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Stuff You Should Know

Selects: The Tale of the Church of the SubGenius

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The Church of the SubGenius is a religion, but really a parody of religion. Learn all about this group of weirdo outsiders in this classic episode.

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Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everybody, it's me, Josh, and for

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this week's select, I've chosen our October 2021 episode on the Church of the Subgenius.

1:25.1

It's a neat little romp through what started out as a couple of guys who

1:29.3

like pamphlets and turned a whole generation, well some percentage of a whole generation,

1:35.4

into interesting people, skeptical of anything someone is trying to sell them on. As you can hear

1:41.1

from this intro, it's kind of difficult to describe, so just enjoy listening to the episode.

1:51.9

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.

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