Perdition City Station

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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.

  1. MAR 29

    Interview With Author Naomi Ulsted: Defying Hell by Finding Hope

    Send us Fan Mail This week, Julie and Jarad talk to writer Naomi Ulsted about her upcoming memoir, her book, The Apology Box, and how the fires of Hell from her evangelical upbringing influenced her work. Our conversation runs the gamut from Hell on Earth to finding a little hope along the way. Naomi writes about family connections, church connections, lasting damage and the healing power of the environment. Naomi Ulsted writes fiction and non-fiction. She’s the author of the YA novel The Apology Box (2021), which was runner-up in the Indies Today contest and a finalist in the Next Generation Indies Book Award contest. Her memoir, A Bouquet of Weeds: Growing Up Wild in the Pacific Northwest, is forthcoming from High Frequency Press. She’s been published in The Nomad, Rumpus, and The New Guard, among others. She lives in North Bend, Oregon.  Naomi's Blog Sacred Chickens' Review of The Apology Box Purchase The Apology Box Glamor Shots, by Naomi Ulsted Support the show 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 Follow Julie: @sacredchickens.bsky.social and Substack Follow Jarad: https://substack.com/@jaradjohnson1 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.

    1h 5m

  2. MAR 7

    Oscar Season Episode: Jarad and Julie Discuss Sinners

    Send us Fan Mail On this episode Jarad and Julie discuss the movie Sinners (with spoilers) and some of the rumination they had afterwards about racism and religion. If you didn't like this movie, you won't like this episode, because our hosts were all in. If you haven't seen this movie, it's a beautiful rendering of American mythology and folk horror and we highly recommend it. It's genre film with depth and broad appeal, a well told story with layers of history and American experience. Support the show 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 Follow Julie: @sacredchickens.bsky.social and Substack Follow Jarad: https://substack.com/@jaradjohnson1 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.

    1h 3m

  3. FEB 27

    Believe Now, (The Rest of Us) Pay Later: How Evangelicals Form Belief Systems

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Julie and Jarad try to understand how what we believe about belief affects theology and society at large. How does a belief system that rejects doubt lead to authoritarianism? Should Jarad get a prophet robe to go with his flowing hair? Join us for the discussion. Sources for this week's discussion—we used these sources more for thinking than discussion this week, but these are all good reads: New Research Reveals the Limits of Christian Evangelicalism in American Society - Arizona Christian University Escaping the Evangelical Cult - Keith Giles, Patheos Cults as Power Structures - excerpted from Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships by Janja Lalich and Madeleine Tobias (Bay Tree Publishing). It is posted at Apologetics Index by permission. Support the show 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 Follow Julie: @sacredchickens.bsky.social and Substack Follow Jarad: https://substack.com/@jaradjohnson1 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.

    1 hr

  4. FEB 20

    Conversation With Robert Roper: Author of Shut Up and Drink, Goblin Girl

    Send us Fan Mail Julie and Jarad discuss an upcoming book with the author, Robert Roper, author of Shut Up and Drink, Goblin Girl, due out in 2027. We discuss demons, tropes of Hell, how monsters attract outsiders, and how we deal with darkness when we write.  Along the way we discuss Hitchhikers Guide, WWI, medieval folklore, names for Polka Bands and occasions when there may be no time for pants. So don't miss this episode! Support the show 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 Follow Julie: @sacredchickens.bsky.social and Substack Follow Jarad: https://substack.com/@jaradjohnson1 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.

    1h 14m

  5. FEB 4

    The Necessary Devil: When the Appearance of Goodness Makes You Bad

    Send us Fan Mail After a tough week in this dystopian hellscape, Julie and Jarad discuss why everyone has to meet the devil—and why this is probably a good thing. They also discuss how chasing the appearance of goodness can lead to doing some really bad things. (And somehow they manage to drag Nathaniel Hawthorne into the conversation. Poor Nathaniel Hawthorne. He didn't ask for this.) This episode is a little shorter than normal, but they will back to their typical garrulousness and obstreperousity  next week. Sources: Young Goodman Brown Ethics and Hypocrisy and Young Goodman Brown A Summary and Analysis of Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown The Master and Margarita Help Free Adrian Guarneros-Paz from ICEUPDATE: Adrian is at home but will still require legal help even though he is through the first phase of his legal fight.  Support the show 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 Follow Julie: @sacredchickens.bsky.social and Substack Follow Jarad: https://substack.com/@jaradjohnson1 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.

    44 min

  6. JAN 23

    Medieval Witch Trials: A Slow Growing Satanic Panic (and a Sprinkling of Medieval Incels)

    Send us Fan Mail This week Jarad contemplates his "Hell on Earth" and why the universe seems to dislike his pants. Our cohosts discuss how Satan got so involved in magic in the Middle Ages and how that led to attitudes and misconceptions that haunt us to this day. They also discuss how sometimes people invoke Satan to make the bar for being "good" really, really, really low.  Come for the camaraderie as we try to get through this thing called Hell. Stay for the jokes about medieval art and incels. This episode contains an overview of witch trials with some (though not terribly detailed) discussions of torture.  Sources: Witchcraft in the Middle Ages, Medieval History The Magicians of Solomon, Bartered History Suffer Not a Witch to Live, Text and Canon Magic, the Christian Church, and the Illusion of Control, The Medieval Monk Malleus Maleficarum The Beginnings of the Witch Persecutions, Sacred Texts The Phallus Tree Phenomenon Support the show 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 Follow Julie: @sacredchickens.bsky.social and Substack Follow Jarad: https://substack.com/@jaradjohnson1 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.

    1h 17m

  7. JAN 10

    News From Hell: 2025

    Send us Fan Mail Julie and Jarad discuss some news stories about Hell, say a prayer for 2026 (to be addressed to the god of your choice, or none at all), and discuss their own brushes with the infernal realms this year. Here are the stories we discussed:  Gates of Hell Update - Was the Last Train Out of Hell Prophetic? If Kirk Cameron Isn't Safe, How Can You Be? by Joe Boyd How Christian Nationalism Uses the Fear of Hell to Control People, by Tim Whittaker The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov Support the show 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 Follow Julie: @sacredchickens.bsky.social and Substack Follow Jarad: https://substack.com/@jaradjohnson1 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.

    1h 2m

  8. 12/21/2025

    The Yule Lord: War on Christmas

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Julie and Jarad discuss Brom's book, The Yule Lord, where Krampus goes head to head with Santa with some weird results. Along the way, we are annoyed by cats and come up with pithy slogans for possible Christmas merch way too late in the season. Join us and find out what happens when Santa and Krampus square off. (There will be spoilers ahead...so read the book first if that bothers you. If, like Julie, you feel that spoilers are a sort of super power ability to see into the future, plow ahead.) Sources:  The Yule Lord, by Brom Support the show 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 Follow Julie: @sacredchickens.bsky.social and Substack Follow Jarad: https://substack.com/@jaradjohnson1 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.

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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.

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  • Creator
    Julie
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    40
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 Perdition City Station
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