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Welcome to the Eric Mataxas Show with your host Eric Mataxas.

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

You're not Andy Milanakis. You're one of those fake Greek names. That's only three syllables.

Really? Mataxas. Yeah, but it's, you know, if you had a real Greek name, you're an opulence.

You know, you would understand that these jokes are very tired.

Really? You know, it's funny because I don't think you're right. But you're Milo-Yanopolis.

And Milo, I followed your career less than many to be honest. I mean, I'm very, very fond of you.

But people 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, as 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 canceled so many times. And I wrote a book in 2018 about Pope Francis.

And it got me thinking more. And it, what was the gist of that book for people who don't remember that?

It's called Diabolical. And it's about the manner in which Pope Francis has been taking the Catholic church, you know, in a ghastly direction,

his turning of blind eye and even actively covering up for a solid medical and pedophilic priests.

And various other things. And the subtype of the book is, you know, how Pope Francis has betrayed clerical abuse victims like me and why he has to go.

And ultimately the sort of an unhappy and incomplete final chapter, as it must be for Catholics, because we can't wish the guy dead.

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