Did you know that Thanksgiving is a holiday that only exists in the US? This episode is a journey down memory lane, revisiting Thanksgiving traditions and cherished family memories. As your hosts, Nick and Aaron, we'll take you back to the beginnings of this holiday, reminiscing about our grandmother's feast and exploring the significance of gratitude. We'll also share the often forgotten story behind this holiday, originally a 1621 harvest feast. This is a heartwarming conversation that not only piques your nostalgia but also educates about the origins of Thanksgiving.
But, Thanksgiving is more than just turkey and cranberry sauce. It's also about the deep-rooted practice of being thankful. Expressing gratitude towards God and cherishing moments spent with loved ones are pillars of this holiday that we highlight in this episode. And in the spirit of Thanksgiving, we ask you to share our Two Fish Podcast with others. We believe that our messages of faith and gratitude can bring light into others' lives. So, come join us in this exploration of Thanksgiving, its traditions, and its deeper meanings.
Did you know that Thanksgiving is a holiday that only exists in the US? This episode is a journey down memory lane, revisiting Thanksgiving traditions and cherished family memories. As your hosts, Nick and Aaron, we'll take you back to the beginnings of this holiday, reminiscing about our grandmother's feast and exploring the significance of gratitude. We'll also share the often forgotten story behind this holiday, originally a 1621 harvest feast. This is a heartwarming conversation that not only piques your nostalgia but also educates about the origins of Thanksgiving.
But, Thanksgiving is more than just turkey and cranberry sauce. It's also about the deep-rooted practice of being thankful. Expressing gratitude towards God and cherishing moments spent with loved ones are pillars of this holiday that we highlight in this episode. And in the spirit of Thanksgiving, we ask you to share our Two Fish Podcast with others. We believe that our messages of faith and gratitude can bring light into others' lives. So, come join us in this exploration of Thanksgiving, its traditions, and its deeper meanings.
Welcome back to the two fish podcast. My name is Nick, I'm Aaron and this week we're going to celebrate Thanksgiving on the two fish podcast.
Speaker 2:Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. That's right, it's nap time. Happy Thanksgiving. That's the best part about Thanksgiving it's the afternoon nap.
Speaker 1:Sleeping, sleeping. I don't know if I do that. I'm sure I have. I've eaten way too much. How do?
Speaker 2:you not sleep after you eat all that?
Speaker 1:I do get tired. You're right, I probably have. Yep, I don't know. We always welcome two fish podcast. Aaron and I are just going on tangents here, but we're just going to talk about Thanksgiving. This episode will come out the week of Thanksgiving. You're hearing this. Hopefully you're taking time to spend time with family, with friends, or however you celebrate, and for us growing up, that was always at my grandma's house. That was always with grandma and grandpa. We ate way too much. Up until just recently as of a couple of years ago, I thought grandma and grandma would never let any of us bring anything. I thought she made everything and she would Like we had a feast.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And she passed beyond belief of how much food we had and she made it all. She wouldn't let anyone bring anything. It was her holiday and, up until recently, someone I won't say who it was decided to inform me. No, grandma buys a lot of it from a local. She catered she catered a bunch of it and I had no idea. That's awesome, and so I've told this person who's very close to me you have ruined.
Speaker 2:It's giving for me yeah.
Speaker 1:She, she catered. There's a local place that will do the whole spread if you want, and she got a lot of it from there.
Speaker 2:That's hilarious.
Speaker 1:Yeah, except my childhood is all lie.
Speaker 2:She had all you kids. I slaved over this. Yeah, we thought that's how it was. Sure, did she whipped out that credit card? Yep.
Speaker 1:Check, but she probably wrote a check, I don't know. I doubt they had credit cards. So yeah, that's my Thanksgiving memory growing up Look different now I'm past the way last year, so this year will be a little bit different, but it's still going to be great. We're going to still spend it with family and and my cousins that we don't get to see it very often. We're going to spend it with them. So what is your Thanksgiving tradition?
Speaker 2:Our Thanksgiving tradition has kind of changed. We used to try every other year to go down and see my brother, but that's changed. Just hasn't worked out the last few years. So we had been rotating with my wife's family on who hosted. She comes from a little bit larger family but we are privileged to be able to host it again.
Speaker 1:So privileged. Yeah, that is the word you used or your wife used.
Speaker 2:The word I'm going with privileged. Um. No, we should be thankful that we can host it, we have a house that can fit everybody in it, and so, yeah, my parents will be coming over, and her family and both your families.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, my mom and dad, my brother, yeah, lives in another state.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that's cool. Yeah, you're hosting Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we don't have any like traditional anything on Thanksgiving Food wise, it's the typical turkey and okay, hannah, yeah. And uh, pumpkin pie.
Speaker 1:Nice, there you go, it's on me Gotta have pumpkin pie. The Cowboys will play yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah they always play on. Thanksgiving. We never watch the game, but it's always on and I don't watch, we don't have TV.
Speaker 2:So, oh, that's true, oh, we don't have cable. Let's put that we have a TV, but we've. We started this long before it was a thing and didn't have, yeah, just streamed or played DVDs all day.
Speaker 1:DVDs. That's an old technology now. Yeah, crazy. I guess I've never really thought about it. We've done this is at least our third Thanksgiving episode. That's crazy three years, I know it is. I'm sure if we went back and looked at them, these, these kind of episodes are pretty similar.
Speaker 1:Because, you're being thankful, but we do have an international group of people that listen to the show, and here and I were talking. It's like maybe we should explain Thanksgiving. I I'm sure there's different variations of Thanksgiving everywhere, but or like everywhere as in in the world.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I Don't know that would be. I didn't look up to other countries celebrate. Thanksgiving or is it a US exclusive? It's probably US exclusive because we're that awesome. Then we have Thanksgiving. It's a general belief that Thanksgiving is modeled after a 1621 harvest feast between the pilgrims and an Indian tribe, which would have been like 100 years before America became America.
Speaker 1:So the English came over, set up the colonies.
Speaker 2:Yep and then, at some point, they had a feast with Indians.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the Indians came together with the pilgrims and they traded food and they all brought food together. I'm sure that's where street corn came from. The Indians brought corn and maize and whatever and and we sat down with them and we just celebrated and being thankful. I mean, the pilgrims got here, the Indians found a new friend and they celebrated what God had done. I mean, back then God was very much more a part of every day Than it is now here in America. Now it should be shouldn't be with Christians, obviously but they all got together and they celebrated. Look what God has done.
Speaker 2:Well, the Indians didn't believe in God.
Speaker 1:You're right. Okay, and for the pilgrims, it was very much. You know they got here, there was hard winter, they made it through. It was very much a thank.
Speaker 2:God.
Speaker 1:We're thankful for what we have. We're thankful for where we're at.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the, the early English the people would have came over here would have been accustomed to Regularly celebrating Thanksgiving, which would have been days of prayer and thanking God for blessings, and all of that. Later we turned Thanksgiving into a. I don't know why we really celebrate it outside of Well.
Speaker 1:A day off of school, a day off of work. Yeah, if you're lucky, you get the Friday off too and your family gets together and your family gets together. But then you sin by eating way too much and being a glutton.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're definitely, we're definitely glutton.
Speaker 1:No, it's definitely changed, because we don't necessarily. And Our family always goes around the table and as I grew up, I hated this, just because it was. I felt like it was awkward, but we went around the table and said we were thankful for, and you always wanted to go first so that you could say the the most basic thing first, because I was never good at coming up with something. But it's a time to reflect and thank God for what you have in your life, whether it be family, friends, health, because not everyone has all those things.
Speaker 2:Right, I think that's. I think we've shared this, for you has did that, and we never do that around ours. But, um, to sit and think of the things that you can be thankful for, even in the midst of struggles right, there's a lot of people struggling right now. Like to go by. The Thanksgiving meal this year is probably going to cost you a hundred to $200 more with the way inflation is here in America. The rest of the world I don't know what inflation looks like for them, but I imagine it's same because it's through the roof here, right? Um, so I imagine Thanksgiving you're going to look a little different, for for most tables in the U? S or it's really going to stretch people's budget. But I think to be thankful that we can even do it, yeah, is, and that's why earlier I said it's a privilege that we get to host it and that we're able to do that.
Speaker 1:And even if it does look different yeah thankful that you're still able to get together with family right and be thankful even if there's not as much on the table this year which probably not bad thing, If you pointed to be sending too much eat too much.
Speaker 1:I love and obviously this is kind of on a history lesson here but two fish podcast. We go to the Bible and right, like you said, uh, first Thessalonians, which we're going through. If you haven't been with us in our study of first Thessalonians, go back some episodes and listen to them. But first Thessalonians, chapter five, haven't gotten there yet. But verse 18, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus. For you and I think, like you said, it may look different, the circumstances may not be as good in years past for some, but that doesn't mean we withhold our thanks. We need to be thankful for what we have and look at the joy in even the struggles. And at the end there it says for this is the will of God to be thankful in all circumstances. I think that's super challenging.
Speaker 1:No, that's really challenging Cause there's so many circumstances even in our day to day minute dumb stuff we're. There's zero reason. Zero part of me wants to be thankful right now, cause I feel like whatever it is not being thankful, but it's the will. No matter what the table looks like this year, hopefully you're with family, yeah.
Speaker 2:We recently had a sidebar conversation and I think it fits in. I think it fits into. This is a day to hit pause and to spend with your family and not to bring up COVID, but, like during COVID, we had to hit that pause and we spent more time with our families. And I think this is a an opportunity. Once again. It's a holiday here in America where you get some days that sometimes it can be stressful because you got to go from one house to the next. Sometimes there's multiple Thanksgiving dinners, right, but hit that pause button on that anxiety and that anger. And I also think it's like the most traveled day, especially via car in America. Yeah, like just hit that pause button and be think about it and be thankful that you're, you're one, you're able to do it to, you're going to see your family. Both Nick and I have had a lot of deaths in our family and I think, like extended family has become really hard to get together with.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so if you're able to go to that Thanksgiving dinner with that extended family it just be grateful for that, yeah, and that existence, and like it just doesn't happen like it used to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, it doesn't. For us, christmas season is the one where we have to bounce from house to house to house, day to day to day. And you're right, it's frustrating, there's anxiety about it, especially if you got to bring food and a gift for whoever knows how many people and what are we for us as the Christmas? But, yes, thanksgiving, if you're going from house to house, that can be a, in some cases, maybe a bitter thing. I don't want to. I don't want to go here. I don't want to do this.
Speaker 2:I'm already full.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you're going into it not being thankful that, like you said, these people, some, some of these people you don't see, but once a year, twice a year, why go into it being frustrated? Right, that's good. I like that and I think that can be a challenge for the rest of the year and each of these seasons coming up, whether it be Thanksgiving, christmas, new Year's, whatever it is. That's good.
Speaker 1:Another scripture we can go to Psalms nine, one through one, one and two. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart. I will recount all of your wonderful deeds, I will be glad and exalt you in it. I will sing your praise to him. I will sing praise to your name. Oh, most high. It's not. He's not just thanking God for what he's got around him, he's thinking God for what God's done, and that's something we typically would think of and celebrate at Christmas. Thank you, lord for or Easter. Thank you for being born Lord on Christmas. Thank you for dying on the cross at Easter. But all of the deeds in between there that he's done in our lives, those are. We also need to be thankful for those, even little stuff.
Speaker 2:No, we like to discount the little things in life and sometimes those little things are the ones that hang us up to we. We discount the good little things and we over emphasize the bad little things sometimes and I think bringing in that thought of thankfulness to those situations can help with that. The one thing I'm sitting here and I'm like what your sharing is really good, but I'm just thinking like the early the prodigal son is like an a picture of Thanksgiving. When the son came back, the father threw a feast right Like he threw a party. It ticked off. The other guy has other son right Like he was mad that he threw the party for the one that that just threw everything away.
Speaker 2:But I think in America we have taken Thanksgiving and made it one day. But I think there should be many more days of Thanksgiving that we we actually celebrate. And I think we had an episode. It was when your brother comes to Christ. Yeah, what's next? Right, that should be a day of Thanksgiving. We shouldn't have a feast for that guy. We should have something more than a pat on the back and a hug after you got baptized, like. I think that is the true meaning behind what Thanksgiving was supposed to be, compared to what we do with it now which is football and over-eating, yeah that.
Speaker 1:maybe Thanksgiving should be not just a day but a season, or I mean all through the year we should be celebrating Thanksgiving, yeah, as it should be intended to be. The food just is a bonus. Sometimes you got a lure family in and the only way to lure them in is with food and football. But the point of it is the stuff on top of the food and the football, and it's taking the time to be thankful and reflect. That's good. Easter could be a season of Thanksgiving, Christmas a season of Thanksgiving and every day in between that.
Speaker 2:I love it, oh for sure. I think we've narrowed it down to like one day and over complicated it, probably, but it should be a. There should be multiple Thanksgiving in our lives. I feel, yeah, not just this one day, but this is a day that you're gonna get your family together and it's a day to sit and be thankful for your family and what you have. But I think you could carry that into other months in the year and things that happen in your life and yeah, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1:Several challenges there through that, I think, for me. While I am thankful for all the things in my life, I need to make sure that I'm giving thanks and making it be known that I am thankful that God has provided all those things for me, allowed those things into my life. It's not by my own doing, but these are the deeds that have lined up, that God's provided for me, that have come together Does that make sense. Yeah, keep your pride out of it, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there you go. That's good. It is God that has provided these things and allowed for us to have them and to do it. We need to make sure that we are glorifying him and not ourselves.
Speaker 1:That's good. I love it. Challenges there. Challenge for you on top of that, as we leave this episode when you're at Thanksgiving, share the Two Fish podcast, share it, hit this weekend, hit the like, hit the subscribe, hit the five star Whatever the buttons is, whatever you're used, listen to this and then share the podcast, because we want to get this message out. So help us to help you, to help God to get the Two Fish podcast out to as many people as possible. So hit the share button. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and we will see you next time on the Two Fish podcast.