Dan Savage

There isn't a song on earth that wouldn't sound sinister with that kind of reading. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Satan. Happy birthday to you. These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do. And one of these days, these boots are going to walk all over you. Go ahead and laugh, but in the book of Job, Satan says he was made for walking.

on the earth walking up and down on the earth right there in the bible god tried to warn us about nancy sinatra but we didn't listen Another thing, Barry Manilow wrote a lot of songs, but he didn't write I Write the Songs. It was one of his biggest hits, but it was a cover of a song written by singer-songwriter Bruce Johnston.

on the earth walking up and down on the earth right there in the bible god tried to warn us about nancy sinatra but we didn't listen Another thing, Barry Manilow wrote a lot of songs, but he didn't write I Write the Songs. It was one of his biggest hits, but it was a cover of a song written by singer-songwriter Bruce Johnston.

But it was Manilow's version that went to number one on the pop charts in December of 1976. I'm bad at math, but 2024 minus 1976 equals... 48 years ago? And these guys, these pastors who are constantly exposing the hidden messages in popular music, they're just getting around to this nearly 50-year-old hit song?

But it was Manilow's version that went to number one on the pop charts in December of 1976. I'm bad at math, but 2024 minus 1976 equals... 48 years ago? And these guys, these pastors who are constantly exposing the hidden messages in popular music, they're just getting around to this nearly 50-year-old hit song?

Meanwhile, young and hot Lil Nas X is right there, literally giving Satan a lap dance, sitting on Satan's dick in the video for his smash hit song, Montero, Call Me By Your Name, which came out in 2021. Named one of the top songs of 2021 by Pitchfork Magazine, went to the top of the charts, won the MTV Music Video of the Year Award in 2021.

Meanwhile, young and hot Lil Nas X is right there, literally giving Satan a lap dance, sitting on Satan's dick in the video for his smash hit song, Montero, Call Me By Your Name, which came out in 2021. Named one of the top songs of 2021 by Pitchfork Magazine, went to the top of the charts, won the MTV Music Video of the Year Award in 2021.

and the constant exposures of satanic messaging and pop music. I guess they're not going to get around to Lil Nas X's Montero for another 48 years. That's how long it took them to get to I Write the Song, so we can all look forward to the slow and sinister, nightmarish Christian reading of Montero in, again, I'm bad at math, but I think 2071.

and the constant exposures of satanic messaging and pop music. I guess they're not going to get around to Lil Nas X's Montero for another 48 years. That's how long it took them to get to I Write the Song, so we can all look forward to the slow and sinister, nightmarish Christian reading of Montero in, again, I'm bad at math, but I think 2071.

Right now, in the year of our Lord, 2024, they want us freaking out about sweet old 81-year-old Barry Manilow currently cashing royalty checks in Palm Springs with his husband. And he deserves every penny. Copacabana is a banger. This whole thing, I think, is hilarious and ridiculous, but in a way, charming. A reminder of a more innocent time.

Right now, in the year of our Lord, 2024, they want us freaking out about sweet old 81-year-old Barry Manilow currently cashing royalty checks in Palm Springs with his husband. And he deserves every penny. Copacabana is a banger. This whole thing, I think, is hilarious and ridiculous, but in a way, charming. A reminder of a more innocent time.

A time when Christians were obsessed with hidden satanic messages and pop music and comic books. And with boys that had long hair. Really, 1 Corinthians 11.14, doth not even nature itself teach you that? If a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him. Long hair on men, those long-haired boys I lusted after in middle school or began to lust after or have confusing feelings about in middle school.

A time when Christians were obsessed with hidden satanic messages and pop music and comic books. And with boys that had long hair. Really, 1 Corinthians 11.14, doth not even nature itself teach you that? If a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him. Long hair on men, those long-haired boys I lusted after in middle school or began to lust after or have confusing feelings about in middle school.

Turns out they were sinners. Turns out they were growing that hair out to do the devil's work. I'm not exaggerating. When I was a kid, Christians hated the hippies with their long hair and the rock stars and pop stars, the boys with their girlishly long hair.

Turns out they were sinners. Turns out they were growing that hair out to do the devil's work. I'm not exaggerating. When I was a kid, Christians hated the hippies with their long hair and the rock stars and pop stars, the boys with their girlishly long hair.

They worried these girlishly styled boys would confuse or corrupt innocent young men, even boys in seminaries, boys like me, and turn us gay. And they were right, in my case at least. Peter Frampton and Leif Garrett, now tragically bald... They made me gay.

They worried these girlishly styled boys would confuse or corrupt innocent young men, even boys in seminaries, boys like me, and turn us gay. And they were right, in my case at least. Peter Frampton and Leif Garrett, now tragically bald... They made me gay.

Today's Christians, today's evangelicals, again, hashtag not all Christians are evangelicals, but today's evangelical Christians, the nightmarish Christians that Christian nightmares documents, documents the atrocities on all of his social media platforms. What are they obsessed with now?

Today's Christians, today's evangelicals, again, hashtag not all Christians are evangelicals, but today's evangelical Christians, the nightmarish Christians that Christian nightmares documents, documents the atrocities on all of his social media platforms. What are they obsessed with now?

authoritarianism, forced births, Donald fucking Trump, putting Donald fucking Trump back in the White House, I would trade today's crazy, nightmarish, evangelical Christians, the Christians of my youth, the evangelical conservative Christians of my youth, that these guys on this podcast are