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Welcome to the Eric Metaxis show.

Back again, eh?

Glutton for punishment, eh?

When will you ever learn?

Now, here's the host that you hate to love,

the man who with the reason your friend sponsored your last intervention, Eric Mattaxas.

Hey there, folks. Welcome to the program. It's Zmirak time on the Eric Metaxus show today. So we want you to

buckle your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy hour. John has a lot of

things to share. Some of them that really should not be shared publicly, but that's not going to

stop John. If you're a fan of John, you know what I'm talking about. And if you hate John,

you know what I'm talking about. We love John.

Before I begin, a couple of other things, a couple of announcements. Chris Heimes, can I tell

them to you since Albin isn't here today? Yeah, feel free. I'll be your sounding board.

You just can overhear them. Yeah. Are you familiar with the tennis wall?

I'll be an audio version of the tennis wall. You can just... Thank you very much. Yeah, I'm just like

bouncing the ball back and forth. No, but before we bring on Zmirak, just a couple things, because I didn't

want to muddy up the conversation with John Zmirak. Number one, we just debuted another Socrates event. The event that I did, do you hear the

sirens coming? They're coming for me. I must live in New York City. It's the new normal in New York

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