#1364 Listener Questions
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🗓️ 12 November 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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In this week's out-of-character program, our conversation is spent answering and responding to listener questions. Subjects included are Catherine Jenkinson's recent hosting of the show, hot air balloons during Jefferson's time, Theodore Roosevelt, and the rights of women, the LGBTQ community, and people of color.
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| 0:00.0 | Good Day Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners and as always thank you for listening. |
| 0:07.0 | I want to report that I took my daughter to England. |
| 0:11.0 | We spent three days in London and we did wild things because we've done so many |
| 0:15.8 | normal things that we did. We went to Sir Richard Francis Burton's grave in |
| 0:20.2 | Mortlake. He was one of the searches for the source of the Nile. We went to Abbey Road. |
| 0:25.0 | Partly for you, David, on the 50th anniversary... |
| 0:27.0 | Was it be? Have you listened to the 50th anniversary yet? |
| 0:30.0 | Oh, you should. I need to get it. |
| 0:32.0 | But of course, it's the 50th anniversary of the release of Abbey Road. |
| 0:34.8 | Your favorite beetle worker. |
| 0:35.8 | The day before we were there, the remaining beetles, Paul and Ringo, were there on the Zebra Strip at Abbey Road. So we went the next day |
| 0:46.2 | because we didn't, you know, we didn't want to be part of that mob, but there were |
| 0:51.7 | thousands of people there the day that we went and we took |
| 0:54.9 | photographs and it was great because it was like if you've ever seen let it be. |
| 0:59.1 | So eventually the cops come and they're trying to get people off the road and they're saying |
| 1:03.2 | you know they're being very stern that yes we understand but there is traffic here in London and it |
| 1:08.1 | must move and you're in the way someone's going to get hurt and then people would just like |
| 1:12.2 | okay officer and then right back into the road |
| 1:14.8 | photographs video people from every nation in the world there and they're just |
| 1:21.6 | they're bowing to the studio and they're remembering that you know this doesn't |
| 1:26.2 | happen with many artists but the Beatles maybe Dylan they're handful that have that iconic were central to a |
| 1:37.6 | way the world saw itself at a certain time and the Beatles are the supreme in that and I know we've had this discussion |
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