A Halloween ad gone wrong has religious users throwing out their Hatch alarm clocks.
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On today’s episode host Kate Lindsay is joined by Slate contributing editor Angelina Mazza to explain why Christian creators are throwing away their Hatch alarm clocks. The company’s Halloween commercial was so spooky that it was accused of having “demonic ties,” and now people are claiming they hear voices coming out of the device. The question is not, “Is the devil really hiding inside of a $200 alarm clock?” But rather, “Why do Christians keep thinking the devil is in their technology in the first place?”
This podcast is produced by Daisy Rosario, Vic Whitley-Berry, and Kate Lindsay.
Kate Lindsay is the co-host of ICYMI, Slate’s podcast about internet culture. She also writes the newsletter Embedded, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Bustle, and GQ.
Angelina Mazza is a writer living in Brooklyn by way of Montreal. Her work has appeared in Slate, Literary Hub, the Creative Independent, Paste, Longreads, the Rumpus, the Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere.
Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company.
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