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🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm David Ferrier in New Zealander who ended up accidentally marooned in America, and I want to grasp what makes this country tick. |
0:07.5 | Now I've always had a fascination with subcultures, be it heavy metal music fans, live-action role players, people who like to dress up |
0:16.0 | as furries, or adults that like to tickle each other. |
0:20.3 | But there's one subculture that's always felt like such a mystery to me, |
0:24.4 | and it could only have been created in the United States of America. |
0:28.8 | Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, is the cry of the Juggalo's, a subculture of fans that adore a rap group from Detroit called |
0:39.8 | insane Clown Posse, ICP for short. |
0:43.2 | I remember first hearing about the group when I was at school in New Zealand. |
0:46.7 | Their song Miracles even a hit down under. |
0:49.1 | If magic is all we've ever known, then it's easy to miss what really goes on. GQ magazine has called ICP the worst rappers of all time. |
1:00.0 | I see miracles all around me stop and look around it's all astounding water fire air and |
1:06.2 | dirt fucking magnets how do they work despite lines like fucking magnets how do they |
1:12.2 | how do they work, or maybe because of lines like that, |
1:15.8 | the rappers have been around for over three decades. |
1:18.4 | According to the band, their music empire brings in around $10 million a year. |
1:23.4 | That's largely thanks to their incredibly loyal fan base of so-called Juggalos, |
1:28.1 | who often wear black and white face paint like their heroes. |
1:31.4 | But back in 2011, Juggalos's got so big and so loyal, the FBI decided |
1:36.5 | to classify them as a gang. In return, the insane clown posse sued the FBI. I wanted to know how in America one minute you can be a |
1:46.1 | fan and the next minute you're in a gang. So grab your clown makeup and get ready to ask |
1:52.3 | how do magnets work? |
1:54.3 | Because this is the Juggalo's episode. |
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