I spend a lot of time reviewing Twitter posts and YouTube videos predominantly for this

podcast. I know a lot of people say don't give your attention to

what's happening on Twitter but I still find it relevant especially for this

work because if I don't know what a wide variety of people, especially in the

conspiratoriality realm, the wellness realm, the grifting realm, are thinking in how they're

presenting information, then I'm not going to be able

to form coherent thoughts around A, how I think we should be able to battle it, but also importantly, be, where is the crossover

between what they believe and what they're stating and where my own beliefs and my own access to information lies.

So that gives me a more holistic view of the landscape

that I'm trying to do either journalism or editorialize within.

Now that said, it's not always great for my mental health.

Can't say, I go to bed every night feeling great

about the world. When you consume hours of this information, it can have a very

negative effect on you as you well know and if you decide to pursue the sort of career that I have

It's part of the occupational hazard and it does have an influence on me

For example last weekend's brief, I pronounced Kamala Harris's name wrong. Now, why? Because I had been reviewing hours of footage before recording that day and when you're in the right-wing universe

things slip into your unconscious. I apologize for it. It happens. That said, it is part of that occupational hazard.

If you listen to this podcast often, my focus is generally on health and wellness

and medical misinformation, but there are other

aspects of this field that I like to study,

and one of them is masculinity,

or the ways that men present what they think masculinity is.

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