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Glenn Beck sits down in a historic home in Plymouth, MA to talk about the importance of the pilgrims and why they are not taught about them in schools anymore. He also talks about why the pilgrims came to America and what they did to escape the economic downturn.
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I am sitting in the Layden home in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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And Plymouth is this amazing town that I've never been to.
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And it was a long trip this weekend because I stopped somewhere else that we'll talk about later.
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And it's such a strange place because everywhere you look, everywhere you look, something really important happened.
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In this home that I'm sitting in, this is where the first peace treaty happened.
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The first peace treaty with the Native Americans.
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The first election in America happened in this room.
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And it's the first street in America and the first home in America.
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Right out across the street, looking out the windows, I can see Plymouth Rock from here.
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It's literally a stone throws away from Plymouth Rock.
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And the front yard is where they think the first Thanksgiving actually happened.
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Next hour, I want to talk to you about the pilgrims and what isn't being taught anymore.
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I think like the rest of America, except on steroids, because the people who are here who know the truth about the pilgrims are on fire.
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It is this group of people up here that are holding down the fort for the pilgrims are truly remarkable people.
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I haven't been around people like this in a very long time that really, really know history, know what they've been called to do, have a plan and are doing it and are so filled with love for other people.
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There's the other side of town that either just doesn't care.
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Maybe you've lived here for a long time and, you know, I've seen it all and whatever, yada, yada, yada pilgrims.
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Or they are really standing in the way of telling the truth about the pilgrims.
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One of the guys who I was with, who we'll talk about a little later, was actually in Holland.
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He came here from Holland because he was doing some research on the pilgrims and trying to get a reason from the the pilgrim museum, which I think is like a phone booth, you know, from where they launched.
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And and there's one guy who, you know, was like, oh, my gosh, somebody just ring the bell.
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And so he he went over there and he was asking their experts, why did the pilgrims come here?
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And the answers are crazy, truly, truly crazy, because there was an economic recession coming over.
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They decided to go to a place to where they thought they could be scalped and eaten.
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Let's get on to a rickety, leaking boat and cross the ocean, you know, where half of us are probably going to die because that's the way it is.
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It's not exactly, you know, a nice tour ship that you're going on.
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And then we're going to go to a place where there's Native Americans and they usually kill all of the people that are on the ship.
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But at least we won't experience that recession.
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They are holding the fort and they're actually making progress here.
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So we'll get into that here in a in a little while and tell you something that I have felt for a while now I have was supposed to do.
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And so we are going to be doing that and it involves next summer.
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And we'll talk about that coming up in just a little while.
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Pat Gray is joining us because Stu is faking an illness.
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I think he works he works less than Johnny Carson used to work when he was doing the show.
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I'm going to start saying that Stu is filling in for Pat shortly.
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First of all, Nancy Pelosi, I think, has I think they I think all of the Republicans on this impeachment hearing have really lost it.
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I really I don't think they even know what reality is anymore.
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Nancy Pelosi is now saying that Trump withheld the money from Ukraine for Putin.
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So for a long time, just until the 24th of September, it was when I called for a fuller expansion.
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The inquiry was going on, but to proceed with the inquiry.
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And that kind of changed our communication until that day in the room when I said, all roads, Mr. President, with you lead to Putin.
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Whether it's giving them a stronger foothold in the Middle East by what you did with Turkey and Syria,
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or what you did by withholding a grant, withholding aid to military assistance voted by Congress to Ukraine to the benefit of Putin.
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Ukrainians have died at the hands of the Russians.
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And with his disparaging remarks about NATO and questioning our commitment to NATO, that's to Putin's advantage.
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So we do have, shall we say, a candid relationship.
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I don't think I've ever heard anything so dishonest.
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They were asking for more of because the president had already sold them those weapons and those weapons systems they had been begging for.
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But it was the Democrats under Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and, yes, you, Nancy Pelosi, that refused to sell them any of those weapons.
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So for her to say that, you know, look, he's just trying to help the Russians, he hurt the Russians here.
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His policies towards Russia, not his language, his policies towards Russia are much more fierce than anything that the reset team was trying to do with Vladimir Putin.
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And when it comes to Ukraine, he actually has armed them against Russia, and the Democrats did not.
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That's all part of trying to make Trump seem like a Russian agent.
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They're trying to make the American people believe that Donald Trump is a Russian asset.
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So Giancarlo Sopo, he wrote for The Blaze this weekend, leak focus groups results.
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The, they reveal the Democrats impeaching messaging plans, weak legal case.
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As political observers noticed this week, the Democrats have a new messaging strategy in their impeachment inquiry of President Trump.
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The shift came after a focus group in battleground states by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
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showed that voters were less receptive to the Latin legal term quid pro quo.
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So, they preferred the charge of bribery over quid pro quo.
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The latter, according to the sources familiar with the focus group, likely are to persuade swing voters.
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So they changed it from quid pro quo just based on a focus group.
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As the Washington Post points out, the House Intelligence Committee member, Jim Hines, Democrat from Connecticut,
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was the first to announce the Democrats' intentions to require, retire quid pro quo during an appearance on Meet the Press.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi began accusing Trump of bribery during the press conference on Thursday.
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Talking Latin around here, e plurus unum for many, one, quid pro quo, bribery and all that, is in the Constitution.
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And attached to the impeachment hearing, she said.
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She noted, a likely reason why Democrats had replaced quid pro quo with bribery is that the latter is one of the two crimes cited in the Constitution.
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The reason why they decided to change that is because people understood that and thought it was worse than quid pro quo.
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Post also noticed that even Hines recognizes that while bribery may be a political useful term for the Democrats,
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it's also imprecise to describe the allegations.
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Abuse of power is not necessarily a concept that most Americans run around thinking about.
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In this case, the abuse of power was the same combination of bribery and extortion.
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It's also unclear what Democrats argue is the alleged bribe in question,
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since Democrats don't have any witnesses with direct knowledge of Trump's state of mind during his dealings with Ukraine.
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Republicans were quick to point out the change in messaging underscores that Democrats don't have a compelling legal case against the president.
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They're just trying different narratives to see what would work.
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And that brings me back to what Nancy Pelosi just said and what PAP said.
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They're throwing spaghetti up into the wall to see what sticks.
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If you look at the what's the definition of bribery?
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Persuade someone to act in one's favor, typically illegally or dishonestly, by a gift of money or other inducement.
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Even the guy who was supposedly bribed has said over and over again, we received nothing for the investigation.
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By the way, we didn't we didn't do an investigation.
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So the line that kept sticking out to me this weekend was the Democrats saying that sometimes hearsay is better than direct.
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Since when has hearsay been better than direct evidence?
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The hoops that you intellectually have to jump through to be a part of this crazy train is truly remarkable.
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And it's a story I don't think a lot of Americans are familiar with, necessarily.
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Well, I knew the outcome, and I knew the general story, but I didn't know the specifics of their relationship and all that.
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So if you don't know, the Shelby Cobra or the Ford Shelby is the greatest race car built.
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I mean, they're just, they're amazing, amazing cars.
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And the Shelby Cobra now, an original Shelby Cobra is what, $3 to $5, $7 million, something like that.
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The Ford Shelbys, the real ones, are, you know, $10 million.
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And built by a guy who's a Texan, who is just this, you know, why can't we do it kind of guy.
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And the Ford versus Ferrari movie is the relationship between the driver and Shelby, the designer, and also the Ford Motor Company and the Shelby Motor Company.
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No, I mean, Lee Iacocca looks great in it, doesn't he?
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But it shows, it shows how Ford tried to buy Ferrari in a really intense scene.
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Like, really, like a, well, I think, I think one of the lines was when Lee Iacocca came up, you know, he said, no, you don't understand.
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Um, but, uh, it is a, I think personally, it is a perfect father and son movie.
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And it, it shows you the rivalry between them because, um, Ford was, was, like you said, going to buy Ferrari and Ferrari was just using Ford to up the price of.
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And that's what, that's who they wanted to go with all along.
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And so, uh, Henry Ford II didn't take very kindly to that.
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And the, and the, uh, the, in, in two years, they developed, uh, the, um, the Ford Shelby race car.
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And, uh, that, that should have taken a decade to do.
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And then Ford decides they're not going to race anymore.
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And it reminded me of the old, I think Steve McQueen and Paul Newman movies, right?
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When I was a kid in the sixties, I barely remember them, but I remember my folks going to, and
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my dad taking to me, you know, taking me to race car movies, uh, with, I think it was
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Paul Newman and Steve McQueen was in some of those as well.
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Uh, I, I liked the movie until it came to the very end.
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Uh, very end, uh, might shock you a little bit because.
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At the, at the end of the movie, they dedicate it to all of the soldiers in the American
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army who fought in world war two and the Japanese soldiers who fought in world war
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You're also dedicating this to the enemy that sneak attacked us at Pearl Harbor and two
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And it's not only that is the Chinese, uh, the Japanese were horrible.
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They were much, much worse than the Germans were with their experimentations and, and everything
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No, I was actually, um, more concerned about the plot line.
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Didn't you notice that the plot line took a, a significant turn to China when it didn't
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It's like, what does China have to do with, with Midway?
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And that's because there's Chinese money in the movie.
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So this is another thing like the NF, uh, the NBA where they've just sold out for the
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And so they, they had to make Midway some way or another to make China look good.
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I mean, I, is that going to win them fans, uh, loyal?
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We're not the number one market now for movies.
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We're, you're going to see all kinds of stuff starting to change.
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This is, this is coming from a friend of mine, but Skynet, it's either Skynet or Cyberdyne,
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Skynet is no longer the name of the, the evil system.
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I was told that it is because again, that has Chinese money in it and they're doing,
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now I know the United States has a Skynet thing that we use against terrorists, but apparently
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Skynet, uh, in, in China is something, uh, you know, that has to do with their monitoring
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system of the average person or their internet or something like that.
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And so they didn't want to be known as Skynet, you know, the ones that have the Terminator.
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So because of the Chinese money funding the movie, they rewrote part of, they rewrote
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Now, and, and like you said, if, if they're going to continue to accept the money from
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China, that's going to change a lot of movies and a lot of plot lines and a lot of dialogue.
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How, how often is this going to happen in American movies?
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You're going to have a massive Chinese influence now, especially as the United States becomes
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We're not standing up for what we are supposed to stand up for.
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Paul Jelley is a friend of mine and he's the pastor of the New Testament Church of Cedarville
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And he is also one of the guys, you're not, are you the head guy of the Plymouth Rock
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Yeah, president of the Plymouth Rock Foundation.
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Actually, I grew up in New Jersey, but my father, I was born in Massachusetts, but then
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my father, who was a pastor, he moved us back here into New England and Massachusetts.
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So I attended high school here in Massachusetts.
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You don't have that chowder kind of, which is really heavy around here.
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So you, you got engaged with the, the pilgrims when you were young.
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And I was thinking about this the other day, we've almost lost everything about the pilgrims.
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I mean, it's, they're just, they're images now, maybe, maybe on a storefront or a McDonald's
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And even that image isn't necessarily accurate with the buckles and all the black hats.
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These guys, they came over here for a couple of reasons and they changed the world.
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I mean, when I first, when I first was given some primary source documents and books on the
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pilgrims by my mentor, my initial mentor, John Talcott here in Plymouth, I told him, I don't
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And then of course, when he looked at me and he said, no, you really should read this.
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And I think what amazed me was to read the literary prose of William Bradford, to read the diary,
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Mort's relation, to eventually then read good news from new England by Edward Winslow.
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And, and these different books, when you're reading this, you're realizing, gee, this, this
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And it was nothing I'd ever learned in high school, nothing I'd ever learned in elementary
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If I'm not mistaken, William Bradford brought more books over than, than were originally
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I mean, they had, they had hundreds of books on, and when you think about the Mayflower,
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when you think of the small amount of space you had to, for your family, for clothes, and
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think about it, you're taking everything that you're going to own over here and you can't
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take very much, you have maybe a small spot, and you're going to bring a books and, and
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And the thing is, and, and here you had them, very literate, and they were very ideological.
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One of the things is they were really wrestling with ideas, ideas that would have tremendous
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Now, like anyone else, they did not probably, they couldn't foresee what kind of ideas would
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do in consequences, but they knew they had to deal with those because ideas do have consequences
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So they were over, they're English, and they're over in England, and the Reformation is just
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starting where before you couldn't read the Bible yourself in your own native tongue.
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It was the Anglican Church that was really a government, you know, the, the king or the
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Right, and, and heresy, anytime you were standing against it, you were burned at the stake.
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And, you know, the pilgrims, the interesting part about it is they initially wanted to be
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able to get along like anybody else and do the best that they could.
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But even John Robinson, who became their leader, he was the pastor of an Anglican congregation.
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In fact, he started to see his ideas for following the scriptures just conflicted with the hierarchy
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and the whole idea of determining whether someone is a heretic or not was all done by, backed
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by the state and backed by this, this whole idea that you, you had the terrible consequences
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And, and here are these ideas that would eventually bring great liberty of conscience and civil
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And yet at the same time, it would take years to do that.
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So here you have these individuals wrestling with it.
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One of John Robinson's big wrestling matches when he was pastoring an Anglican church, he
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said, he said, why he used this kind of poetic language, why the church is married to the
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And, and the king, and especially King James was very learned, he said, when I speak, it's
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the law I'm speaking, I'm speaking to you by the power of the Holy spirit.
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And, uh, you know, you have to be aware when someone says they're picking, speaking by the
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And they also have the sword backing them up and, and force.
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Usually the ones who speak for the spirit are the, the, uh, the ones like King or Gandhi,
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somebody, Jesus, somebody who's really, really not a friend of power.
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And, and, and we'll eventually decentralize power.
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And so you have these, these pilgrims and they begin to wrestle with this.
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John Robinson, when he debates with the Anglican bishops after he's even left and gone to Holland
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and into eventually into Leiden, he would reason this way and say, wait a minute, uh, this
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The government actually comes from the inside out.
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And this is just, this is threatening the power and the hierarchy.
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This is, this is 150 years before we're around.
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I mean, before the, I mean, this is the germ of the idea.
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And you have to realize that now these pilgrims, when they're reasoning together and being taught
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by John Robinson to think and reason from principles, it's, uh, they're only a small,
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tiny remnant that's mocked and they're called separatists because they're mocking them, not
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Uh, they're the ones who would separate from the church.
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In fact, uh, the interesting thing, when you read the bishops writings and letters to
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them, he said, why God has given you such grace and such benefit and, and liberty granted
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Why do you throw that all away and start original thinking and thinking on your own, this whole
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idea that to think and to reason, to come up with ideas that others may not have held
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So it doesn't seem like they were thinking people because they, they're growing in Holland.
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They have about 500 people, you know, 300, maybe 325 in their church in Leiden.
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So they have the, you know, that's, it's, it's growing.
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Uh, and, uh, for some reason, you know, we had Tim Ballard here this weekend and he was,
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uh, he just came back from Leiden Holland and, uh, was talking to the scholars there and they
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said, well, they probably left because, so, you know, there was a recession coming.
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Why would you leave your home that was comfortable because of a recession, even a war when you
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were coming to America and it was almost certain death?
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You know, you think about the reasons and Bradford gives the reasons in his up Plymouth plantation
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and they talk about the truce was ending with Spain and by 1620.
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And that was a big problem because, uh, they were in Leiden and that when that truce would
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end, there would be more problems with the Spanish.
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Also, not only was that a problem, but they said their, their children were getting on
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They were getting older, but the real crux of why they came Bradford gives in this poetic
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phrase, he said, lastly, but which was not least.
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In fact, this was the most important, a great zeal they had of propagating and advancing the
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gospel of the kingdom of Christ into those remote parts of the world.
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Though we would be even as stepping stones unto others for the performing of so great a work.
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Bradford writes it about 10 years afterwards, about 1630, probably a little later than that.
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And yet you see the, um, the looking at this whole situation.
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They were coming for a motive to advance the gospel of the kingdom.
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And it was different than, for instance, there was an argument in the 1850s between, uh, those
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who said really Jamestown was the cornerstone of America and others that said it was Plymouth
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They had some, they had some very strong pastors, Pastor Hunt and others that came.
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And it was, it was a, it was to come for God, but also come for gold and, and everything else.
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Well, you think of the difference, the difference, cause we like to point out both the positive
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You both had, you had a national experience with a national religion being planted in Jamestown.
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You have something very local, very personal and intimate here in Plymouth.
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Beyond local, it was, it was all about families.
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But also you recognize that here in Plymouth, this was a church plant.
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You see, in Jamestown, it was a national plant.
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And though they did have the, their assembly in 1619, there are a lot of things that take
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What we have in Plymouth is unique because this is where, this was a church plant.
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Without the Leiden congregation sending about 75 people over to the new world and not even
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Some returned when the speed well was springing leaks, being overmasted by the captain.
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And what, at least from what Bradford has written that they believe happened, that they
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So their, their hunger for religious purposes, and you have to look at the wider context of
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All the explorations that are taking place at the time, whether it's the Portuguese, Spanish,
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or anyone else, is under this doctrine of discovery, which is basically you go in and
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you take over the land, you take over the people, and then you dominate them, make them your
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Well, this is, this is now because they're so dependent on you.
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There was this, this conquering mode where you have the, the pilgrims and Robinson's teaching
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And now they're not going to stop on any exploration like this.
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You're going to have some hotheads on your group.
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And there was a group on the, on the Mayflower called the strangers.
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They were not part of the Leiden congregation, but the Leiden congregation is the one pioneering
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That motive is something that was trained into them.
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So I want to, I want to take a quick break and then we're going to come back and start
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At first it was a socialist idea and they had a ton of firsts here in America that were
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really important that if we know about them today, we can correct the path that we're
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We're, um, at the Leiden, the Leiden house, uh, now in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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And that is the 400th anniversary of the landing of the pilgrims is happening in 2020.
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There's some events going on that I want you to know about next week.
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There is this amazing parade put on by the, uh, Plymouth rock foundation.
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Uh, and, uh, it's, it's history as it has traditionally been told and is really, uh, being lost.
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And they started this about 20 years ago and it has exploded.
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There's about a quarter of a million people now that come into this town, little teeny town
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And if you're anywhere near the area next week, you need to come.
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If you're not a subscriber, become one now on iTunes, but while you're there, do us a favor
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Uh, not the place to be necessarily be in the winter, but I thank you for that.
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Um, I want to introduce you to a couple of people.
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Um, first, let me introduce you to Oli, uh, DeMocito.
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Uh, and, and I want you to, as you're listening in your car, wherever you are, I want you just
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to realize this, this segment is about the impact of two normal people just like you who
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Um, I also want to introduce, uh, introduce you, uh, to, uh, Beth Pereira.
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She and her husband, uh, own this building that we're in now, this plot number one, this
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beautiful home right across the street from Plymouth rock.
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Um, and you felt compelled to do what you're doing first.
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Let me start with you, Oli, cause you are, I went to these, these float barns, uh, where
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you are building these floats and every year this, this parade tells a different story,
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I've been doing it for roughly 25 years, pretty much.
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It started, we kind of took it over at a certain time, but you know, I've always had a passion
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for history, you know, but, uh, and I had a more of a passion for America.
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So coming to him, coming to America when I was a little kid, it was like coming to heaven.
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And you came from Cape Verde, which is on the West coast of Africa, these little islands,
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And, uh, and so it was a big deal for my family to immigrate here.
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And, uh, I remember getting on a ship and, uh, starting the, you know, the voyage over
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here and how difficult it was and throwing up the whole way.
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But, uh, but to us, the opportunity that what everyone knew in Cape Verde was America was
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And, and why, why, well, because, well, first of all, you want to get four years of education
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over there is very difficult, you know, for one of my older brothers to go to a different
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Island to get high school education was more than my father made in a whole month.
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So my mother's dream was to educate her children.
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And so all of us have been educated college and so on.
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And we wanted the American dream like everybody else.
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It's like, my story's not unlike anyone else's stories.
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But I just, you know, uh, I have a passion for why America is America and what America
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Uh, America is America because it's, it's an idea and it's an idea that not only for me
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as a Christian, I really believe that, you know, it was in God's sight to see that America
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There's a reason why America exists and existed for so many things.
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Uh, America has totally changed the whole makeup of the world.
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The world's a different place because America's existed.
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And so to me, and I don't, because the idea existed and, and we've never accomplished fully
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And the idea is all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable
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rights among these right life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Because we've never, we've never completed that.
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And it's crazy to think that the arrogance to think you come up with a better mission
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statement for a country than that, especially when we've not gotten close to even completing
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That's because we're in the, we're a part of that process.
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Like for us, for my family was really, we can go to a place where every dream can be realized.
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My mom didn't have anything, but we knew that in America, we had a chance and it goes
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I have a passion for what I do when we celebrate the parade and we tell America a story because
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I believe that no one should forget why America exists and why it continues to exist.
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And we cannot forget so that we don't allow for what, why it exists to go away.
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So other people and other generation can be benefactors.
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I want my children, I want my children's children to be able to know, uh, why their granddad,
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you know, or their great granddad made the voyage to come here.
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And at that time I didn't even really understand what freedom was, but I soon began to understand
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So you are, we met at the parade barn or the, the float barn where you are making these
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incredible, you were so funny yesterday because I drove up and I saw one of these floats that
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was out of the barn that you're still working on.
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And I said to whomever was in the car, I said, maybe it was you, Beth.
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I said, uh, look, that, that, is that the golden spike?
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And when I met you and you said, and we're working on some things and, and, and this is
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And I'm like, yeah, it looks just like the picture, dude.
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I mean, there's these two big trains that you have built on the back of this float and
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you tell, what is the theme this year with the parade?
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Well, the theme usually always with the parade, it's prosperity, but the theme with the parade
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is always is telling the great moments in history where the nation paused to give thanks Thanksgiving.
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So, and I believe anytime we had great accomplishment, like we also having the Apollo 11 this year,
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when, when this nation has done great things, we're doing D day this year, when we've accomplished
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things that are far beyond what people can even imagine.
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I think the nation said, thank you, Lord, that we've been able to do these things.
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I mean, that was a big deal a hundred, 150 years ago to have the West meet East, you
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know, there's a huge deal, but this is not something that there's no corporation behind
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It's just you and your church and some other, and it's like a real parade.
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It's not one of these, ah, yeah, we, you know, dressed up the back of our pickup truck.
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Yeah, no, it's, it's legit and, you know, we're, we're obviously the whole nation has
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And I think what we do is that we're different because we do tell a story.
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And one of the things that I've always enjoyed by you, you're a storyteller and I'm a storyteller
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and I do the stories though, in a parade, I let the people know the greatness of this
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land and why we so appreciate it and why so many appreciate it.
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And we do it every year differently with different events or different historic events or anniversaries
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that tell a wonderful story and it's knit together by normal people.
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Just like there's like everybody there, nobody's getting paid.
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Nobody knows their names half the time, but the product is excellent.
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I have to tell you, you, I went through your barn and I, what did I say to you?
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Would you come and build a Zeppelin for me because I can't get somebody, that quality
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that you have done on these floats is beautiful, just beautiful.
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So I know you have to go back to work and you're, you're lovely in that outfit.
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My wife, she puts up stuff for me, but sometimes I just, I sleep in my clothes to get up the
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Sometimes we go through the night for the next day.
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It's always the Saturday before Thanksgiving for the main reason that we want people to
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still enjoy their, their grandmas and their uncles on Thanksgiving day.
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We don't want them to be away from their family Thanksgiving day.
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So we do it the weekend before and you have all the stuff and the excitement of it all,
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but at the same time you get to be with your family.