Hello and welcome to Classical Stuff You Should Know.

We're a podcast about the ancient world, ancient books, ancient ideas, old things,

and the whole goal is to bring education to you in a way that is fun and inventive. And my

name is AJ Hanenberg. I am joined by my two compatriots Graham Donaldson. Hello. And Thomas

Magby. Hello. And today we are talking about, I think, the greatest W.W.E.

Wrestler of all time, Cyrus the Great. Oh, man. Yeah.

My favorite was that he always brought that big snake. Yeah. I had the rubber doll.

Yeah. And there was that short time when he went evil and was known as Cyrus the virus.

You remember that? That was really rough, too. Yeah, the goatee. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But how long did he have that for?

It was only a month until, uh, Hogan, yeah, shaved it. Is that in the, in the ring.

That's, that's terrifying, actually, it was it was very, I mean, he was struggling the whole time,

and it was a straight razor, so it was a very dangerous scene. But, you know, pulled off with showsmanship that can't be rivaled by today's W at W.W.

Wrestlers.

That's true.

Yeah. Best.

We are here to talk about Herodotus.

So we covered book one, the first half of book one of Herodotus, the last time we talked about this.

And here we are.

Part two, still in book one.

Here we are.

Here we are.

Guys, we made it. Who to thunk it? That part two would come after part one.

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