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Did Thomas Jefferson rewrite the Bible? · Stuff You Should Know

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  Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. With me is always as
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  Speaker 1: Charles W. Chuckers Bryant, and that makes this stuff you
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  Speaker 1: should know. I'm always here for you. Josh. Yeah, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: don't whatever. I'm glad you are. Chuck. Sure. This is
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  Speaker 1: UM Day two, Episode two in the new Studio. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the walls are closing in on us. I'm kind of
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  Speaker 1: looking in here now. I'm already used to it, Chuck, Josh. Um,
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  Speaker 1: So the Bible has been popping up in my life
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  Speaker 1: a lot lately. Really, Yeah, um, you mean? And I
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  Speaker 1: just started subscribing to Harper's Monthly Weekly, one of those two.
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  Speaker 1: It's like this magazine from like eight nine, okay. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And in the first article of the first issue that
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  Speaker 1: we got, it's um there's a there's I guess notes
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  Speaker 1: section by a guy who says that the Old Testament
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  Speaker 1: is an allegory for the Neolithic revolution. Remember we went
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  Speaker 1: from hunting and gathering to agriculture. And he made some
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  Speaker 1: really cool points, Um, like for example, Kane and Abel.
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  Speaker 1: Abel was a herdsman, Kane was a farmer. Kane murdered Abel, right,
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  Speaker 1: so he slew him, uh first murder. Ever, as far
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  Speaker 1: as we know, yes, um, I can't remember what he
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  Speaker 1: said about Adam and Eve. But basically like that's the
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  Speaker 1: beginning where we It was actually kind of a cautionary tale. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like like be careful, there's all this other stuff associated
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  Speaker 1: with agriculture that you're not seeing. Um So, I found
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  Speaker 1: that intensely interesting. Then you suggest we do one on
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  Speaker 1: the Jefferson Bible, and I'm like, what's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: Right right? Third one, number three? This elderly woman by
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  Speaker 1: all right, she's in her eighties, nineties, spitfire ladies still though, sure,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't like to use a blinker When she stopped
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  Speaker 1: suddenly in parking lots when I'm right behind her, the
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  Speaker 1: um so I went around her. I was a little irritated,
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  Speaker 1: and I wanted her to know it. She lays on
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  Speaker 1: her horn and I let's stick my head out, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, be quiet, and like you did not, I
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  Speaker 1: go in park and I go into the into the um,
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  Speaker 1: into public spe quiet. This woman comes and finds me
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  Speaker 1: and it's like, are you the sir, You the gentleman
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  Speaker 1: who went around me and traffic blah blah blah, and
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  Speaker 1: she's like berating me loudly in the middle of public.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I'm no gentleman. So finally she ends it
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  Speaker 1: with you need to get to church. And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I swear to God, I'm not kidding you. My friend
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  Speaker 1: tom My bff Tom was on the phone with me.
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  Speaker 1: He can verify this, and he said, Betty White is
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  Speaker 1: coming after me in a public I wish this was
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  Speaker 1: Betty White. This woman was terrifying. She was wearing like
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  Speaker 1: clam diggers with um white sox, pulled up black s
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  Speaker 1: a S shoes um. Her skin hung loose, and she
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  Speaker 1: had fire in her She wanted to kill me. What
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  Speaker 1: did you say? Did you reply anything? Or did you
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  Speaker 1: just sheepish sleep? Rather, I wasn't sheepish. You're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: say what you said? You can tell me afterwards there, right, okay?
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  Speaker 1: But I was. I wasn't cheapish. I wasn't like entirely mean,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't I didn't frankly, as you know, I
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  Speaker 1: quit the boy Scouts because I think that it's a
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  Speaker 1: bad idea to just give blanket respect to the old
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  Speaker 1: people because they're old. I've met some old jerks in
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  Speaker 1: my time, and this was actually one of them. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but this this week, man three, it's an exciting week.
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  Speaker 1: I never talked about the Bible. It never comes up,
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  Speaker 1: Church never comes up. But here we are, all right, Chuck.
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  Speaker 1: Did Thomas Jefferson right or rewrite the Bible? Fact or fiction? Hey,
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  Speaker 1: that's old school, Josh. That is faction because he um,
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  Speaker 1: he did not rewrite the Bible, but he did cobble
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  Speaker 1: together his own version of the Bible that he thought
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  Speaker 1: was um valid and and should be read. I'll just
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  Speaker 1: say that, which is actually, if you think about it,
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  Speaker 1: really a pretty pretentious and arrogant thing to do. This
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't go over well in today's president If someone said Obama, UM,
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  Speaker 1: put together, you know, different parts of the Bible and
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  Speaker 1: said that this was what I think the Bible should be,
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  Speaker 1: he wouldn't last too long. No, I don't think it
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  Speaker 1: would have ever gone over If Taft had done it,
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  Speaker 1: he would have been like run out of town on
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  Speaker 1: a rail, Like, you can't do that. It's early day,
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  Speaker 1: so you away with anything. Back then, I suspect that
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Jefferson had um Asperger's from some of his uh,
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  Speaker 1: some of his um. His demeanor, the way carrying himself
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  Speaker 1: is incredibly high level of intellect. Um. I suspect that
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  Speaker 1: he had some something along those lines. Right, he might have.
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  Speaker 1: You can also say that he could not have cared
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  Speaker 1: less what people thought of him. He did his own thing.
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  Speaker 1: Highly intelligent guy. Um. And like you said, if it
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  Speaker 1: had come out that the president had done that, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people are unaware of this, that it wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: go over very well, which is why he didn't let
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  Speaker 1: it out. I don't know that that's why he didn't
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  Speaker 1: let it out. I think he just was doing it
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  Speaker 1: for himself, genuinely. I don't think he was trying to
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  Speaker 1: be secretive about it. But you were saying, like it
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't go over well. Today, there's kind of it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of um fashionable in certain quarters to point out that
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  Speaker 1: the founding fathers were bent on founding a Christian nation.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very contentious thing to say, although a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people that's how they see the United States, right.
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  Speaker 1: I think Thomas Jefferson cutting up the Bible and cutting
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  Speaker 1: out all the miracles and what he considered gobbledygook kind
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  Speaker 1: of undermines that argument a little bit. Don't you think, well,
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  Speaker 1: he was a deist. It's a good time to bring
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  Speaker 1: that up. George Washington was a deist. Benjamin Franklin and
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  Speaker 1: what we call founders, they are they differ from traditional
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  Speaker 1: Christians because they reject miracles, basically a lot of the prophecies,
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  Speaker 1: and they says here they embraced the notion of a
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  Speaker 1: well ordered universe created by God, but God then withdrew
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  Speaker 1: into detached transcendence. They believe like a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: Christians believe, but a lot a lot of people at
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  Speaker 1: the time said this was a way for you to
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  Speaker 1: reconcile your Christianity with all these amazing new scientific findings
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  Speaker 1: that we're finding that kind of fly in the face
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  Speaker 1: of Christianity. Right in Deism was the Enlightenment religion, right um.
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  Speaker 1: And basically the way it looked at God is there's
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  Speaker 1: a creator God, but he's kind of like a clockmaker,
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  Speaker 1: and he created this clock of a universe wounded up
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  Speaker 1: and just stood back to to watch it go. It's
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  Speaker 1: a great way to say. And do you remember, like
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  Speaker 1: in the really uber paranoid late nineties, right before the millennium.
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  Speaker 1: There's like kind of a concept that the universe is
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  Speaker 1: a u the result of an alien experiment. That's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like in the same vein. Actually there's some higher
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  Speaker 1: power that doesn't have a hand in our individual lives,
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  Speaker 1: but start created all this. Yeah, pretty interesting, it is.
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  Speaker 1: So that was That was T J m BF and
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  Speaker 1: g W T Jeff. That's what his nickname today would
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  Speaker 1: be T Jeff. His nickname today is T Jeff as
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  Speaker 1: of now. So um. He also was the he pinned
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  Speaker 1: the Declaration of Independence, we should say, which most people know.
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  Speaker 1: He was also the one who co first elucidated the
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  Speaker 1: wall of separation between church and state. Yeah, not did
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  Speaker 1: not come from the Constitution. No, but he So there's
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  Speaker 1: this Baptist Convention of dan Berry, Yes, the Connecticut Committee
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  Speaker 1: of the dan Berry Baptist Association, and they wrote to
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  Speaker 1: Jefferson saying, is this a Christian nation or not? Basically
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  Speaker 1: he basically pointed to know he said, he said, he said, no,
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  Speaker 1: I I I'm sure you agree with me that religion
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  Speaker 1: is between a man and his God and really eloquently
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  Speaker 1: said no, there's a First Amendment. There's a there's a
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  Speaker 1: clause in the First Amendment that says that that UM
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  Speaker 1: Congress won't um establish a religion, and so I Thomas
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  Speaker 1: Jefferson as president and one of the guys who wrote that,
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  Speaker 1: see it as a wall of separation between church and state.
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  Speaker 1: He thought it was a very very personal thing. Religion
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  Speaker 1: was spirituality was a very personal thing. No one should
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  Speaker 1: step in and tell you what to think about it, right,
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  Speaker 1: It's so personal that he decided to craft his own Bible. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the reasons he did us because Um,
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  Speaker 1: like we said, he was a deist deist or deist daist.
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  Speaker 1: I think you can go either way. Now he's a Deist.
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  Speaker 1: And he was also very skeptical of who wrote the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: the Gospels in particular. He thought they were quote unlettered
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  Speaker 1: and ignorant. Yeah, basically how he saw the Bible writers. Um,
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  Speaker 1: that's where the name comes from. Yeah, those were the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel writers. But they were also um Platonics. They followed
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  Speaker 1: Plato and wrote around the time of Plato. Um. And
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  Speaker 1: they remember when we were talking about like Halloween, Christmas, Easterday. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're all pagan holidays that we've adopted and christianized in
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  Speaker 1: in an effort Um eastern together. Yeah, it wasn't. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: spring harvest, spring um equinox, vernal equinox. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: what it's called right, vernal and autumnal. Yes, vernal equinox,
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  Speaker 1: and s Tera was a pagan goddess. Anyway, Um, this
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  Speaker 1: is this, This is how he viewed the the Bible
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  Speaker 1: being written like like there was a there was a
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  Speaker 1: person named Jesus of Nazareth. He walked awesome guy, philosopher,
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  Speaker 1: incredible philosopher, had this amazing moral code what right? Um?
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  Speaker 1: And then uh and espoused it to people who remembered it,
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  Speaker 1: passed it down orally, and then somebody finally wrote it down.
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  Speaker 1: But when they were trying to write it down, they
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  Speaker 1: were also trying to establish a church. And Um, so
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  Speaker 1: they added some magic so that they could they could
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  Speaker 1: bring the pagans into the fold a miracles. Yes. And
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  Speaker 1: he also believed and this is where he really wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: jibe with today's UH system as a politician. He did
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  Speaker 1: not believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ. He did
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  Speaker 1: not believe that he was the son of God. He
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  Speaker 1: thought that he was like Plato, essentially like a spot
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  Speaker 1: on philosopher. But he thought a lot of them, he said. Um.
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  Speaker 1: He wrote a letter to John Adams in eighteen thirteen
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  Speaker 1: and said that the book that he ended up putting together,
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  Speaker 1: which we'll get into the nuts and bolts of that,
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  Speaker 1: but he said he called it the most sublime and
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  Speaker 1: benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered demand. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus's philosophy. Yeah, so he clearly thought a lot of
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus's philosophy, and he thought a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: Greek um philosophers and I imagine other religious philosophers as well.
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  Speaker 1: But what he was saying was that what Jesus had
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  Speaker 1: come up with was as good as it gets. He
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  Speaker 1: kind of bashed Plato though, did you see that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: He read Plato in the original Greek and was like
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  Speaker 1: many exactly he found it lackluster. Yeah. Yeah, well, I
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  Speaker 1: guess he's hard to please. He read the Bible and
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  Speaker 1: he cut it down to forty six pages. He did.
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Hitchins put it like this, You know, Hits, he's
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  Speaker 1: not he's not a big guy on religion. No, he
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  Speaker 1: kind of actively combats it. But yeah, um on, there's
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  Speaker 1: a forty six second clip on YouTube of Christopher Higgins
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  Speaker 1: debating somebody, and he describes the Jefferson Bible as what
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  Speaker 1: was left after Jefferson took a pair of scissors and
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  Speaker 1: cut out anything that could not buy any intelligent person
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  Speaker 1: be believed. It makes for a slender, convenient ready. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you take Christopher Hitchins, this is no
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  Speaker 1: surprise to you. If you love Christopher Hitchins, this is
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  Speaker 1: no surprise. Yes, But he got one thing wrong. He
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  Speaker 1: apparently is a razor and not scissors. Small detail. He
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  Speaker 1: literally he went through and was was scratching stuff out,
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  Speaker 1: and then I think he went back and started cutting
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  Speaker 1: stuff out. Well, he probably that he found himself scratching
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  Speaker 1: so much out he got tiresome, and he's like, I
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  Speaker 1: should just see cut out what I do like instead
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  Speaker 1: of scratching out what I don't like. Because all told,
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  Speaker 1: there are thirty one thousand, a hundred three Bible verses
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  Speaker 1: numbered Bible verses, right, but he was just doing the
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  Speaker 1: New Testament, so we're talking seven thousand and seven, right,
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  Speaker 1: and specifically the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, which there
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  Speaker 1: well there was more than that, but he he used
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  Speaker 1: a lot for Matthew and Luke two thousand, two hundred
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  Speaker 1: twenty two and Matthew and Luke and all told, he
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  Speaker 1: only had the Jefferson Bible only had nine versus. So
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  Speaker 1: he definitely paired down quite a bit big time. He Um,
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  Speaker 1: he took out everything about he and he took he
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  Speaker 1: took out everything about um Christ's birth, the virgin birth
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  Speaker 1: that was gone. He left in the crucifixion, but it
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  Speaker 1: ends at the burial. There's no resurrection. Yeah. Basically the
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  Speaker 1: last verse was um John nineteen and they ended it.
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  Speaker 1: His book ends with they rolled the stone in front
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  Speaker 1: of the sepulcher and the the end. Uh. He he
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  Speaker 1: left a lot of the Last Supper ing but kept
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  Speaker 1: the part of the Eucharist out. This is my body,
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  Speaker 1: my blood. Yeah. Um. So basically he just kept in
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  Speaker 1: basically the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth and
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  Speaker 1: his philosophy. Yeah. They in the article that he left
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  Speaker 1: what they called what he considered genuine events like the
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  Speaker 1: Sermon on the Mount, certain parables, the way to live
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  Speaker 1: your life. And see, that's always been my deal. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to get too personal, but you know I
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  Speaker 1: was right after the last two hundred episodes that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was raised Southern Baptist and it wasn't the best
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  Speaker 1: experience for me. But I still say, I still maintain
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  Speaker 1: that the Bible has is a great moral code, and
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  Speaker 1: there's lots of great parables that teach you how you
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  Speaker 1: should act as a human. And apparently I'm in Jefferson's camp,
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  Speaker 1: because that's what he ended up using as Uh. He
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  Speaker 1: ended up calling it initially the Philosophy of Jesus of
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  Speaker 1: Nazareth and then change that title later to the Life
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  Speaker 1: and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, right, and then uh
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  Speaker 1: in the edition there was a subtitle or how to
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  Speaker 1: get Buying Queens on a dime of day. I'll long
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  Speaker 1: have you been working on that one? Just now? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Shut up? So, Um, it clearly wasn't called how to
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  Speaker 1: Win Friends and Influence People, because he he this probably
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a very popular thing to do even back then.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it would have the same effect as how
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  Speaker 1: to Win friends and Influence people? Though. Yeah, but he
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  Speaker 1: did keep it quiet it Um, he said it was
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  Speaker 1: for himself. Again, I don't think he kept it quiet.
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  Speaker 1: I think he he was just keeping it for himself.
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  Speaker 1: I disagree with part A of the sentence you just said,
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  Speaker 1: but agree with part B. Thank you. Yea. I have
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  Speaker 1: a quote from him if you want to hear from
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  Speaker 1: the man himself. Uh, Josh is wrong. No, sorry, he said,
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  Speaker 1: I performed the operation for my own use by cutting
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  Speaker 1: verse by verse out of the printed book and arranging
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  Speaker 1: the matter, which is evidently his, and which is as
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  Speaker 1: easily distinguished as diamonds and a dunghill. That's kind of harsh,
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  Speaker 1: but he's saying that the stuff that really came from
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  Speaker 1: Jesus mouth is the gold, the diamonds in the dunghill.
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  Speaker 1: So he extracted all that and that was what he
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  Speaker 1: believed in. Well, yeah, he thought the Platonics were sellouts
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  Speaker 1: that they should have just you know, maybe not added
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  Speaker 1: quite so much. So what happened to it, Josh? What
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  Speaker 1: happened to it? Was it? Basically again, he did it
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  Speaker 1: for himself. Um. I think I read a reference that
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  Speaker 1: he did it kind of on a whim or in um. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: In response to a question from a friend to his
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  Speaker 1: Dr Benjamin Rush, he said, like, how would you characterize
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  Speaker 1: your view of Christianity? So he went about doing that.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's the idea exactly got a razor um
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  Speaker 1: and it was in his private library, which apparently somebody inherited,
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  Speaker 1: and a Smithsonian librarian came across it. What I Cerrus Adler.
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  Speaker 1: What I found funny was Cyrus Adler is a government employee,
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  Speaker 1: came across this and was like, I'm going to sell
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  Speaker 1: list to the Library of Congress. You know though. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they did, and they started putting it in print. Congress
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  Speaker 1: ordered it in print. Um. Thomas Jefferson is considered the
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  Speaker 1: father of the Senate. Uh. He was the first vice president. Um.
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  Speaker 1: So he and he wrote the rules of the Senate
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  Speaker 1: that are still in use today. Uh. He just did
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  Speaker 1: it because it was bored. One day, asked Berger's same
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  Speaker 1: regin he cut up the Bible yeah, um, and so
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  Speaker 1: Congress Um. Congress started publishing. I think it published like
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  Speaker 1: nine thousand copies and even still today it's um a
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  Speaker 1: customary welcome gift to new members of Congress. I find
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  Speaker 1: that interesting, like the same Congress who are like, this
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  Speaker 1: is a Christian nation. Yeah, but I mean it's still
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  Speaker 1: in there. That's that's the diamond. But it is very
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  Speaker 1: interesting that they would give an altered version of the
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  Speaker 1: Bible as a gift. Yeah, I mean it's it's not
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  Speaker 1: as odd as if they were to give like Alistair
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  Speaker 1: Crowley's memoirs, but it was definitely a little odd. When
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  Speaker 1: I read that, I was slightly shocked. Yeah, well it
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  Speaker 1: kind of comes it kind of reveals a certain disingenuousness.
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  Speaker 1: Done that, Yeah, a little bit possibly makes you think
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  Speaker 1: at least well, and then lets you know what was
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  Speaker 1: in Thomas Jefferson's mind, and he's easily one of the
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  Speaker 1: most fascinating historical figures we have. You got anything else? No,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to know more about the Jefferson Bible,
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  Speaker 1: you can read this pretty cool article by McGrath. You
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  Speaker 1: can find it online the whole Bible. You can do both.
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  Speaker 1: How about let's get some people this site first, that's true. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You just type in Jefferson Bible and the handy search
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  Speaker 1: bart how stuff works dot com. Uh, and then after
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  Speaker 1: that you might as well just go read the Jefferson Bible, right, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: which leads us to listener questions. So yeah, we we
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  Speaker 1: put out a call on Facebook a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: ago for questions and we got bombarded. So we're actually
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  Speaker 1: having to do this in installments, because there are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of good questions. These are the really we need
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  Speaker 1: new questions, man, No, no, no, no, old no. These
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  Speaker 1: are brand new. You're lying every two weeks ago. But
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  Speaker 1: there's still new because we haven't used them. So we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna bust a lot of these pretty quickly. Chuck says,
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  Speaker 1: who's taller between Josh Chuckers and Jerry. Josh is the tallest,
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  Speaker 1: at a robust six ft or so. I'm about on
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  Speaker 1: the nun about five tin, Jerry, how tall are you
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: behind the curtain? Go ahead, I've got one from Colin.
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  Speaker 1: Who would win in a fist fight? Ire a Glass
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  Speaker 1: or Josh? I think it would be a um we
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  Speaker 1: can actually size we sized him up physically in person now.
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  Speaker 1: I think it would be like a um, humiliating slap
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  Speaker 1: fight for both guys. I don't know that there would
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  Speaker 1: be a fight. Would be more like, um, do you
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  Speaker 1: remember Adam Goldberg in Daisy Confused? Yes? Do you remember
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  Speaker 1: when he's being pulled off or when when um Nikki
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  Speaker 1: Kat's being pulled off at him? Yeah? I think it
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  Speaker 1: would be like that, but both of us, both of
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  Speaker 1: us is Adam Goldberg? Yeah? Uh? Tripp says can you
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  Speaker 1: finally reveal the name of the big box appliance store
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  Speaker 1: that UM did not do? Chuck right with his extended warty.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I don't think that that would be very smart. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know that? Even I don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that would be very brand smart to do, Josh.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not going to thank you trip for the question, Chuck.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I'm not reading this one. So here's another one from Natalie.
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  Speaker 1: Would you consider doing a six degrees of separation from
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: your listeners? I go first. My sister Kathleen went to
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: ride Dan High School with Chuck. Kathleen egan awesome, So
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: that's not a question. Even ends in an exclamation point.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Tom says, what's it like being so old? Chuck? Tom?
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: It is awesome? Go ahead. Okay, there's one from Hannah.
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  Speaker 1: Which is better cake or pie? What do you call
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: a soft drink? I call it soda. My pubby calls
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: it pop. That's two questions. I call it coke. I
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: call it coke as well. I grew up calling it pop. Yeah.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: What's better? Cake and pie? Actually, there's nothing better than
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: a good cake pie. Yeah? I like cake cake pie. Brittany, Oh,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: this is Brittany from New York and actually, to answer
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: that question, pies better remember Brittany britt britt Yes, Brittany says,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: does hippie Rob participate in the s y FK drinking
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• 20:59
  Speaker 1: hippie robbis and if so, is he the all time
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  Speaker 1: knows that s y s K exists, and of course
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  Speaker 1: she doesn't. I don't think he does. Uh So, this
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: one's from Bobby. What are your favorite bands of all
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: times or your favorite songs? My favorite band of all time?
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Clear winner is the Pixies. Chuck really oh yeah, probably
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: go with like the Who or Pavement. Maybe Zeppee Brianna
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: are favorite fan. Brianna says, what were your first impressions
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: of each other? I thought Josh was like me when
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I first met a Mint. It turns out he sort
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: of is, and he's sort of not. It's not true
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: at all. Now I knew we were like fellow Um.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: I thought you were a cool guy, reformed bad boys.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: You know, you had that pack of cigarettes rolled up
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: in your sleeve. That was the dig giveaway I've got
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: one from Ebba. How does Jerry work? She doesn't? Oh,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: not true? Um, Christopher, what's it like living in Hotlanta?
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Particularly now that the summer starting? It is awful? And
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I grew up here and it's still awful. And it's
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: not like you get used. It's gotten exponentially worse even
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: since I moved down here. You can't break, It's like
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: you're swimming outside. Yeah, I got one more. This one
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: is from Mark. If you could have one superpower, what
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: would it be? Flying invisibility? Well, those are the questions.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I'm not done yet. I got two more quick ones.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Shan says, would you like cheese with that? Always
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: of course as the answer to that question. And Joe says,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: what is the best most unique piece of free swag
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: anyone has sent you? And I think we just got
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: it this week. Yeah, I'm gonna have to go with
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the Root suit, are you? Yeah? The Root Suit, for
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: those of you that are always sunny in Philadelphia fans,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: is the green Man costume that Charlie wears. And so
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I requested a green Man outfit and you won't take
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: it off? And I got it, and I wrote the
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: guy today and said thank you so much for the
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: green Man thing. I'm really excited, and said your life,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: your new life begins now, your new life of leaving
• 23:04
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• 23:09
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