Hey there, folks. As you know, I am on a book deadline. And so I thought, I don't have time to do a show today. But I just spoke in Charleston, South Carolina. And I think you would enjoy some of what I said. Some

of it you will despise. You will hate. You'll throw stuff at your radio, at your computer.

If you're watching this on YouTube, you'll be angry. But a lot of it you'll really like.

I was speaking at St. Michael's Anglican Church, one of the most historic churches I've ever been in the pulpit was, I don't know, 12 feet off the ground, like astounding height.

And I spoke about a lot of stuff. I spoke about things in New York, whatever. Anyway, we're going to play that for the next couple of hours. There's all kinds of stuff. There's Q&A. Here it is.

Eric, Metaxus. Eric, welcome to St. Michael.

Thank you.

Gosh.

First of all, it would be wrong for me, not to begin by quoting Betty Davis, as I look around and I say,

What a dump.

I don't know how you people worship in this place, but somebody needs to paint it or just do something

because it's unacceptable. This is God's house. Clean it up. Every time I come here, I have to

correct jokes about how beautiful and historic it is. It is amazing, and it's interesting preaching from this height,

because no matter where I'm preaching, mentally I'm up here in my own mind.

But it's rare that I'm actually up this high, feeling pompous and like I should step down.

So thank you for making me uncomfortable, Al Zadig.

This really is, it's an honor to come here to the city. You all know how great Charleston is.

I don't need to tell you. I'm honored almost everywhere I go to have wonderful friends, but in this city,

particularly, I have a number of really dear friends of many, many years

at the top of the list, Mairead Sullivan, who's made most of this happen. You probably don't realize

it, but Marade has made most things happen. She's, I think, in the back there. I want to thank

Marade and her husband, Jim, for hosting us. And our friends, the Scurries, Richard and Pam Scurry, who were someplace here.

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