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The Propaganda Report

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Part 1

The Propaganda Report

Brad Binkley

News, Daily News, Comedy, News Commentary

4.6916 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Join me for part 1 of a reading and discussion of Meditations, one of the most influential works of Stoic philosophy, by Marcus Aurelius – Roman Emperor and philosopher. In this series we'll explore the core tenants of Stoicism, examining its emphasis on virtue, reason, and acceptance. Exclusive Content and Ways to Support: Support me on Substack for ad-free content, bonus material, personal chatting and more! https://substack.com/@monicaperezshow Become a PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER on Apple Podcasts for AD FREE episodes and exclusive content! True Hemp Science: https://truehempscience.com/ PROMO CODE: MONICA Find, Follow, Subscribe & Rate on your favorite podcasting platform AND for video and social & more... Website: https://monicaperezshow.com/ Substack: https://substack.com/@monicaperezshow Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/monicaperezshow Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MonicaPerez Twitter/X: @monicaperezshow Instagram: @monicaperezshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Monica Perez, and we are starting a new book today.

0:29.9

We are reading and discussing a book that I have been wanting to reread for a really long time.

0:36.1

I don't reread them in advance of these little get-togethers

0:39.3

of hours so that I can experience the joy of the book afresh with you. We just finished Saucers

0:47.9

of the Illuminati by Jim Keith, and we are going to have a fantastic discussion. I did get landed the perfect, the perfect person to join us in that discussion. So Graham from Grimica is going to join us for that discussion. And that's going to be next week on Thursday if you don't join it so I'm going to send a

1:12.9

personal invitation to all of them my premium subscribers so you'll just automatically get that and

1:19.6

if you want to join the conversation anyway email me at monica perisho at gmail.com. So that'll be super fun.

1:29.3

So we've done all sorts of different things.

1:31.3

That was about UFOs.

1:32.6

The first one was about Danny Castellaro,

1:35.0

which is true crime and conspiracy.

1:37.6

And we did philosophy.

1:40.2

We've done other conspiracy theories, UFOs,

1:44.1

a libertarian classic, the law. This is spiritual.

1:50.2

Or I would only almost consider it ethical or practical or, you know, it is a very slender volume,

1:58.4

which is how I like to roll Marcus Aurelius Meditations.

2:04.0

And I didn't even review anything about him.

2:08.7

So I'm going to read you the blurb.

2:10.2

I'm going to read the intro, and we're going to hit this.

2:12.5

And I feel like I want it to kind of unfold during the holiday season as we approach

2:16.7

Christmas.

2:17.9

Maybe towards the end, we have a conversation with somebody about it who maybe be plugged into

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