#1270 Total Extirpation
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🗓️ 22 January 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
"It really upsets me that Jefferson should be anti-canine, but there you are."
— Clay S. Jenkinson
This week, we answer listener questions about Jefferson's personality traits, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, the State of Jefferson, the Hamilton Soundtrack, fashion during Jefferson's time, touring Monticello, and Jefferson's distaste for dogs.
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| 0:00.0 | Good Day Citizens and welcome to this week's podcast edition of the Thomas Jefferson Hour and it doesn't really matter what we talked about during the entire show. |
| 0:10.0 | I could title this one, T.J hates dogs. |
| 0:13.5 | Yeah, that's the headline, isn't it? |
| 0:15.2 | Kill them all. |
| 0:16.7 | Let God sort it out. |
| 0:17.8 | But we'll let you get to that. |
| 0:19.0 | It's late in the show. |
| 0:20.1 | Wow, I was, I knew this, of course. I've read this many times but it really upsets me that Jefferson should be anti-canine |
| 0:27.4 | Yeah, but there you are there you well he was like I tried I tried to kind of make an excuse but you can't make an excuse but he was |
| 0:34.3 | he was looking out for his he can't we wanted his marino sheep and that wool. |
| 0:39.8 | Yeah but he didn't just say let's bring the dog population down to a reasonable |
| 0:44.0 | limit. He says I would readily join any plan for exterminating the whole race. |
| 0:48.0 | We had a lot of great questions. We talked about his, well some of his personality traits and how they affected things that he did. |
| 0:57.0 | Well the inconsistencies and paradoxes in Jefferson and is there any way to understand them? |
| 1:02.0 | And I do think there is but our |
| 1:04.1 | writer said look you just have to there's no easy solution to this you just |
| 1:09.4 | have to look at the accumulated evidence from his whole life and different impulses, |
| 1:15.0 | different influences, but there's no way to just |
| 1:17.8 | square all of this in one sentence, which I think is right. |
| 1:21.5 | But I do have a theory, and so I outlined that in the first section I think of today's |
| 1:26.3 | program. |
| 1:27.3 | There was one about his debt to Thaddeus Kuzico? |
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