Good day, Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listeners as always. We so appreciate you listening you loyal listeners out there you loyal supporters of the Thomas Jefferson Hour. We so appreciate it.

And it's all put to good use in spite of what Clay says. What do you mean what I say? Well, this stuff about oh, send us your ranch and buy a hundred copies of my I'm not going to waste it. If they send me their ranch, I'm going to, you know, a retire and be take up cattle.

But I'm serious, you know, someday someone's going to leave me a ranch and I think it's only appropriate. But but I won't dwell on that. We don't waste any money at the Jefferson Hour. We live.

We don't have any money to waste. We live close to the bone. Let's put it that way. And but we know what it's amazing that we have a Jefferson hour. I've been at it for 30 years. That's a long, long, long time to be inhabiting the tights of Mr. Thomas Jefferson.

But it has been a supreme pleasure in my life. And the show just keeps growing and evolving and moving in slightly different directions.

But it's the podcast listeners that have really been the supporters of the show so much.

You know, it's so amazing that the podcast is in this growth phase because we have these endless podcast introductions where we often just kind of chat.

Because we're it's after the program and we're kind of just decompressing and talking about a whole range of things with plenty of digressions. And no matter what we do, that seems to be the case.

And yet people still either fast forward through all of that or they like it well enough to contribute to the Thomas Jefferson hour. So isn't that great?

Well, I guess it's it's it's fun. You know, I like the podcast introductions because I often want to say things that I don't think are quite appropriate on the Jefferson hour.

And I also enjoy just having conversation with you. I haven't seen you now for I think seven and a half years. Is that right?

Just about. Yeah, we've been locked down for a while. We've had a couple of drive by you know, but all things considered. I think we've done pretty well and you we both have had both vaccines.

Well, we're done now. That's good news. And so what about your daughter? I've seen some very svelte-looking pictures of her from Oxford recently on on social media.

Is she been able to get her vaccination? She's at the same college. I was at Hartford. And she's just doing amazing things, but she hasn't had any vaccine yet. Oh, she hasn't. I'm surprised.

I'm so interesting. You know, and I don't know how you sort this out in terms of Trump administration Biden administration or what?

But the United States is actually doing very well now in the distribution of vaccines. There are some difficulties and some spots and so on. I'm not suggesting that it's a it's a flawless.

Resume, but it's on the whole remarkable. I think you have to give both presidents credit. I mean, it was it was the Trump administration that really put a lot of money into getting the vaccine going.

But it was Biden and his mastery of government that organized it into the amount of vaccines being put out today anyway. That's my take on it.

I agree on credit where credit is due, but whatever the case is, we're doing well and other nations not so well. So my daughter, they're opening up Oxford now April 12 was to be the day when things started to open up a little bit and Trinity term, the third term, they have three terms at Oxford.

And Trinity is in is in person. So the students have come back, which is amazing in and of itself and not all of the.

The tutorials are taking place in person. Some of it is by zoom and team and other delivery systems, but things are opening up again, but the vaccine regimen has been slower there, even though the population is under 70 million and it's a tiny island.

I'm really proud of the United States. I hope now that we will share both our administrative system, our distribution system and vaccines with the rest of the world because there are countries that haven't gotten any access yet and don't have the funds to do this as the greatest and most wealthy nation on earth.

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