#1297 While You Were Away

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 31 July 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

"Voltaire at the end of Candide says, just go home and cultivate your garden."

— Clay S. Jenkinson

This week, we catch up on our mail bag and also speak with a couple of Thomas Jefferson Hour listeners.

We're kind of all over the place on this episode, but we had great fun: Paul McCartney, a documentary on John McCain, audio listener responses to this program — particularly with respect to music, and a man who drove from Sioux Falls, South Dakota to Bismarck, a distance of six hours, just to say hello. We included part of that greeting in the show, along with conversations from our listeners about whether television is toxic, or whether it's just another neutral medium.

Then we introduce you to a special new friend of the show, Carol, the music teacher from Valley City. She's 83 years old, in a care facility for the moment because of a hip. Carol is a listener of the Thomas Jefferson Hour, and she said that she tells her students, "When you stop learning, you're done." Kudos to Carol.

ind this episode, along with recommended reading, on the blog.

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0:00.0	Good Day. Thomas Jefferson Hour, podcast listeners, and thank you for listening.
0:05.7	We're so appreciative. This program was, I'd have to say a little discursive.
0:11.2	I'm not even sure I know what that means.
0:14.0	Less focused on a single theme.
0:17.0	We're responding to some male and then responding to some audio recordings you've made
0:22.0	of people who've come to visit us or people
0:24.0	that recognized you. Yeah yeah you were gone unfortunately. I was elsewhere. I would I you know I
0:29.0	was so sorry when you told me that we had had a friend named Mike that I met in the Mediterranean long ago who
0:36.1	happened to be in South Dakota and on a whim.
0:39.2	He drove six hours.
0:40.2	He drove up here and got here and the place was locked but fortunately.
0:44.3	Well it wasn't locked but I was gone.
0:46.0	You were gone.
0:47.0	Uh-uh.
0:47.6	So he waited in the lobby for a couple hours.
0:50.8	And he wasn't here to tell us that we're morons or that we should be banned in many states?
0:57.0	No, he wanted to come up and meet us.
0:59.0	That's fantastic. Thank you, Mike.
1:01.0	So I had him in the studio and we talked for a bit and you'll hear that.
1:04.8	I hope he comes on the Jefferson Hour tour in France which is next autumn 2019.
1:10.4	Finally people keep saying to me is the whole France thing over, are you ever doing it?
1:14.9	And there have been a whole series of reasons why we haven't been able to do it.
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