Hello and welcome to classical stuff you should know a podcast about three guys talking about whatever we want to.

My name is Thomas Magby.

I am joined as always by Mr.

AJ Hannanberg.

That's me.

And Mr. Graham Donaldson. Hello. And today Graham will be leading an episode on two things that we as a podcast lack, sense and sensibility. I think we have, I think we have pretty good. They're pretty good. I think we have a lot of sensibility. Okay, good. Well, I guess we'll find out. We're senseless but sensible. Okay, interesting. It's more...

So I think we use the words, yeah, sensitive, you know, maybe we lack sense. So anyway, we'll get there. This is, so the reason we're doing this, so I've done an Emma episode. Yes. I don't know if we've done a Pride and Prejudiced episode. I thought you did a long time. I think we have. I think a long time ago. But this is kind of like, we're going to do another one because I'm kind of doing this as a series. I'm going to do an episode like this on every single Austin book. And there's five of them, I think. We totally have done a Pride and Prejudice. It's back in 2021. Okay. Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, and Northanger Abbey. There's five. Oh, persuasion six. Can I share? So when AJ posts the episodes, he'll list the people in the episodes, like the three of us. But he always changes the names. Do you remember that you do this? Yeah, I still do it.

Do you, I clearly I don't follow this. You only see it if you go to the website, right? Like you don't see it in the podcast feed. And then click on the little thing. I guess it's just that one little spot. It's very funny. So anyway, this one, the three participants are Collins, Wickham, and Darcy. and then it says AJ is Darcy.

That's very good.

Thank you, AJ.

That's very good.

We're probably going to be redoing another one. Collins, Wickham, and Darcy, and then it says, AJ is Darcy.

That's very good. Thank you, AJ. Very funny. That's very good. We're probably going to be redoing another one because I'm sort of doing it with an eye for having this be a series. But what I'm going to do, every single, so it's six, all six Jane Austen novels. Just sort of is like very similar to the anime episode where we're sort of going through the entirety of the novel and maybe drawing out a couple of themes so that people could use it if they're using it in schools or they can just sort of for their own enjoyment as primers to the book but then I've got in the background I'm also doing a lot of reading on jane austen's life herself and I kind of have this like longer series in mind that I want to put together that's using Jane Austen as a takeoff point for talking about some other things.

But that's that's coming down the line.

So anyway, just as a as a classical stuff kind of like roadmap.

That's why we're getting all these Austin books is because I'm reading them all. And these are going to be used. These are just sort of like, so you can know the book, and then down the line I want to be doing something where we're using all of these books, but I've kind of got like a bigger, a bigger axe to grind, a bigger thesis that I'm working out. So anyway, that's why we're doing all these books. Are you teaching these books? Like, where did this start from? No, no, not teaching any of this stuff.

It started because I taught Pride and Prejudice for years, and then I pivoted to Emma. So just full disclosure, as of right now, I've read every Jane Austen book except North Ender Abbey and Mansfield Park. haven't read those ones. I've read every other one.

And I love them. Haven't read those ones. I've read every other one.

And I love them.

I think they're wonderful.

But I also think the like Jane Austen industrial complex that exists in this world actually isn't helping a reading or understanding of her books.

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