Dan Schreiber

Hey, thanks for having me. I have to say, Aristotle, from what you were saying just before we started recording, absolutely the kind of person I'd want to sit down and ask weird questions to. He sounds really interesting.

Hey, thanks for having me. I have to say, Aristotle, from what you were saying just before we started recording, absolutely the kind of person I'd want to sit down and ask weird questions to. He sounds really interesting.

No, I'm equally as ignorant in ancient Greece as I am at that time. So what do you know?

No, I'm equally as ignorant in ancient Greece as I am at that time. So what do you know?

He's definitely real, right, Aristotle? Yeah. Because there's so many of these characters from this period where the stuff was written about them all these years after and you find out, oh, Pythagoras, was that a real guy? Aristotle's like, we know he's real.

He's definitely real, right, Aristotle? Yeah. Because there's so many of these characters from this period where the stuff was written about them all these years after and you find out, oh, Pythagoras, was that a real guy? Aristotle's like, we know he's real.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Does he cross over with any other great notable character from history, if you were looking global, kind of like Cervantes and Shakespeare were living? in the same period, right?

Does he cross over with any other great notable character from history, if you were looking global, kind of like Cervantes and Shakespeare were living? in the same period, right?

I'm sort of going off Monty Python sketches here, but...

I'm sort of going off Monty Python sketches here, but...

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's wild. Was there a fourth after Aristotle? Theophrastus. Yeah.

That's wild. Was there a fourth after Aristotle? Theophrastus. Yeah.

Appropriate wit. What did he label himself as? Was he appropriate?

Appropriate wit. What did he label himself as? Was he appropriate?

I wouldn't assume that. No? Okay. Well, no, because clearly he's gone into the natural sciences. Plato is going, this guy's lost the plot. He'd be the equivalent of a fringe scientist these days. You'd be like, what's happened to this guy? He was so, the brain's gone faulty.

I wouldn't assume that. No? Okay. Well, no, because clearly he's gone into the natural sciences. Plato is going, this guy's lost the plot. He'd be the equivalent of a fringe scientist these days. You'd be like, what's happened to this guy? He was so, the brain's gone faulty.