Hello and welcome to classical stuff you should know a podcast about old things and books and whatever things we've been reading recently and kind of whatever

we want to talk about for an hour at a time if I'm being honest 170 episodes in or whatever

we're at right now my name is Thomas Magby I am joined as always by Mr. Graham Donaldson

and Mr. A.J. Hanenberg this guy right here I. I feel, are we working on, like, our tagline?

Like, I like that as we say our names and we have, like, the phrase we say afterwards.

A.O. is a.

Oh, do we, like, walka, walka.

Yeah, we need to be able to trademark these things.

Well, we're all our own independent brands.

And so we need to build that out, please. All right. So today we are, again, I'm not very good at thinking up the quips at the beginning of this.

We're talking about difficult to spell names.

I think there's like a funny little slash through one of the letters in his name.

Is that actually correct?

And I think an umlaut, if that's what it's called.

Aren't there two little dots in his first name?

Nope.

I don't think so. I thought we were talking about the army around Kierk.

The Kierke's Guard?

The Kierkegaard.

Apparently, Soren Kierkegaard was so unliked in his day that, like, people didn't name their kids Soren for like 50 years in Denmark.

Funny story.

One of my college best friends was named Soren.

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