I'm just going to start by saying I really enjoy I so enjoy talking to President

Jefferson every week and to you and this was like kind of cathartic and also hopefully we informed some listeners about this is not

the first time it's been this bad on on politics.

How about Hamilton's pamphlet, right?

Insaults John Adams.

I mean, let me say one more thing and then I'll step back.

No, please.

And that is that we are recording this on the seventh and November the eve of the election and it was your

well you wanted you said no David we need to do this

before the election so we can have like a pure thought about it and be held accountable.

But anyway I hope that the broadcast helped some of the listeners because I know we get

email and there are a lot of people who have been very upset in this

election cycle and I think it's fascinating to look at the two of them so there it is.

I think I want to say this I was in Minneapolis last week for two talks at the Minnesota State Historical Society as

Jefferson with my friend John Williams of WCCO.

And then this most immediate weekend I was in Chicago with John Williams for his other station that he is a talk show host at, W GN.

And David, we did four programs to each day, sold out audiences, and the question, the subject

was the election of 1800, and he walked me through it in the way that you do. And so there were 600 people at each and the two last ones in

Chicago, a thousand people each. And here's what happened. I mean I talked about

civility and I talked about peaceful

transfer of power and I talked about the strength of the American Republic and

how you need to sing the song of America to be a great president of this country and how we tend to heal after elections no matter

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