278: Marcus Aurelius's "Meditations"

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Ever feel like reading the diary of a Roman emperor? Boy have I got the book for you.

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to classical stuff. You should know. How was that? That was pretty good.
0:16.0	It was all right. A podcast. Are we now trying to be professional? No, we are super professional.
0:20.2	A podcast put on by three highly sophisticated and educated.
0:25.6	No, we're just three amateurs who love books, love learning.
0:29.2	And this podcast is about old books, philosophy, education, specifically classical
0:35.1	education.
0:36.9	Sometimes we talk about art. and most of the time we talk
0:40.5	about literature. My name is Graham Donaldson and I'm joined with by? Join by. Thomas Fletcher Magby
0:48.5	and Arthur Jan Hanenberg. Lord of Sealand. Do you have a longer title? I don't think so.
0:55.0	It's just Lord of Sealand?
0:56.0	Yeah, I'm just a Lord.
0:57.0	You can pay for a counter.
0:59.0	Did you actually, fun fact, did Sealand get tariff?
1:01.0	Did you get a tariff on Sealand?
1:02.0	Ooh.
1:03.0	You should look into that.
1:04.0	I don't know, we don't have a lot of industrial exports.
1:07.0	Yeah.
1:08.0	Turns out. But, I mean, how awesome would that be? Unless there was like a tariff on radio.
1:11.2	I was just about to say if there was a tariff on SELAND, my friend. Anyway, we are, we are coming in on the, like, we're on the cutting edge of the, of the zeitgeist of the internet. Yeah.
1:23.6	Because we are going to be talking about the hottest of all topics, the broiest of all Silicon Valley bro topics.
1:33.4	And the best part is that AJ has no idea that this was a thing.
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