Socrates in the Studio: James Lindsay
The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas Media
4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Exposing the Insanity of Modern Academia
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| 0:16.5 | Thank you. Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show. Did you ever see the movie The Blobs starring Steve McQueen? |
| 0:33.1 | The blood-curdling threat of the blob. Well, way back when, Eric had a small part in that film, |
| 0:39.0 | but they had to cut his scene because the blob was supposed to eat them. |
| 0:42.5 | But he kept spitting him out. |
| 0:44.3 | Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. |
| 0:46.8 | Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest. |
| 0:51.0 | Eric, the Texas! to digest Eric Mattaxas. |
| 1:14.4 | Hey there, folks. It's a Socrates Day on the Eric Mataxis show. As most of you know, for 25 years, I have been doing a thing called Socrates in the city, where I have had some of the most glorious conversations ever with some of the most extraordinary guests ever. We normally do them, you know, |
| 1:21.3 | in big venues in Manhattan. We're doing them all around the country with, you know, 200 people, |
| 1:27.1 | and it's a big thing. |
| 1:28.3 | But we've also started doing Socrates in the studio events, which means we can do even more of them. |
| 1:34.4 | I did a whole bunch in England where I think that's what we're airing today. |
| 1:40.3 | I'm not sure. |
| 1:41.0 | But I've done so many recently. |
| 1:42.4 | I did a few in New York recently for Socrates in the studio. |
| 1:45.8 | And these are, you know, it's kind of like a more of a PBS vibe, right? But it's something that |
| 1:53.6 | I feel very strongly about. The guests that we, you know, we choose our guests very carefully, these are some brilliant people. |
| 2:03.4 | They're not all on the same page as I am, theologically or politically, but who cares, right? |
| 2:08.0 | That's not the point. |
| 2:09.3 | The point is to explore the big questions because I have this kind of crazy idea that if you're actually looking for truth, you're going to be moving |
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