Welcome to the Eric Mataxas Show with your host, Eric Mataxas.

Hey there folks, welcome to the Eric Mataxas 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 that 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, if I have a lot of friends all around the country, then if I have them all,

I'll set cases, they start cracking down on that scene, 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. And I envy you right now because right now in New York, it's snowing.

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