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I'm your host, Eric Kahn, and very excited in this episode of the Hard Men Podcast. I am your host Eric Kahn and very excited in this episode

to have on the show Mr Alex Petkiss.

He is a Princeton PhD. He hosts The Cost of Glory podcast, which is all about Plutarch, the dramatic

retelling of so many fantastic stories from history, from Plutarch's lives. This book has shaped so many people

around the world including the founding fathers Shakespeare Dante and more so he

really helps bring this back to life today. We're going to talk

about that in this episode of the podcast and we're going to talk about a

couple other things including how exactly his path cross with Elon Musk on

Twitter they were talking about Sulla and who is Sulla did he really have his

political enemies all wax well Well, we're going to find out in this episode

Speaking of leadership so of course you were talking about the Roman Empire, but what about leadership and rhetoric?

How does this play into being a great leader today?

We're going to talk about it in this episode.

And by the way, I know this is the time of year when everybody is thinking about new year's resolutions,

you're thinking about, okay, this is the year I really need to do it.

This episode will be great for that, obviously on the moral, philosophical character side of things, but I also want to encourage you to check out barbell logic.

I'm still working out with Matt Reynolds that's been absolutely phenomenal.

And one of the things I found its most helpful

for is accountability so even over the holidays you know you're you're having you

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