Hey everybody, this is Armando Torres and you're listening to the show before the show.

We've got a great episode for you.

We are joined again with Rooster Tease Blaine Gibson as we continue our series on the

Satanic Panic.

This episode is a lot of fun, weirdly dark, but not in the way that you expect.

That's kind of the easiest way that I can put it before we get started though.

We do want to mention that there was an issue with my microphone.

It turns out that we've come full circle, narratively speaking.

I started on this podcast as the person who made the sound better and now ironically

I have made my own sound worse.

Through a weird mishap, I don't know really what happened.

My computer was recording the audio from its microphone instead of my really nice microphone

which you are hearing now.

So during this episode, my audio sounds like I'm on a Zoom call which I kind of was.

So it's not that bad, it's really going to be fine.

I don't know why I'm convincing you.

I mean, you're going to listen to the episode you're already here.

I hope.

Okay, well now that all the not cool fans are gone and you're still here, I know that you're

really going to enjoy this episode and it's really not going to impact it that much.

So yeah, without any further ado, let's get into the show.

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