Mark Halowchak on Thomas Jefferson
Conversations That Matter
Jon Harris
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Jon sits down with Dr. Mark Halowchak to talk about the life and legacy of Thomas Jefferson.
Dr. Halowchack's YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLppbhKn5th7ydFejq1RQo0WywHxb8GyKL
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Conversations that Matter Podcast. |
| 0:02.1 | I'm your host John Harris. |
| 0:03.2 | We are talking today with Mark Hallochack, |
| 0:05.6 | who is, I probably should say, Dr. Mark Hallochack, |
| 0:08.4 | an expert on Thomas Jefferson. |
| 0:10.8 | And you're a philosopher, right? |
| 0:12.1 | Is that? Philosophy and and historian I graduated from |
| 0:14.9 | University of Pittsburgh in their Department of History and Philosophy of |
| 0:17.9 | Science and got to take some strange courses that other people know |
| 0:22.7 | other people in the world would have taken, |
| 0:24.3 | like a course on Galileo, |
| 0:26.4 | a course on the second century astronomer Ptolemy. |
| 0:30.0 | Have you ever heard of anybody |
| 0:31.1 | having a whole course on Ptolemy? |
| 0:32.8 | Yeah, well you're a man of many talents. |
| 0:34.4 | You said you were the strongest man in Michigan at one time. |
| 0:37.0 | 1992, strongest drug-free, yeah. |
| 0:40.6 | And I did, believe it or not, in 2011 in 2011 coach at the world's strongest man |
| 0:45.2 | Jhedron de Savitskas was the strongest man who ever lived so I had that |
| 0:49.4 | Wow that's pretty impressive so pretty cool yeah you've been writing about Thomas Jefferson though lately and I went on Amazon I wanted to read some of your books on it. I noticed there's a bunch of stuff and mostly focusing on his philosophy. |
| 1:04.0 | But you defend him to some extent from the charges that have been leveled today, |
| 1:08.6 | like he had an affair with Sally Hemings or raped her or some of the trying to kind of reduce Jefferson down to nothing more than a slave |
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