222: Leaf by Niggle by Tolkien

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Tolkien once wrote a story that totally isn't an allegory. Not even one bit. We discuss that story (totally an allegory) in this episode. Also, Horticulture! We don't discuss it, just been thinking about it lately.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody and welcome to classical stuff you should know.
0:11.0	Sorry about the short hiatus, but we just weren't in the same city.
0:14.4	And now we are back in the city of Austin again after Christmas and we're here to record
0:19.3	more classical things. and my name is
0:21.4	AJ Hindenberg I'm here with Thomas Magby hi and Graham Donaldson hello and our whole
0:25.3	podcast is about bringing you the stuff of the classical world in a way that is easy
0:30.2	to get down right a spoonful of the classics how's the rest of that song go just
0:35.2	like helps the medicine yeah Just like white pasta.
0:38.7	Yeah.
0:39.4	What about white pasta?
0:40.1	It's easy to go down.
0:41.2	Like little kids will eat it.
0:42.2	I thought you were putting sugar in your pasta.
0:43.7	Is that...
0:44.1	No.
0:44.7	No.
0:45.2	I'm just saying he's easy to go down.
0:46.6	I thought you just dust it with...
0:48.6	I'm so confused.
0:49.2	Powdered sugar. favorite. And today we're talking about botany. Yeah, we're talking about botany. We're going to talk about growing plants.
0:55.9	I mean, obviously, when we talk about things from the ancient world, me doing a short
0:59.6	story from 1938, I think probably falls under that category.
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