#1371 The New Year

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 1 January 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week, we welcome back Catherine Jenkinson as guest host. She and Clay Jenkinson discuss the celebrations of the new year and how the calendar has changed over the course of several millennia. They also discuss new year's resolutions, and the ways celebrations have changed since Jefferson's time.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this podcast edition of the Thomas Jefferson Hour. I'm Clay Jenkins
0:04.6	out of Tights and out of Wigg and sitting across from me as a second
0:08.6	Jenkinson, my favorite one, Catherine Missouri Walker, who is now a doctoral student at Oxford University, and
0:17.2	nearby here in the barn, the semi-permanent guest host of the Jefferson Hour,
0:21.5	Mr David Swenson.
0:22.6	Catherine, thanks for being here.
0:24.8	Thank you for having me.
0:25.6	It's great to be back.
0:26.6	Now let's just get this on and off the table.
0:28.2	On the 25th of February, I'm doing this comedy program
0:32.3	at the Roper Theater in Norfolk, Virginia.
0:35.1	Everyone should come.
0:36.1	It's a fundraiser for WHRO, which is a flagship station of ours there.
0:40.7	And it's an hour and 35 or 40 minutes of me doing comic stories about my
0:48.8	grandparents farm in Minnesota, my mother whom as you know was an extremely interesting
0:54.0	colorful and sarcastic character and being arrested in costume meeting Kobe Bryant
0:59.8	on an elevator in Dallas and so on.
1:03.0	And I see, you know, to all of you listening, if you have a child, the eye roll, yeah, that's
1:10.8	what I'm looking at here. If radio could cover it, that's the eye roll.
1:14.0	Why are you rolling your eyes?
1:16.0	All I'm saying is if you had gotten in your mailbox a photo of you with a rubber chicken,
1:21.0	you'd have some doubts.
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