NPR Talk of the Nation,March 27, 1997

Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997
From: Kyrtk@aol.com
To: i.stang@metronet.com
Subject: talk radio

Just wanted to give you a heads up about the call I made to Talk of the Nation today on NPR. It was the usual Religious Right Baiting so many of us love to pull. But I admitt, with the recent death of 39 cultist, it was in bad taste (and thus, irrestistib le).

I told them I had seen all this on your Web site last year, before the comet was discovered, a prediction that a Comet would be found (before 1998) and named "Hail Bob". Then how amazed I was when they actually discovered "Hale Bopp". But the other part of the prediction was more sinister: That this comet would prove the Alien attackers were in route to enslave all the non-believers and they should kill themselves to escape the gruesome torture. And of course, this "Higher Source& quot; was specifically mentioned in the prediction. But I didn't think anything about it until after I heard about the recent deaths. Another caller said the Subgenius was only a joke, and I responded that I had heard that too, but that I had also heard t hat the Joke part was just a gimmick to escape serious screening by the government.

Anyway, they laughed it off (fools that they are) but it was a fun plug for the web site and done totally deadpan and might have raised a few eye (uni-) brows. I'll send the tape in case you want to toss it in the show sometime.

That's the news. I didn't want you to be caught unawares if someone asked you about it. (If the Men in Black show up, I didn't do it!) Hope everything else is Archie!

Yours in Jughead,

papa joe

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SubGenius on NPR - in RealAudio

From: modemac@tiac.net (Modemac)
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 07:06:57 GMT

The folks at RealAudio are kind enough to archive all of NPR's radio shows
at their home page. This means that you can hear their "Talk of the
Nation" segment on the suicides at:

http://www.realaudio.com/contentp/npr/ne7m27.html

The Church of the SubGenius is mentioned during the listener call-in
period. I got it on tape (it's RealAudio 2.0, very audible), and for those
who don't have RealAudio, I'm going to post .WAV files of the SubGenius
segments to alt.binaries.slack.

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Reverend Modemac (modemac@tiac.net)