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Wicked Radio 11-26: Thanksgiving Is In Our American DNA! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: The Great American Holiday, a day of thanks a day
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  Speaker 1: of celebration, a day of food, family, football, all of
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  Speaker 1: the great things that Thanksgiving gives us. It's upon us,
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  Speaker 1: well almost, But Thanksgiving is really all week, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do a live stream or a podcast
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  Speaker 1: for Thursday and Friday, because honestly, you should be celebrating
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  Speaker 1: that with family and friends, not listening or doing podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a little bit early, but I hope
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  Speaker 1: you listen to this, and I hope it's a great
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  Speaker 1: reminder about the true story of Thanksgiving and what we
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  Speaker 1: should really be grateful for now. There's so much to
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  Speaker 1: be grateful for. First of all, first and foremost, that
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  Speaker 1: we have a Thanksgiving. It's a wonderful That's why I
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  Speaker 1: call it the Great American tradition, the Great American Holiday.
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  Speaker 1: It's only ours, and I understand, I know that Canada
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  Speaker 1: has one, it's in October. Whatever, Fine, Thanksgiving's American. It
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  Speaker 1: is ours. It is unique. And don't ever ever feel
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  Speaker 1: bad about being unique and being American and being unique
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  Speaker 1: in the world as well. Ever, the first thing, and
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  Speaker 1: then be grateful for health, well enough at least, no
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  Speaker 1: matter what you're going through, to sit down at a
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  Speaker 1: table with your family and friends, I hope, and to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate this or at least somebody reaching out to you,
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  Speaker 1: and then thankful for all the stuff we have, a
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  Speaker 1: tough economy, tough times, whatever, enough to celebrate something, enough
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  Speaker 1: to celebrate even just watching a football game, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: how and when and where and whatever you do to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate Thanksgiving, just be thankful for that. But there's more.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot more. Be thankful for how we got here,
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  Speaker 1: the true story of Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of years back, before we lost him, Rush
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  Speaker 1: Limbaugh did an amazing one of his most popular features ever,
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  Speaker 1: where he read and delved into the true story of Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of it that we never were taught in school.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't not the full story, only half of it,
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  Speaker 1: maybe three quarters of it about William Bradford and Rush
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  Speaker 1: taken from the direct writings of William Bradford, the first
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  Speaker 1: governor of the pilgrimagee call in New England in Massachusetts,
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  Speaker 1: his direct writings. Rush took that and told the true
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  Speaker 1: story of Thanksgiving. Little side note here, I don't care
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  Speaker 1: about the politics. I don't care what you thought about
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  Speaker 1: Rush Limbaugh personally, I'm just talking from a communicator's standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: a storyteller standpoint, from a broadcasters standpoint. This guy was
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  Speaker 1: amazing and his telling of the true story of Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 1: is worth a reminder. I think I'm gonna take two
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  Speaker 1: big sections of his piece that he did so many
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  Speaker 1: years ago just to replay it. I won't replay the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing Bush. This is a great reminder of what
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  Speaker 1: this is truly all about, and what's it all about.
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  Speaker 1: I think as a reminder what we're all going to
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  Speaker 1: learn here is despite all these so called fractured times,
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  Speaker 1: you know, these fearful times, and all we've seen in
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  Speaker 1: the news for the past year, really about these the
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  Speaker 1: surging concept of seizing private property and socialism and the
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  Speaker 1: new mayor of New York and all this stuff that
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  Speaker 1: you hear. All the takeaway is that's not truly, ever,
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  Speaker 1: really gonna happen, is it. Because I'll tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: Gratitude and the power of gratitude and the power of
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  Speaker 1: hard work, determination, fortitude, and yeah, individual property, that's in
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  Speaker 1: our DNA as Americans. It's part of who we are.
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  Speaker 1: It's too late in the process, You're not gonna change that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that's never truly ever gonna go away. Now, societies through
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  Speaker 1: you know, it pops up every once in a while
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  Speaker 1: and somebody will say, these are tough times. We got
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  Speaker 1: to like, we gotta go full socialist, We got to
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  Speaker 1: go communist. We gotta see this property, it should be
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  Speaker 1: shared amongst all of us. Well, they've tried it many times.
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  Speaker 1: You know where they tried it. They tried it in
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  Speaker 1: the original Colonies, the Original Colonies, sixteen twenty one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they tried that in the Mayflower. Now let's start with
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  Speaker 1: the true story. We know how the whole story starts.
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  Speaker 1: We were all taught this in school. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: Rush for the first clip. How did we get to
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  Speaker 1: this point in the first place? Sixteen twenty one. How
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  Speaker 1: bad was it in jolly old England that a group
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  Speaker 1: of rebels decided to leave and face the kind of
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  Speaker 1: hardships they did. Here's Rush for the first part.
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  Speaker 2: Story of Thanksgiving. The story of the Pilgrims begins in
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  Speaker 2: the early part of the seventeenth century. The Church of England,
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  Speaker 2: under King James the First was persecuting anyone and everyone
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  Speaker 2: who did not recognize its absolute civil and spiritual authority.
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  Speaker 2: Those who challenged ecclesiastical authority and those who believed strongly
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  Speaker 2: in freedom of worship were hunted down, imprisoned, and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: executed for their beliefs. A group of separatists first fled
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  Speaker 2: to Holland and established a community. After eleven years, about
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  Speaker 2: forty of them agreed to make a perilous journey to
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  Speaker 2: the New World, where they would certainly face hardships but
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  Speaker 2: could live and worship God according to the dictates of
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  Speaker 2: their own consciences.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't easy. It was a horrific trip by all accounts,
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  Speaker 1: by all writings that we know of, I mean, in
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  Speaker 1: world history. Really wasn't that long ago. Many a documentation
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  Speaker 1: for it. They finally survived that trip. They lost a
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  Speaker 1: lot of them. They got to New England, they settled,
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  Speaker 1: they set up colonies, and it was just awful. If
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  Speaker 1: you've ever read and talked and discovered and try to
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  Speaker 1: research some of the what that life was like, it
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  Speaker 1: was just absolutely awful. But they're willing to do it
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  Speaker 1: to worship and to live how they thought they would
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  Speaker 1: want to live. Now we're going to talk about this
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  Speaker 1: guy for a little bit of a background. Who was
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  Speaker 1: William Bradford That Rush researched, and he went to his
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  Speaker 1: own direct writings. William Bradford was the first governor of
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  Speaker 1: those early settlers the Plymouth Colony just reading here historically
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  Speaker 1: linked to the sixteen twenty one Thanksgiving. The governor of
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  Speaker 1: the Plymouth Colony, he organized the celebratory feast after the
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  Speaker 1: first successful corn harvest.
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  Speaker 3: That's key.
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  Speaker 1: Three day event included the colonists and approximately ninety wampin
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  Speaker 1: odd people. Bradford, having documented the colony's early history his
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  Speaker 1: book of Plymouth Plantation. Well, here's where it gets interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why we can all come up with
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  Speaker 1: our own theories. How we weren't told the whole story
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  Speaker 1: of how it actually became a sit down dinner and
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  Speaker 1: it was historically according to them, it really actually happened
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  Speaker 1: with the Indians. But a whole lot happened that led
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  Speaker 1: up to that. And here's the key part. Rushi explains
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  Speaker 1: it better than I ever could. But under the laws
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  Speaker 1: dictated by the king who let these separatists leave, was
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  Speaker 1: that basically, we're going to set up a system of socialism.
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  Speaker 1: When you get there, all of your rations, all your food,
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  Speaker 1: anything you make, anything you earn, anything you have all
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  Speaker 1: the food you were able to somehow grow, you got
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  Speaker 1: to share it equally. It was disastrous. They almost all
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  Speaker 1: died that first winter, and god they arrived in November.
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  Speaker 1: It took a full year. They lost a lot of them.
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  Speaker 1: It was horrific till they finally changed something again. This
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  Speaker 1: is directly from the writings of William Bradford, the first
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  Speaker 1: governor of Plymouth. He decided, probably out of desperation, all right,
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  Speaker 1: here's what we're going to do. We're going to give
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  Speaker 1: each surviving separatist here, each pilgrim their own plot of
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  Speaker 1: land to work. You work your own that you take
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  Speaker 1: care of your own property. He'll take care of his.
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  Speaker 1: I'll take her of mine. Out of the goodness of
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  Speaker 1: our hearts. Then maybe we could share something with it.
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  Speaker 1: But everybody share your own thing. And what they found
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  Speaker 1: was amazing. The production was better, they got more food,
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  Speaker 1: the system worked better, and everything worked better when they
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  Speaker 1: dropped the communal socialist idea that they had in their
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  Speaker 1: heads at first, and also the rules that the king
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  Speaker 1: had tried to give them. Now, what was the result.
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  Speaker 1: We're going back to rush on this one. It's a
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  Speaker 1: little long again, but the results nothing short of amazing well.
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  Speaker 2: At no time the Pilgrims found that they had more
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  Speaker 2: food than they could eat themselves.
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  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 2: This this is where it gets really good if you're
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  Speaker 2: laboring under the misconception that I was as I was
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  Speaker 2: taught in school. They set up trading posts, they exchanged
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  Speaker 2: goods with the Indians. The prophets allowed them to pay
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  Speaker 2: off their debts to the merchants in London, and the
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  Speaker 2: success and the prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted more
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  Speaker 2: Europeans and began what came to be known as the
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  Speaker 2: Great Puritan Migration. But this story stops when the Indians
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  Speaker 2: taught the newly arrived, suffering in socialism Pilgrims how to
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  Speaker 2: plant corn and fish for cod. That's where the original
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  Speaker 2: Thanksgiving story stops. Story basically doesn't even begin there. The
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  Speaker 2: real story of Thanksgiving is William Bradford giving thanks to
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  Speaker 2: God for the guidance and the inspiration to set up
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  Speaker 2: a thriving colony that socialism caused near starvation. The bounty
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  Speaker 2: was shared with the Indians.
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  Speaker 3: They did sit down, they did have free range turkey
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  Speaker 3: and organic vegetables, But it wasn't the Indians.
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  Speaker 2: Who saved the day. It was capitalism and scripture which
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  Speaker 2: saved the day.
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  Speaker 1: They did sit down. They did share the bounty, but
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  Speaker 1: none of the bounty would have happened according again, as
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  Speaker 1: Rush said, the direct writings of William Bradford, the first
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  Speaker 1: Governor of Plymouth, unless they had changed what they were
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  Speaker 1: taught and they got to work on their own private
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  Speaker 1: property and then shared it. That's the real story of Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 1: brought to us again by Rush Limbad just a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago before we passed them. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: what you think of Rush. The fact that every once
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  Speaker 1: in a while that video pops up, that message pops
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  Speaker 1: up to remind us what it's all about, is so
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  Speaker 1: important if I wanted to share it with you today
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  Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving Week. I don't know why we weren't told
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  Speaker 1: the whole story. I think I have my own guesses.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the takeaway of all the things we should
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  Speaker 1: be great before, and there's a lot. There's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're always striving for something else, so it's
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  Speaker 1: easy to bitch about stuff. Things aren't perfect. Economy is tough,
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  Speaker 1: It's always been tough. Life has always been tough. But
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  Speaker 1: there's always something to be grateful about. This is what
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  Speaker 1: you should be really grateful for, I think, And this
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  Speaker 1: is what I'm telling myself as a reminder as I
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  Speaker 1: watch that again this year, despite all the fear and
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  Speaker 1: all the propaganda that's pushed on us every single day
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  Speaker 1: about however, we have to change things. We're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to share, We're gonna have to change our economy. Just
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  Speaker 1: look what they're doing in New York. This is the way.
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  Speaker 1: Every once in a while, maybe every fifty years or so,
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  Speaker 1: it pops up with that idea takes place, and it
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  Speaker 1: never takes root. And I'm telling you right now be
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  Speaker 1: thankful for this. It never will. It's too ingrained in
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  Speaker 1: our DNA as Americans, going back to sixteen twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: that hard work, capitalism, individual property, individual work is the
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  Speaker 1: way to go. And more often than not, like the
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  Speaker 1: very first Thanksgiving, it does wind up with sharing the
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  Speaker 1: BOUNTI that's how you do it. Have a great Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out with me. Back to normal shows
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  Speaker 1: next week, I think, but taking Thursday and Friday off
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  Speaker 1: on the weekend and just enjoy all of this great
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  Speaker 1: stuff and remember the unique American holiday. Don't ever make
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  Speaker 1: let anybody make you feel guilty about it, Happy Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 1: everybody