#1289 Jefferson's Vision

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🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

"Lightly governed, lightly taxed, highly educated, isolationist, farmer's paradise."

— Clay S. Jenkinson

This week, President Thomas Jefferson explains his own vision for America.

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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 as I always say thank you for listening
0:09.5	You know David the other day I was in a state capital building having a meeting with a lieutenant
0:14.8	governor and I was sitting there in this... Was it Iowa? Yes. I was sitting there in
0:19.1	this office and a woman walked by and then she did an actual human double take and she came back to the door.
0:26.0	I was all alone in there and she said, are you, are you Clay Jenkins and?
0:29.0	I said, yes I am.
0:30.0	And she introduced herself as an assistant attorney general and she said, I used to
0:36.8	listen to you all the time but my parents moved in with us and they want to go to mass at a different hour.
0:43.9	And I said, lady, I was trying to be like Jerry Lewis, lady, you can listen to this on
0:50.0	podcast and she was surprised.
0:51.7	She said, what? What? there is a pod and then I gave
0:55.5	her information and she said I shall listen now so a lot of people don't know
1:00.2	that we have a podcast edition of the Jefferson
1:03.0	hours my point.
1:04.3	Did you like my Jerry Lewis?
1:05.8	It wasn't bad.
1:07.1	I was just checking to make sure you didn't break up.
1:08.8	So Iowa.
1:09.8	Or a tube.
1:10.8	Iowa.
1:11.8	Yeah. Decorah. No, it's not Dicorah. Iowa, yeah, decora.
1:13.0	Decorah, no, it's not decara.
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