Hi and welcome to Classical Stuff You Should Know.

We're a podcast that talks about the classical world, so it would be literature, philosophy,

art, politics, you know, whatever, whatever's floating in our boat at the moment. And our goal is to

bring that to the masses in a way that isn't completely awful that you might kind of enjoy a little

extra education in your life. And I am joined by my two compatriots, Graham Donaldson. Hello.

And Thomas Magby. Hi. My name is A.J. Hanenberg. And we are coming to you from sunny Austin, Texas.

And today we are talking about what I think is one of the most important things in any

conspiracy theorists arsenal.

Yeah.

We can make hats out of it, protects our brains from alien waves.

Probably won't be abducted if you're wearing a tinfoil hat.

And it's also great for grilling vegetables.

Really, it has a lot of uses. A big, big foil guy. Yeah. I was a little surprised you wanted to do a

whole hour on that, but. Well, you laugh. I'm expecting he's going to talk about the process by

which you create foil. I would love to find that out. Um, but you laugh, but tinfoil could have many uses. Can't you make like a Faraday cage out of tinfoil? No, I just said it's got so many uses.

He's not making fun.

It's like one of the top, like I said, it's a top tool in the conspiracy theory.

I don't always wear a tinfoil hat, but I keep on around.

But when I do.

I keep one around for special occasions.

I wear a normal hat, but it has a lining of tinfoil. Yeah, naturally. You can't wear all tinfoil. People laugh. Well,

I mean, is it really true that if the sun has like an explosion, it could fire our

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