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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour two.

The curtains are still closed at St. Peter's Square, St. Peter's Basilica. We are waiting for the Pope.

White smoke poured out of the chimney in St. Peter, the Sistine Chapel at about 12, 15 p.m. Eastern time today, signaling that a new Pope had been selected.

The ballots were being burned. Chemicals are added.

The chemical to generate black smoke if there is no pope picked.

Chemicals generate white smoke if there is a pope picked.

They have assembled the Swiss Guard.

They have assembled the crowd.

They've assembled bands. They've assembled military personnel from Rome and police from Rome. The crowds are now filling in to St. Peter Square. People are cheering. They're flying,

their national flags. There's the Argentinian flag I see in the crowd. There's the Bulgarian flag and the Hungarian flag there.

There's the Filipino flag.

Lots of people from around the world.

Waiting for the announcement of who the new pontiff will be.

I want it to be Pizza Bala.

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