Faith And The First Thanksgiving
Federalist Radio Hour
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šļø 25 November 2025
ā±ļø 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist |
| 0:25.2 | and your experience Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge. |
| 0:29.7 | As always, you can email the show at Radio at the Federalist.com. |
| 0:34.4 | Follow us on X at FBRLST. |
| 0:37.6 | Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast and, of course, to the premium version of our website as well. |
| 0:45.1 | Our guest today is Kevin Slack, Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College. |
| 0:51.3 | As we turn our attention to family, friends, and maybe most importantly, food around |
| 0:57.2 | the Thanksgiving table, let's reflect on how truly blessed we are to live in this exceptional |
| 1:03.1 | republic and consider the colonist who founded and built it. Kevin, thank you so much for joining us on this edition of the Federalist |
| 1:13.1 | Radio Hour. It's good to be here. Yeah, I'm really excited about this conversation because |
| 1:19.2 | we often talk about foundational principles, and I think that is incredibly important, |
| 1:24.0 | particularly in these days when we seem to have lost our principles in the heat of |
| 1:29.6 | politics. But I think it's very important to stop and reflect on the people, as I said before, |
| 1:39.0 | who built the foundation, who started this exceptional republic, those colonists. |
| 1:46.7 | And Kevin, let's begin there with who the colonists were. |
| 1:51.2 | I mean, what were they looking for? |
| 1:53.9 | What were they escaping from? |
| 1:56.2 | What did they dream about? |
| 1:58.8 | Did they ever, could they possibly have imagined what America is 250 years later? |
| 2:07.9 | Well, you know, you have different reasons for migrating to the colonies. |
| 2:13.4 | And, you know, we think of Thanksgiving. |
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