Hey folks, welcome back to the Eric Mitaxas show. I'm Albin Sadar, one of the producers. I'm joined here as well with the other producer Chris Himes. And you know who our special guest is. You've been listening. So you've been.

What we're talking about. It's Eric Mitaxas himself because he's had a brand new book and it's out today. It's called Fish out of water.

Wait a minute. I'm the guest on my own show. That's for a pastress. Oh, come on. I don't believe that Albin. Nobody would believe that.

But what choice do we have? We have no other guests. So I'll play the role of guests today. I'm very happy to do that. And speaking as the guest, I hear that Mike Lindell is the main sponsor of your program. Is that true?

That is probably true. Yes. Is there a discount code people should use to support Mike Lindell and the Eric Mitaxas show?

I'm just asking for a friend. I'm going to say Eric with a C E R I C. Eric. It's that simple Eric. Okay.

Are people allowed to use that code if they don't listen to the program? Yeah, especially if they don't listen. It's going to help them.

That's enough of that. Thank you. Okay. Here we go. Okay. So today, of course, is the big launch of fish out of water. It's a memoir. It's all about Eric's early life up until about the age of 25 when a golden fish changed everything.

It's an exciting tale. And in fact, I have a copy here. The interesting thing. I'm going to ask Eric about this right now.

I have read the uncorrected page proof. Now they were supposed to send me the actual book, but because of the snow and this is no kidding. I have not been able to get the actual book in my hot little hands.

But an uncorrected page proof for you. Those of you out there don't know much about publishing. It's kind of like the dress rehearsal for the actual book. So they want to if you want to change things or add things or something.

This is your last chance. So I want to ask Eric, because I've been an extra on Saturday night live and on the dress rehearsal, there are sketches that they cut in time for the regular show because they got too many sketches and they'll say, well, this one's not so fine.

So to get rid of it, I want to ask Eric, were there any stories that you either had to change dramatically or cut from the uncorrected page proof to the final, final, final book. That's my first question. Right.

No, no, it's virtually the same. The only difference is that the actual book is obviously much nicer because it's printed nicely and it's a hard cover and it's got color photographs of, you know, my early days as a, as the young man and as a child pictures of my parents.

That's what you look, that's what you look like in color. Oh, that's one look and look at look, look at the end papers. That's like it's a family of my Greek family.

This is so people can track with the characters inside the book and the last page, the last end papers are my German family. So it's kind of it just so you can kind of track because there's all these characters and stuff in it. But anyway, yeah, you know what here's the other end of that first question was, was there anything you left out.

But I realized this when I finish reading the book and this shows you how good the book is when you finish it and wish there were more now.

With that in mind, I want to ask the author Eric Metaxas this question, when you finished writing it, you handed it in, they said, that's it. We're going to publish what you wrote right here.

Did you later say week later, month later, oh, there's a great story. I forgot. I left out. This is key to my existence. Oh, I got to put this in fish part two part.

If not, not exactly, but yes, yes, I am, I'm going to write a sequel to this, which is called Pastures New, a life in miracles because after what happens to me at the end of this book, I began to experience what it is to walk with God.

And I've experienced innumerable bonafide miracles. And unless you read the stories, you know, I can't say I grew a, I grew a third arm or something like that. But I, when you read these stories, you know, they're kind of amazing.

So I'm looking forward to telling a lot of them, but there, there's no doubt. I didn't want the book to be too long because it's already a little long.

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