Nick is late because he got caught up in a discussion with his wife about what happened to one of their children at church today. He needed some time to settle down because he was so angry. The incident is a perfect encapsulation of "superficial and vain christianity on the right" that "scares the shit out of" him. "There are...colleagues... of mine who go on shows and talk about very strong values about porn and watever... and for me it falls flat". What happened: his child got yelled at and had to stay after class for talking over the teacher. He or she was told that their family would be disappointed by how rude they were behaving. Nick has been "critized, reprimanded even, by people in this same church, for things I don't say at church, things I maybe say on the show... some people have taken umbrage with the... quote unquote vulgarity... this is what I'm talking about with this sort of egotistical Christianity rising up... this vain and superficial thing... where you have this set of arbitrary requirements" to not say "shit, piss, fuck" even though "syllables and letters don't mean anything at all". To him, what the teacher said to his kid is true vulgarity. Nick "doesn't even like children" and he wouldn't say that to a child. Every church you go to has rules and guidelines that have nothing to do with biblical principles, that are just invented by a bunch of Karens.