#1378 More TJ Please
Listening to America
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🗓️ 18 February 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Prompted by a listener's request to spend more time talking to Mister Jefferson, we devote this episode to presenting questions to Jefferson, such as whether it's necessary for congress to approve military actions, and if the founding fathers could have anticipated the formation of political parties and would they have designed things differently had they known.
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| 0:00.0 | Good Day Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listeners and welcome to this week's broadcast show, |
| 0:07.2 | podcast broadcast. We talked to Jefferson this week. He's back. Yeah, we got so we got a letter saying will we ever hear from Jefferson again |
| 0:15.0 | that was pretty interesting the guy listened to every |
| 0:19.0 | she cataloged every show and figured out that Jefferson only appeared 22 out of 52 times. |
| 0:28.0 | Which by the way, we've got a street going. |
| 0:31.0 | We've done 52 shows every year for three, four, five years now. |
| 0:36.3 | No wonder I'm tired. |
| 0:37.3 | Take that network TV. |
| 0:38.8 | Yeah, most programs do 13 per annum, if that that but we do 52 and I'm so glad and you know me too I'm really |
| 0:46.4 | proud of and and and and we said this on on the program I want to say it in a different way |
| 0:52.0 | I'm more comfortable in character than out because I know what |
| 0:56.6 | Jefferson thought and I know about his life and in my own life I'm less certain I'm often confused about the world and it's |
| 1:09.1 | unclear what our what the response of a good citizen should be. |
| 1:15.0 | So it's easier to be Jefferson than to be me. |
| 1:17.5 | That's probably why I do historical characters. |
| 1:20.0 | But I think that this is a gigantic national crisis, not only of the Constitution, but of the |
| 1:30.0 | survival of the American Republic and unfortunately this has been sort of forced on |
| 1:36.1 | all of us. I bet everyone listening would agree with the sentence that I'm about to say |
| 1:41.0 | which is that in the last months or years they have had |
| 1:45.0 | conversations about this again and again and again and again and tell they're so |
| 1:49.6 | sick of talking about it that they just wish we could just turn it off with a switch. |
| 1:54.4 | But we can't because everything is at stake here and I'm not just saying that |
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