The Eric Metaxas Show - Ask Metaxas

Episode Date: December 20, 2023

By popular demand Albin Sadar returns to studio for a new Hour of "Ask Metaxas" 

Folks, welcome to the Eric Metaxus show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit legacy p.m.investments.com. That's legacy p.m. Investments.com. Welcome to the Eric Mettaxas show. When Eric was a kid, he won a contest to ride on one of Santa's flying reindeer. Well, the experience was so amazing that Eric decided to change his middle name to that special reindeer.

Now, please welcome. the man who loves soaring to new heights, Eric Blitzen Metaxis. Hey there, folks. Back by popular demand, my friend Albin Sater. Albin, welcome. Oh, they're so great to be back, Eric. Okay, so you are here, you're back by popular demand,

but also back by popular demand. That segment we used to call Ask Mataxis, and which we now call Ask Metaxus. You'll notice a subtextus. difference. If you do, I'd like you to tell me about it, because it sounds very similar to me. But back by popular demand, Ask Metaxus, and back by popular demand, Albin Sater. Now, Albin, people say, where's Albin been, what's he been doing? And I never mentioned publicly the breast reduction surgery, because my attitude is that's private. It is. That's between you

and your surgeon and your current wife. What's her name? Ann? How many years you guys got? We go just over 15. 15. 15. And by the way, I understand why you had the surgery. You look fabulous. Thank you. Let me also say that when people say, what's going on with Albin, you wrote a book. I did. And the title of the book should be obvious.

In fact, the title of the book is obvious. The title of the book is literally obvious. Now, if people are watching this program, they can see me holding up the book and they can see that the title is in fact obvious. And it's a great book. It's so great that I begged you. to write the forward because I wanted my name associated with this, just the way anybody would want to be associated with war in peace or a tale of two cities or any classic work.

And this book, folks, is obvious. And the subtitle is Seeing the Evil That's in Plain Sight and Doing Something About It. So I want to talk to you about some of the stuff that's in the book because it's so delightful, Albin, but we have a job to do. We do. We're going to do Ask Metaxus, the quirky question edition. are you ready for a little quirkiness? Yeah.

All right, Albin, you play the role of interlocutor, and I'll play the role of metaxus. Just for the holidays. Okay, question number one, why does your beard and head hair keep growing, but your arm, leg, and chest hair doesn't? Why does your beard and head hair keep growing, but your arm and leg and chest hair doesn't?

No. Well, I'm stymied by that question because my arm and leg and leg chest hair is constantly growing. It's growing right now. And I, the money that I have spent in trying to, you know, to groom those things, because I once let it go as a teenager. And I tell you, it was, it was a freakish, Sasquatchy kind of season in my life. And I, I, in high school, they called me the skunk ape because a lot of people said I was a junior Sasquatch. And so, so the question is confusing to me. I just assumed that

most people that their arm and leg and chest hair like mine continues to grow. Well, that's what's funny. When you cut it off, it'll grow back, but it'll only grow to that same length again. But your head hair, it keeps going, keeps going. But I'm here to tell you that's not the case with me. Oh, okay. No, it's not the case with me. And I don't know what maybe there's just some kind of freakish mutation, but that question doesn't apply to me. So therefore, I reject it. So let's go to the next Next question.

Hair reduction surgery. That's what I'm going to suggest. Thank you. Okay, second question. If you're wearing Bermuda shorts when you fly over the Bermuda Triangle, will they suddenly disappear? I think we've had this question before, but it is quirky, which is why it's included in the quirky question edition of Ask Metaxus. And again, the question is, if you're wearing Bermuda shorts when you fly over the Bermuda Triangle, will they suddenly disappear? I would say potentially, yes.

Now, most people don't know that Bermuda shorts, you can get genuine Bermuda shorts in Bermuda. I forget the name of the place, but it's a famous place. The one time that I went to Bermuda, my host said, you've got to go there to get genuine Bermuda shorts. And since then, I have almost exclusively worn genuine Bermuda shorts from Bermuda. They're very nicely cut. Good. And they are, they kind of have a classic look to them. And the only thing is that I think I wasn't wearing them when we flew over the Bermuda

Triangle. So if they disappeared, I didn't notice. Right. Question number three. If there is no life after death, how would you know when you've died? Well, I think that's an easy question. If there's no life after death, you wouldn't know when you've died. Right.

you wouldn't be able to look back and say, wait a minute. I just, what happened here? There's so much evidence of, you know, I got to be honest. Honestly, honestly, honestly, honestly, there is no doubt that there's life after death. We don't have time to go into it right now. But the idea that some people seem to have in a day fix in their mind that when you die, there's nothing, I think there's infinitely more evidence that there is. something. But we don't have time, so I will simply say to the answer to that question,

you won't. Question number four, if Bill owes Mary a dollar and Mary owes Mike a dollar and Mike owes Elise a dollar and Elise owes Cassandra a dollar and Cassandra owes Bill a dollar, is it okay for Bill to just keep his dollar and everyone can be satisfied that they've all been paid back? That's a math question, if you will. I got to be honest. I got to be on. honest. I got like a 660 on the math. No, I got a 700 on the math SAT. I was

good at math in the late 70s and then it all went away. So I don't have an answer for that. Question number five. Why twos up, down, back forth, in out, over under big little two sides of the same coin,

two halves of the face or body, two sexes. All of life is based on twos. Why? Actually, it says why, Eric, why? And there are two whys in that. Wow. Yeah. I think I think that's a silly question. It's not just a quirky question, but it's also a silly question. And I don't, so I also don't have an answer for that. I'm finding myself stymied by these. Whoever wrote these questions, you've stymied me. You stumped me and you've stymied me. Question number six. Where does the dark go when you turn on the light?

Well, most people don't know the answer to this question. I do. I don't think I've ever revealed it on the air before. But there is a small cul-de-sac in Paramus, New Jersey, and most of the dark goes there when you turn off the light. Now, I cannot get into the details, but if you want to look it up. It's in a lot of reference books, and I believe the internet can clarify that. Google it. Okay, why do your lips bend up when you're happy and when you're sad, your lips bend down? Why? You know, I can't explain it. For me, it's an involuntary thing. I don't choose for my lips to go up when I'm happy. But I will bet you that God, you know, because we're made in God's image and because God invented us and created us, that there is something

deeper to that. But once again, I feel utterly stymied and stumped and bamboozled and buffaloed and horn swagled by that question. But it is true, though. Do you have an answer for that? No, no, but that's what So may as. It's universal. They smile with the up and they frown with the down. It's so weird. Why wouldn't other cultures you're like, I'm frowning? No, no, I'm happy. You know that? I don't know either.

I don't know. It's kind of weird that you could, that some people believe that you could be born in the wrong body, but this is a constant. That's kind of interesting. Okay. Last question. This is an important one. What code should everyone use when shopping this Christmas at my pillow and my store.com? And nutrometics.com.

That's right. Oh, that's right. Still. Okay. Folks, actually, this is the most important question of all. Probably. And I believe all the other questions. are leading up to this most quirky and important of all questions.

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Every one of those codes, I promise you, should be spelled E-R-I-C, mypillow.com, my store.com, neutromedics.com. We're out of time. Thank you, Albin. Folks, right now in other parts of the world, people's lives are being threatened simply for believing in Jesus. People have been enslaved for their faith. So listeners to this show know that I'm passionate about the work of Christian Solidarity International because they protect and free those who are being persecuted and enslaved for their Christian faith. I've got to thank you for your life-changing generosity for years now. If you've given a CSI through this program, you have played a role in freeing literally thousands of captives. So as we near the end of this year, can I ask you to give once again

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Albin, welcome back. I am glad to be back here. I dusted the cobwebs off my seat, and now I'm sitting pretty. I got to tell you, also back by popular demand, ask metaxus. It's a segment we used to do on the program. We used to call it Ask Metaxus. And now we've decided to call it Ask Metaxus into the future, because it sort of sums up the theme of the segment, Ask Metaxus.

People write in, they write in questions. You ask the questions. taxes. I try to answer the question. So what do you have for us? Well, here's question number one from the folks out there. Where do you buy your suits? Okay, I buy my suits at a different place than I buy the book obvious by Albin Seder. Wow. Yeah, you see this book? This has nothing to do with where I buy my suits. I want to be very clear about that. And it's a great book. Now, it's interesting because part of people in America no longer knowing how to dress or being confused about it, and becoming increasingly casual,

means that they don't even have a vocabulary to understand particularly men's clothing. And so people, often when I'm wearing a sport jacket, like I'm wearing today, they will say nice suit. Yeah. And I think, well, it's not a suit. It's a sport jacket. A suit is a jacket and matching pants.

And I really don't own many suits because, you know, typically I'm going places where I don't need to wear a suit. But where do I buy my suits? Many, many different places. I don't know where I'm going to buy my suits in the future, but a really good friend of mine, it's hard to believe this is true,

but Mimo Spano, Domenico Spano, who's passed away this past year, he was a legend in the world of men's suits, just a legend. Mimo Spano, Domenico Spano. And I had the privilege a number of years ago of buying a few suits from Mimo. And so the ones that are really beautiful tailor-made suits, the only ones that I own, were made by Mimo Spano.

Wow. But the short answer to that is I buy a lot of things on eBay because I feel like, you know, clothing can be expensive. And I don't know, on a radio salary and on the salary of a book author, You can't really buy, you can't just go to some place and get bespoke suits. But I, so I buy a lot of things. I do buy a lot of clothes off of eBay. Yeah.

And since I'm, my size is a 50 long, it's hard to find stuff. But anyway, yes, thank you. You're doing a segment on Socrates Plus, right, about the gentleman and bringing back the gentleman thing and the suits and the ties and the whole nine yards, right? Actually, Socrates Plus, people can go to. Socrates in the city plus.com. We are going to be in some of these episodes venturing into menswear because I actually think it's an important thing. Yeah.

Yeah, great. You, Eric, do so much good for America and Christianity. Are you hopeful? Wow. Well, I mean, I think, first of all, that's a very kind comment. I don't know if it's exactly true, but I think that, listen, anybody who understands what we have in America must know that it is his responsibility and duty to try to keep the republic, to try to keep the freedoms that we have. And I feel that just by dint of understanding

some of those things, I want to do everything I possibly can. And, you know, Christianity, I don't do anything for Christianity. I do, I hope, everything for Jesus. And I really think that it's just a joy. I feel like I don't deserve to know God. I don't deserve to have relationship with God. I don't deserve to live in a country like America. These things are just the greatest gifts you could get. And of course, nothing could compare to the gift of knowing God. And I, it gratifies me that people would say something like that. But in terms of whether I'm hopeful, we're commanded to be hopeful no matter what. In other words, I think that God himself is our hope, even when things are very bad, even when things are difficult, our hope is in him.

And I think there are a lot of people that don't get that, a lot of people that don't have a personal relationship with him. If you have a personal relationship with the God of the Bible, your hope is in him. It's not about, it's not in what he can do for you. It's not in turning things around. Ultimately, you want to turn things around when they're going badly, as they are in America and around the world. But ultimately, our hope is in him. And if our hope is in him, then we can dare to hope that the God of miracles really can wake us up and help us turn things around for the better. So I'm hopeful on a number of levels, and I exhort others to be similarly hopeful. John 1-5, the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.

Hey, that's a last quote in my book anyway. That's in the book called Obvious by Alvin Seder. Alvin, honestly, you've got so much stuff in there. Now, John, the Apostle, he gets no royalties. You ripped him off, he used his quote, and he gets no royalties from that. But his descendants are going to be suing you. The light shines. This is the last part of your book.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1-5. I end on a hopeful note in the book. Sayeth the Lord. Yes. Question number three, what do you make of this union between the radical left and radical Islam in their hate for Israel? Well, it's pretty simple. I think that if you're ultimately animated by demonic forces, you're going to hate the people of God. You're going to hate God's chosen people. You're going to hate the God of the Bible. And I think that what we're seeing rather clearly in a way that we haven't in the past, we're seeing how the enemies of God are uniting in their hatred. of Israel and the Jews. And it's a clarifying moment. I have to say, it's a wonderful,

clarifying moment. When you see clearly the evil, there's something good in that, because then you can fight the evil and you can understand what it is. But ultimately, it's a spiritual hatred of God. It's not particularly logical. Yeah. The next question, how do you personally discern when God gives you a task to do? Well, that's a tough question, because I think that all of us are always tasked by God to do things. And so the first thing you want to say is what does the Bible say? You don't need to get a special delivery. Hey, Eric, you know, don't kill anybody, don't lie, don't commit adultery. You don't need to hear from God on that because he's already spoken on that and it's in the Bible. So the first thing I want to be clear is you don't need to hear from God on

most things. Most things, what to do, what not to do, you can get it from the Bible. Now, you also need people to help you interpret the Bible correctly, and you need discernment. There are people, this is why I say to people, you have to have a personal relationship with God. If you don't, the Bible can just be a bunch of dead words that are not animated by the Holy Spirit. And you know what? The devil quoted the Bible in the wilderness. People can quote the Bible for evil ends. And so I think you have to When you read the Bible and as you walk through life, you have to ask God continually to reveal himself to you and to guide you so that when you're reading the Bible or when you're hearing a sermon, you're hearing what God is saying and you're not getting some twisted version of it. Because there are plenty Christians today going to churches or hearing Christian leaders who are not saying what God is saying.

Now, they give lip service to the Bible or to God, but we have to remember that the enemies of God, the ones who sought to kill Jesus and killed him, they were the most religious people of the day. Yeah. And so you can be quoting the Bible and think you're right and you're doing the work of the devil. So you have to have a personal relationship with the Lord, and you really have to humbly ask God to give you wisdom and discernment and to surround you with people who are saying what God really is saying, because we can all be deceived. Let's go with a lighthearted question. Are you coming back to Pittsburgh? Never. Oh, come on. That's my hope, Tom.

When I was last in Pittsburgh, and I said it, I think I said it on this program, I said it on Instagram. Pittsburgh is such a gem of a city. But, I mean, no kidding. Yeah, it is. It is a gem of a city. And I loved being there and all, I mean, I have to get invited back. But there are a number of churches in the Pittsburgh area that I've been in touch with. So I'm certainly, by God's grace, coming back to Pittsburgh.

go to Ericmetaxis.com. My schedule is always there. It's constantly updated, but I'll be doing a lot of speaking in the spring. So the answer would be yes. Go to ericmataxis.com for the details. And the author of Obvious is originally from Pittsburgh. And the author of Obvious is from Pittsburgh.

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Welcome back. You didn't expect it. But Albin Seder. Here I am. Is with me. He is now the author of Obvious. And Albin, you came up with something, and I just said, we've got to do some segments that are called What Boils My Potato?

Yes. What ticks me off? What gets under my skin? Chaps my hide. Whatever. Got it. What boils my potato? Now, that's original to you, the phrase.

Well, it actually came from a Simpsons episode, but I thought, you know, this is perfect for this kind of things. You know, it's something that gets my goat in. Boy, it's my potato. Now, who said that Grandpa Simpson? Yeah, so it was like a woman that's actually used in a nice way. She looked at some good-looking guy and said, oh, he really boils my potato. Okay, now that, but that's a different, I mean, even though you phrase, this is what hacks me off. That's right.

What boils? That really chaps my potato. Okay. Alvin, let me ask you the question, if you don't mind. Okay. What is it that boils your potato? Okay, this is the first thing that ever boiled my potato. I'm going to repeat it here.

It's the way, because I see it all the time, and everybody sees it. School bus. It says right on a big yellow bus. It says school bus. Now, are our kids that dumb that they don't see a bus come by, and it says school, that they don't know that's the bus for them? It has to say bus. Like, oh, it says school.

Oh, it's a school bus. Oh, okay. I mean, FedEx. It doesn't say FedEx truck. And these big building. in Washington, D.C., they actually do this. It says, you know, official office building. It'll say building.

It'll say like Hoover Building. Yeah. And it's a big giant stone structure. That's a building. And it's telling you that it's a building. It's in stone. They write it in stone. It's like instead of it just saying milk, it says milk carton.

That's right. How stupid is that? You know something, Alvin? Yeah. Very few things boil my potato to the extent that what you've just mentioned boils my potato. It does. I want to tell you, these things boil my potato

too. Honestly, the idea that a building says, you know, J. Edgar Hoover, FBI building that's... It's not Jay Edgar Hoover. We know it's not him. You know, it's like saying like, just to be clear, this is not Jay Edgar

Hoover. This is his building. This is just a building named after him. Yeah. Okay, now, I want to tell you something what boils my potato, because you just made me think of it. Now, folks, you think I'm making this one up. Some of you know I'm not making this up. This is just unbelievable. think I've seen this in taxi cabs.

I think I've seen this on the screen on a plane when I'm on a plane. Yeah. And I'm not making this up. In tiny letters, in tiny letters, it says, if you are visually impaired, Oh, gosh. Click here. And I'm not joking. It's so tiny.

And it says, if you are visually impaired. click here, and I thought, ladies and gentlemen, if I were visually impaired, there's no way I would be able to read the sentence if you are visually impaired. What genius, what genius came up with that, and what geniuses have allowed it to continue? I mean, talk about something that boils my potato on behalf of the visually impaired. Okay. Here's another thing.

this happens all the time to me and to others. You know, when you trip accidentally, and then somebody says, watch your step, if you would have told me that, like, one second earlier, I wouldn't have tripped. So don't think you're, oh, I'm doing you a favor. Watch your step. No, you're not, that's, you know, virtue sync link, like a nice guy.

It's also, it's kind of like saying Gizzena when somebody sneezes, they're kind of giving you this kind of general, you know, it's not, the only problem is it feels a little bit like I told you, you so? Yeah, that's right. It feels ungracious, like watch your step. But I think what they're saying is be careful, generally speaking.

Be careful. So that doesn't boil my potato in the way these other things do. But thank you for pointing it out. Well, now here's a woman that actually wrote in. She's a fan named Eleanor. Now, I'm not going to say anything more about Eleanor, because we only have one fan at a show named Eleanor, and everybody knows who that is.

Okay. But she wrote this one is as a boils her potato. When someone bumps into you, let's say, on the street, and they say, my bad. Instead of saying, I'm sorry. Just say, I'm sorry. You bump into somebody. I'm sorry.

Not, my bad. I don't like that. I hate the phrase, my bad. It's just pathetic. And that also boils my potato. So in these my boils my potato segments, I just want to weigh in when something particularly also boils my potato. Okay.

That is, the proper thing would be to say, excuse me, I'm so sorry. Yes. My bad is, I mean, you're making an effort, but it's such a small effort that it's almost insulting. So my bad is, it's part of the decline of culture and ladies and gentlemen. And to add to that, what boils my potato is when people say thank you and the answer is, the rejoinder is no problem. I want to be clear that is incorrect. When somebody says, thank you, you should say you're welcome. Now, memorize this.

I know it's tough because it's two words in a row. That's right. You're welcome. Thank you. You're welcome. You can also say, my pleasure. But when somebody says thank you and you go, no problem, that just reads to me as sloppy. Yeah.

And consequently, it boils my potato. There you go. Now, this one, you'll hear a lot in sports, literally and figuratively, and you'll appreciate this as an English major. He literally lost his head on that play. No, he figuratively lost it. His head didn't separate from his shoulders. Okay? It's like Fun Facts Friday Boils My Potato.

We don't literally boil a potato. It's a figure-tip expression. Again, this is the client of civilization, and folks, you're either part of the problem or you're part of the solution. But you need to understand the meaning of the word literally. And by the way, if English is your first language, you're responsible for English words, literally is one of them. So when you say, you know, it literally blew my mind.

what you are saying is it genuinely, literally blew your mind. We know that didn't happen because you wouldn't be talking if it blew your mind. So people sometimes think literally means like extremely, like it's a modifier. It doesn't mean what you think it means if you're misusing it. All right, we're at a time. This has been a boils my potato segment with Albin Seder. We'll be back. Tell me why Relief Factor is so successful at

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Hey there, folks, welcome back. As you know, now and again, Albin Seder comes on the program to do a What Boils My Potato segment. This is a what boils my potato segment in which we discover what it is that boils your potato, or boils one's potato, or if you don't know what boils, my potato means, we're speaking figuratively. We are. We're speaking about things that tick you off,

that get under your skin, that put a bee in your bonnet. Yeah. So, Albin, since this segment is a boils, what boils my potato segment, let me ask you, what is it, Albin, that boils your potato? Well, some of these things are obvious, and of course, my new book is out now obvious,

and I just want people to know that. You can get it at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. The title of the book is obvious. It should be obvious. and it actually is obvious. Yeah, so that shouldn't boil anyone's potato. This one actually is the biggest one for my wife. This is going to be like a family edition here.

My wife really gets on me when I get this wrong and other people, fewer and less. Here's an example. One time, someone was on the platform and I said, hey, and there's fewer people here than yesterday on the platform, going into taking the train in. She said, it's not fewer, it's less. There are. No, no, you've got a back. the other way around. That's right. I got it. I'm so glad I was thinking like, wait a minute,

you're saying it right. I'm saying it right. I said there were less people on this platform than yesterday. And she said fewer. It's a number. It's a number is fewer. You know, if my wife would dare to correct me that way in public, that's the end of our marriage, folks. No, in all seriousness, that's called love. It might have been under our breath. That's, that's called love when we as spouses, you know, we bless each other, we help each other, right? So here you have a wife who gets this. right? And she's saying that when it is a number, we say fewer. Yeah.

Right? We don't say less. Less is an amount. Now, you can understand why people would say there are less people here today. Yeah. So it's not like there are certain cases where it would be very wrong. In the case of when you said it, it's technically wrong. You should say there are fewer people.

Right. But it's good. I think here's the key. It's important for people to be aware. of what they're saying. And I think that we get very sloppy. We've become increasingly casual as a culture when it comes to how we speak

and how we dress and in every way. And I think being aware of the words we're speaking, and that's a classic case, to be aware of whether one says fewer or less. And so if it's a number, we say fewer. There are fewer people here today than there were yesterday. Less would be the amount.

Right. And you don't really think of people in terms of a mount because it's, you know, it's a number of people. Yeah. But unless they're really heavy. But I also wrote this down. The last verse of Amazing Grace does this wrong. It goes like this. When we've been there 10,000 years bright shining as the sun, we've no less days to sing God's praise.

And when we first begun, we have no fewer days. I'm waiting for my way to yell out in church. This was written in the late 18th century. and word usage changes over time. So we're going to have to give John Newton and others a pass on that. We have to give them a pass because word usage changes over time. Except for one thing. I think that last verse was actually added.

I don't think it was a John Newton verse. You know, I was just going to say that. And if it was recent, like as even within the last 50 or 60 years, they used the wrong. You know what? I'd love to. Now I want to know. Yeah. Because there, somebody I can't think.

of it. It's not Matt Redmond. Who is it that wrote a new version of Amazing Grace and they added, and like a flood his mercy rains. And that phrase, that actually slightly boils my potato. Like a flood his mercy rains. I'm thinking like a flood his mercy

rains. It seems like they're going halfway for a pun on rains and flood. And also like a flood, his mercy rains. It's, you don't think of a flood reigning in a positive way.

Like a flood is a natural disaster. So since we're criticizing the lyrics to recent versions of amazing grace, I just thought I'd weigh in. Okay. Yeah. Now here's another one. I actually didn't write this one down, but I remembered it. And when I shared it with my nieces and nephews, apparently it's universal. When we were growing up, if I was a little kid and I was unhappy, and my dad came home and it was like, and we weren't allowed to go out and play for some reason,

I'd say to my dad like, she didn't let us go out and play. And my mother would always say, she has a name. Like you couldn't use the pronoun, which is funny, because today pronouns are very big. But its mom didn't let me go out to play. It was never the pronoun for. I'm actually very glad you said this because this is very important. And it's not that this necessarily boils my potato, but this is actually very important. And I want, well, this is actually important.

And many people make this mistake often, and I want to say right now, if someone is with you, you never refer to them in the third person. You don't say he or she if that person is with you. You refer to them by name. So if there's a group of four people and you say, you know, she was saying whatever, it can come across as rude, right? So you want to say Betty or Veronica or Archie. or Jughead, because it comes across as rude. So if a person is with you, you don't refer to them in the third person. You don't refer to them by their pronoun.

Now, a lot of people do it. They don't mean anything by it, but it's wrong. It can come across as rude. And so I want to say that you should not refer to somebody by a pronoun if they're actually there. It's kind of acting like they're not there, like it's being a little rude. Yeah, yeah. I think it diminishes, even what they said. If you say, he just said a very good point.

But if you say, like, Eric just made a very good point, it's like Eric. Oh, that's Eric's point. It's not just he, this general person, made that good point. The other boils my potato. And I know this boils your potato. No, we've only got like 40 seconds. I know. If people go to my pillow.com or my store.com and they don't use the code Eric, that boils your potatoes.

I think perhaps nothing. Nothing. Boils my potato to the extent that this does. Yeah. If you go to my store.com, if you go to MyPillow.com, and you don't use the code Eric, folks, if you want to boil my potato, that would be the easiest way to do it. Please tell your friends during the holiday season, this program needs your help. Mike Lindell desperately needs your help. Go to MyPill. Go to MyPill. Go to MyStore.com. Use the code, Eric. And don't forget to check out obvious and hamster homes this holiday season, too, at Amplead.

And it's spelled S-A-D-A-R, Albin-S-D-A-R. That's right. S-A-R. The book should be titled obvious. Unfortunately, it is. Albin, thank you. Thank you. Folks, welcome on the show.

You know at this time of year, we partner with CSI, Christian Solidarity International, to actually free slaves in Sudan. Todd Chapman is with us to talk about. And Todd, you were saying off the air about the timing with Israel, right now. Yeah, I just think I was thinking about this this morning as I was watching the news. I think all of our eyes have been fixed these recent days on the war that's happening between Israel and Hamas, but also these, you know, what was going to happen with all of these hostages

with these captives. And thankfully, in the past few days, we've seen some of the begin to be freed. And I couldn't help Eric, but think that, you know what, there are freedoms of people. being that have been slaved for decades now happening every year. And I'm not minimizing. I'm celebrating actually what's happening in Hamas right now. But by the very token that we're rejoicing that these women and these captives have been set free, we also want to remind you that you have an opportunity to participate in freeing people that have been captive for 20, 30 years now in North Sudan. And that's what CSI does every year. So I just think the timing of this is really great. But it was not lost on me that while, you know, the Hamas situation,

is getting all of this newsplay. Tens of thousands of slaves are freed nearly every year by Christians in another part of the world. And the freedom on both sides is just equally as beautiful. But I just thought that was a good reminder that what we're doing here is absolutely significant. And even though it may not be played out of the mainstream media, God sees what his children are doing. And God rejoices and he fuels us and funds us to do this work. And so just wanted to offer that as a kind of a different camera angle on what we're inviting our listeners to do today. That's a good way of putting it. And I have to say, you know, the older you get, the more you realize the mainstream media

is a joke. Like they cover what they cover. And there's just an infinity of stuff that they don't cover. They don't cover this. This could be in the news every single day. There are people enslaved for years and years and years. Today, in 2023, there are slaves today. And you think the whole world would be talking about what can we do to get

them out. This is insane. We can't let this happen in this day and age. Is there anything we can do about it? Right. Not a peep. Obviously, on this program, we talk about it because we know about it. And when you know about these things, I hope you talk about them. But I want to encourage my audience. Tell your friends about this. People are thinking, well, you know what? What do I give for Christmas? What do I do? Let me tell you, folks, when you realize that $250 can free a human being from slum, slavery in Sudan. This is a reality. They're living this right now while we're talking on this program, while you're going

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