The Eric Metaxas Show - Albin Sadar

Episode Date: July 7, 2025

Albin shares a 4th of July Fun Facts Friday!

Welcome to the Eric Metaxis show. Did you ever see the movie The Blobs starring Steve McQueen? The blood-curdling threat of The Blob. Well, way back when Eric had a small part in that film, but they had to cut his scene because the blob was supposed to eat him. But he kept spitting him out. Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest.

Eric the Texas! Folks, welcome back. You know, I know. I love having Victor Marx on the program for many reasons. Any excuse we can have to bring him on. He has just produced a new video series called The Unseen War, and I think he's going to talk to me about it right now. Victor, welcome. Good to be here.

I can ask a couple of important questions before we start. Is your name pronounced Victor, or is it pronounced the way Fraubleker pronounces that word in Young Frankenstein where she says, Weakder. Do you go by Weakder or Victor? It's been both and even more.

Both and even more. Okay, I'll accept that. The judges will accept that. I want to talk to you about this. It's a video series. It's like a course called the Unseen War. And I know that I'm in it,

because I remember that you interviewed me for it, but just explain. Explain what it is. Yeah. Look, I'll say this. The first time we met at the NRB and you had me on your program imprompt to, I remember after we were done, we were visiting. And I asked you this.

I'm like, hey, I have one question for you. Do you really believe in spiritual warfare? You know, I need to find out if our relationship was going to continue because of what I do. And you were like, yeah, absolutely. And I thought, all right, because not everyone does believe that there's a spiritual body raging. And I'm talking about people in ministry. Oh, no, no, listen, listen, there's no doubt that, I mean, that's why you interviewed me for this, for this course, but there's no doubt that this is absolute reality. And everybody needs to know about it. So yes, it is absolutely real. But you know and I know that there are a lot of self-proclaimed

Christians who do not get this, which is staggering. It's insane. You know, it's like saying, like, I believe in baseball, but I've never seen a bat before. Well, how are you going to play baseball if you don't, like, you don't know what a bat is? Like, this is as basic as it gets. So you have a lot of Christians that they major in thinking theology, but they never live. it out. And that's what we're talking about here. God wants to invite us into being spiritual warriors for his purposes. That's part of what we're meant to do and everybody does it differently. But you, my friend, really move in this stuff. And I find that amazing because a lot of people they think of you just as somebody who rescues children from evil. But you, while you're doing that,

you understand that you're in a spiritual battle and you know how to bind demons and how to you you understand that stuff and most people they kind of a lot of people just shy away from it it makes them uncomfortable so how did you get into it i guess is my question what when did you first experience this well you know our mission statement is to set captives free physically immersed and spiritually spiritually is the highest form of it i got into it reluctantly because I was reaching kids, young people who were incarcerated. And then I started seeing them manifest evil. I mean, bar none.

Non-believers are like, there's something on that person, that kid, that we can't explain. And that's when I had to choose. Am I going to enter into that next realm? I mean, I'm comfortable in fighting. and shooting combatively. But that next realm, it scared me at first only because I didn't know my true identity

and the authority that I had. But I realized very quickly, I better get squared away in this. And that is the highest level of warfare. And Christianity, we're fighting so many battles and fronts, but oftentimes we just leave out what drives people to do evil, And look, last week, we rescued five orphans, five orphans, all siblings out of Syria under an ISIS camp controlled.

Two of them had been raised in there for years. At one point in the operation, a team who had been in a month earlier to really plan, watch the Terminal routes, got stuck at a border cross and getting. out of the country. And it was all for one reason. The person who we agreed with to let us get through with undocumented kids wanted money,

a lot of it. And they were trying to negotiate, but it became very evil quickly, so much so that our team league got a call. And I was asked, do we negotiate or do we just shoot the guy and get through? because at that point, the kids, their whole identities have been scrubbed out of the ISIS

camp database. They have to cross over. If they're left in Syria at this moment, and believe me, there was fighting going on, weird stuff, we would lose them. They would be separated forever and be sex slaves because of the girls. That's what we said to play. You know this. You know that in that moment,

you do not get them across the border, they will become sex slaves. Folks, do you understand how real this is, what we're talking about? This is a reality. I'm not talking about the spiritual reality. I'm talking about the reality of what you just said, the evil that's in the world. So keep going, Victor. Yeah, and I'll tell folks, you know, a bully may solve the problem temporarily, but prayer is what's going to ultimately get us through.

And that's what did. I thank God for our betraying teams that we had to negotiate several countries, but we got them all out because of prayer. And I'll tell everyone listening, you don't have to go to Iraq, Syria, these countries to have victory right now in your own home, in your own mind. That's where the war is.

The battlefield is your mind. I tell ladies this, look, And it works for men too But ladies I said When you get out of the shower and you're getting ready And it's just you and that mirror Do you ever hear negative chatter? Negative thoughts that are like

You're ugly, you're fat No one ever love you He don't love you just And typically they'll say yeah And I go is that a self-assessment Like I knew lose weight Or you know Is it you?

Is it an accusatory You're ugly You're a tramp You're past you never be, God, and they pause and they go, oh my gosh, it's an accusatory voice. I said, that's a sign of demonic activity. And it's through learning their authority, taking every thought captive. Like Ephusion 6 says, he put on the helmet of salvation, breastplate of righteousness, shield of fate, to

Quincil's fiery dart, sword of the spirit, mental truth. man, the boots for wherever you go, demons of fear and you preach the gospel, you still walk in an authority in a natural way, not weird. You'll have victory. Well, I was going to say that first of all, folks, we want you to look into this. So what is the best website for people to see the unseen war,

the video series that you have just put out? Yeah, what we have to do is Google, Unseen War. Google Unseen War. Obviously, your name is Victor Marks, they are X. Yep. And there's a film and a course, online course. So there's two reasons. Watch the film or go through the course.

Okay, but it's called The Unseen War. It is hosted by our friend Kevin Sorbo. Yes. I am in it. Many others obviously are in it. But this is real. And before we close, I just want to say to folks, this world is real, the spiritual world is real.

God wants to equip you so that you know you're authority in Jesus. And so the devils are afraid of you because you know your authority. Not you're afraid of them. People say, I don't want anything to do with trouble. No, no, no. You don't understand. If you know what your authority is in Jesus, it's a whole new world. And the enemy wants you to be ignorant of that. So you live in fear. So this is very, very important. So Victor Marks, congrats on this, folks. Please check it out. It's called the unseen war. The unseen war. Victor Marks, thank you so much. much.

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On that hallowed day of our nation's birth, Mugsy, our hero, once more proved his worth as protector of Margaret, his beloved new wife, and Emily and Habakkuk in their happy new life. The morning began with a children's game. I was there as a witness and the truth I proclaim, and just for the record, Peaves is my name. The stairs now he mounts. Hush. The children still sleep, their door we approach and inside now creep. You're my niece and nephew.

I your uncle am. And today is the 4th of July. Today is a Yankee Doodles daydream. A day when flags and rockets fly. Uncle Mugsy went to London, Colking, Georgia phony! I am that Mugsy doodle guy! Then down the hall of history, they marked our freedom's trail, as Mugsy named the noble names George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Nathan Hale,

and told how as one, the Framers answered Liberty's sweet call by making their great declaration at Independence Hall. And he told how Betsy Ross in haste, the start of... and stripes unfurled, and how Lexington and conquered was the shot heard round the world. Then he told of the winter of the troops who camped at Valley Forge, and how their stoic sacrifice in Pennsylvania's snow and ice defeated Old King George. Three Yankee-Doodled Andes, let's make a joyful noise and sing. We're the star-spangled children of our Uncle Sam, and today make the freedom bell ring.

Let's cut a Yankee doodle caper. Salute our founding fatherhood. Let's recite some happy birthday poetry to the land of the free and the good. But in the midst of their festive song, the downstairs doorbell chimed. And so they left off their fiefing and drumming. The British they giggled are coming. They're coming. One if by lap, two if by knee.

and I'll dust the banister. Mugsy cried, Wee! And so down the handrail, a flying they came, and made such a scene in the hall. At the bottom, they discharged as though from a gun,

with Mugsy a great cannonball. Poor Mugsy in crashing had smashed all to bits some luggage there piled all around. He'd assaulted the ramparts of civilized taste in a single opening bound. And then, from that wreckage,

he looked up to see that English Medusa, that Gorgon, That ghoul! It was Margaret's mother. She had come unannounced. A one-woman finishing school. E-Gad.

And there she glowered jowlishly, so grim and grimly proper. Her teaching the children to fall again was a cold conversation-stopper. That's not it at all, groaned Mugsy. You see? I was teaching the twins of our history. I see what you're teaching them, Ambrose, she sniffed.

Mugsy winced at that name painfully. In England, she went on, when Victoria was queen, we'd have music, then riding, then tea. But great on Hortensia, the children now piped, today is the 4th of July. The parade starts at 4, Mugsy said, and what's more, the colors of freedom will fly. What nonsense, she sniffed and declared, in summation, the 4th of July is merely a day for proper education. And true to her word, without thought for the day, she commenced. her campaign in the British way. While the twins were put through their proper paces,

their thoughts could be seen on their sad little faces. They'd miss the parade and the fireworks, too. Would their dear Uncle Mugsy somehow come through? Might he yet save them from this hopeless to do? Who knew? And what could he do? As promised, first music, and Hortensia would sing. Habakkuk's new violin popped a string.

The tick of the metronome crisply kept time as the two of them saw it on and on. What a crime. I'll free you, thought Mugsy. Just give me some time. Equestrian training was next on the list. Emily's pony jumped first and missed. They trotted and cantered and habbled and hopped. Cortencia's enthusiasm never stopped. But most painful of all was the deep crimson hue of their traditional horsey attire.

Red coats on the fourth, this is war. Mugsy cried with patriotic fire, and by far the worst insult to that sacred day meant to honor the brave and the free was that starting at four with Hortensius friends, they would suffer in English high tea. By Gadfrey, said Mugsy, I'll save them, I will, with some red, white, and blue rocketry. I'll remind them of all of our battles of yore. I'll show them once more who it was won that war on this day of our great liberty. And soon he'd returned with a wheelbarrow full of crackers and candles and bombs.

A true bunker hill of explosives it was, a gunpowder mountain of arms. He arranged them like minute men ready to fight. He stood them behind rocks and trees. There were serpents and spinners and sparklers and snaps. There were mortars and missiles and whistles and caps. It would bring the red coats to their knees. Whiz! Bang! Crack! Boom!

The battle at last had begun. The chit-chat now ended. The sipping now. ceased. The ladies were blasted clean out of their seats, and the twins were at last having fun. I say, I can't see. Old Hortensia declared, amidst the bombs bursting bright and the rocket's red glare, we are allowed to, ladies, abandon the field. Lady Daphne fainted. Virginia reeled. Across the land, the Liberty Bell pealed. The battle was won. The day was now done. I had hoped we might cease and desist, but it wasn't to be, for now giddy with glee, true to form Mugsy couldn't resist.

For there yet was one rocket of red, white, and blue. They called it Big Martha for Washington's bride. The match now he struck, the fuse now he lit, but the missile took off with dear Mugsy astride. How high o'er the treetops like Lindbergh he flew. The world grew more distant as father he zoomed, and Margaret Hortensia, the children and I, all knew in our hearts that poor Mugsy was doomed. Shades of vicarous, barked Mugsy, a turn for the hearse. Victory wasn't supposed to be this hard.

It puts me in mind of that line from the bard. I've been hoist by my own partard, draught. But fortune besmiled upon Mugsy that day. The bomb, though, it flew, was a miserable dud. It fell, and it fell through the clouds to the ground, then fizzled, and crashed in some mud. And when the smoke cleared how Mugsy redone, His life had been spared and the day was yet young.

And to top it all off, he'd been given a mule. And now to his main mugsy clung. Onward bucephalus, onward, he cried. We'll catch that parade by the tail if we must. The Republic depends on us, so do the twins. Hi-ho, Yankee-Doodle or bust. Now swiftly he galloped and spread the good cheer to every village and farm far and near. Awaken ye citizens, harken and hear.

America's birthday is here is here. America's birthday is here. All solemn and grave sat Margaret the twins in Hortensia II. They'd come out to see, but for sadness, saw not. It was what Mugsy would have wanted to do. But low in the distance came a cry and a hue, twas a mule hasting toward us in red, white, and blue, and atop that old mule flying fearless and fleet,

Atop that swift steed racing down our main street sat a fanciful flop quite familiar somehow. And happy birthday America was writ on his brow. When the mule, he stopped short and the rider was thrown. Mugsy landed and made his identity known. He lay battered and blackened with many a wound. A ghost! cried Hortensia and swooned. You've come back, they all shouted.

Hurrah, you're alive. Of course, Mugsy laughed. I'm just sore from the ride. Then each twin took an arm and helped him to stand. He lifted old glory and gave the command. Let's join the parade, Mugsy cried. Fall in line. The fights pierced the air and the drum marked the time,

and the air and the afternoon swelled with their song. It rose to the heavens till marching along was another parade filled with heroes of yore. We've seen some of them in our story before, but others we haven't whose song now we sing, and to them humbly make this our small offering. Yankee doodle to all and to all a good night. Ladies and gentlemen, in case you didn't know it,

Albin, you created a set of Fun Facts Friday Facts for the birthday for the birthday of the United States of America. So you've got some July 4th facts. I see you've got another celebratory. is it a cake? What are you holding with a candle? This is, I don't know what it is. It's a cake that has all kind of multi things in it, like, you know, raisins and seeds and all that, like the country, like America.

It's all kinds of multi things in it. Yeah, all kind of multi things. It's technically a multi-thing cake. Yeah. Yeah. And I think 10% illegal stuff is in that is in there, too. It could be. By the way, I saw a sleeper cell.

When you held it up, I saw a teeny weeny sleeper cell, just a grain. Yeah. So it really, it's a cake that looks like America. But Albin, do you, did you, do you have some fun facts Friday facts for July 4th? Yes, I do. Yes, I do. In fact, I'm also wearing my July 4th socks this year again. As you can see, if you're watching on Rumble now, my.

You have July 4th socks? I do. Look, red, white, and blue. It's really incredible. So I didn't. I've never been less jealous. Okay. And I'm serious about this for four years during the.

Biden administration, I did not wear those socks. As a protest? Yes. I didn't wear the, I didn't wear the socks. My whole life as a protest against the Biden administration. I wore him on inauguration day for Trump in 2020. Wow. Wow.

Whatever. Okay. So here we are. This, by the way, I have a great article which people can check out in, in American thinker about this Fourth of July fact, which I find amazing. And it just so happened to come for this year. Okay, so it's a fact that it's only applies for this year. And the name of the article was Thomas Jefferson's age on the day of his death highlights America's young age.

So if you go to American thinker, it came out a few days ago. That's where you're going to find the article. But I also did a chart because it's really interesting that there are four. presidents are tied to the day, the day July 4th. Three of them actually passed away on that day. One of them was born, like that song, born on the 4th of July. One of them of them was born on the 4th of July. Now, the person born on the 4th of July was Calvin Coolidge, and he went on to be our 30th president. Now, by the way, since I know most of this is happy news, when I read your article at the American conservative and I looked at the chart and I read about Calvin Coolidge being born on the 4th of July,

I was shocked to see that he died at the young age of 60. Yes. Yes. I know. And it's American thinker, I was, I was, I'm sorry, American thinker. Yes. So people can read your article at American thinker. But keep going. Keep going. Tell us more fun. Tell us more fun Fourth of July facts. Okay. Now, James Monroe passed away on the 55th anniversary of the science. of the Declaration of Independence. He passed away July 4th, 1831, and he was 73 years old. On July 4th, 1826, which was the 50th anniversary, the person that passed away, there's two presidents. One was John Adams, and he was 90 years old, okay? And he passed away five hours approximately after Thomas Jefferson, of all people, on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration

of independence and Thomas Jefferson was 83 years old. Now, the idea behind my article, I think this is really fascinating. The number 83. Before you leap ahead here, we just have to underscore this. Now, a lot of people have heard this. We've talked about it on the program, but ladies and gentlemen, do you not understand how crazy that is, how amazing that is, on the 50th anniversary of our nation? So no one was more central to what happened. happened on July 4th, 1776, then John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, both of them lived to the day to see the 50th anniversary of our nation. That is amazing that on the very day of the 50th anniversary of our independence, on that day, they lived to the day and then both passed into eternity

on the same day within five hours of each other. So we just have to understand that's amazing. And it seems miraculous. I mean, I don't want to stretch it, but it seems to me somehow ordained by God. You can't prove that, but it is at least remarkable in any sense. It's absolutely remarkable.

So that's the main thing. But you said that on the day that Jefferson died, he was 83 years old, and you link this to something which, now folks, listen to this, because this is interesting. Yeah. So 83.

What's that number have to do with July 4th this year? Now, this is the 249th birthday of America. But if you take 83, if you find a gentleman today, find a man who's 83 years old and go all the way back to the day he was born. And that would take you to the year 1942. Now, in 1942, you find a man who is 83 years old. And you go back to the day that he was born, and you're at 1859. And then in 1859, find a man who's 83 years old and go back to the day he was born, and you're at 1776. So three 83-year-old men living back to back to back, takes you to the founding of this nation.

And what's really amazing is saying like, oh, that's the interesting math. But think how young that makes America. That's a very young country that can go back 83, 83 and 83. It is remarkable. It is absolutely remarkable. And as I keep mentioning, I've written a book about the American Revolution. There were people. Actually, we're going to go to a break.

When we come back, we will talk more about our great country, the greatest nation in the history of the world. That's a fact. We'll be right back. Welcome back, folks. We're celebrating July 4th with Albin sharing some fun facts Friday facts about July 4th. So Alvin, keep it going. Okay. And happy birthday again.

That cake, the candles are burning down. They're burning down, baby. You've got that special July 4th mini cake. Yeah. That's really a beautiful gesture. Yeah, that sure is. And it's a cake. It's a cake that looks like America.

That's right. You're welcome, America. Massively in debt. Divided. No, keep going. Keep going. We're talking about age. Okay, so we talk about 83, 83, 83. It's 1970. It's 1776 now. There are, of course, 56 delegates who were representing the 13 colonies at the time. The average age, this will give you an idea of how young the people, in a sense, were.

But, of course, they're older than people today. You know, we don't act our age. Look at me. Look at you. Anyway, there were 56 delegates. The average age of the 56 delegates was 44 years old. Yeah. And the age of George Washington was 44, oddly enough. Just to be clear, we are talking about the second constitutional convention, which on finally, on July 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, they,

produced the Declaration of Independence. And so you're saying that there were 56 signers of the declaration. The average age was 44. George Washington, who did not sign the Declaration of Independence, right? Because he was in, by this time, he was, of course, already in New York. But his age was 44. The average age of the 56 signers was 44. And I believe, go ahead.

Yeah, there's a correction. Washington did sign with a quill, an auto quill. An auto quill. It's hard to believe that you're making that up, but I know you never would do that on this program, that he used an auto quill, and it was a pro-Hamas woman who had control of the auto quill 249 years ago today.

Okay, keep going. Okay, so the other George, King George III, from across the pond, who was the nemesis of all of our country, his age, he was 38. So he's just a punk kid, you know? So that, and Jefferson, if you've, yeah, I have to say that because I'm writing a book on the American Revolution right now, I, I'm amazed at the arrogance of George the third. It is fascinating. Of course, I'll write about this. This is in my book. But it really is interesting.

He was arrogant and he was, you know, when people talk about, oh, Trump has authority. authoritarian tendencies. Yeah, except he doesn't act out on his authoritarian tendencies because we have a system, we have a constitution, we have a Congress, we have, you know, but George III was able to get away with it. His, his cabinet was so corrupt and many in parliament were so corrupt, he was able to get away with it. So he really was an arrogant and corrupt leader. I'm sorry to say. But Alvin, go ahead. You were saying more about that. Yeah. Yeah. So he, anyway, he was, he was 38. And if you've done the math already about Thomas Jefferson, he was 33 years old when, you know, when he wrote, when he composed, and so, and when he signed. So, I mean, it's just amazing because I think about what I was doing

when I was 33. I was thinking about what I was doing when I was 63. It's like, did I write anything like that? Did I sign anything like that? I mean, it's just amazing. Neither did you own slaves. Let's move on. Well, okay, that's right. I didn't. Okay, let's move on. Let's move on to some other fun things that were going on back then. And you probably discovered this in your writing for your new book. Yankee, we have a song that we sing on Fourth of July sometimes. I mean, when I was growing up, Yankee Doodle Dandy.

I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy, you know that. And there was even a movie. Yankee Doodle, right? Many people know that I wrote a children's book called Yankee Doodle Mugsy. That's right. You can order at my store.com. It is such a gloriously illustrated book. And it's so patriotic.

No joke. Even though I wrote it, I get choked up when I read it. I'm not joking. Yankee doodle Mugsy. You can find it at my store.com with the code Eric. It's very cheap. But please continue. Yes.

And you can hear Eric reading his own book on this very show. so that's very exciting. Sometimes. But it's funny because Yankee Doodle is, it was an expression that was used by the British to make fun of the Americans. Yes. But the Americans, they picked it up as almost like a badge of honor or, you know, and people do that today.

That's kind of like what Americans do. You call me a racist. You call me this. Well, I'm going to wear as a badge of honor. I'm going to make fun of it. Right. We're the deplorables. Yes.

Yeah. So we take it as a badge of honor. So the fact that Yankee Doodle way back there. even while America was becoming what America became was used as a badge of honor or used to almost like sneer it back into the faces of the British. And Benjamin Franklin, and I love this about Washington Irving. I live in Terrytown, and Washington Irving, of course, is big. He was very, he was Benjamin Franklin later on, you know, whatever, 100 years later, because they always like to play around and be goofy. Well, Franklin had suggested, and it's always, you don't know if they're being serious or not.

He suggested instead of the eagle being representative of America, he suggested it should be the turkey. The wild turkey. Yeah, the wild turkey, yeah. Because they weren't afraid of the British. They almost, and the way they kind of strut around when they were. The wild turkeys were not afraid of the British. You know, there's a reason for that.

Yeah, because they didn't have Thanksgiving. They knew the doorway is going to cut them up and eat them. They're an exceedingly dumb bird. I don't know if you realize that. Well, frankly, turkeys are not that smart. Well, Franklin described them this way. They're a little vain and silly.

So they're not dumb. They're vain. And they like to... They're vain. Yeah, they're wind-eal. The idea of describing a wild turkey as vain. That's a little odd, I have to say. Well, hey, that was, don't blame me.

Blame Benjamin Franklin. Yeah. By the way, and the Liberty Bell, you know, of course, they rang the Liberty Bell on many occasions, of course, on the Fourth of July. but then when it cracked, nowadays, they would bring it 13 times in honor of the 13 colonies. That's what they did. But now that it's broken, they tap it, bing, bing, bing, 13 times. I guess it's still in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, but that's what they do instead of,

because they don't want to re-break or give another crack unto the famous Liberty Bell. Yes. Yes, nobody would want to do that. Okay, we're going to a break. folks, you should love this country. You should celebrate this country. July 4th is a sacred day. And we will continue talking about it and other things when we come back. Babe, I couldn't find the door. Couldn't even see the floor. I'd be sad and not for you. We are celebrating Fun Facts Friday for July 4th, ladies and gentlemen, which just happens to fall on a Friday.

And this year, of course, I'm in London. But, Albin, any other thoughts on July 4th? Any other fun facts about July 4th? Yeah, I got one really important. A great quote from John Adams, who I want to kind of close out my observations. And by the way, the candles have gone out, but not in my heart for this country and not in the heart of the country in general. That's my quote.

That's a beautiful birthday cake for the United States of America. It's a cake that looks like America. Thank you, Albin. You're welcome. So John Adams, we talked about him earlier, about him dying on the 50th anniversary. He wrote, this is great. This is what he said about celebrating July 4th. And we should remember this every July 4th, actually every day about this country and about, you know, the ones we love.

He said, it ought to be commemorated this day. It ought to be commemorated as a day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. So he's saying, think about this, folks. Think about this. Think about all the secular fools that try to, they pretend that we're not a Christian nation, that we weren't founded by Christians on Christian principles. You have innumerable cases. And I'm going to write about some of them in my book about the revolution. Inumerable cases. And Alvin has just mentioned an important one where they make it clear that they thank the God of the Bible for this. nation. And here you have the great John Adams days after this signing the Declaration of Independence writing to his wife, this now famous letter where he says this day should be marked in history with many things. But the first thing he says is acts of devotion to almighty God. That is so powerful. And I'm glad you reminded us of that, Alvin. Thank you. Yeah. And you know what's so great. I get, I'm on Sean Foyt's newsletter, and he's been on the show many times, Sean Foyd.

But he has brought his, taking his music with him and his group, and they've been singing at the White House. They've been singing in Congress. They've brought God back into the halls of America, the halls of, you know, our great country. And that's what was missing for four years, for example. Well, we're missing for a lot longer than four years, but it was definitely missing. missing the last four years. Right. And I have a very good friend, good Christian friend, who was kind of bragging that he went to the no-kings March. I couldn't believe it. As a Christian, he went to the no-kings March. What was that? A couple Saturdays ago? I haven't bumped into him yet in the last

couple weeks. But I'm going to say to him, you know what? Four years ago, did you go to the no-queen's march? Like, you don't want to have queens in the government during Biden's administration. He brought guys in with dresses. He was championing drag queens reading to kindergarten children. How about a no queens march? When you bring up the no kings march, which you shouldn't have even brought up because everybody's already forgotten it, it was so pathetic. Lame. I mean, it was the definition of grizzled, sad boomers with their little signs. Talk about being out of step. Anyway, oh, we've got only 30, 40 seconds left, Albin. Anything else to say about July 4th? Sorry. I just got to say, God bless America.

I like to say America is back and it's wonderful and we've got to keep praying. We only got a couple years before the next election and then four years from now. But as Christians, we've got to wake up. If anybody's going to wake up, it's Christians. We got to do it. There are many who don't get it, but there are more who get it. Praise God. And so, yes, folks, we want to say God bless America, that America in turn could be a blessing

to the whole world for God's purposes, not for our purposes, but we do want to say that. We want to say, God bless America, and that July 4th ought to be, just as the great John Adams said, a day with acts of devotion to Almighty God. So pray today, thank God for the nation. We're out of time, but we've got more, I think, in hour two. Don't go away.