231: The Plague

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this episode, we discuss a central question in "The Plague" by Camus. Luckily, we avoid the central tenets of existentialism which now apparently raise the hackles of both Graeme AND Thomas. A.J. still likes it, though, and since he's writing this description, he gets to say that the other guys are ninnies, and he's right.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Classical Stuff You Should Know, a podcast about books and ideas and whatever we've been reading recently.
0:16.7	My name is Thomas Magby. I'm joined as always by Mr. A.J. Hanenberg.
0:20.4	Yeah.
0:21.0	And Mr. Graham Donaldson. Hello'm joined, as always, by Mr. A.J. Hanenberg. Yeah. And Mr. Graham Donaldson.
0:22.5	Oh.
0:24.0	AJ, that was quite the negative response.
0:25.5	Screw you guys right to the floor.
0:27.8	Guys, today we're going to talk about the plague by Camus.
0:31.2	I love this book.
0:32.0	Really?
0:32.6	Big fan of existentialism and your negativity.
0:35.1	Oh, I'm so furious.
0:35.8	That you're bringing into this conversation. I'm really rejecting.
0:38.1	I just want you to know that.
0:39.6	So let's try and kind of get our attitudes up here, AJ, if you could.
0:43.0	I've been feeling a little under the weather.
0:44.7	Yeah, what's going on, buddy?
0:45.5	Oh, my way.
0:46.5	I'm going to lose it.
0:48.5	Immediately before this, I expressed my disapproval with AJ that we were covering existentialism again.
0:54.4	Was it disapproval? It was...
0:56.0	Contempt? Contempt? Contempt. Which, to be fair, from the previous existentialism
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