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Folks, you're listening to Ask Me Anything. It's this is the Archmontax

issue, but we're playing what I did the other night. It was a live thing on YouTube and

Facebook. Ask me anything. People ask me questions. Here it is.

Welcome to evening everybody and welcome to the first ever Salem Ask Me Anything event.

And we decided to do this series of events called Ask Me Anything because we know that our

listeners love to have a one-on-one opportunity and they never do get it. Usually you're calling in

or maybe you're at an event with thousands of people, but tonight we have 20 people that have

chosen to pay a little extra money and get a chance to be one-on-one with our first host, Eric

Metaxas. Well, first of all, thank you for having me and thank you Phil Boyz for discovering me.

I was a nobody until you put your finger on me and you said you, you, yes, you. I want to make you a star.

Eric, your subtitle is a search for the meaning of life. That's a big assignment for one.

Well, searching for the meaning of life is not a big assignment. Finding the meaning of life

is a big assignment. The book, honestly, this is like the story of my life up until I had this

conversion experience at age 25. And let me tell you it was dramatic. It was miraculous. It's the end

of the book. And when something like that happens to you, you'll never forget it. It changed my life

literally overnight. It was an encounter with the God of the Bible. It was the kind of thing I

thought happens to other people who never happen to me. It happened to me. And I thought I need to

tell that story. But in order for that dream to make sense, you have to tell everything coming up

to that point. So I tell the story of growing up with my mom and dad and, you know, an immigrant

household. My dad came from Greece. My mom came from Germany. And just what that experience was like,

there are a lot of very funny stories in the book. It's all true. Every, every insane, funny story is

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