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Context Clues: A Cartoonish Hell Awaits You

Context Clues: A Cartoonish Hell Awaits You

FromAmerican Hysteria


Context Clues: A Cartoonish Hell Awaits You

FromAmerican Hysteria

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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Mar 13, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Chick Tracts, what are they? You'll find out in our upcoming three-part series that covers a fundamentalist comic artist who was a hidden architect of the satanic panic, illuminati, and gay agenda hysterias. Jack Chick printed hundreds of millions of his bible tracts, small stapled together cartoon booklets full of blood sacrificing witches, evil secret societies, and sensationalized sin, based on the stories of "experts" like a druid high priest, a Catholic secret agent, and two women battling demons in a witch infested hospital. Chick Tracts are ridiculously brutal, deeply offensive, unintentionally hilarious morality plays meant to be left in random places by random Christians, in order to scare straight whatever lucky sinner happens to find them.

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This episode was co-produced by Riley Smith and Miranda Zickler
Produced and hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith
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Released:
Mar 13, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

American Hysteria is a podcast exploring the fantastical thinking and irrational fears of Americans through the lens of moral panics, urban legends, and conspiracy theories, how they shape our psychology and culture, and why we end up believing them. Poet-turned-podcaster Chelsey Weber-Smith explores the sometimes hilarious, sometimes horrifying stories of historical and modern American freak-outs, and the real social issues they act to cover up. An in-depth alternative history, the show also analyzes how issues of race, gender, sexuality, and class have informed our beliefs from the Puritans to the present. Subscribe now on Apple, Google, Spotify, or where ever you get your podcasts.