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1984 | Ch. 19.2 - The Price of Truth Is Pain
Season 8 Episode 39
Winston says four. The Party says five. The pain dial says... crank it to 90.
This chapter is Orwell at his most brutal, and Dan and Jennifer are not…
1 year ago
1984 | Ch. 19.1 – Confess Everything, Even the Stuff You Didn’t Do
Season 8 Episode 38
Winston’s torture officially begins, and it’s brutal. Dan and Jennifer read through Orwell’s stomach-churning description of physical beatings, psych…
1 year ago
1984 | Ch. 18.2 – Loudly, Abundantly, and Very Strongly
Season 8 Episode 37
In this episode of Banned Camp, Jennifer and Dan finish Chapter 18 of 1984, and it’s a brutal one. Winston meets a series of broken people—including …
1 year ago
1984 | Ch. 18.1 - Welcome to the Place with No Darkness
Season 8 Episode 36
Winston’s in the Ministry of Love now—where the lights never turn off, the telescreens scream at your pockets, and your cellmate might be a footnote …
1 year ago
1984 | Ch. 17.7 - No One Escapes the Iron Voice
Season 8 Episode 35
Winston and Julia thought they had a secret — a room, a routine, a bit of freedom. But the telescreen was listening the whole time. In this brutal en…
1 year ago
1984 | Ch. 17.6 - The Party Makes You Forget You Forgot
Season 8 Episode 34
In this episode of Banned Camp, Jennifer and Dan read the next section of Goldstein’s manifesto—and it gets bleak. Orwell explains how the Party rewr…
1 year, 1 month ago
1984 | Ch. 17.5 - The Dumb Masses vs. the Baby Elephants
Season 8 Episode 33
Jennifer and Dan return to Orwell’s nightmare to decode the Party’s obsession with eternal control. This chapter dives into the rigid social hierarch…
1 year, 1 month ago
They Fired the Librarian. We Called a Children’s Book Legend.
Season 8 Episode 32
Dr. Carla Hayden—America’s first Black woman Librarian of Congress—was just fired by Trump’s goons.
So we called Jon Scieszka.
Yes, that Jon Scieszka…
1 year, 1 month ago
1984 | Ch. 17.4: - Big Brother Is... AI?
Season 8 Episode 31
In this episode, Jennifer and Dan continue rteading Goldstein’s Manifesto and wrestle with the mind-melting logic of 1984’s most infamous slogan: "Wa…
1 year, 1 month ago
1984 | Ch. 17.3 - Obedience by Design
Season 8 Episode 30
In this episode of Banned Camp, Jennifer and Dan dive into Chapter 17.3 of Orwell’s 1984, where Goldstein’s manifesto outlines how perpetual war pres…
1 year, 1 month ago