The Eric Metaxas Show - Pat Castle

Episode Date: May 28, 2022

Pat Castle started his ministry after a mysterious encounter with Padre Pio while racing up Pikes Peak; Life Runners is considered "the world’s largest Pro-Life group with over 19,400 teammates who wear 'Remember the Unborn' jerseys as a public witness."

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Albin, you think we could ever get them? Wait a minute. You're not, Alvin. You're Dr. Pat Castle. This is like an apparition. What is that? Is this really you? Are you biolocational?

Are you like in two places at once? Or is this really you, Dr. Pat Castle? Where are you? Yeah, this is me. I'm in that great Irish town of O. Omaha today. So it's Omaha.

Yeah. Yes. The, that was named after the priest from Cork County, Ireland. Father Omaha. Great to see you, Pat Cass. The last time I saw you was the night before the March for Life. Tim Tebow spoke

at that dinner and you and I reconnected. And I said, I got to get you on the program. And you told me about something that's happening June 1st. So I said, let's get you on the program ahead of June 1st. So first, first of all, say a little bit about the organization and then say a little bit about June 1st. You bet. So the organization, it's simple and powerful. I mean, we are a pro-life messaging ministry.

And as you mentioned, we wear these bold blue, royal blue shirts that have a big cross on the front and a Holy Spirit dove in Jeremiah 1-5 that God knew us even before we were in our mother's wombs. And on the back, there's a big remember the unborn message. And people see this message. Now, you were just holding it up for the cameras. And I want to remind people, if you're listening on the radio, ladies and gentlemen, you're missing the visual aspect. That's the downside of radio.

And so we want you to know that all of this stuff is on Rumble. If you go to Eric Mataxis.com, you can sign up to see these things because some of the visuals are fantastic. those t-shirts are beautiful. I love your bravery in doing this. And I mean, you must get some people kind of looking sideways at you. Like what? Who are you? Yeah.

And so, you know, a lot of people when they first become life runners, you know, anyone listening can go to liferunners. Org, hit the join button. You'll get a monthly update of what's going on with life runners around the world. And you order a shirt or a jacket that says, remember the unborn. But that is a notion that people think that, wow, I'm about to walk outside of my home with this shirt that says, remember the unborn in the culture of death. And, you know, am I going to get spitwads or tomatoes or middle fingers when I'm walking around the block? The answer is

no. I mean, it's incredible. The message is very compassionate. Compassion means to suffer with. And even the other side, even the mean people, even the people that, you know, aren't in God's will. They have a hard time, you know, pushing against such a compassionate message. So unless we're standing in front of an abortion facility where you get lots of, hey, you're number one middle fingers, usually, like 99% usually, Eric, when you're wearing such a shirt or a jacket that says, remember the unborn, in a grocery store line or walking around the block or at school, you know, a third of the life runners. about 20,000 life runners in 3,200 cities, and 6,500 of them are students, age 22, on down, that wear it at school. And people's response to these shirts are either indifferent, like they just don't want to remember the unborn, as we know in our culture, or they do exactly what it says. They remember the unborn, and they engage that person in conversation. Or most of the time, they're just encouraged.

They're encouraged that, wow, someone who would put on a shirt today that says, remember the unborn at such a time as this, to speak up, you know, to shout it from the mountaintops. So it really motivates us to put these shirts on in jackets. And I hope that everyone really ponder is what I'm about to say. 78% of post-abortion mothers said that if just one person had encouraged them to choose life, or they saw one encouraging. sign to choose life, they would not have aborted their child. Okay, now I know that statistic because my wife, Suzanne, ran the pregnancy center here in New York City. She gave me a tour.

For 12 years, I forgot about that. And I've heard that statistic that women are looking for a sign. Will somebody help them to choose the right thing? And I mean, I've heard all this kind of stuff. And people need to know. women are hungry for a sign, for truth, for a message. And when you wear a shirt, which obviously you can get them at liferunners.org, but it might be all somebody needs because it does become almost mystical for people.

These women are just their loss. They're saying, is there God, God, will you give me a sign? What do I do? They don't know that they should choose life. And they're actually saying, give me a sign. That's it. A shirt from liferunners.org, they may choose. I mean, it's crazy.

but that's true. Case and point, just to drive home how you, you, you, you perfectly described many of the testimonies that have been delivered to me after given a presentation on the power of encouraging messaging. So this came top of mind. A lady came up to me in Lansing, Michigan, after I presented on a topic of meeting Saint Padre Pio, and I met just what I said. I want to ask you about that very soon. We'll talk about it. I don't want to. So I would, yes. And so I was there presenting on St. Padre Pio, the healer.

And of course we need healing with one in four American women in their childbearing ages having had an abortion. And all the wounds and the ripples from that. Imagine the huge healing minister out there. And St. Padre Pio, wow. What a healer he was in his ministry. He built a hospital called a place of the relief of suffering.

Yeah, we need places like that right now for the relief. suffering the world from abortion. But this lady walks up to me after this presentation on St. Patrick Pio, and I had shared that stat about, you know, ladies are just looking for just the smallest amount of impartation of courage known as encouragement. The power of it, she said, let me tell you a story. She was in her early 20s sitting in the hard rock cafe in Los Angeles. and she was in a crisis pregnancy. She bowed her head and she's like, Lord, all I need is a sign.

Something, something to encourage me that it's going to be okay, that I can do this. And she looked up and the sun was coming through the window of the heart rock cafe in Los Angeles and it hit this mural on the wall. And the mural had the words, birth of rock and roll. In the sun, she said,

had perfectly just hit the word birth. And she looked up, she said she smiled and went, that's all I needed. I just needed a nudge. And then she told me about her 34-year-old son that she couldn't imagine life without. And so praise God, that's all it takes. So listeners, my goodness, we got to get high-fiving for life. We got to get encouraging for life. We got to get, hey, of course you can do it.

And I'm going to help for life. neighbors, family members, my goodness, we got to speak up and talk about it. If that's all it's going to take to save a life, who wouldn't do that to encourage their neighbor, their family member, their friend, their coworker? I just love this. I hope people will go to liferunners.org. Folks, go to liferunners.org. You can hear your part in his mind.

Get a shirt or a jacket, liferunners.org. Wear it. Remember the unborn and wear it. I this is so beautiful. I'm going to go to the to the website after this because I feel like we need to be bolder. And that's one of the things that I love about you, Pat, and about life runners. You're bold. We need to be bolder.

People are looking for hope. There are many people lost. Let's be honest. They are lost. For a woman to be in the Hard Rock Cafe and to be asking God for a sign, she's lost. She just has just enough faith to say, I'm open. God, if you're there, give me a sign. And we want to say, well, she should already know.

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Folks, welcome back. Have you heard of Life Runners? Yes, you have. If you're listening to the program, I'm talking to the founder of Life Runners. You can go to Liferunners.org. The founder is Pat Castle. Now, Pat, I got a note here that tells me you're not just the founder of life runners. You graduated from the Air Force Academy and you went on to get a PhD in nano-analytical chemistry. And if I had a dime for everybody who claimed to have a PhD in nano-analytical chemistry, I would have one dime right now. No, it's just kind of funny because you're obviously a brainy guy and you, you were involved militarily. I mean, just reading this, you did 10 military assignments, including the weapons of mass destruction defense officer at the base closest to Osama bin Laden

on September 11th. You were an Air Force Academy Chemistry professor. I mean, you've been doing all kinds of stuff. You have raced 22 marathons. You love Jesus. And you are, I mean, my most, the most impressive thing is that you got a 253 in the Marine Corps marathon. Hats off to you, my friend. That's awesome to run a sub three hour marathon. I've never run a marathon, but I just want to say I plan to. But let me ask you just a few things. When did you, were you raised in the faith or did something happen along the way that suddenly made you get serious about God? Raised in the faith. I remember in third grade when a sleep, over, Bob O'Connor said, Pat, do you really think God is real? I remember thinking, what a silly

question. Look around. Of course, God's real. And as you blend what you just shared, you know, my PhD in nano-analical chemistry, people would think like, wow, you know, that must have been tough keeping the fate. Not at all. My entire journey of science has been, wow, look what God did. Wow, that is so cool. I want to tell you, I'm, I don't know if you know. I wrote a book called Is Atheism Dead, which has a lot of information, apologetics from science. It is jaw dropping, jaw dropping stuff. And I'm reading a book right now, a new book by Michael Denton of the Discovery Institute.

He is talking about fine-tuning on a level I have never comprehended. I've never seen anything like it. He's written a number of books for the Discovery Institute, and I quote him a lot in my book is atheism dead. When you, the more you look at everything from a scientific viewpoint, the more it's almost frightening, the level of what God has done. God's finger-prints. It's almost paralyzing.

Like you think this can't, it can't be this amazing. It's just insane. And it's so apparent. It's so apparent. Like, it's not hard. It's very complimentary. So praise God for what he's done. I love it.

I love it. I mean, I could talk to you. about that all day, but I want to talk to you about life runners. Again, folks, liferunners.org. I just, I love this, that you're, you got t-shirts there and stuff. And I'm a, I'm a runner who believes in life. I said that earlier. And so I, I think I need one of these t-shirts, don't you think? Okay. So, here's my question. You, you, you, you, you, you have this thing happening June 1st. It did, did we, did we cover that exactly? Yeah. So this is what's going on. So we already, so folks that listened to the first segment,

they heard why. You know, why wear a shirt that says, remember the unborn or a jacket? Why do it? And maybe the best news for some listeners, running's optional. So we've got 10,000 runners and 10,000 non-runners. And I like to say that the walkers in a lot of respects

are better life runners, because you can read their shirt easier. Remember the unborn when they're walking. Then you got guys like Alan Webb, who's a life runner. If you recognize that name, he's the American record holder in the mile. He did the mile in three minutes,

in 46 seconds. He's a jersey wearing life runner. And then you got people like Archbishop Naman and Cardinal Dolan that are jersey wearing life runners, black jacket wearing life runners. So the priests and the deacons, the pastors listen in, we send free black, remember the unborn jackets for the clergy for we just sent 18 of them to a group of sisters in Wosta, Massachusetts for the community. I love. And Wasta. So, you know, it's, it's an all hands on deck. I mean, you heard when you're, yeah, I want to, if people go to liferunners.org, they'll find out about the June 1st thing. What's happening July 4th to August 7th? Can you talk about that? Yeah. So the June 1st thing first, that's just the next first Wednesday of the month. So Eric, tell me how cool this is. Those, those 20,000 life runners on the world and 3,2006.

cities, we all once a month in concert orchestrated, we all put on our shirts or jackets on the first Wednesday of every month, including those 6,500 students that wear them at their schools, public and private schools. Some private schools, every kid, every staff member in the school, where's their jersey? And some people might think, like, well, that's just singing to the choir. You know, everyone's just showing up together. Uh-uh. Those kids, those staff members, us, the adults, we are coming from somewhere and we're going somewhere each day in those shirts. So whether those kids are going to soccer practice or baseball practice. But you have something, you have an across America relay life.

And is that starting in New York City? That's starting in New York City. So that's, so we have the week, the once every month, first Wednesday. So those that join life runners, you'll get notifications, put your shirt jacket on. And then that big event, Eric, is it kicks off. It started in 2013, and you recognize the guy that co-founded it with me. His name is Jeff Grabowski. You interviewed him because he's the guy that ran across America, unassisted with a baby stroller for prayer and pro life. Yes. That guy was on your show. Yes, I did interview him. Jeff Graboski. But wait, so you're starting from New York City on July 4th.

On July 4th. So imagine now this is called the Across of America Relay, the largest spanning pro-life event in the world. But you know I live in New York City. Yeah, and we can't wait to see it in the Brooklyn Bridge. So it's 8.30 a.m. 8.30 is July 4th. It's unbelievable. Do I get to run a leg of this thing?

Absolutely. What do I need? How long is a leg? Five K segments. there's one out. It's nothing. Exactly. I can sprint that.

I can sprint that. I can't believe this. We've got to figure this out because I want to be a part of this. I can't believe it's starting in New York City. I want to get some publicity for this. We got to figure this out. So, yes, the course, Eric, it kicks off on the Brooklyn Bridge at 8.30 a.m. on July 4th. It kicks off on the Golden Gate Bridge at 7.30 a.m.

on July 4th. It kicks off in Grand Forks, North Dakota at St. Michael the Archangel Church on July 4th, and it kicks off at the San Antonio Cathedral, the San Fernando Cathedral on July 4th. So imagine these four points, they converge in the middle of our country in Kansas City. They make a cross. It's the across America relay, north, south, east, and west, 40 days of 5K segments, 5,359 miles and everybody's wearing what? They're wearing their witness for the least of our brothers and sisters. They're wearing their remember the unborn shirts and jackets. Where does everybody converge in Kansas City?

So those four arms on August the 7th, they converge in Kansas City. This is nuts. That's awesome. We've got to figure out if I can be a part of this on the Brooklyn Bridge. I'm so thrilled that you're starting it. and we've got to cover that. But you say in your thing here, we're going to lose some people here,

and I love it. You're in the film unplanned. Okay. But I want to talk about Padre Pio. There are people listening. They've never heard of Padre Pio. Adre Pio was an unbelievable man of God, devoted to Jesus.

Very, very rare figure. What do you mean you encountered him? You had a vision. of him and you saw an apparition. This is like kind of amazing. And I think a lot of people are just going to say, I don't get that. It sounds demonic. I don't believe you. What is it? So first, let's, let's go and categorize his rareness. He's the only priest to ever have the stigmata, the wounds of Christ on his body. We've only got, we've only got a minute. I'm sorry, Pat. That's okay. So to get people excited about being a life runner, yeah, life runners began with an

encounter with a mystical priest, a healing priest, who is known for biolocation. He's, he had the stigmata's his body. And yes, he encouraged me. The last 10 minutes spoke to me. The last 10 minutes, why? By way of intercessory prayer for my mother, because she knew that I was in trouble at the top of the mountain. And you can see that story on life runners.org slash creed. Let's be sure to save a few seconds for the cheer at the end, about 10, 15 seconds. We're going to cheer people at the Yeah. We've got, well, we've only got 25 seconds. Let's do it. Set you up. Okay. Yeah, let's cheer people forward to be life runners. Remember, running's optional. We got ages 0.1 to 1001. The cheer for life runners is that we're all in Christ for pro life. I'm going to give it all in Christ and everybody listening

give a loud thunderous for pro life. Here we go. All in Christ. For pro life. All in Christ. For pro-life. Holy Christ. For pro-life. Awesome. I love this. Listen, we got to get you back. We're going to talk about July 4th, folks, liferunners.org.

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Well, Eric, just picture for you. And by the way, this is just another reason why people should be very fired up for the elections this year. Our foreign policy has turned into complete mush. And when there are international crises taking place, we've taken the seat at the back of the bus, literally. We've said we don't want to be involved. Like Joe Biden, people, they're just absent these conversations. And when he does try to call people, they don't take his calls, partly for this reason. But when you're talking about the Ukraine refugee crisis, 11 million displaced people and more than half of them now bleeding over into the NATO countries that border Ukraine, you're talking about the largest displacement of people since World War II.

And we haven't seen anything like this in a very, very long time. And the idea that there's all these different political pronouncements about Russia and Ukraine and all the rest of it, this is. inarguable. The victims of this are largely mothers and children because the fathers put them on the train, sent them west. They stayed behind in Maripole and in Kiev and in Kharkiv and in those places to try to fight Putin off and to try to keep their home, their home. So you've got, from a biblical standpoint, Eric, when Jesus was asked, what does it mean to be truly your follower? And he said to feed widows and orphans. This is literally what that is.

They're not all the husbands and fathers have died, but functionally, these families don't have husbands and dads. These are moms with two or three kids each. They are in countries now that don't speak the language that they come from, just to give your audience a little bit of perspective, the largest speaking Russian community, the largest Russian speaking community in New York City, the tri-state is a Ukrainian community.

In that part of the world, all the Ukrainians speak Russian and all the Russians in that part of Russia speak Ukrainian. It is very common in terms of understanding each other. You go to the west of Ukraine, and you go to all of the Baltics and the NATO countries, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, and then the Baltics. None of them speak a language that the Ukrainians understand. And so what you're talking about is literally grabbing your kids in the middle of the night, putting whatever you can in their backpacks, making them carry that.

You've got a duffel bag. You've got it packed with whatever you can get to. And then in about three or four days, you get to finally rest again at some place that is taking kindness upon you and giving you a bed to sleep in in another country. But when you get there, you don't know the language. You don't have any financial resources. There is no food. There is no work. And you can't find any because you can't even.

You don't even know how to communicate. And in that vacuum, CSI has come alongside and said, and using their typical network of pastors and church-related points of contact, they have beds for shelter. They have places for the kids and the moms to find places to sleep. They have, they're doing feeding programs. They are getting emergency medical attention to the ones that have it. And I was talking with Dr. Jeanette Nishwat from Fox News, who's been on. over there a couple of times already, and she said the medical needs are huge.

People are coming out of the country dehydrated and they have all kinds of other health problems that are then amplified because of that. But you're talking about a dire emergency where people need food and they need immediate shelter and they need help. And CSI has that with this network of pastors that they put in place and schools that they're working with. And, you know, for something as little as $140, you can help a family receive all of those services.

It is a no-brainer to me. we need to be helping as many of them as we can. I was told it was $280, so I'm not sure what CSI. Then you got two families helped. The need is going to be ongoing for the longest period of time. So whatever you're able to do, do your best gift right now. And that will enable as many of them as possible to find that help. But it's not a matter of whether or not we should.

Jesus clearly said, feed widows and orphans, help them in their time of need. It doesn't get more strictly biblical than this need right now. It's just hard for us to believe many times that these things are happening. It seems like, you know, it's not real. It is real, folks. Especially when the world was moving towards a safer place just two years ago. I mean, not to lose the idea here, but it matters who's president in the United States. And if you don't have people.

that are trying to do good things in that position, it impacts people around the world. I don't think Putin would have ever invaded Ukraine if Trump was in office today. I just don't think he would have. Oh, there's no question. Look, there's no question. Literally in a speech at Mara Lago last night before the film President Trump spoke to this issue. And there is no question. I mean, if you understand how these things work, you do these kinds of things when you see an operational. When the Afghanistan thing happened, this nightmare, this nightmare, people like Putin, they're licking their chops. They're waiting for weakness to exploit weakness.

It's like watching a nature film and you see the wolves or the hyenas. They're skulking around waiting for a moment of weakness, someone in the herd, you know, to show weakness. And then they pounce. That is what's happening. But the good news, folks, is that we can help. In fact, I hope you will. I'll give you the phone number, metaxis talk.com. But please call right now 888-253-3522.

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and like leave the woke progressive activism out of it, stop supporting the Equality Act. So we're making progress, I think. They need to hear from us. The point here is that we need more volume and they need to realize that there's, there are consequences to going woke, right? and they think they're kind of doing what everybody wants them to do because they look at all their competitors and, you know, the media and, and they're getting pads in the back. But folks like you and me need to let them know, hey, there's other perspectives here and it matters. So please help us in that. Yeah, I mean, I forgot about the petition. People can go to inspireinvesting.com.

And is there, can they see it if they go there, even if they don't remember the backslash then? Right on the homepage, InspireInpinvesting.com. Folks, I want to tell you, we've got to get activated. We have to let folks like this know this is not okay. We will not buy your products if you get behind these kinds of agendas. This is just good stewardship, folks. If you're spending money and giving it to people, I always talk about our other sponsor, Nutrametics. I think to myself, if you're buying these supplements and these different things, whatever,

do you realize that Nutrimetics.com gives 50% of their profits to missions? you know, I think we have to be careful how we spend our money. It's kind of a new, it's an awakening for me. And it's why I get so excited about you, Robert, and Inspire Investing, because this is a big deal. We have tremendous financial power. And if we're not doing something about it, if we're not using it, I mean, then we are to blame for the world around us. It's something we can do. So inspireinvesting.com, the smuckers thing is there. Folks, please take the minute and go there, inspireinvesting.com and sign that petition. Please, folks, please do that today. I want to ask you, Robert Netsley, about this thing called ESG. I don't know much about it. I've heard about it. Describe for my audience, what is ESG? Environmental social governance, right? So environmental social governance with ESG stands for. And it's become somewhat synonymous with woke progressive activism in the investor space. So you hear a lot about it. It is. the Larry Fink's and Black Rocks of the world use ESG investing to push their progressive agendas

into businesses like smuckers, like so many others. And so it really is a threat to First Amendment rights and a lot of other things in our nation. However, it's not inherently evil. Hopefully we're going to get a little nuance there. And one of our missions is to invade the ESG industry with biblical values. Because guess what? The Bible has a lot to say about the environment, social and governance issues, even if it's different than what, you know, so, secular activists or what progressive activists might think. And they would rather us not be at the table, not have a voice in that conversation. But, you know, until they, you know, they kick us out, kicking a screaming, I guess, you know, we're showing up to the table.

Yeah, I mean, this is, this is interesting. I can't remember who I was talking to about this. I think it was the woman, what's her name, Chumley, who just wrote a book on, you know, just kind of the, the, the, the, the, the, the, woke madness and how they have invaded the corporate space and they're trying to push woke values into corporate America. They've been hugely successful. And this thing called ESG, environmental, social, and governance, that's part of it. And I think it's fascinating that you're saying that we need to get involved there.

I mean, I don't know how people get involved in that, though. It seems to me that like most people in corporate America are too shy to, yeah, oh, by the way, the book I'm referring to is Lockdown by Cheryl Chumley. She talks about this in her book, Lockdown. We interviewed her. We're going to air that next week. But, you know, how do we get involved? And what do you say to people who are saying, well, we want to be socially responsible?

I mean, that's code for dramatically harmful. Right. Right. They're getting involved in all this garbage that they say they're socially responsible, but usually it's not good. Right. Yeah. So the left has been successful.

because they've been doing it for 30 plus years. And it seems like an overnight thing, but it's been in the process for a long time. And frankly, conservatives, people of faith, have been absent from those conversations. So many times when we reach out to companies like smuggers, like, you know, so many others that we've engaged with, we consistently hear that they have never heard from faith-based investors.

And they're only hearing from the left. And so we've really advocated that and we've allowed them to gain ground. And for us who we run funds, we've recently added ESG into the name of our funds. We're pressing into this. Our funds exclude abortion, exclude pornography, exclude LGBT activism. They are biblically responsible funds. And those fall in environmental, social, and governance categories. So we're pushing into that and we're seeing some kind of exciting results.

But it's about it. It's just always great to talk to you. We're out of time. But folks, I want to do you a favor and tell you, go to inspire, invest. This is very important. Inspireinvesting.com. Get involved. Robert, thank you. Thank you.

Get back home. Sleep pretty dark. We used to laugh. We used to cry. Hey, Albin, it's just about the end of the program. Aw. I got to tell you, we've got so much coming up tomorrow. and Monday and whatever.

But the Memorial Day weekend is upon us. Did you, did you know that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm excited, really. What do the sadars do, you and the lovely Ann? What do you do on Memorial Day? I am going to get some sort of T-bone steak, go out in the back deck and fire that grill up for the first time,

kicking off the unofficial start of summer. That's so wonderful. I and Suzanne, we go to Danbury to hang out with my parents. As you know, my dad is looking at his 95th birthday. I'm just excited. I've been traveling so much that I haven't been up there in a few weeks. So I'm looking forward to that tomorrow and over the weekend to be with my folks in Danbury,

Connecticut. Maybe we'll go up to Canterwood Lake and go ice skating. Actually, we won't be able to do that. I love the fact that you and your dad have the same birthday. and he's going to be 95, you're going to be like 78. It's pretty incredible. Yeah. And I got to tell you, the crazy thing is we did not plan that.

No. No, neither he nor I. So I really don't know what to say about that. Now, so this weekend, as I said, I'm going to Connecticut to a lot of times people spend time with families on Memorial Day. We need to take time to thank God for those who've served this country. those who've paid the ultimate price for this country. We only have our liberties because of them. And we need to be very clear with our kids what you have is a gift.

It is a gift. You don't deserve it. It is a gift. And you need to treasure it. I want to say that was it yesterday? Yeah, we aired. I had a conversation with Pastor Chey on. I will be speaking at his church in Pasadena, California on June 12th.

That's two days before Flag Day. I will be speaking at a church in Pasadena. If you're interested in where I will be, because I have been traveling a lot, but I'll be home for a little while, go to ericomataxis.com and you click on speaking engagements. I'm really going to be all over the place in Dallas. I will be in Dallas in July, speaking in Flower Mound, Texas, speaking at an Anglican conference in Texas.

and I've just got a whole bunch of other things. I can't even remember where I'm going to be speaking. I'm probably going to be at Turning Point USA in August. Oh, I'm going to be in Seattle. You know what? Yes, you've got to go to my website. I'm going to be in July. I'm also going to be in Las Vegas and in Seattle.

And, man, I got a lot of stuff coming up. I think I'll probably be in Phoenix in August, but a lot of stuff coming up. remember folks my personal radio i mean my personal website is eric mataxis dot com i want you to get the newsletter from there some people get some other newsletter and it's like that's fine but there's important information uh that i want to send you for my personal newsletter that's you can only get at eric mataxis dot com finally we should remind people this is the last chance to donate to c s i the suffering in the ukraine has been terrible i just want to tell you that uh

CSI is a great organization. You can rely on them to show the love of God to people in tangible ways. And if you go to MetaxistalkisTalk.com, there's all kinds of great reasons to go to Metaxistock.com. Believe me. But the main one, go there, click on the banner and help these refugees. If you've ever suffered, you know that you're hoping that there's somebody out there who's thinking, what can I do to help? These people need our help. I can trust CSI. You can trust CSI. please go to metaxis talk.com. I think that settles it. I just love the fact that we get to do more tomorrow.

Tomorrow, the Babylon B. Tomorrow, I can't believe I'm talking to Babylon B guys. You'll see. It's going to be crazy. Thanks for listening.