Hey everybody, how you doing? Welcome to another episode of the Krebscast. I'm your host Charlie

Barons and we are of course brought to you by Charlie Goodsoda and my guest today is Sharon

McMahon. She's Minnesota's own Sharon McMahon. Where is she from and Minnesota Duluth actually?

And you've probably seen a bunch of Sharon's videos on Instagram. She has just taken off over

the past year. She's got hundreds of thousands of followers and it's all from her dedication to facts.

You know which sounds boring but actually facts or anything but boring if I'm being factual about

it because so much of I guess our political system right now is is kind of like people rise to

power based on false information and misinformation and conspiracies and Sharon has created this

nonpartisan sort of effort to educate the American public and she's got a great background in it.

She's a former high school government and law teacher and if you can teach high schoolers

honest to Pete you can teach anyone speaking as a former high schooler myself. It's been really

cool to watch her viewership grow just over the past few months honestly. I've been following Sharon

for a little while now and her growth has been exponential which is hopeful because you know it

means your average American citizen is hungry for this kind of content, the kind of content that

doesn't have the sort of slanted bias that pretty much all of our politicians have. Certainly a lot

of our media has it and it's just getting more and more difficult these days to find actual facts

and actual truth and to find it in such digestible ways. I mean you know as someone who is a

journalist for a long time myself if you actually want to get down to the truth it does take a

lot of sifting and winnowing and that is the job of journalists. Unfortunately you know that

really good journalism though has been I would say suppressed in a lot of ways it's not the

thing that often gets the sexy headlines gets the clicks therefore gets the add dollars

and so when you find someone like Sharon who takes very important issues and sort of boils them

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