November 26, 2025 • 40 mins
On this special Thanksgiving edition of the Todd Huff Show, Todd tells the true story of Thanksgiving you didn’t learn in public school. He walks through the faith and sacrifice of the Pilgrims, their fight for religious liberty, the brutal first winter, the providential role of Squanto, and the moment Governor William Bradford rejected forced socialism and embraced private property and free market capitalism. Todd explains how this shift unleashed prosperity, helped spark the Great Puritan Migration, and still shapes American life and freedom today. Plus, he connects the Pilgrims’ gratitude to God with our own need to remember the real source of our blessings.
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Well greeting's my friends on this very special edition of
The Todd Huff Show. It's a pleasure to be here.
This is I'm not supposed to have favorite episodes, but
I do, and this is my favorite episode of the year.
This is our special episode where we tell the true
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story of Thanksgiving. I love it. I'm not sorry that
I love it. I guess I'm sorry that I have
a favorite favorite episode. This is it, and I'll tell
you why as we get into the program today. But
thank you for tuning in with us today and for
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of Thanksgiving? Let me tell you off the top here.
I first heard this story as a listener to Rush
Limbaugh's program. Roughly I started listening in nineteen ninety nine,
so somewhere twenty five twenty six years ago that I
first would have heard this story. This He told this
story the day today, the day before Thanksgiving every year.
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It was my favorite episode of his, which was saying
a lot because I admired him in ways I can't
truly express. He first shared this story in his book
See I Told You So, which I have a copy of.
And so we'll just kind of go through this, And
again I want to tell you I'm not trying to
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steal what Rush did. I'm trying to do two things.
Number One, honor his memory and his legacy. Number two,
continue the tradition of making sure that we pass along
one of the greatest lessons we can get from a
historical event in the concerning the foundation of this country,
which matters tremendously in our ability to navigate political issues
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of the times and to teach the next generation the
truth about the blessings we have in this great nation. So,
if you were like me, if you were like Rush,
what you probably learned in public school about Thanksgiving WinCE
something like this. A group of people called the Pilgrims
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found their way to America somehow, landing on Plymouth Rock
December twenty second, sixteen to twenty maybe December twenty first, again,
we'll get in. There's some questions about little details, but
December of sixteen twenty the Native Americans, the Indians, came
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along and saved the Pilgrims. Because the Pilgrims didn't know
how to do things like grow food or catch beavers
or whatever they had to do to survive. And then
the Pilgrims had this big celebratory feast where they thanked
the Native Americans for saving their lives. And then, of
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course the lesson that is often taught today is without
the Indians, there wouldn't be a country, there wouldn't be
a people. They all would have died out that first year,
but at least the Pilgrims paid them back before the
rest of the the Europeans came along and stole all
their land. But this is not at all the story
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of Thanksgiving. Certainly, some Indians Native Americans helped the Pilgrims,
and I'll talk a little bit about Squanto here in
a minute, But the bottom line here is that more
and more people, because of Rush and his telling of
this story and making sure people understood it, more and
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more people are learning this real story of Thanksgiving, and
it is spreading. So let's get some historical context. King
James the First was King of England during this timeframe,
during the sixteen hundreds, when the Pilgrims would have made
their way to the New World. The lesson that we
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are going to learn here is that socialism failed then
and it will fail again each and every time it
is tried. So in the sixteen hundreds, King James the
First was persecuting those who did not recognize the state
churches of power, of absolute power and civil authority, and
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so back in those days, and this is what the
pilgrims were fleeing. A lot of people were fleeing. This
was the lack of religious freedom. You had to belong
to or adhere to the teachings of the Church of England,
the government's church. You couldn't have your own sect or denomination,
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and you were persecuted. In fact, if you opposed the
Church of England, the state church, you were hunted down
and punished, sometimes severely punished. And so a group of separatists,
these were people who wanted religious freedom. They wanted to
be separate from the Church of England. They fled from
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to Holland, got Old Holland over there they were there
for eleven years. About forty of those individuals agreed to
go to the New World, to America for religious liberty,
and so one hundred and two total people set voyage
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on the Mayflower. About forty forty one of those were
the Pilgrims and the separatists. They knew they were going
to face hardship. Folks, as I tell this story, one
of the things we're going to talk about is the
extreme hardship that they faced. They knew they were going
to face hardship. I don't know that they knew that
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they would face it to the degree that they fate
that they dealt with it. I don't think that they
were prepared for that. They certainly well, they certainly weren't
prepared for it, as we will find out. But they
knew that they were going to have difficulties, maybe even
severe difficulties. But living this is the lesson. You know,
for people, there's many lessons tucked within the greater lesson,
but this perhaps is one of those key lessons. Living
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freely and worshiping God according to their own beliefs, to
their own consciences outweighed, outweighed whatever lack of hardship they
were dealing with in Europe. You know, you don't know
what it's, what you've got until it's gone.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Too.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Many Americans today we live in this Listen. I understand
we all have difficulties. I understand that there are still
many problems we are dealing with in this country. I
understand that times have been tough and we're still digging
out of a massive hole that has been created by
these broken ideological well the broken worldview and broken promises
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that are given to us, bestowed upon us by these leftists,
and that every person this side of Heaven experiences loss
and tragedy. Some losses is just part of life, the
loss of loved ones, the loss of health, things like that, divorce,
financial turmoil, whatever. And there's also there's also other situations
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that you know that maybe don't just fall into that bucket.
But in addition to just the normal difficulties of life,
the Pilgrims knew that by coming to the New World,
it was going to be hard, it was not going
to be easy, but it was worth it. It was
worth it for them to live freely, to worship God
according to their own conscience. And so they made this
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journey across the Atlantic Ocean. William Bradford. When they finally
landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, by the way, they were way
far north of where they intended to make landfall. But
when they land or as they were on the ship.
They were on the ship for a while. At the
beginning of the program, I mentioned the exact date of landing.
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It was a little bit there's a little bit of
a question mark as to when they actually landed because
they were in on the ship right off the shore
for some period of time, several weeks kind of hammering
out this Mayflower finishing. I guess the agreements of the
Mayflower Compact, that was the laws that they all agreed
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to live by. Those laws, by the way. Those laws,
by the way, came from the Bible. That's important too
for other conversations we're having in our current culture. But
the Pilgrims were devoutly religious. It wasn't just something they
did on Sundays. This their faith changed the people that
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they were, the way that it impacted, the way that
they lived their lives, the things that they did, the
things that they found to be worthy of pursuit. These
individuals were devout. They had a great faith and trust
in God, and they looked to the biblical example of
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the Israelites as their example. They looked to the scriptures
for lessons and teachings and things that they could implement
in their lives. They never doubted that they would get
to the New World and survive and even thrive. They
landed again November December. Again, understand, they were there for
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several weeks before they actually put foot on the ground,
but they landed in November, further north than where they
first anticipated. So this time of year, more or less,
it was cold. It was barren. There was desolate wilderness.
There was not a walmart. There wasn't a target. There
wasn't a seven eleven. There weren't highways, there weren't hotels.
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There weren't restaurants, restaurant change, local pubs. There was nothing
but the cold, hard realities of nature in the Northeast
during this time of year, and the colder weather was coming.
It was going to get colder. When they landed it
was cold, it was going to get colder, more extreme,
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and they were in for one heck of a winter.
They had no shelter of any kind, nothing existed for
them to just take up refuge in. They didn't have
a city to go to. It was barren, it was desolate,
it was cold. It was late in the year. Winter
was upon them, and the sacrifice they had made, the
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sacrifice they had made for their freedom to worship. This
is what they this is what they gave up, This
is what they willingly stepped into. Against some of the details.
The extreme uh, the extremity of the weather was a
little bit different because they missed their their target sight
and so forth. But they knew that this is what
they wanted. They chose that freedom over over the safety
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and comforts of life in Europe. But this was just
the beginning. That first winter claimed the lives of half
of the pilgrims. Let that sink in so you land
in November of sixteen twenty. By spring a near mere
what ninety one hundred days whatever later, one hundred and
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twenty days later, maybe they lost half. Half of the
people who were in their group of Pilgrims were suddenly dead.
One of those deceased individuals was Dorothy Bradford. She was
the wife of Governor Bradford. So even the governor's wife,
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the leader of the group, his wife, did not make
it that first winner. It was brutal survivor those first
few months in the new world. It was brutal. Spring
finally came, and I'm sure it seemed like forever. My friends,
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the Pilgrims met the Native Americans. Those Native Americans helped
them plant crops, they helped them hunt beaver fish, all
that kind of stuff. And one of those individuals, one
of those local natives, was an individual named Squanto. And
I just want to tell you a little bit about
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Squanto because it's it's an interesting story, and he certainly
helped the Pilgrims. There's no doubt that the Native Americans
helped the Pilgrims. The Native Americans helped them survive, and
there's no doubt the Pilgrims were grateful for those lessons.
And we'll get into all this, but that's not the
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end of the story. That's not the true story ultimately
of what was learned here. So Squanto's real name was Tisquantum.
He belonged to the Patuxet, a band within the Wampanoag Confederacy,
and his village, the Patuxet Village, was located exactly where
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the Pilgrims would later found the city of Plymouth, Massachusetts
now Squanto in sixteen fourteen. Keep in mind, we're landing.
The Pilgrims landed in Plymouth in sixteen twenty, but in
sixteen fourteen, Squanto was kidnapped by an Englishman by the
name of Thomas Hunt. Thomas Hunt kidnapped him, took him
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to Spain and then had taken him there to sell
him into slavery. He was saved. Squanto was saved by
some spry friars in Spain. They helped him escape and
he still Squanto traveled to England. He lived with merchants,
and in that process he became fluent in English. He
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became able to speak obviously he's living over there now
crazy circumstances. He was freed living over there and learned
the language. This made him very uniquely able to communicate
with the Pilgrims, who of course came speaking English. Now
Squanto returned not ironically, or I guess you could see
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ironically sometime between sixteen nineteen, either in sixteen nineteen or
sixteen twenty. And when he returned so that the timing
he returns right as the Pilgrims are about to land there,
he found that his entire tribe, his entire tribe had
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died from a plague, probably something like smallpox, that was
carried unknowingly by these sets, and he effectively became the
last Peduxit native American. Now, he was there when the
Pilgrims landed, when they were in dire straits that spring
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after that first unbearable winner, they met him. Of course
he spoke English. He was able to teach them how
to grow corn, how to fish, how to do all
those things, hunt beavers, all that stuff, Understand the local seasons,
understand the planning seasons, all that sort of thing. And
he served as a translator between the Pilgrims and other
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Native Americans. He helped negotiate peace, he helped work out
trade agreements. I mean, this guy was the Donald J.
Trump of the time. I said that for Oz. No
reaction over there by Oz. But Bradford said of him.
For Governor Bradford said of him later in one of
his diaries, his journals, he said that Squanto was quote
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a special instrument sent of God for their good. So again,
a lot of circumstances led to some pretty incredible little
details like that. But even with his help, now he
was critically important. Do not misunderstand me. There's still even
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a greater lesson, A wonderful lesson with with Squanto can
be learned. But there's even a greater lesson that many
Americans miss and we're getting to it. But even with
that help, which was critically important, they still didn't thrive
and prosper They survived, half of them did, and Squanto
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helped them to be better prepared for the next winter,
but that still wasn't the lesson. But this is where
the story typically ends, right. You get to through the
planting season, the harvest season of sixteen twenty one, and
you know, Squanto the other local Native Americans had helped
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the pilgrims to grow food and learn how to survive
off the land and that sort of thing. And so
there's this Thanksgiving, and it's often portrayed as a feast
of gratitude for the locals for helping to save their lives.
But this is not really it at all. This is
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in a sense what happened. But that was in no
way the final real deal. In fact, even the first Thanksgiving,
which was in sixteen twenty one after the harvest, it
was a devout expression of gratitude from the pilgrims to
God for their survival and prosperity. Now, the Pilgrims were thankful,
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as I even read a quote from Bradford's diary there
talking about Squantor. They were thankful for Squanto, they were
thankful for the Native Americans, but their gratitude begins and
ends with God. You know, I was listening this Sunday
at church. Our pastor. We have an interim pastor as
we look for a full time pastor at our church.
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But he's done a wonderful job. I think the world
of this guy, the interim pastor, and he was talking
about this very thing. We were talking about gratitude, and
he made the point to say to say that all
good things and he's right on this. You know this already,
but you just need to hear it. I need to
hear it, be reminded of it. All good things find
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their source in God. All good things left to our
own devices. Folks, we're incapable. I know some people are
reluctant to believe that. And there are degrees from a
human perspective, there certainly are degrees to evil, but we're
not We're not capable of good on our own. Are
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all good finds at its source God? And so that's
why ultimately the Pilgrims were thankful to God. They were
thankful for Squanto, but they were thankful to God. To
God as the one who showed gave them help that
came through to Squanto. They saw this as a divinely
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orchestrated sort of event. But that's not the end of
the story. So there's more to learn, more to get to.
I'm gonna pause here because there's just a lot to
get through and I have to I don't want to
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Let me just set this up. I want to talk
about when we get back the economics system that the
Pilgrims were forced into. We're going to talk about what
they learned from the first economic system they were forced into,
and what happened when Governor Bradford decided to flip that
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all on its head. So that's well out of in
a way. I don't want to say desperation, because they
were still trusting in God, but out of in a way,
out of desperation. So timeout is in order. My friends,
We're going through the true story of Thanksgiving. See you
on the other side of the break. Welcome back, my friends.
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about the economic system the Pilgrims were forced into. They had.
The Pilgrims had sponsors in London and in Holland. These
were called merchant sponsors. These sponsors demanded that everything the
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Pilgrims had in their culture and their society and their community,
everything that was produced, would be put into a common store,
and everyone had an equal share in that common store,
in that bank, and they were going to distribute it equally.
Now it might not have ended up in there equally,
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but this again from each according to his ability, to
each according to his needs. That was the direction this
was leaning. So all the land, all the houses, everything
belonged to everyone. Community in the community, the common store,
it was a bank, a community, whatever you want to
call it. No one owned anything, no one owned anything.
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It was a commune. And as Rush would say, this
was a forerunner to the communes of the nineteen sixties,
in the nineteen seventies, and that's not literal, but there's
certainly some commonalities. So Bradford realized this wasn't going to work.
After getting through dealing with that first winter and realizing
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just as they were adjusting and figuring out life in
the new world, he realized this wasn't going to work,
so he decided to take bold action. He realized that
socialism had failed them miserably, and what he decided to
do was a bit novel at the time. He decided
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he was going to assign to each family its own
plot of land within their commune, within their community, and
then every family was given the ability to do with
that land whatever they wanted. And what this did is
this unleashed the powers of free market capitalism. See Bradford
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had learned, as we all have learned, or we should
have learned, that socialism kept people from working hard and
being innovative. In fact, this is a line from his
own journal, and this is a quote. So the English
is going to be a little bit different than what
we're used to today. But here's what it says for
this community. So far as it was found to breed
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much confusion and discontent and retard much employment that would
have been to their benefit and comfort. For young men
who were most able and fit for labor and service
sat around and did nothing, should spend their time and
strength to work for other men's wives and children without
being paid for it. It was thought to be injustice.
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Why work for other people. In other words, they realized, hey,
why am I getting up and busting my hump when
all that I produce is going to be enjoyed by
another person, another family, not my family, or a portion
of it. I'm giving away more than I'm I'm not
getting proportionately what I'm producing. And so what's the incentive here?
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And this this was a bad, bad problem, especially in
a place in a new world, where you had to
be productive or you could literally die. It was necessary
for there to be some form of incentive. The Pilgrims
unharnessed the power of free enterprise the principle of private
property by making these changes instituted by Governor Bradford. Bradford
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also wrote this. After implementing these changes, he said, this
had very good success, for it made listen to this,
all hands industrious, for as much more corn was planted
than otherwise would have been. So suddenly, he said, look,
when people realized that they could reap the rewards of
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their labor, they produced more corn. In fact, he said,
it made people so industrious that there was so much
more planted than would have been otherwise, so they could do.
But what they wanted to do with the land right.
They could produce more corn, they could sell it, they
could trade it, they could stock it up for themselves,
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whatever they had to do. No more of this shared
commune crap where not many people worked very hard. They've
done studies of this. I don't know if you've seen
the studies where if there's a common field, people pick
the crop before it is fully ripened, so you're getting
less yield from a field because what happens is when
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you're going through that field and you realize this isn't mine,
this is everybody else's. I'm going to pick something that
isn't quite ready to be picked because someone else may
pick it before I get my chance to get back
in here, and then what am I going to have?
They're worried that there's not enough, because there isn't enough
in socialism, this is the lesson. So when profit was introduced,
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it grew like gangbusters. The Native Americans did not bring
to the pilgrims prosperity. They helped them. But this discovery,
what we're talking about that Governor Bradford implemented, this is
what ultimately worked. It was ultimately their own industriousness. It
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was ultimately their own hard work, their own incentive to
be wiser, to make improvements. That is what ultimately made
the change. Plus these profits allowed them. Remember those merchants,
what were the the the drawing a blank here the
merchant sponsors. There we go their merchant sponsors. Remember those
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sponsors that paid for these trips in London and Highland.
These folks, the profits were what they used to pay
these debts off, to get that debt off of their shoulders.
And not only that, the Great Puritan Migration resulted after
this period of time, which of course there were other factors.
I'm not here to say that it was just the
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prosperity of the Pilgrims, but it would be naive to
say that this was not the Great Purioit of migration
was not at least fueled in part by the success
of the Pilgrims. When they saw that this group of
people went over there and succeeded, paid off their debtors,
and had prosperity, this was an added incentive, added incentive,
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i should say, for people to get to the New World,
and as a result, the Great Puritan Migration took place.
Prosperity became an added motivation for people that were already
looking to flee. Remember, get that religious religious liberty to
get out of the persecuted world of Europe. That was
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enough to move them. But this, for some helped to
just give them a little bit more reason to get
to the new world. It's that lesson, this lesson that
William Bradford learned after giving people their own plots of land,
letting them be prosperous, allowing them to be free, allowing
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them to work under the rules of free market capitalism.
That is what William Bradford and the Pilgrims thanked God
for during what we'll find out is the second Thanksgiving.
They thank God for their prosperity. The Native Americans certainly
saved in that first winter or after that first winter,
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and helped the Pilgrims, no doubt about it, but they
did not make them prosperous. This change is what made
them prosperous. So they had a second Thanksgiving in sixteen
twenty three. You'll realize there wasn't a second Thanksgiving in
sixteen twenty two, but there is one in sixteen twenty three.
That was the second Thanksgiving, So sixteen twenty one was
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number one. Sixteen twenty three was the second one. So
sixteen twenty three, they had been living under free market
capitalism now for two years. So they had been surviving
in the early times, but now they were prospering. Now
they were prospering. They stopped, they overturned, they flipped that
investor's rule that said everyone had to have an equal share.
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They established private property rights, they established a capitalistic system.
Great provisions were the result. And then not only that,
but once you have enough provision to where people can specialize. Right,
I built an economy to where this guy is good
at building houses, this guy is good at raising livestock.
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We all can become specialists. That leads to even more prosperity,
which of course is further down the road from where
the Pilgrims were. But that's the direction. They were laying
the foundation for those things to happen. The real story,
my friends, with Thanksgiving is not complete until you understand
that second Thanksgiving, which I'm going to talk about in
our last segment, which I'm out of time for here now,
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got to take a quick time out, my friends. You're
listening here to conservative not better talk. I'm your host,
Todd huff Back in just a minute Welcome back, my friends.
This is my favorite episode of the year. I hope
you enjoy it as well. I love talking about this
for lots of reasons. I outline those off the top
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of the program, and I'm going to wrap it up
here in this our final segments of this particular program.
But friends, before I do that, let's talk about something
that's important your money. Your money. Today we've been talking
about the Pilgrim's prosperity their money. Let's talk about your
money today. You've worked hard for it, but is it
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my friends, to come live in a land of religious liberty,
to flee religious persecution. They put their money where their
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So before the break, we introduced the Second Thanksgiving. This
wasn't called at the time the Second Thanksgiving, but Bradford,
Governor Bradford, if you read it in his journals, you'll
hear him talking about a day of humiliation and prayer.
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There was a drought that summer in sixteen twenty three,
and they they had a day of humiliation and prayer,
pleading with God to end the drought. And later on
they had a day of Thanksgiving after after the rains came.
So the pilgrims were devout. They sought God. I mean God, Listen,
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you don't know what God can do until God is
all you have. And God was all the pilgrims had.
They certainly had help from the Native Americans, and I
don't want that part to get lost because that is important.
But what is dramatically more important is the provision provided
by God and the lessons that they learned through their difficulties. Friends,
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we lose. You know, a lot of us just want
pain and difficulty to stop. I can attest to this personally.
There's pain is as C. S. Lewis said, pain is
God's megaphone. It's an opportunity for us to learn. It's
an opportunity for him to speak truth into our lives.
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And that's what happened here. That's what happened here. The
first Thanksgiving was about simple survival. They were grateful that
they made it through half of them died. Remember that
first winter. The second Thanksgiving two years later, my friends,
wasn't just about survival anymore. It was about prosperity. They
had learned a lesson that would change the trajectory of
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life on this planet as we know it, life in
this country as we know it, and it radically transformed,
radically transformed the living conditions, the all the life expectancy.
All these things can be traced back. Many things can
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be traced back to the lessons that were learned the
pillars by others as well. But this is a wonderful
story that goes perfectly hand in hand with this Thanksgiving season.
And they thanked God. They thanked God, understanding that these
things all come from their creator. The prophets allowed them
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to pay off their debts and encouraged others to come
to the New world. It marked the beginning of the
great Puritan migration of the sixteen hundreds of my friends.
It's a wonderful story. The story of Thanksgiving is not
complete if we stop after the first Thanksgiving. We must
understand what happened from that first winter through through the
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summer and early fall sixteen twenty three to get the
full picture. So I hope that this has helped to
put that into perspective, or to remind you, my friends,
of what had to happen for us for us to
have what we have today. Remarkable sacrifice by the pilgrims. Friends.
Let me take a moment here in the final minutes,
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the final minute or so that I have here on
this program will be out tomorrow and Friday. I did
produce a new Todd talk, so you'll hear if you
want to hear the Todd Talk. There's one of those
on Friday, but we'll be out tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day and Friday.
Let me say to you my personal gratitude, and this
is I gotta say. This is hard for me, not
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hard for me to say it, but it gets me
every stinking time every year. I am thankful, my friends.
I am thankful for you, the listener of this program.
You mean the world to me when I hear from you,
when you send an emails, when you whatever, I am
grateful for you. This would be one hundred percent impossible
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without you. I am grateful for those who advertise on
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I'm grateful, grateful for the stations, Grateful for the team
here at the Todd Show. Grateful for my wife, who
does more than any of you. May fully recognize that
I recognize sees of course Oz here in the studio.
But most importantly, most importantly, I'm thankful to God, my Creator,
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my Savior. He's the one, my friends, that we should
all ultimately be thankful to, as the Pilgrims were all
those many years ago. So friends, have a happy Thanksgiving.
I will see you on Monday. SDG
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of Thanksgiving? Let me tell you off the top here.
I first heard this story as a listener to Rush
Limbaugh's program. Roughly I started listening in nineteen ninety nine,
so somewhere twenty five twenty six years ago that I
first would have heard this story. This He told this
story the day today, the day before Thanksgiving every year.
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It was my favorite episode of his, which was saying
a lot because I admired him in ways I can't
truly express. He first shared this story in his book
See I Told You So, which I have a copy of.
And so we'll just kind of go through this, And
again I want to tell you I'm not trying to
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steal what Rush did. I'm trying to do two things.
Number One, honor his memory and his legacy. Number two,
continue the tradition of making sure that we pass along
one of the greatest lessons we can get from a
historical event in the concerning the foundation of this country,
which matters tremendously in our ability to navigate political issues
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of the times and to teach the next generation the
truth about the blessings we have in this great nation. So,
if you were like me, if you were like Rush,
what you probably learned in public school about Thanksgiving WinCE
something like this. A group of people called the Pilgrims
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found their way to America somehow, landing on Plymouth Rock
December twenty second, sixteen to twenty maybe December twenty first, again,
we'll get in. There's some questions about little details, but
December of sixteen twenty the Native Americans, the Indians, came
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along and saved the Pilgrims. Because the Pilgrims didn't know
how to do things like grow food or catch beavers
or whatever they had to do to survive. And then
the Pilgrims had this big celebratory feast where they thanked
the Native Americans for saving their lives. And then, of
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course the lesson that is often taught today is without
the Indians, there wouldn't be a country, there wouldn't be
a people. They all would have died out that first year,
but at least the Pilgrims paid them back before the
rest of the the Europeans came along and stole all
their land. But this is not at all the story
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of Thanksgiving. Certainly, some Indians Native Americans helped the Pilgrims,
and I'll talk a little bit about Squanto here in
a minute, But the bottom line here is that more
and more people, because of Rush and his telling of
this story and making sure people understood it, more and
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more people are learning this real story of Thanksgiving, and
it is spreading. So let's get some historical context. King
James the First was King of England during this timeframe,
during the sixteen hundreds, when the Pilgrims would have made
their way to the New World. The lesson that we
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are going to learn here is that socialism failed then
and it will fail again each and every time it
is tried. So in the sixteen hundreds, King James the
First was persecuting those who did not recognize the state
churches of power, of absolute power and civil authority, and
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so back in those days, and this is what the
pilgrims were fleeing. A lot of people were fleeing. This
was the lack of religious freedom. You had to belong
to or adhere to the teachings of the Church of England,
the government's church. You couldn't have your own sect or denomination,
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and you were persecuted. In fact, if you opposed the
Church of England, the state church, you were hunted down
and punished, sometimes severely punished. And so a group of separatists,
these were people who wanted religious freedom. They wanted to
be separate from the Church of England. They fled from
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to Holland, got Old Holland over there they were there
for eleven years. About forty of those individuals agreed to
go to the New World, to America for religious liberty,
and so one hundred and two total people set voyage
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on the Mayflower. About forty forty one of those were
the Pilgrims and the separatists. They knew they were going
to face hardship. Folks, as I tell this story, one
of the things we're going to talk about is the
extreme hardship that they faced. They knew they were going
to face hardship. I don't know that they knew that
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they would face it to the degree that they fate
that they dealt with it. I don't think that they
were prepared for that. They certainly well, they certainly weren't
prepared for it, as we will find out. But they
knew that they were going to have difficulties, maybe even
severe difficulties. But living this is the lesson. You know,
for people, there's many lessons tucked within the greater lesson,
but this perhaps is one of those key lessons. Living
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freely and worshiping God according to their own beliefs, to
their own consciences outweighed, outweighed whatever lack of hardship they
were dealing with in Europe. You know, you don't know
what it's, what you've got until it's gone.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Too.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Many Americans today we live in this Listen. I understand
we all have difficulties. I understand that there are still
many problems we are dealing with in this country. I
understand that times have been tough and we're still digging
out of a massive hole that has been created by
these broken ideological well the broken worldview and broken promises
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that are given to us, bestowed upon us by these leftists,
and that every person this side of Heaven experiences loss
and tragedy. Some losses is just part of life, the
loss of loved ones, the loss of health, things like that, divorce,
financial turmoil, whatever. And there's also there's also other situations
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that you know that maybe don't just fall into that bucket.
But in addition to just the normal difficulties of life,
the Pilgrims knew that by coming to the New World,
it was going to be hard, it was not going
to be easy, but it was worth it. It was
worth it for them to live freely, to worship God
according to their own conscience. And so they made this
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journey across the Atlantic Ocean. William Bradford. When they finally
landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, by the way, they were way
far north of where they intended to make landfall. But
when they land or as they were on the ship.
They were on the ship for a while. At the
beginning of the program, I mentioned the exact date of landing.
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It was a little bit there's a little bit of
a question mark as to when they actually landed because
they were in on the ship right off the shore
for some period of time, several weeks kind of hammering
out this Mayflower finishing. I guess the agreements of the
Mayflower Compact, that was the laws that they all agreed
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to live by. Those laws, by the way. Those laws,
by the way, came from the Bible. That's important too
for other conversations we're having in our current culture. But
the Pilgrims were devoutly religious. It wasn't just something they
did on Sundays. This their faith changed the people that
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they were, the way that it impacted, the way that
they lived their lives, the things that they did, the
things that they found to be worthy of pursuit. These
individuals were devout. They had a great faith and trust
in God, and they looked to the biblical example of
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the Israelites as their example. They looked to the scriptures
for lessons and teachings and things that they could implement
in their lives. They never doubted that they would get
to the New World and survive and even thrive. They
landed again November December. Again, understand, they were there for
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several weeks before they actually put foot on the ground,
but they landed in November, further north than where they
first anticipated. So this time of year, more or less,
it was cold. It was barren. There was desolate wilderness.
There was not a walmart. There wasn't a target. There
wasn't a seven eleven. There weren't highways, there weren't hotels.
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There weren't restaurants, restaurant change, local pubs. There was nothing
but the cold, hard realities of nature in the Northeast
during this time of year, and the colder weather was coming.
It was going to get colder. When they landed it
was cold, it was going to get colder, more extreme,
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and they were in for one heck of a winter.
They had no shelter of any kind, nothing existed for
them to just take up refuge in. They didn't have
a city to go to. It was barren, it was desolate,
it was cold. It was late in the year. Winter
was upon them, and the sacrifice they had made, the
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sacrifice they had made for their freedom to worship. This
is what they this is what they gave up, This
is what they willingly stepped into. Against some of the details.
The extreme uh, the extremity of the weather was a
little bit different because they missed their their target sight
and so forth. But they knew that this is what
they wanted. They chose that freedom over over the safety
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and comforts of life in Europe. But this was just
the beginning. That first winter claimed the lives of half
of the pilgrims. Let that sink in so you land
in November of sixteen twenty. By spring a near mere
what ninety one hundred days whatever later, one hundred and
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twenty days later, maybe they lost half. Half of the
people who were in their group of Pilgrims were suddenly dead.
One of those deceased individuals was Dorothy Bradford. She was
the wife of Governor Bradford. So even the governor's wife,
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the leader of the group, his wife, did not make
it that first winner. It was brutal survivor those first
few months in the new world. It was brutal. Spring
finally came, and I'm sure it seemed like forever. My friends,
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the Pilgrims met the Native Americans. Those Native Americans helped
them plant crops, they helped them hunt beaver fish, all
that kind of stuff. And one of those individuals, one
of those local natives, was an individual named Squanto. And
I just want to tell you a little bit about
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Squanto because it's it's an interesting story, and he certainly
helped the Pilgrims. There's no doubt that the Native Americans
helped the Pilgrims. The Native Americans helped them survive, and
there's no doubt the Pilgrims were grateful for those lessons.
And we'll get into all this, but that's not the
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end of the story. That's not the true story ultimately
of what was learned here. So Squanto's real name was Tisquantum.
He belonged to the Patuxet, a band within the Wampanoag Confederacy,
and his village, the Patuxet Village, was located exactly where
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the Pilgrims would later found the city of Plymouth, Massachusetts
now Squanto in sixteen fourteen. Keep in mind, we're landing.
The Pilgrims landed in Plymouth in sixteen twenty, but in
sixteen fourteen, Squanto was kidnapped by an Englishman by the
name of Thomas Hunt. Thomas Hunt kidnapped him, took him
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to Spain and then had taken him there to sell
him into slavery. He was saved. Squanto was saved by
some spry friars in Spain. They helped him escape and
he still Squanto traveled to England. He lived with merchants,
and in that process he became fluent in English. He
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became able to speak obviously he's living over there now
crazy circumstances. He was freed living over there and learned
the language. This made him very uniquely able to communicate
with the Pilgrims, who of course came speaking English. Now
Squanto returned not ironically, or I guess you could see
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ironically sometime between sixteen nineteen, either in sixteen nineteen or
sixteen twenty. And when he returned so that the timing
he returns right as the Pilgrims are about to land there,
he found that his entire tribe, his entire tribe had
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died from a plague, probably something like smallpox, that was
carried unknowingly by these sets, and he effectively became the
last Peduxit native American. Now, he was there when the
Pilgrims landed, when they were in dire straits that spring
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after that first unbearable winner, they met him. Of course
he spoke English. He was able to teach them how
to grow corn, how to fish, how to do all
those things, hunt beavers, all that stuff, Understand the local seasons,
understand the planning seasons, all that sort of thing. And
he served as a translator between the Pilgrims and other
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Native Americans. He helped negotiate peace, he helped work out
trade agreements. I mean, this guy was the Donald J.
Trump of the time. I said that for Oz. No
reaction over there by Oz. But Bradford said of him.
For Governor Bradford said of him later in one of
his diaries, his journals, he said that Squanto was quote
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a special instrument sent of God for their good. So again,
a lot of circumstances led to some pretty incredible little
details like that. But even with his help, now he
was critically important. Do not misunderstand me. There's still even
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a greater lesson, A wonderful lesson with with Squanto can
be learned. But there's even a greater lesson that many
Americans miss and we're getting to it. But even with
that help, which was critically important, they still didn't thrive
and prosper They survived, half of them did, and Squanto
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helped them to be better prepared for the next winter,
but that still wasn't the lesson. But this is where
the story typically ends, right. You get to through the
planting season, the harvest season of sixteen twenty one, and
you know, Squanto the other local Native Americans had helped
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the pilgrims to grow food and learn how to survive
off the land and that sort of thing. And so
there's this Thanksgiving, and it's often portrayed as a feast
of gratitude for the locals for helping to save their lives.
But this is not really it at all. This is
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in a sense what happened. But that was in no
way the final real deal. In fact, even the first Thanksgiving,
which was in sixteen twenty one after the harvest, it
was a devout expression of gratitude from the pilgrims to
God for their survival and prosperity. Now, the Pilgrims were thankful,
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as I even read a quote from Bradford's diary there
talking about Squantor. They were thankful for Squanto, they were
thankful for the Native Americans, but their gratitude begins and
ends with God. You know, I was listening this Sunday
at church. Our pastor. We have an interim pastor as
we look for a full time pastor at our church.
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But he's done a wonderful job. I think the world
of this guy, the interim pastor, and he was talking
about this very thing. We were talking about gratitude, and
he made the point to say to say that all
good things and he's right on this. You know this already,
but you just need to hear it. I need to
hear it, be reminded of it. All good things find
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their source in God. All good things left to our
own devices. Folks, we're incapable. I know some people are
reluctant to believe that. And there are degrees from a
human perspective, there certainly are degrees to evil, but we're
not We're not capable of good on our own. Are
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all good finds at its source God? And so that's
why ultimately the Pilgrims were thankful to God. They were
thankful for Squanto, but they were thankful to God. To
God as the one who showed gave them help that
came through to Squanto. They saw this as a divinely
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orchestrated sort of event. But that's not the end of
the story. So there's more to learn, more to get to.
I'm gonna pause here because there's just a lot to
get through and I have to I don't want to
kind of be in the middle of this next session,
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Let me just set this up. I want to talk
about when we get back the economics system that the
Pilgrims were forced into. We're going to talk about what
they learned from the first economic system they were forced into,
and what happened when Governor Bradford decided to flip that
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all on its head. So that's well out of in
a way. I don't want to say desperation, because they
were still trusting in God, but out of in a way,
out of desperation. So timeout is in order. My friends,
We're going through the true story of Thanksgiving. See you
on the other side of the break. Welcome back, my friends.
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were called merchant sponsors. These sponsors demanded that everything the
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Pilgrims had in their culture and their society and their community,
everything that was produced, would be put into a common store,
and everyone had an equal share in that common store,
in that bank, and they were going to distribute it equally.
Now it might not have ended up in there equally,
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but this again from each according to his ability, to
each according to his needs. That was the direction this
was leaning. So all the land, all the houses, everything
belonged to everyone. Community in the community, the common store,
it was a bank, a community, whatever you want to
call it. No one owned anything, no one owned anything.
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It was a commune. And as Rush would say, this
was a forerunner to the communes of the nineteen sixties,
in the nineteen seventies, and that's not literal, but there's
certainly some commonalities. So Bradford realized this wasn't going to work.
After getting through dealing with that first winter and realizing
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just as they were adjusting and figuring out life in
the new world, he realized this wasn't going to work,
so he decided to take bold action. He realized that
socialism had failed them miserably, and what he decided to
do was a bit novel at the time. He decided
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he was going to assign to each family its own
plot of land within their commune, within their community, and
then every family was given the ability to do with
that land whatever they wanted. And what this did is
this unleashed the powers of free market capitalism. See Bradford
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had learned, as we all have learned, or we should
have learned, that socialism kept people from working hard and
being innovative. In fact, this is a line from his
own journal, and this is a quote. So the English
is going to be a little bit different than what
we're used to today. But here's what it says for
this community. So far as it was found to breed
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much confusion and discontent and retard much employment that would
have been to their benefit and comfort. For young men
who were most able and fit for labor and service
sat around and did nothing, should spend their time and
strength to work for other men's wives and children without
being paid for it. It was thought to be injustice.
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Why work for other people. In other words, they realized, hey,
why am I getting up and busting my hump when
all that I produce is going to be enjoyed by
another person, another family, not my family, or a portion
of it. I'm giving away more than I'm I'm not
getting proportionately what I'm producing. And so what's the incentive here?
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And this this was a bad, bad problem, especially in
a place in a new world, where you had to
be productive or you could literally die. It was necessary
for there to be some form of incentive. The Pilgrims
unharnessed the power of free enterprise the principle of private
property by making these changes instituted by Governor Bradford. Bradford
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also wrote this. After implementing these changes, he said, this
had very good success, for it made listen to this,
all hands industrious, for as much more corn was planted
than otherwise would have been. So suddenly, he said, look,
when people realized that they could reap the rewards of
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their labor, they produced more corn. In fact, he said,
it made people so industrious that there was so much
more planted than would have been otherwise, so they could do.
But what they wanted to do with the land right.
They could produce more corn, they could sell it, they
could trade it, they could stock it up for themselves,
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whatever they had to do. No more of this shared
commune crap where not many people worked very hard. They've
done studies of this. I don't know if you've seen
the studies where if there's a common field, people pick
the crop before it is fully ripened, so you're getting
less yield from a field because what happens is when
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you're going through that field and you realize this isn't mine,
this is everybody else's. I'm going to pick something that
isn't quite ready to be picked because someone else may
pick it before I get my chance to get back
in here, and then what am I going to have?
They're worried that there's not enough, because there isn't enough
in socialism, this is the lesson. So when profit was introduced,
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it grew like gangbusters. The Native Americans did not bring
to the pilgrims prosperity. They helped them. But this discovery,
what we're talking about that Governor Bradford implemented, this is
what ultimately worked. It was ultimately their own industriousness. It
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was ultimately their own hard work, their own incentive to
be wiser, to make improvements. That is what ultimately made
the change. Plus these profits allowed them. Remember those merchants,
what were the the the drawing a blank here the
merchant sponsors. There we go their merchant sponsors. Remember those
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sponsors that paid for these trips in London and Highland.
These folks, the profits were what they used to pay
these debts off, to get that debt off of their shoulders.
And not only that, the Great Puritan Migration resulted after
this period of time, which of course there were other factors.
I'm not here to say that it was just the
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prosperity of the Pilgrims, but it would be naive to
say that this was not the Great Purioit of migration
was not at least fueled in part by the success
of the Pilgrims. When they saw that this group of
people went over there and succeeded, paid off their debtors,
and had prosperity, this was an added incentive, added incentive,
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i should say, for people to get to the New World,
and as a result, the Great Puritan Migration took place.
Prosperity became an added motivation for people that were already
looking to flee. Remember, get that religious religious liberty to
get out of the persecuted world of Europe. That was
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enough to move them. But this, for some helped to
just give them a little bit more reason to get
to the new world. It's that lesson, this lesson that
William Bradford learned after giving people their own plots of land,
letting them be prosperous, allowing them to be free, allowing
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them to work under the rules of free market capitalism.
That is what William Bradford and the Pilgrims thanked God
for during what we'll find out is the second Thanksgiving.
They thank God for their prosperity. The Native Americans certainly
saved in that first winter or after that first winter,
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and helped the Pilgrims, no doubt about it, but they
did not make them prosperous. This change is what made
them prosperous. So they had a second Thanksgiving in sixteen
twenty three. You'll realize there wasn't a second Thanksgiving in
sixteen twenty two, but there is one in sixteen twenty three.
That was the second Thanksgiving, So sixteen twenty one was
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number one. Sixteen twenty three was the second one. So
sixteen twenty three, they had been living under free market
capitalism now for two years. So they had been surviving
in the early times, but now they were prospering. Now
they were prospering. They stopped, they overturned, they flipped that
investor's rule that said everyone had to have an equal share.
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They established private property rights, they established a capitalistic system.
Great provisions were the result. And then not only that,
but once you have enough provision to where people can specialize. Right,
I built an economy to where this guy is good
at building houses, this guy is good at raising livestock.
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We all can become specialists. That leads to even more prosperity,
which of course is further down the road from where
the Pilgrims were. But that's the direction. They were laying
the foundation for those things to happen. The real story,
my friends, with Thanksgiving is not complete until you understand
that second Thanksgiving, which I'm going to talk about in
our last segment, which I'm out of time for here now,
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got to take a quick time out, my friends. You're
listening here to conservative not better talk. I'm your host,
Todd huff Back in just a minute Welcome back, my friends.
This is my favorite episode of the year. I hope
you enjoy it as well. I love talking about this
for lots of reasons. I outline those off the top
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of the program, and I'm going to wrap it up
here in this our final segments of this particular program.
But friends, before I do that, let's talk about something
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about the Pilgrim's prosperity their money. Let's talk about your
money today. You've worked hard for it, but is it
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my friends, to come live in a land of religious liberty,
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So before the break, we introduced the Second Thanksgiving. This
wasn't called at the time the Second Thanksgiving, but Bradford,
Governor Bradford, if you read it in his journals, you'll
hear him talking about a day of humiliation and prayer.
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There was a drought that summer in sixteen twenty three,
and they they had a day of humiliation and prayer,
pleading with God to end the drought. And later on
they had a day of Thanksgiving after after the rains came.
So the pilgrims were devout. They sought God. I mean God, Listen,
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you don't know what God can do until God is
all you have. And God was all the pilgrims had.
They certainly had help from the Native Americans, and I
don't want that part to get lost because that is important.
But what is dramatically more important is the provision provided
by God and the lessons that they learned through their difficulties. Friends,
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we lose. You know, a lot of us just want
pain and difficulty to stop. I can attest to this personally.
There's pain is as C. S. Lewis said, pain is
God's megaphone. It's an opportunity for us to learn. It's
an opportunity for him to speak truth into our lives.
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And that's what happened here. That's what happened here. The
first Thanksgiving was about simple survival. They were grateful that
they made it through half of them died. Remember that
first winter. The second Thanksgiving two years later, my friends,
wasn't just about survival anymore. It was about prosperity. They
had learned a lesson that would change the trajectory of
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life on this planet as we know it, life in
this country as we know it, and it radically transformed,
radically transformed the living conditions, the all the life expectancy.
All these things can be traced back. Many things can
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be traced back to the lessons that were learned the
pillars by others as well. But this is a wonderful
story that goes perfectly hand in hand with this Thanksgiving season.
And they thanked God. They thanked God, understanding that these
things all come from their creator. The prophets allowed them
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to pay off their debts and encouraged others to come
to the New world. It marked the beginning of the
great Puritan migration of the sixteen hundreds of my friends.
It's a wonderful story. The story of Thanksgiving is not
complete if we stop after the first Thanksgiving. We must
understand what happened from that first winter through through the
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summer and early fall sixteen twenty three to get the
full picture. So I hope that this has helped to
put that into perspective, or to remind you, my friends,
of what had to happen for us for us to
have what we have today. Remarkable sacrifice by the pilgrims. Friends.
Let me take a moment here in the final minutes,
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the final minute or so that I have here on
this program will be out tomorrow and Friday. I did
produce a new Todd talk, so you'll hear if you
want to hear the Todd Talk. There's one of those
on Friday, but we'll be out tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day and Friday.
Let me say to you my personal gratitude, and this
is I gotta say. This is hard for me, not
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hard for me to say it, but it gets me
every stinking time every year. I am thankful, my friends.
I am thankful for you, the listener of this program.
You mean the world to me when I hear from you,
when you send an emails, when you whatever, I am
grateful for you. This would be one hundred percent impossible
(39:48):
without you. I am grateful for those who advertise on
this program. Friends, if you hear an advertiser on this program,
try to find a way to support those folks as well. Listen,
I'm not asking you to do chair, but if you're
if you use the products that they that they sell
and provide, try to find a way to do business
with them. The stations that allow us to be on here, friends,
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I'm grateful, grateful for the stations, Grateful for the team
here at the Todd Show. Grateful for my wife, who
does more than any of you. May fully recognize that
I recognize sees of course Oz here in the studio.
But most importantly, most importantly, I'm thankful to God, my Creator,
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my Savior. He's the one, my friends, that we should
all ultimately be thankful to, as the Pilgrims were all
those many years ago. So friends, have a happy Thanksgiving.
I will see you on Monday. SDG
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