Welcome to the Eric Mataxas show!

Just yesterday I caught a wild bird with my bare hands and then I said it free.

Because that's just who I am. When you love something you said it free.

But first you must catch it with your bare hands. That's the rule.

And now my friend Eric Mataxas who is a lot like that caught bird.

Fly to the Eric fly, be free and fly. Fly to your microphone in the mountains.

Yuck! Yuck!

Wow! I got up with the tears out of my eyes before I, uh, before I begin.

That's just so beautiful. That is so sweet and weird. Thank you Todd Wilkerson. Thank you.

Folks, today on this program, on this program, not on other programs.

I can't speak for other programs, but on this program, the Eric Mataxas show,

which is the show about everything. I get to talk about something that falls under the rubric of everything that something is sports.

Yes, it's not a sports program. It's a program about everything.

But under that rubric, under the eagis of everything falls the thing we call sports.

Who can I talk to about sports? Who better than the premier sports columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

His name is Jason Gay. He is on the phone right now. Jason Gay, welcome to the program.

I can't figure out if that is a light praise or not. Is that sort of like paying the premier columnist from sports of the Wall Street Journal?

Is that like paying like the top wine columnist as car and driver?

You know something, you are, you're so self-deprecating and so sharp that there was a danger of you reading it that way.

I think most people, when they think of the Wall Street Journal, especially in this day and age, look, if you wrote for the New York Post,

I probably wouldn't read your columns. Like, I'm not a post guy. I'm a Wall Street Journal guy.

I've written for the Wall Street Journal. I respect the Wall Street Journal. It's a great paper.

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