In this week’s episode of London Calling, James and I begin by talking about the live recording of my other podcast, the Weekly Sceptic, at the Emmanuel Centre on Saturday evening. When James organised a live recording of the Delingpod at the same venue, he sold out the 900-seat auditorium, but Nick and I only managed to fill the 250-seater. The first question during the Q&A was from a London Calling fan who asked how much longer this podcast can continue, given how acrimonious some of the exchanges between James and me are becoming and how we often seem to be talking past each other. My answer was that it’s sometimes difficult to keep things civil, but we are trying to persevere because the issue that’s dividing us – were the events of the last three years a cock-up or a conspiracy? – also divides couples all over the world and if we can model how to disagree about it without falling out, perhaps we can provide a useful form of couples therapy. Needless to say, my saying this to James on this week’s podcast immediately prompts us to embark on the usual argument, with James accusing me of being too careerist, cowardly and incurious to properly interrogate my ‘normie’ beliefs, and me saying that his embrace of so many conspiracy theories – chem trails, the moon landings, dinosaurs, Atlantis, the fake Paul McCartney, etc. – suggests he’s gone a bit loopy. After we’ve got that out the way, we just about have time to pay tribute to two of our favourite writers, Martin Amis and Jeremy Clarke, both of whom died at the weekend.
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