Hey guys, welcome back to Young Heritage Conversations.

This is my interview series where I get to sit down with guests who are out there doing interesting stuff,

often to do with the subject of the podcast, which is the great works of the West.

This is, after all, the classical education that you didn't know you were

missing, but I also like sometimes to venture a little further afield and you know

explore things that people are working on in different areas.

Today though, I've got somebody that just could not be a more perfect fit for the whole

young heretics enterprise. I sometimes think of the canon and Western

civilization and just the whole communion of great books. I think of it is like a

secret society and what I mean by that is in our

day life we might be working at a factory we might be farmers or cops or teachers

or whatever but those of us that live and love the life of the mind

kind of know one another and we know each other across space and time.

I've cited before that letter of Machiavelli in which he talks about being

exile and coming in out of the regular world into the courts of ancient men where he gets to

commune with Cicero and Aristotle and these, you know,

great men of antiquity. And that communion I think is still going on. It's eternal. It's always happening.

And when you meet somebody that is part of that secret society,

suddenly this light goes off.

And I had that experience very vividly recently at Landmark Booksellers, which is a store, a bookstore here in Tennessee out in Franklin.

It was my favorite places to go and I'm going to tell the story in just a second.

But I was led by a kind of little rabbit hole, little trail, you know, like that thread leading down the rabbit hole.

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