Welcome to this special podcast edition of the Thomas Jefferson Hour joined this week by not only

President Jefferson but also by Dr. Benjamin Franklin.

Dr. Tell a story from the autobiography. Can you tell the story of the bread, the bun?

It's such a great story.

Thank you. When I ran away, this is something I do not recommend to the youth of today,

but when I ran away from my brother's

abusive behavior where I learned dislike of arbitrary use of power, I walked and I rode, not horses, but

a boat, from Philadelphia to New York where I could not find work and

then I heard there was work for printers in Philadelphia and so I eventually wound up

there. I had very little money in my pocket after all that time and had only a few coins.

But the currency being different, we could not agree, the baker and I I what it was worth so I said well

here's three pennies worth give me that much bread and he gave me three large

puffy rolls you were just the kid coming into a new city. 16, 17 years old, I had good education for that I taught myself. I was a printers apprentice,

so I had some knowledge from all that I'd read there, but really I knew nothing.

I had been traveling for days and days in rain.

I was soaked, my better clothes by trunk to come along by other carriage.

So I was in my worst clothes, I was soaking, I was dirty, I was grimy, and I had these three

puffy loaves.

Giant bread.

Giant, you think of French baguettes of the long variety that you would have for a great spaghetti

They're hauling them around the city and I have eating one I came back across

some of the party that I'd wrote up with and one of them was a young mother with her

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