Episodes
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 10 Part 1: What Is Holden So Afraid Of? | …
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 10 Part 1 | Banned Books Comedy Podcast Holden Caulfield can't sleep, so he does what any reasonable teenager would do — puts on a clean shirt and heads down to the hotel nightclub alone in the midd...
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 9: Holden Checks Into the Edmont Hotel | B…
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 9 | Banned Books Comedy Podcast Holden Caulfield arrives in New York City in the middle of the night with cash in his pocket and absolutely no one to call. He stands in a phone booth for twenty minu...
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 8: The Most Honest Liar on the Train | Ban…
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 8 | Banned Books Comedy Podcast Holden Caulfield hates phonies. He's been cataloguing them for seven chapters. So why does he spend an entire train ride lying through his teeth to make a stranger fe...
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 7: Holden Leaves Pencey in the Middle of t…
Holden can't sleep. He's lying in Ackley's stinky room, torturing himself thinking about Jane and Stradlater in that car. So he does the only logical thing—packs his bags, sells his typewriter for a fraction of what it's wort...
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 6: Blood on the Floor and He Still Won't S…
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 6 | Banned Books Comedy Podcast Stradlater comes back from his date with Jane and rejects Holden's composition about his dead brother's baseball mitt. What follows is a fight that leaves Holden bloo...
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 5: The Brother He Couldn't Save | Banned B…
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 5 | Banned Books Comedy Podcast Holden writes a homework assignment about the one thing that matters most to him—his dead brother Allie's baseball mitt, covered in poems written in green ink. We lea...
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 4.2: Caring Too Much While He Cares Too Li…
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 4.2 | Banned Books Comedy Podcast Stradlater's date is Jane Gallagher—Holden's childhood friend and crush. Holden nearly drops dead when he hears her name. He remembers everything about her: she pra...
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 4.1: Friendly But Friendless | Banned Book…
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 4.1 Holden hangs out in the steamy bathroom while Stradlater shaves with his disgusting rusty razor (secret slob). Stradlater asks Holden to write his English composition for him—no compensation, ju...
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 3.2: Why Ban a Book That Shows People Are …
Ackley barges into Holden's room and proceeds to do everything wrong: picks up personal items, clips his toenails on the floor after being asked 50 times to use the table, and laughs when Holden gets hit in the head with a te...
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 3.1: Holden Calls Out Phony Bastards | Ban…
Holden admits he's "the most terrific liar you ever saw," then proceeds to spend the entire chapter calling out every phony around him. Meet Ossenburger: a businessman who made his fortune streamlining death at five bucks per...
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 2.2: Holden Shoots the Bull While Thinking…
Holden wrote a kind note at the bottom of his failing essay so Mr. Spencer wouldn't feel bad about flunking him. Spencer repaid this kindness by reading it out loud like he'd won a ping-pong match. So Holden did what any smar...
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 2: Why Do Good Kids Get Punished? | Why Bo…
Holden Caulfield climbs a freezing hill to say goodbye to his sick 70-year-old teacher, Mr. Spencer. What does he get for his kindness? A lecture, a humiliating public reading of his failing essay, and the question "what's th...
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 1: Why Did This Depressed Teen Scare Ameri…
Holden Caulfield got kicked out of his fourth prep school and refuses to tell us his whole "David Copperfield kind of crap" autobiography. Instead, he stands on a freezing hill watching a football game he's not allowed to pla...