Reaching For Hope with R. Eric Thomas

Homophilia

WOW Podcast Network

Comedy

4.4 • 926 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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TV writer, columnist, and author of the hilarious new collection Congratulations! The Best Is Over Now R. Eric Thomas joins Matt & Dave to talk about the challenges of maintaining a gay bag for frogs, waking up in Vegas with Katy Perry, ambivalence about aliens, the importance of Octavia Spencer, Britney and her Buzzballs, a literary friendship with Ann Patchett, strike life, Newsies, and the rules of writing about real people. Keep up with him at his newsletter: https://letter.rericthomas.com/

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1:25.0	Ben and I had committed ourselves to a full day on the couch because, you know, if nothing else we knew to expect
1:32.1	lashing rain, which we got all day long it has stopped now
1:36.3	but we were I don't know just sitting on the couch watching basically nothing and then it it was that, it was one of those earthquakes
1:44.5	that felt like the whole world like stopped short for a minute
1:47.6	or you just like get jerked very, very quick.
1:51.4	A few swinging fixtures in the house, nothing else. But we felt it. And then we got the alert.
1:57.0	Felt it.
1:58.0	Yeah. Well, you know what comes after the rain is the sun and that is the perfect segue to today's guest the
2:10.6	writer of the best-selling memoir here for it and the new best selling book of essays
2:15.5	congratulations the best is over also a striking TV writer which we'll get into he's our
2:21.6	returning favorite our, our ray of sunshine are Eric Thomas.
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