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What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.

Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?

Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.

From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi.

What difference at this point does it make?

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Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hello and happy Friday. I'm Tracy V. Wilson. And I'm Holly Fry. We talked about soap this week. Yeah, we did. Here's a little backstory for why I had it on my list.

When Holly and I first joined the podcast, we were moving from another podcast that we'd

worked on together, had a totally different focus, and I tried to line myself up some initial starting episodes that I already

had more background familiarity with to make this transitional process hopefully easier so

that I could have a sort of learning by doing of how to research and write these episodes with some stuff

that I already had some foundational knowledge in to make it a little easier.

And one of those topics was soap, because one of my previous jobs was writing for a company

that sold cleaning and sanitation products.

And I wrote like product literature.

I wrote newsletters for the businesses that we did business with.

So I already had knowledge of various things related to soap and suponification and how

soap was made. and that story about

the animal sacrifices being burned and washed down the mountain, all of that. And then part of it was

like, is anybody else interested in this, in the aspects of it that I find interesting?

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