Hey everybody and welcome to classical stuff you should know.

We're a podcast about the classical world, old books, old literature, you get the whole thing.

I'm here with some compatriots.

I have Graham Donaldson here.

Thomas, you're going to let AJ just say like, you know the whole thing and not criticize his intro.

But when I say like old stuff, old books, you're like, uh-huh, uh-huh.

Anyway, my name is Thomas and AJ, I thought that was a delightful introduction.

And I wish- We've done it a thousand times.

If this is your first time here, listen to the back catalog. I wish some other co-hosts on this podcast would kind of mimic maybe the introduction that you just did and not do whatever they're doing.

Great job, AJ.

Well, thank you, Thomas.

I appreciate that.

I'm doing the next one.

Well, the important thing is that I used verbs.

We are a podcast about this instead of we podcast about this.

One of those is a linking verb and one of those is a verbi verb.

A verbi verb, yes, exactly.

Which is I think what we're talking about today.

Linking verbs are great, right?

Instead of we are podcasters, we podcast regularly.

I podcast, you podcast, we podcasted?

Podcast them, yes.

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