Welcome to the Eric Mattaxas show.

Just yesterday, I caught a wild bird with my bare hands, and then I set it free, because

that's just who I am.

When you love something, you set it free. But first,

you must catch it with your bare hands. That's the rule. And now, my friend Eric Mataxis, who is a lot

like that caught bird. Fly, little Eric, fly. Be free and fly. Fly to your microphone in the mountains.

Hi-hawk! Hey-haw! Hey-h! Hey, there, folks. Welcome to the Eric Metaxus radio show.

If you're watching this on some kind of video device, I don't know what to tell you.

It's a radio show.

Albin, Chris, lots going on right now.

Where do we even start?

First of all, I would like to wish an 85th happy birthday to one of our listeners,

Stan Barber, wrote to us, or is it Baber, sorry, and it was such a sweet note. And I said,

you know, when somebody turns 85, I would really like to, if possible, wish him happy birthday. When people write to us,

it means, it means so much to me. You just have no idea. You know, you got to keep it short just because

I can't read everything if it gets to be long, but it means a lot to me. So thank you, Stan Barber.

Happy birthday. I doff my beanie to you.

We've got John Smirak coming up.

And I'm always scared when Zmirak comes up because, man, he brings it.

You know what I'm saying?

He brings the facts and the fire.

John, the situation, Smirak is going to be on here in a couple of seconds, actually.

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