The Eric Metaxas Show - Braeden Sorbo

Episode Date: May 9, 2025

Braeden Sorbo author of Embrace Masculinity: Lifting Men up in a World That Pushes Them Down, joins us to discuss masculinity and culture from the Gen Z perspective.  

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That's because it's Hour 2. But I continue, it is similar in some ways. For example, I'm still here, and Larry Taunton is still here, and we're still talking about Vladimir Putin. In a few minutes, we're going to talk to my friend Braden, Sourner. Norbo in a few minutes. But Larry Taunton, while we have you here, I am fascinated at this moment because the lies of the neocan globalist monsters to talk about Russiagate, to make this thing up, really to divide us, to divide Trump from Putin. We could have had some reproachement. Maybe I would think, maybe I'm naive, but I don't think so, that it would be,

possible to influence Putin in a good direction. They couldn't care less. They're very happy to have him isolated. I wonder if Trump will find a way forward, as I keep saying. I think that there's potential there in a way that I don't think there is much potential with, for example, the Chinese communists unless something happens over there, unless they struggle in a way that they're open to being influenced? I don't know because Putin, Putin is far more secure in power now than he was, you know, at the period we're talking about when he first became president in 2000. And he's now entrenched, literally, his forces are entrenched in Ukraine. And when I see Zelensky saying that there will be no peace while a square inch of Ukraine is occupied,

by Russia, I'm thinking you're not living in reality because you're not driving them out. It's not going to happen. And so what Ukraine, what Russia has that's formerly Ukrainian, and they would say, well, no, it was formerly Russian. It is Russian again, is they want that warm water port, which is Crimea, and the land bridge, which is eastern Ukraine, that allows them, to get to Crimea. How much Putin is willing to negotiate, I'm not entirely sure, but I think Putin is wagering, and I think rightly, that the United States is not willing to go to war on behalf of Ukraine, at least certainly not under Trump.

And because Ukraine is not a NATO member, Article 7, I think it's Article 7, does not apply, which says that if any NATO member is attacked, other NATO members must come to, you know, the aid of, you know, so Ukraine doesn't fall into that category. And I think Putin is going, what's the likelihood that the United States is going to fight a war halfway around the world with a nuclear power? I'd say zero. You explain to me. I've asked a number of people, I cannot for the life of me understand with the Soviet Union gone, why does NATO exist. I feel like they are persecuting people in England for saying the wrong thing. In other was, the lack of freedom that existed in the Soviet Union. Well, our friend Lawrence Fox,

the fact is that there used to be, you know, let's say it's 1950, it's 1960. Okay, the Western powers in Europe, we share some things, and we are fundamentally at odds with the totalitarian monsters in the communist superpower of the Soviet Union. So I understand this is NATO. We are in NATO. When the Soviet Union goes away, and again, I've asked a number of people on the program, I really don't understand what is NATO at that point. Why do you need NATO at that point?

To stand against what? To stand against China? Well, that would make sense, but we're not talking about standing against China. What are we talking about? Well, the narrative has been, and hence the existence of NATO, it's been the narrative of a resurgent Soviet Union, of a resurgent Russia, that has been used as a boogeyman to justify the continued existence of NATO. and you can well imagine that weapons manufacturers in the United States, they want NATO to exist.

That's big business for them, and they're a powerful lobbying arm. But I'll also say that there are people of the George Soros mindset that want NATO to exist because they're using NATO, not as a defensive organization, which is what it was established for. They're using it to advance a globalist agenda. that's their intention to turn NATO into a left World Economic Forum type of organization. And Putin had said all along, again, in this, I don't think Putin is irrational even a little bit. I think Putin was quite clear and predictable in that he said that they would not tolerate Ukraine as a part of NATO. and when the, you know, the Victoria Newlands, the Susan Rice's, the Obama and Biden administrations

began inviting Ukraine to join NATO and also, you know, toppled, you know, a government in Ukraine. That's when Putin decided in 2014, I'm invading. We cannot have an existential threat on our border. We will not tolerate it. Now, Now, again, I'm not saying that Putin was justified in doing it. I'm trying to say to act like we didn't see this coming, that these things were unpredictable and that we bear no responsibility for what has happened here is absolute nonsense. Well, you know, when I think of a year ago, the Olympics in France, mocking God, mocking Jesus, it was dark, sexual, sick. We have as much in common with Putin's Russia as we do with Macron's France, if you look at it that way. In terms of culturally, again, this idea that we're on one side and Russia's on the other side,

that no longer holds. The NATO countries are not what they were. If anything, they've sold their souls to the WEF globalist. worldview. And so it's much more complicated. But there are people who still insist that, you know, France is the same France as it was under Charles de Gaulle. No, it's not. Russia is the same Russia as it was under Khrushchev. No, it's not. So I'm just fascinated that this narrative still holds. It's just crazy to me. Well, it was funny you mentioned you mentioned De Gaul. I mean, De Gaul was a fervent Catholic. I mean, a serious Catholic, not a Nancy Pelosi or Joe Biden Catholic, like an actual Catholic.

And his wife waged war in the 1960s on the miniskirt. So that goes to show you what a very different France it is now versus what it was then. I would say this. I accept what J.D. Vance said. I think it was at the Munich Security Conference. I don't remember exactly where he said it. It was two months ago, yeah. And where he said it at that conference, what I thought was really quite superb,

was we're not sure that we see you, meaning Western Europe, worth defending anymore because you're not really our allies. That's it. We're not where you are. Now, I wouldn't want to go to make the jump from that to saying that we have more in common with Russia because there are some very, very serious problems where Russia is concerned. Russia has no streak of, like Ukraine, they have no streak of democracy, no streak of freedom. They've never understood that in the way that it's understood in the West.

To the Russian and Ukrainian minds, freedom is anarchy. Freedom leads to the very kinds of things that you were just talking about at the, you know, the Olympics. They look at that. And Putin, by the way, has used a lot of that stuff, the sexual anarchy and such to say, look at the West. Well, is this what you want? I'm sorry, we're out of time. Folks, to find out how you can help us with CSI, go to metaxistoctalk.com. Click on the banner.

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Right now, I have as my guest, the 23-year-old son of two friends of mine. Some of you are aware, Kevin Sorboe and his beautiful wife, Sam Sorbo. Yes, they have had children, hideous children, nonetheless. Here they are. Here's one of them. Braden Sorba, welcome with this program. Well, thanks for having me. Excited to be here. I'm sorry that you're hideous, but you know what? What are you going to do? So in all seriousness, I love your parents, and they have raised a number of wonderful kids, of whom you're only one. Let's be clear. You're only one of the kids. How many of the kids are there? I don't remember that.

There's three of us, of which I'm the oldest. You're the oldest. All right. So you have written a book, and I was excited about this. this because we need the young generation to step up. Your book, which is brand new, folks, is called Embrace Masculinity. And of course, this is intended for men. We don't want women to embrace masculinity. So this is a book about masculinity. So what led you at your young age to say, hey, I got to write a book about this? Well, I want to start off by clarifying this. I mean, it can be for women in the sense that if their husbands read this book, every time they hug them, they'll be embracing masculinity, right?

But I thought of that. Thank you. That's good. That's good, yes. Well, no, of course women need to embrace masculinity. Exactly. Not in themselves, but men should embrace femininity in women and women and women should embrace masculinity in men.

So yes, we're all in this together, you bet. 100%. And so what inspired me to write this was sort of realizing there was a lack in the culture today of people my age being outspoken about the benefit of traditional values in society. You have all of these, you know, a little bit of the older generations who have kind of taken this mantle on, well, go work hard, find a wife, have family, you know, all of these wonderful things. But they can't necessarily relate to my generation and the struggles that we go through because they are not growing up with the same kind of dilemmas that my generation faces. And so I was looking for something from someone my age that was relatable. And I was struggling to find it.

So I decided to sit down and write the book myself, something that I could come at from a, Gen Z perspective, as you mentioned, I'm 23 years old, something that people my age could look at and realize, okay, this person isn't talking down to me. They realize the struggles that I'm going through because they've been through them themselves. This is someone that I could look up to and respect, not in the same sense as someone else who I can also respect without, you know, understanding on the same level of what we've been through, but someone who knows more about me than the average generational boomer might. Well, as I know I've said to you, before, I'm excited that you wrote this book because we do need young voices. And I'm not one of

these people that like really cares that much about, you know, the young, apart from the fact that we need voices in every generation. It's not like the young voices, the young people have things to teach us. No, no, no, no. We just need voices in every single generation speaking up about the truth because of course young people are going to relate more to other young people. So I'm glad you did this. Now, writing a book, I can speak from experience. is difficult, what led you to the idea that you could do it or you could, you know, because it's, I mean, I know the book because I've looked at it. I've read not all of it, but you, you know, it's a big deal. I guess your mom has written books. So you're, it's in the family a little bit.

Yeah, maybe it's a genetic trait passed down both my parents are authors. But I graduated high school. I was homeschooled. I did competitive speech and debate through all four years of high school. And when I graduated, I decided not to go to college and instead opted to write a book. And so I I wrote my first book, The BS Guide to Politics, at 18 years old. And so this, I started at about 21, and I just turned 23 recently. So this has been a work in progress for the past year and a half, maybe, ish, two years. And so I, I don't know. I felt that I needed to write something.

I needed to be doing something more with my life to be reaching as many people as possible. I have two million followers online through social media. And so I do political, comedic, religious content, just encompassing everything that involves America and the world today. And so I decided the next natural inclination in progression would be the book. Well, it's funny because, yeah, so you're an old hat at this. This is book number two. So I've been saying this a lot lately that because I'm writing a book on the American Revolution, I'm face to face with the fact that pretty much every generation before my generation

grew up a lot quicker. Like, you know, the whole tortured adolescence that you're going to be an adolescent forever and ever. The whole thing, it just didn't exist. And so, you know, during the revolution, you'd be 11 years old and you'd be apprenticed to somebody to learn a trade. And so suddenly you're acting like an adult at 11, 12, 13. You know, Benjamin Franklin was acting like an adult printing, doing all this. It seems like everybody, and again, this is just in the revolutionary era. But this continues on that people had to grow.

up quickly and that that's a big part of God's plan. So this extended adolescence, which really is just this preposterous excuse to do nothing or to wait for some moment when you're given the right credentials to get some kind of a job, that's a very modern, bad idea. And I think part of that problem, and you just brought it up, is this idea that everybody's got to go to college. Absolutely not. College, my friend Charlie Kirk says is a scam. Mostly that's what it is. I think that it's a big waste of time and money. And it's sort of, if you're not an adolescent when you go to college, it will turn you into an adolescent.

It's just designed not to mature you. And so when I meet young men like you, I'm just excited that there's this whole generation that has been homeschooled. Not everybody's been homeschooled by the great Sam Sorbo, but you have, your brothers have. But the homeschoolers who have opt-excusers who have opt-excusable. out of this nonsense path really are the hope for the future. I'm really excited. And I think it's the big unreported story that there are hundreds of thousands. It's like an army of homeschooled kids that are more mature and wise and educated than anybody else. And you're going to take over the

world by God's grace. So no pressure. Yeah, no pressure. We hope so. And what you touched on with this perpetual adolescence is something that I mentioned in the book. I call it the The Peter Pan lost boys, right? These kids who refuse to grow up, they stay on Neverland forever. And the reason behind it is the social conditioning that we go through. Life has gotten more luxurious and morality has become subjective. And so people have, by and large, just foregone what our ancestors refused to take for granted, what our ancestors held dear to.

And so what we have in society today is nothing like we've ever seen before. The previous generations had the same guarantee. Work hard, get a job, find a while. have kids, that's your legacy. A man's legacy, as I'm sure you're aware, is not how much money you have in your bank account, the biggest house that you could possibly live in or whatever car you drive. A man's legacy is affecting the people around him, particularly his wife and kids, having a family that loves and respects him. That is the pinnacle of success for any man. There's a song by Drake White, who's a country singer called Life, Love, and War, and the lyric in it is

because a good wife and a baby is as good as it can get. And so what people have realized in today's day and age with the sexual revolution and morality becoming subjective is that they can't find that anymore. Two out of every 10 women in Generation Z are on only fans, prostituting themselves online for subscriptions for $5 a month posting themselves in lewd content. Two out of 10, 20% of my generation. Wait a minute. I got to hear that again because that's, that doesn't seem possible. Two out of 10% of what? Two out of 10 women in Generation Z, age 18 to 20, 27 or whatever the generation is, are on only fans today posting themselves explicitly, naked, lingerie, whatever, for $5, 10, $15 a month, sometimes free.

Because society said, women, you have the right to vote. Go out and be a boss, babe. You have whatever you could do the same things a man can do. Nothing's holding you back. What do you want to do? And 20% of them said, I just want to be a hooker online. Tell me how that's a message of empowering. All that does is destroy.

And so people are waking up and seeing, well, those people, unfortunately, are not conducting themselves as if they are marriage material. And so it immediately eliminates a significant portion of the population. On top of the fact that social media and society as a large promotes this idea of gender confusion, sexual identity, sexual immorality. I mean, the sexual revolution that took place in the 70s, we are now reaping the consequences of because marriage rates are down. Divorce rates are up. Unhappiness is statistically higher than it's ever been a. in America before. 47% of women today, aged 18 and upward, are on at least one type of antidepressant.

25% of men are on the same. So we have a society that is over-medicated, and we are not doing anything about it, aside from giving them more drugs. I mean, this is staggering. What you just said about the only fans thing, wow, talk about a statistic. Oh, my gosh. I often say that in Georgia in England, when William Wilberforce was coming up in politics, it was tremendously broken culture.

Many women were prostitutes. I've got to remember the statistic now. I can't believe I've been giving the speech about this for 15 years, and it's now gone out of my head. But it's a reminder, folks, of where you are as a culture. when you look at statistics like that. And so we obviously need the truth to get out there. And so Brayden, we'll be right back. But in the meantime, folks, the book is Embrace Masculinity.

I hope you'll get a copy, especially if you're a young person or know a young person, especially a young man, get a copy of Embrace Masculinity. It's a brand new book. We'll be right back. Folks, welcome back. I continue my conversation with Braden Sorbo. who is the 23-year-old son of my friends Kevin and Sam Sorbo. And it just does my heart good, Graydon, to see the young man that your parents have raised.

And you give me hope for the future that there are a lot of young men and women who have been raised right and who are speaking the truth boldly and bravely. And who understand we basically need to repeal the sexual revolution. The sexual revolution has destroyed lives. It's destroying lives right now. You were just quoting this statistics. People are so broken, but I think it leads me to hope. In other words, that things are so bad that people are open to God.

They're open to God's ideas about family and marriage and sex and truth. So I'm very encouraged. And again, I'm encouraged that you've written this brand new book. It's called Embrace Masculinity. What is in the book? What should we talk about from the book? Well, the book encompasses everything that a guide should. It talks about the dangers of dating.

and pornography. I mean, statistics are showing right now that men aged 18 to 45 who were polled overwhelmingly 45% of them had never approached a woman in real life. 45% of men, 18 to 25, never talked to a woman in real life. But why would they? When we live in a culture based on rejection and sexual gratification, where on my phone on Instagram, you know, you could see women posting themselves in compromising positions in the gym, complaining about how men are objectifying them, complaining about how men are looking at them. You have other women talking about why men should never approach a girl in a bar or never approach a girl on the street.

So these guys are seeing this content and going, well, the girl online on, you know, porn isn't going to reject me. So I'm just going to avoid social interactions altogether. So it talks about the dangers of that. It talks about the pharmaceutical industry, the dating world at large. The idea that there is a divine order in the universe, the necessity of the patriarchy, it's not a matter of if a man will rule, but a matter of which men will rule and whether or not they will be good or bad.

And so what we've seen in America is we've had bad patriarchs taking the charge and what those bad patriarchs have done is they've manipulated women and they have controlled men. Now, I'll break it down really quick for the listeners and viewers is a bad patriarch will do one of three things to control men. He will one, harness the power because men have strength. When men get together, communities and countries are built. We know this. And so if a patriarch is smart enough, he will be able to control the men to build things for him. Think of the pyramids in Egypt with slavery, right? If that doesn't work if he can't control the men, what he will then do is he will attempt to pacify them, like Rome, bread and circuses, or even America today with all of the

distractions that we have. Pacification works wonders. And lastly, if that doesn't work, what the bad patriarch will do is he will start killing the men because they pose a threat. And we have that in America today. And people are going, well, hold on, they're not just walking around gunning people down in the streets. Abortion kills almost a million babies every single year. The porn industry kills your soul. So men are both spiritually dead and some men aren't even given the chance to be born. We are at the stage where people are being killed before they get the chance to rebel against bad leaders in society today. This is the tipping point of any great generation. Any history, or if you look back all throughout history, you're a big history buff,

you know this. We are at the tipping point that no other country has come back from. The difference is no other country has been America and there is hope. But this will be the first time any country has ever come back from a circumstance this kind of dangerous, right? The culture that we live in today, is I'm sure many of your viewers would know as you as well. The Weimar Republican Germany before the World War started was known as Berlin was known as the Sin Capital of Europe where mother-daughter, prostitute tag teams walked the street, right? There was a lack of humanity in the culture,

and it led to World War II. Now, I personally don't want another World War, and so we need to turn around before it gets to that point, but we have the opportunity with my generation speaking up. And I mentioned this, once again, one of the other things I talk about in the book is the political divide between men and women. Men, historically, this past election specifically, have always voted red. And in 2024, they voted farther red than they've ever done before.

In droves, men who never voted went out and cast a ballot. Women have always leaned a little bit more blue because of their nurturing, caring, compassion that they just have naturally. However, this past election, they voted farther blue down the ballot than ever before. So we have the largest political divide that we've ever seen between the genders. and what that's going to do is it's going to sow division and that is going to sow disharmony and so it is up to the men to dig their heels in and continue to fight for what is right.

And I say that they know what is right because during polling for the 2024 election, men were asked, everyone was asked, their biggest conditions for voting what the biggest problems in the country were that they were caring about, you know, up and down the ballot. Men voted overwhelmingly for the candidate that they thought would help fix border security,

so safety for the entire country, the economy, whether that be trade overseas or the prices of goods and services, rent, gas, groceries, those things. So once again, the security of the nation. And then lastly, women, their top issue was abortion. So you have men voting selflessly for the border, the security of their nation, and the prosperity of their nation. And you have young women voting for the ability, 67%. It's not like, oh, barely 50%.

67% of women said that the biggest issue for them this past election was abortion. That was what would make them vote for the ability. the candidate that they chose. And so we have a divide between selfless and selfish. And so it is up to the men to take the stand. And that's why I wrote the book, to be a beacon of hope, to be a guiding light for people going, it's over. We're not coming back from this because we can come back from this. It is just going to be an uphill battle, but it's going to be worth it. I have to say that there's so much more to talk about. I think we can stretch you to another segment.

But folks, you understand if you're listening how important this is. This is about American culture. This is about everything. I want to remind you, folks, that with God, all things are possible. And as Braden, you just said, no countries come back from this, except there's never been a country like the United States of America. Actually, when we come back, I will give one other example of a country that has come back from this. It's interesting.

We'll be right back, folks. The brand new book is Embrace Masculinity. I'm talking to Braden Sorbo. Welcome back talking to Braden Sorbo, who just happens to be the son of Kevin Sorbo and Sam Sorbo. I believe that's a coincidence. I don't know how to explain it. But the book that you've written, Braden, you're 23 years old, you've written a book called Embrace masculinity.

It's your second book, which is tremendous. And you are one of the examples of what some people are doing right, the way that your parents raised you so that, you know, at 23, you're a fully functioning adult, you're writing books. It's a wonderful thing. You just said something in the last segment, and it relates to something that I've said a lot, that when people talk about, for example, somebody, I think it was my friend, Cal Thomas, wrote a book about, you know, the cycle of empires and all empires, they go through the cycle and blah, blah, blah, and we're at this stage and, you know, whatever. And I thought, America is not an empire like the other empires. There has never in the history of the world ever been anything like the United States of America.

If you need the details on that, folks, I wrote a book called If You Can Keep It. and I recommend it, not because I wrote it, but because I didn't see anybody else writing what I wrote about in that book. America is utterly unique. I believe God ordained the existence of the United States of America, not for me or for America, but for our purposes in world history in the same way that, you know, God ordained Israel, not quite like that. But when God picks you, chooses you, it's for his purposes in history. And America has been chosen for God's purposes in history, and there has never been a country in the history of the world like the United States of America. And so, Brayden, you were saying that no country has ever come back from where we are right now,

but there's never been another United States of America. And that's exactly right. But I would say I wrote a book called Amazing Grace about William Wilberforce. And the story of what England was like in the mid-to-rely to late, 18th century. So, you know, the 17, let's say 1760 to, you know, 1800, it was so broken, so pagan, it's really inconceivable what a broken pagan horror show, George and England was. The poor were rotting. Nobody was helping them. Prostitution was rampant. Alcoholism was utterly rampant. Again, you can't even imagine.

and how broken it was. There was no regard for the poor. It really was just a callous, broken, pagan, corrupt, godless culture. And I bring it up just because by the grace of God, using principally William Wilberforce, and again, I tell the story in my book Amazing Grace, and in my book Seven Men, there's a chapter on Wilberforce. But when God comes back into the picture, anything is possible. and by God's grace, England changed dramatically and basically pulled out of the death spiral.

And I think we need to remember that it is possible. If you turn to God and they turned to God in England, Wilbur Force led this revival. I mean, it goes on and on. There's so much to talk about. But so this is to say that there is hope. And even if that example didn't exist, I would say there's hope in America. So to your point, America has enough. folks who think the way you do and I do and your parents do. And there are a lot of Americans who

understand this. And we seem in a way to be leading the way forward. I mean, you're writing this brand new book, Embrace masculinity is one example that I think things are broken enough that there are people kind of open to things. And I think, like you just said, you were citing all of these statistics about young men voting red and understanding what's at stake. I really think that there's been a shift in the country. And so I'm really excited. And again, it's one of the reasons I'm excited that you wrote this book. I see something happening. Yeah, I do too. And I want to offer a word of caution to the people listening to this because England may have turned themselves back by the grace of God, but look at them now. 25% of London is under Sharia law. Oh, yeah. You have you have

carjackings, sexual assaults, knife attacks, acid attacks, people driving through crowds. The, the rates of this are skyrocketing. And so this should serve as a warning for all of us that just because something can turn around doesn't mean it will stay turned around if we take it for granted. And so we need to preserve this country not only once, but permanently. And so a lot of young men, I will say, are leading that charge in the sense that we have this return to traditional morals. I mean, you have the largest Christian boom that a nation has seen in recent. times. The Diocese of Los Angeles said that they welcomed a 23% increase of new converts to the faith as opposed to 2024, right? So you have massive jumps in people coming back to the church.

And this will, if people stay, beget nothing but benefits to the country. Because as we know, a moral society is a healthy one. Everyone complains about the separation of church and state when obviously it's the church's job to help influence the state because Romans 1, morality is written on the heart. We have the law written on our hearts, Paul says. And so when people ask the best way to support these young men, I tell them, supporting them is the best way to support them, helping them in this battle, because they are predominantly alone when it comes to the world. They are predominantly alone when it comes to finding a suitable person to marry. Right. It is a battle that we must fight almost alone. And so the support of others is,

it's immeasurable. And so I tell people, you know, if this book isn't right for you, buy 10 for your friends. And I would say buy 10 of your books as well, right? Maybe just get a gift basket at this point. Well, I know, honestly, because, you know, people, it's a funny thing. Like, I don't write books just to write books. Like, you know, I'm trying to communicate things. And obviously, it's the same with your book.

You want to bless people. I wish I could just give the book, the books that I've written and many books that my guests have written to anybody and say, listen, folks. This is important. This is the way out of where we are. And so it is, it's not a small thing, folks, to understand that where we have been, it's been so bad that I think people are waking up. I think there's good news. But we're in a war and the Lord is with us in the war. And so I'm very, very hopeful. Braden, we're out of time, but I'm just so grateful to you and your folks for raising you. and just to hear your heart and mind.

If people want to find you, I know they can go to sorbos studios.com. Folks, that's the website, sorbos studios.com. The book is Embrace Masculinity. It is the second book by my guest, Braden, Sorbo. Braden, thank you so much. Thank you. And if people want, they could use Sorbo at checkout for 20% off. Sorbo at checkout for 20% off.

Folks, did you hear that? Sorbo, if you can spell it, S-O-R-B-O-S-O-O at checkout, Sorboostudios.com. God bless you, Braden. Thank you. Thank you. Darker shame, dark a shame. Thank you.

Folks, welcome back. You know what we never said today, Chris Heim's? You know what we never said? I think I do. It's happening on Sunday. Happy Mother's Day. It's something I call Mother's Day. I don't know what the rest of the world calls it, but I call it Mother's Day.

My mom is 90. I'm with her in Connecticut. We'll be with her on Sunday on Mother's Day, whether she likes it or not. And I have to say that Mother's Day and Father's Day, these are pretty sacred days, pretty beautiful days. Yeah, I don't want to sound like a kiss-up, but I don't want to sound like a kiss-up, but I feel like every day is Mother's Day. Is that too much? Actually, that's too much. We're going to edit that out.

But honestly, when I mention, when I think of Mother's Day, I think of my book, Seven Women, actually, it's too late now to get it for Mother's Day gift, probably. But it is just the stories of seven amazing women. Wow, when you read these stories, you know. And no, it's not Amelia Earhart and Billy Jean King. That would have been a great tennis match to watch. Yeah, wouldn't that have been amazing? One of the ladies is in an airplane, though. It's so many.

It's seven great women. That's my book, Seven Women. By the way, you can get it, and you get a lot of my books, at my store.com, which is affiliated with Mypillow.com. If you use the code, Eric, that and most of my books are at slashed prices. For some reason, if you go to MyStore.com, use the code, Eric, you'll see. But seven women really talks about God's idea of what is God's idea of a woman or God's

idea of a great woman. So we want to mention that. I want to mention something crazy in the news. But before I do that, I want to mention our friends of the Herzog Foundation. HertzacFoundation.com, the website, that should be your go-to place. If you're interested in education, homeschooling, Christian. classical education, K-12 Christ-centered education, like the real deal. Hurtzach Foundation is there to help.

The website is Hurtzog Foundation.com. If you've got kids, you're thinking about this, maybe your grandparent, go to HerzogFoundation.com and know that they're there for you. They're not asking you for anything. They're just there for you to help you. They've got another website called readlion, R-E-A-D-L-I-O-N.com. But if you're interested in your kids' education, which obviously I think you would be, you want to know about reed lion.com, herdsug foundation.com. They're total heroes.

Okay, so crazy stuff in the news. Yeah, at the Kennedy Center, at the Kennedy Center, there's a little protest happening. About a dozen members for the show Les Mis are opting out in protest over Trump's, I don't know, his decrees. No, no, no, no. It's not that. It's that he is going to attend a performance. And their attitude is, how dare you? How dare you?

I didn't realize that thing. And watch us sing. How dare you? And so most of them, they're going to do the performance kneeling. They're going to take a knee, and they're going to try to perform. So Javert and the others, they might be kneeling throughout the performance as a protest. I can only imagine the famous scene, you know, where they're all kind of marching in place,

waving the flags. I mean, doing that on kneeling is it'll look like the lollipop gang. And why, and why shouldn't it? You know, I got to say Rick Grinnell is the new head of the Kennedy Center. And I have been in touch with him. I was like, I'm all about culture. I want to be involved at the Kennedy Center. I am so excited. I think our friend Floyd Brown is involved. This is such a a wonderful moment for America. And since I care about culture and talk about culture, I am very, very excited. So anyway, that's crazy news. Before we go, final reminder, we need you to go to metaxis talk.com. Click on the banner for CSI. We're just going to keep reminding you because you will be blessed when you give to CSI. Whatever you give, Metaxistalkysotalk.com. You will see the website right at the top of the

page. God bless you.