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Did you ever see the movie The Blob starring Steve McQueen?

The blood-curdling threat of the blob.

Well, way back when Eric had a small part in that film, but they had to cut his scene because the blob was supposed to eat

him. But he kept spitting him out. Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. Anyway, here's the guy

who's not always that easy to digest. Eric Mattaxas! Welcome to Hour 2. It's the Eric Mataxis show.

I'm playing the role of Eric Mataxis. I apologize. The real

Arcton taxes was not available. The book is Revelation Riddle. I'm sitting with the author Benjamin Thomas.

So Benjamin, we've been friends for a long time. You are in a new place. In other words, you've done all this research, and you really were convinced,

like so many people are, that it's all going to hell, and our job is just to kind of hunker down

and, you know, be a prepper. But you really were, you know, you took your own money,

and you invested in hardcore prepper stuff.

What are we talking about?

We're talking about, like, food for three years and underground bunkers and stuff.

I mean, you were there.

You know, when I figured out how the world really worked, it scared me.

And because I was armed, frankly, with just my rapture theology. And, you know,

there was splits on, you know, are we going to have to endure a part of this tribulation? I mean,

you know how it is. There's just a lot of competing thought around that in theology. I went all in on

prepping. I mean, I bought trucks and outfitted them with wilderness survival gear.

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