Hello and welcome to classical stuff you should know a podcast about philosophy in the ancient world.

My name is Thomas Magby.

I'm joined as always by Mr. A.J. Hanenberg.

Over here.

And Mr. Graham Donaldson.

Hi. And I feel like there's no better kind of understanding of our podcast than that AJ is about

to lead us on a very intellectual discussion about, you know, the soul, you know, life.

You know, we're going to go for some Greek dialogue stuff.

And Graham just before this podcast gave what he described as a robust belch.

Hey, I was trying to get it out of my system before we record it.

That is professional.

That's about as professional as we get, yeah.

I feel like there's a lot of things.

Like, for example, my book is Plato's Dialogues, but my bookmark is a little mushroom.

Little Mushroom.

That's really, that's nice.

I like that. Yeah. Well, anyway, AJ, you're going to be leading us through this one, so take it away. Okay, so I've been doing a small series on the dialogues of Plato. And unfortunately, the book club that I was doing it for already finished our final discussion before I could actually finish these episodes. But here we go. We're going to do one more. And this one is the dialogue, Fado, spelled P-H-A-E-D-O.

And it's a dialogue between two guys, one of whom was present at the execution of Socrates.

And so he is going to describe what happened as they talked that morning, and they were hanging out with Socrates.

So this comes...

Ooh, shoot, I forgot to open the rest of my notes.

This comes before...

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