Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show. Would you consider yourself smart, insightful, precocious, astute, clever, wise beyond your years, and good at checking a cesareth for synonyms well then you've

come to the right place here now is the handsome attractive striking gorgeous and quite

frankly breathtaking eric ma texas books welcome back this is what we call hour two don't

confuse it with hour one hour one typically typically comes before Hour 2. On the other hand, if you're listening to Hour 2 first, that's on you. It's a free country. I'm talking to John Smirak. Now, John, you're a kooky guy, and you had a cookie idea, also a brilliant idea. Typically, your kooky ideas are also brilliant. And you

thought that in response to some of the crazy stuff that's being written, principally the Christianity

today, or as you call it, churchy entity yesterday article sniping about the Bonhofer film, you thought

you and I should do a Q&A. So we did it in print. And ladies and gentlemen, it's going to appear

at the stream, stream.org today, I guess today, John? Today or tomorrow. Okay. Well,

but we thought we would do a dramatic reading of the Q&A for this audience only, folks.

So don't share this with your friends.

This is just for you, just for you right now.

So, John, you asked the questions.

I wrote the answers.

You're going to read the questions.

I'm going to read the answers.

But we're going to pretend like we're just thinking of it right now.

We're going to pretend like we're not reading, even though we are reading.

Okay, John, are you ready?

Yeah, yeah.

You ready?

Okay.

Question number one.

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