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Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stood Podcast.

Given that this is a podcast about ancient philosophy, I don't get to do as often as I like, something I really love doing, which is nerding out about one of my favorite bands.

The Pureless and utterly fantastic Iron Maiden.

Then a huge Iron Maiden fans since I accidentally downloaded one of their songs when I was a freshman in high school.

I wrote about them a bunch in my book, Perennial Cellar, but I talk about them at the beginning of this episode.

You might not think that would have anything to do with philosophy, but but bear with me. I talk about them quite a bit at the beginning of today's episode with my guests.

Also the Pureless and fantastic need a strouse. She currently tours the world. Well, she's not touring right now because of the pandemic, but she tours the world as the lead guitarist for Alice Cooper.

She's regularly ranked not just as one of the best female guitar players in the world, but one of the best guitar players in the world period.

She plays the national anthem in all the on field music for the Los Angeles Rams. We talked about this in the episode. She this season because of the pandemic, they couldn't have anyone in the stadium, but they needed noise and music to pump up the athletes.

She was plugged in directly to the the sound system at the new Los Angeles Rams stadium.

What must have been a surreal experience. And on top of all this, she is a practicing student of Stook philosophy. And, you know, if her name didn't give it away for last name doesn't give it away, she comes from a long line of classical musicians and one of her ancestors is actually the renowned composer Johann Strauss.

Today, I talked with Nita about ego. She was wearing a great shirt that said ego kills talent. We talk about humility. We talk about ambition. We talk about artistry. And of course, our mutual love of Stook philosophy iron maiden.

So this is a great episode. You can check it out and do follow Nita on Instagram. She's at hurricane Nita. She's just awesome. She has a Patreon. You can check out at patreon.com slash hurricane Nita.

And she gives guitar lessons at I want to play guitar dot com. So if you're looking for a hobby, you want to learn from a great musician, check out I want to play guitar dot com and learn how to play guitar from the one and only need a Strauss.

Enjoy today's interview.

All right. So my first question. And this is a question to which there's no right answer, but there's definitely a wrong answer where there are wrong answers. What is the best iron maiden song?

Ah, okay.

In my personal and somewhat professional opinion, I always go with fear of the dark, but the live reo version of fear in the dark.

Yeah, you know what's interesting about that song is it's a very good song on the albums or the album, but the intro that he does and sort of the fan participation at the beginning of the song is better live.

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