Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show podcast.

Hey, welcome everybody ladies and gentlemen boys and girls young and old alike to our special thanks giving edition of the Rush Limbaugh program right here on the EIB network.

Great to have you here. This is the final live broadcast of the week for me. As I said yesterday, I'm endeavoring to find out what it's like to be a normal guy.

And in that quest, I have found it necessary to take tomorrow off like most other normal people do. So this is it 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program today the email address LRUSHMO at eibnet.us.

Now for those of you who are new to the program and there are tons of you who are the the folks the the ratings for the program we're not supposed to talk about this in much detail.

But literally through the roof such as never been higher and time spent listening which is a key element of radio ratings.

Not so much television radio time spent listening can affect so much.

Well, the time's listening is through the roof as well. People are listening longer and more people are listening than ever before.

The point of this is that many people that they have never heard what we do on our special Thanksgiving edition of Rush Limbaugh program.

And that is the true story of Thanksgiving which I wrote about in my first million seller actually the first book sold two million hard copies and other two million paperback.

My first two books sold a grand total of nine million copies and the second one sold out the two million hard back covers hardcover copies in eight weeks. So there's a golden opportunity here and in fact there is a big spread today at the federalist on the true story of Thanksgiving.

It's spreading. It's not it's taken a while but it is now spreading and it is crucially important especially now for people to understand the real story of Thanksgiving more than likely you were taught an incorrect story.

And I was most people were the version I was taught was closer to the truth but I didn't I didn't get the real story of Thanksgiving in my formal education.

It wasn't until I began to research it for the book and then we researched it again for the children's book Rush Revere in the Brave Pilgrims about the arrival here.

In the new world of the great pilgrims who came and risked everything and actually engaged in the first Thanksgiving so it's it's going to be for those of you who have not heard the story it's going to be eye opening normally I wait until the last hour the program to do this but I'm not going to wait till the last hour the program today I'm going to shake it up and spread it out we also have George Washington's first Thanksgiving.

And you know what's going to stand out to you about that is how often George Washington the father of our country and the first president and the man who's morality insured that the United States would remain as founded they asked him to be king.

He turned it down served his terms as president went back to Mount Vernon but he could have been king if he had chosen and accepted the offer to be king we wouldn't be the representative republic that we are be monarchy well who knows who knows what would happen to the United States from 1777 78 on had George Washington accepted the offer to be king but he didn't his morality

so to it that he stayed true and loyal to the constitution that he helped put together and his first Thanksgiving proclamation be amazed at how often God is cited and reference and blow you away if you haven't heard it before.

And we also have a little fun how many of you believe that we screwed the Indians out of Manhattan for 24 bucks how many of you believe that story we didn't screw the Indians out of anything they screw us and I love telling this story as well so that's all coming up and as I say I'm not going to force it away until the third one of the reasons that sometimes I don't leave myself enough time.

In the in the third hour so I'm going to spread this stuff out and we we combine it with a regular performance program here with the stuff happening out there in the news that we comment on as as if happens so let's get started with with all of that and we'll get the the real story of Thanksgiving which again if you haven't heard it and I'm folks I'm telling you I can't.

Normally it's a Christmas time that I that I get very sentimental and filled with with thanks I don't know why but it's always at the Christmas break that I.

Takes in time to thank all of you and to explain.

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