Garrison Davis

We're not insults anymore.

We hammer our face, whatever.

You know, I just think that they're now so they think they're such part of the culture.

And it would be it'll be very interesting for me to see if there is a huge change after this.

What will happen when people look back at some of the stuff that's happening over the past few years, even as there's been this tremendous explosion?

If you look at the time from when the book ended, which is again on the election day, the day after the election in 2024.

It is, I think, applicable to the world outside of Berkeley Springs, but it is a very intimate look at what it means for a weird old racist blogger to move into the castle that looms above your coffee shop.

Absolutely.

I don't want to keep you forever, but I just want to remind the listener, Strange People on the Hill, How Extremism Tore Apart a Small American Town by Michael Edison Hayden comes out April 7th?

April 7th.

You can pre-order it now wherever books are sold, or you can just go to a bookstore on April 7th and pick a copy up.

Don't buy it on Amazon.

I mean, you can, but don't.

Yeah.

Yeah, it is a fascinating picture of a particular moment in time that has broader lessons, I think.

But Mike, thanks so much for coming on.

Where can people find you online?

Thank you.

You're so, you're even cooler in person.

What the hell is, what's, I hate the blue sky handles.