Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show with your host, Eric Metaxus.

Hey folks, welcome to the program.

I got scared today because I have my guest, Mario Marillo, coming up in just a few minutes.

But I realized before my guest, I have to do an opening segment where I talk about these things.

And I realized I'm all alone in the New York studio.

Chris Himes could not be here today because he's prepping for his big Christmas bash

tonight.

Suzanne and I are invited.

I don't think they really wanted us to come,

but they put us on the invitation list,

so we're going to show up.

And so he's not here.

Albin, of course, is, we don't know where he is.

He's like laundering money in the Cayman Islands. He's a drug mule. We don't know what's going on. All we know is he's nowhere to be found. And I thought, you know what? I wonder if we put a team on it. Could we find Albin? Yes. And the fact of the matter is, he thought he went off the grid. He didn't go far off the grid enough because we found him. Albin, we found you. Yes, yes. I'm here down. I'm down in Texas. I'm with my, I'm with the, you know, the other side of the family. That's your, that's your story.

That's your story.

You're down in Texas. I think you are in Texas, and we did, we found you Texas. I said, if we could find Albin, I don't care if he's wearing his flamingo pajamas, whatever it is, let's get him on. Because I'm, I'm uncomfortable flying solo, man. You know, I need a I need a sidekick to kick.

Who will I kick?

What can I kick against?

Kick against the goads. You know, and I thought, do we have a sidekick available? And son of a gun, they tracked you down. So, Alvin, we got stuff to talk about here. Yeah, yeah, but real quick, every time I, this is, you know, my, my Texas, uh, the in-laws and all that,

every time they say anything, they always preface it by saying, yeah, like, yeah, do you want some breakfast? So it's true about them down there, right? It's true about them. Um, well, you, okay, so you're in the Houston area. We don't want to, we don't want people to know where you are, what particular bunker you're in with your various wives.

I believe you've started a cult down there and that you're the Messiah.

And it's really sick, theologically, I think you're a little bit off.

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