Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Transfigured Life. We have a special guest here in the building. I'm always here rocking with Father Jonathan. And as you guys can see here, we have the comedian, the apologist, the gifted one here. Jay Dyer. Give it up for Jay Dyer. How you doing, Jay?

I'm doing great, man. Thanks for having me here. Glad to be here. It's an honor to talk to you guys. Give it up for Jay Dyer. How you doing, Jay? I'm doing great, man. Thanks for having me here.

Glad to be here. It's an honor to talk to you guys. Appreciate it. Yeah, our pleasure and our honor.

Thank you very much. Jay, we're going to kind of get right into it. And I want to begin by by asking you a question. Undoubtedly, if you've been watching YouTube for a while, and I think you have,

and if you've been watching Orthodox apologetics, and I think you have, can't fail to notice

that there's been an abundance of podcasts and videos out there now by Protestants, especially

reform Protestants, Evangelicals, Baptists, that are attacking the

Orthodox faith and church. You know, I recently heard some Presbyterian church out West even deny

that we, the Orthodox, have apostolic succession. And so I'm sure you've heard some of these,

but what do you make of, what do you think of that we're seeing more and more of them now i think one

reason that we're seeing that is just everybody's got a podcast now my wife and i were joking about

this like every like people's grandmothers are going to start having podcasts soon literally everybody

has a podcast and i think every pastor now has a podcast. That's part of it, but I also think that

there's a realization that there's a lot of problems in the religious world, especially if you

come from a Protestant or Roman Catholic background. I mean, that's not to say there's no

problems in the Orthodox world, but every group kind of has its own unique problems. And so I think that a lot of people are sensing that questions are being asked that are very

difficult. A lot of times, Protestant pastors might not have the answers to these kinds of questions.

And so they're going online, they're seeking out answers, and they're feeling the need to have to

address why people are converting

a lot of people are converting out of Protestantism some to Rome Catholicism but I think actually

in the last three or four years more to orthodoxy so I think there's a need to try to explain this

to say hey don't leave you know they've got problems too and Protestantism can be defended.

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