If you haven't listened to part one of our series, I highly recommend that you do that first.

Also, just a heads up, this episode contains content around sexual assault and abuse.

On this podcast, we explore fantastical thinking, moral panics, urban legends, conspiracy theories,

hoaxes and crazies, examine the forces that shape our culture and tell the stories that create

the realities we share and sometimes the realities we don't. I'm your host, Chalcewebri Smith,

and this is American HISTORY.

Greetings in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is Jack Chick speaking.

Now in the Illuminati to Rock Chalce are not humans. They're not just the richest family in the world.

They are gods. That means that that is a conspiracy. I mean a real conspiracy.

We were literally in an amnestyville situation because not only were the demons surfacing through a lane,

the cult was attacking us with everything they had. The reaction I got from my pastor, friends,

it was like those guys were out there saying, gee, I wonder if Chick's gonna get iced.

Welcome back to our series on Chick Tracks, where we're exploring the freaky fundamentalist comic books

of Chick publications, the cartoon kings of moral melodramas, of unbridled offensiveness,

and of unintentional camp, so blown out that they're sometimes mistaken for parodies

when they're found out in the wild, left by believers in random locations so that sinners

might stumble upon them and be saved. In the first episode of the series, we immersed ourselves

in their hyper-real world, full of cloaked Satanists and Illuminati witches of druid Halloween sacrifices,

of menacing homosexuals, new age public school indoctrination, and of course sky-eyed weeping salvation

through the blood of Jesus Christ. But, Chick publications didn't create this world all by

themselves. In fact, they owed a great deal of their success to the men and women who brought

them their life stories, who told them of their twisted pasts as witches controlling politicians,

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