Joshua Johnson

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384 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 12 Sep

Joshua Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I may have had a point, but I missed a huge opportunity to really do my job.

See, my neutrality allowed me to interrogate his beliefs, but the distance prevented me from seeing why he believed them.

What if I had asked better questions, like, who influenced you the most in forming these views?

Or, suppose we let all of these monuments and statues stand just as they are.

What would that mean to you?

Getting his story might have shown me him behind his canned arguments.

Grilling him changed nothing.

It felt pointless.

When you consider someone problematic, there's a better way to deal with them, keep your sanity, and maybe even connect.

And it sounds insane.

Move closer.

Not to embrace them, but to explore them, like a doctor studying a sample.

You need a microscope, not a telescope.

Doctors actually helped me learn this way before I became a journalist.

As a teenager, I was part of a summer program for future doctors.

Clearly, it worked.

And I found myself working with clinicians studying cancer and thrombosis and HIV, very serious conditions.

I kind of naively expected them to be these crusading scientists, but they were just level-headed people doing their jobs.

But there was a lesson in that level-headedness.

See, I am not neutral about the cancers in our world, bigotry, hoaxes, political violence.

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