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Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsensky.

Hey, what's up everybody?

My name is, of course, Eric Skwzinski, and you are, of course, listening to the Preacher Boys

podcast.

And I'm going to do something I haven't done in a while, which is a solo episode.

Just kind of sharing some of my thoughts, my takeaways now, a 120 plus episodes into the podcast.

And also, I want to give you a sneak peek at a really amazing

interview that's going to be dropping next Wednesday with Sarah Edmondson and Nippy Ames.

Sarah, of course, wrote the incredible book, Scarred about her time within the nexium cult,

specifically DOS within nexium. And I talked with them about their new show a little bit culty. I talked about

their HBO series, The Vow, and just had a really good conversation. Can't wait to share just a

sneak peek with you at the end of this episode. So stay tuned. But first, I want to talk a little bit

about something that's been on my mind quite a bit. I've talked about it before, but fundamentalism dies hard.

We always want to believe that we're the ones with the answers.

We're the ones who have the right way of looking at things.

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