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Oct 14, 2026
The Perfect Moment (Beach Reads)
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27:11Isaac ButlerGUEST
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27:12Gavin WhiteheadHOST
Like, what is obscenity? How do you know something is obscene when you see it? And an important milestone in that debate was the creation of the so-called Miller test.
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27:22Gavin WhiteheadHOST
So what was the Miller test, and where did it come from?
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27:25Isaac ButlerGUEST
First of all, Gavin, can I tell you how gratifying it is to hear that? That section was originally, I'm gonna say, five to six pages longer, and it was its own chapter.
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27:38Isaac ButlerGUEST
It was like an intermission between the acts of the book.
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29:18Isaac ButlerGUEST
The First Amendment does not cover child pornography, you know, et cetera, et cetera, and so forth.
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29:23Isaac ButlerGUEST
So they have to figure this out.
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29:24Isaac ButlerGUEST
And eventually where they land is this thing called the Miller test.