827. - Thomas Chatterton Williams

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Comedy

4.5 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Thomas Chatterton Williams is a writer from New Jersey, currently living in France. He's on staff at The Atlantic and a professor at Bard College. His newest book, Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse, is out soon. We chat about Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau on a date in Canada, his dad has never boiled a pot of water, we talk about Twitter for 20 minutes, all the magazines he's written for, the childlike wonder for space exploration, we rank some religious monuments, the emotional effect of incorrect electrical outlets, vaxxed at Dodger's Stadium, and we talk politics for 20 minutes. London, come see us Monday night with our friend Blondey for a live podcast at 100 Club twitter.com/thomaschattwill twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jason, this episode of How Long Gone is brought to you by Shipstation.
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1:40.0	Steamy, steamy Tuesday afternoon here in New York City, them jeans.
1:44.0	What's really Gucci?
1:46.2	It is just a regular Tuesday morning, 847 a.m.
1:51.5	P-S-T, PDT?
1:53.1	I just learned that there's two different peas.
1:56.3	Yeah, I only know this because of the amount of scheduling that I have to do.
2:01.6	And I see them change as options as the season changes.
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