1 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: Michael Varry Show is. 3 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 2: On the air. 4 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoking. I can feel a good 5 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: one coming on. It's the Michael Berry Show. Oh yes 6 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: it is. Oh and this is my favorite show of 7 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 1: the year. 8 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 2: My two favorite shows of the year, well consolidated ten 9 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 2: to one versus Thanksgiving. I don't know, five years ago 10 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 2: or so, we figured out that our Thanksgiving show, which 11 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:52,279 Speaker 2: is so important to us, we would play the day 12 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 2: before or do the day before Thanksgiving, and then the 13 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 2: next week I'd see people and I say, yeah, what 14 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 2: do you think about that call? 15 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 3: Where? 16 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 2: What do you think about that piece I played with? 17 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 2: And I realized a lot of people hadn't heard it 18 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 2: because some of you are going to be traveling starting 19 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 2: tomorrow or Sunday or even early in the week, and 20 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 2: you're going to be visiting someone, you're going skiing, you're 21 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 2: going wherever you're going, and you won't get to hear. 22 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:34,919 Speaker 2: And I think, you know, if you meet a miserable person, 23 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 2: take Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama will always be miserable. There's 24 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 2: nothing that can be done for Michelle Obama has had 25 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 2: everything the world given to her, and she's still extremely miserable. 26 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:48,559 Speaker 2: That doesn't make me mad, makes me laugh that she's 27 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 2: so miserable. She's an ungrateful person. A posture of gratitude, 28 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 2: a disposition of gratitude, is the sign of a very 29 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 2: happy person. Indeed, we take Thanksgiving very literally on The 30 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 2: Michael Berry Show. And the other thing that's that we're 31 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:22,519 Speaker 2: passionate about is adoption. As you know, my children are adopted. 32 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 2: There are a lot of you who were adopted. We 33 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 2: found out are the newest member of our team. I've 34 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 2: known him for twenty years. We worked together at the 35 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 2: company iHeart, and then he came and joined us here 36 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 2: on the show, Darrel Kunda that he's adopted. We didn't 37 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 2: know that one of our colleagues that works at one 38 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,839 Speaker 2: of those sports that works at the sports station, our 39 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 2: sister station in Houston. Dan Matthews told his story, beautiful story. 40 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 2: So you learn a lot. There are more people who 41 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,519 Speaker 2: are adopted than you would believe. There really are. Sort 42 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 2: of like there are more people who are veterans. You know, 43 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 2: we did our Veterans Day special on the eleventh and 44 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 2: Jim put together that montague of various musicians and you go, Hey, 45 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:07,359 Speaker 2: Willy Nelson's about Wait, Jimmy Hendrix. Yeah, all of those 46 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 2: guys are veterans. So these are two concepts that are 47 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 2: very important to us, and that will be the focus 48 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:16,359 Speaker 2: of the show today. So I'm sorry if you wanted 49 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 2: political news, this won't be a political show. This is 50 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 2: to us much more important and this is an annual 51 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 2: tradition for us. So that's what we're doing. What died 52 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 2: to tell you in the upcoming segment. For one segment, 53 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 2: we're going to do something that's become a tradition here 54 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 2: on the show, and we turn off our microphones, then 55 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 2: we listen. It is near and dear to our heart. 56 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 2: It is the Rush Limbaugh the meaning of Christmas. Rush 57 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 2: Limbaugh is our idol, our hero, our inspiration, and it's 58 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 2: one of the most favorite things he ever did. Some 59 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 2: of you who've listened for a while know that when 60 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 2: Rush passed that first christ Us Eve, after he passed 61 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 2: Clay and Buck, it wouldn't have been fair to have 62 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 2: Clay and Buck do that show would not have been 63 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 2: fair to them, and so they wanted a guest host 64 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 2: to do it. And so the team Ali and the 65 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 2: whole team asked that I do it, and it was 66 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 2: such an incredible honor because that was Russia's favorite show 67 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 2: of the year, was his Christmas Eve show, and they 68 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:24,840 Speaker 2: told me three months in advance, and that's when we 69 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 2: hired Jim Mudd to come on and help help produce 70 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 2: that show, and then he stayed on with us these years. 71 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 2: So yeah, that's that's coming up in the next segment. 72 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 2: So if you're pulling into the garage, just hang around 73 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 2: and hear this one segment coming up because it's so 74 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 2: special regard the meaning of thanks. 75 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 1: He is so incredibly special, all right, to get us. 76 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,159 Speaker 2: Start as we always do courtesy the Grace executive producer 77 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 2: and all the land CHATTACONI knakadishi. 78 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: Here we can review. 79 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 2: Sandra. 80 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: What's yours? I'm not and I'm not seeing him just right. 81 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 2: If a white guy's dating a black one, I betted 82 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:02,720 Speaker 2: a white guy before when I was in college and 83 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 2: he was sent to the breast, I don't white man's 84 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 2: little bride. If you don't have big blood. 85 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:07,919 Speaker 1: He love it my bread. 86 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. You know what I love about Sandra. 87 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 2: She has no shame. There is nothing that embarrasses her. 88 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 2: She's basically going to tell you about her sax life, 89 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:18,359 Speaker 2: a late husband and have no shame about it. And 90 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 2: in that white boy she dated in college he liked 91 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 2: Boozeo Man. The True Horrors of hazing. 92 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: The psychology behind hazing, to figure out why some young 93 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 1: men seem to be willing to do anything to get in. 94 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 2: One suspect held his feet down and then pulled his 95 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 2: hands down to his knees before one of the suspects. 96 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:39,480 Speaker 1: Violated him with a broomstick. 97 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 2: If you were to study it, there's something kind of 98 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 2: partially gay about the whole thing if you think about it, 99 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 2: because the amount of things related to violating the bunghole 100 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 2: are in some way exposing and messing with the peter 101 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 2: are not normal. 102 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,040 Speaker 3: Police are also looking for the man who tried to 103 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 3: rob a dairy queen on the city's west side. 104 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 2: Every queen may be known for they're blizzard, but the 105 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 2: chilling encounter with a pipe wheelded Robert is enough to 106 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 2: freeze anyone. 107 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: In their tracks. Do we have to do that? Son? 108 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 2: I realize you're excited to be a journalist. 109 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:15,799 Speaker 1: Did you make a list? 110 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,840 Speaker 2: If he was doing it ironically, I could get it. 111 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 2: How bad is this going to be It's going to 112 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 2: have a chilling effect that could freeze any bad guy. 113 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 1: But what's wrong with it? 114 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 3: I was almost full. 115 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:38,839 Speaker 1: I'm still going going. I can't stop going once they 116 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: started stays. 117 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:42,840 Speaker 2: If you're midpee and you have to stop because you're 118 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 2: starting or whatever. 119 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 1: I don't know. 120 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:47,280 Speaker 2: I don't know what all the parks down there are. 121 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,119 Speaker 2: But something involved in the urethra gets pinched off or something, 122 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 2: and it is unpleasant. And I feel like women talk 123 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:56,039 Speaker 2: enough about childbirth that we should get to talk about 124 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 2: when you got to snap off real quick, myrepan. 125 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: Listen to the Michael Ferry Show podcast and you'll be 126 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: the smartest guy in the room. Share with your friends 127 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: and you'll be the most popular. 128 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 2: Anal tradition on our Thanksgiving edition, which is the Friday 129 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 2: before or the following Thursday, is to play rush Limbaugh's 130 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 2: The Meaning of Thanksgiving in honor of the Great Irreplaceable 131 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 2: Rush Limbaugh. 132 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 3: The True Story of Thanksgiving, The story of the Pilgrims 133 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 3: begins in the early part of the seventeenth century. The 134 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 3: Church of England, under King James the First was persecuting 135 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 3: anyone and everyone who did not recognize its absolute civil 136 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 3: and spiritual authority. Those who challenged ecclesiastical authority and those 137 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 3: who believe strongly in freedom of worship were hunted down, imprisoned, 138 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 3: and sometimes. 139 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: Executed for their beliefs. A group of separatists. 140 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 3: First fled to Holland and established a community. After eleven years, 141 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 3: about forty of them agreed to make a perilous journey 142 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 3: to the New World, where they would certainly face hardships, 143 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 3: but could live and worship God according to the dictates 144 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:24,679 Speaker 3: of their own consciences. On August first, sixteen to twenty, 145 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 3: the Mayflowers set sail. It carried a total of one 146 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:32,960 Speaker 3: hundred and two passengers, including forty Pilgrims, led by William Bradford. 147 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,119 Speaker 3: On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, 148 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 3: and established just and equal laws for all members of 149 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,719 Speaker 3: the new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs. Where did 150 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 3: the revolutionary ideas expressed in any Flower compact come from? 151 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 1: They came from the Bible. 152 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:53,560 Speaker 3: The Pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the lessons 153 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 3: of the Old and New Testaments. They looked to the 154 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:01,560 Speaker 3: ancient Israelites for their example. Because of the biblical precedent 155 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 3: set forth in scripture. They never doubted that their experiment 156 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 3: would work, but it was no pleasure cruise. The journey 157 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 3: to the New World was a long and arduous one, 158 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,199 Speaker 3: and when the Pilgrims landed in New England in November, 159 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:18,439 Speaker 3: they found, according to Bradford's detailed journal, a cold, barren, 160 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 3: desolate wilderness. There were no friends to greet them, he wrote, 161 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 3: There were no houses to shelter them, there were no 162 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 3: inns where they could refresh themselves, and the sacrifice that 163 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 3: they had made for freedom was just beginning. During the 164 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:38,439 Speaker 3: first winter, half the Pilgrims, including Bradford's own wife, died eater, starvation, sickness, 165 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 3: or exposure. When spring finally came, Indians taught the settlers 166 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 3: how to plant corn fish for cod and skin beavers 167 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 3: for coats. Life improved for the Pilgrims, but they did 168 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:53,679 Speaker 3: not yet prosper, and this is important to understand because 169 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 3: this is where modern American history lessons often end. Thanksgiving 170 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 3: is actually explained in some textbooks as a holiday for 171 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 3: which the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving 172 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 3: their lives, rather than as a devout expression of gratitude 173 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 3: grounded in the tradition of both the Old and New Testaments. 174 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:12,439 Speaker 1: Here's the part that's been omitted. 175 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 3: The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their 176 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 3: merchant sponsors in London called for everything they produced to 177 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 3: go into a common sore, and each member of the 178 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 3: community was entitled one common share. All of the land 179 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 3: that they cleared and the houses they built belonged to 180 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,199 Speaker 3: the community as well, and they were going to distribute 181 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 3: it equally. All the land they cleared, the houses they 182 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 3: built belonged to the community. Nobody owned anything, they just 183 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 3: had a share in it. It was a commune. It 184 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 3: was the forerunner to the communes we saw in the 185 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 3: sixties and seventies out in California. And it was a 186 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 3: complete with organic vegetables, even just like the communes of 187 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 3: today are. 188 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: God No, there's no question it was organic vegetables. 189 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 3: Bradford, who had become a new governor of the colony, 190 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:01,719 Speaker 3: recognized that this form of collectivism as costly and destructive 191 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 3: to the Pilgrims as that first harsh winter, which had 192 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 3: taken so many lives, he decided to take bold action. 193 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 3: Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to 194 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 3: work and manage, thus turning loose the power in the marketplace. 195 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,839 Speaker 3: Long before Karl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had 196 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 3: discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism, 197 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 3: and what happened. It didn't work, but nearly starved, never 198 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 3: has worked. What Bradford in his community found was that 199 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 3: the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to 200 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 3: work any harder than anybody else unless they could utilize 201 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,840 Speaker 3: the power of personal motivation. But while most of the 202 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 3: rest of the world has been experimenting with socialism for 203 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 3: well over one hundred years, trying to refine it, perfect it, 204 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 3: and reinvent it, the Pilgrims decided early on to scrap 205 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 3: it permanently. What Bradford wrote about this social experiment should 206 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 3: be in every school child's history lesson. If it were, 207 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:00,840 Speaker 3: we might prevent such needless suffering in the future, such 208 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:04,440 Speaker 3: as that we are enduring now. The experience that we 209 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 3: had in this common course and condition, This is Bradford, 210 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 3: the experience we had in this common course and condition, 211 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 3: tired or tried someday years that by taking away property 212 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 3: and bringing community into a commonwealth would make them happy 213 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 3: and flourishing as if they were wiser than God. Bradford wrote, 214 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 3: for this community, so far as it was was found 215 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 3: to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment 216 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 3: that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For 217 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 3: young men that were most able and fit for labor 218 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 3: and service, did repine that they should spend their time 219 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 3: and strength that worked for other men's wives and. 220 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 1: Children without being paid for it. That was thought injustice. 221 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 3: Why should you work for other people when you can't 222 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 3: work for yourself? 223 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 1: What's the point? That's what he was saying. 224 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 3: The Pilgrims found that people could not be expected to 225 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:57,079 Speaker 3: do their best work without incentive. So what did Bradford's 226 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:02,960 Speaker 3: community try next? They unharness the power of good old 227 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 3: free enterprise by invoking the undergirding capitalistic principle of private property. 228 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:14,560 Speaker 3: Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work, 229 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 3: and permitted to market its own crops and products. 230 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:19,560 Speaker 1: What was the result. 231 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 3: Bradford wrote, This had very good success, for it made 232 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 3: all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted 233 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,560 Speaker 3: than otherwise would have been. Is it possible that supply 234 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 3: side economics could have existed before the nineteen eighties? Yes, 235 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 3: read the story of Joseph and Pharaoh in Genesis forty one. 236 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:41,079 Speaker 3: Following Joseph's suggestion, Pharaoh reduced the tax on Egyptians to 237 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 3: twenty percent during the seven years of plenty, and the 238 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 3: earth brought forth in heaps. 239 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: Well. 240 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 3: In no time, the Pilgrims found that they had more 241 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 3: food than they could eat themselves. 242 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 1: Now this this. 243 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 3: Is where it gets really good if you're laboring under 244 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:00,680 Speaker 3: the misconception that I was as I was taught school. 245 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 3: They set up trading posts, they exchanged goods with the Indians. 246 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 3: The prophets allowed them to pay off their debts to 247 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:11,319 Speaker 3: the merchants in London, and the success and the prosperity 248 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 3: of the Plymouth settlement attracted more Europeans and began what 249 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 3: came to be known as. 250 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 1: The Great Puritan Migration. 251 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 3: But this story stops when the Indians taught the newly arrived, 252 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 3: suffering in socialism Pilgrims how to plant corn and fish 253 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 3: for cod. That's where the original Thanksgiving story stops. Story 254 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 3: basically doesn't even begin there. The real story of Thanksgiving 255 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 3: is William Bradford giving thanks to God for the guidance 256 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 3: and the inspiration to set up a thriving colony that 257 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 3: socialism caused near starvation. The bounty was shared with the Indians. 258 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 3: They did sit down, they did have free range turkey 259 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 3: and organic vegetables. 260 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: But it wasn't the Indians who saved the day. 261 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 3: It was capitalism and scripture which saved the day, as 262 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 3: acknowledged by George Washington in his first Thanksgiving Proclamation in 263 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 3: seventeen eighty nine. 264 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 2: You take carry it down, Thank you about it, Thanks Michael. 265 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 3: Thought. 266 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 2: Today is our Thanksgiving special. We do this every year. 267 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 2: And the reason we do it today rather than the 268 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 2: day before Thanksgiving is because many of you this will 269 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 2: be the last day that you're in your usual routine. 270 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 2: You will board a plane or load up the family 271 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 2: station wagon. People have the family station wagonzinemore and on. 272 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 2: That's crazy. Station wagon became the minivan. The minivan became 273 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 2: the suburban explorer. And you will head off to Mammal's house. 274 00:15:53,840 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 2: And that is a sacred, sacred ritual. You know that 275 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 2: it is a sacred ritual. When Barack Obama attempted to 276 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 2: destroy it by telling young people go home and tell 277 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 2: your grandmother she's a racist, tearing apart the family, the 278 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 2: fabric of the family is the ultimate goal of the 279 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 2: cultural Marxist, because the communist has to destroy your faith 280 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 2: and your family in order to control you. Faith and 281 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 2: family are rivals to communism, which is both a faith 282 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 2: and a community that replicates the family. It destroys the 283 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 2: identity and makes you part of it. But let me 284 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 2: not get too deep into that. It is important that 285 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 2: we dive deep into our family love. If you have 286 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 2: an negative influence in your family, I encourage you to 287 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 2: cut them loose. You can't fix them and they'll ruin everything. 288 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:09,399 Speaker 2: Don't bring them to the family occasion. But it's on 289 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:13,920 Speaker 2: this day every year that we stop as a show, 290 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:18,199 Speaker 2: as we like to think of ourselves as your friends. 291 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 2: I mean, heck, you let us come into your homes, 292 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 2: your cars, your trucks, your speakers, your earphones. Some of 293 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 2: you every day, some of you on the podcast, literally 294 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 2: every day of the week. It's a pretty intimate relationship 295 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 2: if you think about it. We may never meet, but 296 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 2: we share values, we share a lot, and so on 297 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 2: this day every year, our last chance to get the 298 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 2: entirety of our audience due to travel schedules. Next week, 299 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:54,959 Speaker 2: we take a moment to talk about the importance of 300 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 2: what it means to stop and give things. And that's 301 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:01,399 Speaker 2: perhaps more important today and it has been for a 302 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 2: very long time. There's a beautiful gospel song that goes 303 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 2: counter your blessings, Name them one by one, count your 304 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 2: blessings and it will surprise you what the Lord hath done. 305 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 2: I teach my children this, We talk about it as 306 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 2: a family. I often ask my friends, tell me one 307 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:34,879 Speaker 2: thing that you're thankful for today, and I am surprised 308 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 2: how many times it will be the case that someone 309 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 2: cannot immediately tell you something for which they are grateful, thankful. 310 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:50,160 Speaker 2: I think you have to have a thankful spirit. It's 311 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 2: part of humility. I think you have to be grateful. 312 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 2: And if you can't think of something quickly for which 313 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 2: you are grateful, perspective and that is unhealthy. And I 314 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 2: would argue that many people in this country are winning 315 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:15,399 Speaker 2: at the ballot box but losing in their lives, because 316 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:23,400 Speaker 2: when you lose perspective, then effectively they own you. It's 317 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 2: very important to stop and be grateful for the things 318 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:32,960 Speaker 2: you have. When I look in my own life, I 319 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 2: start with my father. I lost my mother. I'm grateful 320 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 2: for my father. I'm grateful for every day I have 321 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 2: with him. I'm grateful for every conversation I have with him. 322 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:48,919 Speaker 2: He's had severe diabetes since he was nineteen. He was 323 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:53,679 Speaker 2: discharged from the Coastguard. They didn't believe he'd survived, almost 324 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,480 Speaker 2: lost his life with a diabetic attack. There wasn't treatment 325 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:02,119 Speaker 2: for diabetes. He had to if treat that before there 326 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 2: were the things, the tools that we have today, and 327 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 2: he did and he survived. And I'm grateful for every day, 328 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 2: for every shared memory. I'm grateful for every conversation where 329 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 2: I can call up and go, hey, Dad, you remember 330 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 2: when we went to this Remember we went to see 331 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 2: the Astros play and Terry Poole got the game winning hit. 332 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 2: You remember that. I am grateful for all the years 333 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 2: that I did have my mother, because she was seventy 334 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 2: nine years old and for fifty three years of my life, 335 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 2: she was in my life. And you know, when someone passes, 336 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 2: the depth of loss you experience is a mirror. It 337 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:52,919 Speaker 2: is the converse to the wonderfulness of what you experience. 338 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 2: You know, when someone tells me their mom or dad 339 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 2: has died and they don't care, that tells me they 340 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,919 Speaker 2: didn't love them. I feel sad for them, not that 341 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 2: they don't care. But if you're going to love deeply, 342 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,640 Speaker 2: you're going to lose deeply. So I hope that on 343 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:14,399 Speaker 2: this Thanksgiving week that you will be grateful for the 344 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 2: loves that you've lost, for the things you once had 345 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:23,400 Speaker 2: and cannot get back, for the fact that you once 346 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:27,880 Speaker 2: had them, for the fact that you had that blessing, 347 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 2: because I can guarantee you there are plenty of people 348 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 2: who didn't. If you've lost a father, lost a mother 349 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 2: that you love deeply, be grateful. Think how many didn't 350 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 2: a brother, a sister, a wife, a husband, a child. 351 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 2: It's a great time of year in a great American 352 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 2: tradition to just stop and take stop take inventory. You know, 353 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 2: as a business owner, particularly if you're in retail or hospitality, 354 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 2: it's very important that you stop and take an inventory. 355 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,600 Speaker 2: What are your par levels for your alcohol? How long? 356 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,879 Speaker 2: How many stocks do you have for what's coming up 357 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 2: for Christmas, for instance, or at Mother's Day or Father's 358 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:19,400 Speaker 2: Day or some others Valentine's Day. It's important to stop, 359 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:24,160 Speaker 2: to stop and see what you have already and where 360 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 2: you need to supplement. And I think Thanksgiving is a 361 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:32,480 Speaker 2: great opportunity to do that. It's a true opportunity for 362 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 2: us to do something maybe we don't do often enough 363 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:41,160 Speaker 2: in our longing to add more things to our lives, 364 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 2: to accumulate more stuff, to travel to more places, to 365 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:53,639 Speaker 2: make more money. Sometimes we don't stop long enough and 366 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 2: look around to. 367 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:55,400 Speaker 1: What we do have. 368 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 2: If you have your health, I didn't understand this when 369 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 2: I was younger. I do now. If you have your 370 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 2: help or be grateful for that, because you won't always, 371 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 2: and once you don't have it, you'll realize what a 372 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 2: blessing it was that you did. If you have someone 373 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:20,440 Speaker 2: that you love in your life, be grateful for that. 374 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:27,200 Speaker 2: And if they also love you, boy, you found you've 375 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 2: found it. You found the path to riches greater than 376 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 2: any gold. If you have children who are healthy, be 377 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 2: grateful for that. If they love you, boy, that's a blessing. 378 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 2: I don't want to be too preachy, but this is 379 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 2: very important to me, and I have an opportunity anywhere. 380 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 2: Before Biden came into office, we had a legal immigration 381 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 2: at a record loan. 382 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 1: It will be my policy to take down. 383 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 2: The cartels, just as I took down the Califate. People 384 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:07,679 Speaker 2: often tell me, especially our older listeners that it feels 385 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 2: like the thing that the America they grew up in 386 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:15,440 Speaker 2: has changed. And when I asked them, what does that mean? 387 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 2: How has that manifested itself? One of the things that 388 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 2: will come up is we don't celebrate Easter the way 389 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,800 Speaker 2: we used to. We don't celebrate Christmas the way we 390 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 2: used to. We don't celebrate Thanksgiving the way we used to. Well, 391 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 2: you understand those are not self celebrating holidays. It is 392 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 2: as highly or unanticipated as we make it. It's all 393 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 2: human emotion. And the problem is, or the challenge or 394 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:54,439 Speaker 2: the opportunity is it has to be replicated year in 395 00:24:54,520 --> 00:25:01,440 Speaker 2: and year out. What's important about Thanksgiving? It's a uniquely 396 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 2: American tradition. I mean, if I need to make this 397 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 2: political to get some people's attention, because some people are 398 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,159 Speaker 2: only driven by the political stuff. The left wants to 399 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:22,120 Speaker 2: destroy Thanksgiving because everything that Thanksgiving represents the white man 400 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 2: coming to a nation where there were people already. Now, 401 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,640 Speaker 2: those people had displaced other people who had displaced other 402 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,399 Speaker 2: people who had displaced other people. So it's not that 403 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 2: they're the original inhabitants indigenous people, but just as has 404 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 2: happened throughout the world. You know, one hundred five hundred 405 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 2: years ago from now, they will describe the era we're in. 406 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,720 Speaker 2: What that era will look like is up to us. 407 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,719 Speaker 2: I'm not a fatalist in this sense. I think that 408 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:03,920 Speaker 2: the decisions we make, actions we take will determine what 409 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,199 Speaker 2: that history will be. Will this be the end of 410 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 2: a great empire, a great republic or will this just 411 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 2: be the beginning and we will see an ascendance that 412 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 2: will be up to us, not Donald Trump, all of us. 413 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,679 Speaker 2: But it is important that we remember our history, and 414 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,440 Speaker 2: we celebrate our history, and that we perpetuate our history. 415 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 2: People will see. You know, when I was growing up, 416 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,680 Speaker 2: the kids in the school, you know, we'd all dress 417 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,000 Speaker 2: up and as turkeys, and you know, my parents would 418 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 2: do this, and my parents would do this, and my 419 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,480 Speaker 2: parents would do this, And I say, all right, will 420 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:37,920 Speaker 2: you have kids about that age? Now? 421 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 1: Are you doing that? No? 422 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 2: Well then what changed? What change does you so bring 423 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,480 Speaker 2: back those traditions? Well, I just remember my grandmother would 424 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,359 Speaker 2: cook And well, now your wife is the grandmother. Is 425 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,880 Speaker 2: she cooking like that? No, we ordered it in from 426 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:02,639 Speaker 2: somewhere else. Okay, well that's fine, But when your kids 427 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 2: and grandkids are the age you are now, are they 428 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 2: going to remember that Mamma and Papa made this particular thing, 429 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 2: and Mamo and Papa made this particular thing. One of 430 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 2: my greatest memories is that my grandfather would make the 431 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 2: dressing every year. He was a big bear of a man. 432 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,640 Speaker 2: He was a bus driver, he was a maintenance worker. 433 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:30,120 Speaker 2: He was a hard drinker. He smoked his entire life 434 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 2: till he finally quit and went to smokeless as it 435 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 2: was called back then, which was tobacco. Red man was 436 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 2: his choice. But boil boy could he cook. And he 437 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 2: would make dressing that was delicious, I mean, just delicious dressing. 438 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,879 Speaker 2: But my mother would declare that he put too much sage, 439 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 2: and everyone would sit around, they're too much sage in? 440 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 2: Is there too much stage? 441 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 1: In? 442 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:56,639 Speaker 2: All afternoon there would be complaints that there had been 443 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 2: that there was too much sage, and now everyone had 444 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:05,960 Speaker 2: well they referred to as intergestion, which is indigestion and 445 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 2: it's an unpleasant thing. And there would be talk that 446 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 2: there had been too much sage, and he'd say, I 447 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,959 Speaker 2: put too much sage, and no, it didn't do too 448 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:18,879 Speaker 2: much stage. And that memory to this day. The taste 449 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 2: of my grandfather's dressing. Well, lo and behold my wife, 450 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 2: being the saint that she is. When we met and 451 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 2: I told her what Thanksgiving was because she's from India, 452 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 2: she was an immigrant to the country, new to the country. 453 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 2: And I told her by that second Thanksgiving she was 454 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,880 Speaker 2: here because the first Thanksgiving we just started dating. And 455 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 2: I told her what it was. I wanted to come, 456 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,360 Speaker 2: you know, meet my grandparents and all this. 457 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:42,880 Speaker 1: Sort of stuff. 458 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 2: And I told her all about that, and she figured out, Ladies, 459 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 2: listen to this. She figured out, you know, the way 460 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 2: that this man's heart is through his belly, and many 461 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 2: men are that way. There's two things that drive most 462 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 2: of us, one or the other or both, and just 463 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,719 Speaker 2: know that. And the third would be not being nagged. 464 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 2: But that doesn't get its credit. So she sat next 465 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 2: to my grandmother and my grandfather, and she learned how 466 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,959 Speaker 2: to make their dressing, how to make their chili, how 467 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 2: to make their corn bread. And so every day when 468 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 2: I sit down to our dining table at night for supper, 469 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:25,480 Speaker 2: I feel this connection to my childhood, to my family's history. 470 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 2: So you've got time, it's not too late. And if 471 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 2: you don't, if you don't have a good recipe, go 472 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,840 Speaker 2: find one. It's easy. It's easier, it's never been. Today, 473 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 2: it's easier than it's ever been to find the recipe 474 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 2: for what will become the Baker family or Jackson family, 475 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 2: or Roblist family, whatever that's going to be dressing blueberry Hi. 476 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 2: We've got to talk about these things. We have to 477 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 2: preserve our traditions. Thanksgiving is America. I mean, it's July 478 00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:02,720 Speaker 2: fourth and Thanksgiving. That's your distinctly American traditions, not a 479 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 2: tradition that we share with the rest of the world 480 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 2: for the human condition. These are traditions of America. If 481 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:13,840 Speaker 2: that doesn't fire you up, your wood is wet.