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Classical Stuff You Should Know Podcast Transcripts

A.J. Hanenburg, Graeme Donaldson, and Thomas Magbee · 298 episodes with transcripts

A.J., Graeme, and Thomas discuss everything having to do with the classical world. Our aim is to help both educators and laypeople enjoy the classical world as much as they enjoy fine ales and good tales.

Spoken has transcripts of 298 Classical Stuff You Should Know episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 6, 2026.

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  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
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        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Latest Classical Stuff You Should Know transcripts

The Tower of Babel

October 6, 2026

Thomas Magbee (0:07)

Hello, and welcome to Classical Stuff You Should Know, a podcast about architecture such as towers. My name is Thomas Magby, I'm joined as always by Mr. Graeme Donaldson and Mr. AJ.

We are doing, oh, wait, I don't understand what you're saying. Wait, hello?

Graeme Donaldson (0:23)

C'est un no comprendez? C'est une langue différente.

What?

Thomas Magbee (0:29)

Sorry. Tu ne comprends pas? You're switching between your languages. I just can't understand any of this.

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