6.1K
Downloads
82
Episodes
When Banned Things Happen To Good People is a podcast about censorship and the arts. Hosts Todd Sullivan and Peter Aman examine books, films, and more that have been banned or challenged in the past.
Episodes
Sunday Sep 15, 2024
Sunday Sep 15, 2024
Todd and Pete finish up their final bites of William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch, and though they enjoyed the meal overall, they probably couldn't tell you what it tasted like. Maybe the black meat? It's a strange journey that feels impossible to talk about, but they try.
Email: bannedthingshappen@gmail.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/bannedthingshappen
Web: https://blahblahblahmedia.com
Patreon: https://patreon.com/blahblahblahmedia
Wednesday Jul 31, 2024
Wednesday Jul 31, 2024
We're back! After some unscheduled away time from the podcast, Todd and Pete return just in time to strip down and enjoy a tasty Naked Lunch, courtesy of author William S. Burroughs. It's beautiful! It's weird! We can't tell what's going on! It's all part of the ride. (NOTE: Due to technical difficulties, Pete's audio quality drops substantially about halfway through this episode. We suspect he was recording from the Interzone, while trying to source more of the black meat)
Email: bannedthingshappen@gmail.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/bannedthingshappen
Web: https://blahblahblahmedia.com
Patreon: https://patreon.com/blahblahblahmedia
Sunday Jun 16, 2024
Sunday Jun 16, 2024
We celebrate our 69th episode with a look at SEX! No, not the act, but the coffee table book by Madonna from 1992. Also, yes, it was entirely an accident that this turned out to be the 69th episode, but we're gonna lean into it like it was intentional. Heck yeah. Let's talk about sex!
Email: bannedthingshappen@gmail.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/bannedthingshappen
Web: https://blahblahblahmedia.com
Patreon: https://patreon.com/blahblahblahmedia
Sunday Jun 09, 2024
Sunday Jun 09, 2024
This LIVE episode features Todd and Pete wrapping up their look at Beloved by Toni Morrison, the Pulitzer Prize winning novel on the horrors of slavery, and how far a mother might go to save her children from those horrors.
Email: bannedthingshappen@gmail.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/bannedthingshappen
Web: https://blahblahblahmedia.com
Patreon: https://patreon.com/blahblahblahmedia
Tuesday May 21, 2024
Tuesday May 21, 2024
Todd and Pete push through the sometimes confusing, sometimes confounding, and always engaging final section of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize winning Beloved to get to the final moments of this book about slavery, suffering, and sacrifice.
Email: bannedthingshappen@gmail.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/bannedthingshappen
Web: https://blahblahblahmedia.com
Patreon: https://patreon.com/blahblahblahmedia
Monday Apr 29, 2024
Monday Apr 29, 2024
Todd and Pete continue their journey through Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize winning Beloved, which leads them to such questions as what the age of consent is for a spiritual manifestation. Don't ask, just listen to the episode, it'll all make sense in context. We promise.
Email: bannedthingshappen@gmail.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/bannedthingshappen
Web: https://blahblahblahmedia.com
Patreon: https://patreon.com/blahblahblahmedia
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Peter and Todd step through the doors of 124 to begin their examination of the Pulitzer Prize winning Beloved by Toni Morrison. It's a beautiful, confusing, painful journey, and we're only about a third of the the way through.
Email: bannedthingshappen@gmail.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/bannedthingshappen
Web: https://blahblahblahmedia.com
Patreon: https://patreon.com/blahblahblahmedia
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
Well it had happen eventually -- not just because every book ends up with a wrap-up episode, but also because it's all already happened, every moment ever, and we're all just sliding through moments that could only ever be, like a beautiful Tralfamadorian night sky. Or something. Yes, this episode Pete and Todd wrap up their look at Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Email: bannedthingshappen@gmail.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/bannedthingshappen
Web: https://blahblahblahmedia.com
Patreon: https://patreon.com/blahblahblahmedia
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
It took until the end of January to finish up the book we were supposed to read in November, but Todd and Pete finally made it through Kurt Vonnegut Jr's Slaughterhouse-Five. So it goes.
Email: bannedthingshappen@gmail.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/bannedthingshappen
Web: https://blahblahblahmedia.com
Patreon: https://patreon.com/blahblahblahmedia
Sunday Dec 17, 2023
Sunday Dec 17, 2023
Peter and Todd begin their look at Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five with an episode covering roughly half the short novel, featuring the first few weeks of Billy's experiences in World War 2, his trip to Tralfamadore, his wedding, his daughter's wedding, that time he almost cheated on his wife, and his birth and death, which seems like a lot for just a hundred pages, but Billy has become unstuck in time. So it goes.
Email: bannedthingshappen@gmail.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/bannedthingshappen
Web: https://blahblahblahmedia.com
Patreon: https://patreon.com/blahblahblahmedia