199: The Master and Margarita

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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During Stalin's regime in Russia there was one author daring enough to write a Satire . . . one that I can't quite nail down. I ask Graeme to help me.

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0:00.0	Hi, and welcome to Classical Stuff You Should Know, a podcast about literature and philosophy
0:14.0	and old things from guys who like it.
0:18.4	My name is Graham Donaldson, and am joined as always with Mr. Thomas
0:23.9	Megby. Hello. And Arthur John Hanenberg. This guy right here. And today if I read the show
0:28.9	notes correctly or asked when I asked AJ what we were doing, it sounds like we're doing happy hour.
0:33.7	We're doing a happy hour right now. So happy hour sounds great. Yeah, it would be nice.
0:37.3	I don't know. I mean, what would I want? What would I want for happy hour? I kind of, like,
0:42.2	what's where you have that thing, you crush it and it's got tequila in it, and it's like you put
0:46.8	salt on the rim? What's that called there, uh, Hamburg? Bloody Mary? Oh, We're talking about Scotland today.
0:54.5	Nope.
0:55.1	Oh.
0:56.2	We're talking about a book called The Master and Margarita.
0:59.2	Oh, that sounds delicious.
1:00.7	Margaritas do sound good.
1:01.7	We should be drinking margaritas for this.
1:03.3	I don't think alcohol and podcasting is a good idea at all.
1:06.6	Didn't we talk about this?
1:07.8	I heartily disagree.
1:10.1	But we can have that chat.
1:12.7	Another time. Maybe on an AMA we can be. Yeah, I feel like that's much more fun. Can we please have
1:17.7	the argument with one of us having had had a few and the other one not? That could be like the top tier.
1:22.2	We do an AMA, but after like five or six margaritas. Oh gosh. That's a bad idea. That wouldn't be good. Five or six I'd be like asleep.
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