Yes, what I meant was that Natty very gently is able to direct the good Pastor so that he does not endlessly repeat himself over and over again. I understand why Rev. Williams does this, he is of the generation(s) when the main form of entertainment in many small towns (especially in the South) was to go to Sunday night or Wednesday church to hear the "testimony" of folks with something interesting to say. In the days before the Internet and Internet radio, this involved re-telling the same story over and over again to a new audience each evening.
I suspect that because he is a retired Pastor himself, Natty also understands this and is able to explain to Rev. Williams that his audience already has the basics and is waiting with baited breath for the actual "new" stuff.
Rev. Williams still repeats himself a bit, you don't get over a life-time of habits in the course of a few interviews; but at this point Natty's interviews are about the only ones I can listen to.
With other interviewers I have been in chat rooms where we predicted what the nice man was going to say before he said it, how he said it and when he was going to say it.
Natty prevents this, at least most of the time...I do have concerns sometimes that Rev. Williams may be being "fed" some information - I believe he himself is totally honest but I'm not always certain about some of his elite friends.
Still, the interviews are always interesting and so far have largely been accurate about coming events, if not always as close on the timing. But since people and choices are involved in these predictions (which he is simply passing on,not making up himself) that makes a lot of sense.
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