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The Eric Metaxas Show

Newt Gingrich and Joe Piscopo

The Eric Metaxas Show

Metaxas Media

Religion & Spirituality

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Newt Gingrich talks about the impact of the Helsinki summit and his new book, “Trump’s America: The Truth about Our Nation's Great Comeback”… and SNL alum Joe Piscopo brings his comedic take!

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Eric Matierx Show. Why don't you pull up a chance and set it up?

0:14.0

There's a reason fixing to learn your thing or two if you can stand it.

0:17.0

It wouldn't hurt you none neither. In fact, years, some folks say Eric wouldn't know whether to scratch his watch or win his butt-docs.

0:23.0

Once they who, when he's ended anyhow, he don't do an idea. You'll come back now. You hear? Here's America's sweetheart himself. Eric Matierx.

0:30.0

Wow. If that is not Walter Brennan, my name is not Todd Wilkerson. Folks, as you know, we got a busy news day and I thought who could better give us, I mean right out of the gate, right out of the gate, like justify.

0:44.0

You got to take the lead. You got to take the lead. I said, who can I go with? Who's going to give me insisive views on Helsinki on everything? I could not think of anybody who knows more about that stuff than my friend Joe Piscopo.

1:00.0

Joe Piscopo. Welcome to the show.

1:02.0

Walter Brennan? Yeah, it's Dad, British, Walter Brennan. How, only you, Walter Brennan introduced.

1:10.0

Is that a really actual, an actual Walter Brennan introduction? No. Very well done. Whoever did that.

1:15.0

That's Todd Wilkerson. He's a comic actor. He's great. That's great. No more character actors like that. You ever know what I'm saying?

1:22.0

Well, that's the whole point. That stuff is so great. Joe, we got to bring it back. How can we bring it back?

1:27.0

Who do you, you do a lot of people? Who do you do? That's the way it is. You know who I miss? Rex Tillerson.

1:33.0

Rex Tillerson, scary man, scary voice. Love that voice. Rex Tillerson as a secretary.

1:40.0

Now, but you can't top Mike Pompeo as secretary. Let me just say that. But as a character Tillerson was very, very interesting.

1:46.0

It's funny because I pride myself on being interested in impressions and on being like a news junkie.

1:52.0

I do not know what Rex Tillerson sounded like. So I'm going to take your word for it.

1:56.0

Oh, that was, that was, that was a great one, man.

1:59.0

Okay, we've got a swing from Walter Brennan to Rex Tillerson to oil. I want oil for everybody.

2:08.0

Wow, that is great. I just want to talk to you about current events, but you got to understand because you're Joe Piscopo, I couldn't care less if we spoke about Helsinki or whatever.

2:19.0

I don't care. I did air with you is more fun than talking to new king Chris.

2:24.0

Speaking of the impressions that I think that the president should take on some of the persona of Robert De Niro, his nemesis because they could learn so much if the president would absorb some of De Niro's characters.

2:36.0

So he should have said the Putin when the APB party stood up and started asking about meddling Russian meddling.

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