It's the day before Thanksgiving, and Ben Shapiro is here with some Thanksgiving Day advice. He talks about how to deal with the leftist who wants to talk politics on Thanksgiving Day, and why you should never invite them over. Plus, the latest in the Middle East, plus a brand new segment that I'm ripping off from Andrew Klavan's new segment, "I don't care. I just want to go out of my way to be nice to everybody." - Ben Shapiro Subscribe to The Ben Shapiro Show on iTunes and leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms. Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your friends and family. You can also join the Remember when? group on FB and use the hashtag and tag in the comments section below! if you like the podcast and want to support it, share it with a friend or become a supporter, tweet me to let me know what you're thankful for! and I'll give you a shoutout! Timestamps: 1:00 - Thanksgiving Day is a day where we all get together with family and friends 2:30 - How do I deal with annoying leftist relatives? 3:15 - I don't want to invite my nephew over to my home? 4:40 - I'm sorry if my nephew is a jerk 5: what do you want to come over for dinner? 6:00- I don t want him there? 7:30- I'm thankful for you to be a nice person? 8:15- How do you like it? 9: What do you care about me? 10:00 11: Do you want me to be polite to everybody? 13:20 - I'll be nice? 14:40- What do I'm going to be thankful? 15:00 What kind of people are you're not thankful for me like that? 16:20- What you don t care about you? 17:10 - What are you going to do with your family? 18:00 Should I be nice for me in the middle of the middle East? 19:00: Is it a problem? 21:00 Do you care? 22: What you should be nice, not you should I care about my friends or not? 20:00 Is that a problem you're grateful for me, right?
00:01:00.000I happen to be in a career field in which everybody thinks that they're an expert, so most people want to talk politics with me when I'm out in public.
00:01:07.000It's like being a musician where everybody thinks they're a musician and so they want to talk music with you or you're an actor, you're in Hollywood.
00:01:13.000Everybody has written a script that they buried in their sock drawer and then went to wait tables over a coffee bean.
00:01:18.000And there's certain professions where everybody wants to talk to you.
00:01:21.000Like if you're an engineer, you never have to deal with this.
00:01:24.000It has never happened to you where you've walked into a dinner party and somebody was like buttonholing you about engineering.
00:01:29.000It just has never happened and it never will happen.
00:01:31.000But if you're in politics, it happens a lot.
00:01:33.000And if you're right-wing and you're political at all, it will happen at your family dinner.
00:01:36.000So, a couple of pieces of advice for your Thanksgiving tomorrow.
00:01:54.000It's an accident of birth, it's an accident of genetics, just because that person happens to be your nephew.
00:01:59.000The kid's a little schmuck, I mean, you don't want him there, so just tell him you don't want him there, and tell his parents that if he's gonna come,
00:02:05.000You just keep it on the down low about his politics.
00:02:07.000You're happy to talk about anything else.
00:02:13.000Because it turns out that you're supposed to be with people you're thankful for, not people who you wish would suddenly be dropped into the middle of Syria.
00:02:20.000You really don't want to clutter your life with folks that you don't like.
00:02:25.000One of the most liberating phrases in all of the English language is this three-word phrase.
00:02:40.000But one of the things that I taught my wife, and I think women tend to fall into this trap more than men, which is you have to be nice to everybody.
00:03:01.000I remember that after my wife and I got engaged, she had a friend who lived in the same co-op living facility in which she lived, and they'd become sort of friendly because this girl was really needy and she had no friends.
00:03:13.000And so my wife, being a nice person, decided that she'd be friends with this person.
00:03:17.000And this person was really needy and really obnoxious.
00:03:20.000And right after we got engaged, my wife sent a mass text to all her friends, you know, I'm engaged.
00:03:25.000And this girl wrote back, how dare you?
00:03:28.000And what she meant by how dare you was, why are you telling everybody at once, why didn't you tell me specifically?
00:03:42.000There's only a certain number of breaths you get to take on this planet, and wasting breath on people you don't like is just a complete waste of time.
00:03:48.000If she did that, it's made her life that much better.
00:03:50.000And the truth is that when you have kids, this is particularly true.
00:04:18.000It's not time you should have to spend rebutting all the stupid, idiotic talking points they got from Vox.com or in a Barack Obama email.
00:04:25.000The number one question I always get from people, because I'm good in debate, is, how do you debate folks on the left?
00:04:30.000And the first answer I always give is, why are you debating them in the first place?
00:04:34.000You need to figure out why you're involved in the conversation in the first place.
00:04:37.000If you can't answer that, you shouldn't be having the conversation.
00:04:39.000That's true on Facebook, that's true on Twitter, and it's true in your daily life.
00:04:43.000Now, if you can't avoid it, if it's your mom, right, and you have to invite your mom over because otherwise she's going to be lonely in the old age home or something, and you've got to invite her over and she just starts being a jerk, and then what you should do, obviously, is try and swivel the conversation elsewhere.
00:04:59.000And if it really does come down to a basic conversation about policy, you can have a basic conversation about policy, but the minute anybody says racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, accuses you of Islamophobia, the conversation is over, and you should either swivel the topic, or they should get out.
00:05:14.000Or, preferably, again, my favorite solution, don't come over at all.
00:05:31.000So those are my brief Thanksgiving Day tips, and that's particularly true on a day when the left really hates Thanksgiving.
00:05:37.000I mean, every year we have this routine about how the settlers, the pilgrims, were really terrible people, and they came over and they exploited the Native Americans.
00:05:53.000All the people who are sitting around bitching about Western society and Western civilization coming to America, they can go live in a place where there is no Western civilization.
00:06:11.000There's a reason you want to live here with your iPhone and with your computer and with your electricity and with your running water and with your toilet, right?
00:06:17.000There's a reason that your lifespan is approximately 80 years here in the West, where in some parts of the world it's like 35 years.
00:06:24.000And it turns out you wouldn't want to go back to living in a time where the indigenous peoples of America were your rulers.
00:06:30.000If you could have chosen to live now, after several hundred years of development in the West, including colonialism and colonization,
00:06:39.000Or you could live back in primitive, more innocent times.
00:06:42.000You'd be a fool to live back in primitive, more innocent times, because innocent times usually involved cannibalism, and not knowing how to write, and not having any sort of sanitation of any type, and not knowing how a wheel was used.
00:07:48.000The untold part of Thanksgiving that people generally don't know, it's becoming a little more well-known because Rush Limbaugh's talked about it.
00:07:54.000But the part of Thanksgiving that people don't know is, of course, that Thanksgiving is an anti-communist holiday, too, because people act like when the settlers got here, they didn't know how to farm, as though no one in England had ever farmed before, right?
00:08:07.000Like, the Dutch and the British, none of them knew how to farm, right?
00:08:11.000They just, they sat around and the food just descended from them in parcels, like on Lost.
00:08:15.000No, it turns out that they knew how to farm, it's just when they came to the United States, and then America, when they came to the New World,
00:08:22.000They decided that they weren't going to farm in the traditional manner where everybody had their own little field.
00:08:26.000Instead, they were going to have a commune, right?
00:08:28.000Everybody was going to share the work in common.
00:08:30.000Everybody was going to share the product in common.
00:08:32.000And just like every other communist system ever, this thing fell apart within two years, right?
00:08:37.000People just started being lazy, and they wouldn't work, and they wouldn't do their job.
00:09:13.000So President Obama met with Francois Hollande yesterday, the president of France, and President Obama talked a little bit about what was going on in the world.
00:09:21.000He said, in what has now become one of the most overused lines in American politics, we are all French now.
00:09:27.000Here's President Obama talking with Francois Hollande.
00:09:34.000It was a show of solidarity, as President Obama declared, we are all French, embraced French President Francois Hollande, and then vowed to crush ISIS.
00:09:43.000It cannot be tolerated, it must be destroyed, and we must do it together.
00:09:48.000Okay, he said that we're all French now.
00:09:50.000He also said that we're all French now comes from, you know, originally we're talking, it comes from JFK going to Berlin in the middle of the blockade of Berlin during his presidency and saying, Ich bin ein Berliner, right?
00:10:07.000That was one of the jokes at the time, is that a Berliner was a sausage, but people understood what he meant.
00:10:11.000So now everybody does this thing where we're all French.
00:10:13.000And Obama also said in this press conference something really bizarre.
00:10:17.000He also said that France, they're doing a wonderful job of getting over the terrorist attacks, because they're showing the world that they're not afraid.
00:10:23.000They're going out in places, and they're shopping again, and they're having mass gatherings.
00:10:29.000And I thought to myself, this is such a bizarre notion.
00:10:31.000How the left thinks you actually defeat terror is so weird.
00:10:35.000Like, Bush did the same thing, by the way.
00:10:36.000He always used to say, we can't let the terrorists win.
00:11:09.000First of all, at the same time that Obama is praising the French for going out and gathering in public places, his State Department yesterday issued a worldwide travel advisory telling Americans not to go gather in public places, in places like France.
00:11:48.000So the idea that winning the war is living your life as normal is just, it's a weird idea and it's a very, it's just moral preening is really what it is.
00:11:56.000President Obama went on to say, and this was the most, every day President Obama says the stupidest thing that has ever been said.
00:12:03.000Like every new day brings a new stupid thing that is stupider than anything that has come before.
00:12:08.000There is an episode of Family Ties in which Michael J. Fox playing Alex P. Keaton, he says, you know, every day I wake up and I think, how could I possibly get any smarter?
00:12:16.000And then I wake up the next morning and I think, how could I have possibly been so stupid?
00:12:19.000Well, President Obama is basically the same way, except everything that he says is dumber than it was the day before.
00:12:24.000He said the stupidest thing I have ever heard, I think, a human being say, which is saying I've heard a lot of stupid crap.
00:12:29.000Here is President Obama saying what would be a rebuke to ISIS terrorists.
00:12:35.000And next week, I will be joining President Hollande and world leaders in Paris for the Global Climate Conference.
00:12:46.000What a powerful rebuke to the terrorists it will be when the world stands as one and shows that we will not be deterred from building a better future for our children.
00:13:18.000ISIS will really quake in its boots then.
00:13:20.000I mean, they'll look at us and they'll say, wow, those guys, they're talking about crippling their own economies in order to spend the next hundred years lowering the global climate by one degree Celsius.
00:14:00.000That is going to cause more hurricanes.
00:14:07.000Honestly, God, it's as though the President of the United States is a child, and he thinks that he, along with all of his friends, are going to get together and play Barbies, and this is a rebuke to the terrorists.
00:14:15.000They're going to get the Barbie dollhouse, and they're going to bring out Barbie and Skipper with their little car, and they're going to drive it around.
00:14:21.000They're going to go, see, we showed you.
00:15:38.000At what point does this nonsense finally stop?
00:15:41.000Because if you truly believe that America is strengthened by people of every philosophy and every ideology, that means America is meaningless.
00:15:48.000It means America is totally meaningless and there's nothing worth preserving.
00:15:56.000Well, just forget Syrian Muslim refugees.
00:15:57.000We'll just give tickets to the United States, to ISIS, because after all, we are all strengthened by our common diversity.
00:16:04.000We're strengthened by the fact that we don't have a common ideology.
00:16:07.000The only thing that holds us together is that we have nothing in common.
00:16:09.000Just utter tripe and nonsense from President Obama, but all of this is cover for actual cowardice, because the truth is...
00:16:16.000As I mentioned yesterday, there really is only one country on planet Earth, there really is, that has an interest in wiping out ISIS, and that's the United States.
00:16:23.000We have the power and the interest to wipe out ISIS.
00:16:25.000All of the regional, all of the various regional countries have no interest in wiping out ISIS.
00:16:30.000Turkey doesn't want to wipe out ISIS because ISIS is Sunni.
00:16:33.000If they wipe out ISIS, then presumably the Shia will take over that area because Assad is waiting.
00:16:39.000Bashar Assad has no interest in wiping out ISIS because he's using ISIS
00:16:42.000As a cover to destroy the Free Syrian Army who are his real enemies.
00:16:45.000Iran has no interest in wiping out ISIS because they get to play good guys playing ISIS.
00:16:50.000Egypt and Saudi Arabia and Jordan are all Sunni.
00:16:52.000They're afraid that if they wipe out ISIS that presumably the Shia will take over.
00:16:57.000Plus they have ISIS presence in their own countries.
00:16:59.000The Russians have no interest in wiping out ISIS.
00:17:01.000Again, they're using ISIS as cover to bomb the Free Syrian Army on behalf of Bashar Assad.
00:17:06.000And they're using it as cover in order to provoke a conflagration with Turkey, which is what you saw yesterday.
00:17:11.000This conflagration with Turkey, which as I mentioned yesterday, is designed by the Russians in order to peel Turkey off from NATO.
00:17:17.000Putin has for a very long time, the dictator of Russia, for a long time he's wanted to destroy the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which was constructed in the aftermath of World War II in order to fight the Soviet Union,
00:17:30.000He figures the easiest way to take that apart is to attack one of the country members of NATO and then have the rest of NATO go, oh, well, we can't do anything about that.
00:17:39.000And then he's now set the predicate, which is NATO is not always going to respond to aggression against one of its member states.
00:17:45.000So nobody has an interest in doing anything about ISIS except us.
00:17:48.000And Obama won't do it, because he thinks that the polls don't support the idea of a long-term occupation.
00:17:53.000This is why what's always so interesting to me is when we hear that President Obama is a brave and decent leader.
00:17:59.000We hear that he really is willing to stand up in the face of what?
00:18:03.000True leadership here would be, like, I'll tell you who was actually a leader, at least when it came to this.
00:18:08.000George W. Bush did a very unpopular surge in Iraq.
00:18:11.000It was unpopular at the time that it happened.
00:18:13.000He knew it had to happen, so he did it.
00:18:15.000It pacified Iraq and led to what would have been victory if Obama hadn't purposefully lost that war.
00:18:38.000He's just a commenter who sits in the comment sections.
00:18:41.000Turkey, like every country, has a right to defend its territory and its airspace.
00:18:44.000I think it's very important right now for us to make sure that
00:19:07.000Both the Russians and the Turks are talking to each other, find out exactly what happened, and take measures to discourage any kind of escalation.
00:19:17.000Okay, so he says they have to discourage all the escalation.
00:19:20.000Well, what the President neglects to mention there is the fact that Russia was bombing there in the first place is a direct affront to the United States, because the fact is the only reason they were bombing up near the Turkish border, there's no ISIS by the Turkish border.
00:19:32.000The only people by the Turkish border are the Free Syrian Army, the people we armed.
00:19:36.000Right, the other day when the Russian helicopter got shut down, it was shot down with U.S.
00:20:12.000I mean, the problem, of course, is that now, President Obama, thanks to his ridiculous, terrible leadership, Turkey, which once used to be an allied member of NATO, Turkey's now a radical Islamist country.
00:20:22.000President Erdogan over there is an actual Islamist.
00:20:52.000But it demonstrates the racial gap in the country.
00:20:55.000There's a good idea, and it was proposed by a group of black U.S.
00:20:58.000lawmakers and other prominent figures on Tuesday.
00:21:01.000They called on the Feds to declare a national holiday to mark what they called Abolition Day, which is the official end to the nation's use of slavery.
00:21:48.000So they don't want Abolition Day to just be a celebration of the fact that Western civilization, unlike every other civilization on planet Earth, actually ended slavery itself.
00:21:56.000We didn't impose an end to slavery on anyone else.
00:22:00.000Western civilization rooted out slavery at the time.
00:22:04.000Again, slavery was not illegal in Saudi Arabia until 1962.
00:22:08.000In living memory, there was still slavery in Saudi Arabia, and there still is slavery in many Islamic countries.
00:22:14.000That's not a civilization that has done away with slavery.
00:22:17.000In Judeo-Christian culture, we did it away with slavery a long time ago, and we've been moving toward doing away with slavery since, really, the Constitution banned importation of slaves.
00:22:27.000Jefferson, who was a slave owner, signed an act in 1807 that banned the importation of slaves.
00:22:32.000The idea of celebrating a Western civilization for doing such a moral and grand thing, and hundreds of thousands of people died to achieve this, and this is also true for Britain, which ended the slave trade in Africa and policed the high seas trying to shut down the slave trade in the name of Christendom.
00:22:46.000You know, all of that would be something worth celebrating, but we can't do that, of course, without proclaiming that the injustices of slavery basically still live on in us, and we're still suffering from all of this.
00:22:56.000The latest iteration of all of this is what's happening
00:22:59.000Over in Chicago, there's this terrible shooting tape that happened in Chicago.
00:23:06.000There's a guy named Laquan McDonald, is I guess his name.
00:23:44.000For a year, Mayor Rahm Emanuel basically blocks the tape from being released.
00:23:48.000He says it's inappropriate to release the tape at this time, and there are calls for the tape to be released because there's suspicion that, in fact, the kid was shot not really for a good reason.
00:23:58.000Rahm Emanuel shut down the release of the tape.
00:24:00.000It was about a week before his re-election campaign.
00:24:03.000So he shut down the release of the tape because he was in a very hot and heavy battle with his political opponent, who I believe was another Democrat in the city of Chicago.
00:24:10.000And if the tape had been released, he probably loses.
00:24:12.000Here's what the tape ended up looking like when they released it.
00:24:15.000And this, of course, has been used as evidence that America is always, always a vast racist infrastructure of terror.
00:24:29.000So here in the middle of the screen, you can see Laquan McDonald.
00:24:31.000He's kind of jogging down the street, and there's already a cop car there, and he's getting kind of close to the cop car.
00:24:38.000You can see a glinting in his hand, and it could be a knife.
00:24:42.000He's kind of walking away from the cops, and then you see one of the cops shoot him, and then you see all the puffs of smoke because the cop shoots him about 16 times and empties the clip into him.
00:24:51.000And apparently one of the other cops, who was there at the time,
00:24:54.000Was telling him to stop shooting, and he wanted to reload his clip.
00:24:57.000It looks sort of like a panic shoot, right?
00:24:59.000It looks sort of like he's within distance, right?
00:25:02.000I mean, he's relatively close to the cop car.
00:25:04.000It looks like maybe that cop got scared and decided that he was afraid the guy was gonna turn and charge him with a knife or something, and I'm gonna put him down right now.
00:25:11.000The problem, of course, is that he's walking away from the cops when this happens.
00:25:16.000And the police had gone into McDonald's, and they had confiscated McDonald's.
00:25:20.000McDonald's had some surveillance tape of the kid, and the police apparently confiscated that as well, which was sort of suspicious.
00:25:26.000And that police officer is now about to undergo first-degree murder charges for this, which, based on what we're looking at, looks at least justified.
00:25:35.000First-degree murder may be an overcharge, but at least looks like, at the very least, manslaughter and an unjustified kill.
00:25:43.000Because in this particular case, it doesn't look like the guy is charging the police officer.
00:25:48.000So naturally, everybody says this is racism.
00:25:51.000Everybody says that it's all just absolute racism.
00:25:54.000Mayor Rahm Emanuel, now under fire, he says that he's just trying to keep Chicago from boiling over.
00:25:59.000The mayor of Chicago, who of course was President Obama's leading political lackey, he can get away with this sort of thing because he's a Democrat.
00:26:06.000Here's Rahm Emanuel, the guy who hid the tape for a year.
00:26:09.000The incident, the actions, and the video will be debated and discussed in the days ahead.
00:27:09.000First of all, maybe this wasn't racism.
00:27:11.000Did that ever occur to people, that when cops shoot people, that it isn't always racism?
00:27:15.000Is it possible that the guy just perceived a threat that wasn't there, and it's unjustified, and he should go to jail, but it's not because of the color of the kid's skin?
00:27:21.000It's because he had received a call that the kid was on PCP, impervious to pain, essentially, and that the kid's walking around carrying a knife, not obeying cop orders.
00:27:28.000They're yelling at him in that tape to get down on the ground.
00:27:31.000That's not justifying his activity, but is it possible it has nothing to do with racism and everything to do with just a bad cop doing a bad job?
00:27:38.000Or the same thing with regard to Walter Scott in South Carolina, where a black guy was running away from the cop and the cop shot him.
00:27:44.000Is it possible that it's just because the cop is a jerk, the cop's a bad guy, or the cop made a bad decision?
00:27:51.000Well, you know, here's Rahm Emanuel, and his incompetence is part of what's leading to all of the unrest, because after all, if he had released this tape immediately, right, if it didn't take a year, if this tape had come out immediately and he had said, we need to get to the bottom of each and every case,
00:28:05.000But instead what it looks like is it looks like a white infrastructure led by Rahm Emanuel is attempting to cover up a bad kill of a black kid, right?
00:28:14.000So political corruption now looks like racism.
00:28:16.000Cops who do what cops do, which is basically to cover for fellow officers, that now looks like racism as opposed to typical sort of cop activity, which may or may not be good given the circumstances.
00:29:12.000This is his first and right, the biggest problem here... It's not a question of what his constitutional rights are, it's a question of what's appropriate.
00:29:21.000I think what is inappropriate is this prosecutor took 13 months to prosecute this individual when this police officer had 18 different complaints against him from citizens of Chicago.
00:29:31.000And no one here, as far as I can tell, is defending that officer.
00:29:36.000The question is whether it speaks to a greater narrative, as some allege, and this moment here.
00:30:02.000But let's just be clear about something.
00:30:05.000A culture in which you disobey cops, in which you think that cops are out to get you, is not a culture that is likely to end with less violence between you and the cops.
00:30:12.000So this kid isn't acting violently toward the cop, but the fact is he's being incredibly confrontational toward the cop, and there are people who are watching this sort of stuff, and they're thinking, okay, we have to stand up to every white cop.
00:30:22.000Every white cop now has to be stood up to, and it is now point of honor, especially among teenage boys.
00:30:27.000Every teenage boy, black, white, green, we're all like this.
00:30:31.000believes in the the quote the quote-unquote point of honor right there is an honor culture among teenage boys and that is if confronted i will i will have to stand up to you because you're an authority figure and if instead of respecting authority figures because you because they're trying to keep you safe you stand up to them because you think that they're racist and that's something that's being pushed by the entire infrastructure based on occasional
00:30:54.000Terrible situations like what just happened in Chicago.
00:30:56.000That's how you get people shutting down the causeway, which is what happened in Chicago yesterday.
00:31:37.000At the end of every show, we'll have a little segment where we talk about stuff that I personally despise and I can't stand and I think that you should avoid at all costs.
00:31:44.000So, a quick Thanksgiving note, number one on my list of things that I hate, anything having to do with Howard Zinn needs to immediately be canned.
00:31:52.000I'd use a different word, but I don't like cursing.
00:31:54.000So, it immediately needs to be canned.
00:31:56.000Howard Zinn writes history, a people's history of the United States.
00:32:02.000Geniuses who wrote Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
00:32:06.000It's just, they are constantly referencing Howard Zinn and there's a people's history of the United States on their shelf and they're constantly talking about how America's terrible and that's what a people's history of the United States is.
00:32:16.000It's all about how the United States is founded in racism and slavery.
00:32:21.000The people's history part of it is supposed to be, here's the perspective of American history from the victims.
00:32:47.000But you don't write it from his perspective because it's a moral thing, the civil rights movement.
00:32:50.000Well, it turns out Western civilization, the United States, is essentially a moral place, and writing from the perspective of, here are all the people who are dispossessed and therefore all of American history is terrible and false and horrible, it's not a nuanced attempt to say, here are the costs and here are the benefits.
00:33:06.000What it is, is instead, here are all the costs and none of the benefits.
00:33:09.000That's Howard Zinn, and that's how you end up with an entire generation of idiot children who think that America is a terrible, horrible place.
00:33:39.000All of a sudden, everybody on planet Earth has decided that this artist is just the greatest person who has ever lived, they descended from the clouds, and they have come to bequeath us their talent.
00:33:48.000And this is what has happened with Adele, right?
00:34:33.000It turns out that men are attracted to attractive women, and that's just the way that it is.
00:34:36.000And women can fight against that standard and say it's sexist and say it's terrible, and men will continue having sex with the most attractive women.
00:35:12.000And Jimmy Fallon is, he's just one of these guys who, I don't know how he ever got ahead because every time he does a comedy bit, Jimmy Fallon, he can't help but break.
00:36:44.000So Jimmy Fallon, for those who can't see, Jimmy Fallon is literally sitting there with like the wooden block that you had when you were in third grade and it was instrument time.
00:36:51.000And he's hitting it, not on beat by the way, he's like trying so hard to hit it on the correct rhythm.
00:36:58.000And then there's the whole band, there's the guy with the ukulele in the back, and you see the guy with the, I don't even know, what is the instrument the guy's playing with the, it's the mouth piano.
00:37:04.000He's got these, he's blowing into it and he's got the little keyboard there.
00:37:08.000And you've got the guy with the kid's xylophone.
00:37:14.000Okay, so the reason that I despise this is because there is this tendency now that everything becomes cuter and more charming and more wonderful when you do it like a simple person.
00:37:29.000Like, these people presumably are all skilled musicians.
00:37:31.000They're capable of playing actual instruments, right?
00:37:41.000Like, if Adele were to sing this song, this mediocre song, if she were to sing this with a full orchestra, it wouldn't get as many hits.
00:37:47.000But this is cute, and it's twee, and it's charming, because all of these people are dumbing down for the audience so that even you can play this on a xylophone.
00:38:07.000If I read a book, and even I can do it, but not me, because I'm an actual professional writer, like, if even I could do it, and I'm an illiterate,