#1469 Locked Down
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🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
We speak with President Jefferson about how the Articles of Confederation led to the creation of our Constitution. Jefferson also answers questions from listeners about how money and credit worked during his time, and what the pursuit of happiness meant to him. Later in the show we hear from Lindsay Chervinsky and former ND Senator Heidi Heitkamp.
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Mentioned on this episode: New York Times: Constitutional Change Will Be Here Sooner Than We Think, Jim Fuglie's Prairie Blog
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| 0:00.0 | Good day, Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners and as always, thank you so much for listening |
| 0:06.1 | and thank you for supporting the show and thank you for supporting Clay's efforts including |
| 0:11.4 | his upcoming Steinbeck tour which he's going to tell you about now. John Steinbeck, March 14th |
| 0:18.4 | through 20th on the moderate peninsula in California with my friend Russ Eagle. I'm writing a book |
| 0:23.7 | on Steinbeck and Sir Thomas Mallory, the Arthurian cycle, the Mortar Thur and Russ is writing a book |
| 0:29.6 | on Canary Row, the short novella that Steinbeck wrote just after World War II, but we go to see Steinbeck |
| 0:37.1 | sites. We talk about the books in the morning and then the afternoon we go on these incredible |
| 0:42.0 | excursions to some of the most beautiful landscapes in America. We get a tour of Docks Lab at |
| 0:47.0 | Ricketts Lab which is still there untouched right in the heart of Monterey and there's the aquarium |
| 0:54.7 | which we go to. It's a magnificent journey so people can join us for this third Steinbeck cultural |
| 1:01.7 | tour again March 14th through 20th also the online courses. I'm in the middle of the Constitution course |
| 1:07.6 | we're going to be teaching one on water and the west. So lots of things going on and just a great time |
| 1:13.5 | I just got back from I should say this before I lose the opportunity to we should probably do a |
| 1:18.8 | program on it. I'm probably the last person to see the musical Hamilton but thanks to good friends |
| 1:25.5 | of mine all over in Anna Schwab I had the opportunity with my daughter Catherine to see Hamilton in |
| 1:31.6 | London last week and it was something I'll tell you that historically not entirely accurate but |
| 1:39.8 | from the point of view of musical entertainment I absolutely spectacular and we we absolutely |
| 1:46.6 | in every way enjoyed sitting there and watching the apotheosis of a man who believed in |
| 1:52.1 | hereditary monarchy and so that the people are a rabble who are not up to the business |
| 1:56.6 | of self-government indeed worth seeing. And people could find out more about your cultural |
| 2:01.8 | tours and all the things you do by going to JeffersonHour.com while you're there you can send a question |
| 2:09.1 | to Clay or to President Jefferson and you can also support the show which again we really appreciate. |
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