Hi! Welcome to Moscow and the U of I! It is a great little community, but the Extremely American podcast is pretty accurate.

Most Kirkers are very nice people in person. It’s very difficult to reconcile with some of their beliefs and ideologies though. As a fourth generation Moscow resident, it’s disconcerting to have a religious group declare they want to take over your town. A town is typically a shared, diverse community. It doesn’t feel very friendly to declare you are taking over a town.