#1368 Benjamin Franklin's Puffy Rolls

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

"What's the use of a newborn baby?"

Benjamin Franklin was considered "the grand old man" of the American Revolution, and when questioned about what the men of the Constitutional Convention had delivered, he answered, "A republic, if you can keep it." This week, in an out-of-character program, we talk more about Benjamin Franklin.

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0:00.0	Good Day citizens and welcome to this week's Thomas Jefferson Hour.
0:05.6	And if you are listening February 25th in Norfolk at the Roper Theater, I'm doing my one-man comedy show.
0:11.1	I don't like your attitude. I don't think you I think you think
0:14.1	this is going to fail. I'm just enjoying it with you. I think you I think you have
0:17.4	my response is going to be are you going to say it three times this week too?
0:20.6	Yes I might be four now. February 25th at the
0:23.4	Roper Theater there is a ticket price it's with W HRO it's a fundraiser. Well let's as
0:27.8	long as we're pushing items for you what about your cultural tours we just got an
0:31.3	email from a woman the other day wanting to know if you were doing
0:34.8	another Cuba one. Is that one all filled?
0:36.7	That one's filled but we'll be doing it again but here's the one that I'm trying to make people
0:40.1	interested in at the moment the summer Lewis and Clark in Montana and
0:44.3	Idaho tour. We didn't do one last year because we did a special private tour
0:47.8	you did for Monticello. And this year we're back to our strength. I
0:51.7	can't wait it's in in June. Go to the website
0:54.5	Jefferson Hour.com forward slash tours. We've already got a bunch of people
0:58.3	signed up for it. I am so eager to climb the Wendover, you know what, and to canoe on the Missouri River it's the
1:04.8	highlight of my travel year and so if you're interested now is the time so
1:09.7	to get all of this sales stuff out of the way.
1:13.0	25th of February, Norfolk, one man show,
1:15.8	Jefferson without the Tights, I think they're calling it.
1:18.0	And you're promising you're going to be funny.
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