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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff you should know

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Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark fascist. Josh Clark fascist. That's

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Speaker 1: exactly what I was gonna say, too. I was gonna say,

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Speaker 1: Chuck Er always called me a fascist pig. I'm not

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Speaker 1: true business anyway. That's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Hello, we're

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Speaker 1: doing a podcast on fascism today. Yes, and as I

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Speaker 1: was saying, Chuck's always calling me a fascist pig, but

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Speaker 1: I don't know that that's necessarily accurate. After I read

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Speaker 1: this article how fascism works, Well, you should stop giving

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Speaker 1: speeches from your balcony above at Land in my hand,

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Speaker 1: partying my hair to my side a little bit, take

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Speaker 1: down all the posters of you all over the place.

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Speaker 1: Never so, Chuck, Yes, you want to talk about fascism,

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Speaker 1: let's do it. Okay, So did you know I was

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Speaker 1: And I was surprised to find this out because, you know,

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Speaker 1: It didn't work, he no, it didn't. And really he

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Speaker 1: was kind of Hitler's lackey. Really. Sure, I was surprised

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Speaker 1: WHOA has screwed a lot of stuff up in this

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Speaker 1: So as far back as n uh Mussolini was starting

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Speaker 1: What people throw this word around like it's it's awesome

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Speaker 1: or um sweet or l O L? Have you noticed

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Speaker 1: people use l O L to a ridiculous degree these days?

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Speaker 1: But I do know that fascism is I think I

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Speaker 1: it or um incredible, right, but you hear me know,

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Speaker 1: Bush is a fascist, Obamba is a fascist. Nancy Pelosi

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Speaker 1: Then Previously the Latin fascus or fascists, I take it

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Speaker 1: heard that, Chris, I'll send it to you. So this

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Speaker 1: That's right. If you have any obscure movie Arcania, actually

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