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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our One.

Greetings, conversationalist. Welcome, it is Eric Erickson here across America.

The phone number should you wish to be on the program.

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get my morning piece. I got thoughts on this Kevin McCarthy thing, and I'm trying to put them in words.

And I recall when I was a child, my parents had a friend who lived in Mainz in Germany,

and we went there, and we got to go to the opera when I was a kid.

Now, I was a nerd, and I loved classical classical music and it was the opera about Orpheus.

And it was fascinating and I've been thinking about this because there's the old story in the old opera of, well, Dr. Faust.

And you got to understand the situation with Dr. Faust.

Poor old Dr. Faust sells his soul. This is from the opera, the damnation of Faust by Berlioz.

Faust sells his soul to Mephistopheles.

In exchange, Mephistopheles says he's going to give Faust love and fortune and knowledge.

And, well, he doesn't.

Faust at the end of days, as all of heaven tells him,

you can change the deal.

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