Hello and welcome back to Young Herritics Conversations. This is our interview series where I get to talk to interesting people who are doing exciting stuff,

either in the intellectual world or in what the ancients would have called the practical world, the world of action.

And my guest today is a particularly interesting guy in that regard.

His name's Shane Sorensen.

He's the host of the Renaissance Wisdom Podcast, and he also published a book with the same title Renaissance Wisdom.

I got in touch with them because we are interested in a lot of the same stuff.

But one difference between us is that you know me, I'm like an academic egghead raised up in the academies and

Shane is what you might call an autodidact somebody who found his way to the great works of the West,

and in particular to this period of the Renaissance,

he found his way there kind of on his own.

Just prompted, I'm going to talk to him a little bit

about how his personal journey prompted him to become a lover of the great texts, a defender of ancient principles, but I thought it was important to talk to Shane because one of the themes of this show has been that when you take an interest in the ancient world, when you start talking about the Western tradition, when you start dealing with all of these kind of high

fallutin terms and names like Aristotle and Plato, it instantly starts to feel like you are in a world

reserved for an elite set and what that means is that only you know people

who have advanced degrees have any interest in any of this stuff the only reason to take any of these books off the shelves is if you're an antiquarian, you're interested in history, you're kind of a nerd, whatever.

But the delight of talking to you on this show is realizing again and again that that is simply

not true. There's an old saying that tradition is not the worship of dead ashes but

the preservation of a living flame.

And we've really experienced and encountered that together, I think, on this show.

Whenever I hear from you about, you know, how you're homeschooling your kids, what you're doing, you know how you're homeschooling your kids what you're doing you know in your in

your day job a lot of people tell me about well I'm a cop or I'm a farmer or you know

I'm a teacher and all of these different walks of life the classics have something to say to each of them.

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