i m just gonna take control here because otherwise i won t be able to so you all may remember in 1962 john kennedy held a very successful state visit to france. and mrs. kennedy was enormously popular and at the farewell dinner the closing dinner in front of degoll and others. jfk said i used to be the president of the united states, but now i am simply the man who accompanied jacqueline kennedy to paris. i m the man who accompanied eddie gloud to new orleans? where this is like saddam s baghdad his pictures everywhere. have y all noticed this? it s just everywhere. so. i m going to start with a serious question. you wrote a marvelous book about baldwin and what he meant in real time and can mean to us. so give us your origin story with baldwin. when did you first read him? when did he become so vital to you? well, first of all, thank you for the question and you see how he lies. this is john. why right? i got a sedantry. yeah, this car here. eddie is a cigar man. it s the on