#1218 Two Parties
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🗓️ 27 January 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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We speak with President Thomas Jefferson this week about the unexpected emergence of the two-party political system during his time.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, it's time for that podcast introduction that everybody waits for Mr Jefferson and Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Jenkins, and Mr. Jenkins. |
| 0:07.0 | You know, I started out trying to kind of set up Mr. Jefferson nicely. I had I admitted how cold I am living in Dakota and |
| 0:17.3 | that he was right about Virginia. You know I was wondering about that. I wonder what kind of a deal we could get on a barn in Norfolk or |
| 0:24.7 | you know what I did you see the photos on the worldwide web of snow at Monticello? |
| 0:29.2 | Nobody likes us in North Dakota anymore. We're too radical. |
| 0:32.1 | Did you see the photographs there is snow all over the mountain? |
| 0:35.0 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:36.0 | And then my friends in Norfolk, what a, I mean I love you in Norfolk, let me just say, what a bunch of |
| 0:39.8 | weenies you are. |
| 0:41.0 | I mean, they get like half an inch of snow and the city is |
| 0:44.1 | paralyzed. Well you know it's it's it's a little different up here I mean |
| 0:48.9 | there's there's snow on my boulevard from the snowplows going by that's literally 12 to 15 feet high. |
| 0:56.2 | No, it's, you can't see over it. |
| 0:57.6 | This is a big winter in Dakota. |
| 0:59.0 | There's no question about that. |
| 1:00.4 | We haven't had them like this for a long time. |
| 1:02.0 | But my point is that |
| 1:03.0 | Jefferson could not have lived here. Yeah my point is, what if we could find a |
| 1:06.6 | little barn in Norfolk? What do you think? I wish someone would just send me a |
| 1:09.6 | bobcat. I want a bobcat. You know what that is, it's like a skid steer. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah. Everybody knows what Bob. They were invented here in North Dakota because we need them to move. |
| 1:20.0 | And I'm the only, I only have one dream left in life and that's to have a bobcat. |
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