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On this episode, I'm going to talk about one of my favorite founding fathers.

Somebody that, having been born in Hasworth, Pennsylvania, and spent a large part of my childhood going to Philadelphia,

surrounded by Franklin, and the impact he'd made in the world.

I've always felt that the breadth of what he did, the extraordinary range from business person to publisher,

to writer, to inventor, not just inventor in the sense of physical things,

like lightning rods and bifocal glasses and the Franklin stove,

but inventor in the sense of inventing the University of Pennsylvania,

inventing the volunteer Farr department, inventing the American Philosophical Society.

Franklin had such an extraordinary love for life, such a deep work ethic,

and such a cheerful willingness to go out and turn ideas into projects and projects into achievements,

that there's almost nobody like him.

There are lots of other people who've done great things,

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