The Eric Metaxas Show - Barry Meguiar

Episode Date: April 24, 2025

Barry Meguiar, host of Car Crazy and former President of Meguiar's Inc. joins the show 

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Welcome back, folks. It's hour two in a couple of minutes talking to my friend Barry McGuire. But right now I want to keep John Smirak here. John, so you said that Deborah Birx, you know, the woman with the scarf who stood there with Fauci. He's all around the country telling governors that to panic that they should lose their bladder control and panic and empty hospital beds as fast as possible. possible. I don't know. But you just said it was in order to justify mail-in ballots. Deborah

Berks was not doing it for that. Well, I don't know whether she was doing that for that. I don't have any evidence that she was doing it for that. I'm saying the only rational motive for taking hospital patients out of hospitals, not putting them on Navy ships, not putting them in Samaritan's purse, but putting them in nursing homes. There is no rational explanation for that other than you want to keep the COVID panic going as long as possible so that you can steal the election. Why? Why was pressure put on Pfizer not to announce the vaccine until after the election? In order to— Well, this is what I'm saying is like you've got a lot of stuff going on here, and I don't really doubt your thesis. I think you're right.

But the question is, who is behind this? Well, probably the same people behind the voting machines, the same people behind the fake kidnapping plot of Gretchen Whitmer. There are people whose names we will never know until the last judgment when their sins are unveiled and they are cast into the eternal fire. We won't know all their names. I don't know that Trump can get to the bottom of this. He should try to get to the bottom of it and putting Andrew Cuomo on trial. Maybe he'll testify. Maybe he'll say, who was the deep state operative who told him to do this. I will say this. Ezekiel Emanuel, who calls himself a bioethicist, he's the brother of Rahm Emanuel. He was Joe Biden's COVID policy czar, who has announced early on. Ezekiel Emmanuel has said publicly that no one over age 75 should receive antibiotics or any kind of medicine because life beyond age 75 has no. value. So there's no reason to save the lives of anyone over 75. This guy was COVID policy czar

during the Blue State Nursing Home genocide. Maybe he should be called to testify before Congress. I mean, first of all, the fact that Pam Bondi would refer criminal charges against former mayor, former governor and this is just huge news. I mean, I don't know if, but I was just stunned. I thought this is what we've been waiting for. This means little old Italian ladies have. have been praying and their prayers have come true. I want to thank those old donors who are saying the rosary in front of our Lady of Pompeii for praying that Andrew Cuomo face justice. Thousands more people need to face justice.

Anthony Fauci needs to face justice. Isn't it interesting that Fauci was given a pardon going way back to 2014? Why all the way back to 2014? Because Anthony Fauci helped create the COVID virus. Dick Cheney hired Anthony Fauci to start a bio-warfare program in response to the anthrax attacks in 2002, I think. And Fauci was developing these deadly viruses. Then finally, it was outlawed. There was a law saying you couldn't do this in the U.S.

So Fauci outsourced it to China, to Wuhan. So Anthony Fauci helped create the COVID virus. Then he used the COVID virus to imprison us in our homes and steal. and so the Democrats could steal the 2020 election. It sounds completely crazy, but it's all verifiably true. It's true. They created the virus in a lab. It was released.

They lied about how it escaped. They said it was from Chinese eating bat soup. They said it was from wet markets. They threw every piece of poop at the wall to see what would stick. And they censored and tried to destroy the careers of epidemiologists who told the truth. It took John Stewart on Stephen Colbert to say, I don't know if there's a chocolate spill in Hershey, Pennsylvania, maybe I'm going to look at the Hershey Chocolate Company and see if they had something to do with it. Well, the Wuhan Lab for creating bio weapons, and then there's a bioweapon in Wuhan. Oh, who would have thought? What are the odds of that?

Well, this is, I mean, again, where Pam Bondi's referral of criminal charges of former governor, Andrew Cuomo, he is now ostensibly running to be mayor of New York City. This is a very big deal. I guess I would like to know what was it that caused Pam Bondi to do this, because there's so much that we're hoping she's going to do. The fact that she did this is a very big deal. I hope there's more. But you wonder what it was that caused her to say, okay, now we're going to do this.

Well, maybe it's Eric. Maybe the Trump administration likes Eric Adams and doesn't. I want to see Andrew Cuomo beat him. And so has a political reason to do the right thing and get this public health criminal behind bars. I hope he sings like a bird, and we find out which deep state agent told him to flood nursing homes with infectious patients while keeping kindergarten's clothes. Remember, the beaches were closed.

You couldn't go have a drink in a bar because you might spread COVID, but the government was shipping COVID patients to nursing homes. If that's not a smoking gun, nothing is. And if you accept an innocent explanation of that, you should not be allowed access to sharp objects because you will injure yourself. I remember running, jogging, running.

There's nobody on the streets. And I think it was Madison Avenue or something like 100th Street. way up there toward Harlem. And a woman shrieked at me on the street. I mean, I'm on the street. It's like winter or March or whatever it was. Shriek, it's like, where are you bleeping mask?

And I stopped and I confronted her. I think I frightened her because I stopped. But I thought to myself, this is unbelievable. I'm running down a street. There's cars. There's hardly any people. The lunacy that was believed on us during this season. It was just, I'm like, when people did things at that to me, I fake sneezed on them.

And I said, it's okay. It's okay. I'm recovering. I'm recovering. But it's just so good, you are. I'm COVID positive, but I'm recovering. So it's okay. They ran.

It was so, it was priceless, arrogant. But you realize how frightened these people bought the lie so that they're screaming at strangers on the street for not wearing a mask. I mean, believe me, there was like the wind was blowing. There was nobody around. except this woman shrieked at me like I was in an elevator sneezing on people. And that's just one story. I mean, we're going to be to least. But the reason for people who don't believe in God,

don't believe in an afterlife, cling to this petty life in this veil of tears. They cling desperately, and they are terrified, terrified of the void of the abyss that faces them on the other side of the grave. And so when you create a society of people who believe, believe in Darwinian materialism who think that we are a cosmic joke, a cosmic accident, a fart in Darwin's bathtub. You create a race of cowards, people who won't fight in the military, who won't serve in the police, people who will hide in their houses to avoid the common cold. And it's a great way of demoralizing a country and making it fit for tyranny of the kind

that the former Joe Biden presided over for four years. As a Disney-anatronautronic dead president slowly running out of batteries. Which is what he was. I mean, it's, again, I can't believe we've lived through this. I can't believe when I try not to think about it because some of it's too painful, to think of the madness, to see little children wearing masks in a school yard. I thought, these kids, these are little kids with these things on their faces. It's so cool.

The same people doing that. The same people who put the masks on the kids were dumping virus patients in nursing homes. remember that they were the same people they knew what they were doing they knew exactly what they were doing and it was all about tyrannizing the world locking the world in its homes and stealing elections and imposing a permanent oligarchy with total censorship of the media not that there's anything wrong with that because i think that people have a right to tyranny uh but uh hey what are you going to do? You know what I mean? Let's agree to disagree. John, I'm sorry to say goodbye to you. In a few minutes, we've got my friend Barry McGuire coming on. John, just a joy to see you.

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Folks, welcome back. It is now my joy to speak to my friend Barry McGuire. Barry, welcome back to this program. You're always fun to talk to. Thank you. Thank you. We've been doing this for a few years. I was checking.

actually back when I went on the first time, I think it was like 15 years ago or something. I don't know. We've been doing shows for a while. That's not possible because we've been doing the show for 10 years, but I'm glad it feels like 15 years ago. When the Million Man March was on in D.C., and I checked that. It was something like 2012 or 13, but it was early on when we started. Anyway, we've been doing it for a while.

And I follow you and you're my hero. And Bonhofer, all the books are great, but your letter to the American church to me is still the quintessential book that pastors and Christians should be reading. We have to wake up. We have to start doing something. We can't just sit back and I'm afraid now with Trump in, we have a lot of you who are sitting back their armchair saying,

well, Trump's, okay, Trump's in. now we can go back and relax. You know what I've been saying lately? It's kind of like, it's kind of like, we think we're going to die, we think we're going to die, and then God parts the Red Sea, and we go, okay, we're done.

You're like, excuse me, now you have to run through the parted Red Sea. You've got to get off your rear end. Yes. Say, well, we're done. No, no, no, no. Now God has done his job.

Now you've got to do your job. You're going to do your job. And listen, there are many people listen to this program that have not read my book, a letter to the American church. And there are a lot of Christians in America that are not on this page.

So we've got to keep banging the drum. And so I want to, of course, talk to you about what you're doing and your new book. You've started this movement. You call it, well, the website is igniteamerica.com. Ignite America. So people who don't know you. Yes.

Even before I get into that, though, I should say, some people know the name McGuire because your family for well over a hundred years been in the Carwax business, McGuire Carwax. McGuire. With the poor, it's McGuire's, but yes. Since 1901, my granddad was a Christian and he prayed and it's a long story. It's a God's story of a very poor American family and trusting God. and it's amazing.

Just what you can do in America, anybody can do it, particularly when you're following God's lead, and he did that. And I had my parents, both sides of my family, my grandparents were godly, godly people.

My mother's mom and dad were pioneer preachers in West Texas and built churches all over the United States. So I have no excuse. I have heritage coming down on me. I've been taught well. And so I had an early start. And, you know, so I've been doing for a lot of years, Karen, I've been sharing our faith every day since we started in 1973, okay?

So it's 50 years of sharing our faith every day. People say, you're 80 years old. How can you have so much? Are you kidding me? We get to share our faith every day with people. And when you do that, it ignites your life. And that's the title of my book that I brought out, a gratuitous promotion of the book. There's nothing gratuitous about it.

It's why you're on the program because I want people to know your story. And the book is, Ignite Your Life, Ignite Your Life. And the website is igniteamerica.com. Now, you Barry, so people know your story. So your family was in this business, literally 120 years ago, started. Yeah, yeah. And 124 years ago.

I mean, it's an amazing story. how that it was a furniture wax and that they would use it on the carriages, the horseless carriages, and then, of course, cars that needed it, whatever. And so it becomes this business. And you are the quintessential car guy. You go to car shows. You've shared your faith because people know you as this quintessential car guy, but you brought your faith into that environment. Well, I really did. You know, I was sharing and kids. and we're taught early on, so, I mean, without going into all that,

but we were sharing our faith in having so much fun that even though God inspired me to go retail, we threw off the years, we buffed cars and body shops and dealerships. I was really good with a machine polisher and filthy, dirty body shots, buffing a car and making it look like a jewel. That's what we did, all our company life. And then God inspired me to go retail. And I said to God, you know, my favorite church are already is Proverge 3-5,

the lower with your whole heart and don't depend on your own understanding. I said, for me, this is easy. I have no understanding of the retail market. I don't have a clue. So trust you with a whole heart, it would be easy for me. But at the same time, I'm sharing my faith. And as he's working miracles starting and launch, we were actually launched into retail in 1973. And we're now the biggest brand in the whole business. But we launched in 73, nobody knew who we were. But we're also sharing our faith prolifically in 1973 to the point that by 1976, I thought God was going to lead me into full-time ministry and leave my family business. I'm the third generation leader. There's nobody else to lead the business. We had about 12 people doing about $600,000 a year in business. And so I

pray the most further prayer in my life. I've told you this story before, but I just say, God, what do you want me to do? I want me to go to ministry or business. And you're going to have to almost speak to me in an audible voice, so I'll know for sure. I just want to be where you want me to be. And about 20 minutes later, he set a guy by the name of Dave McNutt into my office. And I had never met him before. I knew him from church. I knew he's a missionary kid.

We never had any. We didn't even exchange a glance. And here he is in my office and asking me questions. And I'm telling him I share my faith. And he says, God's given you a wonderful ministry here, hadn't he? and I said, why would you say after I just prayed this prayer, not 20 minutes before, you know? He said, well, it's obvious that a pastor can't reach the people you're reaching. Folks, he's talking to all of us.

Pastor can't reach the people you're reaching, but as a businessman, you can. It's obvious that your business is your pulpit. And our crying a few days, wherever you are, that's your pulpit. You're in full-time menace. You can't get away from it. I'll tell me something right now, and you can't. You can't get away from the rest of your life. Everything you say and do for now until you see him face to face is moving everybody watching

you closer or further away from God. Everything from what you laugh at that you shouldn't be laughing at, what you look at, what you're indulging in, the language that comes out of your mouth, what happens when you're excited, all that. We're a whole package. And when you recognize that, you realize you're in full-time ministry, it changes you. and you do it not out of legalism, but you do it out of joy

because you have an opportunity to represent God. Seriously? At this moment in time, God's given us this gift to four years, hopefully, hopefully four years. We need to be running this race that Eric has put it out for so clearly to the church. But if you're listening to it, is just a Christian. This is what God's called us to do.

And my business is nothing. I just, I didn't make it my pulpit. It's not my, I shine for it. Jesus. It doesn't matter how many bottles of car waxing going to sell. That won't be mentioned in heaven. What will be mentioned is how many people are in heaven because of my influence or because of your influence? Nothing else matters. Everything you do today will have meaning, be meaningless in heaven except for those that you push a little closer to Jesus. Well, that's, see, that's, I mean, it's the reason I love you is because you get this. This is not, we're not

talking about being religious, folks. We're living your whole life in accordance with God's will. And of course, if you do that, it affects everything. It doesn't just affect politics or where you go to church. It affects everything. And so how you live your life in the business world, you know, on the soccer field, whatever, it all is speaking of what you actually believe. And if you actually believe Jesus is Lord and loves you and died for you and wants you to be with him in heaven forever, if you really understand that, not just in some religious way, but you really know it's true, it cannot help but change you. And I think the first thing that happened to me, I mean, I remember when I had my conversion in 1988, I wanted everyone to have what I had because I thought this is so wonderful. and I now know that this is the answer. Everybody's looking for answers in life.

Life is hard. This is the ultimate answer. This is going to lead you to all the other answers. And you have this kind of joy of wanting to lead people in that direction. And we're not all the same. We're not all going to do it in the same way. But understanding that that's God's will for us, we're going to go to a break here. But I want to remind you folks, I'm talking to my friend Barry.

McGuire. You may have heard of McGuire's car wax. We just talked about that. But the website is igniteamerica.com. And I do think, Barry, we're going to have national, I think we're at the beginning of national revival. Something's happening in America where people are standing. I believe it. Yes. What you're saying is that this is what it's all about. This doesn't mean we have to be talking about Jesus every second, but we have to be thinking about him and thinking about what is his will for me in this minute. Can I share him or something about him? Can I lead somebody a little bit closer

to capital P? So we'll be right back. We're talking to Barry McGuire. Welcome back, folks. It's here for Texas show. I'm talking to my friend Barry McGuire who is telling us about something kind of important, Barry. This is very important. You have

a book called Ignite Your Life. And you've just put out a book that's a devotional, called Live Ignited, Your Daily Nudge. Is that what you call it? That's it. You know, we all know what the Nudge is. Everybody watch this right now. They know what the Nudge is. The Nudge comes. It's the Holy Spirit, folks. Bob just found out he has cancer. I need to call him. But I don't know what I'd say. I, you know, I'm sitting next to somebody who's not a Christian and they're pouring out the

heart to me. It happens for all of us all the time. They're complaining and say i i should ask barbara if if she'd like me to pray but she'd think i'm a fool we have all these issues she's actually have a place on our website most frequent excuses there's about 12 different excuses we use to to not share faith but when you follow the nudge you live in the fog you live in the favor of god when you follow the nudge god's there that's the holy spirit and guess what you don't have to prepare it's not what you've been told We've all been told you've got to pray, you've got to prepare, you've got to memorize, you've got to recite it. Mark 1311 says, don't prepare.

Luke 12, 12 says, let the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit will give you the words to say. And so when you're doing it, folks, let me tell you something you may never heard before. But when you just love one, he says, no, you're by your disciple, but by your love, not by your Bible smarts and memorization and intellect. You just love on people. Everybody, the person next to you in line at Starbucks or in the Iowa at Walmart or in the waiting room or on the airplane, wherever you're at, people around your loss.

They're all lost. The absolute love is not hate. It's just people just don't care. They just don't care of that people are going to hell and we need to care. And we're their only hope. They're not going to church. Where are they going to go?

We're their only hope. I'd say we're America's only hope. We Christians is not happening in the churches today. Eric's got this great message and churches are popping up for the do of, but we don't have enough. But we're there. You're surrounded by non-Christians every day. And when you share your faith,

when you love on them, the Holy Spirit uses you, folks. And you just rely on him and he gives you the words to say. And that's intimacy with God. Right when you're speaking, you know that God has set this meeting up in the Walmart, or wherever you're at. And he's giving you the words to say and a person's life is changing and friendly.

That's intimacy with God. And there's a wonderful scripture in Isaiah. Isaiah 4310, he says, here's why I want you to share your faith. It's secondary to win the loss. Secondary, it's primarily to win you. Isaiah 43, listen to it. Isaiah 4310, I appoint you as my witness

so that you will believe. So you will understand. and know and believe that I am God. This is the final incident. It didn't say it to know more. This is when you know because you're representing you're experiencing. When you share this with me, I don't know, a couple of years ago, I thought, well, this is such a big point. So I don't want to glide over it. What you're saying, that that scripture, it's Isaiah 43.

43, 10. Okay. And it says, I've appointed you as my witnesses so that you. You will believe. You believe that why do I, why have I not had fear in years? We don't, we fear nothing because God's there and nothing can happen to me unless God allows it. Why? You know, I've been to the back, my back to the wall in many places.

I was dying in the hospital. I lost my daughter, Nicole, 49-year-old daughter. I mean, that's, I mean, can you just say a word about that? Because that most people think, oh, look at this guy, successful businessman. yacking about Jesus. He's never had any real problem. You and your sweet wife, Karen, whom we love, you guys lost your daughter. That to me is the ultimate. How do you deal with that without Jesus in your life? How do you deal with that? Well, I held the service myself. I knew half the people there would not be saved. They're car guys that love Nicole and me. And we're saying, well, used to smile. Is he smiling now?

And I get out there and I smiled. I wept. I still weep. Grieving's good. The more we love, the more we grieve. But you know what? She's in heaven. She's having a blast.

And if she's having a blast, why should I not have a blast? You know, she's in heaven. And I gave that message. You know, 20,000 people have watched the video of Nicole's funeral. 20,000 people. You don't watch a video of a funeral. you know but god used that and here's let me just say this right quick god's always there when he's always there he's promised that when you live for him he's always he's he's always there

and he makes everything work together for good Romans 828 that we all know but we don't repay that much sense to you this is powerful it might be the second most important scripture in the entire bible he says for now until you get to heaven i promise you everybody He's promising you. This is personal. I promise you I'll make everything in your life work together for good if you do two things. You love me? And you live your life for my purpose.

Well, what's his purpose? There's no argument. His purpose is he came to seek and save the loss. It really is going back. What's the most important commandment, teacher? And he says, love me and love your neighbor as yourself. And when you do that, you will fulfill everything. I require of you for your entire life.

Wait a minute. What about the 10 or the 100? No, no, you just do it. Why? Because if I love my neighbor as myself, everybody around us, if you do this, folks, their salvation is as important as yours. And at that point, everything I do,

I want to make sure I get them to heaven. So I'm not going to mess around and doing stuff and watch my language and indulgences and do all. I am going to love on them by everything I do. changes me, and that's when he says when you do that, you fulfill the entire law. We'll be right back, rocking at Barry McGuire. The website is igniteamerica.com.

Make like Mr. Milk toast, you'll get shot out. Folks, welcome back. Continue my conversation with my friend Barry McGuire. The book is Ignite Your Life. igniteamerica.com. And so, Barry, when you say ignite, there's so many people that I think that they would say, well, I'm a Christian,

but they're not living in the fullness of what that is. And you know and I know it is God's will for each one of us to live in the fullness of that. So when you talk about living this way, it's not just for those who don't believe, but it's to encourage those who do believe to believe fully, to live their life with the joy and the hope. That's the Lord's will.

And he wants to use us for them. And it's a powerful thing because I think there are many people that they would say they're Christians, but somehow they're not walking in freedom and in joy. I just want to say on the record, folks, it is God's will for you, that you appropriate everything he has for you. He loves you. and what you just said about the scripture, Barry, that famous scripture, Romans 828, I mean, think that God gives us this promise. He says, every horrible thing will work together for good for those that love me and are called according to my purpose.

He's with us, and he will use our difficulties. And we all have difficulties that I don't know anybody who doesn't. if you don't, it means you're very young and dumb, and you will. And if you have Jesus with you in it, it can become a beautiful thing, which is hard to believe, except it's true. Yeah, I tell me over there in the midst of turmoil, don't waste it. They'll say, what? Don't waste it.

This is your testimony. This is when, you know, I have a problem a little bit, Eric, because people say me as a businessman and a business of a pretty wife and cars, and they say, well, if I had what he had, they don't know what I've been through. You know, when I had my joint venture partner and I found out the next morning, he's going to throw me out of my business. I was 65 years old. Do you know the story? My life was over, 65. I couldn't restart. And he'd taken over my board. And he's throwing me out the next morning. And what did I do? I prayed it was the shortest prayer. It was easy. I say, God, I ask you for nothing. I did it the way I'm talking right now. I had, because I've been through it so many times,

just know he's there. I say, God, I ask you for nothing. You know I live for your purpose every day. It's not a gray air. That's what I do. Every day, I move everybody, every day closer to Jesus. And I know your promise is when I do that, you make everything work together for good. And as he's listening to my voice right now, I crawled into bed, I went to sleep immediately. I slept all night. I did not toss into her. I got the next morning excited for this worst moment of my life. and God turned it around about eight minutes. And they were cussing me. G, D, this, and this, they were so mad at me because they had me,

and then they didn't have me. And I had to laugh at God. I had nothing, but I had you. And that's all I needed. You are my majority. You've got it under control. How do we do that? By living for his purpose.

This is a part of life. It's the one thing you don't want to do. you don't want to share you I don't want to you know I don't want to it got that's Satan Satan doesn't want us to multiply he's got us at 10% of the population

he's happy to leave us there and keep us in fear and fears from Satan he's actually what's the word when you can sterilize this we can't reproduce because of fear and that's Satan doing that to you don't let him do that to you

step out of your box If you read our book, Good Night's Your Life, you'll see it. It's all about all the stories, how you go through it. He just love God and you seize every opportunity. And the miracle stories every day. John 1511 says, the last parable, the parable of the fig tree, the dry branches throw away, but the ones that bear fruit, ah, therein you're my disciple. And you know what?

My joy remain with you and your joy remain full. I'm 83 years old, folks. I've never had more joy in my life. And Garrett and both we just go and have fun. And now we're meeting people all over. If you go to Amazon reviews, book reviews on Ignat Your Life, you'll see hundreds of reviews, hundreds. They're all five-star.

And they're all saying, I have a brand new life. I didn't know I could do this like they have a new toy. They didn't know it. This is what he's called us. It's not an add-on. It's the one thing he's called us to do. because they'll ignite you. Well, see, this is what's amazing is that this is really, it is God's will for us to have joy.

Even when things don't go well, particularly. It wants us to have joy in the evil of that. And to say, you know what, if things are well with my soul, God will show me the way forward. And so, folks, you know, if you're not hanging out with Christians or going to a church that's walking in this, you're kind of missing something glorious, something beautiful. And I think that it's very important to be around that. I mean, it's one of the reasons I think books are important because if you read a book like the one that you wrote, Ignite Your Life, you think, oh, oh, what an amazing story. Oh, here's another amazing story. It kind of gets you thinking along the lines of like,

yeah, I kind of want that. I kind of want a life like this. I'm going to start beginning to have faith that God could do this and God could do that. And it gives me opportunities to, uh, to talk to people, to love people, and it's the only way to live, and we need to hear this over and over. This is not like, okay, I got it, and I don't need to hear about it again. It is a beautiful thing. So finding a good church, even being able to share with somebody, like you can, you know, when you say, oh, I go to Jack Hibbs's church. Do you know about Jack Hibbs' church in Chino Hills? To be able to lead somebody to say, here's a great place you might want to check out. You can check it out online. You can go there. But like to have that. We just Barry have one minute

left, please say whatever's on your heart. Go to Igniteamerica.com. There's a ton of resources. This is what God has called you to do. And we're running out of time. We may have four years. Who knows? This is the moment.

You need to run the race. When the Lord comes back, I want to be in stride, getting one more person into heaven. Eric's voice and my voice are exactly the same. He's more to the church. And I'm more to the individual. But with the very same message, It's not about anything else.

The one thing we're called to, and folks, when you get to heaven, the question is, the apostle Paul said to us, what will be my reward? What will be my reward? My crown when I get to him. It's you. It's those of you. I led to Jesus Christ. I led to heaven.

How many people will be in heaven because of your influence? That's the real question. What a joy. Well, I'm sorry about a time, but folks, you can go to the website, igniteamerica.com. The book is Ignite Your Life, and there's a new one, Live Ignited, your daily, Nudge. Barry McGuire, dear friend and brother, thanks for coming on this program.

You're awesome. God bless you, man. Thank you, folks. Welcome back. Before we go today, Chris, I just got a breaking message. It turns out, and I can't believe I'm

reading this, the Pope is still dead, and I just, we need to get to the bottom of this. And for me to make light of such a thing. Yeah. No, it happens. You know, it's like, as, you know, we just came off of Easter.

I've heard stories of people coming back, but in this case, it's not happening. So I saw a photo of the Pope in the coffin, I guess the Vatican released. And he seems certainly passed on. Well, you know, John Zmirak, in our, well, in both hours today, makes it very, very clear that the late Pope was not a friend to the Catholic Church, not a friend to the Christian faith. It's a bizarre thing to say that. It's so bizarre, but we're living in bizarre times. I don't know if you saw, I retweeted it on X because I just thought it was so funny.

Lawrence Fox, who's a friend, tweeted a picture of Trump wearing the papal, you know, the mitre and whatever. and he says it's time. And I said something like, you know, fact, there is nothing in the Constitution that says we can't do this. So I guess you have to laugh. But anyway, tomorrow. That's what I call a brain grenade just to make people's heads explode. Well, I try. I try.

Actually, speaking of following me on social media, I know most people follow me on X who listen to the program. but my Instagram account, I know I've mentioned it before, but I'll say it again, I am doing an Instagram account called Supercentennial. I have coined the phrase Supercentennial. The 250th anniversary celebration is supposed to be called semi-Quincentennial, which nobody's going to say. So I've coined the term supercentennial, and I have a supercentennial Instagram account where every day I or someone else, because we're getting others to do it, give you what happened today 250 years ago today. It's really, it's so informative. And I am learning a lot. Even though I'm writing a book on

the Revolution, there's stuff in doing research for this Instagram account that I have not yet bumped into until I was doing the research on what happened on that day and that day and that day. So today, April 22nd, if you go to the Instagram account, even if you go to my Instagram account, just Eric Metaxus. I collaborated on the reel so that you can see it. But what happened today, 250 years ago, involves Benedict Arnold. It's kind of insane. So check it out.

That's my Instagram account. And before we go for the day, tomorrow I think I mentioned we have Roger Kimball, who, man, he's the best. But before we go for the day, I want to mention the Herzog Foundation. At the heart of everything we're talking about is education, folks. You cannot, you know, even my supercentennial Instagram account is about educating Americans. If you know your history, you know, you can't really be a free self-governing people unless you know your history and you know how it works. You're not going to get that in public schools.

So the Herzog Foundation is the ultimate resource for you if you want to do homeschooling, which I highly recommend, mostly recommend. or if you want to do classical Christian schooling or classical Christian education, you know, genuinely Christ-Centered genuinely K-12 education, the Herzog Foundation, they are the best resource for you. And they are a foundation. They're there to help you. So it's Herdsug Foundation.com. They also have another website with all these great articles called Reed Lion, R-E-A-D-L-I-O-N,

readlion.com. Every parent, I would think, with school-age kids should know about the Herzog Foundation and should check out readlion.com, R-E-A-D-L-I-O-N.com. Please find me at ericmataxis.com. Thanks for listening. We'll talk to you tomorrow.