Ben Kissel

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7,902 appearances 30 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 21 Jun

Ben Kissel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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had to step in just before Lee and LeVay got into an actual fist fight.

But considering how Sammy Davis Jr.

was 5'4 and Christopher Lee was 6'5, I think the so-called fight was more for show than anything.

I think they just kind of, you know, bowed out.

What'd you say to me?

Even though the spooky boys' dinner party went badly, LaVey and Davis' friendship continued to grow for reasons beyond just a good hang.

See, LaVey accepted Davis for everything that he was, including the fact that Sammy Davis Jr.

was also bisexual, or at the very least, highly fluid when it came to sexual relations.

And so LaVey and Davis were friends throughout the 1970s.

LaVey 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 Slewfoot, which Davis loved because he was an accomplished tap and soft shoe performer.

It is.

Now, throughout his friendship with Sammy Davis Jr., it seems like LeVay was finally getting everything he wanted.

Davis brought Anton into his inner circle of show business connections.

And at Davis' parties, Anton LaVey 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.

But there was one man that Anton LaVey forgot all about.

A man that still had a lot of pull 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 Nation.

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