Pints with Jack, season four, episode 52.

The screw tape letters, letter 26.

What have you done for me lately?

Well, welcome, everyone.

Pines with Jack is your weekly C.S. Lewis podcast, where David, Matt, and I break down and discuss the works of C.S. Lewis.

This season we're eavesdropping on the correspondence of a senior demon, Screw Tape, as he explains how to tempt the patient,

a human assigned to be tempted by Screwtap's nephew, Wormwood.

Each week we'll be considering a different letter, untwisting screwtap's hellish logic,

and forming a battle plan for our own spiritual lives.

So, Matt, this episode, a little bird told me,

this episode is coming out on your birthday. Is that right?

Yes. The Big Three-O. Wow, you are such a child. I'm sorry. No, I mean, I let no one despise you because of your youth. That's the, that's what I meant to say.

You know, not only is my age make me young, but I also look like I'm 22 still.

I've been told I've got the baby face look and it was brutal in high school.

Oh, I'm sure.

It was brutal in college.

You know, it's starting to be okay, but I still, as a man, you don't like to look like a little boy, but I know when I'm 40,

I will be very grateful for having a youthful looking face, but I'm not quite yet there where

it's a, it's an asset.

I took my grandson, he was, or my, my nephew, Timmy, he's about nine when we went out

and we were, we went out to have a a hamburger something, Applebee's or somewhere.

And our host has said, would you like a booth or table for you and your grandson?

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