Hi everyone, this is Nima Shirazi, co-host of Citations Needed.

And I'm Adam Johnson.

We're excited to announce that we'll be hosting our next Citations Needed Begathon,

that is a virtual live show fundraiser, on the evening of Monday, October 13th.

We will be live streaming starting at 9.30 p.m. Eastern Time,

8.30 Central. So save the date and join us for our show Grunola de Fascist Pipeline, Maha, TikTok,

and Health, and Age of Cynicism. We will be talking with social epidemiologist Justin Feldman

about the so-called health freedom grift of the Make America Healthy Again campaign

run by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and how it emerged from organic frustrations with our shitty

and expensive health care system and corporate food culture into a bizarre alternate reality

that ignored science altogether and ended up serving the political ends of the forces of pollution

and unsafe food acclaimed to oppose.

It'll be a great conversation for sure, but there's also a very important reason why we're

doing this now. Tens of thousands of you amazing people listen to citations needed every week,

but only a tiny fraction of our listeners actually support the show by becoming patrons.

And we are 100% listener funded, which means the show

stays alive because of the ongoing support of those who listen to the show. So we are reaching

out at the beginning of our ninth season to ask you to directly, personally, you specifically

listening right now, to support the show on Patreon if you can, if you're able to do so. To do this, we're doing a live stream show on YouTube.

Yeah, so save the date and time, and then at 9.30 p.m. Eastern, 8.30 p.m. Central,

on Monday, October 13th, head over to our YouTube channel and join the live stream

because you won't want to miss us talking about how your favorite aunt or grandfather

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