Welcome to the Eric Mataxas show. It's the show that Mark Twain once called

Smarter N. A Blue J. What can talk possum and faster than a naked fat man riding a

bolt of lightning. So here's your bank's fucking home spun host, Eric Mataxas.

Isn't that sweet? How the nuts so sweet. It's beautiful. You think Todd from me

personally, is he there in the studio? No. No. No. Neither are you then. Thank the Lord.

Neither am I. Yeah. I'm in South Dakota. I thought it would be fun since I've been here

for a couple of days to call in from the road on a regular phone line. Of course, you

could probably talk and you tell that I'm not in the studio. Yeah. Yeah. You can tell.

You can tell. It's almost like your ventralochist and you're making the chair over here

talking front of me. Yeah. Well, listen, I am in South Dakota. I'm in Sioux Falls,

South Dakota population about 180,000. And did you know, this is what I love about traveling. I'd

learn all this cool stuff about our country. Did you know that the population of all of South Dakota

is less than one million. It's about 800,000. Wow. Got to beat that up. No, I didn't know that.

Jam on you. Oh, I'm an American. Are you? Please? So seriously, I thought to myself, that's so

neat because you know, there are a million people in Manhattan. And they're more than a million

people. And when you think that the entirety of this state of South Dakota has 800,000. So I

if you're free and can get this out the code, yeah, I'm trying to they're trying to break a

million. Please. So you can help them out. Come to South Dakota. But it's wonderful to be here.

I want to talk about a couple of things. Today, of course, is Friday. We like to have fun on Friday.

We do. So we we in hour one today, by the way, we we spoke with Bob Woodson. When I met Bob Woodson

some months ago, I could not believe that I had never met him or knew about him. This man

is a giant. He is a big deal. He's an African-American who knew Chuck Colson very well.

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