New Year's Special: Reviews, Rants & VOTE for What We Read Next | Banned Books Comedy

Happy New Year! Dan's sick, 2025 can go straight to hell, and we're taking a break from Brave New World to read your reviews—the good, the bad, and the "keep politics out of it" crowd who somehow missed the entire point of a banned books podcast.

**VOTE NOW: We're finishing Brave New World in 2-3 episodes and YOU get to decide what we read next!** Email your vote to pod@bannedcamppodcast.com within the next few days. Your choices:
- Catcher in the Rye
- Of Mice and Men
- The Great Gatsby
- The Kite Runner
- Handmaid's Tale

Banned Camp is a comedy podcast where we read banned books chapter by chapter—we don't read ahead, so you're discovering the story with us.

Things To Listen For:
- Dan reads the worst reviews: "great concept but the political comments really don't belong"
- Jennifer's fragile snowflake heart can't handle bad reviews (Dan has to filter them)
- The "thought this would be just about books" crowd completely misses what banning IS
- Robert from Mobile, Alabama sends the angriest email in podcast history
- "Maybe if you actually read the book instead of just talking about it" (we literally read it word-for-word)
- The beautiful reviews that keep us going (thank you, scary book people)
- The five finalists for next season and how to cast your vote

Why do people want us to "keep politics out of it"? Because talking about book banning IS political. Because these books were banned for political reasons. Because everything we read challenges power structures. You can't separate banned books from politics—that's the entire point.

If this is your first episode, welcome to the chaos. Dan's immune system is roughly equivalent to George Burns if he were still alive. Jennifer reads the books. Robot fact-checks. We talk about why books get banned. Sometimes people get mad about it.

**Remember to vote!** Email pod@bannedcamppodcast.com with your choice for our next season.

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