Show Notes Episode 417: Segassem Lanimilbus Niatnoc Yam

This week Host Dave Bledsoe attempts to get a free drink by briefly holding up a 3x5 Index Card with the words “NO PAY” on it to the bartender hoping to subliminally message him. (The bartender made him choose between eating the card or getting thrown out. He ate it.) On the show this week we head back to 1990 when Judas Priest was sued because someone thought they used subliminal messages to kill their fans. (They weren’t and they didn’t)

Along the way we discover that Dave was NOT very metal as a teenager, (He was downright cherubic! Which is NOT Metal!) Then we dive right into the dark and sad story of two teenagers who did a terrible and tragic thing and the greedy lawyers who tried to make a buck on it. (Trigger warning: Capitalism) We meet the family who very much want you to believe that Judas Priest was responsible for the terrible and tragic thing and NOT the terrible and tragic lives the kids led, largely due to the parents. Then we follow the twisted logic as a small town lawyer goes after a band and record label on the legal pretext that somehow it makes good business sense for either of them to want fewer customers rather than more. (And are willing to kill to make that happen) Finally, we hear from any number of “experts” who listened to a Judas Priest album and just heard whatever the fuck they wanted to hear. (But somehow missed Rob Halford asking for a peppermint. GIVE ROB HIS PEPPERMINT!)

Our Sponsor this week is Sully’s Subliminals, who want you to know it isn’t ILLEGAL to use subliminal advertising! We open the show with Bill Hicks and close with Judas Priest doing the least evil song a metal band ever wrote.

Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense

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Citations Needed:

ALBUM BLAMED IN SUICIDE PACT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/07/17/album-blamed-in-suicide-pact/f0369825-a29a-4446-a6fd-73e40ff15817/

Teen-Age Suicide, Rock And Parental Deception

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/06/movies/teen-age-suicide-rock-and-parental-deception.html

Dream Deceivers Documentary - The Story Behind James Vance vs. Judas Priest 1992

https://youtu.be/MGeNjfRWzXI?si=hdD2NSIHMpjhy0fh

‘My Heart Aches’ : Mothers in Judas Priest Trial Tell of Their Five-Year Ordeal

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-08-07-ca-342-story.html

2 Families Sue Heavy-Metal Band As Having Driven Sons to Suicide

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/17/arts/2-families-sue-heavy-metal-band-as-having-driven-sons-to-suicide.html

Wikipedia: Better by You, Better than Me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_by_You,_Better_than_Me

Judas Priest: The Lawsuit That Shook The Metal World

https://rockandrolltruestories.com/judas-priest-lawsuit/

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