The Eric Metaxas Show - Tim Tebow

Episode Date: November 29, 2022

Tim Tebow opens up with a fun and odd story about Cocoa Puffs (yes, the cereal) and talks about his new 365-Day Devotional that gets us ready for the holidays and the year ahead.

Folks, welcome to the Eric Mataxis 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, buckle your seatbelts and keep your arms and legs inside the car at all times. Here comes Mr. Thrill Ride himself, Eric Mattaxas. Hey, Albin. Hey, Eric. Happy Monday.

Yeah, happy Monday after Thanksgiving. Christmas is officially over. Actually, I'm sorry. Christmas is officially begun. I got to tell you, Thanksgiving, it's happening early and earlier every year. And I promise you it's not a good thing that Christmas comes earlier and earlier. We drove back from Connecticut with my mom and my dad and my wife and daughter. We were all in the car driving back from my brother's house on the Connecticut coast.

This is Thanksgiving night, right? You ready? And it's dark and we're driving and we pull into my parents' neighborhood and there's tons of Christmas lights up. And I thought, are these people out of their minds? Thanksgiving is like it's not even over. It's just happening earlier and earlier. And I predict it's going to end badly. But anyway, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

How about you guys? Oh, it had a great one. We even had a discussion about how Thanksgiving should be its own holiday instead of like, oh, it's really the beginning of the Christmas season. No, it's a time for thankfulness for a couple days for the whole weekend, right? It's, yeah, it's a little, it's, that's a little wheel. We're talking about that another time. But, man, there's so much I want to talk about.

First of all, let's make an announcement. Ladies and gentlemen, today's Monday, November 28th, okay? I want to say, I hate when people say I want to say, I will say, I am now saying that our guest today in hour one is going to be the great Tim Tebow. Have you heard of Tim Tebow? Yes. Tim Tebow will be my guest today in hour one. At least that's the schedule.

And we haven't talked to Tim Tebow in a while. He's got a devotional out. He's just a truly lovely human being, Tim Tebow. The more I get to know him, the more I feel honored to know him, and I feel blessed that he's out there. But he is our guest coming up in hour one today. In hour two today, we're going to take a hard turn into John Smirak territory. I apologize in advance.

It's going to be very harsh and painful. But you've been very bad. And that's what Santa Claus is bringing you. So, no, it's kind of funny because Zmirak, we've got a lot to talk to John Zmirak about. One of the things we have to talk about is this, like, I think Donald Trump was punked. Because when Kanye visited him the other day, he brought along Nick Fuentes. Nick Fuentes is not someone anyone should ever associate with. John Zmirak will give you details on that.

I've got to tell you, wait until you hear Zmirak talk on the subject of Nick Fuentes. because it really, it was, it was really unfortunate that the president, you know, he's a generous guy. Yeah, come on to Marilago. And suddenly, Kanye, who obviously did not vet, did not vet Nick Fuentes. Well, maybe Kanye needs to vet himself these days because I don't know anything that's coming out of his mouth. But that's all negative. Let's stay positive. Yes.

So, Happy Thanksgiving again, even though it's over. Albin, there's so much I want to share. Let me just say, okay, number one, Tim Tebow's coming up. Number two, John Zimirak's coming up. Number three, there's so many around this time of year for my whole life, it's always been really wonderful because my aunt Eleanor, if you've read my book, Fish Out of Water, my Tanta Eleanor, who I love so much and she was such a big part of my life,

and still is, of course, now they live down in the Atlantic. area, but it's her birthday, November 25th. And it's my brother's birthday, November 26th. So every time we celebrate Thanksgiving as a family, it's a big birthday celebration. There's birthday cakes and whatever. And so my aunt is my mother's sister, so there's two of them. And my brother, of course, he's my brother. There's two of us. So my birthday is one day, is the same day as my dad's and a couple of days after my mother's birthday. My brother's birthday is the day after my aunt's birthday. So it's like this crazy thing every year.

And this year, the most beautiful thing of all, my brother, John, my younger brother, Johnny, whose birthday it was is suddenly, well, it's not suddenly, it's a few months now, but he's a grandfather. We brought a new generation into the family, baby Lillianna, my nephew, Nix, daughter. We are so excited. So it was such a tearjerker to be there with my 95-year-old dad,

with his four-month-old great-granddaughter and the family. It was just a sweet, sweet day. I just wanted to mention that, how important family is to me. And again, I write about it in my book, Fish Out of Water, because sometimes we discount that, you know, because some people don't have great family stories. But it's a beautiful thing. And it's a source of a lot of my strength, my loving family. So I just wanted to say that, how much it meant to be, to me, to be with everybody. I also want to say, you know, in terms of milestones, birthdays and stuff, do you hear wind? Is somebody's car window open? I hear wind. No, I don't, I don't hear any wind. No. We're doing a new record. We're doing a different kind of recording today. But before we get to Tim Tebow, I have to say, Albin, you don't know this.

but there was another milestone that I hit yesterday. A huge one. Really? Huge. Yes. I think this is going to shock you. This is true. This weekend, okay, after we had Thanksgiving in Danbury, I caught some kind of a head cold, I think.

I slept with a window open or something like that in Danbury. And caught some kind of a head cold was under the weather. We came back Friday, Saturday. I flew down to Atlanta to speak at my... Michael Yusuf's church. Now, you know we've had Michael Yusuf on this program many times, and we love Michael Yusuf. The only problem is half the time when I'm invited to speak in these people's churches, they're not there, which is why they invited me to pinch hit, right? He was in Sydney, Australia, doing this big thing. His wife is from Australia. He spent a lot of time in Australia. He has a

worldwide ministry, which is just delightful. But when I flew down there, I was not feeling well. And I thought, man, to preach in a church and to not feel well, you know, it's just tough, right? And I don't believe in cocaine. So what are you going to do? Coffee and prayer. That's really my go-to. So I preached in the church. You can see it online.

I posted it all over my social media. But I'm amazed at how God meets me in the pulpit sometimes. I'm not kidding because, like, I'm not feeling great, but I can feel God's presence. And I believe that what I preached yesterday morning really was God. It was, which is, of course, the whole point of it, right? You're supposed to open yourself up to what God wants to say. But it was really moving. But here's the milestone.

Here's the milestone. When I was done preaching yesterday, I went to the airport in Atlanta. I got on a plane. A Delta flight, Delta's hub is in Atlanta. And when I completed that leg and landed, yesterday at LaGuardia last night I had flown

officially over one million miles on Delta. I am a million miler and so I'm going to get a big tattoo. Just kidding. But I'm a million miler on Delta. I've got to be close with

American because I fly Delta and American. But it's such a bizarre thing because you kind of feel like, how did this happen? I mean, a million miles, that's, you know, to the moon and back twice, or more than that, actually. It's around the circumference of the earth 40 times, just on Delta. So it's kind of weird. So they send you this happy email and stuff, and it just cracked me up.

It's like a million miles. Will I achieve two million or am I going to slow down over the next like 10, 15 years? I don't really know. But I said, I've just got to share that because it just cracked me up. I said, this is like, this is bizarre, a million. Anyway. All right. Congratulations, by the way.

It just cracked me up. Actually, there's more I want to share before we get to Tim Tebow. We're going to do, I want to prep everybody. This month, we're getting back on the wagon with Christian Solidarity International. They are literally freeing slaves in the sedan. And we are asking your help. You're going to go to metaxis talk.com. We've got news about the talk show coming up.

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I just think the decent thing is at least to wait to December. first, but people disagree with me. And you know what? You're free to be wrong, ladies and gentlemen. You're free to be wrong, free country. But I do want to say a couple of things. Christmas gifts. I wanted to start early this year, right? Because it's been a tough year for us in many ways. A lot of attacks. I've been getting more hate mail than ever. And of course, I just delete it because they're crazy people out there. But if you're a fan of the show and you want to help us out, I just want to say, please purchase your Christmas gifts from one of our sponsors. For example, you could go to Nutra. Actually, this is nuts for what, three days left in the month of November. So this is pre-Christmas.

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We help our friend Mike Lindell and you help this program stay on the air. And don't forget, if you're going to Socrates in the city, December 6th, you can come in person and see Oz Guinness and buy Eric's books there as well, right? Oh, my gosh. I forgot. December 6th, that's coming up. That's coming up in a little bit over a week. We're going to do December 6th. Socrates in the city in New York City with Oz Guinness.

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He's a huge gift to this country. And I'm going to be interviewing him on December 6th. We are trying. We haven't figured it out. yet, but we're trying to see if we could live stream this event. That would be huge. We cannot announce that officially because we don't know if it's possible. I hope today or tomorrow we'll figure out the logistics to see if it's possible to live stream the event. If we live stream the event, you'll be able to sign up and be able to be there that night only. You'll be able to watch

it. So that's exciting. So that's Socrates in the city.com. I also should mention our guest coming up after this segment is our buddy Tim Tebow. I can't believe we get Tim Tebow on the program. In hour or two, we have John Samarik. We're going to go over a lot of the news of the day, a lot of Trump stuff to talk about. And I also wanted to say, Albin, we shouldn't be shy about this. You and I taped four episodes of a late night talk show, the talk show starring Eric Metaxis. That's me, folks.

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If you go to SalemNow.com and just type in Metaxus, it'll come up. I mean, we had so many amazing guests. You're not going to believe it. I want to encourage you to go to Salem Now and watch them. See what you think. You know, leave us. You can email us, tell us what you think, whatever. But it's crazy. I mean, it's so crazy that we've never done this before. I've known for

years I wanted to do it. Alvin, of course, played the role of sidekick. I did. Yes, I did. And you played it, man, you just chewed the carpet, man. No one's ever seen anybody sidekick better, Albin. I did. I kicked it right through the goalpost. It was unbelievable. I, I've never seen a sidekick kick at all, much less sidekick the way you sidekicked on that program. Three points. Three points right there. Hotcom. SalemNow.com.

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You know, you don't have to be mean. But I still can't believe that we got Danny Bonaducci from the Partridge family. We got the Sopranos Vincent. Pastori. Pastori. Pastori from the Sopranos. Supermodel Carol Alt. I interviewed John Cleese.

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The whole thing is just like a crazy fever dream. We taped it, and we've now edited it all, and you can watch it, but you have to go to Salem Now.com. I believe most of them are free. So I think it's free. I think if you want to watch all four, you got to pay something. But I think you can see three for free. That's what somebody told me.

I should probably check this out. But salem now.com, I want to mention that. I also, I want to mention that in terms of Christmas gifts, again, we're doing something with CSI. I think tomorrow we'll talk to Kevin McCullough about it. But just so you understand, people are being enslaved in northern Africa. You know about this. We've done this on the program before.

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Well, that's where they and I differ with my current guest. His name is Tim Tebow, and it's always a joy to have him on the program. Tim, welcome back. I appreciate it. How are you doing, man? I'm doing all right. You're always busy doing wonderful things. You have a new book out called The One Year Devotional Mission Possible.

I love that title. It's a 365-day devotional of inspiration. you have always been an inspiring figure even, you know, before you were saying very much publicly, just when you were playing college football, you have this desire in you to inspire people. And the first thing I want to ask you, before we talk about the book, is like, do you remember as a kid when that happened or were you always like that even as a little kid? Because that's just a beautiful value. And I remember when I just knew you as somebody playing college football, I thought there's just something beautiful about somebody

he actually cares to inspire, you know, other people that he hasn't met or maybe we'll never meet. Well, I think I had two amazing examples in my mom and my dad that actually influence was something that they talked about all the time with us, that every day you have a chance to impact the people you're around. And if God gives you a big platform or he gives you a small platform, whatever it is, we all have the chance to influence. And I remember as a very young boy, we were in publics. and we were walking by the, uh, an aisle and I put in a bad cereal.

I believe it was cocoa puffs. And, um, then, uh, a dad and his son came up and said, hey, my son, he saw you. And I was only a few years older playing sports, but I was still young. And he saw you and you were his hero and he put cocoa puffs. And I was like, oh, man, I knew I just impacted him in a bad way because that's obviously not a good thing for you. And my, my mom used that as a learning lesson is, look, you know, you're, you know, you're, only, and I don't even remember, I was young before I was even high school, and I had influence,

and I impacted people. And she would just always talk about the ripple effects of all of our decisions. And then I had a dad who still is my biggest hero, who has had ripple effects all over the world because his courage and his boldness and courage I've never had in boldness. I've never had all over the world to make impact. And I think just being able to see that, inspired me to not want to live a mediocre, you know, half-baked, half-going-out-at-it-life that if I fail, I want to fail face-down. If I mess up, I want to mess up going at it. But at least I want to strive to, you know, to go after life, to go after God's call, to go after the mission that he's given all of us. And it doesn't mean we're going to be perfect, but we can strive

going after it. I can't believe that you are willing publicly to share that shameful Cocoa Puff's episode on this program. Like most people would not be willing to go there, Tim Tebow. No, I joke around, but like we all have those stories. And it's kind of funny because a lot of times when I'm talking about my heroes, William Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, people act like, well, that's this big thing. And I think, no, no, no, no, no, whoever you are, whatever you do, what serial you pick off those.

You're influencing people around you for good or for ill. So it's really a privilege. It's a beautiful thing. but that's just so interesting that you've learned that lesson as such a young kid. It's not, it's not a big deal, right? It's not a bad thing to get cocoa puff. What you're saying is it's just, it's high sugar and it's not good for you, right? But sometimes we minimize these things and right, and what we need to do is we need to take

and we need a macron. What if I made a focus on these decisions, these little decisions in my life, and I just focus on all of them, and you have no idea. how God can use that in people's lives to influence them in different ways. But we don't know. The point is we don't know which one, right? It might be a sugary cereal, and that might not be a big deal. That might be your treat, right?

Not a big deal. But all of a sudden, we have no idea if we just line up these decisions where it could be ripple effects because we also are choosing who we're going to let into our life and who has those ripple effects into us. Well, you're not going to get guns like the biceps I'm looking at right now by eating cocoa puffs every day. So it's kind of funny, right? Like, of course we all, we reward ourselves, but how you live is important.

It affects others. What we say, what we don't say, it's just an incredibly important thing for people to know that you are an influencer, whether you want to be or not. You have written a book now. You've written many books, but this one is a devotional, a one-year devotional. It's called Mission Possible, 365 Days of Inspiration for Pursuing Your God-Given purpose. So what is what is in this book? Obviously if it's 365 these are obviously pretty short designed to do every morning. And that's by design, Eric, is the goal was, you know, we have so much

every day that is competing for our time for our mindset, for our goals. And I wanted to write a 365 day devotional one for every single day so that maybe we could do life together. And if it's someone that wants to pick it up, that maybe, you know what, we could start together and all of a sudden they start day one. And you know what? It's something that when all these things are competing for your time, that we choose what's most important, right, is to start our day with scripture, which we start every day with scripture. And then we get into the practical. And honestly, Eric, it'll take you two to five minutes to read. But what's so important is I think that we shape our mind and our mindset with really our mission and our purpose. And,

and with wisdom in the right ways to start our day. And then kind of the second bucket that I wanted to help encourage people was to trust God in those situations, no matter what's happening. And really the third was I want to challenge people, challenge people at times to get uncomfortable, challenge people to live intentionally, you know, challenge people to say yes to caring more about significance and success. And it's only two to five minutes every day,

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So order now with promo code Eric at mypillow.com. Mypillow.com. Promocode Eric. Folks, welcome back. I'm talking to Tim Tebow. No kidding. Look, there he is. Hi, Tim. Good to see you. I love it. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I'm just, you know, I'm looking for dead silence, for confusion. That's, you know, uh, you, uh, you, Look, you do so much, but now you've written a book which is a devotional. It's called One Year Devotional Mission Possible. And you were talking about a number of things just a minute ago. I think a lot of people struggle with a lot of the things that you were talking about.

Like, you know, how do I live consistently? How do I, you know, because some people are really disciplined or some people that comes naturally to them. Other people are a little bit more elliptical in the way they pursue life. But you always talk about identifying your priorities. And so when you say that, like, what does that mean for you? I think it's so important, Eric, that we understand what's most important in our life and most important in our heart. And then we align our priorities based on those things, right?

What's most important is that building a relationship with God that we're serving other people, that we're making a difference, that we're helping, then let's put time for what we say we is our top priorities, right? And then it's also, I think, so important, and I go back to this, I mentioned it, that we also reframe our perspective and our mindset because one of the hardest things to gain and the easiest things to lose is perspective on what matters.

And I'll give you example, this weekend, I mean, there's so many families that are going to Thursday celebrate Thanksgiving, and then Friday and Saturday, based on all the rivalry weekend, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, and Auburn, Alabama, and Ohio State, Michigan, again and there's literally going to be for 48 hours houses divided and you know it's going to be a big deal and and i love it because i love sports but all of a sudden that's become a priority that so many people drastically change their lives for when ultimately it's hard to then remember hey Eric it's just a game

right and so many times i've had to remember in my life it's just a game and so many times god's reminded me hey it's just a game and there are more important things but that's just one example of how so many times we let life get in the way. And that's why I think why a devotional and why something every morning to start your day in God's word and truth. And in practical ways, it's so important because, right, we got to have a framework and we got to reshape our mind every day. Okay. Even though the world's saying this is what's most important, this is what God's telling me is most important. It's interesting because you're obviously, you're a, you know, top athlete your whole life.

worked out. And anybody who has those goals understands, I have to put in the time in the gym, on the track, whatever it is. I have to do that. It can't get done by anyone but me. I have to make those priorities. If I don't do it, it doesn't happen. And of course, that is important to be healthy and so on and so forth. But you're talking about spiritual health, emotional health, and how we also have to understand we've got to make time for that. That's exactly right. Spiritual health, emotional health, relational health, all of these things, your priorities focusing on what matters, right? Is we put our days and our times in so many other things. I just saw a study not too long ago that said that young people right now spend more time on digital devices than they actually do sleeping. So do we think that that's, you know, and that's a lot of different things, but there's a lot of things that are competing for our time, for our energy,

for our eyeballs for our mindset, right? Now, we have to stop and compete and say, no, no, no, I'm going to spend a few minutes every day, you know, getting back to what really matters, getting back to the right framework, the right mindset, and then I'm going to be more ready to go take on life. But if we don't actually do that preparation, then when the time gets there, it's so much easier to just be able to just be moved by the wind. Right. And the only way to be moved by the wind is if the wind is the Holy Spirit and wish

case it's a good thing. Otherwise, you're just drifting around, right? So it's kind of interesting. Yeah, you say you saw. The wind blows where it lists. That's from a favorite book of mine. But I got to tell you, it is interesting because you are, you come across as a very disciplined person. And I think a lot of people want that. But it's difficult in their lives to be disciplined or to find discipline because kind of life gets in the way doing a devotional. first thing in the morning when you wake up, that's an easy way to do it if it's possible. And that's why I know you've written this devotional because it kind of, it sets you in the right place.

Were you, was it hard to convince you to write a devotional? Because it seems like a great idea, but it's not easy. No, honestly, it wasn't hard to convince me. I think probably where I was like, wow, this is a lot different. after we get to day due 200 and you're like, wow, coming up with 365s is a little bit more difficult. But it was, honestly, it was just so much fun. And one of the things that I love getting the chance to do in this one year devotional was I had 30 of the days were written by heroes of mine.

Parents who have lost kids to different illnesses, kids with life-threatening illnesses. one of the days is written by a survivor of human trafficking, and it is all to be able to share how in some of their hard moments in life, how they were still able to live out a mission possible life, because mission just means a task or job someone has been given to do and possible means to be able. And so I love getting to share one every day starting of scripture and then trying to share practical tidbits that we can take into life,

but then also 30 of the days were written by heroes of mine that I think will be very encouraging to a lot of people because I just wanted them to be able to hear their stories because, you know, they don't necessarily have the platforms to be able to share it. But, man, their stories are worth hearing, and I think they'll be very impactful for so many people. Tim, we just have about a minute left. I want you to talk a little bit about your foundation. How do people find that and what do you do in that foundation? They can go to Tim Tebow Foundation.org, and to really sum it up for the sake of time,

we fight for people that can't fight for themselves in over 70 countries around the world. If they've been thrown away, beaten, neglected, traffic, then they're the people that we're fighting for, that we have been called to take care of and bring faith, open love to. That is what I believe God has called me to in this lifetime, and it's the greatest mission that I'm on. And that's Tim Tebow Foundation. Yes, sir. Tim Tebow Foundation.org. You just do so much great work.

I want to encourage people to check out Tim Tebow Foundation.org and to get a copy of one year devotional mission possible. I love the positivity of it. It's enthusiastic. Tim Tebow, just a joy to talk to you. God bless you and all you're doing. Congratulations on this book. Thank you, my friend.

Thank you, man. I like the sweater. You're rocking. Keep doing it, buddy. Thank you. Hey, folks. What a day. John Zmirak and Tim Tebow.

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