The Eric Metaxas Show - Super Centennial has Officially Entered the Lexicon

Episode Date: September 11, 2025

Eric was invited to speak in front of the President this weekend and shared his idea for the "Super Centennial". Donald Trump gave his stamp of approval. 

Welcome to the Eric Metaxis show. Did you ever see the movie The Blobs starring Steve McQueen? The blood-curdling threat of The Blob. Well, way back when, Eric had a small part in that film, but they had to cut his scene because The Blob was supposed to eat him. But he kept spitting him out. Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest.

Eric the Texas! Holy Guasasas! Um, it's Tuesday, September 9th. As far as I know, I'm in New York City. Keith Junta,

Chris Heims, can you affirm that for me? I'm a little bit, I'm a little overwhelmed. What happened yesterday, which we're going to talk about any moment, was genuinely,

genuinely overwhelming, impossible fully to process. The president of the United States, and I spoke, well, we will talk about all this stuff in a minute, but I just... It was jaw-dropping. It was jaw-dropping as the headline. I'll say this up front. I got to say this up front. And I hate repeating myself, but I have to repeat myself.

I often say that I don't like it when people say something's miraculous, when it's just wonderful or kind of lucky or, you know, a blessing. say miraculous just as an adjective like oh it's amazing oh it's uh you know awesome what happened yesterday and i will explain to my mind was miraculous genuinely miraculous and i will explain now you can't prove it but trust me folks i don't use that kind of term lightly what happened and say that it was miraculous i'll describe that as we go forward but let's just give the context uh because there are people tuning in. They're like, what the heck are you talking about, Eric?

Please help us out here. We don't spend our time following your career. And first of all, shame on you, folks. You should be following my career. No, seriously, people are busy, so they have no idea what I'm talking about. So I'll just to give you the headline, yesterday, which was Monday, September 8th, I was in Washington, D.C. For President Trump has appointed a panel. sorry, a commission, presidential commission on religious liberty. And I'm honored to be on this

commission. It's a small commission. I think there are 11 of us total. The chairman is Texas lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, who is a hero. He is one of the greats. He's the real deal. And the lieutenant governor in Texas has as much power or more power actually than the governor. So he's a very powerful figure politically. And it was his idea to go to President Trump and to say, you should have a commission on religious liberty. And of course, President Trump said, yep, how about leading it? And so Ben Carson is the vice chair of the council. Franklin Graham is on it.

So I had the honor yesterday of being there. This was my first meeting. The previous meeting, which was really the first meeting, I was unable to attend. I had to be someplace in the country. I'm not sure we're speaking, and I couldn't go. So yesterday was the first day. And we didn't know until a few days ago that the president himself would be there, which is a very big deal. I mean, he's not going to be at the rest of our meetings.

and so he was there and he gave a speech on religious liberty and it was covered Newsmax Fox News covered the speech. It was a very big deal yesterday. So what happened miraculously, I will get to. But just so you understand the context, I rarely get to Washington, D.C., but I was there for this. In fact, I was there two nights before that. I had to record the White House because, as you know, many of you know,

I'm writing a book on the American Revolution. And the White House invited me. They're putting together a series, I don't know if it's called the Story of America or something, but a series of videos about the American Revolution. The White House is doing it. I think Hillsdale is funding it. And they wanted me to do one of these videos. And so I had to prepare my text to speak about the Battle of Long Island,

or it's also called the Battle of Brooklyn, and to talk about the crossing of the Delaware. So two days ago, I was in the executive office, the Eisenhower building, which is right next to the White House, to do that. It was just a really amazing thing to be there. my daughter and I got a tour of the White House of the West Wing, which is pretty amazing, I have to say. So we could talk about that. But yesterday was the big day.

Did you lift anything? Did you, you know, did you pill for any, you know, Lincoln golf, golf clubs or I don't know. I saw some stuff I liked. Yeah. I saw some stuff I liked and I took it. And I don't know, was that wrong? Because if that was wrong, I got to plead ignorance. I thought stealing in Washington, I thought in the District of Columbia, stealing stuff was no longer legal.

Like, I really thought you could get away with that. I thought about the mayor, she's good with it, and you could just take away as long as it's up to a certain amount. I think it's $40,000 worth of memorabilia. I'll have to face justice eventually, but not yet. Not yet. I get to admire it. And it's a, I took a bust of Churchill, which a bronze, beautiful bust. I just snagged it, put in a little tote bag.

and, you know, nobody saw because it was the weekend. And you're able to steal more effectively on the weekend because the guard is down. So I stole some memorabilia. Okay, we got to get serious, folks. So there's a lot I want to talk about. But the headline is that yesterday all day, but in the morning the president was there, was the Commission on Religious Liberty. So there were so many wonderful people there, first of all,

even before the president gets there to be among these folks. who comprise this commission on religious liberty. Dr. Phil was there. I don't know who he represents, but he is, you know, he's a man of sincere Christian faith and a friend of the president. He's on the commission.

I mentioned Franklin Graham is on the commission. I heard Jack Pasovic was there. No. Oh. Bishop Robert Barron. Oh. Is on the commission and Cardinal Dolan of New York, whom I've known for many years, he's on the commission.

Some folks will know Carrie pre-Jean Baller. She was like Miss USA or I don't know if it was Miss Universe. I can't remember it was 2009. And she was at the time in the past. questioned on same-sex marriage in 2009. And, you know, she gave the standard answer like, you know, as a Christian, I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. The whole world gasped at her bigotry. She was attacked and whatever.

So she is a real hero. And I had the privilege of getting to know her a little bit and joking around with her. But she's somebody who is now, you know, suddenly all these years have passed. She's got two kids. She's been married for a number of years. She is a radical activist for religious liberty. And so she's on the commission, just another wonderful person. But there's so many folks, obviously Paula White, who heads up the White House, faith, off a cavalcade of wonderful folks who love America and who understand the importance of religious liberty.

So that's the backdrop. But when we heard the president was going to be there, you think, oh, my goodness, what's this going to be like? So we had to get there early and assemble backstage and there's all kinds of security and they wouldn't let me carry my sawed off, which typically I just do. And it was really kind of amazing. And then suddenly the president shows up with Pam Bondi and a number of other folks from the White House. So, but what happened backstage, which I'll get to when we come back, was the miraculous part. So I'm going to have to give you the background on that. It was, it was unexpected.

And it was all videotaped. So we can, maybe we can play that in a little bit. But it was, it was totally unexpected. So when we come back, I will tell you what happened, what I said to the president, what he said to me and what happened afterward. But it was an amazing day. We'll be right back. A major retail chain just canceled a massive order,

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It's Tuesday. And we have our friend Steve Dase will be coming up later in the program to talk about the news of the day. Lots of news. A lot of it, tough stuff to talk about. But, okay, so yesterday I was in Washington, D.C., as I said, And I'm privileged to be on a member of the president's commission on religious liberty with a number of the folks that I have just mentioned, Ben Carson and so many people who've become friends over the years. What an honor for me to be friends with these wonderful, wonderful people, so many of them. And I'm sure I've forgotten a couple of names.

But anyway, here's the background to the miracle. Some months ago, it might be about a year ago now, and many of my friends can corroborate this because I have talked about this. Certainly Keith Junta and you, Chris Himes, you can corroborate this. But I've always been like a fan, not just of the United States of America, but of the bicentennial. because when I was a kid in in six weeks, 200 years in America, the bicentennial. And I just love that. We're celebrating our bicentennial.

We're celebrating the bicentennial. It's America's bicentennial. Of course, by means two. Centennial was 100, right? So 200, it's our bicentennial. It's our bicentennial. If it were 300, it's the tricentennial. If it's 100, it's the centennial.

The 150th anniversary, which was 1926. That was called the sesquicentennial. And of course, it was a much more literate culture in 1926. So people said we're celebrating our sesquicentennial. What is 250? Well, some of you know the answer to that. 250, the term for the 250th is the semi-quincentennial. Quincentennial would be 500 years, quad centennial would be 400 years, tricentennial, 300 years, bicentennial, 200 years. 250 is semi-quincentennial. That's a word, valid, Eric, semi-quincentennial of somebody, I believe, I believe you're legally obligated to punch the person in the face who comes out and says, hey, let's celebrate the

semi-quincentennial. Yes, you're legally obligated, not in all states, but in most states to punch that person. So only there was a better term. when I realized that the 250th is coming up, and then I said, what do you call that? Semi-Quincentennial, I said, that's not going to fly. That bird won't fly. And so over a year ago, I was thinking about this. And it's always impossible to properly describe how thoughts come to us.

but I am very, very observant about this kind of thing, at least with my own thoughts. And the thought came to me of a sudden that we ought to, by Fiat, call the 250th America's supercentennial. Just like we said, okay, we're going to call that the Gulf of America. boom, it's the Gulf of America. You know, where do you get that from? Well, we just decided the same thing. I thought we ought to call, this is such a big deal, the 250th, that nobody's going to call

the semi-quincennial. We know that. And so they're going to come up with some, you know, they're going to say America's 250th. And you think that's not, I don't know why that doesn't sound exciting, but it just doesn't. It's America 250. I don't know. You know, it's like celebrating your wedding anniversary. you say it's our, it's our 25th or our 50th.

That's not exciting as saying it's our golden wedding anniversary. It's our silver wedding. You know, there's something about that. And so I thought when I was a kid, the idea we're celebrating, it's our bicentennial. We're all excited. It's our bicentennial. I thought we needed a term. So I came up with the idea that we should call it our supercentennial, that this year, next

year, 2026 is America's supercentennial. Everybody, we're going to celebrate our supercentennial. It's the supercentennial. get excited. And when you hear the term supercentennial, you really you can't help but

like hear the fireworks in the background. It's the super centennial. We're celebrating the super centennial. So I came up with this idea, super centennial, but this is the big but. I had a sense when the idea came to me that

this was an idea specifically for President Trump. That God had given me the idea. And I don't say that lightly either because a lot of times people oh, everything is from the Lord, the Lord, like yes, ultimately everything is. But when I get an idea, I have a sense, whether it's my idea, I had a sense in this case that the term supercentennial was God giving me this. Now, I can't prove that, can't even prove it to myself, but that's my sense. And that it was specifically for President Trump, that he, that this concept is for him.

because I can see him saying, you know, it's the super centennial. There's something about it that he gets to be president for the 250th anniversary. We're celebrating our super centennial. And I thought, okay, now, again, this is where you have to bear with me, right? Because, you know, people think I'm crazy or people think you're getting. If my, the test here is, okay, look, if this is really God's idea that we should call America's 250, it's a super centennial. and I'm supposed to deliver this idea which popped into my head to President Trump. Well, then guess what?

The proof is in the pudding. If that's true, I will have an opportunity to share this with the president, which, by the way, is rare. It's not like I can call him up. I'm not like, you know, hanging out with him despite what some people would think. I don't have that. I don't have his phone number or get to hang out with him. But I said, if this is really God's idea for him, God will open the door for me to share it with him at some point. And, and this is much bigger.

he will like it as an idea and decide, yes, that's right. America should call it, we should call it the super centennial. Now, that's huge, but I thought, look, hey, if it's really an idea from God, then he will like it and he'll do with it. And, you know, that's the, I don't want to be on some idea I came up with. And then, you know, who, I mean, when you think about how much this is going to affect, and what a big deal is this is going to be next year. I cannot flatter myself to think that I came up with some idea that's going to, you know, be accepted. And it just doesn't really make too much rational sense.

So I thought, all right, if this is really God's idea for America to call it our supercentennial and for the whole country to celebrate our supercentennial, then at some point I'm going to get a time to share it with the president. And the president will like it enough to actually say, hey, let's change everything. let's go with this. What are the odds of that? Pretty ridiculous, I know. But I really did believe this was from God. And if it really is from God, well, then God's going to do it. So I think my doubts, Eric, I have to say I had my doubts. You know, I believe that you, I shouldn't say I had doubts out, but I believed you believed it was from God. But, you know, we're a small team here. We had an interest, but you were, I could tell you felt burdened.

by the idea, and I kind of made fun of you a little bit saying, like, you reminded me of Richard Dreyfus from close encounters of the third kind. Like, he had this big premonition that something was going to happen, and he didn't know how to totally explain it. And so... You are the doubting Thomas of our small group, and history will remember you for millennia as the one who needed evidence. I should say...

Blessed are those who haven't seen yet. believe, and you're not among those, my friend, Chris Heims. So, no, no, no, no. The point is, look, seriously, it is perfectly rational to say, hey, Eric, nice idea, but come on. I mean, that's, that's rational. That's rational. And it's rational for me to say, I think this is from God, but

we'll see because, you know, it's a pretty ridiculous thing to say, I got an idea from God for the, for the president of the United States. I mean, that's what crazy people say, and they are always wrong. So I thought, you know, I don't know. So you and I, Chris, were together at the Museum of the Bible some months ago, and we happened to be with the people who are pretty much running the 250th celebration. That itself was miraculous.

Yeah, that was an eyebrow-raising breadcrumb right there. And then I made fun of you in front of him, referring to you at you. as Richard Dreyfers from close encounters, and his jaw kind of dropped, and he looked at me very seriously, and he was like, that's my favorite movie. So then I was like, uh-oh,

we, you know what, no kidding. Yeah. I know this sounds, I know this sounds insane. There are people listening who are, they're troubled by this.

You know what? Tough luck people, because we're just, we're laying out the facts and facts are some truth is stranger than fiction. This is nuts. I acknowledge,

that's the whole point of, of rambling on like this, trying to get the context. So we shared this idea with them like three months ago, and they were like, that's a great idea. And I thought, listen, I know it's a great idea, but the odds that the president's going to think it's a great idea and go with it, the odds of that are not high. But if it's God's idea, it's God's idea. All we can do is try. So when we come back, I'm going to tell you what happened backstage yesterday morning at about 10 a.m.

it was amazing. It was nuts. It was nuts. At least I think it was nuts. We'll play the clip for you. We will play. We have a clip which will play unbelievable. Ladies and gentlemen, we'll be right back. Talking about what happened to me yesterday. So today's Tuesday, September 9th. Yesterday was the gathering at the Museum of the Bible of the President's Commission on Religious Liberty. So they tell us the president is going to be there. And The night before, you know, I'm thinking, ah, I hate the pressure of, you know, am I supposed to pitch him on this idea of the super centennial? Because, again, I'm not buds with the president. So he's going to come down in line, chit-chat, chit-chat. It's like talking to the Queen of England. You know, you're going to get your 15 seconds of polite. You know, he acknowledges your existence and he moves on to the next person and the next person, the next person, the next person. And so I really had to pray and say, listen, Lord, if this is your idea, this is on you.

I'm not going to try to come up with, you know, I don't even know, frankly, if I'm going to get the time to speak to the president. And I almost hope I don't because I hate that pressure of like, oh, I got to say this or say that. I just want to be able to enjoy myself. So sure enough, they say, the president is going to come backstage before we all go out and he gives a speech. and he is going to do a photo op with all the members of the commission, which is 12 people in a big photo, you know, and that's it. You're going to do that. And then, you know, so he may shake your hand or something, but that's it.

So sure enough, he shows up. And it's interesting, he seemed tired. It's the first time I've ever thought of President Trump as looking tired, but he'd been at the U.S. open the night before and stuff. So he kind of comes in and he's subdued, I guess, for him. you're not used to seeing him subdued, but he seems subdued, so he comes in. And he goes around and he shakes everybody's hand. And it was clear from the pace of it that you can't actually have a substance conversation

to kind of pitch him on anything or say anything to him. It would be rude, frankly. Now, a lot of people would love to, they don't mind being rude. I do. I really respect the president. You know, he's got to like worry about Vladimir Putin and the end of the world. And so I'm not going to like waste his time with my ideas unless God opens the door. So, you know, he comes by and I don't even remember, I think I've become a little tongue tied because he has done so much.

He has become such an historic figure that have the privilege even of shaking his hand and looking in his eyes is to me that's a big deal. He has done such extraordinary things that it is staggering. It is, in fact, unprecedented. So he comes down in the line. You know, he says something to me about, you know, watching my show because he always talks about watching the show on TBN, which, by the way, has been in reruns for approximately a year. TBN shut down the studio. Who the heck knows what's going on with TBN? I don't know.

I don't care. But the show has continued. We could talk about that another time. Dr. Phil was there. He's suing TBN for like $65 million. I wasn't able to discuss this with him. But the point is, I've had this show on TBN for all these years. And President Trump, every time he sees me, says, I watch your show all the time.

I watch your show every Sunday. And he says it to me every time. And I'm speechless and I almost don't believe it. But anyway, he says something like that, blah, blah, blah. And he moves on. And it's over. And I realize, okay, I'm not going to get my chance to speak to the president about this supercentennial idea. But that's fine.

Like, again, if it's really God's idea, then I don't need to worry about it. It's in God's hands. So, but then after the photo, the president says that he'd like to do individual photos with everybody, which is a big surprise. He now wants individual photos with all the 11 members of the commission. So we now wait in line to get an individual moment with him, which is a different thing. And when this happens, I'm praying because, again, I don't like this pressure. Like, I've got to, like, give him this elevator pitch for what? You know, for my big idea?

Do I really care if it's God's idea, it's God's idea. So I get my moment with him, and I don't remember. My wife asked me last night, everybody asked me, what did you say? I don't remember. How's that? I actually don't remember. But for probably 45 seconds, I gave my idea. I said, listen, you know, to say America is 250, that's really not enough.

It should be we are celebrating our super centennial. We need a term. it's like the Gulf of America. You just brand it and you go with it. Like it's our super centennial. It's a big deal, the 250 of it. So I said something like that. And he politely,

graciously said, I like it. And then he moved on. And I just assume, you know, when the president of the United States says that, he's just trying to give you the brush. He's like he's being nice. He doesn't want to say, no, it's a bad idea. But he's just being polite.

He's being gracious. And he is very gracious. So, So that's that. So I go out. I take my seat on the dais and the president comes out, gives his speech. And in the middle of his speech, he has to now say, okay, this is great. You've got a commission of religious liberty.

And the members are, you know, Franklin Graham. And he says a couple of words about everybody on the dais, on a commission. And he gets to me. And I didn't realize he's going to talk about me. But, you know, says, oh, the author, Eric in Texas, whatever. and and then he says he says I watch Eric's show

all the time. Eric doesn't believe me that I watch his show but I tell him I really do and I don't know why he says it's excellent it's an excellent something like that

I was bold over that he's praising my show to the world there it's really it's excellent it's you know he says and Eric is I really watch you I really do watch your show

and then he says again my heart's stopped. He says, and Eric wants to call the 250th, the super centennial. He remembers this from 30 minutes back in the room. He's talking to everybody. He remembers this. Eric wants to call it the supercentennial. And I think that's a good idea. And we should go with that. And we should change that. Everybody in the room here who's with me, make that note. We got to change. It was the most insane. When we come back, we're going to play the clip for you. I still don't believe it really happens. Sometimes things you think, I'm pretty sure I dreamt that.

Lockers. When we come back, we're going to play the clip. We'll be right back. We'll play that clip. Okay, folks, welcome back. So finally, we're going to play the clip for you. So this is what the president said yesterday. And again, this caught me totally by surprise. I'm still the day after, I'm still shocked. But this is, you know, 20 minutes after I gave him my 30 second spiel on the supercentennial. Okay, so this is the president in his remarks. This was by by the way, on Fox News, it was everywhere. It was carried live by Fox News and other outlets. I don't know if it was on Newsmax,

but Chris Heimes play that clip. A man, I watch on television a lot. He doesn't believe it, and I do. Eric attacks us. Where is it? Eric, I do watch. He said, you really don't. I said, I really do.

I say, you have to have more confidence in this. Your show is excellent. and he's a great guy and he wants me to call it the super centennial. He said super centennial and I think we're going to do that. Let's change it I really like that idea because we call it

the 250 centennial but it's really not. It's really just below the try, right? So we're going to call the super centennial then, okay? Let's do that. Will you please make the changes? All of my people that are all over the room, please make that change.

Wow. That was a little hard for me to hear just now, right? But so I was so speechless. My daughter was in the front row. I'm looking at her like, are we dreaming that the president on the fly? And again, this speaks to Trump, like to his instincts. For somebody to throw an idea at you at 10 a.m. in a line, like blah, blah, blah. You're getting photos taken.

Somebody kind of gives you some idea, whatever. For you to process that to say yes, that's such a good idea, we are going to change it for the United States of America, and we are now going to call the 250th the supercentennial, that alone is unbelievable. I mean, it's one thing for him to think about something and to talk to his people about it. He just goes with it.

And this is the genius of Donald Trump. It is stunning, honestly, his instincts. And he just makes this decision, yes, I like it, I get it. Now, the miraculous part is that I kind of knew this would all happen. But as we said earlier, how can you know something like that's going to happen? That's a crazy, unless God really did speak it to me for the president and whatever. And so I, I, I kind of knew it, but you can't really believe it. Like you just think, okay, I, you know, what do you say? It's just, it gets stupid. So, so when he says this, I mean, first of all, he's

praising my show, my TBN show, which he really watches and he's going on and on about I really do watch it. It's excellent. And that's good. You get, you get. You know, so he's telling the world that he watches my show and how great it is. And again, every time I see him, he talks about how much he loves the show and watches the show. So that's, like, unbelievable. And I'm standing there, like, with this grin on my face because it's so funny to me that the president is saying this. And then he says to me, Eric, you really need to believe that I watch your show. You need to have more confidence.

Like, that is so hilarious. That is so hilarious to me that he's saying this to me. Like, yeah, you really need to, yeah, you need to have more confidence. confidence. And then he suddenly goes into the supercentennial thing and tells the world from the podium, let's change it. And to his, he says to his team, he has his team all over the room, you know, like, okay, everybody, we're on this. We're going to change it now to supercentennial. And so what I have said, whenever I talk to my friends, to you guys, Chris and Keith and others, I say that it needs to be branded, you know, it's 1776-26-22050, supercentennial, God bless America. It always should be

branded with God bless America. So supercentennial, God bless America, because it's about speaking a blessing over this nation. It's about, you know, you cannot have a golden age of America without the blessing of Almighty God. That's what this is about. We are blessed to be a blessing. that's biblical. It's not about rah-rah America. It's about ra-ra-ra-america for the whole world, that we're a shining beacon of liberty to the whole world, just as when John Winthrop in 1630 says, you know, he's quoting Jesus. We want to be a shining city on a hill for the whole world to look at it and to say, what do they have? Now, what we have, of course, is a robust expression of Christian faith in this country, which has made us what we are. It enabled us to be a free people. You cannot have freedom. I write about this in my book,

if you can keep it, you cannot have freedom on the American model, real freedom, freedom of speech. You cannot have everything that we have, which most of us are not aware of. We take it for granted. Most of us aren't able to talk about it. We ought to be. You can't have what we have, the freedoms that we have that no other country in the history of the world has ever had, folks. Make a note of that. You cannot have that without a robust expression of Christian faith, period. All the founders understood that. They also understood that. They also understood. you cannot legislate Christian faith. You can't say, okay, we want freedom. So now everybody in America has to go to church. Everybody has to believe this and this and this and this. Or you can't do that.

It has to be free. Freedom of religion means you can't force religion. But so to me, we're in a sacred moment in history. And yesterday, to be sitting there on the dais while the president says, yep, we're going to change it. We're going to call it super centennial. Now, I don't know what that means, you know, in terms of when he says to his team, let's change that. I don't know who's on the team, what they're going to change, what they're going to do. But by the grace of God, I was the one who gave him this idea. But as I say, the idea was given to me by God for the president. It wasn't for me.

It's not my idea. It was an idea for the president because there's something very Trumpian in that phrasing. It's the super centennial. We're celebrating our super centennial. It's the greatest centennial ever. It's the greatest, you know. So I, all day long yesterday after this, I was pinching myself, not literally trying to fathom had this really happened. I said, if this is God, then God's going to do it.

And then God does it. But then when God does it, you're like, that didn't, that couldn't have really happened. I still don't even know what it was that happened yesterday because it's too much to take in. Did you guys hear when he said it's just below the try? Yeah. that term. What's that from? What is that from? It's just below the tricentennial. Yeah. Oh, is that what he meant? Yeah, he meant it was between the buy and the try. So he said, coming up on the tri centennial. It's just below. That is hilarious. It's so funny. I caught that

just below the try. Yeah. And I thought to myself that so he understands because he is the, the reason I was so excited about this idea initially is I thought he's the branding master. He gets this stuff. I mean, even back when he does it negatively, like, you know, crooked Hillary or what, he just, he just does this stuff by fiat. He has the understanding of how this works. So I thought, if he gets this and he just says,

it's our super centennial. He declares it as president. That's what he did yesterday. And I still, you know, I'm just going on on like a chuch blathering about this. But when we come back, I will continue to blather. And then we'll have Steve Dates.

Welcome back. We're going to have Steve Dase with us in our two. But so Keith Jinta and Chris Himes, that's my long version of the story. I still kind of don't believe. Now, I started an Instagram account months ago for the Supercentennial. If you follow me on Instagram, we're doing a super centennial Instagram account. You know, it was like a bicentennial minute. 50 years ago, they would, on CBS at night, they would say 200 years ago, this is what happened in America.

And I said, we should do that for the 250th. So I've been doing it on Super Centennial for my Instagram account. But it's anyway, I don't know, what are your reactions or do you want to ask me questions? Because, again, I'm still kind of trying to process what happened yesterday, obviously. Yeah, I think this is phenomenal. And Eric, for those of us, I have the unique placement here. For those of us who have known you since the 80s, I think we met in 89, none of this is surprising. We saw it way back then.

You were always the funniest guy in the room. You're always the smartest guy in the room. You would tear through a trivial pursuit deck, not only answering everything, but correcting cards as you went. And so we knew that this was the type of arena you would end up in. And it makes me think of Proverbs 18. A man's gift places him before prominent leaders, before kings. before presidents.

And look, this has just happened. You were acknowledged by the leader of the free world for your ingenuity, your gift, your talents. It is a miracle. You have framed it as a miracle. And I say, absolutely. It absolutely is. There's no living with them now. There's no living with them now.

It's weird, Keith. I actually thought of the same verse this morning, no joke. I didn't say it because I'm very quiet. But yeah, I just, it's, you know, Jared, who works with us, sent me the clip on my phone. And I thought, oh, he's always sending me things. And sometimes it's important. Sometimes it's, you know, I don't know. So I clicked it.

And I was, I just could not believe it when I saw it. I was like, you know, it looks like the sort of thing you would AI, you know, hey, the president just talked to me. And, you know, it was like, it was so. it was insane to me. I'm still processing it. So I don't know. Eric, I'm curious. And I know other people were watching it live because it was streamed all over the place.

So did you get some interesting feedback from first of all. I got to tell you the funniest thing that I almost forgot. So you're sitting there on the dais, you know, and all eyes are on you and the president's speaking. And it's rude to be looking at your phone while the president is speaking, you know, 12 feet away from you. But after this has happened, I'm reeling. And I look down at my phone. and I see a text from you, Chris, and I click on it,

and I can't repeat on the phone. I mean, I can't repeat on the air what you said, but I almost burst out laughing. It was very funny. I asked just out a few words, yes, but it was like, oh my gosh, holy cow, I can't believe it. It was so funny, but this is no joke. So I look at my phone for seconds.

and I look up and the president was looking at me. Like he caught me looking at my phone. I was like, oh. Oh, snap. Yeah, at least I imagine that. I think I'm pretty sure that that's, you know, but it's probably just looking in your direction. I guess. That's my hope. That's my hope. But it was like that.

And I had my dear friend Martha Linder who listens to the program, she sent me a clip that she got it off for TV on Fox News, I think. and that was a better clip than the other one because it shows my reaction shot to the president. So we're going to put these. I think we already put it up. We put one of them up on my ex account and another one up on the Instagram account, Eric Mataxis Instagram account. But we need to get the other one up with my reaction shot because the whole thing was so delightful and hilarious.

I mean, first of all, when the president's saying, no, I really watch his show. He doesn't believe me. You know, he's like teasing me in front of everybody. about how great my show is. And I'm just sitting there like, what do you want from me? And then he goes into the supercentennial. And I just about lost consciousness.

We'll be back, folks. Hour two coming up, Steve Days.