301 - Pride and Prejudice
Romancing the Pod
Romancing the Pod - Paige Wesley, Todd Schlosser
4.8 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
“Foiled again by our own made up rules.”
This week's most romantic movie is... Pride and Prejudice. This film has everything: Darcy’s opinion kink, historically accurate boredom, And more compliments that a potato is due. If you love only-hands thirst traps, laundry zip lines, and pig-testicle cinematography, this episode's for you!
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| 0:00.0 | you better not have no planes tonight |
| 0:06.0 | movie time and it's feeling right |
| 0:10.0 | you're looking for a love than last |
| 0:14.0 | you'll find it a romance in the podcast |
| 0:20.0 | ooh ooh baby had me a hello. |
| 0:24.0 | Ooh, I love you. |
| 0:26.2 | I know. |
| 0:28.0 | Ooh, ooh, baby, you're the wind beneath my wings. |
| 0:32.1 | Ooh, ah, I'll have what she's having. |
| 0:36.0 | Thank you for tuning into Romance in the pod. You had us at hello, I'm Paige Wesley. And I'm your Darcy Todd, which means this week, Paige made us watch Pride and Prejudice. So Paige, I know this is not the first time. You've seen this movie because you're a woman of a certain age. I saw this in theaters. That is correct. |
| 1:12.2 | Now, here's the thing. I know a lot of people. A, love the book. Yeah. Obviously. Oh, this was the book? B. Love the Colin Firth version. The 95 version. The 95 version. Emma Thompson, right? Emma Thompson as well. Yes. Love Emma Thompson. That's the one that most people grew up with. |
| 1:12.9 | Yeah, fair. |
| 1:27.6 | If you are a woman of my age. Of an even certainter age. Yeah. Yeah, that would have been my age as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then saw this as an adult in 2005 or I guess I was like 17 when this came out. This is my preferred version. Me too. |
| 1:28.1 | I'm not saying you're wrong if you prefer the other version, but there are things that this |
| 1:32.9 | version does in a lot less time and still has pacing problems. |
| 1:37.6 | But things that this movie does in a lot less time more effectively than I think most |
| 1:43.1 | other versions of this story do. |
| 1:46.5 | I mean, we've done a few other Jane Austen movies, and my complaint is always that |
| 1:51.4 | adaptations often forget that these were satire of the time, that it is supposed to be |
| 1:58.0 | mocking the social ridiculousness of truly difficult class problems. |
| 2:06.3 | Yeah. |
| 2:06.5 | Right? |
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