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

Oh, hello. I didn't see you come in. My name is Eric Mattaxas. I'm the host of the Eric

Mattaxas show, where so they tell me. And I get to talk you come in. My name's Eric Mataxis. I'm the host of the Eric Mataxis show, where so they tell me.

And I get to talk to interesting guests.

Today I have a particularly interesting guest.

Have you heard of the comedian Andy Milanakis?

Are you excited?

Ladies and gentlemen, oh, wait a minute.

You're so familiar to me.'re not but you're you're not

andy milanakis because you've got one of those fake greek names that's only three syllables really

metaxas yeah but it's it's you know if you had a real greek name yeah you're not you know you

would you would understand that these these jokes are very tired really

yes you know it's funny because i don't think you're right but you're you're mylo

unopoulos and mylo um i've followed your career less than than many to be honest i mean i'm

very very fond of you but people um who followed you like intensely think of you as just a provocateur, a

joker.

They don't know when to take you seriously.

That can be one of the downsides of being so comedically instinctive.

Because recently you made a really serious announcement.

We touched on it last week.

Tell us, you know, with as little varnish as possible, what's going on in your life?

I've had a lot of time alone with my thoughts, having been basically unemployed for half a decade, being cancelled

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