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Jul 2021
46m 9s

Summer Book Club: "The Satan Seller" (Pa...

Sarah Marshall
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We finish our San Bernardino joyride through Mike Warnke’s 1972 “memoir” with a hex, a horrible crime and a Satanic celebrity cameo. Digressions include digressions include Billie Eilish, wicker men and today’s completely new and not at all throwback panic over critical race theory. This episode includes a wildly fake but nonetheless disturbing description ... Show More
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