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

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Eric Mattaxas show coming to you from the west coast, wait for it, of the United States.

Did you see that coming?

I'm staring at the Pacific Ocean.

I always thought that I preferred the Atlantic, but right now I'll take any ocean.

This is beautiful.

I mean, it is so beautiful.

I just saw a pelican eaten by a shark. It was fascinating. Nature red in tooth and claw.

As gruesome as it was, it was beautiful confirmation of the circle of life. Don't you think so,

Chris, Chris Heimes? Yeah, and I actually hate to be somewhat of a downer, but I just read out my Twitter feed that Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, it's requiring the ocean to wear a mask.

So you got at least a couple more hours before the ocean is unmasked.

That is unbelievable. And in other news, a pelican, actually, it's a whole flock of pelicans, is going to nibble him to death later this week, which, you know, it's a sweet gesture when nature reaches out and crushes the Marxist pretty boy.

Isn't that? It's just a sweet thing that we live in the natural world. And I just want to say thank you, Pelicans of California, for promising to nibble him to death.

Listen, in hour two, we're talking to John Smiric. It's going to get crazy. But in hour one,

we're talking to Max McLean, who this man has brought more C.S. Lewis to the stage than anybody

on the planet. And they've made a film

directed by my dear friend Norman Stone. I cannot wait to hear about the film. It is called the

Most Reluctant Convert, and it's about C.S. Lewis, so we're going to talk to Max McLean in a couple of

minutes. Chris, we got to talk to Max McLean in a couple of minutes.

Chris, we got to talk about a couple things here. The Alliance Defending Freedom, we're doing a fundraiser for them.

I just got an email this morning that somebody took me up on my sham offer. I say if you give $10,000 to the Alliance Defending Freedom, we can have dinner together and spend all this time together. Everybody knows I don't mean a syllable of that.

I'm blowing smoke. I just want the money. Okay. You'll never see my face. Oh, all right.

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