Welcome to the Eric McTaxis show with your host, Eric Metaxus.

Hey there, folks. Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show in honor of the fact that it's basically February. Can this be? I don't know. I wanted to talk about the Christian roots of Groundhog Day and how most groundhogs are Orthodox believing Christians. I wanted to talk about that, but then I looked at the facts and

I realized that's a lot of hogwash. And I don't like to lie, you know, unless I'm joking. So I thought,

gosh, if we can't talk about that, what can we talk about? And I thought maybe I could contact my

friend Bill Federer because he knows so much about history.

And I thought, let's see if we can get him in son of a gun.

Here he is.

Bill Federer, welcome back.

Hey, Eric, great to be with you.

Now, you are coming from Lakeland, Florida, did you say?

Right.

I'm speaking at a conference here and then tomorrow going to

Missoula, Montana and then Monday going to Woodland Park, Colorado. You do a lot of traveling.

Are you, be honest, because, you know, we're friends. Are you running from the law, Bill? Is that what

this is? No, but... You're sure. All right. They haven't caught me yet. So I... Well, we're both running from the law. But I'm practicing. I'm practicing. Because, you know, you can't get saved by obeying the law, okay? It's about faith. It's about something else. Listen, seriously,

I have a lot of friends all around the country than if I have them all set in case they start

cracking down on vaccine passport skippers and stuff like that. Well, I mean, in all seriousness,

Lakeland, Florida is one of my favorite places. I have a very, very dear friend

named Martha Linder. Suzanne doesn't know anything about this relationship. Just kidding.

Martha has been friends with us for so many years. So whenever somebody mentions Lakeland,

I just think of all the time we've spent with our dear friend Martha in that area.

And I'd love to come back.

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