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

Hey there, folks. It's a new week. And as you know, every week, I'm contractually obligated to talk to the guy from Texas. I can never remember his name. Alvin, what is his name again? Zmirak? John Z. Oh, it's John. It's John. It's John. How embarrassing. Well, let's welcome Mr. Z. Welcome the program. Thanks, Eric. And you know perfectly well. I come from the same hospital you do, a story generally Queens. I'm not kidding. That amazes me. You and I were literally born in the same hospital. A year and a half apart. A year and a half apart? Yeah. Yeah, I was born June 63.

December, December 64. I can never remember exactly when I was born because I was so young. I remember

almost none of it. But you and I were born in the same hospital. And who knows, maybe Donald Trump was

born in that hospital.

We'll find out.

Listen, my friend, it's a new week.

So I always want to know what is on your mind this week.

So I have something new and unsettling to start off the week.

My article at stream.org that I would like to talk about is called I'm religious but not spiritual

you know like the Pharisees that is a quip that I have made in response to you know you

you hear it periodically I'm spiritual but not religious I like a line with the universe but some

people say it in a more serious way with a few more

I do. Listen, you could write a whole book on the subject of I'm spiritual but not religious.

I'm not making this up three days ago. I want to mention this because this is actually, it was on

my mind to mention anyway, and it's related to this.

My mother told me, I went to Connecticut, and she says, we have to go to Brewster to buy stain for the deck.

And I said, okay, we're in Connecticut.

Why do we have to go to New York State to buy stain for the deck?

Evidently, if you want stain that is oil-based, the environmental Nazis in Connecticut

no longer allow you even to purchase oil stain with, I'm sorry, stain with oil in it in

Connecticut.

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