Welcome to the Eric Metaxis show with your host, Eric Mettaxas.

Ladies and gentlemen, as promised, we keep yacking and yacking about food for the poor. You'd like to know, hey, hey, who runs that organization? Well, we tracked him down. He wasn't easy to find, but his name is Ed Raines, and he's right here. Ed, welcome the program. Thanks so much, Eric. Great to be on your show. Of course, I'm lying. You were very easy to find. In fact, it was you who found me.

But I want to ask you, Ed, how long have you been ahead of food for the pork? Because you're a fairly

recent addition to this longstanding organization. Yeah, so I've been here almost four years,

but as president, CEO, since the beginning of 2020.

So where are you from originally, Ed?

Well, I started off life growing up in London and came to college in the U.S. and never left.

So you've got a little bit of that English accent there.

Well, look, my audience already knows about food for the poor, but let's, for those who don't, who might be tuning in right now, I have to say there are almost no organizations

that we work with the way we do with you guys.

CSI is the only one that's popping into my mind that people that we have vetted not just we the

irkman taxes show but the entire salem radio network from mike galliger uh to the next mayor of

california uh larry elder to hughett to to um my my dear friend, Dennis Prager, we believe in the work you're doing

at Food for the Poor and the way that you do it, feeding the poorest of the poor in the world,

Haiti, other places. So we really believe in you and periodically we partner with you. We're doing that

with you this month, obviously. And so I want to say before we even get into the conversation,

folks, you go to my website. It's the radio website, metaxis talk.com. You'll see the banner. All the

exciting details are there. Ericmetaxis.com is my website. Metaxistalkis talk.com is the radio website

since we talk on the radio. And if you want to call the numbers 844-863 Hope, 844-863 hope. So,

Ed Rain, tell us, what are we looking at right now? You've been the head of food for the poor since roughly

this horrific pandemic messed with the world's economy and everything so what's going on right now

well uh thanks eric i mean one of the things we have to say is that the covid uh hit that we saw

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