Ben Kissel
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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
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They don't care at all.
It's kind of the problem with them.
Yeah.
But as Michael Aquino became a far more visible Satanist, or Setian, as he'd call it, the target on his back got larger and larger as the Satanic panic was cultivated by the same people Aquino was courting.
That too.
That too.
I think his shirt just got tight.
Well, Aquino appeared as a guest on not just the Oprah Winfrey show, but also on Geraldo.
And few people in the media did more to stoke the flames of the satanic panic than Geraldo Rivera.
Even though he had the same facial hair as Anton LaVey.
But even though I suppose Aquino was trying the hide-in-plain-sight tactic, the satanic panic finally touched Michael Aquino in 1986, after an investigation was opened looking into accusations of satanic ritual abuse at the Presidio Army Base's daycare in San Francisco.
Allegedly, 58 children were abused at the daycare, and by 1987, Michael Aquino himself was named when the three-year-old daughter of an army chaplain accused Aquino of sexually abusing her during a satanic rite held at Aquino's San Francisco home.
Yes.
Yes.
No, this shit happened.
It happened hundreds upon hundreds of times throughout the entire decade into the 90s.
People went to prison on shit like this.
Yeah.
But it's but back then specifically, it's the idea is, you know, kids want to please.
That's what that's all a kid wants to do is a kid wants to make you happy and a kid wants to get a reward.
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