Hey everybody, how's it going? Thanks for joining me this afternoon. I am Orrin McIntyre.

I realized as we were looking at the different political theorists that we have talked about,

that while we have mentioned Machiavelli many times and even had a few episodes dedicated to him,

we had never read through any of his texts together. And since the prince is such an

approachable text, at least in length, it's under 100 pages long, depending on your

translation. I thought that that was something that we should do together. It's really just not

that long of a book. It's however dense with a lot of wisdom and we can go through and think together about

what Machiavelli is saying and how it applies to us today. So I'm going to break this down

across several episodes. Obviously, we're not going to do this all in one sitting. However,

you can get a basic audio book of this for, you know, it's maybe four or five hours, I think. It may be six, but I think it's

even shorter than that. So this is something that you can easily read, like I said, if you want to

see it in print or if you want to listen to it. It's a very short book. You might have to pay

attention several times. In fact, I try to reread the prints every

year for this reason because I think Great Brooks demand to be read and re-read in order for us to

properly grasp them. And I think that as we go back in and dig through each one of these, we can

find new ways which we can apply that wisdom to the current

day so i i know we've been doing a lot of current events recently that kind of thing uh however

i wanted to get back to doing a little bit of political theory let's get a little crunchy uh and

so we're going to be going through the prince today.

Now, you probably already know this from listening to my channel,

but remember that the prince is only one of Machiavelli's works.

This is the one where he discusses monarchies.

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