Ryan Holiday

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37,606 appearances 206 recordings 12 series first heard Jun 2016 last heard yesterday

Ryan Holiday’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Daily Stoic · The 3 Signs Something Will Bring You Joy | Kate Bowler · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

But just like if you the first time you saw a knight, like, are you scared? voice-verified

Or you're like, What is this doofus? voice-verified

Like, it's so dumb. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

I was just gonna say pineapples is it blew up like they were like, What is this madness? voice-verified

Or or in sort of the Middle Ages and then even into the Renaissance, you had these painters painting animals that they only heard descriptions of from like Pliny or whatever. voice-verified

So or or it's like they had one taxidermy rhinoceros, you know, that the Pope owned or something. voice-verified

And and like um voice-verified

the way they would do taxidermy then would like they now they build a frame of the animal and they put the skin over it, but they they would just like stuff it with stuff. voice-verified

So they'd just be all like poofed out. voice-verified

And you just think like, you know, like Michelangelo just didn't know what this thing looked like because he was looking at like a bad copy of a copy of a copy. voice-verified

And so like some of the paintings are just like preposterously bad. voice-verified

But but like they were clearly lit up by it. voice-verified

Like they thought it was crazy voice-verified

And then and then we get this extra experience now of like imagining their childlike wonder at voice-verified

Something like like uh even Shakespeare repeats it. voice-verified

Um, you know, the Romans at one point catch some chameleons. voice-verified

I don't know where chameleons are from, but like because they couldn't slow down and watch, they didn't understand how the chameleon was eating. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

And so, like it Shakespeare repeats it, but Pliny guesses that they it's just sucking in nutrients from the air. voice-verified

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