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Welcome to the Eric Muttaxe Show!

I'm not the announcer Todd Wilkerson, but I sound so much like him that Eric asked me to take over.

Evidently Todd was caught stealing again.

Oh, it was nothing big, just some toilet paper out of the studio bathroom,

a little soap and some poppery.

But still, Eric said it was the principle of the thing.

So he fired Todd's behind just like that.

And now your host, Mr. Law & Order, Eric Muttaxe.

I have really no idea what he's talking about,

or even if that introduction has any relationship to this program.

This is a sophisticated program.

And we frown on Todd and his ilk, generally.

We try to have intelligent conversations with intelligent guests.

Typically, we fail, but today, we will succeed,

because I have sitting in the studio,

a professor of political science from Boston College.

He's had visiting appointments or fellowships at places like Yale Harvard and the University

of Chicago, just to name a few at the bottom of the barrel.

And he's the author of many studies on enlightenment political philosophy,

including Adam Smith and the character of Virtue.

And actually, it is about Adam Smith.

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