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True Weird Stuff has won the best history podcast in the Women in Podcasting Awards,

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And that's only happened because of you, our fellow strange people. Thanks.

Stick around if you want after the episode for a little bonus content and conversation.

Let's say that humanity was created in a laboratory by an ancient race of highly advanced

extraterrestrials, okay? Let's just go with that. And the time has now come for the people of Earth to know the

truth about themselves and their origin. How do you break that kind of news? I know maybe you recruit

an Earth human to serve as the messenger, but who? A world leader, an artist, a celebrity, a child?

How about a guy who ran away at 15, took a shot at teen pop stardom, but then ended up

becoming a journalist who covered the auto racing circuit?

Yeah, that should do it.

That's Claude Maurice Marcelle, A.k.a. A.k.a. Claude Maurice Marcel Vourion, aka Claude Seller, aka Reel, a word that means the bringer of light.

They came on the earth, built a big laboratories, and inside these laboratories through DNA and cloning they did create all life

on earth and this place is for the encounter between them and human beings.

They make out a small beam of light against the mirror.

Real, real, wild. Real weird. Weird. Weird.

True. Weird.

Imagine starting your own religion. People do. King Henry VIII did, founding the Church of England in 1534 to get around the Catholic Church's tiresome rules and regs regarding a noman and divorce. Joseph Smith and James Strang found at the Church of Latter-day Saints in 1844.

Elron Hubbard found at the Church of Scientology in 1955.

A fairly new kid on the block is the church of copamism, which preaches that all information is sacred, divine, beautiful, and meant to be shared.

It's an internet religion, and copomists hold the Control Plus C and Control Plus V keyboard

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