And you're rolling for a podcast intro, sir?

Well, citizens, I still have a slight head cold, but I'm here in the barn.

Yeah, get rid of that, well, I've been trying.

I think, you know what I do for this?

I suppose this is a dangerous drug suggestion. I do a triple dose of Nyquil triple and I

gargle ten times a day with Listerine any of you children who heard that don't

try that at home it's not right

and adults too and any doctors that are out there may want to contact

Clay directly if he's still living

so I hope to I hope to survive this but today's program is about Thomas Jefferson first Secretary of State.

And there was a couple of sections in there that we didn't get to you know

no way yeah no no no no no there is that you know what's really struck me from a

book which I've sort of discounted now because I think it's a bit prejudiced in its

writing but a lot of people thought Jefferson was nuts.

They at least thought that he had maybe spent a little too long in France.

Yeah and what I'm coming back to and I think I've just found it here and I didn't get to it in the show is his power of the power of banks and how how absolutely against it he but he wrote

to James Madison the 1st of October 1792 you know this letter I'm sure the power of erecting banks and corporations was not given to the general foreign

Government it remains within the state itself for any person to recognize a foreign legislature in a case belonging to the state itself is an act of treason against the state and

whosoever shall do any act under color of authority of a foreign legislature

whether by signing notes, issuing or passing them,

acting as director, Kashir, or in any other office relating to it, shall be judged guilty of high treason and shall suffer death accordingly by the judgment of this.

He's saying, yeah, go ahead, believe in Hamilton, I'll have you guillotine.

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