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Classical Stuff You Should Know

295: Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Books, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Arts, Education

4.7857 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss ol' Robinson Crusoe, how he lived on the island, and escaped twenty-eight years later. It's . . . kinda good?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone. Before we get into the episode, I wanted to let you know that Evergreen Classical School

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I'm a big fan of Evergreen. I do hope that if you or someone you know is interested and would be a good fit for the opportunity that you will reach out.

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Again, that's Evergreenclassical.org.

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Email address, Evergreen board at evergreenclassical.org.

0:48.5

All right.

0:49.5

With that, let's go ahead and get started with the episode.

1:03.8

Music Let's go ahead and get started with the episode. Hi, welcome to classical stuff.

1:05.5

You should know a podcast about classical works of literature, philosophy, the olden days, the times gone before. Wow. Your, if you will. The times of yours. The old laying signs. Actually, I don't really know what that means. Doesn't it mean like... Isn't it in Latin? No, it's like Welsh or something. I don't know. Oh, okay.

1:28.3

Why would you start with that?

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We're talking about Robinson Crusoe and that's where you're starting?

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Today we are going to go on a journey.

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I have no idea what Robinson Crusoe is about actually, so this is going to be fun.

1:40.3

Cool.

1:41.3

It's about a journey that goes awry, isn't it?

1:43.3

Yeah, a little bit. I always get this confused with Swiss Family Robinson. Me too. And Gulliver's Travels. All of those things I get confused. So Robinson Crusoe, Swiss Family Robinson Guller's Travels. They're all just, they're in the same universe in my head as far as they're concerned. I would rate them very differently as far as like quality of literature. But D.J. is going to take us on this voyage as our jolly boat captain.

2:04.9

I am. And he is going to navigate the waters of skill and cryptis, uh, expertly.

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Yep. And I did find out, do you pronounce that Silla, not Scylla. Oh, really? Yeah. I've,

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I've pronounced it Scylla for years and years. It you go. Okay. Anyway, take it away, Arthur Yon. Thanks, Graham. Okay, we are talking about Robinson Crusoe today. I read it, assuming that I had read it before in my youth, I absolutely have not, because I also mixed it up. It was Swiss Family Robinson. I read Swiss Family Robinson. Which is also awesome. I haven't read that in a long time.

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