American Exorcists feat Sam Kestenbaum (E292)

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Demonic exorcism isn’t just a solid premise for horror films. It’s also the hook for an increasingly popular group of pentecostal pastors who leverage social media, spiritual warfare, and outrage to spread their message. Tennessee pastor Greg Locke is the most prominent member of a supergroup of evangelical ghostbusters who call themselves the “Demon Slayers.” Together, they cross promote videos of supposed exorcisms (which they call “deliverance”), host live events that attract thousands of believers hoping to rid themselves of infernal forces, and even produce feature-length films. Reporter Sam Kestenbaum embedded himself in Greg Locke’s operation, Locke Media, to see this algorithm-fuelled demon slaying first hand. He wrote about his experience in a longform piece for Harper’s Magazine and told us about personally witnessing a massive congregation shriek and convulse during a tent revival group exorcism. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: http://www.patreon.com/QAA Sam Kestenbaum: https://x.com/skestenbaum / https://samkestenbaum.com/ Pick up new merch! We've got a mug, a two-sided tee, a hoodie, and an embroidered hat. Each item shows off the new QAA logo by illustrator Pedro Correa. https://shopqaa.myshopify.com/ Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast. SOURCES: https://harpers.org/archive/2024/08/the-demon-slayers-sam-kestenbaum-exorcisms/ https://www.ourmansfieldandarea.org.uk/content/topics/religion/john-darrell https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/05/01/target-blasting-pastor-greg-locke-channels-anger-new-way/83615088/

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0:24.7	I'm going to be Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, If you're hearing this, well done. Do you need me?
0:28.7	If you're hearing this, well done, you've found a way to connect to the Internet.
0:38.0	Welcome to the QAA Podcast, episode 292 American Exorcists featuring Sam Kestenbaum.
0:48.8	As always we are your host Jake Rocketanski Julian Fields and Travis view. Wow incredible Jake has been exercised mid-sentence
0:58.5	We love that for you that's yeah that's that's how it goes. Well, my goal today is definitely to turn you Catholic.
1:06.0	If we can exercise, you know, your heathen religion out of you.
1:10.0	Yeah, I mean, I'm halfway there. I find that in moments of true stress, I'm not praying to Hashem, I'm going Jesus.
1:17.0	And I want to put a demon into Travis. That's my goal today.
1:20.0	Yeah, can we take the demon out of me and put it into Travis? That would be, that'd be a better show overall, I think.
1:27.0	How's it going, Sam? Welcome back to the podcast.
1:30.0	Thank you guys, happy to be here.
1:31.0	Yeah, it's amazing. We're all in the room together Jake is not because
1:34.3	he is sick so maybe maybe we could have like healed you dude you ever considered some
1:39.7	hands on yeah you might have healed me, but you would have all incickened yourselves in the process.
1:47.5	You would have all left with a terrible virus.
1:50.1	That's true.
1:51.1	Jake's demon is so powerful.
1:52.1	You don't even want to bring him to the exorcism because everyone ends up leaving with a demon
1:55.3	of their own.
1:56.3	Everybody ends up leaving with a stuffy nose.
2:01.2	Every school child in the United States is taught that the earliest European settlers of the new world were Puritans who made the dangerous journey across the Atlantic in order to escape religious persecution.
2:13.4	The Puritans believe that the Church of England was too similar to the Roman Catholics,
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