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Did you ever see the movie The Blobs starring Steve McQueen?

The blood-curdling prep of The Blobs.

Well, way back when Eric had a small part in that film, but they had to cut his scene because the blob was supposed to eat

him. But he kept spitting him out. Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. Anyway, here's the guy

who's not always that easy to digest. Eric the Texas!

Oh, no, no, no. Today is my birthday. Oh, we're on. Oh, sorry. Chris, we're on. It's my birthday. Happy birthday. I just found out. I just found out that today's my birthday. Is that crazy? It's crazy. I arranged there's a staff from a Mexican restaurant across the street that's going to bring some churros over and a sparkler and a Mexican cake. It's going to be terrific. A Mexican cake. And a sombrero. And a Mexican cake and a sombrero. Yeah, with some mariachi music. But you don't understand. My name's Metax. It's Greek. It's not Metahas. I'm not Chicano. I'm Greek. No, today is my birthday.

And you know, this is a weird, for the first time in my life, I'm celebrating my birthday without my dad, because my dad and I had the same birthday.

So this, he would have been today, he would have been 97.

Oh my gosh.

It's like it's amazing to me.

And so every single year I celebrated my birthday and it was my dad's birthday and we just we celebrated together.

So this is the first time.

I mean, I spoke about this.

My dad passed in January and it's a little, it's one of's one of these things I mean so many people you know

you've lost the parent they've been through this I've never been through this before and it's this

weird thing where it's actually harder for me to deal with it like initially it was like okay I'm

glad he's with the Lord uh you know he he he he it was his he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, like, I'm, like, you know, when I'm hanging out in Danbury, Connecticut, I'm like, Dad, like, where are you? Like, it just doesn't make sense to me. It doesn't make sense to me. So it's bittersweet, but I praise the Lord for my dad. As I say on today, would have been his 97th birthday. And my mom's birthday was just a few days ago. She's 90. And I ask prayers for my mom because it's tough to be married to somebody

64 years and suddenly they're not there. So it's an interesting time. But I am just grateful to

God for all the blessings in my life. And I have in honor of President Trump being reelected in the fall, I have a Trump spray on tan.

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