230: The Gold Standard

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss how the different monetary paradigms have affected history. Turns out, it's kinda hard to make things run if you are just trading shoes back and forth.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody and welcome the classical stuff you should know.
0:10.7	We are a podcast about the classical world, old books, old art, old philosophy, old things.
0:16.1	Basically, we're trying to make the classical world accessible to normal people in a way that doesn't feel awful for everyone. My name is AJ Hindenberg and I am joined by Graham Donaldson. Wait, how come you
0:25.8	mock my intro and that was extremely fluid? That was a great intro. I just want to say thank you
0:30.5	for thank you for the thought that went into that introduction. I appreciate it. Hey Graham, do better.
0:34.4	Okay. I'm here with Graham Donaldson. Hello.
0:38.4	I'm also here with Thomas Magby.
0:38.7	Hi.
0:40.3	And we do a... I used to say we all come from the same school, but we don't anymore.
0:43.5	We don't.
0:44.0	Thomas is catching the bad guys.
0:45.5	Uh-huh.
0:46.7	But you two are still...
0:47.6	We're still doing a thing.
0:48.5	Do better is such an aggravating phrase.
0:51.2	What, do better? Aggregating or aggravating? Aggravating. Do better?
0:55.2	Like, there's nothing to just push my buttons.
0:57.2	It does.
0:57.4	Really?
0:57.9	It does.
0:58.5	Can I find a couple?
0:59.1	Over the course of this episode, I'm going to find more.
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