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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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Feb 28, 2021
Feb 28, 2021
54 min
Todd and Oren survive another week with the "Bible of the Racist Right" and continue to follow Earl Turner on his exciting adventures in attempting to overthrow The System. Here there be N-words and Nazi sympathy and a couple of hosts are mostly just eager for this to be over with.
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Feb 21, 2021
Feb 21, 2021
1hr 8 min
Join Todd and Oren as they dig into the first nine chapters of what will hopefully be the worst thing they ever read on this podcast, a book that has been called the "Bible of the Racist Right" -- The Turner Diaries. This is an ugly book filled to the brim with racism, so consider this a content warning before diving into this one.
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Feb 7, 2021
Feb 7, 2021
52 min
Oren and Todd once again went live to wrap up their look at A Clockwork Orange, a dicussion that included both the novel by Anthony Burgess and Stanley Kubrick's film. Also, a caller gave our hosts a quiz on some Nadsat words, and oh my brothers, they did not do well at all.
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Jan 31, 2021
Jan 31, 2021
1hr 23 min
A Clockwork Orange has the rare distinction of being a work that has been banned as not only a novel but a film as well, so Oren and Todd decided to take look at the 1971 Stanley Kubrick adaptation alongside their discussion of the novel. What they find is an adaptation that's impressively true to the source material (until the very end) and also a surprise appearance from someone best known from their appearance in Star Wars.
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Jan 24, 2021
Jan 24, 2021
1hr 9 min
Todd and Oren reach the final part of the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, including the infamous Chapter 21 that was not originally included in the U.S. release of the book. Spoiler Alert: Things do not turn out well for your humble narrator, Alex.
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Jan 17, 2021
Jan 17, 2021
1hr 8 sec
Todd and Oren continue their look at A Clockwork Orange, digging through Part Two of the novel, which sees your humble narrator, Alex, succumb to the Ludovico Technique, which appears to have cured him of his tendency towards evil ... or at least made it painful and nauseating to contemplate doing evil. But has this robbed him of his ability to choose? If a man doesn't get a choice in doing good, is he doing good? Is this question the central point of the book? Hint, yes.
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Jan 10, 2021
Jan 10, 2021
1hr 8 min
Happy New Year! It's the first episode of 2021, and Todd and Oren discuss their viddying of the horrorshow novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. This episode covers Part One of the novel, and if someone of the words in this description made you scratch your head, you may want to listen in to learn more about Nadsat, the fictional language that Burgess created for the novel.
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Dec 20, 2020
Dec 20, 2020
1hr 50 sec
In our final episode for 2020, we are visited not by Christmas ghosts but by Carlo Sia, co-host of another Blah Blah Blah Media production, Half-Cut Conspiracies. Carlo joins Todd and Oren to discuss the 1985 Jean Luc Godard film Hail Mary which turns out not be as religious as Todd was expecting it to be. Things also get kind of silly, but that's what happens when you get two guys together whose other podcast is all about drinking. Happy holidays and see you in the new year!
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Dec 13, 2020
Dec 13, 2020
51 min
In this episode Oren and Todd tackle one of the most controversial books written in recent years — a story of ... learning to understand people who are different than you? Yes, we're looking at the 13th most banned or challenged book of the last decade, I Am Jazz, a book about the experiences of transgender youth Jazz Jennings. Come join us!
Listen to Jazz Jennings read the book herself!
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Nov 29, 2020
Nov 29, 2020
51 min
In this episode Todd and Oren wrap-up their look at Margret Atwood's bestselling work of feminist fiction, The Handmaid's Tale. There are also a few digressions into subjects like what not to do on a podcast as well as which version of Windows is the worst (the answer is obviously Windows ME). You'll also find announcements of what we'll be discussing through December and into January, so jump in and give it a listen!
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