Episodes

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...

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...