The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 148 - Leftists Give Instructions On How To Speak To Your Relatives At Thanksgiving

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, leftists have given us instructions on how to speak to our family

00:00:04.640 members at Thanksgiving. We'll go over those instructions obediently. Also, what is the

00:00:09.500 perfect Thanksgiving meal? I have the answer to that question. And a man is suing an airline

00:00:13.880 because they seated him next to an obese passenger. We'll talk about all of that and more on the show

00:00:18.840 today. Well, as you can see, if you're watching this on video, I'm starting to wear my Christmas

00:00:26.700 colors. It's a day before Thanksgiving, so I figure I'm kind of late in starting to celebrate

00:00:31.740 Christmas. And can I just say that this is one thing I don't understand, that every year people

00:00:37.120 complain about how, well, people are celebrating Christmas too early and you're putting up the

00:00:42.460 Christmas lights too early before Thanksgiving. I don't understand complaining about that. And I

00:00:47.680 say that as someone who complains about everything. I can find a reason to complain about almost

00:00:53.580 anything. There could be a, a leprechaun could ride in on a unicorn right now and give me a pot

00:00:59.220 of gold. And I could think of a reason to whine about it. But even I can't think of a reason to

00:01:03.880 complain about people about Christmas music in November or whatever, or people putting up Christmas

00:01:09.180 lights early. Why? It's, it's, it's a happy, wondrous thing. Why, why be angry about it? Have you ever

00:01:14.860 been driving in a car with someone at night in like early November and you go by a house and there's

00:01:19.800 Christmas decorations up and they get really mad about it? They're like, this is outrageous. What

00:01:25.380 do they look at this? It's November 2nd. They've got Christmas lights up. Why do they have Christmas

00:01:29.380 lights up? Calm down. It's just, it's, they're just colorful lights on someone's bush. That's what

00:01:35.700 you're mad about right now. Why would that make you mad? I don't get it. So I, I welcome, I welcome

00:01:41.280 the intrusion of Christmas into, uh, you know, the, how Christmas has bleeding out and taking over

00:01:48.180 more and more of the year. I welcome it. I think it's, I think it's a wonderful thing.

00:01:52.940 All right. Um, but speaking of Thanksgiving, I have a few things about Thanksgiving. I want to,

00:01:56.600 I want to talk about it. And let me, let me start with the, with the most, the most important thing

00:02:00.660 as you prepare your Thanksgiving meals. Um, just one, one thing here. I want to tell you, this is the

00:02:11.300 correct Thanksgiving meal. Okay. And it's important for you to understand this. All other Thanksgiving

00:02:18.200 meals are incorrect. This is what the correct meal is. Um, turkey, gravy, stuffing, green bean casserole,

00:02:27.800 cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, um, a, a second green vegetable. Now this can be

00:02:36.040 asparagus, broccoli, or Brussels sprouts. Not all three. You choose one, uh, bread rolls, pumpkin pie,

00:02:42.500 real whipped cream, beer, red wine, and then either scotch bourbon or rye whiskey. If you want to do all

00:02:49.080 three of the brown liquors you can, but you certainly need one of them. Um, anyone who puts a seafood dish

00:02:55.460 on the table for Thanksgiving has committed a felony salad is a superfluous, ridiculous thing to put on 0.94

00:03:03.920 the table. It's completely redundant. We've already got the vegetables covered. You don't, that's just 0.94

00:03:08.720 filler. You don't need salad. Uh, more than two green vegetables is unnecessary and frankly, kind of

00:03:14.320 disturbing. So if you're going to pad things out and add more dishes, the additional dishes should

00:03:19.500 involve meat in some capacity. Um, now deviled eggs are not really a traditional Thanksgiving thing,

00:03:25.120 but I will allow that. I'll allow you to have that on Thanksgiving. Here's one other note, really

00:03:30.260 important that a lot of people don't understand. Apparently gravy is the most important item on the

00:03:36.380 Thanksgiving. It's more important than the turkey because the meal will rise or fall with the quality

00:03:41.600 of the gravy. The gravy is essential. People who don't like gravy are not real Americans. They're not 0.97

00:03:47.700 even human. I don't think. And anybody who hosts a Thanksgiving dinner and does not provide gravy

00:03:53.220 is a dangerous sociopath. I want now that I'm not making this up. I once, if you can believe it,

00:03:58.220 I once attended a Thanksgiving dinner where there was no gravy. And then I said, Oh, there's no gravy

00:04:04.660 on the table. You want me to go grab the gravy? Is it maybe it's still on the stove? I'll go grab the

00:04:07.360 gravy for you. And I was told, Oh no, no, we don't have any gravy. And so I ran from the table crying

00:04:14.220 and I locked myself in the bathroom and wept for the rest of the night as any man would do in that

00:04:18.920 situation. I just think, um, all these points are important because, because people these days,

00:04:24.680 they're far too eager to get cute and clever on Thanksgiving. You know, they try to get away from

00:04:29.480 the staples and sometimes you'll see these articles online. People share on Facebook or whatever about,

00:04:34.460 well, here's some creative things you can do for your Thanksgiving meal. No, no, nothing creative.

00:04:40.160 See, some things should not be tampered with it. Some things are just perfect as they are. It

00:04:44.800 reminds me of the time where I was at someone's house and they serve brownies and I bit into the

00:04:48.560 brownie. And then only then did I discover that they had put raisins in the brownies. And then the

00:04:53.800 person said, Oh, I thought I'd do something a little bit different with the brownies, something a 1.00

00:04:58.280 little different. Why they're brownies. They're perfect. Any amount of different is a deviation from 1.00

00:05:03.660 perfect. You can only go down from perfect. So whatever you're doing, it's going to be less than

00:05:08.780 perfect. You can't improve. Perfect. Don't try. Just make the brownies. Stop being selfish. 1.00

00:05:14.160 Stop trying to make it about yourself. This is what I said to them. I was never invited back.

00:05:18.900 I just, the point is the same philosophy applies to the Thanksgiving dinner. Uh, so stick to the

00:05:24.520 staples and, um, and focus on those. Don't get creative and everybody will have a blessed and

00:05:32.260 wonderful Thanksgiving. All right. Another point about Thanksgiving around this time every year.

00:05:38.580 Um, we are, we are treated to news articles explaining how we should deal with our racist

00:05:46.180 conservative relatives at Thanksgiving. You know, you see these, these articles every single year

00:05:50.500 and this year is no exception. Um, the New York times published an article explaining how to have

00:05:58.680 conversations with your relatives. And they even gave a script. They gave you a script of how

00:06:03.780 they imagined this conversation should go. Um, so here's just, here's a sample of the script. Okay.

00:06:09.340 Uh, in the New York times, um, conservative uncle, Trump has been great for America. Just look at the

00:06:16.600 economy. It's booming. You. So how are you doing financially? Conservative uncle. How am I doing? Not that

00:06:23.620 great actually, but things that would have been worse under Hillary. You, what are your biggest 0.96

00:06:28.880 economic hurdles right now? Conservative uncle, my biggest hurdles. Well, no matter how hard I work,

00:06:34.200 I can't get ahead. I'm living paycheck to paycheck. You. So you feel pretty insecure money-wise, despite

00:06:38.960 how hard you're working. Conservative uncle. Yeah, I do feel insecure money-wise and I don't know how long

00:06:43.780 I can keep up. And then it just goes on. And then eventually the conservative uncle realizes that,

00:06:48.580 oh yeah, you know what? Maybe Trump actually is terrible because, um, I'm, I'm not doing well

00:06:52.940 financially. Now I have no idea why the New York times is literally giving us a script of a fake

00:07:01.040 conversation we're supposed to have with our fake uncles, but there it is. Um, meanwhile, the website

00:07:08.460 eater eater, which is supposed to be a site about food, I assume published an article, uh, with this

00:07:15.220 title. The title is you are morally obligated to call out your racist relatives at Thanksgiving.

00:07:20.880 So here's a sample of that article. It says, if you can safely do so, read, you do not fear physical

00:07:27.380 or economic reprisal, i.e. getting kicked out of your house for speaking up against bigotry. You

00:07:32.620 have an obligation to push back against harmful rhetoric simply because others do not. It is

00:07:37.300 statistically very likely that a survivor of abuse or a person who could face anti-LGBT abuse from,

00:07:43.360 uh, from your family will be sitting at your Thanksgiving table and they may not feel safe

00:07:47.500 enough to speak against the use of violent language and homophobic slurs, even if they're hurled by

00:07:52.340 well-meaning family members. First of all, what? So even if a well-meaning family member is hurling

00:08:02.420 violent and homophobic language, what, what does that look like? And what kind of dinner table

00:08:09.920 conversation is this person imagining the most of us have at our, at our, during Thanksgiving?

00:08:17.780 Uh, just, just a bunch of well-meaning bigots hurling homophobic and violent language. That's all.

00:08:24.320 Uh, it says, uh, uh, which means that if the only thing you've got to fear is an awkward silence as

00:08:30.820 grandma cuts the turkey, you've got an obligation to let your relatives know that words and actions that

00:08:35.680 mean the humanity of others are not acceptable in your presence. It is highly unlikely that anything

00:08:41.380 said across the dinner table is going to cause some kind of epiphany in the average bigoted person's

00:08:46.260 mind, but that's, that's not the ultimate goal of speaking out. Um, so I, you know, I for one am

00:08:53.700 going to take this advice and when I sit down for Thanksgiving meal, the first thing I'm going to say

00:08:59.120 is I will not tolerate bigoted or homophobic language at this table. That's the first thing I'm going to

00:09:07.040 say, uh, just to kind of kick off, just as an icebreaker to kick off the conversation. Now, there are a

00:09:14.140 couple of things that jump out at me about this kind of stuff. Um, first of all, of course, you have this

00:09:18.640 absurd paternalism that's very common among leftists where they think we need instructions on how to have

00:09:23.980 conversations with our loved ones. Now, I mean, I know that I just started this show by giving you

00:09:30.540 instructions on how to prepare your Thanksgiving meal, but that's different. Okay. That's different.

00:09:34.300 That was okay. This is worse. But the second thing is, and this is the more frustrating thing in my view.

00:09:39.840 Um, you see how people are so worried about the potential of having serious and substantive

00:09:52.280 conversations with their families. Like people think they need to apparently prepare. They need

00:09:59.720 to practice. They need to rehearse before they have a substantive conversation about politics or

00:10:05.600 whatever with their families. I don't understand this attitude and I don't understand. And I've never

00:10:11.040 understood the people who say, Hey, you know, the, the two things you should never talk about when

00:10:16.600 you're in a group or you're with your family are politics and religion. Never talk about that.

00:10:22.360 What? The two things you should never talk about. Those are basically the only things I care to talk

00:10:28.720 about politics and religion. And you can throw sports in as well. So those are the, those are the big

00:10:33.660 three. Why wouldn't we talk about them? What a boring life people must lead if they have this policy

00:10:42.720 of never talking about the most interesting topics. I don't get it. Uh, if you dispense with the

00:10:49.120 interesting topics, um, any topic that might create a disagreement and thus an actual discussion,

00:10:55.860 because that that's, that's the nature of a discussion is that the people involved have

00:11:01.900 different perspectives. If everybody has the same perspective, then there's no discussion. There's

00:11:07.740 nothing to talk about. If everyone just agrees on everything, what do you, what, what's the

00:11:12.080 conversation? Then you're all just taking turns saying things that everyone else can say? Yep. I

00:11:17.140 agree. Oh, now it's my turn. Here's my opinion. Yep. We all agree with that too. Is that, is that

00:11:24.400 how a conversation is supposed to work? No, I'll tell you what you're left with. If you, if you, if you get

00:11:31.600 rid of politics and religion and any kind of discussion of, of an issue that might, uh, involve

00:11:39.200 disagreement, you're left with banal, awful, pointless, small talk, you're left with one of

00:11:46.220 those terrible conversations where someone shares a boring personal anecdote and then someone else

00:11:54.180 shares a similar anecdote. And then we just go around the table and everyone, uh, waits their turn

00:12:00.740 to bore everybody else with an anecdote. You know, one of those conversations where no one is, it's not a

00:12:05.580 conversation. It's just everyone's waiting for their turn to just talk no matter, no matter what

00:12:10.440 they happen to be saying. Uh, so you're left with that or you're left with gossip, um, or you're left

00:12:16.300 with, I mean, what else is there? I was, I was recently, I recently found myself sitting in a group of

00:12:26.080 people where the conversation developed into people, um, taking turns talking about their health

00:12:34.740 problems. And I just thought, what, why are we doing this? What is, what is happening right now? What's the

00:12:43.240 point of that? Why are we, what kind of conversation is this? Um, or another recent thing I was in is

00:12:51.020 people were taking turns complaining about, um, complaining about bad service that they'd gotten

00:12:58.940 in restaurants and everyone had a story about the bad service. I just don't, I don't see the point in

00:13:05.780 that. See, it might surprise you to learn that in my personal life, I am sometimes accused of being

00:13:13.160 quiet, but I'm not, as you can tell, I just have absolutely no interest in the

00:13:20.880 dry, pointless, babbling, small talk that a lot of people fill their days with. And a lot of people

00:13:26.100 think is that's all you're supposed to do when you're in a group is have those kinds of

00:13:29.780 conversations. And if I'm in a group of people and I find the conversation to be boring and pointless

00:13:35.160 and stupid, I just, I'm not going to say anything. I'm not going to contribute. Why? Because I have nothing 0.98

00:13:40.540 to say about the topic because I think the topic is lame. That's all. So when someone says, well, why

00:13:47.300 aren't you talking? I'm not talking because I, you guys, you guys are boring me to death. I just

00:13:51.260 think this is a stupid conversation, but I don't want to say that. So I'm just not going to say 0.99

00:13:55.580 anything. Now, if we could circle back to something, something more interesting, something with a little

00:14:00.300 more meat to it, then you wouldn't be able to shut me up. So I just, I don't understand this reluctance

00:14:09.540 people have to talk about interesting things. We should talk about them. These are the important

00:14:17.380 things. These are the things that define us. I mean, think about it. When someone says, don't talk

00:14:24.140 about politics, don't talk about religion. What they're really saying is never discuss your most

00:14:29.600 precious convictions and your most deeply held beliefs. Never discuss the ideas that you organize

00:14:35.100 your life around. Well, why? Why shouldn't we just talk about that? I mean, that's exactly what

00:14:40.820 we should talk about. I want to talk about that. And not just because I want to share my own beliefs

00:14:48.060 and convictions. I also want to hear other people share theirs. That's how you really get to know

00:14:53.180 somebody. I don't think you get to know someone through small talk. You get to know someone when

00:14:57.400 they're telling you what they believe, what their real convictions and priorities are. And that's how

00:15:04.180 you get to know somebody. And so that's why I'd rather talk about that. So I wouldn't, not that

00:15:11.180 anyone needs instructions on how to have conversations at the dinner table, but I would encourage everyone

00:15:15.440 to have, forget about small talk, have big talk, talk about big things, important things.

00:15:22.640 And then you can really get to, we can really get to know each other.

00:15:26.920 A couple other things I wanted to touch on quickly.

00:15:28.820 Um, here's a, here's an interesting case. A man is suing British airways for, for sitting him next

00:15:36.980 to an obese passenger. Um, the passenger said, I sat with his knees wedged against the seat in front

00:15:47.040 and the rest of his body was over spilling into my seat by some inches. I was immediately aware that

00:15:52.600 this was going to be problematic for me. And I could feel the weight of his pure bulk putting lateral

00:15:57.140 pressure on my upper body. And he says he suffered long-term injuries after undergoing this for, uh,

00:16:03.800 for the whole 12 hour flight, which I mean, a 12 hour flight in itself sounds miserable,

00:16:08.580 but, uh, to do it when you don't have a lot of room, I can see it. I, it's hard for me to believe

00:16:14.600 you would have long-term injuries, but I can see how that would be extremely uncomfortable.

00:16:18.700 Now, I just want to make a few points about this, about this issue of obese people on airplanes.

00:16:24.700 Um, first of all, people can be very cruel about this. And it seems like a lot of people have,

00:16:34.200 have no problem openly complaining about the obese on airplanes. They have no problem mocking

00:16:40.240 and ridiculing. I've seen people on Twitter tweeting complaints about the large person sitting next to

00:16:46.440 them on an airplane while that person is currently sitting next to them. It's, it's very, it's very cruel.

00:16:51.540 As I said, um, obviously someone who is, who is that big and is sitting on an airplane seat that

00:16:58.760 they're already self-conscious about it. They, they, they're aware of how big they are. They,

00:17:03.880 they feel embarrassed. They feel nervous. I don't know how you could have anything but compassion

00:17:09.160 and pity for someone in that situation. I was, um, I was once sitting next to someone

00:17:15.540 who it was a larger person and they had to ask for a seatbelt extender, uh, which I didn't even know.

00:17:24.340 I didn't even know that was a thing, but they, you know, the seatbelt wasn't large enough. So they

00:17:28.740 had to ask the flight attendant for a seatbelt extender. And, um, they were obviously embarrassed

00:17:34.880 asking for it. Uh, but there was no way for, I was sitting in the middle and they were, so there

00:17:40.400 was no way for them to ask for it without me hearing. And I just felt really bad for this

00:17:44.540 person. I, and I, I, I can't imagine being angry at them. I could tell they were embarrassed and

00:17:49.580 ashamed. And that's a sad thing. I felt, I felt bad for them. So I think this is something where

00:17:55.140 people just need to be human. Uh, you just need to be a human bit. Big people are, know they're big.

00:18:01.580 They know how you feel about sitting next to them on an airplane. You don't need to go advertising

00:18:06.000 it. You don't need to complain about it openly. Maybe have a little bit of human decency instead.

00:18:12.640 And you know, I'm not obese, but I've been in a situations where, where I've been, I've, I've been

00:18:17.160 on an airplane and I've been the parent with a screaming child on a plane, which is the other

00:18:23.680 kind of person that everyone complains about in airplanes. And again, when you're a parent with a

00:18:29.220 screaming child on a plane, trust me, you're, you're aware of the fact, you know, how everybody feels

00:18:34.620 about you. Uh, you know, how annoyed everyone is and you are yourself way more uncomfortable,

00:18:40.940 way more distressed, way more disturbed, and way more annoyed than everybody else on the plane

00:18:45.420 combined. So you, it's, it's, it's not like you're oblivious to it. You know, how annoying it is for

00:18:51.960 everyone. You know, how disruptive it is. The last thing you need is glaring eyes and rolling eyes and

00:18:57.580 rude comments and all that kind of, you don't need that. There's no reason for that because you already

00:19:01.360 know. So if you're on an airplane and, um, and there's a crying child behind you, here's what

00:19:08.520 you don't need to do. You don't need to do that thing where you look back and you give eyes to the

00:19:12.500 parents. Why are you doing it? The parent knows that the child's crying. Thank you very much for

00:19:18.580 the look. It's not necessary. The parent knows that and is very uncomfortable with it. But when a child is

00:19:26.320 intent on crying, there's not always a way to stop them. And if you're on an airplane, 30,000 feet in

00:19:33.340 the air, it's not like you can leave. So you're stuck. It's, I don't know if you know this, maybe

00:19:39.120 some people don't have kids don't realize it, but there is no switch. It's not like there's a switch

00:19:42.880 on the child's back or something where you can flip the switch and then they stop crying. That doesn't

00:19:46.920 exist. The child is a, is a person with a, with a brain. And so you can't, it's, if they just are

00:19:54.080 going to do this, there, you could try to calm them down. You could try to bribe them. You could

00:19:58.480 try many different things, but if none of that works, you're stuck. So a little bit of a little

00:20:05.280 bit of kindness and understanding from the fellow passengers, I think that's what's in order because

00:20:09.800 there's nothing the parent can do about it. If the kid is determined to cry, just like there's

00:20:13.420 nothing an obese passenger can do in that moment to change the size of their body frame. It is what

00:20:19.880 it is. So you just, so, so, you know, we, we just have to all be human beings and, uh, and kind of

00:20:25.160 work together in that situation. Now, on the other hand, and the reason why this story jumped out at me

00:20:33.680 because, um, the article about on the daily wire, the article about this, the airline lawsuit has a

00:20:39.880 quote from Peggy Howell, who is the spokeswoman for the national association to advance fat

00:20:45.540 acceptance, NAFA. And she of course blamed the airlines and said, it's their fault for not having

00:20:51.720 larger seats, which she's not wrong about that. By the way, airlines have been consistently shrinking

00:20:56.380 their seats and their leg room so that now, unless you're underweight and undersized, you can't fit

00:21:02.200 comfortably. I'm, I'm, you know, six feet tall, a little bit more than six feet tall. I can't fit in an

00:21:07.020 airline seat anymore. Um, but the existence of something called the national association to

00:21:14.880 advance fat acceptance is a sad statement as well, because it just shows how you have these two

00:21:20.120 extremes in our culture. And on one extreme, you have cruel people, people who mock and ridicule

00:21:25.800 and are very selfish. Um, and on the other extreme, you have this idea that we should accept

00:21:32.780 and celebrate everything about ourselves. We should celebrate even, even the flaws, you know,

00:21:38.960 um, obesity is a flaw in the sense that it's unhealthy. A morbidly obese person is hurting

00:21:45.740 himself. The condition will very likely kill him. Eventually it is an objectively negative condition to

00:21:52.400 be in. It detracts from health and quality of life and wellbeing. So acceptance is not the way to go

00:21:59.680 either. Isn't there a happy compromise between abject ridicule and full on acceptance?

00:22:08.520 Why can't we seek self-improvement and encourage others in that direction without mocking and

00:22:14.020 belittling? I think that's the strategy we should take here rather than this constant back and forth of

00:22:22.900 these, of these, uh, of these two extremes. I understand, you know, I, you know, things like fat

00:22:28.560 acceptance and, you know, these body positivity movements, I understand why they exist because people

00:22:36.520 who are overweight really do, uh, you know, they, they, they are ridiculed and mocked and, and, and, you

00:22:42.800 know, their whole lives. And it's a, it's a, it's a terrible thing. I can't imagine having to endure that.

00:22:47.460 Um, but the answer is not, and I think this is what we tend to do where if we're, you know, if, if, if, if

00:22:56.400 there's something about us that is, as I said, objectively not ideal, um, yet it is also changeable

00:23:05.140 and then people make fun of us for it and they're very rude to us and mean to us about it, then we'll tend

00:23:11.380 to kind of go into a shell and we get on the defensive and we say, well, no, no, no, now, now

00:23:16.640 I'm, now I'm not going to change it at a principle. I don't think that's the right move either.

00:23:24.700 Um, we can seek to improve ourselves.

00:23:30.060 And that doesn't mean that we're caving into the bullying or we're allowing other people to control

00:23:34.480 us. It's, it's all about respecting ourselves and wanting to be as healthy as we can and to live

00:23:41.080 as long as we can. All right. One last story. Uh, an American tourist, some reports call him a

00:23:50.060 missionary. I'm not sure if that's true or not, but, um, he has been killed after attempting to

00:23:56.780 meet and make contact with an, an uncontacted tribe on an Island off the coast of India. Um,

00:24:04.080 the Sentinelese, which is a tribe that's protected by law from outside contact. Uh, they, you know,

00:24:09.620 they're on this Island and this man decided that he wanted to go, even though it's illegal,

00:24:15.480 he decided that he wanted to go and make contact with this, with this tribe. So, um, as soon as he,

00:24:23.100 he went up on the canoe and apparently as soon as he got up on, on shore, they started shooting

00:24:28.700 arrows at him, but he didn't turn around. He kept walking towards them and then they ran in and put a

00:24:34.140 rope around his neck and strangled him to death. So a rather, uh, a rather unseemly way of, of,

00:24:40.300 of greeting a, a, a stranger. But I have to say this whole uncontacted tribe thing.

00:24:49.960 And, you know, you have this across the world in India, as well as South America, other places

00:24:55.400 where these, there are these tribes that are living basically in the year 1000 BC,

00:24:59.660 while governments forbid anyone from going there and saying, Hey, by the way, modern society is

00:25:04.720 happening out there. Now I get that there's a concern about these people being exploited by

00:25:09.620 outsiders. And there's a very legitimate concern about disease because, uh, they don't have the

00:25:14.840 immune system built up to deal with all the nasty modern germs that we carry around. But I've still

00:25:20.780 always found it to be super weird that we're kind of preserving them almost like they're a museum

00:25:28.120 exhibit and, or, or they're, or they're, uh, they're animals in a zoo or something. We're, we're,

00:25:33.980 we're preserving them in what we consider to be their natural habitat. We're, we're, we're preserving

00:25:39.340 them in a, in a time capsule and not letting them know that, Hey, by the way, we've got air conditioning

00:25:45.360 out there and we've got cars and medicine and the internet in the world. Don't you think they have a

00:25:52.160 right to know? Isn't it quite possible that they'd prefer to live like the rest of us if they knew

00:25:58.760 about it? All these people that say, well, you can't contact the tribes. Would any one of them

00:26:04.760 want to live like that? Would you like to go live in a mud hut? Would you like to go and die from 0.98

00:26:10.300 diseases that we can cure with antibiotics? Would you like to go and, and, you know, have your teeth 0.96

00:26:15.660 rotting out of your head? Would anyone want to live that way? No, that's, that's it. That's an

00:26:20.940 objectively miserable way of living. Why? Nobody would want to live that way. It is a rough and,

00:26:28.380 and miserable existence. If I was there, I would prefer not to be, I'd want to know. I'd prefer to

00:26:38.180 live in modern society. So shouldn't they have that option? It's just, it's just the, the,

00:26:43.560 the weirdest thing to me. Now I know that, as I said, when you've got these tribes, it's, it's not 0.99

00:26:48.980 like you can just open the floodgates and have all these tourists rush in and all that kind of stuff.

00:26:52.840 I'm not saying that, but there should, I would think there should be a concerted, systematic,

00:27:00.720 gradual effort made to introduce these people to civilization and to let them know about what's

00:27:08.960 going on out there. And then at least give them the, now, if they decide they want to still live in the

00:27:12.340 mud huts and die of diseases, um, that they could cure by taking a pill for a few days, if, if they 0.95

00:27:17.660 prefer that, then they have every right to, but I think that they have a right, that they also have

00:27:22.680 the right to make that choice. And so do their children, by the way. It's just, I think this

00:27:26.720 stems from this kind of, um, idolizing we do of indigenous cultures and indigenous tribes.

00:27:34.500 And it's, it's really kind of ridiculous because this is now I'm, I'm the, I'm, I'm a critic of

00:27:42.460 modern society for a lot of reasons, but even I would say that if I had the option to go live in

00:27:47.280 the middle ages or to go live in, uh, in, in, in the year, uh, 400 BC, I would definitely not do it.

00:27:54.280 I still prefer to be here. I think there are a lot of legitimate criticisms to make of our society,

00:27:59.100 but I, I, I like a lot of the stuff that we have going for us. And, uh, and you know,

00:28:07.140 I'm a fan of electricity for instance, and I'd prefer to have it. That's it's, it's a good thing

00:28:12.800 to have. Can you imagine how, I mean, wouldn't, wouldn't you be upset? Wouldn't you be really

00:28:18.120 annoyed and upset if you were in one of these tribes and then eventually somehow you found out

00:28:23.000 about modern society. And let's say you've been living in this tribe for 60 years and nobody ever 0.56

00:28:27.880 told you. Wouldn't you be annoyed about that? Wouldn't you say, why do you guys ever tell me

00:28:31.600 you're telling me you like, you left me there for 60 years. You never told me that this was

00:28:35.920 happening. You were enjoying your air conditioning. You never even told me about it. I'd be upset

00:28:41.280 personally. So I think a gradual integration maybe would be, would be an order. And, um, but until that

00:28:48.760 happens, I think it's probably not a smart idea to go by yourself to one of these tribes and try to

00:28:53.840 say hello as unfortunately this American, uh, found out the hard way. All right. That's it for the

00:29:00.360 week for me. I hope you guys all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and I'll talk to you next week. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - November 21, 2018

Ep. 148 - Leftists Give Instructions On How To Speak To Your Relatives At Thanksgiving

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