The Eric Metaxas Show - Loor.tv founders Marcus Pittman and Jason Farely

Episode Date: August 17, 2022

Loor.tv founders Marcus Pittman and Jason Farely are ambitious disrupters who are to creating Christian content that doesn't suck. 

Folks, welcome to the Eric Metaxus 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. Hey, folks, welcome to the show. This is the Eric Metaxis show. Now, I got to tell you today, a few months ago, let me start there. A few months ago, I was at the NRB, National Religious Broadcasters invention. I go every year. It was in Nashville. And I met a couple of guys who have created this thing called L-U-R-T-V, like L-U-R-E, except it's spelled L-O-O-O-R-T-V. And I was so fascinated by what they

have created with L-R-TV and who they are and what the stories. I said, I want to get them on the program, but they don't live in New York. So we said, what if they came to New York? Would they come to New York? The answer is yes. They're right here. Jason Farley and Marcus Pittman, welcome the program. Thanks for having us. Now look, I am very excited to share what you're doing with my audience because, you know, when I find something this wonderful, I want to tell the world. So Lure TV is amazing. And so give my audience the brief version of what it is. And then I want to find out about each of you individually. The brief version is where like Netflix and Kickstarter had a non-woka baby. If Netflix and Kickstarter had a non-woke baby, that would be Lure TV. Yeah, so how we do that is the filmmakers pitch their movies, ideas, dream projects to the monthly subscribers. And instead of the monthly subscription going to Marxist Hollywood executives, the monthly subscription goes to the allocation of money that would go to contemplative.

make content to the Hollywood executives go to the users and they can allocate their monthly subscription funding movies and TV shows. Okay, now ladies and gentlemen, do you understand why I wanted to talk to these guys? Do you get it now? Because these guys are heroes. I would never say that in front of them, but actually I just did. So you are Marcus Pittman, the CEO and founder of Lour TV, and by the way, it's L-O-O-R dot TV. Okay. So you're the CEO and founder. Jason Farley, you're a screenwriter, comedy writer, and poet from Spokane, Washington. What could be more useless than a actually, because I too am a poet and a comedy writer and I've been a screenwriter. When I met you, I said, this can't be. This can't be. This kind of creativity usually gets boxed out way before

you get to this point. So how did the two of you meet? And Marcus, let's go back to you before we get too far. What is your background? In other words, you know, you're not a poet and a comedy writer. What's your background? Yeah, so I was, I made some documentary films on abortion, put it up on YouTube. It was called Babies Are Murdered Here. That got me a job working with a guy by the name of Jeff Durbin, who runs Apology of Studios and an organization that, well, it was, he's a pastor of Apology of Church, and then I came in and we built together Apology of Studios. And where is that? It's in Phoenix, Arizona. And then we started this abortion ministry that trained up churches all over the country,

how to do their own abortion ministry and provide all the resources for free. So this documentary that you made, Babies Are Murdered Here, was banned from Amazon. The sequel was banned from Amazon. So again, this is where we are, folks. You make a documentary. Think of all of the sick trash that is available on Amazon. like unbelievable crap from the pit of hell available. And you want it?

There it is. But they banned this. Now in a free country, we put up with a lot of garbage for our freedom, but they're basically saying, well, we're not going to go here. We're not going to let you make a documentary on abortion, even though most people in America would be interested in that. So because of that and other things, you said we need to fight back by creating our own platforms. Christian filmmakers need funding and distribution.

Those are the two things. And so when funding and distribution is done by Marxist, they get to determine the content that goes up on the platform. They get to rewrite the jokes, rewrite the narratives, rewrite the scripts. And so what we wanted to do was say, what would happen if you gave Christian filmmakers the freedom to not make stupid hallmarked? Cheesy Christian films. Sorry, but it's true. Like, what happens if you give... Oh, you don't like cheesy? Since when did cheesy become a four-letter word? But what does the MTV or Adult Swim, the independent art house of Christian movies and TV shows look like? And that's what we came up with was Lauren. Jason's been basically, I'll let you explain how you find the best artist.

But, yeah, and what I do for the company is you take pitches, find the artists that, and Christian artists that want the freedom to be able to love God and make what they want and not have the shackles that you get either working on the secular side or the shackles that you get working for Christians. And sometimes it'll take two or three times of me saying, okay, but what's really your dream project before they finally say, do you really want to hear it? Because I've been told that nobody... I should never share this. Yeah. Like literally, we had one of the projects I'm most excited about. We found at a pitch fest when Marcus stood up and said, hey, we want the projects that you've been

told not to pitch. And a guy came over with a napkin, said, this is the project I've been told not to pitch. I didn't even bring any of the materials because I was told this isn't pitchable. And it was the most brilliant project that I'd heard. I couldn't sit down for hours. I was so excited about this project. What a compliment. I couldn't sit down for hours. I was pacing back and forth saying, how are we going to do this? Now, can you share what that was? I think you should. You should. Okay, it's a, it's a children's show called Barely Biblical. And it's an animator who is animated stuffed bears acting out the most violent parts of the Old Testament. That's insane.

That's my kind of insane. Listen, I'm telling you, you understand that you're going to offend quote-unquote religious people, right? Right, yeah. And those people should be offended because the Bible is not a religious book. It is a book of truth. It is beautiful, raw truth, power, beauty. And we know that from the beginning of time, you know, when you're fighting the forces of the devil, it comes in two packages.

One package says, we're on the devil's side. We hate God. And then the other people think, like, we think God is great. In fact, we're holier than Jesus, and we're going to keep you from it. So you always have the Pharisees on the one hand and the Philistines on the other hand. And you found, look, I have found this with Christian publishers. You start realizing that they are. are, they're not free. They are, as you said, shackled by what they think are, you know, market

forces. But it's really just fear. It's like saying that we're not going to trust God to do something true and beautiful and see what happens. We're going to play it safe. And your weird stuff, we don't want to do your weird stuff because it's too, I don't know, what, too good, to create, it's too creative for the Christian market. Yeah. Well, and the term holier than now is one of God's prophet's terms. It was God's prophet who came and said, you are holier than now and God hates it, right? You're trying to be holier than God. So the, and this animator, he had worked at really high levels at Disney and he had sons that would watch nothing made by Christians. And he said, somebody's got to solve this problem. And so he said, my sons love these stories in the Bible.

what if we made a TV show based on the stories my son's love? And he was told over and over, that's not producible. Well, of course, of course you. Hey, listen, the veggie tales guys were told by people I know, okay? Like, no, that's too weird. That's too this. That's too that. That was veggie tales, okay?

So the point is that there's a hoary tradition that's spelled with an H that basically, you know, always says, that's too edgy, that's too whatever. So this is the kind of... That's the problem is that... It's also a H. It's basically people that are, you know, in a sense, they're afraid of freedom and truth. There's something about it that scares them,

so they want to keep it safe. They want it to be like, you know, their little church that they grew up at home where we never did that weird stuff. And I think that there's just something so beautiful. So let's be clear. You guys represent LOR TV. L-O-O-R dot TV. We'll be right back.

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L-O-R dot TV. Jason Farley, Marcus Pittman. Now, what brings you to New York City, or can you say? I don't even know if you can say. No, we just wanted to see your show. Oh, you mean you wanted to see the show that I taped last yesterday? We didn't think that we were going to be invited on the radio. We just wanted to go see your show.

Oh, so you're like talent scouts looking for weird entertainment. Exactly. Yeah, last night, okay, well, yesterday we taped the fourth show. I think we're going to get five shows out of it. But we had George Hamilton was my guest. And it's weird, as good as the show was yesterday, the audience on Friday, we had Danny Banaducci as my guest. It was insane.

Like the energy was insane. But it has been so tremendous. And I don't know who's going to be in the audience. So now I'm glad I didn't know you're in the audience because you're genuinely creative people. And I don't want them in my audience. I want safe people in my audience. But so you were there.

Yeah, you saw that to some extent I bring the crazy. It's a different kind of crazy. It's not bears killing each other. But it's something. I don't know. Well, so you are, I guess, by being there yesterday at the taping of my late-night TV talk show, you're open to all kinds of programming, not just animated stuff or what, like you're open to kind of everything. I think one of the mistakes that Christian media has made is that they've defined every single piece of Christian content has to be family-friendly for all ages from 5 to 95.

Right. But if you go into a Christian bookstore, That's not how it is. There's a teenager section. There's a single section, a newlywed section. There's different categories of books for different age groups. There's also stuff in the Bible that is not appropriate for seven-year-olds. Right.

That's right. There's tons of stuff in the Bible that's not appropriate for seven-year-olds. That's exactly right. Or 10-year-olds. And that's God's intention. By the way, I believe God wrote the Bible. So the fact is that the kind of... dumbing down of the Bible stories and whatever to make it always appropriate for family-friendly

audiences, you realize that, you know, a lot of that is okay, but it can also go very wrong because you're keeping things out. I mean, when you're talking about satanic evil, when you're talking about sexual stuff, you're talking about whatever, adults, that's appropriate for adults. Right. So to kind of act like Jesus is nice and the Bible stories are all nice and Christian. Christianity is all about being nice, that's actually called heresy. That's not right.

So you have to find a way to represent the weird and the crazy and the difficult. And so you are open to all kinds of programming. Yeah, we like to say, what are the Christian movies and TV shows that parents watch when the kids go to bed? Because everybody, every Christian family has shows, the parents have shows they watch when the kids go to bed, whether that's a documentary or Fox News or News. those are stuff kids aren't interested in. Right. And it also doesn't have to be quote unquote Christian.

It just has to be valuable. Because anything that's valuable is going to point to the author of value. We're a firm believer that any good story is a Christian story. So it doesn't have to have the altar call at the end or be in that formulaic Christian context. It could just be a really good story. And that's what we have lined up. Okay. See, now that's actually.

biblical theology, okay? Because imagine, when I look at a tree or a sunset or anything beautiful or good or true, I praise God when I see it, but there are people that would be like, well, if the tree doesn't have Jesus's Lord carved on it, it might not be a Christian tree, I don't know, and you think, no, that's wrong. That's bad, religious thinking. And part of what I love about you guys on Lord TV is that you're not buying that. Right. Well, it's dehumanizing. So one of the things that one of the ways that Christians have been kept in their lane is we've been given money to make rom-coms and sermon illustrations, right? You can have your own lane, but you've got to make rom-coms and sermon illustrations. And the left has paid for Christian movies for a long

time as long as we stay in our lane. And that's what we're trying to solve is the funding and the distribution problem. It is how do we actually just connect? artists directly with the audience and let the audience decide what is it that they actually want to see? Because there's maybe some rom-coms that they want to see, and probably a sermon illustration or two instead of a movie. But mostly, they're having to go other places for anything that's in any other genre besides the Christian genre, which isn't really a genre, because every movie is faith-based. It's only a question of which faith. But this is to me what is so funny is that I talk about this all the time, that Christians have bought into

to this bad theology where we have participated in our own marginalization into this little religious corner. And you think, no, no, no, no, no. You know, the famous quote, Abraham Kuiper said, there is not one square inch in all creation over which Jesus, who is sovereign, does not say mine. So it means any kind of film, any kind of expression, any part of reality, we're supposed to bring God into that reality. We're not supposed to take God out of those realities to hide in our religious corner.

we have our safe Bible studies and lemon tea. Right. Because Abraham Kuiper said Jesus is either Lord of all or he's not Lord at all. Well, yeah. Yeah. So, all right. So where is Lord TV now? L-O-O-R dot TV.

Like where do you stand right now? So we actually had a beta in April and we funded two, we funded one season of two different shows, Teach All Nations and Dark Collar. and we actually had to close down the beta because they funded in like all all episodes funded in five weeks we got up to 3,000 users basically by invite only and then we were like oh we have to do a capital raise so it was so successful you had to shut it down

we had to shut it down because we weren't good yeah it's great we were like oh no please stop we only plan for a thousand users and you guys in three months in three months and you funded every we're done in five weeks so Great problem to have. And it really sets us up. We've signed 30 movies and TV show contracts at a value of $137 million. Why?

Yeah. And we've spent no money on those content acquisitions because our model, unlike Netflix, who's spending a billion, was a billion a month on content, our model says, look, the filmmaker can present to the artist. And the artist, if gets funded, then we get the exclusive. and give them the money for the exclusive. But if they don't, they walk away, they own the content, and they own the idea.

You know, they're pitching to the user directly. So what kind of stuff? Can you tease some of this stuff? And first of all, when is Lure TV going to go up so that people can check it out? The website's up now. You can check out some of the projects we have coming up and you can sign up for our mailing list to be alerted.

Yeah. And so we've got projects like American Recon, where there's a film crew embedded with the Arizona. militia that's guarding the border right now, and the story that nobody knows is going on. So when everybody pulled back from the border, Arizona citizens said, well, somebody's got to do something.

And so a militia was formed. So there's a film crew embedded there with that militia. Stopping sex trafficking, drugs, trades. It's incredible protecting the whole country and nobody knows about it. Now, in a normal country, in a free country, this would be on one of the major networks. Or the cowards at Fox TV would say, maybe we can make some money off this because America would be interested in this. But we're living in a time where you have to go to places like lure TV.

This is fascinating to me that we're seeing an earthquake in the world of media because of the Marxist censorship and the fear and the courage of guys like you to throw this stuff out there. Yeah. Yeah, and because somebody's got to throw elbows and make room for the stories to be told, because it's a storytelling war that we're in. And conservatives tend to think that it's a facts and data problem. Yeah, I think that's the thing. So conservatives are really good at telling stories with facts and data, talking head shows. You know, like, we're really, we kill it. But when it comes to the narrative stuff, we have no clue how to do that.

Whereas the left, they'll have Ellen come out on her sitcom, then they'll do Will and Grace, and then next thing you know, you have a Burgerphel. But when you look in Scripture, all the laws that were given in Scripture are through narrative story, right? So that's what God uses to get us ready to hear the law. And so the left is really good at that. They figured that out. They own the networks and the media, and they do narrative stories, and now they're putting, you know, and by the way, it's called reality.

In other words, what we're talking about is reality. The warp and wolf of reality, created by the Lord of hosts. We live in reality. He created us as we process via narrative and story and whatever. And so when somebody goes theologically wrong and says, no, no, no, we're going to be about rules and laws and facts. It's not like there's anything inherently wrong with that. But if you only do that, you're not operating in God's reality. God tells stories through people and He says.

He communicates rules and things through story. And you know that. Yeah. The burning bush, right? Moses goes up, sees the burning bush, gets a tablet, comes down, sees the golden calf, smashes them, and then gets them again. Jesus spoke through parables to present law to us. So it's just, it's basic stuff.

But ironically, a lot of Christians are uniquely theological tied, and they don't get this, and they get nervous. But you guys aren't two of those Christians, and that's why we're talking. We'll be right back with the men behind. lure TV, L-O-O-O-R-T-V. This gets me excited, gives me hope. We'll be right back. Tell me, Eric, why is relief factor so successful at lowering or eliminating pain?

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That's you. And Marcus Pittman, that's you, about this thing that you are doing called lure TV, L-O-O-R. TV. So before I ask you more about what's going to be on Lour TV, where did the name come from? It comes from folklore, right? So that's where you get. But it's spelled differently. Yeah, it's, you know, we wanted to be a four-letter brand.

So that was a domain that was available. No, but I'm saying you didn't spell it L-O-R-E dot TV. I actually heard, L-O-O-R. Yeah, actually heard L-O-R is the Spanish word for praise. So we didn't know that when we made it. But it means the term like Laura or Laurel, don't rest on your laurels. it comes from to give a gift or an award. So since our monthly subscribers are basically gifting or awarding our filmmakers with money to make their projects,

that's where it comes from that. And back in ancient Greece where the laurels were given to begin with, it was when the Athenian dramatists would have a competition every year, the one that won would get the laurels, and then he would, his story would be the story for the same. city for the year. And this is a fight over the story for the city. So we're hoping to... You guys are really creative and smart. It's not like they told me. Calvin, they're not stupid. They're not dumb. It's not like they're dumb. Like everybody says, they can do things.

Seriously, that's brilliant and beautiful to hear you thinking along those lines. So it's L-O-O-R. TV. Now, what are the programs you have kind of happening? What's that? What else? Well, we have a lot of different programs. We've got sci-fi. We've got drama. we've got a great zombie comedy, but one of the I'm really excited about is the zombie comedy is called Follow the Dead. It's been sweeping the world festivals and winning all over the world. Totally serious. It's called Follow the Dead? A zombie comedy? It's wonderful. It's hilarious. Wow. But one I'm really excited about is called Exposed. We've got Secret Disney Animators and DreamWorks Animators making.

Redacted. Yeah, we're having to redact their names so that they can keep their jobs. Right. Otherwise, Uncle Joe Stalin could throw them in jail. Right. Yeah. Well, or the FBI will raid their Mar-a-Laga homes. Right. Oh, that would never happen. Come on. Get out of here. We're going to have Trotsky hiding somewhere. But we have exposed, and it's a series of animated shorts revealing what's really going on in abortion. So that's one we're really excited about.

So each one's like a different, almost like an animated short, just like Disney Plus does animated shorts. It's in that vein, and Kevin Sorbo actually does the narration for the first pilot one that we'll be putting up soon. And just watching the, before it was even finished being animated, watching the early versions of it, it was an hour before I could go back to work. It's so moving. So that's one I'm really excited about and just proud to be a part of in any way. It's, I've mentioned this to you before, but your book on Amazing Grace changed my daughter's life. It changed from what she wanted to do because she read that. And then she tracked down the book on Hannah Moore that you wrote the preface to. And she said, I want to be the next Hannah Moore.

And so she switched to a storytelling career because slavery was ended by people telling stories. And we believe that exposed is going to do something similar with abortion, right? that if people, people need to be moved to understand the evils of abortion. And so we're really excited about exposed. That's a project we can't wait to show the world. That is so thrilling to me. I'm often mentioning my books because I kind of process the world through these books that I wrote. But I don't often mention Amazing Grace, which is the story about William Wilberforce.

And I have to say that for me, that book, that story is the model of where we are. today. Right. Because people think of him as a politician. He was not just a politician. He understood that, you know, culture precedes politics. It's upstream of politics. And so he worked with this array of people at the top of the list, the great Hannah Moore, who I do write about in my book Seven Women. Right. She was one of the premier creatives of the late 18th century. A poet, dramatist, and she was going into the places that no one else would put on plays. You know this. Going into the places that no one else would put on plays and changing the sentiment of England back to an opposition to slavery.

Now, slavery had been illegal since the 700s, according to common law. That's why Edmund Burke said that when the American colonies legalized slavery in the 1750s, that they were leaving the Western tradition. Right. But even Edmund Burke knew that the people who tell the most beautiful stories are the ones that have the next generation. And so Hannah Moore did that. She captured the imagination of the people until finally even the politicians said, okay, we've got to do something because politicians are the worst. Yeah. But this is what's so beautiful to me because people often would ask me because I, you know, I've done innumerable speeches on Wilberforce and my book Amazing Grace. And people always ask me, so who's the Wilberforce of today or whatever? And I said, you don't understand. You know, God's ways are not our ways. He's doing something new. Every time we turn around, God's not going to do the same thing. So he may not raise up a politician. He may raise up 100 people in media to change. the narrative to change the world. And I really do believe that we are all participating in that, that that is God's great move. And sometimes it involves a couple of laws here and there,

but sometimes it just involves we, the people, expressing ourselves creatively. You guys are a little bit crazy, which makes you genuinely creative. You're not just creative, you're like genuinely creative. So when we come back, final segment, with the gentleman behind Lour TV, L-O-O-O-R-D-T-V. So excited.

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Your beard, shame me. I heard someone say that we live in a day and age where people are confusing men and women, and this is a very good distinction that God gave between the difference between men and men. You know, that is interesting. I've never thought about that. Maybe I'm going to have to grow a beard albin, or at least use one, you know, maybe a false beard just for when I'm on camera. So, and where are you guys operating out of? I'm out of Spokane, Washington.

And Northern Idaho. Northern Idaho. Yes. So that's not that far from Spokane, Washington, right? No, right on the border. Okay. So, so you have other shows that are in development so that when this thing goes. Now, do you have a rough idea of when this is going to happen that people can start?

Soon. Okay. I mean, I know it's very soon, but you can't say exactly when. But L-O-R-T-V, people can go there now. So what are some of these other offerings and things? Well, another one we're really excited about is because of the story behind it. So one of the gentlemen that helped build a cartoon network that helped build Nickelodeon's animation, the second wave of animation, was a gentleman that also was completely canceled because of the Me Too movement.

And when he called to pitch to me, he started off by saying, I was Me Too, lost everything, and it was all true. But I found Jesus. And he said, but now there is no work for me ever again. And it had been years since it had all happened, and he had done everything he could to make it right. Because atheist, Marxists, don't believe in forgiveness or redemption, parentheses. Thank you. All law. Right.

But he is talented. he's a storytelling hero of mine before all of this because he's so good at what he does Chris Savino and so he's been developing a... Talk about the projects he's worked on. Oh, so he's Powerpuff Girls.

Director and producer Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory, creator of Loudhouse, my gym partner's a monkey, which is an underrated cartoon. But... He basically built Cartoon Network and then went to Nickelodeon, built Nickelodeon.

Really, one of the great storytellers who can't find work because there's no forgiveness. And we've been able and excited to be the God's hand of forgiveness in trying to return him to what God created him to do, which is tell stories through animation. And he said, there's no one serving the tween years in the Christian marketplace. He said, I want to make a cartoon that those tween years, the kids in those tween years will love that helps them, that they walk away knowing the Bible better because they have watched it. So it's called Busted Bible Stories, and it's in the classic Fractured Fairy Tales, Rocky and Bullwinkle style. Oh, I love it. It is.

And it's hilarious. It's wonderful. And he is so talented that people still know. know that he's talented, but they know that they don't live in a culture in which you can bring somebody like that back in. When we said, well, but Jesus died for our sins and all of us are in that situation. So we're glad to be working with canceled artists so that all the other canceled artists as things come down and other people get canceled. They know that that cancellation stops working when there's somebody that will hire them. Yeah, we really wanted to build a

platform that is a shield for artists that take, we'll take the fight, the executives will take the fight, but the artists, we want you guys just to be free to create stuff. And we want to protect you and we want you to make what no one else will let you make. And that's how you win. This is like the anti-Hollywood. Like, I mean, wow, I can't, I just love this so much. That's why I want to have you on here because, you know, I, when I hear about something like this, I almost can't believe it because, you know, when we got to know each other a little bit at NRB, I, you know, we start talking. I realize, wow, you know, you guys have tremendous intelligence and creativity. You know, you're not, because there are a lot of people that have nice ideas, but to really be able to execute it on a crazy level and to have this kind of courage is very rare.

So I predict great things for you guys. And now I want to pitch you some of my animated ideas. Like, you don't even know. I've written 30 children's books. I've written 30 children's books. I've done so much of that kind of stuff. And, you know, I've been kind of, I've been busy with other things. But there's so many things.

And when you start realizing there are people interested in doing this kind of stuff. And we don't want to give the audience the impression that everything you're doing is super edgy. But a lot of it is. And it's just delightful. Truth is edgy. Right. Right. That's right. Yeah.

If truth is like a two edge, it's true. sword, then sometimes you can expect it to stab you. Extra edgy. No, but, I mean, it's a beautiful thing. My friend David Englehart, he's a pastor here in New York, was on this program. He wrote a book called Good Kills. And it's a similar kind of, you know, it's an appreciation of the edginess, the danger inherent in truth.

You know, it's when whoever it was says that, you know, no, Aslan is not tame, but he's good. He's wild, but he's good. Like that theology, which is at the heart of scripture, has in effect been bleached out of the Christian narrative in many ways, and you realize, well, we got nothing. We got saccharin. All right, and we just, another minute. Any other shows that you can mention or ideas that you're percolating with?

We've got a really fun comedy called Breaking Laws with Joseph Grando, where a comedian is traveling the country, breaking the most ridiculous laws he can find and then turning himself in and seeing what the cops do. Like it's illegal to give your wife 50 pounds of chocolate or it's illegal to roll a boulder down the street in Boulder, Colorado. So just the dumb laws. So laws that are still on the books. Yeah.

And he's going and breaking them and calling the police on himself. Finding out what happens. And then also in talking to a pastor in that town and asking him, did I break Romans 13? Ah! So it's very, very funny. Ooh, I like that. very much. And the pastor saying, well, it says drive 20 miles an hour. So 21 miles an hour is a direct contravention of scripture. And you're bound for hellfire. Slow that, slow the vehicle

down. Listen, this is so great. I'm just excited, as I say, for the hope that you bring to my audience of why I want to have you on. So I know people will go to L-O-O-R.TV and check it out. And we'll have you back to get us updates on this stuff. Jason Farley, Marcus, Pittman. God bless you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh man, look at my life. I'm a lot like you.

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 Treadup, 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 eat 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. You know, 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 Metaxestock.com, you'll click on the banner. But go ahead, Tom, Trout 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 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 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 it. them, you would want people, just like the men and women listening to the Eric Metaxos 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. One dollar, one dollar delivers four meals to refugees in Ukraine. Two dollars 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're 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.