#1335 The Mustard Seed

Listening to America

Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

"You feel the wonderment of nature at its finest … it's a deep, deep, deep cultural memory of the miracle of the seed."

— Clay S. Jenkinson

We answer listener mail about John Wesley Powell, David Thompson, Daniel Flores, Jefferson's theft of upland rice while he was in Italy, and suggestions for educating young people.

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0:00.0	Good Day Citizens and Welcome to this week's Thomas Jefferson Hour
0:04.4	Podcast Edition and thank you for listening.
0:08.8	Spring has come to the Great Plains.
0:10.4	You have your tomato seeds already started indoors. Tell them the coffee cups we're doing gear there will be Thomas Jefferson hour
0:17.6	Gear merch And so there will be the coffee cup what does it say? Good day, my dear, Sir?
0:23.8	Rock and Rob bands, they don't make any money on the tour,
0:25.6	but they make it on merch.
0:26.7	Yeah, well, we'll see about that.
0:28.3	No, it's just, this is all in good humor and we may make a little bit off of the credits.
0:33.8	You do know about the time I went to the International Hemp Fest.
0:37.0	Oh yeah.
0:38.0	And Janie and the shirts that said, have another brownie, Mr. Madison?
0:42.0	Yeah, that didn't work out. Yeah. Yeah that one
0:44.5	still boxes are in my garage there's a there's a ton of them but don't joke because
0:48.9	people will want them. So this woman comes up and she's dressed in this kind of hemp halter top.
0:54.2	She's like 24.
0:56.0	I love this story.
0:57.0	There's 60,000 people at the Hemphest.
0:59.3	The tertiary smoke would be enough to choke a horse.
1:02.1	And so we're there we're selling
1:03.2	this merchandise and I have to give this talk so afterwards I'm there in street
1:06.6	clothes and this woman comes up and she's just as high as a kite and she looks and
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