The Hour of Slack
Rev. Ivan Stang has made this every week since 1985 — part sermon, part tape collage, part radio drama, part answering-machine messages from strangers. Thirty-nine years without a meaningful break, which makes it one of the longest-running radio shows of any kind.
The show outlived its own distribution: tape, then syndicated reel, then community stations, then a podcast feed reaching back only to 2007, then a personal MP3 stash on a host that went dark. We put the surviving copies back together and checked them against each other.
Pick a Year
TAP ONE — IT PLAYS SOMETHING FROM ITThirty-nine years is far too much to scroll. Choose an era and the Church picks the episode. Tap the same year again to release it.
Now playing
Streaming our own preserved copies, byte-checked against the Internet Archive's published MD5s — … GB of it.
The complete index lives at hourofslack.subgenius.net: every episode by year, searchable across titles, notes, cast and the full text of … broadcast logs, with the … still-missing shows listed loudly in the years they belong to.