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The Eric Metaxas Show

Niall Ferguson

The Eric Metaxas Show

Metaxas Media

Religion & Spirituality

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Niall Ferguson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, breaks down the intricate concepts in his new book, “The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook.”

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Eric Mataxit Show. It's the show featuring Gogo the Chip.

0:13.5

Nothing like a chip to live in a burrito show. Easy there Gogo. Gogo, no, no, no, no, no, no.

0:19.9

Now your host, Eric Mataxit. Wow. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sitting here with Albin in the studio. Today is Thursday.

0:28.0

How did it get to be Thursday?

0:30.0

Fifth, like one month from Christmas. Can you believe that 25 January 25th?

0:36.0

I know. Yeah. Wow. Time flies. Christmas went too quickly.

0:41.0

Speaking of Gogo the Chip, the reason we play that is if you listen to this program, you know, Gogo died and that's sad.

0:50.0

Yeah. Okay. Let's get on to happy, happy things. Shall we?

0:56.0

You're tearing up. Eric, I've never seen you tear up before. Look at you. Look at you.

1:02.0

All right. Compose. Get it together. Keep it together. Keep it together. Okay. Okay. Okay.

1:08.0

Anyway, what really makes me sick is that it was by his own hand.

1:16.0

And you know, you don't think chimps will commit suicide, but he was just going through some dark stuff and Todd knows about it.

1:23.0

We'll have Todd on to talk about it another time. All right. I want to talk about the good news.

1:27.0

CSI. Yes.

1:29.0

CSI. We're doing a campaign. CSI. We've raised $30,000.

1:35.0

And somebody stepped up to the play K $5,000, which is amazing. But I want to say up front.

1:43.0

This is not about the amount, even though he won as much as possible.

1:48.0

The real thing is to get everyone to participate because if you participate, you have what the cliche mongers call skin in the game.

1:56.0

You understand that what you do affects the suffering of people.

2:02.0

You can you can alleviate tremendous suffering in the Middle East right now.

2:05.0

We've talked about it and we'll continue talking about it. But I just want to mention that we hope you'll go to mtaxastalk.com.

2:11.0

We hope you will give. And okay.

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