The following is an archived podcast presented by the Branson and Hudson Foundation for

Podcast Recovery, a Charles Austin company.

It is the first and only episode of the podcast.

Welcome to episode one.

Welcome to the world famous Lyceum Temple in beautiful sunny Athens, Greece, to the afternoon,

everyone. Welcome to the philosophy round table.

Gather around, you gather around, hear you, hear you, everyone. Welcome to the philosophy roundtable. Gather around, you gather around,

hear ye, hear you, whatever. Everyone please gather around here and form an enthusiastic semicircle around three of the wisest philosophers ancient Greece has to offer. I know you don't

have anything to do. Nothing good is around yet.

So why not hang around here?

Eagerly listening to some of the smartest guys the world has to offer.

Please form an orderly semicircle around us and listen closely.

We're passing around a hat.

We invented a hat.

We're passing it around.

Please give us some crusts of bread or some poorly made coins or whatever. My name is Annanus, student and tutor of the stuffest line of thought.

Please give me a mild round of applause. Joining me today will be first and foremost, philosophies,

philosophies. Welcome to the roundtable. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And of course,

last but not least, my close personal friend, Platonicus. Yes, happy as always to be here in the Lyceum. May we debate some thoughtful ideas today.

May, we may, we may. Perhaps first, as we have this crowd gathered, both of you would like to say a little bit about yourself and your individual philosophies.

Well, yes, I mostly just discuss things here at the Lyceum. You know, I have produced no written work heretofore.

I have produced no written work either. I just want to clarify. I haven't even named my school

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