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Listening to America

#1255 Show Mister Jefferson

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Listening to America

Society & Culture, History

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Prompted by a listener letter, Clay answers the question, "If Thomas Jefferson appeared before you today, what would you want to show him from our time?"

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Thomas Jefferson is interpreted by Clay S. Jenkinson.

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0:00.0

My friends out there, this is the introduction to the podcast edition of the Thomas Jefferson Hour David,

0:05.0

this was one of my favorite programs ever.

0:07.0

I know, you love these.

0:08.0

Who you don't you love them too?

0:10.0

Oh yeah, they're great fun.

0:11.0

Someone wrote in, William Jordan, beautiful letter and said if Jefferson appeared, what would we show him?

0:17.3

We need to remember that whenever anybody turns into this program program well most weeks anyway we're asking

0:25.1

them to suspend their disbelief because I get to talk to a dead president I

0:30.2

pretend to be a dead man you pretend to believe it.

0:33.0

And sometimes I actually do.

0:35.0

And me too.

0:36.0

I've always a little surprised.

0:38.0

But so this William Jordan wrote in and said,

0:41.0

what would you show him?

0:42.0

And so I actually spent days you talked to me

0:45.0

about this last week I said yeah would you like to do this and you went oh yes oh yes

0:49.2

so I came up with not three but ten things I want and you came up with several too.

0:54.3

He had a number of questions that he sent us and I hope you'll forgive us.

0:59.6

We should go back to those other questions too.

1:01.2

We didn't get to get to those. We do need to answer some mail one of these upcoming

1:05.0

I'll just tell you this of the ten you have to listen to the program to hear them

1:08.0

but Madison comes in of course

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