Hello everyone and welcome to this podcast introduction to this week's Thomas Jefferson

hour.

Just want to take a moment to talk about the extraordinary new directions that the Jefferson

hour is taking and to encourage you to help us along with your thoughts, themes, things

we should think and talk about, people we should interview, your questions, you know, and

possibly also your financial help and contributions.

But mostly, I'm just eager to talk with you about where things are.

I had a great week this week, I'm in Bismarck, I had the chance to talk with Ed Watts of

the University of California, San Diego, the author of Mortal Republic, which is really

a remarkable book about the last days of the Roman Republic, and he's some of the that

I've interviewed before for governing.

But now with the new expanded vision of the Jefferson hour, we'll be kind of moving

out from just the life and times of Jefferson into a much broader brush, you know, a wider

lens, a set of lenses.

And this interview was really what I most want to do in the world.

So here's this man, Gran Sezula, who's doing remarkable things up in the Yukon.

I had never heard of him, but I had heard of these mammoth finds, particularly in Siberia.

In fact, 18 or so years ago on the Jefferson hour, Tracy Panzerella era, we interviewed

an American paleontologist who had helped on Earth a complete mammoth in ice in Siberia.

That was an extraordinary interview.

And so now when I saw the news that this baby mummified, mammoth had been found in the

Yukon.

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