Welcome listeners to Know Your Enemy. I'm Sam at the Bell, and very shortly you will hear the voice of my co-host Matt Sittman

Because what I'm introducing here today is an appearance he made on the Plastic Pills podcast

Which is a philosophy podcast hosted by Victor Brazone and Matt McManus. I

Listen to this interview with Matt the other day and convinced him that we should share it with you guys our listeners

The Know Your Enemy listeners because it's incredibly good and there's a lot of stuff that Matt covers about his experiences as a young

Conservative intellectual and in particular his ideas about Leo Strauss and the Straussian influence on American

Conservatism that I am certain you all will find fascinating as I did

So in a few seconds. I'll play that interview for you

I did want to offer an apology for the summer slowdown

We've been having here at Know Your Enemy headquarters

We haven't been putting out as many episodes as we'd like to

There are various reasons for that, but I won't try your patience with excuses instead

I'll just say that we have some incredibly great episodes coming up and thank you for bearing with us in the dog days of

July

With all that said

I'm going to throw this off to Matt McManus and Victor Brazone who interviewed

My beloved co-host Matt Sippman on their podcast plastic pills

Enjoy

You

Just for those of our listeners you have have no familiarity with you

Or know your enemy. Can you tell us a little bit about how it is that you can't be so interested

About in conservatism and you're all a little bit about your own political journey

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