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The Eric Metaxas Show

Thanksgiving Fun Facts

The Eric Metaxas Show

Metaxas Media

Religion & Spirituality

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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An encore presentation of Thanksgiving Fun Facts Friday 

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0:00.0

Folks, welcome to the Eric Metaxus show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals.

0:04.2

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0:06.8

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0:09.8

That's legacy p.m. Investments.com. Welcome to the Eric Metaxa show.

0:25.8

Would you consider yourself smart, insightful, precocious, astute, clever, wise beyond your years,

0:31.6

and good at checking a thesaurus for synonyms?

0:34.4

Well, then you've come to the right place.

0:36.9

Here now is the handsome, attractive, striking, gorgeous, and quite frankly,

0:41.5

breathtaking, Eric Mott, Texas.

0:47.0

If you're listening, folks, listen carefully, because this is, this is huge.

0:52.2

In 1608, before any ships, before any people settled in, you know, what's now Massachusetts,

1:04.5

I never knew this because we all know that the Mayflower landed there in 1620, right? Chris, you knew that.

1:12.7

I did at one point in my life. Right. So 1620 is when the pilgrims land in Plymouth,

1:20.8

sorry, right?

1:21.4

Plymouth Rock, yeah. Plymouth Rock. So, but I always assumed growing up that that's the first

1:25.5

time that anybody came to, like, what's Massachusetts. But I found out, no, that's's the first time that anybody came to like what's

1:28.1

Massachusetts. But I found out, no, that's not the case. And the story of Squanto, which I'm

1:33.2

going to tell right now, which just wait, wait until you hear this, it starts in 1608, and it

1:41.5

turns out that English trading ships would travel, you know, from Europe, from

1:46.9

England to Iceland, Greenland, make their way down, Nova Scotia, all the way down, and they

1:54.2

would trade with the natives. Now, I never knew that. So the natives were familiar with English sailors

2:00.4

coming and trading and giving them, you know,

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