Hey, folks, welcome back to the Eric Metaxus show. I'm Albin Sador, 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 knowing what we're talking about. It's Eric Metaxas himself because he's has 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 preposterous. Oh, come on. Nobody would 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 Metaxus show? I'm just asking for a friend. I'm going to say Eric with a C, E-R-I-C, Eric. Oh, 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.

Okay. All right, that's enough for 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 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 those of you out there don't know

much about publishing. It's kind of like the dress rehearsal for the actual book. So if you 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 funny 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 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 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 uh as a as the young man and as a child pictures of my parents so that's what you

that's what you look that's what you look look

at look look at the end papers it's like uh it's a a family tree of my greek family this is so people

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