Episodes

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...

Today’s episode is a little different. There’s no chapter of 1984 , but robot has something to say. We’ll be back next week with the finale. Thank you for listening. Thank you for staying.

In Chapter 23.1 of George Orwell’s 1984 , Winston sits alone with his gin, Julia’s ghost, and the hollow comfort of surrender. Jennifer and Dan explore how totalitarian control doesn’t always end in violence—sometimes it ends...

In Chapter 22 of George Orwell’s 1984 , Winston meets Room 101. This is the place where censorship stops being an idea and starts gnawing on your face. Jennifer and Dan break down how totalitarian regimes use fear to crush fr...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan tackle Chapter 21 of 1984 by George Orwell—a banned book that keeps feeling uncomfortably familiar. Winston has been broken, rebuilt, and fed just enough comfort to forget why...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan tackle Chapter 20 of 1984 by George Orwell—a banned book that never stops feeling relevant. As Winston faces the ultimate gaslighting, O’Brien insists reality itself only exis...

In this episode of Banned Camp , the comedy podcast where we read banned books and try to understand why they were censored, Jennifer and Dan dig into the first part of Chapter 20 of 1984 by George Orwell. Winston enters the ...

In Chapter 19.3 of 1984 , things go from bad to flesh-zombie worse. O’Brien continues Winston’s psychological beatdown with Orwell’s signature brand of state-sanctioned gaslighting. Jennifer has a theory about promotion to th...

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 okay. Gaslighting gets an upgrade, truth gets memory-holed, and we all learn the Party’s favorite math trick: reality = whatever they say it is. Dan …

Winston’s torture officially begins, and it’s brutal. Dan and Jennifer read through Orwell’s stomach-churning description of physical beatings, psychological torment, and Orwell’s scarily precise understanding of how to break...

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 the tragically loyal Parsons—and we get a chilling glimpse into the cruelt...

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 from Rudyard Kipling. Jennifer tracks the collapse of Winston’s thoughts as ...

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 end to Chapter 17, Orwell rips away the last illusion of safety. Dan and Jenni...

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 rewrites reality so often that people forget they ever believed anything else. ...

Jennifer and Dan return to Orwell’s nightmare to decode the Party’s obsession with eternal control. This chapter dives into the rigid social hierarchy, the myth of Big Brother, and the dark genius of “protective stupidity.” A...

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—author of The Stinky Cheese Man and the first national ambassador for young people’s literature. What followed was funny, furious, and full of heart.…

In this episode, Jennifer and Dan continue rteading Goldstein’s Manifesto and wrestle with the mind-melting logic of 1984’s most infamous slogan: "War is peace." Jennifer proposes Big Brother might be AI (terrifying but plaus...

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 preserves power, not peace. From floating fortresses that serve no purpose to ...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan read more of Emmanuel Goldstein’s forbidden manifesto. Enjoy (?) Orwell’s vision of endless war, oligarchical control, and labor as a weapon. From laughing at Greenland’s fut...

On this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan wade into the madness of Chapter 17 of 1984 —where Hate Week hits its sweaty, propaganda-drenched climax. Winston works 90 hours in five days, people rewrite history in real-t...

n this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan dive into Chapter 16.2 of 1984 by George Orwell. O’Brien lays out the grim reality of resistance, reminding Winston and Julia that their fight is destined to be futile—and dead...

In this episode of Banned Camp, Jennifer and Dan dive into Chapter 16 of George Orwell's 1984. O’Brien welcomes Winston and Julia into his inner sanctum, leading to tense revelations about the Brotherhood. Winston’s hopes for resistance are tested as O’Brien asks shocking, morally twisted questions…