Episodes

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan finish Chapter 7 of Brave New World —and things get weird fast. The reservation’s drums, dances, and whips turn into a full-blown spectacle of blood, snakes, and sacrifice. Le...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan reach Chapter 7 of Brave New World , where Bernard and Lenina finally arrive at the Savage Reservation — and instantly regret it. Lenina hates the smells, the dust, and the pe...

In Chapter 6.4 of Brave New World , Bernard and Lenina finally make their way toward the Savage Reservation. Along the way, they meet a blockheaded warden obsessed with random facts, fences, and electrified borders, while Ber...

In Chapter 6.3 of Brave New World , Bernard gets more than he bargained for when the Director turns a routine permit request into a meltdown about secrets, suspicion, and society’s disapproval. Jennifer wonders who’s really i...

In Chapter 6.2 of Brave New World , Lenina insists she’s “awfully pneumatic,” Bernard tries to explain what passion means, and the Director reveals a secret past involving a lost lover and a thunderstorm in New Mexico. Dan an...

This isn’t a normal Banned Camp episode. Instead of banned book chaos, Dan steps up to the mic with a personal essay: How to Survive Fascists (Without Going Crazy). What starts with a memory of reading 1984 and realizing “we’...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan read Chapter 6.1 of Brave New World , where Lenina weighs a holiday with Bernard against the North Pole with Benito Hoover, and Bernard proves that being “odd” means wanting w...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan dive into Chapter 5.1 of Brave New World , where Bernard attends his dreaded Solidarity Service. Twelve strangers gather around a table, chant hymns to Ford, pass around Soma ...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan read Chapter 4.3 of Brave New World , where death is recycled into phosphorus, Soma turns nightlife into bliss, and hypnopaedia makes even contraceptive drills sound normal. J...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan continue Chapter 4 of Brave New World , where Bernard sulks about being shorter than the average Alpha and Helmholtz Watson proves that too much brain can be just as isolating...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan begin Chapter 4 of Brave New World . Lenina publicly makes plans with Bernard, much to his discomfort, while a Simeon-like lift man discovers the beauty of the roof — only to ...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan wade through Chapter 3.4 of Brave New World . Mustafa Mond explains how war, anthrax, and economic collapse gave way to a society where everyone is compelled to consume. Meanw...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan tackle Chapter 3.4 of Brave New World . Between locker room banter, state-mandated promiscuity, and Mustapha Mond’s lecture on “stability,” they pull apart the absurd ways Hux...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan continue chapter three of Brave New World , where intimacy without consequences defines society, and the idea of monogamy earns disapproval. They puzzle over Mustafa Mond popp...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan continue through Chapter 3 of Brave New World . We move from sterile conditioning centers into a bizarrely mechanical “dressing room,” where women are processed like products,...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan dive into Chapter 3 of Brave New World , where sunshine, roses, and children’s games quickly give way to dystopian creepiness. From naked playgrounds to helicopters buzzing ov...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan dive deeper into Chapter 2 of Brave New World , where sleep is for indoctrination and moral education must never be rational. From creepy nursery whisper sessions to the bizar...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan read Chapter 2 of Brave New World , where things get... uncomfortably real. Babies are conditioned to hate flowers and books. Khaki-clad infants get electrocuted. Nature is la...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan finish Chapter 1 of Brave New World , where dystopia smells like formaldehyde and sounds like conveyor belts full of bottled babies. From mass-produced twins to racist ovary r...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan kick off Season 9 by opening the cold, clinical doors of Brave New World . Chapter 1.1 takes us into the Central London Hatchery, where humans are mass-produced in jars, score...

Season 9 starts Tuesday, August 5th... and we’re finally ready to tell you what book we picked. It’s big. It’s banned. iIts disturbingly relevant. Click play to hear the reveal, the why, and a little of what’s coming next... ...

Episode Summary: In this special season finale, Jennifer and Dan unpack the viral clip known as Orwell’s Final Warning —a dramatic video that looks real but isn’t. Robot breaks down the truth behind the fake footage, then sti...

In this episode, Jennifer and Dan tackle the appendix. No, not their appendices — Orwell’s. The “Principles of Newspeak” is often skipped, rarely understood, and strangely… hopeful? After three failed recording attempts, they...

Winston sits quietly in the Chestnut Tree Café, haunted by what he’s lost… and what he’s learned to live without. In the final chapter of Orwell’s 1984 , Jennifer and Dan reflect on what it means to give up—slowly, quietly, c...