120: Climbing Parnassus Two: Electric Boogaloo

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Thomas leads us further up the mountain as we discuss "Climbing Parnassus" by Tracy Lee Simmons. Greek and Latin, he argues, are the organizing principle for classical education. Also, it impresses people when you can tell them what all those words on the dollar bill mean.

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0:00.0	bagger packed.
0:11.8	They're filled with granola and water and skis just in case.
0:16.2	Like a whole backpack full of granola?
0:17.3	A whole backpack full of granola.
0:19.1	We figured that one backpack for
0:21.4	each thing was best. Did we pack water? Yeah, there's a bag for that too. There's a whole bag for that.
0:26.8	And then we have our climbing ropes. We got carabiners. We got chocks and cams. We got climbing shoes.
0:34.4	510. We've got our climbing guides. Five 10 is a climbing shoe company.
0:39.0	It's like it's 130. I think it's not even close. We're ready. We're ready to go on this
0:44.5	episode of classical stuff you should know, which is a podcast about classical things,
0:49.4	not climbing things. It's about book things and philosophy things. And it is brought to you by three gentlemen
0:54.8	who all work at a classical school called Veritas Academy in Texas. I am A.J. Hanenberg, and I am
1:00.2	joined by Thomas Magby. Hello. And Graham Donaldson. Hi. And today we're talking about climbing,
1:05.7	as far as I know. We're going to learn how to make a double figure eight knot and climb safely.
1:10.7	We're going to belay. We're going to watch for rock fall. We're going to learn how to make a double figure eight knot and climb safely. We're going to belay.
1:11.9	We're going to watch for rock fall.
1:13.6	We're going to learn how to take a lead climb fall and not really injure ourselves and avoid rope burn.
1:18.8	All of these things are important when you're climbing Parnassus.
1:21.2	This is good.
1:22.4	All right.
1:23.0	So this is part two of, I don't know how many episodes that we'll spend on talking about a book called
1:28.4	climbing Parnassus. If you did not listen to episode one, you'll probably be lost and you should
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