Americans all should be thankful that we live in the greatest country in the world

Fox Across America w/ Jimmy Failla

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🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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On this episode of Fox Across America, guest host Paul Gleiser stresses the importance of being thankful that we live in the greatest nation in the world even though most of our politicians would rather U.S. citizens be angry and aggravated instead. Former GOP National Spokesperson Elizabeth Pipko shreds the New York Times for putting out a detailed report about President Trump’s health following years of the outlet having nothing to say about former President Biden’s cognitive decline. Texas Republican Congressman Pat Fallon criticizes the six Democratic lawmakers who put out a video urging U.S. service members to defy illegal orders. PLUS, co-host of “The Big Money Show” on Fox Business Taylor Riggs stops by to analyze the current state of the U.S. economy. [00:00:00] Paul Gleiser’s opening monologue [00:19:22] Elizabeth Pipko [00:38:50] Rep. Pat Fallon [00:57:20] Callers react to Paul’s monologue [01:15:50] Taylor Riggs [01:32:55] Caller from Utah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Everywhere USA, it's Fox Across America with Jimmy Fala.
0:19.2	Hello America. It's your main man, Jimmy Fala, starting the weekend early, which is a fancy way of saying, I've got to go to tape my TV show.
0:26.0	But never fear Texas Radio Hall of Famer. Paul Gleiser is here. Take it away, Paul.
0:33.1	Well, thank you, Jimmy. It's not exactly true that you're starting the weekend early.
0:44.2	You and Brian Kilmead and Guy Benson, the kind of the Mount Rushmore of Fox News Radio,
0:49.0	will be together today on the five on the Fox News Channel, 5 o'clock Eastern.
0:52.0	So you're in the building working, then you'll start the weekend.
0:58.6	For us, we're looking at the fact that today is the day before thanksgiving and tomorrow we consume too much food and we uh... hopefully give thanks for our blessings there's a lot of
1:02.2	mythology in a lot of debate over how this holiday got started uh... one of
1:06.4	the most uh... popular versions
1:08.5	comes from the multi-day celebration put on by colonial governor William
1:11.8	Bradford in 1621 at Plymouth Colony. There were 52 pilgrims who came to North America aboard
1:17.5	the Mayflower, and they with about 90 Wampanog Native Americans led by their chief
1:23.6	Massasoit, got together and celebrated a multi-day event to mark the first harvest,
1:29.3	celebrating the first harvest in America by the Plymouth Colony Colonists.
1:35.4	We owe Thanksgiving, as we now understand it, to President George Washington.
1:40.4	By executive order, he established November 26, 1789, as, quote,
1:46.2	A Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts
1:51.3	the many and signal favors of Almighty God.
1:55.3	On Thanksgiving Day in America, as we now celebrate, it was established as the 4th Thursday in November, when Franklin Roosevelt, the president, signed a joint resolution of Congress on December 26, 1941, that took effect in November of 1942.
2:12.4	All of this to lead up to the fact that never in all of history has a nation or a society had more reason to be
2:20.7	thankful. We say it so often that we risk turning it into a cliche. I'm going to say it anyway.
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