Hey, the folks, welcome to the program. My goodness, my goodness, where do I begin?

I keep asking that question. It's going to become a cliche, bad habit.

I have as my guest, John's Mirik, let me begin there. John, welcome.

Thank you, Eric. I know you're coming back on a big whirlwind tour and you were just in our nation's capital.

And I got back yesterday and there's a lot I want to touch on.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, Up on the train It's on the clock again

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, I want to talk about two friends that have passed away,

Joni Lamb and James Robeson in a minute. John and I will talk about that.

I want to talk about the last few days,

the lunacy of the...

Well, we can start there, John.

Yesterday, I went in depth yesterday,

obviously today is Wednesday,

but I haven't talked to you about the madness of me speaking

on the National Mall and cracking a joke about the White House. And the whole thing started,

this was not my idea, that I was going to talk about, you know, the revolution and the miracle

of the crossing retreat across the East River and then the miracle, or at least wonderful

story of the crossing of the Delaware, which has miraculous elements. But they wanted me all of this, the context, let's give the

context. This was a huge celebration on the national mall where you joined a lot of other American

leaders rededicating America to God, right? Yes. No, it was, it was amazing. I mean, mean i discussed i discussed that yesterday with the audience

but i i i only want to say that for context in case you didn't know or there's anybody who still

didn't know they wanted me to introduce laura ozness whom i know from new york she's a tony

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