Welcome to another T-Rex Talk audio podcast version, and this is the 100th episode. If you add up all of the

YouTube live stream videos and you add up all of the audio-only podcasts, we have recorded 100 messages,

which seems like, it seems like a lot. And as I predicted, we didn't do anything

particularly special for this 100th episode. It's, it's pretty normal. But I am very

grateful for the fact that we have been able to make 100 episodes. And I'm really grateful

for all the listeners. We're coming up on about half a million podcast downloads and

way, way, way more YouTube views.

So that is something that I am incredibly grateful for.

And that is partly why I want to talk about Thanksgiving in this episode, not just the holiday,

which just happened, but the virtue of being thankful itself. We had a great Thanksgiving,

and I have a whole bunch of other things that I am really thankful for that I want to talk about.

But Thanksgiving as a virtue is something that is under attack, not just the holiday itself.

Now, obviously, the holiday is under attack, largely through historical revisionism,

because the Puritans must be redefined.

They are kind of an inconvenient truth.

And Thanksgiving, in particular, the holiday that the Puritans organized is just something

that is not helpful to the current narrative.

Puritans are supposed to be these

mean, cruel, powerful, miserable, stingy, dominating colonists that hate the brown people and are just

over here to take away all of their stuff. But the fact is that the pilgrims that landed in

Plymouth in 1620 were families who landed in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong equipment after

having been very wronged by a bunch of other people. And they had a really hard go of it. They had

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