Good day, Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners, and as always, thank you so much for listening.

We're glad you're with us today, really a remarkable program, David.

We received out of the blue a letter from a prisoner in one of our systems,

in one of our penal systems, and also I received a letter from his mother.

And she passed on questions that her son had, he'd written in prison,

that he'd like Thomas Jefferson to address.

And I was delighted by this, the idea that someone in a prison somehow has access

to the Thomas Jefferson hour and took the time to want Mr. Jefferson to weigh in

on certain judicial questions.

I just think there's something magnificent about that and really redemptive.

And so it moved me deeply.

And so today we take his questions, you put most of them, not all of them to me

and Mr. Jefferson answered them.

But my friend Lynn Novak, you know, Lynn Novak of the Ken Burns world.

I don't know her, but I certainly know of her.

She's an amazing human being.

She, truly, a genius.

And she, well, tell people who she is.

Well, she's just, I'm sorry, she's Ken Burns partner.

She's, she produced baseball.

She produced a lot of jazz.

She did most of Vietnam.

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