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Today we're talking with Dr. Marcel Dursus. We are diving deep into

dictators. Who are these guys? Why are they always so crazy? How do they stay in power? What kind

of crazy dictators are out there right now? There's so many weird quirks these guys have. They rename

them months after themselves. They kill a bunch of their own people. Okay, that's not a quirk.

That's, you know, sort of a different thing. They ban haircuts. They kill people with anti-aircraft cannons.

They ban hot dogs. A lot of that stuff might not even be true. Who knows what is in the mind of a

dictator, but it's not just their crazy. It be in. We're going to talk about how dictators fall today on this episode, and here we go with Dr. Marcel Derses.

Let's talk about dictators, shall we?

Sure.

First of all, thank you for joining me. I appreciate your forthcoming expertise here.

Yeah, thank you very much for having me.

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