#1196 Jefferson 113 (Jefferson in Paris)

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🗓️ 27 August 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This Jefferson 101 episode is the third of three shows devoted to Jefferson's time in Paris from 1784 to 1789.

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0:00.0	Well, we're rolling, sir, and it's time for this week's podcast intro.
0:05.0	Kick it off.
0:06.0	We got pretty serious in this program.
0:08.0	Because we're...
0:09.0	We're looking at Jefferson's Letters from France,
0:12.0	what he learned in France letters.
0:13.2	It was the 101 series and...
0:15.2	And 113 I think.
0:16.4	We're up to 113 and we decided at your request, they said we need to do one more on the...
0:22.4	What he learned
0:23.0	uh... Jefferson in Paris what he learned in Paris and look at some of the
0:26.8	letters he wrote to mister madison and then you just kind of went off
0:30.8	oh that's not true it's. I look I'm taking him seriously.
0:34.9	Jefferson is saying... You raised your voice a number of times.
0:37.6	Sir. Because you sir we're saying oh it's easy to live on the minimum wage.
0:42.1	You know I'm gonna get beat up for that.
0:44.3	I'm just, I don't think, oh God, I can't imagine living on a minimum wage.
0:48.7	I just can't imagine it.
0:50.4	But there are people who do it.
0:52.2	And, you know, I mean, mean let I'm not going to point any fingers here
0:55.8	But there's a lot of us in America right now who probably have it you know
1:01.0	We spend a lot of money on ourselves I buy a lot of pistachios you know
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