Welcome to the Eric Taxes Show with your host, Eric Mettaxas.

Hello there, folks.

I have a very special guest, a really dear friend.

His name is Bob Mazakowski.

What is that, Polish?

Yes.

Bob, most people, we've been friends for, I got probably 25 years, something like that.

We met through our friend, B.J. Weber.

You have a story that I can't, I never know how to do this justice. So let's, let's, let me just lay it out and then we'll go back.

Your name's Bob Mozikowski. Most people call you Musikowski because who wants to say Musikowski?

You live in the inner city of Chicago. You started a Christian high school. What year did you start it?

We bought closed Catholic school in 2004, opened the school in 2005. Okay. High school. And I was there. I remember when you were doing, you were doing all the, you know, whatever, renovations. Yeah. So this is a wild success. But the story is wilder than the success of Chicago Hope. Because this is a, I mean, I say this. It's a serious Christian school. It's not like a Christian school like St. So andand-so. No, no, no. This is a real Christian

school in the inner city, overwhelming minority population, tremendously successful.

But I want to go backwards to how you got into all this stuff and to tell your story.

So before we go backwards, let's at least, let me give you an opportunity to say,

you know, tell us about Chicago Hope.

So Chicago Academy is high school.

Everybody says you should start with young kids, of course, but they're cute and adorable,

but a 14, 15, 16, a kid will hit you back.

And that's where a lot of people ruin their lives in high school.

A kid will hit you back.

Yeah, I mean, a 14, 15, and 16 year old is not a cute little six-year-old.

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