Hey, hi, welcome to the Eric Mataxi Show. I'm the announcer Todd Wilkerson, and I'm

taking a bubble bath right now. Yeah, it's such a treat like

you're creating in this warm water with scented candles and my favorite rock

mononof. Oh, no, no, sorry, it's pop off. Anyway, that's the beauty of radio. No one can see you in your nakedness. Well, I'd like to get back to my fashion magazine. So let me introduce your host, Eric Mataxis.

All right, I've had it. I've had it. Todd, I've had it. I can't take it anymore. Stop it. You know, Alvin, yeah, first of all, we have to tell we have to tell our audience. It's a fun fact

Friday. I am in Dallas. Yes, in a hotel room doing the program from a hotel room in Dallas, not from the studio in Dallas, but from a hotel room in Dallas. And we are pre recording. So in my world, it's not really Friday in your world. It's I guess it's not Friday. Either. But we're doing a fun fact Friday because we had a moment here. Yeah, and I got to say for Todd Wilkerson. Oh, boy, to refer to pop off. I think that's a vodka. And I think that's not a

appropriate for this kind of an audience. Todd, well, Todd in a bubble bath is not appropriate either. You know what? Have you seen Todd? I have seen his bathing suit. No, not that you want to talk about it. I can't

see that. No, I don't like he looks like if you see him walking down the beach, he looks like Abraham Lincoln in a bathing suit. Does he really? Yeah,

Chica, a blinking in a bathing suit. It's just uncomfortable to look at someone like that. And that's exactly what Todd looks long as he's not wearing that stove top hat. No, he doesn't need it. He looks like a

blinking even without the beard. You just say, holy cow, it's a blinking. And then you realize that we can't be a blinking because

Lincoln never wore bathing suit and walked on the beach. And by the way, he died 150 years ago. Okay, listen, yes, we're doing

Alvin. This was your idea. This was a fun fact Friday. He said, Hey, Eric, let's do a fun fact Friday. Can I explain how I came up with it? Because I've

been having a great time reading your book. I haven't gotten all the way through it yet. I read it on the train to and from

Terry Town, you know, I'm having a great time. But I realized that Martin Luther lived in quirky times. I mean, really

strange and odd times. Right? This is this is exactly what persuaded me to want to write the book. I've said a

million times I didn't want to write anymore biographies. I figured I'll go out on a high note. Everybody seemed to think that

the Bonhoeffer book was a good book. And but but Greg Thornberry, the president of Kings College and my friend, our

mutual friend, Marcus Speaker said, Eric, you've got to do it. Here's why and and I began to realize that

Luther lived in such quirky times that this could be a very, very entertaining. That's there's no doubt about

how doubt hilarious little facts and weird things in this story. It's one of those things. You know, how they'll say like,

boy, if we told this story, nobody would believe it. They think, and that's kind of this story. I'm reading this and saying,

no, this cannot be true. This is just wild, wild stuff. I mean, really funny. Right. And that's so was your idea to do a

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