Good Day Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listeners and welcome to this week's show, which is private thoughts, it's called,

private thoughts of Mr Jefferson. We talked to Thomas Jefferson for the first two-thirds of the show,

and he was uncharacteristically, what's the word, Clay?

Revealing.

Yeah, revealing, there it is.

There are oftentimes when Jefferson does not want to talk about himself and I was surprised

at how freely he did this week.

I mean, you know, this is, we've talked about this before, David.

If you do this long enough, you fall in and out of love with Thomas Jefferson.

You do, it's a strange thing.

I've never understood, but you actually there are days when you just don't like him anymore.

And then it somehow morphs or changes or evolves.

Well, he's an interesting guy.

You have to be careful how you approach him.

It's sort of like, if you approach him in the right way by getting him to talk about things he really enjoys,

then maybe you can guide him into telling you things that he normally wouldn't.

I think so, and so I'm falling back in love with Jefferson. I wasn't out of love with

him. It's been a really rich period in my thinking about Jefferson. I'm reading

new books and I don't know I'm just I'm just finding Jefferson so must be the eclipse must be the eclipse

it eclipsed my rational sensibilities but but you see what I'm saying and so today when you started asking about

Well we started talking about about Montecello there was a question from

Christopher Ercich about.

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