Welcome to the Eric Metaxis show with your host, Eric Mettaxas.

Hey, folks. It is Monday, December 20th. Albin, today is the last day of autumn.

It is?

Oh, that's correct.

The winter solstice begins tomorrow and it's Christmas week.

It's really scary.

The last day of autumn.

Ooh.

Hey, quick announcement.

Since today's Monday, in hour two, we've got John Smirak. I did something

yesterday driving home from Connecticut with Suzanne that I never ever do. I talked on the phone.

All my friends know, I almost never ever talk on the phone. It's just, I don't know why, but I don't.

And I talked to John Smirak. And I was sickened by the fact

that every time he said something brilliant, I said, there's no national audience to benefit.

It's just me and Suzanne, that's not really enough. So we decided to bring him on the program.

In our two today, we've got John Smirik on,

and I told him that the brilliant things that he said just on the phone talking to me as a friend,

I said, no, no, I'm not enough, Susanna. You've got to do it for the national audience. So

we're going to bring on John Smirak in hour two today. I'm actually not kidding.

I'm very excited about it because he's just that good.

So John's Merak coming up in hour two today.

In hour one, which is to say now, we're going to rerun my interview with Andy Irwin.

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