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Oct 2021
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Episode 468: Mike Warnke Part I - Satani...

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This week, we begin our series on Mike Warnke — one of the accidental architects of the Satanic Panic that swept America in the eighties and nineties. Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 
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