The Eric Metaxas Show - Rob Schneider

Episode Date: October 4, 2024

SNL Alum Rob Schneider shares his book "You Can Do It! Speak Your Mind, America".

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And now here's your Ralph Cramden of the Airways, Eric Matt, Texas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the program. I'm excited to say that we're not going to talk about last night's debate. Are you excited about that? Chris Himes, you've got to be excited about the fact that we're not going to talk about last night's debate. It is exciting. It is exciting.

Isn't it exciting? Maybe with John Smirak. In our two, we got John Smirik. on the program. Maybe we'll talk about the debate. Maybe. Maybe. I don't know. We know that we got John Zmirak talking about a lot of stuff. It's going to be hard for him not to talk about Tim Walts. Believe me, it's going to be hard for him. But we got the great John Zemirac in our two today. Who do we have in hour one? Oh, just Rob Schneider, the SNL comedian, Deuce Bigelow, male jigolo, the actor, the comedian, the comedian, the comedian, the comedian, the comedian,

and Rob Schneider. I'm so excited to talk to him. I think this is the first time we've had an actor on who's played a male jigolo on the show. Oh, I don't think so. I think we've had a lot of, well, you know what? No, technically I think that's correct. I think that's correct. So Rob Schneider is my guest in the next segment, and for this hour, he is my guest.

It's exciting when, you know, Hollywood types basically realize what many of us have realized, and they start talking about it publicly, and they use their platform, you know, to save America. So Rob Schneider is my guest, the comedian, Rob Schneider, is my guest in hour one, in hour two. It's the great John Zmirach. Man, we've got a lot of other stuff coming up this week, but who has time to get into that?

Let's just focus on today. I wanted to mention, because today is October 2nd, we're doing this special Bonhoeffer thing, which is, listen, it is so exciting to me that this film is coming out in November. And I'm going to say it hopefully every day. Folks, mark your calendar. The opening weekend is November 22nd. I cannot believe. I've known this film was being made for years.

It's taken years. And it's a great film. I've seen it. I can say that it's a great film because I have seen it. We're doing some sneak peeks around the country through Socrates in the city. There's going to be one. If you're a member of Socrates Plus, you can get an invitation to these screenings. One is going to be in Washington, D.C. in a few weeks.

What's the actual date on that? I think October 30th. So if you want a sneak peek of the film, you know, a month before it comes out or whatever, you have to be signed up for Socrates Plus. But anyway, the point is the film is coming out November 2nd, sorry, November 22nd. And it's really vital that it do well the first weekend. I just want to say that I hope you'll mark your calendar for that. Please mark your calendar for that.

It's very, very important. Mark your calendar down now. When a film comes out, I've said this about a number of films, vindicating Trump, Dinesh D'Souza's film. we got to support these films. And they're not just worth supporting, but they're educational, you know? Like you, you, you, it helps you to think clearly when you see a film like vindicating

Trump or you see the story of Bonhoeffer, it just helps, you know, it's not just entertainment is my point. But you've got, you do have to support them or at least I, I want to exhort you. I do exhort you to support these films. So vindicating Trump is, it's great. It's Dinesh D'Souza. The Bonhofer film is November 22nd. Mark your calendars for that.

There's so much else to share that we have a Socrates in the city gala coming up December 10th. If you can get to New York on December 10th, you don't want to miss it. It's our 25th anniversary gala. It's kind of freaky. I just want to say as someone with kids who live in Brooklyn and Queens and are running around the city, it's not as, you know, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome here in New York as the media would suggest. There are places that aren't great, but it's generally safe. If you get stabbed in the face, we apologize.

Yeah, we apologize in advance. No, actually, I'm glad you brought that up. I'm glad you brought that up because, look, I live here in New York. My wife and daughter live here in New York. Chris Himes, you and your wife and your kids live in New York. And it is nothing like the media's reporting. I mean, honestly, I have to be clear, folks, unless you're like an idiot, I just don't know.

It doesn't mean that there aren't problems, but the idea that anybody would be afraid to come to New York, honestly, it's preposterous. Like, it's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. This is not downtown Chicago or Portland or whatever. I mean, I live here. I took the subway yesterday.

Trust me, it's not. Anyway, people can think what they want. The bottom line is December 10th. Now, we don't have, you can't sign up yet, but I just want to tell you December 10th, it's happening. We're having the 20th. fifth anniversary of Socrates and City. It's going to be a gala, some really special stuff planned

and some of it not planned. But you have to go to the Socrates and City website to look into that. Speaking of looking into it, people are contacting me about the cruise. We have a cruise to the Greek Islands next June. This is June 6th through June 16th. I am flipped out excited about it. And if you would like to join us on this cruise. I mean, every level of it is amazing to me. The people, it's going to be great. It's going to be great. I mean, just the people. I believe John Zmirak is going to be with us. That alone is insane. Trust me, if you're hanging out with him for 10 days, oh my goodness. Believe me, it's going to be insane. Victoria Jackson is coming. We're working on all kinds of other people, but you can't do better than those.

those two right there. So it's exciting. I'm going to be speaking on most of my books every night or every other night. I'm going to be giving a lecture with Q&A. Honestly, it's just a blast. But to find out about it, you have to go to Ericmetaxis.com slash cruise, ericmataxis.com slash cruise. And the cruise, the company that puts this together says that they can only save room for us on the boat for so long. So they said that, you know, you need to get your, your people to sign up sooner rather than later because they saved certain rooms in every price category. And there's every price category. You can do it very affordably or you can go crazy and get like a, you know, penthouse apartment or whatever. I, so go to Ericmetaxis.com

slash cruise. And I want to recommend, this would be like a blast to do with friends. Like two couples, you know, just say, hey, let's do this thing. Like, it's just thrilling to me. Or with family and stuff. So it's, or with, you know, enemies, you know, feud, blood feuds in your family, you can resolve things on the cruise. It'll be that much.

You know what you just reminded me, the hafills and the McCoys will be on the cruise. Terrific. And they're not allowed, you're not allowed to take firearms. You can do anything in the international waters. It's legal, right? Yeah. It's pretty scary. I wouldn't go on this cruise, but I have to because I'm leading it.

But you go to Socrates in the city. No, sorry, you go to Ericmataxis.com slash cruise in case I haven't mentioned Ericmataxx.com slash cruise. But I do mean it. Like, if you're looking into it, look into it now. Talk to your friends about it now because I don't want to come on here and say like, you know, my wife is so excited about it when she found out. She was like, I was planning on leaving you, but now I'm going to have to wait a whole year until after the cruise. Isn't that beautiful?

It's so beautiful. beauty of these crews. It's keeping couples together. We might renew our vows. We might renew our vows or have a funeral at sea on the ship. Yeah. That's the beauty of it. I got to say, you know, that's just wonderful. So, Ericmetaxis.com slash cruise. But do look into it because, you know, there's just some interesting stuff.

And there's a go-kart track on at the top of the ship. There's a three-level go-kart track. Can you imagine John Zmirak, Victoria Jackson, yours truly, and a gang of crazy? I mean, it's going to be fun. You're going to be drag racing to the soundtrack of Greece, Greece-Lycin. Or something like that. I wanted to read a letter. We're not going to have time to do it.

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flag bar with every qualifying IRA. That's noblegoldinvestments.com. Folks, welcome to the program. I am thrilled right now to have as my guest, Rob Schneider. You may know him from Saturday Night Live or who knows where you know him from. I know him through my very dear friend, Victoria Jackson. Rob Schneider, welcome to the program. Hey, thank you, Eric. How are you?

Looks nice there. Wherever you are. I'm a big background. It's an illusion. I'm in an alley. but it's a different. You, look, you have a new book out. The title is, you can do it.

Speak your mind, America. What happened to you? People want to know your story. That's a long story. I'm 60 now, so there's a lot. Eric, how much time do you have? If you've got a little time, I've got a little time. Because, I mean, I am a student of the culture.

I love the culture. and I've always noticed that people in Hollywood, people in, you know, at essence. I don't like to see people in Hollywood. I would have nothing to do with Hollywood. I just, I know, I know, but movies, I did TV. I don't feel like people in Hollywood. That's not a description for me. I'm just an American.

You know, I'm a father first. I'm an American. And I just, at a, at a certain point, you can only protect your kids in the house so much. And then you have to go outside the house. And, you know, as a California native, I never thought I'd leave. But if you have little kids, you realize it's dangerous, you know, to take your kids to school in California. You know, in the morning, you drop off a girl in the afternoon you pick up a boy.

It's not the most ideal place. Well, you're revealing that, of course, yeah, you're a normal person. But what I'm saying is people who aren't in Hollywood, people like me, people listening to this program. I'm not in Hollywood, Eric. I'm not there nothing to do with Hollywood. I just work there. It doesn't represent me and my values or me. It's not me as an American.

You've made that clear, Rob. You've made that clear. My point is the perception of people. They wouldn't know that unless you come out and say the things that you've said. When you say the things that you've said, which you've been already saying on this program, people are shocked. They're thinking, wow, somebody who's made movies in Hollywood who's been on Saturday Live thinks the way that I do.

That is... Somebody's not a cult member. Right. Right. Right. Somebody who's been brainwashed or spouting. It's refreshing. It's refreshing and it's profoundly encouraging, which is why, honestly, I'm just thrilled to have you on and to know that you are out here. I've seen you out there speaking your mind because the point is. That's the title of my book. Speak your mind.

What I'd like to do is to encourage other people. Thank you, Eric. I mean, there's an interesting thing that's happened in America. If you go back to, you know, the great Frenchman, Alexander Tocqueville. Alexander Tocqueville. 1837 when he came here, one of the quintessential books ever written about the American character. I think he called it the habits of the heart. And he really admired the individualism of Americans. But one of the things he really admired most was,

The, I mean, these are farmers. These are ignorant farmers. I mean, 80% of 90% at that time were farmers. Just people like, you know, I mean, that's the thing that people don't realize is, and they're even during the Lincoln campaign, it was quite controversial to be told that you needed to have a job. And it's a job. What do you mean? I got my hogs here.

I got, I got a couple of chickens. I don't need a job. I don't need to get a job. I have my land and blah, blah. And so, but these people were very proud people and had no problems at all critiquing their government. They had no problem saying that they thought their leaders were a bunch of numb skulls and who were just, you know, blowing money. And that was the intention of our founding fathers was really to have a light-handed federal government. and to just disperse powers to the states.

That was the whole intention. Where did you learn all this stuff from Lorne Michaels? Come on. What happened to you? I love this. It's been subverted, obviously, you know, as time. But it hasn't been, it hasn't collapsed yet. Now, what, it's just like a boat.

I mean, at a certain point, you know, it's got a certain amount of buoyancy, and you could take a certain amount of waves, you know, but at a certain point, it could tilt over. The buoyancy, you could lose buoyancy, and the boat could tip over or sink. And at a certain point,

you can't ignore the fact that there's a tilting point now in our political, well, in our world, in our body politic. And I think, you know, and I would only say that the, you know, you'd look no farther than, you know, Los Angeles in New York and the people there who, you know, there is no choice who to vote for in California. I mean, you can vote for Trump if you want, but it won't make a difference because there's the mass of population there is going to vote for a blue.

You know, and I said this before, you know, California would vote for a pile of, you know, would vote for a bowl of shit before it votes. if it has a D next to it. And I remember a lot of hubbub I got from that. But it's true. They just vote for the color and they vote for a party. And at a certain point, you know, thankfully this electoral college, and the Democrats don't like anything that takes away from their power. So they would love the electoral college if it benefited them,

but they hate it because it doesn't. And the idea is the same reason you get two, you get 50-something electoral college votes in California, but you only get two senators. the same number as in Rhode Island. Why? Because we have to disperse power. We have to allow this not to be a, well, a tyranny of the majority, basically.

Not basically. That's exactly what it is. A pure democracy versus a republic. Well, yeah, we have a democratic republic, which is different. You know, it's not, you know, democracies don't end well, and they certainly don't benefit the average person. and it can easily be subverted, and we're seeing it. So what happens now is I talk to my entertainment attorney, Eric, and he called me, and he said,

listen, you know, I thought you were crazy five years ago, but all this stuff is this crap is happening. You know, what's happening to his kid in fifth grade and what they're teaching in there. I said, you don't like that. Why don't you vote for Trump? And he said, I just can't go there. And I said, but let me ask you a question. Do you have a problem with, between 11 and 20 million people just floating into the country and now Venezueling gangs taking over apartments?

And then taking, and then, you know, the Democrats flying in 30,000 Haitians into Springfield, Ohio, without asking for a vote or anything, they just do it. They said, well, that's awful. I said, what about the Democrats, the Biden-Harris administration, backdoor working with tech companies like Twitter and like Google and like Facebook? And like Mark Zuckerberg just admitted that they worked to censor First Amendment to violating the government. violating first Americans free speech rights and silencing Americans. It's all turned out to be right. Do you like that? I said, no, no, that's not good.

And I said, do you like the fact that girls will have to deal with boys saying that they're girls and girls' sports being refuge for failed narcissistic male athletes who can't beat other women? And I said, no, that's not good. Well, then why are you voting? Do you want forever wars? Do you want to push the World War III and firing missiles deep into Russia that are American missiles?

you have governors signing missiles with Zelensky. He is promoting Kamala Harris, and that's okay, but he made a phone call to Trump and they impeached them. You think he said, no, that's bad. Well, then why are you voting? He said, well, I just can't go there with Trump. So you see what's happening. And I just tell people, and I know, Eric, you have all your voters are on our side.

We're just spinning our wheels here, but you've got to tell your friends and reach out to them because there was 100,000 voters in Arizona that didn't vote. Do you love your country more than you hate? Donald Trump. That's it. Because if you love your country more, then you've got to get rid of this blue monster. Because it doesn't do anything but want to continue its own power. And they're going to continue doing it until there are no more swing states.

Do you tell me I should vote for Trump? Yeah, I think so. I just can't go there. I know. I would lose a lot of friends. You know, it's very tough, very tough. I'd rather the world put a hell in a hand basket, you know. I know, I know.

It's incredible, isn't it? It's amazing. I mean, you... It is something that it's a, you know, I would like to think it's a cycle, but I don't know how this cycle we're going to be able to get out of. No, there's no, no, no. There's no, there's no cycle. If we do not win this election, we don't get to fight for the future of this country. This is, this is it.

This is an existential crisis. Yeah. No, no, it's not an existential crisis. It's an existential crisis. This is a crisis that we see. existential is an unknown kind of thing. So we have to make sure we get our, to get our words correct here.

This is an existential. I've had it with you, all right? Nobody comes on this show. No, I think you may have a point there. I'm going to have to look into this, Rob Schneider. Well, this isn't something that is up for grabs here. This isn't something that we don't know. Existential is this crisis that we can't see,

but we do face. I think this is something you can see and that we must face. And so when people say it's an existential crisis, when they say existential crisis, they talk about like the fact that the, you know, what everything Al Gore said 20 years ago did not come true. We've actually have more. Wait. Can I hit pause for a second? Folks, I'm talking to Rob Schneider.

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Folks, welcome back talking to Rob Schneider. Rob, I'm talking to you. Yes, sir. You are saying a lot of things that I agree with violently. But what I was saying earlier is that... I like that. I want to borrow that, Eric. Why you are an encouragement, I want to encourage you.

Yes, sir. Because of the voice that God has given you, because of the platform, because of the films you've made, because the TV you've done, when you say these things, it is delightful and shocking to a lot of Americans because they expect you to go with the leftist flow. So they're stunned, and it's a joyful thing. And I think more and more folks, Russell Brand is a classic example recently, he like you has woken up. And but he's talking about it. On this program the other day, I had D. Mateo used to be the star of the Sopranos. She has woken up. Lots of people are waking up and they're talking about it.

And it's just very encouraging. So I want to encourage you to keep doing it. I also want to say, remind people, you have a bookout called You Can Do It, Speak Your Mind, America. Let me go grab it so I can show it to you. Hang on. Yeah, you grab it. Because honestly, I'm just, I'm thrilled that. you're exhorting people to love America.

Holy cow. That looks just like you. And it came out pretty good. I think you'll like it. I never written one before, so I can't say it's any good, but it's all right. Well, you know,

it's interesting. When you talk about awaken, you know, I've awakened. That's a very good term. And I think, you know, if you go to like the Hindu or Buddha,

it is that the idea that you were asleep. Now, it's not exactly asleep. It is a combination. It is you're awake, but you're asleep. So there's another term for that, Eric. It's hypnosis. It's like being a trance. It's like being drug.

It's like sleepwalking. I mean, you're awake and you're not awake. Yes. So when somebody feels awakened and then they, they are no longer in their slumber and they could see things that they weren't able to see before. So it is a combination of people that, and there was another form of a new way of saying it is deprogrammed. It's like there are some, and that's why language is so important because with language, they can

confuse you and you have something like, when you say something, a term like social justice, now social justice sounds good. Who would not be for social justice? I mean, you have like equity. Who would not be for, it seemed like, well, equity, that sounds like a good idea. But what those really are, Trojan horse terms, and those Trojan horse terms are basically cloaked in something that sounds good. But when you open it up and you realize, it is Marxism dressed up as manners. And these are social justice in its practice is about revenge and it is about destruction.

and what happens in our society, Eric, if I may, our society in a Democratic Republic, it does allow us to be manipulated by bad faith actors. And the bad faith actors are the ones who hide under these terms and manipulate the system. And they don't have the best intentions for the system. They really want to break it. They want to destroy it and break it down.

Rob, what is good? That is the battle. What happens is we need to, and what these are, why it's important, Eric, and why I wanted to come on your show, is for the people to arm themselves. Because the people know these things. But when you're attacked using language, and then you got to figure out how to attack, how to defend yourself. Because they will use language and pervert language to their own and subvert language. language for their own power gain. And then that's an important thing to kind of, when people are using these terms,

how do we get out of it? How can you fight back for it? Because these terms are used to gain power. Well, first, access, because they're screaming. So you have like, you know, we don't longer have debate on college campus. And I tell everybody out there, everybody want to do these interviews, if you have kids in college, take them out. Take them out.

spend the money on stupid shit. Just do it. They're not going to learn. Rob, Rob, I am so with you on this. You have no idea. Like, you don't know me, but I'm just saying everything you're saying, it's almost funny to me. It's wonderful to hear you talk this way.

Well, I mean, they're not learning anything. When universities and supposedly higher places of education are there to help people, help young minds learn how to think critically. Now, what is happening at university, especially Harvard. I mean, how much would you have to hate your kid to send your kid to Harvard right now. Harvard undergrad, all they're doing now is cranking out advocates for a partisan political ideology that is anything but liberal. It is ill. I went to Yale. Let me tell you something. Yeah. I went to Yale. I was a working class kid. And I, for the first time in my life,

bumped into the cultural elites, the globalist, Marxist, anti-American, anti-Christian worldview. And I pretty much drank that Kool-Aid. Not really, but I was like, I'll keep my mouth shut to get along because I didn't know what to believe. Yeah. Graduated a few years later, I had my born-again Jesus freak experience. I woke up and I began to see things as they are. And I now say anybody sending their kids to those schools, you have to be crazy because they're going to get nothing out of it. You're going to lose your kids to madness.

There's absolutely no doubt about it. We got a couple of minutes left. Rob, hold on a second. I want to make clear you're out with a book. This is your only book you've ever written. It's called... I never wanted Eric. Why would you... I got into show business to avoid doing stuff like this.

It's 288 pages. I know. I didn't work for a living. It took nine months. I didn't want this. This was forced on me. I have written 15 books. I feel for you.

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That was acting. But until today, I didn't know how much acting. Now, I'm profoundly impressed. This was like when De Niro put on 80 pounds in Raging Bull. This is like unprecedented level of acting because you're nothing. like the character you play in due. I want to be clear with my audience. Well, I think the comedians have to be at least what I call semi-bright or half-bright.

And I think I love the description. We're all ignorant just on different subjects. I think when you have a real love of country and when you kind of realize how amazing it is, And the idea that, like, that's what's so frustrating. And I think for those kids, I mean, their brains really don't finish until they're 25. So I think they are really susceptible to, like, you know, good ideas or ideas that seem pretty pure, you know. And but they're being manipulated. And you can get young people to do bad things.

And that's what we're seeing. And a lot of young people are going to vote for Kamala Harris. And it isn't like the Republican Party's perfect. But if you are against Forever Wars, if you are against, you know, the chance that, you know, you're, there, you can only push Russia so far. I mean, for people who, like, had confused about Ukraine, Ukraine, I mean, if Hitler couldn't beat Russia and Napoleon couldn't figure out a way to, to make the Russians succumb to his will, then how the heck is this comedian Zelensky going to do it? And even if they, you, when when Gorbachev gave up and collapsed, well, he had to give up the collapse, but he didn't have to give up everything. And what the promise from Frank Baker was, we will not put NATO 10 miles past Poland. That's it. You're not NATO. That's, and then that was not in a treaty. That was a guaranteed verbal communique in the Bush administration from. Secretary of State, Baker. And then the next thing, you know, you got, you know, missiles on the border

of Russia from Ukraine. I mean, just imagine if China put missiles in Mexico, you know, facing United States, facing Texas. It's an insane provocation. It's an insane provocation. We pushed Russia to this. That's the nightmare. That's why, if Trump had been in office, this never would have happened. And this is the deep state running our foreign affairs. We have to get this. I mean, the thing about it, we cannot allow congressmen to financially benefit. We can't allow, you know, for Nancy Pelosi et al, to say that I can buy stock in Raytheon. Right.

And then Raytheon automatically, their DEI numbers go up so that their stock gets, you know, benefits. And then the stock, you know, the people in Congress get stocked. And then Biden lets the air out of the bag and says, hey, here's what's happening, the cat out of the bag and say, hey, the money's not leaving America. It's just going down the street. You're $100 billion. It's just going over to the military industrial complex. What are you talking about?

It's good for America. Yeah, but there's a million dead people. You're pushing the war closer to it. And these Europeans are psychos. Talk about the downside of democracy. You see it now. You have these unelected, you know, autocrats in the EU pushing NATO to war.

And we are. And so what's happened, if I just finished this to this point is, is that they want to push it. And that was what Gorbachev said when they asked him, what was the most surprising thing 20 years ago? They asked him, what's the most surprising thing about what's happening in Europe post-iron curtain?

And he said, well, the Sovietization of Europe, the EU. And so you really have like a Sovietization of what? what is happening and that is happening and it's happening here you've obviously thought this through and that's what i don't like uh i would love to get you back i'm sorry we're out of time it's a joy talk to you rob congratulations on the book you can do it we'll talk to you very soon thank you thank you very much eric oh folks but before i go want to remind you we have two new sponsors on the program one is metashare uh and the others the tunnel to tower Foundation, let me tell you about them. Christopher Chambers enlisted in the U.S. Navy and later graduated

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Iraq. I do want to mention actually, but before we go, Socrates Plus, when we were in Oxford this summer, I did six spectacular conversations. I had six spectacular conversations. One of the best was with Tom Holland, the author and historian Tom Holland. He wrote a book, How the Christian Revolution Remade the World. It is amazing. He's not. not sure whether he's a Christian. He's not quite a Christian yet, but he makes the greatest case for the Christian faith. It's amazing. To see it, you need to be part of Socrates Plus. So go to Socratesplus.com. Socrates in the city plus.com. If you're signed up for Socrates Plus, you know, you'll get invited to a free sneak peek screening of the Bonhoeffer film.

There's a lot of stuff, but I want to recommend it. But I just saw this morning that the conversation with Tom Holland is up. I think it's up on YouTube today, I think. I think we just posted it. But just go to Socrates in the city.com. Go to our YouTube channel. But some of the stuff I did in England, it was amazing. It was amazing.

and I keep forgetting to mention it. So go to our YouTube channel Socrates and the City or just go to Socrates and the city.com to check it out. What was the other thing that I wanted to mention before we ran out of time? Oh, the Cruz. Thank you, Chris. You don't need to remind me.

Oh, no, I got it. We're expecting you. Thank you, Captain. I got it. Cruise, okay. I was packing for the cruise. I need to bring enough satin lotion. If you are signed up at Socrates and the city.com or at Eric Metaxis.com, if you're getting our newsletters, we're sending out information on the various places that we're stopping, that the boat is stopping on this cruise.

One of those places, the second place we will stop, I believe, is Ephesus or, as it is now called Izmir Turkey. and I know you're going to say, hey, hey, Turkey's not in Greece. Yes, but it used to be, folks. It used to be. And of course, it still should be. But wait, what did I just say? Well, yes, Ephesus, correct. Used to be in, you know, what we think of as Greece.

So we're stopping in Ephesus. And I want to read from the notes here. It says it says that it's perhaps the most important Greek city in Asia Minor. which is today Turkey. It played a key role in the expansion of the gospel of the Christian faith and the Apostle Paul believed that it was the perfect spot

to base all of its missionary work. And something I didn't know, it is said, it is believed that Mary, the mother of Jesus, lived and died in Ephesus. I didn't know that. So this is like, honestly,

we're going to look at, learn so much about our faith on this trip. It's actually, it's utterly exciting. So if you want to know more, go to ericmetaxis.com slash cruise, ericmetaxis.com slash cruise. And if you go to ericmetaxis.com, I officially would say that that's the best place. If you want to order my books and you don't want to give money to the evil empires out there. Order my books from Ericmetaxis.com. Ericmataxis.com. Okay.

Can I make it a comment about estate planning and this idea that you need to leave money to your children? I think that's wildly overrated. And, you know, they need to figure things out on their own. And what you really need to think about is having a great cruise before, you know, you check out. You took the words out of my mouth. Ericmataxis.com slash cruise.