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Classical Stuff You Should Know

97: Augustine, The Great Hippo Lord

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5696 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we review the life and heresies of Augustine of Hippo, who's apparently far more relatable than OTHER saints I could mention.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Classical Stuff You Should Know.

0:12.7

We are a podcast about the classical world, old books, history, art, theology, philosophy, that sort of thing.

0:19.0

My name is A.J. Hanenberg, and I'm joined by two of my bros, Graham Donaldson.

0:24.1

Hello.

0:26.2

What?

0:27.2

And Thomas Magby.

0:29.3

Hello.

0:31.0

Oh, man, you guys.

0:33.0

I was trying to add a little bit of some, like, I don't know.

0:36.3

Celebrity?

0:36.9

A little, yeah, solemnity, a little aristocratic elegance.

0:41.1

Yeah.

0:41.5

Sorry, we are raining on your parade.

0:43.9

So sorry.

0:45.7

Aristocratic elegance is nothing.

0:47.2

I've never been accused of that.

0:50.0

Okay, so today we are talking about hunting in Africa.

0:56.0

Specifically, a guy that has always been an advocate against it.

0:59.6

He really wants to collect all of the populations of large mammals and make sure they're protected.

1:05.8

So he does some elephants, but primarily hippos.

1:08.2

Primarily hippos, that's correct.

1:09.3

To the point where he was considered of the hippos.

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