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Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader, Switzerlander Henry, and I'm here to tell you something.

If you're new here, Cult Leader is a podcast about cult and true crime in Macaube history, so you're gonna hear something crazy.

If you're new here, you can follow me on Instagram. I posted some new pin designs that I have in the works and I'm so excited.

You guys couldn't vote on just one. There were three options, but I kept getting so many responses for each of them that I decided I'm going to come out with all three just not at the same time.

February 8th, I will be coming out with the first of the Cult Babe pins and they are so cute and they're perfect for Valentine's Day. That's the only hinge you're getting. And I will list them on the merch site as soon as they become available.

I'll also be receiving a shipment of the regular Cult Leader podcast pins, so those will be restocked as well.

Other merch is still in the air as far as when it will be officially restocked, so thank you for your patience on that.

But if you're feeling impatient, which I know I know that feeling, I know what it feels like. I was on a call for Cult Leader the other day and I had to Google Cult Leader before I got on this call.

And what I found was insane. There is fake Cult Leader merch online, which is hilarious to me.

Like don't get me wrong. If you're an artist or you're an Etsy person, you want to make your Cult Leader stuff and sell it. Sell the shit out of it.

I love that. Thank you guys for supporting the brand. But when it comes to these big brand of Amazon companies that just take my logo and slap it on something, I'm not cool with that.

So please don't support them. And last but not least, oh, I went live last Monday.

I wanted to talk to you guys about this because I think it was so much fun. We played a little game. I'm just going to start calling meat and inmate.

So tune in tonight Monday, the 20th at 7 o'clock PM, California time because we're doing it again. That'll be on my Instagram at Spencer Henry.

It's going to be a good time. And today's story goes out to my Kansas City Cult Baves, but we're starting in Ohio.

Robert Andrew Bridella, Jr. was born on January 31st, 1949, and Coyahoga Falls, Ohio. Where's my Coyahoga club pipsat?

He was the first of two sons born to Robert Bridella Sr. and his wife Mary Bridella, who stayed home with the two children.

His childhood was pretty strict. He came from a deeply religious household where their world sort of centered around attending mass and various other religious educational courses.

His dad worked at the Ford Motor Company as a dye-setter, and he was definitely a man's man.

Growing up, Robert was a pretty smart kid. This coupled with his strict upbringing meant that he had a hard time socializing with other kids,

and in an even harder time making good friends, as he was a bit of like the quintessential nerdy kid. He had to really thick glasses, he had a speech in pediment, easy target, and he was probably too smart for his own good at the time.

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