Welcome to the Eric Mataxis show.

It's the show that Mark Twain once called Smarter, a Blue Jay, what can talk possum,

and faster than a naked fat man riding a bolt of lightning.

So here's your plain spoken homespun host, Eric Mataxis.

Hey there, folks.

Welcome to the Eric Mataxis show.

I get to talk to my friend Larry Alex Taunton.

He's been on this program a number of times before.

He is a prolific writer of truly wonderful books.

The new one, I'm holding it in my hand,

is called Around the World in More Than 80 Days, discovering what makes America great

and why we must fight to save it. Larry, Alex Taunton, welcome to the program.

Great to be with you, Eric. Okay, tell us about this book. Now, you've been around the world. We've had you on this program in the past, traveling around the world, comparing these kinds of things. Am I the one that kept saying, like, aren't you going to put this in a book? You are, Eric. And in fact, I don't know if you've seen it, but you're in the acknowledgments as the, as the fellow who really put the spurs to me to do that.

But yeah. fact. I don't know if you've seen it, but you're in the acknowledgments as the, as the fellow who

really put the spurs to me to do that. But yes, I finished the book just a few short months ago,

and I'm basically challenging the left's assertion that America is a terrible country and that

we're way behind the rest of the world.

Well, you're not going to have much to do in terms of convincing me, but I think there are

a lot of people listening right now. We've heard the narrative over and over and over and over,

whether it's from Colin Kaepernick or from people on CNN, it's fatiguing. If you

hear something over and over again, it's just, it becomes very fatiguing, especially when

you have an innate sense that they've got to be missing something, if not entirely lying

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