Hello, Eric McTaxis, listeners Hugh Hewitt here, and I want to let you know that I've just launched a new podcast.

It's called The Interview.

Over 30 years, I've tried to perfect the art of the interview.

I've done more than 25,000 of them that does not count callers of the radio show.

And on this new podcast, the interview, you'll hear new interviews as well as interviews from the past 30 years.

And this week, I spoke with Eric McTaxus himself about his new book, A Fish Out of Water.

Here's a sneak preview of that interview, and I'd invite you to check out the entire episode.

By subscribing to the interview with Hugh Hewitt at Apple, Google, Spotify,

or Salem Podcast Network.com.

People who know you from TBN, from the radio, from the National Prayer Breakfast, from Bonhofer,

from Luther, from Wilberforce, from everything that you've done, will not think of you as a Queens kid.

They simply will not. It's stunning how much of a Queens kid you are. I mean, Yale, Queens, it doesn't go together.

And moving from Queens to Danbury as you communicate effectively and fish out of water,

I grew up in Warren, Ohio, and we moved a couple of times. We stayed in Warren.

It would be like going from Warren to Atlanta. I mean, it's a giant cultural drift. It's

a giant, it's down the rapids. It couldn't be much bigger in America, right? I mean, you go from being

an immigrant from New York City City, and I don't mean fancy city, New York, which is Manhattan.

I mean Queens, growing up in the world of the Greek Orthodox Church and the Greek Orthodox

Parochial School, you know, all our friends are European immigrants, and then suddenly

moved to Danbury, Connecticut, where you don't wear a school uniform, you play baseball,

football, kickball, you go, you ride your bike, you go fishing. This was like moving to, you know,

Huck Finn's Mississippi. This was a, this was moving to America. It was my first real experience

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