Todd Sullivan and guest host Carlo Sia (Half-Cut Conspiracies) wrap up their look at This Book is Anti-Racist in this recording of their live episode. They discuss the important differences between being not racist and being anti-racist, why one is probably better than the other, and tackle the question of why…

This episode Todd and guest host Carlo Sia (Half-Cut Conspiracies) explore the second half of the controversial This Book is Anti-Racist which was led to a crackdown on certain books in the Southlake Texas school curriculum. This portion of the book is primarily focused on what you can do to be…

This Book is Anti Racist has inspired a touch of controversy in Southlake, Texas recently as a complaint from a mother about the title led the school district to stamp down on similar books, asking teachers to ensure that any controversial topics be treated neutrally, which makes one wonder, what…

Todd takes a crack at hosting the podcast solo with a look at the 1974 “video nasty” The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. This might be one of the most popular horror films of all time, but it’s also, surprisingly, probably tamer than you realize or remember. Email: bannedthingshappen@gmail.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/bannedthingshappen Web: https://blahblahblahmedia.com Patreon: https://patreon.com/blahblahblahmedia Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/blahblahblah Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.ca/blah-blah-blah-media/

  It’s a week late, but we’re all relaxing for the summer anyway, right? This episode it’s The Little Prince that Oren and Todd are discussing as they finish up their summer reading program of children’s books. It’s actually a novella rather than a children’s book, so maybe the extra reading…

  Things get silly this week  when Todd invites his 10-year-old daughter to join the podcast to talk about The Paper Bag Princess, a book that was challenged in the 80s for promoting anti-family messages. So how do we feel about this Robert Munsch story about a boy, a girl,…

Our hosts continue to kick back with some easy-to-read children’s books, including the LGBTQ+ friendly Prince & Knight, an apparently simple fairy tale that features a prince and a knight falling in love and living happily ever after, which is apparently considered pornography now. Sure, it’s a shorter episode than many,…

Todd and Oren take a bit of a break from big, serious novels to spend a few weeks look at books intended for a younger audience — that still somehow manage to get themselves banned. This week we look at the adventures of a man who runs around fighting crime…

  Holy hell this podcast has been around for a year! Who saw that coming!? So Oren and Todd took some time too look back at where they’ve been, and to look to where they’d like to go. And along the way their share which moments they regretted and whether…

We wrap up our first year of podcasting with one of the most controversial films of all time, and a film that released during the year that Todd was gestating in his mother’s womb — Last Tango in Paris (no The). Is it “obscene content offensive to public decency, characterized by…