Ben Kissel

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

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Last Podcast On The Left · Episode 669: Anton LaVey Part IV - Old Wizards Die Hard · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

or someone close to him.

They saw what was coming on the horizon in the 1980s.

See an excerpt from one of Davis's many memoirs, 1980s Hollywood in a Suitcase.

It ran in the New York Daily News as a preview under the subtitle, A Touch of Satanism and Lessons in Love.

Fucking bastards.

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.

But when the book was actually released, all mentions of the Church of Satan had been wiped away because the satanic panic had finally arrived.

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 that.

It had to report back to the Church of Satan in San Francisco.

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.

I fucking, I love this one.

This is good.

tribute show was being put together for sammy davis jr in 1989 after he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer eddie murphy was chosen as the mc and reportedly during a dinner between eddie murphy and sammy davis jr sammy lightly said you know satan's as powerful as god that's

He was so close.

Just dropping it into a conversation with fucking Eddie Murphy in 1989 when Eddie Murphy is like the most famous man on earth.

Well, the famously close-minded Eddie Murphy just responded with, What the fuck are you talking about?

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