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I feel so special. I have my own mic here.

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I am so happy to be here with you today.

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I bring you wonderful
greetings from Park City.

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We have our Sundance coming up.

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I'll be going back up to Park City

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to be on the radio station to talk about
all of the cool people we've talked to

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the directors and filmmakers,
and it's a very fun place to be.

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And, my role in that place up there
is to bring that content to everyone

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through the wonderful new phenomenon
which we've called social media.

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I'm going to throw out
one really cool stat for you,

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and that is 80% of all Americans
use an online social network

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and the most used website
in all of America is Facebook.

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So being in social media
and being in news and information,

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and having a very, very strong passion,
and a love of the classics,

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I decided to combine the two.

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I created this beautiful website
called ClassicCulture.org.

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At ClassicCulture.org,
I bring about the best ideas.

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The most beautiful artwork
and incredible stories

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that we are all part of,
it's our heritage, it's our culture.

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The Greek culture; the Romans.

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And having that website,
and using social social media,

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I combined the two, and now,
you can get everything on your phone,

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and that's a big deal to me.

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Gutenberg in the 1400s
created the printing press.

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Through the printing press,

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we're able to get all this information
and pass it along to each other.

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It's old social media that they created.

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And today Facebook, I would say,

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is the most important invention
since that press machine,

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that was invented in Germany,

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and it allows for information
to pass on within the click of a button

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to anywhere in the world.

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Doing social media in Park City,
we can take information,

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the interviews that we have,

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and we can post them to the countries
the people come from,

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Germany, Northern Europe.

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And we post that immediately,
instantaneously, to where they are.

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So I'm just going to feature

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some of this cool stuff that is
on our Facebook page for ClassicCulture.

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This is what Julius Caesar said:

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"As a rule, men worry more
about what they can't see

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than about what they can."

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This is another really cool quote.

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It was featured on a lot
on the graves in Greece and in Rome.

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It said: "I was not. I have been.
I am not. I do not mind."

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And so, through your phone,
you can access some of the best ideas.

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They're not going to conform exactly
with the ideas that we have today,

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and that's why you want to use them.

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That's why you want
to bring them into your life.

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It's because they give you
a completely different perspective

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which will help you evaluate

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what you're doing today,
and why you're doing it.

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This is one of my favorite
ones from Plato:

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"If a man wants to know
the origin of states and societies,

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he should behold them
from the point of view of time.

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Thousands of cities have come into being

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and have passed away,
again and again, in infinite ages."

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Being at this cultural hearth,

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they were able to see
the Egyptians and the Romans

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all these incredible, diverse cultures,

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and they were there,
right in the thick of it.

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They observed it all.

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Greece is the founding civilization
of our entire society: democracy,

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ethics, philosophy, mathematics.

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If I can ask by a show of hands,
who studied Latin in K-12?

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OK, three people.

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Who studied Latin in college?

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OK, one person.

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So, for whatever reason,

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the founding principles of our society,
and our civilization are gone.

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They're inaccessible.

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They're in the back
of university libraries

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that no one touches, or no on accesses.

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There was this Greek who founded Athens.
His name was Theseus.

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He concurred the labyrinth in Crete.

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He found his way,
and he found the minotaur.

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He slayed the minotaur.

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And, on his way back to Acropolis,
he declared "Aphrodite Pandemos,"

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and that is "beauty for the people."

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That's my mission and my idea
that I bring to you today.

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Thank you.