# jenkinson (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover jenkinson. Page: Feed: --- ## [#1717 Optimism and American Success](https://jeffersonhour.libsyn.com/1717-optimism-and-american-success) _2026-08-16 · Listening to America_ Clay interviews Richard Battle of Texas about his series of books about the can-do spirit of America. Three of the books tell feel-good stories of character and gumption in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Mr. Battle believes that the current malaise in the American spirit is caused by a weak education system that fails to tell the story of how much America has achieved and against what odds.… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/jeffersonhour/1717_richard_battle_podcast.mp3?dest-id=381384) ## [#1716 Once More Down the River and Over the Mountains!](https://jeffersonhour.libsyn.com/1716-once-more-down-the-river-and-over-the-mountains) _2026-08-09 · Listening to America_ Guest host Russ Eagle and Clay talk about the annual Lewis and Clark Cultural tour, just ended, after three days on the White Cliffs section of the Missouri River in Montana and then three days up in the Bitterroot Mountains on the Lolo or Nez Perce Trail. Twenty guests from around the U.S. and the world joined us for Russ' 14th Lewis and Clark tour and Clay's 26th. The weather was perfect. The… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/jeffersonhour/1716_2026_LewisandClark_podcast.mp3?dest-id=381384) ## [#1715 Can We Save Great Salt Lake?](https://jeffersonhour.libsyn.com/1715-can-we-save-great-salt-lake) _2026-08-03 · Listening to America_ Clay interviews Dr. Ben Abbott of Brigham Young University about the crisis of Great Salt Lake. Great Salt Lake is a terminal lake, which means that water comes in but does not flow out. It's a remnant of ancient Lake Bonneville. The volume of the lake is now down by 70% and the surface area it covers is down 60%. Abbott believes we are not more than half a dozen years from the lake's ecological… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/jeffersonhour/1715greatsaltlakepodcast.mp3?dest-id=381384) ## [#1714 Christopher Nolan's Odyssey](https://jeffersonhour.libsyn.com/1714-christopher-nolans-odyssey) _2026-07-27 · Listening to America_ Host David Horton interviews Clay about Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster film on Homer's Odyssey. How closely does it follow the Homeric original? What changes in theme and character did Nolan make to turn the ancient poem into a film for our time? What should we make of the culture war dispute over the casting of a Black woman as Helen of Troy and a transgender actor as Sinon of the Wooden… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/jeffersonhour/1704_odessy_podcast.mp3?dest-id=381384) ## [#1713 The Magic of Joshua Jay](https://jeffersonhour.libsyn.com/1713-the-magic-of-joshua-jay) _2026-07-20 · Listening to America_ Clay and his travel partner, Russ Eagle, interview the world-renowned sleight of hand magician Joshua Jay in Las Vegas. In addition to wowing audiences across the United States, Joshua Jay performs in America's prisons and encourages criminals, including hardened ones, to take up magic. He has just returned from a tour of war-torn Ukraine, where he lightened the burden of the Ukrainian people,… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/jeffersonhour/1713_the_magic_of_joshua_jay.mp3?dest-id=381384) ## [#1712 The Changing Face of Hollywood](https://jeffersonhour.libsyn.com/1712-the-changing-face-of-hollywood) _2026-07-13 · Listening to America_ Clay welcomes Sandra Murray to talk about her 40-year career behind the scenes of major Hollywood film productions. Sandra has worked on over 250 films, including Titanic, King Kong, Les Misérables, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, most often creating the "Making of the Movie" features that accompany distribution. She has worked with some of the major filmmakers of the last half-century,… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/jeffersonhour/sandra_murray_Hollywood_podcastfull.mp3?dest-id=381384) ## [#1711 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Joe Ellis on America at 250](https://jeffersonhour.libsyn.com/1711-pulitzer-prize-winning-historian-joe-ellis-on-america-at-250) _2026-07-06 · Listening to America_ Clay welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joe Ellis to the program to discuss America at 250. Ellis is the author of more than a dozen books about the Early National Period. He has been in several Ken Burns documentaries and a wide range of other media projects. Ellis believes the American republic is in grave danger and could still collapse. Still, he hopes that the American people are… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/jeffersonhour/joeellisusa250podcast.mp3?dest-id=381384) ## [#1710 President Jefferson Reads the Declaration](https://jeffersonhour.libsyn.com/1710-thomas-jefferson-and-the-american-dream) _2026-06-29 · Listening to America_ Host David Horton interviews the third president, Thomas Jefferson, about the circumstances surrounding the writing of the most important document in American history. Arguably the most important document in human history. Jefferson insisted that he was only trying to articulate what every American was thinking in the early summer of 1776. David Horton asks Mr. Jefferson to read the entire text of… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/jeffersonhour/declarationandtheamericandreampodcast.mp3?dest-id=381384) ## [#1709 America at 250: Historian Lindsay Chervinsky](https://jeffersonhour.libsyn.com/1709-america-at-250-historian-lindsay-chervinsky) _2026-06-22 · Listening to America_ Clay welcomes one of his favorite guests, Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky, to talk about America at 250. Many Americans are bewildered and frightened by the current state of the Union, unsure how things got so partisan and paralyzed. Instead of offering our personal opinions on the current crisis, we, as historians, attempt to contextualize the present moment within the broad sweep of American history,… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/jeffersonhour/lindsay_chervinsky_USA250_podcast.mp3?dest-id=381384) ## [Non-custodial Crypto Payments & Escrow (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/t8bk16U9Xr9h) _2026-06-22 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto with trustless escrow, instant confirmations, and no KYC ## [#1708 The Amazing Explorations of Francisco Coronado](https://jeffersonhour.libsyn.com/1708-the-amazing-explorations-of-francisco-coronado) _2026-06-15 · Listening to America_ Clay interviews Peter Stark, the author of a new book on the 1540 exploration of what would eventually become the United States by Spanish Conquistador Francisco Coronado. The Lost Cities of El Norte is a remarkable examination of an expedition that took place 250 years before Lewis and Clark. The book chronicles Coronado's search for the famed Seven Cities of Cibola, rumored to house untold… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/jeffersonhour/coranadopodcasttotal.mp3?dest-id=381384)