This special podcast edition of the Thomas Jefferson Hour is about listening questions and we were challenged by someone who actually appeared at the New Enlightenment Radio Network studio from South Dakota, actually from Germany, but by way of South Dakota, and said more questions.

And so you gathered some because we get tons of them.

We do, and I am telling the truth when I say I read every one of them but we had some really good questions

for President Jefferson and some challenges about potential bias in this program

and you know I'll just say this that the the advent of Donald Trump as president has put everybody off their center of gravity.

That's true.

We're having a kind of national nervous something, not collapse, an incident.

Even more than that was my faux-paw about where Mr. Hancock was from and I was so embarrassed.

Well that was a simple factual error.

Yes it was.

But I like it when our audience reminds us of our errors because how else

would we know? You know, there's this illusion that we know what we know. But we know better. We're just winging it. We had questions about ocean voyages. That was really

fascinating, yeah. About how long it took for Jefferson to think about the Declaration of Independence.

And did he really learn Spanish in 19 days?

Come on.

Yeah, that was a good one too.

I don't think so.

No.

We asked Mr Jefferson about his policies on immigration.

And you know what?

It was the same business then because there's always a class of people.

In this case, it was French radicals that some elements of this country do not want here.

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