Me & Earl & The Senate Floor

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
During the legislative debate. This is a little something that
well went down in Hartford yesterday.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
That particular school and that book Me and Earl and
the dying girl. Are you gonna eat her pood? Yeah?
Earl going to eat her pood? Got them pay.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
I would ask that if we not try to use
that type of language and the chamber let's tired to
keep some of decorm. I know you're telling specific books,
but if we could reframe those type of words differently,
because there's also people and children watching this debate, I
just don't want that language other stories. I will ask
kindly if we could just use either a different.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Word or Okay, I got a lot of them coo,
ch alou h snapper like I got so excited. Ye
I was just like, oh, she was trying to get
his attention for this very for a really important reason though.
But you'll hear that. Here.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
I stand here to share with the chamber the books
that are available in our public school libraries to the
very children you're telling me that this language isn't in
appropriate in this chamber. This is in elementary school libraries,
approved by the very individuals that are supposed to be

(01:28):
the experts.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
So elementary school got me. I struggle man, because I
watched books get dumped that I loved, and I was,
you know, I want to be writer here. I love
words I have since I, you know, started learning how
to spell them and use them. And I tried to
be cool when I saw Mark Twain getting the boot,

(01:50):
because I thought, oh, I mean, I guess as much
as I love Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, it's like, Okay,
Mark Twain goes, but fifty shades of gray. It's good.
I'm trying to make sense of this got convoluted years ago,
and they started deciding on some of the classics and

(02:12):
for real prudish reasons and cancel culture reasons. But when
it comes to sexual content that you're still struggling to
wrap your head around at twenty and they want you
to be able to wit seven three ways and same
sex and grooming, why would you? And yet we can't

(02:37):
call him engine Joe never mind the other words that
were all over Twain's book. And I was a chump.
Then I rolled over like I had Twain. But it
was the Deep South. I mean, it was capturing the
Deep South, and it was writing it our own Connecticut's
own Sam Clemens A hero and I rolled over and
yet using kids are going to turn around and start
using slang from nineteen thirty two. Missoura, But a little

(03:02):
boy's not going to get anything out of a boy
in a book having sex with his uncle's best friend.
Why are you fighting for that