#1214 Remembering 2016

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 30 December 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Clay & David recall and re-listen to some of the more memorable moments on the Thomas Jefferson Hour during the past year.

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0:00.0	Well, sir, we did it. We did our annual review.
0:02.8	You know, we didn't do a repeat show this year.
0:05.8	52 new shows.
0:07.3	Yeah.
0:08.3	So 52 new shows.
0:09.5	Most programs do maybe 26, but usually 13. We did them and it was one of the most bizarre
0:19.4	years in modern American history. Yeah and it's you know, we got beat up from both sides.
0:24.6	I'm still getting mail.
0:25.9	About what?
0:26.9	We talked about the election.
0:28.6	I mean, it was appropriate for us to talk about the election.
0:31.3	What was the hate mail?
0:33.0	It wasn't any hate mail.
0:34.2	And we did a couple that were hardcore on the election.
0:37.6	We felt like it was necessary to do them and we got email from people pleading. And then the next week we went back to a
0:44.5	traditional Jefferson I we got an email from a guy saying thank you for
0:47.8	finally returning to what you're supposed to do. Well you get it from every
0:51.2	direction I remember when we did the program before the
0:54.1	invasion of Iraq and we got a ton of hate mail. Oh sure. And then the
0:58.6	invasion of Iraq came out just as you all know and then we did a retro program in which we repeated it and
1:04.4	said not I told you so we said this is why we should all talk about these things
1:09.4	before they happen and we got more hate mail so you can't know who's going to be offended by what.
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