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The Eric Metaxas Show
What Is Roger Stone Doing in New York?
"Back. I'm talking to Roger Stone, roger. I live in New York City, I do not mug people, but I do live in New York City. I think it's overstated about the crime. That's here. We don't need to get into that. All I'm trying to say is, I live here, you rarely visit here. You visited here. I was out of town. I was very upset by that. I wish I got more notice when you're going to be around. But tell us what were you doing in New York and did you say antifa was trying to attack you? So I was invited by the New York young Republican club, which is the oldest, largest and most vibrant and active young Republican club in the country. Former members, governor Thomas E Dewey, attorney general, Herbert brownell, governor Nelson Rockefeller, former vice president, Richard Nixon when he lived all associate members. Verily a John foster dulles an associate member. Very Augusta and storied history. It is a really a vibrant club of young people and they invited me to come in for a martini mixer. This is where I spoke about the history of the martini. I reveal Richard Nixon's own secret recipe for the silver bullet. And then I move behind the bar and with the assistance of three bartenders, I mixed and poured over almost 300 martinis. By the way, The Daily Beast said they were margaritas, just to show you how to actually yeah, they're not big on mixology or theology, but that's the only two things of which they're totally ignorant. But at least call themselves The Daily Beast, so it's right out there in front, you know exactly what they are. I think they're corporate slogan is 6, 6, 6, as a matter of fact. But in any event, so with the way this worked is you bought your ticket on eventbrite. And then roughly an hour before the event, the club would send you an email telling you the location of the event. Otherwise you have an almost guarantee of violence and other protesters. But the location of this event in Little Italy evidently leaked and there were so many bomb threats and death threats to the Italian restaurant where it was going to be held. That they canceled before hours noticed.
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Roger Stone: 'Ron DeSantis Has Shown Himself'
"Love talking to you, roger. You're fun. But you're also such a truth teller. I got to ask you, it's always annoying to me to see it's annoying to me to see Ron DeSantis looking like he's going to run for president against Trump. But it's equally annoying to me that Trump is kind of taking the bait and doing the Trump thing and dumping on him. I think it hurts Trump. Where are you in the middle of this? Well, first of all, make a suggestion to you. I know things are tough there in New York. Maybe if you showed your books in the background when you did a show to kind of, you know, product placement to kind of suddenly push book sales. I've read your book letter to the American church. It's really a great book and everyone should order it immediately. Well, you know what? I will take that advice under consideration. My team doesn't want me to be too forceful in pushing my books because they don't believe in my books as strongly as you do. So thank you for saying that. Michelle bachman also also likes my books. Let me address your question, please. One of the advantages of everything is that Ron DeSantis has now shown himself in his attack yesterday on Donald Trump. What was the attack? He basically questioned his moral character, which is funny because the governor was not questioning Trump's moral character when Trump unilaterally endorsed him in a tweet, which turbocharged his campaign and elected him governor. He wasn't questioning Trump's moral judgment when Trump had to come back to Florida twice in the final two weeks of 2018 to drag Ron DeSantis across the finish line. She ranked attendance is not a likeable fellow. I think he's what you would call a cold fish. He wears ear buds to avoid human contact because he doesn't like to speak to people. He is a largely, I think, driven by his wife, correct me wrong. Wasn't it evil said to Adam bite that Apple? I think it was.
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Roger Stone Posits Why the Case Against Trump May Be Unraveling
"I want to talk to you about everything. I want to talk to you about what's going on with president Trump. I want to talk to you about desantis. What do you want to talk about first? Well, I think the big news, Eric is what's going on in New York or maybe what isn't going on in New York because I think it's now unclear. It appeared that the Manhattan district attorney that is a county prosecutor was going to take up a case previously reviewed and rejected by 5 hostile federal prosecutors against Donald Trump, which supposedly surrounds theoretical at least payoffs to a porn star for her silence during the 2016 campaign. Donald Trump has already triumphed in a defamation suit centered around these exact same issues. The government's chief witness is a man named Michael Cohen, who has specifically denied that exact allegation he's making today both under oath in the defamation lawsuit and in a letter to the federal election commission signed by his attorneys. So the real question, I guess, would become, was he lying then, or is he lying now? The whole point, of course, is will Alvin Bragg, who is a George Soros funded prosecutor, elevate what even if accurate would be a misdemeanor to a felony in an effort to try to destroy the political prospects of Donald J Trump.
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Should the Parthenon Marbles Be Returned to Greece?
"Number one for Eric. Do you believe the Parthenon marbles in the British Museum which Anna and I saw this in August should be returned to Greece? The Vatican are returning theirs, the answer is yes. You have to take these things in a case by case basis. But for people who don't understand what this is, when the Parthenon was built. This is one of the most magnificent. I mean, if you want to, it's kind of interesting. If you want to talk about how human beings don't change over the centuries. The idea that the ancient Greeks had the level of genius it took to create the Parthenon. If you've ever watched a documentary on it or read about it, it is absolutely astonishing. Absolutely. It really is, I won't go into it. But the crowning touch in a way literally was the sculptures on the pediment, they came to be known as the Elgin marbles. Now I actually write about this a little bit of my book as atheism dead. Because you can understand that 200 years ago agrees had fallen to the Turks, they really didn't have the ability to do anything about this. So when the British come in, they did this all over the, they did it all over the Middle East. They did it all over. You know, they were basically kind of like treasure seekers. And so they come to the Parthenon and they see these larger than life sculptures on the pediment and they think, hey, those would be nice to saw off and take home. There's no way I can do it justice in the time we have. But the point is they made a deal with the Turks, okay? Who were occupied? They were occupying Greece at the time. So it's like making a deal with the Nazis to steal Polish stuff, you know, while the Nazis are occupying Poland, like not right. So they took these marbles and again, I'm not doing it justice. These are some of the most magnificent sculptures in the history of the world. 25 centuries old. And they took them to the British Museum, where they are today. That has become a scandal. The world has changed Athens built a museum before they hosted the Olympics in Athens to house the marbles. They are now in a position to take care of them in a way that they hadn't been, so that's the shortest answer I can give.
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Pat Boone Shares a Story About Elvis and Lisa Marie
"I remember, I don't know, it's got to be close to like 15 years ago or something. When Elizabeth Taylor passed away and Dick Cavett, who I'm privileged to call a friend as I call you friend, he was interviewed on, I don't know what it was. I don't think Larry King was on anymore. But it was one of those shows and he was being asked about Liz Taylor and he said, yeah, she's like the last of the redwoods from that Hollywood era. She's the last one. But he said, but, you know, we shouldn't envy these people because he knew the behind the scenes story that addicted to drugs innumerable failed marriages, alcoholism. I mean, a level of misery that is mostly hidden from the public or it's sold in the tabloids as part of their fun, crazy life. But you know these people as people and you realize it sells itself records, it sells movies, but it destroys lives. It's heartbreaking. Yeah, when Lisa Marie. Died recently and her own son had died of a drug overdose. And I'd been with her just a month before with Priscilla. It was at the 45th anniversary of Elvis's death. And of course, there were still people coming from around the world as they do every year in August. And there's a shrine that was on Elvis at his at his home site. And it's almost like they're coming to commemorate saint Elvis. Because for sure. And he was gone and so they just can't let him go. Well, then in the shadow of all of that, talk about the valley of the shadow of death. Lisa Marie's son died, and then of drugs, and then she died of a heart attack. And I made the statement because I loved them all. I had just been with them. Celebrating, you know, Elvis life. And to some extent, his death, and I made the statement that supreme fantastic success can often be more dangerous, the sudden success than long lives in poverty.
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Pat Boone Has Always Been a Beacon of Wholesomeness
"Fascinating that at that young age, you were presented as this image of a wholesomeness and already in the 50s. Look, this is just the way of the world. The dark side is always attractive. And people don't understand what they're getting into. You know, you kind of think like, wow, Elvis Presley, the idea that he died of a drug overdose bloated Iraq at age 42. It breaks your heart. How many of those people they trod that path? And they died so young whether they were talking to Jimi Hendrix or anybody, any name, you know, Jim Morrison. I mean, on and on and on and on and you represent it obviously something very, very different. And The Rolling Stones and even The Beatles, if they were experimenting with drugs, they were very wealthy, and they could go to Switzerland and then have their blood transfused. Yes, Keith Richards famously had to get a blood transfusion because he was so loaded up with drugs. He's like, not a problem. I'll just go to some clinic in Switzerland, and we'll take care of that. Yeah, but kids were dying by the thousands following examples with the drugs that they couldn't afford to have their blood transfused. And people weren't even making well, there was a connection, but I mean, you know, you couldn't blame them for just sinking in their songs and living their lives the way they wanted to. But the fallout from it was too bad. It was very unfortunate. And of course, here I was had four daughters living in Beverly Hills and going to church regularly and riding bestselling books of Christian principles. And yet having rock and roll records at the same time. And so I was okay.
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Voddie Baucham and Eric Discuss REAL Oppression
"Look, at the heart of Christianity, is we're supposed to understand I am my own worst oppressor. I need to repent. I am the problem. So when you want to point the finger at somebody, which is what atheist marxists do, it makes the problem worse because it is not identifying the actual problem, the actual oppressor, it's creating a scapegoat and around and around we go. And you are quite right. I mean, we don't call out real oppression. And then when we see real oppression, we don't call it out. You know, for example, as you said, I'm a dean at the African Christian university, and Osaka and Zambia. I've lived in south Central Africa for the last almost 8 years. And it amazes me how people want to talk about white colonizers and white oppressors and they set in the other. But you never hear them, for example, to talk about female genital mutilation. Or women being basically sold as child brides. I mean, these are real things that are happening. But we're not hearing about that. We're hearing about these other ideas that are about power. They're about transferring power. They're about me speaking up in a way that will cause people to give me positions to give me power to give me prestige that I haven't earned and that don't require me to really do anything in regard to real oppression.
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How to Fix Black America With Voddie Baucham
"Be honest, black America is broken because for more than 50 years, starting with LBJ basically, it has been subject to big government intrusion that has destroyed black families, destroyed everything that ever could help black America, but what you're saying and what I think is true is that things are bad enough in America and in black America that people are willing to look at other ideas. Yeah. And the great thing about the conference, you know, it's how to fix black America with a strike through on black, right? Because we need to fix America, not just black America. Yes. And that's really the whole point is the same things that are necessary for addressing and fixing the plight of black Americans are the things that are necessary for addressing correcting and fixing the plight of all Americans. You know, you brought up the idea of fatherlessness and it's a huge problem and we know that it's a huge problem in black America with over 70% of black children being born out of wedlock. But it's a huge and growing problem in America as a whole. And as I said earlier, you know, when we look at issues and only paint with that one brush, that sort of Marxist oppressor oppressed brush. Then you begin to look at problems like incarceration rates and dropout rates and violence and crime and all these sort of things. And if you're only answer is oppression and racism, then you're not paying attention to the fact that we know that fatherlessness, for example, contributes to these things, right? And that's something that we need to be not just aware of, but that's something that we need to be calling out.
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Pat Boone Has Met Everyone, From Elvis to the Queen
"I'm talking to pat Boone. Yes, the patent. I could get any guy named pat Boone, but no, we took the trouble to track down the real pat Boone. Who has boy pat? You've met anyone I can think of. You have stories with The Beatles. You did business with The Beatles in the 60s. I did business with The Beatles. You met the queen twice. Yes, yes, twice, and the second time was very embarrassing. I think I did I tell you about this. You did and how many times did you walk on the moon? Be honest. Well, only once in my dreams. And it was scary, so I didn't it was a nightmare. You sung about the moon. You've met many astronauts. I mean, look, you've just met about everybody. I mean, everybody that was on the dais at the Dean Martin rose, the greatest program of all time. You've met most of those people. Yeah, and they've all made jokes about me too, and not on the roast. But just in their shows. And then they're well, because you became. You became that guy, you know, that we wanted to make fun of something wholesome we'd make fun of pat Boone. And what's the line where Dean Martin or somebody says that I shook papon's hand in my whole my whole right side sobered up? Big laugh because the audiences knew what he was talking about. Eric from the very beginning of my career where Elvis was, you know, my opening act and we've talked about that because I already had 3 million selling hits before we met and he only had one record and it was a sock hop in Cleveland. He was a punk. He was a punk, you took him out of the gutter. Is that what you're saying? No. But it was all like that. But he was considered the rebel.
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Voddie Baucham Weighs In on White Pastors Spouting CRT
"Do you make of the idea that you've got a lot of white evangelical pastors, either bowing to critical race theory or letting it into their churches? What do you think is going on there? Is that just stupid white guilt and ignorance of what they're actually dealing with? I can not for the life of me fathom that they would open the door to something that you know and I know is pernicious. Yeah, there is a great deal of this stupid white guilt going on for sure. But what's interesting about that is now people are walking that back, right? You know, in 2020, 2021, there were a lot of people opening the door to these ideologies. A lot of those folks now are walking that back, but they're walking it back without acknowledging it. They're walking it back without saying, hey, that episode was unfortunate. That episode was wrong. Now they're trying to act like they were never on the wrong side of this issue. And hope that people, you know, don't go back and look at the tape. Because it is. It's bankrupt. This ideology is morally bankrupt. It's philosophically bankrupt. It's intellectually bankrupt. And it was never something that was sustainable. So it's interesting to see people walk away from it. Or people just walking further into it and further away from Christianity at all together.
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Legendary Entertainer Pat Boone Returns to Discuss His Book "IF"
"And gentlemen, you know, when I have the opportunity, I like to bring on a gigantic Hollywood star, you know, that that's on my level. And it's very rare that you can find those people anymore. But we found one, some of you know him, his name is pat Boone, pepin, welcome to this program. Welcome to thank you. Thank you for that great introduction. I'm far more than I deserve. Yeah, oh yeah. Listen, you. Become a friend, so I like to joke around with you. And the last time you were on, you know, I want to talk to you about your new book. But we always get on the side tracks. Yes, the book. The title of the book is if IF if one word if the eternal choice, we almost make and you say on the cover, not religious life or death. So this is kind of the big question, but. The first question I often want to ask people who've written a book is for whom did you write the book? And those who did you have in mind when you wrote this book if. And by the way, I got to be clear. There's a couple of books out there right now that look just like this one with the same title if don't buy those books by this one by pat Boone. I don't look like this ever. They don't look like this. This was specifically designed by me to look like something that you probably wouldn't want to read and it says here specifically not religious, a warning sign, because this book is aimed at the non religious person who, unfortunately, make up over half the American public now, according to the pollsters. But they still have the same questions about life. And you and I both know that if you're just floating through this culture, it's hard to find solid answers. And I know that's why you wrote the book is because there are people that they're questioning, but they don't know where to look. And I know at the very least, that's the main reason or that's one of the main reasons I should say that you wrote the book is to reach those people with this provocative title if IF, if. But there's another book that looks very similar titled if it's not by pat Boone. We're talking about baboon
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Voddie Baucham on the Upcoming Black Conservative Summit in Chicago
"Voting. Welcome to the program. Welcome back. Thank you very much. It's good to be with you. I'm gonna hang out with you. Your voice of hope and clarity for a lot of people that are looking for hope and clarity, specifically with regard to the crazy woke agenda critical race theory, the reason you're on this program today is because you are doing something called the black conservative Christian summit. This is in Chicago. So I want to talk about that. What are the dates of that? 24, 25 of March. So that's coming right up here in Chicago. I love the fact that you're going to Chicago. Yeah, it I'm just hoping it's not bone chilling cold, but Chicago is an important place to be. Isn't this an indoor event voting? Yeah, yeah, it doesn't matter. Chicago. I think it might be heated. You'll be good. Who else, who else will be at this at this event? I know Larry elder's there. I think colonel west is there. I think Chad's there from Uncle Tom too. There are a number of people there. Survey people that I haven't even met yet who are going to be there, people that I'm excited to be able to meet for the first time. But there's a good lineup.
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Something Has Happened in America...
"Has happened in America where we can call it the left, but it's really the anti American left. This is not good liberals like Alan Dershowitz or Naomi wolf or whoever you want to mention. People that love America that love truth and justice and the American way. No, these are people that are at war with the freedoms and the ordered liberty for which patriots have died through the centuries. They are at war with America and they have taken control of certain institutions much of it, I guess, backed by George Soros, who isn't actually Satan, but they're good friends. And the fact of the matter is this is happening in America. And if we don't stand against it and recognize it for what it is, it's the abrogation of America. The founder's vision of justice for all when it happens on this level, I kind of, what I find funny, Sean, is it's sort of like, you know, it's like watching an old wildlife film or something and these two animals are battling it out. And the level of desperation has just gone code red that they would do this shows that they don't care if they burn down the house. They just can not bear the idea that Trump might be the next president. So they will do they will do the kind of thing that it's just impossible for us to comprehend that anyone would do, but we're kind of there. In other words, they've done a number of these sorts of things. And they have inured or they're trying to endure the American public to increasingly extreme action. So
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Sean Spicer Unpacks the Lawlessness of a Potential Trump Arrest
"Eric, I guess the reason that I enumerated the facts in the law as a non lawyer is because what the left tries to do is when they tell their story and weave this narrative. They overlook those because they don't want you to know. So they want people to turn on The Today Show and good morning Americans say the bad guy, we got them. We finally got them. What they don't want you to know is we got them on a law that doesn't exist anymore, and the point that I'm making is that you, when I want to have this discussion with people, I want them to say, to understand that you might hate Donald Trump. But what they are doing to get him is to literally throw out all of the laws of the United States. And to basically say that the means justify the end. There you go. And therefore, they go after a former president, then guess what? When they come hunting for you and they will. Then don't complain. Right. Because you have failed to stand up for what is good and right. And my point is, is that people need to go out and have the facts to argue because when you say to somebody, when they say, oh, well, he paid off this person. That may or may not be true. We are a country of laws and the law says that that charge had to have been filed with an X number of years. That is long since gone. You can't go back and say, well, John, this is the point is that what you're saying, and this is the breakdown of America, is when people talk about, well, it's poetic justice. He got what's coming. Ladies and gentlemen, shame on you. Shame on you if you get to live in a country like this and your knowledge of our laws and our system is so sloppy that you don't understand that poetic justice is zero justice.
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Sean Spicer Weighs in on Trump's Looming Indictment
"A lot of us, when we see things like the raid on Mar-a-Lago, when we see things like the raid on Roger Stone's home, you think, are they crazy? Like, do they not understand what this looks like to your average American? So let me kind of walk through a couple of things. I keep hearing people talk about, you know, I can't believe they're doing this to a former president. And when I keep thinking about is the following. Donald Trump has means and access to a ton of money and resources and talent to help him. How many people don't? Right? That's number one. Number two, the folks that are watching you right now, they've got to have a friend or a colleague or a family member that hates Donald Trump. Everybody does. And just stop them when they do. And say to them the following, the charges that Trump potentially is being brought up on are from 2015, the statue of limitations have expired. They are a misdemeanor from 8 years ago that they are trying to couple with something else allegedly campaign finance violations for a federal office at the state level. Again, from 8 years ago, and that have been passed on by the federal election commission and the feds. And you tell me that that doesn't sound like weaponizing our justice system. And because the problem is is that I look at this and I say to myself, if you're sitting at home right now, how just think about what happens to the average person who doesn't have the means and access that somebody like president Trump has. And I think he says this all the time. They're coming after me because but you're next. And he's right.
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Sean Spicer on His New Children's Book "The Parrots Go Bananas!"
"We've got a lot to talk about here. You have a book out a brand new book. A kids book called the parrots go bananas, and I believe the parrots were talking about the chattering classes, the mainstream media, the blogosphere, they go bananas because they know Trump is going to have another term. Is that what the children's book is about? Look, that's definitely the none of it. It's about fake news is what it comes down to. The parents basically are part of the folks that go after these two really good individuals, Asher and Bongo, who are just playing a game. They accuse them of cheating. It's for kids four to 12. So we don't get into the heavy stuff here. I gotta be clear. Ladies and gentlemen, I was joking. I have joking. No, I know you know, but just in case anybody's gonna get confused. I'm always half joking. But the point is because I want to talk to you about the preposterous dare I say satanic corruption that goes that's going on right now with the rumors of arresting our president. It's so preposterous, but we're living in crazy times and I have to deal with it by joking. But your book for kids, the parents go bananas, really does deal with actual issues. So talk about that before we get into the news of the day. Yeah, look, I have two 12 year old kids. And I know what it's like for kids to pile on. Something I talked to him, they helped me write the book. I partnered with brave books. You can get it at brain books dot com and the idea is if you think about a Nick Sandman type situation. You remember that he was from Covington Catholic. These kids in the book, these two characters get accused of cheating. Everybody piles on, and they're sitting there saying, what do you mean? You guys know us. We're good individuals. We went to this game and we didn't do anything wrong. And they proved themselves innocent, but at the end of the day, they're trying to teach people about why did you jump to conclusions? Why didn't you take our word on it?
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James Tour and Eric Discuss the 'Primordial Soup Model'
"I ended up writing my book is atheism dead is because when we had that conversation about the origin of life, I was so astonished, I thought nobody talks about this. So let's talk about this. In the restaurant in Houston, New York. No, no, no. This is when we were with my former friend Elizabeth Blake Moore. You started explaining to me because I think all of us in high school were forced. It was on the test. It was always on the test. How did life begin? So what is the standard model since 1952 when people say, you know, to high school students, the costumes, how life began? What do they say? It's not only the standard model high school students, the standard model to college students and standard model to graduate students. It's in all of their textbooks. And from middle school through graduate school. And it is the primordial soup model. There is a pond. There's a body of water, and there are molecules in that body of water. There are some lightning strikes, and the molecules start coming together, and then they assemble into cells. Those cells start coming together, and you get little creatures that start swimming around in that pond. And then those creatures end up coming out of the pond and start populating the earth. That's the primordial model. That's what's taught.
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What James Tour Can Do With Molecules Will Blow Your Mind
"You did was you met. In other words, it's conceivable maybe that you can make molecules or manipulate molecules. But you made molecules where each molecule, I know, look, you did this 14, 15, 16 years ago. This is like no big deal to you. But you made molecules that each molecule is a car. Yes. So let's go back to that, describe molecules that are effectively cars. You were able to do this. Yes. So each molecule is one molecule, they're very small. You can part 50,000 of them across the diameter of the human hair. 50,000 of them on the Diane. Side to side. Yes. Parked. Since their cars. Yes. 50,000 of them across the diameter of a human here. Yes. Okay, so they're that small. Yes. But you were able to manipulate things so that they function as cars. How do you mean that? Okay, so they all have four wheels. They all have four axles. They have a chassis. And on that chassis is a motor. Okay, what kind of a motor? I mean, what do you mean? There's a motor. It is light activated. You shine a light and the motor spins at 3 million rotations per second. And what is the motor comprised of? Carbon hydrogen and sulfur. Is there a glove box? No? We can put one in. A teeny bite. A teeny weeny. We could. Anyway, I just wanted to give you all a sense. I mean, so imagine a single molecule that has four wheels under there. And it's one molecule. And you're telling me it's so small that it can fit across, that 50,000 of them would fit across a human hair. So that's the scale at which you are working.
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"The thesis of my book horrifying as it is, and I mean it with no exaggeration, whatever, is that the silence of the American church today on a host of issues is precisely similar to the silence of the German church in the 30s. It's exactly the same thing. I believe the lord led me to write my bahnhof for book, like really almost as a prophetic warning. I didn't know that when I wrote it, this is, you know, in 2008 came out in 2010. I just thought I'm telling an important story about a Christian hero, Dietrich bonhoeffer, and the story. And because my family grew up, my mother's from Germany lived through that period. I did. It was just very moving to me, but I realized in retrospect that the story of what happened to the German church, which many people are familiar with through my bahnhof her book is a warning to the American church and I look around and I see that the American church today to its deep shame is exactly silent in similar ways to the silence of the German church. And the thing is at the time in the German church, they didn't think they were doing wrong. They thought, well, we want to stay in our lane. We don't want to be political. We don't want to talk about that or that or that or that. You know, we just want to preach the gospel. They had all these kinds of theological excuses, which were totally wrong, and bahnhof recalls them out on it, tries to wake them up. He says these theological objections are only fear. And I see exactly the same thing. And again, with no exaggeration. Exactly the same thing happening today. People who have read my bahnhof her book, who would say like, oh, if I was alive, then I would have spoken, of course. It's so obvious. You got to speak against evil. Well, today they're not speaking against Steve. A lot of Christian leaders are being deadly silent on all kinds of issues and their excuses are all the same. Well, we don't want to be political. We don't want to be divisive. People who've read my book on William wilberforce, amazing grace. They read it and they go, oh, if I was alive in those days, I would have been right there with wilberforce. Well, I'm here to say that the people who got it wrong on the slave trade and on slavery. The Christians who got it wrong on those issues, the Christians who got it wrong on speaking against the Nazis. Christians are getting it wrong now in our generation and we are at an impossible inflection point on bearable I say because we only have a little period of time to get this right. In fact, we almost have no time. If we don't wake up and begin speaking now, it's like the German church in 1933, 34, 35.
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"But we want you to be there. Please do what you can. That's number one. Number two, if you follow me on social media, let me just ask you, instead of liking what I put there, would you retweet it or would you share it? Would you share it on Facebook? I'm trying to get a lot of information out. And I don't think I've ever said this before, but a lot of times people will like something, we need to get the word out. We are being suppressed. We know that what we're doing, whether we're being shadow banned. I don't mean to sound like, you know, like chicken little. This is actually or not chicken a little. Who am I looking for? Oh, the boy who cried wolf. This is actually happening. We need your help, folks, to multiply our message. Everything we put out, it's a struggle. So whatever you can do to help us and speaking of helping us, as you know, every couple of times a year, we try to raise funds for an organization that we think worthy at the top of the list is food for the poor. Food for the poor is an amazing Christian nonprofit relief organization. They go where there is a need. And I just want to tell you, right now, they are helping families who have fled the Ukraine. Now, we don't need to get into the politics of it. These are people that are suffering, and we want to show them the love of God. We want to help them, food for the poor. I can't think of anybody that I would trust more to do that. So food for the poor is partnering with a number of Christian organizations, relief organizations, ministry partners, to get food, literal food to these families that have fled their homes. They've left everything behind. If you know anybody who's ever been through anything like this, my parents experienced this kind of thing, it's hellish. And we want to show them the love of God. So I want to ask you simply to call this number to help, or you can just go to the banner, our banner is metaxas talk dot com. That's the radio banner. We want you to give, we want you to give generously. We just want everybody who listens to this program to do what you can. By God's grace, we are able to do something. Let's do what we can. So please go to metaxas talk dot com or you can call this.
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"Okay, so I have to ask the stupid questions. So this is what you guys do. This is what the Talbot group does. You come in as executive spackle. Well, it depends because some people look at this as marketing, we can help you with obviously fixing your website, your sales pipeline, your marketing department. But because you're like business diagnosticians. Yeah, we come along. Yeah, we come in and tell you kind of we deconstruct the business. As a matter of pulling into pieces, you look at the LEGO ship that's been built. We're good at taking those pieces apart and looking at, okay, how would we rebuild this if we were starting from scratch? And how do we build this so it maximizes value, reduces our dependence and scales effectively and profitably so that you're not just having a nice cute little family business, which is great. And that's awesome to have that. But most people, when they get to that level, realize that they run into a ceiling. And again, they feel a bit over their skis. You know, sometimes people get to the point business owners get to the point where they think they know it all. They think they're supposed to know it all, a book that I've always appreciated. It is called your opinion doesn't matter. Proverbs and it's written to business owners and ministry developers. The subtitle of the book is only the opinion of the consumer, matters, and so talking about the diagnostics that we do when we step in. Proverbs talks about the wisdom of many counselors, so you can people need to be able to feel comfortable reaching out to somebody that's done it before. We've done it. We're doing it with others now. And that's sort of our goal. That's our first love. We love helping people. And businesses grow, build, and scale. And I think the key is people have to trust who they're working with. And the reason you're here now is because I trust you, and I would encourage and we appreciate that very much. But it's key though, right? I mean, it's anybody. I mean, even I, if I'm going to hire an agent or you're like, well, are they going to really help me? Or are they going to help themselves? I mean, that's always the question. So that's the question. If people want more information, they can call us at 8 6 6 Talbot, or they can simply go to our website. We got a video and some interesting things there. Talbot group, Talbot group dot com, two ts on the end of Talbot. Talbot group dot com or the number is 8 6 6 Talbot. Holy cow, 8 6 6 Talbot. We'd love to help. Great to see you. See you next week. It's good. Folks, the headline is we need your help. What do I mean by that? I mean, at least three things by that. Number one, if it's possible for you to get to be part of our studio audience, August 3rd, fourth, and 5th, and 8th, in New York. This week, it starts about 4 o'clock every day, we're taping the late night, the talk show with Eric metaxas. It is a mainstream TV talk show. We don't have time to get into it now, but it's nuts. We've got a lot of mainstream guests. It's going to be a blast. We can't share most of it with you yet. But if you can get there, go to Eric metaxas dot com. You'll see where it says speaking or schedule, whatever and you click on it every day. You can sign up through eventbrite. We'd love you there all four days or just one day. You can bring as many people as you want to sign them up. But this is going to be a wild, fun thing. We need some fun, folks. We need some fun because there's a lot of tough stuff going on..
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"Tell me Eric, why is relief factors so successful at lowering or eliminating pain? I'm often asked that question, the owners of relief factor tell me they believe our bodies were designed to heal. That's right, designed to heal, and I agree with them. So the doctors who formulated relief factor for them selected the four best ingredients, yes, 100% drug free ingredients, each helps your body deal with inflammation. Each of the four ingredients deals with inflammation from a different metabolic pathway, and that right there approaching from four different angles may be why so many people find such wonderful relief. So if you've got back pain, shoulder neck hip knee or foot pain from exercise or just getting older, you should order the three week quick start discounted to only 1995 to see if it will work for you. It works for me. It has for about 70% of the half a million people who've tried it and have ordered more, go to relief factor dot com or call 800 for relief to find out about this offer, feel the difference. With early morning yesterday hey there folks, welcome back. I'm excited right now. You know that on this program we're doing a fundraiser for food for the port. But I said, you know, I want to bring somebody on who's part of the Salem radio network who's part of the brass. My friend Tom Trat up. He's the vice president of news and talk programming. But Tom, you have a relationship with food for the poor. You understand why I'm going out on a limb and asking my listeners to reach into their pockets for God's purposes. So I wanted you to help us understand it in a way that I can't really myself communicate successfully. So what do you know about this that I wouldn't know? Well, first off, thank you for having me on the show. I'm here in the fortress of metaxas, you know, Superman has the fortress of solitude. I'm in the fortress of metaxas. We've got the mic flag. We've got the travel bag. We're here pushing the Eric metaxas show every time we get. Now, by the way, if you go to my Texas talk dot com, ladies and gentlemen, you have access to all this swag, all this incredible product, if you go to my taxes, talk dot com. You'll see it. But we want you to go to metaxas talk dot com at least today in part to click on the banner to help people who are suffering. That's right. Because of evil men around the world, there's suffering. And if you go to metaxas talk dot com, you'll click on the banner. But go ahead, Tom, try it up and tell us more. Well, thank you, Eric. You know, food for the poor is a nonprofit organization that based in Coconut Creek Florida. We've worked with them for over a dozen years and they help the poorest of the poor in 17 nations here in the western hemisphere. And I've traveled with them to Guatemala to Haiti, to a number of other countries with them and actually seen their work on the ground. They're absolutely the best in the business. They're overhead is the smallest in the business. So every dollar you give really goes directly to help the poor. We've expanded because of the war in Ukraine. And regardless of what people think and, you know, I've heard the debates back and forth some of our talk show hosts when we started the campaign. We're like, why do I want to get any money for people that are refugees in Ukraine when we're paying $7 a gallon for gas here in California? Well, it's true. America has got problems and we all have to pay the light Bill and we all have personal issues, but when you think about the children who have been displaced, there are over 500,000. Ukrainian children who've been separated from their parents usually, the dead had to stay behind in order to fight in the war, so they were just with their mom, but now they've been separated from their moms. And if you had a 12 year old child, either your child or your grandchild, and they were alone in a scary place, a bomb shelter or in a foreign country where somebody's playing host to them. You would want people just like the men and women listening to the arithmetic show and watching you right now. To open up your hearts and your wallets and help and the fact is that because of food for the poor's donations, they already have a ton of food donated through themselves and their ministry partners, $1, $1 delivers four meals to refugees in Ukraine. $2 delivers 8. You do the math. You can figure it.
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"Help? Where can I help? That's why we're saying food for the poor because we know that they're going to do the best job. Again, if you go to metaxas talk dot com or you call phone number 8 four four 8 6 three hope. You are you're giving hope, you're showing the love of the lord to people who are in misery right now. God forbid that we would ever say to our kids, I don't have something to feed you tonight. It's unthinkable to us. It really is. And it's so wonderful. Your audience always comes through. We're a little bit behind. That's why we're talking today, but you've never failed to hate your goal. We are so thrilled to be part of the Eric metaxas show and your audience is the best in the business and they really, I think they trust you because you only endorse things that you personally have vetted in that you know are going to do great things here in the world and food for the poor is right at the front of the parade. Well, I selfishly value my own credibility with my audience. I don't want my audience to think like, oh, we're exploring smoke. He just has to say this or something. I can't do that. I just can't do that. And I won't do that. But we know that food for the poor is stepping up and that they are stretching whatever dollar you give folks. They're stretching it very, very far. So far that I'm amazed. And that's why we partner with them. I also want to say, Tom, before we go to the break, every time I do a fundraiser like this, I say to my audience, I know there are people out there that they can give a lot. This is tax deductible. And I say the only thing that I can offer you is let's spend an evening together. So I say if there's anybody out there who can give $10,000 or more, it would be my delight to find an evening. My time has become insanely valuable and rare. I don't have the time in the industry. So many things. But yeah, now that I'm Johnny Carson. But I mean, the fact is that I say I want to thank people and it's always a joy for me to meet the people who can give $10,000 into. That's the amazing thing because there are tons of people that can do it, but they don't. So those who do, I just want to thank you. I want to spend the evening with you. We'll have dinner together, whether it's with a family or a group. I don't care, but I want to bless you if you can do that. But the point is whatever you can do folks, whatever you can do, we are grateful to.
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"Moin is helping save rural America. I love it and you will too. Join the moin movement today. Keep American farming going by signing up at moik box dot com slash Eric right now and listeners of this show get free fillet mignon in every order for a year. That's one year the best fillet mignon you'll ever taste, but for a limited time spelled MOI and K, box dot com slash Eric that's monk box dot com slash Eric munk box dot com slash Eric. Hey there folks, welcome back. I'm excited right now. You know that on this program we're doing a fundraiser for food for the poor. But I said, you know, I want to bring somebody on who's part of the Salem radio network who's part of the brass. My friend Tom Trat up. He's the vice president of news and talk programming. But Tom, you have a relationship with food for the poor. You understand why I'm going out on a limb and asking my listeners to reach into their pockets for God's purposes. So I wanted you to help us understand it in a way that I can't really myself communicate successfully. So what do you know about this that I wouldn't know? Well, first off, thank you for having me on the show. I'm here in the fortress of metaxas, you know, Superman has the fortress of solitude. I'm in the fortress of metaxas. We've got the mic flag. We've got the travel bag. We're here pushing the Eric metaxas show every time we get. Now, by the way, if you go to my Texas talk dot com ladies and gentlemen, you have access to all this swag, all this incredible product if you go to my taxes talk dot com, you'll see it. But we want you to go to metaxas talk dot com at least today in part to click on the banner to help people who are suffering. That's right. Because of evil men around the world, there's suffering. And if you go to metaxas talk dot com, you'll click on the banner. But go ahead, Tom, try it up and tell us more. Well, thank you, Eric. You know, food for the poor is a nonprofit organization. They're based in Coconut Creek Florida. We've worked with them for over a dozen years and they help the poorest of the poor in 17 nations here in the western hemisphere. And I've traveled with them to Guatemala to Haiti to a number of other countries with them and actually seen their work on the ground. They're absolutely the best in the business. They're overhead is the smallest in the business. So every dollar you give really goes directly to help the poor, we've expanded because of the war in Ukraine. And regardless of what people think and, you know, I've heard the debates back and forth some of our talk show hosts when we started the campaign. We're like, why do I want to get any money for people that are refugees in Ukraine when we're paying $7 a gallon for gas here in California? Well, it's true. America has got problems and we all have to pay the light Bill and we all have personal issues, but when you think about the children who have been displaced, there are over 500,000. Ukrainian children who've been separated from their parents usually, the dead had to stay behind in order to fight in the war, so they were just with their mom, but now they've been separated from their moms. And if you had a 12 year old child, either your child or your grandchild, and they were alone in a scary place, a bomb shelter or in a foreign country where somebody's playing host to them. You would want people just like the men and women listening to the arithmetic show and watching you right now. To open up your hearts and your wallets and help and the fact is that because of food for the poor's donations, they already have a ton of food donated through themselves and their ministry partners, $1, $1 delivers four meals to refugees in Ukraine. $2 delivers 8, you know, you do the math. You can figure it out a $10 or $20 contribution a hundred, a thousand would be fabulous..
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"Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, now this is about the talk show that we just aired. I mean, not air but taped. I know you just filmed for pilot episodes of your new talk show. How did that go? Well, we've talked about it a lot on the program, but if you're, if you haven't heard me describe it, I will simply say it was spectacular. It was an answer to prayer. We I still can't get over the scope of what it was. I mean, we had a huge studio audience here in the TBM theater. We had a huge staff, writers, bookers, stage managers. I mean, a level of production that obviously doing a little show like this right now, we don't. And it was amazing. The guests, I still can not get over how many different kinds of guests we had. And how absolutely gracious and generous the guests were, because most of them I would assume they don't know me, they're just coming to be on a show. And the guests were just extraordinarily gracious and entertaining and funny. And it was amazing. I mean, I really don't know how I should say this. We know that all this stuff is going to air, but we don't know exactly when. And we appreciate your prayers. If you pray, and if you don't pray, we don't appreciate your prayers. But if you do pray, we appreciate your prayers, because we want this to reach the widest audience possible. So what outlet will bid to have this show, the talk show with aircraft taxes? We don't know, but we'll be leaking this stuff out. If you're signed up for the newsletter at Eric metaxas dot com, if you sign up for the newsletter, we'll be sending photos and videos and the only way you can get those is that signing up for the newsletter..
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"Around the country. There's no schedule that they're trying to squeeze themselves into. They create their own schedule. They create their own curriculum and their own processes. Tell us the title one more time. The homeschool awakening. The homeschool awakening outcomes of fathom event, please check it out. Kirk God bless you. Thank you. Thanks, brother. Take care of you guys. Beautiful magic and all the birds in the tree you may be singing so happy hold your feet oh playfully watching me. Hey there folks, Eric metaxas here. As you know, our friend and he's a real friend, Mike lindell has a passion to help everyone get the best sleep of their life, but he didn't stop by simply creating the best pillow now Mike has done it again by introducing his my slippers, my slippers, they're unbelievable. I know all about them, but I got to tell you for a limited time you will save $90 on each pair of my slippers. They're expensive. You can save $90. This blowout sale of the year won't last order. Now he's taken over two years to develop them. The mice slippers are designed to wear indoors and out all day long made with my pillow foam and impact gel to help prevent fatigue made with quality leather suede call one 809 7 8 three O 5 7 use the promo code Eric. We're going to my pillow dot com click on the radio listeners square and use promo code Eric, the offer will not last long, so order now with promo code Eric at my pillow dot com or call 809 7 8 three O 5 7 809 7 8 three O 5 7..
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"It's nice and Friends and family with an extra 30% off special gifts from top designers just in time for Father's Day when you use your coupon or Macy's card. And take 15% off fragrances, skin care, and more great gift ideas. Now it Macy's plus Macy's star rewards members earn on every purchase except gift card services and fees. Sign up today at Macy's dot com slash star rewards. Savings off regular sale and clearance prices, exclusions apply. Folks, welcome to the Eric metaxas show, sponsored by legacy precious metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals, visit legacy p.m. investments dot com that's legacy p.m. investments dot com. Welcome to the Eric metaxas show with your host, Eric the Texas. Oh, it's that time of the week album. Yes, sir. It's that time of the week. I love this time. We call this the ask metaxas segment traditionally because my last name is metaxas. I play the role of metaxas. And I answer the questions, people write us every week, and they submit questions. And we ask you to do that, folks. We love to we love to read these. And ask me questions on just about anything. So Alvin, if you would read the question, I will try to answer the questions and go. Go..
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"P.m. investments dot com. Folks, I have as my guest, the founder of something called classical conversations. Her name is Lee borton's. I think I'm pronouncing that correctly. Lee, am I getting that right? You are. That's my name. Did I pronounce classical correctly? Classical conversations? Yes. Magical conversations. What is classical conversations? We're a homeschool support organization for parents who homeschool classically and Christian. We've been around since 1997 and I was homeschooling at that point and I wanted help with my older son who was an entering high school. And like so many homeschooling parents, I doubted my abilities, but knew I wanted to keep come schooling and so I gathered up some friends and said, hey, let's meet once a week in homeschool together through the difficult subjects and teach ourselves how to teach classically. So that was in 1997 with my 12 year old son, three years later, we had 300 students on the waiting list two years later, we had thousands, my husband quit work, and now in 2022, we've sold our 20 just celebrated our 25th anniversary with over a 130,000 students enrolled in classical conversations, homeschool program. So tell me about this because I've talked a lot about homeschooling on this program, Friends with Sam sorbo and you get this over and over again that people feel, oh, I could never do that. I was just at a at a fancy dinner party here in Manhattan in New York where I live. And this very educated, wealthy woman that I was talking to, I said something about, you know, if you want to know what I would do, if I could do it over again, and I said, I'd advise, you know, homeschooling. And she looked at me. He's like, oh, I'm not qualified to do that. And I thought that's exactly the problem. We farm out everything to experts who stink. They have degrees and they don't teach our kids the basics of what we would teach them if we could and it turns out we could. But we have to know that we can. And so you've been encouraging people along those lines. Is there a website while we're talking? Yeah, classical conversations dot com. And by the way, Sam zorba is a very good friend. She's actually one of our directors. She helps me to homeschool families in her area using my model. And bad parent who looked at you and said, I couldn't homeschool. The reason why they stated, I think, is because one, they don't know it's a commission from God, but the second thing is they think they have to bring school home. And that's the last thing you want to do. That's the thing that we're trying to avoid. And so for us, as classical educators, what we say to parents is that you need to be able to teach grammar dialectic and rhetoric. Well, they say, well, I don't even know what that is, right? So the way I put it more simply is I say we help people homeschool classically by teaching you how to name like Adam, ask questions like Jesus and persuade like Paul. Any parent can help their child do that. And then if you end up working on those arts of education, all of a sudden, Latin's not so hard to teach or algebra. But we have this focus on bringing the state school system into our home instead of looking at the biblical school system and what people knew for thousands of years before education was compulsory, how to teach classically and work with the bent of the child and the adult who was mentoring them. You can do it. This is my favorite season of the year Erika. All these graduation ceremonies and our students are graduating and going off to college and parent after parent comes up to me and says, I didn't think I could homeschool at all. Let alone get them through high school with such a rigorous education. Well, it is a glorious thing that's happening. I mean, I don't know if I was talking to Sam sorbo or who it was, but was giving me statistics. On how many people, because the COVID madness, they saw what their kids were getting and they thought, I am out of here. I know I could do a better job of not screwing up my kid. It's kind of amazing the numbers of people that are opting for home schooling. Yeah, so before when I say, oh, happy monster. That's why I call COVID. Yeah. So before COVID, the homeschool population was about 3% of school aged children and now it's between 9 and 11% based on actually the government statistics. So we figured it is around that number. But one thing that gives me a lot of joy is the majority of the growth came from different ethnicities and not all white middle class. And so to see it become diverse in that way is just really heartening because all parents love their children and we need to be clear that all parents have the opportunity to have school and tell me again what that statistic was because that's pretty staggering what you just said. Yeah, we tripled the number of homeschoolers since COVID. And this is with even the current year's data. So we were a little skeptical when we went from three to almost a 100% in children were being homeschooled in one sense, right? During COVID. And so we wondered how many would be pulling back and putting their children in school. And the first year that COVID was really ending in schools or open, it was 11% are just committed to homeschooling. And now, 6 months into it and getting enrollments for the next school year, it looks like 9% are staying committed. So to go from 3% to 9% of the population. But one of the statistics people aren't talking about is there is a waiting list at almost every private Christian school in the United States. People are opting out of the public education quickly..
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"Next one. There's an untouched shirt under that suit jacket, isn't it? Yeah, I disapprove of that hole and tucked shirt thing. But it's not like a moral issue. But I'm not, I'm not an untucked kind of guy. And this ties in Eric, where do you get your fine menswear? That's a weird question. Where do you get your fine menswear, off of the Internet? Many different places. I don't know. I feel like I need to write about this. I think I need to write about this. Are you writing 7 more women impatiently waiting? Absolutely love all your books. You know what? I've written most of 7 more women and we had zonder van was going to publish it, but they decided not to, which is strange, but that's their right as a publishing house. So it is not currently slated to be published. I don't know why Xander van made that decision. But I was we were doing it. And so I don't know when it will come out. It will come out. I care very deeply about that series, 7 months, 7 women, 7 more men and 7 more women. But the answer is I don't know. Do you believe in a literal 7 day creation? You know, I get this question all the time. Do I believe in a literal 7 day creation? And that's the most ridiculous thing. Everybody knows God did it in 6 days. So the very idea that somebody who calls himself a Christian would not know that, is outrageous. Outrageous, I tell you, Alvin, can you believe that we even get questions like that? I don't know. Okay, how do I sign up for the newsletter, softball? Eric metaxas dot com. And I do want to say this since we got knocked off of YouTube, a lot of people say, yeah, I used to see you on YouTube, but folks, please, please sign up for the newsletter at Eric metaxas dot com. Fortunately for us, we're out of time. Thank you..
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"I'll leave it at that. Can we get to an easier question? Okay, here's one. Bummer that I missed you in bethel, Connecticut recently, when will you be back around this neck of the Woods in Connecticut? No, you missed your chance, pal. Hey, what do you want from me? No, it's simple. Anytime somebody invites me to speak in a church, you can go to my website, Eric metaxas dot com. You should go there anyway, sign up for my newsletter, folks, please go to Eric dot com. Today sign up for the newsletter. But you can invite me and I'd be delighted if I can do it. So please, please. Please invite me. Yeah, because another person asked, when are you going to go on a speaking tour across the country? I love your books on your podcast. So you've got to ask. I think people don't understand the way this works. I can't just go on a speaking tour. I can't just show up places and start speaking. I have to be invited. So if you know of a big church or an organization or whatever that would want to invite me, I would be delighted. I do this all the time. I'm going to where am I going? I'm going to Colorado Springs. This weekend, I'm going to actually I'm going to D.C. going to Colorado Springs. I'm going to Murfreesboro, Tennessee. I get around. But you have to invite me. I can't just show up. So go to Eric, Texas dot com. And let's see what we can work out. Okay. How can I get information on the black coat regiment? The black coat regiment? No. I think I think the term that I'm aware of is the black robe regiment. And I don't have an easy answer for that. But the black robe regiment, let me just say a black robe is what most of the 18th century ministers in America wore when they preached. And the black robe regiment refers to ministers who understood that the gospel that they're preaching from the pulpit has political ramifications. And if you're dealing with tyranny, you have an obligation to speak against it, and of course that has ramifications today. There's no borders on the truth. The truth is the truth and you can't keep it in a box of religion or it just so the black robe regiment, these were the ministers at the time of the revolution who were speaking of their congregations about the tyranny and how we have a moral obligation to stand against tyranny. Yeah. And just so you know, David Barton on the Glen Beck show talked about that. So you could probably find it through wall build. You know what, thank you, Albin. Wall builders, check out wall builders, that's probably the first place I should have thought of that right away. Thank you. Okay. Thoughts, Eric thoughts on the Australian internment camps. Oh, Australia, yeah, they're putting unvaccinated people in internment camps. And yeah, listen, they're just trying to keep them safe. Yeah, come on. It's no problem. I feel safer up here in America already. Yeah. That's what the gulag is for, keeping people safe from freedom. That's what Siberia's for. Actually, there's nothing sicker than a great country like Australia, stooping to this level. Yeah. Tyranny. Yeah? So my thoughts are that they're bad. I'm against them..
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The Eric Metaxas Show
"metaxas" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"A few. Yeah, good. What is some advice you received that changed your life? Hattie. In my book, fish out of water. I talk about when I was about 13, my uncle Joe. He overheard me say something disrespectful about my dad. And he sat my brother and me down and just kind of gave us a talking to and at the heart of the whole thing was that we need to respect our father. But the line that he repeated over and over was like a sermon was because he's your father. And I will never, ever forget it. He didn't raise his voice, but it was so power. The moral authority that he had, my uncle, I really loved my uncle Joe. But I will never forget that. And I write about it in fish out of water, but it really, it changed my life. It made me think about my dad in a different way. I remember reading that in the book. And yes, it's very powerful. Do you wear Oliver? People's glasses. Not his glasses personally, but I guess the brand, right? Yes, these are Oliver people's glasses. There you go. Hey, that's great. Why is your program on TBN? Not a one hour long program. Love your heart and your program. Why is my program on TBN not one hour long? Yeah. I don't make these decisions. Hey, people. I don't make these decisions, but you know who does? His name is Matthew crouch. She's a friend. I'm going to give you his phone number hang on a second. Actually, you know what I don't want to do that to Matt. But I would love to do more with TBN. But they have a lot of programs on there. So I can't exactly, I can't insist. But thank you for your very generous sentiment. Oh, here's a heavy one. What are your thoughts on Brett Kavanaugh? I don't have any thoughts on Brett Kavanaugh except that I hope that he does the job that he's supposed to do, which is called balls and strikes Brett. We have a final short segment unbelievable folks. We're doing ask me taxes. It's a marathon. We'll be right back. Everybody else. The mountain is high that is over and you're confused. Hey there folks, we've come to the lightning round of ask metaxas and go. Go. How do you feel about the metaverse? I'm against it. Next, what are your goals for 2022? What are my goals? To have a mainstream national TV talk show to have the bonhoeffer film produced and in the can, I think that's going to happen. And I guess to visit the dentist every 6 months. That's those are the three. Okay, that's good. So that's on Kanye's distract, released a few days back. Let me just say, I love Kanye so much. I want to meet him and get to know him. I love that guy. His faith is real. And so my thoughts are, I don't know. Okay. Have you ever had any doubts about your faith, no, I've had struggles. I've had questions, but when I came to faith around my 25th birthday, it's just so real that when people said, if that's what my faith is really in intellectual faith, it's a visceral. When you meet Jesus actually meet him, you may have a million questions, but fundamental doubts on whether he's real by the grace of God, no. Get ready to play favorites. Who had a greater impact on their culture, wilberforce, or Bonn hoffa? That's easy. Bonhoff had like no impact on his culture. That's the problem, because the German people didn't listen to him. Wilbur force had a tremendous actually most of my will before his book is about all the other stuff that he had, the effect on the culture, not just the slave trade. So that's kind of an easy one. The answer is wilberforce. How was your dad's health? PS, you are the best podcast truth with a little bit of sassy comedy. Sassy. It's like I'm wearing a sassy hairstyle. What does that sassy? Thank you. My dad, he's doing much, much better. I can not tell you how kind that is for you to ask that, but thank you. Favorite meal, usually the next one. There's an untucked shirt under that suit jacket, isn't it? Yeah, I disapprove of that hole in tucked shirt thing. But it's not like a moral issue. But I'm not, I'm not an untucked kind of guy. And this ties in Eric, where do you get your fine menswear? That's a weird question. Where do you get your fine menswear? Off of the Internet. Many different places. I don't know. I feel like I need to write about this. I think I need to write about this. Are you writing 7 more women impatiently waiting? Absolutely love all your books. You know what? I've written most of 7 more women and we had Xander van was going to publish it. But they decided not to, which is strange, but that's their right as a publishing house. So it is not currently slated to be published. I don't know why zonda van made that decision, but I was we were doing it. And so I don't know when it will come out. It will come out. I care very deeply about that series, 7 months, 7 women, 7, more men and 7 more women. But the answer is I don't know. Do you believe in a literal 7 day creation? I get this question all the time. Do I believe in a literal 7 day creation? And that's the most ridiculous thing. Everybody knows God did it in 6 days. So the very idea that somebody who calls himself a Christian would not know that, is outrageous. Outrageous, I tell you, Alvin, can you believe that we even get questions like that? I don't know..
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"metaxas" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Leave it at that. Can we get to an easier question? Here's one. Bummer that I missed you in bethel Connecticut recently. When will you be back around this neck of the Woods in Connecticut? No, you missed your chance, pal. Hey, what do you want from me? No, it's simple. Anytime somebody invites me to speak in a church, you can go to my website, Eric metaxas dot com. You should go there anyway, sign up for my newsletter, folks, please go to Eric's dot com. Today, sign up for the newsletter. But you can invite me and I'd be delighted if I can do it. So please, please. Please invite me. Yeah. Because another person asked, when are you going to go on a speaking tour across the country? I love your books and your podcasts. So you've got to ask, right? I think people don't understand the way this works. I can't just go on a speaking trick. I can't just show up places and start speaking. I have to be invited. So if you know of a big church or an organization or whatever that would want to invite me, I would be delighted. I do this all the time. I'm going to where am I going? I'm going to Colorado Springs. This weekend, I'm going to actually I'm going to D.C. going to Colorado Springs. I'm going to Murfreesboro, Tennessee. I get around. But you have to invite me. I can't just show up. So go to Eric metaxas dot com. And let's see what we can work out. Okay. How can I get information on the black coat regiment? The black coat regiment. I think I think the term that I'm aware of is the black robe regiment. And I don't have an easy answer for that. But the black robe regiment, let me just say a black robe is what most of the 18th century ministers in America wore when they preached. And the black robe regiment refers to ministers who understood that the gospel that they're preaching from the pulpit has political ramifications. And if you're dealing with tyranny, you have an obligation to speak against it, and of course that has ramifications today. There's no there are no borders on the truth. The truth is the truth and you can't keep it in a box of religion or it just so the black row regiment, these were the ministers at the time of the revolution who were speaking of their congregations about the tyranny and how we have a moral obligation to stand against tyranny. Yeah. And just so you know, David Barton on the Glen Beck show talked about that. So you could probably find it through wall building. You know what, thank you, Albin. Wall builders, check out wall builders, that's probably the first place I should have thought of that right away. Thank you. Okay. Thoughts, Eric thoughts on the Australian internment camps. Oh, in Australia, yeah, they're putting unvaccinated people in internment camps. And yeah, listen, they're just trying to keep them safe. Yeah, come on. It's no problem. I feel safer up here in America already. Yeah. That's what the gulag is for, keeping people safe from freedom. That's what Siberia's for. Actually, there's nothing sicker than a great country like Australia, stooping to this level. Yeah. Tyranny. Yeah? So my thoughts are that they're bad. I'm against them..
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"metaxas" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"That mugsy reading over the top or what. You're chewing the carpet. There i was. I was really i was just i was just. I left it all on the field alvin. I had nothing left to give. Oh man just got nothing left to give and we got a whole couple of segments we gotta fill and i'm just emotionally drained man. You know what now's the time to do. An ask metaxas segment people right in and they have questions. Yeah and asked metaxas or technically should be acts. Metaxas is where you read the questions. And i try to answer them. Let's try it. Yeah yeah yeah and we're going to combine it a little later on with a listener rights have time who powerful segments. Who very very partly shouldn't be combined. They're so powerful so to your hats. Ladies and gentlemen here we go. the i ask. Metaxas question comes in to us from brad somewhere in america or the world or the universe somewhere brad. We are huge fans. This is brad is writing. We are huge fans written in all caps while we are visiting greece in september. Do you have any recommended history books or biblical readings before we go. Oh that's easy. Yeah no okay. That's a necklace. Let's move on okay. Okay ben right right okay. We're yard moving on dear. Mr metaxas calls you mr. I am writing to you to ask. A question either. Didn't have to write that. But he did. When will your sequel to seven women be released okay. Most people i wrote a book called seven men. Yes i wrote. A book called seven women. I was gonna write a book called. Seven drag icons share lies manelli joan crawford bette davis but thomas nelson didn't want to publish it that that was controversial. So i thought okay. Why don't i just do a sequel to seven man. I'll call it seven more men. Okay so i did. And then i said of course i'm gonna do seven more women But thomas nelson and zonda van. I think they got cold feet because sequels they say don't sell as well so i don't know if i'm going to get to. I mean look i know. I'm going to write the book In fact it's more than half written but when we publish seven more women is an open question. Seven more men came out last year during cova d- so it probably didn't sell as well even as as we thought that's the problem with cova so try to launch a book not during a global pandemic. That's just the tip of advice from a longtime writer. Yeah trying it. And that was the only problem with kovic. Yeah that was. The book. didn't do as well as expected. What actually people read seven men and seven women and they want more and seven. More men is that book. Seven more women We will publish it. We just need to find the right publisher And or you know what. I would publish it myself because so many people keep asking me about it that i'm getting sick of it. I'm thinking i just wanna go here. It is and. I can't do that until i finished writing a so. So thanks for for asking. Yes and you know right a right on email to your favorite publisher and ask them why they're not publishing it. That's honestly. I can't wait to get it out there p people. I'm not kidding. All around the country they love these books And that's all say great now. This next question is terrific. Because yesterday or the day before we had kevin mccullough on and you call him votes. Through 'damas chris heinz came up with that great name. But you use it all the time this listener named rick says i like listening to your program however i wonder why you disgrace kevin mccullough by calling him note. Str- dominance that no stir dominance. it's actually votes domus. But no str- adamas was a false prophet who had a few wild guesses cloaked in vague terminology. That could be interpreted as accurate prophecies by an interpreter biased in his favor. Just wondering well. Rick brings up a very very important issue. Unfortunately this is not that important issue. No this is kind of a silly thing. He says why would i disc- grace kevin by calling him notes domino first of all. I don't call him. Notes drew domino column votes drama site and Really what i'm doing is making fun of notes predominance so if you think that i am Lauding votes predominance. Then you're you're not really catching it. rick i want to say like i'm i'm kind of making fun of notes. Domus notre thomas was a fifteenth century. French versa. Fire who wrote these You know these quad trains And at one point he says something about history or something. It's almost like hitler. A lot of his stuff could be seen as potentially true but listen. We need to understand that prophesying. The future god can do that but the dark side can do that too so if you just want information you don't care where it comes from. Hey you know the devil and his minions are happy to provide you with secret knowledge as long as you give them. They're your eternal soul. That's all they ask. So when you're dealing with somebody notes predominance. I would never suggest that. I think much of him. In fact what i would do is make fun of him by calling kevin mccullough votes predominance so i am in fact not praising notre thomas as much as i am kind of a teasing anybody who thinks that he's were taking seriously and kevin mccullough by the way Far from being disgraced by that appalachian. He is honored by it okay. You're honored than anything in his life beyond his marriage. His children being called votes domino's his number one thing now see i saw a different side of him because when he was in the green room after this last interview people can watch on. He was weeping i. He's a grown man because he's so honored by this honorific tears. And that's what it is. Here's a weeping. He's like eric chris. Thank you thank you. This means more to me than than anything. And i had to tell them. No no god and your family should be more important but he took them wild for him to get that has actually tattooed. Right across his chest. Dominance when we come back because we're looks like we're going to a break here we're going to get into some more questions and also a listener rhyming may have time for a listener rights. We're having so much fun. it's just crazy..