Banned Camp: Reading Banned Books Aloud - Comedy Against Censorship
Hosted by Dan and Jennifer and Robot · Jennifer Davis and Dan Schulz turn books banned in schools into a comedy book review podcast, reading challenged literature cover-to-cover to find out exactly what got each book banned.
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About Banned Camp: Reading Banned Books Aloud - Comedy Against 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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- Jennifer Davis and Dan Schulz turn books banned in schools into a comedy book review podcast, reading challenged literature cover-to-cover to find out exactly what got each book banned.
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- arts · comedy · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Mar 2023
- Latest episode
- 20 Oct 2026
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242 of 430 episodes have a transcript.
20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Handmaid’s Tale Chapter 41: The Kitchen Door Clicks Shut Behind Her | Banned Books Podcast
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The Handmaid’s Tale Chapter 40: What Really Happened Over the Garage? | Banned Books Podcast
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The Handmaid’s Tale Ch. 39: The Last Time She Saw Her Mother | Banned Books Comedy
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The Handmaid’s Tale Chapter 41: The Kitchen Door Clicks Shut Behind Her | Banned Books Podcast
Published 20 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] With his fork. Salads. With his leering over the edge of the taco salad back in 2016. Yeah, it was spooky. Terrifying. I mean, it's October now. Yeah. And it gave me some serious spooky vibes. Anyway, Freeman says black librarians have been using libraries to get out information to make sure that we vote and as a place to congregate. At one point, we weren't able to go to white libraries. They weren't able to access information, and there were laws saying they could not read and write. So these libraries are very important. And I love the fact that they're outlining this history. detailing it, preserving it. […]
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