Extra: Faith, Free Markets And America's Early Settlers

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🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This past Thursday, we gave thanks not just to the pilgrims for inspiring this holiday, but also for sowing the seeds of America to come. As the early English settlers struggled to adapt to the new world, they experimented with a socialist-like communal society. However, they soon learned its flaws and suffered significant consequences. Earlier this week, FOX News Rundown host spoke to author, historian, and pastor Dr. Jerry Newcombe about the story of the Pilgrims and how their decision to embrace free-market principles eventually helped them survive. The Executive Director Of The Providence Forum also discussed how faith inspired them to leave England and played a role in their early colony. We often must cut interviews short during the week, but we thought you might like to hear the full interview. Today on Fox News Rundown Extra, we will share our entire interview with author, historian, and pastor, Dr. Jerry Newcombe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Fox News Rundown. Extra.
0:07.0	I'm Dave Anthony. Today, a holiday history lesson, dating back more than 400 years, the story of the Pilgrims, who arrived in the New World in 1620 and had the very first Thanksgiving the
0:23.9	next year. And while we talk about that, at an even bigger feast they had in 1623,
0:30.8	we focused on something else, a lesser told tale about how the settlers in Massachusetts,
0:39.2	who, as you'll hear, actually,
0:48.0	were trying to get to Virginia, set up their society, trying to live a communal life in a socialist-type system,
0:52.2	but it failed miserably, and it did not last very long.
0:54.3	What they did next sowed the seeds of the America to come.
0:58.7	And on Thanksgiving author,
1:00.2	an historian and pastor, Dr. Jerry Newcomb,
1:02.6	told us all about it
1:04.1	and those first two thanksgivings
1:06.0	that inspired the holiday we have now.
1:09.5	And he went into such detail
1:10.6	that we had to trim some of it out of the regular
1:14.3	rundown podcast for time reasons.
1:16.9	We have to have it a certain amount of time in the segment.
1:20.2	Well, today we don't have any of those restraints.
1:22.4	We let you listen to the entire conversation in our weekend extra.
1:25.6	And we give thanks to you for being here and invite you to come back for more of the
1:32.1	rundown.
1:32.6	There's something new every day.
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