TOM VELASCO. He is a teacher of history and literature at The Ambrose School. But he's way more than that. Just give him a listen. Topics include: The infamous "Clench Bubble" story we've all heard at church camp, root words and languages, classical literature, Russian literature, post modern philosophy and doublespeak.
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The Clench Bubble - The sound your stomach make when your body will involuntarily evacuate the lower intestine
The Brothers Karamasov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Candide by Voltaire
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
The Ambrose School
Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
The Sword and the Stone
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Paradise Lost
The Illiad
The Odyssey
The Divine Comedy by Dante
The Aeneid by Virgil
Pilgrim's Progress
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
The Trial and Death of Socretes
The Simposium by Plato
The Republic by Plato
Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldeous Huxley
Interview by This American Life about the first female gondalier
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3FHqlLEdzXIzmJxb7fDoCI?si=bT9rpBHUTLSDoKOap4rOtA
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