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Folks, welcome to the Eric Metaxe show, or at least I call it the Eric Mataxis show.

I'm biased.

My name is Eric Metaxis, and it's a show.

I got to say that, you know, I do a lot of traveling, a lot of speaking.

I've never really liked Las Vegas. Let me be blunt. But I've got to tell you the truth.

I'm excited about going there in July, very soon, actually, July 13th through 16th at the Mirage Hotel, there's something called

Freedom Fest. I have the honor of being a speaker there. I'm told they're giving me an award.

I can't hear about things like that. But I'm also debating Michael Shermer. He is an atheist, and we're

going to be talking about how wrong he is. And I think we're going to debate how wrong he,

you know, like extremely wrong or not that wrong. We're going to debate. But I don't normally

debate, but I do a lot of speaking, and I'm

excited about Freedom Fest, and I'm excited about the fact that I have the founder, the man

behind the whole thing. Mark Skousen is my guest right now. Mark, welcome back.

Well, thank you. And speaking of this debate that you're having with Michael Shermer, I will tell you, you know, you say you don't like debates.

And Michael Shermer is actually a truth seeker. He is not like Christopher Hitchens and some of these other atheists who are absolutely adamant.

This is the way it is. In fact, he's had his own kind of

supernatural experience that I told you about, and hopefully you will bring this up in this debate.

But he is a truth seeker, and I think that's the kind of thing we do at Freedom Fest.

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