Prove Me Wrong - Thanksgiving Edition

Ronny Chieng challenges strangers on the street to debate whether or not Thanksgiving is the worst holiday, the need for buckles on shoes and the superiority of pumpkin pie.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Comedy Central. Thanksgiving is coming and everyone's
arguing about CDC guidelines but pilgrims being problematic. But what
about the non political Thanksgiving issues? For those I'm here
to argue with random strangers on the street, improve me wrong?
Thanksgiving additions, Thanksgiving is the worst holiday. I said it.

(00:29):
I said it. Why why family gets together? It's a
grateful already sounds terrible, but it's fun peeling vegetables with family. Family,
they're peeling vegetables. That's your big argument. It's not the
worst holiday because Columbus Day is a holiday, so there
are works. Wait, so you actually genuinely have a good

(00:50):
time and Thanksgiving I do have a great time. Just
how much we do guys smoke during Thanksgiving to get
through It depends how much extended family is there. So
what is the worst holiday? I have to say? And
God forgive me, I'm irish. But St. Patrick's Day can
be really brutal in the city. Patricia is amazing because
on Thanksgiving people get mad. If you get black out,
drown you gotta travel, which is terrible. Atlances terrible. Well, okay,

(01:14):
haven't you heard of zoom? Okay o man after two
years of zooming on stop, I would love to zoom
on my day off with my family. That sounds amazing.
It supposed to be one peaceful day about being thankful.
You know I've been thankful for like your family. Did
you not receive love as a child. Yeah, that's another
thing to bring up with a family during the holidays.

(01:35):
But they were receiving off love as a child. Did
you know? This is trying to feel a little bit
like therapy. Okay, so just so you know, I'm not
paying you for this. All shoes should have buckles. Proved
me wrong. I think shoes should just you know, not
have buckles or laces or well, let's look at what
the you're wearing. Wait, are you wearing dressed crocs? The
Pilgrims at lot of stuff? Wrong? Genocide not great, Turkey

(01:59):
could picked up at an animal to eat. But buckles, dude,
they nailed it first time. Boom. Okay, buckles aren't appropriate
for every occasion. Like what if you're going to hit
the beach, you gotta pop on some flip flops landed
on the beach with buckles, But don't you want your
feet to like breathe be Oh? I don't need people's

(02:20):
feet to breathe. I'm not Quentin Tarantino. They'll make shoes
more expensive, sure, but it's don't pop. The appeal of
footwear that they're expensive is that's Nike built a goddamn empire,
is of that. But speaking of Nike, a lot of
shoes they sell come with velcro chaps, not buckles. Yeah,
I feel like that's more convenient. If you're a goddamn child,

(02:41):
then yeah, get some, get some vel grow. But if
you're an adult, put on a buckle like an adult.
Pumpkin pies you replace apple pies or year round pie.
Proll be wrong. Pumpkin pie has no taste. No taste, dude,
it's a squash. Okay, that's racist. Do you think it
taste better than Wouldn't that make it more special to

(03:03):
only eat it once a year? This is America. When
you like something, you do it every day until you
get sick of it, and then you do it some
more technically with hedonic adaptation. If you do it less often,
then like you get to experience the full pleasure of it.
Oh man, I feel like I just say something turky Okay,
Mr Pilkrin. First of all, When you go to mom's house,
you don't sit down and she give you a pumpkin pot,

(03:24):
so you're just slice of apple pie. You tell me
why you would mess with America and you would mess
with mom. Hey, you talk about moms. I'm trying to
help moms here. It's way easy to make pumpkin pie
and apple pie. Just open a can and done the ship.
That's what you do. Look at that, you just just
creating a mother again, opening cans goes to the second
rate mother. Wow, now you're hating moms. No, I'm not

(03:50):
only a dad. Would would recommend that you must be
a dad? Hey, that's never been proven in court. Apple
has more variety, Like you didn't play around with it,
you know. Pumpkins just aren't as varied. So you did
stick of it sooner. That's also argument and favor. How
complicated apple pies are? You have to like pick an apple.
It's like fifty different pumpkin too. There's only one pumpkin.

(04:11):
There's no red delicious pumpkin. What Japanese pumpkins? No, that's
a squash. Stop trying to take away my pumpkin pie.
I don't want to squash pie pumpkin pie. Yeah, he's
still getting the crowd now, people getting mad at you
because you're wrong. Psychology on. We're gonna start a fighting
union square about this right now, I'm good, um good.

(04:35):
When your kid comes home from school or whatever, did
you say, oh, a pumpkin a day, keep the doctor await. No,
that's stupid. That's just stupid. You can't do that. You
give him an apple. Yeah, but I don't give my
kid apple pie to make him live longer. Nobody likes
pumpkin pie. It doesn't make you feel good. It doesn't
make you feel homie. It just doesn't. It doesn't do
anything for you. It's just a piece of crap. Well

(04:56):
that's what can only have it once a year. Well,
I guess you win, and so you know what that means.
I get the hat too. Yeah, be careful you wish
for Let's just dump people a coffee and arguing with
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