#1401 Match Recap with Joseph Ellis
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🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Joseph Ellis and Clay Jenkinson revisit their debate about who the "Indispensable Man" of the American Revolution truly was. We share listener comments about the debate and answer additional questions sent in, including a request for discussion about the history of the women's rights movement, Jefferson's subpoena during the Burr trial and how slavery affected the economy of the southern states.
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| 0:00.0 | Good Day Thomas Jefferson Hour Podcast listeners and as always we so thank you for listening and also thank those of you who have decided to support the show. |
| 0:12.8 | You know, we got an email. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm not going to say who was from just recently, |
| 0:15.8 | but a very nice woman. |
| 0:17.2 | One of those letters that you read and it just kind of makes you blush. |
| 0:20.4 | She said, after these last few weeks during the pandemic and listening how much I think there's a thing in there about she wanted to read more but she ended up watching more TV and throwing her shoe at the TV a lot. more, |
| 0:33.0 | and throwing her shoe at the TV a lot. |
| 0:35.0 | And then she found the show |
| 0:36.0 | and it really helped her a lot, |
| 0:37.0 | and she wanted to increase her paltry |
| 0:39.0 | five dollar a month contribution |
| 0:41.0 | to the Jefferson Hour to $20 a month. And I thought, |
| 0:44.0 | and I thought, bless your heart. |
| 0:45.0 | And anyway, so that's just a backhanded way |
| 0:48.0 | of getting into if you can support the show. |
| 0:51.0 | We really appreciate it. |
| 0:52.0 | We don't take anything for doing this. |
| 0:54.0 | Those reading those letters is our reward and the kind of for me being able to |
| 0:59.7 | sit back and listen to you and Jo Ellis it's just great so if you can support the show |
| 1:05.2 | we really appreciate that go to Jefferson Hour.com to do that you can also find |
| 1:10.1 | out about everything Clay has going on, which is a lot. His books, his latest comedy album is out, |
| 1:18.0 | and I'm sure he will tell you in great detail about each one of those things, won you sir? I'd love to I won't but this |
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