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Brave New World Ch 16.2: The Cost of Stability | Banned Books Comedy
Episode 39
In Chapter 16.2 of Brave New World, the World Controller finally explains the system without euphemisms. Truth is dangerous. Science has to be restra…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Brave New World Ch. 16.1: Why Ban Shakespeare? | Banned Books Podcast
Episode 38
The Controller finally steps into the room, and everything shifts. John speaks his mind, Bernard panics, and Mustafa Mond lays out the tradeoffs that…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Brave New World Ch. 15.2: John’s Revolt at the Hospital | Banned Books Podcast
Episode 37
John the Savage storms into the hospital and starts a one-man revolution, flinging soma into the courtyard while screaming about freedom. The Deltas …
10 months ago
Brave New World Ch. 15.1: John Confronts the Soma Mob | Banned Books Podcast
Episode 36
John leaves his mother’s deathbed only to walk straight into a crowd of Deltas lining up for their Soma ration. Surrounded by identical khaki-clad tw…
10 months ago
Brave New World Ch. 14.2: Linda’s Death & Savage Grief | Banned Books Podcast
Episode 35
John sits at his mother’s deathbed in a hospital designed to make dying as cheerful and efficient as possible. Linda drifts in and out under a haze o…
10 months, 1 week ago
Brave New World Ch. 14.1: When Comfort Replaces Humanity | Banned Books Comedy
Episode 34
In this chapter, John visits his dying mother in a 60-story hospital that looks more like a high-end spa than a place where anyone should be facing t…
10 months, 1 week ago
Brave New World Ch. 13.2 : Purity Culture Meets Panic | Banned Books Comedy
Episode 33
Lenina finally makes her move and John… absolutely implodes. What should’ve been a tender moment spirals into rage, Shakespeare, slapping, terror, an…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Brave New World Ch. 13.1: Lenina’s Meltdown and John’s Confusion | Banned Books Podcast
Episode 32
Lenina is quietly falling apart and John is loudly falling in love. Chapter 13.1 puts two people raised in two completely different emotional univers…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Brave New World Ch. 12.2: Bernard Spirals, Shakespeare Lands | Banned Books Podcast
Episode 31
Bernard’s crash back to reality continues as jealousy, insecurity, and Shakespeare all collide. John and Hemholtz bond hard over forbidden ideas, Ber…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
The America That Raised Me is Gone
Episode 30
Today’s episode is something different — an essay written and narrated by Jennifer. It’s about growing up believing America was the good guy, watchin…
10 months, 3 weeks ago