November 27, 2025 • 34 mins
Remembering Rush this Thanksgiving Producers Ali and Greg went back into the archives and pulled some Rush Limbaugh classics, including George Washington's first Thanksgiving Proclamation, Rush reading from his second book, See, I Told You So, and also explaining why he created the Rush Revere children's book series.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, I'm Klay Travis and I'm Buck Sexton. You know
what we're thankful for this year?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
All of you.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
That's right. We have the best radio audience in the country,
hands down. Sending a big, warm and happy Thanksgiving from
the Clay and Buck Show.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Welcome to a special edition of After Hours with producer.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Ali and producer Greg. Happy Thanksgiving, Greg, Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Ali.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
We wanted to put together a special holiday sort of
podcast for you and after ours Easter Egg that talked
about the importance of Thanksgiving to this program and the
audience you.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Rush had a couple traditions on Thanksgiving Eve.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Yeah. Absolutely, We've started some of our own sort of
things here at the Clay and Buck Show, but a
lot of people ask for those things that Rush revisited
time and again, and a lot of them were timeless.
The stories that he told and why he told them,
and those sorts of things. So that's what we're going
to give you today on this day of thanks.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
One was reading George Washington's first Thanksgiving Proclamation, which we're
going to play for you first. The other was Rush
telling the true story of Thanksgiving, a fan favorite every year.
For those that don't know the title of Rush's first book,
The Way Things Ought to Be. The title of his
second book, See I Told You So had a chapter
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called Dead White Guys or what the history books Never
told You? The True Story of Thanksgiving? And every year,
without fail, he would read this story. And I don't
know about you, Greg, but it felt new each year.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
It was always something that people really loved and people
still ask me about all the time.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
The audience really look forward to it as they prepared
to celebrate Thanksgiving and get the house ready cook. It
was just a fun Thanksgiving Eve tradition and really summed
up the holiday for the show.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Absolutely, And it's a lot of things that people really
didn't know about the history of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
But first, let's play him reading George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
This is one of my favorites because this is something
that I had not heard either until really listening to
this show Rush the Rush Show and working on the
show so and being able to actually hear Rush read
it and then listening to it lends it some life
and it's better than just reading it on a page.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
George Washington Thanksgiving proclamation, first one, and this dovetails with
the theme of the day the true story of Thanksgiving.
This is George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation, first one, establishing the
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Thanksgiving holiday as a distinct and unique American holiday. I'm
going to read it to you in toto. It's not
that long. Whereas excuse me, Whereas it is the duty
of all nations to knowledge the providence of Almighty God,
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to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits,
and humbly to implore his protection and favor. And whereas
both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested
me to recommend to the people of the United States
a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed
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by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal flavors of
Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to
establish a form of government for their safety and happiness. Now, therefore,
I do recommend and assign Thursday, the twenty sixth day
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of November next, to be devoted by the people of
these States to the service of that great and glorious Being,
who is the beneficent author, beneficent author of all the
good that was, that is, or that will be. That
we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our
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sincere and humble thanks for his kind care and protection
of the people of this country previous to their becoming
a nation, for the signal and manifold mercies and the
favorable interpositions of His providence which we experienced in the tranquility,
the union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed, for
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the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been
enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness,
and particularly the national one now lately instituted, for the
civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and
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the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge,
and in general, for all the grant in various favors
which God hath been pleased to confer upon us. And
also that we may then unite in most humbly offering
our prayers and supplications to the Great Lord and Ruler
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of nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and
other transgressions, to enable us all, whether in public or
private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly
and punctually, to render our national government a blessing to
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all the people, by constantly being a government of wise,
just and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed,
to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations, especially such
as have shown kindness unto us, and to bless them
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with good government, good peace, and conquered, to promote the
knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the
increase of science among them and us, and generally to
grant under all mankinds such a degree of temporal prosperity
as God alone knows to be best given under my hand.
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At the City of New York, the third day of October,
in the year of our Lord, seventeen eighty nine, George Washington,
How many of you have heard that our founders were
not religious, that they were atheists or agnostics. They really
didn't have much to do with religion at all. That
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is George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation, thanking God in practically
every sentence of it, for the establishment of our Constitution,
for the establishment of our government, our good government, for.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
The safety and well being of our people, for blessing
the United States of America. This is how far we
have strayed.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
A speech like this or a thanksgiving proclamation like this,
why there would be hell to pay the American left.
You imagine Donald Trump reading this proclamation in the name
of George Washington. You imagine that happening. You imagine the
reaction the American left with Dabord talking about civil rights violations,
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separation of church and state, forcing religion on people. Of course,
this was not forcing religion any but this is simply
an acknowledgment by the first president of the United States
the role God played in the establishment of this country
for which he was there, for which he participated.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Put in context of some of what's happening today, it
kind of gives you the chills.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
It really is something that if you stop and really
think about, it's amazing that back then they were able
to focus on what was really so important, especially with
everything that was going on. So, yeah, it's an amazing
being able to bring it up into today and to
be able to hear it again now it's excellent and
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they hear Rush say it again.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
That's I was gonna say. It's really warming to hear
his voice.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Yes, it really is.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Okay, let's listen to him reading from C I told
you so, and the true story of Thanksgiving. Next.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Oh, that sounds great, Let's do that now. The real
story of Thanksgiving. And I wasn't even taught the whole version,
like everybody. I was taught a sanitized modern version that
has elements of political correctness and multicultural, isn't it. I
was taught that Thanksgiving was about the Pilgrims being saved
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from starvation and deprivation by the loving, good hearted, compassionate
and carrying stewards of the earth, the Indians. The Pilgrims
didn't know how to grow corn, food, maize, popcorn, anything
of the sort. When they got here, the Indians showed
them all of that. And Thanksgiving was the Pilgrims inviting
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the Indians over for dinner to thank the Indians for
saving them. The Native Americans. Everybody's been taught a version
of that. But ladies and gentlemen, it isn't true. The
story the Pilgrims begins in the early part of the
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seventeenth century. For those of you in Riolinda, that would
be the sixteen hundreds. The Church of England under King
James was persecuting anybody and everybody who did not recognize
its absolute civil and spiritual authority. The government was God,
the government was the religion, the government was the church.
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And those who challenged that, those who believed strongly in
freedom of worship, were hunted down. They were imprisoned and
sometimes executed for their religious beliefs. In sixteen hundreds, England,
so a group of separatists, people that didn't want any
part of this, they'd had it their limit, first fled
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to Holland. That's right. The Pilgrims did not come on
the same route as the Titanic. They didn't come from England.
They fled to Holland, and they established a community there,
and after eleven years, forty of them agreed to make
the journey to what was then called the New World,
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where they knew they would certainly face hardships, but the
promise was that they could live and worship God according
to the dictates of their own consciences, the belief and
freedom of religion. To engage in this kind of activity
in order to be able to do it, to be
able to cross an ocean to a place you have
no idea what to expect, just to be able to
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worship as you choose. So August first, sixteen twenty the
Mayflower set sailed. There were one hundred two passengers, including
forty Pilgrims. The whole the whole ship was not Pilgrims,
forty of them. They were led by a man named
William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement,
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a contract that established well what it was with socialism,
just and equal laws for all members of the new community,
quote unquote, irrespective of their religious beliefs. Where did the
revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from? These
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are religious people. They came from the Bible. The Pilgrims
were a people that were completely steeped in the lessons
of the Old New Testaments. And the Pilgrims looked to
the ancient Israelites for their example, and because of the
biblical precedents in scripture, they didn't doubt their experiment would work.
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They were people with incredible faith. The journey to the
New World was long, it was arduous. When they landed
in New England in November, according to Bradford's journal, they
found a cold, barren, desolate wilderness, no friends to greet them,
no dock, no motel six, no gas stations, no strip
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nothing rocks and coastline, no houses. There were no hotels,
no inns, and the sacrifice they had made for freedom
was just beginning. During the first winter, half of them died,
including William Bradford's own wife, of either starvation, sickness, or
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when spring finally came. Indians native Americans did indeed teach
the settlers how to plant corn, how to fish for cod,
skin beavers, for coats. Life improved for the pilgrims, but
they didn't prosper, not yet. Now this is important to
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understand because this is where modern American history listens in.
This is what the modern Thanksgiving story is. Pilgrims show up,
don't know what they're doing, nothing for them, no place
to stay, They're starving. The Indians fed them, showed them
how to feed themselves and make coats and stay warm,
and Thanksgiving happened. That's not the story. That's not why
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the pilgrims gave thanks That's not why George Washington proclaimed
the first Thanksgiving holiday. The Indians did indeed help them,
and they learned how to plant corn, and they had
a big feast, and we celebrate that today. But Thanksgiving
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is actually explained in textbooks as a holiday for which
the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives.
Rather than what it was. The pilgrims Thanksgiving was a
thanks to God for helping them in their belief in
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Him and Scripture into arranging their affairs and forming their
colony in a way that ultimately they could survive. And
if you doubt this, go look at George Washington's first
Thanksgiving proclamation when Thanksgiving became a national holiday. And I've
got it here, and I might even share excerpts from
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it before we're through here today. But let me move on.
You cannot escape the fact that Thanksgiving was a national
holiday rooted in thanking God for America. That was George
Washington's purpose. Thanksgiving was to thank God for America for
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everything that had happened leading to the founding of America.
Everything Washington and many of the founders felt divine inspiration
throughout the entire period of time following the Pilgrim's arrival.
Now here's the part that's been omitted from the textbooks.
Remember that original contract that the Pilgrims all signed aboard
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the Mayflower. Well, they had merchant sponsors, they didn't have
any money. They had people paying them sponsoring their trip.
They didn't have the money to make the trip themselves.
These sponsors were in Holland and London. They had to
be repaid. So that contract called for everything the pilgrims
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produced to go into a common store, a single bank account,
if you will, and each member of the community was
entitled to an equal share.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Of the gross This was fair, This was equal.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
This was same. All the land they cleared, the houses
they built, they belonged to the community as well. Nobody
owned anything. Everything was owned by the community. Everybody equals
share to all of it. They were going to distribute
it equally. Everybody would get the same. Everybody would be
the same. All the land they cleared, the houses they built,
belonged to the community. Nobody owned anything. It was a commune.
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It was Humboldt County, California, minus the weed. They even
had organic vegetables. Now William Bradford, who had become the
new governor of the colony, recognized that this wasn't working.
They weren't making any money to pay off the sponsors.
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But you know what else was happening. Since everybody got
an equal share, no matter what, there were some lazy sloths, Yes,
some of the original Pilgrims, some of their offspring, just
sat around and did nothing all day while the others
picked up the slack. And Bradford originally, or at least
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at some point, saw this isn't gonna work, and so
they essentially tore up that first contract, which they didn't
know it, but that was socialism. And what they did
was create a new community based on what we would
call capitalism today. The more you produce, the more you
got to keep. The harder you work, the greater were
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the fruits of your labors. If you wanted a bigger
home than somebody else you could afford to build it,
you did it. You didn't have to share it. And
this this change unleashed everything, and the Pilgrims became a
going economic concern, and they experienced economic plenty, far greater
than any they had have under the previous Mayflower Compact
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arrangement contract arrangement. Bradford writes about all of this in
his journal, and it is for this that the original
Pilgrims gave thanks not to the Indian saving them, but
to God for helping them to survive and thrive in
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a place none had ever been. Okay, folks, now here's
where this gets good. William Bradford, the governor of the colony,
after abandoning the original compact and then converting to hey,
you can keep what you earn, and earn as much
as you produce. And so when free enterprise was turned
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loose in Bradford's journal, this had very good success, for
it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn
was planted than otherwise would have been. In other words,
they had economic growth. They had prosperity because there was
personal incentive. Rather than everybody getting a share of what
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other there's everybody else produced. And so the pilgrims found
that they had more food than they could eat themselves. This,
this is where what you've been told about thanksgiving enters
the picture. The Indians had more than they could share,
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the more than they could eat, more food than they
could serve each other. They invited the Indians, They set
up treading posts, They exchanged goods with the Indians, and
the profits finally allowed them to pay off the debts
to the sponsors, the merchants in London and Holland who
had sponsored them.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
But it was the.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Sharing of the bounty that was created by the change
in governing structure that led to the plenty that allowed
them to invite the Indians and share all of this
with them. That's the story most people get. But they've
mistaught that the Indians provided all the food because the
Pilgrims are incapable. It is the exact opposite. Now, they're
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just one more element of this the true story of Thanksgiving.
You may or may not have heard of the Great
Puritan Migration. That is what happened after the Pilgrim's original
two or three years setting up shop. Now, this is
fundamentally important to understand. The Great Pilgrim Migration occurred because
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of the overwhelming success at growing their community. The word
of what the Pilgrims had done spread I mean there
were ships going back and forth New World to England
and Europe all the time, and word spread of this
newfound prosperity, of this new world, of the new opportunities,
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of the religious freedom and other freedoms that had been
created after the arrival of the Pilgrims. Had none of
that happened, had the real story of Thanksgiving then that
the Pilgrims were a decrepit bunch out of place and
didn't know how to take care of themselves. And if
it weren't for the Indians, they would have died. There
would have been no reason for anybody to follow them.
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It would have been judged a failure. But it was
anything but, and it's not taught today. But the fact
of the matter is that the Pilgrims, they were not idiologs.
It wasn't that somebody said we're going to try socialism.
It's just the way they set it up. They wanted
to be fair with everybody. It was a natural thing.
We'll have a common store, everybody has one share, and
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everything we do and make goes into that bank, and
everybody gets an equal percentage of it. Well, human nature
interceded and there were some lazy people didn't do anything.
They didn't have to. They were entitled to an equal
share no matter what they did. That didn't work very long.
They set up free enterprise where the fruits of your
labor determined what you got, what you had, and what
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you're able to do, and it formed the basis of
forming the basic arrangements they had as a community. Well,
it was so successful, and that's what they gave thanks
for these were deeply religious people. They were giving thanks
for having been shown the light, and the word spread
and that began the Great Puritan Migration, and that's when
the flood of European arrivals began after the success of
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the original Plymouth Colony. That's never taught is part of
the original Thanksgiving story.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
It never gets old, Greg.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
No, it doesn't. And even if you've heard again the
same version over and over again, you hear the new
little things in it, and it's just again. To hear
him tell the story and to hear his voice again
is great.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Rush later went on to write a whole series of
children's books, the Rush Revere series, which were a lot
of fun. Liberty was my personal favorite character. In the
first book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, he goes
into more detail about the Native Americans who helped the
arriving Pilgrims and what that story actually is and how
the true story of Thanksgiving has been obscured over time.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
The Rush Revere time travel Adventures with Exceptional American series
up to book five. Now specify these are not children's
books per se. These are hardcover novels. They're not picture books.
They're not coloring books. They are actual, substantive historical novels
that have as their purpose the teaching of the truth
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of the founding of the United States of America, to
do battle with what's occurring in the public schools. You know,
the greatest illustration that I can think of where that's
gone wrong is nobody knows what the electoral college is for.
We had a call yesterday, very nice woman who has
four kids, one of them millennial, the oldest is a millennial,
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and they just couldn't understand what the electoral college was for.
To them, the popular vote should determine the winner of
every election, not just the president, but every election, and
the fact that it doesn't determine the winner of the
presidential election is nothing she can tell them. She tried
everything to explain the electoral college to them, but they
she couldn't convince. So she called me to ask me
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two things. She wanted to know why in the presidential
election in every state we can't apportion states like we
do during primaries. I told her the answer to that,
and then I gave her some helpful hints in explaining
to her children why the electoral college is a brilliant construction.
Now it's not taught. The founding of this country isn't taught.
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American history, for real is not taught. It has been
replaced by a multicultural curriculum, and the primary textbook used
in American history today, in high school especially, is written
by a Marxist by the name of Howard Zinn. It
really is criminal what American history has become in the
public school system, all of it in kindergarten on up.
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And the proof of this is how few people understand
the elector college. And the reason they misunderstand there don't
even know the electoral college is because they don't know,
you're gonna laugh. They don't know that the United States
is not a democracy. If you don't know that, if
you can't understand why the US is not a democracy,
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you will never understand the electoral college. If you think
the United States is structured so that in every vote
the majority rules, then you and that's what a majority
of democracy is, you'll never understand the electoral college. Well,
even though we haven't written about the electoral college yet,
in the Rush Revere series, we are tackling the actual
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history of the United States and the founders, and we
started with the Pilgrims, and the most recent book, Rush
Revere in the Presidency is about the first Presidency, and
that's George Washington and how that all came to be
after the Revolutionary War, after the Declaration of Independence. Because
what's taught now in schools is the the United States
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is guilty of things. United States is guilty of discrimination,
it's guilty of persecution, guilty of racism, sexism, and the
history curriculum does not teach the virtues of America, does
not teach the greatness of America because it doesn't assume
that there is much. It instructs young people with what's
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wrong with their country from the viewpoint of people who
don't like America to begin with. And that's why we're
doing the Rush Revere time Travel Adventures with Exceptional American
series because this is a labor of love for us
combined with a deep commitment to do what we can
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to get the truth of this country's founding and the
greatness of this country into the minds of as many
young people as we can. And this book, as I say,
these books are not written for five year olds or
six year olds. We even have adults, parents and grandparents
who read these books with their kids, who tell us
they're learning things they didn't know because of what they
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were taught things they were taught. So it's a golden
opportunity for us. And we've just had such success with
these books. And as you know, I don't do signings
and I don't I don't promote the book on other
programs on TV. It's just here that I talk about
you all make it all happen. I just needed to
take some time here to once again thank you so
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much for and for those of you who knew in
tuning in and may not even know about this, I
wanted to alert you to it. But for those of
you who are regular members of the audience, I want
to do again thank you for what you are making happen,
making our effort successful. We donate all kinds of books
the homeschool groups, we donate them to public libraries. We're
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doing everything we can to get this book as widely
distributed as we can so as to counter the drivel
that passes for American history today. And this whole electoral
college confusion, you can trace it directly to how American
history is taught, is taught, and how it is misunderstood,
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how the entire electoral process is misunderstood, and how so
many people don't even know what a republic is versus
a democracy. You really think that democracy is majority rule
and that's what we have here, and that democracy is
morality and it isn't. One of the greatest illustrations you
want pure democracy. Try this. We have a group of people.
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We have four It's going to be an extreme example,
but this is how people. Remember you have seven people
in a room, four men, three women. One of the
men raising, I submit that we all have sex with
the women. Put it up for vote. The three women
say no, the four men say yes. Guess what happens
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in a democracy? The women submit they lost. Well, obviously
that's not what we have here. We do not have
a democracy in that sense democracy pure majority rule. We
have protections against such tyranny, which is what that is
democratic tyranny. You can have tyranny with democracy. That's why
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the founding of this country, in the assembly of it
is so so brilliant, But it's not taught now these books,
the history. In these books, we have a talking horse
that time travels. Rush Revere me. I'm a substitute teacher.
It's my horse. We can time travel anywhere we want
in American history. Horse has that magic. So in this book,
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one of the kids, one of the students in the
history class, running for class president for all the wrong reasons.
Wants to be cool, wants to be hip, wants to
be popular, and Rush Revere me recognizes the problem, and
so we time travel back and have the presidency explained
by George Washington. So we take the historical event of
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Washington's presidency and we explain it by taking the reader
right to it and immersing the reader in the event
to make it interesting, to make it real, and then
relate it to modern day.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
He never had kids of his own, but he raised
scores of Rush babies all over the country and left
such a huge impact on so many that are now adults.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
I agree. And the number of young people who used
to call the show, who were reading Rush Revere and
just getting into learning about that sort of thing, and
whose favorite character was Liberty and wanted to talk to
mister Limbaugh about that. It was great. It was just
to be able to, you know, because he Rush conquered
radio and media and the adult audience, and then to
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be able to do something else so successfully and approach
the younger audience children. Just an amazing feat.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
And that Liberty character. I always felt that that was
actually Rush. Like people would say, oh, a substitute teacher
that played Rush Revere, that's Rush, And I said, no,
I think it's Liberty because he's a bit of a
smart alec is goofy fun but he kind of there
was something about that character that I said, this is
really Rush.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Yeah, I could. I could definitely see that that definitely
impish sort of side of Rush coming through there.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yeah, we hear on the Clay and Buck Show are
developing some traditions of our own with the program, Greg,
what are some of your family traditions.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Well, we like to sit around and go around and
ask everybody to find one thing that they're thankful for
that they've been thankful for this year, and just to
share it with everybody.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Yeah, it's important because it helps connect everybody with the family,
and it's, you know, a nice way for sharing because
not everybody you know, You may see everybody often or
maybe only a couple of times a year, but you
don't always have all the details. So to be able
to hear somebody tell their story is a nice thing too.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Is it a big family gathering for you?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
It depends. It depends on the year. I mean some
years are bigger than others. Yeah, I mean eight ten
people thereabouts usually, how about you?
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Well, I was going to say one of the traditions
we do at the Clay and Buck show is hold
the string on the turkey.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Right, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Yes, that's a fun staff game. It's actually not even
just the klaym Buck team that plays the game. It's
the whole floor here.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
And you really were the catalysts behind this, and everybody
has really come together around it. It's become one of
the fun things that brings us all together. So thank
you for starting that tradition and continuing it on every year.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Yeah, we always have to have some goofy traditions. It's
basically a turkey hat that I cut a bunch of
holes into the top and put strings and they're attached
to little envelopes and everyone pulls a string and there's
something in the envelope or something good. Yeah, something good,
something not so good.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
It doesn't look like a turkey turkey, it looks like
a cooked turkey though. I mean it's right. It's so
it's it's not like it's a bird like President Trump
was pardoning, you know that sort of thing. It actually
looks like something you might find on your dinner table.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
It's not wattle or gobble, but the whole point behind it.
It's sort of like one of those kid games when
you play it at the amusement park with a giant
claw that goes in and it scoops something up. Lots
of envelopes attached to the string, and some envelopes have
salt and pepper in them, the others might have one
hundred dollars bill.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
But it's a good way to bring everybody together because
again it brings everybody from the our floor and other
floors and different parts of the staff, and it builds
some nice camaraderie.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Yeah. Sometimes you have the IT department, the engineering department,
you have our show, the Hannity Show, you have people,
and the marketing department an entirely different floor. So it's
just a way to bring everyone together.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Our amazing utility staff. Yeah, just phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
That's right right down to the mill room for us. Yes, exactly,
bring everyone up, have a little string pulling and yeah,
some giggles.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
And it always gets us ready for the Christmas tradition
which is coming up, which will tell you about in
a couple of weeks, so stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
That's right. I think that's a wrap on this rep
on special Thanksgiving podcast. We hope you enjoyed listening to
Rush retelling the story trying to keep that tradition going,
even if in podcasts form, because we're creating new traditions
on the Clay and Buck Show.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Absolutely, we hope that you have a happy Thanksgiving, a
safe Thanksgiving with all of your family or friends or
whatever however it is that you're celebrating today. But relax
and enjoy, watch a little football, eat too much, and
don't worry.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
That's right. From all of us at the Clay and
Buck Show. Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Clay Travis with the Clay and Buck Show wishing you
and your family a warm and blessed Thanksgiving. Hey, everybody,
it's Buck Sexton. From all of us in the Clay
and Buck family. Happy Thanksgiving,
Hey, I'm Klay Travis and I'm Buck Sexton. You know
what we're thankful for this year?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
All of you.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
That's right. We have the best radio audience in the country,
hands down. Sending a big, warm and happy Thanksgiving from
the Clay and Buck Show.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Welcome to a special edition of After Hours with producer.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Ali and producer Greg. Happy Thanksgiving, Greg, Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Ali.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
We wanted to put together a special holiday sort of
podcast for you and after ours Easter Egg that talked
about the importance of Thanksgiving to this program and the
audience you.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Rush had a couple traditions on Thanksgiving Eve.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Yeah. Absolutely, We've started some of our own sort of
things here at the Clay and Buck Show, but a
lot of people ask for those things that Rush revisited
time and again, and a lot of them were timeless.
The stories that he told and why he told them,
and those sorts of things. So that's what we're going
to give you today on this day of thanks.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
One was reading George Washington's first Thanksgiving Proclamation, which we're
going to play for you first. The other was Rush
telling the true story of Thanksgiving, a fan favorite every year.
For those that don't know the title of Rush's first book,
The Way Things Ought to Be. The title of his
second book, See I Told You So had a chapter
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called Dead White Guys or what the history books Never
told You? The True Story of Thanksgiving? And every year,
without fail, he would read this story. And I don't
know about you, Greg, but it felt new each year.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
It was always something that people really loved and people
still ask me about all the time.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
The audience really look forward to it as they prepared
to celebrate Thanksgiving and get the house ready cook. It
was just a fun Thanksgiving Eve tradition and really summed
up the holiday for the show.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Absolutely, And it's a lot of things that people really
didn't know about the history of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
But first, let's play him reading George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
This is one of my favorites because this is something
that I had not heard either until really listening to
this show Rush the Rush Show and working on the
show so and being able to actually hear Rush read
it and then listening to it lends it some life
and it's better than just reading it on a page.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
George Washington Thanksgiving proclamation, first one, and this dovetails with
the theme of the day the true story of Thanksgiving.
This is George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation, first one, establishing the
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Thanksgiving holiday as a distinct and unique American holiday. I'm
going to read it to you in toto. It's not
that long. Whereas excuse me, Whereas it is the duty
of all nations to knowledge the providence of Almighty God,
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to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits,
and humbly to implore his protection and favor. And whereas
both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested
me to recommend to the people of the United States
a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed
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by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal flavors of
Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to
establish a form of government for their safety and happiness. Now, therefore,
I do recommend and assign Thursday, the twenty sixth day
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of November next, to be devoted by the people of
these States to the service of that great and glorious Being,
who is the beneficent author, beneficent author of all the
good that was, that is, or that will be. That
we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our
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sincere and humble thanks for his kind care and protection
of the people of this country previous to their becoming
a nation, for the signal and manifold mercies and the
favorable interpositions of His providence which we experienced in the tranquility,
the union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed, for
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the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been
enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness,
and particularly the national one now lately instituted, for the
civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and
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the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge,
and in general, for all the grant in various favors
which God hath been pleased to confer upon us. And
also that we may then unite in most humbly offering
our prayers and supplications to the Great Lord and Ruler
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of nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and
other transgressions, to enable us all, whether in public or
private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly
and punctually, to render our national government a blessing to
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all the people, by constantly being a government of wise,
just and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed,
to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations, especially such
as have shown kindness unto us, and to bless them
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with good government, good peace, and conquered, to promote the
knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the
increase of science among them and us, and generally to
grant under all mankinds such a degree of temporal prosperity
as God alone knows to be best given under my hand.
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At the City of New York, the third day of October,
in the year of our Lord, seventeen eighty nine, George Washington,
How many of you have heard that our founders were
not religious, that they were atheists or agnostics. They really
didn't have much to do with religion at all. That
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is George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation, thanking God in practically
every sentence of it, for the establishment of our Constitution,
for the establishment of our government, our good government, for.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
The safety and well being of our people, for blessing
the United States of America. This is how far we
have strayed.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
A speech like this or a thanksgiving proclamation like this,
why there would be hell to pay the American left.
You imagine Donald Trump reading this proclamation in the name
of George Washington. You imagine that happening. You imagine the
reaction the American left with Dabord talking about civil rights violations,
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separation of church and state, forcing religion on people. Of course,
this was not forcing religion any but this is simply
an acknowledgment by the first president of the United States
the role God played in the establishment of this country
for which he was there, for which he participated.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Put in context of some of what's happening today, it
kind of gives you the chills.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
It really is something that if you stop and really
think about, it's amazing that back then they were able
to focus on what was really so important, especially with
everything that was going on. So, yeah, it's an amazing
being able to bring it up into today and to
be able to hear it again now it's excellent and
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they hear Rush say it again.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
That's I was gonna say. It's really warming to hear
his voice.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Yes, it really is.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Okay, let's listen to him reading from C I told
you so, and the true story of Thanksgiving. Next.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Oh, that sounds great, Let's do that now. The real
story of Thanksgiving. And I wasn't even taught the whole version,
like everybody. I was taught a sanitized modern version that
has elements of political correctness and multicultural, isn't it. I
was taught that Thanksgiving was about the Pilgrims being saved
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from starvation and deprivation by the loving, good hearted, compassionate
and carrying stewards of the earth, the Indians. The Pilgrims
didn't know how to grow corn, food, maize, popcorn, anything
of the sort. When they got here, the Indians showed
them all of that. And Thanksgiving was the Pilgrims inviting
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the Indians over for dinner to thank the Indians for
saving them. The Native Americans. Everybody's been taught a version
of that. But ladies and gentlemen, it isn't true. The
story the Pilgrims begins in the early part of the
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seventeenth century. For those of you in Riolinda, that would
be the sixteen hundreds. The Church of England under King
James was persecuting anybody and everybody who did not recognize
its absolute civil and spiritual authority. The government was God,
the government was the religion, the government was the church.
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And those who challenged that, those who believed strongly in
freedom of worship, were hunted down. They were imprisoned and
sometimes executed for their religious beliefs. In sixteen hundreds, England,
so a group of separatists, people that didn't want any
part of this, they'd had it their limit, first fled
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to Holland. That's right. The Pilgrims did not come on
the same route as the Titanic. They didn't come from England.
They fled to Holland, and they established a community there,
and after eleven years, forty of them agreed to make
the journey to what was then called the New World,
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where they knew they would certainly face hardships, but the
promise was that they could live and worship God according
to the dictates of their own consciences, the belief and
freedom of religion. To engage in this kind of activity
in order to be able to do it, to be
able to cross an ocean to a place you have
no idea what to expect, just to be able to
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worship as you choose. So August first, sixteen twenty the
Mayflower set sailed. There were one hundred two passengers, including
forty Pilgrims. The whole the whole ship was not Pilgrims,
forty of them. They were led by a man named
William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement,
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a contract that established well what it was with socialism,
just and equal laws for all members of the new community,
quote unquote, irrespective of their religious beliefs. Where did the
revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from? These
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are religious people. They came from the Bible. The Pilgrims
were a people that were completely steeped in the lessons
of the Old New Testaments. And the Pilgrims looked to
the ancient Israelites for their example, and because of the
biblical precedents in scripture, they didn't doubt their experiment would work.
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They were people with incredible faith. The journey to the
New World was long, it was arduous. When they landed
in New England in November, according to Bradford's journal, they
found a cold, barren, desolate wilderness, no friends to greet them,
no dock, no motel six, no gas stations, no strip
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nothing rocks and coastline, no houses. There were no hotels,
no inns, and the sacrifice they had made for freedom
was just beginning. During the first winter, half of them died,
including William Bradford's own wife, of either starvation, sickness, or
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when spring finally came. Indians native Americans did indeed teach
the settlers how to plant corn, how to fish for cod,
skin beavers, for coats. Life improved for the pilgrims, but
they didn't prosper, not yet. Now this is important to
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understand because this is where modern American history listens in.
This is what the modern Thanksgiving story is. Pilgrims show up,
don't know what they're doing, nothing for them, no place
to stay, They're starving. The Indians fed them, showed them
how to feed themselves and make coats and stay warm,
and Thanksgiving happened. That's not the story. That's not why
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the pilgrims gave thanks That's not why George Washington proclaimed
the first Thanksgiving holiday. The Indians did indeed help them,
and they learned how to plant corn, and they had
a big feast, and we celebrate that today. But Thanksgiving
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is actually explained in textbooks as a holiday for which
the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives.
Rather than what it was. The pilgrims Thanksgiving was a
thanks to God for helping them in their belief in
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Him and Scripture into arranging their affairs and forming their
colony in a way that ultimately they could survive. And
if you doubt this, go look at George Washington's first
Thanksgiving proclamation when Thanksgiving became a national holiday. And I've
got it here, and I might even share excerpts from
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it before we're through here today. But let me move on.
You cannot escape the fact that Thanksgiving was a national
holiday rooted in thanking God for America. That was George
Washington's purpose. Thanksgiving was to thank God for America for
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everything that had happened leading to the founding of America.
Everything Washington and many of the founders felt divine inspiration
throughout the entire period of time following the Pilgrim's arrival.
Now here's the part that's been omitted from the textbooks.
Remember that original contract that the Pilgrims all signed aboard
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the Mayflower. Well, they had merchant sponsors, they didn't have
any money. They had people paying them sponsoring their trip.
They didn't have the money to make the trip themselves.
These sponsors were in Holland and London. They had to
be repaid. So that contract called for everything the pilgrims
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produced to go into a common store, a single bank account,
if you will, and each member of the community was
entitled to an equal share.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Of the gross This was fair, This was equal.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
This was same. All the land they cleared, the houses
they built, they belonged to the community as well. Nobody
owned anything. Everything was owned by the community. Everybody equals
share to all of it. They were going to distribute
it equally. Everybody would get the same. Everybody would be
the same. All the land they cleared, the houses they built,
belonged to the community. Nobody owned anything. It was a commune.
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It was Humboldt County, California, minus the weed. They even
had organic vegetables. Now William Bradford, who had become the
new governor of the colony, recognized that this wasn't working.
They weren't making any money to pay off the sponsors.
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But you know what else was happening. Since everybody got
an equal share, no matter what, there were some lazy sloths, Yes,
some of the original Pilgrims, some of their offspring, just
sat around and did nothing all day while the others
picked up the slack. And Bradford originally, or at least
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at some point, saw this isn't gonna work, and so
they essentially tore up that first contract, which they didn't
know it, but that was socialism. And what they did
was create a new community based on what we would
call capitalism today. The more you produce, the more you
got to keep. The harder you work, the greater were
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the fruits of your labors. If you wanted a bigger
home than somebody else you could afford to build it,
you did it. You didn't have to share it. And
this this change unleashed everything, and the Pilgrims became a
going economic concern, and they experienced economic plenty, far greater
than any they had have under the previous Mayflower Compact
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arrangement contract arrangement. Bradford writes about all of this in
his journal, and it is for this that the original
Pilgrims gave thanks not to the Indian saving them, but
to God for helping them to survive and thrive in
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a place none had ever been. Okay, folks, now here's
where this gets good. William Bradford, the governor of the colony,
after abandoning the original compact and then converting to hey,
you can keep what you earn, and earn as much
as you produce. And so when free enterprise was turned
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loose in Bradford's journal, this had very good success, for
it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn
was planted than otherwise would have been. In other words,
they had economic growth. They had prosperity because there was
personal incentive. Rather than everybody getting a share of what
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other there's everybody else produced. And so the pilgrims found
that they had more food than they could eat themselves. This,
this is where what you've been told about thanksgiving enters
the picture. The Indians had more than they could share,
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the more than they could eat, more food than they
could serve each other. They invited the Indians, They set
up treading posts, They exchanged goods with the Indians, and
the profits finally allowed them to pay off the debts
to the sponsors, the merchants in London and Holland who
had sponsored them.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
But it was the.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Sharing of the bounty that was created by the change
in governing structure that led to the plenty that allowed
them to invite the Indians and share all of this
with them. That's the story most people get. But they've
mistaught that the Indians provided all the food because the
Pilgrims are incapable. It is the exact opposite. Now, they're
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just one more element of this the true story of Thanksgiving.
You may or may not have heard of the Great
Puritan Migration. That is what happened after the Pilgrim's original
two or three years setting up shop. Now, this is
fundamentally important to understand. The Great Pilgrim Migration occurred because
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of the overwhelming success at growing their community. The word
of what the Pilgrims had done spread I mean there
were ships going back and forth New World to England
and Europe all the time, and word spread of this
newfound prosperity, of this new world, of the new opportunities,
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of the religious freedom and other freedoms that had been
created after the arrival of the Pilgrims. Had none of
that happened, had the real story of Thanksgiving then that
the Pilgrims were a decrepit bunch out of place and
didn't know how to take care of themselves. And if
it weren't for the Indians, they would have died. There
would have been no reason for anybody to follow them.
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It would have been judged a failure. But it was
anything but, and it's not taught today. But the fact
of the matter is that the Pilgrims, they were not idiologs.
It wasn't that somebody said we're going to try socialism.
It's just the way they set it up. They wanted
to be fair with everybody. It was a natural thing.
We'll have a common store, everybody has one share, and
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everything we do and make goes into that bank, and
everybody gets an equal percentage of it. Well, human nature
interceded and there were some lazy people didn't do anything.
They didn't have to. They were entitled to an equal
share no matter what they did. That didn't work very long.
They set up free enterprise where the fruits of your
labor determined what you got, what you had, and what
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you're able to do, and it formed the basis of
forming the basic arrangements they had as a community. Well,
it was so successful, and that's what they gave thanks
for these were deeply religious people. They were giving thanks
for having been shown the light, and the word spread
and that began the Great Puritan Migration, and that's when
the flood of European arrivals began after the success of
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the original Plymouth Colony. That's never taught is part of
the original Thanksgiving story.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
It never gets old, Greg.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
No, it doesn't. And even if you've heard again the
same version over and over again, you hear the new
little things in it, and it's just again. To hear
him tell the story and to hear his voice again
is great.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Rush later went on to write a whole series of
children's books, the Rush Revere series, which were a lot
of fun. Liberty was my personal favorite character. In the
first book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, he goes
into more detail about the Native Americans who helped the
arriving Pilgrims and what that story actually is and how
the true story of Thanksgiving has been obscured over time.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
The Rush Revere time travel Adventures with Exceptional American series
up to book five. Now specify these are not children's
books per se. These are hardcover novels. They're not picture books.
They're not coloring books. They are actual, substantive historical novels
that have as their purpose the teaching of the truth
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of the founding of the United States of America, to
do battle with what's occurring in the public schools. You know,
the greatest illustration that I can think of where that's
gone wrong is nobody knows what the electoral college is for.
We had a call yesterday, very nice woman who has
four kids, one of them millennial, the oldest is a millennial,
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and they just couldn't understand what the electoral college was for.
To them, the popular vote should determine the winner of
every election, not just the president, but every election, and
the fact that it doesn't determine the winner of the
presidential election is nothing she can tell them. She tried
everything to explain the electoral college to them, but they
she couldn't convince. So she called me to ask me
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two things. She wanted to know why in the presidential
election in every state we can't apportion states like we
do during primaries. I told her the answer to that,
and then I gave her some helpful hints in explaining
to her children why the electoral college is a brilliant construction.
Now it's not taught. The founding of this country isn't taught.
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American history, for real is not taught. It has been
replaced by a multicultural curriculum, and the primary textbook used
in American history today, in high school especially, is written
by a Marxist by the name of Howard Zinn. It
really is criminal what American history has become in the
public school system, all of it in kindergarten on up.
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And the proof of this is how few people understand
the elector college. And the reason they misunderstand there don't
even know the electoral college is because they don't know,
you're gonna laugh. They don't know that the United States
is not a democracy. If you don't know that, if
you can't understand why the US is not a democracy,
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you will never understand the electoral college. If you think
the United States is structured so that in every vote
the majority rules, then you and that's what a majority
of democracy is, you'll never understand the electoral college. Well,
even though we haven't written about the electoral college yet,
in the Rush Revere series, we are tackling the actual
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history of the United States and the founders, and we
started with the Pilgrims, and the most recent book, Rush
Revere in the Presidency is about the first Presidency, and
that's George Washington and how that all came to be
after the Revolutionary War, after the Declaration of Independence. Because
what's taught now in schools is the the United States
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is guilty of things. United States is guilty of discrimination,
it's guilty of persecution, guilty of racism, sexism, and the
history curriculum does not teach the virtues of America, does
not teach the greatness of America because it doesn't assume
that there is much. It instructs young people with what's
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wrong with their country from the viewpoint of people who
don't like America to begin with. And that's why we're
doing the Rush Revere time Travel Adventures with Exceptional American
series because this is a labor of love for us
combined with a deep commitment to do what we can
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to get the truth of this country's founding and the
greatness of this country into the minds of as many
young people as we can. And this book, as I say,
these books are not written for five year olds or
six year olds. We even have adults, parents and grandparents
who read these books with their kids, who tell us
they're learning things they didn't know because of what they
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were taught things they were taught. So it's a golden
opportunity for us. And we've just had such success with
these books. And as you know, I don't do signings
and I don't I don't promote the book on other
programs on TV. It's just here that I talk about
you all make it all happen. I just needed to
take some time here to once again thank you so
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much for and for those of you who knew in
tuning in and may not even know about this, I
wanted to alert you to it. But for those of
you who are regular members of the audience, I want
to do again thank you for what you are making happen,
making our effort successful. We donate all kinds of books
the homeschool groups, we donate them to public libraries. We're
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doing everything we can to get this book as widely
distributed as we can so as to counter the drivel
that passes for American history today. And this whole electoral
college confusion, you can trace it directly to how American
history is taught, is taught, and how it is misunderstood,
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how the entire electoral process is misunderstood, and how so
many people don't even know what a republic is versus
a democracy. You really think that democracy is majority rule
and that's what we have here, and that democracy is
morality and it isn't. One of the greatest illustrations you
want pure democracy. Try this. We have a group of people.
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We have four It's going to be an extreme example,
but this is how people. Remember you have seven people
in a room, four men, three women. One of the
men raising, I submit that we all have sex with
the women. Put it up for vote. The three women
say no, the four men say yes. Guess what happens
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in a democracy? The women submit they lost. Well, obviously
that's not what we have here. We do not have
a democracy in that sense democracy pure majority rule. We
have protections against such tyranny, which is what that is
democratic tyranny. You can have tyranny with democracy. That's why
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the founding of this country, in the assembly of it
is so so brilliant, But it's not taught now these books,
the history. In these books, we have a talking horse
that time travels. Rush Revere me. I'm a substitute teacher.
It's my horse. We can time travel anywhere we want
in American history. Horse has that magic. So in this book,
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one of the kids, one of the students in the
history class, running for class president for all the wrong reasons.
Wants to be cool, wants to be hip, wants to
be popular, and Rush Revere me recognizes the problem, and
so we time travel back and have the presidency explained
by George Washington. So we take the historical event of
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Washington's presidency and we explain it by taking the reader
right to it and immersing the reader in the event
to make it interesting, to make it real, and then
relate it to modern day.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
He never had kids of his own, but he raised
scores of Rush babies all over the country and left
such a huge impact on so many that are now adults.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
I agree. And the number of young people who used
to call the show, who were reading Rush Revere and
just getting into learning about that sort of thing, and
whose favorite character was Liberty and wanted to talk to
mister Limbaugh about that. It was great. It was just
to be able to, you know, because he Rush conquered
radio and media and the adult audience, and then to
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be able to do something else so successfully and approach
the younger audience children. Just an amazing feat.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
And that Liberty character. I always felt that that was
actually Rush. Like people would say, oh, a substitute teacher
that played Rush Revere, that's Rush, And I said, no,
I think it's Liberty because he's a bit of a
smart alec is goofy fun but he kind of there
was something about that character that I said, this is
really Rush.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Yeah, I could. I could definitely see that that definitely
impish sort of side of Rush coming through there.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yeah, we hear on the Clay and Buck Show are
developing some traditions of our own with the program, Greg,
what are some of your family traditions.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Well, we like to sit around and go around and
ask everybody to find one thing that they're thankful for
that they've been thankful for this year, and just to
share it with everybody.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Yeah, it's important because it helps connect everybody with the family,
and it's, you know, a nice way for sharing because
not everybody you know, You may see everybody often or
maybe only a couple of times a year, but you
don't always have all the details. So to be able
to hear somebody tell their story is a nice thing too.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Is it a big family gathering for you?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
It depends. It depends on the year. I mean some
years are bigger than others. Yeah, I mean eight ten
people thereabouts usually, how about you?
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Well, I was going to say one of the traditions
we do at the Clay and Buck show is hold
the string on the turkey.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Right, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Yes, that's a fun staff game. It's actually not even
just the klaym Buck team that plays the game. It's
the whole floor here.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
And you really were the catalysts behind this, and everybody
has really come together around it. It's become one of
the fun things that brings us all together. So thank
you for starting that tradition and continuing it on every year.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Yeah, we always have to have some goofy traditions. It's
basically a turkey hat that I cut a bunch of
holes into the top and put strings and they're attached
to little envelopes and everyone pulls a string and there's
something in the envelope or something good. Yeah, something good,
something not so good.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
It doesn't look like a turkey turkey, it looks like
a cooked turkey though. I mean it's right. It's so
it's it's not like it's a bird like President Trump
was pardoning, you know that sort of thing. It actually
looks like something you might find on your dinner table.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
It's not wattle or gobble, but the whole point behind it.
It's sort of like one of those kid games when
you play it at the amusement park with a giant
claw that goes in and it scoops something up. Lots
of envelopes attached to the string, and some envelopes have
salt and pepper in them, the others might have one
hundred dollars bill.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
But it's a good way to bring everybody together because
again it brings everybody from the our floor and other
floors and different parts of the staff, and it builds
some nice camaraderie.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Yeah. Sometimes you have the IT department, the engineering department,
you have our show, the Hannity Show, you have people,
and the marketing department an entirely different floor. So it's
just a way to bring everyone together.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Our amazing utility staff. Yeah, just phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
That's right right down to the mill room for us. Yes, exactly,
bring everyone up, have a little string pulling and yeah,
some giggles.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
And it always gets us ready for the Christmas tradition
which is coming up, which will tell you about in
a couple of weeks, so stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
That's right. I think that's a wrap on this rep
on special Thanksgiving podcast. We hope you enjoyed listening to
Rush retelling the story trying to keep that tradition going,
even if in podcasts form, because we're creating new traditions
on the Clay and Buck Show.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Absolutely, we hope that you have a happy Thanksgiving, a
safe Thanksgiving with all of your family or friends or
whatever however it is that you're celebrating today. But relax
and enjoy, watch a little football, eat too much, and
don't worry.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
That's right. From all of us at the Clay and
Buck Show. Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Clay Travis with the Clay and Buck Show wishing you
and your family a warm and blessed Thanksgiving. Hey, everybody,
it's Buck Sexton. From all of us in the Clay
and Buck family. Happy Thanksgiving,
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