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You're premium subscribers, you already know the score. Yes, Ira Levin and William Peter Blatty were both spies, but What Does It Mean?

I go through the careers of both authors and flag the times they worked for US intelligence, then how perhaps their writing was affected by that fact, and then the reverberations their work has had on society. With Levin, we meet the Ayn Rand circle, Malachi Martin, the weirdness of Rosemary's Baby, the Stepford Wives, the Boys From Brazil, Son of Rosemary, and so on.

With Blatty, we discuss USIA, the Groucho Marx connection, the Ninth Configuration, the Exorcist, Mark David Chapman, the Zodiac, the Exorcist III, Dahmer, and I cite the great pd187 and Christopher Knowles on the Exorcist film. 

To wrap it up, I discuss the "less well-known" David St. John, who weirdly corresponds with Candy Jones, and how the saga of Tom Dooley III shows that religious psyops are not exactly new. And the songs are pretty great this episode too, lol.

Songs:

Black Sabbath by Coven

Pact with Lucifer by Coven

Wicked Woman by Coven

excerpts from the Exorcist soundtrack

Room 213 by Church of Misery


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Anonymous

I’ve been enjoying catching up on all your previous podcasts while I cover about 25 schoolbooks for kids going back to school & I must say, this episode so far gave me chills (maybe because of the Dahmer part & the music effects) very creepy! Well done! Made me check behind me & turn all the lights on lol!

Anonymous

Playing songs in their entirety throws off the flow of the ideas.

Anonymous

definitely would like to hear your take on the rosemary's baby book, and your editing during the part when you were talking about the exorcist 3 was top notch

Anonymous

I would love to hear more about dentists lol

NYCM&AHole

Real spinal tap vibes on the first song.

Anonymous

Possibly the least chill episode