Hey everybody and welcome to classical stuff you should know.

We are a podcast about the classical world, mostly education stuff.

You know, if Aristotle was still running his academy here, then it's the sort of stuff you

would talk about while at the academy.

That's kind of what we're shooting for. Holy smokes. Holy, wow. High bar. I didn't say it was the stuff.

I said it was the sort of stuff. We're like the cheap knockoff, you know, Western family style

version of the good stuff. Like the Community College of Aristotle's Academy and that kind of

yeah. What would you call it? it? I don't know.

I got nothing.

I got nothing. I'm my wits.

Well, we're nailing it so far.

My name is A.J. Hanenberg.

I'm here with Graham Donaldson.

Hello.

And Thomas Magby.

Hi.

And we'd like to apologize for no episode last week.

We're going to go ahead and apparently blame it on chickens and pigs living in close proximity. That's what Graham

says disease comes from. But he was sick last week so we couldn't record. Otherwise, we could have

am I crazy? Am I crazy? I feel like I'm crazy. You might be crazy. I'll also say that there's been a

huge, a lot of people that upheaval in our lives recently. Thomas bought a house house I bought a car Graham got sick and then all his trees fell down in the storm

So we've been trying to sort of recover from all of this. It's been a big year my hands smell like gas

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