The Eric Metaxas Show - Kurt Schlichter

Episode Date: August 21, 2022

Kurt Schlichter joins Eric Metaxas to discuss his new book "We'll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America"

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This is, there are some people that not only speak truth, but they speak it with Elan, joie de vivre, humor, all that good stuff. Kurt Schlichter is my guest right now. He has a new book out called We'll Be Back, the Fall and Rise of America. Kurt Schlichter, welcome. Hey, thanks for having me. It's right that you know of me. I'm an amazing person.

I'm modest, shy, retiring. I'm a simple trial lawyer from Los Angeles. Angeles. So you know that I'm a kind of down-to-earth person who really, really has his feet on the ground. Well, now, in all seriousness, how do you come to be somebody who writes about the things you're doing? You write at townhall.com. Were you always conservative? Were you always? I always want to know before I get into the meat of this book, which is hopeful, the title will be back. How do you get to be who you are? Where'd you grow up? What's your? your story, man. Well, look, I think I was always conservative. My family comes from rural Pennsylvania.

I was born in Ohio where my dad was from Folgers Coffee. He had a bunch of coffee patents. And then we went to Kansas City. Whoa. Whoa. Hey, slow down. Everybody on this program claims to have a parent who had a bunch of coffee patents. Can you be more specific? Yeah, I know. It's a pretty common thing. Can you be more specific? What do you, what the heck does that mean? When you throw out a term like coffee patents, people like me are going to ask you, could you be more specific? What is a coffee patent? Dad was a chemical engineer after he got out of the Navy. He was actually on the aircraft carrier that picked up Alan Shepard. So he picked up who? Alan Shepard. Alan Shepard? Was he hitchhiking in the Pacific? Was he hitchhiking in the Pacific? Well, it

worked out that way. And I think it was the Atlantic. But no, they had helped pioneer a decath coffee. Okay, hold on. So your father was on an aircraft carrier when Alan Shepard in 1962, I think. 61. 61 returned into Earth orbit. And your father was on the aircraft carry when they picked up Alan Shepard.

That is kind of amazing. I just want to talk about that for an hour. We don't have time. But your father then goes on to help invent decaf coffee. Did he repent and become a Christian after that? Or did he still living, is he still living in that sin of having created decaf coffee? Well, my father has gone on to his reward, but it wasn't until later that I actually asked him, you know, hey, what's the deal with the whole coffee thing?

And he's had pretty extensive knowledge of coffee. And even as he was getting older, he was still consulting with, boutique coffee roasters. Well, of course. He was at the forefront of creating decaf coffee and non-alcoholic beer. It's just so funny. I don't think you'd do that. He didn't truck with that.

He would only go so far. Anyway, you got to forgive me. But the problem with talking somebody like you who are particularly fun to talk to, I just want to talk to you about everything. We don't have that much time. That's okay. As long as it's not the book. Yeah, I don't want to talk about your book titled We'll Be Back, the Fall and Rise of America.

In all seriousness, Kurt, I believe God's hand is still on this country and that we have been through this hell that he and his mercy is allowing us to wake up. There are many people who have seen how bad things can get, how quickly they can get. So there are people waking up who would still be sleeping. But what gives you hope that you would write a book claiming that you believe will be back? Why do you say that? Well, boy, there's so many reasons. The first is, again, I come from rural, my roots are rural Pennsylvania, though I grew up near San Francisco. I'm just a naturally optimistic person.

I don't understand pessimism. I can't really, when I was an Army officer, what am I going to do? Yeah, we're about to lose, guys. We're going to lose. And bad. So let's all fix bayonets and move forward. Now, that's not a great leadership technique, and I'm not inclined towards it. But I look at what's happening out there.

I look at Glenn Youngkin winning. I look at parents descending on school boards that are telling a little Jimmy that his penis is a tool of oppression and it needs to come off. I look at Latinx Americans moving over to the conservative side. And I look at our enemies, Eric. I look at our opponents. These weirdos and losers and mutations, I just can't see losing to this crowd. I just can't. It's some level it's impossible for me to imagine that this crowd of creeps is somehow going to defeat.

us. I just can't accept it. I hope that Biden bows out soon and that Kamala Harris gets to be president because we need that to bring those who are so recalcitrant, even the ineptitude and wickedness of Joe Biden isn't enough. They need to see somebody who is breathtakingly awful rise to be in the White house. I think that all these horrible things, as I said, they're waking people up. People who didn't grow up in reality, which is to say rural Pennsylvania, who still have these ideological, you know, clouds that they're living in, I really believe that tons and tons of people, because of these nightmares, because of these disasters, not just the people, but their policies and the results,

I agree with you. I think enough people are waking up. Not everybody's going to wake up, but enough people are waking up. No, normal people who want to spend their lives, you know, going to barbecues and Little League games, they're starting to wake up when they're paying six bucks a gallon for gas and 12 bucks a pound for ground beef. So they're kind of getting woken up. But look, the kind of blue elitist urban types who, you know, filled that part of our soul that's supposed to be filled with God and faith, and they filled it with their bizarre pagan

weather religion and CRT and all that idiocy. They're never going to, they're never going to wake up because they are religious fanatics. They are lunatics. And they are absolutely committed to their bizarre beliefs. So we're going to win, but we're always going to have the enemy. And we're not going to win forever. The conservatives are like, well, we got to get back to normal. And then I can check out.

No, this is a, this is permanent. We're always going to have. have opponents. They're always going to seek to take our liberty, take our freedom, and essentially disenfranchised, disarm, and in some cases, decease us. So we, you know, democracy is a, is not a spectator sport. We have to participate. And I think this got so bad because we stopped participating. Listen, I could not agree more. I have been saying what you just said over and over in different ways, usually in a slightly more clever way, Kurt.

I doubt that. But I want to be honest with you. I want to be honest with you. I'm joking. But honestly, what you just said is so crucial that the reason we are here, the reason things got this bad is because something happened in the last roughly 50 years,

we've drifted away from understanding that to be free, I must, exercise my freedom, I must be someone who understands it's my job to keep the Republic. If I do not engage, if I do not do this and this and this and this, it goes away. The natural state of affairs is to be governed by others, to be governed by a tyrant or a bureaucratic deep state or whatever it is. That's the natural state of affairs. If you want to be free, you have to do something about it, and we cease teaching that, you know, roughly in our lifetimes. No, that's true because we, you know, we essentially inherited the freest, most prosperous

nation in human history. We just inherited it, though. And when you inherit something, you don't build it, you don't earn it, you don't make it, you don't defend it, you don't take it seriously, you don't treat it the same way, you don't treat something that you were given the same way you treat something that you are earned. Well, we didn't earn this, and people took it for granted. They thought, oh, well, this is just a natural state of man. Well, I got a news flash for you. You know, after 27 years in the Army, I've been to places that kind of demonstrate that this is the exception, not the rule. And if you're not going – and unfortunately, we've treated it as if it is not something that needs to be maintained.

And we have a, you know, a ruling elite, which on its own is incompetent. They are cultural trust fund babies. they essentially inherited these institutions, took them over, they didn't build them or anything. Actually, Kurt, I'm sorry, I just realized this is the first segment. We'll be right back. More with Kurt Schlichter. In case you haven't been paying attention,

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Sounds German. It means mediator or arbitrator. That is, in Germany, we were the voice of reason before we were kicked out by popular demand. Quote Schlichter. That's a pretty German name. Quote schlichto. I was stationed in German, Germany, West Germany, during the Cold War, and then after the Cold War, when it was just Germany. And, yeah, they thought I was a homie.

Germans are an interesting people, though. You get enough beers into them, and they'll kind of lean forward and go, you know, you know, you're American, you don't understand about Hitler. So I'm kind of glad my ancestors left. I don't have a lot of use for them. Well, my mother grew up in Nazi Germany. and many of my relatives, what am I saying, almost all of my German relatives are still there. Many of them grew up or lived in the Ostzona,

which was East Germany. So they saw the horror of communism, and it's partially because of that, frankly, because my mother grew up not just in Nazi Germany, but what became Stalin's East Germany, that I was really, raised to appreciate American liberty, even without trying my mother, just by telling me the stories of growing up in communist East Germany made me think, wow, what we have here is insane.

We don't deserve to live in this amazingly free country. Most people around the world would do anything to come to a country like this. So it gave me this innate sense, this innate appreciation of America. And, you know, you talk about. growing up in rural Pennsylvania or whatever. I mean, the thing is, if you grow up in a place called reality, you know that what we have in America, we don't deserve, it is amazing, and we need to do all we can to preserve it, to keep it, to spread it around the world. But there are a lot of people that they live in these ideological bubbles.

They do not understand that to be free is not normal. Well, that's true. The left is the most parochial group in. in America. Look, I actually grew up in the suburbs of San Francisco, halfway between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, back when it was really normal suburban America back in the 70s. You know, Mustangs, cruising, fog hat, you know, all that. Bill Rogers, the marathoner. That's a sports thing, I guess, and I don't, I don't truck with any sports.

I don't think marathoning is a sport exactly. It's kind of an anti-sport sport. It doesn't matter. Running. The point is. But yeah, but yeah, I mean, I, and then I joined the military and I, you know, was stationed all over creation. And I kind of saw different things and I came back. And my favorite thing was, you know, I've been in a war and I've been like living on another continent. And I get to Los Angeles go to law school in 91 after the Gulf War.

And all these like liberal people who've done nothing but live in Brentwood are like explaining to me how the world works. which I found to be interesting. And then, of course, I married a Cuban immigrant. Oh, wait, you didn't tell me that. That explains everything. If you marry a Cuban immigrant, it's just like somebody from East Germany. They know how evil communism is. They don't have any illusions.

They have experienced the horror, the nightmare of it, and they are more pro-American than George Washington. Oh, absolutely. And, you know, there are other good qualities, too. My wife once told me I don't own enough guns, which was pretty hot. Man, I'm going to get me a wife like that. No, seriously, that's so funny because now the Cuban thing, though, is there a coffee connection there? You know, they don't really drink coffee.

They add coffee to their cream and sugar. Yeah. And also, I don't think decaf exists in Cuba. They wouldn't understand it. No. Frankly, I don't understand it. There's no word in Spanish for it. But if there was, it would kind of fade out.

Because that's the Cuban accent. It fades out at the end. It fades out at the end. Yeah, I love being around my Cuban in-laws. It's like being on, I Love Lucy and everyone else is Ricky. You need to go see a physiciatrist. Okay, so your book is titled. Thank you very much, Kurt.

Your book is titled, We'll Be Back, the Fall and Rise of America. You're not just talking here. You really do believe that we're coming back, that America's coming back, that people are waking up. I think the evidence compels that conclusion. I mean, look, the insanity is unsustainable. Well, the Soviet sustained it for about 70 years. No thanks to Realpolitik and detente. Oh, well, and, of course, the left that now hates the Russians

when they couldn't suck up to them enough during the 70s and 80s. You remember the nuclear freeze, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, the PTV sponsored things. All the guys who hate the Russians, they were all in on the nuclear freeze 30 years ago. Guys like me who were actually in the Cold War, My job was to die in place when the Russians came into the seven-core area of operations. Now, let's, we got to be clear, though.

And I'm getting told by these guys I'm not hardcore on the Russians. But I want to be clear for folks who are scoring at home. It's not about the Russians. It's about the Soviets. The Soviet Union was a communist empire. Russia is different from the Soviet Union. And in my opinion, because, because, well, in many ways, but but the point is that we did not. encourage them toward our way of life. We did the cynical thing in the 90s when we might have

welcomed them, you know, into the family of nations. We didn't do that. We almost like the idea of being at war with Russia. We seem to like to perpetuate the Cold War narrative, and it kind of led us to where we are today. At least that's my theory. No, no, you're absolutely right. There are people who are highly invested in being at war with the Russians in whatever form. Well, I do not mention Dick Cheney by name, but go ahead. Well, I'm just celebrating the humiliating rejection of his useless daughter. Yeah, but she's going to be president and she's going to free the slaves.

She said it the other day, and I think that's going to happen. Yeah, I like how she compared herself to Ulysses S. Grant, which is amusing because at no time in history have any Cheney's. actually served in uniform in any of the misguided wars that they initiated. But, no, I think you are on to some. I think the greatest foreign policy disaster of the last 30 years is arguably not Iraq, Dick Cheney architect. It is the failure to bring Russia into the Western family of nations. Thank you.

There are very few people who seem to be willing to talk about this. I have to say the cynicism of what we now know. as rhinos, deep state rhinos, George Bush I first, and others. They were not interested in bringing these. I mean, you have to realize these people themselves, in their quiet way, were anti-American founders. When you think of George Bush Sr. And that ilk, they were not excited about Liberty and Ben Franklin and George Washington,

whatever. They were excited about the status quo. And it is heartbreaking to me, frankly, it is heartbreaking to me to think that they had this kind of cowardly view, that they were not really interested in paying the price necessary to bring the freedoms that we have to others around the world. We are where we are because of them, and I voted for some of them. Well, so did I, and there are a bunch of votes I'd like to take back, but rarely has, I mean, go back to Roman times, which I do in the book, will be back, the fall and rise of America. And you'll see, you know, what happens when you have a great power

whose elite becomes so corrupt and inept and unaccomplished. I mean, really, these are unaccomplished people. We are being ruled by people who really have never done anything. I mean, look at Liz Cheney. Liz Cheney would be an annoying middle school librarian telling happy kids to use their inside voice and going home and drowning her sorrows on screw-top chardonnay from Trader Joe's every night. If her father hadn't hitched his wagon to the bushes, she's literally nothing. She's utterly unacquered. What has she done?

And I keep hearing about how she's full of honor. She stands up for democracy. Well, the people of Wyoming stood up for democracy by saying, you need to represent us, not your own personal feuds. And threw her out. Her vision of democracy is, I'll tell you what democracy is shut up and obey. And, well, at least now she gets to spend time around her real constituents in the Beltway. Well, that's exactly correct. Correct, Kurt Schlichter.

We're going to go to a break, but I want to remind you, folks, Kurt doesn't care if you buy his book, but I think you should at least consider it. The title is We'll Be Back, the Fall and Rise of America. The author's name, and I'm just reading this, it's Kurt Schlichter. My name's Eric Metaxus, and we'll be right back. My Pillow is having their biggest sheet sale of the year. You've all helped build my pillow into the amazing company it is today. Now Mike Lindell, Inventor and CEO wants to give back exclusively to his listeners.

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Order now with promo code Eric at Mypillow.com. That's MyPillow.com. promo code, Eric. Hey there, folks. Welcome back. I'm talking to Kurt Schlicht. his real name. It sounds like I should say gazoon tight every time you sound like.

I was going to say it really just sounds like I've just got a nasty cold. So your book is We'll Be Back, the Fall and Rise of America. So you are, I guess, you know, by nature hopeful, but that's not inconsequential. In other words, I think that there's something to be said for being hopeful because people who are hopeful tend to fight because they believe there's a reason to fight. They have some hope and their hope makes it possible that we will prevail. But apart from that, what evidence do you see that America's best days are ahead, that we can return to some semblance of who we actually are meant to be? Well, look, I'm not sure we're going to be returning. I think we're going to be in a different

form after this, and I hope it's a form that's a little more mature about our opponents. There's still guys out there who don't get it. I mean, look at Tim Scott, very friendly guy. I like him. He'd make a nice neighbor. The FBI sends guys with guns to the home of the political opponent of the current president. And Tim Scott's response is, well, I think we need to see what all the facts are. No, you don't.

You do not need to see any facts. You need to see nothing. They tried to frame Trump for five years. Now they're sending guys with guns to his house. You need to be outraged and say, he's like, well, we've got to see how the system works. If the system worked, we wouldn't be where we are. If the system worked, we wouldn't have chosen Donald Trump in 2016. Listen, a lot of these folks in the Beltway, even people that I would think of as good guys, like Tim Scott and Ted Cruz, have been guilty of saying these kinds of things, of playing patty cake with them.

the devil. And so either they will repent and change immediately, or they get put in the category of no thank you ever again, Tim Scott. Yeah, he doesn't get to be president. He goes, you know, he's from the potential candidate. Now he's over here with Nikki Haley and Christy Knoem. Well, I'm glad you mentioned Christy Knoem because there are people, there are people like that, that they're kind of, you know who the good guys are today. I mean, I think of Lauren. I think of Marjorie Taylor Green. I think of Jim Jordan. There's just a handful Josh Hawley of heroes, Rand Paul,

who are willing to stick their neckouts and do their job to represent the American people, to fight for the American people. If you're not willing to do that, folks, you need to get out quick, goodbye, because this country is in the trouble it's in because of you and because of that lack of leadership. So it's astonishing when folks like whether Tim Scott or whoever, Ted Cruz said some things about the terrorism that happened on January 6th, and you just think, hey, Ted, hey, are you joking, Ted?

Can you take that back yesterday? What is wrong with you? Because these are people who ought to know better. But they're outing themselves. I mean, we've had members of Trump's cabinet after January 6th, melt down. I know, right. I never thought much of Elaine Chow.

I believe she's married to that. What's that amphibian I always can free? Oh, McConnell. I mean, you kind of feel like, well, these people could be a force for good. And then they out themselves. And they say things that make you realize that they completely, they're utterly, utterly, utterly out of touch with the. common men and women of this country?

Well, they just default to softness. I mean, Mike Pence was like, we can't talk bad about the FBI. No, no, that's entirely wrong. We must talk bad about the FBI, then we must defund it, and we must dismantle it. There have to be consequences, and that's what the elite hates. The elite hates the idea of accountability,

particularly accountability to us. Well, but you understand why? Because there's this thing called reality. And so if you live in reality, working hard, raising your kids, you're forced to live in reality. If you live in an ideological bubble, whether it's the Beltway or it's the academy, if you live in any of those ideological bubbles, you're allowed to avoid reality. And accountability is called reality. Like you do this and this happens. You don't do this and this happens.

And so you're quite right. They're being forced to deal with what happens when you say dumb things or when you do dumb things. And the only question is, have enough Americans, you know, been brainwashed that it's useless? I don't think so. I'm with you. I have hope. Yeah, I think people are waking up. I think particularly the attacks on children, both through CRT and through this bizarre gender thing.

I mean, it's kind of almost like Caligula-like. You would look back and you would see some historian say, and in Caligula's time, they would mutilate children to conform to the delusions of their munch house and mommies. And you're like, oh, my gosh, that's horrible. You know, they're sacrificing to mulloch. It's a terrible. I mean, we'd never do that.

And then normal, you know, normal, well, high status people are saying, why, yes, we must castrate little boys because they at 12 have decided their girls. We must perform double mastectomies on healthy girls. Well, this is the point is most Americans, they don't

have a voice, they don't write for townhall.com, they don't have a radio show like I do, but they see these things and they're making notes. And I think that's a good thing. That's called democracy, Liz Cheney. Kurt Schlichter, we've got to have you back to talk more about everything. Folks,

the book is called We'll Be Back. We'll be back the fall and rise of America. Kurt Schlichter. God bless you. Thank you. Hey there, folks. Welcome to Crazy. This is August. So we just had a wonderful, I had a wonderful conversation with Kurt Schlichter. We taped that yesterday to TVN Studios. By the way, I hope you're watching these on Rumble. If you're subscribed to my newsletter, Eric Mattaxas.com, not the Salem Radio newsletter, which you subscribe to at Metaxistalk.com. I'm not pushing that. I'm pushing Eric Metaxus.com because everything pertaining to my extracurricular activities is that the Ericmataxis.com is in that newsletter.

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Connecticut where I grew up. You can read every detail of my life in this home in my book, Fish Out of Water, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. But I'm here, and these are real trees, man. The hair is fake. The shirt is virtual, but the trees are real. Hey, Aaron. I'm going to have to interject a little bit. I know the last time you were out there, this is Chris Hyde's producer, by the way. You mentioned there was a groundhog, scenario that went down. You're breaking up, but I think you said groundhog. Yes, I have not heard about the groundhog.

So I assume that he's not come back. Otherwise, I would have heard about it. Because I get to hear about all these details, whether I like it or not. But yeah, the groundhog, I haven't heard. I'm going to be making inquiries with my dad. But I was actually, it was on my mind. I was thinking, I've got to find out about, where's the ground? What happened to the groundhog?

But yeah, there's like deer that come and eat every, thing. Like, you know, we've got, we've got some serious problems up here. But to get to the fun stuff, the fun stuff. So in our two today, we have Sarah Salvander. On Monday, folks, we have a really important Miracle Monday with Jim Domen. He came out of the gay lifestyle. It's one of these truly miraculous, redemptive stories that you will never hear in any media, including most Christian media, except like maybe the 700 Club would do something. But it's going to be on TBN. It's going to be on this program. Amazing story. You'll hear it on Monday. I should also say that this weekend, which is to say tomorrow, I'm flying to Houston. Why? Well, that's where

Second Baptist Houston is. It's a church. I'm speaking there twice on Sunday. If you're in or around the Houston area, please come. It'll be the first time ever that I'm speaking from a pulpit on the subject of the new book letter to the American church, which I've just said is not officially out yet. But I'll be signing books. All of my other books will be there. My book is Atheism Dead principally, and I'll be there. So if you know anybody in Houston, my schedule is crazy. I just had it up here a minute ago.

Let's see. So I'm going to be in Houston this weekend. I'm going to be down in Southern Jersey next weekend. Maybe that's a private event because I don't see it on my schedule. Then I'm going to be in Colorado Springs, September 9th, 10th, and 11th. Colorado Springs. The following weekend, I'm in Murfreesboro and Nashville, Tennessee. The weekend after that, I'm in a Rowlett, Texas, which is just outside Dallas. September 27th, we have our first Socrates in the city event. Folks, if you can get to New York City, September 27th, I'm interviewing Andrew Claven on his book. I talked about it with him on this program. I am hugely excited. Registration opened up yesterday. And by the way, if you or anyone you know are planning, to come, sign up like ASAP because the early bird price is very low and it's going to go up. It's $65 at the early bird price.

That's going to go to 85. That's the normal price. But I'm saying if money's an issue, jump on this now because there's only a limited number of those. But we've got a whole bunch of people already signed up for the dinner afterward private dinner with Andrew Claven. In the weeks ahead, we'll put out information for registration for a Houston event. with James Tour in the middle of October and for another New York event on November 1st. Really exciting.

Can you see that? It's windy out here. My hair is blowing. Look, it's incredible. Now, Albin, I think Albin's either in jail or on vacation in England. No one knows. No one knows. He's just gone off the grid, man.

He's gone off the grid. We've got the feds chasing him down. We don't know what happened. But we believe he'll be back. And Chris, you're in. Yeah, he's in Europe. I believe, yeah, I was just going to say, I believe he's trying to retrace the steps of Don Quixote in Europe. Is that right? We've got a lot of other stuff that I want to share with you.

I want to remind you, first of all, our food for the poor campaign, we're struggling. We need everybody who can step up to step up. So you go to metaxis talk.com, click on the banner, or dial the number, that I don't have right now today. I won't give you the number, I guess. But you know what? In the next segment, I will talk to Tom Troutap about that. We'll give you the number.

But it's important. I also want to remind you that Mike Lindell, yeah, he invented coffee. You probably didn't realize that. There's a new coffee technology. It's blowing people's minds. If you go to my store.com, it's all I drink now. I don't drink water. I don't drink lemonade, no beer.

Only Mike Lindell's My Coffee. You got to go to my store.com. If you use the code, Eric, I recommend you do. You get a whopping discount. All right. We'll be right back with Tom Trat up in an hour to Sarah Salviander. Hey there, folks. Welcome back.

I'm excited right now. You know that on this program we're doing a fundraiser for food for the poor. But I said, you know, I want to bring somebody on who's, part of the Salem Radio Network, who's part of the brass. My friend Tom Tratup, he's the vice president of News and Talk programming. But Tom, you have a relationship with food for the poor. You understand why I'm going out on a limb and asking my listeners to reach into their pockets for God's purposes. So I wanted you to help us understand it in a way that I can't really myself communicate successfully. So what do you know about this that I wouldn't know?

Well, first off, thank you for having me on the show. I'm here in the I'm in the fortress of Metaxus. We've got the Mike Flag. We've got the travel bag. We're we're here pushing the Eric Mataxis show every time we get. Now, by the way, if you go to Metaxistalk.com, ladies and gentlemen, you have access to all this swag, all this incredible product. If you go to Metaxistock.com, you'll see it. But we want you to go to Metaxistock.com, at least today in part, to click on the banner to help people who are suffering. That's right. Because of evil men around the world, there's suffering. And if you go to Metaxistock.com, you'll click on the banner. But go ahead, Tom, Trot up, and tell us more. Well, thank you, Eric. You know,

Food for the Poor is a nonprofit organization. They're based in Coconut Creek, Florida. We've worked with them for over a dozen years, and they helped the poorest of the poor in 17 nations here in the Western Hemisphere. And I've traveled with them to Guatemala, to Haiti, to a number of other countries with them and actually seen their work on the ground. They're absolutely the best in the business. Their overhead is the smallest in the business. So every dollar you give really goes directly to help the poor. We've expanded because of the war in Ukraine. And regardless of what people think, and, you know, I've heard the debates back and forth, some of our talk show hosts when we started the campaign, we're like,

why do I want to get any money for people that are refugees in Ukraine when we're paying $7 a gallon for gas here in California? Well, it's true. America's got problems. And we all have to pay the light bill. and we all have, you know, personal issues. But when you think about the children who have been displaced, there are over 500,000 Ukrainian children who've been separated from their parents.

Usually the dad had to stay behind in order to fight in the war, so they were just with their mom, but now they've been separated from their moms. And if you had a 12-year-old child, either your child or your grandchild, and they were alone in a scary place, a bomb shelter, or in a foreign country where somebody's, you know, playing host to them, you would want people, just like the men and women listening to the Arachma, Texas show and watching you right now, to open up your hearts and your wallets and help. And the fact is that because of food for the poor's donations,

they already have a ton of food donated through themselves and their ministry partners. $1.1 delivers four meals to refugees. in Ukraine. $2 delivers eight. You know, you do the math. You can figure it out. A $10 or $20 contribution, $100,000 would be fabulous. Thank you very much. But we're here simply to ask you to think a little bit outside yourself, so many things going on in the world that are scary and crazy like the Mara Lago raid that you've been talking about, Eric. I know it's a tough time for a lot of people in this economy, but we are asking you to maybe dig deep, think a little bit outside yourself. We've all done it.

I've been on trips with food for the poor, and as I said, seen them up close and personal. When you call Eric's number, which is 844-863-4673, or to make it easier, it's 844-863, hope, because you're giving hope to these children overseas. You are really being the hands and feet of Jesus, as we're called to. Eric was wise to mention that. We're called to help the poorest of the poor, and there's nobody who does it better than food for the poor.