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The Eric Metaxas Show

Uncle Mugsy and Joel VanderSpek

The Eric Metaxas Show

Metaxas Media

Religion & Spirituality

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Eric performs a dramatic reading of his popular Christmas children's book about Uncle Mugsy... and Joel VanderSpek of Christian Solidarity International relates stories of people delivered from slavery in the Sudan.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Eric with Jax's show. Why don't you pull up a chance and set it up?

0:14.0

There's a reason fixing a learnier thing or two if you can stand it. It wouldn't hurt you none neither.

0:19.0

Vectiers, some folks say Eric wouldn't know whether the Scritch is watching Wenz's butt dogs.

0:24.0

Who would he send it anyhow? You don't tune in. You'll come back now. You hear here. Here's America's sweetheart himself, Eric Mataxis.

0:31.0

Isn't that sweet? I just love Todd Wilkinson's Christmas spirit. Oh yes. Yeah. Yeah.

0:37.0

That's true. Just a lot. Todd. Yeah. Todd. Hey folks, it's Eric Mataxis show. We've got a special treat planned for you.

0:45.0

First of all, Albin and I, we're going to talk about this is just now in the opening segment because we have a normal guest coming up in a couple of minutes.

0:53.0

But I thought before we go to our normal programming, well actually if this is Christmas Eve, we're going to play.

1:00.0

Yeah. I'm going to read my Uncle Mugsy story. Yeah. So gather the kids around the radio if it's if it's Christmas Eve when you're listening to this.

1:08.0

But otherwise we're just going to have a regular guest. But I want to say that I wrote a book called Uncle Mugsy in the Terrible Twins of Christmas. Right?

1:17.0

Now around Christmas this time of year everybody's buying if they're buying a book from me, chances are it's like you know Donald Trump or Donald Bulls the wall or whatever which are humor books.

1:27.0

But I wrote a children's book called Uncle Mugsy in the Terrible Twins of Christmas. I talked about it on this program before and I've read it on this program before it's a fun.

1:35.0

It's a short read. But I may read that in the next segment. But what I wanted to talk about was not that.

1:42.0

I want to talk about right now behind the scenes filming the TV and Christmas special because Albin. Yes.

1:50.0

You my friend. Yeah. You might get an Oscar or an Emmy or something. I don't think you will but you might because you.

1:57.0

Oscar goals tall. You performed three roles in this in this Christmas special. And one of them probably my favorite is the first one when we start the show.

2:10.0

Yeah. And when I I realized that I don't have any coffee I wake up from my bad dream. Yes.

2:16.0

And Victoria Jackson who plays my my TV wife in the special now if you haven't seen the TV special go to TBN dot org or watch it on TBN it's going to be playing you know through the holidays right.

2:28.0

But in the special she plays my TV wife and she wakes me up from bad dream and I realized there's no coffee and I got to get to the studio.

2:34.0

So I open the window Scrooge style. Yeah. And you Albin.

2:40.0

Uh, a six foot three man.

2:44.0

Are dressed as a Dickensian street urging with pulling a sled. Yeah. What's so funny is we're shooting that scene we did we actually did about five or six takes right.

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