Hello and welcome to Classical Stuff You Should Know, a podcast about the ancient world classical education and whatever we've been thinking about recently.

My name is Thomas Magby.

I'm joined as always by Mr. A. J. Hannenberg.

What's up? And today, what is up for you? Fellow youth? Is that one?

What is up? Today, we are going, we have an incredible guest. And we, I'm so excited for this

guest. The one, he's running a little bit late.

I just can't wait from to get here.

Can't wait from to get here. Now it's going to be a little while. But I think we can kind of

just talk amongst ourselves until a really important guest gets here. I've been waiting for

kind of a long time. I think I've been waiting guy. I don't remember anything about this play. But he's going to be here any minute now. That, AJ, I think you are the one who booked this guest. I did book this guest. And Godot is notoriously a great guest once he finally shows up. But he has to show up first. So as has been so aptly telegraphed, today we're talking about

Waiting for Godot, which is a play by Samuel Barkley Beckett. And it is, you know, I mean,

I would call it a classic. It's a relatively recent classic, right? So during the most recent

round of updates to Great Books of the Western World, Waiting for Goodo, got put in.

Ooh, it got squeezed in, huh?

So I'm even like in the canon.

Yeah, yes.

It's a super classical, right?

Way to go.

All right.

Good job me.

So we were talking about Waiting for Godot.

And it is, I don't even know how to, let's start with Samuel Beckett.

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