Good Day and welcome to you Thomas Jefferson Our podcast listeners. We are so grateful that you do listen.

And the question is, is it rude to call you the semi-permanent guest host of the Thomas Jefferson.

When your defenders come in and say, how could you call him that?

Yeah, well, you'll hear it in the show.

The badge of honor.

The guy's name, but you could tell from the email that he was a little he was sticking

up for me he thinks so you how could you be so rude to this guy he's gonna he'll walk one of these

decades and you'll hear it in the show but it really is it's an interesting story how that came about and I insisted on keeping that title.

I would, I would feel slighted if you took it away.

Well, you know, sir, we have been talking a good deal about current events and there has been just such an enormous response to my challenge about whether we should how how close we are to the end times

Whether the seventh seal has been opened or not.

The alarm poll.

And so the alarm poll and people have really stepped up and sent the most thoughtful and

interesting letters.

We're not going to do that today because we, I feel and you feel

feel too that we've given maybe enough attention to that for the moment.

We'll come back to it, but we don't want this show to devolve into a current event show either.

So David, part of what made this program

so interesting to me was the question about whether the Mandan were the Welsh derived Indians.

Oh yeah, it's an ancient concern.

It goes back really to the Renaissance, but in 1795,

a man named John Evans, a Welshman came up

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