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Here now is Mr. Completed My Bucket List at age 12, Eric Mattaxas.

Hey folks, welcome on the program. It's August 26th. I believe today's Tuesday. I'm pretty sure because yesterday was Monday, but you never know. Tuesday, August 26th. Today, in hour one, which is to say right now, my guest is John Smirak. In hour two, we're going to have a super centennial update about the Battle of Brooklyn,

August 27th. That's tomorrow. August 27th, 1776, 249 years ago tomorrow. Amazing. That's an hour two.

And then we're speaking to the great Roger Kimball,

fascinating conversation with Roger Kimball coming up. But right now, John's Merak. John, welcome.

Yeah, I call it's a pleasure to talk. We've got a lot to talk about. Now, you've written an article,

you've written two articles. One of them will be out when this airs today. And it is concerning the comments made by Hillsdale President Larry Arne, who is an American hero. And Hillsdale is absolutely one of the best colleges that has ever existed, just an amazing school.

But he made a comment in effect saying that America is not a Christian nation, that having

a Christian nation is not possible.

I want to discuss that with you because I've got a lot of thoughts on it as well.

And your article really beautifully sums it up.

It's an important, it's an important question, an important conversation,

important thing for every American to understand.

But before we do that, John, can we talk about some of the things that have been happening

in the news very recently?

I don't know if you want to comment on them.

We, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, uh, the, uh, the, the, uh, the, the, uh, the, the, uh,

I was very excited about that. I thought finally we're getting some action, but the left is

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