Introducing Earsay: The Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club!

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Join Ed Helms and Kal Penn as they dive into the world’s biggest audiobooks. Earsay kicks off with a deep dive into Audible’s immersive, full-cast adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Host Ed Helms is joined by Jennie Garth (90210, I Choose Me podcast) to explore the audiobook’s lush sound design and standout performances from Marisa Abela, Harris Dickinson, Bill Nighy, and Glenn Close. Together, they unpack the enduring appeal of Austen’s classic romance, draw surprising connections between Elizabeth Bennet’s fierce independence and Garth’s iconic “I choose me” moment from 90210 and so much more.

Whether you're an audiobook aficionado or just getting started, this is the book club your ears have been waiting for. Listen to Earsay: The Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club starting Thursday, October 9th. New episodes drop every other week!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Ed Helms, and I am here with my very good buddy, Cal Penn.
0:06.9	Cal, what's up?
0:07.9	I'm good.
0:08.6	I'm excited that you and I, together, are the hosts of the new podcast, Earsay,
0:14.4	the Audible and I-heart audiobook club.
0:17.7	We're both book lovers.
0:19.1	We read them, we write them, we narrate them. Yes. And while
0:23.0	reading a great book is always a joy, having it read to you, I mean, come on. That's amazing.
0:29.0	Oh, listening to a book. I mean, that's next level. It's like reading, but with your ears.
0:35.5	Exactly. And when you finish a great audiobook, you just want to talk about it with someone, right?
0:40.4	And that's when you need a book club.
0:43.4	No, no, not a book club.
0:46.1	An audio book club.
0:50.7	And that's where we come in.
0:52.5	Correct.
0:53.2	Our audiobook club brings in friends from across the IHeart Podcast Network,
0:58.0	and we also get to mix it up with the authors and actors behind some of the biggest new audiobooks out there.
1:04.5	This season, we are diving into reimagined classics.
1:08.2	Pride and Prejudice is considered an important novel, right? But what makes it a fun novel? What is it about this story that's fun to you? It's the romance. It's always going to come back to that. Supernatural Thrillers. I used to do this exercise when I wrote it. I had someone read the prophecy scripts out loud to me, and I would have my eyes closed.
1:31.6	And so the goal was that while I was listening, it had to feel as though they were open.
1:34.3	Like, oh, I'm vividly seeing it, even as I'm hearing it. And so many more incredible stories.
1:38.3	Listen to Cal and me completely nerd out on Audible's biggest, newest stories this fall on Earsay, the
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