Greetings and salutations.

Welcome to Life and Books and Everything.

I'm Kevin DeYoung, Senior Pastor at Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, North Carolina,

just outside of Charlotte.

And a happy day after Easter Resurrection Sunday as we're recording this.

And glad to have all of you back listening.

I'm joined today by my special guest, who I've wanted to have on for a number of years

with a lot of really good things that he's written books

and articles and interviews and even good tweet threads.

You can still do that, or X, I guess.

And that is Brad Wilcox, who is the author of a really important new book called Get Married,

Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization.

Somebody just said to me, wow, that title tells me what I need to know about the book.

It's a great title. Brad is Professor of Sociology and Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.

Also has Appointments Institute for Family Studies.

American Enterprise Institute has written a number of things academic and popular all over the Internet and in published form.

So, Brad, thank you so much for being on LBE.

Great to be here this morning, Kevin.

All right.

So a couple of things I want to say right from the beginning.

So I need to give a shout out.

I don't expect you to remember every student you have in all of your classes. My oldest son's girlfriend is a student at UVA,

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