284: Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

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🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In this (far too long) episode, we play a quiz show with a cake as a prize. Because really, that's what every war is about: cake.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Classical Stuff You Should Know.
0:12.3	My name is Graham Donaldson, and I'm joined by with.
0:16.5	Hello.
0:17.0	Hello.
0:18.0	With AJ.
0:18.6	Join by.
0:19.6	Hello.
0:20.2	And Thomas Vagy. We are not joined together. Joined with? I have now decided that you are both my enemies. Cool. Based on this introduction. As we started. And I crave a way to outwit you and destroy you. Did you say this is a quiz show episode also? Oh, buddy. So we could actually destroy each other on this world. We are a podcast that delves into ancient books and philosophical texts and the world of classical education.
0:44.3	AJ and I are classical educators.
0:46.2	We teach at a classical school.
0:48.5	Thomas is a classical educator in his own right.
0:54.3	And you guys are learning. I'm still nerd. And you could have a learning class.
0:55.5	He said, yeah, we're professional nerds.
0:59.9	Thomas is an amateur.
1:00.9	Oh, he's also a professional nerd.
1:02.6	He's doing, he's like doing math and managing other mathematicians.
1:05.6	That's right.
1:06.6	But I still want to figure out ways that I can out maneuver you and subjugate you under my power. So is there a book, AJ, that I could read? Well, lucky for you there is. You really are doing all the kind of like Manosphere books, right? Because you did the meditation. You did Marcus Aurelius. And now you're doing art of war. Like, what is going on? You keep on telling me this. I am entirely ignorant of the whole Manosphere. I just have lots of questions. I chose it. I'm not going to lie, because it was short. And I had two days to throw something together because I've had a really busy week and I have a busy with one point out. Are we going to have like the classical way of like negging girls into dating you? Is that like I'm nervous about you, AJ. Like your hair looks great for how greasy it is
1:47.9	you've done Machiavelli before too haven't you I love it you've really done all it did you do
1:52.0	who did Machiavelli do the Bitcoin standard next can you guys like send me an email that just has a
1:56.1	list of all the Manifference books so I can know what to avoid so you can so you know the next 10
1:59.5	episodes you'll do? Apparently.
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