Perdition City Station
Jarad and Julie travel through the theology of the afterlife by train, bus, auto, ferry, and on foot. First stop Perdition City Station, last stop? Who knows?
They will be joined by cats, an occasional guest, ghosts, and a dead guy named Morty who came to hang out one Halloween and never left.
Come for the laughs, stay for the suffering.
This podcast contains some adult language and situations.
Perdition City Station
How Hell Was Built: A Snowball of Stories Rolling Downhill to Crush Our Dreams
Julie braves her memories of the field trip to Tartarus to ask the question, how did Hell, as we know it, come to be? Like Rome, it wasn't built in a day. Like the snowball in Scooby Doo's That's Snow Ghost, it picked up a lot of stuff as it rolled downhill, gathering speed, preparing to wreck our mental health and terrify us into heaven.
So join Julie and Jarad as they discuss how the Greek and Hebrew conceptions of Hell came together to form a hotbed of potential stories that humans can add onto almost infinitely.
As they've previously discovered on this journey through Hell, this topic isn't just rampant speculation about the afterlife. Discussions of Hell have a lot to teach us about the way we tell stories individually and collectively.
As always, there are a few tangents involving cats, and this week...a chicken named Mrs. McCarthy.
Source: Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
The New International Version of the Bible
Meet us here at Perdition City Station every week for another excursion into Hell.
Hosted by Julie Price Carpenter and Jarad Johnson.
Podcast artwork by Carmen Jones; intro, intermission and outro music by Essie Lee; episode artwork by Julie Carpenter; this is a production of Sacred Chickens.
Produced by Julie Carpenter
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This podcast has adult language and topics and stories related to Hell and the devil. We occasionally discuss death, suicide, and other unpleasant topics, usually related to religion, folklore or mythology.