Welcome to the Eric Matax Show!

It's the show that we record on the surface of Planet Earth right at sea level, but then we blast the radio signal into the stratosphere.

But then it bounces right back down to you.

Don't ask me how we do that, but we're doing it right now!

Speaking of stratosphere, here's your host Eric Matax.

Oh, that's so nice. Thank you Todd. Thank you Todd.

Hey folks, as you can see, I'm going to be a little bit more careful.

Eric Matax. Oh, that's so nice. Thank you Todd. Thank you Todd.

Hey folks, as you know on this program, it's the show about everything.

So what really, what that means is it's an excuse for me to talk to my friends and have fun.

There are so many people that are familiar with national review and the legacy of William F. Buckley.

One of those people is in the studio with me, particularly familiar, because she,

Catherine Jean Lopez, is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and editor at large at national review.

I think really that she's the person that has run national review online for the last 150 years.

How long have we... how long, first of all, Catherine, welcome to the program.

It's so good to be here, Eric. I'm glad you have a radio show so we can get together.

I know, it's important. Well, it's so funny because there are certain people like you that I bump into

at events like I just saw you at the Beckett Fund dinner.

Anybody knows the Beckett Fund, the Canterbury Medal dinner they have every year.

It's this wonderful thing. But I bump into you either in DC or in New York.

And then I keep thinking, for crying out loud, I've got to get you on the radio show.

You're somebody that just you live and breathe a lot of the stuff that I care about, faith, and politics.

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