Welcome to the Eric Metaxa show.

They say it's a thin line between love and hate, but we're working every day to thicken that line, or at least make it a double or triple line.

Now here's your line jumping host, Eric Mattaxas.

Hey there, folks.

It's my joy right now to have as my guest, a friend of many, many years, Dr. Joseph P.

Leconte. Joe, did I pronounce that correctly? Yes, you years, Dr. Joseph P. Lecante.

Joe, did I pronounce that correctly?

Yes, you did, but there's no P. I don't know what you're getting the P from.

Ah, why not? You know what I'm saying? Why not?

Yes, Joe's fine. Joe's good.

I forgot what your middle initial was.

I don't really have a middle name, but I've adopted my uncle Sal's name, Salvatore. I've just adopted it. I have, it's not legal. So you can say Giuseppe Salvatore Loconde. Right. Maybe I just want to call you JP because it sounds, you know, hey, JP, what's cooking? Listen, Joe, you're always tough. The more somebody's a friend of mine, the tougher it is for me to introduce them,

because I just, you know, think of you as a pal.

And we've had so much fun together over the years because we have so many things in common,

you know, C.S. Lewis and on and on and on.

I want to talk to you about the 250th anniversary of the United States coming up next year.

You're working on a YouTube series.

Yes.

What, I mean, if people want to find you online, just to say this in advance,

because I think people will want to find you as we're talking here, what's the best place for people to find you online? Thank you for that question, Eric. If you go to YouTube at Joe Locanti, J-O-E-L-O-C-O-C-O-N-T-E, YouTube at Joe LaConte, you'll see the YouTube channel. If you can get a link up there on your own social media matrix there, Metaxus, that would be terrific.

But that's where you can find me in the various historical YouTube documentaries we are now making.

What do you call?

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