Hey guys. Welcome to the Fundamentalist's podcast. My name is L.A. Morgan and I'm here with Dr. Peter

Rollins. We have a very special episode for you today. If you're a longtime listener, you know this is a podcast where myself,

internet and stand-up comedian, discusses big, heavy life-slash philosophical issues with a

living actual philosopher named Dr. Peter Rollins, who's written all sorts of fun books.

I like that you're using doctor a lot.

Doc X-Abs. I'm really trying to legitimize it as much as possible because today we're talking about socialism.

Which is your choice?

My choice.

Yes.

So we've been going back and forth on the topics of discussion and I'm choosing this week.

Something light, something light that no one, yeah, that everyone agrees on.

Something that's not polarizing because that's what we need at the moment.

Exactly. Something that is not polarizing. And nothing is these days. Yeah. So basically,

here's the deal. We're going to talk about socialism. I have a loose, the loosest possible idea of what

socialism is. What I have noticed, however, is that I might still have a better idea than maybe a bunch of other people.

And also, Pete here has actually read Karl Marx and he's actually aware of this type of stuff.

We are also, just to throw out some more disclaimers, not trying to convert anyone here.

We're not protesting about socialism.

We're not trying to take to the streets about this particular issue. We just want to kind of discuss

it and see if we can wrap our heads around it. And so if you or someone you know doesn't

understand anything about socialism, this might be of help to them, or it might not. Well, I don't

know. We're going to see what happens together.

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