Hello and welcome to Close Reads here on the Circe Institute Podcast Network.

I'm David Kern, and as always on Close Reeds, I am joined by Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh.

Angelina and Tim, how go with it?

It's good. I'm pretty sure Tim is right now doing a one-man show somewhere and not telling us.

Yeah, Tim, where are you? A one-man show, what do you mean?

Because you're in this auditorium by yourself and you're one-man showing it.

I am in Meade, Colorado. I have about two days left of driving on my trip. And just to kind of

refresh our listeners' memories, the last time I was in Meade, I was staying with my friends. And one of their

kids is one of my students online.

And we daydreamed up another fresh, provocative prank to play on our class.

And we just did it about an hour and a half ago.

How to go?

It was not as successful as the last one was. See, you've lost their trust now.

One of them said exactly that. He said, the trust has been broken. It's true. That's a sacred

relationship student teacher, and you messed with that. And I kind of pranked it. Okay, this time,

I... This is why Socrates was poisoned, you know, exactly I kind of pranked it. Okay, this time, I...

This is why Socrates was poisoned, you know, exactly this kind of stuff.

Just, I'm let's do a little bit of, like, Greek history.

I don't think that's why he was poisoned.

Okay, we both know I always go for the melodramatic, metaphorical reading of things.

And that is just in my soul, I feel like that's what happened.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

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