Hey everybody and welcome to classical stuff you should know, a podcast about the classical

world, education, philosophy, all kinds of stuff.

My name is A.J. Hanenberg, and I'm joined by my two compatriots, Mr. Thomas Magby.

Hi.

And Graham Donaldson. Hello. Wilson.by. Hi. And Graham Donaldson.

Hello, Wilson. I'm just kidding. Graham Donaldson. And we are, yeah, I guess first, sorry for no

episode last week. Graham was sick and could not make his voice do things. And so we are back after

a short hiatus, a missed episode or two. And we have more stuff for you today, supposedly about writing.

I don't know if I was sick. I just had no voice. I think it was an allergy thing.

Oh, really? I think you were sick. I thought you were like full sick.

No, I was, I don't know if we're

the worst pollinated place in North America, but gosh darn, we're like gunning for it. I've heard

that if you don't have allergies, you can move to Austin and then develop allergies. And I think that's

very true. There's now when the trees, when all the oak trees flower and and pollinate, I just, every couple of years, it'll just be real bad and I lose

my voice. So you think you're getting a fever and then you realize it's just allergies. We call it

cedar fever. It's pretty bad. And isn't mold and cedar pretty high? Yeah, anyway, whatever.

This is rough. And Austin, there's like a, there's an allergen every season. So like normally you get a break in it if you're in other cities, but not in Austin.

So that's a part of it.

And I forget about it.

You'll travel to like another place and you'll be like, oh, the air is clear.

You don't feel like you're, I don't know, breathing through a port of filter or something.

Yeah.

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