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00:05:00.000You remember Real Raw News, America's only trustworthy news source?
00:05:03.000They have a breaking report today just before Thanksgiving.
00:05:06.000Special forces have arrested Kamala Harris.
00:05:10.000She has come back from my nation in Hawaii, but they nabbed her.
00:05:16.000According to the story, there were moles inside of her Secret Service detail, and they couldn't get her in Hawaii.
00:05:23.000I guess Hawaii is like the deep state safe zone where they control things, but they got her back to D.C., which is also a deep staff safe zone, but not as safe.
00:05:32.000And so they managed to take her into custody.
00:05:35.000She and Doug Amhoff will be sent to Gitmo to stand trial for treason.
00:05:40.000I'm glad Real Raw News was able to get Thanksgiving.
00:07:59.000You may have ham if it is supplementary to the turkey, but like it should be any meat you have should be from like a central meat dispensing entity.
00:08:11.000You cannot have individualized servings of meat.
00:08:17.000This is not from a central meat dispensary.
00:08:19.000No, like you don't, you don't make a giant, you don't make like a 50-pound steak and then take like a piece of it and like pass the giant super steak around.
00:08:28.000Like that's what you do with ham or turkey.
00:08:30.000Like you make the whole turkey or you make the whole ham and then you cut a little bit of it.
00:13:34.000It's like when I went to the Grand Canyon last summer and I discovered that I guess they just sell like prickly pear everything at every Arizona.
00:16:40.000I have, I have at times, and my mom knows this, I have left the house, gone to the store, and purchased the ingredients for pumpkin pie and brought it home and made it myself because there was no pumpkin pie available.
00:18:40.000I bet it's actually pretty good lineup.
00:18:42.000And then it was the Cowboys, but now NBC got greedy because it was Fox had their game, CBS had their game, and then NBC got greedy and they snuck in their own.
00:19:48.000But Baltimore's so close, you're basically light, right?
00:19:51.000Yeah, you're pretty much in, it's like 90 minutes, you know, the way I drive, it's 90 minutes.
00:19:55.000Okay, so now that we have developed some.
00:19:58.000By the way, by the way, I don't want to throw my mom under the bus because every single year, and I know she's going to watch this, every single year post that, there's like a selection of pumpkin pies that is always available.
00:21:01.000Talk about that for a little bit because there's, you know, a lot of people say, well, it's, you know, it's just about the, you know, it's the Indians, it's the Pilgrims.
00:21:08.000Well, everything is what you make of it.
00:21:16.000They were not giving thanks to Brahmin.
00:21:18.000But they were giving thanks to the Almighty God.
00:21:20.000And but yeah, secondly, I just think it's amazing, especially during this season where we have such abundance and we won the election, that there's a day where you just stop and you say thank you, which then, of course, acknowledges you're saying thank you to a higher power.
00:21:32.000And I don't know of another nation or another country that has a day of gratitude.
00:21:37.000I think I actually said this once, and I guess there was like some random African country that has it, and that's fine.
00:21:42.000I got like in trouble for saying this last year.
00:23:04.000But instead, now it's all like, oh, the Pilgrims were dying and the Indians had to come and they saved the Pilgrims because they were stupid Europeans, didn't know anything.
00:23:12.000Even though Squanto had actually lived in Europe, even he had been in London more recently than the Pilgrims had.
00:23:24.000Well, so first of all, I was saying we should make fun of Canada for having their knockoff Thanksgiving that is just one month before ours.
00:23:31.000I think we should always seize every opportunity to bully Canada because it's fun.
00:23:38.000But also, even like the full story of Thanksgiving, because evil liberals always want to dunk on it.
00:23:44.000It's even more beautiful than just the Pilgrims doing it when they settled here.
00:23:48.000Like the very first annual Thanksgiving national holiday, fourth Thursday in November, like clockwork.
00:23:56.000That was started by Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
00:24:00.000Middle of the Civil War, the peak of the Civil War.
00:24:02.000I think that's probably the bloodiest year of the Civil War.
00:24:05.000And he says, yes, in the middle of this, we're going to have a celebration of national Thanksgiving.
00:24:12.000was what set it as a national holiday.
00:24:14.000George Washington declared a day of Thanksgiving.
00:24:17.000It's truly, you know, it's a great thing because it is possibly the one great national tradition that was created in America that we have had for the entire history of America that is just totally our own thing.
00:24:33.000And then us being America, we have exported it to the rest of the world in various ways.
00:24:56.000And it's not even Black Friday anymore because Black Friday, there's like, well, Charlie, given everything that you just said about the importance of Thanksgiving, what do you think about the people who leave Thanksgiving dinner early to go and start shopping?
00:25:08.000First of all, first of all, I totally, when I grew up, it was actually Black Friday.
00:25:30.000They don't close them and reopen them.
00:25:32.000Because it used to be that Walmart would close and then all the deals and the sales would be set and then people would get trampled so much.
00:25:39.000I think someone almost died and they got hospitalized and there's people who are in the world.
00:27:11.000Because like, and you're shopping for other people.
00:27:13.000And there was like a real like conquest like chess game where it's like, oh, wow, Best Buy opens at 11.30 and Walmart's at midnight.
00:27:22.000My strategy would always be like I would find the one store that was like within a 45-minute drive of it in like a non-populated area.
00:27:30.000And it was so much fun to think about or like a Staples because nobody thinks that Staples would have stuff, but they do have computers and different items.
00:27:38.000So like what's the thing that people aren't going to think about?
00:28:16.000But like, that was the best deal you could get for, I think, like two years after that point.
00:28:21.000But what ended up killing it was, as you said, you know, you were, you'd go for the timing.
00:28:26.000It used to be, okay, it was on Black Friday normal hours.
00:28:28.000Then they would open it at like 6 a.m. in the morning and people would show up before.
00:28:33.000Then someone got ahead and made it, oh, let's open exactly at midnight.
00:28:36.000And then what finally killed it, I think, the rise of the internet was a factor.
00:28:41.000But another thing that killed it was companies decided to get so greedy and they just said, we're doing Black Friday on Thanksgiving.
00:28:48.000And they would just be open on Thanksgiving with those deals.
00:28:50.000And I think to America's credit, there was popular backlash to this where they're saying, wait, you're forcing employees to skip Thanksgiving to come in and work on Thanksgiving.
00:29:03.000Though I must hedge, I have to be personally grateful for the fact that some stores are open on Thanksgiving, some of them, because I visited a friend.
00:30:05.000And my first day, like first real day, was Thanksgiving or Black Friday.
00:30:11.000So I had to wake up after Thanksgiving when I was like a sophomore in high school at like literally 4 a.m.
00:30:18.000I had to be at Target at 4.30, help stock everything.
00:30:22.000This was still the days that they still opened the doors like Charlie was talking about before they just like leave it open or open like super early.
00:30:30.000And there would be like, I get there at like 4 o'clock and there would be a line wrapped around the building that people waited to get in.
00:32:40.000And then during the Great Depression, I believe in 1939, FDR got in his head, if there's a longer, like if there's a longer time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, there will be a longer Christmas shopping season.
00:32:54.000And so people will shop more, and this will stimulate the economy.
00:32:59.000And so he intervened and he moved Thanksgiving to be a week earlier.
00:33:04.000And this became a partisan political issue.
00:33:07.000And so for a few years, Republican states said, we're not doing this and we're refusing to go along with it.
00:33:13.000So you had a Democrat Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday and you had a Republican Thanksgiving on the fifth one.
00:33:21.000And I think Texas, because they were a Democrat state, but had a lot of like conservative Democrats who didn't like FDR, they called the truth and they just had, they said, they're both holidays and they had two Thanksgivings.
00:33:34.000And then sadly, Congress submitted and now it's just on the fourth Thursday and we lost that culture war battle.
00:33:41.000But what you were saying though, what you were saying though, there's a deeper and producer Foz talks about this all the time.
00:33:47.000His birthday was this week, by the way.
00:33:52.000And how, so Charlie, you'd appreciate this, is that like in your teenage years and working retail, you know, used to be part of this too, but in your teenage years, there used to be a variety of things that you would do as a rite of passage that have all been pretty much completely destroyed because of new technology.
00:34:09.000One of those, of course, was waiting in line like this.
00:34:12.000Another one of those, you know, having those retail jobs again with no phone to like just, you know, constantly be there getting you through it.
00:34:21.000One of the other ones, we, I don't know how I got into this the other day on Twitter was like, it's not even Thanksgiving related, but it was like when you used to have to call someone's house.
00:34:29.000And if you wanted to, if you wanted to call a girl, you had to call her house and you had to get through mom or potentially dad.
00:34:37.000And so it's like the elimination of all those things in society has now created men or adults who don't actually go through any meaningful rite of passage.
00:34:50.000No, I mean, I totally agree with that.
00:34:51.000I mean, some of these other rites of passage were like elementary things, such as be home before dark.
00:34:58.000Like that was like a very simple thing, right?
00:35:01.000I mean, other rites of passage were that you need to memorize, like you say, the home phone numbers of at least five people that you're doing.
00:37:28.000If you play for too long and your computer wasn't that sophisticated or good, your computer whole hard drive would like start to overheat, right?
00:37:38.000Playing on either like Age of Empires or Sims or like whatever it was and like it malfunctioning before you save or you can like log your progress.
00:37:49.000Mom unplugging the Nintendo before, well, when you were on like level eight of Mario and there was no way to save or mom telling you to wait at all.
00:37:58.000Mom telling you to pause the game when it's actually online and you're playing against other people.
00:39:40.000I once had a journey where my parents made me actually narrate the turns to make on an actual physical map that we had purchased, like with the highways of America.
00:39:55.000I remember I was living in New Jersey for two years when I was a junior high, and my mom printed them out on MapQuest and was going somewhere for my brother's football game and got so lost and turned around.
00:40:07.000She like pulled over and hit a gas station crying because she didn't know where to go or how to go anywhere.
00:40:13.000She was like completely lost, like in any place.
00:40:36.000I don't know if you still have to do this, but I know in London in the UK, to become a cab driver, you used to have to, maybe you still do, but you had to pass this test called the knowledge.
00:40:47.000And it was basically you had to memorize the location of like 27,000 different things in London.
00:40:55.000And like people would like lose their minds attempting to pass this thing.
00:40:58.000And obviously, if it's still around, it's obviously crazier.
00:41:02.000It's more difficult to become a cab driver.
00:41:07.000I feel like they've done brain scans of cab drivers that have, that have mastered the knowledge, and their hippoclamus, which is the actual part of memory, is bigger in their brain than the average person.
00:41:20.000And so in order for that to be true, in order, and this is actually.
00:41:55.000It was the most profound development of neuroscience in the last 20 years discovery to show that your brain raw material can change based on your environment and your circumstances.
00:42:43.000So the idea being then, the more you, you know, the more you work it out the same way, like when you go to the gym and you're like, I'm going to focus on whatever muscle.
00:42:57.000And then the study here shows about brain plasticity.
00:43:00.000This phenomenon demonstrates the brain's ability to adapt and change based on the experience where the hippocampus can grow in response to intensive spatial learning.
00:43:07.000So let's put this on the flip side then.
00:43:08.000The fact that we're all using GPS now is literally an end.
00:43:14.000Unless you do what I do, which is you try to anticipate where the GPS is taking you before.