Todd and Peter dig into the final 100 pages of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, and ultimately the final weeks and months of her life. Hope still lingers in these pages, even as we know what is waiting for them at the end. Email: bannedthingshappen@gmail.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/bannedthingshappen Web: https://blahblahblahmedia.com Patreon: https://patreon.com/blahblahblahmedia…

We enter the second year of living in the Annex with Anne and her family as World War II continues around them. Hope is diminished but not gone and Anne struggles with complicated adolescent feelings — whether frustration with the elders around her or budding feelings of love for Peter…

After a few weeks of scheduling difficulties, Todd and Peter have managed to get back to the microphones to start their look at The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, a true story of a young girl and her family’s attempt to avoid detection from the Nazis during World War…

Todd and Peter dig into some literal shit this episode with a look at Pier Paolo Pasolini’s controversial Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom a film that is both graphically and thematically grotesque. Telling the story of four best friends living their best life in the Italian countryside, torturing,…

If you missed our recent live episode, worry not because we made a copy of it for you so you could check it out to hear our final thoughts on Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower, a book that takes a pretty intimate look at some of the best and…

Charlie continues to struggle with his high school experience in the latter half of Stephen Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Todd and Pete take the journey with him and come out the other side, a little bit wiser, a little bit more emotional, and yes, a little bit…

It’s been a crazy few weeks for us here at Banned Things, and we haven’t had the chance to get together to record a new episode, so here’s one from our bank that we recorded earlier in 2025 dedicated to Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead. Todd and Pete break down…

It’s back to school time (or at least it was when we started reading this), and Todd and Pete are pulling The Perks of Being a Wallflower out of the school library to read over Christmas vacation, or however long it takes for all these episodes to come out. Here’s part…

We’re adjacent to 1984 this episode as Todd and Peter take a look at the Terry Gilliam film Brazil, which also features a dystopian society, fascistic government bodies, and a doomed love story, but with noticeably more laughs. Though Gilliam did eventually get his version of the film to audiences, it didn’t…

We’ve made it to the end of 1984, experiencing life in Oceania, and learning what Room 101 contains, and now it’s time to finish things up with our final thoughts on whether this book was a decent predictor of what the today’s United States of America might start drifting towards…