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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.
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Monday Oct 18, 2021
Monday Oct 18, 2021
This Book is Anti Racist has inspired a touch of controversy in Southlake, Texas recently as a complaint from a mother about the title led the school district to stamp down on similar books, asking teachers to ensure that any controversial topics be treated neutrally, which makes one wonder, what is the neutral take on racism? That's what we talk about this week as Todd Sullivan is joined by guest host Carlo Sia (Half-Cut Conspiracies).
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Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Todd takes a crack at hosting the podcast solo with a look at the 1974 "video nasty" The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. This might be one of the most popular horror films of all time, but it's also, surprisingly, probably tamer than you realize or remember.
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Tuesday Aug 31, 2021
Tuesday Aug 31, 2021
It's a week late, but we're all relaxing for the summer anyway, right? This episode it's The Little Prince that Oren and Todd are discussing as they finish up their summer reading program of children's books. It's actually a novella rather than a children's book, so maybe the extra reading caused the delay? We'll never know.
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Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
Things get silly this week when Todd invites his 10-year-old daughter to join the podcast to talk about The Paper Bag Princess, a book that was challenged in the 80s for promoting anti-family messages. So how do we feel about this Robert Munsch story about a boy, a girl, and a dragon? All we'll tell you is that at the end of the day, one of them is a bum.
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Sunday Jul 25, 2021
Sunday Jul 25, 2021
Our hosts continue to kick back with some easy-to-read children's books, including the LGBTQ+ friendly Prince & Knight, an apparently simple fairy tale that features a prince and a knight falling in love and living happily ever after, which is apparently considered pornography now. Sure, it's a shorter episode than many, but Oren and Todd still get into a lively, entertaining discussion.
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Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Todd and Oren take a bit of a break from big, serious novels to spend a few weeks look at books intended for a younger audience -- that still somehow manage to get themselves banned. This week we look at the adventures of a man who runs around fighting crime in his tighty whities -- Captain Underpants.
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Sunday Jun 27, 2021
Sunday Jun 27, 2021
Holy hell this podcast has been around for a year! Who saw that coming!? So Oren and Todd took some time too look back at where they've been, and to look to where they'd like to go. And along the way their share which moments they regretted and whether doing this podcast was the worst decision they ever made in their lives.
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Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
We wrap up our first year of podcasting with one of the most controversial films of all time, and a film that released during the year that Todd was gestating in his mother's womb -- Last Tango in Paris (no The). Is it "obscene content offensive to public decency, characterized by an exasperating pansexualism for its own end, presented with obsessive indulgence catering to the lower instincts of the libido, dominated by the idea of stirring unchecked appetites for sexual pleasure, permeated by scurrilious language," or "the most powerful erotic movie ever made."? Tune in to find out.
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Monday Jun 07, 2021
Monday Jun 07, 2021
This week Oren (accidentally) brings something nasty to the Banned Things table with the 1987 West German horror film Nekromantik. He said he thought it as a comedy. It definitely wasn't. Come along for the ride as our hosts try to process what might be the second most romantic film about necrophilia (the first, obviously, being Nekromantik 2).
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Sunday May 23, 2021
Sunday May 23, 2021
It's starting to look like Zombie Month with yet another zombie film in the Banned Things queue, this time the 1985 George Romero film Day of the Dead. Oren and Todd break down this very goopy, gory movie with their usual wit and insight, though they were both wrong about the accent being sported by performer Terry Alexander -- it was meant to be Caribbean.
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