On part two of our Warnke series, we discuss how exactly Mike Warnke sold his Satanic high priest story to the Evangelical crowd for 20 years, and how his influence helped to kickstart the Satanic Panic of the eighties and nineties.
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Episode 660: Jimmy Savile Part III - Built on a Lie
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1h 5m
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Boomers, The Big Sort, and Really, Really Big Churches
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