Here we are. It's the day before Thanksgiving. I want to give all of you a little bit of Thanksgiving Day advice. We'll get to that. We'll also get to the latest in the Middle East, plus a brand new segment that I'm ripping off from Andrew Claven. I'll tell you what that is. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

Tend to demonize people who don't care about your feelings. Okay, so tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and on Thanksgiving, it's the day that we all get together

with relatives that we despise because we have blood relations with them, and they come over

and they annoy us, and typically the people who come over for Thanksgiving who are annoying,

it's never right-wingers, because right-wingers are perfectly happy to talk about movies and music and sports, and religion, they're perfectly

happy to talk about the things that we sort of culturally share. It's always the leftist in the

room who needs to feel some sense of moral superiority who brings up politics. I've never yet

been in a family situation with members of my extended family who are on the left where I'm the one who brings up politics. I never do it. I 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. It'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. Everybody has written a script that they buried in their sock drawer and then went to wait tables over a coffee bean. And there's certain professions where everybody wants to talk to. Like if you're an engineer, you never have to deal with this. It has never happened to you where you've walked into a dinner party and somebody who's like buttonholing you about engineering. It just has never happened and it never

will happen. But if you're in politics, it happens a lot. And if you're right wing and you're

political at all, it will happen at your family dinner. So a couple of pieces of advice for your

Thanksgiving tomorrow. First piece of advice. Here's how to deal with the leftist who comes over to your house and wants to talk politics on Thanksgiving. Don't invite them. Like seriously, this is, I know everybody acts like you have to invite, why? Why? It's an accident of birth. It's an accident of genetics just because that person happens to be your nephew. The 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 going to come, he just keep it on the down low about his politics. You're happy to talk about anything else. We'll talk football. But if he's going to be a jerk, then don't invite them. And you'll have a much better time. because 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.

You really don't want... time because 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.

You really don't want to clutter your life with folks that you don't like.

One of the most liberating phrases in all of the English language is this three-word phrase.

I don't care.

And it's true, I mean, there are just too many people in life you shouldn't care about.

This is one of the things that I taught, I'm proud, I taught my wife a few things. My wife has taught me many things, but 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. No, you don't. You don't. You have to be polite to everybody, but you don't have to be nice to everybody.

Because the truth is, nice means I'm going to go out of my way for you.

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