The Eric Metaxas Show - Mugsy and the Terrible Twins of Christmas

Episode Date: December 24, 2021

Eric presents "Mugsy and the Terrible Twins of Christmas," complete with all the bells and whistles for this festive annual presentation; plus, Kevin McCullough has an update on CSI.

Welcome to the Eric Mettaxas show with your host, Eric Mettaxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to December 23rd, Thursday. Can it be? Albin, Kennett. Keneteeeeeeee, it's almost Christmas. You're in Houston, and I'm not in Houston. I'm in New York City.

Last night, Suzanne and I drove underneath, this is literally true, underneath the Hudson River. They have a tunnel now. It's been there since 1933. and you can go under the river. That's the channel. It is hard through the living rock, a tunnel. And on the other side of the tunnel, we arrived basically at Chris Heim's house. He lives very close to the other side.

And so we had to go to another state to go to Chris Heim's Christmas party last night. And because I was at his Christmas party, I missed my appearance on Tucker Carlson. Yeah. So I don't know if anybody saw it. but I wasn't able to watch it until I got home because I was able to kind of talk my family member into recording it. Oh. And so it was recorded. But I didn't realize it was guest hosted by Jesse Waters, whom I like.

Yeah. But I didn't think, you know, I thought Tucker would be on there. So then they played Tucker's interview with me because, of course, he interviewed me. He interviewed me for over an hour. Yes. And they only played a short clip. they didn't mention my book is atheism dead. So I'm going to choke the producer, literally. But I was glad that they let me say what I said. I thought it was kind of impressive on Fox News

that they let somebody talk about how we've forgotten God. Yeah, I thought it was so wonderful that you talked about there's evil. There's actual evil in the world because everybody's coming after all kinds of different angles, a political angle and a cultural angle. And you're saying, like, you know what, folks, there's actually evil going on here. Yeah, let me break it down for you. Evil. Well, I think sometimes you have to call a spade a spade. It's like we're talking about this and this and this, but you want to trace the roots back. And the reason I see God's hand in my writing, my book is atheism dead, is that I wasn't thinking about this when I was writing the book.

But the way you see things now, you see that cultural Marxism and any kind of Marxism has to push God out. So it becomes power versus truth, power versus God. It's at least fascinating. Okay. So I'm sorry, just go ahead. Yeah, one thing I really like, though, these evil people do all kinds of extraordinary evil things. But the one thing they would never do is steal an election. That's one thing.

Oh, no. Why would they ever do a thing like that? Because they don't believe stealing is wrong, but they don't believe anything is wrong. Okay. So before we forget, before we forget, so I am on YouTube, my personal YouTube channel. I keep forgetting to say this to folks. They wiped out this program on YouTube. So the Eric Metaxis show YouTube channel has been crushed by the Marxist Satanists,

not that there's anything wrong with being Marxist Satanists. We don't judge. But my personal YouTube channel is still up. And you can subscribe to that. And you can also see my interview. you that was played last night on Tucker. We just posted it. So I want to say that. Okay, that's number one. Number two, I want to say that it is hugely unfortunate that the Salvation Army decided to kind of tow the woke line and put out this big thing on racism. You know, this is just like, tell us,

what do you want us to say so that we're hip and nobody burns us down? What do you want us to say? So they did all that. So they lost tons of donations, as they should. When people play that game, you need to know that, oh, no, you're not just going to gain by playing this team. You're also going to lose. And maybe you want to think that you're going to lose more. So they did. So I thought if you formally gave to Salvation Army and you want to give an organization that's the opposite of woke, okay, like not just not woke, but the opposite of woke. CSI, folks, they are, think about this, do you want to free a slave in Africa?

Can you even imagine that that's true? Go to the banner, metaxistock.com, click on the banner, CSI. They are freeing slaves in Africa. Black people in Africa are being enslaved, have been enslaved by other blacks. It's not a color thing. It is an evil thing. It is a sin thing. And our friends at Christian Solidarity International are doing everything they can, which is magnificent.

But they need our help. If you want to give an amazing Christmas gift, free a slave in someone's name, literally free a slave, folks. It's beautiful. It's powerful. You can go to our website, metaxis talk.com, click on the banner, and we exhort you to give generously, please, at this time of year, we just can't think of a better Christmas gift. In our two, I'm talking to Sean Foyt. Sean Foyt. Yes. But Albin, I got to mention something.

Right after this segment today, right now, right after this segment, I am doing a dramatic reading of my favorite Christmas book of all time, written by Eric Metaxis. It's called Uncle Mugsy and the Terrible Twins of Christmas. And it is a huge, gorgeous book, which I think supplies have run out at my store.com. and we warned you. But you can get the other books that I did with Tim Raglan at my store.com. Use the code, Eric. We did this Christmas book, which I'm going to read in toto, that's Latin for the whole stinking thing, in just a few minutes. I'm going to redo a dramatic reading.

Gather the children, not the young children, because there's some really scary stuff. And then, yeah, so we did a July 4th version of this. So there's a second, there's a sequel, a Bachelor of Fourth called Yankee Doodle Mugsy, and maybe I'll read that in a few months. But Uncle Mugsy and Temple Twins of Christmas, the story is basically Mugsy is this Bachelor Bulldog. I see him as like a cross between W.C. Fields, Ralph Cramden, I don't know. And he's a cremogen.

He doesn't really like Christmas. There's a Scrooge element. His niece and nephew, the cutest bulldog pups in the world, come to visit him at Christmas, and they turn his world upside down, I tell you. and as a result of that, he comes to see who he really is, which is to say a bum, a grinch, a scrooge, and he has a moment of repentance. And the chakina glory descends, not in the book, but in my mind.

And he has an epiphany and a conversion, and good stuff happens. So it's a really happy ending. That's coming like any minute. Yeah. The other thing is, yeah, the other thing I've got to say, Chris Heim's, the other producer of the show, he put in so many nice bells and whistles and stuff. It really makes it a lot of fun to just sit around and listen to this wonderful.

Chris Himes, the man at whose Christmas party I was last night under the Hudson River to his house. I had to go under the river and through the woods to my producer's house. I go. So anyway, if you're watching on Rumble, you can see some of the pictures from the book, by the way. If you want to know what happens next. Did we post it on Rumble? Oh, I'm sorry, never mind.

All right. So, Albin, so that's coming up any second. But we should also remind people in hour two today. I already said this. Did I, Sean Foyt? We have an update with Sean Foyt. But he's so big, you've got to announce him twice. Yeah, he's a big shot.

He's a big deal. I said to him that, I said, Sean, you look like you comb your hair with an egg beater. And he had no response to that. So if you watch the video, because he does. He's got this beautiful. like long, blonde, curly hair. It's incredible. A man.

Horses, horses feel jealous when they see Sean. That's right. That's exactly right. I'm so glad you brought that up. All right. Well, we've got way more coming up. We'll catch up with everybody in our two today as well. If you're not signed up for my newsletter, folks, I sent out a lot of stuff around Christmas. Go to Eric Mataxis.com. sign up for the newsletter, please. On Christmas morning, for example, I send out a special Christmas poem.

Do you want to miss that? I don't think you do. I think you'd be crazy to miss it. Oh, in Albin, we've got to tell people about the Christmas special. There are still people that don't know that you and I did a Christmas special. Absolutely crazy.

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That's IPfrequently.com. Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ring tingling, too. Come on, it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you. Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling you for a sleigh ride together. Show. Are you ready? Are you ready? Uncle Mugsy and the terrible twins of Christmas.

I've talked about it and talked about it. Now you're going to hear it. I think I did read Yankee. doodle Mugsy around July 4th, but this is the one that started at all. This is the Scrooge character. This is the guy, the Bachelor Bulldog Plutocrat, W.C. Fields, grumpy character who has the little kids come into his life and turn them upside down. It's written in verse, so you've got to listen carefully.

If you've got the book, you've got to turn the pages, save this. So you can, you know, play it at another time when you have kids around with the book. I'm so excited. Mugsy and the terrible twins of Christmas. by Eric Metaxus and Tim Raglan. Mugsy was a happy bachelor, never married in his life, always did just what he wanted, had no children, had no wife, and neither did he have to work, nor had he very many cares.

I catered to his every need, that's me, you see, upon the stairs. And now I'll ask you to relax, as this are happy story we, If you're in need of anything, please call for me. My name is Peaves. Oh, wifeless, childless Uncle Mugsy, singleness and freedom yours. Children never mar your quiet. No wife is wakened by your snores.

And you never have to go outdoors. Oh, how you love your life, Ear Mugsy. How you've clung to bachelorhood. Ever doing as you wanted. never doing as you should, and wouldn't change it if you could. And how he loves to dress his best for a romantic tete-a-tete with the woman whom I call Miss Dogmont, and whom he knows as Marguerette. But lo, the day before Christmas Eve, a missive came by courier.

It spoke of children soon arriving. His sister's twins, one him, one her. From out his lips there crept a gur. Gadzooks, said he a further shock. Their train is due at one o'clock, which left no time to finish breakfast or to inquire about his stocks, and as he dressed himself that day, it left no time to match his socks.

And there they waited, he and she, identically uninvited. Their Merry Christmas, Uncle Deer, went entirely unrequited. Hear this, he said, my tiny guests, there'll be no celebration. Christmas is just another day for my rest and relaxation.

But then their ancient traveling bag held by a single piece of tape unleashed a sudden flood of marbles from which no Noah could escape. And down we went, both he and I, tearing our respective pants, as did the town council and the mayor and the ambassador of France. He came to learn that the terrible price of the marble spill had been expressed to the last penny in three lawsuits and won doctor's bill.

Thus, peaves, he said, does fate repay us? My singular order is become twinned chaos. Always knowing just what to do, he took the children to the zoo. And there, from his great wealth of learning, he brought out bits of animal lore, excluding neither fish nor fowl nor the luncheon habits of the three tusked boar. But while he told them of the tiger's stripes, the children unnoticed went chasing about, spreading good tidings of Christmas cheer by letting the animals out. The dinner that night began quite well.

How Mugsy loved my roasted duck, as did Miss Dogmont and little Emily, and her brother whose name was Habercuk. But the harmony was not to last. It was Mugsy himself who was to blame, for it was he that night who said it. My goodness, Habercuk, what a funny name. And when the children were sent to bed,

Mugsy could at last relax, with the lovely Miss Dogmont at his side and a warming fire at their backs. Margaret, my dear, he started to say, I treasure these moments with you. Then a bump and a crash from the West Wing was heard, and he knew that their romance was through. And so to the library quickly they ran, and oh, what a scene that they found, the Julius Caesar was wearing a hat, and the Hermes was knocked to the ground. and the children were perched on a mountain of books

atop Mugsy's favorite old chair, and he saw they were using his cherrywood pipes to blow bubbles of soap through the air. When he saw they were holding an album filled with photographs from his youth, Mugsy cringed, for he knew what was coming. Your name is Ambrose, they shouted, forsooth. Be gone, you twin rap, scallions go!

cried Mugsy. Now you sealed your doom. You'll stay put tomorrow. Christmas be hanged. Both locked up all day in your room. With the children departed, Miss Dogmont now spoke. Don't you know that tonight's Christmas Eve? You're a selfish old cur with a heart made of stone.

And she sniffed twice, and then, wifeless, childless, uncle Mugsy, singleness and freedom yours. No children there. to mar your quiet, no wife to waken with your snores, how you've loved your life, dear Mugsy, how you've clung to bachelorhood, ever doing as you've wanted, never doing as you should. Would you change it if you could? And as he sat there, still and quiet, his blank gaze drifted to a page of pictures from his childhood,

of moments from a golden age. And there, under a Christmas tree, he saw a very happy child, which made two tears form in his eyes. But through the tears, old Mugsy smiled. When the twins awoke that Christmas morn, a silent coldness filled their room. Their Christmas hopes had all been dashed.

Their dreams of joy replaced. by gloom. But hark, from downstairs came the sound of a laugh that boomed so the rafters shook. And helpless to contain themselves the children went to have a look. And so to the top of the stairs they ran, and oh, what a scene that they found! Miss Dogmont and Mugsy were both wearing hats, and presents were piled all around. The town council had formed a Christmas quintet, and the mayor was. singing a song.

Here we come a caroling among the leaves so green. And whenever they came to the chorus, the Ambassador of France sang along. Love and joy, come to you, and to you, glad Christmas too. Come down, dear children, Mugsy cried. Come down, my honored guests. It's Christmas Day, so join us in our gaiety and jests. We do accept, they now replied, your gracious invitation. But what's to become, oh, uncle dear, of your rest and relaxation?

Hear this well, he said, my guests, there'll be no relaxation. Christmas is not just any day. It's a day for celebration. And, oh, what a grand celebration it was. The happiest day of his life. For Miss Dogmont that day would become an aunt. just after she became Mugsy's wife. And so are happy stories told.

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into a gold-backed IRA where you still own the physical gold. They can also ship gold and precious metals safely and securely to your house. Call Legacy at 866-528-1903 or visit them online at LegacyPMinvestments.com. Folks, welcome back. I hope you enjoyed my dramatic reading of Uncle Mugsy and the terrible twins of Christmas. It's a really fun Christmas story. Now, as good as my reading of it is, and of course, my reading is spectacular. All the critics agree. But as good as that is, the illustrations are mind-blowing. Tim Raglan, my dear friend, Tim Raglan, lives in Kansas. He and I have been friends for so many years now. It's kind of shocking when you look back. Can we have been friends

that long? Yeah. I was, what, 25? when we met. That's five years ago. But seriously, it's amazing. So Tim and I have done so many things together. We did the first book we did together where you can see his illustrations. You can buy these books at my store.com. But his illustrations are just, it's the sort of thing you think it's from another time. No one is doing anything like this anymore. It is so beautiful. I think of him as a combination, well, he has influences from Thomas Nast. He's the illustrator who created Uncle Sam and what you know this is in the 19th century gorgeous stuff and a little bit Maurice Sendak although I like Tim much better than Maurice Sendak but he's a genius and his illustrations

are just absolutely glorious so the first book we did together was called the birthday ABC I know that's available at my store.com most people have birthdays so it's a great gift if your friend has a birthday. They could be an adult or a child, even an elderly person. It really doesn't matter. It's a book for all ages. I don't just say that these books really are books for all ages. You'll see that that's true. But the birthday ABC, Tim Raglan, the Uncle Mugsy and the Terrible Twins of Christmas, I think that's sold out at my store.com. And then Yankee Doodle Mugsy, which is, Tim and I, after we did the Christmas book with Mugsy, said, we've got to do a book to celebrate a America. So we did July 4th. We did Yankee doodle Mugsy. Those books are available at my store.com,

but you have to use the code, Eric. Otherwise, the prices are prohibitive. Okay. Yes. Yes. Do you need something to start your wood? Do you need some Georgia fatwood? You can also get that at my store.com. Use the code. Eric. They've got all kinds of kooky gift ideas at my store.com. I bought a box of the Georgia Fatwood and it's amazing. Do you know what this is? Yeah. No, I know what Fatwood is. Oh, definitely. Yeah. You know what's bad. Fireplace. Yeah, for the fireplace I use it. So you use it because we I did it, you know, when I go to Connecticut, I start fires and the cops have not caught me yet and I'm just going to keep going.

You know, what I mean? You get to a certain age. You don't care. But I start fires. I always use Georgia Fatwood. You can get that at my store.com. Use the code Eric. And you can get almost all of my books. The only book you can't get there. Whoops. The new one is this one. The title is, is atheism dead? Because it has a question mark at the end. Is atheism dead? That's the title of book. And you can't get that at my store.com. Even if you use the code Eric, it's a no-go. It's not going to happen. I'm sorry. That's the law. Can I do a shout-out to my wife, she bought me this shirt for Christmas and she gave it to me early.

But see, I've left the tag on it because I wanted to wear it on the show. I left the tagline because afterwards I'm going to take it off. She's going to wrap it back up and give it to me like, oh, that's so sweet, Alvin. Did you buy that shirt at my store.com or my pillow.com? No, but I would have been. Then shame on you. You are cursed. No, I know you didn't.

But I know that you buy almost everything from mypillow.com and my store.com. And I know that you wanted me to bring that up. No, no, this Christmas, a lot of gifts we have bought at my store and my pillow.com using the code, Eric, for the show. It helps the show. It helps Mike Lindell, who donated 10,000 pillows for the disaster relief in Kentucky. They're arriving Christmas Eve, apparently. Isn't that great? You talk about a stand-up guy, talk about a Patriot, talk about a hero.

I love that man. He's just the, he's the real deal. And I think I said this yesterday, but you know, when you're, when you're watching him on TV and he talks and talks and you could scream and he doesn't hear you, he's just like that in person. He's the real deal. He's the same on this side of the screen, on that side of the screen, he's the real thing. He's in the Christmas special too, which is really terrific.

The Christmas special that's running. That's the cool thing is that he flew on his private plane to New York this two years ago to appear in our Christmas special. the Christmas special, as we mentioned earlier, it's must seeing. It's family viewing. This is the kind of thing you can gather the kids around. There's no cussing. We bleeped it all out. There's no nudity. We pixelated all the nasty stuff. You can watch it with your family. Bring in grandma. And honestly, we had so much fun doing it that we want to do more of this kind of stuff. So if you go to Salem News, channel.com, Salem Newschannel.com. You can see it. You can also see this program. Yes. By the way, not only is there no nudity, but we button up all our shirts to the very top button like this. To the tippy top, because we're very puritanical when it comes to dress. We haven't had nudity on any program. I guess the first three seasons, there was a lot of it, but it just didn't test well. Our faith audience didn't go for it. We said, you know what?

Oh, we're going to follow the money. No more nudity. All right, Albin, we're going to, when we come back, we're going to get very serious talking to my friend Kevin McCullough about the opportunity we have the Christian Solidarity and International. I'm talking like I have dentures and yet I don't. So we'll talk to him in our two. We'll be back after him. You and I have a lot more to talk about. So folks, don't go away. Merry Christmas. Hey, folks, I've got to tell you a secret about relief factor that the father, son, owners Pete and Seth Talbot, have never made a big deal about, but I think it is a big deal. I really do. They sell the three-week quick start pack for just 1995 to anyone struggling from pain like neck, shoulder, back, hip, or knee pain, 1995, about a dollar a day. But what they haven't broadcasted much is that every time they sell a three-week quick start, they lose money.

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It's the most wonderful time. Folks, welcome back. I'm talking to Kevin McCullough, aka Boat Stradamus. And Kevin, you are really not only bright, but just tremendously well-informed on all these issues. And I always learn things when I talk to you. And I hate learning.

I just want to let you know. I hate it. But when I talk to you, I learn stuff, and I'm really grateful to you. But I got to tell you, I'm also grateful to you. for partnering with us in partnering with CSI. And I wanted to talk to you about that.

This is Christmas season. People want to do know, what do I do with my money? What do I get so-and-so? I keep suggesting to people, you cannot beat this. The idea that if you give money to CSI, go to metaxistalk.com, you can help free a slave, literally. this is a nightmare evil. It's happening today. We can actually do something about it. Tell us, because you know more about CSI and about these efforts than I do. You've been more involved.

I want to encourage people today to go to metaxis talk.com and I'll get the phone number. But this is like an, it's an amazing opportunity. It's an absolutely, it doesn't matter if you give $10 or $20 or $100 or whatever you give. this is an amazing opportunity. It's almost unbelievable that this evil exists, and it's almost equally unbelievable that we can actually do something about this, this evil with our dollars. I think you can't overstayed what you just said, Eric,

and that is that the evil of slavery still being around is so abhorrent to the average person's way of thinking that they have a difficulty understanding that it does. They have a greater difficulty understanding that there are more people who are enslaved today than they've ever been in human history, especially given the post-abolition movements of Europe and the Americas and where we've gone with all that.

But in between sex slavery and chattel slavery across the world, you've got millions literally that are living subservient, second-class cast lives that are not of their own decision. They're not of their own determination. And in Sudan in particular, where the world came in, and when the Sudanese were having their civil war, and you had the Arabic Islamic Jihadist North, and you had the Christian South.

You had the Arabs frequently going into the south, ransacking villages, taking people as property and removing them and taking them back to their homes for slave work in the north. When you understand that when the world came in and divided those two countries and said, okay, you get this area, you get that area, but didn't do anything about the slaves. And at the time, there were probably 130 to 160,000 people in captive slavery in northern Sudan at that moment. You kind of understand that the world missed a very important piece of that puzzle.

Now, over the last 15 years, CSI, through the diligent work and partnership with people like your listeners, have said, well, we can do something about this. And so similar to the reconstruction era or just the era, just the era, you know, just following the Civil War and preceding it. You had, in essence, what were called retrievers, people that would go into the South, scout out slaves and try to get them through the Underground Railroad to the North to freedom and to be able to provide for them a new life, a different life.

In Sudan, they've had the same thing. There are a handful of Arabs that work with CSI. They personally want a good relationship with the Christians in South Sudan. They are motivated to help CSI find these slaves and get them home so that they can live safely and well. And CSI, through partnering with your listeners, for only $250, says we can give them a brand new life. Now, the majority of that $250 is not used for the liberation. The majority of that is used for the establishing of what that slave needs when they come back to freedom in South Sudan.

So whether it be a goat to produce milk and food and commerce, whether it be tarps, to live with, to protect from the weather elements, whether it's gardening tools or cooking utensils, et cetera. A $250 package basically is called a bag of hope, and that's what that person gets when CSI has fully retrieved them from slavery. And I want to, you said give 10, 20, et cetera. I want people to think differently about this, not the amount of dollars that they spend, but the amount of lives they want to impact. Because if you can give $20 once, could you give $25 10 times. If you can give $50 right now, could you give it over the next five months and rescue a slave as well? Or are you of the income level where you could take $250, make a sacrifice

in your monthly budget and say, okay, our family is going to every month for the next 10 to 12 months liberate a slave. Now, Eric, you know that I am not a very wealthy person, but my family and I came to this decision a year ago and we said, you know what? The boys were hearing me talk about CSI on the radio. They were very concerned about slavery and they said, Dad, what can we do? And I said, well, we could we could sacrifice and give and liberate a slave every month. So the McCullas have said for the last 12 months, we will liberate a life every single month as God provides for us as a family. And you know what? He's done that. So if people are listening and they say, well, I want to be a part of something amazing that

God's doing, put yourself forward and say, God, if this is what you're calling me to, I know that you'll provide. I want to be obedient. And I want to give and liberate a slave right now. It's, it is very difficult to believe that this evil is happening. And we really want to push it away because it's too horrifying. But again, folks, it is amazing news that we can do something about it, that you can do something about it. So there are people who could give $10,000. There are people that could give $2,500. But it really doesn't matter, folks. Whatever you're able to, to do. This is an insane opportunity. I want to give out the phone number because there are people that prefer to call, but just go to metaxis talk.com. Everything is there. The idea of giving me monthly,

by the way, is brilliant. Thank you for mentioning that, Kevin, because that's just, it's just beautiful. And I think families should get involved in this with their kids. It's just pretty easy. challenge you talk to your kids about it and see if they don't have the same response my kids do kids know kind of inherently when something is unjust and if your kids do respond then be ready to say okay let's as a family attack this problem and do something about it all right here's the phone number folks if you want to call metaxis talk dot com it's all there the banner but if you want to call 888-253-3522. I hope you will call 888-253-3522. 8-88-253-3522. And don't forget, by the way, this month only, if you go to nutrometics.com, use the code Eric. It's 30% off, not 20,

neutrametics.com. We'll be back talking to our friend Kevin McCullough, aka. That's true, Domus. And gentlemen, this is The Irfman Taxi Show, and I'm talking to my buddy Kevin McCullough. Hey, Kevin McCullough, can we continue the conversation about CSI? Absolutely. Okay. You were talking about how kids, when you bring this up, I love the idea that we have an opportunity to say to our kids, let's do this as a family. Let's decide that, you know, from your allowance and we're going to put together this much.

per month. And we're going to give it to CSI. So if we give $25 as a family or $100 as a family per month, we are doing this together as a family. It's a beautiful thing. And as you said, children have the ability to understand like, wait a minute, what slavery? And we need to do what to free a slave. It's only that. Yes, we can do that. We can do three times that. Let's do it. kids have that way of seeing things. I've noticed the same thing about the issue of abortion. Children, when you explain these things, and they look at you and they think, what?

Yeah, we get it. We haven't been educated away from common sense. So let me give the phone number again. And by the way, folks, it's metaxis talk.com. All the information is there. But if you prefer to call, it's 888-253-2522. 888-253-35-2. Well, let me also say this, Eric, when you're talking about kids and practical applications to life,

one of the things I've discovered is that it is one thing to be a talk show host that talks about news and issues and gets really passionate about them and so forth. It's another thing to do that same show in a studio at the end of your kitchen where your kids are watching you every day, particularly during the lockdown season, and we don't have anywhere to go. So in the course of the last year, you not only had, you. you know, this issue of CSI where it came up and I was able to explain slavery, but we also dealt with the George Floyd issue and race in America. And I find it kind of ironic often that people who consider themselves believers but are very left of center on most of their beliefs,

complain and moan all the time about racism and what's going on and how we should be doing so much more. And I often will ask them, well, what have you done recently? I mean, you marched in a BLM rally at one point, okay? That was probably before you understood. that Black Lives Matter is committed to destroying the black family. Whatever you think your activism is, what are you tangibly doing to make a difference in the life of somebody

who looks completely different than you? It's one thing for you to say that to me, to kind of push me in the face with it, but what are you doing? And they'll say, well, you know, I'm doing this for that. What are you doing? And that's a doorway where I get to open it up and say, let me tell you about something that can be done

and that we can all do together. And I talked to them about slavery. I talked to them about Sudan. I talked about how that was essentially a view towards the superiority of faiths. And you had the Arab North persecuting the Christian South. And when you kind of peel back the layers, all of a sudden it's another opportunity to say, if it's one thing to say you want to change the world and make a difference and leave this world a different and better place, it's another thing to put your money and your activism and your passion and your heart into doing.

something that actually does that. And Eric, when we take a slave from a slave master in North Sudan and we've returned her to her home in South Sudan, she goes from death to life. She goes from an existence where she has been cursed at, abused,

raped, assaulted, usually physically have pieces of her body cut on, etc. And you move her from that environment into a place where she has longed for, missed, remembered, and when she comes home, if we think the prodigal son story in the Bible is exciting, wait till you see what a slave coming home to South Sudan looks like, because they throw a party that

goes on for a week because their lost soul, their lost friend, sister, neighbor, daughter is home again. And so it's not just an issue of creating equality amongst people that look different. It is an issue of helping those who are in death to come back to life. Everybody has been listening. If a third is moved as I am by what you're saying, they will go to metaxis talk.com, click on the banner for CSI. Grateful to you, Kevin, for moving my audience to do the right thing. God bless you, my friend.

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