UnFictional
Friends in Juggalo Places
Take a three-day bus trip across the country with a juggalo, and you’ll learn some things.
By Bob Carlson • • 30m ListenIf you’ve heard anything about juggalos, you may have heard that they paint their faces like clowns – or maybe, that they don’t get how magnets work. From the outside, the rabid fans of Insane Clown Posse seem incomprehensible. But once you get to know them, the logic of juggalo culture starts to reveal itself. Producer Carla Green took a bus trip across the country with a juggalo – and learned some things about the people who sometimes call themselves the most hated family in the world.
Roger Tedi is a cannabis enthusiast, journalist and news personality also known as Bagz. He is the owner of a Majik Ninja Entertainment/Metal Music news source called Twiztid Flavor, manages The Mid-West Juggalo World Order, promotes for Legendary Hip Hop artist Kung Fu Vampire and has been an independent contractor for festivals and sporting events nationwide since 2011.
You can find out more about Struggalo Circus on their Facebook page. Since the march, the group has focused its efforts on homeless outreach in the Bay Area.
Editors:Bob Carlson and Nick White
Engineer:Myke Dodge Weiskopf
Special thanks to Frank Green, Aliya Pabani, Woodrow Currie, Paulina Velasco, and Derek Spencer.
Theme Music by Alex Weston, with music help from Joe Augustine and Narrative Music. Episode art by Tina Carlson. The whistler: Jonathan Mei.
