I worked at a Walmart where a lot of people from a couple of area reservations shop, and the general message I got from them is that theu will always take a good reason for a feast, especially with family.
@@pf6137Food, family, and being thankful. That's all the holiday has been since the civil war. Though if you ever want to reenact the first one, find a house giving off a lot of smoke, say "we thought you were under attack not making food" and ask if you can join.
In real life we get along really well too. There’s a lot of PRs here actually, due to the military bases of course. We give each other shit though, and we give them shit about them being a walking flag haha.
I was born in Texas, but my dad's from Farmington, and I lived 6 years in Santa Fe. My grandmother would visit home chili season and bring back cases and cases. When I was growing up my mom had to become an expert in chili just for him. Which was a lot harder to do in Texas in the 90's than it is now. Now I can find almost anything I used to buy in Santa Fe in local grocery stores.
As someone from Michigan, it's always nice to see the tradition of watching the Lions game honored in this way. Even if they sweep under the rug the fact that it ranks in the top ten for highest Native American population in order to enjoy food. Which is fine, we sweep it under the rug to enjoy good food too.
Fun fact, Michigan has the 2nd most native born residents by percent of population 75.9% to number 1 Louisiana 79.9%. And has the tenth highest retention rate 71.5% of people born there still live there compared to the number 1 Texas where 82.2% of people born in the state still live.
That's not a good thing, if you sweep a social issue under the rug just to please yourself. The humor is funny yes, but you seem a little too proud of it.
@davidkelly4210 First off: what is Bahai? Second off: yeah kinda by default since Buddhists and Hindus are still less common. Especially since the Hindus mostly choose the UK and the Buddhists stopped being Buddhist back in 1948.
The evolution of the table has been amazing. Loved the argument between pernil, tamales, and the appearance of Puerto Rico. My wife is from Venezuela - so I definitely fall in the category of supporting Pernil. Somehow us gringos picked the most awful tasting roasted food (Turkey) to represent our own culture for this holiday.
Y'all don't know how to make Turkey. Or really any food. Your origins conquered the world in search of spices and used none of them. You still have to import your damn recipes. It's because y'all don't know how to cook besides barbecue.
Not sure if it was intentional but misspelling Dearborn as “Deerborn” adds a subtle layer of humor; there are indeed lots of deer in Dearborn (and all of Michigan).
As someone from Michigan, yes, to English and Arabic, but you left out French, German, Greek, and Polish. And yes, we kept up our French. We learned it the same place LA did, and we watch Canadian TV and visit with our neighbor to the North fairly regularly. And yes, we've kept up with our own versions of those other languages too, as we have whole small towns or quarters of large cities dedicated as ethnic neighborhoods.
People don't actually speak those languages, they just like to think they do. That's how you get things like a business named "Das Gift Haus" (Munising.)
As a lifelong Washingtonian, I can say that in this video, Ben, you got us perfectly. That is 100% how we are at Thanksgiving. California calls, we send to voicemail.
@@brakosjacob8019 True. Even then, we'd work to make the call as short and polite* as possible. Under no circumstance are we picking the phone up for Idaho... we have them blocked.
Isn't it like... so expensive though? I might be wrong but I swear last time I looked (because I want to watch the Blackhawks) it was like $60 a month lol it'd be cool to get it for the tgiving party!
I see Michigan represented in the videos and applaud how accurate it is and laugh at the other states, which makes me think... The other states must be just as accurate if that's the case.
I live in NM, from Colorado. Someone asked me if I preferred red or green chilies, or Christmas, and I told them I didn't really like chilies at all... I am still not allowed in that bar in Albuquerque.
We do our thxgiving at Samhain. I keep forgetting its coming up since we already had it. I'm in Xmas mode. Part of it is me being uncomfortable with the holiday but most of it is that preparing 2 feasts often inside of a month is too much. Lol
The worst part is that despite the fact that we hate them and I never want that to change we are probably the closest State there is to one that doesn't dislike them.
PR and NM is relatable... . i went to school in Maine .. and they taught us EU Spanish 😂😂😂😂 a lot of good that shit does when I moved out of woods and its only latino spanish in other states
Even in the South, I didn't get a useful dialect of Spanish. There's a surprising amount of Dominicans in Atlanta, and that's the Spanish I learned. Problem is I mostly interact with Mexican Spanish, so now I know almost no Spanish, which is so much fun
EU Spanish is as useful to N.Americans as EU English is to S.Americans. The reason these are used in curricula is because they're more stable, and thus theoretically easier to learn.
As a Californian, I hate us, too. Compared to every other state I have visited, it is far and beyond what is around here. Edit: Thank goodness I live in suburbs.
Are there people that are mad about thanksgiving? I get it, the history behind it sucks, but the day itself is good, it's a way for friends and family to get together and hang out, im native american and my whole family celebrates it, and my tribe.
Shut up California. To quote Tom MacDonald: "I just wanna spend Thanksgivin' Day with food and my family, without bein' accused of celebrating native casualties."
Considering that Texas is very close to Mexico (as it LITERALLY BOARDERS IT), I feel like it would be a disservice is Texas didn't speak Spanish a bit - or at the very least understand it.
white Texan here. it's unfortunately pretty common to have poor Spanish comprehension. conservatism has a cultural and political stranglehold on the state, so Mexicans/Mexican-Americans are treated like threats more than neighbors and Spanish classes in school have minimal efficacy.
Oh, I'm sure he knows and understands... And pretends his best he doesn't understand at all. Just like how the Texas government is with a lot of things.
@@verdantViridity Plus, a lot of Texans are transplants from other places. Spanish definitely wasn't taught in Rural Ohio, and I didn't have it in North Carolina either. A lot of Indians (from India,) here are also dealing with learning/speaking English; adding Spanish might be a bit much to ask. I'd love it if there were classes offered for conversational Spanish. Maybe I need to look for those.
@@cariwaldick4898 in my college town, we have a lot of east+south Asian students and residents. mostly Chinese and Korean, some Japanese or Vietnamese, and then a lot of Urdu-speakers, like my Pakistani friend or the farmer's market vendor who taught me how to say thank you. I also have a Korean-American aunt+cousins.
I make a ton of food and then tell the kids about smallpox blankets and residential schools and why their great great great great grandma didn’t register. Then we eat pie.
Nice to see you again Rey!! Flordia u did it again!!!😁😁😁. My two crazy spurt animals seems to have new names. Bon and Jovi could be worse. Happy Thursday Flordia.
Every culture has their own harvest festival, if you don't like the implications of ours we can just rebrand it! 😊 Love it Edit before anyone says anything: most cultures have harvest festivals in some form or another, I understand there are some exceptions that fast more Than feast
The accuracy of Oregon and Washington hanging out and both ignoring California 😂
Sort of like the inland counties of those states tries to ignore Seattle and Portland;).
@@silverjohn6037well portlands in an inland county so
Yeah, we're not too keen on the other states, but we dislike California even more.
I know it had me dying. Completely accurate.
As a Washingtonian, I can agree that while we do not care about other states that much, we do actively hate California!
The fact that florida didn't immediately go break the law tells me his argument is super serious
"Florida come break the law with me" honestly a dangerous statement lmao
An extremely dangerous statement. Florida will break so many laws it will constitute as a war crime.
To be fair, we are talking about Cowboys.
Louisiana being both baffled and annoyed by California's lack of proper space to throw a good feast is relatable.
Midwest would have the sae problem. We make a mean spead of everything. Then throw tacos in there somewhere cause i married a Puerto Rican
Louie: "I just like to eat." As a Native American and someone from Louisiana that's always been my thoughts on 'Thanksgiving'... I just like the food.
Honestly, that’s what it’s always been
I worked at a Walmart where a lot of people from a couple of area reservations shop, and the general message I got from them is that theu will always take a good reason for a feast, especially with family.
Native American born in Florida here... Same.
@@pf6137Food, family, and being thankful. That's all the holiday has been since the civil war. Though if you ever want to reenact the first one, find a house giving off a lot of smoke, say "we thought you were under attack not making food" and ask if you can join.
Aldjakd same. Don’t care for the nonsense story just want the feast, thanks.
PR & NM are now best friends…the miracle of Friendsgiving!
In real life we get along really well too. There’s a lot of PRs here actually, due to the military bases of course. We give each other shit though, and we give them shit about them being a walking flag haha.
Louisiana desperately trying to get proper cooking going is way too true.
As a New Mexican, the red, green, christmas really sent me back home
Me too.
I could hear the pain in that silence
I was born in Texas, but my dad's from Farmington, and I lived 6 years in Santa Fe. My grandmother would visit home chili season and bring back cases and cases. When I was growing up my mom had to become an expert in chili just for him. Which was a lot harder to do in Texas in the 90's than it is now. Now I can find almost anything I used to buy in Santa Fe in local grocery stores.
With Florida and Louisiana, you have friends... because you certainly don't want them as enemies.
Exactly
👏👏👏👏 True dat!!
ha :)
You piss Louisiana off and you won't get any of their good food
Mais you rite you yass
Haha as a native Washingtonian, the way WA and OR bond in disdain over CA is SPOT ON!
Born and raised Oregonian here to agree
@@gyrozeppeli4862 Same here mate.
@@gyrozeppeli4862agreed too!
I feel like regardless of whatever problems Washington and Oregon may have with each other, we can always bond over the fact that California sucks
@@elliee884 yes
Its so nice to see Puerto Rico in a skit again. I hope he starts appearing more often along with Hawaii.
Actor credit needs to be given. He was great.
Name him.
Cali: [points to Loui] What is he doing here?
Loui: My best 🥲
The unexpected bond between Texas and Michigan over football is great
... but which one got control of the TV?
@@reginabillottiNeither, Florida was busy arguing over what's the best way to eat flesh
That's only because Lions and Cowboys don't play each other on T-day and the games aren't on at the same time.
@@reginabillottiBetter have been Texas the Cowboys are way more important
@@misternull4753 mmmm tasty tasty flesh.
Of course California pays for crunchyroll, that tracks. This was great!
......i considered that left field but whatevs
@@hypershadic98 I wanna live in your world where Californians don't watch anime
@@Htt.ps-Chaos here's a secret:I do ,but I have physical media,also dont really care for American Football
Well, I am a Californian, and I do pay for Crunchyroll, so that tracks, lol
Same. Who pays for cable?
As someone from Michigan, it's always nice to see the tradition of watching the Lions game honored in this way. Even if they sweep under the rug the fact that it ranks in the top ten for highest Native American population in order to enjoy food. Which is fine, we sweep it under the rug to enjoy good food too.
Fun fact, Michigan has the 2nd most native born residents by percent of population 75.9% to number 1 Louisiana 79.9%. And has the tenth highest retention rate 71.5% of people born there still live there compared to the number 1 Texas where 82.2% of people born in the state still live.
The lions were the team to advocate for playing on Thanksgiving if I recall correctly! Since then it's been tradition for them to play every year.
@@j03man44Thats uh. Not what they meant by Native American. No state has that high a percentage of Native Americans.
That's not a good thing, if you sweep a social issue under the rug just to please yourself. The humor is funny yes, but you seem a little too proud of it.
I watch the Lions every thanksgiving!!
I love PR and NM bonding over their slang
'I'm bon, it's already french" got me good lol
That Dearborn Michigan comment had me laughing way too hard
I mean Islam is the #2 religion in America once you get past the West Coast. Except, oddly, SC, they're Bahai for some odd reason.
@davidkelly4210 First off: what is Bahai? Second off: yeah kinda by default since Buddhists and Hindus are still less common. Especially since the Hindus mostly choose the UK and the Buddhists stopped being Buddhist back in 1948.
@@buddermonger2000 As best I can tell, Muslim Mormonism basicly.
@@davidkelly4210Muslim Mormonism?? Now I'm gonna check that
The dynamics of Loui's and Florida's friendship never fails to make me laugh. (also, I'm loving your ink so far! Especially the Kida tattoo!)
California thinking WA and OR are his friends while they disdainfully ignore his calls is top tier.
The evolution of the table has been amazing. Loved the argument between pernil, tamales, and the appearance of Puerto Rico. My wife is from Venezuela - so I definitely fall in the category of supporting Pernil. Somehow us gringos picked the most awful tasting roasted food (Turkey) to represent our own culture for this holiday.
That's why you gotta deep fry the Turkey
@@makato_yuki1523
More importantly, just eat the dark meat. (With my family, the white meat just gets repurposed for leftovers).
Y'all don't know how to make Turkey. Or really any food. Your origins conquered the world in search of spices and used none of them. You still have to import your damn recipes.
It's because y'all don't know how to cook besides barbecue.
The turkey is an indigenous bird to NA, it was runners-up as the official symbol of the US to the Eagle.
Of course Florida and New Mexico are arguing over dishes
Not sure if it was intentional but misspelling Dearborn as “Deerborn” adds a subtle layer of humor; there are indeed lots of deer in Dearborn (and all of Michigan).
I'm thankful that I stumbled on Ben's videos 3 years ago. Awesome to see Rey again!
I've missed him & Hawaii too I hope she makes a comeback.
As someone from Michigan, yes, to English and Arabic, but you left out French, German, Greek, and Polish. And yes, we kept up our French. We learned it the same place LA did, and we watch Canadian TV and visit with our neighbor to the North fairly regularly.
And yes, we've kept up with our own versions of those other languages too, as we have whole small towns or quarters of large cities dedicated as ethnic neighborhoods.
People don't actually speak those languages, they just like to think they do. That's how you get things like a business named "Das Gift Haus" (Munising.)
I thought the French didn't make it out of Quebec or new Orleans
As a lifelong Washingtonian, I can say that in this video, Ben, you got us perfectly. That is 100% how we are at Thanksgiving. California calls, we send to voicemail.
To be fair, we'd probably only answer if it's Oregon or Alaska 😂
@@brakosjacob8019 True. Even then, we'd work to make the call as short and polite* as possible.
Under no circumstance are we picking the phone up for Idaho... we have them blocked.
@@VincentMcmanus. As an Oregonian I can confirm only bad things will happen if you even think of conversing with Idaho.
I agree with New Mexico. Gotta have tamales for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Man im just glad Puerto Rico got invited... also the lingo swap is true.
I love the Crunchyroll/Haikyuu reference
PR popping in with "Pernil?" got me laughing. Pernil is amazing if you do it right.
Puerto Rico coming out of nowhere is just pure yes
“We’re calling it Friendsgiving”
“That’s funny”
“Why”
“You don’t have any”
Hulu live has football, for future reference. That’s what I’m thankful for!!
Isn't it like... so expensive though? I might be wrong but I swear last time I looked (because I want to watch the Blackhawks) it was like $60 a month lol it'd be cool to get it for the tgiving party!
@@Htt.ps-Chaos yeah, free trial for a month per email. Each state has a different email. They’re set for life! lol
I was having a really nice day, then I see Ben Brainard posted a new Florida Man in SoCal video, and this cheered me right up. Great Job Ben!
I see Michigan represented in the videos and applaud how accurate it is and laugh at the other states, which makes me think... The other states must be just as accurate if that's the case.
The irony of Texas asking about the Cowboys game while being right over an Eagles blanket is hilarious, whether intentional or not.
Go Birds!
I live in NM, from Colorado. Someone asked me if I preferred red or green chilies, or Christmas, and I told them I didn't really like chilies at all... I am still not allowed in that bar in Albuquerque.
Lifetime ban I hope. 😂😂😂 jk.
Wait, you're a Colorado expat in New Mexico and you don't like Green Chile.
I feel for you, I'm English and I hate tea.
Appreciate the Haikyu reference, a good recommendation indeed
Unrelated, but I love the bee squishmallow on the shelf in the background
We do our thxgiving at Samhain. I keep forgetting its coming up since we already had it. I'm in Xmas mode. Part of it is me being uncomfortable with the holiday but most of it is that preparing 2 feasts often inside of a month is too much. Lol
Yooooo Florida and Cali had a moment!
I love the French I love the Spanish. This was everything I wanted to be.
Nothing makes me think of a Michigan thanksgiving more than a man in a food coma on the couch in a lions jersey.
As a Brazillian Punheta means something completely different for us. And hearing it is always hilarious.
what does it mean?
@@maddiecorrothers3394 Masturbation.
@@dantereinhardt6911dang
It always pleases me seeing Oregon not want anything to do with Cali
The worst part is that despite the fact that we hate them and I never want that to change we are probably the closest State there is to one that doesn't dislike them.
@@RRW359New York. Although that's if we measure hate for California relative to hate for other states.
I can imagine a conversation between Oregon and California being like:
Cal: hey can I borrow that real quick?
Or: sure. Ight fuck off
Ca: fuck you too
100% accurate New Mexico! Please include NM in more skits!
Thank you for including Puerto Rico!! I miss him!
"You gave Loui a migraine!" Totally underrated! 😂
Love all of the language play so much
California refusing to call it Thanksgiving yet still giving thanks is very California
Omg Puerto Rico came!!! Yay! I love them and New Mexico bonding at the end there ^^
My favorite Mexico 😂
meanwhile Alaska and Hawai'i are on another video call date. Hawai'i hiding from tourists and Alaska snowed in.
The accuracy of PR and NM 😂
Love it. Can't wait for this to be upgraded to a YT show.
your Louie is getting much better.
“What is he doing here?”
“Mah best.”
It’s not even been 10 seconds and you killed me
What I’ve learned from this is that California has good taste in television and “orale” is the New Mexico version of “mais”
As a Michigander, yeah, Dearborn definitely surprises us a lot.
The food is gonna be plentiful and awesome if Louisiana is in the house! We know how to throw down in the kitchen!
PR and NM is relatable...
. i went to school in Maine .. and they taught us EU Spanish 😂😂😂😂 a lot of good that shit does when I moved out of woods and its only latino spanish in other states
Even in the South, I didn't get a useful dialect of Spanish. There's a surprising amount of Dominicans in Atlanta, and that's the Spanish I learned. Problem is I mostly interact with Mexican Spanish, so now I know almost no Spanish, which is so much fun
EU Spanish is as useful to N.Americans as EU English is to S.Americans. The reason these are used in curricula is because they're more stable, and thus theoretically easier to learn.
Ben, you are a genius! I love your content!
OMG I love your spanish!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm grateful for wholesome moments
"My best"
Me too, Lou. Me too.
I would ask where Missouri is, but he definitely has to go to the Turkey Day Game in-person
Friendsgiving is an amazing idea
"Dearborn surprises me too" can't forget about Coldwater, where I'm from 🤣
“What is he doing here”
“My best”
Ok Ben, Epic job 👍
Did anyone notice the “I’m thankful for Whiteclaw.” “But *Truly* that was….
underrated joke if intentional
As a Californian, I hate us, too. Compared to every other state I have visited, it is far and beyond what is around here.
Edit: Thank goodness I live in suburbs.
As if California would host. 😂 He's gotta get on a plane!
As an Oregonian, I appreciate the accurate representation
Florida, come break the law! 🤣🤣
I'm thankful for good comedy.
Are there people that are mad about thanksgiving? I get it, the history behind it sucks, but the day itself is good, it's a way for friends and family to get together and hang out, im native american and my whole family celebrates it, and my tribe.
Okay, but that Jolie Bon joke was funny! 😂
I’m in a state of Ben
It feels good
Also a fun reminder that SoCal is where a lot of young people go when they want to get away from their families on the other coast/midwest.
Yeah. Friendsgiving: Less about anti-colonialism and more about having Thanksgiving with people you choose instead of relatives.
This was perfection. Thanks for doing these again!
Shut up California. To quote Tom MacDonald:
"I just wanna spend Thanksgivin' Day with food and my family, without bein' accused of celebrating native casualties."
0:14-0:18 NICE REFRENCE
As someone from arizona Tamales are delicious and the superior food!!!
Agreed, my family does tamales for Christmas. It's the best!
I'm from NM, and I lived in AZ for a decade. I still can't stand tamales. More for you, I guess.
As a Texan, i am with new mexico. Tamales, tamales all the way
Ah, I love seeing Washington and Oregon hanging out and flat out refusing to acknowledge California
NM red and green chile incoming!!!
Considering that Texas is very close to Mexico (as it LITERALLY BOARDERS IT), I feel like it would be a disservice is Texas didn't speak Spanish a bit - or at the very least understand it.
Texas only speaks Spanish when the hat comes off and Austin gets out...
white Texan here. it's unfortunately pretty common to have poor Spanish comprehension. conservatism has a cultural and political stranglehold on the state, so Mexicans/Mexican-Americans are treated like threats more than neighbors and Spanish classes in school have minimal efficacy.
Oh, I'm sure he knows and understands... And pretends his best he doesn't understand at all. Just like how the Texas government is with a lot of things.
@@verdantViridity Plus, a lot of Texans are transplants from other places. Spanish definitely wasn't taught in Rural Ohio, and I didn't have it in North Carolina either. A lot of Indians (from India,) here are also dealing with learning/speaking English; adding Spanish might be a bit much to ask.
I'd love it if there were classes offered for conversational Spanish. Maybe I need to look for those.
@@cariwaldick4898 in my college town, we have a lot of east+south Asian students and residents. mostly Chinese and Korean, some Japanese or Vietnamese, and then a lot of Urdu-speakers, like my Pakistani friend or the farmer's market vendor who taught me how to say thank you. I also have a Korean-American aunt+cousins.
Every time I watch one of your videos it reinforces the idea that I would never live in California.
What's Cali high on this time? Thanksgiving is about the yearly harvest.
Turned it into the Real World typical Cal.
When do we get the inverse of this? I'm ready to see a Cali born and raised reacts to leaving Cali the first time and going to Florida
From the home of the original feast, happy Thanksgiving everyone. Don't mock the rock.
You know we can have tamales *AND* pernil!
I make a ton of food and then tell the kids about smallpox blankets and residential schools and why their great great great great grandma didn’t register. Then we eat pie.
Nice to see you again Rey!! Flordia u did it again!!!😁😁😁. My two crazy spurt animals seems to have new names. Bon and Jovi could be worse. Happy Thursday Flordia.
Every culture has their own harvest festival, if you don't like the implications of ours we can just rebrand it! 😊 Love it
Edit before anyone says anything: most cultures have harvest festivals in some form or another, I understand there are some exceptions that fast more Than feast
All the Spanish states started speaking Spanish and I'm all for it!
Excellent!
So episode series are back? Cool