I'm playing the role of Eric Mitaxes. I'll do my best. Albin tried to do your best to play Albin

and say, Dar, we're going to get through this together. Now this is exciting. In a few minutes, I want to announce what's happening in this hour. In a few minutes, I'm talking to Mike Pompeo, former secretary of state for the United States of America. This is the guy that sat toe to toe with Kim Jong-un and gave him a wedgie. And Kim Jong-un is so out of touch, he didn't even realize what happened. Yeah. So Pompeo is coming up the next segment.

I should announce yesterday and the day before, which is Monday and Tuesday, this week, I was in Tampa, Florida at the Charlie Kirk's TPUSA, Turning Point USA, Student Action Summit. What does that mean? I don't know. But I was there. And I got to interview people that normally wouldn't get to. And if you like Mike Pompeo.

I was in the beach. You've got a great tan. I was not. I don't have a great tan. And I didn't get to go to the beach. And that's a bitter. That's a bitter thing for me that I was all the way down there in Florida. I didn't get to hang out in the sun at all. Okay. But so seriously in a couple of minutes, Mike Pompeo, folks, while I was down there, I also interviewed Seth Dylan of the Babylon B. He's the guy behind the Babylon B, the CEO. And that's a great conversation, which will air this week. Jack Posabic.

Jack Posabic. You probably don't know who he is, but you will. And you should. I've been following him on Twitter. He's, I won't go into it. But we caught up with him. And then Dr. James Lindsay, another guy that I don't know how to describe him. He is a genius academic who I won't even get into it. Okay. But but here's the other thing before we get to Mike Pompeo. Yes.

Yesterday, I interviewed Ben Shapiro. Not for this program. No. C span book TV. Book notes came to me and said, Eric, we want you, Eric, my taxes to interview Ben Shapiro about his new book, the authoritarian moment on C span book TV. Wow. And I said, you can't afford me. Yeah. And they said, we actually don't pay money. And I said, see.

And then they said, well, we were desperate. And that's right. So I interviewed Ben Shapiro. And it was really interesting because I don't really know Ben. And so, you know, it's one of these things where he's pretty serious. And I figure I'm book, I'm on book TV on C span. I've got to be serious. So I felt like I had all three hands tied behind my back. But it was a good exercise because it without cracking jokes. You can get a lot more done.

But it was a wonderful conversation. And we will, you know, when I come touch with his PR person. And we will have him on this as a result of what I did with him yesterday. I said, we got to continue the conversation. So he will be on this program soon next week, next week, Ben Shapiro.

Yep. I also should announce, well, a couple things coming up. We are going to do these ask, metaxis segments regularly. We'll probably run it today just because we had some time. But I think typically we're going to do it every Thursday in hour two.

The first 10 minutes of hour two, it's going to be ask metaxis on Instagram only just because it's kind of complicated. Well, I shouldn't say Instagram only, but typically on Instagram, people can send in their questions every Wednesday on my story.

We'll take the questions. And so we're going to do this every Wednesday ask metaxis. Okay. But just to just because we can we'll do some ask metaxis is today we get some great questions.

Some baffling questions. Yeah. Okay. Before we get to Mike Pompeo. Do I have time? I do have time. I was in Maine this weekend. Now Maine in my mind, Maine is a place you drive to. And it's far. And that's why you never go there because who can drive seven hours to Maine? It just doesn't nobody has the time.

Well, I discovered a crazy thing. If you're invited to preach in a church in Maine. Yes, you can fly there. So I went to JFK airport, got on a plane in Shazam. Like eight minutes later, I land in the middle of Maine, Bangor Maine. And you know what I learned? No, what?

It's not pronounced Bangor Maine. Bangor Maine is wrong. Bangor Bangor. So I was in Bangor Maine. And as soon as I got there, I said something about Bangor and they said it's Bangor. So Bangor or Bangor Bangor Maine is a place where my friend Ken Graves has a church. Now Ken Graves.

He's a living cartoon figure. He's like Curtis Lewa. Like there's certain people that they're really cartoon figures come to life. Mike Lindell is another one. Ken Graves is.

He's such a man's man. He's got a voice. I can't even do his voice. You have to gargle with gravel for two decades before you can approximate what his voice sounds like. But he's just.

He's the kind of man's man that no matter who you are as a guy, he makes you feel effeminate. Not in a good way. And I preached in his church. But the night before he and his wife took me and some of the family members out to a place called Young's.

It's in I think it's in Belfast, Maine. I forget. And it's a lobster place. You sit outside. And Ken being a man's man, he said we're going to get you a two and a half three pound lobster.

Now. For me, that's like that's the kind of lobster I'm always interested in. But you can't afford that like, you know, if you eat in a restaurant, it's just like.

This place. I had two two and a half pound lobsters to two. And I got gout and really my career ended right there. But it was so incredible. And while we're sitting there eating the lobsters, we're joking around about something.

And Ken's wife says something about race car drive. I don't know was like this crazy conversation. And I said something about drag racing. And I brought up.

Don the snake prudom. Do you know that name? No, I do not. Okay. Well, that's to me, that's like drag racing royalty. Don the snake prudom.

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