The Final Years of Anton LaVey

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On the left That's when the cannibalism started It was that All'll load you up, bro. Before we begin in today's episode, I want to warn you about the level of nerdiness we're about to enter into. Eddie was not ready. W. He was not prepared as we were talking in the preamble about the things that we wanted to bring up in today's episode. He was actually I could kind of feel His disappointment, but also I mean, the disappointment, I felt indifference. Yeah, yeah. see, I think what's good about the nerdiness in these episodes is I was able to lose my respect for both of you. it really helps me as an employee. right. It allows you to make braver choices. It happens with all of them Congratulations Welcome to the last podcast on the left, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Mcus Parks. I'm here with the scholarly Henry Zebrowfi. I'm going to end this whole show with a sort of allegorical rundown of how I'm going to apply Gandalf's entire like life traveling moment, all the things he learned to the story of Anton Leveay. that is at the end so there's going gonna to be plenty of fun until then. We have. We have the man that's bringing us the fun Lars. That's right, man. I you know what I did today? I wanted to bring up the cool. I got my George Clinton shirt. Yeah yah. I want to make sure that everyone knew that at least one of us is kind of cool. I brought it back down with my Neil Adams Batman t shirt. actuallyctually, I think I destroy everything with my two volume set of the history of the Church of Satan written by Michael Aquino. seven hundred pages of total correspondence mayham seven hundred pages each No three hundred and fifty pages each and one of the books is just the appendices for the first one. Yeah, veryer much smack of copy paper. Oh, yeah, this is great. This come you can honestly, I'm really happy. a lot of. You can run these at work. Yeah It's great.ah your satanic sacrifice was getting laid again. Hey She won't read it. hopefull you want to see naked pictures of Susan Atkins? Susan Akins. Susan Atkins, the Manson girl. There' some naked pictures in here. It's awesome. Oh, okay, dude you fucuckking don't know how cool shit can be once you get books. know the internet? No man. This is how I like to masturbate. I like to masturbate with gigantic like little plate sections of penases. Look at that. lookook at these bananas There's some hot seventies babes in this sh. Henry uses stage blood as fucking body lotion when he jerks I' Well, we're not gonna to get into the nerdative just yet. We're still in the cool. We're still in the story of Sammy Davis junior. Ohuck ye And we last let the story of Anton Levee and the Church of Satan. We were right in the middle of telling the tale of how one of their most unlikely adherents, entertainer, Sammy Davis Junior, became friends with Anton and the rest of the Church of Satan crew And when Sammy Davis Jr.'s TV movie, pooor Devil aired on NBC with obvious references to real Satanism, like Sammy's oft repeated flashing of the Devil horn. Yeah baby. Yeah I love them. Yeah The program caught the attention of the upper echelons of the Church of Satan Diane Hagarti, co founder of the Church of Satan, some might say the entire brains behind the entirety of the Church of Satan. She said that she was flabbergasted. when Henry, I like how you you grabbed your book and then decided to put it back down this It's in this book. Ibvestly this entire book shows that Anton Lvay He didn't do anything Thank you isn't this the other guy? Isn't this a keno show? Long story. Well get to I make him look better We know, we know Well Diane Hagari said that she was flabbergasted when she saw a lovable, funny, harmless demon being depicted on TV by no less than Sammy Davis Jr., who in nineteen seventy four was one of our more harmless celebrities She was also excited because if people began seeing Satanist as something closer to Sammy Davis junror and further away from, say Charles Manson, then the church could really get cooking on membership Michael Aquino, who was still Anton Levee's right hand man in nineteen seventy three, he surprisingly agreed. In his letter to Diane Hagarti in which he called Poor Devil a magnificent commercial for the Church, he added that the show's message was not far afield from what Satanists believed. And in this, I actually agree with Michael Aquino. I noticed it as I was watching Poor Devil In Poor Devil, the accountant played by Jack Klugman wants revenge on his boss, playlayed by Batman's Adam West, in his usual style of acting in which he sounds like he's constantly on the verge of a painful orgasm he doesn't actually want.on't you get me, Milk. It's gonna be. I'm for you get another day off Klgman another day. But Adam West's character is constantly taking advantage of Klugman's character and generally makes Klugman's character's life miserable, which made Adam West's character a perfect target for revenge. Klugman's character, however, bulks at revenge and takes it all back when he sees that his plan is gonna hurt a lot more people Besides just his boss. H whole plan is he's gonna empty out the department store where they both work on december twenty fourth and Adam West is going to look like a deckhead. But then he realizes that it's going to ruin Christmas for a lot of people. and a lot of the people who work at the store are also going to get hurt. So he says Bing it all back, Bring it all back in. Wow, even Satanists wan to save Christmas Well, if you listen to a lot of Satanists, truly Satanism, how do but Christmas. onene of a Gh's like favorite side holidays that isn't Halloween. Yeah because Christmas is also just as filled with dark magic and all these kind of crazy dumb shit as anything else. Santa's a fucking home ak in he's a fucking thief in the night. He breaks in your house magically. he punishes you if you're wrong. You know what I mean? Well And also just at a very base level, Satanism is very materialistic and what's more materialistic than American Christmas? Nothing. N Nothing in the world. But even though it seems like Klugman's backtrack is going to leave him right back where he started The mere act of focusing his energies on revenge, that results in his boss losing his mind and his job to Klugman himself. So with the help of Sammy Davis Jror's cartoonish Satanism, Klugman still gets his revenge, He still gets his greatest wish, but he does so without hurting anyone except the one who deserves it But Kino is correct. It was actually quite satanic. It was and my the guys, Dave Willis and Casper Kelly they made yourre prettyty face is going to hell. I didn't understand that they had held a screaming of poor deevil with Dana from your prettyre Face is going to Hell. Yeah master shake. Master shake. They kind of went and they they did a viewing of it and they had a great time. Yeah Now Anton theveay didn't even see poor Dvil, but after talking to Hagarti in Akino, he also saw the potential here, and the three of them began hatching plans and plots Poor Devil was a TV movie running about seventy minutes, but it had the potential to go to series. So Anton initially aimed to get screen time in future episodes, and perhaps even swing a location shoot at the Church of Satan's Black House. Again, it sounds like it's for the church, but really It's more about getting Anton into Hollywood. That's all it is or at least getting Hollywood close to Anton. And that's sweet location fee. No very good loocation fee. Michael Aquino, meanwhile, was focused on church business as always He suggested that Anton give Sammy Davis Junir an honorary magical position. and it's said that Hagarti openly wondered what Sammy Davis Jior would think about being offered the opportunity to be the world's first Back Jewish Satanic warlock. Yeah That's a fucking gold man. That's a fucking resume. Yeah, man.inger The candyman. I mean, yeah, I mean isn't he the one who wrote Candy Man for Willy Wonka. know, he got well, no Candyman was originally in the musical. he it's kind of funny. He famously hated that song. He said it was his biggest hit though. Yeah He started singing it and then he has to go do it everywhere, but he did not write the Candyman. He covered the candyman. He covered the Candyan Okaykay. all right It turned out, nothing in this world could have made Sammy Davis Junror happier than being the first black Jewish Satanic warlock. I may be getting his eye back. It like you really bummed him out for a while. Well, the Church of Satan sent a letter offering the honorary wararlock position and just a month later, Davis sent a letter back saying he was all in Now after accepting their membership, Davis sweetly said that he was pleased that no one at the Church of Satan was offended by a poor devil. we fy understood Satan is can't get offended. No. That the whole thing. What are he talking about? Satan is getting offended all the time. Yeah, I mean, not by stuff like N not by attention Davis then gave the Church of Satan his upcoming performance dates in the Bay Area so they could present him with his honorary wararlock degree in person. Oh my God, so many angry Italians And Laveet was quite pleased to find that one of Sammy's local concerts just happened to fall on Friday the thirteenth. hell yeah. Furthermore, theater where Sammy was performing was called the Circle Star Theater. A circle in a star is of course, a pentagram, so the coincidences urging them all to move forward just kept coming And so on the night of the performance, just before Sammy Davis Jr. went out in front of an audience of almost four thousand, he received his wararlock ordainment certificate and his official Baffemet medallion, although Anton Leveay did not present it himself In a letter to Michael Aquino, Lavee wrote that they should all just play it cool elaborating further that the less they push Better Sammy's opinion of the church would be. Anton Levee. So Michael Aquino writes this letter to Anton Levee, how proud he is. And the first time he got to meet Sammy Davis Jr., he was like, not only with Sammy absolutely impressed with my theological breakdowns of all the differences between what we believe and do not believe. So was his PR people and his manager. So I gave him both the Tatanic Bible and I gave him And Anton Leve said truly one of the great a great piece of show business advice. Never talk to the PR guy if you could talk to the celebrity. He's like, stop talking to the PR guy right now. Don't give him anything. The PR guy is not your friend. Fuck the PR guy. Sammy's your friend. You talk to Sammy. If you want Sammy and you want to talk to Sammy, you call fucking Sammy because guess what? You give the PR guy the satanic Bible I guess we're never gonna to see again. Sammy. So you just got to fucking just talk to Sammy. So Angel Lve is good adv He great advice. Angelveay is constantly fighting this idea of open an underground Satanism, which we'll get into And so after the backstage ceremony, Samon Davis Jr. went out with Baffamette displayed prominently on his chest and he performed one hell of a show. then closed his performance with an anthem that might as well be the Church of Satan's theme song If you would So I'm right Whether I'm wrong Whether I find a place and this world or never belong I gotta be me Gotta be me. What else can I be aard? I have It gotta be me. It gotta be me. It iss such a good obnoxious karaoke song. It is such a good like just like that fike. Catax hive. I forgot about that fucking song and I jammed that whole album when we were listening to this. Sammy is like I think it's my favorite rack backacker now. easasily. He's my number two. Obviously, I like Frank. I like his vice I love Frank's voice and stuff, but he's my number two. See Dean was my guy and he took over for that. So Frank's down to number three for me. Dann. Yeah. And unfortunately, you know His last name is Bishop. so he's out. Bishop Fuck off! Joey Now Anton, Hagarti, and Akino spent the next few months weirdly hovering around Sammy Davis Jr.'s house without actually knocking on the door or letting Sammy know that they were even in the neighborhood. becausecause as I said before, certain elements of Hollywood tended to intimidate Anton L Vake. He could give great advice to Michael Akino, but when it came time to do it himself He was he could get a little pe shy. He was not th know he was there with his giant gold helmeting outside in the bushes. Everybody should. They play cool Ll, cool don'try. L cool. No, it just he's facing us with his dead eye. He's cool boy kissses L has no idea that we're driving the hth No idea I mean, you got to remember that at heart Anton Lvee was still just a carney trying to level up in the world of entertainment and while it's All show business, there's a wide gulf between carnival folk like the former Tony Levy and Hollywood stars like Sammy Davis Jr.. Oh, there is miles apart. I'd actually kind of even say that Sammy Davis Junr. is a more powerful magician than Anton Levay. Sure Yeah because he's success. He's successful. I'm not even joking. But perhaps keeping their distance was the right move because a few months after the concert at the Circle Star Theater Sammy Davis Jr. invited Anton and Diane, but not Michael Aquino. I thought I made such a good impression. I thought everybody was gonna get me Look at my eyebrows.. He invited Anton and Diane to a small gathering at his home. Reportedly, when Davis opened the door, he hugged Anton and Diane as if they were all old friends. But besides Anton and Diane, Davis had also invited a pair of young witches. Presumably, Davis was hoping to explore the sexually experimental side of satanic indulgence with the heads of the church themselves, because after all, who's gonna be freakier then the head freaks. That's what you think. That's what you think. But what Davis didn't know is that despite the fact that Levey continually encouraged others to indulge in their most carnal yet consensual urges, LeVy and Hagarti were not swingers. Orgies weren't their thing They liked pIiss. Oh, they liked pIiss. Yeah Yeah. Great deal. so much is this the time to talk about pIiss? Yeah. sureure. So one of the fun things that is revealed in these books by Michael Akino is the fact that they heavily sanitize the rituals in the Satanic Bible, which is kind of funny that they did. They hid the real stuff. So in the original Satanic mass Not only did they put a little thing the wafer the Christian wafer inside the huha of the naked lady right? Once they put it in the Chua, then her job was to masturbate to completion on top of it with it her in her side inside her, right? Then he pops it out of the slot after she's come He puts it in a Until it dissolves, everybody drinks the pepee because a woman dress as a nun is pissed into a bowl before then everyone drinks that pepee. And then at the end of that, after everybody's had all the piss and that lady cumb filled wafer, Antol Mvee stands in front of everybody, jerks off to completion. and then that's the end. And that happened multiple times. Did he jerk off to completion in the thing that everyone drank the fact he would come into a cup. and then they would put it on the altar and it was like that's like No one drank his come. No. I don't bec come in the piss the in the Catholic cookies. They're not monsters. Yeah ye, they're disgusting. N they it gay. Yeah. I do love those Catholic cookies. I just have a big pack of them just you know wrapped up in purjute. Yeah pop them, I flip ' them in the air, like I'm an old timey gangster, catch it in my mouth and a good time. This one's for you, old man. Put one in a pussy, see how it goes Julie, a little talk. The point is all that's ritual stuff. and it's all very controlled. It's not a part of their daily li. No, and right after, they literally had coffee and cake. Yeah. So on the nights that Davis hung out with Lavey and Hagarti, these ended up being Sammy Davis Junror's tame nights Anton and Diane were his sober friends who were more likely to bring over a German silent film to watch than a fat sack of drugs to snort.. It's honestly like when fans finally get the chance to hang out with us, it's like oddly boring. Yeah It's like sry ass. Real normal shit. Real normal Pool Yeah Ionestly pool is great See besides sex, Sammy Davis junior also had a taste for substances. He was a whiskey man with a nose for cocaine. But when Anton and Diane settled in during that very first hang, Davis' silver cocaine bowl got pushed behind the bar with his whiskey. Instead of dabbling in indulgence, Leaveay and Davis spent hours discussing the tenets of Satanism And while Leveay was disappointed to hear the NBC hadn't picked up pooor Devil, he was damned near euphoric to hear that Davis was both experienced with Satanism and informed of its finer, more subtle points. See, I always thought that if I'm going to discuss the tenets of Satanism, cocaine would You know what you think You really think that they'd be wanting to have more fun. Yeah What is I can't remember what Robert Evans said about cocaine and you know, it rus the boer, but it turns up the verbacity. Something like that. Yeah. The price of gas right now is crazy No what's not crazy? 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At Lake Tahoe, LeVy was flattered to see that Davis had displayed the baffematte necklace presented by the Church of Satan prominent place in his master bedroom because Sammy Davis Jr. was, according to many girlfriends, an almost too frequent practitioner of sex magic. Fuck get him. Sometimes you just wan to fuck. Yeah like, why do we gotta do the whole prayer? Why are we doing the candles? He was all about the rigamao. Yeah, I've heard of four play, but not six, six, six playays. He. Write it down. It's really good. Write it down It's gone now. But while Sammy Davis Jr. would flirt with Diane Hagarti on occasion, it was not his fairly innocent comments about Diane that would eventually inflame Levet's jealousy Instead, Aunton on the Veay was more jealous of one of Sammy Davis Jr.'s other friendships. See, from what I can tell, Aunton the Vay wanted to be Sammy's only spooky friend. I don't understand. I thought I was just spooky friend. W she braed somebody else' fine. that' fine. yeah. I'm sure they're su spooky I thought I was a spook. How often do we have to hang out with Billy Crystal?. heres. He could be anybody. Muhammad Ali, Anbody black. can be you. I can't believe. When Sammy put together a dinner party, he invited both Anton Levee and Christopher Lee, Sammy's co star on Por Devil Jealousy was inflamed, and eventually Anton went on the attack. because Christopher Lee is is himself. He believes himself to be like an occult master. Sure. you're right. So on his own' killed people too. He's killed people. He knew JR Tolkien, he is Saruman like he is that guy. He was fully theccult But what Anton Leve and Sammy Davis junior. didn't know is that he was on the other side of the occult. He's like a witchfinder general. He's like one of those guys that believe he's like the power of Christ does beat to the power of evil. And the reason why I do my films is to show the folly of evil Like it's he't understand that he was walking into one of those Yeah I also like if you just put Christopher Lee, if you stack up, Christ Lee next to Anton Levet as a man. Oh Anton Leve' is a piss an. Oh could literally beat him to death. No he's giant, right? Well, no, I mean, I'm talking about just I'm talking about more character wise. Oh yeah. Christopher Lee. He's a fucking incredible artist. Yeah, Anton Lev was actually pretty big. He was over six foot tall. Oh shit.' you actually really think about Christopher Lee was six five. Yeah, he was six foot five. Yeah, exactly. But he also he had time in the war. Yeah Davis thought that LeVy and Christopher Lee would get along great.. I mean come on. you're the church of Satan, you're Dracula. It's going to be awesome. Yeah. But it was soon obvious that Levey was both insecure with how close Lee and Davis were, and he was also said to have been annoyed by Christopher Lee's quote ish man Yeah you don't like my Prigish manner, when I don't like your facial hair that looks like the trimmed bush of a old woman. I hate your goatey so much I want to put a bayonet in it. This is such a bad choice by Anton Levee. If he would have buttered him up, if he would have kissed his ass a little bit, imagine what getting Dracula would do for the church' s. Well, don't you think that Anton Leve It just was He really was too bitter for his own good. He really was. He couldn't he couldn't see the forest for the trees because it's like with Christopher Lee, you get in with Christopher Lee. Oh that's real The world of B movies. opens up for he's the at this point, he is the king of the B movie. He would have been a movie star Anton Lve. Might have been But ye Eventually, everything came to a head when Levay started an argument over who was the best Dracula. Lee himself, who would play Dracula ten times or the original, Bella Lgosi Leabay, of course was Wh did you do this doing Wh thought this was a good fucking idea?'s such an antagonistic dick F they Dracula I good, you know,ll no Bell Legosi, but you know, if you want to in the look p of shit, I will smide the witch. I like Bell Legosti number one. Blacula number two. And I think you're probably three, I think. I thought about L you thought about being black. Well, Levey, of course, was adamant that Christopher Lee was dogshit as Dracula compared to Bella. And after LeVvee baited Lee a little too much, Samy Davis Junior had to step in just before Lee and Levey got into an actual fist fight Considering how Sammy Davis Jr. was five foot four and Christopher Lee was six foot five, I think the so called fight was more for show than anything. I think they just kind of you know, bowed outould you say me? say say I you. I. Hey, listen,y, you guys gotta come down, see?ight. Yeah, you crazy catch. Why are we doing this?? The girls, girls are getting cold Even though the spooky boys dinner party went badly, LeVy and Davis' friendship continued to grow for reasons beyond just a good hang. See, Levey accepted Davis for everything that he was, including the fact that Sammy Davis junior was also bisexual, or at the very least, highly fluid when it came to sexual relations And so LeVvee and Davis were friends throughout the nineteen seventies. Levee would send books on the occult to Davis with the sign off Infernally yours. while the two developed a shared nickname for Satan. They called him by the archaic term old slew foot, which Davis loved 'causeuse he was an accomplished tap and soft shoot performer. Well, that was so funny ' they keep they always call him in their letters. They always call him the man downstairs. It was like, check with the man downstairs. L it's this whole thing that he does where' like Yeah, checked in with the man downstairs. It's not gonna fly. It's really funny in the way they just f like Goty Cool It is. Now throughout his friendship with Sammy Davis Junior, it seems like Levey was finally getting everything he wanted. Davis brought Anton into his inner circle of show business connections. And at Davis' parties, Anton Lvey finally felt like he belonged. He was holding his own with Hollywood stars and music industry professionals alike. You know, Christopher Lee, of course, aside There was one man that Anton thevey forgot all about A man that still had a lot of pore with Sammy Davis Jr., even though he had always treated him as little more than a prop That man was none other than the leader of the rat pack himself. Oh blue eyes Frank Sinatra. Yeah God you know, he was obviously an asshole. He was such a prick were involved with the mob and all that shit. But like fake too, you know what I mean? Yeah he really was. He was. he got he put himself in the mob Yeah. Yeah, know, But I will say, I mean, like that's where the money is. Oh yeah. That's where Sammy's got everything. That's I'm trying like the Frank Sinatra like accent also so good being like There was a story Don Rickles was saying about how one night him and Frank were out drinking toil like three o'clock in the morning. and he said there was a lightning storm outside the bar and then the lightning would flash the lightning would flash and Frank Sinatio eventually was like Someone will tell those photographers to knock that shit off. But as the seventies turned into the eighties, Sammy Davis Jr.'s social life was getting a little too groovy for the famously square Frank Sinatra Now granted, Davis was definitely partying way too hard But from what it seems like, it was Davis' close association with Satanists like Anton Lveay that really got Sinatraas go So sometime in the late seventies, Sinatra told Davis to get his shit together and cool it with the drugs and the booze. But above all, stop hanging out with all these Godforsaken Satanists. Italians do not like Satanism. They're not a fan. No. This is very interesting because you figured they would love it. Yeah. No they're certainly a fan of nun porn, which is pretty close to Satanism if you ask me. Yeah They just are they're big Priest fans over there. Yeah. big priest fans. They really believe in the church. They do. Sinatra's comment about Satanist was highly ironic when you consider that the time Davis spent with Satanist were always his most sober and sexless nights. Yeah, that was when he was learning. Yeah Yeah Sinatra should have said, Yeah, it was Satanist Good influence, keepe hanging out with them. Yeah. Stop hanging out with old whores. Send them to me. Snd 'em old Frankie boy. The Sinatra was the connection, all the money. all the producers. Oh yeah fucking mob. No one likes this shit. Yeah We don't know for sure if Sinatra's tutting is really what caused Davis to pull back on his friendship with Anton Lavee. But after the conversation, little by little, the frequent hangouts turned into occasional phone calls and Anton and Sammy drifted apart by the end of the decade It also could have been that Sammy Davis Jr. or someone close to him, they saw what was coming on the horizon in the nineteen eighties See an excerpt from one of Davis' many memoirs, nineteen eighties Hollywood in a suitcase. It ran in the New York Daily News as a preview under the subtitle touch of Satanism and lessons in love. fucking bastard. In this excerpt, Davis wrote that he joined the Church of Satan and still had many friends within the organization, flat out writing, I became a Satanist when the book was actually released All mentions of the Church of Satan have been wiped away because the Satanic panic finally arrived. This is where the temperature changes for this whole fucking thing. N ninet eighty. As you start to see, so they had an issue In the Grottos, right? So the Grottos Rvo is the main problem because the Grottos were it was a constant fight since the beginning of the church. And the Grottos just to remind you were the kind of satellites of the Church of Satan, which people would kind of grow their own Satanic organization within their community. Yeah, it was like They had to report to the Church of Satan San Francisco. They did. There was a Lilith one, the Yogoth, there was Babylon, there was Stigon, all these like kind of different names. And each one of them kind of had a problem a constant issue with what how do we manage these? How tightly are we supposed to be running these? How much are we supposed to be micromaging these grottos? Michael Lino was like total freedom Every one of them needs to do whatever they want, cause constant fucking problems. And the main one of the main problems is being out or being in as a Satanist, which means either being a public Satanist or being what Anton L Valk to called his underground clergy. His underground clergy was his favorite, which is people that had regular jobs that did not want the world in general to know that they were Satanists, but they showed up to the rituals. The main problems the Grottos were having was, yeah, people are signing up But no one was coming to the ritual. No one was doing stuff because some of the grottos were out. Some of the grottos meant like, oh, we have public rosters. You could know that who is here. And there were people that were like they were constantly fighting back and forth. how do you figure this out? And the satanic panic was one of those things that accelerated all of it because one grotto was like, we're mainly undercover people A we what are we supposed to do? And it was this entire scandal, a local same thing that kind of always happens. A teacher molested a bunch of kids. They like did a whole thing about Satanic cults and all this kind of shit. A lot of heat was going around this one grotto. and they were like, what the fuck are we supposed to do How do we save ourselves from all this heat? And Antom Levee wrote a scathing letter being like, you're supposed to stand up the Church of Satan and go right about how we don't do this. You're supposed to stand up, identify yourselves and do this and it created this massive fucking problem. It was like one of the first things where they were like, no, you're like now micromanaging us after telling us we could do whatever the hell we want. and it caused a big fucking issue and destroyed that grotto. Yeah Now even though Sammy Davis Jr. was no longer public with his Satanism, he never stopped practicing. And he was known to cautiously gauge interest in Satanism with other celebrities if he got a feeling that the other celebrity might be hip. fuck I love this one. This is good. When a tribute show was being put together for Sammy Davis Jr. in nineteen eighty nine after he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer, Eddie Murphy was chosen as the MC Reportedly, during a dinner between Eddie Murphy and Sammy Davis Jr., Sammy lightly said You know Satan's as powerful as God. fuc so fucking cool. J's just dropping it in there.. Satah Davis Jr's the only real Satan. He's like he's so close to being the topperers of Satan He was so close. He's dropping it into a conversation fucking Eddie Murphy in nineteen eighty nine, when Eddie Murphy is like the most famous man on earth. Oh yeah, twenty two years old. f re Well, the famously close minded Eddie Murphy just responded with what the are you talking about? I don't know I'm just talking and you know, Sammy, Sammy just talks. So Davis dropped the subject as soon as it was brought up But according to friends and girlfriends, Davis practiced Satanism and ritual magic well into his dying days. One girlfriend said that she had to stop seeing Sammy because of his interest in sex magic in particular, but not because he did anything bad Love making, she said, became a ritual tied into the worship of the occult in ways that she didn't want to understand It must be said that Sammy's practice did get quite dark at times. With everyone's consent Davis was fond of drawing blood with sharp objects like broken bottles, often from genital areas, but always I kind imagine Sambody Dav was like, you m if I bring the bottle into it and just And then what did Billy Crystal like watching from the cookchair?ust being like, I have this amazing idea about a play about Mickey Mantle, that T to his credit, it must be mentioned that his aforementioned wife, Alta Vis, stayed with Sammy from nineteen seventy until his death nineteen years later. In fact, the information about sex magic comes from letters written to Alta Vise, in which a shared associate was seemingly just keeping Sammy's wife up to date on what her husband was doing But when Sammy Davis Jr.'s big sendoff at the end of his life was televised in nineteen eighty nine Anton Levay was not invited Instead, he watched it at home on TV with everyone else, probably cursing Frank Sinatra for having a hand in dashing Levay's obvious dreams of establishing himself in the world of entertainment A chance like that would never come again. Yeah, CBS doesn't want his fucking ass there. No. They really don't man. Be you know, I do think a lot of it has to do with how kind of unsure and bashful he was think Anton Levee. I think Anton Leve would Oh had by eighty nine, he hadn't talked to Sammy Davis Jr. in a decade. And he'd already becoming a rotten pumpkin of himself. Yeah. And also as a show, Anton Leve would ruin the vibe. He really would. He ruin the whole vibe of the whole tribute show. Nobody knows have them there. Yeah. And that's the and to be honest, that's Anton Lveay's eternal sadness And we see that in the letters, his eternal sadness The fact Poing himself as the pope of evil pushed everyone away and he could never get and made him and destroyed him never get into a community of people he liked again. See, he put all those cards into Sammy Davis junior. He should have been going to Jimmy Page. Well he was doing a he was sending out feelers. He was and there but the problem is is that Jimmy Page was into fucking Lord of the rings. Yeah Yeah and I think that Anton Levee famously hated rock music I think he really disliked it. Like he was a fucking callalliope player. And you also remember he's an old man. Yeah he's not he is not a young He was born in the twenties. you know he's not into Leed zeppelin. you know he doesn't care about all that shit. He thinks it's all noise. He wants callalliopee. He wants Ogon. He wants, you know, ring a ding ding. He wants big bands because his belief is that Satanism had left the earth. Like he's kind of had this belief a little bit of there are like you can't just become a Satanist You just are one or are not. So he is one of those where he couldn't, he was thought more people show up. He thought more people would cool people would show up. And he didn't like who showed up. No Yeah. Also it's interesting because Frank Sinatra, he kind of lost his jzu when he stunuck even when he went against Rck and roll. Yeah. ye he would have fucking went into rock and roll a little bit. I mean, he d he did his misses Robinson cover But this is a part of what I'm saying, my overarching idea of the reason why old wizards die hard is because they refuse to die first while they're alive. Gandalf the Grey had to die to become Gandalf the White in order to save everyone Yeah. And that requires self sacrifice and that requires getting rid of the old you and growing into a third phase, which he never did. You know who did Lilliam Neon. did. Yeah did. Yeah He got to see Parry Melanders's vagina once. Yeah. That's huge. Yeah. And Sinatra also came back in nineteen eighty with New York, New York. Yes. And that's the thing. No one realizes that he didn't do that until nineteen eighty. What? Yeah New York, New York is from nineteen eightyies. It's from a musical. Yeah, it's from I can't remember what the musical was called, but yeah, it was from I think New York idiot? Yeah. And so now that we've told the tale of Sammy Davis Jr and the Church of Satan, let's turn back the narrative clock to the early nineteen seventies where we return our focus to the inner workings of the Church of Satan itself See, in the early to mid seventies, that's when Anton LeVe started turning his eye more towards Hollywood. And LeVe's right hand man and head nerd, Michael Achquino, had been just as excited as Anton and Diane about the possibilities of poor devil But within just two years of those heady days, the schism between Akino the academic and Levey the showman would grow too wide to fix when Akino disagreed with one of Levey's new church policies A Kino and this is very important. Akino actually believed that Satan was real. Satan is a dude that you can talk to and ask to do things for you Anton Levee was an atheist This of course is a problem when two guys with these mindsets are trying to run a church together. Well also there is a difference between the inner group And then the outer group. So in Anton Levay's inner group, he's way more willing who expand his consciousness in the inner group, he's way more willing to be, okay, we will do these ritual activities because according to Michael Lkino, this is what he means this is what it means by Satan Is realel is that what he's saying is that for Anton Levey, when they were doing the Satanic mass, he Anton Levey is saying this is a dramatic representation It can lead you to things or not, but largely this is just kind of a group building activity. We're doing this. According to Michael Aino, when they were all together, he knows. that there was something else in the room That every single time they did one of these things, that's where it started that there was something else in the room and that they all acknowledged it, but then all of them would become too cool. T to acknowledge it later on because they did not want to face what they were doing, but what they were what was happening was that accidentally Michael Akino is just making Christianity again. Yeah. He's just making it again. L And so that's is He's replacing it with another thing. Yeah, he's actually making Protestantism. we'll get into here in a second. Yeah, Levee's like the show promoter and Akino's like the historian. Yes Now for Michelquino, the final insult came when he saw a draft for an article that Levey was planning to publish in the church's internal publication, The Cloven hoof. See, Kino' already miffed at LeVe for dismantling the Gotto system, which did not go smoothly and it did not go like, Ohh, it's over. No no no, no. It was just it was just total kakamimi horseshit. Yeah, Kino kind of fucked that one up. They all fucked that up Levee's focus on materialism had always rankled Ikino's spiritual standards. But regardless of the purity that Akino was wanting and expecting in the fucking church of Satan, a man's got to eat and money was tight within the organization by nineteen seventy five So LeVill decided that he was going to simply sell initiatory ranks within the church, which ironically could be compared to the Catholic Church selling indulgences in the sixteenth century Michael Aquino, playing the Martin Luther role in this situation, believed that simply selling ranks was dishonorable and corrupt, becausecause what was the point of doing the reading if someone could just buy their way into a magic circle But even though Michael Aquino offered alternatives, LeVe refused to back down on the plan So, Michael Aquino left the Church of Satan along with a fair number of other Satanists who were also becoming disillused with Levee to start their own movement called upset being more focused on magical ritual and practice, Satianism has been described as more esoteric Satanism, as opposed to LeVay's rational flavor. Ant Lev served in the great legacy of Heather. Magical teachers Simplifying the lessons, right? According to Dntel Nvee and the Satanic rituals, what he has already done is served like kind of like put together a summarize all of the various esoteric schools in a one book according to their belief system. And so that's he thought we're done. We've done this. Now this is the set of rituals where we go. Michael Kino is trying to say, we're not going far enough Yes becausecause Anntel Mave is saying, no, the whole point of this is to unleash your personal power. Lesser magic. Yes, there is greater magic, which is gota of changing the world and becoming one with the godhead and doing all the stuff, but he even said that's for fucking Later That's for your private time, That's for your own belief system, blah blah blah. This whole thing is to release the lesser magic. the things that you can control and manipulate in a one to one Carny level And Michael Kino just refused to believe that because he had this idea that no, there is this like burning thing inside us all that will purify us. Yeah. So Kkino is like actually crazy. Well, you this Thank you for the man from the street. The temple is set I would say Michael Akino is no crazier than a priest No. No, no none. Yeah. they're crazy.ly Temple ofset books. The reason why I don't bring those in is because those are The most boring things you've ever wrad. Even more boring than this. becausea the thing about this book, The Church of Satan by Michael Aquino volume one is that it's every single subreddit meltdown you've ever written, but they had to write letters instead of instant messages.. So they literally had to spend weeks back and forth doing a mod breakdown in a Reddit group. Oh no, the grotto system falling apart, It it's just mod drama. Oh my God. All all it is. Oh my god is it mod drama And hvestly every single thing is the squeakiest wheel gets the fucking grease. Every single thing is the least important grotto and the least important people are the ones causing the most important problems. Always always, always, always.' always the roule. Yes Now within a year of his breakup with Lavee, Akino wrote a new manifesto, claiming that it was born entirely through automatic writing, just like Alistair Crowley's book of the Law Kino was a nerd who didn't have a sense of humor. So he was not prepared for all the ejaculate jokes that would no doubt be made when he named the foundational text for his new Satanic religion, He named it the book of comoming forth by Night. Hey man. I just hate being behind those first three des listen, your book's just like it's your book's titles like what What is it? It is coming fourth by night. The book of comoming fourth by night, Yeahah. Yeah, no, it's fine.? I don't get it. Where do you want to be? It happened at night. That's not the problem, Mike. I came. I came at night. I came forth at night. Well, so this is the book of coming forth. It's like, well, you know what it isight You know what it is? What? It's a take on the book of Coming forth by dayay, which is in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Sure stole the name No of course he stole it, but it's He just you got to You gott to look at it and think like, okay, no, I can't do that because a book People are just going to make a bunch of com jokes. Of course. Also like Setiism is way dumber than Satanism. Super dumb. It doesn't It doesn't roll off the tongue.s a bitip to it because they were The temple of setet sounds cool. Sure that's it. That's what it is. Yeah, Setan is dumb. And also the idea of 'ause that was the idea is that devil the devil appeared to him. They call themselves Sedish. Seddish is Oh the Seddish. The Seddish for second. But according to Michaelkino, the devil appeared to him and said, I want to stop calling me by my Jewish name Yeah. And because that's the whole thing is we yes, we kind of like glossed over a lot of stuff. But in the Jewish idea of like Satan, the word Satan is the adversary and all this kind of shit, but it kind of served as like a lighter villain, which was what we kind of talked about. But that the devil apparently went to Michael Aquino and says, Well you gotta make me so Jewish? And then they went and they changed him and he made him into set because He's deeply into Egyptology. Well He says that he wants to be called by his proper original name.ike what we know as the biblical Satan is actually the ancient Egyptian deity set. God of storms and desert. usurper and murdderr of his brother, Osiris. 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Besides publishing a scathing history of the Church of Satan that debunked many of LeVe's claims about his own biography, Akino also found and released Divorce proceedings, restraining orders, and even bankruptcy filings that all painted Levee in a negative light Don't get in a fight with a fucking nerd who's good at paperwork Dude, That's the problem was And the guy did all the paperwork ' the guy that fucking comes against you just like You got fuck of time for this. Yeah fuck up Michael! You'tel shut up! And you can't fight him because he was the guy that did all the paperwork. He knows everything. You don't know anything. Whilst continuing the fight with Lvey, Akino also became obsessed with Nazi occultism See, in nineteen eighty three, he went on a work trip on behalf of the United Nations to Europe But he decided to play hookie a bit so he could drop by Weelsburg Castle in Germany. If you'll remember, Weelsburg was supposed to be Heinrich Himmler's headquarters for his Nazi occult Annaerba Aa Knights of the Round Table. Yay. So after sneaking in, Akino actually performed a magical ritual within the underground ceremonial space The Himler was planning to use to hold his own rituals. You know didn't you know he didn't even sneak in. You know that he used his government contacts to get access to it. Well, yeah. That' what he did. Yeah. He went in and he was like, he got in and then I'm here from the UN. I'm here I'm here to do stuff. whatever you want. man, you know the UN fucking Hated that shit. Oh yeah. Well, according to the Temple ofet Wikipedia page, out of this ritual came the second orrder of the trapezoid, which was a simple repackaging of Anton L Vay's early governing body of the Church of Satan But since Akino was just as big of a nerd as Himler, he took a page from Himmler's book and decreed that his order of the trapezoid was going to be a chivalric order of night. The trapezoid is the door to the angles. The angles are the way to the center. The center is the heart of evil. Sure This of course, brought accusations that Akino was sympathetic to Nazi ideology. and he was. And like all these assholes, Akino said that you know, the Holocaust It really is distasteful rep it either. It reallyrs me That's my thing. Itrubs me the wrong way. We also believed that Heinrich Himmler had through occult means, summoned an extraordinary psychic force. That force, Akino said, had been misdirected by the Nazis. although according to Akino It need not have been whatever. Yeah. Yeah justust say it normal, Michael. You know, Upon rereading all of this, right? So Anton Levay and Michael Lquino had very different views on Nazism. They did his view. I think Michael Lkino's view Anton Levee's view is opportunistically naive and and probably misaligned with the rest of the world. Super. Michael We'll get into that later. Yeah, Michael Lkino is one of those guys of The reason why I don't like Neo Nazis is because the OG Nazis would have killed them all. Be they're weak not tough enough. They're not they don't do it right. The idea is that they didn't do it right. Himmler would have killed these neo Nazis. This is his whole belief and this idea that anything and it's like would they again another thing he doesn't we understand is if you're magic atch the Holocaust. It doesn't matter good it could have done. Yeah. It doesn't I'm just talking as a wizard right? I'm talking as a fake wizard on on a podcast telling somebody to understand that you even I know, anything that's connected to the Holocaust is not The Holocaust made a mistake. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's not just like wh man. It's not a whoopsy. It's not a whoopsy d, right? It is a gigantic genocide machine created by a specific point of view, fueled by o cultism. So let's just not act like it's fucking that it's you can't separate the two. I just can't believe the military let them stick around. Well you also have to remember that he was good at quot good at his job. And also, this is a time period and you we've talked about this World War Io is a lot closer Right? So we kind of had already beat the Nazis. So there is still a little tiny bit of a view of like Even if they fucking pop up, we're kind of like u Yeah. I mean, no one's really taking the Nazis seriously. Yeah the losers. Yeah right now. Yeah. Yeah not now Not now, but in nineteen eighty three they' back Yeah, and also it's not like he is, you know, broadcasting that he's doing all this stuff. No, he kept it close to the vest. Yeah. And and the Amy also, you know, especially intelligence services, intelligence services don't give a fuck what you do outside of your own personal life outside of what they ask you to do. as long as you get the job done They don't give a shit. They don't care at all. It's kind of the problem with them. Yeah. But as Michel Akino became a far more visible Satanist or Satan, as he'd call it, the target on his back got larger and larger as the Satanic panic was cultivated by the same people Akino was courting. Oh, I thought the target on his back got larger and larger as he got fatter That That do this shirt just gonna take. Well, Akino appeared as a guest on not just the Oprah Wimphrey showhow, but also on Geraldo. and few people in the media did more to stoke the flames of the Satanic panic than Geraldo Rivera. Even though he had the same facial hair as Anton Lv. But even though I suppose Akino was trying Hide in plain sight tactic, the Satanic panic finally touched Michael Aquino in nineteen eighty six after an investigation was opened looking into accusations of satanic ritual abuse at the Presidio Army Base's dayaycare in San Francisco. Allegedly fifty eight children were abused at the daycare, and by nineteen eighty seven, Michael Aquino himself was named when the three year old daughter of an army chaplain accused a Kino of sexually abusing her during a satanic ite held at a Kino's San Francisco home. What? Yes. Yes. Now this shit happen man the big man with the eyebrows. He did it to me when we were talking about the devil. It happened Hundreds upon hundreds of times throughout the entire decade into the nineties, people went to prison on shit like this. It's happening right now again. Yeah. But but back then specifically, it's the idea is, you know, kids want to please. That's what That's all a kid wants to do is a kid wants to make you happy and a kid wants to get a reward So they would start asking these kids leading questions and the kid just kept saying yes because they would get rewarded anyt time they said yes. And you know, kids of course would say wild like they just say wacky shit. like you of the things that don't make any sense, but the people asking the questions would take them seriously and it would just build and build and build and build until finally you had an entire Satanic underground that didn't actually exist. It was basically built by three year olds. Yeah, fucking three year old doesn't even know the English language. Well the reason why they were weaponizing three year olds in order T either create smokes screens for their own crimes.' just going to say that. they were very either covering up for themselves and they were using the innocent words of a three year old in order to do that or they were specifically of the belief, which we saw with the West Memphis three this they get this idea, these like local Yokls start to have this idea that I'm fighting Satan himself because I belie I believe that this shit is real. So if you don't believe if no one would believe any of this Yeah if they actually didn't believe in Satan himself. Yeah. And thats but that's the thing is that with that, I mean West Memphis three, that is definitely local Gilkals. This is a fucking army base in the middle of S Francisco. Yeah Like I mean these are serious, serious accusations against people within the military itself. and people are taking it extraordinarily seriously. You know what's interesting is I always we see this happening now they hate something and they go at it so hard to try and take it down, all they end up doing is making it more popular. Always. Yeah inook will actually give specific concrete examples of that later on in this episode. Police raided Michael Aquino's San Fancisco home and searched high and low for any sign of satanic ritual abuse but of course, they found nothing because nobody ever once found anything ever anywhere. Eventually, it was discovered that Akino wasn't even in San Francisco when the abuse was supposed to have taken place. And you can go look that up, y'all because I've already seen some messages about Michael Aquino. It's are still getting it. and that's the thing. Michael Akino sued Everybody who wrote the books about him naming him as the suspect And he won. And he won. And then the thing is but guess what? It didn't do anything 'cause I'm still getting emails calling Michael Lcino a child molester. And it's like he's a lot of things. Yeah,'s He's not a child molester. He's mostly just an asshle. An asshle. Yeah. he' the physical ability He actuallyestly can probably barely get it up for his wife. Yeah. I don't know. I will admit he does have child molester bodies. Of course he does That's why it' stopped. Yeah, it's the chubby. It's the chubby head. It's the chubby face. It just screams Yeah Yeah. Yeah. It's the little eyebrows. I mean we all know it the eyebrowsliable too. So incredibly unlikeable. Yeah. But and that's the thing. He wasn't living in San Francisco when all this was happening. He was living across the country in Washington, DC, Pably living across the country in Washington, DC. It was proven in court that he was not anywhere near San Francisco when all this happened. But the allegations followed a Kino for the rest of his days. after years of battling the false rumors, he finally shot and killed himself with a gun in twenty nineteen in the face of terminal cancer. That's a wild couple of sentences. Oh yeah. In rough end. Yeah, that was yeah, yeah, Michael Aquino ended hard. Yeah that all do. Yeah Yeah, they really all end very hard. It is not like no one, none of these guys die like surrounded by their grandchildren or by friends or any no beautiful ceremony. It It's a hard end every single time. It turns out spending your entire life, you know, cultivating hatred and anger and fear tes just like by the get time you get to the end of it No really not a whole lot of rainbows left. Yeah, not a lot of selling points where they hang Now Michael Aquino was not alone in the Satanic ranks when it came to accusations of sympathy towards Nazis, Neo Nazis in particular. Anton Leveay did indeed pal around with No Nazis throughout the nineteen seventies and beyond, which seems at odds with his legitimate friendship with a Jewish black guy like Sammy Davis Jr. the radical acceptance that Leveeay and the Church of Satan had toward Sammy Davis Jr., that worked both ways. While I certainly don't agree with it, it seems like Anton LeVey would associate with anyone who tickled a certain intellectual curiosity, regardless of how foul their beliefs might be But as we all know, as soon as you let Nazis inside in any capacity whatsoever, every other Nazi sees your organization or your location as a safe space. But it seems like Anton theve was not familiar with the Nazi bar principle It could however, also be that Anton Leve simply found these people fascinating. becausecause the neo Nazis, who were supposedly friends with Anton Lvee, they were, in fact the weirdest and most pathetic of the entire bunch. There's one very illuminating letter in here that made me realize what Anton Leveay was doing which is Again, I don't think it was correct He had a motive. So it was neither it was not intellectual curiosity and it wasn't even like he was into the guys. He straight up just straight up he straight up said Satanism needs every ally. We need everyone. We need the Nazis and the Jews. In his mind, Anton Levee said, the No Nazis were never all that serious They held their Nazism on their sleeve and that sleeve can be ripped off. And his idea was that I can insinuate myself into these Nazi groups. And then what we do is you start to, oh, yeah, your enemies are my enemies. I hate those guys. but it's like there's somebody even worse Catholic Church A am I right? And that eventually Anton Leve would work his way through these, join the Nazis and the Jewish people in a hatred towards the Christian church and as allies to Satanism. And he doesn't understand they're just not gonna hang out. Yeah. They're just not going a fking common grounds not theres Really fucking stupid. It's not going to happen in his dream. He legitimately just because that was the things everyverybody thinks that they' everybody else is using everybody else. Yeah And he thinks that, oh, they'll help us and they're not even that serious. And it's just like no, bro. it's like that's the problems that you're making them serious. Yeah. When you hang out with them You give them legitimacy and guess what that is? Weirdly, a lack of self esteem on your part, Pope of Satan. Yeah. That's a lack of self esteem of you understanding how much you don't need them and how much technically you didn't need anybody. And you should have stuck to that that I didn't need anybody. Yeah. He was desperate. He was And he wanted he has the Trumpism thing of I just want a friend He has a con man He just wants to be liked. The difference between the Carney I think that any other type of person in this is that ' a genuine entertainer And I think that he had a vacuous hole in him that was looking for love And I think a lot of con men for love And then what they do is is create a set of circumstances in which that love can be so powerful and so pervasive is that it's supernatural. That's why Elron Hubbard was looking for it. That's why these people look for it. It's because they're so and they want love So bad. they want to be loved and unconditionally loved So they have to create the acult to do it. And he really is like portraying the fucking lead character of Nightmare Alley. Yes. Yeah. And he is not understanding the irony in it because like that's what I mean by third phase is that he doesn't understand oming the thing that he never wanted to be. Yeah. That's why all these guys end up bitter and alone at the end of their lives because they just they'd refuse to change and they just become the they just become the bitter old fx. who doesn't do anything with their lives. He actually weaponized it into a ritual called emotional crystalization Initiation. It was an ECI thing that he called it And what he would do is he said in a way for a man to keep his youth was to surround himself with pictures of himself from his youth and to not engage with youth culture. He said that that it's like, but it's the opposite. What he didn't understand is that he was crystallizing himself. Yeah. 're surrounded by it's why James Woods go It's why people turn MGa It's because you as you an older man, you get to this point where older guys hit this point because You fall out of love with yourself Yeah. and you want to find new community and you want to find new excitement. you want to be around a bunch of people to make you feel exciting and young and fulfilled in all this stuff. and you want to remind be reminded of when you were young Yeah. And it that's why fascism uses nostalgia as a weapon. Always It is the most powerful weapon they have Well, the man that's usually identified as a neo Nazi associate of Anton Levee is James Hartung Madle, who was raised in the upstate New York town of Beacon. born in nineteen twenty seven to an incredibly anti Semitic mother who brought Madole up herself. You never hear that. You never do hear it's like, boy, my mother hated Jew. It's never like that But James was to put it lightly, a massive fucking nerd He was a lonely young boy who found refuge in science, going so far as to build a laboratory in his own home But when he reached his teenage years, he came to see science in Faustian terms. The scientist, he came to believe was a semi divine mage who sought mastery of the Eth and the whole universe. Oh that's the guy who made toustinos? Yeah Yeah, I bet it. Yeah the guy who made fart pills. Well, partly, Madol's ideas on science came from the science fiction of the nineteen thirties and nineteen forties in which so called Heaven storming scientist fought against God himself. Fuck you God, I've made rubbber. And it's sth that I don't need your pls anymore, God I'm free from your yoke, Claw. I made you. I shall use these D't be Madull also absorbed the authoritarian utopias and the master races that were so popular in the sci fi of the era. And when you mixed in his mother's anti Semitism and everything happening with the Nazis in Germany in the nineteen thirties and forties, you had James Madull sci fi fascist. shooting Jews with lasers Be we go too far into this, I'm just curious how where is like the Church of Satan on science? Because obviously science is killed God. So like where Oh, they're very pro science. Yeah They are pro science but also Anton Lve is one of those guys that is into folk magic and like local cals. So he is also into that. likeike he does like science and stuff, Michael Kino' is a big like science guy obviously and then but he also believes that there's like Lesser magics that can help you as well. Let's say let's say that they're more likely to die the death of Steve Jobs than most people. Maybe. Yeah. So in his late teens, James Madull found other sci fi fascists like author Charles B. Hudson. Hudson was a pre war American fascist who, in addition to writing sci fi stories, had caught the attention of other American fascists with his bulletin, America in danger. The Turner Diaries is a sci fi novel. Yes. No there is a massive undercurrent of fascism within the sci fi community that's been there Chinland's always had a fucking all of that Obsessed with an Alamus.. Yeah. It's been there since the thirties and forties In this conspiracy laden publication, America End Danger, Hudson blamed the Jews for every bad thing that ever happened in American history, including the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. No. And on the face future friends, James Madull absorbed Hudson's writings, mixed it with sci fi, and turned it into his own flavor of Nazi movement Some managing to somehow be a nerdier fascist than even Heinrich Himmler, James Madol formed a far right political movement based in the sci fi community called the Animist Party, which was announced in an issue of the Pulp magazine Stling Stories. He did this in nineteen forty five, which is an admittedly ballsy year to do this. I have that. Fascism's having a bad year, but I think that we can bring her back boys. Let's go Let's go. I actually thought animist didn't animist, donon't they believe? I thought that was like a whole thing where they believe every object has a soul. I don't know why I called it the Animist Party. I couldn't really find much information on what the Animist Party because James Madull like all this information is out there, but he is kind he's a bit of a forgotten figure in the No Nazi movement. Good He is also shares a lot with the modern Nazis, you know, the modern far right. And the what the modern fake reactionary Satanist groups are doing too like the ONA and those guys. Sure. You know what? alsoso that was been specifically disproved to be connect to Michael Lkino What O and A. Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's not get into that. too far. Yeah, yeah. I will talk about the order of the angles. You want to talk about a ritual. You want to get into some ritual ideas. We really don't w want to talk aboutcraft kind of comes series today. there's a lots of stuff we to get into. You don't want to talk about it in any way whatsoever. It's about the different ways to look at Satan. Pretty soon James MadDll Pretty soon, James Madul. The trapezoid's the door. The dry angles are the way Stop it. But prettyretty soon, James Madol dropped the Animist Party and joined forces with a German American named Kurt Merttig, who founded a neo Nazi group after Hitler's death called the National Renaissance Party. And I didn't realize how horrible of a name Kurt Merttig is. is until I said it out loud. Yeah, but also it's great I was thin of it like what a great Nazi name. It is. Cic. fuck here comes I thought you all stop talking you because you were talking about it. Well, actually Merttig was a he was a German American. He had spent the thirties like being basically a Hitler fan boy. He was one of the founders, like one of the first American Nazi parties, Big figure But D that he founded the National Renaissance Party, it was taken from one of the last things Hitler wrote, in which Hitler said that springing forth from his death would be quote the seed of the the Rennaaissance of the National Socialist movement. And they died Be I love is the taste of bullets. ine Not petroon. you tried this first. God I love to kill a woman. But Merttig was already an old man when he founded the NRP. So, future friend of Anton Lve, James Madull, he quickly took over as the leader of the National Renaissance Party in nineteen forty nine. But with Madull in charge, the NRP began exploring science fiction's other hatf Fantasy I prefer fantasy. I mean we're more of I'm a fantasy guy, you're a sci fi guy. That's how theyd get you. That's how they Westerns. Yeah. Where's her f? Where's her Nazi Westerns? Before long, Madol was injecting the NRP with occult ideas that were a mixture of the fantasy stories Heinrich Kemmler had picked up from German volk wrriters and the speculative fiction of pulp magazines Mado began writing occult political treatises with names like The New Atlantis, a blueprint for an Aryan Garden of Eden in North America. There's like five racist dog whistles in that. skilled how many different racist dog whistles are just in that one sentence. Yeah, There's a lot of guys that's gonna see that and go,h, I'll pick that off.ew Atlantis is New Orleans Don't discount Miami. They're even fucking race to the bottom of the ocean. Ferscass. In the New Atlantis, Madull predicted that once fascism took over and all the Jews and people of color were eliminated in America, the Aryan race would use its principles to take their ideology to the stars But in the real world, Madal was having a hard time putting his fantasy hierarchies into practice. Nobody except a few morons were listening to his ideas as he shouted them from the street corners of New York City. So Madal took those morons and established what he called his security echelon. These were his street fighters. They were supposed to be his stormtroopers Madol and the security echelon would spend the next few decades harassing people on the streets of New York City while dressed as stormtroopers. Madle himself, he gave speeches, but he always wore a fucking crash helmet because he got his ass kicked so much That. Now besides the psychic damage they caused, they were relatively harmless in the physical realm That changed, however, in nineteen sixty three. during an incident that is ultimately called and I'm being totally serious here, it was called The White Castle plot or the siege on White Castle. I've done that before. Y. I'm doing trench warfare inside of White Castle. No, the White Castle plot is I'm really high, but I want some White Castle. How are we gonna get there? How we get there? I Uber driver stop in the drive room. There's a whole movie about it. There' that a gigant Yes, that is about that. Yeah. and I defitely I'm talking about the Burger Joint Whide Castle here. ye. I also will say This is the type of shit, let's just say. this is the type of stuff that made them not take the neo Nazis super seriously. Yeah. I think that's the problem, is that They really were kind of cute for a while. Yeah They were just kind of stupid. Yeah. At this point, I'm more scared of Shredder in the foot cllam. Yeah I guess. It' like they were just bad they were bad stupid Nazis They just yell at you and they' extremely unpopular. Yeah In July of nineteen sixty three, the Congress of Racial Equality, AKA COps, they were demonstrating against White Castle restaurants in the Bronx over racially discriminatory hiring practices. So which is what? So Cps' good or bad. Good. good. Yeah.. And were they only hiring white people In the Bronx to work at White Castle? There therein lies the problem. It different time doesn'. It's also a nineteen sixty three, you know, the racial makeup of New York City changed incredibly fast throughout like the the fifties, sixties and seventies. Yeah. So we're I believe in nineteen sixty three, I can't remember if Robert Moses had completely destroyed the Bronx just yet. Yeah. But we're getting there. Okay. It's either right before or right after U, But yes, you do bring up a good point, but it's It's a time of transition in New York for New York City. Well, after James Madull's Neo Nazi National Renaissance partarty heard about Kore protesting at the White Castle restaurants in the Bronx, they arrived to counter protest and to literally defend the honor of White Castle By the end, you can't do wrong on a hundred percent fat hors. Yeah. All the managers of the White House have been like, I been I get about a thousand burgers out of that horse But by the end of the White Castle plot, members of the NRP were arrested, but not because they had valiantly battled the members of Corps at a fast food restaurant in the Bronx. Instead, they were arrested because of their own incredible stupidity N see three members of Madle's NRP had gotten their asses kick by members of Corps at Whitecastle. So they went to the forty third precinct in the Bronx to report the assault. and got beat up. I just want to say yes, we are Nazis, yes. But we got hurt. They slapped us. Can youase Can you please? Yes, we're Nazis. We're the most powerful evil force in the world. One of them called me a can you imagine that's a racial slur. That's a racial attack. I mean in the sixties, the only place you're allowed to legally fight is the Bronx. Yeah. Well, while one detective took the Nazi statement, another went out to take a look at the truck in which the NRP had arrived because it was obviously a suspicious situation. The second detective saw out in the open. A fully loaded twenty two revolver looaded tear gas guns, a crossbow loaded with a steel tip arrow, a butcher knife, a switchblade, a straight razer, and an axe. Yeah, You're gonna want to throw a blanket over that. But how' get to it. But's the arrogance of these guys. It like no, we're White? We're the master race. a masace Th these are cops. I understand what we're all about. Let's just say you're the master race, you know on a master Hiding all your crimes. Well, Madull was picked up later that day, charged with conspiracy and sentenced to two years in prison. But all that's to show you that the neo Nazis at Anton the Vay kept company with, they were a bunch of fucking morons. And you know, today's alright close to what Madle was like. They're specifically they're really into Warhammer forty K. unfortunately, they're big dune fans. I know they know the current alt right. Well, that's just because they just don't they don't understand the actual sacrifice that Lo two makes. And that is actually the key againain, it's lack of understanding. Yeah. Yes. there are certain parts about it, but also How in the fuck are you possibly a ne Nazi an anti dude when what's literally against the Ubermens and the conent of the Ubermenscher? Yeah. Mitch McConnell looks like a sandworm We know the best part about Mrter McConnell is that hopefully soon, he'll be eaten by a bunch of dirt worms That'll happen soon, right? You'll be dead soon. No are These are a lot of the guys that they love Star Trek, but they're like Dorth Vader was right. you know, they're the ones who love the empire instead of the Rebels. They're lerently wrong. Yeah, and they all hate Star Trek because they'd say, you know, because Star Trek is too woke, as they say. R Darth Vader kill the Emperor. Yeah. Dorth Vader I didn't like being Dor Thader. whole fuckking Dark Thader hated being Dor Thader. He was upset. Yeah. He was upset. He made was a slave made the wrong choice. He was a slave. the wrong choice for him. And he kn And he only thinkking free was his staff. Can I That's the whole life in the fucking film. Can I piss people off real quick? Y, please. Return to the Jedi' the best Star Wars movie. Not you are new at. I love Empire. obbviously, I love Epire And I mean, a new hope is easily the best. It just starts walks starts off. Believe me, I still that's a plus. It. It's a big plus. But wks are supposed to be wookieies. They're supposed to be they were. but alsoy Wookies? But I'm one of those. And Axis and Allies when we play it, I always play Axis. Yeah. All right, I'm one of those guys. Even I get it No, it's understandable sometimes you just shouldn't you know build your entire political philosophy around it. No, you're dumb if you do that. And they're stupid Now, concerning Madull's friendship with Anton Leveay, it was mostly their hostility towards Christianity that aligned their movement with Satanism. That's the idea. Like Kamler before him, Madol was looking for pre Christian pagan sources of the so called Aryan religion, which of course never existed. And even so, his search for knowledge led him to Anton Leveay. Apparently, Madull and LeVay met frequently at the NRP office and at an occult bookstore in New York City called the Warlock Bookshop. They started meeting sometime in the nineteen seventies. Madull thereafter erected a large satanic altar in his apartment and also played recordings of LeVay's black masses at several NRP meetings Now we don't know exactly what Madull and Leveill discussed, but a letter from nineteen seventy four does exist between Madol and a Church of Satan member in which Madull asked if a small group of Satanists could help introduce NRP officers and members to quote more advanced concepts of occult philosophy. Or from what it seems like the NRP and the Church of Satan, they were both Finge groups who were seen by society at large as evil. As one scholar of the far right put it, their corordal relationship was basically networking The hated, hobnobbing with the hated to see if they could gain something from one another. They Yeahnt trying One is always trying to use the other one and so nothing gets done. There was another group called the Order of the Black Ram that did the something like this too. And so Antemae wrote a letter to them, which has always kind of been like the Church of Satan's official stance whichich is this idea of like he wrote this letter being like, we cannot join forces because Satanism does not choose allies care like it chooses its allies carefully. but I will stand beside you in the fight against the church. likeike it's that style of heshhip. Yeah. Now the NRP is so old they're called the NNRP V prettyty good. that's not bad Yeah. I like it. A you're alone. NRP It died real quick after James Madull. Oh of course. Of course. As far as the fate of the NRP went, it died with James. When Madull succumbed to cancer in nineteen seventy nine, his mother turned over all of the NRP's so called records to a staunch French Canadian Madull loyalist named Jean. J. J Madle's mother handed over all the documents at the Mmorial serervice for her son in New York City, but John, perhaps distraught after attending his friend's funeral, he struck a concrete abutment in the highway while on his way home. John was killed instantly, and the records Madle's mother had entrusted to John Blew away like so much litter, thus ending National Renaissance partarty within days of James MDll's death. That'sucking literally ended up as fucking New York City garbage. That's awesome in nineteen seventy nine, just more shit in the street. I could see like his mom at the funeral. was like, I'm looking for Jeane. Yay, Gan.o. Hello we're here. ye Je James left a message that I'm supposed to give you all these boxes They're full of his it's his thing. This is the thing I've ever seen in my life. Wh take home Now, from what I can tell, the nineteen seventies truly were the last time the Anton Lvee had any fun with the Church of Satan. In nineteen eighty, the FBI and the Secret Service raided the Church of Satan's Back house on Halloween, choosing the date, I'm sure in an attempt to catch Levee doing something dirty FBI did have a reason for being there, because an informant had told the FBI that Anton Levey was involved in a plot to murder Senator Ted Kennedy. See, this is the type of shit he got really sick at dealing with. Yeah. Well from what I can tell, LeVvee was supposed to be the go between on the murder, delivering eight kilos of hasash to a Chicago mafia boss as payment for the hit on Senator Kennedy. The informant said that he himself was a member of the Church of Satan, and he was actually planning to instigate a gunfight during the handoff that would have resulted in Levay's death and hopefully in the death of the mobsters as well. And when the smoke cleared, the informant said that he was going to walk away with the drugs and walk straight into the church of Satan become its new leader. possibly to get out of some other charge, the details are unclear. The informant was coming to the FBI with all of this information instead All of this information was, of course Uutter And total horseshit. Of course. Not even a single ounce of it was true. It's a good story. It's a great story. It's a really great story. It's a really great story. But the authorities having no idea what actually happened inside the Church of Satan. Of course not and they think it's evil. They think he's evil. They terrified. they think they're going against the devil himself. Yeah. They set up a massive operation to catch Anton Levet I the seecret Service, the DA, they set up a blockade at Chicago's O'Hare airport to meet all incoming flights in the days preceding Halloween nineteen eighty. They were convinced that Leveay was going to arrive any day with a briefcase full of hash. LeVe, of course never did. Instead, when agents raided LeVay's house on Halloween He was just sitting there Hanging out. Yeah. He's an old man. Yeah, he told the FBI that he had the highest regard for Senator Kennedy and his family and that he would never have any involvement with drugs because he was morally opposed to them. That was actually the truth. He was morally opposed to drugs. He didn't do drugs. just see the FBI showing up guns drawn like This is actually just kind of sad. Yeah like. You should be more evil than this. In nineteen eight he's Anton Levay's fifty. Yeah. you know, he's fifty and's getting in the din. Yeah, he's a bal watching TV with a helmet, no shirt, gut hang We were like fiddle faddle? made freak here. we were like Fiddle fadles. Part of the reason why the FBI might have taken the allegations again about Anton Nves so seriously is because earlier that year, the book that kicked off the Satanic panic, Michelle remembers, was released And it was taken incredibly seriously Now Michelle remembers claimed to be an autobiographical account of a woman who had been raised by Satanists who belonged to Anton the Vay's Church of Satan These Satanists had allegedly exposed this woman to satanic ritual abuse so horrifying that she had repressed all the memories until a psychiatrist helped her recover them Now again It is all Bullshit. Anything attached to the Satanic panic movement is not real. It is not real. There is not a single ounce of proof for any of it in any way whatsoever. Should be called Michelle misreembers. It really should be. Let's dig her up. Let's dig her up. I wna see your fucking boo. But Michelle and her psychiatrist They were fucking great talk show guests. They were amazing. So the Satanic panic began to spread. Then came the McMartin preschool case in nineteen eighty three, which featured three hundred allegations of satanic ritual abuse that were completely and totally unfounded. Again, not a single bit of evidence for any of it Martin only resulted in wasted time, money, and energy. But while no convictions were obtained, the trial lasted Seven Ye changed It ruined everybody's life. I believe it was the longest trial in California history, maybe even one of I think it still is one of the longest trials in American history. and it attracted constant and frantic media coverage. So it probably just took whatever money they had left. Everything. They just drained everybodyvery just drained every single person that was attached to it. It' one of the just a fucking nothing but tragedy and pain. Every person involved in the McMartin preschool tri like they were just people who ran a daycare. Yeah that just they were they liked kids and they got caught up and all of this shit and their lives were rued hundreds of people have their lives r runued because McMartin' just one Yeah, It's one of dozens that happen all across the United States for fifteen years, at least Most often, the media sided with the prosecutors, and the Church of Satan was often singled out as a main culprit The news show, twenty twenty made things even worse in nineteen eighty five when they accused Anton Levee's Satanic Bible of being responsible for America's supposed rash of child daycare ritual abuses. Are you slandering Barbara Walters? Yeah. If she was involved in this story, then I'd say that Barbara Walters was wrong B and it's not slander. It' an opinion. It' an opinion She was she is wrong And she had a big head and a tiny body. Babaa. Now you'd think that Anton Leveay would have had something to say about all this, but judging from his reaction, Levey was all but done with being the boogeyman by nineteen eighty five And it's at this point in the story that Anton's daughter Zena, recipient of the world's first Satanic baptism, returns. Obviously also we know, Zena L is the DNA basis for the clone that is Taylor Swift Taylor and built by Nazi scientists in order to sway the public becauseen Xena Strek. changed her name many years ago. You're right, Batina, but Snow that Taylor Swift is going to make a fascist turn. She's going to destroy the world. And I just want to remember that. I'm saying this right now. She's going to make a fascist turn and we're going to have to Probably sacrifice her something. I just know. J just keep your eyes open for that. J know that. Just remember that. All right N Zena was just twenty two years old when twenty twenty ran the story maligning the Church of Satan But when she called her father, Anton and asked him, What's your media strategy for this? He had nothing As far as he was concerned, he didn't have anything to worry about And he certainly wasn't going to go out in the public to say anything. Yeah, he just rotted on the vine. Zena was rightfully convinced that the situation was only going to get worse if they didn't respond at all because silence could be seen as an admission of guilt. or at the very least, you know, it left open speculation. And when speculation is open, that's when lies start to come in and that's when people start deciding what the truth is for themselves. Yeah, this is also the shit about child rape it People are being arrested charged with crimes against children. This was absolutely something to take incredibly seriously. to get in front of? You spent so long writing letters about like some of the letters in this fucking book about like them arguing about the enamel distributors that they got for the Baffamet Medallions, like shit like that that he was all over all of this shit. And then when it comes to this, he's just nowhere. But he's just gone. He's defeated. Yeah I mean, finally, Levee admitted to his daughter that he actually didn't have anyone to deal with interviews or media appearances anymore, because Diane Haggarti, co founder of the Church of Satan She was fucking gone by nineteen eighty five. Oh yeah. In nineteen eighty four, after years of emotional and physical abuse, Dian Hagarti left Anton Lvee. She claimed that he had screamed at her frequently and had once knocked her unconscious with a headlock. All that started happening after she got old too, was like in the second like the latter half of their marriage. But he seemed it seemed to really ramp up Definitely ramped up. I mean, it was known that he had anger problems. He was privately. But the nineteen eighty four split was the first time that these allegations were made public. They viewed him as like a prickly grump though. Like it was like that kind of thing. and then he just got angrier and meaner and No. According to Anton and Dian's grandson, the abuse against Diane had only grown in the last few years that they were together. In other words, Anton's outward abuse seems to coincide with a realization in the early nineteen eighties This is as far as the ride was going to take them He also didn't give a shit about what was happening in the outside world. That's the ECI. Yeah. Nor did he care what happened to anyone else as a result of the satanic panic Zena, however, she did care So she offered to help as the church's spokesperson temporarily until Anton found someone permanent This temporary spokesperson role, however, would last far longer than Zena wanted because Anton Levet could be a very very lazy man. Nothing illustrates this principle more than the Church of Satan Book because the all of the letters are from Diane So all of the Correspondents would like Anton would write letters when he was specifically kind of moved by something or whatever, but Diane was the one doing it all. Diane was micromanaging the newsletter. Diane was micromanaging all the different grotto micromanaging just f and managing with Michel Michael Aquino, right? She was doing it every She was doing every bit of it I honestly feel like she was the one with most of the passionate opinions Yeah about things and that Anton because she'd speak on behalf of Anton Right where'd be like, oh, Anton thinks this, but Boba thinks this. And she's like, no, you're just writing a letter. Yeah And also like Zena's like, you're dying, but this is the rest of my life. Yeah, now it's m' on me. And he's not even dying. fifty four I he's fifty four years old. He doesn't have any he not look good for fifty four. He looks very bad for fifty four, but he doesn't have a terminal illness. He's just done. He's done with life. So, as the Church of Satan's official spokesperson, Zena appeared on every show from Phil Donoghue to Sally Jesse Raphael. bating Christians while spreading the word about Satanism in an effort to put out some of the fires of the Satanic panic. Ironically, Zena's TV appearances caused membership numbers in the Church of Satan to skyrocket throughout the eighties, which never would have been possible if all those Christians hadn't made up all those stories about Satanic ritual abuse. Be she's a beautiful woman. And she made that perfect example. She was very eloquent Because also if you look at all the pictures in this book, guess what it all is? Ugly men withith incredibly hot women. It's the entire group. This It's all you lik this so much. Yeah, buddy. That was the whole fucking point. The whole point is that it allows nerdy idiots to hang out with the hottest chicks in the fucking city So what's the deal? How come I mean, ugly girls had to have been satan this too. Honestly, very few Because you know what part of you all think? No, no, I would say You know, it's not about that. It's not about It's not ugly or pretty. It's feminine. One of the satanic principles is High masculinity H femininity. So the women, if you were to come to there was like dress codes and there' other rules that we didn't get into in the actual nitty gritty of it. but he would say in it being like, if you're coming as a woman I want to I want them up. tits up Makeup Hey, likeike it's getting off. I want you high, high, high f. Yeah St start some selling truth? Yeah. All right, Satan Whatever you say, Satan.. And the guys that wear suits. Well, yeah, there because you're famous for your suits. It's different now. I'm not doing. I' not going to his house I'm trying to wear more suits. I'm trying more stuff. Well, as it turned out, Zina was actually one of the people who helped put the Satanic panic to bed. She worked with law enforcement agencies to set the record straight because before Zina opened the books, so to speak Law enforcement knew next to nothing about actual Satanism For the cops, they'd watch the deevil's reign and think it was real, which is like scientists basing theories of time travel solely on back to the future Thanks important to Zena, the FBI issued a report in nineteen ninety two refuting all the criminal conspiracy theories concerning satanic ritual abuse By nineteen ninety two, Zena had already resigned from the Church of Satan and had renounced her dickhead father two years earlier. becausecause while Anton Lvee still wasn't what you'd call a good guy during the sixties and seventies, he became an absolute piece of shit in the eighties and nineties And so by nineteen ninety All of the people who'd been with Anton Leveay in the Church of Satan's Heyday, they were gone Dian had left six years earlier, Michael Aquino had left fifteen years earlier. and after Zen is ded up with her father She'd left Levayian Satanism. who else? but Michael Akino's Temple of Set. Oh maname a high immediately became a high priestess in the Temple of setet became one of the people that like ran it big fuck you today. Oh my Lkino must have loved that. Oh, he stole the whole thing. He stole the whole crew. He stole the head of the Lilith Grotto. He stole the head of the Yath Cw we stole ahead of the Babylon crew. He stole every important Satanist Now the lawsuits over the ownership of the Church of Satan and all its properties they lasted throughout the eighties. It was between Anton Leveay and Dian Hagarti But when Levet was summoned to court over a restraining order filed by Diane Hagarti in nineteen eighty four, Lavet claimed to have taken revenge on the world using magic. He said that he wrote a letter announcing his magical intention for all hell to break loose when he got the summons. And sure enough, at the very hour that Lavee was supposed to be in front of the judge in San Francisco, tragedy struck nine hours south in the California town of Sana Cidro. This was the day of the infamous McDonald's Massacre, which was one of America's first major mass shootings. It was crazy. Yeah. man we're gonna do a full series on this. It's a fucking fascinating story. But a man named James Huberty opened fire on a McDonald's with a machine gun, killing twenty two, and wounding nineteen more Leveay, however, believed that the similarity between Diane's last name, Hagarti and the shooters, Huberty, That wasn't a coincidence. so he took credit for causing the massacre with his magic spells You know, it just, but it is interesting When you're in the magic world, this was a stretch. is a huge stretch. was flailing Yeah.. I mean, he'sing again only the only thing that the that the name share is that they start with an age and end with a why. There are other coincidences and Anton Levee's life that are incredible. like but now he's trying. Now he's he's reaching. He's obviously losing his touch in every way. and it doesn't end there In nineteen eighty four, when Antom was fifty four years old, he entered into a relationship with a seventeen year old girl named Blanche Barton, who'd written him a letter from college Two of them immediately got into sex magic, BDSM, and quite a bit of piss all while Anton was still married Diane. When you're old, that's the last thing it goes. It's like, come on, you weren't gonna to do that with Sammy Davis Jr., but you're gonna do it now at the end of your life ruin your marriage. You fucking idiot. You know what, th't, But if you look at it That's exactly the problem is that it's arrested development. This is an example of him trying to dial back the clock and thinking that he can He can regain something else by like how many times do we see an old man marry a almost child Because literally they're just trying to feel something again, which is not how it goes. Nope. Well, after Diane left, Blanche Barton stuck around and eventually wrote Anton Levay's official biography. It is absolutely filled with easily disproven lies. But Barton still repeats these lies in every interview she gives as if they were gospel truth, including an interview I saw in the special features on the Devil's Rain Blue Ray disk, like she's to this day, man But for all his former infamy, Anton Levay simply faded into the background of American culture in the last decades of his life. Even though he died in nineteen ninety seven, his last notable appearance in the public eye had been ten years earlier after the arrest of serial killer Richard Ramirez, who is, of course, a committed theistic Satan oah. his own batch. Yeah. Yeah, he's let's call it bespoke Satan ism Yeah Yeah a boutique. Yeah See, before Ramirez had killed anyone, he'd driven to San Francisco so he could meet and talk with Anton Lvee. Reportedly, Ramirez stopped Anton in the street and politely asked if they could chat about Satanism for just a few minutes. Lavevet, however, brushed Ramirez off and told him to write a letter instead. It's probably because he smelled like shit and looked like a fucking chuacabra awfulink I can tell exactly you know Richard Romirez. So him going like, Hey, man, you want to want to talk about saying with you for a while. And he's looking at him and just being like that's the height of his abilities And he's like You're not a hot chick, I'll see you later. N need to get here. Write me a letter. He should have been nice to him could have saved some lives. Well, I don't think he would. I don't know. N with Richard Ramirez. Yeah. yeah, not with Richard Romirez because as soon as Richard Ramirez returns to that sweet, sweet mainline cocaine It's all over from there. It's much more the mainlining cocaine than it is the Satan. It did when it comes to Richard Romerz. That's really what drove He straighted amount. Cocaine's bad in the v. Honestly, I wish Now I'm back on your side. I wish. now ye I'm I' there. Ramirez apologized for bothering Levee, he wished him a happy solstice and walked away But after Ramirez was arrested and branded as the most evil serial killer in American history, Aunton Lvease saw an opportunity to press that outrage button one more time press reached Anton Levee for comment about Richard Rmerz. Leveay said that Richard was quote The nicest pololite young man You'd ever want to meet And I guess to Ant Hon Miveveay, he was. He was. in that moment, he wasn't killing him and his wife I g point you wasn't scooping eyes out and leting him on the dress? No not there, yeah No Guy he just wanted the tension so fucking bad. Yeah. Yeah And it and it's so interesting that the The Satanic panic really was like it should have been his moment You know, like it really should have been his moment to shine to come out. I mean, Zena took the mantle and she made it happen, but that should have been his, you know, his moment. but I think really what I think it is is I think Diane was the one who got him out of the house. She and without her, he's just some lazy fuck that doesn't feel I'll get to it tomorrow. I don't think he's intelligent enough Well, it's not you know what? It's not about I actually think he' quite intelligent ' self conscious and able to change. That is is the main issue. He purposely throwze himself in place. You have a responsibility as a fucking wizard? Like I know it's ridiculous to say. he had a responsibility. He looked on what Alistair Crowley did and he looked at Helena Bolvatsky, he look at all these things they all Fail all eat shit. And the reason why they all fail and eat shit is because instead of what I was saying in the beginning Coming Gandalf the White Getting rid of the old d