I live my life on camera for the most part and I'm very fortunate and very privileged to be able to do so.

For me, I feel like that kind of stuff is what keeps me away from burning out because like I will still of course cover politics that's my

interest that's what I love to do that's what I find a lot of emotional fulfillment in

and I will continue doing it but in order to mitigate burnout, in order to stop it from happening,

I realized that I wasn't doing like eight hours of news coverage. Usually I'm doing like six hours of news coverage,

maybe two hours of video games, or four hours of news coverage, and then a couple hours of like lifestyle culture

things like that you know fun different fun segments that I engage in and then you know

doing IRL streams like and and participating in other stuff when I don't do that when I don't have a healthy diet of that and it's just all news for 8 to 10 hours poll watching having you know people on to interview them and talk to them over and over again every

single day, it does definitely start taking a toll. I'm John Favreau and you just heard from today's guest,

Twitch streamer and political commentator Hassan piker.

Hassan is a repeat offline guest.

We first had him on in the spring of 2023

to talk about topics such as the strengths

and weaknesses of Joe Biden's campaign.

Obviously, a few things have changed since then, so I wanted to talk to

him about a few things that are on my mind with about three weeks to go until

election day, namely what both campaigns are doing to target young men, why right-wing garbage is still

dominating the media ecosystem, and how he feels about the vibes here in the final stretch.

I also talk to him about his day job. For those who don't know, Hassan is one

of Gen Z's most influential political commentators and a proud leftist. Seven days a week for eight

hours a day, he streams to his 2.7 million

Twitch subscribers talking about politics and breaking news in real time.

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