Episode 668: Anton LaVey Part III - The Devil's Rain

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[Music] [Music] We really demand some girls. They're far more like tough than when you listen and talk like Charlie Manson is the fucking ingenious man in this fucking world and nobody gonna take Manson down. It's kind of crazy to see tiny little lady's going like, "I'll kill a fucking police officer for Charlie. He's my price!

Who's my Satan and arms?" They're all hot chicks at eight rocks. You know, like, they weren't as hot as you. You know, when you look back on, they would think that you'd be ready. They're in the younger man's energy. I bet you'll clean them with little Manson girls up and take them anywhere you want. [Laughs] Well, you know, last night, guys on the left, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Marcus Parks. I'm here with Henry's

of Browsky and I'm taking a Swiffer to the Manson Girls. [Laughs]

We've got the man who will give any woman a chance. It's at Larson.

“All right, guys, here's comes the host. They're Twiggy. Who's one of them?”

[Laughs] There's this easy twig. Don't be in the lot of them. You're taking a squeaky from Manson, you're taking out the squeaky. [Laughs]

There we are at Anton Levey, part three, part three of four. We're going to get into it. We are doing Satanism thoroughly. Yeah, and Anton Levey, fully, because it's not just Anton Levey. That's the thing about Satanism. It's not just him. It's everybody around him. There's so many fascinating stories within the story of Anton Levey.

Also, if you come to believe Anton Levey, which I do over time,

he even pushes even position himself as one of the least important people within the organization. Yes, when he starts it, the whole thing is like, "Oh no, what have I done?" [Laughs]

“He starts it. It's all like, "Oh fuck, these losers are coming."”

Which is where we've hit right now. I really go back and forth on them a whole time. Like, this guy's a fucking schmuck. There's like, "I get it." Yeah, of course. And you know what? That's by design.

Yeah. So when we last left Anton Levey, the year was 1967. And the Church of Satan had publicly established itself using Anton's infamous black house as the Church's headquarters, right in the heart of San Francisco. But while Anton Levey's theatrical style and freedom forward ideas

were attracting celebrities like Jane Mansfield, the Church of Satan, also began to cross paths with far more infamous characters entirely by coincidence. See, by 1968, Anton Levey expanded ceremonies beyond the black house

“to public occult ritual performances in other venues.”

And in February, he chose a lounge club called Gigi's in San Francisco as the site of a highly produced ritual called The Witches Sabbath. And the key word is produced. Yes. Amongst other moving parts, one aspect of the performance

called for a bare-breasted young woman to jump out of a coffin and walk around acting like a vampire on stage. Fuck yeah. Levey thought that he'd found the perfect girl for the role after seeing an 18-year-old dancing at a local topless bar,

grow who called herself Sharon King. History, however, no Sharon King better by her real name. Sharon Stone. Man, no, no, no, no, no. Susan Atkins.

Yeah. F-man. Yeah. Oh, I just the idea. I know Anton Leve had a tight but just her going like, "A" and "A" by "Ton" "A" by "Ton"

Sherry King was her group sex name because she was the sharing king. Well, if the name Susan Ackon doesn't ring a bell, Susan Ackon's A.K.A. sexy Sadie. I'm the sexy one. I'm the sexy one. I'm the one that's bringing out for public exam. Here's some history. I got some spicy beer.

It's supposed to spit it out. She was the only member of the Manson family present at all three murder scenes. It's Gary Hemman, the Tate Massacre, and the La Bionca Massacre. It was Susan's bragging while in jail on Carthep charges that eventually led authorities

But just a couple of years earlier, Susan Ackon was just another abandoned child of the 1960s

who made her way to San Francisco as a teenager. But instead of joining the love and peace side of the flower generation, Ackon's have become a stripper at 17 and lived an extremely reckless life of drugs and sex. Judgey, judgey, judgey. It's reckless!

Do you know how reckless you got to be to get a case of gonorrhea so bad that you got to be hospitalized? Yeah, they done to date none of these days. When I stout in my gonorrhea, my gonorrhea is dead high. It's supposed to be yellow, not green.

You know, congratulations to me, I go. After she was cured and released of this, it needed to bring in a priest. It needed to take a priest and it came in to bless my future and the demon jumped out of me. And into you.

After the gonorrhea was cleared up, Susan Ackon's met Charles Manson in San Francisco,

shortly following Charlie's release from prison.

“I didn't tell, let me guess, you're just freshly clean, right?”

I can tell. I'm a psychic ability to tell. Win gallery is just left the body. Man, I can smell antibiotics on a woman. I know you got you went to a doctor for that and it was no way to y'all know which

bitch. Well, this is back when Charles Manson was just an older guy in his early 30s with a guitar and a good line of bullshit. So, it was not long after Ackon's met Manson, Anton LeVe, noticed Susan Ackon's dancing at her club.

And LeVe figured that she'd be perfect for the role of the vampire girl in his new public ritual performance at Gigi's set to premiere in February of 1968. There's a distinct difference between the public performances and the stuff that Anton LeVe and his owner crew would do at this time period. And that is he really the distinct differences that he was obviously a PR machine.

So, a lot of this really was straight up performances. Yeah, this is all about advertising. It's attention. Would he charge a cover? Yeah, oh, God yes, $2.50.

So, it's a show. Yeah, it's a hundred percent a show. Yeah, I mean, this show, it had reviews like the newspapers game. You know what you call it? The term would be psychopath.

Yeah, it was the idea of doing a public thing that was kind of an example of your magic. Yeah, so after being invited back to the black house to participate in dress rehearsals for the witch's sabas show at Gigi's, Susan Akin's reportedly got spooked by all the trappings of the satanic church. So funny.

She was actually too scared to perform her part on stage until, of course, someone gave her a tab of acid. I mean, my acid. I only perform when I'm at my ass. I got to have it. You go, God, just fucking hurt.

“Just scared one of the fireplace, scared of the what?”

Blue sunshine, I asked for orange sunshine. Yeah, you're what I like. I'm going to get to the orange. She's an 18-year-old. She's an idiot. [laughter]

Wally hallucinating Susan Akin's gotten to a coffin wearing two-inch long red fingernails at a jet black wig. And when it came time for her to pop out in the middle of the psychopath, she did her best as the bare breast vampire. [laughter]

I'm not doing it. [laughter] But since both audience and newspaper reviews for the Witches Sabbath were lukewarm at best, that was the end of Anton's working relationship with Susan Akin's and the end of Susan's involvement with the Church of Satan.

Soon after, though, the house where Susan Akin's and Charles Manson were living in San Francisco got rated by the police. So Manson asked Akin's if she wanted to join him for a summer road trip down to Los Angeles. They were going to drive down in a converted school bus with all the other law souls Manson gathered in San Francisco since he'd arrived.

This, of course, was the first iteration of the Manson family.

They would all soon settle at Spawn Ranch and buy August of 1969, just 18 months after Akin's performed in the vase show, Akin's was writing the word "pig" on Sharon Tates front door with Sharon's own blood. So about coming to play where the work is.

“That's what all that's what Holly was always been about.”

It's where the work is and that's where you go. So, of course, you got picked up that quickly because she went where it was. If Sharon Tate was in San Francisco, she'd carve out the baby there. You got to come to Los Angeles. How many people got murdered in Tate?

There's five, five or six.

They just lumped it in the tape murder.

Abigail, yeah, Abigail, Folger, Steven Parent. There was, was at Wojtek Freikowski.

“What was going to Sharon job the fucking know their name?”

Yeah, but no one was really sad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the other ones were just, you know, obviously just acceptable losses. Yes, Steven Parent was just there to buy a radio from a guy that lived in the back house. He was just a complete, completely wrong place the wrong time.

Boyjek Freikowski was kind of in love with Sharon Tate. Abigail Folger was just, she was the ares to the Folger fortune. Well, it's Folger Coffee. Yeah, yeah, and they were just all there hanging out because Roman Planski was out. And I think London scouting for I think a dolphin movie.

Some really stupid. I'm going to take that back immediately because they said a lot. You know, the other ones were acceptable losses. They weren't the only acceptable loss that's ever been. Was that God forsaken meddling waiter when he got between.

Oh, jean Nicole, my favorite couple. Mr. Man, I'm not going to take this bad talk on waiters. Yeah, I've been a waiter. Oh, I was a bad one. But guess what you didn't do?

Meddling the affairs of the Hall of Fame.

“Now, and on the way, certainly commented on his association with Susan Akins.”

As he did with any infamous character who crossed his path. Susan Akins was not even close to the last one. Yeah, he probably fucking loved it. Yeah, well, I mean, he said that Susan's downfall came mostly because of drugs, which was a fair point because events with the man's and family certainly

would not have gotten as out of hand as they did without the excessive amount of acid that man's who was providing to family members. Of course, whether or not man's was being provided that acid by the CIA. He's another matter altogether. Long story.

We'll get into it. We are doing that. We are doing it. Yeah. LaVay actually.

That's great. Yeah, fuck yeah. Come on. Let's just fuck the CIA. Dude, we have some.

Yeah, we're in sunshine. Is that what it is? Yeah, that's the CIA. That's that CIA made, baby. Oh, right.

Well, you know the PO box there. We want to send her right now. Well, the V. Actually had no sympathy whatsoever for the kids who fell under Manson's spells. Nor did he care for the unwashed masses, flocking on mass to San Francisco in the late 60s.

Same time that he was trying to build the church to Satan. Anton called Susan Akins an average hate street burnout. Flake and made to order for someone like Charles Manson to control. But really, that is what sets LaVay apart from people like Charles Manson. And what makes LaVay just kind of a bad person rather than a figure of evil.

From what it seems like LaVay never wanted to control anyone.

Or at least he never wanted to control people collectively. Control comes with responsibility. And as the story goes on, we'll see that responsibility was the last thing Anton LaVay ever wanted. Anton LaVay viewed responsibility as coming hand in hand with hypocrisy.

Because at some level as a boss,

“you're going to have to do things that are against your own rules because you have to set up.”

Oh, because they are for me enough for thee. It just how it happens. So he specifically never wanted that shit. He never wanted it. He thought this was will get, obviously as we go.

This was all supposed to stay local. Yeah, it was supposed to stay local. And I think it was just supposed to stay theatrical. I think it was supposed to be like a theatrical thing, but we're going to get into pretty soon what happens when you let the nerds in the door.

Always. Now as the Church of Satan grew in popularity and membership, so too did the rituals and the organization. Because Anton LaVay quickly surmised that the rituals were what got him the most press and the most attention.

So on May 23rd, 1967, Anton LaVay held the first public,

Satanic baptism using his three-year-old daughter Zina as the "Baptazond" as it's called. According to LaVay, the ceremony was designed to delight the child by welcoming her into a world of indulgence with the sights in the smells that she liked. Instead of being dunked in water, which is usually a terrifying experience. I don't know if the two of you were, you know, almost drowned.

Yeah, it was green. Yeah, I was a baby. Yeah, I was a baby. But I watched my, my nephew do it recently and he was screaming like a fucking lunatic. And I literally looked at Julie and I was like, "I get it."

Yeah. [laughter] I watched my dad do it in his 30s and I was like, "I'm not doing that ever." Because he got baptized late or he did it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, he got baptized late. Yeah, fuck that shit. It didn't take. No. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, they tried to do it again to me, but it was hard to get past my fists. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

I really sucked my dick priest. [laughter] Instead of a dunk, Zina sat, basking in the attention of admirers and the press,

gilding the lily just a bit.

There's, of course, nothing wrong with nudity. I do think that Americans have been far too prudish about the human body for far too long, but Levais had to know that in 1968, having a naked woman present at a rich wall involving a three-year-old, it was going to make all the wrong waves in the press. If press indeed was his main goal.

I think you just want a naked chick there and you forget, man. You know what it is? When we were just in Fairbanks, right? We were just there. We went to that great place and they were all talking about how, like, you forget how

hippies live. Yeah. Like, these guys all like, they were all talking about how they're like, yeah, that's not all the babies who are upstairs. We were putty and down here, man.

You know, that's because all the babies are up there. Yeah.

“And you're like, you have to forget that was like a thing.”

Yeah. And my parents partied around me.

My, my nomadly was scarred by their partying around him.

And so I feel like it's, it's was just different times. Yeah. Also, you live in a counterculture. You know, it surprised, you know, when you're like, the press is bad. It's like, well, yeah, of course the reaction is going to be bad.

I was talking to Henry earlier. We used to have the show with Creek in the cave, murder phrase called Brown Sabbath. And I had Henry make a flyer and I was like, okay, can you make a church with a big pile of shit on top of it. And I went around flyer and I'm out there in Long Island City, but trying to put this

And bike stores and people are like, no, I don't want that up my store. And I'm like, why not? This is the world. You just don't understand. Yeah.

It's like when I was in college, I was at a ben. We called ourselves hugs a bunch of pedophile. And when we went out to put flyers around town, that's when we realized, not everyone finds that funny. Yeah.

It's not that funny. It's not that funny. Of course.

“It's a bunch of kids come up with, but yeah, no one wanted that in their window.”

Exactly.

And that's why we're, we're a rap man.

They should have listened to us, dude. Yeah. Sabbath is a funny name. Yeah. That's a funny name.

Yeah. And I just played a bunch of like, there was like a black Sabbath Mary Archie Band. I played their music before the show was on the phone. Oh, yeah.

It's great band. As the church of Satan grew in popularity, and on the vase, black masses became more ornate. Although I made a discovery just this last weekend in Pittsburgh, my favorite store in America, eaties entertainment that put the creation of the black masses in a whole new light.

See, I'm a collector. And one of the things I collect are the more obscure men's magazines from the 50s, 60s and 70s. The ones outside of your standard playboys, payin' houses and hustlers. Playboys to high class, hustlers to low class. Yeah.

You don't like the piston on the ankles. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And while the pornography contained therein is naturally a bonus, I live in the year 2026

for Christ's sake. I don't need magazines to obtain pornography. I also kind of feel weird. You know what's funny is that I don't mind pre-fluffing to a woman that's definitely dead. But there's something about masturbating to completion to a woman that is very much a skeleton and a grave.

I have no problem with that. Yeah. But that's neither here nor there. It's a joke and off to these magazines. No, no.

It was funny. It might lead to that, but it's not good. It's a bonus. It's a bonus. It's a bonus.

It's a bonus. It's a cherry on the top. I went to the store also with Marcus. It was a lot of fun. But we like separated.

You know, because I got a DVD from like Bonaroo 2008. Yeah. I'm walking around and then all of a sudden there's like an area that you can't see. And then all of a sudden from inside of your hair. Oh.

Oh. Yeah. Which is going to lead the guy in that pornography. Yeah. I found a lot of great shit.

You have a full crate that you walked out of there with. I absolutely did.

“And the main reason why I collect these magazines is because the articles work as a sort of secret”

history of the 20th century if you know what to look for. And if you know the historical context in which these articles were written at Edies and Pittsburgh, for example, I found an issue of magazine called Rogue from 1962, which contained an article by one of Anton Mavay's favorite authors. William Lindsay Gresham, author of Nightmare Alley.

Who he stole this whole life story from? The content of this article was the history of the so-called black mass. Published a full four years prior to the founding of the Church of Satan. Now the article is filled with exaggerations and half truths as many of these articles are. I can almost guarantee that Anton Mavay read this article.

Not only was Anton also a fan of men's magazines. Hell, we got an email from a fucking listener who said he bought a whole stack of them from Anton Mavay once. He famously was a magazine collector. Yeah.

But Gresham was also one of Anton's favorite writers. And this article was most likely the last thing Gresham wrote before he died that same year in 1962. But as they say, the proof is in the pudding. A lot of the things that Gresham talked about in this article.

Talks about fictional 19th century depictions of black masses.

Talks about historical rumor. They are all the same things that showed up in Anton Mavay's black masses four years later. All the way down to using a naked woman as an altar. It's all there.

“Yes, I think he was definitely inspired.”

And he knew what to do from it because he wasn't collector of all these things. But then he did refine it. Because he talked about it. He did refine it. That's the idea that framework is in this fucking article is the framework.

Yes, he saw it. Because the black masses really fun. Yeah. Technically, in many ways, it can be quite funny. Yes, surprise, nothing ever happened.

I mean, like, as a magazine collector. And there's a guy who loves candles that much. It's really going to little fire. You're like, you got to be careful. Yes.

You're doing good with fire. You know, the Pope of the Church of Satan. Okay. You think he'd guy, that leads that on lockdown. He's more water.

Yeah. I think he had problems with water. Now, while Anton may have taken the framework from the black masses from Gresham's article, he certainly added his own flare as we can see from this description of a black mass in 1968 when the Church of Satan was firing on all cylinders.

Lavey read a recitation of the Lord's prayer backwards. Then he inserted a triangular holyway for into the vagina of a naked woman. Acting as the altar.

Can you always make that sound?

“Can you explain for the listeners, like, when I say used a naked woman as an altar?”

Could you explain to them what that means? Legitimately, she's lying on a table. She is the thing that you put stuff on. I thought it was going to be your back, and she was on all fours. I'm actually glad you said so.

No, she's lying. No, she's not like playing table. She's not God table. She's normally on a table, and people put things on her. There's also been those where they just stand, because they'll stand next to two things.

I've seen that. But largely it's that, and they literally go, "Damn, for here comes the airplane." And then they bring in the host and then they open up the hanger. And then they spread her open, and then they just put crackers in her. Yeah, like a pest dispenser upside down.

Yes. Yes. After removing the moist cracker from the vagina, Leve broke it up into six pieces and placed those pieces on the tongues of six congregants.

I want to have that first.

I want to have that first. I want to have that first. I want to have that first. But at the same time, because there's a lot going on in a black mass. There's a lot going on in every corner of the room.

At the same time that this is happening, a red-headed congregant laid naked across the lap of another naked acolyte who whipped the redhead with the cat anine tail. Not a table, working up to the table. Working up to the table. Working up to the table.

Yeah. At the intern. Yeah. He still giggles too much. [laughter]

There, here. How does they there, here? It's their semester from UCLA. They love them, here. And just so nice to have you here, Gregory.

Meanwhile, another participant dressed like the Pope was thrown to the floor by black robed men who all pulled down their pants and pretended to take a shit on the Pope's stand-in. I thought it was fun. Yeah, bunch of guys burned it.

I pooped. I pooped. I pooped. I pooped. I pooped.

I pooped. I pooped. I pooped. Obviously, I'm into it from what I stated earlier, just moments ago, about the brown savvature.

Obviously. And even though it's pretend, there was still a lot of stagecraft here. They managed to splatter brown mud all over the Pope's face. The fake Pope's vestments. I don't know if they had like, you know, like, one of those like little squirt

things in the sleeve or if their butts were filled with mud, I don't know. It might have been all been very symbolic. No, no, this was literal mud slashed over. Pretty neat even the pressing it upon him was probably like a, they lifted all brought the mud in and they brought it up and he'd go, "No, the Duke has arrived!"

And they had like smearing with the Duke my hand and then he's just like, "I'm Duke it!" Well, after the man was adequately covered, the robe to men dragged him out of the room while a Wagner record played. And the whole congregation began the standard shots of Hale's sake. Hale's sake.

Hale's sake. Hale's sake. Hale's sake. I said, "I'll say it."

“Music is by far the single most important thing in every single one of these presentations.”

Yeah. And some of these specifically say that he caused again the presentation of it. Everything has to do with classical music. And he said, "Well, again, one of the natural Satanists was Wagner." And another one was Guy before Wagner named like Snoosh. Some guy that also did that kind of music.

Carl Orph? Well, I know he also loved like Archibald Joyce. Oh, yeah. Like he was big in a precofe of William as Jack Clark. And he rocked mud off him, don't you say?

Cool. So after covering the Pope in mud, Leve brought out a guy playing Jesus, wrapped in a white sheet and carrying a cross on his back.

"That bellied majority that hangs limply upon the cross still."

“And Leve then crushed a plastic Christian through Dureen and threw it into a chamber pot, proclaiming,”

"Yeah, don't switch around. I'm proved that he had never walked on water. He never shall again."

Leve then angled over to the pot, unzipped his fly and tried in vain to piss on the remains of the figurine. Even Leve, it seemed occasionally got stage fright. "Gah, f*ck, ah!" You don't even hear your dad in the morning. I gotta be hard to hear that f*ck.

Come on. Come on, evil piss. Come on. Come on. Come on, little devil. Let's do it. Why did I want to piss before this? Like you had a piss. But while Anton did get a little p-shy during this particular black mass,

he still took it and stride and asked the organist to quote, "Play him some water music." The organist droolly responded with an Irving Berlin song called "How Dry I App," which caused the congregation to break character with various knowing chuckles. "The fucking good comedic piano man." Yeah.

But perhaps the levity was needed. For Anton's stream did flow to that point forward. [laughter] And after he finished, the nude female accolades in the room all took turns as well, including one who pissed in the bucket for what was said to be an uncomfortably long period of time.

"She's a surprise, Sandra." [laughter] Three and a half minutes ago. Some people have to catch a bus. Sandra, are you just bleeding?

What is happening to you?

“I don't even understand how you can have that much water inside of you.”

Only 70% of your mother or a camel? Well, this piss, I'm sure, was much to the pleasure of Anton Leve, who had figured out how to make his personal sexual fetish. You're a failure, a central tenet of the Church of Satan black mass. I mean, he's in charge.

But after the year and part of the ceremony was over, a woman dressed as a non-came out into the strip teased to a particular wall to buy archival joys, which very much reminds me of the type of music Jack Parsons listen to when he did magic. Let's listen to some of that strip teased.

[music] Vision of Salome. Oh, it was used in movie. I came into the watch one. Can we take this back?

We need to do this. For strip clubs. We need to go back to this. This is the light. What if we go back to like,

Montahari and like, the dance of the 7 Vales? Hey, it's still... there's someone in Los Angeles tonight, stripping somewhere to a song like this. You can find it.

Yeah. It's out there. Just go to the magic castle and start asking people. That's where you got it. That's where that line starts unfortunately.

I don't know if those magicians know a lot of ladies. [laughter] Man, those guys love ladies. Man, it's why they get in the magic.

Otherwise, they never talk to a woman.

Yeah, it's true. In the conclusion of the black mass, Anton the Bay would open his cape in front of the naked altar and hold his hands in the sign of the horns. Now, if you didn't know,

the devil horn sign actually has meaning. Because today, the horns of Satan are pretty much evolved into a more intense thumbs up. When you like something, you do the devil horn.

But they used to be... It's again, it's never the world's things. It used to freak people out. Yeah. Yeah, the two points of your index and pinky fingers

represent goat horns, thrust upwards, and defiance of heaven. Well, the three fingers turn down or supposed to be in denial of the holy Trinity. You know, but not everyone does.

And then you'll put the thumb out that's I love you. Yeah, that's a video. Yeah. Yeah. Well, everybody.

Anybody can do ASL. Only for deaf people. You know what? Marcus? That's for you.

Oh, thank you. Oh, thank you. No, thank you. No, thank you. No, thank you.

Back to you. Yeah.

And today, it's amazing that this thing that used to be,

it's a well-established fixture in American culture. Like you see this anywhere and everywhere. You see the little flea games, you know? Yeah. Yeah, Joe Biden did it once.

Yeah. But concerning the end of this black mass, after three shouts of hail Satan, Lavee put out a candle, covered the naked woman who acted as the alter in a leopard skin blanket, and carried her out of the room. After the ritual was complete, the members of the Church of Satan,

including Anton Lavee, retreated to his kitchen, where they shmoosed over not alcohol, drugs, nor virgins blood, but coffee, tea, and cake. And not come cake either. Regular cake.

Yeah. No cakes of light. Just tea and cake. This is really what Anton Lavee was trying to strip away from all of the stuff. As an after a red ol' the Alistair Crowley stuff,

he's trying to remind people that the whole magic thing is actually here. Yeah. It's here amongst us. It's here in this room. Like yeah, sure.

“It's we're praying to Satan, but what we're actually doing?”

It's building the community. Yeah. And nothing builds community like late night coffee.

Yeah.

“That is just one of my favorite ways to live life.”

It is one of the things that they did that ever other fucking religion did. Is it funny? I don't know why right? It's like they all do that. He was always coughing.

Yeah. Anton Lavee was certainly enjoying all this attention. Because by the end of 1968, he was advertising black masses and San Francisco newspapers. And these gatherings became so popular that he would do the same performance two nights a week. By 1969, Anton Lavee claimed that the Church of Satan's membership had reached 10,000

Worldwide, although the real number was almost certainly far lower.

But even so, there were enough people paying attention for Anton to release his first book.

This, of course, was the foundational text of the Church of Satan, the infamous Satanic Bible. I didn't read the Satanic Bible until around 2012. But what surprised me most is that while it is incredibly judgmental and more than a little fascist, it basically reads like a guidebook for how to balance being a good person with standing up for yourself in the modern world. It's actually a great place to start when you're trying to figure out your own personal guidelines for living outside of a Christian framework.

Because it really is far more of a philosophy book than a religious tone. It also isn't meant to be taken that seriously. It meant to be the end all beyond. You don't end with the Satanic Bible. You begin with it. The key is to read it because then you can really see with the actual tone is, which is mostly funny. Largely, it is a lot of wink. It's a lot of tongue and cheek mix with passionate belief systems that largely have to be included in context to the Christian Church.

“That's what kind of the main issue about Satanism in general is that even on its own as a religion, it doesn't kind of stand up because it's not supposed to.”

If you read all the stuff inside the Satanic Bible without realizing why it's there or what the point of it is, it doesn't serve as a bunch of lessons. It really is defined by its opposition. And when something is defined by opposition, then it really can't stand on its own and you really need someone to stand on its own, which is why it took place to start. Yes, and that's why Ant on the Way, which we've got to, was trying to fight it becoming a huge ass religion.

Yeah, and if you don't have time to read it, you can always read the jump off a cliff notes.

You fucking got it. Fucking. The Satanic Bible, however, is also largely plagiarized from many dubious sources. It better be. Did someone, like, like, penguin put it out, like, did someone buy it?

Yeah, it was a publisher I think Avon was a publisher. It's been, you know, put out through various publishing houses throughout the year. It's a little fucking wall. It does. Yeah.

“See, according to Ant on the Way's daughter, Zina, who later did an expose on the way's past after she broke with the church,”

the Satanic Bible was more of a cash grab meant capitalized on the recent success of the Roman Polanski Classic Rosemary's baby,

which had greatly increased the public's appetite for Satanist and a cult content. In other words, it's merch. Yeah. But when Ant on the Way and his partner, Diane Hagarati, gathered everything, Ant on had written about the Church of Satan for a book. It was far too short, and it was an absolute fucking mess.

It's actually said that it's editor, a woman named Carol Smith, who mostly did cook books, she was the one who made the Satanic Bible readable. Oh, I bet that a honeroid problem. That's a cookbook's great way to start with it. It's actually really good for ritual writing.

Yeah, you're going to be like, "To answer the blood." What a new guy. Yeah. It's instructions. But to meet the links requirements laid out by the publisher, Levé and Hagarati heavily borrowed from authors,

like the infamous Ragnar Redbeard, author of the Anti-Semitic white supremacist social Darwinist garbage book, "Might Is Right." In this book from 1896, Ragnar argued that weakness should be met with hatred and that social Darwinism should be the law of the land. Now, Levé stripped out the anti-Semitism, the misogyny, and the racism. But large parts of one section of the Satanic Bible, the Book of Satan, were lifted from Ragnar Redbeard's writings.

In fact, while it has been removed from recent trainings, early editions of the Satanic Bible list Ragnar Redbeard as an influence. Myers, right? By the way, has since had a resurgence among the more foul, far-right, Manispere influencers who have all spent the last few years absolutely ruining the internet for reasonable people like ourselves.

I will say, as well. Now that this is, I like that we're getting into this book. Of course, this is one of the big major problems the Satanism has is this problem, which is this idea of people don't understand fundamentally what all of this means, and what anti-Movey meant by it.

So that is, so go through this, you can kind of see, and you could see why he chose this topic, and then stripped it of all the quote unquote hate.

You can't keep all that shit in there because he needs the women to love it.

“You know what's out about that, because again, it was all it's not how do you say this is the problem when something isn't that deep,”

that that's the problem almost is that when something becomes an anti-Movey, this is the problem. He set up an issue for himself in the future by not really thinking about it hard enough about what it was he was adding without the later on in the devil's notebook and speak of the devil, and on the way will couch this package, this more explain more what he kind of did. He kind of does that over time by the beginning, you know.

Yeah, Satanic Bible's kind of rushed. It's just sort of, it's put out because like, hey, we can make a lot of money because people are really into this Rosemary's baby shit. Like, let's get this thing out there. So it's, you know, so yeah, there's a lot of shit in there that probably shouldn't be in there.

Yes, even more than Ragnar Redbeard.

And on the way, also stole from the much maligned objectivist writer, Iron Rand, for his nine Satanic statements. Those were meant to replace Christianity's ten commandments, then he wanted statements instead of commandments. In fact, Levi himself said that Levi and Satanism was, quote, "Just Iron Rand's philosophy with ceremony in which we'll add it." Which, it doesn't even, even if you listen to Anton Levi, I'm sorry.

He doesn't know what you with the fuck he's talking about because he doesn't.

“Iron Rand specifically doesn't believe that's what objectivism can't have rituals in it.”

So it doesn't make any sense for them to have any rituals in it, so yeah. Ironically, though, considering how much Republicans love Iron Rand because she helped bring their fuck you. I got mine philosophy to the modern world.

I'd say that today's Christians actually follow Church of Satan philosophies far more than the teachings of Jesus Christ.

For example, this blessing written by Anton Levi as a parody of Jesus' blessed or the meek speech, and this might as well be the guiding light for the modern Republican Party, Henry Police. Blessed are the strong, for they shall possess the earth. Coasted are the weak, for they shall inherit the yoke. Blessed are the Iron Handler, for they unfit shall flee before them.

Coasted are the power and spirit, for they shall be spat upon. But the Church of Satan more than anything is a direct offense against the heavy movement and the Christian Church. So in this world, the idea is, God, you're supposed to be afraid of God, and you're supposed to inherently obey God. You're supposed to obey your parents, you're supposed to obey the priests, you're supposed to do all these things, and you're supposed to turn the other cheek when they punish you.

So when they punish you, when something bad happens to you, you're just supposed to walk away. You're supposed to just lay down your arms and just take it. That is the whole thing, and with Christianity, that tenant makes you easy to control. Because eventually, it's like, you're just going to do what I say. Because I'm telling you to say it, and this, you're literally, you, you, like,

and obeying me is a virtue. They do have that being a virtue, so this is an over-correction. The whole point of this is to give to dweaves and nerds, the ability to be like, no, like, you know when your mom, my mom said, "Would your mom have the same philosophy? I don't want to see you start in a fight, but you can finish a fight." So it is that idea of being like, "No, fuck God." So, like, "Oh, so God places little games with me, and I'm supposed to be fucking angry about it.

For his lessons." So everything bad he does to me is just a challenge, and I'm just supposed to suck up and take fuck you. And it's a good, genuine, like, all of these people. Just because you're wearing a suit, I'm supposed to think you're better than me, just because you're, you act like you have some moral agency.

You act like you are the guy, the arbiter of morality, and I just have to believe you because you're on fucking television, fuck you. Sure. I mean, to bring the Satanic Bible down to its absolute basics, it really comes down to living a life that makes you happy and successful while doing everything in your power to ensure that your happiness does not come at the expense

or the pain of others. And that's despite all the book's negative influences. In my opinion, Anton Vey took a lot of really ugly shit. It made a religion that when you strip away a lot of the edginess, it's actually quite nice. And it's far more realistic than Christianity, as Christianity is actually practiced. Your opinion on that,

of course, depends a lot on your opinion about the true nature of mankind, if we're inherently good, inherently bad,

“or as Lavecy's it, and honestly, how I see it for somewhere in between.”

Because Christians believe we're bad. Do you know that, right? Like, original, original sense. We think a whole fucking thing. We're born sinful. We're sinful exists to scare them out of doing bad things. Which gets what they do.

They do bad things, especially the ones that have the mandates. Because they've been given God's mandate. They've been told that they're chosen by God.

Like, Pence was too scared to be alone with another woman.

Yeah, that's how fucking I know that. So, yes, yes, I do understand this,

“and then this will be the thing that will cause problems in the future for him.”

This will cause problems. But it's because of the, like, it's the not understanding it, almost on purpose, and also where he got it from. Sure. And I met a bunch of Satanists when I lived in Tallahassee.

And I was pretty close mine in about Satanism at that point in my life. Because I was like, you know, 23 years old. I just think of like Satanism as evil. Yeah. And then I mean, you're good, good Catholic boy.

I wasn't, at this point, I was an atheist. But like, but I met a couple of Satanists. And they were so kind. Yeah, they were like literally like helped me. My car was stuck in the side of the road.

They came and helped me.

And then like, they helped with a couple of them helped me move.

I barely knew him. And then I started working with some of them at Hooters. And they were just like, the guys just shown up to work on time. He's like, I was like, I don't know what to say. The guy you're describing at ease.

The guy that just now arriving in the story was Michael Kino. So Michael and Kino was an example of this. Is that in Satanism that most effective members have an extremely high moral viewpoint of the world.

“Like that is the, that's the only way it works.”

And knowingly so. Yes. It is the only way it even works is that you have, the whole point is that you are annoyingly moral. I would say almost aggravatingly normal.

Yeah, moral. Yes. That is the, you are because you have believed you're coming to believe, which is what I've come to believe that the Christian world is a, it's a place of sickness.

Yeah. Like it's like a place of, of rot and poison. And then it's, and then until it's fixed from the bottom up, it's not, it's not helping anybody. I've seen way more evil in, in the Christian church than I have in the Satan church.

Oh, yes. We all have. No, anyone who says any different isn't paying attention. No. Now in March of 1969, Anton the Bay's inner circle grew to include a member who

would be far more of a pain in the ass to Anton the Bay than he probably suspected. That man was the future founder of the Temple of Set. He was a big old boy though. You portray him like such a dwee. He looks scary.

No, he's chunker. Yeah, he, he's a, he's a, he's a chubby man. Yeah. He's also army trained. I wasn't going to do it.

All right. And reportedly, Michael, like, you know, met Anton the Bay at a showing up, Rosemary's baby when a keynote was just 22 years old. Do you know that story? Yeah.

He's a, he's a, he's a chubby man. Yeah. It's also army trained. I wasn't going to do it. All right.

And reportedly, Michael, like, you know, met Anton the Bay at a showing up, Rosemary's baby when a keynote was just 22 years old. Do you know that story? No. It's so funny.

Because Anton the Bay would just show up things. So again, an example of why he was just a local character. And even it was remotely evil. Anton the Bay and his crew would just show up. So, literally.

I was so funny. I might be like, you know, said he got out of the car. And it was then premier of Rosemary's baby in San Francisco. And he said he watched the door fling open. And Anton the Bay and his full hood was out with all of his coat of re.

And he watched them all walking to a horse. And he got the horse and drove off. And it was just Michael Kino being like, I want to be just like that. Well, Michael and his wife quickly applied for membership in the church.

And before long, they were participating in their first satanic rituals.

Kino, however, does not in any way fit the profile of an average satinist. Or at least, how people think an average satinist would be. When a Kino met Anton the Bay, Michael was an officer in the army who'd grown up as a conventionally respectable boy. A Kino was an eagle scout who joined the ROTC at UC Santa Barbara graduating in 1968 as a distinguished military graduate.

“Do you know how much of a fucking nerd you have to be to join the ROTC in Santa Barbara in the 1960s?”

It's so much just go surfing. Yes, that's the stufatter surfing. He definitely was a Santa Barbara goff. And for those of you that know other Santa Barbara goffs or beachside goffs, you know, for fact, it's just him just going, all these people that title with Tommy is on the board. They don't know.

It's a band that's beautiful. It's this complicated. I mean, I know many things. I mean, while everybody's fucking and dancing and having a great time, and he's just saying they're just like, they don't fucking read like, I don't understand all my references.

My necklaces are caught my fish necklows. He's in Santa Barbara from 1964 to 1968. And he chose the ROTC. Yeah. What a nerd.

Well, after that, he's doing the army. After that, a Kino joined the army. And soon found himself as a sci-op special forces officer at Fort Bragg during the Vietnam War. Reportedly, a Kino's sci-op ideas included experiments to disorient North Vietnamese and

Sometimes using so-called demonic screams, blared from helicopters overhead. I love him. I did myself was kind of fun just calling. I think it up. When a Kino travel to Vietnam for an active duty tour in June of 1969,

he brought a copy of John Milton's Paradise Lost with him.

“If you'll remember, and on the way, based his ideas about the character of Satan on Milton's interpretation.”

Like Levet, Kino saw Satan as the hero of Paradise Lost. And since the Kino was going through a heavy existential and philosophical crisis at the time, he latched on to the idea that Satan might have better ideas than God. It must be said, however, that his crises had nothing to do with his career in the armed forces, nor did it have anything to do about his feelings concerning Viet Nam,

because Michael Akino stayed in the military as a powerful and influential figure throughout his entire life,

up until the 2000s. And that was even with his incredibly goofy eyebrows, which were styled into points to mimic devil horns. Yeah, a diabolical. But that really shows you how good Michael Akino was at his job. He was so fucking good that the army put up with that.

Yeah, but the army also like scary shit. They like weirdos. And they like people patriotic weirdos. Michael Akino is a patriot. And he is a very similar to Mormons.

“Like that's why they use Mormons in the intelligent services and they use Mormons for those types of things,”

because they are Mormons have an ability to believe in something entirely not real. And they just be able to just spell reality so hard that it makes them really good at being a part of the CIA.

Who do you think Michael Akino is more who likes more?

The United States from America or Satan? I would say, I would say America. Well, I'd say he loves that he lives in America, but he wishes that you can understand of the power of set himself would release you to an ocean of endless knowledge. Boring. Exactly.

And on the very mat Michael Akino at the Rosemary's baby screening, the vase simply gave him his card. It wasn't until Akino was on leave in San Francisco in March of 1969 that he would see an ad in an underground newspaper, advertising the performance of a so-called Satanic circle at Anton's Black House. They're gonna love me there. There's going to be so happy on the game for excited for my presence.

With the circle, the Akino attended featured all of Anton's greatest hits, including a robed henchmen station at the door, who is actually just a history professor, and a grand entrance from Levi himself emerging from an Egyptian sarcophagus. Now Akino was impressed by Levi's charisma, confidence, and philosophy.

So he went all in on the Church of Satan.

He later wrote in the nerdyest way possible, quote, "I reached out and I took the apple." [laughter] Fucking. God dammit.

How do you take it and make it so not cool? [laughter] But did he though? I mean, not with what they would do, but he originally is like, "Okay, I need guys that aren't just drug addicts and losers and strippers."

Someone's got to work the books. Yeah. Well, not just intellectuals, because that's really the people that he's surrounding himself at this point, it's like, it's intellectuals, it's, you know, people who say their magicians, but they're really dentists. But there are people who have other shit going on.

He needed some, he thought, at least, that he needed someone who could take care of the admin. It was highly curated as well. That's, it also people don't particularly understand this. How curated this environment was in the beginning. It really was friendly thinkers that are all willing to talk about this in a fun way and then just leave.

Yeah. You know what I mean? It was like, very hip people. Yeah, it's like guys who get into like magic together, but they're cool and then they just got to go deal with these fucking nerds all the time. That's how it is.

That's what Antelna made. Yes. He was a, was this punishment.

“Now, I think just a few years, Michael Aquino was a major insider at the Church of Satan.”

Although he took on all the nerd roles that Antelna Bay couldn't be bothered with. Like, for example, editing the church's internal publication, the clothing hoof. Excellent because I love templates. And I have to leave. Just get the fuck out of here.

I just feel like there were so many good conversations like, okay, my call. Now, get the fuck out of here. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done.

I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I don't want to hear that. I don't want to hear single more thing about the email list.

I'm going to fucking sacrifice you to myself. How many empty doorways did Michael Aquino talk through?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I don't want to die. I'll save it.

“I'll save it for when we're on a plane together.”

[laughter] Most importantly, though, Michael Aquino was a member of a Church of Satan's governing body, the Council of Nine. This presumably is how Aquino came to be so heavily involved in a short-lived organization structure called the Grotto System. Now, incredibly, the Grotto System was modeled after the Boy Scout troops, the both Aquino and the Vailovd. The idea was that the Grotto System would give each member a chance to be more than a so-called mail-order satinist.

Using the Grotto System, members could share in ritual practice and discussion with their own local satinists outside of San Francisco, wherever in the country they may be. By July of 1970, 25 satanic grottoes had been established around America, with names like the plutonian grotto, the Esmodius grotto, the Babylon grotto. The Karnat grotto, and the Yugoth grotto. Each grotto, which was required to have at least five members, could ask which grotto had that culprits. That's my main thing.

The Karnat grotto, yeah. Well, for almost a Connecticut.

Well, it's grotto, which was required to have at least five members, who's led by someone who is at least a second degree, which, or warlock.

Each grotto also had to be approved by Michael Aquino in the rest of the Council of Nine, who were all forced to agree. Which is, or warlocks. Oh, I just graduated. I'm fifth degree now. That is human groups.

Yes, I know. Yeah, that kind of is the problem. Yes, that's the main problem. When you just make up a bunch of stuff and you'd say, okay, all of you individuals, former group.

“So Ellen San Francisco, where was the next biggest community do you know?”

I actually don't know, but they were all over the country. Like I said, they're 25 of them. I would guess probably New York. It was New York and the UK. Yeah.

Well, grotto's also had to make monthly reports about its members, whatever one's up to. How are the rituals going? And some even had their own local newsletters, like Satan spawn, devil's advocate, children of the night. And my favorite, the Typhon Tusk. As far as Michael Aquino's role in the grotto system went, he handled some of the administration, and, of course, wrote the articles of protocol for the whole system.

Which outlined the purpose of the grotto. Oh, yeah. Anytime there's something with articles or protocol in it, Aquino's all over. Yeah, Mike, go, won't you take care of that? [laughter]

I was actually going to volunteer. [laughter] I was thinking of a 12.4 crisis. Let's go. That's great.

[laughter] Great.

“Michael, why do I need to hear every fucking minute of it?”

[laughter]

Do I get you every fucking second of it?

[laughter] Basically, you know, believe, because he was both an army man and an eagle scout, the people who work in formal organizations can realize their desires for power more easily. Grotto's allowed Satanists to help each other rather than go it alone. And black magic ceremonies were, of course, far easier to pull off if you had friends helping. But what does that do, Marcus?

It creates a series of hierarchies. And guess what Satanists don't like, series of fucking hierarchies, we don't like them. No, but they also hate being alone. Well, all humans do. [laughter]

Yeah, but that's the thing. Just because I'm hanging out with a bunch of people. Do I have to put a bunch of rules around it? Why we got to fucking all have titles. Yeah, can we just hang out?

Yeah. But even though things are going swimmingly for the Church of Satan on paper, it seems like Michael Kino's influence and the organization took a lot of the fun out of the enterprise for Anton the Bay. And the Bay began getting disillusioned with the whole affair within just a few years. In 1972, Anton the Bay ended his public ceremonies at the Black House.

In his mind, he'd wanted the Church of Satan to evolve into a, quote, "Coblistic underground," instead of the long-running patchant it had become. And that is, of course, his words, long-running patchant. And furthermore, the grotto system under Michael Kino had, again, in Levais' words, turned the Church into a Satan penpal club.

It's kind of funny. Yeah, it went from like ceremonies to meet it. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But concerning the pageantry, Levais began feeling embarrassed to be seen with members who wanted

to show the whole world that they were Satanists all the time wherever they went. Levais said that he'd step off a plane and there his dark children would be. Huddled together in Black velvet robes and capes with huge bath and met necklaces at the fucking airport, because there's a time in place for this shit. And it ain't the fucking airport.

I've learned. Yeah, he's got a target on his back. He doesn't need the moment he lands for there to be a crowd waiting for him.

Everybody kill him. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

“See how Lavez saw it, the grassroots people around the country didn't know much about subtlety or decorum.”

In other words, Levais was disappointed that his Satanists, they didn't know how to just be cool.

Just fucking hang out. It doesn't have to be like this all the fucking time. He said, and my, this is my favorite anton Levais quote. I was trying to present a culture manned image. And I was trying to tell him to be a manned image.

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And I was trying to tell him to be a manned image. And the start does look like a target. It does. Very much so. Levey and his family therefore moved to a house in Sonoma,

north of San Francisco after enduring a barrage of bricks, eggs, spray paints, bullets, and even a bomb. Levey became reclusive, fortifying the black house with surveillance cameras, and a 10-foot tall electrified fence. Even though he wasn't even live in there anymore.

It was more of a black house basically became like the Church of Satan's office.

Then around the Halloween of 1974, Levey went public with his dissatisfaction. He said in an interview that he wanted to be nowhere near San Francisco during Halloween. He didn't want to be the center of attention for a bunch of satinists. He didn't like a respect further explaining that for him, which I'd only fucking get.

Halloween was like New Year's Eve to a bartender. It's just a church. And I'm glad. I'm glad for a Tuesday night, man. That's when you want to meet the fucking Pope of the Church of Satan. I want to meet the Pope of the Church of Satan on April 14th.

Yes, little the day. Actually now April 14th back as he's going to be. He's in preparations for Valpar just knocked. Yes. Yeah, I want to meet him sometime in like June.

Yeah, what after? Yeah, the normal anti-Christian celebration. Levey also announced that in an attempt to steer the church back to a dignified place, he was done doing performative satanic rituals. He said that the new type of satinist is not ostentatious nor garrish,

but a substantial responsible citizen who prefers to keep a satinism on the inside rather than on his sleeve. Levey also dismantled Michael Achino's beloved grotto system, because the majority of the grottoes couldn't get their shit together, due to rivalries, scandals, and the general types of antics at one would expect more

in a high school glee club than in a satanic mini cult. Can I speak as the charismatic leader of a small group of people that do

“form side groups and explain that every single time you do that?”

When you form a Facebook group or you form a Reddit group, it begins to suck and it does begin to eat itself. Because the internet, because groups of people in those areas, for some reason, just slowly become like evil, a dark rat to each other. Whenever you're like a chat on their text chat,

like changes names for the fifth time, it's time to go. Yeah, it's time to get out of there. It's really, it's not just satinists. It's any group of people. You get too many people in one place and just for too long, everything has an end.

And you kind of just need to say like, okay, that's enough. But it seems like we're not doing the grotto system anymore,

Very much so.

“Because they were also what he's not telling the world,”

is that he himself was taking magic more seriously on his own personally.

Yeah. And that was the thing he sort of understand I wanted to do it for me. And the Michael Achino in the order of the trapezoid shit, all of that was supposed to be for his own private practice. And for him to sort of teach himself because according to Michael Achino, that's the idea, is that they started doing fake rituals.

And then one day, they met something real. Yes. I'm not ready. Now, Lavay did continue as a leader of the church, but he narrowed his focus on the more intellectual and, of course,

the wealthier followers. Mainstream fame is it turned out resulted in mainstream people all up in your shit. And from what it seems like, Lavay didn't want to be a mainstream figure. Instead, it seems like after the church of Satan began to be far more troubled than it was worth, and on the way became far more concerned with how he could worm his way into Hollywood.

Because Anton Lavay was, first and foremost, an entertainer. Oh, yeah, baby. Lavay had claimed that he'd worked as a satanic consultant on Rose Mary's baby, and it was rumored that it was Lavay himself who played Satan during the movie's impregnation scene. None of those things, of course, are true.

But it is interesting. Yeah, it was him and Blanc's keep himself. Yeah, he did. No, no, that's not true. He's just, he's an evil man.

Yes, yes. But it is interesting that Anton's detachment from the church

“does coincide with his increasing involvement in Hollywood productions,”

even if all of his contributions were in the decidedly B movie category. He just wanted to make movies at this point. He knew he knew he just wanted to make movies.

He never wanted to make a religion really.

No, entertainment. Yeah, exactly. He wanted to make entertainment. Movies TV, whatever. Yeah, but this is the big lesson here. The big lesson is that Louay, all of this magic shit works is that when Anton Lavay understood,

did not fully understand even in his creation of it, is that you can't control it. Yeah. And you really do become what you pretend to be. It is real.

That is fucking real. It's why the senators change. It's why these people change is because as soon as you get to that place, it changes you. Yeah, it does.

On 1973, Anton Lavay advised on a script for a TV movie starring William Shattner called the horror at 37,000 feet. Shattner, I suppose, was trying to recapture the magic of his classic Twilight Zone episode Nightmare at 20,000 feet. Oh, my God, it was the other thing.

I know. No, it's incredibly stupid. Yeah.

And that's also, it's interesting that remember William Shattner's other

Twilight Zone episode was the level, the little devil creature. You know, the, we're at the diner. You know, it's one more. Just one more.

“Yes, which is honestly incredible allegory for chat boxes and chat”

GPT. It is. It really is. Yeah, what do I do? Tell me what to do next.

Yes. But instead of a Grimland tearing the plane apart, that was Nightmare at 20,000 feet, horror at 37,000 feet. Completely different. I only different pitch.

I don't want to hear this. It's entirely different. 15,000 yards. Yeah. I like that.

I like that. Yeah. Okay. Football goes on a plane. Terror at 30,000 inches.

That's when I like it. It's a real low one, but I like that. Well, horror at 37,000 feet was a high-concept mess about a bunch of demonic druid ghosts causing havoc from an airplane's baggage compartment by torturing the passengers with demonic visions.

Yes. That would be William Shattner's worst film, which is sand a lot. Yeah. Just had to have been like, okay, right. Now, yet it goes.

Yeah, absolutely. All right. When he goes to the plane, go, where he had a Grimland on this fight. When he goes to the plane, it's fine. True.

It's the perfect. Yeah. Exactly. I was stunned. British people.

So scary. Absolutely. Where did Jordan go? Where did British go? Baggage.

In the bags. In the bags. Yeah. Because that's where crazy shit. No one knows it's in the bags.

Nobody knows it's in the plane. Yeah. That's a scary part of the plane. Aren't we all mentally carrying a lot of things? That's what I'm saying.

I got it myself. It's not even self. You know, people say you can't do it with TV. It's just wrong. We're doing it.

We're doing it. But even though horror was a fucking flop, Leve also consulted on a movie called The Methisto Waltz about a dying Satanist piano player who transfers his soul into the body of a younger man. That younger man was played by Alan Alde, you know, for match.

Wow. Yeah. Now I haven't seen him. The poster from The Ifisto Waltz is fucking awesome. It's very cool.

It's got a girl on the floor and she's drawn a pentagram. It's very cool. Oh yeah. I hear like the set is really cool, but overall like they say Alan Alde is the worst part of the movie.

What? Yeah.

I can't dial. Not all the time. Yeah. He's young.

“Well, we'll say we're saying that the set is good.”

It's not a good movie. Give me a minute. Yeah. Yeah. You know, wow.

I just can't believe it. Yeah. Wow. They really put a lot of work at that. Well, I'm a massive B movie guy.

So whenever someone says like the set is incredible, I'm like watch that.

Yeah. And this one got better reviews, but the praise was mostly focused on the occult imagery. The set, you know, all the various things in the background. That, of course, was all the vase doing critics. However, we're less kind about the car, which involved the possessed Lincoln continental

that runs people over for no good reason and was parodyed many years later in an episode of Futurama called the Honking. Yeah. We had everything to do with Christine. Yeah.

“Well, I think it was somewhere around the same time as Christine.”

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out of all the movies and on the way it was involved with in ways big and small. None were more insane, more Satanic, more entertaining, nor more incoherent than the devil's reign. Oh, it's awesome. Yeah, starring again, William Shattner as well as Tom Scarrot as the hero and Ernest Borgnein in one of his best roles as a manic, satanic priest. Dude, it was awesome. I Marcus made me watch it last night and I can't tell if I know more or less about Satanism.

You know less. You know less? You know less. You know less? You're doing this for nice. Amazing in this movie.

Yeah, I really enjoyed it. And he disavowed afterwards. Yes, although it was, you know, he said later that all I had my troll the whole time, he didn't. He had a fucking great time. Everyone on the, everyone on the set had a great time except William Shattner. And the only reason why William Shattner had a bad time was because it was filmed in Mexico and nobody in Mexico knew who the fuck William Shattner was. No, it's seen Star Trek.

And so he was jealous. The set was nice. The set was amazing. Yeah, and bonus horror movie fact, a plastic mold was made of William Shattner's face for the big climax in the devil's reign. And that mold was turned to a mass produced Halloween mask. That same model of mask was later painted white and turned to the face of Michael Myers for the Halloween movies. Hell yeah, fascinating. So it did lead to something good. Yeah, it did. Oh, it actually won't be. We're going to get through here in a second.

It had to a lot of shit. Now, concerning the devil's reign, the plot barely makes sense. And I've seen it like a few times. Yeah, they melt. Because of the reign. That's because of the doings of the reign. Well, best is I can tell that Ernest Borgneum plays a satanic priest who's been trying for hundreds of years to obtain a book from a family of former followers. The book is filled with the names of followers. Borgneum has obtained for Satan. You know,

we're all the Salem witch trials stuff. You know, they put the name in the devil's book. But those souls cannot be claimed by Satan until Borgneum gets the book back and they're in lies the plot.

“Oh, it's kind of like when you left all your marble miles like if you had left them behind and you can't get them. So that's what he needs.”

Oh, that's what he needs. Yeah. Yeah. No, I don't count. No, I don't count. No, no, no, marble miles and have it. No. Oh, you can smoke as much as you are. But if you don't turn them in, you ain't getting the windbreaker. Now, the devil's reign was a full on production. An anton of A was present for the entire five week shoot down in Mexico. He did set design, costume design, and his name is prominently displayed in the opening credits as technical advisor and high priest

of Satan, which I mean, it's more of a publicity stunt than anything. I'm happy for him. This was his dream. It was. But anton of A did put quite a bit of Satanism into the movie. And he did work both as an advisor and as crew when needed during the filming of one scene. For example, Leve led the local Mexican extras playing satanic cult members in a recitation of actual magical rituals from the lesser key of Solomon, which were also printed in the satanic Bible. But since the extras

didn't speak English, Leve wrote out syllable by syllable cue cards for the scene and he stood next to the cards during the filming, pointing to each syllable for the extras benefit. This

first of all, this is a little happy you all here. I'm like contento. Just uh, apprehendo. Just uh,

“let's see. And though, I just want to say, uh, okay, we're going to do with some of his Regier. Regier.”

Regier. Very good. Satanist. Say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, no, no, no, no, I know it what you're saying that. But today, Satanist is window. They did actually have to search like far and wide for locals who were willing to be in the movie because most of them were scared chillers. All the whole thing, the whole production being around them. I had a, you know, we have our handyman or Toro, if we talk with him quite a bit about

the devil and Madrid. Now we understand quite a bit about it. That's good. That's really good. I did once have a cleaning lady, uh, leave my, uh, leave my home halfway and the through the job, uh, after she, uh, cleaned my office. Actually, she just walked into the office and then just left without saying work. When the lady that came and cleaned our, we have a wonderful lady. I only named her by name because, you know, she's wonderful. She works for here at the network too. But I will

always say that after that murder for show we did from the 20th anniversary and I didn't know

I'd left the dildo inside of my pants. Um, for this scene, you know, it's like a whole thing. It was like a dildo just there and monks my pants and she can take it out in the scene. So I didn't even think about it. Was the nacho cheese still on it? Yeah, and um, she cleaned it all off and left it on top of the sink. That's so nice. It was one of the nicest things because I know it wasn't on the sink before and then I came back and it was definitely just on the sink.

That's a fucking raised move. I did not give her a, I give her a little bit of a good bonus for that. No, I can't just feel like a shushu. You know, like we don't always fuck my, my ass, you know,

“you don't have to clean the dildo's, but if you do, could you use the centred oil?”

Not satisfied to stand behind the camera. Levee even talked his way into camiose and if you scenes, but interestingly, when you watch those scenes, Anton Levee looks uncomfortable,

almost nervous, which is why I think Anton Levee never quite made it in Hollywood.

See, Levee could hang with intellectuals, magicians and even movie stars one on one. But in the end, I think that Hollywood as a whole, it may have been just a little too intimidating of an experience for the dirty Pope to handle. Everybody thinks they can do it. Everybody thinks they can do it. They really do. And then you step on stage sometimes and you realize, oh, what have I done? And I think that he's used to being the coolest guy in the room. Yeah. And then when you're there

and you're at the various board nine, you ain't going to be the coolest guy in the room. I don't know, sir. Not on the movie set. Especially on Ernest,

“board nine when he puts on that fucking amazing devil makeup. Oh my god, it's incredible.”

Dude, so cool. The makeup of that movie is really good. It's insane. That's a movie star. That's not just that's Ernest, we forget about that. That's not wild, bunch. That's fucking a movie star winner. Marty, you know, like, he's, I can feel him being like, oh, I'm second fiddle here. Yeah. And he's, yeah, he does the Beijing Mr. Herman, like he does that thing. He's like looking down the plane. Yeah, like it. No, it's it. There's the

first scene that he's in. He's kind of in the background and is you can see his eyes darting around. He's like looking at the members of the production. He even has a giant gold helmet on. Yes, I can't do it. Yeah. But the most interesting bit of trivia about the devil's rain concerns the actor who played the head henchmen in the satanic cult. He only had one line. But the devil's rain was indeed the first movie to ever feature John Travolta. They gave him billing, too,

even though he had one line. Well, they gave him billing because of the job that he booked after filming was done. So we've mentioned this many times before, but it was on the set of the devil's rain that someone gave the stressed out young actor a book that they said would help manage his life. That book was, of course, dionetics. And it was that book that set Travolta down the path towards Scientology. But you think that maybe you could get me one of them. Get

it is because Devil's rain is like Anton LaVaze battlefield Earth. Interestingly though, even though Travolta's role was a smaller one, it was and even though John Travolta was at this point. It was his first movie. He was not a star in any way whatsoever. It was said that he and Anton the Vabeck came fast friends and a picture does indeed exist of the two of them standing together in a candid moment. And it really shows you Anton LaVaze. He said

there were in a fucking t-shirt. Anton LaVaze, everybody says, was the most charming man in the room when you met him. And when you met him, he's the exact, he's everything. You wouldn't think he's be. He's like warm and ingratiating and sweet and like, like memorizes your name, dissolves his carney. Yes, he's really good at it. See Travolta was fascinated by old Hollywood, particularly

with Marilyn was not about her looks or her gnashing and farting during orgasm as LaVaze had put it.

“Instead, LaVaze said that John Travolta wanted to know how Marilyn moved and acted,”

because Travolta could do the most convincing and realistic Marilyn Monroe in personation that Anton LaVaze had ever seen. Straight as an arrow about John Travolta. I just like to see a straight guy give a give a lady a shot. Straight as a dildo.

I mean, I mean, he's fucking damn mean at the hairspray. He's an incredible drag queen.

Oh, really it's incredible in hairspray. Yeah, I've tried to forget how to do it. LaVaze also said that he took such a shining to Travolta that he did a satanic success ritual for John Travolta during filming. And sure enough, shortly after Travolta did indeed book the role that would make him famous. At when he booked Vinnie Barbarino on welcome back Carter. And that is why John Travolta is in the opening credits because between the filming of the

movie and the release of it, he got on welcome back Carter and was immediately famous. Wow. That happens all the time. Such a funny thing to do a ritual for a giant satanic ritual to get welcome back Carter. To become a sweat hog. Let me just hear that name. Let me hear you do it one more time. I just need to hear to make sure it was. Yes, I can see it now. Travolta was brutal and carry though. He was. He very much was. Yeah, but that was a way

“with brutal mug of Mac Carter. He had his little taste of satanism. I think he was able to”

channel it in the other place. There's many people that have had he run in with both. But while John Travolta is in Conner with Ant on the Bay is one of those forgotten pieces of Hollywood trivia, the celebrity relationship that has become legendary over the decades is Anton's long friendship with the singer, actor, and entertainer, Sammy Davis Jr. Mr. Bow-Jangle. Yeah, I love Sammy Davis here. Oh, how could you not? I love him. He's amazing.

Now, I always thought that Sammy Davis Jr's reputation as a satanist was a joke, a passing fancy

overblown throughout the years because it is objectively insane that a member of Frank Sanatra's rat pack was a devoted satanist. But while it isn't sane, it is also very true. And it's shockingly makes a lot of sense. It does. Was it public? At times. Yeah, he would talk about it. He wrote about it in his books. He would say not true. No. So not well, we're going to get to that here in a bit about Sanatra's opinions on it and how it may have affected Sammy Davis Jr's

relationship with Anton the Bay. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's interesting because it also brings Anton the Bay one step closer to Don Rickles again. Yeah, right? Yeah. By the way, the information about and Sammy Davis Jr and Anton the Bay mostly comes from this fantastic Rolling Stone article written a couple of years ago called Inside Sammy Davis Jr's secrets satanic past by Alex bought a charging and fucking, it's a really great read. And I watch a great documentary on him.

Uh, and he really Sammy Davis Jr's just won what a complicated figure. Extraordinary complicated. His song The Joker is a must for any comedian. It is. Mr. Bojangles is in cry. I love myth. I love this song, Mr. Bojangles. Yeah. Yeah, but you know, but Sammy Davis Jr was a singer, not a writer. Exactly. He just did a fantastic version of Mr. Bojangles and his version of Mr. Bojangles was sad. Yes. Yeah. That was really pretty dirt band. I believe the real Bojangles.

“I, that's what I'm going to say it is without Google. It was either them Jerry Jeff Walker,”

maybe Bob Dylan. I don't know. But to understand how and why Sammy Davis Jr was so drawn to Satanism, you got to understand Sammy Davis Jr. And in understanding Sammy Davis Jr, you might understand why a lot of people are drawn to the church of Satan. See more than even most performers, Sammy Davis Jr was driven and defined by a constant and desperate need for acceptance, which came mostly from the complications and humiliations that he had to deal with

as a black American born in 1925. Hailing from Harlem, Sammy Davis Jr's parents were both Vaudeville entertainers. But while his dad was black, his mother was Cuban and strangely incredibly racist. Sammy's own mother would hurl racist remarks at Sammy from birth,

telling him that he looked like a little monkey and not in a cute way. No. And his mother never

let him forget how dark his skin really was. And he was one of those where he never went to school. No, he could barely read or write natural entertainers. So performing at the age of three,

Fuck school. Exactly. Hey, babe Ruth was good at school. You think Bruce Lee fucking did math?

It's 2026. People who need to go to school. That school is not good now. I ain't going to know fucking schools. We know you're not anymore. You went to elementary school junior high in high school. I did graduate high school. You went to a bunch of like way too many years like a community college. You went there for a couple of years and did nothing. Yeah. I run on the school paper. That was my only class. That's nice. Yeah. Well, Sammy Davis junior toward extensively

throughout his childhood until he was drafted to fight in World War II in 1943. But after spending years absorbing cheers and applause from crowds, he was now dealing in the army with racial slurs

“and physical violence from white soldiers. Davis's nose was broken repeatedly. That's what gave”

him. You know, he's got that flat bridge on his nose. It came from soldiers breaking his nose over and over and over again. But that wasn't even a hard time in the army. He's also small guys. He's as he was five four. He was very small guy. That wasn't even close to the worst of it. Soldiers would cover his body and white paint. They'd write the inward on his chest once they even soaked him in urine. The only time he wasn't abused, he said, was when he was performing

for those same soldiers, which has got to fuck you up. Also, it's crazy that he just ran with white dudes. Well, this is the part of the complicated thing of Sammy Davis junior by the time. Sammy Davis junior wanted to make it in show business. And he knew the complicated relationship he would have to string in order to make it make it make it, which means he would need to be entered into, which is at this point a bard-off white person's world. And he would need to be

“invited into it, which does did happen. And there were couple of guys that was that one that put his”

whole family on. They put them on when they were younger. And they put Sammy, and it was the first

guy to ever touch a black man. It was this guy. It was I forgot his name. It was his host where he took Sammy Davis junior and he kissed him on the cheek and it changed everything. It was the segregated show. But it took you had to appreciate himself with a bunch of people who hated him. Yeah, did do it. He made a lot of compromises. And, you know, as we're about to get into, like, it gave a really bad fucking reputation. It did. Now, after his discharge, Sammy Davis

junior returned to the stage and soon skyrocketed to start him. But after the near fatal car crash in 1954, the gave him his trademark glass eye, Sammy started questioning the nature of God in spirituality. Because Sammy Davis junior was a seeker of spiritual knowledge. And he automatically understood this idea of, oh, God gives me these challenges. These are just

“challenges and shit. Fuck you. Why? Why? Now, he started with Scientology. But thankfully”

moved on to Judaism with all due speed. But reportedly, after he told his Jewish friend, the comedian Jerry Lewis, that he'd converted to Judaism. Lewis said, and I'd like you to take this one, Eddie. Well, you don't have the problems already? Which is that incredibly funny thing. He is. And apparently, he's he learned Hebrew. Yeah. Billy Crystal said he would call him for challenges of the soul. Yeah. He would call him as his rabbi. No, he was really good

to Billy Crystal, the Tories. Yeah. But while Sammy's fame was still rising, he continually had to put up with bullshit from people who didn't accept him for who he was. When he joined Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and the rest to form the rat pack in the 50s, Davis found himself the butt of many erasus joke. Sinatra routinely called Davis smokey. And he said the Davis had to smile to be seen in the dark. Dean Martin was fond of picking up

the diminutive Sammy Davis junior and saying that he would like to thank the NAACP for this wonderful trophy. He was a prop. Yeah. And he knew that he served a function within the rat pack.

And it became at first he thought he had power over it. But then the bigger the rat pack got,

the more it became like aimed at him. Yeah. Yeah. Well, those old Rose, those old Dean Martin Rose were so racist. He was barely a part of them though. Yeah. He didn't do any of that really. Yeah. Sammy Davis junior had also married a white woman. And his interracial marriage caused quite the stir amongst the establishment. So when Sammy Davis junior entered the 1960s, he was seen as too forward thinking for the whites. But because of his association with the rat pack,

he was seen as too much of an uncle Tom for black radicals. He was in a hardcore black guy before that. No. I mean, he joined Martin Luther King junior at the March home Washington and in Selma, he was on the KKK's kill list. But the black power radicals of the 60s, they saw Sammy Davis junior as an assimilationist. And they were none too fond of him marrying a white woman either. So after divorcing his wife for unrelated reasons, Davis chased acceptance

in the black community by growing his hair into a big afro, buying a few designer de shikis,

at this point that Sammy Davis junior had an inshishable sexual appetite. Yeah. And Altevice Gore

“was fully accepting when Davis told her that the only way it was going to work is if they had an”

open marriage. Which is Satanic. Yeah. It's most of both jungles. You can't just let him have one lady. But despite his efforts, Sammy Davis junior still spent the 60s as a pariah amongst his own people and a prop amongst the whites. Plus, because he wasn't a songwriter, he didn't have any money from royalties. All of his movies also flopped because his audience was aging. And the kids in the 60s didn't give a shit about Sammy Davis junior. So in a desperate bed to be wanted

by anybody, Sammy made an extremely ill-advised appearance at the 1972 Republican convention, where he hugged a visibly uncomfortable Richard Nixon on stage. Which you know, that fucker should have been thinking his lucky stars that Sammy Davis junior wanted to be and standing next to him. And it's really, it's that because he did it to fucked up Sammy Davis junior's whole life. Oh, yeah.

“The whole rap act was there. I imagine. No. It was just Sammy Davis junior. It was the pictures”

like it Sammy Davis junior. He's hugging Richard Nixon. He's got his eyes closed and Nixon looks like he's get the fuck off of me. Yes. It looks bad for everybody. And the backlash, of course, nearly ruined Sammy's career. But after he appeared on an episode of the controversial sitcom all in the family, in which he adlibbed a shocking kiss with Archie Bunker, the show's resident bigot, Sammy Davis junior had a little bit of cultural cachet. And he wrote that whole thing. Yes.

He didn't use a prize all of them. Mm-hmm. Davis, therefore, got a meeting with NBC to discuss projects and Davis pitched an idea about a guy who worked for Satan. Dude, he did your pretty

face going. Well, we're going to get to that in a second. We're going to get to that in a second. I have

some questions about that. And coincidentally, NBC already had a comedy with a similar concept

“with the working title, Beat the Devil, written by the same guys who'd helped bewitched. So,”

you know, they already knew a little bit about witchiness, Satanism, so on and so forth. Their idea was folded into Sammy's idea of a Satanic comedy. And thus a show called Poor Devil starring Sammy Davis junior as a damned soul named Sammy was born and put into production. Yeah, he couldn't be in B witch because if he winked he would have fell off. Yeah. Now, Poor Devil is in essence a satanic version of it's a wonderful life. Davis plays a

damned soul working the coal furnace who wants a promotion in a business like hell in which he's been working for over a thousand years. So, Ernest Satanic wings, so to speak, he has to convince an accountant at a department store on earth, played by Jack Klugman from the odd couple to sell his

soul to the devil, played by none other than Christopher Lee. Incredible cast. Hey, it sounds incredible.

Also, Adam West is in it. But aside from a few entertaining moments, it is surprisingly bland. It has good ideas, but it's still written like a 1973 NBC TV movie. It's got terrible pacing way too much filler and a lot of bad jokes. But they made him cut all the cool shit. Of course. But the way hell piss rivers? No, no piles of rapists playing basketball. Speaking of piss rivers, the way hell destruction on the show is more of a business. It's fairly similar to how

your show, your pretty face is going to hell, is set up. So, do you know if fucking Dave Willis and Casper Kelly, do you know if they ever saw Poor Devil? I'm literally emailing him right now. I don't know. I'm asking both of them right now. I'm literally going to ask him right now. You were like mad when Marcus was describing the plot, but it's like this obviously came out way before. It's 73. 1973. Was it called again? Poor Devil. Poor Devil. Yeah, and it's about an

hour or ten minutes long. And it's fully like it is like Sammy's character, his, you know, damn soul character. He even has like a girlfriend who works reception. You know, there's offices. It's pretty face. It's a great idea. Yeah. I mean, yeah. It's a great idea. Yeah. It's almost like a show. This should still be a television show. It could have continued for a bunch years of the entire network continue to do exist. And then can't now because they destroyed the

network. And they took the building now. They they tore the building out. Where we did it all. So let's say it, right? It's course. I loved it. I could have seen more. I could have seen much more. It's definitely, you know, your best work. Thank you. Yeah, it is. Glitterness. Yeah. You know, I actually have no problem agreeing with it. No, well, poor Devil is not good. It does have far more satanic overtures than anyone watching

at home may have realized. And that was all due to Sammy Davis Jr. The most entertaining part of

even got one little fingernail painted red. The executive producer of the show was impressed by these

“little details that Sammy Davis Jr. put into the show. Think in that Sammy had merely done extra”

research for the role. But what nobody knew was that Sammy Davis Jr. had been dancing around the Church of Satan for years and had even participated in satanic rituals in the late 60. Hollywood used to be so much more fun. Who used to be better. Sammy Davis Jr. himself wrote. He wrote in 1968 back when the Church of Satan was still hip. He got an impromptu invitation from a group of young actors who were all attending the Church of Satan ritual in the Hollywood

Hills. At the ceremony, Davis saw a hooded priest insert a massive dildo into a naked woman lying at top and altar and much to the approval of the famously horny Sammy Davis Jr. who also enjoyed his substances quite a bit. The whole thing ended in a drug fueled orgy. Yeah, I like the way this is going here, cat. That's my Sammy Davis Jr. I'm trying to get it. Yeah, it's hard to do us. I was trying to get on to you. Yeah, yeah, Davis wrote quotes.

It was all fun and games and that and just bought for it. I can't understand what you're saying. Again, I'm sorry you're saying at all. Yeah. Yeah. You're not a fun game. Yeah, it's a drag engine to battery. I'll tell you. Okay, I'll tell you. I'll tell you. There's all fun and games and dungeon and dragons into batteries. And as long as the chick was happy and wasn't really going to get anything sharper than a dildo stuck in a, I wasn't going to walk away

from it. That sounds like Sammy. That's a little bar. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is a little bar. It's

“sharper than a dildo as long as we're not going to burn it. Yeah, I'm here. Anything else?”

Play ball. And as long as she's into it, that's like as long as she's happy. But besides the sex, the point here was that the church of Satan had a policy of radical acceptance for better or worse. And Sammy Davis Jr. was a man who had spent his entire life searching for a place where he could be accepted and wanted for who he actually was rather than what people thought he should be.

Well, you know, he went through Scientology first even before Judaism. Yeah, I mentioned it.

Yeah, so were you listening? Yeah. No, I don't know if you said he went. He got hardcore slightly in a Scientology very first. Then the Judaism hit and he liked Judaism and he did that. And then he really was just like, oh, he was just truly like, I just loved this guy. Old school Hollywood guy. He was just like spiritually seeking. Yeah, and super mixed up and dropped into an incredibly hard situation and an incredibly hard time to be a black American. And the church of Satan

made him happy. Yeah, and they accepted them. Yeah. Now, Sammy was, as we said, a natural born seeker. So he learned what he could about Satanism and later put those details into poor devil.

But when the TV movie finally aired in 1973, set in San Francisco, no less, there was someone

down at LaVaze Black House watching poor devil with wrapped interest. That viewer was Dianhagarti, co-founder of the Church of Satan. And when Jack Klugman's character is trying to find Sammy halfway through the show, Klugman reached for the phone and exclaimed, the church of Satan, downtown. They'll know how to reach him. And with that mention of the Church of Satan on a mainstream TV show, Dianhagarti later said that he nearly fell out of her chair. Two days later,

Hagarti got a letter from Michael Alcino. He had also seen poor devil and he gave a gushing review calling the program, quote, "I made nothing commercial for the church." LaVaze agreed and began formulating a plan to recruit Mr. Show business into the church of Satan. And that is where we will pick back up next week for our conclusion to our series on Antonovay. And that's also a couple of these nerds, small little mistakes and little, like let's just say,

they things that they left out. The show put it in would lead to a lot of devastation in a way. We would actually see this will turn into, you got the Church of Satan on one hand that will turn into some form political organizations largely neutered. And then the temple of set that will spawn a bunch of evil fuckers. And we will get there.

Oh yeah, this has been a lot of fun. I appreciate you guys. I always wanted to learn about Antonovay,

“but never cared to crack the book myself. There we go. That's why we do this.”

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verse Julie. And you're going to see all of your judges come back and come in for a quick blast. I know you. No mercy at your wife. I dare you to try and fight her because she will walk both of our asses. He's so actively is where I'm saying physically she could take.

Oh, I know. She's quite strong. Yes, you know with the rocks. Very strong. And if you watch the

stream on YouTube, it premieres directly after that. And that's going to be 7 p.m. PST on YouTube. And the stream of course comes out every Thursday at 6 p.m. Great. And we're hitting the road. We got three JK Ultra's left. That's it. You fucking animals. All right. So June 27th, Grand Rapids, Michigan, GLC live in 20 men row.

And then the next night, Henry and I are going off to London, Ontario to do some side stories.

Check that out. Sweet Ontario Murder Capital of Canada. Oh, great. July 17th, Tulsa Oklahoma, Kings Ballroom, July 18th, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. That's going to be at the tower theater. And then I'm hitting the road. I'm doing a lot of stand up. I got to show the very next night in Plano, Texas. I got a shit ton of shows in July. I'm going to be in Bethlehem, New York, New York City, Plano. And then I'm going to be all over the

place. Go check it out. Just come see me live. Oh, here in LA. Henry and I are going to do the comedy stories. Wow. Wow. It's going to be a blast. We're going to do the belly room. They're going to sit. We're going to go in there. We're just going to impress the hell out of these standards. Yeah, to be for Edlerson and friends on July 26th, go check that out. And then I'll be in Chicago after that. Could have to do this. I come for all tickets. Mm-hmm. Thanks. Hellsign y'all. Oh,

“hellgain. Helltutsy. Helltutsy. Helltutsy. Oh, yeah. What are they always go so young?”

Yeah, oh my god. She had so much time to live. I can't believe it, but honestly, you did good and you treated it well and you sent it off in a nice way. I did. I did. It was a good baby girl. And when I get the ashes back, I'll shoot him out of the cannon. That's Instagram. Fuck yeah. Do they send those in the mail or is there a courier? Sometimes I send them in the mail, but it depends on where you go. I got to go pick mine up. Okay. Yes. And I will. And I did not

tutut. Got these at home, the people who come in my grave. They charge like a motherfucker. I took her to the vet. Okay. Two bucks. The home? They the nature. It's like $1,000. I was like, I was on a hold. They're like, make your decision in the next 10 minutes. I was like, oh fuck yourself.

“And the key is you need to have an awning that you can put a news over. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, I don't”

fucking smother myself. I thought you meant at home cremation. No, no, no, that. Yeah. It's whoa. Just like a fucking ceramic like thing that you could just toss animals in. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what the room brother had had one of those. It probably be a truck.