The Stack: The True Story of Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims Prosperity
The Thanksgiving story most Americans learned in school barely scratches the surface. In this episode, Todd continues the tradition of the late, great Rush Limbaugh and uncovers the real history behind the Pilgrims’ journey — a story rooted in faith, sacrifice, courage, and a fierce desire for religious freedom. Beyond surviving a brutal winter and receiving timely help from Squanto and local Native Americans, the Pilgrims discovered something far deeper: the failure of their forced communal economic system. Governor William Bradford’s bold shift toward private property and free market principles transformed their struggling colony into one that could finally thrive.
This episode traces the journey from desperation to prosperity and explains why the second Thanksgiving — not the first — reveals the true lesson America still needs. It’s a story of gratitude, divine provision, and the principles that helped form the foundation of the nation.
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📝 Transcript: The True Story of Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims Prosperity
The Todd Huff Show – November 26, 2025
Host: Todd Huff
Todd Huff: Well, greetings, my friends, on this very special edition of the Todd Huff show. It's a pleasure to be here. This is. I'm not supposed to have favorite episodes, but I do. And this is my favorite episode of the year. This is our special episode where we tell the true story of Thanksgiving. I love it. I'm not sorry that I love it. I guess I'm sorry that I have a favorite, favorite episode. This is it. And I'll tell you why. As we get into the program today, but thank you.
Todd Huff: For tuning in with us today and for taking time. To learn to remember, to recognize the true. Story of thanksgiving. I'm excited. Cannot wait to get to it. My friends. Maybe before we. Get started, though. You've reached that stage. We're managing your money feels more like juggling. Than just managing. Numbers. There's tax planning, estate work, investment choices. A whole lot more.
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Todd Huff: All right. The true story of Thanksgiving. Let me tell you off the top here. I first heard this story. as a listener To Rush Limbaugh's program roughly. I started listening in 1999. So somewhere 25, 26 years ago. That I first would have heard this story. He told this story the day today, the day before. Thanksgiving every year. It was my favorite episode of his, which was saying a lot because I admired him in ways I can't truly express.
Todd Huff: He first shared this story. In his book. See? I told you so. Which I have a copy of. And so we'll just kind of go through this. And again, I want to tell you, I'm not trying to steal what Rush did. I'm trying to do two things. Number one, honor his memory and his legacy. Number two, continue the tradition of making sure that we pass along one of the greatest lessons we can get from a historical event.
Todd Huff: Concerning the foundation of this country, which matters tremendously. In our ability to navigate political issues of the times. And to teach the next generation the truth about the blessings we have in this great nation. So if you were like me. If you were like rush. What you probably learned in public school about Thanksgiving. Went something like this. A group of people called the pilgrims found their way to America, somehow landing on Plymouth Rock. December 22, 1620, maybe December 21 again.
Todd Huff: We'll get into some questions about little details, but. December of 1620. The Native Americans. The Indians came along and saved the pilgrims because the pilgrims didn't know. How to do things like grow food or catch beavers or whatever they had to do to survive. And then the pilgrims had this big celebratory feast where they thanked. The Native Americans for saving their lives.
Todd Huff: And then, of course, the lesson that is often taught today. Is without the Indians. There wouldn't be a country, there wouldn't be a people. They all would have. Died out that first year, but at least the pilgrims paid them back before the rest of the Europeans came along and stole all their land. But this is not at all. The story of Thanksgiving. Certainly some Indians, Native Americans helped the Pilgrims. And I'll talk a little bit about Squanto. Here in a minute.
Todd Huff: But the bottom line here is that more and more people, because of Rush and his telling of this story. And making sure people understood it. More and more people. Are learning this real story of Thanksgiving, and it is spreading. So let's get some historical context. King James I was king of England. During this time frame, during the 16 hundreds when the pilgrims would have made their way to the new world.
Todd Huff: The lesson that we are going to learn here is that socialism failed then, and it will fail. Again, each and every time. It is tried. So in the 16 hundreds. King James I was persecuting those who did not recognize. The state churches. Absolute power and civil authority. And so back in those days, and this is what the pilgrims were fleeing, a lot of people were fleeing.
Todd Huff: This was the lack of religious freedom. You had to belong to or adhere to the teachings of the Church of England. The government's church. You couldn't have. Your own sect or denomination and you were persecuted. In fact, if you opposed the church of England, the state church. You were hunted down and punished. Sometimes severely punished.
Todd Huff: and so a group of separatists these were people who wanted religious freedom they wanted to be separate from The church of England. They fled first to Holland. Good old Holland over there. They were there for eleven years. About 40 of those individuals agreed. To go to the new world, to America, for religious liberty, and so.
Todd Huff: 102 total people. Set voyage on the Mayflower. About 40, 41 of those were the pilgrims at the separatists. They knew they were going to face hardship, folks. As I tell this story, one of the things we're going to talk about is the extreme hardship that they face, they knew they were going to face. Hardship. I don't know that they knew that they would face it to the degree that they fate that they dealt with it.
Todd Huff: Well, they certainly weren't prepared for it, as we will find out. But they knew that they were going to have difficulties, maybe even severe difficulties. But living this is the lesson. For people. There's many lessons tucked within the greater lesson, but this perhaps is one of those key lessons. Living freely and worshipping God according to their own beliefs, to their own consciences.
Todd Huff: Outweighed. outweighed whatever lack of hardship they were dealing with in Europe. You don't know what you've got until it's gone. Too many Americans. Today we live in this. Listen, I understand. We all have difficulties. I understand that there are still many problems we are dealing with in this. Country. I understand.
Todd Huff: That times have been tough, and we're still digging out of a massive hole that has been created by these. Broken ideological. Well, the broken worldview and broken promises that are given to us, bestowed upon us by these leftists. And that every person this side of heaven experiences loss and tragedy. Some losses is just part of life.
Todd Huff: The loss of loved ones, the loss of health. Things like that. Divorce, financial turmoil, whatever. And. There's also. Other situations that. Maybe don't just fall into that bucket. But in addition to just the normal difficulties of life, The pilgrims knew that by coming to the new world, it was going to be hard.
Todd Huff: It was not going to be easy, but it was worth it. It was worth it for them to live. Freely to worship God according to their own conscience. And so they made this journey across the Atlantic. Ocean. William Bradford. When they finally landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, by the way, they were way far north of where they intended to. Make landfall. But when they landed or as they were on the ship, they were on the ship.
Todd Huff: For a while. At the beginning of the program, I mentioned the exact date of landing. There's a little bit of a question mark as to when. They actually landed because. They were on the ship, right off the shore for some period of time, several weeks. Kind of hammering out this Mayflower. Finishing and I guess the agreements of the Mayflower Compact.
Todd Huff: That was the laws that they all agreed to live by those laws, by the way. Those laws, by the way, came. From the Bible. That's important, too, for other conversations we're having in our current culture, but the pilgrims. Were devoutly religious. It wasn't just something they did on Sundays. Their faith changed the people that they were, the way that it impacted, the way that they lived.
Todd Huff: Their lives, the things that they did, the things that they found. To be worthy of pursuit. These individuals were devout. They had a great faith and trust in God, and they looked to the biblical example of the Israelites as their example. They looked to the scriptures for lessons and teachings and things that they could implement.
Todd Huff: In their lives. They never doubted that they would get to the new world and survive. And even thrive. They landed again, November, December again. They understand they were there for several weeks before they actually put foot on the ground, but they landed in November, further north than where they first anticipated. So this time of year? More or less. It was cold.
Todd Huff: It was barren. There was desolate wilderness. There was not a Walmart. There wasn't a Target. There wasn't a 7-Eleven. There weren't highways, there weren't hotels. There weren't restaurants, restaurant chains, local pubs. There was nothing but the cold, hard realities of nature in the northeast. During this time of year. And the colder weather was coming, it was going to get colder.
Todd Huff: When they land that it was cold, it was going to get colder, more extreme. And they were in for one heck of a winter. They had no shelter of any kind, nothing. Existed for them to just take up refuge in. They didn't have a city to go. To. It was barren, it was desolate, it was cold. It was late in the year, winter.
Todd Huff: Was upon them. And the sacrifice they had made. The sacrifice they had made for their freedom to worship. This is what they gave up. This is what they willingly stepped into. Again, some of the details. The extremity of the weather was a little bit different because they missed their target site. And so forth. But they knew that this is what they wanted. They chose that freedom.
Todd Huff: Over. The safety and comforts of life. In Europe. But this was just the beginning, that first winter. Claimed the lives of half of the pilgrims. Let that sink in. So you land in November of 1620. By spring. A near mere, what, 90, 100 days, whatever. Later. 120 days later maybe.
Todd Huff: They lost half of the people. Who were in their group of pilgrims were suddenly dead. One of those. Deceased individuals was Dorothy Bradford. She was the wife. Of Governor Bradford. So even the governor's wife, the leader of the group, his wife. Did not make it that first winter. It was brutal survivor. Those first few months.
Todd Huff: In the new world. It was brutal. Spring finally came, and I'm sure it seemed like forever. My friends, the pilgrims met the Native Americans. Those Native Americans helped them plant crops, they helped them hunt beaver, fish, all that kind. Of stuff. And one of those individuals, one of those local natives was an individual named Squanto and I just want to tell you a little bit about Squanto, because.
Todd Huff: It's an interesting story. And he certainly helped the pilgrims. There's no doubt that the Native Americans helped the pilgrims. The Native Americans helped them survive, and there's no doubt. The pilgrims were grateful for those lessons. And we'll get into all this, but that's. Not the end of the story. That's not the true story, ultimately, of what was learned here.
Todd Huff: So Squanto's real name was. Tisquantum. He belonged to the. Patuxet, a band within the Wampanoag Confederacy. And his village, the Patuxet village, was located. Exactly where the Pilgrims would later found the city of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Now Squanto in 1614. Keep in mind we're landing. The pilgrims landed in Plymouth in 1620, but in 1614, Squanto was kidnapped by an Englishman by the name of.
Todd Huff: Thomas Hunt. Thomas Hunt kidnapped him, took him to Spain, and then. Had taken him there to sell him into slavery. He was saved. Squanto was saved by some. Friars in Spain. They helped him escape. And still Squanto traveled to England. He lived with merchants, and in that process he became.
Todd Huff: Fluent. In English. He became able to speak. Obviously. He's living over there now. Crazy circumstances. He was freed living over there. And learned the language. This made him. Very uniquely able to communicate with the pilgrims who, of course, came. Speaking English now.
Todd Huff: Squanto returned. Not ironically, or I guess you could say ironically. Sometime between 1619, either in 1619 or 1620, and when he returned, so that the timing—he returns right as the pilgrims are about to land there. He found that his entire tribe. His entire tribe had died. From a plague. Probably something like smallpox that.
Todd Huff: Was carried unknowingly by these settlers, and he effectively became the. Last Patuxet Native American. Now, he was there when the pilgrims landed, when they were in dire straits that spring. After that first unbearable winter. They met him, of course. He spoke English. He was able to teach them how. To grow corn, how to fish, how to do all those things, hunt beavers, all that stuff.
Todd Huff: Understand the local seasons. Understand? The planting seasons, all that sort of thing. And he served as a translator between the pilgrims and other Native Americans. He helped negotiate peace. He helped work out trade agreements. I mean, this guy was the Donald J. Trump of the time. I said that for Oz. No reaction over there by Oz, but Bradford said of him.
Todd Huff: Governor Bradford. Said of him later in one of his diaries, his journals, he said that Squanto was quote, a special instrument. Sent of God for. Their good. So, again, a lot of circumstances led to some pretty incredible little details like that. But even with his help, he was critically important.
Todd Huff: Do not misunderstand me. There's still even a greater lesson, a wonderful lesson. With Squanto can be learned. But there's even a greater lesson that many Americans miss, and we're getting to it. But even with that help, which was critically important, they still didn't thrive and prosper. They survived.
Todd Huff: Half of them did. And Squanto helped them to be better prepared for the next winter, but. That still wasn't the lesson. But this is where the story typically ends. Right. Through. The planting season, the harvest season of 1621. And Squanto, the other local Native Americans had helped. The pilgrims to grow food and learn how to survive off the land and that sort of thing.
Todd Huff: And so there's this Thanksgiving, and it's often portrayed as. A feast of gratitude for the locals for helping to save their lives, but. This is not really it at all. This is, in a sense, what happened. But that was in no way. The final. Real deal. In fact, even the first thanksgiving, which was in 1621, after the harvest, it was a devout expression of gratitude from the pilgrims to God for their survival and prosperity.
Todd Huff: Now, the pilgrims were thankful as I even read a quote from Bradford's diary there, talking about. Squanto. They were thankful for Squanto, they were thankful for the Native Americans, but. Their gratitude begins and ends with God. I was listening. This Sunday at church, our pastor, we have an interim pastor as we look for a full time.
Todd Huff: Pastor at our church. But he's done a wonderful job. I think the world of this guy, the interim pastor. And he was talking about. This very thing. We were talking about gratitude. And he made the point to say, That. All good things. And he's right on this. You know this already, but you just. Need to hear it. I need to hear it. Be reminded of it all good things.
Todd Huff: Find their source in God. All good things left to our own devices, folks. We're incapable. I know some people are. Reluctant to believe that, and there are degrees. From a human perspective, there certainly are degrees to evil. But. We're not capable. Of good on our own. All good finds at its source. God. And so that's why. Ultimately, the pilgrims were thankful to God.
Todd Huff: They were thankful for Squanto, but they were thankful to God. To God as the one who. Gave them help that came through Squanto. They saw this as a divinely. Orchestrated sort of event. But that's not the end of the story. So there's more to learn, more to get to. I'm going to pause here because. There's just a lot to get through and.
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Todd Huff: I want to talk about when we get back the economic system that the pilgrims were forced into. We're going to talk about what they learned. From the first economic system they were forced into. And what happened? When Governor Bradford decided to flip that all in its head. So that. Well. Out of, in a way, I don't want to say desperation, because they were still trusting.
Todd Huff: In God, but in a way, out of desperation. So timeout is in order. My friends, we're going through the true story of Thanksgiving. See you on the other side of the break. Welcome back, my friends. I want to get to this. There's a lot of information to cover talking here about the true story of Thanksgiving. I love this. This is my favorite episode of the year. Friends. If you're dealing with discomfort or you're just tired of living.
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Todd Huff: All right, getting back to it here today. My friends. So before we left, I mentioned that we were going to talk about the economic system the pilgrims were forced into. They had. The pilgrims had sponsors in London and in Holland. These were called merchant. Sponsors these sponsors. Demanded that everything the pilgrims had.
Todd Huff: In their culture, in their society, in their community. Everything that was produced would be put into a common store. And everyone had an equal share in that common store, in that bank, and they were going to distribute it equally. Now, it might not have ended up in there equally, but this again from each. According to his ability, to each according to his needs. That was the direction this was leaning.
Todd Huff: So all the land, all the houses, everything belonged to every one community in the community. The common store. It was a bank, a community, whatever you want to call it. No one owned anything. No one owned anything. It was a commune, and as Rush would say, this was a forerunner to the communes of the 1960s and the 1970s, and that's not literal, but there's certainly some commonalities.
Todd Huff: So Bradford realized this wasn't going to work after getting through dealing with that first winter. And realizing just as they were adjusting and figuring out life in the new world, he realized this. Wasn't going to work, so he decided to take. Bold action. He realized that socialism had failed them miserably. And what he decided to do was.
Todd Huff: A bit novel. At the time, he decided he was going to assign to each family its own. Plot of land within their commune, within their community, and then every family. Was given the ability to do with that land whatever they wanted. And what this did is this. Unleashed the powers of. Free market. Capitalism. See, Bradford had learned, as we all have learned, or we should have learned.
Todd Huff: That socialism kept people from working hard and being innovative. In fact, this is a line from his own journal. And this is a quote, so the English is going to be a little bit different than what we're used to today, but here's what it says for this community so far. As it was found, to breed much confusion and discontent and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort for young men who were most able and fit for labor. And service.
Todd Huff: Sat around and did nothing. Should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children without being paid for it. It was thought to be injustice. Why work for other people? In other words, they realized, hey, why am I getting up and busting? My hump when all that I produce is going to be enjoyed by another person, another. Family. Not my family or a portion of it I'm giving away.
Todd Huff: More than I'm not getting proportionately what I'm producing. And so what's the incentive here? And this was a bad, bad problem, especially in a place in a new world where you had to be productive, or you could literally. Die. It was necessary for there to be some form of incentive. The pilgrims unharness the power of free enterprise. The principle of private property by making these changes instituted by Governor Bradford.
Todd Huff: Bradford also wrote this. After implementing these changes. He said this had very good success for it. May listen to this all hands industrious, for as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been so suddenly. He said, look, when people realize that. They could reap the rewards of their labor. They produced more corn. In fact, he said it made people so industrious.
Todd Huff: That there was so much more planted than would have been otherwise, so they could do what they wanted to do. With the land, right? They could produce more corn. They could sell it, they could trade it. They could stock it up for themselves, whatever they had to do, no more of. This shared commune crap. Where not many people worked very hard that they've done studies on this. I don't.
Todd Huff: Know if you've seen the studies. Where if there's a common field, people pick the crop before it is fully ripened. So. You're getting less yield from a field. Because what happens is when you're going through that field and you realize this isn't, mine. This is everybody else's. I'm going to pick something that isn't. Quite ready to be picked because someone else may pick it before I get my chance to.
Todd Huff: Get back in here. And then what am I going to have? They're worried that there's not enough because. There isn't enough in socialism. This is the lesson. So when profit was introduced, It grew like gangbusters. The Native Americans did not bring to the pilgrims prosperity. They helped. Them, but this discovery.
Todd Huff: What we're talking about that Governor Bradford implemented. This is what. Ultimately worked. It was ultimately their own industriousness. It was ultimately their own hard work. Their own incentive to be wiser, to make improvements. That is what. Ultimately made the change. Plus, these profits allowed them remember those merchant. What were the. I'm drawing a blank here. The merchant sponsors. There we go. They're merchant sponsors.
Todd Huff: Remember those sponsors that paid for these trips in London and Holland? These folks, the. Prophets were what they used to pay these debts off to get that debt off of their shoulders. And not only that. The great puritan migration resulted after this period of time, which, of course, there were other factors. I'm not here to say that it was just the prosperity of the pilgrims, but it would be naive to say that.
Todd Huff: This was not — the great period of migration was not, at least fueled in part by the success of the pilgrims when they saw that this group of people went over there and succeeded, paid off. Their debtors and had prosperity. This was an additive incentive, added incentive, I should say, for people to. Get to the new world.
Todd Huff: And as a result, the great puritan migration took place. Prosperity became an added motivation for people that were already looking to flee. Remember? Get that. Religious liberty to get out of the persecuted world of Europe. That was enough to move them, but this, for some, helped to just give them a little bit. More reason to get to the new world. It's that lesson, this lesson that William Bradford learned after giving people.
Todd Huff: Their own plots of land, letting them be prosperous, allowing them to be free, allowing them to work. Under the rules. Of free market capitalism. That is what William Bradford and the pilgrims thanked God for during what? We'll find out. As the second thanksgiving, they thank God for their prosperity. The Native Americans certainly saved in that first winter or after that first winter?
Todd Huff: And helped the pilgrims, no doubt about it. But they did not make them prosperous. This change is what made. Them prosper. So they had a second thanksgiving. In 1623, you'll realize there wasn't a second thanksgiving in 1622. But there is one. In 1623, that was the second thanksgiving, so 1621 was number 1. 1623 was the second one, so.
Todd Huff: 1623, they had been living under free market capitalism now for two years. So. They had been surviving in the early times, but now they were prospering. Now they were prospering. They stopped, they overturned, they flipped that investor's rule that said everyone had to have an equal share. They established private property rights. They established a capitalistic system.
Todd Huff: Great provisions. Were the result. And then not only that, but once you have enough provision to where people can specialize, right? I build an economy to where this guy's good at building houses. This guy's. Good at raising livestock, we all can become specialists. That leads to even more prosperity, which, of course, is further down the road from where the pilgrims were, but.
Todd Huff: That's the direction they were laying the foundation for those things to happen. The real story. My friends of Thanksgiving is not complete until you understand. That second Thanksgiving, which I'm going to talk about in our last segment, which I'm out of time for here now. Got to take a quick time out, my friends. You're?
Todd Huff: Listening here to conservative, not bitter, talk. I'm your host, Todd Huff. Back in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. This is my favorite episode of the year. I hope you enjoy it as well, I love talking about this for lots of reasons. I outlined those off the top of the program. And I'm going to wrap it up here.
Todd Huff: In this, our final segment of this particular program. But friends. Before I do that, let's talk about something that's important. Your money. Your money today. We've been talking about the Pilgrims prosperity. Their money. Let's talk. About your money today. You've worked hard for it. But is it working hard for what you believe in the pilgrims left everything, my friends, to come live in a land of religious liberty to flee religious persecution.
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Todd Huff: If you read in his journals, you'll hear him talking about a day of humiliation and prayer. There was a drought that summer in 1623. And they had a day of humiliation and prayer, pleading with God. To end the drought. And later on, they had a day of thanksgiving after. The rains came. So the pilgrims were devout. They sought God. I mean, God.
Todd Huff: Listen, you don't. Know what God can do until God is all you have. And God was all the pilgrims. Had. They certainly had help from the Native Americans, and I don't want that part to get lost, because that is important. But what is dramatically. More important is the provision. Provided by God and the lessons that they learned through their difficulties. Friends.
Todd Huff: A lot of us just want pain and difficulty to stop. I can attest to this personally. Pain is. As C. S. Lewis said, pain is God's megaphone. It's an opportunity for us to learn. It's an opportunity for him to speak truth into our lives, and that's what happened here. That's what happened here. The first Thanksgiving was about simple survival.
Todd Huff: They were grateful that they made it through. Half of them died. Remember that first winter? The second. Thanksgiving. Two years later, my friends. Wasn't just about. Survival anymore. It was about. Prosperity they had learned a lesson. That would change the trajectory of life on this planet as we know it. Life in this country.
Todd Huff: As we know it. And it radically transformed. Radically transformed. The living conditions. Life expectancy. All these things can be traced back. Many things can be traced back to the lessons that were learned by the pilgrims, by others as well. But this is a wonderful story that goes perfectly hand in hand with this Thanksgiving season, and they thanked.
Todd Huff: God. They thanked God, understanding that these things all come. From their creator. The prophets allowed them to pay off their debts and encouraged others to come to the new world. It marked the beginning. Of the great puritan migration of the 16 hundreds. My friends, it's a wonderful story. The story of thanksgiving is not complete.
Todd Huff: If we stop after the first Thanksgiving, we must understand what happened? From that first winter. Through. The summer and early fall of 1623 to get the full picture. So I hope that. This has helped to put that into perspective or to remind you, my friends, Of what had to happen for us. For us to have what we have today.
Todd Huff: Remarkable. Sacrifice by the pilgrims. Friends, let me take a moment here. In the final minutes. The final minute or so that I have here on this program we'll be out tomorrow and Friday. I did produce a new Todd Talk, so you'll hear. If you want to hear the Todd Talk. There's one of those on Friday, but we'll be out tomorrow. Thanksgiving.
Todd Huff: Day and Friday. Let me say to you my personal gratitude. And this is. Whoo. I got to tell you, this is hard for me. Not hard for. Me to say it, but it gets me every stinking time, every year. I am thankful my friends, I am thankful for you, the listener of this program.
Todd Huff: You mean the world to me when I hear from you. When you send in emails, whatever. I am grateful for you. This would be 100% impossible without you. I am grateful for those who advertise on this program? Friends, if you hear an advertiser on this program, Try to find a way to support those folks as well listen.
Todd Huff: I'm not asking you. To do charity, but. If you use the products that they sell and provide, try to find a way to do business. With them. The stations that allow us to be on here. Friends. I'm grateful. Grateful for the stations, grateful for the team here at the Todd Huff Show, grateful for my wife who does more than any of you may fully recognize that I recognize she's, of course, Oz.
Todd Huff: Here in the studio. But most importantly. Most importantly, I'm thankful to God, my creator, my savior. He's the one, my friends, that we should all ultimately be thankful to as the pilgrims. Were all those many years ago. So, friends, have a happy thanksgiving. I will see you on Monday. SDG.
