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Welcome to the Eric Mataxis show. They say it takes a big man to admit he's wrong, but I say it takes an even bigger man to admit he's never wrong.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you that bigger man Eric Mataxis.

Thank you Todd. Thank you my friend.

Hey, hey how are you?

I am back from Israel. Israel I tell you Israel literally Israel. It's an extraordinary thing. We got back very early yesterday morning and I spent the whole day sleeping like recovering.

I don't know what I but as most people know I spent the last week in Israel and before I left I was really sick. I got the flu.

I was shivering with a fever. It was horrible actually and then to try to pack when you feel really sick like because you're thinking I'm getting over it but I'm still tired.

So we went. We flew there and it was an extraordinary experience. I want to talk about it. I also want to talk in this hour about the passing of Billy Graham two days ago mind blowing to me.

So we have a lot to talk about what happened in Israel. Well, Alman, you know the first thing that happened the very first thing that happened when I landed in Israel people say stuff's going to happen right.

I lost my phone. Yes, I know that I lost my phone. I was so tired. You know you wake up and you're like, who am I, where am I, what do I do.

And we go out, you know you walk 4,000 miles to whatever to get your bag and your whatever. And there's a big sign that says welcome to Israel. I thought, oh, when that make a nice photo.

And I reach around and I was like, Oh, I was my phone. Wait a minute. Wait. No, here it is. It's here. No, wait.

Oh, gone. I forgot it on the plane. So then of course, but I was with this. It's wonderful VIP tour. Actually, these people that treated us so well part of the ministry of tourism.

And they made these phone calls and things and Suzanne has find my phone, right. So she said, well, Eric, it's right on the plane, just as you thought.

But it was the Sabbath. Shabbat. Shabbat Shalom Shalom Shabbat. Nobody's moving to get anything. So I arrived there and I don't have my phone. But I figured, well, I'll get it eventually.

But when you know you though to go, it was no, no, no, they parked the plane in some Shabbat parking lot.

So special graveyard where the plane is not allowed to do any work for 24 hours. And so basically, so I didn't, I didn't have my phone. I didn't have my phone.

But I figured, I'll get back eventually, which I didn't and I won't, but I thought that I would. So things started out on a kind of a funky note. But I want to say that.

Suzanne, I've never been to Israel before. So to land there, we, you get on a bus and we were going from Ben Gurin Airport to our hotels and in Jerusalem.

And this, this is what happened to me. And I have to say this was a supernatural experience. At least as far as I'm concerned, it felt supernatural to me. I can't prove it. But it's at least emotional.

And I very rarely get choked up. I just don't. And anyway, as the bus left the airport and we're going along toward Jerusalem, I'm looking out the window.

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