I'm going on time.

We think of the city right.

Or maybe you just get drunk and. in town. Michael Alice here and let that be your welcome for the next hour. We have a very special

guest today probably my favorite journalist on Twitter, Nick Monroe. It's true. Nick, you and Tim Poole, to me, are the best journalists out there right

now and here's why. Because you are, I don't know what your political views are, I don't care what your political views are.

As a journalist, someone's job is to give me information and that information is used for me to make my own judgments and to stay informed about given subjects.

And if people who follow you on Twitter don't follow you into where they should,

you are the hardest working, you're an independent journalist,

you're just a kid out of your house in Cleveland,

but you are every issue, you're there doing the

homework, you're capping people's reactions, you're doing deep dives into who are these people,

what's their background the social media

mining these are the kind of things that a real reporter should be doing and they're

often taking your work and repurposing it for their purposes and again your agenda is never a parent it's like okay

here's here's Christchurch is a good example Christchurch happens horrible tragedy and

you're just going out there all the blue checks saying here's what people are saying and you've been getting heat as a result of this now how did you get so if people don't follow you on Twitter it's Nick Mon 1112 correct?

Correct.

Now you're at 40K already, you're blowing up.

Yeah, it's really crowded, but I love it because it means people can, you know, the more people,

the more information I can get at my hands you know

I mean you do you have any journalism background yeah I won an award during my

stint as a game journalist at Game Ranks and The Escapist magazine.

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