{"podcast":{"title":"Morally Offensive","slug":"morally-offensive-7096551","podcast_index_feed_id":7096551,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/morallyoffensive/feed.xml","website_url":"https://www.morallyoffensive.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/19598152/1000003763_g4d3ud.jpg","author":"Morally Offensive","episode_count":46,"summary":"Morally Offensive is a weekly film podcast about the movies the Catholic Church tried to warn you about. We revisit films labeled “condemned” by the Legion of Decency and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, unpacking the outrage, the censorship, and the cultural shifts behind them. Whether you grew up with Catholic guilt or just love controversial cinema, this is where dirty movies meet film history.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/morally-offensive-7096551"},"episode":{"title":"Black Christmas (1974): The Call is Coming from Inside the Church","slug":"black-christmas-1974-the-call-is-coming-from-inside-the-church","published_at":"2025-12-25T19:39:25+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/morally-offensive-7096551/black-christmas-1974-the-call-is-coming-from-inside-the-church","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/morally-offensive-7096551","url":"https://www.morallyoffensive.com/e/black_christmas_1974_bob_clark/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/yjcmg6n76tzne8sh/EP31-BlackChristmas_mixdown.mp3","summary":"In this Christmas episode of Morally Offensive, Jess and Bill take a deep dive into Black Christmas (1974), the landmark horror film that helped define the slasher genre several years before Halloween. Joining them is Professor Eric D. Wesselmann, who brings an academic lens to Bob Clark’s deeply unsettling and surprisingly nuanced film. The conversation covers the film’s complex female characters, the origins of the “the call is coming from inside the house” trope, and how Roe v. Wade and second-wave feminism shaped the movie’s themes and cultural reception.","meta_description":"In this Christmas episode of Morally Offensive, Jess and Bill take a deep dive into Black Christmas (1974), the landmark horror film that helped define th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7204,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/morally-offensive-7096551/episodes/black-christmas-1974-the-call-is-coming-from-inside-the-church/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/morally-offensive-7096551/black-christmas-1974-the-call-is-coming-from-inside-the-church.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}