The Demonic Possession of Anneliese PART
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Cold Open: In 1973, 21 year old German college student Anneliese Michel began to descend into an existence of pure and utter madness. She had begun to see the faces of demons appear around her with increasing frequency. She awoke more and more often in the middle of the night, unable to move, unable to scream out, feeling an evil presence overtake her body. Her life had become a never ending parade of visits to doctors and prayer. And neither priest nor neurosurgeon seemed able to help her. Every time her possession like symptoms would fade for a few days, or a few weeks, or even for a few months, and she’d begin to hope that a normal life might still be possible for her… those voices, faces, and feelings of a foreign entity overtaking her body would return - stronger and more malevolent than before. Finally, in September of 1975, after years of virtually fruitless prayer, medication, and brain scans, the Catholic Church approved that an exorcism ritual be conducted. And then, for the last ten months of her life, one exorcism after another would be performed on the deteriorating mind and body of this fragile, frightened, and tormented young woman. And today, we dig into the details of the final years of her life and leave you at the end to decide if A) demons are in fact real, and B) demonic forces are what took her life on July 1st, 1976. The second of a two part Suck on the Demonic Possession of Anneliese Michel, today, on Timesuck! PAUSE TIMESUCK INTRO Welcome! A. Happy Monday Timesuckers! I’m the Reverend Doctor Dan Suckmaster Cummins and you are a bonafide member of the Cult of the Curious! Hail Nimrod! Or, maybe you’re just someone who stumbled into our strange little world because you were simply curious about today’s topic. Or maybe you hit the wrong button on your phone. Or maybe a sadistic madman who happens to be a fan of mine has you tied up in a basement and begging for your life and this is what he choose to let you listen to you for your final moments on this Earth…. Well, regardless of why you are here, welcome to the Suck! B. Theo Von Cross Promotion!! And today’s Timesuck is brought to you by the This Past Weekend podcast hosted by the fucking hilarious Theo Von. I first worked with Theo in South Africa way back in 2011. I laughed my ass off watching him in theaters in Johannesburg, Durban, and Cape Town, and we went on a safari together and talked AT LENGTH about how manly it would be to fuck a lion. Killing a lion is one thing, but, if you could, with no weapon other then your own cunning and man-strength, walk up on a wild lion, wrestle it to the ground, and then fuck it - you’re officially the toughest dude on the planet. You’re also very insane, BUT - that doesn’t take anything away from the tough part. 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His website is http:// www.lmsorenson.net/ It’s been feeling like a dream lately at a lot of these shows on the road - hope the fun continues. Some amazing fans showed up in Chikatilo outfits at a couple different shows. Track suits, Chikatilo shirts, sweatpants, unreal. Can’t want to get more live Timesucks on the books. Hope I can get a ton for 2019. San Francisco Punchline coming up this week and weekend, Wednesday through Saturday run, April 25-28th! If half as many Timesuckers come out as they did in Salt Lake, it’s gonna be amazing. Spokane is up Sunday Fun-day, May 6th, at the fantastic Spokane Comedy Club. Gary Ridgeway. The Green River killer. Gonna suck that piece of shit live. Sacramento Punchline May 10th - 12th. Tempe, Arizona Improv May 31st - June 3rd. I’ll announce a bunch more dates after that, just waiting for a ton of lazy fucking comedy club mangers to get their shit together and put the dates we have on their websites so customers can actually buy tickets. I’m amazed that some of these places, as fun as they are to perform at, are able to stay in business. More tour dates at www.dancummins.tv. The Pootie and Juju limited edition, Danger Brain designed mugs are already sold out! Incredible! Sorry to those who didn’t get ‘em quick enough. We’ll do more Pootie and Juju stuff, don’t you worry. Thanks so much for the continually increasing amount of support. There was a quality issue with 40 of the mugs. So, 40 mugs will become available as soon as the mug people make 40 more mugs that aren’t fucked up. Silly mug people. Also, my wife Lynze, Queen of the Suck. Office manager and more - she coordinated with Harmony Vellecamp to ask fans to nominate me for a Ted Talk. I didn’t even realize that had happened because I was slammed in Salt Lake City with shows and promotion and some writing, et cetera. But, I guess a lot of you responded. So, thank you! If you would like to nominate for a Ted Talk, I’m sure it would be a long shot but I’d love to do one. I’d love to talk about why I think Timesuck works and I’d love to encourage people to not give up and how if you work really, really hard at something, you still not might get it, but you do give yourself the very best odds of getting it. And that’s all you can hope for in life. TED TA LK LINK One more thing - Timesucker Adam Dayton sent two huge, custom, hand-painted Cornhole boards to the Suck Dungeon. They’re amazing. And he’ll make them for you. I’ll have pics up on social media, @timesuckpodcast His email is [email protected] Alright. Let’s get to it now! Bonus episode 20, The Demonic Possession of Anneliese Michel, Part 2 of 2, right now! Beware of Lucifina! Her force is strong in this one. PAUSE INTERLUDE II. ** Weird scary shit** : Weird energy around today’s Suck! As I began to dig into today’s Timesuck Timeline, I had three Pages documents open. That’s right PC lovers, I use a Mac. And I had a document open of over 30,000 words worth of notes the great Lillie twins had compiled for this document to give me plenty of info to sift through. And then I also had my notes from part one open as a second document, and then today’s script as the third document.