Episode 337: Newt Gingrich on The Biggest Turkey Leg
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Newt talks about his favorite Thanksgiving memories as he was growing up in Pennsylvania and some of the traditions he really enjoyed as a child. He also discusses the history of Thanksgiving and why it is truly a uniquely American holiday.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Newt. Did you know that you can listen to my Newt's World Podcast on the iHeart app? |
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| 0:34.7 | On this episode of Newt's World, we're going to talk about Thanksgiving and I want to start |
| 0:39.2 | by wishing each of you a very happy Thanksgiving and a chance to be with your family. |
| 0:44.4 | Because this is the first Thanksgiving after COVID, that many families will have gathered together |
| 0:49.6 | since the pandemic started. So families are coming together to celebrate this uniquely American |
| 0:55.6 | holiday, which grows out of our history. Thanksgiving. It's the one holiday each year that unites us |
| 1:01.6 | no matter what your background is. Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated by virtually every American. |
| 1:07.6 | Because it celebrates our founding as a free independent people and allows us to reflect back at all |
| 1:13.6 | those who came before us in this country to support a society where religious freedom would prevail, |
| 1:20.3 | where we would be prosperous and where we could celebrate God's bounty to the American people. |
| 1:31.7 | I thought I'd start by talking about some of my own personal memories. I was born in |
| 1:36.4 | Harcester, Pennsylvania and I grew up in the little towns of Hummlestown and Middletown and |
| 1:42.7 | Royalton and Stilton bouncing around my relatives. I had two families my parents got divorced |
| 1:49.9 | and my mother remarried and was adopted by her new husband. So I went from a big first into a |
| 1:55.8 | Gingrich, but the big first is wanting me to come to their Thanksgiving too. So I had this great |
| 2:00.7 | opportunity as a kid. Two cycles of Thanksgiving, two cycles of turkey legs, two cycles of pumpkin pie. |
| 2:08.0 | I mean it was pretty good. Central Pennsylvania, as many of you may know, is a very traditional |
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