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I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekiniano show. First time, Alex Peketus. How are you doing, Alex? Good, great to be here, peace. Thanks for having me. No problem. Tell everybody a little bit about yourself, please. So I am an ex-academic. I grew up.

Well, my career was in classics. I did a PhD in classics and I focused on the late antique world especially the Greek philosophers of the late Roman world and got a tenure track job. I used to teach rhetoric

and philosophy. I taught at a couple of institutions in California and I left in 2020 for maybe reasons that we'll get into later on.

But I've since leaving, I've worked a couple of interesting jobs but now my I have the luxury of

pursuing my mission full time which is trying to bring back the classics to to the West and the way that I think that they should be taught and I run a podcast called The Costs of Glory,

where I've been doing that for about three years,

where I just retail, mainly focus on retelling

the biographies of the great leaders of the Greek

and Roman world, especially those featured in Plutarch's lives.

So I do these kind of long form biographies with that spirit of like emulation that theutarch illustrates so nicely and I also sort of active on

Twitter but I teach some public speaking rhetoric classes on the side,

but that's what I'm up to these days.

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