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The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello, and welcome to episode 488 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Robbie Swave.

He's a senior editor at Reason, and author of the book Panic Attack,

Young Radicals in the age of Trump. His work has also appeared in the

New York Times, The Daily Beast, and US News and World Report, and Forbes named him to the 30

under 30 list in the category of lawn policy and we'll be speaking with him today about his new book

Tech Panic, why we shouldn't fear Facebook and the future. And now here's our interview with Robbie Swave.

All right, sir, we're here with Robbie Swave, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

Great to be with you.

Okay, so first of all, how big of a science fiction fan are you?

I am a pretty significant science fiction fan. Yeah, yeah, are you kidding?

And fantasy and I was once called DC's most sought after dungeon master dungeon for D&D.

So I don't know if you want to get into that.

But are you kidding?

I definitely want to get into that.

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