Perdition City Station

By Julie

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?

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June 07, 2026 Revenants Part 1: When You Give Death Too Much Power
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In a precursor to a discussion about non-vampire revenants, Julie and Jarad discuss how the instead of overcoming Death, theology centered on Hell gives Death ultimate power. Come think about the (maybe) ultimate ending with us.
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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
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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.
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49min
May 13, 2026 Vampires: Hungry, Hungry Hellions
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Julie and Jarad discuss how vampires represent the voracious nature of Hell, how vampires became erotic figures, and how rampant, unregulated capitalism may be changing the way we think about these undead creatures.

Sources:
A History of the Vampire in Popular Culture: Love at First Bite
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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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1h 5min
May 03, 2026 Trump, Blasphemy and What Would (Sixteen-year-old) Julie Think?
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Warning ahead listeners! Julie lost her research glasses and went on a rant instead of writing a script. Listen as Julie asks her sixteen-year-old evangelical self to weigh in on whether picturing yourself as Jesus would have been theologically acceptable in her church. From there our hosts go off on a right old rant about politics in general.
Content warning: Tangential discussion of abortion (which can be upsetting for some current or former evangelicals)
Sources:
Trump Supporters Are Now Asking If He's the Antichrist
Trump Post of Himself as Jesus Includes Strange Horned Creature Not in Original
Trump’s territorial ambition: new imperialism or a case of the emperor’s new clothes?
Why Trump's AI Image Is Reviving Old Antichrist Claims in New Ways
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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56min
March 29, 2026 Interview With Author Naomi Ulsted: Defying Hell by Finding Hope
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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.
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1h 5min
March 07, 2026 Oscar Season Episode: Jarad and Julie Discuss Sinners
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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.
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1h 4min
February 27, 2026 Believe Now, (The Rest of Us) Pay Later: How Evangelicals Form Belief Systems
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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.
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1h
February 20, 2026 Conversation With Robert Roper: Author of Shut Up and Drink, Goblin Girl
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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.
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1h 14min
February 04, 2026 The Necessary Devil: When the Appearance of Goodness Makes You Bad
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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 ICE
UPDATE: 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.
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44min
January 23, 2026 Medieval Witch Trials: A Slow Growing Satanic Panic (and a Sprinkling of Medieval Incels)
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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.
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1h 17min
January 10, 2026 News From Hell: 2025
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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.
...more
1h 2min

FAQs about Perdition City Station:

How many episodes does Perdition City Station have?

The podcast currently has 43 episodes available.