Episodes

In this chapter of Brave New World , everything falls apart for Bernard. The Savage refuses to attend his party, Lenina wrestles with rejection, and the façade of happiness starts to crack. Meanwhile, Mustapha Mond quietly de...

Death gets candy, love gets awkward, and everyone gets soma. In Chapter 11, Lenina tries to connect with John after a night of “feelies,” while Bernard basks in borrowed fame and Robot fact-checks everything from chocolate-cream conditioning to Clarence Thomas’s butter-dish rumors. Banned Camp is t…

Linda returns to “civilization,” but comfort comes at a cost. While Bernard basks in sudden popularity, Linda disappears into her drug-induced haze...and her son John the Savage starts to see what happiness looks like when it...

It’s our third annual Halloween special, and this year we invited librarian, author, and cosbrarian extraordinaire Liz Gotauco to read two classics from Alvin Schwartz’s notorious collection. Liz gives “The Hook” a modern twi...

The Director plans to humiliate Bernard in front of thousands of workers… until his own secret explodes in public. Meanwhile, Linda makes her shocking return, John calls someone “father” in a world where that word doesn’t exi...

Lenina crashes on a Soma holiday while Bernard hatches a plan... and John breaks into her room in a lovesick spiral that’s equal parts Shakespearean and creepy. Robot fact-checks the chaos, Jennifer calls out Huxley’s lazy ra...

In this emotional finale to Chapter 8, Jennifer and Dan follow John the Savage through the painful moment that defines him. Rejected by his tribe for being different, stoned and bleeding under the moonlight, John realizes he ...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan continue Chapter 8 of Brave New World , where John discovers a tattered copy of The Complete Works of Shakespeare — and it changes his life forever. Things to Listen For The s...

hey scary book people — happy sunday. our hosting provider glitched last week, and a bunch of you didn’t get the full episode (or it cut out halfway through). so we pulled together a quick ten-minute highlight to get you caug...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan unpack Chapter 8 of Brave New World , where John the Savage’s backstory finally comes to light. Raised by his mother Linda in the Savage Reservation, John grows up between two...

In this episode of Banned Camp , Jennifer and Dan tackle Chapter 7.3 of Brave New World , where Bernard and Lenina finally meet Linda — the woman who vanished years ago from the Director’s life. What they find isn’t a romanti...

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...