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Folks, welcome to the program.

We've got a surprise for you today.

It's not John Smirak.

Yes, John Smirak is like in Paris, hanging out with, you know, other freakish super geniuses like Dr. James Tour, David Berlinski, Peter Thiel, three people that we're having at Socrates in the city. Actually, no, we've had Dr. Tour recently.

We've had Berlinski some years ago.

And Peter Thiel, no, we did.

We've had all of them at Socrates and City.

But John Smirich's hanging out with them.

And we thought, what are we going to do?

A week without John's Mirak is like a week without sunshine.

But then John said, Eric, I very, very, very, very highly

recommend that you have on someone. Well, actually, he already recommended him many, many times

before. And we thought perhaps we would get Raymond Ibrahim on the show.

So sitting in for our friend John Smirak is Raymond Ibrahim.

Now, let me explain to you, folks.

Raymond Ibrahim is a really distinguished scholar and spokesperson on issues concerning the Middle East.

He has a brand new book called Defend. This is a big

deal. I want to talk to him about this. It's called Defenders of the West, the Christian Heroes who

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