This week, Matt Talks Media takes on one of the oldest battles in communication: who gets to decide what can be said? 📚🚫

With Steven Doughty exploring Italy this week, Dr. Matt Dorr and Dr. Nolan Meditz dive into two very different sides of censorship and expression. Matt examines the remarkable history of samizdat, the underground publishing movement that secretly documented life inside the Soviet Union and exposed the realities of the Gulag system despite relentless government censorship. Nolan shifts the conversation to the fascinating world of profanity, exploring why taboo words exist, how they evolve across languages, and what our favorite four-letter words reveal about culture and communication.

From forbidden books passed hand to hand to the surprisingly complex science of swearing, this episode explores ho ...