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Well, hey there for Capitans.

I'm glad you're back.

This episode is actually going to be the last episode of season two because it doesn't really factor into what I said season three was going to be all about.

So this is the last episode of season two. And I already had it scheduled. So poor planning on my part, I guess, with last week's announcement. Also, a lot of positive feedback about last week's announcement, which and the new direction of the podcast, which I don't know that I expected. There are definitely some people who were like, no, this isn't for me, and they were not shy about letting me know it, which is, you know, disappointing that some people feel they need to be really mean and throw all kinds of explicatives my way, whilst

thinking that my show is the show that's not truly stoic. There was a giggling bit of irony involved in those ferocious

takedowns of my character. But I would say, good riddance to bad rubbish. And season three is

going to be great. And new folks to the show, I'm sure you're going to love it. In the meantime,

this episode is an interview with author Jay Heinrichs, who wrote the book

Aristotle's Guide to Self-Persuasion.

Now, this book doesn't always have a subtitle, but when it's the American copy, it does.

And that subtitle is how ancient rhetoric, Taylor Swift, and your own soul, can help you change

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