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🗓️ 4 October 2025
⏱️ 188 minutes
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Thomas Chatterton Williams returns to the pod to talk about his new book Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse.
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| 0:00.0 | We're back, all the things are sad, all the things you said, is that, |
| 0:06.0 | running through my head, running through my head, running through my head, running through my head, |
| 0:12.0 | all the things you said, all the things are said, running through my head, running through my head, |
| 0:16.0 | all the things is night and now. We're back. |
| 0:25.6 | Y'all be talking. |
| 0:26.7 | We were just talking with our guests about how much we talk on this show. |
| 0:32.7 | I'll talk about y'all be talking. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm happy to be back in the studio with Whammon. |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.9 | Thanks for coming. Our return guest, Thomas Chatterton Williams is here to. |
| 0:45.1 | We be chatter. |
| 0:47.6 | To chattering a ton. |
| 0:50.6 | But you kind of talk a lot too. |
| 0:54.1 | I'm trying. I'm trying to get, like, I think I said this last time. I'm trying to get, I think I said this last time. |
| 0:58.3 | I'm trying to get on your level, be, you know, be chattering, be podcasting. |
| 1:01.1 | Your media trained, I feel. |
| 1:03.4 | Yeah, it takes a while, I think. |
| 1:10.9 | Do you enjoy or loathe doing all the press stuff every time you come out with a new book. |
| 1:18.8 | I do. I think it's a little bit of like a miracle when you go in a room and I don't know, |
| 1:24.9 | 50 people in some place actually come because they earnestly want to hear you talk about something that you thought about for a few years. That's like a beautiful thing. |
| 1:29.1 | And, you know, everything is digital now, but actually, like, going out with a book and going |
| 1:33.9 | into rooms and talking to people is amazing. |
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