Banned Camp: Banned Books, Comedy, and Free Speech vs. Censorship
Love banned books? Hate censorship? Same.
Banned Camp is a comedy podcast where we read banned books out loud, cover-to-cover, and try to figure out why they were banned in the first place. If you’ve never read them, now’s your chance to hear them for the first time with us. If you have, well, you already know what’s coming and this will be your chance to laugh at us as we bumble our way through and get horrified over and over again.
11 seasons in, we’ve gotten pretty good at figuring out what these books are actually about and why the people pushing book banning and censorship don’t want you to read them.
This season we’re reading The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Every episode we read the next chapter out loud, talk about what we found, and try to figure out why this book scares the book banners so much. It probably has something to do with the political shit show we’re all currently living through.
You know what’s really insane right now? There are people in this country who own a lot of red hats but not a lot of library cards, and somehow those people ended up in charge of deciding what your kids can read.
Moms for Liberty, pudding lover Ron DeSantis, and basically every politician who thinks they know better than you have been pushing book banning and censorship for years. We’re pretty sure none of them have actually read the books, because if they did they’d have a hard time explaining why Captain Underpants and Charlotte’s Web are a threat to your kids’ freedom.
So we read them ourselves to find out what’s really in them.
We also have a fact-checking robot so we don’t accidentally spread misinformation. Or what some people call “alternative facts.”
Our listeners are called The Scary Book People. You’ll fit right in.
New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. You can start anywhere, Robot catches you up fast.
Past seasons: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
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