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Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hey and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry's here too.

And this is Stuff You Should Know, host modernism edition.

I'm strapping on my ice skates.

I know.

Chuck, I was thinking about it.

This may very well be the most difficult topic we've ever tackled.

Is this hard for you too?

Oh yeah, it's hard for everybody.

It's hard for everyone.

Oh good.

Yeah, no, it's very difficult.

It's really hard to define.

It's really easy to mischaracterize things as postmodern and lump stuff in, even though

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