All right.

Welcome to the first episode of Conversations that matter.

And today I have with me Dr Boyd Kathy who is it would take me a while

to go through your pedigree here but among other things you studied at the Catholic

University of Nivera in Spain and I believe you said you told

me you did your dissertation there in Spanish is that right?

That's correct.

The University of Nevada is located in Pplona, Northern Spain.

At the time I was there, it was one of only two private universities in Spain, and it had, it

continues to have a very very high reputation

academically and you also were I did my dissertation there and I had I wrote it in

Spanish yes and you know what four languages I think something like that.

I can speak fluently three if you want to include Johnston County North Carolina that's four.

But I can read, let's see, I speak French and Spanish English, I hope, to some degree.

I can read most other romance languages like Italian and Portuguese.

So yeah, a Richard Weaver fellow master.

I was a Richard Weaver fellow at the University of Nevada and that was

a great honor and a pleasure. I paid paid my way for my research.

And you also study that University of Virginia is a Jefferson fellow and you were the assistant

to Russell Kirk.

I got a fellowship, a Thomas Jefferson Fellowship to study, studied history under the late

Merrill Peterson, who was the expert on Thomas Jefferson along with Dumont Malone who also was a mentor there.

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