Oh, right. Welcome listeners to episode 95 of Know Your Enemy. I'm Matt Sitman, your

podcast co-host and I'm here as always with my great friend Sam Mother Bell. Hey Sam,

Hi Matt. I'm excited to share this one as we always are but this one it literally had been a long time coming

Why don't you tell listeners what we're up to? Well this is the long-awaited triumphant return of John Gans to talk about his book,

When the Clock Broke, Con Men conspiracies, and how America cracked up in the early 1990s,

which is just out from FSG. We read it, we talked about it. It was so much fun. It was just as good as I hoped and our

listeners probably hope it will be. Yes, and of course, John Gyan's frequent guests on the show,

he doesn't really need an introduction.

We've had him on many times on the show.

First time I mentioned this at the start of the conversation,

but the first time was episode 15.

When we talked about the very essay he published in The Baffler, the year the clock broke, that

eventually grew into this book.

So we've been having conversations like this with John for a few years now, sometimes

on the podcast, sometimes not, but it was really great to have him on to celebrate this book that

we've known he's been working on for so long and that genuinely we both

loved so much. I just thought it was great. The writing was fantastic and it did not

disappoint. So listeners do consider picking up a copy at your local bookstore.

Please do.

And of course, you can find John's commentary on his sub-stack on popular front,

which is one of the only substocks I read.

Yes, same here.

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