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Stephen K. Bannon (0:09)
We've come to the time in the season when family and friends gather near to offer a prayer of thanksgiving for blessings we've known through the years to join hands and thank the Creator now when Thanksgiving is due and this year when I count my blessings I'm thanking the Lord he made you this year when I count my blessings I'm thanking the Lord he made you I'm grateful for the laughter of children the sun and the wind and the rain the color of blue in your sweet eyes the sight of a high ballen train the moon rise over a prairie and old love that you've made new and this year when I count my blessings Thanking the Lord he made you this year when I count my blessings I'm thanking the Lord he made you and when the time comes to be going it won't be in sorrow and tears I'll kiss you goodbye and I'll go on the way Grateful for all of the years I thank for all that you gave me for teaching me what love can do and Thanksgiving Day for the rest of my life and thanking the Lord he made you Thanksgiving Day for the rest of my life Thanking the Lord he made you.
Co-host or Guest (possibly Johnny Khan or another contributor) (2:47)
Okay, welcome back. This is the second hour of our morning show Thanksgiving special. Really want to thank real America's Voice. The team, our team in Denver headed up by Wendell and of course the team in Palm beach want to thank all the team and both the production entities there, of course, our own production team and Grace and Mo and Jane and Natalie and the entire gang. That puts us together. I want to thank Rob and Parker Sig. They're fantastic network to be associated with. So couldn't be happier. I talked about this, the book the cousins. Oh, I haven't talked about it. The cousins War. I think it was Kevin Phillips who wrote this book called the new emerging Republican Majority. I don't know, 40 or 50 years ago. He was a political thinker, strategist and a very brilliant guy. But he, I think he also, I think it's the same guy who wrote the book the Cousins War. And it really tracks both the English and the American versions of the interconnections of what were going on with the English Civil War and all the way up through our civil War and really quite frankly to the day between this group called that were spiritually driven which were the Puritans and the pilgrims and what part of England they came from and how they were the folks in back of Cromwell and anti the king, King Charles and how the cavaliers were part of King Charles and they were the entrepreneurs. They had the spiritual people, the dissenters, the folks that were even against the Church of England, the established order of the Church of England. They thought that was too close to the Catholic Church with rituals and iconography and all that. And you had the Cavaliers who were very entrepreneurial, kind of drove the British and the British Empire had that kind of those tensions and those forces of both the missionary element of it and the folks who put forward the bringing of the good news of Jesus Christ throughout the world. The missionaries and kind of this pilgrim spirit with the entrepreneurs and the people that eventually, you know, help build the British Empire. And it came through the United States in the south, and particularly in South Carolina and Virginia, more the entrepreneurs. Not that they didn't have a lot of very religious folks in there, particularly associated with the Anglican Church or the Episcopal Church, it was called here, I guess, in the United States and in New England with the Pilgrims and the Puritans. And that led to eventually the abolition movement up in New England. What led to the Revolution? You had kind of two aspects. The revolution started up in Boston, right? Started up in Boston, but it was finished down South. It was finished really in South Carolina, the Low Countries. And then the war can continue up all the way to Yorktown and finished finish right there near Williamsburg at Yorktown, Virginia, and defeating the Royal Navy off the Virginia Capes later in the Civil War. The abolition movement kind of coming from New England and of course the hardcore states rights or the pro slavery, pro slavery element of it coming from South Carolina, particularly the. The landed aristocracy and the wealthy aristocracy down there in the plantation. The plantation kind of deep cotton South. Fascinating book about American history and how it kind of rolls through even today. You see kind of the progressive forces and you have this kind of populist nationalist movement that sprung out of the south and really aspects of what we call the parts of the. The Midwest, the Intermountain West, I guess you would call it the Intermountain west up in Wyoming and Montana and Idaho. The Christian Redoubt or the American Redoubt as we call it. There is a fascinating film. It doesn't, you know, the New World you just saw. I realized that's a little shocking. That's modern filmmaking. Like I said, I'm not a big fan of the entire movie, but there are elements of it that you just feel like, wow, how scary is this? Right? What did these people really get themselves into? Because they had no earthly idea, trust me. They were kind of overwhelmed by that. But it shows you the tenacity to kind of go through the fear of that and actually to make sure that you can just keep it together long enough for that colony to survive. In Jamestown, they got back on the boats and were headed out. I think after a year, year and a half they were starving. A lot of these soldiers of fortune and these, the fortune seekers, the guys looking for the fountain of. Looking for the gold and the fountain of youth didn't want to farm and they were just getting crushed. They actually got on a boat and left and they kind of met a relief for us, a relief boat with supplies coming in and they turned around. I mean, this was hanging by a string to keep a foothold there. Same up in New England. I mean, they barely, barely hung on, but they did. And eventually the stories of the first Thanksgiving and working with the Native Americans who are their allies. And the reason was that the, the Native Americans, the Indians had very sophisticated alliances. They were very sophisticated in the kind of the geopolitics or the geostrategic efforts both in New England and down South. The Iroquois Confederation up in New York, these were very sophisticated about their alliances. And they looked at the whites, they looked at the settlers as just another group that could help them drive what they wanted to accomplish geopolitically. That's the fascinating thing I find fascinating about the first 100 or so years of the United States is the alliances of teaming up and partnering with certain Native American tribes and confederations against others. And these were very sophisticated. Obviously in one part of culture they were very unsophisticated, but really in military, how to fight, how to think through fighting, how to hold territory, how to really think through alliances. The Native Americans, the Indians were very sophisticated. And you see this in their partnering with different of the white groups. There's a film from the 1950s called Plymouth Adventure. I think it was kind of a hit at the time. Not as big as they thought it was. It had an all star cast. Spencer Tracy at the top of his game. Jean Tierney, who is considered by many the most beautiful woman in Hollywood. She plays the wife of one of the leaders of the Pilgrims. Leo Glenn plays her husband. I think it's Bradford that had that controversial issue with his wife on board the ship. And then even afterwards. I find the film fascinating. I've seen it many, many times. It hasn't gotten a lot of play. Want to play the. I want to put that on your notebook to make sure if you get a chance either in Turner Classic Movies or you just get it yourself, you'll be rewarded. Let's go and play there. We got a clip. I think it may be the trailer. It's very hard to find clips in this. The Plymouth Adventure, I think, is from 1953. Plymouth Adventure from MGM. Let's go and play it.
