#1527 Year in Review
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🗓️ 27 December 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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This week on the Thomas Jefferson Hour, we look back and listen to excerpts from some of our favorite conversations from 2022, and wish all our listeners a very happy New Year.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day, Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners and a very happy, happy new year to you all. |
| 0:09.2 | Indeed. We've had a great 2022. One of the most crazy and disruptive years in our time only made |
| 0:17.1 | less so by what came before it. We're all hoping that 2023 is a more serene |
| 0:24.1 | year that comports to what John McCain called regular order. We shall see. It's going to be a big year |
| 0:33.5 | in the Thomas Jefferson hour, but before we move on, we wanted to look back. That's what |
| 0:39.4 | Janus stands for, the God in Rome of looking forward and back. And so we do a program at this time, |
| 0:46.5 | almost every year in which we look back on some of the highlights of the previous years, |
| 0:50.3 | Jefferson hours, 52. You know, David, most podcasts and public radio programs do 13 episodes, |
| 0:57.3 | or maybe 26 episodes per year. For some reason, we got into the habit of doing all 52. And I love |
| 1:04.0 | it. I have to say, I love the idea that no week goes by in my life for the past 30 years. Imagine |
| 1:10.0 | this. For the past 30 years, no week has gone by in my life when I didn't put on the mantle in some |
| 1:17.4 | sense or other of Thomas Jefferson and try to understand him and the world that he dreamed into |
| 1:24.8 | being and his quirks and inconsistencies and paradoxes, etc. It's been the greatest single |
| 1:34.0 | devotion and commitment of my life. And I think for half of that time, more now, for 18 years, |
| 1:42.4 | I think you have been the semi-permanent guest host of the Thomas Jefferson hour. You came |
| 1:49.6 | to do 18 or something. I came back in 2005. You do the math. I get's time to renegotiate. |
| 1:58.0 | What do you want money? No, but I gotta, I gotta, you know, I have to correct you. And it's my fault. |
| 2:05.6 | But this year, I think we only did 50. No. Yeah, there were a couple, you know, and it was my fault |
| 2:13.0 | because you were busy with another big, big, big thing. Yeah, yeah. And I, so I went back and |
| 2:18.3 | re-edited two shows that were absolute favorites of mine. But who's counting? 50's pretty darn good. |
| 2:25.6 | Well, I'm sorry to hear that. We, we slip. We'll make it up somehow. I'll do 54 this year. |
| 2:30.7 | I know what? We can do some extra long podcast intros to make up. |
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