The Eric Metaxas Show - Joshua Philipp (continued)

Episode Date: July 22, 2022

Joshua Philipp continues his dive into the state of "journalism" today; "Ask Metaxas" wonders what will happen in the midterms; and the Talbotts offer advice that just might save your business.

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On Thursday, that's today we do a segment. called Ask Mataxis. After this segment, we go back to our regular programming, but we've interrupted the regular programming as we do every week for Ask Mataxis. So there are questions that people have written in, and I try to answer them. Albin, you read the questions,

and I try to answer them. Okay, go. Go. Number one, my favorite book of C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity. In his space trilogy, I enjoyed the first two books, but I could not finish that hideous strength due to the blaspheming

in it. The same thing happened when I read Great Divorce. What was his response to this criticism? What? Yeah. There are certain questions. I just, my first response is, I'm sorry, what? Evidently, this, first of all, this person is spelled favorite the British way. Yes. Shame on you for that, whoever you are. No. I want to say that I am unaware of, quote, unquote, blaspheming in any books written by C.S. Lewis. So I really don't know exactly what to say, except I think you're mistaken, or maybe you have your filters set too high. Like, maybe it's not really blaspheming, but you thought it was? And what was his response to this criticism? I don't know. I was only born a few months before he died, so I wasn't able to ask him

that question. All right. I think those are two are from the Blue series, but I could be wrong. Yeah, he worked blue kind of like Red Fox. Yeah, we forgot about that. Question number two, when you say, to be sure we are signed up to your newsletter, does that mean we should be getting one every day, every month? Could you explain what it looks like? Actually, he's come to my attention that Salem Radio sends out newsletters, like maybe every day or something.

That's not my newsletter, folks. And if you're subscribed to that, it's annoying you, unsubscribe. But that's probably from the radio site, metaxus talk.com. My newsletter, which we sent out once a week, which is the one that I need you to get, is at ericmetaxis.com. If you go to ericmetaxis.com and you sign up for the newsletter there, you're getting my personal newsletter, which comes out about once a week. Sometimes we send it out twice a week.

But if you're getting other stuff with ads and whatever, that's the Salem Radio newsletter. That is not my newsletter. I don't send out advertisements, and I certainly don't send it out every day. It's about once a week, sometimes twice a week, and you have to get it from Ericmetaxis.com. Please be sure that you are right. Yeah, a lot of good things coming up. So get that newsletter. What is your favorite way to take your eggs?

Scramble over easy? Can you list all the ways? Well, doesn't this sound like somebody's preparing to mail me eggs as a gift, cooked eggs? And they want to, they're so sweet that they want to know how I would like the eggs that they're planning to mail to me, thinking I would actually eat such a thing. No, I don't understand why this person is asking this question, except this is one of our goofy listeners because they know that I'm a goofy host and I like goofy questions. And the answer is, I like eggs every darn way. I like eggs, and so I like them. However you want to make them, I'll eat them.

Let's leave it at that. They've heard of My Coffee, so maybe My Coffee using the code Eric, they're thinking about eggs to go with your coffee. MyEgs.com. No, maybe. But, yeah, actually thank you for reminding me. Go to MyStore.com and order the coffee. MyStore.com.

Order everything there. Use the code, Eric. Thank you. If you were a betting man, and you just got back from Vegas, which you don't like, what do you think is going to happen in the November elections? Well, I think if Americans aren't stupid and cowardly, they will go to the polls in droves and vote for the most conservative Republican candidates they can possibly find. If they don't, we deserve a Marxist dystopia,

which is basically what we're getting day by day. But I think that by God's grace alone, people understand everything's at stake. And if you don't take it seriously, folks, you're part of the problem. I'm just telling you. If you do not take this seriously, if you don't do your part, you're part of the problem. So what happens, literally depends on you. Okay. So are you optimistic?

Maybe I can put a quick... Well, I guess I'm optimistic, but I'm very cautiously optimistic because we need major, major, major change. So we'll see. If you had to move to a state in the Midwest, which one would it be? If I had to move to a state in the Midwest, which one would it be? I think either Bahrain or the United Arab Emirates. I'm just, I'll stick with that. Okay.

Have any of your books not done as well as you think they should have? And which book stands out to you? Well, yeah, I think my book, Fish Out of Wills. water, which is the story of my life coming up to the point of my conversion, probably, because it came out during COVID, didn't do quite as well. I mean, a lot of people have gotten copies. We're coming out with the paperback sometime next year, but I kind of feel like it's a fun read, and I don't want all my books to be desperately serious.

So fish out of water is a, it's a fun read. I mean, it also gives you a lot of insight into how God has steered me in my life to the point where I finally opened my heart to him and understood the meaning of life, which is the subtitle. It's called The Fish Out of Water or Search for the Meaning of Life. I would also say my book, if you can keep it, I wish I could give that book to every single American. It's probably the easiest to read of all my books, if you can keep it. And it will, most people who read it are.

like thrilled because they think I finally get it. I never understood this. That's how I felt when I wrote it. So I'll leave it at that, those books. Okay. How do you find out if you were speaking somewhere near me? How do I find out? No, well, them, I guess, in the fall. What's your schedule like? Well, the question says, how do I find out? Yeah. How do I find out? So this is the, somebody's asking how do they find out? Well, let me simply say it couldn't be easier. You go to Eric Mataxis.com and you look under speaking and it will tell you. But here's a little tip. This is a hot tip. If you go to EricMetaxis.com and look under speaking, oh, sure, it's listed there. But if you go to EricMetaxis.com and sign up for the newsletter,

we will send you all information in advance, and we will send you links to my speaking so that you can even watch me speak, even if you can't get there physically. I am speaking everywhere this fall.

We are doing a bunch of Socrates in the city events. I'm going to be in Houston. I'm going to going to be in San Jose, California. I'm going to be back in Washington State. I'm going to be I mean, I'll be in Dallas. You've got a brand new book coming out, so there you go. I have a book coming out. Actually, thank you. We should say, I should say unapologetically, please pre-order the book. It's called Letter to the American Church. Please pre-order it. You always get the cheapest price. Wherever you pre-order from, they will give you the cheapest price between now and when it launches.

So, but if you pre-order, it helps the book significantly. The pre-orders help, but it's called Letter to the American Church. And I will be speaking everywhere. I mean, honestly, I will be in Manchester, New Hampshire. I will be in Columbus, Ohio. I will be everywhere. And I hope you can come. So go to EricMetakS.com.

Send it for the newsletter. Okay. Do you have a playlist I can listen to? I love your music taste. Well, that's nice. Isn't that sweet? Well, the playlist, we used to have a playlist

for the Eric Metaxus show on Spotify. I think if people go to Spotify and put an Eric Metaxus show music, it comes up there. And there used to be a link on the website. I think it's still on the radio website, on the radio website. Yeah, yeah, but it hasn't been updated, I don't think, in a while.

Well, close enough. If you go to Metaxus, talk. You'll get a lot there. That's the radio website. Now, to be confused with my personal website. Ericmetaxis.com is my personal website. The radio website is metaxis talk.com. And I do believe that we had a link to the music on that website.

But I'm going to think about this because, yeah, so many people say that to me. They love the bumper music, and I love it too. That's why I put it on there. So thank you very much for your questions. Albin, thank you for so kindly reading. the questions. And we'll be right back. to sound your A, the day you're born, I tell you chum, it's time to come blow your horn. The taller the tree is the sweeter the peat.

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I could kind of smell it on the horizon. I could smell the smoke that we're drifting in this direction. And people who read the Bonhofer book today say, it's insane. It's exactly where we are now. I think, unfortunately, that's true. So the question is, what can we do about it? I have a book coming out in the fall called Letter to the American Church, where I try to get Christians to understand their role in standing against us.

But right now I'm sitting here with senior investigative reporter at the Epic Times and the host of Crossroads on Epic Times TV, Joshua Phillips. Joshua, welcome back. Hey, pleasure as always, Eric. You're here principally because you're in New York and you have created a documentary. It's called The Real Story of January 6th. which I want my audience to know about. I want them to see it.

I want them to do their part to help promote it because Americans need to understand these pieces of the puzzle. There's a madness being unleashed across America, whether it's the transgender madness that we're being told that we have to forget everything we've ever known in human history about men and women, about human sexuality, about marriage, about, you know, that's one piece of it.

then there's critical race theory, you know, Black Lives Matter, this movement that are basically Marxists. They've created this narrative. It's all madness. And then there is, of course, January 6th and what we see happening in our own government with regard to the demonization of patriotic Americans. Let's put it there. If you love America, you are on their list. They have a different view. They seem to be either working directly for or indirectly for the Chinese Communist Party or people at least who have affinities with them to take down the America that may not be perfect, but that has been what Lincoln called the last best hope of earth, this nation that prizes liberty and that tries to get things right.

And so the January 6th part, it's a big part to think that we have senators like Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell working with many others to create a narrative that demonizes people who love America. It seems hard to believe, but it's happening, and we need to face it. And you have made a film about it. Now, the film is brand new. How can people see the film? They can watch it on Epic TV. That's E-P-O-C-H-T-V.com.

Epic TV. Okay. And, folks, if you're not subscribed to the Epic Times, I think you're a communist. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That's my opinion. But also as a journalist, I think it's true. No, you really are a journalist,

and you bring an array of journalistic skills to bear on something that has been so deliberately confused. The mainstream media keeps putting out this information, and you keep saying, wait a minute, there's so much information that counters what they're saying. How do we make sense of it? So you decided to make a documentary. Well, and what we found is what you're saying,

that really this seems to be a big collective of life, being used to incriminate innocent Americans, being used politically to really do away with this patriotic MAGA-Trump-type movement. This goes back to one of the things that Democrats talked about shortly after Trump left office, which was they needed to have a purge, right? They needed to get rid of the Trump movement. They wanted to destroy it somehow. This, I think, grassroots phenomena that started up under Trump, and they had to find a way to cleanse the country of it.

and whether or not this was intentional from the beginning, we do know, and we can say very accurately, that they're using January 6th for that purpose. They're using this image that if you're a Trump supporter, you're a terrorist, that if you're a Trump supporter, you're an insurrectionist, that if you believe that the 2020 elections were stolen, while you should be in jail even.

In fact, even the judges in some of these cases are asking people to renounce their belief if they believe the 2020 elections were stolen. Again, I'm like a broken record, but it is so hard for me to believe this is happening in America. This is so heartbreaking. But, folks, we need to do everything we can to stand against this, to wake up those who are open to the truth. You know, you mentioned the Democrats having this idea that we've got to purge. Whatever they mean, this sounds like communist talk or it sounds like Nazi talk.

I think it's like cleanse the nation. Yeah, it's like ethnic cleansing. It's like racial cleansing. It's completely fundamentally satanic, sick, un-American. You fill in the pejorative. But the point is that many Republicans, whom we would call rhinos, I guess, they're participating. Mitch McConnell, and even Mike Pence, has spoken in such a way to strongly suggest,

if not outright, say that Trump was trying to incite either an insurrection or what. they're using this kind of language in a sense to ally themselves with what they feel is safe, the safe part of the Republican Party. Nikki Haley, others, they have participated in this because they're happy to work with the Democrats. And this is when you hear people say, well, it's a one-party system. It's, you know, the Republicans are working with the Democrats and you think, oh, no, no, no. Well, that is exactly what's happening. I mean, you don't need dramatic examples like Liz Cheney and Mitch,

Mitt Romney and others, a lot of people that we would think of as good guys are at least compromised, and they seem to be working to do this. But anybody who cares about America understands that, you know, many Americans love Trump, love America, and are not people who should be demonized or treated this way. So the fact that they're being treated this way or characterized this way kind of tells you everything you need to know. At least that's how I process it. Well, on that point, I would say January 6 is the perfect crime, so to speak, or at least the way they've used it,

because they control a lot of the political establishment, they control a lot of the media, really even a lot of the judges and juries, I'd say, are compromised. Because they've made it so you can't say otherwise, basically. If you were to post a video of January 6 on YouTube, they would delete your video. They'd probably give you a strike, and they might even delete your channel. Some people have had that happen to them. the public is being rendered unable to see the information unless you have an alternate channel like we luckily do.

Otherwise, we would never be able to show this. Now, while they're corrupting, I think, public opinion on this by one telling lies in one side, then two, denying outlets of information that could show you the truth. They're taking people up on trial on this. They're making them confess to crimes. Many of them did not commit, even based on basic evidence, and even based on basic evidence. and even based in the way they're applying law in ways it's never been used before, like disrupting an official proceeding, which was made for Enron.

It was made for companies deleting evidence, not people protesting, you know, the county of electoral college vote, which ironically Democrats did in 2016 when they tried to get the electors to, you know, change their vote, basically, right? They're doing that. What they're doing also, as people make, again, plead deals and so on, they're getting people to confess to crimes that didn't, commit for significantly lower sentences. And that's establishing a backlog of all these different confessions, which they can then

try to use politically in targeting Trump especially. Well, this happened to my recent guest, Dr. Simone Gold, who did absolutely nothing, but was so frightened, and this is what they do. This is what is what is so wicked. They basically say, listen, you might go to jail for 20 years. Why don't he just plead guilty to this? We'll give you 60 days, and you can walk away. And of course, reasonable people say, okay, even though they know they didn't do anything wrong, but this has happened across America.

You know, it's happened through the decades, but it's happening right now. And it's very, very ugly. What do you think has prevented some congressman or senators from launching a big investment? or have some made noises about that? I'd say there's two things really stopping them. On one side, I'd say it's lack of exposure to information because they're limited to what information they can get. Really, a lot of them don't have the video evidence.

A lot of them haven't had time to sit down and watch like 14,000 hours of video. As a journalist, you would have to kind of do. A lot of them don't have that kind of access. So they haven't been exposed to the evidence that they could really use in a strong way to really say what really happened. That's something we hope to do with this documentary, actually, is provide the real story. On the other side, too, I think a lot of them have been pressured into silence. And so they believe that if they step forward and say something,

they're going to be attacked by the political establishment. They're going to be attacked by very likely the media, the mainstream media that have really worked hand in hand with the political establishment, have been telling lies on behalf of them, and even maybe attacked by corporate America. And a lot of them believe if they do this, it's going to ruin their chances of getting reelected or anything like that. Well, there are just a handful of heroes in the United States, Congress and Senate. You know, Josh Hawley, Lauren Bobert, Marjorie Taylor Green. There's just a handful of folks who have said are countries at stake, and I'm going to speak up about it, Rand Paul and others, on a number of issues, whether we're talking about the vaccines or we're talking about this.

so many crazy things that we're facing right now. And it takes real courage. But I want to say before we go to the break here, that there are people at the New York Times. There are people in these places. Folks, history is going to judge you. God's going to judge you. This is very important that you tell the truth. We'll be right back. Tell me, Eric, why is relief factor so successful at lowering or eliminating pain? I'm often asked that question. The owners of Relief Factor tell me they believe our bodies were designed to heal. That's right, designed to heal, and I agree with them. So the doctors who formulated relief factor for them selected the four best ingredients, yes, 100% drug-free ingredients, each helps your body deal with inflammation. Each of the four

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Josh, as a heroic alternative to the profoundly compromised corrupt mainstream media. I'm just, I thank God, I don't know where I would turn if it weren't for the Epic Times. It's kind of strange to me that we're living in these times that most of the media outlets that we would kind of assume are going to tell the truth, have either ceased to tell the truth, or have jumped on to a narrative that's deliberately confusing or deceptive. You mentioned the New York Times. I never, you know, thought the New York Times was evil, but I didn't think it was Pravda. I thought it's the New York Times.

They lean left. But they have really gone over a cliff. And it does seem that way, unfortunately. I mean, I agree with you, too. So, I mean, as a journalist myself, and I know you do great work, too, and I'm sure you've watched plenty of it, that when you try to do. to fact-check other media, because I'm sure you go through the same process. When you want to say something, you have to make sure what you're saying is accurate. We don't just report hearsay.

That includes following reporting from other media. And so when I publish an article, I have to fact-check it. My editor has to fact-check it. The copy editor has to fact-check it. Then the page editor has to fact-check it. And we find through that process that if we try to go by what other media say, it doesn't hold up. Many of these mainstream news, in New York Times and others, they're lying through their teeth on just a daily constant basis. But they have thrown journalism off the cliff. They're no longer, they're literally no longer doing journalism. What they have been doing for decades and decades, building up these institutions and these reputations, they are literally no longer doing that. Look, I've had tons of articles written about me. I know that it's

echo chamber. Somebody said something, and then somebody quotes something, which is not accurate, and then it's quoted again and again and it becomes fact. And I know for a fact, it's not true. And you see this happening over and over. So journalistic standards have been thrown away. And you and I were talking about this in Las Vegas the other day, trying to figure out how do we get back to where journalists see what they do as a calling. It's not just a way to make a buck or to get a career,

but a noble calling to speak truth. Well, I think this goes back to the purpose of journalism. the purpose of news. And I know, yeah, you and I talked about this in Vegas. We were on a panel together. James O'Keefe, Rob Monster. It was a great panel. But one of the points I think that was brought up was,

what is the purpose of news and what is the purpose of journalism? This goes back to the founding of this country. And the idea of the fourth estate, that media is the representative of the people. We're the watchdogs, the ones who people pay, right, in the form of subscriptions or buying our products or whatever. They pay us to go and, and make sure government's doing what it says it's supposed to be doing

and make sure that politicians are doing what they said they do on their campaign trail, that without that form of holding them accountable, there's nothing holding them accountable. And journalists as representatives of the public on that role are supposed to be doing that. Now, what are they doing? They're not doing that anymore. Imagine if New York Times and Washington Post, none of these other newspapers, held Biden to the same level of scrutiny they held Trump.

You would watch, you would see Hunter Biden, plastered on the front page of every paper every day of the week. I mean, you'd watch scandal after scandal come out on all of his dealings in other countries. This would be nonstop, and you're not seeing any of that. Well, it's enough to make you utterly cynical to the point of nealism, I have to say, but that's not okay. We ought not to be cynical. We have to be realists, and we have to be hopeful, and we have to do the right thing. But we need to understand that this has been happening. And you're quite right. It was when I saw the Hunter Biden laptop story crushed in October of 2020, that's when I realized

we're in a new day. As bad as things had been, I had never seen anything like that. I had never seen journalists sell their soul to the devil. Basically say, I cannot and will not do my job because it conflicts with what I hope will happen, which is that Trump will lose. they really made clear where their affinities lay, and it was a shocking moment for me, but we've seen much more of that since then. They seem to be in an all-out war. In other words, it seems like that's how they justify this behavior. Well, and I think on that point, they kind of pushed it too far, which, you know, to kind of add hope to this,

I think is where there is hope. The institutions have exposed themselves. I think people who might have believed that New York, Times was really like we were talking about earlier. Maybe they had a few biased reporters, this kind of ivory tower type mentality. Maybe they had some of those, but overall they were still an institution that really maybe valued real journalism. That mask fell off when Trump became president. They stopped trying. Same thing with CNN. A lot of people believe that they were just held good integrity. Maybe they leaned left, but really, they really damaged their own reputation

quite a bit when Trump was president. Not to mention a lot of public officials, and even a lot of what We now call rhinos, Republicans who Americans thought were representing them on the conservative side, but are not. I mean, when I think that I voted for John McCain, I voted for Mitt Romney, and then to see both of them behave absolutely disgracefully. I mean, there's no other word to describe their behavior when McCain peevishly screwed his entire country for which he had fought and suffered by voting against making it possible that Obama. care would carry through when you see Mitt Romney behave similarly you think these are not people that ought to be leading they have no the dignity and the honor that you expect in your representatives that they're supposed to take you know there's always going to be corrupt people but we we really have seen you know people reveal their their true colors and it is it is horrifying so we the people

have to step up um which is why i know we're out of time which is why I guess I hope people will at least subscribe to the Epic Times and will watch the real story of January 6th, a documentary film. It is important, ladies and gentlemen, Joshua Phillips. Thank you and God bless you. Pleasure. Thank you. Hey there, folks. Eric Metaxis here. As you know, our friend, and he's a real friend, Mike Lindell, has a passion to help everyone get the best sleep of their life. But he didn't stop by simply creating the best pillow. Now Mike has done it again by introducing

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800-978 3057. Hey there, folks. We continue our series with Pete and Seth Talbot of the Talbot group where I get to ask kind of a classic business question. So the question I'm asking this week is. from the point of view of the business owner who wants to know, is my age an advantage or a disadvantage? You're looking at me.

I'm looking at you. What are you looking at me for? Yes. Well, I started in business pretty early. I graduated from high school with a 1.1, and I'm proud that I made it through high school. I'm kind of off the charts with my... Every successful businessman has a story like this, right?

But my folks, I wish I could be. And then he sales. His story is not my story. He never cracked a book once in 4. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, just drove me nuts. Okay.

Anyway. But my folks let me get into business at age 16. And I started singing professionally. Singing. Singing. In nightclubs. And as a Christian, there's a lot of old fuddy-duddy, Christians that weren't too happy about it.

But I was with three guys and we were good and we sang in nightclubs and we did special events for Campus Cusade for Christ and what have you. It's how you eventually met Pat Boone. Yeah, that's how we met Pat Boone.

His agent saw us at a club in Santa Barbara. Long story. So your parents let you, said, enough with the books, singing, at a rear and singing. I did make it through high school, Belvey Christian School I made it through. But if I hadn't had that outlet, I think I don't know what would have happened.

I then had my own TV show at 18, an hour a week. I interviewed politicians and what have you, opened my first restaurant, and I talked about five loads. You know, for a dumb guy, you're pretty smart. Well, I wasn't afraid to risk, and I'm afraid I had some dark, I had some dark, had some failures in businesses throughout the last 50, 60 years. But I'm asked all the time, why don't you retire? Well, usually by me. Well, it's a standard assumption.

But on our website, we talk about old school and new school. Obviously, I'm old school. Sometimes I get, you know, I don't understand. all of the technical aspects of high tech and all the computer and the programming and what have you. But you're never too old. I am having more fun than I have ever had in my life. And I think we benefit from the amount of experiences that you have. So my answer to this is twofold is that the more exposure you have if you're a student of learning.

and you're constantly trying to innovate and pivot, innovate and pivot, your age is a massive advantage. Conversely, the first executive book I ever read, which I mentioned to you, I think, in one of our first interviews, was what got you here and won't get you there. The downside can be is that you develop a stubborn formula that has baked into it successful principles and behaviors and some really unsuccessful things that are holding you back.

And so the trick to making your age an advantage and at a disadvantage is being able to reconsider and reevaluate what you need to be doing and what's holding you back. And that's one of the things that I think is relevant to companies that have quite a bit of miles on their tires is that we work with companies that have a good amount of mileage on their tires and they feel a little plateaued or stuck. Sometimes they're in retreat. We're working with a company that was growing and growing and growing, and then they're thinking, hey, this is going to go huge,

and then they had this year of retreat when every other business this last year, a lot of them were doing phenomenally well, and they're pulling back. And so there's a reconsideration. I think the trick is being able to figure out and isolate what is succeeding and what's working and what is an advantage from what's holding you back.

And personally, that can be done through a variety of things from what they call 360-degree interviews where you're allowing people below you to review you and people that are working aside. but from a business perspective, you need that third party to come in and say, here's what you really have from our perspective. And that's why people bring us in a bit,

is that he's got more experience than I do. But I've been, I developed my career actually independently from him. So I went tech, and we didn't work with each other for the first half of my career. I was developing a career in technology and building systems and running data centers

and all kinds of nerdy stuff. And so we had different levels of experience. And I think the thing that's made our partnership work so well is that we had different entrepreneurial experiences and we were able to come together to figure out what worked and what didn't and what held us back. And that sort of obsession of focusing on how to improve, see, a lot of companies are okay with just being where they are. We run into a lot of business owners that are just tired. And because they've put so much creative energy into it and they've tried so hard, they're just exhausted.

And so when they come to us, they kind of come in breathing heavily through the front door where they're just and they're ready to sell. Well, it turns out that there's a lot of times a lot that can be done with the business, but they assumed pieces in the business had to

stay that actually could be broken off. But the thing that's important about what he just said, they did come in the front door. They are the ones that instead of just clamping down. Clamping down and doggone it.

This is the way it's been done. This is the way I'm going to do it. They realize, okay, I need help. That is not a bad thing to realize. Well, it's the opposite of a bad thing. It takes humility and wisdom. It's a good thing to do. We run into people that are embarrassed all the time about needing help.

It's really interesting. So the company that we're just working with hit eight figures. It's great business. It grows in scales. had to tell the team repeatedly, you've got identified gaps. That's the win. The fact that their gaps isn't something for you to be ashamed of. And a lot of times they don't think through that.

They think, oh, well, I should have been able to do everything. No, you shouldn't have. No, you shouldn't have. So it's fun when they do come to us. We love it. Whether you're in your 70s, like me or 20s, 30s, 40s or 50s. What did that happen? What have I done?

Wait a minute. What have I done? But we love. helping these people that are just willing to come to us and say, and we can partner, we can consult, there's all kinds of hybrid relationships that we can develop whatever is best for the client. Or we can just give you a lot of unsolicited feedback. There you go.

All right. All right. If people want to find you, then go to talbot group.com. Talbot group.com. It's T-A-L-B-B-O-T-T-B-T-B-T-B-T-B-B. We're the phone number 866 Talbot. That's it. We'll leave it there.

Thank you. Okay, it's your last chance to sign up, folks. We're not kidding. August 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 8th. We are taping the talk show. The talk show. A late-night talk show starring Eric Metaxus. I will be playing the role of Eric Metaxus, which you would expect.

I've been training for it most of my life. we're going to have some big name guests. I can't announce them for some reason, but I'm just telling you, it's very exciting. And if you want to be part of the studio audience in New York, August 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 8th, we would love you to be there. But it's first come first serve.

Once it's filled up, that's that. So if you know anybody in the New York area who wants to come, if you want to fly in or come in for a few days or I don't know, we would love to have you. I will mingle with the crowd. We'll have a chance to meet and greet and hang out. And I know we've got, we do have friends flying in from all kinds of places like Colorado Springs. And I can't mention their names. But we've got some friends coming in. Yeah. And it's exciting. And who knows who the guests will be. I know some of them, but I can't really, I can't say it yet. Maybe I will be able to eventually. But August 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 8th, we want you. our friends to be in the audience, we want to hang out. It's going to be fun. Yeah, fun times. And I want to just remind you that if you're not signed up for Ericmetaxis.com,

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and we want you to be some of those people. So please look into that. Soon, speaking of good times, how about that, Mike Lindell? Oh, yeah. He has done it again. He's created a coffee. I don't believe he could claim to have invented coffee.

I believe that was, I'm pretty sure that was Leonardo da Vinci who invented coffee. But Mike Lindel has created its own brand of coffee. It's called My Coffee. Yeah. Not your coffee. My.

Hey, hey, let me at least finish my coffee. My coffee is available at my store.com. There's all kinds of new stuff available at my store.com. But listen, if you're going to drink coffee, and I drink a lot of coffee, you might as well get it from people who are kind of on our team. Okay. Mike Lindell, got to support the team. And quoting David Puddy from Seinfeld, you got to support the team.

And if you want to support the team, go to my store.com, get my coffee. You can get anything there. You can get most of my books are available there, the Bonhofer posters, but you have to use the code Eric because you've got to support the team. And my store.com has new products, but we're specifically letting you know that. Most people drink coffee. And if Mike Lindell raves about it, I'll bet you it's great coffee. But I haven't ordered it yet because we just found out about it, right?

So we're going to get my coffee. And remember, it's my coffee. When you get it, it's your coffee. say my coffee. So go to my store.com, check it out. We should also tell you this month only Neutrametics, 30% off if you use the code Eric. Only this month, folks. 30% off, take advantage.

It's not going to be that in August. I promise you, this is like, it's a big deal. 30% is a big deal. So use code Eric. And then we want to remind you to go to SalemNow.com. Yeah, go to Salemnaut.com. There's a whole bunch of stuff there. There's the movie on Michelle Obama, 2024.

We need to know what she's up to. 2,000 mules. Obviously, if you haven't seen that, I'm pretty sure you're a communist. Jonathan Khan has a Harbinger film. So that's SalemNow.com. And finally, let me say, for those of you who've offered up prayers for my dad, I want to say thank you. He's back home. He's doing well.

I will see him this weekend. Anytime I'm around, obviously, I go up there. But I just appreciate it. He's 95. And, you know, when you're 95, things get tough. And so, but what a blessing that I have him at 95. So I want to say thank you to all of you from the bottom of my heart. And we'll see you later.