BFG Podcast #093: 'Cocaine Bear,' Censoring Roald Dahl, and the Decline of Sex in Movies
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Episode notes
In this week's fascinating edition of the BFG Podcast, host Neal Pollack welcomes Michael Washburn to talk about the recent "sensitivity" rewriting of Roald Dahl's novels. Among the things no longer acceptable: mentioning that a character likes to read Joseph Conrad, saying that women work as cashiers, and talking disparagingly about people who wear wigs. We join the universal chorus of the people who disdain this development, and hope it ends soon, though it probably won't. Neal and Michael break it down in full.
At last, Cocaine Bear has arrived in theaters. Stephen Garrett and Neal acknowledge that ...
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