The Eric Metaxas Show - The Story of Squanto (Encore)

Episode Date: November 25, 2022

Eric and Chris discuss "Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving"; then, Eric and Albin recall the national campaign, complete with theme song, to encourage drivers to wear seat belts.

Folks, welcome to the Eric Mattaxas show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit legacy p.m.investments.com. That's legacy p.m. Investments.com. Ladies and gentlemen, he has a jar of peanut butter, and he's not afraid to use it. Here comes Eric Mattexas. Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving, Albin. Happy to you.

I don't like when people say happy turkey day because it's not about the turkey. Well, have you noticed this? And this is kind of, this is good to say at the beginning of both hours today and both hours tomorrow. When we celebrate a holiday, we need to celebrate the thing. Okay, the thing is not turkey. The thing is not family. We are celebrating family is important. The turkey is part of the tradition.

All these things are part of. what makes it wonderful. But we are celebrating not the turkey, not the family getting together. We're celebrating what happened in 1621 that really began what we like to call the United States of America. And we need to know that history. And part of what we're going to be doing, what we're doing in both hours today is talking about that history, why Thanksgiving is important. And just like at Christmas, we don't say, what's Christmas? about gift giving, trees, you know, Yule Tide Cheer, no, no, it's about the birth of Jesus. That's what you're celebrating.

And around that, you have all these traditions and all this great stuff. But you're not celebrating the trees and the gift giving. You're celebrating the birth of Jesus, God coming into the world as a human. It's really very easy for us to drift. It's called mission drift. And so we always need, same thing with July 4th. When you celebrate July 4th, you don't say, what's July 4th? firecrackers, hot dogs. No, no. It's about celebrating independence. It's Independence Day. It is a sacred day in American history. You celebrate that, usually with fireworks, hot dogs, families. Okay. So those are the trappings, but you need to focus on the thing itself. So in both hours today, we're going to be talking and also tomorrow about what actually happened at Thanksgiving.

Yeah, now this is great. This is why we celebrate Turkey Day. And thank you for that, Eric. Exactly. So I think that... I'm just in a... You're such a wise guy. Just for that, I'm having ham. I'm having ham. But I want to say that in hour one today, I'm telling the Squanto story. Now, if you want to read that, if you have a copy of my book, I wrote a children's book on Squanto.

Actually, I wrote two children's books on Squanto. The first one I wrote for Rabbit Ears. I wrote a lot of children's books for Rabbit Ears. but they kind of took the God part out of my telling of the story when I wrote it for Rabbit Ear. So it's an otherwise wonderful book. They made a beautiful video. But they kind of took the God part out a little bit. And I said, someday, I'm going to write a book where I put that back in because it's at the heart of the whole story.

So I put it in a book called Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving, published by Thomas Nelson, Tommy Nelson. But I also write about it in my book, if you can keep it. Some of you already have a copy of if you can keep it. And I tell the story. It's an amazing story in the next segment or in one of these segments, I'm having a conversation with Chris Himes about what is the Squanto story. Because it is a miracle from our history, an astonishing miracle from our history. And I remember when I was doing the research on this, I mean, this was literally, let's see, I did the original research on this. It must have been like 1991.

And somebody said, oh, you should tell about the story about squantas for rabbit ears. And I remember, maybe I repeat this when I talk to Chris about this because we recorded the conversation that I'm having with Chris Himes. We did a few years ago. But I'll never forget doing the research and thinking, well, I'm going to go to the original documents. So there's an old pilgrim document called Mort's Relation. There's something about what William Bradford wrote. So I'm looking at these original documents and piecing together the story of Squanto. and I remember when the light bulb goes off, and I said, this is a miracle.

Yeah. And the other children's books and stuff didn't really mention that. They act like it's some coincidence. Yeah. And when you understand what happened, you go, this is a flat out insane miracle of God. There's no way around it. And it's at the very heart of the beginning of what became the United States of America. And what I was so astonished by this, this happened to me a number of times over the years

in the research in my books when you get this moment and you think, how is it possible that no one else has seen what an astonishing miracle this is? And when you call it a coincidence, or you just kind of relate it like, well, all these things happen. It's like, no, no, no, no, no. This doesn't make human sense. This is crazy. And this allowed the pilgrims to survive and to stay there because of this miracle of Squanto. And then, by the way, folks, because the pilgrims, stayed and didn't go home, suddenly you have others coming, and then you get the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and you get John Winthrop talking about a shining city on a hill, and you get, all of this stuff follows this miracle. So if you don't believe in miracles, I challenge you to familiarize

yourself with the squintos story. Yeah, and if you're listening to this, and this is our two, Scott Powell comes up next, and he's talking about why Thanksgiving? So why are we even celebrating? Yes, that's right. So, so, so today, we have, I talk to Chris Heimes, I tell the Squanto story and then we've got some other crazy stuff there in hour two today. I don't know which hour we're in right now. We've got Scott Powell

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Hey, folks, it's Eric in Texas show. That's Larry Norman in case you are wondering. I'm sitting here in the studio with Chris Himes. I have an amazing story that I need to get out. I tell this story every year at Thanksgiving. I wrote a book about it. In fact, the book is a children's book called Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving.

I think it's like five bucks on Amazon. But I want to tell you, if you've not heard this story, and I'll bet my engineer Erick Hansen has never heard this story, this is one of the most amazing stories. And what makes it more amazing is that people don't know this. and you think there's no way we could live in America and not know this story. So this is the story. If you're listening, folks, listen carefully, because this is huge.

In 1608, before any ships, before any people settled in, you know, what's now Massachusetts, I never knew this because we all know that the Mayflower landed there in 1620, right? Chris, you knew that. I did at one point in my life. Right. So 1620 is when the Pilgrims land in Plymouth, sorry, right? Plymouth Rock, yeah. Plymouth Rock.

So, but I always assumed growing up that that's the first time that anybody came to, like, what's Massachusetts. But I found out, no, that's not the case. And the story of Squanto, which I'm going to tell right now, which, just wait, wait until you hear this. It starts in 1608. it turns out that English trading ships would travel, you know, from Europe, from England to Iceland, Greenland, make their way down, Nova Scotia, all the way down, and they would trade with the natives. Now, I never knew that.

So the natives were familiar with English sailors coming and trading and giving them, you know, knives and pots and pans and they would, you know, give them pelts and whatever, and they would trade. I never knew this. Well, in 1608, a group, a ship led by a captain hunt, lands or, you know, drops anchor off of what is today, Plymouth, Massachusetts. And the Patuxet Braves come down to the shore to trade with them as they've done before. Well, just so happens that this Captain Hunt was a bad man. And instead of trading with the Braves, they whack them over the head, put them in the long boat, take them out to the ship, throw them in the hole.

sailed to Malaga, Spain, and sell them into slavery. This is 1608. One of the Braves was a 12-year-old boy named Tiswantam. Now, this is true story. This is all documented. I've done the research. Others have done the research. It's true.

So he is bought by some kindly friars who seem to treat him well, teach him the Christian religion. and this is the part that we'll never know how this happened, but they arrange for him to be freed and to travel to London. Now imagine from Molligah, Spain to London. So this is an Indian from what is today, Massachusetts, a Native American, a Patuxet, makes his way to London with the idea, and this is where it's crazy,

of getting back across the Atlantic to go back home. I know. It's like being on the moon and saying, so when's the next ship going back? There's no next ship going back. What are you talking about? But I guess the idea was not insane. He worked in London from, what is it, around 1612, 1613 for four or five years with a family called Slaney.

This is all documented, this Indian named Squanto to Squantum, learns the English language. He's there when Queen Elizabeth is on the throne. We're talking. Shakespeare is writing his play. So he's in London. this Massachusetts Indian, and this is years before the pilgrims ever get to Plymouth Rock. Crazy, right? In 1618, I believe 1619, a ship is found for him to go back to his home.

And he's going to translate, obviously, because he knows these languages. He's going to be on the ship working with these English as they're stopping, you know, and he's going to be doing the translating and so on and so forth. So somehow he gets passage on a ship. The ship ends up having to spend the winter in, I can't remember if it was Iceland or Greenland. It's in my book. What does it say? Newfoundland.

No, hold on a second. Anyway, the point is that it took them quite a while to get there, right? So they basically, no, it was Newfoundland. Sorry. They spend the winter in Newfoundland. And then the next spring, this is like 1619, they bring him to what's now the coast of Massachusetts, drop him off. Thank you very much. Goodbye.

This sounds crazy, right? This is a document. This is a true story. So a year plus before the Pilgrim's Land, this Indian has made the journey from Plymouth to Spain to London, spends five years in London, learns the English language, learns the ways the English, and then ends up. back where he started. He finds his way on foot to the village, which is right where Plymouth is today, right? The Patuxet Village, where his Indian, where his family is. So he comes home. Just imagine that you're sold into slavery and somehow 10 years later you make your way home. So now he's 21 years old, whatever, 22 years old. He's looking for his family. There's nobody there.

They've all died. They've been wiped out by smallpox. One of these diseases brought by the white man, obviously, unintentionally. So he goes to a neighboring tribe and lives with them. But the neighboring tribe, it's not like they're like, hey, hey, we're all Native Americans. We're cool. No. This is like strangers. He might as well be in England. He'd probably prefer to be in England. In fact, he ends up living alone in the woods because he's heartbroken. It's just one of these crazy stories. Meanwhile, what happens? Meanwhile, a group of English people who are escaping the persecutions of James I, the king, travel to Holland. They're there for a number of years. Their kids start to lose, you know, the English, whatever, culture and something. They say,

we've got to go to the new world. So they get on a ship called the Mayflower. We've heard the story. And they travel to what ends up as Plymouth, Massachusetts. They land the ship there, hundred people, very devoted to God, very serious about God. They're praying that God would lead them. They get there, and they begin dying like flies. Fifty of the hundred people die the first winter. Now, we can't even imagine this. I mean, you've got six kids. Can we even imagine what it would be like to have to lose your wife, to lose your kids too? I mean, they were all dying, burying their brothers, their sisters, their spouses, their kids, their parents. It's a nightmare.

So spring comes, and they are, of course, wondering, do we go home? Because this is not working for them. And they really were wondering, what do we do? And out of the woods walks an Indian called Squanto. They happened to have settled on the very place where he grew up, Patuxet Village, the place where he grew up. He walks out of the woods speaking perfect English. Think about that for a second.

An Indian walks out of the woods speaking perfect English. He was in London for five years, more recently than they were. And he basically says, I have nothing to do with my life. My whole tribe, my family has been wiped out. You have settled on my home. Here I am. How can I help you? The pilgrims recognize this.

as an outrageous answer to their prayers because they have been weeping and praying to God. Why have you let us hear? What, you know, this is. Squanto just happens not only to know English perfectly, he just happens to know everything about that area because he grew up there. So he shows them how to get, where to get lobsters, where to get, how to get eels out of the mud, how to fish, how to fish. He shows them how to plant corn and how to plant squash so that the squash grow up, the

vines grow up around the corn stalk. He shows them to put how to put a dead fish in when you plant the corn as fertilizer. He shows them everything and allows them to survive. There's no doubt. This is history. Okay. And in fact, the pilgrim fathers, William Bradford, who is the governor, wrote in his journal that Squanto was a special instrument sent of God. He had no doubt. It's just one of those things that it was to them a miracle, that he shows up out of nowhere. He has nothing to do except to say, this is my home, I'm here to help you. Not only that, but he brokers a deal with the surrounding tribes so that these people, so that these pilgrims have peace with the surrounding tribes. So these Englishmen that have come, the pilgrims, the Puritans, had a peace that lasted 50 years, an incredible

an incredible accomplishment, and Squanto basically helped them to do this. It's one of the most outrageous stories from our history that there's a miracle at the beginning of everything that happened in America is this outrageous miracle. The Pilgrims didn't just happen to hang out because they wanted to. It all happened because Squanto appears out of the woods and miraculously happens to speak English, miraculously happens to know everything about England, miraculously happens to have nothing to because his whole tribe was wiped out, and they adopt him. And he just happens to know everything about that area to show them how to survive.

I wanted to tell that story because we need to be thankful for God's hand in American history. I don't know how else you see it. If you see this as a coincidence, it's the craziest coincidence I've ever heard in my life. It doesn't make any sense. So I'm thankful for Squanto. We'll be right back. It's the Eric Mataxis show. Our website.

Go to Mataxis. talk.com. You can download the recording of the Squanto story. I'm just so happy to share it every year, and we'll be right back. Tell me, Eric, why is Relief Factor so successful at lowering or eliminating pain? I'm often asked that question. The owners of Relief Factor tell me they believe our bodies were designed to heal. That's right, designed to heal, and I agree with them. So the doctors who formulated Relief Factor for them selected the four best ingredients, yes, 100 percent drug free ingredients each helps your body deal with inflammation. Each of the four ingredients deals with inflammation from a different metabolic pathway. And that right there, approaching from four different

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It's that super tramp. You know what that means, Albin? What does that mean? It means we're in for a truncated episode of Fun Facts Friday. Friday. A couple of... Who did that? What was that?

Oh, my goodness. It's fun facts. Folks, we thought we could contain the humor into hour one today. Alas, we've failed. No, the humor has washed over into hour two. We had Ezra Levant talking about all kinds of serious stuff, but somehow the humor leaked through disgusting image into this segment, and we're going to have to do a little fun facts Friday.

Alvin, first of all, at some point in the next couple of minutes that we have left in this program, you've got to tell your avocado story. I do. I mean, in all the avocado stories I've heard, this is certainly one of the ones. of them. Yes. Okay. So do you want to do some Fun Facts Friday first? So what do you want to do? You have a question for me. Well, I have a big question. And I know the audience wants to want you to answer this. Now, earlier in the first hour, we did answer questions. But here's a big one. You have great music on this show. Everybody talks about the bumper music. But what is your favorite song? I mean, do you have a favorite song?

My favorite song? Yeah. Do I have a favorite song? No. I don't, you mean other than the Fun Facts Friday theme song, which we haven't played today? Actually, you know, actually, you know, I don't know that I have a favorite. Maybe I'll have to really think about this. And in next week when we do Fun Facts Friday, you can ask me again. Maybe I'll have an answer. But right now, no, I don't. Can I share, I can maybe share my favorite song?

No. Okay. Oh, sure. Why not? Go ahead. It's the first song I ever danced to. Now, I was alone when I was dancing, but it's still the first song I ever danced to. It's the seatbelt song.

Do you know that? There's a buckle up for safety. Buckle up. Buckle up for safety. Everybody buckle up. Put your mind at ease. Tell your driver, please. buckle up for safety everybody buckle up you never heard that it's i'm sorry what it had a big

impact on my that song was who was that henry mancini i never can remember my composers who first of all what year did you first that's well that was probably in my early teens that's usually where something dramatic so this is going way back but i don't remember that people were talking about seatbelts that long ago. Like seatbelts, in the in the late 60s, people are talking about seatbelts? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And where did it? It became, I guess, a law back in. Here's a fun fact. It was a became something of a law. It didn't become a law until like the late 70s. Was it that late? Oh, yeah. Well, I was wearing them as soon as I heard that song, I buckled up for safety. But where did you hear that song? I heard it on television. What kind of life do you lead that you heard that

song. Well, that's a good, it's like, you know, only you can prevent forest fires. I mean, only you. But there was no song with that. Yeah. Buckle up for safety. But you know what? It's warmed its way into my head now. Buckle up for safety. Everybody buckle up. Is that it? That's it. Put your mind at he's tell your driver, please buckle up for safety. Everybody. Buckle up. Now, you know, somebody wrote that. They did. And that person is probably lying in a cold, cold grave right now. It's so sad. No, but I mean, seriously, like that's one of those jingles. that if I had heard it back then, it might be my favorite song. I know, and you can't get a...

But I've literally never, ever heard that song. Okay. Buckle up for a safety. I don't know. It's really warmed its way into my psyche. It's bitten itself into my brain. It's branded itself onto my very soul. Okay.

I can't believe that. Buckle up for safety. Buckle up. Yeah. Buckle up for safety. Everybody buckle up. It's like your mind at ease. Tell your driver.

Please. buckle up for safety everybody buckle up yeah that's so beautiful that's like a bach cantata like it doesn't get in terms of western art that's like the high watermark of western albin thank you for sharing that extraordinarily banal eminently forgettable song because really i think we needed to hear that today although in all seriousness there are people out there who don't buckle up yeah and i think that I think the Lord of hosts, the Lord Savahoth is his name. He called us to sing that song today to remind those reprobates who don't value their lives, who don't care about the people who would watch them, you know, be lowered into a grave.

They don't care, and we're here to remind you for crying out loud folks. Buckle up for safety. Do it for yourself. Now that's reminded. This is a boils my potato. I have to share. Okay, now we're going to shift to boils my potato. Now we've got to remind people that means it makes you really angry.

It makes me really angry. And you made that up. Nobody has ever heard that phrase before this show. So, Albin, tell me, my friend, what boils your potato? Okay, there are plenty of things. But this one just recently is speed bumps, okay? This really gets me. Not razor bumps.

No, not rate. Speed bumps, okay? Because there is no national, like, height for a speech bump. They can be any, any level at all, any height at all. So you want the government, you want big government to regulate speed bumps. Yes, I do. In fact, I organized the march on Washington. Even I didn't show up.

Over this issue? Yeah, as long as you organize it, you have to do everything. That's all I have to do. But that's not the point. The point is they're sometimes too high. In the condo community where I live. The speed bumps are sometimes too high. I'm not kidding.

If I go over it more than five miles an hour, like the hood pops open and the alarm goes off on my car. And your dentures fly out the butterfly window. That's right. And now I have to get out, put the car in neutral, and push it over the speed bump. And, you know, that's a little annoying. Now, wait a second. So in this condo complex where you live, you're saying the speed bumps are too high.

Too dang high. And it boils your potato. Of course. If you have to... Does it get your goat? It gets my goat. It chaps my hide. Does it chap your hide?

Yeah. Man, that really chaps my hide. Now, you have a boiled your potato as well. I did? I don't think I do. You don't have any boiled... There's nothing but nothing says. I didn't prepare for this segment.

This was your segment. Fun Facts Friday. We haven't even come to any fun facts, and we're going to have to go to a break. When we come back, we're going to, we're going to, we've got a lot of fun facts. We've got the avocado story, Albin. That's right. Of all the avocado stories I've heard in my life, and my goodness, how many have I heard, this is certainly one of them. We'll be right back.

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James, our engineer, he just dug that up, archaeologically speaking. He found that. Buckle up for safety, everybody buckle up. Unbelievable. Okay, this is Fun Facts Friday. We've got a lot of fun facts. And we're only going to read the fun ones. Okay.

So, Albin, you've got an avocado story. Oh, I do. Maybe, you know what, I think we better start. We promised that. Okay. Okay, this morning you said, hey, who wants to hear my avocado story? Right. And everybody had blank stares.

Like, what? And a few left the studio. Yeah. So, but tell us. Tell us. Yeah. Okay. Here's my avocado story.

Now, on the way to the subway, a couple days ago, I, I knew that we needed avocados at home because Ann wants us to eat avocados and bananas every day. Okay. So I figured I'll stop. And you're the most henpecked radio sidekick. Yeah, but I'm very healthy. So, we're very healthy. I'm coming up to the guy that sells, you know, the fruit and vegetables right there, right in front of the subway stop.

So I go there, and there's a sign there. It says two avocados for a dollar. So I tell the guy. Wait, wait, wait, wait. That's an incredible price. It says two avocados for a dollar? Yeah. Okay, so the sign says that?

Yeah, it does say that. Two for a dollar, okay? So as I'm getting the two for a dollar avocados, underneath that, you know, and this is a handwritten sign, underneath it in smaller letters, it said one dollar each. Hold on. I got to do the math in my head. Okay. So the sign says avocados, two for a dollar. And then beneath it, it says $1 each or each.

So I say to the guy, I said, does anybody ever get one avocado for a dollar? And he looks at me and says, yes, yes, once in a while. And I'm like, really? So I take out my cell phone. Okay, I'm getting my cell phone because I've got to take a picture of this, the avocados with the sign, right? So then the guy goes, no, no, no, no. He grabs the sign and he takes it. and he takes it away and he says they were two foot or a dollar two foot or dollar he was ashamed yeah he was

like okay somebody caught him so anyway so yesterday i'm going to the subway and it's back the sign is the sign was back and he's off to the other end of his little cart selling some fruits right so i quickly take out my my camera and take a picture of the sign so there it is okay i'm gonna post it on instagram you've got to send me that photo yeah that reminds me like i think i read a sign once like ham sandwich 25 cents uh ham 10 cents extra like i mean Literally, the people are often not thinking and they write stuff like this. Yeah, yeah, I think we need like as seen on the streets of New York or as, you know. I mean, look, that's just, you know what, though, on my way home, I'm going to buy me a couple of avocados.

There you go. Two for a dollar. I mean, seriously, though, that's like what? Two for a dollar. It's like seeing a sign. Are they loaded with parasites and you should need them? What's the catch? They're excellent.

All right. Fun facts Friday, Alvin, we got to share some fun facts. Well, I've got a quick one right here about Lincoln. Since we just got through President's Day and all the presidents, it's. et cetera, et cetera. Did you know that Abraham Lincoln signed the Secret Service Act? And this is into existence on the same day that he died, the very same day, Secret Service. But when he signed it into law, it was originally formed to stop counterfeiters. Okay. It wasn't about protecting the president. It was about going after counterfeiters,

because that was the big deal back in the day. If you're thinking, remembering it's the... Now, here's the problem. That's supposed to be a... a fun fact. It's kind of a sad fact, Albin. Okay. But then how about this? He signed it on the day that he was murdered. Right. He signed the Secret Service Act. Yeah. It's like, man, there are people laughing all across the world. That's another boils my potato thing is when people say, careful after you've fallen.

They'll say, oh, careful or what's your step? It's like, if you would have told me that two seconds earlier, I would not have fallen. Yeah, those people are just useless. Useless. What's the point? I think there's a word for him, jerk. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How about, how about, how about, Go ahead. How about that? Did you know that jerk is an actual term from physics? I bet you didn't know that.

Now, that's a fact. Well, I took AP physics. I got a 1, which is the lower score you can get. But I did learn that you have, first of all, you have speed, okay? Yes. What do we call speed in physics? Speed and physics is, I don't know, velocity? Correct.

Thank you. We call it velocity, okay? And then the change in velocity is what? V times. No, the change in velocity is called acceleration. Oh, okay, yeah. But the change in acceleration is called jerk. Uh-huh.

Not making that up. Okay, well, that's good. But isn't that interesting? Like, it sounds like something I'd make up. It does. But it's kind of like the change in velocity is acceleration, and the change in acceleration is called jerk. Okay.

I know I wish I made that up, but I didn't. It's true. But that's a fun fact. Hey, ladies and gentlemen, we got a fun fact for you. Okay. Any other fun fact? Yeah, another fun fact about Russia since Russia's in the news. There you go.

With Bernie Sanders being in the race and all that and Russia influencing our 2020 election. Yeah. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto. Okay? So if you go to Russia and you walk all over it, save your money. Don't go to Pluto, okay? Because you've already been there. So you mean to tell me that Russia is not considered a planet?

No. And yet. And yet. It has more surface area. Hey. You know, it extends over eight time zones? How many time zones does Pluto have? Actually, no one knows.

Actually, that's a very complicated question. It depends on how fast it's been. But actually, I love facts like that. Pluto has the same, has less surface area than all of Russia. Yes. Mother Russia. Mother. Okay.

Any other fun facts before we... You know what? This should be an easy one. If you're scoring at home and you want to see how many fun facts do I get right, which state's votes finally decided the 2000 the 2000 U.S. election, which states votes. Well, that's easy. Yeah. That's an easy.

Well, I'm telling me it's an easy one. Florida. Florida with a hanging chat. Now, some kids out there, they weren't even born. I know the hanging chat is like 10 minutes ago, but it's now 20 years ago. Yeah, exactly. What? Come on.

For change. You know, 20 years isn't what it used to be. That's a fact. No. And I don't like the fact that life actually goes faster when you're older than when you're little when you're a little kid. I know, because didn't it seem like a year was an eternity when you were little. And it was in 1964, that famous seatbelt song shot up the charts, Billboard charts. I'll never forget it. Number one on the Billboard charts. Okay, we're

almost out of time. When we come back, we're going to have a little more fun because we just can't contain ourselves, Albin. Now, today's Friday, by the way, if you, you should sign up for the newsletter. You should. You should order honorbound coffee. You should. Honorbound coffee.com. And you should stay tuned for the final segment of the week. Hold on to your hats, folks. Who knows what we're going to have for you. Even we don't. Happy Thanksgiving again and again and again.

Okay, Alvin. The week. The weekend. Yay. We have some particularly exciting news. We do. We're going to save that in a minute or two before we get to the exciting news. And I am almost shocked at this news.

This is big news, folks. I think you're going to have some fun. Okay. I want to mention a couple things. Nutrametics told us that for the rest of this month only, that's November 2022, if you use the code, Eric, it's 35% off. I don't know why they chose to do that at the end of the month, but I would take advantage of it if you're interested.

Nutrametics.com, 35% off. Also want to repeat, if you're interested in company Socrates in the city, I can only tell you, folks, it is Osganis. He's the gold standard. You'll see when you're there, there's no one like him. If it weren't for Oz, I never would have started Socrates in the city. So this is a very special event, December 6th, here in New York City. We're looking forward to that.

I'm traveling like crazy. I'm preaching in Atlanta at Church of the Apostles in Atlanta this Sunday morning. You can find out everything at my website, which is ericmetaxis.com. and I want to remind you, before we tell you the big news, I want to remind you to sign up for my newsletter at EricMetakis.com, and I want to remind you to support our sponsor, Mike Lindell, by buying all of your Christmas gifts at mystore.com and my pillow.com, and use the code Eric to help support this radio program.

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Honestly, it's going to be mediocre. It's going to be fine. No, it's really good. It is. It's my store.com, my coffee.com. Okay, Alvin, the big news. Yes, the big news. Oh, I love this.

This is hard to get my head around. Okay, where do we start? About a few months ago. we taped four episodes of a late-night talk show, The Talk Show, starring Eric Metaxis, that's me. It was, you know, next level. It was like the Tonight Show, Carson, Letterman, you know, it was like a big deal thing.

We raised the money to tape four bona fide episodes, hour-long episodes, which we did downstairs. We're upstairs here at the TBN Theater, downstairs in the theater, which is a heavenly little theater. It's just like made for this kind of a thing. We taped the four shows. We had an array of stunning guests.

The shows were edited and basically we're trying to figure out who is going to air it and how we're going to do that. But in the meantime, somebody thought, hey, now that these shows are edited, why don't we put them up at SalemNow.com? Yes. For free. Free. You understand?

Free. Salemnow.com. So I am really just a little thrilled and shocked to say that you can watch these episodes. These are pilot episodes. We taped them in August. But we thought let's make them available if you go to SalemNow.com. And how do it would people find it there? Well, there's a search bar up there. Put in Eric Metaxis. Put in Eric's name. Eric Metaxis. Two things will come up. The radio program, which is also at Salem. Radio, Salem Communications. Salem News Network. That's right. That'll come up.

Okay, but we're not talking about that. We're talking about the talk show, the late night talk show. There's a great little logo up there. You're going to see it. You click on that. You get all four programs. I think it's free. I'm not positive. I hope it's not free. No, I'm serious. Like, this costs us a zillion dollars to produce. But the guests

are like Danny Bonaducci of the Partridge family. George Hamilton, Carol Alt, Vincent Pastory from the Sopranos. Ron Howard. Ron Howard. John Cleese. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Caratop.

I mean, look, you'll see. Salem now. We had a great time. I just can't believe. Well, there's the announcement. Thank you.