Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show with your host, Eric Metaxus.

Hey there, folks. It's Eric Metaxus. I hear an echo. Is that good? It's, uh, I'm back. Welcome back. You had quite a trip. Where was I? You were everywhere and nowhere, I think. I got, I got, uh, I got a tan, uh, but this is just a cheap spray on tent. You're on the West Coast. I got the J-Lo Glow. No, I got this out of Dwayne Reed, man. But no, seriously, I have been everywhere.

Yes. And, okay, before I tell you where I've been today, who is our first guest today?

An ambassador. Ambassador of David Friedman? That's right. Wow. I've met him before. He's really

extraordinary, so we're going to have some fun talking. He's the ambassador,

the American ambassador to Israel, and we have kind of an important relationship with Israel.

So I'm going to ask him the tough, the hard-hitting questions. Like, do you believe Netanyahu were to pay? You knew him, you were close, could you tell? Like, like you know that kind of yeah yeah yeah and um then

in our two we're going to talk about this new movie um we may have aired this before but it's very

exciting c s louis uh it's a story of c s louis's, directed by my friend Norman Stone, starring my friend Max

McLean. And I play Joy Davidman in it. Yeah, it was very progressive casting choice there. I was

surprised they went with that. Okay, so I'm going to tell about what I did on my summer vacation,

which is really what I did in the last two weeks. Yeah. And I'm going to try to say this quickly before the ambassador shows up, but this is not going to be easy. It reminds me of in the movies like Indiana Jones where they have the plane going over the map, and in your case, it would have zigzagging. It's zigzagging. It's zigzag it's, it's even more complicated than that because my dad, by the way, is back

in the hospital or still in the hospital.

It's a tough time for our family.

So we do covet your intercession.

And at the beginning of this whole thing, so we had to drive up to Connecticut to pick up my mom to drive to my nephew Nicky's wedding in rural Connecticut.

It is so far out in Connecticut that it's like almost Nova Scotia,

like you could see Nova Scotia.

It's so far out.

Like you just go past Hartford and you keep going,

and there's like whaling ships and scrimshaw,

and it's that far out.

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