I guess when social media first started getting to scale, I thought it might be a cool place to discuss issues like anxiety, depression, and bigger debate-type topics. Obviously that didn’t really happen, and social media is predominantly a vehicle for family photos, vacation photos, some news (and some fake news) and virtue-signaling. I’m not consistently good at withdrawing myself from that world, no, but overall it’s probably a more harm than good situation long-term.

My guest today is Drew, who himself is the anchor of the podcast The Anxious Truth and he has a new book about anxiety as well, called An Anxiety Story. So we talk a lot about male anxiety, depression, gender roles, the use of social media, algorithms, and more. It’s a pretty nice emotional talk and we get done in about 30 minutes, so give it a whirl. Here we go.