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Clay Travis
This is an iHeart podcast.
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Buck Sexton
Guaranteed Human.
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Rush Limbaugh
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Rush Limbaugh
Hey, I'm Clay Travis. And I'm Buck Sexton. You know what we're thankful for this year, all of you? 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.
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Clay Travis
Welcome to ESPN special edition of After Hours with producer Ally and producer Greg. Happy Thanksgiving, Greg.
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Greg (Producer)
Happy Thanksgiving, Ally.
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Clay Travis
We wanted to put together a special.
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Greg (Producer)
Holiday sort of podcast for you, an After Hours Easter egg that talked about the importance of Thanksgiving to this program and the audience.
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Clay Travis
You Rush had a couple traditions on Thanksgiving eve.
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Greg (Producer)
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 gonna give you today on this day of thanks.
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Clay Travis
One was reading George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation, which we're gonna 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 things ought to be the title of his second book, see, I told you so had a chapter 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.
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Greg (Producer)
It was always something that people really loved and people still ask me about all the time.
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Clay Travis
The audience really looked forward to it as they prepared to celebrate Thanksgiving and get the house ready. It was just a fun Thanksgiving eve tradition and really summed up the holiday for the show.
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Greg (Producer)
Absolutely. And it's a lot of things that people really didn't know about the history of Thanksgiving.
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Clay Travis
But first, let's play him reading George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation.
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Greg (Producer)
This is one of my favorites because this is something that I had not heard either until really listening to this show, the Rush show, and we working on the show so and being able to actually hear Rush read it and then listening to it lends it some life. And so it's better than just reading it on a page.
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Rush Limbaugh
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 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 acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, 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 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 26th day 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 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 tranquillity, the union and plenty which we have since enjoyed for 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 the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge. And in general, for all the great and 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 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 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 with good government, good peace and concord, to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us, and generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as God alone knows to be best given under my hand at the city of New York, the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789. 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 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 the safety and well being of our people, for blessing the United States of America. This is how far we have strayed. A speech like this or a Thanksgiving proclamation like this, why there would be hell to pay the American left. Imagine Donald Trump reading this proclamation in the name of George Washington. Imagine that happening. You imagine the reaction the American left when they were talking about civil rights violations, separation of church and state, forcing religion on people. Of course, this was not forcing religion on anybody. 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.
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Clay Travis
Put in context of some of what's happening today, it kind of gives you the chills.
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Greg (Producer)
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 to hear Rush say it again.
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Clay Travis
That's what I was gonna say. It's really warming to hear his voice.
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Greg (Producer)
Yeah, it really is.
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Clay Travis
Okay, let's listen to him reading from C I told you'd so in the true story of Thanksgiving. Next.
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Greg (Producer)
Oh, that sounds great. Let's do that.
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Rush Limbaugh
Now, the real story of Thanksgiving, I wasn't even taught the whole version like everybody. I was taught a sanitized, modern version that has elements of political correctness and multiculturalism. Isn't it? I was taught that Thanksgiving was about the Pilgrims being saved from starvation and deprivation by the loving, good hearted, compassionate and caring 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 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 of the Pilgrims begins in the early part of the 17th century. For those of you in Rio Linda, that would be the 1600s. 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. 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 1600s England. So a group of separatists, people that didn't want any part of this, they'd have it their limit. First fled 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 11 years, 40 of them agreed to make the journey to what was then called the New World, 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 in 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 worship as you choose. So August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. There were 102 passengers, including 40 pilgrims. The whole. The whole ship was not pilgrims. 40 of them. They were led by a man named William Bradford. And on the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract that established, well, what it was, was 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 are religious people. They came from the Bible. The Pilgrims were a people that were completely steeped in the lessons of the Old and 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. 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 document, no Motel 6, no gas stations, no strip, 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 exposure. 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 understand because this is where modern American history lessons end. 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 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 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 Pilgrim's Thanksgiving was a thanks to God for helping them in their belief in 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 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 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 Pilgrims arrival. Now, here's the part that's been omitted from the textbooks. Remember that original contract that the Pilgrims all signed aboard 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 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 of the gross. This was fair. This was equal. 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, equal 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. 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. 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 at some point, saw, this isn't going to 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 the fruits of your labors. If you wanted a bigger home than somebody else and 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 had under the previous Mayflower 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 Indians saving them, but to God for helping them to survive and thrive in 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 that, when free enterprise was turned 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 others, some Nana, none everybody else produced. And so the Pilgrims found that they had more food than then they could eat themselves. Now, this, this is where what you've been told about Thanksgiving enters the picture. The Indians had more than they could share. 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 prophets finally allowed them to pay off the debts to the sponsors. The merchants in London and Holland who sponsored them. But it was the 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 been mistaught that the Indians provided all the food because the Pilgrims are incapable. It is the exact opposite. Now, there's 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 of the overwhelming success at growing their community. The word of what the Pilgrim 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, 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 been 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. 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 ideologues. It wasn't that somebody said, we're gonna 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 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 you were 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 the original Plymouth Colony. That's never taught is part of the original Thanksgiving story.
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Clay Travis
It never gets old, Greg.
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Greg (Producer)
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.
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Clay Travis
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.
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Rush Limbaugh
The Rush Revere Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional American Series. We're 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 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 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 a millennial, the oldest is a millennial. 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 she couldn't convince. So she called me to ask me 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. 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 the way from kindergarten on up. And the proof of this is how few people understand the Electoral College. And the reason they misunderstand, they don't even know the Electoral College is because they don't know you're going to 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, 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 that's what a majority 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 history of the United States and the Founders. And we started with the Pilgrims. And the most recent book, Rush, Revere and 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 United States is guilty of things. United States is guilty of discrimination, is guilty of persecution, guilty of racism, sexism. 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 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 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 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 5 year olds or 6 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 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 do it. I don't promote the book on other programs, go 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 much. For those of you new and 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 wanted to again thank you for what you are making happen, making our effort successful. We donate all kinds of books to homeschool groups. We donate them to public libraries. We're 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 and how it is misunderstood, how the entire electoral process is misunderstood and how so many people don't even know what a republic is versus a democracy, who 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. 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 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 the founding of this country and the assembling of 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, one of the kids, one of the students in the. 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 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.
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Clay Travis
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.
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Greg (Producer)
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 Mr. Limbaugh about that, it was great. It was just to be able to, you know, because he Conquered Rush, conquered radio and media and the adult audience. And then to be able to do something else so successfully and approach the younger audience, children, just an amazing feat.
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Clay Travis
And that Liberty character, I always felt that that was actually Rush. Like, people would say, oh, the 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 aleck. He's goofy, fun, but he kind of. There was something about that character that I said, this is really Rush.
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Greg (Producer)
Yeah, I could definitely see that. That definitely impish sort of side of Rush coming through there. Yeah.
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Clay Travis
We here on the Clay and Buck show are developing some traditions of our own with the program. Greg, what are some of your family traditions?
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Greg (Producer)
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.
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Clay Travis
I like that.
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Greg (Producer)
Yeah. It's important because it helps connect everybody with the family. And it's a, 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.
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Clay Travis
Is it a big family gathering for you?
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Greg (Producer)
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?
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Clay Travis
Well, I was gonna say one of the traditions we do at the Clay and Buck show is pull the string on the turkey, right?
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Greg (Producer)
Oh, my goodness, yes.
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Clay Travis
That's a fun staff game. It's actually not even just the Clay and Buck team that plays the game. It's the whole floor here.
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Greg (Producer)
And you really were the catalyst 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.
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Clay Travis
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.
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Greg (Producer)
It doesn't look like a turkey turkey. It looks like a cooked turkey, though. I mean, it's. Right, so 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.
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Clay Travis
It's not waddle or gobble, but the. 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 and others might have a hundred dollar bill.
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Greg (Producer)
But it's a good way to bring everybody together because again, it brings everybody from our floor and other floors and different parts of the staff and builds some nice camaraderie.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, sometimes you have the IT department, the engineering department, you have our show, the Hannity show. You have people in the marketing department on an entirely different floor. So it's just a way to bring everyone together.
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Greg (Producer)
Our amazing utility staff, who are just phenomenal.
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Clay Travis
That's right. Right down to the mailroom for us.
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Greg (Producer)
Yes, exactly.
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Clay Travis
Bring everyone up, have a little string pulling and some giggles.
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Greg (Producer)
And it always gets us ready for the Christmas tradition, which is coming up, which we'll tell you about in a couple of weeks. So stay tuned.
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Clay Travis
That's right. I think that's a wrap on this special Thanksgiving podcast. We hope you enjoyed listening to Rush retelling the story, trying to keep that tradition going, even if in podcast form, because we're creating new traditions on the Clay and Buck Show.
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Greg (Producer)
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.
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Clay Travis
That's right. From all of us at the Clay and Buck Show.
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Rush Limbaugh
Happy Thanksgiving, 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. Shh.
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Buck Sexton
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Rush Limbaugh
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Buck Sexton
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