#1346 In Search of America

Listening to America

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

"Mayor Pete of South Bend is saying that he would welcome certain erasures of Jefferson from our public discourse." — Clay S. Jenkinson

Clay has returned from his recent travels and his search for America, and he updates us on that trip. We answer listener mail, including responses to the recent show, #1344 Baked In.

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0:00.0	Good Day Thomas Jefferson Hour Podcasts,
0:02.4	Listeners, and as always, thank you for listening.
0:06.8	I want to apologize to the universe.
0:09.2	I know why.
0:10.8	I made one of the worst historical mistakes of my career and let's have it I wouldn't be surprised if people never listen again to this program
0:17.6	I wonder if there's anyone listening at all I live in shame and in a sense of deep
0:29.6	humiliation I live in shame and a sense of deep humiliation. On a previous show in a moment of great weakness, I said that Quick Draw McGraw was a dog.
0:32.0	How could you? When everyone knows that Quick Draw McGraw was a dog. How could you?
0:33.0	When everyone knows that Quick Draw McGraw was a horse.
0:37.0	To call him a dog is a slur against Hannah Barbara cartoons. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of American cult.
0:47.0	Okay, enough, enough. But I mean, look, you got to get it right. If you're wrong on things like that,
0:51.0	how can you be right on Jefferson?
0:52.0	I think I might still have a
0:53.6	vinyl 33 rp.m record of of that from my youth. And Quinc straw yeah so having
1:00.8	said that we had a fun discussion about your trip and somebody wrote in, I think
1:07.8	was on Facebook and said they need to make a matchbox of clay in his traveling truck.
1:14.0	What's a matchbox?
1:15.0	Oh, a little figurine.
1:16.0	This is a match box.
1:17.0	I brought you that back from the Steinbeck too.
1:20.0	There already is one.
1:21.0	So I guess we're just a little picture a picture that on me yeah yeah just
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