#1355 Inventive Behavior
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🗓️ 10 September 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
President Thomas Jefferson speaks to us this week about inventions and scientific discoveries of his time including some he was responsible for.
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| 0:00.0 | Good Day Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listeners and as always thank you for listening and |
| 0:07.2 | thank those of you who have chosen to support the Thomas Jefferson Hour. |
| 0:10.8 | We appreciate that. |
| 0:11.8 | We so appreciate David. I bring you greetings from my new |
| 0:14.6 | friends in South Georgia. I went to give a talk. I met this |
| 0:20.1 | super frightening. Yeah, the super fan. She was great. |
| 0:23.0 | Her name is Martha and she's a lawyer and her husband Nathan is a great guy and they took me to |
| 0:28.0 | dinner along with her parents and four couples and we had this incredible meal. |
| 0:32.4 | And did you do you let on that I don't really exist? |
| 0:34.7 | I'm an automaton. |
| 0:35.6 | I said you were actually done on a sound stage in Hollywood. |
| 0:39.0 | Just like the moon landing, but they, they, they, |
| 0:41.6 | they congratulated you and said that they would love to meet you sometime and they're big |
| 0:45.4 | fan I have never been to Georgia oh well I hadn't been there for a while I'm going |
| 0:49.5 | again next week as it turns out but but this was I this was something I mean these guys were so in tune |
| 0:56.7 | that they knew more about what I do than I do that That's a little frightening. |
| 1:03.0 | And they were like finishing sentences and it was like... |
| 1:06.4 | That's really frightening. |
| 1:07.4 | I felt I had gone into like a fantasy world where the ideal listeners, you know, the people who actually give themselves |
| 1:17.0 | to this program and they all wanted to change the world and you know live in an enlightened |
| 1:22.0 | society and they're Jeffersonians to the call |
| 1:25.4 | although the super fan was once a Hamiltonian and she finally was brought |
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