Hi, everybody, and welcome to the classical stuff you should know podcast, put on by classy dudes at a classical school teaching classical things.

To classical people?

You should know. I'm AJ Hanenberg. I teach ninth grade English, senior English, and senior

rhetoric. And I am joined today by Thomas Magby. Hey. And he is the dean of student life here at

Veritas. He is also just a classical things enthusiast. He actually wanted to invent this

school before he knew this school existed. He came to our boss and was like, hey, what if there was a

school like this? And our boss was like, you know, you know I work there, right? Like that's our school.

And then also I'm here with Graham Donaldson who teaches 10th grade English, senior English, and senior thesis.

Hello.

And we three compose the podcast. Wee. Like the three witches of Macbeth. We weave together a spell to enchant you every week.

Boil, boil, toil, trouble, double, trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

When shall we three meet again?

When the trimesters done.

All right.

Today, Thomas is going to be leading us through something, so.

Yeah, we'll come up with a topic as we go.

No, I'll be talking about acedia today.

Also, translated as sloth sometimes. So this topic came up during AJ's discussion of the seven deadly sins from Dante's Inferno.

And I went back and listened to that part. And it's great. So we spent six minutes on the synesthesia.

And I thought there's probably a little bit more to share there.

So we're coming back to it today.

If you hear papers rustling during this, which you probably hear during most of our podcast,

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