Happy Thanksgiving! It's a day where you sit alone, far from your family, eat McDonald's, drink bourbon, and crack open some brews to celebrate the bountiful bounty that s been brought to you by the pilgrims.
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00:01:30.000It's a holiday that is celebrated all over the world, really.
00:01:35.000Christian originally, although we can't seem to get the story straight on what the origins of this holiday are.
00:01:42.0001600s, I know the American one was, there's about three or four of them that say they're the main one, but it was Plymouth, Plymouth Rock, something.
00:01:50.000Some Puritans in New England from England, hence the name.
00:01:56.000They had dinner to celebrate the harvest, but surely celebrating the harvest goes back to pagan days.
00:02:01.000I think most holidays that Christians celebrate are sort of trying to get pagans in to get the numbers up.
00:03:08.000It's Germanic originally, Northern European, Nordic god mixed with some Greek saint who gave prostitutes candies over a wall or something or a bag of change.
00:03:19.000And a bag of change was a big deal back then.
00:03:54.000But anyway, we have to focus on Thanksgiving in my beautiful dining room that I'm alone in because I think that's how the custom goes.
00:04:05.000At Plymouth they celebrate and they celebrate the harvest and it's really like the origins of it are ambiguous and I think what really matters is what people see it as.
00:04:41.000I think it was 1691, 1600s, and they wanted to celebrate it.
00:04:46.000But over time, when you talk to, you know, a school teacher, that's my idea, by the way, that's my go-to person for the most possible naive human being, is a school teacher.
00:04:56.000If you want a really simplistic view, talk to an academic.
00:05:00.000But their simplistic view is that Indians are celebrating and it's a custom where we all get together.
00:07:42.000And then later, this is in William McGowan's book, Coloring the News, they said, so I didn't, I don't remember you guys being so passionate about being Irish.
00:07:49.000And the gay group went, ah, we're not.
00:07:51.000We just thought it was a good place to showcase our human rights.
00:07:58.000So Thanksgiving has become politicized.
00:08:02.000And now it is an insult to the Indians for you to sit around and celebrate the lynching of their people, the rape of their women, the stealing of the land.
00:08:13.000And I'm going to get to that soon because we're going to do a tour of my dining room and we can see this large painting I have of a battle of Fort DeQuesne.
00:08:24.000That whites did brutal and horrible things to Indians, the wounded knee, trail of tears, the way they would separate children from their families under the auspices of helping them to assimilate.
00:08:39.000The way they would take pedophile priests and put them on reservations.
00:09:30.000No, but a house is only worth what people are willing to pay for it.
00:09:35.000So the most common perception of Thanksgiving is that it is, you know what's funny?
00:09:42.000After one sip of bourbon, I can feel my IQ lower.
00:09:46.000Like when I was having drinks with Dan Coulter and Mickey Kaus, I was holding my own and I go, wow, I'm as smart as them.
00:09:52.000I mean, sometimes I'm saying things that they're impressed by.
00:09:54.000And then as I was ordering more and more drinks, I could feel myself going underwater until I was basically an intern who got to have lunch with his boss and was in way over his head.
00:10:05.000So my IQ will be lowering slowly over the course of this show.
00:10:10.000But the school teacher concept of Thanksgiving, the Indians and the pilgrims celebrating and thanking God and nature for all that they have, you know, not having conflict, settling their differences, assuming there was big differences going on.
00:10:30.000I don't know if there was differences.
00:10:31.000You know, one of the first encounters with Indians was not the first time, but it's what most whites thought, most English thought were the first time getting there.
00:10:40.000This Indian came up, I forget his name, Oompa Lumpa or something.
00:12:34.000It was a place where the French and the Indians and the English were all fighting, trying to come up with a place.
00:12:40.000It's not like there was an India with passports, and they said, no, it's ours now.
00:12:46.000But in the formation of this country, during the fights, during the battles, we had warriors, and they were Indians.
00:12:53.000And right up until the Civil War, World War I, right up until now, every time you go to an Indian's house, Anywhere on a reservation, you look up on the wall and there's pictures of vets, all Indians, all vets, because that's the warrior clan.
00:13:09.000And if you go to museums, like I was just in Cooperstown with the Baseball Hall of Fame, there's a beautiful museum there.
00:13:15.000Some rich guy just collected a bunch of Indian stuff.
00:13:18.000And I thought, I wish liberals would come here.
00:13:20.000I wish they'd open their minds and they could see all the different bric-a-brac that has American flags on it, like a pair of mukluks or a pair of moccasins with intricately designed stars and stripes and eagles and USA and America all over them on kids' booties on gloves with big red, white, and blue fringe on them.
00:13:45.000But the left, in their plea to make us all hate each other so they can wipe us out, so they can start anew with a big globalist agenda where we all speak Esperanto like George Soros wants, they've pitted us against each other.
00:13:57.000And the beauty of Thanksgiving is it brings us back to that.
00:14:16.000Because that's the key to happiness, really.
00:14:18.000To be sitting there and saying the grass is greener and always worried about what the other guy has and how you got ripped off, which is a lot of what that thing is, the talk, where black people tell their kids that life sucks and cops are going to get them.
00:14:28.000That's an attitude where you'll never be happy.
00:14:35.000I mean, my list is huge, but your list is almost as big as mine.
00:14:40.000Unless you have more kids than me, then you have more to be thankful for than I do.
00:14:45.000But that's a really healthy lifestyle, and I think God implanted that seed.
00:14:49.000I think it's a Mother Nature, if that's easier for you atheists to comprehend.
00:14:53.000Mother Nature planted this seed in us that says, make sure that the ones who are grateful and thankful have endorphins released and are happier, because that's what I'm trying to design.
00:15:04.000I want to make greed and envy and rage and bitterness.
00:15:35.000I love everything that makes them unique.
00:15:38.000But when you infect them with feminism and say, kids are evil, you know, Lauren Southern just did a video where she went around and she was interviewing people saying, would you rather have cats or kids?
00:15:56.000Those are infected people who have been infected with a virus called liberalism where they think there's more joy from cleaning up dog shit than there is hearing a kid tell you his crazy theories or saying things like my son who wants to cut his head off so he can be a ghost because he heard ghosts can fly.
00:16:14.000That's why I love Thanksgiving, which brings me to my next point about peace and the Indians and the pilgrims coming together.
00:16:26.000Your parents, your uncles, your brothers, they're all mental cases and there's a lot of emotion at these gatherings.
00:16:36.000There's a lot of boos going on too, which increases the volume quite a bit.
00:16:40.000And unless you're Italian, there's probably going to be a fight at this table.
00:19:28.000I just I just say you're talking to probably the number one Trump guy in America like Steve Bannon probably has more problems with Trump than me I am fire-breathing Trump loyalist to the core.
00:19:41.000And I just get that out of the way so we don't have to pussyfoot around anymore.
00:19:46.000But I don't think you should do that at Thanksgiving.
00:19:48.000I think at Thanksgiving, you have to go, yeah, yeah, I see what you're saying.
00:20:59.000You know, Jordan Peterson talks about cooperating and how he's checked out colonies of rats, and they find that rats will let the other rat win during playtime.
00:21:09.000I know, I didn't know rats played either.
00:21:11.000But the ones that let the other guy win, like a third of the time, end up with better relationships with other rats.
00:23:23.000He said if a state wants to encourage gays who have AIDS from having 10,000 lovers, the state's propaganda is allowed to encourage those patients to maybe take it easy on the multiple sex partners.
00:23:35.000And I think he said he doesn't care if a state uses electroshock therapy, which I believe they still use.
00:25:00.000Not that the Trumpers would have temper tantrums.
00:25:02.000So it was like, let's not bring it up.
00:25:04.000But he had just won, and I'm telling you, being a Trump supporter in New York City, I've said this many times, is like being a homosexual in 1950 in Middle America.
00:25:16.000Like you have to, I heard that gays and lesbians would go on double dates, and there'd be a gay and his female friend, and the lesbian with her gay friend, and they would be like, hi, this is my girlfriend.
00:25:28.000And then they'd go to the bar, they'd face each other, and then the gays would play footsies, and the liberals, the liberals, the lesbians, same thing, would play footsies with each other, and then they would leave, you know, as male and female couples.
00:26:28.000So I'm looking at him and I sort of make eyes and I go, yeah, I mean, big business and big government, big business is lesser of two evils in many ways.
00:27:19.000We buy the beer and then we come back in.
00:27:21.000And then just like two gays who had had sex in an alleyway, we both just sort of walk away from each other when we come back to the party like, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, mm-hmm.
00:27:30.000That's who I'm talking to on today's episode.
00:27:35.000The ones that are red-pilled, the realists.
00:27:38.000Like Joy Villa, who I was with at Restoration Weekend.
00:27:41.000We were talking over beers and we said, you know, I'm at the point now where I just think facts are radical, revolutionary, shocking, dangerous.
00:27:51.000And I feel like I can go to the left and they're so far gone that I can just go, okay, you want to live in an America where cops don't hunt black people for sport?
00:28:11.000And then we came up with this brilliant idea.
00:28:13.000I'm probably going to shoot it as a sketch.
00:28:14.000I'm ruining the surprise now, but you just make a cardboard box and you pretend it's a special like Doctor Who phone booth and you're going to teleport them to the utopia of their dreams.
00:28:28.000She was talking about this black separatist she met who wants to have a world where just blacks are.
00:28:33.000Like Professor Griff from Public Enemy talks about this too, like an Israel for blacks, even though there's plenty of blacks and Muslims and everything in Israel.
00:28:41.000But it's an Israel for blacks, and it's like seven or eight states.
00:28:45.000And she said to him, okay, can I come in?
00:29:56.000All right, let's start looking around my dining room, shall we?
00:30:00.000I feel like you're my only guest here for Thanksgiving.
00:30:03.000I should show you around a little bit.
00:30:04.000So here's a fun painting we have up in the dining room.
00:30:09.000I think it's the Battle of Fort DeQuesne.
00:30:12.000There's also, about three years earlier, that was what, 1758, the Battle of Fort DeQuesne, there was the Battle of Mananghala, I believe it was called in 55, 1755.
00:31:13.000There was about 850 English troops that walked for, I don't know, 100 miles.
00:31:18.000And that's not just soldiers, that's women sewing and cooks and musicians and tent repairers, like a whole society was marching to Dequesne because they wanted to take it down and run it.
00:31:33.000It was sort of a real seminal trading post, I think.
00:31:37.000Remember, everything you hear from me, by the way, look up.
00:31:41.000But it was a seminal fort, and I think it took them six years to take it over.
00:32:46.000They'd feel appreciate the camaraderie of these French soldiers dressing up like them.
00:32:52.000And so that's what was used here to rally the troops to go fight the English.
00:32:56.000But, you know, the English, and one of the reasons I love this painting so much too, is it shows that when you go the traditionalist way and you don't innovate, you don't get a 2.0.
00:33:06.000You know, Christianity has a 2.0 and Islam stuck in the past.
00:33:45.000So anyway, they were sort of in this long phalanx convoy, and they're marching there, expecting the Indians and the French to go, okay, I'm ready for our killing party.
00:34:03.000It's like Alan Froyer at the New York Times said to me, you know, when these people attack you at college campuses, it would be very noble of you just to take the beating.
00:34:11.000And you could be like a freedom rider in the civil rights.
00:37:54.000Well, womanizing and raping, I guess, are two different things.
00:37:57.000So you'll notice when you go on eBay and you try to find plates, you have to buy a Hillary book and a bunch of other crap to get a Bill Clinton plate included.
00:38:06.000And here's just my little shelf of favorite plates.
00:38:10.000I've got Travis Millard made this when he stole my idea for Pancake Morning.
00:40:50.000And they've been calling for, those guys all won medals, by the way.
00:40:53.000I don't know, what, Purple Hearts or something?
00:40:55.000They've been calling for those medals to be revoked for a long time.
00:40:58.000White people, brown people, Asian people, American people of all races documented that horrible catastrophe and want that wrong to be righted.
00:41:12.000So to say it's just an example of how white people are evil is a remarkably reductivist argument.
00:41:21.000And finally, you'll notice I don't have a Donald Trump plate.
00:41:25.000That's because I don't think he's going to be around for a while.
00:41:27.000It's only a matter of time before he's impeached.
00:41:29.000And then Mike Pence will be president, and then he'll be assassinated, and then it'll be Rand Paul, and then he'll quit, and then Hillary will be president.
00:42:02.000And I often say that the Civil War was not about slavery, even though if liberals are right and it is, then how about a big thank you for the 620,000 men that died ending slavery?
00:42:13.000But I think it was just, it was him struggling to unite the union.
00:42:18.000And I believe he said, if I could unite the union without freeing one slave, I would happily do it.
00:42:23.000Then we got Ron Reagan in there, who everyone thought was a clown even while he was president.
00:42:28.000And now everyone's looking back and going, that guy was pretty good.
00:42:32.000He said the difference, I don't like saying that the government spends like a drunken sailor because a drunken sailor is using his own money.
00:42:42.000And then we got, of course, Barack Obama, who I stick in there as people walk in so they think that I don't totally hate liberals and we don't have an awkward dinner together.
00:42:58.000Thank you for enjoying me on this Thanksgiving special.
00:43:01.000And you may have noticed throughout the show that I've been telling you about life, telling you about history, telling you how to avoid problems, like I'm somehow better than you.
00:43:10.000And I want to make it clear here that I am.