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Jane Austen Culture Night Laurel Nakai and Akina Cox
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Laurel Nakai and Akina Cox grew up in the Unification Church, otherwise known as the Moonies, and are reflecting on that experience while reading their favorite author: Jane Austen!
We’re taking the cult out of culture night, and bringing you just the fun parts!
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Ep. 12 - Not in England!
The cringe factor is high! Catherine cannot stop being a conspiracy theorist and puts her foot all the way in her mouth. Henry gives a patriotic speech. James sends a letter with troubling news about Isabella.
What we’re reading/watching/listening to: The Tortured Poets Department, Shogun, Equalizer 3, Ripley, Sarah McLachlan
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Ep. 11 - That's Suspicious
Catherine makes a mundane discovery, learns to love a hyacinth, and starts to have new suspicions.
We have tangents about kitchen gardens and Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs.
What we’re reading/watching/listening to: The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell, The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff, In aLonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
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Ep.10 - Raymour and Flannigan
Catherine journey’s to Northanger Abbey where she finds disappointingly normal decore. Henry tells tales tall tales and Catherine gets freaked out by pieces of furniture. We do some horse math and talk about the “Moonie travel network”
What we’re reading/watching/listening to: Grey’s Anatomy, Cowboy Carter, The Good Bad Boy by Margaret Wappler, Deacon King Kong by James McBride, The Tuba Thieves
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Ep. 9 - Abbeys and Tilneys and Bears, Oh my!
Catherine gets an invitation to Northanger Abbey. Catherine finds out that she has unknowingly encouraged John Thorpe and that he is expecting to propose to her. Isabella gets flirty, and Catherine shares her worries about Captain Tilney with Henry.
Laurel tells a little bit about the history of Abbey’s in England.
Random tangents include: Bears, deserts, giraffes, Joshua Trees
Culty mentions: “Living for the sake of others”, UTS, Shinzo Abe, culty names, emotional repression
What we’re reading/watching/listening to: You’re Wrong About: Balto with Blair Braverman, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman, The Harlem Detective Series by Cherster Himes, Crime Novels Antholgoy by the Library of America, Binaural Beats,
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Ep. 8 - On Wednesdays We Get Engaged
Catherine gets the news that Isabella and James are engaged. John tries to hint his intentions to Catherine that he wants to ask her to marry him, but Catherine is oblivious. Henry’s older brother, Captain Tilney, shows up and dances with Isabella even though she just said that she wouldn’t dance with anyone while James was away. Isabella is disappointed by James’s letter telling her how much his father is giving them when they get married.
What we’re reading/watching/listening to: Persuasion (Taylor’s Version) the Drag Musical, Chester Himes
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Ep. 7 - Henry Explains it All
The Thorpes try once again to thwart Catherine’s walk with the Tilneys, but Catherine holds out and keeps her promise. Henry instructs Catherine on scenery, politics, and novels, and Eleanor misunderstands Catherine.
Akina explains "Tree Law" and we talk about some of the inside jokes that Jane Austen puts in these chapters. This episode is refreshingly un-culty!
What we’re reading/watching/listening to: Yellowface by R.F. Kuang, Victorian Christmas Horror Short Stories, The Brother’s Sun, Sudoku
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Hosted by Laurel Nakai and Akina Cox
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