The Eric Metaxas Show - Eric & Albin Election Day Commentary

Episode Date: November 9, 2022

Eric and Albin cover today's mid-terms sharing their personal voting experiences from this morning, plus discuss all things crucial with today's vote.

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Thank you. Now, listen, ladies and gentlemen, this program airs at different times, all. all around this great country. So you probably already voted by the time you're hearing us talk about this. Yes. But I want to tell you, if you haven't voted, you need to vote. No, you need to vote. I am blown away that there are people throwing their votes in the garbage by not voting.

I can tell you all kinds of examples. People who didn't bother to register in time, they moved states. or something like that. There's all kinds of ways you can give a vote to, you know, the party of late-term abortion and corruption. It's really important that we vote. Did you vote, Albin? I did.

I voted this morning. And I voted this morning. 6.30 a. I want to tell a story about what happened when I voted. I got a story, too. Okay, I've got a real story. I'm not kidding, folks. This is like, I'm still.

No, I haven't even told you. I'm still hot-headed about this. I'm still upset about this. This is classic, classic. You've got a story. Our makeup person, Laura, just told me something downstairs. I want to tell you what happened to me when I went to vote today. But I also want to talk about the Trump rally last night and what happened, because this is a big deal.

So where do we start? I don't know how today's show is going to go. Today's a big day. It's an exciting day. And I just feel there's so much to talk about. I thought, let's give ourselves a little time to talk about this stuff. So, all right, first of all, maybe we should talk about, I think I should get off my chest, my voting experience, what happened to me this morning. Okay.

Okay. Okay. I woke up. Actually, weirdly, I couldn't sleep last night, which almost never, ever happens to me. And so I was really groggy this morning, and then I realized, oh, my gosh, I got a, I got to vote. And they keep changing where you vote in Manhattan, right? I'm on the Upper East Side. And I had to look it up.

It's changed every time, the last three times it's changed. So this time it's at a public school on 88th between Park and Lexington, right? So I wanted to get there obviously in time. You don't know. You're going to find lines. Do you remember a couple of years ago? Oh, yeah. There were insane lines.

Oh, yeah. Like insane third world lines to vote. Yeah. But the last couple times I voted, I think there was nothing, right? But anyway, here's my story, folks. Let this be a lesson to you about government corruption and sin and how we need to stand. So I get in there. obviously being in New York City,

I'm assuming most of these poll workers are deeply democratic affiliated, right? Yeah. And God bless them because they're there, right? So you go up, you tell them, you know, where, you show your ID or tell the guys, tell your address, so they can say, oh, that's your go over, they go to that table and then not that table.

Because there's so many different areas. Yeah. council you're voting for city council you're voting for this you're reading for that whatever so I go to the appropriate table there's like no line there was a person in front of me 20 seconds later it's me and I give my ID to the woman so she can look me up and she says oh I can't see that just what's your name I said you know metaxus Eric she types in M-E-T and then something else.

And she goes, is this you? Kevin Metzger. No, no, no. That's not me. I said, why don't you just look at my ID? And she says, no, no, I don't need to see that. She refused to look at my ID. Wow.

And I looked at her, and it started out friendly. And I said, don't you want to know if it's me? I said, anybody could come here and say, I'm Eric McAxas. Yep, yep, yep, right? Mm-hmm. She didn't want to look at my ID. Then she said to me, since I'm actually interested in, like, the vote being a real vote, by saying, like, what do you mean?

You're not going to look at my ID? I could just go in here and say, I'm so-and-so. Okay, thanks. Here. Here's your stuff. She says, are you a Republican? And I said, are you saying Democrats cheat? Uh-oh.

Well, but, I mean, why are you asking me if I'm a Republican? because I'm actually concerned that the person coming to the desk is not lying. Yeah. Because this is how elections are stolen. This is how democracy is subverted. Yeah. But the woman was nice, but clearly nonplussed, because no one would dare bring this up. Yeah.

But she would not look at my ID. And I thought to myself, this is just, this is how people steal elections. Like you game the system, you walk in there. So at the next table, another guy is sitting there, and he says, that's just a policy, right? And he's wearing a mask. Thank goodness, because people are dying with a bubonic plague and monkeypox. So he's wearing a mask. He says, that's just a policy.

I said, well, I said, what kind of a policy is that? I said, anybody could come in here and claim to be me. Don't you want to see my ID, my driver's license? and he ended up getting angry at me and got like he was kind of like, we can't have this conversation, we can't have, we got, we got, we got, we got. But I thought to myself, ladies and gentlemen,

what am I missing? This is happening all over the country. The guy actually said to me something like, well, we trust, what did you say? He said, we trust you. You seem modest or something like that, right? And I said, is that smart? Like, I mean, it's just amazing.

The guy's never seen me, my life. No one's ever seen anybody. But here's what's really funny. I have an ID. I'm not saying, oh, no, I forgot my ID at home. Please let me vote. But I thought to myself, this is amazing that I have a New York driver's license to show who I am. They would not look at it. Two times ago, when I voted, I'll never forget this. There was another woman. who I came in and she actually said this was 2016 she said

you know how to you know how to you know who to vote for don't you like she looked at me like uh-huh you know like you I thought to myself this is shameful this is absolutely

it's so shameful to me that this person would not look at my voter ID and I think that maybe they have this narrative like voter IDs that's like a racist Republican thing or something. Like I have no idea what the objection was. I guess if they look at yours, then they're going to have to look at everybody. Do you see what I'm saying?

Yeah. Well, I had an interesting experience myself this morning, about 630. I'm walking down to the train. I go into vote. And the first thing that hits me in the face, literally, is this woman with a whole box of masks. And she says, you've got to wear a mask to vote today. I was like, what? We're still doing this?

And I'm thinking, this is Kathy Hokels. New York. If you ever needed a reason to vote for Lee Zeldon and the Republican ticket, wherever you are. When I talked to my wife later, she said like, yeah, that's an advertisement to vote Republican right there. So she gives me the mask, and she almost feels like I'm sorry I had to do this. Everybody's wearing a mask. I go up and they actually asked me for my driver's license. I gave it to them. They scanned it, and then they gave me the piece of paper, Nate. That's the first good news I've heard today. Yeah, yeah. So they, so I've had a good experience there, I must admit, except for the mask thing. There was, again, there was one person in front of me, 20 seconds later, I'm voting, but it's 6.30 in the morning, right?

Yeah, so. Yeah. No, it's absolutely, I mean, I tell these stories just because everybody, when they vote, I want you to know, ladies and gentlemen, you're it. If you speak up, I mean, when I spoke up and I gave them a hard time, I said other things that I'm not going to repeat on the air, nothing nasty, but I just, you know, you know, you. I had a conversation, but I thought, if you push back, if more people will push back, they will think twice about playing these games. Because it is a scandal to me that I have a New York City driver's license. They would not look at it. I could have been anybody claiming to be me. Yeah. Okay, this is called how people scam the system and steal elections.

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Election Day. In America. America. Honestly, this is, it is such a privilege to vote. And I want to say, because I've been speaking all over the place, I was in Pittsburgh recently, the scandal to me, there are people who don't vote. And I want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, you are throwing away something that cost people their lives.

You cannot do that. civic responsibility, a duty. Just like, you know, when you're talking to Christians, you'd say, you have a duty to God. You, you know, to tithe, to do this, to do this, that's your duty. That's basic duty. We have a duty to our families. We have duties to our country and state. And voting is the minimum, minimum, minimum. People have died to secure your vote. There have been people denied access to voting booths. Okay. We know this in the South. the poll taxes and all kinds of stuff where there was racism in the Jim Crow era. People have gone through hell to guarantee that you get to vote.

And we all need to be vigilant. And, you know, Albin, I want to say, because we've got a lot of stuff to share here. By the way, we're going to mention the Grand Prize winners for Alliance Defending Freedom. I'm going to read them all here. I'm very excited about this. And by the way, too, Democrats, too, they've gone through a lot to be able to vote six or seven times or to get the dead to vote. That's right.

They've gone through an awful lot. That's not a small thing. It's not. Well, but see, here's what's interesting is there was a time when, in other words, this is this narrative, right, of voter suppression that the Democrats are now using, which is, of course, a mockery of the reality because there was a time of genuine voter suppression, right? And they make it sound like they say, well, the racist did that.

Yes, that's true, but guess who the racists were? In the South, they were mostly Democrats. They don't mention that, right? But the bottom line is we have fought in this country so that everyone has the right to vote. And the game playing that went on decades ago, we've been working on that. But the Democrats are gaslighting the world and pretending like there's voter suppression. And that when they ask you for an ID, that that's somehow racist, which implies that black people in America don't have the ability to get a voter ID, which is it's just a racist idea.

It's funny when you mentioned just today, when you said, I want to show you my D, and they said, are you Kevin Metzger? You could have said, yeah, I'm Kevin Metzger. You could have voted. You couldn't have come back a later, an hour later, and you could have voted as Eric Haxis. The woman who, yeah, she didn't even ask me my, she didn't even spell out the whole name.

That's why I gave her the ID, and she didn't want to look at it. So she just put in the first three letters, MET, right? Yeah. So she came with an, I don't know what it was, but it was something Metzger. She goes, is this you? Yeah. And I could have said,

said, yes. And I could have voted under his name. And when he shows up, they're going, sorry, sir, you already voted. Right? Yeah. Okay. Now, maybe he would vote. Maybe he would vote the opposite way that I would vote, and he would be denied his voice. And so it's just an amazing thing to me that that happened. But we've got a couple of other things that I don't want to forget. Can I mention this morning on the train coming in, I'm reading, utmost for his highest. And a lot of people across the country and across the world read it. But if you will notice, November 8th, it's called the title of My Atmos for His Highest for today is the unrivaled power of prayer. And today, of course, is Election Day. Did you know in 2016 it was also November 8th? I have it marked here because I've been using this for like 30 years or so. So on both of these days, the unrivaled power of prayer is what is the message, as it were, from. Oswald Chambers. Yes. Well, I want to say that many, many, many people have been praying for the nation over the last two years in particular. And I believe that God answers every single prayer.

And my prayer is that we would have a new birth of freedom in this country, that people would rise up and be activist citizens, understanding you've got a duty, you've got to do your duty. So when I give pushback, like I did this, morning because a lot of people just, they don't want the hassle. They just go, okay, okay. But I thought to myself, excuse me, I'm an adult. I've been an adult for a long time. You're not going to look at my ID. Something's wrong. What is wrong? What is going on here? What is who put this system in place? And the guy at the next table who got upset with me because, you know, but he was like hostile. And I could have really taken it to the next level. I didn't. But I thought to myself, if everybody would speak up, I mean, when the woman for whatever it was six years ago said,

you know who to vote for, don't you? I thought, how dare you? How dare you? I could not believe that somebody at a polling desk. This is, I'm sorry, yes, who checks you in, would dare to imply that there's a way to vote and you know who to vote for, don't you? I just thought, can you imagine?

mention the culture. This is the classic, corrupt, democratic culture that they don't even think twice. Like, they're just assuming that everybody's on the same page and that nobody would dare to come in here and vote for the wrong person who believes in the unborn should live or who believes in appointing justice to the Supreme Court who might overturn Roe v. Wade. Nobody would come in here, you know, in Manhattan or in New York, whatever. And I thought, that's amazing. I got to mention also our makeup person, Laura, was saying that today, driving in here at the toll booth, she said to the toll booth attendant, did you vote? And he said, I'm not voting.

And she said, what? You got to vote. He says, nah, I'm not voting. And she, you know, she did what I think we should all do, right? It's like, you got, you got a vote. And he says, it doesn't count. I don't care. And she really gave him pushback and eventually said, shame on you.

Now, she didn't go into the speech that people have died so that you could vote, you young punk. Like, people died so that we could vote. And I think it's kind of funny. I feel like it's my parents' European side that comes out because they speak up. Americans are almost too nice, and we kind of go, oh, I don't want to cause any trouble. But it's like, when you understand, you don't want to cause trouble, people died so that you could vote. And this is going through the century. that we have been vigilant and we've had, you know, in the difficult history of this country,

people have laid everything on the line for liberty. And to sneer at that, to mock it, to be cynical about it. And some people on both sides of the aisle are cynical. They will say, ah, it doesn't matter. You know, or they will say, look, you know, it's all corrupt. That kind of fatalistic idea, that is the death of democracy. In my book, if you can keep it, I talk about how if the people don't believe in the institutions, right? In those, if I believe that when I pay my taxes, they're being stolen, or if I feel that when I vote, the votes, it's not going to count it.

Once that idea takes root, when you cease to fight to make sure that's not the case, and you just go, it's all, you know, at that point, you've already lost. Yeah. And there, you know, what, there might be some Christians out there is like, well, God's in charge, and I believe in predestination, whoever is elected. God put them there. And I always like to tell the joke. A guy goes into the doctor. The doctor says, you're doing terribly. You're going to have to take these pills. And the guy says, I believe in predestination. So I'm not going to take the pills. The doctor says, well, I believe in predestination, too. If you take the pills, you're predestined to live. If you don't, you're predestined to die. So if you vote, maybe we're predestined to have another, you know, city on the hill.

It all boils down to bad theology. There are people. But I mean, again, I write about this briefly in my book, the new book, Letter to the American Church. There are people that are already defeated. They're cynical and they're slumped. And they just basically say, nah, it doesn't count. We're already under judgment. You know, America's going to hell. And it's like, it's going to hell because of you.

Because of your attitude of not saying we need to fight for what is right and true. We need to care. We need to speak up. We need to use a voice. Now, if you don't have a voice, if you're in a dungeon someplace, you don't have a voice. But while you have a voice, you have an obligation to speak up. Now, listen, I want to talk about the Trump rally. That's actually a huge thing.

I want to talk about that. Last night, he almost announced. So I want to talk about that in a minute. This is kind of a big deal. This was insane. I also want to talk about tonight I'm going to be on the Victory Channel doing political commentary. Oh, great. On the Victory Channel doing, I don't know, I think around 815 or 830 or 8.30 or 815, I think I'll be on there briefly.

giving my view, and by then we may know something. And for the next three days until the finals are all, all the final folks are telling. While they're still counting in the basements with the suitcases. So, Alvin, you know what? We should mention the winners. Oh, we have to. Okay, when we come back, we'll announce the winners. Alliance Defending Freedom that closed out last month.

We will announce the winners. And I also want to say, yesterday I got back from Pittsburgh, and in the car when I'm coming home from the airport, I always call my parents to check in. And I said, don't forget to vote for tomorrow, right? And my 95-year-old father and 88-year-old mother said, like, what? Of course we're not going to forget. In other words, they who came from countries where you don't have freedom

wouldn't dream at 95 needing a walker wouldn't dream of not going to the polling place and voting. God bless my mom and dad. and everyone who votes, God bless you. It is a sacred duty that we have in this nation that people around the world do not have. And I believe God's hand is still on this nation if we will wake up. We'll be right back. Tell me, Eric, why is Relief Factor so successful at lowering or eliminating pain?

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Ladies and gentlemen, it's an exciting day in America. I think we've got a few announcements here, Albin. I want to make some announcements. I want to talk about the Trump rally. last night. Some people don't know what happened or didn't know about it. You didn't watch it, right? I didn't. You're not, you're Eric Metaxus, not Kevin Metzger. You want me to show you my ID? I may be. Okay, so the, the, um, yeah, I didn't watch it. No. First of all, we should announce the winners. Oh, yes. Before I talk about the Trump rally last night, which actually, this is

exciting stuff, but the winners of the Alliance Defending Freedom. Now, anytime we do a fundraiser on this program. You know this, folks. We try to entice you to give, and we always say it doesn't matter what you give. Whatever you give, your name goes into a hat. We announce, we'll pick out three grand prize winners randomly, and you're just going to get a raft of signed books and swag. Who invented the word swag? Where did that come from? What's the etymology of the word swag? I don't know. I need to look up the etymology. I care about etymology. I care about etymology. Yeah. really do. I love to know where words come from.

Yeah. And you think swag. What is that? Why these days, we're bringing back Fun Facts Fridays and we're going to do all kinds of stuff like that. Well, I want to do that. We should do a book called Fun Facts Friday. I would love to do that, Alvin, we've got to do it. We're going to do it. Because, I mean, people love facts, especially kids. When I was a kid. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, I want to read this. Then we're going to talk about that. Okay. Okay. The winners. Winners. Yes. Here are the winners. If you gave to the Alliance Defending Freedom,

your name was put in a hat. We picked out three winners. at random. And I want to say the name of the first one. Are you ready, ladies and gentlemen? This person is from Buena, she already knows, Buena Washington. The state of Washington,

Buena, Washington. God bless you, Penny Kay. The last initial, of course, I mean, the initial of the last name is Kay. Penny, come on down and get your prize. Actually, You don't have to go anywhere. You just have to go to your mailbox or whatever.

But we're going to mail you, Penny Kaye from Buena, Washington. And I am just, I want to say thank you, Penny. Our second winner from a popular place, I have spoken at a church there, Flower Mound, Texas, David C. Come on down. David C. Thank you, David. Oh, I don't know.

I can't spell the name. David C. From Flower Mound, Texas is the second winner. And these are all equal prizes. Like, every one is a grand. These are three grand prizes. There's no second place or third place. I'm just reading them.

It didn't matter how much you gave. Right. Yeah. It didn't matter. And the third and final winner of the grand prize drawing is from Pikeville, Kentucky. She already knows who she is. Allie H. Allie H.

Pikeville, Kentucky. So we are going to be in touch with you and we're going to mail you more junk than you ever wanted. So you better get a storage unit. All kinds of goodies. You're getting junk you've never seen before. Stuff. It is unbelievable.

We are really just, I just want to say to folks, when we do these campaigns, we're going to do one around Christmas again, I don't even remember with whom. Christian Solidarity. Yeah, the slaves. But when we do this stuff, folks, we are so grateful to you. I just want to say I'm a little bit in awe that people give.

I'm always disappointed that everybody doesn't give a little something because these are great organizations. I mean, it really can't get better than the Alliance defending freedom. They are just their total heroes. A lot of work for those guys these days. Tremendous, right? So anyway, we had to mention that. Okay.

Yeah. So, I want to talk about the Trump rally last night. This is like insane. This is insane. And you don't know anything about this, right? No, no. It was running too late for me. Well, this relates to your brother, your twin brother. Are you guys still twins? We're still twins. Yeah. Have you always been twins? Yes, we have. As of, well, I don't even want to give the year because a gentleman does not give his age. A gentleman of a certain age. Don't mention it. That's right. But I mean. But you were with him on our birthday, which was great. Yes. I was with your brother. brother Tony, aka Anthony. And by the way, he's the lesser

of two evils. He is, yeah. Five minutes later. That's actually very funny. That's very funny. He's the lesser of two evils. But you guys, anyway, you've been twins your whole lives. I was with him. He picked me up from the airport in Pittsburgh and drove me with his friend, Susan, to

the La Trobe, Pennsylvania rally. The Trump, I'd never been to a rally before, and I talked about this yesterday. Okay. But the point is, at the rally. Trump was doing this thing. And this is why he's such a genius, like he knows how to kind of troll the crowd and work the media. And I find it so funny because he drives, the people who hate him, this drives them out of their skulls. The people who love him find it just like delightfully entertaining. So he's kind of teasing like he says, all these people back there, he's always

making front of the press. And he says, they want me to announce or they want me to make a big announcement today. Maybe I'll do it. But he says, he says, He's kind of like maybe, maybe. He's kind of got you on that edge. He sucked you in, right? Well, what he did yesterday. Now, yesterday, he was in Ohio, and it was the last rally. Yeah.

This is it, right? For the 2022 red tsunami that's supposed to happen if you vote. So this was the last rally yesterday, right? Now, I didn't even know that it was happening. but I was at a restaurant with Suzanne and a friend of ours, and I get a text while I'm at dinner. You're not supposed to look at your phone. It's rude from Sean Foyt, our friend Sean Foyt.

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I think we're going to have Laura Osnest on here. Yeah. She's like a Broadway star. She's in the studio here. Well, we're not 100% sure yet. But, okay, so I got to finish the story about the Trump rally, right? So when I was with your brother in La Trobe, Trump is teasing like, oh, they'd love me to announce today.

But I'm going to, you know, he's implying that it's going to be coming soon. It's going to make you very, very happy. And, you know, very soon, very soon, very soon. So this was on Saturday night, right? So last night he was in Ohio, stumping. for J.D. Vans. Jim Jordan came up. Jim Jordan's a stinking hero. Jim Jordan, by the way, was pulled up there by Trump last night, and he quoted scripture. It was magnificent. Absolutely. He is, Jim Jordan's one of the heroes. Marjorie Taylor Green. There's just a handful of

real heroes out there, and I thank God for them. But so Trump, he had a rally last night, but I didn't know about it. So I'm at the restaurant having dinner, and I get a text from Sean Foyt, F. F.E. CHT. And you probably didn't hear that his guitar was destroyed by American Airlines and they were refusing to replace it. Yeah, I saw something about that. Yeah. Yeah, we're going to talk to him about that. This is not a joke. Like, they destroyed his guitar and they're just like, sorry, it was just, it was packed wrong. And he says, I've traveled like a thousand, you know, a thousand miles every day, practically, more. I mean, the guy travels like crazy. Anyway, Sean texts me, Trump is going to announce tonight.

This is yesterday at dinner, okay? And I'm thinking, I'm with somebody besides Suzanne, our friend who knows a lot about politics and says, like, that doesn't make sense. That would be, and I said, you're right. That would be disastrous. Stealing the thunder here, yeah. And so they're thinking, Sean must be joking. So I text back, I said, you better be joking.

Like, don't even, don't tell me that because that would be the most selfish, politically, the ham-fisted thing you could do, Donald Trump. And Donald Trump, by the way, is not perfect. He has done dumb things. He said dumb things. You know, I love the guy, but it doesn't mean that he's perfect. He's capable of some bad things. Like when he said Ron to sanctimonious the other day.

Like just classic unforced error. Now all the media is talking about is that. Yeah. So anyway, so I write back and Sean says, no, I've got it on high authority that he's announcing tonight. from, and he mentions, you know, he's connected to somebody who would know, right? Then he sends me a text that all of Trump's kids were at the rally last night. Oh, wow.

Which makes you think like, oh, he really is announcing. So we walk home from the restaurant, and I am so upset. Like he can't, this is. this could be, this would be a blunder on a level of, you know, Mike Pence not sending the, what do you call it, back to the states. You know, like a political blunder that could be a career-killing blunder. Yeah. Because if you do it and you live in your own, you know, echo chamber,

everybody says, you're great, you're great, make the announcement. It's like, no, that would take away the focus on all these other people. and it would be very, very motivating for the Democrats today to vote. So I went home. I was just so upset and I thought, I'm going to go home, I'm going to turn on the TV. So we go home, we turn on the TV, and he's giving his standard stump speech. He hasn't kind of gotten to the point where he's going to make the announcement yet. And then this weird thing happens where they're playing this music under his.

It's almost like, like, you know, when you see a campaign ad and there's music behind. the ad and there's flags waving. So he's giving this speech, which sounds like an announcement speech. Yeah. Like it sounds very choreographed. And he's reading the teleprompter. And it's about America, how America's fallen on hard times and blah,

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it was really clear that he's going in the direction of he's going to, he's going to announce. But I was so, I was so upset. I just thought to myself, it doesn't seem possible that he's, he would not understand what a bad move this would be to take the focus off of all these other people. And it would also, it plays into the idea that he's selfish. He's about himself and, you know, whatever, which is, of course, to some extent true, he can be that way, right?

So at some point, and it was a very stirring speech. And at the end, he says something like today and tomorrow are about all these candidates. and I don't want to take the focus off of them. And he says, but I'm going to be making a very special announcement on November 15th at Marilago. Okay. So he announced without announcing. Yeah.

I mean, it was classic, brilliant Trump, that he gets everybody watching this rally. Yeah. How do you get people to watch the rally by teasing that you're going to announce? Well, you know, and his entrance music is hold on. that song, hold on. I forget the lyrics on. It's got to be Fleetwood Mac. Yeah. Like, hold on, just hold on a little longer. Wait, just wait. That's his new. Oh, is that right? Yeah, instead of YMCA. They did that. They mentioned that at the, yesterday. I didn't know that. Yeah, I watched a little bit of

that. It was around 815 because we're waiting for Trump to come on, my wife and I, but it was like, you know, we're going to go watch Perot. We want something nice and easy to go to sleep to here. You don't, you don't mean Ross Perot? No, no. This is L. Q. Ericcule Poirot. Ekele Poirot. Yeah. Okay. Agatha Christie.

All right. So anyway, so Trump announces without announcing. It's classic Trump. Yeah. Like he always says, I mean, he does these things that are just so funny, so interesting. He's always going to have his cake and eat it too. It's kind of like the other day when he says, and I had a phone call with such and such. And he goes, and the one with Zelensky was perfect phone call.

I think this one maybe was even more perfect. That's right. And I said more perfect. Like, that's classic Trump. How could something be more perfect? It's either perfect or something. I think this was even more perfect. So he does that, right?

So yesterday, it was the genius of essentially announcing but not announcing. And I thought to myself, this is why he really is a political genius and a showman and an entertainer. For those who hate him or love him, it is absolutely classic. But I got to tell you something, when he was giving the speech, about where America is right now and where we can go and our best days are yet to come. I got choked up because the suffering that people in this country have been through, what people have been through, the trauma of these last few years, the government overreach, if you don't push back at the poll at the voting booths today, folks,

there's so many lives that have been destroyed and ruined and so many more that will be ruined if you do not do your duty. I just beg you, folks, to take this seriously. We have a final segment coming up, a couple more announcements, and then an hour two, we'll be talking to a Broadway star. Don't go away. It's reality. I was going out while you are coming in.

Okay, we've got a big hour two coming up. Big reminder, folks, if you haven't yet voted, Jiminy Christmas, you need to. vote today. We've been through that. This is just, we're living in crazy times. Please, please vote. This nation is on the edge. And by God's grace, today we can change that. Tonight I'll be on the Victory Channel doing commentary, I think about 815 Eastern. We should say that tomorrow we will have our friends Dick Morris and Kevin McCullough back on to do commentary on what happens tonight. Yes.

If they actually decide tonight, right? We don't. don't we get into that whole thing. Right. So I also should mention next week I'm going to be in Leesburg, Virginia, Wednesday night speaking at a church in Leesburg, Virginia with Pastor Gary Hamrick. I then fly to Englewood, Colorado, and then I'll be in Fort Collins, Colorado. Holy guacamole. Wow.

A lot of crazy stuff. Good stuff coming up. I'm excited talking on the subject of my book, Letter to the American Church. Yeah. We, and by the way, next week, the day before I go to Leesburg, Virginia is November 15th, which is the day that yesterday, Trump ingeniously announced that there's going to be a big announcement on November 15th at Mara Lago from Melania's closet. He picked this very special historic spot. And also, I shouldn't forget. actually a couple things to mention.

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