Good Day Citizens and Welcome to this week's edition of the Thomas Jefferson Hour with a little bit of a left turn towards pop music of the 60s and a couple of other things.

We talk this week a great deal about your recent trip to Loxel Lodge.

You know my friend, I go there every year for these two winter encampments and then there's

the summer Lewis and Clark Cultural Tour.

It's my favorite place in the American West

for conversation and as a headquarters for adventure.

It's in the staggeringly beautiful Bitterroot Mountains. And I'm able able to gather thanks largely to this program

people who want that kind of conversation in their lives and we pick different

topics every year sometimes it's Walden it's been Shakespeare a couple of

times now next year it'll be the space program and Charles Dickens we did a

literature of the road beginning with the Odyssey and ending with Jack Kerouac.

We've done John Nyhart and Native American culture

as seen through his fabulous book, Black Elk Speaks.

It'll go on and on as long as people want to do it and I'm able. I want to keep doing this.

I come back empowered. I come back believing that everything is still possible in this country.

I come back reinvigorated as a human being, as a man, as a citizen, and as a humanist, as a humanity scholar.

There's a magic here, you know, there, you can go see Tony Robbins, was that his name,

the cultural self-help guru and talks in stadiums and you can go to this or that seminar about how to make a million dollars per

annum or how to flip houses or how to do invest in gold or are now John Boehner

former speaker of the house is is flogging marijuana opportunities on the radio.

He's like, he does seminars around the country.

You too can get, you too can get in on the marijuana boom.

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