Witches of Shakespeare Act 2

In this episode we will go back to a time before the songs of Anglo Saxons and Vikings, Alexander the Great and Darius III or Frank Herbert’s Dune. Ace pilots, tail gunners, commandos and submariners. 

We’re going back before all that to the middle of the punk explosion. Playing the toughest East London pubs, Iron Maiden had to work blue.  

The songs were about sex pests, sex workers, spending the night in jail and the Opera.

According to legend, Steve Harris formed Iron Maiden on Christmas Day 1975 and that is where our story will begin.

This epic tale will feature guest appearances and name drops like Ash Mountain (don’t worry, you’ll know who that is by the end of the episode) Metallica, Black Sabbath, Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics, medieval torture devices, longswords, longbows, crossbows, chain mail, Punk’d, Togo Navy, Spaceward Studios, Paul Di’Anno, Dave Murray, The Bandwagon, The Soundhouse Tapes, E.M.I., Wishbone Ash, Martin Birch, Guy Edwards, Andy Scott, Wil Malone, Martin Levan, Kingsway Studios, Prowler, Remember Tomorrow, Running Free, Phantom of the Opera, Lars Ulrich, Fade to Black, Sanitarium, Transylvania, Strange World, Charlotte the Harlot, Paul Mario Day, Bruce Dickinson, Eddie, Derek Riggs, Electric Matthew Says Hello, Top of the Pops, YouTube, Clive Burr, Dennis Stratton, Adrian Smith, Urchin, Taipei, Kiss, The Eagles, Tears for Fears, Motely Crue, Hawkwind, Miss Universe Beauty Pageant.

Up the irons!

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In this episode we dive back into the madness that is the Christian Bible and fart gag our way through the second chapter of the Book of Revelation. 

John of Patmos is having a psychological breakdown/writing a letter to seven churches in modern day Turkey, claiming this letter may be in John’s handwriting but the content comes directly from the mouth of the lord Jesus Christ himself.

John will explain to the church of Ephesus just how much the ultimate creator god of the entire universe is upset about a wife swapping cult of Nicolaitanes. 

John explains quantum physics to the church in Smyrna and proves once and for all Jesus is Schrodinger’s Cat.

John doxes Satan’s home in Pergamon.

And among the church in Thyatira, we finally meet, Jezebel! And she does not disappoint. She repented not!

Is this book prophecy of a future still to come?

Is this book a coded message of rebellion for the early Chri$tian freedom fighters in their struggle with the Roman Empire?

Is this book xenophobic propaganda to stop Hellenising?

Who cares? It’s got Hell, Armageddon, Antipas, the brazen bull, Zeus, Balaam, Balac, the children of Israel, Canaanites, angels, a talking donkey, fornication, Motorhead and Lemmy!

Grab your popcorn people. John is just getting started.

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In this episode we travel south of heaven where Hell awaits to spend seasons in the abyss and reign in blood with our undisputed attitude that God hates us all in the Chri$t illusion. Without divine intervention we see a world painted blood in repentless diabolus musica and tell the story of Slayer’s debut album, Show No Mercy.

In 1981 Huntington Park California guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman met at an audition and realised they were into the same stuff. Living only just around the corner was like-minded bass player and singer Tom Araya. All they needed to create the loudest, heaviest, fastest and most satany band ever was a double kickarse drummer. Then suddenly there was a knock at Kerry King’s door. 16 year old Dave Lombardo had been told there was another long haired disreputable type in the area. So the plucky, pizza delivery man went and introduced himself. The original, the classic and the most persistent line up was complete.

We will pick up the story there and tell you how that debut album came to be. There will be cameo guest star appearances from Bitch, Metal Blade Records, Iron Maiden, Phantom of the Opera. Aggressive Perfector,  Metal Blade, Tracks Studio, Evil has no Boundaries, Gene Hoglan,  Dark Angel, Death, Testament, Devin Townsend, Strapping Young Lad, Fear Factory, Genghis Kahn, New Wave of British Heavy Metal, NWoBHM, Venom, Welcome to Hell, Minotaur, Lawrence R. Reed, Al Gore, Tipper Gore, The Parents Music Resource Center, Camaro,  Doug Goodman, Smashing Pumpkins, Ben Folds Five, Jewel, Steve Earle, Beck, Green Day, Johnny Araya,  Thine Eyes Bleed, Black Sabbath, Metal Forces Magazine, Bernard Doe, System of a Down, Daron Malakian, Iraq

Sauces

http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewmetalblade.html

https://haggisbuffet.blogspot.com/search/label/Tour%20Manager%20Doug

http://www.espguitars.com/news/news_tomchat.html

https://loudwire.com/slayer-show-no-mercy-album-anniversary/

http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features_detail.aspx?id=4566

https://www.wearethepit.com/2023/01/dave-lombardo-regrets-his-performance-on-slayers-show-no-mercy/

https://www.metalforcesmagazine.com/site/album-review-slayer-show-no-mercy/

https://www.revolvermag.com/music/system-downs-daron-malakian-why-i-love-slayers-show-no-mercy

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In this episode we look back on favourite sketches of 2023, as chosen Tee Tease. You are about to have the most fun you've ever had. By the end of this episode you will realise you've only been imitating fun your whole life. If I were you, I would take off my pants. You’re about to shit yourself. 

There are sketches from Highway to Hell, the tale of ACDC’s first taste of global success. 

In Cross Road Blues, the story behind the Ralph Macchio vehicle of the same name and some Robert Johnson guy, we did a sketch featuring cultural icon Bob Dylan. 

Judas Iscariot: True Hero of Easter, featured some classic white guy rapping. We call that wrapping. And ‘The Duke’ John Wayne makes an appearance.

We gave Charles Manson a starring role in Helter Skelter and let spoon bending grifter Uri Gellar in Pokémon.

Our episode about Motley Crue’s Shout at the Devil came with monkey poo.

We almost let Benny sing in Benny Hinn: He Touched Me.

We had Sympathy For The Devil AND Artificial Intelligence but we left behind Kirk Cameron and Kevin Sorbo.

Welcome to Hell featured all the best names, Judas Priest, Venom, Jesus Chri$t, Mantas, Titans, Gaia, Father Sky, Cronos, Abbadon and Alan Winston.

Michael Aquino and Anton LaVey found themselves in an H.P. Lovecraft nightmare.

In Black Sabbath, Toni Iommi and Geezer Butler discussed the song writing process.

The Book of Revelation had a water skiing joke.

The Witches of Shakespeare got Elizabeth I swearing like Witchfinder General Mathew Hopkins.

We learn the very best evidence is forced confession in The Salem Witch Trials and Cotton Mather.

Lexi’s performance as a drunk Ursula from The Little Mermaid in Disney Witches is hilarious.

In Jesus Christ Superstar we learn what helps the poo go down. Information we could have used back in the Shout at the Devil episode.

Genshin Impact featured therapy.

We have some white woman rapping. We call that wrapping also because cultural appropriation does not recognize gender boundaries.

And it couldn’t be considered a best of anything without Marjorie Taylor Greene so we let her on to swear at us.

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In this episode we will finish 2023 in exactly the same way we ended 2022. Huddled in a corner crying. It couldn’t possibly get any worse. Right?

We’ll check in with credulous former intelligence official David Grusch testifying to a congressional hearing into, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. #UAP

Grusch claims he was told things he would not talk about by people he could not name.

So the internet lit up with the headline, Aliens exist!

Also this year, the Barbie movie was released and a tiny little piece of Jesus died. We’ll hear what hate preachers and 1950s haircut enthusiasts Kent Christmas and Ivan Tuttle told their congregations.

We wonder out loud, ‘What would Margot Robbie do?’

We get an update on the latest in the world of autism from Rick Morrow. It’s not good.

#neurodivergent 

How can we not talk about the Hamas attack on Israel in October and the end times?

The head of the Harvest Chri$tian Fellowship in California, Greg Laurie will keep us up to date with the latest in geopolitics.

And we examine some prophecies from Kat Kerr. You’ll be surprised to hear what Kat has been told by the Holy Ghost.

And we’ll round out the year with a Satanic Temple display in the Iowa State Capitol building in Des Moines. 

We faced many existential threats in 2023. Alien invasion, autistic invasion, LGBTQ+ invasion, along with a plastic dolls that come to life and don’t like the patriarchy invasion, and maybe Kathy Barnette’s Jesus saved us from all of them. 

You’ll have to listen to find out.

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Sauces

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/barbie-demonic-faith-leaders-say-children-risk-kevin-baris

https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/missouri/article279280609.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12616631/Fasten-seatbelts-California-pastor-suggests-Hamas-terror-attack-Israel-predicted-2-500-YEARS-AGO-Scripture-End-Time-events-circling-Jerusalem.html

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/11/christian-prophetess-made-up-the-wackiest-theory-about-why-some-people-are-lgbtq/

https://www.revealingheaven.com/about-the-author/

https://who13.com/news/iowa-satanic-temple-display-at-capitol-sparks-mixed-emotions/

In this episode we wrap up the first half of 2023 with a look at the times an ancient Middle Eastern demon entered our 21st century news cycle. Through the lens of sketch comedy and the occasional song we laugh our way through the ‘current events’ of 2023 and try to figure out why the devil is still a thing.

Through the magic of audio illusions we will transport you to the annual Passion Conference in Atlanta Georgia. We’ll observe a celebration of the love of Jesus with thousands of evangelical university students. We’ll meet ex lesbian, drug abuser who grew up confused about her gender and was addicted to pornography turned Chri$tian author, rapper and poet Jackie Hill Perry and hear her thoughts about the reality of demons.

Sit back and relax as self-proclaimed Gender Queer Non Binary Gay English singer Sam Smith takes to the Grammy Awards stage with openly transgender German woman Kim Petras to perform their hit song, ‘Unholy’. I wonder if anyone will get upset?

And in completely unrelated news we’ll meet Conservative podcaster Liz Wheeler, Republican senator Ted Cruz,  failed republican candidate for Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District and former music video director, Robby Starbuck Newsom and crazy person Marjorie Taylor Greene.

It can’t all be as much fun as Sam Smith and Kim Patras, we’ll also have a hilarious peek into the Morbid Angel tragedy at the Apollo Theatre in Belvidere Illinois that took the life of Fred Livingston Jr. I wonder if anyone tried to exploit that for personal gain?

In unrelated news this episode will also feature a cameo appearance from Artificial Intelligence 2: Electric Boogaloo star Leo Zagami.

But then it’s straight back into atheists making Chri$tians look dumb with The Satanic Temple’s Satancon in Boston. 

And related to my use of the word ‘dumb’ in the sentence above, we will meet MAGA Christo-Fascist and permed hair enthusiast Sean Feucht.

Then it’s on to Chri$tians scaring the rest of us again with a trip to the Chri$tian nationalist event ReAwaken America at Miami’s Trump National Doral Hotel. Where just two weeks before the release of the live action version of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, hate preacher Amanda Grace gives us the skinny on technologically advanced mermaids working for Satan.

If you were wondering what did MTG tell that Turning Point USA's Young Women's Leadership Conference? We’ve got you covered. It’s about the devil and reproductive rights and it’s brilliant. It’s MTG. What else is it going to be?

SAUCES

https://www.christianpost.com/news/jackie-hill-perry-enemy-trying-to-destroy-an-entire-generation.html

https://www.foxnews.com/us/christian-evangelists-bostons-satancon-claim-about-100-people-converted-were-in-battle

https://pagesix.com/2023/02/06/sam-smith-grammys-2023-performance-slammed-as-satantic/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2023/02/10/sam-smiths-grammys-performance-criticized-by-conservatives-and-satanists/?sh=268b2d0a30b1

https://leozagami.com/2023/04/02/roof-collapses-while-satanic-band-morbid-angel-is-playing/

https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/music/morbid-angel-issue-statement-after-storm-collapses-roof-at-illinois-show-killing-one-and-injuring-40-3424705

https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/with-a-maga-speaker-advocating-for-hand-to-hand-combat-against-mermaids-will-theaters-be-safe-when-the-little-mermaid-premieres/?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral

https://www.alternet.org/marjorie-taylor-greene-satan-women/?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral

In this episode we dip back into the world of Asian video games. That’s right another episode suggested and researched by my kids. Luckily for us these games do tend to have a penchant for upsetting good honest narrow minded white chri$tians just trying to get through their day without experiencing anything new. If you’re old enough to remember Carly Rae Jepsen, you might just be wondering, what is a Genshin Impact? 

It’s only the fastest money making video game of all time. Released in 2020 by Chinese games company miHoYo, Genshin Impact is an action role play anime game set in an open world.

But why do we care on Satan is my Superhero?

Well it’s full of gods named after ‘real life’ demons carrying out all types of witchcraft, sorcery, divination, necromancy and there’s even a good helping of idol worshipping, so yeah, it’s blasphemy central and some Chri$tian gamers have raised concerns.

The game has also been drawn into a transphobic witch hunt, so that’s a good sign it’s worth checking out.

This episode also includes guest appearances from Pokémon, Phil Arms, Barbatos, Morax, Bue, Paimon, Ba’al, Beelzebub, Adam, Eve, Gabriel, Evelyn Gonzales, Michigan, Grant Middle School, Xiao, Guizhong, Liyue, Katelyn Thompson, Danielle Beight, Tracy Hargreaves, Kotaku, Sisi Jiang.

Sauces

https://kotaku.com/genshin-impact-xiao-demonic-mural-satanic-1849687277

https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/local/mural-at-grant-middle-school-leaves-parents-outraged-over-transgender-flag-and-symbols-deemed-witchcraft/69-3f685912-a38c-410d-b78f-f54a15a3045f

https://www.today.com/parents/parents/mural-painted-student-grant-michigan-sparks-controversy-rcna52243

https://gamerant.com/genshin-impact-seven-archons-facts/

https://www.quora.com/There-is-this-game-called-Genshin-Impact-and-you-can-worship-statues-to-get-stamina-is-it-Haram-to-do-so-just-for-the-stamina

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-a-sin-to-play-Genshin-Impact-The-game-has-some-features-such-as-worshipping-a-statue-for-stamina-and-it-s-against-my-religion-to-worship-other-gods-Some-characters-are-also-named-after-demons-Would-it-be

https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/la0rii/genshin_references_quite_a_lot_of_oddly_satanic/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

In this episode we will tell the story of a long haired hippy with a dream to do something spectacular. With the help of his talented friends and against the powers of the land he made that dream into a reality. Then thousands of years later 2 middle class British toffs turned that story into a multi hundred million dollar enterprise with a Hollywood film, a lavish stage show and the epitome of 70s culture the concept double album.

How did a 24 year old Tim Rice, an assistant producer in the record industry and 21 year old composer Andrew Lloyd Webber end up with a hit single, hit album, hit stage show and hit movie?

And how was this potentially blasphemous production received by the Chri$tian world?

This episode features special guest star appearances from Olympic Studios, London, The Rolling Stones, Sympathy for the Devil, MCA, The Likes of Us, Joseph and the Amazing Technocolour Dreamcoat, Bob Dylan, With God on Our Side, Judas Iscariot, Roman Empire, Rome, Romans, Roman Emperor, Billy Graham, Samuel L. Gaber, Anti-Defamation League of the B’nai B’rith, Mary Magdalene, Faith Free Presbyterian Church, South Carolina, Ted Neeley, Norman Jewison, Pope Paul VI, Vatican, New York Times, Curtis Bill Pepper, Pope Francis, Newtownabbey Free Presbyterian Church, Newtownabbey Independent Christian School, Pastor Brian McClung, Irvin Himmel, The Gospel Guardian, Got Questions Ministries, Richard Hollerman, Graham Russell, Russel Hitchcock, Air Supply, Love and Other Bruises, Lost in Love, All Out of Love, The One That You Love, Young Love, Making Love Out of Nothing at All, The Power of Love, Faith in Love, Richard O’Brien, Sylvester Stallone, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Irene Cara, John Legend, Mel C, Rik Mayall, Indigo Girls, Tim Minchin, Gary Cherone, Roger Daltrey, Corey Glover, Ian Gillan, Alice Cooper, Sebastian Bach, Burger King, Johnny Rotten, John Lydon, Graves Hollow.

Sauces

https://religionnews.com/2018/03/29/the-splainer-the-stormy-surprising-history-of-jesus-christ-superstar/

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/31/archives/they-wrote-it-and-theyre-glad-they-wrote-superstar.html

http://www.freepres.org/pamphlet_details.asp?superstar

https://www.villagevoice.com/2003/11/04/mel-gibsons-jesus-christ-pose/

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/24/1058935783/michael-jackson-jacket-capitol-rioter-jan-6-actor-james-beeks-oath-keepers

https://www.songfacts.com/blog/writing/jesus-christ-superstar-ted-neeley-tells-the-inside-story

http://newlinetheatre.com/jcschapter.html

THE MUSICAL ‘JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR’ IS A BLASPHEMY OF CHRIST!

Pastor Brian McClung 

https://michaeljeshurun.wordpress.com/tag/jesus-christ-superstar-opera/

https://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v22/v22n38p9-10.html

https://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-Christ-Superstar.html

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/501993/facts-about-jesus-christ-superstar-andrew-lloyd-webber-tim-rice

http://www.archivioradiovaticana.va/storico/2014/05/15/vatican_radio_welcomes_%E2%80%9Cjesus_christ_superstar%E2%80%9D/en-1100657

Battell, James. "The Year of Three Popes." Ex-Catholics For Christ. ETC Ministry, Apr. 2005. Web. 29 Mar. 2016.

Martina Hejcovä The Rock Opera Jesus Christ Superstar - Analysis of the Critical Reception Over the Decades Bachelor's Diploma Thesis

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/04/10/archives/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-pope-pope-paul-vi.html

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/jesus-christ-superstar-rockers/

In this episode we look at how an evil 1st century apocalyptic blood cult that secretly and not so secretly controls much of our lives with its over represented influence on media and politics is terrified of Disney. 

After the spooky month we’ve had it's time for a fun family friendly palate cleanser. 

If you look for lists of Disney witches you will find there is somewhere in the region of 140 of them. 

Disney had already created an impressive catalogue of witches by the time the company embarked on its first feature length film, so it came as no surprise their first feature length film antagonist would be a witch.

Which is where we start our list of cameo special guest stars like The Evil Queen, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Magic mirror on the wall, American Film Institute, Hannibal Lector from Silence of the Lambs, Barbie, Regan MacNeil from The Exorcist, The Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz, Lucille La Verne, Babes in the Woods, Hansel and Gretel, Brother’s Grimm, Ursula, the Sea Witch from The Little Mermaid, Ariel, Eve, Garden of Eden, Bea Arthur, Rosanne Barr, Elaine Stritch, Pat Carroll, Shakespeare, Devine, Deborah Bunting, The Owl House, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, American Family Association, One Million Moms, Jamie Gooch, Ron Desantis, Vanessa Hudgens, Dead Hot: Season of the Witch, GG Magree, Salem, Bounding Into Comics, Jacob Smith, High School Musical and Kevin Sorbo on the comeback trail.

Sauces

https://www.ksla.com/2022/10/05/you-unleash-hell-your-kids-central-texas-mom-warns-parents-about-hocus-pocus-2/

https://www2.cbn.com/news/news/warning-parents-new-disney-cartoon-teaches-kids-how-be-witches-using-demon-do-so

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/vanessa-hudgens-gg-magree-dead-hot-witchcraft-film-1235572456/

https://boundingintocomics.com/2023/04/18/former-disney-star-vanessa-hudgens-promotes-satanic-witchcraft-with-her-tubi-film-dead-hot/

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-burk-maleficent-disney-20140613-story.html

https://www.afa.net/the-stand/culture/2020/08/the-owl-house-is-worse-than-1mm-thought/

https://www2.cbn.com/news/us/ex-witchs-warning-about-new-disney-show-its-not-joke-realm-very-real

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/may-web-only/maleficent.html

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/The_Evil_Queen

https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-heroes-villians/

In this episode we return to a former subject of this podcast, Cotton Mather and tear another chapter from his life story. We first met Cotton in the episode, A Pox to You, where Cotton was the voice of reason, the man of science who stood up to superstitious misgivings and disinformation. He was, not to put too finer point on it, the hero of that story. So how does our man of science and reasoning acquit himself at the Salem Witch Trials?

Spoiler alert. Not good.

This episode features special guest star appearances from Richard Mather, John Cotton, Harvard University, Doogie Howser, Anne ‘Goody’ Glover, Martha Goodwin, Thomas Oakes, Abigail Williams, Elizabeth Parris, Massachusetts, Ann Putnam Jr, Arthur Miller, The Crucible, Susanna Wallcott, Doctor Griggs, George Burroughs, Robert Calef, William Phips, Dorothy Good, Sarah Good, Margret Atwood, Handmaid’s Tale, Peter Miller, Samuel Sewell and Danvers.

Sauces

https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/people/c_mather.html

https://famous-trials.com/salem/2037-sal-bmat

https://famous-trials.com/salem/2075-asal-ch

https://thehistoryjunkie.com/cotton-mather-and-the-salem-witch-trials/

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A50139.0001.001/1:1?rgn=div1;view=fulltext

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A70086.0001.001/1:9.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext

https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/letters/to_richards1.html