The Eric Metaxas Show - Eric & Albin Share Christmas Adventures

Episode Date: December 29, 2022

Eric and Albin have been away for quite a while on individual holidays and pop back onto the program to share some of their Christmastime adventures, whether in Houston or New York or skiing with the family.

Folks, welcome to the Eric Mattaxas show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit legacy p.m.investments.com. That's legacy p.m. Investments.com. Taxis show with your host, Eric Mettaxas. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Oh, boy. Alvin, I get to say Merry Christmas, because Christmas is not just one day. It's what's in your heart. Actually, that what a dopey cliche. It's not what's in your heart.

It's, but there are 12 days of Christmas. We're in the Christmas season. And I just love the idea that we get to, now people often ask me, Eric, what's the true meaning of Christmas? And I say it's about giving gifts and being nice. Am I getting it right? Yeah, you know, spot on, spot on. Yeah, it's about giving gifts and being nicer, not being as mean as you usually are. That's the true meaning of Christmas.

No, I'm being sarcastic. The true meaning of Christmas is that, the God who created the universe came into the world as a human being. I can't go into details now because it's a little bit mind-blowing, came into the world as a human being two thousand years ago and through his life and death and resurrection made it possible for anyone who wants to join him in eternity forever. It is the most beautiful, heartbreakers. It is the most beautiful, heartbreak glorious thought story period in history in the world. And that's Christmas and it's beautiful.

And we need to make sure that we don't get lost in all the other stuff because all the other stuff is just a result of that, which is the central hope of mankind. Am I putting too fond of point on it? I don't think so. Now, Alvin, we haven't been together on the air like this for quite a while. And I want to make sure that we catch our audience up on everything we've been doing. And there's a ton. Yeah.

Okay. Number one, December 28th. Yeah. Today's December 28th. Just got to say, today's December 28th, Wednesday. Yesterday, folks, yesterday, December 27th was John Smirak's birthday. Yes. Yes.

You know how I found that out? He's a real human being. He's not a robot. He's a human being with a birthday. He was born December 27th. like a year and a half after I was born in the same hospital, different mothers. And yesterday was John Samirak's birthday. And he was supposed to be our guest on the program today.

But he got sick. He's so sick. He's so hacking and unable to talk that we decided, all right, we'll have him on either tomorrow or as soon as he's not hacking. But we're going to talk about other stuff. Now, Alvin, I want to talk about everything I've done. over Christmas and before that, you are obviously, I can see from your background, not in your normal home. No, no, I borrowed the set here. It's my nephew's bedroom actually to do this. And I, you know, I've got to talk about Christmas Eve for some reason. I was visited by three spirits. I don't know why. I think they were supposed to meet with you. Wait a minute. Seriously, was one of them rum?

Rum? Yeah. And Pum-Pum were the other two, yeah. Rum Pump. That was clever. That was very, very good. It's Christmas. What do you say? Was it vodka?

No, you say you were visited by three spirits. And so did your heart grow three sizes, Albin? Yes, that's right. And one of the light bulbs was out on one side. Ew. Okay, so we actually have a lot to cover, folks. This is hard even to get started because so much has happened. We've taken so much time.

off. Let me start by saying that we've been away for quite a while. Now, I was, I interviewed Ricky Skaggs. That was here in New York. I'm in New York now, but we interviewed Ricky Skaggs. That night was the show at Carnegie Hall. Our friends, the Gettys, Keith, and

Kristen Getty were at Carnegie Hall. And Ricky Skaggs was one of the featured, you know, big shots because they live in Nashville. They're friends with all these big shots. And Ricky was, of course, fantastic. But he was fantastic on this show. You can watch it on Rumble. If you're signed up for a newsletter,

you probably already have seen it. Yeah, if you missed it, you could catch it on Rumble. That's for sure. So I was talking about Ricky Skaggs. We became friends. And he was telling me about this album he recorded, I don't know, five or eight years ago, called Mosaic. And I am not making this up.

I never listen to whole albums. I will listen to songs or whatever, but I almost never listened to an album, certainly a new one or whatever. Well, for whatever reason, I guess I was working out in, I had flown to Phoenix to be part of Charlie Kirk's T-P-U-S-A Amfest event.

And I went to the gym that Sunday, and I put on Mosaic, the album by Ricky Skaggs. And I am, I have no words. I could not believe how beautiful every single song was. It's not like there were a few hits. Every song was a gem. Beautiful.

Really amazing. And now I forget the person who wrote the songs. Ricky does vocals. He does musicians. He's like friends with this guy. But they put this thing together. And the album is, mosaic, and I don't normally do this, but I can't recommend it highly enough. It is mosaic,

Ricky's Gags. It was so moving. I've listened to it over and over again, and I'm blown away by the songwriting, by his vocals. It is just fantastic. So I have to brag on my friend Ricky's Gags. Absolutely amazing. I'm going to Nashville to do some TBN thing on January 4th and 5th, and I'm going to see Ricky in Nashville, which is where he lives. But, and, and, and, you know, Anyway, just to reiterate, Ricky Skaggs is my new best friend, and the album Mosaic is insane. It's so beautiful. I just have no words. I don't know what to say.

He also has a book out, and he was on this program. We talked for two hours. He never mentioned the book or the album, because I guess he doesn't believe in self-promotion. The book is fantastic. It's the story of his life. I can't remember the title, but it's Ricky Skaggs. And it is talk about hillbilly upbringing. It is just amazing.

And I said, when I get back on the air, I want to tell my audience, folks, it's a great book and the album is amazing. It is so beautiful. It is just, it's like music about God, but it's not like a Christian album. You know, like it's just, anyway, okay, I'm raving and raving. I got to mention about the Babylon B. Albin, did you see what they did? Okay, this is kind of funny. A few years ago, two years ago, we made a video.

Johns Merrick changed the lyrics to Mary Did You Know, and it was Biden, did you know, and it was all about the election theft. Yeah. Oh, you didn't know that it was stolen by bums? Yeah, I'm sorry. I hate to break it to you. Sorry to be a downer. But anyway, the point is, we did, I sang, Biden, did you know, and we did this whole thing or whatever,

and it got tons and tons of views, and it's still up someplace. I'm going to post it on my social media today again. But the Babylon B recently did their own Biden, did you know, which is about the last two years of mayhem and chicanery and corruption and evil. And it's so funny and so great. But they contacted me and said, Eric, we just want you to know, we ripped you off and we're sorry and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. which of course they didn't rip me off.

They did this brilliant thing. But they asked me, did I want to make a video commenting on how they had ripped me off? And by this point, I had left Phoenix, where I was with Charlie Kirk and the whole gang at T.P.USA

and Amfest and Carrie Lake and everybody. And I was now in Utah, ostensibly to go skiing with my family. And I thought, doggone it. I don't want to make a video, but I forced myself. I put on my coat with the furline collar. But I just want to finish. We've got a lot to share. Albin, I want to tell all the Christmas stories and all the crazy stuff. But I made a video of me commenting on how the Babylon B ripped me off. And they tacked it onto the end of their beautiful video, Biden, did you know? So,

If you want to see what I was wearing, it's very provocative. You just watch, go to the Babylon B and watch. We also need to put up the Biden did you know video that I recorded the Johns Merak lyrics from two years ago. We need to get that back up. So we're going to go to a break. We're going to try to rejigger our internet connection here. Go to SalemNow.com. You can see Super Spreader the film.

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There is so much. I want to talk about what I got as gifts, what I gave. But Albin, you're in Texas. And even last night you did something. special. Tell us what have you been up to? Well, you know, I'm down here in Cyprus, Texas, which is basically a, like a suburb, I guess you'd call it of Houston. And we went to celebrate my father-in-law, great guy, Jack. We went to celebrate his 89th birthday, and we went to Taste of Texas, which is like a very famous and quite expensive restaurant, okay, like 75 to $100 steaks, but, you know,

what? And he, every, yeah, and it took an hour and a half. We had to wait an hour and a half. We had to wait an hour and a half to get a table. That's how busy it was. The whole evening took four hours, but I got to tell you, it's so decked out for Christmas. It reminded us of tavern on the green when they would deck out for Christmas in New York. But there was ornaments and everything, beautiful stuff everywhere. It was like being in a Christmas museum before you even got to eat. Yeah, he had a wait, you had some hors d'oeuvres, but it was just gorgeous hanging out and just enjoying the atmosphere, right? But we had a great celebration at Taste of Texas, and we should get them the sponsor to show. That's what we should do because I'm talking about it so much.

But the stakes are great and the atmosphere is terrific and, you know, and it had all that old-timey like ski, ski equipment and snow shoes and all these crazy stuff on the wall for for Christmas and the old-fashioned Santas, no matter where you went. Even in the restrooms, they had like museum pieces that you could look at while you're, you know, taking care of business. But anyway, that's, that was my adventure for Christmas. so far, but we're here still for the next few days through New Year's to celebrate the countdown an hour later in the Houston area. So that's how we've spent Christmas so far. Well, Alvin, I don't even know where to begin. We had Christmas at home. We, you know, just the three of us.

And it's always just a joy to have that kind of downtime with. family because I'm always traveling and there's so much going on. So, you know, we got home from our trip. But did I, I want to tell you about the trip back from Utah. Did I tell you about that? Not at all. No. Because this is, this is like, I find this hilarious. Part of the reason, you know, a lot of people don't like to go on vacation is because the vacation might be great, but getting there and getting home could be a pain in the neck, right? Right? Okay. So I'm flying Delta and it's finally time to go home from our vacation. It's December 23rd.

We're going to back to New York. We can have Christmas. And of course, we get to the airport and Delta says, oh, we don't have a pilot. Now, I don't know if you realize that, but not having a pilot could be a problem if you're going to take a plane home. It's a jetliner. Typically, without a pilot, not much is going to happen. So there's no pilot. Delta, Delta, right?

So, and you'll remember I just achieved million miler status on Delta. So anyway, there's no pilot. So we're thinking, now what? We're stuck in the Salt Lake City Airport. There's no pilot. They don't tell you when they're going to have a pilot. We're just hanging out. How long are we going to have to wait?

So on and on and on. Finally, they get a pilot. I'm thrilled. We get on the plane. The plane takes off. We fly to New York. We land at JFK. We're only about an hour and a half later than we've

thought little georgie is is home alone she was dropped off she's waiting for her family so the plane lands at jfk and then they tell us guess what they tell us can you guess no what what we're sorry we don't have a gate we have to sit on the tarmac now we flew across the country but now everyone has to sit on the plane and uh you can't use the bathroom and just sit there because we're waiting for a gate Delta at JFK. So it was supposed to be about 15 minute delay. It was an hour and a half before they found a gate for the plane to go to. So by now, of course, my hair is falling out from sheer anger.

And everybody on the plane is like, we're exhausted. It's late. It's now, I don't know, it's 11 o'clock at night. And, you know, it's just such an ordeal. we finally get off the plane. We go to baggage claim because of course we've been skiing, we've got stuff to pick up.

At baggage claim, an hour passes. There is no movement. I don't know how long it takes to get the bags out of the plane. It really usually takes a few minutes, right? An hour passes. An hour passes.

We decide now I should go home just to see if the dog is still alive and whatever. And it's a whole complicated reasoning system. I get home about a half an hour later, my wife and daughter get home. The luggage finally arrived, okay? But the irony of this hell, which makes you say like, oh, I'm never traveling again, ever, right? When I got home after this ordeal on Delta Airlines, what is waiting for me in the mail. It's a little package congratulating me on being a million-mile or status guy with Delta.

It's great. It's a beautiful little cube that, you know, that tells the world that I've achieved what very few have achieved. And I just thought the irony to get this after having that kind of an experience, did I mention it was Delta? Anyway, but it was unbelievable. So of course, you know, we slept. like the dead. And then Christmas Eve, we woke up and we had tons of stuff to do because we'd been away. So we're running all around the city and doing all kinds of stuff. And I don't know about where you were, but it was so cold. I mean, I know it was cold in Houston too, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. It was cold down here too. Unusually cold. No snow, but. Bitterly, bitterly, cold. Really, really, really, really cold. But of course, we had a wonderful time on Christmas morning.

I took now, if people don't follow me on Instagram, I typically don't post this stuff on Twitter, but I posted a picture of the Christmas tree, the famous Christmas tree that I carried. And we have a Christmas tradition every Christmas morning after we open up our gifts. We have a Christmas breakfast. So I put a picture of that on Twitter. And we, we, we have a Christmas breakfast. So I put a picture of that on Twitter. And, you know, it was just a sweet, it was just a sweet day. It's a sweet, it's a sweet day. And then we drove to Danbury, Connecticut to see my mom and dad. Wow, that's terrific.

And they're doing well, hopefully. They're, they're doing well. Now, my parents could be like really annoying in their 40s. So when you combine that with like not hearing and stuff, like it can be stressful. but I love them so much that, you know, we're pretty much, we're going to keep the family together. We made a decision. We're going to, I'm going to, we're going to keep the family together. But no, it's being in Damry, it's always an adventure.

You don't know what's going to happen. We, I made, I built a fire, a beautiful fire. For about 40 years, my mother and father decided we don't want fires in the fireplace. It's too dirty. It's too dirty. That's the German. Yeah. My mother's like, it's too dirty.

But in recent years, I was able to twist their arms and saying, hey, you have. have a fireplace. It's cold. It's winter. Let me build a fire. So we had a wonderful fire. We're hanging out. And it's just, it's just a joy. It's one of the things that I got for Christmas was my daughter goes to Schaller and Weber, which is like the last remaining outpost of the German section in Manhattan on 86th Street. They call it Yorktown and bought all this German food. And we had that Christmas, the day after Christmas, we had just an extraordinary German dinner with German beer and German sourcrow. And it was just wonderful. But there's so much else I want to share.

I'm trying to think. How much time do we have in this segment? Oh, I think we have, what, another nine? Yeah, another one minute. Oh, we've only got two minutes. Okay. Okay. One of the things I got for Christmas, my daughter did me this big favor.

she took my old computer to the Apple store. It's a big complicated thing because it pretty much died on me. And on Christmas day, I opened it up and rediscovered all this writing that I thought I'd lost forever. Wow. I discovered a Christmas poem. I'm going to send out an email, maybe today or tomorrow, but I wrote a Christmas poem, I think two or three years ago. and I never did anything with, and it's called Christmas Eve Carol. And it's really meant to be like a Christmas Carol more than a poem.

But I lost it forever. And I rediscovered it. And I think I'm going to, I'll post it on my, if you get my Ericmetaxis.com email, you know, whatever. I'll post it on it probably today or tomorrow. We're pretty much out of time in this segment. As hard as it may be for us to comprehend here in America, there are people in other parts of the world whose very lives are being threatened simply for believing in Jesus. In fact, people are being enslaved for their faith. Some have been in bondage for 25 or 30 years. If you've been listening for any period of time, you know I'm passionate about the work of Christian Solidarity International, a ministry that sets these captives free. There are hundreds of thousands persecuted and enslaved in the Middle East. Together, we can literally buy their freedom and save the lives of some precious brothers and sisters this Christmas, giving them the joy and hope that we celebrate freely. For only $250, you can provide life-saving aid this Christmas. You can buy a believer's freedom and provide them with much-needed food, a goat, and other goods

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Merry Christmas. We're having internet issues today, but we love you anyway, but we hate the internet. Okay, Albin, listen, there's so much else I want to cover. Like, we've been away for so long, just crazy stuff. Gifts. Did I mention? that, well, we keep telling our audience to support our sponsors, mypillo.com, my store.com. And also the greatest gift you could give, if you're looking for a meaningful gift, ladies and gentlemen, it does not get more meaningful than going to metaxis talk.com and clicking on the banner to free a slave in southern

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So do it today. And I was going to say, I don't know if we're going to have time at the end of this hour or at the end of hour two for me to read the poem that I wrote. But I just couldn't believe that I discovered it. I got choked up because I thought I put so much time into writing this poem. and it was gone forever and when we resurrected this old computer I found it among some other things so maybe I will read it

I will certainly post it on my website but we do want to encourage people also to go to mypillow.com and my store.com Albin for Christmas my mother wanted the blue sheets from mypillow.com I said mom I'll take care of it

I know the code I'm going to use I'm going to use the code Eric and I went on there, and by the time I went on there, they were sold out. So I guess I'll just have to keep checking back, but obviously we want to recommend that you go there. But then I went to MyStore.com, and I got loads of the coffee. My sister-in-law didn't even know that there was a MyStore.com. So people that I love, people close to me, are not aware that the empire of Mike Lindell is now extended to MyStore. And that you have to use the code Eric.

If you don't use the code Eric, Santa Claus is bringing you coal next year. That's just, that's a, it's a scientific fact. And we follow the science. So you got to use the code Eric. But I got a ton of coffee for my family. It is, as we all know, like you think we're just saying this, it's great. It's great coffee. And we did get my mom, the my slippers.

I wanted the whole world to know that we got her, the my slippers. My slippers. Okay, Albin, I don't know if you just mentioned it. My store.com, the coffee now comes in pods. I didn't know that. If I knew that, I would have bought it for my brother and my sister-in-law because they use these pods. So I think I might have to go on there and get that for them as a New Year's gift. So that's my store.com.

Obviously, my pillow. And I don't think I mentioned it. we got my slippers for my mom. She was like, I need new slippers. I was like, excuse me, excuse me, I got a guy, Mike Lindell. He's got a source. It's mypillow.com. You use the code Eric and we'll fix you up and everybody's happy.

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But you had me going. We got to keep people guessing, man. If they find out my real location, it's all over. I was going to say. Okay, so you recently had a meeting with a bank about a shareholder resolution. And, okay, let me explain to my audience in case they don't remember what InspireAdvisors.com is all about. you guys are trying to get people to invest their money in ways that don't undermine everything they believe in. And tons and tons and tons of us have a 401k or whatever it is that we've going on.

And there's all kinds of stuff that we're invested in, which is completely evil, contrary to what we believe in, pro-abortion stuff, pro-pornography stuff. And you're trying to help people get their money out of those things. So let me say, folks, that's why I want you to go to inspireadvisors.com slash, Eric inspireadvisors.com. But tell us about your recent meeting with the shareholder meeting with this bank person. Yeah. So it inspires faith-based, biblically responsible managers.

We constantly engage with the companies that we invest in and others to really speak biblical truth to corporate power. The left has been doing this for decades and is why they're largely winning that battle in corporate America. So we manage about $2 billion in growing rapidly, one of the fastest growing investment firms in the nation. praise God. And so recently we've been engaging with some shareholder resolutions with financial institutions, specifically around the issue of debanking and this really troubling trend of debanking and cancellation of conservative people and organizations from banking platforms,

canceling accounts, closing accounts. Later today, I have a follow-up meeting with the general counsel of M&T Bank. It's the employee 17,000 people. Their market cap is over $30 billion, so a large, bank. And we have a meeting with the very top people to discuss this resolution. And it's because people like your listeners who invest with us have brought this money together in one place that we can be your advocate to speak this truth and be that voice where we can have these sorts of meetings and get real action from some of the largest corporations in America. Well, it's an amazing thing again that the left is using their power to cross. Christians and people with biblical values, anybody with family values. You don't need to be a

Christian. But if you believe in what most Americans have traditionally believed in, there are people, there are elites using banking, using the financial world, using the corporate world in really horrible, horrible ways. You've got to be aware of this. And then we have to push back, which is one of the reasons that I get excited to talk to you, Robert Netsley, because when I heard what you are doing, I said, how do we tell the world? How do we get people to understand that you're participating in a wicked system? Unless you get your money out of these places, we have no voice. We're going to have no voice.

And so, again, the action point is please go to inspireadvisors.com slash Eric. And you can get a free investment report. But to find out how your money is. working against what we believe in how you can get it out. I mean, this is, unfortunately, this is crucial that we understand this. So please keep going, Robert. Right. I mean, the time for passivity is over.

We can't just sit back and hope things get better. The hard truth is if you're sitting here listening to this right now and you have not taken a look at your portfolio, I can almost guarantee. And guarantee is a word you can't really use an investment world very often. But I can almost guarantee you that you're invested in stuff that would that make your stomach churn. And not only that, you probably have money in secular fund companies like Black Rock, Ice shares, et cetera, who are actively using your money right now and your shareholder

vote to advocate for things like the institutionalization of anti-family policies, pro-abortion policies, pushing against religious freedom, make it legal for corporations to fire people who have religiously held views, traditional viewpoints on sexual. orientation and gender identity. These things are happening right now with your money if you haven't been paying attention. And so you need to look at these things. And that's with that report that you mentioned. If you go to inspired advisors.com slash Eric, our team is putting together free reports for your listeners so they can actually find out what they're invested in and how they can simply and easily, frankly, it's not that hard to make some changes to the portfolio and align their money to actually

support the viewpoints and values that you hold most dear and stop things like debanking of conservative faith-based Christians, you know, others who hold these sorts of viewpoints. It's, it's atrocious that's happening in America. And it has to stop, but it only will stop if people like those listening right now take some action. So we'd love to help you empower that through InspiredAdvisor.com slash Eric. And that's what our team is passionate about. And I want to be clear, folks, it's crazy not to do this because this is free, okay?

this is free. InspireAdvisors.com slash Eric. We want to help you to get your money out of these places that are working against you and that are gaining power, by the way. You've got to take the power back because we are allowing them to gain power to the point where we won't be able to fight against them. And I keep saying this wherever I go that right now, whatever power you have, whatever God has given you, whatever money you have, whatever voice you have, whatever freedom you have, whatever talents you have, you need to use it now for God's purposes. If you don't, in a future day soon, you will no longer be able to use it. You will no longer have a voice. They will no longer be the ability to push back because these folks are working overtime. And so we need to do what we can.

So again, inspireadvisors.com slash Eric, it is totally free. Robert, we've just got a minute left. What else can we talk about? Well, you know, again, I just can't stress it enough to pay attention, right? The only thing that's needed for evil to succeed in the world is for good people to do nothing, right? You speak about that all the time, Eric. I'm so thankful for it. And this is the area of finance and investing is a hugely influential area. Christians and Protestants, Catholics, we control more than half the assets, investment assets in this country. So if we just kind of got together and paid attention, that could be a huge, a huge voice for freedom and religious freedom.

Well, I consider it values. I mean, look, I talk about this all the time. Where you spend your money, folks. You have a choice of where you spend your money. Do you spend it with a company that's going to work against your values or with your values? Way bigger than that. Where your money is invested. We've got to get serious about this.

So let me exhort you again to go to inspireadvisors.com slash Eric. This is free. inspireadvisors.com slash Eric and they will help you. Robert Netsley, thank you. God bless you. It's my pleasure. God bless you.

Folks, we're not making this up. Christmas is coming. And if you haven't done all your shopping, how can we help you? Well, we've got some cookie ideas. Now before I give you the cookie ideas, let me remind you, SalemNow.com.

There's all kinds of great stuff there at SalemNow.com. Super spreader of the documentary. tells the story our friend Sean Foyt. It's actually a big deal what he has done putting the film together. I mean, what he's done in general is a big deal and he continues to do it.

Spreading the gospel. People are being healed and delivered. Like, not theoretically, actually. I'm in the film. So you've got to go to SalemNow.com. You can also see the talk show with Eric Metaxus and Albin Seder. You won't even believe it. People who watch it,

you'll be like, how do they do? What is this? This is insane. The talk show, this is Salem Now Now, Albin, for actual Christmas gifts, okay, there's some gifts at my store.com. I keep saying my store.com, it's our friend, Mike Lindell. All of my books are, almost all my books are available there. Okay, use the code Eric. You get a good price. Bonhofer poster. But if you're looking for like gifts that nobody else, you can't find them anywhere else, they have the Boaz-a-Bachi ball retriever. Hmm. Who hasn't wanted to retrieve a botchy ball now and again?

Well, your problems can be solved with the Boaz light botchy ball retriever. All you have to do is go to my store.com. You think I'm making this up? Go to my store.com. Use the code Eric. And you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. I'm not joking around, okay? There is also a, I mean, there's so many products here.

I just want to encourage people to go there and to, wander around because you can't even believe some of the stuff that you're helping support Mike Lundell and if you use the code Eric, you're helping support this program. There's a lot of practical stuff made in America socks. Okay? They're not made in China. Made in America socks. You know, these are just great gifts, Christmas all around the year. If you're looking for, you know how they have office gifts? You have to buy something unusual for the office and have a little fun with it. This is where you find those fun office gifts. Fun office gifts.

There are just so many things there that I don't know where to start, but I want to encourage people anti-slip pads for your shoes. Who doesn't need that? Anti-slip pads for your shoes. A lot of you are slipping and sliding out there. Well, you can put an end to that by going to my store.com. Use the code Eric and click on the clothing tab and you'll see, son of a gun, there's a solution.

my shoes need not slip as much as they've been slipping previously. Albin, you mentioned the Wolf Perfect Pet Stain Remover. Yes, sir. It works for virtually every kind of pet stain. There's bleed clot pet. If your pet bleeds a lot. And, you know, that just messes up the house. Bleed clot pet, it's available with the code.

Eric, there's something called the rude kitty cat salad. Did you know about this? No, no, not at all. You have to go to my store.com. Alvin, you're going to be responsible for this material on the test, okay? So you need to go to my store.com. And you're going to see the rude kitty cat salad. What is it?

Well, it's an organic, sustainable mixture of cereal grasses and broadleaf greens that are human grade. We call it cat grass so people can find it online. And you could all, yes, you could also nibble these delectable leaves. It's not just for cats, hamsters, birds, reptiles, and dogs love it too. Wow. This is all available at my store.com. Use the code Eric. And you know what?

It would be a nice thing for us to mention. We're doing a campaign at CSI. I'm not going to get into it. But you know who you are if you haven't done this yet. You go to metaxus talk.com, greatest gift you could give. Metaxistococ.com. click on the CSI banner. It is so meaningful.

I'll get choked up if I think about it. Metaxistalk.com, click on the banner for CSI. God bless you.