Hey, classical stuff listeners, Thomas here. Hey, quick heads up before today's episode. It's a little bit different than normal. Usually, as you know, it's the three of us sitting around talking about a work or an idea or a door sometimes. But this week we have the pleasure of talking with Josh Gibbs as a kind of follow-up to our discussion last week about his newest essay.

So your parents are thinking of sending you to a classical Christian school.

And when I say we, it's actually me.

I got to sit down with Josh.

It was a great conversation.

You'll get to listen to it as soon as I'm done rambling with this introduction.

I wanted to give a brief introduction.

Josh Gibbs is a teacher, author, speaker, and deep thinker on all things classical.

If you are looking to be introduced to some of his ideas, you can listen to our previous episodes on how to be unlucky, something they will not

forget, or the episode titled In Defense of Christmas, which is about a book of essays

that Josh wrote about Christmas. We talk about some of these things at the end of the

episode, but if you are interested in following Josh Gibbs

online, the best place to connect with him is Gibbsclassical.com.

I'll say again, gibbsclassical.com.

That's where you can find the newest essay.

That's where you can see just what he's working on.

And you can sign up for his mailing list and get notified when he puts out new things,

which is a thing that you should do.

Also, we talk about this at the end of the episode, but I very clearly got the dates wrong.

Josh is hosting a conference this summer.

It is the aptly named Gibbs Classical Online Summer Conference. If you are a teacher or

administrator or parent or student or anyone who is interested at all in classical education,

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