#1404 Humor Me
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🗓️ 18 August 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Thomas Jefferson Hour creator Clay S. Jenkinson has returned from his annual Lewis and Clark tour, and gives us a report on the trip along with updates on his other projects. Also discussed is the poor state of humor and jokes during Jefferson's time and a discussion about whether or not Jefferson had a sense of humor.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day Thomas Jefferson, Our podcast, listeners, and as always thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:06.4 | We talked about a number of different things this week, didn't we play? |
| 0:10.4 | Well, we talked about my annual trip on the Lewis Court Trail, got pretty serious for a while there, |
| 0:14.4 | and then we turned to my internationally successful comedy album. |
| 0:18.8 | Internationally? |
| 0:19.8 | Well, I heard a Canadian bought it. |
| 0:21.4 | You got stats on that? |
| 0:23.0 | One Canadian, that's international. |
| 0:24.7 | Okay then, well, it was great fun to talk about it. |
| 0:27.6 | Oh, you know, and I so appreciate it. |
| 0:28.9 | I just want to say a couple of shameless things. |
| 0:30.5 | First of all, you can get the album on Spotify and then iTunes and so on. |
| 0:35.0 | And my new book, Bring Out Your Dead. |
| 0:37.0 | But also this week, while we sit here, |
| 0:40.0 | repairing Jefferson's America is being released by Kohler Books in Norfolk, Virginia, so lots and lots and lots is happening. |
| 0:48.3 | That's great. You know, we've got a couple inquiries from people in the past week. I don't know if you've had a chance to catch up on the Jefferson |
| 0:53.4 | hour email since you got back, but I think three individuals, three different states inquired |
| 0:58.7 | about how they could help you with that process of getting into the hands of state legislators. |
| 1:04.2 | So you need to check that. |
| 1:05.3 | I will check. |
| 1:06.3 | I got a note from one of my advisors about it. |
| 1:09.2 | And so that would give us eight states where Jefferson Hour lovers are making it possible for every |
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