Good Day Thomas Jefferson Hour Podcast listeners and welcome to this week's broadcast.

We have a very special guest joining us this week, one of our returning champions, the noted author, historian, and good friend, David

Nacandry.

It's amazing David Swenson, the semi-permanent guest host of the Jefferson Hour,

how long you and I have known each other

and how much of that friendship has involved

David Nacandry out there in the state of Washington.

He's been on this show many times.

He is something. He's our go-to guy on the

Enlightenment. He has that large vocabulary, that extraordinary laugh,

almost a horse laugh.

He's often amused by what comes out of his mouth.

He's one of my dearest friends and I just want to say this really with the deepest sincerity.

He's given me something that I did not expect in my life.

You know, really?

I'm a Lewis and Clark scholar.

He's a Lewis and Clark scholar.

We found out a number of years ago that our minds work in similar ways that we have similar responses to the expedition

that were curious about some of the same things that were, we want to challenge some of the same things that we want to challenge some of the mythology and the

received traditions of Lewis and Clark.

And that's a lonely business and there are plenty of critics when you do that sort of work and he's always been a champion of my work.

He's always listened carefully and challenged me and when he disagrees, he makes sure that I know

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