Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - November 24, 2022


EPISODE 324： THE REAL THANKSGIVING STORY： RUSH LIMBAUGH TRIBUTE


Episode Stats

Length

25 minutes

Words per Minute

182.90804

Word Count

4,628

Sentence Count

375

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

14


Summary

On this Thanksgiving Day, we remember the great Rush Limbaugh with a reading of The True Story of Thanksgiving, the story he used to read on the radio every year on Thanksgiving. It's a story about the Pilgrims, and the Indians who helped them.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, I want to welcome you to a very special Thanksgiving tribute to the great Rush Limbaugh.
00:00:08.000 Rush is somebody that I listened to for many, many years.
00:00:12.140 He's someone that I can always kind of hear in the back of my head.
00:00:16.600 The way that he always had his incredible takes on things, the way that he always did his play-by-play,
00:00:21.580 the way that he talked to the ditto heads,
00:00:24.200 the way that he would grasp his papers in his formerly nicotine-stained fingers,
00:00:30.000 we remember it all.
00:00:31.980 And so today, on this Thanksgiving, I wanted to do something as a tribute to Rush, the true story of Thanksgiving.
00:00:38.800 I also want to remind you that Friday, Friday will be the day that you need to go and get your tickets.
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00:00:48.720 We're going to be running a great special with promo code POSO.
00:00:51.700 Make sure you get them. It's going to run all the way through this weekend.
00:00:54.340 Just hold your fire. Hold your fire. Friday is the day. It all goes down.
00:00:58.520 Let's get into it.
00:01:12.600 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard a very special Thanksgiving edition of Human Events Daily.
00:01:17.780 Now, you may have been like me, and you remember that every Thanksgiving,
00:01:24.600 around Thanksgiving time, every year, there used to be a story that was told across the radio in this country
00:01:35.080 called The True Story of Thanksgiving.
00:01:38.560 And it was read by none other than the great Rush Limbaugh.
00:01:42.660 Now, we lost Rush recently.
00:01:47.060 And if you were like me, I first started listening to Rush probably about 2003, 2004.
00:01:55.320 And when I was in college, I used to sneak in with a headphone in my ear when I was in the back of the lecture hall
00:02:02.540 and just be listening to Rush 12 to 3, 12 to 3, 12 to 3 every day.
00:02:06.500 Even when I was on deployment, when I was living overseas, I would download the Rush 24-7, listen every day.
00:02:15.440 And every year on Thanksgiving, Rush used to read the story of the true Thanksgiving, the true story of Thanksgiving.
00:02:21.680 And I thought, it's so terrible that that story isn't being told this year.
00:02:28.040 And so, by way of tribute to Rush Limbaugh, we've got here a copy of his last reading of The True Story of Thanksgiving.
00:02:40.520 And I'm going to read it to you.
00:02:41.960 Because it's the story that Rush said every year for 31 years.
00:02:48.840 And it's a story that deserves to be heard.
00:02:53.100 So, here we go.
00:02:55.540 Our Thanksgiving tribute to Rush Limbaugh.
00:03:00.440 The Pilgrims arrived here after an arduous trip across the Atlantic Ocean.
00:03:05.080 They didn't know why they were here.
00:03:06.320 Had no idea what to do.
00:03:07.420 They had nothing.
00:03:08.620 The Indians took pity on them.
00:03:10.000 The Indians saw them.
00:03:10.760 The Indians saved them.
00:03:11.960 The Indians taught them how to do things they didn't know how to do, like grow food, catch beavers, stuff like that.
00:03:17.980 The Indians saved them.
00:03:19.820 And the Pilgrims thanked them by growing a whole bunch of food and having the big feast.
00:03:23.340 So, the story of Thanksgiving that's taught is basically how without the Native Americans, there wouldn't be a country because the Pilgrims would have died.
00:03:29.920 At least the Pilgrims were nice enough to pay the Indians back with a big Thanksgiving dinner.
00:03:34.180 Well, that's not at all what happened.
00:03:36.260 It's not even close to what happened.
00:03:38.100 Which is why Rush decided to write about it.
00:03:40.540 And he gets into this in his Revere books.
00:03:42.860 And he goes into great detail about some of the Native Americans who provided assistance to the arriving pilgrims, particularly a young native by the name of Squanto.
00:03:50.740 Now, Rush was doing show prep, and he came across a story from the Federalist, and he quotes from it all the time.
00:03:57.480 And here's the point, folks.
00:03:58.660 Here's the point.
00:03:59.960 It's right out of that book.
00:04:02.140 And it's right out of the book.
00:04:03.640 And because there's a whole lot of discussion of Squanto, who he was, what he did, how he helped, the details.
00:04:09.660 The point is the true story of Thanksgiving is spreading.
00:04:11.680 And I couldn't be happier about that.
00:04:12.880 The bottom line, it's spreading.
00:04:15.000 And let's cut to the chase into the reading of the text.
00:04:17.880 Going back to the very early days of the pilgrims arriving at Plymouth Rock is that socialism failed.
00:04:24.160 Well, we are way down the road towards socialism anyway.
00:04:27.360 And it's crucially important here for people to understand this.
00:04:30.120 It's not antiquated.
00:04:31.040 It's not a cliche.
00:04:31.780 It's not something that you can make fun of people about.
00:04:34.280 You know, it used to be when Rush first started the show in the late 80s, early 90s,
00:04:38.080 if you dared to refer to the Soviet Union as communist, people would make fun of you.
00:04:41.900 They'd say, oh, come on, Rush.
00:04:43.380 You see a communist behind every rock.
00:04:45.320 And they tried to ridicule you out of identifying communists and communism.
00:04:48.980 Castro, the chai comms.
00:04:50.400 But Rush never buckled.
00:04:51.640 A lot of people did.
00:04:52.720 And they're doing it now.
00:04:53.780 If you say the United States and the liberals are on the path to socialism,
00:04:57.720 they will make fun of you and they mock you.
00:04:59.560 They'll say, come on.
00:05:00.400 You don't believe that.
00:05:01.420 You can't believe that.
00:05:02.220 That's just silly.
00:05:02.780 They try to mock you, try to make fun of you, to silence you.
00:05:05.120 But folks, it's real now.
00:05:06.140 The story of the pilgrims begins in the early part of the 17th century.
00:05:10.860 The Church of England under King James I was persecuting anyone and everyone
00:05:14.160 who did not recognize the church's absolute civil and spiritual authority,
00:05:18.740 basically the state.
00:05:20.560 Those who challenged ecclesiastical authority
00:05:23.560 and those who believe strongly in freedom of worship were hunted down.
00:05:27.160 This is England in the 1600s.
00:05:28.900 They were hunted down and imprisoned and sometimes executed for their beliefs.
00:05:32.720 A group of separatists, people who didn't want any part of this, first fled to Holland.
00:05:37.720 They liked wooden shoes and cheese and they established a community.
00:05:41.600 They were there for 11 years.
00:05:43.440 After 11 years, about 40 of these separatists, who liked wooden shoes and cheese,
00:05:47.800 agreed to make a perilous journey to the new world.
00:05:50.760 They'd heard about it.
00:05:51.880 Some new, exciting place that hadn't been developed.
00:05:54.560 And they knew they would face hardships.
00:05:56.040 Hardships like you and I don't know.
00:05:57.880 And I'm not preaching to you.
00:05:58.960 I'm just telling you, we don't know the hardship these people endured.
00:06:02.520 We can't.
00:06:03.320 We are way too advanced now.
00:06:04.400 People who lived in the 1600s would not believe life today.
00:06:07.720 Try to explain flight, jet travel.
00:06:09.400 They wouldn't understand it.
00:06:10.500 They would know face hardships.
00:06:12.640 But paramount importance to them was living freely and worshiping God
00:06:16.100 according to the dictates of their own consciences and their own beliefs.
00:06:19.680 And that's what they were denied the freedom to do in England.
00:06:22.500 On August 1st, 1620, the Mayfauer set sail.
00:06:25.400 It carried a total of 102 passengers, including 40 of these separatists, the pilgrims.
00:06:30.560 There were just 40 of them.
00:06:32.260 They were led by William Bradford on the journey across the Atlantic.
00:06:35.720 You talk about something that had to be frightening and scary.
00:06:38.580 The Mayflower was not much bigger than a 50-foot boat.
00:06:41.460 And 102 people on it.
00:06:43.040 On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, if you will,
00:06:47.000 that established just and equal laws for all 40 members of the pilgrim community,
00:06:51.640 respective of their religious beliefs.
00:06:53.020 It didn't matter what their religious beliefs were.
00:06:56.060 These are the laws they were all agreeing to live by.
00:06:58.620 Where did the revolutionary ideas in these laws come from?
00:07:01.360 We're talking about the Mayflower Contract.
00:07:03.280 That's what Bradford wrote.
00:07:04.300 The Mayflower Contract, derived from the Bible.
00:07:07.500 The pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the lessons of the Old and New Testaments.
00:07:12.060 They were a devoutly religious people.
00:07:13.760 No matter what else is said about them, even that is denied, they were devoutly religious.
00:07:17.560 And they looked to the ancient Israelites for their example.
00:07:20.400 And because of the biblical precedents set forth in scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work.
00:07:26.360 They never doubted that they would get to the new world.
00:07:28.540 They never doubted that once they got there, they would thrive.
00:07:31.600 The journey was long.
00:07:32.600 It was arduous.
00:07:33.460 It was dangerous.
00:07:34.340 And when they finally landed, when the pilgrims finally landed in New England in November, according to William Bradford's detailed journal, they found a cold, barren, desolate wilderness.
00:07:45.480 Imagine New England as it exists today, but nothing but rocks, forest, undeveloped nature in November.
00:07:51.040 And it's getting colder.
00:07:52.300 There were no friends to greet them.
00:07:53.980 There was no shelter of any kind other than hiding under a tree.
00:07:57.200 There was nothing.
00:07:57.920 It was desolate.
00:07:59.020 No hotels, no inns, no places to clean up, no houses, real hardship.
00:08:05.540 The sacrifice that they had made for the freedom to worship was just beginning.
00:08:10.420 During that first winter, remember, they arrive in November.
00:08:13.300 During that first winter, half of them, including Bradford's own wife, died of starvation, of sickness, exposure to the elements.
00:08:20.860 Now we're getting close to what you were taught in school when spring finally came.
00:08:23.880 And by the way, writing that doesn't do it justice.
00:08:27.640 Spring didn't just finally come.
00:08:28.980 It was survival.
00:08:29.920 It was an act of survival that you and I cannot possibly relate to or understand.
00:08:35.260 American special forces can.
00:08:36.840 Military people can.
00:08:37.700 Who've been trained.
00:08:38.640 Can understand what the pilgrims were.
00:08:40.620 But you and I, we can't.
00:08:42.280 We've never done anything like that first winter in the New World.
00:08:45.060 But they survived it.
00:08:46.040 Spring finally came.
00:08:47.540 They did meet the Indians, the Native Americans who were there, who did help them in planting corn and fishing for cod.
00:08:52.820 They showed them where the beavers were.
00:08:54.700 They could be skinned for coats and other things.
00:08:56.780 Animal rights people aren't going to like some of this story.
00:08:58.920 But it did happen.
00:09:00.240 Folks, stay right there.
00:09:01.480 We're going to be right back with more of Rush Limbaugh's true story of Thanksgiving.
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00:10:05.920 And the pilgrims, I bet they wish they had that.
00:10:07.800 They don't.
00:10:08.760 Now, though, at our point in the story, as we continue our tribute, Thanksgiving tribute to Rush Limbaugh.
00:10:14.920 Let's get back into it.
00:10:15.740 Now, even with their degree of assistance from the Native Americans, there wasn't any prosperity yet.
00:10:22.620 Yes, they had the Mayflower Compact.
00:10:24.240 They had these laws they were living by.
00:10:25.940 But there was no prosperity, and I wonder why.
00:10:28.380 Now, this is important to understand, folks, because this is where modern American history lessons end,
00:10:32.980 with the Indians teaching the pilgrims how to eat and how to fish and skin beavers and all that.
00:10:37.740 That's where it ends.
00:10:38.980 That's the feel-good story.
00:10:40.180 But that doesn't even get close to the true story.
00:10:42.620 You know, Thanksgiving is actually explained in some textbooks as a holiday for which the pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives.
00:10:49.960 It wasn't that.
00:10:50.800 That happened.
00:10:51.960 But Thanksgiving was a debout expression of gratitude.
00:10:55.440 The pilgrims to God for their survival and everything that was a part of it.
00:10:59.840 Now, here's the part that gets admitted.
00:11:01.480 The original contract the pilgrims entered into back in Holland, they had sponsors.
00:11:06.120 They didn't have money to do this trip on their own.
00:11:08.120 They had sponsors.
00:11:08.720 There were merchant sponsors in London and Holland, and these merchant sponsors demanded that everything the pilgrims produced in the New World would go into a common store, a single bank, if you will,
00:11:19.620 and that each member of the pilgrim community was entitled to one share.
00:11:23.860 So everybody had an equal share of whatever was in that bank.
00:11:26.760 All the land they cleared, all the houses they built belonged to that bank, to the community as well, and they were going to distribute it equally because they were going to be fair.
00:11:35.940 So all of the land that they cleared and all the houses they built belonged to everybody, belonged to the community, belonged to the bank, belonged to the common store.
00:11:45.000 Nobody owned anything.
00:11:46.240 They just had an equal share in it.
00:11:48.120 It was a commune.
00:11:50.680 The pilgrims established a commune, essentially, the forerunner of the communes we saw in the 60s and 70s out in California.
00:11:56.240 They even had their own organic vegetables, by the way.
00:11:58.720 Yep, pilgrims were the forerunners of organic vegetables, of course, because what else could there be?
00:12:03.740 No such thing as anything processed back then.
00:12:05.940 Now, William Bradford, who had become the governor of the colony because he was a leader, recognized that this was not going to work.
00:12:12.520 This was costly, and it was destructive, and it just wasn't working.
00:12:15.420 Why? It was collectivism.
00:12:16.600 It was socialism.
00:12:17.560 It was not working.
00:12:18.820 That first winter had taken a lot of lives.
00:12:22.080 The manpower was greatly reduced.
00:12:23.900 So Bradford decided to take bold action, and that is what we are going to get into.
00:12:30.240 William Bradford, the governor of the pilgrim community, saw that none of it was working.
00:12:34.220 Mayfair conflict, not working.
00:12:37.020 This idea that everyone had been given a single share of stock in the common store, this is collectivism.
00:12:43.060 It was costly and destructive, and it's just as costly and destructive as it's been to anyone who's ever tried it.
00:12:48.920 So Bradford decided, let's scrub it.
00:12:51.080 He threw it out, and he took bold action.
00:12:52.960 He assigned a plot of land to each family.
00:12:55.580 Each family was given one plot of land that they could work, manage, however they wanted.
00:13:00.160 Now, if they just wanted to sit on it and get fat, dumb, happy, lazy, they could.
00:13:04.480 And if they wanted to develop it, if they wanted to grow corn, whatever on it, they could.
00:13:08.760 If they wanted to build on it, they could do that too.
00:13:11.120 If they wanted to turn it into a quasi-business, they could do whatever they wanted with it.
00:13:15.720 He turned loose the power of the capitalist marketplace.
00:13:19.320 It was long before Karl Marx was even born.
00:13:22.260 Long before Karl Marx was a sperm cell in his father's dreams, the pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism.
00:13:31.740 And they found out it don't work.
00:13:33.180 Now, it wasn't called that then, but that's exactly what it was.
00:13:36.560 Everyone was given an equal share.
00:13:37.980 And you know what happened?
00:13:38.880 Nobody did anything because there's no incentive.
00:13:41.220 Nothing worked.
00:13:42.080 Nothing happened.
00:13:43.180 What Bradford and his community found was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anyone else unless they could utilize the power of personal motivation.
00:13:52.740 But while most of the rest of the world has been experimenting with socialism for over 100 years, trying to refine it, perfect it, reinvent it, the pilgrims decided early on to scrap it permanently.
00:14:03.540 What Bradford wrote about this social experiment should be in every school child's history lesson.
00:14:08.520 If it were, we might prevent much needless suffering.
00:14:11.820 If the true story of Thanksgiving had been taught for years and years.
00:14:14.720 So, William Bradford, after putting everybody into the common store, the Mayflower Compact, they wanted to be fair.
00:14:21.640 They wanted everyone to have one common share of everything that happened and it totally bombed.
00:14:26.140 It totally didn't work.
00:14:27.900 No prosperity, no creativity, no incentives.
00:14:30.780 Here's what Bradford specifically wrote about the failure.
00:14:33.780 For this community, so far as it was, was found to breed much confusion and discontent.
00:14:39.660 They were not happy.
00:14:40.320 This community was found to breed much confusion and discontent and retard much employment that would have been otherwise to their benefit and comfort.
00:14:49.520 In other words, nothing worked.
00:14:51.580 The way they set it up killed and discouraged work.
00:14:54.180 There was no need.
00:14:55.600 For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service sat around and did nothing.
00:15:00.900 They should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children without being paid for it.
00:15:05.800 Why should they do that?
00:15:06.680 So they didn't.
00:15:07.900 That was thought injustice.
00:15:09.280 Why should you work for other people when you can't work for yourself?
00:15:13.160 What's the point?
00:15:14.440 Do you hear what he's saying, ladies and gentlemen?
00:15:16.240 The pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive.
00:15:21.540 So what does Bradford's community do next?
00:15:23.500 They unharnessed the power of good old free enterprise.
00:15:26.880 The principle of private property all the way back in the 1600s.
00:15:31.260 And it's incredible.
00:15:32.500 So every family was assigned its own plot of land and they could do whatever they wanted to it.
00:15:35.960 This had very good success, wrote Bradford, for it made all hands industrious.
00:15:43.220 So as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.
00:15:46.980 So when profit was introduced, when the opportunity to prosper was introduced, it went gangbusters.
00:15:52.280 And that, my friends, is the true story of Thanksgiving.
00:15:55.660 Now, this is where it gets really good, folks.
00:15:58.280 If you're laboring under the misconception, as I was, as I was taught in school.
00:16:01.920 So they set up trading posts and exchanged goods with the Indians.
00:16:05.840 And after they enjoyed this prosperity, it was not the Indians that brought them to prosperity.
00:16:10.020 And that's not said to insult anyone.
00:16:11.400 The Indians assisted in their rival, undeniably.
00:16:13.680 But what led to prosperity for these original settlers was that the common store had failed.
00:16:18.100 Socialism didn't work.
00:16:19.320 And it's when they introduced what turned out to be an early form of capitalism.
00:16:23.400 They didn't have a name for it.
00:16:24.480 But when they turned loose individual incentive, keep what you produce, sell what you don't need, it went crazy.
00:16:29.660 This was not something they were taught by anyone.
00:16:32.300 Self-reliance, self-experience.
00:16:34.240 It wasn't the Native Americans that no one ever said, put this down, don't misunderstand.
00:16:38.620 They did a lot of things to help them, which we can talk about.
00:16:41.980 But it was their own industriousness.
00:16:44.600 They set up trading posts, exchanged goods with the Indians.
00:16:47.260 They sold stuff to them.
00:16:48.360 With those profits, they were allowed to pay off their debts to the merchants.
00:16:51.260 Those were the sponsors back in London and Holland.
00:16:53.180 And you know what?
00:16:54.100 The success of that colony, after they abandoned socialism and they tried what was essentially capitalism,
00:16:59.020 that spread throughout the whole old world.
00:17:02.580 That this massive amount of prosperity was there for the taking.
00:17:06.760 And the new world flooded with new arrivals.
00:17:10.680 Explain that more in the final segment.
00:17:12.980 Well, all it took was prosperity and the word spreading across the Atlantic Ocean of how there was prosperity and it was there for the taking.
00:17:22.680 All you had to do was get there and give it a shot.
00:17:25.540 The lesson is the true story of Thanksgiving.
00:17:28.540 William Bradford and his pilgrim community were thanking God for the blessings on their community after the first miserable winter of a documented failure brought upon by their attempt at fairness and equality, which was socialism.
00:17:41.200 It didn't work.
00:17:43.100 Only when they abandoned it did it work.
00:17:45.260 And I need to say it again, because I don't want people to misunderstand and get their noses out of joint.
00:17:49.480 The Native Americans, the indigenous people, whatever you want to call them, they were of considerable assistance and they were friendly when the pilgrims arrived.
00:17:58.140 But they had little, if anything, to do with the prosperity that occurred.
00:18:01.980 We're talking about the prosperity.
00:18:03.040 Because that was the result of Bradford and the pilgrim leadership deciding to change their structure, the Mayflower Compact.
00:18:11.480 Now, the natives assisted, naturally.
00:18:12.980 I can't deny that.
00:18:14.040 They taught them to fish and this kind of thing.
00:18:16.420 And that led them to be productive, undeniably so.
00:18:19.700 But it was the pilgrim community itself which experienced this massive prosperity.
00:18:23.980 The word of which spread all the way back to the old world, Europe, across the Atlantic Ocean.
00:18:30.080 Now, I mentioned earlier that the Federalist has a story on this.
00:18:33.600 And in it, they described much of what we did in Rush's second book that dealt with it.
00:18:39.180 And that was the children's book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
00:18:41.620 That book goes into great detail about how the Indians did provide assistance, what kind of assistance it was, how valuable it was, how crucial it was.
00:18:48.420 In Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, they focused on Native American by the name of Squanto.
00:18:52.420 Now, as I told you, during the winter of 1620, only 44 out of the original 102 pilgrims survived, including their first elected governor of the colony, John Carver.
00:19:02.260 And it was an Indian named Squanto, came to the rescue.
00:19:05.180 And I say this, as I say, explored in great detail.
00:19:08.040 And again, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
00:19:11.340 Squanto was no ordinary native.
00:19:13.820 Early settlers in 1610 had captured him and sold him into slavery.
00:19:17.040 A group of Catholic friars freed him and brought him back to England, where he learned to speak English.
00:19:22.120 In 1618, serving as an interpreter on an English ship, he was brought back to the New World.
00:19:27.620 It was Squanto, who was a famous Native American in his own right in the Pilgrim story, who taught the pilgrims how to plant and fish and skin beavers.
00:19:35.640 It was Squanto who brokered the peace treaty between the pilgrims and other Indian tribes.
00:19:40.040 There was more than one tribe of Indians.
00:19:41.940 It wasn't copacetic, it wasn't friendly, it wasn't a one with nature or anything like the multiculturalists would have you believe.
00:19:47.100 There were squabbles, there were power struggles, turf battles, wars.
00:19:51.000 It was human.
00:19:51.940 The Indians, the pilgrims, everybody was scrambling for power and survival.
00:19:55.300 Survivability was the name of the game, and it was not guaranteed.
00:19:58.480 Now, many of the pilgrims literally believed that God had sent Squanto to save them.
00:20:02.160 And they believed, the pilgrims believed, that without Squanto, they never would have survived or thrived.
00:20:06.860 And they experienced a tremendous harvest in 1621.
00:20:09.640 And that's the big gathering that is taught in the history books.
00:20:12.920 The Native Indians and the pilgrims joining together for a huge feast, which is the foundational story of the Thanksgiving that's taught in public schools.
00:20:21.000 But again, that is not the real story of Thanksgiving, that the textbooks banned.
00:20:26.440 It did happen.
00:20:27.540 But it's so much more so than that.
00:20:29.280 And Rush used to love taking the opportunity every year to explain the truth of, especially now, especially the fallout and everything that's happened to us, of one of the most important legacies of early settlers who experimented with socialism in the 1620s that didn't work.
00:20:44.240 And that private property rights, personal responsibility, two pillars of a free market economy, saved Plymouth Colony from extinction, laid the economic foundation for a free and prosperous nation that we all enjoy today.
00:20:59.820 And that is exactly right.
00:21:01.380 And that's the true story of Thanksgiving.
00:21:02.720 And that has been what should have been shared with you every Thanksgiving for the past 31 years.
00:21:10.480 And so, folks, Rush used to go and take time every year, either on Thanksgiving or right before Thanksgiving, and he would tell the story.
00:21:20.300 And so, that was the last time that Rush told the story.
00:21:26.020 And I wanted to read it to you because when we look at where we are as a country right now and where we look at how our communities are, how they're breaking, how under the weight of this federal government and massive government overreach, wokeness and everything else that's just pushing and pervading into our lives.
00:21:48.800 We feel like we feel like we don't have the ability to have any kind of ownership in the system.
00:21:54.220 Hard work.
00:21:55.700 Hard work isn't anything that kids or teenagers or anyone are told and taught is something to aspire to.
00:22:05.300 Get rich quick is the name of the day, whether it's crypto, whether it's NFTs, whether it's social media.
00:22:11.580 Just get rich as fast as possible and who cares?
00:22:14.400 Who cares about everything else?
00:22:16.840 Here's the issue with that.
00:22:18.800 When you have a system that's totally set up to deprive regular people of ownership in that society, then you lose the ability to have a true community.
00:22:35.360 And so, when I think of Thanksgiving, when I think of my family's Thanksgiving, I hope when you guys think of yours, when we go around the table, we always do.
00:22:41.640 So, say what we're thankful for.
00:22:44.760 Be thankful that you live in this country, but also be thankful for the fact that we have the ability to bring our families together and unite those bonds.
00:22:55.340 And whether it's someone you've met at church, whether it's family that you've known your whole life, whether it's friends that have become family, whether you feel like me, got married to your soulmate, you're having your family, you're starting your family with them.
00:23:09.420 That this is the way that cohesive societies are built and sustained.
00:23:18.460 And the pilgrims found this out.
00:23:20.940 That doesn't mean, by the way, that your society also shouldn't care.
00:23:25.560 And some people, you know, the conservatarians go off on this and they say, and that's why we should end all government programs and all public assistance.
00:23:33.360 It's no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:23:35.040 Right.
00:23:36.280 Help people who need it.
00:23:39.420 Not largesse, not massive unfunded welfare programs for just anybody who requests it.
00:23:45.420 No.
00:23:45.940 Help people who need it.
00:23:47.100 That's where we start.
00:23:47.980 That's where we end.
00:23:49.540 That should be something that we do.
00:23:51.580 But at the same time, we have to understand that it's through market competition, going back to those ancient ideals of private property, perseverance, self-reliance.
00:24:06.140 That's how our country was founded.
00:24:09.420 And those are the people who came from Europe to this land.
00:24:14.820 And so Thanksgiving Day, like Columbus Day, should always be remembered and celebrated.
00:24:28.820 As giving thanks to God for our founding fathers, for the settlers who came here before us, for the colonists, for every single ancestor we have.
00:24:41.900 That came to this land and built this nation from nothing, from absolutely nothing.
00:24:49.640 When we talk about Western society, when we talk about Western civilization, we have to remember our history because we stand on the shoulders of giants, giants like these pilgrims.
00:25:02.600 And that's why we tell the story.
00:25:04.200 And that's why I wanted to pay tribute to Rush Limbaugh today by reading the true story of Thanksgiving, which is a true story that affects us all.
00:25:14.300 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.