808- My Children's Book Was Banned In Texas with Comedy Writer Mike Reiss
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4.1 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Writer/Traveler Mike Reiss (The Simpsons, “What Am I Doing Here?” Podcast) was baffled when schools in Massachusetts, Iowa, and the entire state of Texas banned his innocent children's book. The reason turned out to be dumber and weirder than he could have imagined.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Storyworthy. |
| 0:03.6 | Today on the show, comedy writer Mike Reese from The Simpsons and the What Am I Doing |
| 0:08.2 | Here podcast talks about why Texas banned his children's book. |
| 0:13.8 | The state of Texas has banned my children's book, the boy who looked like Lincoln. |
| 0:19.3 | And I don't know why. |
| 0:21.2 | Nobody's telling me why. |
| 0:22.7 | And so finally they write to me, this woman wrote to me and said, |
| 0:25.2 | I left your book till the last page, which is pure pornography. |
| 0:28.8 | And I go, what? |
| 0:30.4 | And we see he's got a baby brother who looks like Dick Nixon, right? |
| 0:34.8 | And these morons in Iowa and masks and all of Texas think, I call him dick because he looks like a penis. |
| 0:44.6 | Today on the show, comedy writer Mike Reese talks about why the entire state of Texas banned his children's book. |
| 0:52.0 | Stay close. |
| 0:53.7 | Hey, my name is Mike Reeseese and you're listening to storyworthy |
| 0:57.2 | welcome to storyworthy welcome to storyworthy my name is christine blackburn and I'm coming to you from Los Angeles, California. |
| 1:14.6 | If you're a longtime fan of the show or a new listener, welcome to Storyworthy. |
| 1:20.0 | Now, I hope you guys enjoyed the show last week with comedian and author Sadia Dasmat. |
| 1:25.4 | Sadia talked about writing her book, Sex Bomb. |
| 1:29.4 | And this is interesting because Sadia is a Muslim woman. |
| 1:35.0 | She's also Indian and British. |
| 1:36.7 | She lives in London. |
| 1:39.1 | And we talk a lot about the Muslim culture. |
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