1 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:11,399 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and loud. The 2 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:21,960 Speaker 1: Michael Arry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from 3 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 1: BlackBerry Smoking. I can feel a good one coming on. 4 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 2: It's the Michael Berry Show. 5 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 3: All two six packs, shiners, not a nine sid putee ladders, 6 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 3: look at track center, fifth of patrol, I down, Natty 7 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 3: lue cooler, take a guess at all to do? 8 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 2: I can feel a good one coming on. 9 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 3: Throwing Rey Wily Hubbard sing along to Nick Mother any 10 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 3: blues I had before God, another working week is over, 11 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 3: no chance staying sober. 12 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 2: I can feel a good woman coming awful in the week. Man, 13 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 2: We're gonna get the feeling ride. We're gonna keep this fire. 14 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 2: I can feel the break of Dolly. I can feel 15 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 2: a good one and coming novel. 16 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 3: Three blobs in a wrecktop Mustang follow us down to 17 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 3: the lake and didn't have to think about that too long, 18 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 3: skinny diving in the bright moon eye. 19 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 2: Situation couldn't be around. I can feel a good one 20 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 2: coming on. We got to get to feel around. We 21 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 2: gonna keep it, hide around until the break and none. 22 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 2: I can feel a good one. I can feel a 23 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:28,119 Speaker 2: good one. 24 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 4: This is the day the Friday before Thanksgiving that every 25 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 4: year on The Michael Berry Show we dedicate to Thanksgiving, 26 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 4: to the importance of literally giving thanks being grateful. It's 27 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 4: a humbling activity, counting our blessings, looking around at the bounty, 28 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,959 Speaker 4: looking around at the beauty, being grateful for the people, 29 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 4: the themes, the animals, the natural beauty that we have 30 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:04,079 Speaker 4: available to us. Being grateful for the simple act of life, 31 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 4: for God's love for our good health. May say, well, 32 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 4: not really that healthy, Michael. You're still above ground, aren't you. 33 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 4: It is a delightful time and we love it and 34 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 4: we're glad you're here with us to make this tradition 35 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 4: and be with us for years and years to come. 36 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 4: Our great tradition over the last few years is to 37 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 4: play Rush Limbaughs the meaning of Thanksgiving. And this one, 38 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 4: this one is very important to us. Not only because 39 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 4: what Rush has to say is beautiful and wonderful, and 40 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 4: that'll be in our next segment. We'll played in its entirety, 41 00:03:54,080 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 4: not only because we love what Rush says, but because seventeenth, 42 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 4: twenty twenty one is a day is a very dark 43 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 4: day for us. It is the day of course at 44 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 4: Rush Limbaugh passed and Rush Limbaugh. We wouldn't be doing 45 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 4: what we do but for Rush Limbaugh. And I would 46 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 4: argue that Trump never would have been elected in twenty 47 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 4: sixteen but for Rush Limbaugh, and Trump never would have 48 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 4: been elected in twenty twenty four but for Rush Limbaugh. 49 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 4: The leader of a movement should leave behind him a 50 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 4: movement that continues in his absence. Jim Collins wrote a 51 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 4: book called Good to Great, and he measured the great 52 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 4: leaders of American industry, and he made the point that 53 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 4: a great leader will have instilled a culture, like a 54 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 4: movement in the company. He will have brought up good people, 55 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 4: and he will talk, he will have taught them a 56 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:55,600 Speaker 4: culture so that even when he's gone, And you can 57 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 4: see this with Steve Jobs. When Steve Jobs left, Tim 58 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 4: Cook could step in because he had them so focused 59 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 4: on the quality of the product and design and the 60 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 4: culture and the consumer and advancement and innovation. And I 61 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 4: think those things are critically important. So that will be 62 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 4: our next segment. It's the highlight of this week's show, 63 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 4: and it's been our tradition for years and it will 64 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:24,599 Speaker 4: be for years to come, and I hope you will 65 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 4: join us in making those new traditions years and years 66 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:33,359 Speaker 4: to come in the future. It's also our tradition every 67 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 4: single Friday to close out the first segment of the show, 68 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:45,039 Speaker 4: with courtesy of the greatest executive producer in all the land, 69 00:05:45,120 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 4: Chattikoni Nakanishi, your wee community. Here's the white people ad 70 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 4: over here, and then here's the script for the Black people. 71 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 4: Burger king, Baby, you got some big old hot hips 72 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 4: on your as. 73 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 1: Could I give me a whopple back? 74 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 2: Then? Why? 75 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:17,600 Speaker 1: Sure, honey, you can have a wopp Well, that's not all. 76 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,280 Speaker 1: I want a major change for the home of the 77 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: Houston Astros. For twenty two years, this has been minim Park. 78 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: Soon that'll change. Greeting from dk In Park, dk In Park, 79 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: dke In Park. 80 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 4: With dyke In, the air conditioning manufacturer getting the naming rights, 81 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:37,720 Speaker 4: it will be called the ice Bot Solo. 82 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 5: President elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks are our Capitol Hill today, 83 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 5: trying to shore up support among Senators for. 84 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 4: Confirmation one, already drawing criticism from Senate Republicans Matt Gates 85 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 4: for Trump's pick for Attorney General. Just getting word that 86 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 4: Gates has taken himself out of the running to be 87 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 4: Donald Trump's attorney general. In order to reform our government, 88 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 4: you're gonna have to have some people who are gonna 89 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 4: go in there who were. 90 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: Devil may care. They're not just fearless, they're actually reckless. 91 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 4: Are the type of people who feed off of this 92 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 4: intense hatred that they engender and don't care. 93 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: Who likes some of our adoption special Jeff ere up, sir, Yeah, 94 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: we adopted our two sons from Russia. 95 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 4: We just celebrated the eighteenth anniversary of them being here. 96 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 1: What a blessing they are. Laura, you're on the Michael 97 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: Berry Show. 98 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 4: Go ahead, sweetheart, I'm gonna adopt be back from the 99 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 4: sixties about thirty years ago. 100 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: Did search for my birth parents. It doesn't mean anything 101 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: about how much you love your parents if you do 102 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 1: decide to search for your roots and your identity. 103 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 4: Adoption for me is the idea that a child deserves love. 104 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 4: If the traditional relationships are not in place, for whatever reason, 105 00:07:46,360 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 4: then someone else steps in. And the words of Georgeman 106 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 4: Art Shore and the words that were taken by Robert F. 107 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 5: Pain These children speak Chinese and Spanish and Michael. 108 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 4: Very Shore annual tradition on our Thanksgiving edition, which is 109 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:37,680 Speaker 4: the Friday before the following Thursday is to play rush 110 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 4: Limbaugh's The. 111 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,679 Speaker 1: Meaning of Thanksgiving in honor. 112 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:49,440 Speaker 4: Of the Great the Irreplaceable rush Limbaugh, The True Story 113 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 4: of Thanksgiving. 114 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:53,199 Speaker 5: The story of the Pilgrims begins in the early part 115 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 5: of the seventeenth century. The Church of England, under King 116 00:08:56,520 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 5: James the First was persecuting anyone and everyone who did 117 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 5: not recognize its absolute civil and spiritual authority. Those who 118 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 5: challenged ecclesiastical authority and those who believed strongly in freedom 119 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:13,959 Speaker 5: of worship were hunted down, imprisoned, and sometimes executed for 120 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 5: their beliefs. A group of separatists first fled to Holland 121 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 5: and established a community. After eleven years, about forty of 122 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:24,679 Speaker 5: them agreed to make a perilous journey to the New World, 123 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:27,679 Speaker 5: where they would certainly face hardships, but could live and 124 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 5: worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences. 125 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 5: On August first, sixteen to twenty, the Mayflowers set sail. 126 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:38,440 Speaker 5: It carried a total of one hundred and two passengers, 127 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 5: including forty Pilgrims, led by William Bradford. On the journey, 128 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:47,319 Speaker 5: Bradford set up an agreement, a contract and established just 129 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 5: and equal laws for all members of the new community, 130 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 5: irrespective of their religious beliefs. Where did the revolutionary ideas 131 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 5: expressed in any Flower compact come from? They came from 132 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 5: the Bible, the Pilgrim's where people completely steeped in the 133 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 5: lessons of the Old and New Testaments. They looked to 134 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 5: the ancient Israelites for their example, and because of the 135 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,559 Speaker 5: biblical precedent set forth in scripture, they never doubted that 136 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:14,840 Speaker 5: their experiment would work. 137 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 1: But it was no pleasure cruise. The journey to the 138 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:20,320 Speaker 1: New World was a long and arduous one. 139 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 5: And when the Pilgrims landed in New England in November, 140 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 5: they found, according to Bradford's detailed journal, a cold, barren, 141 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,679 Speaker 5: desolate wilderness. There were no friends to greet them, he wrote, 142 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,599 Speaker 5: There were no houses to shelter them. There were no 143 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 5: inns where they could refresh themselves in The sacrifice that 144 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:41,559 Speaker 5: they had made for freedom was just beginning. During the 145 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 5: first winter, half the pilgrims, including Bradford's own wife, died 146 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 5: either starvation, sickness, or exposure. When spring finally came, Indians 147 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 5: taught the settlers how to plant corn fish for cod 148 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 5: and skin beavers for coats. Life improved for the Pilgrims, 149 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 5: but they did not yet prosper, and this is important 150 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 5: to understand because this is where modern American history lessons 151 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 5: often end. Thanksgiving is actually explained in some textbooks as 152 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:11,719 Speaker 5: a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to the 153 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 5: Indians for saving their lives, rather than as a devout 154 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 5: expression of gratitude grounded in the tradition of both the 155 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 5: Old and New Testaments. 156 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: Here's the part that's been omitted. 157 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 5: The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their 158 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:28,959 Speaker 5: merchant sponsors in London called for everything they produced to 159 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 5: go into a common sore, and each member of the 160 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,640 Speaker 5: community was entitled to one common share. All of the 161 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 5: land that they cleared and the houses they built belonged 162 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:40,959 Speaker 5: to the community as well, and they were going to 163 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,200 Speaker 5: distribute it equally. All the land they cleared, the houses 164 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 5: they built belonged to the community. Nobody owned anything, they 165 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 5: just had a share in it. It was a commune. 166 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:53,559 Speaker 5: It was the forerunner to the communes we saw in 167 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 5: the sixties and seventies out in California. And it was 168 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:59,560 Speaker 5: a complete with organic vegetables, even just like the communes 169 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 5: of today are God. 170 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 1: There's no question it was organic vegetables. 171 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 5: Bradford, who had become a new governor of the colony, 172 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:10,439 Speaker 5: recognized that this form of collectivism was as costly and 173 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 5: destructive to the Pilgrims as that first harsh winter which 174 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 5: had taken so many lives. 175 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: He decided to take bold action. 176 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 5: Bradford assigned a plot of land each family to work 177 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 5: and manage, thus turning loose the power in the marketplace. 178 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 5: Long before Carl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had 179 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:31,959 Speaker 5: discovered and experimented with what could only. 180 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: Be described as socialism. And what happened. It didn't work. 181 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: It nearly starved, never has worked. 182 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 5: What Bradford in his community found was that the most 183 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 5: creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any 184 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 5: harder than anybody else unless they could utilize the power 185 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:50,559 Speaker 5: of personal motivation. But while most of the rest of 186 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 5: the world has been experimenting with socialism for well over 187 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,559 Speaker 5: one hundred years, trying to refine it, perfect it, and 188 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 5: reinvent it, the Pilgrims decided early on to scrap it permanently. 189 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:03,199 Speaker 5: What Bradford wrote about this social experiment should be in 190 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 5: every school child's history lesson. If it were, we might 191 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 5: prevent such needless suffering in the future, such as that 192 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 5: we are enduring now. The experience that we had in 193 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:18,560 Speaker 5: this common course and condition, This is Bradford, the experience 194 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:22,559 Speaker 5: we had in this common course and condition. Tired or 195 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 5: tried someday years that by taking away property and bringing 196 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 5: community into a commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing, 197 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 5: as if they were wiser than God. Bradford wrote for 198 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 5: this community, so far as it was was found to 199 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:41,319 Speaker 5: breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that 200 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 5: would have been to their benefit and comfort. For young 201 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 5: men that were most able and fit for labor and service, 202 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 5: did repine that they should spend their time and strength 203 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:52,199 Speaker 5: that worked for other men's wives and children without being 204 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 5: paid for it. 205 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 1: That was thought injustice. Why should you. 206 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 5: Work for other people when you can't work for yourself? 207 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 5: What's the point, That's what he was saying. The Pilgrims 208 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 5: found that people could not be expected to do their 209 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 5: best work without incentive. So what did Bradford's community try next? 210 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 5: They unharnished the power of good old free enterprise by 211 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 5: invoking the undergirding capitalistic principle of private property. Every family 212 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 5: was assigned its own plot of land to work, and 213 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 5: permitted to market its own crops and products. What was 214 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 5: the result, Bradford wrote, this had very good success, for 215 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 5: it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn 216 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 5: was planted than otherwise would have been. 217 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: Is it possible the supply side economics could have existed 218 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 1: before the nineteen eighties. Yes. 219 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 5: Read the story of Joseph and Pharaoh in Genesis forty one. 220 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 5: Following Joseph's suggestion, Pharaoh reduced the tax on Egyptians to 221 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 5: twenty percent during the seven years at plenty, and the earth. 222 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:55,280 Speaker 1: Brought forth in heaps well. 223 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 5: At no time the pilgrims found that they had more 224 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 5: food than they could eat themselves. Now this this is 225 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 5: where it gets really good if you're laboring under the 226 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 5: misconception that I was as I was taught in school. 227 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 5: They set up trading posts, they exchanged goods with the Indians. 228 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 5: The prophets allowed them to pay off their debts to 229 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 5: the merchants in London. And the success and the prosperity 230 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 5: of the Plymouth settlement attracted more Europeans and began what 231 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 5: came to be known as the Great Puritan Migration. But 232 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 5: this story stops when the Indians taught the newly arrived 233 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 5: suffering and socialism pilgrims how to plant corn and fish 234 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 5: for cod. That's where the original Thanksgiving story stops. Story 235 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 5: basically doesn't even begin there. The real story of Thanksgiving 236 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 5: is William Bradford giving thanks to God for the guidance 237 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 5: and the inspiration to set up a thriving colony that 238 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 5: socialism caused near starvation. The bounty was shared with the Indians. 239 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 5: They did sit down, they did have free range turkey 240 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 5: and organic vegetables. But it wasn't the Indians who saved 241 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:10,640 Speaker 5: the day. It was capitalism and scripture which saved the day, 242 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 5: as acknowledged by George Washington in his first Thanksgiving proclamation 243 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 5: in seventeen eighty nine. 244 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 4: You take care of it down, thankybody, Michael, many of you, 245 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 4: this will be the last day that you're in your 246 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 4: usual routine. You will board a plane or load up 247 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,359 Speaker 4: the family station wagon. People do, that's the family station wagonzinemoremon, 248 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 4: that's crazy. Station wagon became the minivan. The minivan became 249 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 4: the suburban explorer. And you will head off to Mammal's house. 250 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 4: And that is a sacred, sacred ritual. You know that 251 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 4: it is a sacred ritual when Barack Obama attempted to 252 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 4: destroy it by telling young people go home and tell 253 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 4: your grandmother she's a racist. Tearing apart the family, the 254 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 4: fabric of the family is the ultimate goal of the 255 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 4: cultural Marxist because the communist has to destroy your faith 256 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 4: and your family in order to control you. Faith and 257 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 4: family are rivals to communism, which is both a faith 258 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 4: and a community that replicates the family. It destroys the 259 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 4: identity and makes you part of it. But let me 260 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 4: not get too deep into that. It is important that 261 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 4: we dive deep into our family love. If you have 262 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 4: a negative influence in your family, I encourage you to 263 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 4: cut them loose. You can't fix them and they'll ruin everything. 264 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 4: Don't bring them to the family occasion. But it's on 265 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:05,359 Speaker 4: this day every year that we stop as a show. 266 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 4: As we like to think of ourselves as your friends. 267 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 4: I mean, heck, you let us come into your homes, 268 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 4: your cars, your trucks, your speakers, your earphones. Some of 269 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 4: you every day, some of you on the podcast. 270 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 1: Literally every day of the week. 271 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 4: It's a pretty intimate relationship you think about it. We 272 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 4: may never meet, but we share values, we share a lot, 273 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 4: and so on this day every year our last chance 274 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 4: to get the entirety of our audience due to travel 275 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 4: schedules next week, we take a moment to talk about 276 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 4: the importance of what it means to stop and give things. 277 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 4: And that's perhaps more important today than it has been 278 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:55,880 Speaker 4: for a very long time. There's a beautiful gospel song 279 00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:00,720 Speaker 4: that goes, count your blessings, name them one by one, 280 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:06,399 Speaker 4: Count your blessings, and it will surprise you what the 281 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 4: Lord hath done. I teach my children this, We talk 282 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 4: about it as a family. I often ask my friends, 283 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 4: tell me one thing that you're thankful for today, and 284 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 4: I am surprised how many times it will be the 285 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:31,560 Speaker 4: case that someone cannot immediately tell you something for which 286 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,480 Speaker 4: they are grateful. 287 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:34,200 Speaker 1: Thankful. 288 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 4: I think you have to have a thankful spirit. It's 289 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 4: part of humility. I think you have to be grateful. 290 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 4: And if you can't think of something quickly for which 291 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:51,360 Speaker 4: you are grateful, you lack perspective, and that is unhealthy. 292 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 4: And I would argue that many people in this country 293 00:19:55,920 --> 00:20:01,399 Speaker 4: are winning at the ballot box losing in their lives, 294 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 4: because when you lose perspective, then effectively they own you. 295 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:13,879 Speaker 4: It's very important to stop and be grateful for the 296 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 4: things you have. When I look in my own life, 297 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,200 Speaker 4: I start with my father. I lost my mother recently. 298 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:27,239 Speaker 4: I'm grateful for my father. I'm grateful for every day 299 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 4: I have with him. I'm grateful for every conversation I 300 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:33,360 Speaker 4: have with him. He's eighty four years old. He's had 301 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 4: severe diabetes since he was nineteen. He was discharged from 302 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:41,880 Speaker 4: the Coastguard. They didn't believe he had survived, almost lost 303 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 4: his life with a diabetic attack. There wasn't treatment for diabetes. 304 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 4: He had to self treat that before there were the things, 305 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:56,879 Speaker 4: the tools that we have today. And he did and 306 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 4: he survived. And I'm grateful for every day, for every 307 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:02,679 Speaker 4: shared memory. I'm grateful for every conversation where I can 308 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,119 Speaker 4: call up and go, hey, Dad, you remember when we 309 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:05,680 Speaker 4: went to this I remember we went to see the 310 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 4: Astros play and Terry Poole got the game winning hit. 311 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 1: You remember that. 312 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,119 Speaker 4: I am grateful for all the years that I did 313 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 4: have my mother, because she was seventy nine years old 314 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 4: and for fifty three years of my life. 315 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: She was in my life. 316 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:28,479 Speaker 4: And you know, when someone passes, the depth of loss 317 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 4: you experience is a mirror. It is the converse to 318 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:40,680 Speaker 4: the wonderfulness of what you experience. You know, when someone 319 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 4: tells me their mom or dad has died and they 320 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 4: don't care, that tells me they didn't love them. I 321 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 4: feel sad for them, not that they don't care. But 322 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 4: if you're going to love deeply, you're going to lose deeply. 323 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 4: So I hope that on this Thanksgiving week that you 324 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,680 Speaker 4: will be grateful for the love that you've lost, for 325 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:07,320 Speaker 4: the things you once had and cannot get back, for 326 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,120 Speaker 4: the fact that you once had them, for the fact 327 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 4: that you had that blessing, because I can guarantee you 328 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 4: there are plenty of people who didn't. If you've lost 329 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:22,120 Speaker 4: a father, lost a mother that you love deeply, be grateful. 330 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:26,480 Speaker 4: Think how many didn't a brother or sister, a wife, 331 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 4: a husband, a child. It's a great time of year 332 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 4: in a great American tradition to just stop and take stock. 333 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:38,880 Speaker 1: Take inventory. 334 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,119 Speaker 4: You know, as a business owner, particularly if you're in 335 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 4: retail or hospitality, it's very important that you stop and 336 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 4: take an inventory. What are your par levels for your alcohol, 337 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 4: how long? How many stocks do you have for what's 338 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 4: coming up for Christmas, for instance, or at Mother's Day 339 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 4: or Father's Day or some others all time's day. It's 340 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 4: important to stop, to stop and see what you have 341 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:09,880 Speaker 4: already and where you need to supplement. And I think 342 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 4: Thanksgiving is a great opportunity to do that. It's a 343 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:16,440 Speaker 4: true opportunity for us to do something that maybe we 344 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:21,400 Speaker 4: don't do often enough in our longing to add more 345 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 4: things to our lives, to accumulate more stuff, to travel 346 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 4: to more places, to make more money. Sometimes we don't 347 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 4: stop long enough and look around to what we do have. 348 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 4: If you have your health, I didn't understand this when 349 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 4: I was younger. 350 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: I do now. 351 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 4: If you have your health, it would be grateful for that, 352 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 4: because you won't always and once you don't have it, 353 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:55,400 Speaker 4: you'll realize what a blessing it was that you did. 354 00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:00,480 Speaker 4: If you have someone that you love in your life, 355 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 4: be grateful for that. And if they also love you, boy, 356 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,680 Speaker 4: you've found you found it. You found the path to 357 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 4: riches greater than any gold. If you have children who 358 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 4: are healthy, be grateful for that. If they love you, well, 359 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 4: that's a blessing. I don't want to be too preachy, 360 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,879 Speaker 4: but this is very important to me, and I have 361 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 4: an opportunity on these airwaves and I just want to 362 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 4: take advantage. And so for so many of you, this 363 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,400 Speaker 4: is the first year you will have heard our show. 364 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,920 Speaker 4: This is an annual tradition, our Thanksgiving tradition, which we 365 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,920 Speaker 4: do the Friday before the next Thursday. 366 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,200 Speaker 1: And well, yeah, it's important to us. 367 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,879 Speaker 4: Me or take me to Texas because I'm ready to 368 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 4: get out of this state. I think Michael Barry rob 369 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:04,159 Speaker 4: I like its. People often tell me, especially our older listeners, 370 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 4: that it feels like the thing that the America they 371 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 4: grew up in has changed. And when I asked them, 372 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 4: what does that mean? How has that manifested itself? One 373 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 4: of the things that will come up is we don't 374 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 4: celebrate Easter the way we used to. We don't celebrate 375 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 4: Christmas the way we used to. We don't celebrate Thanksgiving 376 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:32,119 Speaker 4: the way we used to. Well, you understand those are 377 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:41,960 Speaker 4: not self celebrating holidays. It is as highly or unanticipated 378 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 4: as we make it. It's all human emotion. And the 379 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 4: problem is, or the challenge or the opportunity is it 380 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 4: has to be replicated year in and year out. What's 381 00:25:55,280 --> 00:26:04,880 Speaker 4: important about Thanksgiving? It's a uniquely American tradition. I mean, 382 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,159 Speaker 4: if I need to make this political to get some 383 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 4: people's attention, because some people are only driven by the 384 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:16,159 Speaker 4: political stuff. The left wants to destroy Thanksgiving because everything 385 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 4: that Thanksgiving represents the white man coming to a nation. 386 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,879 Speaker 1: Where there were people already. 387 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,400 Speaker 4: Now, those people had displaced other people, who had displaced 388 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 4: other people, who had displaced other people. So it's not 389 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 4: that they're the original inhabitants indigenous people, but just as 390 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:46,160 Speaker 4: has happened throughout the world, you know, one hundred five 391 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 4: hundred years ago from now, they will describe the era 392 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 4: we're in. 393 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 1: What that era will look like is up to us. 394 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 1: I'm not a fatalist in this sense. 395 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,400 Speaker 4: I think that the decisions we make, actions we take, 396 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,760 Speaker 4: we'll determine what that history will be. 397 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 1: Will this be the end of a great empire, a 398 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 1: great republic? Or will this just be the. 399 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,159 Speaker 4: Beginning and we will see an ascendants That will be 400 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 4: up to us, not Donald Trump, all of us. But 401 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,680 Speaker 4: it is important that we remember our history, and we 402 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:24,399 Speaker 4: celebrate our history, and that we perpetuate our history. People 403 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,440 Speaker 4: will see you know when I was growing up with 404 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:28,640 Speaker 4: the kids in the school, you know, we'd all dress 405 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 4: up and as turkeys, and you know, my parents would 406 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 4: do this, and my parents would do this, and my 407 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 4: parents would do this, And I say, all right, will 408 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:35,680 Speaker 4: you have kids about that age? 409 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 3: Now? 410 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 1: Are you doing that? 411 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 2: No? 412 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:45,880 Speaker 1: Well then what changed? What change does you so bring 413 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:46,960 Speaker 1: back those traditions? 414 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 4: Well, I just remember my grandmother would cook and d Well, 415 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 4: now your wife is the grandmother, is she cooking like that? No, 416 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 4: we ordered it in from somewhere else. Okay, well that's fine. 417 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 4: But when your kids and grandkids are the age you 418 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 4: are now, are they going to remember that Mamma and 419 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 4: papa made this particular thing. And Mama and Papa made 420 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:14,359 Speaker 4: this particular thing. One of my greatest memories is that 421 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 4: my grandfather would make the dressing every year. He was 422 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 4: a big bear of a man. He was a bus driver, 423 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 4: He was a maintenance worker. He was a hard drinker. 424 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 4: He smoked his entire life till he finally quit and 425 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 4: went to smokeless as it was called back then, which 426 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 4: was tobacco. Red man was his choice. But boil boy 427 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 4: could he cook. And he would make dressing that was delicious. 428 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 4: I mean, just delicious dressing. But my mother would declare 429 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 4: that he put too much sage, and everyone would sit around, 430 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 4: they're too much sagent and is there too much stage? 431 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 4: In all afternoon there would be complaints that there had 432 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:57,719 Speaker 4: been that there was too much sage and now everyone 433 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 4: had well they referred to as intergestion, which is indigestion 434 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 4: and it's an unpleasant thing. And there would be talk 435 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 4: that there had been too much sage, and he'd say, 436 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 4: I put too much sage, and no, it didn't do 437 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 4: too much sage. And that memory to this day, the 438 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,959 Speaker 4: taste of my grandfather's dressing. 439 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 2: Well. 440 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,520 Speaker 4: Lo and behold my wife, being the saint that she is. 441 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 4: When we met and I told her what Thanksgiving was, 442 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 4: because she's from India, she was an immigrant to the country, 443 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 4: new to the country. And I told her by that 444 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 4: second Thanksgiving she was here because the first Thanksgiving we 445 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 4: just started dating. 446 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 1: And I told her what it was. 447 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 4: I wanted to come, you know, meet my grandparents and 448 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,160 Speaker 4: all this sort of stuff. And I told her all 449 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 4: about that, and she figured out, Ladies, listen to this. 450 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,680 Speaker 4: She figured out, you know, the way that this man's 451 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,360 Speaker 4: heart is through his belly and many men are that way. 452 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:55,000 Speaker 4: There's two things that drive most of us, one or 453 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 4: the other or both, and just know that. And the 454 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 4: third would be not being nagged, but that that doesn't 455 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 4: get its credit. So she sat next to my grandmother 456 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 4: and my grandfather, and she learned how to make their dressing, 457 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 4: how to make their chili, how to make their corn bread. 458 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 4: And so every day when I sit down to our 459 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 4: dining table at night for supper, I feel this connection 460 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 4: to my childhood, to my family's history. So you've got time. 461 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 4: It's not too late. And if you don't, if you 462 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:29,600 Speaker 4: don't have a good recipe, go find one. 463 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 1: It's easy. 464 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:34,600 Speaker 4: It's easier it's never been today, It's easier than it's 465 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:38,760 Speaker 4: ever been to find the recipe for what will become 466 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:43,000 Speaker 4: the Baker family or Jackson family or Roblist family, whatever 467 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 4: that's going to be dressing blueberry. 468 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:46,920 Speaker 2: Hi. 469 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 4: We've got to talk about these things. We have to 470 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 4: preserve our traditions. Thanksgiving is America. I mean, it's July 471 00:30:54,480 --> 00:31:00,640 Speaker 4: fourth and Thanksgiving. That's your distinctly American traditions, not a 472 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,040 Speaker 4: tradition that we share with the rest of the world 473 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 4: or the human condition. These are traditions of America. If 474 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 4: that doesn't fire you up, woof your wood is wet.