299: Crime and Punishment: Raskolnikov the Edgelord

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Books, Christianity, Arts

4.7 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we dive into Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment." We've never really done the whole book in an episode before, so this is (part 1) of a great little introduction for those thinking about reading the book or teaching it to a few edgelords of your own.

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0:00.0	We didn't discuss who's doing the intro.
0:10.0	So here we are.
0:11.7	So we are just kind of talking and starting our episode.
0:14.7	It's been a couple weeks.
0:15.5	It's not you.
0:16.4	Are you doing this?
0:17.8	It's not me.
0:18.0	And I'm the one that's doing the episodes.
0:19.2	So Graham can't introduce his own episode. That's true. Hello and welcome to classical stuff. You should know a very professional podcast about three very professional people talking about topics that they have deeply studied academics, PhDs, respectable, eminent in their fields. None of that is true. My name is Thomas Magby.
0:39.3	I am joined as always by Mr. AJ Hanenberg.
0:41.1	Oh, that's me.
0:41.6	Oh, my goodness.
0:42.4	And Mr. Graham Donaldson.
0:43.5	We also have brief fits of amnesia that are completely unexplained.
0:47.7	So all of this is coming from some, we got some criticism on one of the
0:50.9	episodes.
0:51.4	You don't have to.
0:51.9	You don't have to.
0:52.6	No, it's fine. No, I just wanted the,
0:54.3	the, like,
0:54.6	retort that was so good calling us classical stuff you should vaguely know.
0:57.9	I didn't say that, though.
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