1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: Hey, Michael, just drove back from San Francisco in Miam 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: all the way to Lovely Libby, and I listened to 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: all your podcasts and I'm all caught up and you 4 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 1: are a word zeus. I want to say, when you 5 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 1: talk about sour chasm and being a smart ass, you're 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 1: exact on both points. 7 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 2: You are a very sour chasm. 8 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: But hey, once in a while, you are wickedly smart 9 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: as an ass. 10 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 3: Okay, thanks. How did the m do? By the way, 11 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 3: And I'm thinking about doing a trade in. I haven't decided, 12 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 3: but I'm thinking about doing a trade in. Mine's got 13 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 3: too many miles on it. And I hope you enjoyed 14 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 3: the trip, and I was San fran Did you see 15 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 3: Nancy while you were out there? Our friends are with 16 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 3: the Babylon Bee continue with their amazing streak of truly 17 00:00:52,400 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 3: great satire's prophecy. Well maybe it was close Monday theyadlined 18 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 3: this quote Trump to execute all turkeys pardoned by Biden's 19 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 3: auto pin And then yesterday the President announced that Biden's 20 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 3: pardons of last year's turkeys were no void because of 21 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 3: the autopin, but that he had saved the turkeys and 22 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 3: the Nica time. I don't know if there's ever been 23 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 3: another president who's got as much of an entertainer and him. 24 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 2: As what Trump does. Now. 25 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 3: Sometimes it falls flat, as it will with any comedian, 26 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 3: and sometimes it really hits home. This one just kind 27 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 3: of struck me as okay, because truthfully, I kind of 28 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 3: dislike the whole pardon of the turkeys. Every year. I've 29 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 3: always thought like one, I don't know, and quite frank 30 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 3: I don't care, but I'm kind of curious about of 31 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 3: the what millions of turkeys in the country. And I'm 32 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 3: not talking about you guys. I'm not talking about talk 33 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 3: show hosts. I'm talking about the real turkeys out there, 34 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 3: the ones that a lot of us are going to 35 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 3: eat tomorrow. How do you pick two? Who does the picking? 36 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 3: Does Butterball do it? Is it a native ad? Is 37 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 3: this whole, this whole scam about pardoning turkeys? Is it 38 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:20,359 Speaker 3: just a conspiracy by Butterball to get attention every year 39 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 3: to their you know, they got the hotline if. 40 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 2: You have it. I forgot the thought of my turkey. 41 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 2: What do I do? Are my turkey's not doing this? 42 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:28,400 Speaker 3: What do I do? There are some you know, eight 43 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:30,679 Speaker 3: underd number you can call. I don't know what it is. 44 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 3: I don't care. But it's always just been kind of 45 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 3: like really silly to me, but not silly in a 46 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 3: funny way, just kind of silly in a stupid way. 47 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 3: So the President of the United States exercising one of 48 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 3: the exclusive powers that he has. And by the way, 49 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 3: a turkey is not a person, so I don't think 50 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 3: it really applies constitutionally. But now I'm just plain lawyer. 51 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 3: But how do we pick the turkeys? And then do 52 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 3: we really need two turkeys every year? For what's the 53 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 3: past fifty years? However long they've been doing it, and 54 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 3: they get sent off to what some farm somewhere where 55 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 3: they just die of old age. I mean, isn't that 56 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 3: kind of a waste of turkey? And then what about 57 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 3: So do you know, have you ever been to a 58 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 3: turkey farm. I've been to a turkey farm. I've been 59 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 3: to a turkey farm in New Mexico. And you walk 60 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 3: up and of course they're really dune birds, and they 61 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 3: can't decide whether to run away from you or to 62 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 3: come to you because they know you. Are you here 63 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,079 Speaker 3: to feed us or are you here to pick one 64 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 3: of us out? You're gonna shop our heads off. What's 65 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 3: gonna happen? So they just all run around. They just 66 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 3: run around, Well, am I supposed to? Who does do? 67 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 3: They send somebody from the Department of Justice to pick 68 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 3: out are that one over there? 69 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:41,119 Speaker 2: That one? 70 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 3: And then you know, and they're all holding their necks up, 71 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 3: big me, big me, pardon me, pardon me. But be careful, 72 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 3: you know, sticking your neck up trying to get pardoned, 73 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 3: because you might get whacked off at the same time. 74 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 3: So Trump does this little entertainment yesterday. Now, the annual 75 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 3: Turkey part of the White House. Some say is a 76 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 3: fun tradition and that it is ostensibly to allow us 77 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 3: to set aside political ranker in favor of some holiday cheer. Well, 78 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 3: Trump's never going to set aside political ranker. But he 79 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 3: was also somewhat funny in going after his opponents yesterday. 80 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 3: And there was some initial welcoming comments. And here's how 81 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 3: he began. In a few moments. I will grant a full, 82 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:36,160 Speaker 3: absolute and unconditional presidential pardon to two handsome Thanksgiving turkeys. 83 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:38,599 Speaker 3: And this is their lucky day. This is a lucky 84 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 3: day for them. But before going any further, I want 85 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 3: to make an important and announcement because you remember last year, 86 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 3: after a thorough and very rigorous investigation by Pam Bonding 87 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,480 Speaker 3: all the people to the Department of Justice, the FBI, 88 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 3: the CIA, the White House Council's Office, and the Department 89 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 3: of Everything. See I kind of like that, the Department 90 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 3: of Everything. We have a Department of everything. You know 91 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,679 Speaker 3: what it is. I think it's called the White House 92 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 3: into a terrible situation caused by a man named Sleepy 93 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:08,479 Speaker 3: Joe Biden. He used an auto pin last year for 94 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 3: the Turkey's pardon. So I have the official duty to determine, 95 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 3: and I have determined that last year's Turkey pardons are 96 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 3: totally invalid, as are the pardons of about every other 97 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 3: person that was pardoned other than Where's Hunter. No, No 98 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 3: Hunter was good. That was the one pardon, Pam. That 99 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 3: was no good pardon. Right. The rest of them are 100 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 3: all invalid. 101 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 4: Now. 102 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 3: I don't know what the hell you're going to do 103 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 3: about that, But now we're going to take a little 104 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 3: of the joking. That is a mess. But they're here. 105 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 3: By Nolan Void. The Turkey is known as Peach and 106 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,160 Speaker 3: Blossom last year had been located and they run their 107 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 3: way to be processed, in other words, to be killed. 108 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 2: But I've stopped. 109 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 3: I've stopped that journey and I am now officially pardoning 110 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 3: them and they will not be served for Thanksgiving dinner. 111 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 2: We saved them in the nick of time. 112 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 4: You had some Thanksgiving turkeys, and this is their lucky day. 113 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 4: This is a lucky day for them. But before going 114 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 4: any further, I want to make an important announcement because 115 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:10,280 Speaker 4: you remember last year, after a thorough and very rigorous 116 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 4: investigation by Pam Bondi and all of the people at 117 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:20,600 Speaker 4: Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA, the White House 118 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 4: Counsel's Office, and the Department of Everything. We have a 119 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 4: Department of Everything, you know that is I think that's 120 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 4: called the. 121 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 2: White House. 122 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:34,160 Speaker 4: Into a terrible situation caused by a man named Sleepy 123 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 4: Joe Biden. He used an auto pen last year for 124 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 4: the turkey's pardon. So I have the official duty to determine, 125 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 4: and I have determined that last year's turkey pardons are 126 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 4: totally invalid, as are the pardons of about every other 127 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 4: person that was pardoned other than Where's Hunter. No Hunters 128 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:00,719 Speaker 4: was good? That was the one parton was good, right. 129 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 4: The rest of them are all invalid. I don't know 130 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:04,040 Speaker 4: what the hell you're going to do about that, but 131 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 4: that's now we're get to take a little of the joke. 132 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:07,600 Speaker 2: And that is a mess. 133 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 4: But there here by Nol and Voyd. The turkeys known 134 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 4: as Peach in Blossom last year have been located and 135 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 4: they were on their way to be processed, in other words, 136 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 4: to be killed. But I have stopped that journey and 137 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 4: I am officially pardoning them and they will not be 138 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 4: served for Thanksgiving dinner. 139 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 2: We saved them in the. 140 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 3: We saved them for all on behalf of all the 141 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 3: other turkeys that weren't pardoned. Pete wants to know what 142 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 3: about them. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, and 143 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 3: have a great one, and happy Thanksgiving to you too. Now, 144 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 3: somebody said that the earlier talk back they thought was 145 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 3: fake and it was AI. And because that one was 146 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 3: so nice and compliment, I think that was the fake one, 147 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 3: and that was AI because based on the text line, ooh, 148 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 3: people are really ticked off today. 149 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 2: Guaranteed human get thru it. 150 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 3: Guaranteed Human listeners aren't guaranteed be human, but you know, 151 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 3: at least we're guaranteed to be human. Right, let's see 152 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 3: where was I going to go? Oh, I lost my place. 153 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 3: Imagine that losing my place to grasp kind of the 154 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:33,679 Speaker 3: raw malice that characterizes academia. Consider that the University of 155 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:37,559 Speaker 3: Minnesota create you know, they have a lab that's dedicated 156 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 3: to eradicating what they call the fight this pandemic. See, 157 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 3: we've always got a pandemic going on. Right now, measles 158 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 3: are endemic in Canada and everybody's blaming Bobby Kennedy Jr. 159 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 3: I don't know how that happens, but apparently there's a 160 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 3: causal link between Bobby Kennedy Junior, who simply questions, which 161 00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 3: I always thought was what science does that he in 162 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 3: the efficacy of some vaccines. 163 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 2: He questioned the safety of some vaccines. 164 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 3: But now we have a measles outbreak in Canada that 165 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 3: is endemic, and that's Bobby Kennedy's fault. Well, we have 166 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 3: a whiteness pandemic. Did you know that? You can talk 167 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 3: about this over Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. The lab is under 168 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 3: the university's Institute of Child Development and is funded in 169 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:27,319 Speaker 3: part by the National Institutes on Mental Health. There's a 170 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 3: predoctoral fellowship program. 171 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 2: So what it really means is that. 172 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 3: Institutionalized race is now funded by a course he basis by. 173 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 2: You as a taxpayer. But Michael, it's the University of Minnesota. 174 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 3: I live in Colorado, or I live in Wisconsin, I 175 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 3: live in Arizona. 176 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 2: No wait, wait, wait, wait wait. 177 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:48,439 Speaker 3: This is the National Institute of Mental Health and they 178 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 3: funded through grants through that, so taxpayers all over the 179 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 3: country get to fund a program, a lab that deals 180 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 3: with the whiteness pandemic, and it is that's institutionalized race 181 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 3: hate funded by American taxpayers. 182 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:05,319 Speaker 2: That'll be Thanksgiving everybody. 183 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 3: There's a university paper that is sited on the lab's 184 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:14,839 Speaker 3: website and it allies its strategy for combating the whiteness pandemic. 185 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 3: So you might want to take notes on this, so 186 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 3: you know tomorrow if you have a mixed race family, 187 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 3: you know, for dinner, you have launch your dinner. I 188 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 3: know we have the kind of in between somewhere. If 189 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 3: you have a mixed race family, you might want to 190 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 3: bring this up. See how that goes. Quote naming the 191 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 3: whiteness pandemic shifts our gaze from the victims and effects 192 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 3: of racism onto the systems that perpetuate and perpetuate racism 193 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 3: starting with the family system. 194 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 2: Oh, families, got it? 195 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:52,199 Speaker 3: He goes on to say, at birth, young children growing 196 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 3: up in white families begin to be socialized into the 197 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:58,959 Speaker 3: culture of whiteness, making the family system one of the 198 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 3: most powerful systems involved in systemic racism. I'm I'm sorry, 199 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:09,160 Speaker 3: I may pause for a moment and catch my breath. 200 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 3: At birth, young children growing up in white families began 201 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 3: to be socialized into the culture of whiteness. What if 202 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 3: that sentence said at birth, young Asian children growing up 203 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:32,319 Speaker 3: in Asian families begin to be socialized into the culture 204 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 3: of asianeness. Or if the sentence read at birth, young 205 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:42,080 Speaker 3: black children growing up or young children growing up in 206 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 3: black families begin to be socialized into the culture of blackness, 207 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 3: making the family system one of the most powerful systems 208 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 3: involved in the systemic racism. At some point, don't you 209 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 3: realize just how insane this bull crap is. Seriously, you 210 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 3: gotta pay attention to this, so you know what the 211 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 3: solution is, destroy the family. In the paper's explanation of 212 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 3: the whiteness pandemic, it explains that racism is not only 213 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 3: an epidemic, but a pandemic because of its large cross 214 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 3: national proportion and spread. But behind racism, the curriculum explains, 215 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 3: is the whiteness pandemic, beginning with the family system. According 216 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 3: to the paper's definition, when children are raised in white families, 217 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 3: they begin to be socializes in that culture of weight 218 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 3: of whiteness and by systemic racism. I think what they 219 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 3: really mean is just American culture. 220 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:33,440 Speaker 4: Now. 221 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 2: I don't know. 222 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,679 Speaker 3: They came up with a so called air quoteer vaccine 223 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 3: against Sarskov two. Maybe they'll find one to vaccinate white 224 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 3: families against whit ness. 225 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 2: People say they want another chilly chalkback. I looked around 226 00:12:55,040 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 2: the UNI s it is so oh no, we talked 227 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 2: that for you. Thank you. 228 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 3: Rush Limbaugh always had his annual Thanksgiving story, what he 229 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:13,599 Speaker 3: called the true Story of Thanksgiving. It was his retelling 230 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 3: of William Bradford and the Pilgrims how they had abandoned 231 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:21,079 Speaker 3: a communal proto socialist arrangement at Plymouth and started adopting 232 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 3: private property and free enterprise, which Rush argued made the 233 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 3: first Thanksgiving actually possible. He drew that story from Bradford's journal, 234 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 3: as interpreted in a book that Brush wrote called See 235 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:36,960 Speaker 3: I Told You So, And then He later wove that 236 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,960 Speaker 3: same story into another book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims. 237 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 3: He used it every single year as a parable about 238 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:48,440 Speaker 3: the failures of collectivism, the moral value of work, and 239 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 3: of course his gratitude to God for the blessings of liberty. 240 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 3: He is a great story. The Wall Street Journal every 241 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 3: year publishes they did yesterday. They publish the same editorial 242 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 3: they published for decades about the meaning of Thanksgiving. And 243 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 3: they do the same thing on Christmas. And I always 244 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 3: look forward to, you know, I read the same editorial 245 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 3: every single year, and I always look forward to hearing 246 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 3: Rush tell the story. He framed the familiar grade school 247 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 3: Thanksgiving narrative about the Pilgrims the Indians, you know, a 248 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 3: shared feast, as be the incomplete story because it downplayed 249 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 3: the pilgrim's initial experiment with the communal economic system, a 250 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 3: socialist system. In Russia's telling, the London backers require that 251 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 3: the colonists pool their labor and their production into a 252 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:39,800 Speaker 3: common store, with all of the land and the output 253 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 3: held in common and then distributed equally, regardless of anybody's 254 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 3: effort to put anything into the store. And Rush argued 255 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 3: that this commune structure did several things. It suppressed initiative, 256 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 3: they had bread, resentment, and of course, obviously, as we 257 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 3: know from history, it contributed to continued scarcity even after 258 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 3: the worst of the first winner had passed. Now, according 259 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 3: to Russia's account, Governor Bradford eventually concluded that the communal 260 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 3: arrangement was both costly and destructive, and so he decided 261 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 3: to get rid of it start all over. And Bradford 262 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 3: then assigned every family its own plot of land private property, 263 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 3: allowed them to keep her trade what they produced, and 264 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 3: effectively introduced private property and free enterprise. 265 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 2: Into the colonies. 266 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 3: And Rush emphasized that once people had clear ownership and 267 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 3: a personal insanity incnitive, that that was when productivity surged 268 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 3: because more cornless planet and the colony produced a surplus 269 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 3: that made a true Thanksgiving celebration possible. I love this story, 270 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 3: you see, because Thanksgiving in America is usually told, as 271 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 3: he would say, as a story of rescue. The desperate 272 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 3: pilgrims are on the edge of extinction. There is going 273 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 3: to be a harsh New England winter, and these compassionate 274 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 3: Native American Indians who showed them how to fish, plant corn, 275 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 3: and survive a story that we all grew up with 276 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 3: in grade school. Right, Well, that story is not wrong, 277 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 3: but his rush would say it was incomplete because it 278 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 3: leaves out the hard lessons that those Pilgrims learned about 279 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 3: human nature, about a work ethic, and about the difference 280 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 3: between owning something and merely sharing in somebody else's effort. 281 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 3: The holiday in Russia's annual retelling is not simply about 282 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 3: full bellies after being hungry. It's about a failed social 283 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 3: experiment that had to die. It had to die before 284 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 3: a struggling colony could go on and live. So when 285 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 3: the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth under Governor Bradford, they didn't 286 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 3: initially live in a world of family farms and private plots. 287 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 3: The financial backers back in London had imposed a system 288 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 3: that required everything, all their land, their houses, their tools, 289 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 3: and all the fruits of their labor to be held 290 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:11,000 Speaker 3: in common with production, poured into a shared storehouse and 291 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:14,399 Speaker 3: then rationed back out to every colonist. 292 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 2: On an equal basis. 293 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 3: If Russia were alive today, he would say, it was 294 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 3: based on equity. Everybody got the same thing, didn't matter 295 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:27,440 Speaker 3: who you were or what you did. Now, I think 296 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 3: too many people. Not all young people, but I think 297 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:32,159 Speaker 3: a lot of young people. 298 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,160 Speaker 2: It sounds very noble, no rich, no poor. 299 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 3: Just a really good community laboring together and then sharing 300 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 3: the proceeds of their labor. But in practice, as Rush 301 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:46,880 Speaker 3: loved to point out, it looked a lot like every 302 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 3: other communal scheme tried before or since. The industrious quietly wondered, 303 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:56,639 Speaker 3: you know, why should I break my back so that 304 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 3: those who are indifferent, lazy than they're do well could 305 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:04,680 Speaker 3: just coast? The less motivated discovered that they would eat 306 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 3: just as well as if they had exerted themselves and 307 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 3: worked really hard or not, and because of that the 308 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 3: entire colony suffered. Now, Rush always used communal, and I 309 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:22,640 Speaker 3: get I think that's an appropriate word, But I think 310 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 3: with the election of Zophram in New York, with the 311 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 3: election of whatever her name is I don't remember in Seattle, 312 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 3: but with a lot of lower level Democrats and the 313 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 3: Alexander at Cassia Cortez's of the world actually coming out 314 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 3: and proudly proclaiming themselves to be Democrats socialists of America, 315 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 3: I think that the word communal on to be removed 316 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:49,880 Speaker 3: from Russia's telling the story and instead be Yeah, it's 317 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 3: just pure unadulterated socialism. Bradford Governor Bradford's own account, which 318 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 3: Rush quoted in Populi he made very very popular. Records 319 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 3: records that this early collectivism bred confusion and discontent, and 320 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 3: it was especially true among the young men, who resent 321 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 3: having to work harder while others contributed less. Women women 322 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 3: were conscripted into field labor, it feels that they didn't 323 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 3: own and labor which they may even the fruits of 324 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 3: their labor might be a lot more than they would 325 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:33,200 Speaker 3: ever get, which Bradford described as a form of slavery 326 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 3: to other men's husbands. And the resentment that naturally human 327 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 3: nature just says, there's going to be resentment. You can't 328 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:45,399 Speaker 3: tell me that at some point in your life you 329 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 3: haven't felt resentful because a family member or a friend 330 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 3: or somebody else, you know, got something that you didn't 331 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 3: think they deserved. They didn't work for it, they inherited it, 332 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 3: or they got you know, they didn't get you know, 333 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 3: everybody's fair share. It really is slavery, and it is 334 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 3: slavery to the weakness and the laziness of those who 335 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 3: refuse to participate in their own self determination to refuse 336 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 3: to participate in their own productivity. And when that resentment 337 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 3: goes unchecked, that breaks the bonds of a community instead 338 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 3: of strengthening a community. When you think about how strength 339 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 3: in a community, you think about the number of times 340 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 3: that we come together during Thanksgiving or Christmas, to a 341 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,880 Speaker 3: lesser degree, sometimes during Easter, but at least. 342 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:50,880 Speaker 2: In Christendom, there seems to. 343 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 3: Be these kind of you. If you graft it out, 344 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 3: it would be kind of like an ekg except to 345 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 3: be a spike every once in a while. Those spikes 346 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 3: would be a Thanksgiving and Christmas when everybody feels very, 347 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,639 Speaker 3: very generous, and so for those that are less fortunate, 348 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:11,199 Speaker 3: we have food drives or we make contributions to you know, 349 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 3: the bell ringers will be out for the Salvation Army, 350 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 3: and so people will be throwing gold coins or dollars 351 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 3: or whatever into into the kettles. I'm always amazed at 352 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:29,679 Speaker 3: how this time of year we feel that desire to 353 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 3: help those less fortunate than us. And then January one 354 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,440 Speaker 3: comes around. We have big parties on New Year's Eve. 355 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:40,959 Speaker 3: We you know, kind of get sober back on New 356 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 3: Year's Day, and then on the next day we go 357 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:48,439 Speaker 3: back to work and all that feeling kind of disappears. 358 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:53,159 Speaker 3: And it's always kind of bugged me because I think again, 359 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 3: it's we're kind of living in the pre Bradford era 360 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 3: of the London financiers saying, just give us all of you, 361 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:09,119 Speaker 3: you know, all of your productivity. We'll collect all that 362 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 3: through taxes, and then we'll distribute that out to people 363 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 3: as we see fit, based on rules and regulations. 364 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 2: That we will say we're going to adhere to. 365 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 3: But which we really don't, so that people then take 366 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:28,880 Speaker 3: advantage of our forced compassion as opposed to our volunteer 367 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 3: compassion that were so willing to exhibit during the holidays. 368 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 3: It is slavery, and that resentment really does break the 369 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:47,439 Speaker 3: bonds of a community under that regime. Even as the 370 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 3: climate moderated and the colonists started to get more experienced, 371 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 3: the harvest still remained meager, and the fear of famine 372 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:58,439 Speaker 3: never really disappeared. Scarcity was not merely a product of 373 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 3: the rocky soil and the cold weather. It was truly 374 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,399 Speaker 3: the predictable outcome of a system that had been forced 375 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:12,159 Speaker 3: upon Bradford that detached reward from responsibility, and at the 376 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:16,280 Speaker 3: same time that blurred the line between charity and entitlement. 377 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 3: We see exactly the same thing today. It's just what 378 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:26,400 Speaker 3: I just explained about. We all feel charitable, but then 379 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 3: people who don't. 380 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,200 Speaker 2: Earn have a sense of entitlement. 381 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 3: So back to Bradford, well, he was faced with that reality. 382 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:38,200 Speaker 2: He did something that. 383 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:42,959 Speaker 3: Every planner of Utopia's dreads, and this took guts. 384 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 2: He admitted that model it doesn't work. 385 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,959 Speaker 3: So he scrubbed the communal structure, the socialist structure, and 386 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 3: he replaced it with. 387 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 2: A simple radical reform. 388 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,919 Speaker 3: At the time, every family got their own plot of 389 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 3: land to cultivate. They had to manage it, they had 390 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,920 Speaker 3: to improve it. And once they they produced was theirs 391 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:04,200 Speaker 3: to enjoy. And if they had excess, they could trade 392 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 3: it or they could store it. They could do whatever 393 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 3: with it as they saw fit. So the colony did 394 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 3: not abandon cooperation. It abandoned compulsory collectivism and replaced that 395 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:22,120 Speaker 3: with voluntary exchange. It was rooted in clear private property ownership, 396 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 3: and the effect was immediate and I think very dramatic. 397 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 3: Bradford noted in his journals that families planted more, they 398 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 3: worked harder, they became very industrious, and that far more 399 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 3: corn went into the ground than. 400 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 2: Under the old system. 401 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,919 Speaker 3: Why because the harvest now belonged to the hands that 402 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:45,959 Speaker 3: had tilled the soil. Russia Limb seized on that as 403 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 3: one of history's great teachable moments. The Pilgrims, long before 404 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 3: Karl Marx, had actually tested a form of socialism, and 405 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 3: they discovered that had undermine both virtue and survival. When 406 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:04,679 Speaker 3: you have work and rewards separate, in the flourishes and 407 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 3: the lazy live off the diligence. When property responsibility get 408 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 3: put together, they're reunited, they become one. Then energy and 409 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:18,120 Speaker 3: creativity begin to flourish, and the common good gets advanced. 410 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:23,879 Speaker 3: Why does it get advanced because now you're working for yourself. 411 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:26,959 Speaker 3: I come in here. I know I'm working for a giant, 412 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:31,199 Speaker 3: you know, publicly traded company. But what I do I 413 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 3: do for myself and what I do for myself, yeah, 414 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,160 Speaker 3: they give me a nice compensation for that. I take 415 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 3: that compensation and I use it for charitable giving, to 416 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,560 Speaker 3: do what I want to do with it. And I 417 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 3: bet I spend my compensation much more effectively than if 418 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:53,360 Speaker 3: everybody in this building was part of a communal You know, organization, 419 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 3: and all our salaries went into one pot. And then 420 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 3: iHeart diivity is out so that everybody got equal benefits, 421 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 3: equal salaries. Well, why would I want to be a 422 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 3: part of that. I put into this program all of 423 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,440 Speaker 3: the energy and the effort to try to, you know, 424 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,399 Speaker 3: make you interested. Some of you I irritate, some of you. 425 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 3: I think I make happy. But that's because I just 426 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,919 Speaker 3: do what I enjoy and talk about what I talk about. 427 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:28,439 Speaker 3: And he gets the results are the ratings that the 428 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 3: company sees that says, oh, we like what he's doing, 429 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:37,399 Speaker 3: and we ought to compensate him appropriately. Back to Rush 430 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 3: in Russia's telling, the first real Thanksgiving feast flowed from 431 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 3: that transformation. 432 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:44,479 Speaker 2: That I was talking about. 433 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 3: For the first time, the colony had not just enough 434 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,160 Speaker 3: to survive, the actually had a surplus. They had food 435 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 3: to share, food to trade, food to celebrate with their 436 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 3: Native American Indian neighbors. Their gratitude to God was not 437 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 3: some abstract idea. It was gratitude for providential course correction 438 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 3: that aligned their economic life with human nature. With human 439 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,879 Speaker 3: nature as it is, not as some social theorists would 440 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 3: wish it to be. That's the problem with these democrats, 441 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:25,159 Speaker 3: socialists of America, the Zophrams and the aocs, and the 442 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 3: rest of the world to somehow think that they can 443 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 3: devise a system that will somehow either force human nature 444 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 3: into one set of attitudes, or that they can work 445 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:40,199 Speaker 3: around human nature. 446 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 2: They can't do that. 447 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 3: It simply cannot be done. The political lesson that Rush 448 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,399 Speaker 3: drew could not have been clearer, because he warned that 449 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,920 Speaker 3: modern nations flirting with socialism were replaying a script that 450 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 3: was written on the rocky shores of Plymouth hundreds of 451 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:04,159 Speaker 3: years ago. Intentions pious rhetoric that cannot repeal the basic 452 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 3: reality that people respond to incentives, that productivity requires ownership, 453 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:15,679 Speaker 3: and that enforced or forced equality of outcomes eventually means 454 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 3: a charity. Equality of misery contrasts that the system that 455 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:26,879 Speaker 3: protects private property, that rewards initiative, that allows a family 456 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 3: an individual to enjoy the fruits of their labor, that 457 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:34,040 Speaker 3: generates the very abundance that makes generosity and charity sustainable, 458 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,680 Speaker 3: it would be much more sustainable in that sense. Thanksgiving 459 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,720 Speaker 3: is not merely a feel good story about cooperation. 460 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:42,680 Speaker 2: Between the builders and the Indians. 461 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 3: It is actually a constitutional holiday, a quiet annual toast 462 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,959 Speaker 3: to what I would consider to be ordered liberty and 463 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 3: free enterprise, to free markets, to individual liberty and people 464 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 3: pursuing their own self interest, which then allows for innovation 465 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 3: in both technology and services and products, and that allows 466 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 3: an economy to grow. A rising tide lifts all boats, 467 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 3: and sure enough we become the greatest nation on earth 468 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 3: because we didn't follow the London financiers who wanted to 469 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 3: use what today we call equity. Equity is nothing more 470 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 3: than everybody is equal. And I think yet even further 471 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 3: beneath the policy argument lies the deeper human and spiritual 472 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 3: theme that also matters. That mattered to Rush, and I 473 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 3: think mattered to listeners like me. The Pilgrims didn't congratulate 474 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 3: themselves for their ingenuity. Instead, they thank God for granting 475 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 3: them the wisdom and the courage to actually change course, 476 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,200 Speaker 3: for sparing them from the consequences of their own misguided 477 00:29:54,400 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 3: economic ideas. Their feasts blended gratitude for immediate material relief. 478 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 3: It was a battleful harvest of full storehouses, trade with 479 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 3: native neighbors, with gratitude for a new understanding of how 480 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 3: you could live together in community without denying individual responsibility. 481 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 3: The lesson is gratitude is not passive. It calls people 482 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 3: to steward their freedom, to reject a system that will 483 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 3: punish virtue and reward sloth, and to recognize that prosperity 484 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 3: that is built on honest work. It's something we shouldn't resent, 485 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 3: but something that we all to celebrate and share. 486 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 2: If someone has the ingenuity. 487 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:43,480 Speaker 3: The God given gift of whatever it is, to invent something, 488 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 3: or to come up with the new mouse trap, so 489 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 3: to speak, whatever it might be, and then to end 490 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,520 Speaker 3: up making bazillions of dollars off, that we shouldn't resent that, 491 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 3: we should celebrate that, and we should celebrate that we 492 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:05,080 Speaker 3: live in a country celebrates that individual liberty and individual freedom. 493 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 3: So if you take that old story of pre Bradford's 494 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 3: conversion in the London Financiers, and if you take Russia's 495 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:20,080 Speaker 3: Thanksgiving story and you combine all of that together and 496 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 3: replay it in your head today, Russia's Thanksgiving story functions 497 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:29,959 Speaker 3: as both a warning and an invitation because it warns 498 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:34,760 Speaker 3: that benevolent collectivist dreams, benevolent socialist dreams. However, however they 499 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:36,600 Speaker 3: phrase whatever kind of words they use to make it 500 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:41,080 Speaker 3: sound good, actually holds out of society's productive core, and 501 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 3: then it leaves everybody poor, just as it did in Plymouth. 502 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:48,560 Speaker 3: And it invites Americans to see Thanksgiving not just like 503 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 3: it's not just turky and football, but it should be 504 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 3: a yearly reminder that the blessings on the table are 505 00:31:55,000 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 3: inseparable from the system that made them possible. Family, individual responsibility, 506 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:06,240 Speaker 3: and a free market that turns worked into wealth. I 507 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 3: would challenge you to do that tomorrow. I don't care 508 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,720 Speaker 3: how you celebrate Thanksgiving. I don't care whether you go 509 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 3: out to eat. I don't care whether you just cook burgers. 510 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 3: Whatever it is, stop and think about whatever it is 511 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,440 Speaker 3: on that table, and everything that it took to get 512 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:27,840 Speaker 3: it there, including your own productivity. To keep Thanksgiving in 513 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 3: that spirit is to remember, with the Pilgrims and with 514 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,960 Speaker 3: Rush Limbaugh, that the proper response to our blessings is 515 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,400 Speaker 3: not guilt or envy, but actually should be humble things 516 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 3: and a renewed commitment to the principles that brought all 517 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:41,880 Speaker 3: of that forth. 518 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:43,480 Speaker 2: And if I. 519 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 3: Accomplish anything else today, it is that as a reminder 520 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,760 Speaker 3: of what Rush said year after year after year after 521 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 3: decades on radio. I forget when he first started doing that, 522 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,120 Speaker 3: or if you have access to the Wall Street Journal, 523 00:32:56,320 --> 00:33:01,720 Speaker 3: he'll read. Yesterday's lead house editorial reminds you just how 524 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:07,040 Speaker 3: important this system that we live in is so wonderful 525 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:11,400 Speaker 3: and yet so tenuous that we must do everything to 526 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,600 Speaker 3: preserve it. Happy Thanksgiving everyone,