Hi and welcome to classical stuff you should know.

We are a podcast centered around the classical world.

Our goal is to bring to you, the listener, all sorts of stuff from classicism so that you can understand it. Because it really,

like, I think academia wants to pretend it's harder to get into than it is. Yeah. Yeah, trying to

hide it from you. It makes you real good to be smarter than everybody else. That's a mission statement

right there. What? Like, put that on a plaque. Academia makes it feel like it's super hard. Yeah.

I mean, it's true. Is that something else we can put on a t-shirt. Academia makes it feel like it's super hard. Yeah, I mean, it's true. Is that something

else we can put on a t-shirt? Academia makes things harder than they need to be. I feel like all

of our introduction should be put on t-shirts. That's awesome. Yeah, sure. Anyway, my name is

AJ Hayden. Which means we need an intern. My name is A.J. Hanenberg, and I am joined by my two brethren Graham Donaldson.

Hi.

And Thomas Magby.

Hello.

And we all are employed at a classical Christian school down here in Austin, Texas, called

Veritas Academy.

It's a great place.

Go defenders.

Go defenders.

Go defenders.

And we are...

Graham, do you want to sing our fight song?

Veritas, Veritas, veritas.

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