484: Satan Wants You
True Crime Obsessed
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4.2 • 35.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
As we always used to say IT'S NEVER THE SATANIC CULT IN THE WOODS--THEY DON'T EXIST! But try telling to Michelle Smith and Dr. Lawrence Pizder, whose book Michelle Remembers was published in 1980 and IS STILL RUINING LIVES TO THIS DAY! The book was based on years of "therapy sessions" in which Michelle was regressed to her childhood and allegedly uncovered memories of horrendous abuse and torture at the hands of a Satanic Cult. Evidence in the documentary suggests that this likely... didn't happen. BUT SO BEGAN THE ERA OF SATANIC PANIC ANYWAY! There's... a lot to unpack here fam. Join us, won't you?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I realized when I sat down that I'm wearing the exact same outfit I wore last time. |
| 0:04.0 | Two days ago? |
| 0:04.7 | Yeah, it's winter, and I'm into flannel shirts now because I'm always cold. It looks super warm. It's very warm. I love it very much, but they almost all, I have like five of them, and they almost all look exactly the same. But this is the exact same one I wore last time. Okay. So, you know. Thank you for your honesty. The tube of view, but you're going to see a lot of this shirt in the next couple of weeks. |
| 0:22.6 | We don't get a lot of honesty in this documentary, so I'm glad we're starting. You know, well, you and I, let's vow to be honest with each other. Look. No problem. Okay, great. Hi, Jillian, Bethelie. Hello, Patrick Hines. I'm fam. We have like over 210,000 subscribers on the Tube of Yoube. Please go watch our videos. They're so fun, subscribe. Join us there. They're just really, we are entertaining. I don't know what to tell you. That's what they say. You know? You know, I've heard tell. Yeah, it's really fun. We also have a Discord. We have a Discord. It's a server. |
| 0:59.4 | Yeah. And then there are channels within that server. And it's all really fun. And we talk |
| 1:02.6 | about documentaries and also anything else. Like, they're all different channels for all different |
| 1:06.3 | things. Yeah. And so what do they do? How do they find it? We have it linked in the show notes, I believe. Oh, that's true. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.9 | Okay, great. So go do that. |
| 1:13.4 | What are we talking about today? Okay, it's a documentary called Satan Wants You. It's on Apple TV. It's on Amazon. It's about the origin of Satanic Panic and, like, why we're here and all of the lies and bullshit that got us here. It's also about how Satan only speaks in rhyme and Mother Mary only speaks in French. |
| 1:28.9 | There's a lot to unpack. |
| 1:30.3 | It's really funny that it's called Satan wants you because Satan really doesn't give a shit about you. Satan doesn't give a shit about you. The Church of Satan really has nothing to do with Satan. We'll get into all of that. Yeah. Joining me now from Victoria is Michelle Smith, a one-time victim of abuse by a satanic cult, and Dr. Lawrence Paster, the psychiatrist who helped her come to terms with that nightmare. |
| 1:49.0 | The book is called Michelle Remembers. |
| 1:51.0 | Michelle remembers. We wrote it together. |
| 1:52.0 | The first publicized account of such rituals. |
| 1:55.0 | They would put me in cages, sacrifice animals, eating feces and orgies and dismembering fetuses. These were things that you experienced. |
| 2:02.6 | That's right. |
| 2:03.6 | Who are these people? |
| 2:04.6 | Well, they're a secret organization, they're secret society. |
| 2:06.6 | When that book came out, I mean, all hell broke loose. |
| 2:09.6 | It was a theory that there's a satanic conspiracy and there are children who are kidnapped, stolen, and sacrificed. |
| 2:16.6 | It's known as a satanic panic in the 1980s and 90s. |
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