Episode 419: Find A Stranger In the Alps

Show Notes Episode 419: Find A Stranger In the Alps

This week Network boss Jeremy Balon shows up at the studio to wash Dave’s filthy mouth out with soap! (We guess he finally listened to the podcast.) On the show this week we take a look at the strange history of The Bleep and swear words on television. (It is *bleep*ing more interesting than you think!)

Along the way we learn that Dave is still afraid of his Mom. (He should be, he is a VERY bad son!) Then we dive right into the history of censorship in these United States. (Blame the Puritans, natch!) From there we follow along as technology makes hearing potty mouths more common. We see how early TV broadcasts found ways to keep bad words off the airwaves. (Mostly by hoping no one heard them.) Then we talk about the Bleep and how it became an American Icon. Finally we learn how and why for reasons never adequately explained, we all had to see Dennis Franz’s hairy naked ass on ABC in the late 1990’s. (Blame HBO!)

Our Sponsor this week is Swearing Soap, specially formulated to get dirty mouths clean! We open the show with Carlin’s famous Seven Dirty Words You Can’t Say on Television and close with The P(Bleep)cat Dolls who censor their song for effect.

Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense
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Citations Needed:

Cursing and swearing: an Englishman’s birthright?
https://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/cursing-and-swearing-an-englishman%E2%80%99s-birthright/#:~:text=Lickorous%20glutton%2C%20freckled%20bittor%2C%20jobbernol,words%20in%20the%20seventeenth%20century.

Profanity
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1143/profanity

Radio Act of 1927 (1927)
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1091/radio-act-of-1927

Jerry Springer and the history of that [bleeping] bleep sound
https://theconversation.com/jerry-springer-and-the-history-of-that-bleeping-bleep-sound-204669

CURSES! THE BIRTH OF THE BLEEP AND MODERN AMERICAN CENSORSHIP
https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/27/4545388/curses-the-birth-of-the-bleep-and-modern-american-censorship

Go Bleep Yourself! Why Censorship is Funny
https://www.academia.edu/79850481/Go_Bleep_Yourself_Why_Censorship_is_Funny

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Show Notes Episode 419: Find A Stranger In the Alps

This week Network boss Jeremy Balon shows up at the studio to wash Dave’s filthy mouth out with soap! (We guess he finally listened to the podcast.) On the show this week we take a look at the strange history of The Bleep and swear words on television. (It is *bleep*ing more interesting than you think!)

Along the way we learn that Dave is still afraid of his Mom. (He should be, he is a VERY bad son!) Then we dive right into the history of censorship in these United States. (Blame the Puritans, natch!) From there we follow along as technology makes hearing potty mouths more common. We see how early TV broadcasts found ways to keep bad words off the airwaves. (Mostly by hoping no one heard them.) Then we talk about the Bleep and how it became an American Icon. Finally we learn how and why for reasons never adequately explained, we all had to see Dennis Franz’s hairy naked ass on ABC in the late 1990’s. (Blame HBO!)

Our Sponsor this week is Swearing Soap, specially formulated to get dirty mouths clean! We open the show with Carlin’s famous Seven Dirty Words You Can’t Say on Television and close with The P(Bleep)cat Dolls who censor their song for effect.

Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense

The Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_Podcast

The Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/

The Show on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxP5ywpZ-O7qu_MFkLXQUQ

Our Website: www.whatthehellpodcast.com

Give us your money on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast

The Show Line: 347 687 9601

Closing Music: https://youtu.be/1r9ghI7YcL0?si=NGG-R5Fw1W2oJpmO

We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/

Citations Needed:

Cursing and swearing: an Englishman’s birthright?

https://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/cursing-and-swearing-an-englishman%E2%80%99s-birthright/#:~:text=Lickorous%20glutton%2C%20freckled%20bittor%2C%20jobbernol,words%20in%20the%20seventeenth%20century.

Profanity

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1143/profanity

Radio Act of 1927 (1927)

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1091/radio-act-of-1927

Jerry Springer and the history of that [bleeping] bleep sound

https://theconversation.com/jerry-springer-and-the-history-of-that-bleeping-bleep-sound-204669

CURSES! THE BIRTH OF THE BLEEP AND MODERN AMERICAN CENSORSHIP

https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/27/4545388/curses-the-birth-of-the-bleep-and-modern-american-censorship

Go Bleep Yourself! Why Censorship is Funny

https://www.academia.edu/79850481/Go_Bleep_Yourself_Why_Censorship_is_Funny

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