Hi and welcome to Classical Stuff.

You should know a podcast about classical stuff, the classical world, old books, new,

nope, nothing new.

Sometimes music, sometimes architecture, philosophy, theology, classical education.

And we are three guys who like that stuff.

My name is Graham Donaldson and I am with Thomas Magby.

Hello.

And A.J. Hannanburg.

That's me.

And today we are taking a sharp right hand turn and we are talking about farm animals, specifically donkeys.

Exactly right.

Megby, as our resident expert in farm animals, please teach us about the ways of the donkey.

Okay, so the donkey is a domesticated member of the horse family, Equidae, the wild ancestor

of the donkey.

This is amazing.

Are donkeys, wait, are donkeys the ones that can have other donkeys?

That's what I thought was true.

I'm trying to get to that part.

Donkeys can't have donkeys?

I'm also trying to read the donkey Wikipedia page without saying the butt word and it's,

I'm having to skip over lots of sentences.

The donkey has been used as a working animal.

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