WEBVTT - "Pride and Prejudice" with Jennie Garth 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:06.080 Hello, and welcome to Earsay, the Audible and iHeart Audio 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:11.040 book Club. It's the book club for audiobook lovers. I'm 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:13.319 ed Helms and I am cal Penn. 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:17.880 Each episode, Ed or I will tackle a different Audible 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:21.360 title with your favorite hosts and special guests from across 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:25.239 the iHeart Podcast world and beyond. They'll share what they heard, 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.000 what they loved, and what they can't stop thinking about. 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.400 You've heard the books, Now hear the ear. 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:48.560 Say earsay that title? Are we all getting it? Cal 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:50.080 break it down? Sure? 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:55.560 If I need to get specific well pronounced earsay. It's 0:00:55.560 --> 0:01:00.800 a play on hearsay, but unlike hearsay, you shouldn't ignore it. 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:04.080 You want to listen to the ear say it's the 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.400 lively chatter that follows a great audiobook. 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:10.560 I'm not sure I get it. Can you use it 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.160 in a sentence? Yes? 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:17.720 Uh, let's see. I finished the book. Now I'm catching 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.760 up on the ear say see what I'm saying? 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:22.560 Yeah, Okay, that's far. 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:24.840 This season, we're going to be getting into some really 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.360 fun titles that push the limits of the audiobook format. 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.319 So we'll dive into an oral history of one of 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:35.240 the funniest movies in the eighties. We'll do a supernatural 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.920 thriller co authored by m Night Shamalan. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.440 We'll also dive into the full cast audio edition of 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:45.640 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It stars Riz Ahmed, 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.080 Hugh Laurie, and Matthew mcfaddian. 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.840 This is our audiobook club, and you're invited. 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.360 Cow. Do you have a formative audiobook memory? 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:03.600 I guess formative audio book memory. I really like listening 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:10.360 to audiobooks from authors who whose voices are kind of iconic. 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:15.359 There's something about getting that firsthand that I like. But 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.680 really the like, the more universal side of that. I 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.160 remember listening to somebody like a Mindy kayale Right is 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:25.760 so sweet and bubbly, and her whole persona is that 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.520 of like I'm everybody's friend. So when you listen to 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.200 a fun memoir that she's written, and it's vulnerable and 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:34.160 it's funny and. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:35.280 Absolutely how about you? 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.440 Yeah, I totally agree you have a formative audiobook memory. 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:42.239 I'm not sure thinking back when I really started to 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:46.160 get into audiobooks, but but I've been into them for 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.600 a long time and there's one experience that I had 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.919 that I that I just love. I still think back 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:57.079 on fondly. I was on a road trip by myself 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:01.320 on the open road in the Western United States for 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:04.800 thirteen hours straight and I had to get from A 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:06.919 to B, so I just was kind of like barreling 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.240 through as efficiently as I could, and I put in 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:15.040 this audio book The Overstory. The Overstory is this incredibly 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:21.040 rich and deep and beautiful novel, and it's also one 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:25.760 that is quite overwhelming with the just amount of it's dense. 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.600 There's so much narrative, there's so much sort of color 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:32.520 and experience to this story. But because I was able 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:36.440 to just dial in on the open road, I just 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:40.920 was riveted and it made this the entire day of 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:44.760 driving just like disappear. I was so immersed in this 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:46.920 book and I and to this day, I love it. 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.800 I think it's such an incredibly powerful and beautiful, beautiful. 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.920 Book that's so cool, like a TimewARP for you. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.480 Yeah, audiobooks are timewarps because they're so immersive. 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:03.200 I assume you narrated the audiobook commercial of your book, right, correct, Yes, Yes, 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.160 I did the same. I wrote this memoir called You 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.880 Can't Be Serious, and the subtext is about systemic change 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.920 in Hollywood and Washington. But really it's like a collection 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.760 of short stories that I just want people to be 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:16.919 able to laugh at, whether they're reading it by the 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:18.680 pool or kind of listening to it on the subway 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:22.760 around on a drive. And I remember when my editor 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.680 called after I turned in the manuscript and she said, so, 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.000 do you want to record and narrate your audiobook or 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:30.400 do you want to give it to somebody else? And 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:34.400 I was so confused by that, like why would the 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.920 amount of self deprecating jokes alone and the weird voices 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.159 that I do in my head that could so easily 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:46.440 like with the wrong voice, could just like a problematic situation. 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:47.200 Yes. 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:51.760 Yeah, I wrote a book that's more sort of my 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:58.080 comedic take on some straight history stories. It's called SNAPO, 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:02.680 The Definitive Guide to Histories Greatest screw Ups, available wherever 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.200 you get your books, and the same thing. I was 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:06.840 so proud of it. I was like, I'm not I 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.760 don't want I don't want some other jerk just like 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:11.320 rattling this thing off. 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.240 In your book, by the way, came from your podcast, 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:15.440 which is also called Snaffo. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:20.600 Yes, thank you for mentioning that. My my podcast Snaffoo 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:24.760 also about history's greatest grew ups. Season four is coming out, 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.360 and I'm having guests come on and I tell them 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.560 about a snafoo and we reflect on what these snaffoos 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:35.760 say about humanity, and spoiler alert, it's usually not good 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:37.520 things about humanity. 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:41.240 You also have a podcast I do, or I guess 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.159 technically I will. It is still a very big secret 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.960 for right now, but we will announce it on the 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:52.960 fourteenth of October. But yes, we do podcasts, we do 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.599 audio books, and we're maybe the perfect guys to host 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:58.640 a podcast about audiobooks. 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:04.320 Yeah, yes, And so for our first episode today, we 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.280 have the pleasure of stepping into the carriages and drawing 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:11.719 rooms of Regency England. Our guest and I listened to 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:16.279 the audible reimagining of a piece of the English literature canon, 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:22.360 Jane Austen's eighteen thirteen masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice. It came 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.080 out during the peak of the Romantic era, when people 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.239 like John Keats and Lord Byron were writing about passion 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:32.039 and mortality and the nature of beauty. But Pride and 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:36.280 Prejudice offered witty, sharp social commentary at a time when 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:40.440 the novel itself was seen as kind of frivolous. Austin 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.600 published it anonymously, which was common for women authors at 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.520 the time. Writing novels was seen as an improper way 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.919 for women to spend their time. Pride and Prejudice was 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:53.560 a smash hit and went on to be instrumental in 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:57.440 shaping what the English novel would become. Austin's narrative style 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:01.120 is called free indirect speech. That's when the thoughts and 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.480 speech of any character can be written out in the 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.560 voice of the narrator, which is totally familiar to a 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:11.040 modern reader, but was groundbreaking when the book came out. 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:16.800 Cal Have you ever read Pride and Prejudice? I read 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.280 enough of it, but yes, I remember reading it a 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.680 quick refresher. Pride and Prejudice is the story of the 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:25.960 quick witted Elizabeth Bennett, who finds herself navigating complicated social 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.400 dynamics in a romantic back and forth with a man 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:32.440 she calls the quote proudest and most disagreeable man in 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:36.280 the world, the handsome and delusive and of course fabulously rich, 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:41.000 mister Dawesy. The themes in Pride and Prejudice are timeless. 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:46.680 We're talking self discovery class. Of course, both Pride and 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.400 Prejudice question, cal in your relationship, are you more than 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.000 mister Darcy or more the Lizzie Bennett? 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.840 Oh my gosh, I mean digging? 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:56.920 Am I digging too deep? 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:58.640 And no, you're not digging deep at all. It's one 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:00.480 of those things where I'm probably more of like the 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.480 Lizzie Bennett, but like aspirationally, I would love to be 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:07.080 a mister Darcy. I would love to have the the handsome, 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.840 you know, I'd love to be fabulously rich. So I'm 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.720 not trying to script the question, but maybe an amalgam 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.920 of both. Leaning towards the miss Bennett. 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.000 Well good, I mean it's a win win. They're both 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:24.160 remarkable characters. Lizzie just has this like irrepressible verb and 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:28.760 kind of sass and deep intelligence, and mister Darcy, we learn, 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.800 has like great integrity and of course a lot of money. 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.480 So if you're a combination of those two, you're you're 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:39.160 doing You're doing good. So this new Audible adaptation of 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.280 Pride and Prejudice is less of an audio book and 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:46.520 more like a mini series for your ears, with immersive 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:50.800 sound design and original music. It stars Marisa Abella as 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:55.920 Elizabeth and Harris Dickinson as mister Darcy. It's faithful to 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:59.400 the original, but it's told from Elizabeth's perspective in a 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:04.680 highly suggestive way that kind of sizzles in the intimate 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:06.679 audio format. Let's take a listen. 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.880 I'm not concerned at all. I'm really trying to illustrate your. 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.560 Character and do you succeed? 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:15.600 Not at all. 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.600 I hear such different accounts of you. I can't make 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:20.560 any sense of it. 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:29.800 Ooh, Steamy, Marissa, Abella, Marisa, Marisa, excuse me, Marisa, Yeah, amazing. 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.640 I just did a little arc on Industry. We did 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.360 not have scenes together, but even her voice is so 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.440 if you're a fan of that show, she is so 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:39.040 so good. 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:43.679 Yeah, this is giving some pretty saucy vibes. Yeah, I'm 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:44.320 not gonna lie. 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:48.319 Did they make you watch the like nineteen sixties version 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.160 of Romeo and Juliet in high school? 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.160 Oh, I have a vague memory of that. 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:57.199 I remember that they we watched that and it was like, okay, 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.520 all right, it did. I don't think it helped me 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.440 understand and the material any better. But then when I 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.720 was in college, the Leo DiCaprio, Claar Danes, Baz Luhrmann 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:09.640 version came out and that was like whoa. Yeah, you know. 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:15.199 The to illustrate the timelessness of literature, especially Shakespeare obviously 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:20.080 was like bonkers. Anyway, just listening to that clip, have 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.559 something like that brought to life by a voice you recognized, 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.079 was yeah, very riveting. 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:28.480 It's it's uh yeah, it's very compelling. Yeah, there's there's 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.440 more star power in this production too. By the way, 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:38.480 the legendary British thespian Bill Nye plays Elizabeth's father, mister Bennett, 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.840 and Glenn Close plays the domineering and downright kind of 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:47.520 scary lady Catherine de Bourg. Let's listen to another clip. 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:51.959 Tell me once and for all are you engaged to him? 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.960 I am not, And will you promise me never to 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:58.559 enter into such an engagement? 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:01.520 Can I promises of the kind? 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:05.080 Oh? That Lizzie just the backbone, she's so tough. 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.320 Oh, she will not make any promises. 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.959 I've worked with Glenn Close. She is one of the 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.400 most lovely human beings you'll ever know, But man, she 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:13.840 can play tough. 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.920 I would This goes back to the earlier question you 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:20.480 asked me about, like who I'm more like I would 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:24.600 love in modern times like today, if somebody on a 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.400 work call asks me to promise them something, I just 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.880 want to say that I will make no promises. 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:30.400 Of the kind. 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:34.680 I just want to use that line. 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.600 I will make no promises of the kind. Yeah, that's 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:38.880 you're right, that's a stinger. 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:40.680 Why don't you ask me if I'll be part of 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.160 this interview and I will say that I will make 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:43.760 no promises of the kind. 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.480 I'm gonna get this party started with our first guest. 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.760 Thanks so much for helping me kick off this podcast. 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.160 We're gonna have a ton of fun and here we go. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.480 Yeah, man, I am. I'm very excited. Enjoy, enjoy the convo. 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:58.400 I will hop off and leave you to the rest 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.559 of this one. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.960 Well, our first guest on the Earsay podcast. You know 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:11.800 her as Kelly Taylor from the legendary Beverly Hills nine 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.800 oh two one zero. She starred in What I Like 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:18.800 About You. She also starred in the reality shows Jenny Garth, 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:23.120 A Little Bit Country and The Jenny Garth Project. Now 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.840 she is host of the iHeart podcast I Choose Me 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.640 with Jenny Garth and just in case you haven't done 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.560 the math and figured it out already, I am of course, 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:39.559 talking about the legendary Jenny Garth. Jenny, welcome to Earsay. 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:41.360 What's that you say? 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:47.559 Ere Earsay ear say, uh, yeah, it's just we think 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.320 it's a neat name. We're very proud of our cute name. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.640 But uh, it is good, it's catchy. 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:53.080 Ear. 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.000 Yeah, you're you're our first guest. 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:55.640 What. 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:57.880 Yeah, it's just such a thrill to have you on 0:12:57.960 --> 0:12:59.000 board right out of the gate. 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.200 I'm so happy to be here. And you know what, 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:05.160 we're talking about one of my favorite books slash movies 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.600 of all time. How did that happen? I don't even know. 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.720 It's no accident because your podcast and as sort of 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.720 career has touched on so many of these themes, and 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:16.679 it feels like it just felt like such a good 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:18.440 fit out of the gate. But the fact that you 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.199 love it makes it even better. 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.559 Yep, yep, true. 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:27.320 Well right out of the gate. What have you been 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.040 reading lately? Any books caught your fancy? 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.280 Oh my gosh, you know, I do a lot of 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.520 reading just in prep for my podcast when I have 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:37.520 guests on that have new books coming out, So that 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:41.439 has really taken over all of my reading opportunities lately. 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.360 I just read a book that's about to come out 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:48.000 by Jen Hatmaker called a Wake. It is so good. 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:52.560 I enjoyed Tina Knowle's really great book come out now 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:57.880 that long ago. So I like a memoir laced with lessons. 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.079 I like that. I like that a lot. I've been 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.319 I'm much more of like a just a straight history nerd. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:09.040 I've been reading Dead Wake, which is the story of 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.760 the last crossing of the Lusitania ship. 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:16.040 I trying to tell you that sounds interesting. I love history. 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.440 It is cool. Yeah, I mean, this is a this 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:20.600 is like a cruise ship that got shot by German 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:24.800 U boats, and it's a wild story. It's totally true. 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.600 It's just straight history, but it's a it's a very 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.960 very cool account. Are you an audio book person? 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.080 I read audio books like when it first started happening, 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:38.240 and then I read audio books. That doesn't make sense. 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:40.200 I listened to audio books. 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:42.240 I'm making can say. I think you can say you 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:43.160 read an audio book. 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.160 I think I can get credit for it. Okay, yeah, 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.720 good good. So I hadn't really like gotten more into them, 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.320 and I was busy, been busy, But then I listened 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.800 to this one and I was really blown away at 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.760 how far they've come. Yeah, this is like a whole 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.520 new experience one that I like. 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.880 This is almost more like a dramatic interpretation than just 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.200 like a straight audio book. It really is. 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:11.240 It's like you're watching the movie, but you're not stuck 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.480 to watching the screen, and then you get to have 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:19.160 your imagination as would if you're reading it, but it 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.920 kind of fills in all the little details and all 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:25.280 the things that you would see when you're watching the movie, 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:26.040 which is so cool. 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:30.080 Yeah, it's arguably more immersive because it's giving you all 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:35.480 of the audio sort of spatial and environmental cues, but 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:39.960 it relies entirely on your imagination to conjure these images 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:46.120 and characters. The dawn of audio books dramatically increased my 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:52.840 intake of books, really, yeah, because I have ADHD and 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:58.240 I struggle to kind of stay engaged. I have sort 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:02.320 of like my working memory is very scattered and sort 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:06.120 of broken, and so that's what reading requires, is to 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:10.600 sort of hold information and context in your head. Weirdly, 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:15.040 when I'm listening to text, my working memory fires. It 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:20.400 just is like dialed in and I can listen at 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:24.040 extremely high speeds. Weirdly, I don't know why, But I 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:28.240 really enjoy just taking in the information almost just like 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.240 a funnel, like ah, just taking it as much as 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:35.120 I can. So yeah, it makes reading faster and more 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.960 immersive for me. I just love audio books. Jenny, you 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:43.960 host the iHeart podcast I Choose Me First. Can you 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:46.800 explain the significance of that title? 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:51.040 Well, I am probably best known for Beverly Hills Onoto Ando, 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:54.000 which was a show that lasted the entire span of 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.680 the nineties decade, and at one point, my character Kelly 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.640 Taylor had this moment where she was in this love 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.520 triangle and she had to choose between two guys, the 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.200 two you know, like Brandon and Dylan. It was big, 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.840 everybody was watching it. It's kind of like what's happening 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.720 right now with the young people. There's a show called 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:15.959 The Summary Turn Pretty where it's people are watching it 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:19.000 and we everybody has something to say about who she 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.680 should pick. Sure, so it's exactly the same beat as 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.359 we played in the nineties on nine Totoentoo. It's so 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.320 fun to watch it come back, but it's a really 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:31.520 interesting message. She chose herself instead of choosing one of 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.840 the guys, So she said, I choose me, and I 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.600 didn't really understand the significance of that at that age. 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:43.280 You know, in my life, I was probably nineteen twenty, 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:47.600 and I feel like now, looking back at things, you 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:51.439 kind of reach that age where you take stock of 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:55.480 your life, where you've been, what felt good and in alignment, 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:58.760 and where you felt like you had accomplishments. It kind 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.800 of revisiting those places and I thought, you know what 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:05.919 that is something that message, I know, really helped a 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:08.159 lot of young women who were watching the show in 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:11.960 real time to identify the fact that they could choose 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:16.240 themselves in any given moment. Of course, so many women 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:19.320 said I didn't really know that I could choose myself 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.600 until I saw Kelly Taylor do it, and so I've 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.399 I kind of thought, wow, that's really meaningful, and I 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.000 think that's a message that needs to continue forward. So 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:30.639 I was kind of lost. I didn't know what I 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:32.840 wanted to do with my career, and you know, things 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.359 are weird now in the business. So I just said, 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:40.359 I'm going to focus on spreading something that's important to me. 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.639 I love that it's like put on your oxygen mask first, 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:48.080 right when the plane's going down. What's really interesting about 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:52.840 it is as an idea I choose me. It might 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:57.000 ring at first like self absorbed or narcissistic even, but 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:00.720 it truly is the way I hear you talk about it, 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:04.320 and as I've listened to your podcast, it's truly a 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:09.200 generous disposition. It's a way of presenting to the world 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.960 in a way where you know your own value, right, 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:15.720 and when you do that, you are elevating the people 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:21.000 around you as well. Definitely, all right, let's get into 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:24.160 Pride and Prejudice a little bit here, Yes, but let's 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:27.560 sort of segue from nine o two one zero into 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:31.640 Pride and Prejudice. So Kelly had that famous moment of 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:36.640 choosing between Dylan and Brandon. Do you think Kelly would 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:40.000 have fallen for someone like mister Darcy or would she 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.240 have gone for a Wickham first? 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:45.800 Without a doubt in my mind, she would have fallen 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:47.080 in love with mister Darcy. 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:49.240 Oh that's great, all right. 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:54.480 I mean I did, and you know we're pretty similar, so. 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:56.920 Good, good, Yeah, for sure, I think that says the 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:03.760 right thing about Kelly and Jenny. So Bride and Prejudice 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:08.119 it's considered an important novel, right, but what makes it 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.360 a fun novel. What is it about the story that's 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:10.879 fun to you? 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:13.639 It's the romance it's always going to come back to 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:17.959 that really draws people in. And you get so invested 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:21.919 in the characters and you see them making mistakes, and 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:25.119 you see them learning from those mistakes and figuring things 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:26.360 out along the way. 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:26.840 Sure. 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:32.360 And I just love period pieces, the costumes and the 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:36.240 horses and the carriages, and the just the beautiful way 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:39.439 everyone carries themselves. It's so different than it is now 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:42.560 that I just find it really refreshing to look back 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:44.240 and remember what things used to be like. 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:48.720 Yeah, I think you're right on the money. It's such 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:52.880 a classic romantic tale, which is always riveting. I also 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:56.439 think there's something just for us as Americans. There's something 0:20:56.600 --> 0:21:00.400 so alluring about that subtle British wit. Yeah, that kind 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:04.879 of like dry sarcasm, but there's a sweetness underneath it. 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.280 You can tell these characters have affection with each other, 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:09.440 even though they kind of bite at each other. 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:13.000 Yeah, it's fun to listen to their banter for sure. 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:13.399 Yeah. 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:18.480 And I think Austin's writing is it's fun and accessible, 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:22.160 but it's also sort of making commentary. And she has 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:26.080 a wonderful warmth towards all of these characters. It's a 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:26.919 special novel. 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:28.399 Did you read it in high school? 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:31.359 I think I pretended to read it in high school 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:32.920 and probably just read cliff notes. 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:33.760 Yeah. 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:38.879 So this new Audible production is a full cast audio adaptation, 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:44.399 complete with star performances, sound design, and original music. What 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:46.960 stood out to you in this production while listening? 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:49.320 Well, I went into it not knowing what I was 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:52.400 going to be hearing, like this new way of listening 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:56.200 to a book. But I was drawn in immediately by 0:21:56.760 --> 0:21:59.680 the sound design. I felt as if I was in 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:03.680 the room room with these characters and I was in 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:08.479 their conversation, and there is something so inclusive about that. 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:11.000 So for me, it was really about the sound design, 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:15.320 just the footsteps and the doors opening and closing. It's 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:18.160 like it's real. It's like it's really happening. 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:22.959 I agree, it's totally immersive. There's a beautiful score woven 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:27.720 in by Morgan Kibbie. There's a subtle bit of sound 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:33.479 design that I thought was so effective where Lizzie's voice 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:37.960 is given a kind of this like reaver some effect 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:40.480 anyway that makes it clear that you're in her head, 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:43.640 in her inner monologue. You're going in and out of 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:47.040 Lizzie's head in a way that for the listener this 0:22:47.119 --> 0:22:49.760 might sound crazy, but it's actually totally intuitive. When you 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:52.880 listen to it, it makes perfect sense. What role would 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:53.720 you want to play? 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:56.600 I mean in this story? Are you really going to 0:22:56.640 --> 0:23:03.200