{"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":"X-Rated: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls w/Matt Harding of Severin Films","slug":"x-rated-beyond-the-valley-of-the-dolls-w-matt-harding-of-severin-films","published_at":"2026-01-22T23:58:57+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/morally-offensive-7096551/x-rated-beyond-the-valley-of-the-dolls-w-matt-harding-of-severin-films","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/morally-offensive-7096551","url":"https://www.morallyoffensive.com/e/russ_meyer_xrated_beyond_the_valley_of_the_dolls/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/9cdf9prn5jq469qv/EP33-BeyondtheValleyoftheDolls_mixdown.mp3","summary":"Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) is an X-rated studio film written by Roger Ebert, directed by Russ Meyer, and still more culturally radioactive than most modern movies. So we had to talk about it. This week on Morally Offensive, the ex-Catholic hosts are joined by Matt Harding of Severin Films to dig into Meyer’s psychedelic cult classic and its strange place in American film history. We unpack Roger Ebert’s involvement in the script, Russ Meyer’s obsession with buxom women, and how that fixation shaped both the visual language and politics of his films.","meta_description":"Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) is an X-rated studio film written by Roger Ebert, directed by Russ Meyer, and still more culturally radioactive than…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6899,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/morally-offensive-7096551/episodes/x-rated-beyond-the-valley-of-the-dolls-w-matt-harding-of-severin-films/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/x-rated-beyond-the-valley-of-the-dolls-w-matt-harding-of-severin-films.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}