#1246 Special Places
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🗓️ 7 August 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
"The bureaucracy can actually serve a really valuable purpose."
— Beau Wright, Director of Operations at United to Protect Democracy
In an out-of-character program, Clay reports on this year's Lewis & Clark cultural tour. Later, we're joined by Beau Wright who reports on his recent visits to Jefferson's Poplar Forest home and the Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
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Thomas Jefferson is interpreted by Clay S. Jenkinson.
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| 0:00.0 | Good Day, Thomas Jefferson Hour, podcast listeners and welcome to this episode of the Thomas Jefferson Hour. |
| 0:08.0 | Before we begin talking about this episode, I want to thank all of you and there are a bunch of new ones of |
| 0:15.0 | you. I welcome you who have decided to support the Thomas Jefferson Hour by |
| 0:19.6 | joining the 1776 club. I want to specifically thank Mr Avery Champion who in his |
| 0:26.1 | letter said even though I don't have a lot of money semi-retired, semi-poor old |
| 0:30.8 | person a current episode prompted him to look look for the |
| 0:34.0 | podcast and go to the donations page. It is you sir and folks like you who keep |
| 0:39.9 | this program on the air. This is not a for-profit program. There is there are no salaries |
| 0:46.3 | involved. This week out of character. Yes so just to wrap that up. |
| 0:53.0 | We do appreciate your support more than you understand probably. |
| 0:57.5 | And so we keep hammering that point. |
| 1:00.2 | If you'd like to support the Thomas Jefferson Hour, go to Jefferson Hour.com, and there's all the information there on the donate page, and as well as a lot of other stuff, tons of information there. |
| 1:12.8 | David I was just on the annual Lewis and Car Cultural Tour in Montana and Idaho and |
| 1:17.6 | among other things people asked after you as they always do. |
| 1:21.0 | They said they love the website, They like the 1776 club. One woman came to me and said that two years ago she got seeds for tomatoes from you. |
| 1:32.0 | Oh really? And that they thrived. Oh great. And that she so appreciates what you did. |
| 1:36.5 | Oh. My offering, what did, you offered free seeds up to a limited number for people who sent you a snap? |
| 1:41.5 | I saved as many as I could that year and if they sent me a self-addressed stamped envelope, I sent |
| 1:47.3 | them seeds. |
| 1:48.3 | And then there was... |
| 1:49.3 | I don't have any more, so don't do that. |
| 1:50.3 | At one of our roundtable conversations out in Idaho I said all right how many like the |
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