WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:04.719 Attention. You're listening to the Tod Huff Radio show, America's home for conservative 2 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:08.960 not Bitter talk radio. Be advised. The content of this program has been 3 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:12.679 documented to prevents and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean 4 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:33.479 to the right. Here's your Conservative but Not Bitter host, Tod Huff. 5 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:41.960 Well, Greeting's my friends. Here we are on Thanksgiving Eve. As I've 6 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:46.759 shared with you in the past, as I'm going to tell you again today, 7 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:52.240 this is maybe I shouldn't have this. Maybe it's kind of like children. 8 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:57.759 Maybe you shouldn't have a favorite episode of the year, like you shouldn't 9 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:03.039 have a favorite child. You all do you know that you do? You 10 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:07.079 know? I asked my kids, often ask my kids, which one of 11 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:10.640 you thinks who's my favorite? And I love it. They all think that 12 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:15.519 they're my favorite. We've got three and they all think that they are my 13 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:18.480 favorite, which I think is the way it should be. Anyway, this 14 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:22.560 is my favorite episode of the year. Whether I'm supposed to have it or 15 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:26.519 not, I do. And as I go through this today, I'll explain 16 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:34.000 the reasons why. But today we are going we're going to share the true 17 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:42.400 story of Thanksgiving now I have shared this yesterday. I made this abundantly clear 18 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:49.120 this episode and this is one. There's two main reasons why this episode is 19 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:55.640 so special to me. Number One, Thanksgiving their neck and neck to me. 20 00:01:56.879 --> 00:02:01.359 But I'll say that Thanksgiving, I think is my favorite holiday. And 21 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:08.800 there's several reasons for that. One reason is because I do believe that Thanksgiving 22 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:20.840 is the purest, the purest of the holidays. I think that Thanksgiving is 23 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:28.639 the one that is the least commercialized. I know what's on the well, 24 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:34.080 what comes directly after Thanksgiving is Black Friday and all that. I know that, 25 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:39.120 and I know that that's arguably the most commercialized moment of the year. 26 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:50.560 However, Thanksgiving itself, I think largely is still not highly commercialized. It's 27 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:59.120 not something that is, you know, with with Santa and things that happen 28 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:04.759 around Easter and just I don't know, it seems less commercialized to me, 29 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:08.800 at least in my way of thinking. I also like that it's pretty straightforward. 30 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:17.479 I'm a lover of the Thanksgiving Day food. Thanksgiving turkey, we have 31 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:23.960 noodles. I'm blessed to still have my grandmother around. She insists, absolutely 32 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:31.319 insists on making dinner and she makes noodles and they are fantastic, And I'm 33 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:35.800 going to tell you, I'm going to have more than I probably should on 34 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:42.280 Thanksgiving with the food, the Thanksgiving Day turkey, the Thanksgiving Day noodles in 35 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:46.879 my case, and some pie or cake or something like that as well. 36 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:51.400 And on top of that there's football and family. See, these are the 37 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:53.400 things that are the most important to me. Football not so much as I've 38 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:57.800 gotten older, although I still kind of like to watch it. But anyway, 39 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:01.400 so there's that portion of the reason why it is so meaningful to me. 40 00:04:02.439 --> 00:04:05.479 But the other reason, and of course the history behind the story, 41 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:08.919 right and the meaning of the holiday, which we're going to get into. 42 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:15.120 But the other reason is this is something that when I first started listening to 43 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:20.439 talk radio roughly in nineteen ninety nine, I don't know the first time I 44 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:27.399 heard the Rush Lumball tell this story, the true story of Thanksgiving, but 45 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:33.079 I know that I heard it from him, and of course I think that 46 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:39.560 he when he had his program, I thought everyone else was playing for second 47 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:50.240 place. Rush created this feel, this profession, this industry of talk radio, 48 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:56.839 and he had a profound impact upon me. I was a twenty was 49 00:04:56.879 --> 00:05:00.560 I twenty one, twenty two year old kid tuning into Rush Limbaugh for the 50 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:06.920 first time. Senior. I think in college, working managing a standardbred horse 51 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:13.279 farm, listening every day to the program, and I just I loved it. 52 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:17.240 I loved his craft. I felt like, I know, if I 53 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:24.759 can do a fraction, have a fraction of the impact in the lives of 54 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:29.439 people listening to my program that he had upon me, I will feel like 55 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:34.079 I will feel like we've accomplished something because his impact upon me was profound. 56 00:05:34.759 --> 00:05:41.639 And so to hear him tell this, I'm reminded of him. I feel 57 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:46.079 that bond that I had as I listened to him all those years ago in 58 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:49.680 the past. And of course he's been passed away for two and a half 59 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:56.040 years, I guess now, but it takes me back down that memory lane, 60 00:05:56.639 --> 00:06:00.480 good memories, memories of listening to a program that I loved, listening 61 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:08.680 to someone that I greatly tremendously admire. So with that being said, with 62 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:15.839 that being said, I want to share with you the true story of Thanksgiving. 63 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:26.160 So this is coming now. This is much the same way that Rush 64 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:30.160 would have told it. It's based upon by the way, I'll even put 65 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:31.959 a link in today's show notes. If you want his book, I think 66 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:39.160 you can still get the book. The book is called See I Told You 67 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:43.240 So, See I Told You So. Though I'm slightly distracted here, there's 68 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:47.519 a noise in the studio I cannot identify at the moment. I don't think 69 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:50.759 that you could hear it, but I can certainly, I can certainly hear 70 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:57.560 it. So this is based upon his book. He wrote two books. 71 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:01.360 I forget this was if this was the first or second book on This book 72 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:06.079 that references the Thanksgiving story was in his books See I Told You So. 73 00:07:06.519 --> 00:07:12.000 The other book was called The Way Things Ought to Be. I forget which 74 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:15.319 one was first. I know I've got this one. I think I've got 75 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:18.759 both. I honestly don't know. He also later in his career wrote the 76 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:25.600 Rush Revere series, which are children's books where he time travels and everything else. 77 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:30.800 But this one was written at the beginning I suppose of his career See 78 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:35.040 I Told You So, and he shares the true story of Thanksgiving. I've 79 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:42.399 also kind of put my own twist on it. There were some things that 80 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:46.639 I don't think I understood until studying this that had become clearer to me, 81 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:49.680 and I've studied this a lot. I've studied this a lot. You know. 82 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:55.879 One of the best ways I think to learn something is to have to 83 00:07:55.920 --> 00:08:03.000 present on it. One of the best ways to figure out to just get 84 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:09.480 the information is to put the pressure upon yourself to actually have to share that 85 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:13.959 information. I remember as a young Christian, very young Christian. I became 86 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:18.360 a Christian at the age of fifteen, back in nineteen ninety three. I've 87 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:22.160 shared that before, but I remember one of the first things that I did 88 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:26.360 was I started in the church. I was attending teaching the five and six 89 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:30.560 year olds. And I say teaching, I'm telling you right now. I 90 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:35.639 was learning alongside them. I was spiritually at the same place that they were 91 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:39.840 as I was teaching, as we were playing Bible baseball, or as we 92 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:45.519 were going through the stories of the Old Testament and coloring the sheets or whatever 93 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:48.440 else. That was for me. But see what happens is when you have 94 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:54.399 to learn it enough to tell someone else, it puts that healthy pressure upon 95 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:56.440 you to learn it. So I've learned a lot about this because I have 96 00:08:56.519 --> 00:09:00.279 to talk about this now. I want to talk about this. I don't 97 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:05.679 say have to in some sort of say, extense of obligation. I'm saying 98 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:11.360 this that it helps. So if you're wanting to learn something, I would 99 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:13.799 say, put the pressure on yourself to have to teach it to somebody. 100 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:16.039 I think that it's a good thing. Whether it's a Sunday school class, 101 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:20.039 whether it's something at work, whether it's a book club, I don't know 102 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:26.960 anyway. So Rush would always say this at the beginning of sharing the true 103 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:31.600 story of Thanksgiving. If you went to public school, you probably learned the 104 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:39.720 story of Thanksgiving some version of this particular story. Of course, Rush would 105 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:43.200 always include some sarcasm and hyperbole, which we will do as well in our 106 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:46.720 own in our own way. But the Pilgrims found their way here to this 107 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:52.519 nation. It would have been sixteen twenty. The Pilgrims stumbled upon Plymouth Rock. 108 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:56.360 They missed their target destination, which was supposed to be by the way 109 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:01.120 northern Virginia. They were supposed to land northern Virginia and then make their way 110 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:07.679 to the Hudson River, which is in present day New York, and that 111 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:11.639 was where they were going to establish their colony. But because of weather and 112 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:18.240 other events, they actually moved the landing point north and they landed in Plymouth, 113 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:26.320 Massachusetts, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Cape Cod area today, 114 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:31.799 and they stumbled upon there, a bunch of you know, just goofballs 115 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:33.759 that didn't know what they were doing. They get off the ship. Of 116 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:37.759 course there's nothing there. They land in November. It was a two month 117 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:45.279 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. It's cold. They went too far north. 118 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:50.080 There's nothing there, and so they have to immediately try to survive the winter. 119 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:58.799 And so that first winter comes and it was tough. But the Native 120 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:07.519 Americans came along, Squanto and other natives in that particular tribe of Native Americans 121 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:11.799 that came along, and they saved the helpless, pathetic pilgrims. Again, 122 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:16.799 this is there's some hyperbole and a little bit of fun exaggeration here, but 123 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:20.600 this is the gist of it, right. You got a bunch of people 124 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:22.960 that were religious. I left that part out. You may or may not 125 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:28.120 learn that. If you did learn that, it's often looked upon as some 126 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:37.279 sort of a derogatory thing. These super strict, no fun, hyper religious 127 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:43.120 people stumble upon the shores and they can't take care of themselves. The Native 128 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:46.679 Americans come along teach them how to fish, teach them how to hunt, 129 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:54.000 teach them how to catch beavers, and everything else help them survive. Then 130 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:58.559 the Pilgrims in the fall of that following year have a big feast where they 131 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:01.480 thank the Indians. Where they thank the Indians, they say, thank you 132 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:07.519 for saving us. Here's a great feast. And that's how some textbooks portray 133 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:11.639 the story of Thanksgiving. Now there's some exaggeration and hyperbole there, but you 134 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:15.159 get the drift. But there was a lot more. And Russia would say 135 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:18.159 this, it's not that's not at all the main lesson of Thanksgiving. Now 136 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:22.360 that doesn't mean that a lot of that didn't happen. That is a lot 137 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:28.639 of that is true, and some of it, of course is not necessarily 138 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:33.360 or not at all. But the general basis of that story is true. 139 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:39.679 But that's not what Thanksgiving itself is really about. We have to ask ourselves 140 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:46.799 who thanked who and what were they thinking them for. That's part of the 141 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:52.519 true story of Thanksgiving. So time out timeout is going to be taken to 142 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:56.480 this particular point in time. I am going to try to figure out the 143 00:12:56.519 --> 00:13:01.080 source of this noise I am getting on occasion during the break. But a 144 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:03.159 quick time out is in order. My friends, sit tight. You are 145 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:09.000 listening here special day, my favorite episode of the year, the true story 146 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:13.759 of Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday. And it also helps me remember my favorite, 147 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:18.960 absolute favorite, the one and only Rush Limbaugh at this particular time of 148 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:30.480 year, my friends, sit tight. Back in just a minute. Welcome 149 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:33.559 back to my friends. So here we are going through the day before Thanksgiving, 150 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:39.919 Thanksgiving Eve. We're talking about the true story of Thanksgiving. This again 151 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:45.440 is to honor the late great Rush Limbo, but also share with you what 152 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:50.440 I think is one of the best stories, especially as we celebrate the Thanksgiving 153 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:54.600 season. So when we left off, we were talking about what a lot 154 00:13:54.679 --> 00:14:03.000 of folks had been taught in public scrul as Rush would say about the true 155 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:09.759 story of Thanksgiving. Now, it is true absolutely that Native Americans helped the 156 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:13.720 Pilgrims. In fact, if you want to research this or look into this, 157 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:22.440 there's one particular Native American named Squanto who was highly influential in helping the 158 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:26.879 pilgrims do learn how to fish and hunt and so forth in the New World. 159 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:35.720 So, but let's look deeper, deeper into the story of Thanksgiving. 160 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:46.279 So back in the sixteen hundreds. King George the first was persecuting everyone that 161 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:52.120 didn't comply and recognize that the state was the ultimate authority in all things religion, 162 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:56.759 how you live your life and so forth. And so there was a 163 00:14:56.799 --> 00:15:01.759 group of people that were called the separatists, that called Puritans, that we 164 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:09.519 know as Pilgrims today. And these folks were hunted down, they were hunted 165 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:13.159 down, and they were punished sometimes. You know, the wording in the 166 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:20.919 constitution, the wording in the constitution, excuse me, talks about cruel and 167 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:28.799 unusual punishments and a lot of these separatists, these folks that did not want 168 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:33.639 to comply with the state controlled Church of England were given some very cruel and 169 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:41.799 unusual punishments. And so this group of separatists, known as the Pilgrims, 170 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:45.120 they said, we've had enough of the religious persecution. We're gonna go. 171 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:48.559 We're gonna getting out of here. And so they first fled to the nation 172 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:56.039 of Holland. They were there for eleven or twelve years, and you know, 173 00:15:56.120 --> 00:16:00.759 things improved in Holland. As Rush would say, they got to wear 174 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:06.759 some wooden shoes and look at windmills and look at the tulips. Or whatever. 175 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:11.600 But they lived in Holland for some time, and you know, it 176 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:18.399 wasn't perfect. They weren't completely free there religiously either. There is evidence to 177 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:25.639 suggest that Bradford was concerned about the impact that culture was having on their community, 178 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:34.440 negative impact. And there were reports that they also wanted to spread spread 179 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:38.399 the gospel and so forth. So but for several reasons, one of those, 180 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:42.559 of course, ultimately being they still weren't quite as free religiously as they 181 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:48.080 had hoped to be, they decided that they were going to embark upon a 182 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:53.600 journey to the New World. Now we should know, we should know that 183 00:16:53.960 --> 00:17:03.120 a journey to the New world via ship in the sixteen hundreds was not anything 184 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:10.640 like any of us can remotely relate to today. Neither is landing in a 185 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:15.839 new world. In November, which is when they actually landed at Plymouth, 186 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:21.480 Massachusetts, well that's actually when the ship took you know, set up itself 187 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:23.680 in the harbor. They didn't actually leave the ship until they finished writing and 188 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:29.960 signing the Mayflower Compact. I think they didn't leave the ship until December, 189 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:33.039 actually, but they landed, so to speak, they parked the ship in 190 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:38.000 the harbor in November it's a sixty six day journey. Sixty I've seen sixty 191 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:44.559 five and I've seen sixty six day journey across the Atlantic Ocean, you know, 192 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:49.160 in the fall the North Atlantic. It wasn't a balmy trip and a 193 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:53.759 tiny little ship. This ship was tiny. I mean there are there are 194 00:17:53.880 --> 00:18:00.160 millionaires and billionaires today, billionaires that have yachts that are much more massive than 195 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:06.839 what the Pilgrims came across on. And so they realized it was time to 196 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:08.160 go. It was time to go to the New World. Now, a 197 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:12.759 couple of things about this one. There were about forty pilgrims that decided to 198 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:18.680 make this journey to the New World, and they wanted to establish religious liberty. 199 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:21.759 There might have been other reasons as well, but at the top of 200 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:26.359 that list was being able to live their lives, which, of course, 201 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:30.839 see living their lives is synonymous with being able to exercise religious liberty. Because 202 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:34.839 they were devout people. These were one and the same thing to them, 203 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:40.359 and so they wanted to be able to live their lives and live in accordance 204 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:45.640 with their conscience, in worship of their creator as they chose. And so 205 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:48.640 they saw that was at the top of the list. Again, there could 206 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:51.519 have been other reasons that I've alluded to, some of them I haven't, 207 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:56.680 But nonetheless they decided to embark upon that journey, roughly forty of them. 208 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:00.880 There were other people that were on that ship as well. We think there 209 00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:03.119 were one hundred and two total passengers. There could have been up to thirty 210 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:11.359 crew tiny ship. They knew they were going to face hardship, but living 211 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:17.759 freely and worshiping God in accordance to their conscience was at the top of their 212 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:23.880 priorities. So so so so a couple of things here. In order to 213 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:27.039 get that ship, to get on that ship and to go to the New 214 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:33.799 World, they needed they needed to have money, and so they had these 215 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:38.400 merchant I think they were called merchant adventurers. These were people that were investors. 216 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:44.720 Basically, they were sponsors, and so they provided the funds required to 217 00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:48.720 make this trip happen. Now, these were investors, so they wanted to 218 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:56.720 be paid back. However, these investors, these investors had requirements. One 219 00:19:56.759 --> 00:20:03.079 of the requirements that the investors had was that everyone who was a part of 220 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:07.960 the colony, the Pilgrims colony, which would eventually be known as the Plymouth 221 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:15.000 colony because of where they landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, this colony was going 222 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:22.559 to be everyone had a common share, so everything they all owned it together. 223 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:30.440 Every piece of land, every structure, everything was equally owned by everybody 224 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:34.000 in the community. This was a requirement that was put upon the Pilgrims, 225 00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:41.519 by the investors, by these merchant adventurers, if you will. And so 226 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:45.200 that's important to file away in your memory for just just a little bit as 227 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:49.960 we get through this story. So they get on the ship, they take 228 00:20:51.119 --> 00:20:55.640 a journey across the ocean sixty five sixty six days. They missed their target 229 00:20:55.680 --> 00:21:00.240 location. They end up in Massachusetts. As they're worked there in the bay, 230 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:07.559 they decide there was concern. The concern was we really are outside of 231 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:10.720 the area we're supposed to be in. There was actually some dissension according to 232 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:15.359 some of these reports and records and so forth, historical accounts as to what 233 00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:18.839 they should should do. And so they said, look, okay, we're 234 00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:22.440 going to establish this governing charter, right, so we're going to try to 235 00:21:22.839 --> 00:21:26.680 accommodate the fact that we're not really where we're supposed to be. These are 236 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:30.240 going to be our rules. Them are the rules Mayfi our Compact. And 237 00:21:30.279 --> 00:21:37.599 so William Bradford, who's the governor, the leader of this group, set 238 00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:44.640 out toy they pinned the Mayflower Compact. And these were laws that everybody agreed 239 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:48.400 to live by. I think it was signed by forty one forty one people. 240 00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:53.119 The laws, by the way, were rooted firmly in the Bible, 241 00:21:53.200 --> 00:22:00.039 as you would expect from this group of very devoutly religious people. And so 242 00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:04.759 these were people of faith. They came think about this, They came across 243 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:11.119 the ocean with I mean truly just a wing and a prayer in a sense, 244 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:18.480 right, And so they land. It's November. There's nothing there. 245 00:22:18.599 --> 00:22:22.720 It's desolate, it's bleak, it's there's no grocery stores, you know, 246 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:26.759 I think, and this is something Rush would talk about, the fact that 247 00:22:26.920 --> 00:22:33.119 we we cannot relate to this. We cannot as average everyday Americans, we 248 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:40.680 cannot relate to this. Short of people who have been in extreme military situations 249 00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:42.680 or something like that, the average person, we can't relate to this. 250 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:48.680 Right. We have a saying in America today we say first world problems. 251 00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:52.680 You know, we don't have Wi Fi, or if the coffee's not hot, 252 00:22:53.039 --> 00:23:00.000 or if the internet's down, or if our charge, our phone charge, 253 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:03.720 we forgot it at home. This ruins days for people. These are 254 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:08.440 things, the fact the Pilgrims would have been happy, problems they would have 255 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:15.119 been happy to have. They were talking about and focusing upon mirror survival. 256 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:22.160 No shelter, no seven to eleven, no grocery store, no Walmart, 257 00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:32.759 no Target, none of that. No Uber, no Southwest Airlines, none 258 00:23:32.839 --> 00:23:37.079 of that. They had, none of that. They get off the ship, 259 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:41.680 they have their Mayflower compact, they have their faith, but they're heading 260 00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:48.319 into the winter. They're heading into the winter. It's colder, there's nothing 261 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:53.359 there, and they made a great sacrifice to get here. So pausing there 262 00:23:53.599 --> 00:23:59.119 timeouts in order talking about the true story of Thanksgiving. My favorite, my 263 00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:02.759 absolute favorite. I know not supposed to have this. The more I say 264 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:06.079 this, the more I realize I probably shouldn't be saying it, but I 265 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:08.240 want to say it anyway because it's the truth. My favorite episode of the 266 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:12.720 year. As I said earlier, you probably shouldn't have favorite episodes of the 267 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:18.799 year, just as I shouldn't have favorite children of the year. Maybe that's 268 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:22.880 what I should do, pick a favorite kid for each year. They all 269 00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:25.839 think they're my favorite anyway, which is a good thing. But nonetheless this 270 00:24:25.960 --> 00:24:30.319 is my favorite episode timeouts in order, so type my friends more to say 271 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:42.799 on the other side of the break back in a minute, Welcome back to 272 00:24:42.839 --> 00:24:52.640 my friends. Being prepared is a good thing. Being prepared for a natural 273 00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:56.640 disaster, being prepared for a power outage that may come with weather as we 274 00:24:56.759 --> 00:25:03.440 enter into these colder months. We're talking about the Pilgrims going into colder months, 275 00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:07.759 colder times of the year. It's where we left off in our story. 276 00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:11.640 But it's a good thing to be prepared for those sorts of things and 277 00:25:11.079 --> 00:25:15.480 to anything the government may throw at us as well. So it may be 278 00:25:15.559 --> 00:25:21.200 a good idea to get a three month food supply from four Patriots. Four 279 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:26.200 patriots dot com is the website. These supplies of food last for twenty five 280 00:25:26.279 --> 00:25:30.720 years, to come in stackable storage. Toats, they have breakfast, they 281 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:34.559 have lunch, they have dinner options. Go to four patriots dot com. 282 00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:40.920 That's the number four Patriots with ans dot com. Use promo code huff. 283 00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:44.160 It's my last name this time. Don't try to use the first name. 284 00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:48.039 You got to use the last name. Huff is the promo code saves you 285 00:25:48.079 --> 00:25:56.000 ten percent on your first order at four patriots dot com. So that's where 286 00:25:56.000 --> 00:26:03.160 we left off in the story. Was the Pilgrims facing a cold, bleak, 287 00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:07.920 brutal first winter, and that's what they went through. Was a very 288 00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:15.640 very difficult time. Nearly half, approximately half of all the pilgrims died that 289 00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:23.000 first winner. Among those who died was Dorothy Bradford, the wife of Governor 290 00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:30.920 William Bradford. It was a very, very tough time. The Pilgrims did 291 00:26:32.680 --> 00:26:37.480 meet the Native Americans. Squanto and others were in that group. They helped 292 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:44.519 them learn how to plant crops when the springtime came, to hunt, to 293 00:26:44.680 --> 00:26:51.319 fish, to skin beavers, all that sort of stuff, and so this 294 00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:56.480 was very a critically important part of the process. I'm not saying that that's 295 00:26:56.519 --> 00:27:02.640 not the case, but remember this would now have been sixteen twenty one, 296 00:27:03.519 --> 00:27:07.799 sixteen twenty one. They landed in the November of sixteen twenty were now in 297 00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:12.440 the spring of sixteen twenty one. They're managing to survive. They weathered that 298 00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:17.920 first winter, but they took tremendous casualties, losing roughly half of the people 299 00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:23.799 in that group. So they were barely surviving, but they were not thriving. 300 00:27:25.759 --> 00:27:27.240 They were not thriving. Now this is where the end of the story 301 00:27:27.279 --> 00:27:33.519 typically takes place. Because they planted some crops, they harvested some things, 302 00:27:33.519 --> 00:27:38.519 they hunt some you know, some they fish, they hunted some animals, 303 00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:44.519 and they were able to stock up a little bit, stock up a little 304 00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:48.880 bit, and they did have a feast. That first Thanksgiving was in November 305 00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:56.039 of sixteen twenty one, Fall of sixteen twenty one. It should be pointed 306 00:27:56.039 --> 00:28:00.279 out, however, that ultimately these this deeply devout group of people were thinking 307 00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:06.039 not Look, they were appreciative of the Innans, they were thankful for the 308 00:28:06.079 --> 00:28:11.240 help of the Native Americans and so forth, but they were certainly not expressing 309 00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:17.240 ultimate gratitude of them. They were expressing gratitude ultimately to God. And we 310 00:28:17.319 --> 00:28:22.599 know we know this through several things. But the proclamation that George Washington made, 311 00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:26.559 I'll put that in the today's show notes as well. The first Thanksgiving 312 00:28:27.039 --> 00:28:30.839 should read this thing I thought about reading, and it's it's not super long, 313 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:36.480 but it's written in seventeen eighty nine verbiage, so it's a little difficult 314 00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:41.680 to maybe hear some of that. But nonetheless, the gratitude was ultimately to 315 00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:45.240 God. Not again, not that they weren't thankful to the Native Americans, 316 00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:48.519 of course they were. But these were people that believed that they were called, 317 00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:56.279 and they believed that God was teaching them how to survive and was providing. 318 00:28:56.720 --> 00:29:03.400 So this, this is now where the rest of the story comes in. 319 00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:04.960 Paul Harvey, I'm a big fan of If you remember Paul Harvey, 320 00:29:06.160 --> 00:29:10.759 the rest of the story, this is the rest of the story. So 321 00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:17.960 sixteen twenty one, the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims still struggled. They still 322 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:21.640 struggled for a bit. In fact, if you read Bradford's diary, if 323 00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:26.920 you read some of the historical account, they struggled for a bit longer then 324 00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:32.519 in sixteen twenty three, so we're talking a couple of years later at this 325 00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:37.200 point. Incidentally, second Thanksgiving, Second Thanksgiving was held in sixteen twenty three, 326 00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:45.000 So in sixteen twenty three they had been still surviving, but not thriving, 327 00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:52.119 not prospering. The Pilgrims decided. The Pilgrims decided that, well, 328 00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:55.200 Bradford decided, you know what, this this is a lot harder than it 329 00:29:55.240 --> 00:30:00.000 has to be. Remember that rule that I mentioned earlier the rule that was 330 00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:06.799 set into place by the the merchant adventurers, the investors in the Pilgrims. 331 00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:11.599 Remember, I said that they required that everyone in that colony have a common 332 00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:15.079 share, have an equal amount of ownership. Everything was thrown in one bank, 333 00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:21.319 right, and so everybody owned the same percentage of everything that was produced. 334 00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:25.279 Bradford said, this is not helping us. In fact, this is 335 00:30:25.319 --> 00:30:27.720 hurting us. Why should one man? I mean, I don't have the 336 00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:32.599 diary in front of me. I'll post this stuff on the website and the 337 00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:36.240 stack of stuff if you want to read this. I'm just telling the story 338 00:30:36.319 --> 00:30:40.559 right now. But Bradford basically said, you know, men started thinking, 339 00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:44.960 why should I be working for another man's family when I am having trouble providing 340 00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:49.240 for my own. What's the incentives? What's gonna I mean, there's nothing 341 00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:53.480 here. I get the same amount for working my tail end off as this 342 00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:59.759 other dude next to me gets for lounging around all day. There's something in 343 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:03.960 aparently not just about that. So Bradford said, this whole thing about having 344 00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:08.440 an equal share, and this is the lesson that Rush wanted us to learn, 345 00:31:08.599 --> 00:31:12.119 that we need to learn, and we need to pass on to that 346 00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:21.720 next generation. The lesson. The lesson is that socialism sucks is basically what 347 00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:25.640 it comes down to. And so Bradford said, to heck with all this, 348 00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:32.000 the requirements that were placed upon us by the investors aren't working. We're 349 00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:34.880 going to do something totally different. If not, may end up killing us 350 00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:41.880 all. So what he did was he established this idea. They said, 351 00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:45.920 I'm going to give a plot of land to every family, and every family 352 00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:52.240 can do with that land whatever they deem to be appropriate. If they want 353 00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:56.480 to grow extra corn and sell it at market, then they can do that. 354 00:31:56.200 --> 00:32:00.960 They want to try to start some business, whatever, whatever they wanted 355 00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:05.640 to do. They wanted to try to I don't know, just whatever they 356 00:32:05.640 --> 00:32:14.200 could do that made sense for them. And Bradford later recounts that this led 357 00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:22.640 to a tremendous amount of blessing, a tremendous amount of prosperity, so much 358 00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:27.480 so, my friends, that this is the point in time where they really 359 00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:32.920 began in full to trade and to sell with the Native Americans. They had 360 00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:37.759 so much, They had enough for themselves, and they had enough to sell 361 00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:44.680 and trade. And this is where commerce and free markets really begin to get 362 00:32:44.759 --> 00:32:51.920 traction because now people Now people can prosper and begin to focus on the things 363 00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:55.559 that they're really good at. If you're really good at, I don't know, 364 00:32:55.920 --> 00:33:02.200 making horseshoes, and you can trade that activity, that work, that 365 00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:08.480 labor, that product for someone who produces, maybe they're really good at knowing 366 00:33:08.519 --> 00:33:12.480 when to plant, how to harvest, how to get the maximum yield for 367 00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:16.400 their from their ground, and so forth. You know, why be average 368 00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:22.200 at everything? Why not work together in a free way where we exchange and 369 00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:28.039 trade and sell things so that the people that are very good at one thing 370 00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:32.359 can benefit from the people who are very good at another thing. Efficiencies take 371 00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:37.000 hold, prosperity increases for everybody. This is what the colony saw, and 372 00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:42.960 it blew the roof off. The colony met in a good way that their 373 00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:50.000 their cups runneth over in that physical sense and in a materialistics. But it 374 00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:52.279 also fed their bellies. I don't mean that they were driving around in Mercedes 375 00:33:52.319 --> 00:34:00.400 and Lamborghinis. I mean they they actually had so much much blessing they couldn't 376 00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:07.039 it started to overflow. That of course, was the year they had the 377 00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:10.920 second Thanksgiving. So really, if you want to really get down to brass 378 00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:16.440 tax. Here the story, the real story of Thanksgiving, isn't complete until 379 00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:23.440 we have the second Thanksgiving, because that is when prosperity not just the first 380 00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:29.559 Thanksgiving was about raw survival. The first Thanksgiving was about g whiz. That 381 00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:34.360 was a kick in the face. Right This Thanksgiving, which would have been 382 00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:37.639 celebrated two years after the first Thanksgiving, was in sixteen twenty one, the 383 00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:44.480 second was in sixteen twenty three. That the time span between those two Thanksgivings 384 00:34:44.519 --> 00:34:52.519 is when Bradford put into motion this idea of free market capitalism, of the 385 00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:59.239 issuance the possession of private property and to be able to do what is in 386 00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:02.880 your best say interest, your family's best interests, with what you have and 387 00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:12.360 what you own, and the prosperity and the yield and everything that was created 388 00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:15.840 as a response to that was incredible. And the Pilgrims, my friends, 389 00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:23.119 on that second Thanksgiving expressed their God for express their thanks to God for teaching 390 00:35:23.159 --> 00:35:29.079 them, for revealing to them this better way. And things happen in result 391 00:35:29.159 --> 00:35:34.400 as a result of this as well. So timeouts in order quick timeout. 392 00:35:35.320 --> 00:35:44.360 Second Thanksgiving sixteen twenty three, prosperity has hit the Plymouth Colony because William Bradford 393 00:35:44.360 --> 00:35:47.639 did something extreme, what was viewed as extreme with the time, by giving 394 00:35:47.679 --> 00:35:52.760 a plot of land to families to do with what they determined to be best, 395 00:35:53.840 --> 00:36:00.119 and tremendous blessings resulted. My friends, sit tight. You're listening here 396 00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:06.880 to the Thanksgiving Eve episode of the Todd Hoff Show. My absolute favorite of 397 00:36:06.920 --> 00:36:12.360 the year because it's my favorite holiday, because I can honor the late Great 398 00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:16.480 Rushlanvaalf from which all of this information I'm sharing with you ultimately has come from 399 00:36:16.519 --> 00:36:22.519 sitside. My friends back in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. 400 00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:29.119 Going through the true story, the complete story, the rest of the 401 00:36:29.239 --> 00:36:37.360 story regarding Thanksgiving here on this Thanksgiving Eve, two thousand and twenty three. 402 00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:43.199 So we kind of wrapped it up last segment, but ultimately William Bradford and 403 00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:47.760 the Pilgrims thanked God for showing them, for providing for them, and for 404 00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:55.320 showing them this better way for the prosperity. It allowed them, by the 405 00:36:55.360 --> 00:36:59.760 way to pay I didn't finish this part of the story. The profits allowed 406 00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:04.519 them to pay off their debts. It encouraged other people to come to the 407 00:37:04.559 --> 00:37:12.119 new world. This was the beginning of the explosion of the Great Puritan Migration. 408 00:37:12.599 --> 00:37:15.480 By the way, I write about this as well in this week's column. 409 00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:16.920 If you want to get that, you can. It actually goes out 410 00:37:16.920 --> 00:37:22.519 today todd haveshow dot com slash column. If you want to read it, 411 00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:24.440 I'll have links in there as well, or if you want to have anything 412 00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:30.480 in the show notes that I've referenced, I'll put some show notes together that 413 00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:35.000 you can take a look at as well. So, but that's the story 414 00:37:35.360 --> 00:37:37.639 of Thanksgiving, my friends. So that said, I want to take a 415 00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:42.039 time out. I want to come back here and express on the other side 416 00:37:42.039 --> 00:37:45.760 of the break my gratitude to you, my friends. Sit tight back in 417 00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:53.719 just a minute. Welcome back to my friends. Not a lot of time 418 00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:58.000 I was talking with us here during the break. I think I said King 419 00:37:58.159 --> 00:38:04.440 George was the king, and King James. King James. The first was 420 00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:08.079 the king, I believe when this all happened in the sixteen hundreds with the 421 00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:15.840 Pilgrims in England. Anyway, that aside for the moment, I just want 422 00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:20.760 to take this moment. I guess there's a third reason why this means so 423 00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:24.559 much to me. This episode zig Ziglar used to say that the healthiest of 424 00:38:24.679 --> 00:38:31.559 all human emotions is gratitude. And my friends, I am incredibly grateful. 425 00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:37.280 I mean, I'm grateful to this nation. So I don't understand people who 426 00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:40.679 hate this nation. It's not perfect, the my, oh my, this 427 00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:45.440 nation has been a shining city on a hill, a beacon of hope for 428 00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:51.400 so so many. I'm thankful for my family, I'm thankful for this show. 429 00:38:51.719 --> 00:38:57.880 I'm thankful for my life. I'm thankful for Jesus. I'm thankful for 430 00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:00.280 so many things. But in that group, my friend, at the heart 431 00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:04.920 of that group, I'm telling you, is you. I'm thankful to rush 432 00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:08.320 for the trail that he blaze, that I can benefit from and I learn 433 00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:14.519 from so many things. But my friends, I am in tremendous h just 434 00:39:14.719 --> 00:39:19.760 I am tremendously grateful for you, those who have listened from the very beginning, 435 00:39:19.800 --> 00:39:24.000 those who have started even today. Thank you very much. Have a 436 00:39:24.039 --> 00:39:27.880 wonderful Thanksgiving. We will see you Monday. Stg