Hi, William. How are you?

Hello, Tanner. I'm great. How are you, my friend?

I'm doing so well, and thank you for agreeing to do this with me. So these are the 12 days of Stoic Christmas, everyone. And I am pumped to be here with my friend William Stevens, who is just the best. Go ahead and tell them how you're the best, William.

Well, I'm not the best, but I strive to be better than I was yesterday.

So today you are the best you've been.

You bring out the good in me every time, Tanner.

Awesome.

Because you're just a powerful spirit of giving a generosity.

Real stoic. You're real stoic, man.

Oh, I'm like Scrooge's nephew that comes by and tries to cheer everybody up.

Okay, so before we start, I do want to give you the opportunity to hold up your brand new book,

which is available in the UK, but not yet the U.S.

That's coming December 18th.

Go ahead.

Talk about it a little bit.

So this is my new book on Marcus Aurelius.

It's called Marcus Aurelius, Philosopher King.

And it traces the biography of Marcus Aurelius and tries to situate the different events in his life,

the different predicaments and challenges he faced, of which there were many, many.

And put those in the context of his philosophical ruminations, his reflections in the meditations, or as I prefer to call them

the memoranda, the little reminders that he wrote down for himself in his personal, private

philosophical journal. So this is what I've been working on the last couple of years. So glad it's

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