Hey everybody, AJ Benz are here with fame as a bitch. This is your free show from Monday, February 23rd, 2023, 2, 2, 3, 20, 2, 3.

Yes, the voice is shot. That's the price I pay for what? Seven days of poker and podcast on top of that.

Yesterday I could barely speak. I have something but I just can't raise my voice or else it becomes a squeal.

I know some of you don't want to hear about the the shape my voice is in but Jimmy crack horn and you know the rest.

Anyhow today you're going to hear me claim I throw it a bit but today we unfortunately have to talk about censorship and how what was once seeping into a world little by little when many people thought, this is not a big deal.

A change here, a change there. No, you didn't see the big picture. Now it's become a tsunami of bullshit. That's going to destroy every great author's works.

Maybe you heard but the great children's book author, roll all dolls, classic books are I guess they're too dated for the 21st century.

Because his former publisher and his own posthumous company have edited the shit out of his books and this is sad to even talk about.

Puffin and Royal Doll Story Company which is the company that oversees his collection.

They teamed up with inclusive minds only a year ago and they gave them the job of pouring over dolls published works, especially the one for kids.

And they allowed them to alter passages as they saw fit to remove language they deemed offensive.

And nowadays you know everything you say can be deemed defensive to somebody. So now it's going around the world of these reports where hundreds and hundreds of changes have been made in everything from trolley and the chocolate factory to James and the giant peach, Willy Wonka and many of the books in between.

One of the more noticeable tweaks that people find especially annoying is the fact that Augustus gloop the big gluttonous kid who falls in the river of chocolate and gets sucked up in a tube is no longer describe this fat, which is the word that doll had previously used.

The old passage describing Augustus was quote, an annual boy who is so enormously fat he looked as though he'd been blown up with a powerful pump.

Great flabby foals of fat, foiled out from every part of his body and his face like a monstrous ball of dough.

The rewrite in 2022 became an annual boy who was so enormous he looked as though he'd been blown up with a powerful pump.

Great foals, bolst out from every part of his body and his face was like a ball of dough.

In this instance they got rid of the word fat because there's no such thing as fat anymore.

We've gotten away. I mean that's just we've done away with it.

Now some words were removed but others were completely added in new words so not dolls original text including one new passage from the witches.

A lot of you like the witches growing up in that book there's this idea about witches hiding in plain sight who are actually bald onto the wigs they wear.

And the main character is describing his plan how is going to identify the witches in public to his grandmother.

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