Eric Metaxas Answers 22 Questions about Himself

where were you born new york city okay who would you want to pl who would you want who would you want to play you in the movie of your life i'd like to play myself if you don't mind okay i was thinking george clooney if babe ruth could play himself in the pride of the yankees okay lou gehrig obviously was played by uh gary cooper but babe ruth got to play himself jackie robinson got to play himself in the story in the jackie robinson story why shouldn't i get to play myself just because i'm not a big league baseball player that's not sufficient answer i'm gonna play my i'm gonna play myself what was your first job what was my first job yeah uh when i was 12 years old my old man would get drunk in the basement then he'd beat me with the empties and i that's not true um when i was 12 years old not funny my uh i got a job washing dishes um at joanna beniaris's luncheonette in bethel connecticut i'm still friends with the beniaris's i did such a good job washing dishes that were friends to this day but yeah that was my first job i was 12 i would do it on saturday and sunday afternoons and uh no mornings and um uh and i got paid a dollar fifty an hour which in those days was bad money that was ripple okay well this of course is two questions in 22. there were no other 12 year olds to join me to go on strike and to form a union there you go what is your biggest fear my biggest fear yes my biggest fear my biggest fear would probably be that my daughter and others that i love would walk away from jesus i would i'm going to put that right out there that's that's the most important thing in my life uh that anybody i love would walk away from the love of god okay i didn't mean to be a downer you're asking the questions i didn't come up with this look who okay now here's the other side of this who makes you laugh the most other than you yeah yeah you got it you mean people who are living today yeah like you know nobody no favorite community i was gonna say i was gonna say that uh well if you go on youtube and you look up charlie kalas on the dean martin roasts oh boy or foster brooks on the dean martin roasts nobody actually could make me laugh more than they could okay sorry what is the one thing you need to have in your fridge at all times that i need to have yes in your fridge you need to have it um i don't think there is anything like that okay all right something cold what is your greatest accomplishment my greatest accomplishment yes i would like to think that my greatest accomplishment is far ahead of me at this point in my career yeah yeah that's that's a great way to think of it who is the most interesting person you met recently now you've had a lot of people on the radio show i i literally can't remember whom i've met recently whom it says met who yeah but no but who who is the most interesting person recently that you've met um i i've met who am i met with recently you what about diamond and silk you didn't meet them in person but you met them i didn't mean them in person but i i'm going to meet them yes they're going to have me on their show yes they are uh to talk about this book i i wrote to their but you're not going to be able to get a signed book from that show if you want it you're going to have to get assignment you're going to have to go to premierecollectibles.com swamp now they're charging 20 for these right folks that's the list price amazon barnes and noble they're they were all charging they may still be charging twenty dollars so for twenty dollars you get a signed book um they probably you can probably get this cheaper if it's unsigned and i hope you'll buy unsigned copies but but for twenty dollars i mean as a gift at this point for somebody to get this as a gift and to not have it signed they're gonna know you weren't willing to spend the extra four or five bucks that's embarrassing it's embarrassing for example you're trying to impress a woman because i know there's a couple of guys watching this you're trying to impress a woman you give her this book and it's not signed they're going to go holy cow does this guy even have a job because a man with a job would be able to afford a signed book he popped the 20 bucks out there without without even thinking yeah without even thinking and you don't know what eric's signature looks like so you can't just write eric mctaxis and misspellings he can't forget i could forge it i've been forging it you can but you can't not you but for 20 bucks i can forge it for anyway no questions asked what is your nip middle name and by the way the middle name is not in here uh her uh stumper huh cedric wait no don't tell me cedric the entertainer um um i'm gonna go with john good is that right i i don't know i'm gonna i'm gonna go with john too what is your biggest pet peeve well here's the thing if it's really big it's no longer a pet peeve what boils your potatoes think about that when you ask that clever question huh charlie okay um my biggest pet peeve actually so some of my pet peeves have to do with language i'll give you one that now that i'm gonna ruin your life if you listen carefully to this this may ruin your life everywhere i go when i say thank you to someone who's like you know served me an iced tea or any restaurant or anywhere you go you say thank you people have seen seem to have forgotten that the proper answer to thank you is you're welcome huh now they seem to say uh no problem yeah no problem is incorrect when people say no problem snap at them and say wrong it's you're welcome you're welcome sir you're welcome madam and i i have to tell you everywhere i go i mean the most dignified people now say no problem it's really weird this brings up a point saying thank you is a thankless job right okay next question is going to be what is your favorite hobby i actually don't have any hobbies i don't think okay this is my hobby it's it's that sad what is the last book you read the last book i read um we recently had he's too busy writing well it we recently had mark halperin at socrates city mark halperin h-e-l-p-r-i-n not halperin mark helprin uh is a genius writer and if you watch the last socrates in the city you will see me rave and rave and rave and rave about him because he is um probably well all i would say certainly the best fiction writer living today uh the only people who might compete with him are people like john cheever and john updike or nabakov who have passed he to my mind is the best fiction writer living his short stories in the book ellis island and other stories is the last book that i read now i read it many many years ago i read it many times in between but recently i thought let me read it again and it is and that's funny because i'm reading that i'm reading that now right okay right all right what cause is dear to your heart what caused you dear to my heart i thought it was what causes dear to your heart and i thought dear to your heart is that a disease and what causes it i think probably too much sugar not enough vegetables in the diet what cause is dear to my heart um i think the pro-life uh cause i feel that um the unborn well i feel that the unborn obviously do not have voices to speak and we need to speak up for them and we need to let people know that um whatever wherever you are in life uh there's no reason for you to deny someone a life you've had a life i've had a life to deny someone life it's a real human being to deny them life is not something that is permissible it's not okay for you to do that you don't have any right to do that now if you don't want to raise them that's fine there are tons of people who love to adopt and that's beautiful and you can give somebody the greatest gift in the world which is a baby a human life uh somebody to love that's really beautiful so that's that's the cause that's closest to my heart good good um what is number one on your bucket list i ain't got no bucket list i ain't getting it but if i did if you did um i think batting forth for the 1969 mets with god all things are possible i'm believing god to make that happen okay then maybe my face is bigger than yours though oh it might be you know i don't know i'm gonna i'm in your shadow right now do you have any hidden talents no all my talents are on display they're right out there yeah right out there right they're all in this club now it depends when you say hidden i i think that people uh there's so many things i like to do right i love to sing i don't get to sing but i i love to sing so the few times i've done that i've enjoyed doing that there there are a number of things like that that i enjoy doing that i don't get to do but hidden talents no okay okay um okay did you do it all that's 22 no no no there's one more here where where do you want to where do you now this is good because you seem to have been everywhere at least in america but where do you want to go that you've never been before um i've not been everywhere in america there are a number of states that have still not invited me to speak one of them is mississippi uh another one is also mississippi you're listening down there and the third one is alaska hey up there hawaii okay over there uh guam get on the phone you guys no but actually i just recently spoke for the first time in south i almost said south korea in south dakota i've been in north dakota south dakota i'd never been to south dakota until very recently and i really enjoyed it i was in in um uh sioux falls yes um but never been to montana these are a lot of states i've never been to but where would you want to go i mean let's just i've never been invited to maine to speak hey maine what's with you seems like you want to go places that people don't invite you i mean is there a place you want to go that well any place that i've never been there actually many places uh that i've been before most people don't know this and my wife is sitting right here i don't think she even knows this but i have a family in the dominican republic a wife and children i rarely see them so i'd love to go to the dr and see wife number two here's a man that loves to give right here

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Published: Thu Oct 18 2018