Welcome to the Eric McTaxis show with your host, Eric Mettaxas.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Hour 2.

Hour 2 is going to be different from Hour 1.

In that, it's going to follow Our 1.

Hour 1 never follows Our 1.

Hour 1 actually is our 1.

But Hour 2 always follows Hour 1.

But here's where it gets tricky.

In hour 1, we were talking to John Smirak.

And in hour 2, we continue talking to John Smirak.

After this segment, we talked to Jay Warner Wallace. And by the way, he is one of the best guests on this show, Jay Warner Wallace.

But maybe the best guest is John Smirak. So let's just go to John. John, we'd love you to conclude

some of those sentences that you were speaking just before we went to the newsbreak.

Sure.

There was a small core group of people on January 6th who believed they were going to Washington, D.C.,

to serve as a deputized militia force that they thought Donald Trump would invoke under the Insurrection Act,

and they would help reverse the steal of the election.

These people were bonkers.

They may have been well-meaning at their core, but they were bonkers.

These people need to be investigated.

They are all going to jail, except the guy who led them, who organized this crackpot

conspiracy.

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