, especially if you're based in
Texas or another state where they're doing this, I want
to hear from you. I want to know what your
experience has been like. Let me know in the comments
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for today's episode of the burad Versus Everyone Podcast. We'll
talk again real soon.
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