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

Hey and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's over there wandering around in circles and this

is Stuff You Should Know.

So the podcast about Church of the Subgenius at long last.

When did you become acquainted with the Church of the Subgenius?

I had a group of friends that walked on the outer side of life, darker side of life.

You know, a serious side of life, I'm not sure.

In the 90s and there was one guy who was big time into the Church of the Subgenius.

That's what happens, right?

Yeah, that was my first introduction.

Then I actually came across the hour of Slack on Georgia Tech's student radio once, like

in the early 2000s.

Rec Radio.

I never got into it though.

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