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Classical Stuff You Should Know

287: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5696 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Ever heard of the headless horseman? Did you know he was a Hessian Soldier? Do you know where the Jack-o-lantern comes from? FIND OUT IN THIS SPOOOOOOOKY EPISODE.

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0:00.0

Hi, welcome to classical stuff. You should know a podcast about classical education, old books, ideas, how to raise a child.

0:20.8

Wow. No, we do that.

0:22.0

We're talking about education. And only one of us has children. They only one of us children, yeah. How to. As of yet, we haven't seen how they've turned out. That's right. It's pretty cool. They're all very cool. They're all very cool. Very good. All very good. My name is Graham Donaldson and I am joined with by Thomas.

0:40.3

We do this every time.

0:40.9

I know, and I am joined with by Thomas.

0:40.3

We do this every time.

0:40.9

I know, but I was, I double clutch every time.

0:42.9

And I'm joined by Thomas Megby and AJ Hanover.

0:48.6

That's me.

0:49.5

And guys, I've been feeling like I need a bit of a haircut.

0:53.5

Okay.

0:54.4

I feel like it's getting a little, I feel like I could take a little bit off the top, if you know what I'm saying.

0:58.9

I do.

0:59.2

And I wish there was a piece of literature that would help me sort of think about how much I should take off the top.

1:07.5

The history of the French Revolution.

1:08.9

Or the other thing is I've also been realizing

1:11.8

that I need to improve in my life and I've been looking to get ahead in my life. And I was

1:17.4

wondering if there's any kind of... He has two jokes that he's doing. I know. What is this?

1:21.2

I was weighing between two of them. So I just decided to go for both of them. Nice.

1:25.0

No, we're going to be learning about Iqabod Crane and the legend of Sleepy Hollow.

1:31.7

Yeah.

1:32.2

For our spooky episode coming out November 3rd or whatever days.

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