So it's time for the podcast intro for this week's show listener questions and not just

listener questions but listener questions. You know for a long time we've wanted to do

actual questions using the voices of our listeners from around the

country and we're doing it sort of on an experimental basis and it turned out to be a great experiment.

I knew we would get good questions but I had no idea. and it turned out to be a great experiment.

I knew we would get good questions,

but I had no idea that the personalities of our listeners

would be so fascinating.

We can't use all of that in the show,

but we got to know some really interesting Jeffersonians.

There was a gentleman with the bicycle that was an extended conversation.

Mr. West Cheney?

Yeah, what a guy who's, he's almost a Thorovian, not a Jeffersonian.

He's selling what he has in moving to Alaska and divesting himself of a number of bicycles,

one of which may or may not become the proud possession of the

third president of the United States.

And one of the things I said to him in our conversation was that the bicycle we now realize

is one of the single greatest things ever invented, especially now with

like titanium frames and they're amazing instruments of efficiency and beauty.

But when they first came, this was in England in the 1750s, Samuel Johnson, the great British

literary dictator and lexicographer, said it'll never work because not only do you have to move

yourself but you have to move the machine too like you're only adding to the burden of movement he misunderstood the miracle of the bicycle and just think I mean everyone what what your life with bicycles

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