Satan is my Superhero

In this episode we’re going down to the cross road, fall to our knees, beg for mercy please and sell our soul for musical greatness.

We investigate Robert Johnson’s ‘Cross Road Blues’ and attempt to sort through, fact, fiction, myth and legend. Is it Blues’ the haunting tale of a Faustian contract or the harrowing reality of an African American man’s experience in the Deep South?

We also discuss Ralph Macchio’s punchable face. And find out what links Johnson to Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse.  

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Robert Johnson : lost and found

By Barry Lee Pearson & Bill McCulloch

Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture by Patricia Schroeder

https://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8277271/27-club-real-myth

https://www.musicradar.com/news/eric-clapton-interview-blues-robert-johnson 

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In this episode we will stick our thumb out and hitch a ride on AC/DC’s Highway to Hell. We look at the song, the album and all that controversy.

Episode Sauces

https://www.loudersound.com/features/no-speed-limit-the-story-of-acdcs-highway-to-hell-album

https://www.guitarworld.com/features/angus-young-on-life-in-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-rock-bands-an-in-depth-interview-with-the-acdc-icon

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/acdcs-highway-to-hell-blazes-into-funereal-charts-20090417-a9l2.html

https://www.christianpost.com/news/perry-noble-megachurch-ac-dc-highway-to-hell-easter.html

https://www.christiantimes.com/news/band-draws-backlash-after-performing-ac-dc-song-during-worship-service-at-indiana-church.html#:~:text=Another%20church%20in%20South%20Carolina,of%20the%20song%20was%20positive.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/acdc-richard-ramirez-night-prowler/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9147521/How-rotting-teeth-AC-DC-hat-finally-led-Los-Angeles-police-Night-Stalker-Richard-Ramirez.html

https://www.thewrap.com/night-stalker-terrifying-facts-serial-killer-richard-ramirez/

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-xpm-2013-jun-09-la-me-ln-how-the-night-stalker-got-it-name-20130609-story.html

https://www.serialkillercalendar.com/Richard%20RAMIREZ.php 

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In this episode we will round off the year with a selection of sketches from 2022 selected by Tee Teaz.

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In this episode we will look back through the year of our lord 2022 and see where a fiendish fictional figment of fantasy fashioned from foolish fancy and forgery by flagrant fraudsters and philandering fakers falsely baring witness thousands of years ago has touched Swedish singer songwriter Anna von Hausswolff, Scottsdale Arizona, Will Smith, Chris Rock, Denzel Washington, Vladimir Putin, Trump’s favourite groom of the stool, Roger Stone, Daniel Damien Lucey, The Satanic Temple, Lucien Greaves, social media influencer Lisa Wilson, Hadi Matar, Salman Rushdie, Pope Francis, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Alex Jones and the living train wreck, the tragic disaster slowly unfolding before our very eyes, the subject of future of multiple Hollywood bio-pics himself, the former artist, formerly known as Kanye West.

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A ‘High Priestess of Satanic Art’? This Organist Can Only Laugh.

 Alex Marshall The New York Times

GAME PLAYER? 

Zach Wilson’s mom posts cryptic video about Satan and predators after he was accused of affair with her friend

Forrest McFarland The U.S. Sun

https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/satanic-temple-satancon-holds-inaugural-convention-in-scottsdale/75-5cbdbaa4-17df-4752-8738-9ad99bb64df5

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/02/christians-argue-first-amendment-doesnt-protect-satanic-temple-try-cancel/

https://www.christianpost.com/news/christians-protest-satanic-temples-3-day-satancon-in-arizona.html

https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/entertainment/2022/march/tearful-will-smith-reveals-what-denzel-washington-told-him-about-the-devil-right-after-he-slugged-chris-rock-at-the-oscars

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/russia-tests-nuclear-capable-missile-that-vladimir-putin-says-will-make-enemies-think-twice/uks3pn9hn

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-allies-warn-demonic-territory-satanic-portal-over-biden-wh-1706705

https://www.salemnews.com/news/they-need-to-be-wiped-out-satanic-temple-arson-suspect-told-police/article_011113e6-eb47-11ec-97eb-87f6fbd3c009.html

https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-pomp-and-bluster-putin-bucks-west-in-speech-before-signing-annexation-treaties/

https://www.dw.com/en/pope-francis-warns-the-devil-enters-through-online-pornography/a-63568515

https://www.newsweek.com/free-speech-satanism-opinion-1681893

https://euobserver.com/world/156188

https://indianexpress.com/article/world/top-quotes-from-russia-putin-speech-at-ukraine-annexation-ceremony-8183779/

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/bruce-almighty-screenwriters-discuss-unmade-sequel-brucifer

https://nypost.com/2022/12/01/kanye-west-praises-hitler-while-wearing-hood-during-alex-jones-interview/

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/04/28/marjorie-taylor-greene-catholic-church-satan-newday-vpx.cnn

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In this episode we complete our journey towards cinematic eternal damnation and pick up with the release of Monty Python’s Life of Brian in the U.K.

The Pythons come up against the likes of Mary Whitehouse, Malcolm Muggeridge, Mervyn Stockwood and founder of Christian Voice, Stephen Green.

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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life by Robert Sellers

Life of Brian: The Gospel According to Monty Python by Leah Schnelbach

Eric Idle’s Twitter Account

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190822-life-of-brian-the-most-blasphemous-film-ever

50 Years After John Lennon’s “Bigger Than Jesus” Quote, We Forget How Shocking the Rest of That Interview Was BY RUTH GRAHAM, Slate.com

How A Beatle Lives Part 3: George Harrison by Maureen Cleave, Evening Standard, The, 18 March 1966

Chabad Rabbi Who Once Called For Rabin’s Assassination Passes Away

https://failedmessiah.typepad.com

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/mar/28/artsfeatures1

http://menardstemarie.chez.com/mp/c3.htm

Robert E. A. Lee, Who Made ‘A Time for Burning,’ Dies at 87, New York Times

Iron Maiden Meets Monty Python By Bryan Reesman

VANDALS PLAGUE FUNDAMENTALIST CHURCH IN 'VILLAGE' By Charles Austin, New York Times

BBC's Malcolm Muggeridge groped women uncontrollably, claims book. The Guardian

Pinkoes and Traitors: The BBC and the nation 1974-1987 by Jean Seaton

Not the nine o’clock News

Friday Night, Saturday Morning BBC2

ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE’: THAT ONE TIME BRITISH SAILORS SANG MONTY PYTHON AS THEY WATCHED THEIR SHIP BURN By CLAIRE BARRETT, Historynet

In public he rails against immorality as the voice of Christian Britain but in private he is a wife beater, says his former partner By FRANCES HARDY, THE DAILY MAIL

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In this episode we take a trip down the blasphemous heretical road to Golgotha that is, Monty Python’s Life of Brian. We will scour the scourge of screaming scathing scornful scandals aimed at scuttling the most scrumptiously scurrilously scatological sacrilegious scrutiny of scripture ever scribbled by scruffy scriptwriters when it scorched across screens in 1979. 

Sauces 

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life by Robert Sellers

Life of Brian: The Gospel According to Monty Python by Leah Schnelbach

Eric Idle’s Twitter Account

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190822-life-of-brian-the-most-blasphemous-film-ever

50 Years After John Lennon’s “Bigger Than Jesus” Quote, We Forget How Shocking the Rest of That Interview Was BY RUTH GRAHAM, Slate.com

How A Beatle Lives Part 3: George Harrison by Maureen Cleave, Evening Standard, The, 18 March 1966

Chabad Rabbi Who Once Called For Rabin’s Assassination Passes Away

https://failedmessiah.typepad.com

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/mar/28/artsfeatures1

http://menardstemarie.chez.com/mp/c3.htm

Robert E. A. Lee, Who Made ‘A Time for Burning,’ Dies at 87, New York Times

Iron Maiden Meets Monty Python By Bryan Reesman

VANDALS PLAGUE FUNDAMENTALIST CHURCH IN 'VILLAGE' By Charles Austin, New York Times

BBC's Malcolm Muggeridge groped women uncontrollably, claims book. The Guardian

Pinkoes and Traitors: The BBC and the nation 1974-1987 by Jean Seaton

Not the nine o’clock News

Friday Night, Saturday Morning BBC2

ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE’: THAT ONE TIME BRITISH SAILORS SANG MONTY PYTHON AS THEY WATCHED THEIR SHIP BURN By CLAIRE BARRETT, Historynet

In public he rails against immorality as the voice of Christian Britain but in private he is a wife beater, says his former partner By FRANCES HARDY, THE DAILY MAIL

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In part 2 of our Joel Osteen saga we investigate the rise and rise of Prosperity Theology’s most successful blasphemer, purveyor of the cotton candy gospel, the shinier than shiny, smiling preacher. Where we left the last episode Joel’s father John, while lying on his deathbed asked Joel to take over the 8000 seat Lakewood Church and burgeoning television ministry. 

We will see how the handover from John to Joel goes much like Phillip II of Macedon’s handover of his kingdom to Alexander the Great.

Tee Teaz doesn’t agree with me but I’m sticking with the comparison! 

As if to prove my point this Oral Roberts University drop out does indeed increase the Lakewood empire. And Joel doesn’t just increase the size of his father’s church but also his television ministry. Joel also surpasses the old man in the world of publishing, hitting the New York Times Best Seller list 7 times so far.

He rubs shoulders with celebrities like, Larry King, Mariah Carey, Tyler Perry, Jimmy Fallon and Oprah. He’s also made inroads with political heavyweights like Barack Obama, John McLain, and Kanye.

Leveraging his obvious interest in and understanding of media, Joel has also embraced the information age with his own satellite radio show, podcast, YouTube channel, and has covered all the social media’s with his branding. 

While we’ve only done a couple of episodes in the ongoing Prosperity Gospel series I’m sure you will by now know what to expect. Salacious sex scandals by shameful scheming scammers with shockingly sinful secret Swiss bank accounts.

Well we will get to more of those types of controversies in future episodes, for now we have vanilla on beige Joel Osteen. 

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In this episode we begin our journey to understand the cross between a Ken doll and a Labradoodle that is Joel Osteen by going back a generation to see where he comes from.

Beginning in 1939 with his father John Osteen.

We follow John’s progress through a bachelor’s degree at John Brown University and a Master’s thesis at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary.

His success as a young Southern Baptist pastor in and around his home state of Texas. Marriage to second wife Dodie and 5 children. 

Prepare to marvel at John’s ability to pray away daughter, Lisa Osteen’s alleged Cerebral Palsy and brain damage.

You will be gripped by John’s dramatic struggle with the Baptist church and the establishments refusal to believe we still live in a time of miracles. They’re just less impressive miracles that’s all. Have your heart ripped out as a disillusioned John Osteen quits pastoring to a bunch of stiff necked red necks and becomes an insurance salesman.

But don’t worry, in less than a year of having a real job John comes back to the church, but this time it’s personal.

We take off with John as he launches what will become the 16 000 seater MEGACHURCH we know today, Lakewood Church in Houston. In John’s new and improved Chri$tianity, healing the sick and the miracle of speaking in tongues will occur on the weekly.

While I would argue every episode I do about a Prosperity Gospel preacher is a true crime episode, this one actually has some genuine #TrueCrime.

A Texas businessman is shot 6 times in an orgy with two sex workers that goes horribly wrong. You may be surprised to learn how father of the version of charismatic Chri$tianity we suffer today, William Branham and John Osteen cross paths with trans woman Leslie Elaine Perez.

This episode has got it all. There’s a last minute death row reprieve. Marriage advice from a sheltered Chri$tian woman who was married for less than a year when she was 22. The devil will even give Dodie terminal cancer! Don’t worry, she cures herself and will explain how you can do the same.

And just when you didn’t think the life of a preacher couldn’t get any more exciting we have pipe bombs and domestic terrorism.

Oh and in part one of this two part story we will actually get to some of Joel’s story and document his first foray into his father’ ministry.

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In this episode we follow up Fun Satanic Hoaxes by looking at how Lord of Flies is used by the dark side of the force. Demonstrably dishonest diatribe, designed to deceive damage and destroy distributed by disingenuous dickheads driving division dissention and dividends as always been a thing. I don’t know how long it was between the first human inventing the first god and then coming up with the first devil but I’d bet you could count it in minutes.

We look at some of the hoaxes where Satan has been thrown into the mix to maximize harm and or profit. Like the persistent rumors' that various company CEO’s like McDonald’s founder Ray Croc and fashion designer Liz Claiborne have appeared on Phil Donahue, The Jenny Jones Show, Sally Jesse Raphael and Oprah professing their love of the devil admitting to donating company money to Anton LeVay’s Church of Satan!

Household goods company Proctor & Gamble have been battling an urban legend that paints the company as a conduit for Beelzebub for over 50 years now! What makes this hoax interesting is not the overly stimulated pattern recognition mind and wilful ignorance of your average conspiracy theorist but WHO kept it alive.

We’ll look at ridiculous claims about non-alcoholic grape juice in the Bible by temperance fundamentalists Al and Alice Lunden and how the Prince of Darkness himself has misguided the Catholic Church in its transubstantiation rituals.

And we’ll hear from corporate copywriter and Electronic Voice Phenomenon pundit Roderick Millington who claims to have Old Scratch’s voice on tape!

We’ll also mention, Jim, Dan and Steve Peters of the Zion Christian Life Center in Minnesota, problematic columnist, author, commentator and former Alice Cooper roadie, Bob Greene, Multi Level marketing company Amway and pasteurization innovator and hero of the Underground Railroad, Thomas Bramwell Welch. 

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In this episode we will look into some fun Satanic Hoaxes. We still live in the shadow of the satanic panic of the 1980s and under the spectre of Qanon today but those hoaxes have cost people their lives and that’s not fun. I thought in this episode we would look at some of the less famous stories where the devil is to blame.

We will investigate the fake Satanic ritual sites discovered on the Scandinavian island of Anholt and their connection to Devil coins turning up all over Europe including Bath Abbey in the U.K.

We examine how Danish newspaper Politiken, uncovered the three men behind the mystery, Knud Langkow, Jørgen Sømod and Bent Jensen.

We deep dive into, ‘The Well to Hell’ story that had Trinity Broadcasting Network fooled TWICE! And see how an annoyed Norwegian school teacher, Åge Rendalen performed what we would call these days, a ‘White Hat Hoax’ on the network.

We find even Justin Bieber has been a victim of one of these Satanic hoaxes with his innocent little minor hit from a few tears back, ‘Baby’ being accused of being back masked by brain bending bangers beatifying Beelzebub.

We look at how a simple photoshop joke by comic book creator Cody Frederickson went viral.

And we’ll find out if it’s now safe to return to the San Bernardino Mountains after campers were warned of Satanic activity in the area.

Also mentioned in this episode, Kola Superdeep Borehole, Lotte Geevan, Art Bell, Coast to Coast and The United States Forest Service. 

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