{"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":"The Brood (1979): Government Subsized Cinematic Birth Control","slug":"the-brood-1979-government-subsized-cinematic-birth-control","published_at":"2025-09-19T03:49:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/morally-offensive-7096551/the-brood-1979-government-subsized-cinematic-birth-control","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/morally-offensive-7096551","url":"https://www.morallyoffensive.com/e/the_brood_david_cronenberg/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/fr6zcsttz6tn3tbe/EP24_-_The_Brood_mixdown295z67.mp3","summary":"This week, Bill and Stephanie drag Atlanta filmmaker Nicole Kemper into the delivery room to talk David Cronenberg’s The Brood (1979), a horror movie which doubles as the world’s worst sex-ed film. We’re talking cinematic birth control, belly-buttonless mutant murder children, slutty vintage men’s bathrobes, and why men are absolutely terrified of the female body. Diversions include Oliver Reed’s drunken shenanigans, an attempted cult kidnapping, the Canadian public’s outrage over finding out their tax dollars were financing gorey art, and, of course, we read another Catholic review which completely disregards the artistic merits and possibilities of the horror genre. This is definitely an episode to listen to if you’re still comtemplating bringing children into a violent world which is on fire. For us, the Brood proved to be far more effective than abstinence-only sex education.","meta_description":"This week, Bill and Stephanie drag Atlanta filmmaker Nicole Kemper into the delivery room to talk David Cronenberg’s The Brood (1979), a horror movie whic…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":10082,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/morally-offensive-7096551/episodes/the-brood-1979-government-subsized-cinematic-birth-control/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/the-brood-1979-government-subsized-cinematic-birth-control.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}