Episode 270: Let There Be Satanic Panic
An Irish boy band called Boyzone sees their bad boy accuse other musicians of performing satanic rituals on stage. In Utah, a bill is advanced to criminalize “ritual abuse of a child” that speaks of animal sacrifice, cannibalism, bestiality, corpse mutilation, bondage, coffins and open graves. Meanwhile, Tim Ballard, the heroic subject of a recent blockbuster biopic, is fighting back against accusations that he coerced multiple women into sex in the course of his “missions” to save children in foreign countries. In the house to cover all of this: Julian Feeld, Jake Rockatansky, Travis View, Liv Agar and Annie Kelly.
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Music by Pontus Berghe and Nick Sena. Editing by Corey Klotz.
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That's a lovely message from Travis at the end btw
That ski fail story is a great description of bad ski assessments. Loved it. Been there.
I once read in a Catholic magazine called MICHAEL, the first of 3 articles about Satanist influence in the early 90s-2000s electronic music scene in western Europe. Wish I could find this damn magazine online to read the other articles. Absolutely incredible stuff - similar to the "praying over the records" stuff
That's amazing. My friends in Greece who were into punk and metal used to watch some greek church TV show warning about satanic music, because somehow this greek priest or whatever seemed to know what records were coming out before they did, so it was a good place to find out!
I love that super satanic Dojo Cat
That was so sweet of Liv to suggest that Tim kiss himself
I can say as an employee of Utah County that it absolutely tracks. I know exactly where that came from within the Sheriffs office. It's a whole long story involving the Sheriff and his hate for our then County Attorney and crazy Q style accusations. Also I love love love the way you pronounce Nephi it's hilarious and don't you change it no matter what anyone says.
I was born in Logan and used to work in Provo. It's gotten SO MUCH weirder there since I moved away. Glad to see there are still some sane people.
National Babies havin' National Babies
Congrats!
Yo gang can y'all do a segment soon about the boxer Ryan Garcia and his recent claims about being abducted and forced to watch cp by the cabal? He seems to be having a normal one since his loss to Gervonta "wife beater" Davis and it's been making waves in that community.
There was a slight, presumably accidental bit of implied historical misinfo in this ep — the 80s and 90s had a lot of publicity and exposure surrounding "actual satanists" like Zeena LaVey, who even went on a talk show opposite Bob Larson! And even if you couldn't book your local "official" branch of the Randroids in Black, smaller news programs had no problems finding local metalhead youths to interview to pad out their satanic panic segments.
Jake talking about the Snowflake Club is nostalgic
i used to play drums for boyzone!
Wouldn't that law make circumcision classified as ritual child sex abuse?
There's a lady at my job that STILL wears an O.U.R. shirt from time to time.
Where can I get my "Jesus is edging" bumper sticker?
It bugs me how apologetic to this idea Annie Kelly is. It's uncharacteristic for her. I guess even when you're a reasonable person the Christian brain rot is real!
Jesus at 29:41 I thought I switched over to a magnus archives episode or an SCP podcast for a second
S/o subliminal Jihad, nobody's covered satanic panic like them
Should be noted that Colin Farrell was almost a member of Boyzone but got dropped because of his terrible singing. I also recall they were among the playlist used to torture Iraqi POWs, so my little sister technically committed a warcrime on me in the 90s.
If you want a laugh search YouTube for Boyzone ‘s First Appearance on The Late Late Show. Absolutely cringetastic. Although on a positive note, we’re not subjected to Ronan’s bloody awful singing.
I’m amazed their career survived that bizarre appearance!
I'm sorry: "Illinois or Michigan ski MOUNTAINS"??
To be fair, a very large hill is a mountain to most Illinoisese.
I loved ALW, musicals, and boy bands. No Matter What slapped and I was a Stephen (RIP) girlie.
Shake it for Satan!
It would be great if these champions of the Lord would put as much energy into dismantling the intergeneration cycles of sexual abuse and cover ups inflicted upon children in their own social circles as they do these hypothetical satanic boogie men. And I’m not just talking about the church, I mean people who out of Catholic shame or “Christian charity” sweep abuse inflicted upon their very own children under the rug to save face. These New Age Crusaders are an insult to true survivors everywhere.
Yay, Annie. All the best on the adventure ahead.
Congratulations Annie!
First time I've heard an entire minute of Boyzone. Eeech... that was an unenjoyable minute. Good episode though!
Sitting here in County Cork yelling at Julian. British 🙄🙄🙄 and then you say UK 💀 that's unsub worthy
I wanted to comment this same thing! 😂
I believe that Geraldo episode is the same one where he covers the West Memphis Three case, which means two of my obsessions converging in this episode. There's a particularly heinous bit where they bring on the father of one of the (in my belief) wrongfully accused and bully him for stating the truth (that his son's confession was coerced by police).
Congrats to the upcoming BabyKNK
Such a good episode.
I lived through the 80s satanic panic, and heard the thing about the rhythm/beats. Crazy that it took this long for it to make it to Ireland.
Liv Agar
Love an ep with Annie and Liv
Jake that irish band sounds like every boy band of the time but much worse. franki valli????????????????
There’s another Irish boy band from the same stable called Westlife. Believe it or not, they are even worse!
“The border guards themselves are good but they’re being told to do bad things by the White House” is almost verbatim something that Alex Jones has said.
QAA FULL HOUSE EPISODE!!!!
Shane Lynch's sisters were in a band called "B*Witched". Maybe he should be looking for the Satanism a little closer to home.
Saving this for work tomorrow but I'm so glad to see all hands aboard
"er UK people" GO TO JAIL JULIAN
*gently applauds the team's nuanced appreciation of Irish/UK band difference* 👏
.... aaaaaand then Julian ruined it 🤣
Lol of course hip hop would be the most evil for this dude
Funny that it wouldn’t be the kind of music outwardly expressing their love for Satan or the Devil. 🤷🏻♀️
Shane! If only Keith had got you a recurring part on coronation street as a pub comedy cameo - like Ian McEwen does, things could have been so different.
Oh boy just read the description and I’m so ready for this ride
Purreamory. Respect.
Honestly. Liv is a quip queen. 👑