1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:04,200 Speaker 1: Hey, I'm Klay Travis and I'm Buck Sexton. You know 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: what we're thankful for this year? 3 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 2: All of you. 4 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 1: That's right. We have the best radio audience in the country, 5 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: hands down. Sending a big, warm and happy Thanksgiving from 6 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: the Clay and Buck Show. 7 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 3: Welcome to a special edition of After Hours with producer. 8 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 4: Ali and producer Greg. Happy Thanksgiving, Greg, Happy Thanksgiving. 9 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 2: Ali. 10 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 4: We wanted to put together a special holiday sort of 11 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 4: podcast for you and after ours Easter Egg that talked 12 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 4: about the importance of Thanksgiving to this program and the 13 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 4: audience you. 14 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:40,200 Speaker 3: Rush had a couple traditions on Thanksgiving Eve. 15 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:43,879 Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely, We've started some of our own sort of 16 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:46,199 Speaker 4: things here at the Clay and Buck Show, but a 17 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 4: lot of people ask for those things that Rush revisited 18 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 4: time and again, and a lot of them were timeless. 19 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 4: The stories that he told and why he told them, 20 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 4: and those sorts of things. So that's what we're going 21 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 4: to give you today on this day of thanks. 22 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 3: One was reading George Washington's first Thanksgiving Proclamation, which we're 23 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:10,040 Speaker 3: going to play for you first. The other was Rush 24 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 3: telling the true story of Thanksgiving, a fan favorite every year. 25 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 3: For those that don't know the title of Rush's first book, 26 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 3: The Way Things Ought to Be. The title of his 27 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,479 Speaker 3: second book, See I Told You So had a chapter 28 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:26,040 Speaker 3: called Dead White Guys or what the history books Never 29 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 3: told You? The True Story of Thanksgiving? And every year, 30 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 3: without fail, he would read this story. And I don't 31 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 3: know about you, Greg, but it felt new each year. 32 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 4: It was always something that people really loved and people 33 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 4: still ask me about all the time. 34 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:40,680 Speaker 3: The audience really look forward to it as they prepared 35 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 3: to celebrate Thanksgiving and get the house ready cook. It 36 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 3: was just a fun Thanksgiving Eve tradition and really summed 37 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 3: up the holiday for the show. 38 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 4: Absolutely, And it's a lot of things that people really 39 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 4: didn't know about the history of Thanksgiving. 40 00:01:55,880 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 3: But first, let's play him reading George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation. 41 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 4: This is one of my favorites because this is something 42 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 4: that I had not heard either until really listening to 43 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 4: this show Rush the Rush Show and working on the 44 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 4: show so and being able to actually hear Rush read 45 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 4: it and then listening to it lends it some life 46 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 4: and it's better than just reading it on a page. 47 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 2: George Washington Thanksgiving proclamation, first one, and this dovetails with 48 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:35,519 Speaker 2: the theme of the day the true story of Thanksgiving. 49 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 2: This is George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation, first one, establishing the 50 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 2: Thanksgiving holiday as a distinct and unique American holiday. I'm 51 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 2: going to read it to you in toto. It's not 52 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 2: that long. Whereas excuse me, Whereas it is the duty 53 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 2: of all nations to knowledge the providence of Almighty God, 54 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:07,359 Speaker 2: to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, 55 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 2: and humbly to implore his protection and favor. And whereas 56 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 2: both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested 57 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 2: me to recommend to the people of the United States 58 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 2: a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed 59 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 2: by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal flavors of 60 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 2: Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to 61 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 2: establish a form of government for their safety and happiness. Now, therefore, 62 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 2: I do recommend and assign Thursday, the twenty sixth day 63 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 2: of November next, to be devoted by the people of 64 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 2: these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, 65 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 2: who is the beneficent author, beneficent author of all the 66 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 2: good that was, that is, or that will be. That 67 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 2: we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our 68 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 2: sincere and humble thanks for his kind care and protection 69 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 2: of the people of this country previous to their becoming 70 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 2: a nation, for the signal and manifold mercies and the 71 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 2: favorable interpositions of His providence which we experienced in the tranquility, 72 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 2: the union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed, for 73 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 2: the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been 74 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:42,839 Speaker 2: enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, 75 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 2: and particularly the national one now lately instituted, for the 76 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 2: civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and 77 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 2: the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge, 78 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:01,479 Speaker 2: and in general, for all the grant in various favors 79 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:07,840 Speaker 2: which God hath been pleased to confer upon us. And 80 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,719 Speaker 2: also that we may then unite in most humbly offering 81 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 2: our prayers and supplications to the Great Lord and Ruler 82 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 2: of nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and 83 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 2: other transgressions, to enable us all, whether in public or 84 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:31,039 Speaker 2: private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly 85 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 2: and punctually, to render our national government a blessing to 86 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 2: all the people, by constantly being a government of wise, 87 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:47,360 Speaker 2: just and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed, 88 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:52,919 Speaker 2: to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations, especially such 89 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 2: as have shown kindness unto us, and to bless them 90 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 2: with good government, good peace, and conquered, to promote the 91 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 2: knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the 92 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:09,279 Speaker 2: increase of science among them and us, and generally to 93 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 2: grant under all mankinds such a degree of temporal prosperity 94 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 2: as God alone knows to be best given under my hand. 95 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 2: At the City of New York, the third day of October, 96 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 2: in the year of our Lord, seventeen eighty nine, George Washington, 97 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 2: How many of you have heard that our founders were 98 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 2: not religious, that they were atheists or agnostics. They really 99 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 2: didn't have much to do with religion at all. That 100 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 2: is George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation, thanking God in practically 101 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 2: every sentence of it, for the establishment of our Constitution, 102 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 2: for the establishment of our government, our good government, for. 103 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 5: The safety and well being of our people, for blessing 104 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 5: the United States of America. This is how far we 105 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 5: have strayed. 106 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 2: A speech like this or a thanksgiving proclamation like this, 107 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 2: why there would be hell to pay the American left. 108 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 2: You imagine Donald Trump reading this proclamation in the name 109 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 2: of George Washington. You imagine that happening. You imagine the 110 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 2: reaction the American left with Dabord talking about civil rights violations, 111 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 2: separation of church and state, forcing religion on people. Of course, 112 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 2: this was not forcing religion any but this is simply 113 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 2: an acknowledgment by the first president of the United States 114 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 2: the role God played in the establishment of this country 115 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:53,119 Speaker 2: for which he was there, for which he participated. 116 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 3: Put in context of some of what's happening today, it 117 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 3: kind of gives you the chills. 118 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 4: It really is something that if you stop and really 119 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 4: think about, it's amazing that back then they were able 120 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 4: to focus on what was really so important, especially with 121 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 4: everything that was going on. So, yeah, it's an amazing 122 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 4: being able to bring it up into today and to 123 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 4: be able to hear it again now it's excellent and 124 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 4: they hear Rush say it again. 125 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 3: That's I was gonna say. It's really warming to hear 126 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 3: his voice. 127 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 4: Yes, it really is. 128 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 3: Okay, let's listen to him reading from C I told 129 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 3: you so, and the true story of Thanksgiving. Next. 130 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 2: Oh, that sounds great, Let's do that now. The real 131 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 2: story of Thanksgiving. And I wasn't even taught the whole version, 132 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 2: like everybody. I was taught a sanitized modern version that 133 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 2: has elements of political correctness and multicultural, isn't it. I 134 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:49,239 Speaker 2: was taught that Thanksgiving was about the Pilgrims being saved 135 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 2: from starvation and deprivation by the loving, good hearted, compassionate 136 00:08:55,400 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 2: and carrying stewards of the earth, the Indians. The Pilgrims 137 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 2: didn't know how to grow corn, food, maize, popcorn, anything 138 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 2: of the sort. When they got here, the Indians showed 139 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 2: them all of that. And Thanksgiving was the Pilgrims inviting 140 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 2: the Indians over for dinner to thank the Indians for 141 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 2: saving them. The Native Americans. Everybody's been taught a version 142 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:30,319 Speaker 2: of that. But ladies and gentlemen, it isn't true. The 143 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 2: story the Pilgrims begins in the early part of the 144 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 2: seventeenth century. For those of you in Riolinda, that would 145 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,959 Speaker 2: be the sixteen hundreds. The Church of England under King 146 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 2: James was persecuting anybody and everybody who did not recognize 147 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 2: its absolute civil and spiritual authority. The government was God, 148 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 2: the government was the religion, the government was the church. 149 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 2: And those who challenged that, those who believed strongly in 150 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 2: freedom of worship, were hunted down. They were imprisoned and 151 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 2: sometimes executed for their religious beliefs. In sixteen hundreds, England, 152 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 2: so a group of separatists, people that didn't want any 153 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 2: part of this, they'd had it their limit, first fled 154 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 2: to Holland. That's right. The Pilgrims did not come on 155 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 2: the same route as the Titanic. They didn't come from England. 156 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 2: They fled to Holland, and they established a community there, 157 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 2: and after eleven years, forty of them agreed to make 158 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,360 Speaker 2: the journey to what was then called the New World, 159 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 2: where they knew they would certainly face hardships, but the 160 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 2: promise was that they could live and worship God according 161 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 2: to the dictates of their own consciences, the belief and 162 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 2: freedom of religion. To engage in this kind of activity 163 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 2: in order to be able to do it, to be 164 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 2: able to cross an ocean to a place you have 165 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 2: no idea what to expect, just to be able to 166 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 2: worship as you choose. So August first, sixteen twenty the 167 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:13,199 Speaker 2: Mayflower set sailed. There were one hundred two passengers, including 168 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 2: forty Pilgrims. The whole the whole ship was not Pilgrims, 169 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 2: forty of them. They were led by a man named 170 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 2: William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, 171 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 2: a contract that established well what it was with socialism, 172 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 2: just and equal laws for all members of the new community, 173 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:40,960 Speaker 2: quote unquote, irrespective of their religious beliefs. Where did the 174 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 2: revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from? These 175 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:49,320 Speaker 2: are religious people. They came from the Bible. The Pilgrims 176 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 2: were a people that were completely steeped in the lessons 177 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:57,959 Speaker 2: of the Old New Testaments. And the Pilgrims looked to 178 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 2: the ancient Israelites for their example, and because of the 179 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 2: biblical precedents in scripture, they didn't doubt their experiment would work. 180 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 2: They were people with incredible faith. The journey to the 181 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:15,200 Speaker 2: New World was long, it was arduous. When they landed 182 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 2: in New England in November, according to Bradford's journal, they 183 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 2: found a cold, barren, desolate wilderness, no friends to greet them, 184 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 2: no dock, no motel six, no gas stations, no strip 185 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 2: nothing rocks and coastline, no houses. There were no hotels, 186 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:47,320 Speaker 2: no inns, and the sacrifice they had made for freedom 187 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:53,679 Speaker 2: was just beginning. During the first winter, half of them died, 188 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 2: including William Bradford's own wife, of either starvation, sickness, or 189 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:09,559 Speaker 2: when spring finally came. Indians native Americans did indeed teach 190 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 2: the settlers how to plant corn, how to fish for cod, 191 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 2: skin beavers, for coats. Life improved for the pilgrims, but 192 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 2: they didn't prosper, not yet. Now this is important to 193 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 2: understand because this is where modern American history listens in. 194 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 2: This is what the modern Thanksgiving story is. Pilgrims show up, 195 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 2: don't know what they're doing, nothing for them, no place 196 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:36,679 Speaker 2: to stay, They're starving. The Indians fed them, showed them 197 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 2: how to feed themselves and make coats and stay warm, 198 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:44,839 Speaker 2: and Thanksgiving happened. That's not the story. That's not why 199 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 2: the pilgrims gave thanks That's not why George Washington proclaimed 200 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaker 2: the first Thanksgiving holiday. The Indians did indeed help them, 201 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:00,200 Speaker 2: and they learned how to plant corn, and they had 202 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:05,840 Speaker 2: a big feast, and we celebrate that today. But Thanksgiving 203 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:10,680 Speaker 2: is actually explained in textbooks as a holiday for which 204 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 2: the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives. 205 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 2: Rather than what it was. The pilgrims Thanksgiving was a 206 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 2: thanks to God for helping them in their belief in 207 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 2: Him and Scripture into arranging their affairs and forming their 208 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 2: colony in a way that ultimately they could survive. And 209 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 2: if you doubt this, go look at George Washington's first 210 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 2: Thanksgiving proclamation when Thanksgiving became a national holiday. And I've 211 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 2: got it here, and I might even share excerpts from 212 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 2: it before we're through here today. But let me move on. 213 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 2: You cannot escape the fact that Thanksgiving was a national 214 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 2: holiday rooted in thanking God for America. That was George 215 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 2: Washington's purpose. Thanksgiving was to thank God for America for 216 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 2: everything that had happened leading to the founding of America. 217 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 2: Everything Washington and many of the founders felt divine inspiration 218 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 2: throughout the entire period of time following the Pilgrim's arrival. 219 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 2: Now here's the part that's been omitted from the textbooks. 220 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 2: Remember that original contract that the Pilgrims all signed aboard 221 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 2: the Mayflower. Well, they had merchant sponsors, they didn't have 222 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 2: any money. They had people paying them sponsoring their trip. 223 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:41,120 Speaker 2: They didn't have the money to make the trip themselves. 224 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 2: These sponsors were in Holland and London. They had to 225 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 2: be repaid. So that contract called for everything the pilgrims 226 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 2: produced to go into a common store, a single bank account, 227 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 2: if you will, and each member of the community was 228 00:15:57,480 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 2: entitled to an equal share. 229 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 4: Of the gross This was fair, This was equal. 230 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 2: This was same. All the land they cleared, the houses 231 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 2: they built, they belonged to the community as well. Nobody 232 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 2: owned anything. Everything was owned by the community. Everybody equals 233 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 2: share to all of it. They were going to distribute 234 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 2: it equally. Everybody would get the same. Everybody would be 235 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 2: the same. All the land they cleared, the houses they built, 236 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 2: belonged to the community. Nobody owned anything. It was a commune. 237 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 2: It was Humboldt County, California, minus the weed. They even 238 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 2: had organic vegetables. Now William Bradford, who had become the 239 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 2: new governor of the colony, recognized that this wasn't working. 240 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 2: They weren't making any money to pay off the sponsors. 241 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 2: But you know what else was happening. Since everybody got 242 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 2: an equal share, no matter what, there were some lazy sloths, Yes, 243 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 2: some of the original Pilgrims, some of their offspring, just 244 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 2: sat around and did nothing all day while the others 245 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 2: picked up the slack. And Bradford originally, or at least 246 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 2: at some point, saw this isn't gonna work, and so 247 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,160 Speaker 2: they essentially tore up that first contract, which they didn't 248 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 2: know it, but that was socialism. And what they did 249 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 2: was create a new community based on what we would 250 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:25,919 Speaker 2: call capitalism today. The more you produce, the more you 251 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 2: got to keep. The harder you work, the greater were 252 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 2: the fruits of your labors. If you wanted a bigger 253 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 2: home than somebody else you could afford to build it, 254 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 2: you did it. You didn't have to share it. And 255 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:41,879 Speaker 2: this this change unleashed everything, and the Pilgrims became a 256 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 2: going economic concern, and they experienced economic plenty, far greater 257 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 2: than any they had have under the previous Mayflower Compact 258 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 2: arrangement contract arrangement. Bradford writes about all of this in 259 00:17:57,119 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 2: his journal, and it is for this that the original 260 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:09,639 Speaker 2: Pilgrims gave thanks not to the Indian saving them, but 261 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 2: to God for helping them to survive and thrive in 262 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 2: a place none had ever been. Okay, folks, now here's 263 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 2: where this gets good. William Bradford, the governor of the colony, 264 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:29,960 Speaker 2: after abandoning the original compact and then converting to hey, 265 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 2: you can keep what you earn, and earn as much 266 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 2: as you produce. And so when free enterprise was turned 267 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:42,159 Speaker 2: loose in Bradford's journal, this had very good success, for 268 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 2: it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn 269 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 2: was planted than otherwise would have been. In other words, 270 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:54,119 Speaker 2: they had economic growth. They had prosperity because there was 271 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:59,000 Speaker 2: personal incentive. Rather than everybody getting a share of what 272 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 2: other there's everybody else produced. And so the pilgrims found 273 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:13,639 Speaker 2: that they had more food than they could eat themselves. This, 274 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:17,160 Speaker 2: this is where what you've been told about thanksgiving enters 275 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 2: the picture. The Indians had more than they could share, 276 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 2: the more than they could eat, more food than they 277 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:31,160 Speaker 2: could serve each other. They invited the Indians, They set 278 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:35,159 Speaker 2: up treading posts, They exchanged goods with the Indians, and 279 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 2: the profits finally allowed them to pay off the debts 280 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 2: to the sponsors, the merchants in London and Holland who 281 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:43,160 Speaker 2: had sponsored them. 282 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 5: But it was the. 283 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 2: Sharing of the bounty that was created by the change 284 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 2: in governing structure that led to the plenty that allowed 285 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 2: them to invite the Indians and share all of this 286 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:58,480 Speaker 2: with them. That's the story most people get. But they've 287 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,879 Speaker 2: mistaught that the Indians provided all the food because the 288 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 2: Pilgrims are incapable. It is the exact opposite. Now, they're 289 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 2: just one more element of this the true story of Thanksgiving. 290 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,200 Speaker 2: You may or may not have heard of the Great 291 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:20,679 Speaker 2: Puritan Migration. That is what happened after the Pilgrim's original 292 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 2: two or three years setting up shop. Now, this is 293 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 2: fundamentally important to understand. The Great Pilgrim Migration occurred because 294 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:39,159 Speaker 2: of the overwhelming success at growing their community. The word 295 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:43,119 Speaker 2: of what the Pilgrims had done spread I mean there 296 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 2: were ships going back and forth New World to England 297 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 2: and Europe all the time, and word spread of this 298 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 2: newfound prosperity, of this new world, of the new opportunities, 299 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 2: of the religious freedom and other freedoms that had been 300 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 2: created after the arrival of the Pilgrims. Had none of 301 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 2: that happened, had the real story of Thanksgiving then that 302 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 2: the Pilgrims were a decrepit bunch out of place and 303 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:12,400 Speaker 2: didn't know how to take care of themselves. And if 304 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,919 Speaker 2: it weren't for the Indians, they would have died. There 305 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 2: would have been no reason for anybody to follow them. 306 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,199 Speaker 2: It would have been judged a failure. But it was 307 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 2: anything but, and it's not taught today. But the fact 308 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 2: of the matter is that the Pilgrims, they were not idiologs. 309 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 2: It wasn't that somebody said we're going to try socialism. 310 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 2: It's just the way they set it up. They wanted 311 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 2: to be fair with everybody. It was a natural thing. 312 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,560 Speaker 2: We'll have a common store, everybody has one share, and 313 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,439 Speaker 2: everything we do and make goes into that bank, and 314 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,320 Speaker 2: everybody gets an equal percentage of it. Well, human nature 315 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 2: interceded and there were some lazy people didn't do anything. 316 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,399 Speaker 2: They didn't have to. They were entitled to an equal 317 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 2: share no matter what they did. That didn't work very long. 318 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 2: They set up free enterprise where the fruits of your 319 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 2: labor determined what you got, what you had, and what 320 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,159 Speaker 2: you're able to do, and it formed the basis of 321 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 2: forming the basic arrangements they had as a community. Well, 322 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 2: it was so successful, and that's what they gave thanks 323 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:11,160 Speaker 2: for these were deeply religious people. They were giving thanks 324 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 2: for having been shown the light, and the word spread 325 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,360 Speaker 2: and that began the Great Puritan Migration, and that's when 326 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:22,919 Speaker 2: the flood of European arrivals began after the success of 327 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 2: the original Plymouth Colony. That's never taught is part of 328 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:28,639 Speaker 2: the original Thanksgiving story. 329 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 3: It never gets old, Greg. 330 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 4: No, it doesn't. And even if you've heard again the 331 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 4: same version over and over again, you hear the new 332 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 4: little things in it, and it's just again. To hear 333 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 4: him tell the story and to hear his voice again 334 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 4: is great. 335 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 3: Rush later went on to write a whole series of 336 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,239 Speaker 3: children's books, the Rush Revere series, which were a lot 337 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 3: of fun. Liberty was my personal favorite character. In the 338 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 3: first book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, he goes 339 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 3: into more detail about the Native Americans who helped the 340 00:22:57,119 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 3: arriving Pilgrims and what that story actually is and how 341 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,080 Speaker 3: the true story of Thanksgiving has been obscured over time. 342 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 2: The Rush Revere time travel Adventures with Exceptional American series 343 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 2: up to book five. Now specify these are not children's 344 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 2: books per se. These are hardcover novels. They're not picture books. 345 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:21,120 Speaker 2: They're not coloring books. They are actual, substantive historical novels 346 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 2: that have as their purpose the teaching of the truth 347 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,679 Speaker 2: of the founding of the United States of America, to 348 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 2: do battle with what's occurring in the public schools. You know, 349 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 2: the greatest illustration that I can think of where that's 350 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:36,359 Speaker 2: gone wrong is nobody knows what the electoral college is for. 351 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,320 Speaker 2: We had a call yesterday, very nice woman who has 352 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,400 Speaker 2: four kids, one of them millennial, the oldest is a millennial, 353 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 2: and they just couldn't understand what the electoral college was for. 354 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 2: To them, the popular vote should determine the winner of 355 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 2: every election, not just the president, but every election, and 356 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,440 Speaker 2: the fact that it doesn't determine the winner of the 357 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 2: presidential election is nothing she can tell them. She tried 358 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 2: everything to explain the electoral college to them, but they 359 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 2: she couldn't convince. So she called me to ask me 360 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 2: two things. She wanted to know why in the presidential 361 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,480 Speaker 2: election in every state we can't apportion states like we 362 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 2: do during primaries. I told her the answer to that, 363 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 2: and then I gave her some helpful hints in explaining 364 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 2: to her children why the electoral college is a brilliant construction. 365 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 2: Now it's not taught. The founding of this country isn't taught. 366 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 2: American history, for real is not taught. It has been 367 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:41,719 Speaker 2: replaced by a multicultural curriculum, and the primary textbook used 368 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,639 Speaker 2: in American history today, in high school especially, is written 369 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 2: by a Marxist by the name of Howard Zinn. It 370 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,640 Speaker 2: really is criminal what American history has become in the 371 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 2: public school system, all of it in kindergarten on up. 372 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 2: And the proof of this is how few people understand 373 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 2: the elector college. And the reason they misunderstand there don't 374 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 2: even know the electoral college is because they don't know, 375 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,359 Speaker 2: you're gonna laugh. They don't know that the United States 376 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,400 Speaker 2: is not a democracy. If you don't know that, if 377 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:15,400 Speaker 2: you can't understand why the US is not a democracy, 378 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:19,760 Speaker 2: you will never understand the electoral college. If you think 379 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 2: the United States is structured so that in every vote 380 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:27,120 Speaker 2: the majority rules, then you and that's what a majority 381 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 2: of democracy is, you'll never understand the electoral college. Well, 382 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 2: even though we haven't written about the electoral college yet, 383 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:38,639 Speaker 2: in the Rush Revere series, we are tackling the actual 384 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,119 Speaker 2: history of the United States and the founders, and we 385 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,160 Speaker 2: started with the Pilgrims, and the most recent book, Rush 386 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 2: Revere in the Presidency is about the first Presidency, and 387 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 2: that's George Washington and how that all came to be 388 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:58,200 Speaker 2: after the Revolutionary War, after the Declaration of Independence. Because 389 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:00,800 Speaker 2: what's taught now in schools is the the United States 390 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,680 Speaker 2: is guilty of things. United States is guilty of discrimination, 391 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 2: it's guilty of persecution, guilty of racism, sexism, and the 392 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 2: history curriculum does not teach the virtues of America, does 393 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,400 Speaker 2: not teach the greatness of America because it doesn't assume 394 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,919 Speaker 2: that there is much. It instructs young people with what's 395 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:27,160 Speaker 2: wrong with their country from the viewpoint of people who 396 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 2: don't like America to begin with. And that's why we're 397 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,920 Speaker 2: doing the Rush Revere time Travel Adventures with Exceptional American 398 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,880 Speaker 2: series because this is a labor of love for us 399 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:43,920 Speaker 2: combined with a deep commitment to do what we can 400 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:48,479 Speaker 2: to get the truth of this country's founding and the 401 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 2: greatness of this country into the minds of as many 402 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 2: young people as we can. And this book, as I say, 403 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:57,440 Speaker 2: these books are not written for five year olds or 404 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 2: six year olds. We even have adults, parents and grandparents 405 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 2: who read these books with their kids, who tell us 406 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 2: they're learning things they didn't know because of what they 407 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,400 Speaker 2: were taught things they were taught. So it's a golden 408 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:14,439 Speaker 2: opportunity for us. And we've just had such success with 409 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,440 Speaker 2: these books. And as you know, I don't do signings 410 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,440 Speaker 2: and I don't I don't promote the book on other 411 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 2: programs on TV. It's just here that I talk about 412 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 2: you all make it all happen. I just needed to 413 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 2: take some time here to once again thank you so 414 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 2: much for and for those of you who knew in 415 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:31,919 Speaker 2: tuning in and may not even know about this, I 416 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,359 Speaker 2: wanted to alert you to it. But for those of 417 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 2: you who are regular members of the audience, I want 418 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 2: to do again thank you for what you are making happen, 419 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:45,679 Speaker 2: making our effort successful. We donate all kinds of books 420 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 2: the homeschool groups, we donate them to public libraries. We're 421 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 2: doing everything we can to get this book as widely 422 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 2: distributed as we can so as to counter the drivel 423 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:59,880 Speaker 2: that passes for American history today. And this whole electoral 424 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:07,639 Speaker 2: college confusion, you can trace it directly to how American 425 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 2: history is taught, is taught, and how it is misunderstood, 426 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 2: how the entire electoral process is misunderstood, and how so 427 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,920 Speaker 2: many people don't even know what a republic is versus 428 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,080 Speaker 2: a democracy. You really think that democracy is majority rule 429 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 2: and that's what we have here, and that democracy is 430 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 2: morality and it isn't. One of the greatest illustrations you 431 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:32,160 Speaker 2: want pure democracy. Try this. We have a group of people. 432 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 2: We have four It's going to be an extreme example, 433 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 2: but this is how people. Remember you have seven people 434 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:43,360 Speaker 2: in a room, four men, three women. One of the 435 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 2: men raising, I submit that we all have sex with 436 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 2: the women. Put it up for vote. The three women 437 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 2: say no, the four men say yes. Guess what happens 438 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:58,960 Speaker 2: in a democracy? The women submit they lost. Well, obviously 439 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,479 Speaker 2: that's not what we have here. We do not have 440 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:06,959 Speaker 2: a democracy in that sense democracy pure majority rule. We 441 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 2: have protections against such tyranny, which is what that is 442 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 2: democratic tyranny. You can have tyranny with democracy. That's why 443 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 2: the founding of this country, in the assembly of it 444 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 2: is so so brilliant, But it's not taught now these books, 445 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,040 Speaker 2: the history. In these books, we have a talking horse 446 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,640 Speaker 2: that time travels. Rush Revere me. I'm a substitute teacher. 447 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 2: It's my horse. We can time travel anywhere we want 448 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:37,280 Speaker 2: in American history. Horse has that magic. So in this book, 449 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 2: one of the kids, one of the students in the 450 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 2: history class, running for class president for all the wrong reasons. 451 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 2: Wants to be cool, wants to be hip, wants to 452 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:52,200 Speaker 2: be popular, and Rush Revere me recognizes the problem, and 453 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 2: so we time travel back and have the presidency explained 454 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 2: by George Washington. So we take the historical event of 455 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 2: Washington's presidency and we explain it by taking the reader 456 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 2: right to it and immersing the reader in the event 457 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 2: to make it interesting, to make it real, and then 458 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 2: relate it to modern day. 459 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 3: He never had kids of his own, but he raised 460 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 3: scores of Rush babies all over the country and left 461 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:22,240 Speaker 3: such a huge impact on so many that are now adults. 462 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,280 Speaker 4: I agree. And the number of young people who used 463 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 4: to call the show, who were reading Rush Revere and 464 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 4: just getting into learning about that sort of thing, and 465 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:35,719 Speaker 4: whose favorite character was Liberty and wanted to talk to 466 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 4: mister Limbaugh about that. It was great. It was just 467 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,600 Speaker 4: to be able to, you know, because he Rush conquered 468 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 4: radio and media and the adult audience, and then to 469 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:49,960 Speaker 4: be able to do something else so successfully and approach 470 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 4: the younger audience children. Just an amazing feat. 471 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 3: And that Liberty character. I always felt that that was 472 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:01,080 Speaker 3: actually Rush. Like people would say, oh, a substitute teacher 473 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,960 Speaker 3: that played Rush Revere, that's Rush, And I said, no, 474 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 3: I think it's Liberty because he's a bit of a 475 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 3: smart alec is goofy fun but he kind of there 476 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 3: was something about that character that I said, this is 477 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 3: really Rush. 478 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, I could. I could definitely see that that definitely 479 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 4: impish sort of side of Rush coming through there. 480 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, we hear on the Clay and Buck Show are 481 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 3: developing some traditions of our own with the program, Greg, 482 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 3: what are some of your family traditions. 483 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 4: Well, we like to sit around and go around and 484 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 4: ask everybody to find one thing that they're thankful for 485 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,960 Speaker 4: that they've been thankful for this year, and just to 486 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:37,920 Speaker 4: share it with everybody. 487 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 3: I like that. 488 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's important because it helps connect everybody with the family, 489 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,000 Speaker 4: and it's, you know, a nice way for sharing because 490 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 4: not everybody you know, You may see everybody often or 491 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,120 Speaker 4: maybe only a couple of times a year, but you 492 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,720 Speaker 4: don't always have all the details. So to be able 493 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 4: to hear somebody tell their story is a nice thing too. 494 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,960 Speaker 3: Is it a big family gathering for you? 495 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,400 Speaker 4: It depends. It depends on the year. I mean some 496 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,959 Speaker 4: years are bigger than others. Yeah, I mean eight ten 497 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:05,960 Speaker 4: people thereabouts usually, how about you? 498 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 3: Well, I was going to say one of the traditions 499 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 3: we do at the Clay and Buck show is hold 500 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 3: the string on the turkey. 501 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 4: Right, Oh my goodness. 502 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,280 Speaker 3: Yes, that's a fun staff game. It's actually not even 503 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,240 Speaker 3: just the klaym Buck team that plays the game. It's 504 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:21,720 Speaker 3: the whole floor here. 505 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:25,480 Speaker 4: And you really were the catalysts behind this, and everybody 506 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,240 Speaker 4: has really come together around it. It's become one of 507 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,480 Speaker 4: the fun things that brings us all together. So thank 508 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,880 Speaker 4: you for starting that tradition and continuing it on every year. 509 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, we always have to have some goofy traditions. It's 510 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 3: basically a turkey hat that I cut a bunch of 511 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,280 Speaker 3: holes into the top and put strings and they're attached 512 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,560 Speaker 3: to little envelopes and everyone pulls a string and there's 513 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:51,120 Speaker 3: something in the envelope or something good. Yeah, something good, 514 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:52,360 Speaker 3: something not so good. 515 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,600 Speaker 4: It doesn't look like a turkey turkey, it looks like 516 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:57,960 Speaker 4: a cooked turkey though. I mean it's right. It's so 517 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,640 Speaker 4: it's it's not like it's a bird like President Trump 518 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,200 Speaker 4: was pardoning, you know that sort of thing. It actually 519 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,120 Speaker 4: looks like something you might find on your dinner table. 520 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:09,560 Speaker 3: It's not wattle or gobble, but the whole point behind it. 521 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,680 Speaker 3: It's sort of like one of those kid games when 522 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 3: you play it at the amusement park with a giant 523 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 3: claw that goes in and it scoops something up. Lots 524 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 3: of envelopes attached to the string, and some envelopes have 525 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:22,720 Speaker 3: salt and pepper in them, the others might have one 526 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:23,520 Speaker 3: hundred dollars bill. 527 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,160 Speaker 4: But it's a good way to bring everybody together because 528 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 4: again it brings everybody from the our floor and other 529 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:33,000 Speaker 4: floors and different parts of the staff, and it builds 530 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 4: some nice camaraderie. 531 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,320 Speaker 3: Yeah. Sometimes you have the IT department, the engineering department, 532 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,920 Speaker 3: you have our show, the Hannity Show, you have people, 533 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,240 Speaker 3: and the marketing department an entirely different floor. So it's 534 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:45,760 Speaker 3: just a way to bring everyone together. 535 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,960 Speaker 4: Our amazing utility staff. Yeah, just phenomenal. 536 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 3: That's right right down to the mill room for us. Yes, exactly, 537 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,360 Speaker 3: bring everyone up, have a little string pulling and yeah, 538 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:56,600 Speaker 3: some giggles. 539 00:33:56,320 --> 00:34:00,320 Speaker 4: And it always gets us ready for the Christmas tradition 540 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,200 Speaker 4: which is coming up, which will tell you about in 541 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,000 Speaker 4: a couple of weeks, so stay tuned. 542 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,600 Speaker 3: That's right. I think that's a wrap on this rep 543 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 3: on special Thanksgiving podcast. We hope you enjoyed listening to 544 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,520 Speaker 3: Rush retelling the story trying to keep that tradition going, 545 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,719 Speaker 3: even if in podcasts form, because we're creating new traditions 546 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:18,799 Speaker 3: on the Clay and Buck Show. 547 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,640 Speaker 4: Absolutely, we hope that you have a happy Thanksgiving, a 548 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,799 Speaker 4: safe Thanksgiving with all of your family or friends or 549 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:28,200 Speaker 4: whatever however it is that you're celebrating today. But relax 550 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,239 Speaker 4: and enjoy, watch a little football, eat too much, and 551 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:31,880 Speaker 4: don't worry. 552 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:33,680 Speaker 3: That's right. From all of us at the Clay and 553 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 3: Buck Show. Happy Thanksgiving. 554 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,319 Speaker 1: Clay Travis with the Clay and Buck Show wishing you 555 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,840 Speaker 1: and your family a warm and blessed Thanksgiving. Hey, everybody, 556 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,120 Speaker 1: it's Buck Sexton. From all of us in the Clay 557 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,120 Speaker 1: and Buck family. Happy Thanksgiving,